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by Tim F|  January 7, 201412:53 pm| 77 Comments

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Since some of you cannot hold it until an open thread comes around, enjoy Creed’s greatest hits.

Chat about whatever, including but not limited to what a terrible person I am.

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  1. 1.

    Ash Can

    January 7, 2014 at 12:56 pm

    Huh?

  2. 2.

    hildebrand

    January 7, 2014 at 12:58 pm

    Well, for putting up a Creed album, you are a terrible person. That is some warmed over schlock-rock of the worst order.

  3. 3.

    chopper

    January 7, 2014 at 12:58 pm

    ain’t clicking on that.

  4. 4.

    lethargytartare

    January 7, 2014 at 1:02 pm

    man, I love Creed. here’s my favorite live performance:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ms61I54CeQA

  5. 5.

    Ash Can

    January 7, 2014 at 1:02 pm

    Ok, I get it then. I have no idea who Creed is. I may have known who they were years ago, but I’ve forgotten.

  6. 6.

    Betty Cracker

    January 7, 2014 at 1:02 pm

    Oh, Tim. I had no idea of the depths of your depravity.

  7. 7.

    MomSense

    January 7, 2014 at 1:04 pm

    Is it just me or does it sound like the lead “singer” is trying to sing while brushing his teeth and he has a mouthful of toothpaste?

  8. 8.

    GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)

    January 7, 2014 at 1:06 pm

    That ain’t right, ass.

  9. 9.

    Comrade Jake

    January 7, 2014 at 1:07 pm

    Creed is just plain awful. Any worse and they’d be called Nickelback.

  10. 10.

    schrodinger's cat

    January 7, 2014 at 1:11 pm

    Open thread needs a kitteh trying to unravel the mysteries of space-time.
    Plus, bonus rant about the Downton Abbey.

  11. 11.

    schrodinger's cat

    January 7, 2014 at 1:12 pm

    Unlike all you cool kids I has no idea what Creed is.

  12. 12.

    Another Bostplainer

    January 7, 2014 at 1:14 pm

    Here’s something to get your blood pressure up. http://www.healthinsurance.org/blog/2014/01/03/anatomy-of-an-obamacare-horror-story

  13. 13.

    Comrade Mary

    January 7, 2014 at 1:18 pm

    Here’s a picture of a bunny with a pancake on its head.


    Here’s a picture of a Pope with a lamb on his head — err, shoulders.

    Here’s a video of a panda trying to put snow on its head.

  14. 14.

    srv

    January 7, 2014 at 1:24 pm

    Ah, Creed. The soundtrack of your life.

  15. 15.

    slippytoad

    January 7, 2014 at 1:25 pm

    @srv: If that were my life soundtrack, I would have slit my wrists a long time ago now.

  16. 16.

    wenchacha

    January 7, 2014 at 1:26 pm

    Did I just see that Mitch McConnell is willing to extend unemployment in exchange for killing ACA?

    Unbelievable.

    And now Blitzer is asking the Labor Secy Perez if he is willing to cut spending to offset.

    Holy f#ck.

  17. 17.

    Chickamin Slam

    January 7, 2014 at 1:26 pm

    That reminds me. A local insurance company that caters to high risk drivers did a 30 second commercial to Creed’s “Arms wide open.” They altered the lyrics a bit calling it “Doors wide open”. I cannot find it though so perhaps there was an infringement filing against them for using it. Vern Fonk was the company. “They told me to honk, honk, with doors wide open.”

    Here’s one of their other ads in case anyone is wondering:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o8YIkixdQYs

  18. 18.

    slippytoad

    January 7, 2014 at 1:28 pm

    @Another Bostplainer:

    For months, health reform’s opponents have been feasting on tales of Obamacare’s innocent victims – Americans who lost their insurance because it doesn’t comply with the ACA’s regulations, and now have to shell out more than they can afford – or go without coverage.

    Trouble is, many of those stories just aren’t true.

