Paul Rodgers is one of the all-time great rock singers, and here he is with one of the great modern blues guitarists, Joe Bonamassa, doing a song by Rodgers’ break-through group, Free.
I would prefer not to be sober tonight.
I found one that’ll work in the US.
Check out this gals rendition of Creep. It’s short, not the whole thing but it’s something.
I love her voice! ❤️❤️❤️
Steamboat’s Howelsen Hill listed as oldest operating ski area in America (via @thknwco) https://t.co/xAtDltHDMh
— The Denver Post (@denverpost) February 3, 2018
In the summer I read books on my days off on the top of one of the ski jumps here. One of my cherished memories of that place. https://t.co/YAFpzswLfV
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) February 3, 2018
Paul Rodgers’ voice is still so good.
Heard he was touring with Jeff Beck & Ann Wilson.
Peter Theil Behind ‘HQ Trivia’
If you haven’t heard about HQ Trivia yet, I envy you. It is a terrible, infuriating app that taunts you with the promise of winning up to multiple dollars twice a day (once a day on weekends and holidays) in exchange for correctly answering 12 absurd trivia questions presented by a live host. The app is wildly popular; some 1 million people take part in each session, at least according to HQ’s own counter. And it is to those million people that this plea is addressed: Delete HQ from your phones immediately. Do it now or support a vampire plutocrat superintending the destruction of the free press, pluralist democracy and just about everything you claim to hold dear, unless you’re particularly against women’s suffrage.
(more at Huffington Post)
I have a tip that can take 5 strokes off anyone’s golf game. It’s called an eraser. — Arnold Palmer
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) March 6, 2015
Impressive. You’re utterly and completely wrong.
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 3, 2018
re: #11 Kragar
Man @Kragar_LGF, how can someone be that stupid and still breathe on their own? He didn’t even read the measly 6 page Memo. It says right in it there the warrant was coz of Papadopoulos. Right there in this nothingburger Memo. Nunes wrote that (re: Papado). @joberg10
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) February 3, 2018
re: #11 Kragar
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Oh my -> Fmr Trump adviser Carter Page met with & gave energy industry-related documents to… a Russian spy. https://t.co/TsxzQRkRcK pic.twitter.com/MfR9ot1ekl
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) April 3, 2017
.@TuckerCarlson asked tonight why the FBI was so sure that Carter Page was “working with” Russian spies, and then said they “know that’s a lie.”
… umm, Carter Page *was* working with Russian spies (whether he knew it or not). https://t.co/roUwTWEqKi— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) February 3, 2018
Shit. Gorka is an evil Mr Belvedere pic.twitter.com/Uvp5FG58nO
— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 3, 2018
“You had Hillary Clinton and the Democratic Party try to hide the fact that they gave money to GPS Fusion to create a Dossier which was used by their allies in the Obama Administration to convince a Court misleadingly, by all accounts, to spy on the Trump Team.” Tom Fitton, JW
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 2, 2018
You appointed a foreign policy advisor who was under F.B.I. surveillance for passing info to a Russian spy – a spy whose trial was taking place in your home city. For campaign chairman, you hired a Russian mob shill ALSO under FBI scrutiny.
You should be impeached for stupidity. https://t.co/cKVeu5VCu0— Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) February 2, 2018
Congrats to Sean Hannity for cornering the Russian propaganda market. This afternoon, his website occupied 3 of the top 10 trending URL’s shared by Russian-linked influence accounts, per @SecureDemocracy’s Hamilton 68 dashboard. pic.twitter.com/Q2moiKMWjv
— Caroline O. (@RVAwonk) February 2, 2018
I have to say, today has been the most unsettling day since November 9, 2016. Not that there haven’t been some other horrible, creepy days in the interim, but today has been non-stop bombardment of incredibly stupid, lying assholes with no regard for objective facts or evidence, screaming their bullshit at the top of their lungs and asserting that said bullshit is really perfumed calla lilies.
I just don’t know anymore. It truly is like there is reality and then there’s another planet off to the side where these cretins live in an alternate bizarro-world and it is scaring the living crap out of me.
And in opposite world, where Bill Kristol makes sense:
As I have said repeatedly, I also remain 100 percent confident in Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The contents of this memo do not - in any way - discredit his investigation.
— Trey Gowdy (@TGowdySC) February 2, 2018
This is the most important reaction I’ve seen. https://t.co/OYeFZzlUTf
— Bill Kristol (@BillKristol) February 2, 2018
Ex-AG: “I have no confidence whatsoever” in Nunes memo https://t.co/Aqy3KIRTsI pic.twitter.com/PQUqCNgqD1
— The Hill (@thehill) February 3, 2018
I mean come on when your memo is crapped on by Alberto “torture memo” Gonzales, you’re up shithole creek I think @DevinNunes https://t.co/GSDCnOSmzI
— Preet Bharara (@PreetBharara) February 3, 2018
Because anyone with their head not up their ass knew the DNC’s falsified dossier was used to obtain the fisa warrants. The memo simply confirmed what we already knew.
And a tax on the colonies led to the American Revolution. Just about any scandal is bigger than being taxed.— Thought Criminal (@joberg10) February 3, 2018
1) Memo confirmed the investigation began with Papadopoulos
2) The memo actually undermined the GOP arguments
3) The British ignoring the colonists requests for representation led to the American Revolution https://t.co/SQWwlod9ih— Kragar (@Kragar_LGF) February 3, 2018
Well, I see the stock market dropping today. Looks like the endgame I predicted is coming to pass—Foreigners dumping American stocks, Dollar getting dumped as the reserve currency, Foreigners dump Treasury securities, Red Ink Republicans blow the dam and the red ink flood goes unabated.
Meanwhile Putin is kicking back sipping an iced tea basking in the glory that he’s pulled off what Lenin, Trotsky, Stalin, Khrushchev, Brezhnev and Andropov failed to do—destabilize the US and put it on the path to collapse…
re: #19 BeachDem
Amen, sister. My mental health has been pretty on edge since Fuckface Von Clownstick got elected. But Republicans and their sycophant drooling fluffer way of doing things these days is truly frightening.
My full statement on the declassified memo: pic.twitter.com/eRo6ugpWQ9
— Rep. Paul Gosar, DDS (@RepGosar) February 2, 2018
Rep Gosar calls Comey, McCabe, Yates and Rosenstein traitors and calls for their prosecution. https://t.co/KyqbyllcOa
— Jake Tapper (@jaketapper) February 3, 2018
This is some banana republic shit right here. #DontForgetToVote this November. https://t.co/en4cVYMEjJ
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) February 3, 2018
Oh, fuck no!
From a South Korean paper, flagged on Twitter by The Washington Post’s Tokyo Bureau Chief …
Indeed, White House National Security Council senior director for Asian affairs Matthew Pottinger was reported as saying in a recent closed-door meeting with US experts on Korean Peninsula issues that a limited strike on the North “might help in the midterm elections.”
The Post’s Anna Fifield identifies the paper Hankyoreh as “left-wing” and that it is the only paper currently reporting it. I don’t know more about the source. But this sounds like something we need to know more about very quickly. The report suggests Trump may see such a move not simply in the context of the standard efforts to help in a midterm election but to ward offer facing the prospect of impeachment or actual investigations under a Democratic congress.
NYT, WaPo and WSJ all have sources tonight saying the FBI did tell the FISA court in its warrant application that Steele was being backed by a political entity. https://t.co/NHLDu5lrJE, https://t.co/bQnsuEIwGT, https://t.co/MQxF7tv17y pic.twitter.com/lRcO5fBcYW
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) February 3, 2018
But it served its purpose. The fantasy-prone-right are going berserk, saying their suspicions have been confirmed, and calling for Obama and Clinton to be locked up. The American right has gone insane from propaganda.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) February 3, 2018
If you look at wingnut Twitter, they’re ranting and raving about the memo confirming what they already knew and calling for the arrest of Obama and Clinton. They don’t care what’s real. They’ve been on a steady diet of propaganda for years now.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) February 3, 2018
re: #24 teleskiguy
Amen, sister. My mental health has been pretty on edge since Fuckface Von Clownstick got elected. But Republicans and their sycophant drooling fluffer way of doing things these days is truly frightening.
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Arrgh—Paul Gosar, the dentist who hired Sarah Palin’s lapdog lawyer as his chief of staff—yeah, he’s certainly the voice of reason. And he’s just one of an entire cast of ignorant, lying assholes that are the Republican Party. I truly hate them with the heat of a thousand suns.
Ouch.
No surprise. The memo was not only a dud, but an inaccurate one. https://t.co/rM9fBTWCCO
— Peter St. Onge (@saintorange) February 3, 2018
In that way, allowing the memo’s release was a clumsy political move on Trump’s part. It had already done its job before Friday, prompting breathless alarm about the FBI and sowing doubt about the origins of Mueller’s investigation. The smart play for Trump would have been to somberly keep the memo secret and let the spores of conspiracy continue to flourish in the dark.
