Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

Our messy unity will be our strength.

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

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

How stupid are these people?

If you don’t believe freedom is for everybody, then the thing you love isn’t freedom, it is privilege.

If you’re gonna whine, it’s time to resign!

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

Republicans in disarray!

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

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

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

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

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

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

“In this country American means white. everybody else has to hyphenate.”

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

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Via commentor EFGoldman, news from North Carolina:

An Indian Trail councilman decided to boldly go where no politician has gone before — and tendered his resignation this week in the Klingon language.

Apparently David Waddell no longer wanted to live long and prosper on the board…

Waddell, a plumber, said he thought he would be more effective by coming to board meetings as a citizen and speaking out on issues. He said he also needed to devote time to mount a write-in campaign on the Constitution Party’s platform for Kay Hagan’s U.S. Senate seat…

I’m thinking Sen. Hagan’s campaign staff is busy researching how many fanfic YouTubes they can use before running afoul of Paramount and the copyright laws. Full Klingon resignation letter at the link, if anyone wants to pull a Garry Wills and criticize his grammar…
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Apart from pointing & mocking (“Same thing we do every night, Pinkie!”), what’s on the agenda for the evening?

ETA: Commentary from an expert…

sm*t cl*de says:
Does Klingon culture even recognise the concept of “formal resignation letter”? What is wrong with leaping to one’s feet in the middle of a board meeting, bellowing something about one’s honour, and attacking all the other members simultaneously with a broken chairleg?

This has always worked for me.

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  5. 5.

    Southern Beale

    This is my last weekend off before HELL WEEK begins … which turns into HELL MONTH …. and then HELL 6 WEEKS before I get a brief break around President’s Day. I’m teaching 3 classes now and while I love it, one is a one-on-one tutoring with a 6-year-old and I’m finding that sucks up so much prep time because kids that age, you just can’t plan for how they’re going to be. So like today’s lesson the kid was actually tired and needed more quiet activities like coloring and stuff, and I didn’t have that because LAST class he needed more songs and dancing and active stuff.

    Sigh.

    So tonight I’m going to let the husband buy me dinner and cocktails and tomorrow I sleep in and THEN I begin planning lessons….

  9. 9.

    KG

    Waddell, a plumber, said he thought he would be more effective by coming to board meetings as a citizen and speaking out on issues.

    He’s a plumber and thinks he can do more as a private citizen than as an elected official… That’s 2008 vintage wingnut there, right? A potent blend of Joe and Sarah, yes?

    @Jewish Steel: that was my first thought too…

  12. 12.

    Gin & Tonic

    On the agenda? Since it’s 13 deg F here and dropping, I think staying indoors is number one on the agenda. Which, coincidentally, gives me the opportunity to listen to the furnace slurping up $3.79/gal fuel oil.

  18. 18.

    Steeplejack

    @Yatsuno:

    I don’t know why you keep coming on here soliciting praise for “achievements” that any three-year-old can pull off.

    Thirty feet in the walker. WTF. Some people . . .

  20. 20.

    lamh36

    Ok, I’ve only been following this story on the periphery.

    But now I see this on TPM and my only comment, is seriously…is there nothing Romney wouldn’t do to get back in the spotlight.

    I know, I know, it’s his grandson, but one thing you have to commend the Obamas on, no matter how much bait the media tries to lay in front of them to get them to talk about or pass on information about the Obama girls, both Obama’s shut that shit down quick.

    As much as RWNJ have said about Malia and Sasha, I don’t think the Obamas would EVER touch the BS spewed or give it any spotlight or weight by actually giving an interview or even commenting on the bullshit.

    But I expect no less of the Romneys…

    Here Comes Mitt Romney To Weigh-In On The Melissa Harris-Perry Controversy

    Of course I’m almost certain no questions will be asked about the possible RICO suit

  21. 21.

    Corner Stone

    If MSNBC is correct, what *is not* on the House agenda is anything to extend UI in January.

  25. 25.

    Baud

    He said he also needed to devote time to mount a write-in campaign on the Constitution Party’s platform

    Uh oh.

    Constitution Party (United States)
    …..
    The party supports English as the official language for all governmental business, opposes bilingual ballots, and insists that those who wish to take part in the electoral process and governance of the U.S. be required to read and comprehend basic English as a precondition of citizenship.[41] The party also opposes the federal Voting Rights Act.

