No time to post right now, but it looks like y’all could use an open thread uncontaminated by partisan rancor, so here it is!
ETA: Goddamn, this is hilarious:
Summary if you can’t watch: Santorum goes on Morning Joe to endorse Rubio and when asked, can’t name a single Rubio accomplishment. He tries to excuse Rubio’s empty senatorial CV by saying there was gridlock because the Democrats controlled the Senate. When told the Republicans have controlled the Senate for a year now, he says Lil’ Marco was too busy campaigning for president to do anything, then starts whining about the unfairness of the question. Jeebus, what a face-plant!
Corner Stone
Where’s the fun in that?
I say we just say screw it and turn Balloon-Juice into the interwebs’ first virtual Brownfield Site.
SFAW
Partisan rancor?
Thanks, Obama.
NonyNony
Vote Baud!
dedc79
Truly a shame that Key & Peele’s show is done.
ETA: My vote is for Brodarious Hamm
oklahomo
Is “Thanks, Obama” the new “This is good news for John McCain”?
BGinCHI
I remember when this blog used to be all about the love.
Fair Economist
@BGinCHI:
Early Alzheimer’s?
FlyingToaster (Tablet)
I’ll take uncontaminated by concern trolling, thank you Betty.
It looks like we in Bwahstin will get some snow starting tonight. Hooray!
singfoom
Rancors are bi-partisan. They’ll eat anybody you throw their way.
Roger Moore
We’ll soon fix that!
Steve from Antioch
Ken Stabler had CTE:
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/02/04/sports/football/ken-stabler-nfl-cte-brain-disease.html?_r=0
Here’s just a few other NFL’s players similarly afflicted:
http://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2016/02/03/sports/football/nfl-brain-disease-cte-concussions.html
I wonder what kind of hole exists in someone’s life that they feel the need to watch football after knowing the tragic toll it exacts on its players.
Felonius Monk
I thought it said parmesan rancor and started to think maybe there was a bad cheese thread.
boatboy_srq
Two in-person interviews in as many days. I may be working again by March after all…
raven
@Steve from Antioch: The kind of asshole you are?
bystander
Is it too late to change my moniker to “Artisanal Rancor”?
Princess
Man, the GOP candidates all hate each other so much.
Iowa Old Lady
@boatboy_srq: Yay! Go you. Being paid is awesome.
Felonius Monk
@BGinCHI:
That was before campaign season started. BTW, what’s the norsk word for love?
boatboy_srq
@singfoom: Y’know, that’s where I went with that too… although Felonius Monks’ parmesan rancor was funny (although jerk rancor seems more appropriate: more spice, to make it at least remotely edible)…
singfoom
@Felonius Monk: A parmesan rancor will certainly rock your fort.
Germy
@dedc79: Key and Peele have a new movie coming out (Keanu) and the trailer is hilarious.
satby
I’ve just spent about two hours in a three way call fest between my oldest son, the homeowners insurance company, and the claims adjuster. About 3 hours ago a huge oak tree fell on the garage at the house in Chicago; though my son bought it on contract from me I still hold title. The garage and everything in it is destroyed, my son thinks it will collapse when they try to take the tree off.
But my coverage for this is replacement value, so aside from the horrible inconvenience, we should be ok. Pulled the power lines down off the house too, so now waiting for the power company to come handle the live wires.
scav
@Felonius Monk: Don’t brie silly, that theory is no a gouda one, it’s full of holes.
satby
@boatboy_srq: oh, very good luck to you! I’m keeping my fingers crossed for you.
raven
<block quote Alcohol Use in the United States:
Prevalence of Drinking: In 2013, 86.8 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they drank alcohol at some point in their lifetime; 70.7 percent reported that they drank in the past year; 56.4 percent reported that they drank in the past month.1
Prevalence of Binge Drinking and Heavy Drinking: In 2013, 24.6 percent of people ages 18 or older reported that they engaged in binge drinking in the past month; 6.8 percent reported that they engaged in heavy drinking in the past month.2
Alcohol Use Disorders (AUDs) in the United States:
Adults (ages 18+): 16.6 million adults ages 18 and older3 (7.0 percent of this age group4) had an AUD in 2013. This includes 10.8 million men3 (9.4 percent of men in this age group4) and 5.8 million women3 (4.7 percent of women in this age group4).
About 1.3 million adults received treatment for an AUD at a specialized facility in 2013 (7.8 percent of adults who needed treatment). This included 904,000 million men (8.0 percent of men in need) and 444,000 women (7.3 percent of women who needed treatment).5
Youth (ages 12–17): In 2013 an estimated 697,000 adolescents ages 12–176 (2.8 percent of this age group7) had an AUD. This number includes 385,000 females6 (3.2 percent of females in this age group7) and 311,000 males6 (2.5 percent of males in this age group7).
