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Default How does a Senator that is a Mormon teetolar get arrested for DUI?

On Monday, December 31, 2012 8:48:12 PM UTC-6, Catfood Chef wrote:
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> > > How does someone named "Crapo" even get elected or taken serious about

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> > > "Mike Crapo, the Republican senator from Idaho who was arrested on Sunday

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> > > Crapo in 2010 said that he was motivated to sponsor legislation to reduce

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> > > The three-term senator is accused of registering a 0.11 percent

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> How do you spell Mormon with 1 "m"?


Easily, if you consider that there is only one lower case "m". I do agree that you'd have to be pretty nutty to believe in Mormonism.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/All_About_Mormons
"Dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb, dumb."

--Bryan