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If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

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

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

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

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

The revolution will be supervised.

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

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  1. 1.

    daveNYC

    Steelers did very poorly against a Manningless Colts. They need to step that shit up.

    I’m not good at Space Marine multi-player, and even worse when drunk.

  2. 2.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    Just sitting down for sushi at Wasabi in D.C. Reward for being good at the doctor’s earlier.

  3. 3.

    TheMightyTrowel

    I have some problems digesting dairy fat. Last night I ate a meal in large part soused in garlic butter. It was amazing, but now i have a digestive hangover. UGH.

  5. 5.

    Brian S

    Perhaps the best vow I made during my wedding earlier this year was the one where I promised breakfast burritos at least once a week. It’s a win-win.

  8. 8.

    kindness

    NPR & Cokie Roberts this morning wisely told us that both political parties are trying to shut down government. Yes, She/they said (more than once) that Democrats refusing to vote for a FEMA funding bill that eliminates a ‘Green Loan’ program that has worked very well, shows that Democrats are trying to shut down the government.

    OK….Who are these liberals who are still sending NPR any money at all? While I used to support them, I no longer do and it’s exactly stuff like this that keeps me from throwing coin their way.

  11. 11.

    opie jeanne

    I have a baseball hangover. Damned Angels gave up 6 runs in the last two innings and lost, but it was the way they lost that is so awful.

    Three games to go and even though the math says they are eliminated, it would take two miracles for them to get the Wild Card, and yet we’ll probably continue to watch.

  17. 17.

    Judas Escargot

    @kindness:

    NPR & Cokie Roberts this morning wisely told us that both political parties are trying to shut down government. Yes, She/they said (more than once) that Democrats refusing to vote for a FEMA funding bill that eliminates a ‘Green Loan’ program that has worked very well, shows that Democrats are trying to shut down the government.

    Well, if the Dems would just roll over and offer their bellies to the GOP like they’re supposed to, the GOP wouldn’t have to shut down the government. Mustn’t violate the Narrative of How Things Work, or the functionaries get upset.

    I’m really wanting to hurt the MSM lately: They’ve gone far beyond the point where a sane person could think “well maybe they’re just trying to be professional, and give both sides the benefit of the doubt.”

    NPR gets none of my money. But sadly, one man’s boycott isn’t going to be noticed, or change a thing.

  22. 22.

    Judas Escargot

    @Gin & Tonic:

    Doesn’t matter, though, since they get like three billion dollars from the taxpayers.

    Which probably goes a long way to explain their “GOP is never wrong” style.

    Piss off the GOP, and they’ll cut your funding with a penstroke. Dems, as a party, don’t do the whole “go after you” thing, so there’s no downside to reporting as they do.

  23. 23.

    harlana

    @kindness: I quit listening to them ages ago, not long after we invaded Iraq. I think their coverage had something to do with that, it’s kind of a blur. Milquetoast Public Radio. bleh.

  24. 24.

    Roger Moore

    @Judas Escargot:

    Well, if the Dems would just roll over and offer their bellies to the GOP like they’re supposed to

    I don’t think it’s their bellies that the Republicans are after. It’s more like “turn around and drop their pants” that the Republicans want.

  27. 27.

    harlana

    @TooManyJens: 77% don’t want to touch Medicare or SS – that is just beautiful – cuz they’ll probably vote for Perry anyways, cuz Obama eats white babies for breakfast. (and I’m from SC so I can say that)

  28. 28.

    de stijl

    @debit:

    Oh noes! It’s tied 2-2 and it’s all down to Ragnar the Viking as the deciding vote. Matt’s! Matt’s Matt’s. 5-8 Club can suck it.

  30. 30.

    Stefan

    The bad news: Friend’s brother in Afghanistan badly wounded.

    The good news: at least he gets to go home and won’t get killed or lose limbs over there.

    Further good news: the injury was not as severe as previously thought.

    Further bad news: since the injury is not so bad, he won’t be coming home and will instead stay on his FOB and in constant combat for the next eight months.

    Now, if you ask me for what purpose a man from Oklahoma has to fight Afghan villagers half a world away instead of tending to his job and family back home, that I couldn’t tell you.

  33. 33.

    catclub

    @Gin & Tonic: “Doesn’t matter, though, since they get like three billion dollars from the taxpayers.”

