U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin, Democrat of West Virginia, generally shies from anything that smacks of liberalism. Last fall, for example, he declined to say publicly that he would vote for Barack Obama. He also campaigned in 2010 by broadcasting a commercial in which he literally shot up an environmental bill, and has earned an A rating from the National Rifle Association for his past opposition to gun-control efforts.
So this means something:
For those unable to view videos, Manchin embraces the idea of renewing a ban on the sale of assault weapons and banning large-capacity magazines, among other steps.
“We’ve never been in these waters before. We’ve had horrific crimes throughout our country but never have we seen so many our our babies out in harms way and their life taken from them, and the grief. I mean, that’s changed me, and has changed most Americans I would think. And with that, let’s look at ways that we can bring a common-sense reasonability to this discussion and bring all the adults to the table.”
Among those whom Manchin wants to invite to the discussion are leaders of the National Rifle Association. “These are good people and they need to be at the table,” Manchin says.
NRA involvement could indeed by useful in forging a compromise. But nothing in its modern history or rhetoric suggests that it was any interest in playing such a role.
– Jay Bookman
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The other half of your brain.
December 17th, 2012
5:23 pm
Doggone/GA
December 17th, 2012
5:18 pm
“But it doesn’t change the fact that the baby in the womb is a person”
No it isn’t. It is a symbiote, and does not become a “person” until it takes it’s first breath. Once that happens, for good or ill, it is irrrevocably separated from the woman that bore it and there is no going back.
I’m not sure but weren’t some people tried of double murders when the wife was killed while having a baby in her womb?
Aquagirl
December 17th, 2012
5:23 pm
no it is the body’s removal of something that has died, so that gangrene doesn’t set in.
I love it when our menz pontificate on how a woman’s body works. Pure comedy gold.
If you don’t know what you’re talking about the smartest thing to do is place your cake hole in the shut position.
But then we wouldn’t have a public spectacle to laugh at, would we? Wait, forget I said anything, carry on. We need some comedy relief.
Doggone/GA
December 17th, 2012
5:24 pm
“Doggone – no it is the body’s removal of something that has died, so that gangrene doesn’t set in”
You need to learn more about a miscarriage. The foetus is not always dead beforehand. My Mother’s miscarried foetus was not. It died shortly after being expelled by her body.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 17th, 2012
5:25 pm
C. Conservative — “so that GOD could be thrown out of schools and public buildings???”
Your god has no rights under the Constitution. Read it nice and closely. Let it sink in.
JamVet
December 17th, 2012
5:26 pm
Around 9 of 10 liberals on this blog want guns banned period…
Did RB really write something that idiotic?
Wow, even for his low level of intellectual dishonesty, that is a doozy…
They BOTH suck
December 17th, 2012
5:26 pm
JHM
You beat me to it. RB is certainly one of this blogs hyperbole and rhetoric masters
Nunna Yobinnes
December 17th, 2012
5:26 pm
Joe…sorry, should I have said “induced abortion” versus “spontaneous abortion”?
Welcome to the Occupation
December 17th, 2012
5:27 pm
“Lets just face the facts. Around 9 of 10 liberals on this blog want guns banned period but they aren’t willing to say “reapeal the 2nd” outright ”
Repeal the 2nd Amendment outright. Crush it without mercy.
There, now you heard it.
Then again, I’m not a liberal so guess it doesn’t disprove your point.
JamVet
December 17th, 2012
5:27 pm
Omit the word “low” in my last. Otherwise I’m inferring RB is intellectually honest!
Which would make me intellectually dishonest!
LOL at me…
Matti
December 17th, 2012
5:27 pm
RB from G: “Lets just face the facts. Around 9 of 10 liberals on this blog want guns banned period…” blah blah blah “….is willing to do the “assault” weapon ban.”
The word “fact” apparently has multiple definitions for Mr. RB, one of which is: any random assumptive poopage RB pulls out of his behind.
They BOTH suck
December 17th, 2012
5:27 pm
“Did RB really write something that idiotic?”
Did you really ask that question? Of course he did.
Redneck Convert (R--and proud of it)
December 17th, 2012
5:27 pm
Well, I’m tired of all the jawing about this shooting. We all know that if there’s 300 million guns in the hands of private citizens there’s no way to get them back. And we all know that any bill to outlaw assault rifles now would be deader than 4 o’clock in the morning if it ever reached the House or Senate floor. Outlawing those guns would be outlawing hooch. We saw how good that Prohibition did.
