First up: From Foreign Policy magazine:
An article written by George Lakoff, titled “Dumb and Dumber” discusses the term “Low-Information Voter” and the insult implied in the phrase. Here’s a few snippets:
“The liberal use of the term “low-information voters” reveals where liberals need to get real. First, liberals need to recognize that conservatives have a moral system that is different from theirs and that they vote on the basis of it. They need to understand the conservative moral system and how it works, if they are to defeat it. And they need to understand the power of their own moral system and make use of it.”
“…they [liberals] need to understand how brains work: If the facts don’t fit morally based frame-circuits, it’s the frame-circuits that stay and the facts that go out the window.”
“…Never use the other side’s language. And always say out loud the moral framing needed for comprehending the facts. For example, health care is a matter of both freedom and life. If you have cancer and no health care, you are not free and you could die! With the right narrative, it is a powerful message, and one that tells a deep truth.”
Next: At The Weather Channel, an interesting piece about the possible effects of a predicted increase in solar flare activity on our electrical infrastructure.
Third and final: also from The Weather Channel, a look at how the higher temperatures in New York and the Northeast are affecting the breeding rates of certain butterflies. One species is the endangered Karner Blue butterfly – which, oddly enough, “…was first identified and named by novelist and lepidopterist Vladimir Nabokov,” according to Wikipedia.
This is our daily open thread — go ahead, get your coffee (or tea, or whatever) and get your Monday started!
I would say London was ready for the Olympics. Despite what Mitt Romney said.
Unlike JFK international airport, which clearly has some work to do.
Mr. Castillo deserves a medal, instead he was charged with criminal trespass.
That was quite a swimming feat especially after partying.
Indeed. I swam a mile once just to try it and It took me almost an hour. And I was sober. π
The general reaction I got was “Who was that prat who showed up and ran his mouth?”
“The so-called next president of the United States”
“Really? Bloody hell is that the best you can do – he’s an idiot.”
Mr Paul Ryan,
I understand your mother lives in Florida and receives medicare…
What a horrible woman she must be. Taking money from the government. Doesn’t she know she can just go to the emergency room if she gets sick?
Language does matter. I read something on Kos a few days ago which made sense to me. The writer (whose name I don’t remember, sorry) suggested that we should stop referring to Ryan’s demand shedding Medicare plan as a program with vouchers and call the vouchers what they are, coupons. The theory was that people perceive a voucher as something you exchange for the desired item, and view a coupon as a discount on the desired item. Ryan’s coupons would not cover the cost of health insurance. For the very old and very sick, they would be as useless as the discount plans that were sold as health insurance to anyone foolish or desperate enough to purchase “insurance” based on a sign stapled to a telephone pole.
I have always referred to Ryan’s Medicare program as a coupon program and that is exactly how I explain it to people. I tell them that they might get something like a 10% discount coupon which they can use towards paying their health insurance premium which only becomes more expensive as a person ages.
We can also start referring to the dismantling of Medicare “Romney’s Medicare Coupon Plan”.
I like the coupon analogy. In merchandising, there is the Buy One Get One free, called the BOGO.
Ryan’s plan is a Buy One Get Zilch Only BOGZO.
BOZO? I liked Bozo as a child…..
This bears repeating:
“If the facts donβt fit morally based frame-circuits, itβs the frame-circuits that stay and the facts that go out the window.β
Indoctrinate them early – the programing stays. This is why their 3-word slogans are so effective – they fit the programming without requiring anything more than “faith”.
“Faith based initiatives”…
See Jesus camp for kids of all ages…
We have a populace of thinkers and believers. And the ones with the money and power (& weapons) know how to manipulate the believers into fighting for them, using whatever means necessary.
Hopefully there’s a Stoner Merit Badge.
Watch out for those big brown beavers
There’s a purpose for pubic hair.
dreadlocks?
This is definitely not PC – Kevin Bloody Wilson – the Pubic Hair Song
That is just nasty.
The bugs and germs are really nasty. Yuk.
Srsly. People aren’t supposed to be as hairless as babies. Ugh.
I’ll be back to comment after I’ve had my Brazilian.
Make sure you tell them to mind your abscesses. π
Paul Ryan – Randian Poser
Could there have been a better way to say just what the Romney/GOP platform stands for than this man? And yet ….. he’s sucked from the very teat he intends to bite off.
My bid for bumper sticker:
Brigham Young / Koch 2012
It starts with the contradiction that Mr. Free Enterprise has spent his life in the bosom of government, enjoying the added protection of wingnut welfare benefactors like the Koch brothers.
