Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Let there be snark.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

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

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

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

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

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

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

I was promised a recession.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

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

I’m pretty sure there’s only one Jack Smith.

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  1. 1.

    MattR

    I am probably not the first to say this and I certainly won’t be the last

    All these worlds are yours, except Europa. Attempt no landing there. Use them together. Use them in peace

    Happy New Year everyone!!

  2. 2.

    LM

    I came to say thanks for the first laugh of 2010, but because of MattR, I’m saying thanks for the first two laughs.

  3. 3.

    LM

    I came to say thanks for the first laugh of 2010, but because of MattR, I’m saying thanks for the first two laughs.

  4. 4.

    Midnight Marauder

    Way to shit on the west coast, Cole.

    Sorry. I need to get my dickishness out of the way for the rest of the decade.

    /O-Bot…AWWWWAAAAAYYYYYYY!

  6. 6.

    Steeplejack

    Awesome, Cole. Perfect way to start the new year. The helicopters are laughing.

    Edit: The float tag is great too.

  7. 7.

    CaseyL

    HNY, y’all!

    (Actually, a shade less than 3 hours for us on the West Coast to be officially rid of 2009, but it was *such* an awful year*, one can’t say “GTFO” too often or too early)

    *Not, I know, for everyone. To all those for whom 2009 was a very good year (I’m looking at you, Lily Cole): May 2010 be even better.

  8. 8.

    General Winfield Stuck

    From one O-bot, to another- Happy New Year.

    I are an O-bot, and proud of it. Just getting started but the best (not perfect) president we have had in a long time in the most polarized political atmosphere in my lifetime. IMHO.

    Goodbye past decade, and good riddance. Here’s to a better one to come. :-)

  9. 9.

    Foggy Bottom Breakdown

    People keep complaining about the 00s as the worst decade ever, but I will say this: ubiquitous camera phones and broadband Internet made it like 1000 times easier to get women to send me photographs of their boobies. As a female-boobies enthusiast, I have to say that that makes up for a lot of problems.

  10. 10.

    shoutingattherain

    Farewell to The Mean Decade.

    Hello to The Hopefully-Not-As-Bad Decade. Is Rush still breathing?

  16. 16.

    Morbo

    Happy 11-dimensional chess to you, too, JC. Friggin’ A, that phrase needs a bullet in its head. But it doesn’t have a head!

  20. 20.

    mai naem

    Yeah, sure he’s got this playing twelve dimensional chess with flying queens and floating bishops. Well, it’s not New Years here yet and I can still diss Obama, the commie pinko secret musleem from Mombassa with the whitey hating wife. My New Year’s resolution is not to diss the all powerful Olympics game bid losing , fake birth certificate, native of foreign state Hawaii president of the US.

  23. 23.

    Anya

    Happy New Year everyone. No denying that it was a sucky decade but it could have been worse, so we have to count our blessings that we do not have President McCain and VP Palin.

  24. 24.

    MichaelR

    Sloppy Gnu Beer, everyone.

    Dogs have owners, cats have staff. Thanks to Lily’s owner, and all of Tunch’s staff here at BJ (Tunch has lots of staff).

    Onward to 2010+!!

  26. 26.

    Annie

    Happy Happy New Year everyone — and a special Happy New Year to Lily, Tunch, Raven, Shadow, Smudge, Charlie, Chompers and all of the BJ darlings…..Looking forward to lots more pictures in 2010….

  33. 33.

    Mnemosyne

    @Joshua Norton:

    I logged into an online yarn sale 5 minutes after it started and discovered that my first three preferred colors had already sold out so, yes, 2010 already sucks ass.

  34. 34.

    donnah

    This is just the beginning. I hate to use the battle-scarred word “Hope” but I do have hope for better times for all of us. I’m glad we have Obama as our President and I am willing to be patient for things to change.

    Peace to all!

  35. 35.

    Anne Laurie

    Happy New Year to all, and farewell to the Low Dishonest Decade!

    May all our lives improve as much in 2010 as Lily Cole’s improved in 2009!

  38. 38.

    JGabriel

    Stroszek:

    Well, that decade sucked.

    It sure fucking did, and good fucking riddance.

    A Happy New BJ Decade to everyone! May the new decade be better than the last — ‘cuz I don’t think we can take any worse.

