Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

He really is that stupid.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the GOP

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

The revolution will be supervised.

People are complicated. Love is not.

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

The words do not have to be perfect.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

We still have time to mess this up!

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

I was promised a recession.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

Everybody saw this coming.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

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Open Thread: Shelter from the Storm

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Ventured out to the gym this evening and got caught in an intense downpour with lots of thunder, lightning, and road-ponding that slowed even the maniacs on Route 128 to a crawl. Our thunder-phobic rescue dog Zevon was so upset with us he could barely eat his dinner; this is the same dog who didn’t mind multiple transformer explosions and a (small) brushfire fifty feet down the block last night. #Firstworldproblems. Still hoping that our friends in Hoboken are all okay, not to mention everybody else in the area…

Who’s got more FrankenSandy stories to share? Or anything else they want to talk about?

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  1. 1.

    Corner Stone

    I haven’t been too high on him in the past, but it seems Ghengis has made favorable comments about “not” killing every third male child in our village.
    So I’m considering voting for him.

  2. 2.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    I now have two stories that are completely finished. I’ll try to sell them at some point, but for the moment I just want to get people reading them. So here they are. Feel free to share them with others. All I ask is that you let them know who I am and that I will have other work forthcoming.

    These are both in the genre of magical realism. That means that they are set in the real world and the world primarily operates by the rules that we are familiar with. It adds one or two elements of magic that are used to highlight parts of the universe we live in. It’s sort of Fantasy Light.

    “The Spots of al Fahad” is set in the Holy Land shortly after the First Crusade and is the story of an English knight looking for a new life. It’s about 30 pages long in 10 point type.

    “Living After Noon” is modern and covers one afternoon in the life of three individuals, one lucky, one not and one a down and out deity. It’s about 4 pages long.

    Edit: And many thanks to jacypods for editing them. “Living After Noon” in particular would look nothing like it does now without her help.

  5. 5.

    General Stuck

    I had a good day today, as days go for going right. When that happens usually tomorrow turns to shit. We’ve had gorgeous weather with cool nights. And my heater decided to just quit, and the apt manager and an electrician have been working on it since last Friday. And today they gave up and installed a brand spanky new one. All it took was for the electrician to utter the word “short”.

    And the counter top water distiller arrived and now I can make my own distilled H20. Almost feel guilty with all the suffering back east, but then George Bush and his FEMA hack brownie could be running things.

  8. 8.

    Smiling Mortician

    @Elizabelle: His popular vote looks about right, but I think he’s off on the EV. He says Obama 286. I’m going with 303 (I think O gets NH and VA).

  9. 9.

    dantoujours

    In Cobble Hill/Brooklyn Hts., Brooklyn. The winds were intense but we didn’t flood. Some minor tree damage. Kept our power. Internet is still dodgy. Some restaurants opened today and they were packed with people with cabin fever fatigue.

    My office is in Tribeca and has no electricity. Once that is up, I’ll have to walk/bike to work as they said it could take up to 45 days to fix the flooded parts of the subway. (They may get the non-flooded parts operational in 4-5 days.)

  12. 12.

    amk

    @Elizabelle: Meh, nothing new there. He/she has taken the worst case scenario (FL,VA & NC going to mittbot) and sez Obama still wins. Pfft. we already knew that.

  14. 14.

    PeakVT

    @Elizabelle: I’m not sure about that model, as he’s only predicting the two-candidate share. Plus some of the odds of winning seem off – OR, KS, NE, SD are too low, while IA and IN are too high. And overall, the 52-48% split seems optimistic. I’d like to see 52-48%, as that would basically be a blowout relative to the current polling. But I think the PV will be nail-biter. OTOH the EV split is about right – I think Obama will take NH.

  19. 19.

    Michael

    LOL, Romney’s desperate attempts to find a path to victory that doesn’t include Ohio are pretty funny. Wisconsin! Minnesota! Pennsylvania! And Obama simply buys some more ad time in those markets, and sends Bill there, and that’s the end of that.

    I’m enjoying this last week of the election. Plus, I got to watch the Heat stomp the Celts tonight, which was fun, and the Miami fans trolled the sh*t out of the Celts players, which was hilarious.

  21. 21.

