Sort of been out of the loop for the last 24 hours. Sitting in the airport now, waiting for my plane to board.
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Sort of been out of the loop for the last 24 hours. Sitting in the airport now, waiting for my plane to board.
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burnspbesq
At the risk of belaboring the obvious, can I just say that John Boehner is a fucking moron?
http://my.earthlink.net/article/top?guid=20091031/4aebc450_3421_1334520091031-33390148
Genine
@burnspbesq
Sure! Such a thing can never be said too much. :-D
And have a safe trip home, John.
Pasquinade
Right Wing Falsely Asserts Right Wing Boogeymen Bill Ayers And Jeremiah Wright Visited The White House
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/10/30/right-wing-fact-check-fail/
DRUDGE EPIC FAIL: Headline Says Ayers, Wright White House Guests
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2009/10/31/798996/-DRUDGE-EPIC-FAIL:-Headline-Says-Ayers,-Wright-White-House-Guests
aimai
I imagine John is sitting in that airport refreshing his iphone picture of Lilly, over and over again.
aimai
dmsilev
Prediction: Your dog will be very happy to see you. Your cat won’t care.
-dms
Comrade Darkness
May the Great Sully guide your flight safely home.
burnspbesq
Why is it that some people (apparently including my wife) can’t internalize a simple truth about cats, i.e., if you feed them, they own you.
There have been two strays (who look like they must be from the same litter) hanging around by our front door for the last week. I got home from work at midnight on Wednesday to find them chowing down on a plate of dry cat food.
And yet the spousal unit persists in saying “No, we’re not adopting them.”
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure.
Going out to see if the little buggers are getting any less people-shy.
In my mind, they already have names: Laettner and Hurley.
MikeJ
@Pasquinade: The White House leaked the story of Ayers and Wright to discredit anybody who points out that George Soros and Louis Farrakhan had hot gay sex in the Lincoln bedroom.
kay
@Pasquinade:
It’s amazing, because the White House anticipated the “error”, and released a clarifying paragraph with the records.
It’s just blatant, knowing misinformation. Amazing.
I used to believe the trick was to get ahead of the lie, but not even that matters, because the White House did that, here. They’ll just tell it anyway, and hope it takes off.
Skepticat
Safe home. Any chance you can walk through the front door at home with a video camera running? Lily’s joy ought to be a thing to see, and Tunch will be happy to see you, no matter what his outward demeanor. And we’re looking forward to more pics of them, this drought has been painful.
AhabTRuler
Was there ever any doubt?
WereBear
Augh! Poor John! I want a videocam of HIS face when he sees his pets again.
Ya can’t help missing them.
Demo Woman
John should arrive home in time to put Lily in her halloween costume.
GReynoldsCT00
We’ve missed you John, safe travels…and enjoy your happy dog
GReynoldsCT00
@Demo Woman:
speaking of, do we get another picture of John, hidden behind a mask this year?
GregB
White House logs also indicate visits by Fidel Castro, Louis Farrakhan, the ghosts of Pol Pot, Adolph Hitler, Joseph Stalin and Michael Bolton.
-G
geg6
Safe trip, John. And I’m adding my voice to those begging for a Lily pic. She’ll be over the moon when she sees you. Tunch, however, will probably be showing you a lot of his rather large back.
General Winfield Stuck
@GReynoldsCT00:
Why yes, you most certainly do.
HRA
@burnspbesq:
Never any doubt about Boehner. @Pasquinade:
Any moment now my lawyer cousin will be sending me an email quoting Drudge and whoever else is being an A-H.
The truth is I wish it would all stop.
Have a safe trip home, John.
GReynoldsCT00
@General Winfield Stuck:
that’s so classic…
SiubhanDuinne
John, I want to know precisely how many times you phoned your brother to check up on Lily. I’m guessing close to 30 all told.
burnspbesq
Laettner was very friendly this morning.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/burnspbesq/laettner31oct09.jpg
Hurley still mostly hangs out in the bushes.
donovong
Well, let’s all hope that your pilots know when to land and that they know the difference between the runway and the taxiway. Also.
valdivia
@burnspbesq:
Laettner is a cutie!
gbear
@Demo Woman:
Shhh!! The dogsitters were going to dress Lily up as a surprise. You’ll ruin everything.
WaPo has picked 10 finalists for their columnist competition. Wonkette is on top of it. I’m buying a car this morning so I’m too distracted to care.
SiubhanDuinne
@burnspbesq: Aww, what a sweeeeeeet face! But I hate to have you blaming your wife for the fact that the esq family now own *two new cats.* I mean, she only put out food for them. She didn’t, you know, give them *names* or anything.
SiubhanDuinne
@gbear: What kind of car? Murrican or furrin? New or used?
Jay C
When I read this post I thought you meant you had been stuck in the airport for 24 hours, and thus (most assuredly) “out of the loop”. Say it ain’t so, John…..
@burnspsesq: I agree: “John Boehner is a fucking moron” – simple truth as it is – can’t be repeated too often.