Instead, the president turned on the light on. What did we learn? Not much. But the memo reminded us of plenty.
It reminded us that House Intelligence Chair Devin Nunes is a bumbling Trump sycophant who already had to step away from the Russia investigation once and now should be relieved of his chairmanship.
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With that said, here’s a picture of Glen Plake.
Wingnuts live in an inverted reality where good people are traitors, and traitors are considered to be good people. Sane people need to get out and vote. We outnumber the crazies like Gosar and his supporters.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) February 3, 2018
Both sides? The Republican have gone crazy from years of propaganda, and have become a threat to our democracy.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) February 3, 2018
re: #1 I Would Prefer Not To
Cole had a good thread on not being sober tonight.
Seeing a lot of people talking about drinking (and drinking heavy) tonight on twitter. Not sure if it’s just a boring night or the time of the year.
— So Over This (@Johngcole) February 3, 2018
#NunesMemo is the stuff of a reality TV producer. Orchestrated suspense/drama. Distracted from bigger story: No Russian sanctions or bombshell corruption report on Putin’s mafia state following US visit of heads of Russia’s intelligence agencies that led attack on our democracy.
— Andrea Chalupa (@AndreaChalupa) February 2, 2018
re: #32 teleskiguy
I guess there’s no rules against airfoils in skiing.
re: #36 wheat-dogg
I’ve read it’s a two hour process.
re: #33 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Show me the difference between You spreading Republican propaganda and Vladimir Posner spreading Soviet Communist propaganda.
There is NONE!— josephebacon 🌹 (@josephebacon) February 3, 2018
re: #33 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Hume is one of the guys who’s been slinging bullshit for years. Oh course head he’s all Both Sides. It’s not. It’s sane vs crazy people; lies vs truth. Hume is on every wrong side possible. @brithume @jaketapper
— MsJoanne (@MsJoanne) February 3, 2018
re: #39 Joe Bacon 🌹
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No shit, Susan. But it is grounds for a block.
— Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) February 2, 2018
re: #42 Dave In Austin
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Three Houston men sentenced for money laundering scheme https://t.co/i6iBcE1J9f
— Houston Chronicle (@HoustonChron) February 3, 2018
Look, it is possible! https://t.co/Va8eqtUxFb
— (((Robert Arthur))) (@jaunte) February 3, 2018
re: #44 jaunte
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Meanwhile Houston Police are STILL unable to solve who happened to steal $600,000 from Joel 0$teen’$ church safe in 2014…Gosh, did Joel need some “assistance” in refinancing the mortgage on his $10 million manision???????
Hannity summarized the Nunes memo for his 4 million viewers. Every word is a lie. https://t.co/X1I2PLbEuz pic.twitter.com/5IiTeJjaDE
— Judd Legum (@JuddLegum) February 3, 2018
Sigh.
I’ll just have take your word for it, @JuddLegum. I can’t bring myself to watch this BS. Thanks for watching so I don’t have to. https://t.co/SJSp5Ir5sw— Polly Sigh (@dcpoll) February 3, 2018
Eat arbys pic.twitter.com/UOJ1sULirQ
— Nihilist Arby’s (@nihilist_arbys) February 2, 2018
Déjà vu (h/t to daily kos)
“The slow-rising central horror of “Watergate” is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.”
~Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 (1973)
re: #46 Anymouse 🌹
That would explain all the frothing on Twitter tonight. Hannity has done incalculable damage to Conservative’s minds, and America.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) February 3, 2018
David Corn is right on the mark with this!
The Trump-Nunes distraction campaign is working!
While you are tweeting about the Nunes memo, Russia is plotting its midterms attack https://t.co/kwjTerGY51 … via @MotherJones— David Corn (@DavidCornDC) February 1, 2018
My regional newspaper lying about what’s in the Nunes memo:
Not All Details in GOP Memo Help Undercut Mueller Probe (goes to the Scottsbluff Star-Herald, with an autoplay clip from CBS 3 in Philadelphia for some reason):
The document contends that the FBI relied excessively on an ex-British spy whose opposition research was funded by Democrats. Yet it also says the investigation actually began several months earlier.
The spy admitted to having strong anti-Trump sentiments, but he was also a “longtime FBI source” with a credible track record.
(more)
I’d be really good with Tom Stayer buying some news outlets around here.
re: #48 BeachDem
Déjà vu (h/t to daily kos)
“The slow-rising central horror of “Watergate” is not that it might grind down to the reluctant impeachment of a vengeful thug of a president whose entire political career has been a monument to the same kind of cheap shots and treachery he finally got nailed for, but that we might somehow fail to learn something from it.”
~Hunter S. Thompson Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail ‘72 (1973)
We learn. We forget. We remembered the lessons of the Great Depression for almost 70 years.
The problem now is that there were two different lessons from Watergate. Both lessons were about how fragile the institutions of democracy actually are. At the same time that most of us learned how important it is to shore them up, others learned how much easier things would be if you tear them down.
Geraldo Rivera to Sean Hannity: “It’s too bad for Nixon, because nobody like you existed then. I say that because I believe that our prime responsibility now is to unshackle [Trump]” https://t.co/04QJxgC7mM
— Media Matters (@mmfa) February 2, 2018
— Charlie Vogel, aka His Teleness the Charlie Lama (@teleskiguy) February 3, 2018
Uh huh.
Jeff Sessions Just Went AWOL & Trump Is So Salty The Entire W.H. Is On Eggshells https://t.co/joHk6DNMEF
— Bipartisan Report (@Bipartisanism) February 3, 2018
Despite the chaos and fervor that was riled up by GOP lawmakers in recent days and weeks over the Nunes memo, the release of the document now depicts a far-reaching attempt at a failing administration to control the fate of potential criminal charges under the Russia investigation.
re: #52 Blind Frog Belly White
We learn. We forget. We remembered the lessons of the Great Depression for almost 70 years.
The problem now is that there were two different lessons from Watergate. Both lessons were about how fragile the institutions of democracy actually are. At the same time that most of us learned how important it is to shore them up, others learned how much easier things would be if you tear them down.
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Precisely what we expect Whorealdo to say!
Geraldo was always odd, but I did not expect him to want to betray the country. We should look into where he was radicalized.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) February 3, 2018
“Fa love Pa”
This doesn’t end well…— WB Young (@FormerDirtDart) February 3, 2018
I’ve gotten real sick of this whole distraction stuff. Yeah, we know the Russians are plotting. So every tweet/post should be about “oh no the Russians are plotting!”? Seems to me that Trump being Putin’s butt boy IS the plot. Likewise the GOP holding Trump’s ass up for Putin’s easier access and obstructing efforts to put a stop to it.
If I were Cuban, and if I smoked Cohiba Cigars, and if I knew how to write music, and if I composed pensive songs about life in the Caribbean, then this would be my Album Cover. pic.twitter.com/cdHHlOUSuJ
— Neil deGrasse Tyson (@neiltyson) February 1, 2018
This shit just has no end……
Trump Might Test a Nuke ‘for Political Purposes’ https://t.co/YXQ1BFSikS
— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) February 3, 2018
re: #60 Dave In Austin
A fucking 8 yr old with a firecracker in his pocket.
re: #60 Dave In Austin
Geeeeeeeeez, how many people are left in the DOE that have any experience in conducting a live nuclear weapons test?
Let alone whipping one out of their asses on “short-notice”— WB Young (@FormerDirtDart) February 2, 2018
Of course the “science” is still there. But, there’s a whole lot of other stuff involved other than the package.
It’s been two and a half decades since anyone built a test site. A whole lot of institutional knowledge scattered to the winds, which makes “short notice” a pipe dream— WB Young (@FormerDirtDart) February 2, 2018
Don’t we have treaties in place regarding testing?
JUST WTF NOW FOR CHRIST SAKES!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I’m sure Greg Abbott will call the Tangelo up and volunteer Texas as a test site. You watch……
Considering all the times (such as today) that Trump has tried to project “strength” and instead further undermined America’s standing, I wouldn’t be surprised if this “short notice” test ended up fizzling.
Yo memo is so useless that even MacGyver couldn’t do anything with it.#YoMemoJokes
— 🌊Doug “Seeking Sr. Perl Dev. Position” Miles🌊 (@JustThisGuyAZ) February 3, 2018
Well, I’m off to bed. I’d like to wake up to good news tomorrow, rather than this never-ending tyre fire that passes for conservative governance …
I got dragged into a Sears today and it felt exactly like paying Bioshock.
