I’ve started to write about ten different posts in the last half hour, and I just can’t because I am so physically exhausted. I just can not burn the candle at both ends anymore. Four days of conferencing and exploring new cities and drinking way too much and staying up way too late just takes a toll on me. It’s all I can do to blurt this out.
And I am so looking forward to getting home to the girls and Tunch.
Speaking of Tunch, my mother called to let me know he caught a bird (two in one year!). Direct quote: “Tunch caught a bird and dragged it into the new bathroom to show your father. It must have been a very sickly bird.”
Oh, I also bought two new bumperstickers today:
“Remember when Republicans cared about all Americans? Yeah, me neither.”
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“I’ll believe corporations are people when Texas executes one.”
They made me laugh.
JenJen
That Texas bumpersticker is money!! WANT!
SteveinSC
I love the new tone with democrats: “It looks like meat is back on the menu, boys.”–LOTR On the other hand, is there a “too-big-to-fail-money-churning-bankster” that Obama and Holder can’t learn to love?
Mnemosyne
Getting ready for our weeklong vacation to Chicago. We just discovered that United changed our flight, so now we’re leaving LAX at 6 o’fucking clock a.m.
It was 6:55 am before, but that 55 fewer minutes of sleep is gonna be a hell of a bitch.
Dennis SGMM
Bumper stickers? Mine reads “If corporations are people then Romney is a Serial Killer”
MikeJ
@Mnemosyne: IS BGinChi gonna do a meetup for you? Is he still coming to Seattle for a meetup here?
El Cid
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It will be black, mentally retarded, and the defender assigned to it will sleep through the trial, otherwise it won’t happen.
srv
5 or 6 Blind Pigs and Plinys and I’m not sure what tha fuck else I’m supposed to do tonight.
I’m pretty sure I could catch a very sickly pigeon if I laid down on the sidewalk for awhile. Bit they have laws about that now.
I could go see Neil Young with eleventy billion other people, but I’ll wait for a text to the after party.
Cassidy
You just don’t like other people’s open threads do you?
Culture of Truth
screw that sickly bird crap – didn’t you see that study that all cats are killers?
Randy P
I’m a guy who loves being up way past midnight. I’m also a guy who’s always loved seeing the sunrise. I’m over 50 now, and it annoys the hell out of me that my body just won’t let me do that anymore. Not cost-free anyway. And if I do two of those in a row, I’ll pay for days.
I used to be able to just do a catnap and wake up completely refreshed.
Alison
Ahem.
(To quote my astonishing wit from twitter) That sound you hear is Paul Krugman headdesking himself into oblivion. And then burninating the whole country.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/romney-prepares-pick-ryan_649722.html
General Stuck
Looks like team Obama Priorities SuperPac heard Mitt’s wimpering plea for a truce. And delivers an answer.
The beatings will continue.
dance around in your bones
I just woke up to find all my peeps went camping. In between I dished with my comadre about all the failings in our family, haha.
Going to enjoy two whole days alone w/o the grandkids….
Listening to Pandora (Elvis Costello channel) and wishing I still had my painkillers for my broken hip. Oh well.
My kittehs used to bring in live critters to ‘play with’ until they got bored; then it was up to me to either set free or dispatch said critters.
amk
@Alison: sounds like even billy boy doesn’t trust mittbot.
Hill Dweller
@Alison: Krugman’s post on Willard’s economic advisers is pretty devastating.
SiubhanDuinne
My candle burns at both ends
It will not last the night;
But ah, my foes, and oh, my friends –
It gives a lovely light.
— ESVM
Anne Laurie
@amk:
One of the very few things I can’t slam the Romney machine for would be head-faking the media. Spend a long afternoon trapped in the yard with a dozen ball-obsessed golden retrievers, and eventually even Gandhi would start fake-tossing towards the corner where they all fall over each other trying to get there first.
jl
‘ Speaking of Tunch, my mother called to let me know he caught a bird (two in one year!). Direct quote: “Tunch caught a bird and dragged it into the new bathroom to show your father. It must have been a very sickly bird.” ‘
Is Cole’s dad OK? That must have been traumatic for him.
And, poor Tunch, he don’t get no respect.
Warren Terra
Did you see the story this last week (iirc) where they hung cameras around the necks of indoor/outdoor house cats (on breakaway collars) to find out what they do when they go outside for a few hours a day?
