Also, I added “Saul Alinsky is my Copilot to the rotating taglines.” I think we need some new fresh taglines. Any suggestions?
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Also, I added “Saul Alinsky is my Copilot to the rotating taglines.” I think we need some new fresh taglines. Any suggestions?
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Raven
“Eers got screwed”?
gnomedad
Who are you and what have you done with John Cole?
c u n d gulag
For particularly good local, state, and national wingnut politicians, how about “What This Country Needs Is Public Hangings!” – where we can comment away on their lunacy.
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
“One Nation Under Tebow”
“In Romney We Blindly Trust”
“One Tunch To Rule Them All”
Chico Escuela
When the going gets weird, the weird turn pro
-HST-
Simply a must have if you’re gonna do it
WereBear
@c u n d gulag: Yep, from NORTH Carolina for a change. You can practically hear the itch for public stonings.
Warren Terra
Is there a list of taglines anyplace?
MikeJ
The Megaupload of political commentary.
jp7505a
CORPORATIONS ARE PEOPLE TOO
Marty
An angry little attack muffin?
Yutsano
Cue the ABL deranged in 3…2…
Amir Khalid
“Amir Khalid is One Swell Dude”
(No harm in suggesting it, right?)
sb
One of the best books I’ve ever read but as interpreted by ABL?
I’ll pass, thanks.
wasabi gasp
Jesus is my tail gunner.
RossInDetroit
Moonbases for all.
13th Generation
Sorry Cole, not getting out of the boat. Nice try though.
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
@Amir Khalid:
Amir Khalid – never knowingly out-modested.
Karen
“Liberal in name only (LINO)”
“Don’t get your panties in a wad, Momma!” (something a young boy said to his mother on Toddlers & Tiaras)
Citizen_X
MARS, BITCHES!
My Truth Hurts
Occupy This
Some People Say
Cake – Let Them Eat It
Liberal Cats
Corporate People Have Rights Too!
Thin Skinned And Brittle
I’s In Yer Moonbass, Killing Yer d00ds!
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
“Gay-Marrying $1500 Food Processors One State At A Time”
wasabi gasp
What’s with that picture?
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
We really should include:
“Oops!” and
“We neither read nor write the Ron Paul Newsletter”
Also too:
“Small varmints, if you will”
BethanyAnne
Screw it, we’ll do it live
cbear
Just for you, John:
“I am not an animal”
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
“The Talented Mr Romney”
GregB
Scorpions for Breakfast.
Ben Cisco
None of that shit off the new album.
Comrade Mary
@gnomedad: TAGLINES not TAGS. Rest easy.
DanielX
Hmmm, how about
Who Is Saul Alinsky?
Newt clearly hasn’t figured out that this particular supposed insult is about twenty years past its sell-by date. One of the disadvantages of being a would-be policy wonk with an attention deficit problem…
Ben Cisco
Bulwark against the Ferengi Media.
Exurban Mom
Citizen_X, you stole mine. When I saw Kos tweet “Mars, Bitches!” the other day, I had a beverage versus keyboard accident.
Exurban Mom
Ohh, going along with Ben Cisco, how’s about “All killer, no filler.”?
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
“Trolling for hits since…”
Hal
I don’t know if this is just me, but if I type in balloon-juice.com, no http://www., the page always loads with an older posting, not the most recent.
If I do the full url, http://www.balloon-juice.com, page loads with the most recent post.
Am I the only one experiencing this?
Ben Cisco
This blog is bigger on the inside.
Ben Cisco
@Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again): No. Happened to me twice today.
Ben Cisco
The REAL birth certificate was left in the TARDIS.
Hungry Joe
“Persons attempting to find a motive in this narrative will be prosecuted” — from Mark Twain’s NOTICE intro to “Huckleberry Finn.”
It could rotate with the rest of the NOTICE: ” … persons attempting to find a moral in [this narrative] will be banished; persons attempting to find a plot in [this narrative] will be shot.”
