Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

The Supreme Court is corrupt. Democrats must win in November and force court reform.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Live so that if you miss a day of work people aren’t hoping you’re dead.

Let there be snark.

Innocent people don’t delay justice.

I wonder if trump will be tried as an adult.

This blog will pay for itself.

Tick tock motherfuckers!

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

“Loving your country does not mean lying about it’s history.”

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

ha ha ha! Nice try weird people.

There are no moderate republicans – only extremists and cowards.

‘Museums aren’t America’s attic for its racist shit.’

This fight is for everything.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

This country desperately needs a functioning Fourth Estate.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

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Mary G. found a lot of good General Stuck comments, and I have been looking as well.  There are way more than we can possibly use for the calendar, so if anyone is interested, you can find a bunch of them here, posted in the comments.

Also, since comments are no longer being indexed for searching (at least for the time being, longer story for another time), I thought I would share some of the links with the highest match to “stuck” from my search last week while comments were still indexed.

And John mocks me for leaving tabs open!

chrlie2 004 before our walk

Open Thread

Because I can

View from Your La-Z-Boy

Institutional Interests

Manning Case–Judge Reduces PFC Manning’s Potential Maximum Sentence

Par:AnoIA Strikes

Stuck Update

“Generation Squeeze”

Open Thread

Open thread

The View From Your Couch

Open Thread: Thursday Garden Chat Edition

A Heady Mix of Incompetence and Self-Hatred

Have a Happy New Year, or the Hairless Monkey and His Little Rat Dog Get It

Oh Rosie, Oh, Girl

 

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  2. 2.

    WaterGirl

    General Stuck
    APRIL 5, 2012 AT 11:06 PM
    @efgoldman:
    Aren’t you afraid of that shit leaking over from AZ on one side and TX on the other?
    Sometimes, I just start chanting and shaking my love beads, and the fear goes away. Too many aging flower child’n around here for the nutters to stay long. Something like garlic cloves and holy water for them…
  3. 3.

    WaterGirl

    General Stuck
    APRIL 9, 2012 AT 7:35 PM
    It has only been one generation, barely, since the iron curtain came down and the Cold War came to a close. Most of us spent a part of our formative years during that 40 year run of twin superpowers struggling to impose their vastly different ideologies on far flung places of the world.
    To simplify, the individual versus the collective, and that was what was pounded into most American skulls up until circa 1990. People not alive during the early 60’s especially, have a hard time understanding the deeply insidious and palpable fear that came with that cold war, not only from nuclear annihilation, but also from “the red collective’ sneakily sapping our precious bodily fluids.
    It was a fear made to order for the right wing to exploit politically with them being the furthest from that place on the poll spectrum, with exaggerated claims that any kind of social policy for the general welfare could lead to forming collective cadres, and an end to individual liberty.
    And for the dimmer bulbs among us, and there are way too many, that kind of fear in a democracy is easy to spread like a virus from one moron to the next.
    It took an assassinated beloved president that brought a dem supermajority to squeak through medicare, and that likely would not have happened if not confined to the elderly.
    And you just can’t run a country, nor a capitalist one, without some kinds of safety net for the certain losers, nor can you do it without a vibrant middle class to create buffers to the extreme in either direction. And to feed the free market beast with adequate consumerism against the insatiable greedy supply side monster, if left to its own devices.
    And then there is health care, a vital resource everyone will need sooner or later, therefore not meant for the free market profiteering model, that every other western nation has figured out that keeping it under the capitalist system, is a sure recipe for national economic disaster.
    The Cold War mentality is still with us, and still has pol arrows in the quivers of the GOP. I figure at least one more generation, and maybe two, until we can have a majority of voters not raised on duck and cover from the Red Menace, currently demogogued as your average liberal in the dem party and soshulist Kenyan Usurpers. That we can have a solid social safety net, without turning into commie stooges.
  4. 4.

    WaterGirl

    General Stuck
    APRIL 11, 2012 AT 5:37 PM
    Republicans have always lied about policy, to basically make up for votes potentially lost to this or that group of faction. Usually, to stir up enough dust to hide their knobbery of the 1 percent, at the cost of the rest of us. But those lies have been measured and always with outlets for plausible deniability, if word got out what they are up to. Not anymore, they are letting their fiction freek flags fly in whatever direction that suits what they perceive as the threat to power on any given day. It is truly stunning, this disconnect with reality we are seeing, as was spoken of by conservadem John Yarmuth Rep. Ky., concerning the blathering lies coming from the mouth of his states minority leader in the US senate. Sending him a letting made public, concerning Mitch’s untethered bullshit on the ACA in a recent Courier Journal Op Ed by McConnell.
    pdf full letter
    For a Kentucky congressman to send such a formal complaint to a Kentucky senator, is kind of far out, especially when the letter accuses Mitch of, in effect, lying through his teeth .
    It is everywhere you look, the unbound fiction coming out of the GOP, with seeming nary a concern about going too far, or any kind of backlash. Maybe they will get away with it and win the election, and confirm for eternity that this country doesn’t deserve to survive.
  5. 5.

