Open Thread
Got the internet turned on and rocking at the new place, and man is it speedy- ping of 29 and my download speed was pegged red on every speed test. Now that I have internet and can connect with the outside world, it is safe to move furniture into the new place.
Priorities. You get the internet connected and the modem running before you move your bed.
I’m back at the old place now, “borrowing” someone’s wireless while I get everything ready for the final move. Just consider me incommunicado until tomorrow night, at which point I might have pictures.
BTW- moving sucks, although I have taken about eight loads to Goodwill and thrown a bunch of crap out. Let’s face it. I’m never wearing those levi’s I fit into in the Army. Have at it!
March 26, 2010 3:06 pm
Posted in: Open Thread
142 Comments
142 Responses
mcc - March 26, 2010 | 3:08 pm · Link
Scott Brown shows the depth of his understanding of policy
Scott Brown: Opposed to bad things
Mike Kay - March 26, 2010 | 3:11 pm · Link
you hear that?
you hear that?
yup—silence.
it’s been a whole week and we haven’t heard a whine from the hippie industrial complex.
That’s the sound of total victory.
J.W. Hamner - March 26, 2010 | 3:13 pm · Link
This is true. When you move a lot you definitely streamline your existence, since the first thing you think of when you consider buying something is “Do I want this so much that I want the hernia from carrying it to the moving truck in 6 months?”
JenJen - March 26, 2010 | 3:13 pm · Link
Congratulations!! Worst part of the whole move is always the bed, if you ask me. Hope you have strong friends, and a case of beer.
Also, you’re going to miss the McCain-Palin: The Squeakel event! Lucky dog.
Best anticipatory tweet so far comes from @Kombiz: “Please god, let McCain and Palin come in via a bus with Rocky theme blasting”
I want smoke machines and “Barracuda” personally, but his image works too.
jibeaux - March 26, 2010 | 3:14 pm · Link
@mcc:
My favorite part is how he called Obama saying “go for it” “inappropriate”.
Joel - March 26, 2010 | 3:14 pm · Link
Call me old fashioned, but, I’ll be damned if this doesn’t summarize the world view of teabaggers (twenty years hence).
JGabriel - March 26, 2010 | 3:15 pm · Link
John Cole @ Top:
You say that like it’s something strange …
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jibeaux - March 26, 2010 | 3:16 pm · Link
@JenJen:
I have seen the Squeakquel, in the theater, right down to its dramatic conclusion of a six-chipmunk chorale ensemble singing Beyonce. And I will see it again if necessary if the alternative is listening to those two.
Chat Noir - March 26, 2010 | 3:19 pm · Link
@jibeaux: Massachusetts going from Teddy Kennedy to Scott Brown is like going from the Beatles singing anything to Paul Anka singing “You’re Having My Baby.”
licensed to kill time - March 26, 2010 | 3:19 pm · Link
One of the saddest things about getting older is the trail of smaller jeans you leave in your wake.
Dork - March 26, 2010 | 3:19 pm · Link
Find any bullets near your window panes?
Mike Kay - March 26, 2010 | 3:19 pm · Link
@jibeaux: He really is a Himbo.
demo woman - March 26, 2010 | 3:20 pm · Link
@jibeaux: Brown ignored the question about Sarah Palin’s cross-hairs face book page. I think that indicates that he’s a coward.
Uloborus - March 26, 2010 | 3:22 pm · Link
Another open thread? Once again: Curse you all for your frequent and inappropriate use of the term ‘Cognitive Dissonance’!
Thank you, I’ll be here all week!
Now, what were we talking about? Lessee… ah, Teahaddists and Peak Wingnut! Okay!
I think we’ve reached it, actually. But here’s the trick. We’re gonna sit on this plateau for awhile, the plateau’s kinda scary. There could be an assassination attempt or two, a church tower gunman, god forbid maybe a serious bombing. The wingnuts have completely flipped their lids because they lost and what they were told was the worst has happened.
But there just isn’t going to be widespread violence or an armed uprising. THEY think there will be, but to be blunt most of them are aging white men with medical problems. More importantly, they’re as organized as rabid cats. How many Tea Parties are there? What kind of AWESOME job are they doing integrating and working together? Or are they actually spending most of their time pulling apart into smaller groups as they argue about who’s the most pure?
Eventually, they’ll realize they’re cowards and there’s not going to be a huge uprising that they can stand at the back of and shout encouragement to, and for some mysterious reason Granny hasn’t been dragged off by a death panel. At that point they’ll proclaim their bafflement that anyone thought THEY were one of those silly militia types.
