Nonewhere and I are on a road trip from the east coast to the west coast. Today, we are spending some time in Bend, OR. For the first time in 7 days, I heard a variety birds chirping outside and I am loving it. There were no bird songs in South Dakota or Montana. The only birds that I heard in Washington were crows and a few blackcap chick-a-dees. On Thursday, we will be back on the road again and heading back home.
This is our Open Thread. Please do Speak Up and share what’s on your mind today.
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VERRRRYYYYY Intersting!
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Great Stuff !
Enjoy the ride back to PA.
Do hope there are songbirds to serenade you on the travel eastward!
Welcome to the Fourth Anniversary of the First Anniversary of The Zoo! (And I’ve been here four years today!)
Well, then, congrats to us and to you, house!
Five years already? Wow. Happy Birthday, The Zoo!
Happy Fourth Annual Anniversary of our First Anniversary!
Glad to be here!
Well the rest of you are getting old. I’m not having any more birthdays. How many years were we at Think Progress before trolls chased us here?
I was on TP starting sometime in 2005, and you were either there already or showed up soon after.
We need lives, girl. 😉
2005 sounds about right.
Hey, this is my life. You people are the only ones I can relate to. Well you all and the folks on the German Shorthair Pointer page on Facebook. There’s a Golden Retriever page on FB too but they all write in Spanish. Pix are nice though.
Did you see the retriever pic I posted yesterday? Adorable!
No. I’ll go look.
So cute.
Where was it?
Trolls did not chase us here. TP’s lack of moderating their own forum allowed trolls to turn each thread into a swamp. We decided we had had enough of blogging in the swamp and created our own “island paradise”.
🙂
Thanks for being the great archivist that you are House!
Happy Anniversary HOR
and
theZoo!
Another anniversary? Wow. 🙂
Had to RT you.
LMAO!!!….great move
It’s said he turned down VP slot because he knows Romney will lose and doesn’t want to turn out like all losing VP candidates. He wants to run in 2016. Can you imagine he believes he has the stamina required for a presidential run. What an idiot.
“run” – Christie?
I sure hope somebody catches that on video.
Christie is anxious to give the keynote speech so he can get it over with to get to the buffet.
He’s not speaking until the buffet is empty. Could take a whilte.
Chris Christie really couldn’t withstand the rigors of a national campaign — nor could we stand him doing one.
If he’s serious about running in 2016, he’ll have gastric bypass (secretly) and will try to dump the weight by then.
If he has Gastric Bypass, it won’t be a secret.
No, it will be pretty obvious, but I think he’ll try to deny it like Huckabee did.
Huckabee’s really worked well!…the fat ass
On C&L this fine A of the M
Chris Christie Turned Down Veep Slot Because He Thinks Romney’s Going to Lose
For once in your foul existence, flabmaster, you are correct.
Not that it’s going to be any better for you and your corporate fascist cronies in 2016…
Oops sorry I repeated you because I hadn’t read all the way through. Can you imagine that blowhard believes he’d have the physical capability to run. Romney had to cancel one day for exhaustion. That’s odd too.
And, on the Nation, an article about “True the Vote”, the polldoggers who are out to disenfranchise minority voters and anyone else they judge not pure enough to vote. How the Right Is Building Its ‘Poll Watcher’ Network for November
Who the hell are these assholes?
Remember the hysteria of the right because 2 New Black Panthers were outside on polling place in a black neighborhood. Looks like we need to counteract these bastards.
On the TP Morning Briefing there is a link to the most bizarrely funny David Brooks column ever!
I read that last night, I don’t get it, it is really funny. But I don’t know what the point of it was… to humanize the Romneybot?
Jason Linkins:
What’s really impressive about the column is how awesomely effortless it all is. Brooks just straight up opened a Word document, spat a bunch of dull quips into it, and handed it in to whoever is in charge of turning it into a newspaper column. You could do this, too: start with something like, “What’s the deal with sweetbreads? They’re not sweet, they’re not bread …” and then you write 500 more words about thymus glands, give it to some guy at The New York Times and then that guy thanks you and he hands you a bunch of money and then it’s off to the Aspen Ideas Festival or whatever.
Author seeks repayment of 130-year-old debt concerning Mitt Romney’s great-grandfather, who was described as “a mass of putrid pus and rotten goose pimples; a skunk, with the face of a baboon.”
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2012/aug/28/mitt-romney-unpaid-bill-demand?CMP=twt_fd
From Gail Collins in the NYT:
“… Mitt Romney was born on March 12, 1947, in Ohio, Florida, Michigan, Virginia and several other swing states. He emerged, hair first, believing in America, and especially its national parks. He was given the name Mitt, after the Roman god of mutual funds, and launched into the world with the lofty expectation that he would someday become the Arrow shirt man.
Romney was a precocious and gifted child. He uttered his first words (“I like to fire people”) at age 14 months, made his first gaffe at 15 months and purchased his first nursery school at 24 months. The school, highly leveraged, went under, but Romney made 24 million Jujubes on the deal.
Mitt grew up in a modest family. His father had an auto body shop called the American Motors Corporation, and his mother owned a small piece of land, Brazil. He had several boyhood friends, many of whom owned Nascar franchises, and excelled at school, where his fourth-grade project, “Inspiring Actuaries I Have Known,” was widely admired….
… He had a pet rock, which ran away from home because it was starved of affection. He bought a mood ring, but it remained permanently transparent. His ability to turn wine into water detracted from his popularity at parties…
After his governorship, Romney suffered through a midlife crisis, during which he became a social conservative. This prepared the way for his presidential run. He barely won the 2012 Republican primaries after a grueling nine-month campaign, running unopposed. At the convention, where his Secret Service nickname is Mannequin, Romney will talk about his real-life record: successful business leader, superb family man, effective governor, devoted community leader and prudent decision-maker. If elected, he promises to bring all Americans together and make them feel inferior.”