Zifnab25
A blog about politics, pet maintenance, and… Uh… One more thing… Oops?
BudP
The invisible hand of the market touched my Bum
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
“Beware of Greeks bearing debts and Germans bearing loan modifications”
LT
“Putting quotation marks in the wrong place since…”
BethanyAnne
“FYWP”
xian
Corporations are people, my friend.
Michael
@Hal: AHHH I couldn’t figure out why it kept loading like that. Same problem. Thank you.
My suggestion is, “This blog will self-deport in 15 seconds” or some other play off that stupid phrase.
Also, “Blogs are people, my friend”
Mr Stagger Lee
@MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
KNEEL BEFORE TUNCH
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
“Now fully corporate-personhood compliant”
R-Jud
@LT: I COL’d (chuckled out loud).
Seconding xian @ 43.
Also: “The purposes of this blog are pets, politics, and… uh… we forget the third one.”
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
@Hal:
It might be loading a page from your history, rather than the website itself. Have you tried clearing the cache/history etc and seeing what happens?
Ben Cisco
@R-Jud: That is GOLD.
Michael
@LT:
If you want to get clever, you could make it:
Putting quotation “marks” in the wrong place since…
MikeJ
@MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson: Tech tip and tagline combined:
Have you tried turning off and on again?
p.a.
“I love this country so much I’m not responsible for my actions.”
“My name may be on this blog but I don’t know what’s in it.”
“the party of personal responsibility”
wrb
“moonbase: fun ’till it burns off your eyebrows”
Comrade Mary
@Hal: Nope, it has happened to me, too. Sure, we can clear out caches and history, but maybe the tech fairy can check the server configuration (you’re using Apache, right?).
Alex
“We do not make any claims to accuracy” (relevance here: http://tbogg.firedoglake.com/2012/01/25/i-hear-warren-buffetts-secretary-has-granite-countertops-made-out-of-gold-in-her-house/)
wrb
“good like “fresh” seafood”
SST
The last bastion of Hayekian modesty
Raven
What’s the spread on this Senior Bowl?
orygunian
Clear the cache!
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
“Maverick’s down. Vulture, you’re up next.”
Soldier Boy
Tunch approved this message.
4tehlulz
A Pants-on-Fire Falsehood
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
“Imposing Socialist Sharia On Real American Pixels”
lamh35
New tag line:
“Oh please God No”
I’m hip hop fan, but rap music has official jumped the shark.
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
“Imposing Sharia Law One Real American Pixel At A Time”
BethanyAnne
@4tehlulz: ha!
kuvasz
“If you want to go fast, go alone… if you want to go far, go together.”
Dee Loralei
If I did this right, this is a link to the second song my son composed and orchestrated on his new keyboard. I’m rather fond of it and would love your opinions. http://snd.sc/zO46lz
jeffreyw
Excuse me while I whip this out.
Whatsleft
Republicanism – Fail It Forward
BethanyAnne
Saul Alinksy Stole My Bicycle
Ben K.
The official blog of the Gingrich moon base.
Jennifer
RE: Saul Alinsky – Bill Maher had an excellent take on that last night.
RE: taglines – I use one over at my blog that I like a lot – “Let them eat cat food.”
Ken
@Raven: Yes, they did.
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
Occupy Romney 4.0!
WeeBey
If You Believe, They Put A Man On The Moon
BudP
Politi-fracked
Raven
@WeeBey: and I feel fine
Omnes Omnibus
@Comrade Mary: Tags are okay too; categories are bad. Tagg Romney is also bad.
TG Chicago
I like 4tehlulz’s suggestion, but perhaps “Pants-on-fire true”. Or even better, “The truth is the lie of the year”.
I also like “Objectively pro-Saddam”. Probably too old-fashioned, but I dig it.
