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Joe Biden to Gabby Giffords: ‘We’re Both Members of the Cracked Head Club’

Aug. 2, 2011 4:21pm Tiffany Gabbay

Well, I suppose you always know where you stand with Vice President Joe Biden. Biden, who never seems to hold back from telling people exactly what he is thinking, made his latest colorful comments this Monday when he reportedly told Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords that they were both members of the “cracked head club.”

Giffords, of course, was shot in the head, sustaining grave injuries during a shooting rampage in Arizona back in January, while Biden has allegedly undergone two craniotomies of his own.

Biden reportedly got a “tip” from former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi that Giffords would be present during the House vote Monday so the Vice President showed up to see Giffords, reportedly telling her, “now we’re both members of the ‘Cracked Head Club.’”

Biden went on to tell reporters, “you know, I had two craniotomies. For real. They literally took the top of my head off. Twice. Now, the wags in Delaware, when the second operation occurred, wrote and said, ‘Well, it’s because they couldn’t find a brain the first time!’”

Boston.com reports on the Vice President’s “beaming smile” as he shared time with the Congresswoman followed by enjoying a hug from none other than Rep. Michele Bachmann:

“She and I just commiserated about the steps to recovery,” he added. “Hers, much more consequential. But it scares the living devil out of you when you’re recovering from a serious operation or injury to your head. But it comes back. And knowing people who’ve been through it and came back was helpful, for me anyway. You know what I mean?”

He wouldn’t say whether there were plans for Giffords to go to the White House, but one thing he was certain of.

“She’s remarkable. She’s remarkable,” he said, getting almost nose-to-nose with a nearby reporter. “Will matters. Will matters. I tell you what, she’s the embodiment of a strong, strong woman. Think about what that woman has been through, and think about her determination.”

Giffords returned to the House floor Monday night for the first time since her shooting to cast a vote in support of the compromise debt bill. The Congresswoman’s appearance struck an emotional nerve with lawmakers from both sides of the political aisle.

Biden summed up his experience to reporters by touching on yet another emotional moment decades ago, when he witnessed then cancer-stricken former vice president Hubert Humphrey share a tearful, “three minute” long embrace with his “ideological enemy,” Barry Goldwater.

Biden certainly has a way with words.

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injunjoe
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:45pm
they must not have been able to find it the 2nd time either…

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- On The Bayou
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:55pm
  His children must be proud, how does a complete idiot become Vice President?
  
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- chazman
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 6:35pm
  A national embarrasment! This man offends me to no end!
  
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- johnannegalt
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 8:12pm
  It’s sickening, the double standard that plays out here. Could you imagine if WE had said something like that?
  
  Oh, but they can call us terrorists all day long, ever since the Tea Party formed.. wonderful.
  
  “In another case of a leftist goon making a sort of psychological confession about his own intentions through name-calling directed at others, the Vice President of the United States has called the Tea Party and staunch conservatives “terrorists.” Accepting the media talking point, those who opposed the Boehner-Reid bill were ‘holding the country hostage.’ It’s ridiculous on its face, but more importantly, it reveals something about the thinking of the establishment inside Washington. Let’s consider the reality with respect to the question of who is terrorizing whom, and who in Washington has the authority, and demonstrated willingness to do so. If ever there had been a terrorist element in the halls and offices of power in Washington, it is not among Tea Party Congressional members where this element may be found, but instead in the entrenched leftist elements that now rule the power structures of Washington with an iron fist. Joe Biden is merely acting as a proxy for the President for whom he works, and is in the actions of this administration that true terrorism may now be found.”…
  
  – http://markamerica.com/2011/08/02/so-now-were-terrorists/
  
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- frodis
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 8:45pm
  Biden is one sick man picked to be Vice Prez by a sick man. Please America fix this in 2012! Let’s not put another McCain in there, PLEASE!! We can’t let Obama have another pansy to run against.
  
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- Restoreamericanow
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 9:25pm
  Terrible thing when VP Joe Bite-Me will call Tea Partiers terrorists but refuses to call the 9/11 hijackers terrorists. What a sick politician he is. Indeed, look twice for that brain…and again, and again…
  
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- GeorgieJo
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 9:33pm
  FINALLY Joe BFD Biden SPEAKS the TRUTH!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
  NO BO in 2012!!!!
  
