Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Beware of advice from anyone for whom Democrats are “they” and not “we.”

They spent the last eight months firing professionals and replacing them with ideologues.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Giving up is unforgivable.

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

The desire to stay informed is directly at odds with the need to not be constantly enraged.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Republicans choose power over democracy, every day.

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

“I was told there would be no fact checking.”

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. do not touch it.”

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

A tremendous foreign policy asset… to all of our adversaries.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

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

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Be a wild strawberry.

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  2. 2.

    zhena gogolia

    Looks like fun!

    Wouldn’t it be hilarious to have a BJCon somewhere central? I hate conferences, but that one I would make an effort to make.

  3. 3.

    spudgun

    Very cool!

    Hi Scamp Dog! If you’re reading, would love to get an update on Meeca – how is she doing?

  4. 4.

    jl

    Looks like a nice place and a nice group.
    Too damn young. Damned kids these days. Why are they fiddling around with ye olde tymey stuff like a blog? I guess they like antiques.

  6. 6.

    Miss Bianca

    @zhena gogolia: err….got an idea about that. Keeping it under my hat till I have made more arrangements, but STAY TUNED.

    Wish I could have made it, fellows!

  8. 8.

    Mart

    I recall that you only advertised under the Cincin meet-up. That could have hurt turn-out, not that I live in Denver.

  9. 9.

    germy

    Here’s an idea for the next Balloon-Juice calendar:

    Instead of pets, feature “The Jackals of Balloon-Juice”

  12. 12.

    CaseyL

    A BJNation meetup? I’m in!

    But a central location would put it somewhere in… Nebraska, I think. (I had to figure out a central point between SE and NW states for a family meetup that never happened. IIRC, Nebraska was the centralmost point.)

  15. 15.

    Fair Economist

    @NotMax: @zhena gogolia @Amir Khalid: : haha, those are great!

    Edit: I say hold it in Chicago: Obama’s residence and centrally located with excellent air service. It’s purely coincidental I have friends and family I’d like to visit there ;-)

  25. 25.

    CarolDuhart2

    Sounds great. Would like a post/poll of people who are interested so that we see if we have enough.

  26. 26.

    Quaker in a Basement

    I’m up for another Denver meet-up. I’ve said I would attend in the past and never managed to get there, but NEXT time, for reals.

  33. 33.

    NotMax

    @chopper

    The rest of the announcement:

    PARAMEDICS ARE STANDING BY. ALSO BE SURE TO SIGN-UP FOR TONIGHT’S GREAT MUSTARD HUNT .

    ;)

  35. 35.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @zhena gogolia:

    Wouldn’t it be hilarious to have a BJCon somewhere central?

    Yes, and I would be eternally grateful if it could more or less coincide with my 60th HS reunion in 2020. No dates announced yet, but in the past they’ve always been in late September/early October. Oak Park is where I’ll be forbidden the reunion, but anywhere in Chicagoland or the Midwest generally would be terrific! I expect to be driving, as in the past.

  38. 38.

    StringOnAStick

    I would have gone, but this is dental convention week and I had another location I had to be at (work requirement). The next Denver meetup though, I will definitely be there!

  45. 45.

    J R in WV

    No hot springs in WV, a couple of warm springs with water around 70, quite high a temp for a spring, which usually run about 55 around here…

    Will attend any conference with a hot spring, though. Esp in a 420 legal location!!! You guys in CO are SO lucky!! Hot springs and legal pot!!

  48. 48.

    Ohio Mom

    @CarolDuhart2: There you are! Missed you at the Cincinnati meet up, had a ride for you but didn’t have any way to contact you about it. Well, maybe next time…

  49. 49.

    A Ghost To Most

    Cottonwood Hot Springs is near Buena Vista. It is not hoidy toidy (looking at you, Mt. Princeton Hot Springs), has several rooms, and has the advantage of not stinking like rotten eggs. It is also well situated .

  56. 56.

    aliasofwestgate

    @Yarrow: For you coffee drinkers who live on the stuff, sure. I’ll be over here with my tea and hot chocolate, thanks.

    I’d do chicago since a major amtrak hub is there too. Especially from my neck of the woods in MI. Not as if i don’t go there once a year already for Anime Central!

