A Catholic university in Ohio said Tuesday it is being forced to end a student health insurance program over the Obama administration’s contraception mandate and costs associated with other provisions of the health care overhaul.
Mr Tingles meets karma
On at least four occasions, MSNBC’s Chris Matthews mocked Sarah Palin for how he felt she’d do if she were ever on the hit television game show Jeopardy!.
In a delicious example of instant karma, the self-proclaimed brainiac got his chance to show America how smart he was in a special “Power Players” version of the show Monday, but came up quite short finishing dead last with the paltry sum of only $2,300
Elizabeth Warren, Woman of Color
[A] 1997 Fordham Law Review piece described her as Harvard Law School’s “first woman of color,” based, according to the notes at the bottom of the story, on a “telephone interview with Michael Chmura, News Director, Harvard Law (Aug. 6, 1996)
Even a lapdog occassionally nips.
CNN host Ashleigh Banfield ripped into Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt on Tuesday over a campaign ad criticizing Mitt Romney for his record at Bain Capital, telling him to “keep it clean. We hate that crap on television.”
To be fair, fishbelly-white-with-a-hint-of-rose is a color.
to be fair we haven’t seen Palin on celebrity jeopardy yet she might could do even worse you never know stranger things have happened
Damn, but that lady from Nebraska has an unfortunate name!
Via Glenn Reynolds, passivity on display:
Is it the politics that makes for the weak grammar or the grammar that makes for the weak politics?
Alien invasion. Brooklyn Decker. Full throttle Navy badassery. Things that blow up real good. And a director that tells an interviewer JOIN THE ISRAELI ARMY, MOTHERF**KER!
to be fair we haven’t seen Palin on celebrity jeopardy yet she might could do even worse you never know stranger things have happened
that’s irrelevant. Chrissy brought it up, it was his smear an attack on HER intelligence.
He thought he was being oh so clever. Bit him in the ass.
Exactly. Matthews is the one proclaiming how he’d kick ass and take names not Palin.
I’ll take political celebrities for 1000 Alex
Sarah Palin!
You have to wait for me to ask the question.
Who is the
Sarah Palin!
You are correct! The answer is indeed Sarah Palin.
Just let it go, happy. I’m no Palin fan but Matthews has been nothing short of obsessed with her and how “stupid” she is. That, and Michele Bachmann’s crazy eyes.
I think it’s time to float a rumor about how he is impotent.
Jeopardy might measure how smart you are, but it mostly measures your ability to recall stuff really fast and how well you work the button.
Me, I prefer the essay question.
Exactly. I’m smart enough to know I’d suck at Jeopardy, unless the categories included “Obscure Star Trek References from The Original Series”, “The Best of FORTRAN”, “Comic Books My Mom Threw Away When I Left Home”, and “Name That Hobbit”
“ ’Tis better to be silent and be thought a fool, than to speak and remove all doubt.” –Abe Lincoln
Good advice, and Chrissy Tingles and the Yellow Cupcake Molester would both be well-served to remember it.
High water mark. He’s already collapsed; it isn’t evident yet due to the press wing and polls with sampling pulled directly out of Plouffe’s ass. They know he’s falling apart and the smarter/careerists are starting to think about themselves.
For example, no one is doing more in terms of poll bullshit-space preparation than Nate Silver, formerly of DKos and now NYTimes Lead Pollster. His mission is to set expectations that Obama will win while maintaining his own plausibility. So he writes
Obama does not have an extremist ideology, therefore he will still win.
For the plausibility, you have to go down to the second-to-last paragraph to see
We need to have some of the worst celebrity Jeoparday players ever brought together. So Wolf Blitzer, Chris Matthews, and maybe Darrel Hammond pretending to be Sean Connery?
And they should spell” Jeopardy” wrong like I did for comedic effect.
I’ll take The Rapists for $200, Alex
That’s “Therapists”, Mr. Connery.
One of the best SNL skits evah.
Major Los Angeles shopping mall bans Manny Pacquaio for intolerant speech
Manny Pacquaio is against gay marriage, so The Grove (a major shopping mall in Los Angeles, has banned him from even shopping at the mall. The best part is the quote supplied the The Grove’s management:
“The Grove is a gathering place for all Angelenos and not a place for intolerance.”
I think what they meant to say is that The Grove is a gathering place for all right-thinking Angelinos and that they can tolerate everything except disagreement with the Progressive liberal orthodoxy.
So basically The Grove is saying is that if you supported Prop 8, they don’t need your stinking intolerant money and neither do any of their tenants, retail stores that are struggling to survive the crappy California economy.
OCBill:
Which is why even the smallest and most fights are fights worth having.
Publically hold them to account. Make it clear to them and like minded others that they don’t get to decide what , when, where and how the constitution and bill of rights are- or are not- applied.
