Comedy gold discovered in Iowa
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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poison pen
September 30th, 2011
1:31 pm
Maybe Newt will dissipate.
poison pen
September 30th, 2011
1:32 pm
See Jay, Not all moderates like me agree with all repubs.
Brosephus™ - Browning America Since 1973
September 30th, 2011
1:34 pm
That’s hilarious!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
stands for decibels
September 30th, 2011
1:36 pm
also too this
http://www.intrade.com/v4/markets/contract/?contractId=743479
BULLSEYE
September 30th, 2011
1:37 pm
Please tip your bartender.
stands for decibels
September 30th, 2011
1:39 pm
“I believe that marriage is between a man and woman,” Gingrich said. “It has been for all of recorded history
*A* man and *a* woman?
I’m pretty sure the concept of it being restricted to one man and one woman is a relatively recent thing, if you’re talking about the entire course of recorded human history.
ragnar danneskjold
September 30th, 2011
1:39 pm
Dear Jay, I thought you might wish to celebrate the al Qaeda hit this morning. Much of substance there, but you give us only pap?
Granny Godzilla
September 30th, 2011
1:41 pm
OMG!
How did that stadium so full of Newt supporters?
Wow Wowee Wow
ragnar danneskjold
September 30th, 2011
1:41 pm
Or maybe a discussion of the successes of the “green jobs” funding by the celebrated Department of Energy. Even Ms. Pelosi’s brother-in-law thinks well of the department.
Maj. Mudloaf
September 30th, 2011
1:42 pm
newt opening for kenny banya?
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
1:42 pm
Newt was against for divorce before he was against it. He just had to try it several times to make sure he didn’t actually like it.
Granny Godzilla
September 30th, 2011
1:45 pm
rags
cause that opens up the whole discussion about GOP reps and connections to fossil fuel folks and it is Friday afterall….let your heart be light for a while
Newt is funny.
Aquagirl
September 30th, 2011
1:47 pm
Duh. Of course Newt thinks marriage is a temporary aberration that will dissipate.
His mistake is thinking gays treat marriage with the same contempt he does.
Logical Dude
September 30th, 2011
1:47 pm
So, does going back to “traditional marriage” include arranged marriages like it was for centuries?
(snarky – not sure if it was actually for centuries)
jm
September 30th, 2011
1:48 pm
Newts are amazing little creatures that can regenerate most body parts.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt
Most handy for a politician….
ByteMe
September 30th, 2011
1:49 pm
‘My campaign is really a cultural campaign with a political component,’ Gingrich tells crowd of 100+ at Iowa State University.
You mean it’s not a presidential campaign with a comedy component?
ByteMe
September 30th, 2011
1:51 pm
Ok, everyone, help Newt out here. Clearly he got it wrong with his above quote. Fill in the blank for what you think is right:
‘My campaign is really a _____________ campaign with a ____________ component.’
Armed Liberal
September 30th, 2011
1:51 pm
I miss living in Maryland.
At least our political embarassments – Marvin Mandel, Spiro Agnew, etc – were just flat out crooks…
This fat ball of “has-been” just won’t slink off and live in his make-believe “alternative history” delusion.
stands for decibels
September 30th, 2011
1:51 pm
Newt is funny.
and per the pic in Jay’s link, he cuts a dashing figure.
stands for decibels
September 30th, 2011
1:52 pm
not sure if it was actually for centuries
more like millennia.
Logical Dude
September 30th, 2011
1:53 pm
My campaign is really a ___Ego Trip__________ campaign with a __Pay of my debt__________ component
ByteMe
September 30th, 2011
1:56 pm
‘My campaign is really a _____book selling___ campaign with a __cool vacation__ component.’
moonbat betty
September 30th, 2011
1:58 pm
Thank you for breaking this story.
I feel much better now.
thewindwhistler
September 30th, 2011
1:58 pm
Newt said that, if Newt said it it must be true. The Bible says it is sinful to lust for another man by a man. Women are the rightful lustieees and men are the lusters. In our time when civilization is at its zenith, why is there A PROBLEM with something that has been around since Adam and Eve. Now, that is the way it was in the begining, people change.
