Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

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

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

A thin legal pretext to veneer over their personal religious and political desires

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Motto for the House: Flip 5 and lose none.

Perhaps you mistook them for somebody who gives a damn.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

Good lord, these people are nuts.

Peak wingnut was a lie.

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

Let us savor the impending downfall of lawless scoundrels who richly deserve the trouble barreling their way.

And we’re all out of bubblegum.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

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

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

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

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

I really should read my own blog.

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  4. 4.

    jacy

    Trying to pack up my house to move — after 15 years of small children, there are so many LEGO everywhere that I could just build another house….

  10. 10.

    divF

    @jacy: In December 2008 I was scheduled to have a meeting with a budget examiner from OMB. I got there, and he told me he had to cut the meeting short – he had won the office lottery to go to the White House Christmas party for the EOP staff. He was all dressed up for the occasion, including a really sharp-looking set of Lego cufflinks and tie clip.

    So there is another use you can put the leftover Legos to.

  15. 15.

    Steeplejack

    It’s woofy cold here in NoVa: 25° now and going down to 17° overnight. Then only 20° tomorrow and 10° Saturday night. I’m driving to Rehoboth Beach tomorrow morning, but it’s about the same there. Anyway, overnighter at the beach with good friends, probably an excellent meal or two in there somewhere. And I always like getting out on the road.

    ETA: Something has changed in the FYWP ecosystem. I can no longer stretch the comment box to make it bigger while I’m writing. WTF. (Desktop version, Firefox, Windows 10.)

  21. 21.

    Redshift

    @Steeplejack: Yeah, I was thinking about trying to do some canvassing tomorrow, but I’m not dedicated enough to go out on a day when the temps are supposed to be declining steadily from the 20s.

  22. 22.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Steeplejack: Clapton was not a great stage act when I saw him either, but it was a dual bill with Sir Elton, with Elton first. That probably didn’t help.

  23. 23.

    Walker

    I was at a Jethro Tull concert last year. It was a mistake. Ian’s voice stamina is gone and he cannot hold an entire concert anymore. He plays the flute just fine, but he can only sing in small doses.

  24. 24.

    divF

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Lap Band

    I just can’t make those two words go together. I keep wanting to read them as Lap Steel or Lap Dance.

    I also saw Jethro Tull in the early 1970’s. The venue – the Shady Grove Music Fair in Gaithersburg Maryland, a nifty theater in the round – was more memorable than the performance.

  30. 30.

    Villago Delenda Est

    I saw Ben Cisco’s news on the last thread, and I just wanted to express my condolences, and awe, at his remarkable way of coping with such a devastating loss…by giving a gift of life to others. Inspiring, just like the fictional Captain Sisko.

    Q’apla!

  32. 32.

    Steeplejack

    @Redshift:

    And, although I usually sneer at wind chill as a pseudo-statistic, it’s going to be brutal outside tomorrow with the high winds.

  33. 33.

    divF

    @BillinGlendaleCA:
    About 70 up here around the Bay.

    Every winter I am stunned by the false spring that we get sometime in late January – early February. All the plum trees in the neighborhood blossom, and it seems like paradise. I hope this year we will revert to form, and get more downpours in March.

  40. 40.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @amk: I’ve not had the heart to watch Rachel tonight, Gilmore was her boyfriend(I think cause he agreed to be on her show).

  46. 46.

    amk

    donald dreck

    Jeb Bush spent more than $40,000,000 in New Hampshire to come in 4 or 5, I spent $3,000,000 to come in 1st. Big difference in capability!

    4 or 5. ouch.

  47. 47.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Steeplejack: I’m looking to get a Sammy NX300(the predecessor to my NX500) on Ebay and do the full spectrum conversion on it. The advantage to that model is that it will take all of my lens. I’ve got a converted Kodak Easyshare right now that I took those pics with.

  48. 48.

    amk

    also. too.

    Millions of $’s of false ads, paid for by lobbyists-special interests of cheater @SenTedCruz and sleepy @JebBush, are now running in S.C.

    from low energy to sleepy. ouch, ouch.

