Our own Angry Black Lady is having a fall fundraiser. Now that Sarah is not running, many of you will have some extra scratch that otherwise would have gone to her campaign, so why not help ABL out instead?
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Raven (formerly stuckinred)
I chipped in on the condition that she not stop pissing off all these douche bags on BJ.
ABL
you’re my boy, blue. (you’re my boy.)
thanks. :)
ABL
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): i think my mere existence here satisfies that condition. thank you. :)
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@ABL: Hell yes!
some guy
because Obama is of teh Debil.
Corner Stone
Sounds reasonable.
some guy
Now that Sarah is not running, many of you will have some extra scratch
Center Right BJ Two Minute Fight Club: you and Cole fight.
fight, fight, fight
Corner Stone
What’s funny, or sad, is that many of your current non Republicans here may have been salivating for just that outcome.
Raven (formerly stuckinred)
@Corner Stone: Rachel says Rubio bailed on VP.
Corner Stone
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Rubio was never going to be anyone’s VP.
beltane
@Raven (formerly stuckinred): Rubio was already being harassed by birthers. No way was the GOP going to run a Mormon/Brown person ticket, not even if the brown person was a right-wing extremist. They’ll need an authentic American Christian to offset Romney’s exoticism.
Also, police are now beating up protesters with clubs in NYC. So far, no sword wielding cops of camels though.
Jenny
Interesting, Rachel says raising money by bashing Obama has dried up so wingnut solicitations are now raising money by bashing Romney.
Mormonism is more scary than Kenyaism.
beltane
@Jenny: The wingnuts regard a Romney ticket in the same way we would regard an Evan Bayh candidacy. They don’t like him and they don’t trust him.
Corner Stone
This Is Why WE Occupy Wall St.
Brian S
@beltane:
What’s that saying about a blind squirrel and a nut again?
Uncle Clarence Thomas
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Grifters gonna grift.
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Monkeyfister
To you fantastic friends and excellent Bloggers–
I am writing to you en masse, completely uncharacteristically, to draw your attention to two long-term asset strategy memos put out by CitiGroup in 2006. It is clear that they remain operating strategy.
Please, have a look at Citi’s Plutonomy Memos.They literally DRIP contempt for us down here. Their #1 stated fear is that we finally catch on, and demand our fair share. They go on to state that they have the power and influence to enact any type of Civil crisis to STOP that.
No kidding.
http://monkeyfister.blogspot.com/2011/10/citis-plutonomy-memos.html
Please download these memos, and repost wherever possible. They will not last long where they are, and I am running out of venues. Citi’s lawyers find them and have them torn down.
My health is very bad, but I feel that wide dissemination of these memos is absolutely vital to the cause of the 99%, and Occupy Wall Street. With wide enough distribution, there will be no way for the Banksters to push their fictions on the various Media Platforms. They really ARE out to get us, as a matter of strategy.
Yours always,
–Monkeyfister
Villago Delenda Est
Shorter Sarah: “There’s still money in the pockets of the marks.”
amk
ABL will prolly get more when the racist mofos, who are demanding $arahpalinpac refund their ‘donations’, get their wishes.
Corner Stone
@beltane: Romney is going to have to stick his dick into the Lincoln Memorial and sing the Beatles catalog backwards to lose this nomination.
Corner Stone
Grifters in the night, exchanging glances
Wond’ring in the night what were the chances
We’d be grifting before the night was through
Grifters in the night
Two grifting people, we were grifters in the night
Up to the moment when we said our first hello little did we know
Grift was just a pageclick away, a warm grifting click away
beltane
@Corner Stone: Yes, but they’re probably to going to have to clone an actual Neandethal to serve as his running mate if they want to whip up the base the way Sarah Palin did for McCain.
Kola Noscopy
Wow. Shameless grifting from the the Angry Black “Grifters Gonna Grift” Lady herself.
I await your apology to Jane Hamsher.
metricpenny
You betcha!
Villago Delenda Est
@metricpenny:
*starbursts* and /wink
Not to mention MILF MILF MILF.
some guy
Rachel says Rubio bailed on VP.
VC Christie/Rubio 16
Viet Cong can do no wrongRUBIO
some guy
Rachel says Rubio bailed on VP.
VC Christie/Rubio 16
Viet Cong can do no wrongRUBIO
amk
@Kola Noscopy: yeah, the fact that the last white hope of firebaggers is now toast must be pissing off insane jane, you, mclaren and other such teabaggers from left.
