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Don’t tell me Obama’s gay, and that his golf outings are really specially-arranged trysts with guys.

Between drug use and rampant promiscuity, how can anybody be surprised that homosexuals get diseases? It’s the cost of doing business. If they don’t like it, they should abandon the lifestyle.

As for the hatred of parking meters I'm ambivalent.

Consider, though: if there were no parking meters, how hard would it be to find a place to park?

He can still be subpoena.

And without his job to worry about, he might be a bit more loquacious than otherwise.

Oh my God. We’re gonna die. Oh my God.

Good to see there’s still some civilization in Western civilization.

Bottom line is that he’s sicker than he looks.

The Internal Revenue Service’s targeting of conservative groups is outrageous. Those who did this should be fired immediately.

You can't fire the President; he's got to be impeached.

Yet again, we have an example of Democrats simply not managing the government properly and with discipline.

They're like a pack of teenagers whose parents have gone for the weekend and left the liquor cabinet unlocked.

Waiting for them to find some innocent American girl to pin it on.

Whoever uttered this asinine statement evidently thinks their family’s lives are worth nothing....

That reminds me of the joke that goes like this: Mary Anne was walking down a dark street one night when a big man jumped out of the shadows and began tearing her clothes off. She wasn't worried, though. She knew she'd left her money at home.

The media turns everything into a morality play about race. I swear, the idea that this guy was black never entered into my mind. I thought he did the right thing at the right time, and that was the end of it. Evidently my sensibilities aren’t as refined as I supposed.

Word is just in that the two brothers won’t be prosecuted; there’s no evidence against them.

Before long it’ll be “his-assment.”

I think they should close down those sweatshops. Then the people who work in them would die of starvation and exposure, rather than building collapses.

All seriousness aside, sometimes the only thing worse than working in a sweatshop is not having a sweatshop to work in.

There is now a replacement for Primetine Mist: Asthmanefrin.

Good to know, but that's epinephrine, which has many cardiovascular side effects, unlike albuterol, which has virtually none and acts almost exclusively in the lungs. It amazes me that they'll allow adrenaline over-the-counter, but an inocuous drug like albuterol requires a prescription. I suppose that's because no one in his right mind would want the worse of the two choices.

I wish they’d let asthmatics buy albuterol inhalers without a prescription.

He’s absolutely right.

It doesn’t take an economics genius to understand that no German wants to spend his hard-earned money propping up France, Greece, Cyprus, Spain and any others who can’t live within their means. Not for nothing was the story of the Tower of Babel included in the Bible.

Look, I've seen the ads for Valtrex, and they made me actually want to get genital herpes.

We loved him last night, but we don’t respect him this morning.

What in the hell in a man teaching children that age?

My thoughts exactly.

What in the hell in a man teaching children that age?

My thoughts exactly.

The words spoken by Lincoln at his Second Inaugural spring to mind:

Fondly do we hope, fervently do we pray, that this mighty scourge of war may speedily pass away. Yet, if God wills that it continue until all the wealth piled by the bondsman's two hundred and fifty years of unrequited toil shall be sunk, and until every drop of blood drawn with the lash shall be paid by another drawn with the sword, as was said three thousand years ago, so still it must be said "the judgments of the Lord are true and righteous altogether."

This could just as easily be said about the scourge of abortion.

They weren’t making moonshine; they were pickling corn.

If he was on welfare, where in the hell did he get the money to fund his lavish lifestyle? My wife and I earn six figures, and we can’t afford a Mercedes.

We caught the terrorists?

We kicked the behinds of the people who sponsored them, and put the fear of God into the rest. Apprehending the perpetrators is no sign of success. The perpetrators are very small fish; they're a dime-a-dozen, and to their handlers they're perfectly disposable.

If you can’t baptise him with beer, baptise him with Coors Lite.

Different scenario IMO. We celebrated (rightly so) when we got Bin Laden. We had a long road ahead of us after 9/11.

And what did we have to celebrate after 4/20?

