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  1. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    First!!!

  2. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    First!!!

  3. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Uh oh.

    Man known as ‘El Gordo’ detained by Mexican authorities and believed to be son of drug lord ‘El Chapo’ Guzman.

  4. Hamous Avatar

    Uh oh.

    Man known as ‘El Gordo’ detained by Mexican authorities and believed to be son of drug lord ‘El Chapo’ Guzman.

  5. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    #2

    He’s a furly dangerous man!

  6. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #2
    He’s a furly dangerous man!

  7. Dooood Avatar

    I was always suspicious of El Gordo’s claim of living down on Galveston Bay. Now we know it was a ruse and he’s been commenting here all this time from his palatial fortress outside of Guadalajara.

  8. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I was always suspicious of El Gordo’s claim of living down on Galveston Bay. Now we know it was a ruse and he’s been commenting here all this time from his palatial fortress outside of Guadalajara.

  9. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    This means “they” really ARE paying attention to this blog regardless of the usage of certain words.

  10. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    This means “they” really ARE paying attention to this blog regardless of the usage of certain words.

  11. bob42 Avatar

    I shot JFK. And I did it to promote support for gun regulations.

  12. bob42 Avatar

    I shot JFK. And I did it to promote support for gun regulations.

  13. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    School bus monitor lady that was heckled by the punk junior high kids the other day has had a vacation account set up for her by supporters, it is up to 456K now, up from 125K yesterday morning. Sweet.

    Oh and one of the punk’s Dad is cryin about death threats. Poor thang.

  14. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    School bus monitor lady that was heckled by the punk junior high kids the other day has had a vacation account set up for her by supporters, it is up to 456K now, up from 125K yesterday morning. Sweet.
    Oh and one of the punk’s Dad is cryin about death threats. Poor thang.

  15. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I just want the permament record to show that I am not a vaginaphobe.

  16. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    I just want the permament record to show that I am not a vaginaphobe.

  17. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    You know Bobo, you’re a walking, talking, squawking, new age cliche. You’re a bumper sticker personified. Once one gets past the fact that you add nothing substantive to a serious discussion among adults other than the same tired old left-wing mumble jumble, you’re actually kinda funny, although not in the way you fancy yourself. By the way, whoever told you you were a “satirist” was pulling your leg, I believe. I don’t think they’re laughing with you.

    Squaaaaaaaackkkkkk! Squaaaaaaackkkkk!

  18. Hamous Avatar

    You know Bobo, you’re a walking, talking, squawking, new age cliche. You’re a bumper sticker personified. Once one gets past the fact that you add nothing substantive to a serious discussion among adults other than the same tired old left-wing mumble jumble, you’re actually kinda funny, although not in the way you fancy yourself. By the way, whoever told you you were a “satirist” was pulling your leg, I believe. I don’t think they’re laughing with you.
    Squaaaaaaaackkkkkk! Squaaaaaaackkkkk!

  19. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #7 – $466,201 now………………………

  20. Katfish Avatar

    #7 – $466,201 now………………………

  21. bob42 Avatar

    Thanks Hamous. I love you too.

    Now, dance blog monkey. Dance!

  22. bob42 Avatar

    Thanks Hamous. I love you too.
    Now, dance blog monkey. Dance!

  23. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    My reaction to #6: Sadly, bobo reveals that his IQ is not what he would like to think it is.

  24. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    My reaction to #6: Sadly, bobo reveals that his IQ is not what he would like to think it is.

  25. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    whoever told you you were a “satirist” was pulling your leg

    Wow.

    Satire about Satire. Its ironical. What would Sarte think? or Santa for that matter?

  26. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    whoever told you you were a “satirist” was pulling your leg

    Wow.
    Satire about Satire. Its ironical. What would Sarte think? or Santa for that matter?

  27. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Now that you mention it, Sartre pretty much sums up Bobo’s philosophy. He’s an existentialist at heart. That reminds me of a line from an Eagles song: I’d like to find your inner child and kick its little ass.

  28. Hamous Avatar

    Now that you mention it, Sartre pretty much sums up Bobo’s philosophy. He’s an existentialist at heart. That reminds me of a line from an Eagles song: I’d like to find your inner child and kick its little ass.

  29. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Retired Green Beret shoots intruder in his home then endures court martial over the event.

    I am rather shocked about the decision he made that required that the court martial be convened.

    The charges against Taylor were considered to be serious. He is a retired Special Forces Weapons Sergeant with extensive combat experience during the wars in Korea and Vietnam.

    “Charges were brought against him under the premise that he should have saved the county and taxpayers the expense of a trial,” said Chapter XXXIII President Bill Long of Asheville. “He could have used a .45 or .38. The .22 just wasn’t big enough to get the job done.”

    Taylor’s defense attorney, another retired Weapons Sergeant, disagreed. He said Taylor had done the right thing in choosing to arm himself with a .22.

    “If he’d used a .45 or something like that the round would have gone right through the perp, the wall, the neighbor’s wall and possibly injured some innocent child asleep in its bed,” he said. “I believe the evidence shows that Smokey Taylor exercised excellent judgment in his choice of weapons. He did nothing wrong, and clearly remains to this day an excellent weapons man.”

  30. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    Retired Green Beret shoots intruder in his home then endures court martial over the event.
    I am rather shocked about the decision he made that required that the court martial be convened.

    The charges against Taylor were considered to be serious. He is a retired Special Forces Weapons Sergeant with extensive combat experience during the wars in Korea and Vietnam.

    “Charges were brought against him under the premise that he should have saved the county and taxpayers the expense of a trial,” said Chapter XXXIII President Bill Long of Asheville. “He could have used a .45 or .38. The .22 just wasn’t big enough to get the job done.”

    Taylor’s defense attorney, another retired Weapons Sergeant, disagreed. He said Taylor had done the right thing in choosing to arm himself with a .22.

    “If he’d used a .45 or something like that the round would have gone right through the perp, the wall, the neighbor’s wall and possibly injured some innocent child asleep in its bed,” he said. “I believe the evidence shows that Smokey Taylor exercised excellent judgment in his choice of weapons. He did nothing wrong, and clearly remains to this day an excellent weapons man.”

  31. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Don’t pay the ransom, I’ve escaped.

  32. El Gordo Avatar

    Don’t pay the ransom, I’ve escaped.

  33. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    my #10 – now $475,439.00…………………..

  34. Katfish Avatar

    my #10 – now $475,439.00…………………..

  35. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    16 El Gordo says:

    June 22, 2012 at 8:54 am

    Don’t pay the ransom, I’ve escaped.

    We took up a collection and wuz gonna mail it. Now I’ll have to send everybody’s money back to them. Gonna be hard. I already bought the stamp.

  36. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    16 El Gordo says:
    June 22, 2012 at 8:54 am
    Don’t pay the ransom, I’ve escaped.

    We took up a collection and wuz gonna mail it. Now I’ll have to send everybody’s money back to them. Gonna be hard. I already bought the stamp.

  37. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    When I was in my 20’s, I couldn’t bend it with both hands. By the time I was in my 40’s I could bend it a little with both hands. Now that I’m in my 60’s, I can bend it with one hand. How much stronger do you think I will get as I continue to age?

  38. El Gordo Avatar

    When I was in my 20’s, I couldn’t bend it with both hands. By the time I was in my 40’s I could bend it a little with both hands. Now that I’m in my 60’s, I can bend it with one hand. How much stronger do you think I will get as I continue to age?

  39. Dooood Avatar

    I have posted on the front page Fast & Furious Scandal Compendium.

    It is the sizeable product of two members of new media who devoted more than a year to the report. They should be recognized and congratulated for their efforts.

    A Journalist’s Guide to Project Gunwalker is comprised of eight very lengthy sections, each with voluminous sourcing and links.

    Be sure to save the post for future reference unless, of course, you don’t mind looking like an insipid, jejune half-wit.

  40. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I have posted on the front page Fast & Furious Scandal Compendium.
    It is the sizeable product of two members of new media who devoted more than a year to the report. They should be recognized and congratulated for their efforts.
    A Journalist’s Guide to Project Gunwalker is comprised of eight very lengthy sections, each with voluminous sourcing and links.
    Be sure to save the post for future reference unless, of course, you don’t mind looking like an insipid, jejune half-wit.

