I’m so mad about the current state of politics I’m going to write lots of angry blog posts about how Obama sucks and do nothing to change Congress!
That will show the Republicans I’m fucking serious. Clearly they didn’t get the message when I chained myself to the WH fence and sent Sheehan money to primary Pelosi.
ALSO TOO, ABL USES ALL CAPS. WHY WON’T JOHN COLE GO BACK TO THE GOP WHERE HE BELONGS?
Yutsano
Are you bored or something? You already trolled the blog once today.
John Cole
@Yutsano: Halftime.
Short Bus Bully
I support the hell out of JC trolling his own blog.
robertdsc-PowerBook
Whatever happened to Tunch’s
thronefuton?MacKenna
Can we get a photo of Lily?
Yutsano
@John Cole: Well since we’ve both failed the liberal Purity Test I suppose our only other option is to commit seppuku. Or drink heavily.
kd bart
Bully pulpit!!!
gogol's wife
God, I need Tunch. I’ll have to settle for my flesh-and-blood-and-fur kittehs.
Svensker
You’re so cute.
Gotta go drown my sorrows in work and contemplate my impurity sins. The hub will tolerate NFL games but I can’t get him to watch college ball. Harumph.
JWL
“I’m so mad about the current state of politics I’m going to write lots of angry blog posts about how Obama sucks and do nothing to change Congress!”.
If Football Jesus could speak (and he has risen, or maybe is rising), that’s exactly what He would say.
You really resent having your politics challenged, don’t you?
Woodrowfan
needs more pics of the pigges! (the 2 dogs and Tunch, not “Fox and Friends”
Yutsano
@Svensker:
Tell him no hockey. That’ll righten his ship right up. It worked on my Canuckistani ex anyway. Of course he’d just get huffy and go play it himself. Damn defenceman. :)
Jim, Foolish Literalist
quick, post an update that includes your dinner plans for tonight and another one on your pets. If you really want to piss them off, embed a couple of paintings. Then shut down the comments
Corner Stone
I’m still waiting for my apology.
Yutsano
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Ur ebil. I like it!
Valdivia
John. I love you. That is all.
Winston Smith
Todd Akin, the anus who represents MO-2, is running for Senate.
My New Years’ resolution is to do everything I can to keep him from winning the Senate seat and to get a Democrat into his seat — even a DINO. I don’t care, just not another Billy Fucking Long.
debit
@Corner Stone: I’m sorry.
Lysana
@efgoldman:
In his case, his reflection.
Wave Breaker
I just snorted outloud. I don’t do that often.
I’m gonna sit back, sip my IPA and will my leaden, sun-stroked arms back into working order.
That’s a good complement to this post.
Napoleon
You did not use enough tags.
lacp
I guess that case of Troegs’ arrived after all. Enjoy!
Corner Stone
@debit: Thank you! I think you’re kinda hot by the way.
Corner Stone
@Lysana: You. Not so much.
some guy
I’m so mad about the current state of politics I’m going to write lots of angry blog posts about how firebaggers suck Dan Choi is a publicity hound and do nothing to change corporate malefeasance and Wall Street Centrism!
That will show the Democrats I’m fucking serious. Clearly they didn’t get the message when I whored myself to the WH message machine and pretended I was “liberal” by sending real money to overturn Walker’s union busting.
ALSO TOO, CORPORATE LAWYERS USES ALL CAPS. WHY WON’T JOHN COLE GO BACK TO THE DNC/DLC WHERE HE BELONGS?
Yutsano
@Valdivia:
Oh boy. I just went through this with wifey. Et tu, mi hot Latina lover? I’m gonna go back to teasing OO on Book of Faces. Puppeh is sticking to my SIL like glue.
gogol's wife
@efgoldman:
From Cole, for saying he complained about Obama’s moving the speech even though he didn’t. I don’t know why I feel compelled to get involved in this, but I thought you should have an answer.
Corner Stone
@efgoldman: Cole lied about me recently but he’s too much of a little bitch to man up and admit it.
Watch, he’ll ignore or weasel.
