Just got back from the ENT. Good news. I’m not dying.
Where is everyone? I can’t believe you were left alone for 4 hours.
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Just got back from the ENT. Good news. I’m not dying.
Where is everyone? I can’t believe you were left alone for 4 hours.
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JenJen
Glad you’re not dying, Cole. Really hope you’re feeling better soon.
In other news, not certain if anyone’s tipped to this in the last few days, but Matt Taibbi’s story about how David Gergen mistook him for Matt Bai during that testy post-midterms Round Table in Rolling Stone Magazine is freaking hilarious.
ETA: If you haven’t yet read that Rolling Stone Roundtable, allow me to highlight my favorite moment in order to entice you to get through the whole thing:
Southern Beale
What a coincidence, I just got back from the dermatologist and learned I don’t, in fact, have flesh-eating bacteria.
kindness
You make it sound like the readers here are more needy than your critters.
Honestly, I’m sure it’s true for some.
Maody
Also glad you’re not dying. I found out I don’t have a cataract today. Here’s a pile o’ kittehs for you.
lacp
I think they’re all in an earlier thread deciding who the Democracts should run for President in 2012.
mr. whipple
I’m right here!
jeffreyw
I’ve been having Mifi fun–the Verizon personal “hot spot”. Be your own ISP! The Verizon store called today, the demo unit was available and I ran in and snagged it, will keep it for a week.
freelancer
Well some of us can’t comment during business hours, or didn’t you know that?!
meh
its EmoPants Day over taxcuts. Everyone is in hiding from Matako for fear of being called a cudlip for being unable to recite chapter and verse from altered carbon.
SiubhanDuinne
Congratulations on not being dead yet. Me either.
jeffreyw
And just that quick, the device loses 3g.
pragmatism
i have been doing my part to debunk the myth of the tax fairy in the corporate office break room. good times. we are to the point where people are saying that the deficit is teh worstest thing evah, except right now its ok to not care about it. again, good times.
scav
@Southern Beale: Also good to hear. In a further development on the weird new forms of life front, there are now steel eating bacteria. Rusticles on the Titanic!
John O
Actually we’re all dying. It’s just a matter of how fast.
Omnes Omnibus
@John O: I’m not.
freelancer
@John O:
phew! it is emoday on BJ. Get a load of Sylvia Plath over here.
taylormattd
@freelancer: Friday? I thought emo day was every day.
BGinCHI
It was scary being alone like that.
I felt like McCauley Caulkin, but without the residual guilt for stuff I might or might not have done with Michael Jackson.
srv
Tunch is aware that the death tax rates are far better if you die this year, right?
Hal
This is what I’m going to spend the next two years watching; you know, when things get intense.
A kitty hugging a teddy bear.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SXpgvsllTgs&feature=player_embedded
mr. whipple
One day at a time, one day at a time.
freelancer
@srv:
Cole would be the kind of person to will his worldly possessions and cash to his pets.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
I’m very glad to hear that you’re not dying, John Cole, and I, for one am in America.
Which makes for a change of pace from the last two weeks.
Linda Featheringill
I’m glad I stayed away today if everyone is getting all excited over everything. Don’t think I could tolerate that today.
I went to the doc a couple of days ago and I’m not dying any faster than I was several months ago. I am getting shorter though. What does the universe do with the height we donate through the decades?
Fuck! A Duck
John O: Would that the rest of you would hasten thyselves.
John O
@freelancer:
LOL. Bad day with The Man. Our corporate overlords screwed me yet again, so perhaps I’m a bit emo. However, I’m of a mind to fight, “[I’ll] be getting a letter from Legal,” so I know they’re going to engage, and I’m absolutely right, unless someone out here has found an antidote for death they’re not letting on to.
Zifnab
@taylormattd:
We rotate between this, irrational exuberance, snark, and ZOMG KITAHS!
gnomedad
We can’t believe you managed to go Galt for four hours.
Linda Featheringill
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther:
Welcome home. I’m sure we can scrape up some insanity for your entertainment.
