Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

Why did Dr. Oz lose? well, according to the exit polls, it’s because Fetterman won.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

If you are still in the GOP, you are an extremist.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

Today’s GOP: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

John Fetterman: Too Manly for Pennsylvania.  Paid for by the Oz for Senator campaign.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.

No one could have predicted…

Republicans do not pay their debts.

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

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  2. 2.

    Villago Delenda Est

    I see two, but Baud has beaten me to a good joke, so I’ll go pout about it like Rinse Prebus.

  4. 4.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I don’t know how to single out an individual tweet, but Kevin Kruse caught a Jeb ad using a NYT graph showing a collapse in trust in gov’t and blaming Obama. Trouble is, the steep drop it shows took place under Obama’s predecessor. Can’t remember that guy’s name just now.

    (scroll down to about six hours ago if you want to see)

  6. 6.

    maya

    I think I see Eulalie.

    Pick a little, talk a little, pick a little, talk a little, cheep cheep cheep, talk a lot, pick a little more…

  8. 8.

    Benw

    If Velociraptors could see what their descendants have become they’d be all like “what the cluck!?”

  10. 10.

    trollhattan

    Scaramouche! Mama mia! Bring ’round the mirthmobile, it is the 40th anniversary of “Bohemian Rhapsody”! Brian May:

    RECORDING ‘THAT’ RIFF

    The heavy bit was a great opportunity for us to be at full pelt as a rock band. But that big, heavy riff came from Freddie, not me. That was something he played with his left hand in octaves on the piano. So I had that as a guide – and that’s very hard to do, because Freddie’s piano playing was exceptional, although he didn’t think so. In fact, he thought he was a bit of a mediocre piano player and stopped doing it later on in our career.

    GETTING THE SONG PLAYED ON RADIO

    We were told it was going to be a hard sell, but it ended up being easy because Kenny Everett stole the tape from a playback session we had to launch the Night At The Opera album and took it upon himself to go out and play it to death.

    That made everybody else sit up. All the rest of the radio outlets thought: “Oh God, we’d better get on this quick or else we’ll be left behind!”

  15. 15.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I STAND WITH TED CRUZ!

    @cteddyschleifer
    Ted Cruz on @ BretBaier recommends a GOP primary debate moderated Sean Hannity, Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh.
    ‏@ danpfeiffer Dan Pfeiffer Retweeted Teddy Schleifer
    Every Democrat should want this

  16. 16.

    Baud

    Haha. MSM caught doing journalism.

    Sen. Rand Paul’s so-called “filibuster” against the budget deal, a move his campaign hyped repeatedly and which the Kentucky senator used as a rallying cry at last night’s debate, wasn’t a filibuster at all.

    In fact, it wasn’t even a long speech.

    The presidential hopeful took to the Senate floor at 2:46 p.m. and ended his remarks less than twenty minutes later.

    Poor Rand.

  18. 18.

    beltane

    My neighbors have a small flock of geese that are quite amusing. All day long they march back and forth in their enclosure with a great sense of purpose, honking loudly whenever one of the neighbor cats comes over to spy on them.

  22. 22.

    srv

    I think Jeb’s only path to honor is to disappear into the Bermuda Triangle. Question is, can there be a state funeral with no body?

    The pair of Russian Bear Bombers had failed to respond to radio calls as they advanced toward the vicinity of the USS Ronald Reagan, and four F/A-18 Super Hornets were deployed, U.S. Navy officials said. Once under American escort, the Russian bombers skimmed the water at an altitude of 500 feet and came within one nautical mile of the aircraft carrier.

    A sad day when the Russians humiliate the crew of Ronald Reagan’s namesake.

    This weakness is going to get a lot of people killed.

  24. 24.

    Schlemazel

    @Schlemazel:
    “If hit by a truck, call your physician”
    “It’s a finger of speech!”
    “Anyway, I’ve got to go home. My wife’s making gardenias for dinner.”
    “I give him chance to quit!”
    “I ain’t gonna quit!”
    “You’re a brave boy, you’re fired.”

  26. 26.

    Elizabelle

    @Villago Delenda Est: Yippee. Good to see you here. Someone was asking about you on an afternoon thread.

    It is rumored you are spending a lot of time at LGM? Or Wonkette? Anyway, rumors are flying.

  29. 29.