    Humanities Grad

    @lacp:

    Not sure why the Romney campaign would want to do that.

    First of all, recent polling in Pennsylvania hasn’t been all that close. It’s not a blowout by any means, but neither is it close enough that a last-minute ad blitz is likely to turn the state red.

    Moreover, any scenario in which Romney wins Pennsylvania is a scenario in which he doesn’t need Pennsylvania (i.e., if conditions are such that he can win there, it wouldn’t matter anyway).

    Didn’t the McCain campaign also wind up getting sucked into making a late play for Pennsylvania in ’08?

  24. 24.

    piratedan

    want us to win the house, w/o it it’s two more years of watching Boehner cry, Cantor smirk and assorted asshats of the Tea persuasion doing what they can to ensure that no whitey gets left behind when the Rapture cometh

  25. 25.

    PeakVT

    @amk: Yes. Update your pie filter accordingly.

    To anyone who doesn’t have the pie filter installed, it’s worth the effort to install it. The tedious trolls will only become more tedious over the next 7 days.

  27. 27.

    Smiling Mortician

    @piratedan: I want to win the house back, too. But don’t be so quick to dis two more years of watching Boehner cry. Why can’t we have both?

  28. 28.

    TaMara (BHF)

    Has anyone seen the commercial where Myth Rmoney looks into the camera and says he wants to help the people of earth (ok, I’m paraphrasing, but I swear to you, he ends with something like that)?

    I think they accidentally let something slip here. Rombot is not from our planet.

  35. 35.

    SFAW

    @lacp:

    Oh, Christ, I woke it up. Sorry, folks.

    Don’t sweat it. It’s not really fully awake until it says “Suck it, libtards” and calls lefties the real RAAAAACCIIIIIIIIIIISSSSTTTTSS! ! ! ! ! !

    Of course, now that I’ve mentioned that, Cthulhu PO/EF/SFB will truly awaken. BEWARE! Boogity boogity!

  37. 37.

    burnspbesq

    @joes527:

    I’m amazed I haven’t been hearing heads azploding from san Diego.

    Wind currents and atmospheric conditions aren’t quite right for the sound to carry 80 miles. You might be able to hear it if you drove to Carlsbad.

  38. 38.

    burnspbesq

    @Election Follower:

    Why is Obambi buying ad time if it’s all a big bluff on the part of Romney?

    Coattails. We know the White House is in the bag, now we’re trying to turn the House.

  39. 39.

    The Dangerman

    @Elizabelle:

    A Cal State Fullerton engineering prof thinks the math favors President Obama.

    It’s interesting he uses Rasmussen (a known hack) and YouGov (which has had some weird numbers here and there).

    I think Obama wins Virginia and loses Iowa (that 82% number means I’m probably FOS). I probably give Romney New Hampshire, too. I think that means I’m at 293.

  42. 42.

    The Dangerman

    Another satisfied pie filter customer here.

    ETA: I stopped by Hannity tonight for a few minutes (all I could stand). He was pushing that Romney is a lock to win HARD. There are going to be some really unhappy Hannity viewers next week. Shit, don’t even look at the polls; which candidate is acting like he’s losing right now and has his hair on fire?

  43. 43.

    TR

    Obama is spending $1.6 million in Penn, while Romney and the SuperPACs ate spending $5.4 million. They’re just throwing money down the drain in hopes that ad buys will swing a state where Obama has consistently had a 4-6 point lead and one of the best Dem infrastructures in the nation.

    They must be as stupid as our sad little troll here.

  44. 44.

    lamh35

    Anyone from Florida?

    Is this guy legit?

    “@EvanAxelbank
    Tonight I’m reporting on a leaked #GOP campaign memo on ground game. It says GOP is losing effort to Dems, warns down-ticket races

    @EvanAxelbank
    The memo from an adviser to a #GOP GOP campaign says “Democrat turnout machine is cleaning our clock.” @OFA_FL @MittRomney

    @EvanAxelbank
    Memo: Dems lead early voting 60 to 22 in PBC, similar to 08. If you add returned AB ballots to EV by party, Dems like by 30k in PBC @OFA_FL

    @EvanAxelbank
    Worried GOPer leaked memo to me because they wanted to motivate the base, show that loss is possible @MittRomney @OFA_FL @wptv at 11

    @EvanAxelbank
    PBC #GOP chair told me boots on ground at polling sites, “For most part not relevant.” @OFA_FL @MittRomney

    ‏@EvanAxelbank
    http://twitgoo.com/68vgv6 ok folks here’s the memo. Directly from GOP campaign adviser to candidate. Story on @wptv at 11″

    https://twitter.com/EvanAxelbank

  45. 45.

