Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

A Senator Walker would be an insult to the state and the nation.

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

“More of this”, i said to the dog.

Not all heroes wear capes.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

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

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

“Squeaker” McCarthy

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

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

Everybody saw this coming.

Let there be snark.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

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

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Only been up for a little bit and today is already turning out to be a mess. Really weird weather- about 40-45 degrees, but the wind is just whipping around like it is April, and the sky is gun metal gray. Even Lily said “to hell with this” about ten minutes into the walk.

At any rate, woke up to two automated messages reminding me about Dr’s. aapointments I had forgotten about and have double-scheduled other things to do to today, so don’t expect me back until later this afternoon. I will leave you with this headline via memeorandum:

“Utahns growing tired of Bennett”

The only reason I bring you that is not because I know of a Democrat who could beat Bennett, but because I had no idea that was how you spelled Utahns. Ohioans (F the bengals!), Pennsylvanians, West Virginians- I could spell all of those, but never in a million years if I were on Jeopardy would I have gotten Utahns right. Utahns looks like a name for a German street.

Now you are prepared, and I feel as if I have performed a duty. I will be back later.

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  5. 5.

    SiubhanDuinne

    37B, Utahnsstrasse, Berlin

    Yup, that works.

    And since this is an open thread, may I just express how very much I do not like Gloria Allred. Even when I’m on her side, which is maybe half her cases, she creeps me out and just annoys the hell out of me.

  7. 7.

    jeffreyw

    I live in Illinois, and am never sure what is the best term of reference. I try not to think about it as it makes my head hurt.
    Damn. Now I need some Tylenol.

  9. 9.

    Brian J

    The weather is nasty? Sounds like handywork of a diabolical volunteers. Yes, ACORN strikes again.

    Anyway, I remember hearing Bill Bradley tell the story of there being some bill he voted for passing, which prompted Bob Bennett of Utah to come up and shake his hand or pat him on the back or something. Bradley then turned to his staffers and asked who the hell that guy was.

  13. 13.

    BDeevDad

    Why do I have such a hard time believing people’s motives are so good, are all about wellness programs and in the best interests of the insured in this story.

    A healthcare industry group (The Care Continuum Alliance aka DMAA)

    and employer groups are urging for a moratorium on GINA fearing that the law’s restrictions on “underwriting” activities will harm enrollment in wellness programs,

    The Genetic Information Non-Discrimination Act (GINA) prohibits the improper use of genetic information in health insurance and employment.

  15. 15.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Napoleon 8:05 am

    I think you’ve discovered a sore point for Mr. Cole :-)

    (And of course he’s now made the correction, thus ensuring that our exchange at #3 and #4 no longer makes any sense.)

    Fap. I need to get dressed and embark on my morning commute, and I don’t wanna.

  17. 17.

    D-Chance.

    Wonderful night last night. I got pulled over by the police. Twice. No tickets, thankfully. But it is amazing how easily someone can be pulled over on what amounts to a “we’re just looking” fishing expedition…

  18. 18.

    jeffreyw

    Based in Carbondale, Illinois, The Southern Illinoisan, also known locally as “The Southern,” has a daily circulation of 26810 .

    It’s called “The Southern” because it makes peoples’s head hurt to say “Illinoisan”.

  20. 20.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @robertdsc:

    I took all the Sarah Palin pictures off my phone today.

    The fact that you had Sarah Palin pictures on your phone is … disturbing. I hope it was some kind of citizen journalism thing. {shudder}

    testing the non-bold blockquote suggestion.

  25. 25.

    geg6

    This is exactly the reason I live in a place with an easy way to refer to the inhabitants. Pennsylvanian is easy. Like those states already referenced, what do you call a native of Massachusetts? New Englander is too broad and Bostonian too narrow. And Connecticut, also too. Nutmeggers is what I usually hear, but you have to know that to get it.

  26. 26.

    donovong

    I don’t understand how all this “Utahn” stuff matters. All I want to hear about this morning is the serious issues that confront this country – the White House State Dinner Gate Crashers (AKA GateGate) and Tiger Woods Penis. Nothing else in this world matters to me or to CNN or MSNBC.

    We are all truly fucked.

