That’s not kitty yoga. That’s kitty “come an inch closer and I’ll disembowel you.”
And — ADORABLE!
7.
BombIranForChrist
What do you guys think of Jeb running in 2012?
I think the conventional wisdom is: “Holy fuck, not another Bush”, but in a country where Sarah Palin is a national election pick, it is really, really super easy to see Americans voting for yet another Bush in 4 years. Really easy.
What do you guys think? Jeb is nowhere near as stupid as his brother. He’s Mr. Super Slick and not only do I think he may run in 2012, I think it’s likely.
8.
DaBomb
I don’t know if anybody has read this. But apparently now one of the Obama daughters- Malia was wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign and the Freepers went crazy. Take a gander at this shit.
Bwahahaha. Great pic! Speaking of pets, my man’s Henry is too adorable. He has now decided that he hearts me so much that he must sleep as close as he can get to me when I stay at John’s house. Since he’s not allowed up on the bed, this means he sleeps on the floor on my side of the bed, preferrably touching the bed rail. Last night, he wanted to get even closer and ended up with his rear half under the bed. Which wouldn’t be such a big deal except he’s about 135 pounds, most of it rear end. Usually, as soon as my eyes open, he’s right there, panting in my face with tongue lolling, looking for some affection. This morning, I opened my eyes but no Henry. But I could hear him, just little quiet whines. When I looked down to see what was wrong, he was stuck under the bed and the desperate look on his face was priceless. I couldn’t drag him out since he weighs more than I do and even John couldn’t get him out he was so wedged in. We finally had to lift the bed by the footboard to get him out. Never have I seen a dog so happy nd relieved and never have I gotten so many grateful doggie kisses. Man, I love that dog!
10.
DaBomb
With this craziness and the Swim Club fiasco in Philadelphia, I think i am going to have a drink.
11.
Crashman06
This blog makes me want a pet so bad. Damn rental contract!
I just had the best plum I have had in years. Also.
WTF is going on with these Project Woderful ads?
13.
Comrade Stuck
âJohn Ensign hasnât put me in a tough position at all,â said Coburn, a housemate of Ensignâs at a Capitol Hill home owned by a Christian fellowship. âThe person thatâs deceiving now is Doug. And you all need to go do the investigation now on that side of it and quit asking us and ask what’s the motivation here.â
Let’s see. His best bud Ensign goes poking his carrot around someone elses wife, and won’t quit, or can’t. Gets his parents to pay hush money, and it’s not Ensigns fault, but rather the strange woman’s hubby is all to blame. This here is Love Amurken Wingnut Style.
Yeah, I know! I keep getting some crap about mosaics!
But seriously, did John Cole just talk smack about his own ads?
ETA: Ummm, no. When I bother to pay attention, L-dub’s are the only one’s that don’t annoy me. Oh, and I miss Pam. I want her back, and I am going to bitch about her absence endlessly until she returns!
19.
Crashman06
John, will you kill me if I say I kinds miss the Pam Anderson ad?
Tucker Carlson: Do you believe global warming is primarily man-made?
Jeb Bush: I’m a skeptic. I’m not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized. I would be very wary of hollowing out our industrial base even further
I’m not big on the idea of Jeb Bush. I don’t think it should be constitutional for a father and 2 sons from the same family to be eligible to run for president. I also don’t think it should be constitutional for a husband and wive to both be able to run for president. This dynastic bullshit has gotten completely out of hands. That goes for Congress as well.
@DaBomb: Wow. That is really vile and heinous. I thought kids were off-limits? Oh, right, only if they’re Republicans. That made me really, really, really sad. I’m going to nap now.
P.S. I want that kitty. So cute.
P.P.S. JK, I’m not sure I agree with this. I mean, where would you draw the line? It’s ok for Hillary Clinton to be senator, but not prez after Bill was prez? I dunno. I understand what you mean about dynasties (especially after two Bushes and with the threat of a third), but I would hesitate to say that if one person is pres, then anyone else in the family can’t be.
24.
HRA
As I watched the train wreck of McCain/Palin, I knew the next candidate for 2012 or 2016 has to be Jeb Bush. He did very well as governor during the hurricanes. He has a Spanish wife and can speak Spanish fluently. George H. Bush has even mentioned Jeb as a candidate for president.
My thought is get the crazies off the stage. Puleeze!
Jeb’s a dick and a half, besides being a Bush (but then, I repeat myself), and I’m fairly confident that today’s Democratic party won’t be afraid to point it out.
I donât think it should be constitutional for a father and 2 sons from the same family to be eligible to run for president.
I’ve never understood this argument. Don’t vote for them. The idea of denying someone a chance to serve because of something somebody else did is mind boggling.
28.
Comrade Stuck
I just meant it is an eclectic set of advertising.
I thought Ms Anderson was kind of eclectic, in her own special way.
I caught the last few seconds of David Schuster and Tamron Hall on MSNBC as that photo was being flashed on the screen. Leave it to 24/7 cable news to make a big deal out of the most insignificant bullshit.
I like Keith Ellison too. You Minnesotans have to do the right thing in 2010 and vote that crazy dumbass Michele Bachmann out of office.
30.
RedKitten (formerly Krista - the Canadian one)
DaBomb @ #8:
Wow. Just wow. So these people who wanted Letterman fired for saying that Palin was cultivating a “slutty flight-attendant” look, have no problem saying that an ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD girl looks like “ghetto trash” and a “street whore”?
Scum. The freepers are absolute, unadulterated, 100% scum, and each and every one of them is a complete waste of oxygen.
Jebâs a dick and a half, besides being a Bush (but then, I repeat myself), and Iâm fairly confident that todayâs Democratic party wonât be afraid to point it out.
not to mention the inevitable Iraq War Threequel: Operation Why the Fuck Not?!
@AhabTRuler: Yeah, it’s well-known by now that I have a thing for black cats. It’s my dream to open a black cat haven one day, to take in all the unwanted black cats.
Which ad is offering dating services? I’m just curious, of course.
I’ve been looking for singles to meet near me, and I’m not even asian, or Christian. ;)
You may not be, and that’s okay!
35.
geg6
Okay, can someone tell me why Rupert Murdoch is not in jail and being sued for every penny he has for his massive private domestic spyng program he’s been running through one of his UK newspapers? Is British law just fine and dandy with this sort of thing?
@JK: The problem is, the districts served by Ellison and Bachmann are so damn different. T’aint no way a Democrat will win Bachmann’s district. Unless, she’s caught saying she’s for universal healthcare and raising taxes on the wealthy.
That’s a damn shame. Bachmann is so deranged and delusional. She’s a huge stain on Minnesota’s reputation. At least you have Klobuchar and Franken and before them had Hubert Humphrey (I know about Vietnam but he had a very good domestic record) and Gene McCarthy and culturally speaking you gave the rest of the country F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Bob Dylan, and Prince.
I’ll continue to pray that Bachmann gets tangled up in an ethics scandal.
What happened, did the guy marry an adulterous sheep or something?
42.
