Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

Happy indictment week to all who celebrate!

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Nancy smash is sick of your bullshit.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

This fight is for everything.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

The willow is too close to the house.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

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  4. 4.

    Gravenstone

    Reader posting test.

    Followed by edit test.

    Well, my end works. I’m weird, but not the problem this time.

  6. 6.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Your post title in the other thread may be banning commentary. The “g a m b l i n g” in the body might be a problem too.

    Ain’t WP great?! Moar upgradez plz!

  13. 13.

    Roger Moore

    Looks like it’s just the one post that is having problems, since people can still post to others. On the point of:

    No one on Wall Street has learned a thing.

    I beg to differ. Wall Street learned that they’ll get bailed out when they fuck up royally, and their buddies in Congress will stall any serious attempt to rein them in. IOW, they can go right back to doing the same things that caused the mess in the first place.

  20. 20.

    khead

    @khead:

    Seriously…

    My Dad still has a hard-wired rotary phone in his house.

    So I figure Cole may have one too.

    Also, since I tried to post this in the last thread….if the window is still open, I would like the LA Lakers (+2.5). Thx.

  22. 22.

    Mark S.

    Your title in the previous post is killing comments.

    I’ve sent you like ten emails trying to tell you that.

  25. 25.

    Larkspur of Roumania

    Oh, life is a glorious cycle of song,
    A medley of extemporanea;
    Love is a thing that can never go wrong,
    And I am Marie of Roumania.

  26. 26.

    Schlemizel

    I think the site is under attack from folks who are upset with Johns suggestion we get bumper stickers

  28. 28.

    trollhattan

    Banner ad “Ann Coulter—Free” which really, really needs the em-dash changed to a hyphen.

    That’s adequately weird.

  31. 31.

    gaz

    My (admittedly rough) guess is you used a banned word in your last post, which lead to infinite redirects.

    The banned word list on your blog causes more problems than it solves. I’d be willing to beat WordPress with a stick if you’d like me to. I can disable or modify the stupid filter, and it would save you pain. If you like – gratis…

  36. 36.

    cathyx

    I’ve been having internet problems today in general, but I’ve had the most trouble here.

  37. 37.

    Tonal Crow

    @gaz:

    The banned word list on your blog causes more problems than it solves.

    Truer words have seldom been written here.

  38. 38.

    TheMightyTrowel

    the previous post is mucking up lots of things – a google search for balloon juice gives the main page. clicking on the link either gives an error or drops me onto the previous post from whence I cannot navigate away. It’s a Blog-muda Triangle.

  41. 41.

    becca

    Jamie Dimon is even more powerful than I thought.

    I think all the banksters should get some gangstery nicknames. Snake-Eyes Dimon sounds okay.

    Got better?

  43. 43.

    gaz

    @Roger Moore: This is precisely why these people need to be prosecuted.

    The torturers, also, too. In my opinion, that’s the worst fuck up in Obama’s first term. Letting these bastards off the hook.

  46. 46.

    gaz

    @Tonal Crow:

    Truer words have seldom been written here.

    Too right. It’s amazing it wasn’t flagged for moderation ;)

    I’m willing to eliminate this “feature” or drastically modify it, free of charge. Maybe with enough popular support we can get John and Tunch to cave.

    ETA: Of course, I’ll have to work it in between flipping burgers at Mickey-D’s (nudge @ JC)

  47. 47.

    cathyx

    If the bankers have the ability to mess up all posts relating to them and the damage they have done and continue to do, then I bow to their power and excellence. They win again.

  48. 48.

    Linda Featheringill

    [timidly trying to post a comment, because the rude rejections from the last thread hurt my feelings]

    1, 2, 3, Go!

    ETA: It worked!

  49. 49.

    Roger Moore

    @Mark S.:

    Your title in the previous post is killing comments.

    I don’t think that’s it. I’m pretty sure they’ve used forbidden words in post titles before without that kind of problem. Also, too, there is one successful reply, which shows that somebody was able to post without the title screwing things up. What I notice is that the tag boxes are missing from the reply area. I suspect that there’s something wrong with that one successful post that screwed things up for everybody else and also messed up the posting for subsequent comments.

  50. 50.

    Mark S.

    Taco is at least one of the more entertaining trolls we’ve had here in a while.

    SCRANTON-TO-OSHKOSH CORRIDOR OF VICTORY!

  53. 53.

