Month: April 2012

Current Affairs, Diary, Doc4 Comments

The Job

“Stop looking at me,” The Missus mockingly complained. “I can’t help it.” We were at a local café eating lunch Thursday and I was soaking in the moment. Every forkful of salad she put into her mouth was preceded and followed by an irrepressible grin. The smile ran from ear to ear and revealed that my wife has far more teeth than I ever knew could fit into a human mouth. The reason she was, to use her words, “grinning like an idiot” was because today she starts a new job. It’s closer to home. It’s more responsibility. It involves … Continue reading The Job

Adrastos, Diary1 Comment

Friday Guest Catblogging: Jane on a box

Peter Adrastos Athas

As our regular readers may recall, Dr. A adores tortoise shell cats aka tortis. This is one of her favorites: Jane whose feeders are our good friends Alexis and George. Jane is 16 years old and seemed to be fading out until she had a close encounter with an awesome vet.Follow this link to George aka Loki’s account of her return to fine fettle. Guess that makes Jane a fine fettled feline… Continue reading Friday Guest Catblogging: Jane on a box

Athenae, Economy, Hurricane Katrina & Federal Flood7 Comments

What We Can Afford

Allison Hantschel

We never question the price tag on this type of stuff, do we: The US Army Corps of Engineers plans to supervise construction of a five-story underground facility for an Israel Defense Forces complex, oddly named “Site 911,” at an Israeli Air Force base near Tel Aviv. Expected to take more than two years to build, at a cost of up to $100 million, the facility is to have classrooms on Level 1, an auditorium on Level 3, a laboratory, shock-resistant doors, protection from nonionizing radiation and very tight security. Clearances will be required for all construction workers, guards will … Continue reading What We Can Afford

Adrastos, Music, Political Crack, Stupid Republican Tricks9 Comments

Exquisitely Bored

Peter Adrastos Athas

Willard Mittbot Romney is bored. He and the Dressage Queen are living in one of the 4 home states that he lost, and, naturally, they picked the one that’s nice at this time of year: California. You know, it’s the house in La Jolla that’s going to have a car elevator but it doesn’t yet.Willard is bored, bored, bored: Four weeks after losing a presidential election he was convinced he would win, Romney’s rapid retreat into seclusion has been marked by repressed emotions, second-guessing and, perhaps for the first time in the overachiever’s adult life, sustained boredom, according to interviews … Continue reading Exquisitely Bored

Athenae, Do Something4 Comments

Let’s Do This: Give a Hurricane Sandy-Battered School a Happy Holiday

Allison Hantschel

So I’m in my kitchen on Sunday making what feels like the thousandth batch of Christmas cookies I’ve made so far this year, and turning up the local Christmas music station to try to stave off the holiday blues, yelling along DO YOU HEAR WHAT I HEAR and generally annoying the hell out of the longest-suffering husband on the planet, and this sticks in my throat: Said the king to the people everywhereListen to what I sayPray for peace people everywhere Because it’s not enough to pray for peace, where prayer means mouthing words in pews. It’s not enough to … Continue reading Let’s Do This: Give a Hurricane Sandy-Battered School a Happy Holiday

Adrastos, Food and Drink, Science4 Comments

I’ll drink to that

Peter Adrastos Athas

A new study finds that drinking beer makes men smarter: Beer makes men smarter. So say researchers at the University of Illinois in Chicago. They found that men with a couple beers under their belts were actually better at solving brain-teasers than their sober counterparts. To reach that surprising conclusion, the researchers devised a bar game in which 40 men were given three words and told to come up with a fourth that fits the pattern. For example, the word “cheese” could fit with words like “blue” or “cottage” or “Swiss.” Half the players were given two pints. The other … Continue reading I’ll drink to that

Michael F1 Comment

Like Getting a Lecture on Dining Etiquette From Mr. Creosote

FromAlbum4 Chris Christie knows what ails us: And now New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie (R) is warning against a nation filled with “a bunch of people sittin’ on a couch waiting for their next government check.”… “I think it’s really simple: it’s because government’s now telling them ‘stop dreaming, stop striving, we’ll take care of you.’ We’re turning into a paternalistic entitlement society.” That would bethis Chris Christie, who’s made living large on the government’s dime a way of life. New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who has elevated his national political profile as a conservative cost-cutter since taking the state’s … Continue reading Like Getting a Lecture on Dining Etiquette From Mr. Creosote

Stupid Republican Tricks, Tommy T9 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – rancid remainders edition

tommyfd

Good morning, gentle people – time to finish gathering up the simmering schadenfreude-laden drums of Freeper tears post-election, so let’s get started!

