Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I really should read my own blog.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

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

The willow is too close to the house.

The GOP is a fucking disgrace.

Meanwhile over at truth Social, the former president is busy confessing to crimes.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Jesus, Mary, & Joseph how is that election even close?

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

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

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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  3. 3.

    Violet

    What a cute girl! Such a sweetie! I want a Lily mug, but I have to wait until next week to order it.

  6. 6.

    JWL

    Today, ex Charger/49er linebacker Gary Plummer (current Niner radio color man) pointed out that the Niners are in contention for both a division title, and in the race to be awarded next year’s #1 college draft pick. That’s how pathetic the NFC West is this year.

    My God grant the next Niner head coach be an offensive guy.

    Go Niners….. (heavy, forlorn sigh)

  7. 7.

    Moses2317

    This lame duck session is our last chance to move progressive legislation for the next two years. This week would be a good time to call your Senators and Representatives on DADT repeal, unemployment benefits extensions, taxes, START, and approving President Obama’s nominees.

    More details and contact information available here

    Winning Progressive

  8. 8.

    El Cid

    If there was any question that Julian Assange loves the terrorists and wants to destroy American freedom, that question is now answered.

    In a rare interview, Assange tells Forbes that the release of Pentagon and State Department documents are just the beginning. His next target: big business.
    __
    Early next year, Julian Assange says, a major American bank will suddenly find itself turned inside out. Tens of thousands of its internal documents will be exposed on Wikileaks.org with no polite requests for executives’ response or other forewarnings. The data dump will lay bare the finance firm’s secrets on the Web for every customer, every competitor, every regulator to examine and pass judgment on.
    __
    When? Which bank? What documents? Cagey as always, Assange won’t say, so his claim is impossible to verify. But he has always followed through on his threats. Sitting for a rare interview in a London garden flat on a rainy November day, he compares what he is ready to unleash to the damning e-mails that poured out of the Enron trial: a comprehensive vivisection of corporate bad behavior.
    __
    “You could call it the ecosystem of corruption,” he says, refusing to characterize the coming release in more detail. “But it’s also all the regular decision making that turns a blind eye to and supports unethical practices: the oversight that’s not done, the priorities of executives, how they think they’re fulfilling their own self-interest.”

    It was one thing to expose, say, internal Saudi conversations on how much they’d like us to bomb Iran. Or our Pakistan envoy complaining how our policies there were making things worse.

    But if you threaten the Masters of the Universe in their pursuit of Galtian perfection, action will be taken. And not just some lawsuit somewhere. Maybe these releases made certain foreign policies more difficult. But now he will have cost the big guys money.

    And anyway, where could you possibly find an employee of a big bank who was pissed off enough to share internal documents? I think that must be highly improbable, given their inherent admiration for their own leaders.

  9. 9.

    Mike B

    Lily is just an Obot. I’ve never heard her say anything critical of Obama.

    There. I said it. It had to be said.

  10. 10.

    jwb

    @El Cid: “But if you threaten the Masters of the Universe in their pursuit of Galtian perfection, action will be taken. And not just some lawsuit somewhere. Maybe these releases made certain foreign policies more difficult. But now he will have cost the big guys money.”

    Assange will soon have an unfortunate accident?

  12. 12.

    Joseph Nobles

    I’ve really got to move my money out of Chase to a smaller bank. Moving the direct deposit is the chore that always delays my moving.

  15. 15.

    JCT

    @jeffreyw: Ah, that bites, we are always warning our none-too-swift beagle not to play with the “black and white” kitty.

    Doesn’t always work…….

  19. 19.

    maye

    my kid lost his bottom retainer. Can I just ignore it and let his bottom teeth go crooked instead of shelling out $250 for another one? Would that make me a bad mother?

  20. 20.

    Mike B

    @El Cid: I would very much like to see that dump of bank documents.

    …if Wikileaks (or Assange) is still around at that time.

    I don’t really see what this leak of diplomatic cables accomplished. I’m not on Wikileaks side on this one. But exposing the banks would make Assange a hero again in my book.