The next-to-last samurai
No more Pam, please. I like to read BJ over lunch so I want the site to remain SFW. Also, since I am a samurai of the female variety, Pammie didn’t have anything I hadn’t seen before, except for that mysterious 3rd arm.
@JK: Still won’t matter. She has to be caught doing something egregiously Democratic (with a capital D. Come to think of it, with a lower-case one, too).
Ok. To all you Facebook users out there, I have a question for you. I have had trouble with FB for the past month or so with them sending me warnings that I have misused certain features, but they refuse to give specifics for ‘security’ reasons. In addition, all the general reasons they’ve listed, I haven’t done. There is no place to contact anybody, and from what I’ve read, there are many people with this same problem.
I just got my account disabled with no explanation. Oh, one person was told that typing too fast may be the problem. Anyone else have this problem?
More to the point, I want to make a big stink about it because there is no recourse. They send warning emails with no real return address, and there is no way to contact them about this. I am open to ideas about contacting media and such because that seems to be the only way to get them to change their policy.
I would be appreciative of any ideas.
44.
geg6
Da Bomb: That is some really disgusting shit. I want to take a baseball bat to trash who talk like that. Gawd, these people. I can’t even articulate how ill they make me.
Jeb’s not stupid, he’s not running. He might think the wrong Bush son was nominated to begin with, but he’s not going to run in 2012. 2016, 2020, maybe, after he’s had enough time to remind everyone that he’s not his paste eating brother. Nope, 2012 belongs to Romney or Huckabee. Remember, the GOP (2000 excluded) always picks the guy whose turn it is (this is one thing that Chris Matthews is absolutely right about). If I were a betting man (oh, wait, I am) I’d give Romney better odds because he’s a dynasty kid who will sell better in Republican suburbs than Huckabee.
I can hear the freeper wife now, “Ah’m sick and tired a washin and ironin your gotdamned wetsuits, Jed. An how-in-da-hell did you git thet stain on em?”
I happened to follow that link one day, and ended up finding a link (through doing a search on someone) to an absolutely FREE dating site.
PlentyofFish.com
;)
52.
JK
Does Larry King have no sense of decency whatsoever? Michael Jackson is still dead, but that won’t stop Larry from pissing away another hour of valuable airtime to indulge in this tabloid nonsense.
Yes it made me sick too. Because after all she’s a kid. She’s not even a teenager. Malia can’t defend herself and she is an innocent. And when did the peace sign stand for “trash” anyway?
It’s one thing to say that about a grown ass person. Palin was being attacked and she could say “also,” wink and be mavericky all day to defend herself, if she wanted. She has the right. Even if she sucks.
I am sick of the Michelle is related to gorillas comments, and references to the family being coons or mammies. It’s just shitty.
Maybe I am being a little over-sensitive today. People just suck.
55.
RedKitten (formerly Krista - the Canadian one)
@AhabTRuler: I happened to follow that link one day, and ended up finding a link (through doing a search on someone) to an absolutely FREE dating site. PlentyofFish.com
PlentyofFish seems to be one of the more popular ones now. I don’t know if Lavalife is still going strong, but that’s where I met my husband. :)
I forgot who made that remark about Michelle Obama and gorillas, but that jackass implied it was partly her fault because she was supposedly discussing evolution or some related subject.
59.
GregB
The same vulgar swine that claim that Palin’s family should be out of bounds are the same freaks that forward e-mails about Obama’s children, wife, aunts, half-brothers etc.
This is of course fair game because they don’t believe that African-Americans are deserving of any dignity.
American International Group is preparing to pay millions of dollars more in bonuses to several dozen top corporate executives after an earlier round of payments four months ago set off a national furor.
The company has been pressing the federal government to bless the payments in hopes of shielding itself from renewed public outrage.
…
The payments coming due next week include $2.4 million in bonuses for about 40 high-ranking corporate officers at AIG, according to administration documents from earlier this year. Though the actual sum may have changed since then, the payments are much smaller than those that caused the upheaval in March.
That’s right. That socialist ferner president of ours is really destroying capitalism as we know it.
A few days ago, I made a comment in reference to Sarah Palin’s self-promoted martyrdom that wingnuts have 5 speeds, and now I need to add another:
Persistant fixation on all things Rectal.
Whether they be wetsuits, criminalizing dildos or sodomy, “grab your ankles”, obsessing over teh gheys ,and the gem I heard during my 10 minute commute home, courtesy of Mark Levin, speaking on Healthcare.
“If these Senators were getting the same healthcare that they want for the American People, they wouldn’t pass this bill in a hundred years. They get to choose who they want. I wonder what it would be like if I could choose Harry Reid’s proctologist. How do you ya like that Mista Produsah? I’d want a guy with hands, I dunno, hands like a grizzly bear.
Fucking ew.
What is it with these wingnuts and their obsession with ass?
62.
anonevent
@BombIranForChrist: Would the wingers be able to handle a Mexican first lady, or half Mexican kids? The answer is probably IOKIYAR.
GOS has a story about how Freepers can’t handle black children in the white house; the same people telling us that Palin’s kids were off limits.
63.
Comrade Stuck
I wonder what it would be like if I could choose Harry Reidâs proctologist.
A question better left un-pondered.
64.
Comrade Stuck
What is it with these wingnuts and their obsession with ass?
Maybe it’s the pressure they feel from being so lovable.
65.
JK
What is it with these wingnuts and their obsession with ass?
Maybe, it’s because Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, etc spend most of their waking hours with their heads stuck up their asses.
66.
inkadu
@JK: Interesting interview on Jeb. He’s obviously not “the smarter Bush,” he’s the “smart Bush,” but objectivity, etc.
Jeb acknoweldged the demographic problem for the Republicans among hispanics, but isn’t ready to lose his anti-immigration policies. He thinks he can have a dispassionate discussion about immigration and ignore the 80% of the base for whom anti-immigration fervor is thinly veiled racism. The interviewer very smartly follows up with questions about Rush Limbaugh, and Jeb does nothing to bring a brother down. Maybe its too early to go after Rush, because he knows it would kill his chances in a primary, but if Republicans want to seem reasonable and dispassionate, they are going to have to distance themselves from the Big Fat Idiot.
Still, it’s clear that Jeb knows the best way to sell Republican policy is to sharpie a smiley face on them and hope nobody notices.
I donât know if anybody has read this. But apparently now one of the Obama daughters- Malia was wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign and the Freepers went crazy. Take a gander at this shit.
I really wish I hadn’t seen that. Janeane Garofalo was right: the intense dislike/hatred of all things Obama has nothing to do with the Democratic Party, or being a Muslim or a s0cialist, or Wright or Ayers. It’s racism, pure and simple. Gawd, that was nauseating.
What exactly will these firefighters testify to? How can they give testimony on Judge Sotomayor’s JUDICIAL JUDGEMENT. If Karma is truly a bitch, then this will so backfire on GOP.
I have never watched a confirmation hearing…EVER!!! Not even the Clarence Thomas “pubes on a coke can” hearing. But I damn sure thinking about watching this one.
