After Balloon-Juice coverage of All Zombie-Eyed Granny Starver, All The Time, it’s time to remember that there are other things going on in the world.
Like this: Navy Trauma Nurse awarded Bronze Star for removing live RPG warhead from wounded Marine in Afghanistan.
Consider this an open thread.
anibundel
HOLY JESUS CAT GET YOUR HEAD OUT OF THE GODDAMN TOASTER OVEN.
What things have you yelled today that you can’t believe you had to say?
different-church-lady
“So I Nailed That, Pt. 2”: Satire is dead.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@anibundel: Your cat is clearly depressed. Maybe it’s because she doesn’t understand the difference between electric and gas ovens. =)
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@anibundel: “What things have you yelled today that you can’t believe you had to say?”
ROMNEY YOU STUPID FUCK! YOU JUST HANDED THE ELECTION TO OBAMA!
hehehehe
ETA: And IMO, Romney’s about on par with your cat in terms of outrageous, unforced stupidity.
quannlace
Charles Pierce should be declared a National Treasure.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
If you were the Advocate of civilization, defender of civilization, teacher of the rules of civilization, arouser of those who form civilization, organizer of the pro-civilization activists, and leader ‘possibly’ of the civilizing forces, whither would you turn after your presidential campaign went down in richly deserved flames of mockery?
it follows, I think , as night follows day.
“Today, Callista and Rachel Ray will show you how to make a Thanksgiving stuffing that will have your family stuffed and giving thanks! And I’ll talk to Pat Buchanan about Obama’s plan to put abortifacient drugs in your drinking water to turn America into a black power state. Then stay tuned as Ed Rendell and I, just in time for winter cruise season, model swimwear for the older, paunchy gentleman. Callista?”
“That’s right, Newt, it’s gonna be a Gingrichiffic hour! Don’t forget, tomorrow my lawyer will come share the rules for getting an ironclad pre-nup when your married lover gets caught and has to leave that old bitch and propose to you!”
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@quannlace: I’m surprised that he’s still not on the BJ blogroll.
SiubhanDuinne
@different-church-lady: They clearly got the idea from you, so there’s that.
anibundel
@danah gaz (fka gaz): I hid the cinnamon buns that I bought this morning to celebrate the Ryan debacle in the toaster over to keep Sir EatsALot the Kitty from trying to attack the plastic container and get them out.
So an hour or so ago,I hear this noise in the kitchen. I go in, and he’s got the toaster oven door oven and he’s got his head in there trying to chew at the plastic box. *headdesk*
quannlace
At a different animal.
‘GET THE HELL OUT OF MY TOMATO PATCH!”
Chipmunks are devouring all my green tomatoes. Bet I’m not gonna get a single ripe one this year.
My dog is NOT doing her job.
different-church-lady
@SiubhanDuinne: If this kind of thing is the consequence of having ideas, then I hereby vow to never have another one as long as I live.
halteclere
I like this quote in Soonergrunt’s link about the nurse:
That’s the type of calculus I never have to consider at my job.
different-church-lady
@quannlace: Since I got the cat, I have not shared nearly as much fresh produce with varmints as I used to.
Especially once I figured out that used kitty litter was an excellent way of getting a woodchuck to abandon her den.
Corner Stone
In amazingly depressing court ruling news:
A ruling in the case of failed futures brokerage Sentinel Management Group could make it more difficult for customers to recoup money lost in the much larger collapse of MF Global, according to Sentinel’s bankruptcy trustee.
So, basically, any financial organization holding your funds can now use those funds as collateral to secure loans they receive so they can make insanely leveraged bets in highly volatile markets? And this is legal now?
This is the kind of ruling people like burnspbesq are talking about when they come through and arrogantly declare that bad things are not necessarily illegal things. And we’re supposed to just take it, I guess.
PeakVT
it’s time to remember that there are other things going on in the world
Yeah, but Romney’s Veep situation has kept me grinning all morning, because it’s just that bad of a pick. I’m staying focused.
ETA: Only 11 threads on the subject this morning? Slackers.
anibundel
@quannlace: Our Outdoor Marshmallow Kitty has developed the habit of lying under the tomato plants to nap. It is amazingly effective.
jeffreyw
Fuckin Republican dinner guests…no sense of humor.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Wait, is he talking to NPR producers? About doing a Newtie and Cally Lee NPR program? Because if so, I’m not only NOT going to donate during the next Beg-a-Thon, I’m going to sue to recover all my previous donations.