“That kid doesn’t know the time of day… By the way, what time is it?”
~ W.C. Fields
OT: The Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) goes before the House today to get sharper teeth as it is alleged that the bill doesn’t go far enough.
JHo, thoughts?
High water mark.
Obama is still trading for $5.82 at Intrade, while Mittenz is at $3.97. I’m thinking a guy could make a pile of money, all at the expense of the True Believers.
I think I may need to ask the Lovely Bride for an advance on my allowance…
Michael Greve: The Coming Constitutional Collapse
Hmmm…
More fun with Fauxcohantas: Cherokee genealogist to Elizabeth Warren — Tell the truth
Surely, this is not something that has occurred to Ms. Spreading Bull.
Katie Pavlich : “You know what’s better than a Violence Against Women Act? A concealed carry permit.”*
Ms. Pavlich is correct.
Re: Fauxcohonas, she better retract this Cherokee business tout de suite . The Cherokee, indeed all of the Tribal Counsels, take heritage very, very seriously and get on the warpath (so to speak) when imposters stake a claim to a heritage that isn’t their’s. Especially when one of Warren’s ancestors was marching them down the Trail of Tears. The Cherokee have a lot of clout. You don’t get bad ass surnames like Mankiller and Tenkiller just for the hell of it.
No ice cream until further notice! “Armed Environmental Police” shut down ice cream stand on Mother’s Day.
Armed Environmental Police in Massachusetts shut down ice cream stand
The Environmental Police damned well better be armed! Can you imagine what Old Man Duffy woulda done to ’em if they’d tried to shut the place down with nothing but clipboards?
As instapundit would say, “Tar and feathers!”
It can’t be Dear Leader’s fault, and it’s certainly not Proggism. It must be a nation-wide visit from Aunt Flow.
such a shame
Obama’s Budget Rejected Unanimously By Senate, 99-0
25 more weeks, Outlaws. 25 more weeks.
so this really has fuck all to do with principle – the employees are still eligible for yummy contraceptions… it’s mostly about the price of the student policy tripling to where they think they’ll lose students if they make having coverage a requirement when they don’t have an affordable plan to offer
I doubt a Catholic university employee has contraceptive benefits written into their health insurance benefits. Aren’t undergrads eligible for mom and dad’s benefits until age 26? Unless they are Bluto from Animal House, they’re good.
I’ve gone to a lot of universities in my odyssey to figure out my path in life, and have never had health insurance covered. Since when do college aged kids think about health insurance or life insurance or 401Ks or anything other than the next party and graduating?
the law as i understand it thanks to the fascist sebelius hoochie is that all health plans offered by employers now include free free free bonus contraceptions… but yeah kids are eligible now to stay on mom and dad’s policy, but as I read this the university is saying they don’t even have to do that anymores
I don’t get how it’s even legal in the first place for universities to require health insurance for you to attend class there – but it’s a fairly widespread practice I think
Since when do college aged kids think about health insurance or life insurance or 401Ks or anything other than the next party and graduating?
Are they promiscuous 30-year-olds double-majoring in Women’s Studies and Political Operations?
Beats me. That would be an administrative issue. My son just graduated from college last weekend and they never required him to have insurance and he didn’t work enough hours at his job to qualify for benefits, either. Other than a nasty turned ankle from ice skating, he emerged unscathed.
Also, we’re talking about a private versus a public university. The same rules do not apply.
Are they promiscuous 30-year-olds double-majoring in Women’s Studies and Political Operations?
Heh. See my reference to Bluto in my other post. “Seven years of college down the drain!”
the CNN has a little more reporting…
so they’re acting all butthurt about having to offer the contraceptions to the childrens but they’re taking a wait and see let’s not be hasty approach about their employees, who are being offered the exact same package of contraceptive fun
I’d call that “principled lite” at best
When Team Romney is faced with a problem, their first instinct is to do like their boss and identify the problem and fix it. When Team Obama is faced with a problem, their first instinct is to do like their boss and figure out how they can avoid the blame for it.
It has been my long experience that a team with the first attitude will likely succeed far more than a team with the second attitude. The first approach allows the team to rapidly identify problems and quickly deal with them. It also lets team members know that it is safe to bring up issues of concern. The second approach tends to cover up problems more than solve them. People become afraid of bringing up problems that they might get blamed for, so the tendency is to hide problems instead of dealing with them.
Things like “Julia” would never had made it very far in a team like Mitt’s that is more concerned about solving problems than affixing blame. Someone would have expressed misgivings about it, the problems would be addressed, and if they couldn’t get it to work, it would have been scrapped. In teams that place a high priority on avoiding blame, any criticism of ideas is looked upon as attempts to cast blame, and people get defensive. You do NOT want to make your boss defensive, so you learn to keep your mouth shut if you see a potential problem. So “Julia” likely sailed through the various committees and levels with nary a dissenting voice.
