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You are here: Home / Open Threads / Bad Bears, Bad Bears, Whatcha Gonna Do?

Bad Bears, Bad Bears, Whatcha Gonna Do?

by TaMara|  October 5, 20183:02 pm| 104 Comments

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To lighten the mood today:

We did a thing with the story on the giant teddy bear sprinting onto an Air Force base. https://t.co/7yxgNjxI60 pic.twitter.com/CFRB12Q3YQ

— J.D. Simkins (@simkinsjourno) October 5, 2018

:  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

    October 5, 2018 at 3:04 pm

    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.

  2. 2.

    Major Major Major Major

    October 5, 2018 at 3:06 pm

    Hehe, thanks for this. I saw SG retweet it but was too rage-locked into the Twitter app to click out.

  3. 3.

    TaMara (HFG)

    October 5, 2018 at 3:07 pm

    @rikyrah: A little bittersweet good news. Should have been first degree. But at least something for Laquan’s family.

  4. 4.

    TaMara (HFG)

    October 5, 2018 at 3:09 pm

    And Susan Collins is announcing her decision. I can’t bear (no pun) to listen. I’ll let you guys tell me later.

  5. 5.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 5, 2018 at 3:09 pm

    oh fuck she’s gonna vote for the rapist isn’t she

  6. 6.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 5, 2018 at 3:11 pm

    goddamn goddamn godammit all to fucking HELL

    FUCK

  7. 7.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 5, 2018 at 3:12 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Yep. Once Flake folded this morning, she lost her top cover.

  8. 8.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    October 5, 2018 at 3:12 pm

    PSA: Amazon has a preposterously long delivery time for THE WIND READER–1-2 months. If you order directly from Inspired Quill, my editor swears it will come within 2 weeks. Someone I told on FB ordered right away and says the IQ price is about the same even allowing for shipping. Sometimes publishing is a hell hole

  9. 9.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 5, 2018 at 3:12 pm

    FUCK
    YOU
    SUSAN
    COLLINS

  10. 10.

    schrodingers_cat

    October 5, 2018 at 3:13 pm

    She must never win another election again.

  11. 11.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2018 at 3:13 pm

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

  12. 12.

    HeleninEire

    October 5, 2018 at 3:14 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Yeah. She’s gonna vote yes.

  13. 13.

    Paul W.

    October 5, 2018 at 3:15 pm

    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

    October 5, 2018 at 3:15 pm

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

  15. 15.

    Major Major Major Major

    October 5, 2018 at 3:15 pm

    I’m shocked to find republican voting happening by this consistently republican republican.

  16. 16.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 5, 2018 at 3:15 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: that’s what I’m getting.

    if so, we fight on. Get to know Jerry Nadler

  17. 17.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 5, 2018 at 3:16 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

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

  18. 18.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2018 at 3:16 pm

    Now putting on the kneepads for Trump.

  19. 19.

    chopper

    October 5, 2018 at 3:17 pm

    well surprise, surprise, collins fucks us all over.

  20. 20.

    Bobby Thomson

    October 5, 2018 at 3:17 pm

    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

    October 5, 2018 at 3:17 pm

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

  22. 22.

    lafcolleen

    October 5, 2018 at 3:17 pm

    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

    October 5, 2018 at 3:17 pm

    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.

  24. 24.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2018 at 3:17 pm

    Don’t you fucking compare RBG to that fucking scum Kavanaugh! Fuck you!

  25. 25.

    debbie

    October 5, 2018 at 3:18 pm

    I can’t even tell what her point is.

  26. 26.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 5, 2018 at 3:19 pm

    @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.

  27. 27.

    chopper

    October 5, 2018 at 3:19 pm

    @debbie:

    you’d think she’d have something better considering she made such a big spectacle of her decision.

  28. 28.

    FlipYrWhig

    October 5, 2018 at 3:19 pm

    @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

    October 5, 2018 at 3:19 pm

    @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.

  30. 30.

    schrodingers_cat

    October 5, 2018 at 3:19 pm

    @debbie: Its a fuck you to all women in the United States.

