Sorry for the lack of posts, but I have been otherwise occupied and am saving up my energy for the election push:
This made me laugh out loud, though:
Sounds about right. Has JSF tried to slip you mushrooms yet?
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Steeplejack
Steep packing it in early tonight. Exhausted after running around all day looking for an apartment in 100° heat. ¡Caramba!
sb
VSP? Very serious person?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I heard this on the car radio, and just felt deflated
I apologize in advance for the fact that WP will post this fifteen times.
sb
In a week of sickening statements, that one takes the cake. Opinions may vary, of course.
Xboxershorts
I certainly wish JSF would slip us some shrooms
A little lighten up goes a long long way
RailRoad Earth at FESTY 1:30:00 worth
http://youtu.be/_O8f0j6kgjk
jl
Damn it. I was going to call Finel a glibertarian communist, but I forgot.
jaded
Since this is an open thread, I thought I’d post something my mom sent that made me laugh.
Dear Lord,
I know that I don’t talk to you that much, but this year you have taken away:
my favorite screenwriter Nora Ephron,
my favorite visionary Steve Jobs,
my favorite author Ray Bradbury,
my favorite childrens’ author Maurice Sendak,
my favorite American Bandstand guy Dick Clark,
my favorite hairdresser Vidal Sassoon,
my favorite musician Earl Scruggs,
my favorite Monkee Davy Jones,
my favorite 60 Minutes guy Mike Wallace,
and my favorite singer Whitney Houston.
I just wanted to let you know
that my favorite radio announcer is Rush Limbaugh.
Amen.
—
jaded
Oh come on, it’s funny. Why put me in moderation?
Ejoiner
Charles Pierce is an American treasure.
karen
OK, I accidentally used the jaded username that I’ve used in other places, please take me out of moderation!
JGabriel
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Bernard I. Finel:
See, we’re really very moderate. We attack from all sides.
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Violet
Lily puppeh! So gorgeous! Look how much she loves you!
jl
Now this my friends, is Science I can believe in. Any idiot GOPers try to shut down important scientific and historical research like this, I will be inside the Capitol and I will raise hell until I get a night in that cute little clink they got there.
600-year-old linen bras found in Austrian castle
VIENNA (AP) — A revolutionary discovery is rewriting the history of underwear: Some 600 years ago, women wore bras.
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One specimen in particular “looks exactly like a (modern) brassiere,” says Hilary Davidson, fashion curator for the London Museum. “These are amazing finds.”
http://news.yahoo.com/600-old-linen-bras-found-austrian-castle-192408678.html
Odie Hugh Manatee
Shit, I’ve been missing out on the fun.
@JGabriel:
What’s sad is that it took three days for that to happen. We used to do that in three hours.
jl
Oops, I forgot that, too. Thanks for pet pic, glibertarian commie Cole.
Nutella
@JGabriel:
All sides do it!
Wazmo
Gaah. This weekend I’ll deploy my bumper sticker (Republcians: willing to keep millions out of work so one man can lose his job) and see if my car gets attacked.
JGabriel
@Odie Hugh Manatee:
You can catch up, they’re still making brassieres.
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a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@jl: I read that as “800 year old linen bra found in Austrian cattle” and thought WTF? Cattle in Austria? With bras?
JGabriel
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a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Clearly you’ve never been to Vienna.
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danielx
Jesus wept, Bernard, you’d think it was something special. I’ve been told that I – I personally – am an example of what’s wrong with this country. Told by an officious/sanctimonious lefty who thought I was too into ‘filth and provocation’. Was on another site, but hey – I gotta be me.
Good times.
Hypatia's Momma
In Penn State news:
Federal officials probe Penn State for possible Clery Act violations
Hypatia's Momma
@JGabriel:
Cows in Vienna wear bras? That’s taking the modesty issue a bit far.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@JGabriel: I forgot about Vienna.
donovong
@jaded: Ha! I am so stealing that!
BigD
My secretary drives a Suburu.
It gets worse.
There is currently a canoe strapped to its roof.
jl
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
” I read that as “800 year old linen bra found in Austrian cattle” and thought WTF? Cattle in Austria? With bras? ”
The story has a pic and it looks like bras for the ladies.
But who knows? Maybe that old Austrian topfen was made from dairy cows treated extra special.
Joeyess
John Cole, Outsourcing Misanthrope, Esq.
SRW1
What has that doggie been drinking? Can’t quite make out the nature of the bottle in the background. Seems to have been good stuff, though.
