Let love rule
It’s been a pretty crazy week here, with TapperGate, AccountabilityNowGate, LouisCKGate, and RadokGate. I should probably come clean and tell you that this is all part of a pageview-maximizing scheme John took from Politico and ordered me to implement. I’m not complaining though: Anne-Laurie awakes each day at 4 am to the sound of John screaming “Win the morning!”
The truth is, I’m feeling a little PGTD today, so I’m not up for much commentary. As a gesture of goodwill, I thought I would do a post consisting entirely of approving links to bloggers who are associated with the intertronic axis of evil. There are those who would call this appeasement:
- We are all Obots now (OpenLeft)
- Papal Inquisition (MoDo)
- Atlas Hugged (FireDogLake)
- Some crazy shit Charles Lane said about slavery (FireDogLake)
- Naomi Wolf…teabagger? (The New Republic)
Yeah, I know the FDL links are Tbogg and the TNR one is Chait. Baby steps.
Consider this an open thread.
March 31, 2010 2:47 pm
Posted in: Good News For Conservatives, Open Thread
171 Comments
171 Responses
JM - March 31, 2010 | 2:49 pm · Link
“Tappergate”?
Whaddeye miss?
Punchy - March 31, 2010 | 2:50 pm · Link
This seems like a big fucking deal w/r/t the Executive’s ability to sidestep FISA courts/laws/protocols. Of course, I’m not a lawyer, and I’m sure when it’s appealed to Scalia’s Crew, they’ll find a way to overturn this just in time for use by the next R Admin.
dmsilev - March 31, 2010 | 2:50 pm · Link
The New York Times has just posted their entry in the prestigious “make the religious right pop a gasket” contest, with a long article on can animals be gay?. It’s actually a very interesting read, and I now know more about lesbian albatrosses than I ever thought possible.
-dms
Arkon DougJ - March 31, 2010 | 2:51 pm · Link
lesbian albatrosses
I saw them perform once at the Mercury Lounge.
Dracula - March 31, 2010 | 2:52 pm · Link
Make it stop, puleeze. Can we please throw this “-gate” trend under the bus full of punched hippies?
MikeJ - March 31, 2010 | 2:54 pm · Link
Damn, I missed all the fun this morning.
demo woman - March 31, 2010 | 2:54 pm · Link
@Punchy: Since I am unlucky, I’ve been praying for Scalia’s health.
Dork - March 31, 2010 | 2:54 pm · Link
They’re dating?
licensed to kill time - March 31, 2010 | 2:55 pm · Link
What does this mean?
Mike Kay - March 31, 2010 | 2:55 pm · Link
I’m so proud of you guys, you started two entire flame wars this morning without my help.
Sniffle. They grow up so fast, ya know. Sniffle.
L Boom - March 31, 2010 | 2:56 pm · Link
I’m generally pretty good with Intertoobzian acronyms, but PGTD?
Pretty Goddamn TireD?
Persistent Gestational Trophoblastic Disease?
dmsilev - March 31, 2010 | 2:56 pm · Link
@Arkon DougJ: The article mentioned that Stephen Colbert had done a segment on them. In that clip, he warns against the possibility of our chicks growing up to be Indigo Gulls….
-dms
peach flavored shampoo - March 31, 2010 | 2:56 pm · Link
In engrish?
PeakVT - March 31, 2010 | 2:56 pm · Link
@dmsilev: Heh.
debbie - March 31, 2010 | 2:56 pm · Link
I never thought I’d read of a bigger schmuck than Dolan, but Donovan’s the new winner!
El Tiburon - March 31, 2010 | 2:56 pm · Link
Arkon DougJ Sir,
I tried sending you an e-mail but was unable to get it from your link on the side of the page.
Don’t want to be a D-Bag about this, but I was wondering if you were going to wander back to yesterday’s previous post and respond.
Thanks in advance.
peach flavored shampoo - March 31, 2010 | 2:57 pm · Link
@Arkon DougJ: You sure that wasnt the Yeastie Girls? (go google that if you think I’m joking)
PeakVT - March 31, 2010 | 2:58 pm · Link
Yargh. Here’s the clip I forgot to put in the post I can’t edit. FYWP. Also.
Arkon DougJ - March 31, 2010 | 2:58 pm · Link
@El Tiburon:
I’m tired of arguing about that and I can’t answer all your questions for reasons I can’t get into here.
(EDIT: I see the email links are screwed up—i am goppatriot50 at gmail dot com)
El Cid - March 31, 2010 | 2:58 pm · Link
FWIW, Naomi Wolf did claim mail tampering in print, well, electronic print, in liberal type outlets, not just at Ron Paul rallies.