An estimated 73,000 adolescents (44,000 males and 29,000 females) received treatment for an alcohol problem in a specialized facility in 2013.8
Alcohol-Related Deaths:
Nearly 88,0009 people (approximately 62,000 men and 26,000 women10) die from alcohol-related causes annually, making it the third leading preventable cause of death in the United States.9
In 2013, alcohol-impaired driving fatalities accounted for 10,076 deaths (30.8 percent of overall driving fatalities).11
Economic Burden:
In 2006, alcohol misuse problems cost the United States $223.5 billion.12
Almost three-quarters of the total cost of alcohol misuse is related to binge drinking.12
dedc79
@Steve from Antioch: I wonder what kind of hole exists in someone’s life that they feel the need to fetishize guns after knowing the tragic toll they take on human beings.
Germy
Here’s santorum on morningJoe
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lfEnhD9cRtU
Is Santorum hoping to be VP??
FlipYrWhig
We wouldn’t have nearly this much partisan rancor if not for the millionaires, billionaires, and Wall Street!
satby
@Iowa Old Lady:
I have high hopes of that myself some day (LOL)!
BGinCHI
@Fair Economist: Who?
boatboy_srq
@Iowa Old Lady: Being paid is especially awesome when the S.O. wants to come visit and go sightseeing ,-). Three months’ enforced idleness has worn a bit thin: the first couple weeks were a nice rest, but after that…. As for the jobs, both good prospects, both a nice incremental career step, and good places. I may be working again by March.
BGinCHI
@Felonius Monk: Same as the word for cod.
NonyNony
@Felonius Monk:
I’ve been looking for a good recipe for Parmesan Rancor. Perhaps with a nice side salad and a bit of pasta?
jake the antisoshul soshulist
Even the other Theocons can’t stand Cruz.
A hated by the right people campaign has its
limits when everybody hates you.
Germy
@satby: Holy crap! Good that no one was hurt.
Iowa Old Lady
@satby: Oh wow. I’m glad no one was hurt. Hope the insurance and power companies come through quickly.
boatboy_srq
@satby: Thanks! I’ve been looking for a while – but the urgency ramped up just recently. Thank FSM for First Quarter and new budgets.
boatboy_srq
@satby: Yikes. Glad it’s property damage only. FYI I’m (also) house-shopping – for early next year, I think – and stories like this make me think renting isn’t so bad after all…
schrodinger's cat
My contribution to non-partisan rancor
Fun song with a great beat, Priyanka Chopra and Ranveer Singh are siblings in this movie (which I haven’t seen). Plus there is Anil Kapoor, who you may have be familiar because he played the game show host in Slum Dog Millionaire.
Miss Bianca
Santorum = Moral Derpitude.
satby
@Germy: Yeah. Huge tree, goes all the way through our yard (50 ft lot) and extends into the next yard, though the damage seems to all be at my house: garage and contents, kid’s car parked in front of the garage, pipe holding the wires to the house electric meter ripped off the wall, no idea if the meter itself is ok. Fully grown 100+ year old oak tree.
Edited to add, just glad no one happened to be home at either of the properties the tree fell into. No weather, just an old tree at end of life.
Germy
Felonius Monk
@scav:
That comment is whey over my head,but it’s stilton kind of funny.
Linda Featheringill
@boatboy_srq:
Good luck and positive thoughts!
oklahomo
@Germy: It’s his MO to try and slip in like that.
Roger Moore
@Steve from Antioch:
I want to stop paying attention to football because of the CTE issue, but I grew up a fan and it’s hard to give up old loyalties. I managed to avoid watching any games on TV this year (except when I happened to be somewhere with a TV that was already showing a game), but giving up entirely is harder than you’d think.
Germy
@Roger Moore: The Heroic Neurons That Made the Super Bowl Super
http://boingboing.net/2016/02/03/tom-the-dancing-bug-the-heroi.html
Germy
@oklahomo: RubioSantorum 2016!
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: Your luck is changing for the better. If this had happened last week you would have been in the garage when the tree fell.
MattF
@Germy: Hmm. Teensy bit embarrassing there for Santorum, but at least it’s air time for him… The deep bench strikes again.
