Good morning everyone!
We'll have a short version of Obsession this morning, as I was blog-and-CSPAN bound yesterday and Friday (as I suspect many of you were).
There'll be a bonus HCR Obsession up tomorrow (If Ms. A approves) on Freepers' reactions to this weekend's vote, but for now, let's start with something so odious that I cross-posted it to the GOS.
It's called - Freepers say- "They deserved to get dragged behind a car"
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Well, no one ever accused Freepers of having any humanity, but this surprised even me.
A freeper posted this from the "Newsbusters" site:
ABC: Anti-ObamaCare Protest ‘Turned Very Ugly’ with ‘Racial and Homophobic Slurs’
Newsbusters ^ | 3/20/10 | Brent Baker
Posted on Sunday, March 21, 2010 2:23:54 AM by ICAB9USA
Though by their own count "thousands" of anti-ObamaCare protesters gathered outside the Capitol building on Saturday, ABC decided to smear the entire cause by stressing the despicable actions of a handful or even fewer as anchor David Muir announced in setting up the first story on Saturday’s World News:
"Protesters against the plan gathered on the streets of the capital where late today we learned words shouted turned very ugly, reports of racial and homophobic slurs, one protester actually spitting on a Congressman."
Did the spitting and gay-bashing make the Freepers uncomfortable?
Um - not exactly.
They seem torn between saying it didn't happen, that it did happen but it was done by liberals to make them look bad, and that they had it coming.
Take it away, Freeperati!
To: ICAB9USA
Agent provocateurs.2 posted on Sunday, March 21, 2010 2:25:13 AM by Dr. Eckleburg ("I don't think they want my respect; I think they want my submission." - Flemming Rose)
Thought I was kidding, didn't you?
o: ICAB9USA
re: Late word from Washington tonight about just how ugly the crowds gathered outside the Longworth office building have become. We learned that as Congressman Emanuel Cleaver of Missouri was leaving his office someone in the crowd spit on him. There are also reports of racial and homophobic slurs, one targeting Congressman John Lewis ....... ______
Most likely none of this occurred.3 posted on Sunday, March 21, 2010 2:25:47 AM by ICAB9USA (It's all okay. Harkin is busy passing RIGHTS for the American people.)
Anger....denial....wake me up when we get to acceptance.
To: ICAB9USA
It’s not the protestors fault that the cowardly public servants inside the Capitol kept referring to them as "tea baggers". Those piggies are the ones who need to apologize to the homosexuals, not the protestors.6 posted on Sunday, March 21, 2010 2:28:28 AM by FlingWingFlyer (How much did your congressman's vote go for? Mine got two bits. Her going price.)
They still seem upset about the "teabagger" thing.
Perhaps they should put some more thought and research into their
next meme?
And of course, it only takes them seven posts to get from zero to James Byrd.
To: ICAB9USA
You know what? It has gotten to the point where if it did happen, I could stand to give a crap. They do not give a crap about our consent but will get their panties in a wad if they are insulted? They deserved to get dragged behind a car.
7 posted on Sunday, March 21, 2010 2:30:41 AM by Bad Jack Bauer (Fat and Bald? I was BORN fat and bald, thank you very much!)
Fat, bald and stupid is no way to go through life, son.
More after the you-know-what...
Next - Fear This!
Exclusive: RNC document mocks donors, plays on 'fear'
Politico ^ | 3/3/10 4:23 PM EST | BEN SMITH
Posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:33:22 PM by Former Military Chick
The Republican National Committee plans to raise money this election cycle through an aggressive campaign capitalizing on “fear” of President Barack Obama and a promise to "save the country from trending toward socialism."
The strategy was detailed in a confidential party fundraising presentation, obtained by POLITICO, which also outlines how “ego-driven” wealthy donors can be tapped with offers of access and “tchochkes.”
The presentation was delivered by RNC Finance Director Rob Bickhart to top donors and fundraisers at a party retreat in Boca Grande, Florida on February 18, a source at the gathering said.
