Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

When you’re a Republican, they let you do it.

Trump should be leading, not lying.

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

75% of people clapping liked the show!

Not all heroes wear capes.

When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson

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

Celebrate the fucking wins.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

I really should read my own blog.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

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

He wakes up lying, and he lies all day.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

“But what about the lurkers?”

Consistently wrong since 2002

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

Wake up. Grow up. Get in the fight.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

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  3. 3.

    Davebo

    I see those “skateboards” all the time lately at the hotel. In the lobby and the spa. Not sure what to make of it but the really rich seem to love them.

  7. 7.

    Cacti

    Looks like the Chicago Cubs are about to learn that their part of the film was still just fantasy.

    :-P

  12. 12.

    David Koch

    Bill Kristol @BillKristol

    Biden confirms to Obama at lunch today he’s running, announces at U Delaware tomorrow. You can feel the Joementum!

    7:24 AM – 20 Oct 2015

    471 471 Retweets

    The kiss Kristol of death

  15. 15.

    beltane

    @David Koch: Bill Kristol might be a terrible pundit, but he’s also a world-class troll. Looked at in this light, the guy is something of a genius.

  18. 18.

    David Koch

    ABC News/WaPo Poll — Nationwide Oct 15 – 18

    Trump………………32%
    Carson……………..22%
    ¿Jeb?……………….7%◄
    Cruz………………….6%
    Rubio………………..6%
    Fiorina……………….5%

  22. 22.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @ruemara:

    Happy birthday! You should at least make your cast and crew sing to you, even if you have to wait for tomorrow.

    And don’t forget to bring a riding crop to the set — old movies tell me that’s a necessity, and I think you’re starting to understand why.

  30. 30.

    trollhattan

    @Gravenstone:
    Don’t you just wonder if his “tip” wasn’t somebody fvcking with him just prior to Biden bowing out, knowing he’d claim the “scoop?” Onion Joe would totally do that.

  33. 33.

    Hungry Joe

    @Brachiator: Kristol’s smile is a little creepier than it is evil; Cruz’s is slightly more evil than it is creepy.* Subtle difference, but it’s there.

    RE future: I don’t know why so many future-themed films have ordinary people wearing absurd costumes. That would have only been accurate in an old, old movie in which time travelers jump forward to the 1970s … though I guess it’d work just as well if time travelers jumped BACK to the 1970s.

    * Either that, or it’s the other way around. Tough call.

  34. 34.

    beltane

    @Brachiator: Kristol comes across as an insincere guy who is basically mocking just about everyone and everything. There is no cause, person, or principle he truly respects. Ted Cruz, on the other hand, takes himself very, very seriously. Both men are sociopaths, but Cruz is the more frightening of the two.

  37. 37.

    srv

    The Demise of Jeb Bush

    Adds an unaligned lobbyist familiar with Bush’s gubernatorial runs: “Jeb learns but it takes him time. He internalized the lessons from losing to [Lawton] Chiles and was a much better candidate his second time out. He’s patient and disciplined and smart but could not ad-lib a fart. He will think of how to win this race sometime in 2017 and be ready to rumble in 2020.”

    Donald Trump has ended the Bush Dynasty and he will end the Clinton Dynasty.

    You’re welcome.

  38. 38.

    JPL

    @Brachiator: Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal, Sen. Rick Santorum (R-PA), former New York Gov. George Pataki, and Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) qualified for the 6 p.m. undercard debate.

    Good job candidates!

  45. 45.

    Cacti

    @srv:

    Donald Trump has ended the Bush Dynasty and he will end the Clinton Dynasty.

    You’re welcome.

    George W. ended the Bush dynasty.

  46. 46.

    goblue72

    So when does Linc Chafee drop out? Really do not need his presence on the stage at this point. Democratic debates involving just Clinton, Sanders, and MOM would be a heck of a lot more focused. Wouldn’t even mind just seeing a debate that is just Sanders v Clinton – a focused opportunity for the centrist wing and lefty wing to go at it.

  52. 52.

    Ripley

    @srv: I’ll vote for Biff only on the condition that Crispin Glover is his running mate.

    Trump/McFly 2016: America, This Is Your Density

  55. 55.

    Felonius Monk

    @Baud: Baud!? —- It needs a catchy campaign slogan.

    How about: Baud!? — Leading Us Backward into the Future

    or

    Baud!? — Leading Us Forward into the Past.

  56. 56.