First up –STOP FUCKING PANICKING!!!!!!!!!!

.


AllIsWell

DON’T POST ANY DAMNED PANIC POSTS

self
| November 07, 2012
| swampsniper

Posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 8:22:47 PM by SWAMPSNIPER

We’ve got a long night ahead of us.

I’m personally not in the mood for woe is me whining.

I’m pleased to see that some of these negative posts have been pulled

We are still in the fight!

BUAIDH NO BAS!

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posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 8:22:48 PM
by SWAMPSNIPER
FusRohDuh

To: SWAMPSNIPER

You mean like this one

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posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 8:28:29 PM
by al baby
(Hi Mom)

Heh.

To: SWAMPSNIPER

I will panic some about the Senate races:

To Richard Mourdock, Todd Akin and the rest of my fellow conservatives:

Repeat after me:

The next time you are asked about rape stow the religious answers away and give the liberal answer.

ThatShipHasSailed

And what the fuck is “the liberal answer”?? “Rape is bad, mmmkay?”

WE WILL NOT HOLD IT AGAINST YOU.

We know where you really stand!

Unfortunately for the “forcible rape” gang, so do women.

Mourdock had no reason to lose an election in a heavy Romney victory
state. This is an unforced error. If Akin blows it too then will WE
PLEASE NOT MAKE THE SAME MISTAKE NEXT TIME???

Stop trying to thread the needle on rape.

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posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 8:55:44 PM
by LRoggy
(Peter’s Son’s Business)

FreudOnVacation
.

To: cripplecreek
It doesn’t look like we’ll be losing anything in the senate

Brown lost to warren, can the panic start to ensue yet?

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posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 9:00:34 PM
by JSteff
(((((It was ALL about SCOTUS. Most forget about that and HAVE DOOMED us for a generation or more.)))))

To: JSteff
Brown lost to warren, can the panic start to ensue yet?

Looks like both Akin and Mourdock lost their once all but guranteed Senate seats as well.

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posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 9:13:15 PM
by Drew68
(I WILL vote to defeat Barack Hussein Obama!)

To: SWAMPSNIPER

It’s the demographics folks and we can’t reverse the trend. The GOP is finished as a national party.

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posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 9:42:34 PM
by 38special
(I’ve been banned from commenting on Bill O’Reilly’s Facebook feed…seriously)

To: cripplecreek

Can someone explain why FL is 50-50. Polls gave Romney a 5-point lead!
CBS has got OH leaning to Obama. Hope this isn’t true.
CNN is jubilant about returns in CO. I’m waiting to hear what Rove says.

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posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 9:58:50 PM
by Steelfish
(ui)

Rove-sit-n-spin
And, of course:

To: SWAMPSNIPER

Faux News just called Ohio for Bammy.Do I have your damn permission to panic now?

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posted on Tuesday, November 06, 2012 10:21:34 PM
by The Sons of Liberty
(Win One For The Gipper! Win One for AMERICA! Nov 6, 2012)

Gee- wasn’t that fun?
More Old Gold after the “Are you clicking on ME?“

Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – rancid remainders edition”

Adrastos, Political Crack, So Called Liberal Media, Stupid Republican Tricks3 Comments

The Christie Conspiracy?

Peter Adrastos Athas

There is no such thing but the wingnuts are good at dreaming them up, and since I just visited the alternate reality that is Politico, I feel vaguely conspiratorial. Btw, Politico is hyping a poll that claimed that Mittbot could win Minnesota. Really? A state that the Dems have carried in 13 of the last 14 Presidential elections? Sheesh. Talk about an implausible feint: Pennsylvania, at least, elected a buncha Goopers in 2010 but the Gopher State elected a Democrat Governor during that teadwad landslide election. Yumpin’ yiminy, they must think we’re stupider than the love child of Palin and … Continue reading The Christie Conspiracy?

