Why aren’t you people out becoming millionaires so Herman Cain will approve of you?
Oh, crums, I forgot. Tomorrow, promise!
11.
burnspbesq
Fister is living dangerously, and Cano finally got him. Tigers, 3-1 after five.
12.
JPL
@Comrade Mary: The comments are interesting although not quite the level of ours. How come someone said you have to spend a billion securing the border? Are they afraid that if Obama were not able to win reelection we would all try to emigrate.
13.
burnspbesq
Laettner the kitty is highly amused that her namesake has agreed to coach the Villains team in a Heroes vs. Villains charity basketball game at the University of Kentucky. She showed her amusement by stomping on the chest of her Aminu Timberlake bobblehead.
ETA: jousting over obscure rules about obscure rules. I’m not sure why I should care about this but apparently it’s Important. Frikkin’ Senate. How do they get anything done? Oh, yeah…
18.
Mark S.
I’m pretty sick of politics right now. I have a question for the old timers: Has is it ever been this fucking glum in your lifetimes (I imagine no one here was alive during the Great Depression)? I mean, shit, our victories lately have been not defaulting on the debt and not shutting down the government. Any hope of some positive legislative is like hoping for magical unicorns.
It’s pretty hard to think it’s gonna get any better in the next couple years. The economy has fundamental flaws, we’ve probably passed peak oil, it’s starting to get a lot fucking hotter. We don’t even discuss these problems because one of the parties is clinically insane.
I had a perfectly good set of bootstraps, but my dog ate them.
22.
lahke
What with all of the appreciations being written about Steve Jobs, I’m learning new things, such as his birth father was from Syria. Which leads me to wonder, how long before some wingnut decides that Jobs was trying to create technology that would lure the world into instituing sharia law, and trashes his iPod?
@And Another
thing…:
I set up on my kitchen table, the white ceiling turns the room into a light box for me. I use two remote strobes slaved to the camera, both bouncing off the ceiling. Works pretty well, I set the remotes for +2.0 EV. I’ve been using a 35mm f/1.8 prime lens lately.
Oh, here’s a good laugh for the night. I don’t know if anyone reads The Bloggess, but she had an e-mail exchange with a PR Company that has to be read to be believed. (And oh, that picture of Wil Wheaton collating papers — that’s real, and he did it just for her blog).
I’m watching the real time twitter feed of this poor PR company. They got snotty with the wrong blogger.
(What’s awesome is that Wil Wheaton even tweeted to his million followers)
30.
Comrade Mary
@JPL: The G&M comments are really polarized. You can count on the vast majority pounding dipshit Toronto mayor Rob Ford for his innumeracy and his arrogance (and his Christie-esque dimensions), but they’re more split on the Liberals at the provincial level.
Meanwhile, comments at the “liberal” CBC are very Tea Party. It’s bad enough that someone developed a Greasemonkey script for it.
@opal:
“The dog ate my bootstraps” sounds like a good tag.
33.
Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water
@Comrade Mary: McGuinty may be the second luckiest politician in Canada, next to Harper. This is the second election in a row that the conservatives have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
I can’t ever recall, in four decades of following politics, it being this bad.
Not even during Watergate. There were some Republicans who didn’t need the “Smoking Gun” tape to be pissed about what Nixon was doing…and once that got out, they were nearly all pissed, to the point where Barry Goldwater was among the senators who told Nixon that he was toast.
I hate this fucking song. The only good piece of patriotic music is The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
37.
wonkie
I don’t know when Ihave ever felt so bad about the future. I came of age during the Viet Nam war years. My first political experience was the Chicago police riots. Except for the Clinton years when I sort of tuned out for a while I have always been active and well informed. I also had he impression that life in America gradually improved for most people over time. When I look at the faces of the people at occupy events they all look young to me.
I can remember learning about global warming at an earth day event way back in the seventies.
