We Are Ohio had a booth set up at a local event, so I spent a couple of hours around there yesterday. It was generally low-key and subdued, which I attribute to September 11th, mostly because every single person I spoke to referenced September 11th.
Other than that, just quiet, substantive discussion about the repeal referendum itself and some idle speculation on whether we’ll succeed with the citizen veto.
I did get one gentleman who was honest enough to approach and ask me straight up “what is SB 5?”. He had no idea what all the fuss is about and was willing to admit that. I explained that the law removes collective bargaining rights from public sector employees, and he said “that doesn’t sound good”, and it really doesn’t, particularly when I’m the one describing it.
These are some of the union members who volunteered:
One of the people pictured belongs to a public sector union and the other two belong to private sector unions.
I told them I intended to put their photos up on Balloon Juice. None of them had any idea what that means, of course, so I showed them the site on my phone. They all politely looked, but, really, they still had no idea what I was talking about.
So, I told them Balloon Juice is a political site out of West Virginia run by a person who is, to the best of my knowledge, a short-order cook. They seemed satisfied with that answer.
Linda Featheringill
LOL! Great!
Yutsano
@Linda Featheringill: We need Kay’s address so we can deliver her bright shiny new Internets.
BGinCHI
Cole got a job??
Jeffrey, bake a celebration cake, stat!
Politically Lost
short-order cookzoo keeper.fixt
Cain
@Politically Lost:
That tunch, he’s dangerous as unfed alligator in swimming pool
soonergrunt
Kay @top, FTW!
Politically Lost
@Cain:
Only I wasn’t talking about his pets.
Swellsman
Great line.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
Fixt
kindness
‘To the best of my knowledge a short order cook’. Snark served up with understatement. Very nicely done.
@BGinCHI: And don’t forget to use the Pot Butter, lots of it.
Morzer
Short-order cook as in:
Person who serves strapping white furry bucks their steaks bought with Real Americans’ tax dollars?
Linda Featheringill
BTW, We received advertising from We Are Ohio. Nice, card stock, maybe 5×10. Nice and slick.
ETA: But they didn’t tell us what SB 5 was either. I had to explain it.
Warren Terra
@Morzer:
Better.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
What’s interesting to me is that, while no one has ever heard of BJ, I have found so many people that I have one connection or another with.
Omnes Omnibus
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): We are all very well connected.
Spaghetti Lee
Oh my goodness, look at those violent thugs! I’ve never seen such brutality! What is this world coming to?!
Morzer
@Warren Terra:
Arguably, but I kind of wanted to keep the Reagan reference, you know. Although I guess I should have said T-bone steaks.
I am a bit worried about Cole after the Baltimore Brutalization yesterday. I worry that Tunch has him pinned down under one mighty paw and is forcing him to watch the seven turnovers time after time.
Comrade Dread
Truly these are the faces of our oppressors who are keeping our economys down.
Well, also too, I know it’s also my fault for causing the recession with my support for outdated laws against child labor and not dumping toxic shit in my drinking water.
I’m such a liberal elitist.
Morzer
@Spaghetti Lee:
You know, if you close your eyes they really do look like Black Panthers.
schrodinger's cat
Has there been a Tunch sighting recently. Does any one else miss seeing our blog overlord, or is it just me?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Morzer: In slo-mo!
He’s probably preparing a thread for a 7pm MNF kickoff!
Yutsano
@Comrade Dread:
Admittance is the first step, and stuff.
Morzer
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
I have visions of Tunch growling over the edge of the pit in which Cole crouches quivering with fear:
“It wears the Ravens’ jersey on its skin, or else it gets the seven turnover hose again”.
Omnes Omnibus
@Comrade Dread:
There is non-toxic shit?
Comrade Javamanphil
So much win in this post and comment thread.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Morzer: With Lily waving a white Terrible Towel of Surrender!
Morzer
@Yutsano:
Let’s be honest here. Short-order cook is the new liberal elitist.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Omnes Omnibus: Sure, it’s good shit!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Kay’s delightful
is tied for the win with Morzer’s reply to the child earlier:
when she asked if he’d seen a comment she was so proud to have made.
Both made me cackle with glee. Thanks.
Morzer
@Omnes Omnibus:
A turd sanctified by the bowels of the Blessed Palin cannot conceivably be other than healthful and patriotic. Your water supply shall be blessed and great among the nations.
Morzer
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
I think I have to yield the honor to Kay. She does the subtle irony thing with more elegance than my simple, manly beatdown.
Yutsano
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Morzer was picking on our resident spoiled white girl. Kay was subtly digging on her “boss”. Both have good points, but I gotta go with Kay on this one.
@Omnes Omnibus: Isn’t there a coffee derived from the droppings of lemurs or something like that?
Omnes Omnibus
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): @Morzer:
I thank you both for the edification. My mind has been expended. And, Morzer, I also want to express my appreciation for your Kant remark to the idiot child earlier; it was truly a thing of beauty.
Anya
I thought John was a gourmet cook, no?
dave
ZOMG, “short order cook.” Nice.
Morzer
@Yutsano:
Civet cats, I think. Although why they bother to pass beans through an animal when Folgers can achieve a suitably dungy taste experience without any such malarkey, only the FSM knows.
JR
John can cook shorts? Who knew!
I’ll have to try that!
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Anya: aspiring
Omnes Omnibus
@Morzer: How do you know that Folgers isn’t passing its coffee beans through an animal as well?
Morzer
@Anya:
Perhaps he cooks short-order gourmets. As in “liver with fava beans and a nice Chianti”.
geg6
Morzer was awesome, but Kay wins the internets today. I LOLed so hard the dogs started barking.
