This election proves that God hates politicians but loves comedy writers. https://t.co/u9ClykngtU
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) February 19, 2016
Cruz and Carson had a meeting in a storage closet about Iowa. It didn't go well. The room may not have had lights.
— andrew kaczynski (@BuzzFeedAndrew) February 19, 2016
From the Daily Beast article:
… The meeting, called by Ted Cruz in an attempt to mend fences with Ben Carson ahead of the South Carolina primary, was held on Thursday night before the Conservative Review convention. The two huddled in the unusual venue for nearly 20-25 minutes, as Carson’s Secret Service detail, stood outside, according to a Republican operative who witnessed the strange scene.
Carson, whose campaign has spent the weeks after Iowa blasting him for lying to voters in the Hawkeye State, agreed to meet Cruz for five minutes, according to a source close to Carson’s campaign, in order to try to put to bed the issue of his dirty campaign tricks in Iowa during which Cruz’s campaign told caucus-goers that Carson had dropped out of the race…
Cruz has been under fire since Iowa from Donald Trump, Carson and now Marco Rubio for what they call dirty campaign tricks. Most recently the Rubio campaign slammed Cruz for a ridiculous photoshopped image that depicted Marco Rubio shaking (left) hands with President Obama…
Reporters were allegedly already calling the Carson campaign as the meeting was going on, with the two full-grown men in a closet that allegedly had no chairs, which indicates that someone leaked details in advance of The Daily Beast being informed about the meeting…
After Carson spoke at the convention, and saw Cruz in the hallway again, Cruz didn’t even look at Carson, according to the latter’s campaign.
“There was a political play there and it didn’t work for them,” a Republican operative close to the campaign told The Daily Beast. “The meeting didn’t go as well as Cruz wanted it to go. Carson had a smile on his face and was looking right at him.”…
Truly amazing, how popular Ted Cruz has managed to make himself with his fellow Repubs…
Finally Right to Rise is spending their money well pic.twitter.com/4oAYz5eiYr
— Gideon Resnick (@GideonResnick) February 19, 2016
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Apart from tasty schadenfreude, what’s on the agenda as we start the weekend?
Baud
Grand Old Party 90210.
chopper
so i assume then that both cruz and carson came out of the closet?
TaMara (BHF)
In college we did our share of bedroom farce and theatre of the absurd, I don’t know why but every time I read anything about the Rep primary, that’s all I think of …. slamming doors and all. Makes about as much sense.
bemused
I can’t even imagine the conversation between the vampire and Mr. Magoo.
MattF
We’re really getting into banana peel and pie-in-the-face territory. Did anyone use stilts when they walked onstage? I’d expect that, at least, the thought’s occured to lil’ Marco. And if not, why not?
Mike in NC
Cruz is definitely the heir to Nixon in the sleazy tricks department.
LAO
It grieves me to no end that I can no longer say “he’s no brain surgeon” to describe a moron. Thanks Obama!
Baud
I too would like to bury the hatchet with Clinton and Sanders for my campaign’s dirty tricks. Perhaps we three can meet in a unisex bathroom somewhere to try to put this all behind us.
MattF
On the other hand, the customer reviews of this Hutzler Banana Slicer are now on-topic. Thanks, Obama.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Baud:
Phrasing!
Wag
My investment in popcorn futures is paying off handsomely and I anticipate continued excellent returns for the next few months.
danielx
Confusion to our enemies.
Oh, wait…..
jl
@Baud: But all of Baud! 2016!’s campaign dirty tricks have been on Baud! 2016!. Which makes it unique in the annals of presidential campaigns, even virtual ones.
jl
I suppose the real slander for GOP voters is that it implies Cruz spent considerable time in the SF Bay Area. Which is an Unconstitutional area just as much as NY City.
keith p
Which one was Teen Wolf and which one was Boof?
delk
I don’t remember ‘storage closet’ as one of the choices in Clue.
LAO
@efgoldman: pretty sure Ed Koch checks both boxes! Lol
jl
@efgoldman: SF is just as crooked at NYC, though a big difference in style. So I don’t see how either is un-American, and think Cruz is very unfair and divisive.
Ked
Um. Pardon my confused credulity, but is that a real sign? I’m betting, hoping that’s a shop, but this year is too damn crazy.
boatboy_srq
@TaMara (BHF): 2016 GOTea primary is becoming better than Noises Off.
