Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Infrastructure week. at last.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

This blog will pay for itself.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

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

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

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

After roe, women are no longer free.

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  1. 1.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Morning, y’all. Cold and frosty here in north Atlanta, so I think I’ll just be lazy until the sun emerges and melts the rime on my car windows.

  2. 2.

    Phyllis

    Mild here in South Carolina, but forecast for colder again tomorrow. Fixing to head to Charleston for an overnighter, with South Carolina Stingrays hockey thrown into the mix.

  3. 3.

    Svensker

    The snow’s gone here in Joisey and the real world is sneaking back in. Football this afternoon, and then the end of couch and cookies.

  4. 4.

    RedKitten

    Cool and cloudy here. Tired as hell — methinks SamKitten is cutting a tooth, and he was up at 2:30 last night, which is unheard-of for him. And of course, I had only gone to bed at 12:30, because he normally gets up at 7, allowing me a good 6 hours or so of uninterrupted sleep.

  5. 5.

    SiubhanDuinne

    BTW, I think that this last Sunday of the year is traditionally the day that CBS Sunday Morning always does their annual roundup of people who have died during 2009. Not just the celebrities that everyone knows about (although them too), but lots and lots of people you never heard of who made a difference. Always worth watching IMO.

  6. 6.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    Cool and wet this morning on the south Oregon coast, currently about 50 degrees out. IOW, the usual…

    My personal odometer hits the half-century mark at 7:32 am, hopefully I make it. ;)

    Plans for the day include cranking up the guitar and amp for some fun later today, powdercoat the few remaining items for the car, work with the son on his PC (new game installations) and clean up the garage before starting to bolt everything back onto the car. The wife is up to something but I guess I have to wait to find out.

    That’s ok with me though, I learned long ago that she is worth waiting for. ;)

  9. 9.

    The Other Steve

    I watched “Once Upon A Time in the West” last night.

    Is there any question that Sergio Leone is not the greatest movie maker of all time?

  11. 11.

    valdivia

    Cool but not too much here in NYC, and a wonderful clear skied day. A nice change from yesterday which was miserable and wet. Out with friends who are visiting trying to catch some of the sites.

  14. 14.

    geg6

    Cold and gonna snow here in the ‘Burgh. Getting ready to go to my sister’s for the family Christmas/Stillers celebration. My car is having some sort of electrical problem and I am pissed. Oh well. Anyway, Mr. Cole, I have a passionate defense of the great Franco Harris in the last thread that is in moderation. You, sir, are not well informed about the general of the Italian Army and should be ashamed of yourself as a self-described Stillers fan. Calling Franco names like that. Pshaw. Real Stiller fans would never say something like that. He may not be Sweetness but he is no wimp.

  15. 15.

    J.

    Just saw this on FB and had to share: “heard the FAA nailed down new airline security measures: ban passengers.”

  16. 16.

    donovong

    Unfortunately, I was forced to yell at CBS Sunday Morning and then change the channel, when Whats-his-name’s first sentence included the phrase “known terrorism suspect” in regard to the idiot who set his peepee on fire on the airplane.

    Fucking wankers.

  18. 18.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Laura W:

    Is Michael Jackson still dead?

    Hmmm . . . not sure, haven’t really heard anything about Michael Jackson this year, and the CBS SM segment hasn’t started yet.

    I’ll get backtaya on that.

  19. 19.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @AhabTRuler: Dan O’Bannon is exactly the kind of person they might mention. No idea whether they actually will.

  20. 20.

    robertdsc-PowerBook & 27 titles

    It’s a nice and cool 42 degrees outside here in LA. Inside, with one machine running, it’s a balmy 62. Good times.

    You know, the funniest thing occurred to me while I was working. With the appearance of the pantsbomber originating from Yemen, doesn’t this shoot the whole Afghanistan buildup in the ass? With AQ coming from multiple places (including Africa where I remember one US raid earlier this year, but can’t remember where) what’s the point of the Afghan surge again?

  21. 21.

    ronin122

    Methinks President McCain is going to be a jealous lover tonight, as David Gregory has Newt Gingrich on MTP. I struggle to determine whose opinion is worth less.

  25. 25.

    Laura W

    @SiubhanDuinne: Still dead, apparently.

