Tough night of election results last night. Don’t mourn, donate. Four Direction is a great place to give. This can make a real difference in Arizona. Once we hit our goal here, I’m going to start rolling out some House candidates too. No better time than now to step on the gas. Remember we’ve got lots of matching money for what we raise for Four Directions.
Balloon Juice for Four Directions
Sebastian
Two years ago I donated to Four Directions, a year ago the friendly man on the phone called and caught me in a bad moment and I hung up on him and I feel bad about every time I remember, which is often.
So I chipped in a Bennie to buy my soul peace.
This is the double match, right?
Yutsano
“For all of this has happened before, and all this will happen again.”
Let’s be fair: losing Virginia hurt. But it turns out we kept New Jersey. And I get the feeling Youngkin won’t last a year. Government is nothing like running a hedge fund.
Sebastian
@Yutsano:
I am glad he won. Hear me out: He has tied himself to Trump and the 1/6 Commission is just about to unload a lot of stuff. Had he run later, he would have escaped this but now he’ll get it full broadside.
What I am wondering is why has nobody brought up that McConnell’s sugar daddy had all his properties raided? Isn’t that worth a story or a scandal?
How are you doing by the way?
Yutsano
Wait what? I missed this story and I have a mighty need to know more.
Much better now that I don’t have a raging infection in me. Turns out sepsis isn’t nearly as much fun as one might think.
Comrade Colette
@Sebastian: @Yutsano:
Kindly Dr. Maddow is on it. Maybe there’s something more recent – I didn’t look far.
ETA: Yuts, glad you’re doing better!
SiubhanDuinne
@Sebastian:
Let Water Girl know how much you contributed, and when. She’s keeping track of all the complicated matches and maths.
Sebastian
@Yutsano:
The trailer was better, amirite? Glad you are better, your absence was worrying for a while.
@Comrade Colette:
I want them all to die while trembling in fear. Thank you for sharing this.
Yutsano
@Comrade Colette: Oh yeah that! I had totally forgotten that had happened. Amazing how the plague seems to be affecting all of our memories, especially since that aired not too long ago. I had actually seen that, but again: memory seems to stop being a thing.
Sebastian
@Yutsano:
You are not alone. On the PopeHat thread I wondered if this fatigue and forgetfulness is caused by PTSD (or however you want to call the effects of living with someone with BPD/NPD) and not Long COVID.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
OT: but is it too late to contribute to the Pet Calendar?
gbear
frosty
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): If it’s not too late it’s right on top of the deadline. WG’s last Calendar post had a sort of an extension and you might be OK. Do a search for it.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@frosty:
Thanks. I just saw it was for midnight tonight. Sent off an email to WG a moment ago. Hopefully it wasn’t a hard deadline.
Al M (gbear)
I get to forget about politics tomorrow by having a rear molar extracted. Yippie. We tried to do a root canal on it a couple weeks ago but ten minutes in I wound up in a rip-roarin’ panic attack. They had to patch me up and send me home. I wouldn’t last 2 seconds on a waterboard.
ruemara
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): I never remember to send pics.
frosty
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Hey, what’s an hour among jackals? IIRC she’s in Central Time Zone and you’re in Eastern, so you’re only 10 minutes late, right?
WaterGirl
@Sebastian: Yes, this is the double match. This is a straight up match no matter how much you donate, there’s no tracking needed this time.
Just multiply your donation by 3 if you want to know how much your donation turns into.
You give $100, it turns into $300. That’s your $100 + 200 = $300, for example. So just multiply by 3!
WaterGirl
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): Not too late!
NotMax
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Oh you wacky young’uns.
What, a half dozen apps/devices with calendars, alerts, alarms, diary reminders and such within arm’s reach?
And still they forget.
:)
eclare
@Al M (gbear): Did you get the gas? For me it’s extremely effective. And a good dentist tapers down so that you’re OK to drive afterwards.
LeftCoastYankee
“And you decked some fucking blackshirt….”
Ah the good old days.
sab
My older sister and spouse got their covid booster, then went to Europe on sabbatical. My unmarried RWNJ brother is looking for where to go for Thanksgiving, and nobody wants him since Sis isn’t around. Ha. Everyone the next generation down is biracial, and RWNJ politics isn’t just harmlessly amusing cranky old uncle to them. It’s dangerous to them and their children.
sab
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): You have a pet? Why have you never mentioned that?
sab
@Al M (gbear): My mother always told me her root canal hurt more than childbirth. But her deliveries were short. I was born in the elevator on the way to the delivery room.
Another Scott
(Something’s broken on this page – the right flyout button for the next post doesn’t appear. There are 3+ new threads above this now. The threads above don’t have this issue.
Chrome on Winders.)
ETA – And after I post this comment, the right button appears…
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Another Scott: If someone moves their thread – let’s say you have stepped on someone else’s front post, the whole next thread thing can be goofy. Not sure whether that’s what happened here or not.
Anonymous At Work
Doug,
Can we get a clue on where the song lyrics come from? Pretty sure you’ve gone through every song on a gold album from the 60s and 70s and every single to hit gold from the 60s until present. Getting harder to figure them out, man!
Steeplejack
@Anonymous At Work:
A deep cut—I had to Google it. The Pogues, “The Sickbed of Cuchulainn.”