Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

Shut up, hissy kitty!

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

Polls are now a reliable indicator of what corporate Republicans want us to think.

If you thought you’d already seen people saying the stupidest things possible on the internet, prepare yourselves.

If a good thing happens for a bad reason, it’s still a good thing.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

“Until such time as the world ends, we will act as though it intends to spin on.”

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

Innocent people do not delay justice.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

Reality always lies in wait for … Democrats.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

He really is that stupid.

fuckem (in honor of the late great efgoldman)

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

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

Trump should be leading, not lying.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

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  1. 1.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    I’m just reading up on the latest about HRC’s email server, trying to decide which scandal I want to hear about all day every day for the next four years.

  3. 3.

    Gimlet

    Bummer that Palin won’t cover Track’s treatment for what she thinks is PTSD, but will let him suffer until Obama pays for it.

  4. 4.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    PPP Poll — North Carolina — Jan 18-19

    (Dec)
    Clinton…………59% 60%
    Sanders……….26% 21%
    O’Malley…………5% 10%

    Clinton is also benefiting from having much more committed support- 78% of her supporters say they are definitely going to vote for her, compared to 50% of Sanders’ who say the same.

    A Sandernista told me today, “those people just don’t know what’s good with them”.

    Now who can argue with that.

  5. 5.

    Gimlet

    From HuffPost

    According to reports Wednesday, the White House is considering a move to require corporations with federal contracts to reveal their political spending.

    Asked about that possibility at his news conference on Capitol Hill, McConnell flatly declared it would be illegal

  7. 7.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Eggs… My Menorca’s have stopped laying all together. But then I got them because they are “very heat tolerant”. I should not be surprised that this Mediterranean bird does not like the cold and snow. Good thing my Rhode Island Reds and Silver Lace Wyandottes don’t mind the cold at all.

  8. 8.

    dedc79

    The most surprising news of the day. Bristol Palin’s blog over at Patheos HAS AN EDITOR

    What value, I wonder, did the editor add to this recent post from Bristol:

    After hearing what Cruz is now saying about my mom, in a negative knee-jerk reaction, makes me hope my mom does endorse Trump. Cruz’s flip-flop, turning against my mom who’s done nothing but support and help him when others sure didn’t, shows he’s a typical politician. How rude to that he’s setting up a false narrative about her!
    America doesn’t need that. We need someone who has a vision for economic prosperity, who won’t let us get kicked around in the world, and who will fight for our future.
    I didn’t go to Harvard Law School, but I know this: You can like two people in a race, but there will only one president.
    The audacity to suggest that because she chooses one over the other will somehow “damage” her just shows arrogance.

  9. 9.

    Schlemazel

    Meh, The winter is having the opposite effect on me. Not sure I could produce less if you paid me to try.

    Of course requiring companies to disclose political donations would be illegal, right up to the point Congress gets off its dead ass and passes a law requiring it. At that point it would be legal. I also think it would be pointless, it is really the unregulated dark money going into groups dumping huge bucks into ads with no accountability.

  10. 10.

    Schlemazel

    @dedc79:
    the editor is Tripp. He is more advanced intelectually than his mom and it is about time the little bastard started carrying his weight.

  12. 12.

    Gimlet

    HuffPost again

    America’s three biggest banks continued their ongoing joke on poor people last year by collecting $6 billion from overdraft and ATM fees, and 2016 is looking even more bleak.

    the average overdraft fee was $34, yet most overdraft charges occurred on transactions of $24 or less.

  13. 13.

    nutella

    Bringing ruemara’s question up from the radical girls thread:

    Lawyers, what happened in Cleveland? Apparently the Tamir Rice grand jury did not make any decision and just went home. Is this weird and irresponsible or what?

  14. 14.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    @dedc79:

    I didn’t go to Harvard Law School,

    Pffft. She didn’t go to any college.

    Looking up her bio and it appears Mama Grizzly kicked her cub out of her cave during high school, only taking her back when she became a national candidate.

    Palin attended Juneau-Douglas High School[10][11] In 2008, she briefly lived in Anchorage with her aunt and uncle and attended West Anchorage High School. She returned to Wasilla, where she graduated from Wasilla High School in May 2009.[12]

    The party of family values.

