Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

Consistently wrong since 2002

Spilling the end game before they can coat it in frankl luntz-approved dogwhistles.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Joe Lieberman disappointingly reemerged to remind us that he’s still alive.

I like you, you’re my kind of trouble.

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

The revolution will be supervised.

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Wednesday Morning Open Thread: Jovial?

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k488 paul

From occasional commentor K488:

This is Paul, one of six kitties we have living with us. He showed up in our barn four years ago, and after some adjustment has become a very sweet member of the family. The politics are always complicated, but he’s completely owned their new tube. He’s very big, and has the august personality of George Washington. He’s mostly white, masking orange tabby markings which show on his tail and head, and he has a Great Orange Spot on his left side, rendering him positively Jovian.

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The original George Washington was also a redhead, and was known to use his (by contemporary standards) great height and strength to keep the troops in line… What’s on the agenda for another Silly Season day?

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  1. 1.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Cleaning out the shop so I can build the last cabinet for the storage room. I swear to Dog, I don’t know where all the shIt comes from. It goes way beyond fluff factor, we’re into rabbit territory. Once that is done, I can start cutting parts. This one is going to be a little complicated. Not even sure how I am going to do parts of it. So a little bit fun too.

  3. 3.

    Schlemizel

    I finally got my team fully staffed & the newbies trained in enough that I don’t have to babysit everything they do. That means I finally have to produce the reams of documentation I have been able to avoid the last couple of years. I knocked out 14 pages of procedure the last two days in better than draft condition. But I had notes to work from, I probably have 3 times that many to go with no notes. Then it is on to investigating internal oddities to see what security holes we can get plugged.

    Its a mixed belssing

  8. 8.

    PurpleGirl

    @Schlemizel: You have my sympathy. I tried to write a procedures manual for my job but my boss kept changing it. It never got finalized. After T retired I had to teach a bunch of people her job and keep the work flow going and I still never finalized the damned manual. Things just kept changing. My manual was for secretarial and administrative matters. I can imagine how it it for systems security matters. I wish you luck.

  9. 9.

    PurpleGirl

    Good morning folks. I have no plans for the day. I’m floating through time. Maybe I should wash yesterday’s dishes and then make breakfast or go out to a diner. Decisions, decisions.

  10. 10.

    Schlemizel

    @PurpleGirl:
    My boss is a mixed blessing also. He has no interest in being the boss. He sits in his office all day and works with his favorite piece of technology (a security tool) and ignores any leadership role. So most of that falls to me. This means I have mostly been able to get the team running the way I want. But it also means that occasionally I screw something up because I don’t know the proper protocol, don’t have the authority or it runs at cross purposes to other plans. Plus the team is not getting the time with the bosses toy that we need.

    The bosses bosses are 900 miles away, well aware of the situation and always appear on the cusp of solving it but never actually pulling the trigger.

  11. 11.

    Nicole

    Nicole Wallace brings disgrace on a very fine name. I refer to her only as Nicky.

    About to take the dog out to the Park, then be a cleaning whirlwind before my little son’s friend comes over for a play date. I like having company because it terrifies me into cleaning up the place. It’s the only effective motivator for me.

  13. 13.

    OzarkHillbilly

    The results are in from yesterday’s primary vote and I batted 3 out of 5 on statewide issues with a probable recount in one of my whiffs. Not too shabby.

  15. 15.

    satby

    I had a long 3 days off from my part time job (which is a 9-10 hour day on the days I do work). Massive cleaning one day, some new soap making and packing an order the next day, and yesterday shopping for stuff that will clutter up the joint again. Good times.

    Edited to add: back to work for the rest of the week.

  16. 16.

    Tommy

    @Schlemizel: Sorry to hear. I talk a lot here about personal stuff, but not much about the work I do on a daily basis, I get into my clients business to a large extent. I am stunned many of them are even still in business.

  19. 19.

    Tommy

    @chopper: I am more of a cat guy then a dog guy. Never had a dog. But you can get rescue cats. I do. My current cat is about the best thing in the world. I am sure your dog is as well.

  22. 22.

    Betty Cracker

    I’m trying to stay optimistic about my day — it’s not even 8 AM here, for crissake — but I am failing so far. My schedule is way overloaded and includes several phone conference meetings, which I dread.

