Hey, liberals, how dare you say the Tea Party is about anything other than bringing the nation’s financial matters back into order like Saint Reagan. There’s no culture war element to it, not a one.
12.
Hal
Is Aaron (I swear I’m not gay, no really) Schock’s chest the next GOP frontrunner?
No fucking way I’m clicking on that link. Every GOPer in the nation could look exactly like George Clooney (or whatever himbo a girl might lust after, and not that Clooney is a himbo) and it still wouldn’t make him fuckable or vote worthy. Not for women with active neurons, anyway.
And seriously? Aaron Schock? THIS is the best they can do? For real? He’s not even what I’d call cute. Average at best.
16.
Comrade Mary
@Hal: My GAWD. Look, a six pack can be impressive (and honestly, I find guys quite lovely without them), but Scheck either has multiple hernias or else he’s going to be starring in the next Alien movie against his will.
(If he looked good, I’d say so, even if he is a Republican. Fuck, I’m on record as thinking Harper looks likeable with his glasses on. But honestly, this is just disgusting.)
When the Pentagon’s own studies show that military effeminization may have an extremely costly impact on recruiting and retention, when Islamists have shown their willingness to sexually brutalize American female reporters, why would John Boehner’s House Republicans be caving to political correctness?
Guys who think playing dress-up in 18th century costumes is a necessary component of political activism shouldn’t be complaining about “effeminization.” Just sayin’.
I think you do 3 sets of Photoshop Crunches a day to get those abs. Also, isn’t there something more important for him to be doing, like, you know, being a congressman and shit?
Is Aaron (I swear I’m not gay, no really) Schock’s chest the next GOP frontrunner?
Constitutionally ineligible to run until 2016.
22.
RossInDetroit
Holy shit, Tim! Cut your grass!
I just finished giving our grass a trim. Found three fat morel mushrooms and probably mowed down even more.
23.
bkny
Max! this dog is so freakin gorgeous. although that photo of him zonked out in his chair last week will always be my favorite… lol
24.
vonhonkington
@RossInDetroit
Knowing that you mowed some morels into them, I know some people who would probably pay you good money for your lawn trimmings, then freebase em out of a spoon (with some butter, of course).
25.
WaterGirl
@slag: I think you’re confusing balloon juice with walgreens,
@WaterGirl: Yeah. You’re probably right. Apparently, that’s a really easy mistake to make. I once ended up at Applebee’s salad bar after mistaking it for Walgreen’s abortion clinic. Or was it the other way around? All of Real America looks alike to me.
27.
Just Some Fuckhead
We were gonna have Batman’s front claws removed since he can’t use them correctly and he gets stuck in everything. But we found these.
Haven’t gotten them yet but they look promising. (Batman is an indoor cat, BTW.)
28.
WaterGirl
@slag: Hmm, I thought they gave out a gift certificate for the Applebee’s salad bar with every abortion, but it does get confusing at times.
And maybe after you move all the mammograms and pap smears from planned parenthood to Walgreens, maybe 90% of what’s left really are abortions?
good use of my tax dollars, she spends them on this and goes to public panhandling for the border wall project, new and improved with prison labor!
sorry guys, every time I think I can breathe easy with brief respites of sanity, this lady opens her mouth again and out comes another nugget of policy making via tourretes syndrome.
@WaterGirl: Well, even if Planned Parenthood only did abortions, I’d be all for it. I’m with those who think the reason Republicans throw out shit like this is that, just in the process of correcting it, we end up sounding like abortions are inherently a bad thing.
Like if I said that 90% of what Applebee’s does is serve salad, so I’m not gonna patronize Applebee’s. And then you–someone who loves Applebee’s–come back and say that no, Applebee’s offers much more than salad; it offers fried onion rings, fried chicken, fried tomatoes, etc. Implicit in that conversation is that salad is a bad thing and that nobody in their right mind wants to buy salad.
I kind of hate these people. With a mildly fiery passion.
@Just Some Fuckhead: We just started using SoftPaws on our cat. She’s been tearing up our furniture for the past 6 months and no amount of claw trimming or ever more exotic scratching posts were helping.
So far so good with the SoftPaws. She tries to scratch stuff but, for the most part, can’t. She does chew one off every now and then, but we just pop a new one on.
Mayor of Newton, Mass. (in Barney Frank’s district) just announced he’s running against Scott Brown. He’s a former aide for Kerry and Clinton, as well as an Iraq War vet. And not that it should matter, but also the first African-American mayor in Massachusetts.
What’s up Mass-holes? I move out of the state and then you turn around and finally start electing people of color?
38.
goblue72
I got 2 completely different comments in mod. Is there a link somewhere to all the verboten words for the WP filter?
The problem with Planned Parenthood is that the entire idea is that sex should have penalties, like childbirth and caring for a child for 18 years, as a deterrent to spreading your legs, you lousy slut, and corrupting our boys!
