Fox's Dr. Ablow: Newt's Three Marriages Will Make Him the Most Virile President Ever

Fox’s Dr. Ablow: Newt’s Three Marriages Will Make Him the Most Virile President Ever

A real howler from Fox News

WingnutsJanuary 2012 • Views: 27,824

I may have spoken too soon when I declared Sarah Palin’s “dumb arse media” the totally ridiculous wingnut spin of the day, because Fox News contributor Dr. Keith Ablow has come up with an even more howlingly insane rationalization for Newt Gingrich’s sleazy personal life: Newt Gingrich’s Three Marriages Mean He Might Make A Strong President — Really | Fox News.

I have to say it’s incredibly amusing to watch conservative pundits and Fox News eagerly throwing all their vaunted values and principles into the rubbish without a second thought, to defend a former Speaker of the House who was forced to resign in utter disgrace.

I want to be coldly analytical, not moralize, here. I want to tell you what Mr. Gingrich’s behavior could mean for the country, not for the future of his current marriage. So, here’s what one interested in making America stronger can reasonably conclude—psychologically—from Mr. Gingrich’s behavior during his three marriages:

1) Three women have met Mr. Gingrich and been so moved by his emotional energy and intellect that they decided they wanted to spend the rest of their lives with him.

Right, his “emotional energy and intellect.” I’m sure the power and the money and the half million dollar line of credit at Tiffany had no influence at all.

2) Two of these women felt this way even though Mr. Gingrich was already married.

His incredible virility overcame their weak feminine minds. Family values!

3 ) One of them felt this way even though Mr. Gingrich was already married for the second time, was not exactly her equal in the looks department and had a wife (Marianne) who wanted to make his life without her as painful as possible.

Sure, he’s basically an ugly little troll, but the overwhelming, superhuman power of Newt Gingrich’s grandiosity was all she could see.

Conclusion: When three women want to sign on for life with a man who is now running for president, I worry more about whether we’ll be clamoring for a third Gingrich term, not whether we’ll want to let him go after one.

Because America is just like a philandering spouse.

Good grief. This has to be in the running for the most fatuous article of 2012, already.

And remember, Ablow was previously seen warning parents not to let their kids watch Chaz Bono on Dancing with the Stars, because it might turn them gay.

Family values!

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182 comments

HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:17:39pm

Ablow sounds like proof positive of why that just because you have “Dr” in your title that doesn’t necessary mean you’re smart or know what you’re talking about. See “Judge” Andrew Napolitano for exhibit B.

Kragar Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:17:59pm

From my post last thread;

1) Three women have met Mr. Gingrich and been so moved by his emotional energy and intellect that they decided they wanted to spend the rest of their lives with him.

How did that work our for his first two wives?

FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:18:00pm

So, how would he rate Bill Clinton?

Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:19:04pm

Thanks again, Oprah.

Varek Raith Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:19:22pm

Wost.
Pick.
Up.
Lines.
Ever.

goddamnedfrank Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:20:09pm

re: #3 ggt

So, how would he rate Bill Clinton?

Tang for the tang God!

HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:20:32pm

re: #3 ggt

So, how would he rate Bill Clinton?

Immoral liberal sexhound of course by virtue of being a Democrat.

HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:21:35pm

re: #2 Kragar (Proud to be Kafir)

From my post last thread;

1) Three women have met Mr. Gingrich and been so moved by his emotional energy and intellect that they decided they wanted to spend the rest of their lives with him.

How did that work our for his first two wives?

They got sick. You know till ~~death do us part~~ you get sick.

Eventual Carrion Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:22:14pm

“Mommy, watching Chaz makes me feel a little funny in my friut-of-the-looms.”

Petero1818 Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:22:22pm

V.P. Choices
~~Jesse James~~
~~Arnold Schwarzenegger~~
~~Anthony Weiner~~
Warren Jeffs…..thats the one.

Gingrich / Jeffs 2012

calochortus Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:23:32pm

He also thinks government involvement infantilizes married couples and is killing marriage. So who knows what his point really is.

HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:23:43pm

The part about Chaz Bono amuses me too since these right wing nuts claim the same thing about Glee. Then again the doc was probably a kid calling another kid gay for hanging out with girls when he was growing up.

Four More Tears Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:23:46pm

Stewart and Colbert have some serious competition .

lawhawk Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:24:57pm

re: #1 HappyWarrior

Dr. Ron Paul?

SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:25:17pm

re: #4 Slumbering Behemoth

Thanks again, Oprah.

Is this guy one of her proteges?

Varek Raith Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:25:32pm

Dear Johns Hopkins Medical School and Tufts-New England Medical Center,

Did you know this guy is a quack?

Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:25:59pm

Zombie Casanova 2012!

HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:26:08pm

re: #14 lawhawk

Dr. Ron Paul?

Yep there’s another. And I tell you another thing I love that Ron Paul by his fans is treated like an economics genius when all Ron Paul does is spout Austrian School rhetoric he hears.

jaunte Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:26:46pm

Ablow must have taken his doctorate in Advanced Rationalization.

SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:26:56pm

The Church has something to say to Gingrich and Santorum.

albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:27:07pm

I don’t see any connection between virility and numbers of marriage…cool word tho

HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:27:42pm

re: #20 SanFranciscoZionist

The Church has something to say to Gingrich and Santorum.