So I’m going to set back tonight and listen to the music of one of the finest singers, songwriters, and poets that God ever give breath. Sometimes it just don’t seem fair that one person could get that much music talent while most of us can’t even whistle in tune. Even Roy Orbison paid tribute to him. So when you’re sick of the fussing just set back and listen to a guy that can kill you softly with his song. Matter of fact, he’s the one they wrote the song about:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TTqi7iEZEWA
JohnnyReb
December 17th, 2012
5:28 pm
No JamVet, it was not a “squeaker, but the propaganda from the Left to falsely enhance the win is laughable to the educated. Obama won the electoral college by a wide margin, but that’s the end of it. To read anything other than status-quo into the election results is false.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 17th, 2012
5:28 pm
N. Yobinnes — “Joe…sorry, should I have said “induced abortion” versus “spontaneous abortion”?
You seem to be placing a lot of emphasis on timing, don’t you? IOW, that the fetus must be dead prior to expulsion or removal?
FWIW, that’s not always the case, whether we’re talking about abortions or miscarriages.
getalife
December 17th, 2012
5:28 pm
The facts so far:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/huff-wires/20121217/us-connecticut-school-shooting-what-we-know/?utm_hp_ref=homepage&ir=homepage
Nunna Yobinnes
December 17th, 2012
5:29 pm
Aquagirl – Sorry, I didn’t realize that spontaneous abortions were caused by the will of the mother. That being the case, I wonder why so many women are said about it.
getalife
December 17th, 2012
5:30 pm
reb,
He crushed you twice.
Get past it.
Christian Conservative
December 17th, 2012
5:30 pm
JamVet:
Yet I’m the one who scolds and calls people names. I realize you’re lost but you could always be found.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 17th, 2012
5:30 pm
J. Reb — “Obama won the electoral college by a wide margin, but that’s the end of it. To read anything other than status-quo into the election results is false.”
As I’ve told you several times, the GOP House candidates collectively got their butts handed to them. On a nationwide basis, well over a million more votes were cast for Democratic House candidates than for GOP ones.
The only thing that kept the House in your hands is gerrymandering, J-Reb.
So watch your six, because we’re coming for more in 2014.
Nunna Yobinnes
December 17th, 2012
5:30 pm
“sad” not “said”
Doggone/GA
December 17th, 2012
5:31 pm
“I’m not sure but weren’t some people tried of double murders when the wife was killed while having a baby in her womb?”
Yes. And we’ve discusssed that before. It is, in essence, the laws recognition that in killing both the woman and her foetus the killer has taken from the family *2* “things” that the family is presumed to value. It is not legal recognition of the personhood of the foetus.
Ron Bockman
December 17th, 2012
5:32 pm
All mass killers are crazy, institutionalize crazy people like we used to.
Christian Conservative
December 17th, 2012
5:33 pm
Welcome to the Occupation
I totally agree…. Lets repeal the 2nd amendment..
Doggone/GA
December 17th, 2012
5:33 pm
“Sorry, I didn’t realize that spontaneous abortions were caused by the will of the mother.”
They are caused by the “will” of her body.
td
December 17th, 2012
5:33 pm
indigo
December 17th, 2012
4:36 pm
Christian Conservative – 4:29 “when it’s ok to kill a baby simply for inconvience”
Is that why God allows thousands of spontaneous abortions to happen every day? Do pregnant women somehow “inconvience” him?
Total BS and avoiding the subject. Nature does not kill. Humans kill and humans, or should I say women, kill 2000 babies per day.
JohnnyReb
December 17th, 2012
5:34 pm
getalife – get past it. Never. Right now I hate the Republican Party. How they allowed Obama to win with so much against him will become a historical study of how not to run an election. You guys believe it was “him” or your idiology. That is laughable.
Nunna Yobinnes
December 17th, 2012
5:34 pm
How can it be murder if it isn’t a person? Wouldn’t it be theft?
Doggone/GA
December 17th, 2012
5:34 pm
“Nature does not kill”
All those dead animals would be astonished to hear that.
