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December 20, 2005

Atrios's Open Thread Bonanza

Okay, I've got nothing, and I don't even have the time to express that nothing.

posted by Ace at 04:18 PM

Comments

Bupkus. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Nil. Null. Empty Set.

Posted by: Tongueboy on December 20, 2005 04:25 PM

Everything is nothing. Wow! How enlightening.

Posted by: rls on December 20, 2005 04:26 PM

So, how's that whole, transit strike thing goin anyway? That's gotta suck.

We don't really have mass transit here, except for school busses. Oh, and there's that cab, an 83 Buick with vinyl seats, but it doesn't really count because most of the time Earl is parked over on Ave M and 5th sleepin it off.

Posted by: Dave in Texas on December 20, 2005 04:26 PM

Yesssss! Open thread!

An opportune time to use my girlish exclamation points and dole out my football wisdom. Also, I will be flaming my fellow commenters.

Saturday's games:
I pick all the home teams except the following visiting teams:
Pittsburgh
Tennessee
and the upset of the week --
Oakland over Denver

Posted by: Bart on December 20, 2005 04:36 PM

I want to talk about the homos, and I mean the sex!

Posted by: rho on December 20, 2005 04:36 PM

Okay, I've got nothing, and I don't even have the time to express that nothing.

Bull. Everyone is dying to hear about last night and you are playing coy. One can only assume someone got laid last night.

Posted by: on December 20, 2005 04:49 PM

One can only assume someone got laid last night.

Someone, somewhere, sure. Just not Ace or Allah.

Posted by: sandy burger on December 20, 2005 05:00 PM

I'm eighth on this awesome open thread!

Posted by: MH on December 20, 2005 05:32 PM

I purchased a copy of Star Wars Holiday Special on Ebay. This show was awful. It makes the original Battlestar Galactica look excellent.

Posted by: Bart on December 20, 2005 07:55 PM

My back hurts.

Posted by: lauraw on December 20, 2005 08:29 PM

Where's Joe Pesci? What happened to that guy?

Posted by: Dr. Reo Symes on December 20, 2005 08:50 PM

Josie:
One can only assume someone got laid last night.

lauraw:
My back hurts.

Good call, Josie.

Posted by: sandy burger on December 20, 2005 08:57 PM

I think its time that LauraW provided some GIFs of herself for this moronblog.

Just saying...

Posted by: MH on December 20, 2005 09:22 PM

I hear she's really short. :)

Posted by: Lipstick on December 20, 2005 09:24 PM

Are you guys thinking what I'm thinking?

Reality television show with...

Spurwing!

Posted by: Bart on December 20, 2005 09:30 PM

I purchased a copy of Star Wars Holiday Special on Ebay.

Seriously? That's great.

Can you get screencaps and post them on the web or something?

Posted by: Slublog on December 20, 2005 09:32 PM

Yeah, for real.
There's a whole website devoted to the stupid show.

http://www.starwarsholidayspecial.com

Posted by: Bart on December 20, 2005 09:35 PM

Bupkus. Nada. Zilch. Zero. Nil. Null. Empty Set.

"We've got Nada III."

Only super geeks who watch G4 will get that one...

Posted by: Army Lawyer on December 20, 2005 09:36 PM

Bart, that is beautiful.

I've heard of this and seen some screenshots, but that site is fantastic.

Posted by: Slublog on December 20, 2005 09:45 PM

Slu, you can buy a copy pretty cheap on the Net. The problem is that many of the copies are poor quality.

The best thing about the copy I got was that it had all the original commercials still in it from CBS broadcast, including CBS news updates that mentioned Breshnez. Plus, the news anchor reported that it was 9 months post-Blizzard of '78 and the expected rise in births never happened.

Wow, what a flashback!

Posted by: Bart on December 20, 2005 09:51 PM

Well how crazed to get at the wife would you be after shoveling that much snow?

I was in grade school.
Gov. Ella Grasso shut down the whole state of CT. No school.

We made snowballs and snow men and snow forts and snow animals. Snow was the world and we were in it up to our armpits.

And when we couldn't feel our hands anymore and our lips turned blue our mommies would order us inside the house for a while.

It was totally awesome.

Posted by: lauraw on December 20, 2005 10:04 PM

what's snow?

Posted by: Dave in Texas on December 20, 2005 11:01 PM

this is disgraceful.

where's the Mooncup, or baby seal clubbing, or rampant male-on-male sexual innuendo?!?

you've lost your edge, AoSHQ commenters. you've lost your edge.

Posted by: MacStansbury on December 21, 2005 01:19 AM

But!!! Star Wars Holiday Special!

That's got to count for something, right?

Posted by: Sortelli on December 21, 2005 01:33 AM

My back hurts.

If I come back in January, will you be done whining?

Posted by: Michael on December 21, 2005 01:43 AM

you've lost your edge, AoSHQ commenters

Point taken.

What the fuck is snow? And what does it bring to the table?

Posted by: Dave in Texas on December 21, 2005 01:45 AM

I understand the effects of the blizzard were compounded by Dick Cheney devouring all the snowplows.

Posted by: Alex_fs on December 21, 2005 02:00 AM

ace how about a vacation

Posted by: on December 21, 2005 02:32 AM

"ace how about a vacation"

Come on - his life is already one extended vacation.

