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You are here: Home / Past Elections / Election 2012 / Monday Evening Open Thread

Monday Evening Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  November 7, 20115:47 pm| 152 Comments

This post is in: Election 2012, Open Threads, Republican Stupidity

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(Ben Sargent via GoComics.com)
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By request from a longtime commentor, who may even be old enough (like me) to remember when a handmade sign saying “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash” mounted over the cash register was considered the epitome of retail humor.
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We missed some other Very Important Repub shenanigans over the weekend, but fortunately Mr. Pierce at Esquire is here to update us on the latest Embarrassments to Democracy:

On Friday, Mitt Romney, the Republican frontrunner and a man who could be mugged for his wallet through the mail, a man of such iron will that he wrote a book called No Apologies in which he changed positions on several issues between the hardcover and paperback editions, went before the Koch Brothers hobby-horse Americans for Prosperity banquet and bravely promised to do everything he could not to do anything he bravely promised to do when he was running in any of the several other political campaigns that have kept him from ever being “a professional politician.” Specifically, he signed on to Paul Ryan’s toss-Grampa-to-the-jackals voucher approach to Medicare. Ryan was thrilled to death. Not his death, of course, but the death of a lot of old people who’ll be thrown onto the market of the single most disgusting industry in America that doesn’t involve deepwater drilling…
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Moving on, Saturday night saw a genuinely strange spectacle in Houston. Herman Cain, by all accounts (now up to four) an unsuccessful adulterer, took the stage with Newt Gingrich, by all accounts (too many) a very successful adulterer, for what was billed as a “Lincoln-Douglas” style debate. This was rather belied by the facts that: a) the two men sat in plush armchairs, and looked for all the world like Statler and Waldorf from The Muppet Show; b) the two men disagreed on very, very little, and at great length; and c) neither of these clowns is Abraham Lincoln…

Much more at the link, which I share with you all because it’s nice to read something political that doesn’t make me quote Swinburne.

What’s on the agenda for the evening when we’re all resetting our internal clocks again?

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  1. 1.

    kindness

    November 7, 2011 at 5:53 pm

    I’m waitin’ for the MSM Village Elders to declare that Cain trying to molest women was somehow Bill Clinton or Barack Obama’s fault.

  2. 2.

    J. Michael Neal

    November 7, 2011 at 5:54 pm

    Shit, neither of those guys rises to the level of Stephen Douglas.

  3. 3.

    BGinCHI

    November 7, 2011 at 5:54 pm

    About to teach Act 2 of Measure For Measure without referring to Angelo as “Herman Cain-like.”

    I know as educators we’re supposed to indoctrinate our students so they don’t become conservative Great Thinkers, but I just can’t do that to poor Angelo. Even he has more positive attributes than Cain.

  4. 4.

    bin Lurkin'

    November 7, 2011 at 5:55 pm

    Internal clocks are for people who have jobs to go to and money to do things.

    I had to ask someone what day it was this morning.

  5. 5.

    BGinCHI

    November 7, 2011 at 5:55 pm

    @J. Michael Neal: Neither one of them rises to the level of Mike Douglas.

  6. 6.

    Calouste

    November 7, 2011 at 5:56 pm

    So, I’m seeing these ads on this side from Ron Paul for a “Declaration of American Sovereignty”. Isn’t the man a bit late with that. Say about 235 years late?

  7. 7.

    Cris (without an H)

    November 7, 2011 at 5:58 pm

    It probably was covered here, but a few days ago Obama mentioned this in a speech about the Jobs Act. He jabbed at it with a reference to the old adage “God helps those who help themselves:”

    You had legislation reaffirming that “In God We Trust” is our motto? That’s not putting people back to work. I trust in God, but God wants to see us help ourselves by putting people back to work.

    You know how your Liberal Media™ at USA Today headlined this?
    “Obama: God wants us to put people back to work”

  8. 8.

    Zifnab

    November 7, 2011 at 5:58 pm

    and c) neither of these clowns is Abraham Lincoln


    HA! Let’s see if we can get either one to play a decent Douglas before we start shooting for Lincoln.

    Edit: Read comments before attempting zinger. :-p

  9. 9.

    BGinCHI

    November 7, 2011 at 6:00 pm

    @Zifnab:

    Let’s see if we can get either one to play a decent Douglas before we start shooting for Lincoln.

    I see what you did there. Cold.

  10. 10.

    Cris (without an H)

    November 7, 2011 at 6:01 pm

    @bin Lurkin’: “Funny thing about weekends when you’re unemployed. They don’t mean quite so much, except you get to hang out with your working friends.”

  11. 11.

    Zifnab

    November 7, 2011 at 6:02 pm

    @Cris (without an H): You know what? Fuck it. Obama is staying on message. Even USA Today’s band of typewriting chimpanzees weren’t able to get too far off the mark. At the end of the day, a few atheist bloggers are going to ruffle their own feathers while everyone else sees the word “Jobs” and nods in agreement. That’s all that matters.

  12. 12.

    Zifnab

    November 7, 2011 at 6:03 pm

    @BGinCHI: Too soon?

  13. 13.

    shortstop

    November 7, 2011 at 6:03 pm

    @Zifnab: Awesome.

