New Trumped Up Drink: "The Jamboree"

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Wednesday July 26, 2017 · 5:31 AM PDT

2017/07/26 · 05:31

Do not serve to Scouts under your supervision. Consider giving them ice cream. But only one scoop.

Drunk Publius has a new drink recommendation in honor of Trump’s Boy Scout speech: the Jamboree.

The Pussy-Grabber in Chief has a new vision for the Boy Scouts. In the good old days, we saw depictions of the dutiful Scout helping a little old lady cross the street. In Great-Again America™, Trump wants them to help liberate her from the oppression of health care. He used the Scout Jamboree as a platform to urge the kids to pressure their Senators to deprive millions of Americans of their insurance. Fortunately, if there is one thing we know from history, a right-wing leader using the nation’s youth to advance his own political interests never ends badly.

But it wasn’t all politics. The man knows his audience, regaling them with tales of a Manhattan cocktail party with “the hottest people in New York” attending. There is nothing more interesting to an outdoorsy twelve year old boy than the doings of attractive east coast socialites.

Trump is a brown-fingered Midas, turning everything he touches to shit. He will move on to his next whine, conspiracy, or Russian rendezvous. But the Scouts will be dealing with the fallout for quite some time. The leaders of the Scouts couldn’t, of course, have predicted how this would turn out. The Boy Scout Law states that a Scout is trustworthy, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent. Of these, Trump is possibly clean. So, of course they would invite a guy who is a raging antithesis of every other one of the qualities they purport to value.

While dealing with the inevitable fecal hurricane that follows Trump wherever he goes, we recommend that the Scout leaders steady their nerves with a drink we’re calling “The Jamboree.”

The Jamboree

Ingredients

8 ounces lemon lime soda

2 ounces grenadine

Maraschino cherries and lime wedges for garnish

Directions: Mix soda and grenadine, garnish with fruit.

Do not serve this to any Scouts under your supervision. Consider giving them ice cream.

But only one scoop.

NOT AS TRUMP AS YOU DRINK I AM

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Thursday January 05, 2017 · 2:11 PM PST

2017/01/05 · 14:11

Making the unimaginable a little less unbearable

This is a pretty shameless plug since I haven’t blogged anything here in four years. But my family and friends joined together as “Drunk Publius” to create a book that might be of interest to the community: Cocktails for Survival: Not as trump as you drink I am.

If you love Trump, take a dim view of alcohol, and on the whole would prefer not to laugh, then this book is not for you. Otherwise, you might like it. It includes drinks like “The Wall,” “The Bad Hombre,” “Trumple Thinskin,” “The 400 Pound Hacker,” and many more. Maybe it would make a good gift to lift the spirits of a friend? Make a good centerpiece or an inauguration party (inauguration parties are a thing, right?) In any case, the idea is to get together with friends, have a few drinks, have a few laughs, and generally soften the blow of what looks to shaping up as a bumpy next few years.

There’s even a blog.

An excerpt from “The Impeachment”

Like a lot of drinks, the Impeachment seems like a good idea at the time. After a Putin's Puppet (page 14), half a dozen Twitter Beefs (page 29), and
maybe a Pussy Grabber or two (page 42), you figure an Impeachment
sounds like just the thing. But when you wake up with The Pence (page 12) and a pounding headache, you'll be having second thoughts.

Girl Scout Watchdog Rep. Bob Morris: Not Here for the Hunting

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Friday March 23, 2012 · 1:28 PM PDT

2012/03/23 · 13:28

Indiana State Rep. Bob Morris is a glutton for punishment it appears. Not being content to simply not vote for an innocuous resolution congratulating the Girl Scouts on its centennial, Morris wrote a letter to his colleagues to inform them about his "web-based research" and discovered them to be a "tactical arm" of Planned Parenthood. He took a public beating.

Well, apparently Rep. Morris isn't here for the hunting. He has written a column for the Washington Times entitled Shut up and sign. If your culture war makes you the enemy of the Girl Scouts, perhaps you should re-think your strategy and take a moment to figure out what the hell you're so mad about. Quoth the Morris:

Nothing short of the destruction of our faith and values would satisfy progressives. We have been left with no choice but to refuse to cede even one more inch of ground in this bloody culture war. The time for resolve is now.

Paranoid much?

Things change and the past was never as good as you remember it. But, no matter how tingly it makes you, that doesn't mean you're a brave warrior in some kind of existential struggle. You're a small cog in a vast, ever-changing universe. Hubris, arrogance, and wishing it were otherwise doesn't change that. Show some adaptability and some humility and realize you have fellow travelers with concerns and lives every bit as valid as your own. And for goodness sake, quit picking on the Girl Scouts.

Coats Pushback Reveals Priorities

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Wednesday February 10, 2010 · 6:40 AM PST

2010/02/10 · 06:40

Politico has an article entitled "The nuking of Dan Coats." First, a disclosure. I don't care for Dan Coats' policies. In a race between him and Evan Bayh, I'd vote for Bayh.

With that out of the way, I find the vigorous pushback against the prospects of his candidacy revealing, and what it reveals annoys me.

mhojo

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Sunday October 18, 2009 · 6:28 AM PDT

2009/10/18 · 06:28

Rep. Steve Buyer (IN-04; R-Monticello) has recently gotten some attention for a charity he operates which doesn't seem to meet the smell test. It shares office space with Buyer's campaign office and is staffed by his family and people associated with his campaigns. It has taken in quite a bit of money over the last five or six years, almost exclusively from lobbying interests, but has given out very little - and none in the form of scholarships which is ostensibly the purpose of the charity. Initially, when this issue was raised in a USA Today article last June, Buyer was mentioned as one of several Congressman doing this sort of thing. He denied any special involvement with the Foundation. When the issue resurfaced a week or so ago through the work of the Lafayette Journal & Courier, Buyer was still taking the "not my Foundation" approach. As other news outlets, including TPM Muckraker, pressed on the obvious connections and how ridiculous his position was, Buyer shifted gears, acknowledging it as his Foundation. Now, his approach is to say that he works very hard for a good cause and gets suspicion in return. He is wounded.

