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Carol| 3.15.10 @ 7:08AM

Mr. Wilson:

Great article but you have more optimism than I if this debacle called Obamacare passes. November may bring new faces into Congress but trying to turn Obamacare over will be impossible - unlike Agassi was able to divorce himself from his "Obamacare".

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.15.10 @ 7:15AM

We're courting disaster from the usage of bad comparisons. Brooke Shields appears to be another member of the spoiled Hollywood elite, claiming motherhood is a burden and portraying herself as some type of victim. She wouldn't make a good dog catcher because she can't handle the stress.

http://www.webmd.com/depressio.....n-struggle

fter giving birth two years ago, actress/model/icon Brooke Shields was not singing lullabies in the pleasing voice that has earned her rave reviews on Broadway. Nor was she learning how to swaddle her newborn girl, Rowan Francis, named for her late father, Francis Shields. Instead, suffering from postpartum depression, she found herself staring out of the window of her fourth floor Manhattan apartment, contemplating putting an end to it all.

"I really didn't want to live anymore," she admits frankly. She says that, during this time, simply seeing a window was enough to prompt her to think, "'I just want to leap out of my life,' but then the rational side of me [would say], 'You're only on the fourth floor. You'll get broken to bits and then you will be even worse.'"

From the outside looking in, the 38-year-old former Calvin Klein model has everything -- happy family, career spanning decades -- but for Shields, the painful struggle to get pregnant and the ensuing slide into postpartum depression after her labor and delivery marks the most tumultuous time in her life.

alice moore| 3.15.10 @ 8:32AM

I usually agree with your views. I know that this column is about Obamacare and were probably in agreement about that. I've read your pasts and I say Right On!

BUT.......

I have to take issue with you, though, on Post Partum Depression. This is not a state of mind where you just "get a grip" or "snap out of it". It often requires medication on a temporary basis. Yes, it can affect a new mother whether they reside in a penthouse or a mud hut.

So, please leave Brooke Shields alone! She did have some conservative views a few years ago. Do not compare her to BO either! She and Andre Agassi probably married in the heat of passion and found to their mutual regret that they were incompatible. She didn't lure Agassi under false pretenses. Keep that in mind.

Missy| 3.15.10 @ 12:55PM

Can't handle the stress? What would you know about the 'stress' of birthing babies, Bill? Not every woman is the same--some new mothers experience severe and sudden shifts in their hormone levels resulting in mental and emotional instability. There's no blame and no shame here.

Post Partum Depression is real and has the potential to end in the death(s) of mother and/or child. Brooke received medical care for her temporary, hormone related depression and seems to be a fine mother to her children now.

Your post borders on the cruel and is beneath you, sir.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.15.10 @ 5:30PM

It may appear cynical, but if she was all that stressed, then why did she cash in on it by appearing on TV talking about it? This whole victim hood mentality and hailing victims as heroes is beyond me.

Missy| 3.15.10 @ 7:00PM

Shields didn't appear on TV talking about her Post Partum Depression until the moron, Tom Cruise, berated her in public for taking anti-depressants. She reached out to other young mothers who were facing the same crisis she was.

Why don't you criticize Agassi for abusing illegal drugs when he played pro tennis? Guess he couldn't take a little stress either, and he's making a lot of money off the book he wrote exposing his sordid past.
At least Brooke's meds were legal and she didn't lie about taking them.

Your double-standard is showing.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.16.10 @ 7:49AM

This isn't a gender issue as you appear to believe.

It's about the whole mind set in a society of entitlements based on false victim hood beliefs.

I am not faulting her medical condition. That would take a cad. You can find one at the nearest bar if you need one.

No, what I am criticizing here is her reliance on victim hood. Surely, people who suffer have doctors they can discuss this situation with. Don't tell they don't have medical care because if they had a child they are covered and so is their medical care.

The only issue here is the constant portrayal of victims as heroes. It was used by the civil rights movement to promote racial gerrymandering and it's now being used in the health care debate to promote that form of collectivism.

All collectivism leads to racism. All collectivists need victims and victim mentality to succeed.

Missy| 3.16.10 @ 2:31PM

I didn't say this was a gender issue, I said it's a fairness issue. I was calling you out on your hypocrisy for castigating Shields for her perceived wrongs while giving Agassi a pass for his REAL wrongs. I detest hypocrisy--liberal or conservative.

So, according to your logic, racial gerrymandering is Brooke Shield's fault, too? You're conflating Brooke Shields with the corrupt liberal culture at large and I find it bizarre: No one said she's a victim.

Most likely, it's a gender issue for YOU because you don't like girls or perhaps you're bitter because you could never get a date with a beautiful girl like Brooke. Either way, your posts make you look like a victim. Sorry.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.16.10 @ 7:12PM

Give me an example of Agassi claiming and merchandising victim hood. Otherwise, you're simply being disingenuous. By the way, the article focused on Ms. Shields, not Agassi. My whole focus is reducing the focus on victims. Why would I mention more? Frankly, you're not making any sense. But there's nothing wrong with that.

Missy| 3.16.10 @ 8:06PM

I'm not making sense? You need to see your doctor (hurry before ObamaCare kicks in!), I think you just might have a little brain damage there.

Wilson's stupid article was based on Agassi's book "Open" so obviously, the big baby AGASSI IS THE FOCUS (talk about a victim--poor Andre, "My gorgeous actress girlfriend is too tall for me and I have to wear stilts, waah!" Yuck!). What a weenie--c'mon, you've got to at least admit that!

Perhaps you're having flashbacks from some bad acid-trips you took in your youth. I, on the other hand, have perfect clarity. Ha!

And, frankly, I don't give a flying fig about either Brook or Andre--they're both richer than dirt and I'm not. What a dumb TAS article.

Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 3.17.10 @ 4:34PM

So now you're some type of half assed victim? Sheeeesh!

Missy| 3.17.10 @ 5:16PM

Your brain damage is rearing its goofy head again, Bill--another flashback?

There's nothing "half assed" about me. Now, go away; you bother me, boy.

Dietrich| 3.15.10 @ 7:22AM

If this disaster is passed it will be repealed. The money for it is not there. One bright side of all this spending is that it will cause the defunding of much of the bureaucracy. The riots in California and Greece are only the beginning.

Melvin| 3.15.10 @ 8:22AM

Your prophecy will ring true. Someone said this phrase a long time ago. "Hold on, you ain't seen nothin yet."

Nobama| 3.16.10 @ 6:55PM

Riots in California? Crazy much?

They were a bunch of snot-nosed college kids whining and protesting about increased college tuition. Did you see any violence like that in Greece? Obviously, you've never seen a riot!

Talk about hyperbole. What a fool.

Howard| 3.15.10 @ 8:04AM

I would prefer the bill not pass. I don't think the Democrats would let repeal happen so fast. Plus people can be complacent. Other problems will occur, and this dog may live.

Tom| 3.15.10 @ 4:11PM

I too prefer this bill die and never be resurected. I doubt the ability to recind the legislation after a full court onslaught by the MSM and Obamamaniacs. The Congress is cowardly and I don't trust a November backbone right now.