  14. 14.

    David in NY

    November 7, 2011 at 6:04 pm

    @Zifnab:

    HA! Let’s see if we can get either one to play a decent Douglas before we start shooting for Lincoln.

    Edit: Read comments before attempting zinger. :-p

    Lose points for not reading. Get points for style. It’s a wash.

  15. 15.

    BGinCHI

    November 7, 2011 at 6:05 pm

    @shortstop: Countdown till Rahm tries to get his profile on the other side of the penny.

  16. 16.

    Ruckus

    November 7, 2011 at 6:09 pm

    @BGinCHI:
    I always thought that Michael would make a better human than Stephen. He could at least act human. But then you might have meant Mike not Michael.

  17. 17.

    Hill Dweller

    November 7, 2011 at 6:09 pm

    @Cris (without an H): Notice how that rag also mindlessly repeated the republicans’ claims in the article. If Republicans passed 20 pieces of legislation that would significantly lower unemployment, I’m Moses.

  18. 18.

    David in NY

    November 7, 2011 at 6:10 pm

    I’m still not sure why Ron Paul is stuck at 10% of the Repub vote. Probably because you can’t fit his “economic” views on a 3×5 card.

  19. 19.

    BGinCHI

    November 7, 2011 at 6:10 pm

    @Ruckus: I meant the talk show host of my childhood. I was trying to set the Douglas bar pretty low.

  20. 20.

    The Other Chuck

    November 7, 2011 at 6:12 pm

    @David in NY:

    Are you kidding? His views on government are “none, ever”. Presumably he’d ultimately find a free market solution to policing womens’ vaginas as well.

  21. 21.

    Ruckus

    November 7, 2011 at 6:12 pm

    Anne
    I think I remember the sign as

    God don’t need no cash.
    You Do.

  22. 22.

    J. Michael Neal

    November 7, 2011 at 6:13 pm

    @BGinCHI: If we’re going to play that game, I question whether either of these guys rises to the level of Mike Tyson.

  23. 23.

    Redshift

    November 7, 2011 at 6:14 pm

    The cousin of a friend of mine put up this rather amusing website that I thought would be useful for certain BJ denizens, Despite Everything, Obama 2012:

    This is the place to offer your begrudging support to the President of the United States of America in his bid for re-election!

  24. 24.

    Ruckus

    November 7, 2011 at 6:14 pm

    @BGinCHI:
    I kind of figured.

    But I think you managed to set it higher than intended. Stephen would have been a pretty low life scum if I remember my history at all.

  25. 25.

    David in NY

    November 7, 2011 at 6:16 pm

    @The Other Chuck: Nah, vagina control is what he thinks government is for.

    I meant all that gold and no Federal Reserve and complicated (incomprehensible) stuff. It sounds too much like what Democrats talk about. Give ’em 9-9-9 or whatever.

  26. 26.

    BGinCHI

    November 7, 2011 at 6:16 pm

    @J. Michael Neal: Closest you’re gonna get to that is Gingrich as Heavyweight Champion of I Don’t Know What the Fuck I’m Talking About.

    By a decision.

  27. 27.

    shortstop

    November 7, 2011 at 6:19 pm

    @J. Michael Neal: Oooh, Pincher Martin, my favorite road trip game! I question whether either of these guys rises to the level of Tyson Chicken Nuggets.

  28. 28.

    JGabriel

    November 7, 2011 at 6:20 pm

    @Zifnab: Heh. Nicely turned.

    .

  29. 29.

    Roger Moore

    November 7, 2011 at 6:23 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    Neither one of them rises to the level of Mike Buster Douglas.

    FTFY.

  30. 30.

    Cris (without an H)

    November 7, 2011 at 6:23 pm

    @shortstop: Neither of these guys could take on the Denver Nuggets

  31. 31.

    shortstop

    November 7, 2011 at 6:24 pm

    @Cris (without an H): John Denver could take these guys.

  32. 32.

    BGinCHI

    November 7, 2011 at 6:25 pm

    @Roger Moore: A compromising compromise. I like it.

  33. 33.

    JGabriel

    November 7, 2011 at 6:26 pm

    @Ruckus:

    Stephen would have been a pretty low life scum if I remember my history at all.

    I think you’re getting Douglas confused with Jefferson Davis. Douglas wasn’t great, but he wasn’t evil either, and ultimately came down on the anti-slavery side of the issue.

    Davis, on the other hand, really was scum.

    .

  34. 34.

    David Koch

    November 7, 2011 at 6:28 pm

    @Cris (without an H): Well, God has a well known liberal bias.

    I mean, he created man in his image, and Adam and Eve looked and dressed like a hippies.

  35. 35.

    bin Lurkin'

    November 7, 2011 at 6:29 pm

    @Cris (without an H): Being long term unemployed is a bit like having cancer, people often don’t really want a lot to do with you because subconsciously they’re afraid of “catching it” and you end up making people uneasy.

    Also too, when you are broke for a long period of time you get to the point you don’t really want to associate with people who have money because you feel guilty for sponging even if it’s only drinking a beer.. You can’t buy beer with food stamps, I’m still undecided as to whether this is a good or bad thing on balance.

  36. 36.

