Here is the video:
Michele looks lovely. Wade through the music, his speech starts at about .57
If there is any problem with this video, here is the C-SPAN link.
His dry humor just never gets old for me.
by TaMara| 16 Comments
This post is in: Missing Obama Already
Here is the video:
Michele looks lovely. Wade through the music, his speech starts at about .57
If there is any problem with this video, here is the C-SPAN link.
His dry humor just never gets old for me.
by John Cole| 82 Comments
This post is in: Open Threads
I’ve been not blogging much because I am busy with the new house (dumpster has been there since the other day and it looks like I am going to need a second one) and because I am alternating between freaked the fuck out about Trump winning and furious at people who might vote for Trump, Stein, or Johnson. I am also focusing on a new genre of photography, which I call “My Pets Being Assholes Jumping on Me While I Am Asleep.” I’m keeping my phone by the bed with the ringer off so I can catch pictures:
I should note you will never see Lily in one of these, because she is a perfect angel sleeping right to my side curled up in between my torso and my right arm underneath the covers.
In other pet news, Rosie has taken to licking Steve from neck to tail in a two inch wide swath down his back. He just sits there and lets her, so this leads me to believe he likes it. The first thing I thought of was licking toads, but she is not acting high, so it isn’t that. The only problem with this is that later on, after it dries, it gets matted, so I have to brush Steve thoroughly several times a day now. You can see the spittle matted hair in the picture of him here.
Big Walter update coming up later tonight.
This post is in: Election 2016, Excellent Links, Proud to Be A Democrat
Trump can make fun of the injury that took sight in my eye-I've dealt with tougher opponents. With my good eye, I see Trump is a con-artist.
— Senator Harry Reid (@SenatorReid) September 16, 2016
For certain extremely dry values of ‘sentimental’… President Obama and Joe Biden aren’t the only retiring Democrats keeping rhymes-with-bucket lists, per the Washington Post:
… Reid is known as a shrewd tactician, a killer who speaks softly but carries a sharp knife. Ask him about regrets or mistakes and he will often say he doesn’t like to look back. He’s the kind of a guy who hangs up without saying goodbye, who called George W. Bush a “loser” and told him to his face that “your dog is fat.” But as he prepares to leave the Senate, with high hopes for his successors, even Reid can’t avoid displaying something resembling human emotion.
He was spotted crying backstage at the Democratic National Convention in Philadelphia after giving a prime-time speech. He’s been telling the old war stories more often. And for once it seems as if he might actually care, just a little bit, about what people think about him; or at least what they think about the house he once kept. As the Chevrolet Suburban pulled away from the family home, Reid couldn’t help but look back one more away from the family home, Reid couldn’t help but look back one more time.
“You see the house they ruined?” he said…
“It’s going to be an adjustment, I wish I could stay in the Senate forever,” he said earlier that day. Reid, 76, is a remarkably unremarkable-looking man; tall but hunched, a pale face with pale eyes and hair now similarly devoid of color.
He walked to the SUV gingerly, donning sunglasses and leaning on a silver-tipped cane, his new necessities of the past several months. Early last year, the senator had been exercising in his suburban Las Vegas home when the elastic band he was using snapped in half, whacked him in the face and sent him crashing backward into a set of cabinets. He broke multiple bones in his face and remains blind in his right eye. For three months, he had to sleep sitting up in a chair.
“I was hurt, okay?” he said. “Worse than most people know.” Being laid up gave him time to think. He felt lucky to have been so physically able his whole life, and grateful that he and his wife had their health. Though the Senate was his great love, he decided he didn’t have it in him for another run.
Reid’s legacy has probably already been determined. He’ll take enormous credit, or blame, for getting the Affordable Care Act through Congress. He’ll be remembered for his life story: an up-by-his-bootstraps tale that began in Searchlight, a speck of a desert town an hour outside of Las Vegas. He boxed his way through college and worked as a Capitol Hill police officer to pay his way through law school. Born without a filter, he’ll also go down in history for audacious — sometimes dubious — broadsides against opponents (his claim that Mitt Romney “didn’t pay taxes for 10 years”), and the propensity to offend with an offhand remark (President Obama, he once declared, spoke with “no Negro dialect, unless he wanted to have one”).
To cap his career, though, Reid wants to leave the Senate better than he found it. For him, that would mean making sure a Democrat takes over his seat, and regaining control of the chamber.
“It’s his highest priority,” says Sen. Richard J. Durbin (D-Ill.), who serves with Reid in leadership…
Politico:
… Reid was responding to a Washington Post story Thursday night, in which Trump said “Harry Reid? I think he should go back and start working out again with his rubber work-out pieces.” Trump was asked what he thought about the rail-thin Reid saying the real-estate mogul was “not slim and trim.”
Of course, Reid relishes these battles. He has been a top attack dog for Barack Obama, and now, with 53 days until the election, he’s stepping up his game for his former Senate colleague, Hillary Clinton.
“Trump rips off working people with scams like Trump University,” Reid said. “And while the people he ripped off suffer, Trump sits at the posh resort he bought with his daddy’s money, with no understanding of the misery he caused. Now, Trump’s business interests in foreign countries and his Ponzi-scheme fraud of a ‘charity’ make clear that Trump intends to scam all of America just like he rips off hard-working people. Trump can insult hard-working people. Trump can insult me all he wants but the American people deserve answers to these questions: Why did Trump appear to use his charity to enrich himself and bribe elected officials who were investigating his scams? Why does Trump refuse to cut ties with business interests that would allow him to exploit American foreign policy to enrich himself? What is Trump hiding in his tax returns?”
