Limbaugh’s vile attack on a student who dared to speak up
Wow. This is true slime.
Some of you may recall Sandra Fluke, a student at Georgetown University and former head of Georgetown Law Students for Reproductive Justice, who was barred by House Republicans from offering a woman’s perspective at a male-dominated hearing on the Obama administration’s contraception rule.
Later, House Democrats set up their own hearing in which Fluke was the star witness. Her full prepared testimony can be found here, but as the AP reported it:
“Fluke, a third-year law student, said that Georgetown Law, a Jesuit institution, does not provide contraception coverage in its student health plan and that contraception can cost a woman more than $3,000 during law school. She spoke of a friend who had an ovary removed because the insurance company wouldn’t cover the prescription birth control she needed to stop the growth of cysts.”
Think what you will of the issue or of Fluke’s testimony. Nothing the young woman said or did earned her this, from Rush Limbaugh:
“What does it say about the college coed Susan [sic] Fluke, who goes before a congressional committee and essentially says that she must be paid to have sex? What does that make her? It makes her a slut, right? It makes her a prostitute. She wants to be paid to have sex.
“She’s having so much sex she can’t afford the contraception. She wants you and me and the taxpayers to pay her to have sex. What does that make us? We’re the pimps.
“The johns, that’s right. We would be the johns — no! We’re not the johns. Well — yeah, that’s right. Pimp’s not the right word.
“OK, so, she’s not a slut. She’s round-heeled. I take it back.”
I’ve shied away from accusations that this issue is being driven on the right by misogyny, because in many cases it’s not. But clearly, in many other cases that’s exactly what’s driving it. Limbaugh’s attack is a vicious attempt to frighten and intimidate women into going silent on the issue, and the message is intended not merely for Fluke but for women in general. Limbaugh is a frightened little bully attempting to keep women in their place, and in that regard is no different than the mullahs of Afghanistan who condemn non-virgin women to a stoning.
It is a despicable, and it tells you a lot about the current state of affairs in our nation that someone with a podium as grand and lucrative as Limbaugh’s can spout such bile about a young woman whom he has never met, and do so without consequence.
– Jay Bookman
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USinUK
March 1st, 2012
10:31 am
“The Republicans did not want to waste time on listening to collegiate complaints of sex and studies while it wrestled with more important economic issues.”
okay … I didn’t want to waste my time reading Donovan … but if I must … THAT particular passage made me laugh out loud.
they didn’t want to hear complaints from a college student???
they had NO PROBLEM wasting a whole day listening to complaints from a bunch of men who will NEVER buy the pill (religious conviction or not) …
and as for the “more concerned with the economy” – just HOW many jobs packages have the GOP come up with???
oh, that’s right.
NONE.
so zippit, idiot.
Recon 0311 2533
March 1st, 2012
10:32 am
oop’s deceased at 43. To young
USinUK
March 1st, 2012
10:32 am
Mad – 10:30 – and you have some control issues (not to mention, reality issues) that YOU need to deal with.
so how about you tend your own frickin garden and leave everyone else’s alone.
Doggone/GA
March 1st, 2012
10:32 am
“You need to listen to MSNBC and comment on what they say abou tRepublicans !!!!!!!! It is just as bad.”
How about some specific quotes?
JOE COOL~DoWnToWn THUG
March 1st, 2012
10:33 am
Sad that this is the last way to be remembered.
Breitbart confronting OWS calling them filthy animals and freaks.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgjW093fhLA
kayaker 71
March 1st, 2012
10:36 am
Slick Willy said today that he “embraced”, the Keystone pipeline and thought it’s installation would bring down the cost of a gallon of gas and lessen our dependence on ME oil. Even “embraced” changing the route to make Bozo’s environmentalists happy. Then that dolt of an Energy Secretary stated that it was not the policy of this government to lessen the price of a gallon of gas…… this administration would be much happier with higher gas prices as long a we “pursue” green sources of energy. That ought to make the truckers happy. Man, you can’t make this stuff up……. it just keeps rearing it’s ugly head.
Paul
March 1st, 2012
10:37 am
Doggone/GA
Talking points and stuff that sounds really good need quotes?
