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  1. 1.

    Anya

    What? So you want us to talk about Our Lord and Savior, only? Am I allowed to rant about GOS diarist and commenters celebrating, with glee, a drop in President Obama’s poll numbers?

    Peace ya’all!

  3. 3.

    TooManyJens

    Our new overlords, ladies and gentlemen:

    On the Senate floor last night, Sen. Tom Coburn (R-OK) issued a challenge to anybody who believes tax cuts should be paid for. Acting like he’d found a hole in his political opponents’ argument, Coburn demanded that “anyone who thinks we oughta pay for tax cuts oughta have to put up a list of programs that we oughta eliminate to pay for them.”

    I’m going to start drinking now.

  4. 4.

    BGinCHI

    Nice. It would be even better if they pronounced Jesus in the Hispanic first-name sort of way. Or at least more ecumenical.

    Also, the van should be moving.

    And could zombies chase the van? I think that could really add something.

  10. 10.

    Mary Jane

    @Anya: Rant away. Myself, I’m so over Dk. The split wasn’t nearly as tough as I imagined; it’s easier when the breakupee’s disgusting qualities completely overwhelm even it’s very best.

  11. 11.

    gbear

    Blizzard moving thru Minnesota today. There’s a foot of snow on the ground in the Twin Cities now and it’s supposed to get heavier, windier and colder this afternoon. Looks like we’ll have almost two feet of snow before it ends. Ugh.

    That video is just sad on every level.

  13. 13.

    Bnut

    @BGinCHI: Zombies always add something. I’m picturing Bogey being run out of Morocco by an undead horde. Atlanta’s burning bringing forth a river of brain munchers to face those damn Yankees. Bill and Ted AND Zombies. Modern cinema rocks my face off.

  15. 15.

    WyldPirate

    Speaking of kidfucking, Charles Blow has an interesting chart about that in his column today.

    Chant with me know! “USA! USA! USA! We’re #1!”

    And now explain to me why we are borrowing over $500 per capita per year for the next two years to continue giving tax cuts directly to the richest 2% in our country, while at the same time raising taxes on couples earning under 40K/year and individuals earning under 20K.

    That Obama. He sure is a shrewd negotiator.

    edited to fix typo and formatting

  21. 21.

    West of the Cascades

    harlana – yes, watch it, awesome tune, the message could be serious, it could be tongue-in-cheek or ironic but either way it’s well done – also check out their webpage for more cool music.

    I do some of my best praying when I’ve had a few drinks. Seriously. There’s an easy connection between drinking alone and thinking about the dude from Galilee who made wedding guests happy by turning water into wine. If Jesus comes back to Portland, he’ll turn water into a hoppy IPA.

    Also tired of the GOS.

    Also, too, I didn’t realize mistermix was part of the Monroe County Mafia that controls a corner of this blog.

  23. 23.

    BGinCHI

    @WyldPirate: Man, that’s damning as hell.

    No sense blaming Obama; it’s much bigger than that. This is a trend that’s just now coming to bloom, as we have NOT been investing in our infrastructure materially and culturally.

    Just take a look at the cost of a public university education now as compared to when Reagan came into office (that’s when this really got started). It ain’t because costs have risen at that rate but because state funding has dried up. People pay taxes, often at too low rates, and this does NOT get prioritized for education and other long term goods.

    There are causes for this.

  24. 24.

    DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective

    Phoenix had 86 homicides as of the end of October, a 25.2 percent drop from the same time in 2009, when there were 115 killings, Sgt. Trent Crump said. Phoenix detectives also are solving more homicides this year. The clearance rate for 2010 is 84.9 percent; in 2009, it was 63.5 percent.

    Phoenix homicides have been declining for more than a decade, from a record 244 in 1994 and in 1995. Crump said that, by the end of this year, with Phoenix homicides perhaps at about 100, “that takes us back to the 1980s; it’s quite a drop.”

    Some new crime stats today from here in the crime capital of the Mexican-overrun capital of illegal immigration.

    Thank heavens that Sheriff Joe and Johnny “DeadEye” McCain are cleaning up that crime wave that is coming across the border!

  25. 25.

    DickSpudCouchPotatoDetective

    @WyldPirate:

    If you want a better congress, you need to elect one. Yelling at the White House is what the hillbillies do every time something pisses them off. It’s not really helpful.

    All tax measures originate in congress. It’s the big building up on the hill.

  27. 27.

    WyldPirate

    Obama’s approval rating slips to 42% in a new McClatchy-Marist poll conducted from Dec 2-8.

    And this seems significant–particularly in light of the fact that the poll isn’t totally conducted after the announcement of the “deal with the Rethugs”.

    Obama’s standing among Democrats dropped from a month ago, with his approval rating falling to 74 percent from 83 percent, and his disapproval rating almost doubling, from 11 percent to 21 percent.

    Shouldn’t come as a surprise when you shit on your base….and your own supposed “principals”

  31. 31.

