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Right-wing reaction to White House Christmas Trees: Make them too big and they’ll accuse Obama of being egotistical and hypocritical in a bad economy. Oh, wait…they do that already! Make them too small and they’ll accuse him of being an anti-Christian un-American Muslim. Oh, wait..they do that already! Big trees it is!!!
(Michelle Obama)
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Too long; didn’t read
Cliff’s Notes Version: BlahblahblahWhinefestBlah.
Half Expecting to see EWAdams on that one. Holy Cow is this one CRAP!
It’s close. It’s one of EWAdams’ buddies.
Maybe it’s one of his socks?
Wow, if his/her socks message each other back and forth, I think an intervention is in order!
*shudders*
They do, I checked.
Then we must intervene! I’ve got the pitchforks, Cpt Wow has the hot irons…torches…who has the torches? Did anyone remeber to bring torches? We can’t have an intervention without torches!
Will a flame-thrower do?
I gave Mina my flamethrower.
That’s OK, I have a brand new one, and I’ve barely used it yet. >:)
Well, if we can stop by the dollar store, I’ll get another grill lighter and a couple more cans of Aqua-Net, and I’ll flame along with you!
I have the torches! And the rope if we needs a hangin’!
Torches and rope? Are we going on a date?
Hey Boy!! Sounds like we’re having a lynching. YEEEEHAH!!
Cliff notes version: Republicans and conservatives are assholes.
I will agree that that is a cliffnotes version of this lol, it is still un-funny.
you forgot liberals and democrats
Actually everyone’s an asshole!! Makes things easier that way
not even funny
Agreed, this one has “I just want to cheap-shot those damn right-wingers so hard but I don’t have a lick of wit or brevity because of my own political affiliation, so I’ll just ramble on and on and hopefully my message will get across to anybody who actually had the time and interest to read my pointlessly long and boringly stupid novel/caption”
…written ALL over it. Yes, my irony was intended.
I don’t think political affiliation has anything to do with lack of wit & brevity. That seemed like a needless jab.
Two partisan posts back to back? Wow. Bad day huh, PK?
Have a blasting New Year all *
ROFLMAO
so true so true
Citation related to this picture requested please.
And then there are the eco lefties that are upset that they cut down real trees!!
Not to mention that the lights and ornaments are probably made overseas in a sweatshop.
And the amount of energy needed to keep those huge trees lit!
And if Al Gore had anything to say about it, the carbon footprint would be astounding!!! Unless it’s at his house of course.
But Al Gore wouldn’t be hypocritical, would he??? O_o
Um…you need someone to tell you that that’s the First Lady in the White House? If you actually mean the SOURCE of the picture, you can contact the admins. No, that’s already there if you read under the picture.
Gonna repeat myself cause I have enough patients for you today.
References and exact example that the right has said something similar to what the picture’s caption says. If so, wow that’s ridiculous, if not, wow, you guys sure act like victims when you’re CLEARLY not.
Go to Fox News. I’m sure you’ll find LOADS of examples.
NYE= Flame War Day on PK?
FLAME ON **whooshes in inferno** I secretly wish I could be the Thing.
Huh? O.o
I got the Human Tourch reference, but somehow missed the Thing. Can I blame it on my cold meds so that I don’t lose any geek points?
Most likely. Isn’t he entirely made of rock? So it would stand to reason that all of his inerds are made of rock as well.
I’ve always wondered if the Thing could have sex. I mean, his blind girlfriend might be able to climb on but…
1. Ouch for her
2. Possible lack of necessary sensitivity for him? I mean, can a rock feel pleasure?
All in all, not a good thing, being the Thing. Now, Reed Richards…
There is a reason that he is called Mr. Fantastic…
On a side note, Charro is completely doable. I now know for sure. *vanishes*
Ummm, not that I’m disagreeing about Charro (cause she is) but… what?
Yeah, what?
Caught her picture, very doable. That is all.
I love Charro for her dirty, dirty mind.
Well one must share.
*blush*
You are too kind. All of you!
ILPB aren’t you my cheezfriend? My picture is there too but it’s rather small.
And Janie, my mind is rather dirty.
I thought charro’s doableness was common knowledge. Huh.
It is common knowledge but mostly based on text. I got to get a good look at the face smirking pervertedly behind the posts. I like verifying facts like this.
If you were on facebook and joined our group you’d know how doable shortright and VG and Diss and Nao and DU and the Froo and Suicide Blonde and Captain Wow and… all our sexy sexy ladies that I’ve forgotten really are!
So, should I finally get a facebook page up, I can see pictures of the ladies who often use me as man-meat?
That could be… advantageous..
Yes. Yes. And more yes. But you’d have to save the dirty stuff for the group page ’cause I has family members as facebook friends.
We wouldn’t mind having a picture of the man-meat we’ve been using either.
This conversation is in my interest!
Ah but I avoid Facebook and have seen what Froo Frou looks like.
I prefer 1 on 1 to small group chat. I don’t have to worry about anybody’s family that way.
Oh come on over. Shorty talked ME into it. I’ve even posted a pic of my ass in jeans, and they went WILD over it. It’s like teasing cats with tuna.
But it’s not like a chatroom chat. It’s got discussion boards and you put up a post and then people respond, not unlike here. Except there we don’t have EWAdams lolames heading up every discussion. Also, if you join, you can FB friend the people in the group and have one on one discussions with them using FB chat.
…which has creeped me out in the past. With people knowing who I am and stuff, it really takes the mystery and suspense out of the Amazing Rando. The Boring Eric really isn’t nearly as much fun.
Well then you can make a faux facebook profile with the name “The Amazing Rando” and use that for all your online encounters! Then you can remain mysterious!!