Howard| 3.15.10 @ 8:04AM

I would prefer the bill not pass. I don't think the Democrats would let repeal happen so fast. Plus people can be complacent. Other problems will occur, and this dog may live.

Pugsley| 3.15.10 @ 12:42PM

Well this dog may live but he sure wont hunt. Why would the rats want to repeal it? They get new tax revenue or should we call it by it's rat name (new revenue stream) to the tune of four years before they have to provide any gov health care. Lets see, four years of taxes and no benefit to the public? Oh yeah a win win for the rat camp for sure.

Ret. Marine| 3.15.10 @ 8:35AM

Please stop the talk of this monster in my bedroom, kitchen, living room, garage, basement, etc. passing. If it does there will be hell to pay. I am talking of the biblical sense. We all know how well the polticians are at their lies, deceitful manners, outright theft of our choices, why even contemplate a win, when in fact it's the biggest loser any CONgress has ever ill-concieved. All from the most ethically led CONgress under the leadership of one looney tune, san fran nanny.
Do any of you think if it passes, We the People have one chance in hell they will ever repeal it, I don't have that kind of faith in either the idiots who elected (barry) the fraud or the fraudsters themselves (CONgress) to right a ship gone wrong.
This is nothing less than the nose of that camel we often speak of and the head along with it. Do you really believe this moron leading the sinking ship will stop at the restrictions they have hidden in this monster to stop there, if you do you're a bigger fool than the tools foisting this illness upon us.
Our best bet this week is to keep their phone, fax, and any other line so clogged up they will believe the system has failed them. Nothing less will be required of this Country's patriots.
We are on the very edge of loosing this liberty guided experiment called our Republic. Creating a write comparing this monster to a bad marriage has no comparision to the dept of this issue. Loosing my country to the very losers who owe nothing resembling their alligence to it could not be a bigger slap to the faces of all liberty loving peoples, say nothing for all those who gave their last to the continuation of it.
If you want to talk about change, don't wait for the mid-term election to occure, refuse to take part in it. Public disobiedence on the millions scale will be required. They must know we are not going to allow this to happen, not on my watch, not on my dime and not this time, NEVER EVER role over and play DEAD.
Stop playing these games with the minds of my people, or else.

Blackwatch| 3.15.10 @ 5:21PM

I say we blockade items of strategic importance as a sign of our disobendiance. Such as; bridges during commute hours, airport entrances, port entrances, etc.

Unannounced civil disobeidence. How about a sit-in in you local congress creatures local office?

tie them in knots so to speak.

blackwatch| 3.15.10 @ 5:22PM

Please pardon the odd typo's in the above posting. I forgot to proofread my comment before I pressed the enter key.

Franklin| 3.15.10 @ 9:03PM

We can't let this happen - scream bloody murder if you have to. Call, email, protest, pray.

Ok, pray first - then call, email, protest.

What do you think will happen to those 100+ new Federal agencies (or committees, whatever they will call them) in the bill that they want to create? Will they cease to exist if the bill is repealed? Probably not.

Pray hard folks. God will listen.

R Martin| 3.15.10 @ 8:40AM

"Don't believe Glenn Beck, the Fox News pundit who has been hyper-ventilating of late with all kinds of doomsday predictions."

You sound a bit like the Tory sympathizers who regarded Paul Revere as an alarmist. I'm not sure if Beck is more like Revere or Thomas Paine, but he is warning us of a very real and substantial danger that we who cherish the principles upon which this country was founded ignore at great peril. Passing Obamacare may not spell the death of American capitalism or democracy, but it would certainly be a big step in that direction.

JP| 3.15.10 @ 8:51AM

R Martin,
I agree with you. Mark Steyn has written extensively about how difficult it would be to repeal ObamaCare once it is passed into law. Steyn saw as much over in the UK during the decade or so he lived there. Not even Margret Thatcher could roll back Universal Care even in the slightest. And in the UK, the Tories defend thier horrid health care system as ferociously as the Labor Party. It is not too difficult to see the GOP surrendering on repeal after they get a taste of the power they hold over the average voter.

UpChuck.Liberals| 3.15.10 @ 10:32PM

Getting rid of Obama/Reid/Pelosi Care won't be a political problem it's a Supreme Court issue, it's Illegal. Period. The lawsuits are being formulated as we type.

Shamus| 3.15.10 @ 9:06AM

Beck is a Paine.

Blackwatch| 3.15.10 @ 5:24PM

well played sir, well played!

Grzmlyk| 3.15.10 @ 9:19AM

The problem is the near-perfect ecosystem of liberalism that the progressives have constructed - Americans are indoctrinated from pre-school with liberal/socialist nonsense; it's at every level of education, it saturates our popular culture and, despite what Howell Raines thinks, it persists in our influential "news" organizations.

It is the false consciousness whereby people flatter themselves that they have progressed beyond the confines of normal human nature, to the point where they've rejected self interest and achieved the nirvana of "caring" more for others than for themselves.

It's utter nonsense and it presupposes the phony premise that free lunches do in fact exist, because of course caring costs a lot of money. And all that money is being hoarded by evil capitalists, currently typified by the demonized insurance companies.

I'm glad many are experiencing buyer's remorse. But many of those are libs who think Obama isn't radical enough. And too many others - like my former best friend - still think Obama walks on water, and that he is the embodiment of their Own True Goodness, the Instrument by which they are going to make the world a better place.

No, we are too far down the path of destruction wrought by progressives. The fickle independents will not suddenly embrace conservativism as a root philosophy. The Republicans elected to office next time will blow it and be replaced by liberals who think Obama just didn't go far enough. Every time the pendulum has swung - from FDR on - it always swings a little further to the left.

Sure, many hard-working Americans are hip to the con, but the zeitgeist is such that if you aren't a publicly announced liberal - one that CARES about the downtrodden more than oneself - you MUST be a selfish, greedy REPUBLICAN.

Unfortunately, there's only one way this rotten edifice will fall, and that's if the economic substructure holding it up collapses entirely.

Then we can start building building our institutional monuments to our own vanity once again from scratch.

In the meantime, I'm going to buy Agassi's book. Suddenly I have a whole new respect for the guy.

Margie| 3.15.10 @ 3:53PM

Grz,
You've nailed it once again, perfectly explaining our decent into the pit of Socialism by way of the progressives. Three cheers to you once again for how well you spell it out. And posts like "Drew's" below show the happiness and delight at what he thinks is the success of his side.
But I really know that in the end we are going to triumph. Socialism will have reared its ugly head, but not for long. The Bible says that Righteousness will eventually rule. And I believe that.
~About your comments on Agassi, et al. You seem like a pretty fair guy to me. But what a mess we all are.
"For apart from Me, you can do nothing." Jn. 15:5.

Brian Mc| 3.15.10 @ 8:43AM

I am an American and I don't want it...period. Who the hell are these people, to think they can tell me what to do in the land of the free? This is the most ludicrous, tyrranical powergrab this country has ever witnessed.

On August 17th, 1977, I swore an oath to defend the Constitution. I have NOT forgotten that oath.

