Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

I really should read my own blog.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Republicans seem to think life begins at the candlelight dinner the night before.

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

T R E 4 5 O N

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Not all heroes wear capes.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

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

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

“The defense has a certain level of trust in defendant that the government does not.”

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

No offense, but this thread hasn’t been about you for quite a while.

Stamping your little feets and demanding that they see how important you are? Not working anymore.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

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

I’d hate to be the candidate who lost to this guy.

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

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I was listening to some socialist public radio yesterday and the forecaster being interviewed mentioned that we’ll almost certainly have a gap in weather satellite coverage in the next few years (and it was only luck and skill on the part of satellite controllers that we have coverage now). He also said that he’s been using the European forecast models to track Sandy, because they’re more accurate.

It sounds like there were some management issues with the satellite program at NOAA, even before their budget was cut, but if serious conservative Paul Ryan’s budget is approved, it would cut the NOAA budget even more. I’m all for it, because today’s storm has made it clear that the only real solution is privatizing weather forecasting so the free market will give us the services our broken government can’t provide.

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  1. 1.

    TheMightyTrowel

    Who needs Science and numbers and weather “prediction” – The good folk at Fox news tell me all I need to know! AMIRITE?

  2. 2.

    Stentor

    I wish there would be an expanded budget for satellites. I was laid off from my job two months ago at a commercial aerospace company up in the Bay Area that produces those satellites because of low demand in the industry.

  4. 4.

    arguingwithsignposts

    The mayor of Atlantic City is telling Al Roker that the governor (Chris Christie) was either misinformed or lying yesterday. Langford sounds pissed. Roker said “why would he do that?” Stephanie Abrams said, “now is not the time to work out who said what.” le sigh.

  7. 7.

    Kane

    On second thought, maybe the talking heads should have asked a question about Global Warming during this campaign.

  8. 8.

    JPL

    Christie repeated his praise of the President and FEMA today on CBS Morning news. This is good news for McCain.

  10. 10.

    Omnes Omnibus

    Come on, man. Private enterprise can cover it. I mean, even the local news programs have have satellites for the local weather images. Right?

  11. 11.

    Raven

    Not a word about the mayor by Christie on Joe. Lauding the president. He did slide in a “normal FEMA mumbo jumbo”.

  12. 12.

    JPL

    @Raven: Christie was asked about his comment about the Mayor of Atlantic City on CBS this Morning and my phone rang… ugh.. The video should be online soon though.

  14. 14.

    Balconesfault

    Every FEMA employee should be directed, when they appear at the scene, to start by saying:

    “I’m from the Federal Government, and I’m here to help.”

  16. 16.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @Davebo:

    What’s crawled up Christie’s huge ass?

    I swear, it seems like he just wakes up every day thinking of who he can shit on today. what a douchenozzle.

  17. 17.

    MrSnrub

    My google-fu is weak. All of the links I could find only gave Christie’s side of the story. What did the AC mayor say?

    I did see that Christie and the mayor have been feuding for a while.

  18. 18.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @MrSnrub: The mayor said basically that he’d been warning people to evacuate for days and even said Christie’s representatives were standing next to him when he was making announcements. And he said, direct quote: “The governor is either misinformed or lying.” I would venture to guess that he wanted to leave off the first part of that either/or statement.

    ETA: The mayor was just on Weather Channel via phone this morning, so it’s probably not in the google yet.

  21. 21.

    Balconesfault

    @Schlemizel: The bigger the disaster … the bigger the opportunity for private profit in the aftermath.

    New Orleans has been a financial bonanza for many A/E companies, and the BP Deepwater spill helped keep many an engineering firms lights on when the Bush recession was still kicking their butts.

  22. 22.

    max

    In my inbox preview of the WaPo daily fishwrap:

    Charles Lane
    It’s not about numbers
    Too many numerical standards may thwart good policy.

    Now I could click on this and read it, but I like my brain, and wish to protect it. But yes, apparently, NUBER$ BVAD!

    max
    [‘Rain’s mostly stopped.’]

  24. 24.