Germy
Christie’s Plot Thickens…
Guardian UK: Chris Christie’s office ‘refusing to release Bridgegate emails’ – Attorneys say they have discovered that New Jersey governor’s office withheld ‘critical documents’ related to bridge affair as case returns to court
…they had “newly discovered” that the governor’s office had withheld “critical documents” originating from the days around the lane closures in September 2013 that gridlocked the town of Fort Lee.
oklahomo
@Germy: I first saw that as “Rub” not “Rubio,” and may never be the same.
scav
@satby: And it’s a calm day here, that was one enthusiastically tippy tree!
boatboy_srq
@oklahomo: You now owe me two liters of brain bleach.
OzarkHillbilly
@Germy: Treating congress with contempt. Probably the only time in his life he’s ever gotten anything right.
Germy
A Modest Proposal to Make New Jersey the First Primary State:
http://notesironbound.blogspot.com/2016/02/a-modest-proposal-to-make-new-jersey.html
boatboy_srq
@Roger Moore: My newest favorite athlete is Chris Borland: both for being a stellar player, and for getting out while he was still healthy.
Germy
@OzarkHillbilly: Trey Gowdy seemed especially irritated with him.
Benw
So Santorum is all over Marco? Got it.
Just One More Canuck
@bystander: and you can’t spell artisanal without anal
Germy
@boatboy_srq: With all the publicity around the O.J. Simpson mini-series, people are wondering if brain damage contributed to the whole thing. (I mean O.J.’s brain damage, not cable TV’s)
boatboy_srq
@Betty Cracker @top: re: Santorum on Morning Shmoe: when your focus is on controlling ladybits and oppressing qu33rs, little things like normal Senate business don’t capture your attention. That absolute faceplant couldn’t have happened to a nicer
wankerguy.boatboy_srq
@Germy: I actually think you’re right on both counts…
Germy
“After the Sixties, the right wing gave us pop culture, but took over everything else. And convinced us that pop culture was all that mattered.”
lurker dean
wow, this completely explains today’s republican party:
http://motherboard.vice.com/read/the-louder-the-monkey-the-smaller-its-balls-study-finds-42361364663309
h/t someone on twitter i can’t remember..
Hal
I can’t wait for this political season to end and it’s only February 4th. Originally I was thinking it was great to have Sanders and Clinton duking and out, and I still mostly do, but I’m weary of months of purity politics and back and forth and why who you support sucks. Either candidate is miles above anyone on the repub side and I’m pretty sure most people know that and will turn out even if their fave isn’t the nominee. I’m just not looking forward to months of primaries and debates and arguments. Makes me hope super Tuesday is the end.
oklahomo
@boatboy_srq: Just two? You can have what’s left when I finish drinking mine…
OzarkHillbilly
@Germy: No way. I hate Jersey almost as much as Texas. ;-)
kindness
@Steve from Antioch: Damn Steve. Some of us like football. I am not a purity troll unlike some people (cough cough).
Germy
@OzarkHillbilly: Did you see the bumpersticker at the top of the blog? Map of Jersey, “We Don’t Like You Either”
Should be state motto.
boatboy_srq
@oklahomo: Something something Rubio something Floppy Rooster something mojitos something. Santorum was inevitable; so two liters will be sufficient.
Germy
@Hal: This thread was supposed to be the antidote to that. The Berniac vs. Hilbot battle is downstairs, in “Abuse”
This is the argument clinic.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Germy: doesn’t New Jersey necessarily include the most expensive media market in the country? and Philadelphia, which must be pretty costly? Atlantic City? Trenton?
I was thinking of Maryland or Missouri– border states, good mix of big city and rural. Or pair Iowa with another state (MD), and NH with say AZ, CO or NM? OR? MN? WI? random thoughts, I haven’t done the math
john b
@Germy: Someone actually did a study on the most representative state and it turned out to be Illinois. I didn’t read it here, but I think this is the source:
link
TLDR:
Iowa Old Lady
@Hal: Sing it.
OzarkHillbilly
@Germy: I like that. I used to have a t-shirt that said, “I’m from Missouri and I will shoot you.” Believe it or not, some people just didn’t get it.
Steve from Antioch
@Roger Moore:
I know what you’re saying. My family still has Packers seats and I will watch them a couple of games a year.
But it’s sort of like candy or booze – you just have to step away even if it is fun at the time.
The NFL is following the big tobacco playbook – hey everybody knows the risks, right? In a perfect world there would be public service commercials during football games showing injured middle aged players who can hardly walk because of arthritis just so the public sees what its really supporting.
Villago Delenda Est
Marco is pathetic. As lame as the ¡Heb! “Boots are made for flippin'” spot is, it’s right on about how pathetic Marco is. What a waste of skin.
MomSense
It is in the 50s today and everyone is wondering when we are going to pay for this mild weather. The first four or five days everyone was just happy and now we are all pretty sure that mother nature is planning her revenge.
