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Human rights are not a matter of opinion!

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

So many bastards, so little time.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

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Trump’s cabinet: like a magic 8 ball that only gives wrong answers.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

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Republicans do not pay their debts.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

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  3. 3.

    mikefromArlington

    My neighbor wants to have words with you.

    So, anyone else in DC getting the Americans for Prosperity and 60 Plus ads slamming health care reform.

    It looks like the push for repeal is starting. I wonder if its just for repeal for repeals sake because of the politics or does the health insurance industry really want this repealed.

    Maybe the public is starting to realize they like what’s already taken affect and it’ll only get better so they need to start the attack now before people come to realize that hey, maybe the Democrats and a couple Republicans did us a favor by allowing this to vote and passing it.

  4. 4.

    Cheryl from Maryland

    The Redskins, my team, sucks so bad that I’m lucky the trick or treaters will prevent me from devouring a bowl of candy.

  6. 6.

    robertdsc-PowerBook & 27 titles

    My boss is a Cowboys fan. My supervisor is a Jags fan. The blood is going to flow tomorrow, lol.

    I’ll sit back and enjoy the fireworks while wearing my Tom Brady jersey. Heh.

  10. 10.

    quaint irene

    I’m lucky the trick or treaters will prevent me from devouring a bowl of candy.

    Fortunate you. The cold snap today kept down the gremlins. Got waaay too much surplus candy. Well, at least I can put the bag of Three Musketeers in the freezer. When we were kids, that’s how we liked to eat them.

    On another note. Don’t know what I’m more tired of hearing about. Mid-term elections or football.

  13. 13.

    Susteph

    this has been an almost perfect football day. my husband, the steelers, fan, is thrilled that cinci lost, and his stillers are on teevee tonight. i am ecstatic the jets lost and my beloved pats won (and for the next couple hours have the best record in the nfl). of course, you don’t want to be in our house on november 14th…

  18. 18.

    That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal

    Who the hell had the brilliant idea of hiring someone who can actually sing to do the national anthem at the baseball game?

  27. 27.

    JWL

    The Steelers should win, of course, but watch out for New Orleans. The Saints are still pretty good, and their pride is real close to being on the line in this one.

  38. 38.

    Davis X. Machina

    Brees…Roethlisberger.
    Roethlisberger…Brees.

    Is there any way they can both lose?

  41. 41.

    gbear

    Brett Favre needed 10 stitches in his chin after getting sacked in the 4th quarter today. Why doesn’t this upset me?

  43. 43.

    asiangrrlMN

    Please note to all asking about the pic I posted, it’s not me. It’s Margaret Cho. Check the URL.

    @Andy K: I thought you’d get a kick out of that. You’re a cutie.

    @morzer: Which one is you?

    @gbear: Now that I know he’s OK, it doesn’t upset me, either. I didn’t like seeing him getting carted off, but if he can talk right after the game, he’s fine.

  55. 55.

    asiangrrlMN

    @gbear: But as Troy Aikman explained to me, Favre has been treated special all his career. So, just because he sucks this year, he shouldn’t be treated any less special. That just wouldn’t be fair to Favre. Ka-plooey! That was my brain ‘asploding.

    @jl: He is a drama diva queen who thinks the world revolves around his gray badger, and he can suck it.

    @jl: He is a drama diva queen who thinks the world revolves around his gray badger, and he can suck it.

  56. 56.

    jl

    @asiangrrlMN: Hiya, asiangrrlMN. I am indifferent to Favre, so have no dog in this fight. But I have been curious about why you dislike Favre so much. Can you state your antipathy in 25 words or less?

  58. 58.

    jwb

    @asiangrrlMN: Those sound like wingnut talking points! “[Gooper politician] has been treated special all his career. So, just because he sucks this year, he shouldn’t be treated any less special. That just wouldn’t be fair to [Gooper politician].”

  59. 59.

    Greenhouse Guy

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Go Ron Kind! Kapanke would be terrible, I hope the La Crosse area wakes the f#** up and sends him back to just being a tax avoiding asshole.

  60. 60.

    asiangrrlMN

    @jl: So nice, I had to say it twice, apparently.

    FYWPWAVDARPF!

    @jwb: Hm. I never thought of that, but you’re right. It does! Aikman’s main point was that since we spent a bajillion dollars on Favre, making him the man, we couldn’t bench him–just because.

