Id hope so

The republicans are impeding the noble progress of Obama.
It is inconceivable to me that reich-wingers
would reject free health care in order to enrich
greedy hospitals, doctors and insurance companies.

Please keep up the good fight Representative Blumenauer;
the gay and transgendered communities salute you, sir.

Be Well.

The gay and "transgendered" (no such thing actually exists) "communities" (makes it sound downright Norman Rockwell using that snob term 'community') ought to be forced to pay extra taxes to cover the cost of AIDS and multiple other diseases they bring on themselves. Hey, if smokers can be guilt-taxed, why not homos?

DIABLO!

You've been missed.

Hey, if smokers can be guilt-taxed, why not homos?

They ought to tax the shit out of the homos at the RC churches, that is if there is enough cash leftover from all of the pedo lawsuits.

"We'll pass our agenda"?

Do it already!

Compromise, rien: tax the homo Catholics. I won't complain. Leave the rest of us alone and tax the pervs. Like smokers, perverts spread disease and cause Obamacare to cost more.

"Hey, if smokers can be guilt-taxed, why not homos?"

They're already subsidizing you, O Phobic One.

You can file a joint return; they can't, which means they're effectively paying a gay tax, which means they're lightening your load a little bit.

Never look a gift horse in the ass.

"It is inconceivable to me that reich-wingers
would reject free health care...."

yeah, free.

All those doctors and nurses and technicians work for free in Canuckistan.

Remember when ALL repuklikians would vote for any piece of garbage, Pres. Vader (and his little side kick) would propose, no questions asked?

"Kinda hard to do with your dick stuffed up there"

Voice of experience, dear?

"seems you're the one whining about the buttfuckers, dear"

I'm not whining about them - I'm cheering them on. I'm all in favor of them getting the same rights you have, particularly if it makes your head explode when that happens, which I suspect it just might.

What's wrong with buttfucking, vernon?

Are you going to honestly tell us neither you or your lady do it/have done it?

Bullshit.

Oh, it's gay bufu you don't like. Oh, well that's different. *rolls eyes*

seems you're the one whining about the buttfuckers, dear
#13 | POSTED BY VERNON AT 2009-10-18 01:43 AM | REPLY | FLAG:

That is because Vernon enjoys a good buttfucking.

Kinda hard to do with your dick stuffed up there

#10 | Posted by vernon at 2009-10-18 01:12 AM | Reply | Flag:THE VOICE OF EXPERIENCE.

You make it too easy.

"The gay and "transgendered" (no such thing actually exists) "communities" (makes it sound downright Norman Rockwell using that snob term 'community') ought to be forced to pay extra taxes to cover the cost of AIDS and multiple other diseases they bring on themselves. Hey, if smokers can be guilt-taxed, why not homos?"

Ah, the troll is back! That was awesome trolling. Asshole.

Though I agree there's no such thing as "the gay community" or the "African-American community." And folks of those ilks, many of them, would agree. It's not as if homosexuals or African-Americans speak with some monolithic voice.

No, but you will try. Any by the way, since when where all republicans rich? Seems to me there are rich and poor on both sides.

I think I found a couple of credible posts, but mostly tactical insulting, which teaches nothing, but shows much.

BettyO, to whom are you responding? (Agreed on the wealth issue.)

Vern, why is it not a civil right to love (and fuck) whomever you want? (Assuming consenting adults.)

It ain't over til it's over.

Yogi Berra

"35 years in public service".

As if that's a good thing. He's been a public official since I've been six years old, and he's just now excited that he can finally get something done?

It's amazing how tolerant libbies--and many conservatives--are when it comes to sending a guy back for term after term after term, and not seeing that he IS the problem, and so are they.

"I don't care what animal you butt fuck. You are the one who has a hard on for livestock.

'Never look a gift horse in the ass.'"

Nothing more pathetic than a troll who's running out of material, eh, folks?

"#23 | Posted by vernon"

Enjoy your vacation, Vermin.

Socialism is not a "noble goal"

Socialism is not a "noble goal"
#29 | Posted by bph320 at 2009-10-18 12:54 PM | Reply | Flag: ideologically closed-minded

"ideologically closed-minded" - HC

If that were the true issue, no big deal. The problem is that the "Socialism is not a "noble goal"" statement is so out of touch with reality in so many ways.

after all, fucking a sewage pipe.
#23 | Posted by vernon

That's not a sewage pipe, Vermin, that's your wife.

#32 | Posted by Doc_Sarvis at 2009-10-18 02:10 PM | Reply | Flag: TRULY PROFOUND OUTPUT OF A TENURED PhD INFLUENCING THE YOUTH OF AMERICA.

You taken to being an Eagle Scout troop leader lately, Jest?

