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It always rains on the alternating-week night when the recycling goes to the curb, but especially if the last recycling pickup was missed. #firstworldproblems.
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And, yes, I am fully aware that I should count my damp-cardboard blessings because it could be snowing, instead. How’s the weather out there?
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Little Boots
where’s Doug?
I like picking on Doug.
suzanne
How’s the weather? Surprisingly chilly. 44 degrees outside right now. Frost on my lawn this morning.
I think I am starting to get sick. UGH.
Gin & Tonic
It’s pouring rain. But you know that.
The Fat Kate Middleton
Iowa weather: weird. Supposed to be a 14 degree low at our home in south central part of the state tomorrow night (meh), but minus 5 degrees (!) at our hobby farm in western Iowa, which really isn’t all that far away. Doesn’t look like those lows will reach here soon. Weather here has been strange all year. But, hey, we’re not Texas.
MikeJ
It is December and it hasn’t rained in Seattle since last week, and isn’t forecast to rain for days and days yet.
It’s making me breathe funny. Everything is wrong.
Omnes Omnibus
Where’s my snow?
Little Boots
you WANT snow?
stop it.
The Fat Kate Middleton
I feel like I have to explain that phrase ‘hobby farm.’ My father in law would never speak to me again if he’d heard me use that. He left it to four of his children in his will, as a safe place. He was convinced, for years, that the ‘big one’ would return, i.e., the Great Depression, and wanted one place we could all go to when that happened. It’s nothing special – just a beautiful little piece of land and an old, old farmhouse. We love it, and we used to laugh at his fears, and …. was he right or what?
General Stuck
Bye Bye Blago to the BigHouse. It’s a federal sentence, so he will have to serve at least 90 percent or so. He will be right at home swimming with the sharks, his native species.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: I noted in in a previous thread that I can’t get into Christmas without snow. I have shopping to do and I can’t do it until either the very last minute or snow.
ETA: Could I get released from moderation in the previous thread? FYWP!
The Fat Kate Middleton
@Little Boots: No shit.
General Stuck
@Omnes Omnibus:
I’ve got it, and will sell cheap.
Little Boots
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=izzKUoxL11E
did you say supremes?
blame Echidne, who should never have showed me how to post videos.
Omnes Omnibus
@General Stuck: Shipping costs?
Little Boots
@Little Boots:
oops, I’m crazy.
Rick Massimo
Pouring here too. Recycling nothing – I got 31 bags of leaves to put out (yes I waited this long shut up). I just decided to wait and get up at 530 am to do it. I don’t want the bags to disintegrate.
General Stuck
@Omnes Omnibus:
always
Little Boots
don’t yell, everyone.
the important thing is I gave the gift of Supremes.
Merry Christmas.
Mike in NC
Still in the 70s but a cold front hits tomorrow and temps will drop to the 30s/40s and stay there just in time for Xmas.
catdevotee
On the southern coast of Oregon,it’s highs in the low to mid 50’s and sunny – very unusual for Dec. The temps are fairly normal, but rainy season should be in full swing by now. We’ve had sun for over a week. No frost yet of course… we usually get one or two a year.
Omnes Omnibus
@General Stuck: Meh. I am in Wisconsin. It is like being a Stark. Winter is coming.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
wait. House Stark? are you being awesome?
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots:
Probably. I can’t help myself.
JGabriel
Anne Laurie:
I’m not speaking for everyone, but I know I’m speaking for a lot of us when I say we positively prefer snow to cold rain. Cold rain gets you all wet and chills you to the to the bone, especially if it’s windy.
Snow, you just sort of shake it off when you come in. It blankets everything and makes it all look white pretty, where rain makes it all look muddy.
So I’ll take snow over rain any day of the week. Of course, I don’t have to drive in it, and I sympathize for those who do.
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The Fat Kate Middleton
@Omnes Omnibus: Yup. Sixty miles from the WI border. We had a photo in our newspaper here today with a Houston TX resident dressed in triple layers of clothing ’cause the low reached 31 degrees. Pretty amusing.