Joseph Nobles
Managed to get up to the keyboard after having read this actual Scott Walker tweet and having to take a knee:
http://twitter.com/ScottKWalker/status/225784662612647936
Well, there you have it. Can’t argue with that, can you? Belly up to the Mitt Romney bar, because America’s on the crazytown ride for the foreseeable future.
mai naem
Apparently many BJ’rs are getting confused and mistaking poor Bernard for Mitt Romney.
jl
@SRW1: I did not notice that.
Shame on you, Cole. Does Cole look that nice when he gets slammed? I doubt it. I seriously doubt it.
Comrade Mary
Know what you need? A kid in a Snuggie who does a fabulously meticulous job of re-creating Beyoncé’s Countdown video.
Give it as least 30 seconds. Let’s just say that a smart kid and consumer software can do great things these days.
Mnemosyne
Root canal tomorrow. Yay. I wanted to put it off until next week, but the tooth just hurts too damn much.
And why does ibuprofen make me sleepy? I don’t think I’ve heard of anyone else experiencing this side effect.
Jewish Steel
VSP? Very Special Port?
V. S. Pritchett?
Either way, not so bad.
SRW1
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Jebus, never heard of alpine pastures? You know, the place where sin doesn’t exist (“Auf der Alm, do gibst koa Suend”!?
Would possibly also explain the bra!
Mark S.
@Joseph Nobles:
Imagine if God needed help from the government to create the world. It would have taken 13 billion years instead of six days.
jl
@Joseph Nobles:
But the ark required a lot of what seem to be meddlesome Godly regulations. Did Noah really do it on his own? Moses got cursed for less presumption. Scott Walker blasphemes!:
” 14 Make thee an ark of gopher wood; rooms shalt thou make in the ark, and shalt pitch it within and without with pitch.
15 And this is the fashion which thou shalt make it of: The length of the ark shall be three hundred cubits, the breadth of it fifty cubits, and the height of it thirty cubits.
16 A window shalt thou make to the ark, and in a cubit shalt thou finish it above; and the door of the ark shalt thou set in the side thereof; with lower, second, and third stories shalt thou make it. “
Jewish Steel
@Mnemosyne: Yo! Ibuprofen. Sleepy and dizzy. Yup.
Redshift
@Joseph Nobles:
Says the man who’s in charge of a state government!
Redshift
@Mnemosyne: Before you go, wanted to thank you for your takedown of S in DC the other night. Any time an argument starts with “X isn’t really a lot of money here” where X is nearly four times the median income in the city (or 2.5 times the median in the metro area), it’s such privileged assholery that it kind of makes me see red.
MikeJ
@JGabriel:
Vienna waits for you.
DPS
@SRW1:
Afraid she’s drunk on nothing but elitism.
suzanne
So, today, in front of a client, my boss decided to rail against the ADA (not sure why, as that’s a huge reason we make money) and accommodations to women in the workplace. THEN he decided to ask me what I thought. JESUS FUCK. I said very politely that the ADA is there for all of us and that I believe that women have every right to expect equal treatment in the workplace. Christ on a cracker.
So, in better news, I am going on vacation tomorrow. What reading material should I bring? I was thinking “All The Pretty Horses” by McCarthy and “Room” by Donoghue. Your thoughts, Juicers? What’s new that I should be reading?
John O
Life is too complicated for Bernard to understand that all those perspectives are true. It’s a matter of degree.
Stewart and Colbert have come out of the post-vacation stretch in the lead. Hilarious, both of them.
MikeJ
@suzanne:
Something that tells us what VSP means?
MattR
@John O: Even the Hoare’s are disgusted by the Libor scandal.
@MikeJ: Very Serious Person. Similar to, but not quite the same as a Villager.
Anne Laurie
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Easy to mock, if you’re not a dairy farmer.
Cow bras.
Goat bras.
Same basic structural theory as the human model, but strictly for function, not style.
You really can learn stuff at Balloon Juice, see…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@MikeJ: Very Serious Person/People, i.e. Villagers. Tom Friedman, Cokie Roberts, David Gergen, David Brooks. I don’t know if it’s from Krugman, Atrios or someone else
suzanne
@MikeJ: Very Serious Person.
MattR
@Anne Laurie:
That’s udderly ridiculous.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@suzanne: Not terribly new, but if you’re a fan of noir movies and / or John Le Carre, pick up something by Alan Furst. Espionage thrillers set between the world wars, always set at least partly in Paris. An excellent writer, subject matter aside.
