Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

I really should read my own blog.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

The willow is too close to the house.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

People are complicated. Love is not.

Roe isn’t about choice, it’s about freedom.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Republicans don’t want a speaker to lead them; they want a hostage.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Imperialist aggressors must be defeated, or the whole world loses.

Come on, man.

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

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

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What’s your favorite “working for the weekend”, glad-the-work-week’s-over type song?

I’ll go with “All Down The Line” (I watch the live version at the link at least once a week) and “Remix To Ignition“. I know the latter is dumb and that R Kelly is a pervert, but I still like it.

Also talk about whatever you like and don’t forget to tip the metrosexual Kenyan usurper.

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  3. 3.

    Mino

    NYT just reporting that Obama has used an executive order to create a non-profit public option. Can Kathleen Sibelius run for president?

  5. 5.

    Poopyman

    @Raven: Have you seen the Cream version? Nice to see those geezers firing on all cylinders.

    Friday Night’s All Right for Fighting?
    Another Saturday Night (and I ain’t got no money)?

    Nah. Can’t really think of a better one off the top of the head.

  6. 6.

    FridayNext

    Spaghetti Western by Primus

    I find this passage on point:

    “Funny thing about weekends when you’re unemployed.
    They don’t quite mean so much,
    Except you get to hang out with all your working friends.”

    I would add that weekends for the unemployed is actually two days off from the barrage of boilerplate rejection emails so maybe they mean more than Les and the boys knew.

  15. 15.

    Smiling Mortician

    Not sure this quite fits the criteria, but there’s something about “Sunday Morning Coming Down.”

    Can’t decide whether Kristofferson or Cash feels right at the moment, so here’s a duet.

  16. 16.

    The Dangerman

    OT, anyone hear any reports on RB Lattimore? Know he’s in the hospital and looks like a knee; maybe he’ll catch a bit of fortune and he only broke his leg (IANAD, but that would appear to be better than the present likelihood).

    Hope he had a damn good insurance policy.

    /napoleonmmccallum

  19. 19.

    The Dangerman

    @Raven:

    Sounded as if it might be compound the way they kept him from looking at it.

    Maybe; the aircast came out really fast.

  20. 20.

    Raven

    @The Dangerman: You want to see it? I don’t.

    “When he went down, replays showed what clearly looked like a dislocation in his leg. It was a terrible injury that will be remembered alongside Joe Theismann, Napoleon McCallum, Tyrone Prothro and many other grisly injuries that serve as a reminder how violent football can be.”

    I shattered my left leg falling out of a tree after football practice in 8th grade. 18 bone fragments, they said I might never walk. Four years later it didn’t keep me out of the Army.

  25. 25.

    Democrat Partisan Asshole

    The original, of course! Loverboy’s “Working for the Weekend”

    Lame as fuck but it gets right to the point.

  26. 26.

    The Dangerman

    @Raven:

    Want to see it?

    I saw it live; once was enough. I instantly thought of McCallum, which I also saw live. Shit, I may have seen Theisman live, too (read: old fart). McCallum’s was the worst, however.

  27. 27.

    Democrat Partisan Asshole

    OT, anyone hear any reports on RB Lattimore?

    @The Dangerman: No, but I steeled my stomach and watched it. I wouldn’t recommend it. It looked worse than Theismann’s dogleg and that’s really saying something. They’ll probably be able to get him walking someday but he won’t be playing sports any more.

  28. 28.

    Santiago

    @poco:

    I think Mino is talking about this.

    The Obama administration will soon take on a new role as the sponsor of at least two nationwide health insurance plans to be operated under contract with the federal government and offered to consumers in every state.
    __

    …as a substitute for a pure government-run health insurance program — the public option sought by many liberal Democrats and reviled by Republicans. Supporters of the national plans say they will increase competition in state health insurance markets, many of which are dominated by a handful of companies.

  32. 32.

    MikeJ

    Here Comes the Weekend – Dave Edmunds
    Lonely Weekends – Charlie Rich (Not a party song, but a good one)
    Keeping the Weekend Free – Liquorice (Jenny Toomey!)
    Weekend Wars – MGMT
    Big Weekend – Tom Petty
    Lazy Weekend – The Troggs
    Waiting for the Weekend – The Vapors
    Weekend – Cold Crush Brothers
    Friday Night is Killing Me – bash & Pop
    Friday on my Mind – (Easybeats orig, but Bowie’s version from Pinups is in my itunes)
    Friday I’m in Love – the Cure
    Friday – Joe Jackson
    Love you til Friday – The Replacements
    Friday Night, Saturday Morning – The Specials

    + 55 more songs about “Saturday”

  36. 36.