  41. bob42 Avatar

    #14 Hamous, there may be hope for you after all. At least you’re not calling me a nihilist (again) and you’re even partially correct for a change. There are some aspects of existentialism that do make sense to me. There are others I could not disagree with more. Others still are archaic and proven false by contemporary understandings of neurology and biology. But one needs to understand that the philosophy is far from monolithic among those who claim it, and even farther from authoritarian dogmatic philosophies.

  42. bob42 Avatar

    #14 Hamous, there may be hope for you after all. At least you’re not calling me a nihilist (again) and you’re even partially correct for a change. There are some aspects of existentialism that do make sense to me. There are others I could not disagree with more. Others still are archaic and proven false by contemporary understandings of neurology and biology. But one needs to understand that the philosophy is far from monolithic among those who claim it, and even farther from authoritarian dogmatic philosophies.

  43. Dooood Avatar

    Oh, and by the way, Katfish:

    I would remind you that redundancy in the defense of truth is no vice ! And let me remind you also that brevity in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!

  44. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Oh, and by the way, Katfish:
    I would remind you that redundancy in the defense of truth is no vice ! And let me remind you also that brevity in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!

  45. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Nihilist, existentialist, tomayto, tomahto. Neither has a toehold on reality.

  46. Hamous Avatar

    Nihilist, existentialist, tomayto, tomahto. Neither has a toehold on reality.

  47. Dooood Avatar

    Roger Simon at PJMedia with When Leaders Lie

    Barack Obama is another matter. According to Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith (normally a loyal member of the administration’s media claque), no less than thirty-eight documented falsehoods in the president’s memoir Dreams from My Father were revealed by David Maraniss’s new book Barack Obama: The Story.

    What’s interesting about those falsehoods (can we call them lies?) is that they were unprovoked. We are used to presidential lies, most notably from Nixon and Clinton, but we know full well why those men were lying. In fact, in their cases it was obvious. In Obama’s, we do not.

    Why was he lying? Self-aggrandizement? To sell books? For political purposes? Dreams from My Father was written before Obama supposedly had presidential ambitions. Or was there a hint, dare I say it, of pathology?

  48. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Roger Simon at PJMedia with When Leaders Lie

    Barack Obama is another matter. According to Buzzfeed’s Ben Smith (normally a loyal member of the administration’s media claque), no less than thirty-eight documented falsehoods in the president’s memoir Dreams from My Father were revealed by David Maraniss’s new book Barack Obama: The Story.
    What’s interesting about those falsehoods (can we call them lies?) is that they were unprovoked. We are used to presidential lies, most notably from Nixon and Clinton, but we know full well why those men were lying. In fact, in their cases it was obvious. In Obama’s, we do not.
    Why was he lying? Self-aggrandizement? To sell books? For political purposes? Dreams from My Father was written before Obama supposedly had presidential ambitions. Or was there a hint, dare I say it, of pathology?

  49. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #22 – duly NOTED big Brudda!! (I did say a WEE bit) 🙂

  50. Katfish Avatar

    #22 – duly NOTED big Brudda!! (I did say a WEE bit) 🙂

  51. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #20 – no gotty no linky Pahdnah

  52. Katfish Avatar

    #20 – no gotty no linky Pahdnah

  53. Bonecrusher Avatar
    Bonecrusher

    something really outrageous from last night that I can not let slide this morning #117

    So where is the increase in public resentment that is the basis for your conspiracy theory?

    The only increase in public resentment is against the current administration for their outright contempt and attacks on our constitutional republic. THE FACT THAT THEY FAILED MISERABLY AT THEIR OBJECTIVE DOES NOT NEGATE THEIR DESIRE TO ACHIEVE THE OBJECTIVE.
    The failure of achieving the objective does not absolve anyone of the crimes involved in the methods used in the attempt. Surely you can understand that Bobo4:19

  54. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    It’s on the front page, Kat.

  55. Hamous Avatar

    It’s on the front page, Kat.

  56. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. Another 72 this morning at 6, and while not as lovely as upper 60s, it is surely better than 78 or 79 at 6am. Summer is officially here, real cool fronts are sadly a fond memory, and petty much anybody who can leaves town for the duration.
    Unfortunately that does not include us.

    So, Sir Paul just turned 70. Wow. Yoda turned……?

  57. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Good morning Hamsters. Another 72 this morning at 6, and while not as lovely as upper 60s, it is surely better than 78 or 79 at 6am. Summer is officially here, real cool fronts are sadly a fond memory, and petty much anybody who can leaves town for the duration.
    Unfortunately that does not include us.
    So, Sir Paul just turned 70. Wow. Yoda turned……?

  58. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #28 – ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *DOH!*

  59. Katfish Avatar

    #28 – ohhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh *DOH!*

  60. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    So a guy on the Hammock Forum has a problem. Says his Mother In Law is looking to join e and his wife hammock camping. Now he wants to know if anyone knows of a hammock that will support a ton and smells like honey.

  61. Sarge Avatar
    Sarge

    So a guy on the Hammock Forum has a problem. Says his Mother In Law is looking to join e and his wife hammock camping. Now he wants to know if anyone knows of a hammock that will support a ton and smells like honey.

  62. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texpat
    Upon review of your F&F compendium, it is clear the jenune half-wit will need to upgrade his fifth grade reading skills and vocabulary.

  63. Shannon Avatar
    Shannon

    Texpat
    Upon review of your F&F compendium, it is clear the jenune half-wit will need to upgrade his fifth grade reading skills and vocabulary.

  64. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    My #17 – now $507,016.00

  65. Katfish Avatar

    My #17 – now $507,016.00

  66. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    I wanna be a bus monitor.

  67. Hamous Avatar

    I wanna be a bus monitor.

  68. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Bobo smokes therefore he is.

  69. Hamous Avatar

    Bobo smokes therefore he is.

  70. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    #16
    Shoot!
    Luckily I got a receipt.

  71. shamaal Avatar
    shamaal

    #16
    Shoot!
    Luckily I got a receipt.

  72. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Hamous #9;

    By the way, whoever told you you were a “satirist” was pulling your leg, I believe. I don’t think they’re laughing with you.

    What are you talkng about, hamous. I think Hugh Hefner was serious when he told bob that he’s a satarist and Hefner laughed with bob, not at him.

  73. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Hamous #9;

    By the way, whoever told you you were a “satirist” was pulling your leg, I believe. I don’t think they’re laughing with you.

    What are you talkng about, hamous. I think Hugh Hefner was serious when he told bob that he’s a satarist and Hefner laughed with bob, not at him.

  74. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Fox news (TV) is reporting Syria shot down a Turkish fighter.
    No confirmation from Syria

  75. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Fox news (TV) is reporting Syria shot down a Turkish fighter.
    No confirmation from Syria

  76. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    GJT #7;

    Oh and one of the punk’s Dad is cryin about death threats.

    Exactly the type of parenting I expected from these jerk kids on the bus. The dad should not be crying, he should be making his kid cry over the the death threats. In fact, he should have made his kid cry *AS SOON AS* this incident came to his attention long before the death threats.

  77. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    GJT #7;

    Oh and one of the punk’s Dad is cryin about death threats.

    Exactly the type of parenting I expected from these jerk kids on the bus. The dad should not be crying, he should be making his kid cry over the the death threats. In fact, he should have made his kid cry *AS SOON AS* this incident came to his attention long before the death threats.

  78. bob42 Avatar

    #32 Hey, my vocabulary is pretty good (at least I know the difference between existentialism and nihilism.) One has a lot of opportunity to read while living in his mother’s basement, smoking cannabis, and living on generous welfare checks and food stamps.

    Hey, Hammie said it, so it must be true!

  79. bob42 Avatar

    #32 Hey, my vocabulary is pretty good (at least I know the difference between existentialism and nihilism.) One has a lot of opportunity to read while living in his mother’s basement, smoking cannabis, and living on generous welfare checks and food stamps.
    Hey, Hammie said it, so it must be true!

  80. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Another example of kids raised by whimpy parents.

    Last Friday, an attaché of important gay people from Philadelphia made a trip to Washington D.C. as invited guests of President Barack Obama for the White House’s first-ever gay pride reception. There, they danced to the sounds of a Marine Corps band; they dined on crab cakes and canapés; they hand-delivered letters from concerned citizens like this 18-year old who has had four people close to him gunned down, and noted rhyming raconteur CA Conrad; and some of them took advantage of photo opportunities to give the late President Ronald Reagan the middle finger.

