Sorry, been out of the loop for the past few days- lots going on- wedding, work, fences, garden.
*** Update ***
Weeding, not wedding. Although I have a wedding to go to this week (and not mine).
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Sorry, been out of the loop for the past few days- lots going on- wedding, work, fences, garden.
*** Update ***
Weeding, not wedding. Although I have a wedding to go to this week (and not mine).
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Violet
Did you get married? Mazel tov!
Corner Stone
It’s too bad DougJ’s not there for your trip to New York!
Martin
Heh. I take this as confirmation that Cole hacked off his left arm with that machete and can now only type short sentences lacking conjunctions in the hopes that we won’t bust him on his clumsiness.
D-Chance.
RIP. Live like a Jackass, die like a jackass… the circle is complete.
Gin & Tonic
Congratulations on the wedding.
A Humble Lurker
Wedding? Whose?
boss bitch
Obama Team hiring State Data Directors
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/0611/Obama_team_hiring_state_data_gurus.html
pass on if you know someone who would qualify
stuckinred
Ya’ll are really going to bite on this wedding jazz? Come on.
schrodinger's cat
Whose wedding? Did you get married? How is Tunch reacting?
Carrie
Must’ve been some tasty pasta!
geg6
Wait a minute. You got married, Cole? Did Tunch make you? I didn’t even know you knew any women. Will we get pix of her calves and feet from the La-z-boy, too?
R-Jud
@ schrodinger’s cat: Tunch is just thrilled John finally made an honest cat of him.
schrodinger's cat
geg6@11
What! He got married to Tunch, well I guess the Republicans were right after all.
MonkeyBoy
David Mamet’s recent book could use some love on its Amazon tags page. Why? See Christopher Hitchens’s recent review.
Jade Jordan
Daytime drinking has got him talking (spelling) like Sarah Palin. Everybody should stop asking him those gotcha questions about the wedding.
Poopyman
I smell a personal relationship troll, but I’ll play.
I’d say the bride and/or groom is a friend rather than self or family, and I’ll cite nothing other than the fact that he hosted a party this weekend, which I’ll guess was bachelor-ish.
OTOH, you work? When did that happen?
schrodinger's cat
Wedding may really mean, weeding while on weed.
eemom
ummm……maybe John attended someone else’s wedding?
We can’t let him troll us THAT easily, y’all. We’re his little wind up toys as it is.
Thoughtcrime
Now that he’s married, Cole better stop posting pictures of his junk.
Poopyman
Since it’s an open thread, I’ll pimp for Roy. Loved this line of his:
schrodinger's cat
R-Judd@12
I wonder what Tunch wore for the big day, we want wedding photos!
The Spy Who Loved Me
If Cole is going to be attending someone else’s wedding, we can only hope that this time he remembers to pack a shirt.
MikeJ
Poopyman, I was just over there reading that. I was amused by the fact that Republicans were happy that all of the candidates were indistinguishable. Remember when they were downright *angry* that Democrats spent more time attacking Bush than each other? Hell, remember when Democrats spent more time attacking Republicans than each other? Good times.
R-Jud
@ schrodinger’s cat : He’s mostly white already. But I’m picturing a fingertip veil made out of Terrible Towels.
schrodinger's cat
R-Judd@24
I think Tunch is more a tiara kitteh, than a veil kitteh!
James E. Powell
Wait, there’s a loop?
Cliff in NH
Thanks to whoever it was who recommended Artisan Bread in Five Minutes a Day, my dad made his first 4 loaves the other night, and they turned out great! Everyone loved the bread!
CatHairEverywhere
I think he probably meant weeding, but if it was a wedding, I want to see what kind of bridesmaid outfits Lily and Rosie wore.
Garbo
I am shocked that, of his pets, anyone would suggest that Cole married anyone but Lily! She is his soulmate, after all.
I too assume that every long Cole blog absence is related to the ill-advised purchase of the machete.
jl
Glad Cole took time out for his wedding from work, fences, and garden. What a suave romantic dude!