In neat PowerPoint pages, it lifts the curtain on the often-cynical terms of political marketing, displaying an air of disdain for the party’s donors that is usually confined to the barroom conversations of political operatives.
The presentation explains the Republican fundraising in simple terms.
"What can you sell when you do not have the White House, the House, or the Senate...?" it asks.
The answer: "Save the country from trending toward Socialism!”
Manipulating donors with crude caricatures and playing on their fears is hardly unique to Republicans or to the RNC – Democrats raised millions off George W. Bush in similar terms – but rarely is it practiced in such cartoonish terms.
One page, headed “The Evil Empire,” pictures Obama as the Joker from Batman, while House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leaders Harry Reid are depicted as Cruella DeVille and Scooby Doo, respectively.
(snip)The RNC reacted with alarm to a question about it Thursday, emailing major donors to warn them of a reporter’s question, and distancing Steele from its contents.
“The document was used for a fundraising presentation Chairman Steele did not attend, nor had he seen the document,” RNC Communications Director Doug Heye said in an email. “Fundraising documents are often controversial.
“Obviously, the Chairman disagrees with the language and finds the use of such imagery to be unacceptable. It will not be used by the Republican National Committee – in any capacity – in the future,” Heye said.
The most unusual section of the presentation is a set of six slides headed “RNC Marketing 101.” The presentation divides fundraising into two traditional categories, direct marketing and major donors, and lays out the details of how to approach each group.
The small donors who are the targets of direct marketing are described under the heading “Visceral Giving.” Their motivations are listed as “fear;” “Extreme negative feelings toward existing Administration;” and “Reactionary.”
Major donors, by contrast, are treated in a column headed “Calculated Giving.”
Their motivations include: “Peer to Peer Pressure”; “access”; and “Ego-Driven.”
The slide also allows that donors may have more honorable motives, including “Patriotic Duty.”
A major Republican donor described the state of the RNC’s relationship with major donors as “disastrous,” with veteran givers beginning to abandon the committee, which is becoming increasingly reliant on small donors.
Boy oh boy, if true, how lucky a democrat was in the right place at the "right" time?Politico has a photo from the power point slide.
1 posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:33:23 PM by Former Military Chick
Ok - get your bets down. I have a twenty on "Agent Provocateurs".
To: Former Military ChickEveryone who has ever worked at fund raising knows that you must appeal to the ego.However, it should be done with a bit more class.
We call it - The Aristocrats!!
To: Former Military Chick
Ok - who had "They had it coming"?
To: Former Military ChickNo big deal.
I would wager money that the Dummies Power point presentation would make everyone throw up.
None of the big wigs were there, move along nothing to see here.
Big donors have already indicated they are picking candidates to donate to. In two years the RNC may well be in a store front in D.C handing out bumper stickers.16 posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:45:58 PM by Marty62 (former Marty60)
Well, that's one "True, but who cares"...
To: HereInTheHeartlandSome things should not have hard copies madeOr even thought of let alone acted on.
22 posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:50:01 PM by MilspecRob (Most people don't act stupid, they really are.)
And one "It's true, but we look bad when we don't use the code words".
To: Former Military ChickDoesn’t make sense. Why are reid & pelosi puritans?
This is some kind of setup.
23 posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:50:38 PM by chuck_the_tv_out ( <<< click my name: now featuring Freeper classifieds)
Uh oh - here we go.
To: Former Military ChickI almost have to wonder if the document was created by a Democrat to make the Republicans look bad.....
6 posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:36:42 PM by illiac (If we don't change directions soon, we'll get where we're going)
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To: Former Military ChickOh please, left in a hotel room?
7 posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:37:24 PM by Jean S
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To: Former Military ChickSmells like a plant to me. Awfully convenient.
9 posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 5:38:13 PM by VictoryGal (Never give up, never surrender! REMEMBER NEDA)
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I WIN!
To: luckybogeyThe .pdf was created at 8:45pm last night and modified at 2:00pm today, for an event that occurred February 18th. The only significant security retriction is document assembly, meaning the "finder" could have added re-written pages.The RNC should disown this document and sue Politico for defamation.