    Activists Take Out Frustration on … Ronald Reagan

  81. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Another example of kids raised by whimpy parents.

    Last Friday, an attaché of important gay people from Philadelphia made a trip to Washington D.C. as invited guests of President Barack Obama for the White House’s first-ever gay pride reception. There, they danced to the sounds of a Marine Corps band; they dined on crab cakes and canapés; they hand-delivered letters from concerned citizens like this 18-year old who has had four people close to him gunned down, and noted rhyming raconteur CA Conrad; and some of them took advantage of photo opportunities to give the late President Ronald Reagan the middle finger.

    Activists Take Out Frustration on … Ronald Reagan

  82. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    my vocabulary is pretty good

    Mine’s not. I know that “jejum” is Portuguese for “fasting” as in abstaining from food for a certain amount of time. So with that in mind I found it interesting to see the following definition for “jejune”:

    1: lacking nutritive value

    2: devoid of significance or interest : dull

    3: juvenile, puerile

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jejune

  83. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    my vocabulary is pretty good

    Mine’s not. I know that “jejum” is Portuguese for “fasting” as in abstaining from food for a certain amount of time. So with that in mind I found it interesting to see the following definition for “jejune”:

    1: lacking nutritive value
    2: devoid of significance or interest : dull
    3: juvenile, puerile

    http://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/jejune

  84. Dooood Avatar

    I would read this if I were you. The author makes his living in the software world and knows what he’s talking about.

    There are links to the relevant FBI pages with info on how to check your own computer and router for DNS changes.

    It’s actually kind of a bizarre story. Your computer connects to the Internet using DNS numbers. Some bad guys in Estonia ran a fake advertising scheme and infected a shitload of computers around the world with a DNS hijacking program which changed the computer’s DNS numbers. It would still connect with the Internet just fine, albeit occasionally the user might find some new browser window open advertising this or that, which is how the bad guys made their money.

    Enter the authorities, who catch the bad guys but then are faced with a problem. If they had just confiscated their servers, every infected machine on the planet would have immediately lost its Internet connection — and without the owners having the slightest idea why.

    Rather than risk global anarchy, the FBI substituted the servers with some rental servers to give people time to clean up their computers, but time is running out and the servers are going to be unplugged this July 10th. There’s already been one court-ordered ‘stay’ of 3 months, and it doesn’t look like there’s going to be another.

    The reason anti-virus programs don’t catch the little rascal is because it’s not actually a virus; it’s not even a program, just a web file. The second someone clicked on the original fraudulent ad, the damage was done. No file was ever downloaded so there wasn’t anything for the anti-virus program to analyze and stop.

  85. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    I would read this if I were you. The author makes his living in the software world and knows what he’s talking about.
    There are links to the relevant FBI pages with info on how to check your own computer and router for DNS changes.

    It’s actually kind of a bizarre story. Your computer connects to the Internet using DNS numbers. Some bad guys in Estonia ran a fake advertising scheme and infected a shitload of computers around the world with a DNS hijacking program which changed the computer’s DNS numbers. It would still connect with the Internet just fine, albeit occasionally the user might find some new browser window open advertising this or that, which is how the bad guys made their money.
    Enter the authorities, who catch the bad guys but then are faced with a problem. If they had just confiscated their servers, every infected machine on the planet would have immediately lost its Internet connection — and without the owners having the slightest idea why.
    Rather than risk global anarchy, the FBI substituted the servers with some rental servers to give people time to clean up their computers, but time is running out and the servers are going to be unplugged this July 10th. There’s already been one court-ordered ‘stay’ of 3 months, and it doesn’t look like there’s going to be another.
    The reason anti-virus programs don’t catch the little rascal is because it’s not actually a virus; it’s not even a program, just a web file. The second someone clicked on the original fraudulent ad, the damage was done. No file was ever downloaded so there wasn’t anything for the anti-virus program to analyze and stop.

  86. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    And the hits just keep on coming…

    Embezzlement. Wire fraud. Bribery. That’s just scratching the surface of crimes committed by the IUOE ranks. And it is from this union that President Obama earlier this year picked one of his latest appointees to the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency tasked with resolving labor disputes between unions and management.

    That recess appointee, Richard Griffin, was former general counsel for the 400,000-member union of heavy equipment operators — a union tainted over the years by mob connections and a history of corruption.

    Public documents obtained by Fox News show that more than 60 IUOE members have been arrested, indicted or jailed in the last decade on charges that include labor racketeering, extortion, criminal enterprise, bodily harm and workplace sabotage.

    In some of the more egregious examples, federal prosecutors alleged in February 2003 that the Genovese and Colombo crime families wrested control of two IUOE locals, and stole $3.6 million from major New York area construction projects — including the Museum of Modern Art and minor league baseball stadiums for the Yankees and Mets in Staten and Coney Islands.

    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/22/obama-pick-for-nlrb-union-tainted-by-mob-ties-criminal-past/#ixzz1yXr679VN

  87. Hamous Avatar

    And the hits just keep on coming…

    Embezzlement. Wire fraud. Bribery. That’s just scratching the surface of crimes committed by the IUOE ranks. And it is from this union that President Obama earlier this year picked one of his latest appointees to the National Labor Relations Board, the federal agency tasked with resolving labor disputes between unions and management.
    That recess appointee, Richard Griffin, was former general counsel for the 400,000-member union of heavy equipment operators — a union tainted over the years by mob connections and a history of corruption.
    Public documents obtained by Fox News show that more than 60 IUOE members have been arrested, indicted or jailed in the last decade on charges that include labor racketeering, extortion, criminal enterprise, bodily harm and workplace sabotage.
    In some of the more egregious examples, federal prosecutors alleged in February 2003 that the Genovese and Colombo crime families wrested control of two IUOE locals, and stole $3.6 million from major New York area construction projects — including the Museum of Modern Art and minor league baseball stadiums for the Yankees and Mets in Staten and Coney Islands.

    Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/06/22/obama-pick-for-nlrb-union-tainted-by-mob-ties-criminal-past/#ixzz1yXr679VN

  88. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Hey Bobo, I never did see that list of egregious harms all us mean homovaginaphobes have been empowering the government to perpetrate on “people and their loved ones, fiscally and physically”.

    Squaaaaaaaackkkkkk! Squaaaaaaackkkkk!

  89. Hamous Avatar

    Hey Bobo, I never did see that list of egregious harms all us mean homovaginaphobes have been empowering the government to perpetrate on “people and their loved ones, fiscally and physically”.
    Squaaaaaaaackkkkkk! Squaaaaaaackkkkk!

  90. Dooood Avatar

    The truth is finally out now.

    …and minor league baseball stadiums for the Yankees and Mets in Staten and Coney Islands.

    I always knew those teams in NYC were really Minor Leaguers.

  91. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    The truth is finally out now.

    …and minor league baseball stadiums for the Yankees and Mets in Staten and Coney Islands.

    I always knew those teams in NYC were really Minor Leaguers.

  92. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    my #33 – now $525,691.00

    Dang would Yall please DERIDE me the rest of the day please? Gracie needs new parts!! 🙂

  93. Katfish Avatar

    my #33 – now $525,691.00
    Dang would Yall please DERIDE me the rest of the day please? Gracie needs new parts!! 🙂

  94. Dooood Avatar

    1.SUBJECT: Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq.
    2.PURPOSE: The purpose of this Enforcement Guidance is to consolidate and update the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s guidance documents regarding the use of arrest or conviction records in employment decisions under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq.
    3.EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon receipt
    4.EXPIRATION DATE: This Notice will remain in effect until rescinded or superseded.
    5.ORIGINATOR: Office of Legal Counsel.

    Hamous, be sure to hire Latino and Black thugs if you happen to employ a white criminal. Diversity is the only thing that matters, don’t you know.

  95. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    1.SUBJECT: Enforcement Guidance on the Consideration of Arrest and Conviction Records in Employment Decisions Under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq.
    2.PURPOSE: The purpose of this Enforcement Guidance is to consolidate and update the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission’s guidance documents regarding the use of arrest or conviction records in employment decisions under Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, as amended, 42 U.S.C. § 2000e et seq.
    3.EFFECTIVE DATE: Upon receipt
    4.EXPIRATION DATE: This Notice will remain in effect until rescinded or superseded.
    5.ORIGINATOR: Office of Legal Counsel.

