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I see where Newt Gingrich, campaigning in Iowa, calls gay marriage “a temporary aberration that will dissipate.”
Oh man.
Marriage. Gingrich. And “temporary aberration”?
– Jay Bookman
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Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:41 pm
Armed Liberal
So you are telling me what to do?
BMOB (Big Man On Blog) usually means very little boy in real life.
moonbat betty
September 30th, 2011
2:41 pm
Tommy @ 2:10.
All that matters is looks.
If you can look good doing it – all else matters not.
What’s that saying from White Men Can’t Jump???
“I’d rather look good and lose than look bad and win”
Obama 2012
Show Low Here We Come
September 30th, 2011
2:41 pm
a man and a woman. and sometimes a horse.
Stephenson Billings
September 30th, 2011
2:42 pm
“Oh geee – it’s not supposed to say that…certainly the President/Left/Media would not misstate or flat-out-lie about what the IRS rates are…would they?”
Nah, just “forget” to mention the difference between effective tax rates, income tax rates, and capital gains tax rates.
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:42 pm
AmVet – Read my lips. No new Texans!
Is everything either a song or a really bad movie to you?
Armed Liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:43 pm
GLL – You lie. It was proven. Fess up.
Logical Dude
September 30th, 2011
2:43 pm
Transgenders. Do they sleep with the boys or the girls?
The rule, if you are not already aware:
“Choose a side and stick with it.”
Goes the same for choosing which restroom to use.
Glad I could educate you all today.
Aquagirl
September 30th, 2011
2:45 pm
Transgenders. Do they sleep with the boys or the girls
Another con who is immediately fascinated with the showering, sleeping arrangements, and subtle, (but electrifying) touches during hand-to-hand combat training.
Not that there’s anything wrong with that.
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:45 pm
Armed Liberal
Fess up? Are you really just nine years old?
Granny Godzilla
September 30th, 2011
2:46 pm
Q: Are you happy you said yes [to having your name on the Buffett rule]?
BUFFETT: Sure, I wrote about it.
Q: Are you happy with the way it’s been described? Is the program that the White House has presented — a million dollars and over — your program?
BUFFETT: Well, the precise program, I don’t know what their program will be. My program will be on the very high incomes that are taxed very low. Not just high incomes, some guy making $50 million a year playing baseball, his taxes won’t change. Make $50 million a year appearing on television, his income won’t change. But if they make a lot of money and they pay a very low tax rate, like me, it would be changed by a minimum tax that would only bring them up to what other people pay.
CNBC
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:47 pm
Aquagirl
“Con”s are logical. Dims live in a fantasy world. We consider practical things. I don’t want the Sissies to have to pee in their panties.
Just being practical.
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:48 pm
Logical Dude
Thanks. The next time I need to know anything about sexually confused men, you will be the first one I ask.
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
2:49 pm
GLL — “Seems like boot camp would be a problem.”
I agree. When I was in Army boot camp in the 80s, entire training battalions were gender-segregated, so billeting was strictly segregated. When I got to advanced training, platoons were mixed-gender, but both there and at my first duty station, the barracks were gender-segregated by floor only (and junior enlisted men couldn’t go onto the female floors unaccompanied). I don’t know how it is these days.
“Am I the only one noticing that the standards in the military are quickly becoming the same standards that prisons use?”
I’m not sure I follow you. Can you elaborate, please?
Stephenson Billings
September 30th, 2011
2:49 pm
Another example of the law of unintended consequences:
Bank of America to Charge $5 Debit Card Fee
“Bank of America Corp plans to charge customers who use their debit cards to make purchases a $5 monthly fee beginning early next year, joining other banks scrambling for new sources of revenue.
U.S. banks have been looking for ways to increase revenue as regulations introduced since the financial crisis limited the use of overdraft and other fees.
The Dodd-Frank Act’s Durbin amendment, due to go into effect on Oct. 1, caps fees banks can charge merchants for processing debit card transactions at 21 cents per transaction from an average of 44 cents, potentially costing banks billions of dollars.”
Granny Godzilla
September 30th, 2011
2:49 pm
Back to the Topic
Stephen Colbert: “Newt Gingrich is so pro-marriage, he can’t stop doing it. He is so morally upright, that he’s only had sex after he was married. Just not always to the woman he was married to.”
