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Ive had this happen to me and it did not go over well...with anybody, including some gay folks in attendence besides those two parkating in "how much spit can we swap and how much can I feel your breasts before dessert arrives?" And the only "teachable moment" was teaching these incosiderate azzholes to save their PDA for somewhere where there arent kids around. Man + woman or woman + woman. Keep your !@#$ing hands to yourself. Go ahead...flame me for wanting people to show some manners and decorum.

Yes. That only half-wits like you would be shocked that one of the leading conservative commentators have COMMENTARY on the state of the GOP.

Please tell us, Mr. Independent how a Conservative pundit commenting on affairs of the GOP is "news." WOW...Rush Limbaugh has commentary about the GOP and its relationship with a woman who ran for VP under the GOP ticket. What a !@#$ing bolt of lightning THAT is!

Disgusting how people ask that others on TBD "pray for them" and what not in LAMP posts for as little as having to take a test in Bio 101 or becuase their grass wont grow right under their oak tree in the back yard, let alone for major sh--, but because what happenned here affected the "hated" Cowboys, jokes are made. People are hurt. A man lies paraylized. Grow the !@#$ up.

Annie slays them again. MUSLIMS: 'WE DO THAT ON FIRST DATES' April 29, 2009 Without any pretense of an argument, which liberals are neurologically incapable of, the mainstream media are now asserting that our wussy interrogation techniques at Guantanamo constituted "torture" and have irreparably harmed America's image abroad. Only the second of those alleged facts is true: The president's release of the Department of Justice interrogation memos undoubtedly hurt America's image abroad, as we are snickered at in capitals around the world, where they know what real torture is. The Arabs surely view these memos as a pack of lies. What about the pills Americans have to turn us gay? The techniques used against the most stalwart al-Qaida members, such as Abu Zubaydah, included one terrifying procedure referred to as "the attention grasp." As described in horrifying detail in the Justice Department memo, the "attention grasp" consisted of: "(G)rasping the individual with both hands, one hand on each side of the collar opening, in a controlled and quick motion. In the same motion as the grasp, the individual is drawn toward the interrogator." The end. There are rumors that Dick "Darth Vader" Cheney wanted to take away the interrogators' Altoids before they administered "the grasp," but Department of Justice lawyers deemed this too cruel. And that's not all! As the torments were gradually increased, next up the interrogation ladder came "walling." This involves pushing the terrorist against a flexible wall, during which his "head and neck are supported with a rolled hood or towel that provides a C-collar effect to prevent whiplash." People pay to have a lot rougher stuff done to them at Six Flags Great Adventure. Indeed, with plastic walls and soft neck collars, "walling" may be the world's first method of "torture" in which all the implements were made by Fisher-Price. As the memo darkly notes, walling doesn't cause any pain, but is supposed to induce terror by making a "loud noise": "(T)he false wall is in part constructed to create a loud sound when the individual hits it, which will further shock and surprise." (!!!) If you need a few minutes to compose yourself after being subjected to that horror, feel free to take a break from reading now. Sometimes a cold compress on the forehead is helpful, but don't let it drip or you might end up waterboarding yourself. The CIA's interrogation techniques couldn't be more ridiculous if they were out of Monty Python's Spanish Inquisition sketch: Cardinal! Poke her with the soft cushions! ... Hmm! She is made of harder stuff! Cardinal Fang! Fetch ... THE COMFY CHAIR! So you think you are strong because you can survive the soft cushions. Well, we shall see. Biggles! Put her in the Comfy Chair! ... Now -- you will stay in the Comfy Chair until lunchtime, with only a cup of coffee at 11. Further up the torture ladder -- from Guantanamo, not Monty Python -- comes the "insult slap," which is designed to be virtually painless, but involves the interrogator invading "the individual's personal space." If that doesn't work, the interrogator shows up the next day wearing the same outfit as the terrorist. (Awkward.) I will spare you the gruesome details of the CIA's other comical interrogation techniques and leap directly to the penultimate "torture" in their arsenal: the caterpillar. In this unspeakable brutality, a harmless caterpillar is placed in the terrorist's cell. Justice Department lawyers expressly denied the interrogators' request to trick the terrorist into believing the caterpillar was a "stinging insect." Human rights groups have variously described being trapped in a cell with a live caterpillar as "brutal," "soul-wrenching" and, of course, "adorable." If the terrorist manages to survive the non-stinging caterpillar maneuver -- the most fiendish method of torture ever devised by the human mind that didn't involve being forced to watch "The View" -- CIA interrogators had another sadistic trick up their sleeves. I am not at liberty to divulge the details, except to mention the procedure's terror-inducing name: "the ladybug." Finally, the most savage interrogation technique at Guantanamo was "waterboarding," which is only slightly rougher than the Comfy Chair. Thousands of our troops are waterboarded every year as part of their training, but not until it was done to Khalid Sheikh Mohammed -- mastermind of the 9/11 attack on America -- were liberal consciences shocked. I think they were mostly shocked because they couldn't figure out how Joey Buttafuoco ended up in Guantanamo. As non-uniformed combatants, all of the detainees at Guantanamo could have been summarily shot on the battlefield under the Laws of War. Instead, we gave them comfy chairs, free lawyers, better food than is served in Afghani caves, prayer rugs, recreational activities and top-flight medical care -- including one terrorist who was released, whereupon he rejoined the jihad against America, after being fitted for an expensive artificial leg at Guantanamo, courtesy of the U.S. taxpayer. Only three terrorists -- who could have been shot -- were waterboarded. This is not nearly as bad as "snowboarding," which is known to cause massive buttocks pain and results in approximately 10 deaths per year. Normal human beings -- especially those who grew up with my older brother, Jimmy -- can't read the interrogation memos without laughing. At Al-Jazeera, they don't believe these interrogation memos are for real. Muslims look at them and say: THIS IS ALL THEY'RE DOING? We do that for practice. We do that to our friends. But The New York Times is populated with people who can't believe they live in a country where people would put a caterpillar in a terrorist's cell. www.anncoulter.com

