Made it home in one piece, and am now watching a couple of Jack Russell Terriers run around with a Bull Mastiff while Lily sits on various laps observing.
Was just wondering how the Progressive jihad was going- have we advanced to suicide bombings and delinking yet? Is Bernie Sanders still a corporate whore? Have No Quarter and Hillary is 44 weighed in yet? Any more push polling and fund-raising?
You Don't Say
I hope photos follow soon. Happy holidays!
General Winfield Stuck
Now Cole, Stop that. You know they are just concerned is all and are trying to make Obama a better president.
You PUMA labeler you
demimondian
Sheesh, Cole. What have you got against the libelous, smear-mongering, PUMA worshipping anti-Obama plotters at FDL, anyway?
R-Jud
While I was out running in the slush in the park today, I saw some nutcase out and about attempting to “walk” SIX Jack Russells.
MikeJ
White Xmas on AMC all day. While I was making the bûche de noël, Dad starting singing, “Sifters, sifters, there were never such devoted sifters….”
I got in my own baking joke. The mousse needed to go into a cold water bath, which I insisted on calling the opposite of a bain marie (a hot water bath) a bain jezebelle.
Arlene
And now playing the part of Dick Morris, Jane Hamsher. Anybody who thinks Grover Norquist can help them with progressive ideas is nuts. But enough of that lunacy, Happy Holidays everybody. And yes, we do need to see pictures of all the dogs.
smiley
I’m jealous.
danimal
The Christmas truce appears to still be holding.
Just in case, we’ve hired some mercenaries from Little Green Footballs.
valdivia
Merry merry John. And all.
General, I loved your poem in the previous thread.
Joel
if the right = wingnuts
do Hamsher et al. = whingenuts?
General Winfield Stuck
@danimal:
Yet I fear another TeT.
Midnight Marauder
Duh. Of course he is. Those community health centers don’t just fund themselves.
+3
MikeJ
@danimal:
Tell them I added the LGF version of cleek’s pie filter to the chrome BJ pie filter. Click my name if you need the chrome version.
valdivia
@MikeJ:
may the FSM bless you for this public service. I love your pie filter!
cleek
to wit.
Whispers
This isn’t productive in the least.
Kristine
@demimondian:
My question is, how much does What’s happening at FDL matter in the grand scheme? We see it, and cable news sees it to some extent, but we’re a tight little tribe here. Is there any impact beyond this corner of the blogosphere?
ellaesther
Well, I personally got an email from the President telling me that the Senate vote was an historic moment and that in Decembers to come, millions more will have access to affordable health care! That when we make calls, write letters, organize, the change we’re making is a better life for our family and for men and women in every state! And that he’s grateful to me for all I’ve done to get us this far, and that he will need my help every step of the way to make the reform dealio into law.
I really should tell him to stop writing. What will Michelle think?
Brian J
I’ve been busy for the past few days and haven’t had a chance to read this site as much as I’d like, so perhaps someone has suggested like this already. Either way, let me ask, why would the fact that people are forced to buy private insurance mean the market is going to be propped up when it would otherwise come cascading down? If the market itself is slowly collapsing, wouldn’t several millions of new customers, some of whom would the people that private insurance firms are loathe to sign up, just add to the weight? Couldn’t they be the straw that breaks the camel’s back?
asiangrrlMN
@ellaesther: Wait a minute! I got the same e-mail! I thought I was the only one. Sob. Bastard.
@Joel: Snicker. I like it!
Cole! Pictures!
robertdsc
What, no Tunchinator? For shame!
arguingwithsignposts
@asiangrrlMN: dammit, and I thought *I* was the only one.
ellaesther
@asiangrrlMN: He really is just like Tiger Woods!
asiangrrlMN
@robertdsc: I’ve given up hope of seeing my beloved again.
@arguingwithsignposts: @ellaesther: Ha! You guys are teh funny.
JD Rhoades
Looking at FDL today, I was actually thinking “these people are starting to sound EXACTLY like the loons at NoQuarter.” So I backed out slowly, then ran like hell.
Now I’m kicked back, drink in hand, waiting for my folks to arrive so we can tuck into the traditional Christmas Lasagna.
God rest ye merry, y’all.
Backbencher
Does Tunch not celebrate Christmas?
Loneoak
Tis the season for bitter recriminations. And Baby Jesus.
scudbucket
The jihad continues apace, advancing the cause against soci@list private corporations, a detail which Jane forgot to mention.
eemom
easy as it is to get sucked into this manic progressosphere insanity — and I’m a prime suckee, I’m the first to admit — let us pause a moment and reflect that THE SENATE PASSED HCR TODAY!!
O-bot corporate sellout paid Pharma troll communist nazi that I am, I’m really happy about this.
Bring it on, shit-sandwichers.
Seebach
I’m happy to see a lot of Kos diaries harshing on her. Some of us have to work today, so we don’t get time off to relax and not think about this stuff…
comrade scott's agenda of rage
@Arlene:
This confirms the fact that she’s gone into Maryscott O’Connor territory (totally unhinged) and thus, becomes completely irrelevant to lefty blogosphere agitation.
