Liz Cheney just got a bigger penalty for lying to get a fishing license than her dad ever will for lying to get a war http://t.co/GGpaLRwbGf
— billmon (@billmon1) August 21, 2013
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Just to piss off my phan club: What’s on the agenda for the evening?
beltane
Liz Cheney somehow manages to make Sarah Palin look authentic. Heckovajob, Lizzie!
Roger Moore
I think I’ll do some whining, moaning, and complaining about the terrible state of the frontpagers on Balloon-Juice. Seriously do you always have to ask that question?
Yatsuno
Trollfest in 3…2…1…
cathyx
And a bigger penalty than lying to congress. Shouldn’t Liz get a promotion like Clapper?
ETA: Maybe if Obama issued the licenses she’d be OK.
geg6
Good to see at least one Cheney has to face the music for something. Even such a minor thing warms the cockles of my heart.
As for me, watching Master Chef and then Top Chef after finishing up these delicious chicken thighs in hunter’s sauce with pasta and carrots that John made tonight. Yummy!
Roger Moore
@Yatsuno:
IOW, par for the course.
eldorado
i’m going to go out on a limb here and say lying about your hunting/fishing license might be a pretty big deal in wyoming
Mnemosyne
There are many things I like about my Fitbit Flex, but it’s very irritating that if the site goes down, you can’t get any info at all from the stupid thing, because the web app and the phone app both connect to the webite — gah!
ranchandsyrup
Her lawyer should be shot in the face as per family tradition.
scav
Can we argue about the first blessing of the cheesemakers?. Neolithic Picodon! Or not!
rikyrah
About the NYC Mayoral Debate:
MODO had been proven to be a liar BEFORE NOON TODAY – look at the time on this…author had to have time to research the piece, and write it…it was posted at 12:15 pm..so Quinn knew THIS MORNING for sure that it was bullshyt..
SOOOO
why the fuck is she mentioning it in a debate?
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Today at 12:15 PM
Comment
Maureen Dowd’s Frankenstein Quote Gave Christine Quinn a Temporary Opening on de Blasio
By Joe Coscarelli
Christine Quinn won herself some headlines this morning by expressing outrage at Chirlane McCray, the wife of her suddenly viable mayoral rival Bill de Blasio, for her remarks about families in a Mauren Dowd column. McCray, as quoted, said Quinn is “not accessible … She’s not the kind of person I feel I can go up to and talk to about issues like taking care of children at a young age and paid sick leave,” giving Quinn the opportunity to take umbrage at a perceived slight for being a childless lesbian. “[To] criticize me as not understanding what young families go through because I might not have children is over the line,” she said.
But if the counterattack already seemed like a stretch, some of the blame can go to Dowd for stitching together McCray’s full quote in a way that left it open to an offensive interpretation.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligencer/2013/08/maureen-dowd-misquote-gave-quinn-an-opening.html
JPL
OMG.. I love you for having a new thread. Did Jane shut down her site and did they just show up here?
dmsilev
The only question I have is how long will it be until Cheney the Younger accidentally snags a fishhook in the cheek of one of her fishing companions. And how long will it take before said companion apologizes to her.
Mary G
HBM and I are going to the beach later to see the full moon on the ocean. He is making remarkable progress and I slept all day. Meatloaf and rice for dinner.
MikeJ
I agree Cheney helped lie us into a war.
Any chance Hillary will have anything to say about it in her campaign? Any chance she might regret voting for it, or regret being taken in?
Roger Moore
@scav:
Come on! We all know that’s a metaphorical reference to all makers of dairy products.
The Dangerman
@ranchandsyrup:
Pee Wee Herman is a Cheney?
scav
@Roger Moore: Yes, for he is not jealous the FSM and many are created and beloved — the parmesan, the ricotta, the mozzarella, the stringy, the laughing, yea! verily unto the humble orange brick. The whey to salvation is broad.