However, having worked with quite a number of activists and organizations which very likely had their mail intercepted (particularly people & groups opposing Reagan’s wars against Central American civilians), I don’t believe immediately anyone’s claims, but I also don’t accept such claims just by quick anecdote either. Occasionally my mail has been returned or arrived opened, though not that often, and I don’t think I’m interesting enough to monitor.
Jim, Foolish Literalist - March 31, 2010 | 2:59 pm · Link
@Dracula:
Are you trying to mainstream a shift in the prevailing narrative? Also, too, RAHM!
Can someone point me to the Tappergate and LouisCK threads? TIA, as teh kids aware of internet traditions text.
Mike Kay - March 31, 2010 | 2:59 pm · Link
you forgot about Rickey-Martin-gate
General Egali Tarian Stuck - March 31, 2010 | 2:59 pm · Link
@peach flavored shampoo:
Persistent Gestational Trophoblastic Disease
treatable with wiskey.
El Tiburon - March 31, 2010 | 2:59 pm · Link
@Dork:
Bloggers w/ benefits.
Liz - March 31, 2010 | 2:59 pm · Link
@L Boom:
a little pretty goddamn tired?
hell if I know.
Tom Hilton - March 31, 2010 | 2:59 pm · Link
I’m always oddly pleased to see someone I despise on a visceral level for no clearly defined reason (Naomi Wolf, e.g.) give me a really, really good reason to despise him or her.
Is that wrong of me?
Morbo - March 31, 2010 | 3:00 pm · Link
@licensed to kill time: @peach flavored shampoo: Post Greenwald Trauma Disorder?
Arkon, I suggest 1-800-CALL-SAM if you’ve really been that affected by this dog bite.
Arkon DougJ - March 31, 2010 | 3:00 pm · Link
@El Cid:
Yes, but if Jeff Foxworthy ever did a “you might be a tea bagger if” list, “you’ve compared Obama to Hitler” would have to be one of the top items.
El Tiburon - March 31, 2010 | 3:01 pm · Link
@Arkon DougJ:
Fair enough. In the words of Our Dear Leader: It is time to move forward…
Martin - March 31, 2010 | 3:01 pm · Link
@dmsilev:
You need to find better porn sites.
Art - March 31, 2010 | 3:02 pm · Link
My favorite TBogg quote of the week:
“Yee haw! Hot damn! Git’erdone! Free bird! Assorted other colorful regional exclamations!”
El Tiburon - March 31, 2010 | 3:02 pm · Link
What about Bill-Gate(s)?
licensed to kill time - March 31, 2010 | 3:03 pm · Link
Post Glenzilla Talk Disorder?
Pretty Good Tag Dissemination?
Pagan God Thrill Dead?
Puny Goodwill Take Dat! ?
srv - March 31, 2010 | 3:03 pm · Link
That Tbogg link to Mrs. Professors story about how JeffG got his feelings hurt by a former professor who didn’t want his name in Jeffie’s about page…
My god, my irony meter just esploded…
Martin - March 31, 2010 | 3:05 pm · Link
@Dork: How do we gently break it to John that screaming “Win the morning!” probably isn’t the effective turn-on that he thinks it is.
El Cid - March 31, 2010 | 3:06 pm · Link
@Arkon DougJ: I’m not about to watch all 8+ minutes.
Arkon DougJ - March 31, 2010 | 3:06 pm · Link
Post Glenzilla Talk Disorder?
Yes. It was supposed to be PGSD but I got confused.
El Tiburon - March 31, 2010 | 3:06 pm · Link
Roy has a good post up.
http://alicublog.blogspot.com/
It involves porn, tits and porn.
JGabriel - March 31, 2010 | 3:07 pm · Link
PGTD? Time for the Great Gazoogle:
Congratulations! Are you hoping for a boy or a girl?
P.S. I hear you can get a lot of publicity and money for that male pregnancy thing!
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Just Some Fuckhead - March 31, 2010 | 3:09 pm · Link
lolz
Dork - March 31, 2010 | 3:10 pm · Link
@Martin: Maybe it’s supposed to be the question, “When the moaning?”, as a prelude to….ya know.
slackjawedgawker - March 31, 2010 | 3:11 pm · Link
@Arkon DougJ:
This was a term coined by Karl Rove back in 2004, in reference to Cheney’s non-crazy daughter and her partner.