Anya
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Origuy
@efgoldman:
Dianne Feinstein was mayor after George Moscone was assassinated and is Jewish. No SF mayor has been (openly) gay. You may be thinking of Harvey Milk, who was a city supervisor.
ETA: srv beat me to Feinstein. I didn’t know about Sutro or Bartlett.
jl
@efgoldman: Just remember that SF Bay Area government is far less corrupt that NYC because tech money to pols that seems to coincide with any inconvenient local regs and legislation being flouted doesn’t count.
MattF
@Anya: Never realized that Trump had anything to say about the Canadian flag.
boatboy_srq
@Anya: How long until he advocates for secession by the states he wins?
boatboy_srq
@MattF: Leaf that alone, willya? ;-)
Pogonip
I have to have a tooth fixed Monday. I am not happy about this. I know the actual fixing rarely hurts these days, but the bill sure does! I have the Snoopy insurance but it only pays half. She’s a nice dentist but I saw that gleam in her eye, I’m anticipating a nice expensive crown.
Turgidson
@efgoldman:
Tailgunner Ted is actually surprisingly unifying. He unites damn near everyone he meets against him.
jl
@efgoldman: I think Newsom was more or less openly cheating on his wife at the time, with the wife (or GF?) of an associate and friend, but was not wide public knowledge.
Edit: or maybe Newsom was single at the time and having an affair? Too much stuff like that going on around here to remember. I heard a news spot on the history of the Willie Brown / Kamala Harris relationship, and role in their political careers, and even that alone was to complicated for me to remember completely.
Maybe you are thinking ‘openly pro-gay’?
But maybe Newsom is bi. I dunno,
divF
@Baud: Ally McBeal ?
boatboy_srq
@efgoldman: HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA [inhale] BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA. Genius hasn’t lived there very long, has he?
Disgruntled former Baud supporter
@Ked: Probably not, but the #ZodiacTed hashtag is a thing, apparently.
lamh36
So the newly hired Supervisor at my job started this Tuesday.
1)She never introduced herself to any of us! My old supervisor with his stupid azz didn’t even hold a meeting to introduce her and she didn’t even bother to introduce herself, she just starts talking to you…
2)She’s loud as fuq…she basically raises her voice to talk across the lab (the lab is real big, so any small sound is amplified)
3)She’s training on the computer system by the former supervisor and she keeps interrupting him with random questions and stuff that have nothing to do with what she’s training in or anything going on in the lab.
4)She’s a smoker. We all share a coat closet, and so one of my co-workers have had to bring an air freshner for the closet, but the smell of smoke still lingers, so that you have a mixture of forest smell with cigarette filters.
This has been me and my co-worker this entire week…lol, and she’s hasn’t even taken over her supervisor duties yet.
TaMara (BHF)
Oh geez, I just saw that Doug!’s post has 424 comments. Was there blood shed?
Baud
@TaMara (BHF): Yes.
Anya
@MattF: LOL! I wish Trump would have a clever retort.
@boatboy_srq: His mom is from Delaware & since Delaware was below the Mason-Dixon Line, he can lay claim to the secessionist flag.
TaMara (BHF)
@lamh36: In the cat section at the store there is an orange air freshener that is flat and round – you open and it evaporates – you don’t really smell it, but it does wonders on cat odor, it might be good on stale smoke.
TaMara (BHF)
@Baud: So nobody is getting a pony, eh?
Baud
@TaMara (BHF): Or a unicorn, apparently.
lamh36
@TaMara (BHF): We’ll have to look into that then, cause I don’t know how many cigs she’s smoking, but I mean…dang, smells like a cigar box now…smh
Jack the Second
@MattF: Man, if the debates start having pyrotechnics I might actually start watching.
jl
@TaMara (BHF): Baud! 2016! should have made an appearance promising unicorn ponies. But no dice. Another opportunity missed.
MattF
@TaMara (BHF): I noticed that BiP is, um, ‘participating’, so that’s a possibility.
Bubblegum Tate
@jl:
He also dated that 19-year-old! Newsom was like a real-life Tommy Carcetti, except hilariously shameless. This is the quintessential Gavin Newsom picture: http://sfcitizen.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/gavin-newsom-ogling-copy.jpg
HinTN
@efgoldman: Nixon’s fingerprints weren’t so readily apparent.
