May 09, 2012

Top Headline Comments 5-9-12
— Gabriel Malor

Happy Wednesday.

Not much news from me this morning. Actually no news, just three stories that caught my eye.

First, an article on tattooed congressmen. Includes the observation that not many are willing to talk about their tattoos.

Second, the wiseass over at Film Drunk did the math on Miley Cyrus' latest big-screen flop.

LOL‘s per-screen average was $440. Divide that by $11, which is about your average ticket price, and it comes out to 40 people per theater who saw LOL this weekend. The closest theater to me showing LOL had five showings per day. Multiply that by three days, fifteen showings, and that’s 40 people into 15 screenings, meaning, if my math serves (and I fully acknowledge that it might not), that the average screening of LOL had LESS THAN THREE VIEWERS (2.667).

Ouch.

Third, Romney shoots down the silly rumor, possibly started by Hermain Cain, that he's going to have a "unity tour" with his former rivals for the GOP nomination.

Posted by: Gabriel Malor at 02:50 AM | Comments (266)
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1 Good Morning Morons.  Today is Wednesday, May 9, 2012.  On this day in 1960 FCC Chairman Newton N. Minow gave his Wasteland Speech concerning television.   Just look at how things have improved since then. What would he call it today?  If it was a "wasteland" in 1960 it is a cesspool of public excrement today.  

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 02:53 AM (YdQQY)

2 Is there nothing this cacophony of clowns can not make a parody of?  Biden says they have "fixed" Bush's Iran problem.

http://is.gd/8q65z7

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 02:53 AM (YdQQY)

3 If you missed it in the threads last night the unions did not do so good in the WI recall yesterday.  But I like this little bit of horse shit from AP in this Fox article:

The recall, triggered by the collection of more than 900,000 petition signatures, was spurred by anger over Walker's proposal passed last year taking collective bargaining rights from public workers.


Remember that a huge portion of those petition signatures were fake with names like Mickey Mouse.   And the crooked attorney general who was in the back pocket of the unions refused to sort through them and eject the obvious fakes.  No mention of that from the AP.  The recall is a total fabrication of the unions because they see this as the potential end of union power.  They have already lost the private sector and the public sector is all they have left.


http://is.gd/7t0u8y

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 02:53 AM (YdQQY)

4 In other good election news from yesterday it appears the final polls were grossly off on the IN Senate Primary.  The last polls showed Luger down by 10%.  It "appears" he lost by 60% to 39% in a huge landslide defeat.  I say appears because none of the liberal press accounts are giving the final numbers. I got the 60 to 39 from a couple of early return sources after the election was called.  

Perhaps some of the IN Morons have a local paper with actual numbers.

http://is.gd/1RlUB0

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 02:54 AM (YdQQY)

5 Pigford is an example of the federal government purposefully rolling over in a bullshit lawsuit in order to pay off blocks of their cronies and supporters. Pigfrd enraged a lot of people. Pigford II was outright theft from the taxpayers and  was passed via the infamous lame duck session when the Dems lost the majority in the House. The Dems had the aid of a few turncoat RINOs in getting the 60 votes needed in the Senate to advance it.

Well here is theft on an even larger grand scale.  Eco watermelon groups sue the federal government and the individual departments like the EPA roll over and pay them off.  

Under the Equal Access to Justice Act, or EAJA - which was signed into law by President Carter in 1980 to help the little guy stand up to federal agencies - litigants with modest means who successfully show government agencies wronged them can get their legal fees back from the taxpayer.
But the act also covers 501(c)(3) nonprofits, including environmental groups that aggressively sue the feds to enforce land-use laws, the Clean Water and Clean Air acts and laws protecting endangered species. Their lawyers are getting reimbursed at rates as high as $750 an hour, sources tell FoxNews.com.
What this article doesn't mention is that the DOJ isn't even making a half-hearted attempt at defending these lawsuits.

http://is.gd/kIjmPU

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 02:54 AM (YdQQY)

6 AP goes bug-house shit crazy reporting S/G   tube vibration wear problems at San Onofre. Oh my God 1300 tubes have wear! Run and hide the Mayan Apocalypse is on us!  This is nothing folks.

http://is.gd/9gKTjh

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 02:54 AM (YdQQY)

7 Is there NOTHING this admin can not do to screw overt the U.S.?  They are now spending millions to buy Russian helicopters to give to Afghanistan.

http://is.gd/JijAKo

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 02:55 AM (YdQQY)

8 Florida arrests alleged neo-Nazis allegedly planning a race war.  Heavens, one of the evil doers had "fortified" his residential trailer.  (I sometimes marvel at the absolute stupidity of reporters now)  I have some news for this bull shit retard reporter and possibly FL authorities as well.  It appears to me that we are already in a "race war" that you folks are not reporting and the authorities are not prosecuting.   This will be an interesting case to track.  The last time a big arrest like this was made it was in the midwest and it turned out most of the charges were fabrications.

http://is.gd/KUXXn1

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 02:55 AM (YdQQY)

9 Morning kids. Saw the Beach Boys last night at the Beacon Theatre in NYC. Wow (except for John Stamos). A nice respite from the douchebaggery and insanity that is the world today. Saw Kimberly Guilfoyle backstage. Huge ta-tas!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 09, 2012 02:55 AM (noo6E)

10 TSA at it again.  Break $10K insulin pump belonging to diabetic teen.  When are we going to shit can these incompetent assholes and return airport security to private companies the way it was before Chucky Cheesedk and Huslery Clinton ruined it?

http://is.gd/mjGToK

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 02:56 AM (YdQQY)

11 A male masseuse has filed a multi-million dollar lawsuit against John Revolta for sexual assault.

http://is.gd/dbQj6F

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 02:56 AM (YdQQY)

12 Boner says House will vote to extend Bush tax cuts or make them permanent.  The Hill as good as calls it a political ploy.  One wonders why they didn't do that with Obama's call for all his "stalled socialist programs".


http://is.gd/OHNQeV

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 02:56 AM (YdQQY)

13 SC Republican introduces bill to cut DOJ employees salaries by $1M and it passes by voice vote.  Now this is "real politics".  GIGANTIC HORROR POLITICAL meaningless gesture. When are they going to do the split funding bills they promised?

http://is.gd/JNpisP

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 02:57 AM (YdQQY)

14 The NYT Southern Edition (WP) loses $22.6M last quarter in GIGANTIC HORROR showing of people fed up with Democrat PR rags.

http://is.gd/2bNlPO

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 02:57 AM (YdQQY)

15 Soros Tides foundation under investigation in Canada.  I predict nothing will come of this.

http://is.gd/2PnjVV

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 02:57 AM (YdQQY)

16 AIM set to release report showing massive voter fraud in the U.S.

http://is.gd/c1iIU8

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 02:58 AM (YdQQY)

17 And speaking of vote fraud

MM discusses some of the wild speculation and conspiracy crap floating around about the upcoming election. I.e. there is plenty to worry about in voter fraud, but let's keep it real people.

http://is.gd/3nwiR5

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 02:58 AM (YdQQY)

18 NRO examines why Luger lost.  Looking at this article you could sum it up by saying he was a massive RINO.  And looking at some of the things he joined forces with the Dems on he may have been classified as a damnadable DIABLO.

http://is.gd/n6gLhp

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 02:59 AM (YdQQY)

19 Talk about stupid speculation????   Huck as VP?   This is one thing Mutt does not need, a liberal religious TV talk show host.

http://is.gd/uR96c9

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 02:59 AM (YdQQY)

20 And that's it for the news this morning. Little more than the last couple of days.

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 03:00 AM (YdQQY)

21 Rumors from The Hill.  Aside from the fact that nobody here at AOS has mentioned these rumors, why should anyone believe the idiots at The Hill.



Can you say "Man made of straw".

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 03:02 AM (YdQQY)

22 Good Morning Vic -

Over 300,000 less people voted for the Democrats yesterday in Wisconsin than signed the recall petition. Things that make you go hmmmmm .....


Posted by: mama winger at May 09, 2012 03:05 AM (P6QsQ)

23 Over 300,000 less people voted for the Democrats yesterday in Wisconsin than signed the recall petition.



Wasn't there exit polls that showed even with that lower number a lot of those votes were Republican cross-overs?

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 03:07 AM (YdQQY)

24 Yesterday was a great day to be an American as the Indiana RINO had a case of Tea Party brand STFU rammed up his senile candy ass.  Peggy Noonan's "arthritis cure" stocks hardest hit.  Likewise for the union turds in Wisconsin.  I think I heard that worthless Canuck cocksucker Peter Jennings screaming from Hell last night as Satan said "They had a temper tantrum" while he skull fucked his bald spot with his barbed cock.

Posted by: Captain Hate at May 09, 2012 03:07 AM (HfgvZ)

25 Way to go West Virginia!  Where Barack OBama can't get more than 60% of the primary vote against a felon in a federal prison!

Posted by: mama winger at May 09, 2012 03:07 AM (P6QsQ)

26 25 Way to go West Virginia! Where Barack OBama can't get more than 60% of the primary vote against a felon in a federal prison!



You mean a felon and a FUTURE felon.

Posted by: Dastardly Dan at May 09, 2012 03:09 AM (rvLeh)

27 Wasn't there exit polls that showed even with that lower number a lot of those votes were Republican cross-overs?
--------------


Yep - a lot of Republicans crossed over to vote for Kathleen Falk.  If you look at the number of voters who went on to vote for the Dem candidate for Lt. Governor against Rebecca Kleefisch, the actual true Democrat total number of votes probably drops by about 40,000.

What a stupid stupid waste of time, money and energy - all for the Union Thug Temper Tantrum.

Posted by: mama winger at May 09, 2012 03:10 AM (P6QsQ)

28 Saw Kimberly Guilfoyle backstage. Huge ta-tas!

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 09, 2012 06:55 AM (noo6E)




Shame!  AOS style guide says any post of this nature requires and accompanying graphic of said subject matter.


http://is.gd/GjMWec

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 03:11 AM (YdQQY)

29 You know who was an extreme candidate who could not win and you know we support this nice safe establishment republican guy instead? Marco Freaking Rubio. I read it here.

