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Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

I conferred with the team and they all agree – still not tired of winning!

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

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

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

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

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

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

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

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The revolution will be supervised.

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

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

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Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

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  1. 1.

    Punchy

    Obama’s officially off the Benghazi, IRS, and NSA hook now! Kanye is now a father and Kim KarKrashian will be THE news cycle for the next week.

  2. 2.

    RSA

    Now there’s an awkward metaphor. I imagine they have a Valentine’s day ad as well, one that shows Cupid aiming a sniper rifle with a telescopic sight.

  4. 4.

    Tokyokie

    @RSA: No, no, no. Valentine’s Day is when manly men receive archery equipment. Same tagline though.

  6. 6.

    piratedan

    @Punchy: going to go full on Obot mode I guess….

    Benghazi…. while sad that those folks from the State Department lost their lives managed to illustrate a couple of things. One, that the State Department is still underfunded and that the R’s refuse to fund it. Two, that given the opportunity, that Al Quieda, while damaged, can still inflict hurt on us when events break their way. Three, that R’s will turn ANY event that takes place in the world into something that they hope to manufacture political capital from.

    the AP… this administration doesn’t like it’s business that is being done behind closed doors being exposed when it has the chance to hurt people doing work in the grey areas on behalf of our country. Somebody in State or the Intelligence services must have the administration’s ear when it comes to seeing these folks as expendable capital (like the press does).

    The IRS… illustrated just how shitty the SCOTUS decision was regarding Citizens United, as if that needed to be freshly branded into our forebrains once more. Also too, R’s will take anything and try to make political hay with it, doesn’t matter a tinkers damn what really happened, if it can be twisted, it will be twisted to fit whatever preconceived club is needed to muddy the water and flail against the President.

    This latest outrage (funny how they just show up on the heels of each other) helps illustrate the much needed discussion of the Patriot Act and what can and will be collected in the name of keeping us safe, how it’s collected, who gets to look at it and how long is it kept. What is sad is that discussion is only taking place on blogs and not in Congress as people who don’t understand the technology or the terminology or care to spend the time being acquainted with it are the ones who are more concerned with getting back home than doing the business of the people. The paradoxes that come with this story are of the nature that cause people to decide that they’d rather BBQ than continue to try and unravel the story/POV/agenda (be it Team Edward, team Glen or Team Barrack or any of the other myriad players) is coming apart at the seams on a daily basis.

    and on this day…. I reflect on my father, on what he meant to me and the life lessons imparted and on the meaning of life and how that life is to be lived. So TY Dad for teaching me the importance of hitting the cutoff man, on why its important to be nice to people you don’t know yet and how valuable it is to take care of the people in your life and the stuff that you own.

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    c u n d gulag

    Take it away, Mr. Morrison:
    The west is the best
    The west is the best
    Get here, and we’ll do the rest

    The blue bus is callin’ us
    The blue bus is callin’ us
    Driver, where you taken’ us

    The killer awoke before dawn, he put his boots on
    He took a face from the ancient gallery
    And he walked on down the hall
    He went into the room where his sister lived, and…then he
    Paid a visit to his brother, and then he
    He walked on down the hall, and
    And he came to a door…and he looked inside
    Father, yes son, I want to kill you
    Mother…I want to…

    Bad imagery, indeed.

  8. 8.

    A Ghost To Most

    Let’s hope it’s a hit! Meanwhile, this father is headed for the top of a 12000 ft mountain with my wife and son. Maybe we’ll find General Stuck up there.

  9. 9.

    Comrade Jake

    Nothing says “I love you Dad!” like a fresh case of hollow-point bullets.

    We’ll be taking in a game at the Durham Bulls Athletic Park this evening instead. Different strokes, natch…

  10. 10.

    BGinCHI

    I just shook my father’s day gift but it didn’t sound like armaments.

    Damn kid.

  13. 13.

    c u n d gulag

    @Comrade Jake:
    FSM, I LOVE that ballpark!

    When I was living in Chapel Hill, I took my niece and nephew to a game there 11 years ago, when he as 8, and she was 15.
    My niece isn’t a sports fane, but my nephew still talks about that ballpark more.
    He likes it even more than old Yankee Stadium – and no one besides the players and media, even likes the new Yankee Stadium.

    The first time I went to it, I had the feeling that it was designed by Albert Speer.