  15. 15.

    MomSense

    Those eggs look wonderful. Bet they have nice, orange yolks too.

    I’m dreaming of cakes and omelette now.

    There were no eggs at the farmers’ market last weekend so I’m out of luck.

  16. 16.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    In the continuing saga of the landlord painting the outside of this place, I think my landlord is colorblind. They’re painting the place a bright yellow, a dull yellow might be OK and blend in with the other houses. He also seems to schedule these projects to make my birthday as sucky as possible(last year was the bathroom fiasco with the hospital OR green walls).

  18. 18.

    Germy

    Dorothy Parker was at a party where guests were challenging one another to complete poems based on a few starting lines, or so the story goes. Parker was given the following two lines:

    Higgledy Piggledy, my white hen;
    She lays eggs for gentlemen.

    After a moment to gather her thoughts she finished the verse with the following lines:

    You cannot persuade her with gun or lariat
    To come across for the proletariat.

  21. 21.

    MomSense

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    I already have an ice dam on my roof and I added insulation and did all the things I was supposed to do to prevent this from happening. Did I mention that I’m afraid of heights and hate ladders?

  24. 24.

    debbie

    @Just Some Fuckhead:

    Yep. I predict it will be the focus of the campaigns and she will not be able to change the conversation.

    When he wasn’t bemoaning Palin as having become an extremist, this morning, Glenn Beck opined that Clinton should go to prison for the latest batch of emails.

  25. 25.

    MomSense

    @Germy:

    I write poems and make up stories that kids love and want me to repeat endlessly but I’m too chicken To try to get them published.

  26. 26.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    @Mandalay: LOL! those are the racist proletariats the Sandernstas insist they can recruit to join the great revolución!

    you need to tell fellow supporters, as much as possible, to easy off whitesplaining. Openly telling progressive whites or blacks, that “those people don’t know what’s good for them” isn’t a winning bumper sticker.

  29. 29.

    Pogonip

    That’s a nice batch of cackleberries.

    I will have a deviled egg now, I think.

    That is all.

    Except: vote for Baud.

    THAT is all.

  37. 37.

    MomSense

    @Germy:

    They bug me all the time to send them to a publisher. Maybe I should try this instead of all the stupid resumes and cover letters I’m doing now.

  40. 40.

    Just Some Fuckhead

    @debbie: It’s like a lose-lose. She’s the Mitt Romney of the Democratic party so she’s going to keep running until she finally wins something. One thing she has that no other candidate can match is unbridled fucking ambition.

  42. 42.

    Mustang Bobby

    Two college classmates — one from undergrad, another from grad school — are on my TV. William Charlton was Det. Katz in last night’s episode of “NCIS,” and Freddie Dawson will be on “Criminal Minds” tonight. Bill and I were at the University of Colorado Theatre Department together in the early-mid 80’s, and Freddie and I were buddies at the University of Miami in the early 70’s. Glad to see they’ve done well in their careers.

  43. 43.

    MomSense

    @debbie:

    Ha!! I bought some hose in eggs last winter. Probably need to go get some more. I put in more insulation (it takes about 5 showers to get rid of the fiberglass, itchy feel), removed the gutters, replaced and painted the fascia, replaced the damaged shingles, and rake the roof religiously. My front roof faces south so it melts during the day and freezes at night. The problem is that when the temperatures drop below 20-25, the ice melt doesn’t work very well.

  44. 44.

    Satby

    I hate job hunting. Had what I thought was a great interview, they even called me back the next day to verify I could work an evening or occasionally overnight shift, and haven’t heard from them since. Ugh!

  45. 45.

    Pogonip

    Success! I got the last deviled egg!

    Deviling will resume tomorrow. What do you put in your deviled eggs? I start with Miracle Whip, Plochman’s mustard, and celery salt. Unless we have deviled ham around when I skip any kind of salt. If there is no deviled ham I add whatever looks good.

    I skip the salt with capers, too.

  47. 47.

