Retort: The Friday Nooner

Friday, October 30, 2009

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Go Packers!

#1 | Posted by wisgod at 2009-10-30 12:07 PM | Reply | Flag:

I am disapointed in Roger Penske. I always had a poistive image of him, whatever he touch seems to turn to gold. But yesterday I heard he is one of four prominent people in Detroit that loaned Kwame Kilpatrick $240,000. Why would anyone loan money to a disgraced former Mayor of a corrupt city? Obviously this guy wants something from his or his congresswoman mother (Democrat). Roger Penske is garbage as far as I am concerned.

#2 | Posted by member2586 at 2009-10-30 12:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

Got you a shirt, Wissy.

www.zazzle.com

#3 | Posted by Corky at 2009-10-30 12:09 PM | Reply | Flag:

Go Packers!

#1 | Posted by wisgod

Go Fudge Packer!

A bunch of men throwing themselves on top of each other, what is the deal with Football anyways?

#4 | Posted by member2586 at 2009-10-30 12:10 PM | Reply | Flag:

Super Bowl mouse commercial

www.youtube.com

#5 | Posted by Corky at 2009-10-30 12:11 PM | Reply | Flag:

Got you a shirt, Wissy.

www.zazzle.com

#3 | Posted by Corky

Nice. I bought a Brent who? shirt for this week.

#6 | Posted by wisgod at 2009-10-30 12:13 PM | Reply | Flag:

Part of the stimulus money was used to study the sex lives of female college fresh(wo)men. I know what many of you LOSERS are thinking, that you would do the job for free. Well, I would insist of being paid for it, or not do it at all.

#7 | Posted by member2586 at 2009-10-30 12:13 PM | Reply | Flag:

Those umps sure blew some calls last night. MLB needs instant replay.

#8 | Posted by wurster at 2009-10-30 12:14 PM | Reply | Flag:

Did your team lose Wurster?

#9 | Posted by member2586 at 2009-10-30 12:15 PM | Reply | Flag:

Go Packers!

And take the Bucks with ya.

#10 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2009-10-30 12:17 PM | Reply | Flag:

Anybody ever play the game "Ticket to Ride"? That shits fun.

And Wurst, anything to slow down the breakneck speed of a baseball game is good, IMO.

#11 | Posted by andyuhenet at 2009-10-30 12:18 PM | Reply | Flag:

So you don't like football, but like a sport with men using bats and balls?

#12 | Posted by wisgod at 2009-10-30 12:18 PM | Reply | Flag:

And take the Bucks with ya.

#10 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

What do you expect when you let a gay Democrat Senator own a NBA Team?

#13 | Posted by wisgod at 2009-10-30 12:23 PM | Reply | Flag:

Conservatives Throw Jesus Under the Bus.

The modern bible thumping conservative as portrayed by the Republican party is 100% anti-Jesus.

They are completely against every single thing Jesus stood for. There is not one thing attributed to Jesus the the conservatives in this country are not vehemently against.

NOT ONE THING.

Can any of you so-called conservatives find anything in the Bible attributed to Jesus Christ that you agree with? ANYTHING?

Stuff written by that homophobe Paul doesn't count. He never met Jesus and was just the first in a long line of TV preachers making up shit to advance his personal goals.

#14 | Posted by axe at 2009-10-30 12:24 PM | Reply | Flag:

Isn't "Brent" the guy that brought the only shinning light to a sports community ripe with failure Wis?

I mean aside from "Brent" green Bay wouldn't even be on the map.

Here is to "Brent" kicking the shit out of the Packers and making you cheese heads hate him even more!!!!

Go Vikes!

#15 | Posted by Manypaths at 2009-10-30 12:26 PM | Reply | Flag:

Can any of you so-called conservatives find anything in the Bible attributed to Jesus Christ that you agree with? ANYTHING?

I can. Christians fall for shit. They are gullible. They believe in an imaginary guy in the sky. They'll buy anything and Karl Rove knows it.

#16 | Posted by Manypaths at 2009-10-30 12:28 PM | Reply | Flag:

I mean aside from "Brent" green Bay wouldn't even be on the map.

