Tonight’s program on our podcasting affiliate, The Bob & Chez Show:
Bob Something: Ted Cruz Once Argued Against the Sale of Dildos; Bernie Surrogate Complains About ‘Democratic Whores’; The Young Turks Strike Back Against Chez; We Don’t Candy Coat Anything; Bernie Correctly Says Voter ID is Like Jim Crow; Donald Trump and Joe Paterno; and more.
Just got back from the Trump rally in Hartford. No I didn’t go inside. I was a “legal observer” whatever that means. There were no fights or arrests.
Things I learned today:
1. “Hillary Sucks but not as good as Monica” T-Shirts are very popular.
2. Best sign was “Trump Likes Coldplay”; best banner was “Your grandpa fought fascists, don’t elect one”
3. Trying to sell Trump merchandise to BLM protesters is not a good business model.
4. Did you know that JFK’s “assassination was was ordered by Rome, then planned and carried out by Jesuits, just as President Lincoln’s was”? :actual quote from actual flyer some guy handed me.
Did anything happen inside the convention center?
This is good journalism.
Ted Cruz WIll Not Ban Dildos by KFILE via #soundcloud https://t.co/du1cgz2nAI
— gocart mozart (@gocartmozart1) April 16, 2016
re: #2 gocart mozart
Just got back from the Trump rally in Hartford. No I didn’t go inside. I was a “legal observer” whatever that means. There were no fights or arrests.
Things I learned today:
1. “Hillary Sucks but not as good as Monica” T-Shirts are very popular.
2. Best sign was “Trump Likes Coldplay”; best banner was “Your grandpa fought fascists, don’t elect one”
3. Trying to sell Trump merchandise to BLM protesters is not a good business model.
4. Did you know that JFK’s “assassination was was ordered by Rome, then planned and carried out by Jesuits, just as President Lincoln’s was”? :actual quote from actual flyer some guy handed me.Did anything happen inside the convention center?
Good on you.
I haven’t heard a thing, but here’s the you tube
Now everybody’s over here, so I repeat:
OK—this is rich, Bernie’s flying back from a family sojourn to Rome where he gave a “very important” ten-minute rant version of his stump speech and his campaign email is bitching about the George Clooney fund-raiser, claiming that Hillary is using the money for her own campaign and asking:
Help Bernie raise $353,000 before midnight.
Let us remember that HIS campaign paid for the little Roman holiday (plus what WE paid for SS) or…
@Zegota42 @docrocktex26
— Susan A. Kitchens (@susankitchens) April 16, 2016
⛽⛽⛽⛽⛽⛽⛽⛽ ✈
✈ FUEL THE BERN ✈
⛽⛽⛽⛽⛽⛽⛽⛽ ✈
re: #6 Kragar
And now for something completely different…
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That’s probably the weirdest cover I’ve heard all year.
I’m going to toot my own (almost 40 year old) horn here. The Minnesota Music History Channel posted a couple of videos by the band I was in back in the late 70’s. I’m the drummer. It definitely has that late 70’s vibe going. I was still trying to hang on to my mid-70’s haircut, and this video is from the approximately one week where I didn’t have facial hair. I look so weird…
(edit: removed one of the videos because they both played the same song. reposted below)
Call me naively optimistic, but I see no negatives here.
If you scroll down the playlist a bit, you come to a video of Run, Run, Run by the Gestures, which IMHO may be the best 45 ever to come out of the Twin Cities.
lolwut? https://t.co/eLJi4HFKfb @PatrickSvitek
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 16, 2016
re: #11 Charles Johnson
The Donald’s™ fucking *right-hand-man* when it comes to politics. The Donald™ hires only the best people, believe me https://t.co/RP3HhdPTlA
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) April 16, 2016
Here’s the other video
(edit: I can’t get the damned right song to post. Please excuse the technical difficulties)
re: #11 Charles Johnson
Corey Lewandowski: “Sen. Cruz has become the flavor du jour of the weekly day of the monthly hourly minute weekly NBC Mystery, McCloud!”
“Ladies…”I guess this will be the last time Rick Tyler will be on Bill Mahar….
The kosberners are in an absolute frenzy about this Clooney/Hillary thing—oh, and to any of my fellow Hillary supporters—we are hateful people who don’t care one whit about anything of importance. Mkay.
The most histrionic commenter:
You Hillary trolls are hateful people. You don’t care one whit about any of the issues that are facing this country. You don’t care that there are children starving in this country. You don’t seem to car that Veterans who’ve served in USELESS wars can’t get the healthcare they need. You don’t care that th elderly are forced to get by on less and less because Americans have to pay exorbitant amounts of money for their medication. We’re about to have another “hottest summer on record”…does that matter to you?
Do ANY of you Hillary supporters give FUCK about these things?
(and this lovely sentiment got 25 recs)
The best response:
We are hateful aren’t we? I’d love to continue this discussion, but these kittens won’t kick themselves.
I say again, the kosberners have lost their minds.
If this one doesn’t work then fuck it. This is the song I like better.
(edit: fuck it. everytime I post the song, the other one plays. You can hear the other song ‘Mirror’ if you go to the site. fuck it)
Dear Internet…you’re welcome!!!!!! https://t.co/9XlQil7vro via @youtube
— Ahmet Zappa (@AhmetZappa) April 16, 2016
https://t.co/mjlkzMtIgm pic.twitter.com/3gawvg0afB
— The Ministry of GIFs (@GIFs) April 16, 2016
First the anti-masturbation thing, and now this? Yeah, Ted’s alleged affairs have got to be the tip of the iceberg here. Anyone this sanctimonious about sex is compensating for something big.
re: #17 Stanley Sea
I’m seeing the same vid?
Every time I posted the video for ‘Mirror’, the song ‘Anything But That’ (the song in my original comment) would play for me instead. Same for you?
re: #12 De Kolta Chair
Sadly I didn’t get a picture of it because it was on the side of the highway exit ramp.
April 15th has had a lot of sucky things happen through history.
“That person was a FedEx employee from Memphis, who, it is believed, fell asleep on the plane before it departed. Air Traffic Control was notified of the incident by the flight crew, and dispatchers at Lubbock Preston Smith International Airport were notified at 5:17 a.m. The flight landed in Lubbock at 5:30 a.m.,” the airport said in a statement.
I am truly fascinated at how much the Berner people are starting to resemble the more unhinged RWNJs with comments like:
I guess I am boycotting Clooney films for a while. How much does a movie cost these days? $10.00, or $11.00? Say $10.00 for ease of division. That’s 30,000 Clooney films I won’t be seeing. Clearly he has too much money.
George fucking Clooney, about the most generous, involved person on the planet.
George Clooney has supported the following charities:
21st Century Leaders
American Foundation for AIDS Research
Ante Up For Africa
Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes
CARE
Casey Lee Ball Foundation
Cinema For Peace
Clothes Off Our Back
ENOUGH Project
Feeding America
International Rescue Committee
Make Poverty History
Not On Our Watch
ONE Campaign
Oxfam
Partners in Health
Realizing the Dream
Red Cross
Rock For Darfur
Satellite Sentinel Project
Save the Children
UNICEF
United Way
Whatever It Takes
World Food Programme
re: #14 stpaulbear
Here’s the other video
Aaahh ‘luudes. So many great memories that I totally don’t recall.
“Nice bunch.” ;-[)
Closed out of YouTube and signed back in. One more frickin’ try:
(Edit: Fuck! It won’t post the correct video.This is harshing my horn-tooting. I refreshed all my old comments and I give up.)
re: #29 BeachDem
They are getting increasingly ridiculous, even though I agree with Sanders more in regards to Israel/Palestine than I do Clinton.
I would vote for Clooney in a New York minute if he ran for anything. In fact, I think needs to be persuaded into running.
re: #23 Sophist, Premature Anti-Trumpist
I think the affairs are Roger Stone ratfucking (I find it hard to believe that there are five living creatures on this planet who were willing to intercourse with Ted) but the D.C. Madam allegation I think are true because she specialized in weird kinky stuff and I think Ted is the type of guy who would pay for something like that.
re: #29 BeachDem
I am truly fascinated at how much the Berner people are starting to resemble the more unhinged RWNJs with comments like:
George fucking Clooney, about the most generous, involved person on the planet.
George Clooney has supported the following charities:
21st Century Leaders
American Foundation for AIDS Research
Ante Up For Africa
Barbara Davis Center for Childhood Diabetes
CARE
Casey Lee Ball Foundation
Cinema For Peace
Clothes Off Our Back
ENOUGH Project
Feeding America
International Rescue Committee
Make Poverty History
Not On Our Watch
ONE Campaign
Oxfam
Partners in Health
Realizing the Dream
Red Cross
Rock For Darfur
Satellite Sentinel Project
Save the Children
UNICEF
United Way
Whatever It Takes
World Food Programme
They are Dims, not Dems.