    Mandalay

    @David *Born in the USA* Koch:

    you need to tell fellow supporters, as much as possible, to easy off whitesplaining

    Heh. I was just reading how Bernie got eviscerated for whitesplaining why reparations are a bad idea:

    “Sanders says the chance of getting reparations through Congress is ‘nil,’ a correct observation which could just as well apply to much of the Vermont senator’s own platform,” Mr. Coates wrote. “If this is the candidate of the radical left — then expect white supremacy in America to endure well beyond our lifetimes and lifetimes of our children. Reparations is not one possible tool against white supremacy. It is the indispensable tool against white supremacy. One cannot propose to plunder a people, incur a moral and monetary debt, propose to never pay it back, and then claim to be seriously engaging in the fight against white supremacy.”

    Ouch.

    Don’t fuck with TNC.

  51. 51.

    bemused

    I was in dire need of a heartwarming story today when I was doing some reading about a Canadian group that sponsored Syria families recently on MPR. Macleans magazine had a piece on one family. The three kids experiencing snow sledding for the first time on youtube made me cry

  52. 52.

    WaterGirl

    @Mandalay: Maybe they need to add another question to that poll: Give them a list of states and Puerto Rico, etc, and ask them to check which ones are part of the United States of America. Check all that apply. See if they check Hawaii.

  54. 54.

    p.a.

    @Davebo:Oh, the dogs begin to bark and the
    Hound begin to howl
    Oh, the dogs begin to bark
    Hound begin to howl
    Oh, watch out, strange-kin people ’cause the
    Little red rooster is on the prowl

    If you see my little red rooster
    Please drag him home
    If you see my little red rooster
    Please drag him home
    There’s been no peace in the barnyard
    Since the little red rooster been gone

    Read more: Howlin’ Wolf – The Red Rooster Lyrics | MetroLyrics

  55. 55.

    Mnemosyne

    @MomSense:

    We have at least 4 published and 1 self-published authors who post here, so you may as well. We convinced JMN (Tissue Thin Pseudonym) to pursue writing rather than keep trying to get a crappy entry-level accounting job, and that seems to be going fairly well so far.

  56. 56.

    MomSense

    @Satby:

    I’m right there with you. Had a great job interview with a non profit that does work I believe in. The catch is that you have to fundraise to meet your salary. FML

  57. 57.

    debbie

    @Satby:

    People take longer to make decisions now. I don’t know why, but you shouldn’t give up hope until they tell you otherwise.

  58. 58.

    WaterGirl

    @MomSense: I’m sorry to hear that. Doing everything right and still having an ice dam – adding insult to injury! Maybe it’s time to bake that cake. :-)

  59. 59.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Mustang Bobby: I did have some famous folk that I went to college with, but being that my graduating class was about 5000, I didn’t know any of them.

  60. 60.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @dedc79:

    her [Palin’s] personal experience suffering from years of the most vicious and personal attacks directed at any current or former politician in the United States

    Really? Really?? As the kids today say, I. Just. Literally. Cannot. Even.

  66. 66.

    MomSense

    @Mnemosyne:

    I know I should but I have some kind of block. The last story I made up had a whole group of kids of various ages completely engaged. When I finished a four year old just said “more” out loud so I made up another story on the spot. I don’t know what’s wrong with me.

  67. 67.

    Mnemosyne

    @Mustang Bobby:

    A guy I knew in high school is doing pretty well as a supporting actor. It was especially weird to see him in a small part in “John Adams.”

    G went to high school with comedian/writer Thomas Lennon but didn’t really know him.

  68. 68.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Elizabelle:

    I’m hunkered down for the night, but when I was out a couple of hours ago it was raining (not yet a “wintry mix”) with the temperature hovering at 33°F. However, it’s supposed to get a few degrees warmer overnight and hit the mid-40s tomorrow.

  73. 73.

    MomSense

    @Pogonip:

    There are dollar stores and then there are Maine-buy anything from WD 40 to wedding dresses. Some of the hose disintegrate when exposed to oxygen but hey are cheap.

  74. 74.

    divF

    @Pogonip: But what currencies are hard enough to make for secure compensation ? Go with gold.

    @Baud: Careful with throwing around promises of graft. President Garfield was assassinated by a disgruntled office-seeker.