Svensker
@Yutsano:
Nah, he doesn’t like hockey either. He just doesn’t like sports, particularly. I converted him to tolerating the NFL by sheer force of will. (Huddle! Gotta love men in spandex.) Also, watching the NFL means that the TV-less son will visit on game days. :)
Valdivia
@Yutsano:
:)
Hi Yuts! Wait I am not supposed to love John???
Corner Stone
@gogol’s wife: Yes. Thank you. Preciates yas.
Yutsano
Also too: now haz gray mass of kitteh fur on my lap and he ain’t moving.
arguingwithsignposts
@Yutsano: I sometimes miss suiting up in the goalie uniform and taking some shots. Sadly, the 40+ year old knees and back won’t tolerate it.
Roger Moore
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I think we need paintings of the pets. If John Cole were a true progressive, he’d be stimulating the economy by paying a down-on-his-luck painter to paint pictures of Tunch, Lily, and Rosie. Since he refuses to do so, he’s obviously just a Libertarian sleeper-agent troll.
different church-lady
Unforced error. Advantage: trolls.
Yutsano
@Valdivia: FYWP.
Nah, you can feel free to love (and LOVE) JC all you want. It’s just that all of a sudden before I knew it wifey was knocking boots with a Canuckistani. I’m still not over the shock of that.
Yutsano
@arguingwithsignposts: Oddly enough one of my old college friends is doing that. At around your age too. Not sure if his knees are in any better shape. His back shouldn’t be, he lugged a tuba for 5+ years.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Roger Moore: I posted this the other day but it seems relevant. Here a painting of our neighborhood eatery with my pups in the door. White Tiger
jamurph
Stay the course. Get behind your president. Things are bound to change for the better if we just keep doing the same thing. 6 more months of not pressuring Obama and we’ll surely turn a corner.
arguingwithsignposts
@Yutsano: It’s all fun and games until the first time your back blows out and you can’t get off the ice. more power to him if he can keep it from happening.
Valdivia
@Yutsano: @Yutsano:
:)
Don’t worry. I’ll let you know if any of my prospects is worthy of shock like that…I am currently juggling some so-so internet dates with the burning love of my twenty years ago stalker. See, fun!
In the meantime it turns out that our blog language does not really translate to social networking where I just dipped my toes. I am having to translate my little BJisms all the time! No one gets the Also. Too. So sad.
RossInDetroit
May I please be excused from this thread? I need to clean the aquarium, water the plants and see to the turtle cages. I promise to catch up when I get back.
Corner Stone
@Valdivia:
I wondered for a bit about this when you weren’t posting. Wondered if he had brought out the circular saw and the small spoon.
Linda Featheringill
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): That’s a really cute painting.
Yutsano
@arguingwithsignposts: My ex is about to turn 30 and refuses to slow down. Then again the Avalanche are idiots for passing on him.
@Valdivia:
You’d better. I’ve discovered I have a natural talent for keeping brides calm. Kinda tough to do in a state of shock. :)
Corner Stone
@RossInDetroit: No! You’ll keep your ass at your post until relieved!
Roger Moore
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
If it ain’t Tunch, Lily, and Rosie, and Cole’s money paying for it, it doesn’t count. I want a True Progressive(TM) bloghost. Whine! Whine! Whine!
Corner Stone
@Linda Featheringill: That really is. I like that.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Linda Featheringill: Mary Porter. There are several paintings of our house and our rental. Hiawassee at Midnight is my fav.
http://maryporterpaintings.com/artwork/1451880_Midnight_on_Hiawasee.html
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Roger Moore: xin loi mofo
Roger Moore
@RossInDetroit:
Only if you don’t mind us all saying bad things about you behind your back. A true progressive would never turn his back on a challenge like the one John Galt Cole laid down here.[/emo]
Valdivia
@Corner Stone:
Sweet. Thank you. No I am here Corner. And in all my pieces. Attached. Except perhaps my heart….
Maura Cavaleri
@Short Bus Bully: me too! It’s his blog and he can troll if he wants too, troll if he wants too, troll if he wants to!
Valdivia
@Yutsano:
:) I will. But no worries. I don’t do panic I do incandescence!