Jay Leno: “Newt Gingrich is running for President. Every 6 months we’d have a different First Lady. Newt’s slogan is, ‘At least I’m not Trump.’”
David Letterman: “Newt Gingrich announced that he’s running for president on Twitter and Facebook. I think his concession speech will be on YouTube.”
Tommy Bahama (M): In an interview with Faux News, Newt Gingrich said “Well, I think, first of all, I just can’t be president alone — we need 12 more Republican seats in the Senate — and we need about 40 more Republican seats in the House.” Then he added ” I also need a new trophy wife, a new supply of Viagra and the arrival of the Great Pumpkin.” DailyComedy
carlosgvv
September 30th, 2011
2:49 pm
I wonder how many Republcan voters still don’t realize that the current crop of candidates will say anything, no matter how far out, if they think it will get them the nomination? And, do these same voters realize how little intelligence the candidates ascribe to their supporters?
Back Seater
September 30th, 2011
2:50 pm
AL–Yes I am aware of that, and no Kammy I won’t start my own blog.
As you mention it is as opinion blog, and I voice my opinion. My opinion is that you Dims are running scared, wondering just how you will survive without your government telling you what you can and or can not do.
By the way, I thought you libs were peace loving……………why the “Armed” name?
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:51 pm
carlosgvv
And how is Obama any different?
Kamchak
September 30th, 2011
2:51 pm
U.S. banks have been looking for ways to increase revenue as regulations introduced since the financial crisis limited the use of overdraft and other fees.
U.S. banks have been looking for ways to increase revenue for decades.
Granny Godzilla
September 30th, 2011
2:51 pm
Mr. Billings
You can pay that if you want.
Or you can move your money.
Granny Godzilla
September 30th, 2011
2:52 pm
Banks and airlines…..
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
2:53 pm
Back Seater — “By the way, I thought you libs were peace loving……………why the “Armed” name?”
Don’t fall prey to stereotyping. There are many liberal veterans on this board. Myself, for example.
US Army and US Army Reserve, 1987-1995.
Peadawg
September 30th, 2011
2:53 pm
“Another example of the law of unintended consequences:
Bank of America to Charge $5 Debit Card Fee”
Good ‘ol regulations……
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:53 pm
Joe Mama
Prisons have gay sections, and transgender sections. (some do at least)
Granny Godzilla
September 30th, 2011
2:54 pm
Joe Mama
Thank you for your service!
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:55 pm
Joe Mama
Thanks for your service, but you don’t post claiming to be armed. Apparently Armed liberal certainly isn’t armed with a working brain.
Stephenson Billings
September 30th, 2011
2:55 pm
“I wonder how many Republcan voters still don’t realize that the current crop of candidates will say anything, no matter how far out, if they think it will get them the nomination? And, do these same voters realize how little intelligence the candidates ascribe to their supporters?”
Sounds like any and every professional politician I’ve ever heard….
Kamchak
September 30th, 2011
2:55 pm
Back Seater
September 30th, 2011
2:50 pm
AL–Yes I am aware of that, and no Kammy I won’t start my own blog.
When did I tell you to start your own blog?
I did suggest that to pirate-boy.
Mick
September 30th, 2011
2:56 pm
pea
That ain’t regulation, that’s greed….
TGT
September 30th, 2011
2:56 pm
An interesting scenario posed by an American Thinker blogger: “Indeed, ‘gay marriage’ does roll more trippingly off the tongue [than ‘same-sex marriage’], but it’s really not ‘gay marriage’ at all. When applying for a marriage license, there is no box to check, no oath to take, no questions about a person’s sexual proclivity. Ironically, the very heart of the ‘gay marriage’ movement — homosexuality — gets nary a mention on the marriage application.”
Thus, concludes Fred Kopp, “In several states it’s now legal for any two people to get married, regardless of gender, regardless of sexual preference. I’m not saying that two straight women or two straight guys are going to rush right out and get married just because they can. I’m sure that would be extremely rare (at first), but the point is that they can, and to leave this little tidbit out of the marriage discussion is disingenuous.”