— Photon Herder (@goddamnedfrank) February 3, 2018
Here’s one for the pocket
A picture is worth a thousand words. pic.twitter.com/gLr5i7aknk
— Nick Knudsen 🇺🇸 (@DemWrite) February 3, 2018
Dear #Trumpsters: Everything that wall represents – the bigotry, the racism, the ignorance, the paranoia is already in your heart. The wall has been inside you the whole time. pic.twitter.com/luJxMxS1a0
— Bill Maher (@billmaher) February 3, 2018
re: #69 goddamnedfrank
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But we managed to retrieve the 1/4 inch socket driver our campaign leader saw fit to drag us into this dungeon for, and seem to have managed to avoid becoming infected with soul tetanus, so I’ll take that as a win.
— Photon Herder (@goddamnedfrank) February 3, 2018
Also FYI, if one of your party members makes the grave mistake of trying to ask the barrow wights who work at Sears about the inner gubbins of the one drill press model available for sale, do NOT try to rescue them, just run.
— Photon Herder (@goddamnedfrank) February 3, 2018
re: #73 goddamnedfrank
I don’t know why I get such a kick out of using “barrow wights” in otherwise normal parlance…but I so do.
Chuckie is feeling the heat LOL:
“I am not, nor have I ever been a Holocaust denier. I am a strong supporter of both the state of Israel and the Jewish people. It’s awkward to have to even say this but the #FakeNews is trying to smear me and hurt my friends and allies because I have worked tirelessly to expose the Russia collusion lie at great personal expense and to support candidates who want to release the memo.”
Something to think about. -VJ#FISAmemo#MemoDay#YoMemoJokes pic.twitter.com/nWWUJQsNCD
— RealVinnieJames (@RealVinnieJames) February 3, 2018
DOJ prosecutors seeking a surveillance warrant against Carter Page alerted the FISA court that some of the information in their application came from a politically motivated source—contrary to what the GOP memo released today claims. https://t.co/9VcU2UN1go
— Rebecca Ballhaus (@rebeccaballhaus) February 3, 2018
Except that’s not what happened.https://t.co/BP5f9Q5Zcp
— Chris (@chrissumego) February 3, 2018
It’s the Wall Street Journal. Rupert Murdoch.
— Chris (@chrissumego) February 3, 2018
You should probably Google “Rupert Murdoch”.
— aceoaces (@aceoaces) February 3, 2018
If getting catcalled was just receiving phone calls from an actual cat I would be all up for that shit.
— Cal Wilson (@calbo) February 3, 2018
oh man, yes.
— Cal Wilson (@calbo) February 3, 2018
An 11-word Twitter bio that is cause enough to end the social media experiment. pic.twitter.com/c2OYWCwyvt
— Russ Fischer (@russfischer) February 3, 2018
On the first screenshot Chuck Johnson (who denied the Holocaust) claims that he’s not a Holocaust denier and supports Jewish people.
On the second screenshot the same Chuck Johnson defends a hardcore Jew-hater Paul Nehlen. pic.twitter.com/C0vZYZpHt1— Sergey Romanov (@S_ergeyR_omanov) February 3, 2018
re: #79 goddamnedfrank
antipsychotic
Frum and Dumb rhyme for a reason. @davidfrum For all of his attacks on @potus it turns out he is just an angry liar. Doesn’t check facts.
— Anthony Scaramucci (@Scaramucci) February 3, 2018
Someone got their weasel stepped on….. https://t.co/TV4YJEQhT5
— 🦈🦈Argyle Von Bargle 🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) February 3, 2018
Oh Look! A big ol Bot. #ObviouslyIvan
— 🦈🦈Argyle Von Bargle 🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) February 3, 2018
Hate breeds hate….this is evident in the liars in the news…a seed planted by deep state…to distroy freedom to distroy lives… to take control…1984 George Orwell.. have any of you heard of Ayn Rand read her books..
— Donna lea hughes (@Donnaleahughes2) February 3, 2018
I just fell out of my chair……..
Just been down to our cafe for breakfast. Good to see Margo’s letting bygones be bygones. pic.twitter.com/oU9PNx2GCu
— Stansaid Airport (@StansaidAirport) February 3, 2018
It looks like we are being sold an epic WWF knockdown match:
In this corner, HRC, the DNC and the Deep State
In this corner, DT, the RNC and the Russian State
re: #85 Dave In Austin
I just fell out of my chair……..
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re: #88 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
what sort of delicacy is this?
Needs moar Waffle…..
2 much time on my hands, 22222222 2 much time on my hands., 222222
Pulsing Umbilical Cord iPhone Charger created by Japanese artist Mio Izawa pic.twitter.com/i1ntH0d2Sq
— 41 Strange (@41Strange) February 3, 2018
Top advert from AdChoices when I came to the front page of Little Green Footballs:
Sign the petition to tell your state governor to enforce the law against illegal immigration and show your support to build the wall now!
Pass.
re: #74 The Ghost of a Flea
I don’t know why I get such a kick out of using “barrow wights” in otherwise normal parlance…but I so do.
Old Soul.
re: #96 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
Shitkicker koan.
re: #96 Shiplord Kirel, live from behind wingnut lines
re: #98 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))
If James Dean had played that chicken game he’d still be alive—and very, very decrepit.
Just curious. Did anyone go to Freep and see what they thought of The Memo? I saw some curiosity about it but nothing thereafter.
re: #101 MsJ
Just curious. Did anyone go to Freep and see what they thought of The Memo? I saw some curiosity about it but nothing thereafter.
Scanned about 200 comments. They think it’s all true, very significant, and blame Sessions for not making arrests yet.
re: #102 Decatur Deb
Scanned about 200 comments. They think it’s all true, very significant, and blame Sessions for not making arrests yet.
When RedState is the voice of reason. 🙄
I am going to make my first attempt at making hoecakes for breffist. Doggy gets the rejects.
To people saying “This isn’t the GOP I know!” a gentle reminder that the GOP Chair of House Government Oversight in the 1990s ****shot watermelon with a pistol**** to reenact what he said was the president’s assasination of Vince Foster.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) February 3, 2018
re: #104 Shropshire Slasher
I am going to make my first attempt at making hoecakes for breffist. Doggy gets the rejects.
Wife says that’s close to what they called corn pone in KY.
re: #106 Decatur Deb
Wife says that’s close to what they called corn pone in KY.
Corn pone uses corn meal and water (I believe). I’d use milk and butter in the batter, instead. If you want to get all fancy schmancy, add some baking powder and let the batter rest for 15 minutes before frying. That will fluff them up.
FBI Director Chris Wray has sent a rally-the-troops letter to FBI employees after today’s Memo madness… pic.twitter.com/k2COdEaiCv
— Anthony Zurcher (@awzurcher) February 2, 2018
I love food porn in the morning. My only regret is no bacon.
Hey hey, our favorite wacky Turkish creationist is in the news! And it’s a bit of a doozy, too!
This is so sad. Republicans fuck up everything they touch.
Efforts to defend against collusion will only lead to corrosion if partisans succeed in convincing the American people their FBI cannot be trusted. https://t.co/zgR6xlsnMm
— Josh Campbell (@joshscampbell) February 3, 2018
re: #108 MsJ
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For the last few days I’ve been unable to read embedded tweets. The attempt opens to a frame with a spinning circle, and never loads. Axing that frame takes me to a Twitter sign-up page. New campaign to force sign-ups?
Nope. Was able to read the Wray memo from a tweet on another site. Must be a hang in the LGF resources.
re: #113 Decatur Deb
For the last few days I’ve been unable to read embedded tweets. The attempt opens to a frame with a spinning circle, and never loads. Axing that frame takes me to a Twitter sign-up page. New campaign to force sign-ups?
I don’t know. I’ve had weirdness here and there like having to repeatedly sign in where I didn’t have to before.
re: #111 Dr Lizardo
Guess what? Televangelists are just as bad in Turkey - meet Harun Yahya: Harun Yahya… https://t.co/TME12aRPJ6
— TheMajor (@TheMajorsViews) February 3, 2018
Thoroughly depressing, very good column. https://t.co/QeQtLx5wNb
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) February 3, 2018
Alas, it’s time to brave the cold and the flu-ridden public. Hopefully I’ll return virus free. It’s kinda scary out there.
I bet she didn’t misspell “destroy”. Twice. Comrade.
— This place is infested with Nazis. (@efuseakay) February 3, 2018
Found this on FB. I’m only ever referring to my clit as the devils doorbell from now on sorry pic.twitter.com/qrkZDh9R5r
— whole grain whore (@hellbenthunny) February 3, 2018
re: #116 The Major
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Yeah, he’s quite a kook and it seems he’s started a fight with the Religious Affairs Directorate. Oh, and facing possibly legal troubles regarding deprivation of liberty.
re: #121 BigPapa
Shit. Now I want to go upstairs and spend some time ringing the devil’s doorbell instead of going to the grocery store.
