Top Ten Conservative Idiots of the Week

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]The Nuclear Bomb EDITION[/font]

So, the Democrats finally did it. They dipped the filibuster ball into manure and shoved it down the throats of the GOP. Of course, there is self-righteous indignation on that side over it (1). In other news, the Miami Gardens PD is racist (3), as are Young Texas Conservatives (4), Michelle Bachmann is insane (6), filthy rich CEOs hate the old (9) and the two largest American businesses hate their employees (10). And as always, don't forget the key. Remember, you can run your mouse over the icon to see what it means.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Senate Republicans[/font]
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He finally did it. Harry Reid let that little cancerous tumor he has develop into a fully functioning backbone. After years of threats, letters and pretty much selling the farm to the Republicans, Harry Reid instituted the nuclear option. No more filibusters of judicial nominees. Straight up or down votes. Amazing, isn’t it? The Republicans have had their one weapon of obstruction taken from them. Now, American people won’t have to listen to how a nominees for the bench needs to be blocked because some old, white, fat Republican senator feels slighted because his viagra isn’t working or his mistress didn’t have sex with him the night before or just because it’s Tuesday.

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The vote was one that members of both parties had threatened for the better part of a decade, but had always stopped short of carrying out. This time, with little left of the bipartisan spirit that helped seal compromises on filibuster rule changes in the past, there was no last-minute deal to be struck.
The vote was 52 to 48.

So, what did Republicans have to say? Well, let’s look at the things Republicans had to say about judicial nominee obstruction when George W. Bush was pResident. It should be enlightening.

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“Any President’s judicial nominees should receive careful consideration. But after that debate, they deserve a simple up-or-down vote” (5/19/05).

“Let's get back to the way the Senate operated for over 200 years, up or down votes on the president's nominee, no matter who the president is, no matter who's in control of the Senate” (5/22/05).

2. John Cornyn (TX)
“[F]ilibusters of judicial nominations are uniquely offensive to our nation’s constitutional design” (6/4/03).

“[M]embers of this distinguished body have long and consistently obeyed an unwritten rule not to block the confirmation of judicial nominees by filibuster. But, this Senate tradition, this unwritten rule has now been broken and it is crucial that we find a way to ensure the rule won’t be broken in the future” (6/5/03).

3. Lamar Alexander (TN)
“If there is a Democratic President and I am in this body, and if he nominates a judge, I will never vote to deny a vote on that judge” (3/11/03).

“I would never filibuster any President's judicial nominee. Period” (6/9/05).

4. John McCain (AZ)
“I’ve always believed that [judicial nominees deserve yes-or-no votes]. There has to be extraordinary circumstances to vote against them. Elections have consequences” (6/18/13).

5. Chuck Grassley (IA)
“It would be a real constitutional crisis if we up the confirmation of judges from 51 to 60” (2/11/03).

“[W]e can’t find anywhere in the Constitution that says a supermajority is needed for confirmation” (5/8/05).

6. Saxby Chambliss (GA)
“I believe [filibustering judicial nominees] is in violation of the Constitution” (4/13/05).

7. Lindsey Graham (SC)
“I think filibustering judges will destroy the judiciary over time. I think it’s unconstitutional” (5/23/05).

8. Johnny Isakson (GA)
“I will vote to support a vote, up or down, on every nominee. Understanding that, were I in the minority party and the issues reversed, I would take exactly the same position because this document, our Constitution, does not equivocate” (5/19/05).
James Inhofe (OK)

“This outrageous grab for power by the Senate minority is wrong and contrary to our oath to support and defend the Constitution” (3/11/03).

10. Mike Crapo (ID)
“[T]he Constitution requires the Senate to hold up-or-down votes on all nominees” (5/25/05).
11 . Richard Shelby (AL)

“Why not allow the President to do his job of selecting judicial nominees and let us do our job in confirming or denying them? Principles of fairness call for it and the Constitution requires it” (11/12/03).

Orrin Hatch (UT)
Filibustering judicial nominees “unfair, dangerous, partisan, and unconstitutional” (1/12/05).