Now combine the “any two people” scenario with the “any number of people” scenario that polygamy provides. Not only could we could see things like heterosexual friends marrying to provide one with health care, or to allow one to receive the Social Security or Medicare benefits of the other, but we could see an individual marrying multiples to do the same. We could see one couple marrying another couple so that they could file joint tax returns, or three lesbians marrying because they enjoy each other’s company.
As I have noted multiple times before, redefining marriage will have profound consequences, and that’s what happens when one attempts to redefine a fundamental truth that lies at the very foundation of our nation.
Peadawg
September 30th, 2011
2:56 pm
carlos @ 2:49
That’s every politician out there, not just Republicans. Just look at all the people that fell for Obama’s “Hope and Change” bullspit.
TGT
September 30th, 2011
2:59 pm
Then there’s this by columnist Michael Youssef:
Consider with me this deep, slippery slope:
Initially, homosexual lobbyist groups said, “All we want is to be left alone.”
Then, a few years later, they said, “We just want our lifestyle to be accepted.”
Not long after that it was, “We want our lifestyle to be legally recognized as a civil union.”
And finally it went all the way to, “We want nothing less than marriage,” which, since creation, has been defined and accepted as a sacred institution between a man and a woman.
Now, in England at least, they are demanding that churches be “compelled” to do that which is contrary to their deeply held convictions. I guess the homosexual lobbyists’ attitudes are, “Forget their consciences and their biblical teaching and belief system.”
Soon they will demand [and some of them already have] that we teach children to uphold homosexuality as a virtue.
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
3:01 pm
GLL — “Prisons have gay sections, and transgender sections. (some do at least)”
Oh, I see. Well, perhaps that’s an alternative the services would consider. I could still see how things could still be difficult in the field or in the close quarters of a small ship (like a sub), though.
GG — “Thank you for your service!”
Thank YOU, Ma’am!
GLL — “Thanks for your service, but you don’t post claiming to be armed.”
I don’t make it a routine claim, but I am a firearm owner. Our go-to weapon in case of home invasion is a Mossberg 410 pump-action shotgun, loaded with triple-ought buckshot. You get three chances to put a 38-caliber hole in the burglar per shot, although I suspect that hearing me or my wife rack the action would cause a burglar to (as we used to say in the Army) ‘un-azz the AO.’
The shotgun’s slide has a pistol grip on it, which helps smaller shooters (like my wife) aim the weapon properly and keep hold of it when firing.
I am considering purchasing a handgun, but it’s not high on my priority list.
Armed Liberal
September 30th, 2011
3:03 pm
BS – You just seem surprised a liberal leaning editorial writer focuses on weaknesses within the GOP Primary field so I was just making sure you weren’t lost or anything…
My moniker comes from when I began posting on one of these entries focused on the NRA or gun-rights or some such topic. I am a liberal. I own guns. Pretty straight forward don’t ya think?
stands for decibels
September 30th, 2011
3:04 pm
my wife rack the action
If that’s not a rock steady-era hit from Jamaica c. 1966, it should be.
Zap Rowsdower
September 30th, 2011
3:05 pm
Whatever takes the focus off of the failing presidency of Obama.
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
3:08 pm
Stands @ 3:04 — LOL, although Two-Tone is more my taste.
Do the Reggay!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Do_the_Reggay
Hootinanny Yum Yum
September 30th, 2011
3:10 pm
stands for decibels @ 2:23 in response to “After demise of ‘don’t ask,’ activists call for end to military ban on transgenders”
the world is changing. sucks to be a bigot, huh?
Well, I don’t know if I’d say the world is changing to the point that most everyone readily accepts gays, lesbians and transgendered individuals with open arms. I personally don’t care what anyone does behind closed doors. Really none of my business.
Regardless of what anyone thinks, I believe we’ll have to drag those bigoted Muslims kicking and screaming into the fold.
Major world religions and a very, very simplified view of the GLT lifestyle.
33 percent Christianity – Love the sinner, hate the sin. All should practice chastity.
21 percent Islam – Disapprove. Same-sex desires as a natural temptation; but, sexual relations seen as a transgression of the natural role and aim of sexual activity.
16 percent non-religious – ?