RossInDetroit
Hmmph! I’ve been waiting for an OT so I could bitch about my day, which was epically terrible.
But the weather was actually pretty good. Clear, sunny and calm. Temps in the 40s. Not really bad for December in MI.
some guy
a brutal 43 degrees here right now. brrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr
PurpleGirl
It’s raining in NYC; supposed to rain heavily all night with a possible thunderstorm. TV weather talker said something about possible snow tomorrow but National Weather Service says breezy, in the high 40s and doesn’t mention snow. I go with the NWS.
Omnes Omnibus
@JGabriel: I prefer driving in snow to driving in near freezing rain. Also, running when it is snow beats the living hell out of running in cold rain.
General Stuck
WTF is ABC News breathlessly reporting drek coming out of Third Way?
There is no evidence of this I’ve seen in any of the polling done by major polling outfits, and if anything, dems have pulled even with wingers on party ID, after they fell behind some in 2010. And have even pulled back in front in some polls.
And all of the polling for dems in individual state races like the senate, have taken a sizable turn in dems favor lately, especially senate races in so called swing states, as well as deep red ones.
amk
@General Stuck: well, tom delay, admittedly corrupter than blago, got out and got to dance on teevee before stupid mass.
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
it’s true.
cg
NE MN. 18 degrees F. Snowing lightly but we need MUCH MORE snow please for the tourists who come up to play and spend their money. And for those of us who, blizzard bound, will be supremely happy with a good book and a wood stove.
Little Boots
omnes, Walker’s a goner?
tell me he’s gone, please.
Amanda in the South Bay
@catdevotee:
I was born in Coquille, my dad’s side of the family is all from Coos County.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@cg: @cg: @cg: Despite hating winter, I’m with you on the blizzard respites. They’re wonderful. All you can do is read, firesit (if you’re lucky enough to have a fire) and drink whatever alcoholic beverage you might have purchased before the storm. If you don’t have a fireplace or said beverage, curling up under a blanket and reading is just as nice.
The Fat Kate Middleton
wutthehell? I have no idea why you’re up there in my comment 3 times, cg – guess it means I really love you.
Little Boots
can I ask you goobs.
I am really starting to like Obama.
Am I fooling myself or has he finally woken up?
would love to know what you think.
Jerzy Russian
Frost warnings tonight near San Diego.
I like that cartoon, BTW.
JGabriel
@The Fat Kate Middleton:
Anyone familiar with period 1920-1935 could probably see that Reagan’s and the GOP’s governing philosophy would eventually lead us to another economic crash. The people I knew who were in their 60’s during the 1980’s thought that the Reagan tax cuts were ridiculous, would have preferred to keep paying the previous rates, and see the money go to people who needed it.
Now, obviously, there must have been a lot of older people who felt differently, since Reagan won that demographic. But there were people even then who could tell that the GOP wasn’t leading us anywhere good.
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amk
That stoopid gay bashing perry ad on ‘obama’s war’ on jeezuz, is running at 1:40 like/dislike. It was 1:25 just a few hours back.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=0PAJNntoRgA
A fucking asshole gets kicked in his nutz.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: Can’t answer that kind of question. Remember?
Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
You’re a lawyer.
why don’t you know, definitively.
okay, fine.
Little Boots
@amk:
does everyone know that Rick Perry is gay? does everyone get this?
Shinobi
@amk: I am SO hoping it gets over 100k dislikes in 24 hours, that would make my year.
But then again, the internet has a well known liberal bias.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@Little Boots: I can’t read enough about Scooter and his chances of disappearing from the political scene. One of my favorite places for keeping up with all of this is the unfortunately (to some) named FB page “Scott Walker is a Douchebag.” Of course, now with what I’ve been reading about FB lately, I’m thinking I’m going to have to sign out.
Omnes Omnibus
@Little Boots: I can’t answer things like that because of where I work. Yes?
Redshift
@General Stuck:
Their site says it:
Yeah, breathless rhetoric like that gives me confidence that they knew what they were doing, and didn’t just interpret things to support their narrative.
