Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Dumb motherfuckers cannot understand a consequence that most 4 year olds have fully sorted out.

I don’t recall signing up for living in a dystopian sci-fi novel.

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

An almost top 10,000 blog!

They spent the last eight months firing professionals and replacing them with ideologues.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

We are learning that “working class” means “white” for way too many people.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

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

Giving up is unforgivable.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Sadly, media malpractice has become standard practice.

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

Come on, media. you have one job. start doing it.

Second rate reporter says what?

Democracy is not a spectator sport.

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

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

The way to stop violence is to stop manufacturing the hatred that fuels it.

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

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

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Here’s something to wash away the taste of last night’s DerpFest extraordinaire.

 

Kevin Sylvester says that when most people see a 6-foot-2-inch, 260-pound black man, they don’t expect him to also be a classically trained violinist. A recent exchange with a woman in an elevator, when he happened to have his instrument with him in its case, drove that point home.

“She’s like, ‘What do you play?’ ” he recalls. “I’m like, ‘I’m a violinist.’ And she was like, ‘Well, obviously you don’t play classical, so what kind of style do you play?’ ”

Sylvester says he explained that while he does have a degree in classical music, he plays all kinds of styles. “She didn’t mean it maliciously,” he says, “but I hope she gets to see us in concert and we can change her perception.”

A not altogether non sequitur.  As I watched this video, I was reminded why I’m a member of the Democratic party.  It’s got a lot of problems, lot of positions espoused by leaders at every level of government at which I wince.  But the party that nominated and elected Barack Hussein Obama is one that can envision an America that looks like the country Sylvester and his co-conspirator in gut and horsehair, Wilner Baptiste, want to help create.  I’ll leave the “and the other party….” half of the duology unmentioned…its would-be leaders said all that was necessary last night.

Plus, and for your early evening pleasure — these guys can play.

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  2. 2.

    Right to Rise

    #HeKeptUsSafe, the new response to dynasty questions for Jeb that shuts down any and all criticism. Trump was dumbfounded last night.

  9. 9.

    Right to Rise

    @Surreal American:

    I bet you thought you were rid of Bushes after 2008.

    Think again, bitches. And after Jeb, it’s his son George P. Bush. He’ll be president some day as well.

    Nothing seems to drive liberals up the wall like the thought of endless Bush presidencies.

  11. 11.

    Chyron HR

    @Right to Rise:

    You know, at least your boy Romney sincerely believed that he was the son of God and that it was his destiny to be Emperor of America.

    What makes Fantastic 4% think he has a chance?

  13. 13.

    Tom Levenson

    What I love most about our resident troll is he seems to see magical superhero results in Bush gaffes that simply make the “kick me” sign on his person more insistent. #hekeptussafe just begs the litany of failure Charlie Pierce so elegantly laid out. It’s as if Jeb? wants to tell his opponents exactly where and how hard to hit his glass jaw.

    Truly impressive. I’ve never seen such a touted candidate so thoroughly consume his own intestines. And I’m old enough (just) to remember that much better man than Jeb?, Ed Muskie, self immolate.

  14. 14.

    Right to Rise

    @Tom Levenson:

    Do you think the typical Ohio, Virginia or Florida swing voter gives a flying shit about Charlie Pierce’s Overwritten Midlife Crisis Blog?

    All they remember is the warm fuzzy moments after 9/11–the arm around the firefighter, the bullhorn, “dead or alive”, “smoke them out”, the policeman’s badge solemnly held before the Joint Session as Bush pledges to bring the terrorists to justice and keep further attacks from happening. Even Trump knew it was fruitless to try to counterattack 9/11–Hillary will be portrayed as a calculating, heartless bitch scoring political points off of a national tragedy if she even tries.

  16. 16.

    Brachiator

    @Right to Rise:

    Nothing seems to drive liberals up the wall like the thought of endless Bush presidencies.

    I love the thought of endless bush.

    But that’s just me.

  17. 17.

    randy khan

    Well, back on topic, I have to say that it wouldn’t occur to me that someone carrying a violin case couldn’t be playing classical. Nearly everyone who plays violin (as opposed to fiddle, even if they really are the same thing, but it’s a different tradition) starts off doing classical because that’s where the repertory is.