  61. 61.

    jl

    @morzer: Thanks for the clarification. I can’t see what is behind that tentacle, and , even so, forget, or maybe never occurred to me to wonder, whether you are the one or the other.

  62. 62.

    stuckinred

    Just for the sake of argument (I dislike the cheese heads and the purple people eaters equally) the dude has been way too much of a drama queen lately but he is one tough son of a bitch and he can throw the rock.

  64. 64.

    jl

    @asiangrrlMN: Our comments cross in the interwebspaces, like overloaded trucks aimlessly wandering the lonely byways of the high desert, skidding along surreal ice highways in the midsummer midnight heat.

    How tragical.

    But thanks for the explanation.

    Actually, I knew that much already. I thought maybe there was more to it.

  65. 65.

    asiangrrlMN

    @stuckinred: To the opposition!

    @Linkmeister: Our last president, apparently.

    @jl: That was lovely. It’s also how much fluffing he gets from the announcers and media. He simply doesn’t deserve it. I know that’s not his fault, but still, it’s enough to make me resentful. And, the whole stupid retiring/unretiring thing every year.

  66. 66.

    jl

    @jl: that should probably be low desert. I don’t think there is such a thing as hot night in the high desert.

  68. 68.

    Andy K

    @asiangrrlMN:

    And, the whole stupid retiring/unretiring thing every year.

    Not saying you’re wrong, because I’ve been saying that for years…But I don’t recall you bringing it up last year. Not that you didn’t, but I don’t remember that being the case.

  69. 69.

    Bill Murray

    The University of Iowa basketball program just announced they committed a recruiting violation by letting some recruits meet with Ashton Kutcher and Demi Moore a couple of weeks ago at an Iowa football game. That would make me not want to go to a school

  71. 71.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Andy K: Oh, believe me, I did. I have hated it since he did it to you guys. I think it was really unfair of him to do that to the team and to Aaron Rodgers. It was incredibly selfish of him. I did not want him in the first place, and I wanted him to retire after last year.

    @Bill Murray: Ditto. I would run like hell from any school that introduced me to them–argh! Troy P. as a fucking clown? That just ain’t right!

  75. 75.

    jl

    @asiangrrlMN:

    I can see your point of view. I am so indifferent to off field football drama that such stuff does not bother me.

    “And, the whole stupid retiring/unretiring thing every year.”

    I figure he is drama queen. Or he just has no idea at all what to do with himself if he is not football star number one, so desperately tries to get his creaky old bones and injuries in shape to play each year, and puts off actually thinking about whether he can play for as long as possible.

    Or maybe he is shopping it around as an idea for a reality show.

    He seems to me to be a fairly oblivious and dim Gulf Coast jock. But then I never followed his doings enough to know and what I just said might be very unfair.

  78. 78.

    asiangrrlMN

    @jl: You are spot-on, actually. I wouldn’t be surprised if he did have a reality show once he actually retires from football (please let it be this year). Ugh. How are you doing? Did you hike this weekend?

  79. 79.

    Noodlearmed UDFA previously 2liberal

    The cardinals might have won today if coach whuz showed half a brain and started anderson instead of that noodle armed rookie UDFa. THe Udfa threw 2 pick-6’s and then FINALLY anderson came in and played pretty well until the last couple of minutes when HE threw away the game with a couple of picks.

  80. 80.

    jl

    @asiangrrlMN: I took a city hike in the rainy drizzle to scout out last minute advice for Cole’s trip to the Big City.

    A walk along the Embarcadero from Fisherman’s Wharf to the Giants stadium would be nice. But I will save details that for my last minute hectoring and whining to Cole before he leaves on his trip.

    What’s up in MN? Cold enough for you yet?

    Are you in football or baseball mode tonight? Or both?

    What wuz U fer Hallowee, if anything?

  84. 84.

    freelancer

    Seriously, this ump has the most arbitrary Strike Zone ever. For both teams, it’s tight, it’s tight, it’s tight, everything is a ball, and then that Buster Posey AB, that last pitch was SO outside.

  86. 86.

    asiangrrlMN

    @That’s Master of Accountancy to You, Pal: Oops. I thought he meant who threw the first pitch.

    @jl: I don’t think Cole would enjoy Fisherman’s Wharf. He doesn’t seem to be a people-person. But, Embarcadero is nice, indeed. And, what a gentleman you are to check out places Cole might like, and in the drizzling rain, no less!

