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Clinton’s Oval Office decor looked like the waiting room in an Arkansas brothel.

There’s a lot of defensive coloration there.  It screams, “I do NOT hate America! Look, I’ve wrapped the furniture in flags!”

PUMAs, still focused like a laser on the shit that matters:

Zee 09.01.10 at 6:50 pm

  BCL, the only thing I noticed in the rerun clip was how sick-looking Zero’s purple zombie lips were compared to the gorgeous pink lips of the AA newscaster on CNN. What the hell is wrong with him? Something circulatory?

Stay safe, AltHippo.

We’re being advised to “shelter in-place.” List of demands here.

My office is diagonally across from the main entrance. Snipers have been in place for the last hour.

AltHippo—Christ, I just saw the news. Catching up now. Don’t be a hero.

For those who are following, the shooting/hostage situation at the Discovery building is happening right outside of my window. All of downtown Silver Spring center is closed.  Except for the hot dog vendor.

For anyone who hasn’t yet discovered the Guardian‘s deliciously snarky US ex-pat columnist Hadley Freeman—who achieved the previously considered impossible and made me a regular reader about fashion with her hilariously irreverent take on the industry, not to mention her übercatty fashion Q & As, but who regularly veers into current affairs—I commend today’s offering, “How great is the automated lacing system?”

Between her and Charlie Brooker—still on good form—I might just make it through the week.

Great article on Caribou Barbie here.

Other Thought for Today: Clinton’s Oval Office decor looked like the waiting room in an Arkansas brothel.

Today’s Thought: Hillary Clinton still not President, nor ever likely to be.

I think she should run in 2012, trounce Obama, if he even bothers running, then quit halfway through her term before taking to Twitter and Facebook to carp constantly and ineffectually about her erstwhile VP, now POTUS, President Sarah Palin.

That’ll show ‘em.

Today’s Thought: Hillary Clinton still not President, nor ever likely to be.

PUMAs knew all along that Obama was going to be a terrible President.

That is all. As you were.

Lambchop=Goldberg.  Yes, of course that makes sense.  It could even work on a t-shirt.

The left definitely needs their version of Sarah Palin. But, first, can we have our own Jonah Goldberg?

I thought that was Lambchop; I mean, he does claim to be the über-Leftist, arbiter of all things wot are progressive.

Here’s the Gervais clip from last night. It still makes me laugh very, very hard.

Seriously, Ricky Gervais should host every awards show, ever. Hell, get him signed up now for the 2012 presidential debates. God knows he’ll be better than Luke Russert. (You just KNOW Baby Boy Coattails will have a slot for those.) And Gervais would loosen everybody up by handing out beer.

Bucky Gunts!

I don’t know if any of you watched the Emmys (don’t judge me!), but Ricky Gervais got off maybe the best one-liner in awards show history. He was giving a few jabs to celebrities who had been caught behaving badly this year, and of course got around to Mel Gibson. So he said something like “Oh, I’ll leave Mel alone. He’s been through a rough time. [pause] Not as rough as the Jews.”

The left definitely needs their version of Sarah Palin. But, first, can we have our own Jonah Goldberg?  (Minds boggles pondering what that would be like.)

Better though, if the right could get their own version of Rachel Maddow. Or, for that matter, Bob Somerby.

Everything would be different if Hillary were President.

I read on some of the PUMA blogs that if she tries hard enough, some people think Hillary could one day be the Left’s Sarah Palin.

Everything would be different if Hillary were President.

Thanks for asking.

Are you going?

Probably not. My current plans are to try to avoid the TP people for the weekend.  The DC4Democracy folks are participating in the MLK march, which I admire, but not enough to get off my ass.

Urgh. I haz a sick.  Nobody read this, you might catch it.

Alt, I was going to email you to see if you were going to the “event,” but work/life got in the way. Are you going?

We’re being invaded (Metro alert):

ID 73186) Disruption at All Stations. Delays due to crowding at Shady Grove, Glenmont, Vienna, New Carrollton, Largo, Franconia, Branch Ave, Greenbelt & Huntington.

Note that Glenmont is on the “wrong side” of the Red line. Other than that, they seem to be following instructions.

Eeeeeek!

Still, I see the emerging strategy is to blog their way into power.

It’s worked so well for Taylor Marsh!

Speaking of cheese - feminism FAIL from mad-amab.  They just can’t shake off that Puma smell, can they?

Wow. That’s my first sighting of Fuzzybeargville since around election day. I haven’t missed him.

Did anyone ever manage to come up with convincing evidence that he’s actually a Taggles sockpuppet? If he is, I guess madmadamab isn’t in on the joke.