BGinCHI
How about: “Fuck You David Brooks. Don’t Even Click on Anything.”
scav
If FYWP isn’t a tagline yet, I’d like to know why.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Michael:
This one gets my vote. I think Mitt will generate a few taglines over the next few months
@Jennifer: couldn’t bring myself to watch Maher last night. Bringing Mark Foley on borders on teh exploitive. I figure Rohrbacher is just a big blustering fool who probably just shouted everyone else down. I’m fine with Maher having conservatives over-represented, but he needs to find some who aren’t either bullies or boring sanctimonious prigs like Frum. And… Kennedy? Are we doing the time warp again?
Sideshow Bill
Saw a Gadsden flag in Milwaukee today with, “Don’t Walker On Me”
Omnes Omnibus
@scav:
I’ll handle this one. Because of FYWP, obviously.
scav
@Omnes Omnibus: Of course. That’s why we all pitch in with the manual fix. How could I be so silly?
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
dog on car, man on dog, you dog, doggone nuts.
Linda Featheringill
@MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson:
Oooooh! [hee-hee]
wasabi gasp
Full frontal nutter.
Mnemosyne
Whales and dolphins are friends.
Makes one worry that they’re plotting against us.
Yutsano
I tried fixing the blog, but then I took an arrow to the knee.
ABL
@sb: i’m not “interpreting” anything, dillhole. I’m not even hosting the chat.
feel stupid yet? because you should.
Jennifer
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yep, the panel sucked last night. But the Alinsky bit was worthwhile.
Ira-NY
“Have you ever seen Jan Brewer and Jane Hamsher in the same room?”
BethanyAnne
@Yutsano: @Yutsano: No lollygaggin’
Kyle
I personally think none of us should ever post anything unless the last sentence is “If you vote for a republican, you are voting for a bad person.” So a tag line seems the least we could do.
Soldier Boy
“Not Intended To Be A Factual Blog”?
smintheus
“Against whatever liberals are for, updated daily”
catpal
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
this from Maher last night is great.
Now I know who Saul Alinsky is.
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
“Stuffing Arizona’s Wagging Finger Back Up Its Tightly Puckered White Ass.”
Beauzeaux
Something about roadkill.
Donut
@SST:
I believe the actual Brooks quote, in re: Gingrich, is, “He has no Hayekian modesty to restrain his faith in statist endeavor…”
http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/09/opinion/brooks-the-gingrich-tragedy.html?_r=1
…which I personally would short to “No Hayekian Modesty”
WaterGirl
I did a little google searching and found lots of suggestions for rotating tag lines.
fucking napkin doodle economics
Romney 2012: He’s better than a murderer
“squid-clouds of butt-hurt over the Latest Shiny Object”
“a mixture of analysis, gossip and allegation”
“established facts are willfully ignored”
“Splendorous celebration of connection and peace”
‘This blog can hire one half of the working class to kill the other half.’
I wish a muthaf*cka would try to punch me in the face.
peculiar yet charming reticence
“Cop-on-the-beat”
WaterGirl
And some more:
This Blog is Extremely Knowledge.
And for the love of fucking christ, can you other front pagers stop making stupid fucking categories you only use once?
diary entry from Baby Zell Miller
“Licking the cone
Kevin Dujan’s Imaginary Friends are Laughing At You
Speaking of Whores
smintheus
Shame Santorum won’t be the nominee, could use this:
“Organizing some kind of mutiny of preverts”
WaterGirl
And the rest:
For the Love of Everything Holy, Stay Away From the Hookers.
The motherfucking President of the motherfucking United States is being called “presumptuous.”
tickling the penguin
panic-prone pure progressive pony pouty emails
But, man, you really did have to see that rock to believe how much it looked like the Son of God screwing the pooch.
On that property, there was a rock that looked an awful lot like a bearded man sodomizing a Irish Setter, and some person from far in the past had painted “Jesus Buttfucking Big Red” on it.
Tone In DC
@Ira-NY:
Good one.
Maude
Mooning in America
If I have to explain it, it’s a fail.
BethanyAnne
“Sweating the Petty Things”
Tone In DC
@MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson:
Oh YEAH.
Tone In DC
@Ben Cisco:
LULz.
