I’m cranky, run down, tired, and spent. On top of that, I just looked at my Netflix Instant queue and that gave me anxiety it was so full. I’m remembering why I got rid of my DVR.
Add to that yet another day on the phone with Experian, and you get an idea what kind of mood I am in. I need to get that address issue resolved so I can have access to the website paypal account and pay for the website maintenance/upgrade.
On the upside, LauraW, Ahab, and Evelyn are working on some new stuff for the Balloon juice store.
Restrung
just heard a complaint from a store owner about Obama raising taxes on the middle class. Apparently they have to pay county property taxes at the store. I pointed toward downtown, but didn’t have the heart to say it was that freak Pawlenty’s fault.
(not sure about commercial, but my property tax went down slightly this year. )
jeffreyw
Mrs J brought a little work home with her today.
beltane
The primary results tonight should be interesting, Delaware in particular. Maybe an O’Donnell win will put you in a better mood.
Restrung
@jeffreyw: Sweet! I’m feeling better already.
little guy’s got a booboo?
Allison W.
Harry Reid will include DADT repeal AND the DREAM Act in the defense bill next week.
Obama coming out with a kids book in November (after the elections). So the wingnuts and their leaders will have something to do.
Ahasuerus
Found a great new phrase on Fark which I must share: Congenital Derpies.
And cheer up, Cole. You could have gotten a finger shoved up your ass and a biopsy needle stuck in your taint. Now that’s a good day.
jeffreyw
This was tasty.
Roger Moore
So are you starting to think that maybe PayPal is only a small-time operator in the evil department?
Davis X. Machina
And Ben Nelson will take it right back out again. If I was up for re-election this year, I wouldn’t bother to run. The game isn’t worth the frickin’ candle.
Davis X. Machina
@Ahasuerus: That’s just innuendo.
Ahasuerus
@Davis X. Machina: An Italian suppository?
Corner Stone
@Ahasuerus: W…T…F…?
R-Jud
@jeffreyw: Meow meow meow meow!
I was diagnosed with asthma yesterday. My GP reckons I’ve had it for years. Apparently, it’s also the cause of my chronic sleep problems, because using the inhaler helped me sleep like a baby last night. So, you know, if you feel panicky and breathless when you lie down at night, and also have coughs that stick around for weeks, the two things might be related.
@Restrung:
People just don’t understand that there are different levels of government, do they?
Lev
All these ads for Meg Whitman’s plan for California are beginning to get to me. Since she only deigns to communicate to us people via ads and never says what her plan entails, I can only assume that her plan is akin to Nixon’s Vietnam Plan. It’s not like it would be too hard to turn the state around, but it would basically involve dismantling the prison state, dumping all the Reagan-era tax garbage and the budgetless ballot propositions, and if we could get some help from the feds on legalizing illegal immigrants, hey, that’d help too.
Whitman doesn’t want to do any of this stuff, and the sad fact is that Jerry Brown doesn’t either. The fact that both of these people want this job despite the fact that Schwarzenegger is at Bush-level approval ratings, as bad as Gray Davis’s during the recall process and almost as bad as Pete Wilson’s late in his term strikes me as a form of insanity.
cat48
@jeffreyw:
Are you thinking about keeping Homer or is he just visiting?
Comrade Mary
@Ahasuerus: Speaking of fingers and needles shoved some place very private, this story is a gem.
Read on. It gets even better.
arguingwithsignposts
@jeffreyw:
At least it’s not a food pic. Your flickr is not good for my waistline, and I’m just lookin, dude.
BGinCHI
@Lev: Who in their right mind would want to be Gov of Cali right now?
The state needs to fake its own death.
srv
Get your Maggies yet, and what amp did you pick?
Mark S.
I used to think Colin Cowherd was an annoying dipshit and just one of the reasons I no longer listen to sports radio, but Jesus H. Christ:
God, I would be in favor of a nuclear “accident” at Bristol, Connecticut.