Kamchak
September 30th, 2011
1:59 pm
Dear Jay, I thought you might wish to celebrate the al Qaeda hit this morning. Much of substance there, but you give us only pap?
Or maybe a discussion of the successes of the “green jobs” funding by the celebrated Department of Energy. Even Ms. Pelosi’s brother-in-law thinks well of the department.
Or maybe you can go to blogspot.com, start a blog and discuss these topics if they are so near and dear to your heart.
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
1:59 pm
gay marriage is here to stay.
Thank God that unemployment, alienating our allies, race baiting, class warfare and running jobs overseas is not.
Nov. 2012 can’t come fast enough.
stands for decibels
September 30th, 2011
2:00 pm
The Christian Science Monitor asks: Chris Christie electability: Would his girth be a campaign issue?
Yes.
(THBAEOSATSQ.)
md
September 30th, 2011
2:00 pm
Newt is the designated bomb thrower……..all elections have them…..this year, he is it.
moonbat betty
September 30th, 2011
2:00 pm
Did anyone hear how many bacon and eggs Christie had this morning??
ByteMe
September 30th, 2011
2:00 pm
Thank God that unemployment, alienating our allies, race baiting, class warfare and running jobs overseas is not.
Not intended to be a factual statement.
stranger in a strange land
September 30th, 2011
2:00 pm
that’s the pot calling the kettl bla…er …rainbow
Peadawg
September 30th, 2011
2:01 pm
Must be a slow day in the news….
Aquagirl
September 30th, 2011
2:01 pm
Newts are amazing little creatures that can regenerate most body parts.
Judging from his dashing figure Newt has been generating wayyyyy too much body parts.
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:02 pm
I would also like to personally thank Mr. Keep Up the Good Fight for posting the following opinion on YouTube:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=McDyJXvcV5U
Armed Liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:03 pm
GLL is a proven liar.
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:03 pm
ByteMe
Yes it is.
ByteMe
September 30th, 2011
2:04 pm
GLL:
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:04 pm
Armed Liberal
back as yet another name. Don’t you have a job?
ByteMe
September 30th, 2011
2:05 pm
‘My campaign is really a _political_ campaign with a _searching for Calista’s replacement_ component.’
Armed Liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:05 pm
Try again little man.
Mighty Righty
September 30th, 2011
2:05 pm
Check it out. Warren Buffet is not a sharp knife.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/09/30/warren_buffett_does_not_endorse_buffett_rule.html
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:05 pm
Back to work for me and back to the bong for you guys.
ta-ta
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:06 pm
Armed Liberal
Little man?
Do you know me? LOL!!
Armed Liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:06 pm
That was easy.
ByteMe
September 30th, 2011
2:07 pm
Check it out. Warren Buffet is not a sharp knife
Ah, the wingnut meme of the moment… misquoting Buffett’s answer to a question.
Finn McCool
September 30th, 2011
2:07 pm
Why is he still in the race? Newt craves attention – that is the only reason.
Sad
ByteMe
September 30th, 2011
2:08 pm
Why is he still in the race?
To sell more books and to raise his speaking fees when he’s done.
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:08 pm
Finn McCool
He has been brilliant in the debates And the fact that you guys hate him so much proves it.
ByteMe
September 30th, 2011
2:08 pm
And the fact that you guys hate him so much proves it.
Also not intended to be a factual statement.
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:08 pm
Armed Liberal
To the non-working brain, everything is easy.
Aquagirl
September 30th, 2011
2:08 pm
back as yet another name. Don’t you have a job?
Irony: implying that someone wouldn’t be posting if they had a job—via a post on the same blog.
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:09 pm
ByteMe
Yep it is.
Granny Godzilla
September 30th, 2011
2:10 pm
Mighty Righty
PUh-Lease!
Did Warren Buffett Really Disown The Buffett Rule? Not Really (VIDEO)
Proof positive that the old phrase “Those who complain the loudest are also those most likely to swallow anything
Mighty righty, might a suggest something to wash that down with?