Seriously? They actually said these things. Filibustering is bad when the Democrats do it to people like Harriest Miers and threaten it with people like Sam Alito and John Roberts who are completely unqualified, as is/was Clarence “Justice Oops” Thomas. But Republicans think it’s good when the president is a Democrat.

That is called being stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit. Something the Republicans have been for decades.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Trey Radel[/font]
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We all need blow. Blow is good. Blow is great. Blow is amazing. Blow is blow and we all need it. The movie, of course. . .not the drug. People can do without the drug blow. The movie Blow was amazing.

Enter Trey Radel, teabagger Congressman from Florida and current poster boy for all that is wrong with the GOP. See, he likes to buy cocaine from undercover DEA agents. According to Miami Herald:

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Wow. A sitting Congressman with a drug problem? Damn. He needs to resign. What did he say after his arrest?

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Then shouldn’t you explain that to your voters. “Hi, I’m Henry. I’m an alcoholic. Please vote for me over the liberal drug addict that wants drug legalized.” And if you are an alcoholic, why are you caught with cocaine? Shouldn’t the work be Cokehead?

What makes it worse is people like this want stiffer punishments for drug offenders.

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Oh, lucky him, he got busted in The District instead.

I wonder if, with his drug and alcohol problems, he would be more compassionate towards those the state of Florida wants to drug test to get welfare? Trey, could you answer this simple questions please?

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Wow! Maybe drug testing should be mandatory for all people looking to run for elected office!

That is called being stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit. Something the Republicans have been for decades.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Miami Gardens PD[/font]
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So begins the story of Earl Sampson, a poor black man living in and working at a local C-Store in Miami Gardens, Florida. He has been arrested 56 times over four years. He must be a bad man. What has he done wrong?

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What? Pot possession? That’s all they got him on?

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Almost every citation was issued at the same place: the 207 Quickstop, a convenience store on 207th Street in Miami Gardens.

But Sampson isn’t loitering. He works as a clerk at the Quickstop.

So how can he be trespassing when he works there?

Trespassing at your place of business? My God, do these cops even read the law? Apparently not.

So Sampson’s boss set up cameras. Not to protect his store, but to protect his employee. What did this camera show?

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Wow. An arrest looking for a crime without the pretense of probable cause. And the police and badge sniffers around the country wonder why people don’t trust the boys in blue!

So what do city officials and the police say about this obviously police abuse and gross misconduct?

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Boyd did release a statement, saying that the department is committed to serving and protecting the citizens and businesses in the city.

Save that face! Polish that turd! It’s committed to harassing people going to work 258 times in four years? It’s committed to falsifying police reports?

Is anyone surprised at the obtuseness of the answer and the lack of reply?

There is more at this link, but sad to say it’s completely sickening. Mr. Sampson needs to sue the pants off everyone involved. . .the cops that harass him and lie, the police fat-cats that enable it and the city that supports them! Earl Sampson needs to go from “Earl Sampson, resident of Miami Gardens” to “Earl Sampson, owner of Miami Gardens.”

But what do you expect from state that elects people like Marco Rubio, Rick Scott and Jeb Bush? And lets people like George Zimmerman walk.

That is called being stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit. Something the states run by Republicans have been for decades.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]University of Texas Young Conservatives[/font]
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Texas brings the US such embarrassments as Louie Gohmert, Ted Cruz, Dick Armey, Karl Rove, Rick Perry and the biggest pox on the US, George W. Bush.

Maybe higher education will help end this cycle. Especially in Austin, the liberal mecca of Texas. Well, not with this group of future klansman.

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In a statement, the YCT chairman and event’s organizer Lorenzo Garcia acknowledged that staging a mock hunt for illegal immigrants on campus and offering $25 rewards was “misguided” and “intentionally over the top.”
He added that members of the chapter feared retaliation.

I see how it works. Dress them up in a peasant shirt, sombrero, pockets of tamales and a bottle of Tequila. Have them speak “illegal alien” (as G. Gordon Liddy has referred to Spanish as) and set them loose on the streets of Austin. And you can spot them by their mustache, brown skin and desire to pick lettuce, wash dishes or just sit around collecting welfare and drinking Tequila.

