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We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

No one could have predicted…

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

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

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

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

This fight is for everything.

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Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

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The lights are all blinking red.

I really should read my own blog.

If you are in line to indict donald trump, stay in line.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

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I recognize that I have completely shirked my duties as a blogger and ignored you all day, but what can I say- it was beautiful outside and there was lots of yard stuff to do. I bring a peace offering:

That’s Tunch, lying on my gut while I watch tv, kneading away and purring like a crazed kitty.

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  5. 5.

    Comrade Mary

    (And it’s nice to know that you knead away and purr like a crazed kitty while you watch tv. Me, too.)

  7. 7.

    PurpleGirl

    Aaawwww. Cute. I want to smush his face, gently and lightly but just enough to play with him. (As I used to play with Rowdy.)

  10. 10.

    Raven

    Insanely beautiful in Georgia. If only we could get this weather next week for Athfest.

  12. 12.

    SiubhanDuinne

    TUNCHKITTEH!!

    Aww, he is lovely.

    Squee. (Autocorrect wants to turn “squee” into “squid,” but I won’t allow that.)

  13. 13.

    J. Michael Neal

    I’m now the treasurer of the booster club for Gopher women’s hockey. That’s right: I’m unemployed and I still have to go to meetings.

  15. 15.

    Hill Dweller

    I’m watching the Homeland marathon on Showtime. It’s not bad. Claire Danes is good.

  21. 21.

    Raven

    Roberto Unger, Obama’s Former Harvard Law School Professor, Says The President ‘Must Be Defeated’

    The professor went on to list his complaints:

    “His policy is financial confidence and food stamps.”
    “He has spent trillions of dollars to rescue the moneyed interests and left workers and homeowners to their own devices.”
    “He has delivered the politics of democracy to the rule of money.”
    “He has disguised his surrender with an empty appeal to tax justice.”
    “He has reduced justice to charity.”
    “He has subordinated the broadening of economic and educational opportunity to the important but secondary issue of access to health care in the mistaken belief that he would be spared a fight.”
    “He has evoked a politics of handholding, but no one changes the world without a struggle.”

    I know some of you have a fucking stroke if a Huff Post link is posted so you have been warned.

  22. 22.

    lamh35

    Evening guys.

    Since I had 8 days until I start my new 7 on/7 off schedule, I decided to drive home to NOLA. for the weekend. I”ve been here since Thursday. It’s been a blast, but it has been a very frustrating day and a half. Yesterday after driving my car all day, I stopped over at a cousin’s house to eat my overstuffed shrimp poboy (it.was.so.good). I stayed about 2 1/2 hour and when I went to leave, my car wouldn’t start. I don’t know if it was a light left off or a door left open, but it was only 2 hours after driving most of the day. So I got a jump from my cousin and drove the car to my aunt’s house after driving around and charging the car. When I got at my aunt’s house and turned off the car and restarted it, it wouldn’t start so either my battery or my alternator was dead. So the next day, I had to get another jump, and took the car to autozone to test my battery or my alternator. So they checked the battery first and the charge was zero percent. The battery was not holding the charge from the jump. So Autozone charged the battery and retested it and in less than 15 minutes the test came back as a bad battery. So I had to get a new battery and then they retested the alternator and the rest of the charging system and they all passed. So it looks like it was a bad battery the whle time, so yay.

    Anyway, my car is working great now. So my trip can continue on.

    I’ll be back in DFW on Tuesday, but for now, I’m enjoying spending time with my NOLA family.

  25. 25.

    geg6

    TUNCH!

    Beautiful here, too, Cole. Grilled some NY strips. Awesome.

    Star Trek on FX. Nuff said.

  27. 27.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @lamh35: Excited for you about new job, glad you are getting in some quality time (and food!) with NOLA family, and glad the car problem was straightforward.

    Plus, TUNCH!

  29. 29.

    Roger Moore

    @Maude:

    Pushing on mama’s tummy to get more milk.

    And they retain the instinct into adulthood. When they’re really content and relaxed, they revert and start acting like kittens again, including the kneading. Cat people love it because they know it’s a sign that their kitties are happy.

  32. 32.

    Raven

    @Hill Dweller:

    He acknowledged that if a Republican wins the presidency, “there will be a cost … in judicial and administrative appointments.” But he said that “the risk of military adventurism” would be no worse under a Republican than under Obama, and that “the Democratic Party proposes no new direction.”

  33. 33.

    Roger Moore

    @Hill Dweller:

    Is Romney going to solve any of those problems?

    Hush. Don’t you know that this is a yes/no election? Bringing this Romney person into the equation is a sign that you’re a sell-out who likes eating shit sandwich. Only by purifying the party by throwing out all the half hearted centrists like Obama can we bring about progressive policies./firebagger

  34. 34.

    ericblair

    If you’re interested in the latest RomBot trouble ticket status report, Rmoney steps in it in one of the pointlessly stupid local rivalry panderings (Wawa versus Sheetz in PA: like, fuck, they’re both big convenience stores where you grab some grub after filling your car, mkay).