  24. 24.

    Annie

    @maye:

    No, you are not a bad mother. Let him learn early not to have a sense of entitlement. Just think of yourself as the government. He should not expect a handout. He should buck up and work in the free market for what he needs:)

  26. 26.

    Ross Hershberger

    @jeffreyw:

    Hydrogen peroxide and baking soda. Google for instructions. Works like a charm. Our Geezer tangles with the skunks several times a year.

  27. 27.

    jl

    @Mike B: I agree. I hope Wikileaks uses more judgment in what it releases. I do not see how some of their releases have added that much socially useful new information.

    Even much of the leaks on Iraq were not particularly new, at least to anyone who read foreign press, and did not automatically and mindlessly dismiss anything written critical of the second Iraq war.

    The only real purpose served by much of Iraq leaks was that Wikileaks managed to coopt that part of the press recognized as official and credible by the corporate US press as ‘serious’ into printing it up. All of a sudden much stuff that was more or less known, was now deemed fit to report and to discuss here in the US by the big media.

    I cannot even see that usefulness from this new leak, but admit it has not be thoroughly pored over yet.

    If Wikileaks follows through on the promise to release incriminating information from the malfactors of big finance, I think that would serve a very useful purpose.

  29. 29.

    WyldPirate

    @John Cole:

    Rosie just chewed the 300 dollar bite plate I had the dentist make so I would no longer grind my teeth.

    I blame Obama.

    On top of that, your plate wouldn’t cost that much if not for Obama punting on universal health care and you wouldn’t grind your teeth if he wasn’t such an ineffectual, lightweight of a President.

  31. 31.

    Lavocat

    Whenever I see this dog I immediately catch the earworm of The Who’s “Pictures of Lily”.

    Which, when you really think about it, is kinda sick.

  33. 33.

    General Stuck

    @John Cole:

    I had the dentist make so I would no longer grind my teeth.

    I used to do that, and wake the dead from snoring. Both went away for some reason.

  34. 34.

    Bob Loblaw

    @WyldPirate:

    You can attempt to get back in peoples’ good graces through self-deprecation, but I’m pretty sure it isn’t going to work. You’re a walking self-parody.

  35. 35.

    jl

    The post pic reminds me that my otherwise restful and relaxed Thanksgiving break was interrupted by a nightmare about a cat that appeared to be Tunch.

    In the dream I was wrestling with a gigantic slightly overweight (actually obese, but I don’t want to offend the host), and muscular, cat.

    But suddenly it got slightly annoyed and a gigantic Paw of Doom hurtled toward my head, like a battering ram.

    Then I woke up in a cold sweat. It still gives me the shivers.

    Don’t know why the cat that appeared to be Tunch in the dream got annoyed, it was winning the match. It was beating me up pretty bad.

  36. 36.

    maye

    Also, a valium at bedtime prevents teeth grinding. Any tranq will do. But not booze. When it wears off during sleep you’ll grind even more.

  37. 37.

    Maody

    @maye: when i threw my retainer away when my family moved south, my mother got furious for about, oh, 2 seconds. she rather liked that there was no longer that horrible lisp going on 24/7.

  39. 39.

    Comrade Luke

    Just a quick followup to yesterday’s conversation about Adam Carolla.

    Today’s guest: Andrew Breitbart.

    I’m not even kidding.

  40. 40.

    WyldPirate

    @Bob Loblaw:
    You know, I don’t give a flying fuck about your “good graces” or anyone else’s–particularly a bunch of excuse making wankers who excuse the pathetic political skills on display by our President and the Democratic Party.

  42. 42.

    Bob Loblaw

    @WyldPirate:

    You obviously did enough to type post #29. I’m surprised you didn’t go the whole nine yards and add a winking emoticon for full effect…

  43. 43.

