The flight was sheer hell, but I made it. Now I have to race around and find a sports bar because the Steelers start in a half hour.
*** Update ***
The clock says 8:30, but after only three heife-weizens and an order of fish and chips, hometeam is flat out exhausted.
Noah
The PUMA’s have a widget for counting down the days until Obama is out of office. Of course, because they are PUMA’s, they got the date wrong!
Krista
Glad to hear you made it okay. So when to we get to play "Where in the hell is John Cole?"
JGabriel
Krista:
What’s the point? It’s not like any of us will recognize him without the pith helmet.
Unless we’re talking about some kind of verbal guessing game.
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gbear
I suppose tomorrow morning you’ll be telling us that the sun came up in the east.
fuddmain
@Noah: Maths iz hard.
zzyzx
Looks miserable in Pittsburgh…
Keith
I’m treating this as an open thread and thus posting this link to a story that would be shocking if I wasn’t alive and awake for the last 8 years. Basically, Mark Cuban got into an email battle with an SEC lawyer (who really comes across more like a political appointment). This SEC employee actually CC’ed Chris Cox in emails he sent to Cuban, and of course, a year later Cuban’s being investigated by the SEC for insider trading.
Scary stuff if you don’t believe the "this person wasn’t involved in the investigation" denials from SEC.
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
John Cole: International Man of Mystery.
You really need to bring Tunch along with you on these trips, John. Nothing adds to the allure and power of an IMOM like a solidly built cat.
That One - Cain
@Krista:
What’s the point? He’s at a sports bar, watching the Steelers. Nothing interesting about that. Now.. if he was at a gay bar watching the Steelers, that might be interesting.
cain
taylormattd
Sorry John, but fuck the Steelers.
The refs stole the superbowl for them in the 2005 season.
/bitter, bitter Seattle sports fan.
kommrade reproductive vigor
A little HW for JC.
Incertus
@Noah: That is ten kinds of awesome.
Ash Can
OK, the new left-margin PJTV ad reads, "OMG – a conservative Daily Kos convention? Glenn Reynolds and Michelle Malkin think about the unthinkable!"
Uh, didn’t those poor saps already try a conservative counterpoint to the Kos convention and have something like 24 people show up? Maybe they’re hoping everyone will have forgotten about that.
ninerdave
If one assumes that Cole got to the airport two hours ahead of time that would be able 11 am. Figure about an hour and a half to deplane, get luggage, taxi to the hotel he arrived around around 6pm.
Assuming a nonstop flight, he’s on the west coast.
The dead give away is this however:
"The flight was sheer hell"
Having just flown from San Francisco to Boston and back in coach, that’s exactly how I’d describe it. I’m 6’3" and barely fit in an airline seat. I was stuffed in the window seat on the way too Boston and the middle on the way back. Both times with two full grown men in my isle. I couldn’t move so I drank a lot with my only free arm.
ninerdave
@That One – Cain:
Harvey’s in the Castro has football on.
JGabriel
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse:
And nothing destroys said allure and power like a t-shirt that says "IMOM" – which sounds like a really scary new robot from Apple.
Unless you’re Glenn Reynolds. Then an IMOM probably sounds like the MILF robot (MILFBot?) of your dreams.
(Or is it Assrocket who has the robot fetish? I’m always getting those two confused.)
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gbear
If you don’t want to watch the Steelers (meh) or guess where John is, MN Public Radio has a little game going where you get to guess the voter’s intent over ballots that have been challenged by Coleman or Franken. It doesn’t give you a correct answer but you get to see how everyone else voted. It’s pretty cool.
Of course, I was completely impartial in my answers.
Incertus
@gbear: My favorite was the guy who voted for Lizard People over and over again.
Blue Raven
#10 – With you there. That dead-to-TD ball call was flagrant incompetence or worse.
/Pats fan since Schaefer days
Josh E.
I hope the NFL Network and Armstrong Cable fuck each other with flaming spiky dicks for all eternity.
kommrade reproductive vigor
The sidebar again: Is it me or is there something deeply sad about seeing pHuckabee with the likes of Glenn Reynoldswrap & Dr. Hellenahandbag?
Sort of like seeing your strict and very proper second grade teacher hanging around in the red light district. You can’t stand her, but it bothers you to see her there.
Xanthippas
Indeed.
It’s funny how a copy of one of the emails took about 24 hours to make it to the NY Times and the Washington Post. Any fan of the Dallas Mavericks can tell you that Cuban is not one to back away from a fight.
And what the hell is the matter with that Norris guy? Seriously…repeatedly emailing Cuban from his WORK address, and then copying the freaking Chairman of the SEC in on his exchanges? What a nut! How did that not get him in some kind of trouble at the time??
