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No, not powerless. Just hesitant.

I put my 2 cents in a PM to M.

j7wild wrote:

Bye, Bye, LOSER!!

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/rick-santorum-calls-mitt-romney-concede-180027008.html

well, at least those 2 girls still have a future in PORN

I don't normally criticize the children, but in this case I'll make a slight exception. Both of the daughters looked good, but especially Sarah Santorum. Looks as if both may have even gotten some wardrobe consultation and advice over the past few months, because their looks have matured and been more "camera-ready". However, in Rick's concession speech today, both of the older daughters stood behind him with vacant eyes and smiles (I know all candidate's spouses and children are supposed to be supportive, but...), dutifully nodding their heads, and clapping at everything Rick said. That was kind of weird, but then it got even weirder, as Rick turned away from the podium and began to hug people and shake hands, Sarah Santorum was still looking straight into the cameras and clapping (in a really weird way, as if she were at a country hoe-down), or getting ready to turn the letters on Wheel of Fortune. Did anyone else catch that?

Sarah is quite beautiful (sort of like a younger Rose Byrne). But she needs to work on her stage presence if she wants to support her father in his future political ambitions.

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and would agree with Rush Limbaugh on calling an innocent college girl a slut for advocating for women's health,

Get your facts straight. Sandra Fluke is not a "college girl"; she's a 30 year old, liberal activist/law school student who wasn't merely "advocating for women's health", but demanding that the government subsidize her sex life (i.e. pay her to have sex). That doesn't make her a slut, but it does pretty much make her a prostitute.

This is great news (both Santorum quitting and J7 being exiled to Siberia).

Romney has room to breath now. Time to launch the mother of all negative campaigns against the Obamination.

CJB wrote:

This is great news (both Santorum quitting and J7 being exiled to Siberia).

j7 is sharing his cell with Hot Gay Sex.

Sharky wrote:

CJB wrote:

This is great news (both Santorum quitting and J7 being exiled to Siberia).

j7 is sharing his cell with Hot Gay Sex.

And he'll get A Good Ass Blowing for dessert.

FYI Chief, there were actually members here called Hot Gay Sex and A Good Ass Blowing. Registered and banned about a month ago, never posted.

A later day Wint and Kidd.

I thought I was reading some erotica. Instead, it was some lowbrow humor. Thank goodness.

They were banned for not knowing that Mouton Rothschild is a claret.

j7 was banned not knowing anything.

Good sensible business speech from former President Bush, the man that liberals are convinced is so stupid. Obama could live to a be 1,000 and he'd never understand what fuels business growth. And Bush delivers effortlessly without a prompter, which isn't usually a problem when the speaker is fully conversant with what he is saying.

Happy Income Tax Day to my fellow Americans on this board! ;)

Watch Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid give the word "voluntary" a brand new meaning:

tiffanywint wrote:

Good sensible business speech from former President Bush, the man that liberals are convinced is so stupid. Obama could live to a be 1,000 and he'd never understand what fuels business growth. And Bush delivers effortlessly without a prompter, which isn't usually a problem when the speaker is fully conversant with what he is saying.

:shock:

If only President Bush could have put forth that sensible business knowledge before driving us into a recession.

Jack Wade wrote:

If only President Bush could have put forth that sensible business knowledge before driving us into a recession.

But he didn't drive us into recession. His free market bonafides are well established....but there are those statists on the left....that like to stand in the way.......you see they are smarter than the rest of us. Bush was stupid, remember.

Prince Kamal Khan wrote:

Happy Income Tax Day to my fellow Americans on this board! ;)

Watch Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid give the word "voluntary" a brand new meaning:

Happy Income Tax Day PKK. Yes, that Harry Reid is a piece of work.

If Obama is re-elected I want to be transferred to one of J7's FEMA camps. Probably safer there when society collapses.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/9207183/Barack-Obama-makes-Falklands-gaffe-by-calling-Malvinas-the-Maldives.html

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President Obama erred during a speech at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, when attempting to call the disputed archipelago by its Spanish name.

Instead of saying Malvinas, however, Mr Obama referred to the islands as the Maldives, a group of 26 atolls off that lie off the South coast of India

Now imagine if Dubya had made a gaffe like that. The media would be fussing over it for years.

CJB wrote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/9207183/Barack-Obama-makes-Falklands-gaffe-by-calling-Malvinas-the-Maldives.html

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President Obama erred during a speech at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, when attempting to call the disputed archipelago by its Spanish name.

