Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Nikki Haley, who can’t acknowledge ‘slavery’, is a pathetic shill.

Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

My right to basic bodily autonomy is not on the table. that’s the new deal.

The rest of the comments were smacking Boebert like she was a piñata.

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

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

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. Do not congratulate. This is not business as usual.

Motown is Joe-Town!

So many bastards, so little time.

Democrats are back in array!

‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’

If you still can’t see these things even now, maybe politics isn’t your forte and you should stop writing about it.

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  2. 2.

    Schlemazel

    The ‘best’ part is if you bought gold because of the morans on talk radio you probably got a royal rogering because they sold you ‘collector’ coins & not bullion coins. So you way over paid & will not get more than the troy weight price unless you can find a bigger sucker.

    If the money was not going to fund evil it would warm my darkest heart that the mouth-breathers getting cleaned out because they believed in those assclowns.

  3. 3.

    burnspbesq

    Dick Cheney hasn’t been indicted, John Yoo hasn’t been disbarred, and John Calipari hasn’t been busted by the NCAA. I’d say that’s enough disappointment for one day.

    And I have to go to the mall tonight, instead of watching what could be a very good game between Wisconsin and UC Berkeley.

  5. 5.

    Callisto

    @Roger Moore:

    no wonder glenn beck was complaining about a crazy ‘brain cloud’. he’s looking for plausible deniability when the right-wing hordes start knocking down his gate.

  6. 6.

    Mike R

    Most of the people who listen to right wing radio, and would spend their money on advice from same, probably don’t bathe very often. So maybe a bath is what they need, and not only in the sense of getting clean. Maybe finding out the hard way is how some may learn that right wing derp is hazardous to your bank account and one’s well being in general..

  7. 7.

    Baud

    Boy, if you bought gold and oil futures b/c talk radio told you the apocalypse was coming, you are taking a bath blaming Obama this year.

    FTFY

  8. 8.

    Mike E

    My lottery win keeps getting pushed back, but Miss E will be visiting me on Wed and that’s close enough.

  9. 9.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    UPS just notified me that the package containing my niece’s Xmas presents has been delayed. Hopefully it will show up before 12/24 or there will be HELL TO PAY.

    (Via FaceTime, since we’re in CA and she’s in IL. Still, hell hath no fury like an 8-year-old who’s short a couple of Xmas presents.)

  10. 10.

    Gin & Tonic

    With just about 67% of my children home for Christmas (and the remainder arriving tomorrow) “disappointment” is not in today’s vocabulary.

  11. 11.

    pacem appellant

    A close family member bought a bunch of bullion gold, installed a safe, and is storing his horde there in anticipation of the end of money (due for mid to late January if I’m not mistaken). Question: is the troy ounce price of gold going down, hence the mockery in the tweet? I care, not because I’m LaRouchian, but because due to poor critical thinking on behalf of my relative, I now have inadvertently invested in physical gold. Can s/he sell it? How do I watch the price of gold fluctuate? Is it like a stock?

  12. 12.

    jo6pac

    bought gold at $647 I don’t feel bad and if silver falls I will be buying more. Then again I have a garden I might be able to trade with neighbors with. The down turn that has happened will only get worse. Sad that this is what it has come to in Amerika for us the 99%.

  13. 13.

    pacem appellant

    A quick trip to the Google and it looks like a not insignificant sum just evaporated from my inheritance. Ah well. You win some, you bury some.

  14. 14.

    PurpleGirl

    Disappointment: I didn’t wake up in time to go to Trader Joe’s and Michael’s with the Seniors Club of my complex. Round trip cost would have $2.00.

    Good: But I did correctly time calling in my medicine refills so that I pick up new pills on Monday. I have enough to take to me through Monday. I also bought some holiday decorations this afternoon. Not in a 100% holiday mood but more of one than I have been to date.

  15. 15.

    Iowa Old Lady

    People are far meaner than they need to be, even in small scale situations. It gets to me sometimes.

  17. 17.

    KG

    @pacem appellant: gold, like oil, trades on the commodities market. here’s CNN’s commodity market tracker. Light crude oil is down 43% for the year. Gold is off a couple percentage points for the year, but has been very wild (started the year off around 1200, went up almost to 1400, hovered between 1250 and 1350 for most of the year, dropped under 1200 and is now back there).

  19. 19.

    Trentrunner

    Surprised this hasn’t gotten more exposure:

    Of the many villagers who called Dancin’ Dave Gregory to express sympathy when he got fired from Meet The Press, guess who else did:

    Jamie Dimon, CEO JP MorganChase.