So. He’s not a job creator?
Things go better with Koch-crappola,
Things go better with Koch.
Ben Smith reported yesterday that the Ryan pick was Romney’s idea. According to a “top Republican,” it “everybody was against [Ryan] to start with only Romney for”:
“Romney’s aides have stressed publicly in the 24 hours since Romney electrified conservatives with his choice that the pick was the governor’s alone. They have been less forthcoming on the flip side: That much of his staff opposed the choice for the same reason that many pundits considered it unlikely β that Ryan’s appealingly wonky public image and a personality Romney finds copasetic will matter far less than two different budget plans whose details the campaign now effectively owns.”
David and Charles Koch picked Ryan….
That’s right. If Romney wants Koch money, he needs to do their bidding. Romney prostitutes himself. What a sad and disgusting person.
That’s actually giving prostitution a bad name …..
… and by that I mean, at least in prostitution the guy paying is the only one who is going to get f***ed.
I can only imagine that Romney feared losing votes from the Far Right, not to Obama (d’oh) but to apathy. Because other than that, there’s no reason to choose a Wingnut for VP. The people raving for Ryan would never vote for Obama in a million years and this wins no points at all among so-called “moderates.”
I don’t think it was about the voters, amazingly enough. Romney was afraid of being de-legitimized as a candidate at the convention by rabid teabaggers, that’s why he had to choose Ryan. Now, Mittens will sail through the convention with few problems, will very likely lose in 2012, and the extreme rightwing has their pretty poster boy to prop up as a Prez candidate in 2016. Romney will be forgotten on November 7.
Michelle Goldberg reviews Ryan’s record on abortion:
“[O]n abortion and womenβs health care, there isnβt much daylight between Ryan and, say, Michele Bachmann. Any Republican vice presidential candidate is going to be broadly anti-abortion, but Ryan goes much further. He believes ending a pregnancy should be illegal even when it results from rape or incest, or endangers a womanβs health. He was a cosponsor of the Sanctity of Human Life Act, a federal bill defining fertilized eggs as human beings, which, if passed, would criminalize some forms of birth control and in vitro fertilization. The National Right to Life Committee has scored his voting record 100 percent every year since he entered the House in 1999. βIβm as pro-life as a person gets,β he told the Weekly Standardβs John McCormack in 2010. βYouβre not going to have a truce.β ‘
Well, pro life for unfertilized eggs. For actual conscious human beings, he doesn’t really care. Sick? Too bad. Poor? Too bad. Egg? He’ll move mountains to protect you.
Granny? – nah, f*** her.
Ryan’s health care plan is a death sentence.
Mitt Romney is too tired to make his Orlando campaign stop. Those theme parks do take a lot out of you:
“Although Mitt Romney was supposed to visit Orlando on Monday, the campaign announced late Sunday that the presumed Republican presidential nominee was too exhausted to make the trip.
The news came after Romney spent what one campaign official said was an exhausting 48 hours of championing his new vice presidential pick.”
God help us if he’s elected an there’s a global crisis that might last more than a couple of days.
I would worry about Romney and his VP prick handling a national crisis that last more than a few hours. Romney’s response would be “We have a good neighbor to the north” and Ryan’s response would be “Save the embryos first”.
– Jonathan Capeheart, WaPo.
π That’s so true.
The truth is, Mitt resents Disney because they are bigger corporate bastards than he is and he can’t deal with that.
Deciderin on a veep is hard werk.
Well, as we know, Mickey Mouse engages in voter fraud at will. So Maybe Romney doesn’t want to be tainted by association. π
Damn Republicans, if not for them, HuffPost Live could have been aborted.
HuffPost Live right now: Debating Miley Cyrus’ new blonde hair.
Discuss amongst yourselves.
Discussion over.
Rude Pundit has something to say about Paul Ryan and his dependence on Government contracts…
And there it is – he’s a perfect Ayn Rand wanna-be. ‘I’ve got mine so f*** you all.’
Forgot the link…. http://rudepundit.blogspot.com/
Rude’s on my ‘first order of business’ round up π
Paul Ryan has been in the House 13 years, and he’s only succeeded in getting two of his bills passed in all that time:
Wow. Whatta powerhouse.
You mean the Post Office he’d probably be closing under his fed budget plan? Whattaguy!
A tax on Arrow shafts? Grover Norquist will NOT be pleased.
William Rivers Pitt: Pudd’nhead Mitt and the Great Giveaway
The contempt drips…
The Commission on Presidential Debates announces moderators for the presidential debates:
Candy Crowley? Ugh!
