Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

Welcome to day five of every-bit-as-bad-as-you-thought-it-would-be.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

Do we throw up our hands or do we roll up our sleeves? (hint, door #2)

Disappointing to see gov. newsom with his finger to the wind.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.

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

The way to stop violence is to stop manufacturing the hatred that fuels it.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

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

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

“Perhaps I should have considered other options.” (head-desk)

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

This fight is for everything.

With all due respect and assumptions of good faith, please fuck off into the sun.

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  3. 3.

    licensed to kill time

    Done! Bitsy has 841 votes now. John, you have a blog with great heart and I thank you for it.

  4. 4.

    General Winfield Stuck

    Being a General I resent teh minion. It taint’s the rank,. Or ranks the taint. whatever. Go Bitsy!!

  5. 5.

    Linkmeister

    Man, rather than an army of Mordor, couldn’t we be Huorns? Or the Dead. I always thought those oathbreakers didn’t get enough screen time in the movie.

  9. 9.

    Laura W Darling

    Being a Darling, I resent teh minion. Also.

    Bitsy was in the top 30 finalists last week!
    Out of 44,000+ dogs! She is SO CLOSE, and yet, still too far.

    She will likely be there again this week unless we all manage to sign up for 3 more email accounts and cheat. Did I say that in my out loud voice?

    I just know we can push her into #1 one of these weeks. Remember: it’s not a vanity contest for Bitsy…all monies (and attention) go to the furthering of animal rescue work done by the one-woman whirlwind who rescued her and placed her in a wonderful new home. (See four ads in left sidebar for name, address, voting links.)
    Thanks, John.

  10. 10.

    JenJen

    Guys, for your big laugh of the day, be sure to start following the rapidly-developing “12ther” story.

    As we discussed in the Twitter thread here earlier, Michelle Malkin first tweeted, and then posted an update on her site, that TWO MILLION PEOPLE attended the Teabagger Rally in DC today. She said ABC News had reported such… updating her previous report that the official DC police estimate was 1.2 MILLION.

    Now.. I used to live in DC. I think we have some DCers here. I think we know the city would, uh, feel the impact of two million people trying to get to the Mall at the same time. I think we’d have heard about it for weeks, because hotel execs would know these numbers were really going to happen, so they’d be telling all of us to stay the hell away, right? We have a recent example of this… the Inauguration!!

    (By the way, nobody does official estimates anymore, but almost every news agency, and DC Fire/EMS, say 65-75,000. Sounds right from what I saw on TV. Two Million is a pretty big leap, is it not?)

    So of course everyone has been laughing at Malkin all day, and she still has the post up. Now, people are wondering why she posted a phony photo of the marchers to go along with her phony count.

    A day laughing at Malkin is a good day, if you ask me.

  11. 11.

    Calming Influence

    The Bits-ter! Bits-o-rama! The Bits-onator! Little Bitsy gonna win a million dallas! She gonna buy a lotta biscuits for her hungry Buddies! Go, Bits-amundo!

  16. 16.

    demkat620

    @arguingwithsignposts: Well, stop listening to Morrissey. He’s fucking depressing. :)

    Stay here with us. You can watch for BOB to show up.

    And if you need to spill, do so. That’s what blogs are for.

  17. 17.

    demkat620

    @JenJen: This is just another example of how they keep the publicity spotlight. Now there will be a “controversy” about the attendance that will go on for days.

    Media simpletons.

  19. 19.

    General Winfield Stuck

    And here we get the scoop on where Malkin and her brood got that 2 million number for the tea party.

    But there is some confusion over how many people will show up, and where Democrats are getting their estimates. A House leadership aide warned fellow Democrats in a memo obtained by FOXNews.com that up to 2 million people may attend. “It looks like Saturday’s event is going to be a huge gathering, estimates ranging from hundreds of thousands to 2 million people,” Doug Thornell, an aide to Rep. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., wrote, noting that a demonstration held Thursday turned into an impromptu rally for Rep. Joe Wilson, who has come under fire for his outburst during Obama’s nationally televised speech to a joint session of Congress Conservatives have seized on this memo as proof Democrats are playing an expectations game. They say the House leadership wrote the memo in hopes it would be leaked and inflate expectations for the turnout anticipating that it will fall short.

