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  • Vitali Says: funny, neither u nor anyone else had a problem when the NYT illegally leaked information from the Bush administration on tactics that prevented terrorist attacks & led to the capture of Islamic terrorists … and now that Bush is gone, you and others want to claim Bush-holdovers are letting out info while NEVER questioning anything that Obama and his tax-dodging, incapables do or say?

    Wonk Room » NYT Again Repeating Pentagon Propaganda 2009

  • Or nous sommes confrontés à un énorme problème d'opacité: nous sommes incapables d'évaluer la quantité de toxiques bancaires figurant encore au bilan des banques du fait du processus de titrisation

    Archive 2009-04-10 2009

  • All the incapables must be turned out, you understand — and that in every walk of life!

    An Enemy of the People 2008

  • Aussi, pour des raisons sentimentales, je les revendrai a des personnes dignes de confiance, donc si vous bavez sur ces figurines et que je ne vous connais pas et que vous etes incapables de me prouver que je les vent pas a un abruti ...

    pinku-tk Diary Entry pinku-tk 2008

  • All the incapables must be turned out, you understand — and that in every walk of life!

    An Enemy of the People 2008

  • “Luck of that sort never comes to fools or incapables,” said des Lupeaulx.

    A Distinguished Provincial at Paris 2007

  • Comme le dit mon cher père , ex-dirigeant d'une très grande entreprise française , "Ils seraient incapables de gérer un bureau de tabac".

    Will it be Say or Walras? - The Austrian Economists 2007

  • In 1843 and 1844, I knew men to work for fourpence a day — something over the dole on which we are told, being mostly incredulous as we hear it, that a Coolie labourer can feed himself with rice in India; — not one man or two men, the broken-down incapables of the parish, but the best labour of the country.

    Castle Richmond 2004

  • The manlier and bolder among them, dissatisfied with the prospect of such poor fare, looked round and saw, in the hands of incapables, fat livings and lucrative emoluments to which they, on account of their superior culture, believed they had a better claim.

    Shakspere and Montaigne Jacob Feis

  • It was truly a very bewitching Opal who finally descended to the _salon_ and joined the party of four masculine incapables who had spent the day in vain search for amusement.

    One Day A sequel to 'Three Weeks' Anonymous

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