Amir Khalid
@Colonoscopy:
You’re all class, dude. Bless your heart.
Donut
I am broker than broke right now so no donation from me, but I like ABL’s writing and I think she increases the goodness of this blog in many ways. That’s all I got. Carry on.
John S.
@Monkeyfister:
Wow, that is some crazy shit. My favorite line thus far:
Seriously, fuck you, Citigroup.
Corner Stone
@Amir Khalid: A clue. Catch one.
metricpenny
@Villago Delenda Est:
Also, too!
Linnaeus
@John S.:
Capitalism, my friend.
Kola Noscopy
@amk:
No idea what it is you think you’re babbling about…take your meds.
Amir Khalid
It might be a good idea, it seems to me, to devote one front-page post a day (more if needed) to the Occupy Wall Street protest. This could be used to highlight noteworthy developments, and to provide a comment thread for those of us following it — as I’m sure most of us are. What say you all?
Villago Delenda Est
@John S.:
They never, not once, ponder the thought that Ian Malcom put to John Hammond in Jurassic Park: “Yeah, but your scientists were so preoccupied with whether they could that they didn’t stop to think if they should.”
amk
@Kola Noscopy: Heh, there is always grover fucking norquist for you leftist teabaggers to find common cause with.
Amir Khalid
@Corner Stone:
Please check your snarkometer. It might need adjustment.
Linnaeus
@Amir Khalid:
I’m all for it.
Cain
@Villago Delenda Est:
They apparently had a group family pray (prey?) and figured out that there were other ways to get more money from the rubes.
The press is probably more disappointed than anybody else. Eventually, all these republican candidates are going to be saying so much shit that it’ll be one stupid remark after another.
Obama is going to cruise to re-election, he’s going to look like the only serious adult in the room.
Jenny
@Kola Noscopy:
How is she griffting?
Apologize for what?
SiubhanDuinne
@Uncle Clarence Thomas:
What I love most about you, UCT, is your pithy originality.
Corner Stone
@Amir Khalid: Maybe. This site used to be a pretty good time. Then a bunch of humorless fucks stuck their bare asses to the windshield and through sheer force of will sucked the absolute fucking life out of it.
But I think I’m pretty much on point on this one.
Corner Stone
@SiubhanDuinne: Grifters gonna grift.
John Cole
@Kola Noscopy:
A blogger asking for donations from readers isn’t grifting- it’s asking people for donations.
Someone asking for donations to engage in some political activity and then spending it all on other shit, like a fucking home in Arizona for Brisol- THAT IS GRIFING.
Corner Stone
@Cain:
To who?
Corner Stone
@John Cole: You can’t even sniff it, can you? The fucking hypocrisy?
Brian S
I’d like to thank Cole for this post, mainly because it’ll make it easy for me to update my pie filter. Meanwhile, I’ll toss ABL a few bucks (since a few is all I have) just because she rocks.
beltane
@Amir Khalid: NYPD just maced a Fox News team http://t.co/S2Bo7Kh1
It’s getting a little crazy down there now.
John Cole
@Corner Stone: There is no hypocrisy whatsoever. If ABL was asking for money to start a PAC to elect herself or others, and spent the money on bullshit, she’d be a hypocrite. But she’s not.
She’s asking for money to support her blogging. She’s going to spend it on, well, whatever.
That’s not grifting. That’s not a con. In software terms it’s called fucking freeware. “LIKE WHAT YOU SEE HERE? DONATE!”
Criminy.
Kola Noscopy
@John Cole:
Your chivalry on behalf of ABL is notable, but I must point out that she is the one who used to harp on Hamsher being a grifter…ABL is the originator of “Grifters Gonna Grift.” And now here she is…grifting. Will she be publishing a detailed rundown of how contributions are spent?
Why do bloggers expect money for their typing anyway? What exactly does it COST to blog, John?
amk
@Kola Noscopy:
So that assholes like you can troll the blogs ?
Kola Noscopy
@John Cole:
Gotta love the “whatever.”
Oh please. Again I ask: What does it cost a person to fucking blog?
And once a blogger starts accepting cash from his or her readers, there is no way the content is not going to be affected by the blogger’s natural desire to keep the lucre flowing and the hits coming…or do you claim to be immune to that tendency?
Kola Noscopy
@amk:
You got nothin’, sycophant. Piss off.
amk
@Kola Noscopy: Tch, tch, tch. Temper trolltrum.