    Ha. Punked again by crafty dems. Nice of you to play along Michelle/wingnuts.

  20. 20.

    Cat Lady

    @JenJen:

    Who cares. They’ve all gotten lost in their own mobius strip logic loop. As long as it’s a Beck led freak show, the other networks discharged their duty by even mentioning it today. It won’t get any more network coverage than today, because it would only benefit Fox, and the display of old white farts with misspelled signs yelling at Obama to get off their lawn is not going to help with the demographic they want. The oligarchs are riding the tiger now with the forces they’ve unleashed.

  23. 23.

    JenJen

    @General Winfield Stuck: That’s interesting… a Teabagger on TV after the rally told Don Lemon on CNN that the organizers made an official announcement that there were two million there. ;-)

    @Cat Lady: Oh, who cares about the 12thers, indeed. I just like laughing at Malkin. It’ll be funny watching her find someone to blame this on.

    Let me quess…. JAMIL HUSSEIN!

  25. 25.

    calipygian

    I was there. Third Avenue was clear enough to ride a bike full speed along and by mid afternoon I could walk my bike around the Capital Reflecting Pool with little trouble.

    If there were 50,000 there, I’ll eat my dirty underwear.

  26. 26.

    calipygian

    BTW, did you know that riding a bicycle is for children and f@660Ts?

    One of the many things I learned at the Tea Baggers Ball today!

  27. 27.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @jnfr:

    Do I get my minion t-shirt now?

    I wonder why cole hasn’t put out a BJ shirt yet. Potential slogans?

    @asiangrrlMN:

    thanks!

    For those who didn’t hear my song, here’s the link. It sort of explains the reason for my shitty mood.

    I’m amazed at technology sometimes – we’re able to share stuff that would have taken much longer to do in the past. What a world.

    watching Macheads right now.

  32. 32.

    Calming Influence

    @OriGuy:

    I saw a T-shirt at the Highland Games last weekend. It said,

    Scottish Teabag Society
    It’s hard to explain
    It’s better if I show you

    Now picture Sean Connery saying that, in a kilt, one foot on each side of Glen Beck’s head…

  35. 35.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @shoutingattherain:

    It’s interesting that people debate the numbers on these gatherings all the time, especially given that we do have events like the inauguration which were known to have so many people attend.

    Even if 1 million ppl showed up in DC, it really doesn’t say anything. Most ppl don’t have the resources to take off work, for instance, to go stand in the heat, even if they care a lot about the issue. Plus, they likely wonder about the effectiveness of the effort. I do. There were a couple hundred thousand ppl in Seattle’s downtown park for a hemp gathering recently, but no coverage.

    meh. i’m cynical about it.

  37. 37.

    Shell

    “the official DC police estimate was 1.2 MILLION.”

    Like JenJen said, they don’t do official estimates anymore, after getting burned by so many groups pissed that it wasn’t the amount they thought it should be. But hey, Malkin, Fox, Hannity et al simply make shit up so….

  39. 39.

    General Winfield Stuck

    Dem prank update. From the dim bulb commenters at MM

    On September 12th, 2009 at 4:13 pm, Pasadena Phil said: Fox News is still only reporting “thousands”. I’d also like to know who is reporting “millions”.

    On September 12th, 2009 at 4:15 pm, nlebou said: Me too Phil…I haven’t seen it anywhere else.

    On September 12th, 2009 at 4:28 pm, shimauma2 said:TWO MILLION PATRIOTS MARCH!!!
    If this doesn’t make barry hussein pee his pants, I don’t know what will…

    On September 12th, 2009 at 4:01 pm, Rob said: Anybody have a link for the 2 million number?.. I want to send it to my friends.