I suspect that this, more than anything else, may be a big reason why little if anything coming out of the Obama Campaign seems to be working. Their internal error checking is severely impaired by their instinctual blame avoidance. With Barack Obama as their head, I don’t see that changing anytime soon.
http://race42012.com/2012/05/16/a-campaign-in-trouble/
In its decision to drop coverage, the school cited the contraception mandate, but also a requirement that the maximum coverage amount be increased to $100,000 for policyholders — claiming that would have made premiums skyrocket. A university official told Fox News Radio the students’ basic $600 policy was going to double in cost in the fall and triple next year and that the school’s insurance provider said the increases were the result of the federal Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.
Read more: http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2012/05/15/catholic-university-drops-student-health-insurance-cites-obamacare/#ixzz1v4peEQ7u
Yeah, they’re the problem.
Acting all butthurt about contraception is also called being Catholic, btw. Or, Christer, I suppose.
Funny thing about those Christers, they actually fed me and educated me when I was a poor kid and the people who call them Christers don’t seem to do jack shit for anyone.
Fuck off with this noise already.
They must have been all butthurt about kids with duct-taped shoes not knowing math and misspelling everything.
What assholes.
Far Left Goons Torch Pro-Walker Signs in Wisconsin (Video)
Catholic charities alone have done more good for more people than the feds ever have, would or could.
Amen.
“the feds ” minus the military part of “the feds”.
Like so.
geoffb, absolutely.
sdferr, wasn’t that a great series of cartoons? My grandfather and his brothers loved ’em when they served.
it just feels like they were gonna cancel this insurance anyway cause of the huge huge rate increase but they want to leverage the cancellation to make a statement about contraception – if they were really all that incensed about the contraception they’d cancel their employee coverage too I think
if they were really all that incensed about the contraception they’d cancel their employee coverage too I think
in due time. unload the simple stuff 1st. barackycare forward!
I suppose I could act like I was stupid and I can’t notice various subtleties of word choice and tone, ‘feets.
Nope. Don’t feel like it though.
Listen, as you wage your war against Christers, you’re gonna have to realize that they’ve individually and collectively been good neighbors for years and years and years. They’ve earned good will. They’ve earned allies.
Recognize that and maybe you’ll be able to argue a point or two here or there without immediately making everyone decide they’d rather eat rat poison than agree with your arguments.
well they’re the ones what lobbied their asses off for the barackycare in the first place Mr. newrouter
everyone in this failshit little country – every last little pikachu – is being forced to buy health insurances, and being forced to buy health insurances what must follow very strict guidelines what fascist bitch kathleen sebelius has dictated
we’re all in the same boat, and sure as shit if you make tweaks here and there for so special interest groups feel more comfortable with this fascist imposition, your odds of ever freeing your little country from its clutches will diminish dramatically I think
and that would be that
well they’re the ones what lobbied their asses off for the barackycar
the franciscan bros. in steubenville were minding their own biz.
i like catholics fine Mr. bh
but when religion gets political it cheapens and perverts politics and religion both I think
just ick
case in point
Catholics should be fighting to free ALL of their fellow Americans from this socialist healthcare nightmare
but no no no they’re happy to see the rest of us mercilessly pinned under the thumb of the state as long as they get to strike a bit of language here in subparagraph 5 of addendum C
that does not sound like one nation under God to me
The whole point of Obamarecare is to get all private health insurance policies cancelled either by the individual, the employer, or the insurance company. It will drive everyone into the government plans and enable the left to blame employers and insurance companies for it too. Cancelled now or cancelled in a year or so, someone’s always the first but we will all get there soon.
The only ones to blame for all effects are the fuck-heads who voted for it, the fuck-head-Secretary who does the “shall-s” and “will-s” in the act, and the fuck-head-in-chief who signed it.
the franciscan bros. in steubenville were minding their own biz.
yes they were and they should not be afflicted with the totalitarian healthcare fascisms anymore than you me or Nancy Reagan
That’s funny because again I’m not stupid. You were talking about how they were all butthurt and hypocritical about contraceptives.
This is a new argument. One that people might actually respond to.
Riddle me this. Why didn’t you start there?
The whole point of Obamarecare is to get all private health insurance policies cancelled either by the individual, the employer, or the insurance company.
yes Mr. geoff and we all hang together or we will hang separately like mistletoe or chads
but when religion gets political it cheapens and perverts politics and religion both I think
the “separation of church and state” cliche
The Tyranny of Cliches: How Liberals Cheat in the War of Ideas
Why didn’t you start there?
