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Cloture Vote Open Thread

by John Cole|  December 21, 200912:20 am| 345 Comments

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The best part about a 1 am vote is that the average age of the Senate is about 132 years old, which means that they are all up about eight hours past when they are used to having a warm cup of milk and dreaming of Lawrence Welk reruns and the good old days before that rock and roll music and the internet tubes ruined everything, so their normally awful speaking style is worse than usual. Joy.

President McCain is speaking about majority will. Didn’t we see that last November?

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Football open thread

by DougJ|  December 20, 20098:08 pm| 156 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Good News For Conservatives

Lots of good stuff today.

Am I wrong or is that Siragua-Kenny Albert-Daryl Johnston comobo pretty good?

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Steelers Open Thread

by John Cole|  December 20, 20093:50 pm| 174 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Sports

Went to the grocery store, and with the combination of the rush to stock up on supplies and the absence of deliveries made the shelves so bare it looked like a early 80’s East German market or some post-apocalyptic video game. No zombies got me, though.

As a side note, this is the first winter I have had a car that had seat warmers, and maybe I am getting old, but I’m giving that concept a definite THUMBS UP. Another thing- exactly how bad of a driver do you have to be to get stuck in the snow in a Subaru wagon? Things are just tanks.

At any rate, go Steelers.

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Snowdog and NFL Open Thread

by John Cole|  December 20, 20091:00 pm| 91 Comments

This post is in: Dog Blogging, Open Threads, Sports

Steelers don’t start to lose until 4:15 today, so here is a pic to tide you over:

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I’ll be back later.

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CBS Sunday Morning

by John Cole|  December 20, 20098:58 am| 54 Comments

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Have at it.

BTW- Smells seem far more important to Lily in the snow than when there is no snow. Are the scents highlighted like a bright color on a clean canvas when there is snow?

*** Update ***

The traffic cop segment is killing me.

*** Update #2 ***

Land shark:

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Things got back to normal as the train began to roll again

by DougJ|  December 19, 20095:02 pm| 101 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Good News For Conservatives

Well, things are back to normal around here. That was one crazy week of hippie-on-hippie violence. Then again, I’ve always said that hippies need to have a civil war or at least to have American boys and girls going door to door telling them to suck on this.

Does anyone here have any good recipes for holiday drinks? Preferably without eggs or cream but with alcohol.

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Dogsicle

by John Cole|  December 19, 20093:24 pm| 106 Comments

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By request:

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Love to have some pictures of Lily in the snow, but I have no camera, so you will have to make do with Sam.

Also, looking out my window, there are some profoundly stupid people attempting to drive, and three cars are already abandoned on the hill. Note to people: unless you are bleeding profusely or about to give birth, don’t drive. And even then, call the pros. There is a reason Manchin declared a state of emergency, and it goes beyond just the formality of activating the Guard to assist with snow removal. It means that there IS A LOT OF SNOW AND YOU SHOULD NOT BE DRIVING. Also, it means the folks removing snow and trying to help aforementioned bleeding or birthing people don’t need the additional thrill of trying to avoid your stupid ass in a Honda civic sliding sideways down a hill.

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