Posted by: Blaster at May 09, 2012 03:12 AM (HR5x9)

30 And the Dem winner of the primary, Tom Barrett, admits that even if elected collective bargaining and most of the other reforms are going to stay in place.  Why are we even doing this ???

Posted by: mama winger at May 09, 2012 03:12 AM (P6QsQ)

31 What a stupid stupid waste of time, money and energy - all for the Union Thug Temper Tantrum.

Not if it shows the Union Thugs that they're not in charge

Posted by: Dastardly Dan at May 09, 2012 03:12 AM (rvLeh)

32 Way to go West Virginia! Where Barack OBama can't get more than 60% of the primary vote against a felon in a federal prison!

Posted by: mama winger at May 09, 2012 07:07 AM (P6QsQ)



LOL, I saw that and marveled at how they laughed at SC's senate race with Alvin Greene.

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 03:14 AM (YdQQY)

33 Sorry Vic. Truth be told, she doesn't look all that great at close range. Lots of makeup. Probably just got off the set of "The Five." O'Reilly was also there with Lis Wiehl (sp). He's a tall boy.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 09, 2012 03:15 AM (noo6E)

34 Why the recall in WI?  I thought I answered that:




The recall is a total fabrication of the unions because they see this as the potential end of union power. They have already lost the private sector and the public sector is all they have left.

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 03:16 AM (YdQQY)

35 Truth be told, she doesn't look all that great at close range. Lots of makeup



I never have thought she was that good looking, but you brought up the ta-tas.

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 03:17 AM (YdQQY)

36 Huck as VP? Apparently some people have forgotten the hatchet job Huck did on Mitt for McCain in 2008.

Posted by: nickless at May 09, 2012 03:17 AM (MMC8r)

37 Romney should name Dennis Miller as his VP.

The VP candidate debate would be fatally funny

Posted by: Dastardly Dan at May 09, 2012 03:19 AM (rvLeh)

38 The best job Huck would be good for????   Wait for it..........




Dragging his worthless ass back to AR to live in obscurity.

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 03:20 AM (YdQQY)

39 Will there be dancing girls on the "Unity Tour"?

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 09, 2012 03:20 AM (UTq/I)

40 In a clear sign of the influence of racism now rampant in the Republican Party via the Tea Party...Dick Lugar was defeated yesterday.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 09, 2012 03:21 AM (B+qrE)

41 This is what I don't understand about American culture. That Hanna Montana chick, she's physically unattractive, she has no apparent talent and the dreck they put her in is unwatchable. I don't care how old you are, have you no taste? None?? Why doesn't merit factor into who becomes a celebrity anymore?

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2012 03:23 AM (Gc/Qi)

42 A little off topic for this crew, but Josh Hamilton of the Texas Rangers hit 4 home runs in last night's game. Rarer than a perfect game.

Posted by: dogfish at May 09, 2012 03:24 AM (N2yhW)

43

Burt, I don't think we're in the Miley Cyrus target demographic.

Apparently no one else is anymore either.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 09, 2012 03:25 AM (B+qrE)

44 "A Russian Jet Carrying 44 People On A Demonstration Flight Has Gone off Radar"

"According to the report, 36 of the 44 passengers are representatives of major airline carriers."

http://tinyurl.com/7zwh9h2



Posted by: . at May 09, 2012 03:26 AM (oZfic)

45 "Michele Bachmann claims Swiss citizenship"

"“Congresswoman BachmannÂ’s husband is of Swiss descent, so she has been eligible for dual-citizenship since they got married in 1978. However, recently some of their children wanted to exercise their eligibility for dual-citizenship so they went through the process as a family,” said Bachmann spokesperson Becky Rogness." 

http://tinyurl.com/824sq8q

Posted by: . at May 09, 2012 03:28 AM (oZfic)

46 Miley Cyrus??? Further proof of the cesspool I spoke of earlier. In the "old days" Disney heroes were Davy Crockett and Zorro.



Now we have teenie boppers who migrate into drug addicts.

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 03:28 AM (YdQQY)

47 A friend of mine is a big Beach Boys fan and is seeing them here in Chicago.  I took one look at the ticket prices and nearly fell off my chair! $175 apiece.  Yikes!

Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 09, 2012 03:29 AM (UTq/I)

48 Remember that a huge portion of those petition signatures were fake with names like Mickey Mouse. And the crooked attorney general who was in the back pocket of the unions refused to sort through them and eject the obvious fakes.

Actually, the party responsible for not sorting through the signatures properly is called the GAB (Government Accountability Board...don't laugh). They're *supposed* to be non-partisan, but they've been bought and paid for by the unions on this.  There are a few people who got caught signing the recall petitions for others that are being prosecuted.

The WI AG is a republican, but he's pretty wishy-washy on some things.

Posted by: GMan at May 09, 2012 03:29 AM (sxq57)

49 If ever a twitter pic cried out for a captioning contest, this one does:
 
http://tinyurl.com/6m3mgq7
 
Caution -- it cannot be unseen once seen, but it's totally safe for work.
 
I'll just channel toby928 and say 'The BALLS on that, er, person'.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 09, 2012 03:30 AM (ccXZP)

50 One of the best parts of last night was the bitter, bitter lefty tears in regards to Lugar's loss and the NC vote passing of Amendment 1. There was rending of garments and gnashing of teeth. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz Tweeted something like, "its now obvious the Repub party is indistinguishable from the Tea Party. My response to her, "it's now obvious the Dem party is indistinguishable from Socialists. Or a car full of clowns." Was a good good night for us. Wisconsin's results (and Ind too) give me some faith in the people again. It's so easy to lose faith when inundated by stupidity all day long. Feels good to get some of it back.

Posted by: DangerGirl at May 09, 2012 03:31 AM (ZhNCB)

51 Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 06:53 AM (YdQQY)


Biden might be right in that the Obama administration fixed Bush's Iran problem because with nuclear weapons, Iran will now have a fair chance of destabilizing the ME and destroying Israel.

Posted by: Hrothgar at May 09, 2012 03:32 AM (i3+c5)

52 Posted by: GnuBreed at May 09, 2012 07:30 AM (ccXZP)

I admit, you gave fair warning, BUT YOU SHOULD HAVE USED ALL CAPS!

Posted by: Hrothgar at May 09, 2012 03:35 AM (i3+c5)

53 Who is Miley Cyrus?

Posted by: Payaso at May 09, 2012 03:40 AM (RQFbZ)

54

Well, despite all the great election news, I am just crestfallen this morning.  #AskMichelle did not answer a single one of my questions.  Some of them were:

 

When Barack leaves in January, would you be willing to stay on to tell us how to live our lives?

Is FEMA building those camps for people who don't eat their broccoli?

You let your daughter go to Mexico with 25 Secret Service Agents. Is that good parenting?

Have things improved between you and the President since Reggie left? IYKWIMAITYD

Who is going to write Barack's next autobiography?

Who flies with Bo on his plane now that Reggie's gone?

Will you visit an Islamic Republic before the election? Will you wear a hijab?

When you and Barack need to have a serious conversation, does he bring his teleprompter?

At what age do you think it is appropriate for the girls to have their own vacation planes?

How come I can't see your answers? Are they over with Barack's records?

The question I wished I had asked came from @DefendWallSt.  What's it like to be married to a lying sack of shit who sold the 18-35 vote a giant lie then stuck them with the bill for it?

Posted by: Nash Rambler at May 09, 2012 03:40 AM (HLv97)

55 What's this about Piss Matthews beclowning himself by talking up FORD's success...because of Obama's bailout?

Posted by: soothie at May 09, 2012 03:40 AM (LPRBM)

56 For the next month I plan to live on pizza and Dick Lugar's tears, but mostly pizza.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 09, 2012 03:40 AM (ccXZP)

57 "Tea party claims another scalp"  http://tinyurl.com/7vaysz7

Posted by: . at May 09, 2012 03:42 AM (oZfic)

58

You let your daughter go to Mexico with 25 Secret Service Agents. Is that good parenting?

 

Heh.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 09, 2012 03:42 AM (B+qrE)

59 "The U.S. Army has a $375 million contract to buy 21 Russian-made MI-17 helicopters for the Afghans from Rosoboronexport, RussiaÂ’s state-run arms trader, Pentagon Undersecretary for Policy James Miller said in a previously undisclosed March 30 letter to a lawmaker opposed to the deal."


US Taxpayers = Suckers! moto perpetuo
Afghanistan-Russia-US-Afghanistan-US-Russia-Afghanistan...


Posted by: The Bitterest Clinger at May 09, 2012 03:44 AM (lpWVn)

60 Lugar declares that Mourdock is just too Republican. Good Riddance, and Good Morning.

Posted by: toby928© at May 09, 2012 03:44 AM (NG097)

61 #56

Well, technically it's true that Ford's enjoying more success because of Obama's bailout.  I mean, more people are buying Ford because they don't want a car from Government Motors...right?

Posted by: GMan at May 09, 2012 03:44 AM (sxq57)

62 43 - I really don't think age is an excuse, and it's not like adults are any better at picking out celebrities. If we were, Phil Collins and Billy Joel would be locked up in a prison somewhere for crimes against humanity.

Posted by: BurtTC at May 09, 2012 03:45 AM (Gc/Qi)

63 Posted by: GMan at May 09, 2012 07:44 AM (sxq57)

Current regime spin worthy!!!

Posted by: MSM at May 09, 2012 03:46 AM (GsBJY)

64 That's one way to look at it, Gman.

Posted by: soothie at May 09, 2012 03:46 AM (vyPsz)

65 Chris Matthews is MSNBC's Joe Biden.

Posted by: soothie at May 09, 2012 03:47 AM (vzLhi)

66 were they playing the Royals? Orioles.

