Motley Moose – Archive

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Interrogatories

Are you or any of your friends peculiar? Proudly so?

What kind of houseplants do you have?

What was your favorite Masterpiece Theatre series of all time?

Have you done anything to your place that helps cut energy costs, like insulation, solar panels, ugly windows, etc?

The Twitter Emitter

Unscrupulous aides acting on their own led to this tweet. I knew nothing of it. I'm as surprised as you.

— William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) January 9, 2014

Are we about at the time where we can stop saying Chicago-style politics and start saying New Jersey-style politics?

— Sara Lang (@SaraLang) January 9, 2014

results of traffic study: closing lanes causes backups

— Atrios (@Atrios) January 9, 2014

Let's close that bridge when we come to it.

— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) January 9, 2014

Did Christie accidentally fire the staffer who tells him when to end a press conference?

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) January 9, 2014

If it wasn't a legitimate traffic study, the Port Authority has a way of shutting those thing down.

— Stacie Rose (@igotviews) January 9, 2014

Reductio ad Benghazum

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) January 9, 2014

Christie showing his devotion to Springsteen by giving three hour press conference with two encores.

— Ray Radlein (@Radlein) January 9, 2014

Living well is the best traffic study.

— Ronan Farrow (@RonanFarrow) January 9, 2014

I wonder how many people listened to that press conference while they were stuck in traffic.

— Ben Greenman (@bengreenman) January 9, 2014

Chris Christie today adamantly "denied all knowledge" – I have to agree. I, too, think Christie lacks knowledge

— Dean Obeidallah (@Deanofcomedy) January 9, 2014

Chris Christie is probably the only person in the world who is now looking back fondly at 2013.

— John Scalzi (@scalzi) January 9, 2014

I'm imagining Trentonian bedsheets; full of Whopper wrappers-Whopper wrappers & tears. #Inners

— Andrew Gatto (@AndrewGatto) January 10, 2014

Good morning, Moosekind. TGIF! Temperature is supposed to be well above freezing here for the first time this week. I think we should all get matching “I survived the Polar Vortex of 2013” shirts. Except you live somewhere warm. Unless your wind chills went below zero, no T-shirt for you.

So I have a milestone birthday on Saturday. And it is time to start training for the Hill Country Ride for AIDS, which will be in April. And fundraising for it, too. So for my 50th birthday — can I get the Mooses to donate to my 15th Ride? How many $50 donations can I get? There will be music & stuff below the fold, but if you want to skip that part & just donate, here’s my Hill Country Ride page

Interrogatories

Have you owned any iPhones? How many?

If you could play God for a day, who would you strike with lightning? Making the punishment fit the crime, what creative punishments would you devise for your favorite Republicans?

Have you ever flown in a hot air balloon? Do you have any desire to?

The Twitter Emitter

"May all your vortices be polar." (Old Inuit curse.)

— John Bennet (@slothead) January 8, 2014

How is what Chris Christie did really any different from Obama using his weather machine to exact revenge on the midwest? #BothSidesDoit

— kara vallow (@teenagesleuth) January 8, 2014

Christie would have thrown an aide under the bus, but a traffic study prevented the bus from getting there.

— Hunter (@HunterDK) January 8, 2014

I bet Christie would have really got in his staffs faces if they had been teachers.

— TBogg (@tbogg) January 8, 2014

Hearing the aide's punishment is to be shouted at by Christie on live TV.

— Danielle (@DCPlod) January 8, 2014

I think the delicious schadenfreude with Christie is like seeing a bully getting hauled to the principal's office by his ear.

— roadkillrefugee (@rkref) January 8, 2014

"My staffers mislead me! I thought they were just going to break the guys legs." – Chris Christie

— GOPathetic (@GOPathetic) January 8, 2014

Delaying an EMS visit resulting in the death of a 91 year-old is a childhood dream of Paul Ryan. He must be so jealous right now.

— TBogg (@tbogg) January 8, 2014

Christie for Secretary of Transportation.

— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) January 9, 2014

Unscrupulous aides acting on their own led to this tweet. I knew nothing of it. I'm as surprised as you.