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- @ Coyote2
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 10:09pm
  The surgeons were wasting their time looking in his head. Liberals don’t have brains in their heads.
  
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- slm523
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 10:16pm
  A complete idiot can be elected as VP when a Socialist, blowhard who LITERALLY talks out of BOTH sides of his moth…….is elected as President.
  
  Throw them all in a bag and into the lake and NOT A ONE OF THEM could figure out how to get out of the bag….even if it was not tied shut……
  
  PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE…..HELP DEFEAT THIS BUNCH IN NOVEMBER 2012.
  
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- oneshiner
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 10:35pm
  Unbelievable how this man can shoot off that mouth so stupidly. Kinda like asking that poor crippled man in a wheel chair in the crowd to stand up so they could see him. Obama wanted a clown to take the heat off himself.
  
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- Mimi24
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 11:30pm
  The same way a complete idiot becomes president I suppose.
  
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- Mil Mom
  Posted on August 3, 2011 at 12:02am
  @On The Bayou
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:55pm
  His children must be proud, how does a complete idiot become Vice President?
  ***
  It’s called “Life Insurance for BO, nobody wants him out enough to want Joe in!!!!
  
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- lvamervet
  Posted on August 3, 2011 at 9:57am
  This Moron still has not recovered!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
  
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- smithclar3nc3
  Posted on August 3, 2011 at 10:21am
  Obama had to find someoine to make him look good he chose Biden. It sort of the same reason average pretty girls hang around fatter girls who aren’t as pretty. It makes them look much hotter than they really are. In Obama’s case he wanted to seem intelligent and presidental so he chose a complete moron to be his fat girl.
  
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- Clive
  Posted on August 3, 2011 at 2:17pm
  he’s such a tool. i love that picture of him though, it says it all.
  
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yougottabekidding
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:44pm
As if Number 1 is not bad enough, This is number 2 in line. Please God save us!

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- flrick
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:04pm
  He misspoke (slightly). What he meant to say is he is in the CRACK HEAD club. Explains a lot too.
  
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- godlovinmom
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:15pm
  I actually miss Dan Quale!
  
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- orkydorky
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:17pm
  You’ve just got to believe that when his got cracked everything and I mean everything ran out!
  
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- TIME4CHOOSING
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:23pm
  @FLRICK
  
  He officially got his crack head membership card when he said
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHFEcyUNBjg
  
  He has been a top recruit for a long time though
  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxdj-ZwKNZ0&feature=related
  
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- They SMEAR what they FEAR
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:42pm
  @GODLOVINMOM
  Lmao…I’m with you on that
  
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- The_Hut_In_Co
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 9:02pm
  So how long do my tax $’s go to protect this Moron?
  
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- Maji
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 10:57pm
  He and Obama are both in the “Dumb as they come” club too!!
  
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Jim in Houston
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:42pm
You can always count on old Joe to shove his size 12 brogans in his mouth up to his knee. What a flaming @ss!

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- loriann12
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:47pm
  Yea, but he’s a liberal, so there won’t be any outrage from any associations. Now, if a conservative had lost his mind for a minute and made a statement like that….
  
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- Ethereal
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 6:18pm
  Has he ever said anything that wasnt stupid? Everytime this senile weirdo opens his lib-trap something inaccurate, insensitive, or just plain laugh-out-loud stupid spills out for all to hear! Thanks for the laughs Joe!
  
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- corbecket
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 6:29pm
  No big deal really. As a member of that same club, I can stipulate that you’re never quite the same once you’ve had your central nervous system opened up. The fact that we lucky folks have made it their and back again, gives us a whole new appreciation for how fortunate we are to be born within the last 80 years, that normal folks have no appreciation for. 100 years previously, we’d be dead. Medical expertise has literally become miraculous.
  
  Think of it The human species has been knocking around the Earth for a bazillion years, in one form or another, and only in last 80 (one human lifetime) has it been possible to fix problems on the other side of that membrane that was inviolate before. Previously, if the CNS barrier was crossed, you died.
  
  Joe’s comment is acceptable to me, and until I hear a complaint from Gabby, I figure it’s no one else’s business. As to his politics, that’s a whole ‘nother matter.
  
