• Menu
  • Skip to primary navigation
  • Skip to main content
  • Skip to primary sidebar

Before Header

  • About Us
  • Lexicon
  • Contact Us
  • Our Store
  • ↑
  • ↓
  • ←
  • →

Balloon Juice

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We are builders in a constant struggle with destroyers. let’s win this.

Israel is using food as a weapon of war. Unforgivable.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Please don’t feed the bears.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

Russia bombs Ukraine’s maternity hospitals; Republicans in the House can’t sort out supporting Ukraine.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Democrats have delivered the Square Deal, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and now… the Big Joe Biden Deal.

Republicans do not pay their debts.

The words do not have to be perfect.

People are weird.

The frogs are rarely mistaken.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

Mobile Menu

  • Four Directions Montana
  • Donate with Venmo, Zelle & PayPal
  • Site Feedback
  • War in Ukraine
  • Submit Photos to On the Road
  • Politics
  • On The Road
  • Open Threads
  • Topics
  • COVID-19 Coronavirus
  • Authors
  • About Us
  • Contact Us
  • Lexicon
  • Our Store
  • Politics
  • Open Threads
  • 2024 Elections
  • Garden Chats
  • On The Road
  • Targeted Fundraising!
You are here: Home / Open Threads / Monday Evening Open Thread

Monday Evening Open Thread

by Anne Laurie|  December 12, 20118:07 pm| 50 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Blatant Liars and the Lies They Tell

FacebookTweetEmail

(Don Wright via GoComics.com)
__
The good news is: Our antagonists are paranoid idiots with very short attention spans. The bad news is, those people get to vote, too.
__
Who’s got some good news? Even on a Monday, there’s gotta be something…

FacebookTweetEmail
Previous Post: « Why Shut Down the Ports
Next Post: Fear is a man’s best friend »

Reader Interactions

50Comments

  1. 1.

    cathyx

    December 12, 2011 at 8:09 pm

    Finally an open thread. Here is the cutest video ever:

    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/12/12/most-adorable-martial-arts_n_1144367.html

  2. 2.

    lamh35

    December 12, 2011 at 8:14 pm

    I just love me some John “Uncle Jessie” Stamos. And this video made me laugh and oddly, made him hotter, hmm?

    LOL.

    John Stamos Guide to Cuddling

  3. 3.

    Baud

    December 12, 2011 at 8:15 pm

    @cathyx: That’s how all wars should be fought.

  4. 4.

    jeffreyw

    December 12, 2011 at 8:19 pm

    Carpet installed in the bedroom.

  5. 5.

    lamh35

    December 12, 2011 at 8:19 pm

    hmmm so Mittens wants to “keep America American”…where have we heard that b4…oh yeah KKK
    http://www.boomantribune.com/story/2011/12/12/173022/49

    Steve Benen flags this from Mitt Romney’s stump speech (emphasis added):
    “Keep America American”? Really?
    Here’s the title of a pamphlet published in 1920 by the United Klans of America, as found in the catalog of Yale’s Beinecke Library:
    “Why you should become a klansman : of interest to white, protestant, native born Americans who want to keep America American.”

  6. 6.

    MikeJ

    December 12, 2011 at 8:20 pm

    @Baud: And yet Obummer has publicly spoken out against the use of child soldiers.

  7. 7.

    jeffreyw

    December 12, 2011 at 8:21 pm

    Awesome crawfish rice stuffing.

  8. 8.

    Suffern ACE

    December 12, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    OK. Who cancelled the pro-football game and replaced it with Rams-Seahawks?

  9. 9.

    Cat Lady

    December 12, 2011 at 8:22 pm

    That cartoon is pretty funny. I lol’ed.

    I wish there were debates every night – it’s really opening everyone’s eyes to the FAIL parade, and everyone except the 27% are starting to cringe. These candidates are all getting smaller and smaller* the brighter the spotlight, so by the time Iowa rolls around even the pigs will be embarrassed.

    *not measured in weight

  10. 10.

    lamh35

    December 12, 2011 at 8:23 pm

    Well, I guess it’s true what they say, it’s hard out here for a “grifter”

    People: Sarah Palin shops new reality show — but no takers

    BWHAHAHAHA!

  11. 11.

    jeffreyw

    December 12, 2011 at 8:23 pm

    Getting the mechanics of copying and pasting down on this Fire tabletoid device. Stylus is huge help for a fat fingered fellow.