    Plus, if they cut that, you just _know_ it will balance the budget. (The same way that cutting $100B from defense, or getting $200B in taxes on the rich, won’t.) But will the Democrats agree to rein in the liberal media for the good of the country? No way.

  34. 34.

    Brazilian Rascal

    Not to go all firebagger here, but anyone who is a serious political observer has to at least consider that Obama -might- be making pleasant noises to rally the base and not much beyond that. In this one case, it’s fair to say that ‘both sides do it’.

    In his worst moments, Obama reminds me of our former president Fernando Henrique Cardoso. Once a leader against the dictatorship, he kept talking high-minded lefty intellectuallism while surrounding himself with many of the same people who backed the military regime, servicing the financier class and uterly failing to realize what kind of administration the historical moment demanded. He cost us over a decade in social and economic progress, to the point that even some of the elite had to hold its nose and back a crazy bearded marxist afterwards.

  36. 36.

    debit

    @de stijl: Woot!!

    @ open thread: If you were an author of a best selling series that had been turned into an HBO mini series, one would think your website design would be something other than early 1990s My First Geocities account. :gouges out eyes:

  38. 38.

    Cacti

    @Pliny:

    However, just because double-standard racism exists, that doesn’t mean it’s the automatic, case-closed explanation for every political problem faced by African American public figures

    And only white liberals like Sirota can be trusted to know the difference.

    Keep waiting for your moonbat messiah, Davy.

  40. 40.

    Legalize

    Watching the Red Sox shit the bed in real time, coupled with the fact that the Pats can’t stop ANYBODY, is endlessly entertaining to me.

    Also, too, Moneyball is a pretty good movie. I’d say it captures the spirit of the book. The little montages in the middle where Brad Pitt explains to Eric Chavez and David Justice what sabermetrics is, is about the extent of the nerdiness.

  41. 41.

    daveNYC

    @PeakVT: I knew the Greeks were getting screwed, I just didn’t know how badly they were getting screwed. Kills me that the PM is saying that bankruptcy would be bad because hurt all citizens, but in the mean time he’s putting in place policies that are hurting all citizens anyway, with the added bonus that Greece will probably end up defaulting regardless.

  42. 42.

    Amanda in the South Bay

    I think the Amazon tablet is being overly hyped. It’s not gonna be an iPad killer, it’s a Nook Color killer. And tbqh I’d much rather have the nook, especially the rumored Nook 2 that is supposed to be out any day now.

  43. 43.

    Samara Morgan

    3:00 eastern.

    The U.S. hopes to avoid using the veto by convincing undeclared members of the Security Council — Bosnia, Colombia, Nigeria and Gabon — that it is not the right time to vote on Palestinian statehood in the council because the Palestinians and the Israelis need to return to negotiations first to resolve their differences.

    i think that means bribing them. Go for it! i hope Gabon, Bosnia, Nigeria and Colombia screw the US for billions in aid to buy their vote.

  44. 44.

    PeakVT

    @daveNYC: Yep, exactly. What I have no sense of is why the Greek government (currently Socialist) wants to hang on. Pride? Or are they genuinely worried about private external debt problems if Greece defaults and switches to a new currency?

  45. 45.

    geg6

    I am simply sad, sad, sad today.

    Our Henry is literally on his last legs. I usually feed him just before I go to work and he usually heaves himself off the bedroom floor, with great difficulty, and comes as fast as his old legs can carry him when he hears the food hit the dog bowl. This morning he just barked and barked and barked. I went in to see what the problem was and his hind legs wouldn’t work. At all. So I lifted him as best I could (he’s 90 pounds, after all) and tried to get his legs under him. Still couldn’t do it. I tried four times until I gave up and brought his bowls into the bedroom so he could eat laying down. And then went to my car and cried for ten minutes before I could drive to work.

    I know big dogs (especially Labs like Henry) don’t live super long lives, but he’s my very first pet and I’m losing it here, folks.

  47. 47.

    Samara Morgan

    what American media wont publish, Haaretz will.

