(Joe Veix, staff editor at Death and Taxes)
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With love, from valued commentor SiubhannDuinne. Click to embiggen.
Freezing sleet, turning to snow, here. As the holiday countdown begins, what’s effed up and terrible in your neighborhood?
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Kryptik, A Man Without a Country
Apparently, police immediately after killing Tamir Rice claimed on radio that Rice was 20.
Fuck all.
WereBear
And, if anyone has a kitten craving:
Mithrandir, eight months old, eleven pounds
Yes, he weighs eleven pounds and he’s not nearly done yet.
Mustang Bobby
I found that picture at 3:15 this morning via Hullabaloo and laughed so hard the dog next door barked. Apparently it does not appreciate the hollow and sardonic.
Sometimes I feel I really need to talk to Starfleet. Someone really screwed up by putting me on the away team to this fuck-all planet.
mdblanche
Snow, turning to freezing sleet.
Also too, the missing piece of the the puzzle that ties all the recent non-weather related bullshit together.
lamh36
I love this.
BTW, when did Sasha Obama get to be almost as tall as Malia!
The Obama Girls Could Not Be More Bored By Their Dad’s Jokes
http://www.buzzfeed.com/davidmack/obama-dad-jokes via @davidmackau @buzzfeednews
SiubhanDuinne
A musical interlude.
Y’all remember that thing we were talking about a day or two ago, where a three-year-old in Oklahoma found a gun in between the sofa cushions and shot mommy in the head while mommy was changing the baby’s diapers, and mommy died?
Well, apologies if this is tasteless, or too soon, but I’ve rewritten the lyrics to the title song of Oklahoma!
Oklahoma! Where the guns are scattered here and there,
Where a three-year-old
Can grab ahold
Of a loaded gun without a care!
Oklahoma! Guns are made to look like shiny toys!
Wave ’em all around,
Make “bang-bang” sound,
Shoot your parents, siblings, girls and boys!
We’re NRA members, it’s true,
And responsible citizens, too,
So when we say
“Three cheers for NRA!”
You know we’re glad that we live in this Oklahoma
Where the cray-cray
Holds sway today
(Thanksgiving Day) —
Oklahoma!!
lamh36
@Kryptik, A Man Without a Country: how the hell do you mistake 12 for 20!
But let forget that a moment, is is normal police procedure to drive up directly upon an adult male holding a gun/weapon you suspect may be armed and dangerous?
I mean, it takes me longer than 2 seconds to say “put your hands up”, yet the police car in the video seems to barely make it up to the kids and seconds later the kid is dead. The partner didn’t even make it out of his side of the fuckin’ car!
Chris Hayes said “there is no reason to believe the officer was lying about thinking the kid was 20…” ….really, really..
Karen in GA
Brian alludes to a harsh, heretofore unknown truth. Iggy is not happy.
kindness
Love that Times page. Got it at Death & Taxes you say?
@SiubhanDuinne: Too soon.
Hal
“Obama found crying alone in bathroom stall”
Karen in GA
@SiubhanDuinne: Snapped at last, I see. Can’t say I blame you.
Damned entertaining, though. Is it wrong that I find your snapped-ness enjoyable?
Violet
@lamh36: That is hilarious. Thanks for linking it. I needed a laugh. The girls are so big!
SiubhanDuinne
@Karen in GA:
This version is pretty mild compared with the earlier drafts.
SiubhanDuinne
@kindness:
Too soon?
Too bad.
Kryptik, A Man Without a Country
@lamh36:
My most charitable interpretation of that Hayes quote is the idea that the police didn’t bother to look at Rice after shooting him, and thus convinced themselves he was 20.
Either that or they believed he, at 12, was as strong and as dangerous as a 20-year-old man. After all, an 18-year-old may as well be a Hulk Hogan-esque demon…
randy khan
Am I bad person for thinking that the scariest headline is the one about 2 Broke Girls?
Karen in GA
@WereBear: What a beautiful kitty.
lamh36
I fully admit, I can’t much abide country music, it’s just not my thing (I admit to having pre-conceived notions) but I’ve always had a soft spot for Garth Brooks.
So reading this, makes me love him more.
Garth Brooks cancels TV appearances amid Ferguson unrest
schrodinger's cat
The weather is what’s terrible, too damned early for the first snowstorm of the season.
SiubhanDuinne
@WereBear:
Mithy is a beautiful kitteh.
And knows it.
Brother Shotgun of Sweet Reason
We dodged the f’d up and terrible, driving from South PA in the snow and rain to pick up a kid at Newark Airport on the way to Thanksgiving tomorrow. Newark flight was cancelled, we stopped and picked him up after the first leg in Philly. Glad we didn’t book the flight that connected through Chicago!
WereBear
@Karen in GA: Thanks! He is as delightful as he looks.
WereBear
@SiubhanDuinne: He is being carefully trained by Sir Tristan.
Tree With Water
I’ve never lived in snow country. But I knew a guy from Indiana who swore that every winter fights would break out between family members about whose turn it was to shovel snow, or fetch the coal, or whatever chores go with such weather. Which made sense. He also said the fights sometimes escalated to murder. That made sense, too.
Ruckus
@SiubhanDuinne:
Earlier drafts were better and so you watered it down?
And no, it’s never too soon to parody stupidity.
Rob
The NYT parody is priceless.
I had a few hours of rain and a few more hours of snow, most of which didn’t stick. Tomorrow will be sunny and cold, and with family a few miles away.
And good for Garth Brooks.
Mnemosyne
My 14-year-old niece called to ask me to bring sparkling apple cider to Thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. Since she hardly ever asks for anything, I’d better do it. :-)
Spraying Feliway on the (plastic) Christmas tree does seem to have convinced the cats to mostly leave it alone. While we were putting it up, Keaton kept trying to figure out how to climb it, even though it’s a small tree and he is a Cat of Unusual Size.
mainmati
We have retreated en famille with other stragglers to our small, picturesque, 19th century farm in the beautiful Shenandoah Valley, about 1100 ft. asl in our case. About 4 inches of snow on the ground for Turkey Day. Improvising about the stuff we forgot to pack despite the check list (sigh) but lots of good times to celebrate including a new pet (dog). And, yes, a fair number of folks around here fly the CSA flag but a lot more are really nice people – some of whom are also migrants from MD and NOVA (northern VA) so the politics here may get more purple over time. (We continue to mainly live and work in the metro DC area.)
Bob In Portland
It did happen here.
Bob In Portland
Keep cheering them on.