(Tom Toles via GoComics.com)
All the early-morning regulars seem to be sleeping in, so… What’s on the agenda?
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.
They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.
Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.
The unpunished coup was a training exercise.
No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.
Democracy cannot function without a free press.
People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.
Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.
I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.
That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.
The “burn-it-down” people are good with that until they become part of the kindling.
This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.
Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.
I’m more christian than these people and i’m an atheist.
No one could have predicted…
Just because you believe it, that does not make it true.
This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.
Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.
Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.
Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.
Republicans do not trust women.
Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.
Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.
If rights aren’t universal, they are privilege, not rights.
Phyllis
Moving a little slowly in these parts. Have a few errands to run today & I plan to do them early; forecast high is 99. The ac pumped for seven hours straight yesterday.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
Doctor’s appointment and then there’s one other thing … Oh, yeah. Work.
Alexandra
What’s on the agenda? OS X Lion.
WereBear
I’ll try to make it to book club tonight; visiting bro-in-law has left.
We’ve been hitting 80 with actual humidity; it would make a Deep Souther sneer and skip around, but for acclimated natives, this is crossing the desert with no Gatorade.
Linda Featheringill
I wish I were sleeping in this morning but the furry alarm clocks would have none of it.
Too hot this week to do anything much. I wanted to plant my fall container garden but don’t know if I can – unless I sneak out after sundown and do it. Bummer.
Bizono
Track down Al Gore at the nearest Dunkin Donuts and heckle him about all the snow we got in the northeast last winter, then I’ll go home and walk the dog and water the plants before the heat becomes unbearable.
Southern Beale
I’m here.
So Ladies, do you have a scary vagina? Summer’s Eve has just the ad campaign for you!
bemused
I read over at Think Progress that Rep Allen West said that people sporting 2012 Obama bumper stickers threaten the gene pool and I couldn’t stop laughing.
Southern Beale
@bemused:
Wait, I thought we were all either gay or having abortions? Wish the wingnuts would make up their fucking minds about us already. Too many conflicting stereotypes does not a rational message make.
Southern Beale
Goldman Sachs laying off 1,000 workers. Guess they need a bigger tax cut to be job creators again!
RossInDetroit
Temp got down to 77 overnight and will hit 94 today. Possible 100 tomorrow. I’ll be working in a building with the AC off, climbing ladders & hauling stuff around. This will suck.
RossInDetroit
BTW, that’s a great comic. One pic, 1000 words.
bemused
Southern Beale@9,
Right, they either want our liberal gene pool to die out or evolve into rightwingers if they believed in evolution.
DBrown
The NYT just wrote that the NOAA has calculated (from over 4000 US stations) our average temp for this decade and it is 1.5 C (2.7 F) increase over the previous time frame (based on a thirty year average so the comparison is to the 1970+ time frame, not the last decade.) That is a huge difference and explains the heat waves and their terrible effects. While this is not a global change it is significant and a sign of the times – we aren’t going back and like peak oil, the good times are over.
Thanks to all the liars and ass lickers this is only going to get worse as electric costs climb, brown outs and black outs during the worse heat waves increase and life just gets worse unless you are in the elite. Thanks and hope all you AGW deniers all eat shit and die terrible deaths in terrible pain you ass wipes deserve for helping this crime against humanity to have been perpetrated.
SiubhanDuinne
@DBrown: Word.
jo6pac
Go pick up the scones I ordered and put the dough in the freezer and then later today pickup the salmon and put it in the freezer. Then wonder around the yard doing what ever.
Cliff in NH
Rode up to the top of the cliff and down to the lake for the morning walk ~4 miles, Its about 63 now, will get up to 90+ later today
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
Bemused @ 8 – Hey, the fact that a neo-conservative African-American legislator from Florida can make a comment like that without flopping over because his brain has jumped out of his head and run off screaming, is a sign of progress. Of a sort*.
D.C. isn’t terribly far south of the Mason-Dixon line and I know I speak for all of my DC Metropolitanites when I say I’d gladly skull fuck six kittens for weather like that.
Yesterday I went outside around noon. First I couldn’t see shit because my glasses fogged up. Then I couldn’t see shit because I had to take off my glasses. Supposed to be hotter today.
*Where Progress = Intense lack of personal, historical or geographical awareness because one is confident an angry mob won’t decide to lynch one’s ass for some obscure offense against local norms.
Exurban Mom
Trying to figure out if we should be seriously panicking about the debt ceiling or not. Starting to have trouble sleeping at night…when a frickin’ presidential candidate goes on record calling the debt ceiling problem “a misnomer” and “not a serious problem,” we got trouble.