Still, I see the emerging strategy is to blog their way into power. Have they looked at the Alexa or Quantcast stats for the PUMA blogs recently?!

@Mike—Two years later, and they’re still trying to figure out whether to vote Green Party or mount a protest write-in campaign for Elizabeth Cady Stanton. Wow.

Here’s an open letter to awesome Balkan club music ... and babies!

Speaking of cheese - feminism FAIL from mad-amab.  They just can’t shake off that Puma smell, can they?

Cheesecake

And cupcakes. Don’t forget the cupcakes.

Probaly not, but she gets lots of cookies, and maybe a few free t-shirts.

So does Mimi get to keep the rest of the $18 million? I mean, I assume each of the “18 million strong” sent her a buck, just as they did to erase Hillary’s campaign debt.

Thanks, Betty. I totally forgot to check on that race.

PUMA is 0-for-2 so far this cycle.

In case anyone was wondering, PUMAPAC’s candidate for Miami-Dade County Commission, Mimi Planas, got utterly crushed in the primary.

The way things are going with the anti-Muslim sentiment these days I would think any enterprising copy editor might want to get a jump on the gun and translate Krystallnacht into Arabic.

Strange, I think DWP will end up in the Guinness Book of World Records  under the category of “slowest death by fit of apoplexy.”

Darragh, come back. Your blog needs you:

DancesWithPumas 08.26.10 at 1:28 pm

  Fuck Mohammed.
  Fuck Sharia Law.
  Fuck Patriarchal religions.

  Happy birthday to youuuuu…
  Happy birthday to youuuuu…
  Happy birthday everyone except Mahommed the Pervert,
  Happy birthday to youuuuu!

Tom, didn’t The Advocate mock Clay Aiken’s “Yes, I’m Gay” cover on People with “Yes, We Know”? Same thing with Mehlman.

The Cordoba Murderer? Spare me, Pam.

Oh—and fuck “Victory Mosque,” too. Park51 is more properly the “Peep-Show Row Prayer Center.”

Apprently the only person surprised by Mehlman’s announcement is Mehlman.

You know who’s the real victim of the cabbie slasher, right? Pogrom Pam over at Atlas Sharts:

Can you imagine if the would-be Cordoba murderer got away? They would be hanging us in the public square as we speak.

Mehlman is gay? GTFO! Next you’ll be telling me Ron Christie is gay.

Also, have the Freepers figured out that Michael Steele has a touch of melanin yet?

Strange, I dated a guy from the South Side whose mother was truly appalled when she found out the Village People were gay.

@Oblomova—I spit up my beer when I read that on FreeRepublic. On what planet is that news?

So who’s shocked, shocked to hear that Ken Mehlman is gay?

I think some of us self-employed types might be able to appreciate this.

Bah, and now my big camping/kayaking trip in September got cancelled because the state park was just closed.

Mood most foul today… Somebody bring me one of these anti-Muslim people to eviscerate.

I don’t check NAG Central, but I imagine Amy “Vote Va-Jay-Jay, Any Va-Jay-Jay” Siskind will still attempt to spin Sarah Palin’s vindictiveness toward Lisa Murkowski and her support for a virulently anti-choice male into a victory for Real Feminists Everywhere.

I just wish they could make Yoga for the teabaggers, those motherfuckers really need some help in relaxation techniques.

I would just like to interject this .... Ms. Nordegren, going through “hell” is not analagous to your billionaire husband cheating on you. You weren’t the victim of long-time abuse, you were publicly embarrassed because your former husband was a philanderer. If hell means falling back onto a coupla hundred mill to break the fall, well, let’s just say hell wasn’t all it was cracked up to be in the first place.

Len, the asshole who won the GOP gubernatorial race here in FL yesterday (Rick Scott) was running a commercial devoted entirely to denouncing the not-mosque. And it’s not like we don’t have big fucking problems in FL, what with the oil spill, 14% unemployment rate, collapsed real estate market, devastated tourism industry, etc.

But no, a community center on private property in a city 800 miles away from FL was a key issue in the race. These people are out of their goddamned minds.

And not more than an hour ago I saw a “no ground zero mosque” bumper sticker. In Washington for farks sake.

I’ve never seen naked hatred like this before.

It’s a really bizarre and horrifying story, Len. It looks like the cabbie will be okay, thank goodness.

I’m sure the crime won’t give a moment’s pause to the irresponsible asshole politicians who are making political hay of the not-mosque controversy. Damn them.

Sorry, Humboldt, just been really busy.

That stabbing has me in a black, black mood today.

I picked this up from Len, who is obviously too fucking cool to hang out in the clubhouse anymore. Fucking elitist.

Yeah, well, she’s got a long way to go to prove it to me.

This is how we know, Strange. (Sorry, dude, but you asked!)