  19. 19.

    Thoughtful Today

    “the Democratic party. It’s got a lot of problems”

    Anti-democratic Superdelegates don’t help when you’re trying to claim ‘every vote counts’ tops my list.

    Corporatism that can be right-wing economic nonsense on steroids doesn’t help.

    (Obligatory: I vote (D)emocratic notice.)

  20. 20.

    joel hanes

    @Right to Rise:

    I bet you weren’t laughing on election night 2000 and 2004.

    And, as it turned out, there was nothing funny about those outcomes.

    Pure horror, most of it without the grace that might make it tragedy.

  22. 22.

    Roger Moore

    @? Martin:
    I’m proud to see that 6 of the top 7 schools in that list- and all of the top 5- are campuses of the University of California. They’ve had a lot of trouble with adequate funding since the Great Recession started, so it’s good to see that UC is still tops at making post-secondary education available to as many people as possible.

  24. 24.

    Kay Eye

    I get this kind of comment about my granddaughter: “So nice she could get an athletic scholarship for college.” Well, no. She plays soccer for her school. She got academic scholarships. But, you know, black, can’t be that smart.
    Yes she is.

  27. 27.

    Brachiator

    Kevin Sylvester says that when most people see a 6-foot-2-inch, 260-pound black man, they don’t expect him to also be a classically trained violinist.

    I don’t know. Beethoven’s Kreutzer Sonata was originally dedicated to a black violinist, George Bridgetower. They had an argument, and Ludie switched the dedication to Rodolphe Kreutzer.

  28. 28.

    Goblue72

    @Right to Rise: What most Americans think when they recall 9-11, and George Bush, is “Dear god, what a complete fuck up.”

    Fucked up in letting 9-11 happen.
    Fucked up in finding bin Laden.
    Fucked up Katrina.
    Fucked up Iraq War.
    Fucked up the economy.
    Just a complete fuck up.

  30. 30.

    cckids

    @Right to Rise:

    All they remember is the warm fuzzy moments after 9/11–the arm around the firefighter, the bullhorn, “dead or alive”, “smoke them out”, the policeman’s badge solemnly held before the Joint Session as Bush pledges to bring the terrorists to justice and keep further attacks from happening.

    You seem to harbor the illusion that the country is still in the same place we were in Sept 2001, still in shock & wanting to pull together & support each other.

    Guess what? Now we know all the warnings ignored, the months spent chasing a new Cold War, Ashcroft telling his staff “no-one say the name Al-Qaeda to me again”, losing Bin Laden in Tora Bora, the determination to find a reason to attack Iraq, “I’m just not that worried about where Bin Laden is; I don’t spend time thinking about him”, the lies about WMDs along with the inexcusable jokes about not finding them (nope, not over here!), C-130’s flying pallet loads of billions in cash into Iraq to be pissed away along with the lives & health of so many of our military people, the appalling disregard for the needs of our returning vets and their families.

    Add to that the complete meltdown of the economy, with Duh-bya conspicuously absent & unable to comprehend what was going on as people watched their savings, their homes, and their peace of mind disappear, some of us forever. Do you truly think when anyone sane thinks of the name Bush they remember the doofus on the rubble (the arm around the fireman, etc, till I gag)?? No, we remember that THAT rubble pile was only the first of many he caused. There’s no forgiveness for that clown.

  33. 33.

    Renie

    @Right to Rise: Yes he kept us so safe. I remember him clearly standing on the rubble saying he will get those responsible for the attack. Right after which he told us to go shopping

    Never got OBL and destroyed our economy. I think it’s your bedtime.

  34. 34.

    ? Martin

    @Right to Rise:

    All they remember is the warm fuzzy moments after 9/11–the arm around the firefighter, the bullhorn, “dead or alive”, “smoke them out”,

    All I remember is that in that photo Bush is literally standing on the remains of Americans killed just a few days prior under his watch. Based on Bush’s approval ratings, I think most people see what I see.

  36. 36.

    Goblue72

    @Right to Rise: She won’t need to. There will be two images plastered everywhere that will bury El Jeb!

    Image 1: Bush reading My Pet Goat while the towers burned.

    Image 2: SoS Clinton in the Situation Room when Obama got bin Laden.

