Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

After roe, women are no longer free.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

He really is that stupid.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Prediction: the GOP will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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  1. 1.

    General Winfield Stuck

    I want to report I’ve been faithfully voting for Bitsy, because who could say no to that mug.

    And from our Idiot Files.

    A Pennsylvania history buff who recreates firearms from old wars accidentally fired a 2-pound cannonball through the wall of his neighbor’s home in Uniontown, Pa.

    William Maser, 54, fired a cannonball Wednesday evening outside his home in Georges Township that ricocheted and hit a house 400 yards away. The cannonball, about two inches in diameter, smashed through a window and a wall before landing in a closet. Authorities said nobody was hurt.
    State police charged Maser with reckless endangerment, criminal mischief and disorderly conduct. No one answered the phone Friday at Maser’s home. He told WPXI-TV that recreating 19th-century cannons is a longtime hobby. He said he is sorry and he will stop shooting them on his property, about 35 miles southeast of Pittsburgh.

    No doubt a Steelers fan/ ducks

  2. 2.

    Punchy

    Anyone see the Iowa game this ‘kend? TWO blocked FG attempts back-to-back to preserve the win? Is there a better way to end a game that should have been won by at least 40 points? For that matter, has anyone even ever seen a team get two consecutive FG attempts that doesn’t involve a rogue timeout or penalty?

    I say no, there aint no better way to win.

  4. 4.

    peach flavored shampoo

    TPM is opining that the only way BO gets HCR is thru some form of PO that comes ASAP, but not immediately, thru some nebulous “trigger” event.

    Where do I place my bets that the trigger is never, ever, ever, ever met, and if things ever get close to the trigger, that it is legislatively fixed to move the trigger so that it’s never, ever, ever met. Epic fail, IMO.

  6. 6.

    Violet

    I voted! I’m all for helping animals that need to be rescued. I don’t even care if they’re the cutest or not.

  7. 7.

    ellaesther

    Ok, ok! I voted already! I registered and I voted and I will continue to do so until the end of the campaign. Geez, way to manipulate a woman with her own damn heartstrings!

    Plus, I voted my social conscious, but not my actual conscious: I did like that Heidi.

    BUT I VOTED FOR BITSY! GO, BITSY, GO!

  8. 8.

    Ash Can

    Yay! Doggie!

    And in other news, I’ve figured out Barack bin Osama’s nefarious secret agenda for his speech to school kids this morning. Today is the first day back for Chicago Public School kids. At my son’s school, at least, lunch is at 11:30. Math class takes place during the hour before that. So this makes Obama 1) unfairly partial to the kids in his hometown, since it’s their first day back, 2) anti-religion, since the Catholic schools of the Chicago Archdioscese are already in session, 3) anti-white, since the suburban schools are already in session, and we all know that the suburbs are all white, at least the ones that count in Real America, 4) anti-education, because his speech cuts into math class, and 5) into perversion of minors in general, since he’s arranged for his speech to avoid cutting into the period that all schoolkids love, namely lunch, which makes him look like a good guy in the kids’ eyes, because kids are too dumb–er, I mean too innocent, to know any better. OH, THE HORRORS!

  10. 10.

    CaseyL

    I voted, and posted the contest on Facebook, exhorting my FB friends to vote, too.

    And, since the issue has driven me half insane, I’ve resolved to say nothing more about HCR until after Obama’s speech.

  11. 11.

    Crashman06

    Back from Canada. Incredible vacation, and much needed. I went off the internet/cell phone grid for three and a half days and it was great. I started to catch up on politics this morning and my teeth are grinding away already. It was nice to be away from that crap for a while. I had forgotten about the whole “Obama indoctrinating our kids” nonsense…

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Sorry, missed noticing that this was an open thread. I posted on next thread up about the kid who introduced the President. Made me feel all optimistic about things again.

    Pres on C-SPAN right now.

  13. 13.

    gnomedad

    OK, who’s going to be the first winger to say the Prez’s use of phrases like “don’t let your country down” proves he’s a soshulist?

  14. 14.

    Ash Can

    @gnomedad: They’ll probably be whining that the speech was too complex for kindergartners, or too heavily oriented toward non-white-homeschooled-evangelical-white-Christian-American-didImentionwhite-don’tforgetChristian-andImeantherightkindofChristianmindyou kids.

  15. 15.