These people are in college??? Really? Honestly? What are they majoring in, Race Baiting???

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Safety issue means “we don’t want to get our asses kicked by people telling us we’re racist assholes that need our asses kicked.”

Yet conservatives and the GOP want to win over these brown people with this shit?

That is called being stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit. Something the conservatives and Republicans have been for decades.

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]ACA Liars[/font]
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Okay. . .lie about death panels to try to kill the ACA as a bill. Done.

Run the Supreme Court to get it overturned after it is signed. Done.

46 votes to destroy the ACA. Done.

21 hour Ted Talk to kill the ACA. Done.

Shutdown the government to blackmail the repeal of the ACA. Done.

Threaten to impeach Obama over the ACA. Done.

Tell people it’s a failure and then lie about its provisions. Time to try this tactic again.

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Now the ACA will steal your information and sell it to people. . .next the GOP will claim the ACA raped their mother and molested them when they were children. Republicans hate the ACA for some reason. . .maybe because Obama wants it. But their issue comes with Navigators. . .the people who help those get insurance under the ACA exchanges.

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Mitch McChinless has swung way to the right in his primary battle. Too bad Republicans in dirt poor Kentucky want to become Democrats after getting health insurance under the ACA.

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"Isn't it true that there is no federal requirement for navigators to undergo a criminal background, even though they will receive personal -- sensitive personal information from the individuals they helped sign up for the Affordable Care Act?" Cornyn inquired.

Okay, Man-on-box-turtle Cornyn. When there is drug testing for Republicans in Congress, then you can get your background checking on the Navigators. Step up and introduce the bill, Slappy.

The point of all of this is that the GOP’s undeclared war on Obama is now in full desperation mode, because 2014 isn’t looking good for them. Then comes the leak of this internal GOP memo.

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The document, the product of a series of closed-door strategy sessions that began in mid-October, is part of an increasingly organized Republican attack on the Affordable Care Act, President Obama’s signature legislative initiative. Republican strategists say that over the next several months, they intend to keep Democrats on their heels through a multilayered, sequenced assault.

The idea is to gather stories of people affected by the health care law — through social media, letters from constituents, or meetings during visits back home — and use them to open a line of attack, keep it going until it enters the public discourse and forces a response, then quickly pivot to the next topic.

Let’s go over the checklist of GOP political victories.

01: Civil Rights - lost
02: Women’s right to vote - lost
03: Income Tax - lost
04: Environmental laws - lost
05: Child labor laws - lost
06: Minimum Wage - lost
07: New Deal Legacy Laws - lost
08: Medicare/Medicaid - lost
09: 18+ voting age - lost
10: Gay marriage - lost

Time to add ACA to the list.

How can a party that has been pretty much wrong on all social issues since 1865 still be around?

This is what is called being stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit. Why does that sound so familiar?


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Michelle Bachmann[/font]
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Batshit Bachmann is the political equivalent of herpes. She is truly the gift that keeps on giving. And her noise hole keeps pumping out more and more shit that farmers would have fertilizer for years.

Always on the brainless attack, she showcases another GOP tactic against the ACA: Mindless shilling of lies. This time, she claims that she will go to court to sue Obama over the ACA. Moron at the bar, please give us your case.

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After Obama's violated his promise that the health care law would allow people to keep their insurance plans if they liked them, he decided to allow companies, for one year, to offer policies that don’t meet the health care law's standards.

I am sure I can figure out the other morons who want this: Steve King, Louie Gohmert, Eric Cantor, Paul Ryan, Blake Farenthood and a few other teabagger boobs are in on this. You know, the Fascist wing of the wingnut party.

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Really? Since it is a law, where is the separation of powers? The law has been signed. It is the executive branch’s job to enforce the law. Where does Congress need to be in this? The law falls under HHS. Someone doesn’t know her Constitution.

No matter, step forward, Mouthpiece!

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Again. . .what is unconstitutional? Seriously, you people love the Constitution but hate reading it. That’s called being stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit.

Hmm, has that been said before in this week’s edition? I forgot.