Germy
@john b:
Which makes it a wonderful vacation destination.
Germy
@MomSense: I remember last year when the temperatures were below zero and the sidewalks were solid sheets of ice. I’m expecting a freak storm at the end of March. Just to teach us not to be too complacent.
CONGRATULATIONS!
It is unfair. Santorum just wants to plow Rubio’s hot tight ass until one of them dies, but can’t say that on the teevee machine, now can he?
Paul in KY
@bystander: that would make a good band name. All riot grrl punk band.
Paul in KY
@satby: Thank God it didn’t fall on any person/pet.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@kindness: I like football. I have enjoyed it for decades. I can tell a mildly amusing/slightly sad story about meeting Greg Cook if anyone is interested.
I was tangentially involved in one of Chris Henry’s legal issues without making an appearance as counsel of record. I had actual affection for him as was a thoughtful young man who kept getting into stupid situations. I remember seeing an article about some new foolishness and wondering “why does that kid act like he don’t have any sense?”
I was frustrated, because having met him, I believed he had such potential as a talented player and a kind human being. I was quite sad when he died, and saw it, at the time, as another incident of puzzling foolishness that this time turned out to be fatal. I felt some real shame to learn of his CTE, because it explained so much of the behavioral issues – and I was embarrassed that I’d been too annoyed with a young man I liked to consider the potential underlying biology. My embarrassment was especially sharp because I have some much exposure to and experience with in behavioral neuroscience; I lecture at a med school.
So I no longer enjoy watching football, for very personal reasons, although I follow the sport. But I’ll be goddamned if I’ll criticize anyone who does. Not my job. And I am relieved to hear Johnny Football will be looking for a new gig in March.
Paul in KY
@boatboy_srq: Hope you are working ASAP!
trollhattan
@BGinCHI:
Which afternoon was that, again?
geg6
@Germy:
Ha! Was just reading through the thread and was going to say the exact same thing when I saw your comment. Great minds and all that.
Paul in KY
@Germy: That & his being a coke fiend & maybe genetic, as his birth father was a complete loon.
chopper
@Germy:
no it isn’t.
Paul in KY
@Steve from Antioch: I know what’s happening. Have seen it for years. Am for making game safer. Maybe need to go helmetless & also mandate only ‘wrapup tackles’ as a start.
Germy
@geg6: We are all part of the balloon-juice hive mind.
Germy
@chopper: It most certainly is.
Germy
So many high-profile people have admitted lately that they wouldn’t allow their sons to play HS football. Even the guy who created “Friday Night Lights”! At some point, who will play the game?
Ridnik Chrome
@Germy: Where is that quote from?
Germy
@Ridnik Chrome: I’m not sure. Frank Zappa maybe? Can anyone here identify it?
D58826
@Germy: As far as Mr. Shkreli as a ‘human being’ is concerned I think only a new level in Hades is the proper place for him. On the other hand that he had the stones to treat our congress critters with the contempt, and in their own conference room, they so richly deserve as well as calling them poor excuses for public servants probably does earn him an extra bottle of water once a year in that 10 level.
On another topic Hillary’s ‘;top secret’ e-mails. The GOP has been banging the drum for an indictment on misuse of government secrets. On twitter there is a dude name John Schindler who has been pushing the top secret angle for weeks. He claims that he has a rough idea of what is in those 22 e-mails based on his inside the intelligence community sources. Which raisers the question why is he in possession of the information and who in the government is leaking it to him. The best part however is today he said he would be happy to see Colin Powell and Condi Rice in jail if they had top secret info on a personal e-mail account. Well from his mouth to Elijah Cummings ears. According the to congressman both Colin and Condi had top secret info on private e-mail accounts. The FBI apparently is talking to Powell about it. I guess you can make a distinction between a private e-mail account and a private server but seems like a distinction w/o a difference to me.
Without claiming that the Clinton’s are as innocent as new born babies in the political world, I’ve always wondered how many other politicians could withstand the level of investigation that the Clinton’s have been subjected to. Ken Starr spend 6 years and 100 million dollars and all he came up with was a consensual blow job. Yet it is an article of faith among the very serious people in Washington that the Clinton’s are crooks and operate outside the law. No wonder Hillary acts paranoid at times about her privacy.
maurinsky
As someone who isn’t actively supporting either Bernie or Hillary (I will be actively engaged with whichever candidate emerges from the primary, and I haven’t decided who I’ll be voting for then although I’m leaning Bernie) I can say that both sides have plenty of people who come off like assholes!
Miss Bianca
You mean, Santorum didn’t point to Rubio’s proposed immigration legislation? Oh, wait…
CONGRATULATIONS!