FYI, Jest -

Vermin's a silly old bastard who gives every hint of a serious substance abuse problem, a nasty piece of work who accuses other posters of being pedohiles, dipsomaniacs,and intense lovers of the members of other species while professing a deep and abiding love for Jesus. In other words, a piece of pond scum who richly deserves each of the numerous hits he takes and all of the considerable opprobrium he garners here on the DR.

I'll gladly take the dump I get for that crude post, a play on a punchline that dates to Vermin's era.

"Ah, the troll is back! That was awesome trolling. Asshole. "

Pragmatist wrote that and then agreed with what I had posted.
Is he talking to himself?

I didn't agree at all with you, Diablo. How did you get that. You said all kinds of horrifying things (well, only one or two). I said only that there's no such thing as a monolithic gay group whose members all think the same. How is that anything near what you said?

Troll.

7 Broken Promises in Record Time

1. Make government open and transparent.

2. Make it "impossible" for Congressmen to slip in pork barrel projects.

3. Meetings where laws are written will be more open to the public. (Even Congressional Republicans shut out.)

4. No more secrecy.

5. Public will have 5 days to look at a bill.

6. You'll know what's in it.

7. We will put every pork barrel project online.

Nice spam, dildo.

liberals do have standards. They are:
- my rights are more important than your rights,
- what's yours is mine if I can get it,
- the end justifies the means
- everything is relative
I'd add: vulgarity=divinity

Whatever happened to classical liberals, the ones that made some sense...??

"Whatever happened to classical liberals, the ones that made some sense...??"

And here's a related question: What ever happened to classical conservatives, the ones who occasionally made some sense? My guess is, they thought they could tame the beast, i.e. The Base, but The Base either destroyed or tamed them. Too bad. More brain power devoted to public discourse and less shouting could only be beneficial for the body politic.

What happened to both the right and left is that their Parties, to a lesser or greater extent, have been purchased by special interests, so that although the Dems are merely franchised operations of corporate entities, the GNOP is a wholly owned subsidiary.

Until we get the money, the bribery, out of politics, in the form of campaign contributions, and freebies, until we have real campaign finance reform through public financing, we will continue to have Parties that reflect the interests of their corporate contributors instead of the people who voted for them.

#37

Well said Corkster!

"Until we get the money, the bribery, out of politics, in the form of campaign contributions, and freebies, until we have real campaign finance reform through public financing, we will continue to have Parties that reflect the interests of their corporate contributors instead of the people who voted for them."

Deserves a "Newsworthy" tag - not because it's new or shocking, but because it bears iteration and reiteration.

Getting the money out of politics is like getting the guns out of violence-both ideas are absurd. It is we-the-people that are making or ignoring the mess. Concentrating on distractions is not going to change much. Limiting the government and the money it spends may be the only meaningful action to advance liberty.

We are entering a new era of socialism, with no hope of reprieve. To quote O'Brien in "1984," "The image of the future, Winston, is a boot stamping on the face of humanity for all eternity." Ironically, the old East German joke I heard in the past is at last starting to become reality: An East German is on an ocean liner coming to the United States. As the ship approaches New York Harbor, he sees a gigantic statue in the harbor and asks a fellow passenger, an American, what it is. "Why that's the Statue of Liberty, pal!" "I see," said the German, "You know, we do the same thing in my country. We too raise statues to our dead heroes."

- Limiting the government

Is surrendering under a white flag the American ideal of, "We the People"; of government of, by, and for the people.

A special interest wet dream.

- a new era of socialism

Paranoia strikes deep.....

- Limiting the government

Is surrendering under a white flag the American ideal of, "We the People"; of government of, by, and for the people.

#41 | Posted by Corky at 2009-10-19 08:43 AM

-Wanting an efficient government

Is that the same as, "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years," he says, "to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." - Grover Norquist, 'Field Marshal' of the Bush Plan

"Paranoia strikes deep....."

In the heyday of the "Evil Empire" it was common to commit opponents or critics of the government to mental institutions. When one espoused disagreements with the State-the symbol of the people's paradise-obviously one had to be insane and thus committed in the name of the State.

In the heyday of the "Evil Goverment" it was common to commit opponents or critics of the corporations to mental institutions.

There, fixed that for you.

Arguing with liberals is like persuading a Mahometan fundamentalist of the truth of Christianity or a Baptist of the reality of evolution. One might say, however, that only by limiting the government can one eliminate special interests, as, if the government is too small and weak to help them, they'll have no reason to try to influence it. As for any_ government aid or assistance to _anyone_, either the poor or the corporations, any government control or ownership of a business, or any government regulation of the economy is, ipso facto, socialism; therefore, claiming that we are entering a new era of socialism is _not_ paranoia, but a mere statement of fact. Does the government provide aid to the poor? Yes. Socialism. Does the government regulate the economy? Yes. Socialism. Has the government recently taken over GM? Yes. Socialism. Has the government forced several investment banks to perform certain actions? Yes. Socialism. One might add that this country has been going socialistic since the New Deal, that liberals are in fact socialists, but are too craven to admit it; that any European politician would openly claim the policies of every Democratic and many Republican administrations since 1933 as socialist, and--most tellingly of all--that virtually every plank of the Socialist Party of the United States in 1901 has since been adopted by the Democrats. Liberals and Democrats are socialists flying under false colors. QED.