Heh – perfect!
Badmoodman @ 7:22am, that’s the David Brooks column in the NYT, that I just mentioned.
You should have linked it.
I was thinking Gail Collins because I couldn’t imagine Brooks writing such an unflattering piece on Mitt. Maybe Collins hijacked Brooks’ computer.
I wish I could do links, but this cheap phone doesn’t have copy and paste. That’s why I described where I found it.
*snort*
Jeez louise, Bay Buchanan is an ‘adviser to Mitt Romney’? Puke!
Ugh, her voice is awful, and it sounds like her dentures are loose.
Now THAT would make a great Tweet, which is why YOU should be on The Twitter.. 🙂
Heh, you have my permission to use it. 🙂
Whenever I see Barney Frank talk on TV, I want to Windex the screen.
I feel the same way when Chris Matthews gets going a bit fast.
Well, why not be honest about a dishonest campaign?
“We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact-checkers,” Romney pollster Neil Newhouse said at a panel organized by ABC News.
Does anyone else think it’s a bit risky to allow Chris Christy to do the keynote speech at the RNC tonight? His mouth tends to get him in trouble.
In more ways than one.
I hope there’s a rumble with the Ron Paul supporters and Christy loses it and stage dives into the rioting Paulites, WWE style.
I’d pay to see that….
New post up!
Make that two new posts up – but mine is of a more personal nature.
The Wall Street Journal reports that Republicans are trying to gin up some excitement with a stunt:
“Buried deep in the convention schedule released Monday is a vague reference to a mystery speaker scheduled for the event’s final evening. “To Be Announced” has a prime speaking slot late in the Thursday program.
…The only other speakers to follow “To Be Announced” will be Sen. Marco Rubio of Florida and Mr. Romney himself, suggesting that the unnamed guest may appear during the 10 p.m. hour when the networks all will be broadcasting the convention.
… The line-up features a long list of governors and senators, including New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie and Sen. Rob Portman of Ohio. Former presidential candidates Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are on the agenda, as are former Florida Gov. Jeb Bush and former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice. Former Vice President Dick Cheney and former President George W. Bush have said they won’t be attending, but a video from Mr. Bush is on Wednesday’s program.”
My money is on The Wasilla Whackjob.
The Holy Relic Corpse of St Ronald Raygun will be dug up, paraded around the floor and then will miraculously give a speech.
TtT, Would they dare use a Hologram? (a la Tupac)///
Calling Jeff Dunham! Corpse puppet in the house!
They’ll plug in Trump so he can do his campy crap.
Yeah, I think they’d use Trump before the screechy one. He’s got more power to follow through on threats.
It better not be a Navy SEAL incognito.
I’m thinking that The Donald is not going to allow himself to be kept out of the limelight, so the ‘surprise speaker’ could be him.
Nancy Reagan again?
Jenna Jameson will illustrate, through ‘interpretive dance’ , Mitt Romney’s policy positions….
Notes From the Bubble:
“We’re not going to let our campaign be dictated by fact checkers,” – Romney pollster Neil Newhouse.
*ahem* 😛
Right. He’s aloof, out-of-touch, snobbish, and he lies a lot.
What else is there to know?
Adviser: Voters will get to know Romney
They’re catapulting the propaganda that Mittens is a nice guy. So I’m listening to KPOJ online, and Ed’s talking about this. Then the news break comes on and ABC news is on the bandwagon, talking with former co-workers from when Mitt was Guv. Jeebus.
I think Mitt is more likely to be non-human than a ‘nice guy’ .
They are using cold hearted persons (Ann and Christie) attempting to impart the “warmth and kindness” of the wooden toy that is Mittens…
(laughable)
Every time someone mentions that Ann Rmoney’s speech is supposed to try to “humanize” Mitt, I wonder how that cold arrogant woman could possible manage such a trick.
Elsewhere – no justice for Rachel Corrie – 9 years later
The Guardian covers the implications for the ongoing Occupation of an ‘investigation’ the US Ambassador called as “neither credible nor thorough” – for a US Ambassador this is like calling the Israelis a bunch of liars and whitewashing the manslaughter of Rachel Corrie.
I hope this works, it’s fucking hilarious!
Such a prissy man.
When he walks, he doesn’t stride or glide or even lumber. He walks like he’s squeezing a C-note between his butt cheeks.
coal…
Did he ‘build that’?
Must have, it crashed to pieces.
That’s too funny.
God is a Republican which means everyone in New Orleans is a hell-bound godless heathen – 2012 edition from the Christian Hate Network
I’m sure this will be noted by some speaker at the RNC today.
*cough*
Okay, why is Ron Paul wearing a lei to the Republican Convention?
Because he’s a leibertarian.
He got lei’d already?
He’s seeking to ‘lei out’ Rinse Probus
He just got back from Hawaii where the Republicans told him they were having this year’s convention. A good laugh was had by all.
That’s funny!
See! See! There’s enough ice out there to make a million margaritas. What the hell’s the problem!
