[original link to video on Breitbart.com, which kept reloading. It had a really cool volcano blowing out, which appeared after the George Will video. Since the reload and autoplay is annoying, I have killed it.]
I hadn’t planned it, but it seems appropriate that after a discussion of Obama using the press room as a “third legislative chamber” to rewrite laws, a video of an exploding volcano appears.
Linked from BreitbartTV.com.
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Oh and first in the 2nd spot
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BTW 2nd place is the first loser.
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And the autoplay on the vidiot is really annoying especially since it restarts everytime you reload the page,
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First in the 5th spot! Wa Hoo!
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So, while the president has been telling us that, under the vaunted grandfathering provision, all Americans who like their health-insurance plans will be able to keep them, “period,” his administration has been representing in federal court that most health plans would lose their “grandfather status” by the end of this year. Not just the “5 percent” of individual-market consumers, but close to all consumers — including well over 100 million American workers who get coverage through their jobs — have been expected by the president swiftly to “transition to the requirements under the [Obamacare] regulations.” That is, their health-insurance plans would be eliminated. They would be forced into Obamacare-compliant plans, with all the prohibitive price hikes and coercive mandates that “transition” portends.
I and others have been saying for a while now that the ACA was designed from the outset to fail. Far from being incompetent, Obama knew exactly what he was doing when he pushed this through. If you read the entire article, there is more than ample evidence of same. To me, this virtually guarantees the validity of the “designed to fail” premise. I’m interested in hearing from someone who does not believe that and logically, how they arrived at their position. Further, since a lot of these actions taken by the Obama administration are blatantly illegal, where are the Republicans pushing for prosecution?
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I was stunned by the damage done by tornadoes in the midwest. I don’t remember there being tornadoes that far north. Well, at least they prolly don’t get sharknadoes up there.
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Tried to fix, but no success. I can’t get to breitbart.tv from here to try to re-link the video differently.
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Did anyone take the time to watch this video I posted yesterday?
It involves black yutes randomly assaulting people (always white in the video) trying to knock them out with one sucker punch. That kind of nonsense is disturbing on several levels:
1) The physical damage from the punch and the distinct potential of severe brain injury from the head hitting a curb or something.
2) The fact that they victims are oblivious to the pending attack, which is done at random, usually on a single person.
3) The appalling lack of respect for the humanity of the victims by the perps.
These yutes are displaying feral characteristics, it is obvious that they have no respect for anyone, no basic set of values, no concept of decency. Is it possible to rehabilitate a yute of this age to become a respectable, productive member of society? If yes, what would it take? -
#7 mh42
The midwest gets its fair share of tornadoes, just not as much as the area from North and West Texas north through to Eastern Kansas. Note the redness in Indiana.
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To me, this virtually guarantees the validity of the “designed to fail” premise. I’m interested in hearing from someone who does not believe that and logically, how they arrived at their position.
Its really quite simple.
If it was designed to fail, there would have been no provision to bail out the insurance companies if it did.
It has a provision that keeps it going in its present form.
Its also illogical from a political standpoint. You don’t design a program that’s intended to fail as that hands a hammer to the opposition party to slam on your head, showing the People that you’re a bunch of incompetent lying bastidiges who shouldn’t hold power any more.
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Dooooodski: I think the whole ObamaCare fraud is an impeachable offense. As the article pointed out, if a private company had advertised as the government did they would face serious civil and criminal penalties – what the government did and continues to do is a crime and needs to be treated as such.
Our Justice Department under Holder is completely corrupt, he needs to face some serious prison time for his dereliction of duty and violation of laws on the book, such as smuggling guns into Mexico.
The “leadership” of the House needs a serious calcium injection into their spines and start the process to put a stop to the lawlessness of this administration.
As to your assertion that the law was designed to fail, I agree completely. This was not exactly hidden as JugEars himself actually stated that he much preferred a single payer system and the this plan was an intermediate step towards that goal. My big question was and still is, why would the insurance companies cooperate in this scheme when it is obvious to anyone with the capacity to fog a mirror that under the existing plans the insurance companies will be driven out of business. Are the execs who are making big bonuses now shorting their own stock positions because they know that it is all going to crumble? Is it possible that they are really that type of heartless bastiges? -
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#11,
I see what you’re saying to an extent, but to me bailing out insurance companies would be more of an incentive towards / evidence of fully socializing healthcare, and even at that, it wouldn’t “save” the ACA. It would simply keep the insurance company in business for a little bit longer; long enough for people to get angry / resentful of them for getting bailouts, thereby providing further rationalization for the government stepping in later to fully nationalize. I remain convinced that the people who designed the ACA thought through these scenarios and know full well that regardless of how it goes politically, they will ultimately achieve their goal, which is nationalization of healthcare. -
Quelle horreur!!!
