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Happy St. Patrick’s Day

by DougJ|  March 17, 20102:02 pm| 69 Comments

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  1. 1.

    Pasquinade

    March 17, 2010 at 2:10 pm

    BRACKET OF EVIL: Use the bracket below to vote for the most malevolent forces in American politics.

    http://act.credoaction.com/bracket/?r=3080&id=8234-2370423-aWQ2Rlx

    Crazies category: Palin or Bachmann?

  2. 2.

    Morbo

    March 17, 2010 at 2:11 pm

    And it’s no, nay, never! No, nay, never, no more,
    will I play the wild rover. No never no more!

  3. 3.

    Chat Noir

    March 17, 2010 at 2:13 pm

    @Pasquinade: I vote for the current version of the Republican Party. Every member oozes toxins.

    As for St. Patrix Day, happy green to all. The only Irish in my household is the Soft-Coated Wheaten Terror.

  4. 4.

    gbear

    March 17, 2010 at 2:14 pm

    Failblog has their St. Pat’s Day tribute up too, although it’s not strictly Irish.

    There will be much noise on the sidewalks and streets of St. Paul today.

  5. 5.

    Maude

    March 17, 2010 at 2:14 pm

    OT
    Just had a look at Atrios and his commentators. Any way we can get the banner line up on that site?
    Does anyone understand what is wrong with these people?

  6. 6.

    Bhall35

    March 17, 2010 at 2:15 pm

    Brings a tear to me eye every time:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OCbuRA_D3KU

  7. 7.

    Mike Kay

    March 17, 2010 at 2:16 pm

    @Maude: are you saying his commentators are haters?

  8. 8.

    licensed to kill time

    March 17, 2010 at 2:17 pm

    Funny FYI:

    The shortest St Patrick’s Day parade in the world takes place in Dripsey, Cork.The parade lasts just 100 yards and travels between the village’s two pubs. …

    Lift a glass for Dripsey today!

  9. 9.

    MaximusNYC

    March 17, 2010 at 2:18 pm

    Shane MacGowan finally gets new teeth

  10. 10.

    jl

    March 17, 2010 at 2:21 pm

    @MaximusNYC:

    “During one all-day drinking session in Limerick, Ireland, he fell over a wall, smashing his teeth on a pile of bricks.”

    MacGowan is still alive at 51?

    Strong work on his part, I say.

  11. 11.

    Keith G

    March 17, 2010 at 2:26 pm

    Un fucking cool guys!

    The new tag line surprised me at my lunch time. I think I aspirated some rice pilaf.

    Erin go Bragh!

  12. 12.

    Mike Kay

    March 17, 2010 at 2:27 pm

    the leprechaun really came through today!

    http://snipurl.com/uw7v5

  13. 13.

    freelancer

    March 17, 2010 at 2:31 pm

    @Bhall35:

    “The old man is still an artist with a Thompson.”

  14. 14.

    Comrade Kevin

    March 17, 2010 at 2:36 pm

    @Maude: I generally avoid reading the comments there, and I have the feeling that Artrios does as well.

  15. 15.

    mr. whipple

    March 17, 2010 at 2:36 pm

    Just had a look at Atrios and his commentators. Any way we can get the banner line up on that site?
    Does anyone understand what is wrong with these people?

    A lot of the sane have left long ago, leaving the 3%-ers to howl and rant.

  16. 16.

    Maude

    March 17, 2010 at 2:36 pm

    @Mike Kay: No, I don’t think that they are rational enough to be haters.
    I can say that I think they have boulders on their shoulders. Life isn’t fair. It’s all someone else’s fault.
    I don’t understand it. No, I do not.

  17. 17.

    Luthe

    March 17, 2010 at 2:38 pm

    I got into the Rutgers graduate Urban Planning Program yesterday! Whee!

  18. 18.

    Violet

    March 17, 2010 at 2:38 pm

    Did the O’Bamas dye the White House fountain green again this year? Didn’t some village in Ireland trace Barack’s family line back to them?

  19. 19.