    I went to a party last night. I was a foulmouthed fifties housewife, and my beehive was the hit of the party. I will have pictures on my blog soon. How about you?

  90. 90.

    South of I-10

    Back from trick or treating with the scary pirate in time to say “Go Saints”! I really wish I could share some of this candy over the Internet, it’s got to get out of my house!

  91. 91.

    JWL

    Home plate ump Winter is ticking everyone off. As the Giants brilliant announcing crew (KNBR) has pointed out, it’s kinda funny. On every pitch, either the pitcher or hitter is pissed.

    Winter also has a “shortest fuse in the majors” reputation.

  92. 92.

    Redshirt

    I like the Steelers ball control. That’s an unsexy but critical part of the game: Get a lead, then milk the clock. Keep the other team’s offense off the field, and when they do get a chance, they’re pressured by time.

    Thus: Run – Screen – Slant

  95. 95.

    jl

    “what a gentleman you are to check out places Cole might like, and in the drizzling rain, no less!”

    Well, actually, I was going by there anyway. And I am not trying to help Cole, but I figured as long as I was going by there I would think about ways to harass him about the trip before he left. In other words, what I said about helping was at best deep snark, and might be interpreted as a damn lie, if one were to be uncharitable. I am also looking for ways to mouth off about this very odd place (SF Bay) in the comments, and Cole’s trip gives me an excuse.

    Your costume sounds cool. I will check your blog. I like your blog, by the way, and been meaning to mention it, but I procrastinate a lot. I will look for the pics.

    I was a total slacker for Halloween. I thought I had a some kind of costume in a bag in the closet. But all I could find was a bag of semi random costume parts. So put them on and went as nothing in particular. Some people thought it was funny, but the party was about eating and drinking, not costumes, really.

  96. 96.

    JWL

    Redshirt: You would have loved the Schula/Kick/Czonka Dolphins (or maybe you did). I bet you’re from the midwest.

  97. 97.

    asiangrrlMN

    @jl: Ah! You’re doing it to rankle Cole. Even better. Thanks for the compliment on my blog. I’ve been slacking lately, though. I need to get my flat-ass in gear. I like your idea of a random costume. I think it’s clever!

    And, am I watching a baseball game or a football game? 3-0 at halftime? Embarrassing.

    @South of I-10: I would take your candy from you if I could.

  98. 98.

    JWL

    Adults who horn in on Halloween are a pain in the ass. It should be as it used to be: a holiday for children.

  102. 102.

    Redshirt

    @JWL: And they foolishly waste ball control in the last minute of the half. The Steelers are within field goal range with 1:30 left, throw it three times and give the Saints the ball on the 40. Nice.

    Run it once there and you’ve got the half hour even if you miss the field goal.

  105. 105.

    South of I-10

    @asiangrrlMN: Two big bags of candy, I can resist the stuff that is not chocolate, but there is a lot of chocolate in there! Weird quirk that I have been getting a hard time about all night: I love peanuts, I love chocolate, but never together.

  107. 107.

    JWL

    You got a point, no doubt about it. But adults can party 365 days of the year, if they’re so inclined. Halloween used to be exclusively a fun day reserved for kids. I liked it like that.

    But I guess you’re right…

  109. 109.

    jl

    @asiangrrlMN: It wasn’t clever, it was lazy. I was in a Walgreen’s earlier in the day, and saw a some people buying some interesting costumes, but thought ‘Naw, I have something at home’.

    I’ve been reading your blog every once in awhile at a very leisurely pace so haven’t worried about seeing new stuff, but now that I know you have mad b*tch housewife costume pics, I will nag you about posting it.

  110. 110.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @asiangrrlMN: Weirdly, I have won costume contests in the past. KGB officer: old suit, overcoat from the 1930’s inherited from my grandfather, and Russian army fur hat.

  112. 112.

    asiangrrlMN

    @jl: Heh. I used to blog every day, but then I didn’t, and now I’m out of the habit. To be fair to me, it’s hard to blog 2,500 words every day (the average length of one of my entries). I didn’t take the pics, so I cannot post them until my friend emails them to me.

    @Omnes Omnibus: Nice! Pics?

    @South of I-10: Yes. My hair is waist-length, and I ratted the hell out of most of it and then shaped it into a beehive. I had people touching it all night because they couldn’t believe it was real (and all mine). Oh, and I’ve done it before in high school for a musical, but my hair was only shoulder-length then.