    .

  40. 40.

    Something Fabulous

    CANNOT WAIT TO SEE THE BACKSIDE OF 2009. My wee NYE plan w/3 friends is on hold for a few hours, waiting to hear: how my dad is in hospital in Chicago, how friend’s sister is in hospital in San Fran, and for the hostess to return from the hospital from checking in her visiting houseguest, who decided to see in the new year with ambien and bourbon shots instead of stopping by.

    I also am strangely hopeful that the new decade is going to be better, in spite of all. Two and a half hours left, here in LA: a toast to all-y’all for the future!

    SomeFab +2.

    [reposted from waning thred, for xtra pathos]

  41. 41.

    MikeJ

    When I lived on the east coast my neighbors never set off fireworks for new years in Paris. Why do my west coast neighbors set them off for new years in new york?

  42. 42.

    Ash Can

    Farewell to the George W. Bush decade, which, let’s face it, sucked the farts out of dead pigeons. Here’s to a new year and a new decade. Like I said in the previous thread, there’s nowhere to go but up in 2010.

    Happy New Year, one and all!

  43. 43.

    ChristianPinko

    Fuck you, Mr. East Coast time zone! It is NOT a new decade! The old decade still has 22 minutes left!

    I resist your temperoperialist East Coast master narratives.

    Philippians 2:1-11, unless this is offensive somehow.

    XianPinko +4

  44. 44.

    Yutsano

    Well I have officially committed my last D’OH for this decade. Left my phone at work. BBIAF unless I get T-boned by someone in the icy streets.

  49. 49.

    Emo Pantload (fka Studly)

    I see my previous post is in moderation purgatory. 2010 isn’t proving to be a very trusting year, is it?

  50. 50.

    Jean

    May 2010 bring us threads as hilarious as the credenzas and laughing helicopters of M. Gass, and the infamous “internet traditions,” which led me to Balloon Juice. Happy New Year, John and all the Juicers!

  53. 53.

    Yutsano

    Okay I feel slightly less dumb. Phone was just in the car. But y’all can feel free to mock me as necessary.

  58. 58.

    JGabriel

    Yutsano:

    But y’all can feel free to mock me as necessary.

    Your phone was in the car, doofus. Mockity mock mock.

    Ok, that was lame. Sorry, dude, but it’s just not on the same level as crashing the economy, stirring up racist rage, or fighting against programs that’ll help pay for your own health care.

    If you really wanna be well-mocked, yer gonna have to up yer game.

    .

  63. 63.

    Violet

    Happy New Year in Real Murka! Good riddance to the OO’s. I’m hoping 2010 is a big improvement on last year.

  64. 64.

    inkadu

    Happy New Year everybody, especially all the people I got into heated arguments with despite agreeing with.

    Worst. Decade. Ever.

  66. 66.

    soonergrunt

    I hate to shit in everyone’s wheaties* but the decade isn’t over yet. It will be over in 365 days. Then it will be the second decade of the new millenium/century.
    This is the last year of the first decade, just like 2000 was the last year of the previous millenium, and not the first year of the new one.

    *I don’t really hate doing that. Sometimes I do it just to see the look on the guy’s face when he realizes why I’m squatting over his breakfast cereal.

  67. 67.

    jacy

    Happy New Year, all balloon-juicers.

    Let’s run our emopants up the flagpole and see who salutes.

    Cheers to all!

  69. 69.

    Yutsano

    @JGabriel: On the scale of dumbass things yeah that’s pretty mild. Worst thing I think I could do is wreck the Dawg’s career and yeah that ain’t happening if I can help it. Great, now I have the creative juices flowing.

  72. 72.

    JGabriel

    soonergrunt:

    I hate to shit in everyone’s wheaties* but the decade isn’t over yet. It will be over in 365 days.

    Decades begin with the zeroth year of that decade. So do millenia. The only problem is that the first decade/century/millenia didn’t have a year 0.

    So that decade only had 9 years, that century only 99 years, and that millenia only 999 years.

    I’m so sick of people acting like they know some deep mathemematical secret that, in fact, everyone knows and thinks is idiotic. It’s smug, without even a good reason.

    /rant

    .

  73. 73.

