Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

There is no right way to do the wrong thing.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

They want us to be overwhelmed and exhausted. Focus. Resist. Oppose.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.

Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.

Many life forms that would benefit from greater intelligence, sadly, do not have it.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

People are weird.

When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

“Loving your country does not mean lying about its history.”

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

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  3. 3.

    kerFuFFler

    “Looks like someone left you guys alone for a very long time.”

    Quick, someone call children’s protective services! :)

  7. 7.

    jeffreyw

    @Yutsano: They are Aussie x Chow mixes, Mrs J says that 2 are spoken for already, and one of the Chihuahuas is going soon.
    And now I have to go mow, damn rain made the grass grow. I was getting used to the brown look.

  8. 8.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Origuy: Homer Simpson: “The three little sentences that will get you through life. Number 1: Cover for me. Number 2: Oh, good idea, Boss! Number 3: It was like that when I got here.”

  11. 11.

    JPL

    Since this an open thread, I am going to repost this article from the Washington Post. They actually have real reporters, unfortunately if you link to the front page, you won’t find it. Reminds me of the good old Walter Pincus days when he reported on WMD’s that Iraq didn’t have.

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    metalgirl

    I’m having a very thankful Saturday. My dad is on his 3rd hospitalization this summer (was admitted to ICU a week ago with pneumonia that turned into Acute Respiratory Distress Syndrome) but improved enough yesterday that they were able to remove the ventilator. I just spoke with him for a few minutes and it was just so good to hear my spunky, stubborn dad tell me that he’s able to swallow and they are bringing him something to eat. As much as he complained about the food there during his first 2 stays, he said, “I don’t care what they bring me — I’m going to eat it!” He also said that if we send him positive thoughts and prayers, he’s ready to do the hard work of getting stronger and getting outa there. On Tuesday (a day he got worse), I was thinking I may never talk to him again. My sister (lives in PA) and I (live in NC) have been taking turns caring for them (my mother has Alzheimer’s and my dad is her caregiver) since June 27th. It’s been a long, hard slog this summer but it will all be worth it if my parents are able to be together for a few more years :)

  15. 15.

    danielx

    Actually, right here in my fair state of Indiana it’s 73 degrees and a beautiful day; feels like September and late September at that. We’ve gotten more rain in the past two weeks than we received during May, June and July combined and everything is turning green again. Damned good thing – tree branches had gotten so brittle that a 20 mph wind was producing major power outages from limbs falling on power lines.

  16. 16.

    Comrade Jake

    There’s some Obama ad out – I haven’t been able to find it – where they have a picture of Romney with this really creepy smile. It makes me laugh every time I see it. Anyone else catch that?

  17. 17.

    PurpleGirl

    @metalgirl: Will send good thoughts your way. I hope everything works out as you hope.

    I should get better clothes on (wearing holey t-shirt) and go to the grocery store and then put on the living room AC. Temperature isn’t too bad but it is humid — regular NYC August.

  19. 19.

    scav

    @metalgirl: Go dad!

    And all we need around here is furniture we can chew on and well amuse ourselves. We’ll gnaw on each other in a pinch but there’s usually other matter to be found.

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    SiubhanDuinne

    @metalgirl:

    Wow. You and your sister are good daughters. Wishing a speedy and full recovery to your dad, and seconding your hope that he and your mom have a number of loving years to be together remaining to them.

    Please tell him that there are lots of people he’s never even heard of who are pulling for him! And do take care of yourself. {{hug}}

  22. 22.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I hope no one is so unpleasant as to mention racism in this campaign.

    Country music singer and incendiary conservative Hank Williams, Jr. is once again saying controversial things about President Obama. Des Moines Register reporter Joe Lawler writes Williams told a crowd at the Iowa State Fair Friday that the president isn’t a Christian and that he “hates” America.
    “We’ve got a Muslim president who hates farming, hates the military, hates the US and we hate him!” Williams yelled to the crowd.
    The line was met with “loud and enthusiastic” cheers, Lawler writes.

