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  • Every time I think about moving back to Canada some day, I remind myself of how miserable the national Internet infrastructure is -- and how awful the big telcos are, and how weak-kneed and ass-licking the telcoms regulator is -- and I realize I can't possibly move home.

    Boing Boing 2008

  • If all I wanted from my so-called journalists was a presidential ass-licking, I would have listened solely to Jeff Gannon.

    Intelligence And Epistemology | ATTACKERMAN 2009

  • Anon, the only ass-licking arse to you Brits is done by the Lexx as I recall if Singer can do for Battlestar what he did for the X-Men, it will make a terrific film ... and it sounds like Larson and he plan to focus on the initial war against the Colonies

    VARIANTS: BATTLESTAR MOVIE - GLEN A LARSON VERSION radii 2009

  • I was embarrassed for the ass-licking journalists.

    Surprise! McCain Camp Keeps Hitting Wes Clark Comments, Despite Obama's Disavowals 2009

  • Congress -- and the two candidates seeking the Democratic presidential nomination, both of whom are hedging their way towards a continued military presence for years in Iraq -- should listen to this general, and not to the one whom the recently resigned (or sacked) Central Commander, Admiral William Fallon, called an “ass-licking little chickenshit,” Gen. Petraeus.

    Listen to the General on Iraq (No, not Petraeus!) 2008

  • England got what its U. S ass-licking gov. wanted, full paid, card-carrying membership to the "War on Terriers."

    Marlon Richards: Suspects Sought 2008

  • Given all the Apple ass-licking in the press, I thought this was a smart take on something most other journos would never even think of.

    More whine, my darling? 2007

  • His speech to the Spartanburg County SC GOP was incomparably worse than anyone could imagine, full of groveling and shameless ass-licking of the lowest variety.

    And now a word from the Upper...umm...right? 2005

  • This official UN report proves beyond a shadow of a doubt to us, the 'president's' jelly-shivering, scared-to-death wormy ass-licking goons, that Saddam Hussein, with the help of the Al Queda insurgents, shipped his Weapons of Mass Destruction to Iran.

    Marching Freedom Double-time Into Iran The Daily Growler 2006

  • Normally the fifteen stitches in his upper lip would hardly qualify for a paragraph in the Globe's "Names & Faces" column....thankfully however, Wolf Blitzer and CNN are on the job to give the California Governor the ass-licking he somehow deserves!

    The Chimes at Midnight 2006

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