Newt Gingrich: My Experience with Cheating on My Wives Helped Me Impeach Clinton

He is a very passionate man
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Who could possibly buy the hooey Newt Gingrich is putting out? The latest howler from Planet Newt: Gingrich: My Infidelities Helped Me Understand How To Impeach Clinton.

This one made me laugh out loud and startle the neighbor’s cat. Gingrich says his experience with going through ugly divorces and giving depositions actually helped him in the all-important job of impeaching President Clinton.

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Previously, Gingrich said the reason why he messed around so much on his wives was because he was so damned passionate for his country. He had so much passion he couldn’t help chasing skirts while his wife was in the hospital. The passion made him do it. It spilled over. You know how passion is.

But to answer my own question from the top of this post, Newt has already made the requisite tearful confessions at the foot of the religious right, and received absolution for his transgressions — so they won’t even blink at the latest self-beclowning from this ridiculous liar.

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1 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:01:37pm

*ahem*

2 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:01:59pm

This one is pathetic even for Newt. It is hilarious though.

3 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:03:36pm

Never a shortage of material. Even on Sunday.

The folks over at The Onion must be happy.

4 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:06:13pm
Previously, Gingrich said the reason why he messed around so much on his wives was because he was so damned passionate for his country. He had so much passion he couldn’t help chasing skirts while his wife was in the hospital. The passion made him do it. It spilled over. You know how passion is.

As calculated and disingenuous as every televangelist's tearful confession.

5 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:07:27pm

re: #4 Slumbering Behemoth

As calculated and disingenuous as every televangelist's tearful confession.

Yeah, the "I'm sorry I got caught confessions" always bring a tear to my eye.

6 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:07:33pm

re: #4 Slumbering Behemoth

As calculated and disingenuous as every televangelist's tearful confession.

He's slimy.

7 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:09:14pm

CW: Isn't that hypocrisy?

NG: No.

Priceless.

8 Political Atheist  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:12:05pm

The real Newts are pissed!

9 jaunte  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:12:54pm
"What I said very clearly"

Translation: watch me turn this one around, ya rubes.

10 blueraven  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:13:34pm

I really believe the man is a pathological liar and suffers from cognitive dissonance or some such psychological disorder.

He is just a sleaze bag who has no business in any elected office. In fact I dont think he will end up running, but is after the money he can raise for his various projects.

11 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:15:18pm

re: #6 Gus 802

He used to be an advocate for science and modernization. Now that the wind is blowing in a different direction...

12 Charleston Chew  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:15:38pm

Does the Guinness Book Of World Records have a section for political spin? Because Gingrich is clearly going for biggest, longest, or fastest something here.

13 b_sharp  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:16:03pm

The whole idea of being turned into a Newt is getting scarier and scarier.

14 Charleston Chew  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:17:52pm

re: #3 Gus 802

Never a shortage of material. Even on Sunday.

The folks over at The Onion must be happy.

I'd think they'd be furious that he's going to run them out of business. There's no need for satirists when real life's this crazy.

15 nines09  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:18:04pm

Not even a glimmer of a soul in this piece of jetsam called Newt. What a crock.

16 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:18:42pm

OT.

What's up with all of those link down dings from "Reuters Middle East Watch"?

17 Tigger2005  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:19:52pm

re: #12 Charleston Chew

Does the Guinness Book Of World Records have a section for political spin? Because Gingrich is clearly going for biggest, longest, or fastest something here.

And uncut.

18 rwmofo  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:20:38pm

Since the media/Democrat Party--including the left-wing, single-interest group that calls themselves the "National Organization for Women" (as if...they endorsed a male over a pro-choice woman for Governor of California) had no issues with a Democrat President treating women much worse than Gingrich has, Gingrich's "indiscretions" should get a stamp of approval from liberals. Hey, everybody does it.

The elephant in the room: Gingrich would go on to marry the women with whom he had his affairs, but more importantly, he would destroy Obama in any debate. You know it. I know it. Bob Dole knows it. And that, it a nutshell, is the only reason why the media/Democrat Party needs to key in on a subject that has nothing to do with how a very effective, conservative politician would govern.

19 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:22:06pm

re: #18 rwmofo

And if I had gone to med school I'd be a neurosurgeon at a teaching hospital.

20 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:22:31pm

re: #12 Charleston Chew

Does the Guinness Book Of World Records have a section for political spin? Because Gingrich is clearly going for biggest, longest, or fastest something here.

If political spin could be tapped to generate electrical power I would strongly advocate getting Newt wrapped in copper wire ASAP since otherwise we'd be wasting a natural resource.

Then again, I'd probably be amused in having Newt wrapped in wire (or duct tape) irregardless of the reason.
/

21 blueraven  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:23:58pm

re: #18 rwmofo


LOL!

22 Shiplord Kirel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:24:09pm

re: #18 rwmofo

I don't think BJ Clinton ever claimed that getting a lewinsky helped him in his official duties.

23 b_sharp  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:24:10pm

re: #18 rwmofo

Since the media/Democrat Party--including the left-wing, single-interest group that calls themselves the "National Organization for Women" (as if...they endorsed a male over a pro-choice woman for Governor of California) had no issues with a Democrat President treating women much worse than Gingrich has, Gingrich's "indiscretions" should get a stamp of approval from liberals. Hey, everybody does it.

The elephant in the room: Gingrich would go on to marry the women with whom he had his affairs, but more importantly, he would destroy Obama in any debate. You know it. I know it. Bob Dole knows it. And that, it a nutshell, is the only reason why the media/Democrat Party needs to key in on a subject that has nothing to do with how a very effective, conservative politician would govern.

I think he's being focused on, not because he's a capable but philandering politician, but because everyone is enthralled by his skill as a nutbar.

24 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:24:47pm

re: #18 rwmofo

Since the media/Democrat Party--including the left-wing, single-interest group that calls themselves the "National Organization for Women" (as if...they endorsed a male over a pro-choice woman for Governor of California) had no issues with a Democrat President treating women much worse than Gingrich has, Gingrich's "indiscretions" should get a stamp of approval from liberals. Hey, everybody does it.

So hypocrisy is okay, so long as the other guy does it?

The elephant in the room: Gingrich would go on to marry the women with whom he had his affairs, but more importantly, he would destroy Obama in any debate. You know it. I know it. Bob Dole knows it. And that, it a nutshell, is the only reason why the media/Democrat Party needs to key in on a subject that has nothing to do with how a very effective, conservative politician would govern.

Yeah, he went on to marry her...then and marry another mistress when wifey #2 got sick as well. One hopes the current Mrs. Gingrich doesn't get sick anytime soon, lest she find herself under the bus alongside the other two.

And personally, the debates I await seeing him in are the Republican ones, when he'll have to actually stand before his fellow conservatives and explain why banging a mistress behind his sick wife's back jibes with "the sanctity of marriage."

25 moderatelyradicalliberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:24:53pm

re: #18 rwmofo

Since the media/Democrat Party--including the left-wing, single-interest group that calls themselves the "National Organization for Women" (as if...they endorsed a male over a pro-choice woman for Governor of California) had no issues with a Democrat President treating women much worse than Gingrich has, Gingrich's "indiscretions" should get a stamp of approval from liberals. Hey, everybody does it.

The elephant in the room: Gingrich would go on to marry the women with whom he had his affairs, but more importantly, he would destroy Obama in any debate. You know it. I know it. Bob Dole knows it. And that, it a nutshell, is the only reason why the media/Democrat Party needs to key in on a subject that has nothing to do with how a very effective, conservative politician would govern.

LOL! Did the voices in your head tell you that?

26 moderatelyradicalliberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:26:37pm

re: #23 b_sharp

I think he's being focused on, not because he's a capable but philandering politician, but because everyone is enthralled by his skill as a nutbar.

Can you believe Naughty Newty was ever considered a "man of ideas"?

27 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:26:50pm

re: #24 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

And personally, the debates I await seeing him in are the Republican ones, when he'll have to actually stand before his fellow conservatives and explain why banging a mistress behind his sick wife's back jibes with "the sanctity of marriage."

If you're not gay, it's Ay-Oh-Kay!
/

28 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:28:30pm

re: #18 rwmofo

Here's Newt and ORiely debating....
Newt and Bill Debate: Is Obama a Socialist?

Youtube Video

Win!

29 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:29:09pm

Wait I thought the whole argument was the NOW and feminists hated men. Now they're bad for endorsing Jerry Brown over Meg Whitman? And Gingrich pulled the same stunt that John Edwards is rightfully villified for. People on the left did not think Clinton's extramatrial affairs were right however they did think it was not worth it to impeach a president over it which is exactly what Newt and his hypocritical friends did even while they were screwing around on their own wives at the same time.

30 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:29:10pm

re: #13 b_sharp

The whole idea of being turned into a Newt is getting scarier and scarier.

You'll get better...

31 Shiplord Kirel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:29:39pm

re: #26 moderatelyradicalliberal

Can you believe Naughty Newty was ever considered a "man of ideas"?

Of course he was. In particular, he seems to have had the same ideas as many married men. Unlike many husbands, though, he chose to act on them.

32 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:29:46pm

re: #18 rwmofo

You forgot your sarc tag on that comment.

33 b_sharp  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:30:03pm

re: #20 oaktree

If political spin could be tapped to generate electrical power I would strongly advocate getting Newt wrapped in copper wire ASAP since otherwise we'd be wasting a natural resource.

Then again, I'd probably be amused in having Newt wrapped in wire (or duct tape) irregardless of the reason.
/

Pedant Alert:

regardless or irrespective. Irregardless means 'with regard' which I think is the opposite to what you meant.

Sorry, pet peeve.

34 moderatelyradicalliberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:30:37pm

Newt Gingrich 2012! Because Pimpin' Ain't Easy!

35 blueraven  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:31:11pm

re: #18 rwmofo

Since the media/Democrat Party--including the left-wing, single-interest group that calls themselves the "National Organization for Women" (as if...they endorsed a male over a pro-choice woman for Governor of California) had no issues with a Democrat President treating women much worse than Gingrich has, Gingrich's "indiscretions" should get a stamp of approval from liberals. Hey, everybody does it.

The elephant in the room: Gingrich would go on to marry the women with whom he had his affairs, but more importantly, he would destroy Obama in any debate. You know it. I know it. Bob Dole knows it. And that, it a nutshell, is the only reason why the media/Democrat Party needs to key in on a subject that has nothing to do with how a very effective, conservative politician would govern.


Really? NOW was supposed to endorse Meg for exactly what reason? Just because she is a woman. I dont think you understand...

36 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:31:41pm

re: #29 HappyWarrior

Wait I thought the whole argument was the NOW and feminists hated men. Now they're bad for endorsing Jerry Brown over Meg Whitman? And Gingrich pulled the same stunt that John Edwards is rightfully villified for. People on the left did not think Clinton's extramatrial affairs were right however they did think it was not worth it to impeach a president over it which is exactly what Newt and his hypocritical friends did even while they were screwing around on their own wives at the same time.

Yep, John Edwards got all kinds of hell from the Right for banging a mistress and fathering a love child behind his sick wife's back. But they seem to think that Newt doing it ttwice is forgivable because he's such a "good debater."

Maybe the Mayans were right about the world ending, due to our being buried under bullshit.

37 Kragar  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:31:54pm

Actually, a lot of Evangelicals haven't given Newt a pass yet.

Bryan Fischer: "I believe social conservatives and all those in the pro-family movement must have grave reservations about his candidacy."

King David of the ancient kingdom of Israel kept his throne after his adulterous liaison with the beautiful Bathsheba, but a consequence of his unfaithfulness was that the sword never left his house, never left the dynasty he left behind nor the nation his descendants ruled. There were lasting consequences to the body politic for his moral failures, no matter how repentant he was and no matter how forgiven by God.

Newt Gingrich has been forgiven by God for his adulteries. But the issue before the nation is not his fitness for heaven but his fitness for the Oval Office. His fitness for heaven is an issue between him and his God. His fitness for the presidency is between him and the American people.

He is a very bright man, a creative thinker, and a brilliant scholar who has much to offer the conservative movement in the realm of ideas. Perhaps that is where he is designed to make his greatest contribution at this time in our history.

The conservative movement needs creative, insightful thinkers like Mr. Gingrich to motivate and inspire us to better and more incisive public policy.

But with the American family in the desperate shape it's in, it is imperative that the next standard bearer of the conservative movement be a man who has demonstrated a lifelong commitment to family values in deed as well as in words, a man who does not just talk the talk but has walked the walk.

38 b_sharp  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:32:10pm

re: #26 moderatelyradicalliberal

Can you believe Naughty Newty was ever considered a "man of ideas"?

Oh absolutely. Mind you, those ideas were all thought of by his dick.

39 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:32:21pm

And if Newt was such an "effective conservative politician" why did his own caucus turn against him or the public's reaction to his lovely shut down the government experiment. He's a fraud, always has been and always wll be.

40 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:32:43pm

"I am Newt Gingrich! Destroyer of words! Watch me slay Obama in teh debate!"

"Butters, get right down here this instant!"

//

41 TedStriker  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:34:10pm

re: #4 Slumbering Behemoth

As calculated and disingenuous as every televangelist's tearful confession.

Did he smear VapoRub under his eyes?

42 moderatelyradicalliberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:34:25pm

re: #18 rwmofo

Since the media/Democrat Party--including the left-wing, single-interest group that calls themselves the "National Organization for Women" (as if...they endorsed a male over a pro-choice woman for Governor of California) had no issues with a Democrat President treating women much worse than Gingrich has, Gingrich's "indiscretions" should get a stamp of approval from liberals. Hey, everybody does it.

The elephant in the room: Gingrich would go on to marry the women with whom he had his affairs, but more importantly, he would destroy Obama in any debate. You know it. I know it. Bob Dole knows it. And that, it a nutshell, is the only reason why the media/Democrat Party needs to key in on a subject that has nothing to do with how a very effective, conservative politician would govern.

Also, too. How could Newt win a debate with Obama if he can't win a debate with himself? He gone back and forth on Libya like he's trying to decide what to do with a sick wife.