    Ash

    March 17, 2010 at 2:40 pm

    Sort of speaking of Irish bands, I once saw the Dropkick Murphy’s play IN Boston ON St. Patrick’s Day. All I remember, sadly, is waking up on my kitchen floor the next morning.

    Did the O’Bamas dye the White House fountain green again this year?

    Indeed, though it’s a bit anemic on the color front this year in comparison to last.

    http://dcist.com/2010/03/white_house_fountain_green_again_fo.php

  20. 20.

    FlipYrWhig

    March 17, 2010 at 2:40 pm

    @Maude: I had thought Atrios had calmed down lately, instead of wallowing in the Shit Sandwich from a few months ago. I never read the comments there because they all seem to be straight out of some really weird bar at closing time, all awkward flirtation and incoherent rage. What are they on about now?

  21. 21.

    Ash Can

    March 17, 2010 at 2:41 pm

    @licensed to kill time: Now that’s a damn fine parade.

  22. 22.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 17, 2010 at 2:44 pm

    @Maude: I don’t know which thread you’re looking at, but I just skimmed that latest one, and that’s pretty grounded for that place, especially in the last few months, as half a dozen PUMAs and a like number of Naderites have joined forces to denounce Obama’s super-double-secret alliance with Republicans and Blanche Lincoln to undo everything Hillary Kucinich would have done, and shout down everyone who disagrees.

  23. 23.

    licensed to kill time

    March 17, 2010 at 2:45 pm

    @Ash Can: Gets right to the essentials, no? And cuts out all the middleman crap.

  24. 24.

    Bhall35

    March 17, 2010 at 2:46 pm

    @freelancer: how could I forget?

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IEet3GLWzs&feature=player_embedded

  25. 25.

    Violet

    March 17, 2010 at 2:47 pm

    @Ash:
    Ah, a bit more pale green than last year. That color is very “in” right now.

  26. 26.

    Redshift

    March 17, 2010 at 2:47 pm

    @mr. whipple: Even in the old days, I rarely read the comments there because they seemed to be nothing but an ongoing blather that had no connection to the posts. It was kind of like being invited to a friend’s house for a movie-watching party, and when you get there, there’s a crowd of people talking incessantly about inside jokes and people you don’t know, loudly enough that you can’t hear a word of the movie.

    If it’s gone downhill from that… geez.

    (On the plus side, it’s the one site I can read before leaving for work, because between the short posts and the lack of any real discussion, I know I won’t get sucked in and end up being late.)

  27. 27.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 17, 2010 at 2:48 pm

    @Violet:
    Tiny Irish Village Is Latest Place to Claim Obama as Its Own

    By Mary Jordan
    Washington Post Foreign Service
    Sunday, May 13, 2007
    MONEYGALL, Ireland — Here they call him O’Bama.

    Sen. Barack Obama of Illinois, Democratic candidate for president, is the talk of this village because recently unearthed records indicate that he is a son of Moneygall.
    Stephen Neill, a local Anglican rector, said church documents he has found, along with census, immigration and other records tracked down by U.S. genealogists, appear to show that Obama’s great-great-great-grandfather, Fulmuth Kearney, was reared in Moneygall, then left for America in 1850, when he was 19.

  28. 28.

    cleek

    March 17, 2010 at 2:49 pm

    Atrios comments – yeah, nobody goes there anymore; it’s too crowded.

    it’s fucking cesspool, is what it is.

  29. 29.

    FlipYrWhig

    March 17, 2010 at 2:49 pm

    @mr. whipple:

    A lot of the sane have left long ago, leaving the 3%-ers to howl and rant.

    I have a bad feeling they’re going to be the left’s answer to the libertarians. Disproportionately present and vocal online as compared to their prevalence in, like, actual life. And of course self-congratulatory and mutually reinforcing.

  30. 30.

    Mike Kay

    March 17, 2010 at 2:51 pm

    @Maude: you can see why pseudo-purist like Atrios would attract those type of commentators.

  31. 31.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 17, 2010 at 2:51 pm

    @FlipYrWhig: Leading to the inevitable bleat: “Are we really that small a sliver of the party?”

    Yes.