Unfortunately, this could take months, and if it stretches on until the midterms, whatever the results are will extend it a little while. Until then, they’ll just sort of simmer and yell a lot. We mostly have to worry about the things a single lunatic can do.
This has been: Groundless speculation by a random person on the internet.
cleek - March 26, 2010 | 3:22 pm · Link
@demo woman:
Palin’s backing away from that one.
jibeaux - March 26, 2010 | 3:23 pm · Link
@Mike Kay:
If only he had shook his head sadly from side to side, wondering aloud whether any Democrats would at long last stand up and denounce this kind of rhetoric? Have we no shame?
Mike Kay - March 26, 2010 | 3:23 pm · Link
@JenJen: If McSame loses, watch Broder and Sally have massive stokes.
Splitting Image - March 26, 2010 | 3:23 pm · Link
Good stuff, man. I did my own move in January and I’m still head over heels in love with the new place.
Defeatocrat. A Republican would have broken his hipbone if he had to trying to squeeze himself in. “I will never compromise. Never!”
Mike Kay - March 26, 2010 | 3:23 pm · Link
@jibeaux: Also, too.
Svensker - March 26, 2010 | 3:24 pm · Link
@licensed to kill time:
Brilliant.
MikeTheZ - March 26, 2010 | 3:24 pm · Link
Via Jezebel evil librul dogs, incited by the fanning of the flames by Obama, attack Chattanooga police car.
eemom - March 26, 2010 | 3:26 pm · Link
Happy Birthday Nancy SMASH!
Punchy - March 26, 2010 | 3:26 pm · Link
I’m assuming you mean Steelers gear.
robertdsc - March 26, 2010 | 3:26 pm · Link
Glad the basics are taken care of, lol. How are teh pets?
Svensker - March 26, 2010 | 3:26 pm · Link
@Mike Kay:
What would they do on Sunday mornings?
Duane - March 26, 2010 | 3:27 pm · Link
Can someone explain to me how this happens: on Sunday our free market capitalist country ended and we entered socialist hell never to return. In sign of disapproval of this move the Dow Jones Industrial Average for the first week in socialism is going to be up. around 100 points. I miss the days of just over a year ago when every move DOWN in the stock market meant Obama was destroying our country.
!
Oh and ATT which is claiming a $1 billion charge for health care costs thanks to the reform law…...stock price is UP
Mike Kay - March 26, 2010 | 3:27 pm · Link
@eemom: Nancy is bring sexy back.
freelancer - March 26, 2010 | 3:27 pm · Link
This, we are constantly shocked by how much we consume when we move. I’m flying to Phoenix next month to see about possibly relocating there, and if I do, I’m only going to be taking down what can fit in my car.
jibeaux - March 26, 2010 | 3:27 pm · Link
@cleek:
“take up your arms” means voting, “reload” means to vote again, and the bulls’ eye over the representatives’ faces means to make sure you punch all the way through the ballot and have no hanging chads.
eemom - March 26, 2010 | 3:28 pm · Link
@Svensker:
so it’s the jeans that are getting SMALLER? Woohoo! All this time I thought my ass was getting bigger.
MikeTheZ - March 26, 2010 | 3:28 pm · Link
@Svensker: Sarah Palin?
Pharisaic Theology Won (fka Michael) - March 26, 2010 | 3:29 pm · Link
At Newsmax, they’re getting even nuttier than ever.
http://w3.newsmax.com/a/apr09/0409_300.jpg
Could Jesus be any whiter than in this portrayal? Why don’t they have Him in a cleancut suit? And don’t only commies wear beards?
I like how they’re eagerly awaiting the carnage of the End Times.
Mark S. - March 26, 2010 | 3:29 pm · Link
Citizens United goes into effect:
If this gets upheld, I don’t think any campaign finance law is possible. If you’re a billionaire who wants to spend unlimited money, all you have to do is create a 527 (ForTheChildren.org) and you can put as much of your own money in there that you want.
licensed to kill time - March 26, 2010 | 3:30 pm · Link
@eemom:
Yeeeeaaahhh, it’s the jeans that are getting smaller – that’s the ticket! ;-)
patroclus - March 26, 2010 | 3:30 pm · Link
Why don’t you get Jake Tapper to help you move?? He’ll giggle at all your jokes, even if they’re non-factual; he’ll pretend that you’ve received death threats every bit as serious as any a Democratic Congressman has ever received, he’ll appropriately minimize any vandalism with your gas line and he’ll create a false equivalency in any dispute you may have with a new neighbor.
