You Got Served

We were sitting at the kitchen table on Day Two of the “My-Wife-Can’t-Breathe-Because-Humidity-And-Heat-Kill-Asthmatics” Festival, when she broke into a cussing, coughing fit. “That asshole! What a fucking dick!” It takes a lot for her to get to that level, as opposed to me, who you could easily see yelling, “Hurry the fuck up! It’s fucking cold out here!” during a eulogy. The asshole-dick in question was a coworker of hers at the local nursing/retirement home. The fellow CNA/RA had called in sick four minutes before his shift, sending the rest of the crew into understaffed crisis mode. Making this worse, … Continue reading You Got Served

Thursday Night Music: Losing My Religion

Family by choice is the best kind of family as far as I’m concerned. Last Friday, we were at our friends Cait and Dave’s place to celebrate the third birthday of their son Nate. Nate’s father Dave is also a Leo. His birthday was yesterday. Happy Birthday to ya. Cait is a zealous REM fan. I think she knows more about them than any of the members. She was playing some live REM stuff and one of the band’s biggest hits, Losing My Religion, became lodged in my consciousness where it remains. Btw, the song isn’t about Jesus, Buddha, Moses, or any … Continue reading Thursday Night Music: Losing My Religion

#BothSidesDoIt is finally, finally starting to get some pushback

How Eric Alterman has stayed sane all these years I don’t know:  Among the most eloquent chroniclers of this transformation of our political discourse have been the establishment political scientists Thomas Mann and Norman Ornstein. Each has been studying politics and offering pungent quotes to journalists for over 40 years, most often apportioning praise and blame to each party in relatively equal measure. But by April 2012, they had grown so frustrated with Republican recalcitrance that they jointly wrote an op-ed in The Washington Post titled “Let’s Just Say It: The Republicans Are the Problem.” In it, they described a … Continue reading #BothSidesDoIt is finally, finally starting to get some pushback

Kathleen Parker and the Infinite Sadness of Ideology

God, how gauche:  I suppose it’s time for a confession: I’ve never been a Republican and never said I was. I’ve been an independent since the early ’80s and was a Democrat before that. If you’re disappointed, well, sorry. It’s not I who has changed. Jesus H. Christ in a Kentucky Fried Chicken Bucket on a Private Plane. You don’t get to DO THIS, as Driftglass at the link explains so well. You don’t get to dine out on being one of these people — working for the Weekly Standard of all non-ideological, independent places — for years, make your money, … Continue reading Kathleen Parker and the Infinite Sadness of Ideology

Quote Of The Day: Jagoff Edition

Anyone who follows the NBA or watches Shark Tank knows that Mark Cuban is a dickish plutocrat. He also has a knack for getting under Donald Trump’s skin. Cuban is everything that Trump is not and claims to be: a real billionaire, a real self-made man with real hair. Cuban endorsed Hillary Clinton last weekend and spoke at a Clinton-Kaine rally in his hometown of Pittsburgh, PA: “Leadership is not yelling and screaming and intimidating,” Cuban told the crowd. “You know what we call a person like that in Pittsburgh? A jagoff.” The University of Pittsburgh, which studies local dialect, defines a … Continue reading Quote Of The Day: Jagoff Edition

Today on Tommy T’s Obsession with the Freeperati -reelin’ in the tears edition

Good morning, everybody!

Not much new to report at Freeperville re: the Dem convention – how many different ways can you write: “ZOMGPANTSUITSNOTENOUGHFLAGS!” ?

What I DO have is – Scarborough Unfaire!

Scarborough calls on GOP to cut ties with Trump

July 29, 2016 | Eddie Scarry

Posted on ‎7‎/‎29‎/‎2016‎ ‎7‎:‎44‎:‎15‎ ‎PM by kevcol

Scarborough said Friday on “Morning Joe” that Donald Trump has become too toxic for the GOP’s congressional candidates this year.

“The center cannot hold when you have the speaker of the House [Paul Ryan] calling the Republican nominee a racist but saying he’s still endorsing the nominee,” he said. “It is so bizarre on its face that you have people chuckling in the background.”