:-)
Zandar
We apologize for the whole President Bernie Sanders thing. We got bored.
2liberal
3.5 hours until that blowhard from
New YorkNew Jersey gets his just deserts.cyntax
@gnomedad:
Particularly when it didn’t involve a Stillers game or WoW. Wait, when is DA 2 coming out–February? I predict some galtiness on the threads that week…
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@Linda Featheringill: It has been my experience that in the American experience, one need never scrape up the insanity — it’s always all around us, just for the taking!
(Also, I come from Israel where there was x2 the insanity, and x1,000,000 the forest fires, so I’m good with less insanity for the mo!)
mr. whipple
That’s what’s making global warming. So quit shrinking, mkay?
Mike Goetz
I love this list of suggested primary challengers to Obama from this weekend’s WashPo:
“Sens. Russ Feingold, Bernie Sanders, Barbara Mikulski or Al Franken; Reps. Joe Sestak, Maxine Waters, Raul Grijalva, Alan Grayson, Barbara Lee, Dennis Kucinich, Lois Capps, Jim Moran and Lynn Woolsey. Others include Jim McGovern, Marcy Kaptur, Jim McDermott or John Conyers. We should also consider popular figures outside of government. How about Robert F. Kennedy Jr.? Why not Rachel Maddow, Bill Moyers, Susan Sarandon or the Rev. James Forbes?”
I can’t believe Obama isn’t taking this challenge seriously!
R-Jud
That’s nice that you’re not dying, Cole.
I found out my brother narrowly avoided death in a car crash he was in this weekend (this is the downside of living 5 time zones from your family; they keep shit from you). He was in the middle seat in a small taxi, and his face hit the divider when the cab hit another car going about 65 mph.
His brain is fine; his face will be permanently fucked up.
ETA: I did the only thing I could practically do. I made sure he was capable of eating, and then I sent him Tastykakes.
BGinCHI
@Mike Goetz: Sarandon VS Palin.
I’d pay to see that.
And John Conyers? Wow, feel the excitement sweep through America’s youth with that one.
kdaug
BREAKING: The news that the world has ended is, apparently, unverifiable. This is a breaking story, and we’re checking with our sources for confirmation, but for right now, we can say that the world has not, repeat NOT, apparently ended.
Update at 11.
Fuck! A Duck
R-Jud: Better that than the reverse.
Unless he’s a model, then dain bramage would go unnoticed!
paradox
I thought there was a site rebuild this weekend, I was sure I read John was taking the rest of the weekend off and it would happen Sunday.
Oh well. Dementia, wazzup?
Chyron HR
@Mike Goetz:
Why not JFK? He left office at the height of his popularity, so he should be a shoo-in.
suzanne
What a coincidence. I returned from the perinatologist’s office, where I learned that I am still pregnant.
Come on, TAX DEDUCTION!
Linda Featheringill
@mr. whipple:
Hee, hee.
Yessir!
Hal
@Mike Goetz
Read Huffpo or DKOS when these people’s names are mentioned. People literally catch the vapors at the mere mention of a Rachel Maddow Presidency. BTW, I love Rachel, but she would nerver, ever run, and would not be able to win in the general election.
catclub
Any thoughts on Jeff Merkley’s filibuster rules to be proposed for implementation in 2011?
They sound really good. Would there be 50 democrats to vote for them? (I already know the Lieberman is out, he is also not a democrat.)
No, a link would be too much effort. Try Thinkprogress from this weekend.
Mike Goetz
@Chyron HR:
Nah, nah, Lois Capps, mofos! Lois Capps.
lol
You may not be dying but Elizabeth Edwards apparently is going to soon.
suzanne
I’d also just like to mention that I have a fresh box of Candy Cane Joe-Joe’s, and you don’t.
***nomz***
Suffern ACE
@Mike Goetz: Gosh, that is an interesting list. I like most of those people, but after the experience of the current administration, and Kerry and Gore, I am NOT going to vote for another Senator, current or former, in a Presidential primary. Congressman either. Media Personality, fat chance. Outside the current occupant, I would vote for Rod Blagojevich before Alan Grayson.