Anya
@Baud: I always miss the fun. Damn you twitter!
debbie
Someone has to start calling bullsh*t on Cruz’s statements. I just heard about this statement from Sunday’s MTP:
MattF
@debbie: He’s just doing what Jesus wants him to, so how can anyone object?
jl
@Bubblegum Tate: The word ‘cad’ comes to mind, and not just for his tastes in public affairs and dating. But he sometimes means well, even if he don’t look it.
debbie
@Mike in NC:
Nixon was not half as diabolical as Cruz is.
Baud
@Anya: I wasn’t in that thread either. Principles of blog calculus state that as the number of comments approach a T-Bogg unit, the derp approaches infinity.
jl
@debbie: Nixon was not as clumsy either.
MattF
@jl: And Nixon was prettier.
Bubblegum Tate
@jl:
Oh yeah, that’s him all day. For the most part, people seemed to think he was a decent mayor despite his personal life splashing all over the tabloids.
jl
@Baud: In the tradition of Baud! 2016! campaign virtuality, I assume you made an appearance at the singularity, where the comments and derp are unobservable?
TaMara (BHF)
@Baud: Doug does love to stir the pot. ;-)
satby
@TaMara (BHF): @lamh36: It’s called Citrus Magic, and I have often relied on it before I have company, because I live with so many animals I can’t count on actually smelling anything off until it’s dead mouse level stank.
The soap making just exacerbates the lack of smell sense, because you adjust to really nice smells just as fast. That’s why I rely on measures of scent, not my own sense of smell. But it is nice to come home after I’ve been out when I have just made some new soap or cream.
Baud
@jl:
In Baud’s America, even the ugly will get laid!
satby
@Baud: As soon as it starts to turn into a B vs H thread, I bail now. Life’s too short.
AnotherBruce
@debbie: I don’t know about that. Nixon was less obvious about his snakyness? (not sure that’s a word.) until he got caught. Apparently, according to Crooks and Liars, he’s come out in support of selling federal lands in Nevada. So basically he’s joined the cause of the not beloved Bundys. Because he is a lizard, his lizard qualities are way too obvious. He’s almost a classic cartoon villain.
chopper
@keith p:
i think the word “boof” describes both of them pretty well.
Baud
@satby: They are depressing.
WaterGirl
@lamh36: Sorry to hear that! Is this the job you applied for, but (apparently) did not get? If so, it’s probably even more galling that someone clueless was hired.
Gvg
@TaMara (BHF): if you could post the name of that air freshener I would like to try it please.
Thanks
PaulW
To ALL Floridians, and to any geeks who can get here: Bartow will be having a SyFy Bartow street convention for scifi / fantasy / comic book fans this Saturday Feb. 20th. The library where I work will host some of the events from 9 am to 5 pm, and the street fair will be from 11 am to 9 pm.
There are reports of punch and pie.
kc
Good grief, that is some bad writing in that Daily Beast article.
PaulW
@Baud:
But will the ugly get laid by the pretty pretty people?
Elie
@Pogonip:
I feel your pain just having finished paying off the last crown. Definitely lightens your pockets….
BTW — to all you Bj-ers commenting on this thread, I am having some good laughs. Carry on…
debbie
@lamh36:
Back when I was a heavy smoker, I used this stuff:
Ozium
http://www.amazon.com/Ozium-Eliminator-Sanitizer-Freshener-ORIGINAL/dp/B000CSWCAG
satby
@Gvg: Citrus Magic
the Conster, la Citoyenne
Umberto Eco has died. Bad day for great authors.
debbie
@AnotherBruce:
Nixon just lied; Cruz is totally making stuff up.
And for further laughter, NPR visited Scalia’s lying in state. One man bemoaned how divided the country had become and said he was paying respects because Scalia was one of the few stabilizing forces in the country. How can people have such distorted views????
Baud
@PaulW:
I’m Baud!, not God!
benw
@jl:
Heisenblog’s Principle states that if the number of comments is known precisely, the amount of derp must be uncertain.
ETA: principal != principle
Gravenstone
@Baud: Not enough. Some of them are still moving.
Calouste
@AnotherBruce: I don’t think the Bundys are for selling federal land as they are for giving it away to “deserving” people.
Chyron HR
Ha ha, look at those Republican losers engaging in an acrimonious presidential primary. What a bunch of losers, ha ha.
SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel
@efgoldman:
Um, Diane Feinstein?
EDIT. Never mind. Should have known about a brazillion other commenters would get there first.
jl
@benw: Good point. Thanks.