/snucking fark
Heh, I was just gonna post on this…
“The Arctic sea ice extent [Sunday] fell below its previous record low and is currently losing frozen sea at the rate of ~29,000 square miles (~75,000 square kilometers) a day. That’s equivalent to an area the size of South Carolina every 24 hours. … Note that this year’s record low was set more than three weeks earlier than the 2007 record. And summer isn’t over yet. There’s more melting to come.”
http://www.motherjones.com/blue-marble/2012/08/arctic-ice-shatters-melt-record
Michael Lemonick explains how all that ice isn’t just ice, it’s part of our defense against the sun – and its loss accelerates climate change:
“Arctic ice, whether on land or on the sea, is a powerful reflector that bounces a lot of sunlight back into space rather than letting it warm the Earth. When that ice melts, it exposes the darker ground or water underneath, turning the region into an energy absorber rather than a reflector. Sea ice is especially vulnerable to melting, and over the past 30 years or so there’s been a downward trend in sea ice coverage in summer. The result is a feedback loop that accelerates global warming, with melting ice leading to more warming of the water below leading to more melting. The Arctic is warming at nearly twice the rate of the rest of the globe, largely due to those feedback loops. In addition, recent research shows that the loss of sea ice cover may be contributing to extreme weather events throughout the Northern Hemisphere, and may be partly responsible for major cold air outbreaks and paralyzing snowstorms in the northeastern U.S. and western Europe during the past few years.”
http://www.climatecentral.org/news/arctic-sea-ice-sets-new-low-and-its-not-over-yet-14898/
Why is SE Cupp on my TV?
My sincere condolences….
Ugh, because MSNBC management is dumb.
I’m watching Friday’s Rachel instead. 🙂
She puts out
My eyes! My ears!
Thom Hartmann sounds so much better than Sip E Cup.
House for the win!
rickklein @ rickklein : awkward start? “Romney, Romney” chant just met with louder “Ron Paul, Ron Paul” on #2012GOP floor
heh
I see black shirted security thugs in the Paulista’s near future…
Steve Benen nails Romney on fact-checkers:
http://maddowblog.msnbc.com/_news/2012/08/28/13528235-abandoning-the-pretense-of-caring-about-facts
(A well thought-out plan if ever there was)//
“.. struck by TWO cars…” ??
“Bubba, I think I hurt him but…. oh wait he’s getting up again… Hank git him with your big rig!”
Ghillie suits are a type of full-body clothing made to resemble heavy foliage and used to camouflage military snipers.
“He probably would not have been very easy to see at all,”
Um…. isn’t that the purpose of camouflage?
Most telling though: “alcohol may have been a factor.” Isn’t it always?
Struck by two cars driven by a 15-year-old and a 17-year old! Until that aspect is fully investigated, I would consider it a factor in this tragedy.
It sounds like he was actually in the road when he was hit. In a cammo suit. Even if the young ladies, who I hope don’t suffer unduly, were reckless and blind drunk I still think the guy would qualify for a Darwin Award. If the first vehicle he jumped in front of had contained a tipsy redneck he probably would have been shot or run down on purpose.
Mitt could probably stand up at the convention and say one truthful thing. “I’m the nicest person here.”
via Sierra Club
Jan Brewer just mucked up her nomination speech for Romney.
Can you picture yourself watching TV on the couch with your dogs? Now picture a cat coming into the room!
NOW PICTURE THE CAT BEING A COUGAR!!!
Small woman had no hope, except for her dogs!!
Oh shit, no thanks. 😯
And I understand leaving your door open – it’s hot and the dogs can come and go. But when you live near the wood? Even a bear would not hesitate to come on in.
Seriously, even a screen door would give you a bit of warning that something was coming. Common sense, people!
Normally, I would say that once you see the cougar it’s WAY too late. You’re dinner.
Courtney Cox can have me for dinner any time….
Hey now. 😀
We used to leave the door open nearly year round for the dogs, then I cut a hole in it and made a dog door. I think a hungry couger would have used the dog door also.
Whoa – fortunate indeed!
Is the cougar’s food-source scarce in that part of the country?
It sounds like it was an old cat that couldn’t catch wild food any more. A lot of cases of animals going after humans are due to worn/broken/infected teeth, other injuries, or just the infirmities of old age. It is indeed fortunate that she wasn’t killed or horribly mauled and it was probably a welcome end of suffering for the cat.
Ebb, I think pete is correct. There would be no cause for food scarcity in that area.
Apologies if someone already posted a link to this, but here is the official GOP party platform which, we have learned, is not binding on anyone.
http://www.gop.com/2012-republican-platform_home/
I skimmed the energy bit – not grounded in the facts and in cases deliberately misleading.
Then I glanced at the bit on ‘American exceptionalism’ – I couldn’t get past the sentence about being unique in history without gagging (without saying why…. the phrase comes from Joe Stalin and he was not being complimentary)
I really don’t understand how anyone could read that tripe without feeling ill much less think; “hey! That sounds like a great idea. U.S.A! U.S.A! U.S…”.
For that matter, I don’t understand why they always shout down the slightest dissent with their “U.S.A.” chants. Hecklers? O.K. It’s still petty, silly, and jingoistic but constructive dissent is, unless my American history teacher just gave me an A to get rid of me, the very foundation of this country. These freaks would have handed Paul Revere over to the Red Coats while singing “Rule Britannia”.
Mark Thoma nails the GOP’s self-defeating, ideological hostile meme:
” If there’s any policy Republicans ought to be able to support, it’s infrastructure spending. It’s inherently a supply-side policy, it helps to promote future economic growth, and it’s an investment with large, positive net benefits. But Republicans see a “we won’t build that” approach to infrastructure spending, an approach that is harmful to our prospects for recovery and to our prospects for future economic growth, as a way to reclaim the presidency.”
http://www.thefiscaltimes.com/Columns/2012/08/28/Republicans-We-Wont-Build-That.aspx#page1
Could Zooey or someone else with the magic keys to the kingdom remove my misdirected posts from Jane’s birthday memorial for her nephew? I would blame my cat for stepping on the keyboard, I have carefully explained that she’s not qualified to operate a computer but you know how cats are, but I just got careless while clicking between tabs. Thanks!
