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Pride Flag

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 6/20/12, 7:49 am

It’s that time of year again. Time to debate if the Space Needle should fly the rainbow flag.

The Space Needle, a symbol of Seattle though owned by a private company, initially said it would not fly the rainbow flag last year. The company changed its mind after $50,000 was raised to benefit charities that work with the LGBT community, and the flag waved during Seattle’s 2011 Gay Pride Parade.

The 2012 parade is this weekend. Space Needle managers haven’t responded to my question about whether they will or won’t fly the flag atop the structure, now painted “galaxy orange” in honor of its 50th anniversary.

I hope they fly it every year, like the 12th man flag.

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  1. 1

    Serial Conservative spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 8:02 am

    I have a serious question:

    If/when the major components of the LGBTQQ (not sure if I missed any but my nephew in SF used this acronym recently – had to ask what the second Q meant) movement are granted all of the rights they want…….

    What happens to these proponent groups? Do they persist as advocacy entities? Do they dissemble, their goal having been achieved?

    Since nobody ever gets everything they want maybe it’s silly for me to ask what happens when they get everything they want, but what happens when their main reason for existence goes away because they were successful?

  2. 2

    No Time for Fascists spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 8:45 am

    Why do you ask? Do you WANT to get rid of us?

    As for the second Q, it could be so simple as he hit the key twice.

    Interesting choice of words. “Granted the rights”. Rights are not privileges to be earned or taken away. For example, we have the privilege to drive a car on public streets. We have the RIGHT of equal protection under the law. We are not begging, hat in hand, for the King to grant us some special dispensation. Since they are Rights, we are supposed to have them already. we are fighting for our Rights to stop being denied. We are fighting for what should be ours in the first place.

    Do they dissemble, their goal having been achieved?
    I assume they mostly will. They exist because there is an injustice and once that injustice is resolved, they tend to go away. You don’t see a lot of Women’s Suffrage organizations at the moment, but as the right wing keeps chipping away at people’s Rights, advocacy groups will form or reform to counter them.

    I would hate to see gay advocacy groups become a parody like the NRA, that keeps getting everything they want, so they have to keep stretching for more extreme positions of fear and paranoia to justify their funding drives.

  3. 3

    Serial Conservative spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 8:55 am

    @ 2

    I just want to get rid of the part of you that makes idiotic arguments, regardless of the topic. The gay part I’m fine with.

    Apparently the second Q is ‘Questioning’.

    Regarding my use of the word rights, your point is acknowledged.

    Regarding your mention of NRA, I don’t think they get ‘everything’. Abortion is legal and yet there are still plenty of advocacy groups out there, because abortion is under attack around the edges. Similarly, gun rights are under attack around the edges.

    Was there a reason I should have known you were one of the acronym letters? You haven’t given me a reason to have any idea your orientation might be different from mine. Until this morning, that is.

    Of course, I also have no idea why I once thought YLB was a woman.

  4. 4

    Dorky Dorkman spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 9:19 am

    re 1: “Do they dissemble (sic), their goal having been achieved?”

    Was this a Freudian slip, or are you just not quite as literate as you think you are.

    disassemble ’ — to put on a false appearance : conceal facts, intentions, or feelings under some pretense. — dis•sem•bler -b(ə-)lər noun.

    disassemble ’ — to put on a false appearance : conceal facts, intentions, or feelings under some pretense. — dis•sem•bler -b(ə-)lər noun.

    ‘dis•as•sem•ble — Verb:
    1.Take (something) to pieces.
    2.Translate (a program) from machine code into a symbolic language.

  5. 5

    Serial Conservative spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 9:21 am

    @ 4

    Thanks for the correction. My GRE verbal score was a 76. I’ve always known I’m not very literate.

    Hopefully by now you have learned the correct use of ‘traitor’ and its various iterations, since we’re into pointing out inaccuracy today.

  6. 6

    Dorky Dorkman spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 9:23 am

    re 1: “Do they dissemble (sic), their goal having been achieved?”

    dissemble ’ — to put on a false appearance : conceal facts, intentions, or feelings under some pretense. — dis•sem•bler \-b(ə-)lər\ noun.

    ‘dis•as•sem•ble — Verb:
    1.Take (something) to pieces.
    2.Translate (a program) from machine code into a symbolic language.

    My correction needed a correction, but no matter. I saw that you were taking pains not to be snarky.

  7. 7

    Dorky Dorkman spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 9:28 am

    re 5: “Hopefully by now you have learned the correct use of ‘traitor’ and its various iterations, since we’re into pointing out inaccuracy today.”