But hah! It is all a lie from the entity otherwise known as ‘John Cole’.
Could the Cole persona really have a weekend that included work, fences, and garden without prompting an absurd disaster report, or a bleg?
The solution is trivial: no.
trollhattan
Despite the false alarm re. Cole nuptials, I want it noted that getting married is when you start posting junk shots, not stop.
R-Jud
Poor Tunch. Poor jilted Tunch, weeping into his gloriously swagged and draped Terrible Towels.
slag
@
Haha! Having both collected and entered voter data for Dems in my state, I can only hope they get some really, really good people who can practically work miracles. Or really, really bad people who don’t have any standards. Anyone in the middle will probably just flail along miserably.
Mnemosyne
I let my green tea brew too long. Ack. It’s like drinking a cup of mowed grass, even with sugar in it.
Note to self: set a timer next time, dummy.
jl
Weeding. Another lie. An absurd transparent lie.
As if the fictional character Cole could weed without at least complaining about it in the blog.
What has Cole really been up to?
hilts
Tonight is the premiere of the New and Improved Countdown with Keith Olbermensch (also known as Olbermann). Keith is truly a mensch for having the courage to fight the good fight and speak truth to bullshit.
Ed Henry has descended to a new level of dickishness by jumping ship from CNN to Fox News
h/t http://hotlineoncall.nationaljournal.com/archives/2011/06/henry-leaving-c-1.php
TooManyJens
@Mnemosyne: I am incapable of making tea without setting a timer. Ever drink English Breakfast that’s been steeping for 15 minutes? Vile.
stuckinred
you saps will fall for anything!
kdaug
Ah. I see.
Cole, I’m as open-minded as anyone, but marrying your “Fiskars 7870 Uproot Lawn & Garden Weeder” is a bit off, even for WV.
Not to give any personal advice, but the mop may have been a better fit.
Just sayin’.
LanceThruster
I’m wedded to my weeds (and not in a good way).
Anyone know a way to dissuade foxtails in the high desert (near Palmdale) and promote more desirable species?
Carnacki
Weddings should definitely be weeded.
Roger Moore
Everyone calm down. We all know there’s not going to be a John Cole wedding until gaymarriage is legal in West Virginia.
Southern Beale
Weeding, wedding, same thing.
:-)
Here’s why I’ve been offline for the past several days.
Ash Can
That would be a tall order, for Cole to get married. He’d have to find someone grumpy like him, and that wouldn’t end well. (“I suppose I have to buy you a god damned drink.” “Fuck off and DIAF, jackass.”) Sort of a wouldn’t-want-to-join-any-club-that-would-have-me-as-a-member type of thing. Fortunately, he has Lily to love him, Tunch to ignore him, and Rosie to crap on his carpet.
kdaug
I’m really not trying to be an asshole here, Cole, but look:
I know you and the mop had a thing, and it’s over. It’s cool. I get it.
But to just turn around and marry the “Fiskars 7870 Uproot Lawn & Garden Weeder” seems like you’re rushing things.
Just sayin’ it as a friend.
(Where the hell do you even put the ring?)
But if I had any advice, it’d be this – DO NOT CHEAT on the “Fiskars 7870 Uproot Lawn & Garden Weeder” with the mop.
One of them is capable of serious bodily damage.
And it ain’t the one that smells like mold.
jl
@40 LanceThruster: can’t help with promoting nice plants, but in Central Valley and Southern California, cementlike hard packed earth works wonders for weeds. I’m sure it will work for Palmdale.
Southern Beale
Mulching?
ira-NY
We’d best be calling Doc Freud on this slip.
opal
@Mnemosyne
For some mysterious reason, I now crave green tea ice cream.
scav
@Ash Can: That might be such a relief, actually. Instant access to the more comfortable and less stressed portion of many a relationship. None of that wandering about sucking in your stomach and pretending to be better natured that you are. Although I’m having a bit of brain-melt trying to figure out how to impress a non-rusty (or even rusty) garden implement. But, whatever it is, you can skip that part too.