    I want to feign shock but I just can’t. I assume that negative Obamacare stories are horseshit. I start with that assumption. Usually I see a little shock-laced get-your-goat headline, and I just wait. A couple of days pass, the headline has vanished, the story has no legs. Then another little drooling right-wing sycophant asshole posts or just makes up out of whole cloth another horror story, with a shocking headline, and it bubbles up from the sewer of right-wing misinformation, leaves a stink, and vanishes without a trace again.

    So, lie after lie after fucking bullshit lie, and pretty soon I stop listening entirely.

  19. 19.

    Betty Cracker

    January 7, 2014 at 1:28 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: I would have left a comment to your Downton review at your blog, but I can’t because FYWP. Here’s what I would have said:

    Maggie Smith could carry that damn castle on her back. Here’s a possible plot twist: The Dowager Countess is secretly a witch — Professor Minerva McGonagall of Hogwarts, in fact, who is only imitating a Muggle whilst hiding out during a faculty row at the school. Disgusted with the wretched behavior and whinging she constantly hears all around her, she resorts to transfiguration, turning Thomas into a ferret, Lady Mary into a stoat, Lady Rose into a stinkbug and His Lordship into a slug, which is promptly swallowed by Isis, the adorable Labrador retriever and most admirable cast member. Hilarity ensues!

  20. 20.

    slippytoad

    January 7, 2014 at 1:30 pm

    @wenchacha:

    Oh, It’s finally time to run someone against his parasitical worthless ass again, and it looks like KY dems have gotten over their Bruce Lunsford disease.

  21. 21.

    Belafon

    January 7, 2014 at 1:34 pm

    @slippytoad: There have been a few people that have fallen through the cracks, some of them are commenters here. But they have been far, far less than the number of people who have been helped, and what we need to do is fix the law to help them.

  22. 22.

    kindness

    January 7, 2014 at 1:34 pm

    At least he didn’t put up Nickelback.

  23. 23.

    AnonPhenom

    January 7, 2014 at 1:35 pm

    “Best of Creed”
    That one of those George Carlin ‘Oxymorons’ right there.

  24. 24.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 7, 2014 at 1:37 pm

    @Comrade Jake:

    Burrrrrn!

  25. 25.

    Villago Delenda Est

    January 7, 2014 at 1:39 pm

    @wenchacha:

    Drawing and quartering alive is too humane for the likes of Mitch McConnell. Or, for that matter, the junior senator from that state.

  26. 26.

    Suffern ACE

    January 7, 2014 at 1:40 pm

    Wondering if anyone would be interested in a special Balloon Juice Meet Up at Mt. Hua Shan.

  27. 27.

    Amir Khalid

    January 7, 2014 at 1:41 pm

    @kindness:
    Tsk, tsk. You mustn’t tempt him.

  28. 28.

    Certified Mutant Enemy

    January 7, 2014 at 1:44 pm

    @Comrade Mary:

    Here’s a bird riding a a tortoise.

  29. 29.

    Botsplainer

    January 7, 2014 at 1:45 pm

    @Chickamin Slam:

    did a 30 second commercial to Creed’s “Arms wide open.”

    Darmok and Jalad, at Tanagra.

    When the walls fell.

  30. 30.

    Comrade Jake

    January 7, 2014 at 1:47 pm

    Looks like Rand Paul has some splainin’ to do!

  31. 31.

    tybee

    January 7, 2014 at 1:47 pm

    @Suffern ACE:

    dayyum. i think i’ll pass on that. this flatlander doesn’t even like step ladders.

  32. 32.

    Botsplainer

    January 7, 2014 at 1:49 pm

    @Suffern ACE:

    Wondering if anyone would be interested in a special Balloon Juice Meet Up at Mt. Hua Shan.

    Only if we can strap a GoPro camera to Cole’s helmet.

  33. 33.

    Paul in KY

    January 7, 2014 at 1:50 pm

    @slippytoad: Mitch the Bitch is a tough one to take down. Has never lost an election (yet).

  34. 34.

