(Mike Luckovich via GoComics.com)
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Certain juxtapositions are irresistable. Here’s Doghouse Riley on the GOP’s “Fuck You Society“:
Last Sunday, Absentee Governor and Retired Lawn Ornament Mitch Daniels went on FOXNews to call for an end to public-sector unions. Sorta. Daniels is from the wing of the party which doesn’t like to say that sort of thing without the required hemming and hawing necessary to prevent it from being held accountable for the crazy shit it’s going to do anyway…
Is this really what this election should come down to? Is it really someone’s definition of “economy”? Eliminate public unions, and our wealthy job creators will be free to create jobs, namely, security guards and private bucket brigades.
Was the 2012 election really decided when Big Donors chose up sides in 2010?
Is this really the United States of America in the 21st century? Don’t tell me.
Do we really have to relive the excesses of the fucking Gilded Age just because rich people won the 1980 Presidential election?
This is the program which has failed, publicly and demonstrably, time and again, since. Incontinent tax cutting and irresponsible regulation are precisely what got us here. And they are promoted by the likes of Mitch Daniels, public liars, political cowards, and “principled” men who won’t actually do anything except accompanied by a new moon, and the sort of massive PR campaign which convinces Americans to eat pig anus stuffed with bacon and cheese…
Apart from the fact that, as Churchy LaFemme would say, Friday the Thirteenth fell on a Wednesday this month, what’s on the agenda for what’s left of the evening?
David Koch
RIP Henry Hill
Baud
I’m swearing off all sources of news and information until after the election, including other blogs. If it’s not on Balloon Juice, I won’t know about it.
Suffern ACE
Dallas.
amk
Great toon.
BGinCHI
@efgoldman: No, Henry Hill is Hank Hill’s legal name.
Nothing sadder than the death of a cartoon hero.
RalfW
Koch’s MN AFP chapter is gunning for two GOP MN House members over the Vikings stadium vote. This purity thing is sort of confusing.
slag
@Baud: Speaking of…how is it that I learned of this YouTube channel from someplace not here? What else from the outside world have I been missing out on?
jl
Daniels is quiet back room type of guy.
Has Brooks ever pimped him as a worthy Very Serious Just
AuthorityPower competent follower-haver?David Koch
@efgoldman: well, he didn’t get caught fixing the games, he voluntarily revealed it.
Baud
@slag: Wow. The Internet is now complete.
El Cid
Is there a past? Are there things that we know? I’m not sure. It seems troubling, the notion that things have happened before and we should remember them. What if doing so interferes with how we vote?
Ben Cisco
Gearing up for an MRI this week; the meds have been masking the pain, but it’s time to get to the bottom of this thing and kill it dead.
some guy
we inflated our pool.
fuck Intex
Elmo
Wine, roast chicken thighs, and SYTYCD.
And more wine.
Mr Stagger Lee
Well at least there is some sanity coming back, North Dakotans rejected a motion to ban all property taxes and told the Right to lifers, to Shut the F^^%$ Up trying to use religious beliefs to restrict women’s right to reproductive freedom
Linda Featheringill
@Ben Cisco:
MRI:
Had one yet? They are definitely noisy.
SiubhanDuinne
Glad to see Mike Luckovich back at work. Some people shouldn’t be allowed to take vacations.
Soonergrunt
Accused pedophile Jerry Sandusky’s lawyer, Joseph Amendola, in his opening statement yesterday:
Oh, dear.
David Koch
Dressage clap
Valdivia
@jl:
I think he did way back when people thought he was going to run for President.
Ash Can
A tip of the chapeau for the Pogo reference. :)
gbear
I just watched a half-hour documentary that LGF had posted called ‘When Abortion Was Illegal: Untold Stories’ (1992)
Those who are thinking that voting this November is pointless should go watch it.
beltane
@Linda Featheringill: I have had four brain MRIs over the past decade, the last one while I was suffering from severe vertigo, and will refuse to have another one unless I am thoroughly sedated.
Valdivia
@Ben Cisco:
hoping whatever it is they find it and solve it.
Yutsano
@Linda Featheringill: I fall asleep during MRIs. They put headphones and classical music on and I snooze. Maybe I just get spoiled.
gbear
@Mr Stagger Lee: That was so amazing. Whodathunkit? Yay ND.
beltane
@Mr Stagger Lee: Isn’t the Democratic Senate candidate doing pretty well in the polls there as well? Maybe North Dakota will be the first state to emerge from the far side of the wingularity.