    SFAW

    “Weekend” by the Atlantics

    Friday night, I’m going out of my head
    Friday night, I’m gonna rise above the dead, because
    Friday night, I’m going to get my revenge

  38. 38.

    Spatula

    Madonna: “Where’s The Party?”

    DougJ, just for fun, I have a question for the BJ community, in reference to your reference to Obama as the Metrosexual Kenyan Usurper or whatever: If it WERE to be revealed that PBO in fact WAS born in Kenya, what would be the consensus reaction of the Balloon Juice Kool Kids?

    Please ask your devotees to chime in.

    Thank you.

  43. 43.

    Baud

    @Spatula:

    If it WERE to be revealed that PBO in fact WAS born in Kenya, what would be the consensus reaction of the Balloon Juice Kool Kids?

    If he were born in Kenya and he wasn’t otherwise a natural born citizen through his mother (I don’t know the details here), I believe the birthers would be correct in saying he would be ineligible to be president.*

    *Caveat: Don’t know if that’s enforceable through ballot access (in which case it’s too late) or through some procedure for removal.

  45. 45.

    The Dangerman

    @Raven:

    Don’t tell me about old!

    OK, I think you win with the MB Senior.

    What really sucks is I’ve long since gotten used to thinking “damn it, I think I saw his father play” and now it’s “fuck all, I think I watched his grandfather play”.

  48. 48.

    Yutsano

    @Baud: At this point he would have to be impeached. And no it does not nullify all the laws he’s signed, fevered imaginings of the wingnuts notwithstanding.

  49. 49.

    SFAW

    @The Dangerman:

    Yeah, I remember Theismann and LT. It was so cringe-inducing (for me – OK, I’m a wimp), that I couldn’t watch that part of “The Blind Side.”

    @Raven:

    Marion Barber Sr.? Damn, you ARE old. SHOULD I TYPE LOUDER, SO YOU CAN HEAR ME?

  53. 53.

    Chris

    @Spatula:

    The consensus would be that as he was born to an American mother, he is still a natural-born American citizen and therefore eligible to run for office.

    You know, like John McCain, that presidential candidate in 2008 who was ACTUALLY born outside the U.S. of A, but was still eligible to run and never had to put up with any of that shit.

  54. 54.

    Raven

    @The Dangerman: Actually I have to amend that, it was Marion Barber Jr, Marion Barber III is the guy who both ran out of bounds and then fumbled to give Tebow a win against the Bears.

  55. 55.

    Baud

    Here is the statutory text of Obamacare re: the national non-profit provider:

    (1) IN GENERAL.—The Director of the Office of Personnel Management … shall enter into contracts with health insurance issuers … to offer at least 2 multi-State qualified health plans through each Exchange in each State….
    …
    (3) NON-PROFIT ENTITIES.—In entering into contracts under
    paragraph (1), the Director shall ensure that at least one contract is entered into with a non-profit entity.

  58. 58.

    SFAW

    @Spatula:

    If it WERE to be revealed that PBO in fact WAS born in Kenya on the planet Mongo

    Fixed, to reflect the appropriate grip of facts and on reality.

  62. 62.

    Hal

    I know the latter is dumb and that R Kelly is a pervert…

    I can’t think of R Kelly without thinking of Dave Chapelle singing piss on you.

  63. 63.

    PurpleGirl

    OT but some of you might be interested in the information:

    Making Light (hosted by Teresa and Patrick Nielsen Hayden) have two postings up about Sandy. One post is an extensive list (with links) of web resources. Scrolling down the page, there is another posting about the storm for Making Light’s commentariat. Both are good.

  64. 64.

    Eric U.

    hate the fact that the networks love to show horrible injuries over and over. I like my sports to be gore-free.

  65. 65.

    Doodah

    I used to get paid every Friday so I associate ZZ Top’s “Just Got Paid” with Friday/weekend.

  66. 66.

    Petorado

    Earth Quake – Friday on My Mind These guys did the most unleashed version of this rocker.

    Back in the day, anyone within earshot of WMMS knew it was the weekend when this song came on at 5pm on Friday, well that and “Born to Run” and “Cleveland Rocks.”

  67. 67.