I started by pointing out that their protest was undercut by their unwillingness to cancel their employee plan
they just canceled the student plan what the students the plan was originally designed for would never have been able to afford anyway
(cause the cost was set to triple)
I wonder how many political regimes the ecclesia has seen come and go over the duration of its existence? The Old institution moves slowly, glacially even. But then, why move fast when the end is nominally eternal?
I started by pointing out that their protest was undercut by their unwillingness to cancel their employee plan
there’s no condom mandate at the moment why screw the employees before baracky makes you do it?
Do you really not see the huge fucking contradiction in that?
Try harder, ‘feets.
It’s not like they might consider their mission to be important enough to continue so employee retention might be a base requisite they’d address in one way while a small minority of students would be handled another way. No. Wait. It’s exactly like that.
Of course, this still isn’t the same thing as the later, better point you eventually offer.
Let’s go back to butthurt about offering contraceptives. That’s your characterization. Why was this offered up again? Any animus behind that phrasing?
Again, I’m probably being repetitive here but I do actually find it insulting when you pretend I’m a moron.
there is no contradiction there Mr. Moe
the huge fucking contradiction is found when you have a caterwauling interest group what is caterwauling why? Because of the painfulness of the injustice what has been inflicted upon them.
And yet they betray no sense, not even a glimmer of awareness, that this monstrous injustice what has been inflicted on them may be equally grievously afflicting others of their brothers and sisters in Christendom in different ways. That the offense others have taken to this socialist rape of freedom may be equally valid as the one of which they so wailingly complain.
It’s very callous.
well the animus might come from my sense that the Catholic position on contraception is stupid and anachronistic
Did that hurt? Did I really have to write a couple comments for us to get to this point?
Okay. Fine.
Maybe now we start digging into how this possibly matters in some non-infinitesimal way when we speak about the liberty-infringing, market-distorting Obamacare.
the Catholic position on contraception is stupid and anachronistic
Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof;
sufferer at 6:32 pm;
And the ancient ones still possess one of the world’s finest intelligence services, with a network more far flung and intricate than anything Mr. Axelrod could ever dream of.
I think they might want to step carefully.
that would be sdferr. I’m under a combined assault from spell check and auto correct again.
How the hell do they get ‘sufferer’ from sdferr?
“How the hell do they get ‘sufferer’ from sdferr?”
It inferred from the nic that this is just another in a long series of impassioned and *beset from all sides* u-m-b-n’s?
happyfeet,
when you speak about special interest groups caterwauling, you should really separate the wheat from the chaff; that is, individual Catholics supported the passage of Obamacare, while the Church itself, and the Catholic Conference of Bishops, is opposing the government order that effects their intstitutions…
There’s a big difference there. Indeed, just in the last two weeks the leadership of an association of nuns has been rebuked formally by the Vatican and is being reorganized by the Bishop of Seattle. Among the reasons? The high visibility of support for Obamacare by the leadership; Superiors who publicly stated that consideration for the social justice aspect of Obamacare superceded concerns over the abortion on demand/contraception aspect of it.
Rank and file Catholics may be politically active, but the Church itself doesn’t get involved until threatened; part and parcel of the, “Render unto Caesar, etc…”, teaching of Christ.
A broad brush can often spatter those who never should have been painted, know what I mean?
My Regards
I’m not talking about the animus you wanted to talk about the animus Mr. bh. My point is more that there’s something exquisitely perverse about a willingness among some to seek an accommodation with a fascist healthcare system… a system what will degrade everyone’s healthcare and quality of life to where it’s very likely that the younger ones of them will die of infection in squalid government hospitals as long as they don’t get free rubbers.
It’s just zany.
I can’t keep up
Mr. Bob! Hello. My understanding has been that the Church itself, and the Catholic Conference of Bishops was very supportive of Obamacare
Are they wrong?
a system what will degrade everyone’s healthcare and quality of life to where it’s very likely that the younger ones of them will die of infection in squalid government hospitals as long as they don’t get free rubbers.
if there’s only gov’t hospitals why wouldn’t the rubbers be free?
Up?
Down?
In Wisconsin.
Battleground Wisconsin now, soon battleground Michigan. By October it will be battleground Illinois.
Yet, the liberal media are failing to raise the issue of the alleged separation of church and state.
the tyranny of cliches cont.
So religion should just mind its own business, and only be concerned with how government affects it directly? Or:
Government should cheapen everybody by getting directly involved in government and directly influencing how it affects everyone.
Those two statements are in direct contradiction.
Also, the links about the Franciscans you put up? There’s no hypocrisy there anyway; that’s what the whole blow up with HHS is about. The health plans they currently offer don’t comply with Kommisar Sebelius’ ideal..
