I suppose it is too late to build an ark, but we are on day four of rain here. We needed rain, but it would be nice if it could be spaced out a bit.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.
Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.
Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.
But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.
“woke” is the new caravan.
The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.
I really should read my own blog.
A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.
Republicans can’t even be trusted with their own money.
And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.
If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.
Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.
Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.
The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.
Let’s not be the monsters we hate.
American History and Black History Cannot Be Separated
Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.
Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.
Republicans don’t trust women.
We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.
I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.
Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.
It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.
This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.
Michael D.
Wow. I just watched Pam Geller on CNN reacting to the mosque being proposed at the WTC site. More people like her need to go on TV so that Americans can see what bigotry and stupidity are.
Violet
We’ll take some of your rain down here. It’s hot, humid and miserable where I live and we haven’t had much rain this spring. I figure that means we’ll get a hurricane to make up for it.
When I woke up this morning at 6:30 a.m. (on a Sunday, ugh, couldn’t sleep), the outside temperature was 80 degrees. It’s so humid the windows are completely fogged on the outside from the air conditioning running inside.
I loathe summer.
donnah
Rainy here too, with thunderboomers last night. They were so loud I could hear them over the fan in our bedroom. So that explains why both cats were up on the bed…
SiubhanDuinne
John, I’ve been meaning to ask you: do you have a Rails to Trails near your new house the way you did before you moved? You used to put up pictures of Lily enjoying her romps and rolling around in smelly dead shit, but I haven’t seen you mention R2T in a long time.
Brien Jackson
We got big storms down here too overnight, with bigger ones on the way later today I believe. At least it’s supposed to cool things down, I’m so not ready for 90 degrees and 85% humidity.
SIA
@ Violet, oh thank you; I despise summer also and am already counting weeks until fall. However though still humid here in atl the air feels fresh and lovely and the sun and clouds are creating some great light effects. Not usually up this early. I couldn’t sleep either.
@ SiubhanDuinne is it pleasant up your way also?
Zach
Watching Gov. Haley Barbour on Fox News Sunday. He’s blaming the media for overhyping the spill’s effects on beaches, lauding Thad Allen’s response, etc. Says that when he asks BP or the admin to do something, they do it. Asked by Wallace to blame Obama for something, anything, he says that piling on is stupid but that the American people have made up their mind and done his work for him.
This guy (along with Crist, Perry, and AL Gov Riley) could be Obama’s biggest allies on this. It’s a problem of perception; getting four out of five affected governors to back your efforts could be huge.
SiubhanDuinne
@SIA: I haven’t been outside yet but it looks lovely and sunny. I love the colour of the morning light filtering through the green leaves of the tree outside my east-facing window. Before it gets too steamy I think I’ll take a walk around the little lake. Have a great Sunday!
Zach
@Michael D.:
You’ve got to be fucking kidding. Let’s check out Atlas Shrugged:
“Yugoslavia Death Camp Hoax”
“My question is, it is well known that Obama allegedly was involved with a crack whore in his youth.”
“I think he went for the drugs and came back with jihad.”
Oh, and she’s a birther who thought an article claiming that Obama was Malcolm X’s love child was credible.
Oh, CNN.
Lisa K.
@Zach:
I’m not sure, but I think that’s what he meant-put people like her on so America can, well, learn what bigotry really looks like by watching her.
asiangrrlMN
@SIA: Screw summer, bring on autumn, and then my favorite season–WINTER!
@Michael D.: That’s ALL we have on our American TeeVee. Why do you hate America?
El Cid
@Zach: It’s important to have ultra-right-wing voices who can make Urk Urkson look mainstream.
SIA
@ asiangrrlMN
Summers here in GA are so heavy and thick I turn into a slug. When cool then cold weather hits I can come alive again!
Michael D.
@Lisa K.: Don’t worry, I’m used to some of the idiots here reflexively taking something I write and twisting it into something it isn’t.
keestadoll
Weather continues washrag here in the Pacific NW
Michael D.
@Violet: Spring and Fall. Yay.
Winter and Summer. Blech.
Joe Bauers
Here in Indianapolis, we’ve had what seems like a straight month of hot/humid/rainy. Even when it’s not raining, you sweat through your clothes just standing outside in the shade for 10 minutes. The only thing I can remember worse was a July visit to New Orleans. But this morning it’s cool and dry.