14 percent Hinduism – Views vary
6 percent Buddhism – Views vary
6 percent Chinese Traditional – Views vary
6 percent Primal-Indigenous – ?
Balance – Other
Aquagirl
September 30th, 2011
3:10 pm
We could see one couple marrying another couple so that they could file joint tax returns, or three lesbians marrying because they enjoy each other’s company.
If we continue redefining marriage, soon TGT will be marrying individuals just for their cut ‘n pastable verbiage.
Do we really want to live in such a world?
stands for decibels
September 30th, 2011
3:13 pm
Two-Tone is more my taste.
“I got some two tone records sittin’ on the shelf/that’s the sound for me…”
(not a remotely two-tone-ish song, but I felt like posting the link anyway.)
AmVet - Read my lips. No new Texans!
September 30th, 2011
3:15 pm
Little, if the foo sh*ts, wear it.
You wear it well.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bqxgTryyYoA
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
3:28 pm
Joe Mama
Mossburg is a nice gun. I had the 12 gauge version of that but sold it when I left Atlanta.
I just bought a Desert Storm Colt 45. BOOM!!! I’ll probably not keep it. I’ve kept my Dad’s old hunting guns, a Topper single shot 12 and a Remington lever action 30-30, (Remember the Rifleman Music? )
Normal
September 30th, 2011
3:31 pm
I don’t know if anybody said it before this, but i will certainly say it now….I wish Newt is “a temporary aberration that will dissipate.”
Expelliarmus!
Talking Head
September 30th, 2011
3:32 pm
Jay has a HUGE man crush on Newt, following him like a stalker!
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
3:32 pm
GLL — “Mossburg is a nice gun.”
They are. Very reliable in my experience. I also hear that they have good customer service, but I’ve never needed any.
That Colt’s a nice weapon, too. I don’t know why, but I’ve always favored revolvers myself. Maybe I should have been born in the Old West.
Normal
September 30th, 2011
3:35 pm
GLL,
If I were to arm myself, I think I’d own one shotgun, one large caliber black powder rifle, one .22 caliber air rifle and one handgun and rifle that fired the same ammo. A complete survival arsenal, I think.
Normal
September 30th, 2011
3:36 pm
Joe Mama,
I carried a Smith .357 revolver in ‘Nam. Loved it for its dependability. Never jammed.
Tommy Maddox
September 30th, 2011
3:38 pm
Ahh Mossburg – 12 gauge on the cheap! Blamo!
md
September 30th, 2011
3:39 pm
“Well, the precise program, I don’t know what their program will be. My program will be on the very high incomes that are taxed very low. ”
Except Buffet doesn’t have a program………….might be a wee bit of a problem.
Jay
September 30th, 2011
3:40 pm
Talking, people say a lot of bad things about me on this blog, but that one?
MUSIC!
Kamchak
September 30th, 2011
3:41 pm
Tommy Maddox
September 30th, 2011
3:38 pm
Ahh Mossburg – 12 gauge on the cheap! Blamo!
I thought your preferred weapon was a Conn Ultratone.
ByteMe
September 30th, 2011
3:41 pm
Jeez, buncha guys sitting around commenting about their phallic symbols.
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
3:44 pm
Normal — “one handgun and rifle that fired the same ammo”
What caliber would you prefer?
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
3:45 pm
ByteMe — “Jeez, buncha guys sitting around commenting about their phallic symbols.”
Shrug. I don’t get all shrieky when someone tries to pass gun control legislation.
I know the difference between my firearm and my prong.
Normal
September 30th, 2011
3:45 pm
Joe,
.44
moonbat betty
September 30th, 2011
3:48 pm
The ultimate liberal home protection piece:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2Qn_LkOhGg
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
3:50 pm
Normal
I had Dad’s old single shot 12 gauge when East Atlanta was going through the post Katrina break-ins and Atlanta Swat was in the neighborhood a lot. I talked to one of the guys and he was highly critical of a single shot gun. He had a point. What if there’s more than one or you miss? The 45 auto I just bought would definitely stop a truck but I’m not much of a shot.