  113. 113.

    jl

    @JWL: I don’t see how late evening grown up parties with dumb ass costumes are horning on Halloween. It is just a random holiday party, an excuse to eat bad food, drink, and horse around, except you are supposed to wear a costume.

    Adults who hog all the complimentary kids candy jars at the drug store or go trick or treating themselves are horning in.

    And, IMJVHO, any adult who might find themselves in charge of kids on Halloween night has to practice their Halloween chops. Otherwise you forget how it is done.

  115. 115.

    Anne Laurie

    @JWL: __

    Adults who horn in on Halloween are a pain in the ass. It should be as it used to be: a holiday for children.

    Hey, since the Spousal Unit and I were married by a High Priest of the Church of the Goddess (Wiccan), this is as close to a High Holy Day as I get. And you don’t see me bitching about non-pagans of all ages running around using it as an excuse to get high (on sugar, for the younger participants) and run around making fools of themselves, do you?

    Any “holiday” that makes so many people excited & happy to be around other people is a good thing, in my view. Those who don’t like it can go suck a pickle with the “Jesus is the reason for the season” Christianists, off in a darkened room at the far end of the hallway where you won’t spoil it for everybody else!

  118. 118.

    JWL

    Ok, OK. Geez, it’s not like I called it a democratic party plot to lure Americans into Satan’s snare.

  119. 119.

    jl

    @asiangrrlMN:

    Hey I just checked your blog, where are the PICS? Huh? Huh?

    Actually, I don’t think I looked at your blog since the De-si-i-i-re! post. I thought, hey, her blog is like that big city sophisticated Balloon Juice: I am in way over my head.

    PS: I am impressed by your costume dedication. Sounds like that beehive was a real effort.

  122. 122.

    That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal

    And I just spent the last ten hours, with occasional breaks for Balloon Juice commentary, copying tables out of a .pdf of the Price Waterhouse commentary on the International Financial Reporting Standards and pasting them into Notepad. Then I add tab delimiters and blank lines into them and then loaded them into Excel. Once there, I recreated the formatting from the .pdf.

    These are the exciting things I’m doing for my former professor. Most people couldn’t take the excitement of my life.

  124. 124.

    That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal

    There have been two close plays at first base, one called safe, one called out, both wrong, and both screwing the Rangers.

  125. 125.

    asiangrrlMN

    @jl: My hair: Yes. I killed the ozone for it. I haven’t used that much hairspray in twenty years. Oh, you asked about the weather. It’s never cold enough for me.

  126. 126.

    South of I-10

    @asiangrrlMN: Good lord woman, that is a lot of hair to get in a beehive, I really am impressed!

    @Anne Laurie: We went trick or treating with six 6-10 year old girls. I am constantly amazed at the amount of noise/enthusiasm raised by them. Now I know they were just celebrating your anniversary! The chocolate was good too.

  130. 130.

    JWL

    Perhaps the karmic stench of the Bush family has stung the eyes of first base ump at inopportune times from the Rangers point of view.

    Nothing bang-bang about that double off Torres bat that scored Renteria, though. Was there?

  131. 131.

    That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal

    How about honoring the atheist troops, you jackasses.

    Or play The Battle Hymn of the Republic, which is at least a kick ass song.

  132. 132.

    asiangrrlMN

    @South of I-10: Yes. And it seemed like twice the hair to get OUT of the beehive! And I did a modified one in which I just ratted the hell out of my hair and then combed it up and over (no complicated swirling). As I was washing it out, I kept finding hidden bobby pins all over. It really was a masterpiece.

  135. 135.

    Tom Levenson

    May I simply say that any day on which the ‘boys lose is a good one?

    Go Giants, also, too. (The Nancy Pelosi baseball ones, engaged in contest with the George Bush Texans.)

  136. 136.

    South of I-10

    @asiangrrlMN: That always sucks when you are trying to find Bobby pins in your head at the end of the night. I am out, I have parent/teacher conference early in the a.m. Yes, I am old.

  137. 137.

    jl

    @That’s Master of Accountancy to You, Pal: Hope you tried copying all the table junk out of the tables and into a text file, and then importing into excel first. Unless the tables are really weird, a little find/replace for special characters in the text file and the import wizard can do a lot of work for you.

  138. 138.

    That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal

    @jl:

    Hope you tried copying all the table junk out of the tables and into a text file, and then importing into excel first.

    I’m pretty sure that that’s what I described doing. I did have to add delimiters, because PWC likes itself some bizarrely formatted tables.

