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Some days everything seems political, dunnit?
Posting this to see how long it takes Cole to bigfoot. Place your bets in the comments.
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(Stone Soup via GoComics.com)
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Some days everything seems political, dunnit?
Posting this to see how long it takes Cole to bigfoot. Place your bets in the comments.
Comments are closed.
chopper
3…2…1…
jl
Well, I dunno whats with the hating on Cole, Cole might have a problem with a dingleberrry he needs to share with the world.
You can never tell. These are exiciting times, right?
Roger Moore
Cole won’t bigfoot it; it’s the wrong time of day for that.
scav
Or, this one will hit the 300s just to prove a point. Could go either way.
BGinCHI
Cole is constructing a tall stand for his late-night sandwiches.
What could possibly go wrong.
BGK
Apropos of nothing, a phrase I never thought I’d type or say:
I fractured my right foot doing a poorly-aimed roundhouse kick.
NotMax
Depends on which animal Mr.Cole is channeling today.
BGinCHI
@BGK: Film or it didn’t happen.
Hal
Sigh. I feel horrible because I honestly don’t give a flying fig about the AP, the IRS or Benghazi. The latter is easy for me because we all know the right is full of it. The IRS issue seems to be more nuanced than targeting poor wittle right wingers, and in the end, the expectation that POTUS should know what some middle managers in Cincinnati are doing is beyond nonsensical.
As for the AP story, I’m bugged by the use of the world spying when this was done via a subpoena, and the press’ concern seems to be entirely based on the fact that they are the subject of the search.
Oh well, I’m going to meditate and try to rewire my outrage meter, and hopefully by this time tomorrow I’ll be posting on Dailykos calling for Holder’s resignation.
WereBear
@BGK: I wince in sympathy. Watching too many bad movies?
Roger Moore
@BGK:
So now you’re challenging Cole to try to get him to top your clumsiness? This won’t end well.
Trollhattan
Item the first, stupid blogger finds even stupider guest blogger to really, really bring the…you know.
http://wonkette.com/516223/stupidest-guest-blogger-on-internet-asks-why-you-murder-americas-eagle-obama-man#more-516223
Item the second: how long before the gun fondlers are calculating just what it would take to make a lethal chocolate round. “I got yer ‘death by chocolate.'” Also, too, yay for Onion Joe.
http://www.greenbaypressgazette.com/viewart/20130513/GPG0101/305130406/7-year-old-boy-gets-handwritten-letter-from-Biden
Roger Moore
@NotMax:
Tunch. IOW, there will be no JGC posts today.
Trollhattan
@Roger Moore:
Roundhouse mopping. Only Chuck Norris is qualified.
chopper
@BGK:
chuck norris you aint.
RK
I don’t come here much anymore because I’ve lost interest in governance and politics, but the format is too crowded. How about a little space between posts.
Second, has anyone ever thought to make this blog a little more diverse, allowing posts on things other than politics? I’m not a fan of Sullivan’s, but browsing his blog can be interesting because he posts about more than politics.
Thanks.
chopper
@Trollhattan:
oh, FFS. (rubs bridge of nose).
chopper
@RK:
great idea!
first new topic of discussion: what kind of horrific, painful death should commenter RK die of?
dan
@BGK: My guess is that it was a well-aimed kick that was executed improperly. Otherwise, why would you aim it poorly? That is the easy part.
piratedan
@RK: well you must time your visits a bit differently, Thursday we have the foodies, late night friday the music hipsters tend to rule, on Saturday it’s sports, namely anything sports related to Pittsburgh generally. Also the GOT threads and MadMen excursions that dominate the night that the new eps come out.
also suggesting that while JC does like to bigfoot AL, I’m guessing today he’ll stomp on DougJ accidentally instead just for the sake of variety.
Trollhattan
@RK:
I’d know for sure your post is snark if you added “CHAINED CPI!”
Why yes, that Sully fellow does have a diversity among his
postsinterns.NotMax
Couple of things meriting a note.
Say what?
Fools on the hill.