    It’s not really important how many there were. The point is there are a LOT OF PEOPLE at this thing

    Best Snipe Hunt ever.

  40. 40.

    calipygian

    Another thing I learned at today’s modestly attended Tea Bagger’s Ball is that cons never said “It is unpatriotic to criticize the President in a time of war”. That is what Liebruls SAID that cons said.

    THAT’S cleared up.

  41. 41.

    Demo Woman

    From TPM
    The DC Fire Department has issued an unofficial estimate of 60,000 to 70,000 people in attendance, which is smallish but definitely respectable. Meanwhile, organizers and various participants are claiming one or two million have shown up but that the numbers are being suppressed by pro-Obama media, etc.

  42. 42.

    Redshirt

    I know we (some? me?) really want talk LOTR:

    I regret my initial experience with them: Read The Hobbit as a kid, saw the cartoon, dug it, but nothing special. I never read LOTR and then the movies came out and at the time I lived next to a huge movie theater so I went alot and I figured why not, big summer blockbuster. Well, I was pretty bored, and did not like all the soft focus lens flare from Arwen.

    Anyways, being a sucker, I duly saw the next two in the theatre as well, and enjoyed them, though not overly, and felt them rather long. But I must say I grew exasperated with the battle scenes, for one after another was pretty much the same: Bad guys have overwhelming and scary force, and good guys are doomed; except! Something shows up to save the day for the good guys, including, and dare I say I snorted in the theatre, an army of machinas ghosts.

    So! All that said, I finally read the book and absolutely loved it. It’s incredible, and I’ve read it three times since. I find the book’s real charm as less to do with the plot than the harmless observations and antics of the hobbits. Really, it’s a book about home, and getting back there.

    The battle scenes in the book did not feel as forced. Also, the Silmarilion is awesome.

  43. 43.

    shoutingattherain

    @arguingwithsignposts:

    Quite frankly, I don’t give a rats-ass how many people showed up. 1000 or 1,000,000. Who cares?

    People absolutely have the right to peaceably assemble and display their displeasure with their government, even with poorly worded and badly designed signs. I am all for that, as I have done the same thing many, many times before (starting with the VNam War) and it’s part of what makes us different than some other countries. Being pissed off about the direction of our country and dissenting to the policies of its governing bodies is patriotic. It’s a good thing. Freedom rocks that way.

    I’m more concerned as to whether it has any effect on the real debate in Congress. I don’t think this little temper-tantrum will change anything, but I’ve had a lot of experience getting screwed with my pants on by the USG before, so I’m not going to make any wild predictions.

    I’d like to see a Pro-HealthCare rally in DC demanding our Leaders take the long view and do the right thing, but I wouldn’t be able to go because no way I can afford the airfare from Oregon. Hell, I can’t even afford an MRI to confirm a torn rotator cuff injury which I can’t afford to have repaired anyway because I don’t have insurance.

    If there is ever such a rally I’ll blog the heck out of it and wish all who attend my best. I’ll be there in spirit, but I can’t afford to have my body attend. I can make signs.

  44. 44.

    arguingwithsignposts

    @shoutingattherain:

    I’d like to see a Pro-HealthCare rally in DC demanding our Leaders take the long view and do the right thing, but I wouldn’t be able to go because no way I can afford the airfare from Oregon. Hell, I can’t even afford an MRI to confirm a torn rotator cuff injury which I can’t afford to have repaired anyway because I don’t have insurance.

    This is central to my point. Most ppl can’t afford the time/resources to go. which, in a way, makes it so much more wild that the ppl showed up for MLK in 1963 for the I have a dream speech.

  47. 47.

    Ash Can

    You know, all these bumblefucks have to do is say something like “we think official counts are light” or even “official counts put us at x, which is a good turnout, but just you wait till next time!” But no. They have to insist upon some totally unrealistic number, and make asses of themselves. Then they whine about how nobody takes them seriously.

