It’s 70 out and breezy, and I think I am going to use the good weather to take an afternoon nap. Any of you have a problem with that, I will kindly redirect you to kiss my…
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Guster
Are we no longer using racist and sexist language at BJ?
Please answer on my blog, I don’t check comments here any longer.
YourBlogIsAppreciated
… kiss your what? Sleeping Booty?
Warren Terra
Cat? Dog? The first sounds risky, and the second unhygienic …
jibeaux
kiss my angry black lady, methinks.
Vibrant Pantload, fka Studly Pantload
All that kvetching about the snow, you finely get some good weather – and you sleep through it?
Not that I got a problem with that, so no, I won’t be kissing your ellipses. I just find it amusing.
LarsThorwald
What fucking adult under the age of 65 takes naps? What a fucking baby. Man up, you blogging p.o.s. Some of us don’t get to take naps, because we work real jobs.
/attorney for feddle gubbmint
freelancer
…shiny metal…?
taylormattd
I want to comment (i.e., fling poo) in ABL’s thread! NO FAIRS TO THE INTERNETS MY FREE SPEECH!
Deb T
I’m just jealous.
Jason T.
Is this the “Match Game”?
“Big John was so tired …”
“How tired was he?”
“He was so tired, he invited his commenters to kiss his BLANK!”
(cue jazzy ’70s music)
Tonal Crow
ABL: That’s the most transparent attempt to solicit page hits I’ve ever seen, hands down. But I’m sure adding more bold and italics and bold italics will lure enough visitors to pay your cable TV bill this month.
WyldPirate
Just want to get it out here, but it’s BS that ABL pulls her post because she doesn’t like some of the comments. Then, she reposts (see below), locks out from posting comments here on BJ and redircts to her block for commenting? why? I can only suppose so she can nuke anything she doesn’t like that is said in reply.
I make no secret I’m unhappy with Obama. i think it is BS we are still pissing away billions a month in Afghanistan. I find it hypocritical to the extreme that next to jack shit has been said by the Obama administration about the Bahranian rulers shooting the protesters. Yet we go blowing the fuck up out of Libya.
I don’t buy the atrocity angle from the Obots. It’s contortionist apologetics (par for the course from that hypocritical crew). The US wouldn’t give two shits about what was happening there if it were not for the oil. This is something that ABL obliquely admits in her post. All historical arguments aside, that is the issue—the US has turned a blind eye to atrocities because of oil forever a long time now..we are doing it today with the Bahranian regime and the Saudis as well. We’ll keep on doing it until it is inconvenient to do so which may be the day after the oil runs out.
kdaug
We must cue up another intertron shitstorm for John, when he gets up from his nappy-poo. Suggestions?
(Pref. sans crappy 70s music, sorry Jason)
Poopyman
What? I’m about a hunnert miles East and it’s like 45 degrees and raining here! Also too, I’m at work, so napping is frowned upon*. So you could maybe kiss my one working buttock.
(* — Probably blog commenting is too. I don’t ask.)
negative 1
How is that possible. Aren’t you in PA? I’m not that far away in RI and it is snowing. Like, accumulation and everything. I want to take a nap too but for a different reason.
soonergrunt
NATO won’t take over the operation in Libya that the Europeans talked us into.
I’m so fucking shocked. /sarcasm
Countdown to Europeans screaming about evil Americans bombing Arab children for oil ™ in 5…4…3…
@negative 1: John lives in West Virginia.
Tim, Interrupted
Yay for naps.
I took one a couple of hours ago, under a blankie on the couch, with Helen the dog curled against my chest and Ted the dog curled up behind my knees. This is a form of Heaven on Earth.
Cold and impending snow in Boston. Where iz my Spring?
cathyx
I thought I was going to read ‘use the good weather to take a walk.’ Quite the opposite.
Violet
Weather sounds nice, John. When are you putting in your garden? Mine is already going really well. Tomatoes are blooming, blackberries are setting fruit. Need to get in the green beans and cucumbers next.
cleek
@soonergrunt:
but it’s impossible to make a really good omelet without the finest child oil !
