Piling on, because Yes, we can! John Cassidy, at his New Yorker Rational Irrationality blog, on “Mitt the Wazzock“:
…“Every Olympics is ready,” [sprinter Carl] Lewis, who won nine gold medals at four different Olympics, told the Independent. “I don’t care whatever [Romney] said. I swear, sometimes I think some Americans shouldn’t leave the country. Are you kidding me, stay home if you don’t know what to say.”…
The whole thing is another reminder of why the Romney campaign keeps such tight reins on the candidate. Despite his four years in elected office in Massachusetts and his experience in two Presidential campaigns, he still lacks the political antennae of a lifelong politician. The true pol is a master of what game theorists refer to as “backward induction.” Before doing or saying anything, a filtering mechanism in his (or her) brain looks ahead and figures out how it is going to look in tomorrow’s newspapers. For somebody like John Boehner or Chuck Schumer, it no longer takes any conscious effort. The filtering mechanism works automatically, ensuring that the voice box serves up nothing but pablum and political attack lines.
Romney just doesn’t have this self-preservation instinct. He is still naïve or arrogant enough to think that when Brian Williams asks him a seemingly harmless question about the preparations for the Games, which have certainly encountered some problems, it is an opportunity for him to demonstrate his mastery of the subject…
Small wonder, then, that when Boris Johnson, London’s voluble Conservative mayor, took the stage in Hyde Park on Thursday night, at a ceremony to mark the arrival of the Olympic torch, he openly mocked the G.O.P. candidate before a crowd of more than fifty thousand…
At the end of the ceremony, Johnson led the crowd in a chant that brought to mind one of Obama’s campaign slogans from 2008.
“Can we put on the greatest Olympics games that have ever been held?” “Yes we can!”…
Didn’t see that chant on any of the American news reports, for some reason…
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Apart from sweet, sweet schadenfreude, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
Ben Franklin
It’s not his fault. Mormonism inculcates a sense of superiority in it’s adherents.
‘You” people seem to forget just who the Fuck he is.
JPL
I saw it on network news but can’t remember which one. I only have an antenna and most stations carried it. They might not have mentioned the yes we can but they showed Mitt the Twit being mocked.
muddy
I have a boneless turkey breast that I want to make into a roulade for tomorrow. One guest has a lot of allergies, so no nightshade types, no mushrooms, no bread (or bread-ish items). I’m thinking of a fresh herb filling, with ground walnuts and garlic. I have a little wild rice and some black currants, am considering them. Also kale I just picked.
Then I have tiny spaghetti squash that I need to invent a sauce for that will go with the turkey. I am open to suggestions. But first I have to run to the store, because I said “liver” and it turned out there wasn’t any, and the dog is pouting. “You said!!”
c u n d gulag
I think by now, everyone can tell that Mitt hates politics.
HATES IT!
He hates everything to do with politics – the meet-and greets, the crowds, the intrusive (even when adulatory) MSM, the endless questioning, having to answer, and the having to explain his positions – MITT HATES EVERYTHING ABOUT POLITICS!!!
He doesn’t like people – at least not those who aren’t in his family, or economic bracket.
They scare him.
They’re needy – and he knows nothing of “needs.” He only understands ‘wants.’
Because everything, except a few political wins, he ever ‘wanted,’ he’s gotten.
He hates everything about politicking, except winning – and the power and the glory!
Like W said, for 8 years, he was powerful, and he was famous.
And if there’s a worse reason for electing someone, I don’t think it’s ever been thought of, let alone vocalized or written.
Not only can you sense that Mitt HATES politics, and all that it involves – you can see it, feel it, and hear it – you can almost smell and taste it.
And he knows he has no real reason to explain his run for the Presidency.
No original ideas.
No grand plans.
NOTHING!
Nothing except a re-run of the last 30+ years, and that he wants to succeed where his Daddy failed.
And that he’s entitled to be President by virtue of his wealth, and that’s what a patrician should do – is be in the position that gives him, and people like him, the most power.
To do what?
Whatever…
He’s a man who believes in nothing – and don’t think he ever did.
Nothing except his God-given right to be President. It’s his RIGHT – goshdurnit!
And a man who believes in nothing, is capable of doing anything.
And what’s really scary is that this man who believes in nothing, except that the Presidency is his God-given right, and has nothing to offer, has as good a chance right now of being the next President as Barack Hussein Obama.
After all – Mitt’s the WHITE candidate.
He’s the richer candidate.
