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No Justins, No Peace

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

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Let’s not be the monsters we hate.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

Come on, man.

I really should read my own blog.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

You can’t love your country only when you win.

Nothing worth doing is easy.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

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

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

Everybody saw this coming.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

A consequence of cucumbers

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

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

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Not all heroes wear capes.

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  1. 1.

    Chyron HR

    I know they sell pore-cleaning strips for your blackhawks. You should probably see a doctor if the bruins persist, though.

  8. 8.

    Tom Levenson

    Go Bruins.

    That is all.

    (PS — just to get flamed: I do like to see a championship contested between two real cities, unlike the recent basketball farrago. [ducks])

  11. 11.

    PsiFighter37

    I am pretty sure Snowden and Our Lord and Saviour Glenn Greenwald were in cahoots and conspired to do all of this. I would absolutely love it if GG got his ass extradited to the U.S. and he got a taste of the Supermax life, but alas, one can only dream.

    In other news, my waistline has definitely grown over the past month. I need to put in some real time, effort, and lack of drinking into getting back in shape. I’ve got to be in peak condition for Hawaii in 7 weeks.

  17. 17.

    PsiFighter37

    @Cassidy: I’m confused, is that a reference to some kind of exercise I should be doing, or the ideal size of GG’s cell in whatever we deem to be the most secure thing after Alcatraz nowadays?

  23. 23.

    PsiFighter37

    @mouse tolliver: I fucking told anyone I knew that this was just a way for understaffed, overworked IRS employees to quickly scrutinize groups that were likely to not really be eligible for tax-exempt status.

    Of courrse, it’d be too much to expect the turds who call themselves reporters for a living to be able to discern. Also not surprising that noted GTA aficionado Darrell Issa didn’t pick up on it either.

  25. 25.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @PsiFighter37:

    …my waistline has definitely grown over the past month. I need to put in some real time, effort, and lack of drinking into getting back in shape.

    I didn’t, the pictures from Hawaii and Tahiti aren’t pretty.

  26. 26.

    PsiFighter37

    @Cassidy: Welp, shows you how much doing P90x has taught me in terms of terminology for working out, which is to say, not that much. I was in a lot better shape when I was doing that religiously, though.

  27. 27.

    Yatsuno

    @mouse tolliver: In other words, what was happening is exactly what I said happened: they got zero guidance from HQ so they made it up as they went along. And then they got called on it. I’m still totally unclear what exactly they were supposed to do here.

  28. 28.

    Cassidy

    @PsiFighter37: P90X is an ass kicker. I enjoyed that one. Insanity was too much for my knee, though. 5×5 is a classic bodybuilding routine and it will put a lot of mass on in a short period of time. Or you can modify for it for endurance. I like to alternate.

  33. 33.

    Redshirt

    @MikeJ:

    I assumed it was what Faith the vampire slayer always said.

    Five by five!

    Also referenced in Aliens.

    I got a huge nerd thrill when, on Angel, she was finally introduced as “Faith, The Vampire Slayer”. Finally, some respect!

  36. 36.

    PsiFighter37

    @Cassidy: It got a bad rep because of Paul Ryan (who, if he wears a backwards cap while doing P90x, is a fool IMO), but it really does work. Easily was in the best shape of my life when I was doing that + following the diet loosely (but strictly from total calorie intake, the kinds of foods I was eating, etc.). Not as concerned about building mass now…more interested in focusing on slimming down a bit and toning up for the beach + half marathon in mid-September.

    Oh, and on another note, I love how we magically can find $30 billion to piss away on keeping brown people out of America. God forbid we spend that money on food stamps, scientific research, health care, education, or something that would actually be useful. Just another example how the GOP will vote for government spending as long as it lines the pockets of their contributors and some aspect of the military/industrial complex.

    If anything the vote serves to illustrate that IOKIYAR, again, as well as the fact that some Republicans just hate brown people more than bottomless pits of cash money.

  37. 37.