    WaterGirl

    General Stuck
    APRIL 12, 2012 AT 3:38 PM
    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:
    Th wingnuts thought they’d found the Rosen cure to undo all the damage from their jihad to create democracy by invading the national uterus/ And now Donahue opens his piehole, and hands back the hot potato in the war on women. Reminds me of my first panty raid as a college freshmen, standing stunned at the foot of the womens dorm, looking skyward amidst a downpour of panties raining down on my head, and thinking to myself, this could be heaven, or this could be hell.
  6. 6.

    WaterGirl

    General Stuck
    APRIL 5, 2012 AT 9:47 PM
    @doofus:
    Depends on what is offered in compromise, but compromise is the essence of what democracy is all about. You can give away too much in efforts to compromise, for sure, but approval of the general premise that compromise is essential to a healthy functioning democracy, is, I suspect, what most of that 59 percent of democrats polled, were meaning. The fact that the other side has gone insane, and has cast aside any good faith effort to compromise, is not a democrat problem. It is a republican/and national problem that is very serious, if not changed fairly soon. Without that good faith mindset to compromise, with the goal of fairness for both sides giving up some of what they want, means that we are steering ourselves to stalemate and you can’t govern a country that way. And if policy and political differences are not handled in such a way with measured compromise, then we begin teetering toward politics by other means.
  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    General Stuck (on self glorifiication)
    APRIL 3, 2012 AT 10:03 PM
    I do know about chronic disease and have written some about mine in the past here. It has turned me into something of a hermit, from once being a highly social person. Not to belabor details, but among other symptoms, it has left me deaf in one ear, and about half of the hearing in my other ear is gone. With increasing poor balance.
    If not for the VA, finally, after decades, making a provisional diagnoses and treatment that has helped my rare ailment, but not cured, I doubt I’d be above ground by now. But not before going first through years of a living of hell on earth, having a rare condition, no insurance, and at that time, not even the VA, until Clinton expanded the pool of vets to be covered.
    So it is all kinds of emo for me, this ACA law, not so much for myself, personally, getting decent health care from the VA now, but for those who are sick and left in the lurch to fend for themselves in the richest country in the world. It is why the anger at both the wingnuts and their law of the jungle bullshit, and some on the left bitching about making rich insurance companies richer and wanting the ACA to have not passed for that reason.
    The folks out there in need, don’t have the luxury of fine pol ideology, nor sacrificing the imperfect to wait for the ideal. It’s life and death struggle for too many, and it mostly is played out silently, suffered by those who fell through the cracks, and there are more than a few.
  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    APRIL 4, 2012 AT 12:18 PM
    @Felanius Kootea:
    Scalia is a craven asshole, and I try to comfort myself with parables of it being darkest just before the light shines, or some such pollyanish noodlings.
  9. 9.

    WaterGirl

    General Stuck
    APRIL 5, 2012 AT 6:22 PM
    It’s not that Democrats need to make every hill a hill to do die on.
    Some hills you just need to stretch out on, fire up the crack pipe, and scout for guverment drones.
  10. 10.

    WaterGirl

    APRIL 12, 2012 AT 8:28 PM
    Next will be a murder rap for jerking off. You wait, slippery slope, sticky situation, all that kind of shit
    ETA: followup
    General Stuck
    APRIL 12, 2012 AT 8:36 PM
    @jl:
    Maybe for women.
    On further reflection, you are correct. All spent sperm will receive a decent burial, 21 gun salute, and a Medals of Freedom/wingnut
  11. 11.

    WaterGirl

    General Stuck
    APRIL 13, 2012 AT 11:15 AM
    Here we go again
    This may be a good day to start sniffing glue.
  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    General Stuck
    APRIL 15, 2012 AT 10:51 AM
    If Jesus had packed heat, they never would have nailed him to that cross.
  13. 13.

    WaterGirl

    General Stuck
    APRIL 15, 2012 AT 4:16 PM
    I am not afraid of my government. I suppose that is because having worked in it for more than a few years, I have an idea how it functions. The right wing is the worst demonizing and fear mongering about men in black doing this or that evil thing to them, on a whim. And while there is certainly concern about too much power currently given policing agencies throughout the state and fed government, that is mostly a function of a right wing court for several decades, and too many citizens favoring tough policing, and that excesses won’t happen to them. But there are those on the left who feed this paranoia outsized to reality.
    Our fed government is, and has been, and should be considered one of the good things about this country, and is actually very resistant to much tampering by politicos from any ideological stripe and ill intent. It is like the immovable object and irresistible force all at once. And has been built over the centuries to resist change and manipulation for broader pol purposes.
    If you have worked for any federal agency, you would know that everything, and I mean everything, is under this or that regulation, that almost always chugs along as a force unto itself, toward whatever purpose it was created by congress, in the first place.
    This mindset is reinforced by many layers of oversight, both internal and external to any one agency or department. It is a matrix set in near concrete, and only changes slowly, or by direct congressional mandate.
    That does not mean what congress directs the government bureaucracy to do should be taken as something that should be done, but it does mean, it can within human imperfections, be expected to do what it is ordered to do by the congress and the president and the courts.
    This bullshit about blown up fear from right or left that the government is a big boogyman out to get your ass, is simply, by and large bullshit. And most of the time, when folks in positions of responsibility go off the reservation, they get caught at it. It is very difficult to get away with misbehavior for very long, even at the top levels, without people finding out.
    So, by all means, keep an eye out for shit like the Patriot ACT to remain temporary, and restrained, and other borderline shit, and agitate like hell to curb excess police powers the courts and congress have created, but fuckers like Chuck Norris, the right wing in general, and some on the left. Give it a rest, trying to make citizens terrified of their government through exaggerated accusations, without any or much evidence, to back up such claims.
    We really do, with all our many other problems, have a solid federal government, that moves like a mindless robot doing what the regulations say it should do.
  14. 14.