We need to put Ace to work going through 'back issues' of this blog and posting the best of the best - of the comments - which are what make this blog worth an occasional visit. (Remember Hobgoblin, bbeck etc.)

Posted by: max on December 21, 2005 08:18 AM

Judge resigns in protest.

Who is this judge? Is he a paragon of virtue, or partisan hack?

From WaPo:
Robertson is considered a liberal judge who has often ruled against the Bush administration's assertions of broad powers in the terrorism fight, most notably in Hamdan v. Rumsfeld . Robertson held in that case that the Pentagon's military commissions for prosecuting terrorism suspects at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, were illegal and stacked against the detainees.

Good riddance. Now Bush can appoint another judge.

Posted by: Bart on December 21, 2005 09:21 AM

Johnny Damon officially sucks.
Why?
Because Damon plays for the Yankees and in Boston when you jump ship to the Evil Empire you achieve "suck" status. It's just the fucking way it is.

By the way, Rush must have read my above comment. He just did a segment about the hack judge who was probably going to retire anyway and used this moment to hurt GWB.

Posted by: Bart on December 21, 2005 12:34 PM

Yeah, but at least Damon will have to cut his skanky hair.

Posted by: Slublog on December 21, 2005 12:35 PM

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"It's f**king f**ked."
-- reportedly a genuine comment offered by a "senior Labour source"
Correction: I wrote that Labour is losing 88% (now 87%) of the seats it is "defending." I think that's wrong. The right way to say it is the seats they are contesting -- that is, they don't necessarily already hold these seats, but they have put up a candidate to run for the seat. It's still very bad but not as bad as losing 87% of the seats they already held.

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🚨ED MILIBAND [a Minister in Starmer's government] SAYS KEIR STARMER WILL RESIGN AS PRIME MINISTER

He has reportedly reassured Labour MP's that Starmer will be resigning following the disastrous results tonight

It's over

"The end of the two party system in the UK" as first the Fake Conservatives and now Labour chooses political suicide rather than simply STOPPING THE INVASION
Incidentally, the only reason this didn't already happen in the US is because of the Very Bad Orange Man (who is right on 85% of all policy calls and extremely, existentially right on 15% of them)

No political party that is NOT also a doomsday religious cult would EVER choose a cataclysmic loss -- and possible extinction as a party -- to support a toxically unpopular favoritism of NON-CITIZEN ILLEGAL MIGRANTS over actual citizen voters.

Only a cult does this.

Now they've lost 84%.

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@zatzi
If this continues Labour loses 2,148 seats tonight.

That is much worse than the worst case predictions I’ve seen.

Cataclysmic

Update: They've now lost 88% of the seats they're defending. As I mentioned earlier, I think I heard that London will not bail them out, as many of those Labour seats will probably flip to "Muslim Independent" or Green. Detroit's 5am vote will not save them.

Yup, Labour is losing 80% of its seats...

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@TheBritLad

🚨 BREAKING: Labour have lost 80% of all seats contested as of 2:25 AM.<
br> If this continues, Keir Starmer will be out of office next week.

Reform has surged and projected to pick up between 1700-2100 seats.

Wow, up to 1700-2100 seats. It's not incredible that this is happening. It's incredible that the Davos crowd is so absolutely determined to privilege Muslim "migrants" over the actual native population who elects them, no matter how loudly the natives scream that they want to be prioritized, that they will gladly self-extinguish as a party rather than simply representing the interests of their own voters. Astonishing.
Remember, when they call other people "cultists" -- they are the ones so imprisoned in their social reinforcement and discipline bubbles that they will choose political death rather than dare upset the Karen Enforcement Officers of their cult.
Update: Now they've lost 83% of the seats they were defending.

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STARMERGEDDON: In early returns, Reform gains 135 seats, Labour loses 90, the Fake Conservatives lose 36 (and I didn't even know they could fall any further), the Lib Dems lose 4, and the Greens gain 6. Note that the only other party gaining seats is the Greens and they're only gaining a handful of seats.
Update: Reform now up 145, Labour down 98.
Labour projected to lose Wales -- where they've ruled for 27 years.
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Update: REF +156, LAB -107, CON -45
Brutal: In four out of five council seats where Labour is defending, they've lost. 80%.
I'm sure it's not this simple, but Reform is straight taking Labour's and the "Conservatives'" seats. They've lost almost exactly what Reform gained. If understand this right (and warning, I probably don't), all of London's council seats are up for election, and Labour might lose hugely there, as their old voters abandon them for Reform, Muslim Indenpendents, and the Greens.
REF +190, LAB -134, CON -56.

Updates on the Labour collapse in council elections -- which wags are calling #Starmergeddon -- from Beege Welborne. There are about 5000 seats up for grabs, Labour is expected to lose 1,800, Reform will probably gain 1,580, up from... zero. So this would be more than that.
People claim that while Labour has adopted the Sharia Agenda to appeal to the million Muslims it allowed to migrate to the country, those voters are ditching Labour to vote for the Muslim Independent Party or the Greens. Delicious. This shadenfreude is going straight to my thighs.
Oh, and if Starmer loses about as badly as expected, Labour will toss him out of a window Braveheart style and replace him. He will announce he is resigning to spend more time with his Gay Ukrainian Male Prostitutes.

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