Will he? He won't.
Besides - anyone knows that such crude cartoons of Pelosi and Reid could never represent what the GOP base thinks and feels!
To: rlmorelA very good friend of mine has been screaming about the march toward socialism in this country for years. And while I agreed with most of what he was saying, I didn’t think we were as close to the brink as we have come since the Unholy Triumvirate of Obama, Pelosi and Reid started their revenge tour on the American People. We better all hope and pray that the Lies and the Arrogance of the Democrats are comin’ home to roost and that Judgment Day is coming in November.
39 posted on Wednesday, March 03, 2010 6:14:22 PM by Dawebman (YOU ARE 100 PERCENT CORRECT !)
P.S. I LOVE THE GRAPHIC!
I stand corrected.
I notice that there's some furious revisionism going on in the GOP re: Oedipus Tex.
Frankly, even Freepers aren't that stupid.
Stick a fork in Dubya's "rehabilitation"
Former Texas GOP chairman Tom Pauken blasts Bush, Rove in new book
Dallas News ^ | March 8, 2010 | Wayne Slater
Posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:21:25 AM by meandog
AUSTIN – As Karl Rove makes the rounds this week with his memoir burnishing the Bush legacy, another book by another Texas Republican offers a decidedly different view.
Former state GOP chairman Tom Pauken, a Dallas lawyer and foot soldier in the Reagan revolution, offers a sober counterpoint to Rove's full-throated defense of his former boss.
In Pauken's view, the former president and "Bush's Brain" not only hijacked conservatism, they nearly destroyed it.
(Excerpt) Read more at dallasnews.com ...
Now don't forget - these are the selfsame Freepers who used to lick up Dubya's spittle like it was Ambrosia.
To: meandog
To: meandogYeah, hurray for pragmatism...Rove is and always has been a useless slug.
"From Karl's perspective, there was nothing wrong with big government now that he and his cronies were in power."
6 posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 3:52:10 AM by arbooz ("Government is actually the worst failure of civilized man." H.L.Mencken).
To: personalacctsNo ‘Compassionate Conservatism’? And if the compassionate qualifier was disqualifying because it suggested regular conservatism isn’t, how do we take Palin’s ‘Commonsense Conservatism’?
8 posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 4:24:03 AM by 9YearLurker
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To: lonestarYou believe all Repubs think alike? What a joke!No, but we mostly have voted alike, and look what we get: 2 Bushes, Steele, McCain. Total disaster.
To: pt17>The republican party was a disaster for the republican party. Bush was just lousy frosting on a bad cake.<
not in my opinion
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Bush started the Iraq war under false pretenses.
Bush then forced the Republican party to support
Bush’s open-ended occupation of Iraq.voters punished congressional Republicans in 2006
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congressional Republicans had no choice but
tp support Bush in 2007-2008voters punished congressional Republicans in 2008
45 posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 3:58:12 AM by element92
Next - Just because he doesn't care doesn't mean he doesn't care.
Don't Let Obama's Anti-Gun Silence Breed Complacency
American Thinker ^ | March 09, 2010 | Anthony W. Hager
Posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 2:02:19 AM by neverdem
What should we make of a recent editorial arguing that the Obama White House has made no attempt to infringe upon the Second Amendment and that Obama openly declared his respect for the right to bear arms during his presidential campaign?
It's true that President Obama hasn't advanced the gun control agenda. He hasn't even sought a renewed ban on "assault" weapons. However, the idea that President Obama has more in common with Wayne LaPierre than with Sarah Brady is misleading. Remember the "bitter clingers" comment? Therefore, if eternal vigilance is freedom's price, then complacency must be its worst enemy. The Second Amendment is under assault even as the Supreme Court seems poised to recognize the individual right it protects.