I do think we are goig through a bad stretch and that it wil get better but I think it iwll take political and economic upheaval on the order of the Great Depression. If the Rethugs actually defund Medicaid and turn Medicare inot a voucher system–that would cause some serious blowback.
But this uprisig of the young who don’t feel that they have access to the American Dream–well those who are living are comfortable don’t give a shit. Republicans appeal to the worst in human character and there is always a lot of that around.
Well I’m just rambling. I have hope but I thik things will have to get worse before our fellow citizens smarten up and stop votig for the Rethuglicans. We’ll be better of when the Faux viewing demographic dies of old age.
38.
Comrade Mary
@Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water: Yeah, Tory really blew it on the schools issue. I don’t listen to his radio station any more, but word is he tore a strip off Tim “Mr. Bean” Hudak for fucking up so badly.
(Now I’m envisioning Hudak staggering about with his head inserted into a roast turkey. Canadian Thanksgiving coming up this weekend!)
39.
Cat Lady
Watching the George Harrison documentary. He was always my favorite. What a life.
Wil Wheaton is awesome in a can all by himself. He is most definitely NOT Wesley Crusher.
44.
JPL
The NYTimes Friday crossword is a tribute to Steve Jobs. Crosswords are not like obits that are just stored away waiting so it was quite a feat. Good for Will Shortz and the creator Kevin Dor. Special thanks because this Friday puzzle was doable for me. (which is unusual)
45.
Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water
@Comrade Mary: I’ll be indulging in turkey as well – I can do without the Hudak visual though.
46.
amk
tundra twit’s industry faces depression
Palin’s circle of online admirers greeted her announcement with shock and dismay. The camp who saw her as a nascent American Mussolini, with shock and joy. And the publishers, broadcasters and reporters who yoked themselves to Palin were already moving on.
@opal: Congratulations, you have won Today’s Internet. You can have it shipped to your home, take it with you now or you can sell it, become a millionaire and join the People Herman Cain Doesn’t Think Should Die in a Fire Club.
I think I preferred it when we blew the Yankees out in game 4 in 2006.
54.
beltane
@amk: Does this mean that Palin’s circle of online admirers really wanted her to be hanged upside down in a town square after bringing humiliation to her country? What an odd thing to wish for.
If Palin were even semi-coherent she could have a successful career on radio. As it is now, her best bet is to invest her loot wisely as the circus is packing up and leaving town without her.
55.
Linnaeus
Tigers need more runs. I don’t think a one-run lead is going to be enough.
Here’s the weird thing with Valverde: he does much better in save situations than non-save situations. But you can’t put him in for two innings like you can Rivera. Or at least like you once could.
I do like seeing if Benoit can get through the bottom of the order.
Edit: Hey, someone told Benoit to throw strikes this inning!
Re-edit: Uhm, I said strikes.
59.
Cassidy
Anyone in the North Florida, SE Georgia area should check out the Occupy Jacksonville peeps. They have a FB page and a forum and are planning something this weekend. I intend to volunteer as part of the medical team, but I’m a little iffy. They aren’t a very organized group and they are calling this a gathering of private citizens. If they call it a protest, JSO will arrest them as they have to have a permit. I’m trying to get a feel for the leadership. My natural instinct is to push to the front and take charge, lol.
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Good point, but Valverde has been kinda cardiac this series, so I have my usual Yankees-in-the-bottom-of-the-ninth extreme angst
66.
William Hurley
I noticed that the President was speechifying earlier today, so I went back to to the tape to give it a close careful listen.
Some of the presser was interesting, most silly, but one part stuck out. The President again employed his “do as I say, not as I do” angry-face over the X, Y, Z acts of the banks and Wall St.
Was this his first baby-steps toward a more concerted effort to co-opt the non-partisan “Occupy” movement? Who knows, for certain.