Yutsano
@Valdivia: Hmm…do I have the wherewithal to control a bridezilla? I think I could handle it.
Karen
I just got out of a five day stay in the hospital and it’s nice to know that some things never change in Balloon Juice Land.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Karen: U ok?
Roger Moore
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
What are you apologizing for? It’s Cole’s fault, and he’s the only one who can make it better. I suppose I might be willing to let it slide if he would at least provide us with a new Tunch photo.
JPL
@Karen: Oh I’m so sorry but I’m pleased that you are commenting again. Stay healthy.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Roger Moore: Well, xin loi really isn’t an apology even though it means “sorry bout that”. It really means, “tough shit”. Hence the mofo. :)
Corner Stone
@Karen: Did the PUMAs scratch you and cause an infection?
The Commish
Two new conferences for the Balloon Juice Fantasy Football League!
One on Yahoo, will follow rules similar to last year’s leagues and this year’s Elitist Meritocracy Conference:
http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/league/bjfl_wingnutwelfare
Password is alsotoo
Another league on ESPN.com, will use an auction draft (don’t ask me, I’m not the commissioner there!) and maybe some other different rules:
http://games.espn.go.com/ffl/leagueoffice?leagueId=290918
Draft are coming up this week, don’t be late!
Roger Moore
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
And I guess I shouldn’t blame Cole alone. It’s really Obama’s fault. If he hadn’t killed the public option, I’m sure there would be Tunch paintings to look at as we rode around on our ponies.
Svensker
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
Those are just wonderful. Is Porter a local artist? I love your house.
@Karen:
Hope you’re OK! And welcome back. You’ll be surprised to hear that our curmudgeonly host is curmudgeonly. Also, too, there are fights about Obama, Worst President Ever? Or Not?
Valdivia
@Yutsano:
no no I meant in the bedroom or relationships. Been married already I’m not going for a fancy wedding if at all/
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Roger Moore: Ding!
Valdivia
@Karen:
you ok???
Yutsano
@Valdivia: Well hell. Wifey said they exact same thing. Next thing I know they’re discussing vows. Am I the only hold-out here?
Ira-NY
Interesting paintings. Does Mary Porter have a missing ear?
jwb
@different church-lady: Can’t you see that Cole’s playing 11 dimension chess?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Ira-NY: Nah, she’s good people. She lives around the corner and is always fun to chat with.
Not that someone with a missing ear would not be good people!
JR
OK. WVU is still up, but they’ve called a recess in the game with 5 minutes in the 3rd quarter on account of a thunderstorm!!!
We had a huge thunderstorm here SW of Charleston just a little while ago.
When we were kids, I don’t remember football games being suspended for a weather recess, ever! I don’t remember 100s of spectatorsw being killed by lightning, either!
One of the whole points of football is it’s a fall/winter game, you play in the worst weather, regardless. “Frozen Tundra” anyone? I was in the marching band as a kid, 55 lb brass/silver tuba, white uniform pants, marching in 6 inches of churned mud on Friday nights!!!
It’s downright un-American to call a game like football on account of weather! Even for a recess!!
And what’s the story here of this new miracle offensive coach? We’re barely ahead of MU, that’s no way to play for the National Championship!! ISN’T THAT THE WHOLE POINT OF FIRING COACH STEW????? Why treat a decent guy so bad if it isn’t going to reward us with a championship?
One more thing. I watched a couple of good college football games yesterday, Southern Florida vs Notre Dame (ranked 16th in meaningless preseason polls) and the ND coach turned bright red early and stayed that way, screaming, the entire game. Kinda of like Coach Rich Rod, of whom good riddance.
I’m a Marshall U grad, 1984, an adult student… but it was too late for me to develop green blood. My folks/brother/wife all went to WVU, and I had Mountaineer blood by the time I was like 12 or so.
When I went back to college, at 30, MU was the school I could commute to and live at home with the wife, milk cow, chickens, etc. A busy like, but I liked it. Now I’m retired, and busier than ever.
Let’s GO Mountaineers!!
that is all.
JR
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@JR: I have a good friend in Louisa, KY.