Squack cracked his new MacBook!
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Is it possible that they are really that type of heartless bastiges?
Not only possible, probable. The people that high up in the insurance industry will not be financially destroyed by the failure of their companies. Not even close. You know that as well as I do.
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Definetly not designed to fail:
Watch them in order.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xnWKz7Cthkk
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That pic reminds me of the joke that went something like this:A very “popular” homo-receiver eventually contracted aids, syphilis, gonoreah, hepatitis and a few others that I have no hope of spelling. As his ultimate demise was approaching he put in his will that he wanted to be memorialized. He was to be buried with his “business end” exposed, therefore he could serve as a bike rack for eternity.
The same guy, long before the above went to a doctor searching for a cure to his plethora of maladies. The advice from the doc: “go to Mexico and drink the water, eat from the food carts and eat lots of jalepenos. Said homo-receiver said ok doc I’ll do it. Will this make me get better? The doc replied, no, but it will teach you how that organ is supposed to be used.
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The avalanche of cash that made Washington rich in the last decade has transformed the culture of a once staid capital and created a new wave of well-heeled insiders.
The winners in the new Washington are not just the former senators, party consiglieri and four-star generals who have always profited from their connections. Now they are also the former bureaucrats, accountants and staff officers for whom unimagined riches are suddenly possible. They are the entrepreneurs attracted to the capital by its aura of prosperity and its super-educated workforce. They are the lawyers, lobbyists and executives who work for companies that barely had a presence in Washington before the boom.
Two forces triggered the boom.
The share of money the government spent on weapons and other hardware shrank as service contracts nearly tripled in value. At the peak in 2010, companies based in Rep. James P. Moran’s congressional district in Northern Virginia reaped $43 billion in federal contracts — roughly as much as the state of Texas. -
#17 Texanadian: It was not until the very end of the 2nd link that a key clue came out: That truck was powered by a diesel. Even discounting that, that is one strong little buggy.
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Talking about being built to last:
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#21: What ever she paid her plastic surgeon, it wasn’t enough. That is one good looking woman.
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hubba hubba
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and then some
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Thing is – and I think this is true for Hamous also – if I was less of a thinking person it would be easy to conclude that all this concern over the ACA is over-hyped. After all, it doesn’t really change anything for me personally in 2014. From a company memo concerning re-enrollment I just received today:
We are pleased to communicate there are no cost increases to the premiums to the Core PPO and the High Deductible Health Plan. In addition, there will not be an increase in premiums for Dental or Vision Coverage.
I have the HDHP w/ HSA.
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You are the exception. The employer mandate will kick in next year – then you’ll see it!
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I think that even the LIVs are starting to see that you can not continue to rob Peter to pay Paul without Peter getting wissed. Now the LIVs are starting to see that they are Peter, the commie Ds have been hiding that up till now.
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We both know that. But like I said, if I was not a thinking person, I would see no problem with ACA as 2014 will look no different to me than 2013 did form the point of view of how much I personally pay for healthcare. -
Luckily I work for a large enough company that can afford to provide nice benefits. On the face, 2014 will look substantially better for me than 2013. But as the mandates fully kick in the entire system will be bogged down to the point where the middle class taxpayers like us will be getting serially raped, and told to like it.
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Ancient ancestor of Sarah Jessica Parker, John Kerry, and Peyton Manning found.
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My partially provided company health care has gone up for the following year with a couple minor beneficial changes. The company is absorbing the increased cost so my premiums don’t change… yet.
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Evidence of the Holy Spirit guiding Holy Mother Church?
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Let us stipulate that Nancy Pelosi is an idiot. Saves time.
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Strange times make strange bedfellows:
HEADLINE: Two old foes unite against Tehran
sub-head: Convinced that Iran is tricking the world over nuclear weapons, Israel and Saudi Arabia may work together to curb its ambitions
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Both the Israeli and Saudi governments are convinced that the international talks to place limits on Tehran’s military nuclear development amount to appeasement and will do little to slow its development of a nuclear warhead.
As part of the growing co-operation, Riyadh is understood already to have given the go-ahead for Israeli planes to use its airspace in the event of an attack on Iran.It is highly unlikely that Jordan will raise a stink about Israel using its airspace either. I can imagine that refueling tankers will be over Saudi airspace in addition to the fighters and bombers. This is definitely a case of the enemy of my enemy is my friend – for as long as my enemy is potent.
