Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

T R E 4 5 O N

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Come on, man.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Since we are repeating ourselves, let me just say fuck that.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

“woke” is the new caravan.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

… pundit janitors mopping up after the gop

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

You passed on an opportunity to be offended? What are you even doing here?

Let me file that under fuck it.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

You cannot shame the shameless.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

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  2. 2.

    trollhattan

    We had a band of thunderstorms rumble through in the last hour–very rare for here. No rain but lightning and thunder, and I learned our dog at long last isn’t diving under the bed at the first boom. I suppose her hearing is going, as she’s twelvish. Maybe we can finally do something on the 4th this year.

    The upside was clearing out the muggy, oppressive air from the early evening. Funny to think this might be the closest to rain we get until October.

  3. 3.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @John Cole +0: Is there a 2ACR group? My battalion was in their artillery support brigade. How much time do you spend doing maintenance and firing up the M1A1 to warm the Beefaroni?

  4. 4.

    lamh36

    So I’m was gonna see Spy on Sunday, but I’ve heard nothing but great reviews on the film so I changed my mind and now I’m gonna go tomorrow.

    Besides, I don’t really like doing too much on Sundays before I go back to work on Monday. So I’ll see the movie tomorrow and then I can “rest” on the Sabbath.

    Spy – Trailer 1

    Spy – Trailer 2

    BTW, I love the part at the end, where she asks the dude if he was gonna cry…lol

    The film apparently has a 95% fresh rating on Rotten Tomatoes!

    Anyhoo, I love Melissa McCarthey and Paul Feig. They seem to be 3 for 3. It’s def makes me feel kind good about them filming the Ghostbusters reboot together.

  6. 6.

    lamh36

    Another bit of good news for me tonight. I was supposed to go to DFW in July for my youngest sister’s wedding. But she changed her mind about having a big to do and decided to go minimal (small ceremony) and just visit NOLA for a big party with the whole fam. So I had to cancel the trip.

    Now I have refused to drive to DFW ever again, if I can help it. Hate the drive, so even when I was going to my sister’s wedding, I was gonna have come up with a hunk of change for the flight, hotel and rental. So I was okay with her deciding to go minimal.

    Welp, Southwest announced there 3 day sale on Tues, I think. But I was short on change and wasn’t gonna be able to take advantage of the sale. Well…the Lord musta wanted me to make it to DFW this summer! Thanks to Southwest Airlines​ having some website glitches. they had to extend their 3 day sale to midnight tonight! And guess who just got a round trip ticket to DFW for the weekend of Aug 21st for $98!!!!! ME!!!!

    Look out DFW, Here I come!

  7. 7.

    Yatsuno

    Still in rehab. My release date looks like it will most likely be the 12th unless something comes up before then. Then back home for some more recovery type stuff. The nice part is my leave is pretty much all accounted for so no lost moneys while I’m out.

    The good news is the surgery went amazingly well. The bad part is that I also developed a subdural hematoma at the incision site. So I’m going to be needing pain medication longer than I normally would.

  8. 8.

    Amir Khalid

    What are you up to?

    Lying in wait for Little Boots. If he shows up, I’m hitting him with some more classic Malay pop.

  11. 11.

    piratedan

    going to take the spouse on a fun filled day celebrating her birthday… first up, cleaning the house while she’s teaching beginning wanna be cyclists, then a trip up to casa grande to audition some sweet rescue kittens for the house and finally the DBacks game so she can watch people and eat cotton candy. Perhaps a foot rub thrown in there sometime. My weight is down to 275, had a few set backs (my knees are preventing as much exercise as I might want) but we’re in a new house, sold the old house, watched the youngest graduate from high school and starting next week, the solar panels go up to take us out of the clutches of the local utility company.

    despite all of the political idiocy that keeps my blood pressure up, life is pretty damn spiffy. I wish it could be the same for everyone.

  14. 14.

    Betty Cracker

    @lamh36: I want to see “Spy” too. Melissa McCarthy cracks me up. Also would like to see “Mad Max.”

  15. 15.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Valdivia: Little Boots is a gay man who lives in my city and has an odd obsession with me. Steeplejack, and BillinGlendale. He is completely harmless.