RossInDetroit
Oh, speaking of Ponies, I found it (with brief commercial). Reggie Watts + My Little Pony, in case anyone has missed this hilarious rap parody. Very NSFW (language).
Valdivia
@Yutsano:
No my dear. Singler than single. Though I’m in the genetic contributor search but that is a different ball game.
WaterGirl
@Valdivia: What are internet dates?
Roger Moore
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
Ain’t that the truth. They might have lost that ear in a terrible piercing accident, or had it eaten by underfed pets, or talked off by annoying relatives. Not to mention the possibility that they were victims of dark magic.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@WaterGirl: Pretty hot there yesterday huh?
WaterGirl
@Yutsano: Vows? Seriously? Geez, i step away for a few days and miss that. i thought they just had a visit, that’s the latest I know.
El Cid
I haven’t read the blog all day, this is the first post I saw; I’m already guessing what preceded and prompted it.
Yutsano
@Valdivia: Oh. Well if you have no objection to the turkey baster method I know a Marine with good genes in your area…
WaterGirl
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Yep. What I like to call RFH. I am not a fan.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@WaterGirl: @WaterGirl: I watched the game and was surprised it was that hot, 127 on the field.
Yutsano
@WaterGirl: Oh Lawd. I thought maybe it was the infatuation, but then I read her blog. It’s serious. Like quadruple-bypass serious. The sordid details are there. And she’s gonna kill me for talking about it too. :)
Valdivia
@Yutsano:
Really? I am actually very seriously considering going it alone that way. So yes!
@WaterGirl:
Ok Cupid. Best internet dating site I have ever used. At least in this area.
Also: She is getting married??? Really?
WaterGirl
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Wow. 127 on the field. Amazing. I was watching women’s volleyball in the gym on friday and saturday and it was RFH. So glad there’s not another volleyball match for 2 weeks, hoping for cooler weather then.
Off to my second-to-last swim of the season. I don’t swim indoors and the pool closes tomorrow afternoon. So sad. Second swim of the day – got to get it while it lasts.
@Yutsano: Holy crap. As soon as I get home I will have to check that out. ( won’t tell her you told me, though. :-) I’m sure she will never find out.
Corner Stone
@El Cid: Read some more.
WaterGirl
@Valdivia: Off to the pool for 30 minutes before it closes. Or I would ask for more details!
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@WaterGirl: Go get em! Amazingly all the outdoor pools here have been closed for 2 weeks.
Svensker
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
Those are just wonderful. Is Porter a local artist? I love your house.
Valdivia
@WaterGirl:
enjoy the swim. we’ll catch up later!
Svensker
FYWP hates me. It’s a-eatin’ mah posts. That’s OK, I hate FYWP. Ha ha ha.
@Karen:
Hope you’re OK! And welcome back. You’ll be surprised to hear that our curmudgeonly host is curmudgeonly. Also, too, there are fights about Obama, Worst President Ever? Or Not?
soonergrunt
You forgot “Assange iz teh roxxor! America is teh suxxor! Woot! Made-up terminology! Subject changing! Lololol! Islam is teh bestest! Lack of logical or even reasonable thought processes! Racist statements!
eemom
@Valdivia:
this area is a shitty place to be a single woman, fer sure. Unless you like boring-ass lawyers and bureaucrats. (Every IRS employee can’t be a hottie like our Yutsy, alas….)
Valdivia
@eemom:
Oh I have been rather lucky I guess. I have met fascinating people in the year or so I have been here. Some really fun interesting types. Even if it was just for a few dates.
I have no complaints about DC, prefer it to nyc actually.
Valdivia
@soonergrunt:
Killing me. Too funny.
salacious crumb
no worries John. ABL gets her fill by branding anyone mildly critical of Obama as racist. standard operating procedure for her. She has even bitched about you not banning certain commenters on this blog. That you havent done so makes me respect ya and pisses her off even more.
srv
Cheney gets his emopants on.
Queue up another opportunity for hippy punching.
RossInDetroit
@srv:
Why is that evil man on TV instead of on trial? I cannot believe that he has any credibility left with anyone.