    WaterGirl

    General Stuck
    APRIL 16, 2012 AT 4:52 PM
    Reminds me of my pappy, a charter member of the Reagan Love Society. He had on one wall of his real estate brokers office, a huge pic of Ronnie sitting in the oval office. And huge like one entire wall about 20 feet wide. I used to raz him with “pops” ‘think that poster is big enough’/ He’d give me that sad that my son is communist look, and just say, ran outta wall.
  15. 15.

    WaterGirl

    tamied
    DECEMBER 11, 2009 AT 12:30 PM
    @General Winfield Stuck: Did you get a dog? Can’t wait to see.
    General Winfield Stuck
    DECEMBER 11, 2009 AT 12:52 PM
    @tamied:
    Yes I did. Just what I wanted,. A furry little Terrier. Two years old or about. He was brought in as a stray and has had a very hard time but they don’t know his past, according to the pound folks. No one claimed him, which i found incredible as he is a sweet feisty little guy with good manners so far, and very smart. And took a bath like a champ without any drama.
    General Winfield Stuck
    DECEMBER 11, 2009 AT 1:25 PM
    Thanks all. I almost didn’t take him because he was really hyper, but did, and after coming home he has settled down greatly and is a little sweetheart. And curls up at my feet by the computer. I think he is glad to be out of that cold smelly shelter pen.
  16. 16.

    WaterGirl

    General Winfield Stuck
    OCTOBER 30, 2009 AT 9:51 PM
    @jeffreyw:
    Is that Jack. Has he come back yet? fingers crossed.
  17. 17.

    WaterGirl

    General Winfield Stuck
    DECEMBER 12, 2009 AT 7:24 PM
    I just want to say, that one of the few things I like about the Christmas silly season is the music. Especially Classical Choir Christmas songs. That is about all I listen to until it’s over.
    And for anyone interested, here is a fresh Charlie pic from today before our walk. For once in my life I made an A plus choice on something unknown. He is a prince of sweetness and smart.
  18. 18.

    WaterGirl

    General Stuck
    JANUARY 15, 2013 AT 5:19 PM
    @Corner Stone:
    Shut up you pickled piece of shit.
    General Stuck
    JANUARY 15, 2013 AT 5:21 PM
    @Corey:
    Go to firebagger hell.
    General Stuck
    JANUARY 15, 2013 AT 5:25 PM
    @Glenn Greenwald:
    Eat shit you racist fuckwad.
    General Stuck
    JANUARY 15, 2013 AT 5:31 PM
    These are you buddies pulling this shit, Cole. On your blog.
  19. 19.

    WaterGirl

    General Stuck
    JULY 16, 2012 AT 6:39 PM
    (Edit)
    @Geeno:
    I may have kilt this thread by my Obot nonsense. So I will retreat to the obscurity of the ethers. Carry on, I will not comment on this thread again, unless someone writes to my fake name.
  20. 20.

    WaterGirl

    SiubhanDuinne
    JULY 12, 2013 AT 7:30 PM
    (Edit)
    I haven’t posted much about Stuck, but I, too, am astonished at how genuinely sad I am at the thought of his death — and, like others, worried about Charlie.
  21. 21.

    WaterGirl

    dance around in your bones
    JULY 12, 2013 AT 7:55 PM
    @Anne Laurie:
    See, this is what I think as well. General Stuck would have expected assholey comments and would have fired right back (maybe with his clown cannon). I just think it’s amazing that so many people have expressed concern and sadness.
    I expect if I disappeared from this site I might get 3-4 folks wondering what happened to me, and a couple more who would say “dance who?” LOL.
  22. 22.

    WaterGirl

    General Stuck
    FEBRUARY 5, 2013 AT 6:33 PM
    God awful discussing generational politics on a goddam generational politics thread. If it’s all bullshit, there is the fucking door.
  23. 23.

    WaterGirl

    General Stuck
    JULY 16, 2010 AT 9:37 AM
    (Edit)
    I love the smell of progressive angst first thing Friday morn.
    The Horror.
  24. 24.