Athenae, Stupid Republican Tricks2 Comments

If You’re Losing Anyway, Take Everyone Out With You

Allison Hantschel

Or as the kids call it these days, the Republican party. I am starting to love Mitt Romney a little bit: The Romney camp is also running a new radio ad in Florida that ties Obama to Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. The pettiness and irrelevance of attacks like these risk generating more media questions about whether Romney has run out of arguments and believes he’s losing the race. Meanwhile, the Ohio press continues to pound Romney for the centerpiece of this Kamikaze strategy: His false claims about the auto-bailout and Jeep supposedly moving American jobs to China. Dems are … Continue reading If You’re Losing Anyway, Take Everyone Out With You

Athenae, So Called Liberal Media7 Comments

A List of Things That Cannot Get Covered by the Washington Post

James O’Keefe? Still not on it. Toward the end of the post, the author admits O’Keefe’s latest stunt is likely bullshit: Project Veritas is promising more footage from D.C. polling places for its “Voter Fraud in America” series. However, there’s a hint O’Keefe might be overselling his goods: In one portion of the footage, the man was repeatedly told by a poll worker to fill out a “special ballot” — also known as a provisional ballot — which are used in any case in D.C. where there is doubt about a voter’s eligibility to cast a ballot. THEN WHY THE … Continue reading A List of Things That Cannot Get Covered by the Washington Post

Adrastos, Political Crack4 Comments

Instant analysis

Peter Adrastos Athas

A few comments: The Crack Van was awesome; especially JeffCo who was so on fire that he nearly scorched the shag rug. Jim Lehrer and the format were horrible. Dr. A has timed some local forums and she’s volunteered to do help out with the next one. She’d have shut the Mittbot down pronto. Obama was off his game but he’s never been the world’s best debater. He was a bit too low energy but Mitt came off as rude, which may help solidify his base but the 49 undecided voters in the country expect a challenger to be respectful … Continue reading Instant analysis

Athenae, Political Crack7 Comments

2012 First Presidential Debate Crack Van

Allison Hantschel

Posts in the van belong to their posters, not to First Draft or any of its affiliates, which are entirely imaginary and also run by pirates. No violence. Strap in securely. Update: Van closed. Thanks to the 50-some people who showed up tonight to witness Jim Lehrer get stomped like a pimp at a biker rally by Mitt Romney all night long. I have never seen someone lose control of an interview (and basically this was set up to be a joint interview, not a debate) so fast. Ten minutes in Romney was just talking over him, and Lehrer was … Continue reading 2012 First Presidential Debate Crack Van

Current Affairs, Science15 Comments

White Guilt

John Derbyshire is racist, but I’m not. This isn’t just me talking, it’sScience! I tookthis survey, called the Implicit Association Test, whichDerbyshire told Gawker’s Maureen O’Connor he had taken to determine if he’s really racist. He calls it “the best quantifier we have to date” on peoples’ attitudes toward race, because it flashes pictures of black people and pictures of white people, and then words that are positive and negative, all in rapid succession. You are supposed to push a particular button on your keyboard as quickly as possible in response to the images. It’s supposed to test your reflexive … Continue reading White Guilt

Adrastos, Art, Diary, Pulp Fiction1 Comment

Pulp Fiction Thursday: Confidential Magazine Detour

Peter Adrastos Athas

There are people who think that in the good old days, journalism was responsible and gossip rags were rare. Are they kidding themselves? Here’s a semi-salacious Confidential Magazine cover from the 1950’s. It was actually a pretty accurate publication as scandal sheets go. I particularly like the Orson Welles blurb: Continue reading Pulp Fiction Thursday: Confidential Magazine Detour