    This evening, I’m meeting some friends and family for dinner at a hipster-ish place, which could be good or could be awful. I generally try to avoid eating out with my SIL because she’s kind of a pain in the ass to servers, which makes me cringe. She’s not rude, exactly, but demanding and finicky, and I’m always afraid they’ll accidentally spit on MY food instead of hers.

  23. 23.

    Suffern ACE

    @OzarkHillbilly: it’s supposed to be a good documentary, but I’m not certain if it will show anything different than American Teen did a few years ago.

  24. 24.

    PurpleGirl

    @Tommy: Foster Dad John (Bartlett), who has the most watched kitten cam, has a motto of sorts: Rescue is my favorite breed. Besides having fostered 40+ kitten litters, he himself has 7 or 8 cats (not sure of the current count). He finally had a foster fail — he recently adopted one of his fosters.

  26. 26.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Suffern ACE: I think it hits a little harder with me because my sons’ mother is in prison too. They are 26 and 28 now so they have a little more perspective, but they had to deal with a lot of the same issues. It took a long time for my sons to learn that God isn’t busy, he doesn’t care.

  28. 28.

    rikyrah

    War on Whites GOP Congressman Says Democrats Use Racism To Drive Up The Minority Vote

    By: Jason Easley
    Tuesday, August, 5th, 2014, 7:30 pm

    Rep. Mo “war on whites” Brooks (R-AL) is blaming Democrats for Republican racism by claiming that Democrats are using racism to divide the country and drive up minority voting turnout.

    Rep. Brooks (R-AL) doubled down on his war on whites comments in an interview with USA Today:

    “It is repugnant for Democrats time after time after time to resort to cries of racism to divide Americans and drive up voter turn out,” Brooks said. “That is exactly what they are doing in order to drive up their vote and they are doing it when there is no racial discrimination involved.”

    In fact, Brooks added, “if you look at current federal law, there is only one skin color that you can lawfully discriminate against. That’s Caucasians — whites.”

    Brooks said he stands by his language accusing Democrats of a ‘war on whites’ because “I want Democrats held accountable . . . if Americans want a political party that regularly stokes unfounded racial fears, well then vote Democrat.”

    http://www.politicususa.com/2014/08/05/war-whites-gop-congressman-democrats-racism-drive-minority-vote.html

  29. 29.

    PurpleGirl

    From New York 1, In the Papers feature: Daily News headline — NRA wants to give guns to blind people to help keep country secure. “Anyone who objects to this doesn’t understand civil rights.” (paraphrase).

  30. 30.

    Cervantes

    @Betty Cracker:

    I’m trying to stay optimistic about my day — it’s not even 8 AM here, for crissake — but I am failing so far.

    Look at it this way: today, we’re probably not going to drop a bomb on a large Japanese city and immolate its inhabitants.

    Perfect day!

  31. 31.

    rikyrah

    NBC’s Jansing on Obama Meeting African Leaders: Helps That ‘He’s from Kenya’
    by Josh Feldman | 5:01 pm, August 5th, 2014

    NBC White House Correspondent Chris Jansing appeared on MSNBC’s The Reid Report today with a report on President Obama at the U.S.-African Leaders Summit. Unfortunately, there was just one tiny little problem with what she said: she accidentally said that the president’s from Kenya.

    Oops.

    In talking about the White House hopes for Africa becoming part of Obama’s legacy, Jansing said, “Yeah, the fact that he’s from Kenya,

    and that fact that when he was elected there were expectations from the

    African continent that he would do great things for them.”

    Ten minutes later, when Jansing was back on-air, she clarified that she had misspoken and meant to say Obama’s father was from Kenya.

    http://www.mediaite.com/tv/nbcs-jansing-on-obama-meeting-african-leaders-helps-that-hes-from-kenya/

  33. 33.

    WereBear

    @Betty Cracker: She’s not rude, exactly, but demanding and finicky, and I’m always afraid they’ll accidentally spit on MY food instead of hers.

    I ran across that site “Sundays are the Worst” (now down for maintenance) from a church in, I believe, Tennessee, welcoming servers and retail clerks and other service folks who have to work on Sundays… and serve the church crowd.

