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You are here: Home / Politics / Crazification Factor / Prop Humor is Really Not Bibi Netanyahu’s Forte: UN General Assembly Edition

Prop Humor is Really Not Bibi Netanyahu’s Forte: UN General Assembly Edition

by Adam L Silverman|  September 28, 20185:46 pm| 161 Comments

This post is in: Crazification Factor, Open Threads, Politics, Silverman on Security, All Too Normal, Sociopaths

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Israeli Prime Minister Benyamin “Bibi” Netanyahu addressed this year’s UN General Assembly. As he does every time he makes one of these addresses, he had visual aids. Today’s were pictures of Iran’s secret atomic warehouse.

FULL TEXT: Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's 2018 UN General Assembly speech https://t.co/TbdAmEBAE2

— Haaretz.com (@haaretzcom) September 27, 2018

From Ha’aretz:

 Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu revealed a secret Iranian nuclear storage facility in Tehran and hidden missiles in Beirut during his address at the United Nations’ General Assembly 73rd session on Thursday.

The Israeli prime minister said the Iranian facility contains technology for Iran’s nuclear program, adding that Iran “took this radioactive material and spread it around Tehran like Nutella.”

Netanyahu said that Iran removed 15kg of radioactive material from the warehouse last month, and that it contained up to 300 tons of nuclear-related material. Netanyahu called on the IAEA to inspect the facility immediately.

“I have a message for tyrants of Tehran – Israel knows what you’re doing,” Netanyahu said. He added that Israel will continue to act against Iran – “also in Syria and also in Iraq.”

There’s only one problem, it’s a Persian carpet cleaners. Apparently Israel does not know what Iran is doing.

Iranians on social media react to #Netanyahu's UNGA speech with photos of "nuclear activities" in #Turquzabad. pic.twitter.com/zpl9YfRLMO

— raz zimmt (@RZimmt) September 28, 2018

People are taking selfies in front of the carpet cleaning center in #Turquzabad which @netanyahu claimed is a 'secret atomic warehouse'! pic.twitter.com/neeQz7qzZN

— Seyed Yasser Jebraily (@YJebraily) September 28, 2018

Watch and laugh!
Iranian youth at the carpet cleaning center displayed by @netanyahu at UNGA as a secret nuclear site.
Till Bibi's speech I didn't know #Turquzabad was a real place. It is used to mean a distant, unimportant place in everyday Persian.Someone is pulling Bibi's leg! pic.twitter.com/FzlkQNEPK9

— Seyed Yasser Jebraily (@YJebraily) September 28, 2018

Remember to steam clean regularly!

We now return you to your regularly scheduled shondas for the goyim…

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161Comments

  1. 1.

    r€nato

    September 28, 2018 at 5:48 pm

    This merely proves how crafty the Iranians are at hiding their weapons of mass destruction programs.

    /Cheney

  2. 2.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 5:50 pm

    @r€nato: You know who spent a lot of money on Persian carpets? Paul Manafort…

  3. 3.

    trollhattan

    September 28, 2018 at 5:51 pm

    Clean carpet, flying carpet, airborne nuclear delivery program…put the pieces together, hippies!

    Somebody needs to hang a big cardboard version of Bibi’s cartoon Acme bomb from that gate.

  4. 4.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 5:54 pm

    @trollhattan: I told a former boss I was talking to on the phone a couple of weeks ago that I’m convinced that once a year or so someone pulls the spreadsheet of all the stuff Israel has sold Iran under the table, tallies it all up decade after decade, and then freaks out over what the Iranians might be able to do with all of it.

  5. 5.

    debbie

    September 28, 2018 at 5:57 pm

    For the love of God, hire a visual aids professional.

  6. 6.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 5:58 pm

    @debbie: For the love of G-d, fire whoever is doing your Geo-spatial Intelligence (GEOINT) collection and analysis!

  7. 7.

    Quaker in a Basement

    September 28, 2018 at 5:59 pm

    Till Bibi’s speech I didn’t know #Turquzabad was a real place. It is used to mean a distant, unimportant place in everyday Persian.

    Persian for Podunk.

  8. 8.

    DanR2

    September 28, 2018 at 5:59 pm

    I’ve often wondered how they clean all those Persian rugs.

  9. 9.

    NotMax

    September 28, 2018 at 5:59 pm

    Obvious violation of the Naphtha Treaty.

    :)

  10. 10.

    low-tech cyclist

    September 28, 2018 at 5:59 pm

    Nothing to say but what a day, how’s your boy been?