Or Tunch or Stephen Harper would have a better chance of winning my vote, and I don’t think either of those would survive constitutional scrutiny.
stuckinred
Source: President presents Dem leaders with proposal to extend Bush tax cuts two years and jobless benefits 13 months.
Mike Goetz
@Hal:
The point is, the people on that list are fine and all, but Jesus fucking Christ.
Tattoosydney
@Chyron HR:
The problem is that if the Dems put up Zombie JFK, the other side will wheel out Reagan, and then we’re all fucked.
suzanne
@Suffern ACE:
John, where’s Tunch’s birth certificate?
Linda Featheringill
@catclub:
They looked pretty good to me. I’d like to hear from someone who is familiar with the actual workings of the Senate.
tomvox1
So…lonely…
D-Chance.
So, could someone please summarize that long-ass Greenwald thread into something 140 characters or less? No one has time for 600+ comments, or a crazed TLDR “front pager” (damn, Cole, you must be hard up for help around here)…
BGinCHI
@suzanne: Plus the felonies.
Punchy
Two years? Wow. What rhymes with “capitulation”?
BGinCHI
@D-Chance.:
Shorter GG: Obama sux & so do U.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@R-Jud: Oh my God that is just terrible! I mean, the not-dying part is good, but other than that! I hope he heals well and that the “fucked up” isn’t too fucked up.
I have often lived many, many time zones from my family and that has never once stopped anyone from telling me stuff I could do nothing about. I’m now beginning to wonder if they love me enough.
Suck It Up!
@Mike Goetz:
WTF? Oprah has a better chance than all of those people. Is the WaPoop trying to make fun of Democrats?
Keith G
We just stayed here waiting for you, like good cudlips.
Omnes Omnibus
@Keith G: Is it possible to be a good cudlip? I suppose if memetic selection were involved…
Suck It Up!
@catclub:
This would be a good discussion thread.
Captain Haddock
As an ex-smoker, which I think you are as well, there is little more scary than a trip to the ENT.
Keith G
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: Are you back home?
Punchy
Gobi or Sahara?
Ruckus
It’s a good thing you came back, I don’t think I could hold my breath any longer.
Allan
Being lectured by Glennbots about how it’s not hypocritical to defend Glenn’s awesome body of work from attack on the basis of something stupid/evil he tweeted one time, when much of said work is based on the premise that other peoples’ written words and comments are deeply revealing incontrovertible evidence of their stupid/evil nature.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@Omnes Omnibus:
Send not to ask for whom the cud lips. It lips for you.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
Oh hey it occurs to me that I usually use/abuse the Open Threads to blog flog. So perhaps I shall.
I was away in Israel for two weeks — a place where, it should be noted, they do have the internet, but from which I have a very hard time focusing on American culture/politics & so I pretty much abandoned my regular blog commenting rounds (sorry John Cole and Balloon Juice! I hope you didn’t miss me too badly!).
Anyhoo, while there I blogged about how much the place enrages me http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/words-2/as well as about how much I love it http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/12/01/on-misery-and-love/ (this is the entry to which DougJ linked on Friday – thank you again, so much, DougJ!).
(I also blogged about the fires both literal and metaphorical, but I will leave those links in a second comment, so as not to frighten WordPress with all my linky linky-ness!)
R-Jud
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther:
Thanks, me too. He is a cute guy and was already angsty about losing his hair. This will either make him more nervous about his appearance or propel him into “who the fuck cares” category.
Ha! Seriously, though, they’re bad. My mother, especially, worries about making me worry. I just like to be told stuff so I can send a card and/or Tastykakes. In April, one of my uncles passed away, and I wasn’t informed until after the funeral. This probably made me look like an uncaring POS when I finally did send a card to my aunt and cousins.
Linda Featheringill
@Captain Haddock:
If you can catch bad news early, there is a lot that can be done without chopping off major portions of yourself.
suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: WIN.
