Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If ‘weird’ was the finish line, they ran through the tape and kept running.

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

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

After dobbs, women are no longer free.

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you do not.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

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

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Speaker Mike Johnson is a vile traitor to the House and the Constitution.

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

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

The unpunished coup was a training exercise.

Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Fear or fury? The choice is ours.

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  1. 1.

    Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader

    Thank you mistermix. The usual suspects completely derailed the last thread with their yelling and accusations of trollery.

  2. 2.

    PaulW

    Re: the Navy Yard shooting, how soon before we get the NRA saying that the shooting wouldn’t have happened if only those Navy people had access to firearms.

  4. 4.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @PaulW:

    I’m sure they’re already saying it. What’s good for gun sales is what’s good for the NRA, the shills of the merchants of death.

  7. 7.

    HelloRochester

    Yeah, I heard that from an active-duty Army Teatard right after Ft. Hood. And Aurora. And Sandy Hook….

  8. 8.

    HelloRochester

    Yeah, I heard that from an active-duty Army Teatard right after Ft. Hood. And Aurora. And Sandy Hook….

  9. 9.

    srv

    Donald Trump weighed in Monday on the Federal Reserve, predicting Janet Yellen will most likely be the next chairwoman following the news that Former Treasury Secretary Larry Summers has withdrawn his name from consideration.
    …
    Trump added that Yellen is “gonna be printing money” and said that’s good news for him as a developer. “I have to say selfishly, as long as I’m in my role as developer, I love cheap money, I mean I’ve always loved it,” Trump said.

  17. 17.

    Corner Stone

    All Bills fans should very happy today! Only the second game and you’ve already hit the mark for half the wins you’ll have this season!

  19. 19.

    Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader

    Corner Stone, I am prepared to confront you if need be. I won’t tolerate any of your casual insouciance to the feelings of others, particularly woeful Bills fans.

  24. 24.

    Comrade Jake

    @srv: Well if Trump likes her, then she must be a good match.

    I do wonder how Yellen will feel about being appointed by a POTUS who wasn’t born in America, however. Funny Trump didn’t mention that.

  25. 25.

    CONGRATULATIONS!

    I’m going to go home and tenderly clean my gun collection, and reassure them that no liberal hippies will come and take them away from me.

    Days like this are so hard for my cold steel babies.

  27. 27.

    Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader

    @Corner Stone:

    After all, most Bills fans can’t read.

    I think there’s a small chance a Seahawks fan could read out loud your distasteful remarks to the hapless Bills fans and then explain the dig to them.

  28. 28.

    Elizabelle

    @Yatsuno:

    Hello Yatsuno.

    Do you have to pass a barrage of security to get through your worksite?

    Thinking that taxation and the IRS is Satan Incarnate to some.

  29. 29.

    Elizabelle

    Sunset and twilight over the Costa Concordia.

    NOT what the ship’s owners would have expected to see in their crystal ball, lo many months ago.

  32. 32.

    The Red Pen

    On a subject not related to shooting: the Wingnut Wurlizer has been cranked to 11 (it’s stuck in that setting, really) about some Obamacare provision to collect information on patients’ sexual history.

    I haven’t had a chance to dig into the actual facts behind this complaint, but I have noticed that the Usual Whingers are whinging in unison on the subject. Prepare for St. Rush to call someone a slut again this week.

  34. 34.

    Yatsuno

    @Elizabelle: I work in a federal building, so there are armed guards at the entrances. However I have a government ID that allows me to get through easier. In fact inside job was my thought as I am never searched upon entering. I wonder if that will change now.

  36. 36.

    Poopyman

    Latest update: Seven dead at the Navy Yard, four wounded and in critical condition. Still searching for two other potential gunmen/persons of interest.

    The dead shooter was previously mis-identified and there is currently no official identification.

  40. 40.

    Mike E

    @Yatsuno: Requiem is pretty amazing. I worked on the production that recorded the Pavarotti competition/festival that also included Un Ballo in Maschera and La Boheme. Back a century ago!

  44. 44.

    Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader

    @Poopyman:

    Latest update: Seven dead at the Navy Yard, four wounded and in critical condition.

    I know there’s a joke in there somewhere but I can’t find it. Punchy?

  45. 45.

    patroclus

    The UN report on Syria is now available – and it shows multiple positives for sarin and other types of gases, as well as multiple missiles and delivery agents characteristic of the Syrian military. They aren’t laying blame, of course, but I think it’s pretty well confirmed now by the UN.

  47. 47.

    eemom

    A stressful Monday afternoon in the midst of a shooting crisis is really not the time or place for football.

    Plz confront. Thx.

  50. 50.

    Paul in KY

    @Yatsuno: After looking at some of the pictures from the Navy Yard shooting today, if a bad guy can get a blue flak jacket & put a convincing ‘FEDERAL AGENT’ yellow decal on it (and maybe have a nice looking big badge of some kind), they could create all sorts of havoc.