  11. 11.

    trollhattan

    September 28, 2018 at 6:00 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:
    Never a bad time to bring back one of the Onion classics.

  12. 12.

    Mnemosyne

    September 28, 2018 at 6:01 pm

    @Quaker in a Basement:

    Or Bumblefuck, aka Bumblefuck, Egypt, if it’s REALLY far.

  13. 13.

    rikyrah

    September 28, 2018 at 6:01 pm

    Adam Serwer 🍝 (@AdamSerwer) Tweeted:
    A great piece from @irin on the class implications of the Kavanaugh debacle (the sneering contempt for Gaithersburg, which has a median income tha is quite high, helps illustrate what we’re dealing with when we are discussing elite dc area private schools)

    t.co/EiCyAJhAHB t.co/JQfmF7TfAy twitter.com/AdamSerwer/status/1045772930142142465?s=17

  14. 14.

    trollhattan

    September 28, 2018 at 6:02 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:
    Am I recalling correctly the US won’t sell Israel the F-35 because they’ll turn around and sell the technology to others?

    Jared could fix that, of course.

  15. 15.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 6:03 pm

    @DanR2:

  16. 16.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 6:03 pm

    @NotMax: No Greek Fire for you!

  17. 17.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 6:04 pm

    @low-tech cyclist: Was this addressed to me? I’m single and have no children.

  18. 18.

    ruemara

    September 28, 2018 at 6:04 pm

    Ha! Unbelievable. Now that they’ve pantsed themselves on the world’s stage, I wonder what level of militaristic dick waggling they’ll do to make up for it.

  19. 19.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 6:04 pm

    @trollhattan: Personal relationships are important support during something like a Federal criminal trial.

  20. 20.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    September 28, 2018 at 6:08 pm

    @low-tech cyclist: Just sad, I had to Google that*; even though it’s the fucking song I use for my alarm.

    *Hey Google, WTF, you attribute that song to the Flaming Lips?

  21. 21.

    debbie

    September 28, 2018 at 6:10 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    That too!

  22. 22.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    September 28, 2018 at 6:10 pm

    Atomic Persian Carpet Cleaners would make for a terrific band name.

  23. 23.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 6:16 pm

    @trollhattan: We do sell them the F35. It’s the F22 that isn’t on the military sales list.

  24. 24.

    Barbara

    September 28, 2018 at 6:16 pm

    @rikyrah: Well, in 1982 Gaithersburg might have still been mostly farmland, not the affluent suburb it is today. It was still a stupid thing to say. I didn’t know many private school students, but every once in a while we did mix, usually because someone I knew went to church with someone who went to a private school.

  25. 25.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    September 28, 2018 at 6:16 pm

    Just checked the kid’s facebook, she’s getting ready to jump of a rather tall bridge in New Zealand.

  26. 26.

    El Caganer

    September 28, 2018 at 6:17 pm

    Isn’t this sort of a ritual that Bibi performs regularly for the UN? In any event, his real audience is in DC…..assuming he can get his act put on Fox so that audience will watch it.

  27. 27.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 6:17 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: Make for a terrific name for a Persian rug cleaners too!

    Franchise opportunities are available.

  28. 28.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    September 28, 2018 at 6:18 pm

    @🐾BillinGlendaleCA: “jump off”

  29. 29.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 6:18 pm

    @El Caganer: Yep.

  30. 30.

    jimmiraybob

    September 28, 2018 at 6:18 pm

    @trollhattan:

    …put the pieces together, hippies!

    As an old hippie this makes me laugh….in a good way. i am going to take this good feeling and leave the intertubes for dinner. And maybe sip some bourbon (of course, in the olden days it would more likely have been a cheap wine from a leather wine bag if not directly from the bottle).

  31. 31.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    September 28, 2018 at 6:19 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: And Bibi does advertising for them worldwide for FREE!

  32. 32.

    Steve in the ATL

    September 28, 2018 at 6:19 pm

    @Mnemosyne: a staple of my law school years, politely mislabeled “bum for Egypt” for sensitive you tubers. Don’t think these guys ever made it out of the southeast college circuit.

    m.youtube.com/watch?v=bbp6fpnXYAs

  33. 33.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 28, 2018 at 6:21 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    My father’s versions (which I have adopted) were Dismal Seepage, Iowa and Mule Groin, Kentucky.

  34. 34.