Rep. Bobby Rush's Firearms Licensing and Record of Sale Act (H.R. 45) would require a license to possess a firearm. That license would also be required to transfer a firearm, and a tracking number would be assigned to each sale. Most ominous is H.R. 45's prohibition on storing firearms and ammunition in any manner that a child could access.Rep. Rush's bill assaults the basic notion of a right. Free people need no government license to exercise a right. This bill would also create de facto gun registration and render firearms inadequate for self-defense. Unloaded guns are rather poor clubs.Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee produced the Gun Safety and Gun Access Prevention Act (H.R. 257). Section Three in Rep. Lee's proposal would impose ten-year prison sentences upon firearm sellers if they have "reasonable cause to know" that their customers intend criminality. Section Four criminalizes the sale of a firearm without an approved security device. Section Five effectively forbids keeping a loaded firearm for self-defense whenever a child is present, much like H.R. 45. Section Six requires adult chaperones for minors at gun shows. Under Section Six (b)(8), the offending parent can be charged with child abandonment.Since a defensive firearm must be kept loaded, and most homes contain children at least periodically, it's clear that Rep. Rush and Rep. Lee intend to abolish the use of firearms for personal defense. They also require dealers to be clairvoyant. To deny sales opens dealers to civil rights violations, while approving sales opens them to prosecution. It's a catch-22 for gun sellers.Sen. Frank Lautenberg's Denying Firearms and Explosives to Dangerous Terrorists Act (S.1317) denies firearms to "dangerous" terrorists (is there another kind?). What Sen. Lautenberg has authored is a clever ruse. No one can argue that denying guns and bombs to terrorists violates the Second Amendment, right? Let's see.Section 922A(1) of S. 1317 grants the Attorney General discretionary authority to deny access to firearms. The AG, under Section 922B(g)(1), can also withhold information used in the denial from the aggrieved party. Should gun owners feel secure if Eric Holder wields such authority?What about Pres. Obama's stated respect for gun rights? Well, politicians will say just about anything to get elected. Obama is still on the record as supporting a ban on "assault" weapons. Furthermore, his administration is backing a U.N. treaty that would regulate the small arms trade worldwide. Don't scoff. The president can constitutionally enter such treaties under Article 2, Section 2. Said treaty would become law under Article 6, at least temporarily.Inaction on gun control doesn't make President Obama a Second Amendment loyalist. Inaction doesn't mean that politicians and bureaucrats hostile to private firearms aren't at work. Gun-owners will benefit from a dose of extra vigilance now, even while the gun control waters appear still.
Anthony W. Hager has authored therightslant.com since 2003. More than 200 of his commentaries have appeared in a variety of publications and web outlets.
I'm sorry, but I just don't see any crdible threat for the time being from a Congress that passes the Coburn Amendment and had 58 votes to pass the Thune Amendment in the Senate. Obama has bigger socialist fish to fry in Congress, and many rats elected since 2006 are pro Second Amendment, at least nominally. Are the bills mentioned getting any traction?
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To: neverdem
Gunowners always had complacency since only five percent of the eighty million gunowners actually fight for their Rights.
Me: They’re going for a gun ban.
Them: They can’t do that. We have a Second Amendment.Later.
Them: How did they do that??
Me: I told you they were going to do that and you didn’t help stop it.My ex-Brother in Law went to jail for the weekend because he had a handgun in his sockdrawer.
8 posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 6:00:31 AM by Shooter 2.5 (NRA /Patron - TSRA- IDPA)
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To: Shooter 2.5My ex-Brother in Law went to jail for the weekend because he had a handgun in his sockdrawer.When was this? Where was this? What were the circumstances? Why we LEOs in his home in the first place? I don't know the situation, but your brevity does not impart a favorable situation for your ex-BIL. First thing in my mind was that he was arrested on a warrant serve and the LEOs rooted through his stuff to tack on to his sentence.
10 posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 8:05:33 AM by rarestia (It's time to water the Tree of Liberty.)
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To: HiTech RedNeckThe problem is that if the Rats see that they are going to lose in November they may decide to go kamikaze and pass a whole boatload of unpopular crap.