Posted by Manypaths

Yeah, they coined the term "Title Town" after the 96 season, you idiot.

#17 | Posted by wisgod at 2009-10-30 12:28 PM | Reply | Flag:

What do you expect when you let a gay Democrat Senator own a NBA Team?

#13 | Posted by wisgod

He'd be a perfect fit for the FudgePackers.

#18 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2009-10-30 12:29 PM | Reply | Flag:

Hey look, Jared Allen just sacked Aaron Rodgers again.

#19 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2009-10-30 12:31 PM | Reply | Flag:

"He'd be a perfect fit for the FudgePackers."

ROTFLMAO!

#20 | Posted by member2586 at 2009-10-30 12:31 PM | Reply | Flag:

Hey look, Jared Allen just sacked Aaron Rodgers again.

#19 | Posted by reinheitsgebot

Hey look, it's Friday, Trig

#21 | Posted by wisgod at 2009-10-30 12:34 PM | Reply | Flag:

Sorry Manypaths, but even your bullshit answer falls short of an example of the 'conservatives' being in agreement with anything Jesus was for.

But at least you tried. The 'real' conservatives are being completely silent on this one. As usual.

#22 | Posted by axe at 2009-10-30 12:35 PM | Reply | Flag:

Wasn't there something in one of the Gospels about when after Jesus was arrested after the last supper that there was nobody who would claim to have known him?

The silence here on this is frighteningly similar.

#23 | Posted by axe at 2009-10-30 12:38 PM | Reply | Flag:

The next time you hear a 'conservative' claim to be a Christian, CALL HIM OUT!!! Get him to tell you one thing that Jesus was for that he is not violently opposed to.

#24 | Posted by axe at 2009-10-30 12:42 PM | Reply | Flag:

"preachers making up shit to advance his personal goals."

Yeah, Paul always was a masochist. That goal of prison fit right in.

And one thing Jesus said was to "wipe the dust off of your feet" when dealing with scoffers. So I am doing that for you.

Bye bye.

#25 | Posted by The_Chapel at 2009-10-30 12:44 PM | Reply | Flag:

The silence here is still deafening!!!

Okay conservatives, here is an easier one: When was the last time you were in you church other than at Christmas or Easter and your pastor/preacher/priest gave a sermon on Jesus' words or teachings?

I'll bet you can't answer that one, either.

#26 | Posted by axe at 2009-10-30 12:46 PM | Reply | Flag:

Chapel is brave enough to post but clueless how to answer the question.

Kudos for trying, though.

#27 | Posted by axe at 2009-10-30 12:47 PM | Reply | Flag:

Last week....... as the dust flies off my sandals as I walk away from the scoffer.

#28 | Posted by The_Chapel at 2009-10-30 12:50 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Brent" is going to rub your fucking nose in shit Wis. Enjoy your Sunday!

#29 | Posted by Manypaths at 2009-10-30 12:51 PM | Reply | Flag:

Let me Axe you one?

Tell us the answers YOU give to YOUR own questions.

Ticking.......

#30 | Posted by The_Chapel at 2009-10-30 12:51 PM | Reply | Flag:

What should a bunch of hypocrites who call themselves Christians but oppose EVERYTHING Jesus was all about call themselves?

#31 | Posted by axe at 2009-10-30 12:52 PM | Reply | Flag:

why stop at Conservatives Axe?

How about this?

an example of 'Christians' being in agreement with anything Jesus was for.

#32 | Posted by Manypaths at 2009-10-30 12:52 PM | Reply | Flag:

I ALREADY HAVE. The conservatives are 100 percent against everything Jesus stood for!!

#33 | Posted by axe at 2009-10-30 12:53 PM | Reply | Flag:

There are MANY MILLIONS of Christians who love Jesus and live their lives to glorify his memory. MILLIONS of them.

Too bad there aren't any 'real' conservatives in their number.

#34 | Posted by axe at 2009-10-30 12:55 PM | Reply | Flag:

You want to talk about Jesus, Axe. Jesus Christ, shut the fuck up.