CIRCVS MAXIMVS MMVIII
LMAO, John Cole’s a busy man. So when new threads haven’t been opened in forever and Michael and Tim aren’t around, we can blame it on chain gang duty?
gbear
@Incertus:
Yea, I thought The Lizard People was pretty great too. Beltrami County (where the ballot came from) is in far northern MN in the middle of absolutely nothing and nowhere.
Clor
@gbear:
I didn’t realize that it was so difficult to vote. Why didn’t these people get a new ballot??
gbear
OMG! The puppies just got a new blanket! Hillarity is ensuing.
Damn whoever posted this link yesterday…
gbear
@Clor:
They were probably too embarassed to ask. There are rules as to how to correct a ballot when you make a mistake, but I don’t know if anyone ever reads them. I know I never have, but then I’ve never once voted for anyone but the best candidate.
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
IMOM != International Man of Mullet.
Will Hunting
Who goes as Ernest Hemingway to a Halloween party?
Cuban definitely not one to back down. The sports world needs more owners like him.
Delia
@gbear:
The puppies spent much of the afternoon tearing their old bed apart. It looks like their human mom is now cuddling them and trying to calm them down a bit. Good luck with that one.
Update: Mom’s gone. They’re busy tearing up their diaper pad. What fun.
Krista
Nice to know that he’s polite enough to answer all letters. Maybe that explains why he’s such a curmudgeon with us — he only has so much love to go around.
gbear
@Delia:
Yes, I noticed the stuffings all over the place earlier today. I am addicted. I have surrendered to my puppy overlords.
Comrade Stuck
@gbear:
We owe our thanks to Delia. I’m fully addicted, and what a wonderful addiction it is. Watched them wake up a couple of hours ago and they’ve been on a tear ever since.
Delia
@Comrade Stuck:
Somebody else posted it a day or two before I reposted it. I can’t remember who. I’m utterly addicted to the puppies.
smiley
@JGabriel:
[shudder] But I love you Mom! Really! Mom? MOM? AGHHH…
gbear
@32-34: We’re starting to sound like a cult…
Delia
@gbear:
We’re not alone. I was reading some thread on Atrios and they were talking about the puppies, too.
Nose
This is the funniest thing I have seen in a long time. Be sure to look at all the captions while the turkey grinding is underway.
The Grand Panjandrum
Swoosh!
JGabriel
gbear:
(Blinks. Slowly.)
Starting?
(Blinks again. Shakes off the shock.)
Er, yeah, sure. Whatevs.
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Indylib
@gbear:
Shiba Inus are very cool dogs. We lived out on the economy for a year when we first moved to Japan and our Japanese landlady had one.
My husband asked the landlady for permission and bought dog snacks for the pup and gave him one every day when he came home from work. The dog loved him to pieces.
Comrade Jake
@Nose:
That was awesome.
LiberalTarian
So, I asked my landlord if I could get a puppy today.
D’oh. I am SO nervous. All you happy go lucky pet owners say a mantra or two for me please.
My daughter has this adorable dog who looks like a german shepherd but only weighs about 40 pounds (really small). She had pups, and they are saving one for me that looks like her. Hopefully I’ll get the OK from my landlord … she’s a girl, and if I get her, I’m going to name her Luna.
HOPE.
LiberalTarian
@gbear:
You know what is really weird? I had skipped over the puppy posts in my hurry to ask for good puppy joojoo.
It is on the twilight zone side.
Super cute puppies though.
I really hope my landlord says OK.
Zuzu's Petals
@Comrade Stuck:
I’m inspired.
I’m going to ask the kids to please put up a streaming video of my new granddaughter so I can have my grammy fix from out of state.
Bigyaknut
I’m a hardcore Bengals fan and it’s painful to say congratulations, but I will.
It’s a little easier when you had the over at 35 though. Thanks Ben.
You guys effed us in the A this year, can’t deny that.
srv
Attorney General Mukasey collapses while waxing on in front of the Federalist Society how indefinite detetion of a US citizen was perfectly Constitutional.
I have no good wishes for a man who is clearly a threat to the Constitution of the United States.
Cain
@LiberalTarian:
Good luck! Hope the landlord says yes!
cain
LiberalTarian
Yeah, Mukasey collapsed.
But, the puppies bark!
So, I guess it all evens out.
Cain
@srv:
Did he really collapse??
Damn..
cain
Mrs. Peel
Kind of makes you wonder if there’s something behind that whole "may God strike me down if I’m lying" thingie.
Karma or God – what goes around comes around.