Catholics should be fighting to free ALL of their fellow Americans from this socialist healthcare nightmare
well let me re-phrase that for you Mr. Moe
Catholics should join the fight alongside all of their freedom-loving countrymen to free ALL of our fellow Americans from this socialist healthcare nightmare. A New Argentina the Voice of the People cannot be and will not be and must not be denied!
2009-2012 summarized.
No happyfeet, you’re not wrong in your link regarding USCCB. But because they didn’t actively oppose the entire act doesn’t imply support.
As an organization, the only positions they took on it was to oppose the parts that didn’t comply with their beliefs.
But a large number of rank and file Catholics, outspoken nuns, and liberal priests, like Phleger, did their best to lend the imprimatur of the Church to their individual support…
I don’t understand about links Mr. Bob
one sec I have a pollster on the phone
You make three claims there. All false. (With my emphasis which we have to note even when everyone can tell it by the brackets and bolding.)
1) By using words to express your animus, you’re talking about your animus. It’s a thing. A is A. You did so unprompted. 2) I didn’t want to talk about your animus. I wanted you to admit that it was your initial thrust. Everyone knows about your animus. We mostly ignore it. 3) No, that’s your later point. I don’t think we should call it your point only because it’s the one bit of defensible ground you now find yourself on.
[bh note: yes, I do understand the irony of saying that I’m not a moron while arguing with ‘feets. I also smoke.]
Anyway, I could only pop in for a moment.
My best to the entire PW commentariat :)
Soon I’ll be able to join the sandlot game for more realistic time spans…
I also smoke.
good allan you’re evil!
I can’t keep up
No kidding. You’re tying yourself in knots to make a point that is nonsensical. It would serve you well to learn about Catholic teachings. First and foremost the doctrine that life is a seamless garment, from conception to a natural death.
I fear that your early teaching in the Lutheran church, itself founded by a former Catholic priest who had great animus toward the Church, has poisoned your mind in regard to good and faitful Catholics. (I mean no offense to observant Lutherans here or elsewhere and am only referring to happyfeet, here.)
As you love to toss around when we are speaking of your fabulous gay friends, you are acting like a bigot. Knock it off.
you shouldn’t smoke Mr. bh it’s bad for you and I am not arguing I am just making the comments you’re getting all 1 2 3 and it’s confusing
It is really hard for me to reconcile that Rick Santorum, Nancy Pelosi , and the Pope are all theoretically the same religion.
Rick Santorum, Nancy Pelosi , and the Pope are all theoretically the same religion.
ms. nancy is the botox/catholic offshoot
I’m not trying to deprive anyone of their rights leigh I want everyone in America to stand together and oppose the evil designs of the dirty socialists.
We can sing songs of protest and freedom and have low-cal fro-yo after.
I just think the whole contraception thing is one of those not seeing the forest for the trees things.
hey happy grab a sign we’re all going to the contraception rally!
No thanks I’m a catch you later I have to get up early tomorrow and I need to do some laundry and I have a heart condition and I should probably get that checked plus a friend of mine called me at work and I told her to call me later after I got home and I think she only has my landline.
I just think the whole contraception thing is one of those not seeing the forest for the trees things.
the tyranny of cliches cont.:
“draw a line in the sand”(islamofasciticphobic)
I just think the whole contraception thing is one of those not seeing the forest for the trees things.
Surely you recognize a slippery slope when you see one?
yes I recognize a slippery slope we are all every one of us sliding headlong down that slope at a terrifying speed leigh
I’m scared
To observant Catholics the contraception issue is not a tree, it is the pull cord on a chainsaw.
If you are scared you need to stop fighting with people who are believers in freedom.
That’s very good, BT.
I’m not fighting with nobody really these are just comments on the internet
why does nobody get that
Don’t start.
yes I recognize a slippery slope
you and the commies luvs this stuff
well we have reached that point at which I have exhausted my thinkings about the contraception kerfuffle
so what’s up with that Elizabeth Warren I don’t think she’s really an indian at all I think she’s just joshing
Why don’t you get that if you’re bothering easygoing folk like B Moe and myself you must be either fucking up or achieving your goal?
People can hit me in the head with rocks and not bother me. True fact. For recreation I encourage my most muscular friends to try and choke me out. True fact.
This has to tell you something.
I’m sorry I bothered you and Mr. Moe but that doesn’t change my opinion really
the contraception thing annoys me cause it’s so so picayune set against the wholesale rapey viciousness of obamacare
I’m a moron.
I really am.
You’re not a moron, bh. Come sit by me. I have cake.
no you’re not Mr. bh you have a good head on your shoulders
No, I’m remarkably stupid.
I think many, many lurkers probably get how I am stupid but they’re too polite to remark upon it. So I did.
