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Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

ComradeCosmobot posted:

On the other hand the right wing pundits have been priming their "Democrats are the real Party of No" tag line all last Congress and the Tea Party wing is already pointing to Obama's veto pen as proof. It'll be hard to shake off that label when it's no longer hidden in negative actions (legislative tricks like not taking up bills). When rejection is refocused as a positive action (vetoing bills) it's a lot harder to dodge blame.

SMaLOTUS soon to be SMiLOTUS.

Don't worry the GOP will take 100% credit for low gas prices and good economy though.

# ¿ Jan 2, 2015 17:06

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 23:45

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Gravel Gravy posted:

They could if they piggy back Lock Gays in the Closet with No Social Security for Osama bin Laden.

What about a "find Osama's corpse so we can piss on it" act?

# ¿ Jan 2, 2015 19:28

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

All wheel drive rocks if you live somewhere that gets winter.

However, Joe Schmuck in Scottsdale driving his F350 Super Duty can politely go idle in his closed garage.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2015 18:46

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

LorneReams posted:

AWD seems to be a false crutch that gets people killed where I live.

I'm sure they'd manage to kill themselves pushing it in a rear-wheeled Toyota pickup with bald summer tires too.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2015 19:24

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

zoux posted:

Remember the CEO from Florida who threatened his employees with layoffs in 2012 if ~~they voted for Obama~~ Obama won and the economy tanked?

He just had his most profitable year on record and actually gave all his employees bonuses...

Yeah but the president is still black.

# ¿ Jan 5, 2015 23:30

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Joementum posted:

��"I'd be rootin' for Louie"
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I patiently wait the day Sarah Palin completes her transformation into Skeletor.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2015 05:52

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Ones fanning the Boehner flames here are loud assholes that just want attention.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2015 17:21

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

zoux posted:

Guys we really shouldn't be rooting for Team Chaos in our own government.

How will it be different from our current situation? Might as well root for maximum hilarity.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2015 17:40

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Amergin posted:

Neither I nor the guest on that segment said anything about that. Just because Obama's solution is a steaming pile that doesn't solve anything and is a handout to lobbying groups doesn't mean there should be change.

This is why people find liberals immature - you put words in people's mouths and assume any criticism of Obama's solutions = "We should go back to Bush"/"We shouldn't do anything at all."

Meanwhile criticisms and solutions from the GOP include:

FAaaaaaaaaaaaart.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2015 18:07

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Shifty Pony posted:

That's not entirely true. They want to allow insurance companies to sell across state lines.

This will reduce premiums by letting insurance degenerate to the equivalent of credit cards that come with the annual fee taking up 90% of the credit limit and pop to 40% penalty APR if you overdraft, and which have a convenient office located in a shed in Orient, SD.

Faaaaaaaaaaaaart followed by needing new underwear.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2015 18:27

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Amergin what's your opinion on girls asking for it?

# ¿ Jan 6, 2015 20:25

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

zoux posted:

I think single payer will happen eventually but not before The Great Collapse.

Will we finally get stylish shoulder pads?

You can look at the aca this way: it's poo poo but at least you've finally progressed from torrents of poo poo-blood to just poo poo. Keep the fluids high and don't give up!

Islam is the Lite Rock FM fucked around with this message at 20:53 on Jan 6, 2015

# ¿ Jan 6, 2015 20:50

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Gounads posted:

The minimum requirements are what I consider the biggest flaw of the ACA. Very high deductible catastrophic plans should still be offered.

But saying you're paying for mammograms is completely disingenuous. For a population X there will be Y mammograms. Y will be less than X/2. So at best, you're paying for half a mammogram. But the same thing happens in reverse for prostate screenings or to a lesser degree heart disease. Don't include pregnancy/birth related costs and it mostly works out even. And if you ask me, women/men should share the pregnancy cost.

"I'm not getting laid so why should I pay for BC?"

Or

"Bitch I buy the condoms."

# ¿ Jan 6, 2015 21:03

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

People who bitch about insurance covering what they don't use are just future old people bitching about school levies.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2015 21:21

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

zoux posted:

I don't have kids why should I pay for schools????

That's it you're going in a nursing home.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2015 21:23

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

zoux posted:

That's what the police state is for sir.

I would have gone with "you want the dude measuring out your bp medication to know some basic math and science, right?"

# ¿ Jan 6, 2015 21:32

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

420DD Butts posted:

It's sad that the best arguments we could possibly give to old fygm suburban types is to play into their fears and not, you know, basic human understanding and compassion.

gently caress being nice and rational this is America gurd damnit.

# ¿ Jan 6, 2015 21:45

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Fried Chicken posted:

Apparently Ted Cruz met with mega funder Sheldon Anderson at the Capital Grille yesterday. Which isn't so much the news as is the fact that Dick Cheney was also there and may have been involved in setting it up, as Anderson has previously publicly dismissed Cruz and his chances

I thought dark pacts happen in shady basements and tunnels under graveyards.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2015 17:15

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

computer parts posted:

I don't know what you think that chart's saying but it's not.

It's a good refuting of "those durn kids these days!"

# ¿ Jan 7, 2015 19:15

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Save are workers!!! Yeah that'll open up tons of 39hr/WK jobs due to current employees dying of easily curable disease.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2015 19:29

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

zoux posted:

If the Rapture happened I think most Republican politicians would still be around.