He’s got more powerful and moneyed people behind him!
And isn’t that enough?
Sadly, it may well be.
Make that, “TRAGICALLY!”
geg6
Moar Olympics!
USA women’s volleyball moves on to, hopefully, golden VICTORY! I believe their next match is Tuesday. Swimming tonight, which is the awesomest sport at the Games, of course. At least until gymnastics starts. And yes, I’m prejudiced in favor of sports I’ve participted in or know someone who may win a medal in. Why do you ask? ;-)
Anne Laurie
@JPL:
Yeah, I actually managed to see the edited clip they used on all three of the “original” six-thirty newscasts last night, but until I read Cassidy’s post, I didn’t know about the “yes we can” chant. Three totally independent CW decisions about partisanship, I guess!
Yutsano
@muddy: Take a stick of butter. Melt in a saucepan over medium heat until the butter turns light brown, then throw in about 6-8 sage leaves. Mix with the cooked spaghetti squash. A very simple dressing that will complement the slight sweetness of the sauce. It’s also a traditional Italian preparation method. And serious YUM!!
Comrade Mary
I had a brief moment of empathy because I have the same character flaw. (I still remember the clanger I dropped during a job interview years ago because of this ingrained, stupid arrogance.)
Of course, I recognize it as a flaw that at the very least annoys other people and keeps me from learning cool things from them, and I do my best to CHANGE that aspect of my behaviour because it’s a shitty way to behave. Maybe the prospect of losing the election will teach Romney something, but he can’t even make the right supportive noises in public about watching his wife’s horse compete at the Olympics, so I’m not getting my hopes up.
Hungry Joe
OT, right? Well, okay, then:
You say you’re not in Chicago today, so you can’t pick up the Tribune’s Lifestyles section and see the interview with me about ANYWAY*, my middle-grade novel (Simon & Schuster, May 2012)? In that case, here’s a link:
I know I’ve posted about this before, but it’s my first book, and … and … a Chicago Tribune feature is a big deal, so …
ralph wiggum
Mitt has resorted to using slogans not unlike those of children’s cartoon characters. Bob the Builder “Did you build it”. Says a lot about his followers.
Comrade Mary
@muddy:
Something cream-based with sage? (she said humbly, knowing she might be wrong).
Yutsano
@Yutsano: FYWP.
Make sure the sage leaves are chopped, although if they get crispy whole in the butter that’s delicious too. And use fresh if you can.
@Comrade Mary: Ooh. Synchronicity!!
aimai
@muddy:
If you google martha stewart and turkey in the style of porchetta you get an amazing recipe for a boneless turkey breast. I made it last thanksgiving. You rub it with fennel and rosemary and garlic and roast it. Its done in a flash and it is absolutely delicious.
aimai
lamh35
Question, does anyone know of a website/organization/program/phone number/etc that helps people pay for or get discounted medication?
My mother right now does not have insurance and if/until she gets medicaid, she has some really expensive heart & diabetes meds that she needs to take daily.
Comrade Mary
@Yutsano: And Yutsy beat me to it anyway. ha!
EDIT: And I think the browned butter beats cream, too.
GregB
I can’t wait to see Mitt decline an offer of home made matzos by saying they looked like they came from a 7/11.
Hungry Joe
I swear I put a link in there. I’ll try again: http://trib.in/LSWnHf
SiubhanDuinne
@Hungry Joe: Link is missing, and I would love to read the feature interview with you in the Trib. Could you please post it again? Thx!
Linda Featheringill
Since we are wandering around, anyway .. .
The oldest cat living with me [Sally] decided that the only toilet in the house is HER PERCH, DAMMIT. Much negotiation and fussing and pouting today.
Sally was so dignified for such a long time!
Yutsano
@Comrade Mary: Butternut squash ravioli in sage with brown butter is like one of my favouritest foods like in forever. Spaghetti squash is not quite as sweet, but it would still be fantastic.
I’m in a rather culinary frame of mind anyway. I was bouncing recipe ideas with a Marine last night. Surprisingly more fun than one might think. My father would be terminally disappointed in the company I keep, old sailor that he is. :)
@Hungry Joe: Of course I open the link and my first reaction is PUPPEH!! I may need help. :)
It’s a great interview. I may have to support your endeavours here.
Hill Dweller
It looks like Willard has infuriated the traveling press corps after reneging on a deal he made giving them access to his fundraiser.
There is too much Money backing Willard, making it unlikely, but if the MSM stops carrying his water, he is f’d.