Corner Stone
ABL doesn’t seem to handle divergent viewpoints very well. Nor facts either, it seems.
Corner Stone
@cleek:
I hear the best way to pre-tenderize them is to chain them to tanks.
Kind of like how they massage Kobe.
Cattle I mean, not the philandering basketball star.
trollhattan
Chait managed to track down an Elizabeth Taylor photo I’d never seen. Now I understand. By the time I was aware she existed she’d already become a caricature of herself. But this edition? Wowzers, I understand the sway she held over the endless procession of men.
http://www.tnr.com/blog/jonathan-chait/85652/the-mortality-the-pre-bituary-author
RIP Liz.
gene108
Lucky bastard.
It’s about 35-40 out and drizzling, with the occasional gust of wind for me :-(
Anyway, I’ve been wanting to comment on something a few posters brought up on a thread awhile back regarding the neo-con reaction to Obama’s multilateral handling of Libya.
The posters said, it seems the neo-cons are trying to rehabilitate Bush, Jr.’s legacy and image.
I’m not surprised by this. They will be trying to blow sunshine up the public image of Bush, Jr. for as long as they have breath.
This is the same crew of people, who pretty successfully got the stink of Watergate off Richard Nixon, by the mid-1990’s, so when people thought about Nixon, are large portion no longer think “crook”. They thought, “hey, he’s the guy who opened relations with China,” and whatever other accomplishments Nixon supporters wanted to affix to him in the public image.
I won’t be surprised, if there’s the same sort of P.R. campaign for Bush, Jr.’s legacy and image over the next couple of decades.
Also, too truthiness should be a word. It succinctly describes and explains the world view held by many Americans.
Dave
@WyldPirate: I disagree with you almost 100% on this. I think Khadaffi made it crystal clear he was going into Benghazi with his mercenary army to massacre a city. The UN exists to prevent just that scenario. Add in the active resistance force that ASKED for UN help and it is different than what it going on in Bahrain. I personally wish we would do something to help them.
I think the US would care regardless of the oil precisely because it is Obama and not Bush/McCain. It’s a country with a bad history, near countries with the infrastructure to carry off this kind of operation. And it was the right thing to do.
But all this is a really long way of getting to the point, which is ABL should have left comments open. If you post here, you should be willing to take your lumps and/or laurels here as well.
MikeJ
54°F here. Did a quick six mile hike with a flannel shirt over my T. Wish I has skipped the flannel. The “quick” part of quick six miles (and 1000′ elevation(in 1.5hrs)) gets you sweaty.
geg6
@negative 1:
Actually, I’m in Pittsburgh and Cole is well south of me, somewhere in the vicinity of Morgantown, WV. And it’s about 65F here, too. Of course, it’s also raining and we are getting tornado watches, but shit…it’s 65!
Meanwhile, I have been having fun getting phone calls from parents of incoming freshmen (first student aid award notifications went out today) and listening to them trash Gov. Corbett and talk about all the letters, phone calls, and emails they are sending to their state legislators to tell them to cut their own damn salaries and benefits and keep their hands off the lousy 8% of our budget that we get from the state. It’s been fun listening to them bitch about something other than all the young bucks who get full rides via the Federal Pell Grant (if only!).
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
Cole, where the hell are you? Don’t say WVa or we’ll declare war on your ass for hogging all the good weather on the Eastern Seaboard.
The Moar You Know
@WyldPirate: For what may be the first time ever, I totally agree with you. This is a bullshit move on ABL’s part and it is not acceptable.
The Political Nihilist Formerly Known As Kryptik
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:
Don’t worry. West Virginia weather is fickle as all hell. I’m sure as soon as he made this post the weather decided to go into the low 50s and drizzly.
Anonymous At Work
LILY!
ROSE!
YOU WANT TO GO FOR A RUN!!
Enjoy, you good-weather-having-type person…
R-Jud
@trollhattan: She was stunning, yes. But I looked at the picture you linked and thought, “To a modern casting director, she’d probably be “too fat”.”