Instead of saying Malvinas, however, Mr Obama referred to the islands as the Maldives, a group of 26 atolls off that lie off the South coast of India

Now imagine if Dubya had made a gaffe like that. The media would be fussing over it for years.

Obama is the king of the gaffe. He used to talk about the "President" of Canada. Someone finally pulled him aside, I guess, and explained parliamentary government to him. Figured he might benefit from knowing the basics.

tiffanywint wrote:

Watch Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid give the word "voluntary" a brand new meaning:

Happy Income Tax Day PKK. Yes, that Harry Reid is a piece of work.[/quote]

Indeed. Someone needs to educate the Senate Majority Leader that if taxes were truly voluntary, they wouldn't be called taxes. They'd be called donations.

CJB wrote:

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/southamerica/falklandislands/9207183/Barack-Obama-makes-Falklands-gaffe-by-calling-Malvinas-the-Maldives.html

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President Obama erred during a speech at the Summit of the Americas in Cartagena, Colombia, when attempting to call the disputed archipelago by its Spanish name.

Instead of saying Malvinas, however, Mr Obama referred to the islands as the Maldives, a group of 26 atolls off that lie off the South coast of India

Now imagine if Dubya had made a gaffe like that. The media would be fussing over it for years.

Truth. I bet that went over real well with the Britons, even those head-over-heels in love with Maobama. They probably liked that as much as when he returned the bust of Sir Winston Churchill.

tiffanywint wrote:

Obama is the king of the gaffe. He used to talk about the "President" of Canada. Someone finally pulled him aside, I guess, and explained parliamentary government to him. Figured he might benefit from knowing the basics.

Agreed. You may like this article:

http://www.renewamerica.com/columns/caruba/120416

Imagine if the Bushes, Sarah Palin, or former Vice-President Dan Quayle(remember him?) had said that. The press would be talking about it for years after the fact.

Prince Kamal Khan wrote:

Truth. I bet that went over real well with the Britons, even those head-over-heels in love with Maobama. They probably liked that as much as when he returned the bust of Sir Winston Churchill.

Indeed. He may have misspoke, but he was about to say Malvinas - not Falklands, Malvinas. His sympathies do not lie with the Anglosphere, that much is evident when he's afraid to utter the proper English name for those islands in front of that botox-laden slapper.

Afghans revolted by U.S. troops posing with dead suicide bombers
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/world_now/2012/04/afghans-revolted-by-us-troops-posing-with-dead-suicide-bombers.html

(no mention of whether Afghans, or anyone else, was "revolted" by the actual suicide bombers)


U.S. troops posed with body parts of Afghan bombers

http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/nation/la-na-afghan-photos-20120418,0,5032601.story

Link above has some of the actual pictures, and one of them is very gruesome.

Again, the "outrage" is selective by both the LA Times and the Afghans. I think it's because deep down inside, both the Afghans and the LA Times view American troops as invaders and conquerors, and the Afghans believe the Taliban is doing God's work, while the LA Times just believes the US troops have it coming to them.

I don't think the L.A. Times has any idea what it believes.

CNN Contributor On Suicide Bombers: ‘You’ve Got To Hold These Bad Guys With The Respect That They Deserve’

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/cnn-contributor-on-suicide-bombers-youve-got-to-hold-these-bad-guys-with-the-respect-that-they-deserve/

Appearing on CNN, Retired U.S. Army Major General James “Spider” Marks was asked to weigh in on the unfolding scandal surrounding photographs, recently published by the L.A. Times, which show coalition soldiers posing with the mangled corpses of suicide bombers in Afghanistan. Marks said that he believes that the soldiers made a “terrible mistake” and that “you’ve got to hold these bad guys with the respect that they deserve.” But it is the military’s rules of engagement in Afghanistan that is the “terrible mistake” and it is the public hand-wringing when events like these surface that provide propaganda victories to America’s enemies and prolong U.S. involvement in its longest war.

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Seriously, there are times when I just want to give up. The daily barrage and assault of politically correct insanity feels like a tidal wave that can't be pushed back. The hurdles are starting to feel too big. This Republic won't make it another 30-40 years before it's either invaded by China or dissolves into multiple civil wars between regional nation states.

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

Seriously, there are times when I just want to give up. The daily barrage and assault of politically correct insanity feels like a tidal wave that can't be pushed back. The hurdles are starting to feel too big. This Republic won't make it another 30-40 years before it's either invaded by China or dissolves into multiple civil wars between regional nation states.