wmsheppa - March 26, 2010 | 3:30 pm · Link
This may be even creepier than the demon sheep ad from California. The poor Zebracorn is dying as the Donkeycorns deliberately sink the good ship USA. If you make it through the whole thing (or even really past the first 30 seconds) I’m impressed….
http://wonkette.com/414471/ric.....tical-spin
Punchy - March 26, 2010 | 3:31 pm · Link
@MikeTheZ: Wow. That is fucking AWESUM.
kommrade reproductive vigor - March 26, 2010 | 3:31 pm · Link
Your pants? Bristol’s ex? Wha?
OK, that made me laugh one of those scary hacky laughs that result in a lung on the ground.
WereBear - March 26, 2010 | 3:34 pm · Link
The thing I hate most about moving is the way one kitchen drawer, once liberated, expands to fit seventy cartons that cannot be easily labeled.
peach flavored shampoo - March 26, 2010 | 3:38 pm · Link
@wmsheppa: FTW with that video.
drew42 - March 26, 2010 | 3:38 pm · Link
I’ve been watching this over and over all day, laughing every time. Via Something Awful. And the actual game intro is here.
I guess it’s because I used to own Fester’s Quest. And although I played it for many hours, I don’t remember ever actually enjoying it—the game was terrible.
gbear - March 26, 2010 | 3:38 pm · Link
The USPS has a new stamp coming out next month:
Animal Rescue: Adopt a Shelter Pet
The dogs and cats on the stamps are cuties.
ellaesther - March 26, 2010 | 3:40 pm · Link
@WereBear: That, and the box that inevitably gets labeled “stuff” and stays that way until the next move. When it almost always gets thrown out.
Brick Oven Bill - March 26, 2010 | 3:40 pm · Link
Since commencing my warehouse labor, dodging female-driven forklifts with great agility and grace, my military-era pants fit nicely.
Na na na na na na.
carlos the dwarf - March 26, 2010 | 3:41 pm · Link
@JenJen:
Worst song ever…but perfect for Sarah Palin.
licensed to kill time - March 26, 2010 | 3:41 pm · Link
@WereBear:
That would be the famous Junk Drawer, no doubt. A friend of mine was watching my house once, and through some strange combination of a nap + a curious cat + a water tap there resulted a sink overflow that flooded my junk drawer and I had to throw all the contents out.
I told her she did me a great favor.
(Naturally, once I wrote this I realized how easily riffable the term junk drawer would be to the BJ commentariat….)
comrade scott's agenda of rage - March 26, 2010 | 3:43 pm · Link
@Mike Kay:
Clearly you have the FDL filter turned on. The cacophony of whine from that quarter led by the Queen of Meeeeeeee is hurting my dog’s ears at the moment.
Roger Moore - March 26, 2010 | 3:43 pm · Link
@Svensker:
Invite former Senator John McCain to be on their shows? Officially offer McCain the job of co-host, instead of having him as a permaguest?
geg6 - March 26, 2010 | 3:44 pm · Link
Moving sucks, John. But I think I already told you that.
Can I just say how much I am enjoying the massive FAIL that is Eric Cantor? Notice how they haven’t had him parading around the Village media outlets today?
Other than the Oompa Loompa from Ohio, Eric Cantor is my GOPer I most love to hate.
wmsheppa - March 26, 2010 | 3:46 pm · Link
@peach flavored shampoo: I can’t get the Donkeycorns saying “Chaaarlie, Chaaaarlie” out of my head…
Mark S. - March 26, 2010 | 3:48 pm · Link
@drew42:
I watched the YouTube, and from what I can tell, Uncle Fester fights an army of grapes.
demo woman - March 26, 2010 | 3:48 pm · Link
@cleek: What about the cross-hairs?
Annie - March 26, 2010 | 3:48 pm · Link
@mcc:
Missed the interview…Did he take his clothes off?
Mike in NC - March 26, 2010 | 3:49 pm · Link
Today’s screed from Doktor Krapphammer in the WaPo:
Obama is going to cram the Value Added Tax down our throats so we’ll be more like those terrible Europeans!
At this point his ODS is so bad he’s just making shit up.
Linda Featheringill - March 26, 2010 | 3:50 pm · Link
Financial regulatory reform.
[If I nag long enough, will we get some action on this?]