    Liberals, having been called traitors for decades by Rush Limbaugh and the entire Right Wing Noise Machine, are very familiar with all of the iterations that you speak of.

    You seem like such a sensitive soul for someone who side dishes out with such malevolent gusto.

  8. 8

    Rujax!...there's liars, damned liars...then there's the puddypussy. spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 9:33 am

    Absolutely.

    Fly it proudly!

  9. 9

    Rujax!...there's liars, damned liars...then there's the puddypussy. spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 9:44 am

    5. Serial Conservative spews:

    @ 4

    Thanks for the correction. My GRE verbal score was a 76. I’ve always known I’m not very literate.

    Hopefully by now you have learned the correct use of ‘traitor’ and its various iterations, since we’re into pointing out inaccuracy today.

    06/20/2012 at 9:21 am

    This commenter is a fine example of a real traitor…an Un-American ass.

  10. 10

    Serial Conservative spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 9:51 am

    @ 9

    And you’re a fine example of the downside of a middle school-level education.

  11. 11

    Rujax!...there's liars, damned liars...then there's the puddypussy. spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 10:08 am

    @10…

    That’s some REAL cogent analysis coming from that fucking nitwit.

  12. 12

    SJ ???? spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 11:01 am

    This is absurd.

    Anyone who does not understand that Seattle has and is itself proud of that community .. as we are of the other parts of this place.

    Is the Needle were NOT to do this, then I would suggest it needs to be transferred t a more rational owner. Just like TV stations .. the Needle uses a limited public resource and must do so in the common good.

  13. 13

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 11:20 am

    @1 First of all, they’re not asking for any rights the rest of us don’t have, they only want to be treated the same as everyone else.

    Second, once those “rights” are secured, they have to be defended,
    so there’ll still be a need for advocacy.

  14. 14

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 11:22 am

    @1 “but what happens when their main reason for existence goes away because they were successful?”

    They disappear like the National Rifle Association did.

  15. 15

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 11:26 am

    @3 “I just want to get rid of the part of you that makes idiotic arguments”

    See point about “granting” rights in #2.

    @5 “My GRE verbal score was a 76.”

    See point about word choice (“dissemble” vs. “disassemble”) in #4.

    @11 “Nitwit” sounds about right.

  16. 16

    ArtFart spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 11:38 am

    @1 I don’t recall that the NAACP, CORE, the Urban League and other civil-rights groups disbanded for lack of things to do after passage of the Voting Rights Act, and the Justice Dept. and the courts forcing southern states (and some northern ones) to grudgingly abandon their laws against “miscegenation” and integrate their schools. There was still plenty to do, and unfortunately it now appears some of those original battles are going to have to be fought all over again. Apparently eternal vigilance truly is the price of freedom.

  17. 17

    Dorky Dorkman spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 12:02 pm

    re 16: “Apparently eternal vigilance truly is the price of freedom.”

    Absolutely correct.

  18. 18

    kim jong chillin spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 12:24 pm

    When are they gonna fly a hetero pride flag?

  19. 19

    Rujax!...there's liars, damned liars...then there's the puddypussy. spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 12:25 pm

    http://slog.thestranger.com/sl.....e-exorcism

    The Mars Hill Version of Marriage Counseling: Accuse the Wife of Having “Sex Demons,” Perform Surprise Exorcism

    Posted by Brendan Kiley on Wed, Jun 20, 2012 at 11:09 AM

    More stories are trickling out of Mars Hill—the Seattle-based church that started as a kind of rocker/pop-friendly Christianity and has grown darker and more autocratic under the leadership of Pastor Mark Driscoll.

    When I was working on this story about Mars Hill a few months ago, a persistent question was why people would submit to Driscoll, who resembles nothing more than a schoolyard bully. But he has no actual authority over anybody. Even the most devout Christians know that the world is swarming with false prophets and two-bit hucksters who call themselves pastors. Why would any sane, self-respecting adult put up with Driscoll’s chest-pounding, self-serving bullshit?

    This story is a good window into how a person—in this case, a woman—gets sucked down that rabbit hole, and what that rabbit hole looks like.

    It was only the three of them: Amy, her husband, and Mark. Amy was sitting beside her husband on a leather couch. They were facing Mark.

    “Mark started the meeting by telling us he was convinced that I had demons,” says Amy, “and then he went on to add that my demons were ‘sexual demons’.”