    Steeplejack

    @soonergrunt:

    Wrong, wrong, wrong.

    While it is true that the first decade of the 21st century ends next year, the decade of the “aughts” ended tonight, just like the decade of the ’90s ended in at the end of 1999 and not at the end of 2000.

    When people talk about “the ’90s,” they are talking specifically about 1990-1999, not the “tenth decade of the 20th century, which goes from 1991 to 2000.” Same for this decade just ended.

    So please shit in your own Wheaties.

  75. 75.

    Polish the Guillotines

    Ringing in the new year with an unopened bottle of champagne and a frakkin’ head cold.

    This does not bode well for 2010.

    Then again, it’s probably good news for John McCain.

  76. 76.

    DougL (frmrly: Conservatively Liberal)

    @MikeJ:

    Because we like to blow up shit and will use any excuse to do so. Now to get set up for Mountain Time…

  78. 78.

    JGabriel

    Steeplejack:

    Also wrong, wrong, wrong, but for different reasons.
    __
    Christ, I give up.

    What? You’re saying that the first century goes from year 1 to year 100. And that every following century must follow the same pattern.

    It’s not that I don’t understand the argument. Like almost everyone (conservatives excepted), I understand it perfectly.

    My counter-argument is that people consistently think of decades, centuries, and millenia as beginning with the zeroth year, such that the second century would be the years 100-199, and so forth. And mathematically that intuition is correct — it’s the Gregorian calendar that’s wrong:

    There is no “zeroth century” in between the first century BC and the first century AD. Also, there is no 0 A.D. The Gregorian calendar “jumps” from 1B.C. to 1 A.D. The first century BC includes the years 100 BC to 1 BC. Other centuries BC follow the same pattern.

    If Gregory, or whoever his calendar maven/guru was, had simply remembered to include a year 0, we wouldn’t keep having these idiotic discussions. It’s far easier, and makes far more sense, to grant precedence to people’s mathematical intuition rather than Gregory’s mathematical error (no year 0? what a moron!) and rectify the error by concluding that the first decade merely had 9 years.

    At worst, we disagree. But I am certainly NOT wrong.

    .

  80. 80.

    The Dangerman

    In a little over an hour (West Coaster here), will write 2000 through 2009 on 10 sheets of toilet paper and will flush.

    Repeatedly.

    I have to wait until midnight; if I did it now, I’d probably have to dig out the plunger.

  83. 83.

    rachel

    @JGabriel: Did Gregory even have a zero to use as part of a date? I think they were still using Roman numerals in Europe at the time.

    (Goes to check) Nope. It looks like they had “zero” by then.

  86. 86.

    JGabriel

    rachel:

    Did Gregory even have a zero to use as part of a date?

    It was in the 16th century, so the concept of zero was available. Fibonacci had popularized it in Italy during the 13th century, circa 1202 according to wikipedia.

    I think the Church just thought that ‘zero’ — as a number in and of itself rather than a decimal placeholder — was conceptually Satanic or something like that, if I remember correctly.

    .

  88. 88.

    Tappen

    45 Minutes for this West Coast Canadian O-Bot! I love this website. And you guys. I don’t comment often, but I read the threads, and you guys are awesome. Love +7

  89. 89.

    moe99

    Happy New Year all you BJers! Let’s hope that 2010 and the new decade are better than that which preceded. Thanks for all your snark, which kept me laughing and sane.

  92. 92.

    Cookie Monster

    Another lurker who reads but doesn’t really comment. A Happy New Year to all, and may it be a much better year than 2009.

    CM+2.

  93. 93.

    Platonicspoof

    @JGabriel:

    . . Gregory’s mathematical error (no year 0? what a moron!) and rectify the error by concluding that the first decade merely had 9 years.

    So maybe this would be a good time to fix it, since nobody liked the first 2009.
    I say we call Year 1 Year 0, carry it through to calling Year 2010 Year 2009, and we get a do-over.

    Happy 2009 everyone!

    /I just come here for the arguments.

  94. 94.

    Tappen

    See I don’t even remember what Meschuggah means. But I was a Rabbi in Fiddler on the Roof, so I probably should. Sigh, the Aughts fuckin’ sucked. But I grew up in them, so I sort of have to like them. So agreed. Here’s to a better new decade. I have my real friends five feet away. And the BJ commenters whom I lurk no feet away on the interwebs. Here’s hoping a kung-fu ninja don’t get you in the Teens. And that we finally smarten the fuck up. More Love +8

  95. 95.

