Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Don’t expect peaches from an apple tree.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

We still have time to mess this up!

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

An almost top 10,000 blog!

Republicans: slavery is when you own me. freedom is when I own you.

The willow is too close to the house.

This really is a full service blog.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

Despite his magical powers, I don’t think Trump is thinking this through, to be honest.

Incompetence, fear, or corruption? why not all three?

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

The GOP couldn’t organize an orgy in a whorehouse with a fist full of 50s.

Republicans don’t trust women.

The republican caucus is already covering themselves with something, and it’s not glory.

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  4. 4.

    dedc79

    “I was eating your Eggo Waffle,” the man said.

    “Let go my Eggo!” Fry responds.

    [Sound of gunfire.]

  13. 13.

    bystander

    …previously had said would leave the refuge if federal authorities promised them they would not be charged with crimes.

    Because nothing says “deeply held personal convictions” like plea bargaining.

    Mommeeee!!!!

  14. 14.

    cbear

    Yeah, it all starts innocently enough. One day you’re eating another guy’s Pop-Tarts—but soon enough you’re licking his ammo—and the revolution begins to crumble.
    It’s sad, really.

  15. 15.

    Redshift

    On Friday, the occupiers upped the ante on their demands to the FBI. They won’t leave the refuge 30 miles south of Burns, they said, unless they first secure pardons for everyone involved in the occupation – not just themselves.

    Previously, the four had said they would leave the refuge if federal authorities promised them they would not be charged with crimes.

    I have to admit, I’d be kind of fascinated to know what leverage they think they have to be making demands. And when they’re rejected, increasing their demands.

  17. 17.

    BruceFromOhio

    Can we mandate that as part of their jail sentence they be required to get high school degrees?

    Depending on the quality of inmate, this could be construed as cruel and unusual.

  19. 19.

    benw

    I don’t get the hostility. They’re sharing! That’s what we teach our children they should do!

  20. 20.

    PhoenixRising

    @Redshift: Yeah, this has been educational the last 72 hours. For anyone who doubted that white privilege exists…seriously, you’re negotiating? With what? It’s the idiot version of the sheriff taking himself hostage in ‘Blazing Saddles’.

  21. 21.

    Miss Bianca

    You know some poor schlub is going to get stuck trying to teach some of them something in the prison GED class. Probably just as well it’s not going to be me. “Now, Dave…you know the rules…no Pop-Tarts till you’ve finished your essay on the Whiskey Rebellion.”

  22. 22.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    I love cheese straws. Of course, I also love sweet things, but they tend to be upscale, expensive, very dark chocolate with something interesting lurking inside (bacon, or chili, or ginger, or — my current addiction — wasabi).

  23. 23.

    patrick II

    @Redshift:

    I have to admit, I’d be kind of fascinated to know what leverage they think they have to be making demands.

    Righteousness

  27. 27.

    scav

    It’s the Art of The Deal. They’re going to get Mexico to come in and pay for their wall too.

  28. 28.

    oldster

    But eating someone else’s pop-tarts without prior consent is rude!

    And they told me an armed society is a polite society!

  29. 29.

    Roger Moore

    @Redshift:

    I have to admit, I’d be kind of fascinated to know what leverage they think they have to be making demands.

    The key is the word “think”. My impression is that their current negotiations are based more on hope than on thought. The only logic I can think of is that they figure the feds want them out without bloodshed, and they’re giving up that leverage by leaving. It’s also possible that they don’t believe any of them will be let out without charges, so they’re desperately trying to negotiate for something most of them could already get just by leaving.

  30. 30.

    schrodinger's cat

    BTW, Zuckerberg has managed something only the British managed to do before him, unite Indians on the entire the political spectrum against his Facebook’s Free Basics.

    ETA: Facebook is being compared to the East India Company in Indian newspapers. It makes me lol.

  32. 32.

    hueyplong

    No way the Pop Tart dispute would proceed directly to gunfire. They’d convene a Citizen’s Grand Jury with a Federal “Superior Court” Judge passing judgment. Then gunfire.

  34. 34.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    Des Moines Register Poll (Ann Selzer) — Final Iowa Poll

    Clinton……………..45%
    Sanders…………..42%
    O’Malley……………..3%

    Trump………………..28%
    RafaelCruz…………23%
    Rubio………………….15%

  38. 38.

    jl

    I thought they were going to have a late Festivus and air grievances. Did that already happen?