    Schlemizel

    @Balconesfault:

    I lived in Florida at the time of Andrew & that one really pulled the state out of a big hole it had dug for itself. There was $2Billion in spending between the Fed & private insurance – many jobs created too. Unless the dicks in Congress overrun the dickless members & kill recovery bills this could be the stimulus we never got.

  27. 27.

    Balconesfault

    @Raven: Never saw it – but work in the industry, and from the initial FEMA contractor camps (impact assessors) right after the disaster to the long-term infrastructure rebuild/upgrade contracts that followed, there have been a LOT of billable hours that were generated by Katrina.

  31. 31.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    Tornado Alley includes a disproportionate number of red states. The notion that the people of those states would be better served at a lower cost by state-run disaster relief or by private disaster relief companies is ludicrous on its face.

    That will not in any way prevent them from returning majorities for Romney.

  32. 32.

    Balconesfault

    @Omnes Omnibus: Not me personally. But it seems that whoever was running them did a fantastically lousy job, given Romney’s polling numbers. Any decent deprogrammer should have had him down to 27% by now.

  35. 35.

    Balconesfault

    @Higgs Boson’s Mate: Rick Perry turns to FEMA more often than Lindsay Lohan turns to coke. And Texas is financially better off than many of our counterpart Red States in tornado alley and the hurricane belt.

  36. 36.

    Omnes Omnibus

    OT: A WI venture capitalist, Stephen Einhorn, has admitted to funding the voter fraud billboards in primarily AA neighborhoods in Milwaukee, WI, Cleveland, OH, and Columbus, OH. A group that ABL is/was with, theGrio, was instrumental in bringing this to light. I am on my phone and can’t link, but it is in the No Quarter blog on the Milwaukee JS site.

  37. 37.

    lamh35

    @Raven: That’s part of my old neighborhood in NOLA. My aunt actually lived 2 blocks from Fats house in NOLA before Katrina. I remember how gaudy we thought that house was back in da day. After Katrina though, when it was rebuilt, we felt nostalgic and the neighborhood while still not where it was just felt like it was back in the swing of things.

  38. 38.

    4jkb4ia

    Sandy, the angels have lost their desire for us
    I spoke to them just last night and they said they wouldn’t set themselves on fire for us anymore

    It works impeccably well, since Christie just said the Jersey Shore was devastated.

  43. 43.

    jwb

    From Twitter it sounds like Bobo doubled down on the fascist, vote Romney or the GOP will make the country ungovernable line in this morning’s column. Won’t look myself. That man is a cancer on society.

  44. 44.

    Schlemizel

    @GregB:

    YEah, I assume he is Raven over at TNC also – a good guy.

    I live under different names depending on what they forced me to sign up with.

  46. 46.

    Schlemizel

    @jwb:

    So this fall presents us with a real choice! Do we vote for Obama which will force the GOP to continue to make American ungovernable or do we elect Willard M. Rmoney thereby making our once great country unlivable? YOU DECIDE >> DUM-DUM-DUMMMMM!

    “More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”

  48. 48.

    Mark B.

    Remember, everybody: climate change isn’t real, and federal disaster relief is immoral. At least that’s what Romney believed last week.

  50. 50.

    daize

    mistermix — had that song running through my head all day yesterday. Thanks for the info on NOAA. Sigh.

    Hope everyone made it through the storm OK so far.

    Two big trees fell in the neighborhood but thankfully no one hurt, and we do still have power. Our block made the local news — there’s a big Fox news truck in front of the house. I’m oddly torn….

    Take care, all.

  51. 51.

    Schlemizel

    @Raven:

    OH! I’m surprised because he “sounds” like you. Oh well, you’re a good guy anyway.

    TNC= http://ta-nehisicoates.theatlantic.com/

    A great read & lively community of commentors. One of the gifts I got from visiting this hellhole ;) That and Scalzi’s blog (also over on the right) often make the days wade through the fetid Internet swamp enjoyable

  54. 54.

    General Stuck

    This made me laugh

    Romney and Ryan announce ‘storm relief’ efforts for Tuesday

    Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney and his running mate Paul Ryan scheduled “storm relief” events Tuesday after previously canceling planned campaign rallies.

