Now is the time on sprockets when we slow dance.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.
In after Baud. Damn.
“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”
Only Democrats have agency, apparently.
Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.
Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.
They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.
Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.
Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?
Let there be snark.
This fight is for everything.
So many bastards, so little time.
Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?
“Why isn’t this Snickers bar only a nickle?”
Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.
Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.
Fani Willis claps back at Trump chihuahua, Jim Jordan.
Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.
Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.
Ah, the different things are different argument.
No one could have predicted…
Let’s finish the job.
If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.
I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.
Jake
*“Offer subject to review. Being struck by firey debris may be a sign of God’s wrath. Offer void in Iran, North Korea, Syria, Jordan or any other country we arbitrarily decide harbors tarrists.”
Other than that, what could possibly go wrong?
TheFountainHead
Since this is an open thread, I’ll plug it again. If you haven’t seen Keith Olbermann’s Special Comment from last night, go to YouTube right now and watch the best ten minutes of television thus far in 2008.
Dennis - SGMM
Unintentional humor from the hillaryis44 site:
Hillaryis44: “Join us at the airport as we wait steadfastly for our ship to come in!”
Jen
FountainHead, we have a Vulcan mind meld. I just saw it. DAMN. I mean, DAMN.
I second. Also at Crooks & Liars, just for Punchy.
zzyzx
There’s an American Pie video? Wow, I had no clue.
TheFountainHead
This was an interesting article I just read on David Axelrod. Not a very deep piece, but I was curious to know about his background.
zzyzx
By the way, it terrifies me that decades after I was really into that song, I still know all of the blerping words to it. Couldn’t those brains cells have been put to better use over the years?
Dennis - SGMM
From Albert Einstein Anecdotes:
One of Einstein’s colleagues asked him for his telephone number one day. Einstein reached for a telephone directory and looked it up. “You don’t remember your own number?” the man asked, startled.
“No,” Einstein answered. “Why should I memorize something I can so easily get from a book?”
Gus
My sister had the 45 of that song. It was so long you had to flip the record over to hear the second half.
mark
Thanks, Fountainhead! Here’s the link for the rest of y’all’s convenience.
srv
I see your sprockets and challenge you to touch this monkey
Wait until it gets a minute in.
demkat620
So am I the only one worried about Dead Eye Dick and George wanting to show off our missile shield by shooting a satellite out of the sky?
What could possibly go wrong with those two in charge?
Dennis - SGMM
Also from the Balko site linked in the original post this amazing shot, from a captive balloon of San Francisco in Ruins after the ’06 quake. You can zoom in on the photo to see detail.
The hapless San Franciscans, not having the advantage of Bush’s FEMA, somehow managed to rebuild their city nonetheless.
zzyzx
That’s what I had. And the obsessive personality that I am now started young, as I listened over and over again to learn every single word.
Punchy
Gracias, Thym….er…uh….Jen. Jen? Jen!
Anyone else a little skeptical about this satellite story? First the Chins take out a satty in orbs and get excoriated for it. Seems the US would want to demo the same cappy without all the PR mess. How convienent that a multi-mill satty just happens to go on the kibosh soon after launch, and now needs to be 86’d with a few bottle rockets taped to a Scud.
I call shenanigans on the whole official “sons o’ bitch just died after launch” story. Even experts thought this’d take years to reenter if it were truly unresponsive. Amazing what a few thrusters could do to that timeline.
Stooleo
Taylor Marsh has gone full out freak out mode with the possibility that Hillary might not receive the nomination to which she is intitled.
Jen
I’d never heard of Taylor Marsh, but her GlamourShots scare me and her website colors give me a migraine.
jrg
Good video. I always liked that song, but I never noticed all the imagery in it until now.
Krista
Yikes, no kidding! I really, really hope that the photo isn’t her “Take me seriously” shot.
Dennis - SGMM
Wowser! It’s like Disneyland threw up on her web site.
Jake
All together on three. 1 … 2 …
“No one could have possibly foreseen the missle would go off target and flatten Tehran.”
Breschau
This just in: the White House says CIA officers shouldn’t be held to the Army Field Manual because they’re old enough to drink.
mark
Sorry, Jen, missed the mind meld. Didn’t mean to upstage you.
Jen
Nah, the C&L audio is awful, he sounds like a cyborg. Yours, being from MSNBC and all, was probably much better.
srv
These sats have self-destruct mechanisms. So they’ll shoot at it, have someone hit the button, and claim a wild success.
Scam.
Dork
100% MILF.
Jake
Jesus Christ in a Bradley, how can they listen to that dumb fuck without throwing something?
ThymeZone
Those of you who are interested can send messages to Superdelegates to the 2008 Dem Convention via this website.
Tell them your story and what you think they should do if called upon to help choose the Dem nominee in Denver.
If you are an Obama supporter as I am, you can also reach into your wallet and dig until it cries for mercy and give what you find there, to the Obama campaign.
JWeidner
Just did so today TZ, I’m happy to say. I’ve surprised even myself this election. I mean, normally, I’m happy to partake in the process and cast my vote, but this is the first time I’ve actually been moved to contribute to a campaign. And I won’t be surprised if I do so again before it’s all over.
Dennis - SGMM
Obama’s campaign got everything, not much sadly, that we could squeeze out of the budget this month. Thankfully, we’ll be getting that stimulus check and the campaign will be getting a nice slice of it. Seems like poetic justice somehow.