    Read the whole thing. It’s an orgy of villager entitlement and insularity.

  20. 20.

    Roger Moore

    @pacem appellant:

    Question: is the troy ounce price of gold going down, hence the mockery in the tweet?

    It’s off about 1/3 from its peak in early 2012, but it’s approximately flat relative to a year ago. Fortunately, physical gold is fairly liquid, though you may wind up losing money on commissions if/when you sell it.

  24. 24.

    Pogonip

    My father saw the breakdown of society in Italy at the end of WW II. Cash in that gold and use it to buy cigarettes–you’ll be sitting pretty. Cigarettes are THE currency when the poop hits the air circulator.

  25. 25.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Joe Cocker is dead. I am in mourning. I almost feel like a Deadhead after Jerry passed. OK, not really, but I am some glum all the same.

  26. 26.

    geg6

    I am bitterly disappointed that I have to go to the mall tomorrow. Apparently, someone quite close to me actually wants socks and underwear as Christmas gifts. WTF?

  28. 28.

    Iowa Old Lady

    The most amazing thing just happened! The doorbell rang and it turned out to be the guy who recently moved in next door. I’ve seen him out walking with his dog and waved but never spoken. Turns out he used to own the town’s best-known bakery, but is now retired. He had friends over today making kringles, which apparently is a coffee cake with a fruit filling. He brought one over for us.

    Now that is a neighbor worth having!

  29. 29.

    Corner Stone

    @Trentrunner: Good God. I need a shower, and a modesty curtain. Holy balls that’s going to give VDE a certified lifetime boner.

    Turness tossed her ambitions aside and made the safest choice possible. In the end, she installed Chuck Todd, the ultimate incarnation of Washington’s talking-head establishment.

    What a fucking choad.

  31. 31.

    mdblanche

    So… how has life bitterly disappointed you today?

    My favorite restaurant went out of business this weekend leaving the owner financially ruined. My cousin won’t be home for Christmas due to all of his restraining orders and outstanding warrants in this jurisdiction.

    @Callisto: is there any chance that “brain cloud” is a prelude to Beck being sacrificed to a volcano? Because I could really use some cheering up about now.

  32. 32.

    Corner Stone

    @Pogonip:

    Cash in that gold and use it to buy cigarettes–you’ll be sitting pretty. Cigarettes are THE currency when the poop hits the air circulator.

    Problem with that is ciggies are more or less perishable. Got to time it reasonably well or else you’re sitting on a stack of dried goods.

  33. 33.

    Steeplejack

    Okay, I will push the Eurotrash micro-channel MHz and Inspector Montalbano one more time and then shut up until someone—anyone—tells me they’ve seen the show. It’s a really good Italian crime series with great visuals (Sicily), good acting and good scripts. If you like Foyle’s War, Wallander, etc. ’Nuff said.

    MHz is available on DirecTV, some PBS stations and some cable systems. Or, if you just want a taste, you can stream MHz live on their Web site. They’re running a Montalbano marathon all this week, two episodes a night. Tonight: “The Shape of Water” (8:00 p.m. and midnight EST) and “The Terracotta Dog” (10:00 p.m. and 2:00 a.m. EST). Both excellent.

  35. 35.

    Corner Stone

    @mdblanche:

    My cousin won’t be home for Christmas due to all of his restraining orders and outstanding warrants in this jurisdiction.

    Ummm…hmmm. I get he’s family, but…

  37. 37.

    BGinCHI

    @Steeplejack: It’s like last night’s thread all over again!

    I read a couple of the books. Great stuff.

    Have you read Jean-Claude Izzo’s Marseilles trilogy? So great.

  38. 38.

    lamh36

    I don’t think the peaceful protest should stop UNTIL after the police funerals. I think peaceful protest should continue and on thw DAY of the funeral, IN NYC ONLY then call for a day of rest for protest…peaceful protest should then continue. I understand why DeBlasio asked for it, his family security detail is done by NYPD, but I’m disappointed cause it feeds the narrative that the protest are to blame for the gunman’s actions.

  39. 39.

    TheMightyTrowel

    I went to look at a gorgeous 1870s cottage this afternoon. Totally in my budget and in a place I’d like to live. Turns out there’s another offer out on it, but the estate agent thinks that offer is flakey enough that he’s still showing it.

  41. 41.

    pacem appellant

    @Roger Moore: It was really weird when s/he showed us the physical stash and said how much money was spent acquiring it. It definitely felt like the senior moments were transitioning into senility.