Anyway, as I see it at this time:
The stated goals of the bills [House and Senate] include
1. Stability of the financial system
2. Regulation of risky instruments [such as derivatives, etc.]
3. Protection of consumers from risky financial products
The points of contention seem to be
1. The effectiveness of steps to avoid having to bail out businesses that are “too big to fail”
2. The Federal Reserve emergency lending authority [perhaps vulnerable to abuse]
3. Efforts to regulate executive pay and whether they would be successful or just too intrusive
4. Authority and efficacy of the consumer protection agency, with attention to its independence from the people it is supposed to be regulating
Please fill in all they stuff I have missed.
Paul in KY - March 26, 2010 | 3:50 pm · Link
John, make sure you have plenty of kleenex ready on Sat. night. As I mentioned in another thread, we beat y’all last year with a Gillespie team that ended up in NIT.
Mr. Patterson wants to go to the Final Four & I don’t think he’s gonna be denied.
Go Cats!
Pharisaic Theology Won (fka Michael) - March 26, 2010 | 3:50 pm · Link
Tony Blankley gets even more apocalypic.
http://article.nationalreview......YxOWI2MGM=
If the shit hits the fan, how fast can assholes like Jonah, Tony, Andy and K-Lo run in order to escape the libertarian rape and cannibal gangs?
Annie - March 26, 2010 | 3:50 pm · Link
@licensed to kill time:
LOL…I still have my old jeans. I still believe they will come back to me some day—Hope springs eternal….
JD Rhoades - March 26, 2010 | 3:51 pm · Link
@jibeaux:
So I can say “I’m glad I took up arms against John McCain and Caribou Barbie and I wish I could take up arms against them again?”
demo woman - March 26, 2010 | 3:52 pm · Link
Since this is an open thread, over at the AJC, political insider blog someone wrote this comment.
It’s the it’s your fault that I beat you excuse.
JGabriel - March 26, 2010 | 3:52 pm · Link
licensed to kill time:
Yes, a flooded junk drawer does have certain Vitter-like connotations. Or, alternately, suggests the reactions of the Fox Party’s fearful adherents.
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Pasquinade - March 26, 2010 | 3:53 pm · Link
If you don’t have a Twitter account, sign up for one so that you can add to the hilarity:
http://twitter.com/#search?q=%23CantorTallTales
Carrie - March 26, 2010 | 3:53 pm · Link
I hear ya, i always make sure the cable is connected before i move into a new place. I usually put on a talk show or game show and i find the audience applause help me while i unpack.
Kinda like having a cheer section.
JD Rhoades - March 26, 2010 | 3:55 pm · Link
@Mike in NC:
I was noticing that earlier too as well. Krauthammer’s arguing with the voices in his head again. His “reasoning” seems to run like this: We now have soshulized medicine. So does Europe. European countries have the VAT. Therefore, we will too (even though no legislator has even floated the idea of proposing that).
BE AFRAID! BE VERY AFRAID! AAAAAAAAAAAH!
It’s some truly breathtaking wingnuttery.
wrb - March 26, 2010 | 3:55 pm · Link
Sheesh.
I just read that FDL thing.
Queen Jane Apopolexy has lost what was left of her mind.
tyrese - March 26, 2010 | 3:56 pm · Link
Obama was rubbing their noses a bit in the Repeal Trap situation the republicans were dumb enough to walk into.
Which I’m totes down for.
If I had such an intemperate opponent as McCain I’d be constantly taking little tiny shots at him, and await the explosion.
Omnes Omnibus - March 26, 2010 | 3:56 pm · Link
@wmsheppa: I call shenanigans. That video must be a spoof.
mcc - March 26, 2010 | 3:56 pm · Link
Weren’t they just walking, like, in the front door? Of the U.S. Capitol? Which the protestors were standing in front of?
Ugh - March 26, 2010 | 3:59 pm · Link
This ought to be a heck of a fun time:
And what is such a thing, you might ask:
“Tea Party Circuit” Sign me up!
beltane - March 26, 2010 | 3:59 pm · Link
@wrb: “Queen Jane Apopolexy” needs to be a tag.
kansi - March 26, 2010 | 3:59 pm · Link
One of the cruelest lessons of life….I’m never gonna wear this again.
Legalize - March 26, 2010 | 3:59 pm · Link
“Moving”
Mrs. Legalize: Do you need this “I Love NY” piggy bank?
Me: Yes.
Mrs. Legalize: ....