If this passes, the time for talking is over...the tree of liberty needs a little nourishment. The question is, will the free people of this great country rise up or roll over and show their collective bellies? Mark my words: Obama's private, domestic army will not be far behind this legislation. The godless have usurped the altar of Liberty and smash the irreplaceable relics of Freedom while the angry crowd gathers from without.

To steal a phrase: "I'm mad as hell and I'm not gonna take it anymore!"

Commander Z, Ks. Militia| 3.15.10 @ 6:50PM

You've got the right spirit, I'll be see'n yah at the party, no dount

Franklin| 3.15.10 @ 9:11PM

I'm with ya too, Brr.

I've already started with amending my W4 to limit how much tax is taken from my paycheck.

Next step ...

Shamus| 3.15.10 @ 8:55AM

If this passes it will immediately become an election issue. And since the bill provides large doses of pain long before it provides any benefits, the idea that it will prove popular is suspect. Increases in insurance premiums are likely, and it will be difficult to make the case that the bill is helping real people. Some sort of duplicitous formulation such as jobs saved will have to be trotted out. But no matter how benighted the electorate, they know whether they're getting a paycheck and what they're paying for health insurance.

Louis Jenkins| 3.15.10 @ 9:08AM

“involving a 200-plus year-old bottle of wine that almost certainly turned to vinegar long ago”

Comparing Pretender-n-Chief-Care to vinegar is playing nice. If the bottle was broken over his head it’s content would smell of fetid bovine excrement. A bottle of 200 year old Constitution would be better, but the Sots in the District of Criminals pulled the cork a long time ago, and have been drinking from it like there’s no tomorrow. It’s almost empty.

“Thank you, Mr. President, for letting our college-age children know that we will be there for them, so they don't have to be in any hurry to go out and make a living.”

My how times have changed! Of course those college kids want Mom and Dad to pick up the tab for their insurance and if its the law of the land, so much the better. Mature and wise parents understand that kids need to leave the nest when they reach adulthood. Instead, the Pretender-n-Chief exhorts his constituents, not just college students, to be whiney clingers, clinging to their parents and Big GovCo for security and resources. There’s a Never Never Land quality here, where children( and adults) never grow up, are never given personal responsibility, and never taught self reliance. They’ve matured into small yappy dogs that incessantly want to mate with our lower limbs. Okay kids and Obamatrons, you can let go of our legs now.

fbom| 3.15.10 @ 9:35AM

Obamacare is the nose of the camel coming under the tent. BO (Barack Obama) wants to use his superior Woodrow Wilson like 'smarts' to govern by executive order. Kind of like Uncle Joe, or Father Fidel.

Nate W.| 3.15.10 @ 12:49PM

No, fbom, it wast the stimulus package that was the nose of the camel. Obamacare is probably the first of many humps...

Doctor Right| 3.15.10 @ 9:52AM

Obamacare sucks, blah-blah-blah...Yeah, no kidding, TASOnline. Way to be ahead of the curve.

I, for one, am puzzled by the author's need to trash Brooke Shields as he explains what is patently obvious about our neophyte, naive, ignorant, socialist Prez. So since we already know he's a loser, I'm going to come to Ms. Shield's defense.

Sorry Andre, but based on the brief quotes that are sighted here, you come off as a first-class jerk.

Can't concentrate during a critical tennis match? The DON'T bring your girlfriend to Paris, dumb-ass! (Especially if your girlfriend has a degree in French and a fascination with French culture). And if you don't really want to get married, have the decency to tell the young lady before she invests anymore time, effort, and heartbreak in becoming your wife.

And what makes Brooke Shields "goofy"..??? Comparing her to that absolute dimwit Joe Biden is perhaps the most unfair portion of this article. Frankly, Brooke would be a better VEEP than Biden, and probably a better President than Obama. At least she wasn't admitted to the Ivy League based on white guilt, quotas, and liberal-largesse.

Grzmlyk| 3.15.10 @ 11:47AM

I'm guessing you have every episode of "Suddenly Susan" on DVD.

Or maybe you went to Princeton.

I've always thought she was a subpar actress, but I've also thought she had more class than your average avaricious, craven, publicity-seeking celebrity.

But I'm still thinking that, of the two, Agassi is the more grounded. The Ivy League is not exactly an incubator for clear-eyed human beings.

As for Obama being a loser, in a just world, yes. But he's on the verge of changing this country into a European-style social democracy, and even if he's rejected by voters, he'll have the air of presidential respectability (not to mention the perks) for the rest of his life. And his belief in his own superiority will never even be dented, let alone razed.

Just as Jimmy Carter still attracts his acolytes and defenders, and still considers himself the Sage of Plains, Obama will forever be insulated from loser-hood (which requires a modicum of self-awareness). More is the pity.

Doctor Right| 3.15.10 @ 12:13PM

"Suddenly Susan" DVD? Nope. Terrible show.

Princeton? Nope.

Sub-Par actress? Whatever...

Agassi more grounded? No way.

I've never met Brooke Shields (or Andre Agassi), and have no connection to her whatsoever.

Having said that, aside from her impressive physical beauty (impressive for a woman in her 20's, AMAZING for a woman in her 40's), I've always been impressed by her demeanor, and her class. She's been a frequent butt of jokes for her acting ability (which, in truth, is no worse than your average sit-com star), has been maligned by no less than Tom Cruise for DARING to suffer from post-partum depression (Cruise, as a Scientologist, is an anti-psychiatry wack-job), and endured a marriage to an obviously self-absorbed tennis star who's personal motto was "Image is Everything".

BTW...This same tennis star...Yes, that would be Agassi...Was admittedly using crystal meth in the late 1990's...

...And you think he's MORE grounded than her??? Because she went to Princeton???

Sorry...But that's just plain stupid.

Grzmlyk| 3.15.10 @ 12:52PM

She's been a major star since she was 12. Hollywood warps children.

Agassi was famous young too, but the Hollywood bubble trumps the sports bubble. And she was sexualized and idolized at 12 through her performance as a prostitute in Pretty Baby.

And she has a stage-mother who's a well known whack job whose imperious behavior and run-ins with everybody in the industry - her daughter included - are the stuff of legend.

"Image is Everything" was the Canon catchphrase and Agassi was its spokesperson. As far as I know, it wasn't his stated philosophy of life.

However, when you're in your twenties, that's about par for the course. Clearly the guy had discipline and, yes, I respect him for his relative longevity and his humility in later years.

Just because he did a lot of stupid stuff doesn't mean that, in his 40s, he's not comparatively grounded. Not sure where you stand on George Bush, but he did a lot of stupid stuff in his youth, too, and compared to Obama, Bush is steeped in reality.

I don't have an axe to grind with Brooke - as I said, relative to other actresses, she seems less publicity-obsessed and shallow (still subpar, alas). But grounded? That's not a given. Everybody talks about how well-adjusted Natalie Portman, another highly-sexualized child star from the 80s, is. Ever hear her talk politics? She's out of her mind.

And the Ivy League has a way of imparting an obnoxious elitism on people.

I think Agassi's overcome a lot, and that's the stuff of grit. Fitzgerald was wrong - there are second acts in American life.