R-Jud
Via Roger Ebert on twitter, Romney has referred to the Arab Spring as a “problem”… Right.
scav
@ralph wiggum: No no no no no. not “Did you build it” no no no please linky please because that’s going to throw up too many real BobTheB links first. No es possible in a world of call and response because what is the very next line, ground into the neurons by over-exposure to kinds TV.
Simple isn’t the problem, if this one is true though, the problem isn’t its simplicity, it’s a close word also brought to you by the letter S.
rikyrah
Just wanna comment on the Olympic Opening Ceremony. Here was London, welcoming the WORLD. I was really touched by their choices for who would carry the Olympic flag, and that they all weren’t British.
The choice for how they wanted to light the torch, in essence, having all the countries contribute to the building of the torch, was to me, a symbol of the different kind of world that we are living in today, and another reason why Willard and his ‘ Anglo-Saxon’ bullshyt rubbed the Brits the wrong way. London is a very cosmopolitan city – has been for centuries. And, they welcomed the WORLD last night.
still LOL at the Queen and James Bond – it was such a British thing to do…part of their humor.
Hungry Joe
@SiubhanDuinne:
I’m trying. Now the link is just going to the Chicago Tribune home page. The interview is in Lifestyles, under Books. Sorry for all the trouble; I can write, but I can’t link.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/features/books/sc-ent-0725-books-anyway-arthur-salm-20120727,0,7408938.story
BTW, the author photo includes a VERY cute dog.
Mr Stagger Lee
@geg6: If I may say so, Penn State does have a good volleyball program, this has been an enjoyable match with South Korea. I forgot to see if the American badminton team won against the Koreans.
rikyrah
@c u n d gulag:
ICAM.
He believes he should be President – just cause.
He doesn’t even want to DO the JOB of President.
He just wants to BE President.
Svensker
@muddy:
All those allergies and she/he can eat nuts? I’d double check that.
I like Yutsie’s idea of the sage and brown butter with the squash. Yummmmmmm.
Yutsano
@rikyrah:
We tried that for eight years. It didn’t end well. Plus no more Presidents with Daddy issues please!
gogol's wife
@c u n d gulag:
My feelings exactly.
arguingwithsignposts
Is that what they call that?
gogol's wife
One of my mature birch trees seems to be dying, despite yearly fertilizer and anti-insect treatments. I know it’s not as important as a person or a cat, but I am very depressed. (The prospect of President Romney doesn’t help. Nor does the quite evident climate change all around us.)
Svensker
@lamh35:
I got no help for you, but I got heart for you and your mom. Hope you find someplace to help. That is just wrong.
Just a thought — have you contacted the manufacturer? Some of them advertise that they will help with the meds if the patient can’t afford them. Worth a try.
gogol's wife
Since people are sharing recipes, I just want to recommend this one, by Melissa Clark in the NYTimes. She’s really good. It’s salmon with a sweet-sour blueberry sauce. I made it while my Moscow friend was visiting last week, and we really enjoyed it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/18/dining/partners-in-freshness-king-salmon-and-blueberries-a-good-appetite.html?_r=1&ref=melissaclark
gnomedad
@Comrade Mary:
When does the support group meet?
gogol's wife
@Comrade Mary:
I’ve done that in so many job interviews, I’m lucky to be employed! It’s my Achilles heel.
Yutsano
@gogol’s wife: Agrodolce is a really neat preparation, but I think the blueberries as the base is quite inspired. Living in the Northwest though, we’re not huge on dressing up salmon like that. I got a pork tenderloin for next to nothing at the store though, I may sample it on that!
gogol's wife
@Yutsano:
It seems to go very well with meat. (We had leftover sauce!)
lamh35
@Svensker: yep that’s what I’m doing right now. Checking all the company websites.
The problem is my mom doesn’t have internet and so I am having to do everything by using my Iphone as modem, and my cell coverage is going in and out thanks to her living in a basement apartment.
Right now, I’m just trucking along and even with limited internet access I feel like I’m in an episode of Lil House on the Prairie…LOL.
Never realized how much having a printer matters!
gnomedad
I think it’s time again for Jon Stewart’s take on Mitt’s gracious withdrawal in 2008.
Linda Featheringill
@gogol’s wife:
I understand. It’s a sad thing to lose a tree.