  16. 16.

    Valdivia

    @Amir Khalid: right and not that it matters really, I just always assumed little boots was a she.

    @Omnes Omnibus: Ah. I had gotten the obsession bit, I just didn’t know the gender (not that it matters) or that he lived in your town. .

  17. 17.

    Karen in GA

    @lamh36: Don’t you love when the stars align?

    @Yatsuno: Sorry about the pain, but I’m glad to hear the surgery went well.

    Today marks two weeks that I’ve had Muppet. She’s an absolute sweetie, and she’s playing with Iggy and appears to like him as much as he likes her, which is nice. What’s not so nice is that I screwed up by giving her too much freedom in the house, so housetraining is still an issue. So she’s either in her crate or leashed with me until she starts figuring out that peeing outside isn’t just an option, it’s a requirement.

    With that, I’m going to sleep. Have to get up early to keep her on her feeding/walking schedule.

  19. 19.

    Amir Khalid

    @Betty Cracker:
    There’s a lot to recommend Mad Max: Fury Road: the MRAs don’t like it. The story is all about the women. Charlize Theron is more of a badass and has more dialogue than the guy who plays Max — Tom something. It’s got granny bikers!

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    BillinGlendaleCA

    @John Cole +0: I’m about 3 months away from 5 years of not drinking, I really find the smell of alcohol totally repulsive, almost sickening.

  21. 21.

    Ruckus

    @John Cole +0:
    First off congrats on the year.
    I found out pretty much the same thing. I wasn’t a everyday or heavy drinker but was still unreasonably regular so figured that in quitting I’d miss it. Haven’t, and when I’m someplace and am asked and say no thanks, I don’t drink, I get almost universally, “Good for you.” Feels somewhat like being thanked for my service but still, I’ll take it.

  25. 25.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @mdblanche:

    was criminally insane.

    His taste in music isn’t that bad, though I’m sure that Omnes would disagree. Then again, I think were about the same age.

  26. 26.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Valdivia: The harmless bit is also important. I would actually meet the dude for a drink sometime. I feel that the obsession is most schtick. And, unrelated to this discussion, this is Saturday morning. And is this.

  28. 28.

    Redshift

    After helping Ms. Redshift with some stuff earlier, I spent a couple of hours working on a fun programming problem from a site set up by Google that I’m pretty sure is a thinly disguised recruiting tool. Ah, the exciting Friday night of a geek!

  31. 31.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Redshift: I’ve got programming toggle “widgets” for my lights in the house for a home automation control panel for my fun.

  42. 42.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Omnes Omnibus: Nor did I, though I did listen to a bit of REO cause a cute girl liked it.

    I tend to like the early 70’s, mainly British. I like glam.

  46. 46.

    Little Boots

    still waitin, harmlessly, obsessively, for that Malay Pop that will play in this country.

  55. 55.

    Suzanne

    I have had kind of a shitty week. My clients are being tools.and last night, my husband snored, like, a fuckton of snores, and I am tired and cranky from having gotten shitty. Sleep. I finally drifted off, dreamed I had jacked off, then woke up and realized that I hadn’t. SIGH.

    So we went and tried to buy the new car today. However, they didn’t have the color I wanted, so it’s being shipped. Hopefully it will come this week.

    In other oversharing news, because what the fuck, might I just say that laser hair removal is THE SHIT? I sprung for a groupon and I did my second treatment today. SO BADASS.

  58. 58.

    Amir Khalid

    In other news, 11 bodies have been recovered from Mount Kinabalu in Sabah where an earthquake took place yesterday, according to the state tourism minister. The forst two confirmed dead were a local guide and a 12-year old girl from Singapore who was on a school trip with her classmates.

  60. 60.

    Little Boots

    and what you post, omnes, is always good. country joe. you are still awesome, when you’re not being a complete dick.

  74. 74.

    Ruckus

    @mdblanche:
    I had never heard of Uncle Ruckus when I started using Ruckus. Just coincidence, I swear on a stack of noodles.

