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You are here: Home / Open Threads / From the depths I return, clutching my love for you all to my breast …

From the depths I return, clutching my love for you all to my breast …

by Sarah, Proud and Tall|  December 12, 20147:30 am| 49 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Assholes, Clown Shoes

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Hello kiddies…

It has been a while. I have no real explanation. Let’s put it down to ennui (a rationalisation laden with enough cheese-eating surrender-monkey bullshit that we can just pass on and get on with the motley).

When I last spoke to you, we had a Democrat-controlled Senate, we weren’t at war with anyone, the economy was on its way up, and the newspapers hadn’t carried reports of the murder and/or torture of black or brown people by white authority figures for at least a week.

So that’s all gone to shit, and I suspect I’ve built up enough anger to be entertaining again.

What’s your excuse?

Actually, fuck that. I don’t give a shit, because you lot have apparently managed to entirely fuck up the country in my absence.

Fuck you all, you namby-pamby lefty fuckers.

(Just to show I do still love you, a cheesecake photo of my doggy.)

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[Top image – Jean de Boulogne Valentin (1591-1632) – Christ Driving the Money Changers out of the Temple]
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49Comments

  1. 1.

    David Fud

    December 12, 2014 at 7:34 am

    And they say torture doesn’t work. Look at what happens to BJ when it is reported.

  2. 2.

    Baud

    December 12, 2014 at 7:36 am

    The economy is still going up, FWIW.

    If I knew it would bring you back, I would have voted for the GOP. I guess I’m voting for Cruz in 2016 after all.

  3. 3.

    Betty Cracker

    December 12, 2014 at 7:38 am

    SP&T! Wonderful to see you again!

  4. 4.

    JPL

    December 12, 2014 at 7:43 am

    It’s a dogs world.
    Welcome home Sarah.

  5. 5.

    Sarah, Proud and Tall

    December 12, 2014 at 7:44 am

    @Baud:

    The economy is still going up, FWIW.

    Give it a week or so….

  6. 6.

    Baud

    December 12, 2014 at 7:45 am

    @Sarah, Proud and Tall:

    What did you do?

  7. 7.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    December 12, 2014 at 7:46 am

    @Betty Cracker: +1. Welcome back, Ms. Sarah! Don’t be a stranger.

    I hope you rubbed his belly. :-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  8. 8.

    Betty Cracker

    December 12, 2014 at 7:53 am

    @I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: I’m sure she rubbed his belly. Who could resist that freckly, floofy belly?

  9. 9.

    Zandar

    December 12, 2014 at 8:03 am

    Well if I can find my way back, so can Sarah.

    Good to see you again. :)

    Also PUPPEH.

  10. 10.

    Soonergrunt

    December 12, 2014 at 8:06 am

    Welcome back! The coke is in the bowl in the bathroom cupboard, and the liquor cabinet is unlocked.

  11. 11.

    raven

    December 12, 2014 at 8:15 am

    I still don’t know who the fuck you are?

  12. 12.

    Mustang Bobby

    December 12, 2014 at 8:27 am

    Babydoggiebellyrubz! Wheeeeee!

    Welcome back, Sarah.

  13. 13.

    Violet

    December 12, 2014 at 8:38 am

    Doggie belly! Who could resist! Welcome back SP&T. If only you’d been here, maybe you could have kept leftier voters in line and hustled them out to the polls. See what happens when you don’t do your job!

  14. 14.

    Manyakitty

    December 12, 2014 at 8:39 am

    Well, well. Way to distill things to their essence.
    Also, lookit da puppeh! Lookit Da PUPPEH!

  15. 15.

    MomSense

    December 12, 2014 at 8:41 am

    When I last spoke to you, we had a Democrat-controlled Senate, we weren’t at war with anyone, the economy was on its way up…

    This is why you should never go away again.

    Quote seems to be borked.

  16. 16.

    WereBear

    December 12, 2014 at 8:45 am

    @Betty Cracker: Freckled bellies rule!

    Rub the Tristan belly!

  17. 17.