43 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:34:31pm

re: #39 HappyWarrior

And if Newt was such an "effective conservative politician" why did his own caucus turn against him or the public's reaction to his lovely shut down the government experiment. He's a fraud, always has been and always wll be.

Yeah, nobody wants to mention that Newt was such a boon to his party, that they ran him out on a rail for becoming an albatross after the shut-down and the impeachment hearings.

44 b_sharp  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:35:38pm

re: #41 talon_262

Did he smear VapoRub under his eyes?

Maybe the vaporub went in the eye of the snake?

45 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:38:46pm

re: #18 rwmofo

Speaking as an independent, I just want you to know that the whole Democrat, media/Democrat Party thing is every bit as off-turning as when moonbats call it the Rethuglican Party and variants thereof.

46 moderatelyradicalliberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:40:00pm

re: #43 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Yeah, nobody wants to mention that Newt was such a boon to his party, that they ran him out on a rail for becoming an albatross after the shut-down and the impeachment hearings.

Yeah, Newt's former House colleagues fell the same way about him as his former wives, who unfortunately for him are still alive and talking.

47 TedStriker  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:40:17pm

re: #18 rwmofo

Bullshit...Gingrich couldn't beat a one-legged man in an ass-kicking contest. His record's out there for anyone who cares to look, but that's the problem nowadays...not too many people in the GOP today are casting a critical eye towards the leadership or potential candidates, just so long as they get their red meat.

48 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:40:18pm

re: #34 moderatelyradicalliberal

Newt Gingrich 2012! Because Pimpin' Ain't Easy!

I want that t-shirt.

49 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:40:55pm

Newt Gingrich: America's First Openly Douchebag President

50 TedStriker  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:42:58pm

re: #49 HappyWarrior

Newt Gingrich: An America's First Openly Douchebag President

FTFY ;-P

51 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:43:45pm

Here's Newt's speech at the wingnut convention....

Newt Gingrich: I Am Gonna Sign SOOOO MANY Executive Orders When I'm President! pt.2

Youtube Video
52 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:43:51pm

re: #50 talon_262

FTFY ;-P

Will that land him an endorsement contract as well?

53 moderatelyradicalliberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:44:07pm

re: #48 Girth

I want that t-shirt.

He even has a theme song!

Youtube Video
54 NJDhockeyfan  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:44:41pm

Just a flyby...

This will just about finish Newt. I think he's a very smart politician but blaming his affair on his passion for the country is over the line.

BTW...Mo isn't going to get much sleep tonight:

Several explosions in Tripoli - witnesses

TRIPOLI, March 27 (Reuters) - At least four loud explosions rocked Tripoli on Sunday night and a flash from one of the blasts lit up the sky above the southern part of the Libyan capital, Reuters reporters in the city centre said.
55 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:45:42pm

Gingrich/Walker '12: Screwing America, One Woman At A Time

56 TedStriker  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:47:30pm

re: #43 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Yeah, nobody wants to mention that Newt was such a boon to his party, that they ran him out on a rail for becoming an albatross after the shut-down and the impeachment hearings.

Newt (and the House) started overreaching and when it went to shit, he got his walking papers (it didn't help that he was having his own marital "issues" about the same time).

Bottom line, Newt is a piece of shit, always has been, always will be...he's always been about just himself.

57 NJDhockeyfan  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:47:44pm

re: #55 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Gingrich/Walker '12: Screwing America, One Woman At A Time

If he doesn't win the GOP nomination he could run with the other wife-cheating asshole as an Independent.

Gingrich/Edwards 2012!

58 b_sharp  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:48:00pm

re: #54 NJDhockeyfan

Just a flyby...

This will just about finish Newt. I think he's a very smart politician but blaming his affair on his passion for the country is over the line.

BTW...Mo isn't going to get much sleep tonight:

Several explosions in Tripoli - witnesses

Sleep deprivation should make the nut nuttier.(NSFW)

59 Lidane  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:48:31pm

re: #18 rwmofo

Since the media/Democrat Party

Stopped reading right there. If you're going to keep flogging that stupidity, I'm not going to bother reading anything else you have to say.

60 TedStriker  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:49:10pm

re: #54 NJDhockeyfan

Just a flyby...

This will just about finish Newt. I think he's a very smart politician but blaming his affair on his passion for the country is over the line.

BTW...Mo isn't going to get much sleep tonight:

Several explosions in Tripoli - witnesses

Newt's always been a self-absorbed bullshit artist, even when he was Speaker.

61 NJDhockeyfan  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:49:17pm

re: #56 talon_262


Bottom line, Newt is a piece of shit, always has been, always will be...he's always been about just himself.

Are there any politicians who aren't just about themselves?

62 b_sharp  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:50:15pm

re: #61 NJDhockeyfan

Are there any politicians who aren't just about themselves?

Dead ones.

63 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:50:23pm

re: #57 NJDhockeyfan

If he doesn't win the GOP nomination he could run with the other wife-cheating asshole as an Independent.

Gingrich/Edwards 2012!

Gingrich/Edwards '12: God Has Forgiven Us, You Should Too!

64 Tsuga  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:50:24pm

re: #33 b_sharp

Pedant Alert:

regardless or irrespective. Irregardless means 'with regard' which I think is the opposite to what you meant.

Sorry, pet peeve.

Yes, this happens due to a false analogy. Respective is reversed in meaning by changing it to irrespective. Regard is reversed in meaning by changing it to regardless. The superficial similarity of respective and regardless, along with the existence of irrespective, leads to the parallel construction irregardless which is a double negative. If you want to put an irr in front of regard to negate it then you'd need to write irregard. I think regardless sounds better.

65 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:50:25pm

Someone with a sense of humor on Obama's campaign staff should make a web-ad with Bachmann's "Gangster government" quote and then this:

Youtube Video
66 Prideful, Arrogant Marriage Equality Advocate  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:50:32pm

re: #45 Girth

That's exactly why he does it.

67 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:50:43pm

re: #51 Killgore Trout

GAYS! ABORTIONS! AND CZARS!

OH MY!

68 NJDhockeyfan  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:50:57pm

re: #60 talon_262

Newt's always been a self-absorbed bullshit artist, even when he was Speaker.

They all are. They will say anything to get re-elected. I do not know of one politician who has kept the promises they made to their constituents.

69 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:52:16pm

Even Fox News can't make him look good....

Youtube Video

Newt's own campaign put up this video. I'm sure the Fox anchors would love to make him look good but they can't understand his strange explanation.

70 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:53:17pm

Honestly, if he wasn't such a self righteous douchebag about his adultery, it wouldn't bother me. I'm sorry but as someone who has gay friends who Mr. Gingrich and his political allies don't think should have the right to marry because gay marriage "ruins the sanicity" of marriage while Newt himself is a serial and boastful adulterer. And no I don't have much love for Clinton for pushing DOMA while having affairs either.

71 justaminute  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:54:04pm

Newt knows he is not going to be the nominee. Newt is always going to put his name out there as a potential candidate. That is his profession now. Professional candidate. Rachel Maddow has done numerous stories on how he lives off of the money he has raised. Christine O'Donnell is an acolyte of his.

72 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:54:06pm

re: #69 Killgore Trout

Even Fox News can't make him look good...

[Video]Newt's own campaign put up this video. I'm sure the Fox anchors would love to make him look good but they can't understand his strange explanation.

"Ah, if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say. "

73 b_sharp  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:54:25pm

re: #64 Tsuga

Yes, this happens due to a false analogy. Respective is reversed in meaning by changing it to irrespective. Regard is reversed in meaning by changing it to regardless. The superficial similarity of respective and regardless, along with the existence of irrespective, leads to the parallel construction irregardless which is a double negative. If you want to put an irr in front of regard to negate it then you'd need to write irregard. I think regardless sounds better.

Irregardfull might work, but it's klunky.

74 moderatelyradicalliberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:56:03pm

re: #57 NJDhockeyfan

If he doesn't win the GOP nomination he could run with the other wife-cheating asshole as an Independent.

Gingrich/Edwards 2012!

Edwards might be in jail by then.

75 Prideful, Arrogant Marriage Equality Advocate  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:56:32pm

re: #69 Killgore Trout

I wonder who his handler is? I think they tried to hard and it didn't work. They should have kept it simple, had him admit he did wrong and apologize and talk about his deeper love for Jesus, yadda-yadda and been done with it. Instead it has turned into an even bigger problem.

76 Jeff In Ohio  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:56:48pm

re: #18 rwmofo

#winning!

77 moderatelyradicalliberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:57:29pm

re: #72 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

"Ah, if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say. "

Ghostbusters!

78 blueraven  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:57:35pm

re: #69 Killgore Trout

Even Fox News can't make him look good...

[Video]Newt's own campaign put up this video. I'm sure the Fox anchors would love to make him look good but they can't understand his strange explanation.

Boy he is really slime. He knows this is more than just a no fly zone as spelled out in the UN resolution. He is being deliberately obtuse...or flat out lying, again.

79 Prideful, Arrogant Marriage Equality Advocate  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:58:12pm

re: #75 Cankles McCellulite
Oops. Too, to, too.

80 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:58:52pm

re: #75 Cankles McCellulite

I wonder who his handler is? I think they tried to hard and it didn't work. They should have kept it simple, had him admit he did wrong and apologize and talk about his deeper love for Jesus, yadda-yadda and been done with it. Instead it has turned into an even bigger problem.

I saw a suggestion the other day that the reason Newt's making such a big deal about it now is that, when campaign season gets going at full tilt, he can wave off questions about his philandering by saying that the "issue's already been addressed."

81 Romantic Heretic  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 12:59:50pm

Best laugh I've had today. Newt you've a future in comedy.

82 Lidane  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:00:37pm

re: #81 Romantic Heretic

Best laugh I've had today. Newt you've a future in comedy.

The Onion should hire him as a story consultant. He can just start spewing his nonsense and they can quote him verbatim.

83 TedStriker  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:00:46pm

re: #68 NJDhockeyfan

They all are. They will say anything to get re-elected. I do not know of one politician who has kept the promises they made to their constituents.

True, to an extent, though the task of holding elected representatives to account comes down to their constituents. If the voters choose to ignore bad/shady behavior on the part of their representatives because they bring the pork home, I blame the voters just as much as the representative.

However, as much as Bill Clinton was the king of triangulation for the Dems in the 90s, Newt is certainly up there for the TPGOP, especially nowadays, IMO.

84 moderatelyradicalliberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:01:11pm

re: #78 blueraven

Boy he is really slime. He knows this is more than just a no fly zone as spelled out in the UN resolution. He is being deliberately obtuse...or flat out lying, again.

Newt committed a Romney on Liyba. He was for something when Obama appeared to be against it and had to change his mind later.

Obama should declare that he is anti-choice because he wants every black and brown woman in America to birth at least 5 babies each to speed up the minority demographic take over. Maybe them we will see and end to the war on women's reproductive rights.

85 Prideful, Arrogant Marriage Equality Advocate  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:01:37pm

re: #80 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

And i think that might have worked if the explanations and justifications weren't so ridiculous and insulting. But then again this new group of conservatives seem to not be bothered by too much for too long.

86 TedStriker  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:01:40pm

re: #71 justaminute

Newt knows he is not going to be the nominee. Newt is always going to put his name out there as a potential candidate. That is his profession now. Professional candidate. Rachel Maddow has done numerous stories on how he lives off of the money he has raised. Christine O'Donnell is an acolyte of his.

Shouldn't that be considered fraud?

87 calochortus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:03:37pm

re: #86 talon_262

It is. Isn't O'Donnell being investigated currently?

88 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:04:06pm

OT: I am quite pleased.

89 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:05:28pm

re: #84 moderatelyradicalliberal

Newt committed a Romney on Liyba. He was for something when Obama appeared to be against it and had to change his mind later.

Obama should declare that he is anti-choice because he wants every black and brown woman in America to birth at least 5 babies each to speed up the minority demographic take over. Maybe them we will see and end to the war on women's reproductive rights.

Oh, Newt's not the only one spinning around so fast that they've developed whiplash. Drudge's headline today is an article about how the operation in Libya will likely last months, while a red highlighted one being about Gates saying that Libya's problems were not of "vital national interest" to us.

This, of course, after 3 weeks of the Right bitching that we needed to be in Libya, right now, and that a "real leader" would have us over there bombing the hell out of Gaddafi because it was the "right thing to do."

90 treasured people  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:05:59pm

The down side of social media is its anti-Israel proclivity.

91 justaminute  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:06:10pm

re: #86 talon_262

Shouldn't that be considered fraud?

I think so. But that requires someone to actually investigate and prosecute and nothing has been done so far. Rachel has laid it out pretty clearly.

92 moderatelyradicalliberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:07:43pm

Proof that Obama is a Muslim! Arabs are saying nice things about him.

Libya :Thank You & Keep It Up President Obama ,Coalition and UN

[Link: www.petition2congress.com...]

93 calochortus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:08:23pm

re: #91 justaminute

I think so. But that requires someone to actually investigate and prosecute and nothing has been done so far. Rachel has laid it out pretty clearly.

I suspect that while Newt is plenty slimy. He's way smarter than O'Donnell and has more sophisticated financial arrangements. He may or may not be breaking the law.

94 darthstar  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:08:26pm

re: #88 Slumbering Behemoth

OT: I am quite pleased.

Aww...they're so sweet.

95 BARACK THE VOTE  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:08:43pm

re: #88 Slumbering Behemoth

OT: I am quite pleased.

That's awesome. Page it!

96 lostlakehiker  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:14:28pm

re: #18 rwmofo

Since the media/Democrat Party--including the left-wing, single-interest group that calls themselves the "National Organization for Women" (as if...they endorsed a male over a pro-choice woman for Governor of California) had no issues with a Democrat President treating women much worse than Gingrich has, Gingrich's "indiscretions" should get a stamp of approval from liberals. Hey, everybody does it.

The elephant in the room: Gingrich would go on to marry the women with whom he had his affairs, but more importantly, he would destroy Obama in any debate. You know it. I know it. Bob Dole knows it. And that, it a nutshell, is the only reason why the media/Democrat Party needs to key in on a subject that has nothing to do with how a very effective, conservative politician would govern.

