Liz Cheney couldn’t get elected in Wyoming, but w 10th Circuit decision, now Mary Cheney can get married there
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) June 25, 2014
Wyoming. “Where men are men, and the sheep are nervous” (sit down, Sen. Cochran*).
*corrected
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Apart from wishing all the happy couples well, what’s on the agenda tonight?
ranchandsyrup
Some twitter funzos: after claiming that the GOP is uber and the dems are the taxi commission, Grover Norquist follows up by claiming that Hey Joe by Hendrix is a pro 2nd amendment and pro family song.
https://twitter.com/grovernorquist/status/481963335231889408
lamh36
since this is a “good news” thread, just wanted to share that I got an email lfrom CDC today regarding my eligibility for the GS12 job I applied for.
Eligibility Rating… ELIGIBLE!!!!
This is the position that has starting salary at least $20,000 more than my current salary!!!!!
Now we just have to hope that HR Specialist at CDC agrees.
KG
@ranchandsyrup: a song about killing a cheating wife/girlfriend is pro second amendment and pro family? I picked the wrong week to stop drinking (as much as I gave in the past)
Iowa Old Lady
@lamh36: Good for you! May all go well with HR.
Ash Can
@lamh36: Good luck!
Morzer
@KG:
dmsilev
@lamh36: Cool! Good luck making it the rest of the way through the process!
ranchandsyrup
@KG: Grover thinks he’s clever
SiubhanDuinne
Somewhere along the line I’ve evidently missed a meme. What’s this whole thing about Cochran and sheep? I keep seeing references, but I don’t know what it’s supposed to refer to. (And why do I want to turn it into some kind of “no true Scotsman” thing? I always heard your Wyoming joke as S:wmamasan.)
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh36:
YAY! Let us Atlanta BJians know when you come for an interview, we’ll show you a fine old time.
NotMax
Is there supposed to be some significance (or snarknificance) to adding an ‘e’ to the end of Cochran’s name?
Have noticed several people here consistently doing so, but don’t get it.
WaterGirl
@lamh36: That’s really great news! What the heck do they mean by “based solely on your self-rating”?
Morzer
@SiubhanDuinne:
During his campaign, Thad Cochran cheerfully allowed as how when a youth he had engaged in “all kinds of indecent things with animals”.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=27GAd29S0EQ
The reference is at 1:07
Unabogie
@lamh36:
That’s awesome! If you get the job, will you have to leave the country? What is the job?
Morzer
@NotMax:
I think auto-correct is operating in mysterious ways. Or it might just be the invisible hand doing its thang.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Here ya go.
Comrade Dread
Darn, I’ve been married 10 years, and because gay folks can now get married, I guess my marriage… is… still perfectly fine. Huh… funny how that works.
Almost like it’s none of my business what folks do or who they build their own families with.
WaterGirl
@Morzer: I was going to make some crack like “so he was going for the xx vote”, but I couldn’t recall the name for people who have sex with animals. For half a second I thought about googling for it, and then immediately thought, nope, that is a very bad idea!
Comrade Dread
@SiubhanDuinne: Probably because of this old joke:
Little Boots
oh dammit, now I have to do it again.
dammit.
fine, whatever, for omnes, bastards:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2SLWzZoDmhg
Anne Laurie
@SiubhanDuinne:
Too lazy to google right now, but last week Cochran was speaking off-the-cuff and made a “joke” about growing up a young lad in the True South and taking advantage of barnyard animals. One of those “WTF? Senility, or are the rules just different in MS?” moments that had a lot of the not-so-DFHs I follow (people like Weigel & Ed Kilgore) rolling their eyes. Especially since his opponent was already notorious among us lie-brals for speaking up in favor of the ancient & honorable Suthrun tradition of cockfighting…
SiubhanDuinne
@Morzer:
Thanks! Don’t know how I managed to miss that, but miss it I did.
I wish now that I could return to those innocent, halcyon days.
Morzer
@WaterGirl:
people who have sex with animals produces 145 million search results. I had no idea Thad Cochran’s constituent services were so readily available.