75.
Anne Laurie
Jebâs not stupid, heâs not running. He might think the wrong Bush son was nominated to begin with, but heâs not going to run in 2012. 2016, 2020, maybe, after heâs had enough time to remind everyone that heâs not his paste eating brother. Nope, 2012 belongs to Romney or Huckabee.
Bingo. The Rethug primaries are going to be an absolute friggin’ zoo, but the actual nomination will go to some middle-aged pale male, probably with an under-the-radar “other” (a woman or non-white but NOT Palin, Jindal or Steele) on the undercard. “Sensible” machine pols like Jeb don’t like the idea of running against an incumbent, so they’re encouraging the noisy no-hopers to waste their energy & funds in 2012 while the Permanent Party keeps its powder dry. (And that’s when the third-party “excitement” starts, of course: Palin/Ensign and the Real American(tm) Honesty & Independence Party 2012!)
On the other hand, as I heard tell, one reason Jeb didn’t run in the 90s was that he’d been “intelligent” enough to leave a paper trail of his helpfulness to the ex-Batista kleptocrats who’ve done so much to turn Florida into a environmental nightmare over the last several decades. (Unlike Dubya, who never did more to earn the corrupt funds funneled into his lifelong string of business failures than maybe show up for a few board meetings and tell off-color jokes.) Jeb’s much-vaunted “Hispanic” credentials are pretty much tied to the old-order thugs & kleptocrats, and Castro’s isn’t the only “eternal” Latin American regime failing under its own weight. Also, the Bush Crime Dynasty has a whole new generation of would-be American dictators to push — by 2016 the Carlyle branch may decide that George P. Bush should be their next representative.
76.
DaBomb
I actually find the link from reading the Great Orange Satan. I have never been on the freeper site.
Jeb is nowhere near as stupid as his brother. Heâs Mr. Super Slick and not only do I think he may run in 2012, I think itâs likely.
Quite probable, given the self-inflicted wounds of Sanford, Palin, et al. Jeb even converted to Catholicism to pander to Latino voters in Florida. But we’d be better served if the entire Bush family were marched into a field and machine-gunned to remove that rancid gene pool from the country.
Via the blog inspired by Warren Zevon: Palin defender and professional waste of skin, Camille Paglia has grown a dick so she can wank all over Matt Shepard’s grave.
@DaBomb: You’re not being overly-sensitive at all. That stuff is just foul and disgusting. I, too, am tired of all the gorilla comparisons. It makes me so very angry, and more than a little sad.
@Ed in NJ: Thank you! I will try one and all of them. It’s not the friends thing for me. I don’t have that many. I have also read if you ignore too many friends request, but I don’t do that, either. I honestly think it’s because I type very fast (they have a limit as to how many posts you can post in a time frame, but they won’t say what the limit is), or someone on my friends list reported me. Lots of them are from high school, and they are very devout Christians. I can see being highly offended by me if you’re a Christian, but why not just unfriend me?
Anyway, thanks.
@Dennis-SGMM: Ha. Good one. No. It wasn’t signed at all. From the Googles I learn that this has happened steadily over many years with FB not really giving a damn. Time to start a new social network.
I donât know if anybody has read this. But apparently now one of the Obama daughters- Malia was wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign and the Freepers went crazy.
I wonder if Tweedle Dumbass and Tweedle Bigger Dumbass, also known as Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski, will denounce this garbage.
@JK: Probably nothing. Mika has a decent dad. I wonder if he occasionally beats his head against the wall after hearing her shrillness.
Scarborough is as useless as a limp dick. So I definitely don’t expect him to say anything.
88.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@JK: It’s crazy. I emailed CNN yesterday and told them I no longer consider them a serious news outlet (not that I really did before) and would no longer watch their programming, and I won’t. WTF is wrong with these networks? Are they getting a ratings boost with their 24/7 dead celebrity marathons? I don’t know anyone who watches that junk. Yuk.
I think Zbigniew Brezinski should take a paternity test. It’s a shame that he has to share his last name with that clown.
When I think of Scarborough, I still recall his idiotic, over-the-top mocking and sneering of Obama for his low bowling score as if it were proof that he was a sissy. The guy is an unbelievably useless tool.
@Dennis-SGMM: Ha. Good one. No. It wasnât signed at all. From the Googles I learn that this has happened steadily over many years with FB not really giving a damn. Time to start a new social network.
Are you sure that the messages actually came from Facebook? Many hackers the world contains; many schemes they weave.
92.
Max
RE: Freeper Ugliness
Reminds me of the crew protesting Letterman’s supposed insults towards a minor child by calling his minor child “bastard” and other delightfulness.
As an agnostic, it makes me want to believe in God, with the hope that these “people” will get theirs in the end.
P.S. I’m watching my DVR’d Ed Show and I really hate Ron Christie and wish MSNBC would get a better republican stooge. Between Ron and Brad Blakeman, it really makes me want to change the channel.
93.
anonevent
@DaBomb: I thought I had read all the comments and yet somehow I completely missed yours, then I posted the same thing. My bad.
94.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@asiangrrlMN: Thank you for brightening my day. I had just made the mistake of going to the Kos post re the comments about Malia, who I think is so beautiful and fresh, and it made me ill. I hope none of the family see any of those comments. Sometimes I don’t think I’ll be able to stay in this country the rest of my life. Mr. Screaming would move to Ireland in 5 seconds if I would agree. There’s just such a huge, ugly component of the population that I can’t bear it.
Yesterday, I was thinking that our long national nightmare was finally over until the next celebrity dies. Maybe CNN just decided to run the Michael Jackson story into the ground until they get the word that another A-List celeb has bought the farm.
96.
Hammy
@AsiangrllMN- I read somewhere (don’t remember where) that you can get banned if you have too many status updates. I’ll try to look for the link.
Jeb! = There are too many Floridians around who can testify that he did jack sh-t during his last term. Charlie Crist came in and looked like a progressive go-getter in his first 6 mos compared to the do-nothing Jeb.
97.
SGEW
Racist assholes aside, I would just like to point out how utterly awesome it was that the U.S. President’s daughter was wearing a peace sign – a symbol first used by the nuclear disarmament movement – while he was successfully negotiating nuclear arms reduction with Russia.
Obama, after Clinton, is another sign that Democrats are modern, and Republicans are forever stick in the 50’s.
102.
GregB
The GOP-er Senators will have Linseed Graham ask the firefighter a tough question, then the firefighters lovely wife seated just over his right shoulder, in perfectly lit camera view will burst into tears.
Then a new white victim will be born and a new rallying cry shall ring throughout the land.
-G
103.
SGEW
Republicans are forever stick inon the wrong side of the 50âs.
It’s not that they haven’t learned anything since WWII: it’s that they learned the wrong things.
104.
jcricket
Obama, after Clinton, is another sign that Democrats are modern, and Republicans are forever stuck in the 50âs.
1/2 of me wonders what it’s like to be wrong about everything. Republicans are demonstrably wrong about gay marriage, evolution, climate change, when to/not wage war, the right solutions for taxation, regulation, healthcare, etc.