Yaaaaa, Lynn was sucked onto FB by our girlfriend but I am still holding out. I’m overly connected as it is. @_@
but Rando, you can be amazing over there too – i know, i’m still bad fairie even down to the same pic as my avatar here — this is who i am when i’m online and it’s all ok. come play with us where we’re only slightly more different than here
Well fine DWN! You don’t get to see pictures of me in a corset! And what’s a Lynn?
“Lynn University?” You mean Facebook pulls in universities, too? It must be morphing into a black hole.
*grabs hold of Mabs and drags her into the Facebook too* Join us!
Noooooooooo! The black hole is trying to get me! *screaming*
*starts chanting* Join us, join us join us, join us join us join us…
Lynn is my wife and as for the corset, that is tempting and I could share pictures of me in my tophat…
No no, not falling for it. People who want to see me can stalk me on Gaia or YIM. *narrowly escapes*
One of us! One of us!
And the tophat picture is most divine.
I don’t know what this Yim or Gaia of which you speak is. I still think you should go with the facebook, so I don’t have to go through the trouble of stalking you. I’m already stalking my stalker, stalking someone else on top of that might be too much for me.
That poor woman….
What about his kidney and/or gall stones? Also made of rock?
Owwwww!
To be fair, his kidneys and gall bladder are also make of rock so it’s not really that noticeable when he gets kidney/gall stones.
I don’t know about that, but wouldn’t he have a permanent hard-on since no matter what…it’d be hard?
Yes but it would matter because of the problems listed above.
Like kidney stones
I imagine he’s a pretty durn rough ride for that there blind girlfriend of his.
Every day is flame war day, no? Besides, Commie Claus brought me a new flamethrower for Festivus!
No fair!!! I wanted a flamethrower. *pouts*
You’ll flame your eye out kid.
*texts Captain Wow*
ZOMG I GOT A FLAMETHROWER FOR THE SOLSTICE!
*hands Mina a lighter and a can of Aqua-Net*
Flame on, kid….flame on!
LOL, Thanks Diss! Just what I always wanted!
I’ll get the marshmallows and the liqueurs.
I have the rum! But don’t tell anyone. It tends to go missing.
Your rum is safe with me, Mina, the booty wench never drinks the rum.
The Captain and I go way back. We’ve been best friends for years and years.
Do you guys have Lambs down there? I love me some Captain Spiced, but Lambs has a new one called Black Sheep that’s got cinnamon and vanilla. FAB-U-LOUS with Eggnogg.
I haven’t seen it. I’ll keep an eye out for it though. Sounds good.
I like it…its a bit long, but it’s very true. People look for any excuse to bash Obama…there is no pleasing the conservatards.
just like the libtards that look for any excuse to blame Bush. Hell, they even blame Bush on the Christmas Day attack of Flight 253
Bush was an idiot who couldn’t form sentences or tie his own shoes, HOWEVER, he was able to mastermind the world’s largest hoax, 9-11, live in front of the entire world and dozens of video cameras!
I know there’s some moral there about “having my cake and eating it too”, but I’ll just be a close-minded libtard like the rest and ignore it.
Oh, go beat up your wife some more, Charlie Sheen….
*Would love for 2010 to be a Year Without Flaky-Ass Conspiracy Theorists*
here-here
Where where?
There there!
But… who would we laugh at?
Lol, how does that guy keep getting wives and kids??!!
I know! *shakes head in amazement*
I believe these two posts require two drinks, one for the use of conseratards, and one for use of libtards. As per PK drinking game rules as established in the Hillary Clinton drinking lol, two over from this one.
Really?…(i)really??(/i)
I see what you….didn’t…do there.
dang
*has a sad
*clears throat
As I was saying …doh! Stupid blackberry doesn’t have brackets! It’s brackets isn’t it?
Try using instead of ( ).
Damn. I mean… . See if that shows up now.
Mother fvcker! I can even type sideways carrots now?!
Blame Bush.
Bah. Blackberry doesn’t have carrots either.
I think it’s pretty obvious that a blackberry would never support the use of another produce….
Blackberries also most definitely don’t have apples. You have to get an iPhone for apples. Oddly enough, Blackberries do have honeydew melons.
The sideways carrots &<. are always killed by the system.
Dang. “…unless you put something around them.” Let me try this: &<;
I give up. Wait for Danbala or Greenbeard. They know how to do all those things. (It is the sideways carrots that work, but they can show how to do it without making it disappear. I still think it’s magic.)
That looks like a sideways fat-guy-with-a-walrus-mustache…and glasses.
And not to be the spelling nazi, but isn’t it it caret?
I’m not bound by your spelling rules. ;P
Spelling anarchist.
Really! (Even if you are correct.) ‘Sides, a real spelling Nazi should focus on the serious abuse of homonyms. Someone please save the homonyms!
**pulls homonyms head from out of toilet bowl** What? No more torturing the Homonyms? What about synonyms?
“Use the word you mean, not its second cousin.” Twain.
Beginning recursion…
To type a “sideways carat”, try typing < or > to type &lt; try typing &amp;lt;.
…recursion comlete.
Dagnabit, I knew I was going to blow that. I meant to say:
Hee hee. You spelled caret wrong!
Okay, thanks, I now try again: <
YES! Thanks, Neb.
But diamonds are a girl’s best friend! ♦♦♦
Meh. I’d rather have something more useful.
Now, mabsba, what else are you going to use for precision industrial cutting applications? Really, think ahead!
Hmmm. Does that include Dremel bits? Because I would like some more of those. Industrial cutting I’ve always found easier to hire out.
Apparently so!
This is relevant to my interests.
DU, come on, let’s go make out inappropriately at Home Depot and see if we can get kicked out!
And I’m outta here for the night, guys — everyone have fun and play safe! Happy New Year!