Huh. Gun pimp has issues with the NFL making money off of people who die. There’s another organization like that…name escapes me…starts with an “N”…ah well, it’ll come to me.
Got news for you. Anyone who didn’t burn all their NFL crap on learning that Michael Vick, dog torturer and murderer, would be let back in the league after a token punishment, no questions asked, isn’t going to give two shits about some guy dying with holes in his brain caused by the game.
Of course, the NFL only profits off the deaths of a few dozen people a year. The NRA makes their thirty pieces of silver from the deaths of a couple of dozen people a day.
chopper
@Germy:
sorry, the five minutes is up.
Steeplejack (phone)
@dedc79:
Obligatory: East-West College Bowl.
trollhattan
@Germy:
“Ladies and gentlemen, welcome to tonight’s matchup of the Aleppo Assassins versus the Veracruz Vandals!”
Finally, an immigration policy everybody can support.
Amir Khalid
As I understand your Congress, Republicans aren’t elected to it to accomplish things. They are elected to keep Democrats from implementing their dangerous, socialistic, tax-and-spendy, big-government ideas. So Marco Rubio may have no legislative successes to boast of, no vital committee work to his credit, no significant deals ushered in by his wisdom. But neither does the Democratic party, and that’s the important thing.
Roger Moore
@Steve from Antioch:
Comparing them to big tobacco is at least somewhat unfair. The players do know about at least some of the risks of playing, and the NFL has always been up front about them. Nobody pretends there isn’t a risk of traumatic injury, and nobody who gets to the point of playing in the NFL is naive about the risk of cumulative bodily injury. And at the NFL level, they’re compensated for accepting those risks; you can argue about the level of compensation, but they’re getting paid.
The thing that makes the CTE risk so nasty is because it was something that players didn’t generally know about and something the NFL kept secret once they found out about it. The dishonesty, and the different nature of the risk, is what I find so concerning about CTE. And I am trying to give up watching the NFL, but giving up watching and giving up caring are two very different things.
trollhattan
@CONGRATULATIONS!:
I too had heartburn over Vick’s reinstatement but do not consider prison time as token punishment. Now if you’d like to talk Adrian Peterson and Greg Hardy, I’m all ears.
Paul in KY
@Amir Khalid: Sound analysis, unfortunately.
Germy
@trollhattan: Vick was forced to pay a lot of money to various animal charities. (Good.) All those sad TV commercials with abused dogs and cats? He paid for those. No way they could have afforded all that air time without him.
chopper
@Amir Khalid:
that’s pretty much it.
Seanly
@Germy:
So a bunch of smug assholes had to deal with talking to an even more smug asshole who didn’t want to play the game properly?
gex
@Steve from Antioch: I like to remind my “they know the risks” friends that these players start in grade school, well before they can evaluate much less understand that risk. They are encouraged by trusted adults (parents, coaches, teachers) to enjoy it and put their efforts for getting into college into it.
Germy
“Government is the Entertainment division of the military-industrial complex.”
― Frank Zappa
trollhattan
Out of the mouths of
babeswhales, some truth-telling/desperate flailing.NonyNony
@Germy:
Kids from poor families, who view a path into the NFL as the only way out (much like a lottery ticket).
scav
Martin Shkreli is the very face and essence of the American Dream for many — he’s just happens not to be running for office like Donald Trump. He knows government is the problem and is maximizing his personal gain, as all should do. That is the face many hope to see reflected in their mirrors every morning.
Also, finally a meeting of the neurons and thread to post these. Have they already been covered?
Woody Guthrie, ‘Old Man Trump’ and a real estate empire’s racist foundations
Woody Guthrie: fighting Donald Trump from beyond the grave
Ridnik Chrome
@Germy: Sounds like something Zappa would have said. Weird to think he’s been gone for over twenty years now. I would have liked to hear his reaction to Ted Cruz…
catclub
@chopper: I told you once.
catclub
@scav: Yes, they have already been reported on. Not sure if they had gotten to
BJ, though.
Germy
@Ridnik Chrome: I wish we still had Molly Ivins around to analyze the current GOP
Paul in KY
@trollhattan: Good point by the Jersey Whale (considering it is a GOP primary)
Germy
@NonyNony:
Or ancient Roman gladiators?
Iowa Old Lady
@trollhattan: Does Rubio really not support an exclusion even for the life of the mother? I did not know that.
Germy
@Iowa Old Lady: Rubio is not a moderate, he just plays one on TV. When you hear a list of his ideas, he’s in darth vader territory.