    Edit: and won’t they have to put their guns down for the Feats of Strength?

  45. 45.

    NonyNony

    @jerri:

    They are stoned. Or, this is the result of years of drug abuse.

    Honestly, if they spent more time getting high on weed and less time getting high on faux patriotism and outrage, they probably wouldn’t be in this mess. The burnout I’ve known might talk about all sorts of stuff, but then they eat a bag of Fritos and move on to a new topic…

  46. 46.

    Tissue Thin Pseudonym

    Good lord, Bemidji State is hard to kill. Today it took overtime, despite the Gophers dominating the last two periods. Two 2-1 wins on the weekend, against the team that has given us more trouble over the last five years than any other.

  47. 47.

    M31

    @patrick II:

    @Redshift:

    I have to admit, I’d be kind of fascinated to know what leverage they think they have to be making demands.

    Righteousness

    Whiteousness

  48. 48.

    jl

    @NonyNony: They are just sad losers. I read in news reports after the leaders were arrested, and I guess more was known about the preparation, that they spent several months planning the refuge takeover. Months. Think about that. Months.

    And the first thing they had to do was send out an SOS for dry socks and snacks. When I read about how they harassed people in Burns, it was oafish and sad. From what I read, they just ran into random people who worked for the BLM (how, in what capacity, who cares?) and followed them home and threatened them.

    If these people won’t leave, maybe best hope is that they all fall into a postprandial stupor after bingeing on snacks, and the law can quietly walk in and disarm them, before gently waking them up. Politely, of course, for they are sovereign citizens and must not be disrespected.

  49. 49.

    Redshift

    OT: For some unknown reason I clicked through on a link to the Quad City Times (Davenport, IA) presidential endorsement. Luckily, they saved me a lot of time by only taking two sentences to say something so idiotic that I had no use for any other opinion they might express:

    Americans are tired of hollow rhetoric. They are tired of two parties that, in a lot of ways, mirror each other.

  57. 57.

    trollhattan

    Can we just wall them in like it’s a Palestinian enclave? They want the refuge office? Fine, Bucko, here’s your damn office and new world order base. Enjoy those Pop Tarts.

  58. 58.

    jl

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:

    Have to click through a few links to get to results on Jeb:

    A closer look at the GOP’s Iowa Poll results

    JEB BUSH
    Horse race rank: No. 7
    Support: 2 percent, down from 4 percent

    http://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/news/elections/presidential/caucus/2016/01/30/closer-look-gops-iowa-poll-results/79566664/

    Edit: Kasich is the only GOPer who I think is remotely qualified to be a president (in the sense that he probably is competent enough that he would be a total disaster mostly in ways that he intends to be a total disaster), doesn’t even appear. Is he at zero? Says something about our current GOP. Is there no link to the actual poll results?

  59. 59.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @Mike in NC: You can say that again. I’m not fond of Sanders, but I don’t hate him like I do Trump. But his supporters are so loony I can wait for this to end so they can return back to the woodwork. Sanders has plenty of rational people supporting him here, on this blog, but elsewhere it’s a complete break with reality.

  62. 62.

    Kay

    @David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:

    Why do you want them to go away?

    And it’s clear that, whether you support him or not, Sanders’s campaign is the home of the prevailing grass-roots energy in this race. The most recent financial reports, for the period that ended in October, showed that the amount Clinton raised from donors giving less than $200 decreased from $8 million to $5.2 million, while Sanders’s low-dollar take nearly doubled, from $10.4 million to $20.2 million. Clinton raised barely a quarter of the amount from grass-roots donors that Sanders did. Whatever the ultimate result, that shows the Sanders campaign has accomplished extraordinary things in volunteer mobilization and small-donor fundraising, period.

    No matter who wins, though, this primary season has shown — even before the voting begins — that our eventual nominee will need to figure out how their organization can replicate what the other candidate has done so well.

  64. 64.

    jl

    @Baud:

    I thought Baud! 2016! did not appeal to people capable of ‘considering’ stuff, whatever that is.
    I’d get tons of free food and beer to the caucus sites and get the word out. Put the gut into a ‘gut’ campaign.

  65. 65.

    jl

    @Kay: Thanks for interesting link.

    I support Bernally Clinters!