  23. 23.

    Allen

    Being an open thread and all, us exterior North-westerners (if East of the Cascades is the The interior Northwest isn’t West of the the Cascades the exterior Northwest?) have been suffering through 2, count ’em, 2, 100 degree days. It is now back to normal, the low 60’s and it’s almost noon. And it has rained. All back to normal and all is good.

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    metalgirl

    @SiubhanDuinne: My dad has said to my mother many times, “What would we do without our daughters??” to which I reply, “You will never have to find out!” My parents always told us, “You can do anything you set your mind to” and they scrimped to be able to afford my public college education (I had to live at home the first 2 years but I graduated with $0 debt and they didn’t borrow any money for my education either). They didn’t complain a bit when we both moved away to get the best jobs with the best opportunities we could find (me to Houston to work on the Space Shuttle program for IBM). I’m so thankful that I even have both of my parents to care for — so many of my friends lost one or both of theirs years ago. I’m just very lucky :)

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    quannlace

    And all we need around here is furniture we can chew on and well amuse ourselves.

    We share the chair
    We chew the shoe
    And sing this silly song for you!
    Munch, munch, munch, munch, munch.

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    SiubhanDuinne

    @metalgirl: Great story! The whole family sounds wonderful, and the best part is that you know how lucky you are while it’s happening. A lot of people don’t know except in retrospect.

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    WaterGirl

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Every time I read this stuff I think they mean the guy who played Grace’s boyfriend on Will & Grace, and that just didn’t make sense to me. Finally googled just now, and I see that was Harry Connick, Jr.

    Hey, I don’t listen to country music so I think I was doing pretty well. I knew it was a country music star, a male, and a Junior. I guess they’re not all the same.

    One of my top 10 movie lines EVER was Dolly Parton’s answer to the question: What kind of music do you like? “I like both kinds, country and western.” (Don’t ask me what movie that was, I have no idea!)

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    hamletta

    @metalgirl: I will say prayers for your dad tomorrow, and I’m assisting next week, so I can slip “metadad” into the prayer list no prob.

    Thanks to all you Balloon Juicers for your votes for Lutheran Services. I don’t think they won. I had a very long day yesterday, and I remembered I hadn’t voted myself. Once you vote, you see the tote board, and there were two orgs with 36% each, and LST with only 11%.

    We had a memorial service yesterday, with a reception for 200 after. It was for a lady whose husband was a pastor at Memorial in East Nashville back in the ’50s, and her son was the pastor for years at St. Timothy in Hendersonville.

    Our sound guy planned to get there at 3:30, since the service started at 4:00, but the musicians and pastors were there at 3:00, and they needed mics. Good thing I’ve run sound and know which are the dud mics.

    Two ladies from St. Tim’s made all the food, but then they had to clean up, and everybody had left except me and our Sexton. Nobody thought to recruit a couple of our own church basement ladies to help out, so I pushed one of their ladies out of the way at the dishwashing sink, because they had to work packing up all the leftovers and the gear they’d brought.

    We got out of there at 8:30. If we’d left them alone, they’d have been there till midnight, unless they locked themselves out, in which case we’d have been into the wee small.

    It was a lovely service, though. Ms. Christine chose it all herself, and her musical tastes were wide ranging; everything from old German hymns to Andrae Crouch contemporary gospel.

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    WaterGirl

    @metalgirl: What a nice story! I’m so glad to hear your dad is doing better. That’s scary stuff. I lost my dad in 1995, so I am especially happy to see that you will get more time with yours.

    Count me in with the prayers and good thoughts for all of you.

  33. 33.

    gogol's wife

    @WaterGirl:

    Okay, but Harry Connick, Jr., isn’t a country singer. Maybe he dabbled in it once or twice, but basically he does standards, musical comedy, and jazz.

  35. 35.

    gogol's wife

    @hamletta:

    Well, when she said, “I knew it was a country music star, a male, and a Junior. I guess they’re not all the same,” I thought that meant she thought Connick was a country music star too. Not terribly important!

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