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  • Her latest effontery in categorizing the health care debate in semantical summersaults "" Obamas Death Panels "" and the inuendoes about her challenged child and old parents is an assault to the intelligence of the American public. bob

    CNN Poll: Favorable view of Palin dipping 2009

  • It really must be galling to her to see Obama having the effontery to challenge her and her 35 YEARS OF MAKING CHANGE!

    Bill Says That President Doesn't "Run The Bureaucracy" 2009

  • For a moment I was deceived, like Gaston, by the effontery; but Louise pressed my hand, whispering:

    Letters of Two Brides Honor�� de Balzac 1824

  • a moment I was deceived, like Gaston, by the effontery; but Louise pressed my hand, whispering:

    Letters of Two Brides 2007

  • I’m angry that a group of “religious” people have the effontery to decide my nation is “corrupt” and that its ordinary citizens don’t deserve to live.

    What Would George W(ashington) Do? 2006

  • She had become aware, as the term got into its stride and the students settled down, that Mrs Bradley’s lectures in psychology and Miss Topas’s lectures in medieval history were always crowded, even by students who had no particular reason for attending them, whereas her own lectures in English literature were attended only by those students who had neither the effontery nor the bad manners to cut them.

    Laurels are Poison Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1942

  • She had become aware, as the term got into its stride and the students settled down, that Mrs Bradley’s lectures in psychology and Miss Topas’s lectures in medieval history were always crowded, even by students who had no particular reason for attending them, whereas her own lectures in English literature were attended only by those students who had neither the effontery nor the bad manners to cut them.

    Laurels are Poison Mitchell, Gladys, 1901-1983 1942

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