Me: ....
wmsheppa - March 26, 2010 | 4:01 pm · Link
@Omnes Omnibus: I didn’t want to drive traffic there, but it is actually posted on the Richmond Tea Party’s site. Here’s the link on their page.
http://richmondteaparty.com/?p=918
It’s totally real. See?
beltane - March 26, 2010 | 4:01 pm · Link
@Ugh: I wrote a comment year last year which predicted that the tea party protests of the future would be a “Woodstock of the Damned”. It is hard to believe that prediction has come true.
I can haz Peak Wingnut now?
Robin G. - March 26, 2010 | 4:01 pm · Link
@Svensker: Since when did John McCain losing stop people from listening to him?
wrb - March 26, 2010 | 4:01 pm · Link
Damn, it would be interesting to dose those Woodstockers with the brown acid.
wrb - March 26, 2010 | 4:03 pm · Link
@beltane:
Thank you.
I was pleased with myself for that one :_)
licensed to kill time - March 26, 2010 | 4:03 pm · Link
@wrb: Dude, they already dropped the brown acid.
MikeTheZ - March 26, 2010 | 4:04 pm · Link
@Pasquinade: Oh, God, i should be doing a take home exam, but instead I’m going to spend the next hour looking at these.
Maybe that can get me out of it
Legalize - March 26, 2010 | 4:04 pm · Link
@wrb:
I think that ship has sailed.
wmsheppa - March 26, 2010 | 4:06 pm · Link
@Ugh: Las Vegas City Life (weekly paper) has some great columns on it in the opinion section. You should check them out (Knappster and Damn Pundit).
Chat Noir - March 26, 2010 | 4:08 pm · Link
@geg6: I still can’t decide whom I despise more: Eric Cantor or John Boehner. They are both loathsome individuals.
gregw - March 26, 2010 | 4:10 pm · Link
great hilarity at tpm live streaming mcpalin in Tucson.
Omnes Omnibus - March 26, 2010 | 4:10 pm · Link
@wmsheppa: I still say spoof. I simply refuse to believe that it is real. My sanity depends on it.
Pasquinade - March 26, 2010 | 4:11 pm · Link
Asshole Breitbart gloating on Twitter about O’Keefe, et al, charges being reduced to misdemeanors
Found it here http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....15026.html
Little Dreamer - March 26, 2010 | 4:12 pm · Link
@Ugh:
Because it’s way out in the middle of bum-fuck NV, with few facilities, little water, a handful of restaurants and not much to do besides stand around and get angry about the state of the country and then get into a car and drive home behind thousands of other people who are all going to be driving the same 50-100 miles stretch of roadway to get home. Sounds like a lot of fun, NOT!
Chat Noir - March 26, 2010 | 4:14 pm · Link
@Annie: I have a pair of Calvin Klein jeans that I got for Christmas 1983 (junior year of high school). I take them out every now and then to see if they fit (they do!). You can tell they are old because the tag says they were made in the USA.
Annie - March 26, 2010 | 4:14 pm · Link
@Ugh:
Unfortunately the media will make a big deal out of this love fest. What they won’t document is how many of the “woodstockers” are getting some type of government-sponsored support. Nor, will they point out that the roads that got them to this rural paradise are paid for by the government.
MikeJ - March 26, 2010 | 4:16 pm · Link
@Little Dreamer: If they were hep to what the kids were up to 15 years ago they’d call it a Conservative Burning Man. They’re still stuck in the stupid ages.
Ugh - March 26, 2010 | 4:16 pm · Link
But they’ve never taken a handout!
mcc - March 26, 2010 | 4:16 pm · Link
@Annie: I wonder what the ratio of media members to event participants will be at THIS one.
Pasquinade - March 26, 2010 | 4:17 pm · Link
Annie - March 26, 2010 | 4:18 pm · Link
@Chat Noir:
LOL. You are now my inspiration…although even if they fit, I doubt I will ever, ever where my “bell bottom” jeans again—or maybe just around the house…
robertdsc - March 26, 2010 | 4:21 pm · Link
NANCY SMASH in pictures
Dollared - March 26, 2010 | 4:23 pm · Link
I am old – I thought that first you had to hook up the stereo, then F(*)*&k with the network connections, then get the furniture.
demo woman - March 26, 2010 | 4:23 pm · Link
@gregw: do you have a link? I can’t find it at TPM.
