The weather has been really blah. Working in the Garage, cleaning it up, mainly because I ran out of excuses.
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Come for the politics, stay for the snark.
To the privileged, equality seems like oppression.
A fool as well as an oath-breaker.
It’s the corruption, stupid.
Oh FFS you might as well trust a 6-year-old with a flamethrower.
They don’t have outfits that big. nor codpieces that small.
So many bastards, so little time.
Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.
When someone says they “love freedom”, rest assured they don’t mean yours.
Oppose, oppose, oppose. do not congratulate. this is not business as usual.
Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.
Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.
75% of people clapping liked the show!
It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!
This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.
Be a wild strawberry.
Quote tweet friends, screenshot enemies.
The National Guard is not Batman.
SCOTUS: It’s not “bribery” unless it comes from the Bribery region of France. Otherwise, it’s merely “sparkling malfeasance”.
They spent the last eight months firing professionals and replacing them with ideologues.
When tyranny becomes law, rebellion becomes duty. ~Thomas Jefferson
They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.
This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.
“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”
The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.
Ruckus
I store up excuses for the future just in case. You never know when having one right at your finger tips is useful.
I am a procrastinator. I will seek 12 step help for this problem. Tomorrow.
And yes I plan to be late to my own funeral.
max
Yeah, I’m sick. Annoying.
Working in the Garage, cleaning it up, mainly because I ran out of excuses.
Plants trudged in. Sunset is at 5ish. Tomorrow, plants get trudged out again. Yay.
max
[‘Beautiful afternoon, shitty weather.’]
Sly
Quitter.
Steeplejack
Been sitting around being nonproductive and sort of watching football in the background. Going over to the bro’ man’s house in an hour to have dinner and debrief him after his recent visit to the crazy side of the family (aged Fox-watching mother and gun-toting Teabagger other brother). Alcohol will be involved.
If you get Hallmark Movie Channel, they’re running five of the Tom Selleck Jesse Stone movies today. Pretty well done: good production values, plausible scripts, amiable, low-key acting. The cycle starts again at 7:00 p.m. EST.
Steeplejack
@Sly:
I flunked out of the Promise Keepers and really found my comfort level in the Excuse Makers. It’s a fast-growing group, but all under the radar, because we’re not so great at promoting ourselves. But we’ll get around to that real soon now.
Steeplejack
Just realized that sunset is at 5:06 today. No wonder everything looks so dark.
PurpleGirl
Had a lazy day today: initially woke (from insomnia) at 0300, was up for 2 hours and went back to bed. Slept for 2 hours, woke up and took my morning medications and then went back to bed for 3 or 4 hours. The TV cable box had the right time as did the computer (thank you Time Warner and Microsoft). I spent a little time fixing a few clocks but haven’t gotten them all yet. Spent time either reading BJ or watching kitten cams. Also did some house cleaning chores. Still a couple I could do this evening.
The morning was cool, then it got sunny and my living got warmish. Now that the sun is down, it’s getting cool
Phylllis
Watching Father Brown PBS and making potato soup. Finished One Summer America, 1927 today. Fun book with lots of new info regarding well-known people and events.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
Kid is taking his lady friend to the pumpkin patch (?) then out to dinner. Wife and I are on our own. Thinking about breakfast, but not really hungry.
Since open thread: Our front load washer (maytag/whirlpool) has been acting up and not draining properly. I found a video on youtube and emptied the pre-motor strainer of about two pounds of lint, a chopped up costco card, and seventeen dollars in change.
lamh36
Wahoo! Today was the last day of work before my vaykay. Im off 7 WHOLE DAYS!!!
First half of the 7days, 3 days of no work (with my 37th bday on on Tues). The second haf of the 7 days I will be in DFW finally visiting my peeps.
Looking forward to next 7 days!
Right this minute though, here I sit, with a cold, watching this movie Just Wright with Queen Latifah and Common…and what scene just happens to be on…the scene where Common is taking care of Queen Latifah while she’s sick and feeding her soup and tea. Damnit! I want Common to feed me soup and tea!!!
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36:
Have you considered becoming a major music and actor star? I am sure it would help.
Corner Stone
@Steeplejack:
I’ve been meaning to join EM but each time I try the website has crashed. And I didn’t have a stamp so I couldn’t mail in the form using snail mail. So, as soon as I get a new battery for my car I’ll be happy to drive in and sign up in person.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: I was thinking that I also would enjoy having Common feed me some soup and tea. But becoming a famous recording star or actor sounds like a lot of work to get some damn soup.
PsiFighter37
It was a gorgeous (if slightly cool) day for the marathon here in NYC. Figure I may have enough mental strength to go and do it in a couple years, but I am beyond impressed of those who can go and run 26 miles. My buddy came down with brutal cramps twice in the second half but still finished.
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: damnit, I can’t act to save my life. I have a little bit of a poker face, but other than that…I can’t act worth shhh.
And please don’t get me started on my tin ear when it comes to music. I had a recorder once in pre-k and I was horrible. I did play a bell in the “bell choir” at my church in elementary, but hell ringing a bell ain’t much.