Good on them.

engineer cat Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:30:31pm

grandiose

i have to admit that my favorite part of last night’s debate was santorum basically saying ‘don’t you morons realize that the republican caucus - republicans!!! - considered newt an unmitigated disaster when he was speaker???’

jaunte Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:30:37pm

“When three women want to sign on for life with a man who is now running for president, I worry more about whether we’ll be clamoring for a third Gingrich term, not whether we’ll want to let him go after one.”

During May, 2011 Ablow launched Dr. Keith Ablow Life Coaching, offering a team of life coaches trained by him who are experts at applying the content of his books “Living the Truth: Transform Your Life Through the Power of Insight and Honesty.”
[Link: en.wikipedia.org…]

Lol.

Hawaii69 Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:32:06pm

Reminds me of the scene in Natural Born Killers where the feamel japanese reporter says excitedly “Mickey’s quite virile!!”

or maybe this:

My boyfriend is in trouble once again:
Got in a fight, got drunk on something nasty
I’ve had enough and I chased him away
And now I want a man like Putin

One like Putin, full of strength
One like Putin, who won’t be a drunk
One like Putin, who wouldn’t hurt me
One like Putin, who won’t run away!

I’ve seen him on the news last night
He was telling us that the world has come to crossroads
With one like him, it’s easy to be home and out
And now I want a man like Putin

One like Putin, full of strength
One like Putin, who won’t be a drunk
One like Putin, who wouldn’t hurt me
One like Putin, who won’t run away!

Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:32:40pm

America better not come down with an illness, or we’ll get dumped by the side of the road.

Just saying.

lawhawk Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:32:57pm

Gah, NBC News is already speculating on this election year’s October surprise. They are suggesting that it will come in the form of a UAV strike that takes out Zawahiri before the election - at least that’s my take on their headline: “After drone attack on al-Qaida planner, is Zawahiri next? Before the election?”.

And on what do they base this? Not much more than the fact that the US keeps rolling up various AQ terrorists all over the world, and Zawahiri is the biggest of the big names to thus far avoid that fate (OBL, Awlaki, et seq., are all toast).

Now, mind you that I have no problem with the US taking out these terrorists but it’s quite the leap from going after terrorists based on information that becomes available to timing the UAV strikes to somehow coincide with the national elections. That’s just unsupported and unsupportable.

calochortus Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:33:12pm

re: #26 EmmmieG

What if it is just a malaise?

HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:33:16pm

re: #26 EmmmieG

America better not come down with an illness, or we’ll get dumped by the side of the road.

Just saying.

Well maybe Newt will leave us for China, after all he has praised some of their economic ideas in the past.

Targetpractice Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:34:12pm

re: #26 EmmmieG

America better not come down with an illness, or we’ll get dumped by the side of the road.

Just saying.

Well, he might stay if we agree to an open presidency and let him bang sexier, younger countries on the side, while we sit at home and wonder what we did to deserve being abandoned.

Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:34:28pm

re: #29 HappyWarrior

Well maybe Newt will leave us for China, after all he has praised some of their economic ideas in the past.

And China will get the half million dollar line of credit at Tiffany’s.

That sucks.

Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:34:31pm

re: #15 SanFranciscoZionist

Is this guy one of her proteges?

Yup. Along with Dr. Oz and Dr. Phil. She has a thing for those sorts of “doctors”.

Hawaii69 Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:34:43pm

re: #25 Hawaii69

Reminds me of the scene in Natural Born Killers where the feamel japanese reporter says excitedly “Mickey’s quite virile!!”

or maybe this:

My boyfriend is in trouble once again:
Got in a fight, got drunk on something nasty
I’ve had enough and I chased him away
And now I want a man like Putin

One like Putin, full of strength
One like Putin, who won’t be a drunk
One like Putin, who wouldn’t hurt me
One like Putin, who won’t run away!

I’ve seen him on the news last night
He was telling us that the world has come to crossroads
With one like him, it’s easy to be home and out
And now I want a man like Putin

One like Putin, full of strength
One like Putin, who won’t be a drunk
One like Putin, who wouldn’t hurt me
One like Putin, who won’t run away!

Or maybe that’s exactly the wrong song for Gingrich….but you get the idea

Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:34:52pm

re: #25 Hawaii69

Public service note: the author of the lyrics above says they were intended to be satirical. Currently he writes lyrics for popular songs lampooning Putin, like this RuNet hit of the last year, “Our insane asylum votes for Putin”:

Youtube Video

HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:36:10pm

By the way I love Palin railing against the very media she has been pretty much apart of since she quit her job as Alaska’s governor. Not to mention her attempts to be witty by saying “arse”. You’re not British, Sarah nor funny.

Four More Tears Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:36:38pm

The more I read that headline, the more I think it would be a great argument for polygamy .

engineer cat Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:36:50pm

re: #20 SanFranciscoZionist

The Church has something to say to Gingrich and Santorum.

