Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

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

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

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

Second rate reporter says what?

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

When we show up, we win.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

The gop couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

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

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  1. 1.

    Elvis Elvisberg

    Wow, Postbourgie are truly the Pamela Geller’s of the left.

    Funny how the two heroes of Egypt right now, Al Jazeera and Mohamad ElBaradei, were both whipping boys (quite literally, for the former) for the Bush administration.

  3. 3.

    Comrade Nikolita

    I’m sorry to whine, but am I the only one having issues getting this site to load? I’ve got IE8 on a Toshiba laptop, runs pretty well, so I’m not sure if the issue is on my end or not.

    I thought I remembered someone/some people on this site talking about coding/loading issues recently, but I can’t remember if they were fixed or not. I’m sorry if I’ve missed something, I work in Vancouver and pop on here when I can, but I’m not always a regular reader.

    Thanks in advance if anyone can provide any help.

    In other randomness, I submitted a picture of my cat to the Daily Kitten, based on the other user who was picked for Kitten of the Day (sorry buddy, your name escapes me at the moment).

  13. 13.

    SiubhanDuinne

    So glad to have an open thread so I can share the news that five “disgruntled readers” are suing Jimmy Carter because they didn’t like his book Palestine: Peace Not Apartheid.

    AJC item here http://blogs.ajc.com/political-insider-jim-galloway/2011/02/02/a-5-million-lawsuit-against-jimmy-carter-for-the-fiction-of-his-middle-east-book/ and longer Washington Post piece here http://voices.washingtonpost.com/political-bookworm/2011/02/president_carter_named_in_5_mi.html.

    This is my favorite paragraph (from the WaPo story):

    The five plaintiffs named in the lawsuit are seeking at least $5 million in compensation. The hard cover edition cost $27.

  16. 16.

    Mnemosyne

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Ya know, if you don’t like a book, you can just take it back to the bookstore and get a refund. As long as it’s still sellable, they’ll give you your money back.

    I guess that never occurred to these schmucks, though.

  20. 20.

    Carnacki

    West Virginians*, please sign this petition from pro-choice group West Virginia Free.

    * Not that I’m encouraging non WVians who wish to sign as being from such places as Charleston, Morgantown, Fairmont, Martinsburg, Charles Town, Harpers Ferry, I’m just sayin’ those are some towns in West Virginia for those interested in such things.

  23. 23.

    Mnemosyne

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Okay, I followed the link, and I LOLed at this:

    In a press release, one of the attorneys, Nitsana Darshan-Leitner stated: “The lawsuit will expose all the falsehoods and misrepresentations in Carter’s book and prove that his hatred of Israel has led him to commit this fraud on the public. He is entitled to his opinions but deceptions and lies have no place in works of history.”

    I say, bring. it. on. I’ll start preparing my lawsuits against Limbaugh, Coulter, Beck, Hannity and Savage.

  27. 27.

    PurpleGirl

    Postbourgie is, I don’t know…, I’m still laughing. I know it’s a joke and it’s so good. But “Tawana’s Crimp-n-Curl” is sooooooooo baaaaaaaaaaad.

  28. 28.

    suzanne

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Why did it never occur to me to sue Ayn Rand?

    I think you’d have a case there! I mean, reading Atlas Shrugged would take up six years of your life you’d never get back. Not to mention the punitive damages.

    @Carnacki: I can send you a picture of her covered in her 18th vomit of the day that might take care of that for you. ;)

  36. 36.

    MikeJ

    Hey TL, would you mind resizing the actual pic? It’s the slowest thing on the page and doesn’t need to be 1339×1700 to work as an illustration.

  37. 37.

    Carnacki

    @suzanne: LOL. No, either the picture is too cute or I’m too immune to vomit any more. True story. Couple of weeks ago my 7 year old (I’m a single dad with 3 girls) came in my room and said, “Daddy, I don’t feel so good.”

    “What’s wrong, sweetie?”

    “My stomach hurts,” she said.

    “What do you want me to do? You won’t take any medicine.”

    “Daddy stuff.”

    So I picked her up to hold her and she said, “I need a bowl.”

    “A bowl?” I asked stupidly.

    “I need a bowl to vom–,” and before she finished the word she did. It was sort of like the opening scene of the Exorcist parody at the beginning of Scary Movie 2.

    Oh well. I’ve dealt with worse.

  39. 39.

    JPL

    @suzanne: Balloon Juicers have the cutest babies.

    Am I the only one who knows who a semite is. Can someone please inform the evangelicals. Since Israeli’s come from Europe do they really qualify?

    EDIT…former Pres. Carter knows more about the Middle East than I ever could learn in a lifetime.

    Huckabee could learn from him.

  43. 43.

    suzanne

    @Carnacki: Oh man. I have a vomit memory from when my older girl was about three that still makes me want to cry, but I think you win. Poop is grosser than puke.

  45. 45.

    Comrade Colette Collaboratrice

    That Bellini portrait is the spitting image of my husband, give or take 500 years. He could probably even get his hair to do that if he combed it out.

  48. 48.

    Gary

    @Comrade Nikolita: one of the ad sites that provide ads to BJ is currently misbehaving (speed.pointroll.com). It never actually loads, just sits there waiting for data and keeping the page from fully loading. Different browsers handle such problems variously. Maybe IE8 is particularly bad with this particular hangup.

    This is an on-going problem with ad-supported sites—the ad suppliers simply aren’t up to the job. John probably doesn’t deal directly with the ad servers so he can’t deal with it either.

  49. 49.

    Tom Levenson

    @MikeJ: Done. Been shrunk a lot. (Perhaps too much; I’ve lost a little resolution, but it takes up a lot less bytes.

  50. 50.

    Jebediah

    @Carnacki:
    I will take that under advisement, purely and only to satisfy my insatiable hunger for West Virginian place names. If my hand slips and I accidentally sign – oopsies!

  51. 51.

    Erich Hicks - Buffalo Soldier 9

    Keep telling that history:

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    Rescue at Pine Ridge is the story of the rescue of the famed 7th Cavalry by the 9th Cavalry Buffalo Soldiers. The 7th got their butts in a sling again after the Little Big Horn Massacre, fourteen years later, the day after the Wounded Knee Massacre. If it wasn’t for the 9th Buffalo Soldiers, there would of been a second massacre of the 7th Cavalry. This story is about, brutality, compassion, reprisal, bravery, heroism and gallantry.

    Visit our Alpha Wolf Production website at: alphawolfprods.com and see our other productions, like Stagecoach Mary, the first Black Woman to deliver mail for the US Postal System in Montana, in the 1890’s, spread the word.

    Peace.

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