— William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) January 9, 2014

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Interrogatories

Were you ever teacher’s pet? class clown? dunce?

Have you ever shown slides or home movies to your guests?

How many pairs of shoes (include all footware) in your closet?

Did you ever catch your parents, teachers, or bosses in a lie?

The Twitter Emitter

I'm pissed that my taxes are wasted paying the salaries of people who are against taxes.

— Chris Dashiell (@cdashiell) January 6, 2014

For just 38 cents a day, you can help this precious 46-year-old finish this tweet.

— William K. Wolfrum (@Wolfrum) January 6, 2014

What're the odds that somewhere in this polar vortex someone who just got Obamacare coverage slipped and fell and broke a leg?

— Brian Beutler (@brianbeutler) January 7, 2014

RT if your nipples are more attentive at work than you are

— A$AP Feminist (@FeministaJones) January 7, 2014

Hi, it's cold and I don't read much so that proves 97% of the world's scientists are wrong about climate change. #p2

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) January 7, 2014

Boehner reiterates unemployment benefits extension would have to be paid for, and not from the $3T the GOP has set aside for invading Iran

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) January 7, 2014

Polar Vortex is totally gonna be the name of my Arctic Monkeys tribute band.

— Chris Lehmann (@lehmannchris) January 7, 2014

I wonder which news network gave the Koch Brothers the impression that the hosts will just read their scripts. http://t.co/EOaJ2G71N6

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 8, 2014

Insiders say that before Liz Cheney decided to drop out, her father offered to "go hunting with Mike Enzi and take care of it."

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) January 8, 2014

Yesterday's old-newspaper-hoarders are today's 200-open-tabs-on-Firefox-e-hoarders.

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) January 8, 2014

Good morning, Moosekind. Greetings from the frozen Northlands of Virginia.

The common Moose, Alces alces, unlike other members of the deer family, is a solitary animal that doesn’t form herds. Not so its rarer but nearest relative, Alces purplius, the Motley Moose. Though sometimes solitary, the Motley Moose herds in ever shifting groups at the local watering hole to exchange news and just pass the time.

Interrogatories

Remember when making long distance phone calls cost a bundle? What is the biggest phone bill you ever ran up?

Have you ever been on a cruise? If so what was it like? If not, would you consider it, and what kind?

Among my acquaintances I have noticed two kinds of shoppers – the ones who will return anything if there is anything remotely wrong with it, and the ones who just hang on to the item, often never using it, for whatever reason. Are you one of these, or something else? If you don’t return things, why not?

The Twitter Emitter

Liz Cheney dropped out of Wyoming Senate race for "health reasons?" I'm glad she finally realized she makes people sick.

— KennyKwik (@KwikWarren) January 6, 2014

NOTE: If we can afford for Mitt Romney to pay a lower tax rate than a nurse, we can afford to extend emergency unemployment insurance.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) January 6, 2014

On this day in 1838 Samuel Morse first demonstrated the telegraph cautioning that transmission does not equal endorsement.

— pourmecoffee (@pourmecoffee) January 6, 2014

Today belongs to Sasheer Zamata. Enjoy this moment before she has to shoulder the pressure of representing all of black womankind on SNL…

— Andrew Johnston (@_andrewjohnston) January 6, 2014

Nancy Grace slams pot smokers, despite studies proving her show is considerably less funny when sober.

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) January 6, 2014

Liz Cheney abandoned her run for office when the #polarvortex convinced her there was actually something colder than her.

— Crutnacker (@Crutnacker) January 7, 2014

Have I understood – "populism" means pleasing a small number of ignorant racist bigots?

— David Horton (@watermelon_man) January 7, 2014

I do have some Larry Summers jokes but they're kinda derivative.

— John Fugelsang (@JohnFugelsang) January 7, 2014

Liz Cheney dropped her Senate campaign over "family health concerns". It's amazing the things you might catch when you're 40 points behind.

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) January 7, 2014

Stop the vortex shaming, people.

— David Waldman (@KagroX) January 7, 2014

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