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  • If theyre taking money from ACORN, then why is Blackwater, and other thieving, lying companies funded by my tax dollars still receiving monies from the government. ACORN files lawsuit over loss of federal funding
  • I'd suggest this was when he started thieving from temples.
  • If there are scumbags thieving from the public coffers and we expose them and punish them, then the rule of law is upheld and we are all better off. Dallas Blog, Daily News, Dallas Politics, Opinion, and Commentary FrontBurner Blog D Magazine » Blog Archive » Scandal in Black & White
  • It blasts away for openers - not for the first time - with the overture from Rossini's otherwise neglected opera The Thieving Magpie.
  • During that time he was savagely beaten, he built and renovated a small house for himself, panhandled, spent days on end drunk, took drugs, rode along on thieving runs and stood in soup kitchen lines.
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  • A shoplifter went prepared for thieving with a specially adapted carrier bag designed to stop alarms going off.
  • Some previous stuff I have done on thieving pikey bastards: assorted pikey pictures and my bit on how you can not call pikey thieving gippo scum itinerant travellers. Archive 2008-03-01
  • If someone prospers by thieving or cheating, his prosperity is likely to turn to ashes.
  • That's when I got into crime - thieving from cars and doing burglaries.
  • We aren't like the local autocrats, hypocritical and thieving to their rotten cores.
  • In these conditions, thieving from the state and 'beating the system' were the things to do to survive.
  • I'm tired of war mongering, racist, ignorant, thieving, brain washed, Blue Dogs, fake Dems, corporate villain Republicans pretending to be Christians. House Dem to switch to Republican Party
  • Thieving to the benefit of Labour is OK, but just a bit embarrassing right now, so taihoa, bro.
  • He's no mate of mine the thieving git!
  • The remark was not brought on by some thieving or chicanery on my part, but rather by a political speech I'd made which this person didn't like.
  • A “long time” in the world of a thieving little shite is approximately 2 hours and 7 minutes. on September 8, 2009 at 6: 16 pm thespecialone Citizen Focus – meet the “customer”. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • But I do fear in approving its publication you've probably made yourself Captain Nasty for generations of thieving welfarists.
  • Though that would've been thieving from a far more important figure. brett_f Cool Stuff: The Lost Art of Inglourious Basterds | /Film
  • We want crime rates to drop and steps to be taken to convince young criminals that there is an alternative to thieving and breaking the law.
  • We must be on our guard against their slick, thieving ways
  • I didn't want any thieving, shifty-eyed shepherds near our inn.
  • When & if these fucking thieving war-criminal profiteers swing for their crimes against humanity, I want Bernhard right up there with 'em, and every motherfucker from the board of Halliburton, Shell, British Petroleum & ExxonMobil. Your Right Hand Thief
  • He got the sack for petty thieving.
  • With her drinking and thieving, his mother proved a lifelong source of embarrassment.
  • Some boys were thieving in the supermarket.
  • 'I dare say, my dear,' resumed the father, 'you will not do what we call thieving; but as I know there are many naughty boys in all schools, I am afraid they will teach you to commit dishonourable actions, and to tell you there is no harm in them, and that they are signs of cleverness and spirit, and qualifications very necessary for every boy to possess.' Life and Perambulations of a Mouse
  • Thieving pensioners are a new social phenomenon, apparently.
  • The corporate media outlets now routinely treat entertainment cartel statements as though they’re credible, counterfeiting is ‘piracy, sharing has become ‘thieving’ and a ‘crime,’ young children are labelled as ‘criminals’ and pilloried in public, extortion is OK, lying, disinformation, misinformation, the distortion of facts, and creative accounting are now absolutely integral to all entertainment cartel information packages. Big Music: scaring children
  • It was David who told us you could go to jail for thieving from the age of 13 onwards.
  • But private property was not safe from his thieving hands.
