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Dear Washington Post, you are the darkness now.
Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.
“A king is only a king if we bow down.” – Rev. William Barber
Republicans: The threats are dire, but my tickets are non-refundable!
When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.
We still have time to mess this up!
You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.
This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.
The fight for our country is always worth it. ~Kamala Harris
Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.
Their boy Ron is an empty plastic cup that will never know pudding.
Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity
People really shouldn’t expect the government to help after they watched the GOP drown it in a bathtub.
Pessimism assures that nothing of any importance will change.
How stupid are these people?
“Can i answer the question? No you can not!”
They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.
There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.
Our messy unity will be our strength.
Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.
I really should read my own blog.
We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.
Keep the Immigrants and deport the fascists!
Trump should be leading, not lying.
ding dong
Working.
Keith
Eating a BLT (and topically, using an heirloom tomato) and watching a bird squawking and getting perilously close to one of my cats, who just wants to loung on the patio.
ruemara
cleaning house, prepping for some shooting and then putting my pretty polite face on for the OFA. Selling beer, MichO T-shirts and talking pollytics. what could go wrong?
Xecky Gilchrist
I’m being dumb and planning to make a pizza (using the long-preheated stone) on a really hot day.
Yutsano
Classic Doctor Who on YouTube. I may or may not go to Uwajimaya later.
J. Michael Neal
Sitting at a Chili’s trying to write. I’ve got an idea for a story but I’m struggling to get it started.
Last night I finished reading Lord of Emperors, the second of two books in Guy Gavriel Kay’s series The Sarantine Mosaic. (The first is Sailing to Sarantium.) It was very, very good. My favorite Kay book is inevitably the one I just finished reading, and this was no exception. However, in terms of its impact, I think that these two rank right up there with Tigana as the most powerful pieces I’ve read by him.
Goddamn, I want to be able to write like he does.
Mr Stagger Lee
I wonder if the idiots at SpikeTV will ever show the sequel to Tom Hanks WWII Epic The Band Of Brothers, The Pacific soon? Anyway I have finished my Breaking Bad episodes, and now am caught up to speed! How Walter White got Gus Fring, EPIC!!
jacy
Writing, in between failing to get the kids to clean up and trying to pry the dog off my feet and washing 47 loads of laundry. And listening to Pandora — if you make a channel combining Ella Fitzgerald, Raul Malo, and surf music, you come up with a really funky playlist.
MikeBoyScout
Beautiful day in the pacnorwest; 68 going to 70 today under sunny skies with big puffy cumulus clouds and a gentle breeze.
Hanging between the abode and the park on the lake across the street. The bands start at 1:30.
Grilled salmon, steaks, corn-on-the-cob, potato salad, mixed greens, and buckets of Ranier cherries. Also too, lots of delicious micro brews.
Happy 4th everyone!
delosgatos
Just finished mixing the crust for Tamara’s blueberry pie recipe (although I use a 4-2-1 ratio for the crust) and it’s chilling in the fridge along with the filling. About to start making 12-pepper chili. (Note: use stew beef, not ground beef, in all chilis that use beef.) Think I’ll try throwing a little mole in it this time.
Block party starts at 4, I’m one of three people bringing chili, so it’s a cook-off. :)
Linda Featheringill
Watching bootleg BBC shows on the computer and generally hanging out with the animals, who are just snoozing and shedding. I probably should be vacuuming the corners and under the furniture to remove all that hair. But . . .
And what are you complaining about? It looks like you won’t even reach 100 in the OKC area today. [shut up, linda]
AkaDad
I’m reading a blog post about a guy who’s watching Buffy the Vampire Slayer episodes.
Valdivia
cleaning, cooking, reading.
later fireworks in the Mall from our balcony.
Dcrefugee
Working. Have a pan of brownies in the oven and chicken boobs defrosting. Expecting a friend this evening for dinner, swimming, hot tub and partying.
Life’s a beach…
DCr
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
Balancing the checkbook. After which I think I’ll take a nap to recover from the exertion.
bago
@Yutsano: The weather has been pretty nice out here recently. If a wave of rain approaches, you can just hop into an establishment with wifi, use your mobile computer or cell phone (but I repeat myself), check the radar and determine how many drinks to order.
gelfling545
Getting ready to watch Cadfael on netflix and then fininsh reading The Minority Council – latest Matthew Swift story. Snarla D needs to cool off & won’t stay in the ac area without me so we’ll relax together.
rachel
Babylon 5
trollhattan
Putting off mowing the lawn, which will be even more miserable the longer I wait and the hotter it gets.
