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A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

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

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

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

They’re not red states to be hated; they are voter suppression states to be fixed.

This blog will pay for itself.

Infrastructure week. at last.

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

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

The willow is too close to the house.

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  3. 3.

    DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    Yes, there is an FEC record where it shows up. I don’t know if shows up that you gave through this blog, if that’s what you’re worried about.

    If you’re worried about anonymity, give to a 501c of some kind (I wish I could tell you that I was kidding here).

  4. 4.

    MikeJ

    @arguingwithsignposts: If it’s a donation to a candidate, it will show up in FEC filings. You can download previous years from their website, browse maps showing who your neighbours gave to, etc.

    Or you can get a few million together, run your own ads and tell the FEC to piss up a rope. Rules are for little people.

  5. 5.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @arguingwithsignposts: I believe so. I’ve googled myself (and I’m not ashamed to admit it) and seen my name come up with donation totals. Sometimes I get totals for all James MyRealNames in the country. If I’d given all that money, I’d be having dinner with the Obamas. Or not, since of a lot my co-nameds (there’s a fancy latinate word for that, isn’t there? unrelated people with the same name? I’m drawing a blank) are Republicans.

  7. 7.

    Steve

    Sadly, I sometimes catch myself yelling “to the house!” when one of my players breaks a long one. I guess I’m getting elderly just like Musberger.

  10. 10.

    Yutsano

    Dammit DougJ. I don’t get paid until Monday. It’ll have to wait until then. And no I’m not violating the Hatch Act by donating.

  11. 11.

    Steeplejack

    __

    I will give 50 bucks every time Brent Musberger says “takes it to the house.”

    Whoa, cowboy. You could go broke in the first half.

  15. 15.

    Yutsano

    @arguingwithsignposts: Mine is even less common, at least in the US (in Quebec I’d be more or less a Jones) so I appreciate your sentiment there. If you can’t give money give time, if you don’t have that then just vote your conscience.

  18. 18.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @arguingwithsignposts: The Foolish Literalists are an old and proud Irish clan…

    Seriously, I started giving candidates money in ’04, and if I had known my home address was being published, I don’t know if I would have started. That said, I haven’t gotten any hate mail or graffiti attacks, and the cat’s out of the bag now.

  19. 19.

    asiangrrlMN

    @arguingwithsignposts: My real name is pretty damn unusual, but I don’t need to worry about tenure or anything like that, so I don’t care.

    By the way, I am mulling an internet handle change. This is the teaser….

    I will think about giving to Russ Feingold. I like the way he got Sun Spots to spit out, “Disclose!”

  23. 23.

    asiangrrlMN

    Goddamn mofo FYWP with a very nusty pitchfork why do you keep eating my comment?

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    My real name is pretty damn unusual, but I don’t need to worry about tenure or anything like that, so I don’t care.

    By the way, I am mulling an internet handle change. This is the teaser….

    I will think about giving to Russ Feingold. I like the way he got Sun Spots to spit out, “Disclose!”

    @arguingwithsignposts: I hadn’t planned on it, but mayhaps.

  25. 25.

    asiangrrlMN

    Now, I try different link that is vaguely related to DougJ’s link (because the lead singer mentions Shane MacGowan and his teeth).

    ETA: The first song was disapproving of the Catholic Church. That’s why it was suppressed!

    ETA II: I fucking hate Joe Buck and Tim McCarver. Aargh!

  31. 31.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Barb (formerly Gex):
    It could be worse. At least where I am now there is a tenure decision. At another school I worked at, a prof was fired after 30 years for saying he believed the universe was older than 6,000 years. He was a *physics* professor.

    I may be overly sensitive, but it doesn’t hurt to be cautious at times.

  33. 33.

    suzanne

    Before I got married and added a Guido-tastic name to the end of it, my last name happened to be the same as that of one of Suzanne Somers’ more famous characters. So Googling me did absolutely no good at all, which was just fine with me. Unfortunately, now I’m all unique and shit, and I don’t want any crazy exes or Republicans to find me.

  36. 36.

    Steve

    It’s hard to get over the fact that your $10 donation is out there for the world to see, but corporations can spend millions in complete anonymity.

    Personally, I tend to give directly to candidates and the campaigns normally don’t report anything under $200. I’m not sure why I care, but I do have some embarrassing donations in my past (like Eric Massa).

  38. 38.

    mai naem

    @arguingwithsignposts: Your name doesn’t show up unless you donate more than either(I don’t remember the amount) – $100 or $200. I have an unusual name and I gave quite a bit to Dean in 04 and therefore my name shows up. Since then however, I have given a bunch of $25 donations and none of them show up.

  41. 41.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Steeplejack: Yeah, my schedule has been VERY erratic lately. I saw that! I actually thought of you when I saw TBogg doing the Texas two-step. Heh.

    However, he did NOT play my fave vid, so I didn’t keel over from heart palpitations.

  43. 43.