Brian S
@Kola Noscopy:
It costs them time you fucking nitwit, time that could be spent making money doing other things. Now here’s the thing–if you don’t think her writing is worth money, then you don’t have to pay for it. None of us have to. But there’s nothing gritty about asking for donations to help cover the cost of one’s time spent writing.
Amir Khalid
@Colonoscopy:
You may not be aware of this, but you remain perfectly free to
— skip ABL’s posts if you don’t like’em
— keep your money if you figure she ain’t worth your pennies
— avoid Balloon-Juice if the rest of us here get you so riled up all the time
Elie
Its pretty awkward to ask people for support but I don’t think that there is any “grifting” in asking for money to straight ahead do something. There is no fraud or misleading information. She is a good writter and I have sent her a few bucks… Everyone who operates a blog has to start somewhere.
Kola Noscopy
I asked earlier, but haven’t heard yet: Will ABL be publishing a detailed rundown of how the money she grifts, I mean receives, is spent?
Corner Stone
@John Cole: Cole, as with pretty much everything you and I have disagreed on. You’re fucking wrong.
There is zero wrong with a blogger asking for support for what they want to produce. Nothing.
But 100% of those bloggers have never waged a jihad against another blogger monetizing their situations. First.
Now, somehow, shit got real son.
And it’s all ok to bash the absolute fuck out of others who have monetized their space, and then monetize your space in the exact same way.
It’s cool bro. You monetized pageclicks from EDK and then ABL.
We get it.
Corner Stone
“Don’t grift me bro!”
Uncle Clarence Thomas
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@amk:
Heh, this just in – grover fucking norquist, the fucking asshole, says that 2 + 2 = 4. Do you agree with him? Are you with him? Are you making common cause with him on this equation? Also too, look up “stopped clock – right twice a day”…
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amk
@Uncle Clarence Thomas: No, per fucking norquist, 2+2 = Zero tax. Anyone in bed with him is an asshole. Firebaggers are assholes.
Corner Stone
“The griiffftt is stroooong with you.”
– Darth Sidious
LTMidnight
The fact that some of you are trying way too hard to find some grand hypocrisy in what ABL is doing where there isn’t any just shows that your issues with her goes far beyond what she writes.
Corner Stone
@LTMidnight: Catch up kid.
Uncle Clarence Thomas
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@amk:
Monkey, you were factually informed that he says that 2 + 2 = 4 – to which you supplied a false quote. You are therefore considered a liar.
On any issue? Any issue at all? There is no issue which Grover Norquist, Jane Hamsher, and President Obama would happily get in bed together on? How about preventing another 9-11? How about unleashing a biological agent which would wipe out all mammalian life on Earth? Which ones would not wish to prevent those events from coming to pass? I think all three would join forces on all those issues. Does any sane person think otherwise? Oh, that’s right – you’re a monkey and wouldn’t understand. You’ll have to take Yutsano’s word for it, then. Oh, wait…
All hateful lying Cult of Personality assholes say that, pipsqueak. I therefore consign your opinion to the Dustbin of Ferocity.
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LTMidnight
@Corner Stone: No need to, but thanks for the thought.
amk
@Uncle Clarence Thomas: LOL. you’re pissed off because your pet boy grover fucking norquist is being pissed upon right now, even by rethugs, aren’t ya ? I would love to see the fucking firebaggers’ ass-holish heads exploding all around on 7th Nov morning when they realize 44 is still 44.
Brian S
@Uncle Clarence Thomas: Well, Norquist isn’t a fan of regulation that would mitigate the effects of global warming, and that’s close enough to your third example–the biological agent one–for me.
Corner Stone
@LTMidnight: Hmmm, seemed like it.
Uncle Clarence Thomas
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@amk:
I’m most gratified that you didn’t even attempt to defend your previous lies, as they are indefensible. However, you are flinging more lies, monkey. I previously stated that I think that Grover Norquist is an asshole, so why would I be pissed off at him being pissed on? I’m helping to piss on him. BTW, President Obama also says that 2 + 2 = 4, as do I.
Of course you would. You are a delusional and hate-based Cult of Personality member in good standing. Myself? I’d like to see a progressive elected president. Any progressive will do.
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Uncle Clarence Thomas
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@Brian S:
Brian, I, like, totally believe you. However, global-warming denial is not, in fact, “close enough” to my biological agent example, even for horseshoes, hand grenades or h-bombs. In the future, you will be more effective at arguing against the examples people actually use, rather than substituting examples that they do not use, to attempt a refutation. Your fallacious technique might work with a monkey like amk, however.