    RepubAnon

    September 28, 2018 at 6:21 pm

    I’ll bet there’s lots of atoms at that warehouse… carbon atoms, hydrogen atoms…

    The only place I know of that’s reasonably free of atoms is the vacuum between Trump’s ears.

  35. 35.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    September 28, 2018 at 6:23 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Here in CA, we just say Fresno.

  36. 36.

    SiubhanDuinne, Badass Jackal

    September 28, 2018 at 6:23 pm

    @🐾BillinGlendaleCA:

    Just checked the kid’s facebook, she’s getting ready to jump of a rather tall bridge in New Zealand.

    Welcome to the Badass Club, Billin’s kid!

  37. 37.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    September 28, 2018 at 6:24 pm

    @RepubAnon:

    The only place I know of that’s reasonably free of atoms is the vacuum between Trump’s ears.

    Obviously, that’s the reason we need a Space Force.

  38. 38.

    Gin & Tonic

    September 28, 2018 at 6:24 pm

    @🐾BillinGlendaleCA: If she’s in Queenstown, tell her to do the canyon swing – it’s fucking great!

  39. 39.

    Josie

    September 28, 2018 at 6:25 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    Thanks so much for this. I needed the laugh. I suspect I would have liked your father.

  40. 40.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    September 28, 2018 at 6:26 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne, Badass Jackal: She’s bungeed off the Bridge to Nowhere here in the local mountains and skydived once before(she’s doing it again on this trip). I told her(on facebook) that as we discussed before she left that’s she’s cray-cray and her mother and I both love her.

  41. 41.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    September 28, 2018 at 6:26 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: She is in Queenstown.

  42. 42.

    Mary G

    September 28, 2018 at 6:27 pm

    I have a steak and a baked potato I’m making for late lunch/early dinner before the teen and his crew come home for nuggets, corndogs, and who knows what else. Then finish streaming season one of The Good Place and go to sleep before it’s all the way dark. I was so riled up last night that both cats came to snuggle me in bed at the same time, which they never do. Trying to think of somewhere cheap to take the teen and his girl friend that’s not too far away. They are grounded, but his mom and stepfather are both in class all day tomorrow and a whole day of heavy sighs is just too much, plus I need to disconnect from the tubes. The weather is glorious.

  43. 43.

    Calouste

    September 28, 2018 at 6:27 pm

    @rikyrah: I think Christine Blasey Ford yesterday correctly called them “elitist” schools, not “elite” schools.
    Elite schools produce elite graduates, elitist schools take in elite students.

  44. 44.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 6:27 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Did you get my email?

  45. 45.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    September 28, 2018 at 6:27 pm

    @🐾BillinGlendaleCA: Oh, and you’re cray-cray too.

  46. 46.

    SiubhanDuinne, Badass Jackal

    September 28, 2018 at 6:28 pm

    @🐾BillinGlendaleCA:

    In Dog River, SK it’s known as “Wullerton,” and the Dog Riverians spit every time they say it.

  47. 47.

    Gin & Tonic

    September 28, 2018 at 6:28 pm

    @🐾BillinGlendaleCA: Adrenaline capital of the world, pretty much.

  48. 48.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    September 28, 2018 at 6:29 pm

    @Mary G: As I pointed out on the last thread, there are rumors that it might rain next week. I’ve postponed my visit to the car wash.

  49. 49.

    trollhattan

    September 28, 2018 at 6:30 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:
    Ah, thanks. I guess the F-35 only guarantees they can go bankrupt too.

  50. 50.

    Gin & Tonic

    September 28, 2018 at 6:30 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne, Badass Jackal:

    In Dog River, SK

    A place that hasn’t made my bucket list, and is not likely to.

  51. 51.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    September 28, 2018 at 6:30 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: I’ll make a point to avoid it.

  52. 52.

    SiubhanDuinne, Badass Jackal

    September 28, 2018 at 6:31 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Hadn’t seen it, but I have now. Will do my best.

  53. 53.

    delk

    September 28, 2018 at 6:32 pm

    Someone pulled the rug out from Bibi’s feet.

  54. 54.

    Gin & Tonic

    September 28, 2018 at 6:32 pm

    @🐾BillinGlendaleCA: Anyway, you can just Google Shotover Canyon Swing.

  55. 55.

    SiubhanDuinne, Badass Jackal

    September 28, 2018 at 6:33 pm

    @Josie:

    I suspect I would have liked your father.

    He died in 1995. I wish he had lived a couple of decades longer — I think he would have made a fine Jackal, for all he was born in 1914.