    Spatula

    @Baud: @Baud:

    If he were born in Kenya and he wasn’t otherwise a natural born citizen through his mother (I don’t know the details here), I believe the birthers would be correct in saying he would be ineligible to be president.*

    Thank you for a reasonable, non abusive answer. But I’m really trying to get at what the BJ community reaction would be? Would you want him to resign? Should he resign? Fight it in court?

    Myself, I’d wish he would just say “fuck y’all” and fight it in court until his term expired anyway. I don’t really care where he was born as far as eligibility goes. GWB was mentally incompetent, as was Ronald Reagan, and they were allowed to serve, so why not a technical furiner with some intelligence?

  68. 68.

    Mino

    @Baud: I think the EO is necessary because the plan will be executed under OPM…”The plans will be arranged by the United States Office of Personnel Management, which oversees the excellent health care plans for federal employees.” That is not part of ACA.

    GOS has a diary on the rec list with questions and answers.

  69. 69.

    Spatula

    @Eric U.:

    hate the fact that the networks love to show horrible injuries over and over. I like my sports to be gore-free.

    I am a big football fan, but the sport is far from gore-free. Look away from the screen like I do.

  72. 72.

    Smiling Mortician

    @Spatula:

    But I’m really trying to get at what the BJ community reaction would be? Would you want him to resign? Should he resign? Fight it in court?

    Why would he resign? Even spotting you the demonstrably counterfactual proposition of Obama having been born somewhere other than Hawaii, his mother was a U.S. citizen. Therefore, he is a U.S. citizen. Just like John McCain is a U.S. citizen even though he was born in Panama to an American mother.

    Adding: What’s the “it” that you think he would “fight in court”?

  73. 73.

    Mino

    @Baud: No, I was wrong about the OPM not being named in the ACA. I dunno why then. Guess I’ll wait on events. Sorry for the misstatement.

  74. 74.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Baud: Actually, at that point we would need to go to the laws on citizenship from 1961 to see what the effect of having being born overseas to with one citizen and one non-citizen parent happens to be. I know the birthers have seized on some language from the statutes of the period saying that the citizen parent had to have been a citizen for x (2 or 3) years following his or her 18th birthday in order to pass on natural born citizen status, but I believe the consensus of legal scholars who have looked into the matter was that the clause in question does not apply to a lifelong citizen. If that consensus is indeed correct, Obama would have no eligibility issues. If it is incorrect, the one would have to figure it out.

  77. 77.

    Spatula

    @Smiling Mortician:

    What’s the “it” that you think he would “fight in court”?

    There are legal issues due to the young age of his mother and the number of years she spent out of the U.S. in the years prior to his birth?

    But that doesn’t really matter pertaining to my question, the focus of which is how would the BJ community react to definitive evidence that he was NOT technically a U.S. citizen.

  80. 80.

    max

    @Chris: The consensus would be that as he was born to an American mother, he is still a natural-born American citizen and therefore eligible to run for office. You know, like John McCain, that presidential candidate in 2008 who was ACTUALLY born outside the U.S. of A, but was still eligible to run and never had to put up with any of that shit.

    The trick is, is that earlier, at the time McCain was born, children born outside of the United States to two American citizens were considered ‘natural-born’ by act of Congress. Both his parents were citizens and he was born on base (an American extraterritoriality anyways). So that took care of that lawsuit against his campaign.

    Obama was born just a bit before the law was changed (a few days if I remember correctly from my research) – but it didn’t matter because Hawaii is American soil. If he were born in Kenya to one American parent, then legally he wouldn’t be a citizen if he wasn’t enrolled as a citizen (which he was) before his 18th birthday. Potentially, in that instance, he would not be a *natural-born* citizen. Except that Congress changed the law to make it so that any child born outside the US to ONE American citizen was automatically an American citizen (and thus *natural-born*). That’s the way the law reads now.

    So what would have to happen is that we would have to go back and say that the law as it was at the time applies, that minority enrollment of Obama as a citizen didn’t count as being ‘natural-born’ and then we would have to do something about it. There’s no existing provision to deal with it, the issue has already been adjudicated, and he was accepted as natural-born.

    So what would have to occur would be for Congress to impeach him for falsified birth record (not a ‘high crime and misdemeanor’ in any sense) – for a crime he himself did not commit.

    Given that he’s a citizen either way, and the error would occur due solely to a change in the law a few days (I think it was a few days – no more than a year) after he was born, I would totally say, WALK IT THE FUCK OFF ALREADY. Also SHEESHERS.

    max
    [‘Some things never die.’]

  81. 81.