So, yeah, dmsilev is right that this article will get the wingnuts frothing again. But my guess is they’ll try to bury it by sending Liz out for another round or two of cable news appearances in favor of naked pyramids and sliced testicles.
Holly McLachlan - March 31, 2010 | 3:11 pm · Link
I’m always oddly pleased to see someone I despise on a visceral level for no clearly defined reason (Naomi Wolf, e.g.) give me a really, really good reason to despise him or her.
Is that wrong of me?
In this case, it’s a win for TNR arch-weenie Jonathan Chait if you do. So yes, it may be a sin. But, consider it a venal rather than mortal sin.
Is that too…....... Catholic??? Perhaps you can nourish some contempt for both….. simultaneously. That would be like, totally Jesuit of you.
El Cid - March 31, 2010 | 3:11 pm · Link
Another Al-Qa’ida loving judge tries to help Obama impose Shania law and end George W. Bush’s success in KEEPINGUSSAFE, no matter how much Obama’s AG tried to pretend he was against it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist - March 31, 2010 | 3:11 pm · Link
Jesus H. Fuck. I never paid much attention to Naomi Wolf, but I had no idea she had joined forces with Rand Paul
General Egali Tarian Stuck - March 31, 2010 | 3:12 pm · Link
@Arkon DougJ:
common symptom. Take two embryos and call me in the morning.
scav - March 31, 2010 | 3:12 pm · Link
@Arkon DougJ:
But were they real lesbian albatrosses or merely faking it?
daryljfontaine - March 31, 2010 | 3:12 pm · Link
@srv: If nothing else, the sociopathy of the Right continues to evolve—now they are claiming victimhood for “not being understood properly by the Left.”
I understand them just fine, and that is why I have no empathy for them.
D
Jim, Foolish Literalist - March 31, 2010 | 3:13 pm · Link
@slackjawedgawker:
There’s a third one?
Liz - March 31, 2010 | 3:13 pm · Link
@El Cid:
uh, Shania? As in Twain?
cleek - March 31, 2010 | 3:13 pm · Link
Teabonics
RedKitten - March 31, 2010 | 3:14 pm · Link
@Morbo:
Please don’t. The kid’s already into everything. I don’t need him branching out into giving legal advice over the phone.
Besides, his legal advice would consist entirely of “Pbbbbbbthh!”, “Ha-HAAAAH!” or “Waaahhhhhhhhhh!”
There, I just saved you $500.
Martin - March 31, 2010 | 3:14 pm · Link
@scav: And how much was the bottle service? Did the RNC pick up the tab?
El Cid - March 31, 2010 | 3:14 pm · Link
@Liz: It’s a SadlyNo! thing.
canuckistani - March 31, 2010 | 3:15 pm · Link
Albatrosses, eh? I thought penguins were the top alternative lifestyle bird.
Citizen_X - March 31, 2010 | 3:16 pm · Link
Pfft. Just wait till Zulif Cole orders the entire team to start every day singing the Balloon Juice Corporate Anthem.
canuckistani - March 31, 2010 | 3:16 pm · Link
@RedKitten:
I’ve paid much more for legal advice much less useful.
eemom - March 31, 2010 | 3:16 pm · Link
OMFG. Naomi Wolf is a fucking hair-tossing idiotic drama queen twat. We were in the same class in college and I know.
UGH.
Arkon DougJ - March 31, 2010 | 3:16 pm · Link
@scav:
They went to Smith so they were probably LATG.
Arkon DougJ - March 31, 2010 | 3:18 pm · Link
@eemom:
You know, I think she’s full of it, but I like her anyway. That story about vomiting when Harold Bloom laid down the mojo, it makes me laugh, even though it was incredibly cruel of her to tell it.
Bob L - March 31, 2010 | 3:19 pm · Link
Outed by TBogg
So in a year the left went from a bunch of post modern sissies so overcome with empathy they lost their moral compass to become a bunch of cold hearted bastards because they never read Ayn “Altruism is the only vice” Raynd’s Atlas Shrugs?
Has anyone ever ventured the opinion that maybe the Left despises the Right because the Right is so caught up with their lies they don’t know the truth anymore?
JGabriel - March 31, 2010 | 3:19 pm · Link
@Tom Hilton:
Only if, like one commenter at TNR (third comment down), you’re confusing Naomi Wolf, who advised Al Gore to wear brown, with Naomi Klein, who wrote The Shock Doctrine.
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slackjawedgawker - March 31, 2010 | 3:20 pm · Link
@El Cid:
That don’t repress me much?
Liz - March 31, 2010 | 3:21 pm · Link
@El Cid:
oooooo ok. I’m out of it. Sadly.
