lol if true RT @RealClearAdam: SCOOP: Lieberman will replace Manchin as co-chair of No Labels.
http://t.co/vS6vXlFo4A”
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) November 10, 2014
Who could have predicted that a Sarah Palin web channel would flatline in 2014? http://t.co/A9d8jklx2e
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) November 10, 2014
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Apart from the newest iteration of very old jokes, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
Baud
I need to find a way to get in on the No Labels grift.
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud: Sometimes I think that too, but then I realize I have ethical bones in my body that would club me senseless if I tried.
scav
Works better when you hear it.
Vice-presidential Timmm-bberrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!!!!
KG
@Villago Delenda Est: i’m guessing the grift is big enough that you can have those ethical bones surgically removed.
RaflW
Joe Lieberman? He’s still out flogging his useless twaddle?
Wonders never cease.
Villago Delenda Est
I’m a lumberjack and I’m OK!
piratedan
at this point, I would settle for a Vice-Presidential sapling…..
Timurid
I still have fond memories of the No Labels team and their brilliant performance at Munich in 1938…
scav
@piratedan: Well, little saps are easier to clear-cut with garden shears.
WereBear
I should start a web channel! People tend to like me!
Amir Khalid
I’m impressed that anyone at all would pay US$100 a year to follow the comings and goings (and even the thinkings!) of Sarah Palin. I can learn for free more than I want to know about her. This woman is truly a business genius, and she ought to be holding public office.
dmsilev
Well, Holy Joe did give us the phrase “three-way tie for third place” (translation: “fifth”), so he did at least _one_ useful thing in the last couple of decades.
Villago Delenda Est
@Amir Khalid: I believe P.T. Barnum covered the business plan over a century ago.
p.a.
@Villago Delenda Est: this ethics/conscience thing really cramps my style. What were my parents thinking.
lamh36
Welp. It’s time to say goodbye to Hawaii. I’ll be flying out this afternoon at 2:55(HNL) and arriving back on the mainland at 10:10pm (OAK), a 5hr flight. My last view of the ocean and part of the beach from my hotel room.
Aloha and Mahalo to Hawaii!
https://twitter.com/psddluva4evah/status/531933158745591810
Final ride to airport
https://twitter.com/psddluva4evah/status/531956584289955841
Baud
@Villago Delenda Est:
I used to be that way. Then I found Balloon Juice!
WereBear
@lamh36: Hope you had a great time!
Amir Khalid
@WereBear:
You also have something useful to share, unlike Sarah Palin. So yes, you should.
jeffreyw
We upgraded Mrs J’s feature phone to a Droid smarty phone and she is spending time trying to keep me from stealing it from her.
mai naem mobile
@Baud: you could become the scarf stylist for Mark McKinnon
Mustang Bobby
Sarah Palin had a TV channel? Seriously?
NotMax
@dmsilev
Have to admit that did find his candid admission “I’ll work for you 24/6” to be amusing.
Schlemazel
@Mustang Bobby:
just a podcast/web thingy, not a real channel. but yes, I think this was first mentioned in the documentary “Idiocracy”.
The list of great men who were VP may not be long but it does include some people who should not be sullied by association with the likes of Liberman or Palin
TD Roosevelt, HS Truman, LB Johnson, HH Humphrey.
Mike in NC
No Labels? Joe Lieberman already has a label: Douchebag.
sharl
@lamh36: Like WearBear said, hope your vacation was a great one!
Safe and annoyance-free traveling back to Teh Mainland!
JPL
The NY Times has an article and video about the attempted deportation of two generals tied to the atrocities, especially the murder of four nuns in El Savador. I had no idea they were allowed political asylum here. link
Bush I gave they asylum but the video reminds you what a right wing hero looks like, St. Ronny indeed.
JPL
@lamh36: Have a safe trip home. From the pictures on your
twitter feed, it looks like a great time was had.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I’ve been seeing whack-a-doo Sheryl Atkinson is all over the internet trying to shill her Benghazi nuttiness, so I clicked on the Newsmax story to see what the fuck she’s gibbering about. Apparently she’s stuck on whether or not he “called it terror”. She’s even more pathetic than I thought.
JPL
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: You brought back fond memories when Candy Crowley sheeplishly corrected Mitt.
MomSense
@Villago Delenda Est:
I sleep all night and I work all day
Elizabelle
RE No Labels: if they did indeed endorse Tea Partier Mr. Cory Gardner for Mark Udall’s Colorado Senate seat, which Gardner won, they have shown their true colors. Ugly, stupid colors at that.
All I need to know about “No Labels.” More likely, no authentic values.
I hope Colorado will have severe buyer’s remorse.
A lot of states did in 2014. The Republicans still won. Disturbing.
JGabriel
Iraq News is reporting that al-Baghdadi is dead.
Haven’t seen any other major sources reporting it yet, but it looks legit.
He couldn’t have died before the election? It might have helped.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@MomSense: I saw the other day that Cleese has a memoir out, I’m looking forward to that one. Definitely one to be listened to, I think.
dmsilev
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Have you seen the bit where she claimed that secret government hackers had hacked her computer, and her evidence was watching the cursor in a Word document delete some text? The rest of the world looked at that and responded “You’ve been hacked by a stuck delete key. Clean your damn keyboard already.”
MomSense
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
It should be really good. A million years ago Graham Chapman gave a talk at my university and it was fascinating. It was the best audience ever–a bunch of misfits and nerds.
JGabriel
JGabriel:
Scratch that, it’s still not clear. My bad.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@JGabriel: and the last (known) American ebola patient has been released from the hospital.