Just Some Fuckhead
I’m trying to lead the soulless bastard to Christ.
NotMax
Repeating this from a much earlier thread because the article is that worthwhile an exemplar of the entrenched rot in the financial sector.
Excellent, excellent piece outlining a current real-world case of a finance giant manipulating esoteric rules to maximize profits without providing anything in return for the payments. Highly suggest reading the whole thing.
MikeBoyScout
New Google Nexus 7 … no flash support (except via side load) means most sites with video you’re f*cked. Seriously?
MikeJ
@MikeBoyScout: Nexus? I make you eyes.
John O
@suzanne:
As always, Infinite Jest. There are two kinds of people in the world: Those who love it, and those who hate it., so you get an interesting read either way.
IJ is my “stuck on a desert island with one book-book.” The whole Meta-Point is that the book is meant to be re-read (because it’s so entertaining), to try to “figure it out,” and realizing that the first 15-20 pages are the chronological END of the book. It’s layer upon layer of work.
People really do hate it, though!
opie jeanne
@Redshift: Me too. All of what you said.
TaMara (BHF)
@Anne Laurie: First you get them bras, next you know they’ll want waterbeds.
According the dairy farmers, it makes for happier cows and happier cows make happier milk. And I’m not even mocking, I think it’s wonderful. It does prevent a lot of infections.
Anne Laurie
@suzanne:
I’ve just finished my fourth Longmire (Craig Johnson) mystery in a row. If you can imagine a world halfway between Tony Hillerman and John D. MacDonald’s Travis McGee, with a certain emotional similarity to Terry Pratchett’s Sam Vimes…
Penguin has just reprinted the first seven, ‘cuz A&E is bringing out a tv series.
Librarian
Tonight, Letterman suddenly went into an anti-fracking rant on his show, it was beautiful to see.
Felanius Kootea
@suzanne: Not so new anymore, but “A Visit from the Goon Squad” by Jennifer Egan, if you haven’t already read it.
opie jeanne
@Mnemosyne: yes. Sleepy.
And what Redshift said in thanks.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Librarian: He’s made phoning it in part of his act (and I’m a fan boy), but when the old man gets wound up, he’s as good as he ever was, and he’s pissed about the environment and our failure to do anything about it.
anybody see El Nino on CNN? I imagine if he’d said anything notable, it would be all over the ‘nets, and I don’t see much.
satanicpanic
I haven’t found anything the Bernard has written all that objectionable. He seems pretty reasonable to me. Maybe I need more practice at BJ commenting.
NotMax
@Anne Laurie
Series began June 3 and runs through Aug. 12.
Watched the full first episode and about 1/3 of the 2nd.
It was so unremittingly dismal and grim that I swear the lights in my room dimmed.
That and also that it is not filmed in Wyoming, so misses the opportunity to showcase some scenery in wide shots was enough for me to say thanks, but no thanks.
mechwarrior online fuck yeah
and in wingnut of the day…
http://politicker.com/2012/07/former-navy-seal-launches-pac-to-fight-obama/
muddy
@Anne Laurie: Brought out. It’s had 4 or 5 episodes so far on Sunday nights.
The lead in some angles looks a bit like GWB, squinty. But generally he has an intelligent expression so the resemblance is only fleeting. Good thing, else I might not be able to watch the show. Lou Diamond Phillips is in it too, and Katee Sackhoff.
John Cole
@SRW1: It’s Pellegrino. And I was the one drinking it.
Nutella
@MikeBoyScout:
Amateurish sites with video. They would have fallback to HTML5 video if they were pros.
WaterGirl
@Anne Laurie: @suzanne: Second the recommendation of the Craig Johnson series. If you have something that will play books on tape, all the books in his series are performed by George Guidell who really brings the books to life. It’s like they were written to be read by this guy. My library carries all the books on tape. (CD actually)
I suppose you could read them or listen to them in any order, but you do get to know the characters so chronological would be good if you can do it.
Edit: P.S. to suzanne – your boss sounds like a total ass.
sneezy
@suzanne:
I think I’ve read every book McCarthy has written and a few of them more than once. I think Pretty Horses is among his best. If you’ve read him before, I think you’ll enjoy this one, too. If you haven’t read him before, it might make a good introduction, in that it isn’t grim and horrific, like, say, Blood Meridian or Outer Dark.