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33 Hamous says:
November 18, 2013 at 10:46 amLet us stipulate that Nancy Pelosi is an idiot. Saves time.
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It’s worth the six minutes to take in her incoherent duplicity.More than anything else, Nancy’s performance of yesterday and in years since has convinced me that this is not a Machiavellian plot to get Single Payer.
It came about as a result of a wonderfully superschadenfruedistic combination of hubris and incompetence. These people actually thought that once “we knew what was in the law” we’d fall in love with it, treat them like gods, and Republicans would never hold a majority ever again.
That’s the only explanation that explains everything, including the botched website. -
performance of yesterday and in years since
Are you a time traveler into the future?
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I have decided marriage isn’t for me
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More than anything else, Nancy’s performance of yesterday and in years since has convinced me that this is not a Machiavellian plot to get Single Payer.
I think it’s more likely she wasn’t in on the plot and her function has been “useful idiot”.
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#9 That would be Obama’s, Animals. Feral creatures reared without a family, something that the democrats are very proud of, if you don’t believe that try to get the welfare queens off the dole and hear them squeal…..SPITS!!!~
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Count me among those who consider Nancy far less stupid than those who continue to return her to office.
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I think it’s more likely she wasn’t in on the plot and her function has been “
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These yutes are displaying feral characteristics, it is obvious that they have no respect for anyone, no basic set of values, no concept of decency. Is it possible to rehabilitate a yute of this age to become a respectable, productive member of society? If yes, what would it take?
I’d prescribe single pill in the form of a 240 Gr, 44 Cal pellet delivered to the brain pan, works every time. Sadly, there’s not much else that you could do. Can’t turn back time.
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I think it’s more likely she wasn’t in on the plot and her function has been “useful idiot”.
Any Machiavellian plot would have to include the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader. The required “what ifs” and the “more than likely” diversions from the process that ignores centers of power in DC only serves to convince me more. Unless you blame the Illuminati, Bilderbergers, and CFR—-those bastidges are crafty—Alex Jones will explain to you how the whole thing works.
The real danger is here.
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Wow. Immaculately delivered, very well, written, superb points, thorough details, a senior student speaks against Common Core.
http://www.theblaze.com/stories/2013/11/15/this-could-be-one-of-the-best-cases-ever-made-against-common-core-no-one-expected-it-to-come-from-a-high-school-student/
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Boo Ben Konop, Bonnie Prince Barry Edition.
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Good morning Hamsters. Another foggy, mugly, ghastly morning but only 70 at 6. Still overcast and humid, but a northerly breeze recently arrived should chase the haze away. Only 73 at 11:30.
#34 Bonecrusher
Saw that article elsewhere this morning and am not surprised. It is a logical pairing given that Israel has the nukes and the knowhow and Saudi has the cash and mutual incentive to stop things before they erupt. Surely the rest of the Middle East that is threatened by Iran agrees if only privately. Right on, the enemy of my enemy is my friend. Much more than an alliance of convenience…. -
My employer provided 100% of my healthcare thru last fall. At that time it went up 36% which he refused cover. Those of us that wanted to keep the plans had to pay the increase, which I did. It’s Blue Cross BS, $1000 deductible. The total (shared) premium is just under $600. Just for me. (Wife has Medicare.)
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#44 – WOW that is one SHARP young Man!!!
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Boo Ben Konop, Bonnie Prince Barry Edition.
Heh! Shame it didn’t happen in Toledo. I might actually have had a second shot at being proud of my old stomping grounds.
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Boo Ben Konop, Bonnie Prince Barry Edition.
Although it’s a profile shot, you can tell Moochelle is not pleased. TFB
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Was G.W. ever booed when he showed up for an event like this?
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I would like to see the Rs start using the word ‘extortion’ in reference to the numerous, onerous and frivolous mandates contained in the ACA.
A wimmin who is medically incapable of pregnancy should not be forced to buy maternity coverage, she will never use it and to pay for it is extortion. Ditto that same thing for those who will never even consider, let alone want, anaddadicktomesex-change surgery, why force them to pay for coverage for a procedure they know they will never even want, let alone use?
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Just when you think “progressives” cannot possibly sink any lower…
New York magazine recently published a beautiful collection of 26 women telling the stories of their abortions
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Glenn Beck told his radio audience Monday that the soon-to-be-released movie “Lone Survivor” may be the “best war film ever made.”
The film is based on the real events described by former Navy SEAL Marcus Luttrell in the book “Lone Survivor: The Eyewitness Account of Operation Redwing and the Lost Heroes of SEAL Team 10.”