  27. 27.

    donovong

    I don’t understand how all this “Utahn” stuff matters. All I want to hear about this morning is the serious issues that confront this country – the White House State Dinner Gate Crashers (AKA GateGate) and Tiger Woods Eenispay. Nothing else in this world matters to me or to CNN or MSNBC.

    We are all truly fucked.

    (I do believe the word “enispay” got me into moderation time out)

  29. 29.

    donovong

    “Like those states already referenced, what do you call a native of Massachusetts?” Easy. Yankees.

  33. 33.

    gnomedad

    @donovong:

    the White House State Dinner Gate Crashers (AKA GateGate)

    Hahaha! I’ve been waiting for years for “GateGate”. Maybe we’ve reached “Peak Gate” and it will go away.

  34. 34.

    flukebucket

    I don’t remember which one of you guys recommended “The Family” by Jeff Sharlet in one of the threads a couple of days ago but I downloaded it on the Kindle and all I can say is thank you and holy shit.

  38. 38.

    Ash Can

    @robertdsc:

    I’m tired of her act.

    Then you’ll get a kick out of this: Via the GOS, attendees at Palin’s Tempe AZ book signing are not allowed to take photos of their idol themselves. However, they can pose for photos with her and purchase them off a web site afterward.

    Hey, the seasons are changing. The money for Palin’s new winter wardrobe has to come from somewhere.

  40. 40.

    DVT

    as someone who lives only 100 miles away, those folks who live behind the Zion Curtain, aren’t “Utahns” they are “Utards.”

  42. 42.

    donovong

    @BDeevDad: “I dare you to call a Bostonian a Yankee, especially a Southie.”

    Actually, my favorite “foxhole buddy” in the service was from Boston, and our terms of reference for each other were “Yankee” and “Redneck.” Of course, for both of us, the difference between a yankee and a Fucking Yankee was that the the latter wear pinstripes.

  44. 44.

    Comrade Scrutinizer

    My comment about PeckerGate is awaiting moderation, but I have an edit button attached to it. There’s always a silver lining.

  45. 45.

    Punchy

    How long until the Blonde Bimbo involved with CrashGate gets an offer from Playboy? 2 hours? 1 day?

    It’ll then be known as a “poon-doggle”.

  46. 46.

    robertdsc

    the the latter wear pinstripes.

    And 27 rings. /flashes bling
    No, Freelancer, not Bling Pro. lol.

  47. 47.

    flukebucket

    @geg6: Frightening is one word for it. Stunning is another. You may have been the person who recommended it. Whoever did mentioned tin foil hat and I can see why. I keep thinking that maybe the last two words in the book will be “April Fools!” It is almost as if it is some kind of joke.

  48. 48.

    GReynoldsCT00

    @geg6:

    You’re right, we have to use Nutmeggers, no other way really. Adds to the mystique. Also Swamp Yankees too.

  49. 49.

    Pigs & Spiders

    Any thread that makes accurate reference to both a “GateGate” and a “poon-doggle” has got to be a winner in my book.

    In other news, Comcast is getting a controlling share of NBC, so that whole, content provider/content creator line will be fun to watch dissolve. Next apartment I move into is getting a fiber optic line and that’s it.

  50. 50.

    MichaelR

    I thought it was Utes. Like:

    “Whar they from?”
    “They’s Utes. Y’know, whar all them Mermens that got a dozen wives n’such, an’ big choirs, an’ Salt Licks.”
    “Oh, OK. Now I ‘member, they got that big Mermen Tabbynickle choir or somesuch. Real purty singin’.”

  51. 51.

    geg6

    @Cat Lady:

    Masshole.

    LOL, I thought that was a pet name for Boston drivers. Worst city I’ve ever had to drive in. And I’ve driven in LA, Atlanta, and Chicago, just to mention a few of the biggies with crazy drivers.

  53. 53.

    RedKitten

    @geg6: I’ve heard the same thing — my dad went to Boston with my brother, and drove, and said “never, ever again”. And this is a man who could drive through Montreal during rush hour without so much as changing facial expression.

  55. 55.

    Demo Woman

    @BDeevDad: Oh Great!
    The other good news is that Comcast is going to buy NBC. Comcast is not only a big cable company but also a big internet provider.