Posted by: dogfish at May 09, 2012 03:47 AM (N2yhW)

67

One more #AskMichelle tweet from @Rightwinginit

 

Be honest, are you ever tempted to call Barack a SCoaMF?

Posted by: Nash Rambler at May 09, 2012 03:50 AM (HLv97)

68 If ever a twitter pic cried out for a captioning contest, this one does:

http://tinyurl.com/6m3mgq7

Caution -- it cannot be unseen once seen, but it's totally safe for work.

I'll just channel toby928 and say 'The BALLS on that, er, person'.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 09, 2012 07:30 AM (ccXZP)

 

Scotch tape malfunction?

Posted by: Jimmah at May 09, 2012 03:51 AM (UpwlP)

69

Posted by osted by: The Bitterest Clinger at May 09, 2012 07:44 AM (lpWVn) The Bitterest Clinger at May 09, 2012 07:44 AM (lpWVn)


Not like we need any of that Chinese money for our own troops.  Another triumph for Obama and Hill's smart diplomacy.  Vladimir got the message alright!

Posted by: Hrothgar at May 09, 2012 03:51 AM (i3+c5)

70 The local newspaper (NC) is filled with liberal tears this morning. The DOMA passage has left some of them seemingly shell-shocked. They owned the media, spent two million dollars and still got kicked in the teeth by a vast majority. Oh, and President Scooby Snacks got 79.2 percent of the Dem vote, with "No preference" just breaking the 20 percent mark.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 09, 2012 03:51 AM (hiMsy)

71 Liz Warren -- Pretindian
 
Dick Lugar -- Pretindianan
 
Here's to hoping they both need to cry on each other's shoulders.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 09, 2012 03:52 AM (ccXZP)

72

Chemjeff, I don't wish to alram you, but the Orioles are 19-11 and are in first place.

 

Yes, the Mayans were on to something.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 09, 2012 03:53 AM (B+qrE)

73 On the Talk Radio this morn, their lamenting how extreme the Tea Party is.
"They're getting rid of anyone with any sense in the Republican Party"
"There wont be anyone left to reach across the aisle"

The smearing has accelerated

Posted by: Bitterest Clinger at May 09, 2012 03:53 AM (cYQg0)

74 36 Huck as VP?

Apparently some people have forgotten the hatchet job Huck did on Mitt for McCain in 2008.

Posted by: nickless at May 09, 2012 07:17 AM (MMC8r)

I'm betting Mitt hasn't forgotten.

Posted by: Starshatterer at May 09, 2012 03:53 AM (/GcL3)

75 On that Russian jet story, I am guessing they don't make many sales.

Posted by: Blaster at May 09, 2012 03:53 AM (HR5x9)

76

There wont be anyone left to reach across the aisle

 

Yeah, because Dingy Harry has run the Senate in such a bipartisan way.  I love how we are the side that always has to "reach out."  Screw 'em.  November 7th:  "We won."

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 09, 2012 03:56 AM (B+qrE)

77 36 Huck as VP?

He is a firm believer in Reaching Across The Aisle.
A fine choice

Posted by: Bitterest Clinger at May 09, 2012 03:57 AM (cYQg0)

78 Hopefully, Miss Lindsey is taking note of Lugar's crash and burn and is preparing to bail out.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 09, 2012 03:58 AM (4q5tP)

79 huh, so they finally got that time machine working and went back in time to go grab a youthful Cal Ripken Jr kill Cuban Pete before he could buy the franchise. - good for them!

Posted by: Captain Hate at May 09, 2012 04:00 AM (HfgvZ)

80 82 >> Hopefully, Miss Lindsey is taking note of Lugar's crash and burn and is preparing to bail out.
 
Orrin Hatch did not get a good night's sleep last night either.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 09, 2012 04:02 AM (ccXZP)

81

iowntheworld.com has a short piece on Robert Reich that made me laugh.

 

http://tinyurl.com/7svwbh8

Posted by: Nash Rambler at May 09, 2012 04:03 AM (HLv97)

82 Chemjeff, I don't wish to alram you, but the Orioles are 19-11 and are in first place.

I guarantee it won't be that way in September.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 09, 2012 04:06 AM (sbV1u)

83

a short piece on Robert Reich

 

ISWYDT

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 09, 2012 04:07 AM (B+qrE)

84

Obama now raffling off Shout Outs for campaign contributions.  (h/t WZ)

 

This guy is all class.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 09, 2012 04:07 AM (4q5tP)

85 One of the wittier Twitter comments on the convicted felon running against SCOAMF in WV was about his slogan: Hope and Chains.

Posted by: Retread at May 09, 2012 04:09 AM (joSBv)

86 a short piece on of Robert Reich

Posted by: Bitterest Clinger at May 09, 2012 04:09 AM (cYQg0)

87 So I guess Elizabeth Warren should get a pay cut, or be fired since she is 1/32nd Cherokee persecutor, right?

Posted by: @ParisParamus at May 09, 2012 04:10 AM (Q8Vpy)

88 >>>25 Way to go West Virginia! Where Barack OBama can't get more than 60% of the primary vote against a felon in a federal prison!<<<

I can't wait to see the take on this later today.

What I will say is that people, and especially polls, are way underestimating the anti-Obama vote.

When these type of events occur, you have to be curious why most polls even show this to be a close race on a national scale.

Turnout was actually good for this race, and when more people show up at the polls, it's going to be bad for Obama, IMHO.

No amount of distractions and fake issues are going to dissuade people who are unemployed, out of their homes, working two jobs, struggling financially and tired of divisive rhetoric as a substitute for action, from voting for someone that gives them hope. And it ain't the underwhelming person currently occupying the White House.

Posted by: Exile at May 09, 2012 04:10 AM (O0lVq)

89 Miley Cyrus?

In the old days, Walt Disney counseled Annette Funicello to "be a good girl" and she knew what he meant.

Now, you have Billy Ray Cyrus pimping out his daughter.

Posted by: Jimbo (SMOD 2012's biggest fan) at May 09, 2012 04:11 AM (O3R/2)

90 47 A friend of mine is a big Beach Boys fan and is seeing them here in Chicago. I took one look at the ticket prices and nearly fell off my chair! $175 apiece. Yikes! Posted by: Chi-Town Jerry at May 09, 2012 07:29 AM (UTq/I) My buddy is shooting a documentary about the tour, so I got a backstage pass. Considering the costs to put on a show these days (including insane union rules, especially here in NYC [and I'm sure Chicago]) $175 is cheap.

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 09, 2012 04:12 AM (noo6E)

91 Fly Aeroflot, the vodka is free as long as we're in the air!

Posted by: Hrothgar at May 09, 2012 04:13 AM (i3+c5)

92 In the 2008 primary my choices were: McLame, Huckelberry, and Mitt.  I voted for Mitt.  I might have voted for Huck but he started all that "Mormon" crap.  Can't stand the guy now.

Posted by: Case at May 09, 2012 04:13 AM (gyQY/)

93 And the AP apologizes to one of its fired reporters 67 years later and after he died.

The man broke the news embargo he promised to keep on the unconditional surrender of Germany.  So AP fired him.  Now they say they were wrong.

The tool thought because the Germans were broadcasting the surrender, the embargo was null.  I guess it never occurred to the idiot that radio along with couriers and telephone would be used to make Hans the Hitler Jungen throw away his KAR-98K, raise his arms, and yell "Alles kaput!?"

http://tinyurl.com/cbpkd2j

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 09, 2012 04:13 AM (QSzhg)

94 Hopefully, Miss Lindsey is taking note of Lugar's crash and burn and is preparing to bail out.

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 09, 2012 07:58 AM (4q5tP)




Miss Lindsey has been prepping for a while now. He knows his number is up.

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 04:16 AM (YdQQY)

95 Business Insider has muy excellent piece on liz warren's "scholarship."

Posted by: Uncle Jed at May 09, 2012 04:17 AM (AVfT8)

96 So long, Dick Loogie.  Thanks for nothing.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 09, 2012 04:19 AM (JDIKC)

97 I think Miss Lindsey will fight.  He has started to embrace the Tea Party.  I expect his transmogrification to be complete within the year.


Posted by: Jimbo (SMOD 2012's biggest fan) at May 09, 2012 04:19 AM (O3R/2)

98 Headline from Red State: Indiana Hocks a Lugar

Posted by: Nash Rambler at May 09, 2012 04:20 AM (HLv97)

99 So this pretty much enraged me last night --

tiny.cc/t4i1dw

I have a response (sorry I don't have a blog so please skip if you don't want to read a gay marriage rant) ...

Open Letter to the opponents of Amendment 1 in NC,

You do know me, but I'm very well aware of who you are. I'll give you some background. About a decade ago you all had me on your side. Marriage between a man and man; woman and a woman, what do I care? It's none of my business. So libertarian of me you see! Our own amendment here in OH redefining marriage back in 2004 got bitchslapped and that was an eye-opener. You mean, not everyone thinks like me and in fact most think otherwise. Huh, who knew?! I'd been told that America is in favor of gay marriage. But with each passing year there was another ballot measure that failed. While I still supported the "right" to gay marriage something new took form before my eyes. Maybe it wasn't new and I was just completely ignorant to it. Personal attacks and apocalyptic behavior towards Christians that voted their conscience. I'm not religious but I don't take kindly to people being called the worst of the worst names because they share a different belief. The same people that preached tolerance showed anything but. After Prop 8 passed I saw the ugliest side of Americans - and not from the so-called "bible thumpin' bigots". Churches and old women literally holding rosaries in hand were attacked -- actually physically attacked by people claiming their "rights" were taken away. I started to shift away from "I want to help you cause" to "Wait! Can we please stop with the attacks -- please, try to convince me to stay on your side without that hatred". Last night pushed me over the edge with what I was reading from the left and from some on the right. Ex. A: Twitter.