    General Stuck

    @Steve:

    When the other finance reform shoe is dropped by the supremes, even candidate and pol party donations will be anonymous and unfettered by limits. Once you declare money equal to free speech, all of it will be, sooner or later, safely ensconced in the first amendment. I just hope my ocean canoe will be finished in time.

  44. 44.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    Late to the party here (been busy) but John’s comment

    “If your reaction when you look at that face is not to squeal and think “I need to throw that some fish” you just don’t belong in the gene pool. What is wrong with people? God, people suck.”

    Can also be said for the people who looked at A BALD FUCKING EAGLE and said to themselves “hmmmm I think I will shoot that” that is why there are two of them in the Wildlife Exhibit at Grandfather Mountain cause some pond life thought when looking at a Bald Eagle (and two Golden Eagles too) “hmmmm I think I’ll shoot that”.

    As Cole said, they really don’t belong in the gene pool.

    As for the Feral cat thread we have a GREAT program here called “Operation Top Cat” where feral colonies on Topsail Island are managed.

    My local car mechanics shop (yes I know hard to believe, big burly car mechanics) manage a feral cat colony right behind their shop. It began when they had a feed store next door and the cats gathered there for broken food bags. After the feed store closed down the mechanics took over and began to feed the cats. Any given day you can walk into the waiting room and there are a couple of cats on the couches basking in the sun through the windows and dozens outside eating the food that they have left out. Each of the mechanics (and the owners) have taken half a dozen cats each home. Last time I was there the latest “taking home” candidate was a gorgeous torty who was luxuriating in the sun on the waiting room couch. Joey told me “she’s coming home with me this week”. I like hanging round with people like this and even if they were not brilliant (and honest) mechanics I would go to them for this alone.

  46. 46.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Litlebritdifrnt: That’s a great story about the mechanics and the feral colony. I would patronize their shop, too.

    And, yeah, people who shoot almost-extinct animals are asshats.

    @Steeplejack: Heh. I adore Sharleen Spiteri, but you know how I get about Alan Rickman.

    ETA: I just listened to the Hilton story for the first time. Brilliant!

  53. 53.

    suzanne

    @Omnes Omnibus: My former last/current middle name is the same as a former White House press secretary and a former Secretary of the Treasury, as well as a current Senator who pisses me off a LOT. I would LOVE to have a liberal pundit to share it. Would even things out a bit.

  54. 54.

    Craig

    Doug always brings the best music.

    (I wonder what the business and economics editor of that other publication listens to. Just kidding, I know it’s Rush.)

  62. 62.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    BTW Grumpy the Kitten is still Grumpy. She is coming around though and seems to view me less of an Ogre and more of “the nice lady that puts out food at the front door every day and gives me cat treats” It has not made her any less grumpy however, she just grumpily accepts the food and the treats, with a frown.

  67. 67.

    Yutsano

    @arguingwithsignposts: I’m related to a Canadian Senator, does that count?

    (Not the cool ones on ice in Ottawa, the other ones.)

    I’m also distant cousins with the Dionne quintuplets. Although fortunately not Celine.

  68. 68.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Yutsano:
    Have to say the Ottawa ones would be much cooler. :)

    And there’s about a 56-44 chance in the US senate that I’d think a relationship was worth it. If I was related to Mitch McConnell, I’m not sure what I’d do.

    ETA: I share a name with a hockey player, but he’s playing in Europe right now, so…

  72. 72.

    DougJ is the business and economics editor for Balloon Juice.

    @Bella Q:

    Try putting some pink Himalayan salt out. See if she eats it. Then make your decision.

  75. 75.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: Hopefully the same place November will soon be going so I can haz my night shift back. I woke up at 7 AM this morning. Voluntarily. I promptly swore then rolled right back to sleep.

  76. 76.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Yutsano: That sucks. I can’t wait until you are back on the night shift, too!

    Costume: Frilly apron, blonde pageboy, and stripper heels. Can’t forget the pearls. I might let someone take a picture if you all behave yourselves.

  83. 83.

    fucen tarmal

    my last name is so unique, nationwide i am related to everyone who has it, so its real hard in the age of google to stay anonymity disciplined…interestingly all my girl cousins who are married, not only took their husband’s name no-hyphen, but married men with very common last names…quitters….i like to donate straight cash a la homie.

  88. 88.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Hahahaha. Messing with your mind, I am. How am I going to juggle a cigarette holder, a martini glass, a Valium bottle, and a pitchfork, pray tell?

    Your bsdm servant carries the pitchfork. Duh! ;)

    eta: you have no more links, grrrl! hah! my mom was sentient in the ’50s. Lots of really crappy hair spray. that’s the word.

  90. 90.

    asiangrrlMN

    @arguingwithsignposts: You. Suck. I haz to make new answer. Hm. Very intriguing. Your newsletter, subscribe, etc.

    ETA: I know. I think I’m gonna do the beehive. I did it in a musical in high school, but my hair was shoulder-length then. I may have to buy two cans of hairspray. OOOOOh, and false eyelashes. Gotta do my nails. Being a girl is HARD.