Steve
March 1st, 2012
10:38 am
You think Rush’s comments are vile…head on over to Yahoo and read the comments about Andrew Breitbart from the liberals…hateful and disgusting would be putting it nicely.
People on both sides of the aisle have lost their way…
Doggone/GA
March 1st, 2012
10:38 am
“Talking points and stuff that sounds really good need quotes?”
But it’s SO much fun asking for them…and then listening to the soothing sound of crickets!
Joe Hussein Mama
March 1st, 2012
10:39 am
J. Cool — “Breitbart confronting OWS calling them filthy animals and freaks. ”
Apparently, he wasn’t actually confronting them at all. I saw an interview with someone who was covering that particular protest, and they said that Breitbart was a considerable distance away from the OWS protestors. In addition, they indicated that the protestors didn’t really seem aware that Breitbart was shouting at them at all, and that the people who seem to be restraining Breitbart were just trying to get him to go back inside since he was more than a bit intoxicated.
My wife suggested taking that video clip and mashing it up with Guadalcanal Diary’s “Whiskey Talk,” but I dissuaded her.
(ir)Rational
March 1st, 2012
10:39 am
So, here we see another instance of kayaker losing an argument and then trying to jump to a new topic so he can lose there too.
They BOTH suck
March 1st, 2012
10:39 am
Kayaker
Kayaker
Keystone is coming……… just hold on
Doggone/GA
March 1st, 2012
10:39 am
“head on over to Yahoo and read the comments about Andrew Breitbart from the liberals”
Because they TOO have an audience of millions and a radio show AND millions of dollars. Yep, exactly the same.
Joe Hussein Mama
March 1st, 2012
10:40 am
K71 — “Man, you can’t make this stuff up……. it just keeps rearing it’s ugly head.”
I think it’s cool that you’re upset at the President for NOT following Bill Clinton’s advice. (laughing)
ANGRY ######## FRUSTRATED Republican Men Are Off the Deep End
March 1st, 2012
10:40 am
@Donovan
March 1st, 2012
9:02 am
…”the current state of affairs in our nation that someone with a podium” is exactly what you, Jay Bookman and Mike Luckovich, are are doing as well. It’s not just Rush Limbaugh.
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The DIFFERENCE between Bookman and Luckovich is they are not SPEWING EVIL AND HATE.
All they are doing is EXPRESSING THEIR OPINIONS.
EVIL ain’t what it USE TO BE.
Limbaugh is an ANGRY ######## FRUSTRATED man who needs some TLC from his wife.
getalife
March 1st, 2012
10:41 am
Sorry to hear about Breitbart cons.
(ir)Rational
March 1st, 2012
10:42 am
Angry – Would you want to give Limbaugh any TLC if you were his wife? Excuse me while I go throw up and gouge my eyes out.
kayaker 71
March 1st, 2012
10:44 am
Out to the shop to finish a kayak. Sort hate to abandon the only voice of reason on this otherwise liberal lovefest but duty calls. Boortz will be on until noon….. then he’s followed by three hours of Limbaugh. You liberals should tune in….. even you might just learn something.
0311/1811
March 1st, 2012
10:44 am
JAY:
Limbaugh is a frightened little bully (IN YOUR OPINION) attempting to keep women in their place, and in that regard is no different than the mullahs of Afghanistan who condemn non-virgin women to a stoning (BIG DIFFERENCE ………. LIMITED HEALTH INSURANCE VS. DEATH BY STONING).
It is a despicable (IN YOUR EYES), and it tells you a lot about the current state of affairs in our nation that someone with a podium as grand and lucrative (ARE YOU JEALOUS?) as Limbaugh’s can spout such bile (YOU HAVE A LIST OF BILE BLOGS YOURSELF) about a young woman whom he has never met, and do so without consequence (IT’S CALLED FREE SPEECH ……. REMEMBER?).
P.S. My health plan doesn’t cover anything dental. Can you do something about that ?
USinUK
March 1st, 2012
10:46 am
don’t let the door hit ya, kayaker …
or, actually … let it.
JOE COOL~DoWnToWn THUG
March 1st, 2012
10:46 am
Joe Hussein Mama
March 1st, 2012
10:39 am
He was close enough that the police knew that at any moment he could become a piece of the street art……..
He had that liquid courage.