The other 1/2 of me is mad as FUCKING HELL that these no-nothing backwards ass-hats are too busy trying to out cro-mag each other while the earth is fucking burning and people are dying in the streets.
I take it back. 100% of me is mad. I’ve got no time to worry about how Republicans live with themselves anymore. Fuck em.
105.
lamh31
over at TPM Muckracker they have a number of post discussing conflicting statements from Sen Coburn on the whole Ensign affair.
My question is why is Coburn making all the statements and not Ensign?
Does anyones else smell a weekend or Friday night newsdump resignation from Ensign?
@John Cole: The Tales of Monkey Island ad would be perfectly targeted to me and my demographic if I hadn’t already bought it. I’ll just give you a click through anyway.
@anonevent: Don’t worry about it. It’s just outrageous that there should be some light shined upon it. I am glad that people are noticing just how outright racist some of these people have become.
It’s like cockroaches scattering when you cut on the lights.
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta: That’s almost as funny as the actual picture! I used to say Playgirl kitty! to my first cat, and she’d sprawl out on the floor in a pose that would give Pam a run for her money.
@geg6: And that is priceless, too. I think we need a picture of Henry – or if there has been one, please direct me to him, he sounds wonderful and my kind of dog. I’d love to see him.
Does anyones else smell a weekend or Friday night newsdump resignation from Ensign?
Let us pray for it. Meanwhile, news reports are indicating that Illinois Senator Burris will not run for a full term.
Roland Burris, appointed by Illinois’ since-ousted governor to fill President Barack Obama’s U.S. Senate seat, has decided not to run for a full six-year term in 2010, a Democratic Party aide said on Thursday.
I recall that posters on various blog sites, including a few here, felt that since Blagojevich had a legal right to appoint a senator, despite the evidence of sleaze drowning his administration, and since Burris looked clean, then there was no problem with giving in to Raging Blago.
And a few even rode the cynical bus, noting that it was better to try to keep the seat in Democratic hands rather than risk it slipping to a Republican.
But now it appears that Burris committed perjury when he said he never promised any favors in return for the appointment, and the seat will end up open anyway.
So now Burris and Illinois Democrats still end up slimed.
Let’s hope they do better next time.
110.
Steeplejack
Night shift checking in. I’m distracted because I’m trying to watch A Fistful of Dollars in semi-real time. I know some cable channel or other plays it almost weekly, but I haven’t watched it all the way through in a long time, and I got sucked in by Ennio Morricone’s great music in the opening. Plus I’m still riding the retro high from A Hard Day’s Night last night.
If I were programming this for TBS, I would call it “A Sackful of ’60s” week.
Am I the only one who got the Goth dating service ad on the top banner? I was at work so I didn’t click it, but I’m about 25 years too old to hook up with a Goth chick. Not that fond of tattoos and facial piercings either (although a few are ok.)
112.
CT
This from Sarah Palin’s Twitter page yesterday morning:
Couple of thoughts for the day on beautiful bright AK morn:”You have to sacrifice to win. That’s my philosophy in 6 words.”- George Allen. &
&: its the new “Also”
113.
Delia
over at TPM Muckracker they have a number of post discussing conflicting statements from Sen Coburn on the whole Ensign affair.
…
My question is why is Coburn making all the statements and not Ensign?
…
Does anyones else smell a weekend or Friday night newsdump resignation from Ensign?
Naaw. Ensign’s not going to resign. He’s a Republican. Anyone who’s missed it should go online and catch Rachel’s segment from tonight about C Street. That’s the boarding house for elite rightwing Christianist Senators and CongressMEN, aka The Family. Both Ensign and Sanford are tied to it. Their core belief is that Christianity has been wrongheaded from the beginning in its emphasis on caring for the poor and the weak. What Jesus really wants is for a group of wealthy white guys to seize all power and rule everybody for their own good and let a bit of the wealth trickle down. Once you’re in the Ruling Elite, God has chosen you, and even if you sin it’s okay. That’s why Sanford cited King David. And that’s why it was a no-good horrible thing when Bill Clinton had sex with another woman, but it’s okay when Republicans do it, dontcha see? Bill Clinton wasn’t chosen, but they are.
I’m not making this up.
114.
4jkb4ia
In time for the 18th of Tammuz, Forward writes about the reworking of the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv.
That was an equally informative and depressing segment on Rachel’s show. If Sanford and Ensign can’t be forced to resign, at a minimum I’d love to see them get nailed in the face with a Boston cream pie.
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta: The wisdom is that cats are aloof and distant. I find that not to be true – though they need their space at times. But all my cats, if they find something they’ve done makes me smile, or even better, laugh, will do it again, just to get the same reaction.
118.
4jkb4ia
Here is a discussion of practices of the Three Weeks which did not refer to aish.com.
119.
josefina
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta: Love love love the deranged kitty-yoga pose… and her eyes match the rug! (I didn’t know the ASPCA had decorators on staff.)
120.
2th&nayle
@South of I-10: @3″I once caught a fish…”
Pure win! You funny gal!
OT: Anybody seen L Dub tonight?
Comrade Stuck
I think we’re under a curse now.
Demo Woman
Best pic ever. I feel the same way!
South of I-10
I once caught a fish this big.
shelley matheis
What the what, is that?
Comrade Jake
A candidate for best facepalm.
Comrade Mary
That’s not kitty yoga. That’s kitty “come an inch closer and I’ll disembowel you.”
And — ADORABLE!
BombIranForChrist
What do you guys think of Jeb running in 2012?
I think the conventional wisdom is: “Holy fuck, not another Bush”, but in a country where Sarah Palin is a national election pick, it is really, really super easy to see Americans voting for yet another Bush in 4 years. Really easy.
What do you guys think? Jeb is nowhere near as stupid as his brother. He’s Mr. Super Slick and not only do I think he may run in 2012, I think it’s likely.
DaBomb
I don’t know if anybody has read this. But apparently now one of the Obama daughters- Malia was wearing a t-shirt with a peace sign and the Freepers went crazy. Take a gander at this shit.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2009/7/9/751767/-Obama-daughter-wears-t-shirt,-Freepers-call-her-ghetto-trash
I think this is racist assholes week.
geg6
Bwahahaha. Great pic! Speaking of pets, my man’s Henry is too adorable. He has now decided that he hearts me so much that he must sleep as close as he can get to me when I stay at John’s house. Since he’s not allowed up on the bed, this means he sleeps on the floor on my side of the bed, preferrably touching the bed rail. Last night, he wanted to get even closer and ended up with his rear half under the bed. Which wouldn’t be such a big deal except he’s about 135 pounds, most of it rear end. Usually, as soon as my eyes open, he’s right there, panting in my face with tongue lolling, looking for some affection. This morning, I opened my eyes but no Henry. But I could hear him, just little quiet whines. When I looked down to see what was wrong, he was stuck under the bed and the desperate look on his face was priceless. I couldn’t drag him out since he weighs more than I do and even John couldn’t get him out he was so wedged in. We finally had to lift the bed by the footboard to get him out. Never have I seen a dog so happy nd relieved and never have I gotten so many grateful doggie kisses. Man, I love that dog!