    Edit: Sorry Baud! 2016! The damn quarters you sent me for consulting work jammed the laundromat machines anyway. I’m done.

  66. 66.

    The Republic, Blah Blah Blah...

    @dr. bloor:

    I’m pleasantly surprised that Fry didn’t deem stealing Pop Tarts to be a capital crime and blow him away on the spot.

    And I’m sorely disappointed…

    W/ apologies to anyone who might have already made that point…

  67. 67.

    The Republic, Blah Blah Blah...

    @Miss Bianca:

    “Now, Dave…you know the rules…no Pop-Tarts till you’ve finished your essay on the Whiskey Rebellion.”

    Actually, w/ this bunch it’ll more likely be:

    “Now, Dave…you know the rules…no whiskey till you’ve finished your essay on the Pop-Tart Rebellion.”

  68. 68.

    Baud

    @jl:

    I support Bernally Clinters!

    If only W. hadn’t halted research into human-animal hybrids, we would have the technology now to make this happen.

  70. 70.

    jl

    @Baud: I thought Baud! 2016! was the perfect hybrid of sloth, irresponsibility, license, luxury and blind id. That is why I’ve supported you, even though you run your campaign on funny money and fart pranks.

    Edit: basically, Trump plus P O r N * S

    The GOP will be ready for you by 2020. At least, I hope it is that desperate by then. I’ll pray on it.

  76. 76.

    jl

    @trollhattan: I’d buy tunchcoins if BJgear sold them. They would white, fluffy, and Saturnine. Probably so dense they would create mini-black holes. Maybe they are all sent to CERN.

  78. 78.

    NotMax

    Come clean, the whole Pop-tart thing thing didn’t really get under your skin that much. You were just itching to use that post title.

    ;)

  79. 79.

    jl

    ‘Slush fund’ must mean daiquiri bar. Advantages of running a campaign out of booth in the French Quarter.
    Government will be efficient with Baud! 2016!

  82. 82.

    NotMax

    @jl

    running a campaign out of booth in the French Quarter.

    Baud ’16. A po’boy in every lunch bucket and a Sazerac in every hip flask.

  87. 87.

    jl

    @NotMax: The campaign is Jeb’s way of achieving his true destiny as a salacious semi-competent commercial lawyer running strip mall scams out of Tampa. Taibbi knew the truth.

  90. 90.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @Kay: Within Iowa, Clinton has out raised Sanders 2 to 1.

    Clinton…..$111,584 contributors 538
    Sanders…$.57,434 contributors 493

    who’s grass roots are longer. my answer is neither, as I don’t believe money equals speech or energy.

    As to Sanders’s online supporters. I should be more specific. I’m tired of going to a news site and having his supporters clog up posts attacking non-believers. Clinton’s supporters did the same in 2008. I, like most people, wanted the Clinton supporters to stop, as well. This cycle, it’s Sanders’s supporters who are out of control.

  106. 106.

    amk

    @Baud:

    what more candidates? given the 24×7 msm and cable noise, I thought it is a two candie race? looks like goppers don’t seem to like both of them that much.

  108. 108.

    Baud

    @amk:

    The media is focused on the most likely winners, but even poor Jebbie takes 2% away from Trump and Cruz.

  111. 111.

    Underpaid Propagandist

    Timothy McVeigh was into Pop Tarts as a last meal, no? Must be something in the corn syrup that waters the Tree of Liberty or something.

  113. 113.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @opiejeanne: A question for future US History students: Compare and contrast President Washington’s handling of the Whiskey Rebellion to President Obama’s handling of the Pop Tarts Rebellion.

  116. 116.

    opiejeanne

    @BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah, No fooling.

    I just told the moron next door that he was full of crap. He was blathering about how rotten Obama is and it got to be too much for me. I haven’t stopped shaking yet, and it’s my dear husband’s fault because they were out at the street shooting the breeze and as soon as I walked up DH asks these people about the Democratic Caucus system in Washington, as if either of them knew a damned thing about the state Democrats.

  118. 118.

    drdavechemist

    @Mike J: I had a pretty cool theory prof, but maybe that’s because his brother was Hal Linden of Barney Miller fame. You could definitely see the relationship.

  120. 120.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    David Brooks:

    My predictions have been wrong consistently, however Trump will under perform in Iowa.”

    Yes David, they’ve all been consistently wrong.