    Emma

    @srv: Absolutely. Because Putin is going to think that the US isn’t going to fire back if his pilots decide to sink an American ship.

    Moron. Not the former head of the KGB. You.

  35. 35.

    shell

    Conservative Solutions Project

    Now theres a contradiction in terms, like Military Intelligence.

  37. 37.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Elizabelle: Wonkette. More snark to riff on, trolls are dealt with harshly, and let’s face it, Donna Rose is cuter than Thurston. But not Steve. I don’t want my eyes scratched out.

  39. 39.

    rikyrah

    Luvvie has written about Zola:

    ………….

    Lessons from Zola’s Story: The Great Saga of Trapping and Mayhem
    Awesomely Luvvie — October 29, 2015 2 25
    By now, you’ve probably heard about the epic tale told by a woman named Zola, about a trip to Florida involving Jess, Z, and Jarrett. If you have not heard of this story, you have not been on the internet for the last 36 hours, and you were probably being productive with your life. Kudos. The rest of us, meanwhile, have been hemmed up as we’ve been riveted by the tales of trapping gone wrong, told by Zola on Twitter. HERE IS THE STORY. READ IT.

    I have spent the last day hollering at this story. Zola’s story gave me drama, suspense, comedy and thriller. It was like a ratchet Lifetime Movie and it is worthy of big screen. I’m honestly waiting for someone to run Zola a book deal so I can give her my money because she is a gifted storyteller.

    One thing I really appreciated about the story, are the lessons Zola passed on to us. There were so many things to take away to apply to your own life. You might not realize that you could extract teachable moments from tales of 2 strippers taking an ill-forsaken trip to Florida, America’s penis. But you just gotta open your eyes and look all around you. There’s inspiration everywhere.

    For example, I never knew “Vibing over our hoeism” is a perfectly acceptable pasttime. Does that mean you create a hoeism playlist and jam together in bonding of shared love of the traplife? Because if so, that sounds great and should be an Apple Music commercial. Or a Spotify playlist we can all subscribe to.

    http://www.awesomelyluvvie.com/2015/10/zola-story-trapping.html?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+Luvvie+%28Awesomely+Luvvie%29

  40. 40.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @srv: Anything named after the shitty grade Z movie star should be expected to be humiliated as a matter of routine.

  41. 41.

    Pogonip

    Betty Cracker went to the show/ that’s why her chickens scare her so. How many chickens did she see? One, two, three, four, five…

  46. 46.

    JPL

    @burnspbesq: Earlier I linked to the NYTimes article on Cruz’s plan. It’s easy to see how lower and middle income taxpayers would be screwed but it didn’t show the transition numbers.
    Thanks.

  47. 47.

    Roger Moore

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I don’t know how to single out an individual tweet

    At the bottom of the tweet, you should see a little ellipsis (…) symbol. Click on that to get more options, one of which is “copy link to tweet”. You can also select “embed tweet”, which is supposed to give the nice embedded tweets like the front pagers use, but which won’t work perfectly for the rest of us in the comments.

  51. 51.

    Rising Above

    Jeb’s blueprint for victory released to the press!

    Check it out. It’s our strategy going forward.

    More dirt on Rubio is item #1. Time for some good, old fashioned Lee Atwater/Karl Rove style “dirty tricks” against Marky Marky and the Funky Bunch.

  52. 52.

    Patricia Kayden

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Surprised that Cruz is only suggesting one such debate. Why not have all the future Republican debates be hosted by Limbaugh, Hannity and Sarah Palin? Why limit it to just one when you can have them all rigged your way?

    Sample question: “Why was a Kenyan Muslim allowed to run for President in 2008?”

  57. 57.

    Roger Moore

    @shell:

    Conservative Solutions Project

    Now theres a contradiction in terms, like Military Intelligence.

    Unless they’re proposing the Final Solution to the Conservative Problem. That could be a genuine solution.

  58. 58.

    jl

    Lord have mercy! Cracker has unleashed her modernized velociraptors upon the world?
    I seen the Cracker chick pics, and they are fierce and ruthless bunch, you can see it their eyes.

    Cracker, you’ve gone mad, mad I say!

  59. 59.