” ETA: principal != principle ”
I expect commenters here to be aware of all internet typo traditions!
lamh36
@WaterGirl: Oh no… I didn’t apply for this job…ugh…I work here, but I wouldn’t want to be the supervisor here right now…too much drama and growing pains…if the creeks don’t rise and the Lord says the same…who knows…maybe YEARS in the future, I’d think about here…but at this moment in time…hell naw
SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel
@satby:
Citrus Magic is wonderful and usually available in two-packs at Target for fairly cheap (and they often put it on sale, which is when I stock up). Great stuff.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Now I think I see why you keep wanting to get out of that job — it’s a pretty crappy workplace when they don’t even bother to introduce the new supervisor to you. I think my office is unusually inclusive, but they did group interviews with all of the team members when they were looking for a new manager here.
Shana
@TaMara (BHF): Too funny! And I just saw Noises Off last weekend.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
so, this was said today (apparently not for the first time)
Another Holocene Human
@Baud: Unisex bathroom. That’s why you’re a uniter, Baud.
mclaren
Assholes. It just never ends. Never. Ever. Ends.
“The U.S. intervention in Libya was such a smashing success that sequel is coming.”
And all kinds of Democrats were hammering on me when I dared criticize the glorious sainted Obama for getting us stuck in another fucking goddamn mideast quagmire, just like Dubya. Shut up, hippie! This is the GOOD war! Obama is a genius, unlike Dubya! Fuck you, purity pony!
Yeah, fuck me. Now we descend into the quagmire YET AGAIN.
And you know what?
We’re not hearing a goddamn word from all those Democrats who sneered at me and at all the other people who said “Stop this insanity right now, let’s not get into another endless unwinnable middle eastern war!” No admission of their *M*A*S*S*I*V*E* fuckup. No sheepish agreement to shut up in the future and stop telling us to get involved in stupid pointless counterproductive endless unwinnable wars in the middle east just because the president who stupidly orders it is a Democrat. No red-faced confession that, yes, they were wrong and all that “It’s OK because it’s Obama” stuff was total horseshit.
Nope. None of that. Just like with the Republicans and the Iraq quagmire, now the Democrats who cheerled this Libya clusterfuck have clammed up and disappeared like cockroaches back into the woodwork.
Now, just like Republicans and the Iraq fiasco, the entire Democrat-led Libya War Of Glorious Magnificent Freedumb™ has gotten dropped into the Orwellian memory hole and no Democrat even remembers urging us to get into this clusterfuck. Especially not Hillary telling us how awesome it would be. No, we can’t mention how responsible Hillary is for this mess. “Mistakes were made.” “No one is to blame.”
Fuckers.
Another Holocene Human
@efgoldman: Damn, I thought that was the last “Oh how I resent the stinky dirty SF population littering the street on my way to my gentrified condo block!” that had gotten fresh circulation. Christ, do us all a favor and [redacted].
Calouste
@srv:
Read: why leave while the checks still clear?
The Lodger
@Anya: Not all of Delaware. Joe Biden’s house is north of the line, and so was mine, although the University of Delaware is south of it.
planetjanet
@MattF: , after reading too many political blogs, the comments on that little gadget restore my hope that there is still intelligent life on planet Earth. Thanks.
Frankensteinbeck
@debbie:
Easily. Believe what you want to be true, grab the first excuse everything is someone you don’t like’s fault, and handwave away dissenting facts without thinking about them. It’s more or less what Colbert called ‘truthiness’ and it’s a basic process of the human brain. It takes effort to apply logic. Going with your gut is automatic.
Another Holocene Human
@efgoldman: (edited) Gavin Newson lives an openly heterosexual lifestyle.
Shell
Phony photo of Rubio shaking hands with Obama. So I guess the rationale is any physical contact with the Prez instantly makes any Repub radioactive? Well, hey, it worked with smearing Christie.
Another Holocene Human
@AnotherBruce: I agree with this. Cartoon villain. Snidely Whiplash. The Blue Meanie? It’s amazing how so many people over so many years have come forward to express their loathing for this guy.
catclub
1. Noises Off is great.
2. Helaine Olen had a Slate post that Marco Rubio was in favor of expanding access to the federal TSP program to almost everybody who does not have a 401k program where they work.
(The Fed equivalent of 401k).. This is a really good idea. The people opposed to it are those who sell overpriced 401K management to small and medium sized companies.
She then notes that Rubio never talks about it any more when he campaigns. Le Sigh.
mclaren
I’ll make it as simple as possible for Democrats:
NO MORE FOREIGN WARS.
NO MORE FOREIGN WARS.