    And the banners of the great Yankee hero’s in the atrium, looked like Leni Riefenstahl had placed them for an upcoming documentary – “The Triumph of the Yankees!”

    And this, from a die-hard Yankee fan!!!

    PS: Old, old Yankee Stadium was the best one.

  14. 14.

    Emma

    @Comrade Jake: Years ago I attended a library conference there and the “fun things to do after hours” included a Durham Bulls game.I went because I father swore he would smack me around if I missed the chance. He was right. Had so much fun!

  16. 16.

    NickT

    I am just disappointed by their failure to provide tanks and rocket-launchers to the Great American People.

  18. 18.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Maude:

    We had a variant of that when I was growing up. I’m descended from the Cannon family on my mother’s side (“Cannon to right of them! Cannon to left of them!”), and the Gunn family on my dad’s (“Son of a Gunn!”).

  21. 21.

    red dog

    Just think how many little kids will play with dad’s gifts and end up shooting family members. Monday’s headlines will have the details.

  23. 23.

    Soonergrunt

    In not particularly surprised. These are simple people. The common clay of the new west. You know–morons.

  24. 24.

    lonesomerobot

    @red dog: Yes, get your dad a firearm and increase your entire family’s chance of a lethal accident! That’s the solemn duty we have to uphold the 2nd Amendment – the potential loss of one of your family members. Freedom isn’t free, etc.

  25. 25.

    Amir Khalid

    It’s amazing to see handguns, rifles, ammo, knives, “and much, much more!” advertised, with no irony intended, as tokens of filial love. What sort of experience of a father’s love could a person have had, that would lead them to associate lethal weaponry with Father’s Day?
    ETA: Is the advertiser by any chance related to the makers of My First Rifle for kids?

  26. 26.

    Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS)

    Happy Father’s Day to all the dads out there. I’m somewhat melancholy, as my father was not that great and hasn’t kept in touch with me much over the years, so I’m actually dreading calling him today. I’m also keeping off Facebook so I don’t have to read about all the people with their awesomest father ever stuff.

  28. 28.

    lonesomerobot

    Totally OT, but earlier this week I was on the phone with an insurance agent discussing home policies, and the stunning frequency with which she spoke the phrase, “also, too” really made me wonder if I was being phone-trolled by a BJ commenter.

  29. 29.

    Mike in NC

    Dammit! If the strapping young bucks can get free Obamaphones, why can’t the rest of us get free Obamaguns?

  32. 32.

    Soonergrunt

    @Amir Khalid: when I was a kid growing up in Wyoming and Colorado, I used to hunt deer with my dad. And while we both had decent rifles, and whenever we went for walks in the country, we took a .22 calibre revolver for snakes, it would never occur to me to buy a gun for my dad for father’s day. Guns were tools. I’d buy him a book or something like that.

  33. 33.

    peorgietirbiter

    No sweet assault rifle or ammo sampler- but I did get Damage Inc. Pacific Squadron WWII complete with the AV8R Flight Stick, so I’m good. This afternoon, Ace Bandage with be somewhere over Oahu taking to Tojo for God, Country and a Kelvinator refrigerator.

  34. 34.

    RSA

    Our next-door neighbor is out with a chainsaw this morning. What a pleasant background for Father’s Day.

  35. 35.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    My dad’s whole Navy career was about guns.Everything from the M1911 .45 cal pistol through the old Lewis machine guns to 20mm Oerlikon and 40 mm Bofors AA guns to the 5″38cal to the 16″ main battery of battleships. The only times we had a gun in the house was when he had to wear a side arm.

  36. 36.

    piratedan

    @c u n d gulag: loved Chapel Hill during my time in school, but then again, that was 30 years ago…. am sure that a lot of the “old familiar” places are no longer there. Spent a lot of my misbegotten youth at The Porthole, He’s Not Here, Trolls and Hector’s.

  38. 38.

    YellowJournalism

    Happy Father’s Day to dads of all types of babies, even furry ones like John’s.

    And a specialHappy Father’s Day to all the moms who had to fill that role.

  39. 39.

    gbear

    @Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS):
    If it helps to have a partner in melancholy, I’m in.

    My parents died 3 1/2 years apart, with my mom going first of leukemia, and dad in full denial and unwilling to deal with it. My sister had to yell at him to get him to be by her side when she passed away. The four years before his passing were the worst years in my and my sisters’ lives. The family exploded and, although we still love each other, we very rarely call on each other for comfort and support. We don’t do it very well.