They BOTH suck
March 1st, 2012
10:47 am
Is Limbaugh still married? I know that last time he got married it was number 3 or 4………..
All that talk about Family Values has not resonated within I guess
TaxPayer
March 1st, 2012
10:47 am
Is see Scout has showed up just in time for the handoff from kayaker. Carry Limbaugh’s water carefully. You wouldn’t want to anger him by spilling any of it.
USinUK
March 1st, 2012
10:48 am
whatever you do, Scout, don’t stand up and testify about it before Congress … that will make you fair game for all kinds of allegations about your sexuality.
Joe Hussein Mama
March 1st, 2012
10:48 am
J. Cool — “He had that liquid courage.”
Yeah, it’s never a good idea to let the liquor do your arguing for you. Whiskey’s a notoriously bad partner to have in a fistfight.
Steve
March 1st, 2012
10:49 am
Jay can’t find anything positive to say about Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid…so 90% of his blogs go after Republicans/Conservatives. Jay is polite but quite biased and negative.
ANGRY ######## FRUSTRATED Republican Men Are Off the Deep End
March 1st, 2012
10:50 am
@Steve
March 1st, 2012
10:38 am
You think Rush’s comments are vile…head on over to Yahoo and read the comments about Andrew Breitbart from the liberals…hateful and disgusting would be putting it nicely.
People on both sides of the aisle have lost their way…
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My experience shows that those who plant trouble and cultivate evil will harvest the same.
You reap what you SOW.
Breitbart confronting OWS calling them filthy animals and freaks.
Job 4:8 As I have observed, those who plow evil and those who sow trouble reap it.
(ir)Rational
March 1st, 2012
10:51 am
JHM – Whiskey yes, a whiskey bottle, only if the police find out.
Aquagirl
March 1st, 2012
10:51 am
So, here we see another instance of kayaker losing an argument and then trying to jump to a new topic so he can lose there too.
Run Kayaker, ruuuuuuuuuunnnn!
I’m sorry for Breitbart’s family and friends. But let me note these judgmental cons aren’t pulling the same card on a 43 year old self-described “husky male model” with previous heart problems who suddenly dropped dead.
JOE COOL~DoWnToWn THUG
March 1st, 2012
10:51 am
Steve
March 1st, 2012
10:49 am
blogspot.com is ready for ya playa
Paul
March 1st, 2012
10:51 am
BOTH suck
Actually, I find the Republicans’ shifting justifications and actions about Keystone rather entertaining.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YKmpHvOzlxE
Granny Godzilla - Union Thugette
March 1st, 2012
10:51 am
Limbaughs vile attack…yep
And the Media Matters statement on the death of Andy Breitbart:
“Media Matters has a long history with Andrew Breitbart. We’ve disagreed more than we’ve found common ground, but there was never any question of Andrew’s passion for and commitment to what he believed.
Our thoughts and prayers are with his family today.”
Shame on conservatives.
(ir)Rational
March 1st, 2012
10:52 am
Aquagirl – I’m not following the last part.
Doggone/GA
March 1st, 2012
10:52 am
“Jay can’t find anything positive to say about Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Reid”
Since you’re so anxious to hear postive things about them…start your own blog. blogspot.com is ready when you are
John from Cobb
March 1st, 2012
10:53 am
You can afford Georgetown law school but can’t afford contraception? I could give a rats___ about Limbaugh, but come on, if this is not an elitist position I don’t know what is. Be responsible for yourself, including choices you make, both men and women. No one, I mean no one in the beltway lives in the real world, they live in fantasy land. Another thing, if you chose to go to a religious school don’t you think you are going to run into these types of problems. Really not worth any more discussion. The healthcare law is rediculous, the status of seperation of church and state and politics is rediculous, and finally our financial health in this country is rediculous.
Joe Hussein Mama
March 1st, 2012
10:53 am
(ir)Rational — “JHM – Whiskey yes, a whiskey bottle, only if the police find out.”
I want to party with YOU, Cowboy.
Joe Hussein Mama
March 1st, 2012
10:54 am
John from Cobb — “Be responsible for yourself, including choices you make, both men and women.”
I wonder how come this argument never applies when we’re talking about school vouchers?