Catholic Leaders Challenge Gingrich and Santorum on Divisive Rhetoric Around Race and Poverty

newt will surely express regret that catholic leaders have turned out to be socialists sadly getting in the way of his role as messiah

calochortus Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:37:49pm

Well, as much as I’ve enjoyed my long, lazy lunch hour (or 2) I’d better go get something accomplished

lawhawk Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:37:50pm

Wait, if the issue is virility, then doesn’t Romney win that contest hands down? Ablow wouldn’t see it that way, so, it’s not merely the number of kids or opportunities for kids, it’s something else. (Hint: religious bigotry)

And considering that Clinton was a philanderer during his Presidency (only the most recent example, but by no means the only one- see JFK and FDR among others, both alleged and confirmed), they too wouldn’t be given Ablow’s seal of approval either. (Hint: political affiliation trumps all else).

Targetpractice Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:38:01pm

re: #36 JasonA

The more I read that headline, the more I think it would be a great argument for polygamy .

Come now, we all know that polygamy is a crime against God and only those wacky cults out West support it. Really good, honest Christian men pursue open marriages, as God intended.

Amory Blaine Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:38:05pm

re: #3 ggt

So, how would he rate Bill Clinton?

That’s the beauty. When it comes time to attack a fornicating democrat, he will whither into the wilderness while another hypocrite takes up the pen.

Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:38:14pm

re: #35 HappyWarrior

“I hate you for making me rich and famous.”

HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:38:34pm

re: #37 engineer dog

Catholic Leaders Challenge Gingrich and Santorum on Divisive Rhetoric Around Race and Poverty

newt will surely express regret that catholic leaders have turned out to be socialists sadly getting in the way of his role as messiah

I imagine a scene resembling the one with Bill Donohue and the Pope on South Park.

HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:39:36pm

re: #42 Slumbering Behemoth

“I hate you for making me rich and famous.”

Yeah no kidding. I’ve never seen a failed VP who immediately bailed on politics get the press that she does.

Targetpractice Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:40:08pm

re: #39 lawhawk

Wait, if the issue is virility, then doesn’t Romney win that contest hands down? Ablow wouldn’t see it that way, so, it’s not merely the number of kids or opportunities for kids, it’s something else. (Hint: religious bigotry)

And considering that Clinton was a philanderer during his Presidency (only the most recent example, but by no means the only one- see JFK and FDR among others, both alleged and confirmed), they too wouldn’t be given Ablow’s seal of approval either. (Hint: political affiliation trumps all else).

Yep, Gingrich is a paragon of virility, with his emotional energy and intellect. But Clinton was a philandering dirtbag who banged anything that moved.

///

Amory Blaine Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:40:45pm

How big are the Newts feet?
/

Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:41:29pm

re: #45 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Yep, Gingrich is a paragon of virility, with his emotional energy and intellect. But Clinton was a philandering dirtbag who banged anything that moved.

///

Let’s skip virility for good judgment. Shall we?

allegro Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:41:52pm

Because America is just like a philandering spouse.

Sounds more like he’s comparing the U.S. to a wife in an abusive marriage who is too beaten to stand up for herself and get the hell out.

albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:43:01pm

re: #27 lawhawk

Gah, NBC News is already speculating on this election year’s October surprise. They are suggesting that it will come in the form of a UAV strike that takes out Zawahiri before the election - at least that’s my take on their headline: “After drone attack on al-Qaida planner, is Zawahiri next? Before the election?”.

And on what do they base this? Not much more than the fact that the US keeps rolling up various AQ terrorists all over the world, and Zawahiri is the biggest of the big names to thus far avoid that fate (OBL, Awlaki, et seq., are all toast).

Now, mind you that I have no problem with the US taking out these terrorists but it’s quite the leap from going after terrorists based on information that becomes available to timing the UAV strikes to somehow coincide with the national elections. That’s just unsupported and unsupportable.

everything in the blogs is about the election…most voters tho, have their heads down, paying the bills…few people even know who Zawahiri is

FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:43:54pm

Etta James has died.

Obdicut Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:43:56pm

re: #20 SanFranciscoZionist

The Church has something to say to Gingrich and Santorum.

Excellent excellent. Way to go. That’s the stuff to feed the troops.

jaunte Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:44:51pm

“We knew we would get beaten up,” [Gingrich] said while campaigning in Beaufort, S.C. “We knew we’d get lied about. We knew we’d get smeared. We knew there would be nasty ads and we decided the country was worth the pain.”

Consider his noble sacrifice.

FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:45:43pm

re: #21 albusteve

I don’t see any connection between virility and numbers of marriage…cool word tho

I always thought it was word connected the number of offspring.

FemNaziBitch Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:46:22pm

re: #52 jaunte

“We knew we would get beaten up,” [Gingrich] said while campaigning in Beaufort, S.C. “We knew we’d get lied about. We knew we’d get smeared. We knew there would be nasty ads and we decided the country was worth the pain.”

Consider his noble sacrifice.

Newt lives in his own special reality.

Four More Tears Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:46:38pm

re: #50 ggt

Etta James has died.

And as fate would have it, the radio station in the laundromat is playing At Last.

albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:47:19pm

re: #53 ggt

I always thought it was word connected the number of offspring.

it is…this is just more net junk to smother you…I don’t hear these asstards

Four More Tears Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:48:10pm

re: #52 jaunte

“We knew we would get beaten up,” [Gingrich] said while campaigning in Beaufort, S.C. “We knew we’d get lied about. We knew we’d get smeared. We knew there would be nasty ads and we decided the country was worth the pain.”

Consider his noble sacrifice.