Roger Moore
@kdaug:
We already know he’s comfortable enough to get naked with the mop.
ETA: And don’t dismiss the jilted mop’s feelings. Remember that we only know about it because it almost landed him in the hospital/morgue. Do not ignore the danger inherent in mopping- especially if you’re as clumsy as John
GaltCole.BGinCHI
Can you tell whether this is the WaPo or the Onion?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/with-executive-pay-rich-pull-away-from-rest-of-america/2011/06/13/AGKG9jaH_story.html
Jesus Christ, Post reporters are finally figuring this out? It’s like reporting that Manhattan is getting a lot of tall buildings.
Fail.
TooManyJens
It’s a good thing Cole already has a job. Imagine looking for work in this economy and having potential employers googling up speculation on your marital relations with pets and/or garden implements.
Citizen_X
I hear “fire” is pretty popular in the southwest these days.
Mike Kay (Team America)
BWHAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHHAHAHHAHA
jane hamsher is a paid republican media consultant
http://rootedcosmopolitan.wordpress.com/2011/06/20/jane-hamsher-republican-consultant/
I love to say, I told you so. So let me say, I told you so.
Poor Cole. Turns out his pin-up girl is a republican in faux radical drag.
burnspbesq
@Roger Moore:
Unlike this commentariat, the mop isn’t judgmental. It loves him for what he is and doesn’t try to make him into something he’s not.
ETA: it’s not the mop’s fault that Cole forgot the safe word.
Southern Beale
OH SMACK!
burnspbesq
@ Mike Kay:
Fail.
Consultants are no different than lawyers. They can work for anybody who pays their bills on time and doesn’t ask them to facilitate the commission of a crime. And you don’t get to judge them based on who their clients are.
There are a lot of reasons to dislike Jane. This isn’t one of them.
stuckinred
BGinCHI
CNN ran with the same thing, fucking morons.
trollhattan
In hindsight, “Mister Clean” was probably not a good choice.
stuckinred
“And you don’t get to judge them based on who their clients are.”
sez who?
Roger Moore
@burnspbesq:
What, he couldn’t remember “green balloons”? WTF is wrong with him?
scav
@Roger Moore: Timey Wimey? Wasn’t Green Balloons after The Mop Incident? I’m pretty sure I was here for the former and not for the latter.
Citizen_X
Here’s another: this creepy Stalinist bit, from a comment here:
Fucking “identity hardening?”
burnspbesq
@stuckinred:
Well, you can go down that road if you like, but you’re traveling with Liz Cheney riding shotgun.
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
if this had been an actual wedding, i profer it would go something like this.
Anne Laurie
His bar cabinet, his steam cleaner, his seedling transplants… the commentariat tires of such clutter, and demands more, um, personal pics…
opal
@Mike Kay (Team America)
Just because John defends Jane Hamsher now and again doesn’t necessarily mean he wants to weed her.
TooManyJens
@Citizen_X: Wow, demanding personal information from any poster suspected of being a plant by the irrational, paranoid commentariat at FDL? I don’t see how that could possibly go wrong.
Mike Kay (Team America)
@burnspbesq: ROFLMAO!
If a democratic candidate had hired Michelle Malkin or Pam Geller as a media consultant, Hamsher (R-VA) (and every single blog and blog commentator) would be screaming and denouncing the hire.
TomG
No Game of Thrones discussion lately? Or did I miss a thread? I loved the series, definitely going to have to read the books!
stuckinred
burnspbesq
cheiu hoi
Ash Can
@ Anne Laurie: I got a kick out of that bar of his. What, was that his childhood dresser? Coasters in the sock drawer, bottles of mixer in the blue jeans drawer, airplane bottles in the underwear drawer… Then again, who knows — maybe his dresser was always like that.
opal
TomG – tail end of this thread.