20 posted on Tuesday, March 09, 2010 12:21:42 PM by Blood of Tyrants (Truth - Reality through the eyes of God.)
...like Healthcare Reform? That kind of "unpopular crap"?
Next - the quietest thread of the week:
Tea Party favorite Rubio's spending habits come to light (Orwellian Media attacking Rubio)
Miami Herald ^ | 3/18/10 | Adam C. Smith, Beth Reinhard and Scott Hiaasen
Posted on Thursday, March 18, 2010 7:34:33 AM by mgist
Tea Party favorite Rubio's spending habits come to light
Budget documents show a less frugal side of Florida's Rubio Conservatives hail DeMint as he slams Obama for 'selling socialism' Rubio's charges to GOP credit card included $134 haircut Wine, groceries, car repair: What Florida's Rubio charged to GOP Senate candidate Rubio wows conservative audience Charlie Crist, once Senate GOP favorite, is running scared Poll: Rubio leads Crist in Florida's Senate race By MIAMI — Marco Rubio was barely solvent as a young lawmaker climbing his way to the top post in the Florida House, but special interest donations and political perks allowed him to spend big money with little scrutiny.
About $600,000 in contributions was stowed in two inconspicuous political committees controlled by Rubio, now the Republican front-runner for the U.S. Senate, and his wife. A Miami Herald/St. Petersburg Times analysis of the expenses found:
• Rubio failed to disclose $34,000 in expenses -- including $7,000 he paid himself -- for one of the committees in 2003 and 2004, as required by state law.
• One committee paid relatives nearly $14,000 for what was incorrectly described to the IRS as "courier fees'' and listed a nonexistent address for one of them. Another committee paid $5,700 to his wife, who was listed as the treasurer, much of it for "gas and meals.''
• Rubio billed more than $51,000 in unidentified "travel expenses'' to three different credit cards -- nearly one-quarter of the committee's entire haul. Charges are not required to be itemized, but other lawmakers detailed almost all of their committee expenses.
Rubio's spending continued in 2005 when the Republican Party of Florida handed him a credit card to use at his own discretion. While serving as House speaker in 2007 and 2008, he charged thousands of dollars in restaurant tabs to the state party at the same time taxpayers were subsidizing his meals in Tallahassee.
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Rubio's high-roller political spending belies his image as an outsider riding a wave of anti-establishment fervor and gunning to knock off Gov. Charlie Crist for the Republican U.S. Senate nomination. A Herald/Times review of other legislators' committees shows they typically contributed far more to other candidates and reported vastly fewer credit card payments.
"Having expenditures in the tens of thousands of dollars to pay off credit cards, it's clear to me it was being used to live off of. The Rubios were living off it,'' said state Sen. Mike Fasano, R-New Port Richey, a strong Crist supporter.
Said Harris: "That's an absolute flat-out lie. And Mike Fasano should be ashamed for doing Charlie Crist's dirty work without any regard for the truth.''
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Altogether, the committee collected $228,000 in donations, including $30,000 from the Florida Crystals sugar corporation, $10,000 from U.S. Sugar, and $50,000 from a political group run by Republican fundraiser Alan Mendelsohn, a Broward County eye doctor indicted last year on corruption charges, who has also donated to Crist.
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For his last year as speaker, Rubio reported a net worth of less than $8,400, despite earning $69,000 from Florida International University, $45,000 from the state and $300,000 from Broad & Cassell. The father of four had more than $900,000 in debts, including two mortgages on properties in Miami and Tallahassee, a home equity loan and a student loan.
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To: mgistCloseted Christ is desperate. But he can’t hit “too” hard, or all of the stories of his gay cruising lifestyle will tumble out. And his “beard” wife won’t help.
4 posted on Thursday, March 18, 2010 7:54:08 AM by Travis McGee
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To: mgist; All$50,000 from a political group run by Republican fundraiser Alan Mendelsohn, a Broward County eye doctor indicted last year on corruption charges, who has also donated to Crist.Small part of the story overlooked by everyone... but will come back to bite either Crist or Rubio in the general election.