    Paul in KY

    January 7, 2014 at 1:53 pm

    @Suffern ACE: I would like to climb that path. Am not afraid in least of heights. I think the coming back down might be the hardest part.

  35. 35.

    Botsplainer

    January 7, 2014 at 1:56 pm

    @Paul in KY:

    I would like to climb that path. Am not afraid in least of heights. I think the coming back down might be the hardest part.

    The toeholds in that wall are the worst part. You can at least see them and plot the ascent. Coming down? I can see someon freezing up.

  36. 36.

    J.

    January 7, 2014 at 2:04 pm

    Could I interest y’all in a video or two of animals that actually enjoy cold weather? What about some nude sunbathing?

  37. 37.

    Betty Cracker

    January 7, 2014 at 2:05 pm

    @Suffern ACE: Not even for $100 million.

  38. 38.

    J.

    January 7, 2014 at 2:06 pm

    Also, I believe it was Gordon Gekko who famously said, Creed is good.

  39. 39.

    Roger Moore

    January 7, 2014 at 2:08 pm

    @Paul in KY:

    I think the coming back down might be the hardest part.

    Almost enough to make you take up BASE jumping.

  40. 40.

    Comrade Mary

    January 7, 2014 at 2:09 pm

    @Certified Mutant Enemy: Aww!

    Here’s a crab stealing a GoPro.

  41. 41.

    Roger Moore

    January 7, 2014 at 2:12 pm

    @Comrade Jake:

    Looks like Rand Paul has some splainin’ to do!

    But will not be challenged on this point by the SCLM because something something something.

  42. 42.

    Feudalism Now!

    January 7, 2014 at 2:12 pm

    You bastardo! Some could say you built your own prison.

  43. 43.

    Robert Sneddon

    January 7, 2014 at 2:15 pm

    Here’s some kittehs enjoying seasonal catnip treats.

  44. 44.

    Amir Khalid

    January 7, 2014 at 2:16 pm

    @J.:
    Re the blogger griping about nude sunbathers. They’re the locals, she’s the out-of-towner. Her complaint sounds kind of petulant to me.

  45. 45.

    David in NY

    January 7, 2014 at 2:19 pm

    Okay. I thought that album was Greed.

  46. 46.

    ranchandsyrup

    January 7, 2014 at 2:20 pm

    A couple of weeks late, but Merry Creedmas. This year I got a copy of the Kid Rock/Scott Stapp sex tape as I angered mighty Santa Creed.

  47. 47.

    Paul in KY

    January 7, 2014 at 2:27 pm

    @Roger Moore: That’s what you’d be doing if you slipped & fell. It would be the ‘Base Stopping’ that would get ya :-)

  48. 48.

    Roger Moore

    January 7, 2014 at 2:28 pm

    @Paul in KY:
    I was thinking of a parachute as an alternative to climbing down. It would certainly be a lot faster, and might even be safer.

  49. 49.

    ruemara

    January 7, 2014 at 2:32 pm

    @Betty Cracker: that, I would watch.

  50. 50.

    cokane

    January 7, 2014 at 2:34 pm

    FUCK YOU FUCK YOU FUCKY

  51. 51.

    Botsplainer

    January 7, 2014 at 2:42 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    You might get him eventually after all. Texas billionaires are already upset with Charlie Strong.

    http://bleacherreport.com/articles/1913429-texas-football-charlie-strong-already-seeing-political-challenges-in-austin

    Appearing on ESPN Radio-San Antonio Monday afternoon, Texas booster Red McCombs expressed his dissatisfaction with athletic director Steve Patterson’s hire.

    Red McCombs: “I don’t have any doubt Charlie is a fine coach. I think he’d probably make a fine position coach, maybe a coordinator.”

    Red McCombs: “I had been talking to Jon Gruden at length any number of times and we had planned on having our next long conversation today.”

    Red: “If we got Gruden in there for 15-years, that we’d get at least 5-titles and we would set records like we’ve never set before.”

    The first thing to acknowledge for contextual reasons is that McCombs says he was shut out of the hiring process by Patterson.