    @Yutsano: Nice! And the ballgag.

    ETA: My niece wants me to be Bellatrix LaStrange, but I thought that would be too stereotypical.

  93. 93.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Steeplejack: Yes. You are right. I should have clarified. I don’t see how a fucking pitchfork can go with a 50s housewife costume, even one with stripper heels.

    And, beehive or bouffant. That’s what I figured.

    This is getting very intensive. Maybe I’ll just be a Galter. That’s much easier.

  94. 94.

    Steeplejack

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I don’t see how a fucking pitchfork can go with a 50s housewife costume, even one with stripper heels.

    Point taken. But still: boom-chukka-mow-mow!

  95. 95.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Steeplejack: What, I throw stripper shoes in a sentence, and str8 boys go nuts? I am going to be foul-mouthed fifties housewife with a broken ankle by the end of the evening. I never wear heels.

    Sigh. Maybe I’ll just go as Lady Godiva.

  97. 97.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @asiangrrlMN:

    What, I throw stripper shoes in a sentence, and str8 boys go nuts? I am going to be foul-mouthed fifties housewife with a broken ankle by the end of the evening. I never wear heels.

    The heels were never a draw for me, fwiw. I’d rather the rusty farm implements ™ :)

  98. 98.

    Steeplejack

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I’ve been jumping among threads playing catch-up. I saw “pitchforks don’t go with stripper heels” and thought “devil costume.”

    If you want ’50s authenticity, maybe take a ton of Miltown and then you won’t care (or notice) what you’re wearing.

  100. 100.

    Steeplejack

    @Steeplejack:

    Plus “boom-chukka-mow-mow” is my phrase for the day.

    I would like it to be “herp-de-derp,” which someone used in a sort of “Nothing to see here–move along” sense the other day. That cracked me up. But I see zero chance of that one getting legs.

  102. 102.

    Yutsano

    @Steeplejack: I don’t get it…maybe if I do the cornfuzzled dog head tilt thing it’ll help. Mmm…nope.

    Decided to cook since I have to leave the house tomorrow to do errands and such. That eliminates the Thai possibility as they’re closed. So I’m going Indonesian for lunch.

  105. 105.

    Steeplejack

    @Yutsano:

    Like I said, no chance of it catching on. It just sounded funny in context, because it had no context. It was the first or second comment on a post. . . . Damn, now I’m going to have to go look it up.

  106. 106.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN: Never had it, so I’m kinda excited to give it a sampling. IIRC there’s a bit more Indian influence and more grilled items over stir-fried. I’ll find out and give a thorough report on the morrow. And satay.

  108. 108.

    Steeplejack

    @Steeplejack:

    It was Zifnab!

    John Cole:

    Read this, and then think about the Notary bill that just got the kibosh.

    Zifnab:

    Nothing to see here.
    __
    Herp-de-derp.

    Genius, I tell you.

    Hmm, the Google tells me that Zifnab also used it on July 16:

    Unfortunately, the fact that you can quickly identify the DGA as the source of the ad indicates that the DGA has failed in whatever ratfucking they’ve attempted here. If they’d managed to smuggle the money into “The True Tea Party Patriots for Iowa” and gotten away with it, this would be a far more effective campaign.
    __
    Instead, we got a “Your candidate looks like us, so you’re dumb–herp de derp!”

    Perhaps we must await enlightenment from the author him- or herself.

  110. 110.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @asiangrrlMN: Madame Omnibus is not a tall woman; she loves heels and boots… and boots with heels… and boots without heels… and…. Anyway, my point is, she can actually run in heels; one is amazed at her many talents.

  114. 114.

    Yutsano

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Oh, and FYWP.

    This shall never be out of place anywhere.

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Anyway, my point is, she can actually run in heels

    Heels I think are one of the more under-studied causes for the feminist movement. I mean seriously, put all the load bear on the point of the toe and expect a woman to walk gracefully just to be alluring? I would riot if I were expected to manage shit like that.

  115. 115.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @asiangrrlMN: Bafta** then.

    **Bafta is a Romanian expression which combines a wish of good luck with a exhortation to kick ass. One does not respond with thanks or it will lose its effect. “Asa sa fie” (Asha sa fee-ah) or “So be it” (the English translation) are appropriate responses.

  118. 118.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Omnes Omnibus: Asa sa fie.

    @Yutsano: No shit. I hate them with a passion. So, I am trying to find a pair that I could actually wear more than once.

    @arguingwithsignposts: Well, it lengthens the calves and arches the buttocks, presenting an alluring sight to the male of the species. Supposedly. In reality, they just hurt like hell–especially for us bigger gals.

  119. 119.

    Carol

    @arguingwithsignposts: What school is that, and should it even be accredited?

    I know, I know about my website. But we’re aren’t trying to push it down people who want to learn physics dammit, and half of us believe it’s a philosophy anyway. We don’t believe the world is only 6,000 years old either.

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