Corner Stone
@salacious crumb: Racist!
soonergrunt
@Valdivia, 96;
Non-croudsourced prosylitizing Cudlip!
Valdivia
@soonergrunt:
Even bigger grin.
TheWorstPersonInTheWorld
This is the most coherent post from Cole in a long while…
Yutsano
@eemom: I live in Seattle. So I disqualify on that basis. Now if I do manage to invade 1111 Constitution Ave we’ll have kawfee. :)
@Valdivia: When you see him (odds are you have and you don’t know it, he’s a show Dawg, he HATES it when I call him that!) you’re gonna think life ain’t fair. 26 6’4″ 240 pounds, blond hair, blue eyes, can bounce a quarter off of every body part. I’m telling you he’s very decent breeding stock. Plus I’ve hounded him about producing kids before. His genes are just too good.
I’m pretty certain wifey is going down the aisle, if for no other reason than the practical. As soon as she says I do, she’s a citizen from what I understand.
mzrad
More of this, please.
http://www.latimes.com/news/local/la-me-0901-fresno-superintendent-20110904,0,4431218.story
Valdivia
@Yutsano: he sounds delightful!
Yutsano
@Valdivia: Any man that can shut me up (and he can) has gotta be worth something. I just like him. I think he’d make a great daddy.
JPL
@mzrad: That was unamerican in my view. Real Americans take the money and run.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano: The fuck?
Yutsano
@Omnes Omnibus: Not like THAT. Just an innocent comment about Aaron Rodgers. That’s all. I promise!
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: Hmmm…worlds exposed.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano: I guess I should never fall asleep on the couch for a couple of hours. Things get really weird around here.
WaterGirl
@Yutsano: Back from swimming, now I want to read asiangrllMN’s blog so I can catch up on this first comes love, then comes marriage thing.
I have trouble reading white on black, though. Is there any simple trick in Safari that would let me change that from white on black?
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: I don’t know about that. The only time I fall asleep on the couch is on lazy sunday afternoons, and I kind of like it. Maybe you need to try it a few more times before you decide.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: PUMA!
soonergrunt
@ Valdivia, 102;
WAI, wallah!
She’s not here because she’s either at a function for her Mormon temple or because her dad cut off the internet until she cleans her room.
Brian R.
Are you a progressive who’s upset that the Democratic Party is more centrist than you’d like?
Have you run for your local school board, city council, or other office?
If you answered yes to 1 and no to 2, kindly shut the fuck up.
Because the reason the GOP is now entirely controlled by the far wing of their party is because those people stopped bitching and started working.
Step up or shut up.
eemom
speaking of which, I have the honor of “friend”hood with several good Juicers on that medium, and would welcome a few more. However am at a loss as to how to accomplish that without revealing private information in this public forum.
(hint: I’m a Friend of “wifey” and Cole, and my name starts with an e….)
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Slightly embarrassing… I hate to ask, but can you explain that?
eemom
@Omnes Omnibus:
pssst: things get really weird around here when you DON’T fall asleep on the couch, also too.
Corner Stone
@WaterGirl: PUMA!
Corner Stone
@eemom: Mmmm…sounds delish!
Valdivia
@Yutsano:
Well I’ll keep you posted. But keep me in mind when you talk to him
WaterGirl
@Corner Stone: Okay, I don’t get it. What’s with the PUMA comments in response to my asking how to do something in Safari?
Even if it’s the “white on black” reference, I still don’t get it.
eemom
@Corner Stone:
Not you, obvs.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: After some of the fighting going on here, I just thought I needed to say something when you mentioned unrelated black/white issues. Saying “Racist!” wasn’t something I thought would be appropriate for a joke, so I went with “PUMA!” instead. I am just waking up from an inadvertent couch nap, so all my synapses may not be firing.
Corner Stone
@eemom: No. Obviously not. At all.
NR
@Brian R.: “Excuse me, Mr. Engineer? That bridge you built? It just collapsed.”
“Yeah, well, can you do any better? Step up or shut up!”
Southern Beale
I did a post on our public schools’ shift toward tech-heavy classrooms and what this means for our current generation, if it’s good or bad. I have some concerns.