Bob Schieffer ain’t much better…
Mittens is going to be squirming during the last debate in Florida.
Sarah Palin announced that she will not be speaking at the 2012 Republican National Convention, saying itβs time to give others a chance. “This year is a good opportunity for other voices to speak at the convention and Iβm excited to hear them,” she said in a statement to Fox Newsβs Greta van Susteren.
Sarah Palin is officially yesterday’s news, gone the way of Paris Hilton, et al…
Who?
In other words, she wasn’t invited to speak.
Oh, how cynical of you! At some point in the future, she’ll tell her fans that the RNC had begged her to speak at the convention but she was too gracious. Or, she’ll tell them that the Republicans would have won if only they’d let her speak.
12 states now have “very high” obesity rates: Alabama, Arkansas, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Oklahoma, South Carolina, Texas and West Virginia.
At least 11 out of 12 are red states.
This doesn’t surprise me. I was told that people in these states consume large amounts of soda and other sugary products.
Paul Ryan is totally against abortion and against providing federally funded family planning, as well as international family planning programs, and voted to deny birth control coverage to federal employees, but he and his wife only have three children.
Why aren’t they up to their necks in squalling brats? Oh yeah, they’re rich and have the best health insurance in the world. “I got mine, fuck y’all.”
Questions you’ll not heard asked of Paul Ryan – so you’ve voted to keep birth control out of federal employees plans and are zealously anti-abortion ….. but you’ve only got three kids – are you still getting some?
My thoughts, too.
This morning on Morning Edition on NPR, the host was talking about Paul Ryan’s past. It was mentioned that Ryan comes from a wealthy family. There was never a mention about Ryan’s dependence on Social Security.
Heh, awesome.
That’s a possibility.
Excellent!!!
Credit needs to go to OIMF from Saturday.
Kansas Doctor Under Attack For Not Forcing Ten Year Old Rape Victim To Give Birth.
Bonus: raped by her uncle
http://www.addictinginfo.org/2012/08/09/kansas-doctor-under-attack-for-not-forcing-ten-year-old-rape-victim-to-give-birth/
Yours truly is at the top of the comments section with 415 “likes” on my comment. π
Sorry, Zooey, your comment is now # 2. The number 1 comment is:
I do not use the term ‘pro life’ anymore. It is more accurately called Conscripted Gestation.
You have to admit, it does have a fascist sound to it.
Ohhhh, I liked that one!! I gladly give up first place!
DERP of the Day:
52% of voters favor the Ryan budget… until they’re told what’s in it:
http://www.slate.com/blogs/weigel/2012/08/08/wow_do_52_of_voters_favor_paul_ryan_s_budget_.html?wpisrc=obnetwork
Honeybump news:
After a rough Sunday, I just had our Honey at the vet. She’s either had a stroke or she has a brain tumor. The vet gave her an injection that will give her a sense of well-being. If she had a stroke, she should improve in about five days; if she has a brain tumor, she’ll feel okay for a couple days, and will then decline.
Given the symptoms I’ve seen over the last few months, I don’t think she had a stroke.
Very sad news.
Sorry to here that Zooey. Get her feeling as good as you can.
crap, so sorry to hear this QZ. Know that HB is aware that you are trying your best to help her.
I imagine you give her a sense of well-being. Hoping for the best for both of you.
Warm hugs to you and Honey!
Thank you, everyone.
She’s spending all her time sleeping under my feet. It hurts my heart to look at her scared and confused face.
So very sorry to hear about Honey’s health. I’m rooting for the stroke, which under most circumstances would be ridiculous.
Thanks, gummitch. I hope you’re right.
Sad news. Our pets are so precious to us.
Thank you, Cats. At least she’s able to sleep now. She paced and stumbled most of the night.
Having you near her is a comfort to her.
Oh my. So glad I came by to see this. It makes my heart hurt. It is so hard to watch them when they’re uncomfortable. So glad the vet had something to help her for the time being. I don’t even know what to say.
My heart goes out to you and Honeybump….
Jennifer Rubin loves her some Paul Ryan. Do you know who else saw the collapse coming? The Dems, including Obama and Biden, who were voting against Bushco’s madness instead of pushing the agenda like Ryan did.
http://mediamatters.org/blog/2012/08/13/jennifer-rubins-paul-ryan-fan-fiction/189305
The collapse didn’t surprise me. When I read that Cheney was dumping his stock and buying bonds instead, that was a signal to me so I moved my money, just like Cheney did. Every three months, my employer was laying off employees and yet the stock market was high. That too, was a signal that it was a phony high. I got lucky that time.