Jay S
@Comrade Mary: The Romney horse thing is odd. The horse trainer has been quoted as saying Mitt got fairly heavily involved with horses, even picking the music for qualifying rounds. Now he swears he knows nothing and won’t be watching. It seems the dancing horse jokes really worried him and he’s backing away as far as he can. It’s a political calculation that seems like an over correction. It makes him look even smaller.
Mike G
ISRAEL:
Romney presents Netanyahu with gifts of ham, cheese
Romney visits West Bank, tries to deposit ten million dollars
arguingwithsignposts
@Jay S:
This is the only move in the Romney playbook, apparently.
barath
@R-Jud:
FWIW, here’s the link:
http://thelede.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/28/in-interview-romney-brings-arab-spring-into-presidential-race/
Let’s see what “change our blogs to green” Sully does with that…
Shawn in ShowMe
@Hungry Joe:
You’re not doing anything wrong. We have to be registered digital members to see the article.
JPL
@R-Jud: How are you enjoying the Olympics?
I didn’t understand the latest Romney outrage but it has to do with Bush’s freedom march. If Obama hadn’t dropped Bush’s foreign policy, we would live or die happily ever after.
I wish I was kidding.
Redshift
@Jay S: The ability of the Obama campaign on one side and the teabaggers on the other to cause Romney to run away from everything he could be using as a substantive basis for his candidacy is truly amazing.
He is completely craven, and doesn’t seem to grasp that avoiding any risk whatsoever is probably the biggest actual risk to his campaign. He’s a walking demonstration of systemic risk.
Yutsano
@Shawn in ShowMe: NoScript must be letting me in the back door. Joe haz VERY cute puppeh!!
Phylllis
@lamh35: Several of the drug companies have programs; also, check to see if the local/regional/state United Way has a 211 system-they’re designed as an information clearinghouse to connect folks to non-government assistance. The AARP website might also be a good palce to check as well.
Redshift
@barath: Hard to tell whether he’s trying to pander to the locals, or just parroting a line from his Islamophobic neocon advisors.
barath
@Redshift:
The funny thing is that neither option speaks well of him…
Yutsano
@gogol’s wife: I’ll have to bookmark this thread for the next cooking thread on Thursday. :)
barbara
@lamh35:
I’m pretty sure that Target pharmacies (and some other big stores) have programs offering $4 a month generics if you don’t have insurance. Good luck.
Randy P
I was praising NBC’s all-event video streams before. I am now currently grumpy about them. Almost everything is available in replay, except certain things. Practically everything that happene today can be seen in replay except men’s gymnastics, which I really wanted to catch. Why? Not a single feed is available.
And in swimming, I see that the preliminaries are available for replay, but the finals are not. WTF?
Does this have something to do with events they expect to be more popular? How does it make more money for them to have the men’s gymnastics prelims locked out of replay?
NotMax
@muddy
Made this with filling of chopped cooked spinach, prosciutto and parmesan and provolone just a few weeks ago.
Substituting well-drained cooked chopped kale for the spinach should work out, but might require additional salt.
Sauteed some finely chopped onion in olive oil, then sauteed the spinach in olive oil, drained both well and mixed ’em together for the filling. Rubbed the outside of the breast with olive oil, a touch of basil and thyme.
Tied up the rolls and cooked in 365 oven for about an hour and 20 minutes.
Can also make a gravy or sauce from the pan drippings which might go with the squash.
Hardest part of the whole prep was pounding out the butterflied breasts.
muddy
@Yutsano: It really is synchronicity with the sage. I was thinking of that last night. My plant has the biggest leaves i’ve ever seen. But one of the other guests hates butter. It’s really not the same with olive oil.
tam
@Hungry Joe: Congratulations! Looks like it’s getting great ratings on goodreads, too!
Hungry Joe
@Shawn in ShowMe: Well, damn. Anyway, if you want to look up ANYWAY*, here’s the Simon & Schuster site: http://bit.ly/LK1MAH
This is the last time I’ll post about my book; I do not want to be a nudge.
muddy
@aimai: Thanks, but I don’t like fennel!
Steeplejack
Boxing up stuff for my move and just now starting to dismantle my IKEA Mikael desk, which has served me well but will probably be freecycled to a friend.
And, holy crap, I am glad I found the special double-secret IKEA tool for the fastenings. I thought they were mostly regular screws except in a few places, but it turns out they’re all weird–some European metric bullshit, no doubt–and require one or another of the four heads on the IKEA tool. My next tool of choice was going to be the circular saw.