I am going to be using this one.
re: #26 gocart mozart
Sadly I didn’t get a picture of it because it was on the side of the highway exit ramp.
Been there, amigo.
re: #33 gocart mozart
How do we know that Ted Cruz is not an Auton?
I watched Spearhead from Space earlier, and Cruz looks uncomfortably Plasticine.
The main villain was dead ringer to Erdogan in Turkey.
Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: In this crucial election, I’m endorsing Hillary Clinton https://t.co/TsCNwOyRj8
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) April 16, 2016
re: #34 Stanley Sea
They are Dims, not Dems.
I am going to be using this one.
Just wait ‘til they go after Sally Field because she supports Clinton. I don’t care who someone supports, but nobody — NOBODY — fucks with Gidget.
re: #30 De Kolta Chair
Aaahh ‘luudes. So many great memories that I totally don’t recall.
“Nice bunch.” ;-[)
For us it was alcohol. I was pretty drunk by the time we got onstage that night.
re: #31 stpaulbear
Nope, still Anything But That. I like it, but it sure seems to be sticky! <G>
Evening of funny weirdness. My friend and I did our regular Friday-out-to-dinner thing this week at a nearby Chinese restaurant. One look at the menu in Chinese with English afterthought told me this place was authentic. One section of the menu had specialties that included chicken feet, duck tongue, deer tendon, aaaaand shrimp balls. Led to a strange conversation about shrimp testicles, tweezers, and preparation methods. Deep fried or poached?
Got back to my place where we sat out on the patio enjoying the beautiful evening over toddies and a smoke (my one cigarette a week). There was a sudden THUD-roll-roll-roll on the awning over our heads then a whump of blackbird on the patio. Two entangled blackbirds actually. Birdie coitus took a real wrong turn there. They flew off in a panic into the oak tree. Couple of minutes later THUD, into the azalea. One seeming big bird down, two disentangled birds flew back into the tree. Few minutes later, THUD. Back on the ground. They finally completed the act, rather badly, in the middle of the street. We didn’t know whether to applaud their success or pity any future offspring that may result.
re: #38 De Kolta Chair
Just wait ‘til they go after Sally Field because she supports Clinton. I don’t care who someone supports, but nobody — NOBODY — fucks with Gidget.
Or Spider-Man’s mom
re: #41 allegro
Evening of funny weirdness. My friend and I did our regular Friday-out-to-dinner thing this week at a nearby Chinese restaurant. One look at the menu in Chinese with English afterthought told me this place was authentic. One section of the menu had specialties that included chicken feet, duck tongue, deer tendon, aaaaand shrimp balls. Led to a strange conversation about shrimp testicles, tweezers, and preparation methods. Deep fried or poached?
Got back to my place where we sat out on the patio enjoying the beautiful evening over toddies and a smoke (my one cigarette a week). There was a sudden THUD-roll-roll-roll on the awning over our heads then a whump of blackbird on the patio. Two entangled blackbirds actually. Birdie coitus took a real wrong turn there. They flew off in a panic into the oak tree. Couple of minutes later THUD, into the azalea. One seeming big bird down, two disentangled birds flew back into the tree. Few minutes later, THUD. Back on the ground. They finally completed the act, rather badly, in the middle of the street. We didn’t know whether to applaud their success or pity any future offspring that may result.
Kids will probably have balance issues growing up, rough landings, too.
/
re: #33 gocart mozart
I think the affairs are Roger Stone ratfucking…
I think that just enough of it is true that Ted can’t issue a flat out denial.
re: #41 allegro
I didn’t see anything quite like that today. Closest was a bunch of barn swallows mixing it up and chasing each other around today. Four of them get tangled together and the whole pile of them splashed down in the pond.
Apparently swallows do have the capability to take off again while in water.
Watched this from a boardwalk that spans the pond at the NWR I was hiking in. The guy I was talking to at the time got pictures of it with his camera as well. (Nikon 610(?) with about 2’ of lens on it.)
Pretty in Pink is on the tube. I’ve never seen it before. I’ve heard over the years that it was good.
It sucks. People actually liked this?
re: #49 De Kolta Chair
Pretty in Pink is on the tube. I’ve never seen it before. I’ve heard over the years that it was good.
It sucks. People actually liked this?
It was teenage angst in the 80’s.
re: #41 allegro
Hey, it’s hard to do page 73 of the Kama Sutra when you’re a bird. Just be grateful you have thumbs.
re: #6 Kragar
Sturgill! Just today a coworker (who is also a singer/songwriter) recommended I check him out.
The birds were pretty calm in my neck of the woods. I didn’t see any drunk blackbird sex… There is a Canada Goose hanging out in the drain channel behind my work building (about 20 x 200 meters, maybe 1.5m deep when full). He/she (I feel that it’s a she) is lately taking serene floating swims, just giving an occasional kick and happily gliding like an umber-colored boat, complete with wake. There are also grass carp tumbling in the greenery at the water’s edge and a couple of dozen turtles, including some young ones about 4” long who are absurdly cute when they swim.
It’s nice back there. The planet is pretty great when people leave it the fuck alone.
re: #37 Charles Johnson
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“choice between Hell and reason”
Ohhhh my that is a great quote. One for the ages, that is. Saved for later use.
Fuckin rené magritte is my landlord pic.twitter.com/XIJC3NC0eA
— Maple Cocaine (@historyinflicks) April 12, 2016
re: #50 Stanley Sea
It was teenage angst in the 80’s.
I was well past being a teenager in the 80s, but I always felt the angst of John Hughes movies.
re: #49 De Kolta Chair
Pretty in Pink is on the tube. I’ve never seen it before. I’ve heard over the years that it was good.
It sucks. People actually liked this?
Helps to have had a major crush on Molly Ringwald :) Still my favorite of that generation. But yeah, that one was not as good as 16 Candles or Breakfast Club.
re: #50 Stanley Sea
It was teenage angst in the 80’s.
I guess so, cuz I ain’t feeling it. Or maybe I’m this guy…
but I’m actually…
re: #58 Stanley Sea
The Breakfast Club was everything.
Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club is everything. What a dreamboat. ;-)
What the hell is a dreamboat anyway? A boat of dreams? How is the cargo ladened? Anyway, whatever, Ally Sheedy is a boat… of dreams… Drat, that still makes no sense!
re: #59 De Kolta Chair
Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club is everything. What a dreamboat. ;-)
What the hell is a dreamboat anyway? A boat of dreams? How is the cargo ladened? Anyway, whatever, Ally Sheedy is a boat… of dreams… Drat, that still makes no sense!
One of my favorite lyrics is from Elvis Costello, Everyday I Write the Book:
When your dreamboat, turns out to be a footnote.
And with that, I’m out! Night all.
re: #61 Stanley Sea
One of my favorite lyrics is from Elvis Costello, Everyday I Write the Book:
When your dreamboat, turns out to be a footnote.
And with that, I’m out! Night all.
Speaking of Elvis, I heartily recommend his recent memoir. The dude knows his musicology. I’m out too. Sweet dreams liz’ds.
re: #62 GlutenFreeJesus
Ballet, anyone?
Beats me why that wasn’t a hit. A very funny movie. The cow gag “creams” me every time.
re: #21 De Kolta Chair
Had a wacky dream the other night. Me and John Prine were hanging out and making prank phone calls. Then we ate steaks at Benny’s Chop House and Steve Goodman ran into the room and saved us from becoming pod people. You had to be there, or maybe you were?
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…And the sons of Pullman Porters, and the sons of Engineers.
Ride their father’s magic carpets made of steel.
And, mothers with their babes asleep rocking to the gentle beat.
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.
SG
May your dreams be like butterfliesG’night folks. Stay scaly!
re: #65 BeenHereAwhile
…And the sons of Pullman Porters, and the sons of Engineers.
Ride their father’s magic carpets made of steel.
And, mothers with their babes asleep rocking to the gentle beat.
And the rhythm of the rails is all they feel.SG
Steve Goodman was a national and natural treasure.
re: #67 De Kolta Chair
Steve Goodman was a national and natural treasure.
Speaking of Goodman and Prine:
Photo taken on Nashville Music Row 16th Ave, AKA Music Row East:
Yellow Tactile Tile (tm) (ya know, warn blind folk they’re about to step out onto a busy street) with rocks piled on to weigh down while adhesive is curing.
This is strange.
LGF is uploading an image which is not in my LGF image library.
And not the one in my LGF image library which I want to insert.
Anybody up for #mimosas pic.twitter.com/kYmrXeA9i0
— emily (@THADRIVEIN) April 16, 2016
4th edit:
Photo taken on Nashville Music Row 16th Ave, AKA Music Row East:
Yellow Tactile Tile (tm) (ya know, warn blind folk they’re about to step out onto a busy street) with tactile rocks piled on to weigh tile down while adhesive is curing.