I haven’t read Room yet, though I’ve somehow acquired two copies. From everything I’ve heard and read about it, it’s terrific. So I don’t think you can go far wrong with either of your own suggestions.
dww44
@suzanne: Don’t know if you’re into non-fiction but there’s a hefty one out about Truman and Eisenhower and their time called “Two Americans”. Author is William Lee Miller and it’s a wonderful trip back through the first half plus some of the 20th century, filled with wonderfully capable Americans like George C. Marshall, George Kennan, Dean Atcheson, and others.
Did you know the Marshall Plan was so named because Truman knew that the newly controlled Republican Congress (1946 election) could be persuaded to vote for it if George Marshall’s name were attached? And that Eisenhower elected to run as Republican because he wanted to influence/counter the isolationist foreign policy of the GOP and because he didn’t think it was good for the country for one party to control government for as long as the Democrats did.
WaterGirl
@NotMax: The books are WAY better than the TV series.
Anne Laurie
@NotMax: Thanks for the advice. Books are still excellent, though.
mechwarrior online fuck yeah
@Nutella:
Flash is still the standard, like it or not. I have more than my share of gripes with it (and all things adobe) but it’s something you should have the option of.
I don’t see what the issue is though, it runs android thus you can get flash, it’s not gimped like iOS.
NotMax
@suzanne
Mostly read history, but shall refrain from listing some of those.
Not a new title, but if you’ve never read “The Alienist” by Caleb Carr and can get hold of a copy, it is a cracking good can’t-put-down period thriller/detective tale.
El Cid
Mitt Romney just said this, after mocking Obama for saying that you never built that.
Take what? Is Mitt Romney saying the government built your business?
And, OMG! Is Mitt Romney asking Obama to take away any American’s business? Why does Mitt Romney not understand America and Free Enterprise?
Why is Mitt Romney calling for Obama to take away peoples’ businesses just for raising their hands?
Or is Mitt Romney asking President Obama to take their right hands off? OMG!
Did Bill Ayers create relative pronouns as part of a terrorist plot? Which is the question, and that’s that.
NotMax
@El Cid
Raising their hands makes it all that much easy to pick their pockets.
Hill Dweller
@El Cid: As I was saying on one of the lower threads, this entire thing is f’n pathetic.
The Republicans obviously wanted to change the subject, but the allegations against Obama are laughably flimsy. However, that didn’t stop NBC and CNN from playing right along.
It almost makes the Hillary Rosen ‘scandal’ look credible.
suzanne
@Felanius Kootea: I keep looking at Goon Squad every time I go to the store and keep saying I have enough on my plate already, but it looks tremendous. Will definitely buy it next time.
Read Infinite Jest when I was eighteen. Loved it. Too heavy to carry on the plane, though. I’m thinking concise. Spare. Easy to carry. ;)
FuriousPhil
@MikeJ:
Really? Nobody’s gonna run with this? OK, fine.
‘If only you could see what I’ve seen with YOUR eyes.’
I listened to On Point tonight on my drive home from some tabletop gaming, and listened to John Bogle (founder of Vanguard) and a ProPublica reporter talk about banks and bankers. Stuff fascinates and deeply depresses me. Maybe by 2019 we’ll all have artificial owls, replicant ‘pleasure models’, and a better life in the off-world colonies.
NotMax
@Hill Dweller
Agreed.
At least Obama has never publicly used the perfectly good word ‘niggardly.’
Hannity’s head would implode.
Yutsano
@NotMax:
You’re free to tell me why this would be a negative.
suzanne
@WaterGirl:
Yes.
In my office, everyone under 35 is progressive, and everyone over 35 is a Teatard. Oy.
Thanks for the recommends, y’all. Now I have a list for my next trip to Bookman’s. :)
FuriousPhil
@MikeJ:
Nobody’s gonna run with this? OK, fine.
‘If only you could see what I’ve seen with YOUR eyes.’
I listened to On Point on the drive home from some gaming tonight. Heard John Bogle (Vanguard founder) and a ProPublica reporter talk about banks and bankers. Stuff fascinates me and depresses me at the same time. Maybe by 2019 we’ll have artificial owls, pleasure models, and a better life in the off-world colonies.
NotMax
@Yutsano
Heh.
I got nuthin’.
gwangung
Hm. I should plug my show. Runs until July 28.
Feature article about my head panda wrangler is here.
