Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

The revolution will be supervised.

Be a wild strawberry.

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

One way or another, he’s a liar.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires Republicans to act in good faith.

Books are my comfort food!

This fight is for everything.

Let me file that under fuck it.

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

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

An almost top 10,000 blog!

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

Never give a known liar the benefit of the doubt.

Disagreements are healthy; personal attacks are not.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Their shamelessness is their super power.

Why is it so hard for them to condemn hate?

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

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

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

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On to the Next Hurdle

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Last week I asked you all to explain to me why the cadillac tax was such a big deal (because it seemed to me that taxing plans over 26k was not that big of a deal), and I started to become persuaded that the politics of it was so bad it should be scrapped, but it seems like that is no longer an issue:

The White House, Congressional leaders and labor unions said Thursday that they had reached agreement on a proposal to tax high-cost health insurance policies, resolving one of the major differences between the House and the Senate over far-reaching health legislation.

Their negotiations produced changes to a tax included in the bill passed by the Senate last month. The changes would lessen and delay the impact of the tax on workers and would reduce the amount of revenue collected. The revenue would help finance coverage for millions of people who are uninsured.

Labor leaders hailed the deal and said they were prepared to fight for passage of the legislation.

I really would like to know why we don’t just end the employer loophole.

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Early Morning Open Thread

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Looks like there will be no pictures from the impromptu San Francisco BJ meet-up until DougJ has a chance to recover from the hangover get back to his desktop. And there was no Thursday Night Menu this week, because Bad Horse’s Filly has been too busy to put one together. So you’re stuck with my pawky sense of humor, and this entertained me, because I found it more catchy than any of the original songs…

John, I hope you’re feeling better… okay, Day Two, settle for “feeling less than completely horrible and hurting in places you didn’t even know you had”. And that Lily has managed to express her gratitude for your chivalry without trying to climb onto the sling supporting your poor shattered shoulder… more than once.

And while we’re counting our blessings, however meagre, let us include the fact that we are not the daughter of Bible Spice. People joke about being “raised by wolves”, but wolves at least show a consistent bias towards their offsprings’ best interests. Gods know I did some amazingly stupid and mock-worthy things when I was 19, but fortunately for me that was post-Roe and pre-cell-cameras, and none of the surviving witnesses have a financial interest in discussing what little they might remember.

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Artists in Our Midst

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It has been a while since we had one of these, and I am moving to a new place in a few months, so I thougtt it would be a good time for all the artists, craftsmen, musicians, and authors to advertise their wares. If you or your spouse has some goods for sale, place a link and a description in the comments.

I need some wall art for a sunny room that will be my home office, some throw rugs, and a coffee table an end table, myself.

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The Lunatic Is On the Grass

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This woman is just insane. Just listen to this rambling nonsense from Palin on the O’Reilly Factor:

PALIN: Of course they’re sinking. It was just a matter of time before more of that reflection of the people’s uncomfortableness that they feel towards this administration is manifesting in these poll numbers. There is an obvious disconnect between President Obama and the White House, what they are doing to our economy and what they are doing in terms of not allowing Americans to feel as safe as we had felt and people finally saying, “You know, this is not the representative form of government that we thought that we had voted in.” After a year of time, people are saying, “No, we want the White House, we want President Obama to hear from us. We want these common sense solutions with health care, with jobs, with the economy, with the war on terror to be implemented so we can get back on the right track.”

It just makes no damned sense. Obama isn’t allowing people to be safe? We changed the kind of representative democracy somehow? What common sense solutions does she want to implement.

Listening to her speak is like Free Republic Mad Libs.

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