Alrighty….tonight, I’m gonna go see Já, Olga Hepnarová. It looks like a damned good film about the titular character, an infamous mass murderer and the last woman hanged in Czechoslovakia.
This is the Wiki entry on her: en.wikipedia.org
Here’s the trailer (with English subtitles), and it’s NSFW due to some brief nudity, so it’s in a spoiler tag.
re: #56 William Lewis
Helps to have had a major crush on Molly Ringwald :) Still my favorite of that generation. But yeah, that one was not as good as 16 Candles or Breakfast Club.
Wait a minute…you mean Pretty in Pink and 16 Candles were two different movies? I gotta check that out next time they come around.
re: #59 De Kolta Chair
Ally Sheedy in The Breakfast Club is everything. What a dreamboat. ;-)
She was cute, all right, but it took me ten years of seeing her name to convince myself it wasn’t a persistent misprint for “Sheehy”.
re: #77 Dr Lizardo
Alrighty….tonight, I’m gonna go see Já, Olga Hepnarová. It looks like a damned good film about the titular character, an infamous mass murderer and the last woman hanged in Czechoslovakia.
This is the Wiki entry on her: en.wikipedia.org
Here’s the trailer (with English subtitles), and it’s NSFW due to some brief nudity, so it’s in a spoiler tag.
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Looks interesting. Review it afterwards, please.
Apropos of nowt.
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re: #81 Grunthos the Flatulent
Apropos of nowt.
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Welcome to the club. I love mine. Been playing around with the 50mm old school prime lens I bought. Chinese-made and really quite sharp.
One of my studentsNikon D3300 Vimica 50mm f/1.4 prime lens. I didn’t note the aperture and shutter speed. Since it’s a manual lens, the camera doesn’t record all that in EXIF. Nevermind. 1/800 s and probably f/11 or f/16 at ISO800.
re: #22 gocart mozart
They said there’d be NO math! /mesmerized
Bernie goes to the Vatican just days before the NY primary, and somehow manages to get a 5 minute audience with the Pope.
Bernie Sanders secures five-minute meeting with Pope Francis https://t.co/4j76XeSDOX
— POLITICO (@politico) April 16, 2016
Yeah, how’s that going to work out for him when he’s down 10-18 points in NY, and he needs to win by 18+ to even have a chance at the nomination? For those doing the math, he’d need to swing the polls at least 28 points in now 3 days, but he’s over in the Vatican?
That’s some weird campaign strategy alright.
And let’s not even address the costs for this jaunt across the Pond.
Rick for PresidentHe’s got as good a platform as Bernie and he’d never let us down. That works for me.
re: #84 lawhawk
Bernie goes to the Vatican just days before the NY primary, and somehow manages to get a 5 minute audience with the Pope.
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Yeah, how’s that going to work out for him when he’s down 10-18 points in NY, and he needs to win by 18+ to even have a chance at the nomination? For those doing the math, he’d need to swing the polls at least 28 points in now 3 days, but he’s over in the Vatican?
That’s some weird campaign strategy alright.
And let’s not even address the costs for this jaunt across the Pond.
He asked the Pope to have a word with the big guy.
Problem solved.
All the terrible things Hillary Clinton has done — in one big list
That’s it. I’m not voting for her. My limit is officially 42 Evil Things.
re: #88 SoundGuy 2016
All the terrible things Hillary Clinton has done — in one big list
That’s it. I’m not voting for her. My limit is officially 42 Evil Things.
Don’t let Deep Thought fool you. “42” is not the answer.
re: #49 De Kolta Chair
Pretty in Pink is on the tube. I’ve never seen it before. I’ve heard over the years that it was good.
It sucks. People actually liked this?
I imagine that it only appeals to people who were forced to be teens in the 80’s. I missed that fate by having to be a teenager in the 70’s…
re: #88 SoundGuy 2016
All the terrible things Hillary Clinton has done — in one big list
That’s it. I’m not voting for her. My limit is officially 42 Evil Things.
Well, this summed it up nicely:
37. Congress spent tens of millions of dollars and six years investigating her investment in the Whitewater real-estate project, and, while they didn’t actually find anything, they wouldn’t have spent all that money if there weren’t something there.
I finally got to see Brokeback Mountain. Over the years would see it on in middle of movie channel surfing and purposely keep flipping, wanting to see the movie in it’s entirety. Glad I did. Ledger was really good too.
I almost ruined The Matrix as we used to use scenes to test or demo home theaters. I probably saw the entire movie twice in out of sequence pieces before I watched the whole thing start to finish. It was still good though.
I’ve watched 5 minutes of Breaking Bad. Saving that for a good binge watch weekend. I hope it doesn’t go like the Sopranos in which I bought the entire series box set and binged over a week. I started feeling icky at the end, the characters were really horrible screwed up people.
12. Unnamed and unverifiable sources have told Peggy Noonan things about the Clintons that are simply too terrible to repeat.
That’s it! I knew she was evil.
re: #93 SoundGuy 2016
That’s it! I knew she was evil.
These two really cover everything:
10. She once invested in commodities futures on the advice of a friend and made $100,000, proving she’s a crook.
11. She once invested in real estate on the advice of another friend and lost $100,000, also proving she’s a crook.
re: #94 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
So sad!
Pope shows how it’s done.
Pope leaving Lesbos, Greece, with 12 refugees
MYTILENE, Greece —Pope Francis on Saturday took three refugee families back with him on his plane to Rome following an emotional and provocative visit to the Greek island of Lesbos that seemed designed to prick Europe’s conscience over its treatment of refugees.
The pope boarded his Alitalia jet along with 12 Syrians from three families, all of whom had had their houses bombed and are seeking refuge in Europe, according to a Vatican spokesman. There were six children among them. The spokesman said the families would be cared for at the Vatican.
re: #96 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Today I am at Wegman’s and that is what CNN is showing. That story and that Trump person shooting off his mouth again. He truly does not understand the political system.
re: #81 Grunthos the Flatulent
Apropos of nowt.
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The stuff I have been posting in the past few threads was taken with a Nikon 3200. I will note however that it was using a 55-300 lens rather than the 18-55 I got with the camera. I like both lens, but the 55-300 is the “birding” lens.
re: #98 Feline Fearless Leader
The stuff I have been posting in the past few threads was taken with a Nikon 3200. I will note however that it was using a 55-300 lens rather than the 18-55 I got with the camera. I like both lens, but the 55-300 is the “birding” lens.
Nikon lens, or another brand? I’ve got a 70-300 Tamron that I like, though it’s rather bulky
re: #99 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Nikon lens, or another brand? I’ve got a 70-300 Tamron that I like, though it’s rather bulky
It’s a Nikon lens. About 6-7” long with the lens shade on it. So it’s a little more bulky than the 18-55, but not like some of the 1-2’ rigs I see some people carrying around yesterday that required extra handles or tripods.
I think I have a picture of it in my image library…
Nikon 3200 with 55/300 lensre: #99 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
All I can say is that my late dad loved his Tamron lens with his Nikon. He used it a lot.
re: #100 Feline Fearless Leader
It’s a Nikon lens. About 6-7” long with the lens shade on it. So it’s a little more bulky than the 18-55, but not like some of the 1-2’ rigs I see some people carrying around yesterday that required extra handles or tripods.
I think I have a picture of it in my image library…
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My Tamron is fatter around the middle than yours, I think, and maybe not as long. But its sunshade makes up for that. I considered the Nikon 55-300, but a guy in a photoshop in Los Angeles recommended the Tamron. It had a $50 rebate, so it was in the end cheaper than the Nikon. I wanted a long lens to take photos of my son graduating Purdue.
re: #101 PhillyPretzel
All I can say is that my late dad loved his Tamron lens with his Nikon. He used it a lot.
I like it. I have the VC version, and it captures really good shots even handheld in low light.
Here’s Rage Furby’s new headline (with a story this time) for his Betsy Woodruff piece.
Mostly the problem for CCJ is that they’re anti-TrumpHe’s targeting the Daily Beast, because it’s against Trump (oh the horror!), but also he attacking Woodruff and other members of his generation. Looking at the photos he’s ripped from social media sites, he’s got Woodruff, Michelle Fields, Dave Weigel and Ben Jacobs all palling around together.
Guess who’s not in those photos?
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re: #103 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Here’s Rage Furby’s new headline (with a story this time) for his Betsy Woodruff piece.
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RF seems to think that being vindictive, abusive, and unyielding in the face of criticism like tRump is the means to wealth, success, etc. Plus he went to the right school, so the offers of riches from conservatives should be overflowing his mailbox already. If it wasn’t for those meddling kool kids keeping him down!