Paul
December 17th, 2012
5:34 pm
Just read thru two pages of comments and am left wondering… why is it when I’m gone for a few days and return, there always seems to be a slew of new lala land right wing bloggers with new monikers, but their arguments are every bit as vapid, disjointed, illogical and narrow-minded as the other lala land right wingers who dropped off the blog the same few days? It is a mystery,for sure.
Christian Conservative
December 17th, 2012
5:35 pm
td:
s that why God allows thousands of spontaneous abortions to happen every day? Do pregnant women somehow “inconvience” him?
GOD didn’t make abortion legal….. Libs did… Have you ever heard of free will.
Crazy Peeps
December 17th, 2012
5:36 pm
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2248892/Connecticut-shooting-Westboro-Baptist-Church-plans-praise-gathering-outside-Sandy-Hook-Elementary-school.html
boggles the mind
Doggone/GA
December 17th, 2012
5:36 pm
“How can it be murder if it isn’t a person”
Never heard of an idea being “murdered” I take it.
Nunna Yobinnes
December 17th, 2012
5:36 pm
“They are caused by the “will” of her body”
So technically, induced abortions are unnecessary because if the mothers body wills it, the baby would be miscarried.
JamVet
December 17th, 2012
5:37 pm
Reb, riiiiight.
It’s the GOP’s methodology and not their message that has them swirling down the toilet…
…women kill 2000 babies per day.
And I would kill all 2000 of them.
Matti
December 17th, 2012
5:37 pm
Nature does not kill.
What time does the short bus arrive to take this one back to his mommy? Bless his little heart.
JohnnyReb
December 17th, 2012
5:37 pm
Joe Mama – I figure by 2014 Obam will have screwed the country up so bad a Dem won’t be electable to city council.
A good example can now be seen in Detroit where the council woman was caught on tape asking when Obama will send the bacon. People will tire of that quickly when there is no money and the only solution from the Left is more taxes.
They BOTH suck
December 17th, 2012
5:37 pm
td
Since you are on the blog, like you did this past weekend have you told any non believers today that you hope you will be in heaven when they die so you can see their face when they meet God?
That was so compassionate and Christ like to say that and act that way. Bet your God was smiling down from on high at that very moment. You are a tremendous witness to say the least. Keep up the great work
barking frog
December 17th, 2012
5:38 pm
Paul 5:34
The section of the blog that requires a name can be easily altered.
JohnnyReb
December 17th, 2012
5:38 pm
JamVet – the only conncetion between gun control and abortion is, the Left is wrong on both.
Doggone/GA
December 17th, 2012
5:39 pm
“So technically, induced abortions are unnecessary because if the mothers body wills it, the baby would be miscarried”
Nope.
getalife
December 17th, 2012
5:39 pm
reb,
You are clinging to a failed ideology.
josef
December 17th, 2012
5:40 pm
CC
G-d has been thrown out of school? Hardly. One of the after school activities at mine is a Bible study group…
Aquagirl
December 17th, 2012
5:40 pm
Aquagirl – Sorry, I didn’t realize that spontaneous abortions were caused by the will of the mother.
Nice deflecterbation—this has nothing to do with your spectacularly ignorant comment, which revealed you don’t know jack about abortions–and that it certainly doesn’t prevent you from blowing hot air. Again, you’re free to continue sticking your foot in your open mouth by pontificating and looking dumb, there’s no need to apologize to me. Why would I be offended by your faceplant?
Frankly I enjoy watching conservatives alienate everyone but white guys who think they’re in charge. You’re your own worst enemy. Let’s see if we can get 70% of women voting Democrat. Watching JohnnyReb dance will provide even more entertainment.
GT
December 17th, 2012
5:40 pm
Nope JohnnyRed we believe it was the impotence of the Republican Party to understand basic human decency that won the election for O. You attract zero talent to run for office because no one can defend what you claim to believe. Hate is a natural response for you and your type, and as long as you have it your will wake up everyday like it were ground hog day, still a Republican.
Nunna Yobinnes
December 17th, 2012
5:40 pm
Doggone, stick to one argument or the other.
Recon 0311 2533
December 17th, 2012
5:40 pm
I don’t see how an assault weapon ban on handguns, long guns, high capacity magazines can be enforced or implemented without creating black market enterprises that would do far less in keeping these weapons and accessories out of the hands of criminals and the criminally insane. Sounds more like Washington phony feel good legislation that won’t objectively address the need to better protect our citizens.