    Hamous, be sure to hire Latino and Black thugs if you happen to employ a white criminal. Diversity is the only thing that matters, don’t you know.

  96. bob42 Avatar

    #45 Hamous, I reckon you missed it.

    Hey Bobo, I never did see that list of egregious harms all us mean homovaginaphobes have been empowering the government to perpetrate on “people and their loved ones, fiscally and physically”.

    I’m not surprised though. Nobody here was able to provide any rational reasons for their support of DOMA or the other purposefully discriminatory laws they support. At least Darren was honest enough to admit why he thinks he has the right to dictate to others how they should live, via the force of large and intrusive government acting on his behalf.

  97. bob42 Avatar

    #45 Hamous, I reckon you missed it.

    Hey Bobo, I never did see that list of egregious harms all us mean homovaginaphobes have been empowering the government to perpetrate on “people and their loved ones, fiscally and physically”.

    I’m not surprised though. Nobody here was able to provide any rational reasons for their support of DOMA or the other purposefully discriminatory laws they support. At least Darren was honest enough to admit why he thinks he has the right to dictate to others how they should live, via the force of large and intrusive government acting on his behalf.

  98. Dooood Avatar

    This is genuine evidence of a large and intrusive government acting on behalf of environmentally obsessed religious fanatics.

    Federal regulations can be maddening, but none more so than a current one that demands oil refiners use millions of gallons of a substance, cellulosic ethanol, that does not exist.

    “As ludicrous as that sounds, it’s fact,” says Charles Drevna, who represents refiners. “If it weren’t so frustrating and infuriating, it would be comical.”

    And Tom Pyle of the Institute of Energy Research says, “the cellulosic biofuel program is the embodiment of government gone wild.”

    Refiners are at their wit’s end because the government set out requirements to blend cellulosic ethanol back in 2005, assuming that someone would make it. Seven years later, no one has.

    A government run by idiotic nomenklatura.

  99. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    This is genuine evidence of a large and intrusive government acting on behalf of environmentally obsessed religious fanatics.

    Federal regulations can be maddening, but none more so than a current one that demands oil refiners use millions of gallons of a substance, cellulosic ethanol, that does not exist.
    “As ludicrous as that sounds, it’s fact,” says Charles Drevna, who represents refiners. “If it weren’t so frustrating and infuriating, it would be comical.”
    And Tom Pyle of the Institute of Energy Research says, “the cellulosic biofuel program is the embodiment of government gone wild.”
    Refiners are at their wit’s end because the government set out requirements to blend cellulosic ethanol back in 2005, assuming that someone would make it. Seven years later, no one has.

    A government run by idiotic nomenklatura.

  100. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    To new or first time lurkers, Gracie is a motorcycle.

  101. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    To new or first time lurkers, Gracie is a motorcycle.

  102. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Nobody here was able to provide any rational reasons for their support of DOMA or the other purposefully discriminatory laws they support.

    Your premise is flawed. Since DOMA isn’t discriminatory there’s no need to provide reasons.

  103. Hamous Avatar

    Nobody here was able to provide any rational reasons for their support of DOMA or the other purposefully discriminatory laws they support.

    Your premise is flawed. Since DOMA isn’t discriminatory there’s no need to provide reasons.

  104. Dooood Avatar

    New Update to Fast & Furious post on the front page

    Ingraham: So they were literally screaming at you?

    Attkisson: Yes. Well the DOJ woman was just yelling at me. The guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me. [Laura: Who was the person? Who was the person at Justice screaming?] Eric Schultz. Oh, the person screaming was [DOJ spokeswoman] Tracy Schmaler, she was yelling not screaming. And the person who screamed at me was Eric Schultz at the White House.”

  105. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    New Update to Fast & Furious post on the front page

    Ingraham: So they were literally screaming at you?
    Attkisson: Yes. Well the DOJ woman was just yelling at me. The guy from the White House on Friday night literally screamed at me and cussed at me. [Laura: Who was the person? Who was the person at Justice screaming?] Eric Schultz. Oh, the person screaming was [DOJ spokeswoman] Tracy Schmaler, she was yelling not screaming. And the person who screamed at me was Eric Schultz at the White House.”

  106. Dooood Avatar

    Erotic Justice ?

    This is what passes for seriousness at the G+20 Earth Summit.

    Obama couldn’t squeeze in the Summit between tee times so he sent Secretary of State Clinton instead. I don’t blame him.

    Giant tents in the park house five chief plenary discussions and scores of smaller tents shelter a wide variety of earnest discussions about the perfidy of corporations in this age of late capitalism. As it happens, I just caught the tail-end of a speech at the Energy Plenary by an American black woman who urged the audience to fight for “economic, social, gender, and erotic justice.” Evidently fearing that she had overlooked an oppressed group, she hastily made sure to acknowledge that the fight for justice included “transpeople too.”

    Scattered among the tents are perhaps a couple hundred booths from which interest groups from around the world peddle their nostrums for whatever discontents with the modern world particularly irk them. For example, the Global Ecovilllage Network was there to urge people to practice “luxurious simplicity.” An Ecovillage brochure specifically cited a Senegalese program to transition 14,000 traditional villages into ecovillages. The program is being supported by a $16 million grant from the Global Environment Facility. By the way, per capita GDP in Senegal is just over $1,000. Luxury indeed.

    Science editor for Reason.com, Ronald Bailey traveled to Rio to give us a first hand version of the circus there.

  107. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    Erotic Justice ?
    This is what passes for seriousness at the G+20 Earth Summit.
    Obama couldn’t squeeze in the Summit between tee times so he sent Secretary of State Clinton instead. I don’t blame him.

    Giant tents in the park house five chief plenary discussions and scores of smaller tents shelter a wide variety of earnest discussions about the perfidy of corporations in this age of late capitalism. As it happens, I just caught the tail-end of a speech at the Energy Plenary by an American black woman who urged the audience to fight for “economic, social, gender, and erotic justice.” Evidently fearing that she had overlooked an oppressed group, she hastily made sure to acknowledge that the fight for justice included “transpeople too.”
    Scattered among the tents are perhaps a couple hundred booths from which interest groups from around the world peddle their nostrums for whatever discontents with the modern world particularly irk them. For example, the Global Ecovilllage Network was there to urge people to practice “luxurious simplicity.” An Ecovillage brochure specifically cited a Senegalese program to transition 14,000 traditional villages into ecovillages. The program is being supported by a $16 million grant from the Global Environment Facility. By the way, per capita GDP in Senegal is just over $1,000. Luxury indeed.

    Science editor for Reason.com, Ronald Bailey traveled to Rio to give us a first hand version of the circus there.

  108. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #52 – Correctamundo! (and pictured in the ole Gravatar)

  109. Katfish Avatar

    #52 – Correctamundo! (and pictured in the ole Gravatar)

  110. bob42 Avatar

    #53 I suspect that you’re hinting around a new iteration of a tired, old, long debunked, justification for government sanctioned bigotry that didn’t fly 40+ years ago and still doesn’t fly today.

    Your premise is flawed. Since DOMA isn’t discriminatory there’s no need to provide reasons.

    But I don’t want to jump to any conclusions. Could you please be more specific before I point out the logical fallacies in your denial of reality?

    DOMA is not discriminatory because? (Hint: Just cuz you say it isn’t doesn’t fly either.)

  111. bob42 Avatar

    #53 I suspect that you’re hinting around a new iteration of a tired, old, long debunked, justification for government sanctioned bigotry that didn’t fly 40+ years ago and still doesn’t fly today.

    Your premise is flawed. Since DOMA isn’t discriminatory there’s no need to provide reasons.

    But I don’t want to jump to any conclusions. Could you please be more specific before I point out the logical fallacies in your denial of reality?
    DOMA is not discriminatory because? (Hint: Just cuz you say it isn’t doesn’t fly either.)

  112. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    This has been asked and answered. Pay attention.

  113. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    This has been asked and answered. Pay attention.

  114. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    This has been asked and answered. Pay attention.

    No kidding. It’s been asked and answered ad nauseum. I’m no longer going to try and answer the same stupid question over and over again. I’m not even going to provide a link to the 538 previous times it’s been answered.

  115. Hamous Avatar

    This has been asked and answered. Pay attention.