  60. 60.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: Thanks for the laugh.

    edit: by which I mean I appreciated your clever comment, which was kind of apt because all three of the guys above are quite good looking.

  64. 64.

    comrade scotts agenda of rage

    Meeca’s doing great. If we hold one these when it’s warmer, there’s tons of microbreweries here that are very dog friendly.

    Scamp Dog and I talked mostly about Denver and Colorado in general. We started getting into politics when PsiFighter showed up.

    I’ve been to the last two Netroots Nation so it’s always great meeting people from blogs I haunt, all three of em.

    Now that I’m the hell outta Misery (still haven’t sold the property there, sigh), it’s nice to be able to meet folks.

  70. 70.

    John S.

    Has there ever been a meetup in South Floriduh? I know Mustang Bobby and a few other regulars are down here with me.

  74. 74.

    geg6

    OT, but just found out a former student of mine is running for county commissioner here. He’s a wonderful young man. He was a captain of our USCAA national champion basketball team and graduated with a business degree. After graduation, he enlisted in the Navy and served for four years and is now in grad school. Married with one child. Great personality and just an all around good guy. And if there is anything this county can use, it’s some youth and new ideas. Only problem is he’s African American in a county with less than 8% minority population. I’m going to go all out for him though. I’m so proud of him!

    timesonline.com/news/20190115/center-township-navy-vet-to-run-for-county-commissioner

  76. 76.

    Felanius Kootea

    There seems to be something weird/buggy going on with the site – this thread showed 67 comments on the front page but 74 when I clicked through.

  78. 78.

    Yarrow

    Bring me more of this:

    Adam Schiff on the Trump-Putin meetings on CNN: "It looks to me on the surface that they don't have much of an executive privilege claim to make … We certainly could subpoena the interpreter. We could subpoena the interpreter's notes."— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) January 17, 2019

  79. 79.

    Felanius Kootea

    There seems to be something weird/buggy going on with the site – this thread showed 67 comments on the front page but 74 when I clicked through.

    @geg6: Nice – I liked his statement of candidacy – hope he does well in the primaries.

  85. 85.

    Yarrow

    @Steve in the ATL: It’s also by the state highway, not the interstate. Because West Virginia. You’ll be lucky if you’re not dodging coal, timber, or fracking trucks on the way there.

  86. 86.

    zhena gogolia

    @Felanius Kootea:

    I’ve had that “feature” for several months now. I have to look at every thread to see if there are new comments. Sometimes it will say 64 and then I find 74, or sometimes it will say 64, and when I go to the comments I see 64, but I refresh within the comments and there are actually 74. Sometimes the number on the post will be accurate. IT’S EXTREMELY ANNOYING. But let’s not make it all about me.

  90. 90.

    Yarrow

    @zhena gogolia: It also takes awhile for a new post to show on the front page. It’ll be on John’s Twitter feed, you can see the arrow on the previous post showing the new post but it’s not visible on the front page.

  92. 92.

    Another Scott

    @Felanius Kootea: I see the same thing. I think it’s related to the “caching” of pages to take load off the database, etc. It was an enhancement that was done a few months ago. But there seem to be some issues with it.

    I refresh pages frequently, especially when moving between threads. That seems to be the only way to be sure that I see all the replies.

    John’s looking for new developers for the next New and Improved version of B-J. I don’t recall hearing when we’ll get to gripe about the new version… ;-)

    HTH a little.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  97. 97.

    Yarrow

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I refresh the front page and it doesn’t show up. A hard refresh will make it show up. Usually a lag time of 2-5 minutes for me for a new post to show up on the front page with a regular refresh. Sometimes the only way I can access it is to go to the previous page and use the new post arrow on the right side.

  99. 99.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Yarrow: well, as long as I get up the holler to collect my corn squeezin’s I’ll be ok.

    Isn’t there a Mandarin Oriental or a St. Regis in Mingo County?

  100. 100.

    cain

    Do any of the denver jackals have access to people who can help this woman? Asshole judge gives her 30 days for talking back to a cop. You know it wouldn’t have gone down if she was a white woman. She’s really an amazing person, spending her time and money paying bail for black men and women in jail to get them out. I’m hoping that people can help pay it forward.