    I’m glad that the much maligned hawks are around to watch the images of Saddam’s statue falling and the torture chambers emptying. Paul Wolfowitz, Scooter Libby, Dick Cheney, and Donald Rumsfeld deserve their share of the glory.

    ~ The judgement of history indicting and convicting David Brooks on Apr 9, 2003

  124. 124.

    NotMax

    @Baud

    Can’t you just picture it?

    Legions of naked minions as far the the eye can see.

    All brandishing wet mops.

  126. 126.

    Baud

    @NotMax:

    “The field of battle was strewn with the bloodied, lifeless bodies of valiant warriors. A solitary immobile car stood quietly amongst them as a monument to their ultimate sacrifice.”

  131. 131.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Mike J:
    @efgoldman:

    I had great theory teachers/profs in high school and university.

    Of course, I also had a professor of 12-tone composition who gave me a disappointing B because I completed one assignment by setting the following original limerick according to Schönbergesque principles:

    This music that’s dodecaphonic
    I consider a joke quite ironic.
    How can I make incursions
    Into retro-inversions
    When I don’t even know where’s the tonic?

    The setting I composed was accurate, if admittedly uninspired. I think the lower grade was a result of his taking offence at the message of my doggerel.

  134. 134.

    benw

    @Baud: the rebellion fizzled when it was discovered that the mustard had just got put on the wrong shelf behind the mayo.

    After a bizarre and unlikely series of accidents involving the freezer door, an electric hair dryer, 2 buckets, and a copy of “Teen Beat” magazine, Cole was found unconscious in front of the fridge with the empty mustard jar clutched in his hand. It was later determined that Thurston had eaten the mustard.

  139. 139.

    I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet

    @raven: I was tempted to make such an observation as well, but resisted. I’m glad someone went there. It was too good to pass up! ;-)

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  140. 140.

    David *Rafael* Koch

    @Kay: money doesn’t equal speech or energy, it only equals disposable income.

    his top fundraisers are

    Google $50,776
    UC Berkeley $28,176
    Microsoft Corp $16,652
    Apple Inc $14,407
    Columbia University $12,058
    Amazon.com $11,572

    He’s raising money from Berkeley, Seattle, Silicon Valley, UpperWestSide (ie people with disposable income).

    That said, I am a true proletariat – I love Shameless

  150. 150.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @David *Rafael* Koch: Teh Google, eh? The wife took a trip last year with her friend from “the old country” to see her friend’s daughter. The kid works for teh Google and showed them around. The kid had yellow hair(she’s Korean).

  152. 152.

    Kay

    @David *Rafael* Koch:

    Oh, stop it. If I took individual donors and grouped them by employers I could say anything. You know the first time I heard this? John Edwards did it in a debate. He said Clinton was getting money from one or another “industry” because her individual donors were filling in “nurses” or “work at a bank” or something. Both Clinton and Obama called him out on it.

    In Iowa, a September Quinnipiac poll showed Sanders with a nineteen point lead over voters making less than $30,000, while Clinton led voters making over $100,000 by fourteen points. This week another Quinnipiac survey gave Sanders a four point lead overall, while showing income divisions sharpening even further:

    They could just make less because they’re younger, so that doesn’t mean anything either, really.

  154. 154.

    JPL

    Dave Weigel twitter feed had this gem
    VOTER AT BAR: “Who made Osama bin Laden?”
    BUSH: “Who… who made him?”
    VOTER AT BAR: “The CIA!”
    BUSH: “… all righty!”

    Jeb must be so proud, that his brother recruited these patriots. I must say he is earning his 2 percent support.

  161. 161.

    wvng

    @Redshift: Their leverage is actually decreasing, because they are now the primary actors in the crimes that Bundy Boys started – preventing federal officers from doing their jobs by force. Most could have just left a few days ago, but now there is no reason not to charge them under the same statute.

  166. 166.

    seaboogie

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    BTW did anyone see X-Files? Mulder has become a total crackpot. I had a crush on DD back in the day.

    My late husband worked on the X-Files as assistant Prop Manager during the first three seasons in Vancouver, before they moved to LA at the insistence of Duchcovny – so that he could be close to his new wife (who he then proceeded to cheat on madly). Most of the crew was considerably less impressed with him than he was with himself. Gillian Anderson was a fave amongst the gang though.