So in case it wasn't clear, congratulations gay marriage supporters. You had me and now you've officially lost me. And there's *a lot* more like me out there. We don't have to be religious to find your behavior nauseating. We now realize that the country repeatedly sends the message. Instead of having a dialogue you want to call people toothless inbred bigots and worse. Winning friends and influencing people indeed!

Oh one more point...in your quest to tell us this is a "right", I noticed you went to the 14th amendment. Unfortunately you skipped right over the 10th amendment, perhaps one of our most important amendments, states' rights. If that doesn't persuade you, well fine. Let me just say if you have a "right" to marry a person of the same sex, I have a "right" to become a Sister-Wife if I so please. No wait, I actually don't.

Regards,

One-time supporter of your cause that now stands with the inbred hilljack SkyGod worshiping homophobes who did nothing to persuade me; your actions were the catalyst for my "conversion".

Posted by: laceyunderalls at May 09, 2012 04:20 AM (8r1E/)

100 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at May 09, 2012 04:20 AM (8y9MW)

101 I think Miss Lindsey will fight. He has started to embrace the Tea Party. I expect his transmogrification to be complete within the year.



Posted by: Jimbo (SMOD 2012's biggest fan) at May 09, 2012 08:19 AM (O3R/2)



Hopefully, there is some long-term voter memory in SC.  I do expect to see him wearing a tricorn hat for the next two years,

Posted by: Hrothgar at May 09, 2012 04:21 AM (i3+c5)

102 You let your daughter go to Mexico with 25 Secret Service Agents. Is that good parenting?
--
Wormy Obama. That criticism against Mr/Mrs Obama applied BEFORE the SS scandal broke. Even if disregarding the father's travel warning announced nationally as policy, GOOD parents don't send a 12-year-old daughter with peers to Mexico without accompanying the daughter personally. It's not the SS job to invade the child's privacy in the bedroom. That's a parental responsibility, the specific job Obama dismisses out of hand. BAD parents do permissively allow a young daughter with immature juvenile friends to travel against national warning into Mexico to "party" specifically allowing parents plausible deniability of their child's indiscretions or criminal activity should such transpire. Conservative parents don't provide their kids a party in Mexico against national warning, especially girls in puberty without parents. CYNICAL parents would use their young daughter as bait so as to pump public sympathy should a tragedy occur on vacation in Mexico. The like would be a set up to take down the Mexican political administration, threatening all sorts of kinetic responses, destabilizing the Western hemisphere. And the Obama's themselves presented this image of their "cool" young daughter to sell parental and juvenile promiscuity as if legitimate behavior. The SS sexcapades are the cherries atop Obama's can of worms.

The Gong Show: in comes Mitt to restore honor to the White House -- a 'miss me yet' deja vu coincidence.


Posted by: as the socialist cookie crumbles at May 09, 2012 04:22 AM (lpWVn)

103 Nice rant lacy.


Posted by: Jimbo (SMOD 2012's biggest fan) at May 09, 2012 04:23 AM (O3R/2)

104 Amen, oh wait will I be banned by the likes of Oprah for that? Laceyunderalls.

The hate and intolerance from the 'progressive' side of the political spectrum is nauseating. 

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 09, 2012 04:23 AM (QSzhg)

105

Hopefully, there is some long-term voter memory in SC. I do expect to see him wearing a tricorn hat for the next two years,

 

He'll pick one  that  makes  him  look  fabulous!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 09, 2012 04:24 AM (4q5tP)

106 And the Obama's themselves presented this image of their "cool" young daughter to sell parental and juvenile promiscuity as if legitimate behavior.Posted by: as the socialist cookie crumbles

Don't worry, she'll live in the socialist coccoon her whole life and will never have a critical thought of her own.  That way she won't realize she was shortchanged by her parents.

See Carter, Amy.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 09, 2012 04:24 AM (sbV1u)

107 Remember that a huge portion of those petition signatures were fake with names like Mickey Mouse.

I see that CAC was taken by surprise that D turn-out was low.  Did he just forget this little nugget?

The likelihood is that Walker was not successfully recalled, if you throw out the bad signatures.  What happened was that the courts decided to rush the process so that the fraud couldn't (or couldn't all) come to light.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at May 09, 2012 04:24 AM (8y9MW)

108

Lacy,

I understand the DOMA but why no civil unions?

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at May 09, 2012 04:26 AM (mFxQX)

109

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 09, 2012 08:24 AM (4q5tP)


Absolutely.

Posted by: Hrothgar at May 09, 2012 04:26 AM (i3+c5)

110 #111

Exactly!  I think I remember hearing that somewhere around 260,000 signatures could have been invalid if Walker had chosen to fight them.  That would have put it *very* close to actually not being a successful recall petition.

Posted by: GMan at May 09, 2012 04:27 AM (sxq57)

111 nobama, nomittens, America deserves much, much better!

Posted by: Pragmatic at May 09, 2012 04:27 AM (elHhH)

112 Question:  "Senator Graham, why did you vote to confirm Eric Holder, given everything that was known about him at the time?"


Posted by: Jimbo (SMOD 2012's biggest fan) at May 09, 2012 04:28 AM (O3R/2)

113 I understand the DOMA but why no civil unions?

I believe the court that struck down prop 8 in CA did so with the excuse of "the civil unions are the same thing, so might as well have it be marriage"

Posted by: GMan at May 09, 2012 04:28 AM (sxq57)

114 Civil unions are fine and I support those. I don't even actually agree w/NC Amendment 1. It went way too far.

But we always hear about the "enlightened" people who saw the "errors of their ways" and now subscribe to the "rights" of gay marriage. Just thought the other side should be told w/the reasons why, ie, mainly, their own behavior.

They brought this on themselves.

Thanks for reading -- got to head into work now. I'm way late as it is.

Posted by: laceyunderalls at May 09, 2012 04:29 AM (8r1E/)

115 Thanks GMan

Posted by: Velvet Ambition at May 09, 2012 04:29 AM (mFxQX)

116 So Wisconsin has turned into "Suppose they gave a recall election and no one showed" for the Democrats.  Good, perfect metaphor to go with that Obama event with all the empty seats.

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 09, 2012 04:29 AM (QSzhg)

117 I went to some local Indiana papers to see if they had the vote totals.  No such luck, but what was amazing was the Indianapolis Star.



They did everything but cry, blaming everything but the real reason Lugar lost.

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 04:30 AM (YdQQY)

118 What happened was that the courts decided to rush the process so that the fraud couldn't (or couldn't all) come to light.
--
right to speedy "just-us" on the Obama railroad

Who'd have thought that Republican voters won't play the deer in headlights to humor the Oval ass pass?

Posted by: as the socialist cookie crumbles at May 09, 2012 04:30 AM (lpWVn)

119 Charge expenses incurred for the recall election to the state's Democrat Party.

Posted by: as the socialist cookie crumbles at May 09, 2012 04:31 AM (lpWVn)

120 Most excellent rant, lu

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 09, 2012 04:32 AM (4q5tP)

121 So how 'bout those Rangers, huh?  Josh Hamilton became only the 16th batter in the history of the MLB to hit 4 Home Runs in one game.

Okay, I don't actually follow Baseball, but when you live in the Metroplex, you learn these things.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at May 09, 2012 04:33 AM (8y9MW)

122 95 Fly Aeroflot, the vodka is free as long as we're in the air! Posted by: Hrothgar at May 09, 2012 08:13 AM (i3+c5) I flew them in '92 from Moscow to Krasnoyarsk. They allowed people to stand as well as chickens and goats. Only took about 20 people to wind up the rubber band and toss it into the wind...

Posted by: J.J. Sefton at May 09, 2012 04:34 AM (noo6E)

123 Gabe is still going off about the Free Beacon stuff from yesterday on Twitter?  Really?

Also: Am I the only one who first reads it as "Free Bacon" and then gets sad when I realize that's not what it says?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at May 09, 2012 04:34 AM (8y9MW)

124 See Carter, Amy.
Posted by: Sean Bannion
--

My eyes! My eyes!

Posted by: E.T.A. Hoffmann at May 09, 2012 04:35 AM (lpWVn)

125 Also, does anyone remember the minimum number of signatures needed for that WI Recall?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at May 09, 2012 04:35 AM (8y9MW)

126 In the old days, Walt Disney counseled Annette Funicello to "be a good girl" and she knew what he meant. Even when "bikini" was in the name of the movie, she never showed her navel.

Posted by: Fox2! at May 09, 2012 04:35 AM (Oi4Ck)

127 Miley Cyrus has a new movie?  Huh.  Go figger.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 09, 2012 04:39 AM (4df7R)

128 103, lu

thanks for summing it up.

Using sex to mentally rape society every moment, waking or not, is uncool regardless of gender or party preference.

Posted by: the rest of us at May 09, 2012 04:41 AM (lpWVn)

129 The NC Amendment 1 does seem like a bit of overkill, but not in the context of Margaret Marshall and Prop 8. Sadly not even a Constitutional amendment will satisfy the militants. The sub-header of the front page "courts likely to decide impact". Of course there is no impact, but they'll drag something to some hack judge and so on and on forever.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 09, 2012 04:41 AM (hiMsy)

130 @ 127 I think Gabe has a point. The baby info stuff makes sense if you're told it only applies if mom wants to bring the born by the tour date baby with her. So it was a case of editing for outrage.

Posted by: Retread at May 09, 2012 04:41 AM (joSBv)

131 Okay, morons, I need some advice.  I need to put together a media PC including a TV tuner card.  I can't re-purpose one of my current boxes, as a) they're in the wrong location and b) they're doing other things.

So, I need as cheap an option as I can arrange.  I'm considering picking up a bare-bones kit (say from TigerDirect) plus a TV tuner, but I'd rather have something pre-built (yes, I can do it myself.  I just don't like to).  Anyone have any suggestions?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at May 09, 2012 04:42 AM (8y9MW)

132 I'll just channel toby928 and say 'The BALLS on that, er, person'.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 09, 2012 07:30 AM (ccXZP)

**

***

Looks like she's happy to see you!!