    TaMara (BHF)

    @Mike J: That’s my friend Jackie. Funny story, when I first met her, she was in her late 60’s, so I didn’t necessarily connect her to Audrey. But then I saw a photo in her dining room and screamed like a teenaged fan. It was a favorite movie as a kid and when I realized I was standing next to Audrey herself (much less I’d been talking to her for days!!), well, I embarrassed myself.

    Love that lady.

  60. 60.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @Rising Above: Wait… you work for the campaign and you’re admitting there’ll be dirty tricks? Jeb is dumber than I thought.

    At least Nixon attempted a cover up.

  62. 62.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @Elizabelle: Thank you, I’ll never quit BJ, unless Cole really messes up the commenting system.

    Have you seen Donna Rose? Just fire up Wonkette on a Sunday, and you’ll see her!

  63. 63.

    Rising Above

    @Germy Shoemangler:

    Everything will be legal and above-board, but the gloves are off.

    Don’t think Watergate–think Willie Horton or Bob “stop lying about my record” Dole.

  65. 65.

    Roger Moore

    BTW, I see three chickens in the picture above. In addition to the one Betty mentioned, there’s a black one directly above it in the picture, which mostly blends in with the shadows but which can be seen because of its red comb. There’s also another buff colored one near the center of the picture that is mostly obscured by a cluster of bamboo stems.

  66. 66.

    Germy Shoemangler

    Olivia de Havilland turned 99 last July.

    Tonight on our pbs station there’s a documentary on alzheimer’s and she narrates it.

  67. 67.

    JPL

    @Baud: That’s why you are running for President and I’m not. I scanned about half and I sorta feel bad that Jeb wasted money on it.

  68. 68.

    Rising Above

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    You thought old “43” was dead after McCain won NH and he started leading in SC, didn’t you? Or when Florida was called for Gore, perhaps?

    Memories, memories…

  69. 69.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @Rising Above:

    Don’t think Watergate–think Willie Horton

    Christ! That’s nothing to boast about. Jeb is paying you, and you’re boasting about this? He is an idiot.

  74. 74.

    FlyingToaster

    @Rising Above: I just read this.

    Ahem.

    No link to the polling firm; no crosstabs. I’m going to call it “Rasmussen” and remember Scott runs an R+9 to R+13 bias, and discount everything against Clinton by 9 points (at minimum), which reverses every slide using that data.

    Ditto with Hispanics, African-Americans, Women, and anyone other than white guys.

    There’s a lot of wishful thinking here about grassroots; I was looking at NH (which is next door) and Iowa (I grew up in Missouri and I have a sister in Nebraska). In NH you need very committed activists, which is precisely what Jeb seems to lack. His air war on Manchester, Concord, and Boston-area TV is not yielding much at all, even if he is taking votes away from Kasich (yet to be verified). He needs to take votes away from Trump. In Iowa the air war is likely to be more effective; but the caucuses do require you have dedicated activists at every single caucus, not just a “coordinator” to handle a dozen counties — some holding one caucus and some holding multiples, and sending a guy to the county seat at 10pm with the results to tally them all.

    There’s a lot of nonsense and wishful thinking, which is the essence of PowerPoint, after all. See Romney, 2012.

  75. 75.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Thank you, I’ll never quit BJ, unless Cole really messes up the commenting system.

    The only way I’d quit balloon-juice would be if they hired the person who redesigned Charles Pierce’s esquire page.

    Lately, I can’t visit there without seeing a full screen ad for THE ULTIMATE SEX GUIDE.

    Mrs. Shoemangler walked in one day while I was trying to read Pierce and she thought I was surfing porn sites.

  78. 78.

    NotMax

    @RFising Above

    Because the last plan that was a surefire lock played out so well.

    And the plan before that.

    And the plan before that.

    Care for some tartar sauce with the flounder(ing)?

    Changing anchors mid-stream. Yeah, that’s the ticket.

    What a maroon.

  80. 80.

    Baud

    @Germy Shoemangler:

    Mrs. Shoemangler walked in one day while I was trying to read Pierce and she thought I was surfing porn sites.

    Did you tell her you read Pirece for the articles?

  81. 81.

    goblue72

    @JPL: Do not try and count the chickens, that’s impossible. Instead, only try to realize the truth…there are no chickens. Then you will see it is not the chickens that lay the eggs, it is only yourself.”

  83. 83.

    redshirt

    @JPL:

    I am a yooooge fan but they do have some weaknesses. Tom’s terrific though.

