Seth Meyers “Creepy” Edition: Trump Backs Roy Moore; Charlie Rose Fired for Sexual Harassment
Seth takes a closer look at the White House continuing to stand by an accused sexual predator running for Senate so they can pass tax cuts.
Seth takes a closer look at the White House continuing to stand by an accused sexual predator running for Senate so they can pass tax cuts.
I just donated to a Democrat for the first time in my life if any of yall want to do so as well. Enough is enough. https://t.co/YlDXTXSnyJ
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) November 21, 2017
Thanks, Tim!#GOP4Jones https://t.co/aqWsK5kzSX
— Doug Jones (@GDouglasJones) November 21, 2017
Ivanka Trump said there is a special place in hell for people like Roy Moore
Donald Trump just told the people of Alabama to vote for him— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) November 21, 2017
On the issue of Net Neutrality (and I can’t imagine what my monopoly telephone company is going to do with that):
My condolences to all the porn-streaming Johnson and Stein voters
— Molly (@isteintraum) November 21, 2017
Hopefully, my investment in Doug Jones this fall will have a greater reward than the amounts spent on Ossoff and Quist earlier this year. I alternate between despair from the daily damage that Trump and the GOP are inflicting on this country to optimism engendered by the victories in Virginia and elsewhere 2 weeks ago. Rachel’s reminder tonight of the damage throughout the country due to GOP gerrymandering put a real damper on my mood.
One of the toughest parts of this fall has been realizing that so many male colleagues assumed our careers didn’t take off like theirs because we were less talented.
— Amy Sullivan (@sullivanamy) November 21, 2017
Privilege is largely invisible to the privileged, and I speak as one of the privileged.
It’s exactly the same motivated reasoning that underpins white supremacy - only if the playing field is truly level are my accomplishments all my own doing. If you see yourself pulling ahead of others who aren’t white and male, it must be because you’re better at your job than they are.
re: #4 Hecuba’s daughter
Hopefully, my investment in Doug Jones this fall will have a greater reward than the amounts spent on Ossoff and Quist earlier this year. I alternate between despair from the daily damage that Trump and the GOP are inflicting on this country to optimism engendered by the victories in Virginia and elsewhere 2 weeks ago. Rachel’s reminder tonight of the damage throughout the country due to GOP gerrymandering put a real damper on my mood.
Gerrymandering can be overcome with wave elections.
The point of gerrymandering is to create safe seats (see NE-2) by including just enough of another seat (NE-3) to overwhelm the majority vote in that area. (Thus, President Obama took an electoral vote in NE-2 in 2008, but gerrymandering by taking voters from my district ensured that didn’t happen in 2012.)
When there is a wave election (defined as actually getting off your ass and voting), the gerrymander is overcome. (See the elections in Virginia and other places recently.)
The solution to gerrymandering is not to despair; it is to make sure as many people as can vote, do vote.
re: #5 Blind Frog Belly White
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Privilege is largely invisible to the privileged, and I speak as one of the privileged.
It’s exactly the same motivated reasoning that underpins white supremacy - only if the playing field is truly level are my accomplishments all my own doing. If you see yourself pulling ahead of others who aren’t white and male, it must be because you’re better at your job than they are.
While white people certainly have privilege in society, not all white people are in fact privileged. Trust me, I felt no privilege whist I was homeless for eleven years. Despite conservative claims that they support veterans, I was entirely invisible to society as a homeless disabled vet (including being disenfranchised from voting—my first vote after becoming homeless in 1996 was in 2012).
Your company’s Slack is probably sexist
Age, experience, and hierarchical position undoubtedly influence digital behavior. Does gender influence our office’s electronic communications? When I began asking my colleagues, nearly every woman said yes. Overwhelmingly, men said no.
Interesting read. I definitely identified with a lot.
re: #7 Anymouse 🌹
While white people certainly have privilege in society, not all white people are in fact privileged. Trust me, I felt no privilege whist I was homeless for eleven years. Despite conservative claims that they support veterans, I was entirely invisible to society as a homeless disabled vet (including being disenfranchised from voting—my first vote after becoming homeless in 1996 was in 2012).
Privilege is relative, not absolute. It doesn’t mean it was easy. It means it was easier than it would have been if you were not a white man. While I can’t speak to your specific circumstances, I daresay they’d have been more difficult to get out of if you weren’t white and male.
And if you don’t think you were at all privileged while homeless, consider how differently the better-off react to homeless white men, vs homeless black men.
re: #8 JordanRules
Your company’s Slack is probably sexist
Interesting read. I definitely identified with a lot.
A new generation. I asked my wife about her work experience when she worked at Digital Equipment Corporation. (We are assuming here that Slack is the current generation’s version of DECnet, which existed before the Internet.) She notes that sexism or sexist banter were not tolerated at DEC or on DECNet.
This Thanksgiving gonna be lit! pic.twitter.com/rpkFVOuTdd
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) November 21, 2017
A U.S. Navy plane carrying 11 has crashed into the Pacific Ocean near the Japanese island of Okinawa; search and rescue operation now underway. It was on its way to the USS Ronald Reagan. Cause unknown. https://t.co/wMy9bQIz6b pic.twitter.com/81xg8UnUWq
— Anna Fifield (@annafifield) November 22, 2017
re: #11 teleskiguy
My wife told me what Thanksgiving dinner is going to be (much better than the Hamburger Helper I made for dinner today): Lamb Sate. I’m in for that.
Hey!! Today is my 9 year anniversary for joining LGF. (It’s still 11/21 in the AST zone!)
re: #14 Cheechako
My nine year anniversary is in 10 days.
re: #15 teleskiguy
My nine year anniversary is in 10 days.
How should we celebrate….pineapple pizza?
I guess John Conyers is the talk of the morning.
Oh well, better than nuclear war.
Also, David Cassidy has passed away.
This is already a bad morning and we’re but two hours into it.
re: #4 Hecuba’s daughter
Hopefully, my investment in Doug Jones this fall will have a greater reward than the amounts spent on Ossoff and Quist earlier this year. I alternate between despair from the daily damage that Trump and the GOP are inflicting on this country to optimism engendered by the victories in Virginia and elsewhere 2 weeks ago. Rachel’s reminder tonight of the damage throughout the country due to GOP gerrymandering put a real damper on my mood.
It’s beyond gerrymandering, the GOP is actively suppressing votes. Ossoff lost, but there is some real shady shit surrounding the vote and that all the data was wiped (after being told to retain it). I can’t speak to Quist, but even in VA there was shady shit about people given incorrect ballots - ballots that could have flipped control of the VA government from GOP to dem.
So we have:
- gerrymandering
- voter suppression (voter ID, robocalls to go to the wrong place or vote on incorrect days, etc., etc.)
- given incorrect ballots
- given provisional ballots
- electronic voting machines with no paper audit trail
Every single thing the GOP touches is tainted. Republicans are traitors to every single thing America stands for. They are trying to end America as we know it. And who knows if they will do so.
Looking up stock photos for work and I think I found “distracted bf” girl. pic.twitter.com/pU4flzuLDT
— Andrew J Abernathy (@ajabernathy) November 20, 2017
The incredible “true” story of Angry Girlfriend and Distracted Boyfriend. Check out this thread! It ends how you would expect. https://t.co/ALBlQnLa86
— wheat-dogg still thinks editing tweets way overdue (@liguy743) November 22, 2017
On a more serious note, in the wake of the Roy Moore scandal, someone on the Book of Face group for my high school has started a thread detailing the shenanigans of our physics teacher with several female students. One of the victims (one of my classmates) went into some detail about what he did to her. The school administration knew about all this, and swept it under the carpet for years (all through the 1970s). Finally, said physics teacher was forced to take early retirement, because the sitch only got worse.
As I just told another classmate, these revelations explain a lot of the peculiar teacher-female student interactions I saw in physics class in 10th grade.
Aaandd it’s awake.
It wasn’t the White House, it wasn’t the State Department, it wasn’t father LaVar’s so-called people on the ground in China that got his son out of a long term prison sentence - IT WAS ME. Too bad! LaVar is just a poor man’s version of Don King, but without the hair. Just think..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2017
re: #24 wheat-dogg
My God. It is too early for his shit
re: #24 wheat-dogg
Aaandd it’s awake.
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Yes, the President of the United States is personally insulting a private citizen via long distance and, worse, we have already become accustomed to this absolutely unprecedented behavior.
Some good news in the world, at least.
Ratko Mladić convicted of genocide and war crimes at UN tribunal https://t.co/FOF2MuAEZv
— The Guardian (@guardian) November 22, 2017
During a speech in 1866, a possibly inebriated President Andrew Johnson apparently told a heckler to go fuck himself. The exact words are not recorded, just that there was a scandal over them and that the President’s words “lacked dignity and restraint” and that Johnson himself was “touched with insanity and stimulated with drink.”
This was about as close as we got to the daily barrage of presidential tweet sewage before the age of Trump.
re: #5 Blind Frog Belly White
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Privilege is largely invisible to the privileged, and I speak as one of the privileged.
It’s exactly the same motivated reasoning that underpins white supremacy - only if the playing field is truly level are my accomplishments all my own doing. If you see yourself pulling ahead of others who aren’t white and male, it must be because you’re better at your job than they are.
— Barry Makes Comics (@barrydeutsch) November 21, 2017
re: #2 JordanRules
Ivanka Trump said there is a special place in hell for people like Roy Moore
Donald Trump just told the people of Alabama to vote for him
The fact that the fellow still even has a chance in hell of winning is disturbing enough…
This is already too much for one day and it isn’t even 7 am yet.
The deleted tweethttps://t.co/HLoP1Ch4nK pic.twitter.com/YacFQXrL0E
— Eliot Higgins (@EliotHiggins) November 22, 2017
If you can post a 280-character tweet without a spelling or English grammar error, you are in several ways “privileged”.
re: #12 Kragar
A U.S. Navy plane carrying 11 has crashed into the Pacific Ocean near the Japanese island of Okinawa; search and rescue operation now underway. It was on its way to the USS Ronald Reagan. Cause unknown.
USS Ronald Reagan on its search mission: “We’re from the government and we’re here to help you”
re: #31 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The fact that the fellow still even has a chance in hell of winning is disturbing enough…
A new poll makes it crystal clear: Sexual harassment is not a dealbreaker in today’s Republican Party https://t.co/kB8NkveevJ
From family values to being OK with predation.— Steven Metz (@steven_metz) November 22, 2017
Add that to murder, treason, fraud and graft which were already deemed acceptable and the @GOP has officially become the “No Values? No Problem!” party. https://t.co/8gUmus3YNG
— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) November 22, 2017
Oh, and this….