    No kidding. It’s been asked and answered ad nauseum. I’m no longer going to try and answer the same stupid question over and over again. I’m not even going to provide a link to the 538 previous times it’s been answered.

  116. bob42 Avatar

    The specific answer I’ve repeatedly received is “it’s not discriminatory because I say it’s not discriminatory.”

    Maybe you folks are just ahead of your time.

  117. bob42 Avatar

    The specific answer I’ve repeatedly received is “it’s not discriminatory because I say it’s not discriminatory.”
    Maybe you folks are just ahead of your time.

  118. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    You lie! You’ve been given a detailed answer and choose to ignore it because it doesn’t fit into your authoritarian-hiding-behind-fake-tolerance Cult of Coexistence dogma. Well too bad. I don’t really give a damn. You’ve been made. No one here takes you seriously.

  119. Hamous Avatar

    You lie! You’ve been given a detailed answer and choose to ignore it because it doesn’t fit into your authoritarian-hiding-behind-fake-tolerance Cult of Coexistence dogma. Well too bad. I don’t really give a damn. You’ve been made. No one here takes you seriously.

  120. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    Bob:

    DOMA is not discriminatory because?

    First, I don’t believe for a second that you actually want an answer. Second, I don’t believe that given an answer you are actually willing to give it any consideration.

    BUT, even though I realize that it’s probably a fool’s errand and a complete wast of time, here goes. . . .

    The DOMA act is not discriminatory because (here it goes) it does not discriminate. It simply defines the legal term “marriage” as the recognized union of a one man and one woman. It makes no attempt whatsoever to limit or define who can marry and who can’t. ANY adult can marry (assuming that they aren’t already). It makes no difference as to your race, gender, religious belief, country of origin, political affiliation, philosophical leanings, field of employment, etc. Whoever you are, if you want to marry, simply find someone of the opposite gender to agree and you too can enjoy the benefits of a marital relationship.

    By the way, please note that it does not define marriage as the fruit of a sexual relationship.

    Only someone with another axe to grind would find such a neutral document “discriminatory”.

  121. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    Bob:

    DOMA is not discriminatory because?

    First, I don’t believe for a second that you actually want an answer. Second, I don’t believe that given an answer you are actually willing to give it any consideration.
    BUT, even though I realize that it’s probably a fool’s errand and a complete wast of time, here goes. . . .
    The DOMA act is not discriminatory because (here it goes) it does not discriminate. It simply defines the legal term “marriage” as the recognized union of a one man and one woman. It makes no attempt whatsoever to limit or define who can marry and who can’t. ANY adult can marry (assuming that they aren’t already). It makes no difference as to your race, gender, religious belief, country of origin, political affiliation, philosophical leanings, field of employment, etc. Whoever you are, if you want to marry, simply find someone of the opposite gender to agree and you too can enjoy the benefits of a marital relationship.
    By the way, please note that it does not define marriage as the fruit of a sexual relationship.
    Only someone with another axe to grind would find such a neutral document “discriminatory”.

  122. bob42 Avatar

    #61 You amuse me, and you’re kinda cute when you’re being completely irrational. Sort of like my ex-wife.

  123. bob42 Avatar

    #61 You amuse me, and you’re kinda cute when you’re being completely irrational. Sort of like my ex-wife.

  124. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    my #47 – now $556,256.00

  125. Katfish Avatar

    my #47 – now $556,256.00

  126. bob42 Avatar

    Thank you Fat Albert.

    Whoever you are, if you want to marry, simply find someone of the opposite gender to agree and you too can enjoy the benefits of a marital relationship.

    That is precisely the same fallacious logic and word weaseling people stopped using 40+ years ago to self-righteously, irrationally, and defensively declare that laws defining marriage as only between two people of the same race did not result in discrimination.

    It did result in discrimination, and so does DOMA. Those people were wrong back then, and y’all are wrong now.

    But have a nice weekend anyway.

  127. bob42 Avatar

    Thank you Fat Albert.

    Whoever you are, if you want to marry, simply find someone of the opposite gender to agree and you too can enjoy the benefits of a marital relationship.

    That is precisely the same fallacious logic and word weaseling people stopped using 40+ years ago to self-righteously, irrationally, and defensively declare that laws defining marriage as only between two people of the same race did not result in discrimination.
    It did result in discrimination, and so does DOMA. Those people were wrong back then, and y’all are wrong now.
    But have a nice weekend anyway.

  128. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #47 Katfish

    Dang would Yall please DERIDE me the rest of the day please? Gracie needs new parts!! 🙂

    Your momma rides a Vespa!

  129. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    #47 Katfish

    Dang would Yall please DERIDE me the rest of the day please? Gracie needs new parts!! 🙂

    Your momma rides a Vespa!

  130. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #50 Texpat

    The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers Association and the Western States Petroleum Association jointly sued the US Environmental Protection Agency over its decision to require refiners to blend cellulosic ethanol or pay the agency for waiver credits from being unable to blend fuels which do not yet exist.

    The Oil & Gas Journal published an article some time during the past two or three weeks that highlighted the total fines already paid by the refiners through last year. I do not recall the exact amount, but it was definitely a seven to eight figure number.

  131. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    #50 Texpat

    The American Fuel & Petrochemical Manufacturers Association and the Western States Petroleum Association jointly sued the US Environmental Protection Agency over its decision to require refiners to blend cellulosic ethanol or pay the agency for waiver credits from being unable to blend fuels which do not yet exist.

    The Oil & Gas Journal published an article some time during the past two or three weeks that highlighted the total fines already paid by the refiners through last year. I do not recall the exact amount, but it was definitely a seven to eight figure number.

  132. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    hamous #45;

    Hey Bobo, I never did see that list of egregious harms all us mean homovaginaphobes have been empowering the government to perpetrate on “people and their loved ones, fiscally and physically”.

    bob #49;

    #45 Hamous, I reckon you missed it.

    That links to DOMA. There’s also:

    At least Darren was honest enough to admit why he thinks he has the right to dictate to others how they should live, via the force of large and intrusive government acting on his behalf.

    Let’s not forget that the reasons I cited were that a) I have freedom of speech b) I have elected representatives c) I use my sense of morality to determine the types of laws I support or not under my elected representatives. Likewise bob42 has a) freedom of speech b) elected representatives c) uses his sense of morality to determine the types of laws he supports or doesn’t. Here’s the difference, I support using my elected representatives to create laws. Bob uses the federal government to dictate what laws my elected representatives may make. If bob doesn’t like the laws I support, bob has no problem declaring it “mob rule” and supports the federal government, via the judiciary, to shut it down. When the federal government creates a law bob likes and dictates this law upon everyone, he has no problem supporting that law.
    DOMA recognizes traditional marriage at the federal level. This includes when a married couple crosses state lines which is inherently under federal authority via the Constitution. It does not prohibit states from creating their own laws including recognizing gay marriage. At the state level it’s determined by the people’s elected representatives. I do not, nor does anyone here, support the federal government dictating to the states what types of marriages ought to be recognized. The only exception I can think of is that since liberals, including bob, support redefining marriage in a dictorial manner, even at the federal level, that only a US cnostitutional amendment would create a sufficient safeguard against what people like myself think is destructive to society. Even then there is division as to supporting a constitutional amendment. But note that creating such an amendment would require advocating support for suchan amendment to garner huge amounts of supports for it tha the vast majority of the people’s elected representatives will vote for it. That’s not mob rule, not dictorial. That’s a rebublic-styled democracy, which is far superior to guard against tyranny than allowing the federal government to dictate its will upon the states via the judiciary.
    Also bob;
    You called out Texpat and called into question his very integrity regarding Fast and Furious. Take time to at least read the cover of his stellar post today in whioch he did just that. His post goes far above and beyond answering your challenge to him that the only appropriate recourse you should have at this point would be to bend down and lick the tips of his Red Wing (or whatever they are called) boots after he returns home from a muddy day at work. You should be curled up somewhere sucking your thumb after reading what he wrote to answer your personal challenge to him.

  133. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    I found the fine amount here.

    Cellulosic ethanol is not yet commercial, but our politicians and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are apparently not aware of that fact since they are mandating U.S. refiners to blend it into petroleum products or pay a fine. Refiners will be required to pay about $6.8 million in penalties for not blending enough cellulosic ethanol into gasoline in 2011. Even though cellulosic producers did not sell a single gallon of cellulosic ethanol commercially in 2010 and it is not clear if they sold any cellulosic ethanol in 2011, EPA has mandated that refiners blend even more cellulosic ethanol in 2012.