    Amy describes Mark’s demeanor toward her as a “fiery tirade”. During this encounter, Mark told Amy he believed that every one of her sins were “sex based.” He said that the demons inside her were out to destroy every one of the marriages in their circle of friends.

    “At one point,” says Amy, “he asked me which one of my husband’s friends I had imagined sleeping with.”
    Amy was dumbfounded by Mark’s questions and accusations. But she also admits, because she no longer trusted Mark, she was also slightly terrified of what was about to happen.

    The storyteller’s identity is never disclosed, but the details are convincingly specific—the pecking order, the slow slide from church friends into cultishness, Driscoll’s obsessions with other people’s sex lives, the shunning…

    Yeah…these anti-gay fanatics are really screwed together (pun might as well be intended).

    What a bunch of assholes…the jeeebus ought to turn ’em into worms.

  20. 20

    kim jong chillin spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 12:26 pm

    @3

    Ylb is a woman…just one with a penis.

  21. 21

    No Time for Fascists spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 1:12 pm

    If space needle does what is right, they will fly the flag.

  22. 22

    smtaylor spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 1:25 pm

    @18

    When are they gonna fly a hetero pride flag?

    I don’t know. Maybe when we have “Kid’s Day” to equalize having Mother’s Day and Father’s Day.

  23. 23

    Liberal Scientist is a slut who occasionally wears a hoodie spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 2:04 pm

    Ylb is a woman…

    Is that supposed to be an insult?
    I suppose in your circles it is.
    Asshole.

  24. 24

    Liberal Scientist is a slut who occasionally wears a hoodie spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 2:05 pm

    When are they gonna fly a hetero pride flag?

    Those are generally flown at white-pride rallies. All the frightened angry bigots tend to hang out together.

  25. 25

    Serial Conservative spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 2:08 pm

    @ 23

    Nope, honest mistake. I have no idea why I assumed that.

  26. 26

    Liberal Scientist is a slut who occasionally wears a hoodie spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 2:39 pm

    @25
    That was not directed at you. I was responding to this:

    20. kim jong chillin spews:

    @3

    Ylb is a woman…just one with a penis.

    Not every comment on these threads is a response to your idiocy – we have a whole stable of fools.

  27. 27

    who run Bartertown? spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 3:32 pm

    23. Liberal Scientist is a slut who occasionally wears a hoodie spews:
    Ylb is a woman…

    Is that supposed to be an insult?
    I suppose in your circles it is.
    Asshole.

    06/20/2012 AT 2:04 PM

    Well if you are a MAN, and someone describes you as a WOMAN, then YES, its an insult –

    here let me make it clear for you – he’s a pussy.

  28. 28

    who run Bartertown? spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 3:35 pm

    Hows your bubble studies coming along?

  29. 29

    who run Bartertown? spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 3:37 pm

    24. Liberal Scientist is a slut who occasionally wears a hoodie spews:
    When are they gonna fly a hetero pride flag?

    Those are generally flown at white-pride rallies. All the frightened angry bigots tend to hang out together.

    06/20/2012 AT 2:05 PM

    Oh really? wow, I never would have known. Can you describe to me what a hetero flag looks like?

    I am sensing some self-hatred in you – perhaps counseling is in order.

    Perhaps the Space Needle should just fly the US flag, and call it good.
    Oh wait, the left kinda hates that flag – so I suppose that would not work in Seattle.

  30. 30

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 3:42 pm

    @29 “the left kinda hates that flag”

    Contrary to what you may believe, you rightwing chest-beaters don’t own that flag. It’s nobody’s political property; it belongs to all of us. I fought in a war under that flag, and my buddies died serving it, so go fuck yourself.

  31. 31

    who run Bartertown? spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 3:48 pm

    30. Roger Rabbit spews:
    @29 “the left kinda hates that flag”

    Contrary to what you may believe, you rightwing chest-beaters don’t own that flag. It’s nobody’s political property; it belongs to all of us. I fought in a war under that flag, and my buddies died serving it, so go fuck yourself.

    06/20/2012 AT 3:42 PM

    as soon as the left quits spitting on it and burning it, then I might take a different tact.

    BTW, Im so damn hot in bed, fucking myself is actually a compliment….luckily for the female of our species, I have decided to share myself with them.

  32. 32

    who run Bartertown? spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 3:49 pm

    Rabbit, go walk around the capital hill area or U district with a US flag and see how popular you are….I bet they give a nice warm welcome – not.