  77. 77.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    I’m stuck way north of Buffalo for a few days. Detroit weather looks good to me. It’s that bad.
    Things are not going well, but in defense of my customer the instructions for their new quarter million dollar high power laser do not explicitly say not to saw 2″ holes in the optical cabinet.

    I wonder how this Palin business shakes out for Trump. I doubt he gained any new supporters who were just waiting for their favorite half-term governor to bestow her blessing on a candidate. But there’s no such thing as bad press, and the press has been all about him lately.

  78. 78.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    @Mandalay: it is ridiculous of a self proclaimed Revolutionary, who repeatedly calls for Revolución, to say he can’t support an issue that can’t get 60 votes in the Senate. Revolution for me, but not for thee.

  81. 81.

    WaterGirl

    Signing off now. I have a friend coming for dinner in 5 minutes. She asked for pot roast and it smells yummy.

  82. 82.

    MomSense

    @WaterGirl:

    I may send you some audio files.

    This is totally terrifying. I’m actually very shy IRL which is why I loved theater so much.

  83. 83.

    Mnemosyne

    Though I probably shouldn’t be telling everyone else to write when I have a frickin’ writing degree and all I write is comments at this place. Sigh.

  90. 90.

    NotMax

    Recent weather apparently most amenable to citrus. Both the orange tree and the lemon tree in the yard are putting out grapefruit-size product.

    Sorely tempted to make an orange upside-down cake.

    Avocado tree, however, is currently showcasing scores of nubby little dark green rocks.

  91. 91.

    WaterGirl

    @MomSense: I would LOVE for you to send me some audio files. I would also gladly help with the process – not that I particularly know anything about it!

  92. 92.

    Felanius Kootea

    @lamh36: Saw that too. Obama is also responsible for Bristol’s pregnancies, the drunken brawls and the general tackiness of the Wasilla Wastrel’s brood. Nigerians use the term “lack of home training.” I think it very much applies here.

  94. 94.

    Mnemosyne

    I finally put my 10-year-old niece’s present in the mail today. My coworker reassured me that a kid would rather have a late present than no present. I got her a copy of “The Little Prince” (the Katherine Woods translation, thankyewverymuch), a set of bookplates with woodland animals on them, bookmarks to color in, a $15 Barnes & Noble card, and a Mad Libs birthday card. I think it will go over well.

  106. 106.

    Gimlet

    Bizarre

    http://www.clevescene.com/scene-and-heard/archives/2016/01/20/the-grand-jury-in-the-tamir-rice-case-did-not-take-a-vote-on-charges

    The grand jury that opted not to indict Cleveland police officers Timothy Loehmann and Frank Garmback in the shooting death of Tamir Rice never actually took a vote on the matter, according to the Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office.

    What actually happened in the most significant grand jury hearing in county history isn’t quite clear, and the mechanism by which the grand jury “declined to indict” — in Prosecutor Timothy McGinty’s own words — is equally unclear.

  107. 107.

    NotMax

    Received a belated holiday gift from someone hadn’t seen since before that time. Unwrapped it today.

    Not sure what it says about either them or about me. A bottle of homemade Krupnik.

  111. 111.

    Schlemazel

    @p.a.:
    Down the street the dogs are barkin’
    And the day is a-gettin’ dark
    As the night comes in a-fallin’
    The dogs’ll lose their bark
    An’ the silent night will shatter
    From the sounds inside my mind
    For I’m one too many mornings
    And a thousand miles behind

  112. 112.

    Pogonip

    @WaterGirl: I believe President Baud plans to shift the seat of govetnment to The House Next Door To Betty’s. He can always paint it white if necessary. VP Jane will move into the closest suitable tree.

    Still discussing whether Cheetah will be First Pet, First Chimp, or Secretary of State. (It is not widely known that Cheetah likes monkeying around with diplomacy.)

  119. 119.

    NotMax

    More to the topic, always liked this egg poster. Bought a framed one 40-ish years ago at Penn Station in NY and it’s hanging on the wall still, right by the entrance to the kitchen.

  121. 121.

    Germy

    @Baud: Perfect running mate for a pseudonymous virtual candidate. Your VP can hover and swoop over the audience for its town hall debate, and you can appear as comments on a laptop.