Lev
@BGinCHI: It’s hard to say. Neither of them actually talk much to the press about why they’re running or, indeed, about anything else. From what I can tell, they mostly agree on policy since Jerry doesn’t want to gut Prop 13 or change the 2/3 budget rule or change the proposition system, which are big drivers in our budgetary problems. I’m halfway hoping that Whitman wins and proves just as hapless at running the state’s GOP faction as Arnold has, and that in 2014 we get a real progressive Democrat who will actually do something. Actually, I am hoping that’s exactly what will happen.
Nancy Pelosi for California Governor 2014!
John Cole
@srv: I decided on a new tv and blu ray. I am going to wait after christmas, provided I don’t have to pay for more crowns, buy another stove, or whatever other bullshit keeps popping up.
Dreggas
Tea party float depicts Obama whipping a white teen
*facepalm*
arguingwithsignposts
@Mark S.:
Cowherd has long been the biggest douchebag in a stable of enormous douchebags.
lamh32
Okay,
I’m, confused, the WH seems to be keeping their line on the Bush taxe cuts, but it the Dem in Congress who are waffling. Can somebody explain to me, how it’s Obama’s fault if the Congress people are behind him? Is that his failure, or theirs? I guess I get it that it’s the head of the company who gets the blame for a companies success or failures, but still?
Anyway, if the Dems decide they don’t want to take up a vote on the tax cuts before the election, what options does the WH have?
Obama Defers to Pelosi on Tax Cuts
Dreggas
@lamh32:
Because it’s always Obama’s fault. If he just waved a magick wand and spoke in a firmer voice when saying “Klatu verata Nicto” then the congressional dems would fall in line.
Amanda in the South Bay
Fucking credit agencies, I hear ya on that one.
When I changed my name I also changed it with the credit agencies, which I don’t think I needed to do, but I just wanted to triple check my bases (plus I wanted to use that recent law that allows you to freely check your credit reports).
I ended up spending hours ripping my hair out in order to talk to a fucking human being, and I vaguely remember having to actually pay for the “free” credit reports, like having to give a credit card number and cancel a “subscription” to see my credit reports every month or something.
When the socialist/communist revolution happens, you know who’ll be up against the wall first….
And whats the BFD with your credit score going down if you check your credit reports continuously? It would be like my bank deciding to charge me fees for checking my checking account online every day to see if everything is kosher.
Lets see…credit agencies, Pay Pal, the RIAA/MPAA, who else is on the evil incarnate list?
jeffreyw
@cat48: So far it’s “for a couple of weeks”. Mrs J seems quite fond of him already so it’s gonna be a hard one to call. I see no problem with keeping him if she wants to.
arguingwithsignposts
@Dreggas:
He’s obviously not shoving his huge Bully Pulpit ™ down their throats hard enough.
General Stuck
LauraW? who is that. not the crazy kale lady, I hope:)
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
Lady Gaga, Champion
BGinCHI
@Lev: What happened to that SF coalition of Dems and GOPs that were getting together to fix the state’s structural (2/3) problem?
That kind of systemic problem is going to be really hard to fix.
Amanda in the South Bay
@Mark S.:
I remember when Cowherd did sports for KGW, the NBC affiliate in Portland, OR. Nothing about him seemed remarkable, but I guess douchebags come in all shapes and sizes.
debbie
Is this getting any notice beyond TPM?
http://www.talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2010/09/cashed-out_big_time.php#more
frustrated mama (formerly demo woman)
Gotta say being without a computer is frustrating. My son lent me his ipad which is great for watching tennis but it does not take the place of a computer.
This is one reason why I missed this site..
comment #6
comment #7
This was tasty.
General Stuck
@lamh32: Obama is being a bit snarky to a separate branch of government by giving them the go ahead to act where he has no authority.