Gingrich of Nazareth.

engineer cat Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:49:13pm

One of them felt this way even though Mr. Gingrich was already married for the second time, was not exactly her equal in the looks department and had a wife (Marianne) who wanted to make his life without her as painful as possible.

i eagerly await mr gingrich’s self help book, Winning Your Struggle In Life By Being An Unbelievable Asshole

Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:49:24pm

re: #52 jaunte

I am humbled by such selflessness. Never have I seen a man give so much of himself, and ask so little in return.
/Ugh!

Targetpractice Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:49:25pm

re: #52 jaunte

“We knew we would get beaten up,” [Gingrich] said while campaigning in Beaufort, S.C. “We knew we’d get lied about. We knew we’d get smeared. We knew there would be nasty ads and we decided the country was worth the pain.”

Consider his noble sacrifice.

Who is this “we” he speaks of? Perhaps he’s using the royal “we”?

albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:50:11pm

re: #57 JasonA

Gingrich of Nazareth.

Barack of Bethlehem

shutdown Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:50:58pm

Serial philandering and the inability - or unwillingness - to remember whose bed you are meant to sleep in: only in the Fox-verse are these presidential qualifications. Nauseating.

Altermite Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:51:18pm

Mitt Romney of I really don’t have any biblical allegories here, sorry guys.

SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:51:21pm

re: #50 ggt

Etta James has died.

Oh, I’m so sorry to hear that. I knew she hadn’t been well.

Amory Blaine Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:52:16pm

re: #52 jaunte

“We knew we would get beaten up,” [Gingrich] said while campaigning in Beaufort, S.C. “We knew we’d get lied about. We knew we’d get smeared. We knew there would be nasty ads and we decided the country was worth the pain.”

Consider his noble sacrifice.

I love how he gets through every criticism about himself by claiming it is a lie or a smear. Then the offending questioner tucks in his balls and crawls away.

Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:52:29pm

re: #63 Altermite

Babylon, maybe? I dunno.

albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:52:33pm

re: #64 SanFranciscoZionist

Oh, I’m so sorry to hear that. I knew she hadn’t been well.

I’d drink with Etta anyday…she was really something…different

Bulworth Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:52:50pm

I have to say it’s incredibly amusing to watch conservative pundits and Fox News eagerly throwing all their vaunted values and principles into the rubbish without a second thought

Ah, well, they weren’t using them anyway…

Amory Blaine Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:53:11pm

re: #63 Altermite

Mitt Romney of I really don’t have any biblical allegories here, sorry guys.

He’s riding that camel through the eye of the needle.

shutdown Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:53:15pm

re: #68 Bulworth

Ah, well, they weren’t using them anyway…

Post of the day.

SanFranciscoZionist Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:53:25pm

re: #63 Altermite

Mitt Romney of I really don’t have any biblical allegories here, sorry guys.

Midian? Magdala?

Targetpractice Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:54:00pm

re: #62 imp_62

Serial philandering and the inability - or unwillingness - to remember whose bed you are meant to sleep in: only in the Fox-verse are these presidential qualifications. Nauseating.

I hope you bought stock in Pepto, because this is gonna go on til November. The marching orders have been sent: No matter who the nominee inevitably is, those who remain must be defended at all costs. The 11th Commandment is in full effect.

Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:54:46pm

Mitt Romney of Nod?

shutdown Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:55:25pm

re: #72 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

I drink more now that at any time since my investment banking days. Thanks, GOP.

Amory Blaine Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:55:32pm

Flippiccus of Floppius.

Four More Tears Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:55:54pm

Pontius PiMitt, for what he did to Newt in Iowa…

jaunte Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:56:11pm

re: #73 Slumbering Behemoth

Romney of the Benjamins.

shutdown Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:56:16pm

Romney the Romulan

engineer cat Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:58:23pm

re: #75 Amory Blaine

Flippiccus of Floppius.

croesus blandissimus

Targetpractice Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:58:29pm

re: #73 Slumbering Behemoth

Mitt Romney of Nod?

There can only be one messiah of Nod.

/(Geek mode)

Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:59:05pm

Widow’s Mitt (the smallest Romney coin).

engineer cat Fri, Jan 20, 2012 1:59:50pm

re: #81 Sergey Romanov

Widow’s Mitt (the smallest Romney coin).

not a very valuable coin - only worth a few hundred thousand dollars…

Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:00:16pm

Further proof that I just don’t understand women at all. If I live to be a million years old I’ll never understand how any amount of money could entice any woman to voluntarily latch onto someone like Newt Gingrich and (presumably) be crawled all over by them. Bllearrrggh!

Charles Johnson Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:00:30pm

The OWS movement totally jumped the shark this past week. As the weather got colder fewer and fewer rational protesters were involved until we got this ridiculous embarrassing demonstration at the White House and then the absurd, patronizing demonstration in Harlem.

The people doing these things are morons.

Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:01:00pm

re: #84 Charles

Yep, unfortunately this was predictable.

Four More Tears Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:01:43pm

re: #80 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

There can only be one messiah of Nod.

/(Geek mode)

I don’t even need to click to know you’re talking about C&C. Dork .

Targetpractice Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:02:25pm

re: #83 negativ

Further proof that I just don’t understand women at all. If I live to be a million years old I’ll never understand how any amount of money could entice any woman to voluntarily latch onto someone like Newt Gingrich and (presumably) be crawled all over by them. Bllearrrggh!