Comrade Stuck
@Zuzu’s Petals:
LOL, the wonders of the intertubes are many. :)
LiberalTarian
My daughter lives in BFE Colorado, where she says only one little intertube connects the town with the world. So, no granddaughter cam for me. :o(
Cain
There is a really sweet/sad story on KOS about an elderly lesbian couple. Apparently, being elderly they had gone to bed early on election night. One of them abruptly woke up and asked who won? The other checked and said Obama had won.. the other went back to sleep and then died soon after.
Sorry, if it’s sad.. you should go back and watch the puppies.
cain
TenguPhule
Irony is the axis of the universe.
ninerdave
Damn you all for the puppy cam link.
TenguPhule
No chance. DC would be a morgue.
Common Sense
The LolCat Bible.
God I love the internet.
Delia
@LiberalTarian:
Aw, good luck. I’ll send my warm thoughts for you out into the Universe.
Delia
Well, you know, these are the people who were praying for Obama to have rain on his speech on Mile High Stadium, and were praying for him to lose the election, etc., etc. You’d think they’d get a clue after a while.
Anybody got a link on Mukasey, BTW?
A la lanterne les aristos
Wow, so this is what happens to blogs after the election ends.
Have people started sharing recipes and scrapbooking tips yet?
…
(But those really are incredibly cute puppies)
TenguPhule
Here ya go.
gbear
@Delia:
Here’s the video
Mrs. Peel
Go here
Garrigus Carraig
I’m just gonna confess that my first reaction to the Mukasey collapse was schadenfreude. I mean seriously: While Defending Torture/Guantánamo? Sheesh. "Speaking for myself only."
Comrade Stuck
John Mccain used Jackson Browne’s music and that of others during his campaign. Browne and the others asked him to stop to no avail. Today Mccain responds with his own counter suit to Brownes claiming:
And some people wonder why this country is so fucked up after 8 years of mis-rule by the party of personal responsibility. John Mccain –Asshat
gbear
@Comrade Stuck:
McCain’s just doing it for the publicity. His profile could use a lift.
passerby
Dam dam the puppy cam.
Cute sleeping too.
Dreaming up a storm.
"Chasing rabbits" and grunting.
Legs jittering.
Belly festival.
Dam dam the puppy cam.
[and Be well Mukasey]
Comrade Turkey Bagovich
Many of my brothers have died to bring you the lulz. Please, view this in rememberance of them.
Comrade Turkey Bagovich
Accursed angle brackets! I will not let you stand in my way, especially after such a tragedy!
Cain
I hope Mukasey will be all right. I send well wishes.
cain
Joshua Norton
Larry Craig said at Stevens farewell circle jerk:
"I’m en route from downtown Anchorage, to the Ted Stevens International Airport. And as we round the curb and pull up to exit the cab, I look up, and there is your name. And I said, ‘Oh, Ted’s got an airport, that’s neat’."
How are the restrooms Larry?
They must think irony is a flavor. They’re always wallowing in it.
LiberalTarian
I dunno. Puppies or GOP disgust.
What to do, what to do.
Well, I’m going with the puppies.
Juan del Llano
[Homer Simpson food moan]
Mmmm…
Geez, I gotta get out more.
Cain
whoa, looks like clinton is on track to be secretary of state according to huffington post.
cain
kommrade reproductive vigor
@TenguPhule:
That is some funny right there.
But it sounds like he had some sort of cerebral event, and those aren’t funny. Plus we’re going to be knee-deep in the piss of fReichtards: "OMG! Obama had Mukasey poisoned!!"
Comrade Mary, Would-Be Minion Of Bad Horse
@Comrade Turkey Bagovich:
As God is my witness, I thought turkeys could resurrect.
charlotte
Maybe there is a God after all. We have Baby McCain vs. Jackson Browne; AGs stroking out at the Federalist podium downtown; and Sarah LifeForce Palin doing a turkey routine straight out of Aqua Teen Hunger Force. It’s like the deity has chosen to make himself manifest all over our screens. Just in time for the holidays. Also too.
gbear
@passerby:
Great poem. I saw them dreaming last night too. This morning the site must be overloaded with traffic. I can’t get in for my morning fix.
LiberalTarian, I hope your landlord comes thru for you.
Xanthippas
If out of all the people in the Bush administration that could be stricken down God chooses Mukasey, then something is very, very wrong with God.
Tim
OK, well, it seems to have been established that John spent last night in a Gay Leather Sports Bar watching the Stillers. So all that remains to be revealed is whether he is a top or a bottom.
I vote top/closet bottom.
A la lanterne les aristos!
He’s a switch, obviously.