    The Romney campaign did not advise what the event would entail, but a Republican source indicated attendees would be asked to bring disaster relief supplies to the event, and that Romney might give brief remarks.

    Yea, wingnuts. Bring Spam, lots of Spam. Maybe Ryan can give a live reading of Ayn Rand for the event. Laurel and Hardy coming to the rescue.

  56. 56.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Mark B.:

    Oh, the etch-a-sketch has been shaken several times since last week, who knows what the vile parasite says he supports/believes this week.

  58. 58.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Oh, the etch-a-sketch has been shaken several times since last week, who knows what the vile parasite says he supports/believes this week.

    Romney’s most deeply held beliefs need timestamps.

  60. 60.

    Maude

    In Manhattan:
    The power is shut off from 30th street west and 39th street east all the way down to the southern tip.
    50 houses in Breezy Point, Queens are still burning with firefighters still fighting the fires.
    Tappen Zee Bridge and Lincoln Tunnel open.
    The Battery Tunnel is flooded end to end.
    That’s just a few of the problems this morning in NYC.
    They have to wait until the water goes down in the subway tunnels before they start pumping out the rest of the water.
    This is the worst disaster since 1888.

  62. 62.

    gene108

    @JPL:

    Christie repeated his praise of the President and FEMA today on CBS Morning news.

    Thus killing whatever chance he had at the White House for the foreseeable future.

    Maybe he can now sign the gay-marriage bill he vetoed earlier, since he doesn’t have to worry about pleasing the Bible Belt folks in the 2016 Republican Presidential primaries.

  63. 63.

    flukebucket

    Boys and girls Neal Boortz is flogging the hell out of the idea that there is no need at all for “big government” in siutations like this and how government did not get involved in stuff like this at all until the era of Big Government Jimmy Carter that was made even bigger under Big Government Bill Clinton. He also gave a quick story about two cities that he could not remember the names of that were hit with natural disasters at the same time because they were side by side and the one city that let private contractors dig them out did much better than the city that relied on big government.

  64. 64.

    hueyplong

    Voted in NC this AM, being extra careful to make sure the oval beside Obama’s name was filled in completely, yet no stray marks appeared outside the oval.

    Due to redistricting and personal moves, I have now had the pleasure to cast votes against Virginia Foxx, Bob Barr, Newt Gingrich, George and George Bush, and Ronald Reagan. Unfortunately, my record of actually beating those people ain’t so great, though I am boastful about my vote contributing to Obama’s razor-thin margin of victory in NC in 2008.

    A GOP poll worker had a handly list of approved “Conservative Judges” for the non-partisan races to fill those posts. I took one and dutifully voted for the opponent of each and every one of them, and my wife did the same. On our way out, we gave our lists back to the poll worker, telling him “We like to recycle.”

  65. 65.

    jibeaux

    @flukebucket: Ah yes, the parable of the unnamed side by side cities. It’s so convenient when disasters give you a control and an experiment group at the same time. Pity about remembering the names.

  66. 66.

    Schlemizel

    @Maude:

    I know its too early but I have to ask. Are there long-term risks to the structural integrity of the tunnels & subways from this event? Have only used bridges, never the tunnels in NYC but clearly remember seeing water running down the walls as we drove through the tunnel in Boston from Logan airport – that is not a happy sight!

  68. 68.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @Schlemizel:

    “More than any time in history mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness, the other to total extinction and the other is about orcs. Let us pray that we have the wisdom to choose correctly.”

    The things my brain will combine.

  71. 71.

    Belafon (formerly anonevent)

    @General Stuck: Someone from FEMA should show up, survey all the cans collected, and point out this will get those who have access to electricity through a day. As for everyone else, not gonna matter.

  72. 72.

    J.D. Rhoades

    @hueyplong:

    A GOP poll worker had a handly list of approved “Conservative Judges” for the non-partisan races to fill those posts. I took one and dutifully voted for the opponent of each and every one of them, and my wife did the same. On our way out, we gave our lists back to the poll worker, telling him “We like to recycle.”

    Good on ya! The local Teabagger nest dropped a little packet in our yard with a “voter guide” and a pocket copy of the Constitution. Now I have two! And, as you say, the voter guide came in quite handy for who to vote against in the races I hadn’t fully researched. The enemy of my enemy, etc.

