Wondering why this livestream puppy cam hasn’t picked up more attention on the intertoobz. I mean, six baby golden retrievers people. Where’s the love?
They’re outside playing right now. Also, too, open thread if you want it.
Libby Spencer wrote for Balloon Juice from 2011-12.
"Well, it’s my turn to fill in for Doug, and no, I have no idea why he and John so kindly gave me the keys to the place either."
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Wondering why this livestream puppy cam hasn’t picked up more attention on the intertoobz. I mean, six baby golden retrievers people. Where’s the love?
They’re outside playing right now. Also, too, open thread if you want it.
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This post is in: Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
Adding a bit to mistermix about how Mr. Personality has already pissed off the British on his little “pretend I’m the President” world tour. I especially liked this response from the PM:
That prompted a tart rejoinder from the British prime minister, David Cameron. “We are holding an Olympic Games in one of the busiest, most active, bustling cities anywhere in the world. Of course it’s easier if you hold an Olympic Games in the middle of nowhere,” an allusion to Salt Lake City, which hosted Games that Mr. Romney oversaw.
And the Brits aren’t the only ones pissed off. Via Political Wire, the Mittster’s U.S. media minders are not amused:
Romney’s press-corps faux pas: During his meeting with Miliband, according to the pool report, Romney answered questions from British reporters but did not take any questions from the American reporters, which isn’t protocol. In fact, it’s considered a bit of an insult to the U.S reporters who are following the presumptive GOP presidential nominee overseas.
My considered advice to Chuck and the rest of the campaign media corps is don’t get mad, get even.
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This post is in: Open Threads, Religion
For those who might be wondering who the hell I am and what I’m doing here — just passing through. DougJ kindly slipped me a spare key on way out the door to his current undisclosed location. I’ll be gone once he gets back. I have a couple of other personal blogs, but from now until November I’ll be doing most of my serious posting at Detroit News, where I’ve been blogging to keep Michigan blue since 2004.
In all those years, I posted about Mormons for the first time just this weekend. Since then I’ve been deluged with emails from Mormons. Really long emails. With multiple links. They’re apparently very sensitive about how their charitable contributions are calculated.
I read all the way through every one of them because, I know nothing about Mormons. Never even met one in real life. They tell me they are not an organized group. They don’t speak on behalf of the church. Yet their emails are nearly identical. Except for this one stray bit which caught my interest:
There is a book out on the Mormon way of doing business. We are trained from a young age to learn skills that can be transferred to the business world.
I want to read this book. I wonder if I can buy it without joining.
Also too, open thread if you want it.
This post is in: Election 2012, Vote Like Your Country Depends On It
Steve Benen, relentlessly pounding the pavement on the Slippery Mitt’s mendacity beat, catches this little Rmoneyism.
Mitt Romney sat down with CNBC’s Larry Kudlow, and made a curious observation. He said voters who want a strong economy should vote for him, but Americans “ought to give, whichever president is going to be elected, at least six months or a year to get those policies in place.”
So let’s apply that standard to President Obama’s job creation record, shall we?
But look what happens when we start the clock, as Romney suggests, six months to a year after President Obama was sworn in. In fact, if we don’t hold Obama’s first year against him, the economy has added over 3.7 million jobs overall during his presidency, and over 4.2 million in the private sector.
Mitt makes that case eloquently in the hilarious “Up With Chris Hayes” video at the link. Of course, that Rmoney standard only applies to him, not to the rest of “you people.” And especially not to that Muslim, Kenyan, Commie, Marxist, Apologizer guy currently occupying Mitt’s rightfully ordained place in the White House.
This post is in: General Stupidity, I Can't Believe We're Losing to These People
What is it with Republicans and bathrooms? And when will they ever figure out if you send bare chested photos of yourself in the bathroom on the internets, they will eventually be made public. Florida state senator Rep. Peter Nehr, R-Tarpon Springs, learns that lesson today.
The photos aren’t actually all that bad, but anybody else’s gaydar going off? [via politicalwire]
Well that didn’t take long. Once the media makes a television star out of a crazed gunman, the copycats begin to surface. Already we have Timothy Courtois who was pulled over “for doing 112 mph on the Maine Turnpike in York Sunday morning.”
Upon pulling him over, police found an assault rifle, four handguns and several boxes of ammunition, they said. Also found inside his car were recent news clippings of the mass shooting at the Colorado movie theater, police said.
Police said Courtois then admitted to police he had attended the Batman movie at the Cinemagic Theater in Saco Saturday night with a loaded gun in his backpack. He also told authorities that he was on his way to Derry, N.H. to shoot a former employer. (photo)
I don’t know how to stop this madness, but I’m pretty damn sure less gun control isn’t the solution. [via watertiger]
This post is in: Election 2012, Our Failed Media Experiment
This has been bugging me since yesterday. The Hill published this filler post about Slippery Mitt’s tax returns.
A top campaign official who worked for Sen. John McCain’s (R-Ariz.) 2008 presidential bid and helped select his running mate said Sunday that Mitt Romney’s tax returns “do not look anything like the average American,” but held nothing which prevented him from being on the ticket.
Steve Schmidt, McCain’s former campaign strategist, who viewed Romney’s tax returns when the presumptive nominee was being vetted for the vice presidential slot in the last cycle said Romney was an “extremely wealthy man.”
Wait. Would this be the same Steve Schmidt who claimed he didn’t see the tax returns only a few days ago?
Is it too much to ask that our professional media gatekeepers ask Mr. Schmidt to explain this glaring inconsistency? With journalism like this it’s small wonder the public is so misinformed.