DaBomb
With this craziness and the Swim Club fiasco in Philadelphia, I think i am going to have a drink.
Crashman06
This blog makes me want a pet so bad. Damn rental contract!
John Cole
I just had the best plum I have had in years. Also.
WTF is going on with these Project Woderful ads?
Comrade Stuck
Let’s see. His best bud Ensign goes poking his carrot around someone elses wife, and won’t quit, or can’t. Gets his parents to pay hush money, and it’s not Ensigns fault, but rather the strange woman’s hubby is all to blame. This here is Love Amurken Wingnut Style.
and Saddam made George Bush invade iraq.
AhabTRuler
If he runs, drop Schiavo on him like a daisycutter (BLU_82).
Little Dreamer
@BombIranForChrist:
I think I need to contribute to SarahPac to keep Jeb from being the 2012 candidate.
Little Dreamer
@John Cole:
They’re YOUR ads, why are you asking us?
John Cole
I just meant it is an eclectic set of advertising.
AhabTRuler
Yeah, I know! I keep getting some crap about mosaics!
But seriously, did John Cole just talk smack about his own ads?
ETA: Ummm, no. When I bother to pay attention, L-dub’s are the only one’s that don’t annoy me. Oh, and I miss Pam. I want her back, and I am going to bitch about her absence endlessly until she returns!
Crashman06
John, will you kill me if I say I kinds miss the Pam Anderson ad?
Ash Can
@John Cole:
You’re asking us?
JK
@AhabTRuler: @BombIranForChrist:
Tucker Carlson: Do you believe global warming is primarily man-made?
Jeb Bush: I’m a skeptic. I’m not a scientist. I think the science has been politicized. I would be very wary of hollowing out our industrial base even further
http://www.esquire.com/features/jeb-bush-interview-0809#ixzz0KoSgIRKk&D
I’m not big on the idea of Jeb Bush. I don’t think it should be constitutional for a father and 2 sons from the same family to be eligible to run for president. I also don’t think it should be constitutional for a husband and wive to both be able to run for president. This dynastic bullshit has gotten completely out of hands. That goes for Congress as well.
Little Dreamer
@John Cole:
I like it, but I think we’re a pretty eclectic group.
asiangrrlMN
@DaBomb: Wow. That is really vile and heinous. I thought kids were off-limits? Oh, right, only if they’re Republicans. That made me really, really, really sad. I’m going to nap now.
P.S. I want that kitty. So cute.
P.P.S. JK, I’m not sure I agree with this. I mean, where would you draw the line? It’s ok for Hillary Clinton to be senator, but not prez after Bill was prez? I dunno. I understand what you mean about dynasties (especially after two Bushes and with the threat of a third), but I would hesitate to say that if one person is pres, then anyone else in the family can’t be.
HRA
As I watched the train wreck of McCain/Palin, I knew the next candidate for 2012 or 2016 has to be Jeb Bush. He did very well as governor during the hurricanes. He has a Spanish wife and can speak Spanish fluently. George H. Bush has even mentioned Jeb as a candidate for president.
My thought is get the crazies off the stage. Puleeze!
Ash Can
@BombIranForChrist:
Jeb’s a dick and a half, besides being a Bush (but then, I repeat myself), and I’m fairly confident that today’s Democratic party won’t be afraid to point it out.
AhabTRuler
@Little Dreamer: And, apparently, we are looking to meet singles near us! Who knew?
@asiangrrlMN:
We knew you would! ;-)
MikeJ
I’ve never understood this argument. Don’t vote for them. The idea of denying someone a chance to serve because of something somebody else did is mind boggling.
Comrade Stuck
I thought Ms Anderson was kind of eclectic, in her own special way.
JK
@DaBomb: @asiangrrlMN:
I caught the last few seconds of David Schuster and Tamron Hall on MSNBC as that photo was being flashed on the screen. Leave it to 24/7 cable news to make a big deal out of the most insignificant bullshit.
I like Keith Ellison too. You Minnesotans have to do the right thing in 2010 and vote that crazy dumbass Michele Bachmann out of office.
RedKitten (formerly Krista - the Canadian one)
DaBomb @ #8:
Wow. Just wow. So these people who wanted Letterman fired for saying that Palin was cultivating a “slutty flight-attendant” look, have no problem saying that an ELEVEN-YEAR-OLD girl looks like “ghetto trash” and a “street whore”?
Scum. The freepers are absolute, unadulterated, 100% scum, and each and every one of them is a complete waste of oxygen.
freelancer
not to mention the inevitable Iraq War Threequel: Operation Why the Fuck Not?!
asiangrrlMN
@AhabTRuler: Yeah, it’s well-known by now that I have a thing for black cats. It’s my dream to open a black cat haven one day, to take in all the unwanted black cats.
Which ad is offering dating services? I’m just curious, of course.
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
I know the Constitution will never be revised in this regard, but I’m very disturbed with this dynasty business.
I just think the idea of Bush-Clinton-Bush-Clinton in the White House for 20+ years is extremely unhealthy for this country.
Little Dreamer
@AhabTRuler:
I’ve been looking for singles to meet near me, and I’m not even asian, or Christian. ;)
You may not be, and that’s okay!
geg6
Okay, can someone tell me why Rupert Murdoch is not in jail and being sued for every penny he has for his massive private domestic spyng program he’s been running through one of his UK newspapers? Is British law just fine and dandy with this sort of thing?
JK
@DaBomb:
@RedKitten (formerly Krista – the Canadian one):
Fill-in radio talk show host Tammy Bruce has already referred to Michelle Obama as trash.
h/t Tammy Bruce Calls The Obamas “Trash In The White House” http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/23/tammy-bruce-calls-the-oba_n_178109.html
asiangrrlMN
@JK: The problem is, the districts served by Ellison and Bachmann are so damn different. T’aint no way a Democrat will win Bachmann’s district. Unless, she’s caught saying she’s for universal healthcare and raising taxes on the wealthy.
RedKitten (formerly Krista - the Canadian one)
When a freeper marriage goes bad…
Comrade Stuck
@DaBomb:
I wish I hadn’t read that. I was in a good mood and now I want to hurt someone.
JK
@asiangrrlMN:
That’s a damn shame. Bachmann is so deranged and delusional. She’s a huge stain on Minnesota’s reputation. At least you have Klobuchar and Franken and before them had Hubert Humphrey (I know about Vietnam but he had a very good domestic record) and Gene McCarthy and culturally speaking you gave the rest of the country F. Scott Fitzgerald, Sinclair Lewis, Bob Dylan, and Prince.
I’ll continue to pray that Bachmann gets tangled up in an ethics scandal.
cbear
@RedKitten (formerly Krista – the Canadian one):
What happened, did the guy marry an adulterous sheep or something?