  134. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    I found the fine amount here.

    Cellulosic ethanol is not yet commercial, but our politicians and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are apparently not aware of that fact since they are mandating U.S. refiners to blend it into petroleum products or pay a fine. Refiners will be required to pay about $6.8 million in penalties for not blending enough cellulosic ethanol into gasoline in 2011. Even though cellulosic producers did not sell a single gallon of cellulosic ethanol commercially in 2010 and it is not clear if they sold any cellulosic ethanol in 2011, EPA has mandated that refiners blend even more cellulosic ethanol in 2012.

  135. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Hamous #59;

    I’m not even going to provide a link to the 538 previous times it’s been answered.

    I think you got your digits mixed up, hamous. It should be 853 times its ben answered. But who’s counting?

  136. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Hamous #59;

    I’m not even going to provide a link to the 538 previous times it’s been answered.

    I think you got your digits mixed up, hamous. It should be 853 times its ben answered. But who’s counting?

  137. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    #66;

    Your momma rides a Vespa!

    Heh! I was thinking more along the lines of “my Huffy rides better than Gracia”. But I don’t know Katfish well enough to deride him to such a low point. I do, however, want him to get 1/2 am million $ if he can.

  138. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    #66;

    Your momma rides a Vespa!

    Heh! I was thinking more along the lines of “my Huffy rides better than Gracia”. But I don’t know Katfish well enough to deride him to such a low point. I do, however, want him to get 1/2 am million $ if he can.

  139. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    Bob,

    Unless you can prove that homosexuality is a matter of genetics and not simply a choice you are wrong. Being born a negro is a demonstrable overt physical characteristic. Homosexuality is determined by a person’s actions.

    To equate the two is irrational and the last refuge of scoundrels.

    Or, to put is a different way: The specific response you’ve given is “it’s discriminatory because I say it’s discriminatory.”

  140. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    Bob,
    Unless you can prove that homosexuality is a matter of genetics and not simply a choice you are wrong. Being born a negro is a demonstrable overt physical characteristic. Homosexuality is determined by a person’s actions.
    To equate the two is irrational and the last refuge of scoundrels.
    Or, to put is a different way: The specific response you’ve given is “it’s discriminatory because I say it’s discriminatory.”

  141. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    #68 Darren:

    You called out Texpat and called into question his very integrity regarding Fast and Furious. Take time to at least read the cover of his stellar post today in whioch he did just that.

    No, No no!!!!! Bob doesn’t have reasoned discussions Bob states his position and declares that anybody in disagreement is either a cad, or liar or both. At any rate you should realize that in Bob’s world you either agree with Bob, or you’re wrong.

  142. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    #68 Darren:

    You called out Texpat and called into question his very integrity regarding Fast and Furious. Take time to at least read the cover of his stellar post today in whioch he did just that.

    No, No no!!!!! Bob doesn’t have reasoned discussions Bob states his position and declares that anybody in disagreement is either a cad, or liar or both. At any rate you should realize that in Bob’s world you either agree with Bob, or you’re wrong.

  143. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #51 Texanadian

    There is nothing too far out in deep space that the Obamanation will not try it seems. Even if this is a hoax, regrettably their behavior thus far makes this latest begfest quite possible. Love the send a toaster to the White House suggestion several commenters made. 🙂

  144. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    #51 Texanadian
    There is nothing too far out in deep space that the Obamanation will not try it seems. Even if this is a hoax, regrettably their behavior thus far makes this latest begfest quite possible. Love the send a toaster to the White House suggestion several commenters made. 🙂

  145. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Bob,

    Why is it necessary for Bill & Ted to actually get a marriage certificate and call themselves married? Right now Bill & Ted can do all of the following:

    1. Live together
    2. Purchase a house, car, or other personal property together.
    3. Rent personal property together.
    4. Take out loans and other financial instruments together.
    5. They are afforded benefits such as medical, dental, and vision coverage as a partner.
    6. They can bequeath any manner of property or other assets to each other via a will or trust.

    Where is the discrimination against Bill & Ted? I do not see it. As far as my religious beliefs, marriage is a Holy Sacrament that is only available through and with God. It is not just signing a piece of paper at the JP’s office. I believe that it is our wandering away from traditional marriage and a nuclear family that is the root of many of our societal woes.

    I am perfectly content to let Bill & Ted go about their business, live their lives, and do what ever makes them happy behind their closed bedroom door. Since the LGBT community has made so much progress in the past 25 years for equality and I do not see discrimination going on here, I can only conclude that the LGBT community is trying desperately to legitimize their way of life on a higher moral plane. If that is the case, then perhaps their is some small kernel of doubt in their mind about their lifestyle. That is pure speculation on my part because for the life of me I can not figure out why this is such a big issue to them. They have the equality they have been seeking all along. This is why I laugh at their spin that this is a civil rights issue.

    For me I will continue to promote that archaic notion of a traditional marriage set forth in the Holy Scriptures and Holy Tradition.

  146. TexMo Avatar
    TexMo

    Bob,
    Why is it necessary for Bill & Ted to actually get a marriage certificate and call themselves married? Right now Bill & Ted can do all of the following:
    1. Live together
    2. Purchase a house, car, or other personal property together.
    3. Rent personal property together.
    4. Take out loans and other financial instruments together.
    5. They are afforded benefits such as medical, dental, and vision coverage as a partner.
    6. They can bequeath any manner of property or other assets to each other via a will or trust.
    Where is the discrimination against Bill & Ted? I do not see it. As far as my religious beliefs, marriage is a Holy Sacrament that is only available through and with God. It is not just signing a piece of paper at the JP’s office. I believe that it is our wandering away from traditional marriage and a nuclear family that is the root of many of our societal woes.
    I am perfectly content to let Bill & Ted go about their business, live their lives, and do what ever makes them happy behind their closed bedroom door. Since the LGBT community has made so much progress in the past 25 years for equality and I do not see discrimination going on here, I can only conclude that the LGBT community is trying desperately to legitimize their way of life on a higher moral plane. If that is the case, then perhaps their is some small kernel of doubt in their mind about their lifestyle. That is pure speculation on my part because for the life of me I can not figure out why this is such a big issue to them. They have the equality they have been seeking all along. This is why I laugh at their spin that this is a civil rights issue.
    For me I will continue to promote that archaic notion of a traditional marriage set forth in the Holy Scriptures and Holy Tradition.

  147. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    haters

  148. Tedtam Avatar

    A few days ago I posted a rationalization of the definition of marriage based upon cultural norms, societal stability, and human anatomy. None of it has to do with any of Bob’s biases, stated so far. Either it was missed or everyone thought it wasn’t worth comment. If it was missed, maybe I’ll have time to look for it later. Maybe. I am still way behind in my paperwork (a forever kinda of task) and I still have to put away groceries, cook dinner, do daughter duty for my mother, and then wade into my eyeball high stack of work.

    I don’t have time to go look for it right now – my momma’s waiting for some clean clothes and I must deliver them. The image of my mom running around the nursing home nekkid is a brain bleach kinda thing, and I need to make sure it doesn’t happen.

    Carry on.

  149. Tedtam Avatar

    A few days ago I posted a rationalization of the definition of marriage based upon cultural norms, societal stability, and human anatomy. None of it has to do with any of Bob’s biases, stated so far. Either it was missed or everyone thought it wasn’t worth comment. If it was missed, maybe I’ll have time to look for it later. Maybe. I am still way behind in my paperwork (a forever kinda of task) and I still have to put away groceries, cook dinner, do daughter duty for my mother, and then wade into my eyeball high stack of work.
    I don’t have time to go look for it right now – my momma’s waiting for some clean clothes and I must deliver them. The image of my mom running around the nursing home nekkid is a brain bleach kinda thing, and I need to make sure it doesn’t happen.
    Carry on.

  150. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    fat albert;

    Bob doesn’t have reasoned discussions Bob states his position and declares that anybody in disagreement is either a cad, or liar or both.

    You’re correct and by saying bob “called out texpat” I meant challenged texpat to declare Fast and Furious an attempt to create more gun legislation. He met that challenged and then some.