  31. 31.

    eemom

    October 5, 2018 at 3:19 pm

    What the fuck is she on about??

  32. 32.

    chopper

    October 5, 2018 at 3:20 pm

    seriously, she is just the fucking worst.

  33. 33.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 5, 2018 at 3:20 pm

    @eemom: herself

  34. 34.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 5, 2018 at 3:20 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Not unless Coons somehow convinces Flake to vote no tomorrow. And even Coons thinks that’s unlikely.

  35. 35.

    Humdog

    October 5, 2018 at 3:20 pm

    @rikyrah: This is a victory for justice. Thanks for the update.

  36. 36.

    Major Major Major Major

    October 5, 2018 at 3:21 pm

    Well, this ain’t gonna be the mental health break thread I was hoping for. I’m out. (Not a criticism.)

  37. 37.

    eemom

    October 5, 2018 at 3:21 pm

    Is she a fucking sock puppet for trump??

  38. 38.

    Baud

    October 5, 2018 at 3:22 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    mental health break thread

    That’s a thing?

  39. 39.

    TenguPhule

    October 5, 2018 at 3:22 pm

    @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.

  40. 40.

    eemom

    October 5, 2018 at 3:23 pm

    THIS IS NOT WHAT THIS IS ABOUT YOU STUPID BITCH

  41. 41.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2018 at 3:23 pm

    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

    October 5, 2018 at 3:23 pm

    @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.

  43. 43.

    Baud

    October 5, 2018 at 3:24 pm

    @TenguPhule: Yes.

  44. 44.

    TenguPhule

    October 5, 2018 at 3:24 pm

    @Baud:

    That’s a thing?

    I think the popular term for them is pet posts.

  45. 45.

    NotMax

    October 5, 2018 at 3:24 pm

    The bane from Maine votes mainly without brain.

  46. 46.

    narya

    October 5, 2018 at 3:24 pm

    @rikyrah: So glad about this, as are my coworkers .. .

  47. 47.

    TenguPhule

    October 5, 2018 at 3:24 pm

    @Baud: Its not. This is where it all starts to implode.

  48. 48.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 5, 2018 at 3:25 pm

    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.

    October 5, 2018 at 3:25 pm

    @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.

  50. 50.

    Baud

    October 5, 2018 at 3:25 pm

    @TenguPhule: ok

  51. 51.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2018 at 3:25 pm

    HAHAHAHAHAHA!! Precedent. On this Supreme Court. GMAFB

  52. 52.

    TenguPhule

    October 5, 2018 at 3:26 pm

    @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

    October 5, 2018 at 3:26 pm

    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….

  54. 54.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    October 5, 2018 at 3:26 pm

    I can’t tell. Did Collins actually say which way she was voting? Or is she still blathering?

  55. 55.

    Baud

    October 5, 2018 at 3:27 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: I’m not watching. I assumed from comments here that she announced.

  56. 56.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 5, 2018 at 3:28 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    Its a fuck you to all women in the United States.

    This x 156,000,000

  57. 57.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 5, 2018 at 3:28 pm

    @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.

  58. 58.

    bemused

    October 5, 2018 at 3:28 pm

    Eric Boehlert tweeted, this is one of the best unicorn speeches ever.

  59. 59.

    eclare

    October 5, 2018 at 3:29 pm

    @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

    October 5, 2018 at 3:30 pm

    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

    October 5, 2018 at 3:30 pm

    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.

  62. 62.

    trollhattan

    October 5, 2018 at 3:30 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:
    Well, Sarah’s house number is 2018 so she’s probably telling the truth.

  63. 63.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    October 5, 2018 at 3:30 pm

    @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?

  64. 64.

    eemom

    October 5, 2018 at 3:30 pm

    You fucking WHORE

  65. 65.

    debbie

    October 5, 2018 at 3:31 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Still blathering. With no end in sight.

  66. 66.

    Quinerly

    October 5, 2018 at 3:32 pm

    @Baud: She hasn’t gotten there yet. She’s talking about what a centrist the wanna be rapist is.

  67. 67.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 5, 2018 at 3:32 pm

    @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.