I swear, all I want for Christmas is a nice big box of snarking on matoko_chan.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther:
Fires in Israel – literal: http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/flames/
Metaphorical: http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/12/03/the-other-flames/
BGinCHI
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ: I think Donne was also the one who said that “No man is
an islanda cudlip.”Omnes Omnibus
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ: No wallah is an island?
jwb
@Hal: She wouldn’t even be able to win the Democratic nomination.
stuckinred
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: The first link don’t work.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@R-Jud:
“Dear Mom, When you don’t tell me until after the funeral, I still feel sad, and my aunts and cousins think that you didn’t raise me right. Let’s find a happy medium on the not-making-me-worry front!”
Oh, moms. God love them/us all!
El Tiburon
I think we done run off ABL and ED. Dogs and cats were fornicating.
Hamsher called for Obama’s impeachment. Greenwald called some little old granny Dr. Mengele.
It has been a mess up in here.
jwb
@suzanne: If matoko_chan didn’t exist, someone would have to write a botscript to keep us all entertained.
jwb
@El Tiburon: I blame the nazi zombies.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@stuckinred: Crap!
How’s this?
Me ripping Israel a new one: http://emilylhauserinmyhead.wordpress.com/2010/11/28/words-2/
R-Jud
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther:
Yeah. I just write this stuff down in my “Things To Try Not To Do To My Kid” file. It’s a thin one, but the few things in it are choice.
Omnes Omnibus
@jwb: It’s like Cudlip Mountain; people just can’t quit her.
Just Some Fuckhead
For perspective, keep in mind that good health is the slowest rate at which one dies.
jwb
So spousal unit called the cable company to cancel today, and they were certainly desperate to keep us. They cut the bill to a third the current cost.
Bella Q
I’ve been making Nantucket Cranberry Pie, which is about 10 minutes from being ready. And prepping Mr. Q’s dinner salad. Yes, I’m just having pie.
soonergrunt
I spent the day dealing with the Veterans’ Administration.
Not fun. Not fun at all, and it’s only the beginning of the crap I’m going to have to put up with for the next several months as I go through the claims process. Thank Me, that I kept copies of every single piece of paper I ever got from the Army, including my medical records. It will only suck a lot, and not completely.
On another note, ABL’s thread is at 631. Let’s all jump over there and push it past 700, just because.
suzanne
@jwb: Seriously. She just gets her panties in such a wad by the fact that I’m not astounded by her brilliance that I JUST. CANNOT. STOP. It’s so funny. Especially when she called me fat.
R-Jud
@Omnes Omnibus:
I prefer “Gone With The Cudlip”: You know, with its famous closing line:
frankly, my dear, i don’t give a damn
Just Some Fuckhead
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: Powerful.
Allan
@soonergrunt:
Really, no. It’s too late for me, I’m in it to the end. But spare yourself, it’s a biohazard dump and a monumental IQ point-sucking wankfest, and only those of you who remain uncontaminated by it have any chance of carrying on the fight.
Suck It Up!
@El Tiburon:
did she really?
soonergrunt
@jwb: A bot would possess more mental agility though, so you’d see right through it.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@Just Some Fuckhead: Thank you — Israel keeps giving me all these great opportunities to hone my rage skills….
soonergrunt
@Allan: I’m not suggesting anyone actually read the thread. Just go in there, post something, and get out before your suit loses containment.
R-Jud
@Bella Q:
This is relevant to my interests. And, more importantly, the ingredients idling in my pantry. Pls to report back.
Hal
Pretty interesting NYT’s article about dumping cable in favor of rabbit ears. In the comments section, several people had antenna’s installed and apparently receive dozens of channels free. I might have to look into this, since the cost of cable is ridiculous.
http://www.nytimes.com/2010/12/06/business/media/06rabbitears.html
BGinCHI
What’s up with Chuck Schumer having all the fucking backbone all of a sudden over tax cuts. He’s getting all pointy fingers at the GOP and now saying let them all expire.
He needs to drop an F bomb on national tv.
freelancer
@Just Some Fuckhead:
agreed.
Ajay
Good to know that you are ok. You are just in time to get Bush tax cuts for some more time after Dems ask Rs if its ok to do so.