  141. 141.

    Mark S.

    @asiangrrlMN:

    But as Troy Aikman explained to me, Favre has been treated special all his career. So, just because he sucks this year, he shouldn’t be treated any less special. That just wouldn’t be fair to Favre. Ka-plooey! That was my brain ‘asploding.

    Dr. Z of SI a couple years ago was rating TV announcers and he related one game where Troy Aikman said that an interception wasn’t Favre’s fault because the wide receiver didn’t get open. No mention that maybe Favre shouldn’t have throw the ball if the receiver wasn’t open.

  143. 143.

    That's Master of Accountancy to You, Pal

    @jl: Mostly just bolding things, getting the column widths right, and adding borders.

  144. 144.

    fucen tarmal

    well, that sucked. at least no one will refer to the bengal game as a trap game…

    celebrate ohio, the team you hate more than you love yourselves(and who can blame you) has been defeated.

  146. 146.

    Ron

    Oh Heath…what did you do there? Sure, Ben threw an INT later, but scoring 10 points in basically the last 2 minutes wasn’t a terribly likely possibility anyway.

  147. 147.

    General Stuck

    Po Stillers, can’t even win in NO, where just last week the Browns crushed the reigning SP champs.

  148. 148.

    JWL

    The Saints just may have gotten back on track with tonight’s game.

    A Philly columnist I read a week or so ago stated that if the Phils couldn’t beat 21 year old rookie Madison Bumgarner, the team didn’t deserve go to the World Series (they didn’t).

    That would be Madison “8 Inninngs Of Shutout Ball In Game 4” Bumgarner.

    “America, meet Mr. Bumgarner. Mr. Bumgarner, permit me to introduce you to America”….

  151. 151.

    catclub

    @JWL:
    “The Saints just may have gotten back on track with tonight’s game.” Isn’t that what everyone was saying after they crushed
    Tampa Bay – and then got hammered by Cleveland?

    Go Pelosi’s Giants!

  152. 152.

    passerby

    Sorry John. This season the Stillers were on track– without and with Ben. Saints have been, at times, sucking wind this season. But tonight…Saints lucked out.

  153. 153.

    JWL

    I watched maybe 3 minutes of tonight’s game, and have paid scant attention to the NFL this year. I do know it’s been a very weird season thus far, front runners-wise.

    It’s still baseball season. The Niners are adrift, but the Giants are inspired– and I’m one game away from from experiencing my team winning a World Series title for the first time in my life.

  155. 155.

    p.a.

    I don’t know if it’s on youtube yet, but check out Randy Moss’ post-loss news conference. Talk about buyer’s remorse! He may snap before the season ends.

  156. 156.

    gbear

    @p.a.: Moss is the other reason I don’t want to watch the Vikes. He was a dick the first time he was here and everyone was glad to see him go. I couldn’t believe it when they brought him back. I hope he snaps. At least that will be fun to read about.

  157. 157.

    Brian S (formerly Incertus)

    @passerby:

    But tonight…Saints lucked out.

    No, the Saints played to their potential, which they haven’t always done this season. And they did so in a game without either of their starting RBs or CBs, which says something about the level of talent on the team as a whole.

  158. 158.

    passerby

    @Brian S (formerly Incertus): No, the Saints played to their potential, which they haven’t always done this season.

    Yeah you’re right Brian. We Saints fans have been let down by what we perceive to be a less-than-potential showing. Reggie’s hurt, Tracy Porter’s hurt et al. But Cleveland whipped our butts last week and no one could explain why. No one could explain the dejected look in Drew Brees’ eyes.

    Tonight was a do-or-die type of game. And we Did. But…which Saints team will show up next week? Fingers are crossed.

  159. 159.

    Darkrose

    @JWL: From your lips to the baseball gods’ ears.

    That was beautiful to watch, especially with the Bushes in attendance.

    Now I shall go have another Rally Cupcake. I do wish I’d had my phone on me at Safeway, though, because the Brian Wilson cupcake cake was possibly the scariest thing I’ve seen in some time.

  161. 161.

    ET

    Thank goodness. Saints won. Sorry John but I just can’t root for the Steelers if they play my hometown team. Just can’t.

  163. 163.

    asiangrrlMN

    @p.a.: I refuse to watch that man do anything (other than play football, and only because I have to if I want to watch the Vikes). I agree with gbear. I loathed him the first time he was here, and I still do.

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