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Corner Stone
@Uncle Clarence Thomas:
Meh. I think he deserves a little break. A little poetic license to play fast and loose with the facts, if you will.
amk
@Uncle Clarence Thomas: LOL. I pity ginny. To be married to a nutjob must be hell for her.
OTTH, corner stone seems to be your wife. A perfect match made in hell.
But remember, 44 will still be 44, come 2013. Cha, cha.
Uncle Clarence Thomas
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@Corner Stone:
I salute your ceaseless humanitarian impulses, Sir, as well as your world-famous Nachos recipe. To my chagrin, I sometimes forget to handle the little people with the well-practiced delicacy only a statesman such as yourself has mastered. I apologize for my failings, again.
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Uncle Clarence Thomas
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@amk:
Your every comment is unresponsive to the conversation, and constitutes a non-stop non sequitur.
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amk
@Uncle Clarence Thomas: You don’t say ‘monkey boy’. I love to pick apart racist mofos like you and cs. I see all your firebagger temper trolltrum is coming from the fact that all your great white hopes of taking on Obama are flaming out like the gnats they are.
And I am loving it.
Corner Stone
@amk: You’re an ESL, aren’t you?
amk
@Corner Stone: spoken like a true racist scum.
Uncle Clarence Thomas
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@amk:
That would be a neat trick on my part. You don’t really pay attention, do you? You must lead a blissful life, even though it is filled with uninformed hatred.
I do believe that you “see things”… But I have never advocated that only a white person should be president, and to my knowledge, neither firebaggers nor you racist balloonbaggers advocate such a thing either. A progressive can be of any race. As I said, you’re one non-stop non sequitur.
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amk
@Uncle Clarence Thomas: And yet to feel the urge to respond every one of my “non-stop non sequitur”. Your guilt is showing, firebagger.
Brian S
@Uncle Clarence Thomas: @Corner Stone: The day I give two shits about either of you, someone should have me committed. You’re both trolls with nothing better to contribute to anyting than your bile.
Uriel
@Brian S: To be honest, you’re probably giving them more credit than they deserve.
MacKenna
Funding ABL? hahaha. No.
Obama has plenty of people to campaign for him and do the rah rah. He doesn’t deserve a scrap of my hard-earned $.
Oh I know I know, there are no alternatives. But I’d rather throw my money at the Wall Street protestors who are actually doing something, than a guy who hired Goldman Sachs execs to prevent him from regulating Wall St.
He may be the only game in town, compared to Republicans who are completely crazy and evil, but he still sucks.
So no, I won’t be funding ABL.
No one of importance
@MacKenna:
I know you can’t tell black people apart, but ABL is not Obama.
You racist tool.
MattMinus
I guess she’s as shitty at law as she is at blogging, or else she probably wouldn’t need to do this.
LOL! Grifters gonna grift.
Chinn Romney
No cash here, but I’ll donate copies of Andrew Carnegie’s book for everyone!
Corner Stone
@Brian S: I thought all poetry had to rhyme?
MattR
@No one of importance: Right. Because not wanting to support an Obot means that you can’t differentiate between them and the President that they support. If ABL was white Mackenna’s comment would have been just as logical. Stpuid comments like yours only reinforce the right wing talking point that liberals constantly complain about non-existent racism.
Strandedvandal
@Corner Stone: You are talking about yourself in the third person yes?
Corner Stone
@Strandedvandal: Corner Stone doesn’t mind doing that once in a while.
But no, and thank you. You are a perfect example of the kind of humorless fuck that can’t stand any differing viewpoint, and take every god damned thing here waaayyy too seriously.
Paul in KY
I can donate. However, I will need an address I can mail a check to. I generally don’t deal online.
Svensker
Jeez Louise. This place makes a cesspool look like a luxury spa. And that’s being rude to cesspools.
What’s wrong with you folks?
Mackenna
@No one of importance:
How am I racist?
ABL shills for Obama. She has no critical faculty.
The respect I had for Obama in 2008 is now diminished by his policies and actions. This has absolutely and utterly nothing to do with race. But I suppose the accusation is convenient.
ABL
Thanks to everyone who donated. I really appreciate it. I will be sending out thank you notes, so expect something in the mail — not anthrax… probably.
:)
catperson
You’ve got to be fucking kidding me. I’d rather give money to someone who 1) says something coherent 2)says it on a topic that hasn’t been better addressed 3 days ago, or 3)is entertaining.