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Ted Cruz[/font]
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Ted Talk Cruz is back and vomiting more bullshit at the speed of light. See, Batshit Bachmann wants to sue Obama. Senator Asshat wants to impeach him. Why? Because he’s “lawless.”

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In an interview published on Saturday, Newsmax’s Steve Malzberg asked Cruz what could be done about the “abuse of power” by the Obama administration.

So, in the wingnut echo chamber of Newsmax, Ted Talk decides, on his own, that the Obama adminstration has abused its power by trying to insure people don’t go bankrupt due to hospital bills. I guess he must have hated that abuse of power the Iraq War was. . .what. . Don’t be silly. Gung-Ho Ted loved the war so much he didn’t fight it.

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When has Obama said that? And what laws are you talking about, Teddy?

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So, does that apply to your Canadian kids? Or the fact that you are the son of a Cuban immigrants. Young immigrant work permits. HOW DARE HE!!!

Remember the know-nothings during the Gilded Age. This asshole is worse because he knows nothing and is proud of it.

BTW, Senator. . .you can’t impeach Obama. The House does. The Senate votes to convict. Jackass.

So Ted Cruz is bloviating again. That’s called being stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit. Damn, that phrase again!


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Rand Paul[/font]
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Late time the Kentucky Rug Doctor talked about the motor city, he basically wanted to see if destroyed and broken. He flipped off Motown and told the residents to go screw themselves. This is as Senator Rug Doctor.

Now he’s possible 2016 presidential candidate Rug Doctor and I guess his handlers told him blowing off a state with 16 electoral votes when the only real Big States in the GOP’s pocket right now is Texas isn’t always smart. Remember, Michigan is a “swing” state, even though it hasn’t gone Republican since 1988.

So Rug MD goes to Detroit to give his Ayn Randian solution to fix Detroit. This ought to be good.

First a little history about Paul and his idea of helping Detroit “over his dead body.” Or his deadhead, or his empty head. . .whatever!

Now, he sings a different tune.

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Okay, energized, he needs to try to win Michigan’s 16 electoral votes. PANDER AWAY!!!

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So, instead of investing in changing the landscape of Detriot’s dying manufacturing sector in a Post-Industrial economy where quaternary sector jobs are increasing, namely in research, development, innovation and engineering, Paul will trot out tax cuts again.

More tax cuts to stimulate job growth. Tried that in 1986. . .didn’t work. Again under Bush Lite. . .failed again.

Same Rand Paul, same bullshit. . .different logic. He is truly working hard to finish second in the 2016 Presidential race.

Saying one thing and then saying the exact opposite when it is politically opportune. That’s called being stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit. I need to stop saying that!


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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Filthy Rich CEOs[/font]
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Meet David Cote, the CEO of Honeywell. He has more than $134 million in his personal retirement fund. He has more money than he can spend in a lifetime. So what does a multimillionaire business criminal do with his time and his money when he is bored? Apparently, attempt to convince retirees that they need their Medicare and Social Security cut while telling working adults that their retirement age needs to be pushed backed.

This from people who will never need to worry about there their next viagra will come from when they go to Thailand or the DR to bang an underage girl in forced prostitution because they can.

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Nice. Let’s see who is doing this, other than Mr. Cote.

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Fix the Debt? On the backs of grandma and grandpa. We can’t tax your motherfuckers, but grandma and grandpa can be put into the poorhouse so you can fund your yachts and buying of politicians.

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Why not 100? Why not you can collect your first social security payment two weeks after your heart stops beating?

These people are just disgusting in their avarice.

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People who earn $86,043 a month after retirement for doing nothing should not tell people that earn less than 1% of that to take a pay cut.

Better yet, maybe the tax code should go back to 1960 levels. And supertax these fucks.

But that will never happen. They are job creators. And they want to destroy grandma and grandpa. That’s called being stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit. Okay, there is a pattern here!

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[font style="font-size:1.539em; text-transform:uppercase;"]Walmart and McDonalds[/font]
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Anyone see anything wrong with this photo? It can’t be real. But it is. Walmart held a foot drive for its employees because that costs less than paying your employees.