You too Diss, I’m on my way out for some New Year’s fun as well!
I think that sounds like an appropriate way to spend the new years, lets see if we can convince Mabs’s dremel to join us
Hah! I have thwarted your (and probably its) evil desires by putting it back in its box. The hedge clipper can go with you, though. It’s always been a jerk, anyway.
I have two bottles of xmas Baileys plus there is an interesting looking bottle that my husband put in the fridge that needs identification and consumption. Why go out when it comes to you?
I very seriously doubt we’re going out tonight; we had a few parties we were invited to but my fiance’s been sick for the last couple days (like yesterday he had his day off and didn’t feel good enough to play video games sick) and he’s still at work now. I’m settled in with the computer, the tv and my jammies and I’ll probably make a bacon grilled cheese and grab a beer soon.
My wife has been sick, so we ended up drinking beer and watching AMC’s 3 Stooges marathon.
(Trying this for the 8th time with a word or two edited out in case it’s causing censorship.)
Too true. Take the most recent would-be terrorist plane attacks. During the Bush administration it seems that such failed attacks were a sign that the system was working, but now it seems that the failed attacks are a sign that the Obama administration is weak on terrorism.
Aside: did anyone else laugh at the idea that the would-be terrorist apparently set his nether regions on fire? No wonder he was described as being easily subdued…
Hah! I figured out what word was causing my problem. It was a synonym for laugh, but began with “snig” and ended with “ger”.
You and your offensive, racist laughter!
I do believe you mean “safrican samerican” you racist!
My theory is that because of the emphasis on suicide bombing missions, all the remotely competent terrorists (excluding the ones smart enough to be non-martyrable middle-management types) are dead already. But then I’m just a tidge cynical, or so I’ve been told.
“tidge”? cool new word!
I think it’s halfway between a tad and a smidge.
Or a tittle and a smidge? Ooooh–I wrote ‘tittle’!!
You said tit!
*titters*
Actually I believe the Shoe Bomber was a black mark on the Bush administration. The only reasons this failed was b/c the guy was inempt and couldn’t lite his underwear on fire and 2. some Dutch guy kicked his a$$.
If the guy hadn’t gotten on the plane, like most of the people caught after shoe bomber guy, then Yes the system works. I don’t necesarily blame Obama for this per say, however is lackluster attitude towards terrorism does contribute some.
Maybe I’m missing something here, but if the dude went through security and got on the flight in Amsterdam, isn’t that their security lapse and not ours?
I didn’t blame us, did I? **re-reads** Nope… didn’t even blame Obama.
“I don’t necesarily blame Obama for this per say, however is lackluster attitude towards terrorism does contribute some.” Yeah, you kinda did, assuming you meant to type ‘his.’
I said “per say”. And if you read what I wrote I said it contirbuted some, it’s not necesarily putting full blame on Obama, true or false?
Nitpick: per se is the phrase you’re looking for.
So you meant “I didn’t completely blame Obama”? That is true. You implied partial blame.
Yeah and I partially blame TSA. I mostly blame the a-hole who put explosives in his underpants. I don’t blame the bad a$$ who kicked his a$$.
Nesting fail, PB, that should have been under Nebton’s
I’m not saying that you’re inconsistent, but my impression of the media (not just Fox News, but also the so-called “liberal” media) is that they handled the shoe bomber as a “stuff happens” case and took it as justification for the PATRIOT ACT, etc., but that this case is being taken as an indictment against Obama himself, despite the security lapse happening overseas (which to be fair to Bush was also the case for the shoe bomber).
Also, it seems that the recent cases where two others were caught before they got on the plane is also somehow a symptom that Obama is weak on terrorism. Maybe I just frequent the wrong web-sites, though. (I don’t have a TV, so my view of TV news is admittedly a filtered one.)
Can we at least agree that it’s hilarious that the would-be underwear bomber (presumably) burned his privates?
Oh, hell, yes! How do you convince somebody to be an underwear bomber in the first place? I’m halfway convinced this is proof that terrorist groups haze the new recruits.
Oh, and just for you, Nebton:
My take on the “Underwear Bomber”.
Just nit picking, and not even seriously. Didn’t the shoe bomber happen early on? IE, when things were still getting the motor up and running.
And for the record, I don’t think any nation will ever be able to stop all terrorist attacks. Some one that’s determined enough, and given enough time, will get through.
Yes, but if something bad happens we have to have someone in a position of power to blame. That’s the rule. Didn’t you get the memo when they made that rule? *pulls out her copy of the memo, a cuneiform clay tablet from early Mesopotamia and shows it to JAC*
You missed the addendum I filed, it says that we only blame and/or fire people who are proven to be neglectful, ignorant, or corrupt.
The addendum was filed, but never ratified by the necessary 2/3 majority.
The shoe bomber did happen early on. AND he was not Arabic in heritage or appearance–whitey white European dude.
If anybody was actually interested in complaining about the Obama WH Christmas tree, they’d probably go more for the Chairman Mao ornament than the size of the tree. You don’t really need to grope for excuses to bash the president.
I’d say they’re tad oversized, but for aesthetic reasons.
I think it’s more of the angle of the picture. It looks like it’s in the way of the door way, but I have a feeling it isn’t.
He’s muslim anyway. So who gives a $hit.?
The door….. is that way. MY GOD would the conservatards who are Birthers, Muslimers etc PLEASE STFU, just PLEASE do it. You make conservatives look like maroons when you open your mouth. There is SO much more to worry about when it comes to Obama. LET IT GO!!!
I feel bad for you. Just when we had a nicely bipartisan disdain of this truly unfunny lol, Poncho up there had to prove it true (it’s still unfunny though).
Like really, can’t he just go.. “Well isn’t he Muslim?” *wink wink** and pretend it’s somewhat a joke so he doesn’t sound like a Caveman.