    Referring to Spain’s decision to recognize Israel’s right to be a Jewish state, the PA official said: “This is an erroneous position that could be the result of pressure on Spain, which is on the eve of elections. As for us, we won’t recognize the Israel as a Jewish state. They want to drive out of Israel 1.5 million Palestinians if such recognition is made. This is impossible.”
    __
    Abbas Zaki, member of the Fatah Central Committee, said that the Palestinians would face greater challenges in the coming weeks because of continued US support for Israel.
    __
    Israel, he added, “is regarded as the 51st US state and enjoys full American support and in the corridors of the UN. This means that the challenge to the Palestinians would be bigger from now on. But this will not dissuade the Palestinian leadership from pursuing its political battle to achieve membership in the UN.”
    __
    In yet another sign of strained relations between the Palestinian leadership in Ramallah and the US Administration, the PA’s official newspaper, Al-Hayat Al-Jadeeda, launched an unprecedented scathing attack on Obama and his top aides.
    __
    Dubbing Obama a “Pariah,” the newspaper’s editor-in-chief, Hafez Barghouti, said that the Palestinian issue “won’t continue to be held hostage by a group of Obama’s Zionist advisors.”

    That is why Palestians wont recognize Israel as a JEWISH state– because the Israelis will use that to expatriate 1.5 million Palestinians…..or anyone that isnt Jewish, i guess.
    Are there any xians in Israel? they cant marry jewesses, you kno.
    no freedom of religion.

  49. 49.

    Dee Loralei

    @geg6:
    I’m so sorry honey. It hurts like hell and will forever. Be kind to yourself too. I’ll always have a Delilah sized hole in my heart, even though I have newer loves.

  51. 51.

    Nemesis

    geg6

    Our Henry is literally on his last legs.

    Our Tito is in the same condition after almost 16 years in the family. Hind quarters just wont operate properly. That dreaded day is coming and all I can do is think about how sad and terrible and lonely it will be.

  53. 53.

    Anoniminous

    Greece is being used as a “pass-through” entity to funnel money from the governments of Germany and France to German and French banks and other financial institutions.

    Why don’t the German and French governments just give the money directly?

    Because Neo-Classical Economics trots out the Just-So Story, “The camel got a hump because it was lazy” and therefore, Shut-Up.

    ETA: “tonnes” is a measure of weight in the metric system and therefore More Better than those old-fashioned, pre-scientific, “tons.”

  57. 57.

    Mary Jane

    @ geg6, Nemesis and FlipYrWhig:

    So sorry about your dear ones. I wish there were words that would help ease your pain. Please know we care and sympathize. It’s damn tough.

  58. 58.

    PurpleGirl

    @geg6: That’s so not good. Please think of all the good times you and Henry (and family) had together. {{{{hug}}}}

    This reminds me of an evening when Hugo (my friends’ Doberman) was approaching the end. I was in Peekskill house sitting while both friends were on business trips. Hugo couldn’t get up the cellar stairs (how he got downstairs I never figured out — I had the baby gate up). Anyway, I couldn’t lift his hind legs (he weighed like 85 lbs.) so I brought some doggy cookies downstairs for him. About an hour later I turned around in the kitchen and saw him coming toward me. I just sat down and held him… and gave him some more doggy cookies.

  59. 59.

    contessakitty (AKA Karen)

    @FlipYrWhig:

    I’ve lost three cats and it’s especially hard to watch your sweet kitty die as when you’re trying to make them as comfortable as possible. The pain doesn’t go away of course but if you let a new kitty into your heart, it does lessen a little.

  61. 61.

    HRA

    @geg6:

    So sorry for your pain. It’s always quite difficult to put the experience of knowing a pet’s pain and the loss of one in words. I wish you the best in this trying time.

  63. 63.

    Brachiator

    @Amanda in the South Bay:

    I think the Amazon tablet is being overly hyped. It’s not gonna be an iPad killer, it’s a Nook Color killer. And tbqh I’d much rather have the nook, especially the rumored Nook 2 that is supposed to be out any day now.

    The idea of an iPad killer is just another one of those meaningless horse race narratives loved by lazy writers. Since the unveiling of the device may be near, it might be more interesting to see what it is and what it does, and whether it sells, than to speculate on its impact on the iPad or the Nook.

    The next few weeks should be very interesting as far as tech announcements go.

  66. 66.

    Brachiator

    @geg6: Wishing you the best at this difficult time. I also hope that your Henry can be made as comfortable as possible.

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