“I’m sorry we didn’t hire you. Would you mind doing the work anyway?” https://t.co/eO4cTOVwdE
— Clients From Hell (@clientsfh) April 16, 2016
re: #104 Feline Fearless Leader
RF seems to think that being vindictive, abusive, and unyielding in the face of criticism like tRump is the means to wealth, success, etc. Plus he went to the right school, so the offers of riches from conservatives should be overflowing his mailbox already. If it wasn’t for those meddling kool kids keeping him down!
He’s got it fixed in his mind that being nasty to (almost) everyone means he’s “independent” and fearless. But his blind spots are so huge that even people who are close to him politically can see he’s a fraud. He’s never gone after Cruz or Trump, worships Breitbart like a god, and automatically assumes any woman or black person is in the wrong. Heaven forbid anyone should attack Cruz or Trump, because he’ll target them, too.
Kid needs a real job. Too bad he can’t get one.
Video footage of the 7.3 magnitude quake that hit Japan.
bbc.com
This followed the 6.4 magnitude quake the day before.
re: #64 De Kolta Chair
Beats me why that wasn’t a hit. A very funny movie. The cow gag “creams” me every time.
I’ve been really surprised that this clip from Top Secret hasn’t shown up more in the last months: The meaning of the name ‘Hillary’.
re: #100 Feline Fearless Leader
It’s a Nikon lens. About 6-7” long with the lens shade on it. So it’s a little more bulky than the 18-55, but not like some of the 1-2’ rigs I see some people carrying around yesterday that required extra handles or tripods.
I think I have a picture of it in my image library…
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Sometimes a lens is just a lens..
Excessive Faith In Science Is Epistemologically Unsound pic.twitter.com/NWKYncHTGM
— Dead to the Core (@grateful4dead) April 16, 2016
And sometimes a bed is what the doctor ordered. I’m hitting the sack. See you all later on.
re: #103 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Here’s Rage Furby’s new headline (with a story this time) for his Betsy Woodruff piece.
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It’s a vicious cycle: Chuckles behaves viciously. which causes the company he would freelance for or the social media platform he posts on to warn him to behave better. This bruises Chuck’s ego, which makes him behave even more obnoxiously than before, which cause him to be turfed out by said company or platform. This causes Chuckie to get even more angry and butthurt and he uses whatever outlets he can to spew his venom, which makes him ever less employable.
Only UpChuck can end the cycle, but I doubt he will. To do so he have to learn to accept wounds to his ego on a regular basis.
re: #92 SoundGuy 2016
I’ve watched 5 minutes of Breaking Bad. Saving that for a good binge watch weekend. I hope it doesn’t go like the Sopranos in which I bought the entire series box set and binged over a week. I started feeling icky at the end, the characters were really horrible screwed up people.
Many of the characters are really horrible screwed up people, but the other characters recognize how horrible and screwed up they are. By the end, almost everyone gets what they deserve.
re: #112 darthstar
What is this ‘faith in science’?
re: #101 PhillyPretzel
All I can say is that my late dad loved his Tamron lens with his Nikon. He used it a lot.
Short of Canon L series Tamron might be next, certainly up there or sometimes a touch better than canon consumer glass. IMHO. Varies by model your results may vary. :-)
Oh hey what day is it? Oh right and apparently kitty breakfast time too.
.@BernieSanders is about to take off for NY. We’ve been served a menu for the 9 hour chartered flight he’s taking pic.twitter.com/1nR15R3aQQ
— Yamiche Alcindor (@Yamiche) April 16, 2016
re: #113 wheat-dogghazi-mailgate
Sometimes a bird is just a bird.
Sometimes the bird isn’t there.
Bird feetIs it that mathematics, a human construct designed to make sense of the world we inhabit and which underpins science in so many respects, fails to appreciate a certain progressive presidential candidate?
Eh, maybe I’m reading too much into it.
re: #54 gocart mozart
One day I want to put this sign on a door.
Unauthorized Personnel Only
Yes, I’m evil.
re: #122 Alyosha
Is it that mathematics, a human construct designed to make sense of the world we inhabit and which underpins science in so many respects, fails to appreciate a certain progressive presidential candidate?
Eh, maybe I’m reading too much into it.
Maybe.
Trump is the weakest GOP front-runner in the modern era: https://t.co/1M710i7xz4 pic.twitter.com/t0iAgPg68B
— FiveThirtyEight (@FiveThirtyEight) April 16, 2016
re: #64 De Kolta Chair
Beats me why that wasn’t a hit. A very funny movie. The cow gag “creams” me every time.
Another one Kilmer was in that should have been a hit but wasn’t.
Real Genius.
I suspect it was too smart for the average American movie goer.
re: #125 Alyosha
This is the type of “election” that he wants. littlegreenfootballs.com
re: #127 PhillyPretzel
It certainly seems that way. I was interested to read that the entire presidential bid was an attempt to embarrass the GOP for failing to allow him to be the candidate in NY’s gubernatorial race.
Can we hope that he’ll be satisfied with wrecking their crack at the White House? I keep wondering how far he’s willing to take his bullshit.
re: #8 stpaulbear
I’m going to toot my own (almost 40 year old) horn here. The Minnesota Music History Channel posted a couple of videos by the band I was in back in the late 70’s. I’m the drummer. It definitely has that late 70’s vibe going. I was still trying to hang on to my mid-70’s haircut, and this video is from the approximately one week where I didn’t have facial hair. I look so weird…
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(edit: removed one of the videos because they both played the same song. reposted below)
Were you that good a drummer at 3 years old, or was the video from the late 80s, or you’re tooting your 50 year old horn?
I’m cornfused. : )
re: #128 Alyosha
That is why he is doing it. I do not know how long he will keep it up. Perhaps that is why he is attacking the delegate selection process.
re: #106 GlutenFreeJesus
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Did someone say Lorikeet thread? Because I’m pretty sure someone said Lorikeet thread!
My favourite lori picture:
Flickr
My favourite lorikeet experience in Australia *volume warning*
re: #130 PhillyPretzel
That’s definitely the reason for his attack on the accumulation of delegates. He’s racking up the wins and is falling down regardless. His view is that though we’re already more than half-done with the primary process and he might not make the threshold even with the popular vote, the party ought to make him the candidate because otherwise the increasingly-likely brokered convention will seem like an act of theft to the base.
The third party run threat pretty much confirms that if he hates anyone more than Clinton, it’s the GOP.
One of the many reasons I love Baseball.
Actual story about Madison Bumgarner told by national treasure Vin Scully last night on the Dodgers broadcast. pic.twitter.com/JAKy8Cqiw0
— Will Brinson (@WillBrinson) April 16, 2016
re: #131 Danack
When I moved south from Queensland to Victoria, I missed two things, aurally, at least:
The pounding of tropical rain on our tin roofs and the mad cacophony of screeching lorikeets at dusk.
“we’re fdr democrats, and we’re for bernie sanders the peace candidate”
oh god oh god can i tell them about dresden?— Oliver Willis (@owillis) April 16, 2016
Breaking news: the left discovers that white people can sometimes find it hard to vote, becomes outraged. https://t.co/PqFyvTJih1
— Allan Brauer (@allanbrauer) April 16, 2016
Final thought: New York is a voter suppression state. Independents (the largest voting bloc) are prohibited from voting. This is not fair.
— Michael Moore (@MMFlint) April 15, 2016
‘Not fair!’
Sound familiar?
Is there anything more annoying on Facebook than a chain-mail post that says that you’re an uncaring person or not a real friend if you don’t like or share their post?
“Share this (spam) if you care about our wounded soldiers and veterans!”
“If you’re a real friend of mine, give me a one word reply and post this on your page so that I can give you a one word reply.”
Man, I just hate those things.
Such ignorance. And she wants to pass it down to her grandchildren? I can’t even…
“I do not want my grandchildren to believe in evolution,” says the Trump surrogate at the WYGOP convention.
— daveweigel (@daveweigel) April 16, 2016
re: #136 Alyosha
@MMFlint It is a party primary after all, Open primaries get gamed. Suddenly this time around you forget this fact?
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) April 16, 2016
re: #138 stpaulbear
Is there anything more annoying on Facebook than a chain-mail post that says that you’re an uncaring person or not a real friend if you don’t like or share their post?
“Share this (spam) if you care about our wounded soldiers and veterans!”
“If you’re a real friend of mine, give me a one word reply and post this on your page so that I can give you a one word reply.”
Man, I just hate those things.
Maybe it’s time to do an about-face[book].
This is pretty brutal. Pope Francis just made it clear that Sanders was waiting for him in the foyer and basically ambushed him to get the meeting he wanted.