  68. 68.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 5, 2018 at 3:33 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor: Still blathering.

  69. 69.

    ??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)  ??

    October 5, 2018 at 3:33 pm

    @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.

  70. 70.

    Adam L Silverman

    October 5, 2018 at 3:33 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Dont’ forget Leonard Leo.

  71. 71.

    TenguPhule

    October 5, 2018 at 3:33 pm

    @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.

  72. 72.

    mali muso

    October 5, 2018 at 3:34 pm

    So where’s the link to that fund for her opposition? I am ready to donate.

  73. 73.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 5, 2018 at 3:34 pm

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    Still blathering, but if she does end up announcing that she’s a Nay vote, I will eat an entire unabridged set of Encyclopædia Britannica.

  74. 74.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 5, 2018 at 3:34 pm

    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

    October 5, 2018 at 3:35 pm

    @??? 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.

  76. 76.

    Baud

    October 5, 2018 at 3:35 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    That would be the most amazing troll ever though.

  77. 77.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2018 at 3:35 pm

    You can not believe Dr Ford and also believe Kavanaugh. You can’t.

  78. 78.

    Mart

    October 5, 2018 at 3:36 pm

    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

    October 5, 2018 at 3:36 pm

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

  80. 80.

    Quinerly

    October 5, 2018 at 3:36 pm

    @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

    October 5, 2018 at 3:36 pm

    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

    October 5, 2018 at 3:38 pm

    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

  83. 83.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2018 at 3:38 pm

    Collins is now playing the role of Trump on the Senate floor.

  84. 84.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 5, 2018 at 3:39 pm

    @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!

  85. 85.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2018 at 3:39 pm

    Collins is just straight up saying, “FUCK YOU WOMEN!!!!”

  86. 86.

    Paul W.

    October 5, 2018 at 3:40 pm

    @Corner Stone: This. OMFG why is she still talking.

  87. 87.

    Mart

    October 5, 2018 at 3:41 pm

    @Corner Stone: @Corner Stone: “FUCK YOU AMERICA!!!!” Ha! Edit works.

  88. 88.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 5, 2018 at 3:42 pm

    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

    October 5, 2018 at 3:42 pm

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

  90. 90.

    eemom

    October 5, 2018 at 3:44 pm

    So it is a done deal now right? I am too furious to think straight, never mind count.

  91. 91.

    Starfish

    October 5, 2018 at 3:48 pm

    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.

  92. 92.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 5, 2018 at 3:49 pm

    @Baud:

    It would. I would stand on her dining table and sing “You’re the Top.” Gladly.

  93. 93.

    Corner Stone

    October 5, 2018 at 3:49 pm

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

  94. 94.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 5, 2018 at 3:51 pm

    And there it is.

  95. 95.

    Chris

    October 5, 2018 at 3:53 pm

    @Paul W.:

    Even McCain limited his grandstand to a thumbs down. She’s been milking this for a fucking hour.

  96. 96.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 5, 2018 at 3:54 pm

    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

    October 5, 2018 at 3:55 pm

    @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.

  98. 98.

    jacy

    October 5, 2018 at 3:57 pm

    Manchin announces he will vote yes. Who is more chickenshit, Collins or Manchin? Discuss.

  99. 99.

    Ruckus

    October 5, 2018 at 4:02 pm

    @jacy:
    How can one be more than 100% chickenshit?

  100. 100.

    FlipYrWhig

    October 5, 2018 at 4:06 pm

    @Ruckus: 10 pounds of chickenshit in a 5 pound bag?

  101. 101.

    Chris

    October 5, 2018 at 4:10 pm

    @jacy:

    GOD.

    Manchin. He knows better.

  102. 102.

    TenguPhule

    October 5, 2018 at 4:13 pm

    @jacy:

    Who is more chickenshit, Collins or Manchin? Discuss.

    Manchin by a mile.

    We know Collins was always a political whore.

  103. 103.

    Starfish

    October 5, 2018 at 4:17 pm

    People are hitting the website to donate to Collins’ future opponent so hard that it gives server errors.

  104. 104.

    J R in WV

    October 5, 2018 at 5:08 pm

    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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