DUmmie FUnnies 12-12-09 (DUmmies Suddenly Discover ReidCare is a SCAM)

DUmmie FUnnies ^ | December 12, 2009 | DUmmies and PJ-Comix

[Charles Henrickson]

The plan is: "Don't get sick, if you do, you will die because we aint payin JACK!"

Well, at least that will help keep the costs down.

[PJ-Comix]

Mutual of Obama. We need someone to pass that line along to Sarah Palin again.

[franksolich]

DUmmie ALERT!

DUmmie ALERT!

DUmmie ALERT!

VOTING NOW UNDERWAY!

VOTING FOR THE TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009!

THE TOP DUmmie OF 2009!

THE TOP PRIMITIVE!



THE TOP PRIMITIVE ON SKINS'S ISLAND!

ALSO THE "LIFETIME ACHIEVEMENT AWARD"!

FOR PRIMITIVES PRESENT AND PAST!

VOTING UNTIL FRIDAY DECEMBER 18 AT 11:59 p.m. CENTRAL TIME!

FEEL FREE TO CAST YOUR VOTES!

FOR THE TOP PRIMITIVE OF 2009!

links on next two comments below; members of freerepublic who are not members of either web-site are welcome to cast their votes via e-mail, per the instructions

it was an active day; the primitives discovered the contest, and got all agog and excited and upset over it

[franksolich]

http://www.conservativecave.com/index.php/topic,37688.0.html

[PJ-Comix]

Now watching “Pig Bomb” on Discovery Channel. They are acting like it is some horrible thing that feral pigs are breeding fast and growing to huge sizes like over 700 pounds. However, aren’t these the very pigs that hunters love? There are even hunting magazines devoted to those pigs. Much easier on the psyche to shoot an ugly feral pig than some Bambi type deer.

[franksolich]

http://www.conservativeunderground.com/forum505/showthread.php?t=22693

[PJ-Comix]

I don’t dare post which national store has STUPENDOUS steak specials on Sunday nights because a lot of them expire the next day. Last Sunday I picked up a nice size steak for just a buck. I ended up buying three steaks for about five bucks total. I don’t want to reveal where for fear everybody will start taking advantage of the deal and then no cheap steak for ol’ PJ.

[Deetes]

bump

[Choose Ye This Day]

We drink lots of fruit punch and the like. At our wedding, we had the Sprite and sherbet combo. No booze at our receptions. Everyone actually gets to remember the event, and you don’t have to worry about obnoxious, sauced Uncle Don getting creepy with the bridesmaids.

Frankly, I’ve never understood the logic of heavy drinking and wild behavior at a wedding, even before I became a Mormon. How does it go? “Hey! This couple is beginning their life together and making a commitment before God and their families. Let’s get all guano-faced and act like frat dinks on Spring Break!”

[Choose Ye This Day]

All the Mormons will be jumping on you? Something tells me you might enjoy that.

If you like playing the ass, that’s your prerogative. You know we don’t marry 12-year olds, but feel free to smear and lie and have your fun. Usually that’s the kind of Christlike behavior reserved for the Religion Forum here on FR, but you gotta do what you gotta do. Have at it.

[Stultis]

So let us now watch the DUmmies [...] still trying to figure out how someone as gloomy and grumpy as Harry Reid ever got as far in politics as he did

"Those DUmmies ask too many questions!"

[Miss Marple]

PJ, It isn’t only Mormons who don’t have booze at wedding receptions.

When I was a girl (back in the Dark Ages) most wedding receptions were in the fellowship halls of Baptist, Methodist, or Presbyterian churches, and consisted of nuts, mints, wedding cake, and punch (non-alcoholic).

The only people who had liquor at wedding receptions were very rich people who had their receptions at the country club and Catholics, who usually had wine or beer at the K of C hall or the union hall.

Until the 1980’s, this was pretty much the style of receptions all over the Midwest. Large wedding receptions only arrived in the 1980’s, and then drinking became more acceptable even for the Methodists, because the receptions were no longer in the church basement.

Speaking as a former mother of the bride, it’s a very big headache to provide alcohol, because (at least in our state) you are responsible for making sure there is no underage drinking, and that there are no people leaving who will wreck their cars. We hired a professional bartender to make sure that we weren’t liable. And I didn’t drink at all, because I had to make sure things were going smoothly.

There are quite a few Protestant denominations who don’t allow drinking or frown on it, and those would be the Southern Baptists, the Assemblies of God, the Methodists, the American Baptists, and the Disciples of Christ.

Why you seem to think the Mormons are the only non-drinkers is puzzling. Perhaps you just haven’t been exposed to many different Protestant denominations. It’s unfortunate that you slandered them in your follow-up comment, and I think you should consider apologizing.

I am a Catholic convert, so I know the misconceptions people can have on both sides of the fence. But really, your comment was pretty insulting.