Trollhattan
@chopper:
When they talk about the chronically underemployed in our fair nation, these folks will never, ever make that list. I wouldn’t be surprised if they carried printed 3×5 cards that say
“Inhale (turn me over)”
“Exhale (turn me over)”
Schlemizel
@RK:
You don’t come here often yet you feel free to whine about the content? No wonder Cole would like to punch commenters in the throat!
Also too: the animal, gardening, music, football (both US & international), GOT/Mad Men/TV and cooking threads just don’t provide the diversity of topics for you? Sounds like you really need a blog of your own.
and: Sully/diversity? WTF is Sully interested in – cuz thats all that the asshole ever post about me-Me-ME-ME
Trollhattan
@NotMax:
Damn Mayans, always building their pyramids in the middle of the protoroad. Serves ’em right.
Violet
BBC on my radio has Judith Miller on. She’s aghast at the unprecedented action by the secretive Obama administration, blah, blah, blah. She’s got a very screechy voice.
BruceFromOhio
@RK: You mean, like posts on chickens, or famous double mastectomies?
And that’s just in the last 12 hours. Every Thursday is the recipe exchange, every Saturday is the open garden thread. Sometimes DougJ trolls all with a black hole of earworms.
ETA: I see others have taken causes to their liking as well… hmmmm… innerestin choices there …
karl
I can’t take this anymore. What in the world does “bigfoot” mean?
Soonergrunt
@RK: So all the threads about pets, gardening, recipes, current events, music, and so forth aren’t enough for you? I mean, for a primarily political blog, we do shake things up often enough that we’re not really shaking things up.
NotMax
@karl
When a new front page post shows up very soon after another has been posted, stepping on its top of page position.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@BGK: Two years ago my son injured his foot in a marching band incident.
Technically, he was moving one of tire rims they used for marking off the practice area and dropped it on his foot.
A Ghost To Most
@karl:
Stepping on a new thread with a newer thread.
BGinCHI
@chopper: Syphilis.
It was good enough for Nietzsche and Phyllis Schlafly.
Trollhattan
@karl:
I think it means frontpager loads new post and within minutes/seconds,
the blogmasterTunch posts right atop, drawing off readers and commenters so they can damn well come open that can of tuna.I think.
BGinCHI
@dan: Seriously. If you’re aiming your kicks you’re already losing.
wmd
As long as Tunch is in the bigfoot post all is well.
BGinCHI
@Violet: Has she offered to fuck the interviewer for access yet?
lamh35
@Violet: @Hal:
My Initial Take on the Associated Press Thing
by BooMan
I found this Booman post helpful, be forewarned u may be deemed an Obot is you agree with it.
Anne Laurie
@RK: Well played, whoever you are.
Roger Moore
@chopper:
Well, anencephaly doesn’t seem to do be doing the trick, so it’s going to have to be something really vile.
dewzke
I love how the Bigfoot front page post is just above that ridiculous “hayzeus crisco is our lord” pile of dung.
scav
@BGinCHI: Forget about losing, I can think of several “poorly” aimed kicks that it would well worth losing with (and even “appologizing” for).
@chopper: rummage through above tacit suggestions.
Trollhattan
@Roger Moore:
And since he/she
brought uptrolled Sully, here’s a shorter Sully from Erik Loomis.Which brings to mind McMegan’s “And do you know how I know that we are not like bonobos? Because we’re not like bonobos. because people are not bonobos!”
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2013/05/white-people-are-poodles-and-black-people-are-beagles
BruceFromOhio
@Anne Laurie: Haz we been had? Shat, I haz a dum now.
Seanly
You front pagers should be proud to have Cole bigfoot your posts with a post about dogs eating his food as he lights lavendar oil before taking a huge dump. On second thought…
mai naem
Every time I hear people talking about BENGHAZEE! on the boobtube this image comes into my head – I think of the GOPrs standing around like the National Geographic docs with the Masai tribe dancing all painted up with their shields and spears doing some ritual ceremony chanting/singing – “Bengha Bengha Bengha Zee! Bengha Bengha Bengha Zee! Oh-Ba- Oh-Ba- Oh-Ba-Oh-Ba-Ma! Bengha Bengha Bengha Zee! Bengha Bengha Bengha Zee! Heel-Aree Heel-Aree Heel-Aree Bengha Bengha Bengha Zee! Bengha Bengha Bengha Zee Oh-Ba- Oh-Ba- Oh-Ba-Oh-Ba-Ma!”