As I recall, they found that for every dead bird the cat drags back to the house, it kills and eats another, and kills and abandons two more. If Tunch is completely typical (not that I’d insult him so), there are another half-dozen or so birds he’s killed that you never knew about.
dww44
Thanks, Cole, for sending me on to bed with a nice laugh and I too would love to have one of those Texas bumper stickers.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
some ammo for arguments with wing-nut relatives
Steeplejack
@Hill Dweller:
Krugman hammers them: “Culture of Fraud.”
amk
@Anne Laurie: Question does the inept mittbot team have enough brains to pull off a head-fake ?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Alison: huh, the fact that Bill Kristol is always wrong plus the fact that he’s announcing in Virginia… he couldn’t be clueless enough to go for McConnell. Could Our Willard actually want to ride into Tampa on a platform of car elevators, hidden tax returns and voucherizing Medicare?
ETA: OMG, not just Bill Quayle Palin Iraq Kristol, but Stephen The Connection Hayes, too? They have to be talking out of their arses. and that first sentence is really weird– The Romney campaign is ready to support Ryan if they pick Ryan? Huh?
amk
twitter is all atwitter with the news that the veep will be announced saturday morning.
A weekend announcement ? If mitt ashamed of his pick ?
gian
Being slow on the uptake… it finally dawned on me today the connotation of the name crossroads for mr. Rove.
Go to crossroads and make a deal with the devil
Hill Dweller
@amk: They must really want to change the narrative. If they do announce tomorrow morning, it is horrible timing. A least wait until the Olympics are over.
Dennis SGMM
Here gang, take a break and listen to Eric Clapton and Tracy Chapman doing Give Me Just One Reason. Your ears will fall in love.
Dee Loralei
Romne to announce VP pick on Sat in Norfolk! Is it McDonnald or Ryan?
MikeJ
@amk: As long as people are talking about who the veep is they aren’t talking about about tax returns.
With the competence of the Romney campaign, they will announce tomorrow.
Mnemosyne
@Dee Loralei:
I’ll tell you one thing — I ain’t gonna be requesting the text message from the campaign like I did with Obama.
I’m still kinda pissed that the Biden message came through at, like, 4 am in 2008, and woke us up out of sound sleep in our hotel room.
The Dangerman
Ryan? Really?
Romney is p0ker dead money and I guess he’s all in.
Will the 55+ crowd really buy in to the claims that they will be grandfathered in and they have nothing to be concerned about?
ETA How can Romney look like a strong leader when his right flank says “jump” and his response is “how high”?
Seanly
Yeah, why do it on a Saturday & second to last day of the Olympics?
I think Romney is going to go with Ryan. There’s a lot of very terrible political calculus behind the choice & I think it is going to end up just sinking Romney further.
Martin
Virginia? Oh, I think this is going sooooo not right for Mitt.
Mnemosyne
@MikeJ:
Believe it or not, IRL I am too shy and retiring to go to in-person meetups.
Baud
@Seanly:
That’s my guess too, although the other possibility is that he is announcing tomorrow before he is forced by the right wing to choose Ryan.
Joseph Nobles
So unless it’s Tim Pawlenty, that means Pawlenty is just a placeholder on the Sunday shows for the veep candidate. Wow, maybe Mitt Romney dug something up on him and forced him out of the race.
Mark S.
I want that one!
MikeJ
@Mnemosyne: I always tell people how shy I am and they laugh and laugh because they only know me *after* I decide to talk to them. At which point shutting me up can be a problem.
amk
@Baud:
Good point.
Studly Pantload, the emotionally unavailable unicorn
I *KNEW* this bunch was stoopid enough to make a veep announcement over the weekend new cycle, I just *KNEW* it. And with the Olympics still winding down, to boot.
Hell, I was fully one-half surprised he didn’t make it today.
Haydnseek
@Randy P: I hear ya Randy. I’m pushing 61, and I still own the guitars, and the amps, and still have the friends I always played music with, but it’s just not the same. Still, I’m glad I can still rock out with my pals, but damn, when did getting tired become part of the equation? If I was rich, I’d hire some kid to throw the TV out of the hotel room into the swimming pool. I can’t lift the damn thing.
dance around in your bones
@Dennis SGMM:
Gawd damn, that was good. My ears, they are in the Love Zone.
