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T R E 4 5 O N

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

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

I really should read my own blog.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

A Senator Walker would also be an insult to reason, rationality, and decency.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

The revolution will be supervised.

Everybody saw this coming.

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

Bark louder, little dog.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Why did Dr. Oz lose? well, according to the exit polls, it’s because Fetterman won.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

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  3. 3.

    jl

    After one o’ them fancy big city restaurant dinners and drinks, home with time for minute of petulance over Patriots not getting beat. Back in a minute or two.

  4. 4.

    ruemara

    Heard back from the director. Didn’t get the part-which I knew, His producer liked me and the rest of the team was impressed, he seemed…scared. But I did kill my reading.

  6. 6.

    James E. Powell

    Asked this in the football thread, but got no response so I am asking again. During the first game I saw a TV ad for Scientology. I had never seen that before. Is this new or have I just been missing them?

  10. 10.

    different-church-lady

    Great, that’s what I’ve got to look forward to? Third cold this season. Sore throat stopped, and sniffles haven’t started but I think it’s just teasing me with a fake ending.

    Took six weeks for the upper respiratory infection from the last one to go away. Some days I just want to wave a white flag.

  11. 11.

    Suffern ACE

    Because I was sick last weekend, I finally got to celebrate my birthday today. Went to a tiki bar, played pinball, ate biscuits and saw August: Ossage County. Had Czech dumplings and refrigerator cake. Yeah, that’s a lot of bad carbs, but don’t give me a sanctimonious lecture. It’s not like I’m carrying on with my first cousin and that’s ok because she had a hysterectomy or something.

  12. 12.

    Alison

    @MikeJ: LOL, maybe if he was a Sunderland fan. My gridiron football interest is only minor (I’d like the Niners to win but if they don’t, oh well…I’m mostly hoping they win for my Dad’s sake :P), but my soccer love is epic and fans of my derby rival are the McCoys to my Hatfields. Or something.

  13. 13.

    mouse tolliver

    I’m just getting over this flu that everyone seems to have. And, also too, my furnace just crapped out. I think it’s mainly a thermostat problem. So I’m using space heaters for now until I find somebody to fix it.

    Is central heating really necessary for a small house? The ceramic heater I’m using right now is making my living room way more comfortable than the furnace ever did even though it’s on the lowest setting.

  15. 15.

    reality-based

    @Alison:

    Oh, are a bunch of whiney twenty-somethings complaining because their 5000-sq ft starter house has the wrong color granite countertops?-

    drives me nuts, too – but i LOVE the “International” ones, where horrified Americans are shown houses in, say, Bucharest, with a small propane tank attached to a stovetop, and blithely informed that this is what EVERYBODY uses in Romania –

    also, lets you vicariously rent a charming little flat in Lisbon (as opposed to those monstrous mini-mansions in Dallas on the American versions)

  16. 16.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym (JMN)

    @Alison: Oooh, another Newcastle fan. Good to know

    The Gophers tied Ohio State tonight. Nothing like saving your worst game in almost exactly two years for a rare national TV audience.

  19. 19.

    piratedan

    @karen marie: not a surprise, the R’s in AZ are in full wingnut, wouldn’t be surprised if they did the same to Our Miss Jannie post her acceptance of the Medicaid expansion. These folks would gladly self-immolate in the name of their ideological purity, although the would prefer to dance around the bonfire in celebration of any librul or RINO setback.

    Needless to say, I loathe those fuckers…..

  22. 22.

    cckids

    @karen marie:

    The Maricopa County Mouthbreathers censured John McCain! I’m screaming laughing.

    Oh. My. God.

    That is hysterical. Southern NV is no paradise, but I’m so glad I don’t have to deal with those people.

  23. 23.