How do we know that someone named “Taylor” is a woman?

Allan, I was just gonna point that out.

Sink will look like Mr. Moderate (and, yes, I know Ms. Sink is a woman, but I also call Meryl Streep an actor)

And MS. Streep calls you “Who?”
I call you “A PUMA Twatwaffle.”

@ Allan—gyad, what a ninny! There’s no shame in not knowing Alex Sink is a woman—unless you position yourself as an expert on the basis of no evidence whatsoever and hold forth on topics you clearly know nothing about. That’s what frosts my cookies about Marsh.

Taylor has updated her post with a Pee-Wee Hermanesque “I meant to do that.”

I’m not a big Gail Collins fan,but this interview brings up some good points about “Mama Grizzlies”.
“What Mama Grizzly wouldn’t believe in school lunches, health insurance and quality childcare? Who’s going to look after the kids while she’s off hunting? It’s really, really clever to put this powerful vocabulary — pit bulls and grizzlies — in the service of disempowering people. Kind of like death panels in reverse.”

Really. Not everyone voted for Bill Clinton’s wife out of pity. Jeez.

You’d think, as a proto-PUMA, she’d at least get THAT one right.

Taylor Marsh—POLITICAL ANALYST!—on the FL gubernatorial primary results:

Floridians took pity on him [McCollum] making him attorney general, but tonight he goes down hard to a man who’s scandalized health care past may just tip Florida to Alex Sink and the Democrats. Oh, how sweet that would be. Sink will look like Mr. Moderate compared to Fraudster Scott’s wacky wingnuttery, complete with Arizona anti immigrant xenophobia. 

Um, Alex Sink is a lady. And McCollum didn’t become AG because Floridians took pity on the bilious cretin. Christ, what a hack.

That’s just going to wreak hell on my Perth Fried Ostrich franchise.

YAFB: Broiler swans for sale! Broiler swans for sale!

moonwalking on the bottom of the sea

My least favorite episode of Flight of the Conchords.

Collaboration, moonwalking on the bottom of the sea

Death awaits them at Ben’s Chili Bowl.

Well, not immediately.

First Jeffrey Goldberg, and now Richard Cohen is making sense.

In the valley of the Gingriches, the Morning Joe is king.

At first I didn’t get why Scarborough added the bit about leaving the Republican Party for one that believes in small government. Usually when the Elephant says “Small Government” they mean “No Social Safety Net.”  Here, I think he may mean it in the sense of leaving people alone to live their own lives.

Also. I was thinking this morning that the Ground Round Mosquetard episode would end one of two ways: either it would jump the shark, and that’s what the Gingrich episode suggests might happen, or people would move on to the next distraction.  Maybe there’s some taboo John Waters hasn’t broken yet. That could be fun.

I can’t abide Joe Scarborough, but I have to give him props for calling out the not-mosque at not-Ground Zero haters here.

they seem wicked scared of being up by Howard U.

Death awaits them at Ben’s Chili Bowl.

HB, that clip was great, and it removed all those memories of when that creepy guy was at Sturgis a couple years ago trying to pimp his wife.

I know this could fit in the inappropriate songs thread next door, but I am sure a lot of folks will be making this their own personal anthem.

Actual T Partiers guide to DC (DCist).

Hippy, that actually sounds very close to the information I gave a 21 y/o female visa-holder from Pune, India who’d only been in this country for a month and was planning to visit DC alone.

But for a bunch of winter-hardened, hardscrapple teabaggers from ME who insist they want to “take back our country” they seem wicked scared of being up by Howard U.

And because it’s Monday and my car was taken to the shop after audible death sounds emanated from under the hood when I started it, I nearly lost my job and my cats back legs are going bald, I leave you this, PeeWee goes to Sturgis

Actual T Partiers guide to DC (DCist).

THERE BE DRAGONS HERE (and here, and here, and here…)

Actual T Partiers guide to DC (DCist).

Watch for Polly’s in-the-trenches photo coverage of America’s Day of Impotent Rage

Thanks, Strange! The prints are here, and the home movies are coming!

I wonder, during the McCarthy hearings, how many bloggers would have been tearing apart the pattern on Joseph Welch’s tie.

It’s a good point, Marindenver. When I was a kid I learned to recognize poison ivy, so that I could avoid it, and if I handled it accidentally, I could wash my hands of it right away.

Same with dog poop.

AltHippo, I think you nailed it when you said that Lambert is just a garden variety cynic.  And that being the case everything he says should be looked at from the standpoint of “how would a committed cynic approach this subject?”.  I’d say that at least 90% of time the cynical approach to the subject at hand will approximate Lambchop’s approach to within 90-100%.

