Well, my dears, I’m back from my little jaunt over to London for Betty Windsor’s Jubilee.
I haven’t seen that much mindless fawning and avid slobbering over one woman since the time I got stuck in a lift with Megan McArdle and Tina Brown. Mind you, that was only about three weeks ago, so it’s been quite a month for the brown-nosing.
I did enjoy the Jubilee flotilla. I was delighted to be invited onto the Royal Barge (although I was confused for a while because that’s what Phillip always used to call Fergie).
However, after a few glasses of bubbly and half an hour listening to Kate wittering on about how big her castle is, I did consider taking a fire axe to the bottom of the boat and drowning the whole bloody lot of them (except Harry, of course, who is such a dear and who hooked me up with some smashing coke (but then the sweet thing doesn’t have a Saxe-Coburg gene anywhere in his little ginger body)).
Thankfully I was distracted by a lustful look from a particularly dishy Gurkha, so a major international diplomatic incident was averted for the time being.
Anyway, I arrived back at Shady Pines to find that the righties at the Corner have been smoking the post-Wisconsin crack pipe and worked themselves up into jittery, pock-marked frenzy and are now wandering the streets muttering Halperin quotes:
“With five months until Election Day, Barack Obama faces a grim new reality: Republicans now believe Mitt Romney can win, and Democrats believe Obama can lose…”
in between trying to cadge subscriptions from the punters so Kathryn Jean can buy her own blow-up Timothy Dolan doll.
Nooners, never one to turn down a passing bandwagon (particularly if it has a Smirnoff logo on the side), is actively crowing about how Obama has lost the election six months out because he doesn’t lie and dissemble like his opponent. I shit you not:
Mr. Obama has become actively bad at politics. Here is an example of how bad. Anyone good at politics does not pick a fight with the Catholic Church during a presidential year. Really, you just don’t. Because there’s about 75 million Catholics in America, and the half of them who go to church will get mad. The other half won’t like it either.
If you’re good at politics, you quietly allow the church what it needs to survive, which actually is no more or less than what’s long been provided by the U.S. Constitution.
If you’re good at politics but ideologically mean, you string the church along throughout the election year, offering “temporary full waivers” or some such idiotic phrase—politicians love to make up idiotic phrases—on conscience, and then revoke all protections in 2013, after you’ve been re-elected, and have the fight then.
Even worse, Obama is apparently a loser because he’s attacking his opponent:
A more important example, and then we’ll move on. The president opened his campaign with a full-fledged assault on his opponent. This is a bad sign in an incumbent! An incumbent should begin his campaign with a full-fledged assertion of the excellence of his administration—the progress that has been made, the trouble that has been avoided, the promise that endures. You’ve got to be able to name these things. Then, once you’ve established the larger meaning of your administration—with wit and humor, and in a tone that assumes fair minded Americans will see it your way—you turn, in late summer, to a happy, spirited assault on the poor, confused, benighted and yet ultimately dangerous man running against you.
All of which means, in the warm haze of Nooners’ post-Wisconsin bender, that
The Obama administration suddenly looks like a house of cards.
The collective Tarantos are also excited. You can almost see the desperation oozing off the page as they try to paint Wisconsin as the penultimate victory in a string of Republican triumphs, which will culminate in the crowning of King Mitt in January.
To be sure, it’s possible that Obama will stage a comeback and defeat Mitt Romney. Only time will tell. But it’s not as if time took a vow of silence in January 2009. The other day Commentary’s John Steele Gordon provided a helpful list of events that “sure looks like a trend to me”: the emergence of the Tea Party in early 2009 and the town-hall confrontations that summer, Republican victories in New Jersey’s and Virginia’s governor races in November 2009, Scott Brown’s upset in January 2010, the Republican landslide in November 2010, and Walker’s vindication Tuesday, along with the approval of ballot measures curtailing public-sector pensions in California’s second- and third-largest cities. …
“If Republican Mitt Romney is inaugurated as president in January, history may look to June as the month in which President Obama’s fate was sealed,” writes National Journal’s Reid Wilson. If so, we would argue history will be wrong. The crucial month was March 2010, when ObamaCare became law. Obama’s determination to push it through despite overwhelming public opposition was the apotheosis of his contemptuous approach to governing. Pundits who took until this week to notice that Obama is out of touch were themselves out of touch.