He added, “We know how to spot a con artist in Las Vegas. And Donald Trump is a con artist.”
This post is in: Election 2016, Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Republican Venality, Republicans in Disarray!, Assholes, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?
If you're wondering why Trump has gone nuclear on Dowd, watch for the astonishing disclosure at the end of this clip https://t.co/T2HRmcVhQM
— Teddy Goff (@teddygoff) September 17, 2016
… and it’s beginning to make the SERIOUS Republicans nervous…
What @realDonaldTrump admires about Putin is the way Putin–unlike someone else we know–LOVES his country & FIGHTS for its interests
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) September 14, 2016
@JuanConde11 @realDonaldTrump Have you noticed that @Kasparov63 is a public critic of Putin & very much alive?
— Dinesh D'Souza (@DineshDSouza) September 17, 2016
Have you noticed I live in New York now? Stop spitting on the graves of Putin's victims with your dictator worship. https://t.co/SlLEfDZ1E3
— Garry Kasparov (@Kasparov63) September 17, 2016
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6) Trump repeated birther lies to the Washington Post as recently as TWENTY FOUR HOURS ago https://t.co/sI82PXQWHq
— David Frum (@davidfrum) September 17, 2016
8) And … whoah … some very large number of people in the conservative world are willing to indulge those new “Hillary’s fault” lies.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) September 17, 2016
11) But his movement is not American. It’s Soviet. It is based on the willing acceptance of fantastic and constantly changing lies.
— David Frum (@davidfrum) September 17, 2016
14) Do you live by truth or by lies? Do you change your mind because you’ve discovered new facts – or because you’ve received new orders?
— David Frum (@davidfrum) September 17, 2016
(Catty subnote: I don’t think I’ve ever heard MoDo’s voice before. Now I know why she’s not broken out of the print/Sunday talking heads market into more lucrative celebutainment venues.)
Open Thread: All the Worst People Stand Up for Their Donald!Post + Comments (184)
by Betty Cracker| 343 Comments
This post is in: Open Threads, Politics, General Stupidity
I’m with respected blog colleague Kay in thinking that it makes little sense to blame the Youngs for the horrifying possibility that Trump could be elected because of millennials’ insufficient fealty to the Democratic nominee. Yes, anyone who is determined to throw a vote away on sentient Caucasian dreadlock Jill Stein* or human bong avatar Gary Johnson deserves a clue-by-four upside the noggin.
But it’s the Olds — specifically, older white folks — who weaponized the ferret-wearing shit-gibbon. Let’s put the lion’s share of the blame where it truly belongs.
I think I’ve talked all the millennials in my purview into backing Clinton. (Or possibly they’re lying to me to shut me the hell up.) That said, this piece from Tooney of the Twitters might be good Facebook fodder for the young idealists in your feed who’ve bought into the purity brigade’s anti-Clinton smears:
Everyone needs to share this on their Facebooks and whatnots.
Like, now. pic.twitter.com/NHww27xqm2
— Tooney (@rumproast) September 17, 2016
In conclusion, here’s a front-page shout-out to indefatigable campaign volunteer recruiter BR, who had this to say in the morning thread:
Morning reminder to sign up to volunteer for the campaign. Just takes 30 seconds and is crucial for November. There are lots of things you can do, so please sign up today for just one event. Let me know if you have questions.
Well done, BR. And thank you!
*H/T Sam Bee
Facebook Feud Fodder (Non-Football Open Thread)Post + Comments (343)
This post is in: Open Threads, Sports
First, a teeny-tiny apology for falling down on the American football posts job recently. (The diminutive size of the apology is due to my volunteer status creating obligations commensurate with the compensation.)
The truth is, I’ve been too busy over the last few months to pay as much attention to football as I normally would, what with the kid going off to college, campaign stuff, etc.
Anyhoo, some exciting match-ups this week in NCAA football:
In the early games, I’ll be pulling for Louisville because I hate the goddamned ‘Noles. Ohio State and Oklahoma should be interesting. My beloved Gators should win easily this evening, but it’s not a good idea to look past a cupcake, and I hope they haven’t.
No picks from me because I’m even less informed than usual this season due to the aforementioned busyness, not that it would make any difference: My prognostication hit rate would probably be improved if I printed out the schedule on poster board, laid it on the chicken coop floor and picked the teams that garnered the most hen bombs.
Anyhoo, feel free to discuss! Open thread!
by Randinho| 96 Comments
This post is in: Sports
Before I start, let me first address those of you – and there were a few of you last week – who feel compelled to post comments criticizing the existence of posts about football – and I hasten to point out that it has been called football much longer than gridiron football.
I have been invited and welcomed to post here by the owner of this blog and I do so only at his pleasure. We get it: you don’t like the sport and/or are resentful of the fact that these posts exist at all. Nevertheless, you are certainly welcome to post in the comments on topic. Out of respect to those who do like the sport, I ask you not to post comments such as these:
Way too thin skinned for a little thing like calling all 22 of you out. Only 23 comments so far and the American college football game isn’t even being discussed but let me bow out of “your” discussion.
Oh boy! Saturday Game Day, everybody is donning their school colors, and an open football thread! And it’s all about … Oh. Never mind.
Is that honestly so hard for you to do?
Okay, FIFA is cracking down on homophobia. Great!
James Rodriguez to Manchester United, Cesc Fabregas to Milan and Christian Pulisic to Liverpool? The latest transfer rumors.
Champions League results from this week. Discuss.