  • Yesterday morning the evil nibblers were thieving from our bird feeder. Times, Sunday Times
  • Clara was amazed at the feel of his hand; it had calluses and scars that Clara knew he wouldn't have gotten thieving.
  • One major crime is prostitution and the other is thieving.
  • I submit that what has been going on her isn't so much a disease as a moral failing, just as lying and thieving are moral failings.
  • I would like to shame the spineless, thieving moron who on April 5 stole my little girl's books from the toilets in Morrisons.
  • Thieving needs to be done outside of Deptford - somewhere there are decent things to steal.
  • Take your thieving hands off my radio!
  • High tobymen, or horsed robbers, had yielded the field to low tobymen, or footpads, and roadside thieving had lost its traditional panache.
  • Supreme Court orders Google Australia to release details of creators of website labelling self-help guru Jamie McIntyre a 'thieving scumbag' INTERNET giant Google has lost a landmark legal battle that is expected to open the floodgates to online litigation against anonymous online commentators. NEWS.com.au | Top Stories
  • Some, especially in the provinces, unmasked bullying and thieving local officials who had been exploiting the people.
  • Insults go with the territory, I have no problem with people calling me a thieving, parasite dog.
  • Those devious, thieving bastards were expecting Dan to pay 90,000 Rupees to be driven 500 kilometers.
  • Very practised and skilful in thieving were the native population of Cruces – I speak of the majority, and except the negroes – always more inclined to do a dishonest night's labour at great risk, than an honest day's work for fair wages; for justice was always administered strictly to the poor natives – it was only the foreigners who could evade it or purchase exemption. Wonderful Adventures of Mrs. Seacole in Many Lands
  • the thieving is awful at Kennedy International
  • The eccentric drunk's largesse solves the girl's problems, but when the scatterbrain forgets he gave her the money, she is arrested for thieving.
  • She had once been on the studio lot when a girl of about her own age, a "supe" like herself, was arrested for thieving in the women's dressing-rooms. The Dust Flower
  • There's no economic theory to explain it, other than the theory that the inhabitants are grasping thieving swine.
  • We are not talking about spontaneous outbreaks of opportunitistic thieving.
  • Thieving was fun; thieving from people Shan disliked was best of all.
  • A 27-year-old heroin addict found himself in the grip of a police dog after going on a late-night thieving expedition.
  • If we want a prosperous, successful nation the government has to start now and stop tinkering and thieving by stealth.
  • Police are also hunting a boy aged about 12 who ran off after the thieving monkey.
  • I can accept the thieving but to set fire to it is well out of order.
  • I'd rather have an honest gay who is comfortable with his/her sexuality than a slithery, snaky, whiny, hypocritical, philandering, lying, thieving mark snafu-rd for my governonr. Sanford accused of smear campaign against Bauer
  • Many take sport in killing for the sake of killing, thieving for the sake of theft, even if they do not need or use the spoils.
  • And the government bureaucracy is riddled with corruption, thieving, lying and wastefulness.
  • Mr. Lane gets involved with a host of other characters: Henry Hill, the real-life "Goodfellas" turncoat booted from the federal witness-protection program; Jacob the Jeweler, the money launderer for Detroit's Black Mafia drug gang; a thieving Caribbean prime minister; and Peter Max. Published and Perished
  • He added that car crimes were more often occurring at night and cars were often stolen Thursday through to Saturday while thieving from cars was more general.
  • The colonel begged me to accompany him to the guard-room, to see the thieving soldier flogged.
  • Thus, the claim that "I've kept as yet from thieving pretty free" is undercut by a "stolen" form, or rather one that evokes a high-literate and aristocratic practice of satire, casting the lowly versifier as a clown in lordly clothing. Like
  • In the end I ignored them all and reasoned that it could be some kind of horrible prank and I would be shamed nationwide as a thieving pinchpenny.
  • An 1823 letter by John C. Calhoun was offered on eBay and led to the discovery of a thieving archivist.
