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So, I’ve been off the news grid for the last couple days… anything worth paying attention to happening?
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Yutsano
Ehh…not so much.
4tehlulz
Short the world economy before Monday.
Cris (without an H)
I think we’re all giving Libby dating advice.
TreeBeard
Someone please send the ambulance to K-Thug’s house. He’s about to pop a vessel or two, or at least seemed like it till he posted the concerto video.
I can’t even imagine what it must be like in his head – to be proven right time and again by the facts and yet be completely disregarded by all those who should be listening to you.
I’d have gone mad.
Martin
The GOP is serious this time about cutting the deficit!
How serious?
Yes, they voted to cut the military budget for bands (yes, musicians) by $120M to a mere $200M. How will they manage?!
The military maintains 200 bands with that $320M, which is approximately 183 bands and $319M more than America’s public schools.
TreeBeard
Also, if anyone invokes “belt-tightening by the government” or “[America] has maxed out its credit card” or any such variants, I will fart in their general direction.
After eating a bowl of kidney beans, no less.
Cris (without an H)
Do note that the military gets top-notch bands for that money. They waste some of their talent on Sousa marches, but it’s still good talent.
Breezeblock
No.
stuckinred
Cris (without an H)
I remember seeing the Air Force Band in the 70’s. The lead singer was no beauty but, damn, she had serious pipes!
MikeJ
@Cris (without an H): Some years back the right wing father of a girlfriend invited us along to see one military band or another in a concert. Things went well until I started raving about how I loved federal funding of the arts.
FlipYrWhig
@TreeBeard / 4: There’s kind of an important different between being right about things and having the means, or a theory of the means, by which the things that you’re right about might be accomplished. Krugman, perhaps because he’s an academic, appears to think that being right, then talking clearly and firmly about the reasons why you’re right, tends to carry the day: you win the argument! I don’t think it works like that in politics. You can be provably, demonstrably right, but the people to whom you air your rightness might still say, “Too bad, fuck you.” Then what?
(Actually, Krugman ought to be familiar with that dynamic. It’s quite common in faculty meetings.)
Thoughtcrime
Pelosi, Frank and Geithner all shovel dirt on the GOP’s wish to have Obama ignore the debt limit so that they can tag him as “Dictator”:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/07/pelosi-on-obama-ignoring-the-debt-limit-aint-gonna-happen.php?ref=dcblt
Love this comment by “Sniffit”:
Draylon Hogg
Murdoch’s ninja army lost the battle for his extinct volcano base off the coast of Wapping. He’s still got the satellite fortress and moonbase however.
ruemara
I’m thinking Chinese. or Sushi. Or…these drunken tofu burgers. And it seems we’re all hacks now.
wobblybits
Holy laughing my ass off. Newt is over on Google+ talking about how he and his staff are looking for input from folks how to best use the google ‘hangout’ feature. He then announces his first hangout and hilarity ensues in the comment section.
If the ability to ridicule and mock a politician to his face is a feature of Google+, I’m a fan. (Yes, I know it’s probably is some unpaid intern and not really Newt typing away on the Google)
Thoughtcrime
The best musicians in the military don’t necessarily play in their bands:
http://www.pastemagazine.com/blogs/lists/2011/05/10-musicians-who-served-in-the-military.html
Steeplejack
Night shift checking in (early). Worked a rare day shift today and was back home in the man-cave by 4:40 p.m. Slightly disconcerting. What do you people do with all this free time when there’s still daylight outside?
Just had dinner and will decompress for a bit. Day shift again tomorrow, then I have my usual Sunday-Monday weekend, punctuated by a (probable) root canal on Monday morning. Ugh.
ETA: Feels like Thursday. Can’t shake the feeling that it is really Thursday.
jo6pac
Just business as usual everything F*&^*&
Villago Delenda Est
Is Nancy Grace’s head still exploding?
I hope so, because if anyone needs to have a constantly exploding head, it’s Nancy Grace.