Mike Kay (Team America)
@ Citizen_X: That’s why I’m against legalizing pot. That shit make you paranoid. I mean, just look at how it makes Lady blah blah look over her shoulder.
kdaug
@63. scav
You, sir, have officially been self-outed. Step out of the Police Box, please.
p.a.
wedding,eh? i hope she’s not after John’s millions in blogad money! in w va. terms, i hope she’s not a coaldigger.
but on to real news- i was incommunicado all last week (Maine), so what kind of fence is being installed? and what are the odds on the various extremities damaged/lost?
Linda Featheringill
Ashcan #44
Yeah. What more does he need?
Citizen_X
Sigh. I suppose I have to be the first:
Cole, finish the danged fence!
kdaug
Aherm. “Fiskars 7870 Uproot Lawn & Garden Weeder” happens to love a splash of “Mister Clean” on her delicate bits after a good weeding.
Do try to remember. We wouldn’t want to hurt anyone’s feelings.
Uncle Clarence Thomas
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Fortunately, President Obama understands that dealing with Global Climate Change is far less important than his re-election and its attendant balloonbagger jubilation.
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Mnemosyne
Do lawyers from the same firm frequently work for both the plaintiff and the defendant in the same case? Because representing both Democrats and Republicans in the same election is more similar to that than which clients a law firm chooses to represent in general.
opal
@Uncle Clarence Thomas
What’s with the dots?
MikeJ
That’s just not true, even of the lobbyists I know. Most of them are attorneys and for the reasons you mention, would never turn away a client. Everyone deserves counsel, and they’ll provide it. They are also human and won’t accept lobbying clients of whom they disapprove.
Ash Can
Who farted?
Violet
Cole, you married the mop? Lily must be devastated. Do we get a pic of Tunch in his morning suit? Was Rosie the flower girl?
Citizen_X
One provides a service, and the other provides a service that is a fundamental human right. So, no.
arguingwithsignposts
Yeah, burnspbesq, I think I’m going to have to go with the consensus here and say that’s a false analogy. There’s no licensing for “consultants,” especially for advertising. Get back to us when there’s a bar for them to pass.
Mike Kay (Team America)
@ arguingwithsignposts : It’s ludicrous to view Lee Atwater, Karl Rove, and Roger Ailes as Matlock — a simple impartial member of the bar willing to take any case.
Bloggers don’t even like DLC consultants, much less a consultant like Hamsher who actually takes money from republicans to defeat democrats.
slag
Wow. That’s almost unbelievable. Could you imagine Cole ever proposing something like that here? And the comments I read there are all about how that was a great idea. Alternate universe. Don’t want!
Martin
The GOP’s social safety net: Prison.
OzoneR
DailyKos has something like that. I wasn’t allowed to comment anymore all of a sudden and it happened after I was only registered there for a few weeks and I had barely commented, so I thought it was maybe that i went inactive or something because I barely posted.
So I emailed someone at DailyKos, who wrote back “write to us and tell us why you think you should have your privileged restored and we’ll consider it” and I was like “I’m not going to beg you to let me comment here when you probably mistakenly banned me”
Fuck that. DailyKos is worthless anyway.
patroclus
I hope and pray that John approaches his upcoming nuptials with the appropriate amount of Thatcherite exuberance leavened by Oakeshottian skepticism.
slag
Wasn’t there a movie in which Denzel Washington or somebody held up a hospital in order to get his kid medical care? Was it based on a true story? I could seriously see that happening.
Maude
Ash Can
Imagine dusting that dresser.
Constance
Why would I send David Mamet’s book a little love? He was on Rush Limbaugh’s show to talk about the book? He equates criticism of Israel with anti-Semitism? I trust Christopher Hitchens to provide honest and incisive criticism. And I’m sick to death of folks who call themselves conservatives when what they actually mean is narrow-minded, stingy and ignorant.
Martin
It’d generate a hearty laugh all around. Dude can’t even get a reply button working.
(Just to be clear, I find the amateur nature of this site quite endearing.)
Citizen_X
patroclus@93: Finally! Somebody found a proper use for that goddamned phrase.