    Anne Laurie

    @Something Fabulous:

    CANNOT WAIT TO SEE THE BACKSIDE OF 2009. My wee NYE plan w/3 friends is on hold for a few hours, waiting to hear: how my dad is in hospital in Chicago, how friend’s sister is in hospital in San Fran, and for the hostess to return from the hospital from checking in her visiting houseguest, who decided to see in the new year with ambien and bourbon shots instead of stopping by.

    Ow! You win the Misery Sweeps… at least until tomorrow’s hangovers show up. Hope things have improved (and that everyone recovers in due course).

    @MikeJ:

    When I lived on the east coast my neighbors never set off fireworks for new years in Paris. Why do my west coast neighbors set them off for new years in new york?

    Ever since the late 1970s, the city of Boston has mounted a big professional fireworks display over the harbor to discourage this. Starting sometime in the 1990s, there’s also been a second, smaller “family” display on the Common around 7pm, so that parents who came for the First Night parade would have a reason to get the kids off the street before the drunks took over the roads. Both displays are televised on the local news, where they’re always careful to explain that the earlier show falls at midnight in Europe…

  96. 96.

    Tappen

    Edit (since my time elapsed): Kung-fu terrorist. Not ninja. Terrorists are the new ninjas.

  97. 97.

    AnotherBruce

    I guess I’m an Obamabot, but quit kicking the Hippies so hard. They’ve be right more often than not, and I guess that’s what makes people hate them. Dirty Fucking Righteous Hippies. Fuck them and their green Hippotopian sustainable bullsheet.

  99. 99.

    JGabriel

    @Platonicspoof:

    I say we call Year 1 Year 0, carry it through to calling Year 2010 Year 2009, and we get a do-over.

    Making the decade another year longer?

    Please, God, NOOOoooooo…

    .

  100. 100.

    Emo Pantload (fka Studly)

    Happy New Year, all you Balloon-Juicing people.

    Ya, you know who you are.

    An’ stuff.

    Emo, +a buncha sparkly wine

  104. 104.

    Tappen

    @Yutsano:

    Hell yes I would. North Shore born and raised. In fact, at one point JC posted a pic of a dog sign in Deep Cove. I work at the Deep Cove Kayak Shop. Live like 10 mins from both Deep Cove and the 2nd Narrow Bridge.

    604 pride

  105. 105.

    Yutsano

    @Tappen: Beauty! I have a couple of good friends I’ve lost touch with in the Burnaby area. I’m not hugely far south of you only about 350km or thereabouts.

  106. 106.

    Tappen

    @Yutsano:

    Sweet. So does that mean Olympia? Can’t tell. Either way, if you saw the King 5 Seattle New Years that anchor was trashed. Kinda hilarious.

  107. 107.

    Yutsano

    @Tappen: You do have to go over the mountains and a bit further east. I’m sure there’s a good YouTube video of the anchor if I know Seattleites like I do. :)

  108. 108.

    Tappen

    And so how does rural Washington compare to Vancouver then? (Ellensburg? Wenatchee?) And yeah, the main two anchors, white guy and asian girl were fine, but the man on the street anchor (crowd guy) was smashed at the space needle. he could barely do his report. happy new year!

  109. 109.

    Yutsano

    @Tappen: It’s drier, colder, browner, and a helluva lot more conservative. But it’s also economically stable (at least where I live, Tri-Cities) so I have an okay job here. Plus my family is here. I do want to move to the Seattle area some time in the near future. Starting to make some moves in that direction although most likely won’t happen until the spring time.

  110. 110.

    Tappen

    I’ve thought about moving to the states just for the politics. Then I read another story about the justice system, shudder and resolve to stay here. Good luck finding a job in Seattle. Gotta be much better than Eastern Washington.

  111. 111.

    JoyceH

    @Platonicspoof:

    I say we call Year 1 Year 0, carry it through to calling Year 2010 Year 2009, and we get a do-over. Happy 2009 everyone!

    I like it! It gives Obama a five year first term, that much more time to clean up Bush-Cheney’s mess. And he’ll need it, so it’s only fair.