My reward: post-mowing shower avec the day’s first beer.
Mmmm, beer.
/Homer
Also, too, watching today’s recorded TDF stage, so no spoiler alerts.
abo gato
The NYT had a recipe for the most popular Uruguayan sandwich, a chivito, today. Since I am an America hating liberal, that’s what I decided to make for our July 4th food. Went to the store to get some things and decided to make my own Portuguese rolls for the sandwich. Got a nice recipe from King Arthur flour and it is rising right now.
Will be making some chimichurri sauce in a little while for the sandwich. They sound great: a thin grilled piece of steak, topped with cooked bacon, tomato, lettuce, mayo, a slice of hard boiled egg, roasted red peppers, grilled onions and a dollop of chimichurri sauce, all on a Portuguese roll.
Thinking about a dessert. Maybe a fruit thing. Or there is still some chocolate gelato that I made last weekend left over. May as well get that used up.
Jebediah
sitting at starbucks with the pups. They have collected their tribute of attention and skritches from all the doglovers here so now I can have my coffee. They have one fan so ardent that she always gives them some egg and bacon from her breakfast sandwich. Spoiled pups!
then back home to figure out a few simple things in DVD Studio Pro and my project for a friend will be ready to deliver and i can collect my payment. ($0.00, plus the friend discount…)
Butch
Working, so I can take Friday off instead and make it a long weekend. Even this far north, it’s well up into the 90s today with lots o’ humidities to go with.
Raven
Mowed at 8am. Finished my fabulous rebuild of an old hand plow for my boss. Got invited to a little cookout @5. Got great info about Maui from NOTMAX! Boom shaka laka boom. I’m with the Soonergrunt on the fireworks, we’re fairly close to the local shoot but I stay away from the crowd. I watched this one from the river bank in 86:
Fire Chief’s Death Leaves Edgewater Stunned
July 6, 1986|By Jay Hamburg of The Sentinel Staff
EDGEWATER — The fireworks explosion that killed Volunteer Fire Chief George Kennedy knocked a dozen men 15 feet through the air and blew out flames from railroad flares used to light the shells.
It also snuffed out the happy, patriotic mood that Kennedy — who headed the July 4 displays for more than 10 years — had tried to kindle in the 15,000 who watched from the Indian River shoreline while he and his men lit up the sky Friday night from a tiny dot of land known as Firecracker Island in Volusia County.”
Cap'n Magic
A must-see: Max Keiser goes off on LIBORgate (Starts at 12:00)
TooManyJens
Bracing myself to go out in the heat and watch the parade with my daughter. I’d cheerfully skip it, but she’s 5 and she really wants to go, so there we are.
bago
Also, if they have the high end kaki no tone with the pale base color and the peppers glommed onto the surface, not the cheap orange stuff… NOM! I wiped out the inventory of those at the Redmond Uwajimaya multiple times.
Nothing like coding with crackers.
Hunter Gathers
Mittens says individual mandate is a tax, admits that his testicles are a fully owned subsidiary of Americans For Prosperity.
BigSouthern
Just got back from “The Amazing Spider-Man” and it totally was! Definitely better than Raimi’s Spider-Man. Marc Webb knows when to go big and when to go small, Andrew Garfield > Tobey Maguire and Emma Stone > Kirsten Dunst, and the writers actually let Spider-Man be funny. All around just a very strong movie.
General Stuck
Admiring the artistic precision of my own navel. Tying to decide if its a prelude to a tax. or whatever people tell me it is.
Maude
@Raven:
A couple of years ago, the local fireworks started and a few minutes later they stopped. There was a problem and they decided to shut it down.
Raven
@Maude: Yea, this was immediate, one ground explosion and that was it.
Maude
@Raven:
OMG.
Raven
@Maude: The friend I was with was also a vet and we just looked at each other and shook our heads, we knew the score with that kind of explosion. It was amazing that only one person died.
Raven
Wow, I never knew this!
SiubhanDuinne
@delosgatos:
Sentences like this always startle me.
Jebediah
and also watching the recorded TDF stage.
i want to see Georgie in yellow but I dont think IWill get my wish.
WereBear
They shoot off the fireworks just around the corner from our place, and in summer we can sit on the lawn and enjoy. Unlike Winter Carnival.