    Annie

    @General Stuck:

    Used to wake up from a deep sleep and bitch at my husband for snoring. He used to wake up from a deep sleep and bitch at me for snoring. Then we realized that one of our darling cats, who sleeps with us, was snoring like crazy….LOL:)

  51. 51.

    ronin122

    Am I a dick for feeling some schadenfreude over the reclisted diaries at the GOS? Apparently a lot of members are getting pissed off at the FDL wing of the leftist blogosphere and are going balls to the wall calling them out (even by name).

    [Should PostScript that I am, in general, in agreement with the detractors there]

  55. 55.

    Ross Hershberger

    Gotta go read about particle physics until I fall asleep. I give it 2 pages, tops. Work tomorrow. Blerg.
    Play nice.

  56. 56.

    WyldPirate

    BTW, did anyone watch Rachel Maddow excoriate the Dems and Obama tonight?

    Something about ineffectual negotiations….

  57. 57.

    Joseph Nobles

    OK, Palin tweeted this:

    Inexplicable: I recently won in court to stop my book “America by Heart” from being leaked,but US Govt can’t stop Wikileaks’ treasonous act?

    I shrugged it off as more silly Palin blather. She apparently doesn’t understand that Assange or Wikileaks can’t commit treason against the United States, since Assange is Australian and Wikileaks is incorporated in Sweden. Plus the book shout-out, plus the nutty assertion that her getting excerpts of her stupid book pulled from the website… well, you all understand that.

    But it seems that Palin has a follow-up post on her Facebook. No links. You can find it if you want. I found this at the Stranger myself. But here’s an interesting quote:

    What if any diplomatic pressure was brought to bear on NATO, EU, and other allies to disrupt Wikileaks’ technical infrastructure? Did we use all the cyber tools at our disposal to permanently dismantle Wikileaks? Were individuals working for Wikileaks on these document leaks investigated? Shouldn’t they at least have had their financial assets frozen just as we do to individuals who provide material support for terrorist organizations?

    The SLOG highlighted the second sentence. I’m more aghast at the third and fourth. “Were individuals working for Wikileaks on these document leaks investigated? Shouldn’t they at least have had their financial assets frozen just as we do to individuals who provide material support for terrorist organizations?”

    Now I’m surprised as you are that Representative Peter King has had his finances frozen for his material support of the IRA. But all sarcasm aside, the “individuals working for Wikileaks on these documents” couldn’t be reporters at the five news organizations who were doing their own legwork before the Wikileaks release went wide, could they? Palin isn’t suggesting that the United States government should have (and by extension she as President would have) froze the assets of New York Times reporters as well as the New York Times itself, along with the other four news organizations working on the cables, is she? Right?

    She must just mean the people actually working under the auspices of Wikileaks the organization proper. I can’t imagine she would dare suggest shutting down a newspaper or five.

  60. 60.

    El Cid

    Yay! Consitutional conservatism!

    Supreme Court Takes Aim Yet Again At Campaign Finance Laws
    __
    WASHINGTON — The Supreme Court agreed to hear a free speech challenge to Arizona’s Clean Elections Law on Monday, a case that campaign finance reform advocates expect to be another blow in the court’s dismantling of the country’s elections system.
    __
    Arizona candidates running for statewide and legislative offices are eligible to receive public funds after raising a certain number of $5 donations, according to the measure adopted by voters in 1998. They also have to forgo private fundraising and accept expenditure limits. The controversial part of the law is the fact that candidates can receive additional funds if they are running against an opponent who is not part of the public system and spends an amount of money beyond a certain threshold — an attempt to level the playing field, at least in terms of funding.
    __
    In January, a U.S. district judge ruled on the side of the Goldwater Institute in Arizona, which is challenging the law. The Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals, however, unanimously reversed that decision and upheld the Clean Elections Act in May…
    __
    …”[The impact of the court’s decision] will depend on whether the court looks at the case from the question in front of it, which is the question of the constitutionality of the trigger provision and whether or not that kind of a provision enhances First Amendment values or burdens First Amendment values,” said Liss. “If that’s what the court looks at, then these few places where this provision is in place will be affected one way or another. If the court decides to take a broader look, it’s a little harder to predict what will happen.”