  42. 42.

    SatanicPanic

    @Corner Stone: I’d go with alcohol. But cigarettes are light and portable, and if the SHTF for so long that they start getting stale then I’ve already given up long before.

  43. 43.

    mai naem mobile

    Well, I see Jamie Dimon is not sitting at Rikers. Neither is Hank Paulson. Nor Lloyd Blankfein.

  46. 46.

    PsiFighter37

    Perhaps Dave should amend his comment to reflect only oil, because gold hasn’t done fuck-all this year. It took a huge dump last year, but it’s fluctuated in a pretty tight range this year.

    Yes, the folks holing up in a bunker deserve to be mocked, but at least get your fucking market commentary right. Jesus.

    PF37 +2 / trying to figure out what to do with his days since he skips out of work shortly after 4 PM during the holiday season

    Aside from that, all my bitter disappointment was used up on Election Day this year. I’m undecided as to whether I’m more disappointed in the country for what they did (or did not do, as in did not VOTE), or more disappointed that I thought it was wise to have one beer and stop drinking on a Tuesday night.

  48. 48.

    Iowa Old Lady

    @BGinCHI: Probably!

    When we moved here, someone showing us around said no Iowa restaurant could survive without the words “All You Can Eat.”

  52. 52.

    Iowa Old Lady

    @raven: I’ve never eaten a Maid Rite. For one thing, they can’t spell “right.”

    This was Johnson’s Bakery, a local place I’ve seen because it’s across the street from Habitat’s headquarters. He sold it and now it’s a Dollar General store. So sad.

  53. 53.

    Steeplejack

    @BGinCHI:

    Well, last night was pretty late, so I thought I would reprise it for the earlier crowd. Sorry to be a zealot, but seeing Montalbano again is about the first thing to perk me up since I went into the slough of despond on Election Day.

    I haven’t read Izzo. I will check him out.

  54. 54.

    Shalimar

    @Pogonip: There seems to be a strong correlation between people who smoke and people who collect shitloads of guns. I’m not sure cigarettes are going to have much value after the apocalypse once your stash becomes known unless you’re prepared to defend them against very heavily armed assholes who haven’t had a cigarette in days.

  59. 59.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @geg6:

    Secret Christmas shopping trick — all of the stores are staying open extra late, so find out what the holiday closing time is and go an hour before. At worst, it will be like a normal weekend day, because most people don’t want to go to the mall at 11:00 at night.

  60. 60.

    Belafon

    This isn’t really a downer, but I’m going to state it anyway: Regular is now down to $1.89/gal here in the Dallas area.

  61. 61.

    Cacti

    Really disappointed in the cowardly position Bill DeBlasio has staked out, that protesters should stop their First Amendment activities until the 2 cop funerals are over.

    Can’t say that I recall similar requests being made of police by any elected official after they shot yet another unarmed “suspect”.

  62. 62.

    NotMax

    Not (by far) a great film, but an eminently watchable and cute holiday flick airing at 9:30 a.m. on Xmas Eve on TCM, should anyone have youngish kiddies kicking about the house.

    The Great Rupert stars Jimmy Durante, who tones down his usual shtick quite a bit. The George Pal SFX squirrel, Rupert, is a delight. Also has music, including Durante’s unique rendition of Jingle Bells, plus a piece for the unlikely duo of harp and tuba.

  63. 63.

    Steeplejack

    @raven:

    Hopefully this game will make up for that fiasco last Thursday. Gotta say I’m pulling for the Bengals on general underdog principles.

  64. 64.

    Mike in NC

    @hilts: Per the article, you have to wonder what’s worse: Will’s many years of lies and disinformation, or Hiatt’s consistent defense of that shameless asshole?

  68. 68.

    Violet

    Decorating the tree tonight. Because there’s nothing like the flu and a medical procedure involving anesthesia to complete upend Christmas preparations. I’ve been playing catchup for the last several days. Still really tired.

  70. 70.

    Tree With Water

    “So… how has life bitterly disappointed you today”?

    Bah, humbug.

    One sweet dream came true today, Anne, somewhere or other. So step on the gas and wipe that tear away..

    In fact, Merry Xmas

  72. 72.

    raven

    I got a card addressed to me with “Alec” written under my name. Inside it said “We love you Mark and Alec.

    Uncle Fred and Aunt Mazie

    I have no fucking idea who dey is.

  74. 74.