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- rick246
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 10:09pm
  I thought the Flaming a$$ was Barney Frank.
  
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parmajohn
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:40pm
“If I Only had a Brain” To quote The scarecrow

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- Rightsofman
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:47pm
  Only “a heartbeat away from the presidency”…… nuff said.
  
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- Dale
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:47pm
  Yes, Gabby’s (cracked head) was unintentional.
  
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- Marengo Ohio Patriot
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:16pm
  @at righsofman
  That’s how Soros’ planned it!
  
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Anonymous T. Irrelevant
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:37pm
As she replied under her breath “You pompous ass!”

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- spirited
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 6:12pm
  And,
  
  >”Cracked? You wrecked-em!”
  
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South Philly Boy
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:36pm
What a TOAD

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Windsong
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:35pm
Aw, come on, people. Would our days be truly complete without Uncle Joe tripping over his lips?

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- Jim in Houston
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:43pm
  He makes a brick look like Einstein by comparison.
  
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Rockyspoon
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:34pm
The big difference is Giffords survived the assault (thank God); the same can’t be said of Biden!

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- rose-ellen
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:11pm
  Instead of being condescending or pitying her he was treating her like one of the boys so to speak. Had he said that after Ted Kennedys’ brain surgeries you would have understood [as he would have too],why not with Gifford?It was said to be welcoming,funny and to make a self conciously awkward situation for her and everyone else easier.It is not for him or anyone else there who hasn’t seen her in months or followed up on every aspect of her medical condition to treat her as if she is anyone other then one of the boys being welcomed back.As long as she’s there on the floor of the congress to cast a vote like the others why shouldn’t she be treated like a calleague?I don’t get your critique of him for using humor here.When is humor ever bad for that matter?And think Biden looks like those founding fathers without the pompous wigs! He’s cool!
  
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- SREGN
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:19pm
  Who better than a clown to provide some much needed comic relief? Our VP is a clown. Sigh…. At least he’s not a mime.
  
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- orkydorky
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 5:23pm
  Oh,rose-ellen, I’m beginning to think there is no hope for you!
  
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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:35pm
  @ Rose
  Biden is about as COOL as a dirty wet mop in the corner…..
  brain implant, HMMMM !! explains a lot.
  
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- nysparkie
  Posted on August 3, 2011 at 11:20am
  ROSE_ELLEN” calleague? I see you have not graduated as yet.
  
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salvawhoray
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:33pm
Holy Head Shot Batman!

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welloddyfriggindah
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:32pm
It’s so hard to refrain from name calling. Joe really needs a 20 second delay and someone manning the mute button.

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NOBALONEY
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:31pm
Who’s worse? Biden of Pelosi.

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- MIBUGNU2
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:47pm
  Got a point there, we could probably survive Joe, WELL mentioned
  the 20 sec. delay or mute button.. I don’t know about Palooosy
  maybe if someone tied her hands behind her back, she wouldn’t
  be able to speak or spew the nonsense she say’s..
  
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- @ Coyote2
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 10:21pm
  Put it this way. If by using the worlds most powerful microscope, one could locate their brains and extract them, then put them inside the worlds smallest pin head. They would rattle like two BBs in a boxcar.
  
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MidWestMom
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:31pm
I know 7 year olds with more sensitivity and tact.

- Biden went on to tell reporters, “you know, I had two craniotomies. For real. They literally took the top of my head off. Twice. Now, the wags in Delaware, when the second operation occurred, wrote and said, ‘Well, it’s because they couldn’t find a brain the first time!’” –

FYI Joe, the wags were correct….and obviously they didn’t put one in that second time.

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ProbIemSoIver
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:30pm
hmmm. They went into Biden to give him a brain upgrade, but they also installed a mind-control chip. this explains Obama’s scar. They implant NWO chips in all of our politicians. This explains their behavior and statements. :p

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- @ Coyote2
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 10:26pm
  If his brain could be converted to a nuclear bomb and detonated, it wouldn’t blow the dust out of his ears.
  
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Ron_WA
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:30pm
UnF’n believable! (not that he said it that he had such a long dry spell between moronic statements!)

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- Amma K
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:37pm
  @Ron-WA
  You have to ask yourself why they let this guy out of where ever they keep him locked up!?!?!?!
  