Until she goes onto Fox and Friends next time as the self-proclaimed spokesmoran for “us”.
CalD
Has the great PUMA conspiracy against Rahm Emanuel claimed a new convert?
http://thehill.com/blogs/blog-briefing-room/news/73581-burton-despite-call-for-investigation-rahms-job-is-very-safe-
Politics does indeed make strange bedfellows.
Midnight Marauder
@eemom:
Seriously. I am downright giddy now about watching this Rahm witch hunt blow up in Dear Jane’s face.
The gift that keeps on giving and all that.
Seebach
@Midnight Marauder: Is it? Do you have links to blowup? I want to see. I am so lonely and bored.
comrade scott's agenda of rage
@JD Rhoades:
Interesting observation. I keep bringing up the Maryscott O’Connor references but she’s one of three people/sites that Hamsher/FDL remind me of:
Maryscott O’Connor (My Left Wing)
Armando–Big Tent Democrat (Talk Left)
No Quarter (Larry Johnson)
FDL (Jane Hamsher)
All went totally off the deep end and who reads em now? Other than their core audience? Right, nobody.
If this place ever gets like that…
Annie
@ellaesther:
But, I am the only one and I have the pictures to prove it…
eemom
@Midnight Marauder:
indeed, the number of her loyal groupies has noticeably dwindled. There’s still a bunch of them though.
Which leads me to wonder what would happen if she just kept on inching ever closer to the right until she finally ended up a full bore Ann Coulter (to whom she has been compared, btw). Would these people continue to follow her?
AngusTheGodOfMeat
I got the Obama email today. So far, this is pretty much what I voted for and expected.
As Festivus presents go, this is a pretty good one so far. I am still reading up on the Senate bill summaries and the comparos between Senate and House versions. Hopefully by the time the conference process gets underway and the daily manipulations and demagogueriness begin in January, I will be prepared for them.
Meanwhile I have a rental house to fix up and get ready for a new tenant, some surgery to prepare for, and other stuff I need to do. Looking forward to not having to deal with this “progressive meltdown” bullshit for a while.
Jane Hamsher seems like a well meaning person, but for all I know, Sarah Palin is a well meaning person. So there you go.
Enjoy your Yule or whatever Pagan ritual you observe.
HCR, bitches. Love it or leave it.
Max
@MikeJ:
I was watching Bobby Flay do a yule log throwdown and I have never been so sad to be diabetic.
Jealous of you, I am.
Skin Failure
Perhaps it’s my discriminating and superior taste in weblogs (no Kos, no FDL, etc.), but the only blog I see hyperventillating about HCR is this one.
I likes me some No Quarter-bashing, but have been surprised to see that I have a limit. I’m disappointed in myself. Then again, if people didn’t feed the trolls, I’d starve to death.
Happy Holidays to all, furry creatures and otherwise.
arguingwithsignposts
Smudge loves the keyboard. She’s looking at me suspiciously even as I type this. I’m thinking the FDL/GOS freakout has got to her.
jeffreyw
Jeez, folks, break it up! Here: moar puppy!
arguingwithsignposts
@jeffreyw: Avast, ye scurvy dogs!
Zzyzx
There have not been enough Jane Hamshers of the left jokes.
And yesterday I noticed DKos was starting to find the whole thing funny which is good… we fight a lot but the good side of that is that no one fight is that serious.
General Winfield Stuck
I think Cole has gotten that memo.
rs
@comrade scott’s agenda of rage: Actually, this place started like that. Check out the archives. You don’t have to look hard to find it links approvingly to Ann Coulter, Lucienne Goldberg, LGF.
It’s a virtual lunatic honor roll.
MikeJ
@Max:
You are not the one that has to make it for the famille. Every step is very, very easy. And there are 472 of them. Right now, I’ve spread the mousse on the cake, rolled it, and it is resting in the fridge. I will make icing right before I remover it from the fridge, then I’ll make meringue champignons. And then I will faint.
+2 Makers Marks.
Emma
jeffreyw: nice puppies! But I couldn’t help noticing you make pumpernickel bread? Can we be bffs please?
Litlebritdifrnt
The camel’s nose is under the tent. That is the way I am looking at it, next will be his foot. This is just a start. I for one look forward to the other four legs and the butt. Right now DH and I are looking at being 20K in debt due to co-pays, deductibles, etc., no-one should have to face bankruptcy because they became sick, and that is exactly what DH and I are facing right now. Other than that we opened two presents this evening. DH and I bought each other (without knowing it) identical jammies (blue and black checks), and Cueball is sleeping with his latest squeaky toy (which he had been trying to sneakily unwrap since 3pm when I wrapped it), I watched the Christmas special of The Vicar of Dibley (I adore Dawn French), and then a Doctor Who Christmas special. Right now sipping on a surprisingly nice australian shiraz for $3.97 a bottle. Happy whatever it is you celebrate people.