Scarborough referenced the often tense relationship Ryan has had with Trump on foreign and domestic policy issues as well as the tone of the celebrity businessman’s campaign.

1 posted on 7‎/‎29‎/‎2016‎ ‎7‎:‎44‎:‎16‎ ‎PM by kevcol
When you’ve lost Morning Schmoe…
And immediately, the “No True Scotsman” machine starts regurgitating:
To: kevcol

They need to cut ties with Ryan and Scarburrow..

2 posted on 7‎/‎29‎/‎2016‎ ‎7‎:‎46‎:‎31‎ ‎PM by freespirit2012

To: kevcol

 

He’s got to say what they tell him to say. Dead intern, you know.

4 posted on 7‎/‎29‎/‎2016‎ ‎7‎:‎47‎:‎10‎ ‎PM by OKSooner

I’m sorry – have I wandered onto the Great Orange Satan?
To: kevcol

Joe has marbles rolling around in his head. A common mental illness of the leftist liberal, who have(sic) abandoned all truth for a lie that will cause bloodshed everywhere.

5 posted on 7‎/‎29‎/‎2016‎ ‎7‎:‎47‎:‎31‎ ‎PM by kindred (Time for a third party for Christians and conservatives and overtaxed patriots.)

“Leftist…….LIBERAL”???
The Joe Scarborough who said : “This right wing, radical, reactionary tea party crew has meekly gone along with their statist party leaders far too often for my tastes. As a result, they added $1 trillion to the national debt their first year in power and got outmaneuvered by President Barack Obama at every turn.” ??
THAT “leftist liberal”???
Oy.
To: kevcol

 

What a turd Joe has turned out to be.

7 posted on 7‎/‎29‎/‎2016‎ ‎7‎:‎48‎:‎02‎ ‎PM by LongWayHome

Oh, don’t be so quick to judge him.
He was always a turd.
To: freespirit2012

Just like you cut ties with your wife for Mika

11 posted on 7‎/‎29‎/‎2016‎ ‎7‎:‎49‎:‎20‎ ‎PM by Kozy (new age haruspex)

Gee – maybe he should run for President?
TrumpCheating
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One Freeper slips up and admits that Joe is no “leftist liberal” :
To: kevcol

He’s very bizarre.

Six months ago he was the only guy anywhere, fairly covering Trump. Just about the only one, anywhere.

Now, he’s gone completely to the dark side. Sell-out.

16 posted on 7‎/‎29‎/‎2016‎ ‎7‎:‎51‎:‎22‎ ‎PM by cba123 ( Toi la nguoi My. Toi bay gio o Viet Nam.)

To: kevcol

What the f has happened to him?

44 posted on 7‎/‎29‎/‎2016‎ ‎8‎:‎16‎:‎44‎ ‎PM by BlueCat

Dunno – tired of being on the losing side?
To: kevcol

If people quit watching Scarborough then no one would care what he said. He only says this kind of crap to get attention

51 posted on 7‎/‎29‎/‎2016‎ ‎8‎:‎23‎:‎04‎ ‎PM by MichelleWSC3

Yeah.
Dontcha just hate people who say outrageous things just to get attention?
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TrumpNukesDontWork
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To: kevcol

It’s disgusting to think that a man who received a 95% rating from the American Conservative Union while in congress could be so polluted and corrupted by MSLSD and his leftist buddies that who he is today bears almost no resemblance to who he was.

66 posted on 7‎/‎29‎/‎2016‎ ‎8‎:‎42‎:‎20‎ ‎PM by Two Kids’ Dad (((( Hillary Clinton is a felon. As yet unindicted, but a felon nonetheless ))))

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NoTrueScotsmanMelGibson
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But what could have prompted this sea change?
What??
To: kevcol

Mika will cut his bollocks off if he didn’t say this. If she says “bark like a dog” he’ll bark!

74 posted on 7‎/‎29‎/‎2016‎ ‎8‎:‎54‎:‎59‎ ‎PM by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)

Oooookay…..
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WoofFromHome
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More below the clickable thingy…

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