Would you all still love me if I just wrote it, already? I mean, come on, the two of them playing strip poker in some shithole in Southeast Asia, drunk on the cheap shit and thinking about their respective assignments? They’re just too grown-up and sad and Charlie loves her too much for that to have been anything but the way it happened. Tilly never tried to get into the kitchen. Or the living room. Or out of the office. Or out of the cage. If we wanted her in another room, we had to pick her up and take her there. Open doors held absolutely no interest for her. She was happy right where she was. Was. I still can’t believe … was. Yesterday Tilly was breathing really hard, like she’d run a marathon, and I could feel her little heart pounding right through her rib cage. We rushed her to the vet. Having ferrets is living in terror of illness, because … Continue reading Run, Tilly, We Told Her. You See That Door, You Run.
Well, so much for taking this week off – let’s dive in before I change my mind.
Akin Says He Has No Plans to Quit Missouri Senate Race
ABC News ^
| August 20, 2012
| Chris Good
Posted on Monday, August 20, 2012 2:24:53 PM byBlackyce
Akin said he has no plans to withdraw.
“I don’t know that I’m
the only person in public office who’s suffered from foot-in-mouth
disease here, and this was a very, very serious error. On the other
hand, there are so many good people in Missouri who nominated me, and
they understood my heart,” Akin said.
…Akin said no Republicans have called him and asked him to withdraw from the race.
“No
one has called me and said, ‘Todd, I think you should drop out,'” Akin
said. “No one has said that. But I gather people are saying that in the
media, but they didn’t specifically call me and tell me that.”****************
Anybody know his number?
To: BlackyceFunny, Drudge currently has a story up that he just announced he’s dropping out? Which story is more recent?
To: BlackyceWhat he meant was that fewer than one-tenth of one percent of abortions are the result of rape, but that’s not what he said.
This is exactly why Claire McCaskill ran “anti-Akin” ads in the
Republican primary dog-whistling Democrats to cross over and vote for
him.Unfortunately for Claire he blew up sooner and more thoroughly than she had planned.
Akin will be gone and Brunner will be in his place by next weekend.
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posted on Monday, August 20, 2012 2:29:12 PM
byE. Pluribus Unum
(Government is the religion of the sociopath.)
To: BlackyceHe hasn’t got a snowball’s chance in hell of winning and he could
very well lose Missouri for Romney.Get him the hell out of there!!!!!!6
posted on Monday, August 20, 2012 2:29:31 PM
byGay State Conservative
(The Word Is Out,Harry Reid’s Into Child Porn.Release All Your Photos,Harry!)
To: BlackyceDon’t go away mad Akin, just go away. Your political career is over and it was of your own doing. Now scram!
To: BlackyceAiken to be on Hannity after bottom of hour (3:30 EDT).
To: PhxTM06He is digging another hole on Hannity right now. Gads…he is stumbling.
To: penelopesireSoros is probably pouring millions into his campaign right now to keep the imbecile in the race.Soros has his minions donating to make it appear he has all this conservative support.
And FWIW, I just listened to him on Hannity. The guy is dumb as a
rock. “I am conservative. We need to get rid of Claire McCaskill. I am
conservative. We need to beat Claire McCaskill. Rinse repeat.
To: BlackyceI don’t give a damn that this guy said something politically
incorrect.No, he said something shit-stupid.If conservatives are not only willing to throw him under the
bus, but seem to take a certain amount of glee in doing it, then we are
already lost. Leftist thinking has won out.
Leftists never apologize,
never give in, and they never tear down their own people in power no
matter how many mistakes they make. That is why they are winning.
Meanwhile, every time some Republican says “macaca”, “conservatives” are
all too eager to tear him down and cede the win to the leftists.
Seems to me that there are quite a few conservatives, including
Freepers, with no heart at all. Resisting the tyranny of political
correctness is hard, and they are just looking for an excuse to enter
the warm embrace of submission. Oh, a Republican said something that the
media can misconstrue?Misconstrue??That’s never happened before! Let’s take this
opportunity to be every bit as petty and irrational as the lefties so
that we can look around at our leftist masters and say “See? I’m cool
too!”