    Southern Beale

    Something Weird Is Going On.
    By John Cole May 10th, 2012
    And I have no clue what it is.

    That is far too cryptic a statement for the amount of wine me and the hubby had at dinner.

  54. 54.

    Ken

    @Tonal Crow:

    The banned word list on your blog causes more problems than it solves.

    Truer words have seldom been written here.

    Or if they have, we’ve never seen them.

  59. 59.

    MikeJ

    I don’t understand what’s wrong with the rest of you. I commented just fine on that post.

  60. 60.

    the Conster

    Just saw the trailer for The Newsroom on HBO. It looks like Aaron Sorkin’s got a LOT to say about the FAIL media, and I can’t wait.

  61. 61.

    isildur

    Well, here’s my comment on the broken post:

    No one on Wall Street has learned a thing.

    Sure they have.

    “We can do this as much as we want and the government will pull our asses out of the fire. I, personally, will walk away with millions of dollars in guaranteed bonuses, no matter how much I shit the bed.”

  63. 63.

    lamh35

    @TaMara (BHF): hmm, well this story will have legs at least until the Sunday shows. Only 2 stories big enough to talk about…”Obama endorses SSM” and “Romney was an anti-gay bully at teen”

    “Assault And Battery” By “A Pack Of Dogs”

    …“It’s a haunting memory. I think it was for everybody that spoke up about it… because when you see somebody who is simply different taken down that way and is terrified and you see that look in their eye you never forget it. And that was what we all walked away with,” said Phillip Maxwell, who is now an attorney and still considers Romney an old friend.

    “I saw it with my own eyes,” said Maxwell, of the anecdote first reported by the Washington Post. Maxwell said Romney held the scissors helping to cut the hair of a student, John Lauber, who was presumed to be gay and who had long hair. “It was a hack job… clumps of hair taken off.” Maxwell said he held the boy’s arm and leg, describing he and his friends as a “pack of dogs.”

    Asked if Lauber was targeted because he was gay, as reported by the Post, Maxwell said, “We didn’t know that word in those days… but there were other words that were used. We weren’t ignorant, we just didn’t use the current names for things.” … “This was bullying supreme,” he said…

  67. 67.

    karen marie

    I assumed it was me. I went and deleted all my cookies because I always do what I’m told. Damn you, internet demon!

  70. 70.

    gogol's wife

    @eemom:

    God, it’s horrible. I think it’s because John’s always talking about eating pork butt. And when someone says, “Install adblocker,” it’s as if they’re speaking Urdu to me. I have no idea what I’m supposed to do.

  72. 72.

    beltane

    I wish the victim of Mitt Romney’s sadistic bullying had lived long enough to see his tormentor go down in defeat in November.

  74. 74.

    geg6

    @gaz:

    Agreed. My biggest disappointments in Obama have been those very things. But, as I’m constantly told, I’m just an Obot dupe, blindly following Dear Leader.

    Fuck that. No president has ever been perfect. Not Washington, not Lincoln, not Roosevelt. Obama is the best president of my lifetime. I’ll gladly work to reelect him. I’m too old to expect perfection in anyone.

  75. 75.

    PaulW

    Republican response: I blame teh librul treehugging hippies.

    Democratic response: I don’t think at this point in time we should speculate the ramifications of what’s going on. More study is clearly needed.

    Libertarian response: Cut taxes and deregulate everything.

    Librarian response: Check your tags.

  76. 76.

    Southern Beale

    OMG:

    Pit Bull Pulls Unconscious Owner From Path Of Oncoming Train
    __
    […]
    __
    Spain’s son, Boston Police Officer David Lanteigne says the train engineer told emergency responders that her 8-year-old pit bull named Lilly managed to pull her off the tracks to safety as the train approached.
    __
    “The engineer said as he was coming up, he saw the dog pulling her off the tracks. But there wasn’t enough time,” Lanteigne told WBZ-TV’s Jim Smith. “He then saw the dog come around between the train and my mom and take the hit of the train.”
    __
    The dog suffered a broken pelvis and a right front leg injury that was so severe, doctors needed to amputate the leg.

    Damn. There’s a link at the story for anyone wanting to donate toward the dog’s medical bills. The dog was a therapy dog, the owner suffered from alcoholism and depression (hence walking along the train tracks I suppose …)

  80. 80.

    PaulW

    @geg6:

    No president has ever been perfect. Not Washington, not Lincoln, not Roosevelt.