    Mnemosyne

    @BGinCHI:

    Just take a look at the cost of a public university education now as compared to when Reagan came into office (that’s when this really got started). It ain’t because costs have risen at that rate but because state funding has dried up. People pay taxes, often at too low rates, and this does NOT get prioritized for education and other long term goods.

    That was also the start of the adversarial relationship between the generations, when Reagan’s generation basically said, “You damn kids don’t appreciate everything we’ve done for you, so we’re taking our tax money and going home.”

    Plus, of course, it was when minorities and women started being admitted on an equal basis instead of being held to quotas, so people also decided they didn’t want to pay for Them to go to college if it meant their precious little snowflake couldn’t get in.

  33. 33.

    Anya

    @debit: @Mary Jane: I was good for a while then curiosity got the better of me (and possibly self punishment) and what do I see, a recommended diarist routing a poll with a Republican bias of 4.0 in the last election. They are positively giddy that Romney is beating Obama. I really think these people are not Democrats, they are remnant from Rush Limbaugh’s “Operation Chaos” or GOP operatives. They cannot be progressives and actively working to defeat a Democratic President, at a time when Congress is getting more wingnutty. But you are right, I will put them in the same category as Huffington Post. I can deal with BJ fluctuating between manic and depressive stages.

  34. 34.

    Citizen_X

    @WyldPirate: Holy crap, that’s depressing.

    Seems our only competitor in Overall Suckitude is Italy. Apparently, it’s not a good idea to have your country led by a corrupt media mogul with fascist ties. Who knew?

    But I’m happy to note that the French are actually ranked as dumber (‘cept fer that Jesus-hatin’ science stuff) and lazier than us. SUCK IT, FROGS! U.S.A. #1! Er, well, #16 in vigorous physical activity.

  38. 38.

    WyldPirate

    @BGinCHI:

    Yeah, I know it’s damning, BGinCHI. I know it is not all of Obama’s fault and I know that it started with Reagan, if not before.

    What we have is a dumbass problem. We have a nation of dumbasses that want a bunch of services but don’t want to pay for them. They bought the Reagan lie of the “trickle down” free lunch. That lie goes along perfectly with the Norquist goal of drowning the government in a bathtub and the screams from the Reich wing of the past 30 years that government is incompetent and that the private sector is better at doing everything better than the government can.

    I think we are beyond hope now. I think it is going everything is going to have to crash before something else can rebuilt. the US is like an old abandoned barn that is falling apart and collapsing because of neglect.

  39. 39.

    robertdsc-PowerBook

    actively working to defeat a Democratic President

    He’s doing a bang-up job of it by himself with his repeated failures in war, economics, judiciary, and executive administration policies. He doesn’t need “the Left” to help him with constant fuckups and political malpractice.

  41. 41.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Citizen_X: One of the big problems with these charts is that the schools in well-off town and suburbs are actually competitive with any schools in the world, but we have a shitload of poor schools that rival the worst of any in the world. If you grew up in, and now live in, one of the lucky communities, you don’t see a problem. Kids are winning National Merit Scholarships and getting into selective colleges, so everything must be fine. If you live in the other communities, you are more or less screwed.

  43. 43.

    Mark S.

    Jonah Goldberg, the Straw-King, farts muses on the Sanders speech:

    What does interest me is the suggestion that our legislators are supposed to be looking out for the middle class to the exclusion of other concerns. I thought, borrowing from Burke, our representatives owed us their judgment. I can think of any number of circumstances when the right thing to do would impact the middle class negatively. It’s really not hard to do. For instance, taking all the money from the rich and giving it to the middle class would “help” the middle class (at least by socialist reckoning), but such an act would — I hope — be unconstitutional or at least wrong in the eyes of Congress.

    I bring this up mostly because it has DougJ-bait in it.

  44. 44.

    Mark S.

    Jonah Goldberg, the Straw-King, farts muses on the Sanders speech:

    What does interest me is the suggestion that our legislators are supposed to be looking out for the middle class to the exclusion of other concerns. I thought, borrowing from Burke, our representatives owed us their judgment. I can think of any number of circumstances when the right thing to do would impact the middle class negatively. It’s really not hard to do. For instance, taking all the money from the rich and giving it to the middle class would “help” the middle class (at least by sociaIist reckoning), but such an act would — I hope — be unconstitutional or at least wrong in the eyes of Congress.

    I bring this up mostly because it has DougJ-bait in it.

    ETA: Reposted due to dreaded boner pill reference.

  46. 46.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Mark S.: My god, one could disassemble that word by word. The paragraph is a lie. Each sentence is a lie. Each phrase is a lie. Each word, if not actually a lie itself, is used in the service of lies. Plus, it is fatuous and superficial, and those are its best qualities.

  48. 48.

    Earl Butz

    Never doubt for one minute that if you rob, cheat and steal from the wealthy, you will be jailed, humiliated and hounded unto death.

    @tweez: Hung with a dog leash?

    Suicide my ass.

  49. 49.

    BGinCHI

    @Mnemosyne: It will never cease to amaze me that in that chart, all the countries the right hate, with their social-democratic systems and liberal ways, are at the top of all measurements of well-being.