ANGRY ######## FRUSTRATED Republican Men Are Off the Deep End
March 1st, 2012
10:54 am
@(ir)Rational
March 1st, 2012
10:42 am
Angry – Would you want to give Limbaugh any TLC if you were his wife? Excuse me while I go throw up and gouge my eyes out.
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Rush DON’T HAVE ENOUGH MONEY to make me his wife.
I don’t go for the ANGRY ######## FRUSTRATED Republican Men.
Democrats are SEXY.
Who ever heard of a nice PIECE of ELEPHANT.
JOE COOL~DoWnToWn THUG
March 1st, 2012
10:54 am
@ age 43, you dont just DIE unless ki!!ed. The natural causes statement RIGHT after is one big red flag.
Mad Max
March 1st, 2012
10:54 am
USinUK – I hope you are really in the UK. So as long as we all agree with you we can all get along. Sorry, this is not Oz and I’m not the Strawman, I already have a brain.
Doggone/GA
March 1st, 2012
10:55 am
“You can afford Georgetown law school but can’t afford contraception?”
Lordy, lordy…are you EVER late with that one! You’re pals beat you to it a LONG, LONG time ago. You really need to try to keep up.
USinUK
March 1st, 2012
10:55 am
“Whiskey’s a notoriously bad partner to have in a fistfight.”
better than tequila, though …
tequila makes you think you are invisible!
0311/1811
March 1st, 2012
10:55 am
John from Cobb:
EXCELLENT POST !
Nothing more to see her folks …………… move along.
Paul
March 1st, 2012
10:56 am
Granny Godzilla
That vile Media Matters. Saying that they pray! That implies they actually believe in God! Those lying liberals, everyone knows they’re godless atheist commie socialists trying to deceive all right-thinking Americans!
howzzat?
0311/1811
March 1st, 2012
10:57 am
Excuse me: “here”
Paul
March 1st, 2012
10:57 am
USinUK
“tequila makes you think you are invisible!”
So…. what kind of reception did you get in the men’s locker room?
USinUK
March 1st, 2012
10:57 am
“if this is not an elitist position I don’t know what is”
then you REALLY don’t know what is.
access to and coverage/affordability of birth control affects ALL women of child-bearing age, regardless of race, income or national origin.
Doggone/GA
March 1st, 2012
10:58 am
“@ age 43, you dont just DIE unless ki!!ed”
You’ve got a LOT to learn. “What not to wear” had a woman on there who had 2 heart attacks at the age of 19. If either one hadn’t been treated in time, or had been worse than they were, she’d be dead.
Aquagirl
March 1st, 2012
11:00 am
I’m not following the last part.
Oh, this will bring on the screams….Breitbart had a double chin, enjoyed being angry, and apparently drank to excess on occasion. Yet I don’t see any cons complaining about subsidizing his self-induced health problems. Rush is too busy flapping his chins about teh slutz.
USinUK
March 1st, 2012
11:00 am
“So as long as we all agree with you we can all get along”
dearheart – I don’t care if you agree with me or not – long walks on short piers spring to mind.
what I DO care about is women being treated as individuals without being denigrated by MEN simply for standing up for what they believe is right.
YOU, evidently, have no problem with that.
which means you, sir, are PART OF the problem.
Jm
March 1st, 2012
11:00 am
I wonder what jay will say about the death of a fellow blogger
JOE COOL~DoWnToWn THUG
March 1st, 2012
11:00 am
Doggone/GA
March 1st, 2012
10:58 am
I meant that in the sense of an individual already having a condition.
Using your story, that individual obviously had SOME type of condition which lead to 2 heart attacks.
Doggone/GA
March 1st, 2012
11:03 am
“I meant that in the sense of an individual already having a condition”
Hon, in that sense EVERYONE is “being killed” by SOMETHING. Sometimes it just takes longer. Jimm Fixx dies at the age of 52 of a heart attack
Bosch
March 1st, 2012
11:03 am
“Aquagirl, What is your position on fat sluts?
I’ve already stated my thoughts on Rush Limbaugh.”
Dammit! That was my last bite of pie too, and now it’s all over my screen….dammit….dammit.
stands for decibels
March 1st, 2012
11:03 am
Boortz will be on until noon….. then he’s followed by three hours of Limbaugh. You liberals should tune in….. even you might just learn something.
The presumptuousness of this message is amazing.