Indeed. Frankly, most sane people saw it coming and that includes the perpetrators. I think that things just got a bit out of hand and the big collapse was supposed to happen after the elections of 2008. Pretty much everyone knew that the Dems would win big even without said collapse. Of course, those same perpetrators have managed to convince a whole lot of people that it was all the Dems fault anyway.
Insider trading. No wonder Mitt picked him.
“Republican Vice Presidential Pick Paul Ryan sold shares in a number of financial companies including Citigroup, General Electric, Wachovia, and JP Morgan Chase on the same day as then-Treasury Secretary Henry Paulson and Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke held a closed meeting with congressional leaders during the financial crisis.”
http://www.businessinsider.com/paul-ryan-insider-trading-2012-8#ixzz23RoirLkK
An honest discussion about the deficit would include some taxes, cutting military spending, and expanded infrastructure spending.
But that’s not the type of “honesty” the right wants.
How will Rep. Paul Ryanβs Medicare plan impact Mitt Romneyβs chances? | You Decide | Politics | Fox News
Sorry, the spacing got a bit messed up there…
And the most gullible and misinformed people in the country speak.
Meanwhile; those with just a bit more sense are running away from Ryan’s plans.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2012/08/13/682611/republicans-ryan-medicare/
Reported shooting at Texas A & M, shooter apprehended.
My sister is gonna have kittens. π
I can hear it now. “Even Texas students can’t take down a shooter. Goddamn libruls!”
Nah, my sister would take to her knees (and then facebook), praying loudly to the Lord Jesus to please, please, please make it stop!!! Even if it’s already over. π
Both my niece and nephew are students there, but it’s still summer break.
“itβs still summer break.”
If only… if only the entire student body was present, then we could have had even MORE deaths and MORE calls for arming ALL the students to prevent this sort of thing in the future, which of course WILL happen again and we’ll have the same circle-jerk arguments by the NRA morans.
That’s what I’d be afraid of! Stupid Texans with gun in crowded places!
Btw, one officer was killed and one civilian, according to police.
The officer had a gun. How’d that work out for him?
Gun humpers think that guns protect them from death, and time after time, they are proven wrong. Cops are trained not to shoot into a crowd of people, pistol-packin’ morons are not. One of these days, the gun humpers’ wet dream will come true — probably in Texas or Arizona — and several civilians with guns will unload on a crazed shooter. The shooter will walk away, and the gun nuts’ death toll will be higher than that of the crazed shooter.
Linkee: http://content.usatoday.com/communities/ondeadline/post/2012/08/texas-a38m-reports-active-shooter-in-custody/1?csp=34news#.UClN6E2PU_h
“Texas A&M reports that police took a gunman into custody 15 minutes after issuing a “Code Maroon” alert at 12:30 this afternoon.”
Insert your own “Maroon” joke.
*snort*
I’m glad I rescued this from the spam bin. Not even a link this time, cuz the spam bin, she likes you.
Isn’t that the same as a Code Rick Perry? Oops my mistake. That’s a Code Moron. π
This video is making the teabagger rounds. It was originally posted 3 years ago and it is obviously edited. My tea bagger brother sent this to me in an email.
QOTD:
“…what the whole Beltway media crowd has done β is to slot Ryan into a role…of the thoughtful, serious conservative wonk. In reality, Ryan is nothing like that; heβs a hard-core conservative, with a voting record as far right as Michelle Bachmanβs, who has shown no competence at all on the numbers thing. What Ryan is good at is exploiting the willful gullibility of the Beltway media, using a soft-focus style to play into their desire to have a conservative wonk they can say nice things about. And apparently the trick still works.” — Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize winning Economist
It’s a sad day.
Etsy bans the sale of body parts.
Bummer, I was really in the market for a shrunken head.
Zooey, I hope this doesn’t affect your product line.
What the hell am I gonna do with this shipment of mummies hands!!??
Can they vote?
Paul Ryan Interrupted By Hecklers In Iowa
Heh, he handles it quite badly. Watch his face and body language, before he makes awkward and dumb sounds while the women are hauled off — on camera.
A real ‘dip’lomat is that one! Pointing out which ones should be removed.
Free speech? Hardly.
Ryan is so juvenile in his actions.
Just heard Mittens whining about his “right to be heard.”
Sorry, asshole. After Joe Wilson yelled “You lie!” at the President during the SOTU, all bets are off. We aren’t being polite anymore.
You bet he handled that badly. There will be no freedom of speech at a Ryan event. I don’t know who I find more repulsive, Romney or Ryan.