Suffern ACE
@Roger Moore: not all cheese makers should be blessed. Some need to be sacrificed to Apis to sustain all life.
JPL
@rikyrah: Well she was right about Al Gore inventing the internet wasn’t she.
It’s time for the NYTimes to let her go. Fox news is hiring.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suffern ACE: It is a blessing to sacrificed in such a worthy cause, is it not? Thus, even the sacrificed are blessed.
Poopyman
“Aw come on, Your Honor. Have a heart. No, really. We keep spares.”
Suffern ACE
@scav: do you by chance make cheese? Because that pun is exactly what Apis would like. He’s mirthful, and, lets face it, a person who makes puns like that probably should be slaughtered anyway.
Roger Moore
@Poopyman:
And it’s not as if the Cheney’s are using theirs.
Keith P.
I’m expecting the license clerk’s apology for Liz Cheney having to pay that fine in 3…2…1.
Litlebritdifrnt
@efgoldman: After reading that news I am going to hide myself in a corner and drink heavily. WTF? It is bad enough that Sean Hannity and his ilk are blaming Obama for the bailout which happened before he was elected but blaming him for the Katrina response? I give up.
raven
This little dude and it’s sib were enjoying the figs!
Roger Moore
@Litlebritdifrnt:
So I guess we know what’s on the agenda for you this evening.
SiubhanDuinne
The same phans would have complained bitterly about “And that’s the way it is,” “Good night and good luck,” and “Thank you, Mr. President.” It’s your trademark, AL. If people don’t like it, fuck ’em.
scav
@Suffern ACE: alas, a mere devoté, not an initiate and I’m side by side with @efgoldman, if not lagging in pun quality.
SiubhanDuinne
@Litlebritdifrnt: Hey, Britty, that “Under Milk Wood” CD you recommended arrived in this morning’s mail delivery. I’m about to start listening. Thanks in advance, I’m sure I’ll love it.
Jebediah
@Mary G:
I was just wondering about that a little earlier today. Thank you.
Yatsuno
@Roger Moore: I do miss me some matoko-chan at times. She may have been a pest but she was fun at the very least.
raven
@Mary G: Which beach? South Bay surfers rule!
NotMax
@Litlebritdifrnt
They’re working in reverse, and yet have 3½ years to pin blame on him for Iran-Contra, Watergate and the Kennedy assassination.
Jebediah
@SiubhanDuinne:
Hell yeah!
gogol's wife
@NotMax:
I thanked you last night for the great Cosmo recipe, but maybe you didn’t see it.
Baud
@NotMax:
The Curious Case of Barack Obama: Wingnut Edition.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
That doesn’t mean it is not a crappy, grating trademark.
PeakVT
@MikeJ: I doubt Clinton will ever say she regrets it, or that she made a bad call. She’s had plenty of chances. Which is one reason I won’t support her in the primary unless I have no other choice.
At least she passes the Penn Test this time.
Baud
I shouted out,
Who killed the kennedys?
When after all
It was
you and meBarack Obama.Elizabelle
@Mary G:
Enjoy that moon and that beach. Dinner sounds great too. Best to you and HBM.
(Saw moon last night; tonight we have a thunderstorm, for a while …)
Elizabelle
@Baud:
So true. Funny.
NotMax
@gogol’s wife
Saw it then, and you’re welcome.
@Baud
And his responsibility for New Coke. Let’s not forget that debacle.
Suffern ACE
@PeakVT:
Ok. Who? Who? Who exactly was making that prediction?
Baud
@NotMax:
IMPEACH!
Baud
@Suffern ACE:
Mark Warner and George Allen.
Jay in Oregon
Watching dead-enders lose their shit on the #AlJazeeraAmerica hashtag on Twitter has had it’s moments.
PeakVT
@Suffern ACE: El Goog gives many results to that query, but the predictors all seem to be nobodies.
ETA: @Baud probably has the correct answer.
Davis X. Machina
@efgoldman: Post hoc, ergo propter Obamam.