I was right, after being denied an audience Bernie stalked the foyer waiting for Pope Francis. pic.twitter.com/irjV0YKfvd
— Nom de Whore (@goddamnedfrank) April 16, 2016
re: #126 Romantic Heretic
Real Genius is one of the movies that I show my kids.
Green Party candidate Jill Stein: The Democratic Party ‘fakes left’ but marches right.https://t.co/ucyoCNUAa5 pic.twitter.com/mIkNfrWXHM
— FOX 12 Oregon KPTV (@fox12oregon) April 15, 2016
Can you even imagine a candidate from the Green Party (or, slightly more likely, an Independent) winning the Big Chair in the US?
I’d take one of them over a Republican any single hour of any given week but I’d expect a Democrat to clean up the shit that they leave behind.
Vote Democratic. “We fix your shit and rather than castigate you for it, encourage you to do better next time.”
re: #129 ObserverArt
Were you that good a drummer at 3 years old, or was the video from the late 80s, or you’re tooting your 50 year old horn?
I’m cornfused. : )
2016 - 1978ish = 38ish years ago. I’m 61 now.
I was just wondering why a Jewish politician would go meet the pope.
re: #146 SoundGuy 2016
I honestly cannot think of a reason off the top of my head. Bragging rights maybe?
re: #142 goddamnedfrank
The question is: who kissed whose ring?
re: #136 Alyosha
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‘Not fair!’
Sound familiar?
So people who do not have strong enough feelings about/belief in either party’s platform and policies to actually commit to be a member of said party should have as much say in choosing said party’s candidates as those who support and work for said party? And these INDEPENDENT folks should be able to decide at the last minute which party to grace with their oh so important presence?
Yep—seems totally fair and rational.
Oh, and Michael, they’re not “prohibited from voting.” They just need to have made up their damn minds what they support earlier than five minutes before the primary.
re: #135 Alyosha
FDR was the kind of hawk that would make Democrats today, such as Darth, reject him as a candidate.
re: #139 blueraven
Such ignorance. And she wants to pass it down to her grandchildren? I can’t even…
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BTW. That Trump surrogate was a last minute replacement for Sarah Palin who suddenly cancelled her appearance.
Sarah Palin will not be appearing as a surrogate for Donald Trump at the Wyoming Republican Party convention this weekend, the state’s GOP announced on Thursday.
According to a release on the Republican Party of Wyoming’s website, the Trump campaign said she would not be attending. It provided no explanation for the last-minute cancellation.
Read more: politico.com
When you’re confused about Everything in upstate New York. pic.twitter.com/9HHhlYeFsn
— DNLee (@DNLee5) April 16, 2016
re: #146 SoundGuy 2016
I was just wondering why a Jewish politician would go meet the pope.
I wonder that too. Then I remembered that he was the only Pres candidate on either side who refused to give a speech at AIPAC. The only Jewish candidate. Just a hmmmm thing.
re: #23 Sophist, Premature Anti-Trumpist
First the anti-masturbation thing, and now this? Yeah, Ted’s alleged affairs have got to be the tip of the iceberg here. Anyone this sanctimonious about sex is compensating for something big.
Or, is that something really small?
re: #151 Belafon
FDR was the kind of hawk that would make Democrats today, such as Darth, reject him as a candidate.
Pearl Harbour had the unintended benefit of providing FDR with a workable path forward to delivering fascism the kick in the arse it had coming while kicking arse was still feasible. Thankfully, with regional exceptions, this did not extend to ideologically destroying the world.
Hawkishness is a shitty necessity for the democratic superpower.
re: #156 Alyosha
Pearl Harbour had the unintended benefit of providing FDR with a workable path forward to delivering fascism the kick in the arse it had coming while kicking arse was still feasible. Thankfully, with regional exceptions, this did not extend to ideologically destroying the world.
Hawkishness is a shitty necessity for the democratic superpower.
I find it fascinating that it took Pearl Harbor to get us into WWII, given that by that time Germany had intentionally sunk a number of our merchant ships, and one of out destroyers. Imagine an American President today, NOT going to war after that! He’s be impeached in an instant!
Honoring the 32 who died at #VirginiaTech 9 years ago today. Holding them, survivors, & loved ones in my thoughts. pic.twitter.com/3F6V9OX4uE
— Gabrielle Giffords (@GabbyGiffords) April 16, 2016
re: #142 goddamnedfrank
This is pretty brutal. Pope Francis just made it clear that Sanders was waiting for him in the foyer and basically ambushed him to get the meeting he wanted.
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WTF??? I swear Bernie is coming unglued.
And so has our freaking media. Today I learned all about optics. You have Bernie in Rome leaning on the Pope for some time with North America’s Premiere Democratic Socialist and last night in HollyLaLaLand Hillary beating on Hollywood’s Fashionable
Movie Types for gazillions of dirty campaign money.
Of course no mention that a lot of that money is for PACs to help the whole Democratic party…or that Bernie really wasn’t all that wanted at the Vatican. It is about Optics…and how the media wants it to be seen.
re: #157 Blind Frog Belly White
I find it fascinating that it took Pearl Harbor to get us into WWII, given that by that time Germany had intentionally sunk a number of our merchant ships, and one of out destroyers. Imagine an American President today, NOT going to war after that! He’s be impeached in an instant!
Heh, the military industrial complex wasn’t even quite conceived at that point, so the dynamics politically were different.
Even a warlord like Hitler might be reasoned with and profited from. Unfortunately for him, one of the few treaties that he honoured was the one with Japan LOL
“He knew I was coming out at the time…” in conjunction with saying it was “a handshake and nothing more” makes it abundantly clear that the Pope is not the least bit amused. The psychiatrist line on the surface looks like it might be aimed at critics but what it really does is cut down Sanders’ campaign and supporters who desperately wanted to spin the entire trip into a huge PR coup.
re: #145 stpaulbear
2016 - 1978ish = 38ish years ago. I’m 61 now.
Got it. When I read toot your horn, I thought you were referring to your own age not to the era of your band.
I figured from other music comments you’ve made around here we are about the same age. I’ll be 62 in August. The first band I was in as the drummer was in ‘78.
Right there with you.
By the way, I liked the video. Do you still play at all?
re: #161 goddamnedfrank
So a kind of Michael Moore-type ambush, but with the Kim Davis soft-sell ‘meeting’.
re: #150 BeachDem
So people who do not have strong enough feelings about/belief in either party’s platform and policies to actually commit to be a member of said party should have as much say in choosing said party’s candidates as those who support and work for said party? And these INDEPENDENT folks should be able to decide at the last minute which party to grace with their oh so important presence?
Yep—seems totally fair and rational.
Oh, and Michael, they’re not “prohibited from voting.” They just need to have made up their damn minds what they support earlier than five minutes before the primary.
Michael sometimes speaks in words that are not unlike some of his selective edits in movies. It’s all about what is left unsaid and not clearly defined.
VIDEO #NatGeo ‘The Story of God’ features #Navajo family fr #Farmington: https://t.co/uETe3VlMtL” #NativeAmerican pic.twitter.com/QfDpAfUkIq
— Haida Princess (@HaidaPrincess) April 16, 2016
Click through for nice photos and a video clip.
Hosted by Morgan Freeman! That would be like describing your spirituality to God himself!
re: #161 goddamnedfrank
If I had a chance to shake the pope’s hand, I’d probably show up and act like a pope fanboy too. But I sure as hell wouldn’t make any claim that he conferred with me.
re: #153 wrenchwench
The so-called Five Civilized Tribes sided with the confederacy, with a few others.
re: #156 Alyosha
I tend to be a hawkish Socialist, so the peaceniks do get on my nerves.
re: #167 Ziggy_TARDIS
The so-called Five Civilized Tribes sided with the confederacy, with a few others.
History is complicated. The current meaning of the Confederate flag is not.
re: #162 ObserverArt
Got it. When I read toot your horn, I thought you were referring to your own age not to the era of your band.
I figured from other music comments you’ve made around here we are about the same age. I’ll be 62 in August. The first band I was in as the drummer was in ‘78.
Right there with you.
By the way, I liked the video. Do you still play at all?
I gave up playing due to severe tinnitus. I still have the drums in cases in the basement. I know my mental health would be a lot better if I was still playing, but it almost hurts to be around loud noise.
re: #169 wrenchwench
I hate that flag just as much as you. That thing should be relegated to the history books.
I was pointing out that it isn’t quite as weird as it first. Though, being upstate New York, that is baffling. Namely because I think a few of the tribes in the area, or originally from the area, sided with the Union.
re: #167 Ziggy_TARDIS
The so-called Five Civilized Tribes sided with the confederacy, with a few others.
The Five Civilized Tribes were the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole. All Southeastern, one displaced Iroquoian and four Muskoghean. (Actually, Choctaw and Chickasaw are the same, as are Creek and Seminole.) None anywhere near Upstate New York.