I will check that out. Seems entertaining.
Betsy - March 31, 2010 | 3:21 pm · Link
@dmsilev:
I am a little bit ashamed at how hard that made me laugh.
Persia - March 31, 2010 | 3:21 pm · Link
Holy crap, I’m agreeing with Maureen Dowd. Up is down.
dmsilev - March 31, 2010 | 3:22 pm · Link
@scav:
@Arkon DougJ:
And more importantly, will the RNC reimburse the cost of all of the drinks and tips?
-dms
RedKitten - March 31, 2010 | 3:22 pm · Link
@slackjawedgawker: Win.
JGabriel - March 31, 2010 | 3:23 pm · Link
Bob L:
I think I can live with that.
(Checks inner moral compass.)
OMG, NOEZ! IT’S GONE!
(Pause.)
Hmm … that’s an oddly liberating feeling.
Yep. I can live with that.
.
freelancer - March 31, 2010 | 3:26 pm · Link
Isn’t Naomi Wolf the one who wrote an entire book that out-Godwinned Glenn Beck and the thesis of it was that America under Bush was turning into 1930s Nazi Germany? And then made a documentary/one woman show about it?
I mean, yeah, I loathe Bush about as much as anyone here, but the woman traffics solely in hyperbole.
Crashman - March 31, 2010 | 3:26 pm · Link
I hereby relinquish my Gold Rifleman badge. We need a new Boromander!
dmsilev - March 31, 2010 | 3:28 pm · Link
@canuckistani: The penguins are mentioned in the article, along with a bunch of other species. Specifically,
Yes, this really is the New York Times, not National Geographic Penthouse.
-dms
Martin - March 31, 2010 | 3:32 pm · Link
@dmsilev:
Oh please don’t make that show up on the food pyramid…
Bob L - March 31, 2010 | 3:32 pm · Link
@JGabriel:
It a problem you know. Without a inner moral compass you don’t know who is fair game to screw over in the rat race. Take me; all I can do it look at a poor person and think of how much fun it would be putting on the Joker makeup and one dark night force some public health care down his throat
Pathetic isn’t it?
JGabriel - March 31, 2010 | 3:33 pm · Link
@Persia:
Nah, Dowd is randomly right about a third to half of the time — except when she’s writing about sex and sexual politics, of course. Much more frequently than Bobo or Douch-hat.
If you find yourself agreeing with Bill Kristol, on the other hand, then, yes, up is down and Armageddon is fast approaching.
.
Citizen_X - March 31, 2010 | 3:34 pm · Link
@dmsilev: OK, now this blog must endeavor to become the primary internet source for the phrase, “blowholefuck a dolphin.”
licensed to kill time - March 31, 2010 | 3:35 pm · Link
@dmsilev:
I’m sorry, but “exhalated belchlike sounds” , “penetrating through the blowhole” , and “nutritional fellating” has me snorting so uncontrollably that I am unable to focus my eyes on the screen. brb after I recover.
dmsilev - March 31, 2010 | 3:38 pm · Link
@Citizen_X: I think “give a dolphin a blowhole-job” is the preferred phraseology.
-dms
BruinKid - March 31, 2010 | 3:38 pm · Link
Whew. For a moment I too thought “The Shock Doctrine”’s Naomi Klein had turned into a teabagger.
Quicksand - March 31, 2010 | 3:38 pm · Link
@Citizen_X
Now c’mon, this isn’t TPM.
Tractarian - March 31, 2010 | 3:39 pm · Link
@Arkon DougJ:
I, too, feel like a Past Grand Senior Deacon today.
JGabriel - March 31, 2010 | 3:40 pm · Link
@dmsilev:
Mutual of Omaha’s Animal 4Chan.
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Mike Kay - March 31, 2010 | 3:40 pm · Link
@JGabriel: I’d put it at less than 5%. She’s such a Georgetown elitist (she lives in JFK’s old house from the 1950s) that she’s completely out of touch. If you saw the guest lists to her dinner parties, not a single person without a chauffeur. She only looks good in comparison to Sally Quinn, because MoDo is so self-conscious, it inhibits her, where as Quinn has no self awareness.
slackjawedgawker - March 31, 2010 | 3:40 pm · Link
@dmsilev:
From the article:
But can they handle two wetsuits and a dildo?
El Cid - March 31, 2010 | 3:44 pm · Link
@slackjawedgawker: If you’re not… ready… for Hajj…
PaulW - March 31, 2010 | 3:44 pm · Link
When are we gonna have PrintOnDemand-Gate so I could shamelessly plug my book?