So easy a caveman can do it.
I do have a semi serious question though. If we ever elect a president who isn’t Christian, would they still have Christmas trees at the White House? It’s not super important. I’m just curious how that would work.
Like if we had a Jewish president, for example? I don’t know. Since it’s the president’s residence, I’m guessing….no?
ZOMG! Giant menorah in the White House! That would be so cool.
We need a pagan president stat. Beltane bonfires on the white house lawn.
That would be interesting.
Do Mao ornaments count ?
YES! Light the White House lawn on fire! I would travel to DC just to participate! (I’ll bring my drums and dancing outfit!)
Okay, I first read this as ‘Light the White House on fire!,’ and your enthusiasm made me want to back away very slowly. But now I see all is good and volunteer to bring marshmallows.
So… it’s official, we’re moving Burning Man to 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue right?
I rather like it’s current location, mostly on the grounds that if I ever have the time/money to go, it’s alot closer to me where it is now than your proposed location. Yes, I’m greedy and selfish like that.
Haha! No, I don’t want to burn the White House itself. Just giant fires on the lawn!
You bring marshmallows, I’ll bring the, uh… drinks! (After the ritual, you have wine! Then vodka for the real drinking.)
I don’t know why not. I have a Christmas tree, and I’m not a Christian. It’s a symbol appropriated by the Christians from the pagan celebrations of the winter solstice. Besides, I believe the trees are gifts from various states, so a president would hardly refuse them.
A few years ago in Montana (and I can’t remember which town) someone smashed a menorah in someone’s window. The newspaper printed menorahs the next day and almost every house in town had them up that night. That’s the proper American spirit — screw with our neighbors, you’re screwing with us!
That’s very cool!
I guess it would depend on what religious background they came from; if it had been traditional in their family; if they had something else they normally did instead….it might be a situation of “Christmas tree? Um….ok. Whatever,” but if they were seriously practicing another religion (or, for that matter, one of the varieties of Christianity that doesn’t believe in having trees…) it might be a conflict for them.
it could be that the public areas would still get christmas trees, but the private residence area would be decorated according to their preferences. i seriously doubt that most first ladies take that active a role in determining what is done with the public areas since most have lives (unlike mother nancy)
That’s horrible! I’m glad the town came together like that though. I’m also glad to know that not all ignorant people are here in the south.
OMG NO! You have NO monopoly on morons. I wish you did (then they wouldn’t be here
), but that would be so unfair to the non-moronic Southerners. We really need to start branding them….
Round them up within the confines of an electric fence. Laugh as they continually get zapped trying the get out.
When I was in the 6th grade, one of my teachers showed us a 20/20 special (I think it was 20/20) about racism, and they used St. Louis (where I live) to show how differently people act. They used hidden cameras and had a white guy and a black guy go into different places. The differences in the way those people were treated were really sad.
I’m agnostic and I always have a tree. For that matter, I celebrate Christmas because I love the holiday. As my atheist brother said when asked if he would celebrate Christmas once he had children, “Why not. I like fairy tales as much as the next person.”
I’m not Christian, myself (pagan, as semi-noted above) and my family does and always will have ‘Christmas’ trees. We did even when I HAD no religion. I grew up with them, I see nothing offensive about them, and as far as I’m concerned, the White House (and any other place) can have up Christmas trees if they want. You don’t have to look at it as celebrating the birth of Christ – Christmas, these days, represents rather more than just the Christian holiday itself.
A few years back we decorated a small palm tree(small enough to still be in a pot indoors) and called it a Christmas tree. Seemed like a good idea at the time.
I give a $hit that you used a period and THEN a question mark. Come on, guy.
Too wordy.
Sorry Mark your reply was too long… could you please lessen it so that us commoners can understand.
2rdy
See, I’m reading that as “turdy”….come to think of it, that applies nicely.
*snerk*
3rdy
They see me rollin’
They hatin’
Patrolling they tryin’ to catch me ridin’ 3rdy
Tryin’ to catch me ridin’ 3rdy
LMAO@ILPB!
Actually, I don’t know a single liberal who thinks that Marion Barry isn’t an idiot, but I know several conservatives (less than a majority, however) who think that Limbaugh isn’t an idiot. (Granted, obviously some people didn’t think Barry wasn’t an idiot since he somehow got re-elected in DC, but don’t tar us all with that brush.)
Since we’ve established that Barry is an idiot, will you agree that Limbaugh is also an idiot?
It really amazes me the extent to which simple name-recognition seems to affect likelihood of winning an election. It’s like the voting public just scans down the list and thinks “Ooh! I know that guy! I’ll vote for him!”
Yes, Louisiana’s Jefferson is a more recent example of this. I mean, WTF? The guy was caught with $100 grand in his freezer!
Your bringing up of Louisiana reminds me of the 91 runoff for Governor there, when Edwin Edwards was up against David Duke and there were campaign signs that said “Vote for the Crook — it’s Important!”
I heard that the other slogan was ‘better the lizard than the wizard!’ Louisiana is ‘special’!
Scary part is that if Edwards could legally run again (ya know, if he wasn’t in prison) he’d probably be elected by a landslide. Here in LA we like our rice and our politicians dirty!
And your voters dead
No, no, no. We just love to vote so much that we don’t let a silly thing like being dead stop us from doing so.
Hah! Yeah, I remember those. That’s one time where I did understand voting for the crook, though. Lesser of two evils, indeed.
For sure!
He didn’t want it to spoil.
(clears throat) Excuse me, but I must correct you: Jefferson was only caught with $90k in his freezer. Please keep your facts straight!
Actually this is kinda knew to me. Limbaugh a drug addict. Please edumicate.
He had a prescription drug problem for a while.