Richard Sloat
My comment! Frustrated by the absurdity of the Republican Tax policy, balance a budget with no new taxes, I have made a political satire called “Taking the Tea Party Republican Tax Pledge” and placed it on YouTube.
Here is the link http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rfk6eVoUGPM
If you conceive of any use for this piece , you are welcome to freely use it or link it, as you wish. My best.
Peace, Richard Sloat
RalfW
Oh, and apropos the cartoon:
Senator Jeff Sessions Argues Food Stamps Increase Not Moral, Mocks Senator Kirsten Gillibrand – FYI, Senator Gillibrand is Catholic and by arguing against cutting food stamps, she’s in line with the US bishops, Catholic Charities, and the Catholic social justice tradition. But, apparently, to the GOP, feeding poor people is immoral. via @CatholicDems
Mark S.
@Soonergrunt:
Yikes.
I’m coming to the conclusion that Assassins Creed Revelations sucks. I really liked AC 2. Brotherhood started going a little downhill, but this one is just awful. The bad stuff they introduced to Brotherhood is even worse and the brand new stuff (tower defense, bombs) is downright horrible. I’m about half way thru and haven’t enjoyed a single mission. Bleh.
jl
@RalfW:
The text in the link suggests that Sessions does not understand what a macroeconomic multiplier is, or how food stamps work.
The world is crazy. I do not understand, cannot believe the stuff I see hear and read in the political news. The Sessions food stamp BS is just one example.
Soonergrunt
@Mark S.: I haven’t played any of the AC games. In fact, I haven’t played any games at all in the last few weeks. I have no idea when I’ll actually get some quality gaming time in, for that matter.
Yutsano
@beltane: Keep in mind this is the Post so they go out of their way to polish the knob of the Republican, but the Senate race is a dead tie. And Heitkamp is getting major support from the DSCC. Only Rove is spending money so far there, but apparently Berg is a lazy campaigner. Could be interesting.
catclub
@RalfW: I hate it when I agree with people who are crazy on other issues. But I fully agree that Football stadiums are gifts of public money to corporations — and so do these wackos.
Of course, there is probably a bit of Abramoff in this: pay us to support your (casino, football stadium, whatever) and we will, don’t pay us and we will oppose it with fury. Wasn’t that what Dick Armey was doing?
All the issues that his teaparty group was up in arms about just happened to line up with issues his lobbying clients were up in arms about.
Given that the Koch’s don’t need money. maybe there is more principle and less payoff, here.
piratedan
@RalfW: makes you wonder when someone is going to melt down on this idiocy. Someone like myself would find it very difficult to tolerate this kind of wanton cruelty
Cacti
The halcyon days of the American middle class were a historical aberration that were winding down by the time I was born in the 1970s.
When was the last time a single income could support a middle class lifestyle for a family of four? The Johnson Administration?
Mark S.
@Soonergrunt:
I’m looking for anything to take my mind off politics. I really don’t know if I can take five more months of this shit.
beltane
Spain is getting hammered by the ratings agencies as a result of the bank bailout http://www.guardian.co.uk/business/2012/jun/14/moodys-cuts-spain-cyprus-debt-rates
The big banks have become like cockroaches, likely to survive after every other living thing around them has perished.
Hill Dweller
Stewart’s entire first segment is about Obama doing a lot of fundraising, but he failed to mention Citizens United one time. And the bigger sin, at least for a comedian, was the bit wasn’t funny.
WTF has happened to Stewart?
Valdivia
@Hill Dweller:
I have no idea. I stopped watching him for this reason…He has been absorbed by the Village Borg?
jeffreyw
My new computer case has three fans, the mobo has two fan headers. The bastards.
MikeJ
@Hill Dweller: Stewart hasn’t been funny since before his rally on the mall.
Mnemosyne
@beltane:
IIRC, cockroaches are a tropical insect that’s able to survive in northern climates because we provide them with heat and light. If humans died off, cockroaches would quickly follow because they wouldn’t be able to survive without us to provide them with what they need.
Which just makes your analogy even more apt, IMO.