Real Scootter
December 17th, 2012
5:41 pm
Well,it’s been fun watching y’all feed the trolls.I’m off to play poker,later gators!
indigo
December 17th, 2012
5:41 pm
Pizzaman – 4:57
Absolutely correct. Unfortunately, the NRA currently and, for the foreseeable future, has the power to see that never happens.
Doggone/GA
December 17th, 2012
5:42 pm
“Doggone, stick to one argument or the other”
There’s no inconsistency in recognizing multiple ways for an abortion to happen.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 17th, 2012
5:42 pm
You’re your own worst enemy.
Word.
Welcome to the Occupation
December 17th, 2012
5:42 pm
Redneck convert: “We all know that if there’s 300 million guns in the hands of private citizens there’s no way to get them back”
And why the hell not?
The Australians had a gun buyback program that was apparently quite successful, drastically reducing the number of guns in that country. Granted there are many more guns in this country currently, but that doesn’t mean that a buyback program couldn’t be successful. Perhaps assess a 2-3% tax on each gun purchase (assuming we haven’t killed the abominable Second Amerndment outright, as I would favor) to help fund the buybacks.
You people are way too politically cautious. You shoot way too low.
JohnnyReb
December 17th, 2012
5:44 pm
I’ve shopped on line today checking prices on tactical rifles. Many are sold out. Seems I’m not the only one who will buy before the spinless Republican Senators yield once again to the Progressives and ban them.
Matti
December 17th, 2012
5:45 pm
josef,
Also, the kids in FCA clubs in my local area schools pray IN the school building, before and after school, and openly recruit members at orientation events. I have no problem with them having bible study, talking about Jesus, or praying to the Almighty on school grounds.
My problem is with lying scuzzbuckets of slippery bile like Mike Huckabee who lie and say God isn’t allowed in public schools. Said scuzzbuckets are particularly fetid when they — as the Rev Huck did — use tragedies as an excuse to spread their filthy lies.
pogo
December 17th, 2012
5:45 pm
Did the Fort Hood mass killer use a Bushmaster? Oh, that’s right, we don’t talk about him, do we? It isn’t the gun that kills, it is the psychopath with an agenda pulling the trigger that does the killing and if they couldn’t find a gun, they would use something else. Pertaining to guns, the problem with liberals is that they avoid placing the blame on the individuals and the society that created them because it is so easy to try and place the blame on an inanimate object which can do nothing unless it is picked up and used. Ironically, in certain circumstances, the liberals also are quick to blame an individuals “background” for excusing their abhorrant behaviour, depending upon who or what race or religion the killer is. Mass killers (or serial killers) are predominately people with high IQ’s and if they couldn’t express their rage with a gun, they would use something else.
And, they always choose a place for carrying out their carnage in which they know they will not encounter any defensive measures. This kid knew there wouldn’t be any resistance at the school in the form of “return fire”. The Colorado shooter knew he wouldn’t encounter any resistance at the theater he chose because he specifically picked one which banned legally concealed weapons by its patrons. There were four others there showing the same movie which did allow legal concealment. These people know what they are doing and they find a way to kill.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 17th, 2012
5:45 pm
J. Reb — “Joe Mama – I figure by 2014 Obam will have screwed the country up so bad a Dem won’t be electable to city council.”
Well, you just run with that and see how it works, k? Considering he’s already been President forr four years, I’d say you’re throwing good money after bad, but that’s your lookout, pal.
“A good example can now be seen in Detroit where the council woman was caught on tape asking when Obama will send the bacon. People will tire of that quickly when there is no money and the only solution from the Left is more taxes.”
Yawn. You got anything new today, or just more of the same olf bitter swill you’ve been dispensing since Election Day?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 17th, 2012
5:45 pm
And why the hell not?
A reactionary House will not appropriate the funds necessary in good economic times, much less bad times.
JohnnyReb
December 17th, 2012
5:46 pm
Only a bleeding heart would think a patriot would sell his freedom for gun buyback dollars.
indigo
December 17th, 2012
5:47 pm
td – 5:33
I usually can responds to comments directed at me.
