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In 2008, Speaker Pelosi said gas prices were high because we had two oil men in the White House. I wonder what her answer would be today?

Score: 815

Arthur Blank will get his new staduim, The Mayor will up his prestige, the Chamber of Commerce will be happy, Hotels will fair well financially, the little guy and the tax payer will get the shaft.

Score: 717

I do believe in the death penalty for certain crimes, but carry it out swiftly after the proper appeals have been denied. Don't let someone sit in prison for twenty years and then decide at the last hour to pospone. That's nothing but drama and more money after having twenty years to decide.

Score: 660

We will never be in the top half of the country in education, when half of our populace doesn't value education at all.

Score: 657

Would it hurt to publish one vent stating the fact most of Bush's "vacations" were to his ranch?

Score: 611

We can argue about number of vacation days and whatnot. The point is though that Obama lives the life of a "one percenter" while telling people that life is evil. And worse, his one percent life is paid for by us!

Score: 564

Your life is the sum total of the choices you have made--not chance, not luck, not supernatural elements. YOU are responsible! Don't like your life? Make different choices.

Score: 467

The sequester will only effect approximately two percent of the federal budget.If the doom and gloom folks are scaring us over two percent,what will they to do when we are forced to make meaningful cuts?

Score: 424

Let's see. There is no shortage of gasoline. Demand is down. Gas prices should be down too, but they are way up. Looks like corporate collusion from this end.

Score: 405

A requirement of any new stadium should be that it will be built to last longer than this one. Technology is turning us into a throwaway society.

Score: 397

Olympics in Atlanta? Just say no.

Score: 384

The Dekalb Board of Education needs to go but will it do any good?. The real problem is the voters who put them there. The next election will just bring more of the same.

Score: 376

Sequestration may be the only way to reduce spending. Everything else that comes out of Washington is smoke and mirrors or hocus pocus math.

Score: 277

Headline:"Maserati, SUV gunfight causes deadly Vegas crash". Gee, I didn't know cars could now shoot.

Score: 241

I paid over $6 to ride the HOT this morning. Once I moved into regular traffic, I counted over 10 vehicles (out of 15 that passed me) without a Peach Pass riding the HOT lane. Bad thing is that all went past 2 Gwinnett cops without being ticketed. Makes you wonder if the HOT cameras and sensors really work.

Score: 237

I'm old enough to remember STREETCARS AND trolleys in ATLANTA Streetcars are not new.

Score: 234

Sometimes you're the hydrant;sometimes you're the dog.

Score: 209

As an immigration attorney, I can tell you that most of these immigration-related comments are ridiculous. The laws that you want enforced are nonsensical, unenforceable, and needlessly complicated. They can be fixed. As usual, just tell your lazy congressperson to do some work for once.

Score: 187

Any idea why models step across in front of each foot as they walk down the runway? Looks ridiculous, but there must be a reason.

Score: 135

Manti Te'o's girlfriend edits the news at MSNBC.

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I sure hope that Tom Price reminds people that he is from MI. The South has enough image problems without people thinking that he is from Georgia

Score: 127

Tell the kid that God would not throw rocks at Earth. To God, Earth IS a rock.

Score: 112

Congress enacted legislation requiring the USPS to begin funding future retirees health benefits for 75 years out. The legislation was enacted in 2006. No union involved!

Score: 104

If the people of Doraville don't want the stadium, how about a casino?

Score: 83

My daugher is 25, still going to school full time, and still living at home!!!!! Need I say more!!!

Score: 65

Lets end the war against murder, stop the prison industrial complex, and invest the billions of savings in education. Doesn't read so well when you phrase it that way, does it?

Score: 33

Uh, maybe you missed the obituary for Andrew Breitbart.

Score: -26

I just moved to Portland from Atlanta. Atlanta has nothing on this place. Atlanta can only hope to one day be 1/2 the city Portland is. Sorry.

Score: -49

Atlanta pollution is so bad if I want fresh air I have to find a car with out of state plates and slice open a tire.

Score: -85

Wow, this is fantastic. I received the lowest score on the Vent. I must be doing something right to annoy right wingers so much.

Score: -138

Sandy ended as a storm on 10/31/2012 , one week before the general election. How many trips should President Obama had made in that time frame?

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"What I heard" and "some people say" are how some vent submissions and FOX get around providing facts.

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The Republicans appear unready to stop their violation of American institutions until every inch of the US is turned into either a shopping mall or a casino.

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Fox News and its viewers are going to be the downfall of the United States Empire.

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"Three dead in a hail of bullets on the Vegas strip." Really? How much longer are we going to let these cowboys terrorize us with guns? Pretty soon we will be afraid to go out of the house! Get these guns off the streets!!!

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