JGabriel
@Rick Massimo:
Well a person can work up a mean mean thirst
after a hard day of nothin’ much at all
Summer’s passed, it’s too late to cut the grass
There ain’t much to rake anyway in the fall
[…]
First the lights, then the collar goes up, and the wind begins to blow
Turn your back on a pay-you-back, last call
First the blast, then the leaves at last, here comes the snow
Ain’t much to rake anyway in the fall
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Little Boots
@Omnes Omnibus:
Oh I know. I juat gotta ask. but I gotta stop.
Cat Lady
@General Stuck:
It looks likely Mass. will fix its Brown problem and return to its natural deep blue self. Warren’s ads are delightful.
KS in MA
@The Fat Kate Middleton: Former Iowa Citian here. Go Hawks! Raining, 40s, here in western MA. We may get snow by morning, but it probably won’t stick (sorry, Omnes).
Tom Q
@General Stuck: Treat anything from Third Way as you would a study from Doug Schoen & Joe Lieberman. They’re all committed to the DLC premise: Democrats must ALWAYS move to the right, or they’re doomed.
Hill Dweller
Scott Brown is down 7 to Elizabeth Warren in the new UMass-Lowell/Princeton Survey Research poll.
Also, too, Jon Stewart was a d-bag on tonight’s show.
RossInDetroit
I dread the first real snow. Not because I hate snow, but because I serviced eleven plow tractors and 22 snow blowers last month and I just know a few of them are not going to start. No matter how many times you tell people “start it up and test it so you’ll know how it works before the snow comes” a few people will not do it. Then it will be my problem because snow needs to get moved so school can open.
When it starts coming down for real I may fake a broken leg just to spite them.
Little Boots
@Hill Dweller:
she’s gonna win, and that is pretty awesome.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@JGabriel: My father-in-law was born in 1911, an old time populist from the great era of the prairie populists, who read Nation magazine up to the day he died, literally. His son-in-law just told his wife he didn’t want to visit London UK because there were “too many liberals and Muslims.” RIP Ray. Thank you for our beautiful home, and your legacy of what’s left of progressivism that you worked as hard as anyone to build.
Omnes Omnibus
@JGabriel: Love that song. Simply love it.
Punchy
Its supposed to snow less than 0.5 inch 2morrow. But here in eastern KS, that’ll close at least a half-dozen schools. I wish I was joking.
Sorriest bunch of Nancy boys you’ll ever see.
Kane
Sunny and clear skies with pleasant winds at 10 to 20 mph. High: 81° Low: 71°
Currently the temp is 78°, but feels like a chilly 76°.
Triumph the insult comic dog does the Hawaii weather forecast:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3-TfZslHKoo
General Stuck
@Redshift:
are you saying you think it’s accurate what they are claiming?
The Fat Kate Middleton
@KS in MA: Hawks are kinda sucking right now, but thanks to money hunger, are in a bowl game somewhere. BTW – have dear relatives in MA – Beverly, to be exact. Wish I could be there with them.
amk
@Hill Dweller: Finally, MA’ians are getting back their senses ?
js being a d bag is par for at least in one day per week.
boss bitch
@Hill Dweller:
went after Obama?
The Fat Kate Middleton
@RossInDetroit: Oh yeah. This is what my husband does as a sort of part-time hobbyist thing in our neighborhood. And he could had written would you have here if he read this blog. I hear this a lot.
Punchy
Lets not discuss my Hawks bowl win chances, for fear I may fly into a rage. All the fucking bowls and we get Oklahoma? Could there be a more lopsided matchup?
/peruses vegas odds…nope
boss bitch
@Little Boots:
Nah. Like Spike Dolomite you are finally catching up.
JGabriel
The Fat Kate Middleton:
I figured as much. That’s how he knew what was coming. He’d already lived through it once before.
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Redshift
@General Stuck: No, I’m saying I think they found some stats that looked like what they wanted to see, probably by missing something or interpreting them incorrectly.
General Stuck
@Redshift:
sorry then, I misinterpreted your comment:)
General Stuck
@Cat Lady:
that is good news for sure. Go Elizabeth!!