“Lie back and think of England.”

allegro Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:02:56pm

re: #83 negativ

Further proof that I just don’t understand women at all. If I live to be a million years old I’ll never understand how any amount of money could entice any woman to voluntarily latch onto someone like Newt Gingrich and (presumably) be crawled all over by them. Bllearrrggh!

As a woman I don’t get that neither. But taste, and lack thereof, is a very individual thing. Even Tiny Tim found love. And… ew in both cases.

Obdicut Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:03:00pm

re: #84 Charles

Privileged white kids going to Harlem to talk shit about Obama, none of them get their asses beaten by residents = amazing self-restraint on the part of Harlemites.

Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:03:34pm

re: #80 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Seemed like a logical spot, considering the way evangelicals react to him.

Petero1818 Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:03:40pm

re: #89 Obdicut

Privledged white kids going to Harlem to talk shit about Obama, none of them get their asses beaten by residents = amazing self-restraint on the part of Harlemites.

Harlem aint what it used to be. Just ask Bill Clinton.

albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:05:44pm

re: #91 Petero1818

Harlem aint what it used to be. Just ask Bill Clinton.

or Charlie Rangle

Targetpractice Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:06:36pm

re: #86 JasonA

I don’t even need to click to know you’re talking about C&C. Dork .

Kane lives in death!

Charles Johnson Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:07:30pm

By the way, I was wondering - were any of Newt’s wives married themselves when they took up with married Newt? Anyone know?

WINDUPBIRD DISEASE [S.K.U.M.M.] Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:08:01pm

CHILDREN’S ICE CREAM?!?!?!

Varek Raith Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:08:40pm

re: #93 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

Kane lives in death!

/

Yeah, then he gets his ass ion cannoned.

albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:10:04pm

re: #94 Charles

By the way, I was wondering - were any of Newt’s wives married themselves when they took up with married Newt? Anyone know?

need a Newt Sex Tree

albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:11:26pm

cheaters seem to attract each other…

Amory Blaine Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:11:49pm

re: #97 albusteve

Does it come with the swing?

100

Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:11:57pm

ʘ_ʘ

101

Varek Raith Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:13:17pm

re: #100 Sergey Romanov

ʘʘ

FTFY.

102

Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:13:40pm

re: #101 Varek Raith

FTFY.

I left the inevitable for others.

103

darthstar Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:13:43pm

Looks like next Monday’s debate on NBC is in jeapordy…Mittens hasn’t committed to attending. NBC is telling its affiliates to air Fear Factor instead…which is what I thought the GOP debates were called.

104

Targetpractice Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:15:11pm

re: #103 darthstar

Looks like next Monday’s debate on NBC is in jeapordy…Mittens hasn’t committed to attending. NBC is telling its affiliates to air Fear Factor instead…which is what I thought the GOP debates were called.

I thought they were called Survivor, which is where we watch as the biggest assholes slowly whittle down the opposition until they’re all that’s left, which is when they start tearing each other to bits.

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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:17:39pm

ʘٮʘ
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Four More Tears Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:18:40pm

re: #97 albusteve

need a Newt Sex Tree

That sounds disgusting.

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zora Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:19:10pm

re: #94 Charles

By the way, I was wondering - were any of Newt’s wives married themselves when they took up with married Newt? Anyone know?

his first wife was his high school teacher or counselor, i believe. he was about 17 so i’m not sure if she was breaking any laws, but it should have been illegal.

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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:20:19pm

re: #107 zora

his first wife was his high school teacher or counselor, i believe. he was about 17 so i’m not sure if she was breaking any laws, but it should have been illegal.

I thought she was his college professor.

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Lidane Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:21:21pm

This is hilarious. I love seeing the same people who were ZOMG OUTRAGED over Bill Clinton’s affairs falling all over themselves to explain that Newt’s affairs make him more of a man.

The party of family values indeed. ROFL.

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albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:21:45pm

it’s important to know where Newts dick has been…lets draw up an Atlas, a dickmap

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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:21:47pm

re: #107 zora

his first wife was his high school teacher or counselor, i believe. he was about 17 so i’m not sure if she was breaking any laws, but it should have been illegal.

Former high school geometry teacher according to Wikipedia. When he was 19 and she was 26.

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zora Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:22:12pm

re: #107 zora

his first wife was his high school teacher or counselor, i believe. he was about 17 so i’m not sure if she was breaking any laws, but it should have been illegal.

from wiki:

Gingrich has married three times. In 1962, he married Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, when he was 19 years old and she was 26

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albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:22:43pm

re: #109 Lidane

This is hilarious. I love seeing the same people who were ZOMG OUTRAGED over Bill Clinton’s affairs falling all over themselves to explain that Newt’s affairs make him more of a man.

The party of family values indeed. ROFL.

Newt has not been accused of rape…yet
big difference

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zora Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:24:35pm

re: #111 oaktree

Former high school geometry teacher according to Wikipedia. When he was 19 and she was 26.

wife marianne told esquire that newt was 16 and still in high school when he started “dating” his first wife.

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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:24:43pm

re: #112 zora

from wiki:

Gingrich has married three times. In 1962, he married Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, when he was 19 years old and she was 26

Ahh. Hot for teacher.