New WBRC-TV/Strategy Research poll of Alabama Senate race:
Roy Moore 47
Doug Jones 45
Alabamans believe all or some of the allegations against Moore by 45-34https://t.co/KQTQseyMq4— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) November 22, 2017
re: #31 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The fact that the fellow still even has a chance in hell of winning is disturbing enough…
The best possible Democratic candidate in Alabama is running against the worst imaginable Republican candidate, and I would not take a serious bet at 50-50.
re: #35 MsJ
A new poll makes it crystal clear: Sexual harassment is not a dealbreaker in today’s Republican Party
That tweet is wrong—a majority of my fellow Alabamians are buying into felony rape, not harassment.
At least 8 reported survivors of the Navy air crash:
This woman is:
Washington Bureau Chief/USA Today. Veteran of 10 presidential campaigns. Now covering my sixth president. (Still trying to get it right.) FB @susanpageusatoday
and she said that Trump won the popular vote on Hardball the other night.
Then she tweeted this idiocy, to which I responded…
The problem isn’t as much what you said as that you obviously don’t know anything. How are you allowed to be involved in anything journalistic if you are so ignorant of basic facts surrounding the 2016 election? USA Today needs new staff if you’re a Bureau Chief.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) November 22, 2017
re: #39 MsJ
Back when I was in High School Debate, we referred to that rag as Useless News Today. I’ve never seen any reason to consider it good for anything but toilet tissue in the outhouse at my FiL’s hunting shack.
The Republican Party 2017 — #PervStrong!
G ropers
O ligarchs &
P edophiles@GOP @realDonaldTrump @MooreSenate @Morning_Joe pic.twitter.com/eDyQQs1sk5— Col. Morris Davis (@ColMorrisDavis) November 22, 2017
re: #39 MsJ
USA Today is a Gannett fishwrap paper/website. Don’t expect too much.
re: #15 teleskiguy
My nine year anniversary is in 10 days.
Get off my damn lawn… kids these days… /
Congrats on the LGF anniversaries folks.
.@realDonaldTrump
Simply not credible coming from such an accomplished liar.— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) November 22, 2017
10 year party at my place next year! (?)
And if you are @realDonaldTrump and you are straining out the 1st Turd/Tweet of the day, What are you thinking of? When you push out that 1st gut wrencher of the day due to your shitty diet, your immediate tweet will not be kind.
— Argyle Von Bargle 🐘🐘🐘🐘 (@DaveoutofAustin) November 22, 2017
re: #24 wheat-dogg
Aaandd it’s awake.
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The man has got to be one of the most emotionally needy fuckers on the planet. He could bring all this to an end tomorrow by just dropping the subject, but he won’t because his ego demands he force LaVar to kneel and kiss the ring.
It’s just so pathetic how easy it is to tweek him. I don’t want to hear MRAs, same people who csll Trump an “Alpha” ever suggest that women are too emotional for the job. Trump is a fucking baby.
re: #48 Unshaken Defiance
10 year party at my place next year!
Should I bring a tent or will you be providing a room? I don’t know if I can stay the whole time but I’ll try…
re: #52 bill d. (b.d.)
Haha bigger tent than the GOP anyway. We would not be short of musicians, techs or photographers would we?
Summing up Trump’s embrace of #RoyMoore: “I’m With The Perv!” pic.twitter.com/IcC7QGJ14D
— John Nichols (@NicholsUprising) November 22, 2017
Not sure who’s with whom there.
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) November 22, 2017
Man, tomorrow is gonna be one very awkward day at the White House, between Donny’s twitter war with Ball, Mueller investigating pretty much everybody at 1600 Penn Ave, plummeting approval ratings, and the very real possibility that Wealthcare will fail to pass.
“Could you pass the rolls?”
“WHO SAID MY RATINGS WERE LOW?”
“I was just asking for the rolls! I didn’t squeal to Mueller!”
“Mueller’s here?! Quick, burn the tapes!”
Greets and saluts from the Resistance in the NYC metro area. Safe travels to all so inclined this week. Meanwhile, Trump’s busy railing against black folks protesting injustices and people who don’t pay fealty to Trump.
Because @realDonaldTrump doesn’t have any actual achievements to tout (when he’s not taking credit for an economy he has had no impact on), he’s left to attack minorities expressing their 1A rights to protest injustices as they see fit.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 22, 2017
This is all Trump ever does. If you don’t express gratitude to the grossly insecure Trump, Trump lets everyone know via tweet just how he feels.
It’s so amazingly transparent, but Trump also knows this riles up his bigot brigade base, since the targets of his ire are minorities, women, and anyone who is grounded in facts and reality.
re: #15 teleskiguy
My nine year anniversary is in 10 days.
My nine year anniversary is in 7.5 years
Stick around….lots more to come
Just witnessed this giant seal being chased out the door of a fishmongers shop in Wicklow town. pic.twitter.com/WGlGxlAWfs
— Derek Byrne (@Derek1052) November 22, 2017
Something tells me this isn’t the 1st time. I’ll bet that seal has a name and is a regular visitor to the bait shop. https://t.co/zkcktMok9X
— Argyle Von Bargle 🐘🐘🐘🐘 (@DaveoutofAustin) November 22, 2017
re: #26 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Yes, the President of the United States is personally insulting a private citizen via long distance and, worse, we have already become accustomed to this absolutely unprecedented behavior.
Remember when President Obama suggested a black man should not be arrested trying to get into his own home and mentioned race may have played a part - the outcry from the GOP in favor of the arresting officer was off the planet. It became a “both sides” issue between Prof Gates and Officer Crowley.
Only white republican presidents can attack US citizens and not be called for what they say.
25 years ago Fikret Alic was photographed in a concentration camp in Bosnia. Today he’s in The Hague awaiting the verdict on his tormentor, Ratko Mladic pic.twitter.com/6LZhZvQQF9
— Matthew Price (@BBCMatthewPrice) November 22, 2017
re: #60 fern01
Remember when President Obama suggested a black man should not be arrested trying to get into his own home and mentioned race may have played a part - the outcry from the GOP in favor of the arresting officer was off the planet. It became a “both sides” issue between Prof Gates and Officer Crowley.
Only white republican presidents can attack US citizens and not be called for what they say.
I remember rather vividly the national shitstorm that erupted simply because he called the arrest “stupid.”
re: #14 Cheechako
Hey!! Today is my 9 year anniversary for joining LGF. (It’s still 11/21 in the AST zone!)
My two-year anniversary will be on Dec. 15.
re: #63 Targetpractice
I remember rather vividly the national shitstorm that erupted simply because he called the arrest “stupid.”
Subtly.
He said the arrest was stupid.
He didnt tweet the cop directly and say he was stupid
re: #63 Targetpractice
I remember rather vividly the national shitstorm that erupted simply because he called the arrest “stupid.”
I knew it was about something minor - couldn’t remember the word - thanks.
re: #65 dangerman
Subtly.
He said the arrest was stupid.
He didnt tweet the cop directly and say he was stupid
bad enough: a black kenyan muslim thug implying that a white officer of the law and upholder of justice was stupid
re: #64 Anymouse 🌹
My two-year anniversary will be on Dec. 15.
I’m 6
I’m 9
I’m three and a half
I’m seven and three months and two days….
I’m…what year is it.. give me a minute to do themath
I see where Meg Whitman just stepped down from HP. And thoughts on her heading up a primary run against the asshole?
— T. R. Ramachandran (@yottapoint) November 22, 2017
Note too that Trump is essentially equating child molestation with being a Democrat on an ethical/moral plane. GOP basically assents to this equivalence, since they’re still backing Trump and Moore.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 22, 2017
Roy Moore says he’s considering legal action against one or more of the women who have accused him of sexual misconduct. https://t.co/UtCXYJY4Px
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 22, 2017
Discovery is going to be a bitch for Moore.
This is an empty threat; he’s a public figure and the accusations are credible and numerous enough to make his case all but impossible to prove. https://t.co/85DMuSxBcn— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 22, 2017
re: #71 lawhawk
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Not to mention that, as a public figure, he’d have to prove actual malice if he wanted to sue them for defamation.
Will be having meetings and working the phones from the Winter White House in Florida (Mar-a-Lago). Stock Market hit new Record High yesterday - $5.5 trillion gain since E. Many companies coming back to the U.S. Military building up and getting very strong.
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2017
It’s not the “Winter White House”; each visit costs taxpayers millions; and it’s using public office to promote his private members-only club that costs $200k to join, which Trump profits from directly. https://t.co/0qOe84lK1j
— Brian Klaas (@brianklaas) November 22, 2017
re: #72 Targetpractice
For someone who was an actual judge (and chief justice of Alabama Supreme Court before being removed twice for failing to follow the law), this shows just how idiotic and unqualified Moore truly is (this alone shows the kind of depravity and willful refusal to follow the law that Moore is known for).
It sums up his entire career. Bullying and suppressing those who criticize him.
It’s no wonder Trump likes him - he looks in the mirror and sees himself (though Moore oozes Christian theocrat while Trump just oozes).
re: #74 lawhawk
Bullying and suppressing those who criticize him.
Also explains his reelection in Alabama.
re: #73 Backwoods_Sleuth
.@realDonaldTrump Thank you for providing play by play testimony on your continuing emoluments violations.
— Daniel Ballard (@RW_Conspirator) November 22, 2017
re: #69 Dave In Austin
I see where Meg Whitman just stepped down from HP. And thoughts on her heading up a primary run against the asshole?
I know my wife won’t vote for her, after her decisions that ruined her retirement fund from Digital Equipment (that and we don’t live where she does).
re: #70 lawhawk
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He’s not equating
He’s saying “better a child molester in the senate than a democrat”
As in I’d rather have
We used to gag this similarly in my neanderthal days:
Better my own sister working in a whorehouse that a brother on a honda
(,Interestingly and true ..autocorrect just changed whorehouse to white house)
The NFL is now thinking about a new idea - keeping teams in the Locker Room during the National Anthem next season. That’s almost as bad as kneeling! When will the highly paid Commissioner finally get tough and smart? This issue is killing your league!…..
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 22, 2017
Obama used to visit a homeless shelter and serve meals on the day before Thanksgiving. (I mostly remember because it was murder on DC traffic.) https://t.co/mfb0LHirPO
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) November 22, 2017
re: #74 lawhawk
For someone who was an actual judge (and chief justice of Alabama Supreme Court before being removed twice for failing to follow the law), this shows just how idiotic and unqualified Moore truly is (this alone shows the kind of depravity and willful refusal to follow the law that Moore is known for).
It sums up his entire career. Bullying and suppressing those who criticize him.
It’s no wonder Trump likes him - he looks in the mirror and sees himself (though Moore oozes Christian theocrat while Trump just oozes).
As you noted, they’re empty threats but the fact that he’s making them shows he and Trump are of the same mind: Using the threat of litigation and possible financial harm fighting said litigation to scare his “enemies” into shutting up.