Posted by: dananjcon at May 09, 2012 04:42 AM (eavT+)

133 President Obama threatens veto on funding bill that includes NASA.  Says it contains too little money for NASA.
.....
The man who took an axe to NASA now says we are spending too little on NASA?  Did the House cut his Muslim outreach program?  Oh wait he hopes all those red states where he downsized NASA will suddenly vote for him.  Not gonna happen Barry, when you have mission controllers looking at foreclosures in Alabama and the 16,000 downsized at Kennedy Space Center.

http://tinyurl.com/d8zl5jz

Posted by: Anna Puma at May 09, 2012 04:42 AM (QSzhg)

134 picture caption

I blame it on Bush.

Posted by: farmer at May 09, 2012 04:43 AM (m2dAU)

135 I think Gabe has a point.

I don't completely disagree.  I don't think it's nearly as big a deal as Gabe seems to, but okay, whatever.  But to make it a two day rant?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at May 09, 2012 04:43 AM (8y9MW)

136 131 tramps wear thin, whether Miley or Lindsey...

Posted by: as the socialist cookie crumbles at May 09, 2012 04:43 AM (lpWVn)

137 Given Walker's performance, I'm thinking the unions are shitting bricks right now.

Posted by: nickless at May 09, 2012 04:45 AM (MMC8r)

138 So Wisconsin has turned into "Suppose they gave a recall election and no one showed" for the Democrats.

Watching the returns, I kept thinking of a parent saying to his unruly kid: Don't make me say it again. I meant it the first time.

Posted by: Retread at May 09, 2012 04:46 AM (joSBv)

139 Iowahawk:
WV voters: "If I had a son, he'd look like Inmate 11593-051."

Posted by: dagny at May 09, 2012 04:46 AM (JoL4S)

140 Wow, tough choices.  I've got $11 burning a hole in my pocket, and I can't decide whether to see Miley Cyrus or Octomom getting plowed by Octodick.

Decisions, decisions.

Posted by: Fritz at May 09, 2012 04:47 AM (/9E6Z)

141 So, when will Sandra Fluke be able to marry her trained donkey?

Posted by: Case at May 09, 2012 04:49 AM (gyQY/)

142 #AskMichelle What's it like to be married to a lying sack of shit who sold the 18-35 vote a giant lie then stuck them with the bill for it?

I am sending that one to my kids.


Posted by: Jimbo (SMOD 2012's biggest fan) at May 09, 2012 04:51 AM (O3R/2)

143 @ 139 I think somebody poked him with a stick over it this morning and set him off again.

I'm more annoyed by it than I otherwise would be because it smacks of the kind of tactics the other side employs a la 'War on Women' stuff.

Posted by: Retread at May 09, 2012 04:51 AM (joSBv)

144 >> Also, does anyone remember the minimum number of signatures needed for that WI Recall?
 
Allen, it was around 540k needed....and 900k submitted. But there were estimates that 1/3 of the submitted sigs were invalid for one reason or another.

Posted by: GnuBreed at May 09, 2012 04:51 AM (ccXZP)

145 How did a felon in prison in Texas get on the WV dem primary ballot? I think it's awesome but how did that happen?

And he probably would be better than Preezy Algaeeee.

Posted by: dagny at May 09, 2012 04:51 AM (JoL4S)

146 Allen, it was around 540k needed....and 900k submitted. But there were estimates that 1/3 of the submitted sigs were invalid for one reason or another.

Thanks.

I've got a short, but snarky, post up at my place mocking the Wisconsin Democrats.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at May 09, 2012 04:54 AM (8y9MW)

147 I think it's awesome but how did that happen?

Texans are just that cool.

Actually, I'm guessing a) fraud in WV, b) the guy filed as a joke, c) some combination of the two.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at May 09, 2012 04:55 AM (8y9MW)

148

Good morning. I'm almost recovered from vacation and coming-home-from-vacation-with-everybody-sick.

 

One of those was much more fun than the other...

 

Funny line at Legal Insurrection, re Liz Warren:

 

>>ItÂ’s about stolen valor. In this case, stolen Cherokee valor.

Posted by: Mama AJ at May 09, 2012 04:55 AM (XdlcF)

149

Miss Lindsey has been prepping for a while now. He knows his number is up.

 

 

It's going to be difficult for me to wait two more years to help give this guy the bum's rush but the waiting will just make it that much sweeter.

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at May 09, 2012 04:56 AM (JxMoP)

150

Speaking of codifying mental illness into law, Passport Canada will now offer "gender indeterminate" passports.

 

Have a dick but feel like a lady? Put yourself down as female. Or vice versa.

 

Or for the ultimate in state-sanctioned stupidity, just put down "X". Because fuckit, words and reality are whatever you want them to be.

http://tinyurl.com/7885tve

 

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 09, 2012 04:57 AM (+DMSZ)

151 Hillary is braiding her armpit hair now.

Posted by: torabora at May 09, 2012 04:57 AM (6Eh/9)

152 I've got a short, but snarky, post up at my place mocking the Wisconsin Democrats.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at May 09, 2012 08:54 AM (8y9MW)

-----------


I just tweeted it.

Posted by: mama winger at May 09, 2012 04:58 AM (P6QsQ)

153 Maybe Miley can try to ride on her new boyfriend's coat tails.  His acting career seems to be on the rise...and he's a cutie, too.

Posted by: sydney jane at May 09, 2012 04:58 AM (SgIP1)

154 The overwhelming North Carolina vote to define marriage as legal only between a man and woman is an unequivocal reminder that gay marriage remains unappealing in many parts of the country, even as its support grows overall nationally.

Obama’s description of himself as “evolving” on the issue amounts to a public flirtation, and has prompted speculation that he’ll become a gay-marriage supporter in time for the Democratic National Convention this summer in Charlotte.

Beyond swing-state sensitivities, Obama is also navigating cross-currents within his party. Social liberals and young people are pushing him to support gay marriage. But African-American voters, crucial to an Obama victory, are divided on the issue. All this explains why the White House has struggled in recent days to define its position. Vice President Joe Biden made headlines Sunday when he expressed support for same-sex marriage, a statement the administration frantically walked back.



I'm guessing that they won't let Joey out of the basement from now until November. Evolving my ass. Barry is all for it. In more ways than one

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 09, 2012 04:58 AM (1Jaio)

155 Or for the ultimate in state-sanctioned stupidity, just put down "X". Because fuckit, words and reality are whatever you want them to be.

You know... forget Orwell, the Liberals have decided that they're Humpty Dumpty.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at May 09, 2012 04:59 AM (8y9MW)

156 Passport Canada will now offer "gender indeterminate" passports. Those will go over great in the Middle East, might as well draw a dotted line on your neck with a marker.

Posted by: Jean at May 09, 2012 04:59 AM (WkuV6)

157 141 Given Walker's performance, I'm thinking the unions are shitting bricks right now.  

Posted by: nickless at May 09, 2012 08:45 AM (MMC8r)

 

Good.  Maybe they can use them to rebuild some of the structures they've completely trashed in their year long temper tantrum.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 09, 2012 05:01 AM (4df7R)

158 Those will go over great in the Middle East, might as well draw a dotted line on your neck with a marker. Posted by: Jean

I think that's the plan. 

Which probably explains why the project is named "Pink Holocaust."

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 09, 2012 05:02 AM (sbV1u)

159 Miley can work the HAS Been circuit with the former President in 2012''

Posted by: Clemenza at May 09, 2012 05:03 AM (YlSwz)

160 Good. Maybe they can use them to rebuild some of the structures they've completely trashed in their year long temper tantrum. Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit

Then let your union build the pyramids by shitting bricks without straw!

Posted by: Ramses I at May 09, 2012 05:04 AM (sbV1u)

161 Miley can work the HAS Been circuit with the former President in 2012

How sad to be a "has been" in your early (mid?) 20s.  But she's really not that great an actor, and she can't even sing as well as her dad (who isn't great).  Add to that her "rock and roll lifestyle," and I don't see how she has any professional longevity.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at May 09, 2012 05:05 AM (8y9MW)

162 >>I've got $11 burning a hole in my pocket, and I can't decide whether to see Miley Cyrus or Octomom getting plowed by Octodick.

Are those my only choices, or can I hit the liquor aisle?

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ brauche ein Bier at May 09, 2012 05:05 AM (/kI1Q)

163 The overwhelming North Carolina vote to define marriage as legal only between a man and woman is an unequivocal reminder that gay marriage remains unappealing in many parts of the country, even as its support grows overall nationally.

Isn't it odd that the purported support of "gay marriage" never translates into referendum votes. I mean, I keep hearing how everyone is "for" gay marriage but, oddly, when people get into the voting booth they somehow don't select that option. Perhaps this "support" is not so, uh, real?

Posted by: dagny at May 09, 2012 05:05 AM (JoL4S)

164

The overwhelming North Carolina vote to define marriage as legal only between a man and woman is an unequivocal reminder that gay marriage remains unappealing in many parts of the country, even as its support grows overall nationally.

 

 

Yeah, it's appeal is becoming more selective.  As for support growing, I don't recall the voters ever voting it in at the ballot box.  Either the legislature passes it or the courts impose it.



Posted by: Count de Monet at May 09, 2012 05:06 AM (4q5tP)

165 dagny - drink!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 09, 2012 05:06 AM (4q5tP)

166 A small bottle of booze will provide more entertainment than either Miley Cyrus or OctoIdiot.

Posted by: Jimbo (SMOD 2012's biggest fan) at May 09, 2012 05:07 AM (O3R/2)

167 Fucking reuters calls George Zimmerman, "White Hispanic" in article on neo-nazis in FLA.

By the way, these clowns are being charged with,

"paramilitary training, shooting into an occupied dwelling and evidence of prejudices while committing an offense..."

Got that? Be careful you paintballers, you could be charged with "paramilitary training".

Never mind the thoughtcrime of "evidence of prejudice while committing an offense".