Poopyman
@Keith P.:
And I’m expecting to read in a few years that one of her supporters paid the fine for her, and it will never have been reported.
Baud
@Davis X. Machina:
I said in a thread yesterday that we should change our national motto to Obama culpo.
schrodinger's cat
Please welcome your new overlord, resistance is futile.
Poopyman
@Mary G: Here it’s moonrise in the east, thunderstorm coming in from the west,
Just crossed the Potomac and moving through Charles Co. now ….
NotMax
@gogol’s wife
Just now flashed back to something I overheard one time.
Woman #1 (gentile) was waxing enthusiastic about the first bagel with lox and cream cheese she had ever tasted, mere moments before.
Woman #2: “Now let me tell you about the rest of the religion.”
Suffern ACE
@PeakVT: yeah. I mean, I was a fan of the possibility of President Thune as the next guy (I believe he was the first of the Not Romnies-establishment edition), what with his flown in meat, who could resist? But I can’t even remember Warner getting the “he doesn’t look natural in cowboy boots so he’s doomed in Iowa” profile.
Davis X. Machina
@efgoldman: I’m a bloody Latin teacher, and it breaks my heart, but I’m reduced to teaching my debaters the fallacy as AAB (“After Ain’t Because) because at the speed of modern debate, every letter counts — PHEPH takes too long to write on the flow…
lamh36
Welp I called myself staying away from the interludes and choosing to read a book instead and the first thing I read is about the brutha from Prison Break officially came out of the closet in a statement condemning Russia’s gay rights stance.
I always wonder what do you say to someone when they officially exits that closet??? Congratulations seems appropriate, or maybe a god for buddy…lol
Davis X. Machina
@efgoldman: my dad’s BLS ’46, just missed the big war. All of us (6) though went to BC High, all of us did 4 years of Latin and two of us did 3 years of Greek and went on to take classics degrees.
I tell my English-teaching colleagues to look at me hard whenever they think about doing Portrait of the Artist, because I’m the last living guy they’ll ever meet who had Stephen Dedalus’ education.
Suffern ACE
@lamh36: I say it’s about time. I’ve been tired of having to keep my relationship with Wentworth a secret.
trollhattan
Am informed Neco Case’s new album will hit September 3. You know what to do.
lamh36
@Suffern ACE: LOL. Like I said good for him, but damn there goes all those “prison fantasies” from sistas who watched Prison Breaks down the drain…LOL
scav
@lamh36:
Housewarming gift or party of some sort? They’ve got all that non-closet space finally.
Davis X. Machina
@efgoldman: My dad worked in the city of Boston schools, and when he was starting out used to bump into Latin School old timers who remembered from the pre-war days a skinny Jewish kid who used to play the piano at assemblies — name of Lenny Bernstein.
They were a helluva trio, the old Latin Schools, both of them, and Boston English.
gbear
@trollhattan: I’ll get it, but It has the worst album title ever. What was she thinking?
Mino
The State of California will begin re-feeding its striking prisoners, in violation of their DNR instructions signed before starting the hunger strike. This is a violation of international law within the territory of the US. As political speech, it has also been considered a first amendment right.
Socoolsofresh
So, tons of NSA news today, but seems like no FP’ers wants to talk about it. Oh well, none of it is coming from Glenn Greenwald so, I guess people here don’t care.
gbear
@lamh36:
If it’s like everybody that I know, it was ‘Yeah, we thought so.’
Anybody contemplating coming out should do it the moment it is safe to do so. Don’t waste time.
Cacti
@Socoolsofresh:
If David Miranda can’t traffic stolen materials through Heathrow, none of us are free.
NotMax
@SuffernACE
After reading Steve Rude’s fine Nexus</i comic series, could never take seriously anyone with the name Thune.
lamh36
@gbear: agreed. it’s got to be a breath of fresh air living ur life openly & not looking over ur shoulder afraid of being exposed. it gives other people power over your life without them even knowing
Mnemosyne
@efgoldman:
There are many pun addicts at my office. We once went on a team building exercise and picked teams at random. One of the women looked at her fellow team members and, pointing at each of them one by one, said, “No puns, no puns, no puns, no puns.”
gbear
@NotMax: That’s my city councilman’s last name. He’s actually pretty cool.