    Suffern ACE

    @PsiFighter37: you know, with photo shop, and maybe a body double, all of that sweating may be completely unnescessary. Enjoy the Mai Tais and Lomi Lomi salad…hire some kid from the university to stand in for photos.

  38. 38.

    Cassidy

    @PsiFighter37: Just think if we used some of that money to put physical education back in our schools as well and encourage kids to burn some calories so they won’t be pre-diabetic before they exit high school. I forget where I read it, but all of the money we spent in Iraq and Afghanistan could have provided free public secondary education for everyone who went for the next 50+ years.

    Ryan is a douche and anything he said he does would have got a bad rap.

  39. 39.

    John O

    That was a brutal 1st period ass-whupping. I’m for the Blackhawks, but if they don’t play any offense this is going 7.

    One team came to play, and the other came to kick some ass. Happy to be down 1.

  40. 40.

    PsiFighter37

    @Cassidy: We can’t be spending money to build a socialist paradise; we must bomb our way to a capitalist utopia.

    John Galt knows this.

    Duh.

  41. 41.

    different-church-lady

    Dumb penalty. Then again, nothing slows
    down the Bruins’ momentum like their own power play.;

  43. 43.

    JWL

    Zimmerman: “Knock, knock”.

    Judge: “Who’s there”?

    Z: “A convicted murderer”.

    J: “A convicted murderer who”?

    Z: “A convicted murderer who requests an appeal on the grounds his attorney was m’fucking incompetent”.

    J: “I don’t get it. Bailiff will remand the prisoner. Next case”.

  48. 48.

    D58826

    @mouse tolliver: Funny that the IG report missed that little point. I did read somewhere that the IG was a Bush 43 appointee so maybe that ‘oversight’ was his contribution to the tea party cause w/o looking overtly partisan

  50. 50.

    different-church-lady

    Kinda great the way Marchand is always worth 5 or 6 more seconds of penalty kill if he gets the puck at mid-ice. The way he can skate down the boards and through the corners with the puck is fun to watch.

  52. 52.

    Redshirt

    This is going to be another game the Bruins appear to dominate for awhile, but it’s close/tied, goes to OT, and then…..

  53. 53.

    Mike E

    @LT:

    Hell of a fast moving game.

    This speaks to the crisp play of the competitors + the level of officiating (& desire to let them play).

  55. 55.

    different-church-lady

    @Redshirt: If tonight is going to be the end, I just hope it’s on a clean goal and not some weird fluke bounce.

    It’s been a great series no matter what — they promised us a classic, and we got one.

  61. 61.

    PsiFighter37

    @Comrade Jake: The CW doesn’t know or care, because the Villagers will blame Obama no matter what happens.

    That said, something’s going to have to give in the House. No matter how it goes down, I don’t see Boehner coming out alive as Speaker unless he pulls some ‘House of Cards’-style shit with NANCY SMASH, which I don’t see happening. He’s too drunk to give two shits about whether or not he remains Speaker or not.

  62. 62.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Comrade Jake: Just heard on Rachel that last week he assured the Congressional Hispanic Caucus (all Dems) that they should just watch what he does on the farm bill. He’s gonna use the same strategy to get CIR passed.

    At this point, you gotta wonder Boehner doesn’t just look at Cantor and say, “You want this job, Punk? Fuckin’ take it. Ima go drink in the tall Merlot grass”.

  63. 63.

    S. cerevisiae

    I said at the beginning that this series would go 7 and it looks likely right now. This really is a classic series, I can’t remember seeing two teams that matched up so well in the finals.

  65. 65.

    Comrade Jake

    Yeah, these days every time I see Boehner he’s in front of the press with this look on his face like “this job fucking blows”. Cantor would be beyond parody in that position.

    Oh and the word on the street is that John Bolton may run for President in 2016. That should be good for some laughs.

  66. 66.

    Baud

    @PsiFighter37:

    I wonder if the Villagers will go with (1) he pushed too hard or (2) he didn’t fight hard enough or (3) he failed to invite them over to watch the Stanley Cup.