The next-to-last samurai
No more Pam, please. I like to read BJ over lunch so I want the site to remain SFW. Also, since I am a samurai of the female variety, Pammie didn’t have anything I hadn’t seen before, except for that mysterious 3rd arm.
asiangrrlMN
@JK: Still won’t matter. She has to be caught doing something egregiously Democratic (with a capital D. Come to think of it, with a lower-case one, too).
Ok. To all you Facebook users out there, I have a question for you. I have had trouble with FB for the past month or so with them sending me warnings that I have misused certain features, but they refuse to give specifics for ‘security’ reasons. In addition, all the general reasons they’ve listed, I haven’t done. There is no place to contact anybody, and from what I’ve read, there are many people with this same problem.
I just got my account disabled with no explanation. Oh, one person was told that typing too fast may be the problem. Anyone else have this problem?
More to the point, I want to make a big stink about it because there is no recourse. They send warning emails with no real return address, and there is no way to contact them about this. I am open to ideas about contacting media and such because that seems to be the only way to get them to change their policy.
I would be appreciative of any ideas.
geg6
Da Bomb: That is some really disgusting shit. I want to take a baseball bat to trash who talk like that. Gawd, these people. I can’t even articulate how ill they make me.
KG
Jeb’s not stupid, he’s not running. He might think the wrong Bush son was nominated to begin with, but he’s not going to run in 2012. 2016, 2020, maybe, after he’s had enough time to remind everyone that he’s not his paste eating brother. Nope, 2012 belongs to Romney or Huckabee. Remember, the GOP (2000 excluded) always picks the guy whose turn it is (this is one thing that Chris Matthews is absolutely right about). If I were a betting man (oh, wait, I am) I’d give Romney better odds because he’s a dynasty kid who will sell better in Republican suburbs than Huckabee.
Comrade Stuck
@asiangrrlMN:
Maybe Dick Cheney has a new hobby.
AhabTRuler
@asiangrrlMN: match.com [shrugs]
cbear
I can hear the freeper wife now, “Ah’m sick and tired a washin and ironin your gotdamned wetsuits, Jed. An how-in-da-hell did you git thet stain on em?”
asiangrrlMN
@AhabTRuler: Ha. I thought you were giving me that as an answer to my FB problem. Heh.
@Comrade Stuck: As one of my FB friends said, “Why are you stuck in a pre-9/11 mentality?”
Comrade Jake
@BombIranForChrist:
Why not wait until 2016 though?
Little Dreamer
@AhabTRuler:
I happened to follow that link one day, and ended up finding a link (through doing a search on someone) to an absolutely FREE dating site.
PlentyofFish.com
;)
JK
Does Larry King have no sense of decency whatsoever? Michael Jackson is still dead, but that won’t stop Larry from pissing away another hour of valuable airtime to indulge in this tabloid nonsense.
Dennis-SGMM
@asiangrrlMN:
Was the email signed “Franz Kafka”?
DaBomb
@asiangrrlMN: @JK: @RedKitten (formerly Krista – the Canadian one): @Comrade Stuck:
Yes it made me sick too. Because after all she’s a kid. She’s not even a teenager. Malia can’t defend herself and she is an innocent. And when did the peace sign stand for “trash” anyway?
It’s one thing to say that about a grown ass person. Palin was being attacked and she could say “also,” wink and be mavericky all day to defend herself, if she wanted. She has the right. Even if she sucks.
I am sick of the Michelle is related to gorillas comments, and references to the family being coons or mammies. It’s just shitty.
Maybe I am being a little over-sensitive today. People just suck.
RedKitten (formerly Krista - the Canadian one)
PlentyofFish seems to be one of the more popular ones now. I don’t know if Lavalife is still going strong, but that’s where I met my husband. :)
Comrade Stuck
@DaBomb:
Nope. But you may want to limit your freeper surfing. Realm of the Sewer Trout never changes.
Ed in NJ
@asiangrrlMN
Here’s a couple of contacts. Can’t vouch for their effectiveness.
I remember reading some columnist recently about having too many friends or adding too many too fast leading to a suspension.
Facebook contacts
JK
@DaBomb:
I forgot who made that remark about Michelle Obama and gorillas, but that jackass implied it was partly her fault because she was supposedly discussing evolution or some related subject.
GregB
The same vulgar swine that claim that Palin’s family should be out of bounds are the same freaks that forward e-mails about Obama’s children, wife, aunts, half-brothers etc.
This is of course fair game because they don’t believe that African-Americans are deserving of any dignity.
Fucking racist pigs.
-G
Johnny B. Guud
Great news:
That’s right. That socialist ferner president of ours is really destroying capitalism as we know it.
Edit: Damn blockquotes…
freelancer
A few days ago, I made a comment in reference to Sarah Palin’s self-promoted martyrdom that wingnuts have 5 speeds, and now I need to add another:
Persistant fixation on all things Rectal.
Whether they be wetsuits, criminalizing dildos or sodomy, “grab your ankles”, obsessing over teh gheys ,and the gem I heard during my 10 minute commute home, courtesy of Mark Levin, speaking on Healthcare.
Fucking ew.
What is it with these wingnuts and their obsession with ass?
anonevent
@BombIranForChrist: Would the wingers be able to handle a Mexican first lady, or half Mexican kids? The answer is probably IOKIYAR.
GOS has a story about how Freepers can’t handle black children in the white house; the same people telling us that Palin’s kids were off limits.
Comrade Stuck
A question better left un-pondered.
Comrade Stuck
Maybe it’s the pressure they feel from being so lovable.
JK
Maybe, it’s because Mark Levin, Rush Limbaugh, Sean Hannity, Bill O’Reilly, Glenn Beck, etc spend most of their waking hours with their heads stuck up their asses.
inkadu
@JK: Interesting interview on Jeb. He’s obviously not “the smarter Bush,” he’s the “smart Bush,” but objectivity, etc.
Jeb acknoweldged the demographic problem for the Republicans among hispanics, but isn’t ready to lose his anti-immigration policies. He thinks he can have a dispassionate discussion about immigration and ignore the 80% of the base for whom anti-immigration fervor is thinly veiled racism. The interviewer very smartly follows up with questions about Rush Limbaugh, and Jeb does nothing to bring a brother down. Maybe its too early to go after Rush, because he knows it would kill his chances in a primary, but if Republicans want to seem reasonable and dispassionate, they are going to have to distance themselves from the Big Fat Idiot.
Still, it’s clear that Jeb knows the best way to sell Republican policy is to sharpie a smiley face on them and hope nobody notices.
Montysano
@DaBomb:
I really wish I hadn’t seen that. Janeane Garofalo was right: the intense dislike/hatred of all things Obama has nothing to do with the Democratic Party, or being a Muslim or a s0cialist, or Wright or Ayers. It’s racism, pure and simple. Gawd, that was nauseating.
Think I’ll cleanse my brain with some Funkadelic.
Martin
Every week is racist assholes week!
Maybe Hallmark needs to put out a line of cards.
freelancer
Shorter ME:
I have HAD IT with these Monkey-Fighting Wingnuts on this MONDAYtoFRIDAY Plane!
uhm, wut?