  37. 37.

    Calouste

    @JPL: Actually, I don’t think she is a very accomplished liar, because if you know a little bit about her you’ll notice that she is lying the whole damn time. She is more of a compulsive liar than an accomplished one.

  40. 40.

    David Koch

    Anyone watching this Trump townhall? He looks exhausted/drained from campaigning. It’s not that easy to run for president and he’s only doing it part time.

  42. 42.

    Patricia Kayden

    Agree so much with you, Tom. Whatever faults the Democratic Party has, I see no evidence of racism. It’s the party that supports marriage equality, women’s reproductive rights, and religious tolerance. I don’t even understand when people claim that voting for Democrats is the lesser of two evils since I don’t see the Democratic Party as evil. I was proud to vote for President Obama twice and look forward to voting for Secretary Clinton or Senator Sanders. It’s nice to be in a party which has the potential of going from the first Black President to the first woman or Jewish President with no fuss.

    @David Koch: You mean it’s exhausting trolling the media and Republican suckers. I’m sure Trump will end his campaign before he loses any primaries. You know how he feels about losers.

  44. 44.

    beltane

    @SteveinSC: Yep, she falsely claimed ownership of her husband’s deceased daughter and then used the unfortunate woman’s corpse as a prop to score political points. Fiorina strikes me as one of those unredeemed Ebeneezer Scrooge types who go absolutely un-mourned at their passing.

  45. 45.

    raven

    @David Koch: The fucknut runs his mouth about “I went to military school and I know more about the military than a a lot of vets”. He just said the fat drug addict taught him a new word, “INCOMING”. “I never heard that”.

  49. 49.

    Tenar Darell

    That was great! Thanks for sharing.

    @randy khan: Yeah. At least most of the early training is all classical, unless it’s country style fiddling, maybe.

  50. 50.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @David Koch: and half of that part time over the phone

    Just looked Chris Hayes’ twitter feed, apparently somebody at a Turmp town hall asked what we were gonna do about all the Muslims in this country, and Trump said “we’re looking at a lot of things”.

    Also, Hayes will have the Irving TX police chief on tonight

  51. 51.

    David Koch

    @raven:

    He just said the fat draft dodging drug addict taught him a new word, “INCOMING”. “I never heard that”.

    /fixed

  53. 53.

    beltane

    @Gimlet: But it’s standing room only! That’s what you get when you don’t provide chairs.

    It looks like that rally took place in a storage closet.

  54. 54.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Christopher Hayes ‏@ chrislhayes 21m21 minutes ago Manhattan, NY
    “We’ve got a problem: Muslims. The president’s one of ’em. You know he’s not even from this country…When can we get rid of [Muslims]?”

    Why would some clay of the new New Hampshire think Donald Trump would be receptive to birtherism?

  57. 57.

    Mnemosyne (tablet)

    @HumboldtBlue:

    To be fair, the 6-6 black guy did a really good job of pretending to be part of the crowd — the cell phone was a touch of genius. Opera companies put a lot more emphasis on teaching acting than they used to.

    There’s a baritone with the Metropolitan Opera who’s a (black) former football player, but I can’t remember his name. He plays a lot of villains because baritone.

  62. 62.

    redshirt

    @efgoldman:

    This has got to be DougJ trolling the blog. Has to be.
    No real troll – not srv, not MoC, not Reality czechh, is that nonsensically responsive. Almost makes sense but not quite. Trolling? Sure, but not actually somebody who cares about W or Jeb!, or expects him to win.

    You don’t really think this is DougJ, right? Just a joke, right?

    I ask because I am not sure. Its not DougJ. It also not a paid Jeb! operative. It’s just a troll, who’s “job” is to troll. He’s pretty good at it too considering the percentage of people who bite.

  64. 64.

    redshirt

    @trollhattan:

    “Now watch this drive.”

    So very many heart-warming memories.

    I own Farenheit 9/11 – even saw it in theaters! – but have not watched it in over 10 years. Might be time.

    Do we all remember that W.’s inaugural parade got egged and harassed?

  68. 68.

    beltane

    @redshirt: “Hail to the Thief.” I remember it well though I was not aware of the scale of the protest until I saw the movie. It’s not like the media wanted to show us this in real time.

  70. 70.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Tweety using the Trump muslim-racist-birther moment to fap to McCain talking to the bag lady in ’08. I want to tell me how proud as an American it made him when he sent Palin out to shriek about “palling’ around with terr-rissts”, and the time some lady in the audience shouted out “Kill him!” when McCain mentioned Obama, and McCain blinked and carried on with his speech.

  71. 71.

    redshirt

    @beltane:

    “Hail to the Thief.” I remember it well though I was not aware of the scale of the protest until I saw the movie. It’s not like the media wanted to show us this in real time.

    Great Radiohead album too.

  74. 74.

    David Koch

    @efgoldman:

    FWIW, CBS said tonight that Snotty Walker’s campaign is “considering major staff changes”

    Translation = he’s running out of gas money

  75. 75.

    NotMax

    @Right to Rise

    No such person.

    It is George P. G. Bush.

    The second middle initial, for Garnica (his mom’s maiden name), was suddenly scrubbed and excised* from as much online material as possible** not long after he announced he was exploring running for office in Texas and before he filed as a candidate. Whether out of shame, embarrassment and/or expedience, who knows. But it doesn’t alter what his full name is, nor belie questioning the motivation for the sudden change.

    *A very different thing from John Ellis employing a nickname and acknowledging it as such.

    **One representative example: Wikipedia pre-filing, and after.

  77. 77.

    jl

    @Gimlet:

    ” Plenty of room at Jeb’s rallies RtR. ”

    I wonder what the energy level is. Not low, I hope. I looked for a video to find out, but “Jeb Bush greet” turns up nothing.
    Found a couple for Kasich though. And about a billion for Bernie.

    But, RtR is sadly correct. I see the truth now: Behold and despair:

    Jeb Bush Unbuttons His Shirt Superman-Style, Reveals Political Hero Reagan-Bush during Miami Speech
    youtube.com/watch?v=-pprkRnnqCo

  80. 80.

    Elizabelle

    Scotty Walker’s electoral future might be bleak. And what to do? He’s been an elected official forever. Might have to hit the private sector.

    Good the Kochs will find a sinecure for him somewhere.

    Doubly good it’s not the Oval Office.

  85. 85.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Elizabelle: Irving, TX doesn’t sound like a fun place to live for minorities, especially of the religious variety. I hope Ahmed gets a well deserved apology from authorities soon. They seem to be doubling down.

  86. 86.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @Patricia Kayden:

    What the hell happened to the Great Anti-union Hope from Wisconsin?

    People got to see him, his vacuousness, and his lack of charisma. I am not going to say I told you* so, but….

    *You in the collective sense.

  87. 87.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Good christ. I just saw Bush’s answer about picking a woman to go on the twenty. Besides him picking Margaret Thatcher, “what the heck, since it’s not gonna happen”. “What the heck”? What the fuck?

    I wonder how a British audience would have reacted.

  89. 89.

    Commenting at Balloon Juice since 1937

    @joel hanes: thanks for that. I loved Hot Tuna with Papa John on fiddle. Those last Airplane records were cool too with the variety of genres they included

  92. 92.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @efgoldman: @Omnes Omnibus: I’m surprised Walker, given his Reagan obsession and the chance to pander, didn’t go for Nancy Reagan, but she doesn’t really seem to share in the love the way, say, Eleanor Roosevelt does.

  93. 93.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    @benw:

    I’ve got it on the DVR’s other tuner for look-ins and in case it heats up. Watching Person of Interest reruns on WGN.

  94. 94.

    MomSense

    @Baud:

    I’ve decided to support your candidacy after hearing that you propose to spend day 1 partying. Since I’m in pretty early, what do you think about me serving as chair of the National Endowment for the Arts? Either that. or ambassador to Belize. I should warn you that I have no money but I am multilingual.

  98. 98.

    NotMax

    @Omnes Omnibus

    Never, ever gonna happen but it would be too sweet to see heads explode if he said Caitlyn Jenner.

    Or, other end of the spectrum, to pander to the fundies, Carrie Nation.

    What with his penchant of going for the safe and white bread, though, expect (should it ever come up again) a choice such as Dolly Madison.

  100. 100.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @SiubhanDuinne: as is Mrs Huckabee, I don’t know about Mother Carson. And as Jeb? acknowledged his choice of Baroness Thatcher was probably illegal. But what the heck!

    ETA:@NotMax: Hasn’t Susan B Anthony been adopted by the ‘wingers as a “pro-life” icon?

  101. 101.

    Corner Stone

    Since we can’t get an NFL Open Thread around here to save my deflated balls, I’ll just put this here.
    Denver Broncos will not make the playoffs this year and I have a solid feeling Manning will not be the starting QB by week 16.
    Whatever football genius thought a Kubiak run/zone/cut block offense fit Peyton’s QB OCD is an idiot.

  106. 106.

    JPL

    @Baud: Hey I’ll vote for you, but I don’t want to be rewarded for that vote. Jeez, You’d probably make me Ambassador to Sudan.

  107. 107.

    jl

    @Baud:

    ” Baud! 2016! needs to hire a troll to help raise interest. ”

    Dammit. I just submitted the greatest troll comment utterly crushing and destroying Baud. The best troll comment ever.
    And FYWP ate it up.

    So, not too late for Baud to pay me money to troll for Baud 2016!
    If my next troll post makes through, then Baud is finished, destroyed politically, forevah.

  111. 111.

    Corner Stone

    @redshirt: I’m on record here saying he was injured last season well before they announced it. He can’t plant and throw with any modicum of precision, much less roll out and try it on. Kubiak’s latter-day Mike Shanahan impersonation of offensive line zone blocking, where the O line pulls to one direction and the RB makes one cut against the grain and goes is nothing like what Manning is used to. Manning absolutely can not roll out anywhere and break down defenses. The front 7 of too many AFC teams are just balls out too fast for that now.
    He’s fucked.

  115. 115.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:
    @SiubhanDuinne:

    To elaborate:

    You gotta be dead to be on the money,
    If you still alive, they gonna look at you funny.
    You gotta be dead to show up on the bills,
    If you still alive, the answer is “Nils!”
    You gotta be dead to show up on the cash
    If you still alive, gonna burn and crash.
    You gotta be dead on a Treasury note
    If you still alive, you Mickey Kaus’s goat.
    You gotta be dead before you can be spent
    Or credited or borrowed or pledged or lent.
    You gotta be dead before you’re legal tender
    If you don’t like this poem, just mark “Return to Sender.”

  120. 120.

    benw

    @Corner Stone: Manning was obviously injured last year. By the playoffs he could barely throw downfield. The Broncos defense could be ferocious this year though. It would be funny if Kubiak’s running game + Denver’s defense carries the Broncos to the playoffs while Payton is the game manager.

  121. 121.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mnemosyne (tablet):

    I love The Magic Flute and this looks like a fun production. Thanks!

    The Met are celebrating their 10th season of Live in HD broadcasts by showing a one-time-only encore of MF from
    their 2005-06 season, on Dcmeber 21st.

    Have you ever seen the Ingmar Bergman Magic Flute? It is an utter delight from beginning to end. It should be readily available on DVD, and might be a great introduction for G.

  124. 124.

    Schlemazel

    @Elizabelle:
    He is exactly the same as the old model, Tim Pawlenty. Destroyed a once prosperous decent state, ran as Koch whore but is duller than dish water, dumb as a post and has the looks and personality of moldy compost. He is dead politically so he will get a cushy job in some useless place while some Democrat tries to clean up the mess.

  127. 127.

    Corner Stone

    @benw: Not going to happen. They don’t have the run game to do it. That Ravens game was a gift, and most likely the last one they will win with that kind of offensively poor O showing.
    The Denver D is vicious but they are in the same boat as the Bills.

  129. 129.

    redshirt

    Manning has made a few good throws. And many lame ones.

    He’s a wounded duck back there. Anyone comes near him he has to collapse.

    Compare that to rapist Ben Rothlessburger.

  131. 131.

