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Bad Bears, Bad Bears, Whatcha Gonna Do?

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To lighten the mood today:

:  h/t Soonergrunt

The Air Force may have called the incident a training exercise, but a Build-A-Bear on steroids made waves on social media this week after strolling up to the Sheppard Air Force Base entrance and blessing the gate guards with a hodgepodge of heaven-sent dance moves before making a break for the bare necessities of base access and a life of aiming high.

“Wherever I wander, wherever I roam. I couldn’t be fonder of my big home.”

Unfortunately, Mark Wahlberg’s thunder buddy for life didn’t wander very far onto the Wichita Falls, Texas, installation before drawing unwanted attention.

After finishing a dance traditionally accepted as a greeting in stuffed bear culture, the adorable teddy took off, nimbly weaving through traffic barriers and cones with the grace of a thousand ancient Mesopotamian belly dancers before graciously moving onto the sidewalk to avoid blocking traffic.

Stunned to the point of paralysis by the bear jig, a transfixed guard eventually snapped out of the bear dance trance as the teddy dashed down the road.

You must click over to watch the video for a good giggle.

Take care of yourself today.

I had a good conversation with a campaign aide for CO4 and it helped take the edge off. Karen McCormack is in an impossible race, but we are going to fight for her. Thanks to PostCard Patriots for pointing me in the right direction to be as helpful as I can be.

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  1. 1.

    rikyrah

    Van Dyke found GUILTY of Second Degree Murder.

    Also 16 counts of aggravated battery – one for each shot.

    Don’t tell me that elections don’t matter.

    This case wouldn’t have gone to court if Anita Alvarez was still in office.

  13. 13.

    Paul W.

    Oh yeah, she’s voting for him. Bullshit about Roe v Wade, ignoring his temperament during hearings.

    Time to get out the pitchforks.

  14. 14.

    Corner Stone

    I love how she thinks unlimited power is going to constrain Kavanaugh in his decisions moving forward.

  20. 20.

    Bobby Thomson

    Apparently she’s going full Kavanaugh, too.

    We need to recruit for her seat yesterday. If there is a credible candidate at those levels of funding, she will retire.

  21. 21.

    Baud

    At least we’ll have a 40 year in your face reminder about the importance of elections now.

  22. 22.

    lafcolleen

    Chicago was bracing itself for the outcome of police officer Jason Van Dyke’s murder trial. verdict just announced – guilty of the 2nd degree murder of Laquan McDonald.

    Thank God for this verdict.

  23. 23.

    MazeDancer

    Happy to be of service, TaMara.

    We’re all going to have to write harder. PostCardPatriots.com

    Collins just cited Kavanaugh’s wonderful dissent upholding the ACA.

    She deserves every piece of shame she gets every day for the rest of her life.

  26. 26.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @Corner Stone: I wish she would just do it and stop fucking with us.

    but then all the cameras would move on to Joe Manchin. He doesn’t even want them. Susan Collins is thoughtful! She talked to him for hours! She read things! Everyone look at Susan.

    If I’m right and she does vote yes, that fund hits $3 million by next Friday.

  28. 28.

    FlipYrWhig

    @debbie: I’m not watching but isn’t the point of all Susan Collins speeches “Look at me, I’m the very thoughtful Susan Collins!”

  29. 29.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Corner Stone:

    Was just about to post the same thing. Not interested in all your stupid justifications, Susie Q. Not interested in your “inch-at-a-time-amputation” rhetoric. Say it, shut the fuck up, get the fuck out. Susan Collins is dead to me.

  39. 39.

    TenguPhule

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    So it doesn’t matter one tiny mushroom-shaped fuck what Manchin does now.

    If he gives Kav the fig leaf of “bipartisan approval” he is dead to the Democratic Party.

  41. 41.

    Corner Stone

    This is the same woman that smiled when McConnell flat lied to her about promised future votes. She’s not very bright but she knows her voters are even more stupid.

  42. 42.

    TenguPhule

    @Baud:

    At least we’ll have a 40 year in your face reminder about the importance of elections now.

    You and Cole seem to think the US federal government is going to survive this shit.

  48. 48.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    SarahPalinUSA
    Hey LisaMurkowski – I can see 2022 from my house…

    Can you see the jail your son will be in till 2020? I wonder if there’s anyone in Alaska whose opinion Murkowski gives less of a shit about?
    also, too

    Tim Alberta @ TimAlberta
    last survey I recall, Palin was 19 points underwater in Alaska

  49. 49.

    Paul W.

    @TenguPhule: while I’ve disagreed with you on all sorts of stuff, as a mostly lurker, this is 100% true.

    With Kavanaugh on the court we are headed to a modern day civil war.

  52. 52.

    TenguPhule

    @debbie:

    I can’t even tell what her point is.

    Susan Collins would like to be governor of Maine and then the first female president.

  53. 53.

    Quinerly

    Anybody know anything about the rumor that a Dem won’t be around for the final vote?

    And fuck Susan Collins.

    Wonder if she and Murkowski will remain friends….

  57. 57.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @TenguPhule: then she should’ve quite the Senate, or at least the GOP, a year ago.

    @Paul W.: With Kavanaugh on the court we are headed to a modern day civil war.

    We are headed for House Judiciary hearings starring Don McGahn, Ed Whelan, Bill Burck, Christopher Wray and Rod Rosenstein.

  59. 59.

    eclare

    @SiubhanDuinne: Absolutely. It’s also a fuck you to anyone who cares about the environment, civil rights, rule of law, etc., but it’s a really big fuck you to women.