NO MORE FOREIGN WARS.
NO MORE FOREIGN WARS.
NO MORE FOREIGN WARS.
NO MORE FOREIGN WARS.
NO MORE FOREIGN WARS.
NO MORE FOREIGN WARS.
NO MORE FOREIGN WARS.
NO MORE FOREIGN WARS.
NO MORE FOREIGN WARS.
NO MORE FOREIGN WARS.
NO MORE FOREIGN WARS.
NO MORE FOREIGN WARS.
NO MORE FOREIGN WARS.
NO MORE FOREIGN WARS.
What is it about “no more foreign wars” that Democrats cannot understand?
Another Holocene Human
@Shell: Also ended Charlie Crist’s political career.
Goes to show how much they’ve demonized Obama. They’re gonna be confuzzled as hell when their boogeyman isn’t president anymore.
Another Holocene Human
@mclaren: Simple answers for simple people.
scav
@the Conster, la Citoyenne: That hits hard. Loved his essays. (The novels he pushed in so many directions it’s hard to have a simple reaction to them beyond very interesting).
Adam L Silverman
@srv: I’m impressed. Those lists usually leave out the Korean War.
jl
@Another Holocene Human: Shhh… don’t do anything to clue them in that Obama isn’t running again. Better they be kept in the dark until the election.
It might work, since they seem to be occupied with their SCOTUS nomination fantasy history, and will be for quite a while.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Dick Van Dyke hosted a rally for Bernie Sanders in Vegas. This is as close as I’m gonna come to feeling the Bern.
catclub
Could Obama Nominate Himself?
Would promising to resign as president in order to serve on the Supreme court be a sufficient temptation for the senate to approve him? Everybody loves old uncle Joe Biden!
jl
@Shell:
” Phony photo of Rubio shaking hands with Obama. ”
And one so cartoonish, they should have photoshopped little demons dancing on Obama’s shoulders.
catclub
@mclaren: “There is no instance of a nation benefitting from prolonged warfare.” – Sun Tzu, ca. 450 B.C.
He did not know about the Romans, did he? Wasn’t that their stock in trade?
? Martin
People leaving containers of applesauce at Scalia memorials. I think he would have laughed at that.
satby
Just tried to click on someones nym that clearly is supposed to link to their blog and it’s not working. So I checked and mine doesn’t link out to my site either. Is this new?
JMG
@Anya: Five Delaware regiments served with the Union, including the 1st Delaware, which was part of Hays’ Brigade, Gibbons’ Division, II Corps at the wall repulsing Pickett’s Charge. So, no offense, but study up!!
Baud
@satby: Works on mobile.
Mike J
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I only ever watched his show for the undercupping.
debbie
@satby:
I got to your site just fine. Chrome on a MacBook Pro.
Germy
jl
@JMG: But Delaware was a border state, and those troops were splitters.
Just have to sell it to the GOP, and they are into creative history.
Germy
Umberto Eco, the Italian philosopher, writer and semiotics professor, is dead at 84, reports the BBC.
satby
@Baud: yeah, I’m never on desktop but I thought I’d check out the changes.
I wanted to go to Frankensteinbeck’s site.
Edited to add, Thanks debbie. I’m using Chrome on Win10 and it’s not working. I get intriguing borders around the comments though.
SiubhanDuinne, Annoying Scoundrel
@satby:
Hmmm. I just clicked on yours and it took me directly to your site. Maybe a problem on your end, or perhaps a temporary glitch that’s already been corrected?
debbie
@satby:
Yes, i get those when I click on the page to the right of the vertical gray line. They disappear when I click inside the comment box.
Anya
Paging Adam! One of the Bundy boys sent a letter from prison. Apparently, he’s facing religious persecution.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Should apply to Murkowski, McCain… the whole 2016 R class, come to think of it. McConnell should be telling them to abstain.
Germy
Steve Martin Performed Stand-up Last Night for the First Time in 35 Years
http://www.vulture.com/2016/02/steve-martin-performed-stand-up-last-night.html
Adam L Silverman
@satby: Is yours supposed to link to something about natural soaps? If so, then its working. Let me know and if that’s not where I’m supposed to go to, I’ll email Alain.
Mike J
@Anya: And the sherriff is being investigated by the state for being a militia sympathizer. To the point that other cops and the FBI kept him out of the loop because they viewed him as a security risk.
debbie
@srv:
I for one am glad to see this.