    @TCG: Red State is written by Erick Erickson who also writes for Peach Pundit. Until yesterday he was a big supporter of the Georgia House Leader, Richardson. Richardson is expected to resign today under a cloud of suspicion. Erick knows how to pick sleeze only.

  56. 56.

    HRA

    A great nephew and his girlfriend were killed in an auto accident over the past weekend. Those of us in the extended family and not close to where he lived with his parents have been surfing the net for info and sharing it among ourselves.
    Last night I went to an online local TV station to read about it and decided to read the attached comments. It was a big mistake and I could not stop reading either. The raving lunatics in politics were present. That was an eyeopener for me as to how deeply they have permeated our society.

  58. 58.

    2th&nayle

    @geg6: Traditionally, if your from the south, anyone from north of the Mason-Dixon is considered a Yankee, unless you’re from southern Missouri, and ah, well, those folks just won’t take that shit. Of course, in Louisiana they consider folks from Shreveport to be Yankees, so there’s that. Come to think of it southern Indianans don’t seem to be real partial to being called Yankee either.

  59. 59.

    Joe K.

    OT, but I am agog — Andrew Bacevich was just on NPR saying intelligent things about opposing terrorism (like: do it with police, not armies). In my experience, by the time you start hearing shit on NPR it’s practically folk wisdom already, so this was highly unexpected.

  62. 62.

    Svensker

    @geg6:

    LOL, I thought that was a pet name for Boston drivers. Worst city I’ve ever had to drive in. And I’ve driven in LA, Atlanta, and Chicago, just to mention a few of the biggies with crazy drivers.

    Have you tried Miami? Retired New Yorkers, none of them over 5’2″ behind the wheel of their giant Cadillacs. The only way to survive is to go Yoda and “feel” the other drivers, cause you sure aren’t going to get any clues from their traffic signals. Right turn from the left lane much? After Miami, driving in NYC was a cinch.

  63. 63.

    comrade scott's agenda of rage

    @geg6:

    This is exactly the reason I live in a place with an easy way to refer to the inhabitants.

    Here in Misery it’s easy:

    Morans.

    Come to think of it, there’s a lot of states that could pronounce/spell their residentialness that way.

  64. 64.

    chopper

    eh. blah day. went to cnn and saw a story about an eskimo family in alaska who’s watching their home fall into the sea do to warming, and the comments were all deniers screaming about e-mails and al gore and ‘fuck those guys’.

    then i read this.

    i has a sad.

  65. 65.

    chopper

    @geg6:

    i’ve driven in new york, la, sf, dc, chicago. i gotta say, the dc area is the worst by far.

    i was amazed when i first moved there when i saw some dude going backwards in the rightmost lane and shoulder of the beltway because he missed an exit and apparently couldn’t be bothered to just catch the next one.

    i was even more amazed when i saw the same thing happen on an almost weekly basis.

    i’m never so scared when i drive in ny as i am when i’m in dc. that’s saying something.

  66. 66.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @HRA: My condolences on your loss.

    WRT newspaper comment thread assholes, the anonymity of the medium seems to give some people the perception of freedom from normal social restraints that a mob exhibits. They do things that they would never do if they were in a situation where they could be called out for their actions. I think this is one of those examples of “character is what is what you do when people aren’t looking.” The kind of people you ran into are, simply, assholes. I think there are fewer of them than there seem to be, but they congregate in certain places and egg one another on. It drives away decent people and makes the jerks seem more numerous.

  68. 68.

    Of Bugs and Books

    @gnomedad:

    Hahaha! I’ve been waiting for years for “GateGate”. Maybe we’ve reached “Peak Gate” and it will go away.

    Not yet.
    Peak Gate is when they tighten security, Sec. of Defense Gates loses his party invitation, and they arrest him at the door of the White House.

  69. 69.

    jeffreyw

    @jeffreyw: Or, as some of us up nort’ might call ya: FIBs :)

    Fuckin Ignorant Bastards?

    I take exception! My momma was married to my daddy.

  71. 71.

    yellowdog

    Well, my state on the Chesapeake Bay is pronounced Merlin and the largest city is Bawlmer. Inhabitants are all called ‘Hon’.

  72. 72.