What to do?
re: #104 Shropshire Slasher
I am going to make my first attempt at making hoecakes for breffist. Doggy gets the rejects.
Don’t forget the wine!
re: #124 Barefoot Grin
There is breffist wine?! I would imagine a nice hearty fortified port would go well. Made my hoe’s with a little vanilla. Vanilla make pancake batter and french toast all that much better.
re: #123 MsJ
No. You’ll be sending bad chemicals to your brain and killing yourself. But wine protects you from those bad chemicals.
When my wife wakes up I’m going to tell her about a game we played called Doorbell Ditch. Should be a good time.
Crumble top banana muffins make a fine breakfast, just sayin’.
re: #123 MsJ
Shit. Now I want to go upstairs and spend some time ringing the devil’s doorbell instead of going to the grocery store.
What to do?
Avon calling….
I received a missive on parchment beckoning me to view the wares of a trader named Montgomery Ward, I had thought they died years ago to a tribe of Amazons, but it appears they live still, somehow.
— jay (@random__name) February 3, 2018
This could be useful:
Let FISA answer whether Justice Department botched Carter Page wiretap
[…]
Everyone in Washington has an opinion on whether the FISA court was misled. Yet no one has asked the FISA court for its opinion.
[…]
It’s possible that the FISA court, in light of the uproar, could act on its own and order the DOJ to demonstrate that citing the Steele dossier in the wiretap application was not misleading. But if that doesn’t happen soon, the DOJ, whose integrity has been challenged, should ask the FISA court to review the wiretap application. The process could involve a hearing and the admission of evidence (likely in non-public proceedings).
[…]
Jesus. The President of the United States doesn’t know the difference between their and there.
re: #136 Flying Squirrel Girl
Jesus. The President of the United States doesn’t know the difference between their and there.
Not sure he knows the difference between here and there.
re: #123 MsJ
Shit. Now I want to go upstairs and spend some time ringing the devil’s doorbell instead of going to the grocery store.
What to do?
Go to the store. Ring for the devil in the frozen food aisle. Might make a few friends. /
re: #123 MsJ
Shit. Now I want to go upstairs and spend some time ringing the devil’s doorbell instead of going to the grocery store.
What to do?
Go upstairs. And when the devil answers, send him to the store.
re: #138 nines09
Go to the store. Ring for the devil in the frozen food aisle. Might make a few friends. /
I tried that with the Devil’s Ding Dong. Doesn’t work, I’m afraid….
re: #140 Barefoot Grin
I tried that with the Devil’s Ding Dong. Doesn’t work, I’m afraid….
These guys?
re: #107 MsJ
Corn pone uses corn meal and water (I believe). I’d use milk and butter in the batter, instead. If you want to get all fancy schmancy, add some baking powder and let the batter rest for 15 minutes before frying. That will fluff them up.
Interesting.
I looked up a couple of recipes online and while being describe as southern, all of them are sweetened. Now growing up a northern farm boy, the family corn bread recipe I learned to bake had sugar in it. My ex, having learned from her southern Grandma (Near Tuscaloosa I want to say, when they weren’t running a fish camp to front for their moonshine making relations) never put sugar in the corn bread. Doubt there’s any big meaning here, it just is a memory.
re: #136 Flying Squirrel Girl
Their, they’re, there.
re: #144 William Lewis
I want my Monkey Wards (as Gramma called them!) catalog! I always liked that one better than the Sears or JC Penny’s one. Better toys, nicer cloths, etc.
The Bibles!
re: #144 William Lewis
I want my Monkey Wards (as Gramma called them!) catalog! I always liked that one better than the Sears or JC Penny’s one. Better toys, nicer cloths, etc.
For a couple of years, on either side of getting drafted, I worked in the photo studio (catlog house) that made about half of the Sears catalog and a good bit of the catalogs for Wards, JC Penney, and Easton. We shot as large as 16x20 film stock, 8x10 in the Deardorfs was normal. Interesting times. The boss was a self-made millionaire with personal characteristics much like Trump. In fact they both belonged to the same country club (Winged Foot).
re: #147 Decatur Deb
For a couple of years, on either side of getting drafted, I worked in the photo studio (catlog house) that made about half of the Sears catalog and a good bit of the catalogs for Wards, JC Penney, and Easton. We shot as large as 16x20 film stock, 8x10 in the Deardorfs was normal. Interesting times. The boss was a self-made millionaire with personal characteristics much like Trump. In fact they both belonged to the same country club (Winged Foot).
I’d love to get my hands on an 8x10 Deardorf but I doubt my landscapes would make me even as much as your stock photography did :D
But 8x10 makes some hella beautiful contact prints.
Orwell was a socialist.
— Sergey Romanov (@S_ergeyR_omanov) February 3, 2018
re: #148 William Lewis
I’d love to get my hands on an 8x10 Deardorf but I doubt my landscapes would make me even as much as your stock photography did :D
But 8x10 makes some hella beautiful contact prints.
Probably still run a couple thousand bucks for a Deardorf, couple hundred for a box of color transparency to feed it. We did our own nitrogen burst hand-developing in the E2-E6 era.
re: #142 William Lewis
Definitely used to pone not being sweetened either, much like hot water cornbread.
virginialiving.com
Cornpone Versus Cornbread
re: #135 Barefoot Grin
“I’ve got an Erector Set!”
Reminds me of a time sitting around with some friends who were forming a band. We were throwing out names for said new band. One of my contributions was “Erector Set.” I thought it was damn good!
re: #151 JordanRules
Definitely used to pone not being sweetened either, much like hot water cornbread.
virginialiving.com
Cornpone Versus Cornbread
If the recipe started with Civil War soldiers, the proper ingredients were corn and whatever the foragers could liberate from the locals.
re: #153 Decatur Deb
I strongly suspect it pre-dated the CW. I’d always grown up thinking it had roots from the original Americans.
My new years resolutoin of reading more is working. On my third and fourth books already: Ralph Ellison’s Invisible Man and With Their Backs to the Mountains, a book about the Carpatho-Rusyns, the stateless people I’m descended from on my mother’s mother’s side.
re: #154 JordanRules
I strongly suspect it pre-dated the CW. I’d always grown up thinking it had roots from the original Americans.
And that takes us into the exciting world of hominy.
This memo totally vindicates “Trump” in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. Their was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) February 3, 2018
#Remember: Because he has the attention span (and spelling skills) of a gnat on cocaine, the FOUR PAGE MEMO was reduced to a few bullet points and READ TO HIM by Kellyane. He has not seen it himself. @realDonaldTrump, THEY LIED TO YOU. https://t.co/YXTgD7PE4d
— 🇺🇸🇭🇹 Only4RM 🇭🇹🇺🇸 (@Only4RM) February 3, 2018
Lest we get confused, Kelly reduced the memo to bullets and then KellyANN read it to the dumbass.
re: #151 JordanRules
Definitely used to pone not being sweetened either, much like hot water cornbread.
virginialiving.com
Cornpone Versus Cornbread
Thinking about it, my yankee (New York State) ancestors were on the last leg of the triangle trade so sugar would have been relatively cheap and plentiful. So out of the same evil trade, the south got labor and the north got sweets… ? o_O
re: #158 JordanRules
American disgrace is right. FFS he sounds like a small child. What an embarrassment.
re: #155 HappyWarrior
Did Orwell ever comment on Rand I wonder.
Doubtful - she was barely known in the US before his death. Even the movie of “The Fountainhead” had only just come out before he died. No, even if he’d heard of her he’d just have written her off as the kind of crank that was the worst of the capitalists.
re: #159 William Lewis
Then apparently the South decided to pour ALL their sugar into….tea.
re: #69 goddamnedfrank
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There are two Sears department stores in Northern NJ. Both are being shuttered and turned into something else.
Sears is a wasteland thanks to the incompetence of a billionaire owner whose views on running a business involve profiting from layoffs and selling off parts to others, and then watching his own value diminish because he’s wasted away whatever value was left.
Destroy brands like Lands End, Craftsman, and Kenmore. Hope that selling the real estate will cover his costs, and maintain his net worth (it hasn’t).
It’s a circle the drain situation, and JC Penney is doing pretty much the same thing.
It didn’t have to be that way. Both companies were industry leaders in mail order, and they completely overlooked the Internet. Had they taken to the internet quickly, they would have had the edge on Amazon because they already had the distribution chain to do everything from same day service to handling durable good sales.
re: #161 William Lewis
Doubtful - she was barely known in the US before his death. Even the movie of “The Fountainhead” had only just come out before he died. No, even if he’d heard of her he’d just have written her off as the kind of crank that was the worst of the capitalists.
Yeah he died in 1950 and the movie as you say came out just before he died. IIRC, her philosophy started becoming more widespread in the 60’s after he died. She was a crank of the worst kind.
re: #162 JordanRules
Then apparently the South decided to pour ALL their sugar into….tea.