    Apparently, RomBot really loves him some Wawa where you can order yer sammitch through a touch screen app and never have to deal with a smelly local human at all! It’s terrific! More efficiency so we can sack another super-expensive hard-to-source convenience store employee! Personally, I think he’s got the hots for the Sammitch-O-Matic; maybe some enterprising reporter will catch them illicitly interfacing and exchanging packets in the backroom and we’ll have our first RomBot sex scandal.

  35. 35.

    Villago Delenda Est

    awwwww

    Tunch looks so cute there, totally unlike the “stealthy” behemoth we hear about so often.

  44. 44.

    burnspbesq

    @Raven:

    Just goes to show that being a distinguished scholar and being a total imbecile aren’t mutually exclusive.

  45. 45.

    Hill Dweller

    @Raven: How can someone that I assume is intelligent be so stupid? A Romney presidency will almost certainly result in a right wing dominated SC for years to come, making his form of justice all but impossible.

    I’m really starting to despise these type of people. We have two options: Romney or Obama. Unlike Unger, the vast majority of the country can’t afford to play purity troll, root for a Republican victory, and watch as they destroy the country, in the hopes of magical liberals riding to the rescue.

  47. 47.

    pragmatism

    Beer can chicken on the grill. Forgot to put some rub and thyme in the beer. I usually likes my redneck fare to be elistested up but I’ll manage.

  48. 48.

    Roger Moore

    @ericblair:

    Personally, I think he’s got the hots for the Sammitch-O-Matic; maybe some enterprising reporter will catch them illicitly interfacing and exchanging packets in the backroom and we’ll have our first RomBot sex scandal.

    Getting caught jacking off in; how embarrassing.

  52. 52.

    Baud

    @Yutsano:

    He didn’t get his pony.

    He may well have expected to be appointed to something, or be invited to the White House for poker with the boys.

  55. 55.

    trollhattan

    Sweet swimming Ronnie Reagan on a Ritz raft, Gonzo is doubling down on Yoo’s getting all hot-n-bothered about the preznit violatin’ the Konstitution and all. Latest victim–the oath of office.

    According to former Attorney General Alberto Gonzales, who served under George W. Bush, President Obama may have breached his oath of office by issuing last week’s executive order to change how the government deals with illegal immigrants who came to the United States as children. Here’s Gonzales at a Faith & Freedom Coalition meeting in Washington, D.C. today:
    __
    “To halve through executive order the deportation of some undocumented immigrants looks like a political calculation to win Hispanic votes, and subjects him to criticism that he is violating his oath of office by selectively failing to enforce the law.”

    http://nymag.com/daily/intel/2012/06/alberto-gonzales-thinks-obama-mayve-overstepped.html

    “Shameless” in no way approaches the vileness of these free-roaming criminals.

  60. 60.

    Roger Moore

    @trollhattan:

    he is violating his oath of office by selectively failing to enforce the law.

    I agree. Failing to prosecute people who clearly violated the statutes against torture was a terrible failure. Obviously, Obama needs to rectify the situation, ASAP.

  64. 64.

    Alison

    Happy cats = happy cat owners.

    UNhappy cats = definitely unhappy cat owners, if the cats have anything to say about it :P

    I had a friend in middle school whose cats were declawed, which I am totally against, but the one plus to it was you didn’t get those occasional ACK OW OW OMG STOP moments during kneading when they get a little enthusiastic and give you ten little stabbings.

  65. 65.

    Roger Moore

    @muddy:

    I’m apparently moderated at NRO, my comments never show up, even though I try really hard to be polite.

    You fail to meet their definition of polite, which includes never pointing out how stupid their arguments are.

  66. 66.

    muddy

    I like how Tunch’s eyes are closed blissfully, but his left ear is still on the job noticing the camera. Vigilant even in ecstasy.

  67. 67.

    Roger Moore

    @muddy:

    I like how Tunch’s eyes are closed blissfully

    Are you sure that’s bliss, and not an instinctive response to the blinding light shining in his face?

  68. 68.

    muddy

    @Roger Moore: VDH doesn’t meet the standards of polite, either. I *endured* a dinner party that included him once, he monopolized the conversation with his endless tale of how put upon he is. Spartan up, bitch.

  69. 69.

    asiangrrlMN

    TUUUUUUUUUNCHIE! Cole, that’s the sweetest, lovingest, adorablest picture of Tunch EVER! Thank you, thank you, thank you!

    @Yutsano: What would I do without you, hon?

    @trollhattan: Thank you for the link. That made me tear up in a good way.

    @lamh35: I’m glad it was only a bad battery! I had a “shrimp poboy” in a local restaurant (put in quotes because it in no way resembled the actual thing) and it made me almost cry. I was in NOLA three months ago. I *know* a shrimp (or oyster) poboy when I eat one, and that wasn’t it. I’m so jealous of you right now!

  70. 70.

    Cliff in NH

    I think this is a sign.

    maybe it’s a sign that I should attempt some really horrible political cartoon, cause… I can’ts takes its no more!!!!

    arghhh!!!