  29. 29.

    sm*t cl*de

    Does Klingon culture even recognise the concept of “formal resignation letter”? What is wrong with leaping to one’s feet in the middle of a board meeting, bellowing something about one’s honour, and attacking all the other members simultaneously with a broken chairleg?
    This has always worked for me.

  30. 30.

    SectionH

    Just got our 1st bill from our new health insurance provider. W00t! They tell us we should get our new member materials within 10 days of payment. Which makes it impossible to pay online this month. But I’m so pleased that we have insurance coverage again, I don’t care. And the turn around time was really pretty good: I only got signed up on Dec. 22nd (to beat the rush ;-> ).

  31. 31.

    RobertDSC-iPhone 4

    I’ll be going back in time and work on installing Mac OS 9 on one of my G4 Dual 1 GHz PowerMacs.

    Why?

    The Mac is “surplus” and I decided to put it to use in order to read CDs that were burned during that operating system’s era. I intend to copy the contents to network storage space, but I’d decided to do that under the original OS and not under 10.4 Tiger.

  33. 33.

    SectionH

    Oh, and just for the record, we went through Covered California. I think I had to close the window and log back in once, but overall it was pretty painless.

    @sm*t cl*de: That sounds about right, lol!

  34. 34.

    Betty Cracker

    @raven: Any predictions for tonight’s games? I picked Mizzou and OSU to prevail. But I’ve been wrong. A lot.

  38. 38.

    PsiFighter37

    It is fucking cold here in NYC. I suppose it’s nothing compared to what the Upper Midwest goes through, but basically was at zero or below windchill all day. Going to spend all night indoors, preferably close to the radiator. Also munching on leftover Kalua pork and chicken tetrazzini from New Year’s…yummeh.

  39. 39.

    Mike in NC

    @lamh36:

    I’m almost certain no questions will be asked about the possible RICO suit

    Mitt Romney would look damn good in an orange jumpsuit, and hopefully he’d be granted conjugal visits from Dame Ann. He deserves no less.

  40. 40.

    scav

    This is somehow even funnier if one grew up hearing Waddell stories coming out of Hancock & McDonough co.s IL. Baffled by one of them there revolving doors was Benny and it was mutual kin that told it. Another one involved a three-ring binder. We always considered the Waddell genes of slightly more concern than the married cousins.

  41. 41.

    The Pale Scot

    Just want to thank ranchandsyrup, Mnemosyne and Phylllis for thoughts on Veterans Charities and also any other I might have missed.

    Thanks ‘All.

  44. 44.

    p.a.

    Soon going to move the food into the 5°F screen room and defrost the freezer. Another sexy Friday night.

  47. 47.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Baud:

    The party also opposes the federal Voting Rights Act.

    I read that at first as “The party also opposes the federal Viking Rights Act.” And I’m all like, Well, yeah, duh, I do too, Viking-Americans just want special entitlements and want to ram their Norse agenda down our throats.

  48. 48.

    WereBear

    @Yatsuno: Glad to hear of your progress!

    Normally, resigning in Klingon would be a good thing among my people. Is this yet another thing WIngnuts wish to mark territory on, and ruin?

    Woe is very much me.

  49. 49.

    Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)

    I lived in Indian Trail – one of several bedroom community exburbs of Charlotte – just prior to moving to the city proper.

    This story brought much amusement at the job today. I guess the dude’s only 99.9% douchebag.

  52. 52.

    Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)

    Hola. John graciously told me I could put some pictures and pithy commentary about my trip to Honduras on the front page, and here we are, only two days from heading home, and I haven’t gotten to it yet. ADD and tropical third world beach towns can make a pretty deadly, if delightful, combination. Well, if John’s offer still stands when we get back, maybe I can get to it then…

  53. 53.

    Bubblegum Tate

    I’m enjoying this headline from the Newsmax box in the right column: “Gingrich: DeBlasio practices ‘soy latte liberalism'”

    It’s wingnut madlibs!

  56. 56.

    Robert Sneddon

    Resigning Kzin-fashion would have been better.

    Speaker-to-Animals: “Louis Wu, I found your challenge verbose. When challenging a Kzin, a simple scream of rage will suffice. You scream and you leap.”

  57. 57.

    Snarki, child of Loki

    @Ken: “I have often felt that Congress would be much improved if duels were allowed.”

    Well, Rand Paul did *try* to get something started, but chickened out.

    And NO ONE wants to challenge Vitter, because then Vitter would get the choice of weapons, and ewww

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