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T R E 4 5 O N
When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?
If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.
Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.
Damn right I heard that as a threat.
A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.
The worst democrat is better than the best republican.
Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.
Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.
Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.
We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.
Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.
“What are Republicans afraid of?” Everything.
They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.
Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.
When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.
Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.
if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.
Good lord, these people are nuts.
I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.
Consistently wrong since 2002
Take your GOP plan out of the witness protection program.
“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”
If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.
gonzone
The Idiocracy is upon us.
I shall fight in the octagon.
Who will dare oppose me?
Darth Cheney will flee before my might.
His children shall be my servants forever.
PaulW
In the distance, dark shapes flew, coming closer.
Lee
This is a smack down of epic proportions.
It has probably been linked to already, but I just wanted to share (again) with the group.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
I wonder what the silent majority is up to these days?
Cat Lady
Most likely the next Senator from Massachusetts will be a woman. Our AG pulled nomination papers yesterday, and unless a Kennedy decides to get in, it’s going to be hers to lose.
Fulcanelli
Anybody wanna bet against the wingers trying to recruit this kid to join their /birther/deather/teabagger/Joe the not a plumber/”opposite marriage” silicone beauty queen/wasilla wingnut traveling anti-Obama traveling tent show revival tour and livestock exhibition?
Welcome back my friends to the show that never ends, step inside, step inside…
It just occurred to me just how many words I’ve had to add to my Firefox spell checker because of the wingnuts, or put up with the distracting little red lines while I’m writing. Freaks, they are…
beltane
Looks like the investment group that invited Sarah Palin to give a speech in Asia did so for the purpose of mocking her.
http://firedoglake.com/2009/09/01/occams-snow-machine/
All I can say about this is, “Doh!”
arguingwithsignposts
I got nothin’. Here’s a little DiFranco that speaks to the day:
Face
Very early Sept. and we wake up to 48F. Yeah, there’s nothing whacked about the climate nowadays.
arguingwithsignposts
@Face: Yeah, we’ve had some unseasonably cool weather here as well. Nice, but scary too.
Following up on my previous musical interlude, here’s something a little softer: Anais Mitchell, “Your Fonder Heart”
A couple of minutes ago, I was just thinking about a particular fond memory, spurred by the lyrics of the difranco song, and I am again reminded how wonderful life can be, juxtaposed with the heartbreak and craziness that surrounds us.
What a strange life we humans lead.
ericvsthem
Hey John, any update on the site redesign?
asiangrrlMN
JK, I hope you see this. I wanna both kiss ya and smack you upside the head. The former because I am listening to Cat Stevens’ Father and Son, and I am digging it all over again. The latter because I dreamed of Michele Bachmann last night, damn you!
How is everyone else this fine morn?
aimai, if you are ever in Minneapolis, first drink is on me.
Ann B. Nonymous
It’s Wednesday, so what manufactured outrage do you think will drive the news cycle till the start of the long weekend?
I’m so bored with the current trend in reality news programming. It’s so one-note: death this and death that. I am tired of death! I want something lurid and multicultural where I can feel superior to the participants.
debit
@Face: Yep, 54 here in Minneapolis. It feels more like early October than early September. Soon the cats will cry in vain at the window, for it shall not open again until Spring.
arguingwithsignposts
@asiangrrlMN:
I am soooo sorry for you. Next time dream you’re slapping some sense into the woman.
asiangrrlMN
@arguingwithsignposts: If I could control my dreams, I would. I think she talked me to death instead. That’s her version of a death panel.
I loooooove the cold! It makes me feel so alive.
debit
@asiangrrlMN: Father and Son is my favorite Cat Stevens song. Second is Sitting. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=djpnsqdNabM
Persia
@Lee: Every day I love her a little bit more.
Mario Piperni
For anyone who has a problem with conservative and republican BS.
Bad Things
asiangrrlMN
@debit: That’s pretty sweet, too. It looks like I’m an Islamofascist after all! I might have to buy me some Cat Stevens.
Now, I will go listen to Father and Son for the sixth time in a row.
RedKitten
Father and Son is definitely one of those songs that I could listen to multiple times.
Moonshadow is my second-fave Cat Stevens song, purely for the nostalgia factor. (My sister took guitar lessons when she was about nine, but was too shy to sing the lyrics to any of the songs, so four-year-old me would sing along instead, and Moonshadow was one of my favourite ones to sing.)
Stephen1947
Something I found at the Esquire site this morning:
A Radical Solution to End the Drug War: Legalize Everything, By John H. Richardson
http://www.esquire.com/the-side/richardson-report/drug-war-facts-090109
Main argument seems to be that we lose in the vicinity of 15,000 lives per year to the war, overdoses, etc., and waste more than $50 billion per year.
Regulation rather than prohibition could solve many of the problems – just as quality control and sales of alcohol are regulated now, post-Prohibition, and we don’t waste the lives and resources that were expended on that failed experiment.
I’m basically in agreement.
R-Jud
It is a grim, grim day weatherwise here in Limeyland. So grim I am listening to Nick Drake. However, there’s some jambalaya in the slow cooker, so things should pick up this evening.
freelancer
@aimai:
Ouch. Well argued.
Seconded, if you’re in Omaha.
SGEW
I’ll buy the second drink, if you’re ever in NYC.
Corner Stone
@SGEW: Drinks for everyone in H-town bitchez!