    McCombs is selling Strong’s credentials so short it’s insulting. In four years at Louisville, a program that failed to have a winning record during the Steve Kragthorpe experiment, Strong compiled a 37-15 record. Strong led the Cardinals to back-to-back bowl wins, including last season’s Sugar Bowl over Florida. The quarterback whom he recruited, Teddy Bridgewater, is likely to be one of the top picks in the upcoming NFL draft.

    Strong proved his mettle as a position coach, and later as a defensive coordinator, at Florida. He was a part of two BCS National Championship teams in 2006-07 and 2008-09.

    His resume is just fine.

    But McCombs would rather have a coach, ESPN NFL color analyst Jon Gruden, who hasn’t recruited a high school kid since his days as a wide receivers coach at Pitt—22 years ago.

    Whether McCombs is right or wrong about Strong matters little, though. He’s a high-profile and outspoken member of a group of people who have money to give. And Patterson just alienated him.

    In Dallas, they said this:

    Dallas Morning News Says Charlie Strong Isn’t a “Hip-Hop Coach”
    Read more at http://blacksportsonline.com/home/2014/01/dallas-morning-news-says-charlie-strong-isnt-a-hip-hop-coach/#D2Ozb01pfL4MPW3A.99

    My statement to Charlie: What did you expect? “Welcome, sonny”? “Make yourself at home”? “Marry my daughter”? You’ve got to remember that these are just simple Texas billionaires. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know… morons.

  52. 52.

    JPL

    January 7, 2014 at 2:43 pm

    @Comrade Jake: Finally someone points out the obvious. I think all of Paul’s children are under twenty-six and should be able to stay on his policy.

  53. 53.

    Trollhattan

    January 7, 2014 at 2:44 pm

    @Comrade Jake:

    Rand Paul has a son?! We can’t possibly survive a third generation of Old Uncle Freedoms in national office. Here’s hoping he spouts dreads and becomes a professional hemp skateboarder with a night job as a drummer in a reggae band..

  54. 54.

    different-church-lady

    January 7, 2014 at 2:46 pm

    Wait, Robin Roberts has a white girlfriend?

    This is fantastic: any wingnut with two heads will have both explode!

  55. 55.

    Betty Cracker

    January 7, 2014 at 2:49 pm

    @Botsplainer: What a bunch of fucking assholes. Of course, as Coach Strong well knows, Florida has a similar level of stoopit per capita.

  56. 56.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    January 7, 2014 at 2:49 pm

    Did not know Apollo Creed had an album.

  57. 57.

    Amir Khalid

    January 7, 2014 at 2:52 pm

    @Just Some Fuckhead:
    I notice your change of nym. Have you retired from thought leadership?

  58. 58.

    lamh36

    January 7, 2014 at 2:53 pm

    Ugh. I heard from the recruiter yesterday. She needed me to fill out a verification of employment form and send it back to her. Well it took me like 30 min to print and scan and send it via email. So she send me another email saying it wasn’t clear enough via email and that I may need to fax it. So of course I don’t have a fax at home and I sure as heck wasn’t driving out in the old ass weather just to fax one sheet of paper. So I emailed the form to my sister and had her fill out the form and fax it to the recruiter. I emailed the recruiter and told her it was faxed and could she let me know if she received it. I haven’t heard from her sincs.

    Ugh, I wasn’t expecting a call with an offer, I know she has to get stuff together but dang she made it seem urgent to fill out the paperwork she emailed and I did ask her to please let me k ow she received the fax. I have a pet peeve about people not at least acknowledging the receipt of something especially faxes and emails since they can be lost in a shuffle.

    Anyway, just venting. Good afternoon everybody.

  59. 59.

    Betty Cracker

    January 7, 2014 at 2:56 pm

    @lamh36: Fax? I’m surprised she didn’t ask for Pony Express delivery! Hope you hear back soon!

  60. 60.

    IowaOldLady

    January 7, 2014 at 2:57 pm

    @Comrade Mary: The bunny is particularly weird.