    WaterGirl

    General Stuck
    JULY 16, 2010 AT 10:25 AM
    @Hugin & Munin: It was written in stupid and without links to back up your nonsense.
  25. 25.

    WaterGirl

    John Cole
    DECEMBER 31, 2009 AT 8:12 PM
    @General Winfield Stuck: I swear, every picture of Charlie reminds me of our old Jack Russell terrier named Russell. Charlie has people eyes. He knows what you are saying.
    +
    General Winfield Stuck
    DECEMBER 31, 2009 AT 8:16 PM
    @John Cole:
    It is really freeky how smart this little dog is. And is so obedient, to spoken word, and even just a look or hand gesture.
  27. 27.

    WaterGirl

    General Winfield Stuck
    DECEMBER 31, 2009 AT 8:22 PM
    Oh, and Happy New year Balloon Juicers. A special albeit odd assortment of characters, none more odd than moi”.
    The last decade can kiss my goodbye with a big cheesy suck on this to George Bush , Dick Cheney and all the other blood sucking motherfuckers they run with.
  28. 28.

    WaterGirl

    General Winfield Stuck
    DECEMBER 31, 2009 AT 8:36 PM
    If there has lived a more Regal Cat than the Tunchster, I haven’t seen it. He just oozes authority, along with fashionable disdain.
  31. 31.

    Ruckus

    @WaterGirl: 

    I do know about chronic disease and have written some about mine in the past here.

    This comment of the General is rather eerie to me.
    Sounds way too familiar to me. Way, way, way too familiar.

  32. 32.

    Emerald

    I confess that it was General Stuck who attracted me to this blog. Also a confirmed obot,, I normally agreed with him and he was a much better writer than I ever could be.

    As are most of the folks here.

    I was horribly worried when he disappeared, and devastated when we found out about his death. There are many other wonderful commenters here, and it seems we’ve lost too many of them recently.

    I’m not very good at it, but I thank you all for not driving me away.

  34. 34.

    Ruckus

    @WaterGirl:

    I’d leave it.

    We need occasional diversions. GS is a good one.

    BTW I have a comment that may be in mod, from the next post. Or not, but it seems there are still issues.

  36. 36.

    spudgun

    @WaterGirl:  Don’t! Just re-post it later.

    I started from the bottom link for whatever weird reason my brain decided, and it was hilarious* (if a bit scatalogical)! I will eventually make my way through all of them.

    *Also made me wonder whatever happened to Corner Stone…

  39. 39.

    spudgun

    @WaterGirl:  I like from the same thread:

    General Stuck

    JULY 16, 2010 AT 9:55 AM

    @Kryptik: I like progressive blog warriors in uniform. Makes me feel safe and pretty. Go get em Tiger.

  40. 40.

    WaterGirl

    @Mary G: Thank you. It turns out we can’t do a separate page, so the quotes will be on the photo pages.  With that news in mind, I went looking for shorter quotes.  You were my inspiration, so thanks for all of your quotes.

    We still need quotes for the others, but I need a break before I can  start on another person. :-)

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    We could crowdsource this – maybe tomorrow I could put up threads from the previous searches for the other 4, and anyone who is interested could check out the threads and copy comments they like in to the comment section.

    Is there any interest in that for efgoldman, Schlamazel (Schlamizel) greennotGreen and Scotian?  Any volunteers?

  46. 46.

    spudgun

    Oh, this one…

    SIA

    JULY 12, 2013 AT 9:43 PM

    Looks like the thread is done, but I want to post a passage by General Stuck I particularly enjoyed.

    But there are moments I have with sir Charles that are not covered by that theory of interaction with pets. It is personal and really nothing more than we are fast friends in this realm of flesh and blood, without conditions, spinning madly together upon the mortal coil of planet earth.

    Beautiful.

  50. 50.

    debbie

    @WaterGirl:

    General Stuck
    APRIL 15, 2012 AT 10:51 AM
    If Jesus had packed heat, they never would have nailed him to that cross.

    I’ve had Tom Waits songs running through my head all day (Come On Up to the House, Georgia Lee), and this comment eerily fits my thoughts like a glove.

  55. 55.

    WaterGirl

    @Mary G: I agree!  I already passed on to Beth that satby is really hoping that some part of the Christmas/Santa comment can be used.

    If you want to look at some of the long quotes you found and pick out the best parts, you could put each one in a separate comment in this thread.

    Shorter WG: make life easy for the deciders. :-)

  59. 59.

    WaterGirl

    @satby: I’m sorry!  You are so right, I do have enough for Schlemezal/Schlemezil. Yes, I was looking for a few for General Stuck and I found so many good ones that I thought I would share.  I got nowhere finding someone to do for greennotGreen and efgoldman what you did for Schlemazel, and I thought about sharing all the posts I had found.

    I keep hoping that Laura Too will read about this and might also have something to contribute.

  61. 61.

