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Of course you can have champagne before noon. That’s why orange juice was invented.

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

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

American history and black history cannot be separated.

Michigan is a great lesson for Dems everywhere: when you have power…use it!

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

We can show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

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

People are complicated. Love is not.

No one could have predicted…

There are times when telling just part of the truth is effectively a lie.

“Everybody’s entitled to be an idiot.”

Also, are you sure you want people to rate your comments?

The fundamental promise of conservatism all over the world is a return to an idealized past that never existed.

“The difference between stupidity and genius is that genius has its limits.”

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

The media handbook says “controversial” is the most negative description that can be used for a Republican.

People identifying as christian while ignoring christ and his teachings is a strange thing indeed.

’Where will you hide, Roberts, the laws all being flat?’

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

Mediocre white men think RFK Jr’s pathetic midlife crisis is inspirational. The bar is set so low for them, it’s subterranean.

Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.

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Anyone awake?

So, I’m serving seared tuna (which has been marinating in teriyaki and rice wine for a while) with a mint, coriander, savoy cabbage and bean sprout salad, drizzled with argan oil and lime juice

And I’m stuck as to what cocktail to serve with it on a warmish spring evening. Mai tais to start, but then I need something to go with the fish. I’m thinking gimlets or white ladies at the moment.

ETA: WTFF?

willis

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  1. 1.

    seaboogie

    Hello dear girl – argan oil on the tuna? I think my hairdresser uses that on my tresses on my semi-annual visits. Maybe a little Aqua-Net on the Tilapia? Kisses….

  3. 3.

    JGabriel

    Sarah @ Top:

    Mai tais to start, but then I need something to go with the fish. I’m thinking gimlets or white ladies at the moment.

    Given the teriyaki marinade, you might want to consider a red wine.

  4. 4.

    Sarah, Proud and Tall

    @seaboogie:

    Hah! He or she may well. However, in Morocco it comes in two types. Once the nuts, ahem, make their way out of the goats, they either grind them raw for the stuff people slather all over themselves, or toast them to make a lovely nutty spicy oil that goes great on citrussy salads, particularly oranges.

  7. 7.

    JGabriel

    Donald, Jr. looks like a greasy used car salesman in that photograph, while Eric looks like a particularly vile and ethically challenged congressional aide.

  9. 9.

    m0nty

    Also, still pouting at Sarah that she wasn’t actually flying to America for damage control as per her story a few weeks ago.

  10. 10.

    seaboogie

    If you want to understand Trump, look into Eric’s eyes…the very same animus, but one generation later….

  11. 11.

    gwangung

    Billionaire real estate mogul (and one who bribes state attorney generals) is the essence of an insider.

  15. 15.

    Jack Canuck

    Chilly but sunny down here in Melbourne this evening. I’m thinking it’s a quiche night – our two chickens have a production rate that regularly outstrips our normal egg consumption rate.

  21. 21.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    The tuna sounds delightful, the baby Trumps are repulsive, I don’t drink so I’m back to planning some local adventures.

  22. 22.

    seaboogie

    @Sarah, Proud and Tall:

    You can blow on my embers anytime you want

    I’ve often thoght that when a golfer hits a hole in one, he/she should hop off the cart, sell their clubs and just retire in the memory of that perfect moment.

    And now – duffer that I am – I face that moment, and still grasp my clubs, thinking that I want to try another day. What is wrong with me?

  24. 24.

    Anne Laurie

    There’s going to be so many jokes about that Trump-spawn piccie, Ms. Sarah…

  25. 25.

    Keith P.

    @Major Major Major Major: I’m taking another stab at a simulation designer…it’s my current interpretation of an idea that’s gnawed at me since I was a kid – Bill Budge’s Construction Set Construction Set (I read about it in a magazine, and then he gave up on the idea). It’s been a decent introduction to Universal Windows apps.

  26. 26.

    ThresherK (GPad)

    Also awake, and not by plan, here. Nice for us to have a bit cooler and drier weather. My mixology creds are in need of brushing up, so no input from me,

  27. 27.

    Baud

    Kevin Drum has reviewed the FBI files on Clinton

    Have you read the entire FBI report on their investigation into Hillary Clinton’s email practices? No? Well, I have, because that’s the kind of professional I am. And I’m going to provide you with all the most interesting excerpts.
    ……

    If you read the entire report, you’ll find bits and pieces that might show poor judgment on Hillary’s part. The initial decision to use one email device is the obvious one, something that Hillary has acknowledged repeatedly. Another—maybe—is her staff’s view of what was safe to send over unclassified email. But this is very fuzzy. It could be that her staff knew exactly what it was doing, and it’s the subsequent classification authorities who are wrong. This is something that it’s impossible to judge since none of us will ever see the emails in question.