    Which do you mean, Teddy or Franklin?

    ‘Cause I think I oughta let you know, TR was about as close to Awesome a President we’ve had. ;-)

  81. 81.

    Cacti

    Does everybody else remember the time they were in high school, and played a prank involving false imprisonment, assault, and battery?

    Neither does Mitt Romney.

  85. 85.

    khead

    @Southern Beale:

    My wife and a few of her friends linked that story on their Facebook pages earlier today. They are trying to send it to as many folks as they can.

    That the guy (cop) got the dog to save his mom and the dog saved her?

    That’s just full of awesome.

  86. 86.

    geg6

    @Steve in DC:

    Well, I was born in 1958, so I can’t even fathom what you are saying. Pray tell, which president in you short lifetime would you claim was better? Clinton? Seriously? I mean Iblike and voted for Bubba twice, happily. But he can’t begin to hold a candle next to O.

    I know you’re of a libertarian bent, which is a function of your age, I suppose. But I didn’t really think you were ignorant and clueless like so many of that political persuasion. I have to admit, I’m beginning to question my own judgment on that matter.

  91. 91.

    noodler

    I dont understand this post JC, are you feeling well, do you have chest pain, radiating to the arm or jaw? Are you stroking out?

  92. 92.

    RossInDetroit

    I’m running on 4 hours of sleep and 10 hours of work. If no new Mitt atrocities are to be revealed today just let me know so I can sack out now.

  93. 93.

    Joel

    Well, the team with the best record in the league just got bounced by the worst team in the playoffs. To be fair, the Bulls were missing their best two players.

  94. 94.

    Maude

    @harlana:
    I’m glad this came out now. This story has legs. Friends of the victim are speaking to the media. The msm loves this type of story and will play it out as long as possible.

  99. 99.

    Steve in DC

    @Southern Beale

    What’s really sad about that is most people think pits are vicious, they aren’t. In fact, they had to be good with humans so you could drag them out of a dog fight and not get mauled. For the longest time the pit was America’s dog, in TV, military, and every other way you can imagine.

    It’s rather sad what we’ve done to the breed that was once known as the “nanny dog”. My brother has a pit and we trust her around children completely. Granted she doesn’t like strangers, but around people she know’s she’s completely harmless, and rather doting. I swear she thinks my nephew is her own son.

    She’s a pretty girl at that, but a bit old and long in the tooth so to speak.

    My brother got her as a rescue. It probably took a year before she figured out we loved her and this was her forever home. She was a mess and had obviously been fought a few times. She was a nice girl though.

  103. 103.

    Punchy

    What’s really sad about that is most people think pits are vicious, they aren’t.

    I understand that anecdotes dont equal trend, but my brother’s dog just got mauled by a pit 2 weeks ago. Walked up to the beagle all friendly, no growling, no barking…sniffed…then attacked. The owner couldn’t unclench the jaw. When he finally did, the pit turned around and attacked the owner’s wife. Hospital ERs and emergency vets and police and lawsuits commenced. What a fucking headache. Sure, there ARE nice ones. But I’ll continue to believe they’re ticking time bombs.

  104. 104.

    Steve in DC

    @Punchy

    Sounds kinda like how people stereotype black people. Do you look over your shoulder when a black male is close to you at the ATM?

  105. 105.

    Anne Laurie

    A pest that hasn’t been around for a while showed up in this thread, being pleased with itself. Don’t know if it could actually cruft a post long-distance, Cole, but I used the new (to me) “blacklist” function Just.In.Case.

  106. 106.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    According to Redstate, Conservative Hero of the Homeland, Rand Paul, is coming to the rescue by fighting another losing cause (reauth of the ExIm Bank), just like his father.

    The nut didn’t fall far from that tree.

  109. 109.

    Anoniminous

    @eemom:

    Increase the page size and the pig ad will disappear off to the right.

    As an added benefit you’ll be able to read the comments without eye strain.

  110. 110.

    karen marie

    @Punchy:

    In other instances, the scouts have modified materials that drew complaints — for example, dropping some references to playwright Josefina Lopez because one of her plays, “Simply Maria,” was viewed by critics as mocking the Catholic faith.

    It seems that the Catholic Church has a fatwa out against not just Planned Parenthood but the Girl Scouts as well.

    Could someone explain to me how they’re any different from Muslim extremists?

  111. 111.