  33. 33

    No Time for Fascists spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 3:55 pm

    @32, That is a BS right wing meme. Context is everything. If you are being respectful, I bet you do get a nice warm welcome. If you are frothing at the mouth, waving the flag and screaming “love it or leave it”, you are going to get some push back.
    Which version were you planning on doing, barter?

  34. 34

    who run Bartertown? spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 3:59 pm

    33. No Time for Fascists spews:
    @32, That is a BS right wing meme. Context is everything. If you are being respectful, I bet you do get a nice warm welcome. If you are frothing at the mouth, waving the flag and screaming “love it or leave it”, you are going to get some push back.
    Which version were you planning on doing, barter?

    06/20/2012 AT 3:55 PM

    I dont plan on doing either.

    LMFOA @ “pushback” – is that what they call it now? is that new PC term?

  35. 35

    Michael spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:00 pm

    as soon as the left quits spitting on it and burning it

    “The Left” doesn’t do this. A small % of people, who mostly happen to be members of the left do.

    How’d you like it if we blamed all the racist crap that was said and done why people flew a US flag to be blamed on “The Right?”

  36. 36

    who run Bartertown? spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:03 pm

    So tell me No Time for Communists, do you think this guy and his ilk votes left or right?

    http://thehammondreport.blogsp.....ts-on.html

    its not meme asshole, its consistent behavior since mid 1960’s…so just fucking own it, because its all yours…

  37. 37

    who run Bartertown? spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:03 pm

    and those OWSers wonder why the fuck nobody will hire them…..DUH!

  38. 38

    who run Bartertown? spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:04 pm

    How’d you like it if we blamed all the racist crap that was said and done why people flew a US flag to be blamed on “The Right?”

    06/20/2012 AT 4:00 PM

    it happens all the time here – who you trying to kid?

  39. 39

    Rujax!...there's liars, damned liars...then there's the puddypussy. spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:06 pm

    32. who run Bartertown? spews:

    Rabbit, go walk around the capital hill area or U district with a US flag and see how popular you are….I bet they give a nice warm welcome – not.

    06/20/2012 at 3:49 pm

    Scab motherfuckers like the emperor max-minidick (aka kaiser bun the first) get booted off the Hill ’cause they smell funny. Warm fuzzy bunnies are welcome everywhere.

  40. 40

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:06 pm

    @31 “as soon as the left quits spitting on it and burning it”

    Typical rightwing hatemongering. A handful of protesters and anarchists defile the flag and you try to pin that on everyone who doesn’t agree with your sick, twisted political philosophy. You’re the worst kind of liar. I repeat, go fuck yourself.

  41. 41

    Michael spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:07 pm

    @36
    That guy’s got nothing to do with me or anyone I know.

    How about you, these guys look like some of your buddies.
    http://www.thesoilingofoldglor.....h-text.jpg

    its not meme asshole, its consistent behavior since mid 1960’s…so just fucking own it, because its all yours…

    Actually, it goes back way longer than the 60’s and it was done by whomever was the most pissed at the government at the time. For a while there we burned British flags.

  42. 42

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:09 pm

    @32 “Rabbit, go walk around the capital hill area or U district with a US flag and see how popular you are….I bet they give a nice warm welcome – not.”

    I already did, on Memorial Day, at a veteran’s cemetery; and the patriots there embraced and hugged me.

    Btw #1, if you walked around the Capitol Hill area with your flag waving in the breeze, you’d get pulled into an alley and given an assful.

    Btw #2, I didn’t see you there. Where were you on Memorial Day, loafing on the coach and swilling beer?

  43. 43

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:11 pm

    @33 He’s being deliberately disrespectful to see if he can pull our chains.

  44. 44

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:14 pm

    @34 “I dont plan on doing either.”

    See reply to #32 at #42. It seems I was right about what you did on Memorial Day.

  45. 45

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:15 pm

    @31 “I have decided to share myself with them.”

    Have you found one who will have you? Do share your exploits with us. So far this thread is a terrible bore. We need some action.

  46. 46

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:17 pm

    @36 I’m pretty sure he doesn’t have time for communists either. We liberals have no patience for totalitarians of any stripe.

  47. 47

    Troll (fair and balanced) spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:17 pm

    Fuck you. You want them to fly the gay flag, but what do you liberals do when other’s want to show pride in the American flag? We’ve got it on videotape what you people do. You heckle kindergardeners and tell them to burn in hell.

    http://www.breitbart.com/Breit.....ss-America

  48. 48

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:21 pm

    @41 Isn’t it just like an American fascist to use the American flag as a spear against a fellow American. Maybe we should bomb Iran so they’ll have someone to fight.