  68. 68.

    burnspbesq

    @PsiFighter37:

    he got a taste of the Supermax life,

    You mean the prison where the only voice you ever hear is your own? I’m not sure Greenwald would see that as punishment.

  71. 71.

    burnspbesq

    @Comrade Jake:

    So what’s the CW on whether or not Boner will let the House vote on CIR?

    NFW. The chair of the Judiciary Committee is running this show, and he wants a turn a shivving Boehner. Why should Cantor have all the fun?

  72. 72.

    LT

    @different-church-lady: Unfortunately a shitty internet feed (In Oz). But I took that into account. Just seems likethe cameraman is not the smoothest.

    EDIT: I’ll add that the image is really good -very sharp and crisp. But it’s glitchy. Lots of frustrating stops and sticks.

  74. 74.

    different-church-lady

    I should have gone out on a ledge and said it: Crawford was looking like he was going to crack. Might not be feeling well tonight.

  78. 78.

    different-church-lady

    @LT: I think they have their own cameras instead of sharing w/ NBC. Building might be shaking where they have theirs.

  79. 79.

    burnspbesq

    The US U-20s got the result they needed against France today. A win over Ghana on Thursday and they have a good chance of escaping the Group of Death and getting to the round of 16.

  80. 80.

    Violet

    @PsiFighter37: Just quit drinking. If you drink as much as it seems you do from your posts here then you are drinking a lot of calories. Stop it completely or limit yourself to only weekends, two drinks max, or something like that. The weight will fall off.

  81. 81.

    burnspbesq

    @Comrade Jake:

    if I laugh at this joke, does it make me a Botsplainer or just an NSA shill?

    Yes.

    ETA: And you’re also objectively in favor of torture, since that’s what the UN Special Rapporteur says that Supermax confinement is.

  82. 82.

    burnspbesq

    Just in case I failed to make it obvious, I think the UN Special Rapporteur is a buffoon.

  88. 88.

    Xantar

    @spudvol:

    Wow. That couldn’t have been a better pic if the photographer had hired some people and staged the whole thing.

  89. 89.

    James E. Powell

    Bruins defense seems to hate their own goalie – they let him get mauled there – twice

  91. 91.

    Suffern ACE

    @burnspbesq: shows you how far we’ve devolved. Despite knowing otherwise, whenever you mention the U-20s and U-21s, I think that those are yet another type of flying craft used to either eavesdrop or drop things out of.

  105. 105.

    dedc79

    Nothing beats hockey playoffs. If this was the NBA, there would have been 3 timeouts, 8 free throws, and 12 commercials in the same amount of time it took Chicago to tie the game and take the lead.

  107. 107.

    different-church-lady

    And now the best tradition in all of sports: the booing of the Commissioner.

  108. 108.

    different-church-lady

    The Stanley Cup is 35 inches tall, which is only 3 inches taller than Gary Bettman.

  111. 111.

    p.a.

    Can’t miss Felger tomorrow. Wonder who and how many get tossed under the bus. Chara. Seguin. To start.

  112. 112.

    Susan K of the tech support

    Massage.

    Massage and Paula Deen and her brother.

    I have wandered into the cesspool that is the Paula Deen deposition and caught her in a lie. It’s not about the main point that everyone is going on and on about (her mention of n-word).

    But this lie is a tell. Should we believe everything in her deposition?

    The Paula Deen Deposition transcript.
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/148813272/Transcript-of-the-Testimony-of-Paula-Deen-Date-May-17-2013

    The complaint in the lawsuit brought by Ms. Jackson
    http://www.scribd.com/doc/148781831/Jackson-v-Deen-Et-Al-Complaint

    I know this is obscure.

    Complaint/Jackson states that after she witnessed Paula Deen’s bro violently shake one of the staff members, corporate counsel said that…

    “the solution was for someone to bring this individual to Paula Deen’s $13,000,000 home to give him the feeling of being important and to ‘massage’ him. ‘Massaging’ is a term frequently used by Paula Deen.” (you’ll find this in ¶77 on pg 23 of complaint)

    So, they’re deposing Paula Deen, and getting her to respond to things mentioned in the complaint. Paula Deen is saying that no, her brother would never lie to her, and the manager who takes Jackson’s side is jealous/gullible, and that everybody has problems with Jackson, etc.