Litlebritdifrnt
@arguingwithsignposts:
So how come that post wasn’t “nnnnnnn,,,,,,,,,mmmmmmmmmdndndndndndndndndnd…….”
Huh? Cause that is what my cats always type.
arguingwithsignposts
@Litlebritdifrnt:
having been through the experience, I would not wish it on anyone. These are big rocks we keep trying to push. My heart goes out to you, LBD
Midnight Marauder
@Seebach:
Sadly, I have no links for you and my comment was one made mostly out of observing the anti-Jane pushback that has sprung up very recently at the GOS and then perusing through this thread over at FDL:
So You Want To Defend Rahm on Fannie/Freddie
Right, Jane. That’s what people are taking objection with. Fool. The one thing I’m enjoying about all this is that anytime someone challenges her in one of her diaries (along the lines of “Wow, what you’re doing is pretty fucking stupid”), she immediately responds with some variation of this:
That’s it. That’s her entire endgame, apparently. Any criticism she gets about slumming it up with Grover Fucking Norquist results in “But what do you think about what Rahm did on the board of Freddie?” I guess that is what’s going to bring
back the public optiondown the Obama Administration. But take a look at some of the comments from the Hamsherites circling the wagons:This will not end well at all for Dear Jane.
MikeJ
@Litlebritdifrnt:
The Blackadder xmas is just ending! Go and buy me a turkey that looks like its mother was rogered by an omnibus!
jeffreyw
@Emma: check with asiangrrl, ok by me
arguingwithsignposts
@Midnight Marauder:
Grover f**king Norquist is a new tag nominee. Or it should be.
CalD
@eemom: And without a single Democrat hold-out on the actual vote (not just the cloture vote). How about a shout out to Harry Reid on that one?
Max
@MikeJ:
Still jealous.
Corner Stone
@jeffreyw: I’m guessing this means you won’t be standing beside me at a local Justice of the Peace anytime soon?
demimondian
Poor Jane.
Problem is that the bonus problem was investigated during the Bush years, not once, but *three* times. I mean, come on, don’t you know that administration wanted to get anyone who was associated with both the poor and Clinton? Each time, the conclusion came back that there had been crooks, but that none of the other directors had been among them.
Emmanuel no longer has a financial interest in Fannie or Freddie, so that story doesn’t hold together either.
She’s simply decided that since Rahm got what he wanted, she’d get him, by any means possible.
Midnight Marauder
@arguingwithsignposts:
Before the new year begins, I motion to have a thread dedicated solely to creating and finalizing new tags for the upcoming year. I think we all know that we are going to need that little bit of happiness if this year is any indication of what happens when you have a Congress that is actually doing something for the first time since forever.
asiangrrlMN
@CalD: True. Gotta give the man some credit, I guess.
@jeffreyw: Yeah, that’s right. You all better recognize that I got first dibs on jeffreyw!
Bruce (formerly Steve S.)
Badly. You still have to advertise for Cadillac and Pam Anderson to stay in business. If only there were state subsidies for bloggers.
arguingwithsignposts
@asiangrrlMN:
Damn you, asiangrrlMN! You get all the good ones! /colbert voice.
asiangrrlMN
@arguingwithsignposts: Man, that is the cutest pic of Little Smudge. I love the pirate look you gave her in another thread.
EvolutionaryDesign
Merry End-Of-Christmas-Advertising everyone!
bago
Io Saturnalia!
jeffreyw
@Corner Stone: i’ll offer a character reference, mebbe help ya make bail?
Elie
@eemom:
Absolutely. I danced a jig this morning in celebration and allowed myself a quiet moment of acknowledgement.
meh
Anyone got any advice on setting up a Wii? I’m +3 and getting ready to try and set it up for the wee ones but I have a feeling it might end badly for all involved – advice is needed…
PTirebiter
@CalD:
The L.A. Times had a nice write up this morning about Harry’s mad senate skilz once he’s away from the podium. Nice to him him get some credit. It’s snowing in Dallas and my 2yr old lab mix is confused. Happy Holidays to all, and may the God of your choosing bless us all.
PTirebiter
@meh:
It’s a piece of cake, definitely plug and play. Follow the quick set up, pay attention when your synching the remotes, but you can’t break it.
Litlebritdifrnt
Watching August Rush right now and getting really silly on music… sigh.
Roger Moore
@meh:
The Wii is designed to be
adultfool proof to set up. There are only about 3 physical connectors to attach, and each one is different so you can’t plug them into the wrong sockets. The trickiest bit as I remember it is that the sensor bar can be configured to go either above or below the TV, and the controls you need to reconfigure it are hard to work if you get it backward. So if you find you’re having a hard time moving the hand around on the screen, it may be because the sensor bar is at the bottom but wants to be at the top or vice versa.Morgan
@arguingwithsignposts: I think it’s because they’re warm.
Steeplejack
@MikeJ:
I love the Blackadder Christmas special. I’ve still got it on my DVR from last year. Must dust it off and watch it tomorrow. Favorite bit: Robbie Coltrane as the Spirit of Christmas.