I share @Elizabelle: ‘s contempt for No Labels and their Gardener endorsement, but I really think it was the ISIS propaganda in his commercials, along with his bland but friendly, TV newscaster media image, that put him over the top. And ebola hysterics contributed to the sense of malaise that I imagine decided a lot of lo-infos to vote R.
On a somewhat related note, I wandered in to a dusty corner of the internet the other day and learned that Joe Piscopo (he was SNL for a couple of years, did a decent Sinatra and followed Eddie Murphy around) is not only still alive, but is hosting a right wing radio show in New Jersey. He blathered something about ISIS being a threat to us all! and declared his love for Rudi 9/11.
dance around in your bones
Hey, whatever happened to Political Surreality”?
After all the hassle I went through to pie the mofo (Durian topping was involved) (been out all day, maybe missed the fireworks).
Roger Moore
@Amir Khalid:
You have to admit that her thinkings won’t add very much to the volume of material to cover. Her blatherings, OTOH, could use up an awful lot of attention that could be used for more valuable pursuits, like memorizing the 1969 Baseball Encyclopedia.
gogol's wife
@JGabriel:
NOTHING WOULD HAVE HELPED. Stopping a depression didn’t help, reducing the deficit didn’t help, cutting the unemployment rate and the number of uninsured people didn’t help, killing Osama bin Laden didn’t help, we never have to ring bells in church for dead service people any more and that didn’t help, NOTHING WOULD HAVE HELPED. Obama is just a bumbler in the media-brainwashed public eye. Someone just said this to me tonight, someone with a Ph.D. in history who should know better. And now, according to the front page of the New York Times, the Republicans have a good shot at the presidency. Yes, let’s give it to them again to see what toilet they can flush us into that some Democrat has to get us out of. Except this time it might not be possible.
nellcote
LaPalin has bad marketing skills. Exclusive video of that Palin Family Brawl would have been a real money maker.
Baud
@gogol’s wife:
I agree. Booman, who I like, thought it might have helped if the president made his statement about net neutrality before the election. It wouldn’t have made a bit of difference.
trollhattan
@Roger Moore:
By my arithmetic that’s $200/idea.
trollhattan
@dance around in your bones:
Post-election vacay in Branson, no wifi.
dance around in your bones
@trollhattan: Ah, grazi, mil grazi.
Not that I miss the douche canoe.
MomSense
@gogol’s wife:
Thank you.
Baud
@dance around in your bones:
How’s the new job going?
trollhattan
Mongo like trend here.
Gin & Tonic
@gogol’s wife: NOTHING WOULD HAVE HELPED.
Indeed. PBO could have hand-carried al-Baghdadi’s severed head onto the set and dropped it into Sean Hannity’s lap and it would have been too little or too late or insufficiently deferential or something.
trollhattan
@dance around in your bones:
Sadly, he’ll find a new paddle.
trollhattan
@Gin & Tonic:
It’s a nice “optic.” Hannity is such a faux manly man, he’d squeal, “bloody head, bloody head!
Omnes Omnibus
@trollhattan: To be fair, so would most of us.
Omnes Omnibus
So apparently the problem with Mark Sanchez is that he was playing for the Jets?
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
Makes sense.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Omnes Omnibus: Well of course. I thought it was a known thing.
Gin & Tonic
Taking advantage of this OT to drop this here. I know the combination of an NRO article by George Weigel about an aspect of Catholicism is like a trifecta of suck around here, but he interviews major-archbishop Sviatoslav Shevchuk, head of the Ukrainian Greek Catholic Church, who is an extraordinarily learned and thoughtful man, eloquent in a half-dozen languages. The UGCC is a primarily western Ukrainian institution, as such more supportive of Ukrainian self-determination than some factions of the Orthodox church, and was directly involved in providing (apolitical) moral support (in the true sense) to the Maidan protesters. A couple of his thoughts below. If you’re willing to brave the source, the entire interview is well worth reading.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: So, fascism?
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: More or less.
Yatsuno
@Gin & Tonic: Y u make Moscow Bob cry?
Omnes Omnibus
@Yatsuno: Y knot?
Shana
@NotMax: Yeah, such a good jew. He’s a member, or was I guess, since he’s no longer in DC, at the synagogue with the rabbi who’s been arrested for putting spy cams in the mikva at his shul.
Villago Delenda Est
@gogol’s wife: He’s blah.
End of discussion.
Whatever he’s accomplished, whatever he’s done, he’s blah. And Dems have a pattern of not bothering to vote in midterms, so the racist garbage wins.
dance around in your bones
@Baud: Gawd, Baud – didja miss the whole fuckup ?
Here’s the thread
As is my usual luck, I have found a really tranquil place until I get the total hip replacement surgery. Bummer is that I ran out of my pain meds and doc won’t give me any more until refill date.
I admit I was taking too many, but the stress of losing the job, plus the constant pain from my fractured hip, plus MISS THANG! drove me to distraction.
dance around in your bones
@dance around in your bones: OK, I can’t find the ‘lost my job’ thread, but believe me it was NOT my fault.
Miss Thang just had a brain fart. Or is ocd/mental.
I will land on my feet.
NotMax
@JGabriel
Yeah, that’s been the reporting for quite a few days running now in Iranian-backed or affiliated press in Iraq, but essentially no place else, so view it with a very jaundiced eye.
More widespread reports from international sources without so much inherent baggage have carried multiple stories of his being injured and spirited back to Syria for treatment.
PhoningItIn
@gogol’s wife: Thank you.