    WaterGirl

    Nyms ifor Schlemazel, in reverse chronological order.  I was really happy to have found his first nym.
    Schlemazel,
    Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!],
    Schlemizel,
    schlemizel – was Alwhite,
    Alwhite
    Below are the various comments satby and I found.
  62. 62.

    WaterGirl

    “I look at other people like ef & know I could be in so much worse shape than I am so why should I feel sorry for myself? But the deal is that your problems are your problems and, really, people better or worse off are not the issue at all. Its OK to feel bad when bad things happen just try not to let that run your life.”
    Schlemazel OCTOBER 22, 2017 AT 5:35 PM
    “I have not seen the sequel but I will take a break from my normal, positive, up beat nature to note that the poles are warming faster than the rest of the Earth (less ice = less reflection = greater increases) and that huge stores of CO2 are stored in the permafrost. It won’t take much more to thaw that & if that happens the truth is going to be a hell of a lot worse than inconvenient.”
    Schlemazel AUGUST 27, 2017 AT 11:24 AM
    Schlemazel [was Schlemizel till NotMax taught me proper yiddish!]
    SEPTEMBER 7, 2014 AT 9:40 AM
    Have to dig up 2 huge flower gardens. The county will be plowing them under on a road project next year. They paid us a littel for the stip of land they are taking and the flowers & trees on that strip. So today we are digging up bulbs and rhizomes and roots then moving them to our sons yard.
    schlemizel – was Alwhite
    SEPTEMBER 13, 2011 AT 8:01 AM
    Just a few weeks ago we were assured we were winning, that the Taliban was crushed, only a handful of members left.
    I’m having flashbacks to 1968 – and, no its not the brown acid :) – when were were assured the Viet Cong were on the run, had no support in the country and could not generate a threat against the US or the SVN. Then came Tet.
    The apologists are quick to note that the VC did not win a single engagement during Tet but refuse to acknowledge why it was a huge victory for them. The Army had no idea what was happening inside Viet Nam, had no idea what the enemy was doing or was capable of doing. The DoD had been lying to us for years & it was impossible to deny it any more. This more than Uncle Walters denunciation of the war was the dagger to the heart of the debacle.
    The Army will defeat this attack & the same people will be running around telling us “all is well” and we only need 6 more months. What is different now is that few people actually care (the draft really made a difference) and nobody in the media will point out that the emperor has no clothes.
    schlemizel – was Alwhite
    SEPTEMBER 7, 2011 AT 9:48 AM
    As a strict constructionist Constitutional scholar :D I believe the Founding fathers must be taken at their word exactly as I believe them to have meant it, not how people who might disagree with me interpret it!
    Therefore, in regards to the second amendment, you have the right to have as many mussel-loading smooth-bored muskets as you want and the government can not prevent you from buying black powder or lead shot for said arms.
  63. 63.

    WaterGirl

    And the Christmas story satby found:

    NOVEMBER 23, 2012 AT 2:38 PM
    I know this is a repost & even worse it is a repost of my own post and in the same thread but I hope you forgive me, I really liked this & wanted it cleaned up a bit
    DEAR EDITOR:
    I am 8 years old. Some of my little friends say there is no war on Christmas. Papa says, ‘If you see it on FAUX News it’s so.’ Please tell me the truth; is there a War on Christmas?
    VIRGINIA O’HANLON.
    115 WEST NINETY-FIFTH STREET.
    No war on Christmas?
    VIRGINIA, your little friends are wrong. They have been affected by rationality in an irrational age. They do not believe except they see. They think that nothing can be which is not provable by rational observation. All minds, Virginia, whether they be men’s or children’s, can be little. The reaction to this great universe of ours can be for man to be a mere insect, an ant, in his intellect, as compared with the boundless world about him, as measured by the intelligence capable of grasping the whole of truth and knowledge.
    Yes, VIRGINIA, there is a war on Christmas. It exists as certainly as hate and stinginess and demagoguery exist, and you know that they abound and give to their life its highest ugly and lowest meaning. Alas! How merry might be the world if there were a war on Christmas. It might be as merry as if there were no teabagers. There would be no inchoate hate then, no petty sniping, no panic to make less tolerable this existence. We should have enjoyment, except in insensate cruelty and slights. The eternal light with which childhood fills the world would be increased.
    Not believe in the war on Christmas! You might as well not believe in T-bone eating Bucks! You might get your papa to hire men to watch all of FAUX News to catch the war dispatches, but even if they did not witness BillO frothing at the mouth, what would that prove? Nobody sees the war on Christmas, but that is a sign that there is a real war on Christmas. The most real things in the world are those that neither children nor men can see (according to FAUX News). Did you ever see welfare queens driving Cadillacs on the lawn? Of course not, but that’s no proof that they are not there. Nobody can conceive or imagine all the evils there are unseen and unseeable in the world.
    No war on Christmas!? Thank God! it lives, and it lives forever. A thousand years from now, Virginia, nay, ten times ten thousand years from now, it will continue to make mad the ‘brains’ of morans.
  64. 64.