But he just might be the lunatic smiley face they’re looking for.
scav
@catclub: So, covered in the US MSM? I don’t watch any, so good to know. I didn’t think I’d seen it on BJ, but I’ve rather tuned out with the constant grumpiness on fewer topics. My personal RDA of ranting needs multiple topics, otherwise I get rickets and scurvy.
Ridnik Chrome
@trollhattan: Too little, too late…
trollhattan
@Iowa Old Lady:
Policywise Rubio and Cruz are identical on all but a couple of points. One of them just happens to look (and behave) like a necrophiliac.
Ryan
Can no one learn on the right? Dammit, double down! Tell them you’ve seen tape of Marco doing all of the things!! ATTACK THE HOST!!!
catclub
@D58826:
I heard a report that it is likely to be water cooler discussion of drones.
Drones are ( apparently) like nuclear secrets – classified at birth. So if a scientist has come up with a neat nuclear weapon idea on his own, that is automatically classified. So discussing the latest drone strike on a wedding party,
if you are a member of the government, makes it classified. Never mind it was on all the Pakistani TV stations.
It is still secret. This is what the emails could be about. Ex Post facto classification.
Stupid system.
catclub
@scav: I had already read about those songs when I heard the report on NPR.
Does NPR count?
D58826
@trollhattan: The problem of course is figuring out which one is and which one isn’t based on their ideas and stump speech.
catclub
@trollhattan: Or blog host favorite Rapelisberger.
Iowa Old Lady
@Germy: @trollhattan: I know he’s not moderate but saying let the mother die is harder core than I realized. I guess that answer my question about how they’d come down on ectopic pregnancies if they pass a personhood bill.
MomSense
@Felonius Monk:
kviik lunsj. Well, it’s mine anyway.
singfoom
From Naked Capitalism: NYTimessplaining Bad Loans still hanging around
It’s almost as if we should have reformed the financial system more in 2008. Maybe, like Iceland did, or we ourselves did in the 1980s with the S&L crisis.
Shana
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Virginia’s pretty purple lately. Big urban areas – NoVA and Richmond and Hampton Roads. Lots of rural too, horses, farming, edge of Appalachia in the far southwest. Coastal areas.
MomSense
@Germy:
That is what we are all expecting.
boatboy_srq
@Germy: Wait. Vick gave the HSoA and other animal rights/shelters non-profits, and they used those funds to make commercials? Not actually providing the services they indicate? That’s fugly.
Schlemazel
Open thread topic
Am I the last to learn that Mrs Ted Crudz had a mental breakdown a few years ago and needed to be picked up from a highway and transported home by the cops?
What would the kiberal media done with that story if it were Mrs Obama or Kerry?
Schlemazel
I may change my nym to “parmesan rancor” l need a change and that fits
HRA
@Amir Khalid:
If possible, I suggest you watch some of the hearings and sessions of our Congress (both houses) and when both parties are in the majority. Besides having to catalog their hearings and other materials for our Government Documents section, I watched them when I was unable to do anything else except be sedentary after an accident. I will abstain from giving my opinion though I would be interested in reading your opinion. .
trollhattan
@Iowa Old Lady:
I think I was guilty of projection with li’l Macro, imagining him to be somebody he’s not. Within the last week I read an article comparing his policy positions point by point against those of Cruz and in all but two they were in complete lockstep. But do they have the same thirst for power? [boy, I crack myself up].
Archon
@Iowa Old Lady:
Rubio’s views on abortion is not a sustainable general election position. I’m positive that if he got the nom his views on abortion (and immigration) would “evolve”.
Felonius Monk
@trollhattan:
Which one?
Felonius Monk
@MomSense:
Sounds good to me. A lot better than cod.
Schlemazel
@trollhattan:
The other looks like the necrophiliac’s target
Germy
@boatboy_srq: That’s what I was told, anyway.
@Schlemazel: First time I heard anything like that. Where did you read that?
trollhattan
@Schlemazel:
Had not heard that before. Did she suddenly come to the realization of who she married? That would just about do it.
I don’t recall anybody making political hay out of Laura Bush having run a stopsign and killed a high school classmate. But Hillary did have those guys killed (such a trail of victims!) so there’s that.
boatboy_srq
@Germy: Shkreli is the prime example I point out whenever some Reichwingnut complains about ACA or how Medicare D can’t possibly negotiate drug prices because “research is expensive” or some such bullsh!t.
boatboy_srq
@trollhattan: Probably not, but that’s water down the gullet.
Mustang Bobby
@boatboy_srq: Wait, what? I thought you had… Call me, boatboy_srq.
boatboy_srq
@Schlemazel: Dems have “disqualifying history”; Teahadis have “unfortunate moments of unclear thinking.” Same as it ever was, turned up to 11 since 1993.