    Roger Moore

    November 7, 2011 at 6:29 pm

    @David in NY:

    I’m still not sure why Ron Paul is stuck at 10% of the Repub vote. Probably because you can’t fit his “economic” views on a 3×5 card.

    You can’t fit “GOLD!” on a 3×5 card?

  37. 37.

    Cris (without an H)

    November 7, 2011 at 6:29 pm

    Jim Messina of OFA does not dig on Nate Silver doing that thing Nate Silver does.

  38. 38.

    shortstop

    November 7, 2011 at 6:31 pm

    The third baseman will never play Pincher Martin with me, either. Bummer.

  39. 39.

    The Dangerman

    November 7, 2011 at 6:31 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    Neither one of them rises to the level of Mike Buster Douglas Bronco.

    FTFY.

  40. 40.

    BGinCHI

    November 7, 2011 at 6:33 pm

    @shortstop: Have you tried drugging him?

  41. 41.

    piratedan

    November 7, 2011 at 6:33 pm

    college hoops starts tonite!

  42. 42.

    Cris (without an H)

    November 7, 2011 at 6:34 pm

    @shortstop: Dangerman might have just knocked us into a closed loop (Buster Bronco sends us back to Denver)

  43. 43.

    Martin

    November 7, 2011 at 6:35 pm

    @Calouste: I’m seeing ads on the sidebar for 2 years no interest, no money down on engagement rings from Robbins Brothers.

    Protip from a guy: If the feller engagin’ to you can’t afford the ring until you marry him, he ain’t worth marryin as it’s half of your income and assets that’s gonna be given up, not half of his.

  44. 44.

    arguingwithsignposts

    November 7, 2011 at 6:36 pm

    @shortstop: WTF is Pincher Martin? Other than a book by William Golding (per Google).

  45. 45.

    shortstop

    November 7, 2011 at 6:36 pm

    @Cris (without an H): These people are amateurs! Amateurs!

    These guys are no Bronco Billy.

  46. 46.

    Roger Moore

    November 7, 2011 at 6:37 pm

    @shortstop:

    The third baseman will never play Pincher Martin with me, either.

    If he’s a third baseman, shouldn’t he be playing Pepper Martin?

  47. 47.

    Roger Moore

    November 7, 2011 at 6:39 pm

    @Cris (without an H):
    But you can always break out of the loop by choosing somebody different. I don’t think either of those guys rises to the level of Bob Denver.

  48. 48.

    Cris (without an H)

    November 7, 2011 at 6:40 pm

    @piratedan: college hoops starts tonite!

    My school’s preseason schedule sucks. Idaho State? Montana State? Houston Baptist? UMKC? Are we not Division I?

  49. 49.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    November 7, 2011 at 6:40 pm

    Da Bears!

  50. 50.

    Roger Moore

    November 7, 2011 at 6:42 pm

    @Martin:

    I’m seeing ads on the sidebar for 2 years no interest, no money down on engagement rings from Robbins Brothers.

    I shudder to think of what the interest rate on that loan will be after the 2 years are up. How else can 2 months salary last take forever to pay off?

  51. 51.

    The Dangerman

    November 7, 2011 at 6:43 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    I don’t think either of those guys rises to the level of Bob Denver Boot.

    FTFY.

  52. 52.

    shortstop

    November 7, 2011 at 6:43 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: (Perking up) You start with the words “Pincher Martin,” or any other two-word combo you agree upon: sad sack, White House, Buster Keaton, etc. It’s best if one of the words is a proper name (but not too unusual–note that we can easily think of three Keatons) and the other is not.

    Then you take turns replacing one of the words with another. You can’t use the original word again. So:

    Buster Keaton
    Diane Keaton
    Diane Lane
    Lane change
    Change machine
    Machine made
    Etc., etc.
    …until you get all the way back to Buster Keaton. Sometimes it takes quite a while.

    If all players agree, you can use a third or fourth word–Tyson Chicken Nuggets, for example–but not more than that. It’s a lot of fun to play if you can get going really quickly back and forth and get into some esoteric stuff. I know, I’m such a dork.

  53. 53.

    J. Michael Neal

    November 7, 2011 at 6:47 pm

    @The Dangerman: Unfortunately, they rise exactly to the level of Max Boot.

  54. 54.

    arguingwithsignposts

    November 7, 2011 at 6:47 pm

    @shortstop: ahhh. a friend and I “invented” a similar game a long time ago, but it was all people’s names. Sounds like fun.

  55. 55.

    Ruckus

    November 7, 2011 at 6:49 pm

    @JGabriel:
    True but compared to Mike or Michael? And in light of the fact there were Lincoln Douglas debates?

  56. 56.

    Ben Cisco

    November 7, 2011 at 6:49 pm

    @BGinCHI: Or even Carl Douglas.

  57. 57.

    shortstop

    November 7, 2011 at 6:49 pm

    @arguingwithsignposts: The names-only version rocks.

  58. 58.

    Roger Moore

    November 7, 2011 at 6:50 pm

    @piratedan:

    college hoops starts tonite!

    Woo hoo! Maybe my alma mater will actually win a game again this season!

  59. 59.