LOL. I know my limitations.
Le sigh, but a girl can dream
lamh36
ok, I have a comment in moderation, but I don’t know why???
I can’t act to save my life. I have a little bit of a pok er face, but other than that…I can’t act worth shhh.
And please don’t get me started on my tin ear when it comes to music. I had a recorder once in pre-k and I was horrible. I did play a bell in the “bell choir” at my church in elementary, but ringing a bell ain’t much.
LOL. I know my limitations.
Le sigh, but a girl can dream
Cassidy
One of the members of Pussy Riot seems to have disappeared in the liberal paradise we know as Russia. But Snowden, Greenwald, and NSA.
Jamey
Just finished The King of Sports, By Gregg Easterbrook. I now feel about football the way I felt about meat after reading Fast Food Nation. D’oh!
debbie
@Cassidy:
What was with him asking for clemency? Could it have been at all a serious question on his part?
Suzanne
@GHayduke (formerly lojasmo): Ours just did that for the second time last week. Also a Maytag/Whirlpool. Both times, the culprits have been baby socks. It is strangely comforting to know that we AREN’T crazy—the washer really does eat socks.
Good thing it is easily repairable, though, because between the dishwasher, refrigerator, plumbing mishaps, and now the FUBAR transmission, it has been an expensive couple of months. Le sigh. I suppose one can always make more money.
I did seven loads of laundry and three loads of dishes this weekend, plus shopping. This morning, Mr. Suzanne and I went in to wake up the baby, and she was already awake and had had a nightmare about a T-Rex. She was crying while telling is about it, and she looked up at us with those big, beautiful eyes and said, “HE EATED ME!”. Yesterday, Spawn the Elder absolutely kicked ass at her annual piano recital. Now going to make Beyond Meat Tikka Masala. Yummo.
GHayduke (formerly lojasmo)
@Suzanne:
Your post on BoF was what prompted me to search for the videos that helped me out. Check out my pic there. It’s pretty gnarly.
Cheers.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Rand Paul is looking for a second:
Buzzfeed found three more instances of plagiarism in a “book” Rand Paul “wrote”. I’ve never thought he stood a real chance at winning the nomination, much less the presidency, but I thought, and frankly hoped, he would be a Santorum-like spoiler. He may make himself so silly he won’t even be able to do that.
Suzanne
@GHayduke (formerly lojasmo): Oh awesome, I’m glad my random whining into the ether inspired you to action. LMAO.
Dude. That picture is NUTS. Gotta go get a new Costco card!
gogol's wife
@Phylllis:
We’re ridiculously hooked on Father Brown, even though it’s incredibly stupid. The dense police inspector is just so dense — he never gets anything right. Couldn’t they let him have a small insight every once in a while? Nevertheless, I love it. Sorcha Cusack cracks me up.
gogol's wife
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Oh please, let Rand Paul fight a duel with Rachel Maddow. On live television. With Rush Limbaugh and Joe Biden as seconds.
rikyrah
I do believe that I’ve been calling this.
Told you that working class White folks would blame the Black man in the White House..
Bet you if you ask a non-White working class person living in Georgia, they’d know who ACTUALLY was screwing them out of healthcare.
Keep on clinging to that Whiteness, Donald.
Keep on clinging.
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At the source of the shutdown, the economy falters — and anger at Barack Obama runs high
By Jim Tankersley, Published: October 28
The next morning, one uninsured produce worker sorted apples into boxes for one of the last times. Donald Rizer, 58, wore a plaid shirt, blue jeans and gloves, and complained of the aching shoulder that he said keeps him from working more than 20 hours a week.
Soon he’ll be out of work. Rizer’s employer, Todd Beam, is shutting down the wholesale produce business his father started 35 years ago. Beam blamed the move on a freeze on bank lending — which he said his bank attributed to the new financial regulations — and on a weak economy, for which he blamed Obama. (There’s also the matter of a crucial school lunch supply contract, which Beam lost to a lower-bidding firm from Atlanta). He was set to lay off three workers and go back to his previous job, driving a commercial truck.
Rizer did not have a new job lined up. He had come down to Rome after leaving a carpet factory several years ago. He needs shoulder surgery but can’t afford insurance. And because of a quirk in the health-care law, and the fact that Georgia declined to expand Medicaid coverage for low-income people like him, Rizer can’t qualify for a subsidy to buy coverage on his own.
When he visited the federal health insurance exchange Web site, he found the cheapest policy available to him cost $200 a month — one quarter of his current salary. “Obama,” he said, “he thinks that he’s helping things, but he ain’t.”
http://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/at-the-source-of-the-shutdown-the-economy-falters–and-anger-at-obama-runs-high/2013/10/28/67d51c90-3fe2-11e3-a751-f032898f2dbc_print.html
Cassidy
@debbie: No idea.
Ruckus
@rikyrah:
You know the drill.
Always blame the person having the most affect on fixing the problem instead of the cause. It always makes things better to do that.
/snark