The gate to trump all gates...umbrellagate - Today

First, Sarah Palin weighs in... Then she instantly gets pwned in epic fashion. Which doesn't stop the usual suspects from getting butt hurt that POTUS has an umbrella held over him by a Marine. But then umbrellagate fizzled into the wasteland of failed wingnut outrages.

Re: The AP & IRS scandals are actually a vast left wing conspiracy to keep eyes off of Benghazi! - 3 days ago

The AP and IRS scandals are designed as a distraction to Benghazi which ITSELF is a distraction for that sham of a birth certificate that Obama released before the election. It's a riddle wrapped in a conundrum.

Some things you just should not do with a hornet's nest. - 3 days ago

Like shag it. I'll boil it down to the takeaway message: "To attempt to have intercourse with a hornet's nest is a very bad idea," Siv During Livh, a psychologist and expert on sex fantasies told the news website.

Re: Pants on fire - 4 days ago

Sasha Obama Suspicious After Doing A Little Digging Around On Benghazi

Re: "White House email contradicts Benghazi leaks" - 4 days ago

Quote$tevie CNN's Jake Tapper reports: CNN has obtained an e-mail sent by a top aide to President Barack Obama about White House reaction to the deadly attack last September 11 on the U.S. diplomatic compound in Benghazi, Libya, that apparently differs from how sources characterized it to two different media organizations. The actual e-mail from then-Deputy National Security Adviser for Str

Re: Senators caught red handed on tape planning to violate 2nd Amendment rights - 4 days ago

I think it's great that the Reaver said "New Jersey STATE senators" in his post, rather than imply that this was something that happened on the federal level. Oh wait.....

Re: best streaming video (TV Shows, especially) options on Amazon Prime? - 5 days ago

Sherlock (BBC) The Closer Friday Night Lights

Re: Remember kids, Benghazi is NOT about politics. - 5 days ago

Quoteswampy Never let a crisis go to waist. Loose lips sink hips?

Remember kids, Benghazi is NOT about politics. - 5 days ago

That's what we've been told in this forum repeatedly, right?

Re: Obama's picks felon for gun control advocate - 5 days ago

Re: ABC reveals Benghazi talking points changes time line - 8 days ago

Quoteswampy When the facts are changed to something else, they are lies. You have the most incorrect understanding of what a lie is. Definition of LIE intransitive verb : to make an untrue statement with intent to deceive Come back when you the slightest notion of what "intent" means. And "fog of war" The fog of war is the uncertainty in situational awaren

Re: ABC reveals Benghazi talking points changes time line - 8 days ago

Quoteswampy I'm not going to rehash the talking point changes. So....even though several people have asked you to point out which specific talking point changes were LIES, you're not going to bother "rehashing" them to back up your assertion. Ayup.

Re: ABC reveals Benghazi talking points changes time line - 8 days ago

Quoteswampy The link shows each version and the redactions and changes that were made. It is a trail of how the facts changed to lies. We now have a better understanding of how this happened. I leave it to you to decide why it happened. I leave it to you to read the linked bit under your link, and respond.

Re: ABC reveals Benghazi talking points changes time line - 8 days ago

White House spokesman Jay Carney had previously said the draft originated by intelligence officials and that only minor cosmetic changes were requested by the State Department and White House. He told ABC News the e-mails did not change that assessment because the final draft was ultimately approved by the CIA. “The CIA drafted these talking points and redrafted these talking points,”

Re: Hanoi Jane is being honored as one of "100 Women of the Century." - 11 days ago

Wow, Reaver posted a lie?...SHOCKER

Re: Cleveland kidnap story = tabloid sensationalism - 11 days ago

Quotecbelt3 Of course. But the story is about loss and joyous rediscovery, and about the ability of the human spirit to endure and survive, and eventually triumph. The tabs will revel in the salacous tales (Torture dungeon !!), but the rest of us revel in the joy that these young women and their families feel at being reunited. And acknowledge that these young women will need lots and lots of car

Re: Cleveland kidnap story = tabloid sensationalism - 11 days ago

Umm you DO know that they at least one of the women was not "white", right? Certainly not Gina DeJesus. (Michelle Knight's race is not apparent in news accounts that I'm reading)

Re: Cinco de Mayo on the border - 11 days ago

FWIW, this image was not taken on Cinco de Mayo. April 14, 2007 (More interesting photos at that link)

Spock(s) car commercial. - 11 days ago

Pretty cool.

Re: No Benghazi chatter here? - 11 days ago

BENGHAZI JAZZ HANDS!

Re: Freedom! - 12 days ago

The magical answer to all of this is Eddie Eagle. And MORE guns.

Re: Gun control has no future. We the people will not be silenced or disarmed! - 14 days ago

Re: Welcome to Norwich, a fine city - 17 days ago

I have a friend in London who reminded me that in Britain, 100 miles is a long distance. In America, 100 years is a long time.

Re: What is the big deal? I don't understand.... - 17 days ago

QuoteBlack Why do we need to hear about his heterosexual sex? Can people keep their heterosexual sex lives to themselves? If there is one thing that I've learned from the wise folks in this thread, and their helpful copied and pasted DEFINITIONS of HOMOSEXUALITY, is that relationships for hetero people only incidentally involve physical contact, but if you have the Gay, you're tweeting pictur

Re: What is the big deal? I don't understand.... - 18 days ago

Quotedavester That seems very hard to believe to me, though I'm open to being wrong. Which cultures are you referring to? I would think that most heterosexual men would view gay sex as something unpleasant, and not something to do on a wild weekend. ) Down-low is an African American slang term[1] that refers to a subculture of men who usually identify as heterosexual, but who have sex with m

Re: What is the big deal? I don't understand.... - 18 days ago

Quote$tevie Stop being so afraid of life. :agree:

Re: What is the big deal? I don't understand.... - 18 days ago

Quoteswampy Why do gays persist in making their sex life public knowlege? What is worse, letting the government into your bedroom or the press? Interesting that you mention sex, since the basketball player didn't. Or do you instantly jump to thoughts of sex when you see hetero couples talk about their boyfriends/girlfriends. If so, I'd suggest you're (A) either a sexually obsessed individua

Re: What is the big deal? I don't understand.... - 18 days ago

So "Gay" is the name of a country, now? This thread brought to you by Random cApiTALIzATion THEATER.

Re: Is Anonymous attacking the NYT webpage? - 18 days ago

Works for me with Chrome (on a Windows box)

Re: The first current major professional U.S. sport athlete comes out. - 18 days ago

Quotecbelt3 Amid all this hubbub, I learned that the mass media are a bunch of damn idiots who failed History. Because Glenn Burke of the LA Dodgers came out in the late 1970's. "They can't ever say now that a gay man can't play in the majors, because I'm a gay man and I made it." I guess the debate is whether being "out" to a subset of folks that includes only y