    JGabriel

    ploeg:

    Utahns looks like a typo to me. […] Apparently not, though Webster has a preference for Utahan.

    Thank you for sparing me the 10 minutes I would have spent looking that up and posting the same thing.

    And I too have a preference for “Utahans”. “Utahns” looks like the name of an alien brigade from Mars Attacks!

    .

  73. 73.

    Redleg

    “F the Bengals?” NO- F YOU, JOHN.

    By the way, I live in the Cincinnati area but I’m from Utah. As you know, Utahns are some of the staunchest Republicans in the nation with their fair share of right-wing fringe nutters.

    I love your blog and all the contributors. Keep up the good work.

  76. 76.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I’m in the Old Dominion, pronounced “Virginia”. Our residents, from the Falwell empire in the west to Pat Robertson’s regency in the east, are known as “Dominionists”.

  77. 77.

    martha

    @jeffreyw: You have us there…I like y’all most of the time, except when you’re blasting past me on I-90/94 at 90 mph on your way to the Dells when all I’m trying to do is get to the Minneapolis to see a client in one piece…

  80. 80.

    Punchy

    Peak Gate is when they tighten security, Sec. of Defense Gates loses his party invitation, and they arrest him at the door of the White House.

    Gates GateGate?

  86. 86.

    Davis X. Machina

    @ redkitten

    Well this Boston driver came back from Quebec with the firm conviction that the French on the provincial license plate — ‘Je me souviens” — has to mean “Get outta my way”.

  87. 87.

    Brick Oven Bill

    When the whistleblower, not hacker, released those climate change emails, Phil Jones and crew threatened anybody who spread the words of the ‘scientists’. This threat extended to Balloon Juice, as my post that included the words of the ‘scientists’ was not deleted. Now we have Barbara Boxer:

    “We may well have a hearing on this, we may not. We may have a briefing for senators, we may not. Part of our looking at this will be looking at a criminal activity which could have well been coordinated. This is a crime.”

    Someone needs to tell Barb that when the public finances ‘science’, then we, like, have the right to see what we bought.

    The modern-Left is very quickly morphing into the Catholic Church-1500s. Substitute the word ‘racist’ for ‘heretic’, and substitute ‘climate change’ for ‘astronomy’.

  88. 88.

    Of Bugs and Books

    @donovong:
    From the AP newswire:

    Last night US Defense Secretary Robert Gates and his wife Rebecca Gates were both arrested at the door of the White House after . . .

    /looking for a Gates bio about kids, grandkids, greatgrand . . .

  89. 89.

    geg6

    @Svensker:

    Have you tried Miami? Retired New Yorkers, none of them over 5’2” behind the wheel of their giant Cadillacs.

    Not just Miami. My sister lived in the West Palm Beach area for 12 years (Stuart/Jensen Beach). I visited her once a year for about a month every year. We’d go to Ft. Lauderdale for some night life, Miami for Steeler games, or to the Keys on jaunts. Miami/South Florida is nothing on Boston.

    Hell, I live in Western PA, one of the oldest population demographics in the nation, with the exceptions of South FL or AZ. Driving in South Florida is not really any different than Beaver County, PA, except for we have snow and ice here.

  90. 90.

    geg6

    @chopper:

    DC is a bit crazy, I’ll agree. The Beltway is nuts. But I like the roundabouts in the city. And I still say Boston is the worst.

  91. 91.

    RedKitten

    @Davis X. Machina: Yeah…Quebec roads are great, and make a lot of sense, but the drivers can be a wee bit aggressive. I used to get a lift to work with a fellow from Quebec, and while it was nice to have a 15-minute car ride, as opposed to the 45-minute bus ride I normally endured, being his passenger was pretty hair-raising. He brought tailgating to a new art form. Which would have been fine had he been IN Quebec, where everybody else drives that way. But in Nova Scotia, we go at a slightly easier pace. So the combo was…to put it mildly…terrifying.

  92. 92.

    Rich

    I grew up in Indiana, and I don’t think I ever saw or heard the words ‘Indianan’ or ‘Indianian’ written or spoken by a reporter (or anyone else). Probably with good reason.

    Not that ‘Hoosier’ is so much easier to spell, though it is at least easier to say.

  93. 93.

