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-Election 2012
The How to "Bow to Nobody"
The Marines won't say it out loud, but everyone knows that Cpl. Chesty got promoted to sergeant this summer not for being a good Marine, but for his in-your-muzzle confrontation with the top dog in the Pentagon.
Congrats to the promotee.
Posted by: Ptah || 08/28/2012 13:47 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  Drats, I wanted this moved after the "Bow to Nobody" article in Politix, but the drop-down didn't have it as an option. Apologies and an an appeal for help to the mods.
Posted by: Ptah || 08/28/2012 13:58 Comments || Top||

#2  There you are, Ptah dear. As you can see the other article is actually on P.6: Seedy Politicians, so now yours is rhetorically effective if not positionally accurate. Enjoy!
Posted by: trailing wife || 08/28/2012 16:47 Comments || Top||

#3  Hoorah Sgt. Chesty.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/28/2012 18:00 Comments || Top||


Home Front: Culture Wars
Ellen Barkin Hopes Hurricane Kills 'Every Pro-Life, Xenophobic, Gay-Bashing SOB' At The RNC
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/28/2012 11:43 || Comments || Link || [5 views] Top|| File under:

#1  She's in a new show about gay adoption, called "The New Normal". Just in case you were accidently going to tune in.
Posted by: Frank G || 08/28/2012 11:51 Comments || Top||

#2  Doesn't sound like a very suitable adoption candidate to me...
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/28/2012 11:59 Comments || Top||

#3  Wow, really? There goes half your audience, Ellen, as if it was all that big of an audience in the first place. Then there was Jean Smart the other day saying she could never forgive Republicans for all the evil things they do. That's alright, Jean, I forgive you for your lack of tolerance and for further polarizing this country. There was a time when you were cute. Ellen too. But I guess the gigs are getting fewer and farther apart these days, huh? Seems to me I can remember a time when I could go to the movies or watch TV without having to worry about how the producers, directors and actors feel about me because of the way I vote. Not so much anymore. But then, who wants to watch the crap they put out these days anyway? Guess I'll read a book.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 08/28/2012 12:08 Comments || Top||

#4  The gender-free ubermensch cannot be IUI birthed and properly parent-matched until these xenophobic, pro-life dinosaurs are gone!
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2012 12:08 Comments || Top||

#5  Also Samual Jackson lamenting the fact that the RNC was "Spared".

I feel an urge to clean out Hollywood with a shotgun for some reason. Must be all the violent rhetoric.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/28/2012 12:19 Comments || Top||

#6  Better a 20% tax on the gross of the Entertainment industry whose members believe the rest of us should pay our fair share. It's for the children! ...to alleviate the debt burden placed upon them by adding trillions to the debt for the last four years.
Posted by: Procopius2k || 08/28/2012 12:24 Comments || Top||

#7  Her views are rather sadistic lately. If you look at Barkin's photos, she appears angry in half of them and a little drunk in some of the others. Barkin is just another Hollywood "victim" poster child of, what ever it is the Dems want everyone to feel victimized by in life.
Posted by: Clineck Untervehr3346 || 08/28/2012 12:42 Comments || Top||

#8  Frank G, I watched the commercial for that once during the Olympics. Apparently it has one main character/protaganist and a half dozen funny-face one-liner deliverances. Calling it an interesting show would be like saying how interesting it is the KC Chiefs decided to focus on kick returns during pre-season.

See, I look at its path and see drought relief for farmers, a re-filling of the Mississippi, and habitat refreshing, counting on that the good people of the Gulf Coast know to respect a storm.

All I can say is, other than the irony of such hubristics to not believe in an all-powerful being praying hard to an all-powerful being to smite People of God by prayers of heretics simply becuase they can read a script and hire an accountant, is that all those bent on the vengeful gaia swifting a magic storm into Tampa believing the storm trackers is "good enough for government work".
Posted by: swksvolFF || 08/28/2012 13:32 Comments || Top||

#9  Hurricane Isaac was set to run over Tampa, but I started praying and the track started turning west until it started heading for New Orleans.

Before the trolls start up, I need to point out that I only submitted the form: I'm not the Guy who approved it or is carrying it out.
Posted by: Ptah || 08/28/2012 13:34 Comments || Top||

#10  Yep. We could use a good rain. Hope some of it makes it over to the corn belt.
Posted by: Glack Sinatra5630 || 08/28/2012 13:43 Comments || Top||

#11  Never heard of this Barkin douche. I had to look up her bio. I'm not impressed.
Posted by: OCCD || 08/28/2012 13:48 Comments || Top||

#12  I have a list of actors who's movies I will not go see. Ellen is on it. I can't stop her or the others from running their mouths with hate, like she does, as well as Cher, Susan saradon etall. What I can do is not spend a nickel on anything they support or movies they are in. They bring hate, therefore they are not allowed in my house, on my tv, and I refuse to see a movie they are in. So far keeping haters out of my life has set great example for my kids.
Posted by: 49 pan || 08/28/2012 14:16 Comments || Top||

#13  I hope it kills only gay xenaphiliacs in florida, so there!