Toadvine
” and I’m all out of bubblegum!”
General Stuck
@ABL:
Come back to BJ, ABL, so Cole doesn’t have to link to your blog posts like some guilt ridden puppy dog that shit on the carpet for not knowing any better.
Raven
@WaterGirl: You go to Emmylou last night?
Skippy the Wondermule
All of the cynicism, none of the guilt
What’s left of the right that was right
Better than sex with Bob Dole (way better)
As conservative as Santa Claus
Tastes great, less filling!
Making enlightenment more affordable
Twice as smart as you and half as smart as us
Small enough to screw in a light bulb
Less strict than Catholicism and half as forgiving
Where witch doctors go to become Shamans
You spot it, you got it!
The wonder bra of political blogs
Julie Newmar is the only Catwoman we ever needed
Batteries not included
Keeping prostitution illegal so our friends don’t pay taxes
Where sex with robots is a dream away
The porridge bird doesn’t lay his egg in the air, you only think it does.
Never trust anyone under 30
A textbook case of something but afraid to ask what
Declaring nature to be illegal, one idiot at a time
Laughing all the way to the bunk
Our only criticism of the Dalai Lama is that he refuses to put out.
Where “nothing could be further from the truth” is shown to mean everything you said is true.
Reincarnating again and again, until we get it right
Effing the ineffable every effing day
Democracy is no damn good but everything else is much, much worse
Everything on the Internet is true, it told me so
Love your enemies, it scares the hell out of them
Here until Thursday, try the veal!
stinkfoot
What happened to all the scapegoating of Frances Fox Piven? I haven’t listened to Glenn Beck in awhile.
WaterGirl
@Raven: Wished I could, but, sadly, did not.
Allan
Thanks, John. We’re having a great conversation.
Raven
@WaterGirl: :(
JGabriel
Tagline suggestion:
“The reason you can’t have nice things.”
“All your moonbase are belong to us.”
Seconding:
My Truth Hurts‘s “Thin-skinned and brittle.”
BethanyAnne‘s “Screw it. We’ll do it live.”
Soldier Boy‘s: “Not Intended To Be A Factual Blog”?
.
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
@General Stuck:
Stay classy, General. Cole gave her the chance to come back and she never took him up on it.
xian
Not intended to be a factual statement.
RossInDetroit
This is fvcking honest-LOL hilarious. Or maybe it’s the pills.
WaterGirl
@Raven: You’ve got that right.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Thanks for that. I’ve been looking for exactly the right phrase to describe David Frum, and you nailed it.
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
Two things that are certain in life: death and Mitt Romney lying about taxes.
Allan
@MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson: Never is a very long time.
General Stuck
@MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson:
er What? What does what I wrote have to do with staying classy? And Cole’s asking her to come back, does it have an expiration date? Or is that just in your own head?
13th Generation
@G-Stuck
How about you click on the link if that’s what you want to do.
David Koch
“an errand boy, sent by grocery clerks to collect a bill”.
“
FatFirebag Free”General Stuck
@13th Generation:
How about you eat shit and diaf.
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
@General Stuck:
What you wrote doesn’t have much to do with staying classy. On this much, we agree. If you know of an expiration date, feel free to share this knowledge with us. Other than that, maybe you could try stirring the shit-pot a little less and allowing Cole and ABL to work out their differences in their own way and time?
Donut
Gonna need this one for certain if Romney is the nominee:
I’m running for office, for Pete’s sake!
Yutsano
@RossInDetroit:
I propose that this is not a situation where mutual exclusivity applies.
@Donut: This!
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
niagara of debt
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
@Allan:
Nearly as long as a week in politics, so they tell me.
13th Generation
@G-Stuck
Nice talk from the “Mayor of Balloon Juice”
General Stuck
@MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson:
I expressed my opinion. It had nothing to do with you and I did say one word about the ABL haters on this blog. You and others are stirring the shit pot. And you are the one suggesting there’s an expiration date, using “never”. You some kind of moron.