  • A lot of them go out, do car-urging, car-snatches, you know, or some of them go out thieving.
  • I'll be sleeping with one eye open around every one of you sneaky puling horse thieving bastards.
  • Proceeds from his thieving at shops in Lyneham and Wroughton had been used to buy his drugs, she said.
  • Alexandria makes the term signify in Syria, impudent, thieving, wicked. Arabian nights. English
  • Talking to many fishery owners over the years, it seems the biggest problem they face is fish thieving.
  • And Sammy, a shopkeeper, decides to combat thieving tearaways with retaliatory violence.
  • They were ruthless and greedy, plundering king's troves of gold and any treasure they can get their thieving claws on.
  • I got in and within the space of 20 mins I had been super super ripped off, been taken on a journey for 20 mins (when it only should have been 5), had my camera and bank card stolen by the afore mention thieving predator and been called toots TravelPod.com TravelStream™ — Recent Entries at TravelPod.com
  • A poacher would neither understand, nor care… vile, filthy, treacherous and thieving creatures of the night they are.
  • I felt somewhat flattered by this encouraging condescension, and I admit now that I did not feel particularly happy at the idea of bearding the thieving lion, with his hyena-like satellites, in his den. The Confessions of a Caricaturist, Vol 2 (of 2)
  • The thieving wine connoisseurs then ransacked the house, stealing laptops, wallets and jewellery.
  • The movie is brimming with witchcraft and wizardry, temptation and all manner of nasty people killing, maiming and thieving.
  • Bethlem became a byword for thieving, degeneracy and institutionalised corruption. Bedlam
  • Those thieving kids tried to steal my car.
  • Wish the UKBA would just grab some of the useless Stella-guzzling, phlegm-hawking, abuse-slinging reebok-clad, oxygen-thieving scutters hanging around outside the convenience store over the road instead. God Help Us. The Pies Are Gone! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • He remembered the fat man in Vinegar Street, whose trade, rat-catching, took him to the great houses in west London that he reconnoitred for his thieving friends. Sharpe's Fortress
  • Holiday from sordid violence, mean theft, callous brutality, avaricious thieving, sophisticated fraud. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
  • That's tantamount to thieving from your employers, that is!
  • I call it thieving because technically it is that, though it does no harm to anybody. The Road to Wigan Pier
  • If a free man be caught thieving, up to the amount of 20 siliquae, beans, _i. e._ one gold piece -- though Pope Gregory makes the solidus Roman and the Teuton
  • Thieving needs to be done outside of Deptford - somewhere there are decent things to steal.
  • High tobymen, or horsed robbers, had yielded the field to low tobymen, or footpads, and roadside thieving had lost its traditional panache.
  • Angela's public world and Ronnie's very private life collide with an assortment of thieving politicos, power-hungry businessmen, and ruthless clergy.
  • I fully expected a ho-hum exclusive concerning a tugged pigtail or some apple thieving.
  • Forget all that, forget any sort of reasonable discussion, let's just call them thieving scroungers again.
  • To be caught thieving didn't bear thinking about.
  • Now that he was done with the thieving, he had to get down.
  • Holiday from sordid violence, mean theft, callous brutality, avaricious thieving, sophisticated fraud. DEATH AND TRANSFIGURATION
  • Or are they throwing down for the largest, bloodthirstiest, thievingest gang in the world? Boing Boing
  • In interviews across Baghdad, though, Iraqis said the widespread thieving affected them at least as powerfully on an emotional and moral level.
  • It likes to present itself as quite 'mannered' in its approach to poetry but it often becomes a forum for the crudest vocalisations within that, and really because of it, as if shining the poetic silverware also meant locking it off from the thieving maids. Bedtime Reading
  • With her drinking and thieving, his mother proved a lifelong source of embarrassment.
  • Those caught thieving something worth more than the price of a goat are sentenced to lose a hand.
  • I started going out thieving and burgling - anything I could to feed my habit.