  123. 123.

    Mnemosyne

    @debbie:

    I hope so. This is one of my nieces who lost their dad to cancer this summer, and I read the book as a kid after my mom died.

    They did a new translation in 2000 that dumbed it down quite a bit, so I had to track down the Katherine Woods translation I remembered. I ended up sending her a copy I found in a used bookstore a couple of years ago — I guess I bought it for her and didn’t realize it!

  125. 125.

    MomSense

    @Mnemosyne:
    Ha!! Yes, I think a writers group with a non ADHD organizer would work. If your GEC does tv show length cartoons, we should put something together. My latest one would be perfect as a kids cartoon. Dog knows I have watched plenty animated tv series over the years.

  126. 126.

    Mnemosyne

    @Pogonip:

    You keep talking about Jane and chimps and it makes me think of Jane Goodall. Sadly, she was born in the UK and not eligible to be VP, but I would have loved to see her doing chimp calls during the State of the Union.

  129. 129.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    @dedc79:

    Couldn’t help noticing that Wasilla is dark red in the 2014 drug overdose map included in the recent NY Times story.

    you might remember that Bristol Palin’s baby day is Levi Johnston. Well Levi’s mother was arrested in 2009 and sent to prison for dealing drugs.

    Real Muerca!

  131. 131.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    @Cacti: Sanders’s supports peddle a fiction that he works so well with everyone. That to know him is to love him.

    So why hasn’t anyone endorsed him. Not even the liberal Vermonters Howard Dean, Pat Leahy, Peter Welch or Governor Shumlin.

    535 members in congress and only 2 endorsements. Where’s the great relationships and love we keep being told?

  132. 132.

    Cacti

    @David *Born in the USA* Koch:

    Sanders’s supports peddle a fiction that he works so well with everyone. That to know him is to love him.

    Bernie’s former colleague Barney Frank threw cold water on that notion months ago. More or less said Sanders was a self-righteous scold who elicited more eye rolls than legislation.

    Picking a fight with PP because he’s bitter at not getting their endorsement is some bush league stuff.

  133. 133.

    Pogonip

    @Mnemosyne: She can still do chimp calls during the State of the Union. In fact, Tarzan (Mr. Jane) also speaks fluent Pantroglodytese, so he can join her. President Baud will not discourage the making of chimp-like noises during his speeches. He will, in fact,encourage same. Poo flinging will also be encouraged as long as the poo is flung at opposing members of Congress. Tarzan, who has a pretty good flinging arm thanks to having been raised by apes, is already practicing with a picture of Senator Cruz. The citizenry is encouraged to join him.

  136. 136.

    Mnemosyne

    @MomSense:

    G is currently learning how to do online collaboration (his entire graduate program is online, so everyone has to take a 1-unit class to get them up to speed). I should see if anything he’s learning could be used for a writers’ group.

  137. 137.

    Pogonip

    I think hooting, screeching, and oo-oo-oo-ing should be done during ALL political speeches. (By the audience, I mean.) It would improve most of them.

  140. 140.

    dogwood

    @Cacti:
    It’s also notable that Elizabeth Warren isn’t jumping on Bernie’s bandwagon. I like Warren because she knows the areas where she has expertise and doesn’t try to pretend she’s an authority on issues she hasn’t spent her professional life working on.

  142. 142.

    David *Born in the USA* Koch

    @dogwood: The Sandernistas are furious with Elizabeth Warren for not throwing her considerable power behind Sanders, to the point that they’re actively trashing her, further undermining the fiction that Sanders works so well with others.

  145. 145.

    Pogonip

    If you were raised by wolves, apes, or armadillos, at least no one will laugh when you explain your parents didn’t understand you.

  146. 146.

    gelfling545

    @Felanius Kootea: I haven’t heard that phrase in quite a while. One of the parents at the school where I taught would occasionally remark that some kid “had no home training”. It became quite the byword in our school.

  147. 147.

    J R in WV

    @MomSense:

    Is that the “Red Cross”? They used to do good work, now they raise money to pay executive salaries. And that “Raise your own salary” stuff is for the birds, unless your only role is to fund-raise.

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