Obama wants to force detainees to have lunch with Ms. California. Homos everywhere are outraged. So is Hedd.

Next up on the turture "ladder"....not saying "please."

I heard giving the subject the stink eye will soon be considered "torture."

I recall a certain Austrian that also stressed the failure of democracy and capitalism.

Most conservatives admit and expect a liberal to be appointed and all we hope for is that whomever it is isnt to the left of Chomsky. But according to dunderheads like Hedd, such thinking makes us "radicals." Funny sh--.

So you just admitted and confirmed that liberals seek to treat the Consititution like Lou Brown treated Roger Dorn's contract. Good work.

Hey Turk....1991 called. They want their offense back. Maybe we can all close our eyes and pretent Jim Kelly is out there.

Roberts is a "far right activist", huh? And that "moderate" Obama is going to pick someone "in the middle?" LOLOLOL. He has ALREADY said he wants to appoint a judge who will give preference and power to the poor and those who dont have access to political power. Which, sounds really nice, but considering a judge is suppossed to be IMPARTIAL, is troubling, to say the least.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/30471035 LOLOL.

CANT BE, DEAN....CANT BE!!!!!!! Only "them" act like that!

Be careful...mention Dear Leader's name out of context, even in jest and your post may up and disappear.

I like Newt......that "far right radical"s response WAY better. 100 Days of Devastatingly Swift Success To mark President Obama’s 100th day in office, I’m going to say something you might find unexpected, even shocking: President Obama’s first 100 days have been spectacularly successful. President Obama is the strongest domestic Democratic President since Lyndon Johnson. His ability to get Democrats in Congress to give him things that undermine their own power is impressive. In just 100 days, President Obama has been devastatingly effective in moving forward swiftly the most radical, government-expanding agenda in American history. Successfully Moving to a European Model of Government Control At home, in everything from his economic policy to his energy policy to his just-announced science policy, President Obama has successfully moved the country from a traditional American model of entrepreneurship and private initiative to a European model of regulation and government control. Abroad, he has succeeded in his apparent goal to be the un-George W. Bush; replacing aggressive, if sometimes flawed, American leadership with a humbled, weakened America on the world stage. Judged by these standards, President Obama’s first 100 days have been a remarkable success. Getting Congress to Give Him Things That Undermine Their Own Power The Obama record in the first 100 days includes three instances of spectacular political impunity: • Under the guise of “economic stimulus” he was able to pass a $787 billion gift for his liberal special interest base. And he did it so quickly that no member of Congress was able to read it before they voted. • After campaigning on a pledge to end earmarks, he signed an appropriations bill loaded with 8,000 earmarks -- and paid no political penalty. • President Obama has kept congressional Democrats marching with him in lockstep. House Democrats tow the party line an amazing 94 percent of the time and Senate Democrats vote Democratic 91 percent of the time. Two Historic Bureaucratic Power Grabs In these first 100 days, the Obama Administration has achieved two historic bureaucratic power grabs: • President Obama has transformed the Federal Reserve and the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) into giant engines of unsupervised spending. Together, they’ve spent the equivalent of the entire federal budget for 2007, without having to disclose where the money went. • Just two weeks ago, the President presided over an unprecedented bureaucratic power grab when his Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ruled that greenhouse gases pose a threat to public health. This seemingly innocuous decision opens the door to wholesale regulation of American life by government. The threat is so great that politicians and activists are using the specter of an out-of-control EPA to force Congress to pass a $1 trillion to $2 trillion energy tax in the form of cap-and-trade legislation. In Foreign Policy, Weakness and Self-Delusion The Obama 100 days record also includes remarkable weakness and self-delusion overseas: • In an attempt to overcome anti-Americanism abroad by agreeing with it, President Obama has gone on a global apology tour, labeling America as “arrogant, dismissive and derisive” in front of foreign audiences. • President Obama has unleashed a domestic war over the meaning of guilt by caving in to the anti-American left and leaving the door open to prosecuting Bush Administration officials over the interrogation of terrorists who plotted to kill Americans. All Other Obama “Accomplishments” Are Only a Prelude to His $3.5 Trillion Budget But all these successful expansions of government at home and retractions of American leadership abroad are merely a prelude to President Obama’s looming crowning achievement: His 2010 budget which remakes our health care system, remakes our energy system, raises taxes and forecasts an amazing $9 trillion increase in the national debt. As I write this, Democrats in Congress are fashioning a deal to pass the budget’s provisions on health care by preventing Republicans and moderate Democrats from having a voice in the debate. Think about that. The Obama-Reid-Pelosi political machine is going to pass legislation that fundamentally affects every single American -- as well as 17 percent of our economy -- by cutting the elected representatives of half of all Americans out of the process. If they succeed, the budget will be President Obama’s most enduring -- and devastating -- accomplishment. Will the Future Bring Change We Can Believe In? Or a Change in What we Believe? One thing is clear at this point in President Obama’s presidency: His control of Washington Democrats has been so masterful, and his policies so successful, that he has officially claimed ownership of the American economy. Going forward, it won’t be possible to continue to place blame on former President Bush and the Republicans. If President Obama fails, it will be his failure and his alone. As for us, the “success” of the first 100 days of the Obama presidency raises a threatening possibility. As my daughter and columnist Jackie Cushman put it, if we’re not careful, instead of change we can believe in, we’re going to have change in what we believe. It’s something to ponder for the next 1,361 days. www.newt.org

