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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.
A consequence of cucumbers
There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.
When do the post office & the dmv weigh in on the wuhan virus?
Republicans in disarray!
“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”
Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.
Come on, man.
Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.
… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact
rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius
Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.
Ah, the different things are different argument.
I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.
At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.
… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop
Nothing worth doing is easy.
We still have time to mess this up!
This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.
A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.
Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.
It’s easier to kill a dangerous animal than a man who just happens to have different thoughts/values than one’s own.
You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.
Peak wingnut was a lie.
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LiberalTarian
Watching Firefly. Always a good time.
RoonieRoo
Right there with you John! My husband, also known as GrumpyCodeMonkey is happily snoozing next to me while I surf in an insomniac-daze.
John Cole
Poke him and tell him I said hi.
RoonieRoo
He says “Wah???” and he’s already back to sleep. Man, the dog is even starting to snore. I hate nights like this.
Dungheap
Isn’t it a bit early in the evening to call “insomnia?”
lectric lady
Why aren’t you doing football trash talk today???
The CBoys LOST and the Giants have to go to Green Bay.
Is there ANY news that is more important than THAT???
Terrorists? The economy? Gas prices? Primary elections?
I think not.
RoonieRoo
If you are an insomnia sufferer, you know the feeling when you know it is going to be a bad, long night. 11’ish is not too early to know what your body is setting you up for. It also matters what time you have to get up in the morning.
srv
Like freaking 1500 lines of blogging today – WTF? At least Sully has a “click here to read more of my anti-Hillary rants” when he’s on one of his content spews.
Something wrong with that boy.
cmoreNC
One type of insomnia night is when your regret at having drunk three too many cups of coffee and two too many caffeinated sodas during the day meet up with too much mental fatigue, not just to do anything productive, but to even do anything particularly fun. And so you sit on a couch or chair, before a television or computer monitor, dully trying to find something soothing to pacify your short-circuit buzzing mind to a relaxed enough state to have some possibility of dozing off in an hour or so.
Cain
I’m currently reading research papers for class tomorrow. So I’m the the other way around, I keep trying to stop myself from falling asleep..
cain
myiq2xu
Insomnia is when you wake up at 3 or 4am PST and all the blogs have had the same posts up since 7 or 8pm EST, no one is commenting and there aren’t even any trolls to argue with.
Cain
That’s when you troll irc looking to start a political fight.
cain
Punchy
bought first computer game evah. SimCity Deluxe. Holy friggin addiction. Cant walk away for an hour without city going to shit. Which means I can’t leave home for hours on end.
This could develop into a very bad thing.
ThymeZone
Warm milk. Works every time.
Grumpy Code Monkey
Yeah, let me tell you just how much I appreciated that.
Booze + Benadryl works even better.
Punchy
Suggestion–password-protect the laptop. The old lady will be stuck playing freecell and hearts instead of surfing and poking.
D-Chance.
Don’t sleep too deeply, Mr Cole. “Presumed consent”… the next big wave in governmental healthcare. That British-style system all liberals know and love and want to impose upon us.
Roonieroo
Except the old lady is almost more techie than the Grumpy Code Monkey. He had no choice but to marry the woman that would help him string cat 5 all over the house and requires him to beef up our network whenever I want to add servers. I also force him to buy power tools.
libarbarian
THIS IS WEIRD.
Military.com article: “JCS Chairman Wants Gitmo Shut Down”
The weird bit comes at the end.
Why the hell would we expect a “sudden, major” influx of refugees into the Guantanamo Bay area? What refugees are going to pick Guantanamo as their destination other than maybe Cubans who have NO history of actually choosing it as such (Miami has much better nightlife)?
So, as I understand it – We’re building a “refugee camp” in a place with no history of being a destination for refugees but that just happens to be in the same place which was chosen for Gitmo precisely because its not technically on US territory and could be a “legal black hole”?
Interesting.
Svensker
That’s an understatement.
Punchy
I think I need to bow to a smarter woman here and shut my hole. But first….GCM didn’t have power tools? Wha?
Face
Damn, WTF? First, what are they defining as a refugee? Can this be tied to perhaps bombing Iran, and allowing all the intelligensia and pro-Western elites to have safe haven?
This is really odd. Someone needs to start asking better questions.
libarbarian
My first instinct is that its meant to house illegals.
There is a basis for calling illegals “refugees” – especially if we stop letting them live and work amongst us and start keeping them in housing camps, and all the same reasons Gitmo was chosen for terrorists also can apply to illegals – out of the public eye, escapees cant return to America, and “foreign soil” where is can be argued that “foreign nationals” are not entitled to the full sweep of rights and privileges and where their legal ability to challenge the circumstances of their detainment could be curtailed.
This is all conjectural but still – there is no reason to thinkrefugess will choose Gitmo for a destination on their own, so if we’re expecting them to be there in the future the most natural explanation, that I can see right now, is that we will be the ones sending them there to begin with.
Grumpy Code Monkey
I’m in software for a reason. I shattered my wrist putting up a curtain rod, for chrissakes.
It’s for when they start disappearing people right around November.
CooperPal
Actually, you guys did not do your homework. Guantanamo Bay has been used since the 1980’s for refugees of all sorts. The Clinton administration used it as a holding camp for Haitian boat people. It may be a legal black hole, but, hey, FDR did the same thing with non-citizens — with suspected Nazis — during WWII.
GITMO is Disneyland compared to the hell for refugees it was during the 1990’s (because they built new buildings and took out the US portion of the minefield, tho Cuba still has its landmines on its side of the line.) And remember, Clinton is famous for not knowing what to do with suspected terrorists. When the Sudan called him because they had Bin Laden in 1998, Clinton didn’t take Osama because he didn’t know what do to with him. Guantanamo is just a convenient outpost for us. Coincidently, during the Mariel refugee crisis of 1980, President Carter housed thousands of Cuban refugees in Clinton’s state of Arkansas. What to do with suspected criminal or terrorist non citizens is a big issue in the US. You guys have a better idea what to do with them? If so, call your representatives with the solution after you post it here. Until then, Guantanamo is a sad repository for the US when it does not know what to do in the name of the democratic Republic that we are.