Any lawyer who would willingly take part in such a crock should face ethics charges, if not disbarred for knowingly bringing frivolous suits before the court with the intent of silencing Moore’s accusers.
re: #79 FormerDirtDart
The NFL is now thinking about a new idea - keeping teams in the Locker Room during the National Anthem next season. That’s almost as bad as kneeling!
I am guessing that he is clueless enough not to know that was common practice until the US military started paying money to the NFL to put on patriotic spectacles.
re: #82 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
I am guessing that he is clueless enough not to know that was common practice until the US military started paying money to the NFL to put on patriotic spectacles.
Come to find out, it started a couple of years before the DoD started paying them, but it was still a show. NFL patriotism is done for profit. I’d much rather have it go away.
Was she identified by her official title while advocating against that candidate? Has OSC commented on what she did? (e.g., “violated the Hatch Act by advocating for and against … candidates while giving a media interview”) pic.twitter.com/qYpa0eXxFZ
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) November 21, 2017
Former Govt Ethics director says Kellyanne Conway likely violated the Hatch Act by attacking Roy Moore’s opponent on national TV. https://t.co/wCbdTQt6Iw
— Christina Wilkie (@christinawilkie) November 22, 2017
I have filed a complaint with the U.S. Office of Special Counsel, which investigates Hatch Act violations. https://t.co/Mrm8al9nZz
— Walter Shaub (@waltshaub) November 22, 2017
re: #79 FormerDirtDart
The NFL is now thinking about a new idea - keeping teams in the Locker Room during the National Anthem next season.
…you mean like it was before 2009
re: #79 FormerDirtDart
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“Problem”: Black players are kneeling during the Anthem rather than standing with hand on heart, showing “disrespect” to the flag and to our veterans.
NFL solution: Keep players off the field until after the DoD-mandated pageantry is over so as not to have images of kneeling players on TV.
Trump solution: Kneecap the entire league by benching players who won’t follow the orders of white owners and a white president to show “respect.”
My solution: Drop the flag and Anthem bullshit, tell the DoD where to shove their money, and tell any fans who complain where the exit is.
re: #86 Targetpractice
“Problem”: Black players are kneeling during the Anthem rather than standing with hand on heart, showing “disrespect” to the flag and to our veterans.
NFL solution: Keep players off the field until after the DoD-mandated pageantry is over so as not to have images of kneeling players on TV.
Trump solution: Kneecap the entire league by benching players who won’t follow the orders of white owners and a white president to show “respect.”
My solution: Drop the flag and Anthem bullshit, tell the DoD where to shove their money, and tell any fans who complain where the exit is.
Right on target
Will you be my president?
Did you know that in Alabama, if you owe any sort of court fines or legal fees (unpaid traffic tickets, fines, court fees, probation fees, drug testing fees, restitution, etc), you are disenfranchised until those fees are paid off in full?
Guess what population of Alabamans this disproportionately affects and what party they are most likely to vote for.
re: #81 dangerman
The companies he’s likely to quote had plans to move some portion of business to the US before Trump took office. He’s piggybacking on them.
Meanwhile, Carrier, which he touted as a success story for him, is offshoring jobs at the very factory he visited.
All Trump does is lie.
re: #87 dangerman
Right on target
Will you be my president?
Yes, my rule will be stern but fair. My first act in office will be to order Donald Trump fired…out of a cannon…into the Sun.
re: #90 lawhawk
The companies he’s likely to quote had plans to move some portion of business to the US before Trump took office. He’s piggybacking on them.
Meanwhile, Carrier, which he touted as a success story for him, is offshoring jobs at the very factory he visited.
All Trump does is lie.
‘zacto
re: #92 Targetpractice
Yes, my rule will be stern but fair. My first act in office will be to order Donald Trump fired…out of a cannon…into the Sun.
Ok you just bought my vote
re: #39 MsJ
This woman is:
and she said that Trump won the popular vote on Hardball the other night.
Then she tweeted this idiocy, to which I responded…
Susan Page
✔
@SusanPage
Apologies. My verbal misstep. (This may be why I’m a print reporter.)@SusanPage do you think #Trump won the popular vote? Does #3million ring a bell?
— debbie panaretos (@finepaintbrush) November 21, 2017
…
MsJoanne
@MsJoanne
The problem isn’t as much what you said as that you obviously don’t know anything. How are you allowed to be involved in anything journalistic if you are so ignorant of basic facts surrounding the 2016 election? USA Today needs new staff if you’re a Bureau Chief.
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The problem may be something else: When you write something, you can review your words and realize a mistake before you hit send. When speaking, you don’t have that luxury and you may be unaware that your words did not match your intention. I’ve certainly done that — said the exact opposite of what I was thinking but usually catch myself and correct my misstatement.
In a different context, I remember a conversation from over 35 years ago with a colleague who attended a client meeting with one of our top consultants. The consultant inadvertently said something that was erroneous and that she would have known was wrong, but my colleague was afraid to correct her before the clients; since the client had our written report, he decided that it was safer to overlook this error.
re: #88 bmoak
Did you know that in Alabama, if you owe any sort of court fines or legal fees (unpaid traffic tickets, fines, court fees, probation fees, drug testing fees, restitution, etc), you are disenfranchised until those fees are paid off in full?
Guess what population of Alabamans this disproportionately affects and what party they are most likely to vote for.
I believe this is true only if you were convicted of a felony and lost the right to vote. When you are released from probation, the restoration of that right to vote is contingent on repaying any court costs. I don’t think failure to repay causes you to lose an existing right.
re: #88 bmoak
re: #96 Hecuba’s daughter
I believe this is true only if you were convicted of a felony and lost the right to vote. When you are released from probation, the restoration of that right to vote is contingent on repaying any court costs. I don’t think failure to repay causes you to lose an existing right.
That said — this is still heinous and should be prohibited. It is absolutely wrong that someone cannot vote only because they are too poor to vote. It is another form of poll tax and should be outlawed.
Trump heads to golf club after White House touts day full of meetings and phone calls https://t.co/kD9M9LACLo pic.twitter.com/1oCdad0JQ1
— The Hill (@thehill) November 22, 2017
re: #64 Anymouse 🌹
My two-year anniversary will be on Dec. 15.
just looked at my registration date: I hit 7 years on Nov 2. where does time go?
re: #23 wheat-dogg
On a more serious note, in the wake of the Roy Moore scandal, someone on the Book of Face group for my high school has started a thread detailing the shenanigans of our physics teacher with several female students. One of the victims (one of my classmates) went into some detail about what he did to her. The school administration knew about all this, and swept it under the carpet for years (all through the 1970s). Finally, said physics teacher was forced to take early retirement, because the sitch only got worse.
As I just told another classmate, these revelations explain a lot of the peculiar teacher-female student interactions I saw in physics class in 10th grade.
That’s not the only place where it happened. Mom’s church had a preacher caught doing it. Several teachers and coaches in my high school did “extracurricular activities” with both boys and girls. Saw several instances in college and lots of instances at work. We had a former manager who for years was involved with a bunch of coworkers. When it came to promotion time we knew why certain people got promoted. Then it went too far and I shall leave it for everyone to figure out the endgame…
Just looked and realized I’ve been here over 13 years. When I first signed up, I was a penniless college student working at a sub shop. Hard to believe that, 13 years later, I’d look back and think of that as a time when things seemed to make sense.
Charlie Rose…
Not a case where I consider his staff complicit, and thinking a lot of good people are now unemployed with a tough most recent resume entry to cope with. 3 big jobs that had lots of production staff.
I had a ten year anniversary in April
I am working on a goal of 100K updings for the coming year, am pushing 90K already.
I was married back then, a home owner and father of four kids, one just a year old.
That has ALL changed since then.
Except the dad part, of course.
re: #37 Decatur Deb
That tweet is wrong—a majority of my fellow Alabamians are buying into felony rape, not harassment.
Because Jesus forgives Roy ‘cause he’s a Republican!
re: #104 Joe Bacon 🌹
Because Jesus forgives Roy ‘cause he’s a Republican!
and behaving like a Biblical patriarch
So since we have been here so long, thinking my favorite feature right this minute is the temporary changeable avatar and name. ‘Cause my original Rightwingconspirator would just be misleading rather than snarky to those that don’t know me. Thank you Charles.
re: #106 Unshaken Defiance
So since we have been here so long, thinking my favorite feature right this minute is the temporary changeable avatar and name. ‘Cause my original Rightwingconspirator would just be misleading rather than snarky to those that don’t know me. Thank you Charles.
Ha! You young whippersnappers and your log-ins and avatars. Back in my day, we had to deal with trolls who’d jump in under a regular poster’s handle and cause chaos for everybody.
Now get off my lawn!
Time to bust out that ol’ mantra: Preview IS my friend…preview IS my friend…preview IS my friend…
Puerto Rico governor says Bill Clinton’s visit will help people realize the island still needs relief supplies more than two months after Hurricane Maria. https://t.co/Kqx4cRWECe pic.twitter.com/TzSb1j0IqW
— ABC News Politics (@ABCPolitics) November 22, 2017
2+ months later, @realDonaldTrump goes golfing every chance he gets and shows depraved indifference to plight of millions of Americans in Puerto Rico still without power and safe water. https://t.co/sgZ1uhTn6T
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 22, 2017
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In the next 12 months Trump is on track to fill judicial vacancies (thanks, Mitch McConnell) with more lifetime appointments than the previous four presidents COMBINED.
More if the Heritage Foundation gets its way to convert administrative judgeships into lifetime appointments as well.
Your country is being destroyed from within and all you can do is sit back and watch.
This from the Washington Post today.
Happy Thanksgiving.
We have a Subway street in town…it’s not underground, nor does it have anything to do with sandwiches.
re: #111 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #69 Dave In Austin
I see where Meg Whitman just stepped down from HP. And thoughts on her heading up a primary run against the asshole?
She’s every bit the world class liar that Shittler is. Californians remember how she tried to buy the Governorship in 2010. Jerry Brown knew right where her weak points were and he played his “trump cards” at the right time exposing what a fraud she was. I wouldn’t give her or her pal Carly the time of day!
Made a few phone calls to my Rep about net neutrality, but her in box is full. Will keep trying.
This @GQMagazine headline is lmfao
“Donald Trump Can’t Even Pardon a Damn Turkey Without Mentioning Barack Obama” pic.twitter.com/Mgx9oCkeYb— Adam Parkhomenko (@AdamParkhomenko) November 22, 2017
re: #98 FormerDirtDart
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that green looks…..someone needs to get a groundskeeper and a mower out there.
oh, he’s not such a good player…. nevermind
re: #115 Joe Bacon 🌹
She’s every bit the world class liar that Shittler is. Californians remember how she tried to buy the Governorship in 2010. Jerry Brown knew right where her weak points were and he played his “trump cards” at the right time exposing what a fraud she was. I wouldn’t give her or her pal Carly the time of day!