    At any rate you should realize that in Bob’s world you either agree with Bob, or you’re wrong.

    And immoral too.

  151. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    fat albert;

    Bob doesn’t have reasoned discussions Bob states his position and declares that anybody in disagreement is either a cad, or liar or both.

    You’re correct and by saying bob “called out texpat” I meant challenged texpat to declare Fast and Furious an attempt to create more gun legislation. He met that challenged and then some.

    At any rate you should realize that in Bob’s world you either agree with Bob, or you’re wrong.

    And immoral too.

  152. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    I can only conclude that the LGBT community is trying desperately to legitimize their way of life on a higher moral plane.

    Yup. and bob too.

  153. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    I can only conclude that the LGBT community is trying desperately to legitimize their way of life on a higher moral plane.

    Yup. and bob too.

  154. Tedtam Avatar

    But before I leave – I found my favorite high school classical music piece performed only by saxophones. Nirvana!

  155. Tedtam Avatar

    But before I leave – I found my favorite high school classical music piece performed only by saxophones. Nirvana!

  156. Tedtam Avatar

    And I never thought I’d see a one-handed saxophone. Awesome.

  157. Tedtam Avatar

    And I never thought I’d see a one-handed saxophone. Awesome.

  158. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    On another note entirely, for those of you who watched the Avengers movie and wondered why it was set in NYC, this article explains why – and the benefits of owning a Barrett M107 .50 cal rifle.

  159. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    On another note entirely, for those of you who watched the Avengers movie and wondered why it was set in NYC, this article explains why – and the benefits of owning a Barrett M107 .50 cal rifle.

  160. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #75 TexMo

    I can only conclude that the LGBT community is trying desperately to legitimize their way of life on a higher moral plane.

    As Seinfeld said a long time along: “Not that there is anything wrong with that.” Being gay, that is. But what is the deal with the in-your-face Gay Pride meat parades? Tres yucky.

    If only GLBT would be content that no one really cares about their sex life. Marriage isn’t primarily about anyone’s sex life.
    🙂

  161. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    #75 TexMo

    I can only conclude that the LGBT community is trying desperately to legitimize their way of life on a higher moral plane.

    As Seinfeld said a long time along: “Not that there is anything wrong with that.” Being gay, that is. But what is the deal with the in-your-face Gay Pride meat parades? Tres yucky.
    If only GLBT would be content that no one really cares about their sex life. Marriage isn’t primarily about anyone’s sex life.
    🙂

  162. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Fox News Channel had a piece on the latest Obamanation begfest scheme. Not a hoax at all, simply greed unbridled from a narcissist of extraordinary gall.

  163. Adee Avatar
    Adee

    Fox News Channel had a piece on the latest Obamanation begfest scheme. Not a hoax at all, simply greed unbridled from a narcissist of extraordinary gall.

  164. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Heh

    Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren turns 63 today, and among her birthday gifts is one she probably won’t appreciate very much. She’s in a tight race against the GOP incumbent, Scott Brown. The state’s Republican party announced this morning that it is gifting Warren, a Harvard Law professor, with a complimentary account at ancestry.com.

  165. Hamous Avatar

    Heh

    Massachusetts Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren turns 63 today, and among her birthday gifts is one she probably won’t appreciate very much. She’s in a tight race against the GOP incumbent, Scott Brown. The state’s Republican party announced this morning that it is gifting Warren, a Harvard Law professor, with a complimentary account at ancestry.com.

  166. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #85 beautiful.

  167. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Hamous #85;

    🙂

  168. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Hamous #85;
    🙂

  169. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    fat albert #82;

    From your link.

    “Freedom is life’s great lie. Once you accept that, in your heart… You will know peace.” – Loki (channeling Mayor Bloomberg)

    LOL! That’s excellent.

    The Avengers was a really good movie, btw. Mrs. Darren and I got to sneek out of the house while I was done with school for the year but the kids were still going ot theirs for te year.

  170. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    fat albert #82;
    From your link.

    “Freedom is life’s great lie. Once you accept that, in your heart… You will know peace.” – Loki (channeling Mayor Bloomberg)

    LOL! That’s excellent.
    The Avengers was a really good movie, btw. Mrs. Darren and I got to sneek out of the house while I was done with school for the year but the kids were still going ot theirs for te year.

  171. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    We love our kids but boy is it nice to get away from them for a bit. 🙂

  172. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    We love our kids but boy is it nice to get away from them for a bit. 🙂

  173. Katfish Avatar

    Sandusky found guilty of 45 counts (of 48) of molesting kids,

  174. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    Sandusky found guilty of 45 counts (of 48) of molesting kids,

  175. Dooood Avatar

    BREAKING:

    Sandusky guilty in Pennsylvania on 45 of 48 counts.

  176. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    BREAKING:
    Sandusky guilty in Pennsylvania on 45 of 48 counts.

  177. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    Well the prevert was found guily on ALL COUNTS! I saw it on the tube and don’t have a link yet!

  178. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    Well the prevert was found guily on ALL COUNTS! I saw it on the tube and don’t have a link yet!

  179. Dooood Avatar

    #92 WB

    I typed mine first, but it takes a while to travel 1800 miles.

  180. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #92 WB
    I typed mine first, but it takes a while to travel 1800 miles.

  181. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    Worked late and heard a good bit of the debate on the way home. Dewhurts sounds tired and old, old enough to maybe have had a Daddy in WWII. He sounds like he’s ready to hang it up, we should help him with that.

  182. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Worked late and heard a good bit of the debate on the way home. Dewhurts sounds tired and old, old enough to maybe have had a Daddy in WWII. He sounds like he’s ready to hang it up, we should help him with that.

  183. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    I think Drudge’s current front page headline says something clear about Sandusky’s trial. I can’t quite make it out though. Perhaps someone here can help.

    GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY

    😉

    (LINK)

    (UPDATED for grammar)

  184. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    I think Drudge’s current front page headline says something clear about Sandusky’s trial. I can’t quite make it out though. Perhaps someone here can help.

    GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY, GUILTY

    😉
    (LINK)
    (UPDATED for grammar)

  185. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    #92 & 95;

    Mine’s the best written!!!

  186. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    #92 & 95;
    Mine’s the best written!!!

  187. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    We can’t be doomed some more, that’s silly.

    100 !

  188. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    We can’t be doomed some more, that’s silly.
    100 !

  189. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    GJT # cien;

    We can’t be doomed some more, that’s silly.

    Sure we can be. Look at my #101.

  190. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    GJT # cien;

    We can’t be doomed some more, that’s silly.

    Sure we can be. Look at my #101.

  191. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    I typed mine first, but it takes a while to travel 1800 miles.

    Assuming no “Up-Down-Links” it would take about 9,663 Micro-Seconds to go 1800 miles. 😀 You’re welcome!

  192. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    I typed mine first, but it takes a while to travel 1800 miles.

    Assuming no “Up-Down-Links” it would take about 9,663 Micro-Seconds to go 1800 miles. 😀 You’re welcome!

  193. phil Avatar
    phil

    To be or not to be
    That’s what the events of this week said to me
    To be or not to be
    As Milk Toast Mittens proved to me
    That without a doubt he will be
    Jorge Bush Number Three

    Mexico North is what we’ll be
    Whether it’s Fido Obumma or Mittens Rom-nee
    My country tis made of thieves
    up yonder in Washington D. of C.

  194. phil Avatar
    phil

    To be or not to be
    That’s what the events of this week said to me
    To be or not to be
    As Milk Toast Mittens proved to me
    That without a doubt he will be
    Jorge Bush Number Three
    Mexico North is what we’ll be
    Whether it’s Fido Obumma or Mittens Rom-nee
    My country tis made of thieves
    up yonder in Washington D. of C.

  195. wagonburner Avatar
    wagonburner

    To quote Fasternu426 (where’s that dude been?) – Now Sandusky will be playing butt darts with Cletus and Bubba.

  196. Hamous Avatar

    To quote Fasternu426 (where’s that dude been?) – Now Sandusky will be playing butt darts with Cletus and Bubba.

  197. Dooood Avatar

    #103 SD

    This is Jersey, man. All internet traffic has to stop and pay the vig to the Mob before it can leave the state.

  198. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    #103 SD
    This is Jersey, man. All internet traffic has to stop and pay the vig to the Mob before it can leave the state.

