Couldn’t sleep last night and watched In The Name of the Father again late night on Encore. Talk about timely and depressing.
At any rate, consider this an open thread.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.
The snowflake in chief appeared visibly frustrated when questioned by a reporter about egg prices.
Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.
Petty moves from a petty man.
After dobbs, women are no longer free.
Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.
Compromise? There is no middle ground between a firefighter and an arsonist.
If you cannot answer whether trump lost the 2020 election, you are unfit for office.
If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!
When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.
The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.
Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.
President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.
The worst democrat is better than the best republican.
The lights are all blinking red.
I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.
A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals
You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.
We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.
Impressively dumb. Congratulations.
American history and black history cannot be separated.
He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.
Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity
It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!
Ezert
Wow. I was at home watching it too. Just want to say what a coincidence. Given that the film was made way before the Patriot Act, and is a true story, it could serve as a bigger warning against the Bush Admin.’s policies than any of the current films (Lions for Lambs, Rendition, In the Valley of Elah).
On another note; Is there anyone better than Daniel Day Lewis? Maybe because he makes films so infrequently he can focus so much more on the few performances he gives. But I certainly don’t think the guy can ever be accused of phoning one in.
r€nato
Yet another GOP pervert exposed!
(via Eschaton)
Rescue Dawn coming from Netflix tomorrow. Looking forward to viewing it. Little Dieter Needs To Fly comes right after it. Forza Werner Herzog!
gypsy howell
I’m just as depressed — while you were watching In the Name of the Father, I was watching Lives of Others.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
Wow – the Tigers are going to be monsters in 2008.
libarbarian
Daniel Day Lewis is simply the mac daddy actor. He simply MADE Gangs of New York.
libarbarian
I simply say simply simply too much.
Dreggas
About those bio-fuels. All I can say is idiots, this is what happens when everyone leaps before they look.
The gov’t along with much of the elite are beginning to remind me more and more of the lyrics to Frontline Assembly’s Future Fail:
In this hell they call heaven
There is little to see
There is little to feel
There is nothing to be
Devastating Devils
Devastating Devils
Devastating Devils
Devastating Devils
They promised us what we all wanted to hear
A new realm of life for the next thousand years
A new golden age of rise and expansion
Devastating Devils
Devastating Devils
Hail the barbarians
Cheer your en-dowers
Greet the barbarians
Wave your well wishers
The skies are pouring showers of burning sand
The skies are pouring showers of burning sand
They’re draining the oceans
Leveling the mountains
Filling up the valleys
Devastating Devils
Devastating Devils
They massacre, call it progress
They plunder and call it wealth
Exterminate, abolish and steal
They turn into carrion, everything they touch
They never know nothing, they seldom knew much
Hail the barbarians
Cheer your en-dowers
Greet the barbarians
Wave your well wishers
They promised us more of everything, for everybody
Hail the barbarians
Cheer your en-dowers
Greet the barbarians
Wave your well wishers
Devastating Devils
Punchy
I dunno…but after the NIE was released, and it’s conclusions that Iran hasn’t been doing shit for years, isn’t this a really big FUCK YOU to the CIA and the assorted analysts who wrote this thang?
Isn’t it akin to saying, “No, really. Tell us the truth, which we’re not seeing in this NIE”.
If I wuz da CIA, I’d be pissed.
D-Chance.
Just elect Huckabee, Mr Cole. He’ll set them all free. Just hide the women when you do.
Jake
Unmarried people are bad for the environment.
Sorry, I’ve always wanted to beat a TheoCon in the race to the bottom.
Tony J
You know at the start of the film, where it’s inside the Birmingham pub just before the bomb goes off and we see someone raise their hand to wave in friends coming through the door.
According to my friend who did extra work on NOTF, that’s his hand.
r€nato
hate to break it to ya, but it’s a bottomless pit.
jcricket
Yep, the wingnutosphere is like a black hole, from which no light, truth or honesty can emerge. Plus it warps everything that comes in.
It’s also like “The Black Hole” (by Disney), in that it’s got terrible special effects, bad acting and horrible writing.
Z
As part of the liberal conspiracy to undermine Christmas, I need to announce that, at my work, we are having a HOLIDAY party! Woo-hoo! (Of course, at my work, half of us aren’t Christian and the half that are Christian aren’t exactly regular church goers.) So, take that Culture Warriors!!!
Dreggas,
I think the food crunch due to increased biofuel consumption won’t be all bad. Prices will rise, and third world nations who haven’t been able to compete in agriculture due to western subsidies, finally will be able to increase production and export their products.
Sock Puppet of the Great Satan
“On another note; Is there anyone better than Daniel Day Lewis?”
He was awesome in The Boxer, another Northern Ireland-related film. But Johnny Depp beats him, I think.
On the topic of Northern Ireland, Ian Paisley (DUP: hardline fundie protestants), Fist Minister of the devolved Northern Ireland government and Deputy First Minister Martin McGuinness (Sinn Fein: ex-head of the IRA Army Council) get on so well in Press Conferences they’ve been nicknamed “The Chuckle Brothers”. There was a poll in August where the majority of Sinn Fein voters approved of the job Ian Paisley was doing, and almost a majority (48%) of DUP voters approved of the job McGuinness was doing.
To get an idea of the brain-tissue-exploding-and-splattering-on-monitor implications of this: it’s roughly the equivalent of Huey Newton and David Duke forming a joint government of state of Louisiana and six months later the black citizens approving of the job Duke was doing, and oh isn’t that white hood fetching on him, and the white citizens thinking the same about Huey.
Property in Belfast is now roughly the same price as *San Francisco*.
Hopefully this will last, but it’s an example of how something you think is fixed in eternity is actually fluid and changable, in this case for the better
Punchy
UHHH………….WTFUCK??
Randy Paul
John,
You mean you missed the Victoria’s Secret show on CBS?
Jake
GOP type antics in Ireland, wha?
jcricket
Just look at what’s happened in Israel in recent elections (party shifts). It’s not impossible, it just feels that way because our political elite insist that it was pre-ordained in the bible that we have two parties, made up exactly as follows:
1) Can’t agree on anything; bends over and takes in the ass whenever pressed; doesn’t stand up to smears
2) Fucking nut job crazieeee fundie bomb the world types
J sub D
“Wow – the Tigers are going to be monsters in 2008”.
Oh yeah. A quality starter AND an all star 3rd baseman. Speculation is that Brandon Inge on the trading block. I hope not, he’d be a super sub, and somebody always gets injured in a 162 game season.
Look out Bosox and Yankess.
Bubblegum Tate
Memo to Steelers DB Anthony Smith: Shut the fuck up, dude!