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I don’t believe in fate, but I do believe in open threads. Don’t fuck anyone over in this one.
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I don’t believe in fate, but I do believe in open threads. Don’t fuck anyone over in this one.
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kdaug
Open threads that don’t fuck anyone over?
Powerful belief system you got there.
jeffreyw
I like pie.
MikeJ
Fuck Vevo.
Mark S.
This is pure insanity:
The time for Grand Bargains and Great Deals is over. We’ve got twelve fucking days before we run out of money, and these idiots think they can get a bill overhauling the tax code through the Senate in that time?
Mr. President, have Speaker Boehner escorted to the nearest bar and get to work passing the Reid-McConnell deal. It’s the only chance you’ve got before Aug. 2.
Tom Hilton
So open thread means we can pimp our own blogs, right? Because William H. Brewer (writing 150 years ago) on the mercury mines at New Idria is pretty fascinating stuff, IMO.
Mark S.
@Mark S.:
To expand on my point, I wouldn’t be opposed to reforming the tax code, but not in the span of a week. That’s something that needs committee hearings, CBO scoring, actual debate, etc. To ram it through on some bill to save us from financial disaster is the height of irresponsibility.
arguingwithsignposts
Here’s an Open Thread item for you. Grover Fucking Norquist gets some space in the Old Grey Lady to double down on his bullshit.
General Stuck
Oh man… the bullshit piled up so fast in DC, you needed wings to stay above it. ..
Todd is breathlessly reporting some kind of whacky mutually assured destruction that if the tax code isn’t revamped by 1-1-13, then the Bush tax cuts for the rich would be cancelled, and parts of the ACA would be repealed, or something.
Insane – everyone
MIWill
How are all the Obama lovers doing today?
General Stuck
Most excellent, and, how are the republican lovers fairing this morn?
John Puma
It’s logically and politically possible to dislike both Obama and Republicans.
dan
We are driving 2 10 hour days from LI to Disney World. I have a 9 year old son and a 16 year old daughter.
What music MUST we listen to on the way down (and back)?
My daughter loves everything from Rap to Dean Martin to Brooks & Dunn. I love most except for Rap and dance music.
My son … is 9.
handsmile
Escaping today for the annual handsmile pilgrimage to coastal Maine; a trip that makes bearable the rest of the year in this urban hellhole.
If the GOP nihilists do implode the global economy, perhaps I’ll be able to scrounge up some work on a lobster boat. (A link, and surprisingly not from the Guardian:)
http://www.theonion.com/articles/congress-continues-debate-over-whether-or-not-nati,20977/
Just wanted to say how much I’ve enjoyed “taking it out and chopping it up, throwing a brick through the other guy’s windshield” (in the immortal words of Royal Tenenbaum) with many of you in recent weeks.
General Stuck
In a vacuum, not in the political arena we engage in. It is zero sum. Whatever support is with held from one, goes to the other. Unless, you just don’t care which, then you are merely a dead weight with nothing to offer, except posting soul less quips on the internet.
It is possible to support a president on your side, and criticize them at the same time. But not with dismissive rhetoric, devoid of substance, and with the effort necessary to walk that line.
alwhite
@12 you really really really want to get a tape of “Its A Small World” and play it non stop. It will get you in the mood for what you are about to endure.
alwhite
Oh goodie – we have gotten to the obot/firebagger bullshit right away instead of waiting 30 or 40 posts. Well, you kids have fun & try to let the rest of us know when we can have a sensible conversation again.
lacp
It’s actually possible to dislike everybody, yet still work together.
Lol
Well, with DADT about to be consigned to the dustbin of history, I’m eagerly awaiting more Firebagger insights about Ronald Reagan was a better President for gays because he came from Hollywood.
General Stuck
LOL. okay Mon Capitan, the floor is yours and the other sensible readers here to sensibly converse. I said all I needed to, anyways.
Head Bulshytt Talker in Chief of the Temple of Libertarianism(superluminar)
Seriously? You’re putting the over/under that high?
alwhite
What amazes me most is that they have stopped even waiting for any provocation. I swear to pasta, Cole could put a picture of Tunch up & withing 3 posts one side or the other would drop in a post saying nothing more than how the other side sucks aaaaaaaannnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnd we’re off!
Before they died my folks entered that bitter stage some marriages hit. Neither seemed to be able to go for any length of time without spontaneously tossing a grenade at the other. This blog seems to have reached that stage.
alwhite
Or maybe I’m just a Rebel Without A Clue:
You’re tearing me apart!…You say one thing, he says another, and everybody changes back again.”
:)
General Stuck
Both sides do it. right? If your delicate sensibilities are that offended, maybe you seek a more harmonious blogging experience? Just a polite suggestion.
This place has always been contentious, in one way or another. I said I was shutting up and you could have your “sensible conversation” and this is all you can muster?
Now I am leaving, unless there is more gratuitous whining to answer.
Amanda in the South Bay
At this point I don’t give a shit about Congressional Dems feefees about taxes or SS or whatever. I just want the debt ceiling raised to we can avert catastrophe and worry about everything else another day. Really, I’ve got too much to worry about without having to worry about Recession 2.0 or whatthefuck ever. Pragmatism people, pragmatism.
General Stuck
One last blurp. The president is holding a town hall at 11 AM eastern time, to sell whatever he is selling, so we will get the skinny from the horses mouth. Stuck Over and Out
Ben Cisco
@dan: Supertramp – Goodbye Stranger
Just Some Fuckhead
You’ve got moxie, alwhite. No one has ever gotten Stuck to go the fuck away that easily.
Head Bulshytt Talker in Chief of the Temple of Libertarianism(superluminar)
FTFY.
General Stuck
Fine by me, as long as program benefits aren’t cut. I would have a problem with that. Now are you fuckers gonna let me go, or keep dragging my happy ass back in. And of course, it is Obama supporters causing all this unpleasantry. rolls eyes.
Joe
Can’t we just talk about how terrible The National is? Good lord, worst stage presence I’ve ever seen, but the honkies are still doing the pogo like that band is playing the sickest riff ever.
Head Bulshytt Talker in Chief of the Temple of Libertarianism(superluminar)
WTF programs do you think he’s propsing to cut?
dead existentialist
@ 27
Dream on.
General Stuck
Don’t waste my time with this idiot conflating of cutting benefits and other areas of the safety net programs