El Cid - March 31, 2010 | 3:45 pm · Link
@slackjawedgawker:
Animals are primitive beings without the faculties that God gave humans. Clearly it’s proof of an Intelligent Designer that a few conservative religious types can use 2 wetsuits and a dildo as part of their honoring of their Creator.
soonergrunt - March 31, 2010 | 3:47 pm · Link
@Dracula:
“bus full of punched hippies” sweet.
JGabriel - March 31, 2010 | 3:49 pm · Link
@Mike Kay:
Whatevs. Still better than Douche-hat and Bobo. Combined.
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matoko_chan - March 31, 2010 | 3:50 pm · Link
well….here’s a happy for y’all.
AllahP disappeared his post about LL CoolJ being a “Special Guest” on Dimbo Palin’s foxnews show.
I think he was afraid BigBaad Cole was going to come over and bitchslap him for lying.
Thass thuglife for you, allus gotta watch out for Cole’s pimphand.
scav - March 31, 2010 | 3:51 pm · Link
@dmsilev: Yes. Look under ABC: Albatross Bondage Compensation.
Linda Featheringill - March 31, 2010 | 3:52 pm · Link
Completely OT:
The “real face” of Jesus, as taken from the Shroud of Turin:
[Pictures on Yahoo]
The dude looks Italian, Paisano actually. Sure as heck does not look like a poor Jewish boy.
Working on the assumption that the shroud once covered a real dead body, I feel compelled to remind everyone that the Romans crucified more than 100,000 people, maybe up to twice that number in some estimates. The original occupant of the shroud, even if crucified, could have been any of a lot of different people.
soonergrunt - March 31, 2010 | 3:57 pm · Link
@Citizen_X:
The Balloon-Juice Corporate Anthem? That won’t take long since it’s only a few lines:
Losers talking shit about my cat!
Like my dog, fear the feline fat!
I want posts of intellectual heft
Going after the Jane Hamshers of the left!
(chorus)
Fuck you assholes!
Fuck you assholes!
Screw the tone!
You can all go to hell!
Jackasses!
My front-pagers can kick all your asses
We’re all a bunch of Obama-bot fascists
You all fill threads to fast
I was a wingnut in the past
chorus
guitar bridge
We hate politico, we hate drudge
On thursday we get a recipe for fudge
We all know Obama is Rahm’s pawn
You little bastards get off my lawn!
Chorus
Chorus fade-out
El Cid - March 31, 2010 | 3:57 pm · Link
I’m one not given to nostalgic recollections of a better news media past.
But did we really used to see in constant national news coverage which celebrity had which mistress?
And you kids better stay off my lawn.
freelancer - March 31, 2010 | 3:59 pm · Link
@Linda Featheringill:
You have no idear how many people I know that use that and the Dead Sea Scrolls as slam dunk evidence that science proves the Bible.
Believe what you want, but don’t use physics, carbon-dating, geology, and archeology to say that Science validates your faith in one breath, and in the next, throw out all these fields when they conclusively dismember the claim that the Earth is no more than 10,000 years old.
http://www.smbc-comics.com/ind.....1836#comic
mistersnrub - March 31, 2010 | 4:00 pm · Link
Bill Donohue says no pedophilia was going on, it was all just the homosexuals fault!
What a wretched excuse for a human being.
Tara the antisocial social worker - March 31, 2010 | 4:00 pm · Link
There’s something very, very wrong with having the words “Let love rule” directly underneath a picture of Ann Coulter.
djork - March 31, 2010 | 4:01 pm · Link
New Sunkist OJ. *
*Orangujizz
eemom - March 31, 2010 | 4:01 pm · Link
@freelancer:
Yup. She was on Lake Batshit a long time ago pimping that book. Her and Hamsher in the same place at the same time was like witnessing the Exxon Valdez of hyperbolic faux-progressive narcissism.
Shalimar - March 31, 2010 | 4:01 pm · Link
She’s going to be pissed when she finds out the teabaggers only share her hatred of corporations because Dick Armey told them all the corps are run by black and/or brown people.
Mike Kay - March 31, 2010 | 4:02 pm · Link
@mistersnrub: well, atleast he didn’t blame the Jews and the “liberal” media.
robertdsc - March 31, 2010 | 4:03 pm · Link
hard to believe she’s 58 years old if WikiPedia is right.
licensed to kill time - March 31, 2010 | 4:03 pm · Link
Speaking of lesbian albatrosses and gay penetrating dolphins, the Family Research Council suggested yesterday that Obama may already be our first gay president:
via Steve Benen
martha - March 31, 2010 | 4:05 pm · Link
DougJ, I think it’s now officially time for a Capitol Maibock.
http://www.capital-brewery.com.....ibock.html
Spring is here…enjoy!