Personally, I find them both more repulsive.
Wow. Sounds like a bad MC at a wedding. The GOP sure can pick folks that can’t speak.
I was going to say that he is a lot like Sarah Palin with a penis but, I think Sarah Palin has a penis so I’m not sure where this is going
Nah, they are all eunuchs with a lobotomy.
Icelandic Phallological Museum
Standing room only?
Animal scrotum lamp? Ugh.
Filed under the “projection” label:
Romney accuses Obama of running campaign of ‘smear,’ ‘dirt,’ ‘deception’
They know the word will go out on Fux, and the fact that they are running a sewer campaign will never be reported.
That’s become a meme among the trolls over at the Plum Line: “Obama is running the most vicious and dishonest presidential campaign in the history of the universe (which is 6000 years). Lies, lies, and more lies about poor widdle Mittens.”
Well, you know how black people are.
On The Cycle, SE Cupp is so excited about Paul Ryan as VP, that she’s going to need a fresh pair of panties right after the show.
Awful woman, had to mute the show.
She went to the Phyllis Schlafly school of self-hate.
Unfortunately, at that school, they teach you to hate everyone else too.
Woman is as dumb as a box of rocks …. in order to get her current gig, I’m going to guess that wearing panties was not part of her interview prep.
I was watching when that dipshidiot when she called Obama’s tax policy “collectivist.” That was the day I stopped watching the show…until today. I didn’t see her intro, so I thought she was off today, but noooooooo.
I refuse to watch that show until SE Cupp is gone. I repeatedly tell MSNBC that on Twitter. It worked on Dylan Rattigan, he’s gone.
The original Cosmo Girl, Helen Gurley Brown, is dead at 90.
RIP and thanks for “freeing” us, Helen!
Osprey fledge
Cool!
Awesome. On my way to the golf course I pass an osprey nest on a telephone pole. Two weeks ago I spotted one on a nearby pole, one standing on the nest and a third head peaking out from the edge! I can’t be sure but I think last weekend I saw two small heads. Hard to see driving by not a good spot to stop and try get a closer look.
I’ve been passing this osprey nest for 19 years and every year it’s occupied!
Osprey?
In CA.?
This video was from Montana.
If your “CA” is for California – yes, we have Osprey.
And here’s a first: Osprey nest atop crane at Pier 80 in S.F. first
This is a damned disgrace
How big debt is threatening security clearances for thousands of troops
We need to regulate the payday loan sharkinfested areas around military bases…
And how about paying our soldiers enough so they don’t have to go into debt to make it…?
Fuck regulating them, they should be banned outright everywhere.
What? Was it something I said? π
You know, I sure am getting tired of these Charles Whitman-wanna-bes getting their hands on weapons, aren’t you?
The reports are stating this was not on the university proper. This unfolded in a residential area outside the campus. An eviction notice being served – and obviously the renter has a gun ‘for protection’.
So the media reports it as happening at Texas A&M, because otherwise no one would tune in. Gotta keep those fearsome passions stirred up!
YES!!! Ezra Klein just referred to Paul Ryan’s voucher thing as a “coupon.”
GrOuPon.
Nice. Way to go Ezra.
I thought Rachel had been calling it a coupon from the beginning.
That’s Uploaded by politicalarticles on Jun 14, 2011!
Good!! That’s how we should all talk about the “voucher” system.
On his birthday, all of Alfred Hitchcock’s cameos:
Thanks Sir Alfred! And Happy Birthday!
Went for a hike yesterday on Prairie Link trail west of Bragg Creek Alberta. This is our favorite hike and do it year round. We have done it over 20 times!
It’s August so the mushrooms were the big attraction.
Great capture of the cow’s look!
Wonderful photos of the mushrooms.
Beautiful area, thanks for taking us along!
Thanks Ebb. Just before we saw the cows my wife said “I guess no cows are on their summer vacation.” Around the corner there were a group of 10 or so. Farmers are allowed to put their cows in this area for the summer. Lord knows how they gather them all up before the winter!!
I’m loving the cow’s face. π
I’ve never seen so many different mushrooms!
There is this hike and another nearby that always have an abundance of mushrooms. Especially if we have a wet spring-early summer. We have seen people picking them. We know as much about mushrooms as Romney knows about living paycheck to paycheck so we are never tempted to pick any.
MIAMI β Mitt Romney is holding a campaign event at a Miami restaurant owned by a convicted cocaine trafficker.
Romney appeared Monday evening at El Palacio de los Jugos, a restaurant owned by Reinaldo Bermudez. Court records show that Bermudez pleaded guilty to one count of conspiracy to distribute cocaine in 1999 and served three years in federal prison.