    Elizabelle

    December 12, 2014 at 8:47 am

    Wassail, Sarah. Glad to see you back.

    Cute pup. I always took you for the Airedale or Italian greyhound type. But this one looks strong enough to tug you home by your Burberry, should you become incapacitated. (By snuff. Or what have you.)

    Good doggy.

  18. 18.

    Elizabelle

    December 12, 2014 at 8:49 am

    Now where’s Dengre? Perhaps staying away, because no photogenic pet?

    I care not if Dengre has only a stuffed squirrel to his name. Would be great to see him back.

    In this season of cheer. And reunion.

  19. 19.

    Elizabelle

    December 12, 2014 at 8:50 am

    @WereBear:

    Tristan wears that rug well.

  20. 20.

    ruemara

    December 12, 2014 at 8:55 am

    Welcome back. I have a partial flood in my apartment because the window seals failed. And the attempt to repair my windshield wiper arm so it wouldn’t skim most of the windshield has resulted in it missing all of the windshield. So I can’t drive, as I need to learn into the passenger side to see clearly. Tell me the truth, there are cameras recording all of this, right? Because I don’t want to get out of bed if yesterday’s track record continues. Of course, I should, because I need to wring out the towels that are keeping the ongoing leaks under control.

  21. 21.

    raven

    December 12, 2014 at 8:56 am

    @ruemara: Repair how?

  22. 22.

    J R in WV

    December 12, 2014 at 8:57 am

    It’s good to see that you’re still kicking around, and just as outrageous as ever!!

    I enjoy your good humor even when all about us are loosing their cool and becoming very unhappy.

    Keep on being outrageous and funny in the face of impending catastrophe, and stay in touch.

    Happy Holidays, too, also. !!

  23. 23.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    December 12, 2014 at 8:59 am

    So that’s all gone to shit, and I suspect I’ve built up enough anger to be entertaining again.

    What’s your excuse?

    Reading posts from people who live in a perpetual rage because the world isn’t on the good side of their duelist world viewing ranting about how their ideological opponents can’t see nuance.

  24. 24.

    MomSense

    December 12, 2014 at 9:10 am

    @WereBear:

    The perfect picture of contentment. Love that his little paws are all curled up.

  25. 25.

    Keith G

    December 12, 2014 at 9:47 am

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques: A lot of that going around.

  26. 26.

    Yatsuno

    December 12, 2014 at 9:51 am

    IT’S A FESTIVUS MIRACLE!!! Hello darling. I have missed you terribly around these parts. Is your niece getting you a new set of Portuguese rentboys for Christmas?

  27. 27.

    SatanicPanic

    December 12, 2014 at 9:51 am

    yay yay

  28. 28.

    MomSense

    December 12, 2014 at 10:09 am

    @Yatsuno:

    You can get sets of Portuguese rentboys for Christmas?? I need a do over on my Christmas list.

  29. 29.

    CONGRATULATIONS!

    December 12, 2014 at 10:09 am

    The coke is in the bowl in the bathroom cupboard

    @Soonergrunt: Um, yeah. About that. Erm, huh, how to say this. Something happened. At any rate, now is not the time to assign blame, and don’t shoot the messenger, OK? But it’s gone.

    All gone.

  30. 30.

    JGabriel

    December 12, 2014 at 10:11 am

    SPAT:

    Hello kiddies…

    It has been a while.

    About goddamn time. Good to see you again, Sarah.

  31. 31.

    ruemara

    December 12, 2014 at 10:16 am

    @raven: slap a tarp on the side of the wall for the duration of the season, I think. Oh, the arm. A marine friend with MacGyver skills is going to take off the arm and try to bend it to a correct arc.

  32. 32.

    Emma

    December 12, 2014 at 10:18 am

    @ruemara: A (very geeky, like me) friend and I have taken to joking that if we find a working TARDIS we’re building a paradox machine and wipe out 2014. It’s been one-freaking-thing-after-another, and it’s the relatively little things that happen after the big disasters that send you off the rails.

    (edit)And nice to see you again, Sarah.