SoCon| 3.15.10 @ 1:09PM

Brooke Shields hasn't had an easy life! Her abusive alcoholic mother pushed and prodded her into the limelight when she was just a young child. Only a strong individual could survive such a difficult childhood and become the successful wife and mother Brooke Shields is.

She seems to be happily married with two beautiful daughters--what's the gripe here?

Wilson is a moron for attacking her.

Grzmlyk| 3.15.10 @ 1:28PM

Who knew there were so many Brooke Shields fans among conservatives?

First of all, I never said she had an easy life. I think childhood movie stardom is a curse. The graveyards are full of people who went off the rails because they were childhood stars (Corey Haim and Brittany Murphy being just the latest).

What I DID say was that Hollywood warps people - particularly when they're children. And I believe that Ivy League educations also have a tendency to warp people. I've worked with several.

But enough already. You don't personally know Brooke Shields and I do not personally know Brooke Shields. So who the hell knows what she's really like? How do you know she's a "successful wife and mother?" Does she confide in you? Have you over for tea and scones? Have you conducted a personality assessment of her kids? Or is People Magazine the extent of your research?

Jesus, all I said was that Agassi seems more grounded than she and suddenly people seem to think I've pilloried her!!! I take it back! Brooke Shields is the friggin Ghandi of Hollywood! Agassi sucks!

Happy now?

SoCon| 3.15.10 @ 2:42PM

Who knew there were so many ex-methhead Andre Agassi fans among Conservatives?

Agassi was a self-admitted methhead when he competed and won on the pro-tennis circuit for cripes sake-- and he lied about it to boot! I find your selective infatuation for the ex-gackhead amusing, that's all.

Guess drug abuse and lies are all the cred
someone needs to qualify for hero status in your book, Grz.

Conservative values? You be the judge.

BTW--I didn't call you a moron; I saved that little sobriquet for the author.

Grzmlyk| 3.15.10 @ 3:03PM

Nice to know the left doesn't have a monopoly on assholes.

Gee, think you generalize and take things to extremes much?

Because I think he's grounded, I'm INFATUATED with him? Gee, your standards for infatuation are shockingly low.

Honestly, until this column, I never gave the guy much thought one way or the other except that I remember his commercials, his hair and one of my co-workers at the time had a wicked crush on him.

And now you assert that I think of him as a HERO? WOW.

You really ought to be a liberal.

Your characterizations are worthy of a lefty, creep. BTW, he wasn't a methhead the entire time he was a pro, and yes, I think meth is just about the worst thing a person can do. But perhaps coming back from that is worthy of, oh, I don't know, a bit of forgiveness? Perhaps some people learn from their screw-ups. Perhaps one should not always be judged entirely on the basis of the idiotic things he did in his youth.

Let me guess: You call yourself a Christian.

Let's see, if I were to apply your logic to your own comments, I would conclude that you're so over-the-moon about Brooke Shields, you must be stalking her!

And I never said you called me a moron.

With your penchant for creating strawmen, you should either be working on a farm or in the Obama administration.

SoCon| 3.15.10 @ 3:10PM

Persecution complex? Take a chill pill and relax, moron. Why are your panties in such a wad today?

Grzmlyk| 3.15.10 @ 3:32PM

No, but I do respond with equal vigor when people come out of left field and misrepresent things I say.

BTW, now you HAVE called me a moron.

This is probably the silliest scrape I've gotten into, and I withdraw the invective.

I think it's safe to say we both have bigger fish to fry, online and off.

SoCon| 3.15.10 @ 4:00PM

You noticed that, huh? lol
Well, it wasn't nearly as bad as the disagreeable remarks you hurled my way! Geez.

I agree with you; why torment fellow Conservatives when Bob and Toddard are around? You're one of my AmSpec faves, Grzmlyk. Peace, honest.

I have nothing against Agassi or Shields: Both have overcome difficulties in their youth and now seem to be living decent lives. Quite frankly, I don't know and don't want to know their politics.

I still don't understand why Wilson singled Brooke Shields out, though--it just seemed unfair and kind of mean to me.

Blackwatch| 3.15.10 @ 5:28PM

I love the scroll button.

SoCon| 3.15.10 @ 7:01PM

Then, by all means, use it! At least we had something to say.

Jeremiah| 3.15.10 @ 9:25PM

Hey, grzmlyk (you any relation to mxyzpltk?) and SoCon, I agreed with both of you in quite a bit you say - and enjoyed your unusually animated discussion of it. In a roundabout way, I think you both agree with each other more than is apparent here.

The author of this piece made Brooke Shields a caricature of a person and lost sight of her very real humanity in a callous and unnecessary way to make a point. Some who rose to her defense did so by losing sight of Andre Agassi's very real humanity.

The thing I most loathe about the modern left is the many straw men they erect to knock down, casually caricaturizing many decent people along the way. We conservatives, at our best, are called to always recognize the fulness of others humanity. That does not mean failing to consider their flaws or foibles, but to treat them as real, living people, and not just foils to score a point with.

It's a principle I think both of you defended quite well, though somewhat emphasizing one or the other of Agassi or Shields humanity and losing sight of that you did not defend. But I think you both were energetically trying to defend the same central point. Thanks.

Johnno| 3.15.10 @ 11:02PM

Wilson comes off as a hypocrite by bashing Brooke and bending over for Andre; he's probably ticked off because Brooke Shields is waaay out of his league.

Don't worry about it, dude, there's hope for homely old fat guys like you, too. You'll never rate a Brooke Shields, though; and neither did the 4 foot tall, billiard ball headed Agassi.

davelnaf| 3.15.10 @ 10:43AM

Maybe we will find that tort reform is in the healthcare bill after it is passed.

Ned| 3.15.10 @ 10:55AM

I keep thinking of the Johnny Cash song, "Ragged Old Flag." One line in particular helps me when the future of our country seems dismal, "She’s been through the fire before and she can take a whole lot more."
I know the song is about battles and wars our nation has fought and not political struggles, but I do think the happenings of the present are a threat to our way of life; not just health care legislation, but the parade of freedom choking laws to follow should this succeed.
Our only hope is November, that and faith that our founders set up a system that can survive an onslaught such as this.
Funny isn't it, the oppressors ran on hope and faith, and now it is us who must employ the genuine articles to lead us to action.

Franklin| 3.15.10 @ 9:17PM

Thanks for that song reminder. I posted this yesterday:

I was listening to a 1993 Alan Parsons Project song and it hit me how appropriate it is for today:

Turn It Up
Alan Parsons Project

It's no good believing in somebody else
If you can't believe in yourself
You give them the reason to take all the power and wealth
It's no good you trying to sit on the fence
And hope that the trouble will pass
'Cause sitting on fenses can make you a pain in the ass

If there's something you find to believe in
Then the message must get through
So don't just sit in silence
When you know what to do

Turn it up. Turn it up, make it louder
Turn it up. Turn it up, make it louder

There's no conversation if nobody speaks
And nothing gets done in the end
There's no confrontation when fantasy makes you its friend
So much injustice, too many lies
We don't have to look very far
But nothing will change if we leave things the way that they are

Show Me Yours| 3.15.10 @ 11:03AM

Brooke Shields looks like a man. ZERO on the erection detector. The country is in bankruptcy. Your new owners are the international bankers. Work ! you remaining slaves.