I’m sorta with John, I’m sick of politics and would enjoy talking about some real issues for a change. At least for a little while.
JPL
Since this an open thread has anyone seen Winter in Wartime?
Samara Morgan
@soonergrunt: How many times do i have to explain this to you retards?
Do you have a learning disability, sooner?
im not a racist unless christian and stupid are races now.
bigot, sure.
:)
Samara Morgan
and i betcha Cole is pretty upset about this.
not in our interests, right JC?
oh why, oh why does they hatez us?
could this be why?
soonergrunt
@131;
Got back from temple and got your room cleaned, I see.
My work is done here. You all have a good evening.
Southern Beale
@JPL:
No but we saw “Crazy Stupid Love” today and it was actually quite good!
different church-lady
@NR: Well, actually, it’s more like, “Mr. Engineer, your bridge just collapsed because you didn’t build it the way I said you should!”
Then you throw in the part where nobody can agree whether it actually collapsed or only had structural damage due to the fact that it wasn’t designed to take a direct hit from a shipping barge and things start to get extra murky…
Valdivia
@soonergrunt:
You really really nailed it.
LanceThruster
When I sent money to Sheehan to primary Pelosi, it was meant as message to Democratic party hacks that business as usual was unaceptable.
I didn’t stay home, and I didn’t vote [ R ] or [ I ] to spite my face.
If I had more courage and means, chaining myself to the fence to try to stop the Keystone pipeline sounds reasonable.
I do not know for the life of me what else to do to get my elected representatives to actually take my own views into account.
Pelosi has done some commendable things, but taking impeachment off the table wasn’t one of them.
OK? <– (there's your ALL CAPS)
Yutsano
@Valdivia: suzanne gave him the keys to the kingdom, I just guided him to where they were located. The mockery of the child began from there. Poor spoiled little white girl.
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano: Do you think she ever had dreads?
Brian R.
@NR:
What an idiotic comparison. Engineering requires a specific set of skills, training and professionalization. Politics requires will. Period.
The only reason there’s a professional class of politicians is because people like you assume you have no rightful role in politics and you abandon the territory to them.
You’re a coward who turned power in your life over to other people just so you’d have the pleasure of complaining about them. Brilliant.
fuckwit
@Valdivia: Damn straight. Cole summed up today’s American “professional left” politics in one sentence. Work of art.
I had to listen to one of those clueless, macho-ass, never-read-the-Constitution, crypto-authoritarian douchebags today. He started bloviating angrily about weak he thought Obama was compared FDR, which instantly puts me in hate mode. I opened up a can of Colbert-esque whup-ass on him. “Naw, FDR was a total fucking pussy compared to his contemporaries: Stalin, Hitler, Mussolini, Tojo, and Mao! Now those guys were REAL MEN! They didn’t bother with all this wimpy-ass democracy bullshit, they GOT SHIT DONE, and if you got in their way, they killed your ass! That’s how Obama should do it, yeah!”
He looked at me quizzically. And then he did exactly what I wanted him to do: he shut the fuck up.
I savor the silence.
Southern Beale
@LanceThruster:
Become a bundler. Seriously, that’s what I was told. I was invited to a coffee with some Planned Parenthood board members and a pro-choice state senator. He explained that bundling is what gets legislators’ attention.
I don’t know how ActBlue works, if it’s like a bundler … Emily’s List is, though. Have a fundraiser, collect all the checks, send them to your candidate and tell them this is from ProChoice Voters Nashville (or wherever/whatever).
That’s what we were told, at least.
Sadly, the whole money game disgusts me.
Here’s my theory: one of our biggest problems is that we have a flaccid, clueless, moronic mainstream media which covers things in such a way as to divide the populace, make people hysterical over nonsense, and deepen partisanship.
We then have a political system in which money talks, the candidate who collects the most money is the most viable, etc. Those candidates and advocacy organizations spend these donations on … political ads and campaigns in the mainstream media.
The very same mainstream media which day in and day out divides the populace, make people hysterical over nonsense, and deepen partisanship.
See where I’m going with this?
