Me too! They've just about collapsed in California as well.

I say "just about," because even when you call the fumigator, the ants and cockroaches and other vermin still somehow manage to find a way back in.

OH YEAH!!!!!

Congratulations! GREAT news! Thank you for sharing it with us! Stuff like this perks us all up!

LOVE YOU, Alan Grayson!

You speak for a lot of us here on DU and elsewhere. You certainly speak for me!!!

I posted on Sharpton's Facebook page that I thought the tea party WAS the Klan.

Well - only thing missing with these newbies is a few sheets...

Well, sorry I do rant - I am grateful that someone has that kind of patience!

If I had a title it would be the Insufferable Bloviating Schmuckette!


One postscript - I've never quite figured out which is the proper spelling of the root word of the above - is it "schmuck" or "shmuck"? I use the word a lot but I'm a Catholic, so whaddo I know?

Blame the victim. FUCKER.

But let's not write it off already as not possible.

How do we know, really, that it isn't? We have a year to build on what's just happened.

Looks like the next reminder comes in Jan/Feb of this very next upcoming year.

Besides, I would ask the question of the first response here - SOOOOOooooo then, that means, we do nothing???????

Yeah, certainly. It's a year away. Things could change. Does it not then become incumbent upon every last one of us to do EVERYTHING we can think of to build upon these gains? To protect the initiative we've gained, with all the fresh new talking points and on-offense tactics that are popping up like bubbles to the top of a glass of champagne? We have so much new ammunition to fight with now!!! We have a year to USE that time to reinforce and nurture the little buds of clarification that have started to break through the dirt. We now have the example of...

1) WHO was it who behaved like the adults in the room?

2) WHO was concerned about our financial future and WHO was it who wanted to go for the stunt, even while conceding it was a fool's errand?

3) WHO didn't give a rat's ass if 800-THOUSAND people were furloughed from their jobs? Good AMERICAN workers - turned out of work - for that same fool's errand!!!

4) WHO was it that thought this LOSER stunt was worth flushing 24 BILLION dollars down the crapper? Just to make a point? WHAT point? And we can afford that when you guys are yammering on and on about how we're spending too much money????????? How 'bout it, 'eh? Okay, ted cruz made a lot of money in donations. Is he gonna be hiring more people, then? Is he gonna be donating more to food banks? Is he gonna be covering some furloughed worker's mortgage payment? Did he give up his paycheck while this went on? Was he okay with screwing his own staff out of affordable health care?

5) WHO was it turning their collective noses up at the warnings from every credible financial analyst and voice and outfit in every corner of not just the country but THE WORLD? WHO was it shrugging it off with another "meh, not gonna happen, not gonna be that bad..." How correct have they called it on ANYTHING lately??????

6) WHO seemed more deserving of your trust to govern? Seriously????????? You LIKE the idea of a pack of baboons controlling your local zoo or wild animal park? How do you think THAT would work out?

I could go on but I'm probably way past boring people here. But I'd put it directly to anyone who huffs and puffs - "what the hell do you want? ANARCHY??????????????"

According to this test, this proud Californian is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak!

Well how 'bout that? I've only been to Philadelphia twice in my life, and both times only for the day.

100% !?!?!?!
Your accent is as Philadelphian as a cheesesteak! If you're not from Philadelphia, then you're from someplace near there like south Jersey, Baltimore, or Wilmington. if you've ever journeyed to some far off place where people don't know that Philly has an accent, someone may have thought you talked a little weird even though they didn't have a clue what accent it was they heard.

I'm not even from anywhere near there! I figured I just talk in a flat California accent. My husband and I have joked about this, too - we figure since neither of us seems to have any sort of discernible accent, that therefore must be a California accent.

Appreciate your sharing this anecdote, AsahinaKimi!

Appreciate YOU, TOO, AsahinaKimi!

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