    TaMara (BHF)

    November 7, 2011 at 6:51 pm

    I’ve had it with all the bad news, so I baked you cookies:

    Perfectly Crispy and Chewy Dark Chocolate Chip Cookies

  60. 60.

    piratedan

    November 7, 2011 at 6:52 pm

    @J. Michael Neal: and if they’re elected, the rest of us will be feeling like its Das Boot?

  61. 61.

    cleek

    November 7, 2011 at 6:52 pm

    c) neither of these clowns is Abraham Lincoln


    i get a little Abe Simpson vibe from Gingrich, sometimes.

  62. 62.

    Roger Moore

    November 7, 2011 at 6:55 pm

    @TaMara (BHF):
    I made you a cookie… but I eated it.

  63. 63.

    Ruckus

    November 7, 2011 at 6:55 pm

    @Roger Moore:
    Think what 2 months is at $10. 40x10x8=$3200. If I’m making $1600 per month I’m not much of a catch for a gold digger, ring or no ring.

  64. 64.

    chrome agnomen

    November 7, 2011 at 6:57 pm

    lincoln. douglas. gingrich. cain.

    all with about an equal chance of being elected POTUS this election.

  65. 65.

    TaMara (BHF)

    November 7, 2011 at 6:58 pm

    @Roger Moore: Win.

  66. 66.

    lamh35

    November 7, 2011 at 6:59 pm

    Alright, so I now have an Ipad2. ok, now what?

    I need ur advice BJers with Ipads. What apps, games, programs. websites etc should I get? Which ones would you recommend to ur family, close friends ore random internet strangers? Which ones can’t you live without.

    Help a sista out…lol.

  67. 67.

    arguingwithsignposts

    November 7, 2011 at 7:03 pm

    @lamh35: It depends on what you want to do with it. I’d recommend looking at the top downloaded in the app store and try out as many free ones as pique your interest. If you don’t like them, you can just delete them later.

  68. 68.

    Jenny

    November 7, 2011 at 7:04 pm

    Pretty interesting photo of Obama and Bush:

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/6309647332/in/photostream

  69. 69.

    JGabriel

    November 7, 2011 at 7:07 pm

    @Jenny: Given the way they’re holding their hands, it looks like they are each telling the story of the breasts that got away: “They were this big!” “Well, uh, I almost caught breasts that were THIS big.”

    .

  70. 70.

    handy

    November 7, 2011 at 7:07 pm

    @Jenny:

    Why do I feel like I’ve been rickrolled.

  71. 71.

    gwangung

    November 7, 2011 at 7:11 pm

    Apropos of nothing, just learned today that one of my productions this year was nominated for four awards from BroadwayWorld Seattle:

    http://seattle.broadwayworld.com/vote2011region.cfm?region=Seattle

    David Hsieh for director, YELLOW FACE
    Moses Yim, Best Leading Actor in a Play (Local), YELLOW FACE
    Jeremy Behrens, Best Featured Actor in a Play (Local), YELLOW FACE
    Maggie Lee, Best Lighting Design (Local), YELLOW FACE

    As they say, vote early, vote often.

    (What? Stuffing the ballot box? Moi? Well, I’m a BJ-er…what do YOU think I’m doing?)

  72. 72.

    Josie

    November 7, 2011 at 7:11 pm

    @TaMara (BHF): Oh, thank you, Tamara. Your recipe sounds yummy, and I appreciate the extra tips for making the cookies chewy and toffee-ish. My boys will love these for Thanksgiving and Christmas.

  73. 73.

    Roger Moore

    November 7, 2011 at 7:12 pm

    @lamh35:
    Obviously, you need to start by getting Angry Birds. Then you should get apps for all your favorite social networking sites. Some kind of RSS reader would be good, too, so you can see new posts on Balloon-Juice without having to refresh the main page in your browser all the time.

  74. 74.

    amk

    November 7, 2011 at 7:14 pm

    AL. I see that pierce piece ends up with the usual bs bw conclusion of how terrible of dems not making the insane rethugs see reason.

    Instead, the Democratic party has failed utterly in its duty to the country to force the Republicans to regain their sanity or die as a political entity. It has failed utterly even to try.

    So tell me, why is charlie the new god around here ? Just because he has the gift of the gab in some paragraphs ?

  75. 75.

    Jenny

    November 7, 2011 at 7:16 pm

    I love this photo of Samatha Power yelling at him

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/6218868388/in/photostream

    And this one of him having a beer with a Marine mom

    http://www.flickr.com/photos/whitehouse/6218344003/in/photostream

  76. 76.

    JGabriel

    November 7, 2011 at 7:17 pm

    From commenter SchoolyT @ TPM:

    Ol’ spermin’ Herman …

    Ouch. I think that one’s gonna stick.

    .

  77. 77.

    Josie

    November 7, 2011 at 7:18 pm

    I don’t always like Matt Taibbi, but he pretty much nails it with this post.

    http://www.rollingstone.com/politics/blogs/taibblog/mike-bloombergs-marie-antoinette-moment-20111103

  78. 78.

    lamh35

    November 7, 2011 at 7:24 pm

    @Roger Moore: funny enough you are at least the 2nd person who told me that I have to get Angry Birds.

    I confess to having never actually played or seen anyone play Angry birds.