Remarkably stupid.
no you’re not stupid at all you just let yourself get all worked up sometimes I think
Because we tend to think we’re having substantive discussions as opposed to fingerpainting with our dicks.
But that’s …inconvenient!!!!
bh, you need to embrace the curve.
I’m gonna start with a beer, Pablo.
Don’t bunch up.
But did we know about Goa and how the Portuguese got it from off some Ottoman sultanate in 1510, only to lose it to the Indians in 1961? That’s a long chunk of time to be holding the ground.
“fingerpainting with our dicks.” Classic, pablo. I hope I can shamelessly rip that phrase off sometime.
As much as I am tempted to respond, sometimes hf is too far gone. And, happy, I don’t mean that as disrespect. I just know how much you try to push buttons. And, bh, I am occasionally moronic enough to jump into that La Brea tar pit.
But I’ve given it up for Lent. And I’m not sure of the calendar on that. So it’s sort of on-going.
But that’s …inconvenient!!!!
Isn’t it? No one said this Catholic business was easy.
here is a musics about the Goa Mr. sdferr
one of my favorite musics really
Lent’s over, Red. Next up: Pentacost.
No, I’m remarkably stupid.
repent you smoker
And as far as embracing the curves, that’s one of my favorite pastimes. But I realize that my heterosexual fetishes are just not in vogue. My bad.
Why don’t you get that if you’re bothering easygoing folk like B Moe and myself you must be either fucking up or achieving your goal?
People can hit me in the head with rocks and not bother me. True fact. For recreation I encourage my most muscular friends to try and choke me out. True fact.
This has to tell you something.
Because hf has a bug up his ass about Christers. His hate-on–functionally indistinguishable from Marcotte’s–is more important to him than anything else. It’s been pointed out to hf innumerable times that it’s not just a Catholic fight, but that’s irrelevant. Catholics, after all, don’t agree with hf on sexual matters, especially marriage “equality,” so that’s that. They can die in a fire.
Further , I’m listening to Taylor Swift and acknowledging that she is hawt. Does that make me a perv? Just because I’m attracted to females from 21 to 60? Oh, the horror.
What’s wrong with filesharing and transparency?. Even US State Department documents. Data wants to be free. Of course sometimes then people people tend to be dead.
All because li’l Manley is a gender-confused, and the Army is mean.
To observant Catholics the contraception issue is not a tree, it is the pull cord on a chainsaw.
A-yep. And not just on Obamacare.
you see it all depends on the ox and algore:
Van Jones Admits: I Kept Quiet During Oil Spill Because Barack Obama Was President
I’m listening to Taylor Swift
One of my kids went to school with Taylor. She’s a stuck-up snot.
Just FYI.
Feel free, Red. I’ve been flogging “Our vote is purely aspirational” so much I’ve been forgetting attribution, so I owe you one.
the Hunger Games soundtrack sucks ass
Taylor Swift, she would be one of these then? Speaking of aspirational.
She’s a stuck-up snot.
that and “hope and change” oh well
Shoot. Debussy, Taylor Swift, Hunger Games. I’m definitely aspiring. I’ll be in my bunk.
bh says May 16, 2012 at 8:04 pm
No, I’m remarkably stupid.
Let’s not be so hasty on that diagnosis bh.
Tell me about your mother… and these muscular men you like to challenge to choke you out, where do you meet them? Are any of them Chicago club regulars? How much beer will you be drinking? And finally, do you believe people are lurking and watching you?
Ok, that should do for this session;)
Small world.
The not going to goa group did the opening song for the Sopranos. Speaking of Catholics you don’t want to mess with.
hey i baracky/holder suck let’s start a race war:
link
Heh, that’s a fine job and a lot of ground covered for such a short session, Danger. In comparison, there are people from Harvard who get $500 an hour for inferior quality work. I believe the Wizard called them ‘Thinkologists’.
I call them thieves.
nr, I don’t know what to make of the ‘Washington Insider’ mentioned here by Leigh, among others. Is he real? Is it all a put on?
Whichever, he’s certainly walking down the right path. Race war has been discussed several times by his ‘source’ as a tactic in the lead up to November.
Heh. Good stuff, Danger.
*sniff*
Y’all are making fun of me.
Nah, leigh.
Unless you’re an old school Freudian. You’ve definitely never struck me as one though.
Top of the 15th an’ we ain’t done yet. Unfortunately, our finisher first baseman has already been substituted for though, so Showalter is going to have to find another willing pigeon if this game goes on much longer.
No, I’m not. I’m more of an Adler gal. Too bad he was a commie. But, he was a pal of Ayn Rand’s, so there’s that.
Finally, a run.
Larry Adler! Yep, commie.