Anne Laurie
@NotMax:
In my case, it just means everyone else I’ve known by that name spelled it with a silent ‘e’ at the end. Thanks for the correction!
WaterGirl
@Morzer: Soccer moms are so yesterday, hello guys who like to have sex with animals. This micro-targeting thing must be really paying off. Maybe that’s what put Cochran over the top.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
In politispeak: “youthful indiscretions.”
Morzer
@NotMax:
Bingo: Bertie, fancy, Bertie, the folly of one’s youth!
Bertie: It was only a week and a half ago.
lamh36
@WaterGirl: it’s based on questions I answered as part of the initial application.
I believe it’s scored by a program first? The application is being forwarded for review by HR specialist to verify my info and compare to documents I provided (resume, transcripts, etc)
gbear
It’s my 60th birthday today. I called in sick to work and I’m still in pajama pants at 9:00pm. Over the course of the week I bought myself a book about St. Paul architecture, a cool plate from a local potter, and a batch of CDs. I need to listen to the new Joe Henry record yet this evening. I actually don’t turn 60 for a couple more hours. I was born sometime between 11:00 and midnight.
The local MPR music station is making a huge deal out of Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ being released 30 years ago today, so for today I am exactly twice as old as ‘Purple Rain’.
Betsy
@WaterGirl: aaaaand here’s one more Republican who evidently believes there’s no difference between screwing a human and screwing a sheep:
http://www.newsobserver.com/2014/06/24/3961889/stams-sexual-orientation-comments.html
Roger Moore
@NotMax:
It’s probably just a typo.
NotMax
@gbear
Happy happy, joy joy.
Forgetting how to dress is just the beginning…
;)
Anoniminous
@lamh36:
Whoo! Whoo!
WaterGirl
@Betsy: Wow. If you really think there’s no difference between screwing a human and screwing a sheep, I’d have to say you’ve had the wrong human partners!
When my mom told me it takes all kinds, I don’t think she meant stuff like this.
schrodinger's cat
@lamh36: Good luck!
schrodinger's cat
A photo I took of the main prayer hall inside a Buddhist Cave temple complex almost a month ago in India.
Anoniminous
@gbear:
Happy Birthday!
Ash Can
@Betsy: I’m seriously thinking that one of the main requirements of being a Republican these days is an inability to understand the concept of “consent” (unless it’s your own, in which case it supersedes any and all laws of the land).
hildebrand
@lamh36: Outstanding. Good luck!
NotMax
Hark! Park shark lark.
ultraviolet thunder
I happen to be in Mississippi this week. I tried discussing the GOP primary runoff with a few people because it seems to be the big Mississippi news. Nobody knew what the hell I was talking about. Not one person. It’s in the papers here so it’s not like the subject fell into a black hole. I just can’t find anyone who gives a damn.
Little Boots
@ultraviolet thunder:
that’s so weird but seems so true.
the same shit keeps happening, and some of us care, but most of the country just accepts the shit.
and truly doesn’t care, at all.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Over the last week I’ve been read through a handful of stories about the revived IRS scandal, and I can confirm what Lawrence O”Donnell is saying now: Not one of them mentioned that none of the Repubilcan groups applying for 501-3 (think I got that code right) status was denied. You’d think that would be worth mentioning in say the third or fourth paragraph
Little Boots
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
and they were all complete frauds, which is also a thing.
Little Boots
and because nobody is here to stop me:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6oKUTOLSeMM
Morzer
Something to gladden the hearts of the Thad Cochrans among us:
http://www.theguardian.com/world/2014/jun/25/pornography-soviet-union-secret-collection
.
.
.
Mike in NC
@gbear: Happy birthday. Mine was two days ago and I’ll never miss working for scumbag corporate toadies ever again.
Little Boots
and even more so:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZoEwR9_Sy_M
when will Omnes appear and stop this madness?
Ken
@Morzer: Well, it is pro-Family. Manson Family.
max
@gbear: The local MPR music station is making a huge deal out of Prince’s ‘Purple Rain’ being released 30 years ago today, so for today I am exactly twice as old as ‘Purple Rain’.
Happy Birthday.
@lamh36: Now we just have to hope that HR Specialist at CDC agrees.