Comrade Mary
AL, didn’t you mean to link to this?
(And seriously, look at the size of those feet!)
GxB
@BGinCHI: And here you had my hopes up. PS is still alive (in the strictest medical term sense) to my knowledge.
smintheus
Is there going to be an Ottawa Senators open thread this evening?
hildebrand
Doesn’t the latest twist in the Benghazi case – ABC, or one of their minions editing the White House email for maximum scandalous effect – pour a bit of water on the AP ‘ohmyGod Obama is repressing the press!’ story?
MikeJ
@smintheus: Are the Ottawa Senators holding a hearing on Benghazi?
NotMax
@MikeJ
Too busy filibustering proposed changes to the recipe for poutine served in the members’ dining room.
Roger Moore
@hildebrand:
Was it ABC that edited the email, or was it the Republicans who gave it to them? That’s what Jay Carney is suggesting:
It certainly looks as if the actual email has been doctored for one reason or another.
muddy
The proud happy dog in the cartoon has the exact face my puppy has had on since she found out she could get out of the fence on Sunday. I spent 2 hours patching a place below one part of the fence, which had evidence of digging. It had washed out some in recent rains, giving access. Or egress? Thought I had the problem solved, a lot of the fence has chicken wire at the bottom already from when the big dog was a pup.
But still she kept getting out. Then she’d bark to get my attention before running off. “Look what I did, Mommy!! I’m proud of myself, and will now terrorize the neighborhood to celebrate!” I tried the nice voice, the stern voice, offering rides and treats, but she had found the world! She went to all the houses nearby with dogs and started shit up with all of them through the fences. I tried the old ploy of sitting down and pretending to cry so she would come. She came, but stayed just out of arm’s reach, canny bitch. I would just let her come home on her own (safe area) except for her getting all these neighbor dogs worked up.
On mothers day I was running around my neighborhood on streets and through back yards at midnight trying to catch her. Barefoot. I thought of how I have mocked John for running the streets in his robe and slippers, and how much worse I apparently was. Sorry, John! My son called to wish me a happy during the dogquest and all I did was whine and moan, sorry Son!
It turned out she was going over the fence in the corner – she just scrambled up and over it. It’s 4′ high! Crazy Gracie. Next project will apparently be better fencing.
BGinCHI
@MikeJ: Are the Ottawa Senators eating Cole’s sammich while he takes a crap?
eric nny
Here’s my contribution towards 300.
hildebrand
@Roger Moore: Yep, you are right – the edits didn’t come from the press. They certainly sprinted with the edits once in their hot little fingers, though. Again, tough to whine that the Obama administration is being mean to the press when the press is actively passing along false documents.
smintheus
@MikeJ: I think there’ll be a fleury of them.
Trollhattan
@muddy:
Huh, my dawg is also, too, a Gracie, and spotted like the comic, and fond of rubbing herself into stanky things–the most recent being a dead koi from our pond. Which she proceded to dig up, twice, for further stinkifying.
She hasn’t clarified whether she retrieved a floater or simply grabbed one out of the pond after only staring at them the last several years. So now we can’t trust her in the yard. Great.
catclub
@NotMax: “is the most important site in northern Belize, near the border with Mexico.”
was the most …
catclub
@muddy: “She came, but stayed just out of arm’s reach, canny bitch.”
Tazer application? With luck she will be knocked unconscious and not remember who did it to her.
schrodinger's cat
So squee that your head will explode
Kittehs and their friends
muddy
@Trollhattan: Both Sawyer and Gracie like to bring rawhide chewies out in the yard and bury them. They age nastily, they get really big and stretchy, completely filthy and stinking to high heaven. Sometimes they try to sneak them back in the house, ugh. Chew no strip before its time. And rub it in your sib’s face, that adds a little something too.
muddy
@catclub: Part of the time in the night I was in the car, trying to get her to “go for a ride”. She was running ahead of the car and I can’t say it didn’t cross my mind that she’d damn well stop if I hit her! The pair of them are curled up in a sunbeam now, looking like little doggie angels…
Citizen_X
@NotMax: If, as I suspect, the Mayans took off with the Vogons, there’s gonna be hella payback when they start planning the next galactic interchange.