Corner Stone
@different-church-lady:
Ok, so you’re 0 for 1 so far. That’s a tough start but I’m sure you’ll dig out of it. Chin up!
WereBear
In a typical move, Tristan prefers the cardboard liner from a new sheet set over the cat play tunnel I found on sale.
Tristan keeps it simple.
In the lower right corner, RJ looks on. Because he’s not going to be the first one to explore it.
MikeBoyScout
Mexico defeats Brazil for the football Gold Medal, 2-1.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@SiubhanDuinne: I think he told NPR he’s talking to non-NPR producers. Is there a network that is to Fox what Current is to MSNBC? I can’t imagine anyone outside of the Murdoch orbit thinks anyone wants more Newt.
SiubhanDuinne
@Soonergrunt (top, don’t know how to link to FPers’ main posts they way most of you kids do): Thanks for linking to that great story about the combat nurse. His Bronze Star is certainly well deserved.
FlipYrWhig
@Corner Stone: Do you think burns thinks that we’re supposed to “accept” toxic practices that may not be strictly illegal? I thought the point was to concentrate on making them expressly illegal if we want them to stop.
Corner Stone
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The only TV show I can possibly picture Newt and Callista hosting is something on QVC/Home Shopping.
Violet
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Regis and Kathie Lee? It hasn’t been “Kathie Lee” since around the time Newt was in office.
Corner Stone
@FlipYrWhig: I think BBQ lacks the thought process to get from “how” the practices are legal to “why” the practices are legal. Because that’s how he gets paid. To figure out how to do a transaction in a legal way. It’s the “why” that’s the most damaging part to our continued democracy.
But what we should be talking about is how to maneuver a guillotine to the front porch of this judge’s house.
Dennis SGMM
Soonergrunt, thanks for passing that one along. The heroism of nurses, and corpsmen doesn’t get nearly the attention that I think it should.
Comrade Mary
@halteclere: Someone should send that to the Village Fellatio Club. THAT is what a courageous decision looks like, not deciding to starve grannies so you and your friends can get tax breaks.
Martin
@Corner Stone:
No, we’re supposed to vote to fix it. Put the blame where it belongs – if the laws are shit, don’t blame the courts – blame the guys who wrote the laws.
raven
So a “Combat Nurse” in the Corps is an officer and a Corpsman is an EM?
Corner Stone
@Martin: Why the heck would I blame the laws when this is a judicial ruling?
The regulations quite clearly were set to segregate customer funds. This appeals ruling says something completely opposite.
anibundel
@Violet: It’s not even Regis anymore. It’s “Rotating Male Applicant and Kelly.”
Corner Stone
@Martin: And instead of getting into a pissing match with me, why don’t you stop and consider that all your Apple stock is now not really yours if your broker goes under and has debt outstanding.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone:
No, we are supposed to make a fucking effort to change the laws so some of this shit is illegal. Do try to keep up.
Dennis SGMM
@raven:
Don’t know if it’s a hard and fast rule, but all of the Corpsmen I met were enlisted. There were noncoms but no officers.
ETA: Could be that the nurse has a degree.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: And again, there actually are rules and regs in place to not let this happen.
So we need to change the laws, already in place, and also change the sitting judiciary.
On it!
Shawn in ShowMe
Given Rmoney’s lack of supervision, I think the Olympics have gone surprisingly well. Some really fast times on the track, including the greatest 800m race ever run. And the women’s teams across a variety of sports flat out got it done. Wish we had cereal boxes for all of them.
Violet
@anibundel: True enough, but when it was Regis, it hadn’t been Kathie Lee for a decade. I knew Newt was stuck in the 90’s, but this really illustrates how bad it is.
And who the hell would even watch such a show? I can’t imagine Newt having the discipline to show up every day.
Corner Stone
@Shawn in ShowMe: I’m still a little baffled after watching the men’s relay lose to Bahamas. How the hell did they eat that lead up on the anchor leg?
Arclite
Okay, enough of this off topic stuff. Back to Ryan.
You’ve got to wonder how insane the Romney people are. It took David Frum less than three hours to come up with this:
raven
@Dennis SGMM: “A military nurse holds rank in his or her respective service the same as other officers. A brand new nurse is commissioned as a second lieutenant or O-1 in the nurse corps they are commissioned in. They work up through the ranks by completing career milestones and through a competitive process called a promotion board.”
Corner Stone
@Shawn in ShowMe: I wish there were a DVD or compilation for sale of all the men’s and women’s 100M and 200M Olympic finals for like the last 4 Olympics. I would buy that and watch it every time I turned off my streaming pr0n.