But, I can assure you, when the President adopts his “angry regular guy” character (refined at regional-theater actors’ circle no doubt) and declares that he too is mad that the criminals he refuses to prosecute and who refuse to help him strengthen financial regulations and the criminal code – laws he refuses to enforce – he’s actively informing the viewership that he doesn’t care. The President’s “fau-nger” is born of a certitude reaffirmed over dozens and dozens of fund-raising events these range-free malefactors have held for him. Of course, this “certitude” reflects his first-hand experiences of asking – politely no doubt – his most reliable and bountiful campaign financiers to acquiesce to a pantomime of “accountability” in exchange for his “angry-guy” theatrics.
The fact is that the general public responds to Obama’s unoriginal use political theatrics as do most trauma victims. They, we, tune him out – which is an evolutionary adaptive gift that allows victims to mitigate the immediate impact of traumas.
Obama will only begin to recapture or recoup some integrity when he actually begins and succeeds in prosecuting crooks who stole a treasure that was valued at over 14-figures and represented the hopes, dreams and pennies for daily-bread of the American people – 99% of us.
I have a question for the old timers: Has is it ever been this fucking glum in your lifetimes (I imagine no one here was alive during the Great Depression)? I mean, shit, our victories lately have been not defaulting on the debt and not shutting down the government. Any hope of some positive legislative is like hoping for magical unicorns.
The 1980s should have a much worse reputation. “We” elected Ronald Reagan on purpose (none of this modern Diebold vote-jiggering), the Soviet Union was still powerful enough that nuclear-fueled dick-measuring was the order of the day, scientists were discussing what they called “nuclear winter” and its potential to eliminate 90% of the globe’s species (including humans) over a three-year period. And if that didn’t keep us awake at night, stagflation, 19% mortgage rates, and the start of the multinationals’ Globalization Fvck Yeah crusade against the middle class was just catching fire. Then came this untreatable, incurable, invariably fatal & apparently unstoppable “Gay Plague”, thousands of people were withering away & dying, and the godsblasted “Moral Majority”, with the full acquiesence of St. Ronnie, insisted it was all the victims’ fault and what was required was not funding for medical research (much less relief for the sufferers) but moar PUBLIC PRAYER. Plus also a rollback on women’s reproductive rights and maybe quarantine camps or at least a mandatory “HIV+” tattoo for those people…
We survived all that hell, and by the end of the decade things were even starting to turn around — the Berlin Wall fell, Iran-contra was exposed (if not, alas, punished), and HIV-positive status was becoming a chronic illness instead of a particularly ugly death sentence. But in 1984, we were making jokes about how Orwell’s book had been outdone by brute reality.
Obama will only begin to recapture or recoup some integrity when he actually begins and succeeds in prosecuting crooks who stole a treasure that was valued at over 14-figures and represented the hopes, dreams and pennies for daily-bread of the American people – 99% of us.
which will never happen because they DIDN’T DO ANYTHING ILLEGAL.
83.
someguy
Hey, how ’bout Harry Reid eliminating the procedural filibuster? Nicely done – didn’t think he had the nerve to deploy the nuckular option. Now if he can just eliminate the regular filibuster, the last weapon the repiglicans have to stand in the way of democracy in the senate will be eliminated.
Once you’ve really shown you get it, I’ll introduce you to the thousands of single-petitioner and class actions led by states’ AGs seeking remedy for the massive criminality of Obama’s most precious and generous campaign financiers.
Be sure to remove your “peril sensitive sunglasses”.
The other outcome of immediate benefit is that O-Bots will no longer be able to whine about the opposition party acting like an opposition party. Their “spinelessness” defense has been eliminated.
Truth be told, if a President who enjoyed an 80 seat majority in the House and 19 seat majority in the Senate can’t overcome an historically unprecedented small opposition party, then its well past time to get a President who can and will!
I’ll see your Reagan era and raise you the Vietnam War era with assasinations, riots, pollution, skyrocketing crime rates, decaying cities, crushing of the Prague Spring and the continual threat of nuclear annihilation, lorded over by president Nixon. Highly recommend spending a few hours at the Vietnam Memorial and ponder reinstatement of the draft.