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$41.09 dollars a day gross. That’s their pay at Wal-mart. Amazing, huh? Right wingers and no information voters who buy into this “American made” crap love Wal-mart. So do the politicians the Walton family buys off. It gets worse.

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Speaking with ABC News, Lundberg also talked up Walmart's Associates in Critical Need Trust — a Walmart nonprofit funded by Walmart employees through payroll deductions or direct contributions that grants up to $1,500 to associates undergoing extreme hardships such as homelessness.

Obtuseness is a right wing respond. How does Kory Lundberg put his clothing on without the snake oil oozing off his body removing the clothing? I know, Mr. Lundberg. . .it’s just a job and you’re just a messanger. But your overlords suck. $1,500 for “extreme hardships such as homelessness.” HAVING A JOB SHOULD EXCLUDE PEOPLE FROM BEING HOMELESS, YOU ASSHOLE!!!

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Nice circular ponzi scheme the Walton’s have. This company is beyond evil.

However, not to be outdone by the World’s Largest Retailer, the World’s Largest Company dedicated to making people obese with their shitty food, McDonald’s, decided to get into the heartlessness attitude for the Holidays.

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Why not sell drugs too? That wil give employees quick cash. Tell the female employees to sell their bodies too. Maybe selling unwanted children into slavery, bloody and organs will help. Anything to prevent McDonald’s from paying more than minimum wage to its employees while raking in billions.

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Eat slowly, poor wastrel slob. We aren’t going to pay you, but we’ll teach you how to eat the crumbs you have efficiently after we work to put you on food stamps, even though you have a job.

How can we end this gallivant into greed? Why, returning to Wal-mart.

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Enjoy Thanksgiving. Now get back to work, slave! But we support our workers.

This is what is called being stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit. . .oh, you get the point!

See you next week.

[DoBotherMe]

1. kick

[tavalon]

2. Thanks for doing this

This is the first one I've seen and it was great. I have one small quibble though. Ted Talks are the most awesome, brain inspiring talks ever to be found on the internet. I watch at least one a week and sometimes I binge. Ted Cruz Talks, on the other hand. So I would appreciate it if you could put Cruz in the middle of the Talks, so we can immediately envision teh stupid.

[SheilaT]

3. Thanks. This has got to be a lot of work,

and I appreciate your doing it.

[Spirochete]

4. Great job!

[Scuba]

5. Bravo!

[Borchkins]

6. Thank!

I am especially thankful this year because of the Top Ten Conservative Idiots!
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[russspeakeasy]

7. Your hard work is appreciated !

[mtasselin]

8. good job

Good job, but it had to be hard to limit it to 10 republican idiots there are so many to choose from.

[MarianJack]

9. Thank you for pointing out those who are, wait for it...

...stunningly and embarrassingly full of shit!

PEACE!

[pink-o]

10. bookmarking for later. n/t

[wandy]

11. Thanks!

[KamaAina]

12. No Rob Ford??

[Nanjing to Seoul]

15. People voting Republican. . .give them a boot to the head!

[KamaAina]

19. Boot to the head! Na, na!

Boot to the head! Na, na!

[colsohlibgal]

13. Walmart And McDonald's

I hope there is a reservation in Hell for the people at the top of these companies.

Places like Costco prove you can still be wealthy if you pay a living middle class wage with benefits. It's just that the Costco owners may have to scrape by on 400 million as opposed to Walmart's big shot's 550 million. That's right, for struggling by with only 400 million or thereabouts the WalMart owners would not be looked on as pond scum.

[11 Bravo]

14. You're amazing! I can't even imagine how difficult and time-consuming this endeavor must be, but ...

please know that it is GREATLY appreciated!

[davidpdx]

16. You can add Pizza Hut to Wal-Mart and McDonalds

For firing a manager for refusing to open on Thanksgiving Day.

[marble falls]

17. Thanks!

[ancianita]

18. Thank you for being stunningly comprehensive. Have a great Thanksgiving!

[sakabatou]

20. The Top 10... my favorite time of the week