Media reports in November 1997 said that Bermudez was one of 12 people accused in a Colombian drug smuggling operation. Agents seized about 2,850 pounds of cocaine at Florida ports.
As a convicted felon, Bermudez wouldn’t be eligible to vote in Florida unless the governor and the Cabinet restore his rights.
A phone call placed to the restaurant wasn’t answered. The Romney campaign didn’t immediately respond to a request for comment.
Wow!!
I think Romney (or his campaign) is trying to lose this election.
I think we can now say that Romney is palling around with terrorists.
What goes around, comes around.
I’m not sure that Mittens is smart enough to realize it but it’s entirely possible that he got the nomination, much like Ol’ Flippy McSpin in 2008, because he’s viewed as a sacrificial lamb by the GOP powers that be. If he does by some chance win they can simply cast him off when things turn sour and just assert that he was always a RINO.
The “Conservative Majority Fund,” and presumably the NRA, is running a super scary commercial about the United Nations, Hillary Clinton, and Barack Obama having secret meetings to take away everyone’s guns and sign away our national sovereignty.
Sadly, there are morons in northern Idaho and eastern Washington who will swallow that bullshit, hook, line, and sinker.
Fuck you, Mittens!
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/mitt-romney-texas-shooting-gun-laws.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29
I second that, pete.
Talk is cheap and so is Rmoney.
The “zombie-eyed granny starver”.
http://www.esquire.com/blogs/politics/paul-ryan-romney-vp-pick-11562917
Without looking at the link — PAUL RYAN.
Ding!
You may have jogged your memory from when I posted this Esquire link on Saturday.
That was two whole days ago. π
Jeebus, the stupid just burns…from Boner’s web site…IT’S OBAMAS FAULT!
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/2012/08/boehner_drough_blame_obama.php
They’re always touting how weak the President is…that being the case how can he be blamed for the drought? Wouldn’t it take an omnipotent/strong person to control the climate?
Exactly! God is punishing us for electing a black guy. Duh!
In fairness; they did walk it back and assert that they meant to say it’s his fault that we haven’t already passed drought relief but I have yet to see any indication that GOoPers, in the House or in general, have proposed any such relief measures. Indeed. The standard GOP stance is that, if the scientists aren’t lying and there even is a drought, God is in charge of those things and bailing out farmers would just turn them into gay communists.
Yes they walked it back, but without mentioning that the Pres. signed for 170 mil of disaster drought relief yesterday, and continues to ask to pass the farm bill which includes more relief.
Details, details. They can’t let trivialities get in the way of EIOF. (Everything Is Obama’s Fault.)
Psst… Jesus was a Blah guy, too…. π
But I thought the Repubs were trickling down to save us all?
Dude hasn’t been sober for over 3 years. Not that it’s an excuse for being so damn bad at his job.
I think you might have forgotten a zero, Zooey. Dude hasn’t been sober in 30 years.
True!
From Kay in Maine:
The Obama Campaign needs to create this bumper sticker STAT!
Where has that girl been?
I keep her in my bookmarks and slide by there at least once a week. One of her regulars is Grant in Houston, which is funny cause that’s my name too. I could be Grant in Huntsville.
I’ll have to stop by and say hi to Kay, it’s been a long time since I ‘saw’ her.
My comment went to the spam bin? Oh well π
I rescued you. π
Thank you. I had a busy day today, but I expect to have more reading time at work tomorrow.
Hope the Honeybump responds well to her meds!
She ate her dinner today, so that’s something, but she’s still staggering and falling when she walks. She does look a bit more clear-eyed right now, so i hope that continues.
I’m so sorry to hear Honeybump is having troubles. I know how close you two are. Be there for her. Hugs to you both.
Considering how craptastic this day has been, I’ve cracked a fresh bottle of wine. Feel free to imbibe, but BYOB. π
Done…:)
Already on it.
Well done, men. π
Can each of you raise a glass and drink one for me? Thanks.
Absolutely! Cheers!
Dragged the wife into the spirit. Yesterday’s wine though which leaves the beer for me!
Enjoy!
That means Bring Your Own ‘Buds’, right?
That too. π
Bring Your Own Beverage…Pickling optional.
Could also mean “Bring your own Boobs”, no?
Either way, I’m in.
The harvest season approaches here in the Emerald Triangle…
Interesting story heard at the water cooler today:
A typical scruffarian was spotted along the highway with a cardboard sign that read “Will trim for food”. (trimming is the term for harvesting buds)
A local-type pulled over, yanked the sign away and told the dude to get out of town.