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:10 pm
Aquagirl
No. I come here during breaks as opposed to several that actually spend their entire lives here.
Tommy Maddox
September 30th, 2011
2:10 pm
Well Stands and Moonbat:
I would prefer an obese President to the presently and ever expanding obese government.
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:11 pm
Tommy Maddox
Great post.
Adam
September 30th, 2011
2:11 pm
I wonder if Jon Stewart will pick that one up
Mighty Righty
September 30th, 2011
2:13 pm
Gingrich on Obama’s healthcare law: ‘About 300 pages are pretty good’
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) called for an immediate repeal of President Obama’s healthcare law but would reinstate “a little over 10 percent” of it.
He made the remarks on Thursday in Iowa, when he introduced a new version of his “Contract with America.”
Gingrich, a candidate for the Republican presidential nomination, listed “Repeal ObamaCare” as the first of his 10 part contract.
“The reason you have to repeal it is it’s a 2,700-page document,” Gingrich said. “You can’t repeal part of it, because candidly you can’t trust the staffs to tell you which part you ought to repeal.”
But the former Speaker stressed that he had a “common-sense replacement” for the nation’s healthcare system, and that some of that comes from the law he wants repealed.
“Now there are about 300 pages that are pretty good, a little over 10 percent, but they should be part of the replace document,” Gingrich said.
ByteMe
September 30th, 2011
2:13 pm
Adam: Colbert will do better with it than Stewart.
Kamchak
September 30th, 2011
2:14 pm
back as yet another name.
I loves me some irony in the afternoon.
ByteMe
September 30th, 2011
2:15 pm
Mighty, thanks for that quote… shows that Gingrich has trouble with any document longer than one of his books. Maybe he just can’t focus that well. Of course, that he won’t mention WHICH 300 pages is certainly telling as well.
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
2:15 pm
Christie / Gingrich 2012 — Gravity and Gravitas
(laughing)
ByteMe
September 30th, 2011
2:15 pm
Joe: Big and Bigger.
Logical Dude
September 30th, 2011
2:16 pm
Mighty: “Now there are about 300 pages that are pretty good, a little over 10 percent, but they should be part of the replace document,” Gingrich said.
Because he wrote it? (again, I’m being snarky!)
Aquagirl
September 30th, 2011
2:18 pm
I come here during breaks as opposed to several that actually spend their entire lives here.
Sez the poster from 2:02, 2:03, 2:04, 2:05, 2:06, 2:08 (twice) 2:09, 2:10, and 2:11.
Granny Godzilla
September 30th, 2011
2:19 pm
Gravy and Gravitas
(I’m soooo sorry)
Mighty Righty
September 30th, 2011
2:21 pm
Another cause for the looney left to adopt:
After demise of ‘don’t ask,’ activists call for end to military ban on transgenders
With homosexuals now able to serve openly in the military, the gay rights movement’s next battleground is to persuade the Obama administration to end the armed forces’ ban on “transgenders,” a group that includes transsexuals and cross-dressers.
“Our position is that the military should re-examine the policy, the medical regulations, so as to allow open service for transgender people,” said Vincent Paolo Villano, spokesman for the 6,000-member Center for Transgender Equality.
The Servicemembers Legal Defense Network (SLDN), which pushed to end the military’s gay ban, is urging President Obama to sign an executive order prohibiting discrimination based on “gender identity.”
It had wanted the order to happen on Sept. 20, the official date “don’t ask, don’t tell,” as the gay ban was called, ended via repeal legislation signed by Mr. Obama.
SLDN’s goal is contained on a Web page with the headline, “Working toward transgender military service.” The page states that a decision to remove the ban must be made at the Pentagon. “Relationships between transgender organizations, medical associations, and military allies will be crucial for advancing this issue,” it says.
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
2:22 pm
GG — “Gravy and Gravitas”
It’s just so hard not to aim at that target, isn’t it?