Now, I know there are no sure things in politics, and the stupidity and self-destructiveness of a major part of the American electorate is never to be underestimated.
Nonetheless, I think Obama is going to win and win handily.
The more the electorate sees Willard, the more they will dislike him (particularly that part of the electorate which is brown or gay or has a vagina and/or something functioning above the level of their brainstem). The debates are going to be more of a disaster for the Republicans than that time when Uncle Cranky McCain wandered around the stage looking for his doggy mid-debate.
My money’s on the smart black guy that most of the country likes, rather than the dull, awkward, unpleasant, unprincipled trull who thinks that cops, firefighters and teachers are parasites holding back the American economy.
Bring it on.
[Image: Hans Makart (1840-1884) – Der Triumph der Ariadne]
slag
Did you tell her that there are exercises for this?
beltane
I’m sorry you were stuck in the lift with Tina Brown and Megan McArrglebargle. If I were in that situation I would try to make sure to pass gas-discreetly, of course.
Villago Delenda Est
Are we sure that Nooners isn’t snorting some of that coke you got from Harry?
Because, as we used to say back in the 70’s, it sure sounds like she’s smoking dope to me.
asiangrrlMN
Fuck Nooners with my rusty pitchfork™. It’s past time she be put out to the pasture. Shut yer pie-hole, Peggy. You lost whatever you ever had, which wasn’t much in the first place. No, I have no idea why I’m focusing on her amid all the surrounding idiocy, but so be it.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@beltane:
At first I misread your comment as “If I were in that situation I would be sure to make a pass -discreetly, of course.”
I was worried for your sanity.
MikeJ
A-fucking-men.
And on topic, I managed to get back to the USSA before the majority of the nonsense started in engerland. I always feel like Pauline Kael when I’m over there. Everyone I know hates the monarchy with a burning passion (they hate it far more than I do, but it’s not my vote for queen that’s being ignored). Most of my friends are somewhat patriotic, they all like the UK or they’d live somewhere else, but I can’t think of a single person I know that was excited about a long lived monarch.
beltane
@Sarah, Proud and Tall: I should have just come right out and said FART. But Tina Brown and McBechemel are too special for such a word.
Hill Dweller
Despite the media’s blathering about Bain, Clinton and his ‘bad week’, Obama has received good news in the polls released this week, including the effectiveness of the Bain attacks.
They tried to turn one word from Obama’s press conference into a scandal, but Romney and Christie shit all over that by saying we should fire more cops, firefighters and teachers.
the Conster
I know peak wingnut will never come, but I’m quite sure that we’re at peak banality. If Obama doesn’t win, the question has to be, is the alternative what we’ve evolved for as a species? Really?
beltane
@MikeJ: My very British aunt adores the Queen and was certainly captivated by all the festivities. Her patriotism is of the kind that compels her to only fly British Airways because if the plane crashes, it is important for her to know that she has perished under the flag of her country.
dr. bloor
Right, because they all voted for Obama last time around.
These people need Individualized Educational Plans.
The Dangerman
@beltane:
Fuck that; let it rip and cup it.
rikyrah
@Hill Dweller:
Teachers already know which way is up, but that video needs to be sent to the national HQ of cops and firefighters.
Villago Delenda Est
The assholes of the MSM have their narrative, it’s a horse race, and they will do anything, to include sacrifice babies on top of Aztec pyramids, to maintain that narrative.
Never mind that reality is that Rmoney is the shittiest candidate you could possibly have against Obama. The other idiots at least had actual fans. Rmoney has paid mourners.
dmsilev
@beltane:
Why the need for discretion?
Just Some Fuckhead
A delightful story- with a message. It doesn’t get any better than that.
shortstop
bwa ha ha ha ha ha haaaaaaaaaaa
jl
Before we crown King Willard, look at the time series of projected electoral votes, and projected chance of winning, and trend since June 1.
http://fivethirtyeight.blogs.nytimes.com/
If that is a bad week, I will take it any day.