  60. 60.

    Humdog

    Will more money be raised in thank you to Heitkamp than fuck you to Collins?

    I bet fuck you gets more donations, what say you?

  61. 61.

    eemom

    It would be strange if she spent 8 hours lauding Kav’s judicial bona fides and then said “but I’m gonna vote no anyway because he’s a rapist and a liar,” but who knows.

  63. 63.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:
    She plans to run for Governor of Maine potentially, right? Could that fund be repurposed for any gubernatorial candidate against her if she does run for Maine Governor?

  67. 67.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Quinerly: Senator Daines who is one of the Republican senators from Montana will not be in DC tomorrow as it is his daughter’s wedding back in Montana.

  69. 69.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    @TenguPhule:
    There’s more of us than there are of them. Something else will rise from the ashes should that come to pass, if we fight for it. Minority rule is not sustainable.

  71. 71.

    TenguPhule

    @Paul W.: I think Hawaii has a fair chance of seceding quickly and getting adopted by Japan. One of the few advantages of being an island in the middle of an Ocean.

  74. 74.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    the only interesting thing about this is her desperate need to keep the camera on herself while she blathers

    This was a joke on the Office, the one time Michael Scott knew he had info everybody wanted, he refused to tell them so they’d keep listening to him

  75. 75.

    TenguPhule

    @??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??:

    Minority rule is not sustainable.

    In the long term, but in the long term everyone is dead.

    Look at apartheid africa for how a minority rule can be forced in the short term. It doesn’t have to work for long, just long enough to smash and grab and get out.

  78. 78.

    Mart

    Collins jabbering praise of the unhinged black out rapist (I am being kind) made me hyper tense in about forty seconds and had to change to music.

  79. 79.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Lizzie O’Leary @ lizzieohreally
    Even Capito looks like she wants her to speed it up.

  80. 80.

    Quinerly

    @Adam L Silverman: I know that. CNN was reporting a rumor about a Dem. Several other commenters have also brought it up in other threads. I’m wondering if Manchin will be a no show and he and the father of the bride will cancel each other out. Doesn’t that give Pence the tie breaking vote?

  81. 81.

    Repatriated

    Sen. Warren found proof in the FBI report that Kavanaugh perjured himself, but cannot reveal what it was. Assuming the Democrats retake the House in November, they should be able to subpoena that report and make at least that part of it public.

    They could do it now, but the question is whether the GOP could get 2/3 to expel whoever leaked it.

  82. 82.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    oh man, she’s doubling down against Ford. My previous opinion of Collins was too high! I didn’t think that was possible

    ETA: I’m half ready to fly to Portland to chant SHAME at her next time she goes home. I wonder if she as any idea of the whirlwind she’s reaping

  84. 84.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @TenguPhule:

    Susan Collins would like to be governor of Maine and then the first female president.

    How does that saying go? The one that starts with BWAHAHAHAHAHAH (gasp) HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

  88. 88.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    I’ve always thought Collins was a moron, albeit with that lizard brained instinct for self preservation pols learn, but how did no one in her staff stop her from dragging this on for so long, and from getting into the gutter?

  89. 89.

    Corner Stone

    This “person” should not be allowed to show her face in public for the rest of her life.

  91. 91.

    Starfish

    I have been participating in the Win-the-Fourth (WTF) Colorado superPAC since early on because why would anyone not? Defeating Ken Buck was a whimsical goal at first, but McCormick has done a fine job in going for it.

  93. 93.

    Corner Stone

    Shut up and get the fuck off my screen before Deadline White House is supposed to start.

  96. 96.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I couldn’t get through to any of Collins’ offices earlier today. I’m not even going to make the attempt right now.

    Probably just as well. I’d be guaranteed to invite a visit from the Secret Service, as intemperate as I’m feeling right now.

  97. 97.

    NotMax

    @Repatriated
    There is such a thing as Congressional Immunity*. Warren would in theory be given cover**.

    Legislative Immunity has fulfilled Jefferson’s prediction and advanced through the years with a “firm and never yielding pace”. Through court decisions based on liberal interpretation of the Constitution, it has been extended far beyond the “speeches and debates” for which it was guaranteed in that document. Included in the coverage of immunity now are publication in the Congressional Record not only of statements actually made on the floor but also of statements not so made (when included in “extensions of remarks”) and of statements made or published by non-members (when inserted under “leave to print”). Source</a.

    *Relevant excerpt from Article I, Section 6, Clause 1:

    [Senators and Representatives] shall in all Cases, except Treason, Felony and Breach of the Peace, be privileged from Arrest during their Attendance at the Session of their respective Houses, and in going to and returning from the same; and for any Speech or Debate in either House, they shall not be questioned in any other Place.

    **Also in theory she’d become eligible to be censured or expelled, but where in the hierarchy of privilege and operation the immunity clause falls has never been unequivocally addressed.

  102. 102.

    TenguPhule

    @jacy:

    Who is more chickenshit, Collins or Manchin? Discuss.

    Manchin by a mile.

    We know Collins was always a political whore.

  104. 104.

    J R in WV

    Guys, remember that this was not the confirmation vote, this was the cloture vote, to force the actual vote for or against confirmation. I’m not expecting it, but Manchin, slimy tho he is, could vote differently in the actual confirmation vote whenever it happens.

    I was once placed in a position where then Gov Manchin and I were forced to shake hands. It was terrible, he looked at me, bearded hippie that I am, and had a fixed politician’s grin on his face, that became more forced as we touched hands. What a goon.

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