    Sure they have weaknesses, but a lot less than other teams.

    NE hasn’t even really used their secret weapon yet. Won’t be used tonight either.

    I’m very interested in this game because Miami has played real well since they fired their terrible coach, but it’s been against two weak teams. So, is it real? We’ll find out tonight. On paper the Dolphins are well matched against the Patriots- they can run, they can make big plays, they’ve got a good defensive front line.

    But all dreams seem to evaporate in the presence of the Dark Lord.

  87. 87.

    redshirt

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    That was a great episode. Didn’t know that you were a Trekkie! Should put that in the campaign literature.

    Indeed. It was one of the few TNG episodes that spilled over into other episodes too. TNG was relentlessly stand alone, except for the Cardassian arc, the Locutus arc, and maybe some of the Klingon episodes.

  88. 88.

    Germy Shoemangler

    @Baud:

    Did you tell her you read Pirece for the articles?

    I read Pierce for the Penthouse Forum Letters.

  89. 89.

    redshirt

    @goblue72:

    Really wish we could embed GIFs in the comment feed.

    Since the new blog format launched last week, I can. You can’t? You can’t see all these hilarious gif memes I’ve been posting?!?!?

  90. 90.

    goblue72

    @redshirt: Looking forward to the game. Even convinced the wife to watch it a Boston sports bar here in San Francisco. Chicken wings, Pats on TNF and a room full of ex-New Englanders in the Bay Area all dropping their “r”‘s together.

  96. 96.

    redshirt

    @goblue72:

    Looking forward to the game. Even convinced the wife to watch it a Boston sports bar here in San Francisco. Chicken wings, Pats on TNF and a room full of ex-New Englanders in the Bay Area all dropping their “r”‘s together.

    Cool! Have fun.

    My over/under for Bruschi jerseys is 2.

  101. 101.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @goblue72: That’s another reason I hang out more at Wonkette nowadays, there are some quite talented commenters who comment in the non-existent comments section who bring lots of gifs to the party that do a great job of summing up in visual form what they’re trying to get across.

    Community there is as good as it is here, or over at Powder Blue Satan.

  105. 105.

    Rising Above

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    It’s a PowerPoint the campaign leaked to the press that shows the “blueprint” for ultimate victory.

    Last night was Dunkirk.

    Soon, we shall be in Berlin.

  113. 113.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @schrodinger’s cat: Garak, the tailor, was just a fantastic supporting character, with his own story arc. Never knew exactly where he was coming from, by design.

    Bashir: “Of all the stories you told me, which ones were true and which ones weren’t?”
    Garak: “My dear Doctor, they’re all true.”
    B: “Even the lies?”
    G: “Especially the lies.”

  120. 120.

    Chyron HR

    @Rising Above:

    I know, it was one of the two living Republican presidents, both of whom were banned from attending the 2008 and 2012 Republican National Conventions.

  123. 123.

    PurpleGirl

    Another 40th Anniversary: Rocky Horror Show‘s world tour. BBC sponsored a live stage performance of the musical. It’s been broadcast once already on BBCA and will rebroadcast on October 30 at 2 AM and November 1 at midnight.

    I caught part of it on October 17 and liked it. Planning on watching it again for Halloween.

    ETA: Another BJer mentioned it the other day. With the rebroadcasts coming this weekend, I thought it would be good to mention it again.

  128. 128.

    goblue72

    @redshirt: I find it to be a bit one-liner too. Though he periodically comments on local Philadelphia politics which I find kinda interesting.

  129. 129.

    JPL

    @rikyrah: There’s a cinnamon blob in the middle and above the one you see there is a dark hen with a red comb. Of course, some see four but they live in CO.

  130. 130.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @redshirt: Back in his heyday (when no one knew he was Duncan Black, and everyone thought he was Sid Blumenthal (!)) it was a great place to hang out. He’s lost a bit of his energy, but that’s to be expected after so many years. It’s not like he’s phoning it in, but it’s just his style, which appeals to some and not so much to others.

  135. 135.

    SFAW

    @FlyingToaster:

    No link to the polling firm; no crosstabs. I’m going to call it “Rasmussen” and remember Scott runs an R+9 to R+13 bias, and discount everything against Clinton by 9 points (at minimum), which reverses every slide using that data.