Seems like it was a bad thing when they took 1984 out of the high schools.

Posted by: kdny at May 09, 2012 05:07 AM (MJ76f)

168 >>Or for the ultimate in state-sanctioned stupidity, just put down "X". Because fuckit, words and reality are whatever you want them to be.

...and these "celebrate all genders" bigots won't let me change the species on my birth certificate to "Felis sapiens."

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ brauche ein Bier at May 09, 2012 05:08 AM (/kI1Q)

169 that thing with transgenders in Canada - I used to like this Canadian singer? meryn cadell? anyway she was a dorky kind of folk-singing chick, her songs were funny, she had sort of a butch haircut but whatever - seemed like a normal hipster chick THEN she decides to "change genders" and I think "okay, fine, she was a lesbian and wanted to go a little further with that." BUT WAIT! she is now a "man" - and married to a GUY! a "gay" guy? HOW THE EFF DOES THIS EVEN WORK!??!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 09, 2012 05:08 AM (SB0V2)

170 You gotta admit, da Zero just edging out some damn convict serving time in Texas in West Virginia is just pretty damn funny. Don't you know Axle Grease is soiling his geranimals over that one?

Posted by: maddogg at May 09, 2012 05:08 AM (OlN4e)

171

Well said Lacey.

 

Posted by: Ohio Dan at May 09, 2012 05:08 AM (JKNDp)

172 Yeah, it's appeal is becoming more selective. As for support growing, I don't recall the voters ever voting it in at the ballot box. Either the legislature passes it or the courts impose it.

Thank you.  Gabe tweeted something yesterday about how "Gay Marriage" had won at least one ballot vote.  I read his link and thought something was off, but my brain was too muddled yesterday to figure it out.  Your comment just reminded me.

Gay Marriage has never been implemented by the voters.  The best the Gay marriage lobby has is that, in a couple of states, amendments to specifically outlaw them have not passed.  And the one he tweeted yesterday was overly broad.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at May 09, 2012 05:08 AM (8y9MW)

173

I mean, I keep hearing how everyone is "for" gay marriage but, oddly, when people get into the voting booth they somehow don't select that option.

 

Just wait until Election Night for the slackjawed responses to what is coming.  Even the crazy poll weighting going on can't cover it up anymore.

Posted by: Circa (Insert Year Here) at May 09, 2012 05:08 AM (B+qrE)

174 We (the moron hoard) need to come up with the term to name this "Bradley effect" for gay marriage.  Opening the floor for nominations:

Let me start with:  The "Sean Hayes Effect"


Posted by: Jimbo (SMOD 2012's biggest fan) at May 09, 2012 05:09 AM (O3R/2)

175 Count de Monet: funny, in a queer way

Posted by: dagny at May 09, 2012 05:10 AM (JoL4S)

176 HOW THE EFF DOES THIS EVEN WORK!??! Posted by: BlackOrchid

It's like assembling the toys at Christmas for your kid.  "Put Tab A into Slot B and bend tab back."

With the same predictable results.

Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 09, 2012 05:11 AM (sbV1u)

177 177 You are not kidding. It's going to be ugly! I swear to you, even Philly hipsters in advertising are not supporting BarryO. Of course, I can only hope they either go thru with the Ron Paul write-ins they're claiming or just stay home . . . it will probably be the latter. Of course, in Philly it doesn't actually matter if the voters themselves vote. BTW did you see we got hit with an ACLU / NAACP lawsuit over the PA voter ID law? THE BALLS!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 09, 2012 05:11 AM (SB0V2)

178 no but Sean - she's still really a girl (didn't have full surgery or anything) she's calling herself a guy but she's still physically a girl. and she's married to a guy, a male person. SO HOW IS SHE A MAN AND HIM A GAY GUY>!?! it's like, they just wanted to be strange.

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 09, 2012 05:12 AM (SB0V2)

179 Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 09, 2012 09:12 AM (SB0V2)

You just answered your own question.

"it's like, they just wanted to be strange"


Posted by: Sean Bannion at May 09, 2012 05:13 AM (sbV1u)

180 >>>Are those my only choices, or can I hit the liquor aisle?

The liquor aisle is a requirement, - after you finish your broccoli.

Posted by: Fritz at May 09, 2012 05:14 AM (/9E6Z)

181 171 Fucking reuters calls George Zimmerman, "White Hispanic" in article on neo-nazis in FLA. Cool. Now that the lid is off, we can start referring to King Baracka as the white-black president. The meme of Zimmerman as Cracker and Liz Warren as minority is priceless.

Posted by: Ezra's Equal at May 09, 2012 05:14 AM (kMRmg)

182

What would Josh Hamilton have done with those "lost" years...then again, there wouldn't be a rainbow if it weren't for the rain.

 

As far as Barrett's concession about the contracts...I noted this yesterday:  Rahmbo proclaimed a "Day of Reckoning" for Illinois public sector pensions, after Daley upped his on the way out of course.  Rahm called for freezes and increased employee contributions.  I said yesterday I cannot believe what a tin ear he has when making this announcement as we head into the Wisconsin recall. 

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 09, 2012 05:14 AM (Ec6wH)

183

We (the moron hoard) need to come up with the term to name this "Bradley effect" for gay marriage. Opening the floor for nominations:

 

The  "Travolta  effect".

Posted by: Larsen E. Whipsnade at May 09, 2012 05:15 AM (6BgmB)

184

HA!

Yeah, Malor, no news.  Like we wouldn't have been subjected to 156 point font GAY MARRIAGE BAN DIES IN NC!!!1!!!!!!11!!1!1eleventy if the measure had failed.

Transparent shill.

Posted by: imp at May 09, 2012 05:15 AM (j104F)

185 THEN she decides to "change genders" and I think "okay, fine, she was a lesbian and wanted to go a little further with that."

BUT WAIT! she is now a "man" - and married to a GUY! a "gay" guy?

HOW THE EFF DOES THIS EVEN WORK!??!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 09, 2012 09:08 AM (SB0V2)

**

**

Oy..makes the head hurt.

Posted by: dananjcon at May 09, 2012 05:15 AM (eavT+)

186 I'm renewing my passport right now.  I should put down my gender as "Bowfucker."

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 09, 2012 05:16 AM (4ZNCv)

187 Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 09, 2012 09:12 AM (SB0V2)

A former roommate in college (male bi) married a female from the same college (also bi) and they insisted on calling it a queer wedding.

Queer doesn't even begin to describe it. 

I think the hangup is expecting logical consistency from these people.  They can't think.  They can only feel, and they feel it's their right to redefine reality to fit their own desires.

Posted by: grognard, SMOD-Squad at May 09, 2012 05:16 AM (NS2Mo)

188 HOW THE EFF DOES THIS EVEN WORK!??!>>

I guess it means she was born gay and the operation just didn't change that.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at May 09, 2012 05:16 AM (tf9Ne)

189 I'm renewing my passport right now. I should put down my gender as "Bowfucker."

You know you want to put "Greek F*cking God"

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at May 09, 2012 05:16 AM (8y9MW)

190 By the way, if reuters has the story right, the Nazis were guilty of training for what they believe to be an inevitable race war. Seems like a "don't start none, won't be none" thing. How do you arrest someone for preparing to defend themselves?

Misconstrue me not- I hate me some Nazis. Especially Florida Swamp Nazis.

Posted by: kdny at May 09, 2012 05:17 AM (MJ76f)

191 We (the moron hoard) need to come up with the term to name this "Bradley effect" for gay marriage. Opening the floor for nominations:

The Bradley Manning effect?
The Reggie effect?

Posted by: Ian S. at May 09, 2012 05:17 AM (wllJH)

192 185
You mean "White-Arab-Black-Muzzie" president

Posted by: Dastardly Dan at May 09, 2012 05:18 AM (rvLeh)

193 192. no! she dated GUYS when she was a girl and when she decided to be a "guy" - she still dated guys and married one! no rug-eating! she just would rather be a Gay man than a woman! And her husband would rather be a Gay man than a straight man!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 09, 2012 05:18 AM (SB0V2)

194 YAHOO HEADLINE: Will Gay Marriage Haunt Obama in November? ROFLMAO Like, the dicks of Christmas Past? 

Posted by: But, what about the economy? Squirrel! at May 09, 2012 05:18 AM (mxnUd)

195 We (the moron hoard) need to come up with the term to name this "Bradley effect" for gay marriage. Opening the floor for nominations:

Let me start with: The "Sean Hayes Effect"

It's the reverse Richard Nixon effect. 'How could he win? Nobody I know voted for him.'

Posted by: Retread at May 09, 2012 05:19 AM (joSBv)

196 The Ellen Degeneres effect?

Posted by: Jimbo (SMOD 2012's biggest fan) at May 09, 2012 05:19 AM (O3R/2)

197 Here's hoping Miley Cyrus becomes Obama's campaign manager.

Posted by: nickless at May 09, 2012 05:19 AM (MMC8r)

198 190 I'm renewing my passport right now. I should put down my gender as "Bowfucker."  

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 09, 2012 09:16 AM (4ZNCv)

 

Longbow or crossbow?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 09, 2012 05:19 AM (4df7R)

199


she just would rather be a Gay man than a woman! And her husband would rather be a Gay man than a straight man!

Well, unless she switched parts, it might just be an excuse for more backdoor lovin

Posted by: imp at May 09, 2012 05:21 AM (j104F)

200

 

Sweet sweet  KosProg tears re Prop 1:

 

My county voted 78% for.

God, that is so depressing. These past few weeks have been hell. I don't know how I'm going to make it through the general election.

 

****

79% opposed in Orange County  Stay, and realize the ones who voted against will not prevail. Tomorrow I believe many gay couples will attempt to get marriage licenses in counties all over the state, to challenge this. Personally, I would like to see signs in front of every church and GOP office that supported this vile amendment to have "Haters" painted on their walls, their doors, as well as more light shone on those who supported it.