Are they things you’ve replicated on this post?
No. But nothing earth shaking. I think most of it has been covered anyway.
Okay.
Thanks, Zooey!
Spent the day in JDR court, the only place more depressing than the GOP convention.
Did things go reasonably well?
That doesn’t sound like it went too well.
Everything is fine, parts of our case were actually funny. It was just all the sad stories that I sat through first. One was actually sort of uplifting. A young hispanic boy had been caught with alcohol and committed a petty theft. He had completed his court ordered counseling and English classes (the court had felt some of his actions were due to cultural unfamiliarity). The judge advised the young man that Virginia had invested $10K in him and wanted him to stay here and become a productive citizen. 🙂
Something positive for that young man’s life, no doubt. That could have easily gone the other direction.
Good judge. Must not be from Texas.
GOP is pretty sickening alright. Nominating Paul Ryan. Ick.
Can we haz live blogging on the convention so as to snark appropriately at Chris Christie and Ann Romney?
What time will they be spewing?
They are spewing now, but Queen Ann comes on at 10:05 EDT.
CC at 10:35 EDT
Thanks, LL. They’re getting in the early liars right now.
That Ayotte bitch is lying right now. Bitch.
She must be in charge of the dog whistle this evening.
Yeah. I already have a headache.
Not if it interferes with “Master Chef”. I think Queen Ann speaks at 10.
With each passing day I become more relieved that my TV’s digital/analogue converter crapped out about a month ago. I haven’t even been watching many “news” stories on line. I’m even thinking of getting an online subscription for football season and letting the boob tube remain idle indefinitely.
I REALLY hate it when I wait around for someone to come fix something in the apartment, and they never bother to show up. I’m getting a bad feeling about this place.
It’s in the same league as spending an hour and a half on three buses for a routine doctor visit and arriving to find that she is out sick. And I probably got infected with all sorts of nasty “kid germs” too!
But? The fall/winter line from my favorite brewery is in stock. Even if the rather high alcohol content doesn’t kill off the “kid germs” I won’t care.
That’s awful! They couldn’t be arsed to call you? Damn!
That is maddening. I have a real nice rental house if you’re interested and won’t mind some leftover police tape.
And the meth wallpaper? 😉 I appreciate the offer, but my six month lease means I’m settled through winter, which is a good thing. I just hope this window is fixed before the rain starts. Oy…I can treat adults like children, if necessary, but I’m hoping it doesn’t go that way.
Let’s play Jeopardy.
And the answer is:
“Ann Romney, Chris Christie and Isaac”
Come up with your questions that fit this as an answer. The category is open so anything goes.
(Saw those three names are part of a headline, and it just seemed like a punch-line waiting for a setup.)
Have fun!
Name the three most destructive forces in play this week!
*TILT* I’m sorry, you must put it in the form of a question. Thanks for playing. Ralph what parting gifts to we have for RUC?
What are three things that terrify horses?
What are three things that are large and blow Mitt?
I think we have a winner, nwoldguy.
OMG, I missed these comments. 😆
I agree, nwoldguy is the clear winner! I guess we know why Queen Ann has that nasty look on her face all the time — essence of Mitt.
Rmoney easily gets the 1144 delegate votes needed to officially become his party’s presidential nominee.
Wasn’t it just a couple of months ago when Tweety and other political pundits, mostly on the left and puppets for our overlords telling us Rmoney might not even receive enough delegate votes to become the party’s nominee and how the republican convention could be a brokered convention?
Sorry, lately I have been very suspicious of some of the considered ‘progressive’ voices in the media. I mentioned Tweety yesterday. I’ll mention Lawrence O’Donnell again, who once again was pushing a strong narrative that Rmoney/Ryan can’t win on his program last night.
My suspicion is this: Matthews, Schultz, O’Donnell and others all read from a script, one that must need approval from corporate head quarters. They all have a role to play. They are entertainers in a sense, just like Rush Limbaugh. Do we honestly know how they personally feel inside about this election? They are all part of the 1%, meaning they all have something to gain with a Rmoney presidency as do their corporate bosses and the shareholders as well.
The progressive media seems to be more focused on the Rmoney birth certificate flap and racism, perhaps they would serve their viewers better by focusing on other facts and arguments that might persuade an unhappy Obama supporter or an independent voter instead of complaining about something Rmoney said or whining about all of the lies the Rmoney campaign and the pro Rmoney superpacs ads are launching.
Tweety and others seemed astonished and amazed by these tactics. Really? Quit whining about it and hit the airwaves with facts to dispute the lies. Already it seems Obama is on the defense and the liberal media is crying foul. We really need some political balls on our side. Some say Tweety showed some balls when he went after RNC head, Priebus on Morning Joe, I was encouraged by this until I saw Tweety later smiling and laughing, he is just entertaining, playing the lefts version of Geraldo and relishing all the attention he is getting from other MSNBC cable hosts. I’m so glad I have Current and Link TV.
Hope I don’t sound too conspiratorial….I just see the fix is in and we as a country are going to suffer greatly at the hands of Rmoney/Ryan and the republican party.
and I’m really starting to see the left/right paradigm. Our two party system is broken and corrupt and the media….both sides just play their roles in keeping we the people distracted, angry and divided while those in the 1% club continue to enjoy the spoils of this and rigged financial system.
It does seem that way at times, doesn’t it IC
After the SCOTUS handed the ‘win’ to Baby-Bush I’ve been a bit skeptical.
(having never thought in my lifetime the SCOTUS was in for a fix)
On the other hand; CNN appears to have a new policy of answering lying GOoPers with “that’s just not true” (and documenting why it’s not true) instead of the usual policy of letting the liars lie without question and ending the segment with “we’ll have to leave it at that”. Enough different hosts, including Wolfie, have done it in recent days that it gives me a little, tiny, miniscule hope that the “librul media” might be remembering their function.