Do we all remember the concept of the self-correcting blogosphere?  The idea was that if someone says something that misses the mark, then commenters can point that out, and the post can then be corrected.

But what if you only allow commenters that agree with you?  That’s the standard at Lambert’s House of Rhetorical Fallacy, and as far as I can tell, that’s how things are going to stay.

Take this post, for example.  Here’s what Lambchop claims:

Obamacare is Son of HAMP: Only 3600 in pre-existing conditions “high risk” program have signed up

Here’s what the referenced article says:

About 3,600 people have applied and about 1,200 have been approved so far in state plans that started in the beginning of July, according to data from the states and federal government. Officials say that the new plans, although they’re a better deal than anything comparable on the private market, still may be unaffordable for many people. Eligibility requirements are another possible barrier, and states have had little time to publicize the plans.

The difference between Lambert’s assertion and the quote that it was based on, is enormous.  In short this is pure hackery.

But, that’s just it. I can’t post a comment at Corrente pointing out his misreading of the article. Lambert doesn’t want reasonable dialogue.  He wants to enrage his readers towards some end that I have yet to understand.

With extra blingee, I hope!

Mrs. Polly just called to report that she is on the scene of the big wingnut protest at Park51, and is awaiting the appearance of Soft-Porn Patriot Diva Pam Geller.

Watch for Polly’s in-the-trenches photo coverage of America’s Day of Impotent Rage on the Rumproast front page, at some point, if she makes it out alive, God willing.

I am of course talking about bower birds.

Where there’s a will, there’s a no way.

You know those bowerbirds that collect all manner of shit, some gaudy, some not, to decorate the homely scrape in the ground where they wish to lure some other unsuspecting bowerbird to bumble within sufficient proximity to enable them to do horrible things to them under pretense of prolongulating the species?

What a horrible thing to say about a creature that is very creative, capable of complex long-term planning, and only expects to be rewarded (with a little nookie) when its work is of the highest quality.

I am of course talking about bower birds.

If we ever want Meatprod to find a clue, we’ll have to hide it in the back of an underage teen-age girl’s throat.

On second thought: He’d never be able to reach it there.

Dances has evolved from just plain sad to downright pathological.

I suspect the last entry in her CafePress catalogue will be either a T-shirt with a picture of her contorted, screaming face on it or a coffee mug that reads, “You filthy bastards, I’ll get you for this!”

Meatprod cuts a fart and Lambert sniffs it approvingly.

I liked this bit:

[pounds head on desk]

It’s always instructive to check in on DWP’s Little Shop Of Errors from time to time.

You know those bowerbirds that collect all manner of shit, some gaudy, some not, to decorate the homely scrape in the ground where they wish to lure some other unsuspecting bowerbird to bumble within sufficient proximity to enable them to do horrible things to them under pretense of prolongulating the species?

Well, it’s like that, only with suffused, obsessively nurtured grievances.

Wikipedia has this to say about the related catbirds, which may or may not be be germane:

Among the Mimidae, they represent independent basal lineages probably closer to the Caribbean thrasher and trembler assemblage than to the mockingbirds and Toxostoma thrashers.

@AltHippo—I’m ashamed to say that it’s just too much of an effort to follow the stream-of-unconsciousness at TC. However, as a general rule, however, you can assume that whatever they’re discussing boils down to:

1) Obama hates women.
2) Obama sold us out to the big banks and corporations, rather than letting them collapse so we could all experience the joys of home dentistry, entrepreneurial sex and slow starvation.
3) Casual insertions of obscure professional terminology or mystical arcana to reassert the poster’s primacy on the Cultural Hipness Scale.   

And, yeah, Lambert’s a sad case. Seeking affirmation at TC is like joining AA to meet women.

Strange, maybe you have some insight on this: why are these people so weird?

Also. This:

dakinikat, on August 21, 2010 at 5:46 pm Said:
maybe we could infer that high unemployment leads to gay marriage and adoption or conversion to Sufism …

I’m guessing that dakattack has been hitting the $5 wine box section of her local grocers.  Should I infer anything other than that from her reference to Sufism?

Either that or the PUMAs have been studying the esoteric traditions of the world’s religions, and we should soon see some oblique references to Gnosticism, the Essenes, the Cabala, and how all these traditions converged on the 18 million man march in Denver.

Also. Lambert, you’re a disappointment to even the third graders that hang out at your sad corner of the internets.

Meatprod cuts a fart and Lambert sniffs it approvingly.

Joy Oh Bliss, Alt! Ima go look now!

It’s always instructive to check in on DWP’s Little Shop Of Errors from time to time.

Mrs. Polly, just wanted to let you know that I stole, umh, set free, the DwP handiwork to the twitterverse.