Drinking water now after sweating all day and in preparation for the world’s biggest rum and tonic in a bit, once I get this desk deconstruction past the foolproof point.
Josie
@Hungry Joe: Enjoyed your interview. I’m a retired middle school librarian and am glad to see someone write realistically for the age group. It is a fascinating age, and it sounds like you have a good window into their world. Also, that is, indeed, a very cute dog.
muddy
@Svensker: The nuts are fine, we always have to use that instead of flour. The allergies are self-diagnosed, and the complaints run more towards smelly farts or itching, not anaphylaxis. I am the only one in my family not to be sensitive to damn near everything. Thanks for the heads up though.
jenn
Holy toledo. That interview Romney gave was crazy. Its not so much an interview as a pro-Romney editorial with Romney quotes mixed in. Do I remember correctly that Adelson owns a paper? If so, I’m guessing that’s the one. At any rate, it gives Fox a run for its money on the anti-Obama front.
JoyfulA
@lamh35: Try http://www.progressiverx.com/store/. DH read about them in a BusinessWeek article. Their statins took my cholesterol level down to where my doc wanted it, so the stuff works.
Yutsano
@muddy: Try the brown butter anyway. It has a wonderful nutty flavour that tastes nothing like the pale yellow stuff most folks associate butter with. And if the objection is over the caloric load, allergies win over voluntary diets. And fact is you can’t please everyone. They’re not required to eat it after all. :)
Dennis SGMM
@Steeplejack:
What? You ain’t got a 2.11123mm 15 point star wrench? Sheesh.
Suffern ACE
@JPL: Yep. Something like that. Something like, we should have crushed the Arab spring and…well crushing the spring we should have done.
muddy
@NotMax: I think that’s pretty close to what I am aiming at, but I have some local smoked mozzarella, and a lot of fresh herbs to put with the kale. And some local no-nitrate bacon to put on the outside.
I wonder if I could disguise the taste of butter for that sauce by putting some hazelnut oil on at the last minute or something.
Steeplejack
@Dennis SGMM:
Hell, this may be one. All I know is that it came from IKEA and it fits the holes. My needs are simple.
quannlace
I see this complaint so often; I wonder what media outlets you look at. It was in my local paper (Star Ledger) It was on my local tv news, and on CNN and MSNBC. Several times.
muddy
@Yutsano: I’m with you. It’s a taste preference, and he’s not the birthday person. This is the dessert, not made by me, but sounding tasty:
Bmaccnm
@lamh35: Maybe some else already answered this- I’m late to the thread, but drug manufacturers have some discount programs. Look on each manufacturer’s website. Most of them require some MD/prescriber input that the patient needs this particular med and not a cheaper one.
Dennis SGMM
@Steeplejack:
LOL! Worked on both Jaguars and Porsches back in the day. I became convinced that they just got high and made up some of the fasteners.
cckids
@muddy: This may be late, but if your guest has “lots of allergies”, . . . walnuts may be a problem. Just saying.
scav
@quannlace: I think one problem night be expecting a real call and response kind of effort. Didn’t ever really seem to get going on the response end of things certainly and Boris lacks a critical Gospel gene-pair or two.
muddy
@cckids: Yes, Svensker said that too, She’s fine with nuts. Thanks.
JPL
@Suffern ACE: cuz of freedom, also, too.
@Hungry Joe: Please be a nudge. I couldn’t read your article so went to Amazon and read the glowing reviews.
Amir Khalid
Here’s a lovely story from the Olympics, about a woman who competed in the 10m air rifle event in the 33rd week of her pregnancy. She didn’t make the final, but finishing 13 places above her world ranking of 47th must count as a personal success.
Steeplejack
@efgoldman:
That’s what was worrying me earlier today. I have a vague (suppressed) memory of trouble putting this thing together seven years ago, and if I was going to have recourse to the circular saw I wanted to do it at a reasonable hour. But other stuff got in the way, so I’m dismantling it now. But this thing has to be off the carpet tomorrow morning when that gets cleaned, so I may be making a just-before-closing run to Home Depot to get the world’s quietest crowbar. I hope it doesn’t come to that. I’ve got the top off and am working my way down. Maybe it’s time for that rum and tonic. A little swing oil always seems to help.
Amir Khalid
@Amir Khalid:
Forgot the link.
Maude
@lamh35:
Go to Medicine Express and see if the drugs are available. It is legal and in New Zealand.
New Zealand has drugs without a prescription that need a script here. The prices are very low.