    I’m gay with no kids, so I just let this day pass. I may take the scooter out for an all day ride along the Mississippi – down on the MN side to Wabasha and back home along the WI side.

  42. 42.

    c u n d gulag

    @piratedan:
    I had a friend whom I visited in Chapel Hill in early 1983, and it was a charming little Southern college town.

    When I moved there in January of 2000, it had changed a lot. Still charming – but larger, wealthier, and the college itself was also much bigger.
    The roads in, and to and from town, were wider – MUCH wider – and there were more of them.
    And, thankfully, the town was less Southern, because a lot of us carpetbagging Yankees, had moved down there in those intervening years.
    The natives there are still fighting the Civil War. And they still hate us.

  43. 43.

    c u n d gulag

    @piratedan:
    I had a friend whom I visited in Chapel Hill in early 1983, and it was a charming little Southern college town.

    When I moved there in January of 2000, it had changed a lot. Still charming – but larger, wealthier, and the college itself was also much bigger.
    The roads in, and to and from town, were wider – MUCH wider – and there were more of them.
    And, thankfully, the town was less Southern, because a lot of us carpetbagging Yankees, had moved down there in those intervening years.
    The natives there are still fighting the Civil War. And they still hate us.

  44. 44.

    aimai

    @Brother Machine Gun of Desirable Mindfulness (fka AWS): I’m so very sorry for you. This sounds hard. Just don’t bother to call your father at all. Send him a pro-forma card and find someone to be the father you want. I know there are people out there, older men, who are longing to be a father to you and/or you can father someone in return. Really give them the support and love you didn’t get. Kind of like Obama is trying to do in the face of his own absent father.

  45. 45.

    RepubAnon

    Nothing better expresses one’s love of humanity than giving people devices intended to more efficiently remove the folks Malthus referred to as the “excess population.”

  46. 46.

    Politically Lost

    The post my wife talked me out of putting on Facebook this morning. :

    “Happy Father’s Day to all those sperm donors out there and the abuseive stepfathers that follow.”

  48. 48.

    StringOnAStick

    @aimai: One more up vote for Aimai’s idea; I’ve done this and I’m much happier for it. There are wonderful folks out there who enjoy having younger folks to hang with; they are just as surprised to be “old” as you’ll be when you hit that point.

    Spending time with my father is basically an exercise in dancing on eggshells, waiting for the next Fox News-installed ragegasm to explode. If he can’t behave like a normal, respectful person then I don’t have to spend time being the target of his old white guy John Bircher bullshit.

  49. 49.

    trollhattan

    Am gobsmacked at the weapons for dad ad. Wonder how much crank and Bud Lite fueled the creative team on that one?

    Back in the day, ads encouraged buying Dad a carton of cigarettes for such august events. “Hey, if you love him so much, why not speed his demise?” Dad’s supply was never low so we never felt the need to add to it. Mission accomplished though; the coffin nails ensured my daughter and he would never meet.

    Think I’ll take her for a bike ride; it’s a nice day and that lawn can bloody well mow itself.

  51. 51.

    debbie

    Wow. I just this minute heard an ad on AM radio from a shooting supply store that said, literally, “Nothing shows you love Dad like a new firearm.” Unbelievable.

  52. 52.

    Comrade Jake

    @c u n d gulag: It’s a great ballpark. It’s actually a different one from that shot in Bull Durham, which is the old park (still around, used by NC Central I believe).

    They do a great job with families. They have a lot of entertainment for the kids between innings. They actually have decent beer as well – fair number of microbrews offered.

    At the end of the game on Sundays they let the kids run around the bases. Good stuff!

  54. 54.

    Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)

    Heard from all my nieces, nephews, and grand-nieces/nephews. They do a great job of turning today from a day where I remember what I lost into a day where I remember what I gained. Couldn’t love them more if they were mine, and they know it.

    Plus, Papa Cisco is still around. Bonus.

  55. 55.

    ruemara

    @Politically Lost: Ouch. So you’ve met my Dads?

    Edited to reflect that I tell my younger friends to appreciate the good dads that they have. I’ve managed to let go of any anger towards my stepdad and appreciated to drive by fathering I’ve gotten from older persons who have passed in and out of my life. Including ones on the internet.

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