The linked item provided in above post, if read closely and with attention to detail, will disabuse you of that mistaken reactionary stance.
Of course, another way to arrive at the standard you note is for the President’s law enforcement agencies to be directed to vigorously investigate and prosecute any and all matters that meet the probable cause standard.
However, the President is more interested in having his law enforcement agencies manufacture incidences of “terrorism” and to hound “whistle-blowers” and to coordinate efforts that, so far, have resulted in the identification, arrest and deportation of over 1 million undocumented workers.
91.
Yutsano
@William Hurley: You per thang. What will you do with yourself when he’s re-elected? You won’t have your longed for President Mittens.
if a President who enjoyed an 80 seat majority in the House and 19 seat majority in the Senate can’t overcome an historically unprecedented small opposition party, then its well past time to get a President who can and will!
It’s funny because someguy didn’t even mention the President.
Then came this untreatable, incurable, invariably fatal & apparently unstoppable “Gay Plague”, thousands of people were withering away & dying, and the godsblasted “Moral Majority”, with the full acquiesence of St. Ronnie, insisted it was all the victims’ fault and what was required was not funding for medical research (much less relief for the sufferers) but moar PUBLIC PRAYER. Plus also a rollback on women’s reproductive rights and maybe quarantine camps or at least a mandatory “HIV+” tattoo for those people…
And one of those arguing in favor of the quarantine camps and mandatory HIV+ status tattoos was one of the patron saints of “reasonable” conservatism, the slimy serpentine one himself, William F Buckley, Jr., the one who is lionized for driving the John Birchers out of the Republican party.
95.
Occupy Balloon Juice!
It’s always best not to feed trolls.
The minute you feed them they return to the porch every day asking for more.
JPL
ugh..no pictures?
jeffreyw
Here’s a picture.
JPL
@jeffreyw: I was thinking pet pictures but yum..that does look good.
Comrade Mary
Yep, that’s a picture. #dies#
Meanwhile, Liberals hang on in Ontario tonight, although they may not squeak out a majority.
jeffreyw
@JPL: All I have is Homer handy.
Comrade Mary
OMGWTFBBQSQUEEEEEEEEEEIt’sHomer!
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
Why aren’t you people out becoming millionaires so Herman Cain will approve of you?
Villago Delenda Est
@jeffreyw:
Well, of course he’s a good kitty! He’s sleeping! They’re all like that when they’re sleeping.
jeffreyw
@Villago Delenda Est: Little shit just got through pounding on Bitsy.
Svensker
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:
Oh, crums, I forgot. Tomorrow, promise!
burnspbesq
Fister is living dangerously, and Cano finally got him. Tigers, 3-1 after five.
JPL
@Comrade Mary: The comments are interesting although not quite the level of ours. How come someone said you have to spend a billion securing the border? Are they afraid that if Obama were not able to win reelection we would all try to emigrate.
burnspbesq
Laettner the kitty is highly amused that her namesake has agreed to coach the Villains team in a Heroes vs. Villains charity basketball game at the University of Kentucky. She showed her amusement by stomping on the chest of her Aminu Timberlake bobblehead.
ant
what the hell happened in the Senate tonight?
JPL
@jeffreyw: what? what an angelic looking kitty…
And Another Thing...
@jeffreyw: scrumptious!!
I’m curious…what’s your lighting setup?
RossInDetroit
@ant:
TPM‘s got a rundown.
ETA: jousting over obscure rules about obscure rules. I’m not sure why I should care about this but apparently it’s Important. Frikkin’ Senate. How do they get anything done? Oh, yeah…
Mark S.
I’m pretty sick of politics right now. I have a question for the old timers: Has is it ever been this fucking glum in your lifetimes (I imagine no one here was alive during the Great Depression)? I mean, shit, our victories lately have been not defaulting on the debt and not shutting down the government. Any hope of some positive legislative is like hoping for magical unicorns.