    That said, this report is pretty much an almost complete exoneration of Hillary Clinton. She wasn’t prohibited from using a personal device or a personal email account, and others at state did it routinely. She’s told the truth all along about why she did it. Colin Powell did indeed advise her about using personal email shortly after she took office, but she chose to follow the rules rather than skirt them, as Powell did. She didn’t take her BlackBerry into her office. She communicated with only a very select group of 13 people. She took no part in deciding which emails were personal before handing them over to State. She had nothing to do with erasing information on the PRN server. That was a screw-up on PRN’s end. She and her staff all believed at the time that they were careful not to conduct sensitive conversations over unclassified email systems. And there’s no evidence that her server was ever hacked.

  37. 37.

    gene108

    @Baud:

    How can we trust a President, who was not 100% exonerated. Plus, she brought this scrutiny on herself, by not talking with the media more. If she had just opened up, the media would have had their questions answered and all of this would have been down the memory hole months ago.

    I swear, the media attitude towards Hillary amounts to, “she wore a short skirt, how was I to know to keep my hands to myself” defense.

    If Hillary will just be a “good girl” (dress conservatively) and do proper things (not go to parties or be alone with boys), like hold press conferences and give us cute knick names, we would not pester her so much.

  39. 39.

    seaboogie

    @Baud: Hillary Clinton has – or has developed – levels of forebearance equivalent to a zen master, over these many years.

  41. 41.

    MattF

    So… the concept behind that photo is… [thinking about it, trying to understand]… …[choosing between getting it and losing grip on realiity]… Have to ask– what, exactly, are the signs of demonic posession?

  42. 42.

    Baud

    @gene108:
    @seaboogie:

    If you read the article, Hillary was right and Colin Powell was wrong about when he advised her to use a private email account.

    So everyone who believed the guy who lied to the UN about WMDs can suck it.

  44. 44.

    gene108

    @Baud:

    Yeah, Powell lied about the dates of communication. What’s interesting is Powell made sure none of his e-mails were ever preserved, which seems to be a common theme in the Bush 43 White House, and not preserving e-mails violate the statutes about record retention.

  47. 47.

    RedDirtGirl

    They look like members of a cleft chin cult. Chilling! Not sure I’ll get back to sleep, since I’ve been waking up at six these days. Spending a week on a little island off the coast of Maine. Heavenly.

  51. 51.

    amk

    Why does not the clinton camp charge the media with the attacks on her being sexist in nature? She should cite how they are letting the dick get away with bare minimum scrutiny with zero follow-up while she is being picked, picked 24×7.

  57. 57.

    Gee

    @opiejeanne:

    I don’t know why Ivanka get’s a pass. She hasn’t been forced into this against her will. She is one of Trump’s closest advisers. His campaign, his rhetoric, everything is happening with her support.She is just as rotten and ugly as them all.

  59. 59.

    trnc

    Dear HO Spawn,
    Maybe an outsider who whiffs every single thing that a president should know isn’t the example you should be pushing.

    Love,
    The Voters

  61. 61.

    Matt McIrvin

    The “rich douchebag character from an Eighties teen comedy” look certainly screams “outsider” to me.

  62. 62.

    Tokyokie

    @amk: Because then they’d label her a whiny b*tch on top of everything else.

    And to me, nothing says “outsider” like a portrait of three wastrels of enormous privilege whose expressions of smug entitlement would have to be surgically removed from their punchable faces.

  63. 63.

    Starfish

    @amk: If you pick a fight with the media, they will ruin you. Remember the “Dean Scream?”

    Attempting to use feminism as a defense brings out all the anti-feminist trolls. People in the Clinton camp attempted to say things about Sanders being against women, and that type of argument sways zero men. The clever boys are all now voting for Jill Stein so you can’t say they are not giving ladies a fair shake.

  64. 64.

    Matt McIrvin

    Obama couldn’t just go off on the blatant racism of people calling him lazy, questioning his citizenship, and spinning conspiracy theories about his parentage and Bill Ayers writing his memoir for him. He had to take it and counterattack in neutral terms, or he’d alienate white voters who were on the fence by “making everything about race”. It’s the same thing.

  67. 67.

    Matt

    The best-case scenario for that photo would be a promo for a remake of “Heathers”. Only instead of highlighting passages in “Moby Dick” it’d be passages in “Atlas Shrugged”…

  70. 70.

    PaulWartenberg2016

    So in order to appeal to Millennial voters about “Outsider vs. Insider”:

    1) Trump uses his own millionaire kids to represent poor, college-age Millennials?
    2) Trump uses the whitest of white kids to represent a Millennial generation that is more ethnically diverse than previous generations?
    3) Trump uses his own kids – wonderful act of nepotism there, Mr. Outsider – rather than find Millennial volunteers of his campaign to pose for the ad?

  71. 71.

    NotMax

    @Cal D

    If that’s the program I think it is, the original Swedish series “Real Humans” which it is based on is superior by a factor of about a trillion.

  79. 79.

    Jacel

    @gene108: As I recall three Republican governors wanting to be president (Romney, Hucklebee, and Jeb Bush) inexpensively acquired the computers (or hard disks) that had been used throughout their administration’s work, and then erased the contents or crushed the disk drives.

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