    Shall we believe Paula Deen?

    Q: Have you ever used that term as a way of describing making someone feel better, to massage them?

    A: No, I massage my meat and I massage my husband sometimes, but that’s about the only time I use that word.
    [transcript, page 53, lines 11-16]

    Then, less tha 10 pages of transcript later, Paula Deen gets an expanded vocabulary! She starts to use the word “Massage!” In the exact same way that the complaint says she used it. After denying she uses it, the word just slips out.

    Context is about a consulting firm she hired to look into good workplace practices, and their report.
    Lisa = Lisa Jackson, the complainant.
    Bubba = Paula’s brother (co-defendant)
    Karl = Karl Schumacher CPA for Paula Deen family of Companies

    A: I don’t know that I read it… I knew that they had been massaged into what Lisa and Bubba wanted them to — I mean, Lisa and Karl wanted them to think. [p 61 of Deen deposition, lines 6-9, emphasis mine]

  113. 113.

    different-church-lady

    @p.a.:

    Can’t miss Felger tomorrow.

    How can you listen to that man’s voice? I’d rather poke my eardrums out with a spork.

  114. 114.

    TG Chicago

    @LT: Followed shortly by lesson 2.

    Can’t believe they won it in regulation being down with 1:16 to go. I hope Nate Silver calculates what the odds of that are. I almost gave up and watched the end of Under the Dome. Glad I didn’t.

  116. 116.

    PsiFighter37

    @Violet: Yeah, a lot of it does come down to the beer. Definitely not drinking at all during the week helps out – there was a 2-week period where I had a couple drinks every day (combination of boredom at home, lots of post-work events, and then the weekends) – not helpful at all. But I plan on running it pretty tight until my Seattle/Alaska sojourn…going to have to figure out if I can sneak in a few treadmill runs at the very least.

    And sorry to Bruins fans. 2 goals in that short of a time span has to be an absolute dagger.

  117. 117.

    different-church-lady

    Well, I was right: didn’t end up hating the Hawks. Talented team that still has grit. Played a clean series.

    If that collection of assholes in Vancouver two years ago had won I would have been convinced the hockey gods had died. But Chicago deserved this cup.

  121. 121.

    different-church-lady

    @lethargytartare: Well he should: damn fine goaltender and his name’s going on the Cup.

    I meant that comment with respect even if it didn’t sound like it — he looked a lot more confident in the first five games. In the third tonight he was skating around and looking down like he was spooked.

    I went into tonight thinking, “Well, even if we make it to game 7, Crawford’s not going to melt down in Chicago the way Luongo did in Vancouver.”

  122. 122.

    different-church-lady

    @p.a.: The one with the weird gravel voice?

    I just don’t find much appealing about 98.5. It seems like no matter which show is on the hosts are always screaming.

  123. 123.

    p.a.

    Yes, that’s the guy. I won’t listen to EEI because of the 2 BushBots on in the am. Although ditching Ordway was a positive move.

  125. 125.

    Mandalay

    @Higgs Boson’s Mate:

    According to BBC News. Taliban militants announced that they have attacked the presidential palace in Kabul.

    And in other Taliban news…
    – The Taliban have said that the 10 climbers shot dead in northern Pakistan were killed by a branch of the militant group set up to target foreigners. They were forced to kneel and shot in the head…
    – The United States and Afghanistan are still waiting to hear from the Taliban about opening peace talks, but remain willing to go ahead with negotiations

    I guess “we never negotiate with terrorists” is so-last-year.

    So the Taliban dry fucks the USA up the ass, and the the most powerful nation the world has ever known begs them to do it harder.

  126. 126.

    Mnemosyne

    @Mandalay:

    I guess “we never negotiate with terrorists” is so last year.