I just learned something else relevant while reading that — guess who filed an amicus brief on his behalf during the investigation? The ACLU.
And as much as I don’t like Limbaugh, getting hooked on prescription drugs, after legitimate pain problems, is a world of difference than recreational drug addiction. They both need help, and I’ll admit that the two are often intermingled. I’ve known more than one good person that got hooked and struggled to manage both the pain and medication after major injuries and/or surgery.
I’ve never done illicit drugs in my life, but one time a doc gave me morphine for kidney stones (after laying in pain for 8 hours) and I knew IMMEDIATELY how someone could get to like that. I was smart enough to know that flirting with that lady would be death. But between the relief from pain, and the high, that was an experience.
His addiction is not what I find objectionable. It’s the way he always did and still does bash other drug addicts. How does he know how they got addicted?
I know a guy who got addicted to heroin after being treated with morphine for an injury in Vietnam. I feel only sympathy for him — but he doesn’t condemn others for their addictions (nor blame anyone else for his own, actually).
I’m not a Limbaugh listener, and in truth never was. He happened to come on the news/traffic station I started listening to after taking a job as a courier. It didn’t take long for me to not like him. But I often heard him in bits, as I would be in and out of the truck making deliveries. But I do recall him talking about the difference between the recreational drug user years before his fall from grace. Not in every reference, mind you, but he did talk about it.
There’s plenty of legitimate things to discuss about Limbaugh, but the drug thing is a straw man. I’ve never heard one quote that claims he has bashed someone who got hooked medically. I have heard him rant about people who choose to do nothing about it. And, like him or not, he did do something about it. He was forced into reality about it, but he didn’t run from it. Ask Froo for the details, as she is a Rush fan.
And I have to give Kudos to the ACLU, as they did step in in his situation.
I have just read sections from show transcripts. Before he was caught, drug addiction was not a medical problem, it was a character flaw/weakness. WHen it was him, oh, he needed to go to rehab because he had a medical problem. And many quotes deriding athletes for drug use when many athletes become addicted to drugs the same way he says he did. (I just googled him and poked around a bit and found several pretty easily.)
I never listen to him. I never listen to anyone, left or right, who does what I consider to be ‘rant radio.’ But I do hear clips from his show and read quotes in other media.
And, yes, the ACLU, which has been bashed repeatedly today for being partisan/leftist/progressive/anti-conservative/etc, DID speak up for him. WHich just goes to show that they’ll speak up for ANYONE.
I would be willing to bet that those quotes have been cut short. Just enough to enrage the left, but not enough to tell the truth. And like I also said, he is on record about the difference. Imagine if you had to clarify every detail every time you spoke.
The whole Harry Reid thing was a perfect example of people taking him out of context. It’s the equivalent of quoting Barack Obama talking about some of his islamic upbringings, and not knowing the whole story, then declaring it as proof of his faith.
Just in the bits and clips I have heard through the years, I have heard many things taken out of context. Like I said, hit him with honest things, not 3 minutes of a 3 hour conversation.
Oh, and I don’t recall the ACLU being invited, they put themselves in. Rush had to accept it, but he didn’t ask for them to help. It’s not like he doesn’t have the money to get 1000 lawyers. And it’s like an arsonist running up and helping to fight a fire, to make themselves look good.
And you’d be wrong. If you can stand to read them, there are entire pages of show transcripts online, which is what I read.
Rush did not have to accept the ACLU’s help. They requested permission to file an amicus brief on his behalf because they felt, rightfully so in my opinion, that the DA violated FL law regarding setting aside doctor-patient confidentiality. I could not see any where who requested the ACLU to do so. It doesn’t say he asked but nor does it say he didn’t. You would have to do more research than I did if you actually wanted to know the answer.
Your arson analogy makes no sense, btw. The fire the ACLU was trying to put out was the violation of Limbaugh’s civil rights (doctor-patient confidentiality), which they definitely did not start.
I didn’t say they started the fire. They ran in to make themselves look good.
And as I said, he has been on record on the difference. I would also be suspect of those transcripts. There has been more than one time Media Matters wasn’t honest. You read what someone wanted you to read. Of course they wouldn’t include any reference to his entire thoughts. And don’t tell me that you expect every one to clarify every detail of every subject every time it’s mentioned. Nor does it change that he did get help.
One of the things I despise the most about Rush IS his ego. But I’ve never heard him say he is perfect.
I’m also suspect that you had the time to read 3 hours worth of transcripts that fast, therefore, you read portions. Portions that were presented to you in such a way as to present what you expected.
That’s the definition of arsonist.
Where the heck did you get Media Matters from? NOt to be rude, but you really should stop making assumptions. I simply googled transcripts for his show (you can find such things) and searched for addict and read those sections where he talks about drug use. So no one chose what I read except me, and I selected just by subject matter and based my statements on what the man said. Granted, he has thousands of pages of transcripts, but I looked through quite a few and stopped because they were redundant.
BTW, he was given the choice of going to trial or going to rehab and drug testing for 18 months. So it isn’t as if he voluntarily went to rehab. Maybe you should refresh yourself on the facts of the case?
Regardless, it is probably almost New Year’s there, so Happy New Year. I’m sure I’ll ‘see’ you next year. Good night.
An arsonist doesn’t start every fire they encounter.
Media Matters is just one of many groups that has been caught taking things out of context, not telling the whole story, or just plain misquoting Rush.
And you don’t have to be an ass about it. I know full well that you can find transcripts, I even mentioned that. But questioned the accuracy of such sources. When I googled it, the 3rd listing was to Snopes, where the cartoon Boondocks falsely accused Rush of wanting Sadam Hussein to gas drug addicts.
And I know the facts of the case. That was an easy out for both sides. The prosecutor knew he bit off more than he could chew. And most likely broke the law himself. Rush went to rehab long before that deal was offered.