Preventing pregnancies is the last thing the wowsers want to do. Which is why they’ve targeted PP. Keep in mind that these people also don’t want cervical cancer immunizations for girls, either, as it removes yet another potential punishment for daring to have sex.
41.
Amir_Khalid
Handsome dog is handsome.
@Hal:
I’m surprised at Schock. How does a politician pose for beefcake pix, as though he were The Situation, and expect not to become a laughingstock? What were his people thinking when they let him do this?
42.
singfoom
@Villago Delenda Est: Yep, this. What’s the outcome when you get rid of real sex education outside of abstinence only and outlaw abortions?
Babies, they happen. It may seem like insanity because it seems so irrational, but if you squint and imagine that your goal is to make sure no one just has sex for fun, but only to have babies, it all makes sense.
Lord, please save me and the rest of our society from your zealous followers who don’t want anyone to have any fun sex.
43.
Comrade Mary
@Amir_Khalid: Didn’t stop Scott Brown, did it? Of course, Brown has a reasonably nice body, versus that grotesque collection of torsions that Schock is carrying around.
44.
Amir_Khalid
@Comrade Mary:
IIRC, Scott Brown posed for his beefcake pix when he was a young man, years before going into politics. So he has that excuse. Shock, on the other hand, was a serving Congressman when he posed.
Rosalita
Glad you are keeping up the Balloon Juice Internet Tradition of coming for the politics and staying for the pets. Beautiful dog!
PurpleGirl
That’s a nice picture of Max. Good timing; we needed a pet picture about now, I think.
slag
13%? I thought 90% of what this blog does is abortions?
Trinity
100% Squeeeeee!
Max is just gorgeous.
Culture of Truth
With every new Tunch pic it’s 13% more cat.
I kid Tunch, I kid.
Jazz Superluminar
Meh. Tom Levenson had one of Tunch up over three hours ago.
Cliff in NH
Boing! Boing!! Zooom Zooooom! Molly has the Zooomies!!
This is what happens when Molly hits the creek after (yes, After) a hour long run behind the bike:
http://mollymaesden.blogspot.com/2011/05/spring-zoomies-by-creek.html
Shinobi
So gorgeous. I just suppressed the urge to say “Who’s a good boy!” at my monitor. (My coworkers would not have been surprised though.)
geg6
Holy shit, Tim! Cut your grass! ;-)
And because I can’t say it enough…I love, love, love, love, love Max!
And I especially love that you didn’t go the dog mutilation route. Makes him especially adorable.
geg6
@Jazz Superluminar:
You owe me a new keyboard. Just sayin’.
Morbo
Hey, liberals, how dare you say the Tea Party is about anything other than bringing the nation’s financial matters back into order like Saint Reagan. There’s no culture war element to it, not a one.
Hal
Is Aaron (I swear I’m not gay, no really) Schock’s chest the next GOP frontrunner?
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/09/aaron-schock-mens-health-six-pack-shirtless_n_859468.html
PS Match stick arms and big barrel chest is not cute.
R-Jud
Lovely dog picture. My blood pressure dropped slightly.
Culture of Truth
@Shinobi: You work with Tim Pawlenty?
geg6
@Hal:
No fucking way I’m clicking on that link. Every GOPer in the nation could look exactly like George Clooney (or whatever himbo a girl might lust after, and not that Clooney is a himbo) and it still wouldn’t make him fuckable or vote worthy. Not for women with active neurons, anyway.
And seriously? Aaron Schock? THIS is the best they can do? For real? He’s not even what I’d call cute. Average at best.
Comrade Mary
@Hal: My GAWD. Look, a six pack can be impressive (and honestly, I find guys quite lovely without them), but Scheck either has multiple hernias or else he’s going to be starring in the next Alien movie against his will.
(If he looked good, I’d say so, even if he is a Republican. Fuck, I’m on record as thinking Harper looks likeable with his glasses on. But honestly, this is just disgusting.)
Sly
@Morbo:
Guys who think playing dress-up in 18th century costumes is a necessary component of political activism shouldn’t be complaining about “effeminization.” Just sayin’.
Trinity
OBL Situation room LOL pics!
Spaghetti Lee
@Hal:
I think you do 3 sets of Photoshop Crunches a day to get those abs. Also, isn’t there something more important for him to be doing, like, you know, being a congressman and shit?
Roger Moore
@geg6:
Why, did he tell Tunch to sit on the old one?
Roger Moore
@Hal:
Constitutionally ineligible to run until 2016.
RossInDetroit
I just finished giving our grass a trim. Found three fat morel mushrooms and probably mowed down even more.
bkny
Max! this dog is so freakin gorgeous. although that photo of him zonked out in his chair last week will always be my favorite… lol
vonhonkington
@RossInDetroit
Knowing that you mowed some morels into them, I know some people who would probably pay you good money for your lawn trimmings, then freebase em out of a spoon (with some butter, of course).
WaterGirl
@slag: I think you’re confusing balloon juice with walgreens,
slag
@WaterGirl: Yeah. You’re probably right. Apparently, that’s a really easy mistake to make. I once ended up at Applebee’s salad bar after mistaking it for Walgreen’s abortion clinic. Or was it the other way around? All of Real America looks alike to me.