In this case, however, your ignorance is so overwhelming that I’m forced to wonder if you ever made it past the second grade.
You have so much to learn.
Joe Hussein Mama
December 17th, 2012
5:47 pm
Folks, I’m out. Everyone have a pleasant evening and PLEASE drive safely.
Christian Conservative
December 17th, 2012
5:47 pm
josef:
G-d has been thrown out of school? Hardly. One of the after school activities at mine is a Bible study group…
Don’t tell the dem party/aclu…. It will certainly be no longer….
Nunna Yobinnes
December 17th, 2012
5:47 pm
Hey, the supreme court in their infinite wisdom has spoken. Who am I to oppose the “law of the land”? I don’t lie awake at night thinking about ending abortion. However, I think those who elect abortion because they or their partner were too lazy to take certain precautions will have to answer to a higher power at the end.
Erwin's cat
December 17th, 2012
5:47 pm
I blame video games for all the spontaneous abortions
JohnnyReb
December 17th, 2012
5:48 pm
Joe Mama – if I could get all those people who did not vote in November to read the trash you guys post here, Dems would never win another election. You would scare the vote out of them.
Doggone/GA
December 17th, 2012
5:49 pm
“However, I think those who elect abortion because they or their partner were too lazy to take certain precautions will have to answer to a higher power at the end”
Judge not, lest ye be judged.
JamVet
December 17th, 2012
5:49 pm
Reb at 5;38.
Because you say so?
That is very convincing. (In the third grade, maybe.)
Cheesy Grits is gone but not forgotten
December 17th, 2012
5:49 pm
JohnnyReb is the sort of dumb southern Republican hick that really should be ignored.
That kind is slowing dying off anyway. And their backwards bigoted ways with them
Ill give you 5 bucks he doesn’t have a high school diploma.
indigo
December 17th, 2012
5:50 pm
Welcome – 5:42 “and why the hell not”
Are you serious? Haven’t you read all the comments posted here the last three days?
Most of the gun nuts here would die and go to hell before giving up their precious phallic equalizers.
Nunna Yobinnes
December 17th, 2012
5:50 pm
I didn’t judge. I said will have to answer to a higher power. As I am not said higher power, I did not judge.
josef
December 17th, 2012
5:50 pm
MATTI
Word.
As you know, I’m a person of faith, and believe you me, G-d was with me all day long at that schoolhouse today…
getalife
December 17th, 2012
5:51 pm
Senator Inouye passed away.
JohnnyReb
December 17th, 2012
5:51 pm
JamVet – and that’s not what you say?
Doggone/GA
December 17th, 2012
5:51 pm
“You would scare the vote out of them”
Is JohnnyReb admitting to being a scaredy cat?
GT
December 17th, 2012
5:51 pm
JohnnyRed the very word progressive sound better than conservative don’t you think. It take courage to be a progressive, the Starship Enterprise was progressive going where no man had ever gone. They even had a progressive crew of mixed personalities. Conservatives rather remind me of the Bounty and Captain Bly, spineless Senators climbing the sails for pledges they made years ago or thrown to the sharks.
Christian Conservative
December 17th, 2012
5:51 pm
I say buck up libs… Lets repeal the 2nd amendment!!!!! It would be about as bad as taking away all food stamps and free cell phones…..
JohnnyReb
December 17th, 2012
5:52 pm
Chessy Grits – I can out slander you, so don’t send us there. Jay will ban both of us.
Cheesy Grits is gone but not forgotten
December 17th, 2012
5:52 pm
Joe Mama – if I could get all those people who did not vote in November to read the trash you guys post here, Dems would never win another election. You would scare the vote out of them.
The country now leans to the left. Get over it.
When you live in the poor rural South inside that little bubble you probably dont believe it.
But its true.
Just look at the young vote. Under 30 overwhelming are Democrats.
Eventually the Republican party will have to move way to the left to survive.
In fact they are in the process of doing just that.
Cheesy Grits is gone but not forgotten
December 17th, 2012
5:53 pm
Chessy Grits – I can out slander you, so don’t send us there. Jay will ban both of us.
Meh. Your not worth my time.
indigo
December 17th, 2012
5:53 pm
Erwin’s cat – 5:47
Really? I thought it was all those weepy chick flicks that were to blame.
