Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

“Joe Biden deserved better than he got from some folks in his own party.”

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

People are weird.

The words do not have to be perfect.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

The arc of the moral universe doesn’t bend itself. it’s up to us.

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

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

The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

“Just close your eyes and kiss the girl and go where the tilt-a-whirl takes you.” ~OzarkHillbilly

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL.

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  2. 2.

    eastriver

    Please don’t post a link without explaining the link. That is small and unproud behavior.

    Please continue.

  3. 3.

    General Stuck

    From the files of wingnut hypocrisy.

    “I came to the House as a real deficit hawk, but I am no longer a deficit hawk. I’ll tell you why. I had to spend the surpluses. Deficits make it easier to say no.”

    — Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), quoted by The Hill in 2003.

    And now of course, he is back on the deficit hawk wagon. Why, because wingnuts like Santorum only have one issue they are for doing the opposite of what liberals want to do. Like a caged rat beating the hell out of the cocaine button.

    Republicans Poised To Filibuster Liu Nomination
    Up or down votes are so George Bush these days, it’s all about courageous republicans saving the realm from flesh eating zombie progressive federal judges.

    Sens. Charles Grassley (R-IA) and Jeff Sessions (R-AL), the current and former ranking members of the Judiciary Committee, released a strongly worded “alert” Wednesday arguing against the confirmation.

    If confirmed by the Senate, Liu “would advance his progressive philosophy for years to come, doing incalculable damage to the constitutional system of limited government and federalism envisioned by our founding fathers,” the senators said in the statement.

    Uh oh. It’s sternly worded alert time. Yadda yadda yadda, liberal big government bleedy heart gonna take yer guns away, and make you see guberment doctors for your butthurt. But per usual, when the wingnuts start beating their chests, and circling the wagons, it usually is for the same ole reason it always is.

    Some Republicans also are still seething over his written testimony against Supreme Court nominee Samuel Alito in 2006.

    “Judge Alito’s record envisions an America where police may shoot and kill an unarmed boy to stop him from running away with a stolen purse … where a black man may be sentenced to death by an all-white jury for killing a white man,” Liu wrote. “I humbly submit that this is not the America we know. Nor is it the America we aspire to be.”

    HURT FEE FEES

    What evil does this Asian person speak, why can’t we have a country were the cops can gun folks down for running away.

    The testimony was “vicious, emotionally and racially charged, very intemperate, and to me it calls into question your ability to approach and characterize people’s positions in a fair and judicious way,” Sen. Jon Kyl (R-AZ) said last year.

    Racially charged?, coming from an Asian American/ Wingnuts Playing the Corleone Card for no reason.

    Liu acknowledged that this language was “unnecessarily flowery.”

    Teehee, done in by flowery language. And yes, you read correctly, Mr. Liu is championed by none other than Kenneth Starr. Things ain’t natural anymore. They are all weird and fucked up.

  4. 4.

    Studly Pantload, now with enhanced schmuckosity

    Well, I must say, it’s the spry nonagenarian that can link to the YouTubes (unless your nephew helped you, m’be). And it’s not to just some old, grainy Frank Sinatra footage, at that (not there there’d be anything wrong with the that). That’s quite a fetching tune. I shall be checking our more of this Ms. Miller lass.

  5. 5.

    Studly Pantload, now with enhanced schmuckosity

    @eastriver:

    I think if you hit that there white arrow thingy, music plays and – wallah! – the link explains itself.
    =0 )

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    Forked tongue

    For the record, that song was written and originally recorded by the great, great Arthur Alexander, the only artist to have either written or recorded the first version of songs that would later be covered by the Beatles, the Rolling Stones, Bob Dylan, and Elvis Presley.

    (In order: he wrote “Anna,” “You Better Move On,” and “Sweet Sally Sue Brown,” and didn’t write but did record the first version of “Burning Love.”)

  10. 10.

    JC

    Hey, I hadn’t ever heard this song before. I quite like – thanks!

    Is the album any good? What would you recommend in her discography?

  11. 11.

    Sarah Proud and Tall

    Hi JC – That track is off her first covers album called Car Tape, and I would be hard pressed to come up with a track off it that I don’t love.

    I have just bought Car Tape 2, and it seems almost as good.

    Of her self-penned albums, I think Version Originale is the best. I also have a soft spot for her cover of “I hope I never“.

  12. 12.

    Studly Pantload, now with enhanced schmuckosity

    @JC:

    She’s got song samples on iTunes. Or, if you don’t swing that way, on amazon. She seems to be more alt-country than this song would indicate (alt-county meaning, to me, stuff what sounds like it’s from before the dawning of the Hank Williams, Jr., era). I like the “These Boots Are Made for Walkin'”/Holly Golightly/Rhohypnol vibe of this particular cover (it’s off an album of covers called “Car Tape”).

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    Studly Pantload, now with enhanced schmuckosity

    @Sarah Proud and Tall:

    Well, hopefully you’re at least drunk or something to compensate for that, “Hey! Where’s the rest of the world go?!” feeling of it just being you and the night nurses who are up.

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    Kane

    I love your taste in music. And thanks for the recent turn-on to Adele’s Set Fire to the Rain. You have no idea how much I’ve played that song in the last few days.

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