    WaterGirl

    greennotGreen
    May 9, 2017 at 9:44 am
    @greennotGreen: (gnG’s sister typing)
    We regularly attended a mainstream Protestant church and I paid attention which meant that years later when I rejected most of the stricter tenets I held onto:
    I retained that we should be kind to each other and take care of each other. And I hope that this community will remember that there are people who have not had the fortune to grow up in a comfortable home and to be, as I am, surrounded by family and friends. That BJ may be most, if not all, that they have, and that we should show them kindness and support.
    greennotGreen
    APRIL 23, 2017 AT 8:16 AM
    Good morning, fellow juicers!
    As a retired scientist, I would have been at the march, but I was in the hospital where I learned that, the great majority of precincts being in and the votes tallied, the challenger Cancer has beaten the incumbent, greennotGreen. The doctor has estimated weeks to six months.
    I’m okay with dying. I have time to get my affairs in order, my family will be with me. I disappointed I won’t get to do all the art projects I had planned, but it is what it is. But this post is to ask the BJ community to help me solve an ethical dilemma.
    greennotGreen
    MAY 3, 2017 AT 6:51 AM
    I love leaving this update on a thread topped by the awesome Obamas who probably aren’t dancing in that photo, but it looks like they are.
    greennotGreen
    MAY 3, 2017 AT 6:58 AM
    I know I messed up the link at 14, but I’m too doped up to fix it.
    +
    Baud
    MAY 3, 2017 AT 7:00 AM
    @greennotGreen: We’ll let it slide…this time.
    +
    greennotGreen
    MAY 3, 2017 AT 7:11 AM
    @Baud: I don’t think I’ve ever told you how much I love you.
    Schlemazel
    MARCH 30, 2015 AT 6:19 AM
    @greennotGreen:
    I believe I am now about 4 years cancer free, I wish you good luck.
    The people here were incredibly kind and supportive while I went through treatment so don’t be afraid to lean on us.
    +
    greennotGreen
    MARCH 30, 2015 AT 6:43 AM
    @Schlemazel: You’re right, they are, and I have.
    There’s a reason I start and end my day at Balloon Juice, and it’s not just for the puppy pictures.
    greennotGreen
    FEBRUARY 2, 2015 AT 7:46 AM
    I don’t care about football. One of the continuing benefits of my long-ago divorce is never having to have it on the TV.
    greennotGreen
    FEBRUARY 2, 2015 AT 7:46 AM
    I was listening to three other people talk about their cancers, but they weren’t dying from cancer – they were living with it. So that’s my plan: to live with this chronic disease and treat every recurrence with the latest medicines and hope to live long enough to be around for the Cure (and I don’t mean the band.)
    greennotGreen
    FEBRUARY 2, 2015 AT 8:11 AM
    Thanks for all your good wishes.
    Now, unless the doctor gives me some made-for-TV “You have six months to live” which I think only happens on TV, I’ll be breaking ground on a new house really soon, so my open thread comments will be all about that.
    Please return to your regularly scheduled diatribes…and puppies!
    Betty Cracker:
    greennotGreen also left us too soon, but during the time she was our virtual neighbor, we were fortunate to witness her kindness, compassion, fierceness and humor. Her personality shone brightly, a light behind the pixels, and we’ll miss her.
    greennotGreen to Betty Cracker, on the loss of Betty’s mom:
    A few years ago, when I shared the news here that I had lost my mom, greennotGreen left this comment for me:
    “I’m sorry she departed so young, but what a wonderful legacy she left you! The stories you’ll tell with tears and laughter and eventually only laughter. So she does live on, and I hope you’ll let her live on here on these virtual pages with us, your virtual neighbors. Our thoughts are with you and your family…”
    greennotGreen’s valiant sister:
    May 18, 2017 at 1:37 p.m.
    I like the title of this open thread [“Open Thread: Bon Voyage!”] for my message. My wonderful, generous, loving sister, greennotGreen, has moved on to the next stage in her journey. I watched and held her hand as she drew her last breath. I had talked to her all morning (about politics, of course). I will sure miss our “daily briefings.”
    link to a thread with pictures of greennotGreen’s little dogs:
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    WaterGirl

     