    If anyone complains, we answer, “We make our own reality.”

  112. 112.

    Yutsano

    @Tappen: Only if you’re a political scientist and want to study a hybrid republican system (please note the small R) otherwise I’d stay up there. My ex got offered a great job at Boeing but ended up not getting a US work visa. He wouldn’t really tell me what happened there so he’s back working for Air Canada.

  113. 113.

    Tappen

    Oh Air Canada. Scourge of the skies.

    And yeah, I pretty much decided I can study the American system from abroad without the risks. Plus we’ve got plenty of intrigue here. Harper’s favourite food? Prorogies. Sigh. Prorogation: It solves all the problems, also too.

  114. 114.

    Tim F

    To be an o-bot does one have to be a communist? Or can you just be realistic about what can be done in one fell swoop?

    I used to feel in place at Daily Kos, now I feel as though I am a right-wing freak because I don’t think that Obama can lift DADT and slow health care costs at the same time.

  115. 115.

    Yutsano

    @Tappen: Yeah I saw that little joke. Who knew hosting the Olympics means no political decisions for three months? We’ve hosted them a few times down here and we still kept everything running. My guess is he’s trying to prolong an election as long as possible even though the Conservatives are leading polls right now.

  116. 116.

    Tappen

    Really it’s about the Afghanistan committees. If he prorogues Parliament now they can’t meet and ask all those awkward questions and demand the documents. I guess the positive side is Canada’s actually upset that we handed prisoners over ot be tortured, let alone tortured them ourselves. Progress? I guess.

    And where did you see the prorogie joke? I thought I made that up.

  118. 118.

    bob h

    I wish I could be optimistic about 2010, but it is likely it will be even nuttier than 2009 as the Republicans react with insensate rage to HCR and the realization they may be finished as a serious Party, and the elections approach. It is going to be kooky.

  119. 119.

    Leelee for Obama

    This photoshop is my favorite-thanks for putting it up John. And the floating caption made me giggle ridiculously.

    I wandered over to DKos, and there’s a Doonesbury Cartoon in a diary that just made my morning. Go see it, it’s classic Trudeau, and should be memorialized everywhere. There’s also a Molly Ivins related post that is “inspiriting”, a Mollyism if ever there was one!

    Went to sleep early, so missed all the NYE wishes, so belated Happy New Year to all. I am cautiously optimistic about this coming year, and while I believe it will be challenging, I have decided to be “hope-filled”, as I really have to get the hell out of the doldrums.

    I really appreciate you people more than I can say. You have made a difficult year bearable, and, for that, may the FSM make me truly thankful.

  121. 121.

    soonergrunt

    @Steeplejack: @JGabriel:

    Start counting to any arbitrary number of at least two digits.
    Do you start with zero? Unless you’re a hardcore mathematician, you don’t.
    I rest my case.

  122. 122.

    gnomedad

    @JGabriel:

    If Gregory, or whoever his calendar maven/guru was, had simply remembered to include a year 0, we wouldn’t keep having these idiotic discussions.

    Regrettably, C-style array indexing had not yet been invented.

  123. 123.

    Steeplejack

    @soonergrunt:

    Yeah, rest your case, because it is so tired.

    It is not a question of counting, it is a question of naming–putting a label on a period of time that hangs together thematically or in the popular imagination, e.g., the Gay ’90s, the Roaring ’20s. The Aughts. That decade just ended.

    There’s nothing in that to prevent your maintaining your (correct) insistence that the first decade of the 21st century ends next year. But that’s not what we’re talking about. Take off the literalist blinders.

    And I am by no means agreeing with JGabriel. He crazy.

  124. 124.

    henqiguai

    @soonergrunt (#121):

    Do you start with zero? Unless you’re a hardcore mathematician, you don’t.

    Dude. If you are at all involved in anything software, you start at 0. <insert>childishly silly raspberry</insert>.

  125. 125.

    Chat Noir

    Happy New Years from this O-bot. David Plouffe said that Obama liked the picture that John Cole posted at the top of the thread.

    Glad we’re into a new (and hopefully improved) decade. Don’t forget to fill out your census form.