ZerObama| 3.15.10 @ 1:11PM

Idiot. Grow up, loser.

She's Flat| 3.15.10 @ 11:11AM

Brooke looks like Fabio Lanzoni's BROTHER. aaargh!!

ZerObama| 3.15.10 @ 1:12PM

That you, Andre? Your wife is the one who looks like a man--what a huge schnozz!

Dai Alanye| 3.15.10 @ 11:16AM

Quite the gentleman, this Agassi fellow, and a superlative choice for the author's hero. I admire him almost as much as Tom Cruise.

Northern Rebel| 3.15.10 @ 11:46AM

Point #1:

I have no buyer's remorse, 'cause I didn't buy! I got it shoved up my ass for free!

Point #2:

Mr. Wilson, you are a blithering idiot, and Glenn Beck is the one who is right! If you don't think so, try to remember when Bush 43 tried to revamp social security.

Once an entitlement, is forever!

Oldefarte| 3.15.10 @ 1:24PM

I disagree with the idea that a legislatively passed healthcare bill will NOT spell disaster, since it will be nearly impossible to reverse/cancel same once it is passed. I agree with the thought that America is finanly waking up to the OBAMA MISTAKE; and that they must KICK BUTT in November [if not, they might as well KISS THEIR COUNTRY GOODBYE!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mel Torme| 3.15.10 @ 1:34PM

Northern Rebel, you took some of the words right out of my mouth.

Andrew Wilson, how old are you? If you are older than 30 even, you should know damn well that once passed, this government takeover will stand, until the collapse of this country and/or a new revolution (or restoration, to use a better term).

The same goes for you posters above: Have you ever seen any government program go away? This thing will be entrenched within a few months, and the minority of people that benefit, gov't workers, SEIU, politicians will never let it be dismantled. Think SS, Medicare, Medicaid, Head Start (I'm mean, Head freaking Start has never been proven to do squat, yet billions of $ have been spent), Amtrack, and I could go on for days, but it would just give me post-partum depression - birth of the USSA was painful to me - how about you? (in fact, the afterbirth is still running around, calling itself the US Senate)

Glenn is not joking around or spouting hyperbole here. 1/6 of the economy when added in to the large chunk already under Fed. Government control is well past the tipping point.

Mark my words, if this passes, you will see that Glenn Beck, I, and others are right within a couple of years. Only violence will turn this country back from Fascism or Socialism at that point.

Camander Z Ks. Militia| 3.15.10 @ 6:59PM

You may not realize what you have just posted, it very well is coming true, mark my Patriotism on it.

jd| 3.15.10 @ 1:59PM

Post partum depression is no excuse for the stupid views of Brooke Shields. As a mother, I can attest that we all have depression, but to use that as an excuse for ridiculous liberal views just doesn't sit with me.

SoCon| 3.15.10 @ 2:49PM

No one used Post Partum Depression as an excuse for Shields' political views; some just objected to ridiculing her because she had been ill.

You've obviously never experienced PP Depression or you wouldn't dismiss it so cavalierly.

jd| 3.15.10 @ 2:12PM

Grzmylk,

I understood and agree 100% with what you have posted. From what I've read over the years, Shields is a typical Hollywood elitist from an Ivy League school. Agassi may not be a saint, but between the two he is the more down-to-earth, humble human being. I'm happy for him that he got rid of Shields.

Margie| 3.15.10 @ 3:14PM

"Got rid of?" You mean like the family dog? Shows how serious you are about Marriage vows. If people took Marriage more seriously they wouldn't be dumping each other so much and then going and writing books about themselves pointing to how bad their spouse was. ow that's class, eh?

Grzmlyk| 3.15.10 @ 3:40PM

Thanks, JD:

Yes, I do think Agassi has re-entered the real world. As I've said, I'm not even that familiar with the guy, but I've caught snatches of interviews and read a bit about his book. From the little I've gleaned, he does seem to have gotten his act together.

And yes, I suspect Brooke is the classic Hollywood elitist. I do not KNOW this for a fact, of course, but we do know what Hollywood tends to do to most people - let alone Princeton. I could be wrong. Perhaps Brooke is a reliable conservative.

As for their marriage, and Margie's comment below, well, I've never given it much thought, but two famous people who marry - it seldom ends well. Is divorce acceptable? In some cases it is. Because a lot of people get married far too young or much too ignorant.

But, honestly, I wish both Andre and Brooke nothing but good things and happiness for the rest of their separate (but equal) times on earth.

Drew| 3.15.10 @ 2:39PM

This article is a great example of why metaphor is a literary technique best used by good writers - rather than free-lance hacks.

If we take Brooke Shields as a stand-in for Barack Obama (attractive, smart, talented) - then what does it say about the use of Agassi as the American people? Answer: drug-addled, beset by serious father issues, and whose main selling point (a luxuriant mane of hair) is a potentially game-losing fake. Mmmm.. epic fail, at least on the workable metaphor level.

This may come as a surprise to the denizens of reichwing news sites - but the American people, at least that majority who actually voted for Obama, still hold in him in high esteem. See

http://www.gallup.com/poll/126.....inton.aspx

for more details.

Conservatives are fooling (if anyone) only themselves if they think significant numbers of people who actually voted for Obama are suffering any kind of buyer's remorse over the decision. Who IS being proved wrong? Well, aside from those nutcases (paging Joe the Plumber) who touted the idiotic notions that Obama was some sort of Marxist/Terrorist/Nazi - not a lot of people. By most reasonable measures Obama is seen as a pragmatic centrist.

Memo to Sarah Palin: You asked how's that "hopey, changey" thing going? Answer: Just fine, thank you very much. Obama hasn't fixed every problem his predecessor left him overnight. (And those failures we blame mainly on hypocritical Republican obstructionism.) But we're moving in the right direction. The fact that are few dim-witted malcontents are still grousing, personally, we see as only a vindication that we made the right decision.

Margie| 3.15.10 @ 2:52PM

Pity the poor Marxist.

Missy| 3.15.10 @ 3:06PM

WOW! Only a delusional Liberal Marxist would judge the following Obama and democrat created disasters as "Just fine, thank you very much:"
10% unemployment, 20% under-employment, trillions in debt, American international reputation in a shambles, Marxist takeover of Banking and Auto industries, endless democrat perversion, corruption and scandals, 60% of Americans against ObamaCare, Obama's tanking approval rating and the democrats' inability to govern.

You didn't set the bar very high for your Obowmao the won, did you, whiny liberal?

Drew| 3.15.10 @ 3:25PM

Only a delusional reichwing fool could keep repeating that sort of nonsense:

Bank bailout (ie. TARP): Signed into law by GW Bush. (And, by the way, it looks increasingly as if most of the TARP funds will be repaid.)

Debt: Bush took a $300 billion annual surplus, and through tax cuts for the rich, unfunded Medicare part D, the Iraq war, and the worst recession in sixty years turned it into massive deficits.

Unemployment: Job losses hit a peak in January 2009 - in other words, before Obama was even inaugruated. How, dear "rational" commentator, are we supposed to hold Obama responsible for that?