The federal debt should be enough to at least sink the economy. But the American spirit and the timeless wisdom of the founders, may yet prevail over the forces of Pluto.

In the meantime, all the pc bullshit is good for a laugh at least. I recommend the Destroyer novels by Warren Murphy. They are vicious satirical send-ups of the looney left as well as topical fantasy men's adventure. Murphy has the Masters of Sinanju, Remo Williams and Chiun, "off" anyone that bothers him. When Sting was on his wacko rain-forest kick, Murphy wrote him as "Prick" ( he always changes the names) and had Remo feed him to the rainforest's killer monkeys. Remo also took out O.J. Simpson ( B.J. Orenthal) with a well placed golf-shot. The Destroyer has removed many celebrities that irked the authors over the years.

The last two books were real funny. In Dead Reckoning, Remo terrorizes agents of Al Quobar ( al Queda) and the last one, Killer Ratings, is a scathing send-up of Katie Couric (Kitty Couglin) and NBC (BCN). They used to have lots of fun with Hilary too. They wrote her as a shreiking harpie for several books before finally tiring of her and killing her off.

From Bruce Grossman's review of Choke Hold

"Again, Murphy and Mullaney are writing as though they’ve been infused with a newfound energy – I’m talking the glory days of The Destroyer novels. They throw in some thinly veiled jabs at public persons, one being a certain female news anchor and the other a certain new website which gets way too much attention. But this is only a drop in the bucket compared to others who make appearances later on: a California governor who was once an action star and a director who made some sappy love story out of a maritime disaster. These are the little asides that make The Destroyer series so much fun. Plus, who knew Murphy was a SOUTH PARK fan? –Bruce Grossman"

http://www.bookgasm.com/reviews/thrillers/the-new-destroyer-choke-hold/



The Masters of Sinanju help make the insanity go away.

Heh, never knew the Remo novels were still going ... have never read any of 'em, but I remember going to see the movie in the mid-80s and thinking it was a bit of semi-Bondesque fun.

Blunt Instrument wrote:

Heh, never knew the Remo novels were still going ... have never read any of 'em, but I remember going to see the movie in the mid-80s and thinking it was a bit of semi-Bondesque fun.

the novel series stopped in 2008 with Killer Ratings ( the katie couric send-up) Warren Murphy has suspended the novels for now, but they ran non-stop since 1971. He's trying to do another movie deal. He's optioned the rights. Remo would be so much better with the modern cinema tech.

The original film attracted Bond elements such as Guy Hamilton and Christoper Wood. I thought the movie was so good I started reading the books, which were the funniest things I'd ever read. In the books, Chiun would kill pizza delivery guys if they got on his nerves, and then fight with Remo over whose turn it was to take out the bodies. Naturally Chiun would win. The best books are the 1971 to roughly late 80's period. They didn't have the same satiric bite when Murphy stepped aside in the 90's, but the last batch by Murphy and Mullaney were great. They were a throwback to the good ole days.

I said on Fri Apr 06, 2012 7:42 pm:

Gravity's Silhouette wrote:

I'd have to look at the article again, but the $2,000 dollar number listed seems too low. That only comes out to $142 per child, per month. She probably needs closer to $8,000 dollars, at a minimum, in order to put food on the table.
I'm saying it here, I'm saying it now: She's going to do porn. She's already a whore; she just needs a little extra convincing to take her whoredom to the next logical step.

I was RIGHT!!!!

Nadya "Octopussy" Suleman is going to do a porn movie:

http://www.tmz.com/2012/05/01/octomom-masturbation-porn-video/#.T6AVReiJe8B

It has also come out that she was getting a lot more than $2000 dollars a month in food stamps, as she initially claimed.

Vivid Entertainment offered her $1 million dollars to do porn a few years ago, but I suspect they won't offer her that much this time around. Seeing as how it's now a buyer's market, Nadya will have to take whatever offers are given her. She can't afford to turn any offer down.

And it won't be long before she goes from "solo" to group/lesbian sex scenes. In for a penny, in for a pound. Once you've done a "solo" video and shown everyone your baby maker, there's no going back. After you've put it all out there once you might as well go all in, whole hog.

She's also filed for bankruptcy. Debts at $1 million dollars, assets at $50,000 (I disagree; those kids have got to be worth something; the amount of free sweatshop labor those kids could provide is astounding; talk about an untapped labor market). Congratulations, California! She's all yours! You're on the hook for all these claims, all these kids.