    Mike J

    @Baud:

    Thanks. It’ll help in the Midwestern states with their German stock.

    Why don’t you go full Netanyahu and say Germany wasn’t responsible for the holocaust?

  60. 60.

    JPL

    @Mike J: Between Carson’s statements about the Jewish population not fighting back and Netanyahu’s statement that it was the Palestinians, Baud could easily poll at 27 percent.

  63. 63.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @ruemara:
    @trollhattan:

    And also the birthday of my younger sister and brother (twins), who have been wandering the planet for a combined 140 years! Happy birthday to ruemara (wishing you many lovely naps) and to trollhattan‘s fortuitous spouse.

  68. 68.

    Gimlet

    http://www.vox.com/2015/10/21/9582316/iraq-otto-reich

    One of Jeb Bush’s principal foreign policy campaign advisers, a man named Otto Reich who is a veteran of the Reagan and George W. Bush administrations, has just made a very odd and enthusiastic argument in support of the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq, in which he repeats one of the most widely discredited justifications for the war.

    “I can defend the invasion of Iraq,” Reich told me. “What did the invasion of Iraq do? It caused all of the people who would’ve otherwise come and attacked us and killed Americans on our soil — it caused them to go to Iraq and die there. That may sound very brutal, or whatever, but we have seen what has happened when you have an administration like the current one, that did not realize what Bush had done; sent the troops home from Iraq; created a vacuum that was filled by ISIS. And they’re killing Americans and everyone else — they’re mostly killing Muslims. I lay that at the feet of the Obama Administration.”

    Rick Santorum memorably endorsed it with a super-weird Lord of the Rings analogy: “As the hobbits are going up Mount Doom, the Eye of Mordor is being drawn somewhere else. It’s being drawn to Iraq and it’s not being drawn to the U.S. You know what? I want to keep it on Iraq. I don’t want the Eye to come back here to the United States.”

  69. 69.

    jl

    @David Koch: Jeb? is third now! Roaring to victory the only way he can. At least I guess that is how some pro-Jeb? troll will try to spin it. Probably they will besiege this blog now, crowing.

  71. 71.

    Corner Stone

    Sorry, Tweety. I doubt very seriously that anyone needs “Joe Biden’s full throated endorsement” to win a god damned thing.

  72. 72.

    Tommy

    @Gimlet: Wow. Just wow!

    I will keep mentioning what I often note here. My father has a Phd in military history. Taught at the Army War College. Wrote, let me say that again, wrote the text book for the military on the use of air power during war. Nobody has ever confused him with being a liberal. He thought at the time (retired) and to this very day invading Iraq was a shit all stupid thing to do.

    I don’t often agree with my father on many political issues. But as for warfare, well I listen. He is rarely wrong.

  75. 75.

    Peale

    @Gimlet: the number of Americans ISIS has killed so far since their emergence is less than the number of students killed in college shootings in the past month. Yeah. It’s totally worth $200 billion a year to make sure we have troops there for Isis to kill.

  79. 79.

    beltane

    My son is attending community college this semester. He tells me that several of his classmates are Donald Trump supporters. Baud needs to come up with some campaign materials to help keep these young people from making a very big mistake.

  82. 82.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone):

    Well, not on me specifically, but I follow the threads :-)

    Have not yet sampled any of it but the raves are so enthusiastic that I will, very soon, I promise. And I’ll come back and let you know what I think. Thanks.

  85. 85.

    Tommy

    I have to post this every year or so …..

    The Washington Post years ago hired maybe one of the best violinists in the world, Joshua Bell to play music at a DC metro stop. They wondered if anybody would stop and listen.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnOPu0_YWhw

    You can see for yourself if you care, what happened.

    A young child making his mother stop so they could listen. A lady at the end saying I saw you play at the Library of Congress last night, this could only happen in DC.

    But pretty much nobody else stopped or even broke stride. I used to live in DC. Been in that Metro stop a few hundred times. I don’t know what I’d have done, I don’t want to sound so elite to say otherwise, but my fucking god.

    Maybe we should slow down a little and smell the roses …….

  88. 88.

    raven

    The good news for us is that, after 2 1/2 years, we have moved into the big new bedroom. They delivered the king today and we’ll give it a spin tonight. The bad news is that we decided to have the entire house painted instead of just doing the addition. It will certainly be better in the long run but it means that we have to clean off both the front and back porch and move tons of stuff again!