Maybe we need to have this out, for fuckwits like you and 13th generation to get smacked down to size some. So are you some kind of blogger counseling guru, on how and when the fallen out get back together?
smintheus
“The absence of evidence is not evidence of absence, or vice versa”
General Stuck
@13th Generation:
You sound like cornerstone
smintheus
“This blog could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.”
13th Generation
Jeebus Stuck, she’s got her own digs, you can go visit her whenever you like. But this blog is a lot more civil lately without her. Both sides do it!
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
@General Stuck:
Sadly, yes, you did.
Ah yes, the old claim that BJ is Stuck’s personal space and no-one else gets to comment here.
As opposed to your invariably helpful and diplomatic attempts to bring people together by screaming insults?
And you so horny, love me longtime, right?
And are you nominating your own ridiculous self for that job? Please, go ahead, punk, make my day.
Well, I am no General Stuckuphisownass that’s for sure.
YellowJournalism
“With Seth Rogan as John Cole”
General Stuck
I wouldn’t trade civil for having a hating piece of shit like you et all commenting, and ABL not front paging. That is no kind of peace that is worth much.
BO_Bill
“It hurts when I pee.”
Anyway, groveling at the feet of Angry Black Lady will not undo what was done. Nothing can. A dog whistle is a dog whistle.
Yutsano
@YellowJournalism: WIN!!
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
@13th Generation:
Just think, we can use Stuckie to see whether self-deporting works. He’s our own little grumpy lab rat!
smelter rat
“Entitled to our entitlements”
– a little Canadian content wouldn’t hurt, right?
ulee
“I don’t recall him mentioning a rabbit.”
Original Lee
Warren/Seldon 2016!
General Stuck
@MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson:
Idiot. You started this shit, slamming me for making a comment not about you.
Maybe? if you keep running your mouth. I doubt you’d last all that long in a flame war though. Now reply with another stupid comment.
piratedan
as Politico is to fact checking, Balloon Juice is to moonbases
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
@General Stuck:
If I find a worthy opponent, I shall give the matter some thought, but a repetitious little wannabe like you isn’t a challenge worth considering. I am going out for a very nice Thai meal with some good friends. You can stay here and bark at your own reflection.
magurakurin
Fight, fight!!! 20 bucks on the General…
“now with 20% more troll”
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
vulture socialism.
BethanyAnne
@magurakurin: “Now with extra Troll for added crunch” ?
General Stuck
@MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson:
In other words, you’re turning tail and running, after talking all badass. LOL. Thai ? I’m having your liver, some fava beans and a nice Chianti.
Donut
@magurakurin:
I’ll be at the bike rack at 3:30, pussy!
Donut
Aw, damn, in moderation for referring to anatomy in a jest/mocking post? FYWP
Privatize the Profits! Socialize the Costs!
“The banksters got a secret sixteen trillion dollar bailout, and all I got was this stupid T-shirt.”
MikeJ
@Privatize the Profits! Socialize the Costs!: I thought the canonical hyperinflated bullshit number was 27 trillion, but I guess nobody’s really stupid enough to believe Taibbi.
wrb
Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out.
MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson
@General Stuck:
*pats you on the head*
Work on the originality thing, padawan, ok?
Laterz, bitchez!
kdaug
@Yutsano:
Technically.
[/pedant]
wrb
who being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it
Yutsano
@smelter rat: I for one welcome our new Canadian overlords.
General Stuck
@MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson:
Teehee, runs like a deer.
I’ll be here, me and my clown cannon.
Temporarily Max McGee (soon enough to be Andy K again)
“Now with 20% more pie included.”
Lord Baldrick
18th century brain in a 21st century head
moops
I’ll go with
“Let them eat cat food” (although that is reaching the end of its shelf life)
“All part of Saul Alinsky’s plan”
“Corporation Colbert 2016!”
