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It's worse than that. Supposedly, it was a box truck driver in a loading dock area that got jumped by Mark, who has no recollection of what happened after touching the window, including who stabbed him. Blacking out from intoxication is part of it, but it doesn't explain the confusion.

I’m sad to hear this. Mark has always been a nice guy, so it’s really concerning when his behavior flips so drastically.

*sniff* No, it’s ok. I appreciate the sweatshirt.

It’s true. I seen it.

Didn’t mean it to be serious. Technically it was an aged T-bone that tasted funny at a really expensive steakhouse. But for awhile last night I thought I was going to die at least metaphorically.

The war had to end at some point, and there’s only so long BiBi can hide behind accusations of anti-semitism before the reality of what he’s doing can’t be ignored inside his own country. That being said, he may actually have achieved his goal of destroying Hamas, at least politically. The ends don’t justify the means, still it’s hard to imagine that any Palestinian would ever vote for or listen to a Hamas operative ever again.

Food poisoning

Happy Birthday, bro!

They’ll listen to him for sure.

Can’t chop off a head if it doesn’t have a neck.

Horrific.

Good, you get the first bite of ass cake.

Thankfully, @UwPpcame to the rescue. I wasn't about to explain to her what the ass cake was all about.

Btw... are any of those cakes for S-G?

Something to that effect, yeah. The only reason he's Speaker is because everyone can agree that he's a perfect Keymaster for Orange Gozer. Whatever he says on his own is usually ignored.

Thank you all for the birthday wishes!

You sure about that? This is the dude that won't take his meds because he wants to be authentic when he calls everyone woman he's ever met a whore in his lyrics.

I don't think he intended it that way. Dude puts his foot in his mouth on an minute by minute basis.

As to the blame, I agree. The Democrats have been able to tie their refusal to a specific policy item that is non-partisan to voters, so it doesn't matter if they take the blame or not - they're ostensibly fighting for something that everyone agrees is a huge problem. For that reason, Republican mewling on the shutdown rings hollow. It doesn't particularly change how voters feel about the issue, only reinforces the concept of the two sides bickering rather than legislating. That in turn dislodges some of the leverage Republicans, as the nominal majority, would have. In that sense... I think this shutdown may be different. We still don't really know what the GOP, and in particular Trump, will respond, but this is the first time in recent memory where the minority party has two things in its favor: (1) a cause that has immediate ramifications on every voting bloc (and nearly every voter period), and (2) a hard deadline. Democrats can hold firm for three months without having to negotiate on the ACA credits and there won't be a political penalty as long as it seems like this is the only issue that is holding up a deal and they feed into the urgency of the situation. Conversely, the longer this goes, the more damage it does to the Republican majority's power. They may end up looking weak regardless of whether they cave or not, so there will be urgency to cave early and move on to policy goals with better chance of success. That's not to say the Democrats will definitely achiever their goal. It's just that the Democrats have more to gain from holding firm for three months than giving up after a week or so.

Nice.

Everything about Trump and his sycophantic underlings is a loyalty test, and it always ends up biting them in the ass in the end because they can't order people to do things that are impossible.

All the pictures in Disco's link look like they were taken at a state funeral. If Trump was explicitly telling them that the opponent was "from within," I can't imagine the horror they were experiencing. That, on top of Chief of Drunken Brawling bad mouthing the fellow General and Flag officers he effectively demoted by transferring, would have had their blood boiling. I wouldn't want to be a fly on that wall.

At any rate, this whole warrior ethos thing is just about as absurd as one would expect. It sounds like something a ten-year-old would come up with.

Do alcoholics accidentally fall out of helicopters?