American reputation in shambles? I suggest that had a lot more to do with Guantanamo Bay, Haditha, and Abu Ghraib than anything else. And I'd suggest that the Nobel Peace Prize says more about the International community's opinion of Obama than your rantings.

I'll grant that the American people's patience, with regard to unemployment, is unlikely to be infinite. But don't kid yourself that everyone is as stupid as you are. We know who was responsible for the economic disater Bush left us. And we aren't likely to get fooled again.

David Williams| 3.15.10 @ 3:36PM

"By most reasonable measures Obama is seen as a pragmatic centrist."

You are trying to pump bilgewater to the wrong group of sailors, matey. And how would you characterize Hugo Chavez...somewhat liberal?

The reason Obama talks (relentlessly) about the problems he inherited is that he is unable to talk about what he has done with those problems.

Drew| 3.15.10 @ 3:53PM

I'm not so delusional as to think that I can serious change the weltanschung of the sort of closet-racist cretins who populate the comments section of American Spectator

However I do think it serves an important function to point out the serious factual misconceptions so many of you knuckle-draggers seem to labor under. If, for no other purpose, to restrain you from regurgitating your laughable nonsense into the wider world.

To take but one item you bring up: The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (the much-maligned Stimulus) has - by virtually every credible economist - been declared a success in limiting the rowth of unemplyoment, and has added between 1.4 and 3.8% to GDP. See the CBO letter to Sen. Judd: http://www.cbo.gov/ftpdocs/99x.....imulus.pdf

for more details:

Quote: Correspondingly, the legislation would increase employment by 0.8 million to 2.3
million by the fourth quarter of 2009, by 1.2 million to 3.6 million by the fourth quarter
of 2010, by 0.6 million to 1.9 million by the fourth quarter of 2011, and by declining
numbers in later years.

Missy| 3.15.10 @ 4:10PM

Original. "Reich-wing closet-racist."

That's all you got, moron? Can't you commies come up with something new? Gonna send some of your SEIU thugs to beat me up now?

You got one thing right, though--Bush's TARP loans have almost ALL been repaid--except for those Obama is using for his corrupt crony slush fund.

Leftist creep.

Grzmlyk| 3.15.10 @ 4:34PM

Agreed, Missy. How clever. He said "Reich Wing!" I laughed till I stopped.

Crack smoking liberal. Yeah, unemployment was higher under Bush. Check out the government's own stats, Drew: http://data.bls.gov/PDQ/servle.....NS14000000

Also, when you add to the GDP by "creating or saving" government jobs, that's what we would call a pyrrhic victory.

Also, Drew, if you're going to fancy yourself a writer, pose as an intellectual and throw words too big for you around, you might want to spell them correctly.

It's "weltanschaaung." Gee, that's a german word. Drew, are you wearing jack boots even as we speak?

Franklin| 3.15.10 @ 9:24PM

"I laughed till I stopped."

I think I broke my lungs on that one!

Patriot| 3.15.10 @ 4:42PM

Marxists like Drew won't be satisfied until they destroy our country.

Want proof? Just observe the treasonous and unconstitutional actions of the community organizer-extraordinaire-in chief and his communist minions every damn day.

Hidden and unhidden, Marxist Obama's actions are tearing down our country. Soon, we will not recognize ourselves.

Grzmlyk| 3.15.10 @ 4:47PM

Well said, Patriot.

I agree. Sadly, though, I will agree with Drew on one point: Many who voted for Obama have yet to experience buyer's remorse. Some of those who have are far-left loons who believe Obama's too "centrist."

I will not think that people have awakened to what a destructive charlatan Obama is until my former best friend emails me and says, "you were right. I apologize for voting for Obama."

THEN I'll know the company has come out of its stupor. As for Drew, well, it's obviously too late. Maybe he can be first in line to become Soylent Green under Obama's new food program.

Patriot| 3.15.10 @ 4:56PM

Drew's one of Obama's chosen: Like those lucky inner-circle bureaucrats in the power elite of Soviet Russia, Drew's future will be filled with the finest champagne and caviar, I'm sure.

Hell is too good for traitorous bastards like him.

Grzmlyk| 3.15.10 @ 5:05PM

I agree with you one hundred percent.

I believe that every single person who voted for Obama has committed an act of treason.

And there are only two kinds of people still defending him: The fools and the crooks.

Which, not so coincidentally, comprise 100% of the Obama administration and Dems in congress, along with the ever-burgeoning rolls of government-paid employees and the armies of welfare recipients that Obama, Pelosi and Reid are counting on to keep them in private jets and graft in perpetuity.

R Martin| 3.15.10 @ 6:57PM

Agreed. Let's condem him to eternity in the Congressional Budget Office.

Smitty| 3.15.10 @ 7:03PM

Another cushy bureaucratic job.

Ret. Marine| 3.15.10 @ 7:04PM

and if I may add, he actually voted for this monster to boot and blames Bush for what he VOTED FOR, you fricken liberal idiot DREW. The liberal sites are on your left, go away, you bother me boy.

Pete| 3.15.10 @ 3:36PM

The good people of MA already rebuked Osama for not being radical enough...that'll teach him, eh?

Missy| 3.15.10 @ 4:13PM

Obama's made those problems much worse--by sheer incompetence or Cloward-Piven design--who knows?

He stinks on ice, though.

Drew| 3.15.10 @ 11:20PM

Cloward-Piven? Don't make me laugh.

You want to know exactly why anyone with an ounce of education or common sense finds conservative arguments like this so absurd?

Answer: Just look at your responses to the factual assertions I've made. Not ONE argument based on facts. Nada.

It really doesn't matter to dumbasses like you what facts, or authorities one cites. The (non-partisan) CBO; Gallup polls; etc. No matter how impartial or reality-based the source - you simply ignore it. Ditto for the actual, indisputable, historical record. And so you start repeating your tired, fantasy-based lies about Marxists, or Alinsky, or whatever pile of crap Rush Limbaugh or Glen Beck has poured into your empty skulls.

The point of this article is absurd: There are essentially ZERO credible parallels between the marriage of Andre Agassi and Brooke Shields and the relationship between Barack Obama and the American electorate. I don't know why the author thought he could construct a plausible framework around it. Maybe he enjoyed reading Agassi's book.

Its not a bad book. But its not a political book. You might as well try and construct a political philosophy around yesterday's copy of the Racing Form or February's Audiophile Magazine. ("Obama's green jobs initiative - the next DIVX failure?")

If you want to be taken seriously outside of cuckoo world - start dealing with reality. And citing the Cloward-Piven strategy ain't the way to too many people's hearts or minds. People smarter than you are going to shoot so many holes through it it'll fall apart. And people less smart than you (and there may be a couple) won't know, and will care less, what the f*** you're talking about.

Margie| 3.15.10 @ 11:48PM

Don't worry O holier-than-all-of-us-one~
WE VOTE WITH OUR FEET!
We don't NEED your stinking BRAIN!
Pity the poor Marxist.

Missy| 3.16.10 @ 12:05AM

EVERYTHING I posted was TRUE--but what does a lying, piece of crap Marxist troll like you know about truth? NADA, Drew/Liberal Reader.