What amazes me about these pundits is that we have motion and sound capturing record machines in these times (as Noons might say), and these goofs are being recorded, and making themselves ridiculous in the eyes of all future history.
Maybe SPAT could try to explain that to them, since she is a real BFF frenemy.
Edit: except ‘King Willard’ rhythms a little too much like ‘Pere Ubu’, which gives me the creeps. I shouldn’t have typed that.
Hal
The medias take on Walker’s win is nothing short of amazing. All of a sudden, Romney’s winning, even as the media conveniently ignores the fact that Obama is soundly ahead of Romney in WI.
If Walker had lost, it would have been, meh, who cares about Wisconsin?
beltane
@dmsilev: Discretion would allow Tina to wonder if it was Megan who farted and vice versa.
jl
Nothing is worse than bad pundit smell, IMHO.
Sarah, Proud and Tall
@Hal:
Yes. SATSQ.
Villago Delenda Est
@Hal:
Exactly.
Remember that special congressional election in upstate NY where the teatards managed to install their candidate in the R slot, and the media could NOT STOP TALKING about how major a portent that election was? Then the Dem takes the district for the first time since Reconstruction, and suddenly, the media forgets it ever even happened. Straight down the memory hole.
They are so obviously in the tank for the fuckstick Rmoney that it isn’t even funny.
Bex
@Sarah P & T: “…doesn’t have a Saxe-Coburg gene anywhere…” I see what you did there.
beltane
@Hal: If Walker had lost the pundits would have said it was a local race about local issues and how this focus on local issues was bad news for Obama. The Beltway media is even more predictable than the movement of the earth around the sun.
Roger Moore
@dr. bloor:
I think they need to be sent to a FEMA reeducation camp, preferably for a good long stay.
Liquid
Can’t find a clip of it but that scene in the bathroom, from Fight Club — “Look, the people you are after are the people you depend on. We cook your meals, we haul your trash, we connect your calls, we drive your ambulances. We guard you while you sleep. Do not… fuck with us. ”
Now imagine it’s Christie with a rubber band around his balls…ice cold.
AliceBlue
@Hal:
Yeah, all Willard has to do to become president is win Wisconsin!
Does anyone else think that Romney suffers from some sort of borderline personality disorder? I mean seriously.
Hill Dweller
@Hal:
They ignored the exit polling showing Obama leading Romney by 9 among a group of people that voted overwhelmingly for Walker.
The Marquette Law School poll that accurately predicted the margin of Walker’s victory had Obama up 9.
The media is f’n awful.
jl
@Hill Dweller:
“the media is f’n awful.”
The media is gettin’ paid.
David Koch
ABC News had a story yesterday on how the Bain commericals worked big time with focus groups of independents in Nevada and Virgina.
Those commercials are gonna be dynamite come September.
lacp
@Hill Dweller: I had heard Romney’s idiotic statement. Didn’t know that Chubs had gotten in on the action.
Hill Dweller
@lacp: Yeah, the Rotund One said firing cops, firefighters and teachers was ‘moving in the right direction’.
David Koch
It seems just like yesterday when the republicans were co-opting the heroism of the cops and firefighters who perished in the Twin Towers. Now they’re demonizing them, turning them into welfare queens. Yes, 9/11 changed everything.
jl
@Hill Dweller:
Great VP material for Romney. I am beginning to hope Christie changes his mind.
jl
@David Koch:
Use ’em and lose ’em. I can see, my man, that you don’t think like a winner.
Citizen_X
Ooh, now Taco or Just teh farts or whatever he’s calling himself is gonna get you for stealing his lines, Sarah. With his UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH!
beltane
@David Koch: Even back then, though the GOP may have been co-opting their heroism, they were still seeking to deny them compensation for health damage caused by exposure to toxic debris. Same goes for the veterans of Bush’s illegal war.
The Republicans are very good at patting heroes on the head while simultaneously lifting their wallets.
Another Halocene Human
OMG, Dame Peggington sounds like a Peggington parody!