    Would help your deception if you were a pasty faced, short haired white guy.

  52. 52.

    Poopyman

    @Poopyman: Still unknown as to other shooters.

    Chief Lanier:

    Looking for White male 40-50, wearing tan military uniform & beret, Black male 40-50 in olive military style uniform. “Multiple pieces of information” indicating these individuals had firearms and were involved.

    Still searching the base. It’s a big place.
    Feel the neighborhood is safe, but stay out of Navy Yard area.

    Next update in 2 hours.

  54. 54.

    CONGRATULATIONS!

    Sunset and twilight over the Costa Concordia.

    NOT what the ship’s owners would have expected to see in their crystal ball, lo many months ago.

    @Elizabelle: It’s taking much longer than they said it would, but it visibly IS coming up, and hasn’t come apart, so good on them.

  56. 56.

    CONGRATULATIONS!

    Hey, where’s glocksman? I thought he was a long-time commentor who posted in every thread here.

    Looks like that was just as much bullshit as his claim to not be a bought-and-paid for tool of the NRA.

  57. 57.

    scav

    For the greater openness:
    Time passes more slowly for flies, study finds. Dog and possible kidlet details for them that likes, and other thrills.
    Canadian scientists protest against government censorship

    The Canadian government in recent years has banned government scientists from talking about a growing list of research topics including: snowflakes, the ozone layer, salmon, and previously published work about a 13,000-year-old flood.

    This plus the industry-favorable redeployment of shrinking funds. Soon the usual suspects will be pushing Canada as a role model along with Poot-Poot-Putin?

    Concordia is mesmerizing. And all the history of ships and metaphorical weight woven into it.

  58. 58.

    BD of MN

    @Elizabelle: I loved this quote:

    Franco Gabrielli, the head of Italy’s civil protection agency, said that the parbuckling was proceeding “exactly according to predictions”. He said: “There is a correspondence between the reality and the projection, and we note this with satisfaction.”

  60. 60.

    Corner Stone

    Fuckhead, get a grip on your groupie. Apparently she’s decided she’s the official Hall Decorum Monitor ™ of BJ.

  62. 62.

    Paul in KY

    @CONGRATULATIONS!: I don’t think the word ‘gun’ or ‘firearm’ was specifically mentioned in the thread we are commenting on.

    Other places to be to keep the memes on track! Excelsior!

  64. 64.

    Ben Franklin

    I say Walter is in his redemptive stage. He let Skylar off the hook, now he has revenge on the skinheads and rescuing Jesse as his only raison d’etre.

  65. 65.

    Bob's Had Enough

    An exchange of letters between Barack Obama and the Iranian president, Hassan Rouhani, has set the stage for a possible meeting between the two men at the UN next week in what would be the first face-to-face encounter between a US and Iranian leader since Iran’s 1979 revolution.

    Britain’s foreign secretary, William Hague, is also due to meet his Iranian counterpart, Mohammad Javad Zarif, at the UN general assembly meeting in New York, adding to guarded optimism that the June election of Rouhani, a Glasgow-educated moderate, and his appointment of a largely pragmatic cabinet, has opened the door to a diplomatic solution to the 11-year international standoff over Iran’s nuclear programme.

    http://www.theguardian.com/world/2013/sep/15/obama-rouhani-united-nations-meeting

  66. 66.

    Corner Stone

    @Hal:

    based on Facebook posts you would have thought the Bills won the Superbowl.

    Well, they did beat the greatest QB of our generation, Cam!!…*whoa* Cam.

  68. 68.

    johnny aquitard

    @Corner Stone: @CONGRATULATIONS!: He got hammered for spouting the standard NRA line of “too early!” and “gun laws won’t keep lawbreakers from getting guns!”.

    Whether he was aware of it or not, man he sure was parroting the NRA line.

  70. 70.

    Corner Stone

    @johnny aquitard: Clearly, waiting to determine actual facts from this event is a batsignal that someone is an NRA stooge.
    But either way, trolling from Congratulations! that the commenter wasn’t saying something also in this open thread is pretty pathetic.
    That was my response, not whether glocksman is or is not an NRA stooge, which I take him at his word that he is not as he has been commenting here for years and doesn’t mince words when he has something to say. IMO.

  71. 71.

    Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader

    @Corner Stone: Right now, I’m working on a plan to create an uneasy peace between you two. It will of course require each of you to slop slagging the other.

    My plan B is to ban Martin again as a lesson to everyone else.

  72. 72.

    eemom

    @Corner Stone:

    My God, you’re dense. Obviously, groupor Fuckhead is the official Hall Decorum Monitor.™ I was just bringing your shit behavior to his attention.

  77. 77.

    Just Some Fuckhead, Thought Leader

    @raven: Wow, he’s a patriot AND he didn’t butcher any children. I feel a lot better about this massacre than the last couple. I feel like we may be moving in the right direction here.

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