Would never make fun of you, Leigh. You’re one of the good ones, and one sharp gal.
mr strait daughter talks @ http://www.marklevinshow.com/sectional.asp?id=32930#
thanks eric and baracky @ 2:40
sdferr, if you had tickets to see your favorite ballclub, would you be happy if the game went 18 innings-“woohoo, a two for one!”- or would you be saying, “Please God, end this”.
Luck the Fakers! What a thrilling finish.
Well. I guess there won’t be one more for old time’s sake classic Celtics-Lakers title series.
It’ll be interesting to see who wins the Eastern Conference, what with the injury to Chris Bosh negatively affecting Miami’s chances.
I also hate Miami. It’s not a mature, full hatred yet but I’m working on it.
Just wondering, did anybody tell the dipshit that the likely reason that Franciscan University hasn’t cancelled the employee health care plan is because it’s included in the various fucking union contracts?
Only in America…
no nobody told me Mr. Ernst but you have to remember they explicitly say why…
and I agree I think they have an open and shut court case
I don’t care much for Miami either, especially with LeBron James transforming himself into a Kobe-esque type villain by stabbing Cleveland in the back.
I like a game that’s over at around 2hrs 10min, mc4ever59, but nine innings anywhere inside 2:45 will do.
For me it was partially Lebron’s Decision and partially the insane calls Dwayne Wade gets, Mike.
Only so many times a guy can draw a foul by putting his forearm into a defender before I put them on my list.
hi catholic church! oh crap I left my clipboard in the car.
brb.
hi catholic church! I understand you’re not very happy about this obamacare business.
Not at all, wee small yellow creature. What happened to separation of church and state?
um, yeah. Exactly.
What happened to the whole “…or prohibiting the free exercise thereof” thing?
yeah. I feel you.
It’s a war on religion is what it is!
Oh yeah that sucks I can’t believe…
yeah!
yup. And, um exactly! And that’s why we think the federal government shouldn’t be in any position to dictate…
Right.
so we’ll put you down in support for repealing obamacare?
oh nononononono! We just want to change the part about the contraception the rest of you can suck it.
Oh. That’s funny! I guess I didn’t really need my clipboard after all.
Guess not.
I try not to bash on refs too much, but I agree with you ,bh. I sometimes think Wade could bring a tire iron out on the court, apply it none to gently to someone’s knee, and not get called for a foul.
Heh, apparently pikachus do not require much sleep, and enjoy nipping ankles at any hour.
it’s only a quarter after 10 Mr. 59
it’s cause I live so far west of America
Ah, one o’ them left coasters.
yeah it’s not my fault
I have a limited skill set so i have to go where the work is
here is a tuneful tune a friend of mine gave me this morning
it’s very summery and retro and too-earnest and I like it
The tune was bizarre, hf, but what the hell. God bless ya.
Talk to you all tomorrow. Hell, it is tomorrow.
In a few hours then.
night you
How do you know they aren’t? Many Catholics as individuals are doing exactly that, and keeping the Church out of it so folks like you don’t get any ick on them.
It is the Catholic Church that is specifically upset about contraception and birth control, because that is the specific point that specifially conflicts with there religion. If the Catholic Church as a religious body gets involved in a purely political matter such as the entirity of Obama Care, then you are going to get all covered in ick again.
We can’t have that now, can we?
B Moe;
Your post tracks with what a friend of mine from back east told me in a phone call last weekend. He’s devout Catholic ( I’m raised Catholic, but haven’t been to church for a long time), and says they’re getting guidance, but are handling things on their own. The feeling is that they’re hoping it doesn’t come down to a full blown confrontation between church and state, as it could get ugly.
If the O admin thinks they could roll over the church in such a fight as easily as they would a kid’s corner lemonade stand, they’re fools.
Tigers pooped the bed against the frigging Twins. I think the preseason hype has been too much early on.
Oh, and I have no problem hating the Heat at this point.
Lakers blew it? Awesome. Perhaps the most enjoyable title in my lifetime from the standpoint of being unexpected was the Pistons pasting LA in 2004.
Heh. Hating the Heat is easy. Between the doofus LeBron ‘please kick me’ James and D Wade- aka ‘the one who cannot be called for a foul’- and all the rest of their circus bs, ya just can’t help it.
I really enjoyed watching the Mavs take them apart in the finals last season.
The main problem with slash and burn screeching against the papists is that it nicely antagonizes people who have been slapped awake by the prog leviathan. One formerly-supportive fellow beadsqueezer now says of Obamacare “It just gives the government too damn much power.”
So, yeah, let’s stomp those green shoots flat–the jihad against Christers must come first.
did you read this link Mr. Moe?