    Scotian
    JUNE 22, 2019 AT 12:33 PM
    Just a quick note that I am still around. The last couple of days have been difficult on multiple levels, which is why I’ve been quiet. I always read everyone’s well wishes with great gratitude and warmth, so I hope everyone that has already knows just how much they are appreciated.
    The wake went well, unfortunately it was also where most of dad’s friends found out about my circumstances, and that, well, you can imagine the shock and such reactions from them. Well, again, my thanks to you all and have a good day/weekend.
    Scotian
    JULY 20, 2019 AT 7:19 PM
    @eclare:
    You all were able to break the ice my emotions have been in to cry, that in itself is a great ease I have been desperate for and could not do. I stayed here unlike all other forums and blogs because people here truly care for each other, and in today’s world that is something of great value indeed. I am glad I did, especially now, knowing that there can be help for Siobhan during the turbulence of my death eases my heart pain considerably.
    Scotian
    AUGUST 12, 2016 AT 5:16 AM
    @Viva BrisVegas:
    Yes, not only did video kill the radio star it also helped make sure Disco was dead and buried and stayed that way! Seriously, I grew up in the 70s and early 80s and even then I could tell the 70s were going to be a period I was glad to forget as soon as possible in this regard. As vapid as many aspects of 80s culture could be, it still beat out the 70s. Also, bell bottomed pants? Really? *sigh* The only thing I ever saw represent the 70s that I liked IMHO was That 70s Show. Not my favourite decade, noes, nots at alls!
    Scotian
    AUGUST 12, 2016 AT 5:16 AM
    Disco… a crime against humanity if ever there were one…*shudder*
    Scotian
    JULY 1, 2016 AT 1:07 PM
    @JanieM:
    Cape Breton is a wonderful place,…in summer, winters though, lets just say CB can be a little more challenging…part of my family is from those ways, and I remember visiting the area as a child in winter, and even taking global warming into account that is still something I suspect many Americans might find a bit of a shock…LOL.
    Scotian
    JULY 1, 2016 AT 1:07 PM
    Seriously though CB is truly majestic in so many ways, I wouldn’t go so far as to equate it heaven, but I do understand those who do. The music is very cool too, but the downside is if you are ever nearby to a student first learning to play the bagpipes, I tell you truly that is a unique experience in oh so many ways!
    Scotian
    JULY 1, 2016 AT 1:25 PM
    @Aleta, on bagpipes:
    Yet alas it follows them everywhere they go, no matter how pretty they march nor how far…LOL
    Yes, I’ve heard that one before, not recently though, thanks for the chuckle. Some years back I had a neighbour who decided they were going to learn to play, and they had no real soundproofing in their house, so the entire neighbourhood got serenaded, after a couple of months the local block association decided to make clear he either upgraded his house to include a soundproof room, or they were going to start filing noise complaints with the police. The neighbour thought that was an empty threat, alas, he learned it was not, and the police were not amused. There is a reason why so many view the pipes as a sonic weapon for the Scots as much as the instrument of pride and challenge. In the end his wife made him give it up, apparently it got to her too, and the reason that is so funny is that she was essentially totally deaf. That says a lot about what a learner on the pipes can do to those in close proximity if anything does, as it was more the vibrations running through her body than the sound itself that apparently got to her in the end.
    Scotian
    JUNE 13, 2019 AT 3:09 AM
    I recall one of the main reasons I felt HRC needed to be the nominee in 2008 over BHO was because she got what the GOP had become, whereas he didn’t. That Biden is unable to treat the GOP like the cancer it has become to the American political systems and culture these past 40 years is a very bad thing.
    As so many noted, Trump isn’t an aberration, he represents just how far the party has fallen from any principled beliefs. Their ONLY belief is only they have the right to govern, and any and all things they do to ensure it and block any time Dems hold any power is only the right thing to do.
    And since Trump is giving them/GOP the judiciary so that Federalist society activist judges can further that control that makes him just fine to the party, both leadership and voters. I truly weep for this reality and pray that in the end the GOP takeover finally shows the disengaged middle that stopped voting ” because both parties are the same” aka the Nader argument just how much that is not true and how the GOP is against them and their basic political and social interests
    Else I think Gilead is not likely to stay fiction.
    I won’t be here to see it, I just hope 2020 is the beginning of the great awakening on this front, and Biden is not the torchbearer for such. Sanders of course isn’t either, he is nothing but a toxic invader of the Dems when he needs their collective power, all other times he glories in being what he is, an independent gadfly on the body politic.
    Scotian
    JUNE 13, 2019 AT 8:34 AM
    @WaterGirl:
    My life since childhood has had a strong political element thanks to the family I was born into plus which relatives I grew up closest to. As my father used his lifetime in the dog show world as a focus to manage his terminal cancer I am using politics as one of mine.
    Besides, while the cancer is eating up my innards so far my brain is clear, so might as well make what good use of it while I can, right? This who I am, and how I have always tried to live my life, so I see no reason to stop just because I have one of the ugliest kinds of cancer going. I know my time is limited, but what else can I do with it other than what I am? I can’t beat the cancer, but I also can’t let it beat me from staying true to being me.
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    WaterGirl

    Great news, which I am surely sharing with only myself, because this thread has long been abandoned, but…