    Callisto

    @mdblanche:

    is there any chance that “brain cloud” is a prelude to Beck being sacrificed to a volcano? Because I could really use some cheering up about now.

    Ah, you’re giving this old woman fantasies. Watching his stupid Rick Perry pretend smart-guy glasses melting in the lava…

  77. 77.

    Steeplejack

    I thought the game was supposed to start at 8:20?! How much Jon Gruden am I expected to put up with?

  81. 81.

    Scott Alloway

    As a 52-year numismatist, I cringe at these gold and silver “coins” deals, these Franklin mint sets and all the related junk. You want silver or gold, buy an ingot at a legitimate coin shop or precious metals dealer. Been through two cycles when silver went about $45 an ounce, sold my circulated silver US coins close to peak. When silver hits $48, dump. As a collector, I’ve noticed that proof sets are dropping extremely low. Bought 34 sets from the 80s and 90s for less than $5 a set. Good long-term investments (for my nieces and nephews – I won’t see another 25 years). Lon and short, if you’re getting into metal and coins, see an American /Numismatist Association member/dealer whose shop has been around a while. And don’t buy those state quarters. Ain’t worth a damn, unless they’re BU and proof, and then it will take a while to appreciate. On a happier note, my 12-year-old nephew gets a mixed Unc and circulated full set of Jefferson nickels this Christmas, as well as one of those loose proof sets (1984). So it goes.

  82. 82.

    TheMightyTrowel

    @PurpleGirl: Thanks for the good wishes. It’s sooner than we expected but it’s such a nice little property and my architectural historian/construction project manager partner was basically salivating at all the fun things he could fix up and restore.

  83. 83.

    NotMax

    Ed Wood, move over.

    For those who revel in really awful movies, the short A Visit To Santa airs on TCM at 5:43 a.m. Xmas day (only 12 minutes long, which is about 13 minutes too many). Quite possibly the most agonizing, terribly made Christmas tale ever earnestly put on celluloid.

    One cannot help but chuckle at how incredibly lame and shoddy it is.

  85. 85.

    Jack the Second

    @Corner Stone:

    Cash in that gold and use it to buy cigarettes–you’ll be sitting pretty. Cigarettes are THE currency when the poop hits the air circulator.

    Problem with that is ciggies are more or less perishable. Got to time it reasonably well or else you’re sitting on a stack of dried goods

    Forget cigarettes, buy toilet paper. Lasts forever, everyone wants it but no one will kill you over it. And if the apocalypse never comes, you’ve just got a lifetime supply for yourself.

  87. 87.

    Steeplejack

    @MomSense:

    Just checking. I liked Branagh all right, but I thought that show was a little too Branagh-centric. The Swedish series is more of an ensemble thing and Kurt Wallander is not so much the “hero” of the series.

    By the way—no spoiler here!—if you watch the Swedish Wallander series to the end, it has an incredibly touching ending. Well worth the journey.

  88. 88.

    geg6

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone):

    Probably a good strategy, but one I won’t use. I have too much trouble driving at night any more. Gotta get four of something strong enough to hold the garden’s canned goods that we traditionally give to family for Christmas anyway, so I’ll get it all done and over with at once tomorrow. The dollar store where I usually get boxes and baskets and tissue paper is right across the street from the mall, so I might as well kill two birds with one stone. I’m just feeling very Scrooge-like this year.

  89. 89.

    Roger Moore

    @Scott Alloway:

    And don’t buy those state quarters.

    Maybe not, but they’re still fun to collect by looking for them in your change. It’s amazing what can show up in ordinary change. I’ve found several genuine silver coins in my change; I could actually hear that something was up because silver coins ring differently from the nickel-copper sandwich ones. My father was recently showing off a gold sovereign- that’s a ~1/4 oz gold coin with a nominal value of 1 pound sterling- that he inexplicably found in his change the last time he was in England.

  90. 90.

    Howard Beale IV

    I think I’m gonna listen to Dvorak’s Symphony Number 9 by Jascha Horenstein- a killer performance and a killer recording.

  91. 91.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @geg6:

    Next best advice is to go in the late morning (10:00 am or so) and avoid lunchtime and after-work times like the plague. If you’re already hating it, no point in stressing yourself out even worse by going at the busiest times.

  92. 92.

    mdblanche

    @Cacti: To be fair to DeBlasio, it’s easy to be brave on the internet, and harder to be brave when the people who are are supposed to be guarding you and your family are becoming the biggest threat to your safety.

  93. 93.