  199. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    My Sweetie went to go see John Edwards tonight (he’s in Conroe), hoping to talk to dead people……. no not that John Edwards, but I understand the confusion.

  200. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    My Sweetie went to go see John Edwards tonight (he’s in Conroe), hoping to talk to dead people……. no not that John Edwards, but I understand the confusion.

  201. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    I was thinking about Fasternu just a few days ago.

  202. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    I was thinking about Fasternu just a few days ago.

  203. texanadian Avatar
    texanadian

    #106 Texpat

    This is Jersey, man. All internet traffic has to stop and pay the vig to the Mob before it can leave the state.

    😀

  204. Super Dave Avatar
    Super Dave

    #106 Texpat

    This is Jersey, man. All internet traffic has to stop and pay the vig to the Mob before it can leave the state.

    😀

  205. Tedtam Avatar

    Rut-roh! There are some riled-up Aggies!

    Go Ags! If the Muslim students get money, the Conservatives should, too.

  206. Tedtam Avatar

    Rut-roh! There are some riled-up Aggies!
    Go Ags! If the Muslim students get money, the Conservatives should, too.

  207. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    Katfish, one of the comments;

    As much as those little punks deserve all the public shame they are receiving, I don’t think booking a 13-year-old for being as ass is going to accomplish anything.

    I’m undecided on that point but I’ll tell you that when I was about 8 yrs old when I hid a neighbor girl’s little riding toy tractor and told them some guys came and stole it, the police questioning (knowing I was lying) had a very lasting effect.

  208. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Katfish, one of the comments;

    As much as those little punks deserve all the public shame they are receiving, I don’t think booking a 13-year-old for being as ass is going to accomplish anything.

    I’m undecided on that point but I’ll tell you that when I was about 8 yrs old when I hid a neighbor girl’s little riding toy tractor and told them some guys came and stole it, the police questioning (knowing I was lying) had a very lasting effect.

  209. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    #112 con’t

    I’ll also say that the paddlings from the individual elementary school teachers and OMG the swats from the junior high coaches are remembered etched as well.

  210. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    #112 con’t
    I’ll also say that the paddlings from the individual elementary school teachers and OMG the swats from the junior high coaches are remembered etched as well.

  211. Tedtam Avatar

    #113 GJT

    Hubby always said the butt bone is connected to the head bone.

  212. Tedtam Avatar

    #113 GJT
    Hubby always said the butt bone is connected to the head bone.

  213. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    For a boy full of p!ss and vinegar that’s for sure!

  214. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    For a boy full of p!ss and vinegar that’s for sure!

  215. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I was paddled once in third grade because I whacked a fellow student on the head with my notebook, but I only did it because I liked him.

  216. mharper42 Avatar
    mharper42

    I was paddled once in third grade because I whacked a fellow student on the head with my notebook, but I only did it because I liked him.

  217. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    Mrs. Mears. Second grade. Embedded.

  218. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Mrs. Mears. Second grade. Embedded.

  219. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    Wonder if I could still sue. Witch is prolly no longer.

  220. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Wonder if I could still sue. Witch is prolly no longer.

  221. Dooood Avatar

    When I was in Jr. High School, it was a badge of studly honor to get swats from the universally reviled Vice-Principal. Everybody thought you were super cool…especially the girls.

    So much for the stigma of corporal punishment.

  222. Texpat Avatar
    Texpat

    When I was in Jr. High School, it was a badge of studly honor to get swats from the universally reviled Vice-Principal. Everybody thought you were super cool…especially the girls.
    So much for the stigma of corporal punishment.

  223. Southern Tragedy Avatar
    Southern Tragedy

    Every Wednesday, just after lunch, the line formed to Coach Bailey’s office. 3 swats echoing through the halls one by one.

    Your right, that was a badge to wave. Never thought about it, but I was one of the cool kids anyway. 😀

  224. GJT Avatar
    GJT

    Every Wednesday, just after lunch, the line formed to Coach Bailey’s office. 3 swats echoing through the halls one by one.
    Your right, that was a badge to wave. Never thought about it, but I was one of the cool kids anyway. 😀

  225. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    When I was a sophomore in High School I got 5 swats from the vice-principal that everyone hated. It definitely improved my social standing, but it was one of the most painful ordeals I’ve ever experienced. There was no social stigma – but I guarantee I did whatever was necessary to make sure I never got swats again.

  226. fat albert Avatar
    fat albert

    When I was a sophomore in High School I got 5 swats from the vice-principal that everyone hated. It definitely improved my social standing, but it was one of the most painful ordeals I’ve ever experienced. There was no social stigma – but I guarantee I did whatever was necessary to make sure I never got swats again.

  227. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    To quote Fasternu426 (where’s that dude been?)

    I’ve wondered that myself.

    Now Sandusky will be playing butt darts with Cletus and Bubba.

    Ewwwwwwwwwwww!!!!

  228. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    To quote Fasternu426 (where’s that dude been?)

    I’ve wondered that myself.

    Now Sandusky will be playing butt darts with Cletus and Bubba.

    Ewwwwwwwwwwww!!!!

  229. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Katfish #110;

    Now that’s the parenting I’m talking about!!!

  230. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    Katfish #110;
    Now that’s the parenting I’m talking about!!!

  231. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    mharper #116;

    I was paddled once in third grade because I whacked a fellow student on the head with my notebook, but I only did it because I liked him.

    Heh! I was spanked twice really hard by my second grade teacher because I peed on my friends writing assignment. You can guess who my favorite all time elementary school teacher was.

  232. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    mharper #116;

    I was paddled once in third grade because I whacked a fellow student on the head with my notebook, but I only did it because I liked him.

    Heh! I was spanked twice really hard by my second grade teacher because I peed on my friends writing assignment. You can guess who my favorite all time elementary school teacher was.

  233. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    From Guy Benson;

    First, a mea culpa: I’m several weeks late to this story, but it’s so significant that I figured I’d adopt a “better late than never” approach and bring this to your attention anyway:

    Wisconsin membership in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees – the state’s second-largest public-sector union after the National Education Association, which represents teachers – fell to 28,745 in February from 62,818 in March 2011, according to a person who has viewed Afscme’s figures. A spokesman for Afscme declined to comment. Much of that decline came from Afscme Council 24, which represents Wisconsin state workers, whose membership plunged by two-thirds to 7,100 from 22,300 last year.

    A provision of the Walker law that eliminated automatic dues collection hurt union membership. When a public-sector contract expires the state now stops collecting dues from the affected workers’ paychecks unless they say they want the dues taken out, said Peter Davis, general counsel of the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission. In many cases, Afscme dropped members from its rolls after it failed to get them to affirm they want dues collected, said a labor official familiar with Afscme’s figures. In a smaller number of cases, membership losses were due to worker layoffs.

    Another reason the Supreme Court’s recent decision that unions cannot force collect “loans” to pay to political campaigns is so important. The Democrat racket of money “donated” to them has taken a big hit recently.

    Exodus: Wisconsin Government Workers Abandon Unions in Droves

  234. Darren Avatar
    Darren

    From Guy Benson;

    First, a mea culpa: I’m several weeks late to this story, but it’s so significant that I figured I’d adopt a “better late than never” approach and bring this to your attention anyway:

    Wisconsin membership in the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees – the state’s second-largest public-sector union after the National Education Association, which represents teachers – fell to 28,745 in February from 62,818 in March 2011, according to a person who has viewed Afscme’s figures. A spokesman for Afscme declined to comment. Much of that decline came from Afscme Council 24, which represents Wisconsin state workers, whose membership plunged by two-thirds to 7,100 from 22,300 last year.
    A provision of the Walker law that eliminated automatic dues collection hurt union membership. When a public-sector contract expires the state now stops collecting dues from the affected workers’ paychecks unless they say they want the dues taken out, said Peter Davis, general counsel of the Wisconsin Employment Relations Commission. In many cases, Afscme dropped members from its rolls after it failed to get them to affirm they want dues collected, said a labor official familiar with Afscme’s figures. In a smaller number of cases, membership losses were due to worker layoffs.

    Another reason the Supreme Court’s recent decision that unions cannot force collect “loans” to pay to political campaigns is so important. The Democrat racket of money “donated” to them has taken a big hit recently.
    Exodus: Wisconsin Government Workers Abandon Unions in Droves

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