    Another possibility: Dean Chambers. His special brand of head-up-the-assitude would certainly be right up Racist Above’s alley.

  136. 136.

    NotMax

    @Villago Delenda Est

    Used to go there often until he donned the mantle of Capt. Obvious.

    Speaking of other blogs, kind of a shame that Bartcop isn’t still alive to eviscerate the campaigns.

  141. 141.

    SFAW

    @Chyron HR:

    Yeah, in the bunker.

    Plus idiot’s Dunkirk reference related to Jeb! shitting his pants last night when he realized his campaign is deader than JEB Stuart.

  146. 146.

    Howard Beale IV

    @schrodinger’s cat: To me the best of the second generation Trek series was ST:DS9 when Sisko got the beard-especially when the Dominion war kicked off-it became very Babylon-5’ish. ONe of its best episodes IMHO was ‘In the Pale Moonlight’.

  150. 150.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @FlyingToaster:

    I don’t have a link right now, but exit polling in 2012 showed that NH was one of 4 states where Obama got a majority of the white vote (and he won the state overall).

    Anyone who thinks the Republican To Be Named Later is going to beat Hillary there is dreaming.

  154. 154.

    FlyingToaster

    @SFAW: Fortunately, Dean said he was shutting down Unskewed Polls and that Nate Silver was right per Business Insider. He also dissed Rasmussen.

    The question is what assumptions the pollster is making about voter supression, and how accurate are those assumptions? None of which are answered by the slides provided.

  155. 155.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @SFAW: Reich to Rise also doesn’t quite get that “blueprints” to victory are subject to contact with reality, and need to be adjusted. When Dunkirk happened, no one in Britain, even Churchill, had the slightest idea how this was all going to end, in detail. They didn’t know that the US would for sure enter the war and make the emphasis Europe, for example, which Hitler so conveniently gave FDR cover for. Even then, how exactly mainland Europe was going to be assaulted was totally up in the air at the time. In retrospect, it all looks so obvious, but everything is obvious in retrospect. ¡Heb! does not have any obvious path to the nomination now that he’s managed to come within inches of being tossed to the kiddie table.

  160. 160.

    FlyingToaster

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): It amazes me that Jeb thinks that losing percentage points is offset by taking a point away from Kasich.

    If someone is serious about being the Republican nominee, he needs to sucessfully take on Trump. He needs to sucessfully take on Carson. Not flail around like an unattended garden hose.

  163. 163.

    Corner Stone

    Not a big fan of political analysis that ignores a radically different/changed electorate from 20+ years ago.

  164. 164.

    Rising Above

    @Mike in NC:

    Jeb is the Allies, idiot.

    Tonight was a glorious retreat but we will win through to the ultimate victory.

    Yes, VICTORY.

    Jeb isn’t going to quit. And he won’t be going away–that is, until January, 2025.

  168. 168.

    Corner Stone

    Rubio is not good at off the cuff moments, Kornacki. That was scripted from way back.
    GLUG GLUG

  171. 171.

    NonyNony

    @Germy Shoemangler:

    you work for the campaign

    No, he doesn’t. He says he works for the campaign. He’s never actually said or done anything that would prove it. If he actually works for the campaign then I’m George Clooney.

    He’s a troll who is pretending to be a paid Bush troll to mess with people around here. That’s it. I think he picked Bush because a) he figured liberals would be mad about the very idea of another Bush in office and it would be easy to rile people up and b) he figured Bush would be in it til the election and he’d get a whole year of fun out of it. Joke’s on him I guess.

    (Paid trolls are not going to be posting here. They’re going to be in newspaper comment sections and places where more of a cross-section of voters will be. Trolling here gets you nothing but angry Democrats. Which may be fun but isn’t worth spending money on.)

  173. 173.

    Rising Above

    The “Fourth Quarter” rollout will be December 5, 2015 in Miami.

    Pop Art, Politics, and Jeb

  176. 176.

    Corner Stone

    I love it when a DB pops somebody after a 17 yard catch and run and then stands over the receiver like he just bad assed him.

  180. 180.

    Bobby Thomson

    @Rising Above: sorry, but parts have already been given out and we’re going to need Jeb to play cannon fodder this time. There’s always the 2020 musical, though.