Baud
Let the media heads live in their bubble. It’s time to reclaim the silent majority for our side.
burnspbesq
Ms. Noonan clearly didn’t talk to any actual Catholics before writing that dreck. Every Catholic I know is sick to death of the bishops’ antics, and the only Cardinal Dolan doll anyone would be interested in is a Cardinal Dolan pinata.
jl
” Taco or Just teh farts or whatever he’s calling himself ”
Maybe they have been out campaigning for Willard amongst the general public. We can hope so. Their pitches will do wonders for the Dems in the election.
burnspbesq
@dr. bloor:
This is Balloon-Juice; there’s no need to equivocate. If you think they’re mental, just say so.
Jewish Steel
He once liked cops enough to impersonate one. I guess the bloom must’ve gone off the rose.
David Koch
for 25 years the repugs exploited fears about crime. from 1965 to 1990 the ran as the party of law and order. they ran as the friend of cops, who they portrayed as under attack from teh evil ACLU and liberal judges. They would even have bumper stickers saying “support your local police”
When crime eventually declined they dropped interest in their old friends. But once 9/11 happened they went back to same tropes: cops under siege by those who care more about
criminalterrorist rights.They’re still using cops and firefighters, but now, in a different way. Now they’re being scapegoated for the nations ills. Its not billionaire tax cuts, stripping the manufacturing base, or unwinable wars that damaged the economy, it’s those greedy cops.
Hopefully the cops will pull the knife from their back and fight back, before it’s too late for them.
Steve in DC
@beltane:
In some cases this is bullshit, take the cops.
The “war on drugs” supports the cops. That’s how they get more and more funding, increase their pay, get free new equipment and training, and they are in bed with the private industry that runs our prisons. Make zero mistake about the issue here, and the cops use their Democratic supported unions to put up the blue wall should any of their members get in trouble.
They also hate the ALCU and various bleeding heart liberal and civil libertarian organizations that challenge them.
As for the military, harder to say. Most officers and senior NCO’s are died hard conservatives. I could never admit I voted for Democrats because I knew it would end my promotions. And the real “gravy” of the job is often getting out and collecting bank off private contracting or high tech jobs… all funded by Republicans.
It’s not so black and white as “lifting their wallets” why do you think Democrats love the “war on drugs/tough on crime” mantra? Because the police unions will have their fucking heads on a platter if it ends.
Here in the DC/VA/MD area Republican defense spending helps us, far more than spending on “the troops”, because it funds all the high paying government jobs that would bankrupt the largely liberal (in the new socially liberal fiscally conservative sense that runs the Democratic party) and their nice white collar jobs that use their education. So any vote of defense spending reduction is toxic, and everybody knows it. One of the reasons why that Tea Party shit doesn’t fly. If you’re a troop, well, oh well it sucks and I know that more than most, but you get the world on your platter once you get out which is the goal.
As soon as you pretend it’s as simple as you claim it is, that’s when you miss why voting Republican is often in these groups best interest. Defense spending must go up, the war on drugs must go on, because if it doesn’t their jobs are in seriously danger, they know it.
Maude
Please may Christie be the VP pick. Get him out of NJ. Please.
JGabriel
Sarah @ Top:
Question: What would be the point of K-Lo possessing a Timothy Dolan doll?
Assuming it’s anatomically correct, no part of it will get hard. Or are we assuming it is not anatomically correct?
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David Koch
Impersonating a cop and pulling over motorists.
Can you imagine if a Democrat did that? Can you imagine how the media would be going bonkers 24/7 if they discovered that Al Gore or John Kerry spent the 60s playing dress-up while sticking a police light on their car and pulling over motorists (ala Caryl Chessman/The Red Light Bandit)? They would be forced to resign. The feeding frenzy would be worst then the Eagleton matter.
Steve in DC
@Maude:
I’ll raise you governor trans vaginal
Steve in DC
@David Koch:
What’s the statue of limitation on this, it’s a felony… then again so are some sorts of drug use.
Romney is a sociopath, but I’m really not inclined to tar and feather people over what laws they may have broken a few decades ago. I don’t think his “pranks” are a dog that will hunt so to speak.
Focus on his job destruction, that puts pressure on Obama to stop being the president of Wall Street and do something.
eemom
You rock, Mrs. Sarah. You rock the needle off the rock-o-meter.