With great relief I have completed a manual installation of WordPress on my site, in prep for a changeover from iWeb. Not completed yet, but that is part of my setting it up, first. Glad my geek cred is not yet obsolete; I have always done it automatically before.
I do not think WP sucks, obviously.
We had our cookout/firepit thing at a friend’s on Saturday, so this is laid back and I’m trying to catch up with writing. A happily endless task…
May all ya’ll be Independent today!
SiubhanDuinne
@gelfling545:
Love Cadfael. I own them all on DVD but it’s been years since I treated myself to a good Benedictine marathon. You inspire me.
lamh35
Not a dam thing. My house looks like a dump and I’m just to lazy to do anything about it.
And I’m bored as hell. So it’s just the usual way u spend the holidays when I’m not home with my fam
danielx
2:24 pm, it’s 102 degrees outside and I just finished cutting down the woody stuff that had grown in a landscaping plot. Then I turned water on the plot to try to keep the hemlock trees alive and stood in the water spray for a few seconds….wonderful. I’m thinking a Bad Elmer’s Porter (Upland Brewing Co., Bloomington IN) is indicated.
Chicken nachos for dinner this evening, with key lime pie for dessert. The clamor for guacamole has already started, but they can all just wait.
SiubhanDuinne
I’m sitting in a nice air-conditioned Starbucks drinking a delicious iced coffee with a couple of extra espresso shots. Mmmm caffeine.
If it doesn’t rain tonight (which I actually hope it does), I’ll wander outside to the lakeside at my apartment complex and watch municipal fireworks. They usually do a good display, and even though the staging area is a couple of miles from where I live, there’s an excellent sight-line. Far enough away not to be ear-splitting, close enough to be able to say “Ooh aah” and mean it.
Anna Granfors
Speaking as a proud Buffy fanatic, remember to be really drunk around the time she starts working at Doublemeat Palace. And every episode that Dawn pulls a “Get out! Get OUT! GET OUUUUUUUUUT” (or the equivalent), have two shots.
Just did my Buffy/Angelthon 2012, and feel a Doctor Who (nuWho, 2005 up) binge coming soon.
Phylllis
Watching John Adams and enjoying a tall Tervis tumbler full of rum & pineapple juice. The first of many.
schrodinger's cat
Had lunch with hubcat (husband cat), had Turkish potato salad, tabouli, chicken samosas. Mojitos to drink. Very international.
Then I am going to potter around in the back yard planting some herbs and staking my tomato plants. Watching fireworks from my backyard and for dessert tonight strawberry shortcake and homemade strawberry ice-cream. May go for a run later this afternoon.
SFAW
Not necessarily good to mix ’em that way.
JPL
@SiubhanDuinne: Neighbors on the corner of the street where I live have a bbq and folks watch the fireworks in their backyard. This year I’m going to pass because it’s just to darn hot. Even with all my trees, I get to see a patchwork of color in my own yard. Roswell has fireworks at the high school which is pretty darn close to my house as the crow flies.
pragmatism
Heading to capistrano beach to spend some time with some good friends at their beach house and BBQ. When the kids fall asleep I’m planning on drinking my face off and inevitably make our hostess cry with my libtard stylings.
Omnes Omnibus
Bought a bike today. Cannondale Quick 5. Went for a nine mile ride in 101 degree heat. I finished about 8 miles and walked the bike home. I think I shall be less ambitious about my riding plans until the heat breaks.
Martin
@Raven: Our association puts on a big show. We had some friends who lived right next to where they set them off that would have a huge BBQ. 10 yrs ago or so we were laying ther watching them ( they’re directly over your head) and these guys in fire suits come hauling ass toward us screaming ‘don’t look up!’ one of the racks had fallen over just as it started to fire and it was pointed toward us. I threw the blanket over the wife and kids and laid on top of them. The mortars were going off direct over us I don’t know how high but it was deafening, with burning bits and chunks of the casing landing on us. A good 100 mortars went off this way. Nobody got badly hurt but the place looked like a war zone. It was very exciting.
Getting ready to fire up the smoker. Eating late because one guest is working today. Sick people don’t stop being sick on holidays. Working on trimming out the new doors still. Will continue a good week longer what with all of he painting needed.
mapaghimagsik
Getting pissed. Hacking $martmeters. Tormenting nieces and nephews.
Phylllis
@SFAW: Heh. Had a couple of Sam Adams summer brew with lunch.
Spatula
I just made a fresh strawberry ice box pie, from scratch, per the instructions in Martha Stewart’s pie and tart cookbook.