Germy
http://www.authorama.com/grimms-fairy-tales-15.html
Chanticleer and Partlet. What a duo. Quentin Tarantino couldn’t create more mayhem. They leave a trail of pain and destruction wherever they go. Story ends in grief and death.
Quite the bedtime story.
ThresherK
@Another Holocene Human: The originalist in me prefers Dan Backslide, a pioneering cartoony villain from 1942’s “The Dover Boys”.
Adam L Silverman
@Anya: This surprises you? Unless the Bundy’s can show where in the Book of Mormon it says they get to lead an insurrection against the Federal, state, and local government, he’s not being persecuted.
Also, the Grant County Sheriff’s in deep:
http://www.oregonlive.com/oregon-standoff/2016/02/grant_county_sheriff_viewed_as.html#incart_big-photo
The Chief of Police in John Day, Oregon has filed a complaint, as have about a dozen others. And other law enforcement personnel in the area consider him a security leak.
debbie
@Germy:
A better comeback, I hope, than Seinfeld’s.
Germy
@debbie: I suspect it was a one time thing for Steve Martin. I think he’s more interested in performing music nowadays. And writing the occasional humor piece like this:
http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2007/01/29/seventy-two-virgins
Mike in NC
This night can’t end soon enough. We live close enough to the South Carolina border that the GOP attack ads are saturating the TV airwaves. So much stupidity and dishonesty from these maggots.
Tomorrow SC will just revert to being one of the country’s most backward states.
BillinGlendaleCA
@satby: Works for me on Chrome on Win10.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@satby: User’s handle-links haven’t worked for me for quite a while. I don’t think they’re related to the CSS extensions from TheOtherChuck I’m using (IIRC, he said that his CSS doesn’t touch those links).
One quick and easy way to get those URLs is to hit “ctrl-u” to get the HTML for the page and then search for the person’s handle. Obviously, it shouldn’t be necessary, but there is a work-around.
ETA: Chrome on Win7.
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
@Mike in NC: At least they are lying about each other.
allium
@efgoldman: SF has not only had Jewish mayors, but a Jewish emperor too.
Renie
Richard M. Nixon @dick_nixon 11h11 hours ago
I retract my statement. The president was asked not to attend the mass.
Anyone hear anything like this?
Baud
@srv: Your man wants to boycott Apple over the DOJ fight. I hope you’re an Android guy.
? Martin
@Renie: Yes – in so many words. The family agreed with Obama’s decision not to attend. That doesn’t say they asked him not to go, but that perhaps there was a mutual understanding.
We’ll see what transpires, but Obama would have turned it into a media event, and I’m getting the sense that the family doesn’t want that.
BillinGlendaleCA
@allium: Didn’t know the Emperor was Jewish.
OT: Doug’s thread reached 1 Tbogg unit.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Adam L Silverman: I’m not surprised, of course, but I still want a thread to talk about it. Also I have a comic image to send you but no author link on contact list. You, however, have mine.
Randy P
@srv: What’s your evidence that America benefited from all that warfare? Do you have a control sample to compare to?
kped
I must say, i find Cole hilarious. A Clinton staffer will approvingly link to a Slate article from a freaking 17 year old saying Bernie-Bros won’t stop Clinton supporters. What a crime, but it infuriates Mr Cole, who has a twitter freak out.
Those are actual quotes.
Now we have Bernie himself going on stage and telling black audiences that Hillary is just pandering to them by supporting Obama. That risible Mr Cole? Nah, not a peep. So telling a 17 year old that dudes she’s ACTUALLY DEALT WITH won’t be able to stop her from supporting Hillary is the freaking crime of the century…but the other candidate literally going on stage and telling black people not to trust Hillary, she’s just using Obama to win their support is perfectly fine and normal.
The Clinton hate will never die.
Adam L Silverman
@Renie: I haven’t seen anything other than a reference to a Politico report from three days ago that the family was okay with the decision to attend the memorial at the Court today and not the funeral.
Given the amount of disruption that occurs whenever a President goes to a religious service due to the security requirements, my guess is that no one wanted to turn it into a complete circus. This is why Presidents Reagan, Bush 41, Clinton, Bush 43, and Obama rarely attend formal church services on Sundays. I think President Carter went more regularly, but don’t quote me on that.
jl
@allium: thanks. I didn’t know Emperor Norton had Jewish ancestry. .
divF
@Germy:
From Lawrence Sutin’s biography of Philip K. Dick:
Adam L Silverman
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): I have your email address? How’s that?