    Shell

    Sheesh, this contest doesn’t end till Thanksgiving. Yes, yes, I’ll continue to vote. His ears are almost as big as my old Clemmie. She could pick up signals from the Space Shuttle.

  16. 16.

    Brick Oven Bill

    I would not feed AhabTRuler’s pizza to Little Bitsey, as a frog might eat the pizza after Little Bitsey (Glenn?) vomited it up. Frogs cannot vomit, and therefore would likely become very sick after eating the pizza-dog vomit.

    The pizza-dog vomit would rapidly pass through the frog’s digestive system and wind up, partially digested, in the nation’s waterways where it could further sicken fish, bugs, amoebas, and lesser life forms.

    Now this is pizza. Stick with the Obama chants and songs, AhabTRuler.

  18. 18.

    Onkel Fritze

    Look at the letters in that Bitsy banner. Just a matter of time until Disney sues for copyright infringement.

  21. 21.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Could I just say (and yeah, I know this is unoriginal, and yeah, I know this is just a variation on the talking points) that Mike Pence is about as scummy as an elected official can get? (And yeah, I also know that the competition is pretty stiff.)

    Scum was saying, in the most pompous way possible, that the education speech was “a teachable moment” for the Prez, and that because it was, in the end, non-controversial, that meant that Obama had “learned his lesson.” Just . . . puke.

  22. 22.

    bedtimeforbonzo

    I want to run a work matter past everyone to help me decide if I am stupid or sane.

    Many folks here may know I am a car salesman. At our dealership, if you “work” a customer — greet them, help them with want they want, put them in the computer under your name, follow them up — you “own” that customer and, therefore, get the deal if they buy a car even if you aren’t physically here when they buy it, meaning it might occur on your day off or night off. (In that case, the protocol would be to give the guy who delivers the car $100 for his trouble.)

    My 9-5 day is Friday, a customer I had Thursday came back Friday night — I had called her Friday morning and she told me she “might” come in that afternoon; she did not come in until 6:30, and purchased the car I worked her on.

    My used-car manager gave the whole deal to the salesman who delivered the car, saying I had not done enough to earn the deal. I was infuriated: I did everything under our “rules” — so I went over his head to the general manager, who, so far, is siding with me.

    The GM has to first talk to my manager — he had a four-day weekend and comes back tomorrow — before deciding if I really get the deal, and a $500 commission that I NEED.

    Of course, my manager, who has an ego the size of Manhattan, is not going to be happy that I challenged his authority. But at a time when I scrambling to pay the mortgage and other bills, I think I had no choice but to stand up for myself.

    (Four years ago, I lost a deal that was clearly mine to a “star” salesman who was management’s golden boy. Foolishly, I quit in protest, and came back here eight months later. This is no time to quit — and it might not be a time to challenge a superior. But I did.)

    Sorry if this doesn’t belong here, but more than anything I wanted to get this off my chest.

  23. 23.

    Comrade Darkness

    Warning: Open thread injection.

    I sure hope the Europeans have insulated their houses and own lots of sweaters. NOAA Report Explains Sea Level Anomaly this Summer along the U.S. Atlantic Coast After observing water levels six inches to two feet higher than originally predicted, NOAA scientists began analyzing data from select tide stations and buoys from Maine to Florida and found that a weakening of the Florida Current Transport—an oceanic current that feeds into the Gulf Stream—in addition to steady and persistent Northeast winds, contributed to this anomaly.

    When we travel in Europe we find it amusing to ask people what latitude they think they are at relative to North America and have yet to find a single one with any sense of this, at all. Not to go all American-centric, but the continental U.S. serves as a metric of what the weather would be like in Europe absent the gulf stream. We live at the latitude of Lisbon Portugal, and get 150 inches of snow a year. London, England is sitting on the south shore of Hudson’s Bay. If the arctic ice cap is indeed an integral part of the gulf stream’s engine, Europe is f*cked.

  24. 24.

    Comrade Darkness

    @bedtimeforbonzo: Never having worked for commission I can’t be much help, but I’ll point out that the GM should be doing something to smooth things over too. The used car manager does answer to him/her and it’s the GMs job to make sure their direct reports are doing THEIR job.

    I’d have a preemptive quick chat (no emotion, just straight talk about the situation) with the GM expressing just your last bit there: a) the rules are there to make sure every customer that comes in gets high-end service and that will break down immediately if the rules not followed, b) explain that you could not sit tight at this time to keep the peace, and frankly, it’s bad precedent to (see a.) c) you are a bit concerned about your rapport with your manager as a result of going over his head. Ask him/her for advice on how to best handle your boss. Just asking will go a long way, I think. All of this applies no matter the final decision.