  81. 81.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Suzanne: Tongue piercing is one of the least painless. Mine felt more like getting a shot.

    It did feel a bit sore due to pulling the tongue out and keeping it there to do the piercing.

  93. 93.

    Little Boots

    you thought I was a she, valdivia? not offended, just haven’t had that before. and why be offended?

  95. 95.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Me, I went to Davos with a friend for the skiing (which was brilliant as was the lunch on grilled trout in Vaduz on way there). We walked into a club where the cheapest drink was a Bud for $8 in 1992. We left after the first drink. As we wandered around we walked past a bar from which “Radar Love” was emanating. We walked in and found a pub for people who were there for skiing not style. And thus, history was made. The song matters.

  97. 97.

    Little Boots

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    oh, you do not. Bill. it was funny, though. I was a little taken aback, and then I was wondering should I be offended? should I not?

    it was just kind of funny.

  103. 103.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Little Boots: No, you should not be offended. You don’t actually post much that indicates your gender. She’s good people and you should just roll with it. IMO.

  106. 106.

    Valdivia

    @Little Boots: I didn’t see your question, apologies.
    I thought you were a female because of your nym, me being one obsessed with boots I read into yours. I really didn’t mean to offend.

    @Little Boots: oh thanks, I like you too. good night

  124. 124.

    Little Boots

    okay, I was a little pissed. now I’m not. there was some truth in what was said upthread, some of it pissed me off. but I’m okay.

  125. 125.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Little Boots: Well, I am off. Have fun. And don’t do anything I wouldn’t do. Unless gender stuff gets into it, then just do the consensual things.

  133. 133.

    seaboogie

    @Valdivia: I know, right? About the gender thing for Little Boots: I am female, and yet must admit that I could only comprehend Little Boots’ nym and general and relentless neediness as coming from a wheedling feminine energy*. At least tell me that you are gay, Dude – else the voice for your energy does not compute.

    *I know, not flattering to the fairer sex, and I count myself in that number.

  139. 139.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @NotMax: I was talkin’ about the Bill part, silly. You must be gettin’ too much sun over there on your rock in the Pacific.

    (Pierced tongue firmly implanted in cheek)

  141. 141.

    seaboogie

    @Little Boots: Also, LB – when I thought you were a female, I was kind of annoyed by what I perceived as “wheedling” as a reflection upon my gender. Now I am taking a new perspective – but do consider that wheedling is gender neutral, and also an excellent word.

  142. 142.

    Anne Laurie

    @Little Boots: A dear friend once referred to himself as “the type of gay men other gays roll their eyes at”. But if you can’t be playful, what’s the use of social performance?

  143. 143.

    mai naem mobile

    I think Little Boots is a guy but only because I assume most trolls are guys.
    There’s some regular commenters on BJ who ive gotten the wrong sex but its generally because I based my impression on the nym not their comments.

  144. 144.

    mai naem mobile

    I watch House Hunters.International a lot. Just wondering, some of these people move with jobs. Is it that easy to get work permits etc. everywhere? Also, you get people spending a few hundred thousand in Mexico.and Central American countries. Are property rights that solid in these countries? Some of the shows show people retiring and by the looks of it selling.their American home and buying the new house with that money. It’s not like it’s a second home. Maybe.I’m just more risk averse.

  146. 146.

    Amir Khalid

    I am pouting, because YouTube is thwarting my plan to get Little Boots hooked on Malay pop classics.

  147. 147.

    JimV

    I’m not a fan of John Wayne, but I thought he was perfect in the original “True Grit” movie. (“Are ya sure ya don’t want the snake?”) Like a true conservative, he could switch from robbing banks to shooting bad guys with no moral qualms nor lessening of his good opinion of himself. Whereas Jeff Bridges annoyed me by talking as though he had a sock in his mouth, and seemed more dim-witted than Roosterish. I think “True Grit” was John Wayne’s best movie, by far, and “The Big Lebowski” was Jeff Bridge’s.

    Glen Campbell was likewise a disaster compared to Matt Damon, though.

  148. 148.

    shell

    So, is it an old-fashioned cocktail (sounds like a song title) or an Old Fashioned?

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