Hill Dweller
@NotMax: I went to Media Matters to read their timeline of Fox ginning up this fake controversy, and noticed some of the other propaganda they’ve been pushing on air in the past couple of days. It’s mind-boggling.
Fox is also attacking Obama for suing Ohio after they eliminated early voting. They’re attacking him for the Chevy Volt again.
From what I can tell, they’re not even pretending to be a news organization any longer.
The rest of the media just pretends it isn’t happening. Even worse, most times Fox leads them around by the nose.
sb
@Hill Dweller: I don’t watch Fox but a friend of mine does (liberal guy, he does it for laughs and to “see what the other side is saying”) and he told me exactly what you just wrote–they’re not even pretending to be a news organization any longer. Leaving aside the opinion that they’ve never been, the point being they are just off the chain right now.
Kane
I was thinking lately how Mitt Romney could turn things around on the subject of his taxes. Not that I want him to, but just thinking. Please understand that this is coming for a political novice.
* Call for a news conference.
* Announce that he is releasing 10 years of tax records.
* Explain to voters that the tax system is broken. Point to his Swiss bank accounts and tax shelters in Bermuda and the Cayman Islands and his paying a lower tax rate than most working Americans as proof that the system is broken.
* Admit that, yes, he has gamed the system. And if possible, try to look sincere.
* Explain that because of his experience, he is uniquely qualified to clean up the tax system. Explain in detail viable proposals of how he intends to make the tax system fair for everyone.
I don’t know if it would work or not, but it possibly could be a game-changer. And while there would still be people rummaging through his records to find delicious details, his already admitting to gaming the system might lessen the impact of those stories. Of course there’s the question of whether he actually wants to repair the tax system. And then there’s the problem of Romney’s lack of political courage to attempt to pull it off.
Thoughts?
Yutsano
@Kane: This would mean Willard committed an error. Willard does not commit errors. At least none he will confess to.
NotMax
@Kane Three very fast off the cuff reactions.
1) An 11th hour conversion to purity of ethics is too pat, phony, and flip-floppy. He was never required to use the intricacies of the tax system which he employed on his nreturns.
2) Mitt has never explained anything in detail, viable or not. If he does it once, he sets a precedent which he cannot live up to.
3) It leaves out of the equation the Congress, which writes and passes the laws and how he would bypass that hurdle.
suzanne
I notice no one’s called him a cudlip yet. This shall have to be rectified.
Hill Dweller
@sb: I’ve never intentionally watched Fox. It’s been on in a doctor’s office or hotel, and I’ve seen Fox clips on blogs. So I’ve always known they’re just the propaganda wing of the Republican party. But it was stunning reading the last couple of days of the Media Matters blog.
Fox literally created this Obama/small business controversy out of whole cloth. They started pushing selectively edited quotes and video during their Monday morning show, and it continued for the remainder of the day. The other parts of the wingnut echo chamber pushed it, which ultimately led Willard to use it in his stump speech onTuesday. Once Willard used it, NBC and CNN ran the exact same distorted quotes/video that Fox created.
Some days, this country’s demise seems all but guaranteed.
Kane
@Yutsano: Yeah, that would be a problem. I forgot about No Apologies.
Kane
@NotMax: Excellent points. And off the cuff too.
The prophet Nostradumbass
@Hill Dweller: Murdoch’s UK operations have been doing this for at least 40 years. This kind of shit about his operations was first publicized in Britain in the early 1970’s. He has been a slime since before he ever left Australia.
SRW1
@Yutsano:
Somebody’s got to clean up the splatter afterwards, probably in a hazmat suit.
CJD and all!
chuck butcher
@Kane:
considering that his entire economic PLAN is to cut taxes on the “job creators”…
Well, that would be strange optics – to put it, er, nicely.
Calouste
@Kane:
If Romney really meant that, all those SuperPacs that Karl Rove controls and that are funded with billionaire money would be running ads against him with insinuations that would make the right-wing’s treatment of Obama over the last 4 years look like kindergarten and he would be out before the convention. Something like accusing Romney of having 4 12-year old sister wives would probably be one of the more polite ones of those adverts.
Of course he could explain to his billionaire buddies that he all does it to fool the rubes, but even mentioning that the tax system is broken will make those people very unhappy, let alone Romney explaining the scam to the rubes. Specially not because he is the Republican in the race. Obama does it, but he is the Democrat, and the rubes don’t believe Democrats.
amk
who the fuck is this finel person? too much butthurt.
Joseph Nobles
Here’s an interesting question – to me, anyway.