ETA: Shorter me, interpreting you — the banks are parasites that are determined to kill their host organism.
burnspbesq
4.1 quake here in OC a few minutes ago. Just enough to get your attention.
Hill Dweller
In rhinoplasty news, it looks like Maggie Gyllenhaal had some work done.
Suffern ACE
@Mnemosyne: While I wouldn’t mind reigning in the banks or letting them fail, I was kind of hoping for an approach different than mass group suicide of all humanity.
Mnemosyne
@Suffern ACE:
I would prefer it if the banks could be reined in or allowed to fail, but I’m worried that the banks have enough money and power to prevent that.
And if the banks did destroy the world economy, it wouldn’t be suicide, at least not for us non-banksters. More like murder-suicide.
ETA: I’m quite the Little Mary Sunshine right now, aren’t I? I should probably go nurse my headache instead of trying to cause them in others.
jl
Winner is icummen in,
Lhude sing Got Mine,
Income drop and savings slop
And how the plebs doth whine!
Sing: Got Mine.
Stoppeth schools and breaketh tools,
An ague hath my hind.
Sludgeth river, broketh giver
Damn you, sing: Got Mine.
Got Mine, Got Mine, tis why I dine,
Got Mine.
So ‘gainst the hobo’s balm
Sing Got Mine Got Mine, sing Got Mine
Sing Got Mine, sing Got Mine,
Mine!
Stuck in the Funhouse
@Mnemosyne:
mclaren is still fapping away down in the gw thread, if a lobotomy would help your headache.
burnspbesq
@Stuck in the Funhouse:
Man, once she gets the bit in her teeth, it stays there.
Mnemosyne
@Stuck in the Funhouse:
I was just down there. Maybe that’s the source of the headache.
(Actually, it’s probably due a sharp drop and rise in humidity that we had today — turns out the freakin’ weather can trigger a migraine. Who knew?)
Stuck in the Funhouse
@Mnemosyne:
Do what you need to make it better. I’ve had a couple of migraine headaches, or with similar symptoms, and jesus they just suck the life right out of you
CW in LA
@Soonergrunt: Isn’t that what his client is being charged with?
Yutsano
Australia continues to be cool.
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
@Mnemosyne:
I get weather headaches all the dang time. For me, i think it’s the pressure shifts, since it always hits before or during stormy weather.
Geoduck
@efgoldman:
For what little it is worth, it’s not a remake, but more of a next-generation deal; Hagman is back as JR, along with others from the original cast.
brettvk
@Ben Cisco: It’s a lot like being in the middle of a minimalist all-percussion symphony. I thought it was kind of interesting, but a) it was my knee so there weren’t claustrophobia issues and b) it’s a little disturbing that everyone else gets behind heavy shielding.
Thoughtcrime
@Hill Dweller:
Stewart’s not worthy to shine Colbert’s big brass balls.
Origuy
Dogfish Head 90 Minute IPA. Why didn’t anyone tell me?
A Humble Lurker
Ezra Klein’s been doing Rachel’s show this week. I don’t know what it is about guest hosts on that show, but I can never stand them. Even if I like them off that show. But now that Ezra’s been assimilated I just. Can. Not. Watch. Hope Rachel’s back by next week.
R-Jud
@jl: **Prolonged applause.**
Ben Cisco
@Linda Featheringill: Yeah,ten years back before a diskectomy (L-5). Doing an “open” one this time, ’cause that tube was for bollocks.
Ben Cisco
@Valdivia: Thanks,
Sorry for the late (early?) replies, nodded off.
kd bart
I’m expecting a speech from Hologram Jay Gould at the Republican Convention on the virtues of Gilded Age Economics.
bjacques
@jl: When the weather’s crappy I sing Ezra Pound’s version while swaying like in the final scene of The Wicker Man. Pound was a thorough scumbag but that’s a damn funny poem.
Shana
Can I just say that I love that there have now been two Pogo references recently on BJ? Favorite comic strip of all time. I’ve been using that “Friday the 13th come on a __ this month” with my family for 25 years now. Cracks me up every time, but they just give me one of those Mom’s being weird again” looks. Oh well.
Nathanael
“Do we really have to relive the excesses of the fucking Gilded Age just because rich people won the 1980 Presidential election?”
Yes. It’ll be worse this time because the Gilded Age didn’t have to deal with global warming.