  56. 56.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 6:34 pm

    This is interesting:

    They’re giving the FBI complete discretion? Ok. t.co/Il9bl17EfM

    — Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) September 28, 2018

  57. 57.

    trollhattan

    September 28, 2018 at 6:34 pm

    @jimmiraybob:
    Santé!

    There are those of us who (somehow) remember Carlo Rossi “Burgundy” at $1.99/gallon.

  58. 58.

    NotMax

    September 28, 2018 at 6:35 pm

    And what about this in the U.S.? Huh?

    (Couldn’t readily find a pic of the original sign where it now say Shirts, which was the atomic symbol.)

  59. 59.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 6:35 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne, Badass Jackal: Thanks.

  60. 60.

    SiubhanDuinne, Badass Jackal

    September 28, 2018 at 6:36 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    I’ve actually been there.

    Well, near there.

    Well, near the little town after which Dog River is modelled.

  61. 61.

    Cheryl Rofer

    September 28, 2018 at 6:36 pm

    I haven’t been following this closely today, but I have seen some tweets that seem to indicate that there is a warehouse full of documents somewhere. Although Bibi claimed that sometime back, and that may be what they’re talking about. It hasn’t been confirmed to my satisfaction, though.

  62. 62.

    Gin & Tonic

    September 28, 2018 at 6:37 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne, Badass Jackal: Ah, my father was from 1914 as well. Didn’t live as long as yours, though.

  63. 63.

    Sister Golden Bear

    September 28, 2018 at 6:39 pm

    @🐾BillinGlendaleCA: A perfectly good bridge?

  64. 64.

    NotMax

    September 28, 2018 at 6:39 pm

    @Mary G

    Got an outdoor grill? Teach ’em to barbecue.

    Kills most of an afternoon. Plus fire and eats.

  65. 65.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 6:43 pm

    @NotMax: And if anything goes wrong, we can name the next California wildfire after her.

  66. 66.

    NotMax

    September 28, 2018 at 6:44 pm

    @jimmyraybob

    Lancer’s or Mateus?

    Or, FSM forbid, Ripple?

  67. 67.

    Miss Bianca

    September 28, 2018 at 6:45 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Clean carpet, flying carpet, airborne nuclear delivery program…put the pieces together, hippies!

    LOL!

  68. 68.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    September 28, 2018 at 6:45 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: Yes a perfectly good bridge and in a day or so a perfectly good airplane.

  69. 69.

    SiubhanDuinne, Badass Jackal

    September 28, 2018 at 6:45 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    You are a good bit younger than I am, though. I think.

  70. 70.

    Steve in the ATL

    September 28, 2018 at 6:46 pm

    @🐾BillinGlendaleCA:

    Just checked the kid’s facebook, she’s getting ready to jump of a rather tall bridge in New Zealand.

    Another victim of trump-caused depression?

  71. 71.

    Mary G

    September 28, 2018 at 6:46 pm

    @NotMax: The kid breaks everything he comes within six feet of, so no way any sort of combustion is going to go on. It’s just going to be chores, and errands I think. I am going to get the house painted and ordered eight little pots of sample paint from Lowes online. Picked them up, started putting them on the wall, they are all white base and no color, so have go there and yell at them.

  72. 72.

    Steve in the ATL

    September 28, 2018 at 6:46 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne, Badass Jackal: as is Methuselah.

    Zing!

  73. 73.

    kindness

    September 28, 2018 at 6:46 pm

    Bibi probably only cared that Trump saw his speech. An audience of 1. Trump is dumkoff enough to believe Bibi. This weekend’s tweets are going to be extra screechy, just sayin’.

  74. 74.

    Keith P.

    September 28, 2018 at 6:46 pm

    @trollhattan: And a garden gnome. And Valchek’s surveillance van.

  75. 75.

    SiubhanDuinne, Badass Jackal

    September 28, 2018 at 6:47 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    My pleasure.

  76. 76.

    Yutsano

    September 28, 2018 at 6:48 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Ooh…I’ll take that.

    Also: you think someone in Mossad intentionally pantsed Bibi? I would find that hilarious.

  77. 77.

    SiubhanDuinne, Badass Jackal

    September 28, 2018 at 6:49 pm

    @Steve in the ATL:

    Methuselah is a punk kid.

  78. 78.

    Dan B

    September 28, 2018 at 6:50 pm

    @NotMax: Boones Farm, Annie Green Springs? Do I have either name right?