    But I’m willing to try. Gonna also try the RSS feed too.

    thx.

  79. 79.

    Scamp Dog

    November 7, 2011 at 7:25 pm

    @lamh35: I’ve been doing a lot of drawing on my iPad lately, using an app called Brushes. I’m not sure it’s that superior for drawing purposes, but it does have a replay feature that lets you see how your drawing was done. IIRC, someone did a cover for the New Yorker magazine using Brushes, and it was cool to see how a pro draws.

  80. 80.

    Citizen_X

    November 7, 2011 at 7:25 pm

    @Ben Cisco: And still Kirk Douglas gets no love.

  81. 81.

    Rome Again

    November 7, 2011 at 7:29 pm

    @bin Lurkin’:

    I have to do that occasionally, even though I DO have a job. I guess it’s because I work seven days a week.

  82. 82.

    Rome Again

    November 7, 2011 at 7:30 pm

    One nitpick on the cartoon: The national motto was already reaffirmed once. What they did recently was a Re-re-affirmation.

  83. 83.

    amk

    November 7, 2011 at 7:31 pm

    @Josie: That was a good taibi read. Thanks.

  84. 84.

    doubletall

    November 7, 2011 at 7:33 pm

    Glad these time changes only happen twice a year.

  85. 85.

    dmsilev

    November 7, 2011 at 7:33 pm

    @lamh35:

    I need ur advice BJers with Ipads. What apps, games, programs. websites etc should I get? Which ones would you recommend to ur family, close friends ore random internet strangers? Which ones can’t you live without.

    Let’s see.

    Reading: iBooks, Kindle for books (both apps are free, but the books themselves cost), GoodReader for random PDF files and the like ($5). I also use Papers for my professional library ($10, I think), as it’s designed to keep track of hundreds of academic PDFs.

    Games: I’ve been on a board-game kick with my iPad recently. Carcassonne, Ticket to Ride, and Puerto Rico are all very well-done conversions of the respective board games. Trainyard is a fun little puzzle game. Cut the Rope (get the HD version if you’re on an iPad) is a cute little puzzler.

    A few random things that come to mind:
    The New York Times app offers a better reading experience than the website, but unless you subscribe, it only offers a limited subset of the content.

    The iPad is a great device for working crossword puzzles. I do the NYT puzzles, and there’s a specific app for that (free to download, subscription access to the puzzles, though the sub is cheaper than the web subscription).

    Netflix works pretty well, though for some annoying reason, they removed the ability to manage your queue from inside the iPad app, so all you can do is watch things on the iPad.

    Epicurious’s app is pretty well done and features a large collection of recipes, but you have to be careful enough in your cooking so as not to splatter stuff all over your expensive widget. I find that propping it up on a shelf out of harm’s way works pretty well, and the screen is still big enough to read.

  86. 86.

    Hill Dweller

    November 7, 2011 at 7:39 pm

    @Jenny: There are some great photos in there.

    The photo of Rep. Giffords and her husband is sweet.

  87. 87.

    Anoniminous

    November 7, 2011 at 7:39 pm

    A Herman and Newt “debate” is more along the lines of some Surreal adaptation/rip-off of Beckett such as Waiting for Godot.com. Although his first play’s title (IIRC) More Pricks than Kicks would transfer 1:1.

  88. 88.

    Southern Beale

    November 7, 2011 at 7:48 pm

    The thing is, the very LAST thing Republicans do is trust in God. That’s why they’re always all up in everyone’s business about everything because they refuse to TRUST that it’s going to be OK! They feel like they must have complete control of things — like who you fuck, women’s control over their own bodies, Janet Jackson’s nipple on the TeeVee ZOMG DAH HORRAH etc. etc. etc.

    Trust in God already. Next time someone want to do some stupid anti-choice think I’m going to reply, “Trust in God, please … it’s gonna be ok.”

  89. 89.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 7, 2011 at 7:58 pm

    @BGinCHI:

    @J. Michael Neal: Neither one of them rises to the level of Mike Douglas Tyson.

    Even better.

  90. 90.

    piratedan

    November 7, 2011 at 8:01 pm

    @Citizen_X: i would think that Michael Douglas’ very existence belies that statement ;-)

  91. 91.

    cathyx

    November 7, 2011 at 8:01 pm

    Last month, 650,000 customers moved their accounts to credit unions. That’s more than the entire 2010 year. And that doesn’t include bank transfer day Nov. 5th.

  92. 92.

    Comrade Mary

    November 7, 2011 at 8:02 pm

    @lamh35: Plants vs Zombies! Also: Tiny Wings.

  93. 93.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 7, 2011 at 8:02 pm

    @J. Michael Neal:

    Oh crap. I should have read all the comments before bon-moting on my own.

  94. 94.

    BGinCHI

    November 7, 2011 at 8:03 pm

    @Anoniminous: More Pricks Than Kicks is a collection of short stories.

    “Dante and the Lobster” one of the funniest ever.

    Point taken, though.

  95. 95.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    November 7, 2011 at 8:03 pm

    @lamh35: Pimp Your Screen, Hipstamatic, if you are going to use it in the classroom consider Doceri.

  96. 96.