  49. 49

    Liberal Scientist is a slut who occasionally wears a hoodie spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:22 pm

    he’s a pussy.

    You don’t like pussies?

  50. 50

    No Time for Fascists spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:24 pm

    I cannot open the video, but it’s hard to trust ANYTHING for a “brietbart” site, given his track record for distortion and lies.

  51. 51

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:26 pm

    @47 Looks to me like they were heckling the adults who used these innocent kids for political propaganda.

    As for the underlying issue, if the principal wouldn’t let the kids sing “God Bless America” in school, maybe it’s because he thought there’s a First Amendment problem with that — although I don’t think so, and I would have let them.

  52. 52

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:31 pm

    I’ve never thought that loving my country required me to be a rightwinger, or agree with Republican policies, or approve of everything our government does.

  53. 53

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:33 pm

    @50 Yeah, I wondered how much they paid those people in the video. Probably gave ’em the movie extra rate of $10 a day, even though some of them had speaking parts. I’ll bet Breitbart’s moviemakers don’t pay union scale.

  54. 54

    who run Bartertown? spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:34 pm

    39. Rujax!…there’s liars, damned liars…then there’s the puddypussy. spews:
    32. who run Bartertown? spews:

    Rabbit, go walk around the capital hill area or U district with a US flag and see how popular you are….I bet they give a nice warm welcome – not.

    06/20/2012 at 3:49 pm

    Scab motherfuckers like the emperor max-minidick (aka kaiser bun the first) get booted off the Hill ’cause they smell funny. Warm fuzzy bunnies are welcome everywhere.

    06/20/2012 AT 4:06 PM

    Why dont you come and try to “boot” me. You wont, because I would put you, and 10 assholes that look like you, through a wall.

    enjoy your time at the bottom rung of HA….and society.

    She-men pussies like you and YLBigot are what this country is churning out more and more – you are nothing more than serfs, and thats where you deserve to be because you have no balls and no gumption to make anything out of your life other than what you can skim off the rest of us.

    you….are….done….

  55. 55

    who run Bartertown? spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:35 pm

    53. Roger Rabbit spews:
    @50 Yeah, I wondered how much they paid those people to act in the video. Probably gave ‘em the extra rate of $10 a day, even though some of them had speaking parts.

    06/20/2012 AT 4:33 PM

    ahhhh yes, the typical goebbels-like lefty response: “they were plants! they were fakes! we dont do that!”

    that dog dont hunt no more…

  56. 56

    who run Bartertown? spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:36 pm

    49. Liberal Scientist is a slut who occasionally wears a hoodie spews:
    he’s a pussy.

    You don’t like pussies?

    06/20/2012 AT 4:22 PM

    not on men, no I dont…..why? do you?

  57. 57

    who run Bartertown? spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:37 pm

    45. Roger Rabbit spews:
    @31 “I have decided to share myself with them.”

    Have you found one who will have you? Do share your exploits with us. So far this thread is a terrible bore. We need some action.

    06/20/2012 AT 4:15 PM

    Lack of “action” for limp dicked rabbit is something even I cant help out with…

  58. 58

    who run Bartertown? spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:39 pm

    44. Roger Rabbit spews:
    @34 “I dont plan on doing either.”

    See reply to #32 at #42. It seems I was right about what you did on Memorial Day.

    06/20/2012 AT 4:14 PM

    You havent been right about anything since 1978..sorry, try again.

    BTW, I was in Tahoma on Memorial day…

  59. 59

    Troll (fair and balanced) spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:40 pm

    The principal wouldn’t let the sing God Bless America, so the kids went off school grounds to sing it. The liberals followed them, and started screaming at the kindergardeners to “burn in hell.”

  60. 60

    MikeBoyScout spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:40 pm

    Over at the PI there’s more good news

    A new statewide survey by Public Policy Polling indicates that Washington may become the first state in America to approve same-sex marriage, a cause that has gone 0-for-32 in previous statewide votes.

    The survey by PPP found marriage equality with a 51-42 percent lead: In polling on statewide initiatives and referendums, 50 percent support is considered a significant bellwether.

    The pollster delved further and gave respondents three choices: 47 percent said they would favor same-sex marriage, 30 percent opted for the state’s present civil unions “everything but marriage” law; and just 21 percent said they would give no legal recognition to same-sex couples.

    YES we will!
    Let the flag fly!