  79. 79.

    Gelfling 545

    September 28, 2018 at 6:50 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Addressed to us all by Lennon& McCartney.

  80. 80.

    NotMax

    September 28, 2018 at 6:50 pm

    @trollhattan

    Ah, cheapo vino circa 1970.

    :)

  81. 81.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 6:50 pm

    @Yutsano: I have no idea. Honestly, my guess is the intel folks either told him what it really was and he ignored it or the HUMINT sources in Iran are just feeding garbage back through their handlers/case officer to Tel Aviv because they know Bibi will 1) believe anything that confirms his preconceived notions and 2) he’ll then go on TV and tell everyone, leading to 3) the ability of Iran to show how dumb Bibi is.

  82. 82.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    September 28, 2018 at 6:51 pm

    @Steve in the ATL:

    Another victim of trump-caused depression?

    No, she seems quite happy here.

  83. 83.

    Mary G

    September 28, 2018 at 6:52 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: The whole world is governed by trolls now.

  84. 84.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 6:54 pm

    @Mary G: I have credible GEOINT indicating they live under bridges. And their mothers’ basements.

  85. 85.

    jimmiraybob

    September 28, 2018 at 6:54 pm

    @trollhattan: @NotMax:

    Wow, it’s like I can taste yesteryear. An old Redd Foxx joke: Cripple: Cream & Ripple. I remember playing with the devil and Mad Dog 20/20.

  86. 86.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    September 28, 2018 at 6:55 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    And their mothers’ basements.

    …and weight 400 pounds.

  87. 87.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 6:55 pm

    @🐾BillinGlendaleCA: Individually or collectively?

  88. 88.

    NotMax

    September 28, 2018 at 6:56 pm

    @Dan B

    Close *hic* enough.

    Discriminating drinkers of dirt cheap hard cider chose Bardenheier’s. $1.24 a quart at the state store.

  89. 89.

    A Ghost To Most

    September 28, 2018 at 6:57 pm

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:
    Sounds like QAnon has a new business to investigate. Maybe there’s a pedo ring in the basement.

  90. 90.

    M31

    September 28, 2018 at 6:57 pm

    oh man, I recently bought an antique rug imported from Iran, OMG MAYBE IT WAS CLEANED

  91. 91.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    September 28, 2018 at 6:58 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: According to Trump, individually, believe me.

  92. 92.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    September 28, 2018 at 6:58 pm

    @M31: You should probably have Bibi check it for radiation.

  93. 93.

    Peale

    September 28, 2018 at 6:59 pm

    @debbie: they did. I mean notice that they made the wall and gate appear to be 20 feet tall rather than 3 feet. Someone knew what works

  94. 94.

    M31

    September 28, 2018 at 7:03 pm

    @🐾BillinGlendaleCA:

    if you rolled up a rug it would FIT IN A ALUMINUM TUBE OMG CALL CONDOLEEEEZA

    I bet a repurposed old uranium centrifuge would make a great rug cleaner/rinser though

  95. 95.

    TenguPhule

    September 28, 2018 at 7:04 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    We do sell them the F35. It’s the F22 that isn’t on the military sales list.

    That’s because the F-22 is the one that works.

  96. 96.

    TenguPhule

    September 28, 2018 at 7:05 pm

    @🐾BillinGlendaleCA:

    …and weight 400 pounds.

    The military doctor swears its only 239 lbs.

  97. 97.

    NotMax

    September 28, 2018 at 7:05 pm

    @M31

    It’s a rug and a night light!

  98. 98.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 7:05 pm

    @TenguPhule: That too.

  99. 99.

    Gin & Tonic

    September 28, 2018 at 7:05 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne, Badass Jackal: Everyone is.

  100. 100.

    TenguPhule

    September 28, 2018 at 7:06 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    3) the ability of Iran to show how dumb Bibi is.

    Whatever they’re paying for the service, its obvious they’re being overcharged.

  101. 101.

    NotMax

    September 28, 2018 at 7:07 pm

    @M31

    Atomic salad spinners.

  102. 102.

    TenguPhule

    September 28, 2018 at 7:07 pm

    @NotMax:

    Discriminating drinkers of dirt cheap hard cider

    Is this a kind of Zen oxymoron?

  103. 103.

    TenguPhule

    September 28, 2018 at 7:09 pm

    @🐾BillinGlendaleCA:

    Obviously, that’s the reason we need a Space Force.

