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  1. 1.

    Punchy

    Yes, it’s July, yes, it’s Kansas, but still….the next 8 days in KC metro are the following predicted highs:
    98, 102, 105, 110, 109, 105, 110, 109.

    Thats fucked up.

  2. 2.

    Hal

    So is Romney picking a VP today? There was some buzz about his decision coming soon last week. I figured he would want to try and distract from his tax returns since Ann bombed out. Too bad Hilary Rosen wasn’t there to talk about how Ann doesn’t even know what a w-2 looks like since she’s never had a real job.

    Rachel Maddow was interviewing Frank Rich last night and she raised the really interesting prospect of Romney’s VP only releasing a year or two of tax returns as well, since it be a huge hypocrisy for the VP nominee and not the Presidential nominee.

  3. 3.

    red dog

    I am overwhelmed with tomatoes. All the varieties seem to be ripening at once along with an existing overload of other veggies. Good thing friends and neighbors love fresh stuff.

  4. 4.

    PeakVT

    @Punchy: Good grief.

    Over, in the UK nobody could have predicted that austerity would increase the deficit. Except that somebody did:

    Labour Treasury spokeswoman Rachel Reeves said: “After yesterday’s IMF report, these figures are another damaging blow to David Cameron and George Osborne’s failed economic plan. By choking off the recovery and pushing the economy into recession the Chancellor has ended up borrowing more – as we repeatedly warned.”

  7. 7.

    MattF

    @amk: Also, Sullivan published a comment noting that importing Burmese-made Olympic uniforms in the 2002 Salt Lake City games may well have been illegal, since, until very recently, there was a comprehensive ban on importing anything from Burma into the US.

  8. 8.

    Chyron HR

    Major Dark Knight Rises plothole: Why didn’t Easy Reader ask Spider-Man to help fight Bane?

  9. 9.

    Linda Featheringill

    @Punchy: #1

    According to maps at weather dot com and at NOAA, Kansas has been among the states hardest hit with drought [along with Arkansas, Colorado, and NM]. And that heat is just ridiculous. Geez!

  11. 11.

    Rorgg

    On a happier note, it’s 43 years ago today that man set foot on the moon. So, there’s something good we did as a species.

  17. 17.

    Linda Featheringill

    I think it’s interesting how a map of the worst drought in the Plains is similar to a map of the Ogallala Aquifer [if you ignore Nebraska, which has more of the Aquifer and less of the drought].

    http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogallala_Aquifer

    I’m guessing that this could lead to increased extraction of water from the Aquifer. Ogallala is already under stress because its fill rate is so slow, even in the best of times. It has been shrinking. And then this happens.

  20. 20.

    Linda Featheringill

    @amk:

    David Corn is doing FSM’s work, isn’t he. Bless him and keep him safe within the noodly appendages.

  21. 21.

    Amir Khalid

    @Hal:
    Not so soon, I think. I suspect Mitt is still trying to find a boring white male non-Mormon Christian Republican, who will cheerfully cough up two decades of tax returns yet not think to expect the same of Mitt, and who either
    (a) can be shanghaied onto the ticket or
    (b) seriously believes Mitt can actually win the presidency.

  22. 22.

    NotMax

    @Rorgg

    Boo-yah! Great moment in history.

    That was the first time the summer camp I was working at (way, way out in the boonies) ever brought in a TV (with rabbit ears).

    So far as we could make out, it was snowing quite heavily on the Moon. :)

  28. 28.

    Steeplejack

    Can some front-pager take me out of moderation on the previous thread? I asked there, but to no avail.

    ETA: Thanks. It happened like magic!

  29. 29.

    Trinity

    @red dog: A co-worker just brought in a load of tomatoes from his neighbor who is overloaded with them as well. I am taking several home with me.

  31. 31.

    BGK

    I know I’m harping on this, but my mother is at the Fort Myers Presidential event right now. Local teevee is showing the motorcade en route and almost at the venue. Word is that the speech has been pushed up, remarks have been toned down and shortened, and some of the banners taken down. The President’s also cancelled an event which was to be later today in the Orlando area.

    She’s about 40 feet from the stage, so there should be some good pics.

  33. 33.

    Culture of Truth

    Peter Baker of the New York Times, reporting from Fort Myers, Florida

    The mass shooting at a Colorado movie theater presented a challenge to both President Obama and Mitt Romney, the presumptive Republican nominee, on Friday: Is it O.K. to continue campaigning in the midst of a national tragedy, and if so, how does that change the message?

    That was something both Bill Clinton and George W. Bush excelled at during tragedies like the Oklahoma City bombing and the attacks of September 11. Both presidents, in fact, were defined by their responses to those events, which were often seen as their best moments in office.

    That sort of scenario has not been Mr. Obama’s particular strength. While he is a master orator who can stir a stadium of 80,000 people with soaring words of national purpose, he is also a man of natural reserve who has not always connected as intimately with audiences during national grief.

    A hearty fuck you, Peter Baker.

  35. 35.

    wrb

    @Culture of Truth:

    he is also a man of natural reserve who has not always connected as intimately with audiences during national grief.

    Of course no one could imagine Romney connecting intimately with
    anything, so only Obama can fail.

  36. 36.

    BGK

    @wrb:

    I guess I find it vaguely innapropriate that Romney is making remarks at all (he’ll do so at 12:30). He doesn’t hold any elected office, so…

    Update: tetards still find time to hate. Large contingent in front of the venue, in full regalia, screaming all manner of incoherent stupidty. My live stream isn’t the greatest but I don’t expect I’m missing much.

  37. 37.

    The Red Pen

    @Punchy:

    Yes, it’s July, yes, it’s Kansas, but still….the next 8 days in KC metro are the following predicted highs:
    98, 102, 105, 110, 109, 105, 110, 109.

    The upside is that it really sucks to play golf — and that is as it should be.

  38. 38.

    oogabooga

    Can anyone tell me where I can find these “food riots”. Based on Coles throughly convincing post that we are about to have global food riots because the clown believes every fucking thing he reads on the internet, I went to my local grocery store looking for food riots.

    I found 10lb bags of rice from a half dozen countries, probably over a hundred brands of cereal, fruits and vegetables grown locally and from South America.

    No food riots though. Oh, and when did the “Dow tanking with no end in sight” thing happen. Another Cole the magnificent prediction. I guess I was too busy making money on the stock market to notice.

  42. 42.

    PurpleGirl

    @burnspbesq: That is a beautiful cat. What’s the cat’s name?

    Only thing that would have made the cat in bag picture better would have been if the cat was looking up at the camera.

  44. 44.

    burnspbesq

    @PurpleGirl:

    That’s Laettner, who adopted us in October 2009.

    Any issues with the photos are the sole responsibility of the photographer, who is too damn slow to capture the split second when Her Ladyship deigns to look at the camera.

  45. 45.

    Haydnseek

    @Rorgg: The moon landing was huge. At the time, I was in high school working as a box boy in a supermarket. I asked my dad if he would call my manager with a family emergency type excuse before the lunar lander touched down on the moon so I could come home and watch it on tv live. He would never consider doing something like that otherwise, but this was such a monumental historic event that he did it. One condition. I had to make up those hours later in the week at straight time, no OT. I did so gladly.

  46. 46.

    burnspbesq

    @Cassidy:

    The kid is OK. I was a lazy slob when I was 18, so I lack standing to complain too loudly. I stick to the raised eyebrow and “Duuuuuuude …”

  47. 47.

    PurpleGirl

    @burnspbesq: LOL. I was never fast enough with the camera around my friends’ animals either. Luckily a few times the animals did stay in pose for me.

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