  182. 182.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    @Mike in NC:

    Actually, the metaphor works great if you cast Jeb’s campaign as the Germans — at Dunkirk, the Germans stopped in the middle of their advance, which allowed the Allies to evacuate their troops. And then, of course, Berlin.

  189. 189.

    NonyNony

    @Bobby Thomson:

    There’s also a lot more upside in paid trolls pretending to be disaffected Sanders supporters

    Yes, though I doubt they would troll around here. Rawstory and TPM would both lead to more division and better results for a GOP ratfucker.

  191. 191.

    goblue72

    @Omnes Omnibus: No kidding. I didn’t know there were still people out there who still believed “that hippity hopping isn’t music”.

    Chuck D is my generation’s Bob Dylan.

  194. 194.

    burnspbesq

    @goblue72:

    It’s mostly a generational thing, although the rampant misogyny is also a problem.

    I own one rap record, a 12-inch of “The Message.” Haven’t heard anything since that spoke to me.

  196. 196.

    redshirt

    @burnspbesq:

    It’s a generational thing.

    I own one rap record, a 12-inch of “The Message.” Haven’t heard anything since that spoke to me.

    Public Enemy circa late 80’s early 90’s was pretty special. A sound you have to get used to, though. I remember the first song I heard just sounded like noise.

  198. 198.

    burnspbesq

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone):

    Let ’em disagree. I’ll be sitting at home, listening to Bach, Coltrane, the Beatles, X, Tony Rice … happy as a clam, and blissfully unaware of what I’m supposedly missing.

  200. 200.

    burnspbesq

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    “Spenser: For Hire” was well worth the hour every week. Generally well written, and extremely well acted by Robert Urich, Brooks, Susan Stock, Ron McLarty, and Richard Jaeckel.

    DVDs are, alas, extremely hard to find.

  205. 205.

    burnspbesq

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone):

    All you’re succeeding in doing with your succession of posts is making yourself appear narrow-minded and petty.

    If you want avant-garde, I’ve got all the Ligeti, Xenakis, Stockhausen, Reich, and Adams you can handle.

  206. 206.

    redshirt

    @Betty Cracker:

    My husband makes all kinds of stuff with it, including flower bed borders, flutes and tomato stakes!

    I’m jealous. I’ve read about all kinds of ways to use bamboo – and the dangers of bamboo – but I’ve never got my hands on any.

  212. 212.

    redshirt

    @burnspbesq:

    Some moments of cleverness there, but overall it just doesn’t speak to me.

    I can dig it.

    Different music has its place and time.

    Public Enemy was very political and Chuck D.’s lyrics often read like African American history lessons. Once I got over the cacophony, I was a huge fan.

  218. 218.

    Kay

    @Rising Above:

    Send this to Jeb:

    Last summer, Senator Marco Rubio of Florida asked the U.S. Department of Education to “demonstrate leniency” toward Corinthian Colleges by permitting the wealthy for-profit company to continue accessing millions of dollars in federal financial aid while it was cooperating with a federal investigation.
    Ten months later, the company shuttered its remaining 28 campuses, instantly displacing some 16,000 students just days after it was fined $30 million by the Department of Education for a scheme involving “confirmed cases of misrepresentation of job placement rates” for as many as 947 students. The decision to close shop came after years of federal and state investigations into the company.
    The top-tier Republican presidential candidate had made his plea in a letter—obtained by Bloomberg Politics—dated June 20, 2014 and addressed to Jim Shelton, the deputy secretary of education, and Ted Mitchell, the undersecretary for post-secondary education.

    The US got a default judgment against them yesterday. Rubio took 27,000 in donations last year.

  225. 225.

    Jebediah, RBG

    I am watching MASH and Major Ted Cruz Frank Burns just yelled “Can the balloon juice!”
    Does that mean I have to close this tab?

  226. 226.

    Betty Cracker

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): You’re probably just kidding, but just in case: the notion that lack of appreciation for rap/hip-hop = stodginess, inability to “move with the times,” lack of music in one’s soul, etc., is 100% bullshit. It’s a matter of personal taste. Period.

  227. 227.

    J R in WV

    I only see the three birds – I saw two at first, and then obviously saw the third buff bird somewhat obscured by a dry bamboo leaf to the right of the blacker bird.

    Heb! is French, Vichy French.

    G’night, all!

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