Schlemazel
@Germy:
Gawker & a UK site has the police report.
I’ll try to get link but on my phone so it might note work
boatboy_srq
@Mustang Bobby: Our loverly federal machinery at work: background work is taking weeks not days, and I’m tired of waiting. New interviews are closer / easier-commute locations, plus better career prospects.
boatboy_srq
@Germy: Wow. You’d think that Vick would have had better counsel on that matter – oh, wait…
Peale
@boatboy_srq: exactly. She can just say the thought of two gay married office workers at Goldman Sachs had driven her off her rocker in disgust. Or that she was worried about a ground zero mosque filled with Ebola infected mexican pre-teens that liberals were letting in the country and his approval ratings would shoot up 5 more points.
Schlemazel
Here is a link to the story on Heidi Cruz.
I have no desire to make an issue of this just fascinated that the media and his felloe lamprees have been kind enough to not mention it. I doubt a dem would be so lucky
jl
@D58826:
Oh Noes! How Could This Be
TPM
“Colin Powell and Condi Rice had classified info on their personal email accounts too. How could this be. I guess this story [HRC email BS fake scandal] must be over now.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/edblog/oh-noes-how-could-this-be
Iowa Old Lady
@Schlemazel: When I read that she had to retreat to her hotel to take multiple showers a day, I figured she wasn’t well. I’d hope that rivals and the press would treat her depression and whatever else as an illness, if they feel the need to mention it at all.
I remember Thomas Eagleberger (was that his name? McGovern’s VP candidate who had to drop out because he’d been treated for depression). I hope we’ve changed somewhat.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: True that! LOL
satby
@scav: yeah, and I told my son to mention that too. But REALLY old tree, it was just its time.
Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)
Found out yesterday I am probably going to have 2/3 of my 1 gallon bladder removed in an effort to stop the constant infections. I need a second opinion but I am 0 for 4 in finding a urologist I trust to remove a wart
boatboy_srq
@D58826:
Speaking from a purely pragmatic perspective, it’s one more reason I support HRC. Either she and Bill were unfairly targeted, and the Reichwing fantasy-grift machine just can’t accept that they haven’t done anything illegal or detrimental to the nation, or they’re far better at whatever it is they’re supposed to be doing than most. But either way that’s a strong argument for supporting HRC; either she’s strong enough to withstand decades of pseudomoralizing jihad out for her personal hide, or she’s good enough at hiding bodies so they’ll never be found, and either talent is useful for a POTUS. (I personally think it’s the former: two-decades-plus of unremitting investigation should have turned up something actionable, and so far the worst they have is “she was on the same planet when…”. However, if in fact she really has a skeleton or two hidden in her closet, the fact that after all this time nobody has found it and reported it is a significant achievement.)
Aleta
Recent fossil digs have offered convincing evidence that a small bevy of Rancorsaurus nudum were able to thoroughly intimidate an entire covey of Tyrannosaurus rex.
CONGRATULATIONS!
@boatboy_srq: Vick was not the source of that money. The NFL was. And yes, instead of providing services, they did media. With an NFL logo attached.
Corrupt to the bone, but what else would you expect from an organization that provides safe harbor, legal defense, and posh lifestyles to murderers, rapists, and animal abusers?
chopper
@Iowa Old Lady:
Eagleton. Eagleburger worked for reagan.
ETA: and bush I.
Iowa Old Lady
@chopper: That’s right! Thank you.
Steve from Antioch
@CONGRATULATIONS!:
I really think that the only solution is to publicly shame people who support the ongoing rape and brain-damage festival that is the NFL.
The NFL will keep doing what they’re doing as long as they can continue to suck money from the public.
There came a point a a few years ago when the public attitude about smoking changed and people didn’t hesitate to say how disgusted they were by smoking. People who smoked knew this and smoking stopped being “cool.”
catclub
@Schlemazel:
Wait until he is the nominee and it makes a difference?
Never released the Whitey tape before Obama was the nominee, did they?
Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)
@Iowa Old Lady:
Yeah, Eagleton. As a guy with depression I am constantly amazed at how people treat suffers as if they took orders from their dog and ate small children. We have had 2 presidents who were vegetables( Wilson & Reagan so the fl shouldn’t be a problem but I have no confidence the gop would grant the same kindness to a dem
Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)
@Schlemazel (parmesan rancor):
Why is this in moderation? No link no banned words as far as I can tell.
Schlemazel
Forgot that nym changes get tossed to moderation! Help please?
D58826
@jl: Nope the first line of defense is that since Colin and Condi aren’t running for president then it was ok. Second line of defense is that was all so yesterday.
