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  • Typical of the wingnuts … they have been so deluded into blaming TEH BROWN PEOPLE for their economic conditions by the very same people who are responsible for the screwed-up economy … There is no day that does not go by where CEOs are thanking the Almighty Dollar that they have these scapegoats to blame for their own actions of outsourcing, cutting benefits, while they themselves retain their bonuses and executive pay.

    Think Progress » Anti-Immigrant Group Endorses Massachusetts Senate Candidate Scott Brown 2010

  • It is a totally screwed-up ideology, but that religion has so many adherents.

    Think Progress » Beck: ‘African-American is a bogus, PC, made-up term. I mean, that’s not a race.’ 2010

  • Experiencing a screwed-up creative process isn't pleasant, but it can help us recognize when something really cool or amazing or brilliant is actually happening when it finally does.

    Mary Beth Maziarz: Nine Ways to Screw Up Your Creative Mojo Mary Beth Maziarz 2011

  • Genetics only make a difference because if you have sex with your relatives, you will produce babies with screwed-up bodies or brains—having sex with your relatives is what kings and queens and rich people do, which is one reason rulers tend to be crazy.

    So Much Pretty Cara Hoffman 2011

  • Experiencing a screwed-up creative process isn't pleasant, but it can help us recognize when something really cool or amazing or brilliant is actually happening when it finally does.

    Mary Beth Maziarz: Nine Ways to Screw Up Your Creative Mojo Mary Beth Maziarz 2011

  • Kelly Peacock designed the suitable costumes, including an almost chic red dress that Mae dons for her beau; sound designer Tony Angelini supplies gunshots, screeching car noises and other auditory testaments to Eddie's screwed-up existence.

    'Fool for Love': A tattered affair at Keegan Celia Wren 2010

  • It gets that rap because the background world is so bleak and the characters are, by the nature of the genre, outsiders scrabbling out a living in a screwed-up world.

    Day in the Life of an Idiot lyda222 2009

  • But I intimately know how deeply screwed-up things were a few short years ago, and I'm frankly surprised by how well we're doing relative to where we were.

    Jared Bernstein: Improving the Debate in Washington From the Outside Jared Bernstein 2011

  • The Corrections by Jonathan Franzen (the author who refused to appear on Oprah) is about a family: an elderly couple with three grown-up children, that is three screwed-up children.

    2010 April 22 « The BookBanter Blog 2010

  • I don't think it was by choice; back in the day, as they say, a properly screwed-up record player would repeat an album over and over again until you got up to turn it off.

    Quitting Smack Con Chapman 2011

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