Continue reading “Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati – Akin breakin heart edition”
LET ME SEE YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE! Where were you born? Me, Racine, Wisconsin. GO PACKERS! A. Continue reading Weekend Question Thread
Yesterday when I went to pick up Tilly to put her back in the cage before Mr. A and I left the house, I noticed she was breathing hard. Like she’d just run five miles hard, which isn’t normal. I felt her little heartbeat pattering pretty fast, called our vet, and was told to bring her in right away. By the end of the long, terrifying day we’d ruled out pretty much everything but some kind of heart condition, possibly one that had always been there and for whatever reason chose to manifest now. The vet is trying meds to … Continue reading Tilly vs. The Sick
Would you all still love me if I just wrote it, already? I mean, come on, the two of them playing strip poker in some shithole in Southeast Asia, drunk on the cheap shit and thinking about their respective assignments? They’re just too grown-up and sad and Charlie loves her too much for that to have been anything but the way it happened. Listen to this, because just reading the transcript of the interview Kai Ryssdal conducts with Michael Grunwald, you really don’t get a sense of just how disconcerted Ryssdal is by the idea that Republicans might be totally wrong about the stimulus being a horrible socialism death bill. After all, Grunwald’s saying things like this: Grunwald:It was called the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act. Short-term recovery was a very important part of it — there was state aid for that, tax cuts, and a lot of aid to victims of the Great Recession. But there was also this long-term reinvestment part … Continue reading APM: Desperate For Things To Suck
And America in Iceland! And of COURSE there’s an actual Fuck Yeah, Iceland Tumblr. A. Continue reading Fuck Yeah, Iceland
Listen. This isn’t a “joke,” USA Today: Mitt Romney made a birth certificate joke today, prompting President Obama’s campaign to accuse him of lining up with the so-called “birther” movement. During an appearance in his native Michigan today, Romney said: “No one has ever asked to see my birth certificate — they know that this was the place we were born and raised.” That isn’t a joke. It’s a nasty crack designed to appeal to racist freakjobs, and nothing about it is funny. While I appreciate the reporting of this as though it’s important — it is — the word … Continue reading Romney and the Birthers: Jokes are Funny
Neil Armstrong reflected the best of who we were, are and should be. He was a modest hero who didn’t trash talk, brag or spike the proverbial moon rock.He died yesterday at the age of 82 but he will always have the right stuff. Continue reading Neil Armstrong, R.I.P.
For serious, what a combo: Rehberg’s proposed Labor, Health and Human Services funding bill for 2013 would eliminate the budget for the Report on Carcinogens (RoC) until the agency follows through with an additional follow up to its 2011 report. (Rehberg’s proposal contains a number of highly political cuts, including all funding for President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, Planned Parenthood, and family planning.) What exactly is the uniting rationale here? God wants you to have babies, okay, and also die of cancer from all the shit in the air these days? It’s all just bullying, pulling on somebody’s hair … Continue reading Get Sick, Have a Million Babies, Die Without Health Insurance
Hey kids, remember when there were moderate Republicans? The approach of Tropical Whatever Issac led me to, uh, track down an image of an I Like Ike button. I found something infinitely more amusing: Continue reading I don’t like this Ike
Florida peeps. A. Continue reading Stay Safe
Neil Armstrong reflected the best of who we were, are and should be. He was a modest hero who didn’t trash talk, brag or spike the proverbial moon rock.He died yesterday at the age of 82 but he will always have the right stuff. Continue reading Neil Armstrong, R.I.P.