In the meantime the GOP won’t authorize any money for Flint because they are looking for an offset to pay for it. So they will give Flint 10 million dollars to fix the pipes and take 10 million dollars from food stamps to pay for it. People now have choice destroy children with lead poisoning or malnutrition. I’m so glad the GOP is pro-life. Imagin e what they would do if they wern’t
D58826
@boatboy_srq: I guess the only flaw in that argument is they didn’t make Ken Starr and Newt, as my young nieces like to say, ‘mis-appear’
glory b
@trollhattan: I know, right. Love dogs, LOVE my dog and can’t stand the idea of animal abuse, but beating your child until his scrotum bleeds, and no one says much about it now.
If he got the same from his parents (which is what he claims) then he needs some therapy. IIRC, this was the a child of his he rarely if ever saw, and was getting his children form his various childrens’ mothers so they could all get to know one another. A fight between two toddlers over a toy shouldn’t have resulted in that type of punishment (well, nothing should).
Mnemosyne
Folks, the only reason known NRA troll Steve in Antioch brings up the NFL concussion scandal is so he can claim to be morally superior to Betty Cracker, a person who slipped on the brain matter of her coworkers when she was escorted out after an office shooting.
That’s the kind of assholes gun fans like Steve in Antioch are — they’re so desperate to hold on to their toys that they’re happy to smear victims of gun violence.
Peale
@CONGRATULATIONS!:
Not to be a Vick apologist, but the punishment wasn’t actually token.
chopper
@Iowa Old Lady:
i just love the idea of an honest-to-god eagle burger.
Mnemosyne
@Steve from Antioch:
You mean the same way a majority of Americans have stopped owning guns and only a small minority of assholes keep insisting on their “rights”?
You can’t smoke within 200 feet of an elementary school, but you can walk right in there with a gun.
Central Planning
@Iowa Old Lady:
Do you think they would go for murder 1 against the fetus?
PurpleGirl
@Schlemazel: I’m not sure (and will research it in a bit) but, IIRC, Kitty Dukakis was on medication at one point, and maybe Mrs. McGovern or was it Mrs. Mondale (but one of them broke into tears when talking about it) and the media just hit them horribly. It was mentioned about Mrs. Bush but she wasn’t pilloried for it the way Mrs. Clinton has been piled on at different times.
FlipYrWhig
@trollhattan:
Typo or intentional? I hope it’s the latter. I like it. Rubio is so programmed he should be Macro Rubio.
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
@Germy: They won’t hold him in contempt, because he’s rich, and the rich are above contempt no matter how contemptuous they are.
Matt McIrvin
@jl: This report about Rice and Powell’s email really confuses me, not because I’m surprised, but because I thought this had been common knowledge for months.
Mike in DC
They should have just run the dozens on Shkreli: Mr. Shkreli, isn’t it true that your momma is so dumb…
trollhattan
@FlipYrWhig:
Sometimes my brain (bwaaain) just takes over and I don’t know where these things come from. I’m stowing this away along with Marco and Cheese in case he somehow gets the nom.
Bobby Thomson
@Matt McIrvin: so was the “news” about Clinton having retroactively classified info on her server. It gets an article because Elijah Cummings requested the information to remind people.
jl
@Bobby Thomson: I agree. People with their eye on the ball with power to make it happen, like Cummings, are releasing old news in order to force it into the brain dead Tiger Beat political news cycle.
redshirt
As I recall Tony Stark was pretty contemptuous of Congress too, and look where he’s at now!
What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?
Also, Santorum totally landed that faceplant! That was some Mary Lou Retton caliber tumbling.
Roger Moore
@Mike in DC:
that she didn’t strangle you when she had the chance?
kc
Imo we need daily pet pictures, as relief from the partisan rancor.
Steve from Antioch
@Mnemosyne:
You’re a real whackadoodle. You spend a lot more time thinking about my guns than I do.
I know that you’re to self-regarding to understand this concept, but not everything in this world revolves around your or whoever you are white-knighting for at the moment.
Steve from Antioch
@Mnemosyne:
Plus which, you are a very, very stupid and misinformed person: http://hotair.com/archives/2015/10/12/california-governor-signs-new-law-banning-guns-at-schools/
That is on top of this, which has been the law in California since 1995:
You’re in California, right?
Maybe you should try to learn just a tiny bit about these topics before you open your pie-hole.
Paul in KY
@Schlemazel: That story may get out in S. Carolina. Probably will ‘punch it up’ a little too.
Paul in KY
@glory b: Supposedly he was trying to make the little tough guy cry, and the kid wasn’t crying.
No excuse for that behavior, IMO.