Ponzi Scheme could sink Crist AND Rubio
Mendelsohn raised more than a half-million dollars from Mutual Benefits in 2003 to finance the hiring of a dozen lobbyists and make contributions to lawmakers to stop legislation that would have tightened regulations on the so-called viatical industry. The industry sold life insurance policies of people dying of AIDS and other diseases.
I recommend FReepers take a good hard look at Bob Smith, who is running for the Senate seat as well. He might be too conservative to win... but he's got a proven record and has fought for everything FReepers stand for.
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Lastly - Freepers calm and collected about being outbred.
Minority births on track to outnumber white births
The Associated Press (AP) ^ | March 10, 2010 | HOPE YEN
Posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 9:17:13 AM by Ronbo1948
Edited on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 9:43:59 AM by Admin Moderator. [history]
Minorities make up nearly half the children born in the U.S., part of a historic trend in which minorities are expected to become the U.S. majority over the next 40 years.
In fact, demographers say this year could be the "tipping point" when the number of babies born to minorities outnumbers that of babies born to whites.
(Excerpt) Read more at phillyburbs.com ....
In terms of politics will it matter if persons of Latin American ancestry become the majority? After all, being an American is a state of mind.
You're kidding, right?
Do you have any idea where you are?
To: Ronbo1948
Minority births on track to outnumber white births
of course...have more babies get more gubmint money...its what they have been taught....
3 posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 9:19:59 AM by tatsinfla
And all this time I thought "they" had been taught by the Catholic Church that every sperm is sacred?
You know - "Pro-Life" ?
To: Ronbo1948
White women are too busy getting a college/university degrees and working like the white men to be bothered with having children.
And who told them they could vote, anyway?
And when those white women reluctantly have them they aren’t gonna go past the number two because that would be a major inconvenience on their lives.
We see this happening in every Western(ized) country around the world. Let’s face it. Western women have become spoiled by the trappings of modern thought and technology.
what with their newfangled dishwashing machines and electric microwaving ovens and all...
Instead of white women having children they would rather become teachers and exploit them sexually or abort them.
"Breed, baby, breed!" And get me a beer.
How’s that women’s lib working out for ya?
6 posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 9:21:47 AM by Jack Hydrazine
How's being an unfuckable piece of shit working out for you?
And the post of the week!
To: tatsinflaWhite ladies need to have more babies. Stop waiting so long for those careers to pan out. White men need to increase their sperm count. Take some vitaminE and stop mastrubating in front of computers. Save that sperm for the white lady of your choice. White people need to have more sex, apparently. (just joking....maybe)
10 posted on Wednesday, March 10, 2010 9:23:08 AM by brwnsuga (Black and Free!!!)
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Well, that's it for now.
Hopefully, a bonus post tomorrow on Freeper reactions to that HCR bill they were going to crush decisively.
There'll be a bonus HCR Obsession up tomorrow (If Ms. A approves)
Can Tommy come out and play tomorrow, Ms. A? Can he?
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Posted by: spork_incident | March 22, 2010 at 07:49
My ex-Brother in Law went to jail for the weekend because he had a handgun in his sockdrawer.
Why does the word "probation" suddenly leap into my head?
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Posted by: spork_incident | March 22, 2010 at 07:55
Shit yeah, I approve. Dooo eeet.
A.
Posted by: Athenae | March 22, 2010 at 08:10
CAN'T WAIT TO SEE FREEPER COMMENTS ON HCR!!!!!!!!
Only problem is that my doc told me not to enter hazardous environments. So I can't go there myself. ;-)
As always, love this Monday series.
Posted by: MapleStreet | March 22, 2010 at 09:08
Good God, a Freepus making sense? Must be an agent provocateur. Probably lurked for nine years, just waiting for the right time to pounce.
Yep, that’s it. The cops were afraid he’d get off with one day in jail, so they framed him.
Don’t ask, she might say “no”. Just go for it. She’ll never notice.
--Kibitzer
Posted by: Kibitzer 2006 | March 23, 2010 at 01:39