    AngusTheGodOfMeat

    @geg6:

    Out here in AZ we call it Snowbird Driving.

    The Snowbird drives at a nice, steady, reasonable 30 mph.

    On the freeway? 30 mph. In the parking lot? 30 mph. Watch out!

    45 mph zone? 30 mph. Backing up? 30 mph. Stay alert!

    Red light? Stop sign? Occupied crosswalk? 30 mph. Beware!

    The most dangerous thing in AZ is the appearance of the North Dakota or Canadian license plate, right around November of each year.

  99. 99.

    Bill Rutherford, Princeton Admissions

    It’s hard for me to take anyone with a massive persecution complex seriously, right or left.

  100. 100.

    Bill Rutherford, Princeton Admissions

    DC is a bit crazy, I’ll agree.

    Oh yeah. Between the legions of cabdrivers who learned to drive in Third World countries and the cyclists who flaunt the rules of the road, it’s a dangerous place to drive or walk.

  106. 106.

    Brick Oven Bill

    More Heresy:

    Sea Ice Data.

    I will not be persecuted Rutherford of Princeton, at least not by this group. I have been sexually harassed though. It really wasn’t that bad.

  107. 107.

    AngusTheGodOfMeat

    @Brick Oven Bill:

    You should know better than to try that blogpimp act in here Bill.

    Great post you made there, and you garnered … one … comment.

    Even with your spam hose here running at full blast, just … one …. comment.

    That makes you just another failed blogger looking for attention here.

    Now, go to your room.

  108. 108.

    Alex S.

    I’m watching the Bernanke confirmation on C-Span. Jim Bunning just had the most anti-capitalist rant I’ve ever seen on that channel. The line between the republican know-nothingness and pitchfork soc.ialism is very thin.

  110. 110.

    geg6

    @AngusTheGodOfMeat:

    Oh, Angus. BOB is always pimping his racist, sexist, paranoid, insane ramblings he calls a “blog.” He keeps hoping someone will actually be moved to comment there. And every time someone falls for clicking on his links, there’s never more than a single comment. If that.

  111. 111.

    Jennifer (formerly Molly)

    @AngusTheGodOfMeat:

    Out here in AZ we call it Snowbird Driving.

    I grew up in Houston traffic. I have driven in Manhattan, Rome, Paris, Boston, and London.

    But the worst brew I have ever seen is Orlando, Florida. Snowbirds late to the early bird special. Tourists in Mickey Mouse hats looking for the entrance to Disney World. Smattering of redneck pickups with Truck Nutz dangling.

    It’s hellish because you can’t predict it. You go into the streets of Manhattan, you know street signs are suggestions, not requirements. In Orlando, someone can whip a u-turn out of the blue, someone can decide to drive on the shoulder just because their truck can, there’s no logic or purpose.

    Shudder.

  113. 113.

    shoutingattherain

    @yellowdog:

    Well, my state on the Chesapeake Bay is pronounced Merlin and the largest city is Bawlmer. Inhabitants are all called ‘Hon’.

    And in the summer said inhabitants go downey ewshin for vacation.
    ~formertowsonite

  115. 115.

    Demo Woman

    Red Kitten, Thanks for the pictures and now we wait patiently for the pictures of Sam with a Santa cap on or Sam by the Christmas tree.

  116. 116.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    @Comrade Jake: I just would have spelled it “Mormons”.

    That’s about 60% right these days. : )

    Utahns may be tired of Bennett, but I’m guessing not so tired they’d vote him out. I’ve been voting fruitlessly for Democratic senators in Utah for years now and few others seem all that interested.

  118. 118.

    Sly

    @Comrade Jake

    McMegan’s article isn’t too bad, but I’m really only saying that because it lacks her signature glibertarian nonsense.

    Her preference for direct relief are puzzling in this respect. Not in that they are a gross violation of anarcho-capitalist dogma, but that if you are looking for New Deal programs that were in anyway ineffective, the direct relief ones like FERA are the biggest targets. Programs like the CCC, TVA, and the WPA were far more successful.

    While I wouldn’t really call unemployment insurance a direct relief program, once you expand it for multiple years it pretty much becomes one. If it looks like a duck, etc.