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jaunte Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:25:38pm

“I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way to immerse my insecurities in a cause large enough to justify whatever I wanted it to.”
— Newt Gingrich
[Link: www.pbs.org…]

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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:27:29pm

Honestly, if he wasn’t such a self righteous jerk about all this, it wouldn’t be an issue but the minute he claimed it was his passion for his country that led him to philander well that’s when it gets ridiculed. Own up to your mistakes pure and simple rather than acting like an immature child being caught stealing the last cookie.

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Lidane Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:28:02pm

re: #113 albusteve

Why would he be? Newt’s a Republican. Don’t you know that Republicans can never be accused of anything wrong?

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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:28:33pm

re: #118 Lidane

Why would he be? Newt’s a Republican. Don’t you know that Republicans can never be accused of anything wrong?

Only of not being Republican enough.

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albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:29:02pm

re: #118 Lidane

Why would he be? Newt’s a Republican. Don’t you know that Republicans can never be accused of anything wrong?

I assume Bill’s victims were largely non partisan

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zora Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:30:25pm

the esquire article from 2010:

Newt Gingrich: The Indispensable Republican

[Link: www.esquire.com…]

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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:30:36pm

re: #117 HappyWarrior

Honestly, if he wasn’t such a self righteous jerk about all this, it wouldn’t be an issue but the minute he claimed it was his passion for his country that led him to philander well that’s when it gets ridiculed. Own up to your mistakes pure and simple rather than acting like an immature child being caught stealing the last cookie.

The “minute” came and went during his crusade against Clinton. The man has been known as a lying sack for years, his own party called him out on it, but he’s refused to acknowledge. Last night’s little performance was just the continuation of his campaign to belittle and insult anyone who questions his bullshit cover story.

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Lidane Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:31:25pm

re: #120 albusteve

I know you’d love to deflect and bring up the false accusations of rape that Clinton got as some sort of MBF, but it’s not going to work.

Newt made a huge deal about Clinton’s affairs while having affairs of his own. And the same assholes at Faux News who were outraged over Clinton are now rationalizing Newt. That’s the point.

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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:32:10pm

re: #122 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

The “minute” came and went during his crusade against Clinton. The man has been known as a lying sack for years, his own party called him out on it, but he’s refused to acknowledge. Last night’s little performance was just the continuation of his campaign to belittle and insult anyone who questions his bullshit cover story.

That especially.

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albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:33:15pm

re: #123 Lidane

I know you’d love to deflect and bring up the false accusations of rape that Clinton got as some sort of MBF, but it’s not going to work.

Newt made a huge deal about Clinton’s affairs while having affairs of his own. And the same assholes at Faux News who were outraged over Clinton are now rationalizing Newt. That’s the point.

points bore me…so what?

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darthstar Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:33:28pm

Another Republican forced to walk back his Psalm 109:8 “joke”…

The Kansas Speaker of the House has apologized for an e-mail in which he prayed about President Obama, “let his days be few and brief,” but insisted that he wasn’t calling for him to die.

…snip…

On Thursday, O’Neal apologized, though said he wouldn’t step down, but insisted that he wasn’t calling for Obama’s death. “I respect the President and the Office,” he said in a statement. “The forward contained a single verse and was only intended as election commentary regarding the President’s days in office. I have apologized and I am sincerely sorry.”

Yeah…verse 9 never crosses their minds:
8 Let his days be few;
and let another take his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless,
and his wife a widow.

Fucking assholes.

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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:35:08pm

re: #126 darthstar

Another Republican forced to walk back his Psalm 109:8 “joke”…

Yeah…verse 9 never crosses their minds:
8 Let his days be few;
and let another take his office.
9 Let his children be fatherless,
and his wife a widow.

Fucking assholes.

And this asshole is the Speaker of the Kansas house. Not just any asshole.

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Amory Blaine Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:36:39pm

Foxconn CEO compares his workers to animals.

Though Foxconn’s CEO Terry Gou’s is spinning his comparison of his workforce to zoo creatures as a cultural mis-communication, it doesn’t change the fact that the company actually treats its workers like animals. During a presentation involving Taipei Zoo director Chin Shi-chien, Gou made the following remark. “Hon Hai (Foxconn) has a workforce of over one million worldwide and as human beings are also animals, to manage one million animals gives me a headache,” said Gou, as reported English news-site Want China Times.

The job creators care so much.

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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:36:53pm

I blame West Georgia College. If they had given Newt tenure in 1978 what odds he stops runnings for public office, becomes a liberal academic, and stays in the ivory tower?
//

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Obdicut Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:38:35pm

re: #129 oaktree

I blame West Georgia College. If they had given Newt tenure in 1978 what odds he stops runnings for public office, becomes a liberal academic, and stays in the ivory tower?
//

No, he’d be the ‘contrarian’ conservative academic, whining forever about not getting published because he was too politically incorrect.

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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:39:49pm

A Secret Service spokesman wouldn’t confirm that an investigation of Adler was under way but he told ABC News the publisher could be interviewed. “We are aware of this matter, and we will make all appropriate, investigative follow-up in regard to this matter,” Max Milien told the news organization.
…

Since the uproar, a few rabbis have told [Adler], “You’re a meshugenah,” Yiddish “nut.”