Dennis SGMM
@raven:
Thank you! Makes sense because they would have a degree before they entered the service.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@anibundel: LOL. What I find particularly weird about this is that cats cannot taste sweet. Their taste buds just don’t have that. I wonder what the appeal is, to your cat. =) Too funny.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: A fair point in this case. And since it was an appeals court decision, I tend to doubt the Supremes will fix it. On the other hand, burnsie’s refrain that bad or fucked-up does not necessarily equal illegal still stands.
Martin
@Corner Stone: Those securities aren’t futures. Those are covered by completely different laws and different regulators. The derivatives I hold are covered by different laws yet.
I’m of the view that the laws covering all of these different things should be identical WRT customer money, but they aren’t. It’s a hodgepodge of laws that are strong for some things and weak for others.
Martin
@Corner Stone:
So, basically, you’d never watch it.
Corner Stone
@Martin:
That’s what you think today…
See this?:
“That Sentinel failed to keep client funds properly segregated is not, on its own, sufficient to rule as a matter of law that Sentinel acted ‘with actual intent to hinder, delay, or defraud’ its customers,” U.S. Circuit Judge John D. Tinder wrote in the ruling.”
That’s a signed blank check for any financial institution, IMO.
Corner Stone
@Martin: I meant, “it’s what I’d flip to when my son walks down the hall”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Arclite:
Wow, Frum conceded the truth of it? He has come a long way, baby (but he’s still a dick. IMHO). I saw some other righty had referred to Obama’s coming “mediscare” attacks.
Anyone know who coined the “mediscare” thing? I remember NPR/TeeVee liberal Cokie Roberts used to love to scornfully refer to Democrats who pointed out that Gingrich promised to let it “wither on the vine” as using “mediscare”
Dennis SGMM
@Corner Stone:
Ah, the i-word. “We didn’t intend to fuck over our customers, your honor, it just kinda’ happened.”
Arclite
@ Soonergrunt
That story about the nurse and the RPG is Fucking Awesome. There’s hope for humanity after all.
Spatula
@quannlace:
You might as well go ahead and harvest them green then…they make awesome green salsa, as well as being great for pickling.
I just put up some of my own, they are awesome.
Just One More Canuck
@danah gaz (fka gaz): I find that odd, since my cat loves chocolate – pudding, ice cream, whatever she can get. She’ll try to stick her nose in the dish while I’m still eating it
Violet
@Arclite: David Frum. Ugh. From his Twitter feed:
David Frum heartily endorses killing grandma.
Shawn in ShowMe
@Martin:
Ouch.
@Corner Stone
It’s a great time to be a women’s track fan. Bad side: The typical American sports fan doesn’t give a shit. Good side: The ladies genuinely appreciate their fans and don’t big-time you if you see them in public.
anibundel
@danah gaz (fka gaz): Sir EatsALot (also known as FatOne) LOVES bread. There was an incident the other week where he pulled all of the bread items out of the basket and down onto the floor, and tore into the plastic bags of each to sample. The HotDog buns were rejected, the bagels nosed and rolled about, the salt licked off the tops of the cibatta rolls and a good size hole eaten into the top of the wheat bread. I ended up buying a bread box after that.
At least now I am possessed of a size reference.
Violet
@danah gaz (fka gaz):
That’s why I always add sugar when I serve cat.
Omnes Omnibus
@Violet:
Let’s be fair. He doesn’t endorse actively killing her; he is just perfectly comfortable with passively watching her die in agony.
FlipYrWhig
@Corner Stone: Or, a fellow could double-purpose it, as for instance when Allyson Felix is running.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Violet:
Glad to see my unwillingness to forgive the “axis of evil” and forget The Right Man is justified.
Soonergrunt
@raven: The Marine Corps gets all of their medical support from the Navy.
A Corpsman is an enlisted sailor, just like a Medic in the Army is an enlisted Soldier. Nurses, and by this, I’m referring to Registered Nurses with 4-year degrees, are commissioned officers in all three services that have them.
Omnes Omnibus
@Soonergrunt: I have always found it anomalous that physician’s assistants are warrant officers.
Corner Stone
@Violet:
Gah. So many ways to go from here.
Martin
@Violet:
Frum heartily endorses Frum, like all Republicans.
Violet
@Corner Stone: I’m all about choices.
Soonergrunt
@Omnes Omnibus: They aren’t anymore. About 12 or 15 years ago, the Army decreed that they would not accept any PA’s with less than a four-year degree, and that they would thereafter be commissioned officers. I knew one who went from CW-3 to O-1E and fucking hated being a butter-bar. PAs are now commissioned into the Medical Service Corps.
raven
@Soonergrunt: I knew the Corpsman part.
