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- By Phillip Brownlee
- Posted March 31, 2007 at 1:04 a.m.
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Gambling in Kansas. Thank you former religious right!Doug Mays and Robin Jennison bothe former Speaker of the House are now paid lobbyists for the gambling industry. Both, along with another former Speaker, Tim Shallenburger, who works for a bank that is in favor of gambling, all three worked inthe House to get a gambling bill passed. Mays was always against gambling while in the House. Ah, the power of money! I guess being paid to promote gambling is better than voting your religious and moral scrupples against it. It is wonderful that these three wise men have ’seen the light’. Their new slogan….. SHOW ME THE MONEY-I’LL SHOW YOU THE WAY!see http://www.hutchnews.com/news/regional/stories/gamblinglocal033107.shtml
Ok I was watching FOX yesterday and one of the commentators said something that floored me. I have been trying to find his name, they changed programs shortly afterwards. I have seen him off and on “Fox news Sunday” I believe he is in a wheel chair.
The topic changed to why do the Democrat make a distinction between Afghanistan and Iraq.The commentator in the wheel chair said, “ The liberals are all supportive of a right and just war where the enemy attacks us. But Afghanistan has no infrastructure.. no oil, no strategic important to us. But Iraq does have all this, so where is the prize in fighting in Afghanistan?”.
I did not make this up! Somehow I thought being supportive of a right and just war where the enemy attacks us is not such a liberal view. If so I am in the wrong party!Some how I think his statement would have been better if he was wearing an eye patch and ended it with “Arrr”. Please tell me he has the excuse of having a stroke or some mental disorder. But Fred Barnes did agree with him! The rest deflected the issue to if Iraq had not came along the liberals would have just turned on Afghanistan like they have Iraq
Phil Kline should pay attention to the lobbying acts of Doug Mays. When Phil no longer has a job at the end of his JoCo DA term, he cold be a lobbiest/lawyer for Tiller. Since Mays has aquired the rights to the slogan “SHOW ME…etc”, Phil can use as his theme song “MONEY,MONEY, MONEY” by ABBA, the old Swedish rock group. Hey, a guy’s got to eat, right?
Wow. Tomorrow some of the boycotters are coming back to WE blog.
CapnAmerica, or “Brad” as they call him over at WichitaVoice blog, has a code of ethics. How long will it be before he violates his own code?
He and cf were the worst of all. How arrogant now to propse ethics.
I think you are in the wrong party Dog. But that’s just my opinion.
Since the repubs have shown they’re not the party of ‘compassionate conservativism’ no, they’ll spend money like no tomorrow. Especially on their buddies.
Well, Jackson – it was nice while it lasted. I think we’ve actually had more honest debates here in the last couple of weeks than ever occured on this blog before they left.
I agree that the ones you mentioned were among the worst offenders, but a handful of them – the ones who did not want to get caught ignoring the boycott – have been here under other names making trouble since they left.
yawn
Anyway, if they come back tomorrow, as you say – then I think it’s VERY appropriate that it will April FOOLS Day.
I suggest all of us that have enjoyed this board so much the last couple of weeks just ignore their baiting, insults, and threats. I plan on only acknowledging their posts if they are ‘on topic’ and do not include their usual name-calling. Maybe we should all try that.
I wonder what the WEBlog mods think? I’ll bet they were thrilled to get rid of the nasty fighting – and now they must be all depressed.
Of course, I could be wrong. I was wrong once – a long time ago – but then, I KNEW I was wrong….so was I REALLY wrong? ha
…and over and over again.
That’s the thing about the truth….it bears retelling.
lol
fap fap fap
Hi WS.
Congrats Hank! Got your name on the front page. Appears he owns five dogs, nine cats, four chickens, one gay rooster, two horses, three goats, two carp, and a returned home from Iraq son.
writerdog, the guy in the wheelchair on Fox was Charles Krauthammer, a French-Canadian who’s now American, I believe. Krauthammer is a classic neocon: a former liberal who worked for Mondale in the Carter administration and one of the premier supporters of the war in Iraq. He’s also a medical doctor (Harvard) and psychiatrist who broke his neck in a diving accident.
I didn’t see the program, but he was likely discussing his OpEd piece in the Washington Post yesterday.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/29/AR2007032901987.html
Sad…to know that the absurd childish behavior, insulting antics and personal attacks will be returning. Couldn’t they stay away a little longer….like several years?
It has been refreshing to see mature discourse..some disagreements and differences of opinions, but without the need to resort to personal attacks. That immature behavior of attacking someone personally because of a difference of opinion is asinine.
If any of the ‘fisters’ do return, I have one request..GROW UP!
Hank! I’ll have to check the paper when I get home for that. What was he up to to get in the paper?