The Fat Kate Middleton
@Kane: Your mother didn’t teach you winter weather social talk manners, did she?
The Fat Kate Middleton
@Punchy: I was successfully forgetting that, thank you. This whole bowl game thing is so stupid. What’s wrong with playoffs? Oh, wait … wait… a full year of football. Hmmm…Let me go back into my thinking workshop (which isn’t very well equipped).
Steeplejack
Rained all day here in NoVa, and it has taken a turn for the colder in the late evening. It’s 38° now, going down to 32° overnight with continued rain. But sunny and 45° tomorrow. Not bad for December.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@JGabriel: I’m getting all teary here. He had seven kids (all great people, really), but my husband is the only one who carried on his legacy. We simply can’t talk politics, ever, to the siblings. I’m constantly raising my voice when the the family rightwhiners start in, saying, “Stop! Stop! Remember that we love one another!”
JGabriel
Omnes Omnibus: Well, if you’re a ‘Mats fan, then you owe it to yourself to check out these professional quality videos from the ‘Mats playing a club show in 1981.
Some pretty awesome shit in there.
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Hill Dweller
@boss bitch: Stewart rightly went after congress for trying to enshrine indefinite detention in the defense appropriations bill. But then he started hammering Obama for not using the right rationale when threatening to veto the bill.
A veto is the outcome we all want. If it doesn’t happen, Obama will deserve all the criticism he gets, but why preemptively do it now?
It reeked of the ‘centrism’ found in the beltway press he usually ridicules.
MikeJ
@JGabriel: Isn’t there somebody who comments here who played in the same showcase (with another band of course.) Who was that?
Sammy
HYPOCRISY at it’s best:
Monday, December 22, 2003
Office of Gov Rick Perry [Photo]
The First Family Wishes You Happy Holidays:
http://bit.ly/t1exaj
Wait, what? Where is the Merry Christmas?
Perry took the Christ out of Christmas.
This is too funny not to pass around.
cg
@ The Fat Kate Middleton, preferred beverage: Bell’s Two Hearted Ale, or Sierra Nevada’s Torpedo, or anything from Deschutes (Bend, OR) or Surly’s (Mpls).
amk
Rethugs assure war with Iran as a way of standing with Israel.
Villago Delenda Est
@catdevotee:
Inland, at the south end of the Willamette Valley, we’re socked in. Cold (ice on the birdbath today) and grey.
JGabriel
@MikeJ:
I think it’s GBear.
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Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
Snowing. And I have a work road trip tomorrow from South PA to Delaware and then the part of NY east of Binghampton that’s been getting snow all day. Maybe I’ll be lucky and they’ll cancel the meeting. Probably after I spend 5 hours getting there.
\Eeyore
JCJ
@Omnes Omnibus:
I agree! Here in the Kingdom of Wingnut (aka Brookfield) there is a painful lack of snow with none in the forecast! It is December, dammit! Snow already!
Scamp Dog
@Little Boots: I think it’s always been there, you’re just noticing. He doesn’t fight the way I want him to, but he’s actually gotten some good stuff done. Now if we could just get him backed by more than 60 senators (ideally enough more that we could tell the blue dogs to take a hike), we’d be in good shape.
The prophet Nostradumbass
clear, 37º Fahrenheit, at 9:45 PM. Our local news programs all predicted the overnight low would be 40.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@The Fat Kate Middleton: Many years ago, right after we were married, as the snow kept falling, my wife and I discovered we were out of bourbon. No sours for us! Oh noes!!
We walked a mile through the blowing snow to the local liquor store to take care of that problem, and our little mutt had the time of her life chasing around in it.
BSoSR +4 watching the cold rain and snow
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@Little Boots: Obama? I think he’s the smartest, and better yet, most savvy President I can remember. He’s been dealt shitty hands and he’s been playing the best he can.