    And yes, she’s for the most part imagining the bureaucratic hurdles to a “NWPA”. Dealing with public service unions (the horror!) only increases the cost of the program, not whether its effective or not, because the unions will just want something close to wage parity. The only problem, in terms of passage, is the threat of filibuster. Same as with HCR (or pretty much anything else), so a jobs program wouldn’t be special in that sense.

    McArdle just wants to regurgitate Amity Schlaes and Burton Fulsom, but most people now are hip to the fact that “The Forgotten Man” and “New Deal or Raw Deal” are piles of ahistorical excrement.

  119. 119.

    GReynoldsCT00

    @Jennifer (formerly Molly):

    Let’s face it, it’s the whole state of Florida. Anywhere I drove down there I found insanity. And the retired’s don’t have the decency to stay off the roads during rush hour. They just HAVE to get to Walgreen’s before the door is unlocked for business in the morning…

    I still say let’s saw the damn state off.

  120. 120.

    Brick Oven Bill

    More Heresy:

    Al Gore is fat. He eats lots of meats and cheeses. He lives in a mansion that consumes more fossil fuels in a month than most homes consume in a year. He is in the carbon credit business with David Blood, Goldman Sachs, and stands to become a billionaire if the cap and trade legislation passes.

    The ice data is inconvenient for Al. As is the temperature data. Al’s Generations Investment, LLC website states that Al’s most important goal is to deliver shareholder performance.

    This is why he refuses to debate. This is also why Barb seeks to make those whistleblowers criminals.

  121. 121.

    Brick Oven Bill

    More Heresy:

    I have strong sexual feelings for goats, along with my own mother.

    I like to touch myself during Fox and Friends and then I feel guilty.

  123. 123.

    Mark S.

    I find this sports story a lot more interesting that Tiger Woods:

    “I used to drink Hennessy … at halftime,” said Artest, who played with the Bulls from 1999-2002 and now is with the Los Angeles Lakers. “I [kept it] in my locker. I’d just walk to the liquor store [near the stadium] and get it.”

    For relaxing times . . .

  124. 124.

    noncarborundum

    @geg6: “Bay Stater” is the locution of choice among Mass. residents, though Cat Lady is right: “Massholes” has some currency, particularly among residents of neighboring states.

    @geg6: Boston drivers are nothing compared to Parisian drivers, who seem never to have heard of the physical law that two solid bodies can’t occupy the same space at the same time. I haven’t driven in Italy but, from what I’ve heard, that’s even worse.

  126. 126.

    RSA

    Traditionally, if your from the south, anyone from north of the Mason-Dixon is considered a Yankee,

    I was born in San Francisco and moved to Baltimore when I was a kid; when I moved to Texas as an adult, I was called a Yankee more than once. I think it’s a cultural thing.

  128. 128.

    Butch

    Forty to 45 degrees? It was minus 8 here in Pine (Colorado) this morning and it’s all the way up to 5 degrees now.

  129. 129.

    Jennifer

    @Brick Oven Bill:

    More Heresy:

    I have strong sexual feelings for goats, along with my own mother.

    I like to touch myself during Fox and Friends and then I feel guilty.

    I call spoof. You need to throw in some references to The 7 Liberal Arts and masturbation to be authentic.

  133. 133.

    Brick Oven Bill

    For the record, #120 was an imposter.

    In 2006, 1998 was the hottest year on record. Then in 2007, 1934 was the hottest year on record. Now, in 2009, 2006 and 1998 were tied for the hottest years on record.

    The methodology behind these calculations is a state secret.

    If a democracy funds public science, this science should be made public, in my opinion.

    The cost of this climate legislation is $145 trillion. The cost of a nuclear powered Nimitz-class aircraft carrier is $5 billion. Thus for the price of this climate change legislation, we could purchase:

    $145,000,000,000,000 divided by $5,000,000,000 equals seven hundred and twenty five thousand (725,000) Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. This is a lot of aircraft carriers. I think we have twelve (12) now.

    Before the government extracts this money from the Citizens, perhaps we should be able to look at the decision-making process. Transparency and all.

  134. 134.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Davis X. Machina:

    Well this Boston driver came back from Quebec with the firm conviction that the French on the provincial license plate— ‘Je me souviens”— has to mean “Get outta my way”.