    Steeplejack

    @geg6:

    As a former retail drone (Barnes & Noble), I will second Mnemosyne (iPhone)’s advice to go at midmorning. This close to Christmas there’s no really good time, but that’s going to be the least bad option. The store might be busy, but the shoppers won’t be in that time-pressured, death-hunt frenzy they are at lunchtime and late in the day.

  94. 94.

    MomSense

    @Steeplejack:

    I prefer the Swedish Wallender. Yesterday we watched Two Lives which is a movie with a twist that is loosely based on the Norwegian Lebensborn children.

  96. 96.

    gbear

    I’m disappointed today because an Amazon order that I haven’t received is shown as having been delivered on Saturday morning. Either it was lost in delivery or it was stolen from my porch. I’m really hoping that it’s not stolen; I’ve still got 3-4 more things arriving that won’t fit inside the mailbox (although they’ll fit in between the storm and screen doors). Luckily Amazon is reshipping most of the lost/stolen stuff, but I’ll be nervous until everything is accounted for.

  98. 98.

    Sherparick

    150 years ago, the City of Savannah having surrendered to him the day before, General W.T Sherman presented the city and its stores as Christmas gift to the nation and Mr. Lincoln. Ed Kilgore, a renegade Georgian and Union man, at the Washington Monthly posted this version of “As We Marching through Georgia.” I particularly enjoyed the chorus lines “We bring the Jubilee, Hurrah, Hurrah, the Flag that makes you free.” http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/political-animal-a/2014_12/daylight_video_733053413.php

  99. 99.

    gbear

    If anyone is wondering why there’s absolutely no snow in southern MN, it’s because I bought my first snowblower on Veteran’s Day.

    @raven: Ouch!

  100. 100.

    Eric U.

    I’m rather annoyed that gold bugs decided silver was going to follow gold and drove the price up. I use it in my craft. There is effectively an infinite amount of the stuff relative to industrial uses

  102. 102.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @pacem appellant:

    Actually, you may want to consider asking your relative’s doctor to screen them for possible memory issues. People have had some sad stories recently of not realizing how bad their relative’s issues were until they were barely surviving on their own. It could just be Fox News Syndrome, but it’s worth getting them checked out just in case.

  103. 103.

    NotMax

    @raven

    Xmas dinner (table for one, thank you very much) many moons ago was the best shrimp jambalaya have ever had at, of all places, the Holiday Inn in Emporia, Virginia.

    Halfway stop driving back from Miami area to NY, before the interstate had been completed and connected up.

  107. 107.

    Steeplejack

    @raven:

    Well, it’s pretty boring—wide, flat interstate all the way—but you’ll have the princess to keep you company. Just slow down and don’t outrun your visibility if it starts raining hard. I avoided one of those bajillion-car pileups in Florida once because I actually pulled over and stopped for a bit when it got too foggy to see very far ahead. Everyone else was full speed ahead, what could go wrong?

    ETA: And make sure your windshield wipers are fresh. I changed mine a few months ago, even though I didn’t think the old ones were really shot, and I was amazed what a difference it made.

  109. 109.

    raven

    @Steeplejack: I’ve driven it a million times. We used to go 85 to 29 and that was really bad but now we go through Asheville or Charlotte and the mountains break it up.

  110. 110.

    NotMax

    @Mnemosyne

    Saw you post about checking for asthma earlier. Thanks, but no reason for that. Breathing unaffected, no constriction either. It’s a manifestation of having inherited the ‘post-nasal drip has no off setting once past a certain age’ gene from one side of the family.

  111. 111.

    burnspbesq

    @raven:

    Tune in to the BYU – Gonzaga men’s basketball game on Saturday night, and you may see another one. BYU athletes, by and large, are entitled suburban LDS bullies. They don’t take kindly to being challenged by Them, whether Them are A-A, Canadian, Lithuanian (Arvydas Sabonis’ kid is a freshman on the Gonzaga team), or pretty much whatever. Tyler Haws, BYU’s leading scorer, is the paradigm case. Watch him for two minutes, and you’ll want to punch him in the face. The easiest player to hate since J.J. Redick.

  112. 112.

    gbear

    @lamh36: As soon as I saw that request to not protest, I wondered if there was also a request made for cops to stop arresting people who haven’t done anything.

    It’s a horribly one-sided deal.

  113. 113.