  33. 33.

    geg6

    December 12, 2014 at 10:25 am

    PUPPEH!

    Hey there, SPT! Missed you!

  34. 34.

    Nutella

    December 12, 2014 at 10:25 am

    @Enhanced Voting Techniques:

    “duelist” Heh. Excellent pun.

  35. 35.

    Petorado

    December 12, 2014 at 10:28 am

    you lot have apparently managed to entirely fuck up the country in my absence

    What else can we say — mistakes were made.

    Now please post some more of the music you’ve been grooving to Sarah.

  36. 36.

    Shakezula

    December 12, 2014 at 10:28 am

    @Baud: And to whom did you do it?

  37. 37.

    shortstop

    December 12, 2014 at 10:39 am

    Oh, Sarah, how lovely to see you again. And on a week when I really needed it!

    @ruemara: I scanned this without having read the previous explanation and assumed for a sec that you were talking about your arm. Glad you weren’t, but sorry for the crappy experience.

  38. 38.

    Denali

    December 12, 2014 at 10:39 am

    One good thing to perk up an otherwise ***** morning. Welcome SP & T.

  39. 39.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    December 12, 2014 at 10:42 am

    @raven: She’s Sarah, silly raven. (Since I don’t have a clue myself).

  40. 40.

    ranchandsyrup

    December 12, 2014 at 10:48 am

    cattle dog people unite!

  41. 41.

    satby

    December 12, 2014 at 11:25 am

    @ruemara: I’m so sorry you’re going through all this trouble. May it get better soon!

    I feel we have parallel lives, I woke up to no heat and my checking account overdrawn, even though I have invoices for work in the process of getting paid (or I hope they sent the check they said they did anyway). The good news? It’ll be in the high 40s by Sunday and I have electricity, and space heaters. So it could be worse. Inconvenient, not catastrophe.

    Edited to add: Happy to see you back Sara!

  42. 42.

    BruceFromOhio

    December 12, 2014 at 11:35 am

    Actually, fuck that. I don’t give a shit, because you lot have apparently managed to entirely fuck up the country in my absence.

    Fuck you all, you namby-pamby lefty fuckers.

    I was all like, “what’s got that nasty burr under Levenson’s saddle? Must be the kitchen project went into red status.” You had me going there for awhile, because of the prominent painting at the top of the post. Oopsie.

  43. 43.

    ruemara

    December 12, 2014 at 11:55 am

    @Emma: If I get a TARDIS, I will be doing two things: Showing Obama how feckless Democrats will be the minute he wins; Inventing Facebook.

  44. 44.

    SRW1

    December 12, 2014 at 12:04 pm

    High S,P&T,

    any more raunchy episodes of your vita about to flow into your pen?

    Missed that somewhat.

  45. 45.

    different-church-lady

    December 12, 2014 at 12:11 pm

    Crap — now we have to put up with a sense of humor around here again?

    Quote

    is

    indeed

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  46. 46.

    Ecks

    December 12, 2014 at 12:27 pm

    You’re back, and just in time for this year’s war on Christmas! Hope you’re ready to load up for the mission to sneak trees, mistletoe, and other pagan iconism into the unsuspecting Christian’s homes again, as we once more attempt to befuddle them over the date of their Messiah’s birth. It ain’t easy to keep them shifting it all the way over to the midwinter festival year after year.

  47. 47.

    keestadoll

    December 12, 2014 at 1:28 pm

    God Bless Us…EVERYONE! I guess I need to bookmark Balloon Juice again. xoxo

  48. 48.

    jayjaybear

    December 12, 2014 at 6:12 pm

    That is quite obviously a BOY goggie, therefore it would be a BEEFCAKE photo, would it not? Unless he’s actually part hyena, in which case I could be mistaken about the gender…

    ETA: Oh, and welcome back!

  49. 49.

    Anne Laurie

    December 12, 2014 at 8:30 pm

    Full frontal PEDRO! (and yet he discreetly hides his face, the minx)…

    Welcome back, Sarah. Your re-emergence doesn’t repair my mood, but it does mitigate it.

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