Not there’s anything wrong with that.*
*Most Southern thing about me is how I like my tea.
re: #158 JordanRules
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Lest we get confused, Kelly reduced the memo to bullets and then KellyANN read it to the dumbass.
You wouldn’t need to lie like this if you were innocent. Propaganda from the now-totally-corrupt Republican party can’t stop law enforcement no matter how much the delusional. radicalized-right wants it to.
— Jeff Furlington (@FurlingtonJeff) February 3, 2018
re: #151 JordanRules
Definitely used to pone not being sweetened either, much like hot water cornbread.
virginialiving.com
Cornpone Versus Cornbread
transplanted new yorker living in florida, my hoecakes are not sweetened
the core of the recipe is like corn dodgers (cornmeal, salt, water, butter or oil)
re: #130 I cannot.
Get the to Caldor of Hell. Not quite as big the tourist attraction Gates of Hell, but River Styx runs through it…
re: #166 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
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this:
You wouldn’t need to lie like this if you were innocent.
over and over and over and over (and over) again
re: #163 lawhawk
There are two Sears department stores in Northern NJ. Both are being shuttered and turned into something else.
Sears is a wasteland thanks to the incompetence of a billionaire owner whose views on running a business involve profiting from layoffs and selling off parts to others, and then watching his own value diminish because he’s wasted away whatever value was left.
Destroy brands like Lands End, Craftsman, and Kenmore. Hope that selling the real estate will cover his costs, and maintain his net worth (it hasn’t).
It’s a circle the drain situation, and JC Penney is doing pretty much the same thing.
It didn’t have to be that way. Both companies were industry leaders in mail order, and they completely overlooked the Internet. Had they taken to the internet quickly, they would have had the edge on Amazon because they already had the distribution chain to do everything from same day service to handling durable good sales.
Our full-bore Sears died a couple years ago and has resurfaced as a very small display room in another part of town. For a while, Sears/Craftsman was merging with the 2 K-Mart retail spaces, and then they went under. At one time Sears personnel were very knowledgeable, especially in the tool area. At the end they could barely find their way across the store.
re: #136 Flying Squirrel Girl
Jesus. The President of the United States doesn’t know the difference between their and there.
He doesn’t know the difference between fact and fiction.
That’s a much more troublesome situation.
That there’s no one around him to correct his grammar (or fact check anything else the WH is producing in communications), is a huge problem. They keep producing crap full of errors.
I just want to shout when I hear the Trumpers whining about Rosenstein- TRUMP APPOINTED HIM. They really think that Trump is a pathetic innocent victim of a conspiracy. Dumb fools.
re: #163 lawhawk
There are two Sears department stores in Northern NJ. Both are being shuttered and turned into something else.
Sears is a wasteland thanks to the incompetence of a billionaire owner whose views on running a business involve profiting from layoffs and selling off parts to others, and then watching his own value diminish because he’s wasted away whatever value was left.
Destroy brands like Lands End, Craftsman, and Kenmore. Hope that selling the real estate will cover his costs, and maintain his net worth (it hasn’t).
It’s a circle the drain situation, and JC Penney is doing pretty much the same thing.
It didn’t have to be that way. Both companies were industry leaders in mail order, and they completely overlooked the Internet. Had they taken to the internet quickly, they would have had the edge on Amazon because they already had the distribution chain to do everything from same day service to handling durable good sales.
Sears, Pennys, & K-Mart will be the next generations “What NOT to do to Succeed In Business!” touchstones. A close second would be Borders Books.
re: #170 Decatur Deb
Our full-bore Sears died a couple years ago and has resurfaced as a very small display room in another part of town. For a while, Sears/Craftsman was merging with the 2 K-Mart retail spaces, and then they went under. At one time Sears personnel were very knowledgeable, especially in the tool area. At the end they could barely find their way across the store.
Yeah, they fired all the qualified folks (because they were more costly) and those left had no idea what they were selling.
Kmart is soon to follow Sears, and for the same reasons (same idiot owner).
As I have said repeatedly, I also remain 100 percent confident in Special Counsel Robert Mueller. The contents of this memo do not - in any way - discredit his investigation.
— Trey Gowdy (@TGowdySC) February 2, 2018
Dear @realDonaldTrump: After reading your bizarre & misleading #SaturdayMorning tweet about the #NunesMemo, I want to bring to your attention what the GOP Chairman of the powerful House Oversight Committee said about the memo.
(Also, you may want to actually read the memo). https://t.co/KL5SDxLaag— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) February 3, 2018
re: #165 HappyWarrior
Not there’s anything wrong with that.*
*Most Southern thing about me is how I like my tea.
Shudder.
Hot, strong, black & unadulterated is the only way a Cuppa of tea should be.
No milk, no sugar, no lemon.
Maybe a spot of honey if you have the flu but that’s it.
re: #163 lawhawk
Know someone who was a Sears VP, who read the writing on the wall and got out of Dodge. Don’t know if he was a serious liberal before that experience, but he sure is now.
re: #176 William Lewis
Shudder.
Hot, strong, black & unadulterated is the only way a Cuppa of tea should be.
No milk, no sugar, no lemon.
Maybe a spot of honey if you have the flu but that’s it.
Long ago I’d always put sugar in my tea. One day I forgot to, and it was fine, so I haven’t used sugar in it since.
re: #176 William Lewis
Shudder.
Hot, strong, black & unadulterated is the only way a Cuppa of tea should be.
No milk, no sugar, no lemon.
Maybe a spot of honey if you have the flu but that’s it.
Oh man I love milk, sugar, lemon, or honey in it. But hey different strokes.
At one time (1920s-1940s?) you could buy one of several models of house from Sears. It would arrive in pre-cut kit form on a couple trucks. Well-executed examples still bring good prices on regional housing markets.
That reflects a 19th Cent practice of shipping pre-fab cast iron/glass industrial buildings. Watervliet Arsenal near Albany still has a machine shop, now on the National Register.
re: #166 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Propaganda from the now-totally-corrupt Republican party can’t stop law enforcement no matter how much the delusional. radicalized-right wants it to.
That’s a challenge.
re: #179 HappyWarrior
Oh man I love milk, sugar, lemon, or honey in it. But hey different strokes.
Oh I know. Probably should have had a couple of //// in there.
I get Yorkshire Red from England for my tea and I find it really does taste wonderful just on it’s own.
re: #163 lawhawk
There are two Sears department stores in Northern NJ. Both are being shuttered and turned into something else.
Sears is a wasteland thanks to the incompetence of a billionaire owner whose views on running a business involve profiting from layoffs and selling off parts to others, and then watching his own value diminish because he’s wasted away whatever value was left.
Destroy brands like Lands End, Craftsman, and Kenmore. Hope that selling the real estate will cover his costs, and maintain his net worth (it hasn’t).
It’s a circle the drain situation, and JC Penney is doing pretty much the same thing.
It didn’t have to be that way. Both companies were industry leaders in mail order, and they completely overlooked the Internet. Had they taken to the internet quickly, they would have had the edge on Amazon because they already had the distribution chain to do everything from same day service to handling durable good sales.
The CEO also thought it was a great plan to pit different departments in the stores against each other. Nothing says business success like encouraging backstabbing in your retail units.
re: #182 William Lewis
Oh I know. Probably should have had a couple of //// in there.
I get Yorkshire Red from England for my tea and I find it really does taste wonderful just on it’s own.
I do love Chai on its own. But I like making my tea and coffee extra sweet since it’s usually my only daily source of sugars since I only have desserts on Sunday.
re: #179 HappyWarrior
Oh man I love milk, sugar, lemon, or honey in it. But hey different strokes.
I prefer my tea unadulterated, but I’ve developed a sensitive tongue and the tannins don’t play nice with it without a little milk, so…
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@realDonaldTrump
This memo totally vindicates “Trump” in probe. But the Russian Witch Hunt goes on and on. Their was no Collusion and there was no Obstruction (the word now used because, after one year of looking endlessly and finding NOTHING, collusion is dead). This is an American disgrace!
8:40 AM - Feb 3, 2018
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“I’ve read the memo and there’s no their there.”
re: #176 William Lewis
Yup, straight up! Adding some honey today because I do in fact have the flu.
re: #176 William Lewis
Shudder.
Hot, strong, black & unadulterated is the only way a Cuppa of tea should be.
No milk, no sugar, no lemon.
Maybe a spot of honey if you have the flu but that’s it.
My pop taught me: coffee black, whiskey straight. Extrapolated to tea straight as necessary.
re: #121 BigPapa
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re: #189 retired cynic
My pop taught me: coffee black, whiskey straight. Extrapolated to tea straight as necessary.
I thought you were supposed to put a little water in whiskey?