I’m too tired to do it now, but I wanted to post something about the drekulous masterwork of bet-hedging false equivalence that numbers wizard-cum-media whore Nate Silver posted yesterday about Obama’s “fragile advantage” or whatever weasel words he used.
That little fucker stretched so far trying to get past Obama’s solid advantage in swing state polls he ended with his ass in a different time zone than his head.
Raven
Just watched “My Boy Jack” about Kipling his son, wife and daughter. Stiff upper lip.
“
“Have you news of my boy Jack?”
Not this tide.
“When d’you think that he’ll come back?”
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.
“Has any one else had word of him?”
Not this tide.
For what is sunk will hardly swim,
Not with this wind blowing, and this tide.
“Oh, dear, what comfort can I find?”
None this tide,
Nor any tide,
Except he did not shame his kind —
Not even with that wind blowing, and that tide.
Then hold your head up all the more,
This tide,
And every tide;
Because he was the son you bore,
And gave to that wind blowing and that tide!
”
eemom
@Maude:
First you will have to widen the Holland Tunnel, bwaahaaahaaahaaa.
Anne Laurie
@Villago Delenda Est:
Stealing this, I am so totally!
clayton
That’s just great. Your stupid little post is linked at memeorandum under the push back on Romney.
This is what pulls us all down. Couldn’t you have posted this tomorrow, when it wouldn’t have mattered?
Valdivia
this week reminds of the week in June when Obama went to Europe in 2008. Or the weeks between the Ohio primary and the Pennsylvania ones. People forget what a gifted politician Obama is. They are already declaring him dead because of what he said this afternoon. Just like they did in 2008. The fact they are spinning so hard makes me think they are desperate, like last time.
Laen
Republicans have consistently been for cutting VA benefits and funding really anything that benefits troops directly…but they love spending on “defense” projects. Of course trying to convince soldiers of this is very tough. I say this as a vet.
A question. If you were running Mitt’s campaign, why would you even go near a debate? Obama will destroy him, even most of them must realize this. So why do a debate at all? Just make up a bunch of impossible requests and don’t debate Obama in public at all. Wouldn’t Mitt be better off that way?
beltane
@David Koch: Unhappy cops won’t vote for Democrats though they are likely to join some movement that is to the right of the GOP just like the cops in Greece now support the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn party. The whole War on Drugs was always intended to terrorize certain segments of society and I can’t imagine the Republicans would like to see these segments of society suddenly become un-terrorized. I’m not really sure what Romney is trying to accomplish here-it’s not like he’s calling for an end to the War on Drugs as a cost-saving measure. Maybe he just sucks at campaigning and has stepped all over his already muddled message.
muddy
@beltane:
I remember when BA used to be BOAC, we used to say it stood for “Better On A Camel”. But it was cool how they would keep a log book of miles for you, and let kids into the pilot cabin, etc. I won a porcelain pitcher with their coat of arms on it for my first 500,000 miles. It’s too small for cold drinks, and too small for a creamer. It has survived all these decades by being unusable.
I was *this* close to getting the full million when we came back to the States. I wonder what the big prize was?
JGabriel
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Villago Delenda Est:
The Irish call them keeners, wailing women paid to mourn the dead at funerals.
Which goes a long way towards explaining The National Review Online.
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Soonergrunt
You’re kidding, right? Please tell me you’re kidding. Cause the idea that anyone with four braincells to rub together is going to read this post as anything other than what it is is one of the funnier things I’ve read today.
beltane
@JGabriel: Would this make Jennifer Rubin a necrophiliac?
JGabriel
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beltane:
No, that was just sexual preference. And maybe personality matching.
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MomSense
@Steve in DC or Maude
How about taking our Gov. LePage? He is only Gov of a small state which means Romney could probably get him cheaper. He seems like the kind of guy who would go for that.
muddy
@Steve in DC:
But they do inform his present, with laws and rules not applying to him. Then it’s harder to say, “Well, he has to say crazy shit to get elected, he’s not really like that.”
Oh yeah too, he is too like that, and has been always apparently.