There’s a flap right now over the federal government being able to offer tax credits to people buying insurance in the federal healthcare insurance exchanges. It seems one of the things that didn’t get put into the ACA was the authority for the feds to do this. They can offer them in exchanges built by the states. The ACA is quite clear on that. But for those states not building their own exchanges, the federal government has the authority to do it for them. But even though other parts of the ACA assume that the federal government can offer the credits in their own exchanges, the actual authority seems to be lacking.
Now this is a simple fix, of course, assuming the Democrats get control of the House and keep the Senate. And that’s a big assumption, granted. But should this miracle occur, do the Democrats really want to go ahead and simply authorize the credits in the federal exchanges?
It seems to me if they’re going to mount the legislative effort, they should also offer a public option in lieu of the tax credit. And since what the feds do for one or several states, they should do for all, the public option would be available for all the state exchanges as well. In keeping with the Supreme Court’s Medicaid ruling, states building their own exchanges would be free to refuse the public option for their own citizens. But I don’t see how the non-participating states could refuse it at all. It’s not their exchange to make any decisions about.
I could ascribe the Democrats with enough 11-dimensional chess prowess to have done this from the beginning, but I’m cracking a smile just thinking about that. Like I say, other language in the ACA assumes the feds can offer the tax credits in the federal exchanges. It was simply a mistake. But mistakes often lead to opportunities, and this would be an interesting one to play out. What say you?
Marcellus Shale, Public Dick
further evidence cole’s gap was split wide, and everyone on the train was careful enough to wear sandpaper prophylactics so as to deny him the just rewards for his efforts.
BruceFromOhio
Sounds like Dr. Finel is fitting right in then!
(“sandpaper prophylactics”? ick. ouch!)
Maude
The next tweet: Sticks and stones will break my bones, but words will never hurt me.
Edit, word fail.
Lojasmo
@Mnemosyne:
It’s listed on the long form side effect profile. My theory is that because it relieves your pain, it allows you to sleep.
Lojasmo
@suzanne:
The fail. Your boss is a dick.
11/22/63 by Stephen King is a great read. (not typical SK fare)
Currently reading fear and loathing on the campaign trail ’72 by HST.
tjmn
@Yutsano:
Is willard another W?
NCSteve
I called him, or at least his views, “sophomoric.” I’m very disappointed I didn’t make the tweet.
chopper
@Joseph Nobles:
of course, if there’s one thing the federal government has no good experience in, it’s in getting really huge ships built.
quannlace
Sweet Jeezuz. Perhaps he trying to ensure they can’t find an impartial jury anywhere. Everyone will be convinced he’s a pathetic dick.
catclub
@Odie Hugh Manatee: Yeah, on his first post everyone was saying it was great and really thoughtful. Why bother to soften him up?
OzoneR
Needed to post this, maybe someone wants to start a thread on the hilarity? Posted at about 9am this morning.
Read more: http://thepage.time.com/2012/07/19/romney-wins-two-straight-micro-news-cycles/#ixzz214pUVNLE
Too bad most of the country slept through it. ugh.
hep kitty
John, I just wanted to mention that I overhead Susie Madrak refer to one of your tweets (the one that created so much controversy b/w you & ABL about the whole “raping nuns” comment) on Mark Thompson (Make It Plain) on Sirius a couple of days ago. I didn’t hear what she said immediately before that but, of course, that quote stood out in my mind! Anyway, she was not being critical but was making a point about republican shamelessness
hep kitty
And Lily looks like she needs her belly scritched!
Spatula
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Maybe you should try not investing emotionally in events and personalities far beyond your sphere and circle of influence.
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
@jl:
I had an engineering prof who used to joke (ironically) that the design for the Ark was the first recorded Requirements Specification.
Spatula
@danielx:
Oh hell, that’s a daily occurrence here on BJ. Hang out here a while and you’ll be called far worse. :D
I love that Bernard is posting here now. Cole is reaching out to his more sensible clientele; most of whom cower in the shadows here, lurking, afraid of the wrath of the Bots. They descend like locusts at the first sane comment from the left.
Left of center/right, that is.
Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God
@satanicpanic:
Reducing IED casualties in Iraq and Afghanistan by 80% using MRAPS as a short-term (but effective) solution doesn’t fit his ‘strategic vision’.
I love the smell of PowerPoint in the morning.
SRW1
@Spatula:
Unfortunately not all people have the talent to be sociopaths.