  32. 32.

    Redshift

    March 17, 2010 at 2:51 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: It’s nice to see these stories again, after all those years when no one in the old country bothered to look for any connection to Bush, because they really really didn’t want to find it.

  33. 33.

    Xecky Gilchrist

    March 17, 2010 at 2:53 pm

    @FlipYrWhig: Disproportionately present and vocal online as compared to their prevalence in, like, actual life. And of course self-congratulatory and mutually reinforcing.

    But on the bright side, every bit as electorally influential as the Libertarians, too.

  34. 34.

    Violet

    March 17, 2010 at 2:54 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:
    That’s it! Thanks for the link.

    @Redshift:
    Ain’t that the truth. Refreshing change of pace.

  35. 35.

    geg6

    March 17, 2010 at 2:58 pm

    Well, I have managed to show, proudly, my American-ness today. Even though I do have a small portion of Irish ancestry (1/4), I did not and will not wear any green today. And green beer should be grounds for waterboarding.

  36. 36.

    lamh31

    March 17, 2010 at 2:58 pm

    Been at work all day, has anyone posted this yet?

    “…Dennis Kucinich signed a pledge to vote against any bill that does not have a public option,” FireDogLake’s Jane Hamsher emailed the Huffington Post. “Online supporters donated over $17,000 to him over the past two days as a direct response to his reiteration of that promise this week. It would be deceitful of him to keep that money now, as well as the $8,000 raised after he signed that pledge in July.”

    Going even further, Hamsher floated that idea that Kucinich, too, would face electoral repercussions for his decision (though, it should be noted, the deadline for launching a 2010 election bid has already passed in Ohio).

    “Kucinich is voting for a bill he has repeatedly called corrupt and harmful to the people of his district,” Hamsher said. “If the unions are threatening to go outside the party and challenge Democrats so PhRMA can have their deal, I imagine others will be considering that option too…”

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2010/03/17/dennis-kucinich-health-care_n_502182.html

    A swipe at unions???

  37. 37.

    Mike Kay

    March 17, 2010 at 3:00 pm

    @FlipYrWhig: ya know, back on election eve in 2006, Senator Man-On-Dog was about to go down in a 20 pt loss to Casey. And instead of savoring the defeat Tricky-Rick, Atrios was going all Emo, lamenting that bob Casey wasn’t pure.

    Well, here we are, over three years later, and Casey has been a reliable vote for the cause.

  38. 38.

    The Main Gauche of Mild Reason

    March 17, 2010 at 3:02 pm

    Ok, who’s the joker that changed the blog’s byline.

  39. 39.

    Mike Kay

    March 17, 2010 at 3:04 pm

    @lamh31: HA! What’s next, Jane primarying Markos for control of DKos.

  40. 40.

    Dannie22

    March 17, 2010 at 3:05 pm

    @lamh31

    Jane needs to STFU!! Kucinich was doing what he always does, getting his 15 minutes. It’s too late for him to be primaried this year and I doubt if he will be primaried in 2012. Jane just got suckered by someone who is a bigger poseur than she is.
    Kucinich has always looked out for Kucinich. And I’m sure the ride on Air Force One with the President and Sherrod Brown gave Kucinich a lot to think about.

  41. 41.

    gbear

    March 17, 2010 at 3:05 pm

    Stay classy, Jim Inhofe.

  42. 42.

    Mark S.

    March 17, 2010 at 3:06 pm

    Don’t know if this has been brought up in another thread, but wow

    Meanwhile, in a rare public disagreement that will reverberate among the nation’s 70 million Catholics, leaders of religious orders representing 59,000 nuns sent lawmakers a letter urging them to pass the Senate health care bill. . . “Despite false claims to the contrary, the Senate bill will not provide taxpayer funding for elective abortions,” said the letter signed by 60 leaders of women’s religious orders. “It will uphold longstanding conscience protections and it will make historic new investments … in support of pregnant women. This is the real pro-life stance, and we as Catholics are all for it.”

    Way to go, Sisters.

  43. 43.