For the record, I’ve certainly spent hundreds, perhaps even thousands, of hours of my life listening to and processing harsh, nasty right wing radio, going back to the pre-Limbaugh jackasses like NYC’s Bob Grant. I mean, I’ve been commuting to work by car most of the last coupla decades, and for a long time, that was about the only political analysis to be had on the broadcast spectrum.
I am more than aware of their sleazy methodology — hang on the mute button to edit anything a dissenting voice might have to counter your stupidity; have the screeners allow in only the least-prepared “liberals” so that you can mock them occasionally; prompt your fans to repeat garbage talking points; and whatever you do, BUILD A STRAW MAN AND BEAT THE CRAP OUT OF IT EVERY SINGLE SEGMENT.
And yes, there are some left-wing dopplegangers that have been known to deploy such methodology. I’ve heard my share of straw men built and knocked down on Air America, back in the day. Part of the game. I get that.
Thing is, my time spent monitoring such aural atrocities is probably one zillion times that spent by a “Kayaker” listening to anything even remotely comparable from the left—your Randi Rhodeses, your Mike Malloys, and suchlike.
So no, I won’t be tuning in today. I might be more inclined to give Neal/Rush/Sean some more of my beautiful mind, if Kayaker and his ilk demonstrated just once that they’d taken in such progressive programming, unfiltered, for more than a minute or two at a time.
(ir)Rational
March 1st, 2012
11:03 am
JHM – You would find partying with me boring. Partying with my 19/20 year old self, would be fun though.
Angry – “Nice piece of elephant” that is PRICELESS.
Mad Max
March 1st, 2012
11:05 am
USinUK – if you read my 1st post, you would see that I do not support Limbaugh but you are the reason he remains popular because you are a caricature of the “enlightened” woman he referas to. I have raised two beautiful, healthy women who are not narrow minded and do not have the anger issues you obviously have. I never denigrated you or your position but you revert to name calling, insults and the like with anyone who dares disagree with your position. I feel sorry for you.
Steve
March 1st, 2012
11:05 am
Joe Cool – “blogspot.com is ready for ya playa”…
What are you 12 years old with your “playa” lingo? Get an education and be a productive member of society.
USinUK
March 1st, 2012
11:06 am
Bosch – your new screencleaner
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vGxe3FrCnJM
Doggone/GA
March 1st, 2012
11:06 am
BTW JoeCool – “natural causes” means he wasn’t assassinated. He just died with no help from anyone else.
yuzeyurbrane
March 1st, 2012
11:06 am
So what? Isn’t vile the definition of Limbaugh?
Joe Hussein Mama
March 1st, 2012
11:07 am
USinUK — “better than tequila, though … tequila makes you think you are invisible!”
For sheer crazy-inducing behavior, I have to give soju the nod. It’s a Korean spirit made from sweet potatoes, IIRC (in Japan, it’s called shochu and you can probably get it in American sushi bars), and it brings the CA RAY ZAY.
This fellow calls soju “the devil in a push-up bra:”
http://guymanningham.com/2012/02/soju-korea/
A popular T-shirt when I was in Korea features a four-line slogan:
I’m tall (with a picture of one bottle of soju)
I’m rich (picture of two bottles)
I’m good-looking (three bottles)
I’M INVISIBLE (four bottles)
Libertarian
March 1st, 2012
11:07 am
I have never once listened to Rush Limbaugh and now I know why.
getalife
March 1st, 2012
11:08 am
You will see rush help the dems with stupid comments like this for this election.
I think he really is a lib .
JOE COOL~DoWnToWn THUG
March 1st, 2012
11:08 am
Rush is still in pain about not being able to be apart of the Rams ownership.
Man, i can only imagine what that did to his ego…..
Bosch
March 1st, 2012
11:09 am
USinUK,
Tongue art! That’s cute…..
Doggone/GA
March 1st, 2012
11:09 am
“I’M INVISIBLE (four bottles)”
Is that what you call it? I always knew it as being “under the table”
JOE COOL~DoWnToWn THUG
March 1st, 2012
11:10 am
Doggone/GA
March 1st, 2012
11:06 am
I know dear
Joe Hussein Mama
March 1st, 2012
11:10 am
(ir)Rational — “JHM – You would find partying with me boring. Partying with my 19/20 year old self, would be fun though.”