Just Some Fuckhead
Jesus Steep, you got me yawning already. I hadda check the clock.
srv
We must give in to the wingnuts on the debt ceiling, surrender on any hope of jobs creation and think that we can break that cycle sometime in the future as the economy gets worse and more tbags get elected.
A real strategy of WIN.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
If only Nancy Grace’s head would explode continuously on her own separate cable channel so we could have the option of avoiding that one completely. Call it the HEN (Head-Explodey Network, duh) and stick all the shouting, raving TV rantheads there together. Bill O’Reilly, Jim Cramer, Glenn Beck, Neil Cavuto … I don’t watch nearly enough TV to know who else belongs on the HEN channel, but I’m sure they could fill up 24 hours a day with no trouble.
lacp
No, nothing actually happened. Didn’t stop anybody from blogging about it, though.
Martin
Get a wife. She’ll find a way to keep you busy – one way or another.
eric
Bastille Day is coming soon. This isn’t just a French holiday it’s an international holiday and we progressives need to take possession of it. We should march, hold teach ins, celebrate it and put forth it’s ideals of the overthrow of corrupt tyranny of the oligarchy.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@eric: I’m up for it, as long as we can eat cheese and baguettes while we march. I draw the line at drowning counterrevolutionaries in rivers, though – I’m pretty sure that would violate the Clean Water Act.
Zifnab
@Martin:
Didn’t some mayor up in Michigan try to get his school declared a prison so that he could claim all the money they spent on “inmates”?
Perhaps he had the right idea. We just need to start calling schools “military bases” and go from there.
scav
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: well, in PA, their decomposing corpses might actually improve the water quality. Hanging from light poles is also traditional, isn’t it?
ETA: For clarity, I’m suggesting different disposal techniques for Frakked and non-Frakked watersheds. Defrakking Disposal Details? Something of the sort.
RossInDetroit
I’m going to go to bed wishing for some of the mud thrown at Murdoch to stick to Fox News. Prolly won’t happen (requires making more than one mental association) but a boy can hope.
eric
I would just concentrate on the commemoration and education to remind the world of the outcome of a top heavy economic situation. Marching in Jacobin clothing with a mock guillotine would be cool as a mild threat I think.
eric
I’m going to go to bed wishing for some of the mud thrown at Murdoch to stick to Fox News. Prolly won’t happen (requires making more than one mental association) but a boy can hope.
If they can stick Pres Obama with Rev Wright, Bill Ayers, The New Black Panther Party, etc. I say why not.
Brian
Bankruptcy is a legal status of a person or an organization that cannot repay the debts it owes to its creditors. It is IMPOSSIBLE for a country that is sovereign in its currency to ever go bankrupt. Pet peeve of mine, and especially when the Left falls for it. We are not, and never will (under the current monetary system) be bankrupt. Period.
PIGL
And today’s Internet King is MikeJ at comment 12 with:
the Buhjaysus
Hopefully they’ll fund some military band that’ll end up being ahead of their time the way the Monks were…
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-5iI0__9S1c&feature=related
These guys were all stationed in Germany together.
maybe it’s time to bring back the “monk cut” as a hairdo.
Suffern ACE
@Brian – but but but we have 120 trillion in unfunded liabilities. We need to get rid of those. I’ve been thinking of declaring bankruptcy myself. Over the next 40 years that I hope to remain alive, I think I’ve got a few hundred thousand dollars of bills that I will need to pay. How do you expect me to pay for those?
Mike Kay ( Geronimo!!)
You do realize Krugman is a notorious “free trader”. Was K-Thug “right” about his wild, unqualified, enthusiastic support for NAFTA, CAFTA, and PNTR?
Part of the reason the US economy is in the toilet is because ivory tower elitists like Krugman shipped the manufacturing base to China, brick by brick.
Mike Kay ( Geronimo!!)
its baffling how supposed well read leftys constantly mouth republican talking points. you would think with their scholarship that they would create their own.