 

****

 

Ah, come see the  tolerance inherent in the crybabies after a smackdown!

Posted by: Count de Monet at May 09, 2012 05:21 AM (4q5tP)

201 she just would rather be a Gay man than a woman! And her husband would rather be a Gay man than a straight man!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 09, 2012 09:18 AM (SB0V2)

 

*wincing and holding head*  Ow.  Brain.  Hurts.

 

So basically she was a gay man who was born into the body of a heterosexual woman?  That's her claim.  WTF?

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 09, 2012 05:21 AM (4df7R)

202 I'm watching an old Daniel Boone rerun. It features an 8 year old Jody Foster. She has a lot of on screen presence for a kid her age. Also Jimmy Dean and Rosie Greer are in it.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at May 09, 2012 05:22 AM (JKNDp)

203 Here's hoping Miley Cyrus becomes Obama's campaign manager.


Sheesh, she looks like her dad in drag. His nose and eyes. Very inbred

Posted by: Bitterest Clinger at May 09, 2012 05:22 AM (cYQg0)

204 YAHOO HEADLINE: Will Gay Marriage Haunt Obama in November? ROFLMAO Like, the dicks of Christmas Past?

Posted by: But, what about the economy? Squirrel! at May 09, 2012 09:18 AM (mxnUd)



Yahoo is twisting itself in knots over Barry and gay marriage. Equally hysterical is their financial page that keeps bleating that the economy is much better we think. But people are only hearing the negative news.

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 09, 2012 05:22 AM (1Jaio)

205 Of course, in Philly it doesn't actually matter if the voters themselves vote. BTW did you see we got hit with an ACLU / NAACP lawsuit over the PA voter ID law? THE BALLS!

Posted by: BlackOrchid at May 09, 2012 09:11 AM (SB0V2)



Just think, if PA was on the Section V list Holder would have already stopped it.  As it is, the racists and the commies have to initiate the action and depend on a sympathetic libtard judge to give them standing and an injunction to halt the law, despite the fact that all these laws now are modeled after ones the Supreme Court has ruled as acceptable.



It is "lawfare" pure and simple to try to get it drug out past the Obama election.  One of the many reasons why this Section V shit is purely unconstitutional.

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 05:22 AM (YdQQY)

206

Sweet sweet KosProg tears re Prop 1:

My county voted 78% for.


God, that is so depressing. These past few weeks have been hell. I don't know how I'm going to make it through the general election.

 

Feel free to take your crybaby tears somewhere else, Kiddie.  I hear Greece is nice.

Posted by: MWR, Proud Tea(rrorist) Party Hobbit and ABO supporter [/i][/b] at May 09, 2012 05:22 AM (4df7R)

207 There's nothing better on this earth than seeing a lib cry.

Posted by: Jimmah at May 09, 2012 05:23 AM (UpwlP)

208

Comment 14 at the link in my name is excellent.

 

I tell my kids that I'm certainly not always right, but if I'm taking the time to tell you how to do something very specifically, I have a reason.

Posted by: Mama AJ at May 09, 2012 05:24 AM (XdlcF)

209 I'm renewing my passport right now. I should put down my gender as "Bowfucker."

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 09, 2012 09:16 AM (4ZNCv)


Brings new meaning to the terms "cock feather" and "yard shaft"

Shit, even "fletching" is a dirty word to you now.

Posted by: grognard, SMOD-Squad at May 09, 2012 05:24 AM (NS2Mo)

210 @ 204 With reactions like that I'm sure they'll get all the votes they need next time.

Posted by: Retread at May 09, 2012 05:24 AM (joSBv)

211 And I would like to go by those painting "H8trs" and tell them how gay they are. I still can't wrap my mind around how my not facilitating homosexual butt sex makes me a hater? But their attempt to dissolve the institution of marriage does not?

Posted by: dagny at May 09, 2012 05:25 AM (JoL4S)

212 Sweet sweet KosProg tears re Prop 1:

My county voted 78% for.


God, that is so depressing. These past few weeks have been hell. I don't know how I'm going to make it through the general election.




Aww... poor baby. He should try holding his breath until the election. That ought to make him feel better

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 09, 2012 05:29 AM (1Jaio)

213 Well folks.  Time to go Dr's appointment this morning and drive to city this afternoon.

Posted by: Vic at May 09, 2012 05:30 AM (YdQQY)

214 @173...speaking of Canadian transgender singers, I always kind of wondered about Geddy Lee. 

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 09, 2012 05:32 AM (Ec6wH)

215

(MSNBC) - On other other side, some gay and lesbian rights advocates portrayed the North Carolina outcome as a case of voters being uninformed or deceived.

The gay and lesbian advocacy group Faith in America said that voters were “duped into believing their religious belief justified bringing harm to the state's gay and lesbian individuals, especially youth and their families.”


Yes, once again if you're against liberalism and its agenda it's only because you're stupid.


Among Democrats, 65 percent say same-sex marriages should be recognized by the law as valid, but among only about one in five Republicans hold that view. Among independents, 57 percent think sex marriages should be legally recognized.


What's wrong with these independents that want sex marriages? Maybe if they spent less time editing the Zimmerman tapes they could proof read these articles

Posted by: TheQuietMan at May 09, 2012 05:33 AM (1Jaio)

216 Coming this summer to a theater near you! Mylie Cyrus is Lindsey Lohan in: HOT DOGS and HAND JOBS - THE MUSICAL A DISNEY PRODUCTION ***

Posted by: naturalfake at May 09, 2012 05:34 AM (G9qZk)

217 Nice job Lacey.  I applaud you.

Posted by: Insomniac at May 09, 2012 05:36 AM (DrWcr)

218

And I would like to go by those painting "H8trs" and tell them how gay they are. I still can't wrap my mind around how my not facilitating homosexual butt sex makes me a hater? But their attempt to dissolve the institution of marriage does not?

 

 

It's not even that. Not only are you not facilitating it, you aren't even hindering it. They are free to engage in that activity as much as they want. For that matter they are free to go to a church of their choice and get "married." The only thing that is being limited is that the state is not giving legal recognition. It's no different than that TV show "Sister Wives."

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at May 09, 2012 05:36 AM (JxMoP)

219 On this day in 1960, the FDA approved the world's first commercially produced birth-control bill, thus giving both meaning and angst to the future life of Sandra Fluke.

Posted by: mama winger at May 09, 2012 05:37 AM (P6QsQ)

220 Travolta wanted him to release his chakra but he called it his Chokra.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at May 09, 2012 05:37 AM (JKNDp)

221

You know you want to put "Greek F*cking God<<<

 

That would be spelled "Boyfucker."

 

Try the veal.

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at May 09, 2012 05:37 AM (4ZNCv)

222 They are free to engage in that activity as much as they want.


---------

And I'm a hater because I don't yell YIPPEE!  Congratulations on your sex life!!

Posted by: mama winger at May 09, 2012 05:38 AM (P6QsQ)

223 Anyone see a breakdown by race of the NC gay vote yet?

Posted by: Jean at May 09, 2012 05:40 AM (WkuV6)

224 The only thing that is being limited is that the state is not giving legal recognition.

And most states already have "civil unions."

At this point, the only thing I can think of that homosexuals can't get pretty easily that heterosexuals can is a "Married" tax status.

Insurance for your partner?  Virtually every private employer already provides that option, which means virtually every insurance company does as well.

"Visitation rights" in the Hospital: You can already visit anyone you want whenever you want.  If you're talking about HIPAA specific stuff, even married couples have to provide specific permission for doctors to talk to the spouse.

Inheritance Rights:  It's called a will.  Yes, it can be challenged.  So can a straight person's.  It happens all the time.

Did I miss any of the major ones, there?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at May 09, 2012 05:40 AM (8y9MW)

225 "Yes, once again if you're against liberalism and its agenda it's only because you're stupid."

Or horribly ignorant.

Posted by: Jimbo (SMOD 2012's biggest fan) at May 09, 2012 05:40 AM (O3R/2)

226

Among Democrats, 65 percent say same-sex marriages should be recognized by the law as valid, but among only about one in five Republicans hold that view. Among independents, 57 percent think sex marriages should be legally recognized.

 

 

If those numbers are real then how come amendments banning gay marriage pass overwhelmingly?

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at May 09, 2012 05:40 AM (JxMoP)

227

>> "The U.S. Army has a $375 million contract to buy 21
Russian-made MI-17 helicopters for the Afghans from
Rosoboronexport...

 

The MI-17 has better lift capacity at higher altitudes than our standard heavy lift chopper, the CH-47 Chinook.  It's actually safer for our guys in the Stan.

Posted by: Dave in Texas at May 09, 2012 05:44 AM (WvXvd)

228 223 It's not even that. Not only are you not facilitating it, you aren't evenhindering it. They are free to engage in that activity as much as they want. For that matter they are free to go to a church of their choice and get "married." The only thing that is being limited is that the state is not giving legal recognition. It's no different than that TV show "Sister Wives." Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater I'll go one step further, they can't even define a reason for the government to be involved in gay marriage ("Government Purpose"). They come up with some swishy statements on fairness, etc. But, why would a group that for so long has demanded privacy for their fetish suddenly invite the government in? Where is this agenda going?

Posted by: Jean at May 09, 2012 05:44 AM (WkuV6)

229 You want to know what the real issue for gay marriage is?  Govt. and some private employer spouse insurance benefits.  That is all.  As AllenG pointed out above, everything else can be accomplished with Powers of Attorney, Wills, and Trusts. 


Posted by: Jimbo (SMOD 2012's biggest fan) at May 09, 2012 05:45 AM (O3R/2)

230 The front page of the paper has a color pic of a guy sitting in some crappy campaign office with his face literally buried in his hands. If you squint a little, you can almost see his shoulders heaving and hear the sobs.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 09, 2012 05:46 AM (hiMsy)

231 AllenG - adoption, although they don't want to talk about that one. Gay adoption polls poorly.

Posted by: Jean at May 09, 2012 05:46 AM (WkuV6)

232 #232 BINGO!  We have a winner here.