  61. 61

    who run Bartertown? spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:40 pm

    45. Roger Rabbit spews:
    @31 “I have decided to share myself with them.”

    Have you found one who will have you?

    06/20/2012 AT 4:15 PM

    your old lady offered herself up, but my schedule was full…

  62. 62

    MikeBoyScout spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:48 pm

    To those on this thread who love the flag more than what it stands for…

    Like Roger I did my bit defending yours and everyone else’s freedom to do whatever they want to that flag. It is called the Bill of Rights and it leads off with freedom of speech.

    Back in the days of the USSR I was kibitzing with a Soviet and he told me this joke.

    An American and a Soviet were in Wash DC during the 60s and Americans were burning the flag.
    The American asked “Can they burn the flag in front of the Kremlin in your country?”

    The Soviet responded “Yes, of course. Any citizen of great socialist Soviet Union can march in front of Kremil and burn … Americanski flag”.

    Be proud you live in a country that countenances burning of its flag. Be grateful some voluntarily fought for your right to do so.
    And STFU about sh*t you don’t understand.

  63. 63

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:54 pm

    @54 “Why dont you come and try to “boot” me. You wont, because I would put you, and 10 assholes that look like you, through a wall.”

    Wow.

  64. 64

    Michael spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:55 pm

    @47

    Just a bunch of people yelling and being stupid, not a left or right thing. How anyone can make any sense out of that caterwauling is beyond me.

  65. 65

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:56 pm

    @57 “Lack of “action” for limp dicked rabbit is something even I cant help out with…”

    Sure you can, if you really put your ass to it.

  66. 66

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:58 pm

    @62 “who love the flag more than what it stands for”

    An apt description of the faux patriots who pollute this and other threads.

  67. 67

    who run Bartertown? spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:59 pm

    I havent laughed this hard in days..

  68. 68

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 4:59 pm

    @62 Have you noticed the more they claim to love the flag, the more they hate their fellow Americans?

  69. 69

    who run Bartertown? spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 5:00 pm

    65. Roger Rabbit spews:
    @57 “Lack of “action” for limp dicked rabbit is something even I cant help out with…”

    Sure you can, if you really put your ass to it.

    06/20/2012 AT 4:56 PM

    go talk to gman if thats your thing….

  70. 70

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 5:03 pm

    @69 Have you forgotten I have a limp dick? I’m going to use a broomstick. The one your old lady rides to work.

  71. 71

    who run Bartertown? spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 5:06 pm

    70. Roger Rabbit spews:
    @69 Have you forgotten I have a limp dick? I’m going to use a broomstick. The one your old lady rides to work.

    06/20/2012 AT 5:03 PM

    Damn, I thought I took her broomstick away from her….she must have borrowed it from your broad.

  72. 72

    MikeBoyScout spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 5:10 pm

    @68 Roger,

    Sure. But I’ve come to understand you can lead a horse to water, but you can’t lead a horse’s ass to the truth.

  73. 73

    Gman spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 5:20 pm

    The Tea Party has their own flag, but they aren’t scorned for flying a flag other than an American Flag. Hypocricy.

  74. 74

    Dorky Dorkman spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 5:48 pm

    Know what made Marcus Garvey rich? Cash donations from dumb white supremacists

  75. 75

    Puddybud spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 5:48 pm

    A handful of protesters and anarchists defile the flag and you try to pin that on everyone who doesn’t agree with your sick, twisted political philosophy.

    More Roger DUMB Wabbit phony baloney!

    When has any “sane leftist” (still waiting to meet my first handful) told their leftist flag spitting, flag burning brethren to stop doing that?

    Yeah, didn’t think so!

  76. 76

    Puddybud spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 5:49 pm

    Know what made Marcus Garvey rich? Cash donations from dumb white supremacists

    Thank you for proving you are one of those dumb white racists headless lucy.

    You always bring out the best of yourself!

  77. 77

    Puddybud spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 5:56 pm

    Interesting Gallup Poll

    ELECTION 2012 TRACKING
    Jun 13, 2012-Jun 19, 2102 – Updates daily at 1 p.m. ET; reflects one-day change

    TRIAL HEAT CHANGE
    Romney 47% +1
    Obama 45% –

  78. 78

    Puddybud spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 5:59 pm

    Interesting Rasmussen Poll

    The Rasmussen Reports daily Presidential Tracking Poll for Wednesday shows Mitt Romney attracting 47% of the vote, while President Obama earns 45%. Four percent (4%) prefer some other candidate, and another five percent (5%) are undecided.