Oh wait!!! I know!!!!! Obama and those evil libs have hached yet another devil’s plot against all those non-Socialist women.
Nunna Yobinnes
December 17th, 2012
5:53 pm
Ah, reality determined by Star Trek. What the ….?
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 17th, 2012
5:53 pm
I blame video games for all the spontaneous abortions
Toxoplasmosis
Erwin's cat
December 17th, 2012
5:53 pm
Ill give you 5 bucks he doesn’t have a high school diploma.
he’d right better it he dig
Doggone/GA
December 17th, 2012
5:53 pm
“I didn’t judge”
“I think those who elect abortion because they or their partner were too lazy to take certain precautions ”
That most certainly IS judging, because you have no earthly way of knowing what any woman’s reason for choosing an abortion is, unless she tells you. And then you would have to take it on faith that she isn’t lying about it.
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 17th, 2012
5:53 pm
RIP Sen. Daniel Inouye
josef
December 17th, 2012
5:54 pm
CC
Interesting you should bring up the Dems and the ACLU…one of the sponsoring parents is both…and a, gasp, BAPTIST!
Cheesy Grits is gone but not forgotten
December 17th, 2012
5:54 pm
It would be about as bad as taking away all food stamps and free cell phones…..
That go mostly to southern white Christians.
Southern states are the biggest takers of all.
getalife
December 17th, 2012
5:54 pm
I little advice for you cons.
Calm down and work on your credibility.
Move a little left towards the majority, show some respect and humility and one day other Americans might listen to you.
Good luck with that.
keith
December 17th, 2012
5:55 pm
Might be a good time to buy 10 AR15s. If they are restricted they will skyrocket. Nothing like good profit thanks to crybaby gunbanners.
Nunna Yobinnes
December 17th, 2012
5:55 pm
Did I say who was lazy? God knows. I don’t. I know you guys enjoy twisting people’s words, but really.
indigo
December 17th, 2012
5:56 pm
josef – “God was with me all day long”
Unfortunately, he was conspicously absent when those teachers and 20 little kids were being murdered.
td
December 17th, 2012
5:58 pm
indigo
December 17th, 2012
5:47 pm
td – 5:33
I usually can responds to comments directed at me.
In this case, however, your ignorance is so overwhelming that I’m forced to wonder if you ever made it past the second grade.
You have so much to learn.
You along with most progressives comments on this issue has no standing in any type of moral sense and is really hypocritical when you defend the killing of 2000 babies a day in one breath and want to remove all guns in the name of protecting less the 100 children per year.
Erwin's cat
December 17th, 2012
5:58 pm
Toxoplasmosis
or Inoculation lymphoreticulosis
Nunna Yobinnes
December 17th, 2012
5:58 pm
indigo – in your narrow way of thinking.
getalife
December 17th, 2012
5:59 pm
“God has called them all home” President Obama.
You cons might want to read his spiritual speech.
GT
December 17th, 2012
5:59 pm
Didn’t Reagan bring Star Trek into the conversation as he was setting up the out of world antiballistic systems? Now that very system is paying dividends. God pray that doesn’t end up in some cheap pawn shop in the future, now that would not be what we call progressive would it.
keith
December 17th, 2012
6:00 pm
Hitler thought gun control was a great idea too. Didnt turn out very well for lots of exterminated people did it?
Erwin's cat
December 17th, 2012
6:00 pm
Unfortunately, he was conspicously absent when those teachers and 20 little kids were being murdered
It could be argued otherwise
Kamchak ~ Thug from the Steppes
December 17th, 2012
6:00 pm
Inoculation lymphoreticulosis
Just another reason to keep the box sealed.
Nunna Yobinnes
December 17th, 2012
6:01 pm
To me that comment would infer that God motivated the shooter to do what he did. I don’t buy that.
Matti
December 17th, 2012
6:01 pm
josef @ 5:50,
Good. I blazed up my menorah the other night and asked that He would be. Can’t attest to the number of bars on my signal, though, or whether the call was dropped.
Christian Conservative
December 17th, 2012
6:02 pm
josef:
Interesting you should bring up the Dems and the ACLU…one of the sponsoring parents is both…and a, gasp, BAPTIST!
Why would I not bring them up? They are an arem of the democrat party just as the New Black Panthers, NAACP, Westboro fruits and the like….