Yutsano
@Omnes Omnibus: Oh dude. I’d bet money she’s gone through every possible rebellion she read about in college trying to find the exact right one to annoy her parents. Up to and including bisexuality. Which she can no longer indulge in as a Sufi.
Corner Stone
@Brian R.:
Are you this big of a fucking moran? Really?
Fuck you, you fucking clown.
Karen
@Valdivia:
Thank you for asking about me.
I have a 7 mm kidney stone and had a kidney infection that wouldn’t go away and after I went into the emergency room, the hospital kept me for five days. What’s ironic is because of the bad infection they couldn’t break the kidney stone so I have to get it done this week. Hopefully, there won’t be any complications and I can pass the pieces easily.
LanceThruster
@Southern Beale:
Thank you sincerely for your very useful suggestions.
It would be very stupid of me to curse the darkness and block the match trying to help me light my own candle (not that I don’t enjoy complaining for its own sake).
xD
Karen
@Svensker:
Thank you!
Southern Beale
@LanceThruster:
Sometimes complaining for its own sake is all we have. I’m pretty sure Al Gore invented the internet so liberals would have a place to vent.
:-)
Speaking of venting, I heard this parody song when I was up in Canada. I thought it was pretty hilarious.
Karen
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
I’m on my way to being ok, thank you for asking. Kidney stone pain is agony I wouldn’t wish on anyone and it doesn’t stop until you either pass it or if it’s too big to pass it has to be smashed into pieces small enough to pass. On top of that I had a bad kidney infection which ended up being the reason the hospital kept me there and now I have to get the stone smashed sometime this week. Hopefully.
Karen
@JPL:
Thank you.
I’m examining my diet to see why I keep getting kidney stones and if it turns out that it’s because of all the Arizona iced tea I drink, I love Arizona but I’ll drink more water and no more iced tea.
Yutsano
@Karen:
Yeah. That really sucks. But I hope they explained why you had to wait.
Karen
@Corner Stone:
Yeah. A new bigger scarier PUMA called “Big Assed Kidney Stone.” It scratched and voila, I got a kidney infection.
Karen
@Yutsano:
They said because I had a bad infection that if they cut me the infection could go straight to my bloodstream and I could crash.
JPL
@Karen: Kidney Stones are the curse of GA and I know doctors who swear it’s caused by carbonated beverages. Caffeine is dehydrating so water is normally the best drink.
Corner Stone
@Karen: Oh thank God. I thought “they” had finally got you.
Snatched yo ass.
Southern Beale
@Karen:
I’ve read that drinking a lot of iced tea can lead to kidney stones. I thought I had one a while back and started doing some research. Turns out I was having a back spasm.
Sorry to hear you’ve been ill, I know kidney stones can be incredibly painful.
Akadad
Even though Obama has implemented Liberal policies, he hasn’t implemented all of the ones I wanted. I’m going to send a message by not voting in the upcoming elections.
If every Liberal followed my lead, we’ll probably get a Republican President, and no Liberal policies will be implemented for 4-8 years, but getting exactly what I want is the most important thing.
Marc McKenzie
@Winston Smith:
Good luck, Winston.
Marc McKenzie
@Akadad:
Heh. Good one–chuckled while reading it. I’d also say it’s what some are really hoping for, but for reasons that are known to them and are certainly beyond my level of sanity.
Of course, people could read this:
http://democratsforprogress.com/forum/showthread.php?tid=9093
…but if they come back with “It doesn’t matter! He still didn’t do everything I wanted!!”, then it’s clear that they are beyond all mortal and possibly spiritual hope.
Southern Beale
Apparently right-wingers are desperate to spread the myth that Tip O’Neill once “Boehnered” Ronald Reagan in a lame attempt to make Boehners recent blatant disrespect of the office of the President appear to have a precedent. Sadly, no:
Uh-oh. Media fails again. Nobody could have anticpated …
Uncle Clarence Thomas
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Correction
In all fairness, you can’t spell “EXECRABLE GRIFTER” without “ABL”.
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Corner Stone
@Uncle Clarence Thomas: Grifters gotsta grift.
Corner Stone
@Akadad: You used to have more snap. Just saying.