    Damn it matches the Gallup Poll! Tsk tsk tsk!

  79. 79

    Puddybud spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 6:13 pm

    “The GOP’s house faggots grab their ankles right on cue. Pathetic” – HA’s bud Dan Savage! So if you are gay that’s acceptable language!

  80. 80

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 6:15 pm

    Southern Baptists: Gays Don’t Have Civil Rights

    ” … Southern Baptists on Wednesday overwhelmingly passed a resolution opposing the idea that gay rights are the same as civil rights.

    “The resolution … affirms Southern Baptists’ beliefs that marriage is ‘the exclusive union of one man and one woman’ and that ‘all sexual behavior outside of marriage is sinful.’ … ‘We deny that the effort to legalize “same-sex marriage” qualifies as a civil rights issue …,’ the resolution says.”

    http://usnews.msnbc.msn.com/_n.....ights?lite

    Roger Rabbit Commentary: Marriage is a legal status conferred by the state, therefore by definition the right to marry is a civil right. The state shouldn’t be allowed to require churches to confer ecclesiastical recognition on marriages that don’t qualify for such recognition under the church’s doctrine. Conversely, churches shouldn’t be allowed to interfere with civil laws defining relationships between individuals and the state.

  81. 81

    Puddybud spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 6:20 pm

    Now we see the libtards who played the edited Romney tape on MSNBC are BUSTED.

    PMSNBC, the favrit place for HA libtards! No wonder they are stoooooooooopid! Look at the link of Roger DUMB Wabbit.

    The Prosecution Rests your honor.

    Thanks for playing!

  82. 82

    Puddybud spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 6:24 pm

    Of course Obummer and Holder don’t care about the feelings of Brian Terry’s surviving parents and siblings!

    “Attorney General Eric Holder’s refusal to fully disclose the documents associated with Operation Fast and Furious and President Obama’s assertion of executive privilege serves to compound this tragedy,” Josephine Terry and Kent Terry, Sr., said in a written statement released by family attorney Pat McGroder.

    and

    Obama’s decision “denies the Terry family and the American people the truth. Our son, Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, was killed by members of a Mexican drug cartel armed with weapons from this failed Justice Department gun trafficking investigation,” Terry’s parents said in their statement.

  83. 83

    Dorky Dorkman spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 6:29 pm

    re 76: I don’t think you got the point.

  84. 84

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 6:32 pm

    @82 “Border Patrol Agent Brian Terry, was killed by members of a Mexican drug cartel”

    The operative word here is “Mexican.” Obama didn’t kill this BP agent. Holder didn’t. Nor Bush, for that matter. He was killed by Mexicans. If you were rational by half, you’d blame this killing on the killers.

    Puddystupe, do you really believe these hoodlums wouldn’t have gotten guns somewhere else if they hadn’t gotten them from a bungled ATF operation?

  85. 85

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 6:34 pm

    @82 Would the relatives feel better if we gave them some of your tax money as compensation?

  86. 86

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 6:35 pm

    @83 I don’t think he did, either.

  87. 87

    Puddybud spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 6:35 pm

    “I could have arrested Karl Rove on any given day,” Pelosi said to laughter, during a sit-down with reporters. “I’m not kidding. There’s a prison here in the Capitol … If we had spotted him in the Capitol, we could have arrested him.”

    Really Nancy? I guess Pelosi is not aware (is she ever) Karl Rove was a senior policy adviser to GW Bush. Isn’t that David Axelrod or Valerie Jarrett’s position with Obummer? Ummm… Nancy, Eric Holder is the US AG, and as such is the top law enforcement official in the United States. So why is Holder hiding the facts?

    And remember we have to pass the Obummercare bill to learn what’s in it.

  88. 88

    Puddybud spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 6:38 pm

    re 76: I don’t think you got the point.

    Oh I got your point racist one. Only you would bring it up. Garvey inspired my forebears to stand up to headless lucy racism put forth by DUMMOCRAPTS.

    The Prosecution Rests your honor!

  89. 89

    Puddybud spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 6:40 pm

    @83 I don’t think he did, either.

    And you know BLACK History Roger DUMB Wabbit?

    Please regale us how you lived it and promote it!

  90. 90

    Puddybud spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 6:41 pm

    @82 Would the relatives feel better if we gave them some of your tax money as compensation?

    Nope, they want something better…

    THE TRUTH!

