I need to get the bend to 40-degrees for it to count, but for a first ever try it wasn’t too shabby, I don’t think. My technique was pretty terrible — I went back and watched a pro strongman do it correctly after I tried it on a whim — so I’ve got a lot of room for improvement there that I think will make a big difference. Plus, I
August 2, 2011
Tuesday night in non-default, GOP-saved America
Love and Rockets, re-working the Temptations, embedded here post post-ironically by yours truly, who believes he’s making a statement of some sort.
Wanna know the best thing about leaving the Republican Party?
You’re no longer a member of the Republican Party. And if feels fucking awesome.
Obama presser, summarized
We need more shovel ready jobs to get the folks back to work — which is why the government needs more revenue to create more shovel ready jobs. And the kinds of enormous cuts I just directed Congress to make — the biggest cuts in history! — cannot alone balance the budget or create a healthy economy. We need a balanced approach. Which includes fixing the loopholes in the tax
Oh, did I mention…?
Not only did the Boehner/Obama/Reid/McConnell Secretly-Negotiated-Deal-To-Save-The-Country-From-Fiscal-Ruin, you know, save the country from fiscal ruin, but it also showed us all how serious, sober, realist establishment pragmatism works — that, when necessary, it is good and moral and righteous to break a pledge or promise, because if you are chained to your principles, you might not be able to do the hard work of preventing a catastrophic default! Remember that when
Crazy-ass terrorist Michele Bachmann defends putting a gun to the head of helpless Americans — who just want compromise! — for partisan extremist purposes. That are most likely also anti-woman, anti-gay, anti-children, and most especially racist
Watch the latest video at video.foxnews.com We simply can’t allow this nutjob to come to power as a national figure. I mean, Jesus: she actually seems to believe in some of the things she says. Not only that, but what if her closeted queer husband gets his hands on any of the male White House decorators? Pretty soon it’ll be nothing but wood paneling and mounted moose heads in the
I wish the Senate would just hurry up and vote on this deficit deal thingie.
Life here in the fallout shelter has been nothing but board games and Beefaroni warmed on the Hibachi — followed by nights trying not to fart too loudly on the cramped cot my wife and I’ve been sharing. Still, salvation is almost upon us! And Christ, but I do love the smell of a post non-default America in the morning. Smells like…Boehner. — if, like, orange tears and fright had