Of course, I don’t really like whiskey, so if you have a bottle of good whiskey that you feel you should split with someone, I’m a good choice since I’ll leave it all for you.
re: #188 JordanRules
Yup, straight up! Adding some honey today because I do in fact have the flu.
There’s only one non-medical cure for the flu: Chartreuse.
re: #192 calochortus
Well, yes, a small amount of water does bring out the best in the whiskey, but it spoils the saying! //
re: #163 lawhawk
Kodak invented the digital camera and didn’t think it would catch on.
re: #194 retired cynic
Well, yes, a small amount of water does bring out the best in the whiskey, but it spoils the saying! //
So you just sneak it in while preserving ideological purity in the saying? Good choice.
re: #192 calochortus
I thought you were supposed to put a little water in whiskey?
Of course, I don’t really like whiskey, so if you have a bottle of good whiskey that you feel you should split with someone, I’m a good choice since I’ll leave it all for you.
There is an argument that a drop or three of water helps release some of the esters in the beverage that will make it taste and smell better. But even then, we’re not talking about half water like too many people do.
re: #195 Ace Rothstein
Kodak invented the digital camera and didn’t think it would catch on.
The pioneers get the arrows, settlers get the farms.
re: #195 Ace Rothstein
Kodak invented the digital camera and didn’t think it would catch on.
Kodak… if it wasn’t for Hollyweird suddenly deciding they liked the look of analog again, they’d already be dead and gone with a stake through the heart…
And don’t even get me going on the horror show of incompetence that was Xerox in handling what the Palo Alta campus handed their management.
re: #163 lawhawk
Sad to say that I was on the inside when the Sears CEO Alan Lacy made the fateful decision to sell Sears Credit to Citi, which would then lead to it’s merger with KMart to create Sears Holdings. Back when that happened, I likened it to two sick cats mating in hopes that a healthy kitten would arise. Instead, Fast Eddie does what we always does - asset strips what he holds and leaves nothing behind for its shareholders.
We always suspected that there was some deal on the side between Lacy and Lampert to make this happen - and the more we’re seeing of the destruction of Sears the more that’s starting to ring true.
Ironically enough, Sears was THE ultimate catalog store much like Amazon is today - the only difference is that today Amazon’s catalog is online, whereas Sears mailed their’s out.
How sad.
re: #195 Ace Rothstein
Kodak invented the digital camera and didn’t think it would catch on.
Like Hewlett-Packard and the personal computer. The HP bigwigs figured no one would have any real need to use a computer at home.
Oops.
re: #183 calochortus
The CEO also thought it was a great plan to pit different departments in the stores against each other. Nothing says business success like encouraging backstabbing in your retail units.
The Sears owner is an Ayn Rand ideologue. It is not surprising that the business failed. It is sad that so many innocents are suffering — but nothing would give me more pleasure than his losing every cent he has. Wait — that’s not quite true. Trump,Pence, Ryan, and McConnell ending up in prison for treason would actually give me more pleasure.
re: #202 Hecuba’s daughter
Trump,Pence, Ryan, and McConnell ending up in prison for treason would actually give me more pleasure.
Prison would be too good for them. A tumbrel ride? Now ya got something….
re: #202 Hecuba’s daughter
You can have both if you like.
re: #200 The Major
The boss I mentioned above didn’t make his bones as a photographer, but as a Sears industrial illustrator in the 1930s-40s. At the turn of the 20th Cent, the Sears catalog was drawn, and set the standard for realism in still life rendering.
re: #204 Ace Rothstein
Didn’t IBM invent the mouse?
Wikipedia’s article on computer mice seems to want to focus on the mouse being a Xerox PARC artifact:
The Xerox Alto was one of the first computers designed for individual use in 1973 and is regarded as the first modern computer to utilize a mouse.[32] Inspired by PARC’s Alto, the Lilith, a computer which had been developed by a team around Niklaus Wirth at ETH Zürich between 1978 and 1980, provided a mouse as well. The third marketed version of an integrated mouse shipped as a part of a computer and intended for personal computer navigation came with the Xerox 8010 Star in 1981.
Personally, I use thumb-based trackballs.
re: #201 Dr Lizardo
Like Hewlett-Packard and the personal computer. The HP bigwigs figured no one would have any real need to use a computer at home.
Oops.
Especially since the engineer of that PC was a gent by the name of Steve Wozniak…
re: #204 Ace Rothstein
Didn’t IBM invent the mouse?
That was part of the “horror show of incompetence that was Xerox” mentioned earlier.
re: #204 Ace Rothstein
Didn’t IBM invent the mouse?
Nope. From Wiki:
Douglas Engelbart of the Stanford Research Institute (now SRI International) has been credited in published books by Thierry Bardini,[11] Paul Ceruzzi,[12] Howard Rheingold,[13] and several others[14][15][16] as the inventor of the computer mouse. Engelbart was also recognized as such in various obituary titles after his death in July 2013.[17][18][19][20]
How Nazi offspring dealt with their family’s hellish histories.
Imagine discovering that your loving parent is actually a genocidal monster. In the new book “Children of Nazis” (Arcade), out Tuesday, author Tania Crasnianski presents the people who were forced to face up to this terrible truth.
Some children of Nazi leaders such as Heinrich Himmler, Hermann Goring and Rudolf Hess couldn’t stop loving their doting dads, spending their lives trying to repair their fathers’ reputations, while others shunned all memory of their parent, knowing they could never accept their atrocities.
“The difference is due to the link they had with their fathers,” says Crasnianski. “Some, like Gudrun Himmler, were very close to their fathers, really in love with them. Niklas Frank’s father, Hans, was very distant. The more you have distance, the easier it is to judge.”
Kinda late to the Amazon thread, just like I was late on ordering from Amazon.
First order was in 2004 , the book Modelling Molecular Structures , 2nd Edition by Alan Hinchliffe
re: #202 Hecuba’s daughter
The Sears owner is an Ayn Rand ideologue. It is not surprising that the business failed. It is sad that so many innocents are suffering — but nothing would give me more pleasure than his losing every cent he has. Wait — that’s not quite true. Trump,Pence, Ryan, and McConnell ending up in prison for treason would actually give me more pleasure.
Yes, yes. That would be lovely.
I also filed my taxes, noticed something for you guys who may want to buy an electric car that is eligible for a tax credit, or install a charging station that is eligible for a tax credit.
The credit only applies up to the amount you owe. Guess who may decide to under-withhold some year?
It is really amazing how often big biz misses the boat.
Xerox Alto - 1973. Unsupported by management it only sold 2000 systems. But it’s the Velvet Underground of computers - everyone who saw one started a new computer system and everything that is good on modern PC’s started there.
Apple 1 - turned down 5 times by HP
Even the IBM PC succeeded despite itself - the design was specifically crippled to prevent it from competing with their mini computers. DEC did the same thing but without the accidental success with with their Rainbow (a PC almost compatable) and DEC Professional (A PDP-11 in a PC case. Actually pretty neat & I’d love to get one)
re: #214 BlueSpotinAL
Looks like I just installed a charging station in my garage…
re: #215 William Lewis
It is really amazing how often big biz misses the boat.
Xerox Alto - 1973. Unsupported by management it only sold 2000 systems. But it’s the Velvet Underground of computers - everyone who saw one started a new computer system and everything that is good on modern PC’s started there.
Apple 1 - turned down 5 times by HP
Even the IBM PC succeeded despite itself - the design was specifically crippled to prevent it from competing with their mini computers. DEC did the same thing but without the accidental success with with their Rainbow (a PC almost compatable) and DEC Professional (A PDP-11 in a PC case. Actually pretty neat & I’d love to get one)
The story I always heard about Xerox was that upper management was so afraid that the PC would lead to a paperless society, they had no interest in pursuing the new technology since it would damage their cash cow. That is why innovation often begins with small companies that are unfettered by existing products that would compete with new products.
Yo memo so thin, Donald Trump combed it over.
re: #195 Ace Rothstein
Kodak invented the digital camera and didn’t think it would catch on.
Just like Xerox developed the first PC with a GUI and thought it would go nowhere or Sears deciding that going on the internet to sell goods wasn’t feasible…
ALL three cases, Why?
Answer—Because the MBA’s running those companies at that time were trained to make maximizing short term profits their #1 priority!
re: #199 William Lewis
Kodak… if it wasn’t for Hollyweird suddenly deciding they liked the look of analog again, they’d already be dead and gone with a stake through the heart
Well, I have learned that story in detail from friends. Hollyweird does not like film. Pretty much rather you just go get Reds or Arri (if you are big budget) and nice glass and have at it with your DP and DIT guys for the look. But digital has massive hidden costs. But some very powerful and capable film makers insist. And those guys made it stick, bless ‘em.
8mm is coming back and a lot of film is 16mm that becomes cable or TV drama.
