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by Carl Ballard — Monday, 9/17/18, 8:29 am

So, last week New York had state primaries. I think that most of the people who I follow online were pretty disappointed. I make it a policy to assume that people in other states have it. So I didn’t take a side. But after the election, come the fuck on, my dudes.

2/3 of Democratic voters in New York are sellouts and corrupt? Maybe they like that Cuomo was the first (only?) governor to support the fight for a $15 minimum wage. Or they think the fracking ban is great.

My point isn’t Cuomo qua Cuomo. My point is that Democratic primary voters in New York are some of the most liberal voters in the country. You can be upset about the results without shitting on the voters.

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Open Thread 9-14

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 9/14/18, 8:31 am

Still kind of under the weather. But at least I’m back to work. Hope there isn’t too much backlog.

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Open Thread 9-12

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 9/12/18, 7:11 am

I am feeling a bit blah, so this is all from me today.

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Open Thread September 10

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 9/10/18, 10:31 am

I would like to apologize. In Friday’s Open Thread, I said that Republican Supreme Court nominees had been lying to Congress since Thomas. That was before John Dean’s testimony. It was at least since William Rehnquist. I apologize for any undue benefit of the doubt that I gave to GOP nominees and the Presidents who nominated them.

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/\openthread/\

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 9/7/18, 8:01 am

Since Justice Thomas, there has been an expectation that Republican nominees for the Supreme Court lie during their confirmation hearings. Thomas pretending that he wasn’t sexually harassing Anita Hill. George W. Bush’s nominees pretending that they didn’t have an opinion on roe. That kept going under Trump.

But yeah. Kavanaugh is worse. Just brazenly lying about who he talked to about the Muller investigation. Knowable facts. At this point, not only should the Senate not support him, the House should probably impeach him.

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Open Thread!

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 9/5/18, 8:27 am

You get what you pay for. Except teachers. Obviously we should nickle and dime the people who spend hours teaching children. That’s why we should oppose the teacher strikes: Because who needs children, what have they ever done for me?

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Open Open Open Open Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 8/31/18, 8:26 am

Oh man! Rain now clearing out the remaining smoke, and a forecast of a good long weekend. What a time to celebrate labor.

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0pen Thread

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 8/29/18, 8:55 am

Just walking around Downtown this morning, there were a couple piles of clothes. They were several blocks away from each other. Was there a raid? Is it just a coincidence?

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Open Thread 8-24

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 8/27/18, 8:34 am

Man, I went for a semi-smokey bike ride yesterday without a mask. I thought it was clear enough. But no! Semi-smokey is still too much if you’re breathing heavily.

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Open Thread

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 8/27/18, 8:34 am

OK last vacation post. Back to the regular nonsense schedule later.

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Open Thread Aug. 27

by Carl Ballard — Monday, 8/27/18, 8:33 am

A lot of people are sharing personal stories about interactions with John McCain on his death. And it is important that he seemed to treat constituents he disagreed with, and staffers for people on the other side of the aisle well. And his heroism as a POW is undeniable.

But while that’s important, it isn’t really how you should judge the legacy of an elected official. And on policy, he was garbage. He should be judged for his full throttle support of the Iraq war among many others. He should be judged for tax cuts for the wealthy, and fuckall for the poor. He had a few moments where he did good things (his ACA vote, saying Obama isn’t a secret Arab), but none of them would be the bare minimum if it was a Democrat.

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Still On Vacation Open Thread!

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 8/24/18, 8:29 am

Someone in my family said that Trump ate a classified document. I refuse to look it up. If it happened, it’s so much less bad than separating families. If it’s not true, he still thinks Mexicans are rapists who can’t be judges, or at least judge him. He is a walking, talking violation of the Constitution; If he’s an eating one too, that’s probably the least of our worries.

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Open Thread 8-24

by Carl Ballard — Friday, 8/24/18, 8:28 am

Man, I went for a semi-smokey bike ride yesterday without a mask. I thought it was clear enough. But no! Semi-smokey is still too much if you’re breathing heavily.

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Still On Vacation Open Thread!

by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 8/22/18, 4:57 pm

Someone in my family said that Trump ate a classified document. I refuse to look it up. If it happened, it’s so much less bad than separating families. If it’s not true, he still thinks Mexicans are rapists who can’t be judges, or at least judge him. He is a walking, talking violation of the Constitution; If he’s an eating one too, that’s probably the least of our worries.

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by Carl Ballard — Wednesday, 8/22/18, 4:57 pm

I am beginning to suspect that electing a man who admitted to crimes while he knew he was on mic, and who surrounded himself with criminals, was a bad idea. Although Donald Trump is a crisis to our democracy, the fact that he got so far for so long is also exposing a flaw in our court system. The man’s criminality was known for a long time, but allowed to fester. We have had decades to do something, and yet he has been mollycoddled for 4 decades.

Anyway, lock her up or whatever.

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