    I’ve been watching my recording of the HBO Rock and Roll Hall of Fame show of a few weeks back and the first 3 hours just blow my damn mind. I could watch it every day, I suspect. Here is a rockin’ MJ tribute by Stevie and John Legend. Stevie has quite an emo moment midway through but really pulls it together.

    The Way You Make Me Feel

  26. 26.

    chrome agnomen

    @valdivia:

    you know it honestly takes some getting used to that adults are in charge. “we must raise the color alert to fluorescent dayglo red immediately!”

  27. 27.

    valdivia

    @donovong:

    but but his father went to the American Embassy in Yemen and told them he was disturbed a whole 2 weeks ago! so that makes him a well know terror suspect. Oh and the Birts refused to let him back because he lied about the school he was going to study at–see also another clue he was a known terror suspect!

  29. 29.

    valdivia

    @chrome agnomen:

    I know. The funniest thing to me is that Obama mentioned Yemen in his Afghanistan or Copenhagen speech. And these idiots jump up and down saying he was not paying attention and also want him to freak out because that is the only way they know how to do leadership. It’s so nice that he gets to decide what is important and how to behave, not Al Queda!

  30. 30.

    PurpleGirl

    donovong: Yes, that phrase made me crazy too.

    J.: Ban passengers… yup that would work.

    SiubhanDuinne; The people we lost segment is on as I write.

    Just said in comments about Eunice Kennedy Schriver… people with intellectual disabilities… I haven’t heard that euphemism before but I think it more accurately describes teabaggers than those with developmental disabilities.

    NYC looks to have a nice sunny, coolish day and I’m going shopping today. I’ve decided to treat myself to this year’s Swarovski snowflake.

  31. 31.

    jeffreyw

    32 and cloudy, chance of flurries, I can see them drifting towards us on the radar. No plans for the day other than endlessly refreshing BJ. Mrs J returns to work for 3 days next week and a 4th day will be a vacation day and her official last day before retiring. Huzzah!

  32. 32.

    harlana peppper

    @Phyllis: yay, a fellow sufferer of Sanders! I am in the upstate, enjoy your trip to beautiful Charleston, you lucky thing

    humble pie moment: I regret Jane Hamsher’s affiliation with Grover Norquist, which is an abomination. I question her judgment these days.

  34. 34.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @DougL: A very happy birthday to you! Quite the milestone, and I hope it embarks you on the best half-century yet.

  35. 35.

    demkat620

    Okay, can somebody answer this question for me?

    A Nigerian guy lights himself on fire so therefore we can’t close Gitmo?

    Am I the only one who doesn’t get Holy Joe’s logic here?

  36. 36.

    Punchy

    Still want clarification on whether they intend to actually rip pillows out of sleeping passengers’ grip at oh-fiddy-nine and counting, and/or intend to tell children they must pack away Barbie and Pokeman for–to a child–amounts to an eon of time.

    Gimmie an Amtrak schedule.

  38. 38.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @chrome agnomen:

    Earlier this year I heard DHS secretary Janet Napolitano speak at a conference, and she was in the midst of a review of the whole colour-coded terror alert thing. Wonder whatever happpened to that? I’ve never heard another word about it, and this was back in July.

  39. 39.

    R-Jud

    @RedKitten:

    methinks SamKitten is cutting a tooth, and he was up at 2:30 last night, which is unheard-of for him.

    Our babies are synchronized. E’s first tooth has finally broken through the gums, and I can feel its next-door neighbor pushing through as well. She was SUCH a crab last night.

    It is mild and breezy here in the UK. We’re expecting more snow later in the week. I am making stock from our roast turkey– the house smells amazing.

  40. 40.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @John Cole: This. It’s why that segment is always don’t-miss TV for me, and has been since the early days of Charles Kuralt.

  41. 41.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Peter King on FTN: “Came within inches and seconds” . . . “Could have been Christmas Day Massacre” . . . . And hahahahahahaha I *love* this: “I’m not trying to make this partisan.” Hahahahahahahahahahahahahehehehelihelihelicopters. Gasp.

  42. 42.

    PaulW

    1) Pray for the Iranian people fighting for their freedoms.

    2) When will the neocons realize that no matter how tight or overwhelming we make our security, there will still be attacks and attempted attacks on our nation and our allies? First step in fighting terror, guys? Stop being so easily terrified.