  171. 171.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @JPL: But he does have a point. Reagan though the CIA did fund and train bin Laden.

    PRINCE BANDAR: This is ironic. In the mid-’80s, if you remember, we and the United — Saudi Arabia and the United States were supporting the Mujahideen to liberate Afghanistan from the Soviets. [bin Laden] came to thank me for my efforts to bring the Americans, our friends, to help us against the atheists, he said the communists.

    Isn’t it ironic?

    KING: How ironic. In other words, he came to thank you for helping bring America to help him.

    PRINCE BANDAR: Right.

    KING: And now he may be responsible for bombing Americans.

    PRINCE BANDAR: Absolutely.

  173. 173.

    Prescott Cactus

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    All these dudes have (had) names I want to make rude poems of.

    There once was a man named Ammon,
    who tried to get his hands on,
    a few acres of land. . .

    it’s a work in progress.

  176. 176.

    MomSense

    There is something in the woods behind my house that is freaking my dog out. It’s probably a fox but I’ve heard coyotes recently. Whatever it is, pup is in full defense mode.

  177. 177.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    daveweigel ‏@daveweigel 2h2 hours ago

    The percentage of people who can hear this Jeb event steadily diminishes as people keep drinking and talking louder

    12 retweets 17 likes

    I waiting for Chuck Barris to GONG! ¿Jeb?

  182. 182.

    MomSense

    @Prescott Cactus:

    I’ve been thinking Gilbert and Sulluvan.
    I am the very model of a modern militia seditionist
    Like my father and my siblings I am strictly anti-federalist

  189. 189.

    redshirt

    @MomSense: That’s a horror movie trope.

    For real though, if you’re truly concerned, open a door to the woods and make some noise. If there’s some critter back there – and there probably is – most likely he/she will scamper with your noise.

    I’ve been reminding myself lately I live in their woods, not vice versa. I had a couple of too close encounters with porcupines this summer which has made me a little more guarded walking the grounds at night.

  190. 190.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @MomSense: I’ve heard a couple of things he’s done. I haven’t heard the full album yet. I like what I’ve heard so far.

    ETA: Late nights have been rather music free lately.

  191. 191.

    Prescott Cactus

    @MomSense:

    I’ve been thinking Gilbert and Sulluvan.

    MomSense,
    That got me thinking of Gilbert O’Sullivan. I had two of his 8 track tapes. He was almost a one hit wonder.

  197. 197.

    Gravenstone

    O/T: I just saw an honest to God (snerk) commercial for the Creationism museum. Their special offer, if you’re stupid enough to buy two tickets, they’ll give you four free. Desperate much?

  201. 201.

    Anya

    I listened to the militia’s liveblogg last night. Sweet Oh jeezus on a toast, they are delusional. They deal with their dissapointment in life by convincing themselves they are pure and everyone else is either corrup or a sheep. Zero contact with reality. But I was surprised that they don’t mention Obama that much. They’re more obsessed with Hillary’s supposed corruption than they are with Obama.

  204. 204.

    Aleta

    @MomSense: Sometimes these temperatures will wake up a bear, racoons or skunks to snuffle around for a few pop tarts before back to dozing. If any woods near you have been cut in the last year, it could change the winter hunting for a cougar and bring one into a neighborhood, esp. if there’s a chicken coop. Central Maine has had an increase in fisher population. None of those are much threat to us or a dog unless they feel attacked or cornered. Since the snow isn’t deep, they have lots of other food right now. I wonder what the tracks will look like tomorrow ?

  205. 205.

    redshirt

    @Omnes Omnibus: Who’s caligula?

    I was doing a “L1ttle B00ts impression”.

    I’ve tried making this reply three times now, so I wonder if there’s a forbidden phrase.

    Apparently, yes. LB’s very name is verboten.

  207. 207.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @MomSense: For my birthday gift, Mr. Q. got tickets to see the Dave Rawlings Machine in Louisville in April. They’ll do some Gillian Welch stuff, but mostly I think he uses their second tier songs for the Machine. Two years ago for my birthday I got to see Jason Isbell here in town; the closest he’s coming on this tour is Indy.

  220. 220.

    MomSense

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):

    Oh fun! I haven’t been to a concert in far too long. I did finally see Force Awakens last night and it made me feel like a kid again. I cheered when I saw the Millenium Falcon. Turned into a complete fool but it was fun.