    Isn’t that more of a job for the Domestic House Force?

  104. 104.

    TenguPhule

    September 28, 2018 at 7:10 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Everyone is.

    Except efgoldman. Who back in the day told Gin & Tonic to get off the world’s first lawn.

  105. 105.

    Sister Golden Bear

    September 28, 2018 at 7:11 pm

    Last night I performed at my monthly burlesque show (that I co-produce) for the first time since I got back. It was good emotionally to do it, but damn it kicked my ass physically. (In good part having to drive up to SF and back, plus the usual being wired post-show that makes it hard to sleep.) Had to leave work after lunch and sleep for a couple hours, despite the construction next door.

    I knew the first couple weeks back at work would be tough, but definitely harder than I thought it was going to be. Thankfully the product manager I’m working with has been extremely understanding. Have to see if I can get caught up tomorrow and then catch up on sleep Sunday, since that’s the only day without construction.

  106. 106.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    September 28, 2018 at 7:12 pm

    @TenguPhule: No, the Space Force deals with places that are vacuums. Horses need to breath air.

  107. 107.

    Kathleen

    September 28, 2018 at 7:12 pm

    I’ve followed very few threads in the past 2 days so apologies if someone has already posted this from David Fahrenthold:

    A federal judge in DC has ruled that 200 Dem members of Congress have standing to sue @realDonaldTrump for allegedly violating the Emoluments Clause of the Constitution, he’s still doing business w/ foreign govts. Story coming…David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold). Link to thread posted below.

    twitter.com/Fahrenthold/status/1045782732532592640

  108. 108.

    Mnemosyne

    September 28, 2018 at 7:15 pm

    I am darkly amused by the people on Twitter who are like, “OMG A PLACE OF BUSINESS HAS A FENCE AND A LOCKED GATE IT MUST BE A SECRET NUKE WAREHOUSE THERE’S NO OTHER LOGICAL EXPLANATION!”

  109. 109.

    jeffreyw

    September 28, 2018 at 7:15 pm

    @trollhattan:
    What’s the word?
    Thunderbird!
    What’s the price?
    A dollar, twice!

  110. 110.

    trollhattan

    September 28, 2018 at 7:16 pm

    @Steve in the ATL:
    She’ll bounce back.

  111. 111.

    divF

    September 28, 2018 at 7:16 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: From my youth, such places were referred to as East Jesus, Kansas and Ox’s Crotch, Nebraska.

  112. 112.

    NotMax

    September 28, 2018 at 7:18 pm

    @BillinGlendaleCA.

    Add a scuba tank and you’re ready to go.

    :)

  113. 113.

    TenguPhule

    September 28, 2018 at 7:19 pm

    John Cole’s tweet feed to the blog has been eaten by the hamster weasels.

  114. 114.

    p.a.

    September 28, 2018 at 7:27 pm

    You laugh libturds but once you’ve been on the receiving end of a finely woven Persian AT WHOLESALE you won’t be laughing any more.

  115. 115.

    NotMax

    September 28, 2018 at 7:29 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne

    Dismal Seepage, Ohio was often mentioned on the Vic and Sade radio show. Along with East Brain, Oregon and Fiendish, Indiana (among others). Also too Sick River Junction, Missouri (location of the Missouri State Home for the Tall).

    Once voted the best radio serial in a poll of 600 radio editors, Vic and Sade also received praise from many well-known listeners, including Ray Bradbury, Norman Corwin, Stan Freberg, Edgar A. Guest, Ogden Nash, John O’Hara, Fred Rogers, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, Jean Shepherd, James Thurber, Tom Lehrer and Hendrik Willem van Loon. Nash and O’Hara both compared [creator and writer Paul] Rhymer to Mark Twain, while others made a comparison with Charles Dickens, but Rhymer defies comparison since his work is basically a sui generis. The series had an influence on the writing of Kurt Vonnegut, who called it “the Muzak of my life.” Source

    Growing up (still a work in progress) we used to refer to to Burnt Armpit, Idaho.

  116. 116.

    John Revolta

    September 28, 2018 at 7:30 pm

    @jeffreyw: Whippersnapper. I remember when it was “Fifty, twice!”

    @jimmiraybob: Redd had another favorite tipple: Champipple. (Champaign & Ripple.)

  117. 117.

    CliosFanBoy

    September 28, 2018 at 7:30 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: 4. the carpet place is a well-done cover story.

    Personally I’d go with #1…

  118. 118.