    Warren Terra

    I just learned that the local professional builder’s hardware store – the place that was only open banker’s hours but had a little of everything and the clerks actually knew everything about using the stuff they sold – went out of business recently. Mind you, I only ever shopped there if I had a serious project in mind (I’m busy during the week, and too lazy to get there before noon on Saturday), but it was a great resource, and now the community’s best bet is the inferior selection, inferior goods, and well-meaning but know-nothing generic retail clerks at the local True Value hardware.

  114. 114.

    raven

    @burnspbesq: This was football and the cheap shot by the BYU d-back was epic. He was cut pretty badly under the eye but still. . .

    eta. Oh I see where you were going with that. I never liked them anyway.

  115. 115.

    raven

    @lamh36: You think it’s a pretty good idea for a crowd to chant “what do we want? dead cops”? (That’s a rhetorical question)

  116. 116.

    NotMax

    @raven

    Feeling just ducky, all things considered. Have felt as if was going to come down with something for the entire time, but it ebbs and flows. Daytime it runs and hides, then after about 10 at night right through the dawn hours plays its Poltergeist-ian “I’m ba-a-a-ack!” game.

  119. 119.

    MaryRC

    @Steeplejack: Thanks for the recommendation — love Foyle’s War. I’ve never watched Wallender, simply because the books are so depressing — he is the saddest sad sack ever. But I’ll give Wallender another chance as well.

  120. 120.

    burnspbesq

    @raven:

    There’s the extra dimension of Gonzaga, a Catholic school, routinely kicking BYU’s ass ever since they joined the West Coast Conference. I can see how that would get tired if you were an entitled suburban LDS bully.

  122. 122.

    Steeplejack

    @raven:

    I haven’t driven it in a while (March ’12?). There are a couple of different routes from Richmond to Greensboro, but after that it’s a straight shot (coming south). I actually take the longer route because it’s way less boring. But I’m going to fly when I come in January or February, because that’s basically two more days available to hang with my friends. Even though I loves me a road trip in the car.

  123. 123.

    raven

    @Steeplejack: My bride lived in Richmond but we’ve never driven from here to there. It’s either Lynchburg, Blacksburg or a run for the Outer Banks. 85 from Greensboro is just sucky, especially when it goes down to two lanes before Charlotte.

  125. 125.

    lamh36

    @raven: Is that what I said? There is one video that I’ve seen of the “dead cops” chant. One, from the same night, same group. It was NOT a daily movement of the peacful protestors.

    None of the protest leaders I follow have EVER used or advocated such rhetoric. What I do know is that there are “allied” group such as Anonymous who are NOT above using violent, misogynistic or racial rhetoric when it fits their anarchist spirits.

    Now. The first officer’s funeral is Saturday. Prior to this I ddin’t expect huge protest on Christmas day. The 2nd officer’s family live both abroad and in NYC. So they have not scheduled his funeral until they could get his Chinese family to US for funeral. So the proposal is that ALL protest stop until both officers funeral services. Now that would mean no protest of any kind for 2 weeks. A good way to get the movement to die.

    I said that I can see protest stopping in NYC.

    I don’t think protest across country should stop. The murder is being linked to both Ferguson and Garner.

    But hey, when will we learn if the police who killed 12 year old Tamir Rice, when/if those officers are not indicted, then will that be okay for protests to continue.

  130. 130.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    @Roger Moore: I heard a friend’s kid say that he’s frequently bought $100 in dimes from a bank and sorted through the rolls for silver coins. It takes time, but apparently he’s made a decent amount that way. As long as he doesn’t have to pay to sort them again, he can’t really lose (except for time, of course).

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  131. 131.

    gbear

    @Scott Alloway: I bought a book to collect the state quarters and I can’t tell you the joy I felt when I finally found the very last quarter to complete the set (2 of each). It was fun. I know the whole set is only worth $25 but that wasn’t the point.

    Now I have a book for the national park quarters and I have half of the coins that have been issued so far. They’re harder to find than the state quarters so adding one to the book is pretty satisfying.

  132. 132.

    Steeplejack

    @MaryRC:

    The Swedish Wallander is less sad-sacky, because it’s more of an ensemble show than the Branagh one, but, yeah, he is never going to win father of the year, for one thing.

  134. 134.

    NotMax

    @raven

    Pre-Liberty U., drove there for a job interview at a radio station.

    Turned the position down after visiting the town. Just. Couldn’t. Live. There. Not no way, not no how.

  135. 135.

    lamh36

    @raven: you asked me if I thought what was in that video was okay.

    i asked you what the video had to do with the comment i posted. now you tell me, what that video had to do with what I said.