    Anne Laurie

    November 7, 2011 at 8:05 pm

    @Ruckus:

    I think I remember the sign as
    __
    God don’t need no cash.
    You Do.

    Well, my dad read us Jean Shepherd at bedtime, but I do remember the All-Others-Pay-Cash sign in the local candy store (which, this being the Bronx in the 1960s, sold egg creams, vanilla cokes, a full range of tobacco products, 8 or 10 different daily newspapers (including, IIRC, 1 in Yiddish, 1 in Italian, and the Irish Times), comic books, “men’s magazines”, whichever pulp monthly the distributor was offering on special, along with the daily numbers, off-track betting, and probably a range of semi-licit to extremely illicit products & services I was too young to appreciate. “My” variation also appeared, IIRC, on a regular basis in MAD magazine, which was still very much a NYC production…

  97. 97.

    BGinCHI

    November 7, 2011 at 8:05 pm

    @cathyx: Anyone else notice all those BofA ads that talk about “reinvestment in the community”?

    Am I the only one who is screaming, “Yeah, with our bailout money, motherfuckers!”?

    Their ass-covering ain’t gonna work, methinks.

  98. 98.

    FlipYrWhig

    November 7, 2011 at 8:05 pm

    @Anoniminous: Or the Joe Orton play “Prick Up Your Ears.”

  99. 99.

    Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen

    November 7, 2011 at 8:07 pm

    Dear God in Heaven:

    Onstage Saturday, Gingrich seized the opportunity to show off his mastery of policy matters. He spoke with ease about the intricacies of health policy, saying the nation’s health system should be less bureaucratic and more consumer-friendly.

    Warning – It is worse than you can possibly imagine.

    “Think about going to McDonald’s,” Gingrich said. “We have no national hearings on fraud at McDonald’s. You show up and say, ‘I’d like a Quarter Pounder with Cheese.’ You give them money. They are happy. You are happy. If you open up your bag and there’s no Quarter Pounder with Cheese, you are unhappy.”

  100. 100.

    mikej

    November 7, 2011 at 8:08 pm

    urgh. Still sitting in hospital room. Dad got angio and a stint today. Waiting for the doc.

    Still amused at signs in hospital” these cameras monitored by swedish security.”

  101. 101.

    handy

    November 7, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    @Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:

    i think that sums up a lot of people’s (read: people with health insurance and/or no major health problems to speak of) belief about health care. It’s a product to be bought, traded, and negotiated for. Gingrich knows his audience.

  102. 102.

    harlana

    November 7, 2011 at 8:13 pm

    the leering Cain ad above, that has to be intentional.

  103. 103.

    cathyx

    November 7, 2011 at 8:14 pm

    @BGinCHI: Yes,they’re a small town bank.

  104. 104.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    November 7, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    @harlana: Everyone gets different ads.

  105. 105.

    Omnes Omnibus

    November 7, 2011 at 8:16 pm

    @Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: But I don’t want a Quarter Pounder with Cheese. Also too, what if I am in Europe? Do I get a soshulist Royale with Cheese?

  106. 106.

    4jkb4ia

    November 7, 2011 at 8:18 pm

    I saw an Americans for Prosperity ad on YouTube trying to make Obama look corrupt because of Solyndra.

  107. 107.

    harlana

    November 7, 2011 at 8:18 pm

    @Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen: What I’ve been saying. Because Newt’s perceived as the “intellectual” of the bunch.

    ((sigh))

  108. 108.

    OzoneR

    November 7, 2011 at 8:19 pm

    @Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:

    “Think about going to McDonald’s,” Gingrich said. “We have no national hearings on fraud at McDonald’s. You show up and say, ‘I’d like a Quarter Pounder with Cheese.’ You give them money. They are happy. You are happy. If you open up your bag and there’s no Quarter Pounder with Cheese, you are unhappy.”

    and if McDonald’s routinely didn’t give people Quarter Pounders with Cheese when they asked, they would probably be hearings.

  109. 109.

    harlana

    November 7, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred): i know that, it was a snark, and you don’t know what you’re missing

  110. 110.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 7, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    @mikej:

    Oh, best wishes to your dad. And to you, as the nearest (and caregiver?)

    I had angio almost 19 years ago, quad bypass in early 2001, and am as healthy at age 69 — knock wood — as I have ever been. I hope and expect that your dad will be fully back to normal in very short order.

  111. 111.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    November 7, 2011 at 8:21 pm

    @harlana: sorry

  112. 112.

    lamh35

    November 7, 2011 at 8:21 pm

    @dmsilev: all great examples…thx for this

  113. 113.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 7, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    @mikej:

    I forgot to ask, but I guess those security signs are a lot funnier if you’re not actually in Sweden at the moment.

  114. 114.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    November 7, 2011 at 8:25 pm

    @lamh35: I have an “enhanced eBook” about D-Day and one problem is the ability to select text and go directly to the internet with it. It can take FOREVER to read a book.

  115. 115.

    mikej

    November 7, 2011 at 8:29 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Swedish Hospital in Seattle, sadly not Stockholm. Seattle’s a great town, but I love Stockholm.

  116. 116.

    Yutsano

    November 7, 2011 at 8:33 pm

    @mikej:

    ” these cameras monitored by swedish security.”