Ben,It was about the petfood problem.
Ah JM…I was looking on the front page and couldn’t decide if the story about Hank was Kansas Marvels, the Nun or the axe murderer. :D
Well, I went to get a paper to see why I’m famous. Pooh. The reporter interviewed me for 30 minutes and I get one line!
He didn’t put in the article the important things I told him.
Watch your pets carefully! If they show any symptoms of renal failure get them to the vet immediately!
Poor appetite, lethargic behavior, frequent need to go out, weakness, etc. I always check my dogs and watch them during meal time.
I feed them once a day and I feed according to how much activity they have and their weight. I watch their weight very closely, weigh them weekly. A gain or loss of weight is a danger sign to me.
Hank
From Jonah Goldberg
Gun-Shy LiberalsWho cares about the Second Amendment?snipAs Brookings Institution scholar Benjamin Wittes chronicles in the current edition of The New Republic, various liberal legal scholars have come to grudgingly accept that the Second Amendment’s meaning and intent include the individual right to own a gun.
Therefore, writes Wittes, “perhaps it’s time for gun-control supporters to come to grips with the fact that the (Second Amendment) actually means something … For which reason, I hereby advance a modest proposal: Let’s repeal the damn thing.”
The real victory is that liberals are starting to accept the fact that the constitution has a meaning separate and distinct from what the most pliant liberal judge wants it to mean.
http://article.nationalreview.com/?q=ZWUwMDZhMjI0MGNmZjc4NDEwMjUwZGZkZDM1ZDhkNzQ=
Oh, and we’re still working with the rooster, he might just need therapy!
Hank
It’s because you didn’t breast feed him Hank.
(the conversation I overheard at the abortion rally from the antis).
I thought it might be ax murderer!
;^)
Opps, Hank, I meant that for the other thread:-)
Hank, could it be that in 30 minutes you only said one line worth printing? Just wondering!
Yes that is whom I was refering to, thanks Pendent
Dear steve,
Yep.
Hank
Well this is a new one, a man in Texas came home one night to find his wife and another man having sex in a car setting in the parking lot. When he confronted them, the wife screamed she was being raped and the husband shot and kill the other man! Later it was found that the other man was the wife’s lover, the Grand jury refused to indicted the husband. THEY INDICTED THE WIFE FOR MANSLAUGHTER!
If you did go buy a paper just to read my words of wisdom, after your dissapointment you should read the article on the dog show next weekend in the local news section on the ‘Petpouri’ page.
Our local little dog show at the colosium is consistantly ranked by various organizations as one of the top ten in the US. In 2005 and 2006 we were ranked in the top 5 by ‘Dog World’ magazine and nominated to be the number one dog show in the nation.
We have conformation, agility, obedience, lure coursing and (my favorite) herding! The ‘Art Show at the Dog Show’ is there also. It is the largest annual juried art show in the world.
There will be over a hundred vendors from all over the nation selling supplies, food, gifts and other thing for your dog. Many fof the items for sell you can only buy at dog shows!
And…. the show (and parking still) is free!
Hank
I wonder how good a job they would do herding my three kids?
Warning: they bite and have not had their shots! (the kids, not the dogs)
Hank,They say people start looking like their dogs after a while. Which one of the five do you resemble?
I don’t have a problem with that WD.
Oh great, Dennis.
And here I’ve chosen to raise Saint Bernards.
uh-oh
A keg of brandy is always nice to have around.
APRIL FOOL’S, WINGNUTS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Don’t try to pretend you didn’t miss us. Else, why would so many of you slither over to The Other Place—some to chat, some to troll? Right-Wing solidarity? Feh. Evidently, y’all aren’t any better at not breaking ranks than your liberal adversaries.
Well, the liberals you love to hate are BACK. Slap CF2K some skin, people! And in honor of the big reunion, CF2K (same old CF + 2K + Typekey—let’s see Repubican try to steal CF’s name NOW) wants to serenade all of you Wingnuts with a little ditty he composed just for you this very morning.
The tune is one you all should know, though it may be one you’d rather forget: “The Brady Bunch.” Play a verse of it in your heads, and then join in. It’ll be fine—just pretend this is church. Get ready for a tune, and some snappy asides, that CF2K calls…
THE WINGNUT BUNCH
“Here’s the story of a lovely lady,”
(That’s Mom, or GSheridan, resplendent in her patented Carol Brady mullet and Xanaxed, welded-on, Laura Bush smile)
“who was bringing up three very lovely girls,”
(Girl #1. Marsha also = GSheridan. Can you say, “Mirror, mirror, on the wall, who’s the fairest Marsha of all?” Or “Marsha, Marsha Marsha!” It’s a safe bet GSheridan does. Frequently)
(Girl #2. Jan = ksgrm. I grant this breaks the pecking order, but ksgrm is TOTALLY Jan. She’s second best, First Runner-Up, attendant to the Queen Bee, and is a bit, well, loopy. Can’t say whether there’s a wig involved, though, so maybe she’s not TOTALLY Jan. CF2K’s bad)
(Girl #3. Cindy = Fleetwood. Self-explanatory)
“All of them had hair of gold, like their mother,”
(Well duh—they’re all WHITE REPUBLICANS)
“The youngest one in curls.”