Obama holds his own in debates. Gingrich would be stuck with some inconvenient facts, such as quotes spaced about a week apart in which he said A, he would have imposed a no-fly zone, and Obama was wrong not to have done so, and then B, he would not have imposed a no-fly zone, and Obama was wrong to have done so.

Gingrich is the antithesis of an effective Republican. He talks, and talks, but what achievements does he have to show for all that talk? If the Republicans want to contest the 2012 election, let alone win it, they must nominate a doer, not a talker.

97 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:15:32pm

Newt?

Thank you for fucking around on your wives. We appreciate and value your infidelity. Your randiness made our country better. Thank you, Newt!

Really Newt? Is that what you want us to say?

98 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:16:20pm

re: #96 lostlakehiker

Obama holds his own in debates. Gingrich would be stuck with some inconvenient facts, such as quotes spaced about a week apart in which he said A, he would have imposed a no-fly zone, and Obama was wrong not to have done so, and then B, he would not have imposed a no-fly zone, and Obama was wrong to have done so.

Gingrich is the antithesis of an effective Republican. He talks, and talks, but what achievements does he have to show for all that talk? If the Republicans want to contest the 2012 election, let alone win it, they must nominate a doer, not a talker.

Unfortunately for them, they have an abundance of the latter, but none of the former. At least, none whose accomplishments sit well with the party's current ideology.

99 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:19:49pm

All their fairly reasonable candidates I think don't stand a cahnce. Huntsman will be hammered for serving as Obama's ambassador to China, supporting the stimulus, and not being anti gay. Romney will be reminded often by his opponents that the White House compared their final health care bill to his work in Massachusetts. Plus I can definitely see him being attacked as an "Ivy League elitist".

100 Turkey Jihad  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:20:59pm

Dear Newt,

You're really low. Even for us.

Regards,

Snake bellies.

101 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:22:32pm

NickKristof Nicholas Kristof

The heroic Libyan woman #EmanalObeidi turns out to be a law graduate, age 29, seized at checkpoint [Link: bit.ly...]

Link is to interview with her cousin.

102 moderatelyradicalliberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:22:49pm

re: #98 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Unfortunately for them, they have an abundance of the latter, but none of the former. At least, none whose accomplishments sit well with the party's current ideology.

Right. Romney passed a health care law that has 83% approval in MA, but he can't run on it. Huckabee improved education outcomes in AR, but he raised taxes on the rich to fund the need changes, so he can't run on it. Many of the candidates once favored policies to combat climate change, but they can't run on it. What does it say for politician when he/she can't run on his/her signature achievements? Some of these people actually have things to be proud of, things that benefited the disadvantaged and vulnerable when they were governing, but apparently compassionate conservatism looks a little bit too much like socialism and is therefor, no longer in vogue. This is actually quite sad.

103 TedStriker  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:23:00pm

re: #72 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

"Ah, if there's a steady paycheck in it, I'll believe anything you say. "

"This job isn't worth eleven-five a year!"

104 calochortus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:27:13pm

re: #102 moderatelyradicalliberal

I have even been seeing comments on a conservative site that shall remain unnamed, that the elderly are beginning to think of Medicare as a "right" and this is a bad thing. If only we all could just bargain with our healthcare providers everything would be affordable, and if not, well we can just die. Or more precisely they can just die. I'm sure this doesn't apply to the commenters. This is incomprehensible to me.

105 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:30:08pm

re: #104 calochortus

I have even been seeing comments on a conservative site that shall remain unnamed, that the elderly are beginning to think of Medicare as a "right" and this is a bad thing. If only we all could just bargain with our healthcare providers everything would be affordable, and if not, well we can just die. Or more precisely they can just die. I'm sure this doesn't apply to the commenters. This is incomprehensible to me.

Republicans are starting hearings targeting AARP for their support for healthcare reform....
House Lawmakers Set Hearing On AARP's Insurance, Advocacy Efforts
The war on the elderly has begun

106 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:33:33pm

You just know that Eisenhower, Nixon, Ford, and heck even H.W Bush would be treated like raving liberals if they attempted to join the GOP today. If the GOP was smart, they'd become more moderate minded on social issues but they're the beholden to the religious right that they can't do that. Their own fault of course since Reagan began kissing the asses of the Falwells, Robertsons, and others of the world.I've seen pretty much every major GOP candidate except Romney appear with jerk Bryan Fischer.

107 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:33:43pm

I'm checking to see why Bronx Zoo is trending on twitter.

Well, looky here.

cokeman Mike

CNN reporting deadly Egyptian cobra missing from Bronx zoo. HIDE YO' KIDS, HIDE YO' WIFE.

108 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:35:06pm

re: #104 calochortus

I have even been seeing comments on a conservative site that shall remain unnamed, that the elderly are beginning to think of Medicare as a "right" and this is a bad thing. If only we all could just bargain with our healthcare providers everything would be affordable, and if not, well we can just die. Or more precisely they can just die. I'm sure this doesn't apply to the commenters. This is incomprehensible to me.

Yeah, I always love that line of thinking. "We need to do away with Medicare/Social Security, because they cost too much and upset the market! But I'm still entitled to my checks, because that's my tax dollars, damnit!"

109 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:35:43pm

Butler is about to get out-Cinderella-ed.

110 ProGunLiberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:36:25pm

re: #107 Stanley Sea

That's a problem...

Hide yo wifes, hide yo kids, hide yoself, hide yo pets.

111 calochortus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:36:47pm

re: #105 Killgore Trout

I think you can make a case that AARP has been seduced away from its original mission by insurance profits, not that it is necessarily 'hearing worthy'. I suspect that has nothing to do with the hearings, however.

None of this would bother me as much if the leading lights in the I've Got Mine movement didn't keep going on about being such devout Christians. I don't recall that particular philosophy anywhere in the Bible, David Barton, notwithstanding. Hypocrisy bothers me.

112 darthstar  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:37:23pm

VCU

113 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:37:44pm

re: #109 Girth

Butler is about to get out-Cinderella-ed.

VCU! wow

114 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:37:56pm

re: #109 Girth

Butler is about to get out-Cinderella-ed.

VCU? Damnit. They're our biggest conference rival but it is exciting to see a CAA team in the Final Four.

115 A Man for all Seasons  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:39:02pm

re: #113 Stanley Sea

VCU! wow

VCU vs. Butler! double wow

116 moderatelyradicalliberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:40:14pm

re: #104 calochortus

I have even been seeing comments on a conservative site that shall remain unnamed, that the elderly are beginning to think of Medicare as a "right" and this is a bad thing. If only we all could just bargain with our healthcare providers everything would be affordable, and if not, well we can just die. Or more precisely they can just die. I'm sure this doesn't apply to the commenters. This is incomprehensible to me.

Only if it was collective bargaining. A lot of these people are just mean and stupid. Anybody who thinks that individuals can negotiate lower prices for insurance, doesn't understand risk pools or adverse selection. An elderly individual shopping for health insurance is like searching for homeowners insurance after your house is already on fire. Insurance is to protect against shit happening, being over 65 more than likely means shit has already happened. The concept of health insurance already violates all kinds of rule of the insurance model. The perfect economy falls apart. I don't know what to say when people express these kinds of beliefs to me in person. I just walk away hoping whatever they have isn't contagious.

117 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:40:35pm

This whole tournament is the most unpredictable I've seen since the one where Mason made the Final Four.

118 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:40:45pm

re: #111 calochortus

I think you can make a case that AARP has been seduced away from its original mission by insurance profits, not that it is necessarily 'hearing worthy'. I suspect that has nothing to do with the hearings, however.

None of this would bother me as much if the leading lights in the I've Got Mine movement didn't keep going on about being such devout Christians. I don't recall that particular philosophy anywhere in the Bible, David Barton, notwithstanding. Hypocrisy bothers me.

My guess is they endorsed the law because they thought it was the best thing for those they represent. The GOP is just pissed because it's eventually going to start costing them votes from the over 65 demo. I don't think the damage can be undone, the more they rant about repealing healthcare reform the worse it's going to make them look.

119 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:41:07pm

V.C.Who? That's who.

120 moderatelyradicalliberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:41:38pm

re: #105 Killgore Trout

Republicans are starting hearings targeting AARP for their support for healthcare reform...
House Lawmakers Set Hearing On AARP's Insurance, Advocacy Efforts
The war on the elderly has begun

When they came for ACORN, I said nothing........When they came for Planned Parenthood, I said nothing.......When they came for NPR, I said nothing..........

121 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:41:43pm

re: #115 HoosierHoops

VCU vs. Butler! double wow

HEY! Thanks for the reminder!

122 moderatelyradicalliberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:43:03pm

re: #107 Stanley Sea

I'm checking to see why Bronx Zoo is trending on twitter.

Well, looky here.

cokeman Mike

CNN reporting deadly Egyptian cobra missing from Bronx zoo. HIDE YO' KIDS, HIDE YO' WIFE.

OMG! That was so funny!

123 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:46:46pm

Silly AARP, endorsing something that they determine will benefit its members. These are key people that we need to scare to win elections. Hearings!

124 A Man for all Seasons  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:48:06pm

re: #121 Stanley Sea

HEY! Thanks for the reminder!

My brackets are done.. You would think one time..Just one time in my life I could pick the National Champion...
KU? Your not in Kansas any more

125 calochortus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:48:47pm

re: #116 moderatelyradicalliberal

Only if it was collective bargaining. A lot of these people are just mean and stupid. Anybody who thinks that individuals can negotiate lower prices for insurance, doesn't understand risk pools or adverse selection. An elderly individual shopping for health insurance is like searching for homeowners insurance after your house is already on fire. Insurance is to protect against shit happening, being over 65 more than likely means shit has already happened. The concept of health insurance already violates all kinds of rule of the insurance model. The perfect economy falls apart. I don't know what to say when people express these kinds of beliefs to me in person. I just walk away hoping whatever they have isn't contagious.

I can only assume none of these people have ever tried to purchase insurance on the individual market.

I used to wonder why, given the cost of health insurance to companies, the Chamber of Commerce didn't support some sort of single payer, national system, but I recently read a fairly convincing argument that many companies benefit by having their workers tied to them by the need for health insurance.

sigh...

126 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:49:36pm

re: #105 Killgore Trout

Republicans are starting hearings targeting AARP for their support for healthcare reform...
House Lawmakers Set Hearing On AARP's Insurance, Advocacy Efforts
The war on the elderly has begun

Will this be before or after the Republicans hold hearings on the health insurance lobby, hospital corporation lobby, pharmaceutical lobby, and the medical practitioner lobby involvement in health care reform?

127 calochortus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:50:54pm

re: #123 Girth

I think the argument is that this may not be the best deal for their members, but they're making to much money to want to change. However, I think the appropriate response would be to simply not buy the coverage they endorse, rather than outlawing the endorsement.

128 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:53:00pm

re: #124 HoosierHoops

My brackets are done.. You would think one time..Just one time in my life I could pick the National Champion...
KU? Your not in Kansas any more

haha, on CBSsportsline I'm in 921,490 place!!!

129 calochortus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:53:21pm

Since the key idea with a do-ahead dinner is to actually get it assembled before the company comes, I'd better get working on that.

BBL if I can.

130 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:53:39pm

re: #114 HappyWarrior

Who is "our"?

131 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:54:51pm

re: #125 calochortus

re: #127 calochortus

I think we should just go single payer, it seems to me the most efficient way to do things, but barring that I think we should stop with the employer-based model. Put that money back in people's paychecks and give tax incentives to buy insurance in nationwide markets.

Maybe it's not the best for their members, but then it's just one more data point that these people don't give two shits about limited government. Don't like what they're doing? Start a competing senior organization or take to the airwaves and say what they're doing wrong. You don't haul them in front of Congress because you think that they're not acting in the best interests of their members. It's non of Congress' business.

132 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:55:26pm

I did well enough the first round and then in the Round of 32 Pitt got eliminated and my bracket went to hell. I have to stop picking them. The best I've done with them was picking them to the final four a few years back and stupidly picking them to beat VIllanova when my old high school classmate Reynolds made the shot that got Nova in the FInal Four. That was awesome even for someone whose grandfather and ggdmother are Pitt albums and I think the first person on their respective sides of my family to get a college degree.

133 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:55:30pm

re: #107 Stanley Sea

My father-in-law got bit by a snake last week. Must not have been that one, but he got bit.

He's freakin' terrified of snakes too. He's a bad mo-fo, but skeert of snakes.

134 calochortus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:55:40pm

re: #131 Girth

Bingo. And now I'm really going...

135 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:56:09pm

re: #132 HappyWarrior

My dad's brackets are perfect.

He fills them out after each game.

136 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:56:49pm

American Hospital Assn 2009 Total Lobbying Expenditures: $18,347,176

2009 Total Lobbying Expenditures: $21,010,000

Pretty close but those aren't totals per industry or interest groups.

And the top spenders:

US Chamber of Commerce $738,825,680
American Medical Assn $243,277,500
General Electric $236,580,000
AARP $197,752,064
Pharmaceutical Rsrch & Mfrs of America $195,143,920
American Hospital Assn $194,316,789
Blue Cross/Blue Shield $159,178,718

I would say that AARP is outnumbered there.

I guess we'll be seeing hearings on the US Chamber of Commerce?

137 A Man for all Seasons  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:58:37pm

Well at least Obama's brackets are busted...
I'm as smart as the President of the United States..
/So There!

138 moderatelyradicalliberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:58:42pm

re: #133 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

My father-in-law got bit by a snake last week. Must not have been that one, but he got bit.

He's freakin' terrified of snakes too. He's a bad mo-fo, but skeert of snakes.

Snakes are death incarnate, but the mongoose is such a mad mo-fo that he ain't skeert of no stinkin' snakes!

[Link: www.cracked.com...]

139 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 1:59:51pm

re: #138 moderatelyradicalliberal

Snakes are death incarnate, but the mongoose is such a mad mo-fo that he ain't skeert of no stinkin' snakes!

[Link: www.cracked.com...]

The mongoose has nothing on the honey badger. He doesn't care, he doesn't give a shit!

140 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:00:03pm

re: #130 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Who is "our"?

Mason. You guys kicked our asses in the conference tourney remember? Congrast though to VCU.