Bruuuuce
Forty-two years and counting since the success of Apollo 11. Here’s to everyone who made that, and all the other wonders of space exploration possible — and a hearty Bronx cheer to the wusses and dreamless people who’ve torn that dream down to where we have no independent launch capability.
bemused
Thoughtful@18,
That and basically telling a woman to get back in the kitchen and keep her mouth shut. Is this creep married?
WereBear
Yes, I know, but would you feel the same in our -40 winters?
DZ
I feel bad for all of you suffering from the heat, but we’re having the opposite problem here in Portland, OR. We;ve had one day over 80 in 2011 and only about 12-15 days over 70. Plus, it’s raining in July – almost unheard of here. Forecast for today is high of 74. Next 10 day forecast shows 9 of 10 days in the 70s but no 80s and more rain.
Jeffro
Check this out from Jennifer Rubin over at WaPo:
lolwhut???
And this also, too:
“Savaging” the defense budget – oh my.
Give me the budget pen, ma’am, I’ll show you savaging the defense budget…
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
Bemused – Of course. The GOP has raised homophobia to such a level I doubt an unmarried pol could get elected. (BTW, W-S responded to West’s tantrum by spanking him some more.)
Yup. Here’s the thing. It gets pretty cold here, not that cold, but when you factor in windchill it gets damn cold. And DAMP cold. But you can always add more layers. You can get those chemical hand warmers and all that groovy cold weather gear.
With heat, especially intense humid heat, there is only so far you can strip down before people start to complain, throw up, poke out their eyes with sticks. You’re hot the minute you step out the door, start to stew in your own sweat after 60 seconds, you stink after five minutes and everyone around you is also hot, sweaty, stinky and fucking hates life.
I’m just glad I work in an office where business casual dress is considered really dressy. If I had to wear a suit and a tie in this shit I’d be psychotic. (However, nothing save of a threat of violent death will make me wear shorts and sandals to work, even though I could.)
So yeah, I’d take the -40 temps. Wanna trade?
bemused
Good for Wasserman Schultz but it would have been a lot more fun if she could have told West to get his big boy pants on and quit his whining.
Amir_Khalid
You Harry Potter fans,spare a thought for our fellows in Indonesia. Because of a dispute over taxation between the government there and distributors of foreign movies, nothing from abroad is currently being shown in the country’s theaters. So if you want to see Harry Potter And The Deathly Hallows Part 2, you need to factor in the cost of a plane trip here or to Singapore (and an overnight stay as well, most likely).
Bruce S
Here’s a take-down of both David Brooks and George Will in one swell foop:
http://titanicsailsatdawn.blogspot.com/2011/07/more-on-fannie-and-freddie-and.html
pattonbt
I’ve lived overseas (Australia) for the last 8 years, but I still work for the US company that sent me over and I make several trips a year back.
Like most here, I spend too much time following politics and have been amazed at the crazy from the right. But in some sense it’s all abstract for me. While it frightens me, I know I am away from it (although the Liberal, read Conservative, party in Aus is starting to take tactical pages out of the Republican/Tea Party playbook – scary).
But on this trip, the impact of these changes in the politics in the US has been really laid bare and today it is not abstract, I really have come to the conclusion that the US is well and truly f’ed and I can’t see the silver lining anymore (and if a silver lining were to come it is decades away now).
What triggered it was getting in my rental car and looking for a news radio station (NPR) because I like news and hate morning/evening drive radio. And it was channel after channel of right wing bile. I mean I had the dial on “seek” and station after station, for the 2 or 3 seconds the seek feature lasted, there were tons and tons of morans spouting out the Tea Party BS. Slogan after slogan, talking point after talking point, hate after hate, stupid after stupid.
And I realized, there is really no left leaning counter punch. I’ve always known left messaging is harder (it’s more easy to make people afraid than educate them on policy – I get that), but the right wing message machine has so taken over it’s not hard to understand why so many people buy in to the memes or the “main stream media” follows suit. It’s no wonder that whatever the right squaks about gets attention (the greasy wheel gets the grease) and becomes the story. They have such a powerful tool at their disposal. And even if you are leftly inclined, there is simply no outlet for your views. It was really sad.
And then when I found NPR, it was a shell of it’s former self. Even sadder.
Lit3Bolt
I ran across a story about the Winklevoss twins and Larry Summers on Yahoo. Full of the usual rich asshole on rich asshole litigious violence, but I thought this quote from Summers was amusing: