If there’s a criticism of Jacob Collier, it’s that he often tends to rely on technology as his accompaniment, and that can sometimes result in a performance that feels in-organic and cold to some people.
But here he is in the most organic setting possible, performing live with the Metropole Orkest at the North Sea Jazz Festival, and… it’s glorious. Majestic, even.
AHCA/BCRAP both included >$100 billion in stabilization funding which, if ADDED to existing ACA funds, would solve ~70% of ACA problems. 2/
— ☪️ Charles Gaba ✡️ (@charles_gaba) July 29, 2017
re: #1 Kragar
I’m almost as sick of the far left as I am of the far right. Both of these factions are lost in their own fantasy worlds.
re: #2 Charles Johnson
I’m almost as sick of the far left as I am of the far right. Both of these factions are lost in their own fantasy worlds.
That and they don’t effin read
re: #2 Charles Johnson
I keep this handy
Anywhere between 10 and 2, you’re dealing with a complete fucking moron
Everyone realizes we still can’t believe a single word Reince Priebus says, right? Nothing has really changed here.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2017
Forty-nine Republican senators voted for legislation that many of them admitted was substantively flawed and procedurally absurd—legislation that only 17 percent of the public supported and every major medical interest group opposed; that had been shredded by a bipartisan coalition of governors, the Congressional Budget Office and their own hand-picked parliamentarian
I had to carry this over from downstairs.
Read this article on John Kelly. He’s nukkin futz.
But then Kelly jumped out of the crazy tree and hit every branch on the way down. In discussing his agency’s mission, Kelly said this (slightly annotated).
“Make no mistake — we are a nation under attack.”
No, we’re not.
“We are under attack from criminals who think their greed justifies raping young girls at knifepoint, dealing poison to our youth, or killing just for fun.”
Crime rates have been declining for decades.
“We are under attack from people who hate us, hate our freedoms, hate our laws, hate our values, hate the way we simply live our lives.”
Since 9/11, approximately 94 people have been killed on US soil by jihadist terrorists — a bit more than the number of Americans killed every single day in gun violence.
“We are under attack from failed states, cyber-terrorists, vicious smugglers, and sadistic radicals.”
Cyber-terrorists have never killed an American citizen, no failed state threatens America and more Americans are killed by lightning strikes than sadistic radicals.
“And we are under attack every single day. The threats are relentless.”
No, they’re not.
On Sunday Kelly continued the onslaught.
“We have tremendous threats, whether it’s drugs, people, potential terrorists coming up from the south,” he said
There’s pretty much no evidence that terrorists are using the southern border as a transit point for entering America.
He also said the thing that “keeps me literally awake at night is the threat against aviation,” even though there is literally no safer form of travel and no element of American life more solidly protected from the threat of terrorism than flying on a plane.
But Kelly is in a bind here. When you work for a xenophobic president intent on building a wall that America doesn’t need and deporting non-violent immigrants to win over white nationalist supporters, then hyping security threats, particularly from terrorism, is the only way to rationalize these policies. It’s like justifying a $600 billion military budget by portraying the world as being more “dangerous” than ever; or selling a foreign war by overstating the danger to America from weapons of mass destruction.
“Presidents thrive, ideally, when they are both loved and feared, politically. And Donald Trump is neither.” https://t.co/SgbkPzvNps
— carolynryan (@carolynryan) July 29, 2017
re: #5 Charles Johnson
Lots of people sound pretty giddy about Priebus not having signed a NDS, but it’s not like we should reward him if he writes a book about his time with Trump.
re: #9 stpaulbear
Lots of people sound pretty giddy about Priebus not having signed a NDS, but it’s not like we should reward him if he writes a book about his time with Trump.
It’s not like he will write anything anyway. He’d sink himself. He was responsible for allowing trump in the first place he could have stopped him as RNC Chair.
A sickening display of political homoeroticism pic.twitter.com/J1k86P2aAi
— Dinesh D’Souza (@DineshDSouza) July 28, 2017
Dinesh prefers displays of political cheating on your wife with your married mistress https://t.co/JAACqCl3TP
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 29, 2017
re: #5 Charles Johnson
With all the bridges burned and backstabbing victims that Donald Trump has left twisting, I get the feeling that some of these people are very very likely to have some extremely incriminating proof of Trump’s unethical and/or illegal dealings and will gladly turn state’s evidence against him.
You’re not alone.
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2017
Ryan-Priebus ally tells me Trump is moving toward “an independent WH” untethered from the Republican Party
— John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) July 28, 2017
Sounds like Trump is going to try to consolidate his power into a dictatorship in the most inept way possible. If he goes it alone without Congress, they’ll have no incentive to cover for him anymore. This opens him up to Congress taking more steps to constrict his power beyond the Russia sanctions bill and perhaps even impeachment.
re: #1 Kragar
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Charles Gaba knows his ACA shit. Period.
And in the “this is so pathetic, it’s groan-worthy” hall of fame:
At a closed-door conference meeting with House Republicans hours after Sen. John McCain scuttled perhaps the last best hope of repealing Obamacare, Ryan read an excerpt from “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald,” a song about sailors drowning in a 1975 shipwreck. He likened the tune to what he deemed the Senate’s tragic failure to repeal Obamacare.
re: #16 BeachDem
“When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin’
Fellas, it’s too rough to feed ya
At seven pm a main hatchway caved in, he said
Fellas, it’s been good t’know ya”
On the Collier piece above, it is so beautiful the chords just keep ringing in my head.
re: #18 Charles Johnson
Chuck Johnson’s former business associate Pax Dickinson also got a letter from the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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The election of Trump might be the worst thing to happen to these scumbags. How ironic.
Anyway, I was on a call with Peter Smith too, I know what Chuck knows about Hillary’s emails, and I got the same letter from the Senate. /6 pic.twitter.com/bBdedJkJRe
— Not Pax Dickinson (@NotPaxDickinson) July 28, 2017
Couldn’t happen to a nicer guy. Hope you enjoy dealing with the fall-out from your ill-fated business partner. https://t.co/7pDvSIynvu
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2017
re: #18 Charles Johnson
Chuck Johnson’s former business associate Pax Dickinson also got a letter from the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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How are these losers able to connect with Russians, for crying out loud?
re: #11 Kragar
Those two aren’t convicted felons unlike the twit Dinesh.
re: #18 Charles Johnson
Chuck Johnson’s former business associate Pax Dickinson also got a letter from the Senate Intelligence Committee.
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I got to stock up on the popcorn and call in sick the day these fools are testifying!
re: #24 Joe Bacon 🌹
I got to stock up on the popcorn and call in sick the day these fools are testifying!
It’s that time of the year for sweet corn festivals! 😋
Reposted from downstairs:
re: #359 MsJ
Thread. I have to say it’s hard to argue with this. I love that McCain fucked them. And from what I noted above, he really fucked them, but this is some thread.
Read the whole thing.
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I only have one quibble with this:
Gentle reminder that McCain coulda saved all this drama by voting NO 3 days ago. He should be recuperating, not micromanaging death panels.
— Propane Jane™ (@docrocktex26) July 28, 2017
…because he said flat-out he was going to vote no. And it would remain a no unless things happened that were impossible in the fuckery that is McConnell’s Senate leadership, and that didn’t happen.
But the way McConnell set it up, McCain had to vote yes in order to vote no.
Why? If McCain had indicated he would vote no in the MTP, McConnell would have simply yanked it from the floor, thus prolonging the madness… until McCain would be forced to retire due to his glioblastoma. His treatments start Monday. And McConnell would have definitely waited until an appointment to take over for McCain took office, then used him/her as the 50th vote with Pence to ram this down everyone’s throat.
If McCain was going to be a man of his word and stop this bloody mess, he had to take McConnell’s dirty tricks and use it against him in the most public and humiliating way possible. His MTP address was along the lines of, “You want a MTP to rework 1/5 of our fucking economy with nothing more than a blank piece of paper? Fine, I’ll vote for that… and I’ll vote against that, and you won’t change my goddam mind.”
21 hours later, and I’m still stunned.
re: #18 Charles Johnson
Is it wrong of me to laugh at them thinking they’ve got Congress right where they want them?
re: #15 No Depression
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Sounds like Trump is going to try to consolidate his power into a dictatorship in the most inept way possible. If he goes it alone without Congress, they’ll have no incentive to cover for him anymore. This opens him up to Congress taking more steps to constrict his power beyond the Russia sanctions bill and perhaps even impeachment.
I’m not sure that I’ll get used to the words “President Pence” but it does sound better than “President Trump”.
Or at least not as nauseating
re: #28 Kragar
Is it wrong of me to laugh at them thinking they’ve got Congress right where they want them?
Yes, you are a very bad perso… [cracks up uncontrollably…]
re: #28 Kragar
Is it wrong of me to laugh at them thinking they’ve got Congress right where they want them?
Wait till Assange tweets his support for Ginger Snapped…
re: #28 Kragar
Is it wrong of me to laugh at them thinking they’ve got Congress right where they want them?
It’s like the occasional episode where Wile E Coyote would tangle with Bugs Bunny instead of the Roadrunner. The stupid looks even worse against an intelligent opponent
re: #29 KGxvi
I’m not sure that I’ll get used to the words “President Pence” but it does sound better than “President Trump”.
Or at least not as nauseating
I mean he’s smarter and more charismatic than Trump, which makes him more of a threat. But at the same time, he’s pretty dumb and unlikable himself. He’s despised in his own home state.
re: #34 No Depression
I mean he’s smarter and more charismatic than Trump, which makes him more of a threat. But at the same time, he’s pretty dumb and unlikable himself. He’s despised in his own home state.
My guess is that Pence would at least adhere to political norms. And that he’d be a deadman walking in 2020 (in fact wouldn’t be surprised if he’s challenged in the primary).
Also wouldn’t be surprised if there was some sort of Trump Rump movement to create a third party challenge that would wind up costing Republicans in several states
re: #27 Myron Falwell
I have a feeling he’s not long for this world.
So I will give him every prop available for his vote.
Trump made Priebus—the White House Chief of Staff—kill flies for him https://t.co/KymgMRlDGP pic.twitter.com/G6t6Hw2zRi
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 29, 2017
So basically, Reince was Trump’s Renfield. https://t.co/x873p8AlWw
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) July 29, 2017
re: #35 KGxvi
My guess is that Pence would at least adhere to political norms. And that he’d be a deadman walking in 2020 (in fact wouldn’t be surprised if he’s challenged in the primary).
Also wouldn’t be surprised if there was some sort of Trump Rump movement to create a third party challenge that would wind up costing Republicans in several states
For the most part that’s true, though he has authoritarian tendencies himself. He actually tried to create state-run media as governor of Indiana, but backed off when there was a severe backlash.
re: #37 Charles Johnson
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Gang members arrested and drugs recovered by @NYPDPSA9 officers. Keeping #Flushing #Queens safe - that’s #NYPDprotecting pic.twitter.com/eeKHQnc5UX
— NYPD NEWS (@NYPDnews) July 28, 2017
Cops in New York are on a tear! Look at this haul! So glad all that marijuana pot drugs have been taken off the streets. 🙌 https://t.co/2HBST55Dy3
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) July 29, 2017
re: #22 MsJ
How are these losers able to connect with Russians, for crying out loud?
Useful idiots for Russian intel to exploit.
re: #37 Charles Johnson
“Bannon could have gotten it with his tongue.”
— The Mooch
Priebus ouster leaves a policy vacuum- opportunity for Penceworld to consolidate legislative duties. https://t.co/ifMEPxm6jk pic.twitter.com/IxIhRvvLeM
— Liam Donovan (@LPDonovan) July 29, 2017
re: #42 wheat-dogg
Useful idiots for Russian intel to exploit.
Honest to God, you’ve got to be one dumb motherfucker to crawl into bed with the Russians. This isms a game, it’s s country.
I hope they all GOP to prison. This shit needs to show there’ll be consequences. STAT!
re: #21 Charles Johnson
Dickinson will implicate Rage Furby. Rage Furby will make the interview a circus, or so he says. Which one of these numbskulls will end up in deeper shit, do you think?
And Cernovich says he’s expecting a letter, too.
If Dershowitz really is a brilliant lawyer, he’ll avoid this whole shitshow and tell RF he’s busy for the next several months with retirement.
re: #1 Kragar
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— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 29, 2017
re: #45 jaunte
Priebus ouster leaves a policy vacuum- opportunity for Penceworld to consolidate legislative duties.
So, sounds a lot like the Kasich “most powerful” VP offer
Okay so I hadn’t heard of the North Sea Jazz Festival so I googled it and came across a photo of Kanye West performing there a few years ago.
Why the fuck would a Jazz Festival invite Kanye West??
Did I post this? Sorry if it’s a dup.
90 min after doors open: Complete remote control on the operating system level of the Winvote voting terminal (including election data).
— DEFCON VotingVillage (@VotingVillageDC) July 28, 2017
It took security researchers 90 minutes to hack voting machines at the weekends DEFCON hacking conference @demgovs https://t.co/G8DzUfWRDR
— Sarah S f.md (@RedRoadRail) July 29, 2017
So we had two bookend speeches this week where Drumpf spoke to Brown Shirts: the Boy Scouts and the Suffolk County Police Department.
In both cases, he went into campaign mode, inciting youngsters to boo Obama and Hillary (with adult support), and inciting LEOs to cheer for the beating of suspects upon their arrest (without youthful support- sadly they were all adults in the room).
Nothing to see, here, right?
Resist. Peace.
But if that doesn’t work, unlimber your arms, sound boots and saddles, and run to the sound of the guns.
re: #21 Charles Johnson
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That is an interesting document.
It’s a Government form IDSSB-33K1.
It Doesn’t Say “Subpoena”, But… Eek!
USA’s Cesilie Carlton competes in Round 1 of the women’s high diving competition at the 2017 FINA World Championships in Buadpest, Hungary pic.twitter.com/a9TYHWAXj6
— AFP news agency (@AFP) July 28, 2017
Very cool photo. https://t.co/ClG1hdNmBs
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) July 28, 2017
This is a good thread which I agree with. This is a hard thing for most people to do.
Trump is doing us one valuable service: exposing the rot in our civic culture. /1
— KStreetHipster (@KStreetHipster) July 29, 2017
No wonder his business is just him & his kids. & just names on a building etc.
He can’t manage a fucking ziplock bag
They tweeted the signing of the Russia sanctions from this account. As it appears.
Is the WH planning on updating the name/photo on the @PressSec, or is “Sean Spicer” a code name that gets passed down from one to the next? pic.twitter.com/VoNxwVMXRl
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) July 29, 2017
re: #55 Pawn of the Oppressor
That is an interesting document.
It’s a Government form IDSSB-33K1.
It Doesn’t Say “Subpoena”, But… Eek!
Not something I’d ever want to see in my mailbox.
re: #41 teleskiguy
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I’ll sleep easy tonight, knowing that the RA who plays the bongos at the end of the dorm hall will have to make TWO phone calls to get weed tomorrow.
just sitting here trying to understand the implications of what has taken place this week and what it means not only for the WH but for the GOP in general…
1) the failure of the number 1 signature policy item for this administration. They wanted something, anything to say that they’ve undone what Obama did. Didn’t even have to be good, just symbolic. Yet, when the GOP actually had to craft policy and put it on display indicating what they proposed, it was so heinous that anyone who had a conscience left wouldn’t vote for it, yet enough GOP senators and Congresscritters were craven enough to put themselves on the record that it was perfectly okay to take away people’s healthcare and make the security of the last 8 years evaporate and still manage to make it worse by including people who had health insurance thru their employers, making them essentially indentured servants, which was one of the largest cultural shifts of the ACA itself in removing that concept.
Not only did the WH lose what little political capital it had on this topic, it could very well mean the end of Mitch McConnell as Senate Seniority leader, as this has been his white whale since 2008.
If McConnell loses the position, who’s next? Orrin Hatch?, Ted Cruz? John Cornyn? How will that alter their relationship with the House, the WH and the Dems? Will this affect the possibility of impeachment, not just for Trump, but the extended members of his family, the GOP members serving in the administration? McConnell himself?
2) The probe on Trump and his administration is still progressing…
we’re fairly sure that we have proven instances of:
1) Obstruction of Justice
2) Perjury
What looks incredibly likely is also
3) Illegal campaign contributions
4) working with a Foreign entity in a conspiracy against political opponents
5) Election tampering
6) treason
How will a completely demoralized GOP react when this is confirmed in testimony and arrests are in order?
3) We still have to look at who was likely involved in these illegal activities
a) Trump Sr.
b) Trump Jr
c) Trump son #1
d) Trump son-in-law
e) Trump’s daughter
f) Pence
g) Sessions
h) Preibus
i) Flynn
j) Manafort
k) Conway
l) Stone
m) Page
n) Lewandoski
o) Bannon
p) McConnell
q) Ryan
r) McCarthy
s) Scalise
t) Guilliani
u) Christie
and there are likely more, that are less well known…
4) The media…. who was paid to plant stories, who was paid to kill stories, who was paid to spin stories. Who decided how to frame the information associated with the story? I assume that the NYT, Fox News and even people at CNN are involved, what are the repercussions for those people?
I understand we’re living through times that can simply be classified as a Constitutional Crisis, although few in the media call it such. It is both exhilarating and exhaustive and it pains me to watch our country suffer through it.
re: #55 Pawn of the Oppressor
That is an interesting document.
It’s a Government form IDSSB-33K1.
It Doesn’t Say “Subpoena”, But… Eek!
Can you elaborate?
Why does this seem familiar?
Pakistani corruption case hinges on a font
Charlie Pierce via Ballloon Juice.
After a motion to send the bill to committee sponsored by Democratic Senator Patty Murray of Washington failed, McConnell held the vote open for nearly an hour, giving his people time to work on any fence-sitters. Even Mike Pence came down to join in the lobbying and, if necessary, cast another deciding vote. Pretty soon, it became obvious that McCain was going to be the focal point of all the politicking. That was when Lisa Murkowski, Republican of Alaska, did a very smart thing. She walked over to McCain and talked to him for a good 45 minutes, essentially boxing everyone out, even Pence, who tried his best. The drama kept building and Murkowski kept talking to him.
That’s almost too big of a piece of music to process. He covers so much ground, and his chops are still improving, amazingly.
Did I hear him doing microtonal vocal riffs at one point? He split one note into four, I swear.
Did I mention that I’m house sitting?
2 golden retrievers, 8 chickens & 2 cats.
My peeps left no bacon in the fridge.
I pulled 4 eggs this morning & despaired. First tomorrow = bacon. Then the fresh egg breakfast of champions.
re: #21 Charles Johnson
I wonder if Pax and Chuckie can get into trouble for publishing “committee sensitive” correspondence.
re: #68 MsJ
It’s awake. The responses are unkind to say the least. No more paid Russians to fellate are him.
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Is the WH planning on updating the name/photo on the @PressSec, or is “Sean Spicer” a code name that gets passed down from one to the next? pic.twitter.com/VoNxwVMXRl
— Parker Molloy (@ParkerMolloy) July 29, 2017
The irony is after tweeting out the password so many time back in January, only Spicey know what it is now. https://t.co/zdzi0eDjh1
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 29, 2017
re: #67 Stanley Sea
During the weekend Umphrey’s McGee played at Red Rocks I house-sat for a friend who was working two counties away that weekend. Five chickens and three cats. In the middle of suburban Denver chickens is…something else.
re: #67 Stanley Sea
Did I mention that I’m house sitting?
2 golden retrievers, 8 chickens & 2 cats.
My peeps left no bacon in the fridge.
I pulled 4 eggs this morning & despaired. First tomorrow = bacon. Then the fresh egg breakfast of champions.
ear scratches from meeeee! (not for you, for the four footed creatures)
re: #68 MsJ
It’s awake. The responses are unkind to say the least. No more paid Russians to fellate are him.
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Bwhahahahahahahah! King of projection.
— ggt (@geegeetee) July 29, 2017
Caught the last five minutes of The 11th Hour…Brian Williams summarized the week:
Monday - Kushner Testifies, then uses West Wing as backdrop for presser, Donald scares the Boy Scouts
Tuesday - Boy Scouts apologise for the President, Trump meets w/pres of Lebanon? Doesn’t know what Hezbollah is or seem to care. McCain flies back to DC to give good speech and cast bad vote.
Wednesday - Transgender Policy Tweet
Thursday - Health Care Fail
Friday - Priebus out, Kelly in, DHS now leaderless.
I’m missing a bunch of shit, but holy hell it was a shitstorm of a week…
re: #73 teleskiguy
During the weekend Umphrey’s McGee played at Red Rocks I house-sat for a friend who was working two counties away that weekend. Five chickens and three cats. In the middle of suburban Denver chickens is…something else.
My friend is like, they will put themselves in the coop, all you need to do is close the door.
Fucking a - 8 pm. I was freaking out. I cannot corral/hang out with them. They were in.
She asked me to count them ea night to make sure. Shudder.
re: #57 MsJ
This is a good thread which I agree with. This is a hard thing for most people to do.
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I don’t entirely agree, I must say, and I say this as someone who has found himself thinking unthinkable things since the election.
Social ostracism must be applied carefully and judiciously. Don’t get me wrong, I don’t invite them to my parties either. If I meet new Trumpers, I don’t go back to their parties. But social penalisation can only go so far. Because if a Trumper is sufficiently ostracised from normal society and normal gatherings, all it does is reinforce the cult that has embraced him. Isolation and reinforcement is how you indoctrinate cultists. It used to need walls and chants. Now, we have media saturation and memes. If you drive Trumpers away from the door like the pariahs they should be, they return to the warm embrace of Tucker Carlson and FOX and Friends and their Facebook feeds and they are soothed. All is right with the world - they are in the safe hating space again.
The reason that calm discussion and gentle persuasion does not work is because of reinforcement. Challenge their precious views vigorously and they will dig in harder, because admitting a flaw literally tears their entire mental being apart. Challenge them gently, as a person they care for, and they may agree while in front of you, but it feels futile because once they leave the dinner table and open their Facebook feed, their cult indoctrination gets reinforced and your work goes away.
You cannot just ostracise them, though. They must be deprogrammed. In much the same way as survivors of war and incarceration are slowly, carefully brought back to normal society, that’s the only possible way to rehabilitate conservative cultists. Setting limits (no, we won’t hear about your latest email bogeymen, and no, you won’t talk about Obama like that in front of us), gently showing facts and new examples in a relatively non-threatening way, and, most importantly, removal of the reinforcement - removal of the cult teachings to prevent backsliding. It’s the last part that’s hard, and maybe impossible in this modern world. But in the end, they’re still people. Hateful people, but people who are especially primed to follow blindly those that leave impressions on them, which will naturally include those they care about. The nurturing of friends and family is how every cult member has ever been deprogrammed. It’s the only way. The hardest part, though, is cutting them off from the cult. In today’s world, I don’t know how you can do that.
re: #58 Stanley Sea
No wonder his business is just him & his kids. & just names on a building etc.
He can’t manage a fucking ziplock bag
They tweeted the signing of the Russia sanctions from this account. As it appears.
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Didn’t he say he was staying on until August, though?
cats and chickens do not seem to go together.
re: #67 Stanley Sea
Did I mention that I’m house sitting?
2 golden retrievers, 8 chickens & 2 cats.
My peeps left no bacon in the fridge.
I pulled 4 eggs this morning & despaired. First tomorrow = bacon. Then the fresh egg breakfast of champions.
Do they feed the chickens meat (protein)? When I was a kid, eggs were delicious. Now they’re bland as hell…”Vegetarian Hens” at all stores.
I was in CO a few years ago with people who raised animals and they’d take hambones (or what was left over from dinner) with meat on them and let the chickens peck at the bones. I had eggs one morning and my mouth literally watered. It brought me back to my youth.
I’ve been searching for eggs like that for 10 years now. Even farm eggs weren’t that good. I’ve gotten farm eggs in three states and a Canadian province. Still looking.
re: #82 Birth Control Works
cats and chickens do not seem to go together.
Sure they do. It’s raccoons and chickens that have issues.
re: #84 retired cynic
Sure they do. It’s raccoons and chickens that have issues.
I don’t believe you
:)
I’m sorry but I’m not accepting any more apologies from organizations that invite the current US President to speak at their events.
— Keith Calder (@keithcalder) July 28, 2017
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re: #82 Birth Control Works
cats and chickens do not seem to go together.
Oh the cats and chickens were kept far away from each other. The cats were all indoor cats and the chicken coop was way in the backyard.
re: #70 retired cynic
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That’s interesting now that I think about it. Where are all his supporters? Are all those accounts gone? There was literally one supporter comment in the responses. We’re the rest bots and Russians because the only way tweets GPO away use when an account is made private or deleted. Bots should still be there.
Hmmm. 🤔
re: #68 MsJ
It’s awake. The responses are unkind to say the least. No more paid Russians to fellate are him.
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He’s an increasingly isolated pariah. It’s just going to get worse. He will soon become a shallow shell of a man, whatever he believes, without a shred of of legitimacy. While I fear for the country, I am perfectly satisfied that this is what he richly deserves.
He is his own legacy: a con-man, a crook, a money launderer, and a fraud.
Sic semper tyrannis.
Thus always to tyrants.
re: #76 retired cynic
Wait! How did the year change on the tweet?
I just checked it again and it, along with the responses, are 2016. Curious.
re: #78 darthstar
Caught the last five minutes of The 11th Hour…Brian Williams summarized the week:
Monday - Kushner Testifies, then uses West Wing as backdrop for presser, Donald scares the Boy Scouts
Tuesday - Boy Scouts apologise for the President, Trump meets w/pres of Lebanon? Doesn’t know what Hezbollah is or seem to care. McCain flies back to DC to give good speech and cast bad vote.
Wednesday - Transgender Policy Tweet
Thursday - Health Care Fail
Friday - Priebus out, Kelly in, DHS now leaderless.I’m missing a bunch of shit, but holy hell it was a shitstorm of a week…
Oh yeah, Friday - Trump advocates Police brutality - police have to issue statement denying they’ll listen to the President.
re: #81 makeitstop
Didn’t he say he was staying on until August, though?
yeah……………betcha though, his WH pass was revoked minute one. Seriously, he cut & ran.
The big question: Is there enough hooker pee in New Jersey to wash away Trump’s memories of his epic failure of a week?
— Sean McCabe (@darthstar99) July 29, 2017
re: #80 Renaissance_Man
That was exceptional. Thank you.
I dislike most people so I’m good socializing minimally, which is weird if you knew me, because I’m pretty good in social situations. But I have zero patience to do what you said. Thankfully I don’t have to.
Where’s my inhaler? Aunt Maxine Waters is “Reclaiming My Time”. pic.twitter.com/FreDxbrTUX
— GEEZY (@GRYKING) July 29, 2017
OK, I know we’ve probably all figured out what a bunch of dumb thugs are in charge of our country by now … but this? This is the criteria that was the basis for the hiring of the director of ICE.
Trump gave an aggressive anti-gang speech at Suffolk Community College Friday, congratulating Kelly right after praising Acting Immigration and Customs Enforcement Director Tom Homan, who Trump recalled someone on television had said “looks very nasty, he looks very mean.”
BTW, if you haven’t seen it, there’s some excellent pieces starting to trickle out form principled ICE agents about how the agency has basically turned into the Stanford Prison Experiment, aimed at Latinos.
They are fucking with people. Because they can. Because their sadistic impulses have been given leave to run free. Straight from the top.
These people mistake cruelty and violence for strength. This is going to get worse before it gets better.
re: #82 Birth Control Works
cats and chickens do not seem to go together.
Oh more to this story…..apparently there’s a lot of rats in the underbrush that is everywhere.
In order to eradicate they got in touch with a feral cat group. The group brought the cats in cages. They left them there in their cages for a month in the area (below in this case, lower level of property-typical CA house on hill) then after “acclimating” said ferals, let them go. They never see them, but the food is gone & there’s an unfinished room where one bowl is placed - dirt floor, but all the cat towers etc. That bowl is cleaned.
Fuck, I’m just here for 4 days
I’ve been using the Survivor/Amazing Race/Real Housewives narrative for six months now…
Today’s cover: In the latest episode of “White House Survivor,” the West Wing descends into chaos https://t.co/IcHnEGTW70 pic.twitter.com/wl7XnA6jEK
— New York Post (@nypost) July 28, 2017
re: #102 darthstar
Jared behind the bushes, ha!
re: #83 MsJ
Do they feed the chickens meat (protein)? When I was a kid, eggs were delicious. Now they’re bland as hell…”Vegetarian Hens” at all stores.
I was in CO a few years ago with people who raised animals and they’d take hambones (or what was left over from dinner) with meat on them and let the chickens peck at the bones. I had eggs one morning and my mouth literally watered. It brought me back to my youth.
I’ve been searching for eggs like that for 10 years now. Even farm eggs weren’t that good. I’ve gotten farm eggs in three states and a Canadian province. Still looking.
They toss them every scrap imaginable, except for citrus - apparently a no-no.
These eggs are extremely tasty. Nothing like cold store bought.
re: #104 Stanley Sea
They toss them every scrap imaginable, except for citrus - apparently a no-no.
These eggs are extremely tasty. Nothing like cold store bought.
Man. I am jealous beyond words.
Night all, sweet scaly dreams. Somewhere under the Denver Airport, Nirvana is to be found. Or at least a communication complex with a turret-eyed chameleon in charge.
My dog, what a week.
re: #99 Khal Wimpo (wounded at Bowling Green)
OK, I know we’ve probably all figured out what a bunch of dumb thugs are in charge of our country by now … but this? This is the criteria that was the basis for the hiring of the director of ICE.
BTW, if you haven’t seen it, there’s some excellent pieces starting to trickle out form principled ICE agents about how the agency has basically turned into the Stanford Prison Experiment, aimed at Latinos.
They are fucking with people. Because they can. Because their sadistic impulses have been given leave to run free. Straight from the top.
These people mistake cruelty and violence for strength. This is going to get worse before it gets better.
please link these when you see them
re: #106 austin_blue
Night all, sweet scaly dreams. Somewhere under the Denver Airport, Nirvana is to be found. Or at least a communication complex with a turret-eyed chameleon in charge.
My dog, what a week.
I thought the sleeping giant destroyed it.
re: #104 Stanley Sea
They toss them every scrap imaginable, except for citrus - apparently a no-no.
These eggs are extremely tasty. Nothing like cold store bought.
We get to go pick up our new blue heeler tomorrow! My childhood friend, whom I’m getting him from, raises chickens, pigs, goats, etc. We got 18 eggs from them when we were up over the 4th…great fuckin’ eggs. Thinking about buying a half-pig from him as well since our normal pig people decided to have a baby this year instead of raising hogs for us to eat…selfish people. (congrats on the baby though)..
#ICYMI #JuneForay the legendary voice of Natasha Fatale, Dahlink (&others) on The Rocky & Bullwinkle Show, passed away @dcagle pays tribute pic.twitter.com/OImfWyVjpm
— Miss Myrtle (@MissMyrtle2) July 29, 2017
re: #109 darthstar
We get to go pick up our new blue heeler tomorrow! My childhood friend, whom I’m getting him from, raises chickens, pigs, goats, etc. We got 18 eggs from them when we were up over the 4th…great fuckin’ eggs. Thinking about buying a half-pig from him as well since our normal pig people decided to have a baby this year instead of raising hogs for us to eat…selfish people. (congrats on the baby though)..
He’s the long tail in the video.
Wow 66 of us here and it’s late back east. Hello from Los Angeles. So glad to see this week almost over. So Stanley, you are house sitting a menagerie?
re: #105 MsJ
Man. I am jealous beyond words.
Do you have a back yard? Look it up & do it.
My friends have kids, so they buy chicks, so much fun! but you don’t know how many roosters you get. They had to give away 3 roosters.
Just reporting what I’ve heard, look everything up.
re: #112 Unshaken Defiance
As it gets hotter, we’re just going to live at night.
Still 84º here, but it’s going all the way down to a chilly 78.
Who else gets that “mergers & acquisitions” feeling?
Russia ready to cooperate with U.S., Russia’s Lavrov told Tillerson: ministry https://t.co/BOFvqr2nsm pic.twitter.com/VnQaL85K7N
— Reuters Top News (@Reuters) July 29, 2017
Tomorrow’s front page…
MOOCH GETS HIS MAN https://t.co/Fp5CqjIJLH
(But loses his woman) https://t.co/EydMWd2hX0 pic.twitter.com/HrnoU0X0Ru— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) July 29, 2017
re: #116 FormerDirtDart
Who else gets that “mergers & acquisitions” feeling?
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Everybody who believes that, please stand up.
For those who enjoy drone footage, my latest gig is done and the three videos uploaded. Thankfully made a few bucks to feed my creative sides gear lust. It’s a short video for their web page. I could not have done it as nice without the drone and its pilot.
re: #83 MsJ
Do they feed the chickens meat (protein)? When I was a kid, eggs were delicious. Now they’re bland as hell…”Vegetarian Hens” at all stores.
I was in CO a few years ago with people who raised animals and they’d take hambones (or what was left over from dinner) with meat on them and let the chickens peck at the bones. I had eggs one morning and my mouth literally watered. It brought me back to my youth.
I’ve been searching for eggs like that for 10 years now. Even farm eggs weren’t that good. I’ve gotten farm eggs in three states and a Canadian province. Still looking.
There are eggs like that - the ones that come from the farm that lets the chickens wander around and eat bugs.
We had chickens growing up - that extra source of protein really made the yolks yellow-orange. Also kept the huge garden free of pests without us having to use so damn many chemicals.
re: #109 darthstar
We get to go pick up our new blue heeler tomorrow! My childhood friend, whom I’m getting him from, raises chickens, pigs, goats, etc. We got 18 eggs from them when we were up over the 4th…great fuckin’ eggs. Thinking about buying a half-pig from him as well since our normal pig people decided to have a baby this year instead of raising hogs for us to eat…selfish people. (congrats on the baby though)..
OMG tail baby! Expect essays & photos.
And yes, fresh eggs are so way extreme better than than store-bought shit. You don’t know till you know. There’s at least 30 here & I picked 4 more on my first day.
re: #98 Kragar
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Mnuchin is a dimwit. A dimwit who thinks that he is being incredibly clever when he’s obviously a compete f’ing dimwit. A loser who thinks he’s winning.
re: #112 Unshaken Defiance
Wow 66 of us here and it’s late back east. Hello from Los Angeles. So glad to see this week almost over. So Stanley, you are house sitting a menagerie?
My Mom all 81 yrs old on Monday laughed the most original laugh I’ve heard in years today when I told her I was house sitting chickens. So yeah.
re: #113 Stanley Sea
Do you have a back yard? Look it up & do it.
My friends have kids, so they buy chicks, so much fun! but you don’t know how many roosters you get. They had to give away 3 roosters.
Just reporting what I’ve heard, look everything up.
I can’t keep chickens. It’s staying against the law in the city limits. 😢
re: #123 Stanley Sea
Yup, the one thing harder to herd than cats might be chickens. You are so right about those eggs. I once house sat for a month. Horses, dog and chickens. I’m a city boy taking care of two horses was a challenge.
re: #120 Khal Wimpo (wounded at Bowling Green)
There are eggs like that - the ones that come from the farm that lets the chickens wander around and eat bugs.
We had chickens growing up - that extra source of protein really made the yolks yellow-orange. Also kept the huge garden free of pests without us having to use so damn many chemicals.
If they have enough bugs. The one near here that has chickens doesn’t give them enough space so not enough bugs. They’re good eggs but not great eggs.
re: #124 MsJ
I can’t keep chickens. It’s staying against the law in the city limits. 😢
Primitive law. Basically if you research, a racist law. Keeping out those immigrants who raised food in the city.
re: #126 MsJ
If we let taste be our guide, along with nutrition instead of speed and price and convenience… Obesity would be a far more rare affliction.
re: #128 Unshaken Defiance
If we let taste be our guide, along with nutrition instead of speed and price and convenience… Obesity would be a far more rare affliction.
True. But it is more work! And that helps the problem of obesity. You should have seen the breakfasts they served on the dairy farm in northern Wisconsin. Oh, yum, my mouth is watering now. And at my present rate of activity, I would weigh 5000 pounds!
re: #21 Charles Johnson
I would start with calling a good therapist to work out your anger issues.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 29, 2017
The Trump administration just told 30,000 workers to go find a private retirement plan. https://t.co/jLIrNoBjiM
— Robert Reich (@RBReich) July 28, 2017
re: #129 retired cynic
Yeah and also portion size. Even fast food-Enough with the 1/2 lb burgers and pound o fries. 1/4 lb, a handful of fries and 8 or 12 ounces of drink will do. I’m not a lumberjack, or burning calories because I work where it’s 25F.
re: #132 Unshaken Defiance
Yeah and also portion size. Even fast food-Enough with the 1/2 lb burgers and pound o fries. 1/4 lb, a handful of fries and 8 or 12 ounces of drink will do. I’m not a lumberjack, or burning calories because I work where it’s 25F.
YOU ARE UNAMERICAN!
Hot Dogs Corn Dogs Triple Bacon Cheeseburgers Deep Fried Butter Dipped In Pork Fat Cheese Whiz Mayonnaise BBQ Mozzarella Patty Melt!
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) October 5, 2014
re: #133 teleskiguy
*reply from the future* Todays recipe- All thief chatty special Slavs, let us seize, fickle funding on an FSB bun
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) July 29, 2017
re: #133 teleskiguy
YOU ARE UNAMERICAN!
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You can probably burn that off skiing. Those dairy farmers worked hard from dawn to after dark, and breakfast (served after the first milking, about 630am) consisted of platters of steaks or pork chops, fried potatoes, fried apples, pancakes, eggs, bacon, etc. Big platters. And they were all lean. I used to vacation up in northern Wisconsin in the summer every year, and one of my good friends was the daughter of the house. I got to spend a week or so with them, and loved it. (Of course, she had a couple of attractive older brothers!) All of the food was grown on the farm, as well as the feed for the animals. BFD.
Cheeseburger, cheeseburger, cheeseburger. Pepsi, pepsi.
The little girl in the photo is poster’s daughter. Poster is bassist for Umphrey’s McGee.
Practice practice practice…
re: #138 Unshaken Defiance
Now THAT is indecent.
re: #137 teleskiguy
Oh. Well, Instagram is still using Flash which is finally dying. Charles, Instagram’s LGF code may need to be tweaked.
re: #138 Unshaken Defiance
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Man, I can feel my cholesterol levels increase just by watching that…
re: #138 Unshaken Defiance
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My fellow Americans, we have totally fucked up cuisine. We deserve to hang our heads in shame.
“Light My Fire” by the Doors was Billboard #1 single 50 years ago this week: pic.twitter.com/00qPEdXdv0
— Michael Beschloss (@BeschlossDC) July 29, 2017
re: #143 teleskiguy
How is that possible? I’m 58 and this was popular when I was a teenager, not an 8 year old. I think.
I’m so old I remember nickel Coca Cola 8 oz. bottles in vending machines. Now try and find them in any fast food place…
re: #145 MsJ
How is that possible? I’m 58 and this was popular when I was a teenager, not an 8 year old. I think.
Light My Fire was released as a single on 24 April 1967 and got to No. 1 on Billboard charts 50 years ago this week.
re: #127 Stanley Sea
Primitive law. Basically if you research, a racist law. Keeping out those immigrants who raised food in the city.
And here I thought it was to spare the neighbors being woken up by roosters.
re: #148 sagehen
And here I thought it was to spare the neighbors being woken up by roosters.
Right so why would the law say chickens not roosters?
re: #147 teleskiguy
Light My Fire was released as a single on 24 April 1967 and got to No. 1 on Billboard charts 50 years ago this week.
Did it stay on the charts for like four years maybe?
re: #127 Stanley Sea
Primitive law. Basically if you research, a racist law. Keeping out those immigrants who raised food in the city.
It’s also illegal to hang your laundry outside. Well technically, you can’t have a laundry device to hang laundry (you know, the poles with two or four rows of laundry line, but you can hang laundry…somehow.)
re: #151 MsJ
Did it stay on the charts for like four years maybe?
You heard the song *after* Jim Morrison died. Guaranteed.
This was something else. Slayer? On The Tonight Show?!?
— Charlie Vogel (@teleskiguy) July 29, 2017
re: #130 Ace-o-aces
What do you do when you have a minor but newsworthy scoop to give someone but you hate all journalists & wish they would die in a fire? /10
— Not Pax Dickinson (@NotPaxDickinson) July 28, 2017
Growing the fuck up and not being a fucking whiny ass bitch would be a good place to start. https://t.co/dB4DOzDtiN
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 29, 2017
re: #155 Kragar
You see a psychiatrist about your mad wish.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) July 29, 2017
Apologizing for what Trump said at your event is no longer acceptable.
You invited him? You knew what you were getting. You own that shit.— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) July 29, 2017
re: #80 Renaissance_Man
The hardest part, though, is cutting them off from the cult. In today’s world, I don’t know how you can do that.
I commented a couple of days back that what the US needs is something like a national deprogramming effort. Of course, the reason it’d probably fail is that the cult of conservatism has a very loud voice, owing to talk radio, media, web presence, etc. They’d simply scream they were being persecuted in the most appalling fashion.
If I had any respect whatsoever for Reince I’d probably feel really sorry for him. Luckily I don’t.
Dude was seduced by power, only to be debased, scapegoated & abused by his Master then finally discarded a shriveled, used up husk of a man.
— Frankly My Dear 🐁 (@goddamnedfrank) July 29, 2017
I just finished binge-watching The President Show. It’s really good. I hope Trump watches it.
Those tablets that give you an erection are fantastic. Mine’s an iPad and it shows porn in HD.
— Stansaid Airport (@StansaidAirport) July 27, 2017
HaHa!!
When you promise to show up to worked dressed as Sarah Palin if John McCain votes no on health care. #nothinggetsdonetoday
H/T @julieplec pic.twitter.com/LmjPuHo7D0— Jeffrey Lieber (@JeffLieber) July 28, 2017
re: #4 Kragar
I keep this handy
Anywhere between 10 and 2, you’re dealing with a complete fucking moron
Anti-vaxxers are a prime example: one side is anti-big pharma, anti-Western medicine, the other side is anti-big government, anti-science.
The result has proven deadly…
re: #83 MsJ
Do they feed the chickens meat (protein)? When I was a kid, eggs were delicious. Now they’re bland as hell…”Vegetarian Hens” at all stores.
I was in CO a few years ago with people who raised animals and they’d take hambones (or what was left over from dinner) with meat on them and let the chickens peck at the bones. I had eggs one morning and my mouth literally watered. It brought me back to my youth.
I’ve been searching for eggs like that for 10 years now. Even farm eggs weren’t that good. I’ve gotten farm eggs in three states and a Canadian province. Still looking.
They can eat their own shells if they have been heated…which I always found satisfying, like recycling packaging.
I’m headed to sleep but FYI: if you’re not following @SamSykesSwears, you need to rectify that oversight.https://t.co/vjoimf0Y4M
— Anna Maltese (@MalteseAnna) July 29, 2017
re: #166 fern01
He won the election - why on earth does he continue to attack his opponent. I’m thinking of the messages Pres Obama sent to John McCain - that is how you react to your opponents.
Bitter hateful insane old man
Most likely, and I’m just speculating here, he subconsciously feels that he didn’t really “win”, at least not in the way he would define victory. He lost the popular vote, and by a fairly significant margin; thus, in his mind, he feels his victory was not truly a legitimate one. Deep down, it bothers him - that’s why he’s always bringing up his electoral college numbers, or the idea that Hillary Clinton didn’t actually win the popular vote (it was the result of “illegal voters”), the alleged size of his inauguration crowd, etc.
It’s his king-sized ego that’s having a hard time accepting that even though, yes, he did win, his ego feels it wasn’t a real victory - it was a victory by default, if you will, which is emotionally unsatisfying to him.
re: #167 Dr Lizardo
Most likely, and I’m just speculating here, he subconsciously feels that he didn’t really “win”, at least not in the way he would define victory. He lost the popular vote, and by a fairly significant margin; thus, in his mind, he feels his victory was not truly a legitimate one. Deep down, it bothers him - that’s why he’s always bringing up his electoral college numbers, or the idea that Hillary Clinton didn’t actually win the popular vote (it was the result of “illegal voters”), the alleged size of his inauguration crowd, etc.
It’s his king-sized ego that’s having a hard time accepting that even though, yes, he did win, his ego feels it wasn’t a real victory - it was a victory by default, if you will, which is emotionally unsatisfying to him.
That’s been my working theory for awhile now, it explains the “voter fraud” commission, it explains his obsession with Hillary and Obama being prosecuted for imaginary crimes, and his refusal to accept the idea that Russia had anything to do with the election. Even the electoral vote was so close that it isn’t satisfactory, the number of votes not really showing that he won the election there by razor-thin margins.
re: #167 Dr Lizardo
Most likely, and I’m just speculating here, he subconsciously feels that he didn’t really “win”, at least not in the way he would define victory. He lost the popular vote, and by a fairly significant margin; thus, in his mind, he feels his victory was not truly a legitimate one. Deep down, it bothers him - that’s why he’s always bringing up his electoral college numbers, or the idea that Hillary Clinton didn’t actually win the popular vote (it was the result of “illegal voters”), the alleged size of his inauguration crowd, etc.
It’s his king-sized ego that’s having a hard time accepting that even though, yes, he did win, his ego feels it wasn’t a real victory - it was a victory by default, if you will, which is emotionally unsatisfying to him.
That tweet was weird - when you clicked on it - it was 12 months old. I’m much confused - then again, anything involving trump does that to me.
And yes - I agree with your thoughts - he also wants to go back to when he was campaigning & he was able to say this nonsense with no comeback from the media or the GOP. 6 months in - not so much.
Ohio boa constrictor: Firefighters kill snake ‘stuck to woman’s face’
why does this immediately come to mind?
re: #169 fern01
he also wants to go back to when he was campaigning & he was able to say this nonsense with no comeback from the media or the GOP.
Sure…..he wants the adulation of the crowds. That feeds the needs of his ego for approval.
I’ve noticed that about him; I think everyone has. He needs approval, almost as much as he (and all of us) needs air to breathe. Looks at where he stands now - he’s being criticized. Why does he watch Fox & Friends so much? Easy; they offer his ego a bottomless reservoir of approval and appreciation. Look how easily he gets upset when he doesn’t get that.
They say the child is the father to the man…..and this guy is the living proof. He must’ve had one hell of a lousy childhood.
re: #17 jaunte
“When suppertime came, the old cook came on deck sayin’
Fellas, it’s too rough to feed ya
At seven pm a main hatchway caved in, he said
Fellas, it’s been good t’know ya”
why is it that this was exactly the bit of the song that I was thinking of when that was mentioned?
re: #67 Stanley Sea
Did I mention that I’m house sitting?
2 golden retrievers, 8 chickens & 2 cats.
My peeps left no bacon in the fridge.
I pulled 4 eggs this morning & despaired. First tomorrow = bacon. Then the fresh egg breakfast of champions.
The eggs I understand. I’ll just head you off though by telling you that golden retrievers make absolutely wretched bacon.
re: #175 steve_davis
The eggs I understand. I’ll just head you off though by telling you that golden retrievers make absolutely wretched bacon.
They also tend to eat it, rather than retrieve it.
re: #175 steve_davis
The eggs I understand. I’ll just head you off though by telling you that golden retrievers make absolutely wretched bacon.
That’s why you keep them away from the stove.
re: #173 Dr Lizardo
Sure…..he wants the adulation of the crowds. That feeds the needs of his ego for approval.
I’ve noticed that about him; I think everyone has. He needs approval, almost as much as he (and all of us) needs air to breathe.
When asked about McCain’s comments on his candidacy, DT could have just said something like “I admire his war record but disagree with his judgement on this matter”.
Instead, he had to make an offhand crack about “soldiers who don’t get captured”…one which has just come back to bite him in the ass big-time…
re: #178 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
When asked about McCain’s comments on his candidacy, he could have just said something like “I admire his war record but disagree with his judgement on this matter”.
Instead, he had to make an offhand crack about “soldiers who don’t get captured”…one which has just come back to bite him in the ass big-time…
Politicians have long memories. They may act all cool about insults, but the insults are entered into a mental logbook for reprisals down the road. I’d say McCain won this round.
re: #67 Stanley Sea
Did I mention that I’m house sitting?
2 golden retrievers, 8 chickens & 2 cats.
My peeps left no bacon in the fridge.
I pulled 4 eggs this morning & despaired. First tomorrow = bacon. Then the fresh egg breakfast of champions.
Brings back memories of Dad getting up at 5 AM cooking his breakfast and smelling bacon, sausage pancakes and eggs getting cooked. And you would hear the dogs whining for their bacon…
re: #180 jeffreyw
Along those lines, the 12 Girls Band from China. The equivalent to a gayageum is the guzheng 古筝 in China.