141 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:00:41pm

re: #138 moderatelyradicalliberal

Ain't as bad as a honey badger.

Honey badger don't give a shit.

142 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:01:08pm

re: #136 Gus 802


I would say that AARP is outnumbered there.

I guess we'll be seeing hearings on the US Chamber of Commerce?


lol

143 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:01:08pm

re: #139 Girth

MMTA

144 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:03:42pm

re: #142 Killgore Trout

lol

[crickets]

Yep. AARP is a Teabagger target. So, they're playing for their audience.

145 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:04:17pm

Not that I want congressional hearings on the US Chamber of Commerce.

146 moderatelyradicalliberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:04:44pm

re: #141 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Ain't as bad as a honey badger.

Honey badger don't give a shit.

Yeah, that little bugger was #1 on the list.

147 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:06:28pm

So these hearings on the AARP, they're part of the Jobs I heard so much about right?

148 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:08:44pm

re: #147 HappyWarrior

So these hearings on the AARP, they're part of the Jobs I heard so much about right?

Sure! They're going to hire a bunch of lobbyists to provide "research" in order to attack AARP. Now that would be irony wouldn't it? Investigating AARP for lobbying while employing lobbyists?

Don't you just love politicians?

149 BishopX  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:08:46pm

re: #131 Girth

I'm generally with you on the whole end employer related health-care thing, but the whole national market this a a big no go for me. Look at what happened with credit cards, all the companies migrated to the state with the laxest regulations and then sold to the rest of the country. The same thing will happen in a heartbeat in a national health insurance market. Health Insurance is a complex product whose failures create a public burden. It needs stringent regulation to work (quick example, raising deductibles can actually increase costs as people forgo prescriptions and preventative treatments) and there are currently wide disparities between states.

I live in Massachusetts, I like the fact that every insurance plan offered here have to meet minimum credible coverage standards.

150 moderatelyradicalliberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:08:56pm

re: #147 HappyWarrior

So these hearings on the AARP, they're part of the Jobs I heard so much about right?

You know these people haven't accomplished a single thing in 3 months? We are literally paying them to do nothing.

151 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:09:35pm

re: #150 moderatelyradicalliberal

You know these people haven't accomplished a single thing in 3 months? We are literally paying them to do nothing.

Hey! The House voted to cut NPR funding.

Problem solved.

/

152 webevintage  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:10:38pm

re: #105 Killgore Trout

Republicans are starting hearings targeting AARP for their support for healthcare reform...
House Lawmakers Set Hearing On AARP's Insurance, Advocacy Efforts
The war on the elderly has begun

So basically instead of jobs, House Republicans are going to spend their time going after any and all advocacy groups that might work on behalf of the "rest of us" instead of the top 5% in this country.

153 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:11:24pm

re: #151 Gus 802

Hey! The House voted to cut NPR funding.

Problem solved.

/

and they cut off funding to Planned Parenthood to stop federal funding of abortion? Oh wait, that was already illegal, you're telling me that was just a stunt to satisify the idiots in their base who don't know the Hyde Amendment from Mr. Hyde?

154 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:12:07pm

re: #152 webevintage

So basically instead of jobs, House Republicans are going to spend their time going after any and all advocacy groups that might work on behalf of the "rest of us" instead of the top 5% in this country.

Precisely. Or, any interest group or government program that appears to favor or work in the interest of "left leaning" Americans or Democrats. Clearly the GOP is proceeding in an unbiased manner.

155 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:13:10pm

re: #150 moderatelyradicalliberal

You know these people haven't accomplished a single thing in 3 months? We are literally paying them to do nothing.

Isn't that what we voted them out of office for the last time around?

156 webevintage  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:13:37pm

re: #153 HappyWarrior

and they cut off funding to Planned Parenthood to stop federal funding of abortion? Oh wait, that was already illegal, you're telling me that was just a stunt to satisify the idiots in their base who don't know the Hyde Amendment from Mr. Hyde?

Listen, only women who are HORS have a need for services from PP. God, fearing, missionary position only Christian women have no need for affordable pap smears or GOD FORBID cheap birth control!!!!111!!!
/

157 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:14:13pm

It's revenge for the BP hearings. Which of course didn't accomplish anything of note other than showing what a bunch of douche bags run BP. More or less. Sort of like the Wall Street hearings too which was another dog and pony show that didn't do squat.

God bless America.

158 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:15:03pm

And the steroid/MLB hearings. Yawn.

159 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:16:15pm

The House GOP should hold hearings on magnets. "Fucking magnets. How do they work?"

160 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:16:27pm

And gravity.

161 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:16:32pm

fivethirtyeight Nate Silver

Before the tournament, we had VCU as an 821:1 longshot against winning 5 straight and reaching the Final 4.

162 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:16:32pm

re: #157 Gus 802

It's revenge for the BP hearings. Which of course didn't accomplish anything of note other than showing what a bunch of douche bags run BP. More or less. Sort of like the Wall Street hearings too which was another dog and pony show that didn't do squat.

God bless America.

You have to wonder if the staffers advocate their Congressman hold and attend hearings solely to get them out of the way so the staffs can go about getting actual work done.

163 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:16:59pm

re: #157 Gus 802

It's revenge for the BP hearings. Which of course didn't accomplish anything of note other than showing what a bunch of douche bags run BP. More or less. Sort of like the Wall Street hearings too which was another dog and pony show that didn't do squat.

God bless America.

It's about providing a bullshit shield when they start going after the things that AARP has traditionally supported, such as Medicare and Social Security.

164 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:17:35pm

re: #159 Gus 802

The House GOP should hold hearings on magnets. "Fucking magnets. How do they work?"

And tides.

Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that!

165 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:17:48pm

re: #163 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

It's about providing a bullshit shield when they start going after the things that AARP has traditionally supported, such as Medicare and Social Security.

Probably so. AARP will just provide the distraction.

166 reine.de.tout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:17:54pm

JAUNTE - you here?

167 Lidane  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:19:28pm

re: #159 Gus 802

The House GOP should hold hearings on magnets. "Fucking magnets. How do they work?"

I want them to hold hearings on the dangers of dihydrogen monoxide. That would be entertaining, just because it would expose the anti-science rubes for the ignorant jackasses that they are.

168 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:19:40pm

re: #164 Girth

And tides.

Tide goes in, tide goes out. You can't explain that!

How did that little amoeba get there?

169 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:20:17pm

re: #165 Gus 802

Probably so. AARP will just provide the distraction.

It makes the most sense if you think about it. Bush's own effort to partially privatize Social Security went down in flames once the AARP got mobilized and portrayed it as gambling away elderly Americans SS dollars in the stock market. The GOP's talking about "reform" to both it and Medicare, so you know the AARP will not stay silent, leaving the only option to the GOP to marginalize them and ultimately muzzle them.

170 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:20:28pm

Yep. The moon and the tides and gravity. That's all a result of desperation.

Derp.

//

171 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:21:35pm

re: #163 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

It's about providing a bullshit shield when they start going after the things that AARP has traditionally supported, such as Medicare and Social Security.

It just seems to be political suicide. They can afford to alienate blacks, Hispanics and Jews (for now) because none of them are going to vote Republican anyways. Attacking the elderly just seems stupid.

172 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:21:53pm

Bread goes in, toast comes out.

You can't explain that.

/

173 b_sharp  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:22:56pm

re: #172 Gus 802

Bread goes in, toast comes out.

You can't explain that.

/

Toast imps.

174 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:23:35pm

re: #173 b_sharp

Toast imps.

Toasters don't toast bread! People do!

/

175 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:24:32pm

I propose a new law. From now, the citizens of this great nation should be able to carry concealed toasters into bars.

/

176 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:24:37pm

You can have my toaster when you pry it from my cold, dead hands.

177 b_sharp  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:25:16pm

re: #174 Gus 802

Toasters don't toast bread! People do!

/

Ban fully automatic, high capacity toasters.

178 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:26:00pm

There is no such thing as sensible toast control. All such measures lead to a slippery slope which ends with the government taking away your right to bear toasters.

179 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:26:13pm

re: #177 b_sharp

Ban fully automatic, high capacity toasters.

Which will be followed by a sliced bread shortage as the nuts buy it all up!

180 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:26:30pm

re: #177 b_sharp

I don't wanna brag, I don't wanna boast...

181 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:26:32pm

re: #177 b_sharp

Ban fully automatic, high capacity toasters.

When toasters are outlawed, only outlaws will have toasters!

182 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:26:57pm

This time we came untoasted

183 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:28:00pm

re: #181 Gus 802

When toasters are outlawed, only outlaws will have toasters!

And the FBI will investigate the posters of homemade bread recipes.

184 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:28:07pm

re: #182 HappyWarrior

This time we came untoasted

I propose that we make the Cuisinart CPT-120FR Compact Cool-Touch 2-Slice Toaster the official State Toaster for the great state of Colorado.

All those in favor?!

185 Lidane  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:28:40pm

re: #183 oaktree

And the FBI will investigate the posters of homemade bread recipes.

Only if they're making pumpernickel, rye, or anything other than good, old fashioned Real American white bread.

186 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:28:51pm

A well fed Militia, being necessary to the security of a free State, the right of the people to keep and bear Toasters, shall not be infringed.

187 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:28:58pm

Open an account with Liberty Bank today and get a free toaster.

188 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:29:43pm

The jam of the liberty tree must be spread with the jam of tyrants from time to time.

189 A Man for all Seasons  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:29:43pm

To Toast or not to Toast..That is the question

190 Slumbering Behemoth Stinks  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:30:29pm

re: #105 Killgore Trout

Republicans are starting hearings targeting AARP for their support for healthcare reform...
House Lawmakers Set Hearing On AARP's Insurance, Advocacy Efforts
The war on the elderly has begun

Goddamnit! At this rate, we are going to have to find sentient life on another planet just to find a demographic that the GOP has yet to alienate.

191 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:30:30pm

Give me toast, or give me death!

192 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:31:07pm

Battle flag...

Don't Toast on Me

193 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:31:37pm

A man with toast is a citizen. A man without toast is a subject.

194 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:31:37pm

re: #188 HappyWarrior

The jam of the liberty tree must be spread with the jam of tyrants from time to time.

Is the new Liberty Tree a breadfruit?

195 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:32:09pm

Yes, we'll rally round the toast, boys
Rally once again,
Shouting the Battle Cry of Toast...

196 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:32:25pm

The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to stand by and not make toast.

197 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:32:41pm

Toast puns?

198 Lidane  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:32:51pm

re: #190 Slumbering Behemoth

Goddamnit! At this rate, we are going to have to find sentient life on another planet just to find a demographic that the GOP has yet to alienate.

Unless all the aliens at Area 51 are pissed off about something and are contacting their home planets to tell them what douchebags the Republicans are.

/Alex Jones

199 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:33:35pm

People sleep peacefully in their beds at night because rough men stand ready to make toast on their behalf.

200 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:33:58pm

Boasting the best toast

201 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:34:21pm

A great empire, like great toast, is most easily diminished at the edges.

202 ProGunLiberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:34:40pm

Gimme a toaster.

It looks like there's a pile-on against Qaddafi now. Danish F-16 are en route to attack. Belgium may have also hit them earlier. This may not last much longer. Also, there are rumors that much of the military fled Sirte.

BTW, Google Chrome spells Qaddafi this way.

203 b_sharp  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:35:08pm

re: #197 PhillyPretzel

Toast puns?

Toast guns. Rapid fire, laser directed toast.

204 Lidane  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:35:10pm

re: #189 HoosierHoops

To toast, or not to toast, that is the question:
Whether 'tis nobler in the mind to suffer
The rinds and bitterness of orange marmalade,
Or to take up knives against a jar of preserves,
And by buttering them? To toast, to eat,
No more; and by eating to say we end
The heart-ache, and the thousand natural shocks
That hunger is heir to: 'tis a consummation.

205 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:35:17pm

Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this toast!

206 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:35:26pm

The most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I'm from the government and I'm here to make toast’.

207 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:36:03pm

IT MUST BE DONE...

Youtube Video

:)

208 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:36:06pm

re: #206 Girth

The most terrifying words in the English language are: ‘I'm from the government and I'm here to make toast’.

The shock and toast campaign has begun.

Don't fight until you see the whites of their toast!

209 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:36:09pm

30,000,000 legal toaster owners killed no one yesterday.

210 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:36:46pm

re: #192 Gus 802

Battle flag...

Don't Toast on Me

Motto: "E pluribus toastum"

211 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:36:52pm

Toasters always finds a need for whatever bread it gets.

212 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:37:08pm

re: #210 Killgore Trout

Motto: "E pluribus toastum"

In Toast We Trust!

213 b_sharp  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:37:18pm

This thread is making me feel all warm and toasty inside.

214 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:37:29pm

Hmm. I thought all toasters were legal.

215 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:37:39pm

..and he who has no toaster, let him sell his garment and buy one.

216 Lidane  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:37:45pm

From each according to his toaster, to each according to his bread

217 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:38:16pm

re: #214 PhillyPretzel

Hmm. I thought all toasters were legal.

Toasters don't make toast, people do.

218 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:38:47pm

Ask not your country to make you toast but what toast you can do for your country

219 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:38:50pm

All political power comes from the slot of a toaster. The communist party must command all the toasters, that way, no toasters can ever be used to command the party.

220 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:39:05pm

Everywhere that toasters stir, let bread fear.

221 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:39:27pm

I regret that I have but one slice of toast to give my country.

222 ProGunLiberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:39:44pm

re: #202 ProLifeLiberal

And now there is talk that are en route one of these babies are in route to Libya too.

223 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:39:46pm

A government resting on a minority is an aristocracy, not a Republic, and could not be safe with a numerical and physical force against it, without a standing army, an enslaved press, and untoasted bread.

224 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:39:47pm

The toastess with the mostest.

225 webevintage  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:39:50pm

"Who is this Barack Obama?
He uses orange marmalade instead of grape jelly.
You know who else used marmalade?
Hitler."
Glen Beck

226 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:40:29pm

Toasters are like assholes. Everybody's got one. -- Marcus Twayne

/

227 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:41:07pm

re: #222 ProLifeLiberal

And now there is talk that are en route one of these babies are in route to Libya too.

