Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

America is going up in flames. The NYTimes fawns over MAGA celebrities. No longer a real newspaper.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

“Alexa, change the president.”

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

… gradually, and then suddenly.

Whatever happens next week, the fight doesn’t end.

The world has changed, and neither one recognizes it.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

It’s the corruption, stupid.

Decision time: keep arguing about the last election, or try to win the next one?

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

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

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

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Within six months Twitter will be fully self-driving.

Not loving this new fraud based economy.

“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber

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

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

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Watching CBS Sunday Morning, and it occurred to me that Bill Geist has the perfect life. He goes all over the coun ry, covers frivolous puff stories, gets to travel and meet new people and do fun things, and gets a solid paycheck.

At any rate, consider this your open thread. Looks like it is going to be a crappy, rainy day today here.

BTW-Olympic basketball on NBC in HD right now.

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  1. 1.

    jeffreyw

    Good morning, John.

    Trade ya some o that rain for the damn sunshine here. Makes the grass grow. Such a bother.

    Hey flea!

  2. 2.

    Punchy

    U.S. Mens basketball cant shake the damn Chinese. I thought our team was supposed to be Da Bomb. I dont see it.

    And yesterday’s cycling finish was awesome. Uphill finny. Genius.

  3. 3.

    jake

    More translation errors from Iraq.

    In an interview with Reuters, Zebari said the agreement, including the timeline, was “very close” and would probably be presented to the Iraqi parliament in early September.

    Asked if Iraq would accept a document that did not include dates for a withdrawal, Zebari said: “No, no. Definitely there has to be a very clear timeline.”

    Ha. Ha. The man clearly said “We want our friends from the U.S. to stay until they are ready to leave.” Damn LIEberul media.

    Also, via a commenter at Sadly, No! a propane tank blew up in Toronto. I hope the resident Canuckistanis are all right.

  4. 4.

    Wilson Heath

    Bill Geist does have a cushy media niche, and has had for decades. He’s a nice fellow, though. As opposed to Willie Geist — not so much.

  6. 6.

    Mary

    I slept right through the propane explosion, even though I keep my window open and am closer to the site than some other people who heard it as the loudest thunder ever. Evacuation is continuing, but there are no reports of major casualties yet.

    YouTube video here. CBC coverage here. (My apologies for the mouth-breathers in the comments. The CBC is serious bait to wingnuts.)

  7. 7.

    Mary

    Oh, and speaking of explosions: Politico has a preview of that Atlantic feature on the Clinton campaign.

    Mark Penn, the top campaign strategist for Hillary Rodham Clinton’s campaign, advised her to portray Barack Obama as having a “limited” connection “to basic American values and culture,” according to a forthcoming article in The Atlantic.

    The magazine reports Penn suggested getting much rougher with Obama in a memo on March 30, after her crucial wins in Texas and Ohio: “Does anyone believe that it is possible to win the nomination without, over these next two months, raising all these issues on him? … Won’t a single tape of [the Reverend Jeremiah] Wright going off on America with Obama sitting there be a game ender?”

    Atlantic Senior Editor Joshua Green writes that major decisions during her campaign for the Democratic presidential nomination would be put off for weeks until suddenly Clinton “would erupt, driving her staff to panic and misfire. …

    The Penn memo suggesting that the campaign target Obama’s “lack of American roots” said in part: “All of these articles about his boyhood in Indonesia and his life in Hawaii are geared towards showing his background is diverse, multicultural and putting that in a new light.

    “Save it for 2050. … Every speech should contain the line you were born in the middle of America American to the middle class in the middle of the last century. And talk about the basic bargain as about the deeply American values you grew up with, learned as a child and that drive you today. Values of fairness, compassion, responsibility, giving back

    “Let’s explicitly own ‘American’ in our programs, the speeches and the values. He doesn’t. Make this a new American Century, the American Strategic Energy Fund. Let’s use our logo to make some flags we can give out. Let’s add flag symbols to the backgrounds.”

  8. 8.

    J Bean

    Bill Geist does have a nice job, but I always thought the coolest job in the world would be to play the tympani in a nice big orchestra somewhere. I can’t see how that could be anything but fun.

  10. 10.

    Bob In Pacifica

    We’re in another drought in California. Everything’s been burning and the East Bay is practically recycling its pee like Bear Gryls. But the sun broke through here on the Coast. I’m thinking about taking a hike through the hills today, work off some of last night’s pork chops. I can’t get excited about the Olympics anymore. Pork chops, yes. Volleyball, no.

  11. 11.

    shirt

    the folks at sadlyno.com/ Think that Lambert at correntewire.com/how_con_v_e_e_e_n_i_e_n_t has remained over the “edge”, implying some conspiracy by “Adept” Obama.

    Brad has the right of it: Lambert has gone over the edge. There’s a conspiracy, alright… from the far right. It has Rovian stench all over it.

    Look, first get the left fighting amongst themselves: for months we’ve hear about the Obama Jewish-Hispanic-black-women problem: didn’t work out so good, eh Karl? Kinda heard about it from a few party extremists on a teleconference, didya, Karl?

    Now the Hilary convention problem, you think she talked to anybody over the phone about it?

    The Text messages… What technology does that use?

    Oh, the Edwards moment… Gee do you think the parties involved discussed it over the phone?

    Oh, don’t forget the Eliot Spittzer moment, weren’t phones involved in that as well?

    Now, who has full access to any phone or network in the USA if not the world? Do you think it is in their interest to make sure McCain is elected as their Executive Branch cut-out?

    The bubbling crude has just begun…

    THERE! THAT’S A CONSPIRACY.

  12. 12.

    Joshua Norton

    Did anyone happen mention how nice it was to see Preznit CrashTestDummy put the “special” in Olympics?

  14. 14.

    Evilbeard

    If only he could make his voice sound like Charles Kuralt. I used to watch that show with my dad and Mr Kuralt’s voice is what I always imagined god would sound like.

  15. 15.

    javafascist

    Spot on, Evilbeard. They had to replace Kuralt with two people (Osgood and Geist) and it still is a pale comparison to the old show. I still watch but it doesn’t have the musicality and beauty of those early years.

    Yeah, you heard me kids, get off my lawn!

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