For serious, what a combo: Rehberg’s proposed Labor, Health and Human Services funding bill for 2013 would eliminate the budget for the Report on Carcinogens (RoC) until the agency follows through with an additional follow up to its 2011 report. (Rehberg’s proposal contains a number of highly political cuts, including all funding for President Barack Obama’s Affordable Care Act, Planned Parenthood, and family planning.) What exactly is the uniting rationale here? God wants you to have babies, okay, and also die of cancer from all the shit in the air these days? It’s all just bullying, pulling on somebody’s hair … Continue reading Get Sick, Have a Million Babies, Die Without Health Insurance
Here’s an hour of awesomeness featuring Todd Rundgren and Utopia live in Detroit in 1981: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Utopia Live
Here’s an hour of awesomeness featuring Todd Rundgren and Utopia live in Detroit in 1981: Continue reading Sunday Morning Video: Utopia Live
I am NOT watching the RNC without y’all. So here’s the schedule of the vans, beginning at 7:30 EST: Monday, August 27, 2012 – PRIMETIME LINE UP • Governor Nikki Haley (SC)• Governor Mike Huckabee• Governor Jeb Bush Tuesday, August 28, 2012 – PRIMETIME LINE UP • Mrs. Ann Romney• Mrs. Luce Vela Fortuno, First Lady of Puerto Rico• Governor Chris Christie (NJ) Wednesday, August 29, 2012 – PRIMETIME LINE UP • Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice• Governor Susana Martinez (NM)• Vice presidential nominee Rep. Paul Ryan Thursday, August 30, 2012 – PRIMETIME LINE UP • U.S. Senator Marco … Continue reading Convention Crack Vans
It was hot and crowded and the woman in front of me kept pushing us away from her by grinding her very wide ass into my groin. My wife suggested that the woman grab a pole and make some money while we all were waiting. It was an odd bit of serendipity that landed The Missus and I and me in Paris that July. We had gotten married the previous September, but with both of us working and me still having a dissertation to write, we postponed our honeymoon. To make up for time lost, we joined a tour group … Continue reading Strip Tease
LET ME SEE YOUR BIRTH CERTIFICATE! Where were you born? Me, Racine, Wisconsin. GO PACKERS! A. Continue reading Weekend Question Thread
Florida peeps. A. Continue reading Stay Safe
Slate’s Dave Weigel recently wrote a swell series on the rise, fall and continuing influence of progressive rock, Prog Spring. Even though they’re more sui generis than a pure prog band, Weigel’s piece, got me reaching for my Tull CDs. Ian Anderson is also a fellow August baby so here they are on German teevee at the end of the last century: Continue reading Thursday Night Music: Spiral
President Obama, on Paul Ryan’s Medicare “plan:” “My plan reduces the cost of Medicare by cracking down on fraud and waste and subsidies to insurance companies,” Obama said. “Their plan makes seniors pay more so they can give another tax cut to millionaires and billionaires.” Obama directed his attacks at Ryan’s original Medicare plan, not the more vague plan now espoused by the Romney-Ryan ticket that would keep some traditional Medicare options. Ryan’s plan would eliminate Medicare’s current structure in favor of vouchers for private insurance. “Because the voucher would not keep up with costs, the plan offered by Gov. … Continue reading Offer Only Good For Today! 10 Percent Off! Mention This Post!
How dare you use the killing of Bin Laden to point out that Bin Laden was killed?DON’T YOU KNOW IT MAKES OBAMA LOOK GOOD?!11! In their first interviews about the secrecy-shrouded project, Bigelow and screenwriter Mark Boal — who each claimed Oscars for 2009’s Iraq-war drama The Hurt Locker — insist their film is a study of the unsung heroes who worked behind the scenes to take down bin Laden, not a celebration of Pres. Barack Obama’s decision to authorize the strike that killed him, in May 2011. ‘There’s no political agenda in the film. Full stop. Period,’ says Boal, … Continue reading Bin Laden’s Death Has a Pro-Obama Bias
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Skeery, skeery gay: “That bullying thing is the biggest lark out there…There are sexually confused children who could be pushed into a lifestyle that I don’t think is appropriate with them and it’s not for the norm for society, and they don’t know how they can get back from that. I think a lotof timesthese young teens and young children, they find it very hard on themselves and unfortunately some of them commit suicide.” You know, it’s funny to remember this now, because I used to consider the environment I grew up in to be conservative, but my Catholic school … Continue reading Don’t Talk About the Gay
Tilly fell asleep mid-escape. Silly fluff. A. Continue reading Friday Ferretblogging
General horror aside, it really is all kinds of hilarious watching Republicans, for once, have to try to throw somebody over the side. I mean, they don’t even really know HOW. Usually it’s a Democrat saying something like, “possibly Republicans are assholes, sometimes” and then ensues two weeks of screaming from Joe Lieberman and Harold Ford about irresponsibility and The Tone and then the unfortunate fuck quits and we all talk wistfully about what it would be like to have a grown-up political party. Meanwhile Republicans can say things like “we should cave in the entire earth and shove all … Continue reading Couldn’t Be Happening to a Nicer Douchemook
It was hot and crowded and the woman in front of me kept pushing us away from her by grinding her very wide ass into my groin. My wife suggested that the woman grab a pole and make some money while we all were waiting. It was an odd bit of serendipity that landed The Missusand I and me in Paris that July. We had gotten married the previous September, but with both of us working and me still having a dissertation to write, we postponed our honeymoon. To make up for time lost, we joined a tour group that … Continue reading Strip Tease
Tilly fell asleep mid-escape. Silly fluff. A. Continue reading Friday Ferretblogging