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New Widget

by John Cole|  March 16, 20109:55 am| 36 Comments

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If you look to the right, you will notice that we have partnered with Change.org to put up an activism widget. You will be able to easily participate in online petitions which will not only add your name to the petition, but forward letters to your congresscritters when you sign. Additionally, this website receives a small stipend every time you sign one, so it is a win/win for us.

There will be any number of issues that you can participate in, and it will be a permanent addition, so I hope it is not to harsh on the eyes for you delicate flowers who manage to complain about literally everything on this website.

Right now there are petitions about HCR, blackwater, and the recent SCOTUS ruling.

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36Comments

  1. 1.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    March 16, 2010 at 9:58 am

    Sigh … the good old days of the PETA ad. Jayzuz! I’m getting all misty eyed.

  2. 2.

    Mako

    March 16, 2010 at 10:00 am

    Flash ads make babies weep.

  3. 3.

    General Egali Tarian Stuck

    March 16, 2010 at 10:00 am

    I have yet to recover from the loss of ms Pamela A. Bunch a prudes.

  4. 4.

    jibeaux

    March 16, 2010 at 10:04 am

    to harsh on the eyes for you delicate flowers who manage to complain about literally everything on this website.

    ooh, can I start? It’s “too harsh”, moran!

  5. 5.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    March 16, 2010 at 10:04 am

    Oh jesus. My poor poor Balloon Juice, co-opted by the do-gooders. Wonkette, here I come.

  6. 6.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    March 16, 2010 at 10:05 am

    Maybe Tbogg needs an A-list commenter.

  7. 7.

    beltane

    March 16, 2010 at 10:06 am

    Just promise me that Change.org will not be sending around a petition threatening Bernie Sanders with a primary challenger if he doesn’t dance the hokey-pokey on the Senate floor.

  8. 8.

    Violet

    March 16, 2010 at 10:10 am

    Do those petitions really do any good, or do they get sent right to the circular file? I’m always a bit skeptical of internet petitions. Figure they’re ways for the organizations to gather email addresses for spam and don’t do much good for the cause they claim to support.

  9. 9.

    arguingwithsignposts

    March 16, 2010 at 10:13 am

    Just one request: could you go with a fixed width instead of fluid? I resize a window, the center column is reduced to nothing while the side columns maintain their width. There are ways to fix that.

  10. 10.

    Mike Kay

    March 16, 2010 at 10:14 am

    Word is Obama plans to nominate Kucinich to replace Stevens on the high court.

  11. 11.

    soonergrunt

    March 16, 2010 at 10:24 am

    @Violet: Oh, internet petitions are worth EVERY BIT of the effort needed to create them and fill them out.
    Oh. Ummm. Yeah.

    BTW, does Balloon-Juice have a mobile URL for my phone to use?

  12. 12.

    Felonious Wench

    March 16, 2010 at 10:24 am

    Very cool, John. Don’t listen to the haters, they’re still bitter it took so long to get the edit funcitonality returned.

  13. 13.

    gbear

    March 16, 2010 at 10:31 am

    …will not only add your name to the petition, but forward letters to your congresscritters when you sign.

    Isn’t that the kind of form-letter email message that congresscritters think of as spam?

    Delicate flowers want to know.

  14. 14.

    Sentient Puddle

    March 16, 2010 at 10:34 am

    Spam or not, I’d say this is the important part:

    Additionally, this website receives a small stipend every time you sign one, so it is a win/win for us.

    I’m all for kickbacks to the site.

  15. 15.

    slag

    March 16, 2010 at 10:36 am

    Change I can believe in. First-class snark and do-goody action combined. The future is now.

  16. 16.

    cleek

    March 16, 2010 at 10:38 am

    holy crap:

    Prominent conservative commentator and RedState.com editor Erick Erickson will join CNN as a political contributor, appearing primarily on CNN’s new show John King, USA¸ the network announced Tuesday.

    h/t phil.

  17. 17.

    YellowJournalism

    March 16, 2010 at 10:40 am

    @gbear:

    Isn’t that the kind of form-letter email message that congresscritters think of as spam?

    I was under the impression that they ignore those, too. Anyone who watched Olberman last night would agree that a sincerely written personal letter probably will do the job better than a form-letter sent off by an organization.

    However, if it gets BJ money, I suppose it’s worth a click-see. I just wish I would stop getting the “Curvy” ad with what looks like two lesbians about to engage in something the ad even describes as NSFW. (Still better than Pammy, though.)

  18. 18.

    Woodrowfan

    March 16, 2010 at 10:47 am

    Yeah, can we get some SFW ads on the left please!

  19. 19.

    Ash Can

    March 16, 2010 at 10:49 am

    @cleek: Will they also be changing the name of the show to “The Tool Shed?”