schrodinger's cat - March 26, 2010 | 4:24 pm · Link
Don’t give up John, all you need is the weight watcher kitteh
Annie - March 26, 2010 | 4:26 pm · Link
A friend at work told me today that her grandmother hates Obama and HCR because she now knows that she will have to appear at a “senior citizen death panel” before she receives any more care…This is the legacy of talk radio, the religious right, and the Republican leadership…Scaring the elderly to gain political advantage…
Josie - March 26, 2010 | 4:27 pm · Link
Svensker – If you are still there, I must thank you for the recipe for Mexican turkey meatballs. I used it to make turkey burgers the other night and my son ate three and looked for more. In return, I want to suggest my own recipe for Ranch turkey burgers – you just mix a small package of Ranch dressing mix into one pound of ground turkey. You can add bread or oatmeal and an egg if you want. Either way is good.
Sentient Puddle - March 26, 2010 | 4:28 pm · Link
Having moved four times in the past four years, I hear ya on the Internet stuff. First two moves were handled by roommates, so I relaxed. Third time, I had to wait a whole fucking week for the local guys to hook it up. Near about felt like the worst week of my life. Last time just had to wait a weekend. Still was bad enough that I spent a lot of time sitting in a lawn chair in my old place just to have a connection.
But I’d also add utilities to all this. One of those times, I moved in without gas, which meant no hot shower (and in my case, it thus meant no shower). The gas man was supposed to show up at some undetermined point between 8 a.m. and 5 p.m. to turn things on. Waited and waited and waited, calling the company back at 3 p.m. to find out that they did indeed show up at 9:15, but just never let me know. Fuckers.
Last move, water company decided to show up and turn off my water because they thought I hadn’t set up an account with them.
All those times, whatever was missing, it felt like it didn’t matter that all my shit was moved in, it was just there for show, and I couldn’t actually live in it yet.
JGabriel - March 26, 2010 | 4:28 pm · Link
Krauthammer via Mike in NC: Obama is going to cram the Value Added Tax down our throats …
Sigh, never gonna happen, since Obama will no doubt end up with the same analysis as Clinton’s: that producers just add the VAT directly onto products, such that it merely becomes a regressive sales tax.
Which is the proper analysis, IMO.
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Little Dreamer - March 26, 2010 | 4:29 pm · Link
The Wurlitzer is officially broken. Woohooo
!!
gregw - March 26, 2010 | 4:35 pm · Link
@demo woman: It’s over now, but it was amazing. McCain at the podium, Palin and Cindy (sp?) behind him with a huge American flag in the background and him spewing all the talking points one after the other. I don’t think Palin said a word, just stood there looking purdy.
Sentient Puddle - March 26, 2010 | 4:41 pm · Link
@Little Dreamer: Either that or they’re still trying to get their bearings on messaging. I wouldn’t celebrate just yet.
Midnight Marauder - March 26, 2010 | 4:44 pm · Link
@Pasquinade:
Truly some amazing stuff from Sarahgeddon this afternoon:
O RLY? (< —link)
Because that one just becomes increasingly effective the more you repeat it?
All of this just makes me that much more giddy for Sarah Palin’s
BizarroAlaska on TLC. And Republican primary season.I am going to have SUCH A FUCKING BLAST watching these know-nothings eat each other alive.
Such a fucking blast.
EDIT: I don’t know who mentioned this the other day, but it’s actually pretty disgraceful that fucking is censored in the “this is a big f——-g deal” header. Seriously, Cole? SERIOUSLY?!
Violet - March 26, 2010 | 4:47 pm · Link
Boo, I’ve been gone all day and missed the McCain-Palin hilarity. Anywhere to go to get any worth-seeing highlights?
Mike Kay - March 26, 2010 | 4:47 pm · Link
@JGabriel: I thought Kraut said, “Rahm is going to rahm a pen!s down our throat!”
kdaug - March 26, 2010 | 4:48 pm · Link
@wmsheppa:
Please. Never again.
Violet - March 26, 2010 | 4:50 pm · Link
@Midnight Marauder:
Whoever was sitting in for Limbaugh today said, “We’re not the Party of No. We’re the Party of ‘No comma here are our ideas’” or words to that effect. He then went on to say that “No comma describe ideas” wasn’t very graceful but that just being the Party of No wasn’t going to work. They had to frame things in a positive way and show their better ideas.
He’s not going to get another shot at the Limbaugh chair after that poor performance.
trollhattan - March 26, 2010 | 4:50 pm · Link
Once upon a time, when a bachelor dude moved into his new place the first thing to get hooked up was the stereo, set to “11” to hail the neighbors.