    Reagan said that and immediately turned around to start selling weapons to Iran and right-wing militias in Nicaragua.

    So, uh, no, it was always a bald-faced lie.

  127. 127.

    Higgs Boson's Mate

    @Mandalay:

    So the Taliban dry fucks the USA up the ass, and the the most powerful nation the world has ever known begs them to do it harder.

    Your statement is both hyperbolic and detached from reality. The most powerful nation in the world has been throwing
    everything short of nukes at the Taliban for a decade an they’re still able to mount an attack in the capitol. The Russians, whose methods are far more stringent than ours met with the same lack of success. Has it entered your mind that maybe it’s time to try something else? Or shall the most powerful nation in the world squander another ten years’ worth of blood and treasure?

    The Taliban are going after Karzai, not a US target. There’s a CIA station nearby and none of the reports mention them attacking that. The greatest likelihood is that the Taliban went after Karzai because of his objections to the US plan to negotiate with them directly.

  128. 128.

    Mandalay

    Kerry seems clueless about reality, and is mouthing off like an asshole trying to make matters worse….

    Terming Snowden an indicted felon, Kerry said all appropriate countries have been notified of his status.

    “It would be very disappointing if he was willfully allowed to board an airplane” from Hong Kong to Moscow, Kerry said at a news conference with Indian Foreign Minister Salman Khurshid, adding that he “would be deeply troubled” if Russia and China knew of Snowden’s plans, “and there would be, without any question, some effect and impact on the relationship and consequences.”

    “I’d urge them to live within the law,” Kerry added. “It’s in the interest of everyone.”

    Well it’s pretty ballsy for Kerry to be lecturing Russia and China about living within the law. The US took forever to get their extradition paperwork to Hong Kong, and fucked it up. And we don’t even have an extradition agreement with Russia.

    Maybe it seemed like a good idea at the time, but I think Kerry is in over his head as SoS. He just comes across as a doofus.

    And all politicians should just stop being “troubled”. Any pompous twerp who blathers about being “troubled” should STFU and head for the nearest fainting couch. They can’t be taken seriously.

  129. 129.

    Liquid

    So, it’s understood that we remember the “Knock, Knock” joke from the OJ trial, right?

  130. 130.

    Mandalay

    @Higgs Boson’s Mate:

    There’s a CIA station nearby and none of the reports mention them attacking that.

    Really?….

    Taliban gunmen attacked Afghanistan’s presidential palace and surrounding buildings, including the CIA’s Afghan headquarters, with explosions and gunfire shaking the city centre.

    In the past three days the Taliban have executed 10 mountaineers in the Himalayas, attacked the presidential palace in Kabul, and attacked the CIA’s Afghan headquarters. They are not messing around.

    If the USA still proceeds with peace negotiations with the Taliban after all that then isn’t it sending out the message to all of America’s foes that it is weak, and will capitulate when placed under pressure?

    (I’m not saying that there are any easy options – just that proceeding with peace talks right now is a really bad option.)

  131. 131.

    Mnemosyne

    @Mandalay:

    I bet a surge of more US troops would totally help right now.

    Face it — Afghanistan was lost from the day Bush Jr. decided to invade Iraq instead. Everything we’ve done there ever since was just trying to put a band-aid over the gaping chest wound that is the Taliban.

    ETA:

    If the USA still proceeds with peace negotiations with the Taliban after all that then isn’t it sending out the message to all of America’s foes that it is weak, and will capitulate when placed under pressure?

    Wasn’t that Cheney’s argument for why we had to invade Iraq under false pretenses? To prove to the Arab world that we weren’t wimps?

  132. 132.

    Amir Khalid

    @mdblanche:
    You can’t fault Romney merely for having a transition plan in case he won the election. After all, it was always a possibility until the votes were cast on election day. The comedy potential would be in the details of the plan.

  134. 134.

    Liquid

    Colbert refers to Snowden as “Drone Bait.” I love it..tha..that’s kinda sick isn’t it?

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