My ex carried a 25 auto with a big magazine and she could hit anything. We went to the range and she emptied the clip and it looked like one hole. Small bullets but she used it like a machine gun. Just get something that you are comfortable with, but like i used to tell my neighbors, unless you are ready to kill an intruder, just find a place in the house to hide until they leave. Up here in the mountains, that’s what I plan on doing.
out of the blue
September 30th, 2011
3:51 pm
“Nov. 2012 can’t come fast enough.”
Yea….GLL just like two little tykes who discover there is no Santa Claus……Wow what a disappointment.
Are you ready GLL for that letdown, that horrorendous feeling that Obama will be around for another 4 years!
Joe COOL
September 30th, 2011
3:52 pm
LOTTA libs on here packing heat….CONs arent the only ones locked n loaded! We too love the 2nd amendment
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
3:53 pm
Kamchak
I’m a Selmer Paris man myself. Mine is an old one that was still hand made in France. It cost Mom a fortune back in 68. There are better horns but I wouldn’t sell it for the world.
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
3:55 pm
Joe COOL
I don’t pack. I grew up playing in bars so I learned to defend myself. Once it gets down to a firearm, I would rather just leave. I could kill someone, but I sure wouldn’t want to.
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
3:58 pm
out of the blue
I’m pretty sure Obama is gone. If he wins, it’s not the end of the world. My work is secure and I have options, unlike many.
out of the blue
September 30th, 2011
4:00 pm
Oh, here we go again on who has the biggest gun. Since my children are grown and gone, my piece is on the bottom of my nightstand! Can’t even remember the last time I saw it..let alone fired it!
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
4:06 pm
GLL — “she emptied the clip and it looked like one hole. Small bullets but she used it like a machine gun.”
!!!!!!!
Kitty got CLAWS!
“unless you are ready to kill an intruder, just find a place in the house to hide until they leave.”
We’ve got mean dogs, and I hope their deterrent value means never having to make that choice. Because I’m not going to risk my fur kids getting hurt while I’m hiding in a closet. I’m coming after the burglar with that Mossberg.
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Newtpewt
September 30th, 2011
4:52 pm
More emanations, not silent, but deadly, from the Gas Bag…..
FLL
September 30th, 2011
4:55 pm
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:06 pm
Armed Liberal
Little man?
Do you know me? LOL!!
Perhaps you go to the same gym and he saw you in the locker room?
Tommy Maddox
September 30th, 2011
5:14 pm
Kambo:
That would be an Olds Ultratone – not as rough as a Mossburg but great against the unsuspecting…and cheaper than a Francotte…
Strawman
September 30th, 2011
6:36 pm
And, on a different note, this from an even more illustrious figure on the left, the “reverend” Al:
http://newsbusters.org/blogs/noel-sheppard/2011/09/30/al-sharpton-put-governor-christie-jail-90-days-lose-weight#ixzz1ZS4nH3FI
I think I now really know what someone means when they say “you just can’t make this stuff up.” You own him, Jaysters (although I’m sure you’d like to hide him away in a closet somewhere).
Strawman
September 30th, 2011
6:39 pm
Doh! This does not bode well for his highness:
http://www.nationaljournal.com/magazine/census-sheds-new-light-on-toll-of-great-recession-20110929?page=1
Strawman
September 30th, 2011
6:53 pm
Ah…the UN – the favorite bastard child of FDR (whose mislaid affection for it was shrewdly exploited by Stalin at the end of WWII to the detriment of many people). The League of Nations had been a resolute failure, but FDR (in his teeming sagacity) thought to resurrect it. I now present you with yet another palpable display of the rightness of our former president’s predilection:
http://hosted.ap.org/dynamic/stories/A/AF_EQUATORIAL_GUINEA_UN_PRIZE?SITE=AP&SECTION=HOME&TEMPLATE=DEFAULT&CTIME=2011-09-29-14-25-35
Strawman
September 30th, 2011
6:58 pm
Doh! Here’s to planning for success (nice viable jobs “plan” there, POTUS):
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/184713-durbin-says-democrats-dont-currently-have-the-votes-for-obama-jobs-bill
Strawman
September 30th, 2011
7:04 pm
Oh, boy…corporations undoubtedly leave much to distrust, but the blind trust in the government on display here is incomprehensible:
http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2011/09/30/solyndra-loan-program-on-pace-to-commit-5m-for-every-permanent-job/