Violet
@Omnes Omnibus: So sorry. There I go, talking about issues again. I know they’re off limits!
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Don’t really know why he bothered to “leave conservatism” or whatever the fuck people like Sully and Frum are calling it these days, if he’s just going to vote for the Republican, even though the Republicans are everything he thinks are terrible.
Omnes Omnibus
@Soonergrunt: That makes sense. I got out 20 years ago, so I am using that as an excuse.
@Violet: I hope you have learned your lesson.
Shawn in ShowMe
@FlipYrWhig
Allyson Felix is like the super-positive elementary school teacher everyone wished they had. If they did, nobody — guys or girls — would ever do porn. They’d be out saving the whales or converting Republicans to Christianity.
bemused
@Violet:
He yelled loudly that the GOP had gone off the deep end and he immediately got shunned and kicked out of the club. Does he say why he’s still voting Republican and for empty suit Mitt?
bemused
@Martin:
I think you answered my question.
Soonergrunt
@raven: I figured you did. Sometimes I frame a reply to somebody in broader language so that it answers a question somebody else like a non-Vet will have. I’m certain that comes off a little condescending*, but I sure don’t mean it that way, and if it helps someone else to understand what we’re talking about then it’s good, I think.
*which is a problem I have anyway, or so I’m told.
BruceFromOhio
@anibundel: IS THAT WHAT MY KARMA LOOKS LIKE?
trollhattan
@Shawn in ShowMe:
She definitely throws that how-can-you-not-like/lurve-this-person? vibe. Complete with the long-climb-up-the-mountain backstory.
OTOH Missie Franklin needs to relocate so she can babysit our daughter. I can find her a pool.
raven
@Soonergrunt: Hell no! The nomenclature can always baffle. Always good to give a full explanation.
different-church-lady
@danah gaz (fka gaz):
They can if you caramelize them.
BruceFromOhio
@Arclite:
Tattoo it on their two-bit-ratfuck criminal fucking Republican asses, and then on their faces. Oh, and a big fuck you to Citizens United.
Violet
@bemused: Not that I saw.
WaterGirl
@danah gaz (fka gaz): In my experience, cats LOVE cinnamon. Oatmeal cookies are a big hit, for instance.
trollhattan
Rewarding failure. No, not Ryan’s faux elevation. Chevron may have allowed refinery pipes to corrode to the point of failure, leading to a fire, partial plant shutdown and…voila, more expensive gasoline for the left coast. Have to love how saving money on safety leads to…PROFIT.
http://www.sacbee.com/2012/08/11/4716416/apnewsbreak-refinery-probe-focuses.html
Just not sure who first wrote this book–the oil companies or PG&E? They both follow it.
Soonergrunt
@different-church-lady: Caramelizing is extremely cruel to the cats, though.
trollhattan
@Soonergrunt:
Dang, you too? Found myself wondering if the pan was properly heated and there was enough kitteh undercoat, whether it could be done.
Or for anybody who wanted their kitteh a nice light brown.
burnspbesq
@Corner Stone:
I’m sorry you have difficulty dealing with reality, shithead.
You have a phone and an email account. Instead of getting on my case for telling you the unpleasant truth, use them to communicate with your elected representatives and get them to change the damn laws.
Omnes Omnibus
@trollhattan:
Some of the new spray-on tans work quite well. The better ones apparently do not turn one orange.
Corner Stone
@burnspbesq: The unpleasant truth is that scumbag vultures like you profit by the outcomes of rulings like this.
Yeah, I’ll call up my R Congressman or organize my R+15 CD and get effective representation on this.
This has nothing to do with making laws change you simple fuck. There are laws on the books that say this can’t happen. And then you get a ruling upheld that balls up states “Yep, this can happen. Peace out.”
And all your fucking money is gone. And the next day your client is calling you asking where he can shelter some new funds from taxation.
Some people here then are like WTF? and scum like you come back through and say “Not illegal!”.
Yeah, wonder how that happened.
danah gaz (fka gaz)
@Just One More Canuck: It’s probably the fat, and also the dairy.
But yeah – kittehs don’t grok teh sweetnez
Origuy
@Corner Stone: A nice currant reduction to mask the gaminess?
Julia Child would have been 100 today.
Corner Stone
@Origuy:
God no. Au natural my friend. I’ve always enjoyed the taste. And gone back for seconds.