It’s pretty hard to think it’s gonna get any better in the next couple years. The economy has fundamental flaws, we’ve probably passed peak oil, it’s starting to get a lot fucking hotter. We don’t even discuss these problems because one of the parties is clinically insane.
Oh well, sorry to bum everyone out. FTFY?
Sentient Puddle
@RossInDetroit:
By accident.
RossInDetroit
Gonna hit the hay. Go Tigers!
Cheers.
opal
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:
I had a perfectly good set of bootstraps, but my dog ate them.
lahke
What with all of the appreciations being written about Steve Jobs, I’m learning new things, such as his birth father was from Syria. Which leads me to wonder, how long before some wingnut decides that Jobs was trying to create technology that would lure the world into instituing sharia law, and trashes his iPod?
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Tigers better win, because I ran through my finances this evening, and I’m fucked.
jeffreyw
@And Another
thing…:
I set up on my kitchen table, the white ceiling turns the room into a light box for me. I use two remote strobes slaved to the camera, both bouncing off the ceiling. Works pretty well, I set the remotes for +2.0 EV. I’ve been using a 35mm f/1.8 prime lens lately.
+
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Scherzer!
jteeDC
To hell with an open thread, I wanna know who’s getting their ass kicked in the Balloon Juice fantasy football league.
amk
Is stanley mcchrystal the next rethug great white presidential hope ?
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/world-south-asia-15209793
The guy has got the trash-talking part down to pat.
Linnaeus
Looks like Fister did what he needed to. Let’s go Tigers!
zmullls
Oh, here’s a good laugh for the night. I don’t know if anyone reads The Bloggess, but she had an e-mail exchange with a PR Company that has to be read to be believed. (And oh, that picture of Wil Wheaton collating papers — that’s real, and he did it just for her blog).
I’m watching the real time twitter feed of this poor PR company. They got snotty with the wrong blogger.
(What’s awesome is that Wil Wheaton even tweeted to his million followers)
Comrade Mary
@JPL: The G&M comments are really polarized. You can count on the vast majority pounding dipshit Toronto mayor Rob Ford for his innumeracy and his arrogance (and his Christie-esque dimensions), but they’re more split on the Liberals at the provincial level.
Meanwhile, comments at the “liberal” CBC are very Tea Party. It’s bad enough that someone developed a Greasemonkey script for it.
beltane
@Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: My husband won $20 on a scratch ticket. Does that count?
gnomedad
@opal:
“The dog ate my bootstraps” sounds like a good tag.
Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water
@Comrade Mary: McGuinty may be the second luckiest politician in Canada, next to Harper. This is the second election in a row that the conservatives have snatched defeat from the jaws of victory.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mark S.:
I can’t ever recall, in four decades of following politics, it being this bad.
Not even during Watergate. There were some Republicans who didn’t need the “Smoking Gun” tape to be pissed about what Nixon was doing…and once that got out, they were nearly all pissed, to the point where Barry Goldwater was among the senators who told Nixon that he was toast.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@jeffreyw: I’ll see your one kitteh and raise you to two.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
I hate this fucking song. The only good piece of patriotic music is The Battle Hymn of the Republic.
wonkie
I don’t know when Ihave ever felt so bad about the future. I came of age during the Viet Nam war years. My first political experience was the Chicago police riots. Except for the Clinton years when I sort of tuned out for a while I have always been active and well informed. I also had he impression that life in America gradually improved for most people over time. When I look at the faces of the people at occupy events they all look young to me.
I can remember learning about global warming at an earth day event way back in the seventies.
I do think we are goig through a bad stretch and that it wil get better but I think it iwll take political and economic upheaval on the order of the Great Depression. If the Rethugs actually defund Medicaid and turn Medicare inot a voucher system–that would cause some serious blowback.
But this uprisig of the young who don’t feel that they have access to the American Dream–well those who are living are comfortable don’t give a shit. Republicans appeal to the worst in human character and there is always a lot of that around.