The electioneering posturing bullshit is getting so deep, you have to have wings to stay above it. And Obama is not up for reelection on the wingnut wave chopping block. So they are likely not reading his bulletins much these days, other than where his veto pen might be.
geg6
Well, if it helps, John, Bennen seems to he saying that Bobo might have written something semi-sensible today. Hard to believe, but it almost tempted me to click until I remembered that I always lose IQ points when I click on a Bobo link.
Perhaps you are braver than I and will read it and let us know. Or perhaps DougJ should be tasked with this. He does seem to have a finely tuned antenna for Bobo bullshit.
13th Generation
Oh noes..Cole had another bad day. What will we do? What WILL we do?
freelancer
@13th Generation:
Apparently trolling him with inane blather is on the agenda, if your post is at all indicative.
Cris
I’ll admit that I haven’t been paying attention, but I’m surprised I haven’t seen any mockery of I Want Your Money. The description of the movie is hopelessly naive:
Somebody thinks he’s the Republican answer to Michael Moore.
13th Generation
@freelancer:
I know he’s got a lot of “#1 Fans” but give me a break. He does bitch a lot, he’ll be the first to admit it.
Lev
@BGinCHI: There are usually a few Republicans who are bought off every year to get to 2/3. There aren’t any Republicans in office that actually want to make it a simple majority that I’m aware of because then they lose their leverage. And voters in California generally support the 2/3 requirement because taxes would go up if it were just 1/2. Considering how much we spend on junk from ballot propositions and on pointless Wilson-era “law & order” bullshit I can’t really say I blame them. We have a hefty tax burden, which is something I don’t have a problem with personally, but it’s not like there’s no fat we can’t cut off first. But that would require taking on, say, the prison guards union. Which just doesn’t happen.
Of course, California politics is mostly filled with reprehensible and irresponsible people on both sides of the aisle. Now we’re going to get a governor who doesn’t want to fix our problems. Goody.
Bobby Thomson
@lamh32:
Now that’s how you do class warfare. People may argue that professionals in New York are less wealthy than Midwesterners making the same salary, but there’s no denying that people making $750K are well off, no matter where they live. Isolate the truly filthy rich and jack their top rates. Don’t stop at 750K either. Have another trigger at $5 million and one at $10 million. I haven’t crunched the numbers, but I wonder if you could pay for taxcuts to the two percenters (and more) simply by allocating it differently.
Unfortunately, just about everybody in Congress would personally get their rates jacked at 750, so it’s probably a nonstarter, but I can dream.
lamh32
Does this surprise anyone? Not me.
Dylan Ratigan: ‘I Consider Myself A Conservative’ (VIDEO)
Allison W.
@lamh32:
Not me. The only liberals I know of on that network are Keith and Rachel.
burnspbesq
@Mark S.:
“I used to think Colin Cowherd was an annoying dipshit”
You were right.
schrodinger's cat
@jeffreyw: Awww, he is adorable, his plan for world domination will have to wait till the boo-boo heals.
jeffreyw
Betty is just thrilled to see the new pups show up. Brother and sister bloodhound pups. Not sure which is which at the moment.
Mark S.
Nate Silver’s House projections are really dreary.
lamh32
Wow, as an African American, I’m not sure what to think about this story?
Famed Civil Rights Photographer Worked As FBI Informant
burnspbesq
Cole, you are in the perfect mood to watch a Mets – Pirates game. Drink after every mistake, and you will be unconscious by the fourth inning.
General Stuck
@Mark S.: I really wonder if Nate is not doing some reverse psyche fu to motivate complacent dem voters. A libtard Paul Revere. The Wingnuts are Coming, The wingnuts are coming. At least I hope so.
Keith G
@jeffreyw:
Bloodhound pups. Oh. Dear. God. Such adorable pups. Awesome.
Lev
@General Stuck: He could well be right, but I just don’t see some of those seats flipping. Chet Edwards is listed as a likely flip when the guy has gotten 2/3 of the vote in both Rep (’04) and Dem (’06 and ’08) years. And his model give Joseph Cao about even odds of holding on when it seems to me that he’s pretty much toast.