The other instruments are the erhu (two stringed bowed instrument), yangqin (hammered dulcimer) and pipa (like a mandolin).
re: #184 wheat-dogg
Rock it Gayageum style!!!
Help! I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole and I can’t get up!
re: #185 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
Rock it Gayageum style!!!
That is some wildness
re: #187 dangerman
That is some wildness
On her Patreon pge page, she say she had to modify the gayageum to make it loud enough to compete with guitars, bass and drums. If you look carefully, some of her instruments have an amplifier jacked in.
BTW, these instruments cost a small fortune. She’s got at least three.
OH HELL NO!
REPORT: TEXAS TECH BOOSTERS WANTED TO FIRE KLIFF KINGSBURY, HIRE ART BRILES
Fortunately, there is no evidence that the TTU administration is taking this seriously. Still it’s disheartening that influential supporters are depraved enough to even consider it.
FYI: Briles was eyeball deep in this and was probably the most directly culpable of all the fatcats who bit the dust over it: Baylor University sexual assault scandal
re: #64 Birth Control Works
Why does this seem familiar?
Pakistani corruption case hinges on a font
The case hinges on a type font that wasn’t publicly and widely available being used in a purported deed for sale of a property - shell companies created by the PM’s kids bought and sold properties and those sales came to public light as part of the Panama Papers. If the document is a forgery (and it likely is from what I can tell), Pakistani PM is toast.
re: #154 teleskiguy
This was something else. Slayer? On The Tonight Show?!?
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re: #189 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
OH HELL NO!
REPORT: TEXAS TECH BOOSTERS WANTED TO FIRE KLIFF KINGSBURY, HIRE ART BRILESFortunately, there is no evidence that the TTU administration is taking this seriously. Still it’s disheartening that influential supporters are depraved enough to even consider it.
FYI: Briles was eyeball deep in this and was probably the most directly culpable of all the fatcats who bit the dust over it: Baylor University sexual assault scandal
But…but, he’s a proven winner!
re: #186 jeffreyw
Help! I’ve fallen down a rabbit hole and I can’t get up!
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I was at a Chinese New Year Grateful Dead show in 1990 and they had a local Chinese strings band as the warm up act. The lady playing the Guzheng went into a long solo at one point and started feeding off the crowd as they got into it. It was such a great jam members of the band could be seen on the side of the stage taking it in. When she finished, 15,000 people erupted in applause, then she stood bowed gently, and sat down again as they played another number. Great memory…
Good morning…shit..7am. Gotta be on the road by 8. Have a good day. Puppy pics tonight!
re: #195 weave
I’ll bet the author has stopped talking about morality this year.
Pete Souza twists the knife pic.twitter.com/quDKw3yp9G
— Michael Del Moro (@MikeDelMoro) July 28, 2017
re: #199 jaunte
Gotta stop seeing these Souza photos—like stumbling on vacation shots of a dead friend.
re: #199 jaunte
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“the fact that he knew the details of the bill itself and the intricacies of health care policy”
THAT’s THE EFFIN JOB
(this is directed at the current (p)resident)
to follow up,
over at electoral-vote.com this morning, they’re analyzing who to blame for the health care “failure” and they’ve got 8 or 9 to start with
while some of it doesnt click through to another article so i’m assuming it’s partially the assessment of the votemaster himself, under Priebus, the part i bolded below is a chilling assessment of a clueless, inept, incompetent president:
Priebus was the administration’s point man on Capitol Hill, and twisted arms aggressively in an effort to get his (former) boss a victory. He might have spent more time back at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. explaining to the President how the system works, and how important it is for the POTUS to be hands-on. Priebus has been a dead man walking for months, but the general consensus is that Thursday night’s failure was the final nail in the coffin.
“explaining how the system works”
now
still
re: #198 jaunte
I’ll bet the author has stopped talking about morality this year.
Nope. That ass is probably still posting Republican propaganda!
My husband has a theory.
He thinks the Mooch’s interview with Lizza was done by design and used to put both Reince and Bannon on notice that they’re both outta there and that Mooch was on the record for a specific reason. It was planned and not just Mooch being Mooch.
Surprising: admin sources told me they think Kelly hiring makes it more likely Trump ousts McMaster (who annoys him)
replaces him w Pompeo.— Glenn Thrush (@GlennThrush) July 29, 2017
re: #200 Decatur Deb
Gotta stop seeing these Souza photos—like stumbling on vacation shots of a dead friend.
And We The People are the friend.
re: #205 MsJ
My husband has a theory.
He thinks the Mooch’s interview with Lizza was done by design and used to put both Reince and Bannon on notice that they’re both outta there and that Mooch was on the record for a specific reason. It was planned and not just Mooch being Mooch.
could be though i’d say that gives them too much credit for thinking ahead
i mean why bother? its not some kind of devious planning or damage control. the whole administration is freewheeling and disjoint and doesnt really care about how anything is done or perceived. they just lie later anyway.
if you want to axe the guys just do it.
who’s gonna care?
who’s gonna report anything somehow differently that would matter?
re: #203 dangerman
I guess not having the key promised replacement in hand to go with repeal is just not a fact they can handle. For once they overestimate our collective stupidity.
re: #205 MsJ
My husband has a theory.
He thinks the Mooch’s interview with Lizza was done by design and used to put both Reince and Bannon on notice that they’re both outta there and that Mooch was on the record for a specific reason. It was planned and not just Mooch being Mooch.
I like it. I like it coz I can totally see that actually being the case. But, to me, so far incompetence has been the predominant pattern.
re: #207 MsJ
And We The People are the friend.
Hard to grasp The Good Old Days were seven months ago.
WASHINGTON—Taking stock of his present circumstances as he packed up his belongings and exited the West Wing after being pushed out of office by the president of the United States, former White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus expressed a sense of gratitude Friday that he had so little dignity to begin with. “I’m just lucky that I came into this role with effectively no personal honor whatsoever, or this could have really stung,”…
re: #212 stpaulbear
Wow, I thought The Onion was just a satire site, who would have thought they could have scored a legitimate interview like that.
// or is it?
The previous 44 presidents were able to deal with it. Man up pussy!
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 29, 2017
I just got blocked by @kimdotcom, which is unfortunate, because I had been following him just to see how long it would take the Trumpers to realize he was leading them on about Seth Rich.
You seriously STILL think this fool has evidence about #SethRich? I bet you bought gold coins from Glen Beck too.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) July 29, 2017
re: #212 stpaulbear
re: #213 I cannot.
Wow, I thought The Onion was just a satire site, who would have thought they could have scored a legitimate interview like that.
// or is it?
Your confusion is understandable. Yeah, The Onion is satire, but Priebus’s actual interview (with Sean Hannity - yuccch) isn’t all that much different. Frighteningly.
re: #214 Ace-o-aces
Donnie Two Scoops doesn’t understand how representational democracy works. Or the Constitution. Or anything, really.
re: #104 Stanley Sea
You know it’s weird to feed them a veg diet. They are omnivores to the core. No wonder eggs are generally so bland. Have found some pretty tasty organic eggs here though. Farmers markets and such.
Even the supposed “grown up” Senator from Texas is an embarrassment.
— Harold Cook (@HCookAustin) July 29, 2017
IT’S NOT REALLY THE NATIONAL ANTHEM IF YOU DON’T END IT BY PUNCHING AN EAGLES FAN IN THE THROAT
— The Fuckin’ Mooch (@TheFuckinMooch) July 29, 2017
This is my new favorite Twitter account. Ya’ll need to follow.
I wanted to read the post, but got a “you’re a winner” spam pop-up that highjacked the page.
— David Pickett (@david_pickett) July 29, 2017
Trump had Reince get off plane, fired him by tweet, then waited for him to be escorted away before deplaning https://t.co/bLVGMRjLW7 pic.twitter.com/NRYh57SUxe
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) July 29, 2017
Very Alpha https://t.co/A4vympcdxL
— Graham Linehan (@Glinner) July 29, 2017
So I get up this morning and first thing go into the bathroom to check on the kittens and yanno, pee. I do not do mornings well at best and do not handle first thing emergencies well At. All. I’m barely conscious and the brain synapses do not fire. They just kinda sputter until caffeine.
Kittens learned to escape the bathtub within about 48 hours so not finding them in the tub was not a surprise. Only finding one kitten in the bathroom (equivalent space of a smallish walk-in closet) was enough to set off my panic bells. OMG! Where’s the princess? OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG… I was freaking out. They like to snuggle in behind the toilet… no kitten… I’m about ready to tear out the vanity… no kitten!
Heart pounding and in full-fledged freak-out I sat on the john, clutching Little Lord Storm with my brain screaming “what am I gonna do?!!! where’s the kitten?!”, glanced to my left and saw at eye-level this:
She was 6 weeks old yesterday. How the fuck did she get up there?
I’m gonna have to get used to this, aren’t I.
re: #223 allegro
So I get up this morning and first thing go into the bathroom to check on the kittens and yanno, pee. I do not do mornings well at best and do not handle first thing emergencies well At. All. I’m barely conscious and the brain synapses do not fire. They just kinda sputter until caffeine.
Kittens learned to escape the bathtub within about 48 hours so not finding them in the tub was not a surprise. Only finding one kitten in the bathroom (equivalent space of a smallish walk-in closet) was enough to set off my panic bells. OMG! Where’s the princess? OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG… I was freaking out. They like to snuggle in behind the toilet… no kitten… I’m about ready to tear out the vanity… no kitten!
Heart pounding and in full-fledged freak-out I sat on the john, clutching Little Lord Storm with my brain screaming “what am I gonna do?!!! where’s the kitten?!”, glanced to my left and saw at eye-level this:
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She was 6 weeks old yesterday. How the fuck did she get up there?
I’m gonna have to get used to this, aren’t I.