I’m sure it’s just a coincidence but this phenomenon seemed to appear about the same time that the foreign media got their first good look at Mittens and shamed the “librul media” by reporting that he’s full of shit.
Another encouraging sign, for what polls are worth, is that there are surprisingly few people being polled who call themselves “undecided” while President Obama seems to be slowly gaining ground.
I have a perfectly ripened tomato and zucchini calling my name, so I better go take care of that delicious situation. I guess I’ll be around for live-blogging the gas bags tonight. If I care enough, I’ll even do a separate post. 😉
https://twitter.com/ezraklein/status/240581895077892096
Nice little dig at Politico. 🙂
Thanks for the link, Wayne. I’ll read this one, too. Dammit.
More guns. The Buybull as the supreme law of the land. No health care. No “illegals”. No gays. Rape doesn’t count if “she asked for it”. Did we mention more guns?
John Boner up first. I’m eating tomato and zucchini, so I can’t be bothered to post another thread. 😉
Have fun!
They didn’t let him use his big hammer.
Boner’s slurring already.
Lame-assed jokes.
I guess that’s all you can muster when your whole premise is based on a lie.
I’m watching John Boehner speak – WTF is that cloud-like effect going on behind him?
Oh, thank dog, Rachel cut away from Boehner, I was about to mute it.
His DTs?
Then why am I seeing them?
That’s how strong they are. Imagine Boner’s liver.
O/T, I think I’m gonna have to cave and get a new keyboard. Typing without a working ‘t’ key is JUST TOO DAMNED SLOW!
Go for it, Jane. 😉
If I didn’t need a ‘split’, i.e., ergonomic keyboard, I could get one for free at work. The boss even searched for my old ergonomic keyboard (which he had replaced shortly before the office moved), but it must have been dumped in the move.
I used to have one of those — loved it! I might still have my old one in the storage unit, but I’m not sure it will work after being in there for all this time. I can check it when I get it unearthed, and if it works you’ll have a backup!
Did anyone else just see the really long commercial about the black female repiggie from Utah? *puke*
Oh, it’s the same person who’s speaking now. She’s delusional.
Is anyone going to call her an anchor baby, or demand to see her birth certificate?
Mmmmm, fresh watermelon. I love summer veggie stands.
Ugh, that ditsy woman from that Alaska show — Janine something — is speaking. Badly. With a teleprompter.
She’s a fucking liar, too. I guess she got famous on that show all by herself. 🙄
Maggie=Janine Turner=Northeren Exposure=One of the great sitcoms of yore.
Yeah, that dummy.
I loved that show, and never missed it. She went nuts.
Any bets on how many things the “other” ditsy woman from Alaska has thrown at her TV tonight?
I hope she shoots her big screen teevee.
I don’t know if I can watch any of the RNC shameless liars and the entire “We Built It” utter bullshit.
Maybe I’ll join the live blog if I can work up a taste for bile.
I can’t stand it in large doses. Vile people.
Hopefully you have ample alcohol to wash it down with 😉
Some woman was just speaking, with a massive chip on her shoulder, about starting her own business because she was so inspired by the burden of her autistic son. She and her husband worked hard and never took anything from anyone, except for some obvious government contracts (which she didn’t identify as such). And Sonny boy just finished his first year of college. He succeeded because he worked hard, just like mummy and daddy.
Of course, the son had the benefit (like mine) of extra taxpayer money going toward his education, but never mind that detail. Funny how some people are grateful, and some people just get pissed off and entitled.
My son completed two years of college, BTW, but then he encountered issues that most adults with autism experience and left school. This woman’s son is in the clear, although I wish him the best. Disappointing mummy might not be a good idea here.
Michael Steele is demonstrating just how big a putz he is — in front of the repiggie mouth-breathers.
Isaac has touched the SE corner of LA, but will gain power for another 12-15 hours while it’s over water. It won’t be as bad as Katrina, but it’s not a little one either. Lots of water.
A friend of mine moved back to NOLA last year after living through the evacuation from Katrina. She sent me a text the other day wondering why the hell she moved back. I thought she was packed and headed to Chicago but she appears to be sticking it out. She’s not only back in NOLA, she’s living in Bywater, which is a mouse fart away from the Lower Ninth. Fingers crossed for her.
Yeah, I’d be wondering that about now. The wind on this one won’t blow her away, but given the way NO is situated, water is the issue.
I hope she remains safe and dry.
So, the GOP’s platform calls for applying the 14th Amendment Citizenship status upon the unborn. Would that equally apply to the unborn of illegal immigrants, or are there some God-given rights that do not apply to those born outside our country?
I’ve gotta shorten that to 140 chars. 🙂
Good one! I’m sure the idiots will find a reason why it only applies to white Americans, and maybe white undocumented people
Well, The theme of the night has been established…. Get government out of the business of small business and into your vagina of choice.
These people keep talking about small businesses, but it’s the large businesses that reap most of the benefits and tax breaks.
John Kasich is up to blow the dog whistle and lie his ass off.
Asshole John Kasich.
Along with lying his ass off, he even managed a little dog whistle.
I am not sure that I can take all of the mendacity.
WTF? is with that nauseating vertigo effect of a blue background?
John Boner’s DTs.
I’m just listening while doing other things. i can’t look at these people, and can barely listen to them.
It’s not as nauseating as Tweety gushing over Kasich. Ed Schultz made as ass out of Tweety when he cut Kasich down to size.
That was satisfying as hell.
In reference to small businesses, the ones who employ all the workers that job creators create:
A person does not build a business, a person builds an organization and the organization builds the business.