Gravenstone
Turn out the lights, the party’s over.
cyntax
@soonergrunt:
631? That’s like a Sadly,No! thread. And something tells me it hasn’t gotten any funnier than when I checked it 6 hours ago.
Oh, and good luck with the VA–I’m not even sure I know where my DD-214 is these days.
fourlegsgood
I’m not dying either, but I do have a stress fracture in my foot.
Grrrr.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@gnomedad: He didn’t announce it.
Suck It Up!
@BGinCHI:
It would be fun but it seems like Senate Dems are trying to push a message or trying to push back and I don’t want the F word to distract from all of that.
Seebach
So Assange is apparently going to turn himself in in Sweden. Why can’t the democrats have this courage?
R-Jud
@fourlegsgood: Oh, those suuuuuck. I had one that nagged me from 2006-2008. My condolences.
ThatLeftTurnInABQ
@R-Jud:
A true classic that.
I have to give a shout out to The Treasure of the Sierra Vaca and the line:
“Cudlips? We ain’t got no cudlips. We don’t need no cudlips! I don’t have to show you any stinkin’ cudlips!”
R-Jud
@ThatLeftTurnInABQ: Or how about some zany madcap humor? I’m talking, of course, about Cudlips Soup: “Of course you realize, this means cudlips!”
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@Punchy:
I was torn between “Middle Class” and “Jobless Benefits.”
BGinCHI
@Suck It Up!: You’re probably right.
Next Sunday it would be a full hour of Schumer on MTP with Gregory sitting on the edge of his chair asking the Senator is using the F word means that he’s running for President.
Ruckus
@soonergrunt:
Is this just a regular app, filing to get your bennies?
I’m going to try for mine and have heard that it’s a pita and that you usually get rejected once or twice before being accepted. But who knows there is always a lot of folk lore involved in dealing with the government.
Suck It Up!
@BGinCHI:
ha! indeed.
tomvox1
Ho hum. Another day, another Obama fail:
Treasury to Sell Last of Citi Stake–taxpayers could wind up with a profit of $9 billion to $10 billion
Why does he hate Big Business/The Little Guy/America so much?
Suck It Up!
tentative tax deal:
Now its up to Dems in Congress.
via TPM
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
Ok, I have clearly missed something by being away for so long.
What the fuck is a fucking “cudlip” already?
Suck It Up!
@tomvox1:
please don’t post that propaganda over here.
;)
Maude
@soonergrunt:
The last time I checked it, it was around 300 or so and I had to have a lie down after.
Good on you for keeping documents. I have all my documentation (not military) should I ever need it.
Hope you are feeling okay and still taking it a bit easy.
stuckinred
@Suck It Up!: Bernie Sanders just told Ed he’d do everything he can to stop it.
jwb
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: you don’t want to know. matoko_chan-speak.
BGinCHI
Anyone want to game out what happens next if this whole tax compromise goes down because DEMS don’t vote for it?
A chilly winter ahead.
Omnes Omnibus
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: A matoko_chan insult derived from a sci-fi novel. It apparently refers to stupid and cow-like people. For details on use of the term, please see any of the Wikileaks threads.
R-Jud
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: You want the cudlip? You can’t HANDLE the cudlip!
stuckinred
@soonergrunt: Hey Bro, I have no idea if this will be of any use to you
http://www.blogs.va.gov/VAntage/
The guy that runs Army of Dude was hired to be one of the writers for it and maybe there is some help. It’s an official VA pub so give it a whirl. It also has a short piece I wrote about my experience with the GI Bill.
freelancer
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther:
LMAO
https://balloon-juice.com/2010/12/02/before-matoko-chan-completely-loses-it/
You’re not the only one.
https://balloon-juice.com/2010/12/02/ive-clearly-missed-something/
jwb
@Suck It Up!: Better than I thought they would get.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@jwb: Thank you for your concern!
@Omnes Omnibus: Thank you for the information!
@R-Jud: Ha! And I probably really couldn’t.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@freelancer: And thank you for the links!