    And yet the right wants to move in the other direction.

    It’s like Freud’s Death Drive made into a political philosophy.

  51. 51.

    gogol's wife

    @WyldPirate:

    And you delight in it. What I don’t understand is why do you consider this good news? I guess you can’t wait for President Palin, you’re going to be so happy with her policies.

  52. 52.

    BGinCHI

    @Mark S.: Wow. Just wow.

    That is so full of fucking stupid.

    I give it a D and write “see me” in the margin. And then hope he drops the class.

  53. 53.

    asiangrrlMN

    @Earl Butz: David Carradine?

    Dear college basketball gods, watching Duke win by twenty sucks. Don’t schedule a stupid game like this again. kthxbai.

    @gbear: Love it love it love it. Of course, I’m staying inside.

    I watched half the video. I can’t tell if it’s supposed to be satire or not. Either way, it sucks.

  56. 56.

    BGinCHI

    @asiangrrlMN: I hate Duke.

    I also hate David Duke.

    And the Duke brothers in Trading Places.

    Bo Duke, neutral. Luke Duke, douchebag. Daisy Duke, hubba hubba.

  58. 58.

    WyldPirate

    @gogol’s wife: Excuse me, but that is just fucking stupid saying I think it is “good news”. It is what I expected after Obama shitting on his base, showing such piss-poor leadership on the issue and cutting a deal with the Rethugs that not only gives them political advantage, but arguably makes many of the less well off workers in the country pay more taxes.

    Moreover, I wish we had a President that showed half the passion and organization battling the opposition party–instead of huffing their dicks–than he has shown dissing and battling with his own party in the past week.

    And I say this all as a person that will come out much worse off if parts of this shitty deal don’t get passed. I have a big stake in it.

  59. 59.

    Citizen_X

    @Omnes Omnibus: Yes, and that disparity is all due to our cockamamie way of funding schools through local property taxes. I know there’s no changing that, because it’s set out in the Tenth Amendment of the Bible or something. But, because income so strongly correlates with education level, the fairest way to fund education–and still maintain our holy local control–would be through state income taxes.

    Please don’t laugh at my unicorn.

  64. 64.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @SectarianSofa:Senator? You can have my answer now, if you like. My final offer is this: nothing. Not even the fee for the gaming license, which I would appreciate if you would put up personally.

  67. 67.

    WyldPirate

    @SectarianSofa:
    Maybe it just didn’t fall on you.

    Give it time, I think it will. I imagine that Barry and Bill had a nice long conversation about that triangulation thingy yesterday.

    I’m not so much mad that the deal was made. I’m more pissed that it was made without doing anything else. And yes, Obama shares blame for that decision.

  68. 68.

    SectarianSofa

    @WyldPirate:
    Oh, yes, plenty of blame to go around. I just think it’s an artifact of cognitive machinery that we’re able to pin things so absolutely, here and now, on certain actors. As you said upstream, this shit has been building since at least Reagan. Anyway, all kinds of cognitive bias at work that makes me distrust easy conclusions. Ubiquitous fucking Jonah Lehrer could help me out on this one, since I’m rusty on the psych-speak.

  76. 76.

    SectarianSofa

    @Mark S.:

    Jonah Goldberg, the Straw-King, farts muses

    Gah. That guy. Why did I read that?
    All he does is fuck trees. He’s a fucking tree fucker, just fucking trees and tree fucking is fucking what he does. Goddamn.
    Sometimes goats, but I’m not going there today.

    Maybe I’m spending too much time on balloon-juice.

  77. 77.

    BGinCHI

    @Omnes Omnibus: Arlington Heights. Gray area for sure.

    Might fake some tremors, but Mrs. BG is going to be very skeptical.

    Will get loaded at the party though, so bygones.

  81. 81.

    futzinfarb

    Best d@#n song about beer and Jaysus and now more pertinent than ever:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uBaSTozYLdI

    i drink beer to improve my mind
    end the the war
    help mankind
    through these dark and trying times

    hey batter batter batter hey batter hey
    swing batter swing
    hey, swing away
    swing for the fence
    live for today
    put your life in Jesus hands
    shut your eyes just as tight as you can
    and swing like a man like a man like a man

    i drink beer to boost retail sales
    save those dolphins
    save those whales
    i drink beer for the revolution

    hey batter batter batter hey batter hey
    swing batter swing hey, swing away
    swing for the fence
    live for today
    put your life in Jesus hands
    shut your eyes just as tight as you can
    and swing like a man like a man like a man

    cuz
    we are men
    and men we shall remain
    we shall remain men
    until we go home
    we are men
    and men we shall remain
    we shall remain men
    until we go home

  82. 82.

    SectarianSofa

    @Maody:

    Well, didn’t see that until just now — ha! Kooky cats beat crazy days without cats.
    Just got my rescue cat back from our catsitter (like, 2 hours ago). Crazy thing is still neurotic as any barely-not-feral, but she’s acting sweet, like she remembers who I am. Aww.

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