Well I’m just rambling. I have hope but I thik things will have to get worse before our fellow citizens smarten up and stop votig for the Rethuglicans. We’ll be better of when the Faux viewing demographic dies of old age.
Comrade Mary
@Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water: Yeah, Tory really blew it on the schools issue. I don’t listen to his radio station any more, but word is he tore a strip off Tim “Mr. Bean” Hudak for fucking up so badly.
(Now I’m envisioning Hudak staggering about with his head inserted into a roast turkey. Canadian Thanksgiving coming up this weekend!)
Cat Lady
Watching the George Harrison documentary. He was always my favorite. What a life.
Beware of Darkness.
Beware of sadness
It can hit you
It can hurt you
Make you sore and what is more
That is not what you are here for
Sigh.
jeffreyw
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Pretty kittehs!
amk
First ‘quadruple rainbow’ photographed
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/mobile/science-environment-15197774
SiubhanDuinne
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
O. M. FSM. JMN, they are gorgeous. And adorable. Also, cute.
Villago Delenda Est
@zmullls:
Wil Wheaton is awesome in a can all by himself. He is most definitely NOT Wesley Crusher.
JPL
The NYTimes Friday crossword is a tribute to Steve Jobs. Crosswords are not like obits that are just stored away waiting so it was quite a feat. Good for Will Shortz and the creator Kevin Dor. Special thanks because this Friday puzzle was doable for me. (which is unusual)
Hewer of Wood, Drawer of Water
@Comrade Mary: I’ll be indulging in turkey as well – I can do without the Hudak visual though.
amk
tundra twit’s industry faces depression
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1011/65359.html
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@jeffreyw: Here are the same two trying to collapse the window ledge.
Aaaarrrrghhhh!
Just get outs, Joaquin. Not crazy about the decision to remove Scherzer.
zmullls
@Villago Delenda Est:
Well then you should see the picture of Wil Wheaton collating papers.
Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen
@opal: Congratulations, you have won Today’s Internet. You can have it shipped to your home, take it with you now or you can sell it, become a millionaire and join the People Herman Cain Doesn’t Think Should Die in a Fire Club.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Joaquin Benoit is in the process of giving me a heart attack.
Linnaeus
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
That’s the Tigers bullpen for you.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Guh. Bases loaded, 1-out. Twice. They escape giving up one run in those two innings combined.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
I think I preferred it when we blew the Yankees out in game 4 in 2006.
beltane
@amk: Does this mean that Palin’s circle of online admirers really wanted her to be hanged upside down in a town square after bringing humiliation to her country? What an odd thing to wish for.
If Palin were even semi-coherent she could have a successful career on radio. As it is now, her best bet is to invest her loot wisely as the circus is packing up and leaving town without her.
Linnaeus
Tigers need more runs. I don’t think a one-run lead is going to be enough.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
How many outs can we get out of Valverde?
Linnaeus
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
Here’s the weird thing with Valverde: he does much better in save situations than non-save situations. But you can’t put him in for two innings like you can Rivera. Or at least like you once could.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
I do like seeing if Benoit can get through the bottom of the order.
Edit: Hey, someone told Benoit to throw strikes this inning!
Re-edit: Uhm, I said strikes.
Cassidy
Anyone in the North Florida, SE Georgia area should check out the Occupy Jacksonville peeps. They have a FB page and a forum and are planning something this weekend. I intend to volunteer as part of the medical team, but I’m a little iffy. They aren’t a very organized group and they are calling this a gathering of private citizens. If they call it a protest, JSO will arrest them as they have to have a permit. I’m trying to get a feel for the leadership. My natural instinct is to push to the front and take charge, lol.
Moonbatting Average
I can haz insurance run?
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Moonbatting Average: No. But, if this thing goes extras, Girardi has only Wade and Ayala left in the pen. Mo until his arm falls off.
Moonbatting Average
No, I cannot haz insurance run. (not for me)
Linnaeus
Oh, boy. Here we go.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
I’m hitting the bourbon.