To continue the card game metaphor, maybe instead of “waking up” he’s finally watched long enough to learn who’s bluffing and sandbagging and he’s starting to play the other players.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
@RossInDetroit:
And that’s why I’m still shoveling. I owned too many British cars, I have a lawnmower that won’t start in 80 degree weather, why the hell do I want to deal with a cranky engine in the middle of winter?
Viva BrisVegas
Yesterday was our coldest December day in 123 years, 19 degrees.
Centigrade of course.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@cg: That sounds so fkng wonderful. I haven’t been able to drink beer for ten years now, after a, um … lifetime … of it. After all that time, it now makes me violently ill, never mind that I still love it Can’t figure it out. It’s white wine only now.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason: Lovely, lovely. Almost (ALMOST!) makes me wish for snow … and maybe a dog? Husband says no, no, no. But I’m working on it.
Redshift
@Hill Dweller:
And an equally major sin, he treated statements by Rand Paul as if they were true. That’t the thing that keeps pissing me off. The occasional mocking of Dems that I think is misguided is part of the territory. But taking some wingnut line and riffing off it assuming it’s true, when you know they’re lying or delusional almost all the time, that’s just satire malpractice.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@Viva BrisVegas: Holy shit and even Jesus Christ riding a feral hog – where the hella are you living?
Yutsano
@The Fat Kate Middleton: Other side of the equator. And planet.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@The Fat Kate Middleton: Oh wait. Vegas, right. Nevermind. Duh. OK. Going to bed. Don’t tell my friends, ok, please?
Jebediah
@JGabriel:
All by itself that line earns him genius status in my book. It is so beautiful. OF course the rest of the song is pretty damn great, too.
Jebediah
@Little Boots:
I am going with waking up to the value of poking a stick in the eye of the GOP.
Jebediah
And I have a “Stand with Scott Walker” ad.
Think I’m gonna pass on standing with that douche.
boss bitch
Grrrrr…He’s done this one too many times with other liars.
Mnemosyne
@The Fat Kate Middleton:
His name faked you out — he’s actually in Australia.
ETA: It gets cold in Las Vegas during the winter — 50s during the day, 30s or lower at night. The desert is not fun in the winter.
No one of importance
@The Fat Kate Middleton:
“where the hella are you living?”
BrisVegas == Brisbane, Qld, Australia
Tomorrow’s gonna be 27 degrees centigrade and even though I don’t like the heat, being cold in summer is not on.
MJ
@Shinobi: Your internet wish has been granted. It is now 3:07 AM and Pretty Ricky’s stupid Ad now has 2887 likes & 120370 dislikes.
Yutsano
@Mnemosyne: 19C would be quite pleasant in winter. Get around 5 and things get a touch nippy.
Montarvillois
Light snow. I’m dreaming of a green Christmas.
Chuck Butcher
It has barely made 40f for the last 2 weeks here and if we’ve been lucky stays above teens for lows. At night the cold air pours down off the mountains and we ain’t low down here in the valley.
smelter rat
Clear and cold in Manitoba (-15c this am). Very little snow.
Munira
Here in southern Quebec, we got some snow last night – everything looks pretty this morning and more like December, but I’m afraid it isn’t going to last. As for Obama, he has a way of letting his opponents get way out on the limb before he starts cutting it off. I have no idea how intentional all of this is, but the Repubs are in a corner now, thanks to their own idiocy, and Obama’s playing it for all it’s worth. If he hadn’t been so reasonable and accommodating for so long, it wouldn’t work as well.
Ronzoni Rigatoni
A little cool down here in south central FL (40’s and 50’s at night) but daytimes approach the 80’s. Humidity is thankfully gone. We’re just off the former Gulf of Mexico (now known as BP’s Ultimate Sludge Pond). About the only ice we can find is still in the refrigerator (and sometimes even, inna glassa bourbon).
I once hung a snow shovel over the fireplace so the neighbors could ask “Wuzzat?” Haven’t seen snow fall outa the sky in over 40 years. Think I’ll keep it that way.
espatoz
@No one of importance:
Brisvegas….love it. Going to be there in a week’s time and never heard a more accurate city nickname in my life.
Queenslanders…madder than cut snakes.