    Conservatism used to be a socio-political-economic stance. Now it’s a term associated with clinical delusion. O tempora, o mores.

  49. 49.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @JenJen:

    Not yet. My guess is she’s quickly changing into her patented victim persona and will make a grand appearance later to cry foul and burn herself at the stake. That’s usually how it works.

    And the ONLY place I’ve seen sourced for the 2 mill number is the dem memo, but now the Tory rag Daily Mail is loyally spreading the rumor.

  52. 52.

    Shell

    As of my vote, Bitsy has almost 934 votes. Does he have alot of serious competition? When does this thing get decided?

  57. 57.

    Betsy

    Am working on the diss tonight, which involves the history of psychoanalytic/psychological theory, and can I just remark how distracting it is that one of the foremost psychoanalytic theorists of the mid-20th century shares a name with some dumbfuck from (I think) Redstate?

  58. 58.

    Woodrowfan

    When well over a millon people DID come to DC to see Obama inaugurated the DC Metro had to run special trains back to back to back starting at 5 or 6 am. People waited hours to get onto a train, the Mall was people standing elbow to elbow from the Capitol to the Lincoln Memorial and there were thousands more who couldn’t get onto the Mall, the bridges were closed, thousands of buses clogged the roads and the highways were jammed.

    Today, nada. Traffic was fine (I listened to the reports on the XM traffic/weather channel because I wanted to hear the weather), there was also a marathon in town and some sort of festival at the Kennedy Center. No special Metro trains, no lines of buses, zippo. MM is a liar, plain and simple.

  59. 59.

    Laura W Darling

    @Shell: Yeah, her rescuer, Evelyn Bridges, emailed me last Monday saying: “There is another dog with over 1,000 votes already. What can we do?” So…you know that these other contenders have huge groups of minions, trolls, sycophants and darlings behind them too. They might just be bigger and tougher, more mobilized and organized than Juicers, although I find that incredibly hard to believe.

    Week 6 ends tonight at midnight. We have 6 more weeks. All we have to do is get her ONE #1 slot so she is a semi-finalist (one of 12). I think the fact that we pushed her into the top 30 last week is pretty amazing, considering there were 44,000 other dogs! I honestly did not think the momentum would continue on through this week, but as usual, I was wrong. Maybe we are getting stronger as time goes on?

    Or not.
    I can’t overthink this any longer. JUST VOTE.
    Please?
    Thank you.

  61. 61.

    Ash Can

    @General Winfield Stuck: LOL! ‘Tis the season, after all. Here in our neighborhood, the chestnuts, walnuts, and other goodies are reaching their peak, and the squirrels are starting to chow in earnest. When people start decorating for Halloween in a few weeks, however, the squirrels will be packing on the weight in earnest. Indian corn, e.g., usually doesn’t stay put for even one day. And it always cracks me up when I walk past the pumpkins on the porch and the squirrel sitting right next to them, stuffing his face with both hands, not only doesn’t run away but gives me a look as if to say, “I don’t care how big you are; if you touch my pumpkin I’ll fucking kill you.”

  63. 63.

    Calming Influence

    @OriGuy:
    That’s awesome! He’s in a kilt, the Queen’s holding a sword, and he’s thinking “…if she’s heard any of the jokes I’ve told about her, I’m about to lose my yam sack…”

  65. 65.

    General Winfield Stuck

    @Don:

    Those are hysterical. And is it just me, because I remember dem protesting that usually only had posters of Bush, and sometimes Cheney/ These wingnuts have them for about every dem and his/her brother. I mean why drag Oprah into this shit? Different planets we live on together, I suppose.

  67. 67.

    Betsy

    @asiangrrlMN:
    I’m late to seeing this, but hee, yeah. The first time I saw someone here talking about him, I thought they WERE talking about the first Erikson, and I was very confused.

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