    The prophet Nostradumbass

    @Steve in DC: so, to you, not trusting a breed of dog is the same as being a racist? What the fuck is the matter with you?

  112. 112.

    danielx

    John:

    There’s always something weird going on somewhere, and there will always be things going on that affect you about which you know nothing.

  115. 115.

    eemom

    As someone born in 80, he’s not the best, or the worst.

    Fucking hilarious. Five whole presidencies comprise his vast universe, two of them over before he got to middle school.

    I guess one Freddie de Boob isn’t enough for this blog.

  118. 118.

    FlyingToaster

    @eemom: I hear ya. Kids these days…
    [Note: WarriorGirl claims that the thing I say most is “Mick Romney is a bad man”]

    I was born in the last couple weeks of the Eisenhower presidency, and at the ripe old age of 5 shook Harry Truman’s hand (guess where I grew up?).

    This guy, Johnson, Kennedy, Clinton, Eisenhower, Carter, Ford, Nixon, in order of “good” to “other than criminality, didn’t actually suck”. The rest shoulda been in Gitmo — and then we give it back to the Cubans.

    My husband always instructs cabbies in DC to take him to “the Butcher of Guatemala Airport”.

  120. 120.

    Yutsano

    @Sarah, Proud and Tall: Getting closer to slicey-dicey day for me. Had a meeting with my boss’s boss getting it all arranged. But at least tomorrow I go in and get off early. Then it gets much easier.

  122. 122.

    Little Boots

    i think it’s the death of the crazy, but there is no guarantee, of course. the crazy is resilient.

  123. 123.

    Steve in DC

    No really, how is the most wall street ever, the first to kill americans ever, and the most ivy league ever president, better than what happened before?

    If you value social liberalism, sure. If you value economic equality or civil liberties he’s worse than the rest.

    This isn’t hard. Unless you’re a blindly partisan fuckhead, he’s a social liberals best ever, but an economic liberals worst ever. Sorry I value economic issues far more than social issues.

  124. 124.

    gaz

    @Punchy:

    Walked up to the beagle all friendly, no growling, no barking…sniffed…then attacked. The owner couldn’t unclench the jaw. When he finally did, the pit turned around and attacked the owner’s wife.

    The obvious question is, what the hell was this dog doing loose?

    Curious that it didn’t warrant a comment on your part.

    While “pit-bulls” ARE susceptible to a condition that causes unpredictable behavior (basically due to their brain outgrowing their skull) it’s still fairly uncommon. Also, ALL large+square headed dogs are potentially vulnerable to this condition as well. This includes boxers and bulldogs (especially). So I guess they should all be put down huh?

    An observation: You know precisely FUCK ALL about dogs.

    ALL DOGS are potentially dangerous. Hell, you want to talk anecdotes? I have NEVER known a mean pitbull personally. I’ve seen SEVERAL attacks by Labradors and Spaniels. Unprovoked, and unpredictable.

    People like you FUCKING SUCK because you spread lies and bullshit with your ignorance.

    Exactly ONE mammal was at fault here. The asshole who didn’t supervise their pet.

    I’m sorry that you had an ugly experience. But you are fucking moron for pointing a finger at the dog, and even worse for pointing a finger at a breed.

  125. 125.

    Splitting Image

    Something Weird Is Going On.
    __
    And I have no clue what it is.

    Do you, Mr. Cole?

  126. 126.

    karen marie

    @Little Boots: I’ve been hearing promises of “peak wingnut” and “death of the crazy” for several years now but the wingnuts are wingnuttier and the crazy is still kicking.

    I’m beginning to think that we haven’t begun to approach peak wingnut. In fact, if I was a betting person, I would bet that another states war against the federal government breaks out before we get close.

  127. 127.

    Egg Berry

    @Steve in DC:

    No really, how is the most wall street ever, the first to kill americans ever, and the most ivy league ever president, better than what happened before?

    1. Bill Clinton passed financial regulation reform in the 1990s, and he and GWB both kept Alan Greenspan at the Fed.
    2. George W. Bush has an AB from Yale and a MBA from Harvard Business School. George HW Bush has a degree from Yale. John F. Kennedy has a degree from Harvard.
    3. Abe Lincoln killed more Americans than Barack Obama

    So what was your bullshit point again?

  128. 128.

    Little Boots

    @karen marie:

    maybe a French Revolution is the only solution. and I’m the moderate in most discussions.

    but I seriously wonder what it will take.