    3) If the UF Gators bring back Ron Zook, I’m switching my alliegence to Gonzaga’s football team… and yes I KNOW THEY DON’T HAVE ONE YET.

  43. 43.

    valdivia

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    OMFG. Do you think he polled that moniker cause he is pimping it for all he’s worth. Christmas Day Massacre bitchz!
    I get the sense he really wishes it had happened.

  45. 45.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @R-Jud
    @RedKitten

    Take it for what it’s worth, as I have no real experience with teething babies, but I believe a lot of the misery can be assuaged by giving the kid a small frozen waffle straight from the freezer. The cold is nice and soothing, and there is the added bonus of all those handy built-in drool cups :-)

    Sounds like it couldn’t hurt.

  50. 50.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Oh joy. Jake Tapper is hosting the former Snuffleupagus Show on ABC, and his first question to Janet Napolitano cited a quote from Joe Lieberman.

    Don’t know what the question was in its entirety; I whupped on over to Food Network as fast as my thumb could hit the remote buttons.

  52. 52.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Valdivia

    Oh yeah, I think most of the wingnut pols — and for that matter the MSM — are bitterly disappointed that it didn’t end in a fiery explosion over a heartland city. Part of is is political (they are desperate for a terror attack to happen on Obama’s watch) but I think a lot of it is just that they get big hard-ons (hards-on?) at the very thought of disaster, inferno, loud noises, and terrified people running in every direction at once. Deplorable but quite human (I’m not meaning to make excuses for them, by the way, just trying to understand the motivation).

  54. 54.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    @jeffreyw: @SIA aka ScreamingInAtlanta:

    Thanks! If the first 50 are any indication, the second fifty ought to be real interesting. :) As our daughter teased me this am, “Five decades Dad!”.

    I reminded her that Santa is already taking notes for next year. ;)

  55. 55.

    Phyllis

    @harlana peppper: Waves to upstate.

    We live about 70 miles from Charleston. It comforts me mightily the Holy City is so easily accessible.

    And yes, I do suffer Sanford. Former state employee and current school district employee here. Can’t believe I voted for the d*ck. Only the first time he ran; I can is learning. Also.

  56. 56.

    valdivia

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    I get why the media is tantalized by violence and shocking stories of ‘terror’. But it is not hard to see King and his ilk are trying to blame Obama for something that could have happened but did not. What matters is that it did not, and yet they still want to play it as if it had.

    One of the contradictions of the Republicans and neocons is that they think of themselves as hard asses on terror issues. People all over the world who have experience constant terrorism in their daily lives deal with it by moving on instead of screaming. They go to work, are vigilant etc. No one goes on and on about the tragedy that could have been only the dimwitted cowards of the republican party.

  57. 57.

    CaseyL

    Happy Birthday, DougL! And welcome to the upside of 50 :)

    RedKitten: The only trick I know about helping babies who’re teething is to wet a bunch of washcloths and freeze ’em, and then hand ’em to the kid, replacing each melted chewed cloth with a fresh one from the freezer. It’s not just the cold that helps the teething, but the texture, too. Good luck to both of you!

    It’s a nice slow morning here in Seattle. Yesterday was amazingly beautiful: v. cold but oh so sunny and bright. So far today seems to be a repeat, with the sun outlining mountains and lakes and skyscrapers in gold. The kind of day that reminds me all over again that the Pacific NW is the most gorgeous place on Earth (OK, outside of New Zealand South Island :) and how fortunate I am to live here. It’s a reminder I needed after the last couple weeks.

  60. 60.

    YellowJournalism

    @R-Jud: My little one must have recieved the memo, too, because he’s been chewing his fists and slobbering like crazy the last few days, as well as having a messed-up sleeping schedule. I’m thanking god right now for a rooster rattle with bumpy, flexible feet.

    One of the best teethers I’ve ever seen, though, is the Razbaby. It was the only pacifier my older son would ever take. It’s got great textures, is easy to clean, and comes out of the freezer with a nice chill that doesn’t border on the frostbite side. (I don’t think it was specifically designed to be in the freezer, though.) The bumpiness actually helped some of my son’s teeth to push through. Plus, it looks really cute.

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