YES. VERY. Specter wasnt a real Republican and its absurd to think he was. How does ANY Republican vote FOR a massive spending bill like he did? It goes against all party beliefs. Eff Specter. And Eff any other so called Conservatives and other mealy mouths who feel the only way the GOP is to become viable is to be just slightly to the right of the Democrats. I find it laughable that becuase you didnt sign on to the Obama agenda youre somehow a "right wing extremist." Its comical that the same bunch of folks who made a staunch liberal like Joe Lieberman a pariah becuase of a SINGLE ISSUE are now dictating to me about tolerance.

Unless the money for this flight was not already set aside in a "publicity" budget or the like, what does the cost have to do with ANYTHING?

I cannot argue with any of this.

Youre missing it. This ops are indeed commonplace for the Statue of Liberty. Done all the time and I know for a fact that are at least three scheduled (or were) for Memorial Day weekend. Also, the Hudson corriodr is a major pattern route for Laguardia. So in fact, yes......aircraft do fly this pattern all the time. The overly dramatic way people act...and the way the press feeds into the hysteria. All that said, this was a unique event. Sure, it would reaise concern. But what is ticking me off here is coverage. Go read the NYDaily News and NY Post coverage. You would think the planes were do loops ten feet from the tops of buildings. THATS what I cant stand about these events. And yeah...I think people are being a bit dramatic. I understand the immediate concern and even a bit of panic. But one guy stated the planes were so close "he could clearly see the markings" on it. So he could do that...but the American flags and the huge words "UNITED STATES AIR FORCE" plastered on the thing didnt clue you off that this is all Kosher and no reason to run out of your office screaming and pulling your hair out? Idiot.

Arent a good portion of flight ops for the AF and Navy "photo ops" where they just go up with a few cameras and shoot? One more thing....this is New York. There are not one...but TWO major airports where jumbos fly in and out of all day and all night long. A 747 flying low and slow overhead is as commonplace in this area as anything. And there is a huge....HUGE difference between a few military jets flying slow and low and stable and a commercial 767 doing 400 knots at full throttle, flying erratically, and pointed right at a building. Oh...this "reminded" people of 9/11? Oh...the fire trucks people see all day long in Lower Manhatten with the names of the dead painted on the sides and that huge pit outside World Financial dont clue you in on a daily? People are !@#$ing dumb.....and the typical media just fed them all another bowl of "stupid" with a side of "hand wringing."

Right, conner...becuase the stimulus funds would have gone to research and the CDC and whatever vaccines needed would have been distributed, along with what work needed to be done to stop this...in Mexico....all within the course of a few months since obama said "Its Done", right? Making a flu pandemic a political issue. "Time to put away all those childish things." Indeed.

Anyone who thinks that folks celebrating their religion is a threat to their own views of religion arent very secure in their views in the first place.

When I see moves like this it makes me feel that Wilpon is really looking to pull a "Rachel Phelps" with this franchise.