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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson
We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.
These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.
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Their freedom requires your slavery.
Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.
The current Supreme Court is a dangerous, rogue court.
I did not have this on my fuck 2025 bingo card.
Democracy cannot function without a free press.
There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.
“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”
Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.
Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.
“Alexa, change the president.”
“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”
A norm that restrains only one side really is not a norm – it is a trap.
Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.
If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.
“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”
A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.
Damn right I heard that as a threat.
Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.
… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact
cleek
BJ is alive again!
Zifnab
Word Press = FAIL
Michael D.
Have you all been having the same trouble as me getting here today? I thought I was alone in the ether.
cleek
just a note in WordPress’s defense: Sadly,No also uses WP, as does Cosmic Variance (#4 in TLB’s ecosystem) and Crooks&Liars (#14) and i’ve never seen the db connection error page on those sites.
BJs problem is likely a configuration issue somewhere.
Davebo
Perhaps hosting a dynamic content website on a Commodore 64 wasn’t such a swell idea after all?
Billy K
Finally, some sense from Clinton and Marsh.
The rest of her site is still batshit insane.
Billy K
After all these years, the debate still rages….I TOLD him to go with an Apple ][!
MBL
Grand Theft Auto IV is not nearly as much fun as I wanted it to be.
AkaDad
Here’s some more numbers super-delegates should see.
cleek
is anyone in NC seeing any Obama/Clinton ads except that tepid, issue-free Obama ad about “hope” ?
i see that one multiple times every night, but haven’t seen any others, from either of them.
Cyrus
I feel so left out. I want to join in the pointing and laughing at John in the BSG predictions thread, but I’ve only seen the show through the second or third episode of season three, so I know next to nothing about this whole “final cylon” mystery. I don’t even know if Starbuck’s athlete is still alive myself. Either way, though, John’s prediction was classic.
ThymeZone
Driving down to the salt mine today, and listening to the politics channel on SM radio, I heard a lengthy and conversation interview with Karl Rove.
I had never heard him just talk at length before, and I was …. dumbfounded …. by what a brilliant political strategist this guy is. Nothing excapes his notice, and his analyses are impeccably objective and rational. Just fucking amazing. I can’t say much for his ethics, but his understanding of the real time nature of politics is well beyond anything I’ve heard before from any pundits or so-called experts.
One of the topics he discussed was his recent column in which he talked about how he would advise Barack Obama to improve his campaign. The insights were spot on, and the advice seemed to me to be sound and well worth taking.
Mainly, it involved re-energizing the message of unity and post-partisanship that fueled his early success, but with new material and new current relevance. Also, Rove said that Obama still had a chance to handle the Wright controversy the right way, which is to spend less time being cautious about his responses and go from the gut, with one clear and direct response, and stick to it. Namely, Wright is wrong, and I don’t want any part of Wright’s divisive arguments. Rove said that if Obama had made that his first, instead of his fifth, response to the Wright problem, it would be a settled matter by now and he could move on.
Sounded like damn good advice to me. Thoughts?
srv
Wow. ppGaz discovers Karl has a brain. WTF is next?
I look forward to the time that BJ is not the slowest loading site on the intertubes and the cognisenti here doesn’t MUP flip flop. They couldn’t rave enough about his Bill Moyers appearance last week. Now they can’t agree with Rush enough.
About time we start hearing more from that wife.
Conservatively Liberal
Anyone hear about this latest voter suppression tactic that looks like it has Clinton fingerprints all over it? If this is true, then Hillary has some ‘splainin to do. I thought that the right are the only ones who are interested in suppressing Democratic turnout.
Oh, right. Hillary is a Republican. Now it makes sense!
People should go to jail for this crap.
ThymeZone
No, you moron, that he is so objective in his analyses, and willing to be that way publicly.
The problem with Rove is that while he is obviously a brilliant political thinker, he seems to think that everything is politics and politics is everything.
When his thinking is applied down to the gut reactions of ordinary voters, it seems right on target. Too bad he couldn’t have applied this brilliance to politicians whose ethics operated at the same high level of functioning. Too bad he sold out to the Bush family.
smiley
Oops. Meant to post this here rather than in the following thread:
There was a good segment on Real Sports with Bryant Gumball (HBO) about Obama and basketball. Any one see it?
Scrutinizer
Nope. I did the early voting thing the first weekend it opened, and there was decent turnout for an early date. I haven’t been watching a lot of TV, but what I’ve watched, I’ve seen nuthin’. My guess (and it’s just a guess) is that Clinton isn’t going to be spending too much money on TV here; since she’s cash-strapped, I expect that the TV buys are all going to be in IN, where she has a chance of winning.
Zuzu
Interestingly, Poppy fired him back in the day. Couldn’t stomach his ethics, it seems.
Then Rove got a look at Junior and decided he was mold-able.
So I hear.
Buck
I anticipate that to be the next big explosion. And how in the hell do you renounce and denounce your wife?
I have always admired his political genius. He was able to pull enough people together and get what will go down in history as the most imcompetent person to ever hold the office of the President elected……twice.
Purely and unashamedly Machiavellian. I can’t help but marvel at those kinds of people.
Tom in Texas
I got into a discussion with my dittohead father about a week ago about the Obamas. He likes Barack actually, but can’t stand Michelle. After he said she hates white people my response was instantaneous:
“She married a half white man. Someone who hates white people would not choose to have children that are a quarter white. They wouldn’t choose to spend birthdays and holidays with a white family (does Barack have a single black relative in America?). They certainly wouldn’t go to Princeton. How many members of the KKK do you know that would marry someone that’s half black?”
Dork
And 4000+ dead troops was based on a political gamble.
The Commander Guy
I heard somewhere on the internets that Thing Number Two has been snared by homeland security. No work on Thing number one.
Incertus
I think the Florida legislature is suffering from a bout of temporary sanity. It’s knocked me off balance a bit, I have to admit.
KRK
Saw it. Thought it was great. Hope it gets a lot of views.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3CmvDQK3k2w
Krista
Pity, really. The man is a political genius, and could have used those brains of his to actually work towards solving a lot of America’s problems. But instead, he just created more.
smiley
Thanks for posting the link.