  73. 73.

    The Moar You Know

    Saw that Christie’s dropped a bunch of torpedoes in the water this morning, and they all seem to have HMS Romney’s name scrawled on them in chalk, along with the words “die skinny motherfucker” on them.

    This is an interesting development.

  76. 76.

    Graham

    It is very important that the NOAA budget not be cut. These are dedicated public servants, upon which much appreciation is due.

  78. 78.

    ericblair

    @The Moar You Know:

    Saw that Christie’s dropped a bunch of torpedoes in the water, and they all seem to have HMS Romney’s name scrawled on them in chalk, along with the words “die skinny motherfucker” on them.

    Between the convention and this, I’m getting the impression that Christie doesn’t like the Rombot a whole hell of a lot. Seems Christie’s getting real no-bullshit help for a state in real serious trouble, appreciates it, and immunized Obama against gooper attacks. Anti-big-gummint rhetoric tends to disappear about ten seconds after the water starts rising.

  79. 79.

    ding dong

    Neal Boortz needs a freaking hurricane right up his ass. Alex bennett worked with him at some radio station and he had the classic signs of a stroke and bennett told him to go to the ER which he did. Boortz never thanked him or nothing no gratitude zip and Benneet ended up getting fired down the road and boortz didn’t do crap. That is a scumball.

  81. 81.

    jibeaux

    I dunno, I don’t make too much of the Christie thing. If the president has been genuinely helpful during a state emergency, the governor pretty much has to say that. If he tries to say that Obama should’ve done more, the obvious question is going to be well, what else did you need and did you ask for it? It’s going to look political and petty and exploitative of your state’s tragedy to complain without specifics.

  82. 82.

    Maude

    @Schlemizel:
    Good question. The MTA doesn’t know yet. It could well be that there is major instability in the subway tunnels.
    What is good about the MTA and all the other public agencies is that they know how to do their jobs.
    The rabbit warren of Wall Street seems to be a real mess.
    It has to be overwhelming in NYC.
    FEMA helps, but don’t tell Romney.
    I took subways and they are amazing. The walls didn’t leak and the express trains are an experience.

    Edit to add, the IRT had it’s anna, 1904.

  84. 84.

    Schlemizel

    @ericblair:

    A Rmoney/rAyn win would clog the road for Crusty in ’16, of course he wants Willard to lose. Crusty has the bypass money all saved up & a cover story but won’t use either if the worst happens.

  85. 85.

    jibeaux

    Not to mention that last I checked Christie doesn’t look like he’s hitting the zumba studio yet, and he may be settled on a career at the state level. I bet thanking a Democratic president for helping during a hurricane will not exactly be a death knell in NJ politics.

  86. 86.

    MikeJ

    @Davebo:

    The Mayor told everyone who could to get out.
    __
    What’s crawled up Christie’s huge ass?

    Talked to a wingnut I know last night.Was going on about how tough talking Christie was, “har har, we told you to get out, if you don’t we’re not coming for you! Har har!”

    They eat that shit up with a spoon.

  88. 88.

    Schlemizel

    @Maude:

    I love both Boston & NYC but to be honest I would worry about living in either city as so much of the infrastructure dates from the 1800’s with updates & add-ons from the New Deal era. I think there will be one hell of a price to pay when the bill comes due for the lack of maintenance and new building

  89. 89.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @hueyplong:

    A GOP poll worker had a handly list of approved “Conservative Judges” for the non-partisan races to fill those posts. I took one and dutifully voted for the opponent of each and every one of them, and my wife did the same. On our way out, we gave our lists back to the poll worker, telling him “We like to recycle.”

    Ohhh the burn! I bet they had to run their ginormous SUV around the block twice to spite your hybrid, after that remark.

    Our local tea party mailed out a handy card of all the approved wingnutty candidates, which proved to be a handy guide to voting against them in all the obscure races for local offices. This saved me the time which otherwise would have been invested in playing buzzword bingo with the ugly mailing cards that have been clogging up our mailbox for the last month. Although I must admit I enjoyed spotting a tell in the form of the phrase “balance of powers” buried down in the fine print on the lit card for one of the family law judges running for re-election hereabouts. Sort of like rare birdwatching, only with vultures.