Adrastos, Television3 Comments

Mad Men Thread: Catching Up

Peter Adrastos Athas

I missed last week. Woe is me bop. I was the main worker bee at the new shop and we didn’t have internet access until Friday. So here are a few Betty related comments fromTea Leaves: I thought the way they handled January Jones’ real life pregnancy was brilliant. Instead of making Betty preggers they had the deeply shallow and fanatically narcissistic Mrs. Francis deal with a weight gain. It turned out to be a thyroid problem so Betts turned to Don when she thought it was something worse. Of course, in classic Betty Francis fashion, she blew Don off … Continue reading Mad Men Thread: Catching Up

Adrastos, Film, Music5 Comments

Putting the diss in dystopia

Peter Adrastos Athas

I sawHunger Gamesand liked it but could not resist the post title because I never met a pun I didn’t like. Btw, there’s no truth to the rumor that we FD bloggers are required by the QueenDork Bee to view this flick, which is *not* from hunger… My favorite thing, however, aboutHunger Games are the glam outfits of the city slicker oppressors of the squirrel shootin’ proles. I kept waiting for a circa 1973 Mott The Hoople or Bowie concert to break out. Stanley Tucci’s wig (as seen above) is awesome and the costumes also resembled Frenchman Street on Mardi … Continue reading Putting the diss in dystopia

Stupid Republican Tricks, Tommy T9 Comments

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – “Be of good chair” edition

tommyfd

Morning, everybody, and happy славный день прав работников, comrades!

Let’s all suit up and get the inevitable over with. One of the drawbacks of having a Monday morning posting slot is when something entertianing happens in the middle of the week. By the time my post hits, the entertaining event has been hammered, masticated, ridiculed, and generally done-to-death by every wag with a blog, talk show, or late-night snark fest (hence last week’s bonus Obsession).

This week, everybody and his/her dog has been Eastwooding up a storm, and even some character called David Atkins over at some blog called Digby has gotten in on the freak show that is Freeperville.

Well, nobody nutpicks like your master nutpicker, so if you’ve not hit Peak Eastwood yet, follow me into the iso chamber for the Clint Eastwood Appreciation Thread!

Clint Eastwood Addresses The 2012 GOP Convention (VIDEO)

RealClearPolitics ^

| August 30, 2012
| RealClearPolitics

Posted on Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:27:25 PM by i88schwartz

Actor and director Clint Eastwood addresses the 2012 Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida.

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posted on Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:27:36 PM
by i88schwartz
At first, of course, the Freeperati were all moist in the panties, superimposing memories about the salad days of Dirty Chairry over the spectacle that had Ryan squirming in his chair like a home-schooler at a sex-ed class, and Romney giggling in hysteria backstage:

To: i88schwartz

Damn that was a great speech. This guy is ALL CLASS as are most conservatives.

2
posted on Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:29:40 PM
by New Perspective
(Proud father of a 8 yr old son with Down Syndrome and fighting to keep him off Obama’s death panels.)

To: New Perspective

Still, anyone know if he’s given up being pro-abortion?

3
posted on Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:34:13 PM
by muawiyah

Party poop.

To: i88schwartz

Yep, classy guy and that stchick (sp?) with an empty chair talking
with Dear Reader was brilliant, funny and made fun of the ijit,
O’Bummer.

Almost fell out of my chair when he leaned over and said: (Paraphrasing) “What? Tell Romney What?” “He can’t do to himself.”

Auto-fellatio?

A must see!

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posted on Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:36:30 PM
by neveralib

To: i88schwartz

Ya gotta ask yourself one question. Are you better off today after four years of Zero, or do you think its time for a change?

Well DO ya punk?

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posted on Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:39:40 PM
by Emperor Palpatine
(I need a good stiff drink. How ’bout you?)

See what I mean? For these bozos, it’s always Dirty Harry, and President Obama has just “gots to know”.

To: Dr. Scarpetta
Ditto! I thought Clint was great. You know those wussbags at MSDNC wouldn’t dare criticize him to his face.

And FWIW, I think Mitt is giving an excellent speech…

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posted on Thursday, August 30, 2012 10:01:50 PM
by TheBigB
(Chris Matthews would scream racism at a bowl of Cheerios.)

…and so on.
Now this is what that there-is-no-Atkins guy glossed over with “A few freepers were nervous”:

To: i88schwartz

Clint was a mistake.