Litlebritdifrnt
@RedKitten (formerly Krista – the Canadian one):
What Krista said. With cherries on top. Fuck em.
maya
As a nation, we need a longer Bush break and should wait until Jenna is old enough to run in 2016.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
That’s my girl Juliette. Our routine is that I say in a high pitched voice: Kitty Yoga! and she flops on the floor and does her “stretches”.
she is a very delicate small cat, as opposed to the big guy Angel, who has been pictured here a couple times.
John Cole
Even I don’t wade through the free republic.
lamh31
Ah…does the Senate GOP realize how stupid this is?
Senate Republicans Calling New Haven Firefighters As Witnesses For Sotomayor Hearings
What exactly will these firefighters testify to? How can they give testimony on Judge Sotomayor’s JUDICIAL JUDGEMENT. If Karma is truly a bitch, then this will so backfire on GOP.
I have never watched a confirmation hearing…EVER!!! Not even the Clarence Thomas “pubes on a coke can” hearing. But I damn sure thinking about watching this one.
Anne Laurie
Bingo. The Rethug primaries are going to be an absolute friggin’ zoo, but the actual nomination will go to some middle-aged pale male, probably with an under-the-radar “other” (a woman or non-white but NOT Palin, Jindal or Steele) on the undercard. “Sensible” machine pols like Jeb don’t like the idea of running against an incumbent, so they’re encouraging the noisy no-hopers to waste their energy & funds in 2012 while the Permanent Party keeps its powder dry. (And that’s when the third-party “excitement” starts, of course: Palin/Ensign and the Real American(tm) Honesty & Independence Party 2012!)
On the other hand, as I heard tell, one reason Jeb didn’t run in the 90s was that he’d been “intelligent” enough to leave a paper trail of his helpfulness to the ex-Batista kleptocrats who’ve done so much to turn Florida into a environmental nightmare over the last several decades. (Unlike Dubya, who never did more to earn the corrupt funds funneled into his lifelong string of business failures than maybe show up for a few board meetings and tell off-color jokes.) Jeb’s much-vaunted “Hispanic” credentials are pretty much tied to the old-order thugs & kleptocrats, and Castro’s isn’t the only “eternal” Latin American regime failing under its own weight. Also, the Bush Crime Dynasty has a whole new generation of would-be American dictators to push — by 2016 the Carlyle branch may decide that George P. Bush should be their next representative.
DaBomb
I actually find the link from reading the Great Orange Satan. I have never been on the freeper site.
Comrade Stuck
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta:
She’s a sweetheart!
Mike in NC
Quite probable, given the self-inflicted wounds of Sanford, Palin, et al. Jeb even converted to Catholicism to pander to Latino voters in Florida. But we’d be better served if the entire Bush family were marched into a field and machine-gunned to remove that rancid gene pool from the country.
WereBear
I also think it will be Romney, but he does have that magic underwear problem…
kommrade reproductive vigor
Via the blog inspired by Warren Zevon: Palin defender and professional waste of skin, Camille Paglia has grown a dick so she can wank all over Matt Shepard’s grave.
I need a drink and some blood pressure meds.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@Comrade Stuck: Thanks Comrade!
PGE
@DaBomb:
It’s not the peace sign they object so much as the color of her skin.
asiangrrlMN
@DaBomb: You’re not being overly-sensitive at all. That stuff is just foul and disgusting. I, too, am tired of all the gorilla comparisons. It makes me so very angry, and more than a little sad.
@Ed in NJ: Thank you! I will try one and all of them. It’s not the friends thing for me. I don’t have that many. I have also read if you ignore too many friends request, but I don’t do that, either. I honestly think it’s because I type very fast (they have a limit as to how many posts you can post in a time frame, but they won’t say what the limit is), or someone on my friends list reported me. Lots of them are from high school, and they are very devout Christians. I can see being highly offended by me if you’re a Christian, but why not just unfriend me?
Anyway, thanks.
@Dennis-SGMM: Ha. Good one. No. It wasn’t signed at all. From the Googles I learn that this has happened steadily over many years with FB not really giving a damn. Time to start a new social network.
freelancer
…and the freepers are all racist a-holes, also.
W can rot in jail and burn in hell after he dies of natural causes as far as I’m concerned.
Dude, assassination talk. two former presidents. WTF?
JK
@DaBomb:
I wonder if Tweedle Dumbass and Tweedle Bigger Dumbass, also known as Joe Scarborough and Mika Brezinski, will denounce this garbage.
asiangrrlMN
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta: LOVE Juliet. She’s gorgeous. Thanks for brightening my day a bit.
DaBomb
@JK: Probably nothing. Mika has a decent dad. I wonder if he occasionally beats his head against the wall after hearing her shrillness.
Scarborough is as useless as a limp dick. So I definitely don’t expect him to say anything.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@JK: It’s crazy. I emailed CNN yesterday and told them I no longer consider them a serious news outlet (not that I really did before) and would no longer watch their programming, and I won’t. WTF is wrong with these networks? Are they getting a ratings boost with their 24/7 dead celebrity marathons? I don’t know anyone who watches that junk. Yuk.
moe99
Johnny B. Guud
You might want to read Michael Lewis’ story on AIG from Vanity Fair. He’s the guy who wrote Liar’s Poker and Moneyball.
http://www.vanityfair.com/politics/features/2009/08/aig200908
He’s one of the best writers out there on the financial markets IMHO.
JK
@DaBomb:
I think Zbigniew Brezinski should take a paternity test. It’s a shame that he has to share his last name with that clown.
When I think of Scarborough, I still recall his idiotic, over-the-top mocking and sneering of Obama for his low bowling score as if it were proof that he was a sissy. The guy is an unbelievably useless tool.
Tonal Crow
@asiangrrlMN:
Are you sure that the messages actually came from Facebook? Many hackers the world contains; many schemes they weave.
Max
RE: Freeper Ugliness
Reminds me of the crew protesting Letterman’s supposed insults towards a minor child by calling his minor child “bastard” and other delightfulness.
As an agnostic, it makes me want to believe in God, with the hope that these “people” will get theirs in the end.
P.S. I’m watching my DVR’d Ed Show and I really hate Ron Christie and wish MSNBC would get a better republican stooge. Between Ron and Brad Blakeman, it really makes me want to change the channel.
anonevent
@DaBomb: I thought I had read all the comments and yet somehow I completely missed yours, then I posted the same thing. My bad.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@asiangrrlMN: Thank you for brightening my day. I had just made the mistake of going to the Kos post re the comments about Malia, who I think is so beautiful and fresh, and it made me ill. I hope none of the family see any of those comments. Sometimes I don’t think I’ll be able to stay in this country the rest of my life. Mr. Screaming would move to Ireland in 5 seconds if I would agree. There’s just such a huge, ugly component of the population that I can’t bear it.
JK
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta:
Yesterday, I was thinking that our long national nightmare was finally over until the next celebrity dies. Maybe CNN just decided to run the Michael Jackson story into the ground until they get the word that another A-List celeb has bought the farm.