    TenguPhule

    September 28, 2018 at 7:32 pm

    Leave the uranium, take the canoli.

  119. 119.

    Bemused senior

    September 28, 2018 at 7:34 pm

    Bug Tussle, TX (it was a real place)

  120. 120.

    Miss Bianca

    September 28, 2018 at 7:43 pm

    @John Revolta: Oh, *that’s* what “Champipple” referred to! Always wondered!

  121. 121.

    Sab

    September 28, 2018 at 7:44 pm

    @delk: Brilliant.

  122. 122.

    mdblanche

    September 28, 2018 at 7:57 pm

    Bibi’s visual aids are all blowups from the Acme catalog, aren’t they?

  123. 123.

    burnspbesq

    September 28, 2018 at 7:57 pm

    Wile E. Netanyahu, Super Genius.

  124. 124.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    September 28, 2018 at 7:57 pm

    @trollhattan: She did, she put the video of her jump up.

  125. 125.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    September 28, 2018 at 7:58 pm

    @John Revolta:

    Champale, not champagne.

  126. 126.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    September 28, 2018 at 8:00 pm

    @burnspbesq: Is he related to Wile E. Trump, Super Genius?

  127. 127.

    TenguPhule

    September 28, 2018 at 8:05 pm

    Saudi Arabia’s foreign minister has demanded Canada stop treating it like a “banana republic” and called upon the government of Justin Trudeau to apologize for calling for the release of jailed human rights activists, further escalating a simmering diplomatic row that began over the summer.

    “You can criticize us about human rights, women’s rights … that’s your right. You can sit down and talk about it, but demand the immediate release? What are we, a banana republic? Would any country accept it?” said the foreign minister, Adel Al-Juebir, at the Council on Foreign Relations in New York, as world leaders gathered for the United Nations general assembly.

    Indeed, no self-respecting Banana would choose to grow in Saudi Arabia.

  128. 128.

    burnspbesq

    September 28, 2018 at 8:07 pm

    @Gelfling 545:

    Foul shit, one and all. Don’t forget Manishewitz Cream White Concord.

  129. 129.

    Gelfling 545

    September 28, 2018 at 8:07 pm

    @divF: East Bejesus was common in my youth. A college acquaintance referred to her home town as Backward on the Hudson.

  130. 130.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 8:09 pm

    @TenguPhule: Definitely a date palm republic.

  131. 131.

    burnspbesq

    September 28, 2018 at 8:10 pm

    @🐾BillinGlendaleCA:

    Fraternal twins.

  132. 132.

    Luciamia

    September 28, 2018 at 8:11 pm

    flying carpet nuclear delivery system

    e
    Paging Sabu!

  133. 133.

    Luciamia

    September 28, 2018 at 8:12 pm

    flying carpet nuclear delivery system

    Paging Sabu!

  134. 134.

    debbie

    September 28, 2018 at 8:16 pm

    @Peale:

    I was referring to the type. Who in that room could possibly have been able to read it?

  135. 135.

    KithKanan

    September 28, 2018 at 8:19 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Except for the part where KSA doesn’t even pretend to be a Republic. I’m honestly not sure if that’s better or worse.

  136. 136.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 8:20 pm

    @Luciamia: Sim, sim salabim!

  137. 137.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 8:20 pm

    @KithKanan: Date palm tribal monarchy?

  138. 138.

    KithKanan

    September 28, 2018 at 8:21 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: If the shoe fits…

  139. 139.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 8:24 pm

    @KithKanan: Sandal actually.

  140. 140.

    SiubhanDuinne

    September 28, 2018 at 8:26 pm

    @TenguPhule:

    Everyone is.

    Except efgoldman.

    Not so. I am three years his senior. IOW, efg is just another punk kid.

  141. 141.

    NotMax

    September 28, 2018 at 8:26 pm

    @Adam L. Silverman

    Camel confederacy?

  142. 142.

    TenguPhule

    September 28, 2018 at 8:27 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Not so. I am three years his senior.

    What was the beginning of the universe like from a first hand perspective? //

  143. 143.

    TenguPhule

    September 28, 2018 at 8:29 pm

    @NotMax: Oil oligarchy.

  144. 144.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 8:32 pm

    @TenguPhule: That would be oiligarchy. Or petrocracy.

  145. 145.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 8:34 pm

    @NotMax: No, that makes it sound like the camels are in control.