#35 | Posted by wisgod at 2009-10-30 12:55 PM | Reply | Flag:

Manypaths, you may not agree with Christians or any other religious group, but there are quite a few decent people in their numbers that really do have faith and live their lives accordingly and thus make this world a better place.

Unfortunately there are also a large number who use their 'religion' as a club to attack and harm other people.

#36 | Posted by axe at 2009-10-30 12:59 PM | Reply | Flag:

The truth hurts, don't it Whizdog?

#37 | Posted by axe at 2009-10-30 01:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

Hey look, it's Friday, Trig

#21 | Posted by Wisgod

#38 | Posted by reinheitsgebot at 2009-10-30 01:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Obama Blasts AP For Reporting That Stimulus Jobs Way Overblown"

theblogprof.blogspot.com

#39 | Posted by KBM at 2009-10-30 01:03 PM | Reply | Flag:

We share a men's room with the other office in our building.
Every time I go in there and somebody's shitting, I turn the lights out on them. There aren't any form of emergency lights, LED indicators of any kind, light leaks from the door, or anything of the kind to keep it from being absolutely pitch black.
It is darker than the ace of spades in that mother fucker.
Anyway, for the first time somebody actually started yelling, and yelling loud. "Hey, what the fuck! Turn the lights back on!".
I can't stop laughing at the stupid fuck. I hope he gets shit all over himself and gets his eye poked out by the coat rack thingy on the shitter door.

Yesterday I farted in the main area, and then retreated back to my office. People started bitching almost immediately. One girl, in all seriousness said "Who-ever that was should go home sick."
I'll remember that fondly for the rest of my life.

#40 | Posted by 101Chairborne at 2009-10-30 01:04 PM | Reply | Flag:

Axe-wound,
STFU.

#41 | Posted by 101Chairborne at 2009-10-30 01:05 PM | Reply | Flag:

101DalmaionRapist: Poster boy for the Rtrard sense of decency.

#42 | Posted by axe at 2009-10-30 01:06 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Child Slavery"

"Nothing gets my dander up like someone who hurts a child. Who abuses a child. Who steals from a child."

"President Obama's 2009 budget triples the annual deficit: the record setting figure is $1.9 trillion. His claim about cutting the deficit in half in a few years is a fairy tail -- like "slashing prices" by 50 percent the day after you've doubled them."

"Your children... my children... our grandchildren... are all slaves to the Obama budget. Because Barack Obama and his comrades in Congress are ideologues. They could care less about the economy."

directorblue.blogspot.com

#43 | Posted by KBM at 2009-10-30 01:07 PM | Reply | Flag:

101LameExcuses: Answer the question and I'll go away.

ANY CONSERVATIVE: Answer the damned question I'll go away!!!

You can't beat a deal like that!!

#44 | Posted by axe at 2009-10-30 01:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

The pants pissing fools on DR are struck mute by one simple challenge: Find one thing that Jesus was for that they are not violently opposed to.

The silence is deafening.

#45 | Posted by axe at 2009-10-30 01:09 PM | Reply | Flag:

My Apologies, Rcade. I seem to have temporarily silenced your Rtard contingent and may have affected your revenues today.

You probably should ban religious discussions from this point on since I seem to have discovered the golden bullet to get the Rtards to shut the fuck up.

#46 | Posted by axe at 2009-10-30 01:15 PM | Reply | Flag:

I don't give a flying fuck about you or your jesus character. Just STFU anyway, OK?

#47 | Posted by 101Chairborne at 2009-10-30 01:17 PM | Reply | Flag:

I don't give a flying fuck about you or your jesus character. Just STFU anyway, OK?

#47 | Posted by 101Chairborne

FINALLY an honest answer from a conservative. I'll be on my way now.

Mission Accomplished.

#48 | Posted by axe at 2009-10-30 01:20 PM | Reply | Flag:

I'll be on my way now.
Posted by axe

Thanks, 101.

#49 | Posted by wisgod at 2009-10-30 01:21 PM | Reply | Flag:

My Apologies, Rcade.

you should.