Mike Kay - March 31, 2010 | 4:06 pm · Link
@robertdsc: she bathes in Botox.
You watch her on tee vee and it’s like watching a wax dummy.
Origuy - March 31, 2010 | 4:06 pm · Link
@Arkon DougJ:
LATG? Is that like LUG? It’s not in Urban Dictionary.
Linda Featheringill - March 31, 2010 | 4:08 pm · Link
To soonergrunt:
That song is actually pretty good.
Let me see, key of E flat, pentatonic scale, ska rhythm section . . . . . . ..
licensed to kill time - March 31, 2010 | 4:09 pm · Link
@soonergrunt: LOL. I love the Drudge/fudge rhyme. Somebody set this to music! Or is it a chant we all have to do during our morning run?
Tim (The Oher One) - March 31, 2010 | 4:09 pm · Link
Martin at #73 illustrates the entire reason for the existence of this blog.
Hilarious !
Citizen_X - March 31, 2010 | 4:10 pm · Link
@soonergrunt: Outstanding! But, if I may, I think in order to truly fit the tone of Balloon Juice it still needs a “D-I-A-F!” chorus somewhere.
comrade scott's agenda of rage - March 31, 2010 | 4:10 pm · Link
@eemom:
I’m sorry, I just couldn’t resist. Falling off the leftwing circular firing squad bandwagon is just so easy. It’s like a heroin addiction without the petty thievery and methadone programs.
MikeJ - March 31, 2010 | 4:11 pm · Link
@Origuy: lesbian albatross til graduation. I was typing in the same joke when I noticed DougJ had beat me to it.
daryljfontaine - March 31, 2010 | 4:13 pm · Link
@soonergrunt:
Apologies or something to Sascha Baron Cohen...
Some of those lines just begged not to be rewritten.
D
Morbo - March 31, 2010 | 4:13 pm · Link
@djork:
*Orangujizz
Oh, but it is.
Comrade Kevin - March 31, 2010 | 4:14 pm · Link
I think this is an appropriate time for Fly, Lesbian Seagull.
soonergrunt - March 31, 2010 | 4:15 pm · Link
@Linda Featheringill:
@licensed to kill time:
@Citizen_X:
I think all three of your suggestions are great. You guys work on that for a while. I’ve done my part.
MikeJ - March 31, 2010 | 4:16 pm · Link
@JGabriel:
A commenter you know you can ignore because it seems to think that mentioning ANSWER is a trump card.
comrade scott's agenda of rage - March 31, 2010 | 4:16 pm · Link
@robertdsc:
She goes to the same plastic surgeon as Sally Fields and Jane Fonda.
Okay, I just made that up but hopefully you get my drift.
slackjawedgawker - March 31, 2010 | 4:16 pm · Link
@licensed to kill time:
So he really is following in the footsteps of Lincoln!
Shalimar - March 31, 2010 | 4:16 pm · Link
@JGabriel: [Raises hand and feels relieved] So I’m still allowed to like Naomi Klein?
Origuy - March 31, 2010 | 4:18 pm · Link
When is Jonathan Livingston Seagull going to come out of the closet?
@MikeJ: Thanks. I was mystified.
robertdsc - March 31, 2010 | 4:18 pm · Link
@Mike Kay:
I suppose. She doesn’t look her age to me. Like her red hair, though.
EEmom, I think of FDL as FireBagLake these days. I almost typed that in the other day, lol.
licensed to kill time - March 31, 2010 | 4:19 pm · Link
Die in a fire!
Screw the tone!
Cole-bots! Cole-bots!
Leave John alone!
Legalize - March 31, 2010 | 4:22 pm · Link
Damn. I have no idea what happened in teh news this week. All I know is that it’s approaching 70 degrees and sunny outside.
stuckinred - March 31, 2010 | 4:24 pm · Link
Ease up on this “59” is old shit.
Martin - March 31, 2010 | 4:24 pm · Link
BTW, Cole and DougJ owe dmsilev bigtime for getting this blog back on its proper foundation.
And I hereby move that soonergrunt’s song be adopted as the official BJ anthem. I agree with citizen X that DIAF would benefit, but where do you draw the line? Skull-fuck kitten? Punch in the neck? Maybe we could just keep going with alternate verses.