    Dude, have you SEEN some Swedish security guys? WOW. Oh and hope Dad is okay, but Swedish is REALLY good for cardio things.

    @Jenny: That is one good looking Dawg. But I’m biased. :)

  117. 117.

    Roger Moore

    November 7, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    @Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:

    “Think about going to McDonald’s,” Gingrich said. “We have no national hearings on fraud at McDonald’s. You show up and say, ‘I’d like a Quarter Pounder with Cheese.’ You give them money. They are happy. You are happy. If you open up your bag and there’s no Quarter Pounder with Cheese, you are unhappy.”

    If healthcare providers could tell you in advance exactly how much your treatment was going to cost, charged everyone the same price for the same treatment, and were available and affordable even to the poorest Americans, we probably wouldn’t be having hearings about them, either.

  118. 118.

    Roger Moore

    November 7, 2011 at 8:39 pm

    @mikej:

    Swedish Hospital in Seattle, sadly not Stockholm.

    Is that in Ballard? They seem to be very strong on the whole Scandinavian heritage there.

  119. 119.

    Lancelot Link

    November 7, 2011 at 8:41 pm

    @Anoniminous:
    A Herman and Newt “debate” is more along the lines of some Surreal adaptation/rip-off of Beckett such as Waiting for Godot.com.
    More like “Puppetry of the Penis”

  120. 120.

    FlipYrWhig

    November 7, 2011 at 8:45 pm

    @OzoneR: What if they sold them coffee that was so hot spilling it would do serious damage, and they knew about the risk all along but continued to do it anyway because there was money in it? That would sure be a problem for Hypothetical McDonalds and its fantasmatic business practices — ETA and for Metaphorical Health Care McDonalds.

  121. 121.

    Villago Delenda Est

    November 7, 2011 at 8:47 pm

    @Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:

    Yup, sure. Health care is EXACTLY like fast food.

    Newt Gingrich. What a fuckin’ genius he is.

  122. 122.

    tkogrumpy

    November 7, 2011 at 8:47 pm

    @BGinCHI: I don’t think they rise to the level of Douglas fir.

  123. 123.

    Yutsano

    November 7, 2011 at 8:48 pm

    @Roger Moore: One of them is. It’s a huge system up here.

  124. 124.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    November 7, 2011 at 8:51 pm

    Da Bears strike!

  125. 125.

    Roger Moore

    November 7, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    @tkogrumpy:

    I don’t think they rise to the level of Douglas fir.

    Of course not. Have you seen how tall those things grow? It’s very hard to get to their level.

  126. 126.

    amk

    November 7, 2011 at 8:56 pm

    kochbros out to destroy democracy, thanks to CU.

  127. 127.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    November 7, 2011 at 8:57 pm

    @Redshift: I wrote a diary at DK about a word I had created for the way we act toward politicans: pliking, for liking in a political context. Unlike “liking”, pliking is the result of weighing the strength and weaknesses of a group of people and realizing that, while you may not like the person, you would rather have that person in office than anyone else running.

  128. 128.

    mikej

    November 7, 2011 at 9:07 pm

    @Roger Moore: Cherry Hill campus (not New Jersey). Just heard they took the doc’s 3:30 down at 5:30 and one more after that before we can gab. Dad’s treatment is already done though. He’s even halfway chipper, and I ran out and found a red box and got him some mindless entertainment.

  129. 129.

    Hill Dweller

    November 7, 2011 at 9:14 pm

    @amk: That article is both scary and creepy.

  130. 130.

    normal liberal

    November 7, 2011 at 9:17 pm

    @lamh35: If you are a Mac user and like their office suite (Pages, Numbers and Keynote), the iPad versions are useful – I think they’re about $10 each. If you get them,run through the included tutorials because the functions are a little quirky.

    If you want to be able to transfer files to and from a computer, get Dropbox, free, and much simpler than the soon-to-be defunct iDisk.

    There are lots of good weather sites that do current radar, forecasts and such, if you’re into that. I live in Tornado Alley, and it’s intriguing to track the hook echoes.

    There are lots of apps for tracking information, keeping notes, schedules, lists, projects, car maintenance, medications, mini-databases and other humdrum but helpful things.

    Haven’t I seen you post at Ta-Nehisi Coates’ Atlantic site? If you haven’t already, ask this in one of his open threads – I’ll bet that crowd has sniffed out the cream of the app crop. This may have already happened,so you might want to search the Atlantic blog page.

    I felt a bit guilty about my iPad, but I use every day, and my house is slightly less cluttered without the 40 or 50 hardbacks I would have bought since April, and instead installed on the iPad.

    Have fun!

  131. 131.

    Svensker

    November 7, 2011 at 9:19 pm

    @Yutsano:

    @Roger Moore: One of them is. It’s a huge system up here.

    Wow! During high school I worked in the lab at the downtown Swedish — it was the only one there was. Had no idea they’d expanded so much!

  132. 132.

    General Stuck

    November 7, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    @Hill Dweller:

    That article is both scary and creepy.

    Yes it is. It is also, in a weird way, hopeful. And exactly the kind of right wing over reach that could wake up the clueless populace in this country, that their democracy is being hijacked by big money.