You probably should ban religious discussions from this point on...

and stupid douchebags who take threads in that direction.

www.drudge.com

#50 | Posted by eberly at 2009-10-30 01:33 PM | Reply | Flag:

One girl, in all seriousness said "Who-ever that was should go home sick."

It can't be possible they didn't know it was you.

#51 | Posted by eberly at 2009-10-30 01:34 PM | Reply | Flag:

Oh, shit.
Congressional ethics report leaks, revealing names...
news.yahoo.com

#52 | Posted by wisgod at 2009-10-30 01:38 PM | Reply | Flag:

Feels like everyone's left the office early to get a head start on their Halloween festivities.

#53 | Posted by Hagbard_Celine at 2009-10-30 01:43 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Can any of you so-called conservatives find anything in the Bible attributed to Jesus Christ that you agree with? ANYTHING?"

How about EVERYTHING!

I agree with forgiveness, the golden rule. I agree with helping others when they are in need, even if that means going without for myself. I agree in turning the other cheek.

I agree with all of Jesus's teachings.

What is the problem Axe??

Oh...and for everyone esle...GO PACKERS!!!! : )

#54 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-10-30 01:58 PM | Reply | Flag:

How about this from FDR:

"Appraising the situation in the bitter dawn of a cold morning after, what do we find? We find two-thirds of American industry concentrated in a few hundred corporationsWe find more than half of the savings of the country invested in corporate stocks and bonds, and made the sport of the American stock market. We find fewer than three dozen private banking houses, and stock-selling adjuncts of commercial banks, directing the flow of American capital. In other words, we find concentrated economic power in a few handsWe find a great part of our working population with no chance of earning a living except by grace of this concentrated industrial machine; and we find that millions and millions of Americans are out of work, throwing upon the already burdened Government the necessity of reliefWe find the Republican leaders proposing no solution except more debts, more conferences under the same bewildered leadership, more Government money in business but no Government attempt to wrestle with basic problemsI believe that our industrial and economic system is made for individual men and women, and not individual men and women for the benefit of the system."

Meanwhile, Obama is trying to avoid ruffling any feathers.

#55 | Posted by nutcase at 2009-10-30 02:00 PM | Reply | Flag:

That sounds like a really good idea Hag.

#56 | Posted by Manypaths at 2009-10-30 02:02 PM | Reply | Flag:

Lisa,

You are hardly a teabagging conservative, now are you?

Every one of those things you mentioned are hated by the Republicans and the mouthbreathers that vote for them.

#57 | Posted by axe at 2009-10-30 02:08 PM | Reply | Flag:

It can't be possible they didn't know it was you.

#51 | Posted by eberly at 2009-10-30 01:34 PM | Reply

They didn't know I was out in the common area. They're all cubicled up.

They knew it was me eventually, but not at the time.

I can't sit down on my chair without the smell of 1,000's of old farts wafting throughout my office. The problem is I'd be getting a new chair every couple of weeks if I wanted to avoid that problem.

#58 | Posted by 101Chairborne at 2009-10-30 02:09 PM | Reply | Flag:

They make odor eliminating Carbon Seat Pads Chair.

Not as fun, but they do help.

#59 | Posted by Manypaths at 2009-10-30 02:13 PM | Reply | Flag:

Concern with sexual behavior has nothing to do with sex but everything to do with policing. American sexual prudery is part of political and social policing within the nominally legal context of supposed individual freedom. People learn to be prudish with sex before they understand anything else in society and this prudery is transferred to other areas later which are even more important for social control and stability.

The control of sex and pornography is a major part of promulgating a puritanical political culture without ever imposing an overt political censorship regime. Sexual repression, through the allegation of deviant' fantasy crimes, is often the designated stand-in for violations of the social order harder to stand up in court.

The "satanic abuse" hysteria was particularly appalling, but year after year in America prudery exacts a terrible toll as witness the unfortunate female schoolteachers packed often to prison with hefty sentences for having affairs with boys in their mid to late teens. Is America permanently lodged in the seventeenth century so far as moral policing is concerned? The answer is Not exactly, since gay marriage wasn't a big item on the legislative agenda of the colonies at that time. But regulation of sexual behavior is the preferred route to wider social control.