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Lidane Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:40:17pm

The party of family values rolls on:

Michael Reagan Endorses Newt

Chuck Norris Endorses Gingrich

And, adding insult to injury for Mittens:

Gallup: Romney Support ‘Collapsing’ Nationally

If the GOP seriously nominates Newt Gingrich, I will laugh. Then I’ll buy booze and popcorn.

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kirkspencer Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:40:30pm

I admit, I’d resolved myself to seeing Mitt v Obama. An unfortunately (for me) close race with a fairly small win by Obama in the end.

The realization that Newt may take South Carolina makes me want to invest in popcorn. The man has to get a second suite so his ego can stay in the same hotel, and the little encouragement means he’s going to fight for every single race — and maybe even demand recounts and reconsideration THROUGH the convention. A constant push to the right through July, never once playing back to the middle till everyone KNOWS where they stand, means Obama looks good even for the moderates.

And the thought that Newt might win makes me giddy. An Obama victory margin in the double digits becomes a possibility, with an unavoidably large cloak carrying downticket races.

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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:41:19pm

At very least, Newt’s recent rise will force Romney to flip even more to the right and pick a running mate to satisfy the knuckleheads.

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Amory Blaine Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:41:39pm

re: #126 darthstar

And Obama is supposed to be the divider.

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HappyWarrior Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:42:14pm

re: #131 Sergey Romanov

Is this the idiotic Atlanta journalist who thought it would be a good idea for Israel to off Obama? Glad the rabbis called him out for the meshugenah he is.

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Feline Fearless Leader Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:42:20pm

re: #130 Obdicut

No, he’d be the ‘contrarian’ conservative academic, whining forever about not getting published because he was too politically incorrect.

Politically incorrect geography studies… hmm.

Though it looks like he was working over in environmental studies as well. (He had shifted from the history department to geography. Sounds like a map head. NTTAWWT.)

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CuriousLurker Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:43:00pm

Drive-by comment: Good article. A bit long, but worth the read, IMO.

The Intersection of Religion and Politics:
Some Issues for Campaign 2012
At a recent Advisory Board Meeting of the Michael and Barbara Newmark Institute for Human Relations, Joel Goldstein addressed a prime issue of the 2012 presidential campaign. Joel is a Jewish Community Relations Council (JCRC) past president, Vincent C. Immel Professor of Law at St. Louis University and respected scholar of the Vice Presidency, Presidency, and Constitutional Law, having written widely in all three areas.

The presidential campaign season has certainly begun, the playoffs, if not yet the World Series, of American politics, and that reality brings with it the perennially vexing issues of the relationship between religion and politics. I say “perennially” because the problem has long roots in American history. It is “vexing” because some of the questions juxtapose important principles and do not lend themselves to simple solutions. I say “issues” because the relation between religion and politics raises multiple questions. First, there is the issue of the extent to which a candidate’s religious affiliation should be a factor in his or her candidacy, an issue which itself arises in multiple ways. Second, there is the issue regarding the extent to which religious teachings and beliefs can properly influence political discourse. Third, there is the use of religious issues as wedge issues. Finally, there is the issue of the extent to which it is helpful for Jews or another religious group to associate or appear to be identified with one party or the other or to be viewed as a voting bloc. All of these issues have arisen or will arise during the next 356 days. This morning I want to make some preliminary comments about the first two issues—the relevance of a candidate’s religious affiliation and the role of religious teachings in public discourse.

[…]

More at Jewish in St. Louis…

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albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:46:52pm

reading out on the patio…61deg, sunny
don’t get much better than that

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Lidane Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:47:55pm

re: #134 HappyWarrior

At very least, Newt’s recent rise will force Romney to flip even more to the right and pick a running mate to satisfy the knuckleheads.

Which will make it that much harder for Mitt to shift back to the center to appeal to moderates and independents. Either way, he loses.

I know a lot can happen between now and November, but the longer the GOP force the issue of the nominee going further and further to the right, the better Obama looks in comparison.

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engineer cat Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:54:08pm

the road to the republican nomination is about a million miles as the poo flies

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dragonfire1981 Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:55:48pm

If Newt wins I’m moving back to Canada.

Can you imagine Romney/Gingrich ‘12?

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chunkymonkey Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:56:52pm

Newt is the biggest ass-wad on the planet. It’s time he just slinks away. Fox pundits, like all pundits, are a bunch of raving a-holes. I’m amazed anyone watches or cares.

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chunkymonkey Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:57:47pm

re: #142 dragonfire1981

Hah! I’m with you. The Canadian government is more classically conservative then ours, and not the raving lunatic wingnut variety either.

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albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:58:32pm

re: #142 dragonfire1981

If Newt wins I’m moving back to Canada.

Can you imagine Romney/Gingrich ‘12?

if BO wins, I’m heading down to Jamaica for a few years…that’ll teach em to mess with me

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Lidane Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:58:37pm

re: #143 chunkymonkey

Newt is the biggest ass-wad on the planet. It’s time he just slinks away. Fox pundits, like all pundits, are a bunch of raving a-holes. I’m amazed anyone watches or cares.

The problem is, a lot of people watch, and unfortunately, they buy the bullshit that Faux News sells. Those people will see all these defenses of Newt and rationalize them without any sense of irony or self-awareness.