  90. 90.

    flukebucket

    @ding dong: There is no doubt that Boortz has to be a horrible human being. Thankfully he is retiring this year so we won’t have that poison in the airwaves any longer but he is being replaced by Herman Cain and it turns out that Herman may be just as horrible as Neal. Some of his comments are just as jaw dropping.

  91. 91.

    Schlemizel

    @ThatLeftTurnInABQ:

    The MN SoS will present you with a sample ballot on line if you type in your home address. This has been a real blessing to me as I get mine early and actually look at each of the candidates running. The wingnuts love to run goofballs for judgeships and they are the hardest to learn about. Now I know before I go what exactly is on the ballot & who the wingnuts are.

    If your state does not do this it might be worth starting a letter writing campaign. The teatards occasionally win these deeply down ticket races because they all know but the average voter does not have a clue & often does not vote.

  92. 92.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @ThatLeftTurnInABQ: One of the upsides to living in Madison, WI, is that we had a total of 4 contested races on our ballot. The rest had Dems running unopposed.

    Actually, this city is one where the Greens or someone else to the left should run on the local level.

  94. 94.

    Narcissus

    Have any very serious villagers suggested we just cancel the election and give it to Romney out of patriotism and comity yet?

    Cuz of the storm, y’know.

  95. 95.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @flukebucket:

    … but he is being replaced by Herman Cain…

    Providing Vermin Cain with a forum on which he can put his foot in his mouth routinely and publicly will at least provide some laughs.

  96. 96.

    hueyplong

    Gotta get in my smartass remarks at the polls, because my won-lost record with regard to actual candidates is horrible due to spending most of my life in the Confederacy (with short diversions to SF for 1 year and Paul Laxalt’s Nevada for 2).

    The GOP poll worker is likely to be doing a lot more laughing the evening of Nov 6 than I am, at least with regard to elections other than the presidential one. And the latter isn’t totally sure to be in our favor, though we have to think so in order not to go to dark places each night.

  97. 97.

    4jkb4ia

    Allowing foreign STEM graduates to stay in the US may be important for job creation here and not where they come from. It is not a science policy.

    From the NYT story on this it appears that NOAA could run that satellite program with less money than they have been given to do it. The post would be improved by pointing out Moderate Mitt’s assertion that he is all for pure scientific research but not handouts to Solyndra in one of the debates. What about what NOAA does is a handout to a private company?

  98. 98.

    Maude

    @Schlemizel:
    NYC does maintains things. They have built a new water tunnel.
    The Republicans have really harmed this country by not funding infrastructure projects.
    I get very angry about this as it kills people.
    I want to see how Obama handles the extra funding needed for FEMA and infrastructure for Sandy damage.
    I only hope against hope that this causes a glimmer of realization that quality is better than profit. Oh, what am I saying?

  99. 99.

    catclub

    @MikeJ: Talked to a wingnut I know last night.Was going on about how tough talking Christie was, “har har, we told you to get out, if you don’t we’re not coming for you! Har har!”

    Of course, a large fraction of those who don’t get out are clinging to their guns and sticking it to the government that would try to tell them what to do.

    Others are just ignorant.

  100. 100.

    catclub

    @jibeaux: “Need someone to wash already clean dishes or tell you to go home and call 211?”

    Works best when you have just told Romney your house has been flooded out.

  101. 101.

    jibeaux

    I saw a judicial ad on TV last night, they give away the tell early with the “conservative” part, but this one also included a promise to support small businesses and grow the economy or some such nonsense. I am at a loss as to how that aligns with being a judge, unless you’re just saying you will side with the 53% in any litigation.

  102. 102.

    Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God

    @Maude:

    The Republicans have really harmed this country by not funding infrastructure projects.
    I get very angry about this as it kills people.

    You should be. There’s a reason countries attack their enemies’ infrastructure: It’s the most effective way to wage war.

    Between their intentional mucking up of the recovery, and their stubborn refusal to let us take advantage of low interest rates to update our infrastructure, the GOP has essentially been waging war on the United States since 1980.