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posted on Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:48:20 PM
by onona
(Thank you fellow Freepers, just because I can.)

To: i88schwartz

I can see tomorrows headlines now:

“Senile, stuttering, racist old white man talks to empty chair.”

And it’s already starting. The Madcow just said his speech were the incoherent ramblings of someone with alzheimers.

Love Eastwood, but having him speak was a mistake. Sure, he got some
laughs, but the media will have a field day with his performance. He
will be ridiculed to no end by the likes of Maher, Letterman, Conan,
and, of course, the media.

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posted on Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:49:56 PM
by chessplayer

To: i88schwartz

Ol’ Rowdy hasn’t aged well.

28
posted on Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:51:27 PM
by fwdude
( You cannot compromise with that which you must defeat.)
To: Lib-Lickers 2
Really ~ have you read up on his positions on the critical Socon issues?

Bringing him in is a slap in face.

Do you people have any intention of winning or is this just to give it all away to your friend Obama?

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posted on Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:52:47 PM
by muawiyah
To: i88schwartz

That was rather embarrassing. Clint *was* a good actor but his
politics have always been a bit squishy and he just seemed to be taking
up valuable speaking time. Was anyone really moved by this rambling
hem-haw of a alzheimer moment?

I’d bet Sarah Palin would have energized the crowd twice as well and got off more zingers.

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posted on Thursday, August 30, 2012 10:00:34 PM
by OrangeHoof
(Our economy won’t heal until one particular black man is unemployed.)
To: Sarah Barracuda
“…the empty chair representing Obama was brilliant.”

I’m pretty sure it was a deliberate tip of the hat to Jimmy Stewart’s Harvey.

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posted on Thursday, August 30, 2012 10:30:58 PM
by Joe 6-pack
(Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
Who can forget the wonderful moment when Harvey told Jimmy Stewart to go fuck himself?

To: OrangeHoof
Was anyone really moved by this rambling hem-haw of a alzheimer moment?

No, I’m not star-struck over Eastwood as some on this thread seem to be, and I thought his rambling talk was a snoozer.

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posted on Thursday, August 30, 2012 10:35:18 PM
by Fiji Hill
(Deo Vindice!)

And this is just from the first two pages.
I guess Mr. Spoon-me-no-Atkins didn’t see those posts.
Nyah!
One more before the jump:

To: stylecouncilor

I was impressed.We don’t need a lawyer in the White House

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posted on Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:40:06 PM
by scooby321
(AMS)

Dumbass
.
To: scooby321

You do know that Romney is a Havard Law grad, don’t you?

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posted on Thursday, August 30, 2012 9:57:11 PM
by stormer
This, of course, provokes (I swear to God) an argument over lawyers not really being lawyers just because they graduated and joined the Bar.
All that and more after the click-through!

Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – “Be of good chair” edition”

Athenae, Immoral Values11 Comments

Gateway Sexual Activity on Your Wedding Night

Jude sends me this stuffjust to make my blood boil: The bill is a response to recent controversies over sex-ed lessons in some Tennessee school districts that mentioned alternatives to sexual intercourse, according to The Tennessean. A 2009 Youth Risk Behavior study found that 61 percent of Memphis City high schooland 27 percent of middle school students have had sex — higher than the national average, according to WMC-TV. “‘Abstinence’ means from all of these activities, and we want to promote that, ” Republican state Sen. Jack Johnson, the bill’s sponsor, toldThe Tennessean. “What we do want to communicate to … Continue reading Gateway Sexual Activity on Your Wedding Night

Adrastos, Political Crack2 Comments

Let the expectations game begin

Peter Adrastos Athas

Team Obama is already lowballing debate expectations: Raising expectations for your opponent ahead of a debate is an ancient political art, and a supremely confident Obama team almost pulled it off on Tuesday. “Gov. Romney did about 30 debates last year, we expect him to do very well,” Obama campaign press secretary Ben LaBolt said at an ABC News/Yahoo forum here Tuesday. But his grin was so broad as he delivered the line that the audience broke out in laughter. I hope they’re not getting too cocky. I remember in 1988 that I expected Michael Dukakis to slaughter Poppy Bush … Continue reading Let the expectations game begin