(xena philliacs = ppl who love xena, warrior princess!)
Posted by: flash91 || 08/28/2012 14:44 Comments || Top||

#14  Got rid of my TV, haven't seen a movie in a theater since "Apollo 13".
And I'm doing just fine...
Posted by: tu3031 || 08/28/2012 14:46 Comments || Top||

#15  I still have my TV because I like to watch Food Network and "Through the Wormhole". Everything else is garbage.
Posted by: Deacon Blues || 08/28/2012 14:56 Comments || Top||

#16  Two words for Ellen; Dixie Chicks.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man || 08/28/2012 15:03 Comments || Top||

#17  Now, you see, Deacon Blues, that's the problem I have. I liked Through the Wormhole too. But then there is this from Morgan Freeman:

"The tea partiers who are controlling the Republican Party ... their stated policy, publicly stated, is to do whatever it takes to see to it that Obama only serves one term. What underlines that? Screw the country. ... We're going to do whatever we can to get this black man out of here. It is a racist thing."

He's calling me a racist. I'm not a racist. How can I watch Through the Wormhole after that? If you understand that Barack Obama's policies are socialist and you're OK with that it's your right. But don't call me a racist.
Posted by: Ebbang Uluque6305 || 08/28/2012 15:22 Comments || Top||

#18  Civility, we've lost it.

My America and the Best of Times.
Posted by: Besoeker || 08/28/2012 15:23 Comments || Top||

#19  It's time to properly tax Intellectual "property".

80% of turnover, minus physical media costs should be a good start.
Posted by: Bright Pebbles || 08/28/2012 15:53 Comments || Top||

#20  Some in Hollywood are getting more and more unhinged as we get closer to the election. If Romney wins the Presidency we are probably going to see a lot of left coasters making appointments with their shrinks. Maybe they will even follow through on their threats to leave the country instead of just talking about it.
Posted by: JohnQC || 08/28/2012 17:56 Comments || Top||

#21  Ellen who....?
Posted by: Uncle Phester || 08/28/2012 18:03 Comments || Top||

#22  Some in Hollywood are getting more and more unhinged as we get closer to the election. If Romney wins the Presidency we are probably going to see a lot of left coasters making appointments with their shrinks.

Unfortunately, I think the amount of vile hate they spewed at George Bush will be nothing compared to the complete unhinging they will have toward Romney over the dethroning of their light worker. I predict their already violent rhetoric will descend into real violence.
Posted by: DarthVader || 08/28/2012 18:12 Comments || Top||

#23  I predict their already violent rhetoric will descend into real violence.

I prey...er...pray. Be still my beating heart. PLEASE, let them get violent, the sooner all this comes to a head and gets crushed, the better.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man || 08/28/2012 19:12 Comments || Top||

#24  SAM - I agree. My fear is that my kids or grandkids will have to deal w/the can that previous generations kicked down the road.
Posted by: Broadhead6 || 08/28/2012 20:45 Comments || Top||

#25  Broadhead6, I don't think so. I'd say the schism is nigh upon us. They may get to witness the storm, but I'm fairly certain we'll be the ones bearing the brunt. Depends on your grandkids ages though.
Posted by: Secret Asian Man || 08/28/2012 23:17 Comments || Top||

#26  Oh that's where Barkin' Moonbat came from!
Posted by: twobyfour || 08/28/2012 23:50 Comments || Top||


-Election 2012
Bow to Nobody
Posted by: Beavis || 08/28/2012 11:36 || Comments || Link || [6 views] Top|| File under:

#1  He bows to them and expects us to kneel to him.
Posted by: Dale || 08/28/2012 14:03 Comments || Top||



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Two weeks of WOT
Tue 2012-08-28
  59 Dead as Syrian Regime Opens New Front in Damascus
Mon 2012-08-27
  Kenyan cleric shot dead, sparks riots in Mombasa
Sun 2012-08-26
  Badruddin Haqqani drone zapped!
Sat 2012-08-25
  Breivik gets 21-year prison term
Fri 2012-08-24
  Gunmen attack U.S. diplomatic vehicle in Mexico
Thu 2012-08-23
  115 Dead in Syria as Troops Unleash Deadly Damascus Assault
Wed 2012-08-22
  Deputy PM Says Syria 'Ready to Discuss' Assad Departure
Tue 2012-08-21
  US drones kill 10 militants in Pakistan
Mon 2012-08-20
  Third Drone Strike In 24 Hours Kills Two In North Waziristan
Sun 2012-08-19
  Suicide bomber kills six policemen at funeral in Ingushetia
Sat 2012-08-18
  US drone kills 5 militants in northern Pakistan
Fri 2012-08-17
  Algeria’s Brahimi agrees to be Syria mediator
Thu 2012-08-16
  20 Shiites in Pakistan pulled from buses, gunned down
Wed 2012-08-15
  Pro-Saleh Troops Attack Yemen Defense Ministry
Tue 2012-08-14
  Al Qaeda front group claims Iraq attacks


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