    FlipYrWhig

    March 17, 2010 at 3:07 pm

    @Mike Kay: I’m amazed at how decent Casey has been (though, to be fair, I haven’t kept close track). When I lived in PA I had made a point never to vote for any member of the Casey family. I’m pleased to have been wrong.

  44. 44.

    beltane

    March 17, 2010 at 3:08 pm

    @lamh31: Yes, Jane and her fellow 3 percenters are going to take on the unions and every other Democratic constituency in her crusade to purge the Democratic party of its traitors, sellouts, shills, sheeple and groupthinkers. They might be few in number but they are mighty in spirit.

  45. 45.

    Redshift

    March 17, 2010 at 3:08 pm

    @lamh31:

    A swipe at unions???

    Yes, but even more, building self-justification for going “outside the party” (i.e., third-party candidates, most likely Paulites at this point.)

    I know some unions have been threatening to support primary challengers against congressional Dems who don’t vote for HCR, but have any of them actually threatened to support non-Democrats, or is this just made up?

  46. 46.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    March 17, 2010 at 3:09 pm

    @lamh31: If Hamsher buys a house in DK’s district, we’ll know something big is on the horizon.

  47. 47.

    Redshift

    March 17, 2010 at 3:11 pm

    @Mark S.: And now we see yet another reason why Pope Palpatine has been trying to return nuns to being seen but not heard, and especially not engaging with the world.

  48. 48.

    Martin

    March 17, 2010 at 3:13 pm

    @jl: The Irish are quite persistent at staying alive, if I do say so myself.

  49. 49.

    beltane

    March 17, 2010 at 3:13 pm

    @Mike Kay: I’m waiting for her people to go on strike like the PUMAs did. Daily Kos was a much better place immediately following that strike and so will it be with the firebaggers.

  50. 50.

    FlipYrWhig

    March 17, 2010 at 3:14 pm

    @Redshift: Seems like nuns : priests :: Girl Scouts : Boy Scouts.

  51. 51.

    Mike Kay

    March 17, 2010 at 3:15 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: more like, if Jane leases a limo in DK’s district.

  52. 52.

    geg6

    March 17, 2010 at 3:16 pm

    @Redshift:

    Completely made up. I spent a large portion of my lunch hour yesterday with local union officials (USW, UMW, IBEW, iron workers, pipe fitters, et al) and they are ready to primary any Dem who votes against HCR, especially those who have taken their money in the past. They are being especially tough on Blanche Lincoln, apparently in a national effort among them to support the Arkansas AFL-CIO, who Lincoln pissed off with her anti-union stance in her latest ads.

  53. 53.

    freelancer

    March 17, 2010 at 3:20 pm

    @Redshift:

    He should have had them attend the Milford Academy.

  54. 54.

    freelancer

    March 17, 2010 at 3:25 pm

    @Martin:

    eh, they have their limits and are quite stubborn.

    John Munch: A million people died in the potato famine. Ireland is an island. An island by definition is surrounded by fish. A million people died because they didn’t like fish.

  55. 55.

    FlipYrWhig

    March 17, 2010 at 3:26 pm

    @geg6: I really like the idea of primarying Lincoln, because I think there’s a space for “better Democrats” even in places like Arkansas by going _populist_ instead of _liberal_.

    The difference between Lincoln and Halter, from what I understand, is like the difference between Baucus and Tester in MT. You can show that you’re independent and common-sensical without being that odd kind of pro-business corporate-friendly Democrat that has been such trouble on HCR: Lieberman, Bayh, Lincoln, et al. So you can run locally as not one of those typical Democrats — which you sort of need to do to win — by triangulating against _corporate_ Democrats.

    In blue states I want to see liberals, and I’m OK with corporate-friendly liberals like Schumer and Dodd and Corzine. In red states I’d _like_ to see liberals, but I’ll settle for populists.

  56. 56.

    jl

    March 17, 2010 at 3:26 pm

    If the O’Bamas were really Irish, it would be green beer fountain, available for public dipping and drinking.

    Need to tweet bomb that idea out in time for next year!