As for a thread, I’ll do one tomorrow. Its been a screwy week, so I’m a bit behind. I’ve got pdfs of charging documents, Sandra Cox’s sov-cit lawsuit, that Erik Parker’s – the sniper on the overpass from 2014 – brother is pre-threatening anyone in advance of a perceived arrest of Parker, and much, much more.
Its been so weird I didn’t even get to my post that IS’s ultimate target isn’t the Vatican, its Mecca and Medina.
Pogonip
If the services are HQ’d at the Pentagon, are the witches HQ’d at the Hexagon?
Pogonip
@Adam L Silverman: How’s your mom?
jl
@divF:
“The Thing with Three Souls”. that was a doctrinal sequel to the New Testament.
Need something else for the New Testament. “Stranger in a Strange Land”, Or, is that one taken?
Germy
@divF: I remember the humorist Robert Benchley wrote a “book review” of the New York City telephone book. This was in the 1920s. He complained that as each new character was introduced, the author didn’t go into enough detail…
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Adam L Silverman: You have it because you have keys; it’s attached to my nym. I know it’s been a wild week in Bunkerville and Malheur arrest news. And I suspected the ISIL’s actual target was Mecca and/or Medina as opposed to the Vatican. Thank you for confirming, LOL.
Randy P
So I went a-Googling to try to find this photoshopped image of Rubio and Obama that everybody is talking about. And I found it here.
What’s great about this particular link is the comments section. What, a comments section described as “great”?
Yes. It’s full of Cruz, Trump and Rubio supporters all locked into a cage eating each other. Mini-me versions of what we’ve been seeing playing out between the candidates. Just wonderful stuff.
jl
@Adam L Silverman:
” Its been so weird I didn’t even get to my post that IS’s ultimate target isn’t the Vatican, its Mecca and Medina. ”
That is low priority. Even if Trump reads BJ blog, he is worried about the Vatican. The buildings, walls and doors are huger and terrificker there. And his Top People praise the art as ‘really classy’.
Adam L Silverman
@Pogonip: Fine. She was fine on the day she had the routine procedure. Thanks for asking.
Adam L Silverman
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): If you say so, let me see if I can get it to work. You should get a test message in about a minute or so.
divF
@jl:
The Holy Ghost is referenced in Acts, so I think that this would be legit.
Ever since I saw that quote, I can’t look at a Bible without imagining it as a D-series Ace Double, complete with lurid cover art on both sides.
scav
@Adam L Silverman: About that whole Vatican thing, I’m rather surprised he hasn’t been chastised stridently for even suggesting that ‘MERKA isn’t necessarily the only and sole, really important, unmatched and exceptional target for them evil-doers-doing-evil.
Adam L Silverman
@scav: I’m not sure if its stream of consciousness campaigning or performance art.
Germy
http://crooksandliars.com/2016/02/anger-threats-over-malheur-arrests-death
Adam L Silverman
@Germy: If you go to JJ McNab’s twitter feed you can find a link to the law enforcement threat alert from the Fed’s. I can’t provide any links because its marked Unclassified: For Official Use Only, which means that for me it spillage.
jl
@Randy P: I looked at the comment section for helpful hints that would make our HRC/Sanders feuds more fun. But seemed about the same, except more comments there just straight out insults and nothing more, but those are kind of bland.
Does that site ban cussing and creative invective, like ‘you son of p*n*s-nosed revenant of an dipsomaniac fifties demogogue, you”.
That Cruz’ nose looks like a p*n*s came up several times.
Some weird unexpected perspectives:
” Cruz is the only honest one running unless you include Sanders. ”
I like this suggestion for a Cruz campaign slogan:
” CRUZ 2016!
(No Chumps, RINOs or Amnesty Queens) “
jl
@divF: In the Epistles too, IIRC. But something similar to Holy Spirit in OT too.
I think it’s a stretch, but if no one can come up with better than ‘“The Thing with Three Souls”, I won’t make no more fuss.
Germy
@jl: Didn’t R. Crumb do an illustrated version?
Steeplejack
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
More Better Balloon Juice does in fact nuke user “handle-links,” at least for me (Firefox, Windows 10). I just confirmed it by disabling MBBJ, and then I was able to use Satby’s nym link.
I don’t know about Even Better Balloon Juice; I don’t have that installed.
BillinGlendaleCA
@jl:
No problem with Drag Queens, though.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: I just have plain ol’ vanilla Balloon Juice, so maybe that’s why mine works.
jl
@BillinGlendaleCA: Let’s see what the Baud! 2016! campaign can come up with (if anything).