    Saudis a monarchy built on the tribal model. Traditionally the kings and crown princes have considered themselves to be the sheikhs of sheikhs for all the other Saudis regardless of their tribes. The current crown prince seems to be trying to turn this into an absolute monarchy.

  146. 146.

    Mart

    September 28, 2018 at 8:37 pm

    @Dan B: Your H.S. must have been in the burbs.Have you heard the word – “Thunderbird” at about 20% alcohol has a slightly grape and raw ether nose, and solid burn on the tongue. Thinking about 60 cents a bottle. Another great 20% varietal was “Tiger Rose”. A lot of people do not know that Anheuser-Busch makes a 6% malt liquor – “King Cobra”, as they only sell it in poor urban neighborhoods. Couple 40oz bottles and you got a party.

  147. 147.

    🐾BillinGlendaleCA

    September 28, 2018 at 8:41 pm

    @Mart:

    Another great 20% varietal was “Tiger Rose”.

    Yeah, but stay away from “Tiger Mom”; that shit will kill you.

  148. 148.

    NotMax

    September 28, 2018 at 8:46 pm

    @Mart

    Night Train.

    With the standard accompaniment of a brown paper sack.

    :)

  149. 149.

    TenguPhule

    September 28, 2018 at 8:49 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    that makes it sound like the camels are in control.

    They couldn’t possibly do a worse job if in charge.

  150. 150.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 8:51 pm

    @TenguPhule: I’ll allow it.

  151. 151.

    NotMax

    September 28, 2018 at 8:51 pm

    @Adam L. Silverman

    Only on Wednesdays.

    :)

  152. 152.

    smedley the uncertain

    September 28, 2018 at 8:54 pm

    @jimmiraybob: 1.99 Gallo was the GOOD stuff! Now Thunderbird had a following of it’s own. “What’s the WORD? THUNDERBIRD.
    What’s the price? 30 twice.” Annnnd lastly Mad Dog 20-20 (MD 20-20) manufactured right here in the heart of the New York wine country in Ripley. Cheers

  153. 153.

    Jay C

    September 28, 2018 at 8:55 pm

    So Bibi’s latest ludicrous-UN-Iran-bashing prop is a picture of a cleaners in town that’s the Iranian equivalent of “Timbuctoo” or “Cucamonga”??

    Laughable, except John Bolton is probably going use it at a press conference demanding it be bombed: “AHA! They want you to THINK it’s just a carpet-cleaners!!!!“

  154. 154.

    NotMax

    September 28, 2018 at 8:58 pm

    @Jay C

    “It’s only a small step from carpets to carpet bombing.”

  155. 155.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 9:07 pm

    @Jay C: Pretty much.

  156. 156.

    Adam L Silverman

    September 28, 2018 at 9:07 pm

    @NotMax: Actually it’s eight letters.

  157. 157.

    TenguPhule

    September 28, 2018 at 9:24 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Actually it’s eight letters.

    Well played

  158. 158.

    NotMax

    September 28, 2018 at 9:58 pm

    @Adam L. Silverman

    So is wiseacre.

    :)

  159. 159.

    J R in WV

    September 28, 2018 at 10:50 pm

    OK, you guys talking about cheap wine:

    Italian Swiss Colony wine. While I was a Great Lakes for post-boot-camp training, near pay day we would be seriously broke. One day we scraped all the loose change from our lockers and combined it to buy a gallon of Italian Swiss Colony white wine, and took it down to the lake shore, where we passed it around. We got really drunk.

    Unfortunately it was restricted, no sailors allowed down there after dark. As we walked up the road, along came the Officer of the Day being driven around the Navy base in a jeep. Which nearly had room for all of us. We were delivered to the Shore Patrol HQ, where we were dejected and drunk. Ed kept throwing up a little bit, and swallowing.

    After a very long wait, for the OOD to go to bed, we were released to go to our barracks to prepare for classes the next day. I don’t think we even got written up on paper. That was some really bad wine, but it had plenty of alcohol in it. We were all sorry the next day.

    Think about that:: Italian Swiss Colony… how does that even make as much sense as a nuclear rug cleaning center????

  160. 160.

    NotMax

    September 28, 2018 at 11:36 pm

    @J R in WV

    “Made by that little old winemaker, me!”

  161. 161.

    Matt

    September 29, 2018 at 12:22 am

    Shorter Bibi: “HOW DARE THEY HAVE A SEKRIT NOOCLEAR FACILITY? WADDA THEY THINK THEY ARE, ISRAEL?”

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