Now the first thing is a survey of down and upload speeds? I haz a sad.
SiubhanDuinne - March 26, 2010 | 4:54 pm · Link
From the comments at the article about Scott Brown:
I am so stealing that line.
mcc - March 26, 2010 | 4:57 pm · Link
@Midnight Marauder: Sarah Palin is going to vote against you from a helicopter.
“Lame-stream media”?
Annie - March 26, 2010 | 4:57 pm · Link
Michelle Bachmann said today in an interview that before Sept. 2008, 100% of our economy was private.
Of course she somehow forgot to mention the millions she made from government farm subsidies….
I assume that in the imediate future, we will see her picture in the middle of Glen Beck’s blackboard?
Ryan S. - March 26, 2010 | 4:58 pm · Link
Yet more T-bagger rage out of control
jibeaux - March 26, 2010 | 4:59 pm · Link
@Violet:
I bet that confused the hell outta some people. And then made their heads hurt when they tried to think of something to put after the comma.
Midnight Marauder - March 26, 2010 | 5:01 pm · Link
@Violet:
Ha, like that’s any fucking better or more truthful! It would be somewhat laudable if after that comma, they were able to present any ideas other than “tax cuts”, “drill, baby, drill”, “let the free market work”, or “BECAUSE SHUT UP, THAT’S WHY!”
And you are spot on; this dude is going to get eviscerated by the wingnuts who heard him today. Well, assuming there’s any consistency to their rage, but we all know how that turns out, right?
scav - March 26, 2010 | 5:03 pm · Link
@Violet: mmm, evolution of the sort. For a good while there there were the party of No Comment.
Midnight Marauder - March 26, 2010 | 5:05 pm · Link
@mcc:
For the win! And as long as it’s not this helicopter, I think I’ll be all right.
I love this. Either she is a part of that “lame-stream media” now, or this is the final proof that there is nothing legitimate, journalistic, or mainstream about Fox News.
BruinKid - March 26, 2010 | 5:06 pm · Link
Sigh… looks like ACORN “pimp” James O’Keefe is gonna get off with just a slap on the wrist for trying to tap/tamper with Sen. Mary Landrieu’s (D-LA) phone lines.
Chuck Butcher - March 26, 2010 | 5:07 pm · Link
A couple years ago I thought about taking a profit on my home, that I either re-built or built new (1870s). I looked around me at 20 yrs of accumulation and started laughing at myself. Besides, I don’t want to be somewhere else.
My sympathies, John – I used to do that moving stuff every couple years.
Midnight Marauder - March 26, 2010 | 5:12 pm · Link
GET THIS WOMAN TO THE WHITE HOUSE ASAP!
And Another Thing... - March 26, 2010 | 5:13 pm · Link
@BruinKid: We’re talking Louisiana, it was always going to get “fixed.” Best bumper sticker of all time was when David Duke was running against Edwin Edwards for governor. The sticker said: “Vote for the crook. It’s important.” Everybody knew who the crook was, and Edwards was re-elected.
robertdsc - March 26, 2010 | 5:14 pm · Link
Thankfully that’s something she can’t quit doing. /starbursts
RedKitten - March 26, 2010 | 5:15 pm · Link
@WereBear:
Oh, the kitchen. That is the WORST room to pack, hands down.
Bob K - March 26, 2010 | 5:21 pm · Link
So now that Sarah Palin has her own little mini-series on The Discovey Channel or whatever, she’s angling for bigger things. Just check out this picture and tell me she’s not hot for a part on “Sons of Anarchy”
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/.....15026.html
Annie - March 26, 2010 | 5:35 pm · Link
@Ryan S.:
Totally sickening…these sub-humans would be the first to complain if they were denied any government-sponsored benefits…Teabaggers can attend teabagger events BECAUSE they have received help…It is all about race, and taking back the country for white Americans.
Andy - March 26, 2010 | 5:36 pm · Link
Three moves is as good as a fire.
Mike Kay - March 26, 2010 | 5:41 pm · Link
@Bob K: it’s a dominatrix outfit. Nothing wrong with that, but completely inappropriate for a campaign rally, but Palin has always traded on her T&A appeal, going back to her pageant competitions. I mean, she doesn’t wears those ridiculous 5 inch heels because they’re comfortable.
Annie - March 26, 2010 | 5:46 pm · Link
OMG. Sarah Palin in leather at the McCain rally…Not one to speculate but behind the scenes is there some “Whose my Daddy” going on….