  126. 126.

    henqiguai

    @soonergrunt (#121):
    Okay, so my original brilliant riposte to sooner when into some bitbucket hell hole. I’ll give it another try…

    Do you start with zero? Unless you’re a hardcore mathematician, you don’t.

    If you are at all involved in anything software, you start counting at 0.

    <insert>childishly silly-assed raspberry sound</insert>

  127. 127.

    henqiguai

    @soonergrunt (#121): (Third time; after shutting down the browser. Not that I got anything worth the effort, I am now just interested in testing out the blog; f*ckin’ WordPress. Or did I piss someone off ?) Okay, so my original brilliant riposte to sooner when into some bitbucket hell hole. I’ll give it another try…

    Do you start with zero? Unless you’re a hardcore mathematician, you don’t.

    If you are at all involved in anything software, you start counting at 0.

    <insert>childishly silly-assed raspberry sound</insert>

  128. 128.

    henqiguai

    Crap. Is it me, or does Word Press no longer accept some standard HTML code that was working not too long ago ?

    On edit: Apparently Word Press don’t like character entity strings (stuff like “&” + “#” + 060 + “;”). DamnYWP !

  129. 129.

    valdivia

    very very late to the thread, but this O-bot wishes all of you a very happy new year and to the new decade.

    I still love that picture.

  130. 130.

    Steeplejack

    @henqiguai:

    The “character entity strings” were working for me yesterday (Win XP, Opera). &#042 &#042 &#042

    Last line of “regular” text above blockquote.
    &#060blockquote&#062
    Paragraph 1
    &#095&#095
    Paragraph 2
    &#095&#095
    Paragraph 3, etc.
    &#060/blockquote&#062
    Resume normal text.
    __
    (h/t Monkeyboy © 2009)

    Edit: Yep, working now, too.

  131. 131.

    henqiguai

    @Steeplejack (#127):
    Was trying to enter the angle brackets, for something silly, as plain text; three entries went into never-never land.

    I’ll try again: <noise>.

  132. 132.

    henqiguai

    @Steeplejack (#127):
    Yeah, obviously it’s me. Just tried putting simple angle bracket entities into a reply to you and it went into that same bit bucket hell. I’m blaming Mr. Cole, ’cause, why would I hold myself responsible ?

  136. 136.

    soonergrunt

    I agree with Gnomedad. It’s all Gregory’s fault. He was probably a fcuking republican.

  137. 137.

    JGabriel

    @soonergrunt:

    Do you start with zero? Unless you’re a hardcore mathematician, you don’t.

    Depends on the situation. If I’m counting objects, no; if abstractions, yes.

    Also if negative numbers are involved. Kind of hard to get from 1 to -1 without going through 0 — the fact that the idiot who designed the Gregorian calendar managed to do so doesn’t make it right.

    Finally, given the state of the economy, and the fact that dollars are what people count most often, I’d guess a lot more people now start counting with zero more frequently than you think.

    .

  138. 138.

    JGabriel

    And I am by no means agreeing with JGabriel. He crazy.

    Yeah, but not about this. I’m just using Astronomical Year Numbering to count the Centuries:

    Astronomical year numbering, used by astronomers, includes a year zero (0). Consequently, the first century in these calendars may designate the years 0 to 99 as the first century, years 100 to 199 as the second etc.

    So there.

    .

  139. 139.

    JAHILL10

    Happy New Year, J.C., A.L., D.J. and T.F.!!!!!
    Thanks for providing a patch of funny, sarcastic sanity in the largely self-important sturm und drang of the liberal blogosphere. I look forward to more of the same in the coming year. Fellow O-bots Unite!

  141. 141.

    jamfan

    Hi everyone — I never comment, and I’m very late to this thread, but this place always makes me happy so I wanted to say HNY. And since both my kids were born in the aughties — in both years George Bush was elected, by the way! — I unbelievably have to say, Dickensianly, that it was the best of times and worst of times at the jamfan household.

  143. 143.

    Yutsano

    @Tappen: Ha, sorry, I think the whole proroguing thing is a joke. Though that is a tasty morsel right there. You should try selling it to CTV and see if they buy your copyright off it.

  144. 144.

    Ruemara

    Happy New BJ Year for everyone! Getting up late enough to eat nachos and beer for breakfast is my sign of a good start. May all be having a good start.

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