  12. 12.

    Baud

    December 12, 2011 at 8:24 pm

    @MikeJ: No child soldiers? Where is the Hope? Where is the Change?

  13. 13.

    khead

    December 12, 2011 at 8:28 pm

    Open thread needs kittehs.

    Sharing is a concept my kittehs haven’t quite mastered yet.

  14. 14.

    jeffreyw

    December 12, 2011 at 8:31 pm

    All Praise our FSM Father for His gift of the Bacon Jam. Ramen..

  15. 15.

    Montysano

    December 12, 2011 at 8:34 pm

    This is our first year of heating primarily with wood. I’ve learned that buying firewood is kind of like buying weed.

    I scored some of the really good shit last weekend. There’s yer good news.

  16. 16.

    Paddy

    December 12, 2011 at 8:35 pm

    A dear friend just got a KILLER job working on the staff of Jennifer Granholm’s new Current show. She’s moving from Michigan to San Fransisco, and is desperate for any advice on getting a studio apartment, transportation, neighborhoods to avoid, any and all websites or blogs that might be helpful. I’m hoping that the great minds here would have some ideas. You can email me at the political carnival at gmail. Thanks in advance!

  17. 17.

    khead

    December 12, 2011 at 8:37 pm

    Kittehs do not deserve to be in moderation hell.

  18. 18.

    Punchy

    December 12, 2011 at 8:40 pm

    Football, yo.

    Anyone see Beck call Newt ‘Cruits racist? God damn will it be fun to watch him have to suck Newt’s knob when he gets the nommy and then somehow disown/disavow all these past comments…..

  19. 19.

    khead

    December 12, 2011 at 8:45 pm

    Trying kitteh post again…..

    One less link, maybe?

    Yeah, that works. Kittehs won’t share.

  20. 20.

    lamh35

    December 12, 2011 at 8:45 pm

    Aww sookie, sookie..Splash on Cinemax right now. Luv that freakin’ movie!

  21. 21.

    Chuck Butcher

    December 12, 2011 at 8:47 pm

    Is this a bunch the Dems can manage to beat? It took a GWB and etc to manage it before and all it took for the GOPers was “black in white house”, well that and the Democratic NotAsBadAs campaign…

  22. 22.

    jeffreyw

    December 12, 2011 at 8:54 pm

    @khead: Kittehs!

  23. 23.

    lamh35

    December 12, 2011 at 8:54 pm

    @lamh35:

    Ok, I just realized that my youngest lil cousin is named Madison. The mermaid from Splash is named…MADISON!!!!!

    I really do like Splash and never put the two together..lol

  24. 24.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    December 12, 2011 at 8:55 pm

    Me and the boss are dealing with a Tricare case right now. It is utterly, utterly, bewildering. Tricare is run by a contractor known as Health Net Federal Services. So far we are dealing with four different offices in four different States, VA, SC, CO, and GA. The four different peeps in the four different offices are saying FOUR COMPLETELY AND UTTERLY DIFFERENT THINGS. Two of them are completely contradicting each other. One is saying our client was NOT a Tricare provider on said date therefore X should happen. Second is saying our client WAS a Tricare provider on the same date so Z should happen. It is bizarre. It is like trying to fight a damn Hydra. The only thing that makes it at least the slightly acceptable scenario is that it is an hourly billing case, and damn does it take some hours to figure this shit out.

  25. 25.

    khead

    December 12, 2011 at 9:00 pm

    Sorry for multiple posts. First post was in moderation hell. :)

    Also, KITTEHS!

  26. 26.

    Litlebritdifrnt

    December 12, 2011 at 9:02 pm

    I am sure you have all seen this but only the Brits could pull this off

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDZcGz4vmJc

  27. 27.

    lamh35

    December 12, 2011 at 9:08 pm

    Sandusky Witness Changed His Story: Insider

    So either McCreery “fudged” his grand jury testimony, or he “fudged” the story to a “family friend” to what??? Save face or something.

  28. 28.

    Soonergrunt

    December 12, 2011 at 9:09 pm

    @khead: Kittehs released from hell.

  29. 29.

    khead

    December 12, 2011 at 9:12 pm

    @Soonergrunt:

    Heh. Thanks.

    Trying to catch the little one is definitely hell for the wife and me though.

    Release the KITTEH!

  30. 30.