    The church crowd does not come off too well. On a site devoted to actual people describing actual problems, there’s still jerks who use that site to comment that it is their RIGHT to not tip if they don’t like the person’s tattoo, lifestyle, or religious choice.

    Buncha tin hitlers.

    Kisses on the head to Paul! He’s a big creamsicle of joy, yes he is!

  34. 34.

    Mustang Bobby

    What is with this new MSM meme that Obama hates his job and — according to MoDo — would welcome impeachment because it would get him off work and screw up the election for Hillary? Sheesh.

  36. 36.

    Betty Cracker

    @WereBear: I was a server back in college in rural-ish Florida, and I can attest the fundamentalist Christians coming out of prayer meetings on Wednesday evenings were the worst tippers by far. I worked at Pizza Hut, and those bastards would plop down at a 10-top, allow their half-dozen screaming children to gulp down and spill pitchers of Coke and stomp pizza into the carpet for an hour and a half and then leave me a fucking dollar. Fuckers.

  37. 37.

    Mustang Bobby

    @WereBear: When I was in grad school I waited tables at my then-partner’s mom’s restaurant in a small town in Colorado. One Sunday a bunch of after-church goers came in, took up a table, ordered big meals, and left me bible tracts instead of tips. Mom saw this, surreptitiously added $10 to the bill at the register, and politely handed back the tracts saying, “You forgot something.”

    Wow, I loved her.

    ETA: Betty, I owe you a Coke.

  38. 38.

    Paul in KY

    I think Pres. Washington was about 6’4″, which is still pretty tall today. He was a giant back then.

  39. 39.

    Amir Khalid

    @Mustang Bobby:
    MoDo said that? Not surprising, coming from her. What I do find surprising is the media attention being paid to Obama’s low poll ratings; the grief he gets is from partisans who don’t like him or his party anyway, and he doesn’t have to worry about ever facing another election.

  40. 40.

    JCT

    @Betty Cracker: Oh, I have one of those in spades – my husband’s sister-in-law is a nightmare. Everything in restaurants has to be substituted and scrutinized for any possible GLUTEN contamination (for heaven knows what reason).

    She was visiting last weekend and took it upon herself to re-arrange my refrigerator because we were “doing it wrong”. I’m still finding things in weird places. Sigh.

  41. 41.

    Amir Khalid

    @Paul in KY:
    Wikipedia says Abe Lincoln, the joint tallest POTUS ever with LBJ, was six foot four. George Washington was six foot two and a half inches tall. All the presidents since Jimmy Carter have been six foot one or six foot two, except for W who is five foot eleven and a half. (See, another instance of him not measuring up to his dad.)

  42. 42.

    muddy

    I’m still having issues getting onto this site. The main page won’t load. The RSS thing won’t accept the site. The only way I can get on is to google the author names individually without the actual site address included.

    It just sits and tries and tries to load. I can scroll down a tiny bit quickly sometimes right at the very beginning, but then the page gets stuck at that point. I can’t click on anything or scroll anymore. I don’t have any problems at other sites at all.

    I am running Chrome on a macbook air. I have tried with and without ads. Really I shouldn’t be sitting here messing with this, but it’s bugging me! Does anyone have any suggestions?

  43. 43.

    Mustang Bobby

    @Amir Khalid: Well, really, who would like a job where everybody other than your family is basically jumping all over you every time you scratch your ass. Harry Truman was right; you want a friend, get a dog.

    MoDo’s obsession with Hillary borders on projectile vomiting.

  44. 44.

    gene108

    @Amir Khalid:

    he doesn’t have to worry about ever facing another election.

    There’s no ban on him running for elected office. He just cannot be President again.

    I would not mind seeing him run for office.

    It would be fun watching wing-nut heads explode, as President Obama gets sworn in as a Senator, Governor or even small town mayor.

  48. 48.

    Amir Khalid

    @gene108:
    But he couldn’t seek, or be appointed to, another office in the line of succession to the presidency, could he?

  49. 49.

    Amir Khalid

    @MissBarbie:
    Ahem.

    Abe Lincoln, the joint tallest POTUS ever with LBJ, was six foot four.