Rumor is Carly wants to run against Kaine here in Virginia. Can’t see her getting by in a GOP primary here. I think after Gillespie’s loss, they’re going to go all in with Corey Stewart.
re: #99 Sir John Barron
just looked at my registration date: I hit 7 years on Nov 2. where does time go?
there is no time.
there is only now.
;-)
re: #107 Targetpractice
Ha! You young whippersnappers and your log-ins and avatars. Back in my day, we had to deal with trolls who’d jump in under a regular poster’s handle and cause chaos for everybody.
Now get off my lawn!
that is so dial-up //
re: #119 HappyWarrior
Rumor is Carly wants to run against Kaine here in Virginia. Can’t see her getting by in a GOP primary here. I think after Gillespie’s loss, they’re going to go all in with Corey Stewart.
Happy that crook ripped me off for a tidy sum of cash for coding work I did “on spec”. Ask the folks she fired at HP. Better yet, ask my cousin’s widow how she feels about the shrew who drained the Lucent pension fund, stripped people of health care and got a golden parachute while my cousin Mark was left with just a piece of paper that was worthless!
re: #111 The Vicious Babushka
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re: #110 lawhawk
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good bad or otherwise, note this is three days after clinton’s visit
there was no “HEY EVERYONE LOOK HERE. GUESS WHERE IM GOING NEXT WEEK!!!!”
(im assuming)
Who are the moral majority?
It’s not the GOP. IT NEVER WAS.
Q Poll: Would you still consider voting for a political candidate accused of sexual harassment by multiple women?
Republicans
Yes 43
No 41
Democrats
Yes 12
No 81https://t.co/HvaGDhPpxr pic.twitter.com/WYwtRZ3VQc— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 22, 2017
re: #126 lawhawk
Who are the moral majority?
It’s not the GOP. IT NEVER WAS.
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All the proof you need to prove that Republicans talk the Jesus talk but they ALL walk the Ayn Rand walk!
re: #124 dangerman
Very under the radar coverage; and you had Politico questioning whether Democrats should reexamine Clinton’s behavior (which was endlessly investigated, litigated, impeached, lost law license over, settlements, etc.) all while Clinton was doing the very kind of work current sex predator, bigot, and compromised Trump should have been doing. Instead Trump was instead spending more time golfing than helping Puerto Rico.
Lying to our face again
Should be noted: Just 80 minutes before Trump arrived at his golf club, the White House made the pool correct an earlier report that said Trump was having a “low-key day” to “the president will NOT have a low-key day and has a full schedule of meetings and phone calls”.
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 22, 2017
I remember Thanksgivings when Carter, Clinton and Obama actually served meals to the poor…and Nixon, Pruneface Reagan, Old Fart Bush, Dumbya and Orange Foolius sat down to a feast for themselves…
JUST NOW: @SenatorCarper told us Gary Cohn faked a bad connection in conference call with POTUS to get him off the phone.
— John Berman (@JohnBerman) November 22, 2017
re: #132 Stanley Sea
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Hey, folks! Remember what Norquist said about the kind of President he wanted?????
Is there any doubt left that isn’t what Putin and his Republican operatives installed?
re: #131 Joe Bacon 🌹
I remember Thanksgivings when Carter, Clinton and Obama actually served meals to the poor…and Nixon, Pruneface Reagan, Old Fart Bush, Dumbya and Orange Foolius sat down to a feast for themselves…
Not accurate. GWB served meals to troops in Iraq in 2003 (secret trip itinerary in Iraq).
GHWB also served meals with troops in 1990.
re: #136 lawhawk
Not accurate. GWB served meals to troops in Iraq in 2003 (secret trip itinerary in Iraq).
GHWB also served meals with troops in 1990.
I stand corrected. I just remember Dumbya with the fake turkey…
re: #132 Stanley Sea
JUST NOW: @SenatorCarper told us Gary Cohn faked a bad connection in conference call with POTUS to get him off the phone.
— John Berman (@JohnBerman) November 22, 2017
This could already be the best hump-day ever…
.@JohnBerman: “Are you saying Gary Cohn faked a bad connection to get the president off the phone?”@SenatorCarper: “Well, I wouldn’t — I don’t want to throw him under the bus, but yes.” (@CNNnewsroom) pic.twitter.com/OjAJkrQD3I
— David Wright (@DavidWright_CNN) November 22, 2017
A former USA Gymnastics doctor who pleaded guilty to molesting at least 7 girls faces at least 25 years in prison. https://t.co/bKNbVibr17 pic.twitter.com/Zb2zIw3qIe
— AP Central U.S. (@APCentralRegion) November 22, 2017
think this might hurt some?
hard to say.
President Trump and accusations of sexual misconduct.
The complete, unabridged collection:
When your mom picks your new outfit and keeps telling you how handsome you look.. pic.twitter.com/PXTRIVQlRD
— Animal Life (@MeetAnimals) November 22, 2017
re: #122 Joe Bacon 🌹
Commas save lives:
Happy that crook ripped me off for a tidy sum of cash for coding work I did “on spec”.
or
Happy, that crook ripped me off for a tidy sum of cash for coding work I did “on spec”.
:)
It took me a few reads to realize you were referring to HappyWarrior.
re: #138 FormerDirtDart
This could already be the best hump-day ever…
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“I dont want to throw him under the bus but yes”
re: #143 Belafon
Commas save lives:
or
:)
It took me a few reads to realize you were referring to HappyWarrior.
“eats shoots and leaves”
re: #140 Backwoods_Sleuth
That’s the creep who molested a bunch of USA gymnastics athletes, including Aly Raisman.
25 years… still somehow insufficient to deal with the fact he molested dozens of girls over 125 girls.
Nassar has pleaded guilty on child porn, faces multiple lawsuits, and more criminal charges besides the federal charges.
Oh, and Gabby Douglass also admits that she too was abused by Nassar.
re: #136 lawhawk
Not accurate. GWB served meals to troops in Iraq in 2003 (secret trip itinerary in Iraq).
GHWB also served meals with troops in 1990.
lol, I forgot about that plastic turkey he was carrying around.
On 7/12/95, as this video shows, Ratko Mladic gave candy to Bosnia children & said “don’t be afraid.” Then he led massacre of 8,000 in Srebrenica. Today he’s convicted of genocide, forever etching his name in history as mass murderer of innocent civilians https://t.co/pNafPvoaHH
— Samantha Power (@SamanthaJPower) November 22, 2017
Ted so furious he can’t make eye contact with bob, because Bob called shotgun first. Bob’s like chill dude, I am. pic.twitter.com/SGStPtb5EM
— Richard Brown (@Brownsvilleted) November 22, 2017
re: #138 FormerDirtDart
This could already be the best hump-day ever…
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Which means there’s going to be a very tense phone call in Cohn’s future, followed by his being pushed before the cameras to totally disavow the story, declare it “fake news,” and insist he would never do such a thing to Hair Gropenfuhrer.
this is a burrowing owl
they are threatened, so if you find a burrow, you are supposed to rope it off and not molest them. many homes, parks, etc have these small protected areas. there’s a park about a quarter mile from us that has a bunch of burrows. we dug a burrow on our property. no one every came that quarter mile to visit.
we found this owl last night when we got out of the car in a publix parking lot. it’s perched on a fence surrounding a construction area. they tend to not go far from the burrows, so i cant figure it.
Dramatic video shows escape, shooting of North Korean defector. By @APKlug. https://t.co/pTiFi8YJg7 pic.twitter.com/0kaWK4Sbzj
— The Associated Press (@AP) November 22, 2017
re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth
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As I recall, Geller defended this monster. As have many “Anti-Jihadists.” As an American with roots in the Balkans, glad that justice was served. Remember the victims today.
re: #111 The Vicious Babushka
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An interesting bit of news today.
China’s Hainan Airlines successfully completed its first-ever, international flight using biofuel. The plane took off from Beijing and landed in Chicago ahead of schedule. The company hopes the fuel can be used on even more flights.
Hainan Airlines Flight 497 arrived at Chicago’s O’Hare airport to a water canon salute. It was the first-time a plane using biofuel had flown from China’s mainland to the United States. The base component of the fuel’s formula was waste, cooking oil.
The president of Hainan Airlines, Sun Jianfeng, had a birds-eye view for the event, given he captained the flight.
“Hainan Airlines wants to be the greenest airlines in the world which is why we use biofuel this time. Today’s flight is a special flight but I hope in the near future that this will be a normal flight. That is my hope,” he said.
Meanwhile, Trump wants to bring back coal. Let that sink in.
re: #36 Decatur Deb
The best possible Democratic candidate in Alabama is running against the worst imaginable Republican candidate, and I would not take a serious bet at 50-50.
Just like the best Democratic candidate ran against the worst imaginable Republican candidate for President last November and we saw how that went.
re: #155 Dr Lizardo
An interesting bit of news today.
Meanwhile, Trump wants to bring back coal. Let that sink in.
I see coal very much defining what Trump is even though he wouldn’t last a day in a mine. It’s dated, it’s dirty, it’s not safe, and it doesn’t provide nearly as much jobs as its proponents claim.
re: #152 FormerDirtDart
Wow. So glad to see that he was successful and is now safely in South Korea. Sad to see that this is how millions of our fellow human beings are living in 2017.
re: #155 Dr Lizardo
An interesting bit of news today.
Meanwhile, Trump wants to bring back coal. Let that sink in.
coal fired airplanes?
I will say this though. As a descendant of hard working, note that phrase please, coal miners, I hate that Trump is associated with coal mining.
re: #2 JordanRules
If we’re making donations to book his space in hell, I’m in.
re: #162 plf1953
How ‘bout we double up on those donations and book Trump a space along side old Roy?
re: #126 lawhawk
The Party of Family Values which claims to be the moral majority. This is who they are now.
re: #148 Backwoods_Sleuth
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He was a truly evil man who left his mark via his disciple Anders Breivik 16 years later in Norway.
Did Mladic ever show any remorse for what his supporter Breivik did in his name in Utoya?
re: #164 Patricia Kayden
The Party of Family Values which claims to be the moral majority. This is who they are now.
They”ve always been hypocrites. And you saw that the minute they preferred Reagan over Carter.
re: #165 electrotek
He was a truly evil man who left his mark via his disciple Anders Breivik 16 years later in Norway.
Did Mladic ever show any remorse for what his supporter Breivik did in his name in Utoya?
I very much doubt it. I wonder if this administration wlil comment at all given the number of anti-Muslim bigots present.
re: #167 HappyWarrior
I very much doubt it. I wonder if this administration wlil comment at all given the number of anti-Muslim bigots present.
They do get very touchy when you bring up Breivik, but suddenly wax poetics over Mladic.
Why the cognitive dissonance here?
Hey all!
I’ve been busy and hadn’t had time to continue my “project.”
Just finished…
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37 of 38 economists said the GOP tax plans would grow the debt. The 38th misread the question. https://t.co/0Zzx3XTUsi
— Wonkblog (@Wonkblog) November 22, 2017
re: #168 electrotek
They do get very touchy when you bring up Breivik, but suddenly wax poetics over Mladic.