They’re the binary star system that the rest of the GOP revolves around — because no one can escape their joint gravitational field. If Rush Limbaugh were ever in the same room with the two of them, we’d be at risk of a black hole spontaneously forming.
stands for decibels
September 30th, 2011
2:22 pm
Christie / Gingrich 2012
That’s gooood gravy!
AmVet - Read my lips. No new Texans!
September 30th, 2011
2:23 pm
The only job that the sleazy Newt is qualified for is to give advice to serial adulterers…
stands for decibels
September 30th, 2011
2:23 pm
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?
Mighty Righty
September 30th, 2011
2:25 pm
Jay, where did you get that quote? I have been searching high and low and can’t find it.
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
2:26 pm
Righty — “With homosexuals now able to serve openly in the military, the gay rights movement’s next battleground is to persuade the Obama administration to end the armed forces’ ban on “transgenders,” a group that includes transsexuals and cross-dressers.”
This will be some years in happening. Physical standards for men and women in existing job specialties will have to be reviewed, and some jobs might not be open to transgender servicepersons (for example, a male-to-female infantry soldier would likely have to find a new MOS).
I don’t see it happening soon, and even when it does, it’d end up being done on a case-by-case basis. And it sure would pose a headache for recruiters.
stands for decibels
September 30th, 2011
2:26 pm
I would prefer an obese President to the presently and ever expanding obese government.
Tommy, are you sitting down? good.
I need to tell you something that might be a little disturbing.
Assuming a growing population and a growing economy worldwide, for the rest of our lives? Government is never going to get smaller. It will be “ever expanding”, no matter what fairy tales you are told by the likes of Chris Christie.
Granny Godzilla
September 30th, 2011
2:26 pm
Transgenders are people too.
So are Republicans.
Mighty Righty
September 30th, 2011
2:26 pm
stands for decibels
September 30th, 2011
2:23 pm
Be carefull using the S word.
stands for decibels
September 30th, 2011
2:26 pm
So are Republicans.
allegedly.
stands for decibels
September 30th, 2011
2:27 pm
Be carefull using the S word.
Shrinkage?
Tommy Maddox
September 30th, 2011
2:28 pm
There’s that word “gravitas” – it was strangely absent from the lexicon during 2008. And don’t claim that it has to do with someone having their own gravity field!
stands for decibels
September 30th, 2011
2:28 pm
anyhoo, I’m not calling you a bigot, MR–just saying that it increasingly sucks to be one.
AmVet - Read my lips. No new Texans!
September 30th, 2011
2:28 pm
The freeloading welfare kings can run, but their days of hiding are over…
It’s time to ask Representative Tom Price if he’s willing to pay his fair share.
He is one of the 136 Republican millionaires currently serving in Congress. But he may pay a lower tax rate than you and most middle class Americans. And here’s the thing: He gets to vote on what tax rate he pays.
That’s why we’re going to Rep. Price’s office in Marietta at noon on Friday with a petition signed by more than half a million people demanding that millionaires and billionaires like him pay their fair share in taxes. We have one simple request: “Will you pledge to support the Buffett Rule so that millionaires—like you—pay the same tax rate as the middle class?”
Jay
September 30th, 2011
2:29 pm
Click the link above at “campaigning in Iowa”, Mighty.
Back Seater
September 30th, 2011
2:30 pm
7 out of the last ten topics from Jay are negative obervations about the GOP candidates. running a little scared are we??????????????
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:30 pm
Aquagirl
That doesn’t even make sense.
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:32 pm
stands for decibels
Transgenders. Do they sleep with the boys or the girls?
Kamchak
September 30th, 2011
2:32 pm
Jay, where did you get that quote? I have been searching high and low and can’t find it.
You’re kidding, right?
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
2:33 pm
Back Seater — “running a little scared are we?”
By your standard, Jim Wooten must be TERRIFIED of Democrats.