  50. 50.

    maeve

    Currently 43 degrees F here in SE Alaska (it’s 9:30 pm)
    We haven’t had snow in weeks – can see it on the mountains but all the streets and stuff are clear – and its not predicted to be below freezing for a while (snow keeps hovering in the 10 day forcast but it doesn’t arrive – just rain and a little sleet). Bears have been seen walking around.

    Days are getting longer – not totally dark leaving work anymore.

    Our caucus is late March – haven’t made up my mind.

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    Steeplejack

    @BillinGlendaleCA:

    I saw Santana open for Clapton in their ’70s heyday. Carlos came out at the end and played with Eric for a few songs. They didn’t mesh completely, but I was in ecstasy because they were two of my biggest guitar gods. (Their individual sets were fantastic.)

  53. 53.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @maeve: I used to go up there(Anchorage) for work, summer was really nice. Winter, on the other hand, didn’t work for this Southern CA boy.

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    Steeplejack

    @NotMax:

    Last Saturday night I was listening to the ’60s channel on SiriusXM while I was out and about, and I got hooked into Peter Noone’s show, because quite often he tells genuinely funny and interesting stories about Herman’s Hermits and the ’60s music scene. He was on some long story about a night out clubbing with a “leggy model bird” who he suspected was using him to get into places and would jettison him as soon as she got within range of Mick Jagger. He told it well, with dry and self-deprecating wit. Kept repeating the phrase “leggy model bird,” which stuck in my head all week.

  56. 56.

    Steeplejack

    @maeve:

    I have a friend in Fairbanks, and I sometimes check her weather. Always weird when it’s colder here than there (like possibly tomorrow!).

  57. 57.

    tsquared2001

    @jacy: Boy, that sucks. Nephew thinks he is getting the house – after they pull me out feet first. Never ever moving again

  58. 58.

    Amir Khalid

    My Republican candidate deathwatch:

    Loose Cannon: Trump

    Jackhole: Cruz

    Damp Squibs of the Establishment: Bush, Christie, Gilmore, Graham, Jindal, Kasich, Pataki, Perry, Rubio, Walker

    Kooks and Wowsers: Carson, Fiorina, Huckabee, Paul, Santorum

    Carson, the last Kook, and the remaining DSEs are all fading fast. Carson’s done what he came to do, i.e. his brand-building project. The DSEs are clinging to a faint hope that both Loose Cannon and Jackhole will spontaneously combust and hand one of them the nom, but this seems unlikely to me. It’s now a race between two candidates whom the party establishment despises, and whom it fears can’t win in November.

    Unless Loose Cannon and Jackhole do indeed both spontaneously combust, I don’t expect any more surprises. Indeed, I wouldn’t be surprised anymore to see the ultimate Republican nightmare 2016 ticket: Trump/Cruz.

  60. 60.

    benw

    @Amir Khalid: makes sense. They’ve been selling armageddon for years, so that the base turns out, and now they are finally stuck with candidates the base wants.

  62. 62.

    Marc

    @Steeplejack: Check out Bloomsky.com. They have a nice website where you can check out the weather all over the world (I have a station at my condo), and watch time lapse videos of the day at each location. There are four or five stations that I see on the map for AK, but none in Fairbanks.

  63. 63.

    mclaren

    The Shakespeare quote is that music soothes the savage breast. So you need to put up some striptease music.

  64. 64.

    Marc

    @Steeplejack: Don’t know how that music link got borked. Did a simple cut and paste job from youtube. Sigh. I shouldn’t be posting after midnight. Don’t feed me or get me wet, either…

  67. 67.

    mclaren

    @amk:

    Millions of $’s of false ads, paid for by lobbyists-special interests of cheater @SenTedCruz and sleepy @JebBush, are now running in S.C.

    And, like protons smashing into anti-protons, they’ll annihilate each other completely, leaving nothing but a bunch of light and noise.

  68. 68.

    TheMightyTrowel

    Today’s been awesome. I finally got cats! Went to the local RSPCA and brothers Gambit and Storm found us right away. They’re about 2 and fluffy ginger and grey tabby, respectively. Yay!

  69. 69.

    Scapegoat

    I’m awaiting the birth of my first son. I used to wonder why so many women died during childbirth.

    I have a much better idea now.

    Anguished, wave upon wave of labor with no breaks for 3 hours. Then the application of modern drugs. Instantaneous transformation from wild-eyed panic to tranquility.