Hill Dweller
@Valdivia:
They can’t even explain what is bad about Obama’s factual statement. It’s bad because shut up.
trollhattan
@AliceBlue:
Yup, I get a Tom Cruise vibe off Willard, bigtime. Which brings up the whole Joseph Smith/Ronny Hubbard thing and have the reprogrammed really changed, a conversation for another time.
Willard’s a very rich timeshare salesman who thinks it’s his turn to rule the globe. Right.
Steve in DC
@MomSense:
McDonnel….
Though I’m actually OK with his attack on women, it mostly hurts the social liberal types that have been crapping all over social security, medicare, and only care about equal wages and pay for lawyers and company officers.
I’d rather put “handing women into the hands of the church” in the same basket as “cutting social security” than keep them separate as a huge portion of college educated women hate the former but are cheerleaders for the latter, McDonnel and guys like him help make those issues the same.
Maude
@muddy:
A larger size pitcher?
cat48
Mike Lupica brought the doom for Obama with a return of the damn Bradley effect…sigh
trollhattan
@muddy:
Did you ever fly a Comet? Because if you did you’re still alive, and that’s cool!
Yutsano
@cat48:
Fixed that for ya Mike. And just say the damn N word already, it’s right on the tip of your cursed tongue.
beltane
@cat48: Look, they’re recycling all their old failed prognostications from 2008. It’s like making an even worse remake of a colossal flop hoping it becomes a hit.
muddy
@Maude: I think due to patriotism it had ought to be a teapot. Big one like Brown Betty.
At the time I was sure it was a diamond necklace or something. ;-)
JGabriel
@trollhattan:
I thought Mormons don’t believe in getting a planet to rule until they reach the afterlife.
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MikeJ
@clayton: Your concern is noted.
muddy
@trollhattan: I don’t remember what they were called. I first flew with them in 1961, 12 hours on a prop plane across the Atlantic. They didn’t have overhead bins, but they had baby cradles/hammocks that they would hang from the ceiling for wee ones.
Also had a lot of fun in DC-3s, in the Middle East they would have things going wrong like the flaps on the edge of the wings just flapping like a bird, one time a window popped out in the pilot cabin and they put it back in with electrical tape. It used to be fun to fly! It’s boring and hateful now.
gbear
@Laen:
I’m actually nervous about how any Obama/Romney debates may go. Obama’s going to have to start every statement with “Mitt, you know that’s a bald faced lie, you lying sack of shit”. Given that there will be NO pushback or fact checking from the moderators, the debates could turn bizarre spectacle of Obama-said-Romneytron-said.
JGabriel
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Hill Dweller:
What the fuck is wrong with those people? How can someone who intends to vote for Obama turn around and vote for fucking Scott Walker, corrupt Koch whore and right-wing extremist?
It’s like saying, “Oh, I’m gonna vote Gandhi for President, but Hitler for VP!”
I just don’t get it.
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jl
@gbear:
Maybe Obama is practicing in front of a mirror, ‘there ya go again, Mitt”, shaking his head, and breaking a sad/wry smile.
Maybe not. But, maybe.
Jeff Spender
Obama will win the election.
Everything between now and November is chaff. I tune it out and do awesome, life-affirming things.
Today I found a three-foot long snake in my garden. I think this is easily a record for me, but I live in Michigan and it’s not exactly normal to find such snakes.
Ooh! The moon has been so bright lately. Last night I was gazing through my telescope and just…wow. I love it when the moon is so bright that it lights everything up and casts shadows.
trollhattan
@muddy:
You crossed the Atlantic in prop planes? Jesus. I was thinking of the DeHavilland Comet, a jet that in it’s first version suffered from, well, the wings being torn off in flight. BOA flew those. It was later fixed and, swear to bog, was adapted into a military plane called the Nimrod.
Somehow, I don’t think pilots picked up a lot of women with the line, “Hello luv, I fly a Nimrod!”
gbear
@jl: Nobody would get it. They’d never connect a black man with a Reagan quote. Synapse fail.
Hill Dweller
@JGabriel: As best I can tell, a lot of people bought into the recall being unfair and/or a do-over election. It makes no sense to me, but it seems a significant portion of the voters bought it.