    In edit: also need to bring back public eating of a ‘great cheese’ in the WH. If it was good enough for Jefferson and Jackson, should be good enough for the O’Bamas? Or are they snooty?

  57. 57.

    Mark S.

    March 17, 2010 at 3:31 pm

    From the Corner:

    All this is explained by the Left’s Lakoffian tendency to view all conservatives as either cynical puppetmasters or hypnotized Tea Party drones — as either evil or stupid.

    Why does it have to be either/or?

    (And I have no idea who Lakoff is.)

  58. 58.

    cleek

    March 17, 2010 at 4:03 pm

    @Mark S.:

    And I have no idea who Lakoff is.

    that can’t be true.

    the piece you linked to links to a Corner essay on teh Left and Lakoff, the first paragraph of which is:

    If the American Left believed in sainthood, they would have resolved to beatify George Lakoff by now. They adore the Berkeley linguist as an intellectual hero. His brilliant innovation, as they see it, has been to harness the power of cognitive science to unlock the mysteries of conservatism — that dreaded mental disorder that plagues the brains of half the country.

    since it’s well-known that you (and all the rest of teh Left) adore him and believe he is a brilliant innovator, it simply defies belief that you don’t know who he is !

  59. 59.

    asiangrrlMN

    March 17, 2010 at 4:33 pm

    Saw Doctors, Bitches. And, thanks to Max on Twitter, I have an insatiable craving for a Shamrock Shake. So, to celebrate my black (hair) Irish history, I may have to drive to Mickey D’s for the first time in….six months? Something like that.

    @cleek: Well, that I am not from the American Left, either, as I have never heard of the guy.

  60. 60.

    J. Michael Neal

    March 17, 2010 at 4:36 pm

    @lamh31: I wonder if Jane realizes that she just undercut her argument that Dave Weigel lied yesterday.

  61. 61.

    Marc

    March 17, 2010 at 4:36 pm

    Somehow I doubt that Hamsher would be enthusiastic about moving to Cleveland. Granted, the people of Cleveland would be even less enthusiastic about voting for her…

  62. 62.

    JGabriel

    March 17, 2010 at 4:37 pm

    Edited and Reposted due to moderation. Please don’t release from queue.

    .

  63. 63.

    JGabriel

    March 17, 2010 at 4:39 pm

    As liberal sociaIist Democrat commies, we should be waging a WAR on St. Patrick’s Day, not celebrating it!

    Harumph.

    .

  64. 64.

    Mark S.

    March 17, 2010 at 4:41 pm

    @cleek:

    You’re on to me.

    Now if you will excuse me, it’s back to work on my George Lakoff mural.

  65. 65.

    celticdragonchick

    March 17, 2010 at 3:50 pm

    @freelancer:

    I don’t think that many Irish Catholics had the means to own a fishing boat.

  66. 66.

    Dee Loralei

    March 17, 2010 at 6:28 pm

    I can’t beleive no one’s yet linked to this song today No one as Irish as Barack O’Bama. And you people call yourself Obots, sheesh.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Xkw8ip43Vk&feature=related

    There was a better video by Drew Hardy and the Nancy Boys, but I can’t find it.

  67. 67.

    Jager

    March 17, 2010 at 7:17 pm

    At one in the morning on a St Patrick’s Day, C, my lovely Irish-Portuguese girlfriend and were I drunk in a parking lot in South Boston. C’s best friend was attempting to un lock her car and had plans to drive it. We stopped her, we hailed a cab. I woke up in the morning in bed with the both of them. Sadly, the three of us had only removed our shoes. And to think, I could have had a St Patrick’s day story for the ages! BTW, have you ever had anyone sit in your lap facing you? That was my lovely C’s favorite thing to do while drunk in a public place…should have married her!

  68. 68.

    DougJ

    March 17, 2010 at 11:58 pm

    @Jager:

    Nice story.

  69. 69.

    Paul in KY

    March 18, 2010 at 1:11 pm

    Back around 1990, I saw The Pogues in concert at Bogarts in Cinn, OH. Shane McGowan & whole band (must have been about 8 or 9 of them).

    Great concert, had a mosh pit, etc.

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