    ? Martin

    @piratedan: Mojave did as well. Their resolution:

    + WHEREAS, Sen. John McCain unilaterally negotiated with the Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid to secure Republican votes necessary to pass a number of controversial Presidential nominees;

    + WHEREAS, President Obama nominated Gina McCarthy for head of the Environmental Protection Agency, an environmental bureaucrat who supports anti-job/consumer policies; Richard Corday to head the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, an unaccountable, unconstitutional agency created by the Dodd-Frank legislation; Thomas Perez as Labor Secretary who has a known record for abusing power as Maryland’s Labor Secretary, handing political appointments to Big-Labor bedfellows;

    + WHEREAS, Sen. McCain provided the votes necessary for the confirmation of the above nominees;

    + WHEREAS, Sen. McCain’s “deal” was nothing more than capitulation to the Senate Majority Leader, giving him everything he asked for;

    + WHEREAS, Sen. McCain claims in defense of his actions, that they were taken to prevent the Senate Majority Leader from “going nuclear” and illegally breaking the Senate rules to pass these nominees;

    + WHEREAS, the position of Mohave County Republicans is that Sen. McCain should call the Senate Majority Leader’s bluff and force him to get the votes necessary from members of his own party;

    + WHEREAS, Sen. McCain has not acted in a responsible manner during paid working hours and has instead been found to be playing video games, thus disrespecting his colleagues and the Arizona people he represents;

    + WHEREAS, Sen. McCain has violated the Republican Party principles and the Republican Party Platform by consistently speaking out publicly against his own party members that vote in alignment with the US and Arizona State Constitutions;

    + WHEREAS, Sen. McCain voted with Senate Democrats on the 2013 Budget Deal that does not uphold Republican principles of fiscal responsibility;

    + THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that Sen. McCain do the following: cease deal-making and negotiations for Republican votes that undermine the Senate Republican Leader and the Republican constituents he serves;

    + FURTHERMORE, the conduct of Sen. McCain, is unbecoming a member of the United States Senate, weakened the Senate Republican Leader and is hereby strongly rebuked and condemned.

    Apparently the only thing that Republican legislators are supposed to do in Congress is set themselves on fire and run around the chamber.

  24. 24.

    Suzanne

    I am lying in bed, listening to Mr. Suzanne snooooore. He took me out to my favorite restaurant for my birthday. Pizzeria Bianco. I destroyed a pizza and a beer. I am getting a pedicure tomorrow. FUCCCCCK YEAH.

    I confess to being a bit fatigued with politics as of late. Never before can I remember a time where so much was said and yet it matters and means so little.

  25. 25.

    MikeJ

    @? Martin: I’ve got to give them credit for one thing: it was at a meeting of precinct captains and they got almost a thousand out of 1600 to show up. Half of the precincts in King county don’t even have Dem precinct captains. Yes, we’re solidly Dem, but they’re solidly Republican. I just wish we could get our people to get involved at that rate.

  26. 26.

    jl

    @? Martin:

    ” Apparently the only thing that Republican legislators are supposed to do in Congress is set themselves on fire and run around the chamber. ”

    For me, bleeding heart liberal and worshiper at the alter of naive paleoliberal pieties, that is an unacceptably cruel way of getting rid of them.

    But then on the other hand, would have to balance the relative benefits and harms that would occur due to a humanitarian intervention in the GOP civil war, and that is a difficult and unreliable calculus, so… whatever… they are on their own I guess.

  27. 27.

    Suffern ACE

    @jl: Assad should throw sanctions on our country until the tea party and high hair republicans agree to a gang of five round of talks with France, Venezuela, Iran and Cuba.

  28. 28.

    piratedan

    @? Martin: and these are the people running the party at the local level and yet, 45% of the country votes for these fuckers and sometimes a majority of registered voters allows them to fuck over where your tax money goes. There are times when I wish that we had mandatory voting because I have to believe that there really isn’t 40-45% of the country that actually sympathizes with these assholes.

  29. 29.

    ? Martin

    @jl:

    For me, bleeding heart liberal and worshiper at the alter of naive paleoliberal pieties, that is an unacceptably cruel way of getting rid of them.

    It heats the building. Even John McCain, technically, isn’t a fossil fuel. Republican legislators are a renewable resource.

  30. 30.

    Hal

    @Alison: I was watching a marathon earlier before work. Does every person on this show want an open kitchen to watch their children/friends/family while entertaining? I don’t for a minute believe any of these folks entertain nearly as much as they claim, and even if you do, cook before your damn guests arrive.

    Also, stainless steel, man cave, wallpaper, ugly paint, and my fave repeated phrase; character.

  31. 31.

    Amir Khalid

    @Alison:
    Sorry, I didn’t mean to gloat that time Liverpool beat Newcastle. But this time I do hope they beat City, to make up for the referee robbing us on Boxing Day. For my part, I don’t particularly dislike Everton or its fans.

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