    (Sorry, feeling very pissed off and partisan today).

  103. 103.

    ThatLeftTurnInABQ

    @Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God:

    Between their intentional mucking up of the recovery, and their stubborn refusal to let us take advantage of low interest rates to update our infrastructure, the GOP has essentially been waging war on the United States since 1980.

    I’ve long felt that in 1861 the CSA states would have done much better to stay in the Union and sabotage the Lincoln administration from within, using all of the tools of delay and obstruction available in the US system of govt., and that the last 4 years have given us a small taste of what that would have been like.

  104. 104.

    japa21

    @jibeaux: Make something of it. He could have just said that FEMA is cooperating with us and I talked to the President and leave it at that. He went further in actually mentioning what he and The President talked about and how Obama told him to call him directly if he isn’t getting enough and talking about Presidential leadership.

  105. 105.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @ericblair: I wonder if Christie’s concluded that he has no realistic shot at higher office via the current Tea-soaked version of the GOP & is putting his horse-racing cash on a deadly double–a crushing defeat for Mitt this year followed by Teapocalypse in 2014–to clear a path for him. For any Republican with half a brain & not batshit-insane, it’s the only alternative to turning in your membership card.

  107. 107.

    jibeaux

    @japa21: Yeah, I just think it makes him look a little more gracious about the sweet, sweet, federal funds and the assistance, etc. and not petty. In politics, there’s something to be said for looking gracious and not petty. Especially if you’re looking at 2016 and aren’t too optimistic about Romney’s chances now. Graciousness doesn’t give Dems anything to bitch about in 2016, and Republicans probably aren’t going to say out loud that Christie should have pre-emptively condemned the president before the storm ever hit.

  108. 108.

    kdaug

    Check out the comments on this CNN story about Romney’s FEMA briefing. I made it though 6 pages or so before finding anything that could remotely be called supportive.

    ETA: Point is, this ain’t here, or on DKos, this is CNN. And the takeaway is a.) Romney wants to kill FEMA, and b.) he’s shamelessly trying to politicize a disaster. These are two points that everyone is repeating, and inasmuch as CNN represents the middle, it seems telling.

  109. 109.

    Judas Escargot, Acerbic Prophet of the Mighty Potato God

    @ThatLeftTurnInABQ:
    Quite possibly.

    And imagine what that alternate version of the US would look like. No Federally backed Transcontinental Railroad, which would have slowed down westward expansion. Much less industrial expansion in the North. It also would have been much harder to bring new territories into the US because of the need to let one slave state and one free state in at the same time.

    Also, WWI was only half a century after the Civil War. Doubt we’d have been as useful or powerful an ally in 1914 under the alternate scenario.

    ‘Standing athwart history’ indeed.

  110. 110.

    gocart mozart

    Sandy, that waitress I was seeing lost her desire for me
    I spoke with her last night, she said she won’t set themselves on fire for me anymore
    She worked that joint under the boardwalk, she was always the girl you saw boppin’ down on the beach with the radio
    The kids say last night she was dressed like a star in one of them cheap little seaside bars,
    and I saw her parked with Loverboy out on the Kokomo
    Did you hear the cops finally busted Madame Marie for tellin’ fortunes better than they do
    For me this boardwalk life for me is through
    You ought to quit this scene too

  111. 111.

    gocart mozart

    And me I just got tired of hangin’ in them dusty arcades bangin’ them pleasure machines
    Chasin’ the factory girls underneath the boardwalk where they promise to unsnap their jeans

  112. 112.

    gocart mozart

    Typo-Lincoln was wrong, not everything on the internet is true.

    “She won’t set herself on fire for me anymore.”

  114. 114.

    1badbaba3

    @gnomedad: Will no one take the Herb Cain bait? Oh how the mighty joke candidates have fallen. Is this us realizing Coultergeist was right (HA!) about their Blacks being better than ours?

  116. 116.

    Ed or Edna Dane Defender of Donuts

    Of course they need to cut funding for NOAA … you know. How else are they going to get the monies to probe Solyndra again? Or investigate if Bill Ayers personally typed up President Obama’s birth certificate? Those are Very Serious Topics.

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