In my own personal life, I’ve gotten so down that I didn’t realize how bad things were, until I was confronted. It happens. Including to casual drug users. Years of abuse and the destruction of your life and family should be that same confrontation. Some choose to remain. Rush didn’t. To me, that’s the difference between an addict and a junkie.
I don’t know how you can legitimately question the source of the transcripts I read when you are the who assumed that source. I simply asked you not to make assumptions, and you decided that called for vulgar name calling. I’m not interested in that kind of discussion.
PS I don’t know why you’re going on about the snopes.com link. It clearly and accurately points out that the statement was false.
You decided to be vulgar with the way you belittled me with your comments.
I doubt you got your info from RUSH/24/7. And like I said, I can’t see you read entire show transcripts in the short time we have been discussing them. That leaves you with reading bits and pieces. And considering I have actually been listening and know what was said, it tells me you are being fed what people want you to hear.
And so you know, an Ass is simply an old mule. Stubborn, and only wants it’s way. It’s usually manipulated by putting blinders on it.
Let’s see: first you don’t listen, then you do. First you say kudos to ACLU for helping, then they’re just in it for the publicity. Make up your mind.
Then you just start name calling. I don’t care how you justify it. You are an adult; if someone says someone that offends you, say so and give them a chance to straighten it out. I certainly never mean to belittle anyone, but you are being intentionally derisive. You are CHOOSING to be rude on purpose.
Kudo’s for doing it. Questioning why they did it.
I listened for a few months, decided I didn’t like it. But, as traffic info was a necessity to me, in the days before GPS and Cell Phone Apps, I left the radio on. Not always, but when it was necessary for my location, or I simply was too busy to change the channel.
You were belittling, and I called you on it. Face up to it. Don’t hee haw around. And there’s no way you can convince me that you didn’t CHOOSE to be belittling. I was the one mentioning finding quotes on the net. I simply questioned the completeness of them. And the accuracy of some. I also brought up the fact that you didn’t have time to have read the transcript for an entire show, much less all the shows where he mentions drug addictions.
Froo can tell you, I really dislike Rush, and think he takes more away than he contributes. She and I have had that smack down. But don’t blindly follow the blind. Especially those with monetary and political interests in hurting Rush, or anyone else for that matter.
Well, since you can read my thoughts and tell what I meant, there is no sense in arguing with you about what I actually meant.
And probably you will say this is belittling you, but did it occur to you that I actually read about Rush’s case when it was current and all I was doing tonight was double checking things I had previously read? I received several viral emails both for and against hiim when the case was in the news, and that was when I first read through some actual transcripts. But it was a while ago, so I did go back and skim to verify what I remembered. So I suppose it’s entirely my fault that I said ‘read’ instead of ‘re-read’ or ‘reviewed’ that entitles you to call me a liar instead of politely asking how I read so much so quickly.
Maybe I should come up with some excuse to explain why I don’t always express myself as clearly as I would hope?
I can’t read your thoughts, I just read what you posted. And, giving you the benefit of the doubt, I would hope that you wouldn’t be fooled by partial statements. Any more than I wouldn’t want people to be fooled by someone quoting our president saying “his muslim faith.” When not reading a teleprompter, he has made a lot of incomplete statements, and even plain old fashioned mistakes. We all do. Heck, throw in the 57 states comment, and it really begins to make a picture. (not really, but I hope you get the point)
And no matter how anyone twists it, there is a difference in a recreational drug addict and a medically addicted problem. Like Rush or not, the beginnings and the endings show not a hypocrite, but rather a strong character. If you think you are above something like that happening to you, watch out. Rock bottom is waiting for you.
Thanks a lot you guys. Now I have Billy Joel singing “We Didn’t Start the Fire” stuck in my head.
Buddy Holly, “Ben-Hur”, space monkey, Mafia
hula hoops, Castro, Edsel is a no go
U2, Syngman Rhee, payola and Kennedy
Chubby Checker, “Psycho”, Belgians in the Congo
Yeah, I get them at earwigs r us.
Justa, did you know that a lot of “recreational drug addiction” can be attributed to undiagnosed mental disorders? People with anxiety or depression or any other disorder are susceptible to drug addiction because it helps them cope with what’s going on in their brains that they don’t understand.
My mom has Schizoaffective Disorder and before it was diagnosed, she found that drinking calmed her nerves. Then she became an alcoholic. When her psychosis got way out of hand, and she got on meds, she stopped drinking.
I have Borderline Personality Disorder (and major Depression woohoo), and I used to drink to cope as well. I started doing drugs when I was young, and I found that drugs made it easier to handle my insane anger issues. As you can also read, substance abuse is an actual symptom in the disorder.
Many people with undiagnosed depression or anxiety do turn to street drugs to help them cope. A factor in this could be socio-economic status; and that many people don’t have insurance. To the un-insured you don’t go to a doctor unless you have to and it’s tough to self-realise certain symptoms of disorders. You find that when you’re sad or anxious, taking a drink helps. Or smoking some pot. Or any other of the myriad of drugs. Then you get hooked in the cycle of addiction so now you have to overcome that along with what can be a crippling mental disorder. Children from broken families (mine) tend to have bad coping skills and this can also lead to drug use and addiction. To me, and to addiction specialists, there is no difference in the how someone became or becomes an addict. It’s a medical problem and they need help.
Also, one never stops being an addict. You can be clean for many years, but you never stop being an addict. I know, I’m still an addict.
Thank you, Charro, for that excellent explanation. One of my friends became homeless because of her mental illness for exactly the reason you described — she ‘self medicated’ with alcohol because it made the voices go away and ended up losing her job and everything. It sounded much like going down a really mild hill that you don’t even realize is sloped down until you find you’re at the bottom. She has whatever they call schizophrenia now plus bipolar.