Lizardim, maybe it’s time to start sharing our kitteh horror stories?
re: #223 allegro
You might need some shelving:
catsplay.com
re: #223 allegro
So I get up this morning and first thing go into the bathroom to check on the kittens and yanno, pee. I do not do mornings well at best and do not handle first thing emergencies well At. All. I’m barely conscious and the brain synapses do not fire. They just kinda sputter until caffeine.
Kittens learned to escape the bathtub within about 48 hours so not finding them in the tub was not a surprise. Only finding one kitten in the bathroom (equivalent space of a smallish walk-in closet) was enough to set off my panic bells. OMG! Where’s the princess? OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG… I was freaking out. They like to snuggle in behind the toilet… no kitten… I’m about ready to tear out the vanity… no kitten!
Heart pounding and in full-fledged freak-out I sat on the john, clutching Little Lord Storm with my brain screaming “what am I gonna do?!!! where’s the kitten?!”, glanced to my left and saw at eye-level this:
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She was 6 weeks old yesterday. How the fuck did she get up there?
I’m gonna have to get used to this, aren’t I.
SpiderKitty.
The Brits as usual understand the Trump situation perfectly. Watch the video — complete with lightning very very frightening me.
OMG you guys. You must watch this British take on the WH chaos. Do watch at least until 2:55. I’m still laughing.https://t.co/9upSydgPF8
— Tokyo Sand (@DHStokyo) July 28, 2017
re: #225 jaunte
You might need some shelving:
catsplay.com
Those look interesting. If only I had a wall to put them on. (In my motorhome what isn’t built-ins is mostly all windows.)
I just reread Walt Kelly’s TEN EVER-LOVIN’ BLUE-EYED YEARS WITH POGO
Kelly’s wise, pithy and funny comments about the US under McCarthy, McCarthy himself and, more generally, America then, could have been written today. As the man himself said, we lost our heads—and our hearts.
re: #228 Stanley Sea
Adorable!!!
She is. She is going to be a beauty, solid black and sleek. That is, if she survives. She’s too adventurous for my her own good.
re: #227 wheat-dogg
The Brits as usual understand the Trump situation perfectly. Watch the video — complete with lightning very very frightening me.
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Wow. This was interesting. The Brits get it.
I like when they say “right the ship” cause it sounds like “right the shit.” and that also works.
re: #223 allegro
So I get up this morning and first thing go into the bathroom to check on the kittens and yanno, pee. I do not do mornings well at best and do not handle first thing emergencies well At. All. I’m barely conscious and the brain synapses do not fire. They just kinda sputter until caffeine.
Kittens learned to escape the bathtub within about 48 hours so not finding them in the tub was not a surprise. Only finding one kitten in the bathroom (equivalent space of a smallish walk-in closet) was enough to set off my panic bells. OMG! Where’s the princess? OMGOMGOMGOMGOMG… I was freaking out. They like to snuggle in behind the toilet… no kitten… I’m about ready to tear out the vanity… no kitten!
Heart pounding and in full-fledged freak-out I sat on the john, clutching Little Lord Storm with my brain screaming “what am I gonna do?!!! where’s the kitten?!”, glanced to my left and saw at eye-level this:
[Embedded content]
She was 6 weeks old yesterday. How the fuck did she get up there?
I’m gonna have to get used to this, aren’t I.
Yep.
Just remember how cute they are….
Basic cat stuff, though: when the-now Mrs. Jay first moved in with me, she brought her two cats with her: Melissa, a medium-sized tortoise DSH, and Jonathan: a big white DLH. One morning we wake up to find only one cat: Jonathan is missing - we turned the apartment upside down, calling constantly: looked in every closet, every cupboard, under every piece of furniture; every corner: no cat. Of course, we freaked out: we know we hadn’t opened the front door - but I checked out in the hall, anyway - no cat. After half a very upset hour, I had to go to the bathroom. As I was relieving myself, I thought I heard Jonathan’s mild, nearly inaudible meow. I looked up to find him stretched out on top of the light fixture over the sink. Giving me that typical “why are you bothering me?” cat-look.
We still can’t figure out how he got up there (it was high, and isolated): so we figure he just teleported: as good an explanation as any.
re: #223 allegro
The sweetness, the delight, the excitement and the perils my friend, all are truly yours today. ;-)
I miss kittens! Love my 3 adults but omg.
re: #224 Teukka
Lizardim, maybe it’s time to start sharing our kitteh horror stories?
Okay. OG Lizards will remember this. Our Pepper escaped as a kitten. Got into a neighbors apartment. Got all caught up in a sticky mat rodent/bug trap. Whole story and pictures at her blog
when someone you really don’t like… comes up with a tweet so good you have to post it.
“I knew something was amiss when I walked into the Oval Office and saw the plastic sheeting on the floor.” — Opening line of Reince memoir.
— Jonah Goldberg (@JonahNRO) July 28, 2017
re: #224 Teukka
Lizardim, maybe it’s time to start sharing our kitteh horror stories?
one of ours is named “monster”
need more be said?
re: #237 dangerman
one of ours is named “monster”
need more be said?
Best cat name ever: Trouble. He was the brother of my mom’s cat, Charlie (my childhood buddy).
Greets and saluts from the resistance in the NYC metro area. While people are lauding McCain for his supposedly slick move that supposedly kills Trumpcare yet again, McConnell’s being his typical self and readying yet another run at wrecking health coverage for tens of millions of Americans.
Trump and the GOP continue pushing this. They have nothing else. They don’t have a plan to replace Obamacare. They don’t have any way of covering as many or more people than under current law. It’s all vaporware/malware to give rich people big tax cuts ahead of still more tax cuts for the rich the GOP was preparing to do later in the year.
GOPDontCare. They’ve got to obliterate the signature achievement of the first black president, and there is nothing they wont do to try and stop it.
The GOP wont do anything to improve health coverage or expand coverage. They just don’t care enough to do anything about the fact that states the GOP controls that rejected expansion have significantly higher uninsured rates than those who expanded Medicaid. People have needlessly been suffering from lack of coverage thanks to the GOP, but the House thinks that throwing $1.6 billion at a boondoggle wall will solve immigration.
“Water is life” pic.twitter.com/7fbIIh91Ls
— Fluff Society (@FluffSociety) July 29, 2017
It’s going up to 105 here today. Stay hydrated everybody.
Shouldn’t he be golfing?
If a new HealthCare Bill is not approved quickly, BAILOUTS for Insurance Companies and BAILOUTS for Members of Congress will end very soon!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) July 29, 2017
The president is threatening to take down the insurance market if Congress doesn’t pass a health bill. https://t.co/rRdKpq4CGx
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) July 29, 2017
Goat morning! pic.twitter.com/cpqHG1p2gD
— 100% GOATS (@EverythingGoats) July 29, 2017
re: #239 lawhawk
And while DC dithers, corrupt administration flounders, nothing gets better on the street. I’ve been taking a camera downtown again lately. Lots of frames, but your comment brought these to mind for some reason.
They just won’t quit.
Senate Republicans to make another attempt at Obamacare repeal - POLITICO
apple.news
re: #245 Ace Rothstein
At this point we need to let our enemies keep making those mistakes. This smells of the GOP Federal shutdown. The harder they try the farther they fall.
re: #243 Unshaken Defiance
I recall my ex was quite impressed with the Los Angeles subway system.
Well, for about 15 minutes or so…….then she asked, “Wait; why would someone build a subway in a city that’s notorious for earthquakes?”
Heh.
ETA: Great photos.
re: #246 Unshaken Defiance
At this point we need to let our enemies keep making those mistakes. This smells of the GOP Federal shutdown. The harder they try the farther they fall.
And what do you want to bet that that is exactly what’s going to be coming in the Fall?
Unfortunately, it’s not a matter of wild imagination to predict that the GOP are going to use the threat of another shutdown to try (desperately) to shove though something, anything to try to salvage the Trump/Republican agenda.
re: #248 Dr Lizardo
Turns out that subways are actually supposed to be safer than being in skyscrapers and buildings above ground. It’s the way the shaking affects structures.
re: #246 Unshaken Defiance
At this point we need to let our enemies keep making those mistakes. This smells of the GOP Federal shutdown. The harder they try the farther they fall.
I was thinking the same thing yesterday - I wouldn’t be surprised at all if the Freedom Caucus pushed a shutdown over the debt limit.
re: #250 lawhawk
Turns out that subways are actually supposed to be safer than being in skyscrapers and buildings above ground. It’s the way the shaking affects structures.
Ah, OK. Presumably, she’d be relieved to know that. :)
— Michael McFaul (@McFaul) July 28, 2017
re: #218 wheat-dogg
Donnie Two Scoops doesn’t understand how representational democracy works. Or the Constitution. Or anything, really.
He was voted into office by people who do not understand how it works and for that very reason…they wanted a tough SOB who would come in, kick ass and set things straight…
re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He was voted into office by people who do not understand how it works and for that very reason…they wanted a tough SOB who would come in, kick ass and set things
straightwhite…
FTFY
re: #250 lawhawk
re: #248 Dr Lizardo
Lawhawk, exactly right. I saw the build from my home a block away from the tunnel and my office over Hill street where the tunnel also runs. Trucks and trucks of rebar. Then really thick concrete walls, all special high strength. Then grouting to keep it almost waterproof. It’s not a risk it;s a shelter. One with it’s own first responders. Safest place in the city at least physically.
Thanks for the kind words on the photos.
re: #249 Jay C
And what do you want to bet that that is exactly what’s going to be coming in the Fall?
Unfortunately, it’s not a matter of wild imagination to predict that the GOP are going to use the threat of another shutdown to try (desperately) to shove though something, anything to try to salvage the Trump/Republican agenda.
Then the Democrats should sit back and say “proceed” because the GOP will take the blame. No wall, no domestic spending cuts, no defunding PP. The Democrats should give them nada.