The Catholic Church was also specifically upset that America didn’t have a nice euro-style cradle to grave mediocre health care system. The long march through the institutions didn’t pass over these guys. Not a bit. No more than it passed over the upper echelons of the Presbyterians or the Episcopalians or the Lutherans.
So I’m not gonna be too upset that some people are getting free birth control pills against the wishes of a catholic bishop. We all know the courts will ultimately exempt them. Let’s just hope the supreme court is as merciful with respect to the rest of obamacare.
That’s the important thing.
I had a terrible dream last night, in which I was harangued by militant Baptists about how I wasn’t a real Christian (due to my statue worshipping ways, etc).
Did the head militant Baptist have a yellowish skin palor and look like a……pikachu?
Come to think of it, he was sort of yellowish in pallor and talked a lot of nonsense. He even accused me of wanting to steal his cheap-ass firearms. As if.
It was so much nicer without this yellow creature around.
that is a mean thing to say, and hurtful
TRHein, we all have intrinsic worth.
Intrinsic: inherent, built-in, basic, essential, fundamental, central, native, real, genuine.
Leigh, please point out where any of the above fits most of the comments of the yellow creature, esp. pretaining to Ms. Palin or Christians.
Happy is an instigator, TR. Don’t let him get under your skin, although I admit that he makes me mad, too, sometimes.
My job is working with difficult people, and while he is a challenge, he’s not stupid. He’s constructed an elaborate facade to hide behind to enable him to say nasty things he wouldn’t say in person or using his real name. He is friends in real life with JD and a number of others, and I respect his choice of friends and will continue to give him a pass until they tell him to kiss off.
I disagree with him about his views of Christianity, but it’s America. I am not a fan of Ms. Palin, but I haven’t anything to add to that conversation, so I stay out of it.
All this is a long-winded way of saying don’t let him bait you.
From this angle, it looks more like a belabored facade.
Leigh,
Instigator or not I don’t cotton to his type. I was raised a shoot from the hip type of guy. While I appreciate he is from Texas I do not fancy the way he carries himself. America is not a failshit little country and I will be damned if I spent my life defending this country for the like of him to say what he “feels” to be true.
Ms. Palin need not be bended because he and his ilk don’t like her. Christians should not be dumped on just because it’s the in thing to do. I do not have to accept gay… what you do on your own time doesn’t matter to me but do not force me to have to accept or condone what you do on your own time.
I am sick and tired of hearing the same bull I can read in the papers or at other online sources here at PW.
I appreciate that you are more learned in things than I but I have to draw a line. America has to draw a line and the yellow caricature and those that think like him are not the sort to see that line. That is my point. If the yellow caricature feels hurt by that then let him find a way to change his color. Lord knows many here at PW have asked he desist from his more caustic assaults but he can not.
This is not a matter of baiting.
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He’s not hurt, TR. He’s trying to make you feel sorry for calling him out. His tropes are wearing thin and I figure that Jeff will give him the heave ho once more or at least give him a stern talking to when he has time away from the baby.
America is indeed a wonderful place and doesn’t deserve to be pissed on. I want to thank you for your service, too. (My husband is a USA retired officer.) I am religious and it hurts my heart when people speak poorly of Christianity. Generally it comes from a place of ignorance or it would never be suggested that Jesus is cool with the ghey marriage. See Matthew 14 for proof. Sadly, there are a great many people who feel the need to mock and scorn those who do believe or accuse us of ulterior motives (projection much?). Fight fire with fire and pray for them and let them know you are praying for them.
PW is a wonderful place and a real marketplace of ideas. There are no moderators and thank God for that. Unfortunately, there are those who will take advantage of that and go too far and happyfeet has been doing that lately. He’s making his own bed and not for the first time. Why? Who knows. I wonder if he even knows.
Anyway, I’m not making excuses for him and I completely understand how you and many others (including me) feel when he gets on a tear. I know he’s reading this, too. Happy, chime in and tell us why you’ve been acting the fool.
http://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/2012/05/obama-kenya-birther-story-from-obamas.html Oh my!
Make that Matthew 19. I need a new memory stick, evidently.
4 And He answered and said to them, “Have you not read that He who made[a] them at the beginning ‘made them male and female,’[b] 5 and said, ‘For this reason a man shall leave his father and mother and be joined to his wife, and the two shall become one flesh’?[c] 6 So then, they are no longer two but one flesh. Therefore what God has joined together, let not man separate.”
That Jesus! What a homophobe.
Leigh,
Thank you for your warm thoughts though I would ask that you save them and return them a thousand fold for those currently down range.
As to the yellow caricature, as Jeff has said many times he’s a “griefer”, I really don’t care what he thinks or why and I will continually call him on out that point.
Pistols at 20 paces as it were, though I likely couldn’t hit the side of a barn in my current state.
or “out on”, whichever floats the boat.