But she’s no longer a newt!
(I.e., ‘got better’)
Sounds like Schizoaffective.. Schizophrenia plus a mood disorder. It’s still called Schizophrenia, but when it co-occurs with a mood disorder it becomes Schizoaffective. Mom heard voices too. She had some bizarre delusions. I worry about her a lot because sometimes her meds stop working and then she goes nuts again.
This sounds very much like my uncle, who is schizophrenic with some other psychotic disorder (I think). He’s also an alcoholic. He lives with my grandparents.
Sounds like oodles of fun.
Damn. I can’t imagine what it would be like to have TWO psychotic disorders!
I know people who use marijuana to treat a variety of mental problems including ADHD and Bi-Polar disorder.
Yeah weed calms you down. It makes me vomit though.
Much like the jager+beer+champagne I had last night. I didn’t get out of bed until 8pm and couldn’t keep water down until then either. I was puking bile and spit. Awful. Happy fukcing new year to me.
Ew. TMI. Can we go back to talking about the voices in our heads…um…other people’s heads?
And now I’m really sorry that I offered you Baileys earlier. Maybe some nice French bread?
You offered Bailey’s? I did not see that. Most gracious.
I’m thinking some soup and ginger ale might be in order.
Ah, different thread, after we stole your drugs. (Well, Ed stole them; we just consumed them.)
Soup is good. My mother would probably recommend sticking to one type of alcohol, but it’s a little late for that suggestion.
Damn Eds and his drug stealing.
Yeah, I know I’m not supposed to mix, I’m an experienced drinker from way back. But, it was midnight and there was champagne and I was already drunk and then they were like have a jager bomb and my dumbass said ok.. I think I threw up on their shower curtain. Oh back to the TMI thing.. Sorry..
Ah, well. It’s fun to laugh* at those who are still young enough to do dumb things.
*But only in a totally sympathetic way — like laughing when someone ELSE’s two-year-old throws a tantrum in a store and yours is 16. There are joys in having a teenager, mostly that you no longer have a two-year-old!
Stick to one type? So I shouldn’t have had the rum, midori, and champagne? And absinthe…I think I had absinthe? I don’t remember…Luckily I don’t follow Charro’s lead and other than a mildly upset stomach I’m fine. *hands Charro the Canada Dry ginger ale and chicken soup*
nom nom nom
When I worked at Jack in the Box I had a guy working for me who was only useful when he smoked weed due to ADHD.
Gods now I want some Jack in the Box! Curse you Rando Twenty Ten!
Well, people call him a hypocrite already. Yes, he was sick for a while and grew addicted to the medication. Happens. Doesn’t make him a bad person. Nobody is perfect. Nobody. The key is that he HAD a drug problem. He doesn’t have a drug problem. People make mistakes, that doesn’t make them bad. Means they’re human.
I’m a prefect person.
Is your first name Ford?
She knows where her towel is.
And remember: [big friendly letters] Don’t Panic [/big friendly letters]
Excuse me, but if he had a drug problem, he still has a drug problem. Just ask any recovering addict. Same with alcoholics. Once and alcoholic, always and alcoholic. Only difference is the “recovering” part.
No, cgray believes that all neocons are godlike geniuses while anyone even slightly to the left of him is a vile piece of dog poo. In the meantime, it’s also well-known that cgray has sex with farm animals.
I object to this continuous insulting of farm animals. And if it’s true, where’s PETA? This must be considered cruel and inhumane treatment of animals! *rings up PETA to have cgray ‘fixed’*
Careful, there. PeTA’s way of “fixing” animals involves an injection and a freezer.
Oh, wait… I see what you did there!
I kind of got the impression he was referring to Obama.
Oh — considering the source you may well be right. Marion Barry’s so famous for being caught smoking crack, though, that it’s the logical jump.
See, I didn’t even make that connection at first. Knowing who was posting, I automatically assumed he was talking about Obama since he likes to point out every irrelevant fact about Obama’s past. I mean, we liberals would never make fun of a…president’s…drug use…uh, never mind.
*snerk* High five dude!
Self-deprecating humor FTW!
(I think the idiot cgray meant ‘Barry’ Obama, not Marion Barry)
I did too but I was having too much fun watching people ten times more knowledgeable than cgray completely jump over his poo slinging and have an actual interesting and meaningful discussion to point it out.
I can totally understand enjoying that!
If it had been a regular who had posted that reply instead of Nebbi (who is new and therefore didn’t know cgray always refers to Obama as Barry), I would have assumed they had intentionally misinterpreted it just to annoy cgray.
Next time I’ll do it deliberately.
Hey, the Whitehouse calls the trees “Holiday Trees” specifically to avoid offending the Muslim sensibilities of Barack HUSSEIN Obama’s Muslim comrades at the airport.
Actually, you’d be incorrect in that. On the official White House website, they’re referred to as “Christmas trees” — the White House Christmas tree, the National Christmas tree — oh, and here’s a transcript of Obama’s radio address on the 24th, where he repeatedly (along with Michelle) refers to Christmas trees.
It means handsome…
ZOMG!
*texts Captain Wow*
Ionnes has the hots for Obama!
NO! Don’t text her! She’ll put another car in the swimming pool, and they haven’t retrieved the last one yet. *runs to get Wow’s car keys*
Dur Rando! You should know by now, once a name is bestowed upon you by your parents, your not only inherit their political, social and religious views, but you also inherit the personality, intentions, and means of anyone who has ever had that name! Just like how anyone named Timothy constructs bombs and parks them in a van in front of federal buildings… Or anyone named John or Jeffrey murder and rape young boys! I mean c’mon Rando! Gah!