Maybe his numbers are right, I don’t know. But I noticed a few ones that seem to defy common sense to me.
stuckinred
@Keith G: Nice, dawg.
jl
IMIO, a large portion, though admittedly not all, of Cole’s recent problems stem from him not posting enough pet pics.
May the Wrath of Tunch consume me alive if I lie about this important matter.
Note: IMIO is ‘In My Infallible Opinion’
Betsy
@lamh32:
I wish we knew more details. It really explains why people in The Movement (be it civil rights, antiwar, women’s liberation, black power, student movement, gay rights…) so often were painted as irrationally paranoid (and sometimes, indeed, became quite paranoid). Is it still paranoia if someone really is
out to get youspying on you for J. Edgar Hoover?Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Allison W.: now joined by uber-establishmentarian Lawrence O’Donnell! I’m sure he’ll get great ratings, if he made enough money off West Wing to buy up a few thousand DVRs to record his own show.
Jbird
Good luck with Experian. Those guys own your life.
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/scocca/archive/tags/Experian/default.aspx
Cain
Oh, so you’ve been reading the “dude, you have no Quran” thread all day too huh?
cain
cat48
@jeffreyw
Love the cute puppehs; but Homer stole my heart. Cats are my favorite and I can’t have both.
Mary G
@jl: Yes! We need Tunch, Rosie & Lily pics in the worst way. My mom had a relapse and is back in the hospital. Jeffreyw’s blood hound pups and the kitty in the cast are the only things I’ve smiled at today.
AhabTRuler
Jeez, can’t a guy get a little credit for being ahead of the curve?
Jon H
The Guardian reports that the “Real IRA” is going to start targeting bankers.
I’m torn. But I look forward to being able to stigmatize Irish-Americans as being terrorists.
BruceFromOhio
There is payoff at the end of this bad dream. I had a local BruceFromOhio with a different middle initial on my Experian report for almost a decade. He was getting credit left and right using my credit history, and fucking it up by degrees. He started out small at HFC, and eventually graduated to Sears & Roebuck. And then started screwing it up.
So for as long as he was on my credit, and as long as it took to get it all figured out correctly, Experian has rock-solid data on me now and they know it. I figure I’m good for another ten years (though I will be checking annually on these incompetent motherfckers).
Laugh it off as test of the universe, and think about something else for awhile. It’s a marathon, not a sprint.
BruceFromOhio
@burnspbesq: ROFL
Emily L. Hauser/ellaesther
@jeffreyw: Aww! If Betty wants to run away from the pups and come home with me, she’s welcome!
burnspbesq
@Jon H:
The Real IRA = the gang that couldn’t shoot straight. They’re nothing but a pain in the arse, and Sinn Fein should rat them all out and we’ll be well rid of them.
And by the way, fuck you and the English horse you rode in on.
Jon H
@burnspbesq: ” the gang that couldn’t shoot straight. They’re nothing but a pain in the arse, and Sinn Fein should rat them all out and we’ll be well rid of them.”
Eh, they seem to be picking up in activity lately, blowing up a 250lb bomb in front of a police station in Derry not long ago.
“And by the way, fuck you and the English horse you rode in on.”
Hey, I’m just waiting to see if the teabaggers decide that the Irish are as big of a threat as the Muslims.
asiangrrlMN
@jeffreyw: Aw, kitteh and puppehs and food pr0n all in one thread? You do not play fair, man.
@Restrung: Dude. “It’s fucking Pawlenty’s fault” should just trip right off your tongue. It doesn’t matter what the topic is–that’s the right answer.
Kat
A lift for any sagging spirits out there:
Orphaned otter learns to swim in bath tub. Includes video.
asiangrrlMN
@Kat: Aaaaaw, that was so sweet and heartwarming. Thanks for sharing the video. I love otters. They are so cute.