Moonbatting Average
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN): Good point, but Valverde has been kinda cardiac this series, so I have my usual Yankees-in-the-bottom-of-the-ninth extreme angst
William Hurley
I noticed that the President was speechifying earlier today, so I went back to to the tape to give it a close careful listen.
Some of the presser was interesting, most silly, but one part stuck out. The President again employed his “do as I say, not as I do” angry-face over the X, Y, Z acts of the banks and Wall St.
Was this his first baby-steps toward a more concerted effort to co-opt the non-partisan “Occupy” movement? Who knows, for certain.
But, I can assure you, when the President adopts his “angry regular guy” character (refined at regional-theater actors’ circle no doubt) and declares that he too is mad that the criminals he refuses to prosecute and who refuse to help him strengthen financial regulations and the criminal code – laws he refuses to enforce – he’s actively informing the viewership that he doesn’t care. The President’s “fau-nger” is born of a certitude reaffirmed over dozens and dozens of fund-raising events these range-free malefactors have held for him. Of course, this “certitude” reflects his first-hand experiences of asking – politely no doubt – his most reliable and bountiful campaign financiers to acquiesce to a pantomime of “accountability” in exchange for his “angry-guy” theatrics.
The fact is that the general public responds to Obama’s unoriginal use political theatrics as do most trauma victims. They, we, tune him out – which is an evolutionary adaptive gift that allows victims to mitigate the immediate impact of traumas.
Obama will only begin to recapture or recoup some integrity when he actually begins and succeeds in prosecuting crooks who stole a treasure that was valued at over 14-figures and represented the hopes, dreams and pennies for daily-bread of the American people – 99% of us.
Moonbatting Average
“there has not been a blown save by any team”
Jinxing stat!!
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
One down, and Granderson was the one I feared the most. Even more than Cano, who terrifies the living shit out of me.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Two out and no one else scares me as much as Cano.
Moonbatting Average
Juuuust a bit outside :-(
Moonbatting Average
WOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
YES!!!!!!!!!!!!
Linnaeus
Tigers!!!!!!!!!
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@Moonbatting Average: Insurance runs are for sissies.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Hey Twins fans, what’s so difficult about beating the Yankees in the playoffs?
hilts
Congratulations to the Detroit Tigers for ELIMINATING the Goddamn Motherfucking NY Yankees
FUCK the NY Yankees
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H9V5yUsrmdg&feature=related
Moonbatting Average
As an A’s fan, I now officially forgive the Tigers for the 2006 ALCS. (Note: random blog commenter forgiveness is not officially official)
burnspbesq
I have this sacreligious but utterly delicious image in my head of Steve Gilliard up in Heaven getting all up in George Steinbrenner’s grill.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
@burnspbesq: I’m not buying the part about Steinbrenner being in heaven.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)
Combine the excitement and his accent, and Papa Grande sounds three sheets to the wind.
I like him as a prognosticator, though.
Anne Laurie
@Mark S.:
The 1980s should have a much worse reputation. “We” elected Ronald Reagan on purpose (none of this modern Diebold vote-jiggering), the Soviet Union was still powerful enough that nuclear-fueled dick-measuring was the order of the day, scientists were discussing what they called “nuclear winter” and its potential to eliminate 90% of the globe’s species (including humans) over a three-year period. And if that didn’t keep us awake at night, stagflation, 19% mortgage rates, and the start of the multinationals’ Globalization Fvck Yeah crusade against the middle class was just catching fire. Then came this untreatable, incurable, invariably fatal & apparently unstoppable “Gay Plague”, thousands of people were withering away & dying, and the godsblasted “Moral Majority”, with the full acquiesence of St. Ronnie, insisted it was all the victims’ fault and what was required was not funding for medical research (much less relief for the sufferers) but moar PUBLIC PRAYER. Plus also a rollback on women’s reproductive rights and maybe quarantine camps or at least a mandatory “HIV+” tattoo for those people…
We survived all that hell, and by the end of the decade things were even starting to turn around — the Berlin Wall fell, Iran-contra was exposed (if not, alas, punished), and HIV-positive status was becoming a chronic illness instead of a particularly ugly death sentence. But in 1984, we were making jokes about how Orwell’s book had been outdone by brute reality.