It’s getting tense… imminent raids this week… keeping my head down and nose clean.
Two thumbs up!
You can log into your twitter account, come back to this page, click “Retweet”, and it will retweet to YOUR followers. From here. Cool, isn’t it?
(I’m pretty sure that works. :))
I can’t take on one more thing right now, but once I’m settled into my apartment and the dog is situated, I’ll start thinking about getting back on the Twitter before the election. π
Are you still doing the tweets for the Ed Show? I haven’t seen your name lately, or maybe I’ve just been missing you.
I got out of the habit of watching The Ed Show back when the Mets were starting to look like they might be worth my time and attention, for a change. As things stand now, I’ll be ready to start tweeting the show more often. So, it was a combination of me not tweeting very much at all, and of my not tweeting very good at all. π
All of the tweets I see by you are genius! π
Thank you. You are too kind. And, who knows? Perhaps under the influence of something, as well? π
Naturally. π
Thread at Democratic Underground
Where is Thom Hartmann?
When I got home I checked and Thom still wasn’t back today, either on his radio show or his RT America show (which now airs first at 7pm eastern, and again at 9pm)
That is strange.
The last comment on that post says that Louise’s last blog post was in early June. Doesn’t she run that blog? I hope it’s just an extended vacation, and not bad news about her cancer.
Rachel on Mittens’ choice of Paul Ryan for VP: This is the guy you choose to appeal to “Fox & Friends.”
Fux & Friends and their dooshbag viewers aren’t voting for Obama anyway!
Like I said, picking Ryan for VP was just Mitt’s way of getting through the convention with some legitimacy.
Bain strikes again. This is not a repeat from 2006 or The Dark Knight Rises:
Bain Capital buys profitable American plant, ships it to China; soon-to-be-jobless workers train their overseas replacements
http://boingboing.net/2012/08/13/bain-capital-buys-profitable-a.html
They must really hate Mittens, cuz they aren’t helping him at all.
I didn’t have a clue what Bain was before this happened,” said Cheryl Randecker, 52. “Now when I hear Romney speak it makes me sick to my stomach.”
Doesn’t it make us all sick to our stomachs?
His message as well as his speaking style. Yuck.
After 8 years of Bush and/or Cheney…I’m not sure I could last through even a week of Smarmy, Smug Romney. At least I don’t have to listen to a screech from Alaska….
Much like Palin, Mittens is prone to the word salad buffet. To wit:
βThis tragedy raises once again the question of what can be done to help prevent events like this from occurring. I guess Iβm not referring to any particular legislation. Iβm just saying this is something that needs to make thoughtful consideration.β — Romney on the Texas A&M shootings today.
Wha…?
Which is a wussy way of saying nothing at all.
Now I remember why I stopped building fiberglass planes more than 10 years ago. I ruined a shirt and a pair of shorts, have cat hair liberally glued to my plane, and epoxy up to my elbows. But? It’s really, really, strong!
Ha. I spent a summer helping build surfboards. I no longer have the ability to smell, but have an abnormal relationship with fiberglass. Gawd I love the feel, the texture, the shimmering reflective color, and above all its strength…I better stop with that. π
So not only did you BYOB, you brought a date? Hello, Ms fiberglass Surfboard. π
Why don’t you just put wings on a cat? π
Because cats have better sense? Plus they won’t abide the smell of the resin.
My baby checks into her dorm at college on Friday. Maybe I’ll be back to my old self after that. Now I’m more worried about Zooey and Honeybump. Do you think I should worry that one dogs ate some cold hot glue sticks?
Don’t worry, Shayne. There’s not a thing in the world you can do about it, although I appreciate it. π
I’m pretty sure the hot glue eating dog will be fine, but make sure the business end isn’t glued shut…um, afterward.
Why? Do you think his butt will get hot enough to melt the glue? π
I think it will be melted long before it hits his butt! π
BTW, OMG she’s grown so fast!! π
How do they grow up so quickly? I don’t feel older and son is going into 8th grade.
My eldest is turning 30 this week, and I don’t know how the hell that happened.
Good thing you were a mere child when he was born or you’d be getting old.
Srsly, I’m sure I was only about 10 when he was born. π
All I know is the ten years it took us to have her went much slower than the 18 years she’s been here.
Finally, it may be sinking in.
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/08/13/1119595/-Sarah-Palin-accepts-RNC-s-invitation-for-her-to-not-be-there
Palin: “This year is a good opportunity for other voices to speak at the convention and I’m excited to hear them.”
