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Sunday morning coming down

Heading into Denver today for a Rockies game with the family. Yesterday it was 80-degrees here in Colorado. Today, the temp [sic] is going to drop into the 50s and by tonight we’re expecting a couple of inches of snow.

So it goes.

Consider this an open thread. Go to town, crack wise, have fun!

— Unless your name happens to be Aymenn [sic], that is. In which case, stand athwart the rolling tide of intellectual derangement and, with great ostentation (?????????, habibi!), demand relief and redress!

If that’s what floats your boat I mean. I’m a giver.

23 Replies to “Sunday morning coming down”

  1. serr8d says:

    So, 2012 nominees for prezzident. We of the GOP don’t do messiahs. Nor will we likely run the tickets Cain-Paul or Trump-Barbour or Palin-Huckabee or Romney-Pawlenty or Santorum-Daniels or Gingrich-Christie, but I admit Bachman-Bolton is intriguing.

    Michelle can ride The Mustache to victory~!

  2. LBascom says:

    Shamelessly stolen from instapundit:

    the American distrust of intellectualism is itself not the irrational thing that those sympathetic to intellectuals would like to think. Intellectuals killed by the millions in the 20th century, and it actually takes the sophisticated training of “education” to work yourself up into a state where you refuse to count that in the books. Intellectuals routinely declared things that aren’t true; catastrophically wrong predictions about the economy, catastrophically wrong pronouncements about foreign policy, and just generally numerous times where they’ve been wrong. Again, it takes a lot of training to ignore this fact. “Scientists” collectively were witnessed by the public flipflopping at a relatively high frequency on numerous topics; how many times did eggs go back and forth between being deadly and beneficial? Sure the media gets some blame here but the scientists played into it, each time confidently pronouncing that this time they had it for sure and it is imperative that everyone live the way they are saying (until tomorrow). Scientists have failed to resist politicization across the board, and the standards of what constitutes science continues to shift from a living, vibrant, thoughtful understanding of the purposes and ways of science to a scelerotic hide-bound form-over-substance version of science where papers are too often written to either explicitly attract grants or to confirm someone’s political beliefs… and regardless of whether this is 2% or 80% of the papers written today it’s nearly 100% of the papers that people hear about.

  3. McGehee says:

    At this point there is no one who is guaranteed my vote in 2012 regardless of what we’d get if the other ticket were to win.

    Not even me. I know too much about me.

  4. I’m all for baseball, but the Rockies? That’s a deranged, insane conspiracy theory. And snow? Please, don’t be so anti-science.

  5. Pablo says:

    So what should I think about this? If it had been my call, I wouldn’t have gone into Libya. But the reason I voted for Obama in 2008 is because I trust his judgment. And not in any merely abstract way, either: I mean that if he and I were in a room and disagreed about some issue on which I had any doubt at all, I’d literally trust his judgment over my own. I think he’s smarter than me, better informed, better able to understand the consequences of his actions, and more farsighted. I voted for him because I trust him, and I still do.

    Just. Wow. Based on what, exactly? Hey, how’s that “Days, not weeks.” thing working out for ya, Kev? (As of yesterday, it’s officially weeks not days.)

  6. Pablo says:

    McGehee, I’d vote for Herman Cain regardless of who the Dems ran. I’ve been itching to unload some white guilt.

  7. Slartibartfast says:

    temp [sic]

    Give ’em Hades, habibi!

    I think that just to have my own signature internet gimmick, I’m going to start addressing everyone as “dearly beloved”. Kipling is long dead, and I don’t expect his estate will be suing me for copyright infringement.

  8. serr8d says:

    One of the Gleen(s) spoke thusly of Mr. Drum…

    Mindlessly cheering for a politician — or placing trust in their decision-making — is understandable a couple of months before an election when you’ve decided their re-election is important. But it’s wildly inappropriate any other time. And subordinating your own critical faculties to a leader’s is, at all times, warped, self-destructive and dangerous.

    IOW, Kevin, you should’ve held all this knob-polishing in check until August 2012. It’s OK to characterize BHO as BHoBush for now; then when the time is right, you can again shelve your principles for hack partisanship. Get on the same page as the Proggorthodoxy, man!

  9. McGehee says:

    I’ve met Herman. I like him a lot and I’ve endorsed him — but even he needs to work for my vote.

    I seriously doubt he minds being expected to earn what he gets.

  10. serr8d says:

    The Donald has the most cash; a net worth of $2B means he can buy the nomination if he wants it and tries. He might not be the most intelligent or capable candidate, but he can certainly impress lots of The Masses Who Have the Votes. With a suitable running mate (Trump-Bachman or (gasp!) Palin) he’d be a strong contender against BHO. If he won, at least we’d have a for-real capitalist back in the White House.

    Oh, and you’re fired.

  11. Lazarus Long says:

    Phillies are playing the Astros today.

    What keeps running through my mind is that Roy Oswalt is the #3 starter in the Phils rotation.

    Roy Frikkin’ Oswalt.

  12. dicentra says:

    Same sitcheeashun here in SLC: yesterday warm and windy; last night it snowed a couple inches. Nice heavy spring snow, too. I was awakened last night by what was probably a tree branch falling on the roof (nothing big).

    In other news, Tête-à-Tête daffodils (miniatures) are a tremendously good investment if you loves you some cute fleurs.

  13. I’ll be picking up RTO tonight. He’ll be home for a few days before leaving for deployment.

  14. SDN says:

    Now, Maggie, just have him pretend he’s an Indiana Copperhead slithering out of state to the resort hotel I’m sure is waiting for him…..

    I’m working a project with some Marines at Camp Pendleton and their reactions to that Indiana scumbag would reassure R. Lee Ermey about at least one aspect of his beloved Corp.

    Seriously, tell RTO good luck and thanks. From all of us.

  15. Darleen says:

    Thursday 90 degrees, Friday bright sunny 80 degrees

    So hope sprung eternal for setting up the camera in the back yard and taking few hundred water splash shots so I can do a water dress photoshop

    Sat — windy and over case. Sun – thick clouds.

    argh

  16. Darleen says:

    maggie

    Hope you and RTO make some fabulous memories to carry you both through the deployment time.

    My best thoughts and prayers your way.

  17. Pablo says:

    Is that the ‘Stan again, Maggie?

  18. motionview says:

    I saw Ryan on Fox News Sunday today, fantastic on tone, approach, staying on the offense, and particularly for refusing to accept the false assumptions in loaded questions. Personally I think I’ll prefer the upcoming Republican Study Group budget but Ryan is really top-notch.
    I don’t care for Chris Wallace’ interview style, and not because he’s not conservative enough. He conducts Washington Gotcha interrogations, and I find that irritating, regardless of the political perspective of the questioner.

  19. Swen says:

    Heading into Denver today for a Rockies game with the family.

    Well that sucks. We were planning on going to the game today but checked the weather and decided to go yesterday instead. It was gorgeous and the Rockies actually won. Glad we changed our plans, it’s been snowing since noonish out on the NE Colorado plains. Spring time in the Rockies.

  20. Jeff G. says:

    Yeah, my wife bought the tickets and gave them to me for Xmas.

    At least it was postponed. So we get another shot at it.

  21. Swen says:

    Baseball tickets for Christmas? How sweet! Best part of postponed games — when they do play it will likely be a doubleheader. Anything worth doing is worth overdoing!

  22. thanks, guys. Yeah, it’s the ‘Stan again for RTO.

  23. Jeff G. says:

    Send RTO my best please, maggie! And take some for yourself, as well.

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