Uncle Clarence Thomas
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@Marc McKenzie:
What if they come back with “It doesn’t matter on a practical basis, because President Obama is only marginally better than a Republican with a Democratic Congress, and that is far from enough to arrest the degeneration of America into corporate feudalism”?
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gerry
John, I really feel for you. This isn’t snark. You’re like a soft-hearted guy who finally got wise and broke up with his abusive girlfriend only to fall for then next girl, who is destined also to break his heart. Please don’t play the firebagger/obot game. You will never win. Try to keep your head clear. There are always many more than 2 perspectives.
LanceThruster
@Southern Beale:
I thank President Gore for that. Too bad he’s fat. Also, too.
Great video link. Very enjoyable.
It was only last week I was driving on the freeway past Dodger Stadium behind a guy in an SUV actually shaving his head with an electric razor. I can’t say I felt unsafe as he wasn’t using the mirror (except when stopped) but it was still weird.
Akadad
@Corner Stone:
I can’t argue with that. My best stuff used to come when I’m satirizing Conservatives, but it’s really hard to satirize them now.
Republican rhetoric these days is my satire from the past.
Corner Stone
@Akadad: No, I get that. But it used to be more fun watching you string them along for a bit, then jerking the line and setting the hook.
Samara Morgan
@soonergrunt: temple?
mosque is on friday.
sadly, my work here is neverending.
Akadad
@Corner Stone:
:D
I do kinda miss that.
Southern Beale
@LanceThruster:
Jesus. That beats soccer moms yelling at the kids, women applying mascara, and possibly teenagers texting.
soonergrunt
@Yutsano: I grew up in Douglas, Wyoming, Missouri (which I hated) and Grand Junction, CO. Both Douglas and Grand Junction had relatively large Mormon populations.
You pointed me in the right direction, but once I saw the word “polygs” in one of her posts I was almost certain I had heard that before. I emailed an old former Mormon friend and he confirmed it. The ONLY people I ever knew to use that term were Mormons, speaking derisively about the really conservative Mormons (relatively speaking, that is) and the Mormons who still hold to the old polygamous ways.
Corner Stone
@Southern Beale:
I don’t know if you drive in to work or not but I do. And on the 45 minutes in each morning I see more shit that would boggle your mind than you could contemplate.
I’ve seen people handwriting notes while on the phone and doing 60mph.
Much more.
Yutsano
@soonergrunt: I must say I certainly enjoyed the journey of how you got there. I myself have been around Mormon populations and have never heard that term until the child mentioned it. She can’t ever help herself.
Roy G
John Cole: LOVES DOGS, PUNCHES HIPPIES.
Southern Beale
@Corner Stone:
Nah my commute to work is across a patio, around the obelia bush, and up the stairs above my garage. I’m lucky.
But yeah, I see all sorts of shit in my travels around Nashville. We have without a doubt the worst drivers in America. And I mean that.
Yutsano
@Southern Beale:
Los Angeles. Hands down. Atlanta is a close second.
(Full disclosure: I’ve never driven in Nashville.)
Omnes Omnibus
@Yutsano: There is always Boston.
soonergrunt
@Yutsano: I could tell you stories about some of the silliness that I used to see in my Mormon friends and this one girl I dated.
Rage, rage against the machine! Just do it in such a way that Mom and Dad get pissed off every now and again, but not so much that they take the car completely away because the Bishop came by for a visit…
Southern Beale
@Yutsano:
I have driven in both Los Angeles AND Atlanta and I guarantee Nashville drivers are worse.
Technically we’re only 16th, according to a survey of crash data, but I still think we’re the worst.
Jay in Oregon
Google’s animated doodle for September 5 has to be seen to be believed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xe0gIFxYhrk
(It’s already available at http://google.com.au/)
drunken hausfrau
Ex-pat here with a question: why does ESPN America suck so much? Seriously. We watch the college football and they don’t even bother to show the other scores… I know they probably can’t show us highlights/short clips/etc. of “other” college games (for whatever contractual reasons… blah blah blah), but Jeebus! Can’t you at least put up a scroll with the scores??
And they show too much damn hockey. Hockey!!