This is a very servicey place.
jwb
@BGinCHI: “Anyone want to game out what happens next if this whole tax compromise goes down because DEMS don’t vote for it?”
We’ll end up with just the Bush tax cuts?
MattR
Happy Hanukkah to me.
Sukkit Josh McDaniels!!
marcopolo
Anyone think the Dems, given another two years, can figure out how to decouple the tax cut for income up to $250K from the tax cut over that amount? Amazing how knowing for a decade that a politically charged item is coming down the pike leaves an entire political party caught pants down. Hell, at this point I kinda hope the House Dems just say no and let both the cuts expire. Except they would just come back up after the Rethugs take control.
Keith G
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: The ultimate cudlip!!!
http://www.bigoo.ws/images/funny-clip/funny-cow-w-sexy-kiss-lips-222725.htm
God, I love teh googlez
freelancer
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther:
Here’s one more wrt to cudlip cause I’m shameless. Evidently, I was “slaying” on Saturday morning. (Scroll up)
soonergrunt
@Ruckus: Well, I’ve gotten some great help from a guy here in Oklahoma who works for the state government department of Veterans’ Affairs. He’s really made it easy, but it is still a royal pain in the ass.
You have specifically request your outpatient medical records, as well as inpatient medical records by year range and treatment facility.
This is a little bit easier for me since I have copies of everything, but the National Personnel Records Center in St. Louis told me that they didn’t have any medical records on me at all, not even an intake physical, so I am expecting to get completely denied the first time around. We’re not even waiting for the denial. We’ve already started filling out the paperwork to appeal.
The center is at:
https://vetrecs.archives.gov/VeteranRequest/home.asp
Good luck, brother!
Seebach
Two years? So the tax debate will come up again in time for the presidential election? WONDERFULLY GREAT IDEA BEST EVER
soonergrunt
@stuckinred: I’ll check it out, thanks!
John O
Chuck Todd is telling me that the WH has cut a deal to extend the Bush cuts for 2 years.
Count me as someone who is a little disappointed by Obama.
The Grand Panjandrum
And now we’ve been left alone for two hours. Shame!
Omnes Omnibus
@freelancer: The real questions regarding cudlips are these: Are the helicopters laughing? and Have any cudlips emailed their credenzas?
John O
@Seebach:
Right. As Atrios often says, we just live in Village World.
marcopolo
@BGinCHI: It comes back after the Rs take control in the House (since that is where it would be torpedoed) and in the Senate there are enough (see the recent “group of 14” and I cannot really think of an appropriate adjective for them) “serious” Dems who will go ahead and vote with the R house for the sake of vomitous bipartisanship.
stuckinred
@Ruckus: At VAntage Point, the official blog of the U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs, that same old way of communicating (or not communicating) goes out the window. Here, VA employees will provide Veterans with a wealth of information. We will talk about things you might not have been aware of and we’ll break down and explain processes which might have bewildered you. But it doesn’t end there. If you’re a student on the GI Bill, a Vietnam Vet, a VA employee, the spouse of a VA patient, or anything else, you’ll have the opportunity to contribute. We’ve opened the comments section of each of our front-page posts and we have a special section for “Guest Posts” where you can submit your own writing for publication.
For us at VA, this is just a start. It’s the beginning of a new relationship between the Department and those we serve—where we strive to get the right information to the right Veteran at the right time. And we hope you’ll join us in making it happen.
I am not vouching for this but Alex Horton, Army of Dude is on the staff and he’s and Iraq 11b20 vet.
Jay in Oregon
@Seebach:
It’s times like this that I thank God that the Republicans are as overtly partisan and assholish as they are, otherwise there would be like 4 Democrats in the entire government.
El Tiburon
@Suck It Up!:
I can’t tell if you’re eating my snarkshake.
AhabTRuler
So the deal is one year of UI and one year of 2% reduction in payroll tax in exchange for two years of tax cuts for the wealthy AND two years of a reduced estate tax rate (plus raising the deduction to $5 mil? Hellofa family farm, there)?