    I found a bunch of efgoldman comments (not just replies!) in 2017 and 2018

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    WaterGirl

    efgoldman
    NOVEMBER 22, 2018 AT 12:42 PM
    @Mary G:
    “Also, after years of going to a dear friend’s house for Thanksgiving, people are coming to mine as well”
    What did you do w/the crazy RWNJ uncle? Chastised by recent events?
    efgoldman
    NOVEMBER 22, 2018 AT 12:47 PM
    @satby:
    “I miss your fuckems.”
    Scattered hither and yon. Too much low-hanging fruit.
    efgoldman
    NOVEMBER 22, 2018 AT 1:05 PM
    @Yarrow:
    “how are your grandkids?”
    Robust.
    They have a new place, perfect in every way, still in Arlington
    efgoldman
    NOVEMBER 22, 2018 AT 1:07 PM
    @Yarrow:
    “Not gonna ruin my Thanksgiving by watching or listening to him.”
    Doesn’t a negative level of ignorance amuse you?
    Sun goes up sun goes down, nobody (least of all, orange fart cloud)) knows why
    efgoldman
    NOVEMBER 22, 2018 AT 1:53 PM
    @Beautifulplumage:
    “Thanks to all the folks who keep this place running!”
    Goddamned good thing the blogfather’s asleep!
    fgoldman
    NOVEMBER 22, 2018 AT 2:02 PM
    @Elizabelle:
    “Is your new grandson born?”
    We did this dance before. He’s a month old.
    efgoldman
    JULY 5, 2017 AT 10:42 PM
    Oh, great. Get home from day surgery and find this!
    What a wretched piece of pig shit.
    Or, as my now daily refrain has it, assholes gotta’ be assholes, it’s what they do.
    efgoldman
    JULY 5, 2017 AT 10:51 PM
    @Adam L Silverman:
    “Did you see my comment reply to you last night before you signed off?”
    Don’t think so, but I had general anesthesia and surgery since. I’m lucky I remember my own name. I’m Silverman, right? Or maybe Omnes. I know I’m not Cole or Anne Laurie.
    efgoldman
    MAY 13, 2017 AT 1:14 AM
    OK all you cat people, riddle me this.
    Cat weighs at most 15-20 pounds
    Most human adults are considerably bigger and stronger.
    If you lift one edge of the covers really quickly, cat falls off the other side.
    You shoo it out of the room and close the door,
    Unless your cat has opposable thumbs, that’s it.
    No?
    efgoldman
    MAY 13, 2017 AT 1:27 AM
    Thought experiment: What if Pavlov had used cats instead of dogs.
    efgoldman
    MAY 8, 2017 AT 11:13 PM
    @Steve in the ATL:
    Apropos of nothing but my upcoming stay, is the Boston Park Plaza hotel a decent place?
    Seriously, email Cole and ask him. That’s where her stayed when he was here.
    As far as I know, it’s a fairly standard business-person’s hotel. Very hold building, obvs been renovated several times. It was originally a Statler, and the Boston NBC Radio affiliate studios were inside with a picture window to the sidewalk into the late 60s. There used to be a Trader Vic’s in the loby, back when it was considered exotic.
    IF YOU ARE GOING TO BE HERE LONG ENOUGH FOR A MEETUP, AND WE DON’T HAVE ONE, YOU ARE DEAD TO ME!!
    efgoldman
    MAY 8, 2017 AT 11:40 PM
    @MomSense:
    try navigating the streets with someone who is temporarily blindish.
    That’s how most of the drivers do it.
    efgoldman
    MAY 8, 2017 AT 11:59 PM
    @MomSense:
    I used to go to Fenway and see the Red Sox play for $10
    Oh, hell, I grew up in Brookline and could (and did) walk to Fenway.
    Summer ’67 (Impossible Dream) I was working at WBUR, literally two blocks up Comm Ave from Kenmore Square. I’d call my mom, tell her I was going to the game, walk over, buy a sub at one of the greasy spoons, and go in, sit in the grandstand, for maybe $5-$6.
    They only started selling out around Labor Day that year.
    efgoldman
    APRIL 13, 2018 AT 10:37 PM
    @Major Major Major Major:
    that’s a new one to me.
    C’mon, M4. You know fucking right well that everything is controlled by Da’ Joooz!
    Except they left me out of the table of organization
    efgoldman
    APRIL 13, 2018 AT 10:49 PM
    @Steeplejack:
    “Didn’t you marry a shiksa?”
    Twice (two different shiksas.)
    First one converted. Didn’t matter. Two years and done.
    efgoldman
    MAY 23, 2017 AT 7:29 PM
    It’s only been 54 years. Why shouldn’t the conspiracy theorists have something else to bleat about besides HRC running a white slave/child p0rn ring out of a DC pizza place.
    Is Jim Garrison still alive? Marina?
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    Ruckus

    @WaterGirl: .
    Thread probably really is dead now but I just came back to see what’s what. Been having a bit of a day, made a comment on twitter and got 80 likes. I’ve only been on there a while so that’s pretty good.
    It’s been over 5 minutes, and you expect me to remember what I wrote? Not gunna happen……. It was just a comment no big deal I’m not sure that I didn’t hit a wrong key at the wrong time and screwed it up myself. Hands generally work OK but every once in a while I just can’t make them do exactly what I want. I have things going haywire and the different specialists I see is growing. Oh well no life is lived scot free.

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    WaterGirl

    @Ruckus: 80 likes!  That’s impressive.

    Ruckus, I am sorry you have to live with so much uncertainty and everything that goes along with that.

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