OzoneR
@William Hurley:
which will never happen because they DIDN’T DO ANYTHING ILLEGAL.
someguy
Hey, how ’bout Harry Reid eliminating the procedural filibuster? Nicely done – didn’t think he had the nerve to deploy the nuckular option. Now if he can just eliminate the regular filibuster, the last weapon the repiglicans have to stand in the way of democracy in the senate will be eliminated.
William Hurley
@OzoneR:
Don’t you apologists even try anymore?
I’ll get you back on the path to reality by directing you’re delicate eyes to this report discussing mortgage and foreclosure fraud.
Once you’ve really shown you get it, I’ll introduce you to the thousands of single-petitioner and class actions led by states’ AGs seeking remedy for the massive criminality of Obama’s most precious and generous campaign financiers.
Be sure to remove your “peril sensitive sunglasses”.
burnspbesq
@William Hurley:
When a jury says “guilty,” it’s a crime. When you say it, it’s an occasion for disrespectful laughter.
William Hurley
@someguy:
Indeed.
The other outcome of immediate benefit is that O-Bots will no longer be able to whine about the opposition party acting like an opposition party. Their “spinelessness” defense has been eliminated.
Truth be told, if a President who enjoyed an 80 seat majority in the House and 19 seat majority in the Senate can’t overcome an historically unprecedented small opposition party, then its well past time to get a President who can and will!
trollhattan
@Anne Laurie:
I’ll see your Reagan era and raise you the Vietnam War era with assasinations, riots, pollution, skyrocketing crime rates, decaying cities, crushing of the Prague Spring and the continual threat of nuclear annihilation, lorded over by president Nixon. Highly recommend spending a few hours at the Vietnam Memorial and ponder reinstatement of the draft.
Some good music, though.
Yutsano
FTFY.
And xkcd goes right for the genius. Again.
Villago Delenda Est
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN):
That is just too cool for words.
William Hurley
@burnspbesq:
Maybe you don’t understand English.
The linked item provided in above post, if read closely and with attention to detail, will disabuse you of that mistaken reactionary stance.
Of course, another way to arrive at the standard you note is for the President’s law enforcement agencies to be directed to vigorously investigate and prosecute any and all matters that meet the probable cause standard.
However, the President is more interested in having his law enforcement agencies manufacture incidences of “terrorism” and to hound “whistle-blowers” and to coordinate efforts that, so far, have resulted in the identification, arrest and deportation of over 1 million undocumented workers.
Yutsano
@William Hurley: You per thang. What will you do with yourself when he’s re-elected? You won’t have your longed for President Mittens.
OzoneR
@William Hurley:
Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac are Obama donors?
You’re talking about two completely different things here. Get back to me when you get them straight.
OzoneR
@William Hurley: ,
It’s funny because someguy didn’t even mention the President.
Donald G
@Anne Laurie:
And one of those arguing in favor of the quarantine camps and mandatory HIV+ status tattoos was one of the patron saints of “reasonable” conservatism, the slimy serpentine one himself, William F Buckley, Jr., the one who is lionized for driving the John Birchers out of the Republican party.
Occupy Balloon Juice!
It’s always best not to feed trolls.
The minute you feed them they return to the porch every day asking for more.
Darkrose
@zmullls: That was AWESOME. Thank you; I really needed a laugh tonight.
Darkrose
@Yutsano: Someone linked me to that today while I was at work, on my Mac. My instinctive reaction was, “Fuck, did xkcd just take my browser down?”
Paul in KY
@hilts: Fuck the fucking Yankees! RIP, Steve.
Paul in KY
@burnspbesq: Would love to see that! Hopefully will someday (although George might be in different lodging).