I noticed that the guy in the steel business mentioned discussing things with the management team.
Can’t do it. Just can not do it.
Five minutes was all I could watch. Hackneyed phrases and boring deliveries are way too much this evening.
But you’re missing Transvaginal Bob.
Well, no, not really.
I don’t have enough anti-emetic to stomach too much of the circus – especially T. Bob.
Wow, is McDonnell ever a stiff.
How come these pussies are using teleprompters? Lightweights.
Exactement!
Teleprompter city – every time I just peek in.
GoOPer circus must be taken in very small doses.
Boring as fuck speaker.
How can Scott Walker read a teleprompter with those crossed eyes?
Speaking of lying sleaze balls; Bill0 just couldn’t stop himself from attacking Sandra Fluke again for no reason other than being invited to speak at the “democrat convention”. Didn’t she get enough the first time she crossed the Reichwhiners?
Funny. No mention of “legitimate rape” or the Huckster’s unwavering defense of Akin up to and including a claim that Akin really meant “forced rape” as if that was somehow better. No mention of the resurgent birtherism, with 7 avowed birthers scheduled to speak at the GOP convention even after Trump got bumped. In fact, no quotes from any of the speakers. I guess that even Bill0 knows that FAUX”News” can’t afford the risk of playing their speeches before they edit and sanitize them. Lord knows it wouldn’t be a good idea for “the folks” to hear the bile straight from the horses’ asses.
Oops! I think I caught linkus neglectus from the wailing germ factories at the doctor’s office.
http://videocafe.crooksandliars.com/heather/bill-o-attacks-democratic-convention-speak
I’ve never really seen McDonnell give a speech. This guy is the real Greg Marmalade.
Ah, yes. If only. “Greg Marmalade. Nixon White House Aide. Raped in prison.”
Is it music night yet?
Problem solved. You are late!
Do you want to chat about that db? 😉
Apparently life is easy, profitable and there’s a unicorn in every house in states with GOP governors.
(laughing at that Wayne)
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What time is (Marie Antoinette) due to arrive by diamond covered coach to deliver the heart warming story of how the two ice cubes met?
7 our time, Ebb.
Should I turn on the radio just for the fun?
Who’s the pretty boy stiff who doesn’t read as well as an 8th grader?
He’s got an ugly mouth. I don’t like him.
Damn you’re tough QZ. Funny, but tough
I’m afraid that I will be forced to hunt down and smack the shit out of the next GOoPer who makes a crack about President Obama using a teleprompter. It’s out of my hands. It’s just something that has to happen.
I’m with you, pete. Ugh.
Is that Sandoval?
Santorum… this should be interesting.
Mind the santorum…
ewwwwwwww!
Didn’t Santorum say Mitt Romney was THE WORST repiggie in the country to nominate as president?
That was in the before time.
Now if only those kids in the Democratic Republic of the Congo would just dig harder and faster they too could be his granddaddy
Yes Ricky, in 1923 there was no Medicare or SS. Let’s return to those days.
And the old man worked in the mines until he was 72, which was probably the day he died.
The “thick strong hands” bit of Santorum, in every speech. Creepy.
I’m convinced he’s deeply closeted. And has a deeply diseased brain.
Fuck you, Santorum. Fuck you, you whore.
Hye look there is this thing called the 2nd ammendment. If the family is under assault just blast the shit out of the imaginary assaulting entity? Come onnow. That one is a no brainer
Liars and the lies they spew.
Ugh, the HANDS again……
Now I can’t un-hear it.
He’s using an ugly tone of voice.
Hands, moving across my ass…
Arrggghhh!!
Tonight’s theme at the RNC is “We Built That.” The Republicans should also post that under the national debt counter they have above the podium.
OMFG, this is tearful beyond belief!!!!!!
What IS with the blue background?
I gripped the hands of this oddly effeminate fella that made lovely window treatments but was so clueless…
Bella had 7 fingers.
No wonder…
Santorum is a devout Catholic. So why is he lying out loud on national television?
He’s not perfect, just forgiven. 🙄
She’ll never be cured, and it’s cruel to force her to stay alive.
Wonder if she receives government services?
$1 says she’s been on SS since birth.
Fact: Santorum was the runnerup for the GOP nomination.
Mull that around for a bit.
He’s the loser. No one wanted him, and they never will.
Sanctimonious prick.
Hey, Akin! Karma called. Your account has been closed due to continuing overdrafts.
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/08/akins-accepts-his-true-political-persecutors-the-leaders-of-the-republican-party.php?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+tpm-news+%28TPMNews%29
Seriously though. How vile does one need to be to be rejected by the GOP over insulting wimmins? I am forced to conclude that he’s every bit as nasty when he’s hanging out with his cronies.
He fucked up and spoke the truth. We can’t be having that.
Tweety’s gushing again. *barf*
I’m watching on Cspan. It’s bad enough without the added drivel.
At least we get a break from the insanity. 😉
I tried to watch it live on the MSNBC link, but no breaks.
PBS is streaming live if you’ve a need to get away from Tweetybird..
This guy just dug up St Ronnie.
Yeah, guess what, moron. What your father did is no longer possible in this country. Fuck you.
Is Michael Raygun speaking?
If so, he’s in need of a bitch-slapping. Up for it?
I should’ve taken him out when I had the chance.
It would have been a great service to the country.
who doesn’t enjoy pandering to hispanics? Well other than hispanics that find it insulting
I think I’ll go watch House Hunters International. Gotta be ready in case these twunts get back true power.
Rick S-hand-torum.
Amazing line: “Government takeovers of great parts of the economy.” You mean rescuing the auto industry?