As Williamson is now ruefully aware, the state not only has a long arm, it has a long gaze. Moral: the eyes of the law are on you at all times, even at 8:30 am in the supposed privacy of your own kitchen.

Excerpted from Andrew Cockburn @ Counterpunch

#60 | Posted by nutcase at 2009-10-30 02:19 PM | Reply | Flag:

NEWS FLASH......101 stinks..... Flag: tell us sumpthin we dont know, Cronkite.

#61 | Posted by oldwhiskeysour at 2009-10-30 02:26 PM | Reply | Flag:

I can't sit down on my chair without the smell of 1,000's of old farts wafting throughout my office. The problem is I'd be getting a new chair every couple of weeks if I wanted to avoid that problem.

#58 | Posted by 101Chairborne at 2009-10-30 02:09 PM | Reply

LOL you need one of those mesh chairs that allows the smell to, ah, fully express itself at the time of its creation.

#62 | Posted by bartimus at 2009-10-30 02:29 PM | Reply | Flag:

"You are hardly a teabagging conservative, now are you?"

Nope.

I don't like tea.

And those bags are a mess.

#63 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-10-30 02:31 PM | Reply | Flag:

#55 | Posted by nutcase at 2009-10-30 02:00 PM | Reply | Flag: Flag: Newsworthy

Timely FDR post.

#64 | Posted by Corky at 2009-10-30 02:32 PM | Reply | Flag:

#61 | Posted by oldwhiskeysour at 2009-10-30 02:26 PM | Reply | Flag: BARNEY LET OTIS OUT OF THE CELL at 2:20

#65 | Posted by wisgod at 2009-10-30 02:33 PM | Reply | Flag:

#65

No offense OWS but dang Wisgod...you crack me up!!

LOL

#66 | Posted by Lisa at 2009-10-30 02:35 PM | Reply | Flag:

Wissie....BRETT FARVRE...BOOO.

#67 | Posted by oldwhiskeysour at 2009-10-30 03:17 PM | Reply | Flag:

Pretty pussy walking down the street
Pretty pussy I'd like to munch for lunch
Gotta get me some pretty pussy chow mein
At Chong's All You Can Eat Chinese Buffet

#68 | Posted by Gimme_a_Scotch at 2009-10-30 03:30 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Politico Says White House 'Under Pressure' Will Announce 1 Million Jobs 'Saved'"

"Politico.com announced on Oct. 30 that White House officials planned a Friday afternoon announcement for the same day claiming "at least 1 million jobs" had been saved or created.

Other news outlets, including NPR and CNN, focused on a lower White House claim the same day saying that "more than 650,000 jobs have been saved or created" under the stimulus.

The higher claim of 1 million was based on extrapolation..."

newsbusters.org

Hillary calls this "damage control"

#69 | Posted by KBM at 2009-10-30 04:13 PM | Reply | Flag:

Wissie....BRETT FARVRE...BOOO.

#67 | Posted by oldwhiskeysour

Brad Chidress calling plays with less than a minute on the clock. BOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

#70 | Posted by wisgod at 2009-10-30 04:19 PM | Reply | Flag:

"Jobs Created or Saved' Is White House Fantasy"

www.bloomberg.com

#71 | Posted by KBM at 2009-10-30 04:31 PM | Reply | Flag:

"$160,000 Per Stimulus Job? White House Calls That 'Calculator Abuse'"

blogs.abcnews.com

#72 | Posted by KBM at 2009-10-31 12:46 AM | Reply | Flag:

Brent" is going to rub your fucking nose in shit Wis. Enjoy your Sunday!

#29 | Posted by Manypaths at 2009-10

AH the gauntlet has been thrown down...

so I bet you arent one to actually put something behind that little statement...hee hee...

jim rome yesterday was saying that they should just put a helmet cam on him and show his every move..
put HIM on the screen with the game on a little bubbler in the corner...

I CANT BELIEVE IM about to say this

GO PACK.........

ha ha

#73 | Posted by afkabl2 at 2009-10-31 10:14 AM | Reply | Flag: