I find it very amusing, now that Scott Walker is an ex-candidate, all the tv newsfeeds put up a clip showing that the notorious “bumped my head on the kitchen cabinet” bald spot is rapidly turning into an early-stage combover. Presidential!
Also, Liz Mair — who got hired & fired by the Walker campaign back in March — took a pretty sweet victory lap around twitter earlier this evening:
I said at the time to people who wrote that Walker would lose because he fired me that that was bullshit and silly.
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) September 21, 2015
But I also feared that the reasons behind his firing of me would be the ultimate causes of his demise. Now that appears to be true.
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) September 21, 2015
One last thought: Walker's timing is good. Word is he just avoided getting tied to a very bad story that could well have been coming.
— Liz Mair (@LizMair) September 21, 2015
Another investigation, Scotty? Which of your underlings will get thrown under this bus?
Renie
Let me get in here before RtR and say this is great for !JEB. Now, hopefully, he will go away.
JPL
Anne, Welcome back.
redshirt
I keep reading Liz Phair and thinking “nooo!”
gbear
Hopefully all of them, Katie!
Seriously, after what he’s done to Wisconsin, I want to see him get kicked reel guud while he’s down and I want to see him take a lot of people with him.
SiubhanDuinne
Welcome back, AL! You’ve possibly been back for a while and I haven’t known on account of my own sad sorry iPad issues, but believe me, you have been missed.
NO OFFENSE to all the other BJFPs who have done their valiant best in your absence.
Baud
Yay!!!
Anne Laurie, this is dedicated to you.
Arm The Homeless
I feel sorry for the teachers and state workers who will bear the brunt of his spurned ambition.
I’m sure he will be working extra hard for 2020. I wonder what he does with a few months of a new, toady supreme court justice.
redshirt
AL is clearly the BJ MVP.
Schlemazel
@redshirt: second that, all in favor say AYE!
Welcome back, we missed you.
Hal
I’m today’s I hate (some) people news:
http://micdotcom.tumblr.com/post/129591576707/what-would-you-do-if-the-price-of-your-everyday
Anne Laurie
Thanks, everybody, but don’t get your hopes too high just yet — I’m using an anonymizer to get here, and it’s… weirdly incomplete. But I’m too chicken to shut down & start over, so you’ll have to do without pictures in my posts, at least for the short term…
MomSense
Welcome back, AL!!
raven
What up lady?
Baud
@Anne Laurie:
Don’t care. Just post. Post like the wind.
JPL
@Hal: There’ s a thread down below talking about this. My son is impacted by the anti-biotic cuz others are not effective.
Mike J
@redshirt:
He’s just a hero in a long line of heroes
Looking for action at a price he can pay
They say he’s famous, but no one can prove it
Make him an offer just to see what he’ll say
NotMax
Admit it, once Walker found out you’d taken a hiatus from BJ to do oppo research he folded his tent and slithered off the stage.
Nicely done.
Hal
@JPL: doh! That’s what I get for not scrolling down.
Sorry about your son. This story is enraging to me. It reminds me of the early fight over azt costs.
NotMax
Juicier Mair tweets at Mother Jones. Example:
NotMax
AL is in da house.
Welp, there go the 800-count threads. :)
JPL
@Hal: He’s really healthy. It’s only if he gets an infection, it is tough to clear up.
gf120581
Regardless of this supposed “very bad story,” I have to wonder if Walker will pull a Palin before too long. The only reason he ran for reelection was to lay the groundwork for his WH run. Now that plan is in ashes, so what the fuck reason does he have to stay around? Unless, of course, he wants to take it out on Wisconsin like a guy who doesn’t get the promotion he thought he deserved and promptly goes home and smacks his wife around.
Word of waring though for those in Wisconsin who might be eager for him to quit; his Lt. Guv is as bad as he is. Arguably worse.
ThresherK (GPad)
Welcome back AL.
Peach pie turned out well. Flavor transcendent, even. Buying more peaches tomorrow.
Saw last few minutes of Minority Report TV show. In their 2065, the Washington NFLs are named the Redclouds. Wonder if the show were made 10 years ago how that would played out.
RK
And those reasons would be?
MazeDancer
Anne Laurie, you were mightily missed! Welcome back!
SFAW
@RK:
He thought he had hired Liz Phair, and someone finally clued him in. (It was as if redshirt @ #3 read my “mind”)
RK
I seem to remember her being fired early because of something she said. I guess I’ll have to look it up.
Anne Laurie
RK: If you click the date links in the individual Mair tweets, it’ll take you to her twitter feed and you can read the whole thing.
Short answer, in her role as a professional campaign worker, Mair says that Walker didn’t pay attention to his established, dependable staffers — easy (Koch) money turned his head, and a fleet of parasitic newbies poured those dollars down ratholes to construct an overambitious post-primary-frontrunner machine rather than the few-but-experienced guerrilla campaign necessary to get from May 2015 to February 2016.
Mary G
@Anne Laurie: Welcome back, with or without pictures. What did Verizon do to you? Why is it not fixed yet? Feels like it’s been forever. (More so for you than me, of course.)
ETA: clicking the data links in the Liz Mair tweets actually takes me back to a Tim F. post here from 2010 about calling your congresscritter about getting healthcare reform done.
RK
Politico 3/18/15
SRW1
Another one bites the dust
And another one gone, and another one gone
Another one bites the dust
Hey, I’m gonna get you, too
trollhattan
@RK:
Funny. I hail from there and pretty much agree. “Flyover country” should not have an outsized influence over national politics–the states where people actually live should. When’s the last time California’s primary had a significant effect on either party’s nomination? Ridiculous.
RK
@trollhattan: That’s the old representation argument that goes all the way back to having two senators per state regardless of population.
rikyrah
I still think Willard is lying in the cut, waiting for them all to flop.
RK
@Anne Laurie: Thanks. Seems she got fired for shooting off her mouth which doesn’t mean she didn’t feel the campaign was being improperly run.
JPL
@rikyrah: You might be right, but why doesn’t the polls take that into count,
The polls take into count that Biden might run which reduces Hillary’s support so why not take into account Romney.
Chris
Opem thread, right?
Colonoscopy tomorrow, for which I just drank an enormous cup of Suprep. Oh my fucking Lord. That is the most unpleasant, disgusting, repellent, nauseating, foul, nasty, gross, icky, doubleplusungood substance I have ever had in my life. Why can’t they just assign prune juice?
(Yes, I’m sure there’s a medical reason. I’m just bitching. Because seriously, ick and double ick).
Gin & Tonic
@Chris: Oh, a rookie. You’ll have a fun night ahead of you.
JPL
@Chris: I took sixteen horse pills. It’s not any better. I hope that you’ll be drugged enough during the test and the results will be okay. Thinking of you.
Timurid
So the cops/government officials/journalists/victims with a score to settle will just dump all of the incriminating evidence now that he’s quit? The only way Walker withdrawing would make a scandal disappear is if he was being straight up blackmailed.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
As of this morning, I am done creating the story of Becoming Phoebe. There’s still a lot of work to do to turn that story into a book, but the storytelling is done. Other than marketing.
The character of Phoebe came into existence on the night of January 30, 2011 as I was driving home from Madison after the Gophers’ series against Wisconsin. It was fifteen months before I started actually writing, but I have probably thought about her every single day of the last 4+ years.
It feels very weird to say that the story is done.
RobertDSC-iPad Mini
However temporary it may be, welcome back, Anne Laurie.
RK
@efgoldman: Jets have a good D and they’ve only scored 10 points, 7 due to a defensive turnover in deep Colts territory.
schrodinger's cat
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Congratulations! That is a major milestone.
Mike in NC
@Chris: Ugh. I need to schedule one of those damn things, too.
SRW1
Scottie didn’t even leave a carcass for the remaining hopefuls to pick over.
benw
@redshirt: Whip Smart is my fav.
Ruckus
@Chris:
Put off the last one scheduled because of surgery in the general area of where the scope goes. Now I scheduled for sometime after the first of the year. And yes it is a vile mixture, one I’ve had to do before for a different procedure. As others are saying, you will have an interesting night. Don’t get too far from the bathroom. Like maybe sleep on the floor.
Doug R
@gf120581: Hey, Obama and Biden warned y’all in Wisconsin NOT to vote vote for the homunculous THE FIRST TIME.
Kristine
@Chris: I wonder if that’s what had to drink. It’s been about 6 years–I managed to blot it out. Two liters or so of the most godawful sweet blech blech blech.
Compared to the prep, the test is a snap. Great drugs. Good wishes that you’re in and out see ya in ten years.
Doug R
@rikyrah: Oh Mittens! Would that we missed you as much as you wished we did.
PaulW
Walker’s departure does not bode well for Jeb the Musical, because Jeb (sans exclamation point) is having trouble with the GOP voting base, period.
The only thing keeping Jeb in this race is pride: his family name is on the line (hence his paradoxical need to defend Dubya’s record all the while trying to avoid the negative connections that Duyba’s disasters still are for most Americans). That and all the SuperPAC money that Walker apparently couldn’t siphon off.
PaulW
My two cents on Walker’s departure, and why there’s a problem with the supposedly “Strong Field of Candidates” of Republicans all failing to gain any support outside of their own states… http://noticeatrend.blogspot.com/2015/09/a-taste-of-schadenfreude-dipped-in.html
trollhattan
@Chris:
While you’re on the throne, declare in a loud voice, “Scotty Walker, be GONE!” It will help.
As a veteran, I assure the prep for a colonoscopy is 10x worse than the colonoscopy. Happy dreams and no polyps to you.
Doug R
@Chris: Good luck buddy. Apparently I was conscious for my last one according to my wife, but I don’t recall a f*cking thing.
NotMax
Just flipped on TCM.
If Dr. Zhivago isn’t the most tedious film ever made at a major studio, it’s in the top three.
David wasn’t very Lean when it came to epic cinema.
burnspbesq
@efgoldman:
I still think that the Becton Regional Wildcats are going to be the only playoff team in East Rutherford this year, as they were last year.
NotMax
@Doug R
Most people remain conscious and lucid. The drug administered nowadays blocks the formation of memories, so that time interval is a blank spot afterward.
22over7
@Chris: Eric Idle tweeted about his last year, something about not looking forward to the unpleasant bathroom business, but looking forward to the drugs and warm blankets afterward.
Chris
@Kristine:
@trollhattan:
That’s pretty much what everybody’s been telling me. I do believe I’m out for the entire thing, which is more than okay with me. At this point, the main thing I’m dreading isn’t the operation, it’s having to drink the entire second bottle of that… stuff, tomorrow morning.
Thanks for the support, veterans.
lamh36
The White House will livestream the Pope’s arrival ceremony beginning at 9:15AM here: http://WH.gov/popevisit
NotMax
@lamh36
But will there be a tango with Michelle?
Francis is an avowed aficionado and lover of the tango.
lamh36
Welp…two new shows to add to my DVR queue!
Minority Report and Blindspot…I liked both for different reasons.
Final thoughts: Minority Report – Meagan Good…damn makes me wanna hit the gym hard! Good to see a curvy girl doing stunts and being awesome
Blindspot – Jamie Alexander, Lady Sif (Thor reference) as bad azz possible Navy Seal! Awesome.
Amir Khalid
@Chris:
The most recent colonoscopy I went through was a troll on this blog. The next most recent one, I had in, I think, 2006.
lamh36
@NotMax: IDK…but would be all sorts of Awesome.
From what I understand, POTUS is breaking protocol to welcome Pope Francis personally
catclub
@Doug R: yeah, I think Mittens is starting to get his hopes up. If No one wraps it up,
that means the respectable ones in the race are incompetent. And Trump could not quite clinch.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Been hoping you’d come by. Noticed you evinced some uncertainty or confusion about the expunging of a middle name by a certain Bush.
Have posted multiple times here about that since first noticed it, so won’t repeat type it again. Here’s my most recent mention of this, which includes comparative links.
Morzer
@Amir Khalid:
Thought you might enjoy this as a brain-cleanser:
http://www.theguardian.com/sport/blog/2015/sep/11/all-blacks-how-new-zealand-sustains-its-rugby-dynasty
NotMax
@lamh36
And no bubbled popemobile. He uses a specially decked out Jeep Wrangler.
rikyrah
@PaulW:
That and Jeb’s 100 million bucks keep him in the game.
Omnes Omnibus
@Morzer: Well, I don’t know about Amir, but I enjoyed it.
NotMax
@rikyrah
Technicality, but the $100 million is superPAC money, untouchable by the campaign or by Jebbie.
Filings from July 2015 with the FEC show Jeb’s campaign having raised about $11 million (compared to Hillary’s $47 million).
Also too (same link):
satby
Happy Walker is out. Now for the rest of them to fall like dominos.
Seems like I miss everything now that I’m a “mom” again. Welcome back AL! I missed knowing anything was wrong that kept you away!
trollhattan
@rikyrah:
If you don’t type that while saying it in a Dr. Evil voice it just doesn’t have much impact. Larry Ellison will spend that much on a pretty good party.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: They aren’t all that great. Too many people pretending to have fun. You who did throw a good party? That James Gatz fellow.
Bobby Thomson
@JPL: that doesn’t feed the right narrative.
Mike J
@efgoldman: I’ve actually been to a party or two paid for by him. Pretty good, even for us underlings, but nothing like the big money guys got.
I’ve got a long way to go from my five man crew in club races to get his attention for sailing though.
SFAW
@efgoldman:
Colts allegedly have key injuries in their secondary. Although Fitzpatrick’s completion rate was good tonight, his long throws were pretty sucky. If he were a first-year man, that’d be one thing, but since he’s a 10-year guy, well … He throws long like a kid who’s just trying to launch it as far as he can – twist his body left and down as he releases. If he could throw it 75 yards that way, it’s be one thing, but we’re talking only 30. Brandon Marshall was looking decent.
Revis got burned on one play (that I saw) tonight, which is pretty remarkable, but he was the usual Darrelle for most of the game.
Lots of miscues by the Dolts, the game should have been more competitive.
Anyway: the Jets aren’t going to the Super Bowl, but they might finish #2 (behind the Cheats … um, I mean Pats). Haven’t seen the Bills play, but considering they had a chance to Beat the Cheats yesterday, until Taylor threw the INT in the last couple of minutes, then Rex might end up doing pretty well, maybe better than the Jets.
The off-season move that the Jets needed to make was giving Woody his walking papers. But since that ain’t going to happen, they’ll just have to muddle along.
But what’s with all the Jets hate? Is it because you’re a Pats fan? Or you hate Rex and it’s carrying over from last year? Or they gave you a tryout for Head Coach, but gave it to Rich Kotite instead?
ETA: I miss Keyshawn.
ruemara
@lamh36: you should watch me doing kickboxing then.
anyone want to act in a movie? I’m making all the meals.
OMG, Wilmer Vilderrama is in Minority Report? The urge to make jokes about his dating preferences is huge.
edited to reflect: my fallback was just send the script out to festivals. HOLY. Shit. The entrance fees. This bites.
SFAW
@efgoldman:
If I get him to give you an invite, would you change your mind?
@Omnes Omnibus:
Thems of us what really know him call him “Jimmy.”
redshirt
I’ve got second hand gossip about Ellison parties.
Hard core. Chicks in cages, leather gagged models, etc….
SFAW
@SFAW:
Christ. I just realized who that sounds like.
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: I’m not from North Dakota.
Mike J
@SFAW:
If you spend 15 minutes in silicon valley and can’t get an invite to an Oracle party, you should give up.
redshirt
@efgoldman: Nope. My friend was a tech journalist and went to several of Ellison’s parties back in the 90’s. Wild stuff.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: No, no, that’s the Piers Gavey.
SFAW
@efgoldman:
What, Mornhinweg wasn’t the ne plus ultra of O-cons last year?
See, I know/knew people of advanced years – older than you, certainly – from this area, who were Giants fans. My dear mother-in-law was one. I believe it stemmed from the days when the Giants were the only football team within 300 or 400 miles of Boston, i.e., before the AFL. (The Rochester Jeffersons don’t count.) So it’s not genetic.
SFAW
@Mike J:
Screw Oracle parties, I’m talking Larry.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
Green Bay, North Dakota — what’s the diff?
SFAW
@Mike J:
Four with cox? Why not the straight Four?
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: Read the book, damn it. Jeebus.