    Actually, I think the literal translation of “Je me souviens” is that fine old Southern expression: “Fergit? Hell, no!”

  135. 135.

    AngusTheGodOfMeat

    @Brick Oven Bill:

    You aren’t funny any more, BOB.

    If I were you, I’d take a sabbatical. Take some time, get yourself together, maybe get a new handle, and a new story. Get some new ideas, new material.

    You are embarrassing yourself at this point. You are burned out. Give the whole thing a rest. Get a new hobby, maybe something that requires interacting with other, real live human beings.

    Have you ever looked into bird watching? Or maybe set up a highway litter cleanup team and get some roads spruced up?

  136. 136.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @RedKitten:

    Squee indeed! I especially love the first bath photo with his hair all shampooey and lathery. And the one of him dozing on your shoulder is just beautiful. By the way, RedKitten, I wish you’d add to the Sam folder the picture you posted of your very pregnant self about a week (or so — can’t remember the date) before he was born. I think it would make a nice addition to the series.

  138. 138.

    Wile E. Quixote

    @Brick Oven Bill

    For the record, #120 was an imposter.

    So you say, so you say. For a real hoot folks click over to BOB’s Blog and check out the pictures of his shit ugly brick oven. Oh, you can also check out the pictures he posts of the really shitty looking pizza he cooks in it, the stuff looks like something that a Sbarros in a not particularly sanitary mall food court threw away after about three days under a heat lamp.

  139. 139.

    Brick Oven Bill

    I’m going back to work at The Facility tomorrow AngusTheGodOfMeat. They work my ass off so it should be OK.

    Thank you for your concern.

  140. 140.

    EEH

    @AngusTheGodOfMeat: Not sure where in AZ you are but do they still use the middle turn lanes in Tucson as third lanes during rush hour? The snowbirds always made using them a dicey proposition because they ignored all the flashing lights and the traffic bearing down on them as they persisted in making turns when they weren’t supposed to. Gah! I don’t miss driving in Tucson at all.

  141. 141.

    Wile E. Quixote

    @J

    Breaking story from The Wall Street Journal: Man cleavage is back. (See, this is what happens, people, when your paper gets acquired by Rupert Murdoch.)

    Good news for Jonah Goldberg and Rush Limbaugh, oh wait, not that kind of man cleavage? Never mind.

  143. 143.

    Brick Oven Bill

    The key to good pizza is raping the pig that’s going to be used to make the sausage and pepperoni.

  144. 144.

    AngusTheGodOfMeat

    @EEH:

    Central Phoenix, and yes, we have the reversible lanes. I am sitting about 100 feet away from one right now.

    The Snowbirds use these special lanes to practice their head on collision skills. They learn how to get out of the car with the airbag smoke and powder in the air and all over them, and to stand near the car without getting run over.

  146. 146.

    Brick Oven Bill

    “Pig-Raping” is a registered trademark of Yum! Brands.

    All rights reserved, all wrongs reversed.

  148. 148.

    Brick Oven Bill

    You know who else craps shoes? Al Gore.

    And he’s fat.

    And he owns a house.

    And he breathes occasionally.

    Fucking hypocrite.

  149. 149.

    Little Dreamer

    Utahns looks like a name for a German street.

    Only if it were Utahnstrasse, apparently you don’t know much about German streets.

  150. 150.

    Jennifer

    @Corner Stone:

    So when your parents told you to “Go outside and play in some traffic.”…they weren’t kidding

    Bah dum dum, Corner Stone will be here all night, folks. :)

  155. 155.

    Sentient Puddle

    @Little Dreamer:

    Only if it were Utahnstrasse, apparently you don’t know much about German streets.

    Furthermore, to be a proper German word, it would have to be a compound noun of the literal translation of “man who lives in Utah,” then compounded with strasse.

  157. 157.

    Brick Oven Bill

    just as long as BOB doesn’t sully the best part of the pig – the ‘chuckle’.

    That’s the part of the pig that’s between the tail and the rectum.

    God, you don’t wanna know how I can violate one of those.

  158. 158.

    Wile E. Quixote

    @Little Dreamer

    Utahns looks like a name for a German street.

    Only if it were Utahnstrasse, apparently you don’t know much about German streets.