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I don’t often get to be the one recommending music to the kids so thanks for that.

  224. 224.

    MomSense

    @efgoldman:

    It reminded me a lot of IV which is still my favorite. I saw it at a drive-in on a starry night in ’77. I was completely transported to a galaxy far far away.

  225. 225.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @efgoldman: The whole dynasty sucks. Fuck ’em.

    @MomSense: Once in awhile I am socially useful. I assume it is the one of the reason I won’t be one of the very first up against the wall when the revolution comes.

  226. 226.

    redshirt

    @MomSense: TFA is a soft reboot of IV in many ways. Certainly the plot almost mirrors the first Star Wars.

    But that works for me and obviously many others. As opposed to the prequels, where Lucas was clearly trying for something new (while tying it to the old – C3-P0 for example).

  227. 227.

    Gravenstone

    @Anya:

    They’re more obsessed with Hillary’s supposed corruption than they are with Obama.

    So they’re a forward looking bunch (of navel gazers), is that it?

  228. 228.

    Omnes Omnibus

    As long as we are on music, this song has been haunting me recently. That was was 100 years ago. It was supposed to end wars. The Dropkick Murphys do a surprisingly touching version.

  229. 229.

    redshirt

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    I assume it is the one of the reason I won’t be one of the very first up against the wall when the revolution comes.

    Sorry, but “The first thing we do is kill all the lawyers”.
    It’s Shakespeare, man.

  230. 230.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @redshirt: Shakey was bad at history.

    ETA: There are over a million lawyers. I am just assuming I come after the ones who wrote briefs approving torture.

  231. 231.

    A

    @efgoldman: They don’t hibernate, but seem to curl up for longer periods in the winter and then show up for a few nights when the temps go up. Especially the skunks when there is a spring-like feel to the night air. Maybe it’s the sound of running meltwater that brings the raccoons out ? Just observations from around here.

  233. 233.

    Prescott Cactus

    @Steeplejack:

    I think “Alone Again” and “Clair” count for at least one and a half hits, if not two. Keeping in mind it was the ’70s.

    Claire isn’t ring a bell, but “Ooh Baby” and “Get Down” did. No links. . . He’s doing a 2016 tour in Europe. Was very popular in Japan, so I read.

  240. 240.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @eemom: Since everyone gets it wrong (and will in the next revolution), I just wand John Yoo and his ilk to get it before me. And I hope he dies badly.

  243. 243.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    @Anya:

    I listened to the militia’s liveblogg last night. Sweet Oh jeezus on a toast, they are delusional. They deal with their dissapointment in life by convincing themselves they are pure and everyone else is either corrup or a sheep. Zero contact with reality. But I was surprised that they don’t mention Obama that much. They’re more obsessed with Hillary’s supposed corruption than they are with Obama.

    Are u sure it was milita’s liveblog? cuz is sounds just like GOS

  244. 244.

    Anne Laurie

    @A:

    They don’t hibernate, but seem to curl up for longer periods in the winter and then show up for a few nights when the temps go up. Especially the skunks when there is a spring-like feel to the night air.

    Yup — not true hibernation, but coons & skunks both hole up & mostly sleep, especially when there’s a ton of snow. Mating season starts February-ish, though, so on warmer nights the boys in particular will be out lookin’ for ladies. And when two male skunks decide to have a pissing match, well…

  249. 249.

    Prescott Cactus

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Honestly, I hope he never is mentioned again on this blog. I am not even being a proto-hipster when I say that. Dear god

    I have to agree. MomSence had mentioned Gilbert and Sullivan. . . My misspent youth included Gilbert O’Sullivan. I should have left him there.

    @Steeplejack:

    The title “Clair” is a link to the song.

    Steeplejack, got ya. I even listened to it but didn’t stir the neurons.

    Night all

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    Jenn

    Great. Evidently, 60-80 vehicles have descended on Burns this evening. The tweet says “rally,” though given what we’ve been hearing from some of these psycho dipshits, I wonder if they’re planning on being the extraction team to get the remaining four out of Malheur HQ. Link to the tweet here.

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    Matt McIrvin

    @efgoldman: The original actually has one tiny bit of honest-to-God CGI in it: the wireframe animation of the Death Star attack during the briefing scene. That was really computer-generated, and for the time it was a tour de force.

    I like that all the various Special Editions never replaced it.

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