  20. 20.

    gbear

    March 16, 2010 at 11:08 am

    @Woodrowfan:

    To make BJ safe for work, I ‘un-maximize’ (sorry but I’m not computer literate) the BJ window and then shove the left side of the window off my monitor. I still have to scroll quickly past big brother Tunch and the tortured animal ad, but it works to hide the stuff on the left hand side of the screen from co-workers.

  21. 21.

    Brian J

    March 16, 2010 at 11:21 am

    Another sign of that overbearing, always evil, never honest liberal media: RedState’s Erickson joins CNN. From the link:

    Erick Erickson, who runs the influential conservative blog RedState, is now joining CNN as a contributor, according to a network release. He’ll appear regularly on John King’s new 7 p.m. show, which starts Monday.

    “I grew up in Dubai and then in rural Louisiana as an obsessive news junkie. CNN was the only place to go for nonstop news,” said Erickson in a statement. “Joining CNN is like coming home and being in Atlanta makes the decision right for me and my family.”

    CNN political director Sam Feist said that Erickson is “a perfect fit for ‘John King, USA,’ because not only is he an agenda-setter whose words are closely watched in Washington but as a person who still lives in small-town America, Erick is in touch with the very people John hopes to reach.”

    “With Erick’s exceptional knowledge of politics as well as his role as a conservative opinion leader,” Feist continued, “he will add an important voice to CNN’s ideologically diverse group of political contributors.”

  22. 22.

    JohnR

    March 16, 2010 at 11:21 am

    I’d like the Change.org thingy a whole lot better if it had the sexyhighheels pic attached. In fact, why not just make that your background? You could still have an American Flag lapel pin somewhere on the site if it’s important.

  23. 23.

    EdTheRed

    March 16, 2010 at 11:34 am

    Someone needs to check on John…this Erick Son Of Erick news may have blown his head clean off, Dirty Harry-style.

  24. 24.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    March 16, 2010 at 11:35 am

    @Brian J: Something quite poetic about the chief blogger at Red State going to work for the network that wingnuts often refer to as the Communist New Network. The material keeps writing itself.

  25. 25.

    Ash Can

    March 16, 2010 at 11:37 am

    @cleek:
    @Brian J:

    LOL! CNN got messily eviscerated in the comments, then closed the comments for the article. Poor delicate things.

  26. 26.

    FreeAtLast

    March 16, 2010 at 11:38 am

    @cleek: To save anyone else the trouble of going to RedState, I can report that in his announcement, Erick informs us that in his new endeavor he is doing god’s work.

  27. 27.

    Brian J

    March 16, 2010 at 11:39 am

    @The Grand Panjandrum:

    It’s kind of like Bill Kristol claiming that The New York Times should be prosecuted for treason but then accepting checks as he wrote bad columns for its Op/Ed pages. Apparently, his desire for money outweighed his uber-patriotism.

  28. 28.

    The Grand Panjandrum

    March 16, 2010 at 11:45 am

    @cleek: @Brian J: Which wingnut will lead the mail-in protest to Erick son of Erick for appearing on the godless Communist News Network? Maybe they can send him boxes of Massengill?

  29. 29.

    Ash Can

    March 16, 2010 at 11:45 am

    If the comments on CNN’s announcement are at all representative of the network’s audience, CNN has well and truly rogered itself for the 7PM slot. It should be interesting to see what kind of ratings result from this little stunt.

  30. 30.

    Citizen_X

    March 16, 2010 at 11:48 am

    That’s all well and good, John, but will this widget make me look Great in Sexy High Heels?

  31. 31.

    jibeaux

    March 16, 2010 at 11:58 am

    “John King, USA”?

    This is a show title?

    And people say we’re getting dumber.

  32. 32.

    Bad Horse's Filly

    March 16, 2010 at 12:48 pm

    so I hope it is not to harsh on the eyes for you delicate flowers who manage to complain about literally

    Somehow, I don’t think that was an invitation to complain about everything. But what do I know?

  33. 33.

    Ecks

    March 16, 2010 at 1:32 pm

    Kickbacks to BJ are all well and nice, but who is paying them? Is this money from corporations trying to whore out influence (which is awesome to skim), or from individual people trying to do-good (not so ok)?

  34. 34.

    JohnR

    March 16, 2010 at 5:37 pm

    @Bad Horse’s Filly:

    I don’t think that was an invitation to complain about everything

    It wasn’t? Goodness gracious me! I completely misread it..

  35. 35.

    metalgirl

    March 16, 2010 at 5:53 pm

    Thanks for adding this! It will be useful to readers and we’ll be helping B-J too!

  36. 36.

    Parole Officer Burke

    March 16, 2010 at 7:12 pm

    This website receives a small stipend every time

    I’ve got a bad feeling about this.

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