- if the government is too small and weak to help them, they'll have no reason to try to influence it.

What passes for "thought" on the Right.

Of course, if the ebil gubmint is too small and weak to represent We the People, then it is no government at all.

btw- he likely posted this unmitigated horse manure from a public library PC that he took public transportation to on a public highway. He was protected along the way by a public Police Dept. and public Fire Dept.

Next to the public library he passed a public Post Office, a Free Clinic, and a public restroom.

He had to cross himself thrice to ward off the ebil Muslim Socialist agenda.

Is that the same as, "My goal is to cut government in half in twenty-five years," he says, "to get it down to the size where we can drown it in the bathtub." - Grover Norquist, 'Field Marshal' of the Bush Plan
#43 | Posted by Corky at 2009-10-19 09:12 AM

Methinks thou dost protest too much.... and much too late.
#43 | Posted by Corky at 2009-10-19 09:12 AM

-Limiting the government isn't the same as killing it, so no.

Of course it is. It is a purposeful slippery slope of death by defunding and deregulating. It is the Dominos (Pizza) Theory of dissolving ebil gubmint to make the world safe for the moneyed interests and weaken the power of We the People granted by the Constitution.

You and "Liberty" should start a mutual admiration society.

Of course it is. It is a purposeful slippery slope of death by defunding and deregulating. It is the Dominos (Pizza) Theory of dissolving ebil gubmint to make the world safe for the moneyed interests and weaken the power of We the People granted by the Constitution.

#49 | Posted by Corky at 2009-10-19 10:25 AM

You and "Liberty" should start a mutual admiration society.

#50 | Posted by Corky at 2009-10-19 10:26 AM

I wish the Dems would just come right out and accept Corky's motto of "limitless government." We'd finally start seeing some of that promised transparency, lol!

-Corky's motto of "limitless government

Strawman #679

Assigning a position not taken by me should be beneath you, but apparently little is.

-I doubt I have much in common with that poster.

You sound just like him.

"In the heyday of the "Evil Empire" it was common to commit opponents or critics of the government to mental institutions. When one espoused disagreements with the State-the symbol of the people's paradise-obviously one had to be insane and thus committed in the name of the State."

That's right, Liberty. Why do you think they make up terms like "homophobia?" They think any disagreement with party line is a mental/moral defect.

Strawman #679

Assigning a position not taken by me should be beneath you, but apparently little is.

#54 | Posted by Corky at 2009-10-19 10:39 AM

You sound just like him.

#54 | Posted by Corky at 2009-10-19 10:39 AM

I've maintained that fear mongering over "socialism" is counter productive, stupid, and hypocritial. Which is what that poster is.

-what is left but limitless government?

That's a ridiculous position. You hang out at one extreme or the other much?

-A strawman of your own.

You apparently believe in throwing out the baby with the bathwater, or the People's government with the excesses of the few, but wealthy.

That's a ridiculous position. You hang out at one extreme or the other much?
#57 | Posted by Corky at 2009-10-19 10:58 AM

You apparently believe in throwing out the baby with the bathwater, or the People's government with the excesses of the few, but wealthy.
#57 | Posted by Corky at 2009-10-19 10:58 AM

-one that objected to limiting government

Your attempt at playing semantic games is disingenuous at best.

I objected to the well established rightwing political philosophy of, "limited government", which is also a well known corporate mantra.

I nowhere promoted limitless government, which were your words, your strawman.

And which, btb, make you sound like "Liberty".

Your attempt at playing semantic games is disingenuous at best.
#59 | Posted by Corky at 2009-10-19 11:13 AM

I objected to the well established rightwing political philosophy of, "limited government", which is also a well known corporate mantra.
#59 | Posted by Corky at 2009-10-19 11:13 AM

-Words have meaning.

Yes, your "limitless government" strawman is SO meaningful.

The gay and "transgendered" (no such thing actually exists) "communities" (makes it sound downright Norman Rockwell using that snob term 'community') ought to be forced to pay extra taxes to cover the cost of AIDS and multiple other diseases they bring on themselves. Hey, if smokers can be guilt-taxed, why not homos?

#3 | Posted by Diablo at 2009-10-17 10:48 PM | Reply | Flag:

With the majority of new HIV cases actually happening among the straight community, your logic is flawed.