    A wondrous experience thus far, and the hospital staff have been terrific.

  71. 71.

    Calouste

    @Amir Khalid: I don’t think Trump is going to pick Cruz as VP. He would need more than just a foodtaster to finish his term. I don’t think he is going to pick any mainstream GOPer either, definitely not one of the loooooser candidates. I still think he is going to pick his son.

  74. 74.

    Scapegoat

    @JPL:

    Thank you. Spent the first 50 years on this planet as an avowed non-breeder. Funny how time can invert one’s perspectives.

  76. 76.

    Calouste

    @Amir Khalid: That’s not much of an issue really. The constitution says that a state can’t award its delegates to both a Presidential candidate and a Vice-Presidential candidate from that state. But if Trump wins New York, it’s such a landslide he won’t need the electoral votes from New York. And it’s not like Trump junior can’t set up residence in New Jersey or Connecticut for a few months.

  77. 77.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Amir Khalid: Being that THE DONALD doesn’t think that Failgunner Ted is eligible to be President due to his foreign birth, I think a Trump/Cruz ticket is improbable.

  80. 80.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @sacrablue: Considering his history(Obama’s birth certificate), I still think he’d steer clear of Failgunner Ted(in addition to requiring a food taster).

  82. 82.

    David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch

    Trump will probably put Sanders on the ticket.

    They both oppose immigration reform. They both wanted to throw the first Black president out of office in 2012. And Sanders insists Trump’s white working class base are really Sanders voters.

    Match made in heaven Queens/Brooklyn.

  83. 83.

    Mary G

    I think Trump would pick Ivanka for VP, she was on the Apprentice the one time I watched a couple of minutes of because I had lost the remote in the cushions.

  86. 86.

    cckids

    @TheMightyTrowel: Good for you :) My animals are all either very old (the 17-year-old Pomeranian), or heading that way – 3 cats that are now 13. I’ve been hankering for a new, younger pet, but I just can’t right now. Have fun!

  87. 87.

    BillinGlendaleCA

    @Amir Khalid: And he’d really love to fuck her(well, if he wasn’t married and she wasn’t his daughter). OK, now I feel a sudden need for a shower.

    ETA: I’m not really all that sure the being married part would be that great an obstacle for THE DONALD. Now I really need a shower.

  93. 93.

    Doug R

    @Steeplejack: Saw Ringo Starr and his all Starr band this past October. He knows his limits, put on a good show. His backup band had former members of Toto and Santana. While Ringo would take a break, we’d get a couple of songs like “Rosanna” and “Africa” or “Black Magic Woman”. Sounded bang on. It was a hockey arena in a small city, about 90% full. Tiny sample here:
    https://www.facebook.com/douglas.redecopp/videos/1091637140854087/?l=6762296200916070192

  94. 94.

    Scapegoat

    Thanks for all the links and well-wishes, all!

    Momma goat is hanging tough — been laboring now for 23 hours — and we’re getting close.

    I love this woman…

  95. 95.

    Robert Sneddon

    @Calouste: Cruz/Trump would be a possibility. Trump isn’t the sort that likes to work as hard as a President needs to but it gives him all the glory, the access-all-areas ticket, the use of the Presidential jets and all that entails.

  97. 97.

    marduk

    @benw: Crest of a Knave was a much better album than …And Justice for All. Not even really close, Metallica started their long ugly slide into self-parody with that album. Speaking as a huge fan of their previous albums.

    They shouldn’t really have been in the same category though, “Hard” Rock and Metal are too dissimilar.

    Speaking of Jethro Tull, they hold the distinction of performing one of the best AND one of the worst concerts I’ve ever been to. I caught the “A Little Light Music” tour in the early 90s at the Orpheum in Boston. It was set up as two shows, an acoustic performance, an intermission, and then a traditional electrified show. So many great songs. Fantastic. Saw them a few years later and >YAWN<. Even back then, even at the great show, Ian's voice had suffered a lot from age.

  98. 98.

    No One You Know

    @TheMightyTrowel: I couldn’t stop smiling. I felt that way when I brought home my current pair from the humane society. Still wondering who would ever have let them go. Brunswick and Deja vu wave paws at Gambit and Storm ( great name choices!)

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