Armed Liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:34 pm
BS – You are aware that Jay is an opinion writer, aren’t you? No one is scared, just amused by the slow motion car wreck that is the GOP primary season…
Stephenson Billings
September 30th, 2011
2:35 pm
Buffett on the ‘Buffett rule’: My plan is to tax the ultra-rich, not the rich
By Alicia M. Cohn
“Billionaire investment guru Warren Buffett said he advocated a tax hike only on what he termed the “ultra-rich,” making a distinction between his suggestion and President Obama’s proposal to raise taxes on millionaires.
“It isn’t [my idea] to have the rich pay more taxes. It’s to have the ultra-rich pay more,” he said on Bloomberg Television Friday.
“It’s to have the ultra-rich who are paying very low tax rates pay more taxes. There’s all kinds of ultra-rich who pay normal taxes, but there is a small segment — but you can find them very easily — who pay very low taxes, including me. People who make money with money only pay very low taxes at very high levels of income,” Buffett said.
He continued: “What I’m talking about would probably apply to 50,000 people out of 310 million in the country. … It would simply mean that if you made tens of millions of dollars, and your tax rate was 16 or 17 percent, you would start paying like the person who made $100,000 or $10 million who paid normal tax rates.”
When pressed on his stance on Obama’s proposal, Buffett said: “I have not looked at all the details of the [president’s jobs] plan.”
But he also called Obama’s bill a “stimulus plan” and added that he doubted he would agree with all of it.”
Granny Godzilla
September 30th, 2011
2:35 pm
7 outa 10?
Who’d he miss?
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:35 pm
Armed Liberal
“just amused by the slow motion car wreck that is the GOP primary season…”
As opposed to the slow motion train wreck that has been our federal government since 2007
AmVet - Read my lips. No new Texans!
September 30th, 2011
2:35 pm
Scared, backseater?
What a hoot…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z3sLhnDJJn0
carlaroqs
September 30th, 2011
2:36 pm
as i breeze through the comments and highlight the ones i which to show admiration of, i find that there are too many to keep count. i am not needed here– carry on! i love it. gravy. Kamchak, September 30th, 2011,1:59 pm. cant read anything longer than one of his books. you guys do quite well with the light subs.
Joe Mama
September 30th, 2011
2:36 pm
GLL — “Transgenders. Do they sleep with the boys or the girls?”
I don’t know what they’d do in boot camp, but in advanced training and at their duty station, they’d probably be put in regular barracks housing depending on the gender they identified as.
And again, they’d be held to the same standard of behavior as any other troop as far as language, unwanted comments/touching or anything else goes.
Armed Liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:36 pm
GLL – admit you lied.
Tommy Maddox
September 30th, 2011
2:36 pm
I hope those folks who show up at Tom Price’s office take this and shove it in his face:
http://www.irs.gov/pub/irs-pdf/i1040tt.pdf
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?
Stephenson Billings
September 30th, 2011
2:39 pm
State Gets $5 Mil Bonus For Food Stamp Sign Up
“In its quest to promote taxpayer-funded entitlement programs, the Obama Administration has actually rewarded one state with a $5 million bonus for its efficiency in adding food-stamp recipients to already bulging rolls.
It’s part of the administration’s campaign to eradicate “food insecure households” by improving access and increasing participation in the government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP). Just a few months ago the federal agency that administers the program, the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), launched a multi-million-dollar initiative to recruit more food-stamp participants even though the number of recipients has skyrocketed in the last few years.”
Good little liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:40 pm
Joe Mama
Seems like boot camp would be a problem.
Am I the only one noticing that the standards in the military are quickly becoming the same standards that prisons use?
AmVet - Read my lips. No new Texans!
September 30th, 2011
2:40 pm
Yeah, like Howdy Doody was doing such a bang up job between 2000 and 2006?
The lights are on, but you’re not home
Your mind is not your own…
Whoa, you like to think that you’re immune to the stuff, oh Yeah
It’s closer to the truth to say you can’t get enough,
You know you’re gonna have to face it, you’re addicted to George
Armed Liberal
September 30th, 2011
2:40 pm
Tommy M,
What’s your point? That you don’t understand how the Tax Tables work?
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/