    SFAW

    @TR:

    You forgot Nevada! And New Jersey! It should help out there, first. Plus, with its powers of prediction, it should be able to run the table in Vegas.

  46. 46.

    PeakVT

    @amk: YW. I turned it off for a while but between the firebaggers getting louder and the trolls getting thicker, I had to enable it again. And yes, that’s essentially the BJ troll hall of fame.

  48. 48.

    jibeaux

    Speaking of pie filters, I never see clerk anymore. Hale & hearty, anyone know?I guess he has a blog, nm.

  49. 49.

    amk

    @PeakVT: I am gonna just do a cut and paste job from yours.

    Thanks to cleek for doing this yeomen service. Does he/she still visit here ?

  50. 50.

    amk

    In 2009, Obama admin did a dry-run of cat 3 hurricane hitting NYC and their readiness to respond.

    Such a fucking competence and fucking cole is drooling over fucking christie.

  51. 51.

    leinie (iPad)

    @burnspbesq: That’s pretty close to verbatim what I told Mr. L about two hours ago, only I, prefaced it with “fuck” instead of ugh. Followed by greedy bastard owners.

  52. 52.

    SFAW

    @lamh35:

    Teh Google led me to WPTV, an NBC affiliate in West Palm Beach, FLA. Someone with the same name is a “Multimedia Journalist” for them. From Duh Bronx originally, also a Mets fan (poor bastard), worked in Rochester, NY for a few years.

    Of course, there is always the possibility that his Twitter account is a DougJ spoof, a la Doug’s CokieRoberts fun. Another possibility is that someone is feeding him bogus info, in the hopes of suppressing Dem votes. (Giving the Dems false confidence, which leads to “Eh, I don’t need to vote, it’s in the bag” sentiments.)

    Anyway, long-winded way of saying it MIGHT be legit.

    Come to think of it, I probably could have saved a bunch of keystrokes. Oh well.

  54. 54.

    MaryJane

    Two phone calls today:

    1:00pm, My daughter in law goes into labor. I’ll be a first time Gramma any minute! Flying up to the Bay Area on Thursday to meet my new grandson.

    3:00pm, Ex sister in law (still a good friend) calls to tell me her house on the NJ shore was, by all counts, destroyed. She ignored the evac orders (arrgh), spent the night in the attic, but is safely at her Dad’s house now and for a long time to come.

    A day I’ll remember, indeed.

  56. 56.

    DPS

    @Election Follower:

    Since you change your name so often, I’m wondering if you’re willing to do requests. I kind of like “Principled Centrist,” but “Common Sense Conservative” is also dear to my heart and I have used it myself many times. I have to say that “Election Follower” is a real step down from “Political Observer” and that you should either change or change back.

  57. 57.

    Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason

    @TR: I’m part of that PA Dem infrastructure. In two weekends of canvassing I’ve come across either Not Home or Rabid Obama Supporters. The GOTV list we’re working from is solid.

  58. 58.

    Anne Laurie

    @MaryJane: Congratulations on the new grandbaby, your trip to SF, and the fact that your ex-SIL is still around to hear you call her seventeen kinds of fool!

  59. 59.

    gozer galaxy s2

    No power, but finally got cell service back. Unfortunately it’s 40 fucking degrees outside and there’s no heat.

    Angry, cold man is angry…and cold.

  60. 60.

    AnnaN

    Not sure if you have tried this, but it has worked amazingly with all of our large, thunder phobic dogs. 1-2mgs of melatonin. Doesn’t drug them, just takes away the anxiety. Takes about 20 min to kick in.

  61. 61.

    Antione Landaverde

    It’s bad enough that cops piss all over the 4th Amendment, but they do it for something that shouldn’t even be a fucking crime to begin with.

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