So there is that.
re: #220 Unshaken Defiance
Well, I have learned that story in detail from friends. Hollyweird does not like film. Pretty much rather you just go get Reds or Arri (if you are big budget) and nice glass and have at it with your DP and DIT guys for the look. But digital has massive hidden costs. But some very powerful and capable film makers insist. And those guys made it stick, bless ‘em.
8mm is coming back and a lot of film is 16mm that becomes cable or TV drama.
So there is that.
Interesting.
In the end though, I’m trying to figure out how to adapt my 4x5 field camera to digital for free or low cost simply because I don’t trust Kodak, Foma, or any of the others to outlive me & I’m already 54…
if you ever find youself In a place where you have to push the #DevilsDoorknob, be advise. @HitachiGlobal makes a tool for that.
— 🦈🦈Argyle Von Bargle 🦈🦈 (@DaveoutofAustin) February 3, 2018
re: #197 William Lewis
There is an argument that a drop or three of water helps release some of the esters in the beverage that will make it taste and smell better. But even then, we’re not talking about half water like too many people do.
My former boss (English) used to make disdainful remarks about my barbaric colonial habit of pouring my whisky* over a medium ice cube to chill/dilute it just enough to bring out the aroma/taste: but of course, doctored HIS via a small pour of pre-chilled water from the fridge. The difference escaped me - although the extensive testing required to see which method was better was quite rigorously conducted….
*single-malt Scotches generally.
re: #224 Jay C
My former boss (English) used to make disdainful remarks about my barbaric colonial habit of pouring my whisky* over a medium ice cube to chill/dilute it just enough to bring out the aroma/taste
One of the guys who I used to work with used to work for Royal Dutch Shell - he recounted one of the bosses favorite sayings: “If you aren’t Dutch, you aren’t worth much.”
Well, since I’m half-Dutch (from my mother) I wonder what kind of flack I would get from him - especially since I know how to cuss in his native tongue….
re: #221 William Lewis
Interesting.
In the end though, I’m trying to figure out how to adapt my 4x5 field camera to digital for free or low cost simply because I don’t trust Kodak, Foma, or any of the others to outlive me & I’m already 54…
I think you will be okay with film. Big sensors big bucks. hey I gotta look up the 4x5 footprint on 65mm stock…
re: #227 Unshaken Defiance
I don’t trust Kodak, Foma, or any of the others to outlive me & I’m already 54…
I still miss Panatomic-X developed in Rodinal….
re: #225 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Weird cryptocurrency cult wants to turn the ruins of Puerto Rico into Libertarian Disneyland (NYT)
Great!
They failed with Minerva, then came the Galt’s Gulch failure in Chile and they still ignore what’s going on in Somalia.
Some folks just float up up up in the rarified air of libertarianism that they will never rest until they build their ultimate Laissez Fairyland…that will once again faw down and go boom…
re: #228 The Major
Is Ilford still solid product and healthy?
re: #230 Unshaken Defiance
Is Ilford still solid product and healthy?
They have a website. ilfordphoto.com
re: #227 Unshaken Defiance
I think you will be okay with film. Big sensors big bucks. hey I gotta look up the 4x5 footprint on 65mm stock…
Actually it looks like it’s going to be easy enough but the reality is that it’ll be a hell of a crop from the 135mm normal on 4x5 down to the 1” sensor on my Olympus E-P3.
re: #231 Ace Rothstein
Yes, nice one too. I just have not followed them in years. I hope they are solid business wise. Heh, this being in the thread with Sears and Kodak.
re: #229 Joe Bacon 🌹
Great!
They failed with Minerva, then came the Galt’s Gulch failure in Chile and they still ignore what’s going on in Somalia.
Some folks just float up up up in the rarified air of libertarianism that they will never rest until they build their ultimate Laissez Fairyland…that will once again faw down and go boom…
Has no one learned anything from Bioshock?
re: #232 William Lewis
That should be interesting, I saw a guy trying that with a cell phone, lol. Have you seen the brass lens onto older DSLR hacks?
Workers are starting to notice larger paychecks following tax overhaul. @sarahssell reports https://t.co/788OaTNPHU
— AP Business News (@APBusiness) February 1, 2018
A secretary at a public high school in Lancaster, PA, said she was pleasantly surprised her pay went up $1.50 a week … she said [that] will more than cover her Costco membership for the year. https://t.co/yLX1Bod1j0
— Paul Ryan (@PRyan) February 3, 2018
re: #229 Joe Bacon 🌹
Great!
They failed with Minerva, then came the Galt’s Gulch failure in Chile and they still ignore what’s going on in Somalia.
Some folks just float up up up in the rarified air of libertarianism that they will never rest until they build their ultimate Laissez Fairyland…that will once again faw down and go boom…
And that grandiose “Free Port” project in Honduras in (?) 2010.
Basically the only difference with the latest PR plan is that it seems to be being financed by “cryptocurrency”. Real stability, there.
re: #235 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Has no one learned anything from Bioshock?
Ask the Economics Department faculty at Pitt when I did my undergrad work in the 70’s when they divided into two camps—Milton Friedman’s monetarists on one side and Murray Rothbard Anarcho-Capitalist Libertarians on the other side.
According to the Rothbardites, Libertarianism cannot fail, it can only be failed by those who do not implement it all the way…
re: #237 Unshaken Defiance
That should be interesting, I saw a guy trying that with a cell phone, lol. Have you seen the brass lens onto older DSLR hacks?
Yep. The Lomo nuts have new made ones available (for silly amounts of money) in both Canon EOS & Nikon F mounts too.
re: #238 JordanRules
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My last paycheck went DOWN!
Why?
My Kaiser health insurance premium went up by 18%.
THANKS, SHITTLER!
re: #240 Joe Bacon 🌹
Ask the Economics Department faculty at Pitt when I did my undergrad work in the 80’s when they divided into two camps—Milton Friedman’s monetarists on one side and Murray Rothbard Anarcho-Capitalist Libertarians on the other side.
According to the Rothbardites, Libertarianism cannot fail, it can only be failed by those who do not implement it all the way…
Just like any extremist -ism.
re: #238 JordanRules
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And you could have given them even more if you weren’t so into being the Koch’s butt boy.
I’ve seen a lot of the wingnuts distort Pelosi’s quote about the tax cut being peanuts. She was talking about how the tax cut for the middle class is peanuts compared to what the wealthy aka the dickheads that run the GOP got and she was right.
This is a most horrible day. One of my closest friends in the world lived in Dallas. He was battling the flu. He worked from home Wednesday. Thursday no one heard from him. Friday police did a welfare check. They broken down the door. He was inside…dead. He was 45. I’m in shock.
— Charles M. Blow (@CharlesMBlow) February 3, 2018
I tried the painters tape squares on my 3D printer. The PLA barely stuck to the tape at all. I went back to using glue-stick, and taped my glass base plate down at every corner. I’m trying to print a cleaner police box over the next couple of days. 3D printing is Sloooooow.
re: #240 Joe Bacon 🌹
Ask the Economics Department faculty at Pitt when I did my undergrad work in the 70’s when they divided into two camps—Milton Friedman’s monetarists on one side and Murray Rothbard Anarcho-Capitalist Libertarians on the other side.
According to the Rothbardites, Libertarianism cannot fail, it can only be failed by those who do not implement it all the way…
Economists could spend more time in the real world especially those types. They spend so much time about their theories that they don’t care about real world application.
re: #234 Unshaken Defiance
How abut Agfa? Are they still around?
re: #249 HappyWarrior
Damn.
Dallas has been hit pretty hard this season. There have been 54 deaths in the county due to flu.
re: #235 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
Has no one learned anything from Bioshock?
People haven’t even learned from USSR, what do you expect a game to do…
re: #238 JordanRules
Good news, the Kochs can cover their Costco memberships for 14.2 million years! pic.twitter.com/UveEdxGoYl
— Schooley (@Rschooley) February 3, 2018
re: #238 JordanRules
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Is that seriously Speaker Of The House Ryan’s twitter? BRAGGING about somebody getting a $78 per year tax “break”?? I mean, it’s nice that Ms. Secretary from Lancaster has, in effect, gotten the government to pay for her Costco membership: but her purchasing power there (or anywhere else) is still the same.
Standard Republican economics: flash-bang the average taxpayer with a highly-publicized pittance, in the hopes that they won’t notice the avalanche of new cash flowing to the already-wealthy. Unfortunately, it seems to work more often than not.
re: #251 Belafon
Dallas has been hit pretty hard this season. There have been 54 deaths in the county due to flu.
Awful. Something to think about the next time I see a meme about how socialism is the most awful thing ever because of Venezuela when we got our own problems. Not that Venezuela doesn’t but I saw a story about a former baseball player dying of pneumonia used as you’d about expect.
re: #248 HappyWarrior
Economists could spend more time in the real world especially those types. They spend so much time about their theories that they don’t care about real world application.