ThymeZone
Thyme smile!
Good work guys.
Tom in Texas
I donated last night, and also volunteered to be a precinct captain for the Obama campaign in my neighborhood. First donation to a candidate I’ve ever made, as well as my first participation in a primary.
maxbaer (not the original)
Amen to the KO comment and $$$ to Obama. If you have a few hours to kill this weekend, here’s an oldie, but a goodie. A little Kristol Blue Propaganda.
D-Chance.
Liberal Democrat radio host (although his party affiliation, and his political leanings, are strangely missing from the article) Bernie Ward in action. I’ll see your wetsuit w/dildo and raise you a mistress “Sexfairy”, and a collection of kiddie porn featuring children as young as 4 years of age. What a sickening slob.
Stooleo
Yarrrrrrgggg (throws up in mouth)
Justin Slotman
Hey Tom in Texas, I made your chili recipe for the Superbowl and it was awesome. It was actually better the second day, which tends to be true with things that are supposed to simmer for awhile in my experience. Not sure if I got the right chili pods as there’s not a lot of chili variety on the supermaket shelves in New Jersey, but it tasted great. The only thing I did differently was I cooked it with the beans for the last half hour or so (as opposed to pouring it over heated beans like you said.) Oh–and I didn’t use chili beer because I couldn’t find one anywhere.
Conservatively Liberal
I thought I would never type these words, but I think hillaryis44.com has to be the first ‘left wing hate site’ I have ever come across. Damn, the crap that is posted there has to be some of the most bile filled screeds that I have ever had the misfortune to see. The latest front page post is something called “The Rezko Cometh”. They do not have anything about Rezko and Obama specifically (other than the piece of property they bought at the same time that Obama bought his), but they spit out enough crap that tries to tie Obama into some money laundering deal with an Iraqi billionaire businessman, some Lebanese banker and Rezko. It is torturous to read, is filled with unattributed information from no-name sources, and it is clear that this site is not interested in Rezko. They are interested in what they can do to wrap Obama up in Rezko.
The hillaryis44.com diary states:
If anyone has been reading Hillaryis44.com for more than ten minutes (without going batshit-screaming insane) can learn, RezkoWatch is not an anonymous site (blog, actually), but rather is run by what I am assuming is one of the top dogs at Hillaryis44.com, who goes by the moniker “BMerry”. I say ‘assuming’ because I do not know the organization structure over there (or if there is really anyone who is running that garbage dump), but the ‘regulars’ there defer just about everything to this person, and when “BMerry” admonishes people (once in a rare while) about something, they listen, respond politely and do not talk back to “BMerry”. I have noted that when members of Hillaryis44.com have problems logging in at the RezkoWatch blog, they address the problem directly to “BMerry”, who then helps them with the problem. Pretty easy tie-in, eh?
The rest of “The Rezko Cometh” diary is painful to read and makes little to no sense as they bounce from one point (I guess they think of it as a point) to another without explaining anything, leaving you feeling like you are just to believe everything there because there is such a volume of it.
Either way, they are slap happy in the comments section because they are getting this ‘important information’ out to the public by spamming everywhere they can about it. I checked out the RezkoWatch blog and it is about as dead as it gets, with a total of seven responses total for all of the blog entries on the first page.
Now I understand Hillary is giving Hillaryis44.com a nod and wink about running this site, but when the tags for a story about Obama include “scum”, they have to be mainlining the kool-aid. No drinking, pump that crap straight in to the veins! Personally, I can understand Hillary letting this site run wild like she does. It fits in perfectly with all of the other poor decisions she has made in the past, and thus is easily understood.
Going to Hillaryis44.com is like visiting a virtual mental hospital and viewing the patients through one way glass. If I did not know better, I would swear that Hillaryis44.com would be something that radical Obama supporters would cook up to make Hillary look bad. Cause it sure is not helping her one bit, that is for damn sure. Night before last I sent a link for Hillaryis44.com to a couple who are good friends of ours who are Hillary supporters (not kool-aid drinkers, just regular voters who like her). I had to go up to their house to install their new flat panel display yesterday (I service their computers), and the first thing Sue said to me was ‘My God! Is that place for real?!’. She seriously thought it was a hit site that was put up to burn Hillary!
I set up their display and we talked for a few afterward about this crap. She is going to dig more in to it (good for her), but if this is indeed a valid Hillary site, she said that she would not vote for her if their lives depended on it.
Sue is a smart lady. She is a bit of a political nut, so every time our families get together her and I jawjack about politics. She does like Obama, but favors Hillary because of “experience”. ;) We had a little talk about that, and Sue had to admit that other than the things Hillary did that she did not like (Kyl-Liebermann, AUMF and so on), she could not name off one good one. Just that she “is experienced”. I told her that I am impressed by the fact that Obama is a constitutional law scholar and a community organizer. I pointed out the 10 state strategy (eg: 50%+1 vote) and how Obama is kicking her ass in the other states.
I can tell I made a few good points to her, so I will see where she goes with it. Either way, if I could think that Hillaryis44.com is a hit site to hurt Hillary, now I know that another thought the same thing. I wonder if Hillary is aware that these mental patients are running the asylum and making her look like a real douche.
Zifnab
O/T
The Malkinites are having a collective freak-out over the expiration of the FISA legislation. Someone get a shovel and a mop, I’ve never seen such rampant shorts-pissing and pants-shitting.
Epic.