Tell me that we’re not getting hosed in this deal.
John O
@AhabTRuler:
Near total capitulation. Obama is starting to embarrass me, and that’s a long way to fall.
John O
Assange is bluffing, btw, but I hope he’s not. The idea of a poison pill makes me dig him.
Ross Hershberger
We’re fine left alone for 4 hours. I have no idea who peed on the rug. No idea at all.
Maude
@stuckinred:
I read Army of Dude before he came home. I was glad when he posted that he had arrived home.
@AhabTRuler:
On some left blogs, The Tax Cuts Are Permanent
Obama Has Sold Us Out, Primary Him He Caved
etc.
I want the UI extension because there are people who will lose the roof over their heads come January without it.
Seebach
@John O: why do you say he’s bluffing?
FlipYrWhig
@BGinCHI:
I think it’d be interesting. If I were Obama, I’d sit back and say, “OK, show me what you got,” and let Senate Dems do their best to come up with a better plan. If they somehow do manage to come up with a better plan, and it gets 60 votes, victory! If they don’t, but they push it forward anyway, well, the heat’s on them for the next election. But if there’s no deal and the tax rates reset, then the new House will push a broad-based tax cut package with permanent changes. If the Senate Dems still don’t like that, they can continue to block it. Then Obama can come in and offer this deal again.
I have no issue with Senate Democrats deciding that Obama isn’t doing what they want — as long as they can come up with an alternative that’s better. Let ’em senator their bony asses off.
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@The Grand Panjandrum: Hey! Hello! *waves*
suzanne
Whenever she mentions cudlips, I remember the Coach Cutlip character from “The Wonder Years”.
FlipYrWhig
I’m trying to figure out what the advantage is of punting the income-up-to-$250K cuts for two years rather than making them permanent. I guess if the true progressive position is to let them all expire, you’re closer to that position by having all of them extended temporarily.
debbie
@JenJen:
I’m reading Taibbi’s Griftopia and some of his characterizations are laugh-out-loud funny. I can’t imagine where he gets some of his images from.
icebear
@Linda Featheringill: the key word here is ‘EARLY’!!! My dad, long-term drinker/smoker, then ex-smoker, ex-drinker for ten years, ignored the little lump in his neck for 2 years, and had a long and horrid death from head/neck cancer in his 70s – don’t ignore the lump and you might live 10 years more.
But if you are younger than 40, or have children of teenage or later, tell yourself (them) no, no, no – don’t do that smoking thing – and keep your drinking at a boring level (or at least compensate for outrageous and enjoyable binges with long periods of drinking juice, and water, and things like that …)
marcopolo
@FlipYrWhig: Except it will be the “progessive” Dems in the House that cause the compromise to fail not the Dems in the Senate. There are enough capitulationist Dems in the Senate to pass the Obama crapramise with the Rs.
marcopolo
@FlipYrWhig: There is no advantage, except it is something the Rs insisted on. It would be better for the Dems to decouple the two tax cuts but the Rs wont allow that because then it would be much harder to get the higher income cut through. Thus we get the “bipartisan” temporary extension of both for 2 years.
Steeplejack
I note for the record that Chuck is not on tonight–preëmpted by The Sing-Off–so the faithful will have to make other plans.
I am experiencing the all too rare feeling of actually looking forward to the Monday night football game. Jets-Patriots, both 9-2 and tied at the top of their division. Should be a good game.
And RIP Don Meredith. “Turn out the lights, the party’s over.” They should have a good tribute to him tonight.
2liberal
@Punchy:
Ouch. I am usually a spelling nazi too. Ok. Desserts? is that right? He will get his? How about that? Anyway I predict a Patriots victory and I hope they run it up just to piss off Easterbrook.
Bella Q
@R-Jud: Yum. Recipe at the link in my previous post. Do not skimp on the sugar – it seems like an awful lot – for the berries; they are tart. I divided the (generous) 2/3 cup and put 1/3 cup over the berries, then added the chopped pecans, then sprinkled the remaining 1/3 over both. Do not panic if that batter is too thick to pour; simply drop and smooth, and it will bake up fine. Easy and tasty.