    Soonergrunt

    December 12, 2011 at 9:16 pm

    I saved you people about $12,000 today.*
    I brought back six very old portable tablet computers from the surplus graveyard and managed to turn them into four working tablets for a low density non-medical mission for the volunteers.
    The units that we were supposed to buy were about $3,000/each.

    *If you are not a US taxpayer, this doesn’t apply to you. Sorry.

  31. 31.

    JCT

    December 12, 2011 at 9:17 pm

    @lamh35: Oh that is 10 shades of awesome.

    Good job Mittens, resurrecting a KKK slogan.

    Now if only a member of the MSM had the balls to ask him why he’s quoting Klan propaganda.

  32. 32.

    The Fat Kate Middleton

    December 12, 2011 at 9:22 pm

    @Soonergrunt: And did a very good thing, SG. Thank you.

  33. 33.

    The Fat Kate Middleton

    December 12, 2011 at 9:23 pm

    @cathyx: So wanted to watch, but it’s been removed. Dang.

  34. 34.

    Yutsano

    December 12, 2011 at 9:25 pm

    The Seahacks are trying to pretend they know how to play football. I know better though.

    Sick. Also. Too.

  35. 35.

    Veritas

    December 12, 2011 at 9:27 pm

    So the Durban “climate change” conference was a miserable, miserable fucking failure. Not even Europe wants a binding international pact on carbon emissions anymore. The Global Warming Religion is in its death throes.

    The bottom line? More and more and more and more tons of glorious carbon will be pumped up into the atmosphere in ever increasing amounts. China and India put one new COAL fired power plant online everyday. That’s right, “progressives”–COAL, black, sooty, carbon-packed C-O-A-L, and there’s nothing you can do to stop it.

    RealityCheck

  36. 36.

    cathyx

    December 12, 2011 at 9:33 pm

    @The Fat Kate Middleton: I tried to link it to youtube, but it’s gone from there too.

  37. 37.

    JPL

    December 12, 2011 at 9:38 pm

    @lamh35: Although McQuery’s credibility will be questioned, Sandusky admitted being at the gym and in the shower with a boy. That’s creepy enough.

  38. 38.

    Soonergrunt

    December 12, 2011 at 9:41 pm

    @Veritas: shall we nuke China and India?

  39. 39.

    Yutsano

    December 12, 2011 at 9:43 pm

    @Soonergrunt: It’s the only way to be sure. Of course the resulting radiation damage would fuck up the Northern Hemisphere for centuries, but that’s why we have Australia.

  40. 40.

    Hill Dweller

    December 12, 2011 at 9:49 pm

    @Veritas: Set aside the climate change for a second. We do know for a fact that coal burning power plants are devastating for air quality, cause all sorts of respiratory problems, and make fish largely inedible due to mercury/PCB’s. So, why the hell are you celebrating this? Vindictiveness?

  41. 41.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    December 12, 2011 at 9:53 pm

    @Soonergrunt: Thank you for that good work. And also for freeing the (very cute) kittehs from moderation jail.

    @Yutsano: Feel better, pls. I’m pouting since eemom did not find me qualified for an intelligent discussion in re the West Bank like she did you. Hmmpf.

  42. 42.

    Veritas

    December 12, 2011 at 9:59 pm

    @Hill Dweller:

    Because it means cheaper energy for all. Something that I think is a good thing–but liberals hate it, and hate the industrial revolution. I think it’s worth the trade-off.

    Besides, there’s clean coal technology that addresses some of the things you mention.

    The main thing is the Great Global Warming Cult is dead, dead, dead.

    Besides the power plants, China is now the world’s biggest car market. And the most popular cars there aren’t hybrids–there big, powerful, gas-guzzling SUVs and sports cars. Sucks to be an environmentalist nut these days, huh?

    RealityCheck

  43. 43.

    gaz

    December 12, 2011 at 10:52 pm

    @Veritas:

    miserable, miserable fucking failure

    You would know about miserable fuckin failures, wouldn’t ya. Or at least your mother does.

  44. 44.

    gaz

    December 12, 2011 at 10:59 pm

    Clean coal is an oxymoron…

    A 1990 subaru GL wagon kicks the christ out of a 1st gen prius on gas mileage.

    and the global warming DENIAL cult is Dead Dead Dead.

    there. fixed your nonsense.

  45. 45.