    Roger Moore

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:
    It’s a remarkably inept response. On the one hand, it’s obviously crass pandering and a lame attempt to prove what a good conservative you are. On the other hand, it’s an implicit diss to all American women to suggest that we should ignore them all and put a British woman on our currency before any American. I would suggest that the best responses would be either to dismiss putting a woman on the $10 as the Democrats’ attempt to pander to women without providing them with anything concrete, or to pick somebody like Susan B. Anthony, who is a superficially inoffensive choice- she’s already been on currency for goodness sake- while actually dog whistling to the anti-abortion crowd.

  133. 133.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Ima go ahead and guess– but not bet even any Romneybucks– that we have not, in fact, reached Peak Trump

    Robert Costa ‏@ costareports 3m3 minutes ago
    Trump stmt to WaPo: “The media wants to make this issue about Obama. The bigger issue is that Obama is waging a war against Christians…”

  138. 138.

    Mike in NC

    R2R gushes about 2000 and 2004, meaning the shit for brains troll totally missed the corrective elections of 2008 and 2012 (and next, 2016).

  139. 139.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @NotMax:

    It’s nice the U.S. Mint was feeling so creative
    As to choose three living Indians to represent the Native.
    But mostly We the People had rejected queens and kings,
    We prefer a dead Amurrcan, or an eagle spreading wings.

  142. 142.

    M31

    @Mnemosyne (tablet):

    The Bergman Magic Flute movie (made for Swedish TV in the 70s) is brilliant — to my mind an actual great movie as opposed to a filmed opera production.

    My favorite recording is one done with early instruments by Drottningholm Court Theatre, on CD. Here it is on youtube:

    youtube.com/watch?v=xssOb9JCdA0

    The Queen of the Night (in this recording) is a singer named Sumi Jo, who has made quite a career with this crazy role (it has among the highest notes ever written down for a singer), and Pamina (the princess) is Barbara Bonney, a great sweet-voiced singer.

    The plot is hysterical, with strange Freemason imagery, plot twists, goofy sidekicks, and plenty of 18th-C sexism AND racism! (Where evil “Moors” lust after white girls, but everyone knows white girls need to be taken away from their mothers because they need a man’s guidance. Just not a swarthy man, can’t have that.)

    Most modern productions cut out (wisely) a lot of the spoken dialog.

  146. 146.

    Chyron HR

    I don’t know what’s funnier, that JEB! spent millions of dollars unsuccessfully trying to make #HeKeptUsSafe trend, or that the only people who ARE using it are making fun of the Bush boys.

  147. 147.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @M31:

    The Bergman Magic Flute movie (made for Swedish TV in the 70s) is brilliant — to my mind an actual great movie as opposed to a filmed opera production.

    Yes, this. It is just a wonderful, wonderful movie experience.

    I had forgotten that it was actually made for TV. I first saw it in the theatre, and (as I mentioned above to Mnem) have it on DVD. I try to remember to watch it at least every couple of years. It’s great!

  153. 153.

    M31

    One of the great violinists of the late 18th Century was this guy named the Chevalier de St. George, who is sometimes called ‘The Black Mozart’

    en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chevalier_de_Saint-Georges

    His father was French and his mother was an enslaved black woman from the Carribbean. He was also the best fencer in Europe, and commanded an all-black regiment after the French Revolution, and was the concermaster of the orchestra that commissioned Haydn’s “Paris” Symphonies.

    His music is really very very good, as well. It’s not Mozart, but no one’s is, lol, so that’s not fair.

    Here’s some:

    youtube.com/watch?v=QPP4FNhiKcI

  155. 155.

    Redshift

    @Chyron HR:

    I don’t know what’s funnier, that JEB! spent millions of dollars unsuccessfully trying to make #HeKeptUsSafe trend, or that the only people who ARE using it are making fun of the Bush boys.

    Actually, I think the funniest thing is that it would have been really obvious to anyone with a clue that that’s exactly what would happen, and they still did it.

  156. 156.

    Corner Stone

    Denver’s in a lot of F’ng trouble this season.
    Holy shit, retract that. I just looked at the Broncos’ schedule this year. That is the softest BS I have seen in a while.

  158. 158.

    M31

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Yes! I saw the Bergman Flute in the theatre back when I was 14 and my lustful infatuation with the middle one of the three ladies was immediate and profound.

    Plus the best Dragon death scene of any movie ever made.

  161. 161.