Cat Lady - March 31, 2010 | 4:24 pm · Link
@licensed to kill time:
Nice. Except it should be:
“Leave John aloooooooooooone!
stuckinred - March 31, 2010 | 4:25 pm · Link
@licensed to kill time: Lot of guitar bridges on morning runs.
Citizen_X - March 31, 2010 | 4:28 pm · Link
All this talk of lesbian sea birds, and yet nobody’s posted this.
Mark S. - March 31, 2010 | 4:28 pm · Link
@mistersnrub:
Donahue has got to be the worst fucking advocate in history (“there were only six scandals this year!” “If they’re 12 or 13, it’s not pedophilia!”). Keep letting him talk and Catholicism will outlawed in this country.
Captain Goto - March 31, 2010 | 4:29 pm · Link
@Morbo:
Oh, my god.
soonergrunt - March 31, 2010 | 4:31 pm · Link
@Martin:
Thanks!
More of this, please.
dmsilev - March 31, 2010 | 4:31 pm · Link
@Martin: Glad I could help. And he did title this thread ‘let love rule’, so it was on-topic. Kinda.
-dms
ThatLeftTurnInABQ - March 31, 2010 | 4:34 pm · Link
@soonergrunt:
A very fine effort, although I confess I can’t quite intuit the melody. Also, seeing as how we are now a Dear Leader Cult, shouldn’t we have something a little more paramilitary sounding, i.e. more like a boot camp marching chant:
I don’t spoof but I’ve been trolled
Hating Jane is pagehits gold
1, 2, 3, 4
TUNCH!
jl - March 31, 2010 | 4:34 pm · Link
The Tunchforce runs this site. That is obvious to me now. What else could be so cranky, unpredictable and unsatisfiable?
It explains the all the foody posts, that emphasize the maximum-eats aspect of food and drink.
and all the +10s.
licensed to kill time - March 31, 2010 | 4:34 pm · Link
@Cat Lady: I started to type that but got distracted imagining jogging down the beach chanting soonergrunt’s awesome lyrics.
Skullfuck a kitten!
Punch it in the neck!
Take your rusty pitchfork
and fuck ‘em like heck!
ok, weak ending..
General Egali Tarian Stuck - March 31, 2010 | 4:35 pm · Link
OT
Judge Walker gives plaintiffs grants favorable summary judgment in Fisa case.
Read the article at FDL. Obama doj did a rope a dope and did not try to defend the indefensible . And also let the court decide the cases fate, rather than fold completely the governments case giving the appearance of acting out of political pressure from dems liberal base.
This is Obama.
demkat620 - March 31, 2010 | 4:35 pm · Link
@General Egali Tarian Stuck: Gestational? Our DougJ is pregnant?
WereBear - March 31, 2010 | 4:36 pm · Link
@robertdsc: Lawsy! That makes me feel as young as springtime, because I thought she was where Reagan would be now, had he lived.
Of course, that’s mental age.
Michael - March 31, 2010 | 4:37 pm · Link
Cue up the Lee Greenwood “Ah’m Proud to be Murkan” song, and hold up your “USA#1” foam fingers – I bring you a great triumph of our “bestest in the world freeest of enterprises” health care system.
Read more: http://www.star-telegram.com/2.....z0jmwT8fuv
General Egali Tarian Stuck - March 31, 2010 | 4:38 pm · Link
@demkat620:
Apparently, with love. It is spring after all.
freelancer - March 31, 2010 | 4:41 pm · Link
@Shalimar:
Oh, yes you may. I have a soft spot for Klein. On top of being one of the great voices against globalization and the perils of raw capitalism for our time, she’s also smoking hot for a woman who is 10 years older than me. (Brains are an afrodisiac for me)
soonergrunt - March 31, 2010 | 4:42 pm · Link
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ:
Melody? Nobody said shit about a melody.
@licensed to kill time:
Skullfuck a kitten!
Punch it in the neck!
Does this offend you?
DIAF and go to heck!
Still weak. Missing that je ne sais quoi.
demkat620 - March 31, 2010 | 4:42 pm · Link
@General Egali Tarian Stuck: Sweet. Do we get to name the kid?
El Cid - March 31, 2010 | 4:42 pm · Link
@Michael: Are there no charities? Can he just not drop the infant off in an emergency room? Is he too good to go broke and get on Medicaid? Are there no poorhouses?
El Cid - March 31, 2010 | 4:43 pm · Link
@freelancer: Just don’t put Naomi Klein on a panel with Andrew Sullivan, because you’ll never get to hear her over Sullivan’s hysterical anti-left screams.