@SFAW: Sailing =/= rowing.
redshirt
@SFAW:
To my shame my father, my uncle, and my grandfather (their father) are(were) all Giants fans. Their excuse is there was no New England team until the 60’s, so they had already established their fandom in the 50’s.
But also as Yankee’s fans, because they were Giants fans, and the Yankees won all the titles in the 1950s.
I’m so ashamed. This is the first time I’ve confessed this online.
redshirt
@efgoldman:
Don’t get me wrong I went to some swank events. Dinner tabs at 10K. But nothing decadent like caged dancers.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt:
Your concept of decadence is rather …. mild.
Mike J
@SFAW:
Skip, trimmer, pit man, foredeck, foredeck assistant.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: For a corporate party? You’re pushing boundaries with BDSM stuff.
I went to a party that had a replica of the Cheers bar, with look a like actors. That’s pretty decadent, I suppose, but also fairly tame.
NotMax
@resdhirt
Caged dancers aren’t BDSM, they’re positively mundane, right outta the days of Hullabaloo.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: It’s your use of the word decadent that concerns me.
Mike J
@redshirt:
After dinner for a corp event, we went looking for trouble in Soho.Wound up in the back room of a mini cab stand smoking spliffs the size of your arm with the drivers waiting for calls.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: Over the top? Beyond the veil? Egregious? Imperial?
redshirt
@NotMax: Leather clad caged dancers.
NotMax
@redshirt
For the Cheers set-up, would grudgingly accept cute.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: Ah, Jamaican minicab drivers…. The trip south of the over the river to Brixton with a whacked-out friend who was insisting on finding opium.
NotMax
@redshirt
(Best Borscht Belt comedian banana voice)
You vant maybe naugahyde?
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Ostentatious.
NotMax
@NotMax
second banana, that is.
Would have sworn on a stack of Captain Billy’s Whiz Bang< that typed it that way.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: Yeah. That’s different then leather clad chicks in cages.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Sorry, I just don’t consider “leather clad chicks in cages” to be decadent. Maybe I am jaded. Maybe it isn’t 1963. Who knows?
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: Wow. What would you consider decadent?
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Emma Peel-type leather garb or miniskirts or thigh-high boots: Not decadent
Leather ball gags and/or fur-trimmed leather wristcuffs (with chain): Decadent.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Naked models acting as platforms for sushi. The Clivenden parties that led to the Profumo scandal. Stuff in Rome.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: lol I do recall hearing about a sushi girl.
Larry Ellison is a huge Perv, is the point of my stories.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: As a general guide, that is helpful.
seaboogie
@Anne Laurie: just be sure to engage your eemom pie filter. I don’t get her. Hating on you is like hating on puppies, kittens, warm apple pie with melty ice cream, rainbows, and vanilla/jasmine-scented unicorn farts – just puzzling. You are my favorite insomniac!
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
Oh, I got the ref the first time. I was just busting your stones a little, what with you being an almost-Canadian (geographical-wise)
@Omnes Omnibus:
No shit. Some (lame) attempts at “jokes” you should just let pass.
SFAW
@redshirt:
Absolutely nothing to be ashamed of. As I said, my dear MiL (Portland born-and-bred) was a Giants fan for much of her life. When I first discovered that, I was amazed, but realized on reflection that it made sense.
We’re here for you. But no need for a 12-step.
SFAW
@redshirt:
Yeah, it’s tough to find him likable. Not that he cares whether he is, of course.
TerryC
@Chris: Makes a good mixer for vodka – D. Barry
boatboy_srq
@trollhattan: @redshirt: Ellison is a Piece’o’Work – but he knows he’s a Piece’o’Work. Case in point: one (of many) yachts he owns was originally named Izanami – until someone at one of those parties pointed out that if you read her name backwards it was…. her name change (to Ronin) was so fast people thought two yachts were built to the same design. Neither Trump nor anyone named Bush is sufficiently self-aware to be embarrassed by something like that.
TooManyJens
@Mary G:
Thanks to which, I just went back and relived the Pass The Damn Bill days. Man, that was incredible.
Turner Hedenkoff
Watching Walker bow out reminded me of this old Dr. Demento gem: “Hey, der, polka boy, go home and suck a beer …” Sorry, Scott, it’s not a noble act of self-sacrifice if someone else stomps you.