Hammy
@AsiangrllMN- I read somewhere (don’t remember where) that you can get banned if you have too many status updates. I’ll try to look for the link.
Jeb! = There are too many Floridians around who can testify that he did jack sh-t during his last term. Charlie Crist came in and looked like a progressive go-getter in his first 6 mos compared to the do-nothing Jeb.
SGEW
Racist assholes aside, I would just like to point out how utterly awesome it was that the U.S. President’s daughter was wearing a peace sign – a symbol first used by the nuclear disarmament movement – while he was successfully negotiating nuclear arms reduction with Russia.
Awesome. Just . . . just awesome.
asiangrrlMN
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta: I agree. As many people here know, I love black cats. Juliet is a doll.
I can’t stand the hatred. It really makes me sad.
Comrade Kevin
I imagine it would be a difficult job to be Reid’s proctologist, what with with his head getting in the way all the time.
Comrade Kevin
@moe99:
What? I thought Billy Beane wrote Moneyball.
/joemorgan
inkadu
@SGEW: The times, they are achangin’.
Obama, after Clinton, is another sign that Democrats are modern, and Republicans are forever stick in the 50’s.
GregB
The GOP-er Senators will have Linseed Graham ask the firefighter a tough question, then the firefighters lovely wife seated just over his right shoulder, in perfectly lit camera view will burst into tears.
Then a new white victim will be born and a new rallying cry shall ring throughout the land.
-G
SGEW
It’s not that they haven’t learned anything since WWII: it’s that they learned the wrong things.
jcricket
1/2 of me wonders what it’s like to be wrong about everything. Republicans are demonstrably wrong about gay marriage, evolution, climate change, when to/not wage war, the right solutions for taxation, regulation, healthcare, etc.
The other 1/2 of me is mad as FUCKING HELL that these no-nothing backwards ass-hats are too busy trying to out cro-mag each other while the earth is fucking burning and people are dying in the streets.
I take it back. 100% of me is mad. I’ve got no time to worry about how Republicans live with themselves anymore. Fuck em.
lamh31
over at TPM Muckracker they have a number of post discussing conflicting statements from Sen Coburn on the whole Ensign affair.
My question is why is Coburn making all the statements and not Ensign?
Does anyones else smell a weekend or Friday night newsdump resignation from Ensign?
tcolberg
@John Cole: The Tales of Monkey Island ad would be perfectly targeted to me and my demographic if I hadn’t already bought it. I’ll just give you a click through anyway.
Also, I got a furminator because of you.
@Comrade Jake: Is the Sisko facepalm to counter the Picard facepalm?
DaBomb
@anonevent: Don’t worry about it. It’s just outrageous that there should be some light shined upon it. I am glad that people are noticing just how outright racist some of these people have become.
It’s like cockroaches scattering when you cut on the lights.
Just crazy.
Bad Horse's Filly
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta: That’s almost as funny as the actual picture! I used to say Playgirl kitty! to my first cat, and she’d sprawl out on the floor in a pose that would give Pam a run for her money.
@geg6: And that is priceless, too. I think we need a picture of Henry – or if there has been one, please direct me to him, he sounds wonderful and my kind of dog. I’d love to see him.
Brachiator
@lamh31:
Let us pray for it. Meanwhile, news reports are indicating that Illinois Senator Burris will not run for a full term.
I recall that posters on various blog sites, including a few here, felt that since Blagojevich had a legal right to appoint a senator, despite the evidence of sleaze drowning his administration, and since Burris looked clean, then there was no problem with giving in to Raging Blago.
And a few even rode the cynical bus, noting that it was better to try to keep the seat in Democratic hands rather than risk it slipping to a Republican.
But now it appears that Burris committed perjury when he said he never promised any favors in return for the appointment, and the seat will end up open anyway.
So now Burris and Illinois Democrats still end up slimed.
Let’s hope they do better next time.
Steeplejack
Night shift checking in. I’m distracted because I’m trying to watch A Fistful of Dollars in semi-real time. I know some cable channel or other plays it almost weekly, but I haven’t watched it all the way through in a long time, and I got sucked in by Ennio Morricone’s great music in the opening. Plus I’m still riding the retro high from A Hard Day’s Night last night.
If I were programming this for TBS, I would call it “A Sackful of ’60s” week.
OriGuy
Am I the only one who got the Goth dating service ad on the top banner? I was at work so I didn’t click it, but I’m about 25 years too old to hook up with a Goth chick. Not that fond of tattoos and facial piercings either (although a few are ok.)
CT
This from Sarah Palin’s Twitter page yesterday morning:
&: its the new “Also”
Delia
Naaw. Ensign’s not going to resign. He’s a Republican. Anyone who’s missed it should go online and catch Rachel’s segment from tonight about C Street. That’s the boarding house for elite rightwing Christianist Senators and CongressMEN, aka The Family. Both Ensign and Sanford are tied to it. Their core belief is that Christianity has been wrongheaded from the beginning in its emphasis on caring for the poor and the weak. What Jesus really wants is for a group of wealthy white guys to seize all power and rule everybody for their own good and let a bit of the wealth trickle down. Once you’re in the Ruling Elite, God has chosen you, and even if you sin it’s okay. That’s why Sanford cited King David. And that’s why it was a no-good horrible thing when Bill Clinton had sex with another woman, but it’s okay when Republicans do it, dontcha see? Bill Clinton wasn’t chosen, but they are.
I’m not making this up.
4jkb4ia
In time for the 18th of Tammuz, Forward writes about the reworking of the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv.
JK
@Delia:
That was an equally informative and depressing segment on Rachel’s show. If Sanford and Ensign can’t be forced to resign, at a minimum I’d love to see them get nailed in the face with a Boston cream pie.
SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta
@Bad Horseâs Filly: That’s funny! I find cats very amusing company.
Bad Horse's Filly
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta: The wisdom is that cats are aloof and distant. I find that not to be true – though they need their space at times. But all my cats, if they find something they’ve done makes me smile, or even better, laugh, will do it again, just to get the same reaction.
4jkb4ia
Here is a discussion of practices of the Three Weeks which did not refer to aish.com.
josefina
@SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta: Love love love the deranged kitty-yoga pose… and her eyes match the rug! (I didn’t know the ASPCA had decorators on staff.)
2th&nayle
@South of I-10: @3″I once caught a fish…”
Pure win! You funny gal!
OT: Anybody seen L Dub tonight?
auntieeminaz
@DaBomb: This is just too sickening for words.
Love the kitty pic though.
BethanyAnne
@tcolberg: Ah! I hadn’t noticed that ad. Windows only…. grrr… Wonder if it’ll play under Fusion? or maybe it’ll come out for another platform. Hmmmm.
and I love the SIA’s kitteh pic. South of I-10 nailed it :-)
BethanyAnne
ooo, there’s a demo! I can find out if it works under Fusion :-)
Little Dreamer
@John Cole:
I do, I like knowing what the enemy is doing, and you can’t get any more enemy than that.