Why the cognitive dissonance here?
I have no idea honestly.
re: #169 ObserverArt
Hey all!
I’ve been busy and hadn’t had time to continue my “project.”
Just finished…
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re: #159 dangerman
coal fired airplanes?
The US spent years and over $1 billion (in 1950/60’s dollars) to develop nuclear powered aircraft…let that sink in, so to speak
re: #169 ObserverArt
Hey all!
I’ve been busy and hadn’t had time to continue my “project.”
Just finished…
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re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The US spent years and over $1 billion (in 1950/60’s dollars) to develop nuclear powered aircraft…let that sink in, so to speak
Well this is also when they commonly did open air testing of nukes and people had mushroom cloud viewing parties. Aside from the immediate destructive effects folks didn’t seem to really appreciate the dangers involved.
re: #179 danarchy
Well this is also when they commonly did open air testing of nukes and people had mushroom cloud viewing parties. Aside from the immediate destructive effects folks didn’t seem to really appreciate the dangers involved.
duck and cover!
Never forget 20 years ago today
20 years. One of the greatest most charismatic front men to grace the stage, and undeniably the most gorgeous. A beautiful soul that we wish was still here. 🙌🏼❤️ #MichaelHutchence pic.twitter.com/7bc3AS5tyB
— Lelia (@lelial) November 21, 2017
re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The US spent years and over $1 billion (in 1950/60’s dollars) to develop nuclear powered aircraft…let that sink in, so to speak
“A Colder War” . Short story uses them, amung other … Things…
re: #176 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
The US spent years and over $1 billion (in 1950/60’s dollars) to develop nuclear powered aircraft…let that sink in, so to speak
Atoms for Peace.
re: #167 HappyWarrior
I very much doubt it. I wonder if this administration wlil comment at all given the number of anti-Muslim bigots present.
At one time my husband and I were friends with a woman of Serbian ancestry. She still hated Turks and Muslims because of conflicts in the 13th or 14th century. Many Europeans and Southerners hold on to the past — the ancient past — instead of looking to solutions for current problems.
re: #111 The Vicious Babushka
Hope you and yours have a great time in Israel. Sure would like to see some pictures if you can post them!
re: #184 nines09
Cold hard truth from Jim.
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We’ve always been more conflicted than we want to believe ourselves to be. We did turn away Jewish refugees fleeing Nazi Germany. Until the 1960’s, we pretty much banned immigration outside of Europe and racism was the reason why. But Trump has made it so much worse and here’s why. We had leaders in the WH that had learned from the mistakes of the past. We had a president whose father himself was one of those immigrants. Trump has set us back and it’s going to take awhile and the right leaders to recover from it. My fear is we will make some progress in recovering only to fall again when things aren’t ideal and the populace falls prey to another demagogue like Trump.
re: #169 ObserverArt
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re: #185 Hecuba’s daughter
At one time my husband and I were friends with a woman of Serbian ancestry. She still hated Turks and Muslims because of conflicts in the 13th or 14th century. Many Europeans and Southerners hold on to the past — the ancient past — instead of looking to solutions for current problems.
I would tell her to get over it.
It was centuries ago for Christ’s sake. You don’t see me hating the Brits for colonizing the Indian subcontinent for many years.
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re: #185 Hecuba’s daughter
At one time my husband and I were friends with a woman of Serbian ancestry. She still hated Turks and Muslims because of conflicts in the 13th or 14th century. Many Europeans and Southerners hold on to the past — the ancient past — instead of looking to solutions for current problems.
That’s unfortunate. My grandfather- Slovene-American, one of his best friends was Serbian-American. They had a good amount in common- Steelers fans, Democrats, Pennsylvania natives, had kids around the same age, etc. We can’t forget the past but we can’t hold on to it either. I’m of Irish descent on my dad’s mom’s side. I admit it, I do hate and think about the Potato Famine and its impact but I don’t hate individual British people for that.
re: #184 nines09
Cold hard truth from Jim.
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re: #189 electrotek
I would tell her to get over it.
It was centuries ago for Christ’s sake. You don’t see me hating the Brits for colonizing the Indian subcontinent for many years.
What I love is for white people, African-Americans need to get over slavery but the Civil War can remain a festering wound to White Southerners. You just gotta see people as people. And as an ethnic mutt, I’d be hating myself if I let old hates get in the way.
re: #184 nines09
Cold hard truth from Jim.
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i think part of the problem is there is no one monolithic “we” / (usa) / america
while there is one american image, driven by those in power, there are definitely two “americas” if not more
re: #193 HappyWarrior
What I love is for white people, African-Americans need to get over slavery but the Civil War can remain a festering wound to White Southerners. You just gotta see people as people. And as an ethnic mutt, I’d be hating myself if I let old hates get in the way.
It even amuses me when they gripe about Albanians…when Albanians were able to break the yoke of Turkish occupation via Skenderbeg…who is venerated among both Albanian Muslims and Christians.
re: #194 dangerman
i think part of the problem is there is no one monolithic “we” / (usa) / america
while there is one american image, driven by those in power, there are definitely two “americas” if not more
I’ve contended for some time that John Edwards was right to talk about two Americas but I think he was wrong about the economic implications. You got many Americans, I’d say our crowd here and in urban areas and many suburban areas that have embraced our changes as a country. They had no problem with a Kenyan-American as their President. They embraced Obergefell as the right decision. They are perhaps immigrants themselves, children or grandchildren of them, or at the very least have immigrants who are very special to them in their friends and or family. They embrace change. Then you have the others. Obama’s election scared the crap out of them. They honestly don’t like being told that change has happened and that’s who the Tea Party first got to and later Trump.
re: #195 electrotek
It even amuses me when they gripe about Albanians…when Albanians were able to break the yoke of Turkish occupation via Skenderbeg…who is venerated among both Albanian Muslims and Christians.
Yeah I don’t get it either but old grudges man. I just try to treat people as individuals. We had a very standoffish Peruvian dude when I worked at a tech firm. But you know what, I don’t judge all Peruvians because of that dude not just because my niece is half Peruvian-American but because her mom’s family even though, I’m juts their daughter’s brother in law treats me like another member of the fam. Even got invited this winter to my SiL’s older sister’s Christmas party.
re: #196 HappyWarrior
I’ve contended for some time that John Edwards was right to talk about two Americas but I think he was wrong about the economic implications. You got many Americans, I’d say our crowd here and in urban areas and many suburban areas that have embraced our changes as a country. They had no problem with a Kenyan-American as their President. They embraced Obergefell as the right decision. They are perhaps immigrants themselves, children or grandchildren of them, or at the very least have immigrants who are very special to them in their friends and or family. They embrace change. Then you have the others. Obama’s election scared the crap out of them. They honestly don’t like being told that change has happened and that’s who the Tea Party first got to and later Trump.
well put and why there isn’t one “we”
re: #175 MsJ
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BREAKING: Third record breaking ACA enrollment week. Over 800,000 enrollments.
— Andy Slavitt (@ASlavitt) November 22, 2017
re: #202 JordanRules
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re: #155 Dr Lizardo
An interesting bit of news today.
Meanwhile, Trump wants to bring back coal. Let that sink in.
Well, Trump SAYS he wants to bring back coal, because mining coal is something White Men do, almost exclusively here in America. The Jobs of the Future? White men don’t have a lock on those.
re: #197 HappyWarrior
Yeah I don’t get it either but old grudges man. I just try to treat people as individuals. We had a very standoffish Peruvian dude when I worked at a tech firm. But you know what, I don’t judge all Peruvians because of that dude not just because my niece is half Peruvian-American but because her mom’s family even though, I’m juts their daughter’s brother in law treats me like another member of the fam. Even got invited this winter to my SiL’s older sister’s Christmas party.
My neurologist in the ICU got his medical degree from National University of San Marcos, the oldest University in the Americas (founded in 1551). So naturally I am a fan of all Peruvians.
/semi
re: #200 ObserverArt
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re: #198 dangerman
well put and why there isn’t one “we”
And you know it’s further complicated because a person can be in Group A but live among Group B and vice versa. I definitely live in a conservative area but I grew up in a more moderate, now liberal area and that area definitely shaped me.
re: #200 ObserverArt
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re: #205 wrenchwench
My neurologist in the ICU got his medical degree from National University of San Marcos, the oldest University in the Americas (founded in 1551). So naturally I am a fan of all Peruvians.
/semi
They have great food! But joking aside, it’s funny how it turned out because one of my good friends growing up was also Peruvian. My brother and I didn’t really understand the beautiful diversity of South America at that time so we were shocked that his father was light skinned. And then my brother married his wife, turns out that his FiL’s maternal grandparents have their roots in Croatia, not too far from our own mom’s paternal grandparents Slovenia. Lovely family and we of course all have my niece in common now too who always makes us smile.
re: #206 makeitstop
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re: #203 HappyWarrior
The Republicans’ worst nightmare is coming true. People are using ACA.
…in the face of scale backs, a shrunk calendar, all but no advertising….
re: #211 dangerman
…in the face of scale backs, a shrunk calendar, all but no advertising….
Thanks Obama!
re: #156 Patricia Kayden
Just like the best Democratic candidate ran against the worst imaginable Republican candidate for President last November and we saw how that went.
She was the best among the people running and I think she could have been a great president, although the Republicans would have obstructed every action she would have taken. But, given the misogyny, the damage done to her by the Clinton-haters over the years and the Comey interference, I wonder if Biden might have proved a more successful candidate.
re: #196 HappyWarrior
I’ve contended for some time that John Edwards was right to talk about two Americas but I think he was wrong about the economic implications. You got many Americans, I’d say our crowd here and in urban areas and many suburban areas that have embraced our changes as a country. They had no problem with a Kenyan-American as their President. They embraced Obergefell as the right decision. They are perhaps immigrants themselves, children or grandchildren of them, or at the very least have immigrants who are very special to them in their friends and or family. They embrace change. Then you have the others. Obama’s election scared the crap out of them. They honestly don’t like being told that change has happened and that’s who the Tea Party first got to and later Trump.
Mostly, the people most afraid of change are the ones living where there hasn’t been much change. People who live where almost everyone is white are most afraid of immigrants and PoC’s. People who live where there are no Muslims are the most Islamophobic. People who don’t realize they know any gay people are most afraid of marriage equality.
re: #204 Blind Frog Belly White
Well, Trump SAYS he wants to bring back coal, because mining coal is something White Men do, almost exclusively here in America. The Jobs of the Future? White men don’t have a lock on those.
