Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Republicans don’t lie to be believed, they lie to be repeated.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

Bark louder, little dog.

The low info voters probably won’t even notice or remember by their next lap around the goldfish bowl.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

You cannot love your country only when you win.

When they say they are pro-life, they do not mean yours.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

The lights are all blinking red.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

“Alexa, change the president.”

We can’t confuse what’s necessary to win elections with the policies that we want to implement when we do.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

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I got a couple of emails this week from people who wanted some help from B-J readers.

* Uniting North Carolina wrote about this billboard campaign that they’re trying to fund. Their organization’s goal is to encourage acceptance of immigrants in their state.

* A doctoral student at Texas Tech wants to have you answer this survey about political attitudes online. Fair warning: it’s long.

If you have a legit activity that you want pimped, drop me an email and maybe I’ll make this a regular Friday feature.

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  2. 2.

    arguingwithsignposts

    What is the difference between “Quite a Bit” and “A Great Deal”?

    ETA: “How much attention do you pay to political stories while watching CNN? ”

    What if you don’t watch CNN?

    ETA2: “How often do you use a social networking site such as Facebook or MySpace? ”

    WTF uses MySpace anymore?

  9. 9.

    kdaug

    Took it. Made me think I’m not doing this commenting thing right. (Threatening an IP address? Srsly?)

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    ETA: “How much attention do you pay to political stories while watching CNN? ”

    What if you don’t watch CNN?

    Or FOX, or NBC/CBS/ABC. The survey desperately needs a “N/A” option. If I answer “None” (i.e., I pay no attention to political stories while watching CNN) one could reasonably infer that I do watch CNN, I just don’t pay attention to their political stories. This does not accurately reflect reality.

  13. 13.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @SiubhanDuinne: For me it’s even worse. I don’t have a TV, so I don’t “watch” any of those channels or programs unless something’s pointed out to me. There should be a gateway question there.

  15. 15.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred):

    It might be useful, then, for our comments to be communicated to the survey designer. I couldn’t tell from mistermix’s intro whether the doc student is a regular BJ reader or not.

    ETA: I will take the whole survey later and hope there’s an opportunity to leave comments.

  16. 16.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred):

    If you have any questions about this project you can contact the principle investigator, Dr. Myiah Hutchens

    Something tells me the student is a research assistant doing grunt work for the prof. in order to get a second-level publication credit.

    It would be nice, however, if there were an “other” or place to put general comments about the questions somewhere.

    ETA: @SiubhanDuinne – there’s not, unless I missed it.

  17. 17.

    Hillary Rettig

    Hope it’s okay to auto-pimp: For Boston area BJers, I have an available bedroom in my East Boston apartment that I’d like to rent. Currently in residence are myself (female, 53), one other activist (male, 23), and he-who-must-be-obeyed (the petit dog, 16). The apartment is great (an enormous, sunny duplex), the room is great, your roommies are great, East Boston is great, and the rent is great ($650 *including* utils). 10 minute pretty walk to T (Airport/Blue line), then 8 minute ride to Downtown Crossing. Please email me for more info – hillaryrettig nullatnull yahoo nulldotnull com.

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    Shlemizel

    having a hard time remaining coherent through the thing – it is long. But here is the form of question I have no ide how to answer:

    When people do things which are mean or cruel, I attack their character in order to help correct their behavior.

    I probably would be mean or cruel in return but not because I expect it will correct their behavior.

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    hwickline

    Just wanted to pop in to say a quick thank you to mistermix for posting a link to the Uniting NC campaign. I e-mailed him a couple days ago about it because I thought the Balloon Juice commentariat would find it interesting.

    We’re really close to our fundraising goal of $3500 with just a few days to go, so if any of you Balloon Juicers are from North Carolina, or just care about how we treat immigrants in this country, it would be really great if you’d consider throwing in a few bucks to put some positive messages about our new neighbors out there.

    The campaign ends Monday at 8pm Eastern and every $5 helps. Thank you!
    loudsauce.com/campaigns/14-help-uniting-nc-get-on-billboards-across-north-carolina

  22. 22.

    RyanG

    Yeah, that poll needs work. The question on media sources needs some additional options: Do not watch, wouldn’t watch if you paid me, wouldn’t watch for love or money, only watch clips of it on the Daily Show, etc.

    At some point the poll needs to check if you are an American. Probably around where it asked if you voted in the last American election. That could be important.

    As well as asking if you campaigned for a candidate, they should ask if you campaigned for a cause.

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