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albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 2:59:22pm

re: #143 chunkymonkey

Newt is the biggest ass-wad on the planet. It’s time he just slinks away. Fox pundits, like all pundits, are a bunch of raving a-holes. I’m amazed anyone watches or cares.

so am I…Newt 24/7 is not my thing

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engineer cat Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:00:10pm

re: #112 zora

from wiki:

Gingrich has married three times. In 1962, he married Jackie Battley, his former high school geometry teacher, when he was 19 years old and she was 26

for what it’s worth, here’s a picture

Image: ap7801040374.jpg

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Our Precious Bodily Fluids Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:00:15pm

re: #97 albusteve

need a Newt Sex Tree

I’m told that eating the fruit of the Newt Sex Tree is a similar experience to biting a baseball-sized sebaceous cyst.

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albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:02:06pm

re: #149 negativ

I’m told that eating the fruit of the Newt Sex Tree is a similar experience to biting a baseball-sized sebaceous cyst.

yet, people are obsessed with the subject…sort of amusing

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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:02:50pm

re: #149 negativ

Stop it, or I’ll release the helen thomas!

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aagcobb Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:04:08pm

Looks like Fox News has decided its competition is the Onion.

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albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:15:22pm

stop…
do not post past this point

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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:16:59pm

re: #153 albusteve

stop…
do not post past this point

Image: demotivational-posters-you-shall-not-pass.jpg

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darthstar Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:17:14pm

oh, Newt…

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Killgore Trout Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:17:25pm

re: #153 albusteve

stop…
do not post past this point

Challenge accepted.

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darthstar Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:18:02pm

re: #153 albusteve

stop…
do not post past this point

Wait…you have a point?

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Mostly sane, most of the time. Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:18:22pm

re: #157 darthstar

Wait…you have a point?

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allegro Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:18:36pm

re: #157 darthstar

Wait…you have a point?

Points are boring.

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engineer cat Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:19:04pm

re: #157 darthstar

Wait…you have a point?

stop looking at my head!

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albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:19:17pm

re: #159 allegro

Points are boring.

heh…figured that out eh?

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darthstar Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:19:31pm

Image: 396560_10150615273695359_199905080358_11336052_373008788_n.jpg

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albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:25:27pm

re: #162 darthstar

Image: 396560_10150615273695359_199905080358_11336052_373008788_n.jpg

that is goddamned hilarious…thanks so much

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darthstar Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:25:45pm

Oh dear…the Support guys just came by to ask me if I wanted to come drink beer. This is why it’s important to have a good support team.

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Charles Johnson Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:26:41pm

Newt in the midst of having a big idea:

Image: newtgingrich-eyesup.jpg

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darthstar Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:29:25pm

Okay…this video gives me some serious butt-pucker.

Youtube Video

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albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:30:01pm

re: #165 Charles

Newt in the midst of having a big idea:

Image: newtgingrich-eyesup.jpg

two words…
quualude

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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:30:36pm

re: #165 Charles

Newt in the midst of having a big idea:

Image: newtgingrich-eyesup.jpg

Oooh, that was a big one! //

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Killgore Trout Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:30:43pm

Here’s why you shouldn’t associate with scumbags and criminals…
[Link: news.daylife.com…]

A masked hacker, part of the Anonymous group, hacks the French presidential Elysee Palace website on January 20, 2012 near the eastern city of Lyon. Anonymous, which briefly knocked the FBI and Justice Department websites offline in retaliation for the US shutdown of file-sharing site Megaupload, is a shadowy group of international hackers with no central hierarchy. On the central screen, an Occupy mask is seen.

Yes, Guy Fawkes = Occupy Mask

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darthstar Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:32:35pm

re: #165 Charles

Newt in the midst of having a big idea:

Image: newtgingrich-eyesup.jpg

Grandiose, even.

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darthstar Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:33:44pm

re: #169 Killgore Trout

Here’s why you shouldn’t associate with scumbags and criminals…
[Link: news.daylife.com…]

Yes, Guy Fawkes = Occupy Mask

oooh…spooky. Excuse me while I go shit myself in fear…he’s got a picture of a mask from a movie on his screen.

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Targetpractice Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:34:58pm

re: #165 Charles

Newt in the midst of having a big idea:

Image: newtgingrich-eyesup.jpg

Looks more like he’s having a stroke.

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Slumbering Behemoth Stinks Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:36:06pm

re: #172 Targetpractice, Worst of Both Worlds

He’s checking out #4.

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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:36:31pm

re: #169 Killgore Trout

Here’s why you shouldn’t associate with scumbags and criminals…
[Link: news.daylife.com…]

Yes, Guy Fawkes = Occupy Mask

He’s also using a computer.
That make us all scumbags and criminals.

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albusteve Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:36:37pm

re: #171 darthstar

oooh…spooky. Excuse me while I go shit myself in fear…he’s got a picture of a mask from a movie on his screen.

get yourself under control dude

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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:41:38pm

You also really shouldn’t hang out on the internet.
Do you realize just how many terrible things are on it?
That makes you guilty. Of something. Guilt by association FTW!

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Lord Baron Viscount Duke Earl Count Planckton Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:43:47pm

re: #176 Varek Raith

You also really shouldn’t hang out on the internet.
Do you realize just how many terrible things are on it?
That makes you guilty. Of something. Guilt by association FTW!

What am I doing here? What if you’re a secret pirate? Arrr! I might get cooties.

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Varek Raith Fri, Jan 20, 2012 3:47:13pm

re: #177 Sergey Romanov