Michael D. - March 31, 2010 | 4:43 pm · Link
@Dracula:
One of my BIGGEST peeve. Yes to this. It’s as though gate is a word whose definition is “controversy” or something. Its the fucking last four letters of the name of a hotel.
God forbid something happens with Microsoft or at the Department of Defense.
Gatesgate. Someone would think that is totally clever.
General Egali Tarian Stuck - March 31, 2010 | 4:43 pm · Link
@demkat620:
Arkon Dougj Jr.—seems fitting.
El Cid - March 31, 2010 | 4:44 pm · Link
@Michael D.: What if Robert Gates left a gate open?
Dee Loralei - March 31, 2010 | 4:44 pm · Link
@soonergrunt: Fucking Brilliant! This cimment string has had me giggling for a whil, now I need to go catch up.
Chyron HR - March 31, 2010 | 4:45 pm · Link
@soonergrunt:
But there’s a seven-minute bass solo in the middle, right?
soonergrunt - March 31, 2010 | 4:46 pm · Link
@Chyron HR: whatever works for you.
licensed to kill time - March 31, 2010 | 4:47 pm · Link
@soonergrunt:
Skullfuck a kitten!
Punch it in the neck!
Grab your rusty pitchfork
And fuck Glenn Beck!
eemom - March 31, 2010 | 4:48 pm · Link
@General Egali Tarian Stuck:
I notice that you, unlike Marcy “Lawyer Wannabe” Wheeler, know how to spell “judgment.” Kudos.
eemom - March 31, 2010 | 4:50 pm · Link
@robertdsc:
if you’re thinking of the red hair in MoDo’s NYT online pic, that photo was taken, like, a hundred years ago.
eemom - March 31, 2010 | 4:51 pm · Link
.....and last but not least, I LIKE being a snarky bitch.
robertdsc - March 31, 2010 | 4:57 pm · Link
@eemom:
Perhaps, but in a couple of pics I have of her, her hair is red. A 2006 video has her hair as red. So that’s where I’m coming from.
Arkon DougJ - March 31, 2010 | 4:58 pm · Link
@Origuy:
Lesbian Albatross Til Graduation.
You’re right, the T should be a U. I can’t spell acronyms today.
canuckistani - March 31, 2010 | 4:58 pm · Link
@soonergrunt:
Everyone makes up their own melody and sings it as loud as they can. It’s the BJ way.
soonergrunt - March 31, 2010 | 5:02 pm · Link
@licensed to kill time: By George I think you’ve got it!
Cris - March 31, 2010 | 5:04 pm · Link
I thought Wolf’s The End of America was kind of good. But I dabble in being off the deep end.
freelancer - March 31, 2010 | 5:05 pm · Link
@Cris:
It was teh Doom Bunker for the left.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ - March 31, 2010 | 5:09 pm · Link
@canuckistani:
New tag line
Balloon-Juice: Skull-fucking the Music of the Ainur since 2002.
Brent - March 31, 2010 | 5:18 pm · Link
You all are a bunch of Cole cock sucking masochists. And I mean that in the nicest way possible.
daryljfontaine - March 31, 2010 | 5:20 pm · Link
My anthem got stuck in moderation for a while…
D
dmsilev - March 31, 2010 | 5:28 pm · Link
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ: Does that mean that Jane Hamsher is Melkor?
-dms
maus - March 31, 2010 | 5:32 pm · Link
@Dracula:
So what were the “-gate”s between watergate and whitewatergate?
Mister Colorful Analogy - March 31, 2010 | 5:44 pm · Link
@slackjawedgawker:
FTW.
Sentient Puddle - March 31, 2010 | 5:50 pm · Link
@daryljfontaine:
That has to count as a plus!
Comrade Kevin - March 31, 2010 | 5:55 pm · Link
@Citizen_X: It was posted 15 comments before you posted it.
Uloborus - March 31, 2010 | 10:30 pm · Link
@General Egali Tarian Stuck:
I have suspected this from just about day one of his presidency. His attitude towards all of Bush’s bizarre overuses of executive powers has been to halfheartedly defend them in court and go ‘Oh, no. The court has overruled me and reinstated habeas corpus in a way the next president will be stuck with. How awful. I am utterly defeated.’
However, that this was his DELIBERATE strategy based on his general attitude of wanting to get things done via checks and balances (like DADT) was… just a guess on my part. I can’t prove it, so I generally did not like to push it. ‘It seems like something he would do’ is the same argument that lets Greenwald say exactly the opposite.