Ouch. On the receiving end of a visit from Spooky is not good. Such people are toast.

228 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:41:46pm

Fire cannot toast bread! -- Rosy O'Dunnell

229 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:41:50pm

A slice of bread toasted is a tragedy, a million toasted a statistic.

230 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:42:44pm

My kingdom for a toaster.

231 ProGunLiberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:42:53pm

re: #227 oaktree

Yeah, this may be interesting if such reports are true.

Using that in Call of Duty was awesome.

232 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:43:46pm

that this nation, under God, shall have a new birth of freedom—and that toast of the people, by the people, for the people, shall not perish from the earth.

233 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:44:12pm

Toast early and toast often.

234 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:44:56pm

It is easier for a camel to go through the slot of a toaster, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God...

235 Shiplord Kirel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:45:09pm

Alinsky toast!

236 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:45:53pm

re: #235 Shiplord Kirel

Alinsky toast!

Rules for Toasters.

237 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:46:28pm

re: #231 ProLifeLiberal

Yeah, this may be interesting if such eports are true.

Using that in Call of Duty was awesome.

Once you have air superiority and can roll those around any sort of enemy ground concentration can simply be hammered. Should be easy to find YouTubes of Spooky camera tape from Afghanistan or Iraq. I recall seeing one of a night attack where most of the footage is IR-based. With the plane occasionally popping a flare to illuminate something they wanted to hit again.

238 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:46:44pm

re: #236 Girth
Oh no! Toast rules.

239 Shiplord Kirel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:47:07pm

Alas, poor Yorick, they toasted him well.

240 Lidane  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:47:40pm

re: #234 Gus 802

It is easier for a camel to go through the slot of a toaster, than for a rich man to enter the kingdom of God...

ZOMG SOROS! It's all his fault!

241 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:48:46pm

In the councils of government, we must guard against the acquisition of unwarranted influence, whether sought or unsought, by the toaster-bread complex.

242 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:49:11pm

No blood for toast!

243 ProGunLiberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:49:19pm

re: #237 oaktree

Apparently, some guy in the Netherlands has an odd hobby. This is where info is coming from:

[Link: twitter.com...]

244 BishopX  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:49:43pm

How much toast does the pope have?

245 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:49:50pm

Once more unto the toast once more.

246 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:50:04pm

Mr. President, we must not allow a toaster-slot gap!

247 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:50:23pm

How much toast must a toaster toast before you can call it a toaster...the answer my friend...

248 Ojoe  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:50:31pm

Gingrich makes Palin look good.

249 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:50:44pm

We the people, in order to form a more perfect toaster...

250 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:50:50pm

re: #246 Girth
How else can we get burnt toast out?

251 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:51:05pm

"The toasting has begun. It is too late for the crumbs to vote."

252 BishopX  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:51:28pm

Ich ein toaster!

253 Ojoe  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:51:49pm

On line toaster museum.

No kidding.

254 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:51:56pm

re: #252 BishopX

Ich ein toaster!

ROFL

255 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:51:57pm

re: #248 Ojoe

Gingrich makes Palin look good.

Honestly, that's like saying being punched in the gut looks good compared to one in the nuts. She's equally as nuts as he is. Remember she is the one who perpetuated the death panel bs and makes every criticism of her out to be a personal attack.

256 Shiplord Kirel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:52:24pm

re: #248 Ojoe

Gingrich makes Palin look good.

/in bed

(Sorry, couldn't resist)

257 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:52:31pm

In the future everyone will have Talkie Toaster...

Youtube Video

He is, therefore he toasts.

258 ProGunLiberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:53:22pm

re: #253 Ojoe

I think everyone has at least one weird hobby. That person's is apparently cataloging toasters through time.

259 Shiplord Kirel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:53:44pm

re: #243 ProLifeLiberal

Apparently, some guy in the Netherlands has an odd hobby. This is where info is coming from:

[Link: twitter.com...]

Yikes! That's the real deal.

260 Ojoe  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:53:44pm

re: #255 HappyWarrior

Still ...

GIngrich in a bikini?

Nope.

261 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:53:56pm

This link excellent.

rtlewis777 Ronald Lewis

RT @tweetminster: The campaign for truth about #EmanAlObeidi [Link: bit.ly...] - Storyful

262 blueraven  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:54:28pm

In toast we trust.

263 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:54:29pm
Youtube Video

Only the greatest superhero of all time.
264 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:54:34pm

re: #227 oaktree

Ouch. On the receiving end of a visit from Spooky is not good. Such people are toast.

The only problem is that it has to go low, so its vulnerable to ground fire and SAMs.

265 Lidane  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:54:48pm

re: #260 Ojoe

There's not enough booze in the world to get rid of that image. You should buy everyone here a new toaster just to make up for it. =P

266 BishopX  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:55:02pm

re: #254 PhillyPretzel

I think I got that one wrong. It should be "Ich bin ein toaster"

267 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:55:07pm

There was a second toaster. -- Oliver Stoned

/

268 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:55:24pm

re: #253 Ojoe

On line toaster museum.

No kidding.

OMG, some of those are beautiful!!! Kitchen art!

269 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:55:32pm

re: #260 Ojoe

Still ...

GIngrich in a bikini?

Nope.

Well, of course she's better looking than him. But on the you know issues, the two of them together have more batshit than a bat cave.

270 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:55:50pm

That was one giant leap for toast and one giant leap for toasterkind.

271 BishopX  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:55:51pm

re: #267 Gus 802

Was it on the doughy knoll?

272 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:55:57pm

A toaster in every room.

273 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:56:12pm

re: #269 HappyWarrior

Well, of course she's better looking than him. But on the you know issues, the two of them together have more batshit than a bat cave.

And by the i am going to have nightmares tonight because of you for planting the image of Newt in a bikini in my head :).

274 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:56:58pm

If bread is toasted in the woods and no one is there to see it, is it really toast?

275 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:57:28pm

Speak softly and carry a big piece of toast

276 theheat  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:57:39pm

It looks like in the time Newt was in political exile he took a creative writing class and was wildly prolific. It goes to show, yes, "you can make up shit like this." Exactly like this.

277 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:58:13pm

"I think there is a world market for maybe five toasters."

278 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:58:14pm

re: #268 Stanley Sea

OMG, some of those are beautiful!!! Kitchen art!

Image: 318x1.jpg

279 BishopX  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:58:16pm

Nothing to toast but toast itself

280 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:58:28pm

re: #275 oaktree

Speak softly and carry a big piece of toast

All toast is based on deception.

281 Ojoe  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:58:39pm

re: #268 Stanley Sea

Check out the Toast-o-lator, under the T classification.

I can't seem to get to link directly.

282 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:58:41pm

Toast is a lie!

283 BishopX  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 2:59:30pm

re: #282 Gus 802

No toast till Brooklyn?

284 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:00:41pm

re: #276 theheat

It looks like in the time Newt was in political exile he took a creative writing class and was wildly prolific. It goes to show, yes, "you can make up shit like this." Exactly like this.

Newt and Forstchen went down that road in the early 2000s. Had the South win Gettysburg. [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

So, yes you could say Newt learned some lessons during his political exile.

285 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:00:51pm

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Toast.

286 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:01:09pm

re: #281 Ojoe

Check out the Toast-o-lator, under the T classification.

I can't seem to get to link directly.

The Toast-O-Lator

287 A Man for all Seasons  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:01:11pm

Yesterday
All my toast seemed so far away
Now my bread is brown today
I believe in yesterday

288 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:01:29pm

Is a man not entitled to the toast from his toaster?

289 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:01:46pm

...to tell the toast and nothing but the toast.

290 BishopX  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:02:12pm

A man's toaster is his castle.

291 Ojoe  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:03:10pm

re: #286 Stanley Sea

My folks had one. The toast moved thru horizontally on a little stoker mechanism, and fell out the far end, all toasted.

293 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:03:19pm

Excuse me while I kiss the toast!

294 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:03:46pm

re: #172 Gus 802

Bread goes in, toast comes out.

You can't explain that.

/

You started this.

Just sayin'.

295 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:03:55pm

"What do you think of toasted bread?"
"I think it would be a good idea."

296 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:04:35pm

re: #294 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

You started this.

Just sayin'.

Yep! We'll make 9 million comments before the end of the day.

/

297 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:05:32pm

I have nothing to add.

My son asks for "toast not burnt."

He needs to.

298 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:05:33pm

A Bridge over the River Toast

299 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:06:01pm

Veni, vidi, toasty.

300 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:06:22pm

The toast not delegated to the United States by the Constitution, nor prohibited by it to the States, are reserved to the States respectively, or to the people.

301 Ojoe  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:06:30pm

The toaster song, in case someone hasn't posted this:

Youtube Video
302 A Man for all Seasons  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:06:33pm

Power to the Toast!

303 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:06:33pm

re: #243 ProLifeLiberal

Apparently, some guy in the Netherlands has an odd hobby. This is where info is coming from:

[Link: twitter.com...]

11K followers.

304 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:07:03pm

re: #301 Ojoe

Third time. But, it's funny EVERY SINGLE TIME!

305 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:07:27pm

re: #298 PhillyPretzel

A Bridge over the River Toast

Move-toast puns!

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Toast

306 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:08:07pm

re: #305 Gus 802

Move-toast puns!

How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Toast

The Toasternator.

307 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:08:12pm

Master of the toast.

308 Ojoe  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:08:18pm

re: #304 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

I've heard it sung at Scout Camp, even.

309 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:08:34pm

Superman V, The Quest for Toast

310 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:08:46pm

The Day the Toast Stood Still

311 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:09:01pm

Night of the Living Bread.

312 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:09:16pm

This Old Toast

313 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:09:23pm

The Toast Supremacy

314 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:09:29pm

re: #310 EmmmieG

By the way... Avatar ding.

315 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:09:36pm

Cat on a Hot Tin Toaster

316 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:09:43pm

Is it "Dancing with the Toast?"

or "Toasting with the Stars?"

317 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:10:09pm

re: #316 EmmmieG

Is it "Dancing with the Toast?"

or "Toasting with the Stars?"

Dances with Toasters

318 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:10:21pm

Gone with the Toast

319 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:10:23pm

re: #315 Gus 802

Cat on a Hot Tin Toaster

Toast maker, toast maker, make me some toast...

320 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:10:42pm

Evil Bread I and II

321 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:11:02pm

2001: A Space Toast

322 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:11:22pm

re: #320 Girth

Evil Bread I and II

Ironically, the third installment still titled "Army of Darkness."

323 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:11:32pm

Captain Renault: I'm shocked, shocked to find that toasting is going on in here!
[a croupier hands Renault a pile of toast]
Croupier: Your toast, sir.
Captain Renault: [sotto voce] Oh, thank you very much.

324 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:11:33pm

Toast Wars

325 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:11:37pm

Toast Busters?

326 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:11:38pm

No Country for Old Toast

327 BishopX  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:11:38pm

The sum of all toast.

328 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:11:40pm

re: #321 Gus 802

2001: A Space Toast

2010: The Year We Toasted Bread.

329 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:12:09pm

Grumpy Old Toast

330 A Man for all Seasons  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:12:13pm

I swear as God is my witness..I'll never go without Toast again
Frankly Scarlet..I don't give a damn

331 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:12:40pm

re: #284 oaktree

Newt and Forstchen went down that road in the early 2000s. Had the South win Gettysburg. [Link: en.wikipedia.org...]

So, yes you could say Newt learned some lessons during his political exile.

True, but do remember that that book was only the first one of a trilogy, and that trilogy still had Ulysses S. Grant lead the Union to victory in the end. I actually read the second of the three and its is not a neo-Confederate series.

332 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:12:47pm

Judge Bread.

333 Ojoe  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:12:58pm

Going Toastal.

334 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:13:23pm

The Good, The Bread, and the Toasty

335 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:13:25pm

The Phantom Bread
Attack of the Toasters
Revenge of the Toast
A New Toast
The Toaster Strikes Back
Return of the Bredi

336 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:13:26pm

Toasterman

337 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:13:48pm

The Hunt For Bread October.

338 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:14:10pm

Bread Dawn.

339 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:14:28pm

The Toaster Syndrome... staring Jack Lemmon and Jane Fonda

340 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:14:37pm

re: #338 EmmmieG

Bread Dawn.

Wolverines! Ate my Toast!

341 A Man for all Seasons  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:14:50pm

The Fantastic four.. The rise of the Silver Toaster

342 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:14:59pm

How to Murder your Toaster

343 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:15:00pm

Monty Python and the Quest for the Holy Toaster.

344 Ojoe  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:15:03pm

Catcher in the Rye toast.

345 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:15:26pm

The Bride of FrankenToaster

346 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:15:40pm

Some like it Toasted

347 Ojoe  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:16:06pm

Il Toastino.

348 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:16:12pm

Star Wars: A New Toast

349 BishopX  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:16:26pm

El Tostado.

350 reine.de.tout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:16:26pm

Return of the Toast People

All Quiet on the Western Toast

351 Achilles Tang  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:16:35pm

In the name of the holy toast, this is quite a long bread.

352 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:16:35pm

The Man With the Golden Toaster

353 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:16:53pm

Oh brother, not this again.

354 blueraven  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:16:58pm

The toastman always rings twice

355 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:17:04pm

re: #352 oaktree

The Man With the Golden Toaster

Goldenrye.

356 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:17:24pm

re: #353 Dark_Falcon

Oh brother, not this again.

Band of Toasters

357 reine.de.tout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:17:30pm

re: #353 Dark_Falcon

Oh brother, not this again.

Everybody's toasted, it would seem.

358 ProGunLiberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:17:48pm

re: #353 Dark_Falcon

Yep looks like it. Unfortunately, I'm too unimaginative to participate.

359 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:18:04pm

Toaster Gump

360 reine.de.tout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:18:14pm

Mea Toaster, Mea Toaster, Mea Maxima Toaster.

361 blueraven  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:18:14pm

re: #357 reine.de.tout

Everybody's toasted, it would seem.

Not toasted yet, just a little toasty

362 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:18:26pm

The French (Bread) Connection

363 BishopX  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:18:29pm

re: #356 Gus 802

Toast of our fathers

364 reine.de.tout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:18:35pm

re: #361 blueraven

Not toasted yet, just a little toasty

Key word.