  129. 129.

    Punchy

    @#comment-3248396″>gaz: Oh go fuck off. The stats speak for themselves<a href=".

    Lets take a look!

    Of the 88 fatal dog attacks recorded by DogsBite.org, pit bull type dogs were responsible for 59% (52). This is equivalent to a pit bull killing a U.S. citizen every 21 days during this 3-year period.
    The data also shows that pit bulls commit the vast majority of off-property attacks that result in death. Only 18% (16) of the attacks occurred off owner property, yet pit bulls were responsible for 81% (13).

    Really, go fuck yourself. Yes, other dogs do bite. Other dogs do occasionally bark at you. But pit bulls disproportionally kill people in maulings. But I’m sure that’s all lies and bullshit.

    Wait….maybe not.

  130. 130.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Since this thread is titled perfectly, some advice for Mitt that I nutpicked from Redstate:

    But if Mitt said something like, “It was a childish prank, but mark my words, I’m going to give corporate tax rates a haircut, too. And then I’m going to clip gas prices at the pump!” Something like that would refocus attention on the economy in a joking way. Or say, “I’m sorry about that haircut thing back when I was young. If so and so were alive today, I would have loved to have him up to the White House for a beer and let bygones be bygones.”

    Excellent advice! Rmoney’s campaign needs to hire this guy as a campaign advisor! Here’s an earlier comment by the same person in the same thread:

    Maybe it’s about time America had a candidate who isn’t always doing the PC things in life. Yeah, so he cut off some homosexual kid’s hair. He didn’t beat him up. It was hazing and nothing more. How anyone can say that this incident, and putting his dog on the roof of his car, has anything to do with Romney’s character, is a big stretch. These were incidents that happened long before he was running for president. When he was a young Mormon man, still finding his way in the world.
     
    Frankly, this Obama economy is so bad that we could use a bully in the white house. Someone who knows how to wield power and knows how to win. Romney’s success with Bain Capital is a perfect example. As Charlie Sheen says….Winning!
     
    Look, I feel bad that this kid got his hair cut against his will. But entering the elite prep school world is a choice this kid made, and I”m sure the benefits of attending far outweigh anything negative from that one experience. I actually got expelled from my school for beating up a New England WASP. He was an upper, I was a lower, and he didn’t like the shape of my nose–implying that I might not be “American.” (My nose just happened to be broken from years of wrestling.) He tried a little hazing, and he just picked on the wrong guy. He got a nose just like mine for his trouble.
     
    But I don’t hold it against him anymore. It was the way things were back in the day. The strong survive. If I’d seen Mitt Romney picking on a homosexual like that, I would have stood up to him. Not everyone can make that choice, though. Childish, sure? But also a long time ago. Sounds like Mitt doesn’t even remember it anymore. There’s a lot of things I’d like to forget from my past.

    Yup, excellent campaign advisor material.

  132. 132.

    Mnemosyne

    @Steve in DC:

    No really, how is the most wall street ever, the first to kill americans ever, and the most ivy league ever president, better than what happened before?

    Look up Iran-Contra and get back to us, youngster.

  133. 133.

    gaz

    @Punchy: Two parts urban legend and one part ignorance.

    A plurality of idiots that own these dogs get them because they need to compensate for their little boy insecurity. Then they don’t take care of them.

    Leading to idiots like you citing flawed stats and spewing bullshit, like you know something.

    It’s always the owner’s fault. To say otherwise abdicates their responsibility, and maligns a breed that can’t speak for itself.

    Keep spewing your shit. Just don’t expect anyone to respect you for it.

  134. 134.

    Cacti

    @Steve in DC:

    the first to kill americans ever

    Did they not teach the US Civil War in your school Stevie? Or did you just not make it past 5th grade?

  136. 136.

    Anne Laurie

    @gaz:

    Exactly ONE mammal was at fault here. The asshole who didn’t supervise their pet.

    No, the pit bull who attacked the other dog — and his owner’s wife — should, at the very least, be removed to an owner competent to deal with a big, unpredictable, potentially dangerous animal.