They are convinced that all they have to do is get rid of all those pesky government environmental, health and safety regulations and the good-paying jobs will come roaring back — without the need for unions.
re: #210 ObserverArt
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re: #209 HappyWarrior
They have great food! But joking aside, it’s funny how it turned out because one of my good friends growing up was also Peruvian. My brother and I didn’t really understand the beautiful diversity of South America at that time so we were shocked that his father was light skinned. And then my brother married his wife, turns out that his FiL’s maternal grandparents have their roots in Croatia, not too far from our own mom’s paternal grandparents Slovenia. Lovely family and we of course all have my niece in common now too who always makes us smile.
A world so small, you’ve gotta be careful about marrying a cousin. Actually, the marriage part is OK, just can’t have kids together. I know married cousins, sworn to childlessness.
re: #214 Blind Frog Belly White
Mostly, the people most afraid of change are the ones living where there hasn’t been much change. People who live where almost everyone is white are most afraid of immigrants and PoC’s. People who live where there are no Muslims are the most Islamophobic. People who don’t realize they know any gay people are most afraid of marriage equality.
Absolutely on all counts. I’ve known Muslims shit man my whole life. I’ve never felt threatened by Muslims. I’ve had them as friends, classmates, teammates, co-workers, etc. Same thing with me realizing I knew gay people. Meeting a gay cousin in my early teens definitely got me out of my early teenage homophobia that a lot of kids do display. And with immigrants, I always knew my mom’s parents were the children of them so I always empathized.
re: #169 ObserverArt
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re: #217 wrenchwench
A world so small, you’ve gotta be careful about marrying a cousin. Actually, the marriage part is OK, just can’t have kids together. I know married cousins, sworn to childlessness.
It is a small world indeed.
Facebook just announced that they will be creating a tool to allow people to see if they liked or followed the Russian propaganda accounts. https://t.co/ELFNO42hvd pic.twitter.com/0SLnhM0az6
— deray (@deray) November 22, 2017
re: #199 ObserverArt
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You know, I think Ziggy Tardis or whatever his name was had some crazy ideas but I don’t think he was necessarily wrong about the idea of having Muslims and others settle in red areas. Now, I disagreed with the motivation. He saw it as a means of turning red areas blue but I see it as people actually meeting people who are different. That way, your first thought with Muslim becomes less ISIS or terrorism but your neighbor or that guy who has that great restaurant or something like that.
re: #223 HappyWarrior
ProLifeLiberal I think was his original nic.
re: #215 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
They are convinced that all they have to do is get rid of all those pesky government environmental, health and safety regulations and the good-paying jobs will come roaring back — without the need for unions.
The alternative is accepting that the world where the White Man was King is gone, and not coming back, and changing their expectations. Plus, one of the traits that distinguish Trump voters from Clinton voters is geographic mobility - whether they’ve ever moved more than a few miles from their home town. Clinton voters are more likely to have moved across the state or the country for work. Trump voters believe that America owes them a well paid job with good benefits where they currently live - hence the fantasy of coal mines reopening.
I want to share the story of a woman in Huntsville, Alabama.
This goes beyond Gadsden. Or Hollywood. or Capitol Hill. The propagation of skepticism of women’s stories—by elected officials or locals—is actively impacting the lives of women. Think it’s worth consideration. pic.twitter.com/jE3dFsUQXq— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) November 22, 2017
re: #221 lawhawk
[Facebook just announced that they will be creating a tool to allow people to see if they liked or followed the Russian propaganda accounts.]
Now I have to decide which step is enough to call off my one-woman boycott of FB. Not that I miss it, but it reinforces my point if I reinforce a step they take. Did they really take rubles for Trump ads?
re: #214 Blind Frog Belly White
Mostly, the people most afraid of change are the ones living where there hasn’t been much change. People who live where almost everyone is white are most afraid of immigrants and PoC’s. People who live where there are no Muslims are the most Islamophobic. People who don’t realize they know any gay people are most afraid of marriage equality.
I am not entirely sure this holds up. Demographically New England is pretty lilly white, but yet is very progressive, sanctuary cities popping up all over the place etc. Whereas places like Alabama and Georgia are a good bit more diverse racially and yet are very conservative.
Unfortunately we only have one of those, Ezra. The other party’s main abiding principle is reflexive contrarianism toward the other party, nowhere more evident than the current president’s animus toward his predecessor, and how the Moore allegations have been treated
— Citizen K Sez “Ban Nazis!” (@Citizen_Kryptik) November 22, 2017
re: #224 Eclectic Cyborg
ProLifeLiberal I think was his original nic.
I see him on twitter all the time. He’s doing OK.
re: #223 HappyWarrior
You know, I think Ziggy Tardis or whatever his name was had some crazy ideas but I don’t think he was necessarily wrong about the idea of having Muslims and others settle in red areas. Now, I disagreed with the motivation. He saw it as a means of turning red areas blue but I see it as people actually meeting people who are different. That way, your first thought with Muslim becomes less ISIS or terrorism but your neighbor or that guy who has that great restaurant or something like that.
When schools were being integrated through busing, I had the thought that the most effective way to integrate the schools would be to integrate the neighborhoods. I was a teenager, I thought it could happen in my lifetime. But even then I knew chances were thin.
re: #231 Stanley Sea
I see him on twitter all the time. He’s doing OK.
Good to know. I know he had some demons he was fighting. I felt bad for him at times but dude could really take things too far.
Version 2….
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This is worth a watch. Doug Jones is out with a new ad, “Immoral”. pic.twitter.com/5J6e7iKfVt
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 22, 2017
re: #234 Eclectic Cyborg
Good to know. I know he had some demons he was fighting. I felt bad for him at times but dude could really take things too far.
Indeed.
re: #223 HappyWarrior
You know, I think Ziggy Tardis or whatever his name was had some crazy ideas but I don’t think he was necessarily wrong about the idea of having Muslims and others settle in red areas. Now, I disagreed with the motivation. He saw it as a means of turning red areas blue but I see it as people actually meeting people who are different. That way, your first thought with Muslim becomes less ISIS or terrorism but your neighbor or that guy who has that great restaurant or something like that.
Funny thing about my wingnut cousin - when I talk about immigrants or blacks, he say, “I live among these people”, but I looked up the demographics of the town where he lives. 98.97% white, which means in that town of 3000 people, there would be about 30 people IN THE WHOLE TOWN who aren’t white. It works out to 2 black people, and 8 Hispanic.
re: #231 Stanley Sea
I see him on twitter all the time. He’s doing OK.
He’s the most frequent retweeter of my retweets. (I don’t have much that I originate.)
re: #238 Blind Frog Belly White
Funny thing about my wingnut cousin - when I talk about immigrants or blacks, he say, “I live among these people”, but I looked up the demographics of the town where he lives. 98.97% white, which means in that town of 3000 people, there would be about 30 people IN THE WHOLE TOWN who aren’t white. It works out to 2 black people, and 8 Hispanic.
That’s very white.
re: #236 Stanley Sea
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re: #241 makeitstop
Good ad. An appeal to those who might still have a shred of conscience.
His ads have been very good.
re: #243 Blind Frog Belly White
It’s whiter than the state as a whole, which is 94% white.
And I imagine among those whites, there’s not much diversity either.
re: #235 ObserverArt
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.@KyrieIrving’s hero? #FlatEarth https://t.co/kpnCWjo26s
— New York Daily News (@NYDailyNews) November 22, 2017
re: #247 Stanley Sea
Not sure about the
“I like I can use it” line.
Sounds weird.
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re: #252 Backwoods_Sleuth
It touched on so much. So much.
Why does Donald Trump always feud with outspoken black people? @fivefifths asks https://t.co/8ewzI5KzrN pic.twitter.com/5x21SGbIsz
— The Atlantic (@TheAtlantic) November 22, 2017
Hmm. That’s a real head-scratcher. What could the reason possibly be? It’s a puzzler, all right. https://t.co/zQRmU6j8XR
— Charles Johnson (@Green_Footballs) November 22, 2017
re: #253 ObserverArt
Then how about just saying…
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re: #250 plansbandc
Fall walk in little red suit…
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“won’t you please get me out of this?”
Today marks the beginning of the 67th anniversary for The Great Appalachian Storm of 1950. Check out some of the impacts on our area from way back when. pic.twitter.com/3v3yTRIGno
— NWS Wilmington OH (@NWSILN) November 22, 2017
re: #238 Blind Frog Belly White
Funny thing about my wingnut cousin - when I talk about immigrants or blacks, he say, “I live among these people”, but I looked up the demographics of the town where he lives. 98.97% white, which means in that town of 3000 people, there would be about 30 people IN THE WHOLE TOWN who aren’t white. It works out to 2 black people, and 8 Hispanic.
Remember the old South: a few whites with a plantation of blacks. Southerners never had problems living among blacks as long as they knew their place, weren’t “uppity”, and didn’t vote, and served the white establishment. My brother talks about how integrated his neighborhood is. He thinks Texas is the greatest state and is all on board with voter suppression.
Charles if you could, can you take the image out of #169?
I deleted it from the image library already. I just want to make sure no one can use it.
Thanks.
re: #258 dangerman
He really likes clothes, just wanted to GOFORWALK not stand there taking pics. :D
re: #253 ObserverArt
How about just “I can use it…”
You hit on the I thing in lots of other places that I think losing that phrasing on that one wouldn’t sacrifice much.
re: #262 plansbandc
He really likes clothes, just wanted to GOFORWALK not stand there taking pics. :D
I did notice the blurred tail…
More people signed up for Obamacare plans thru 3 weeks this year than did thru 4 weeks last year https://t.co/AG1XwMhJzQ
— Brett LoGiurato (@BrettLoGiurato) November 22, 2017
re: #257 Interesting Times
D’oh. I missed this. You beat me to it.
re: #235 ObserverArt
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re: #262 plansbandc
He really likes clothes, just wanted to GOFORWALK not stand there taking pics. :D
I’m on my 9th year of my little mutt. I used to see small dogs in clothes and think, “Poor dog. People making him/her wear that.”
THEN my daughter brought home a sweater for our Cookie and he went bananas. He LOVES the sweaters and shirts.
Whoda thunk it?
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re: #254 JordanRules
It touched on so much. So much.
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re: #260 Hecuba’s daughter
Remember the old South: a few whites with a plantation of blacks. Southerners never had problems living among blacks as long as they knew their place, weren’t “uppity”, and didn’t vote, and served the white establishment. My brother talks about how integrated his neighborhood is. He thinks Texas is the greatest state and is all on board with voter suppression.
At least 2 Southern states had majority black populations in 1860, South Carolina and Mississippi, IIRC. Fear of slave revolt was very real.
I remember reading about at least one, years ago, where the slaves had revolted and killed a number of white people. I remember at the time thinking how awful that was. It seemed almost evil.
Now? It’s hard to see it any other way than that whites waged war on black constantly from the 17 Century on. It’s hard to see anyone white in that system as innocent. It’s hard to see the violence of the revolt as anything other than justified.
re: #130 Stanley Sea
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re: #268 nines09
I’m on my 9th year of my little mutt. I used to see small dogs in clothes and think, “Poor dog. People making him/her wear that.”