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Drum Man
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:30pm
What a COMPLETE embarassment. Really Joe, just go back to Delaware….

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- JazzGuy
  Posted on August 3, 2011 at 1:33am
  HEY, no fair!! We don’t want him back here in Delaware!! Look how long it took for us to get RID of him the first time…… Of course, in retrospect, we all regret not moving him OFF this continent completely…….to say, Iran, where he couldn’t do any harm….
  
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neverending
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:29pm
First once he told the truth.

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lylejk
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:28pm
What an idiot; a joke. As much as I dislike her politics, how on this God given planet would you make an idiotic remark like this VP Biden? :)

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sWampy
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:28pm
This woman is going to take the 1st and 2nd amendments from us if their evil plan is allowed to come to fruition, the republicans showed today we can’t count on them.

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- UlyssesP
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:52pm
  What? What woman? Swampy, I think you’ve inhaled too much swamp gas. Funny, you count on Republicans (not WE)..stop it, too funny. That is your first mistake.
  
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biohazard23
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:28pm
Someone PLEASE put him out of his misery….. I’m sure the poor guys assigned to protect him (from himself) wouldn’t mind one bit…..

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ProbIemSoIver
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:26pm
He DID NOT say that !!! ????

Add this to a long line of Gaffes from this pathetic, communist clown !!!!!

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- ProbIemSoIver
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:37pm
  Whats even scarier is he is one spot away from being Prez !!!! Ouch !!!!
  We would replace dumb with dumber.
  
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LOJ
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:26pm
I saw the article this morning on Gretawire, and I had to laugh because Biden has the good ole insert Foot into Mouth, no matter where he appears. I remember him at a Town Hall meeting and there was a veteran there who was in a wheel chair, and Biden said to him, Stand Up Chuck so we can see you. The guy couldn’t stand up, this had to be so embarrasing for Biden….One Gaff after another.

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- MidWestMom
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:32pm
  He’s not smart enough to be embarrased.
  
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NumbnutsObama
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:26pm
what an idiot.

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- Lucy Larue
  Posted on August 2, 2011 at 7:21pm
  NUMBNUTSOBAMA,
  Old Joe is NOT an idiot.He is a front man for the far left.
  He is tawdry.
  He DESTROYED Robert Bork,along with his tag team buddy Teddy Kennedy(of Chappaquiddick fame) back in 1987 when Reagan nominated Bork for the Supreme Court.
  “Old Joe” tried to do the same thing to Clarence Thomas in 1991. Thankfully it did not work.
  “Old Joe” Biden of the “CRACKED HEAD CLUB” excoriated President Bush for going into Iraq.
  Joe said we should be in Afghanistan. Yeah…,how’s that workin’?
  “Old Joe” Biden chaired the Senate Foreign Relations Comm.on Sept. 11, 2007 when Gen. Petraeus appeared before them and said the surge in Iraq was working.Every Dem. on the comm.,to include Hillary Clinton,Harry Reid,Barack Obama, and “Old Joe” mocked him!
  If anyone remembers,or even cared ,Petraeus’s humiliation was preceded by the MONSTROUS Move On ad …,”General Petraeus or General Betray Us?” placed in the late great N.Y. Times. The Times even allowed Move On a 60% discount. You know..,cause it was so important to demean the General and the Troops.
  Does anyone think that Ad was a surprise to Hillary,Barack,”Old Joe ” Biden and their ilk?!
  The military is “Apolitical”. Yet..,they know all too well the “LEADERS” they serve.
  Yeah…,”Old Joe” Biden is many things.None good. He’s NOT an Idiot.
  Get your learn on people. Cavalier comments ain”t doin’ it.
  Your military is weary.They know what we’re up against. You should too!
  
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I.Gaspar
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:26pm
I am so glad she has survived her ordeal.
I’m not so sure I could say the same about Plughead.

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kickagrandma
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:25pm
This man is a complete and total idiot and really pushes the envelop on the BIBLE telling us not to call someone a “fool”. How does “dunce” sound?

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SacredHonor1776
Posted on August 2, 2011 at 4:24pm
Ah how crass…

But at least he’s now admitting to his lobotamies and the chip implants!

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