Mnemosyne
@gbear:
Apparently, when my brother-in-law came out, it was during a time of other high family drama, so the reaction was basically, “That’s nice.” In other words, he picked his moment well, because by the time the other drama had subsided, too much time had passed for anyone who wanted to freak out to suddenly make an issue out of it without looking like an idiot for bringing up old news.
Davis X. Machina
@efgoldman: You can still go there as a tuition student, even if you’re from out of town, if you want to pay, but the tuition is swinging.
Today, though for essentially the same scratch you can go to Buckingham Brown and Nichols, e.g., or St. Paul’s, or Roxbury Latin, or wherever — it doesn’t make much sense any more. The last guy I met who did that was ten years older than me, class of ’64 or ’65, (I’m pushing 57.)
In those days, though, how many Jewish kids went to BB&N? The Latin School was a good deal, and a famous pipeline to Harvard, for people with a little money and shall we say…. restricted options.
Bernstein is so closely associated with New York, a lot of people don’t believe he came from where he did.
gbear
@Mnemosyne: Coming out to family can be scary. I remember driving to my parents house the night I was going to tell them and thinking that I might never be welcome in the house again. It actually went well, but you don’t have any guarantees before you blurt it out.
I would have been beaten to a pulp if I had come out to them in my teens. My dad changed a lot as he got older.
J.D. Rhoades
@efgoldman: OMG BARACK HUSSEIN OBAMA CAN TRAVEL IN TIME!
fuckwit
This is the place to direct the anger: on Bush, Cheney, and the spineless wonders in Congress, then and now, and, ultimately on US for electing the motherfuckers.
Advantage: if it was our fault then it was in our power to fuck it up,, and if it was in our power to fuck it up, then it is in our power to fix it.
Yatsuno
@J.D. Rhoades: Can’t find the picture cause I’m still at work, but the man has a god-damed TARDIS!!!
schrodinger's cat
Thread needs some cute after all the bitter debates of today. One Kitteh to rule us all.
RaflW
@JPL: It’s time for the NYTimes to let her go. Fox news is hiring.
Dowd is qualified for maybe the Daily Caller. If that.
Villago Delenda Est
@schrodinger’s cat:
My cute overload meter….it’s broken!
/shakes fist
Roger Moore
@NotMax:
They’ll never get to the Lindbergh kidnapping and the Haymarket Square bombing at that rate.
NotMax
@Roger Moore
Ah, that’s in reserve for the whole ‘Obama plans to subvert the 22nd Amendment and seek a third term’ meme currently cooling its heels in the wings.
Roger Moore
@NotMax:
You notice the assumption in the “Obama repeals the 22nd Amendment” storyline that he would go on and win the election. And, come to think of it, if he had just gotten 3/4th of the states to ratify an amendment whose whole point was to let him run for a third term, I guess that would be a reasonable assumption.
jenn
@schrodinger’s cat: Warning. Warning. Cuteness Overload. Warning. Warning. Cuteness Overload.
Somewhere recently I saw someone who’d posted a picture of a TINY kitten with a little bitty teddy bear – and then the grown up cat with the same teddy bear. Wow, damn cute. Wish I knew where the heck I’d seen it!
Roger Moore
@jenn:
Paging Dr. Tinycat.
Mnemosyne
Okay, I have officially taught my smartest cat a word.
He was sitting on the back of the armchair on the other side of the room. I looked at him and said, “Keaton, toy?” and he immediately jumped down and ran over to me. I didn’t have the toy in my hand, but he knew it was playtime.
ETA: It didn’t hurt that the toy of which I was speaking was the current Best Toy Ever that all three of them are obsessed with.