  91. 91

    Puddybud spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 6:56 pm

    Now to other news from someone on the left inspecting Obummer

    “Barack Obama: The Story” is a careful, thorough account in which the author treats his subject with sympathy but not reverence. The result is an admiring portrait, to be sure, but some of the details that Mr. Maraniss discovers raise questions about the carefully crafted story that Mr. Obama has told about himself.

    Barack Obama: The Story

    By David Maraniss

    Simon & Schuster, 641 pages, $32.50

  92. 92

    Puddybud spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 8:31 pm

    The operative word here is “Mexican.” Obama didn’t kill this BP agent. Holder didn’t. Nor Bush, for that matter. He was killed by Mexicans. If you were rational by half, you’d blame this killing on the killers.

    Yes, the Mexicans killed with guns Holder and Obummer’s team purposely let slip into Mexico. Unfortunately for Obummer and Holder, they were used on Brian Terry at Mesquite Seep just north of the Arizona-Mexico border IN THE USA Roger DUMB Rabbit! So these illegals were in the USA using guns provided to them from Obummer and Holder’s people ya idiot!

    The Prosecution rests your Honor! Roger DUMB Wabbit continues to shill for evil people.

    Why do you hate the TRUTH Roger DUMB Wabbit?

    Why do you hate Brian Terry’s parents Roger DUMB Wabbit?

  93. 93

    Puddybud spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 8:33 pm

    Marriage is a legal status conferred by the state, therefore by definition the right to marry is a civil right.

    Why is Roger DUMB Wabbit trying to redefine marriage?

    EPIC FAYLE!

  94. 94

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 8:54 pm

    @93 From your own linked Wikipedia article:

    “Marriage … is a … legal contract … that creates kinship.” [Emphasis added because it flew over your head the first time.]

    That’s what I said, dumbass. So your point is … ?

  95. 95

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 8:58 pm

    @92 What did Obama and Holder have to do with this FUBAR’d ATF operation? Are you so stupid that you believe they micromanage down that level?

  96. 96

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 8:58 pm

    It’s like talking to an uncomprehending child.

  97. 97

    Roger Rabbit spews:

    Wednesday, 6/20/12 at 9:08 pm

    The Difference Between Us And Them

    “Over the weekend, Obama adviser David Axelrod condemned anti-Romney heckling during the Republican candidate’s bus tour, which ends Tuesday in Michigan. Romney was asked if he would also condemn heckling during Obama events. He declined.”

    http://seattletimes.nwsource.c.....obinsource

  98. 98

    george spews:

    Thursday, 6/21/12 at 6:43 am

    As a member of the questioning community allow me to share my question—–who cares??
    And what in the world is gay “pride”?
    Proud of what? Sticking your dork in some other guys exit shoot? Hard to understand what specific acts & actions gays commit that is something worthy of public attention. They ought to just do what they do and go about their business. They can do whatever they want now. What a waste and what an embarrassment.

  99. 99

    george spews:

    Thursday, 6/21/12 at 6:44 am

    @97-
    Axelrod “condemns” hecklers?? So what. Heck, he probably hired them or his buddy George Soros did. How disingenuous of Axelrod.

  100. 100

    Gman spews:

    Thursday, 6/21/12 at 7:48 am

    Boy it gets tiring seeing that little black face.

  101. 101

    Blue John spews:

    Thursday, 6/21/12 at 11:47 am

    FYI. Straight people are not being OPRESSED when gay people gain the RIGHTS straight people have always had.

  102. 102

    Blue John spews:

    Thursday, 6/21/12 at 11:49 am

    They can do whatever they want now.
    Really? I can marry my husband and we both get access to each other retirement and social security, like straight married people do?

  103. 103

    george spews:

    Thursday, 6/21/12 at 1:43 pm

    Sure you can get married. Go ahead, no one is stopping you.
    What kind of lubricant do you use when you are committing those acts you are so proud of that you like to have parades about? I mean Gay Pride parades? Come on. It’s ridiculous. The whole Gay Pride thing is nothing to be proud of. Just do what you must and don’t force it on the rest of us who are disgusted and repulsed at the notion of 2 homo’s rolling around in the sack together. Yuck man. What in the hell is the matter with you anyway? Why do you ram it in everyone’s face. It’s a private issue. If you make it public, you deserve to get slapped back. It’s all about politics.

  104. 104

    who run Bartertown? spews:

    Thursday, 6/21/12 at 3:15 pm

    100. Gman spews:
    Boy it gets tiring seeing that little black face.

    06/21/2012 AT 7:48 AM

    racist much?

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