Just Some Fuckhead
We were gonna have Batman’s front claws removed since he can’t use them correctly and he gets stuck in everything. But we found these.
Haven’t gotten them yet but they look promising. (Batman is an indoor cat, BTW.)
WaterGirl
@slag: Hmm, I thought they gave out a gift certificate for the Applebee’s salad bar with every abortion, but it does get confusing at times.
And maybe after you move all the mammograms and pap smears from planned parenthood to Walgreens, maybe 90% of what’s left really are abortions?
piratedan
well Jan is back on her drugs….. h/t to the GOS Joan McCarter
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2011/05/09/974545/-Brewer-will-appeal-Arizona-immigration-law-injunction-to-Supreme-Court
good use of my tax dollars, she spends them on this and goes to public panhandling for the border wall project, new and improved with prison labor!
sorry guys, every time I think I can breathe easy with brief respites of sanity, this lady opens her mouth again and out comes another nugget of policy making via tourretes syndrome.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
al queda had a memorial service for bin laden, the shame of it is, we weren’t able to make sure westboro baptist was in attendance.
slag
@Just Some Fuckhead: Humane Society’s information about declawing.
Just Some Fuckhead
@slag: Yes, I’ve seen it.
retr327
That’s a very handsome Dachsund you have there. Whatever happened to Max?
kc
I haven’t commented on Max before, but I feel compelled to say that he is a handsome boy.
slag
@WaterGirl: Well, even if Planned Parenthood only did abortions, I’d be all for it. I’m with those who think the reason Republicans throw out shit like this is that, just in the process of correcting it, we end up sounding like abortions are inherently a bad thing.
Like if I said that 90% of what Applebee’s does is serve salad, so I’m not gonna patronize Applebee’s. And then you–someone who loves Applebee’s–come back and say that no, Applebee’s offers much more than salad; it offers fried onion rings, fried chicken, fried tomatoes, etc. Implicit in that conversation is that salad is a bad thing and that nobody in their right mind wants to buy salad.
I kind of hate these people. With a mildly fiery passion.
goblue72
@Just Some Fuckhead: We just started using SoftPaws on our cat. She’s been tearing up our furniture for the past 6 months and no amount of claw trimming or ever more exotic scratching posts were helping.
So far so good with the SoftPaws. She tries to scratch stuff but, for the most part, can’t. She does chew one off every now and then, but we just pop a new one on.
goblue72
Mayor of Newton, Mass. (in Barney Frank’s district) just announced he’s running against Scott Brown. He’s a former aide for Kerry and Clinton, as well as an Iraq War vet. And not that it should matter, but also the first African-American mayor in Massachusetts.
What’s up Mass-holes? I move out of the state and then you turn around and finally start electing people of color?
goblue72
I got 2 completely different comments in mod. Is there a link somewhere to all the verboten words for the WP filter?
MikeJ
@goblue72: http://codex.wordpress.org/Spam_Words
Look for words inside other words, like boner pills in the word soçialism.
Villago Delenda Est
@slag:
The problem with Planned Parenthood is that the entire idea is that sex should have penalties, like childbirth and caring for a child for 18 years, as a deterrent to spreading your legs, you lousy slut, and corrupting our boys!
Preventing pregnancies is the last thing the wowsers want to do. Which is why they’ve targeted PP. Keep in mind that these people also don’t want cervical cancer immunizations for girls, either, as it removes yet another potential punishment for daring to have sex.
Amir_Khalid
Handsome dog is handsome.
@Hal:
I’m surprised at Schock. How does a politician pose for beefcake pix, as though he were The Situation, and expect not to become a laughingstock? What were his people thinking when they let him do this?
singfoom
@Villago Delenda Est: Yep, this. What’s the outcome when you get rid of real sex education outside of abstinence only and outlaw abortions?
Babies, they happen. It may seem like insanity because it seems so irrational, but if you squint and imagine that your goal is to make sure no one just has sex for fun, but only to have babies, it all makes sense.
Lord, please save me and the rest of our society from your zealous followers who don’t want anyone to have any fun sex.
Comrade Mary
@Amir_Khalid: Didn’t stop Scott Brown, did it? Of course, Brown has a reasonably nice body, versus that grotesque collection of torsions that Schock is carrying around.
Amir_Khalid
@Comrade Mary:
IIRC, Scott Brown posed for his beefcake pix when he was a young man, years before going into politics. So he has that excuse. Shock, on the other hand, was a serving Congressman when he posed.
asiangrrlMN
Max is just a handsome boy. There’s no getting around it.
@Cliff in NH: Molly is such a happy and healthy girl. I love the way she’s bouncing
around. @Roger Moore: Whew! Glad to know. Otherwise, I would lose Yutsy’s vote to Mr. Six-Pack Abs.
@Just Some Fuckhead: Please don’t. If the SoftPaws don’t work, try to find him another home.