Snark off, that kind of news makes me unutterably sad. How is that the slightest bit better than the Taliban blowing up ancient Buddhas?
JPL
Since Sunday, I have foregone most local news and all national news on TV and I am healthier for doing so. Sunday the sons helped build some raised gardens and then I filled them with dirt. I still need one new bed but so far have planted tomatoes, beans, zucchini, yellow squash, peppers and sweet potatoes. In the fall I’ll plant beets, kale and what ever. My guide has been Michelle Obama’s book. It’s not only informative but as a coffee table book, it incites any visiting neighbors who might not agree with her policies.
I love the cartoon, btw.
Trollhattan
@muddy:
Pretty sure underground-cured rawhide is a Finnish delicacy. Or is that shark in Iceland? Same difference!
First time I buried the fish I plopped a cinderblock over it. Gracie dug under it, no sweat, and retrieved the carcass. Next I put down two cinderblocks. Gracie dug under those and actually pulled up the now severed fishhead.
The armoring today consists of four cinderblocks, six bricks, an 18×18 paver and some sandstone scraps. Spousal unit wanted me to just throw it in the garbage but I can’t throw a pet into the trash, even if it is a fish. Not to mention there’s a test of wills here (with enough perimeter scraping to verify the contest is still on).
Stupid dog.
raven
Marrow bones from Publix for these angels.
Trollhattan
@Citizen_X:
Praying to the dollar god is better than praying to Allah?
NotMax
@muddy
One fence modification possible solution.
RK
I just think that this blog would be a more interesting browse if it wasn’t pretty much all politics on a daily basis and that others may feel the same. Then again, maybe I’m wrong, maybe a change would actually lower viewership. And I only used Sullivan’s blog (yes, i know how you guys feel about him and I’m not a fan either) as a model because my understanding is that his blog has a very large audience, but maybe I’m wrong about that too.
I do want to add that when blogging about his personal affairs, or just riffing, John Cole is truly hilarious.
MomSense
Since Cole has not obliged with moar Tunch pics.
Poor Merlin is exhausted from all of this scandal talk. http://www.flickr.com/photos/momsense_me/8739830226/in/photostream
gogol's wife
@Hal:
You sound just like me! I just watched the 1936 version of Show Boat, which improved my mood considerably.
Suffern ACE
@Violet:
God. They’ve got the “He’s really spooky like Nixon” in their heads. Last week, he’s supposed to play golf and be more friends; next week he’s being super secretive about something we know about.
Amir Khalid
@RK:
If you think that, you must not come here very often.
JPL
@MomSense: omg.. You should send it to Pelosi to use against repubs. That is hilarious.
MomSense
@schrodinger’s cat:
I don’t know why but I love that kitteh and duck so!
quannlace
And….speaking of smelly dogs. There’s something special about the first time your dog get’s zapped by a skunk. Deterrent, my ass. Two days after I finally got the stink off her, she came back in smelling to high heaven. She’d been rolling in the patch of skunk reek left over in the grass, like it was Chanel No. 5.
karl
@NotMax:
Thanks NotMax, A Ghost To Most, and Trollhattan — knowledge is power!
NotMax
@quannlace
Well, one can buy large quantities of tomato juice fairly reasonably at Costco.
For the yard, spread absorbent cat litter on the affected spot(s). That’ll draw up the bulk of the oils.
Shortstop
And tomorrow you’ll post another worn-out whine about how Cole doesn’t answer your emails. Who the hell can blame him? Obsessive public scab-picking in the manner of a teenage girl is needy and pathos-filled; it isn’t going to make you more likeable. It will ensure that you keep being dismissed and ignored so you can scream about your supposed victimhood — which is really your only end, isn’t it?
scav
@Amir Khalid: RK’s the mutant MBA-educated offspring of The Tooth Fairy and Johnny Appleseed, wandering about the Blogosphere, scattering his nuggets of content-wisdom freely to all, in sites he passes through once, never to be heard from again. “Who was that masked topic-benefactor anyway?”
ranchandsyrup
Holy schneikes some winger facebook acquaintances are proclaiming that they’ve finally won. or something. a sample of what people are sending me after enduring my libtard stylings lo these many months.