I have used it and the drugs came by registered mail.
gogol's wife
@jenn:
The one he owns seems to be called Israel HaYom. He bought it so that his friend Netanyahu could get favorable coverage. I learned this from David Margolick’s great article in Vanity Fair.
ETA: I traced the link back, and yep, that’s the one Adelson owns.
JoyfulA
@Maude: The same with ProgressiveRX from India. I just looked up a new drug I was prescribed that cost me $90 WITH Medicare Part D at the local pharmacy (ME: Am I in the doughnut hole? Pharmacist: Ha, ha, no it would be $300 and some.), and the same dose and number is $29.95 at ProgressiveRX.
Linda
Lamh35: talk to the nurse at Mom’s doctor’s office. Nurses deal with This problem all the time and can help you navigate the paperwork maze each drug co requires.
Rich (in name only) in Reno
For some reason this brings to mind Bush the Lesser’s laying of hands upon German Chancellor Angela Merkel at the 2006 G8 Summit. That went over so well.
scav
@Linda: Similarly, I have a Reverend Aunt (meaning, Lutheran Minister) who’s job at the hospital seemed to combine ministering and practical patient-hospital interfacing of this sort. It was amazing to watch the network part before her like the Red-Tape Seas. Maybe you can find someone similar in your hospital.
Jose Padilla
“The whole thing is another reminder of why the Romney campaign keeps such tight reins on the candidate. Despite his four years in elected office in Massachusetts and his experience in two Presidential campaigns, he still lacks the political antennae of a lifelong politician. The true pol is a master of what game theorists refer to as “backward induction.” Before doing or saying anything, a filtering mechanism in his (or her) brain looks ahead and figures out how it is going to look in tomorrow’s newspapers. For somebody like John Boehner or Chuck Schumer, it no longer takes any conscious effort. The filtering mechanism works automatically, ensuring that the voice box serves up nothing but pablum and political attack lines.”
No, respectfully, that’s not the problem. Mitt’s problem appears to be that he doesn’t understand common courtesies. You don’t go to another country and tell them their Olympic Games suck. You just don’t do it. You don’t go in somebody’s house and tell them their home smells funny. You don’t meet somebody’s wife for the first time and tell her she needs to lose forty pounds. I’ve seen it conjectured that Romney may have a low-level Asperger’s Syndrome. Or maybe he’s just a dick. Either way he doesn’t know how to behave around other people.
lamh35
@JoyfulA: thank you. That website looks wonderful. We are hoping and praying that she can get on Medicaid but until we get a decision, she needs her heart meds and insulin.
David Koch
ABC Evening News really dumped on Romney tonight
scav
Guardian
Once again, the fairly explicit and official assumption that the policies of the President and Nation go to the highest bidder and that this is as it should be.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: I succumbed and bought the Ikea tool kit.
scav
Bother. Sheldon Adelson runs a banned type of activity. Could my guard link be rescued? Thanks.
Omnes Omnibus
@Jose Padilla:
Personally, I think that is it.
mainmati
@muddy: Spaghetti squash: it’s like spaghetti so a marinara sauce will do nicely. Also, you can serve it with a warm lemon vinaigrette sauce if you want to do something different.
feebog
I walked in the house after a perfect day for golf and caught a whiff of Mrs. Feebog’s homemade split pea soup. Getting ready t devour about a gallon of it as soon as the wine chills properly.
And Jose Padilla; he’s a dick.
Hill Dweller
I just saw a weird RNC ad during the Olympics alleging Obama’s stimulus sent millions to foreign countries and lost 500,000 jobs.
I realize they’re trying to muddy the water and weaken any outsourcing attacks against Willard, but the ad made little sense.
Roberta in MN
@c u n d gulag:
I agree with you, I hope you don’t mind but I copied this to TOD site to share. :)
S. Holland
@Hungry Joe: Great review!
jl
@Omnes Omnibus: I think so too. Simple answer to simple question. But I think Krugman nails an important point about the kind of capitalism that made Romney rich, which reinforces any of Romney’s natural tendancies:
“…the bankers of yore operated by building relationships; Bain made its investors money in large part by breaking relationships, e.g. by walking away from implicit promises to workers. It’s not a style that makes for good diplomacy.”
http://krugman.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/07/27/hes-no-averell-harriman
And also too in addition, thanks to Betty Cracker earlier to today for reminding me to root for Rafalca!
Rafalca for the GOLD!