The movie isn’t scheduled to be released to the general public until Jan. 10, but Beck saw an early screening on Sunday with Luttrell himself.
“If you think the guy’s a hero now, wait until you see the movie. Wait until you see the movie,” Beck told his audience. “I mean, it’s — it’s the best war film I’ve ever seen.”Glenn Beck Went to the Movies and Was Blown Away by the ‘Best War Film Ever Made’
Beck said he was concerned that Hollywood wouldn’t do the story justice, but remarked, “Boy, did they get it right.”
“I’ve read the book. I’ve talked to Marcus about it … man to man or, you know, weenie to man and — until you’ve seen it, you have no idea what it was like,” Beck said, his voice full of emotion. “More importantly, I will tell you that I have more respect for Marcus Luttrell than I did before I went to see the movie.”
Beck said he couldn’t even look at Luttrell after the movie ended.
“It took me about 20 minutes before I could even speak,” Beck added. “I was sitting next to Marcus and I was in a room full of SEALs, and Marcus wasn’t there the whole time. He came in towards the end and sat down next to his wife and my wife. I was on the other end and … I couldn’t even talk to him about it last night, hours after the movie.”LoL, “weenie to man”. 🙂
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Dooode #6;
I really can’t say what deliberate intention there was behind Obamacare regarding getting Americans to use a single payer system though I’ve no oubt that Pelosi, reid, and Obama thnik (absolutely convinced of) that that is the best system (even if for the mere fact that it vastly increases government power over We the People). But as for this:Further, since a lot of these actions taken by the Obama administration are blatantly illegal, where are the Republicans pushing for prosecution?
They are with wherever impeachment is hiding himself. Republicans and at a lesser level, Conservatives, simply do not have the desire to use it nearly as much as it should be used. Thus the standard to be president is very low.
(Bold posted in original):John Fund asks if Obama is violating the Constitution with impunity:
At last night’s annual Federalist Society dinner in Washington there was general agreement that Obama had violated the Constitution. “A president has discretion to prioritize which lawbreakers to prosecute in federal court, but there is no ‘enforcement discretion’ to determine which laws on the books he will enforce,” constitutional scholar Ken Klukowski told me.
But the problem is that anyone wanting to challenge President Obama’s extra-constitutional action would have to show standing in court — some injury that would allow litigation to go forward. “He’s been clever about this,” Utah Senator Mike Lee told me. “If you are simply reducing legal burdens on people rather than curbing their behavior, it’s hard to prove an injury. It’s a dangerous precedent because it could give presidents a path to ignore laws they don’t like.”Everyone seems to think that these matters can only be resolved by lawsuits. But standing is famously difficult to establish in these situations. Justice Scalia once wrote to attempt to dispel the notion that the courts were the place to resolve a political branch’s overreaching:
Our system is designed for confrontation. That is what “[a]mbition . . . counteract[ing] ambition,” The Federalist, No. 51, at 322 (J. Madison), is all about. If majorities in both Houses of Congress care enough about the matter, they have available innumerable ways to compel executive action without a lawsuit —- from refusing to confirm Presidential appointees to the elimination of funding. (Nothing says “enforce the Act” quite like “. . . or you will have money for little else.”) But the condition is crucial; Congress must care enough to act against the President itself, not merely enough to instruct its lawyers to ask us to do so. Placing the Constitution’s entirely anticipated political arm wrestling into permanent judicial receivership does not do the system a favor. And by the way, if the President loses the lawsuit but does not faithfully implement the Court’s decree, just as he did not faithfully implement Congress’s statute, what then? Only Congress can bring him to heel by . . . what do you think? Yes: a direct confrontation with the President.
If I recall correctly, this passage was about whether Congress could force the President to defend a statute in court — but it could apply to Obama rewriting statutes to change effective dates of provisions, to conform to his electoral comfort. “[T]hey have available innumerable ways to compel executive action without a lawsuit —- from refusing to confirm Presidential appointees to the elimination of funding” — and if things get bad enough, they have . . . impeachment.
There. I said it.
Any way you slice it, we need to talk about Obama’s lawlessness. Nothing will happen if we don’t.The Tough Solution to Obama’s Lawlessness in Rewriting Statutes — Hint: It Ain’t Lawsuits
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Quelle horreur!!!
Squack cracked his new MacBook!Sorry bunsonburner that ain’t me. Not enough hair should have clued ya in.
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That and he was kinda skinny.
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That and he was kinda skinny.
I didn’t notice.
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I got an unusual Christmas catalog in the mail today. It offers livestock that can be sent to 3rd world families. Gift of a goat: $120. Flock of ducks or geese: $20. 3 Schools of fish: $300.