THEN my daughter brought home a sweater for our Cookie and he went bananas. He LOVES the sweaters and shirts.
Whoda thunk it?
Is nine your magic number?
I accidentally texted my wife with voice recognition…while playing the trombone pic.twitter.com/tWCPSXbbrO
— Paul The Trombonist (@JazzTrombonist) November 21, 2017
WTF? Now there are alt-furries?
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re: #274 wrenchwench
Is nine your magic number?
Yes. Just for starters my 3 children were born on the 9th, 19th and 29th. Of different months of course.
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re: #278 nines09
Yes. Just for starters my 3 children were born on the 9th, 19th and 29th. Of different months of course.
Got time for 6 more kids? Wait, Cheaper by the Dozen. I read the book, I saw the movie. Don’t go there.
Asked for evidence of unsubstantiated claim against accuser, Roy Moore staff calls Washington Post “a worthless piece of crap” https://t.co/X75aLDVn37
— michaelscherer (@michaelscherer) November 22, 2017
Just a reminder for members. Please do not use the image in #169. I do not want it circulated. I took it out of the image library and have asked Charles to remove it.
Thanks!
re: #185 Hecuba’s daughter
… Many Europeans and Southerners hold on to the past — the ancient past — instead of looking to solutions for current problems.
Many Europeans and Southerners people hold on to the past — the ancient past — instead of looking to solutions for current problems.
Fixed for even more accuracy.
scoop: Roy Moore’s Communications Director resigns - https://t.co/kwX2cXEhih
— Elaina Plott (@elainaplott) November 22, 2017
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re: #285 Kragar
That’s odd. Why resign now with only a couple weeks to the election?
re: #291 Dr Lizardo
That’s odd. Why resign now with only a couple weeks to the election?
Maybe he has hit the wall with all the bullshit and decided he wanted less of it covering him.
re: #291 Dr Lizardo
That’s odd. Why resign now with only a couple weeks to the election?
Probably didn’t get paid…
FYI
Josh’s Holiday Book Recommendations - Reviews/Recommendations of Eight Works of History for Your Holiday Reading Pleasure https://t.co/9yhcgG09Q1
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) November 22, 2017
re: #291 Dr Lizardo
That’s odd. Why resign now with only a couple weeks to the election?
He saw the internal polling?
re: #291 Dr Lizardo
That’s odd. Why resign now with only a couple weeks to the election?
Maybe Moore hit on his teenage daughter?
Took Zeena in for an ultrasound this morning, since she had suffered a relapse of the ‘Not-Hungrys’ last week. This week she’s been eating like she’s famished again, and gained back a pound or so. She seems happy and about as energetic as Greyhounds that age ever get.
The vet called with the news that some of her abdominal lymph nodes are enlarged a bit, maybe large enough to suggest lymphoma. Vet asked if they could do a needle biopsy and test, so I said yes.
I looked up canine lymphoma, of course. There’s a treatment course that works well, extending survival from a median of 1 month to a median of 12 months. The treatment course is about $7000. Zeena is now 12 1/4 years old. Greyhounds usually live 12-14 years.
With Rhyo, our Golden, it was simpler. He was fine on Thursday, sick on Friday, and diagnosed with metastatic hemangiosarcoma on Saturday. He was bleeding internally and it was inoperable and untreatable. There was really no decision to make.
Zeena? She’s had a good life. She loves it here. She’s about as old as Greyhounds get.
Mind you, this is still uncertain. The vet said the nodes were a bit enlarged, which was suggestive of maybe lymphoma. She didn’t say anything about any other masses, like spleen or liver, and her blood tests have all been normal. Maybe it’s NOT lymphoma, or maybe it’s early stage?
How far do you go to treat an old dog who’s had a good life and is reaching the end of her expected lifespan anyway?
It seems like Joe Barton is the victim here, what does he have to apologize for? https://t.co/j3twedxCJP
— Benjy Sarlin (@BenjySarlin) November 22, 2017
Never thought I would be defending Joe Barton on anything, but.
NOTICE TO MEN: DO NOT TAKE, OR SEND, PICTURES OF YOUR JUNK.
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re: #295 Hecuba’s daughter
Humans may have a thin veneer of culture and civilization but we may be closer to our chimpanzee cousins than we would like to think. If chimps could text, this is likely the message that they would send.
chimps would be texting pictures of poo, or more meta, flying/ flinging poo, at each other
We’re dealing with our Tax Scam while the Brits are dealing with their 2017 Budget drama.
The most remarkable #Budget2017 stats.
- Deficit not due to be eliminated until 2031 (16 years late).
- Growth below 2% in every forecast year for first time in modern history.
- Annual pay not due to return to 2008 peak until 2025.https://t.co/8qH1GOLVCi— George Eaton (@georgeeaton) November 22, 2017
re: #301 jaunte
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Never thought I would be defending Joe Barton on anything, but.
NOTICE TO MEN: DO NOT TAKE, OR SEND, PICTURES OF YOUR JUNK.
A sitting US Congressman setting himself up to be potentially blackmailed, this is the kind of spy shit that you read about because it so easily common.
re: #301 jaunte
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Never thought I would be defending Joe Barton on anything, but.
NOTICE TO MEN: DO NOT TAKE, OR SEND, PICTURES OF YOUR JUNK.
Way ahead of you there. I don’t trust anyone with them pics, lest they can use it for blackmail or public humiliation.
If you’re the last person in your office today, don’t forget to swing by your coworkers’ desks and turn their speaker volume up to full before you leave. #WednesdayWisdom
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 22, 2017
#BREAKING: GOP lawmaker apologizes after photo of his penis is posted online https://t.co/b0pAa6pOxO pic.twitter.com/2ujItV47wB
— The Hill (@thehill) November 22, 2017
Dude, come on…anybody telling you they want a picture of your tiny is planning to post it online after the break-up.#Seriously https://t.co/uwWzq9EGlo
— Carrie Adams (@ImCarrieAdams) November 22, 2017
re: #304 JordanRules
These two projections certainly stand out:
- Growth below 2% in every forecast year for first time in modern history.
- Annual pay not due to return to 2008 peak until 2025.
Holy shit; that’s abysmal.
re: #301 jaunte
Yeah, I’m not sure what the deal is here other than, aww man, why’d someone have to make that public.
If dude was separated and everything was consensual with adults…get your freak on sir. You and your party shouldn’t be in charge of shit, but that’s neither here nor there.
re: #300 Blind Frog Belly White
I thought of you when I heard about the Navy plane crash this morning on the radio, because they kept saying ‘see two greyhound’.
re: #310 Dr Lizardo
Add in some more Brexit uncertainty and wheeee! It could be quite a ride.
re: #304 JordanRules
We’re dealing with our Tax Scam while the Brits are dealing with their 2017 Budget drama.
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The most remarkable #Budget2017 stats.- Deficit not due to be eliminated until 2031 (16 years late).
- Growth below 2% in every forecast year for first time in modern history.
- Annual pay not due to return to 2008 peak until 2025.
Courtesy of Brexit. Another great Putin success. Destroying civilization and progress one nation at a time.
re: #314 Hecuba’s daughter
Putin kinda should be Time’s Person of the Year.
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re: #313 JordanRules
Add in some more Brexit uncertainty and wheeee! It could be quite a ride.
Add in a “no-deal” Brexit (hard Brexit) scenario, and that’s pretty much a recipe for a lost generation.
re: #315 JordanRules
Putin kinda should be Time’s Person of the Year.
lol, that is the only person on the planet that Trump wouldn’t bitch about getting it if it wasn’t him.
re: #310 Dr Lizardo
These two projections certainly stand out:
- Growth below 2% in every forecast year for first time in modern history.
- Annual pay not due to return to 2008 peak until 2025.Holy shit; that’s abysmal.
but if we just cut taxes our economy will instantly and sustainably soar to heights it has never, ever seen
re: #300 Blind Frog Belly White
How far do you go to treat an old dog who’s had a good life and is reaching the end of her expected lifespan anyway?
For us first consideration has always been quality of life. Cost is secondary.
But for many others, cost is a huge consideration.
I would not second-guess anyone’s choice. It’s hard enough as it is.
{{hugs to you and Zeena and MrsBFBW}}
@JohnCornyn Support Net Neutrality. Ending it only provides a windfall for ISPs on the backs of Americans, who are already paying usurious prices for internet access. Also, this is clearly just D.C. serving telecom special interests. #SwampCreatures
— Evan Lange (@AggieEvan) November 22, 2017
Net neutrality is misnamed. It is government regulation. Why not let the market work? https://t.co/gR5refrCDI
— Senator JohnCornyn (@JohnCornyn) November 22, 2017
Because “The Market” only cares about one thing: “The Market”, and it’s the government’s place to protect its citizens from fraud and abuse.
You would think a Senator would know this, but then again, you’re just a GOP thug. https://t.co/vjon1bn2eB— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) November 22, 2017
I’m just going to leave this right here. pic.twitter.com/wGCrZcKqX4
— Alyssa Milano (@Alyssa_Milano) November 22, 2017
Looking at those numbers out of the UK, damn……the lower rate of growth means that by 2021/2022, government tax receipts will be £20bn lower than their earlier forecast.
And that’s crucial - lately, there were a lot of headlines about “reducing the deficit!” and what have you…but the problem is they’ve cut government revenue more. The end result is that the Brits will end up more in debt than ever.
The only bright side, and I say this with a grim chuckle, is that inflation will soon start eroding the value of those debts. And of course, the value of everyone’s savings.
Looks like the UK is headed back to the bad old days of 1970’s stagflation. Who knows? Maybe ultimately even an IMF bailout if they can’t negotiate a successful exit deal with the EU.
Just wanted to wish all a Happy Thanksgiving, or whatever you choose to call whatever it is you do tomorrow. I’ve been trying to not eat as much net/news as I used to. Seems to work against my mental health. Tonight my band plays and I look forward to having a great time. I’ll see some old friends and maybe make some new ones. My daughter is home for a few days from college and will be with us. I’ll be able to pop a few barley malts and scream and shout and bend notes. I need it. Fucking world will kill you if you let it.
And I start at…..9
re: #316 Stanley Sea
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Why does Donald Trump always feud with outspoken black people? @fivefifths asks https://t.co/ktnfndVrCB pic.twitter.com/9lWx5yXZWT
— TheAtlanticPolitics (@TheAtlPolitics) November 22, 2017
RT if you know why https://t.co/QSLWhl91e3
— Brokey S. Turkeys (@brokeymcpoverty) November 22, 2017
re: #322 jaunte
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Surreal. GOP Rep. Joe Barton has released a statement apologizing for a graphic nude photo of him that circulated on social media earlier this week. https://t.co/0UolNGg7NL
— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) November 22, 2017
Sexting his junk to women, another one of those so-called right wing family values types that was so family values, he had to share his genitalia with any woman that crossed his path. https://t.co/1coSlp9rtA
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 22, 2017
Yeah, and there’s some mighty fine dumbassery from Barton who exposed himself to blackmail opportunities in the process of sharing his junk pics.
re: #325 makeitstop
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re: #327 Kragar
Trump feuds with women and blacks (and minorities generally) whenever possible because he’s reminding them (and his supporters) of who’s in power and it’s all about posturing (white, male dominance).