“Hold your nose and vote”
RossInDetroit
“A unicorn-free zone since 2002”
moops
@TG Chicago:
“The truth is the lie of the year”.
that’s a keeper. It is a tagline that will see a lot of action this year I suspect.
also “Hate on Whitey Day”
ruemara
@MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson: Give it a rest. You had no reason to whine about him asking ABL to come back. The rest of this is pure jackassery on the internets.
TG Chicago
Thank you, moops!
Seconding:
“Not intended to be a factual blog”
and
“This blog could last six days, six weeks. I doubt six months.”
moops
Also “Open Marriage takes SC but not Florida???”
Gwangung
@MildlyAmusedRainbowPerson: Meh.
Thou lackest style.
And the General is by no means alone.
PeakVT
“This blog is not wearing any pants.”
moops
“My money vacations in the Cayman Islands, it doesn’t holiday there”
Friday Jones
More room for activities!
Ronald Reagan and I were thisclose.
Coming to you from a van down by the river.
The word of the day is job. J. O. B.
H. R. Stuffermuff
This blog is in ur base, killing ur d00dz
The Other Chuck
Occupy ALL THE THINGS!
puddle
The new way to make plural’s is with an apostrophe.
Or, just:
The new way to make plural’s
moops
The Grift That Keeps on Giving
Grifting Upwards
DougJarvus Green-Ellis
@David Koch:
Got to do that one.
Calming Influence
“A brain eating amoeba would certainly explain some of my recent posts.” –John Cole
Tehanu
Das ist meshugah. They darker than us! Woof!
The hippies were right.
Applauding imperfect losers since 1776.
Fucking logic, how does it work?
Not all conservatives are stupid, but all stupid people are conservative.
You didn’t want that American Dream anyway. [h/t Roy Edroso]
Hitler wore pants! Just like Al Gore!
They only call it Class War when we fight back.
Republicans drove this country into a ditch and now they complain about the cost of the tow truck.
Billowing clouds of Cheeto dust, avaunt!
Chickenhawk Soup for the Soulless not sold here.
Making us think. Usually, we think, WTF?
Eagle rights lead to flea erections.
God was my co-pilot … but we crashed in the mountains and I had to eat him.
Jumping the shark, the humpback whale AND the giant squid since 2002.
Nobody in this country got rich on his own. [h/t Elizabeth Warren]
O tempura! O s’mores! [h/t Roy Edroso]
Unlikability will only get you so far in politics.
I had to slap the Invisible Face because the Invisible Hand couldn’t keep itself off my ass. [h/t Interrobang]
A travesty of a mockery of a sham of a mockery of a travesty of two mockeries of a sham. [h/t TBogg]
Proud, independent, self-reliant folks who don’t need nothin’ ‘cept billions in Federal handouts.
I blog selflessly, out of the highest, most selfless of motives: spite. Anyone who does otherwise is a blockhead. [h/t Thers]
Extremism in the contempt of asinine mendacity is no vice. [h/t Thers]
marv
some saw wasilla, all i saw was emos
Calming Influence
“Rampaging Honey Badger Mars Sparsely Attended Pro-Walker Rally” –Betty Cracker
LanceThruster
“If my dog had a face like yours, I’d shave his ass and teach him to walk backwards” ‘Hawkeye’ Pierce M.D.
Triassic Sands
Suggestion:
“He’s been consistent since he changed his mind.”
Christine O’Donnell on Romney.
Mr. Prosser
A blog in copper armor standing in a thunderstorm shouting, “All gods are bastards.” (Paraphrase from Terry Pratchett’s Color of Magic)
No fetuses were used in the making of this blog.
Platonicspoof
Why show me this clownfoolery if the plutocrats are past all hope?Wondering what the hell they have on John Cusack to make him do 2012.
John
That which does not kill us makes us stranger.
Sammi
“I might eat tacos for dinner”.
daverave
Someone has certainly by now gone with:
“Mutually Beneficial Arrangements”, no?
crack
Enough Juice to support Giant Sky Mirrors.
Mnemosyne
One I forgot until now:
This dead horse isn’t going to beat itself.
(Stolen from Dave Weigel.)