WOLVERINES
quannlace
Not just tomato juice. FYI, after calling the vet, was told cornstarch, vinegar and water, and Massengil Douche were good neutralizers too. (Though after rubbing cornstarch into her face, Clemmie looked like a Kabuki actor.) They all work well enough to make your pooch tolerable inside.
MomSense
@JPL:
:D
Amir Khalid
@scav:
And it’s really cute that RK’s put up this gripe under a post that is, if anything, a break from politics.
NotMax
@quannlace
Plus it gives the cashiers something to chat about.
“Remember that lady who bought a dozen boxes of Massengil?”
MikeJ
@MomSense:
How long until we’re told that the public has “Obama fatigue”, they tire of his nonstop scandals and just can’t wait to have Republicans running everything again.
SatanicPanic
@Trollhattan: Who could read Hoft? It seems like such a narrow audience of people both stupid enough to enjoy him but with an interest in reading. And, of course, ability to read.
Trollhattan
@ranchandsyrup:
Somewhere, a string of English teachers weep.
jeffreyw
Thread needz moar kitteh!
Baud
@MikeJ:
Exactly this.
scav
And lest we get above our digital brave-new-world selves, here’s front page news I just ran across from The Brookfield Magnet, September 28, 1950.
Tweet archaeology.
piratedan
@quannlace: how can this be, I have it on good authority from the former President of these here United States that the Mission was already Accomplished, or are you calling our former President a liar?
Cris (without an H)
That’s just John. He’s been punching commenters in the throat since at least 2003.
MomSense
@MikeJ:
Absolutely! After Clinton left office it was pretty common for Republicans to congratulate themselves for gumming up the works so that Clinton couldn’t get anything accomplished AND people were so tired of all the scandal and drama that they were eager to elect a perceived outsider with CEO (read get stuff done) credentials.
Wasn’t the desire to distance himself from “Clinton fatigue” the reason that Al Gore didn’t ask Bill to campaign for him?
Schlemizel
@JPL:
Please tell me about the cartoon – seriously! I would like to hear.
SatanicPanic
@ranchandsyrup: Oh jeez. I get a few of those, but I started snarking on them, so I get less lately. These people are going to be disappointed when Obama finishes his term.
ranchandsyrup
@Trollhattan: Heh. This particular poster was going on and on about how smart he is too. Another buddy of mine reminded him that in his attempted semester of college, his report card was a “WIFF”. Withdrew, Incomplete, F, F. Good times. I had forgotten about that.
Redshirt
@BGK: I feel your pain. Black Belt in TKD here. I trained hard core for three years. During one of these years, I was so proud of myself for going into the Dojang for a special class rather than going out drinking on the High Holy Drinking Day in Boston (St. Patty’s). I promptly sprained my ankle horrifically trying to do a flying reverse back kick.
9 years later and that ankle still pops every time I go up steps. Seriously restricting my ninja work – no second floor work!
MomSense
@jeffreyw:
What an adorable little fuzzball!!
Filed under people can be assholes, someone abandoned 13 kittens in a plastic box. Fortunately they were found alive and will all be going to their forever homes soon.
https://bangordailynews.com/slideshow/13-cats-found-near-freeport-gravel-pit-in-duct-taped-storage-bin/
beltane
@MomSense: That strategy didn’t work out to well for Al Gore, though. I believe Clinton’s approval rating rose to between 60-70% during the impeachment. Gore was dumb for not capitalizing on this.
Schlemizel
@scav:
I love that explanation! I hope to remember it as it is apropos for many applications.
Thank you!
JPL
@Schlemizel: Impeachment again!
Schlemizel
@Cris (without an H):
I will say he never (in my memory) ever wanted to punch the douchebag wingnuts in the throat. Maybe us libtards ARE the problem!
MomSense
@beltane:
I agree with you. I think he paid too much attention to the ignoranus pundits who were pushing the “Clinton fatigue” meme. There were a lot of problems with the Gore campaign though if we are honest about it.