And now I go to work in the yard before it gets horrible again. Yay!
demo woman
@Zach: You are a brave soul. I put fox on for about thirty seconds and saw a picture of the President and Barney Fife.
Brian J
I have to think that I’m very far behind on this news, due to the undying love of the movie here, but maybe not. Either way, for those of you who don’t know, there will apparently be a remake of the 1980s classic Red Dawn released this November. I don’t think I’ve ever seen the original, just bits and pieces here and there, but I’m eager to see this remake. After all, who wouldn’t want to see a movie where the Russians and Chinese armies combine to invade Spokane?
SiubhanDuinne
@Brian J: I never saw the original, and after reading the IMDb synopsis I b’lieve I’ll take a pass on the 2010 version as well. Thanks anyhow.
slapperina
It is tiresomely stormy around here. At least we didn’t get that tornado last night (although we never really get tornados here, just the occasional tornado warning).
John Cole
It stopped raining and is now becoming blistering hot with, I would guess, 94% humidity.
Brian J
@SiubhanDuinne:
You wouldn’t watch it even for the camp value? I mean, they choose to invade Spokane, Washington?
Joey Maloney
@Michael D.: Excellent blog-snivel, sir! You didn’t quite stick the dismount, but I still give it an 8.5.
slapperina
I just watched a cockatoo dance to Lady Gaga on CBS Sunday Morning. Anything to avoid David Gregory.
Zach
@demo woman: Yeah, exactly. Wallace was doing everything he could to play up the mess… pictures of oily dolphins and birds and descriptions of tar balls in Pensacola and Barbour’s like, “Yeah, is there any way you could blame that stuff on the President yet not scare away our tourists with your hyperbole?” The spill’s a huge problem, obviously, but economic damage resulting from convincing folks that it’s coating the entire gulf coast and scaring them away all summer could cost more than anything else. Totally worth it if you can score some points against Obama and somehow convince yourself that the fucking Coast Guard is a partisan organization, though.
asiangrrlMN
@Lisa K.: The problem is that the bobblehead shows are FILLED with idiots like her, and no one seems to give a damn. I don’t see how giving more asshats like her TV time will change any of the dead-enders minds. I would rather have people see, say, Cole or TBogg for example so they can realize that the blithering idiots like Geller do not represent ‘real America’.
Maude
@Zach:
Wallace doesn’t like Obama. His feefees were hurt during the pimaries and he has been after Obama ever since.
Montysano
@Zach:
Assume that a large percentage of coastal real estate is already underwater (i.e. mortgaged for more than it’s worth), add in a probable 60-80% cancellation rate once oil starts washing up on beaches, and you’ve got an economic disaster. Places like Orange Beach, Alabama, which were IMHO already vastly overbuilt, may turn into ghost towns.
SiubhanDuinne
@Brian J #23: Oh, you’d be astonished at the number of things I have refused or declined or failed to do even for the camp value. Though I admit I might be slightly tempted if I had ever set foot in Spokane, which, sadly, I have not.
However, reading the IMDb synopsis led me to wonder if there might be any connection between the movie *Red Dawn* and the occasional “Wolverines!” comment I sometimes see around these parts, which always leaves me baffled. Well, that in turn led me to a very happy and productive tour of the BJ Lexicon, so the morning hasn’t been a total bust.
Nick
@Michael D.:
All they need to do is look in the mirror. We are wrong in believing putting people like her on TV will shame America, instead it just continues the brainwashing.
People like her need to be isolated and silenced
Nick
@Zach: Wallace was on our local Fox affilate’s morning show last week promoting Fox News Sunday and he actually said it was stupid to blame the President for “not showing enough emotion”
“Yelling won’t plug the hole, he’s not a superhero” he said.
First time i ever nodded at something he said.
Zach
@Nick: “Yelling won’t plug the hole.”
Let’s presuppose that this isn’t true.
Nick
@Zach: And while we’re at it, let’s presuppose there are baby unicorns dancing amongst the rainbows in Fairyland somewhere east of Topeka.