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#59: The Tooth Fairy in bizarro world.
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In Wisconsin, dozens of conservative groups and allies of Gov. Scott Walker are undergoing political intimidation from the left at the hands of a special prosecutor.
Subpoenas have been issued demanding correspondence and donor information of right-leaning organizations and individuals and raids have been conducted resulting in law enforcement officers taking computers and files in a secret investigation, according to reports.
“In recent weeks, special prosecutor Francis Schmitz has hit dozens of conservative groups with subpoenas demanding documents related to the 2011 and 2012 campaigns to recall Governor Walker and state legislative leaders,” the Wall Street Journal writes.
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The orders reportedly began in the office of Milwaukee County Assistant District Attorney Bruce Landgraf just days before Democrat Mary Burke announced that she’d be running for governor of the state. Landgraf works for Milwaukee County Democratic District Attorney John Chisholm — who led a similar effort against Wisconsin conservatives and Gov. Walker in the past. This is the second such “John Doe” investigation in just three and a half years.
Eric O’ Keefe, director of Wisconsin’s Club For Growth and one of the groups being targeted, said that he knows of at least three of the targets who have had their homes raided. During the raids, law enforcement officers confiscated computers and files. A person with knowledge of the search warrants said they came at the requests of a man named Dean Nickel.
“A person who has seen one of the Wisconsin search warrants tells us that the warrants were executed based on the request of Dean Nickel, who filed an affidavit for probable cause.,” the WSJ reported. “Mr. Nickel is a former head of the Wisconsin Department of Justice Public Integrity Unit and has worked as an investigator for the GAB. Mr. Nickel told us he is a contractor for the GAB but wouldn’t discuss the John Doe probe. GAB Director and General Counsel Kevin Kennedy declined to comment.”Homes raided, subpoenas issued targeting conservative groups and allies of Scott Walker
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#59, I was about to say that is probably the most disturbing pic I’ve seen you post here, but then I thought you might interpret that as a challenge. So never mind!
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#63 Dooooooooooodski: My skill at finding bizarre stuff pales to that of Pyro and Squawk. I still can’t think of a better description of the pic, however.
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Dooood
#63thought you might interpret that as a challenge. So never mind!
Let no one say that you are not a wise soul.
Bonez
#64My skill at finding bizarre stuff pales to that of Pyro and Squawk.
We will be giving classes starting next spring. You too can be as demented and twisted as bunsonburner and myself.
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You too can be as demented and twisted as bunsonburner and myself.
I doubt you can even approach my level of twistedness, you simply excell me in your searching ability.
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Precisely how many fish are in a school?
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#67 Hammy
Precisely how many fish are in a school?
$100 worth?
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My skill at finding bizarre stuff pales to that of Pyro and Squawk.
I doubt you can even approach my level of twistedness,
You should see what I don’t post.
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The only person I ever saw that could come up with truly demented links to compete with Squawk is David Benzion.
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Heh as bunsonburner said above
You should see what I don’t post.
I think I still have copies of emails Benzion’s emails that dripped with fear, horror and more fear and horror.
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you want twisted? Heh let me fire up my photoshop and turn loose what lurks in this cobweb of brains I got.
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How many fish are in a school?
First, let’s get some facts before we can hazard a safe guess:
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Check out this horror-inducing link from Benzene.
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Mrs. Gillibrand, New York Democrat, said Sunday that President Obama simply should have been “more specific” when he declared that those people who liked their insurance could keep it,
You mean specific like this Mrs. Gillibrand?
If you like your health plan, you CAN’T keep your health plan.
If you like your doctor, you CAN’T keep your doctor. Period.
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Weird bit of trivia: Kennedy, C.S. Lewis, and Aldous Huxley all died on November 22, 1963. Peter Kreeft wrote a novel, Between Heaven and Hell, which was a conversation between the three men meet in purgatory and have a philosophical discussion on faith.
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Obama had a big media online conference call tonight put on by Organizing For America…to explain to everybody why the Obamacare website wouldn’t work.
Oookay.
There’s now a big Twitter thread running with all these major network reporters who can’t get on or are being knocked off. NBC, Associated Press, ABC…really, no kidding.
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the three men meet in purgatory and have a philosophical discussion on faith.
Did Kennedy decide to confess to Aslan?
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Shawna Thomas ✔ @ShawnaNBCNews
POTUS encourages supporters to talk about the ACA at holiday parties. (Analysis: POTUS also just ruined a lot of holiday parties.) -
Talk “about” or talk “up”? “Talking about” ACA may not be what TBO wants right now.
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