Tweety has toned it down since he eviscerated Reincey on ‘Morning Joe.’ He must have gotten “a talking to.”
I can’t even stand any more of it second hand. I’m going to watch an episode of MST3K and take my nighty-night pills. Actually, I think I’ll take my nighty-night pills, watch an episode of MST3K, then decide if I need more pills.
G’night.
Sleep well, pete.
It’s the ‘parade of minorities’.
_______________
Oh, Neutered one is on PBS panel … (stomach churning).
David Shuster @DavidShuster
GOP attendee ejected for throwing nuts at African American CNN camera woman + saying “This is how we feed animals.”
OMFG.
This is how you get 0% of the African American vote.
That is sick.
“Feel the love in the air” at the classy convention.//
Disgusting.
Wow. Just wow. I’m sure alcohol was probably a factor… there is a bunch of red noses in that crowd.
Difficult to spin that. New worst job: GOP PR guy.
Santas Annie up next?
Yep. Ugh.
Oops, Nikki Singh Haley first.
Another repiggie bitch.
Mack Daddy airplane?
He’s taken pensions and forced retirees into the govt retirement program.
How soon till My Favorite Martian gets to speak?
Well, his Martian Mate is up now, so he’s probably next.
Nice to see you, db, it’s been way too long.
I thought of you just yesterday dbadass, when I was given 400 loaves of stale bread. You probably could have made something tasty from it.
Artur Davis FAIL: If this is the dude to talk black Americans into turning against Obama: no deal.
Artur Davis is no longer an Alabama resident. Nobody here misses him either.
It’s beginning to look like Queen Ann will be the only one with anything good to say about Mittens.
Maybe.
(snickering)
Get ready for the wooden doll to speak about the wooden toy.
Oh, another Latina for Mittens introducing the queen!
Damn, the live PBS feed just quit on me…
They’re showing it live on MSNBC or http://tvpc.com/Channel.php?ChannelID=12974
Thanks.
The “didn’t build their businesses” lie is now self perpetuating and premise for MORE lies. AARRGGHH!!!!!!
This is what a cold civil war looks like: making shit up entirely to create an illusion of reality. No real argument; no actual debate, no facts. Just fantasy.
The feed is back.
Queen Ann to speak..now.
They sure are trotting out all of the mares tonight. I wonder if Rafalca will be there too.
I am sure we won’t hear from the women again during this convention.
Somebody (here perhaps) posted a pic of those pro-Ann Romney signs laying in a stack ready to be handed out for this moment.
Seriously, Nikki Haley, Obama is “destabilizing” the military?
SRSLY?
Code for DADT bad.
The repeal of DADT was by an Act of Congress. President Obama just signed it into law.
WHITENESS UNITES US, ANN!!!!!
Her heart? That tiny icy thing?
Uh oh, post into spam bin
Love? Gawd.
She’s speaking too fast.
How is Ann going to connect ‘moms’ with what a nice guy Mitt is?
We should love him because his dick gave her kids?
She’s doing “folksy” this evening.
Phony…phony…phony. She has that grating clenched “sss”…ugh.
Ann: Mitt is hung like Rafalca.
Nooooo. You didn’t go there bdmm.
Brain bleach please!
The MSM will LAP THIS UP.
Ann Romney just came out as a lesbian, I think. “I love you, women!”
Heh.
Annie pandering to women. Yawn. “All women would like to be me.”
Again, she’s not going to be changing any minds with this speech. She’s just pandering.
Here we go with “life is tough.”
Yeah, she can relate. 🙄
Sarah Palin is preparing to poke needles into her Ann Romney doll.
She’ll let the voodoo doctor do it….
The basement apartment. Awwwww….
They had to sell stock to supplement their lives…
ahhh, I’m feeling the love, Ann — (not)
She’s phony.
Ann: Our best days were when we were poor!
*THUD*
Ann just revealed the chip on her shoulder. She’s had everything, but still feels like she’s picked on.
I’ll say this, Ann Romney would make a much better First Lady than Marcus Bachmann.
That’s true.
Mitt just wants to BE president; he doesn’t actually want to DO the job.
I think Ann just wants to be Michelle Obama.
Aw fuck – Marie Anntoinette Rmoney is here – time for a dump….
Teleprompter City!
“He built it himself.” hackneyed.
Money, money, money…
money.
“We have a REAL marriage.” Oh Jesus Christo…
What hoppened to the Love theme?
The people of China and India thank Mitt for the opportunity to feed their families for pennies a day.
He built it!
Don’t hate me because we’re
Beautifulsuccessful…Here’s a decent critique of the Vulture/Voucher energy plan
Thanks for that, TtT.
Where’s you taxes Mitt?
That woman lives on the spoils of bankrupted companies and stolen pensions.
Give and it shall be given to you….
Steal jobs and pensions from others and it will be given to you too.
And even if he does fail, it won’t affect my life at all, says Ann.
So she’s admitting that he is a Robot?
That finger pointing really annoys me.
“You can trust Mitt” (to flip flop on any stand at any time)
“You can trust Mitt.”
That is fucking weak.
Bwahahahahaha…”you can trust Mitt.” Where’s your taxes Mitt?
I wonder how much Ann’s dress cost?
Oh crap, my drinking game – I saw them focus on a black woman in rapture was worth a shot of very rare liquor …… does condi Rice count as black – I need an adjudicaition!
Worth a swig of rare liquor! Even very rare!
OMG, Christie’s kids are fat clones of him.
The Christy float has arrived.
I wonder if he’ll be talking about Mitt Romney…?
No. I’ll give that dollar back if he does.
Much Bruce Springstein love.
I don’t think the Boss is a Republican or espouses Fat Boy’s ‘values’
No he doesn’t. But it doesn’t stop CC from his hero worship.