[Right Wing Assault]

I just don’t get how Harry Reid got as far as he did in politics.

Follow the money. He, his family, and his friends are crooks.

[ExGeeEye]

When us dry Baptists get married...

...we have fruit punch.

I was an adult before I ever went to a champagne wedding.

[Arrowhead1952]

It is stupefying. It is mind-blowing. Surely the Senate knew someone would notice that they were stripping the lifeline for critically ill patients, hiding it deep down in the bill.

[Welcome to the wonderful world of "transparency."]

Well DUmmies. if you had been paying attention, you would know they are ramming this through before the 2010 elections because they are in for a bloodbath.

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The last few days I have read posts about how nearly all Democrats support Obama, how only a pathetic little few dare not.

And those who do not are having their arms twisted by zero.

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I do not even pretend to know what they are doing. I don't think even they know what they are doing.

[But surely Joe Biden is competent?]

DUmmies elected a bunch of DUmb congresscritters. Feeling any better you STUPID DUmmies?

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Can you imagine what cancer patients would face? It is mind-boggling.

[They would face Death Panels...just as EVIL rightwingers have been saying all along.]

No health care for the really sick among the DUmmies. Oh, for shame, for shame.

[PJ-Comix]

Frankly, I’ve never understood the logic of heavy drinking and wild behavior at a wedding, even before I became a Mormon. How does it go? “Hey! This couple is beginning their life together and making a commitment before God and their families. Let’s get all guano-faced and act like frat dinks on Spring Break!”

That is because you are confusing the wedding with the reception. Yes, the wedding is about the couple. But, later, the reception is about EVERYBODY ELSE. Everybody gets together. At first there is some cool separation from the two sides of the families. The bride's family and the groom's family. But then, under the influence of liquor, the walls break down, and everybody gets all happy together. Reverence has its place and that is at the wedding. However, it is at the reception where irreverence takes it's important spot.

Fruit punch at a wedding reception? Hmmm... I have to keep that in mind. Fruit punch is a magnet for vodka "accidentally" spilling into it. Hee! Hee!

[PJ-Comix]

There are quite a few Protestant denominations who don’t allow drinking or frown on it, and those would be the Southern Baptists, the Assemblies of God, the Methodists, the American Baptists, and the Disciples of Christ.

Ironically it was a Baptist minister (Elijah Craig) who invented Bourbon. This whole antagonism towards alcohol among Protestant denominations didn't start until about the 1840s. Before that time, consumption of alcohol was almost universal. It had to be. In cities and even in smaller towns, water was downright dangerous due to cholera and other diseases while wine and liquor were much safer to drink. Hard apple cider was very popular among all (even kids) during colonial times. Johnny Appleseed planted apple trees so folks could make hard cider, not just eat apples. In fact, it was much more economical to transport apples in the form of hard cider rather than in the original form. Evem the Puritans drank ale and brought with them to America aboard the Mayflower. The biggest industry in colonial New England was the distillation of rum. In fact, John Hancock, the richest man in New England, was in the rum smuggling business.

As to the Protestant denominations, many never did subscribe to the alcohol prohibition such as the beer drinking/brewing Lutherans. But Charles would know more about that subject.

Perhaps you just haven’t been exposed to many different Protestant denominations. It’s unfortunate that you slandered them in your follow-up comment, and I think you should consider apologizing.

Huh? Where did I slander them? I didn't even slander Mormons. I was just curious how they handle their wedding receptions. In fact, if you check the FR record from last year, I was defending the Mormons from attacks by others who were slamming Romney on religious grounds.

P.S. I had two grandparents who left my father and his brothers and sister orphans when Dad was only about 3 years old due to death from cholera via bad drinking water so I am sort of up on this subject. Beer drinking might have saved them. Beer is GOOD!

[PJ-Comix]

When us dry Baptists get married... ...we have fruit punch.

A fruit punch bowl does tend to get heavily "laced" during the course of the reception. Hic!

P.S. Note my comment about Elijah Craig.

[bcsco]

P.S. Note my comment about Elijah Craig.

Oh, I did for sure. Of course, I'm a big fan of his. Haven't enjoyed his marvelous concoction lately, however. It's not available here in town, and I don't get to Sycamore that often anymore, which is where I buy it. Oh, well. That just makes it even more special when I can stock it.

As for weddings, if there's a bar I'll partake. If there isn't, that's fine as well. I'm at an age and health situation that all we do now is sit and talk at such events. Alcohol has become a non-issue. Except for the glass of wine at night with dinner (maybe one after on occasion), I drink for the pleasure of imbibing a quality beverage. But only on the weekend. Like today, I'll have my 2 fingers of Buffalo Trace during the Packers/Bears game. !!GO PACK!!

[mrsmel]

I’m Independent Baptist, we don’t have alcohol at wedding receptions or anything else. It’s never infringed upon the celebration of two people joining their lives together under God, nor the happiness of the occasion.