Ruckus
@soonergrunt: @stuckinred:
Ask and yea shall receive. Thanks. This is lots more great info than I ever expected.
stuckinred, that blog looks great, already bookmarked.
soonergrunt, they need to know where I was treated, with dates and all?
FlipYrWhig
@marcopolo:
Except that there are also Senate Dems who don’t support decoupling, some out of principle, some out of venality, and some out of electoral skittishness.
@marcopolo: A deal like this isn’t going to get overwhelming support, though. If Harkin and Menendez really feel about it the way they were talking last week, let ’em block it and hash out something better. A small number of senators can create a substantial amount of havoc, if they want to.
Anyway, I actually kind of like the idea of House and/or Senate Democrats balking, because I like it when the legislature plays its constitutional role instead of just rubber-stamping what the executive wants. I just don’t know if they can actually come up with something better, or are willing to take the heat for something worse.
Odie Hugh Manatee
“I am not an Athenian or a Greek, but a cudlip of the world.”
“And so, my fellow Cudlips, ask not what your country can do for cudlips; ask what cudlips can do for your country.”
“I only regret that I have but one cudlip to lose for my country.”
It just works.
Blackfrancis
For the love of “Chuck!”
Eugene-Springfield, meet Captain Awesome.
Not that the former Douglas Allen Smith Jr. is a newcomer to Lane County.
He was born here in 1983. He graduated from Willamette High School in 2002.
But he officially became Captain Awesome only last month, when a Lane County Circuit Court judge approved his name change petition.
And his new first name is no title, he made clear in a recent interview.
“Hi! I’m Captain,” he said, making this story even more fun to write. Journalists refer to subjects by last name only on second and subsequent references. So, that’s Awesome!
Any reader who — like Awesome — watches the television show “Chuck” will not be surprised to know how he chose his new moniker. It was, indeed, inspired by a character on the NBC action/drama series: Dr. Devon “Captain Awesome” Woodcomb.
http://www.registerguard.com/csp/cms/sites/web/updates/25594703-55/awesome-captain-douglas-judge-county.csp
soonergrunt
@Odie Hugh Manatee: I think it should become the semiofficial title for BJ community members. DK has the “Kossacks,” firedoglake has “firepups” or “firebaggers,” depending on the mood of the caller, Instacracker has “nobody” since he doesn’t allow commenters, CAAFlog has “the people who read and post at CAAFlog,” and now, we can have “the Cudlips!”
soonergrunt
@Ruckus: They need the year the treatment took place and the installation where the facility was located. Better if you have the actual name of the hospital, but the installation will do. They search the entire year, so they don’t need the specific dates.
Note that you can make multiple requests, so for example if you can’t remember whether you had that brain tumor the size and shape of a head of cauliflower removed in 1992 or 1993, you could make requests for 1991, 1992, 1993, 1994 each individually, just to be safe.
Ruckus
@soonergrunt:
And we are talking military treatment, not civilian? Or life history?
soonergrunt
@Ruckus: Well, the records available at the site I linked would be military. If you had medical treatment in a civilian facility on Uncle Sam’s dime, then the military facility that arranged the treatment would be the one you would ask for, but you should probably contact the civilian facility yourself as well.
master c
Oh but you know who is dying? Elizabeth Edwards.
Ann Althouse is incensed that EE has not apologized to us for the lie that was John Edwards…..really.
Keith G
Ok, anyone who wants a laugh and be scared at the same time should drop in on this photo at Sully’s place.
http://andrewsullivan.theatlantic.com/.a/6a00d83451c45669e20147e06c7c12970b-550wi
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@Keith G: Yikes! I really, but really, cannot handle the cudlip!
Benjamin Cisco
@Odie Hugh Manatee: “I have altered the cudlip. Pray I do not alter it further.”
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You’re right, it just freaking works!
Just Some Fuckhead
@Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther: All of it would be unnecessary if Zionists would simply recognize it isn’t their land. When you leave for a thousand years, people move on.