    Send me mail if you know something…

  102. 102.

    cain

    Glad y’all could make it. I’m sitting here in Indiana, and missed another one. I’ll organize one in Portland when I get back there if there are any readers from PDX?

  103. 103.

    Steve in the ATL

    @cain: I was in Indiana earlier today. Which rather surprised me, as I was driving from Cincinnati to the Cincinnati airport across the river in Kentucky.

  106. 106.

    Steve in the ATL

    @cain: Mr. Municipal Court Judge in low-end suburb of Denver may be on a wee little power trip. And also may be racist AF.

  107. 107.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Sounds like Rudi’s putting on quite a show on CNN

    Manu Raju @ mkraju
    “If the collusion happened, it happened a long time ago. It’s either provable or it’s not. It’s not provable because it never happened … There’s no chance it happened with the president of the United States,” Rudy Giuliani said. “I have no idea what other people were doing.”

    Rudy Giuliani to ChrisCuomo: “I never said there was no collusion between the campaign or between people in the campaign. I have not. I said the president of the United States,” adding that Trump “didn’t commit a crime.”

    John Weaver @ jwgop
    I wouldn’t want my lawyer to slam down three Red Bulls after six martinis on the way to a tv interview. #HyperCrazy

    “I have no idea what other people were doing.”
    Did he just toss Junior under a bus? I’ll wait for the tubes to provide highlights

  109. 109.

    rikyrah

    @geg6:
    Good luck for him.
    Tell him to go out and ask for their votes. Lauren Underwood -never thought that she had a chance, but, she did the shoe leather.

  110. 110.

    Kelly

    This afternoon I overheard a federal employee at my credit union trying to make arrangements for if she missed another paycheck. The staff were keeping their voices down but I don’t think she cared who heard her. Sounded like she’s OK right now but if the closure runs thru the end of the month she won’t be able to make payments. Staff couldn’t give any answers but said upper management would contact her.

  113. 113.

    plato

    @cain:

    “The only thing that can happen in the next two months that would change … is something at the Supreme Court level, or the governor’s office,” she said. “And this governor’s not going to commute my sentence. I might try, I might ask him to, but he’s not going to.”

    That piece was from Sep 21, 2018. Doesn’t CO have a new progressive gov now?

  116. 116.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @JPL: President Trump didn’t collude.. He never mentioned whether candidate trump did.

    I wondered if Rudi is clever/sober enough to try to split that hair.

  119. 119.

    Martin

    Just catching up on things – and seeing the segment on AOC and #wheresmitch. Fuck me, AOC is brilliant. I’m jealous that she’s not from CA.

  120. 120.

    Sab

    Cool. So you can have a successful meetup without steveinthewtf. Good to know, since he came to Cleveland and told nobody.

  121. 121.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Sab: I don’t always have free time on my trips, such as last year when I was in downtown Cleveland the night of the Lady Gaga concert (I seriously thought downtown was overrun with teenage hookers. So much glitter!).

    But when I have a free night, I love to meet fellow Juicers! Sadly, there were none in Demopolis or Eutaw, Alabama. Happily, there were several in Blue Ash, Ohio (which I’m still not convinced is a real place).

  122. 122.

    Ohio Mom

    @RandomMonster: Go to the top of the front page, to the search icon/magnifying glass. Type in “Contact a front pager.”

    You want to write to Anne Laurie and ask her to put up a post for you. You write the post’s content, “I’m new in Baltimore and I need a meet-up” or however you want to phrase it, she posts it, and you’ll be on your way.

    One piece of advice, once you are at the meet-up, get everyone’s nym and real name and contact info, else you are going to have a hard time following up with your new IRL friends. Not like that’s ever happened to me…

  123. 123.

    Ohio Mom

    @Steve in the ATL: You don’t think Blue Ash is real? You think you were in Brigadoon? It’s not that idyllic here, though there might be a touch of unreality among my standard-red-State neighbors.

  124. 124.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Ohio Mom: I did suspect it was Brigadoon or somewhere in Scotland when both you and Bella Q ordered haggis and then cintibud and Bill started throwing punches.

  127. 127.

    PsiFighter37

    We attracted the most posts on a ‘Proof of Life’ post because we’re hot studs. Fight me

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