  • Verbal aggression, insulting and rude behaviour, disregard for the rights of others, petty thieving and shoddy work were the norms.
  • Pretend that it does not exist and glory in the original barbarian and his slaying, reaving, wenching, pirating and thieving, often with a woman to match him at his side. Archive 2007-02-01
  • That this capitulary meant what it said appears from the case of the duke of Istria, who, being accused by the missi of divers injustices and extortions, was forced by the King to restore his thievings, compensate every wronged man, publicly confess his crimes, and give security against their repetition. Charlemagne, King of the Franks, 28 Jan 814
  • She resolves to stop thieving on day.
  • This same weekend, at an Iowa "Thanksgiving Family Forum," Newt Gingrich sprayed bile at Occupy Wall Street protesters, denouncing them as lazy thieving self-righteous hypocrites, and instructing them to "go get a job right after you take a bath. Marty Kaplan: Students: Cockroaches or Dirty Hippies?
  • Cat owners have been posting photos of their moggies thieving items of food. The Sun
  • Otherwise, laugh along as Harold improvises an elephant trunk, chews on leaves, swelters in a hot desert sun, deals with mischievous thieving monkeys, and more.
  • All in all, a different picture from Corwin's portrayal of the credible, kindly dad and the thieving, abusive mom.
  • Old Mosse saved three people from a burning house in the Blitz but was a thieving rat otherwise.
  • Otherwise I might start lusting for my neighbor’s wife, begin thieving from convenience sotres, or, poray tell, I might turn the dismissive and disrespectful attitude I have towards Hostettler and his ilk and aim it at my elders. Balloon Juice » 2005 » June
  • This series follows a group of gang members as they fight their mortal enemies and seek out a living on the streets by selling drugs and thieving.
  • 'And three years later she was in trouble for thieving ," Crook observed. STAGE FRIGHT
  • Thieving guilds and merchant caravans thrive across Valencia, bringing in great profits to our clan, however we do it admit it is unfortunate that we must resort to such measures to make a living.
  • The kids are getting really bored non of 'em working just hanging around, a bit of thieving, stripping lead off the church, playing football with bernards mutant turkeys, come winter all tucked up in bed by 7pm (and home to see the wife and her sister by 3am. Why the hell should we be interested in what a former second home owner has to say about planning issues in a place she does not even live in ?
  • I liked the voter turnout, but it appears that a large majority of voters take an unhealthy liking to alcohol-swilling, gambling, smartmouth, thieving robots. POLL RESULTS: Favorite TV Robot
  • The nett saving to the tax payer even after replacing his car and paying for the helicopters/road repairs will be far greater than the cost of all the damage done by thieving toebags. I’ll Do Anything Me. For Now That Is. « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • "What's bit this thieving creature? Was it a ratton, maybe?" asked Babb nervously.
  • When I ran out of money I ended up borrowing and then thieving.
  • We want crime rates to drop and steps to be taken to convince young criminals that there is an alternative to thieving and breaking the law.
  • Mustnt you feel a berk if you had voted for any of the thieving plonkers! on March 24, 2009 at 8: 35 pm | Reply Jim Tony McNulty ’second home’ shock! « POLICE INSPECTOR BLOG
  • Despite that he knew what he was to see, when he did turn his head and beheld his wife and Sonny, the pair he had seen thieving in the dark, he went suddenly dizzy, and paused, supporting himself with a hand against a pillar, and smiling vacuously at the grouped singing boys who were pulsing the sensuous night into richer sensuousness with their honi kaua wiki-wiki refrain. THE KANAKA SURF
  • For example, they could punish all the thieves – thieving is said to be a weakness of Nikaj. High Albania
  • Boosting is taking something that you haven't paid for - stealing, shoplifting, thieving, racking - hustling.
  • The Boy remains behind and comments on the cowardice and petty thieving of his associates, whom he plans to leave.

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