    I kept getting lost when I lived in Germany because all of the streets there were named “Einbahnstraße”. The Germans were also rude because whenever I was on one of those streets they were always driving the wrong way and yelling and honking at me.

  159. 159.

    licensed to kill time

    Utahn Clan, I believe is the proper spelling. Uthan Clan ain’t nuthin’ to fuck wit’.

  161. 161.

    Little Dreamer

    @AngusTheGodOfMeat:

    Or someone who used to live there.

    I have to laugh when I remember that AFTER we moved away from Jersey and back to Delaware, my mother still insisted Jersey drivers were the worst.

  162. 162.

    Wile E. Quixote

    @Brick Oven Bill

    $145,000,000,000,000 divided by $5,000,000,000 equals seven hundred and twenty five thousand (725,000) Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. This is a lot of aircraft carriers. I think we have twelve (12) now.

    Wow! 725,000 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers! Do you know how big of a number 725,000 is? You know if we started the day that Jesus Christ was born and built one Nimitz-class aircraft carrier per second we still wouldn’t have 725,000 Nimitz-class aircraft carriers. That’s how big it is.

  164. 164.

    Wile E. Quixote

    @AngustheGodofMeat

    Sounds exactly like driving in New Jersey. Roads there meander in all directions for no apparent reason, and if you are driving at night, unless you have a compass and a GPS, you are basically just totally fucked.

    You obviously don’t speak German.

  165. 165.

    licensed to kill time

    @Wile E. Quixote: If we put all those Nimitz-class aircraft carriers stern to bow they might reach all the way to Jebus. Then he would whip out some of his Jebus bucks and pay for ’em all.

  166. 166.

    TooManyJens (was Jen R)

    Time for a blogger ethics panel!

    New WH pool rotation sparks debate

    The media industry, as we all know, is changing.
    —
    And in this transition, there will inevitably be some friction as online news organizations, which may or may not be bound by the same professed standards of objectivity, begin taking on the responsibilities of long-standing, print publications.
    —
    That’s been apparent this week, as White House reporters have privately discussed and debated the recent addition of sites like Talking Points Memo and Huffington Post into the White House in-town press pool. It’s not that reporters are criticizing the work of either Christina Bellantoni or Sam Stein, but some have expressed concerns about pool reports coming from left or right-leaning news organizations that will then be used by the rest of the press corps.

    (It’s Politico, sorry.)

  168. 168.

    Corner Stone

    @Jennifer:

    Bah dum dum, Corner Stone will be here all night, folks. :)

    And for this thread I think it’s highly appropriate that I suggest you all try the veal!

  171. 171.

    Origuy

    @Eric S: The review comments are the best. I especially like the one about the 90-year-old woman who uses it to work crossword puzzles while she drives to the bingo parlor.

  176. 176.

    4jkb4ia

    KFNS is entirely evil. They are shirking their duty to bring us the Jets-Buffalo game by yet another coaches show. That is all.

  178. 178.

    4jkb4ia

    1st and goal from Buffalo 1, 44 seconds left in half. Sanchez now has 106 yards.

    (Touchdown–catch broke the plane)

  179. 179.

    JenJen

    “F the Bengals”

    Don’t tell me you’re blaming the beginning of the current downward Steelers spiral on my beloved Bengals, as if we were casting spells of some sort. It is not magicks. It is not our fault!

  180. 180.

    mandarama

    @Eric S:

    That was a long, boisterous laugh that I really, really needed. Thanks!

    I was falling out laughing over the 300+ comments…

    “And do I have to cap a bitch to get this in Chrome?”

  181. 181.

    replicnt6

    @Little Dreamer:

    I’ve spent a decent chunk of my life driving in Boston. It’s, well, interesting. However, the very first time I drove in Boston, having heard all the stories about Boston drivers, what was the first insane driving stunt I saw? A car cruising in reverse several hundred yards on a one-way street (well, I suppose he was pointed the right way. That’s what counts, right?). With New Jersey plates.

    When I first moved to Boston, I had an atlas that marked Storrow Drive as Sorrow Drive. A truer typo was never typed. Sadly, it probably wasn’t a typo. I’ve heard that mapmakers introduce intentional flaws for copyright infringement protection.

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