365 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:18:48pm

"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"

Steven Wright

366 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:19:02pm

The Lord of the Bread: The Return of the Toaster

367 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:19:03pm

re: #365 Mr Pancakes

"If toast always lands butter-side down, and cats always land on their feet, what happens if you strap toast on the back of a cat and drop it?"

Steven Wright

Antigravity!

368 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:19:19pm

re: #358 ProLifeLiberal

Yep looks like it. Unfortunately, I'm too unimaginative to participate.

I've got something I'm working on, so I'm going to lurk till the joking dies down.

369 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:19:32pm

Toaster vs. Toaster

370 blueraven  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:19:32pm

re: #364 reine.de.tout

Key word.

I'll toast to that...cheers!

371 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:19:42pm

re: #358 ProLifeLiberal

Yep looks like it. Unfortunately, I'm too unimaginative to participate.

If you think that? You aren't reading very carefully.
/

372 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:19:49pm

The Mother of all Toasts

373 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:20:02pm

How Green Was My Toast

374 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:20:10pm

Toast Club.

375 ProGunLiberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:20:13pm

re: #368 Dark_Falcon

That's such a good idea, I'm doing it too.

376 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:20:23pm

Brother, can you spare some toast?

377 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:20:23pm

re: #347 Ojoe

Il Toastino.

Vintage Toast-O-Lator on eBay, of course

378 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:20:28pm

re: #371 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

If you think that? You aren't reading very carefully.
/

Go over to your DVD collection. Find DVD's with more than one word in the title. (Hitchcock, for example, almost never works)

379 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:20:34pm

re: #361 blueraven

Not toasted yet, just a little toasty

Everybody Must Get Toast!

380 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:20:50pm

Lucy in the Sky with Toasters

381 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:20:55pm

Toastfather 1 and 2

382 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:21:09pm

re: #379 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Everybody Must Get Toast!

Rainy Day Bread #12 and #35?

383 austin_blue  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:21:10pm

re: #264 Dark_Falcon

The only problem is that it has to go low, so its vulnerable to ground fire and SAMs.

Well, if all your SAMs belong to us, then you can cruise around at 15,000' and blow the shit out of targets of opportunity with your 105mm, you Bofors 40mm, or you 25mm chain gun. What's gonna reach ya?

Look! I see dead people! Fire for effect!

384 blueraven  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:21:19pm

Going Toastal

385 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:21:24pm

Better Off Bread.

386 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:21:38pm

Indiana Jones and the Temple of Toast

387 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:21:40pm

re: #378 EmmmieG

Toast by Northwest?

388 darthstar  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:21:45pm

Looks like Crumblina is back on the big screen.

389 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:21:55pm

White Men can't Toast

390 Achilles Tang  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:22:01pm

A spoonersim would be calling this a boast tread, sort of.

391 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:22:33pm

The Hurt Toaster

392 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:22:39pm

re: #389 Gus 802

White Men can't Toast

They were thinking of going with "White Bread Can't Toast," until they found that it can!

393 darthstar  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:22:42pm

Jesus Crust Superstar

394 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:22:44pm

Rambo: First Toast, Part II

395 Achilles Tang  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:23:09pm

re: #383 austin_blue


Look! I see dead people! Fire for effect!

OK, boss. They're toast.

396 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:23:17pm

My Life as a Toaster

397 darthstar  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:23:38pm

You Only Loaf Twice

398 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:23:50pm

Take the gun. Leave the toaster.

399 A Man for all Seasons  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:23:52pm

My left Toast

400 reine.de.tout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:23:56pm

The Horse Toasterer.

401 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:24:03pm

Sympathy for the Toaster

402 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:24:25pm

Burn After Toasting.

403 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:24:26pm

re: #383 austin_blue

Well, if all your SAMs belong to us, then you can cruise around at 15,000' and blow the shit out of targets of opportunity with your 105mm, you Bofors 40mm, or you 25mm chain gun. What's gonna reach ya?

Look! I see dead people! Fire for effect!

The problem is that Gaddafi's goons still have SA-24 shoulder-fired SAMs, and those can reach up to 11,000 feet, thus making it risky to mount low-level attacks.

404 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:24:29pm

re: #401 oaktree

Sympathy for the Toaster

Enter the Toastman.

405 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:24:40pm

Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Toasters

406 blueraven  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:24:44pm

C'mon C'mon baby now, toast and shout

407 Jimmi the Grey  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:25:14pm

Amityville Toaster

408 Feline Fearless Leader  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:25:21pm

The Bagels: Toast Like an Egyptian

409 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:25:29pm

For Whom the Bread Toasts

410 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:26:10pm

I'm ready for my toaster, Mr. DeMille.

411 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:26:25pm

Toaster in the Rye

412 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:26:29pm

In Cold Bread

413 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:26:37pm

Oh dem golden toasts

414 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:27:05pm

Okay, stop it. My dinger's sore.

415 austin_blue  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:27:21pm

Toast of the Town!

Oh, wait...

416 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:27:33pm

Seven Toasters for Seven Brothers

417 ProGunLiberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:27:35pm

re: #414 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

That sounds like a personal problem.

418 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:27:49pm

re: #414 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Okay, stop it. My dinger's sore.

Too much lovin' eh?

419 reine.de.tout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:28:00pm

Dem toast, dem toast, dem dry toast . .

420 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:28:48pm

Dial T for Toast

421 darthstar  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:29:22pm

re: #418 Dark_Falcon

Too much lovin' eh?

Well, it wasn't because he put unlovin'd bread in his toaster.

422 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:29:23pm

Murder she toasted

423 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:29:39pm

Four fried chickens and a Coke.
And some dry white toast please.

(Didn't even have to change that one.)

424 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:29:52pm

Toast on the Orient Express.

425 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:30:16pm

So here we are, 200+ posts later, and still making toast puns. Truly a high water mark for LGF.

/

426 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:30:32pm

Desperately Seeking Toast

427 Achilles Tang  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:30:39pm

re: #403 Dark_Falcon

The problem is that Gaddafi's goons still have SA-24 shoulder-fired SAMs, and those can reach up to 11,000 feet, thus making it risky to mount low-level attacks.

They certainly had enough dough to buy a lot of those.

428 blueraven  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:30:46pm

Praise Father, Son, and wHoly Toast

429 Mostly sane, most of the time.  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:31:04pm

Bye, bye, Miss American Toast...

430 reine.de.tout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:31:16pm

re: #425 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

So here we are, 200+ posts later, and still making toast puns. Truly a high water mark for LGF.

/

High water mark?

431 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:31:41pm

Dame Nellie Melba Toast

432 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:32:27pm

re: #430 reine.de.tout
High Toast mark

433 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:32:32pm

re: #430 reine.de.tout

High water mark?

Oh, sorry, meant a high bong water mark for LGF. I mean, to do this many posts, we gotta be pretty toasted.

/

434 webevintage  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:33:00pm

This Kentucky game is going to either give my hubby a stroke or heart attack before it is over....

435 reine.de.tout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:33:29pm

re: #434 webevintage

This Kentucky game is going to either give my hubby a stroke or heart attack before it is over...

You trying to change the subject?

436 ProGunLiberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:33:32pm

Just found this on Al-Jazeera comments. Who wants to be on this plane?

LOL
Nouvelair Tunisie A320-214 flying south of Malta to 260 will see a bunch over starboard soon heading south .

437 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:33:47pm

The Best Toast of our Lives

438 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:33:56pm

re: #427 Naso Tang

They certainly had enough dough to buy a lot of those.

They snuck them in with Hugo Chavez as the straw buyer. When we gets called on that, he throws out yeasty lies.

/If you can't beat 'em, join 'em.

439 reine.de.tout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:34:38pm

The Young and the Toastless

440 webevintage  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:35:46pm

re: #435 reine.de.tout

You trying to change the subject?

Toast is a commie plot to pollute our precious bodily fluids...

441 Shiplord Kirel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:36:24pm

The woman in bread....

442 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:36:25pm

re: #434 webevintage

We're anti UNC in this house. But rooting for Kentucky is alien to us.

443 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:37:28pm

re: #440 webevintage

Toast is a commie plot to pollute our precious bodily fluids...

Can I interest you in some grain alcohol and rain water?

/

444 webevintage  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:38:41pm

re: #442 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

We're anti UNC in this house. But rooting for Kentucky is alien to us.

The enemy of enemy is my friend...

445 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:39:31pm

Mickey Rooney is still kicking? Wow.

446 Achilles Tang  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:41:20pm

Charles, please wake up! We knead some help to get out of this.

447 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:41:24pm

re: #445 Gus 802

Mickey Rooney is still kicking? Wow.

Good God, who opened the Ark of the Covenant?!

/

448 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:43:21pm

re: #447 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Good God, who opened the Ark of the Covenant?!

/

Don't Look! Your face will melt!

449 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:43:47pm

BreakingNews Breaking News

Tsunami advisory issued after 6.5 earthquake off Japan - Japan Meteorological Agency [Link: bit.ly...]

450 blueraven  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:44:53pm

re: #445 Gus 802

Mickey Rooney is still kicking? Wow.

He recently testified before congress on elder abuse.

451 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:45:16pm

re: #449 Stanley Sea

BreakingNews Breaking News

Tsunami advisory issued after 6.5 earthquake off Japan - Japan Meteorological Agency [Link: bit.ly...]

Fuck. How big was the last quake?

452 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:45:47pm

re: #451 Killgore Trout

Fuck. How big was the last quake?

9.0

453 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:46:09pm

re: #451 Killgore Trout

Fuck. How big was the last quake?

9.0

454 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:46:44pm

re: #450 blueraven

He recently testified before congress on elder abuse.

I forgot about him. Eli Wallach is 95 and Ernest Borgnine is 94.

455 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:46:47pm

re: #452 Gus 802

re: #453 Stanley Sea

Two identical posts in a row. That's a rarity.

456 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:47:14pm

re: #452 Gus 802

9.0

Ah, ok.

457 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:47:26pm

re: #455 Dark_Falcon

re: #453 Stanley Sea

Two identical posts in a row. That's a rarity.

Two identical posts in a row. That's a rarity

458 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:47:48pm

Funny you know. All of the "funny looking" actors outlived the young, buff and good looking ones.

459 elizajane  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:48:29pm

re: #451 Killgore Trout

Fuck. How big was the last quake?

Not to repeat or anything, but -- 9.0
There can't be much left for a little tsunami to wash away. The height they are suspecting is only .5 meters, thank goodness.

BTW --
The Toastman Always Rings Twice

460 TedStriker  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:48:35pm

re: #423 EmmmieG

Four fried chickens and a Coke.
And some dry white toast please.

(Didn't even have to change that one.)

What are you, dressed like a Hasidic diamond merchant?

461 abolitionist  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:48:45pm

Man does not live by bread alone. Or fruit.

In Tunisia, act of one fruit vendor unleashes wave of revolution through Arab world

Bouazizi wept with shame.

“Why are you doing this to me?” he cried, according to vendors and customers who were there. “I’m a simple person, and I just want to work.”

Revolutions are explosions of frustration and rage that build over time, sometimes over decades. Although their political roots are deep, it is often a single spark that ignites them — an assassination, perhaps, or one selfless act of defiance.

In Tunisia, an unusually cosmopolitan Arab country with a high rate of college attendance, residents watched for 23 years as Zine el-Abidine Ben Ali’s dictatorship became a grating daily insult. From Tunis — the whitewashed, low-rise capital with a tropical, colonial feel — to the endless stretches of olive and date trees in the sparsely populated countryside, the complaints were uniform: It had gotten so you couldn’t get a job without some connection to Ben Ali’s family or party. The secret police kept close tabs on ordinary Tunisians. And the uniformed police took to demanding graft with brazen abandon.

Still, the popular rebellion that started here and spread like a virus to Egypt, Libya and the Persian Gulf states, and now to Yemen and Syria, was anything but preordained. The contagion, carried by ordinary people rather than politicians or armies, hits each country in a different and uncontrollable way, but with common characteristics — Friday demonstrations, Facebook connections, and alliances across religious, class and tribal lines. This wave of change happened because aging dictators grew cocky and distant from the people they once courted, because the new social media that the secret police didn’t quite understand reached a critical mass of people, and because, in a rural town where respect is more valued than money, Mohammed Bouazizi was humiliated in front of his friends.

After the slap, Bouazizi went to city hall and demanded to see an official. No, a clerk replied. Go home. Forget about it.

Bouazizi returned to the market and told his fellow vendors he would let the world know how unfairly they were being treated, how corrupt the system was.

He would set himself ablaze.

“We thought he was just talking,” said Hassan Tili, another vendor.

A short while later, the vendors heard shouts from a couple of blocks away. Without another word to anyone, Bouazizi had positioned himself in front of the municipal building, poured paint thinner over his body and lit himself aflame.

462 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:49:21pm

re: #454 Gus 802

I forgot about him. Eli Wallach is 95 and Ernest Borgnine is 94.

Long live Tuco! One of my favorite performances in one of my favorite movies.

463 William Barnett-Lewis  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:49:33pm

I've looked at toast from both sides now
From give and take, and still somehow
It's butter's illusions i recall.
I really don't know toast at all.

464 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:50:11pm

re: #457 Mr Pancakes

Two identical posts in a row. That's a rarity

slow down mr. syrup!

465 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:50:53pm

re: #423 EmmmieG

Four fried chickens and a Coke.
And some dry white toast please.

(Didn't even have to change that one.)

Top this...

466 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:51:26pm

re: #464 Stanley Sea

slow down mr. syrup!

Stanley..... my bracket is toast.

467 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:52:25pm

re: #466 Mr Pancakes

Stanley... my bracket is toast.

Everyone's bracket is toast.

468 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:52:59pm

re: #467 Stanley Sea

Everyone's bracket is toast.

True

469 TedStriker  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:53:03pm

re: #467 Stanley Sea

Everyone's bracket is toast.

Burnt to a crisp...

470 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:53:14pm

re: #467 Stanley Sea
The Philly bracket has been toast for a while. :(

471 Gus  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:53:42pm

OK, BIAW

May the toast be with you!