Let’s keep in mind we’re talking about a man who was told numerous times during the campaign that he was screwing it up, only to prove everyone wrong in the end. If he thought yelling would fix the problem, he would’ve done it long ago (also, he kinda did do it a few days after the rig burned if you remember).
He has proven to be a lot smarter about stuff like this than people give him credit for.
Felanius Kootea (formerly Salt and freshly ground black people)
@John Cole: You wanted it to stop raining – it stopped. Now you complain about the heat & humidity? Unbelievable.
/FSM ready to smite u with a noodly appendage or send hail
Steeplejack
@Brian J, @SiubhanDuinne:
The only respect in which Red Dawn really “holds up” is that it’s one of those movies you see occasionally that has a surprising number of well-known actors who were at or near the start of their careers–Patrick Swayze, Charlie Sheen, Jennifer Grey, C. Thomas Howell, Lea Thompson. Sort of like St. Elmo’s Fire with guns. And you’ve got some good grizzled veterans backing things up–Ben Johnson, Harry Dean Stanton, Powers Boothe, Ron O’Neal (Superfly!).
It’s an okay B-movie action flick. Requires you to accept a huge macguffin to get going–the Russkies invade Nowhere, Colorado!–but it moves along pretty well. But I realize it’s now unwatchable for a lot of people because of the Freeper patina it has acquired. Wolverines!
I looked at the IMDB page for the new one and was sorely disappointed to see that it’s not a Michael Bay opus. I feel that only he could really do it justice.
frankdawg
Not to start anything – this is a semi-serious question: Does anyone here actually enjoy the drawing dufuses?
I find their bits sort of annoying and feel dumber after watching them. So I was wondering if anyone here likes them & could explain their appeal in case I am missing something.
Those guys & the great and powerful Ben Stain get the automatic mute button.
Steeplejack
@frankdawg:
Drawing dufuses? Wha’? Are they on one of the Sunday morning shows?
frankdawg
@Steeplejack:
While there is a surplus of duffuses on Sunday shows on this particular show “CBS Sunday Morning” There a a particular team of guys that draw crap on white boards etc that, I can only assume, are supposed to enlighten us.
Its sort of like those UPS commercials
Cain
Raining hard in portland. We had a one day reprieve yesterday when we had lovely sunny weather, it turned cloudy by the end of the day though. I woke up this morning to rain. Glad I spent the day weeding yesterday. More stuff to do unfortunately. I really want to put in some nice new plants in our rental home.
cain
Poopyman
Rain? Is that what you people in WVa call it? It moves SE and all of a sudden 21 Maryland counties are under a tornado warning. I’ll take plain ol’ rain, plz.
(I can’t figure out which 2 counties are not under the warning. Must be the ones on the Atlantic coast.)
Oh, and it’s already been +90 and humid. Hope the tornados cool things down a bit.
Svensker
@Michael D.:
The fact that that woman can be on a “respected” television network show at all is simply astounding. Imagine if CNN put on David Duke to talk about his views — heads would roll. But if you’re a fucking bigot about Arabs and Muslims it is acceptable discourse. Assholes.
Elie
@Nick:
While on the narrow issue of whether yelling will plug the hole, I totally agree that it would not, of course.
That said, I am more concerned about the President and his team squandering a real opportunity to reset the paradigm around the role of the private sector and government — of the nature of responsibility and accountability — of starting to correct the many fallacies we have about the “rightness” of the corporate sector, its ability to take care of us as compared to the government — that “hands off” government is the best kind… He HAS to start doing that very strongly very soon.
We have continued very hard times ahead and both the financial and now the energy private sectors are vulnerable in ways that we have not seen in years… he must seize this — NOW… as per Frank Rich’s column today…
I as most people know here, have been a strong supporter of the President’s. I am not blind however. I see time is passing and indeed, I am waiting to see his administration coalesce more strongly on what he wants the central theme of his leadership of our very troubled nation. No doubt he has been challenged in ways no other Executive has in a while.. How does he want to leave his mark? Time is passing…he will not have forever to make that decision on how to proceed…
Elie
And the weather in Northwest WA state sucks…we are on day 5,000 of rain and more rain… Everything has moss on it… its driving me crazy
Elie
I’ve decided that this margin thing is related to posting a comment. My margins are fine until I post a comment and then its fucked and stays fucked…