Linda Featheringill
Bad news from Japan:
http://www.examiner.com/human-rights-in-national/children-sickness-linked-to-fukushima-radiation
It seems that children are coming up with symptoms that are consistent with early stages of radiation sickness.
I have no idea how much data they have and how reliable that data is. I just hope they’re wrong.
burnspbesq
@Mnemosyme:
No. You know that. But, for example, as long as I get a waiver, I can represent a client in a tax controversy matter even though we represented their landlord in the negotiation of their lease. I wouldn’t have a problem with the same consultants working for candidates from different parties who aren’t running against each other.
Perfect Tommy
What could possibly go wrong?
http://www.cnn.com/2011/TECH/web/06/20/domain.names/index.html
What should I register first?
http://www.citibank.con
http://www.citibank.corn
The possibilities are endless….
R-Jud
@ Martin: I posted that to Facebook right after I clicked on it. Six people on my list have replied saying they’d do the same.
arguingwithsignposts
@Linda Feathergill: I don’t want to douse your fire, but I’m more than a little skeptical of any of the “Examiner” sites. Also, any “examiner” who uses the phrase “Tokyo Shinburn newspaper” should hire an editor.
Not to say that the information isn’t true or relevant or whatever, but the examiner sites seem like a slightly higher-level associated content.
MonkeyBoy
@Constance
umm, you like Mamet are “tone deaf to irony” with currently 6 votes on the tags page I directed people to to give him some “love”.
Linda Featheringill
arguing #103.
Sigh of relief. I’m happy to hear that. If the Examiner report were true, it would be a terrible, terrible tragedy.
Sometimes it is very nice to be wrong. :-)
trollhattan
In which Orwell either nods approvingly or spins in his grave (I’m never quite sure which). Accepted California term for timber clearcutting: “Even-age management.”
http://www.sacbee.com/2011/06/19/3711308/troubled-waters-of-battle-creek.html
Libertarians are fond of telling us that landowners should be the ones in charge.
Mike Kay (Team America)
Hamsher’s actions are worse than I thought — she’s also a GOP fundraiser.
She places fund raising ads for republican candidates.
So it wasn’t bad enough to take money from republicans to place attack ad against democrats, but she’s also paid to raise funds for her GOP clients.
What a phoney. She’s far, far worst than Edwards and Weiner.
trollhattan
@105 Linda Featheringill
Hopefully they’ll give it the attention it deserves over the long, long haul.
http://www.asahi.com/english/TKY201106170203.html
arguingwithsignposts
@trollhattan and Linda Feathergill: i hope it didnt come across like i was discounting the fukushima news, just a reminder about the source.
Mnemosyne
And the political consultants’ waiver to do something similar would be issued by who, again?
Really? You wouldn’t have a problem with a consultant running two House races, one for a Democrat and one for a Republican? Because, given the way our Congress is constructed, supporting both parties directly affects how the House is organized and run. See Speaker Boehner if you’re still confused about how supporting a Republican House candidate could affect Democrats.
If they’re running for completely separate offices — say, a Republican running as a state Senator and a Democrat running for the US House — you might be able to make a case that it’s not a conflict of interest, but not if they’re both running for the same house of Congress.
Mike Kay (Team America)
problem is Hamsher has never marketed herself that way. She has always framed herself has as a partisan progressive hero, not as a online fundraiser for republican candidates.
harlana
watching the teevee:
omg, Tim Pawlenty is so booori…zzzzzzzz
JS
FireDogRepublic?
and
DailyKreep?
(In fairness, it seems impossible to run a large left-leaning political forum and avoid ratfucking by the interns at The Heritage Foundation and Freedom Works. Right-leaning forums have been banning dissent to hell for years now.)
susan
Rosie would make a delightful wedding gift.
Mike Kay (Team America)
JS
yeah, but they figured out the best way to rat-fuck is to pose as a left purist. Its a big blind spot. LAst week two gop operates in Maryland were indicted for running robo calls telling people to stay home and not to vote. Yet “commentators” say the very same thing on blogs with impunity simply by posing as disaffected leftys.