    Dee Loralei

    Not a weekend song, but a local radio station used to play “Memphis Thing”‘ by Rob Jungklas every Friday around 5 pm. It’s my default go to Friday night is here, time to party song. It’s on Youtube if anyone wants to listen. I used to have it on vinyl, wonder what I did with it.

  82. 82.

    gwangung

    But that doesn’t really matter pertaining to my question, the focus of which is how would the BJ community react to definitive evidence that he was NOT technically a U.S. citizen.

    Well, that’s not the same as what you wrote…technically.

  83. 83.

    The Dangerman

    @efgoldman:

    :::whew::: wore me out. Gotta’ take a nap.

    I’m right there with you on the nap. I was trying to think of the earliest FB game I can ever recall and I’m pretty sure it’s the Heidi game. I vaguely recall my Granddad, a monster sports junkie (apples don’t fall far, etc.), being apoplectic.

  85. 85.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Spatula: Dude, if he is not a natural born citizen, he would not be eligible to be president. Now the fun thing for you, is you get to say that an O-bot, Dear Leader follower like me can feel comfortable saying that now because there is definitive evidence that he was born in the US so none of it fucking matters, but, if he wasn’t a natural born citizen I would probably find some excuse to support him anyway. Here is the thing though, if he wasn’t eligible, I am fully confident that Hillary Clinton would have found the evidence and used it. She would have been the nominee in 2008 and I would have voted for her. After she won, you would have been here carping that she got her start in politics due to her husband and most of us just voted for her because she had a vagina. Counterfactuals are fun.

  86. 86.

    Ben Franklin

    Saw Dylan/ Knopfler last night at Hollywood Bowl.

    Dylan’s arrangements overrode his vocals..still the man at 72….

    Knopfler stole the show though.

    His Celtic ballad/ Rock fusion was amazing.

  88. 88.

    The Dangerman

    @Ben Franklin:

    Knopfler stole the show though.

    Co-headliners? I’m surprised Knopfler is an opener for anyone.

    Dire Straights was a damned fine band, but Knopfler solo is brilliant.

  95. 95.

    TR

    OT, but I’m in Miami this weekend and just saw a TV ad from Randall Terry, who is apparently a candidate for Congress somewhere down here.

    It featured Norma McCorvey, the now-repentant Jane Roe of Roe v Wade, and graphic images of aborted fetuses (so graphic that the station prefaced it with a warning) and then her saying “vote against Obama this year because he is a baby killer.”

    Just amazing.

  102. 102.

    Lojasmo

    @Spatula:

    But that doesn’t really matter pertaining to my question, the focus of which is how would the BJ community react to definitive evidence that he was NOT technically a U.S. citizen.

    Excellent goalpoast moving, dick.

  103. 103.

    Mino

    After study, the only new wrinkle in this information that I see is that citizens of any state could be enrolled in the “national plan” instead of being restricted to plans in their state exchanges.

  104. 104.

    WaterGirl

    Just got back from the gym. I am going every day between now and election day, wearing my Obama t-shirt.

    Stopped at the store on the way back and just wearing the shirt opened up a conversation with the 2 fellows at the register. One asked if I thought Obama had a chance — so they obviously believe the “Mitt is ahead crap”. They are both going to vote, and this gave me an opportunity to also tell them to vote NO on the constitutional amendment in IL.

    They word the amendment like it’s a good thing, but if you vote yes, it means the state of IL will no longer have to honor the pension and health care, not just going forward, but even for retirees. Boom just like that, and they can take it all away.

  111. 111.

    MikeJ

    @PopeRatzo: I’ve got that on the Dave Edmunds solo album Get It, and it’s not on Seconds of Pleasure. I’m pretty sure it’s not “officially” a Rockpile cut, although Lowe & Williams played on the album.

    We could throw in Down in the Dive by Brinsley Schwarz from The New Favourites of Brinsley Schwarz which is a good “hanging out in a dave bar tune.

  117. 117.

    Rex Everything

    Anyone see this, from Krugman?

    “…several people I know well have had their Obama/Biden signs stolen…”

    Time for some camera planting, & subsequent YouTubing, no?

  120. 120.

    Spatula

    @TR:

    What’s it like knowing you’re going to die alone and unloved?

    Projection as a means of relating to your environment is not a successful strategy for life, dumpling.

    Time to change to change your depends.

  122. 122.

    Wvskir

    Out in the Streets – Springsteeen
    On Monday when the foreman calls time, I’ve got Friday on my mind

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