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 22, 2017
re: #330 Stanley Sea
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re: #323 Dr Lizardo
Looks like the UK is headed back to the bad old days of 1970’s stagflation. Who knows? Maybe ultimately even an IMF bailout if they can’t negotiate a successful exit deal with the EU.
Even if they negotiate an actual exit deal with the EU (which isn’t looking good, since Brexit negotiations are mostly externalized civil war within the Tories), they haven’t got the time or the skills to avoid a fucking disaster. They don’t have the civil service to rewrite all the regulations, get the necessary customs up and running, create an Irish border, create domestic regulatory agencies, and everything else in sixteen months with fuck-all extra money.
The only thing they could do to avoid total breakdown is to have some “transition” deal, which is going to drag things out for an unknown amount of time while business and immigrants get cold feet and leave for better prospects. Or they could chuck the whole misbegotten project, but that would mean that they admit they had made a terrible mistake, and by God we can’t have that.
Instead of traveling to Puerto Rico again to help shine light on need to get the lights back on, Trump goes and visits his golf course in another Emoluments violation.
— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 22, 2017
This is the longest blackout in American history.
Thanks @realDonaldTrump. You keep on setting records.— lawhawk (@lawhawk) November 22, 2017
These are the last lines of the last speech ever typed for President Kennedy, intended for remarks on November 22, 1963. pic.twitter.com/e4H8QZ4ulI
— JFK Library (@JFKLibrary) November 22, 2017
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You know what’s great?
My requested contribution to the Thanksgiving feast tomorrow is bring flowers!!!
And I have a great flower wholesaler right down the road.
This is brilliant:
Trump’s team insists he has a ‘full schedule’ an hour before he goes golfing
the washington post
re: #338 Stanley Sea
You know what’s great?
My requested contribution to the Thanksgiving feast tomorrow is bring flowers!!!
And I have a great flower wholesaler right down the road.
Myself, I am baking a vinegar pie. However, the pie crust was broken and I spilled the filling all over when I burned my finger on the oven rack. I hope it turns out.
re: #321 Kragar
Let’s also end government enforcement of contracts. That’s regulation as well. Maybe business will thrive when they can screw other businesses.
— (((IntheNumbers))) (@ItsNumbersMan) November 22, 2017
So, my Viking wife talked me into going to the Museum of Natural History this evening to witness the inflation of the balloons for the Macy’s parade tomorrow. It’s supposed to get wicked cold tonight, so chances of my being miserable are high. But I’ll get through somehow.
My trusty camera is coming along, so if I get any good pics they’ll probably show up here.
re: #342 makeitstop
Our forecast is for it to be in the 80s here tomorrow
re: #339 dangerman
This is brilliant:
Trump’s team insists he has a ‘full schedule’ an hour before he goes golfing
the washington post
He demanded media correct their coverage to indicate he had a full schedule - then proceeded to go golfing at his resort.
The [deleted].
I strongly support a free & open internet for all—not for the few. “Slow lanes” would both hurt consumers and hamper the ability of small businesses and entrepreneurs to compete. #NetNeutrality is vital to our Central Texas communities.
— Lloyd Doggett (@RepLloydDoggett) November 22, 2017
Nelson HA HA
NYT SCOOP: Trump Organization Will Walk Away From Its Struggling SoHo Hotel in New York @benprotess @SteveEder https://t.co/XOcXgDqwDr
— Eric Lipton (@EricLiptonNYT) November 22, 2017
re: #340 Quoth the raven, Covfefe.
Myself, I am baking a vinegar pie. However, the pie crust was broken and I spilled the filling all over when I burned my finger on the oven rack. I hope it turns out.
I’m making pumpkin pies. Crust is in the fridge ( I made it Monday). Pies get baked tonight, because they’re always best the next day. One of them is staying home.
re: #346 Stanley Sea
Oh, oh!!! Do the same with America!
Walk away, please!!!
re: #334 ericblair
Or they could chuck the whole misbegotten project, but that would mean that they admit they had made a terrible mistake, and by God we can’t have that.
They’re British: They’ll go down with the ship, in full dress uniform, humming “Rule Brittania”.
re: #343 Kragar
Our forecast is for it to be in the 80s here tomorrow
We’re supposed to be in the mid 70s. Our hostess plans to have the bar out on her deck.
Michael Karkoc is wanted in Poland for ‘liquidating’ a village while he was an SS commander. His son says he gave to the RNC simply because he loves the party https://t.co/ymC6eb0lbr
— The Daily Beast (@thedailybeast) November 22, 2017
Participated in suppressing the Warsaw uprising, then became a loyal Republican, because he felt at home.
re: #351 jaunte
Actually goddamned Nazis.
Is GOP RNC going to return/donate the money to a group like the ADL or USHC?
re: #341 Belafon
No, it’s not misnamed, You’re trying to pander to idiots who think all regulation is wrong, and will be shocked when their Internet no longer works as expected because the far-right gutted an essential regulation.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) November 22, 2017
Asshole.
re: #338 Stanley Sea
You know what’s great?
My requested contribution to the Thanksgiving feast tomorrow is bring flowers!!!
And I have a great flower wholesaler right down the road.
I’m hosting the feast at my place and cooking the core of the meal (turkey, gravy, dressing, smashies, veggies). Leaving rolls, desserts, extras to guests to bring. Just can’t get into it beyond minimal cleaning and prep this year. Maybe dust a little. LOL
John Cornyns 2nd largest donor is AT&T. AT&T stands to massively profit off net neutrality reversal and has been lobbying to overturn the ruling. John Cornyn and Republicans doing their corporate masters biddings. Deplorable! pic.twitter.com/Mmuz6gcnPN
— Karl H. 🇺🇸 (@hesanihilist) November 22, 2017
re: #344 lawhawk
He demanded media correct their coverage to indicate he had a full schedule - then proceeded to go golfing at his resort.
The [deleted].
looking for this?:
re: #347 wrenchwench
I’m making pumpkin pies. Crust is in the fridge ( I made it Monday). Pies get baked tonight, because they’re always best the next day. One of them is staying home.
our contribution to the feast:
pastelitos (niece begged)
a bourbon soaked apple cake
lime roasted green beans
they’re going with two ducks instead of a turkey. sacrilege?
mashed parsnips
garlic roasted potatoes
necessary pumpkin pie and whipped cream
various and sundries
re: #359 dangerman
our contribution to the feast:
pastelitos (niece begged)
a bourbon soaked apple cake
lime roasted green beansthey’re going with two ducks instead of a turkey. sacrilege?
mashed parsnips
garlic roasted potatoes
necessary pumpkin pie and whipped cream
various and sundries
Excellent call.
Minutes after saying he’s hard at work, Trump goes to his golf club for the 50th time — https://t.co/pqNvhUmmhk #Shareblue
— Matthew Chapman (@fawfulfan) November 22, 2017
From the point of view of those of us who are his employers, Trump is, on top of everything else, a deceitful and lazy employee who fudges his time card. https://t.co/FTEXsgJQ6B
— Elizabeth de la Vega (@Delavegalaw) November 22, 2017
re: #354 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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No, it’s not misnamed, You’re trying to pander to idiots who think all regulation is wrong, and will be shocked when their Internet no longer works as expected because the far-right gutted an essential regulation.
Asshole.
for a likely bad analogy
you add express lanes to an untolled highway
you can even have a higher speed limit if you want
you toll charge those people who choose to use it
you dont reduce the speed limit on every one else
NOR do you charge everyone else anything
re: #300 Blind Frog Belly White
That’s always tough. One pitfall is that if you start treatment, you’re likely to keep it going longer than you really should (ask me how I know).
Is palliative care an option?
re: #359 dangerman
our contribution to the feast:
pastelitos (niece begged)
a bourbon soaked apple cake
lime roasted green beansthey’re going with two ducks instead of a turkey. sacrilege?
mashed parsnips
garlic roasted potatoes
necessary pumpkin pie and whipped cream
various and sundries
Nah. We’re doing spaghetti and Texas Toast here.
re: #298 Dr Lizardo
Maybe…..it just strikes me as weird timing. Maybe something big is about to drop and he’s thinking there’s no way he can spin it? After all, as campaign comms director, he’d certainly be well-placed to know that.
As communications director, he is probably being asked to lie his face off, and maybe he just couldn’t do it anymore. But he can’t bring himself to comment. Hmmmm.
re: #359 dangerman
they’re going with two ducks instead of a turkey. sacrilege?
I’m having tortelloni with pesto sauce. Bite me.
Only 7 weeks old and she’s already been shoved out of two homes. Let’s make the third the last and greatest one. pic.twitter.com/gCbCrAPRa8
— Officer Edith (@OfficerEdith) November 22, 2017
A magic fuzzling
— Officer Edith (@OfficerEdith) November 22, 2017
re: #369 Stanley Sea
Lime roasted green beans sounds great.
I was thinking the same thing. Recipe please. :)
re: #370 Backwoods_Sleuth
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That would be so great
— Officer Edith (@OfficerEdith) November 22, 2017
re: #300 Blind Frog Belly White
On old dogs: Yeah, it can be horrible. Personally, I would avoid new medical procedures and keep the dog as comfortable as possible until he or she becomes incontinent or immobile. This worked great with our old lab, who passed away in her sleep without making a sound. Not so well with another old fella who became so embarrassed at his state that I no longer felt bad about getting the vet out — he’d do a home visit (this was pretty deep in the country), and I could dig the grave and feel ceremonious about it. But it’s awful, and we’ll be looking at the issue again maybe as soon as next year (maybe later) and I am not looking forward to it. All the best to all of you.
re: #371 allegro
I was thinking the same thing. Recipe please. :)
here ya go - nothing brilliant:
we double this
1 lb green beans
3 tbsp or so, butter
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tsp garlic powder, - (this is a quickie recipe so feel free to chop up real garlic)
1 tsp salt
1/2 tsp pepper
2 tbsp lime juice
Heat to 375
veg spray a large glass baking dish
Melt butter and combine with olive oil and dry ingredients
Put green beans in a large bowl, pour in mixture and toss until evenly coated
Pour into baking dish
don’t wash the bowl
Cook for appx 35 minutes or until beans on top begin to lightly brown
you can broil a minute or two at the end
Pour back into bowl
Add lime juice, toss to coat
you can also add add grated lime peel, chopped toasted almonds (1/4 c for a lb of beans), more salt and pepper, etc
we do these a lot
xox