    DanielX

    December 12, 2011 at 11:01 pm

    @Montysano: It’s true! All the questions – is it cured? How much moisture? I’d really like some oak and hickory, if you got it, though I’ll take ash*. None of that pinewood, thankyouverymuch, I don’t want to have to get the chimney cleaned once a month.

    *All too much ash wood available, unfortunately, every ash tree in the area is going. Which pretty much sucks, since about a quarter of the mature trees around my area are ash trees.

  46. 46.

    Jebediah

    December 12, 2011 at 11:04 pm

    @Veritas:

    Because it means cheaper energy for all. Something that I think is a good thing—but liberals hate it, and hate the industrial revolution.

    Trolls are funny critters. Liberals hate cheap energy? Liberals hate the industrial revolution? With foundations like that, surely your argument will be wicked cogent and convincing… oh wait, never mind. Just the usual pathetic bullshit.

  47. 47.

    El Cid

    December 12, 2011 at 11:05 pm

    The thing is, graphene.

  48. 48.

    Soonergrunt

    December 12, 2011 at 11:11 pm

    Poor Veritas/Reality Check–his parents didn’t have any children who lived.

  49. 49.

    DanielX

    December 12, 2011 at 11:25 pm

    @Soonergrunt: Yep – another sad case of tossing the baby and raising the afterbirth. Although he does provide some insight as to why some animals eat their young…

  50. 50.

    4jkb4ia

    December 12, 2011 at 11:40 pm

    @Suffern ACE:

    Alas, this was like Steelers–Colts in that ESPN thought it was getting a much better game when the schedule came out. Now the Rams have simply embarrassed themselves on national television, which I couldn’t say for the first Monday night game they were in. In that one Bradford passed for 300 yards and the Giants were lucky to win. Of course the Giants have been lucky to win every week.

    @Yutsano: Against the Lambs anyone can pretend to know how to play football. The Browns managed it for three quarters.

Comments are closed.

Primary Sidebar

Recent Comments

  • Barbara on On The Road – ema – 2024 AKC Meet the Breeds (Apr 18, 2024 @ 5:44am)
  • Baud on On The Road – ema – 2024 AKC Meet the Breeds (Apr 18, 2024 @ 5:42am)
  • sab on Wednesday News Roundup, A Little Late (Apr 18, 2024 @ 5:33am)
  • Jay on Wednesday News Roundup, A Little Late (Apr 18, 2024 @ 5:29am)
  • Jay on Wednesday News Roundup, A Little Late (Apr 18, 2024 @ 5:28am)

🎈Keep Balloon Juice Ad Free

Become a Balloon Juice Patreon
Donate with Venmo, Zelle or PayPal

Balloon Juice Posts

View by Topic
View by Author
View by Month & Year
View by Past Author

Balloon Juice Meetups!

All Meetups
Talk of Meetups – Meetup Planning
Proposed BJ meetups list from frosty

Fundraising 2023-24

Wis*Dems Supreme Court + SD-8
Virginia House Races
Four Directions – Montana
Worker Power AZ
Four Directions – Arizona
Four Directions – Nevada

Featuring

Medium Cool
Artists in Our Midst
Authors in Our Midst
Positive Climate News
War in Ukraine
Cole’s “Stories from the Road”
Classified Documents Primer

Calling All Jackals

Site Feedback
Nominate a Rotating Tag
Submit Photos to On the Road
Balloon Juice Mailing List Signup
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Links)
Balloon Juice Anniversary (All Posts)

Fix Nyms with Apostrophes

Balloon Juice for Ukraine

Donate

Twitter / Spoutible

Balloon Juice (Spoutible)
WaterGirl (Spoutible)
TaMara (Spoutible)
John Cole
DougJ (aka NYT Pitchbot)
Betty Cracker
Tom Levenson
David Anderson
Major Major Major Major
ActualCitizensUnited

Political Action 2024

Postcard Writing Information

Balloon Juice for Four Directions AZ

Donate

Balloon Juice for Four Directions NV

Donate

Site Footer

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

  • Facebook
  • RSS
  • Twitter
  • YouTube
  • Comment Policy
  • Our Authors
  • Blogroll
  • Our Artists
  • Privacy Policy

Copyright © 2024 Dev Balloon Juice · All Rights Reserved · Powered by BizBudding Inc

Share this ArticleLike this article? Email it to a friend!

Email sent!