Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

This fight is for everything.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Consistently wrong since 2002

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.

“Squeaker” McCarthy

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

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  3. 3.

    Pb

    News…

    Hurricane season starts up, looks like Florida might be getting their first one with TS Alberto…

    Bush convenes a meeting to figure out how much and how soon we can cut and run from Iraq before the midterms–no news there, that’s been their plan for quite some time now.

    The debate about whether or not we should close Gitmo rages on? I thought The Decider already had his say on this one, just like he did on Abu Ghraib… you know, the “As President, I’d really like to get rid of it, and now I’m just going to shut up and do nothing and let you and the news media forget all about it” routine. It seems to work rather well.

    Oh, and this just in–Rusty Shackleford Pastes Ridiculously Long URL Into A Comment Without Making It a Link, Balloon Juice Comment Thread Suffers.

  4. 4.

    Steve

    I thought you’d be all over the news that up-armored Humvees are killing American troops. Seems that adding extra weight makes them more likely to roll over. Maybe the Army knew what it was doing after all.

  5. 5.

    Faux News

    Well as my 96 year old Grandmother used to say:

    “I’m lucky to even get out of bed in the morning”.

    Not exactly a daily meditation quote, but the old gal had a point. Perhaps Tim just didn’t feel like getting out of bed.

  6. 6.

    Tim F.

    Tim’s computer has been functional for all of 30 minutes now. All that I can say at this point is that Symantec is very lucky that I am not an imam with the ability to declare jihad.

    Also, Rusty, please embed your damn links.

  7. 7.

    Pb

    Steve,

    I take it that’s not what they meant by “Let’s Roll”… Who knew, right? If only automakers or the military had done some sort of analysis to see if these sorts of vehicles were likely to roll over in the first place. No one could have predicted etc. etc.

  8. 8.

    The Other Steve

    I thought you’d be all over the news that up-armored Humvees are killing American troops. Seems that adding extra weight makes them more likely to roll over. Maybe the Army knew what it was doing after all.

    Well fucking duh. And get this too… When you’re worried about getting shot at and blown up you drive faster, just aggravating the safety problems.

    The Humvee was NEVER designed for this kind of service.

    Hell, I don’t think you can create a vehicle for this kind of service that won’t have some share of weakness or problems.

    This whole fucking concept that you can execute a fucking war without fucking causaulties is fucking stupid. And I hope I swore enough to get my fucking point across.

  9. 9.

    The Other Steve

    “The whole thing is a formula for disaster,” said Badenoch, who is working with the military to design a lighter-armored vehicle to replace the Humvee.

    Oh yeah, and why did CNN treat a guy as credible who is trying to sell another vehicle to the military?

    Isn’t there anybody independent these days, who actually cares about what’s happening instead of lining their pocketbook on the government teat?

  10. 10.

    Krista

    Tim – I feel your pain. My new Dell came with that Roxio DVD burner that kept checking for updates and providing error messages umpteen times every time I started my computer. It took quite a bit of rejiggering, and a lot of very bad language on my part, to finally get rid of it.

  11. 11.

    Pb

    The Other Steve,

    Oh yeah, and why did CNN treat a guy as credible who is trying to sell another vehicle to the military?

    Hey, at least he wasn’t “promoting a book” too.

    Actually I saw someone commenting on cable recently that the reason they have these safety problems is to keep them easy to repair and lower costs–that if they had to make their vehicles as safe as, say, minivans, then they’d be like 4x more expensive. (Never mind that military vehicles already *are* really expensive anyhow…)

  12. 12.

    ppGaz

    Isn’t the army ordering the vehicles with the leather and the Stability Control Systems? That’s the way my wife configures her SUV. Damn near impossible to roll the thing over by swerving it, from what I’ve read.

    She likes the big heavy thing … says she wants plenty of metal around her. I say, I’ve seen your driving, and I can’t argue. Then she gives me a certain look, which I cannot exactly translate for you.

    In any case, the vehicles down at the car lot now are just about unrollable. Why isn’t that also the standard for the military vehicle?

  13. 13.

    t. jasper parnell

    Again, this guy ought to be supported.

    This is just odd and scary and not just to those of us who find the nut cases who cloak their nutcaseness in religion, but to others who think that holy writ contains all that they or thee need to know

  14. 14.

    Pb

    t. jasper parnell,

    Obviously we need tort reform to protect us from these frivolous lawsuits coming from the right wing… :)

  17. 17.

    Krista

    t.jasper parnell –

    I love this quote from the story:

    Mr. Thompson has charged that in licensing the game, Tyndale House, publisher of his own book against video game violence as well as the Living Word Bible and several of Mr. Dobson’s titles on child-rearing, “has now become one of the mental molesters of minors for money.”

    Mr. Thompson – master of alliteration.

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