How did he miss out on being loved or respected? Oh yeah, his big mouth.
Jeebus Christy this isn’t 2016. Already pandering for the job.
I think he’s contradicting Ann’s speech. She won’t be happy about that.
Did y’all ever notice that wealthy women can look young and beautiful as they age unless you look closely at their face. It always just looks old and the false facade denies them the beauty that comes from aging honestly. With Ann, I suspect her soul is full of rot as well.
Botox and expensive plastic surgeons. Doesn’t every woman have that?
Christy takes the limelight. Mitt steams.
I can’t wait to read the fact-checking on this speech. If it exists.
Christie: Mitt who?
He’s making me sick.
I’m glad I’m not watching, sounds like Mitt might prefer not to watch either.
He doesn’t look thrilled.
GOP Irony: After a night of categorical lies, Christie tells us to face the truth.
Heh.
We know who caused our fiscal problems, asshole.
Christy – who pays for you medical insurance?
Project much you effen dolt?
I do. I’m willing to kick in a bit extra to help pay for someone who cannot, just as the taxpayers of NJ do for you Chris. You’re uninsurable without a group plan, unless you qualify as a group all by yourself.
That is the truth.
“Our seniors are not selfish.”
But people like Christy are.
WTF? Fiscal cliff…Democrats???
Demand the best teachers! But don’t pay them shit.
So our seniors aren’t selfish, but teachers are.
I get it.
Damn these folks who want a living wage!
“We believe in teachers” …. which is why you want to eliminate the Dept of Education.
Leadership does matter, that’s why I’m voting for Barack Hussein Obama.
Zooey. I owe you that dollar.
Finally, he remembers Mitt is in the room…
That background is making me more nauseous than the speeches.
I think it’s the view from inside a uterus…with a black light or something.
That audience must be at least 99% white.
99 44/100% white.
When are the rich going to sacrifice a little?
Silly 99%er.
They sacrifice constantly. They’re the sacred job creators. Imagine the burden of having to decide if you’ve suckled at the public teat long enough to be able to reluctantly squeeze out one more job.
But…. I built it!
Don’t worry about the history books, Chris. They’ll be printed in Texas and everything will be just peachy.
Did he just say he wants to take us back to the 2nd century?
I thought we started the third American century in 1976.
That’s old history. They’re rewriting history.
Is he going to dance?
Is he going for a write-in campaign? Good thing for Mitt, his speech isn’t following this lying blowhard.
Yawn
That was a load of red meat for the rabid dogs.
Rachel totally pans the speech for what it was — Chris Christy accepting the 2016 nomination.
Tweety gushes…
The repiggies “made their case for the bench.” Rachel.
“Tonight, our duty is to tell the American people the truth. Our problems are big and the solutions will not be painless. We all must share in the sacrifice. Any leader that tells us differently is simply not telling the truth.”
So Christie is presumably for Obama.
Gwen pointed out Christy didn’t mention Mitts name until about 20 minutes into the speech.
David Brooks (spit) of course was very impressed with the rah rah, fire ’em up speech.
That was Rachel’s point as well.
How sad for transvaginal GuvBob. I doubt anyone even noticed he spoke tonight.
Who?
I don’t think Ann Romney has ‘warmed up’ Mitt for quite a while.
House…House…House
That was funny.
And more than likely verrrrrry true!
Eeeww..
ZING!!!!!!!
Rev Al just shredded Christy.
Tweety compares Christy to Churchill.
Good god.
Christy is a sophomoric dilettante.
Big mouth – check
Fat bastard – check
He’s off to a good start.
That’s an apt comparison if one discounts the command of the english language, the appeal to common sacrifice, and the recognition that the greatness of a nation bubbles up from the ground and is manifest in the courage and common purpose of a group for whom no man is an island.
Yeah, but beside all that…
Actually, my Uncle Tom met Winston Churchill during the war. My Uncle Tom wasn’t a friend of his, but he said Winston Churchill was a rude, drunk, fat, dickhead …. you sir are …. oh wait a minute
Heh!
If there is any uniform theme to these speeches, it is ‘see what great people we all are, what great ideas we have, and don’t you want to be one of us?’
And such a theme is easily discredited. John Fugelsang can do it in five minutes, quoting the Bible.
Chris Hayes points out that the repiggies are longing for the old days of social mobility.
Yeah, because repiggies fucking destroyed it.
Tom Brokaw thinks Ann gave a strong performance.
Tom retire. Your brain is addled by being in the beltway far to long. Gregory you’re…stfu
Indeed.
Robert Gibbs braved the crowd. Wow.
For all the R’s sound and fury signifying nothing, there are still folks who have to get up in the morning and contribute to the economy by selling pig pieces. Goodnight friends, goodnight air, goodnight R wingnuts everywhere.
Goodnight, Outstanding!
Andrea Mitchell is letting Santorum lie about the welfare issue. Oh, she just barely challenged him. Oh dear.
Andrea. Why didn’t you ask Frothy why Mitt asked for the exemption? Gawd these “journalist” drive me crazy.
She’s got commercials running on MNBC about when she started out, “they” didn’t think a woman could be a reporter.
“They” were right in her case.
I know the context, and I don’t make $400,000+.yr. Christo what has happened Tom?
I turned it off. Tom Brokaw said that?
false equivalences
Ah.
Frothy, you lying pig, go F’ yourself.
Hear hear!!
Like everyone else here, I have a strong aversion to be lied to. Fuck tweety, and all the others. I’m out. Thanks for being you, it helps me sleep better. Good night all.
Sleep well, nwoldguy.
Another long day of not getting enough done. Goodnight, all.
Pleasant dreams if dreams there be – goodnight, Zooey