  138. 138.

    Steeplejack

    @raven:

    [. . .] down to two lanes before Charlotte.

    Yeah, that's a gnarly patch. Although it breaks up the monotony!

    I can do NoVA-Atlanta in about 11 hours, but that's a long day, not that scenic, and, like I said, it doesn't balance well against flying and having more time with friends. I did it in 2012 because I had just bought my car and hadn't done a road trip in forever.

  139. 139.

    lamh36

    @raven: And I still ask, what was the point of the question you asked me as it relates to what I wrote initally about not agreeing with the complete ending of protests.

    BTW, even “rhetorical questions” have some intent behind them.

    So I’d like to know what exactly in my interactions on BJ or with you personally lead you to leap to that question in response to my comment?

    IMHO, it seemed like a radical jump from my simple comment.

    But whatever, it was “rhetorical”

  140. 140.

    gbear

    @I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: My dad owned a small business across the street from the town bank. He went over to get some change one day and when he broke open a roll of dimes he discovered that the whole roll was worn-out silver mercury dimes. He went right back to the same window to get some more dimes and wound up with 4-5 rolls of nothing but silver dimes. I wound up with them and sold a bunch when a silver buyer was offering 21x face value.

  141. 141.

    NotMax

    @I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    Someplace in the deep, dark recesses of a closet is a box holding about $100 of pennies which I put into rolls over the years when a kidlet. The newest rolls would have been made in early ’64.

    Doubt they are worth much, but almost certainly a preponderance of wheat cents.

    Also several $2 silver certificate bills in there and some low denomination United Sates Notes as well, IIRC.

  146. 146.

    Gravenstone

    @gbear: I had two separate shipments dropped off on my front stoop without any attempt to contact me. One each FedEx and UPS. Since I don’t use that door usually, only reason I found out was from checking the tracking sites. I know there is pressure on the drivers to cut down delivery cycle time, but fuck that noise.

  147. 147.

    lamh36

    @BenJealous
    Police are not under attack, institutionalized racism is. Trying to remove sexually abusive priests is not an attack on Catholicism…

  148. 148.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @raven: I spoke with a Lynchburg attorney earlier this year who noted that some Liberty U folks need to be reminded that it’s “Lynchburg” not “Libertyburg.” In a different conversation with the 1st Deputy Commonwealth Attorney for Lynchburg, he told me that 70-75% of the kid pr0n cases there are from Liberty U.

  150. 150.

    PurpleGirl

    @NotMax: I seemed to have developed a post nasal drip. I found that if I keep my throat warm with a scarf — even a smallish one — that helps keep the phelm semi liquid enough to go down my throat as it should.

  151. 151.

    Steeplejack

    Okay, last comment on Montalbano, for the time being.

    If anyone’s watching tonight and wondering about the lira amounts being tossed around, you can roughly divide by 2,000 to get the equivalent in dollars. A little later in the series they switch to euros and it becomes less murky.

  153. 153.

    Schlemazel

    speaking of wingnut pimped bad investments it looks like the SEC may be investigating some pump & dump operations pimped by wingnuts
    http://crooksandliars.com/2014/12/wingnut-media-pushes-pot-stock-scam

    Erick Erickson’s RedState, Dick Morris, Newsmax, Townhall, and Human Events have all recently pushed the shady investments.

    Readers who took the financial advice would have made a bad call as the stocks have plummeted. For example, conservatives sent sponsored emails recommending a company called MediJane at an entry point of $0.85. The stock’s closing price on December 2 was $0.03. Dick Morris sent a sponsored email promoting Cannabis-Rx, Inc. on April 14, when it was trading at around $1. The stock’s closing price on December 2 was $0.17.

  156. 156.

    BruceFromOhio

    @Schlemazel: It’s the Invisible Hand, hard at work!

    Every single one of these two-bit ratfuck soulless criminals will claim, it’s not my fault!

    Part II: Anyone who takes investment advice from Dick Morris Or Erick The Red deserves exactly what they receive.

    ETA: Boomer is talking up Steelers and Cowboys as SB hopefuls. Barf, barf, barf. Skipped last years SB after the first play, may skip this years altogether if these two shitburgers rise to the top of the bowl.

  157. 157.

    Anne Laurie

    @Litlebritdifrnt:

    I have done absolutely no shopping yet. I am doomed.

    Wait for the Boxing Day sales, at this point. Your relatives/friends will forgive you, just this once — you’ve had enough trouble this year to have an excuse!

  159. 159.