Re see re: #203 dangerman
” He might have spent more time back at 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. explaining to the President how the system works, and how important it is for the POTUS to be hands-on”
re: #254 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
He was voted into office by people who do not understand how it works and for that very reason…they wanted a tough SOB who would come in, kick ass and set things straight…
re: #258 Big Beautiful Door
Then the Democrats should sit back and say “proceed” because the GOP will take the blame. No wall, no domestic spending cuts, no defunding PP. The Democrats should give them nada.
They should be every bit as cooperative with the GOP as the GOP was on replacing Scalia…
Trump White House leaks like a sieve. Robert Mueller’s office has had zero leaks. Difference? Mueller’s staff respect him & what he’s doing.
— Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) July 28, 2017
Investigations of politicians are often dropped by prosecutors if they agree to resign from office. Just saying.
— Bruce Bartlett (@BruceBartlett) July 28, 2017
re: #259 dangerman
The GOP desire to basically cull out the poor is what is behind straight repeal. Buying the support with tax breaks despite deficit spending. Pulling the wool over the GOP poor eyes in all their millions is what is just starting to come apart. Stupid, cause those Trump voters want to be fooled and coddled in their views. A thin sham of real replacement would have made all the difference. Thank the stars the GOP could not make that happen. Trump is just an idiot for carrying the repeal no replace banner as head of the party. *cough*. Really cynical me says If Trump gets his war he gets the grinding mill to eat the lives up. Wealthy kids rarely join. He is playing provocateur rather than brinkmanship with NK.
First Teen Vogue..now Seventeen…fashion magazines are really getting political pic.twitter.com/VpmlFMfsJH
— joel tyler (@joeltyler_) July 29, 2017
re: #245 Ace Rothstein
They just won’t quit.
Senate Republicans to make another attempt at Obamacare repeal - POLITICO
apple.news
According to the article McCain will spend August in Az getting treatment, so either Murkowski or Collins would have to sign on.
re: #261 sagehen
.@BruceBartlett Yeah well at this point maybe that’s not good enough. #DieInJailTrump
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) July 29, 2017
Thank you! The officers that cheered for police brutality still need to be retrained or removed. Please do so ASAP.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) July 29, 2017
Graham’s proposal according to Politico is to keep the ACA taxes in place and block grant the funds to the state. Compared to the original proposals, this one isn’t awful, though many states would use the money to plug holes in their budgets or to cut state taxes instead of on healthcare, so I hope Murkowski and Collins stay firm in voting no.
re: #258 Big Beautiful Door
Then the Democrats should sit back and say “proceed” because the GOP will take the blame. No wall, no domestic spending cuts, no defunding PP. The Democrats should give them nada.
But the big problem with that approach is that they will need to have a (Democratic) Plan B to offer up: it’s a sad fact of life in our country these days that Republican obstructionism in Congress gets shrugged off by the media and public with a “meh!” (or praised as “principled”) while even the least hint of Democratic program-blockage has been/is/will be greeted with a violent shitstorm of outrage from the RW media (which the “MSM” will then dutifully repeat, with a smattering of both-siderist “concern”).
Congressional Dems need to have at least the rudiments of a alternative budget plan, and an attractive “message” - not just sloganeering: Pelosi and Schumer seem to have a good grip on their caucuses: they just need a reasonable plan (or the appearance of one) to put forward, regardless of what the GOP do. And, “attractive” as “Fuck Trump!” may be as rallying cry, it’s not really a strategy.
re: #268 Jay C
But the big problem with that approach is that they will need to have a (Democratic) Plan B to offer up: it’s a sad fact of life in our country these days that Republican obstructionism in Congress gets shrugged off by the media and public with a “meh!” (or praised as “principled”) while even the least hint of Democratic program-blockage has been/is/will be greeted with a violent shitstorm of outrage from the RW media (which the “MSM” will then dutifully repeat, with a smattering of both-siderist “concern”).
Congressional Dems need to have at least the rudiments of a alternative budget plan, and an attractive “message” - not just sloganeering: Pelosi and Schumer seem to have a good grip on their caucuses: they just need a reasonable plan (or the appearance of one) to put forward, regardless of what the GOP do. And, “attractive” as “Fuck Trump!” may be as rallying cry, it’s not really a strategy.
They can just point out the damage that defunding PP or cutting food stamps would do, or how wasteful spending money on the Wall is. Everything the GOP wants to spend money on is a travesty, and everything they want to cut has value.
re: #263 Stanley Sea
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Neither are fashion magazines as such. They are teen life. And right now, the groper in chief is a very important topic. These magazines are going to teach a generation of women that they need to get involved early.
Wow, when LAPD calls out the President for advocating assault by officers well it’s one hell of a mark on the political landscape.
‘It’s Not What Policing Is About Today’
Now it’s the Police Commission not the Chief. But remember this is not the first clash.
LAPD chief: My officers won’t comply with Trump’s immigration ban
.@WISGOP state senators signed secrecy agreements in order to view gerrymandered maps of their districts https://t.co/3yyi4tNm0g
— Randy Bryce (@IronStache) July 24, 2017
Fascinating look inside the insanely corrupt process @wisgop used to rig legislative districts, and the fight in federal court to stop them. https://t.co/pDwJT7QFie
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) July 29, 2017
“…In 2011 Republicans tasked two staffers and a GOP redistricting expert with secretly drafting new maps. They worked at the Madison law office of Michael Best & Friedrich. Republican senators had to sign nondisclosure pledges to view drafts of their own districts.
Based on an analysis of voting trends, the drafters determined the existing maps would yield 49 Republican Assembly seats and 50 Democratic seats in the 2012 election. Using a computer program, drafters tinkered with the district boundaries to give Republicans a projected 54-45 advantage.
After consulting with Republican leadership, the drafters massaged the maps further to the point that, according to one spreadsheet, “59 Assembly seats are 50 percent or better” for Republicans.”
re: #238 wrenchwench
A local florist here has a cat named Trouble who lives in the flower shop. As you leave there’s a sign on the door that says “Please don’t let Trouble out.”
re: #227 wheat-dogg
The Brits as usual understand the Trump situation perfectly. Watch the video — complete with lightning very very frightening me.
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Stuck the landing, didn’t? Got it in one.
The trouble with adolescents today? Says @BenSasse: They’ve simply never had to do a hard day’s work in their lives. https://t.co/mam1gzsCNs
— NYT Opinion (@nytopinion) July 29, 2017
This is officially the most white middle class condescending thing I have ever read in my black ass life https://t.co/uacm82LvRU
— Sydette (@Blackamazon) July 29, 2017
Someone has to be a pain in the ass around here sometimes.
— Gus™ (@Gus_802) July 29, 2017
We’ll take turns. We always have.
re: #240 jaunte
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It’s going up to 105 here today. Stay hydrated everybody.
We hit 100º between noon and 1:00. Probably looking at 106º or 107º today. This is the twenty third day we’ve hit at lest 100º—-
this month.
re: #269 Big Beautiful Door
They can just point out the damage that defunding PP or cutting food stamps would do, or how wasteful spending money on the Wall is. Everything the GOP wants to spend money on is a travesty, and everything they want to cut has value.
Not to belabor the point, BBD: but the major problem with this approach is that too many Republican officeholders are beholden for their positions to a voter base which has glutted itself on the toxins of biased, RW media for so long, that the only “value” they can see in any political activity is how much it can bash their pet hate-objects. And these are the “base” that will only equate “defunding PP” with “SHUTTING DOWN THE ABORTION MILLS!!!”; “cutting food stamps” with “GIVING AWAY FREE STUFF TO THE WELFARE N******S!!!” and see Trump’s border wall as “PROTECTING OUR COUNTRY!!”. And are quite willing to ignore any GOP-based spending “travesties”, as long as at least some funding is seen to be directed to their preferred hate-object-bashing
re: #230 Lupin
I have that book myself. I really loved Mr. Kelly’s use of the trial in Alice in Wonderland to satirize the McCarthy hearings.
And this line:
We astounded our friends abroad and amazed our enemies at home. They never knew we were so soft in the head or so hard in the heart.
re: #268 Jay C
But the big problem with that approach is that they will need to have a (Democratic) Plan B to offer up: it’s a sad fact of life in our country these days that Republican obstructionism in Congress gets shrugged off by the media and public with a “meh!” (or praised as “principled”) while even the least hint of Democratic program-blockage has been/is/will be greeted with a violent shitstorm of outrage from the RW media (which the “MSM” will then dutifully repeat, with a smattering of both-siderist “concern”).
Congressional Dems need to have at least the rudiments of a alternative budget plan, and an attractive “message” - not just sloganeering: Pelosi and Schumer seem to have a good grip on their caucuses: they just need a reasonable plan (or the appearance of one) to put forward, regardless of what the GOP do. And, “attractive” as “Fuck Trump!” may be as rallying cry, it’s not really a strategy.
But there IS a Plan B. Hillary ran on it. It was all about how to strengthen the ACA. Everyone knows how to do it, the R’s just will not hear of it.
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March FavoritesYou've seen these all already but looking back, just because. These are my favorite shots of this last month. That 1937 Zeiss Sonnar is such a gloriously wonderful bit of glass. Thanks for looking.
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Why Did More Than 1,000 People Die After Police Subdued Them With Force That Isn’t Meant to Kill? An investigation led by The Associated Press has found that, over a decade, more than 1,000 people died after police subdued them through physical holds, stun guns, body blows and other force not intended to be lethal. More: Why ... CheechakoKGxvi
The Pandemic Cost 7 Million Lives, but Talks to Prevent a Repeat Stall In late 2021, as the world reeled from the arrival of the highly contagious omicron variant of the coronavirus, representatives of almost 200 countries met - some online, some in-person in Geneva - hoping to forestall a future worldwide ... Cheechako
Texas County at Center of Border Fight Is Overwhelmed by Migrant Deaths EAGLE PASS, Tex. - The undertaker lighted a cigarette and held it between his latex-gloved fingers as he stood over the bloated body bag lying in the bed of his battered pickup truck. The woman had been fished out ... Cheechako