472 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:54:06pm

re: #470 PhillyPretzel

Mine was toast before the first tip off.

473 elizajane  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:54:24pm

Father, Son, and Holy Toast.

But it's Lent, and I've given up the Toast.

474 blueraven  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:54:37pm

re: #458 Gus 802

Funny you know. All of the "funny looking" actors outlived the young, buff and good looking ones.

Also funny that in the late 30s, early 40s he was considered a ladies man. Hell, he was married to Ava Gardner.

Image: ava-gardner.jpg

475 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:55:28pm

re: #474 blueraven

Rawr.

476 blueraven  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 3:57:36pm

re: #475 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Rawr.

She was a true beauty!

477 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:03:33pm

re: #474 blueraven
The Chairman of the Board was after her too.

478 blueraven  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:05:19pm

re: #477 PhillyPretzel

The Chairman of the Board was after her too.

Weren't they married for a while...or just dated?

479 ProGunLiberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:06:08pm

An Al-Jazeera broadcast showed A-10's on the tarmac. If that isn't just generic footage, and they are flying from an Italian base, things will be even more interesting.

480 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:06:17pm

And now is the time on Sprockets when we do the victory dance!

UK to the Final Four!

481 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:08:01pm

re: #480 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

And now is the time on Sprockets when we do the victory dance!

UK to the Final Four!

Touch my monkey! Touch him! Love him! He is smitten with you, I can tell

482 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:08:54pm

re: #479 ProLifeLiberal

An Al-Jazeera broadcast showed A-10's on the tarmac. If that isn't just generic footage, and they are flying from an Italian base, things will be even more interesting.

If that's genuine, they Gaddafi's tanks are about to catch a beatdown. The A-10 is like a Honey Badger: A-10 don't care if you've got AAMGs or shoulder fired SAMs, A-10 comes after you anyway. A-10 don't give a shit.

483 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:09:41pm

re: #481 Mr Pancakes

Touch my monkey! Touch him! Love him! He is smitten with you, I can tell

SMACK TO THE HEAD! And no, I will not spank your monkey instead.

484 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:10:32pm

re: #483 Dark_Falcon

SMACK TO THE HEAD! And no, I will not spank your monkey instead.

I loved "Sprockets" on SNL..... I couldn't help myself.

485 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:10:48pm

re: #478 blueraven

I am not sure.

486 ProGunLiberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:10:52pm

re: #482 Dark_Falcon

Combine that with everything else we DO know about, Qaddafi is about to learn the power of NATO.

487 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:12:24pm

re: #486 ProLifeLiberal

Combine that with everything else we DO know about, Qaddafi is about to learn the power of NATO.

North American Toast Organization?

488 William Barnett-Lewis  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:15:00pm

re: #487 Mr Pancakes

North American Toast Organization?

Not Another Toasted Oligarch?

489 ProGunLiberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:15:29pm

re: #488 wlewisiii

I stepped right into that one.

490 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:16:14pm

re: #489 ProLifeLiberal

I stepped right into that one.

What are they going to do? Butter Qaddafi up?

491 b_sharp  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:16:21pm

It's time Gus was run out of toast on a rail.

After being toasted and feathered.

492 jaunte  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:17:17pm

re: #166 reine.de.tout

JAUNTE - you here?

I just got back.

493 Dancing along the light of day  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:18:32pm

LOL! A toasted bread pun thread!
Pass the jam!

494 Achilles Tang  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:19:28pm

re: #490 Mr Pancakes

What are they going to do? Butter Qaddafi up?

That from Mr. Pancakes, yet.

495 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:19:30pm

some toastit notes please.

496 Dancing along the light of day  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:21:09pm

re: #495 PhillyPretzel

some toastit notes please.

Well buttered!

497 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:26:19pm

re: #494 Naso Tang

That from Mr. Pancakes, yet.

Yeah, but I thought it syrupy. :D

498 Dark_Falcon  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:27:17pm

Gotta go. BBL

499 blueraven  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:31:20pm

Jeez, somebody fetch me the broom. Lotta crumbs in here.

500 Achilles Tang  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:31:48pm

Looks like the bread pita'd out.

BBL

501 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:34:49pm

re: #499 blueraven

That is what happens when you play with toast.

502 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:37:43pm

I believe the toast thread is toast.

503 Dancing along the light of day  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:38:17pm

re: #499 blueraven

Toaster tray needs cleaning out!

504 blueraven  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:38:28pm

re: #502 PhillyPretzel

I believe the toast thread is toast.

Like the south, it will rise again!

505 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:39:02pm

Who are these people??

RT @ESPNResearch: 5.9 million brackets in the ESPN Tournament Challenge... and TWO have the Final Four correct. TWO!

506 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:40:36pm

re: #504 blueraven

Like the south, it will rise again!

Give a man a piece of toast and sustain him till lunch, give that same man a toaster and give him a jelly and butter delivery system for the life of the toaster.

Hopefully now it's dead.

507 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:42:46pm

re: #505 Stanley Sea
It is like trying to figure out who won the MegaMillions jackpot.

508 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:42:55pm

re: #505 Stanley Sea

Who are these people??

RT @ESPNResearch: 5.9 million brackets in the ESPN Tournament Challenge... and TWO have the Final Four correct. TWO!

That's weird....... but that's a lot of brackets.

509 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:45:23pm

Jim Hoft discovers new video....
Video: Bill Ayers Admits (Again) He Wrote Obama’s First Book

Youtube Video

Idiot.
/BTW, it's also shitty that lefties think Ayers is a swell guy
510 Dancing along the light of day  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:46:06pm

re: #505 Stanley Sea

Who are these people??

RT @ESPNResearch: 5.9 million brackets in the ESPN Tournament Challenge... and TWO have the Final Four correct. TWO!

Geniuses, or, they got lucky!
*waves*

511 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:47:03pm

re: #510 Floral Giraffe
They got lucky.

512 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:48:23pm

re: #510 Floral Giraffe

Geniuses, or, they got lucky!
*waves*

For anyone to pick VCU to make the final four was a decision made by heart and not the head.

513 ProGunLiberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:49:53pm

re: #512 Mr Pancakes

I don't pay attention to sports much. Who is VCU?

514 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:50:29pm

re: #513 ProLifeLiberal

I don't pay attention to sports much. Who is VCU?

Virginia Commonwealth University

515 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:50:46pm

re: #513 ProLifeLiberal
Virginia Commonwealth

516 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:52:00pm

re: #513 ProLifeLiberal

I don't pay attention to sports much. Who is VCU?

Cinderella 2011

517 Kragar  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:52:56pm

re: #516 Stanley Sea

Cinderella 2011

Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion.

518 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:53:35pm

re: #517 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion.

Absolutely on point.

519 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:53:39pm

re: #517 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)
LOL

520 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:54:09pm

re: #505 Stanley Sea

How many possible variations are there?

521 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:54:40pm

re: #517 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

Cinderella story. Outta nowhere. A former greenskeeper, now, about to become the Masters champion.

I was going to say like the Yugo beating out BMW for "Car of the Year".

522 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:55:14pm

re: #520 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

How many possible variations are there?

No idea! Check 538.

523 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:55:32pm

re: #506 Mr Pancakes

Give a man a piece of toast and sustain him till lunch, give that same man a toaster and give him a jelly and butter delivery system for the life of the toaster.

Hopefully now it's dead.

Build a fire for a man, he's warm for a day. Set a man on fire and he is warm for the rest of his life.

524 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:56:18pm

re: #520 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I have no idea. I am not into statistics.

525 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:56:49pm

re: #522 Stanley Sea

No idea! Check 538.

538? That post hasn't happened yet........ are you clairvoyant Stanley?

526 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:57:19pm

re: #520 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

How many possible variations are there?

2^63 = 9,223,372,036,854,775,808

527 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:57:29pm

re: #525 Mr Pancakes
Perfectly

528 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:58:02pm

re: #525 Mr Pancakes

538? That post hasn't happened yet... are you clairvoyant Stanley?

Okay. Y'all have to let me have 538! We're gonna make Stanley into Criswell.

529 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:58:43pm

re: #528 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Okay. Y'all have to let me have 538! We're gonna make Stanley into Criswell.

Ill race ya for it.

530 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:58:59pm

re: #528 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Not if the head Lizard gets it first.

531 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 4:59:55pm

re: #530 PhillyPretzel

Not if the head Lizard gets it first.

That the one with dirty knees?

532 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:00:43pm

re: #531 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
I think he has dirty toenails.

533 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:00:46pm

Y'all hang on a second.

534 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:01:20pm

Only five left

535 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:01:30pm

re: #533 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
why?

536 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:01:53pm

re: #534 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

Only five left

I'm still doing the math.

537 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:01:58pm

re: #535 PhillyPretzel

Because!

538 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:02:08pm

re: #534 Fat Bastard Vegetarian
less. :)

539 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:02:11pm

2^63 = 9,223,372,036,854,775,808

540 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:02:27pm

DAMMIT!

541 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:02:48pm

Even with the shitty weather my spirits are lifted. Two generations of the awful pit bull family down the street have moved out. I'm not sure how long it will last but I haven't heard a screaming child in days. Everybody on the street is buzzing with joy.

542 reine.de.tout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:02:51pm

re: #540 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

DAMMIT!

You wuz robbed!

543 reine.de.tout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:03:45pm

re: #541 Killgore Trout

Even with the shitty weather my spirits are lifted. Two generations of the awful pit bull family down the street have moved out. I'm not sure how long it will last but I haven't heard a screaming child in days. Everybody on the street is buzzing with joy.

yay!
When everybody on the street is buzzing with joy, the family must have been pure hell to deal with.

544 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:04:19pm

re: #539 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

2^63 = 9,223,372,036,854,775,808

Stanley meant 539 methinks.

545 jaunte  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:04:38pm

re: #541 Killgore Trout

I hope for your sake some quiet gardeners (who like frogs) move in.

546 Dancing along the light of day  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:05:01pm

re: #541 Killgore Trout

WOOT!

547 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:05:21pm

re: #541 Killgore Trout

They had to move away from those damned frogs...

548 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:05:22pm

re: #541 Killgore Trout

Even with the shitty weather my spirits are lifted. Two generations of the awful pit bull family down the street have moved out. I'm not sure how long it will last but I haven't heard a screaming child in days. Everybody on the street is buzzing with joy.

Was it the White family by any chance?

Youtube Video
549 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:07:07pm

re: #541 Killgore Trout

Even with the shitty weather my spirits are lifted. Two generations of the awful pit bull family down the street have moved out. I'm not sure how long it will last but I haven't heard a screaming child in days. Everybody on the street is buzzing with joy.

Oh....cry me a river...... I live in an apartment below an apartment that was recently rented to the Washington Redskins.

550 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:09:03pm

re: #543 reine.de.tout

yay!
When everybody on the street is buzzing with joy, the family must have been pure hell to deal with.

Yeah, they were pretty awful. in the time that I've been here at least two families who bought the house directly next door to them moved because of them. Noise, drugs, cops, fights. Come to think of it, the neighborhood hasn't even been this quiet before and I've been here 13 years or so.
I don't expect it to last, they'll move back in eventually but for now I'll enjoy it.

551 ProGunLiberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:09:26pm

re: #516 Stanley Sea

Now that I know that, I have a question:

How in bloody hell is this relative unknown, and Butler in the Final Four? This seems like a bat out of hell. I hadn't heard of these two before now.

552 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:09:33pm

re: #549 Mr Pancakes
I live in a row home in Philly. One neighbor believes in being nice to his neighbors. The other believes every day that ends in the letter "Y" is an excuse for a party.

553 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:10:12pm

re: #549 Mr Pancakes

Oh...cry me a river... I live in an apartment below an apartment that was recently rented to the Washington Redskins.

I don't know if I can go back to apartment living. I feel for ya.

554 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:10:29pm

re: #551 ProLifeLiberal

Now that I know that, I have a question:

How in bloody hell is this relative unknown, and Butler in the Final Four? This seems like a bat out of hell. I hadn't heard of these two before now.

Dude.... Butler make it to the final game last year....... I'll never doubt Butler again.

555 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:11:01pm

Did I miss earlier discussion on this?
Rep. Bachmann proposes to tax single mothers at a higher rate than married ones

Beginning at the (4:15) mark in the video to the left Bachmann proposes implementing a tax system that would encourage "family formation." The context of Bachmann's remarks make it clear that she would like to either give tax credits, or lower tax rates to people who are married as opposed to those who are single. Given Bachmann's past statement on gay rights, the lower tax rates and/or tax credits would also only apply to heterosexual couples. If implemented, single mothers would likely be taxed at a higher rate than mothers who are married.

For "small-government conservatives" these are the most meddlesome bunch I've seen in a while.

556 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:11:10pm

re: #553 Killgore Trout

I don't know if I can go back to apartment living. I feel for ya.

Thanks..... It sucks Killgore........ it fucking sucks.

557 ProGunLiberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:11:24pm

re: #554 Mr Pancakes

I (almost) always support the lowest underdog so: GO VCU!

558 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:13:53pm

re: #557 ProLifeLiberal

I (almost) always support the lowest underdog so: GO VCU!

That sounds good to me........ I think most of us are for the underdog when we don't have a team that's in there anymore.

I lost most interest when SDSU lost......... at least we beat Temple...... not sure where they were from....... Hi Philly!

559 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:14:33pm

re: #550 Killgore Trout

Not if something tragic happens to the house. Like a skunk is set loose inside it. Or a family of honey badgers is moved in.

560 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:15:22pm

re: #551 ProLifeLiberal

Now that I know that, I have a question:

How in bloody hell is this relative unknown, and Butler in the Final Four? This seems like a bat out of hell. I hadn't heard of these two before now.

Butler makes sense. They were runner ups last year. Now VCU I don't have the foggiest idea. I have to say though I started thinking they had some potential after they clobbred GMU (my school) at the conference tournament. There was some sour grapes on my part since VCU is our biggest rival and the conference tournament is always in Richmond but they're legit.

561 Romantic Heretic  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:15:23pm

re: #502 PhillyPretzel

I believe the toast thread is toast.

The toast is a lie!