Oh, I’m long past partying myself. I’m all disabled and slow and can’t really even drink any more due to health issues. But I used to get into scrapes and adventures and put the drink away in my youth, oh yes.
Doggone/GA
March 1st, 2012
11:12 am
“I know dear”
When I was a teenager I heard that if a death certificate says “heart failure” as the cause of death, it means they don’t really know what killed the person. Because EVERYONE dies of heart failure.
USinUK
March 1st, 2012
11:13 am
Mad Max – I never said you DID support Limbaugh – nor did I say that YOU belittle/denigrate women (there was other traffic to that effect going on at the time)
what you said was “she should change universities” and take some “personal responsibility”
to which I replied
1) you say “oh, she should just change schools / jobs / hometowns” as if that’s an EASY thing to do – particularly if you’re a grad student. This has NOTHING to do with you as a taxpayer – this concerns HER, HER EMPLOYER and THE INSURANCE COMPANY. Your money is not involved.
2) You are the VERY SAME A-HOLES who immediately blame the woman for getting pregnant “well, she should have been on birth control … she should have been on the pill … she should have taken personal responsibility” – then you’re the first ones who call women sluts for trying to do that very thing.
dickheads. the lot of you.
tell me – which point (1 or 2) doesn’t apply here?
(ir)Rational
March 1st, 2012
11:13 am
JHM – Even so, you would probably find partying with me boring. Have you ever seen Big Bang Theory? Where they’re basically making fun of nerds for having LAN parties? Yeah, that’s how I party now.
stands for decibels
March 1st, 2012
11:13 am
Ladies and gents, I give you…
I do not support Limbaugh but you are the reason he remains popular
the “personal responsibility” brigade!
Curtis Rivers
March 1st, 2012
11:13 am
Thank you for this article, Jay. Limbaugh is frightening in that there are people who are so easily manipulated by their own anger and hatred that they actually listen to and believe him. All he does is laugh all the way to the bank.
USinUK
March 1st, 2012
11:14 am
“It’s a Korean spirit made from sweet potatoes”
oof.
thanksgiving dinners would never be the same.
Joe Hussein Mama
March 1st, 2012
11:15 am
Doggone — “Is that what you call it? I always knew it as being “under the table”
Read the link about The Soju Experience. I got pretty tanked in Korea, but never passed out. But I *did* pass by some guys in that covered-with-leaves-in-the-gutter state on the way back to camp. We helped them up and got them through the gate, then they were on their own to make it back to their own unit. I think that’s guy’s account and description of the Soju Experience is pretty accurate.
Joe Hussein Mama
March 1st, 2012
11:16 am
(ir)Rational — “Yeah, that’s how I party now.”
One wonders how you met your wife.
(ir)Rational
March 1st, 2012
11:17 am
JHM – My father made the mistake about writing his dad about one of those “passed out in the ditch covered with leaves” experiences when he was in college. My grandmother got a hold of that letter, and suddenly my dad was back living at home and never finished college.
Doggone/GA
March 1st, 2012
11:18 am
” I think that’s guy’s account and description of the Soju Experience is pretty accurate”
Yeah, but he’s not me. I could get through all 4 stages before the bottom of the first bottle. I’m a VERY cheap drunk!
Mad Max
March 1st, 2012
11:18 am
USinUK – # 2 definitely and it is safe to say that my money and my freedoms are involved here. Whenever we legislate something we legislate away a freedom and whereever there is government regulation, there are costs to us, the taxpayers of this country as well as ratepayers to insurance companies to cover things I do not want to buy. So that is my point.
(ir)Rational
March 1st, 2012
11:18 am
JHM – If I told you, I would lose whatever street cred I have left, so let’s just say high school.
Ol' Timer
March 1st, 2012
11:19 am
Newt and Rush have a couple of things in common: Both are ugly, old, fat white men who have made a career out of bullying people who are not in a position to defend themselves and both could benefit immensely from a good butt-kicking!