    (I pity the world cause I can’t draw and don’t care anymore anyway)

  71. 71.

    sfinny

    @Alison: My cat was part of trap/neuter/release program, so he was a formerly feral cat. When I got him he didn’t purr, or knead.

    Also, he does not allow any cutting of nails. Mostly, the cat scratch pads do a good job, and the clicking of his nails on the floor means he can’t sneak up on me.

    After a couple of years, he became a bit more affectionate and now regularly wakes me up with both purring a kneading, that very much evoke an OW OW OW response. But of course I keep quiet, because he is happy.

  72. 72.

    trollhattan

    @Baud:

    Didn’t know so I peeked:

    In October 2011, Belmont University College of Law announced that Gonzalez would fill the Doyle Rogers Distinguished Chair of Law.[197] Gonzalez also joined the Nashville law firm of Waller Lansden Dortch & Davis as Of Counsel.

    That he’s sorta competing with Ol’ Perfesser for ruining the young legal minds of Tennessee seems somehow fitting.

    May they both endure an unending bout of chiggers the rest of their days.

  73. 73.

    JoyfulA

    @ericblair: Sheetz has the little touchpad to order a sandwich, too. It’s inconvenient, in my opinion; I prefer the Subway assembly line method.

    Of course, unlike Romney, I like interacting with the staff—

  74. 74.

    karen marie

    @Roger Moore: Lack of prosecution up the Watergate food chain made the Shrub administration possible. I cringe to think what we’ll get as a result of lack of prosecution of Shrub people.

  75. 75.

    muddy

    @Roger Moore:

    Are you sure that’s bliss, and not an instinctive response to the blinding light shining in his face?

    Mine always stare straight into the lens to be sure to display demon eyes for posterity. They can even do it if the camera does a small flash first to reduce red-eye. It is completely different than green-eye, apparently.

  77. 77.

    RedKitten

    Awww…I want to kiss him right on the nose. Who’s a sweet kitty? That’s right, Tunchie, YOU are! Yes, you are!

  81. 81.

    Valdivia

    @Raven:
    Since when are foreign politicians the go-to sources about who should and shouldn’t be elected in our country? Cause last I heard Mangabeira Unger has ran for President of Brazil and failed and is presently working on some local projects for state govt in his country. And he is more a political philosopher who is not very respected by anyone in the field.

  82. 82.

    Gravenstone

    @Raven:

    But he said that “the risk of military adventurism” would be no worse under a Republican than under Obama,

    And with that, the good professor shows he doesn’t have a fucking clue.

  83. 83.

    SuzieC

    downsized_0616121702

    Our kitty drinking from a watering can. He prefers outside to inside water.

  86. 86.

    Gozer

    Dr. Mrs. and I went to see Prometheus (in IMAX 3D! [/Nerdgasm]). We both enjoyed it and it’s been months since we’ve had a chance to see a movie at the theater.

    Tomorrow she’s back to writing and I’m spending the day mowing/edging and drinkin’ beer. I might play a little BF3 while I’m at it…it being a Double-XP weekend and all.

  88. 88.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    @ericblair:

    I picture RMoney as the Humping Robot from Robot Chicken, banging away at the Sammitch-O-Matic.

    Of course, he would only do it as a prank.

  89. 89.

    danielx

    Now there is a happy cat…for as long as it lasts, anyway, which will be until one of the canines tries to horn in on the affection and jealousy rears its ugly head.

    1.

    …and subjects him to criticism that he is violating his oath of office by selectively failing to enforce the law.

    And bigod if there are two people who are experts on selective enforcement of the law by the president, they are Alberto Gonzales and John Yoo. (Signing statements, anyone? I’ll take half a dozen.) I’d add David Addington to the list, since we can certainly anticipate a blast from the Addington mouth and pen about this horrible abuse of executive power (since it’s a Democrat who’s doing it).

    2. It’s hot. Getting someone into and out of a car after a hip replacement is awful, and it’s worse when it’s 92 degrees outside.

    3. Sick room nursing sucks big time, but it’s part of the whole “for better and for worse, in sickness and in health” gig. It WOULD be easier if the sicko (sickee?) wasn’t so damned bossy.

    4. Beer is an absolute requirement under these circumstances, and I may yet resort to stronger measures. As long as I can wake up for 4 am meds….

  91. 91.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @ericblair:

    you can order yer sammitch through a touch screen app

    With any luck, this will be a replay of the utterly out of touch George Herbert Walker Bush encountering a grocery store scanner.

    These people. They sure ain’t living in my world.

  93. 93.

    Valdivia

    @FlipYrWhig:

    One would think so no? Mangabeira Unger is a different sort though. I would say he is an opportunist more than anything. I would use stronger words but I’m trying to stay within the polite terms I set out above with fuckung moron :)

  97. 97.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Valdivia: It is old. The law has moved on since then. Also too, I was a callow youngster when I wrote it, so bear that in mind.

  98. 98.

    jl

    I don’t think Tunch looks like a kitten.

    Tunch looks like the cat version of the cosmic superbaby floating around in the next dimension at the end of Space Odyssey.

    What great leap forward for humankind is in store?

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