@Pasquinade: As much as one hopes Drudge’s “epic fails” might eventually become realized by the public, these latest unfortunate examples will no doubt be quickly forgotten until the next outrage-du-jour; and the “fact” that “Bill Ayers and Jeremiah Wright” were guests at the WH will be accepted by the
simplemindedright-wing as on a par with President Bush’s “greeting the war dead at Dover AFB”: i.e. absolute truths “suppressed” by the “liberal media”.AhabTRuler
@SiubhanDuinne: Huh, I always thought it was the Burns family? Pretty sure it’s to the esq. family, unless everyone has a JD (including the new kittys: Laettner went to Columbia, but Hurley attended CUNY-Queens College, the hippy).
Skepticat
@WereBear: Nah, I hate to see a grown man cry.
@burnspbesq: Yup, you’ve got two beautiful new cats.
burnspbesq
@AhabTRuler:
Hurley also has an LL.M. in Tax from NYU.
GReynoldsCT00
@donovong:
and that they don’t overshoot the entire state because they are yakking with a flight attendant…and on the wrong frequency
Violet
@Demo Woman:
LOL. What’s her costume? I see her as Superdog.
SiubhanDuinne
@AhabTRuler: Well, I’ve never been formally introduced, so I went with the safe choice. But from here on out, it’s Laettner Burns and Hurley Burns.
AhabTRuler
Always looks good on the CV.
GReynoldsCT00
@burnspbesq:
what a sweetie kitteh! you must let him keep you
AhabTRuler
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gogol's wife
@burnspbesq:
I know that facial expression from the three cats (then kittens) we adopted from our backyard. “I love you . . . I don’t trust you . . . I love you . . . I don’t trust you.” It never quite goes away.
valdivia
wow. So what do you think this means for Owens?
The Grand Panjandrum
Watertown Daily Times House seat:
GReynoldsCT00
@valdivia:
wow is right, where’s DougJ?
Lavocat
Those two sentences sound like a mix of Simon & Garfunkel’s “Homeward Bound” and Pink Floyd’s “Waiting For The Worms”.
That’s the weird earworm I flashed on anyway.
tomvox1
Not sure if any of you are following the NY-23 race but this AM Scozzafava dropped out.
tomvox1
Whoops! Panjandrum must’ve posted this first while I was composing. Apologies.
geg6
Holy crap! Scozzafava dropped out?? Wow. Where’s DougJ? Love to hear his take.
burnspbesq
Well, Obama is campaigning for Corzine this weekend. Wonder if he can add a stop in the North Country.
Hunger Tallest Palin
WTF Cole, are you in a band or something?
@dmsilev: His cat will care but since this is a cat Tunch will hurt the one he loves.
Or at least yack in his shoes.
Hunger Tallest Palin
Why the hell am I in botheration?
phoebes-in-santa fe
@burnspbesq:
Good for you and your wife feeding the “strays”. I hope you do adopt them. Littermates are so much fun to have around.
I wish there were more people like you willing to adopt strays.
valdivia
I think this drop out in NY 23 will be clusterfuck. Frist isn’t her name still on the ballot–how many people might be confused on election day and still vote for her? Also we have no idea if the GOP forced her out for fear of actually getting a dem elected to what is supposed to be a safe R seat.
Rekster
@geg6:
How bout that one?
burnspbesq
Not sure I fully agree with Scott Horton’s take on the implications of HRC’s trip to Pakistan, but he makes some points that are worth thinking about.
http://www.harpers.org/archive/2009/10/hbc-90006011
burnspbesq
@Rekster:
That says more about the GOP than it does about Dede.
Listened to EJ and Bobo’s weekly thing on NPR yesterday, and Bobo correctly pointed out that Dede’s policy views are almost exactly in the middle of the spectrum of current American political thought.
But, hey, if the GOP wants to consign itself to permanent irrelevance, I’m down with that.
smiley
@phoebes-in-santa fe:
Mine just ignore each other, mostly, excep when they’re fighting. One’s a calico, though.
donovong
@The Grand Panjandrum: This is obviously good news for John McCain(‘s running mate, Her Royal Highness Sarah Palin).
burnspbesq
A little Saturday morning pick-me-up. The Derek Trucks Band with Susan Tedeschi.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dBo_dZAnjoc
Tattoosydney
Woooooooooo!
Robertdsc-iphone
Hope the flight home gies smoothly. Give Tunch & Lily extra love from us.
Mark S.
Has anyone ever dropped out of a race three days before the election? This is weird.
AhabTRuler
And for those who don’t necessarily want to be picked up on a Saturday
morningafternoon.burnspbesq
Hurley finally decided to come out for a photo op.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v224/burnspbesq/hurley31oct09.jpg
auntieeminaz
@burnspbesq: Thank you for the Scott Horton link. His take is always insightful and well worth reading.
And, yay for the kitties!
Little Macayla's Friend
@Hunger Tallest Palin:
WP thinks you might be Al Bundy.
/plural of shoe