Major General CSA and Cherokee chief Stand Watie was the last Confederate General Officer to surrender.
re: #167 Ziggy_TARDIS
The so-called Five Civilized Tribes sided with the confederacy, with a few others.
The split in the American nation was mirrored by splits in the tribes. Factions that pre-existed the white man’s war fought on different sides.
re: #173 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
The Five Civilized Tribes were the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw, Creek, and Seminole. All Southeastern, one displaced Iroquoian and four Muskoghean. (Actually, Choctaw and Chickasaw are the same, as are Creek and Seminole.) None anywhere near Upstate New York.
Major General CSA and Cherokee chief Stand Watie was the last Confederate General Officer to surrender.
Disclaimer: I’m 1/8 Choctaw myself.
re: #172 Ziggy_TARDIS
I hate that flag just as much as you. That thing should be relegated to the history books.
I was pointing out that it isn’t quite as weird as it first. Though, being upstate New York, that is baffling. Namely because I think a few of the tribes in the area, or originally from the area, sided with the Union.
I didn’t mean you were confused. I meant the owners of that store have no excuse. I appreciate your addition of historical bits.
re: #176 wrenchwench
Oh, ok.
The Delaware, better known as the Lenape, come from the area. They sided with the Union alot.
When they fired John Pope from the Army of the Potomac, they sent him to Minnesota to suppress the tribes there. If they could have gotten any help from the Confederacy, I’m sure they would have been happy, but logistically it just wasn’t happening.
re: #159 ObserverArt
WTF??? I swear Bernie is coming unglued.
And so has our freaking media. Today I learned all about optics. You have Bernie in Rome leaning on the Pope for some time with North America’s Premiere Democratic Socialist and last night in HollyLaLaLand Hillary beating on Hollywood’s Fashionable
Movie Types for gazillions of dirty campaign money.Of course no mention that a lot of that money is for PACs to help the whole Democratic party…or that Bernie really wasn’t all that wanted at the Vatican. It is about Optics…and how the media wants it to be seen.
I made this comment yesterday, but it looks to me that Sanders is trying to save face because he said he was going to meet with the pope. The lengths he’s gone to to try to recover from his original statement, rather than saying he got it wrong, make me concerned about him being president. It reminds me too much of LBJ’s need to escalate actions in Vietnam because pulling out would have been seen as a failure of the US and of Johnson, and he had no ability to accept that.
What a wonderful day in human history. The first Pastafarian wedding!
The light-hearted Church of the Flying Spaghetti Monster has staged its first legally recognised wedding.
Toby Ricketts and Marianna Fenn tied the “noodle knot” in the New Zealand South Island town of Akaroa.
The happy couple say that guidelines of the Pastafarian religion stipulate that wedding celebrants must be pirates.
Members of the church profess the belief that the world was created by an airborne spaghetti and meatballs-based being and humans evolved from pirates.
re: #174 Decatur Deb
The split in the American nation was mirrored by splits in the tribes. Factions that pre-existed the white man’s war fought on different sides.
There were Civil War battles in New Mexico. Then the Buffalo Soldiers were brought out here to push the Apaches away from the good parts. Locally the Buffalo Soldiers are celebrated. The Native Americans are team mascots. History is complicated.
re: #171 Blind Frog Belly White
WTF is ‘excessive faith in science’?
It’s spin, an attempt to make science equivalent to religion so that people can claim “well, you believe what you want, and I’ll believe what I want.”
re: #175 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Disclaimer: I’m 1/8 Choctaw myself.
Seminoles were largely a synthetic tribe, made up in historic times from various native groups, escaped slaves, and marginal whites. They got a big boost from the British in 1812, including a dramatic episode involving the Royal Colonial Marines and what became nearby Ft. Gadsden.
re: #181 wrenchwench
There were Civil War battles in New Mexico. Then the Buffalo Soldiers were brought out here to push the Apaches away from the good parts. Locally the Buffalo Soldiers are celebrated. The Native Americans are team mascots. History is complicated.
And here in Texas, the Civil War was used to 1) drive the Native Americans out of the state and into Oklahoma, and 2) try to retake part of New Mexico that was given up when Texas joined the United States. The first one worked, but the second one didn’t.
re: #184 Belafon
Didn’t they also persecute the German-Americans in the state, who sided with the Union in many cases?
re: #170 stpaulbear
I gave up playing due to severe tinnitus. I still have the drums in cases in the basement. I know my mental health would be a lot better if I was still playing, but it almost hurts to be around loud noise.
Sorry about the tinnitus. I am so glad I still have pretty good hearing considering all the concerts I went to, all the bands I hung out and/or worked with and all the loud auto races and race cars I have been around.
I wouldn’t know what to do if I couldn’t play my drums or guitars. Like last night, my buddy and I jammed for a good three plus hours. We have got to start recording as we have the songs pretty much down. I have 12 tunes worked up.
It just is not as easy without the other two dudes where we could play all the parts and capture the drums and maybe bass parts and then build from there. We have got to figure a way to just play the basics and get the drums down with one guitar helping drive the song.
re: #178 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
When they fired John Pope from the Army of the Potomac, they sent him to Minnesota to suppress the tribes there. If they could have gotten any help from the Confederacy, I’m sure they would have been happy, but logistically it just wasn’t happening.
Fort Snelling State Park at the confluence of the Mississippi and Minnesota rivers, has a visitor center that has some interpretive displays regarding the forced relocation of American Indians. The displays were updated a while back to refer to the act as internment and genocide. It is definitely not the white man’s version, and it’s good that MN parks are telling it like it is. They’ve updated their interpretive language at all of the state parks, especially the ‘Fort’ parks where battles took place).
re: #183 Decatur Deb
Seminoles were largely a synthetic tribe, made up in historic times from various native groups, escaped slaves, and marginal whites. They got a big boost from the British in 1812, including a dramatic episode involving the Royal Colonial Marines and what became nearby Ft. Gadsden.
Oh, I know—“Seminole” is actually a corruption of Spanish Cimarrón: “Escaped slave”. They adopted Creek as their common language, is all I meant.
re: #182 Belafon
It’s spin, an attempt to make science equivalent to religion so that people can claim “well, you believe what you want, and I’ll believe what I want.”
Equating science with religion is a popular dodge on the Right. I had a friend who did that sort of thing constantly, along with argument by analogy - or in his case, argument by BAD analogy. Things like “DNA is information, like letters in words in a book. If you randomly change letters in those words, the book becomes incomprehensible, therefore mutations are deleterious.”
But I’m surprised to see a Lizard posting that, if he actually means it.
re: #184 Belafon
And here in Texas, the Civil War was used to 1) drive the Native Americans out of the state and into Oklahoma, and 2) try to retake part of New Mexico that was given up when Texas joined the United States. The first one worked, but the second one didn’t.
I’ve always thought there are parts of New Mexico that we could give to Texas in exchange for El Paso. We would give El Paso the love it deserves! Safest big city in America! Twice the size of Albuquerque! Bustling port!
re: #188 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Oh, I know—“Seminole” is actually a corruption of Spanish Cimarrón: “Escaped slave”. They adopted Creek as their common language, is all I meant.
Interesting. Cimarrón, New Mexico is not all that far (as the crow flies) from Glorieta Pass, one of those Civil War battle sites.
re: #190 wrenchwench
I’ve always thought there are parts of New Mexico that we could give to Texas in exchange for El Paso. We would give El Paso the love it deserves! Safest big city in America! Twice the size of Albuquerque! Bustling port!
Let’s gather up all the red boils on the backside of blue states and give them all to Texas—we can start with Eastern Washington.
I love this. Driftglass had it up this morning.
For those of you who love Justin Trudeau and don’t love Donald Trump.
re: #188 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Oh, I know—“Seminole” is actually a corruption of Spanish Cimarrón: “Escaped slave”. They adopted Creek as their common language, is all I meant.
Ooops—took a break for lunch.
Yeah, language is the key, since old-times tribal membership was a pretty informal, voluntary, thing. The trick of course, was to be able to communicate.
re: #192 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Let’s gather up all the red boils on the backside of blue states and give them all to Texas—we can start with Eastern Washington.
1968 Republican candidate for Washington Commissioner of Public Lands Richard A. C. Greene:
“The so-called Inland Empire is a trackless waste contributing
nothing to the Evergreen State but rattlesnakes and nitwits,”
Greene thundered from his headquarters in Honolulu. “I’d offer
that sandpile to Idaho and if they didn’t accept it, I’d
invade. It’s high time Washington had a foreign policy
anyway.”
re: #138 stpaulbear
Is there anything more annoying on Facebook than a chain-mail post that says that you’re an uncaring person or not a real friend if you don’t like or share their post?