Happy this is what happens when Richard Mellon Scaife poured enough cash into Pitt to turn it into a right wing incubator of KKKonservative thought.
Still remember when the Pittsburgh City Council amended their anti-discrimination ordinance and Pitt refused to obey it. Pitt REFUSED to provide benefits to same sex couples. They went so far as to go to the State Legislature to get an exception to that ordinance and it was signed into law by then Governor Tom Ridge.
Which is why whenever a flunky from Pitt calls and asks for $$$ I not only tell them NO, I bluntly explain that they could take their anti-same sex bias and shove it up their ass…
re: #250 Ace Rothstein
How abut Agfa? Are they still around?
No. They went under awhile ago. The trademarks are being used by another company but Agfa itself is gone. FOMA is a great substitute though.
re: #257 Joe Bacon 🌹
Happy this is what happens when Richard Mellon Scaife poured enough cash into Pitt to turn it into a right wing incubator of KKKonservative thought.
Still remember when the Pittsburgh City Council amended their anti-discrimination ordinance and Pitt refused to obey it. Pitt REFUSED to provide benefits to same sex couples. They went so far as to go to the State Legislature to get an exception to that ordinance and it was signed into law by then Governor Tom Ridge.
Which is why whenever a flunky from Pitt calls and asks for $$$ I not only tell them NO, I bluntly explain that they could take their anti-same sex bias and shove it up their ass…
Damn that’s disappointing. My only grandparent with a college degree was a Pitt alumnus. Don’t be too hard on the kids though. They probably have no diea about that bit of the university’s history.
re: #254 Jay C
When the data is against you, pound on the anecdote.
re: #252 Nyet
People haven’t even learned from USSR, what do you expect a game to do…
I was joking, but games are closer to personal experiences than reading about the USSR.
re: #261 Aucun pays pour les vieux ennemis
I was joking, but games are closer to personal experiences than reading about the USSR.
Hm.
re: #121 BigPapa
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Well, well, well..I learned sumptin; new today.
The Devil’s Doorbell™
Heh. If women touch it often, they will slowly go to hell.
Hmmm. What about men?
Asking for a friend.
re: #251 Belafon
Dallas has been hit pretty hard this season. There have been 54 deaths in the county due to flu.
I’m looking for the ages of the victims, but have only found ages for some of them who were children or over 65. I’d guess this isn’t a cytokine-storm version that hits people in their prime the hardest, so it’s odd that it would quickly kill a 45-year-old.
re: #263 ObserverArt
Well, well, well..I learned sumptin; new today.
The Devil’s Doorbell™
Heh. If women touch it often, they will slowly go to hell.
Hmmm. What about men?
Asking for a friend.
Steer your friend to Fappy The Anti-Masturbation Dolphin (see above) and tell them to avoid the Devil’s Playground!
Arsenal 3 - Everton 0. Arsenal’s goals were scored within about the first eighteen minutes.
re: #263 ObserverArt
Well, well, well..I learned sumptin; new today.
The Devil’s Doorbell™
Heh. If women touch it often, they will slowly go to hell.
Hmmm. What about men?
Asking for a friend.
The Devil’s Doorhandle?
The Case for Trump Campaign Collusion https://t.co/rHbdjrLGJu via @RollingStone
— Michael F Ozaki MD (@brontyman) February 3, 2018
Based on your reporting, how far back does Russia’s interest in Trump go?
I think we can say, without being hyperbolic, that the Soviet government and its Russian successor really have tried to cultivate Donald Trump over a period of decades. And I think that to understand the story of Donald Trump and Russia you have to understand the story of the KGB and Soviet espionage. It’s not that they are geniuses. They’re not - they’re kind of opportunists, but they have methods they’ve tested over a period of time. They’ve always been interested in Americans because America is the chief enemy. You look at the kind of people they want to recruit and obviously Trump fits the bill, because of his personality, because of his narcissism, because of his corruptibility, because of his alleged adultery, his predilection for young women, allegedly. He’s the perfect guy.
re: #250 Ace Rothstein
I just took a peek, so far only found red sensitive industrial use films for contact printing.
re: #173 William Lewis
Sears, Pennys, & K-Mart will be the next generations “What NOT to do to Succeed In Business!” touchstones. A close second would be Borders Books.
My biggie is Kodak.
My understanding is the guys who had developed Adobe Photoshop* tried to sell it to Kodak and were told they did not see a need for digital photo manipulation and correction software. Oops.
They were also late in digital cameras and never caught up only to lose out on the market. Oops.
*I am not sure, but I worked with a guy that was with the ‘spooks’ in the Naval Department back in the early 80s who said they worked with something similar and the Adobe guys might have gotten the initial idea from the work at the CIA/DOD.
So, apparently my medical benefit people think my blood pressure is too low, because I can’t seem to get them to REPLY TO A FUCKING CONTACT FORM.
.@RepAdamSchiff pens a guest column
Memo to the Public: The President Wants to Make the FBI His Instrumenthttps://t.co/IvwoJysjWE— Esquire (@esquire) February 3, 2018
“…Both the president’s public statements and his private actions make it clear that he is seeking nothing less than to destroy the institutions and norms that shield the Department of Justice from his direction. This is all the more pernicious considering the fact that his own campaign is under investigation for possible collusion with the Russians in their interference in the presidential election. He would take the reins of the FBI to protect himself and to deploy their immense investigative powers against his political opponents at will. "
re: #176 William Lewis
Shudder.
Hot, strong, black & unadulterated is the only way a Cuppa of tea should be.
No milk, no sugar, no lemon.
Maybe a spot of honey if you have the flu but that’s it.
I agree. I now drink Celestial Seasonings Antioxidant Green Tea with White Tea (for a smooth flavor). I love the stuff.
Philippines Blames World’s First Dengue Vaccine for Children’s Deaths
Fuel for the anti-vaccine nuts.
This Is Why Uma Thurman Is Angry (NYT)
The actress is finally ready to talk about Harvey Weinstein.
re: #224 Jay C
My former boss (English) used to make disdainful remarks about my barbaric colonial habit of pouring my whisky* over a medium ice cube to chill/dilute it just enough to bring out the aroma/taste: but of course, doctored HIS via a small pour of pre-chilled water from the fridge. The difference escaped me - although the extensive testing required to see which method was better was quite rigorously conducted….
*single-malt Scotches generally.
I mentioned here once that is how I like my Scotch. One single Ice Cube. Caught some hell for it…wasn’t pure enough. They agreed a spot of water was okay.
The time the drink lasts in my hands…the ice cube only melts a spot of water!
I checked to see if the charging station tax credit was still going to exist… No dice, latest you could install was Dec 2016. :( Sorry, Shropshire Slasher.
re: #228 The Major
I still miss Panatomic-X developed in Rodinal….
I think we’ve been on this subject before. I still loved the old Ilford B&W films and their print papers were good too. Something about them…I guess I liked the smoothness in the greyscales tones. Developed in Rodinal.
Interesting…I just did a search on Rodinal and found it is now marketed under the name Adox Adonal. This I did not know.
re: #265 Joe Bacon 🌹
Steer your friend to Fappy The Anti-Masturbation Dolphin (see above) and tell them to avoid the Devil’s Playground!
Well, see, if you “help” someone it is no longer masturbation is it?
I guess it is the memories of the Catholic boy in me that loved to help keep those Catholic girls from going to hell.
Doing God’s work…not the Devil’s.
re: #268 jaunte
The expert on Putin Masha Gessen on Harding:
On the other hand, we usually have non-fiction bestsellers - they are smart books of the type that I wrote, but not the one I wrote. (Laughs.) And now, in the New York Times list of bestsellers in the first place is a crazy book by Luke Harding, in which he proves that Trump is an agent of the Kremlin. Because in 1987 Trump went to the Soviet Union, and his trip was organized by Inturist, and this - there’s no prize for guessing - was a KGB outfit, respectively, Trump is an agent of the Kremlin. I do not exaggerate, it is written in black and white.
Seems like LH is a bit on the CT side.
re: #134 Dr Lizardo
At its height, the original Montgomery Ward was one of the largest retailers in the United States. After its demise, the familiarity of its brand meant its name, corporate logo, and advertising were still considered valuable intangible assets. In 2004, catalog marketer Direct Marketing Services Inc. (DMSI), an Iowa-based direct marketing company, purchased much of the intellectual property assets of the former Wards, including the “Montgomery Ward” and “Wards” trademarks, for an undisclosed amount of money.[32]
The DMSI version of Montgomery Ward was not the same company as the original. The company did not honor obligations of the previous company, such as gift cards and items sold with a lifetime guarantee. David Milgrom, then president of the firm, said in an interview with the Associated Press: “We’re rebuilding the brand, and we want to do it right.”
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