Morzer
@Omnes Omnibus:
Well, I guess we have to agree that human beings are animals too. I am kind of fussy about my drugs. I just don’t like them … pre-filtered. Liberty, baby, liberty. If the Founding fathers had wanted us to drink cat dung coffee, they’d have put it in the Constitution.
HRA
he he good one, Kay! Anything that makes me laugh after a hard day at work is welcome. Thanks!
Morzer
Anyway, the New England Urukhai are moving towards Miami-Edoras as we speak. Time for me to see whether Theoden Sparano is ready to saddle up and ride forth.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Morzer: Thread soon come. . .mon?
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Whose dis Fegie dame?
eta oops
Morzer
Some day before I die, I hope to hear the national anthem actually sung, instead of screeched before a football game. I guess that makes me a
short-order cookliberal elitist.Fulcanelli
Kay’s post and comment #12 point out nicely the reason the Democrats successfully can’t put these feral republican pricks down like the diseased, rabid animals that they are:
Messaging FAIL.
Too many people don’t understand what it was all about.
If this was a wingnut event, you’d be able to tell exactly what it was about from 10 miles away. In braille.
MikeJ
@Omnes Omnibus:
Because it probably costs more to do it that way.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Morzer: You should have been at the 98 Music City Bowl
That really doesn’t tell the story. The matchup was Virginia Tech and Bama and people were livid. The Tech band sang it acapella to great applause.
Morzer
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
Not yet, apparently. I guess Cole is still cowering under the paw of the Feline Overlord. (Overload?)
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Morzer: Someone else must have the keys?
(another) Josh
Kay, what’s up with the Democratic congressman from Youngstown supporting fracking?
MikeJ
@(another) Josh: What do the voters in Youngstown think about it?
Morzer
Well, hot damn. That’s a nice piece of work by Chad Henne. Now let’s see what Miami’s D is worth.
Cat Lady
I remember when there used to be a guy named Cole that posted here a lot. He has pets. Good times.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Cat Lady: Cats, check out this interview with the Coastal Carolina football coach.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
Track meet in Miami!
Cat Lady
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
Heard this on the local sports station this morning, with the Deliverance banjo tune playing in the back ground. Yeah. No.
Morzer
@Cat Lady:
I suspect Tunch regards the relationship in a somewhat different light.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Cat Lady: It won’t be funny around here if they come in and beat the Dawgs Saturday.
Cat Lady
@Morzer:
Yeah, I’m getting worried about Cole. The last picture of Tunch who looked like he’d eaten a human may have been posted by an accomplice.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Cat Lady: He posted on twitter an hour ago.
arguingwithsignposts
Why does Erick son of Erick have a job as a CNN commenter, and Cole doesn’t even get a gig on MSNBC? Surely they could disguise his voice, do the back-lighting thing, or hold up an image of Tunch.
jl
Short order cook of liberal foods, failed gardener, and prissy household neatnik (also failed), owned by three unmarried cohabitating domestic animals.
In West Virginia?
I’m more and more convinced that ‘John Cole’ does not exist, and never did. I attribute his rarer and rarer blog appearances to DougJ spoof fatigue.
jl
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
I demand pictures of Cole holding the days newspaper.
Gin & Tonic
@Morzer:
The partial digestion of part of the beans is supposed to remove much of the bitterness. The coffee is expensive enough, though, that I never tried it when in Asia (it is primarily an Indonesian thing, but also available in Vietnam and the Philippines.)
Morzer
@Raven (formerly stuckinred):
Tunch or Cole?
Morzer
@jl:
Well, I demand live video.
arguingwithsignposts
@Morzer: I blame Obama.
Morzer
@arguingwithsignposts:
Obama ate Cole? Is this the new beer summit?
Phylllis
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): He’s a riot. Coastal is our conference rival; we get treated to his musings on a regular basis.
Phylllis
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): I beg to differ. I would personally find that hilarious.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Phylllis: Yea, run out and bet your house on it.
kay
Josh,
I don’t know.
Leave me a link about it and I’ll read it.
Mr Stagger Lee
One thing to remind the Lumpen, it was public sector employees who went in to rescue the Private Sector Employees on September 11th,at WTC on Sept 11th. Also security at the airports was maintained by the Private Sector on September 11th.
efroh
Hilarious!
*admits to curiosity re what the heck Meister Cole does*
Triassic Sands
If we could eliminate all unions by Tuesday, we’d have 10% growth by Wednesday. Cancer would be cured by Thursday, and everyone would be a
mbillionaire in time for the weekend. If you don’t believe me, just ask a Republican.Anya
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): That’s more likely.
@Morzer: ha!
jimmiraybob
Whoa! I haven’t seen thugs like that since…..well….since a Norman Rockwell painting.
Ruckus
soonergrunt
@Omnes Omnibus: Hear hear!
CT Voter
Kay? Thank you.
Your posts, and pictures, motivate me to call my rep, and my Senators.
In a way that all the snarky doomsday bullshit that goes on here doesn’t.
So thanks.
kay
@Fulcanelli:
You’ll think this is naive, but it’s actually sort of dark and cynical. Many people don’t believe anything they read or hear from political or other advertising. They know they are being marketed to. Relentlessly. Constantly. Everywhere.
The people that approach one at these things want to speak to a human being. He knows I’m an advocate for one side, but it’s an exchange, because I’m standing there. It goes both ways. The sort of person who would approach and ask that question is looking for a two-way dialogue.
“Messaging” involves a passive recipient of a message in a way that many people (thank God) still resist. It isn’t really what these things are about. We’re standing there because we’re inviting an exchange.