I’m keeping my fingers crossed for ya.
max
[‘Someday the rain will stop.’]
FlipYrWhig
@Morzer: “Aristocrats’ erotica” really should be a palindrome or an anagram or something of that nature.
Morzer
@Ken:
I can see Grover fitting in there alarmingly well.
Mike in NC
@Morzer: isn’t the Vatican the repository of the world’s biggest collection of pornography, or is that an urban rumor?
Mike in NC
@ultraviolet thunder: Given the choice of setting foot in Mississippi or Chernobyl, I’d go with the dosimeter.
Morzer
@Mike in NC:
I am sure I can’t imagine why you would think that a group of sexually repressed men used to living lives based on a book of fantasies and stories about the things done to humans by an all-powerful being would have any interest in building up the world’s biggest collection of pornography.
satby
@lamh36: Fingers crossed! Good luck!
Morzer
@Mike in NC:
Joking aside, the world’s largest collection of porn can apparently be found in
John Cole’s penthouse suite*cough* the Kinsey Institute for Sex Research in Bloomington, Indiana.The Vatican supposedly has not much more than a few risque Michelangelo drawings.
MikeJ
@Mike in NC:
I’ve been to the crossroads. Still can’t play for shit, but I gave it a good effort.
max
@efgoldman: If a Dem had said that, he’d have had to resign, take on sackcloth and ashes, and have himself shot into solar orbit beyond Neptune.
I would bet money Cochran was making a self-effacing joke about being a farm boy. If a D made a joke like that, I wouldn’t care (and why should I?). The R’s would make hay out of it (they are skilled at making hay out of anything including doing good deeds and charitable acts), so why the usual D suspects persist in thinking respectability is theirs if they just roll over and play dead often enough is beyond me.
max
[‘Win the day, lose the war.’]
Morzer
@max:
Cochran certainly comes across as joking with the audience on the Youtube clip of the incident. It’s like watching the Zombie Stand-Up Comedy Hour.
catclub
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I think the only groups actually denied it were liberal groups.
501(c)4
The IRS ruling that turned something like ‘public interest’ into ‘predominantly public interest’ was fucked up and should be revoked.
Yatsuno
@lamh36: YAY!!! Now comes the long waiting game while HR figures out who their top candidates are.
SFAW
@efgoldman:
In a move that I am sure will warm your heart: there are rumors that Buddy C will run for Mayuh again.
Can’t keep a good man down!
Bobby Thomson
@NotMax:
No. Many people go by the name of Cochrane, others don’t use an e. People either hear the senator’s name and spell it the way they are accustomed to seeing it, or just don’t bother noticing the different spelling. Or a simple typo. Nothing more.
SFAW
@Bobby Thomson:
Or he always wanted to be called “Mickey”?
Gin & Tonic
@SFAW: Not rumors. Buddy has filed to run.
gian
@WaterGirl:
don’t you remember the demon sheep GOP commercial?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=Wo_Ejfc5hW8
WaterGirl
@gian: Thankfully, I had forgotten! Wow.
lamh36
@Yatsuno: it really is the most obnoxious part.
I’d still like to go to Hawaii in Nov. which means I’ll need to start paying for my flight and stuff. but I’d hate paying for all this stuff and then boop, I can’t go.
so I’m gonna hold off at least one more month then I’m booking the trip.
Chopper
@Morzer:
and people still preferred him over the teabagger. sheep fucker.
Morzer
@Chopper:
It’s election rock-paper-scissors:
Goatfucker beats lunatic beats rabid rattlesnake with syphilis.
J R in WV
@Morzer:
And if you really believe that, I’ve got an old, used, but perfectly good priesthood you can have, cheap.
Arclite
@Mike in NC:
I think it has been superseded by this new place called “the internet.”
Arclite
@ranchandsyrup: I can’t believe Grover is so stupid as to think “Hey Joe” is pro gun and pro family. It must be a joke. Here’s the thing though. You can’t have Grover’s creds, and make that joke. TNC could make it. Even Radley Balko. But not Grover.
Paul in KY
@gbear: Happy Birthday!