Well sh!t. I can’t find anyone from the past with my name, using the spelling my parents gave me. Does this mean I’m going to have to be original and make everything up as I go along? I dun wanna! *sulks*
By Max’s reasoning though, I am a well known actress who starred in a certain series on the WB about witches.
I am apparently a moderately successful Broadway star. (She’s all I ever get if I google me.)
I KNEW IT!!! I can has autograph plz????
That depends on which one you think I am.
Of the three original actresses one of them has my first name and the other has my middle name.
You mean your name isn’t Jane St. Clair?! You mislead us!!!!
Didn’t you watch the original Charmed? The actress’s who played the witches were Jane Millino, Saint Doughtery, and Sally Coms.
By Max’s reasoning, I’m either a major OT prophet, or a Robert Redford as a mountain man.
Or possibly a viking if we use my middle name.
I’m an author.
That’s exactly how the Republicans work…And obviously, we have confirmation from the rantings of the elephants here…BIG score on your caption!
Can we throw Rae and Ioannes into a steel cage and watch the ensuing death match?
Why not? If she’s not going to answer my perfectly friendly question….come to think of it, Ionnes always does that post and run crap, too — yep, cage match it is!
Can we leave comments on its blog that it’s clearly trying to pimp with these driveby comments? If so, I think we should invade like locusts.
Geez Diss, stop with the incessant ranting! That’s all you ever do! Rant rant rant! You’re such a ranting elephant!
/jackass
No, no, I’m a ranting BULL.
Ah, doesn’t that make you a boy?
Hmmm….is a female Taurus….a heifer? Lol. I don’t know!
Sorry. I forgot you all were off on your Zodiac excursion again. I do believe they still consider you a bull, but that seems rather rude. BTW, a heifer is a cow that’s never been bred.
Ok, I’ll just be a bodacious bovine, then!
…victim-hood ready and waiting…
Bottom of the barrel for this one. One of the worst ones I’ve seen in awhile. Wordy, boring, and not even humorous. Pure crap.
See, they almost had something, if they could have made it alot shorter and gone with the whole we’re damned if we do and damned if we don’t so we might as well do it big and huge and awesome theme they might have been able to make something funny out of it. Instead they took a funny general concept and crapped it out, jumped up and down on it, piddled on it, threw it in the septic tank to rot for a while and called it funny. This displeases me. I am displeased and today I am GOD. Specifically, The Morrigu, or Morgan if you prefer!
How did you get out of my guitar?
(yes, I name inanimate objects…)
Wait. You named your guitar after a goddess of fertility, and you hold it in your LAP? Isn’t that a bit dangerous?
PS DU, since she’s also the goddess of strife, good choice for PK!
Strife, death, warfare, fertility…seemed like a good idea
Silly, I didn’t get out of your guitar, by naming your guitar after me you imbued it with a small part of my spirit. That small part of me is still in your guitar, but the majority of my spirit is in DU today because she is me today.
Hmmm… did anyone call the WAHmbulence for the whitehouse?
Nobody cares what you think. I thought you should know.
Rightist Reaction: You only cut down two trees? Tell me you at least burned the rest of the forest. Did you do it with an assault rifle? It’s more fun with an assault rifle.
Steve is a turd, that’s established. But I did sit at a stop light the other day, and listening to a Prius, it’s sounds match it. As it sat idling at the light, it was going “homo homo homo homo homo” and as it pulled away, it sounded just like it was saying “Iiiiiiiiiimmmm gaaaaaaaaaayyyyyyy.”
Now, now, keithy. I met a very nice older lady and her husband who had a Prius. They didn’t seem smug at all. Of course, I met them because I was standing behind the car and didn’t realize they were in it and wanted to back up! Priuses are QUIET. (But she was very nice about it.)
Keithy, it’s a joke. And one I stole from Jeff Dunham. *sigh*
Well, there’s your problem. Next time steal your jokes from somebody funny. *snerk*
I know one thing they are. Cramped.
Depends on how large you are, and in what dimension, I suppose. I’m 6’3″, and I find that most American cars lack sufficient head room for me, but the Prius is most excellent in that regard. It has more than enough leg room, to boot. The back seats, however, could stand a wee bit more head room if you plan on having full-size adults (i.e., over 6′) back there.
I gotta give Obama credit, though: he admits his drug use and talks about the lessons he learned getting through that experience. I can’t think of any other politicians who’ve been so forthcoming.
It’s also a smart move politically. Much better to be open and forth coming about it than to try and bury it and have it come up later and bite you in the ass.
Yay for honesty. That was my parents approach. Yeah, I went to college in the 70′s and I did drugs. Here’s what happened to me and people I knew. Best lesson ever and you don’t feel like your parents don’t understand you because they “never did anything wrong”.
BLAH, BLAH, BLAH…
This should have been posted under the “FAIL” section…
What’s wrong with middle-sized Christmas trees? :/
obama is a godzilla alien invader!
This picture must have been taken just before she lifted her leg…pissed on the trees…and then sniffed her own butt.
oh oh your so clever…i bet you crack up all the kids in the jr. high.
Yes, your goldenboy Obama can do no wrong. Never mind that Hussein put an a pic of Mao, the butcher and killer on the CHRISTmas tree. What a low life POS (Obama and teh poster)
do you seriously believe that the President decorated each and every single tree put up in the white house — all 2-3 doz of them, let alone the official tree in the blue room?
try reading this for a change from fox (not)news {http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/White_House_Christmas_tree}
IN THE NAME OF CAIN!! IN THE NAME OF CAIN!! IN THE NAME OF CAIN!!
Obama is a nazicommunist =D
WIN
Uh… no.
actually no, right wing conservatives wouldnt even care, liberals would ill tell you that,
Love it.
However, as a member of neither side, the bickering is getting old.