My accomplishment today: sliced off about 1/5th of my fingertip while chopping onions for soup; managed to not bleed all over the onions. The soup tasted fine.
Southern Beale
Remember when the Taliban blew up those statues of Buddha in Afghanistan?
This is the American version…….
Tonal Crow
@Corner Stone:
That seems too common on this site.
John - A Motley Moose
Oh good, a chance to complain about the weather. It’s 28 here with snow on the ground. It isn’t expected to break freezing for several more days. Low of 12 tomorrow night. I’m sick of winter. Anyone have any suggestions on how to speed up global warming?
cleek
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:
82 and partly cloudy, here in NC
The Political Nihilist Formerly Known As Kryptik
Mbleh.
It’s quite amazing, how with columns and remembrances of the 100th anniversary of the Triangle Shirtwaist Factory Fire, that folks are using the time and the opportunity to tell us just how awful and soshulistic and ANti-American any and all business regulations are, and how anyone who wants to learn from the Fire is either Stuck In The Past or some kind of unionite thug who wants to DESTROY AMERICA FOR ALL TIME.
And I look around, and I see that most of these trolls tend to be the only fucking people anyone in the government fucking listens to anymore, and I realize just how utterly fucking fucked we truly are now. At this point in history, I wouldn’t be surprised to see Congress pass a bill commemorating the anniversary by eliminating all federal workplace safety requirements considering fires. Yeah, if life were that fucking nutso, I know at least Obama would still veto it, but that’s small consolation compared to the total utter wingnuttification of the country wholesale.
John Cole
Look, lay off ABL. Sometimes, when you spend a good bit of time writing something, and rather than pay any attention to what you were trying to say, a bunch of jackasses chime in with shit THEY’VE ALREADY SAID 5000 other times in other threads, and then spend the rest of the time throwing shit bombs about minor mistakes, it gets old.
And Cornerstone, your sole reason for being in the comments here is to be a dick to people. It surprises you that some people may react differently to that? I just ignore you or insult you back, but not every one is the same.
And no, this will not become a recurring theme, but I asked her to put the post back up because I thought it was interesting. I told her to do no comments if she wanted, but I didn’t know she’d fire it back to her place and allow some comments, but honestly, I don’t care about that, either.
Not to mention, as we all know, not having comments on that thread is kind of immaterial anyway, because it doesn’t matter what we write about, you all are going to talk about whatever topic you want to, regardless whether it has anything to do with the post at hand.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
considering the hail we just got run through w.pa, john may be waking up to a more seasonal norm. i just hope he wasn’t napping al freso with a window open.
trollhattan
@R-Jud:
Yeah, probably right. “Where’s her six-pack?” (Heh, Burton’s already finished it.)
Ouch–nothing quite like putting yourself into your cooking, but it has an endpoint, eventually!
R-Jud
@trollhattan: Nice joke.
W/r/t my finger: it makes typing v. difficult. Not good since I have 4 articles still to turn out this month. I think it may be permanently altered. I had to have Mr Jud bandage it; I nearly puked when I saw it.
Also trying to book flights to the US for July 4th; that’s making me nauseated, too.
Corner Stone
@R-Jud:
Based on that picture she wouldn’t even be shortlisted for a call back.
Tim, Interrupted
I find all of ABL’s writing to be concise and delightfully engaging.
Corner Stone
@John Cole: Shouldn’t this come as a front page post with a big George Bush middle finger?
sukabi
good luck with the nap… with the weather that nice out, you’ll probably be constantly pestered with your girls wanting to go for walkies…
gex
@kdaug: Let’s ditch the Match Game music, but keep the drunkenness.
@trollhattan: Seconded. Damn. I only knew the White Diamonds/MJ’s pal Liz.
trollhattan
@John Cole:
Not fair! Why, I just read, “A Scientific Guide to Attention De…”
Hey, look: a shiny thing!
Calouste
@Dave:
From the BBC:
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kdaug
@trollhattan:
Doesn’t anymore. It’s in the soup.