  133. 133.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    November 7, 2011 at 9:31 pm

    Here’s a video of a local physician explaining how she came to work with underserved folks.

  134. 134.

    Roger Moore

    November 7, 2011 at 9:41 pm

    @normal liberal:

    There are lots of good weather sites that do current radar, forecasts and such, if you’re into that.

    Weather Underground is absolutely fantastic. It lets you look at other people’s personal weather stations, rather than relying exclusively on the official ones, so it’s much more likely there will be one close to you. That’s really important in an area that has a lot of microclimates, like Los Angeles. And, of course, they have a really great name.

  135. 135.

    Yutsano

    November 7, 2011 at 9:47 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred): That’s kinda awesome. I was almost hoping she’d say something about universal coverage or single payer, but honestly she’s pretty much getting reimbursed that way already.

  136. 136.

    Raven (formerly stuckinred)

    November 7, 2011 at 9:49 pm

    @Yutsano: She’s a real gift to this community. She spoke out firmly at Paul Broun’s townhall on healthcare. She’s also really nice.

  137. 137.

    JCT

    November 7, 2011 at 9:51 pm

    @Raven (formerly stuckinred): She sounds exactly like a guy I did my residency with — we both trained at a big NYC hospital and his clinic was always bursting at the seams with the underserved. Serious word of mouth. He was a real Manhattanite so the contrast with his patient population was quite stark. After residency we all scattered, most folks went off to make the big bucks in lucrative specialties. I ran into Mike at a board review course 10 years later and wouldn’t you know it — he was a cardiologist in some *tiny* town in North Carolina. He was probably earning 25-30% of what our other classmates were earning, but happier than hell and making a real difference.

  138. 138.

    normal liberal

    November 7, 2011 at 9:51 pm

    @Roger Moore: They’re my standard site on my desktops, for the micro-climates and personal stations, the great radar imagery, the photo archives, and of course the name. I’m not as fond of their iPad app. On the iPad I tend to use Intellicast HD.

    As I’m doing tonight, trying to decide if my sump pump will survive until morning…

  139. 139.

    C Nelson Reilly

    November 7, 2011 at 9:55 pm

    Another small earthquake here in Tulsa just 5 minutes ago. Plus 10 or so tornadoes in the state today. Can’t wait for the forest fires.

  140. 140.

    Roger Moore

    November 7, 2011 at 10:00 pm

    @normal liberal:

    I’m not as fond of their iPad app

    I can see that. My impression- and it’s just that because I’m an Android user- is that it’s really an iPhone app and hasn’t been redesigned to take full advantage of the bigger screen. That’s certainly true of the third party Weather Underground app for Android; it’s great on the phone but pretty useless on the tablet.

  141. 141.

    xian

    November 7, 2011 at 10:10 pm

    @Cris (without an H): To defy the laws of tradition is a crusade only of the brave.

  142. 142.

    xian

    November 7, 2011 at 10:13 pm

    @lamh35: careful – that game is like crack

  143. 143.

    normal liberal

    November 7, 2011 at 10:21 pm

    @Roger Moore: That’s interesting – the version I have is iPad-specific. I’ll have to check their website and see if I missed something. I do use their web version on an iPod touch, which is clunky but usable.

    I still marvel that any of this exists at all, but then I’ve been known to rhapsodize over the fact that a complicated machine like a photocopier can produce consistent results. I should probably get out more.

  144. 144.

    Calouste

    November 7, 2011 at 10:38 pm

    @Thoughtful Black Co-Citizen:

    Pierce refers to Gingrich (just after that quote in his article) as the “philosopher-politician”.

    I can only assume that was a typo and he really meant “philanderer-politician”.

  145. 145.

    jayjaybear

    November 7, 2011 at 10:52 pm

    @mikej: “Good afternoon! Swedish Security! My name Peggy! You have problem?”

  146. 146.

    Yutsano

    November 7, 2011 at 11:02 pm

    Salmon, jasmine rice, and asparagus for dinner. No I’m not sharing. :)

  147. 147.

    suzanne

    November 8, 2011 at 12:05 am

    I just took a break from studying for my Structural Systems ARE to read that freak show of a thread about McQueary. I need brain bleach.

  148. 148.

    Ruckus

    November 8, 2011 at 12:40 am

    @Anne Laurie:
    Actually I do remember it your way as well, it’s just that given my attitude from and towards life, mine is more fitting for me.

  149. 149.

    Ruckus

    November 8, 2011 at 12:59 am

    @Ruckus:
    Anne
    Forgot to add I used to really enjoy reading Jean Shepherd. Haven’t picked up any of his stories in years though. My bad. His descriptions of those things around us that we many times take for granted paints me a picture of an observant and twisted mind. I like that in an author.

  150. 150.

    amk

    November 8, 2011 at 1:24 am

    @Ruckus: Isn’t it used to be

    In God, we trust.

    Rest pay Cash

    ?

  151. 151.

    Ruckus

    November 8, 2011 at 1:55 am

    Well what do you know word press ate my homework.

    @amk:
    As explained above I’ve seen it both ways, I just like the crasser version. If you knew me the reason would be clear.

  152. 152.

    gocart mozart

    November 8, 2011 at 4:06 am

    @Zifnab:
    Too soon.

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