Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Come on, man.

The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris

If you voted for Trump, you don’t get to speak about ethics, morals, or rule of law.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

There is one struggling party in US right now, and it’s not the Democrats.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

Republican also-rans: four mules fighting over a turnip.

The frogs are rarely mistaken.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Even though I know this is a bad idea, I’m off to do it anyway!

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  3. 3.

    neff

    Just got this about how 1990s Clinton hate is still hitting us:

    You know how that guy who killed those cops in Seattle had been pardoned by Huckabee for the rape of some teenage girl in Arkansas in the 1980s? Turns out that Huckabee pardoned the rapist because he’d had become a cause celebre among right-wing Clinton haters — the girl he raped was distantly related to Clinton and the wingnuts thought Clinton gave him a long sentence to punish him for hurting a family member. They were also claiming Clinton sent some hit squad to cut the dude’s junk off. No, really, check this out:

    http://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2007/10/huckabee-is-lying-by-tristero-huckabee.html

  4. 4.

    MikeJ

    Click on the rhino picture, go the the next pic in that set, the one of the elephant, and look at that sky! Van Gogh got locked up for seeing skies like that.

  5. 5.

    Morbo

    That anhinga looks like an aging punk rocker, mohawk gone grey.

    South Park has ruined me; all I can think of thanks to the title is how high they’d get cheesing with rhino spray. Those Tanzania pics make a good set; I like the lion in the grass a lot, too.

  6. 6.

    Rick Taylor

    The mustache of understanding is in fine form today.

    Have no doubt: we punched a fist into the Arab/Muslim world after 9/11, partly to send a message of deterrence, but primarily to destroy two tyrannical regimes — the Taliban and the Baathists — and to work with Afghans and Iraqis to build a different kind of politics. In the process, we did some stupid and bad things. But for every Abu Ghraib, our soldiers and diplomats perpetrated a million acts of kindness aimed at giving Arabs and Muslims a better chance to succeed with modernity and to elect their own leaders.

    Yeah, we’ve just been wonderful trying to teach those benighted arabs with the modernity thing.

  9. 9.

    jnfr

    I think what you see behind the elephant in that picture is actually bushes going up a hillside, not the sky. Gorgeous anyway.

  10. 10.

    gnomedad

    @jnfr:

    I think what you see behind the elephant in that picture is actually bushes going up a hillside, not the sky. Gorgeous anyway.

    I think the “crater” in the photo caption confirms this. :)

  11. 11.

    Demo Woman

    @neff: That was actually another famous Huck pardon..
    The pictures are great. I’m in awe at the photos that the Balloon Juicers take.

  12. 12.

    inkadu

    @neff: NPR mentioned that Huckabee pardoned him, but not the Clinton connection.

    It’s really stuff like this that makes me despise the news media. Has anyone ever asked, “So, Huck, about that pardon…”

    Hey, but he’s tough on crime and hates teh gay.

  17. 17.

    RSA

    Great photo, Jeff. I saw the line of pink (flamingoes) in the distance, and I immediately thought, “Hey, if that’s the Ngorongoro Crater, I’ve been there!”

  18. 18.

    Warren Terra

    neff (and inkadu): You’re conflating two Huckabee pardons: one of the suspect in Sunday’s atrocity (and — though there may have been mental health issues or other reasons that responsible officials should have recognized as calling for his detention — it seems like his life sentence for a burglary committed as a minor was genuinely excessive, and so perhaps Huckabee was not wrong to give him clemency, despite yesterday’s events).

    The serial rapist and murderer that Huckabee pardoned in defiance of his genuinely awful crimes and despite that additional evidence against him, a truly awful case that did not get a fraction of the attention it deserved in the media, was a different person entirely, one Wayne DuMond:

    DuMond received his second sexual assault conviction from a rape perpetrated in Arkansas in 1984. The victim, Ashley Stevens, was a 17-year-old cheerleader and a third cousin of then-Governor Bill Clinton. Although she is much younger than Clinton, they share the same set of great-great-grandparents.
    ….
    After Clinton was elected president, a right-wing campaign alleged that Clinton had framed DuMond for rape. Prominent among those pushing for DuMond to be pardoned were Guy Reel, author of Unequal Justice: Wayne DuMond, Bill Clinton, and the Politics of Rape in Arkansas; Steve Dunleavy of the New York Post; and Jay Cole, Baptist pastor for the Mission Fellowship Bible Church in Fayetteville, who had championed DuMond’s cause for more than a decade on his radio show.
    Many of the arguments advanced by DuMond’s supporters have since been shown to be incorrect. Dunleavy claimed that:
    1) DuMond was a “Vietnam veteran with no record” despite arrests for violent crime and previous rape charges going back to 1972;
    2) the rape victim “failed to identify DuMond in two lineups”, although she had in fact identified him in the only lineup where he was present:
    3) the victim had “identified two other suspects, one an ex-boyfriend”, although she had never in fact identified anyone but DuMond;
    4) DNA evidence had exonerated DuMond, although no such definitive evidence existed;
    5) Bill Clinton had personally intervened to keep DuMond in prison, despite the then-Governor’s explicitly recusing himself from the case due to his distant blood-ties to the 17-year-old victim.

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    General Winfield Stuck

    Great photo fundmain.. Clear focus and nice background;/bokeh

    If I was going to Africa, the Ngorongoro Crater would be were. Stunning wildlife.. Excellent image of a great beast Jeff.

  21. 21.

    inkadu

    @Warren Terra: Read the comments in the link you sent about Clemmons. It seems it was a lot more than a single robbery as a teenager… and really odd for a Republican in a Western state to pardon…

    You know, you get so used to Republicans governors executing innocent peple that when they release a real criminal, its a real puzzler.

    Hey, just called my local community health center. $80 per visit for anything — including behavioral health. And this is supposed to be the bargain-basement of health care. Hope the state gets my insurance app approved soon.

  22. 22.

    inkadu

    @Phoenix Woman: What did you make of that Newsweek cover? I read the description of it and was about to be scandalized, but when I saw it, I shrugged. She’s not a serious politician, and that’s newsweeks take on it, and that’s what that picture portrays. It wasn’t a scandalous photo on the merits of the photo, which is what I thought given the hubbub.

  24. 24.

    Bender

    Come on, Ball Juicers, it’s OK to talk about the leaked global warming fixer e-mails. The Guardian has admitted the damage they’ve done, as have the New York Times, USN&WR, and other lefty pubs around the world.

    Why so afraid that you can’t even mention it here in the Echo Chamber?

    For a bunch who fancy themselves such supporters of Science, you all seem to have an aversion to Knowledge.

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