Since you think you're so fancy smart, Drew/Liberal Reader, why don't YOU shoot a few holes in my Obama Cloward Piven accusation?

Please please with sugar on top?

C'mon now, fancy pants troll, put your best big-boy troll pants on and give it your bestest shot. I mean, since you say you're so smart and all, it should be super, duper easy for you to blow it apart, right?

NOW!

Missy| 3.16.10 @ 12:06AM

And Obama still stinks on ice.

MTB| 3.15.10 @ 3:15PM

Wow, Drew, I think you're right. The only way the American people would have voted for a poser like Obama would have been if the majority were "drug-addled, beset by serios [parental] issues, and were . . . fakes." I think now after O's first year, many Americans went into rehab, family counseling and took off the wigs. Their eyes are opened, their minds are refreshed and they/we see things very clearly now. Obama will not fool the American people as easily as he did the first time with his lies. And, for your information, the dems in Congress are the primary reason Obama inherited the mess the country's in. The only difference, he hasn't done one damn thing to make things better. Electing him, as the article alludes to, was a HUGE mistake.

Seek| 3.15.10 @ 2:55PM

Brooke Shields rates a zero on the erection detector? Huh? She's absolutely ravishing. Touching her velvet skin would practically give any normal hetero man an orgasm. She's also, nominally anyway, a devout Catholic.

MTB| 3.15.10 @ 3:09PM

Sorry, I'm with Glenn Beck, but am willing to be open-minded. Can anyone tell me even one piece of social legislation that was signed into law that has ever been repealed? Social Security and Medicare, as I understand it, were supposed to be temporary, but they're still here. And from what I read in the headlines, one, the other, or both are broke. So, if Obamacare passes, how do we repeal it if nothing else has ever been repealed?

Franklin| 3.15.10 @ 9:28PM

How about that driking thing they did way back when.

How did that get repealed?

We better not have to worry about it - it WON'T get passed. From my fingers to God's ears.

darcy| 3.15.10 @ 6:09PM

"By most reasonable measures Obama is seen as a pragmatic centrist."

"Reasonable measures," Drew?? Could it be that the legacy media swept Obama's radical background and views under the rug, thus bamboozling the mass of brain-dead, public-school indoctrinated couch potatoes inhabiting this once "can do" nation? Could it be that said media continues to carry water for their, er, man, effectively white-washing his despotic machinations?

Are these the "reasonable measures" to which you appeal? The measure taken via tendentious polling questions' data?

He's a fake. Supported by fakes in the media. He's a hero to airheads, and worse, the commies amongst us.

Tell your fellow travelers this center-right nation won't be nannied. Get used to it.

CJN| 3.15.10 @ 6:12PM

If this health care disaster passes, I am not sure that we will have a chance to repeal it, even if the Republicans were to win both houses of Congress in November. Let's assume that voters throw the Democrats out in November, leaving both the House and Senate with Republican majorities. The first thing Congress does is to approve a bill repealing all aspects of the Obamacare plan and any associated reconciliation. Then what?

The bill ends up on the President's desk, where he promptly vetos it. While it is possible for Congress to override his veto, it takes a two-thirds vote of both houses for that to happen. This means that we would need 290 votes in the House and 67 votes in the Senate to undo this mess. Doable? Yes, but it's a serious uphill climb and would likely need the support of more than a handful of Democrats to make it happen (particularly in the House).

It is for this reason that this battle needs to stop here, before any bill is signed into law. We cannot let up now!

WAKE UP| 3.15.10 @ 7:55PM

Andrew, off-topic, but just a small observation - not EVERY tennis lover wants to read Agassi's book. Cheers.

darcy| 3.15.10 @ 8:21PM

CJN: I agree with you -- this legislation must die, NOW.

At the same time, though, I have a different take on repeal. Not that we could do it: it's simply not probable. Yet if the fury I feel is any gauge of the public mood, who knows what might happen.

But the real battle needs to be in the States. The states must enact nullification or move toward secession. As long as the feds have no fear of either the people or the states, they will continue their pursuit of tyranny. Time to turn the tables and keep them busy fending off an angry and vengeful populace, justifiably enraged at D.C. despots.

The democrats are counting on patriots to be push-overs; they're making the same mistake Al-Qaeda makes: they think we haven't the fight in us to do anything about their usurpations.

Be careful what you ask for, Mr. O.

darcy| 3.15.10 @ 8:27PM

“'Who, then, Mr. President, are the true friends of the Union? Those who would confine the federal government strictly within the limits prescribed by the constitution; who would preserve to the states and the people all powers not expressly delegated; who would make this a federal and not a national Union…And who are its enemies? Those who are in favor of consolidation; who are constantly stealing power from the states, and adding strength to the federal government; who, assuming an unwarrantable jurisdiction over the states and the people, undertake to regulate the whole industry and capital of the country.' . . those were the words of the famous South Carolina Senator Robert Hayne in his epic debate with Senator Daniel Webster in 1830.'”

Hat tip to OneNewsNow and columnist Peter Heck.

stmichrick| 3.15.10 @ 10:05PM

Allow me to pile on for picking on Brooke Shields as the Administration analogy.

She does not come close to being as offensive as this bunch of America-hating leftists.

Unfortunately I think that those who voted for Obama's demography and style will still be around in 2012, as will their media tools. There is nothing he can do to avoid relection except maybe change parties.

Sorry, but it's been a rainy Monday.

carter| 3.15.10 @ 10:57PM

The Twerp takes a cheap shot at health care passage, glad he is so optimistic. I'm not. Furthermore, the concentration and presence needed to perform at a world class level is profound. I'm thinking of the athlete who wouldn't even acknowledge the death of a parent to stay on his game. Republicans need the same focus. Barry is a pig in a poke.

Yosemeti Sam| 3.16.10 @ 12:49AM

Yo - Americans!

Gird your middle fingers!

To properly salute BHO and his rogue anti-CONSTITUTION allies in Congress!

FTM| 3.16.10 @ 4:55AM

Dood,

Are you crazy?

First you goon Obama. That's not wise. Thugs get even one way or another.

Then you goon this Shields chick. You plan on moving into a bunker anytime soon? Way bad, bad move. Wimmins will keel you and the cops will let them.

I know a guy, worked 2nd shift. Gets home and tries to take a shower. His spouse earlier in the evening had shaved her legs in the bath tub with baby oil then drained the tub leaving a baby oil slick on the bottom of the fiberglass shower surround. He wen't down like a sack of wet sand.

I talked to a cop buddy of mine, you pull a stunt like that on the wimmins and you're looking at an attempted murder charge worst case, negligent manslaughter best case. Wimmins pull a stunt like that on you and you justy have to get used to it.

My advice to you sir is to disappear soonest.

aware| 3.16.10 @ 6:15AM

VERY funny!!

FTM| 3.16.10 @ 7:58AM

Oh no it's not.

Same guy, spouse waxed the hardwood floor in their kitchen with furniture polish and he hit that in his sock feet at about 2:00 AM in the dark. Fortunately it was a Friday night and he didn't have to miss any work because he spent the weekend in the hospital with a concussion. The guy was bleeding from both ears. The guy came to work Monday afternoon walking like Igor in the "Young Frankenstein" movie. "May I th-teal you a brain today Math-ter."