Baud
@jl:
Baud! 2016!
(I want rustlers, cut throats, murderers, bounty hunters, desperados, mugs, pugs, thugs, nitwits, halfwits, dimwits, vipers, snipers, con men, Indian agents, Mexican bandits, muggers, buggerers, bushwhackers, hornswogglers, horse thieves, bull dykes, train robbers, bank robbers, ass-kickers, shit-kickers and Methodists.)
Steeplejack
@BillinGlendaleCA:
The benefits of MBBJ, especially the few lines of code I added to give me a readable font for Balloon Juice, more than make up for the slight inconvenience.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Steeplejack: I must need to update as I’ve got a shitty font since one of the last “upgrades.” It was a lovely fix after the first fire.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Steeplejack: Ah, thanks for checking.
Cheers,
Scott.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Baud: But no st(alker)(f)ans?
I am disappoint.
Cheers,
Scott.
satby
@Adam L Silverman: it is, and it must just be a problem on my desktop. Since I normally access Balloon Juice through my Kindle I’ll just not worry about it. And check out Franken’s link there.
Steeplejack (phone)
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
I don’t know what (if anything) MBBJ does to the comments’ font. I threw in some code to give me a nice-sized Georgia, and I just re-add that snippet whenever I update MBBJ.
satby
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: Thanks, I thought I was hallucinating.
satby
@Steeplejack: Ohhh… that’s why. I have MBBJ. Thanks.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@satby: Yup. Turning off MBBJ and EBBJ gets the linkies back.
Cheers,
Scott.
J R in WV
@mclaren:
How many troops have been sent to Libya? So far as I know the losses we have had were the Consulate staff and Ambassador, years ago. And some bombs, which don’t count.
There is a huge difference between using air power and sending in Marines and the Army.
Anya
@JMG: Sorry, did I forget to add: not meant to be a factual statement?
Anya
@Mike J: I am so glad someone is looking into that. We can’t have law enforcement working with the crazies.
@Adam L Silverman: still want a stand alone thread to discuss it
Origuy
@Germy: R. Crumb has only done Genesis. I don’t know if he has plans to do any more of the Bible. It’s very well done.
Anne Laurie
@ThresherK: Niiiice! Someone needs to photoshop Ted Cruz lines over this image…
mclaren
Here’s some boilerplate direct from Hillary Clinton’s white papers in 2016:
What I want to know is:
How exactly will Hillary accomplish these things?
What is the specific mechanism by which Hillary proposes to defend the ACA? She’ll have to argue in front of the Supreme Court — but everyone on this forum keeps telling us that there are lot of good solid legal reasons why no Democratic president can ever appoint a supreme court justice. So how does Hillary argue successfully for the ACA before the supreme court if neither Obama nor she (assuming she’s elected) can appoint a judge to fill Scalia’s vacancy?
What is the specific mechanism by which Hillary proposes to lower out-of-pocket costs and copays for the ACA? Many people on this forum have slammed Bernie Sanders’ health care plan…so let’s turn that around and start asking exactly how Hillary plans to get there from here? What is her mechanism? Unicorn rainbows and fairy dust? Raising taxes? What? Give us some specifics, Hillary supporters. Oh, and by the way — tell us exactly how much it’s going to cost to lower all those copays and deductibles. Give us the numbers. Run the dollars. Explain it to us.
How exactly does Hillary propose to lower the cost of prescription drugs? Right now, the vile Bush part D legislation makes it illegal for the U.S. government to bargain with big pharma companies for lower prices. Does Hillary propose to repeal that medicare part D legislation? If so, how, with the Republicans in control of congress? Give us details, Hillbots — show us the numbers. Where are they? What is the path you plan to take that will get us from here to there?
How does Hillary propose to ‘transform our health care system to reward value and quality’? These are buzzwords. Give us specifics. Does Hillary propose to make it illegal for doctors to accept bribes from big pharma companies? If so, how will she get her legislation passed by a Republican-dominated congress? Does Hillary have so bills up her sleeve that would make drive-by doctoring illegal or force the AMA to open more medical schools in order to graduate an adequate supply of doctors and thus lower doctors’ salaries? If so, how does Hillary plan to get this legislation through a hostile Republican congress against the massive opposition of doctors’ lobbies and the AMA? Give us the details. Show us the numbers, Hillary supporters. We want to see specifics.