They haven’t started speaking yet, Saruh.
Are there other voices you’re hearing we’re not being told about?
One more thought on the use of language. SS and Medicare are not “entitlements”, they are earned benefits. Even your teafolk friends will agree on that one.
Gekko & Galt, two peas in a pod:
“Ryan, in a trying-too-hard outfit of blue jeans, wide leather belt and red-and-white checked shirt, began with a painful effort to establish common ground with the locals.
βWhat a beautiful day to be at the state fair,β he said. βWe have fairs. Do you have Wristband Day here?β
Apparently Iowans do not have Wristband Day, because the crowd was quiet.
βThatβs the favorite day for my kids, because Wristband Day, you can buy a wristband and ride all the rides with just one wristband for the whole day.β
The Iowans stood like corn stalks on a still morning.
βSo itβs just from a Wisconsinite to a neighboring Iowan: Have Wristband Day. Your kids will love it.β
If there were crickets at the Iowa State Fair, you would have heard them chirping.
Just about then, some in the crowd suddenly came to life. Unfortunately for the candidate, they were hecklers, and they were charging the stage.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/paul-ryan-on-soapbox-at-iowa-state-fair/2012/08/13/7a04d3c4-e598-11e1-8f62-58260e3940a0_print.html
So basically, Paul Ryan will be sending those hecklers gilt-edged thank you notes in the morning?
Heh. He might just as well have suggested that the corn was the right height.
Bill Press had John Nichols on this morning. Nichols said some outfit did a poll and 40% of Wisconsin voters didn’t know who Ryan was, and only 36% of those that did approved of him. He said Ryan’s district has no large cities, and no TV stations, and he’s been getting elected largely through just being the incumbent. So he might not even help Romney carry Wisconsin.
The extra scrutiny of being the VP candidate could even result in him losing his district.
That would be the cherry on top of this election.
Looks like Paul Ryan ran into the townspeople today.
Oh, there’s nothing halfway
About the Iowa way to treat you,
When we treat you
Which we may not do at all.
There’s an Iowa kind of special
Chip-on-the-shoulder attitude.
We’ve never been without.
That we recall.
I can’t wait to see this fellow debate Joe Biden.
Apparently it was Corn Dog Day.
Some Catholic lady was on Andrea Mitchell today saying that Catholic Paul Ryan will help with the evangelical vote. Apparently neither Andrea nor this lady realized that evangelicals don’t consider Catholics “real Christians”. And neither does Mitt Romney.
Heh, awesome.
Bernie Sanders was on The Ed Show right at the end, and I think it’s the first time I’ve seen him with his hair combed neatly! He always looks like he just rushed in out of the wind! π
Oh that’s what was different! I couldn’t place it!
Cats with wings, corn dog days, pre-teen mothers, cherries on top, dog with a glued orifice, fiberglass fetishes, Yes it’s monday at the Zoo. Yipee!
Yay!!
Yes, it has been a very quiet day///
Giant Asian prawns in the Gulf of Mexico, record size Burmese pythons in Florida…
It’s a mad world.
I could add pig castration if it would make your day complete.
The Icelanders might be interested…
Bingo! Oh yeah, that’s what I’m talking about.
Well I don’t know about that other glued orifice but his breath smells “glueish”.
Raven, really like contemplative looking goat on your latest gravatar.
Zooey , the spring green gravatar is very soothing to gaze upon.
I like the cooling green as well Zooey. It was 104 here today.
The goat is contemplating its next meal, and making sure it’s there to partake.
Only 99 here, but I still felt the need for refreshing green.
Really you all have new back to school outfits.
The high school aged crew I’ve had for the last 8 weeks are whining they didn’t have a summer vacation.
They have been paid well to come every day (most of them), do a minimum of actual thinking about what they’re doing, show little or no initiative, flirt, disrupt, text, listen to their iPods and throw up objection to any new idea.
On second thought, except for being paid, I guess it has been a lot like school in their experience.
Yeah I remember those high school summers. At 2 bucks an hour wages, that’s what they got. Didn’t have the ability to text, scour the innertubes, listen to my songs downloaded, but I was able to bitch, and ditch. Actually mostly slept. Ah to be a teenager again. π
I was able to pump a little gas, change the oil and fix my van in the garage bay, find out where all the parties were, and ogle girls while I washed the windshields.
me too, but I still slept a lot when I wasn’t bitching.
Perhaps if I had slept more in those days I wouldn’t sleep so much these days.
Now that (yawn) you mention it, good night all…
π
Have fantastic dreams Raven. Teenager or not.