Would be great to see Mitt’s reaction. And like Betty Cracker, I am sure Rafalca is as nice a horse as any.
Anyone know if the dressage will be televised?
And I too wonder what is Obama’s
SaturdaySundayMonday(?) surprise? Maybe, announcing that he will go watch the dressage competition as a gesture of campaign goodwill? That would a very nice gesture, don’t you all think?JoyfulA
@lamh35: You need to scan the prescription or the label from her medicine bottle, or else have her doctor FAX a prescription (which would probably cost her another doctor’s visit and fee). Meds may be cheaper here than through Medicaid, depending. Also, if her meds are common, they may be on the $4 lists at the various chains, which would be best of all, except for the lines.
I’m not hungry for breakfast after I’ve taken all my pills, so this is a familiar topic.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
I did not know there was such a thing. I will have to check it out.
I’m probably going to be buying an IKEA platform bed in a week or two, and maybe a bookcase or something similar, after I get the lay of the land in the new place.
I’m usually pretty good about keeping the tools that come with the furniture. Just not so good about remembering where I keep them. I even found the instruction pamphlet for the computer desk and am using it to guide the deconstruction.
jenn
@jl: Yeah, it would be a nice gesture -particularly since Romney isn’t going to be watching it!
David Koch
Brits openly mocking Mitty at the Olympics
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David Koch
Oh, the stinging humiliation of being a world wide laughing stock.
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muddy
@mainmati: No nightshade plants allowed!
RedKitten
Heh…my husband and I joke that just once, we’d like to see a Bob the Builder call-and-response as follows:
“Can we fix it?”
“No, it’s fucked!”
I’m thinking that this may wind up being a pretty accurate description of Romney-as-candidate.
jl
@David Koch: Thanks for that pic! But, you know those Anglo Saxon Brits, they are an independent freedom loving people who stand up to oppressive authority and insults every time. It’s in their blood
lines, don’t you know.Edit: the UK mess what such a beaut, I actually look forward to feeling slightly sorry for Mitt’s suffering due to his cluelessness, maybe even a few seconds a week, but sadly cannot do that until he is sure to lose the election. I hope he keeps at it with making messes all through the campaign, so I can display my generosity of spirit towards him asap.
RedKitten
@David Koch: Mitt has really sad eyes — it’s something I’ve noticed before, and for awhile, actually made me feel like he actually had some human qualities.
Turns out that those eyes are the only human thing about him. And they’re sad, because they know they’re attached to Mitt Romney.
MikeJ
@RedKitten: You Nexus huh? I design your eyes!
lamh35
What the hell? The Chinese Gymnastics team has completely fallen apart! So now all the other teams are actually making it to the medalling finals where before they may never have done so without the Chinese guys just melting down.
Narcissus
ryan seacrest really
jl
@RedKitten: Like GW, I think Mitt clearly has mommy and daddy issues of some kind, especially daddy issues. Probably, to be serious, the guy is a lost insecure mess inside, again, like GW, but probably with less robust defense mechanisms. Probably very effective defense mechanisms, but much more brittle, and which degrade much less gracefully.
The Democratic bench is deep enough to more reliably weed out people with those kind of glaring problems, though Edwards got surprizingly far. The GOP seems to weed out the sane and well adjusted early on. Did any well adjusted, sane, and reasonably intelligent GOP primary candidate get more than 2 or 3 percent of the vote?
Steeplejack
@jl:
Assumes facts not in evidence.
scav
Well, there’s at least one other guy having a similarly bad day after the early Olympics: Tory MP Aidan Burley of the leftie, multicultural crap tweet. Course, he was already in hot water after attending a Nazi-themed stag do last year so presumably won’t be dropping into Israel (or Poland) to commiserate.
moonbat
@MikeJ: The thread is yours, sir.
JGabriel
I think all of these stories about the Churchill bust should be headlined, “Romney To Replace Oval Office Bust of Abe Lincoln With Bust of Foreign Prime Minister”.
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a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@lamh35: Canada. Really I use North Drug Store. Better prices, by far, than Progressive. I checked, for example price of a med I take, in a low dose that isn’t generic (though higher doses are). That med, 90 pills at Progressive are $31.50, I get 100 for $12 at North. Another one, they list at $90 for 90 pills; I pay $140 for 448 pills. These *may* be similar to some of what your mother needs. North Drug Store . You can fax the prescriptions, and if the doc orders refills they will call you about 28 days out to remind you to refill. It’s an amazing legal savings. If you want more details flsgreen at gmail. I can also point you to some local places that might be of help. : )
MikeJ
@moonbat: I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched c-beams glitter in the dark near Tannhäuser Gate. All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.