  61. 61.

    catclub

    January 7, 2014 at 2:58 pm

    @Trollhattan: “Old Uncle Freedoms ”

    Crazy Uncle Liberty

  62. 62.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    January 7, 2014 at 2:59 pm

    @Amir Khalid: You can’t just walk away from Thought Leadership. The best you can ever do is temporarily lay the burden down.

  63. 63.

    max

    January 7, 2014 at 3:06 pm

    @Amir Khalid: I notice your change of nym. Have you retired from thought leadership?

    Tsk. Once one has been become annointed with the mantle of Thought Leadership, one is always a Thought Leader, for there have always and everywhere been fuckheads in need of leadership. (And now that I mention it, they needs thoughts too, so who will give them the thoughts they need without a Thought Leader! Think of the poor fuckheads!)

    max
    [‘It’s kinda like being a Marine.’]

  64. 64.

    Trollhattan

    January 7, 2014 at 3:08 pm

    @catclub:

    Do not have my Pierceizms well memorized.

  65. 65.

    Trollhattan

    January 7, 2014 at 3:10 pm

    @max:

    “Thoughtlead, Thoughtfollow, or Thoughttadaway!”

  66. 66.

    ranchandsyrup

    January 7, 2014 at 3:12 pm

    @Botsplainer: From Ft. Worth paper on Strong’s hiring:

    “OK, I get it. But where’s the wow factor? It’s as if the Longhorn Network fired Leno and hired Arsenio.”

  67. 67.

    slippytoad

    January 7, 2014 at 3:17 pm

    @Paul in KY:

    Well, the demographics are rapidly shifting against him. I hear turtles are almost extinct in the ohio river valley.

  68. 68.

    Jebediah, RBG

    January 7, 2014 at 3:21 pm

    @Comrade Mary:

    All I have is Lady Chuckleston relaxing.

    And Juno making sure her big sister is OK after her surgery.

  69. 69.

    El Caganer

    January 7, 2014 at 3:22 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: What about turtle soup?

  70. 70.

    El Caganer

    January 7, 2014 at 3:22 pm

    @Villago Delenda Est: What about turtle soup?

  71. 71.

    Tone In DC

    January 7, 2014 at 3:26 pm

    @max:

    …there have always and everywhere been fuckheads in need of leadership. (And now that I mention it, they needs thoughts too, so who will give them the thoughts they need without a Thought Leader! Think of the poor fuckheads!)

    LULz.

    I think B-J is (still) too much a mass of snarling jackals (with missing mustard) to have a thought leader. It’s a bit like the Redskins actually having a special teams coach.

  72. 72.

    danimal

    January 7, 2014 at 4:17 pm

    @Botsplainer: The Texas Longhorns shocked me. When the head coach position came open, the one thing I was sure of was that one of “those people” wouldn’t get the job. In SoCal, there was a lot of concern that Jim Mora would get plucked from UCLA, and I thought he met the right um, demographic expectation. So the hiring of Charlie Strong surprised and delighted me greatly.

    This is my long-winded way of saying that Red McComb’s code isn’t too hard to decipher. “Good position coach or possibly coordinator” my ass. Bigot.

  73. 73.

    PurpleGirl

    January 7, 2014 at 4:39 pm

    @Suffern ACE: Only if I can I take a helicopter to top.

  74. 74.

    americanitis

    January 7, 2014 at 5:33 pm

    “Creed’s Greatest Hits” is kind of like “Rush Limbaugh’s most thoughtful commentaries.”

  75. 75.

    Yatsuno

    January 7, 2014 at 6:36 pm

    @Betty Cracker: I do faxes at my work all the time. There is no seciruty protocol for e-mail that allows us to accept documents that way and in some cases I need the paperwork immediately and that ends up being the fastest way. I also have e-fax at work. I HATE it.

  76. 76.

    schrodinger's cat

    January 7, 2014 at 8:53 pm

    @Betty Cracker: That would be an improvement over what I saw Sunday night.

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