    Redshift

    @Debbie:

    Yes, he stood atop those bodies with the same disregard he had when running that flyover over New Orleans after Katrina.

    Or when his people arranged to get the power back on so he could have lights to make a speech in Jackson Square in New Orleans — and then shut it off again when he left.

  164. 164.

    Corner Stone

    That wasn’t because of a blitzer. That was just an awful fucking pass. He was late and behind.

  169. 169.

    Corner Stone

    @efgoldman: The KC offense is better than you think. Don’t worry about that WR TD BS stat. KC is going to be ok in the O stats this year, and make the playoffs again this year.

  170. 170.

    Corner Stone

    @NotMax: Letting it set. It’s delicious after a little bit. I don’t like hot food, temp wise. I enjoy more room temp for almost all things. There are exceptions.

  177. 177.

    NotMax

    @Corner Stone

    People blanch when I chill a bottle of red wine or else drop an ice cube into the glass.

    “But you’re supposed to enjoy it at room temperature!”

    Well, room temp in Hawaii is quite different from that in France.

  182. 182.

    Aleta

    @Baud: Mr. Top Candidate Sir: I can help your administration Restore American Glory by taking charge of the Camp David Council for Swimming Spots and Picnic Initiatives. And I’d like to put in for a spot on the President’s Concert Advisory Board. I am also willing to serve my country as White House Movie Projectionist Person.

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    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @NotMax: Well, room temp in Hawaii is quite different from that in France.

    I read something a while back, a wine guy arguing that room temp in a drafty stone chateau in northern Europe during the Little Ice Age was even more different.

  192. 192.

    Morzer

    @Baud:

    In return for my uncountable donations, I expect to be Minister for Procurement and Orgies. But I’ll settle for Ambassador to Hentai and its associated dominions.

  194. 194.

    Right to Rise

    So the question does remain: will the Democrats actually nominate a full-blown Marxist true believer?

  196. 196.

    Kathleen

    @Baud: Ann Coulter might be available at a discounted rate. Quite a few younger, shinier Fascisistas are nipping at her heels and she may want to “rebrand”.

  198. 198.

    Amir Khalid

    @Right to Rise:
    Let’s see what the weekend polls say before celebrating anything. Remember, if Trump stumbles it doesn’t necessarily mean that Jeb will be the one to gain on him.

  204. 204.

    Renie

    @Baud: Do you have any pets? I want to be in charge of the Presidential Pets. We can have RtR pick up all the dog $hit and clean liter boxes.

  206. 206.

    Mike in NC

    JEB! remains in Kennybunkport tonight. Licking his wounds, bleeding from the eyes, and feeding from the breast of the monster that bore him.

  208. 208.

    redshirt

    @Mike in NC:

    JEB! remains in Kennybunkport tonight. Licking his wounds, bleeding from the eyes, and feeding from the breast of the monster that bore him.

    Right to Rise: And JEB!!! regains his Ancient power after his ritual exile.

    Watch out Libs. JEB!!! is now fully armed and operational.

  219. 219.

    Morzer

    @Aleta:

    I think life is just one vast baudgame myself, but I admit that I don’t have a monopoly on that view, even though posting it does involve a degree of risk.

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    Aleta

    Baud spelled backward is

    daub/dôb/
    verb
    coat or smear (a surface) with a thick or sticky substance in a carelessly rough or liberal way.

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    Cervantes

    @beltane:

    Yep, she falsely claimed ownership of her husband’s deceased daughter and then used the unfortunate woman’s corpse as a prop to score political points. Fiorina strikes me as one of those unredeemed Ebeneezer Scrooge types who go absolutely un-mourned at their passing.

    Sure, that’s your take. Here’s someone else’s:

    [Paul’s] most effective moment, though, came when he talked about decriminalizing drug offenses, prompting Bush to talk about smoking marijuana as a teen-ager and Fiorina to speak, movingly, about her step-daughter who lost her life to addiction.

    Amy Davidson in the New Yorker, September 17, 2015.

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    Zinsky

    I’m an amateur musician and jam with a lot of guys (and gals) who are black, Hispanic etc. When the music starts, there is no color to anyone’s skin, there is only the sheer joy of making music with other human beings. It’s the next best thing to sex. Music is the great equalizer!

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