“Share this (spam) if you care about our wounded soldiers and veterans!”
“If you’re a real friend of mine, give me a one word reply and post this on your page so that I can give you a one word reply.”
Man, I just hate those things.
I just ignore them.
re: #196 Big Beautiful Door
I just ignore them.
Yeah, I do too. I only spend about half an hour a week on FB now and most of my FB friends are the same. One friend posts 5-10 times a day, but she’s an excellent community reporter so she rarely posts junk.
So Reuters is just straight-up lying:
Pope Francis and Bernie Sanders meet to discuss need for morality in world economy
I’m a one-issue voter, and that’s to pass a law prohibiting anyone who calls records “vinyls” from owning them.
re: #179 Belafon
I made this comment yesterday, but it looks to me that Sanders is trying to save face because he said he was going to meet with the pope. The lengths he’s gone to to try to recover from his original statement, rather than saying he got it wrong, make me concerned about him being president. It reminds me too much of LBJ’s need to escalate actions in Vietnam because pulling out would have been seen as a failure of the US and of Johnson, and he had no ability to accept that.
Oh, the Berners have an explanation (of course) for why the Pope said what he said about the hallway encounter—Pope Francis was just being “coy.” Sigh
*Respecting the Pope’s usual concern with not involving himself with politics in Italy or abroad, later reporting on the encounter has delicately shifted to present it as somewhat serendipitous.
Regular Vatican observers would counter that, nowhere more certainly than within Vatican walls, papal encounters do not occur randomly, and do not occur without papal approval and without a mutual desire to meet.
None of the diplomacy around the events surprises me. No one meets the Pope by accident, and the published articles were sourced at the Vatican. There’s no need to change my post because the Pope is being respectably coy and diplomatic about the whole thing now.
Uh huh. Wink. Wink. Nod.
re: #200 worldknot
I’m a one-issue voter, and that’s to pass a law prohibiting anyone who calls records “vinyls” from owning them.
Have you been out to the stores for ‘Record Store Day’ today? There are a few RSD records that I though it would be cool to have, but they disappear within minutes (if the store gets any copies at all) and the stores are like Target on the day after Thanksgiving. I got fed up with it last year. It wasn’t any fun.
re: #199 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
So Reuters is just straight-up lying:
Pope Francis and Bernie Sanders meet to discuss need for morality in world economy
Or The Pope was lying?
When I was leaving (Casa Santa Marta) Senator Sanders was there, he came to the meeting on Centesimus Annus, and he knew that I was leaving at that time, and he had the courtesy to greet me,” Pope Francis said. “I greeted him and his wife and another couple that was with him.”
“So when I went down, I said hello, a shake of the hand and nothing more,” he continued. “This is politeness. This is called good manners, not meddling in politics. And if anyone thinks that to greet someone means to meddle in politics, then I suggest that they find a psychiatrist.”
re: #49 De Kolta Chair
It was part of the late John Hughes’ “Brat Pack” genre of the 1980s. Few of the actors achieved breakout status.
re: #204 darthstar
Sarcasm
That’s a relief. It would have been out of what I’d perceived to be your character, which is nothing if not rational.
re: #203 blueraven
Or The Pope was lying?
It’s a relief to see that Sanders is really just a rather clumsy politician, after all.
re: #205 Eric The Fruit Bat
It was part of the late Michael Hughes’ “Brat Pack” genre of the 1980s. Few of the actors achieved breakout status.
John Hughes, I think you mean. Specialized in ‘Coming Of Age’ teen angst movies during the Big Hair era.
“King of the Dipshits, that’s me.”
“What is this, an audience or an oil painting?”
Come on, folks! I need an excuse not to go out and do more weeding! I’m dying here!
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re: #209 Blind Frog Belly White
“What is this, an audience or an oil painting?”
Come on, folks! I need an excuse not to go out and do more weeding! I’m dying here!
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Throw a load of laundry in the washer. That’s my excuse on Saturdays.
re: #206 Blind Frog Belly White
That’s a relief. It would have been out of what I’d perceived to be your character, which is nothing if not rational.
Darth is never sarcastic. Except for when he is.
re: #206 Blind Frog Belly White
That’s a relief. It would have been out of what I’d perceived to be your character, which is nothing if not rational.
I can be irrational too!!!
re: #210 stpaulbear
Throw a load of laundry in the washer. That’s my excuse on Saturdays.
Oo! Thanks for the reminder! My cycling clothes need washed.*
*if ‘need washed’ doesn’t give me away as a displaced Pennsylvanian, I don’t know what would!
re: #212 darthstar
I can be irrational too!!!
I know. I’ve seen your posts supporting Sanders.
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C’mon. You walked into that one!
re: #214 Blind Frog Belly White
I know. I’ve seen your posts supporting Sanders.
///////C’mon. You walked into that one!
Hey, he smoked a joint with the Pope. What has Hillary done? Met with some Scientologists?
re: #213 Blind Frog Belly White
Oo! Thanks for the reminder! My cycling clothes need washed.*
*if ‘need washed’ doesn’t give me away as a displaced Pennsylvanian, I don’t know what would!
Mr. C. used to say “need washed” and he was from New Jersey. His parents, however, were PA born and bred as were many, many previous generations. He loves me, so he learned to put the “to be” part in.
re: #136 Alyosha
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re: #216 calochortus
Mr. C. used to say “need washed” and he was from New Jersey. His parents, however, were PA born and bred as were many, many previous generations. He loves me, so he learned to put the “to be” part in.
Mrs. FBW says either “Need TO BE washed!” or “Need WASHING!”, but you can’t take the Pennsylvania out of the boy, even after 36 years.
re: #216 calochortus
Mr. C. used to say “need washed” and he was from New Jersey. His parents, however, were PA born and bred as were many, many previous generations. He loves me, so he learned to put the “to be” part in.
I’ve started hearing this everywhere the last decade or two—didn’t know where it came from.
Everybody I’ve ever known who used “bring” for both “bring” and “take” (“I’ll bring you there.”), starting with my Dad, were from South Dakota. Anybody know any wider source?
The first time I heard Bill Clinton in the ‘92 campaign talk about “growing” the economy, I thought: “Oh shit, they’re going to be all over him about that.” But no—and now I hear it everywhere.
re: #219 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
Everybody I’ve ever known who used “bring” for both “bring” and “take” (“I’ll bring you there.”), starting with my Dad, were from South Dakota. Anybody know any wider source?
I’ve heard that in MN too, but we’re right next door.
re: #219 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I’ve started hearing this everywhere the last decade or two—didn’t know where it came from.
Everybody I’ve ever known who used “bring” for both “bring” and “take” (“I’ll bring you there.”), starting with my Dad, were from South Dakota. Anybody know any wider source?
The first time I heard Bill Clinton in the ‘92 campaign talk about “growing” the economy, I thought: “Oh shit, they’re going to be all over him about that.” But no—and now I hear it everywhere.
Don’t forget Alexander Haig, the original “verbifier of nouns.”
Let the Reader Beware A new linguistic form called ”haigravation” is rearing its head in Washington. It is the tendency of the new Secretary of State to change the state of parts of speech - from noun to adverb, from noun to verb. The new top man at Foggy Bottom, Gen. Alexander Haig, studded his testimony at confirmation hearings with locutions like ”I’ll have to caveat my response, Senator,” and ”I’ll caveat that … .”
re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth
and nounification of verbs:
“it’s a great read.”
still bugs me.
Yeah, sorry. My bad….
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re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth
and nounification of verbs:
“it’s a great read.”
still bugs me.
Yep—bugs me too. (But not as much as actual news stories using “lead” (rhymes with red) as the past of lead (rhymes with need) instead of “led.”)
re: #219 The Very Reverend Battleaxe of Knowledge
I’ve started hearing this everywhere the last decade or two—didn’t know where it came from.
Everybody I’ve ever known who used “bring” for both “bring” and “take” (“I’ll bring you there.”), starting with my Dad, were from South Dakota. Anybody know any wider source?
The first time I heard Bill Clinton in the ‘92 campaign talk about “growing” the economy, I thought: “Oh shit, they’re going to be all over him about that.” But no—and now I hear it everywhere.
I know a guy who grows apples. And my Mom and Dad used to grow all kinds of vegetables, so I’m not sure “growing the economy” is ungrammatical.
re: #222 Backwoods_Sleuth
and nounification of verbs:
“it’s a great read.”
still bugs me.
The people who have “asks” in meetings will be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
Sachs just admitted the “request” to be where the pope would be was from guy responsible for the whole mess, Sorondo https://t.co/2fNO1nmE4V
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) April 16, 2016
Just amazing seeing so many berners on twitter out and out calling the Pope a liar.
good grief
re: #227 goddamnedfrank
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It’s my understanding that Sorondo was also responsible for the “invitation” to speak.
re: #226 Testy Toad T
The people who have “asks” in meetings will be first against the wall when the revolution comes.