Jeff Spender
@Hill Dweller:
Yeah. I wonder if the UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH had a role in this. $50 million from the tobacco industry turned a $1 tax on cigs in Cali with 67% support into a lost cause.
Jeff Spender
@Hill Dweller:
Yeah. I wonder if the UNLIMITED CORPORATE CASH had a role in this. $50 million from the tobacco industry turned a $1 tax on cigs in Cali with 67% support into a lost cause.
danielx
That would be Mark Helprin, he with the gift of prognostication? The same Helprin who became famed for turning “This is good news for John McCain” into a synonym for Olympic-class fuckups? Aye, the very same!
I shudder with fear.
@Steve in DC:
All too true…they want and need things to stay the same as they are now, except with ever increasing funding. Too many people’s rice bowls depend on keeping the various Forever Wars going whether they make any sense or not, which mostly they don’t.
gbear
Oh Jesus, everyone has to go over to LGF to watch the overnight video before they go to bed. Watch to the end.
Hamlet the Mini Pig Conquers the Stairs
muddy
@trollhattan: The best was flying west, and you’d have sunset over the sea for 12 hours straight.
The DC-3 Iran Air flights used to go up and down over mountains, as it could not keep up pressure any higher. Once an air pocket made the plane drom 1000′ (pilot said), and it was so cool. For a second, the drinks on the tray were stretched out vertically in mid air. Ice on top, then liquid just hanging there, and the cup below that. And then fell, Wile E. Coyote style. Then everyone started puking, but not me. I kept wanting to talk about how cool it was to see the drink in low gravity but no one wanted to hear about it because they were wiping puke off everything. Sticky puke, they used to always serve pineapple juice.
When I read your initial comment about the Comet, I thought it said Coronet, which was a kind of prop plane BOAC had from the 50’s. http://www.ebay.com/itm/1955-BOAC-Coronet-airline-London-vintage-print-ad-/310072516625#ht_925wt_1143
muddy
@gbear: Squee! Each stair is taller than he is! I like the slalom action he uses.
MikeJ
@gbear: The thing people should be watching is the in-progress thing we don’t talk about it lest we jinx the pitcher the Mariners have going headed into the 7th innning.
Yes, 9 outs is a long way to go but you don’t want to take a chance on missing one of these.
Hill Dweller
@gbear: Colbert had that on his show last night. It’s hilarious.
Yutsano
@MikeJ: SSSHHH!! Don’t even think it!! You know how the baseball gods are about abusing us!!
MikeJ
@Yutsano: They pulled him after one warm up pitch in the 7th.
MikeJ
@MikeJ: That was after only 68 pitches. A no hitter for the night and he he’s gone. Bizarre.
joes527
I too boldly predict that Obama will win.
But if Obama wins, the house remains in republican hands and the senate flips (all very possible) we will only be marginally less fucked that if Obama were too lose.
Nothing will get done. No one will be confirmed. (The senate will just let the supreme court wait) and Obama will be impeached and not inconceivably removed from office.
You have noticed the calls in the last few days for a special prosecutor to start trying to find some dirt on Obama that can be used to paralyze him in his second term, haven’t you?
In the end, we will get the government that we deserve. Good and hard.
grandpa john
@eemom: NYT needs a “horse race” too. I have found Nate seems to have changed somewhat since he is now takes the kings coin and therefore must do the kings bidding, I much preferred his old independent 538 as compared to the NYT version that I seldom read anymore.
tazzle
75 million Catholics! Gah! Like all the ones in my large, Hispanic family, including the Deacon, who’ve already voted for Obama in the primary and are planning on voting for him in November. Fox says Obama can’t talk without a Teleprompter. Well, seems to me he made good work of McCain in the debates. The debates…at least, Obama keeps his hair short enough that Mitts won’t have much to cut off if he tries to go for the snippers again.
Jebediah
@Jeff Spender:
I fucking love that! I hardly ever get to see it anymore, what with all the streetlights. When I was a kid I used to walk about half a mile to my friend’s house at night and a bright moon made it so cool. Rural-ish road, no streetlights and most houses set back pretty far from the road. But now I am all citified…