    Like you, I’ve met a lot of sweet, loving, affectionate pibbles. But let’s not ignore reality: They are extremely powerful dogs, with impressive jaw strength and tenacity. And it’s not necessarily a physical/neurological issue; dogs are not people, and much as we love them (and they love us) we can’t always read or predict an individual dog’s motivations. If a sixty-pound pit bull gets its “prey drive” triggered by my fifteen-pound papillon, or the neighbor’s cat, it can attack & kill that “prey” before any but the most alert & fit human witness can do anything to stop it. And if an undersocialized, untrained, overexcited pit bull decides to “play” with the family toddler the way it “plays” with its toys — by grabbing the nearest extremity, cruching down, or shaking the child the way it would shake a rabbit or a rat — it will not matter to the grieving parents that Rover would never deliberately harm a child.

    Pit bulls, unfortunately for the breed, are like guns. They should only be owned by responsible humans who know exactly how powerful and dangerous they can be, and who are prepared to take the consequences of ownership. Also like guns, pit bulls are insanely attractive to penis-challenged idiots who want a magical icon to embellish their “street cred” and/or protect them from the demons lurking in their damaged little minds.

    I’m not anti-pit bull (or anti-gun), I’m anti-dangerous-idiot. Most people shouldn’t own pit bulls, if only for the safety of the dog. They ain’t a breed for amateurs. And even though I personally have never had a bad encounter with a pit bull, I treat every unsupervised / inadequately controlled pit bull I meet the way I would a gun — assume it’s loaded and potentially dangerous, and remove myself (my pets, or any other unsuspecting companions) to a safe distance. The responsible pit bull owners (and gun owners) I know react exactly the same way; better to be overcautious (“look like a pussy”) than to assume the god in charge of protecting fools & the unsuspecting has me on 24/7 survelliance.

  140. 140.

    gaz

    @Anne Laurie: You are making my point, Anne.

    A dog is a dog. A powerful dog is a powerful dog.

    This is not a pit-bull thing. It’s a moron thing.

    I agree with you – to a point. Everything you said can be applied to a Rottweiler, a doberman, a bull mastiff, etc.

    This has nothing to do with the breed.

    ETA: FTR, I’ve been bitten once. By a toy dog. I was a kid, and I was hospitalized over it.

  141. 141.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    Speaking of strange…

    I delivered a rebuilt pc to a new customer today and I’m pretty sure he’s a Teabagger. Things of note:

    – A small, well-weathered cabin out on some land in the rural area here.

    – Mercedes in garage.

    – A loaded Glock on the desk next to the front door.

    – Spare clip (loaded) is next to the pistol.

    – Loose bullets on the desk with pistol and clip.

    – He’s 83 and retired career military (army).

    – Divorced about a year ago.

    – A huge 4-poster, canopied bed is next to the desk by the front door.

    – Military ‘decor’, a very ‘manly’ abode, not a trace of femininity/ex-wife.

    – Big screen TV with Faux Nooz blaring away in the back room (combo living/dining room)

    – Two other old retired military guys there, all three were talking about upcoming Republican meetings they are going to. No details/topics, just scheduling.

    – Email import: lots of winger/anti-Obama crap. Browser data import: Drudge, Faux, Rush… the usual.

    Man was I glad to get out of that place…lol! He seems like a nice guy, at least until he learns something about you that he doesn’t like. He has a mean sense of humor, and I mean “mean”.

    We’ll see how long this one lasts with me… ;)

  144. 144.

    FlipYrWhig

    I don’t know if the NAFTA-signing, welfare-as-we-know-it-ending, telecom-deregulating, Glass-Steagall-rescinding president Clinton was such a wet dream for “economic liberals” either. Not to mention, if you’re of a strict civil-libertarian persuasion, Waco.

  145. 145.

    Chuck Butcher

    Jayzeeks, will it ever get through people’s heads that politicians are politicians? Making them into heroes is silly, they have warts. Take a real close look at all Lincoln did as President and some things start to look not all that hot. All these guys walk a tightrope of political possibilities and unforeseen outcomes while trying not to get handed their heads.

    LBJ Presided over a lot of things we take for granted and call really good, but then there’s the rest of it and suddenly sainthood is out. That is how it goes with politicians, there is always the rest of it. I don’t care what President or other elected official you want to pick, there is stuff there that just plain sucks.

    Some are better and some are worse and hopefully we get to choose between those two choices in an election but you’re voting and approving a politician, not a hero. It isn’t to take anything away from what BHO has accomplished in his life to note that the political process weeds out heroism particularly if you stop to think that it takes a majority of voters to get elected to anything and bother to take a look at the electorate.

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