(Fleetwood—sans his two front teeth or any semblance of adorableness)
“Here’s the story, of a man named Wingnut,”
(Dad = Repubican / JM / Eier, sporting all the repressed gayness and badly permed hair of his namegiver)
“Who was busy with three boys of his own,”
(Boy #1. Greg = GMC70—same first initial, not to mention the fact that GMC70 thinks that he looks most fetching in the Johnny Bravo jumpsuit made famous by Greg)
(Boy #2. Peter = Nathan AND Outlander—both included for the nicest reason possible. Nice guys, after all)
(Boy #3. Bobby = KSGolfnut—included for some reason other than the nicest one possible. Smug guy, after all. Uber-smug, really.)
“They were four men, living all together,”
(Must not take obvious homoerotic cheap shot, must not take obvious homoerotic cheap shot…)
“Yet they were all alone.”
“Till the one day when the lady met this fellow,”
(Given Mike Brady’s real-life gender confusion and the questions that have arisen regarding GSheridan’s identity, it is less than clear who figures as the “lady” and who figures as the “fellow.” No matter: a Love Connection ensued. I will leave you to imagine the details. Doing so is more than I can bear)
“And they knew it was much more than a hunch,
That this group would somehow form a family,”
(And here, to echo Ben Huie upthread, CF2K thought It Took A Village. Ain’t that just like a Liberal)
“That’s the way they all became the Wingnut Bunch.The Wingnut Bunch, the Wingnut Bunch,That’s the way they all became the Wingnut Bunch.”
Hold up. There’s a bit of housekeeping / due diligence yet to be done. This “Bunch” isn’t complete yet. There’s:
1. Tiger = Hank Price: always talkin’ ’bout his “bitches.”
2. Fluffy = SOB: markedly less than manly. Screeching and feline, in fact, as demonstrated by his sniveling troll posts on The Other Place.
3. Alice = Joe Williams: half the time he’s totally on the ball; the other half he’s trying to drag Sam the Butcher to the altar.
So, Wingnuts and Wingnut fellow travelers, I hope you like your new names. Get my drift, fellow Lefties?
Daddy’s home, Wingnuts. Time to get real. Your unctuous, fatuous, disingenuous “civility” is as over as George Bush’s “Presidency.” So over, in fact, that, as Carrie Bradshaw said on “Sex in the City,” “we need a new word for ‘over.’”
Be seein’ ya. Got church in the morning. It’s Palm Sunday, after all.
Woo hoo! We’re back like the Dems in the House and the Senate.
That’s some funny stuff there, CF. I sang it to my wife and we laughed till our sides ached.
I couldn’t catch my breath, I tell you what.
‘Bout time somebody woke up this morgue.
Oops – the intellectual level of WEBlog just took a 45 point dive.
LOL
GS, funny how the “intellectual level” plunged with your post.
CF2K, you missed your calling!
That crashing sound I heard last night must have been the destruction of the peaceful and thoughtful discussions we have been able to have the last two weeks. To those returnees. Take some time and review the posts before you came back. They were coherent (little name calling or cussing), well thought out (in most instances) and led to some insight on both sides of the arguments.
CF – very funny, now I point you in the direction of GS rules on Sunday’s open thread. Yep, you seem to have violated everyone of em —-
ksgrm: You give yourself and other posters here way too much credit
Hehehehehe, you’re right, Ken.
EXCERPT:
(AP) Thrallport, Maine–Alan Puckerthorn, recently retired lifelong valet of President George W. Bush is surprised that the public thinks of his former master as a “regular guy.”
“I served Master Junior from the time he was out of his nappies until my arthritis made it difficult for me to dress and wipe him everyday,” Puckerthorn said. “I doubt that he could survive more than a few hours or even minutes without servants to attend to his needs.”
Remarkably, he claims the president has never even wiped himself after defecating. “Never. A gentleman does not touch feces even with toilet paper.” In fact, toilet paper has never touched Bush’s posterior. “His mother insisted we cleanse his anus with natural sponges soaked in mineral water, and then blow on it until it dried.”
OMG and an ewwwwww to go along with it.
Leave,
If you’re still here, was that one of the media’s April Fool jokes?