Belafon (formerly anonevent)
@jl: I think the Saturday Morning Surprise is Obama watching Romney twitch at every move and gesture he makes. “Imagine,” Obama says, “if the Romney presidency jumps at every little thing that happens. That is no way to run a country. It will get people hurt and killed.”
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Hungry Joe: Oh Yippee!! I’m an enormous DFW fan, and now I must read your book. Perhaps I can order a signed copy? Email for me is above.
cat48
I’m truly sick of the Churchill Bust. The Whitehouse Curator takes all the art out the Oval when a new president is moving in. It has happened many times before without incident; but of course, the Obama move in comes with it’s VERY OWN Conspiracy Theory thanks to FOX & the Goopers. There are actually Oval pictures on Flicker with no art work on the Walls, etc. when he first moved in. This Conspiracy was kept going for 4 yrs. Maybe the WH Flicker Feed could give us 4 more. I hate the GOP.
Anne Laurie
@lamh35: One more suggestion — if your mom uses one of the big chain pharmacies, some of them have “senior discount” membership programs, and the pharmacists are supposed to help new members fill out the paperwork & suggest generics / cheaper versions that their doctors can prescribe.
Jebediah
My agenda is stuffing a bunch of music onto my wife’s new Nano that I just got her to celebrate me having a job again.
Also celebrating finally installing the pie filter (THANK YOU CLEEK!) Now special timmeh/kola noscopy/spatula/whatever the fuck only exists (to me, anyway) as a purveyor of paeans to pie.* First troll so worthless and annoying that I actually went ahead and got it. So far he is the only hydocephalic fucknuckle in the pie list…the other trolls at least serve the purpose of keeping me more or less up to speed on winger talking points/logic etc.
ETA: *sadly only on my other computer – I had to dig out this laptop to do the nano-stuffing. I guess no reason not to protect this computer too…
redshirt
@David Koch: How can she be British? She’s clearly not Anglo Saxon!
Jebediah
@Jebediah:
done and done
Hungry Joe
Thanks, everybody, for all the support. The website for ANYWAY* is arthursalm.com, if you want to contact me directly for a book. By all means include your Juicer name.
I said I wouldn’t post about my book anymore, and I meant it when I said it. But this is just to wind things up. Really. Seriously. No more about me and my book; back to Willard the Virus-plagued Cyborg. (Which could be a good title for a middle-grade novel. Hmmmmm … )
Lojasmo
@muddy:
You will need fat. Bacon would be the suggested source, or olive, or coconut oil.
muddy
Probably bacon and finish with a little nut oil at the end.
Omnes Omnibus
@muddy: Did someone say bacon?
Dulcie
@lamh35: Have you tried Walgreens prescription saving club? I have saved a ton of money. I’m a contractor without insurance, and I don(t know what I would do without it. The cost is $20.00 to join, and membership renews annually. Check it out.
Ivan Ivanovich Renko
@Hungry Joe: Congrats, dude! First Book, YAAY!
bob h
Carl Lewis wanted to run for the House in his native NJ, but was kept off the ticket by Republicans last year using residency arguments. Looks like he is getting back at them. Hopefully, he’ll be running in 2014.
WaterGirl
@Hungry Joe:The 6 or 7 reviews on amazon were very positive. It sounds like you may have written a very special book. It also sounds like the book was written in a unique style. So nice when you can do something in your own voice that maybe hasn’t been done before.
I just bought a copy of your book on amazon and am having it shipped to my twelve year old niece.
WaterGirl
@David Koch: EVen Mitt’s open-neck shirts give the appearance of ascots. I wonder if he has them specially tailored to give that effect. I also wonder if he realizes it makes his look like an arrogant douche, possibly not the effect he is going for.
Hungry Joe
@WaterGirl:
1) Thank you!
2)
I don’t think Mitt realizes much of anything.
xian
@Hungry Joe: congratulations!
Another Halocene Human
@cat48: The First Lady taking a trip was an occasion for outrage by the GOP. Just a bunch of uppity nears, Bill Ayers Saul Alinksy sekrit password New Black Panther Takeover!
Michelle is an amazing woman, hip deep in all the shit that’s being flung at her, yet keeps her head held high and comes out smelling like a rose. A truly amazing woman. (The Jackie Robinson of first ladies.)