Annie - March 26, 2010 | 5:48 pm · Link
@Mike Kay:
Didn’t see your post before mine…but great minds think a like..
Fax Paladin - March 26, 2010 | 5:49 pm · Link
So apparently Eric Cantor now says it was the cops’ fault for not telling him what actually happened… http://tinyurl.com/ye732xx
Mike Kay - March 26, 2010 | 6:00 pm · Link
@Annie: This!
Calliope Jane - March 26, 2010 | 6:18 pm · Link
@Midnight Marauder: Blech. She’s here, spewing her garbage. They didn’t campaign in AZ because he didn’t want to / didn’t think he needed to. Amazed she could even find her way here, since according to her map she thinks Tucson’s up near the Grand Canyon.
That’s bumper-sticker material right there.
Grr. I want this to backfire on Walnuts so much.
Annie - March 26, 2010 | 6:20 pm · Link
@Mike Kay:
True irony. While Ms. Sarah, in her leather attire, was making a joke about Obama’s use of a teleprompter, she was reading off of notecards….
Does she not know that technology exists? Maybe we should start by introducing her to electricity…And, then slowly move to advances including the Internet. And, then, again slowly, show her how notecards and notes on her hand, can be displayed on a teleprompter through the wonders of technology…
Or, is that asking too much…
Svensker - March 26, 2010 | 6:25 pm · Link
@Annie:
They’re still doing the teleprompter thing? Don’t they worry about sounding like the wacky old uncle at Thanksgiving whom everyone is starting to think is displaying Alzheimer’s symptoms and repeating bad jokes too often?
?
Nied - March 26, 2010 | 6:37 pm · Link
Look at what those dirty Democrats did to Eric Cantor now!
Annie - March 26, 2010 | 6:37 pm · Link
@Svensker:
You would think….But, to me, the fact that Ms. Sarah was reading from her notes was even crazier…She was READING notes while making a joke about a teleprompter…
Seriously, she really does not understand that reading notes on paper in front of her and reading text off a teleprompter is the same thing…
In the end, the one main difference is that when Obama uses a teleprompter it is because he has carefully and thoughtfully prepared his thoughts…
When Sarah reads off of notes or her hand, it is because she has no idea what she is saying, except to use buzzwords in the proper order and at the proper time…
Dave Paulson - March 26, 2010 | 7:35 pm · Link
Did anyone else find the whole Palin / McCain thing hard to watch? She’s just such an empty-headed bimbo, and all the crazies love her . . . She is my new litmus test for my conservative friends (more family, since you can’t choose them). I ask what people think of Palin, and dependent on their response, you know if anyone’s home.
Did you catch her bit about Castro liking the HC plan? I’m just so sick of tired socialist rhetoric.
On another point, did anyone catch Beck on O’Reilly last night? He’s prognosticating that the Democrats will pick up immigration as their next big issue. I’m sure they’d like to see that, but the Dems would have to be loony to tackle that before the election.
I think they’re afraid of a fight on financial reform. Even though Dodd’s a crooked turd, the Republicans are even deeper up big banking’s ass. And everyone hates the banks right now. It’s gotta be the fastest route to rise before the votes are cast.
asiangrrlMN - March 26, 2010 | 7:41 pm · Link
@Annie: Plus, there are PLENTY of vids of him speaking extemporaneously (off the cuff, Palin, and not from the cuff like you). They really need to give it a rest.
As for the himbo, good lord. We don’t like the bad stuff? Who the fuck does?
@gbear: Want! I will buy some, even though they discriminate against the animals who get adopted the least (black).
Luck, Cole on the move. Try to take it easy.
Oh, and happy birthday, NANCY SMASH!
Chuck Butcher - March 26, 2010 | 9:51 pm · Link
I watched BO during the Primaries in Pendleton, OR (from about 15 feet away) hours after the monster rally in Portland. It was a speech followed by Q&A – no notes, no teleprompter. Some were trying to make trouble for him with their questions – nope, in fact made them happy.
What was in evidence was a powerful and quick intellect with an ability to interconnect seemingly disparate issues. None of the teleprompter jokers ever want to debate him…
Cain - March 26, 2010 | 10:32 pm · Link
Goddam it, I wish dailykos would stop stealing our stuff.. somebody is saying “hulk smash” on the front page.
cain
Kevin - March 27, 2010 | 12:50 pm · Link
A little shout out to John from Darksyde at dailykos this morning.