The only really good thing Bush did, apart from tax reductions, was kicking terrorist ass. No one was singing “Sweet Caroline” after 9-11, especially GWB.

This one gets scored to the terrorists. It was an outrage all around, including the response by the citizenry. Sweet Caroline indeed!

Barrett cleaned shrapnel and nails from the wounds of some victims, side by side with law enforcement investigators who wanted to examine wounds for blast patterns. The investigator's request took him aback at first. "I wasn't stopping to think, 'What could be in this wound that could give him a lead?'"

If I had been that nurse there would have been one more victim to tend to.

“These two individuals held this city hostage for five whole days.”

Actually, four days. The idiots pursuing him can answer for the fifth.

I’m going to call bullshit on this one.

The best thing for the government to do would be to question the younger Tsarnaev without Miranda ....

A person retains his constitutional rights regardless of whether he's been advised of them.

The real tragedy of this kind of outrage is that every time it occurs, further power is wrested from the citizenry and concentrated in the hands of government.

I sure wish that young Saudi male could hang out a few more days here in the states and we could have someone seriously interrogate him; but alas, Big Government says he’s got to go back home and quick.

If you look at the actions of the two brothers from the time of the attack all the way through the incidents beginning Thursday, you've got to suspect that they were expecting to get some kind of material support; support that they never received. It would be nice to find out where they expected that support to come from. I'm thinking that the Saudi was their handler, and when he got picked up the getaway part of the plan went straight to hell, leaving the perps hung out to dry.

Severely disaffected; he turns to radical Islam to assuage his ego and give himself a sense of identity. Then he drags his little brother in with him. What’s worse, there’s an entire edifice of radical Islam to support him, sustain him, encourage him, and use him for its own political ends. Those are the ones who most of all must feel the force of retaliation.

He’s a dick.

I wouldn't say that. Think of it; what normal person doesn't like a dick? Men like them because they're the seat of male ego and sexual pleasure; women like them because they're the source of sexual pleasure. Certainly there has to be a better term to describe someone like Obama.

In other words, don't rush to judgement about him.

Time to turn off my TV...

Mine's been off, the more so since every damned government agency involved in swatting this infernal cockroach is now patting itself on the back. All they did was deploy a highly-equipped army and stood an entire city on its head, depriving people of their freedom of movement, to do what they could have done simply and unobtrusively with a fraction of the resources and none of the imposition.

No doubt he’ll now blame America for his actions.

I'm sure he will, and I suspect there's going to be a big media circus surrounding his trial, with lots of empathy for his youth, his inexperience, and the fact that he probably served as his older brother's "useful idiot." I was speculating he'd take his own life, or be killed by the cops, but now we've got to go through the usual rigamarole.

Aw, you’re no fun anymore!

Sort of like the DC Snipers?

I think so; that's usually the way it works when you have two ad hoc terrorists like this. If it were state-sponsored terrorism I'd say no, but this doesn't look like state-sponsored terrorism.

I’ll wager you that the older of the perps is the skipper, while the younger is the cabin boy. The elder has the agenda, while the younger serves as his useful idiot; both probably feeling justified in what they did on the basis of some twisted ideology.

Looks like the guy in the white cap.

They look Iranian to me.

I lived in Libya for several years, and my first instinct upon seeing the photos was that they were Arabs from somewhere in North Africa; perhaps Libya; perhaps Egypt or thereabouts. Not some disaffected nutcases, but based on the looks of them, from reasonably affluent backgrounds, well aware of what they’re doing and why they’re doing it, as well as coldly calculating. It wouldn’t surprise me if they’re students, currently in the country on student visas.

I completely understand where the parents are coming from. (though not all supported this bill) I can’t imagine how bad losing a child to murder would be.

It's understandable that losing a child to murder would cause parents to react in an emotional, knee-jerk way. We expect it from them; that's what they do. But it's incumbent on those who have not lost a child to murder to see things in the clear light of reason.

What in the hell does this have to do with sports?