You mean when they “take a meeting”?
re: #229 Backwoods_Sleuth
It’s my understanding that Sorondo was also responsible for the “invitation” to speak.
Yep, he bypassed Archer then when she got upset that Sanders invitation had violated protocol he essentially tried to call Archer a liar, saying he’d invited Sanders with her “consensus.” His choice of words were pretty weaselly, consensus could simply have meant that he had the power to invite people, not that she’d previously discussed or agreed to Sanders speaking. It’s pretty clear that Sorondo has no respect at all for Archer’s leadership role at PASS, I’m guessing because she’s a woman. Nominally she’s above him in PASS’s organizational flow chart but he felt he could talk down to and rebuke her so publicly for asserting herself.
re: #225 Blind Frog Belly White
I know a guy who grows apples. And my Mom and Dad used to grow all kinds of vegetables, so I’m not sure “growing the economy” is ungrammatical.
The Grammarphobia Blog
Growing pains
But this newer transitive use of “grow” applied to nonliving things (as in “grow the economy”) seems to have emerged during the 1992 presidential election, according to The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language (5th ed.). Many (though not all) language authorities frown on a usage like “grow our business,” including 80 percent of American Heritage’s Usage Panel.
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Speaking for myself, I hope this remains corporate jargon and doesn’t become more widely used. Even worse, though, is the phrase “grow down,” as in “I promise to grow down the deficit.” Anyone capable of speaking in such a way should grow up.
Watch as Bernie is directed to Academy President Margaret Archer and walks right past, ignoring her for Morales. pic.twitter.com/qoy4zsUY3R
— Nom de Whore (@goddamnedfrank) April 16, 2016
re: #233 goddamnedfrank
What’s happening there? I don’t know who those people are.
re: #228 Backwoods_Sleuth
I just want to know where the Pope stands on the whole George Clooney Must Go issue.
re: #234 stpaulbear
What’s happening there? I don’t know who those people are.
Click on the Twitter bird logo in the lower right to see the tweet. Sanders being directed towards Academy President Margaret Archer, who he deliberately snubs, walking right past her as she stands to greet him as he chooses to shake hands with Evo Morales instead.
re: #237 goddamnedfrank
Click on the Twitter bird logo in the lower right to see the tweet. Sanders being directed towards Academy President Margaret Archer, who he deliberately snubs, walking right past her as she stands to greet him as he chooses to shake hands with Evo Morales instead.
If the pope can ignore Bernie to meet with a world leader, then he can as well.
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re: #237 goddamnedfrank
It absolutely was deliberate too. Bernie was pissed off at Archer because she strongly criticized him for breaking protocol in securing an invitation. That’s how he deals with strong women who stand up for themselves, that’s Sanders maturity level on display.
re: #238 Belafon
If the pope can ignore Bernie to meet with a world leader, then he can as well.
Um, what? He was at an Academy Event, was directed to the President of the Academy and totally ignored her out of spite. The Pope on the other hand just tried to stay out of another nation’s politics and had his wishes subverted by both Sanders and Sorondo, who refused to take no for an answer.
re: #240 goddamnedfrank
Um, what? He was at an Academy Event, was directed to the President of the Academy and totally ignored her out of spite. The Pope on the other hand just tried to stay out of another nation’s politics and had his wishes subverted by both Sanders and Sorondo, who refused to take no for an answer.
Also, Morales is an actual head of state.
Bernie is not.
re: #240 goddamnedfrank
Um, what? He was at an Academy Event, was directed to the President of the Academy and totally ignored her out of spite. The Pope on the other hand just tried to stay out of another nation’s politics and had his wishes subverted by both Sanders and Sorondo, who refused to take no for an answer.
I forgot the sarc tags. It was meant to poke at the way Sanders acted.
re: #242 Belafon
I forgot the sarc tags. It was meant to poke at the way Sanders acted.
I should have guessed. I just have no sense of humor left when it comes to Sanders. The dude has worn all the way through my last fucking nerve.
Oh, and Morales showed up before the conference began, giving the Pope’s people plenty of time to schedule a meeting.
re: #244 Backwoods_Sleuth
Oh, and Morales showed up before the conference began, giving the Pope’s people plenty of time to schedule a meeting.
Lastly, Morales is term limited and can’t run for office again, but holds office until 2020. Meeting with him couldn’t reasonably be interpreted as interfering in Bolivian politics.
re: #239 goddamnedfrank
It absolutely was deliberate too. Bernie was pissed off at Archer because she strongly criticized him for breaking protocol in securing an invitation. That’s how he deals with strong women who stand up for themselves, that’s Sanders maturity level on display.
Also—math.
Their latest email is calling for 15,000 people to work “an hour or two” each this weekend to make 2 million calls in NY.
Hmmmm, 15,000 people x 15 calls per hour (being very generous—4 minutes per call; no breaks, no nothing) = 225,000 calls per hour. Which means if each of those 15,000 people works 8 hours (rather than “an hour or two”, they’ll have made 1.8 million calls.
Anyone who has phonebanked would agree with me that 15 calls per hour for 8 hours is rainbow fart/unicorn stuff.
re: #246 BeachDem
Also—math.
Their latest email is calling for 15,000 people to work “an hour or two” each this weekend to make 2 million calls in NY.
Hmmmm, 15,000 people x 15 calls per hour (being very generous—4 minutes per call; no breaks, no nothing) = 225,000 calls per hour. Which means if each of those 15,000 people works 8 hours (rather than “an hour or two”, they’ll have made 1.8 million calls.
Anyone who has phonebanked would agree with me that 15 calls per hour for 8 hours is rainbow fart/unicorn stuff.
Phone banking is awful. Ever since I signed up to volunteer it’s the one thing I’m dreading Clinton’s campaign asking me to do. I’ll do it but I’d much rather drive people to the polls or just about anything else. I’d literally rather shovel shit for 8 hours than call up people and bug them.
re: #247 goddamnedfrank
I did data entry work and assembled signs at the call center during the push to defeat the straight marriage amendment in MN; anything but make calls. It was nice to win that one. It led to MN approving gay marriage a couple years later.
re: #247 goddamnedfrank
Phone banking is awful. Ever since I signed up to volunteer it’s the one thing I’m dreading Clinton’s campaign asking me to do. I’ll do it but I’d much rather drive people to the polls or just about anything else. I’d literally rather shovel shit for 8 hours than call up people and bug them.
Tell them that. If you’d rather door-to-door canvass or do data entry (they don’t need as much of that when they use the dialer system, but they still need it for the canvassing info) or whatever, just tell them. They would probably LOVE to have someone who would drive people to the polls, especially to do early in-person voting (not sure if they have that in CA.)
I also hate phone banking. And with a field rep living with me, I really couldn’t get by without doing SOMETHING, so I did her data entry when she got home at night with her data, helped her put her packages together, wrote copy for her email blasts, went to the phone-bank locations and brought them food and drinks, etc.
The only plus on the phone-banking is they have the lists all sorted by targets, so in the early going, you’ll almost always be calling people who have expressed support for Hillary; then, as the primary gets closer, you’ll be re-calling people to remind them about registration deadlines, voting times, seeing if they need a ride etc.
re: #250 Decatur Deb
Did more than enough to get sick of it, and read enough to doubt its effectiveness (below). There’s this thing about “volunteer”, however. I volunteer for what I want from now on.
I have to say, my field rep/housemate really hated yard signs, and thought they were pretty worthless, but, of course, campaigns love them. We had boxes on my patio with 2,500 yard sign frames (and those suckers are heavy) and each night, I would help her assemble a few hundred for the next day’s events. I still have a stack of them here in my office that she couldn’t fit in her car when she left.
re: #247 goddamnedfrank
Phone banking is awful. Ever since I signed up to volunteer it’s the one thing I’m dreading Clinton’s campaign asking me to do. I’ll do it but I’d much rather drive people to the polls or just about anything else. I’d literally rather shovel shit for 8 hours than call up people and bug them.
I really loved phone-banking for the 1976 Republican primary. We’d identify the yes/no/maybe, ask what issue particularly interested them, stuff envelopes with the relevant policy sheet (pre-internet, remember)… then call back the maybes a week or two later, ask if they’d read it and discuss it with them. Then call back a couple days before the primary, do they know where their polling place is, do they need a ride… and because we kept track of who called which sheets, they’d get repeated calls from the same volunteer. If we kept good notes, we could build an actual pseudo-relationship with the voter, remember personal details, call again during the general….
Ford won California by a significant margin, which was an especially sweet “fuck you” to Reagan.
This experience is probably a big part of why I never warmed up to Reagan. Ever.
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