    It’s all there at the Wikipedia link. Incidentally, Abe was a foot taller than his best-known opponent Stephen Douglas, who was the same height as the shortest POTUS ever, James Madison.

  50. 50.

    lurker dean

    @muddy: I’m having the same issue on my home computer, the site just hangs. I can search for and read old posts, but the main page will not load. Chrome on Windows 8.

  51. 51.

    muddy

    @lurker dean: At least it’s not just me! I was starting to take it personally. Of course tons of people could have the same thing and not found a workaround.

  53. 53.

    lurker dean

    @muddy: it might just be the two of us, though, lol. what’s even odder is that on my home computer, BJ won’t load on firefox either, so i have no idea what the issue is. but at work and on other devices it’s fine.

  54. 54.

    Mnemosyne

    @lurker dean:
    @muddy:

    I think there’s a problem with Chrome itself — people at work have had to stop using it for our web-based apps and switch back to Safari or Firefox.

  55. 55.

    rikyrah

    got it on video him RUNNING AWAY…

    but, you can’t believe your lying eyes.

    Someone from Latino community should just put some of these DREAMERS at every event Paul has planned.

    Get that video of him running away…..and away….and away…..

    …………………………

    Rand Paul: I Didn’t Avoid Immigration Activists’ ‘Kamikaze Interview’ (VIDEO

    ByCatherine Thompson
    PublishedAugust 6, 2014, 10:17 AM EDT

    Sen. Rand Paul (R-KY) said Tuesday that he didn’t dash away from his meal Monday night at an Iowa fundraiser in order to avoid having a conversation with immigration activists.

    A video posted to YouTube shows two immigration activists with the Dream Action Coalition, Erika Andiola and Cesar Vargas, approaching Paul and Rep. Steve King (R-IA) and shaking their hands. Paul is shown being led away from the table, leaving behind a half-eaten hamburger, as soon as Andiola hands her Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) card to King and tells him he can rip it up.

    “About two minutes before that, the video doesn’t show that another reporter came up and said ‘will you do an interview,'” Paul explained on Fox News’ “On The Record.” “And I said, ‘I need to take a couple more bites and we’ll do an interview.’ And then I was told we had to leave and I had to do the interview. So actually, I stand about ten feet from those people, who were doing sort of a kamikaze interview, and I stood ten feet from them and did another interview.”

    http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/rand-paul-dreamers-kamikaze-interview-immigration

  57. 57.

    Cervantes

    @Amir Khalid:

    If you look at the 12th and 22nd Amendments, you find it’s technically possible.

    And if it’s technically possible, there will be Supreme Courts who may allow themselves to be convinced to let it happen for various reasons.

  59. 59.

    Origuy

    @Amir Khalid:

    But he couldn’t seek, or be appointed to, another office in the line of succession to the presidency, could he?

    He couldn’t be Vice President, but any other office in the line of succession is open. There have been several Cabinet members who would have been ineligible for President, most infamously Henry Kissinger. They would just pass him over.

  61. 61.

    Mustang Bobby

    @gene108: He could be the next appointee to the Supreme Court; after all, he is a constitutional law scholar. And it would not be unprecedented. William Howard Taft was appointed Chief Justice by President Harding in 1921 after he’d served as president from 1909 to 1913.

    The nutsery head explosions would be like a fire at a Roman candle factory.

  62. 62.

    Cervantes

    @Mustang Bobby:

    William Howard Taft was appointed Chief Justice by President Harding in 1921 after he’d served as president from 1909 to 1913.

    Funny story. After that defeat in 1912, Yale University, Taft’s alma mater, invited him to occupy a Chair in the Law School. Endowed with both lots of fat — he was famously obese — and a sense of humor, Taft responded that a Chair might not suffice but probably a Sofa would do.

  63. 63.

    Mustang Bobby

    @Cervantes: I’m reading Doris Kearns Goodwin’s “The Bully Pulpit” about the friendship between Taft and Theodore Roosevelt. Learning a lot about both of them including the fact that the Republican Party in the 1890’s was a lot like the one today: torn between moderates and wingnuts and neither of them could be elected as anything in today’s party; they would be far too liberal for the Tea Party.

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