  61. 61.

    jl

    Since this is a Monday Night Football thread
    (Assuming that is what MNF stands for)

    Yahoo sports has a pathetic and desperate angle to drum up interest in the game:

    “Ragged Race
    Even with a 3-7 record, a Monday night victory puts the Niners in the hunt for the NFC West crown.
    SF 21, ARI 6 (0:41 2nd)”

    But what does winning the NFC West crown mean, especially this year?

    But what do I know? Maybe gazillions of BJ readers are not discussing the game tonight because they are glued to the TV screen, unable to tear themselves away for even a second to post a snarky comment… right? That just might be true. Maybe. Could be.

  62. 62.

    jl

    @El Cid: “If the court decides to take a broader look, it’s a little harder to predict what will happen.”

    I predict that Alito, Roberts, Scalia and Thomas will vote to strike it down, no matter what kind of look they take. I also predict that their reasoning will be laughable, except in some rarefied pedantic and absurd counterfactual legal fantasy world.

    You are all welcome. I will accept my winnings e-mail beers from a preselected list of fine brews.

  63. 63.

    General Stuck

    @El Cid:

    Once the Supremes opened pandora’s box with United and equated cash with the first amendment free speech clause for election financing, the rest is a step by step cleansing the books on all campaign finance restrictions. same as taboo for any government restrictions or regulation of free speech, the human talking and expression kind. state and federal.

  64. 64.

    junebug

    There is very little to keep me here. El Cid is everywhere, so I can get that. Zifnab makes over $250K as do most of the posters here and fuck nobody cares.

    If Obama is listening to you guys god help us.

    I’m done with this blog.

  65. 65.

    suzanne

    @maye: I had my orthodontist put in permanent retainers. I highly recommend it. I can’t lose them or forget to put them in, and I never had that horrible lisp. Might be worth investigating.

  66. 66.

    WyldPirate

    @junebug:

    This is a hell of a place and thread to do a GBCW post….

    fuck it, junebug. Stay and rage at the MF’ers if you’re pissed. It’s good stress relief. If you’re looking for someone to agree with you and stroke your ego and you’re not an Obot—well, you may be shit outta luck.

  67. 67.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @John Cole:

    Rosie just chewed the 300 dollar bite plate I had the dentist make so I would no longer grind my teeth.

    Sheesh, I hope it wasn’t in your mouth at the time.

  70. 70.

    General Stuck

    WE are going to need three rings for this circus. And come January, dancing Elephants to keep the surplus clowns busy.

  73. 73.

    srv

    @junebug:

    There is very little to keep me here. El Cid is everywhere, so I can get that. Zifnab makes over $250K as do most of the posters here and fuck nobody cares.
    If Obama is listening to you guys god help us.

    Obama’s still trying to figure out if unemployment is cyclical or structural, or not. By all means, blame Zif for that.

    Me, I had long ago become comfortable with Obama’s Nixonian tendencies. But sheesh, Tricky Dick at least had a clue when it came to economics.

    I hear Obama is ordering a bigger bus for 2012, going to need a lot of room to fit all those federal employees under it. Rather than having Hitlery make all the calls to apologize to all those leaders whose fee-fees have been hurt, maybe he should take her call about effective triangulation.

  76. 76.

    fasteddie9318

    @junebug:

    I’m done with this blog.

    Well, if that’s how you feel, then you leave me no choice but to go back to not knowing who the hell you are.

  77. 77.

    Bob Loblaw

    @srv:

    But sheesh, Tricky Dick at least had a clue when it came to economics.

    This is one of the strangest falsehoods ever written on this blog. I have no idea what would compel you to think this is an even remotely accurate retelling of history.

    There are many credible reasons to criticize, be doubtful of, or even outright mock the Obama administration. Implying they need to take economics lessons from Richard “Price controls” Nixon is not one of them.