It sits chillin’ and thrillin’ in the frig while I putter.
She is a fierce bitch, and her cookbooks rock.
And yes, she was fucking set up. Only in America does Martha Stewart go to jail, and Jamie Dimon goes wherever the fuck he wants to go.
Johannes
@Yutsano: Dailymotion is your friend. Just finished the Romana 1 Era; Lalla Ward is upon us, now.
Raven
@Martin: It’s a jungle out there!
Phylllis
@Spatula: I did the Southern Living recipe over the weekend with a pretzel crust. I think we liked the crust better than the pie filling.
bg
making key lime pie and appreciating what I’ve got
thank you, to my dad, John, Soonergrunt and all the vets
thank you to everyone working on the campaigns
and a big thanks to all the lawyers who are doing their best to make sure we all get to vote
trollhattan
@Omnes Omnibus:
Made me look. Nice city bike, enjoy! (Especially once things cool off.)
Am mulling a new commuter bike at some point in lieu of my repurposed mountain bike. Intrigued by the Gates belt drive system. Not that I need one, but am beginning to get the itch anyway (will hit 90 bike commute days for 2012 later this week).
Lawn still unmowed; about 40 miles to go in Stage 4.
S. cerevisiae
Wow, I decide to move back to Minnesota and the Wild land both Parise and Suter! Added to the young talent coming up next year it’s a great day to be a Wild fan.
Can’t wait for hockey season!
trollhattan
@S. cerevisiae:
Was appreciative of sentence #2, because #1 might as well have been Sanskrit.
Cap'n Magic
A rare event: a Bank saves a cat from being euthanized and finds a new home.
ruemara
@gelfling545: The Minority Council was strangely poignant and enthralling. Still hate Penny with a passion.
gelfling545
@Spatula: Well she’s an uppity female, you know. Can’t let that go unpunished.
gelfling545
@ruemara: Well, she’s become a bit, pert, I guess is the word.
Rosalita
@Raven: I remember that. I was living in Daytona Beach at the time.
As for today, did some house organizing, watching a NCIS marathon and I’m going to work at the animal shelter a little later–Independence Day with my kitteh peeps.
S. cerevisiae
@trollhattan: Yeah, I figured I had better add a little explanation for the non-hockey world. They were the two top free agents available and the MN Wild landed them both. With the young talent coming up this should make them a serious contender for the Stanley Cup.
Lojasmo
Walked the dog early, before it got above 80. Ran early before it hit 85, then ate breakfast (lunch) then took a nap. Contemplating a surly furious before going to some friends’ house for dinner. No fireworks…never have enjoyed them much.
PurpleGirl
Went out a few hours ago to escape the vibrations and am home again (with the damned condition continuing). 1776 is starting and I’ll have desert while watching.
schrodinger's cat
Good drinks for summer
1. Indian style limeade, use key limes instead of lemons and add a dash of rock salt you get in Indian Grocery stores (not sure if it is from the Himalayas) can be spiked with gin or vodka if you want.
2. Watermelon juice, cut up watermelon in bite size chunks add
a dash of salt and some sugar, the night before. you will have water melon juice, the next day, add some lemon or lime just before serving. Is good with vodka.
3. Mojitos.
RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
Playin’ rekkids and procrastinating. I should be writing.
My wife is gutting and debugging her computer because it’s dead and she needs Unigraphics to run for some paying design work.
The dog is having a noisy snooze over here on the cool marble floor while outdoors the world bakes in its own fumes.
All’s right with the world.
SFAW
@Phylllis: Outstanding!
Now, go fo(u)rth and sin no more.
delosgatos
@SiubhanDuinne:
I’m either too lazy to find the character code for an accented e, or energetic enough to catch enough small burrowing rodents to feed a block party. :)
Lojasmo
@delosgatos: molèêéëēėę
Fun bit of ios, just hold the key down, and all the available permutations pop up. The rub is knowing which one to pick. ;)
Rook
NCIS on USA Network. Marathon! I thought about the Firefly marathon on Science Network, but I have the DVD.
Gretchen
105 degrees here in Kansas City. Enjoyed a Copperhead Ale from Free State Brewery in Lawrence.
RossinDetroit, Rational Subjectivist
@RossInDetroit, Rational Subjectivist:
Boy, was I wrong. Big hail storm knocked out the power about an hour later. It’s still out and no idea when it will be back on. We got hammered by storms and there’s more on the way.