More detail after the jump.

mhojo

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Thursday September 17, 2009 · 8:20 AM PDT

2009/09/17 · 08:20

The Indiana Court of Appeals has decided, in the case of League of Women Voters v. Todd Rokita (pdf) that the state Voter ID law (P.L. 109-2005) (described as the most restrictive in the nation) violates Article 1, Section 23 of the Indiana Constitution which states: "Section 23. The General Assembly shall not grant to any citizen, or class of citizens, privileges or immunities, which, upon the same terms, shall not equally belong to all citizens."

The state Court of Appeals, therefore, reversed the order of the trial court and remanded the case with instructions that the trial court enter an order declaring the Voter ID law void.

mhojo

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Wednesday June 03, 2009 · 1:39 PM PDT

2009/06/03 · 13:39

(Cross posted)
Some of my fellow Hoosier bloggers (h/t Abdul and Josh Claybourn) have been following the Chrysler bankruptcy, particularly with respect to Indiana's unexpectedly prominent role in the matter. Josh, in particular, has strong feelings on the issue, calling the proposed reorganization (presumably with some degree of hyperbole "The End of Capitalism as We Know It.") This diary analyzes Indiana's objections to the bankruptcy plan for Chrysler and the court's order rejecting those objections. The short version is that the reorganization yields more to priority creditors than liquidation and Indiana has waived its right to object.

Much more after the jump.

mhojo

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Wednesday March 25, 2009 · 11:24 AM PDT

2009/03/25 · 11:24

The recent calls for the American people to sacrifice in the face of this economic crisis by, among others, Chuck Todd (mentioned by Kos in a front page post) remind me of the structural adjustment packages imposed by the World Bank on debtor nations in the face of their own economic crises.

As I understand it, third world countries tend to get loans from the World Bank that go toward huge projects which tend to mainly benefit local elites and foreign companies. These loans result in huge debts that are ultimately paid for through imposition of these structural adjustment packages that call for privatization of public assets, reductions in government spending on health, food, and fuel subsidies to the poor, and other "reforms" that tend to squeeze the poor.

The parallels to the current situation are not difficult to find. The current economic crisis was brought about through activities that primarily benefited the wealthy in this country. The proposed solutions will be those which primarily squeeze the poor.

mhojo

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Wednesday February 11, 2009 · 8:53 AM PST

2009/02/11 · 08:53

The 7th Circuit issuedan opinion in a defamation suit that, in a sense, pitted abortion rights against gun rights. But, in a more realistic sense, the 7th Circuit merely affirmed the dismissal of an overly ambitious defamation suit.

Steven Levitt was sued for a paragraph in his book Freakonomics where Levitt is exploring the reasons for the decline in crime in the 1990s. He comes to the conclusion that legalized abortions in 70s were the reason. Fewer unwanted children in the 70s led to fewer violent young men in the 90s. In the course of this analysis, he considered and discarded some alternate theories. One of the alternate theories was advanced by John Lott who apparently suggests that more guns in the 90s led to less crime. Lott took exception to his treatment by Levitt in Freakonomics and sued him for defamation.

mhojo

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Wednesday January 07, 2009 · 6:09 PM PST

2009/01/07 · 18:09

"Greetings Ms. Roe. I'm Dr. Smith. I understand you are considering exercising your Constitutional right to control your reproductive organs for reasons having to do with your health or your ability to bear and raise a child or something. Now, sure, you could terminate your pregnancy.

But, before you make your decision, the State of Indiana, in its wisdom, requires me to tell you that if you go through with the abortion, your sweet, dear little baby will likely be SCREAMING IN AGONY throughout the procedure. And it's all so needless, you dear, ignorant, promiscuous woman. Did you know they have something called "adoption" now? Yup, if you're too cheap to raise your precious child yourself, other people will do it for you. But, wait, there's more! If you get an abortion, YOU COULD DIE!

So, now that you have all the facts, what's it going to be?"

mhojo

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Friday October 24, 2008 · 1:01 PM PDT

2008/10/24 · 13:01

Continuing the saga of early voting in Lake County, the Indiana Supreme Court has denied the Republicans' request for an expedited appeal of the trial court's order allowing early voting to continue in the heavily Democratic Lake County cities of Hammond, East Chicago, and Gary.

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Wednesday October 22, 2008 · 12:05 PM PDT

2008/10/22 · 12:05

Lake County Indiana, the second most populous Indiana county in the northwestern corner near Chicago, has been the location of a vigorous legal battle concerning early voting sites. Today, a trial court has authorized early voting (pdf) at additional voting centers in Democratically inclined Gary, East Chicago, and Hammond; and ordering that votes cast prior to the decision at these sites be counted.

Indiana allows in-person early voting as a matter of state law at the primary government center. In Lake County, this happens to be the city of Crown Point. Indiana law allows county election boards to authorize additional satellite voting sites but only if it is done by unanimous vote. However, there is potential ambiguity in Lake County due to the presence of courts and offices of the circuit court clerk in cities other than Crown Point.

This should be helpful in allowing citizens in Indiana who want to vote to do so and, as a political matter, benefit Democratic vote totals in the state. (More details after the jump)

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