Svensker
Hey, dog lovers. My husband’s cousin is a pitbull rescue champ and she just shared this horrifying but so far good ending story about Patrick, the dog who was starved nearly to death, then thrown in the garbage in Newark.
Youtube about Patrick is here
Patrick’s story and donation page is here
Humans sure do run the gamut from shitholes to angels, don’t they?
WyldPirate
@Dave:
fair disagreement, dave. I’m cool with that.
eemom
@John Cole:
I don’t often say this, but I love you, John Cole.
If I were a betting man, I’d bet the rent and then some that Corner Shithead never read a fucking word of that post.
Fuck U6: A More Accurate Measure of the Total Amount of Duck-Fuckery in the Economy
Cole: What a crock of self-serving shit. What part of “I’ll put the rise of Nazi Germany in 194-fucking-9” counts as a minor detail?
New Yorker
You’re aware that you’re under a tornado watch, right John?
Don’t mock those of us who woke up to snow this morning.
sixers
@Tonal Crow:
Seriously. She needs to be corrected on the history of the things she supposedly has an informed opinion on but I should take her seriously. Add in the deletion of the thread and then a shameless redirect to her own sand box and now I’m really sold on her being someone who deserves my clicks here. I’m a kool aid Obama guy too but her kooky pics and terrible post susbstance make me cringe and look in the mirror.
Cris
wp-ajax-edit-comments.js, line 248:
$j('html,body').animate({scrollTop: targetOffset}, 1000);
Comment that shit out. let the browser handle hashes natively.
licensed to kill time
@Cris: Is that the evil code that turns refresh into a one-armed bandit experience?
Cris
@licensed to kill time: Likely. I can’t be sure. But yeah, that’s the behavior I was targeting.
I suspect the code is there for pages that employ Ajax comments more heavily — pages where a comment might not be present upon initial load, but will be pulled in after the fact. Happily, that’s not how comments works here, but the one-size-fits-all plugin doesn’t know that.
soonergrunt
@eemom: You’re a man? I thought, given the ‘mom’ part of your handle…
Mnemosyne
@R-Jud:
I managed to slice into my finger with a potato peeler on St. Patrick’s Day (yes, I realize what a cliche that is). I must be an even bigger wimp, because I made G take me to Urgent Care when I couldn’t get the bleeding to stop after half an hour.
I don’t seem to have permanently lost any flesh, but it’s a pretty impressive gouge all the same.
ETA: me + early morning + sharp object = very bad idea.
Corner Stone
@soonergrunt: It’s a man baby!
Origuy
Some years ago, my mom gave me a copy of Life magazine dated the day of my birth. The cover photo was of the young Elizabeth Taylor as she appeared in “Giant” with James Dean.
Arundel
ABL is just terrible. I’ve avoided her screeching for a long while now, but was intrigued to see “No Comments” on that last one- for a moment I thought people were boycotting out of being tired of headaches from being yelled at. Oh, she closed comments and just directed traffic to her own site. Classy. (Like her taking Shark-Fu’s schtick as her own with way less finesse and no credit. Whatever. )
Nice of you to give her the space and traffic to her site for free, JC. Let her shut down comments here. Lord knows she’s such an engaged member of the BJ community, listening and thoughtfully commenting in other FPer’s posts. Bwahaha. What a selfish move of hers, what a stunt, sorry.
Paul in KY
@soonergrunt: Same here, just thought ‘eemom’ was a woman.
Paul in KY
@Fuck U6: A More Accurate Measure of the Total Amount of Duck-Fuckery in the Economy: Come on! You know that’s just a typo. I’m sure she knows it was 1939 (and that’s just when war started, 1933 was official start of Nazi regime). She made a typo. We all do and would make more if we wrote as much stuff as ABL does.
Paul in KY
@Arundel: You can comment on her article to your heart’s content by just clicking a few more clicks. Do it, you probably need the exercise.
Plus, you are full of shit when it comes to ABL & her worth to this blog.