  78. 78.

    fasteddie9318

    @General Stuck:

    We ought to just skip several steps ahead and officially open up all government jobs to the highest bidder. Plenty of banana republics, medieval feudal systems, and authoritarian despotisms got along fine for centuries with such a system, and this country is clearly devolving into one of those models anyway.

  79. 79.

    Suffern ACE

    @Bob Loblaw: Concurred. However, if tomorrow the administration asked us to start wearing “Whip Deflation Now” buttons, my opinion of the economic team would increase many fold.

  80. 80.

    mr. whipple

    Zifnab makes over $250K as do most of the posters here and fuck nobody cares.

    I’d seriously doubt most posters here make over 250k.

  81. 81.

    srv

    @Bob Loblaw:

    There are many credible reasons to criticize, be doubtful of, or even outright mock the Obama administration. Implying they need to take economics lessons from Richard “Price controls” Nixon is not one of them.

    Dick learned his lesson in 1960, it was the economy, stupid. He embraced John Maynard in 1971 and was willing to experiment. You gold bugs need to come out of your caves, it’s been 40 years.

  83. 83.

    frosty

    @maye: Yes, let his bottom teeth go crooked. My kid refused to wear his retainer, so a couple thousand on braces went down the drain. We looked at the second kid, decided his teeth were good enough and opted out.

    It’s all part of the Perfect Kid scam. Back when I was a kid you didn’t get braces unless your teeth were so out of whack you couldn’t eat.

  85. 85.

    frosty

    @maye:
    PS. What makes you a good mother is watching your children, knowing their strengths and weaknesses, and encouraging them to follow their strengths and their interests, even if their choices are not at all the ones you would make, or even the ones you’d hoped they would make.

  86. 86.

    TooManyJens

    @maye: I lost my retainer in a move when I was 13, and the orthodontist decided I didn’t need a new one. That turns out to have been a bad decision, since my bottom teeth crowded back together and my bite’s all messed up now.

    Just a data point.

  88. 88.

    2liberal

    i just got back from MNF. the Cardinals are the worst team in the league. Their D is pathetic. And the offense isn’t much better. I will probably have to change my name back to “noodle armed UDFA” next week when Max Hall gets a start.

  89. 89.

    fasteddie9318

    @mr. whipple:

    I’d seriously doubt most posters here make over 250k.

    Maybe it meant “dollars” as in Guyanan dollars, which I think are something like 1/200th of a US dollar. In that case, possibly, most of us do.

  91. 91.

    Corner Stone

    @2liberal: It was like DA didn’t even care where on the field his receivers were. The balls just randomly flopped down hither and yon with no rhyme or reason.
    It got so bad even Tirico was just offhandedly dogging on him with no real emphasis.

  92. 92.

    Hal

    @srv

    I hear Obama is ordering a bigger bus for 2012, going to need a lot of room to fit all those federal employees under it. Rather than having Hitlery make all the calls to apologize to all those leaders whose fee-fees have been hurt, maybe he should take her call about effective triangulation.

    Oh puh-fucking-lease. The only people who will care about a federal wage freeze in 2012 are the posters at Daily Kos and you.

  93. 93.

    Yutsano

    @Hal:

    Oh puh-fucking-lease. The only people who will care about a federal wage freeze in 2012 are the posters at Daily Kos and you.

    Well…those of us who will be directly affected by it kinda give a shit too. Although by law I get step increases for quite a while, so even without a COLA I’ll be okay.

  94. 94.

    Hal

    @Yutsano

    Yeah, I totally get that. I have a private sector job, and I haven’t received an increase in three years. Which by the way is not an attempt by me to justify a federal wage freeze. I think it sucks, but the level of outrage over this wage freeze seems out of proportion to it’s overall long term effect.

    It just seems to be a stand in for everything else some people are pissed at. Bush tax cuts, or deficits, or social security etc.

  95. 95.

    Dog is My Copilot

    I already ordered my 2011 Pets of Balloon-Juice calendar. MoMo, our Chihuahua/rat terrier mix, is pictured in October! Thank you for putting this calendar together.

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