Posted by: Jimbo (SMOD 2012's biggest fan) at May 09, 2012 05:46 AM (O3R/2)

233

At this point, the only thing I can think of that homosexuals can't get pretty easily that heterosexuals can is a "Married" tax status.

 

 

And that can be solved by fixing the tax code.

 

I'm sorry if I am still very skeptical that this is all about "equality" and "fairness." I view political movements with extreme cynicism and the behavior of these people when they lose pushes me more and more toward the opinion that this is more about destroying religious institutions than about anything else. You can tell me that's nonsense but we have an administration that is right now trying to use Obamacare to force religious institutions to violate their consciences. Why should I think that this gay marriage thing should be any different?

Posted by: Ghost of Lee Atwater at May 09, 2012 05:46 AM (JxMoP)

234 Seen on Twitter:

"Is Keith Judd going to replace Biden on the ticket bro? He's a proven vote getter in WV"


heh.

Posted by: mama winger at May 09, 2012 05:47 AM (P6QsQ)

235 mama - great turnout last night, you cheeseheads have ruined the progs day

Posted by: Jean at May 09, 2012 05:49 AM (WkuV6)

236 You want to know what the real issue for gay marriage is? Govt. and some private employer spouse insurance benefits. That is all. As AllenG pointed out above, everything else can be accomplished with Powers of Attorney, Wills, and Trusts.

--------------

Not everything.  Not the destruction of traditional families.  Not the destruction of religious institutions.  Not the further marginalization of devout Catholics and evangelical Christians.

Posted by: mama winger at May 09, 2012 05:49 AM (P6QsQ)

237
...and these "celebrate all genders" bigots won't let me change the species on my birth certificate to "Felis sapiens."

Posted by: HeatherRadish™ brauche ein Bier at May 09, 2012 09:08 AM (/kI1Q)

So HeatherRadish is a furry. Who wooda thunk?

Posted by: Ed Anger - Certified Kos Kid at May 09, 2012 05:50 AM (7+pP9)

238 I am firmly convinced the optimal situation for children is to be raised by a man and a woman in a decent loving relationship.  Of course divorces happen and not all marriages are healthy.  Two women or two men raising a child is unfair to the child.  That is if little consequence to homosexuals though.  It is all about them.

Posted by: Ohio Dan at May 09, 2012 05:51 AM (JKNDp)

239 you cheeseheads have ruined the progs day

--------------


It's what I live for. 

Posted by: mama winger at May 09, 2012 05:51 AM (P6QsQ)

240 WI Dem primary turnout fade:


Feb. 2004 Dem primary: 828,000;
Feb. 2008 1.1 million;...
May 8 2012..... 670,278.

Posted by: mama winger at May 09, 2012 05:54 AM (P6QsQ)

241 For years I have been trying to get the Alabama Legislature to create a new one-one relationship for tax and other purposes. Let any two people claim each other as next of kin with all the inheritance, power of attorney etc. Two gay guys, two spinster sisters, a "confirmed bachelor" and his mother, whatever. Let them form a family unit and don't ask why. My motto: Take the sex out of marriage.

Posted by: toby928© at May 09, 2012 05:56 AM (NG097)

242 Breaking:

Source says Obama may make statement supporting Gay Marriage, as early as today.

Posted by: mama winger at May 09, 2012 05:56 AM (P6QsQ)

243 mama winger,  you are correct, from our perspective.  From their perspective it's about money, gubmint money.


Posted by: Jimbo (SMOD 2012's biggest fan) at May 09, 2012 05:57 AM (O3R/2)

244 248 - seriously - doubling down on stupid?

Posted by: Jean at May 09, 2012 05:57 AM (WkuV6)

245 toby,

There are a lot of marriages already in which that is true.


Posted by: Jimbo (SMOD 2012's biggest fan) at May 09, 2012 05:58 AM (O3R/2)

246 Obama will sit down for an interview with ABC News “during which he is likely to discuss his ‘evolving’ views on the issue,” the New York Times notes. “ABC secured the interview with Mr. Obama on Tuesday afternoon, according to two people involved in the planning.”

1:30 EST

Via ThinkProgress.com

Posted by: mama winger at May 09, 2012 05:58 AM (P6QsQ)

247 You doubt that Obama isn't stupid?  You doubt that he won't double-down? 

Posted by: Jimbo (SMOD 2012's biggest fan) at May 09, 2012 05:59 AM (O3R/2)

248 My motto: Take the sex out of marriage.>>

So what you're really saying is you want marriage to go back to what it was meant for. I seem to remember getting married had that affect on my sex life back in the day.

Posted by: Buzzsaw at May 09, 2012 05:59 AM (tf9Ne)

249

Breaking:

Source says Obama may make statement supporting Gay Marriage, as early as today.

So he's leaving Michelle? 

Posted by: Big Fat Meanie at May 09, 2012 06:00 AM (Ec6wH)

250 There are a lot of marriages already in which that is true. Quite. What is funny is that when I talk to my representatives about the idea, they become convinced that I'm teh ghey and start talking about what I and my "partner" can do. It doesn't seem to matter that Mrs928 is standing right there. I guess we should Algore out at the podium or something.

Posted by: toby928© at May 09, 2012 06:00 AM (NG097)

251 I remember Glen Campbell saying "She said 'I do, and didn't.'"

Some gals just want the ring and the community property.


Posted by: Jimbo (SMOD 2012's biggest fan) at May 09, 2012 06:01 AM (O3R/2)

252 My motto: Take the sex out of marriage.

 

Posted by: toby928© at May 09, 2012 09:56 AM (NG097)

 

Did and done.

Posted by: Shrew/Harpy Ex Wives Local 68 at May 09, 2012 06:01 AM (4q5tP)

253
Per CBS News

Obama campaign official, asking for anonymity, said Texas inmate Keith Judd is not eligible for any convention delegates even  though he got 42% of the vote in WV

Posted by: mama winger at May 09, 2012 06:04 AM (P6QsQ)

254 You want to know what the real issue for gay marriage is? Govt. and some private employer spouse insurance benefits. That is all. As AllenG pointed out above, everything else can be accomplished with Powers of Attorney, Wills, and Trusts.


Posted by: Jimbo (SMOD 2012's biggest fan) at May 09, 2012 09:45 AM (O3R/2)

 

I don't believe that.  The REAL issue is that most gays today are not totally accepted by their own families, and a lot of them are from Catholic families.  They have this idea that if the state legitimizes them as "married," then everyone will automatically accept them.  But some just want to be able to call their partner "wife" or "husband."  It's an instinctive thing; they feel endlessly victimized and put-upon because they can't use "our" titles for each other.  I know many gay couples who think this is BS, they have civil unions and some have even had ceremonies and call themselves married. 

 

Mostly this whole same-sex marriage thing is an invention of political operatives on both sides.  Liberals use it to point fingers at conservatives for being bigoted and homophobic and raise lots of money from affluent gays.  Conservatives use it to gin up the vote from evangelicals.

 

Posted by: rockmom at May 09, 2012 06:08 AM (NYnoe)

255

Hahaha - Obama is going to endorse same-sex marriage the day after it got trounced in North Carolina??  He thinks this will help him in swing states like Virginia and Ohio?

 

Who says this guy has good political instincts? 

Posted by: rockmom at May 09, 2012 06:10 AM (NYnoe)

256 rockmom - the real issue is that this issue splits the Dem coalition. Anything that dampens African-American GOTV efforts in VA, NC, PA, and OH matters alot, regardless of how the gays feel about it.

Posted by: Jean at May 09, 2012 06:11 AM (WkuV6)

257

@AllenG,

 

To be fair the hosptial visitation is for visting outside or normal hours when "immediately family" is usually the only people allowed.

That being said, if you're not being disruptive, most hospitals will probably just it slide.  (And if it's disruptive, no state law is going to help you anyway.  There are endless cases of hetero couples bringing their extended family troubles to the hospital.  Someone always gets kicked out, and I'm not really sure it has to do with whose married, it's going to come down to who the lawyers decided is safest to trust with decision making if shit goes south.)

Posted by: tsrblke at May 09, 2012 06:15 AM (22rSN)

258

I guess he's jettisoning his NC strategy. Embarrassing in the extreme. They had a whole "Progressive New South" meme they've been trying to push with North Carolina as it's main prize.  Not so much. 
 

 

 

 

 

A major policy shift, away from triangulation and toward an extreme, 6 months out from election day, is not a sign of a healthy candidacy. Panic, O-bots, panic.

Posted by: Lincolntf at May 09, 2012 06:16 AM (HethX)

259 So, you're saying the gay Catholics think that with the power of the State behind them, forcing priests and family  to accept them is a desirable outcome?

That's just not going to happen.

Posted by: Jimbo (SMOD 2012's biggest fan) at May 09, 2012 06:16 AM (O3R/2)

260 That's a pretty neat idea. I wonder if more retail places will start implementing this idea.What a neat idea. I wonder if more retail outlets will start implementing this type of thing.

Posted by: Air Conditioner at May 09, 2012 07:30 AM (4s7ZB)

261 Damn right! Hell yes, there is now scientific proof that swearing is F*ing good for you! BBC: http://tinyurl.com/cmm7dsu

Posted by: And Irresolute at May 09, 2012 07:46 AM (RC3M9)

262 Michele Bachmann sore potus loser, goes for dual US/Swiss citizenship.

wtf, had it in mind prior to her potus campaign?

Posted by: as the socialist cookie crumbles at May 09, 2012 08:17 AM (lpWVn)

263 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at May 09, 2012 10:29 AM (7W3wI)

264 LOL. Probably still less atrocious than most of the rest of Hollywood's shit. So, I guess it's a shame.

Posted by: Mirror-Universe Mitt Romney at May 09, 2012 03:13 PM (axD5P)

265 Obama is a walking unity tour.

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