  25. 25.

    R-Jud

    @Comrade Darkness:
    I keep reminding my British in-laws of this: there will be no more January roses if the Gulf Stream shuts down. Last winter we got a few snowfalls of more than 6″, and the entire country ground to a halt every. Goddamn. Time. It’s ridiculous.

  26. 26.

    Comrade Darkness

    @R-Jud: My schtick is to say something like, “yeah… we got people living relative to where you guys live, they wear fur all year and eat raw seals…”

  28. 28.

    bedtimeforbonzo

    Sound wisdom, Comrade Darkness.

    I should have added that the GM will most likely be the Voice of Reason here — my manager has a strong tyrannical streak.

  29. 29.

    Gina

    I missed getting to the Fil Ouvert en Francais, but asiangrrlMN suggested I post my Rottie pics again, so here they are. The new pup was named Lily by the kids, I set parameters of plant or flower names, they eschewed Iris, Ivy, Holly.

    You can also see one of our cats Tim, she’s a female, but when she showed up on our deck, my son thought he needed a pal named Tim, so it went.

    Lily, meet Lily. And Mo, Tim and my daughter Arden:
    http://www.flickr.com/photos/gina_martin/sets/72157621952592503/

  30. 30.

    Gina

    Oh, and I forgot the most important part! The new pup is a rescue from For the Love of Dog in NH. Mo was rescued from the Mercer County WV Human Society. Tim just decided she liked us more than her other family, and moved in a few summers ago.

  31. 31.

    thalarctos

    Bitsy’s cute and all, but Laura, I have to tell you that that is the most winsome cat I have ever seen! Especially when you dress it up in jewelry.

  32. 32.

    bedtimeforbonzo

    Gina: I adore your Lily. This melted my heart.

    I just love the markings on Rotteweilers.

    My favorite dog ever — the great Bonzo (1989-2002) and whom I derived my blogging handle from — was part Rotty and part Lab, a 120-pounder who was a gentle giant and my best friend in the truest sense.

  34. 34.

    bedtimeforbonzo

    Gina: I never had a dog who was as happy with a yellow tennis ball in his mouth as ol’ Bonzo.

    And he wasn’t satisfied with just any tennis ball. Bonzo loved them old and ratty.

    When we’d be in the field playing fetch, he would not place the ball in my hand until he had rolled it around in his mouth over and over again, seemingly making sure it was good and slobbery. It was disgusting, but I loved it. I’d heave the ball and there would be a trail of slobber in the air behind it.

    I always thought it was funny when I would come home at night and this 120-pound bear of a dog would greet me at the door with one of his favorite stuffed animals, also very ratty and slobbered all over.

    Bonzo amused me in so many ways. My cat Tiger tortured him. She would rub up against him, over and over again, moving around on a coffee table, as she was doing so, and making her cat sounds.

    It left him crying every time, I guess he didn’t know how to respond — he clearly loved her.

  35. 35.

    Comrade Darkness

    @R-Jud: Or, you can just hang out there until the situation is clearer. The entire population of England would easily fit into Canada. You’ve still got the same queen. She could just order Canada to take 40 million people over 10 years. That’d leave 10 million to eke out an existence eating the hardiest of the remaining sheep while rebuilding Hadrian’s wall…

    /doomsday humor (I hobby in writing speculative fiction, so I can do this all day.)

  36. 36.

    bedtimeforbonzo

    Gina: How old is Mo? He seems awfully playful himself.

    This is a classic pose.

    I don’t think there is anything better than a big, playful dog.

  37. 37.

    Gina

    @bedtimeforbonzo: Mo’s about 5 1/2 or 6, not exactly sure as he was from the shelter. He’s really playful, he only just started walking about a year ago, he used to bounce everywhere.

    We had to euthanize our other male, Ronin, due to a very bad diabetes/neurological decline, and Mo was really bummed out. He hadn’t had a good play session in a while with Ronin being ill, but having him gone was really devastating. Broke my heart to see Mr. Krazy Mo being subdued and laying around sighing. So, sooner than I would have done otherwise, we looked to getting another rescue, and found Lily. Her mom had been found in NYC, pregnant and starving, 40lbs with 5 puppies inside! They nursed her and saved the pups, all of whom have been adopted, I think the mom is still being fostered.

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