"Hey where'd Ron Paul go?!"

# ¿ Jan 7, 2015 20:38

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Radish posted:

I'm really curious how far they are going to go now that they've been embolden with another mandate to do whatever they want. I'm assuming effectively making abortions illegal as they've been doing in the certain areas of South but I'm curious what awful stuff I haven't even thought of they are planning. I'm guessing company script will be making a comeback.

Period monitoring will be their stopping point.

# ¿ Jan 7, 2015 21:32

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Zeitgueist posted:

Hey life begins at fertilization and a bunch of fertilized eggs are discharged during menstruation.

What I'm saying is that we need to implement mass youth gymnastics programs.

"Miss your last menstruation contained a human. You are now being charged with murder."

# ¿ Jan 7, 2015 21:38

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

zoux posted:

Bit more on the dyanmic scoring the new Congressional rules mandate.

It's the same method used to justify voter registration reform!

# ¿ Jan 7, 2015 23:01

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

The Freedom of Kittens and Anime Act.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2015 15:57

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Gounads posted:

Rejected Federal funding was just for medicaid, right? Probably doesn't apply.

Plans that used to cost $100 usually had a low lifetime cap, and a lot of people who had those plans had no idea there was a cap.

He could be temporarily embarrassed millionaire to quite some degree.

# ¿ Jan 8, 2015 22:05

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Joementum posted:

Today is Richard M. Nixon's 102nd birthday.

(I assume Kissinger found a way to keep him alive and slowly feed off his remaining life essence.)

Hey thanks, Nixon, for making the EPA.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2015 15:12

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

zoux posted:

Oh are we Arzying already?

What a great verb. To arzy.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2015 17:30

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Quidam Viator posted:

poo poo man, I thought I was getting smeared as an accelerationist because I had the gall to suggest that Jebbles had a chance to win, riding on a wave of right wing assholery! Let's all close our eyes and do a thought experiment: It's 2016, and Jeb is president, and the GOP still controls the House and Senate. Let's sit back and imagine the gentle, compassionate waves of GOP policy, bottled up after eight years of Obama, lapping gently over our faces. And there's Jeb, just signing it all into law, while his dad's oil and defense and finance buddies enjoy an avuncular chuckle, standing right behind him. *SIGH* It's fuckin dreamy.

I'm still pulling for Mittbot 3.0: faster, smugger, whiter.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2015 17:33

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Curt Schillings is bitching that he didn't get inducted into a group that actively doesn't induct people the first few years they're eligible. He still has the better part of a decade to get in and just might for being an rear end in a top hat white man.

Not like he blew up a bird with a bitchin fast ball or something cool.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2015 17:47

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

zoux posted:

What are you basing that on because I can find exactly one poll where Bush isn't the GOP primary frontrunner. Actually all those other guys are splitting the nutbag vote.

Cruz is particularly polling like poo poo.

How is the takeaway from the last primary cycle that anything but "the moderate guy wins in the end".

He got them from a new dynamic scoring poll system.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2015 18:48

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Pohl posted:

What an idiot. Look at that image. How hard would it be to remove that hand and replace it with a penis?
Don't these guys ever learn?

A black fist or a fist-shaped dildo would be funny too. Or reaching for butt/boobs.

The dick possibilities are endless!

# ¿ Jan 9, 2015 19:06

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Nintendo Kid posted:

The same as the hundreds to thousands of other existing pipelines.

Man I hated World 7 as a kid.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2015 19:37

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Doctor Butts posted:

Pretty much "Save a buck or two, Bitterman!" for oil companies.

A little less strain on resources because less fuel used to transport oil.

Any positive environmental impact gained from less fuel used to transport oil is negated by the increased threat of environmental catastrophe.

Compared to oil truck/train catastrophe?

# ¿ Jan 9, 2015 19:45

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

FAUXTON posted:

Oil on the ground is much more readily cleaned up than oil leaking out of a buried pipe. Didn't the DoT also mandate adoption of improved tanker cars or did that get shot down by the usual fucks?

Ohhhh right they'd probably be exempt from SPCC-like considerations.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2015 20:00

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Nintendo Kid posted:

The improved tanker cars aren't a panacea, as well as:

Although a few segments will go through tunnels in mountainous areas if I remember right? But those are pretty far away from any sort of major aquifer.

Oh above ground makes secondary containment easy peasy.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2015 20:10

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Fried Chicken posted:

And we've hit a new low

I'll defer to Paul Waldman of The American Prospect for the scum sucking reality of Huckabee hocking fake cures like this

It's only natural that cash for gold scams gravitate towards snake oil.

Bonus points for it being a cancer we can vaccinate against.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2015 20:20

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Buckwheat Sings posted:

Triple points if there's a cure that's also anti-vaccination!

Triple point of.... Gold?!

# ¿ Jan 9, 2015 21:09

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Joementum posted:

Ha ha ha, terrific you guys.

Primary season's like Christmas. It's awesome and starts earlier and earlier each year.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2015 22:41

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# ¿ May 17, 2024 23:45

Islam is the Lite Rock FM: Jul 27, 2007; by exmarx

Joementum posted:

Bonus quote of the day, "People ask if I really want to be president. I’ve run twice. Yeah, I want to be president." ~ Willard Mitt Romney.

Ann Romney really wants to be first lady too.

# ¿ Jan 9, 2015 22:50

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