  89. 89.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Tommy:

    I remember when that happened. I’ve heard some very fine buskers (as well as some pretty, well, not-fine ones) playing in subway stations and on street corners. It’s not easy to make a living as a professional musician. But the reaction to Joshua Bell — or, I should say, the lack of reaction — says a lot about how we tend to pay a lot more attention to the sizzle than to the steak.

    There have been similar experiments done in which best-selling, critically acclaimed authors publish new works under pseudonyms just to see whether a writer with no previous reputation will get good reviews and sales.

  91. 91.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @raven:

    Pleasant sleep! Let us know tomorrow morning, in between Morning Joke updates, how it all went. Will Li’l Bit and the Bohdi be sharing the mattress?

  97. 97.

    raven

    @Tommy:
    “One striking piece Woodward writes about is the “Zilch” memo. In the note, Which Nixon wrote sideways across a top-secret document, the president updates Henry Kissinger, then his national security adviser, on war developments. Nixon wrote: “K. We have had 10 years of total control of the air in Laos and V.Nam. The result = Zilch. There is something wrong with the strategy or the Air Force. Meanwhile, Nixon had been publicly declaring for three years that the bombing had been effective, and even went as far as to order more bombings. “Just the night before, he had said in a nationally televised interview that it was very effective,” Woodward said. “You connect the dots with other tapes and documents, and you realize that this is all about winning re-election. Not the war, which, he acknowledged at least the bombing, achieved zilch.”

  98. 98.

    Roger Moore

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    There have been similar experiments done in which best-selling, critically acclaimed authors publish new works under pseudonyms just to see whether a writer with no previous reputation will get good reviews and sales.

    There’s at least some anecdotal evidence that they can. Stephen King was successful as Richard Bachman, and J.K. Rowling won critical praise, if not massive sales, as Robert Galbraith.

  101. 101.

    WaterGirl

    @raven: Oh, raven, that’s so awesome. Very big day for you guys!

    It’s really smart of you guys to do the painting now. If you are anything like me after the big “tree hit the house” repairs, you won’t want to have to move anything again for a long, long time.

  102. 102.

    raven

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): She will when she’s in her kennel which is where she’ll be until further notice. The CCL surgery was $2500 and were going to do our level best to make sure it is effective. We already have a footstool that knucklehead uses.

  104. 104.

    raven

    @WaterGirl: At my age this may be it.

    eta Actually it was a big day until we realized we had to spend hours after work moving shit again. Two days and we move it all back.

  109. 109.

    WaterGirl

    @raven: Hey, you’re still young!

    During the repairs, I moved all my stuff 4 times. As the contractor said, “you really have to love your stuff to move it 4 times”. She was right, and before the final move-in, I gave a lot of stuff away.

    I’m glad you are getting your house back, and extra house, too! Happy day.

  111. 111.

    Tommy

    @raven: Yes. A few things. One my father hates to fly. Only done it twice I am aware of since I have been in this world (46). That was to get to Hawaii and Scotland (where we are from).

    I am trying to think how I can get you his brief on the use of air power. There is a version that is open to the public. But what he comes back to again and again is air power only does so much, at some point you have to put boots on the ground.He openly questions our government and if they are willing to do it.

  112. 112.

    srv

    @Tommy:

    One my father hates to fly.

    Your father hates to fly and was in the Air Force and wrote and taught about the use of air power.

    I guess it’s good I avoided the Air Force so I can actually enjoy flying my plane.

  113. 113.

    delk

    Speaking of BttF, go to microsoft.com and just type outatime. No input box, just type the word.

  115. 115.

    PurpleGirl

    OT: If you have the chance to see Nature: Pets: Wild at Heart: Playful Creatures do. It talks about puppies and kittens and a bunch of other pet animals and looks at where various behaviors come from. It has some incredible footage of pets at play. So glad I decided to watch it tonight (on WNET), and I will look for the replay on WLIW.

    ETA: And incredible heat sensing footage of kittens and a momcat.

  117. 117.

    PurpleGirl

    @PurpleGirl: PBS says they screen whole episodes of Nature on-line. The show tonight was part 1 and there is a part 2 next week. Really pet people, you gotta see this show.

  119. 119.

    J R in WV

    @ruemara:

    Happy, Happy Birthday!!!

    I took a nap earlier, not long after I had some coffee this morning!

    But you can too, as naps are non-privy to the law of conservation of mass (or energy).

    So enjoy a good nap anytime it’s quiet and not too brightly lit.

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