    Schlemazel

    @BruceFromOhio:
    Yes, of course the were only doing some paid advertisements I am so sure. But it is funny that you don’t see this sort of crap on liberal web sites. I am seriously confused by that as I know there are some libs who fall for bullshit like crystals & anti-vax. Are we immune from bad investment advice?

  160. 160.

    Anne Laurie

    @NotMax:

    It’s a manifestation of having inherited the ‘post-nasal drip has no off setting once past a certain age’ gene from one side of the family.

    Y’know, I have those genes too, but fluticasone (Flonase) has been the miracle drug for me. It’s available in generic form now, so my insurance covers it, though only for one month at a time.

  162. 162.

    Mike in NC

    @NotMax: About 10 years ago while living in NoVA we decided to do a long weekend excursion through the middle part of the state. Lynchburg, Appomattox, Petersburg, and Richmond. Kinda depressing.

  163. 163.

    Mnemosyne

    @NotMax:

    For most of my life, I only had exercise-induced asthma — it only showed up when I started to exercise hard. It’s only in the past year or so that it showed up in the form of this non-allergic rhinitis. FWIW, I’ve never had an actual asthma attack, but if I exercised too hard, I would get bronchitis a couple of weeks later.

  165. 165.

    BruceFromOhio

    @Schlemazel: Immune, no. Less prone to “Gee, he’s a swell guy, I’ll do exactly what he says to do,” plus possessing just a little, tiny bit of basic intelligence. For example, more prone to researching a stock to understand the company, its leadership, its history, its performance, cash flow, market niche or opportunity, competitors, outlook, all in context with the larger economy in which we all just happen to live, in contrast to “Glen Beck said I should invest in sticking pins in my eyelids to make money, so pass the pin-cushion, honey, we’ll be one-percentinin’ in no time!”

    Although to your point, ignorance knows no bounds. YMMV.

  168. 168.

    Ruckus

    @geg6:
    I’m just feeling very Scrooge-like this year.
    It’s been decades since I haven’t been very Scrooge-like every year. OK the 2 yrs when I had a “stepdaughter” who was 3-5. If that doesn’t cure you of being Scrooge, nothing will.

  169. 169.

    Ruckus

    @Litlebritdifrnt:
    Years ago I used to do all my xmas shopping the afternoon of the 24th. Took all the hemming and hawing out of it. Had time to buy and have wrapped everything between 1 and 4 when the stores closed. I’d never try that now.

  170. 170.

    catclub

    @Steeplejack: yes, I have seen many episodes of Montalbano. There are apparently some when Montalbano is much younger with a different actor.. The real dud is the old Italian ‘mystery’ show about Father something the priest who solves mysteries.

  171. 171.

    Steeplejack

    @catclub:

    Okay, my gag order is off!

    Young Montalbano is a separate “prequel” series that sucks big-time. None of the characters remotely resembles his later counterpart, and the plots and acting are pretty pedestrian, if not outright awful. Miss it if you can!

    And, yeah, Don Matteo. That’s the weak link in the MHz lineup right now. Sort of saccharine—like the MHz equivalent of Murder, She Wrote. [Shudder]

    In general, if there are clunkers on MHz, they tend to be the Italian shows. Donna Detective was a weird combination of a cop show and a soap opera, and Inspector Coliandro was “comedic” in a really broad, “not really that funny” way.

  173. 173.

    Steeplejack

    @srv:

    Glad it was useful. I strained my Google-fu looking it up, because I couldn’t remember the right combination of search words. I have an ongoing Word file of notes, links and snippets I want to keep track of, but it wasn’t in there. And it apparently didn’t survive my last browser rebuild, because it wasn’t in my bookmarks.

  174. 174.

    Violet

    @Anne Laurie: If you ever get to the UK, they sell the generic Flonase over the counter. You do have to ask the pharmacist for it but it’s available without prescription. It also comes in a smaller version than the one here in the US, so that’s good for carrying on an airplane.

  177. 177.

    Scott Alloway

    @gbear: Doing a circulated set is great fun. My message is don’t buy the coins. Congrats on your completed set. It’s a great feeling to close one out.

  179. 179.

    Ninedragonspot

    Don Matteo is pap, but it did once have a guest role for the great soprano Katia Ricciarelli.

  180. 180.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Schlemazel: I used to think that pseudo-medical quackery was more a left- than a right-wing thing, until I realized that almost every one of those rafts of Newsmax ads has some quack link in it (the one on this page as I’m seeing it now has two).

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