Normal
March 1st, 2012
11:21 am
Joe Hussein Mama
March 1st, 2012
11:10 am
I know what you mean. I’m 65, and my knees are going faster than I’d like, but life as a young Sailor is what did it to me. I still remember a club named Pauline’s in Olongapo City, P.I. I think I probably still owe them money for damages caused. Even lost a couple of rockers, time or two. Misspent youth…but well played. Now I don’t drink either. Admitted a year ago I was an alcoholic, but Damn, I had fun back then…
Doggone/GA
March 1st, 2012
11:21 am
“both could benefit immensely from a good butt-kicking!”
And the kicker would feel better too!
(ir)Rational
March 1st, 2012
11:21 am
Max – Unless you preform all medical procedures on yourself, you already pay for things you apparently don’t want to pay for. If you have insurance, your money goes to cover things you apparently don’t agree with. If you go to a hospital, your fees there go to pay for those that didn’t pay, and therefore cover things you apparently don’t agree with. Therefore, your outrage seems manufactured. Maybe you can just admit you don’t think women should have the freedom to have sex out of wedlock, or be pain free (or something close to it) from ovarian cysts.
JohnnyReb
March 1st, 2012
11:22 am
Bosch – what you doing eating pie before lunch? Unless of course, it was savory. Don’t you know the food police will be after you?
USinUK
March 1st, 2012
11:22 am
“that my money and my freedoms are involved here”
no.
they’re not.
this doesn’t involve you in the least.
it is a PRIVATE institution – not taxpayer funded – and this has to do with the insurance provided by them.
nothing WHAT SO FLAMING EVER to do with you
(ir)Rational
March 1st, 2012
11:23 am
Doggone – One suspects that if we auctioned off tickets to preform that butt kicking, we could put a large dent in the national debt.
carlosgvv
March 1st, 2012
11:23 am
In the past I was seriously worried that crazed Muslims would swoop down on us and force Sharia law upon our land. But, now that I clearly see just how crazed our far-right Christians are and how fast their numbers are growing I am relieved. The near future will pit their crazed Muslins against our crazed Christians. Of course, God is on our side and we will all wind up in heaven with ring-side seats to watch those Muslims being tortured in hell. YeeeeHawwww –Praise the Lord and pour on more torture!!!!
USinUK
March 1st, 2012
11:23 am
“what you doing eating pie before lunch?”
johnny reb – you mean it’s not one of the 5/day?
Jefferson
March 1st, 2012
11:24 am
Rush like many in the GOP will talk a good game, it just won’t work in reality and if nobody’s looking they will do not what they say.
(ir)Rational
March 1st, 2012
11:24 am
carlos – Ever wonder how many people miss the part where Muslims and Christians worship the same god, they just call him by different names?
Doggone/GA
March 1st, 2012
11:25 am
“we could put a large dent in the national debt”
Amen to that!
JohnnyReb
March 1st, 2012
11:25 am
There’s going to be a big surprise in November for some. I keep telling you the recent USA Today poll where the majority of voters in swing states are against Obamacare is THE sign. But, it does not fit your idea/wishes of how things go, so you ignore the importance.
Paul
March 1st, 2012
11:25 am
(ir)Rational
“so let’s just say high school.”
Shucks. I was gonna guess “under the table?”
Fetus on a stick
March 1st, 2012
11:29 am
Rush has 20 million listeners and you have 20 yes-men on this here blog… Like it or not he’s way more effective than you are.
(ir)Rational
March 1st, 2012
11:29 am
Paul – Nah, I was 16. I had tried some liquor at some point around then, but it was white lightnin (yeah, I grew up in the country) and wasn’t so crazy about it yet. I hadn’t yet discovered the joys of fermented potato juice. MMMMM…
Mad Max
March 1st, 2012
11:29 am
irational – I understand insurance but I believe the market should set the rules, so i am free to pick and choose what coverage i want to obtain. It has nothing to do with women’s rights. They are free to do what they want. I don’;t believe the government should be dictating so much of our life. And I know they already do but do we really need them deciding what should be in insurance policies (we have brains and can read what we are buying). Why is that a federal issue?
Paul
March 1st, 2012
11:30 am
Stick
That’s the same argument the Romans used with the Christians.
Joe Hussein Mama
March 1st, 2012
11:31 am
Normal — “I still remember a club named Pauline’s in Olongapo City, P.I.”
Oh, man. I was Army, but I had some friends in the Navy who said OC was like Adult Disneyland.