Wimmins want equal rights. I can't understand the desire. The way it's set up now wimmins got a clear, undisputed social and legal advantage.

Imagine that a cop would do to a guy in a traffic stop if the guy started crying? "Please ossifer, don't give me a ticket." The cop would give the guy a pepper spray bath and a trip to the psychatric hospital.

Sunshine and Lollipops| 3.16.10 @ 2:43PM

That's okay, FTM; you could always beat the holy sh!t out of those "wimmins" and leave them broken and bleeding on the floor like you knuckle-dragging A-Holes have been doing since the beginning of time. What's a little horrific violence among friends is what I've always said!

Makes you feel like a REAL man, right?

FTM| 3.16.10 @ 5:46PM

No, actually spouse and I have been married for close to twenty-six years without a scratch so far. Sunshine and Lollipops, that's pretty good. Betcha haven't had your placidil yet today have you. Or perhaps your methadone.

And by the bye, who you callin' an A-Hole? Seen a mirror lately?

Sunshine and Lollipops| 3.16.10 @ 6:48PM

You think I do drugs? Sorry to disappoint you, but no way-- never have and never will. Your obsession with drug abuse says more about you than I. You sound like a cop who deals with human slugs all day and believes everyone else must be a slug, too. You're wrong.

I guess that little woman of yours is one of those lucky "wimmins" with ".... a clear, undisputed social and legal advantage" that you were moaning about.

Better watch out for slippery showers and freshly waxed floors, whiny knuckle-dragger.

FTM| 3.16.10 @ 10:21PM

Yup, you betcha. Spouse has taken a couple real good shots at me down through the years. All less than lethal.

Not a cop, surprisingly enough. Worked with cops over the years with various and sundry handgun and rifle shooting skill and technique improvement activities. Wouldn't turn six out of ten cops that I know personally loose with a sharp stick less a firearm.

Spouse works in a psychiatric hospital. Run into all sorts of folks, most of the time wimmins beat damn near to death. Kinda-sorta routine. Hey, didja know that wimmins get beat up in domestic altercations and mens get shot? Wimmins typically, and I might add, for very good reason kill the person (usually a mens) that is beating them up.

As far as drug use goes you may be onto something. I have this theory that probably the safest thing to do with me would be to weld me into a jail cell till the end of time or perhaps send me on a space ship trip to someplace way out there someplace or perhaps just simply chemically inducing a coma. For the better good of everyone.

I was thinking about our posting exchange earlier today and I want to appologize for having offended you. Reflex, I have that effect on a lot of folks, more often times wimmins but mens too from time to time. Honestly, my poor attmpt at humor was not meant to harm.

And as an aside, between us buddies, that's "stoop shouldered, slack jawed, baggy eyed, mouth breathing bow legged, bottom feeding, knuckle dragging, wrench turning, chromosome impared, monobrow production support engineer. That's why they don't give us name badges because they look like trash can lids.

Miss Sunshine and Lollipops| 3.16.10 @ 11:59PM

Dear buddy,
You're really funny, and I apologize for my language: I was raised strict Catholic and I know better. Your use of "wimmins" just creeped me out so much I had to reply. Is that a take off of the FemiNazi "Womyn, wymyn?" I hate it and don't feel much kinder toward FemiNazis.

I know what you mean about the double standard between the sexes these days--it's not fair and really does divide us. I've always loved and respected men and, usually, men have returned that respect and love.

Of course women use guns--we have to, you guys can beat the snot out of us. Guns are our equalizers--thank you, God.

About that jail cell: I've felt the same way but with a rubber room instead. Life ain't for sissies!

You sound very smart, are probably a big smart-azz and must be quite a handful for your wife; she's got to be a special lady to have put up with you all these years. You're both lucky.

Monobrow? You mean unibrow? EW!

FTM| 3.17.10 @ 1:34AM

I don't know much about "femiNazis." I've run into the usual kind of Nazi from time to time. Knew a couple Klan/Arian Nation/ Neo-Nazi types. Liked to run around in picck-up trucks with little German Weirmacht battle flags on their antennas and the like. I can see why decent folks like to shoot at 'em.

I taught a lady to fence in college. The found her boyfriend run through with a saddle saber and best as I know they never caught up with her. Can't imagine why she'd poke at somebody with a meat cleaver. I taughter her better than that.

I'm a big time advocate of wimmins using guns. I recommend big bore Derringers. .357 or .45 long colt "Gut Guns." That way when some low brow grabs some wimmins out in the parking lot she jabs the gun into his gut and Wham, Wham, instant angel. The bullet is bad but the gas expansion is a lot worse. Waddamess! The original "Point and Click" interface.

As a mature adult I can't understand the "violence as a first resort" mentality. But then on the other hand most people aren't mature enough to know better than to act first and think later. As Heinlein used to say, "A polite society is an armed society.

It is good to have met you I'm sorry that it couldn't have been under better circumstances. Take a look at the following, http://hellhed.com/ponmangl.html.

Si vis pacum para bellum.

Miss Sunshine| 3.17.10 @ 4:05AM

Dang! I can say one thing about you, boy--you're a reeall goood story teller. I don't know how much was fact and how much was fiction, but it's been fun talkin' to you.

After all that down-home, back-road country talk of yours, you left with Latin. Latin.

Talk about a Renaissance man--I tip my hat to you.

Sunshine

Richard Baker| 3.16.10 @ 11:24AM

Brooks Shields for President as the leader of the Airhead Party. Considering the present state of the American electorate, she might do quite well.

Grow Up!| 3.16.10 @ 2:48PM

How about Andre Agassi as President and leader of the ExMeth-Heads Party? His VP could be an ExCrack-Head--even better.

That should float the boats of morons like you.

Ides of March| 3.17.10 @ 4:10AM

I may have have missed it in the flurry of attack/defend Pretty Baby Brooke but did anyone say how long the Princeton educated, French speaking good Catholic dated Michael Jackson , why they broke up? Was it platonic? Was this before or between the several marriages of the good Catholic?

I only bring up this unusual episode in her life because of the worshipful comments above. Dating Michael Jackson seems to pretty much rule out intelligent. and certainly,discriminating.

Nobama| 3.17.10 @ 12:44PM

Shields may be an airhead, but we all know that we conservatives should give Agassi's meth addiction a pass. He's a 'conservative' right? Let's defend him!

That's discriminating, foolish herd-thinkers; you sound just like liberals.

AuntieMadder| 3.22.10 @ 10:30AM

Late to see this, but Shields never dated Jackson. Unless, that is, you still consider it a date when she brings Emmanuel Lewis along. Shields said then and now that she and Jackson were friends and nothing more. Further, this was way back when Jackson was still a black guy, before anyone knew what a weirdo he was, or, at least, before everyone knew what a weirdo he was.

QIUQI| 3.18.10 @ 4:34AM

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watches| 4.28.10 @ 11:35PM

hublot

mixi| 2.15.11 @ 3:31AM

lobe

出会い| 7.20.11 @ 4:47AM

exit