562 ProGunLiberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:15:24pm

re: #559 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

That's not tragic. That's hilarious shenanigans.

563 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:15:53pm

My teams rarely make it to the elite 8. LaSalle, U of Penn, St Joe, Villanova and Temple.

564 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:15:55pm

re: #551 ProLifeLiberal

Now that I know that, I have a question:

How in bloody hell is this relative unknown, and Butler in the Final Four? This seems like a bat out of hell. I hadn't heard of these two before now.

Butler was there last year. So they weren't too surprising. VCU was the kicker.

565 A Man for all Seasons  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:17:36pm

College Basketball has changed so much..If there is a great player he will leave after his first year for the pros..
So just about any team can win.. Gone are the days of MJ, Magic or Bird...Great players playing 4 years..one and done

566 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:17:44pm

Oh and folks? I meant, Nate Silver the uber statistician at fivethirtyeight.com

I got lazy though and didn't read through all his NCAA posts. So you're on your own. FBV prob is right.

567 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:17:44pm

re: #555 negativ

Did I miss earlier discussion on this?
Rep. Bachmann proposes to tax single mothers at a higher rate than married ones

For "small-government conservatives" these are the most meddlesome bunch I've seen in a while.

I don't understand her logic at all. Not that I am proposing higher taxes on married mothers but I'd be more inclined to give single mothers a tax cut than married ones.

568 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:18:10pm

re: #564 Stanley Sea

Butler was there last year. So they weren't too surprising. VCU was the kicker.

Not only that..... they were in the "First Four"...... they've played one extra game.

569 Vicious Babushka  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:18:43pm

re: #541 Killgore Trout

Even with the shitty weather my spirits are lifted. Two generations of the awful pit bull family down the street have moved out. I'm not sure how long it will last but I haven't heard a screaming child in days. Everybody on the street is buzzing with joy.

Oh I was so happy, when the pit bull family next door moved out. They made an escape because the neighbors on the other side (who was attacked by their darling pets) was about to sue the living shit out of them.

570 ProGunLiberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:18:51pm

re: #564 Stanley Sea

This tells you my ignorance of sports. :/

571 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:19:35pm

re: #565 HoosierHoops

College Basketball has changed so much..If there is a great player he will leave after his first year for the pros..
So just about any team can win.. Gone are the days of MJ, Magic or Bird...Great players playing 4 years..one and done

IT really has. I was really impressed that Scottie Reynolds who I went to high school with stayed his whole four years at Villanova. Unfortunately, I think that may have cost him since his draft stock was never higher than it was after his junior year when he made the shot that got Nova to the FInal Four but I still commend him for giving his whole four years and getting a degree. Ditto to Cam Long from GMU who I've met and interviewed.

572 TedStriker  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:21:15pm

re: #562 ProLifeLiberal

That's not tragic. That's hilarious shenanigans.

I swear to God, I'll pistol whip the next guy who says "shenanigans"!

/Super Troopers

573 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:21:22pm

The best case in point for what Hoops is talking about I'd say is last year's Kentucky team. What was that, three starting freshmen that are now in the NBA? John Wall, Cousins, and I think there was one other kid too.

574 jaunte  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:21:34pm

re: #555 negativ

Did I miss earlier discussion on this?
Rep. Bachmann proposes to tax single mothers at a higher rate than married ones

I don't believe even Rep. Bachmann thinks the reason single mothers are single mothers is because of tax policy. This is just another 'punishment for the wicked' that will make a certain set of voters feel good.

575 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:21:52pm

re: #565 HoosierHoops

Your right, few exceptions.

Tyler Hansbrough is an exception.

576 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:22:00pm

re: #570 ProLifeLiberal

This tells you my ignorance of sports. :/

It's not you...... some of us just don't have lives.

Jimmy Johnson lost at Fontana today.

/

577 Killgore Trout  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:22:07pm

re: #569 Alouette

Oh I was so happy, when the pit bull family next door moved out. They made an escape because the neighbors on the other side (who was attacked by their darling pets) was about to sue the living shit out of them.

Only two generations moved out so the grandmother is still there. The families around with young children still haven't figured out if the pitbulls are going to stay or go. It's been a big concern for years.

578 A Man for all Seasons  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:22:41pm

re: #573 HappyWarrior

The best case in point for what Hoops is talking about I'd say is last year's Kentucky team. What was that, three starting freshmen that are now in the NBA? John Wall, Cousins, and I think there was one other kid too.

Rose will probably be the MVP this year..In the past he'd still be in College

579 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:22:48pm

re: #565 HoosierHoops

College Basketball has changed so much..If there is a great player he will leave after his first year for the pros..
So just about any team can win.. Gone are the days of MJ, Magic or Bird...Great players playing 4 years..one and done

Al Horford, Joakim Noah, Corey Brewer.

580 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:22:57pm

re: #562 ProLifeLiberal

I was going to say fire, but, well... it wouldn't have been wise.

Still might not be.

581 austin_blue  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:23:11pm

re: #565 HoosierHoops

College Basketball has changed so much..If there is a great player he will leave after his first year for the pros..
So just about any team can win.. Gone are the days of MJ, Magic or Bird...Great players playing 4 years..one and done

Damn good point. I wanna meet the only human who picked the Final Four.

582 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:23:40pm

re: #572 talon_262

I swear to God, I'll pistol whip the next guy who says "shenanigans"!

/Super Troopers

Hey Farva, what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the walls?

583 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:23:52pm

re: #581 austin_blue

Damn good point. I wanna meet the only human who picked the Final Four.

Did you see the stat? 5.9 million on espn brackets, TWO, only TWO got the final four. Freaking amazing.

584 Targetpractice  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:23:54pm

re: #574 jaunte

I don't believe even Rep. Bachmann thinks the reason single mothers are single mothers is because of tax policy. This is just another 'punishment for the wicked' that will make a certain set of voters feel good.

It's conservatives, who bitch so much about liberal "social engineering," engaging in it themselves. They seem to think that, if they stack the deck in favor of the nuclear family, they can force enough people into becoming one, while at the same time punishing those who live "immoral" lifestyles.

585 ProGunLiberal  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:23:57pm

re: #572 talon_262

Shenanigans!

586 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:24:25pm

re: #581 austin_blue

Damn good point. I wanna meet the only human who picked the Final Four.

He's probably just some guy that didn't know college hoops at all and was handed a bracket at a bar.

587 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:24:29pm

re: #572 talon_262

I still can't believe that movies wasn't even nominated for an Oscar.

Right, meow?

588 Kragar  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:25:11pm

re: #585 ProLifeLiberal

Shenanigans!

OH! Bikers...I'm a dumbass.

589 Fat Bastard Vegetarian  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:26:14pm

re: #586 Mr Pancakes

He's probably just some guy that didn't know college hoops at all and was handed a bracket at a bar.

A Ram could certainly beat a Jayhawk. That's silly! No Contest!
(scribble)

590 Dancing along the light of day  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:26:20pm

re: #565 HoosierHoops

*waves*

591 Shiplord Kirel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:26:44pm

re: #572 talon_262

I swear to God, I'll pistol whip the next guy who says "shenanigans"!

/Super Troopers

Better to use a shillelagh.

592 TedStriker  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:26:53pm

re: #582 Girth

Hey Farva, what's the name of that restaurant you like with all the goofy shit on the walls?

And the cheesesticks...don't forget the cheesesticks! ;-P

593 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:27:14pm

re: #586 Mr Pancakes

He's probably just some guy that didn't know college hoops at all and was handed a bracket at a bar.

Some total sports nut's girlfriend who really doesn't care but fills it out because the guy thinks its fun. She picks based on team colors.

I've seen a variant of this woman do quite well in pools before. Not this well, of course.

594 austin_blue  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:27:18pm

re: #583 Stanley Sea

Did you see the stat? 5.9 million on espn brackets, TWO, only TWO got the final four. Freaking amazing.

I didn't, but I'm not surprised!

Actually, I AM surprised that there are two. Had to be VCU grads...

595 Stanghazi  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:27:29pm

re: #589 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

A Ram could certainly beat a Jayhawk. That's silly! No Contest!
(scribble)

LOL, so true!

596 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:27:32pm

re: #578 HoosierHoops

Rose will probably be the MVP this year..In the past he'd still be in College

Yeah, it's amazing that guys like him and Kevin Durant are already well established in the NBA and just 22-23 years old. Totally different from baseball and football where guys become pro at that age and start becoming starts a year or so after that. I knew I was getting old when the Wizards drafted Wall number one. The kid is a week or so younger than my brother.

597 Dancing along the light of day  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:28:53pm

re: #596 HappyWarrior

I find it kind of scary, that these still growing kids are putting pro-sports level stresses on their bodies. I wish them no injuries.

598 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:29:36pm

Me and my other brother were watching hte GMU-OSU game last weekend when he pointed out the irony that my favorite college b-ball team is the same name as my most despised NFL team.

599 Our Precious Bodily Fluids  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:29:37pm

re: #572 talon_262

I swear to God, I'll pistol whip the next guy who says "shenanigans"!

/Super Troopers

'Shenanigans' is one of the best words in any language.

600 PhillyPretzel  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:29:51pm

re: #597 Floral Giraffe
Same here.

601 austin_blue  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:30:47pm

re: #597 Floral Giraffe

I find it kind of scary, that these still growing kids are putting pro-sports level stresses on their bodies. I wish them no injuries.

Don't forget that prior to the rule, they went from high school straight to the pros, like Kobe and LeBron.

602 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:31:12pm

re: #597 Floral Giraffe

I find it kind of scary, that these still growing kids are putting pro-sports level stresses on their bodies. I wish them no injuries.

Yeah, I agree. I heard about a guy who retired fairly young from the NFL and already has problems. I'm the only one of my brothers who never played on a football team. I think it would have been hell for me given my heart condition.

603 HappyWarrior  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:32:26pm

re: #601 austin_blue

Don't forget that prior to the rule, they went from high school straight to the pros, like Kobe and LeBron.

This is true too. I want to say LeBron was in the last year that allowed high school grads to declare. Which has me curious. I wonder where he would have gone if he had gone to college. Ditto Kobe.

604 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:33:43pm

Young bodies heal a hell of a lot faster though.

605 jaunte  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:33:48pm

re: #599 negativ

'Shenanigans' is one of the best words in any language.

Etymology: obscure, but first written usage in California.


Trickery, skulduggery, machination, intrigue; teasing, ‘kidding’, nonsense; (usu. pl.) a plot, a trick, a prank, an exhibition of high spirits, a carry-on. Hence she naniganning, she nanigin(g), pres. pple. and vbl. n.

1855 Town Talk (San Francisco) 25 Apr. 2 Are you quite sure? No shenanigan?

1856 Spirit of Age (Sacramento) 30 Apr. 2 These facts indicate that there is some shenanegan going on.

1857 C. E. DE LONG Jrnl. 15 Aug. in Calif. Hist. Soc. Q. (1930) IX. 156 Race came off Whiskey Bill winner, the Mare's rider held in, and Smith pronouncing it shenanigan.

1862 ‘MARK TWAIN’ Let. May (1917) I. iii. 77 Consider them all..guilty (of ‘shenanigan’) until they are proved innocent.
[Link: en.allexperts.com...]

606 Mr Pancakes  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:35:24pm

re: #593 Girth

Some total sports nut's girlfriend who really doesn't care but fills it out because the guy thinks its fun. She picks based on team colors.

I've seen a variant of this woman do quite well in pools before. Not this well, of course.

Yea that was a Cheers episode once. "Diane" won the pool based on her selections of what cities had the best symphony orchestras.

607 Dancing along the light of day  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:37:11pm

re: #604 Girth

Young bodies heal a hell of a lot faster though.

Nut, when they get damaged, it's frequently a greater, more lasting damage.
Knees. Shoulders.

608 Achilles Tang  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:38:07pm

re: #526 Fat Bastard Vegetarian

2^63 = 9,223,372,036,854,775,808

Some calculator you have there.

609 engineer cat  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:42:19pm

Newt Promises To Work So Hard As President That He'll Need To Have 5 New Adulterous Affairs

cites experience as pompous and self important blowhard

610 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:46:28pm

re: #607 Floral Giraffe

Nut, when they get damaged, it's frequently a greater, more lasting damage.
Knees. Shoulders.

Pure speculation here, but one could argue that this has nothing to do with the age of the person injured, but rather that the person has a weak knee, shoulder, whatever that was going to be injured anyway, and it happens that the injury occurs at a relatively young age because of said weakness.

611 engineer cat  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:48:13pm

Gingrich Revises Position On Dealing With Stress Of Being President, Promises To Mastubate Excessively Instead

but will keep his precious bodily fluids preserved for the benefit of god and man

612 Girth  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 5:51:15pm

re: #611 engineer dog

Gingrich Revises Position On Dealing With Stress Of Being President, Promises To Mastubate Excessively Instead

but will keep his precious bodily fluids preserved for the benefit of god and man

I'd have a lot more respect for the man if he went on television and said, "Women sense my power. I do not avoid women, but I do deny them my essence."

You hear me Mr. Gingrich? You want my vote? Go on TV and go Gen. Ripper on Hannity. That's the only way I vote for you.

613 Political Atheist  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 6:11:38pm

re: #604 Girth

True, but many of those soft tissue injuries haunt you later in life. You get as good as a meteorologist for swings in pressure or temperature. OTC pain relief becomes a part of your routine.

614 Charles Johnson  Sun, Mar 27, 2011 6:43:36pm

re: #37 kragar (proud to be kafir)

Actually, a lot of Evangelicals haven't given Newt a pass yet.

Bryan Fischer: "I believe social conservatives and all those in the pro-family movement must have grave reservations about his candidacy."

Bryan's just playing hard to get.

615 RIRedinPA  Mon, Mar 28, 2011 5:32:23am

I smell another Mel Gibson flick in the works here - The Passion of the Newt...

616 Crimsonfisted  Mon, Mar 28, 2011 5:53:33am

re: #615 RIRedinPA

I smell another Mel Gibson flick in the works here - The Passion of the Newt...

I prefer the title "Newt's Toast".

Speaking as one of the last, remaining wingnuts at LGF, I doubt anyone anywhere is buying what he is shoveling.


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