Thanks :)
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud:
Interesting take, shut it all down before it gets bigger than Willard
amk
@MikeJ: veep jibber jabber lasts for what, all of 24 hours ? good luck with that wishful thinking.
asiangrrlMN
Why is there no Tunchie pic to accompany this heroic feat, Cole? Surely, your mom could have snapped a pic.
And, Paul fucking Ryan? Oh lordy. The ads practically write themselves.
P.S. BWAHAHHAHHAH! Suck it, Ratface Pawlenty!
Hill Dweller
@The Dangerman: Even if it is grandfathered in, the number of people on Medicare will continue to shrink, undermining their purchasing power. Consequently, either congress or the individual will have to pay more.
Furthermore, once the vouchers are fully implemented, it will only guarantee insurance, not quality health care.
The Obama campaign is going to pummel Willard if Ryan is on the ticket. Willard is having an abysmal time now, but put Ryan on the ticket, and medicare, medicaid and social security take front and center. That’s fighting on Dems’ turf.
amk
Time for for mitt/voucher boy bumper stickers?
Narcissus
Where are you all getting this Ryan rumor from? I mean, how legit is it?
Baud
@Narcissus:
It’s legit. I pulled it out of my ass myself.
MikeJ
@amk: My thought was that if he was smart he would not announce because at least right now there’s some other story besides how crooked he is. After tomorrow it’s the only story.
TaMara (BHF)
@MikeJ: This describes me to a T.
jl
@Steeplejack:
If you follow the link on Krugman’s post, three authors cited in Mitt’s junk economic analysis, all very well known and very good economists, are yelling foul on how their work was misused and distorted in the study.
A very no good bad bad day for economics as a profession.
Redshift
@The Dangerman:
They didn’t when Bush tried to do it with Social Security. Oddly enough, unlike IGMFY conservatives, most older people are not eager to support their grandchildren getting screwed over. Especially when all they’re getting in return is “you don’t get screwed!”
asiangrrlMN
@Narcissus: Being reported that the rightwing think tanks and FOX all think it’ll be Ryan. We’ll find out for sure tomorrow morning.
Mark S.
I still can’t believe that Lakers trade.
Mark S.
@jl:
Is Mankiw considered a hack by fellow economists? He certainly seems like one to me.
Steeplejack
@jl:
Just got done reading the Post piece. I think someone linked it here, but I don’t remember where. It is very good, and damning.
TaMara (BHF)
Announcing your VP pick on a Saturday? The fail train just keeps chugging along, doesn’t it?
Anne Laurie
@Mnemosyne:
Believe it or not, I found the ADD meds helped with that quite a bit, by dulling my overrreaction to ambient noise. Might be worth experimenting, if it’s something you really want to attend.
PurpleGirl
@The Dangerman: Will the 55+ crowd really buy in to the claims that they will be grandfathered in and they have nothing to be concerned about?
Ah, no way in hell. And that’s exactly where Paul Ryan deserves to go for his ideas.
The prophet Nostradumbass
I took a few photos of my day today…
Set 1
Set 2.
Mnemosyne
@MikeJ:
People never believe me when I tell them that G (my husband) is very talkative, because he’s really only talkative with people he knows well.
My co-workers especially think he’s the “strong, silent type” but he can be a chatterbox when you get him wound up.
hamletta
Hey, you guys! I am whoring for my peeps, and my city.
Any of you who have Facebook accounts can vote for Lutheran Services of Tennessee in Toyota’s 100 Cars For Good contest next Friday.
You should do this, because their van is fixin’ to take a shit.
They do what they do because our society has decided the people they work with are beneath consideration, and they need a functioning vehicle to do it.
They have a lovely YouTube video.
I may be a whore, but LST is doing the Lord’s work here on earth, and I’m happy to help it along.
Anne Laurie
@hamletta: Sent you an email, just in case you check this post before you read your mail.
JR in WV
Tunch the Mighty, hunter / killer machine!
We used to have a cat who would catch mice and voles and bring them inside, with his chin tucked in so we couldn’t see the little victim.
Then he would let them go in the bathtub, so they couldn’t get away. They lasted a lot longer, usually the cat has to break a leg or two, and then the mouse doesn’t last very long at all.
Then one day Timmy brought in a little sparrow… I followed him into the bathroom, and the look on the little cat’s face when the bird flew away was AMAZING. ‘Course, then I had to catch the bird, while laughing.