Schlemizel
@MomSense:
Yes, and they, and the mudia, still like to call it “the scandal plagued Clinton Administration”. If you repeat a lie often enough it become true – particularly if the Kool Kidz Klub repeats it.
jl
Signs not good for lousy corporate media doing actual reporting.
TPM says ABC reaction to passing off notes some one took on administration “Benghazi!” emails as the emails themselves, and changes in wording (as opposed to extracts that are cherry picked) seems to be “so what?”.
The reporter himself seems to realize that there is a problem, for whatever that is worth in terms of how the press covers tings (my hunch is it don’t mean much at all).
Better Answer, Please
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2013/05/better_answer_please.php
BTW, TPM irritates me during election season, but they are the go to place for accurate news summaries. Funny how TPM can write a post in a few words that clears things up, when our failed corporate media experiment cannot seem to do that in gawd knows how many column-inches.
You could even turn some TPM posts into fifteen second soundbites and convey the gist of a story accurately. Funny how the multi million dollar pros at corporate media Inc can’t do that either.
Trollhattan
@beltane:
Considering how the race turned out, the big dog would almost surely have tipped the result to Gore and kept SCOTUS sitting on the sidelines.
Other than the selection of one Palin, Sarah, worst campaign move of the last few decades.
GxB
Alright, anyone else having problems getting to TBogg’s? According to Is this site down or just me, it’s up; but I flushed cache and still get nada whether through links, bookmarks or manual entry in both FF and Chrome. I recall the man himself delurking over here a day or so back indicating that he didn’t have access either.
It’s a conspiracy man…
Poopyman
@GxB: It’s just you, although it looked like the whole FDL site was down earlier.
ETA: Refresh or open a new tab and try.
Redshirt
3 hours. Call it.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@GxB: Who hosts them? There has been a massive botnet attack on webhosts for several weeks, and some of them are still up and down.
Hill Dweller
@jl: Even better than the report turning out to be bullshit is Karl getting burned for pretending he actually saw the email. F’n hack.
Hal
Clinton was the first President I ever voted for, and the media was in constant scandal mode with that admin. If it wasn’t Hilary offending housewives ever where because she didn’t want to bake cookies, it was Clinton and his arrogant group of neophytes from Are-kansas.
Then came the meat and potatoes, in which both Hilary and Bill were serial murderers working their way through all of their enemies. Quite amazing when you think about the dissemination of rumor during the 90s given it was pre-internet.
What the GOP doesn’t realize is that because of that, Hillary is pretty much immunized against their dirty tricks. They’ve spent so much time turning her into the epitome of evil it actually back fired, and I’m honestly thinking the same of Obama. Keep in mind, people in the majority like Obama personally, job approval aside, and impeaching Obama isn’t going to do anything remotely positive for the Republicans.
jl
@Hill Dweller: Not sure whether the reporter was intentionally filing a crooked story, or he was caught out swanking around like a pompous jackass and lying in order to impress us rubes as being so close to the ‘playuhs’.
In any case, that jackass at least realizes there is a problem, maybe he doesn’t realize he is part of it. ABC just doesn’t seem to give a damn. Yeah, we pump out misleading inaccurate garbage and call it news.
Maybe CNN’s hilariously horrid performance during the Boston bombings ticked up their ratings a bit, and we have a new corporate news business model?
Edit: And will AP say “yeah, we go ABC one better, we pump out self-serving inaccurate BS and call it news, and its all about US!, so eff off” ?
nellcote
@jl:
The fun part is that it was Jake Tapper that busted Karl’s not emails.
Jebediah
@schrodinger’s cat:
Call me a sap, but I love pics like those!
Jebediah
I accidentally posted this and this in another, not open thread. Pics of Otto, Juno, and Chuckie on their first walk together.
No Tim F quality photography, but it’s as good as most of Cole’s pet pics…
SiubhanDuinne
@RK:
Haven’t scrolled through all the comments, so maybe (probably) someone else has already responded, but just off the top of my head:
Pets
Gardens
Music
Movies
Science
Comics
Missing persons
Media
Whiprounds for natural disaster relief