Fed up with stupid, destructive grandstanding from wet-behind-the-ears, hog fucker-state colleagues, Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) introduced an amendment:
[Stabenow] introduced an amendment on Wednesday that would defund “the purchase of stationary or electronic devices for the purpose of members of Congress or congressional staff communicating with foreign governments and undermining the role of the President as Head of State in international nuclear negotiations on behalf of the United States.
That burn’s gonna scorch some Cotton. Open thread.
[H/T: TPM]
trollhattan
Heh. “Senate Republicans attempted to Tweet Iran Wednesday, but failed because none of them could operate Twitter.”
Amir Khalid
I do hope Senator Stabenow remembered to correct the spelling of “stationery”. “Stationary or electronic devices” means something very different from “stationery or electronic devices”.
Geeno
I don’t think they should be allowed stationary devices either.
c u n d gulag
Nah!
No skid-marks on their GOP elephant boxers from this!!!
They hold their bile until they can fling it like monkey’s do their feces.
max
Senator Debbie Stabenow (D-MI) introduced an amendment
Now see: there’s some Presidential timber there.
max
[‘Would like to be veep?’]
Pogonip
@Amir Khalid: I bet she fell victim to spell-check. Beware spell-check, folks; flee from it as from an east coast skunk or a Mary Kay saleslady.
Betty Cracker
@Amir Khalid: She did not. The misspelling is on the Congressional document linked in the story linked above. Oh well. 99.9% of readers won’t catch it either.
Brachiator
Stab ’em now. Stab ’em later. Stab ’em again and again.
Oh, hell yes!
Amir Khalid
@Pogonip:
Spell-check is for catching a wrong spelling. It isn’t meant to catch a wrong word. People forget that.
Mnemosyne (iPhone)
@Amir Khalid:
Maybe she wants to take their desktop computers away. I could get behind that.
trollhattan
@Amir Khalid:
From and form. Years of editing have taught me to search for each occurrence.
And who among us doesn’t love a pubic meeting press release?
Mike in NC
Was the letter crafted by Tom Cotton delivered to the Iranians written in English only, or English and Arabic? It stands to reason most of those clowns are unfamiliar with this thing called “Farsi”.
Mike in NC
Was the letter crafted by Tom Cotton delivered to the Iranians written in English only, or English and Arabic? It stands to reason most of those clowns are unfamiliar with this thing called “Farsi”.
Amir Khalid
@trollhattan:
If I’m not mistaken, there is a sector of the American film industry, based in certain suburbs of Los Angeles, that issues just that kind of press release about its product.
RaflW
So uncivil! I’m sure McConnell is clutching his pearls (under his waddle chin). Has Mark Halperin passed out yet?
canuckistani
@Mike in NC: Everyone speaks American
Patrick
@RaflW:
Not sure. But I bet this is excellent news for john McCain!
Cervantes
@Mike in NC:
The letter was sent in English and in Farsi translation.
Betty Cracker
@trollhattan: The most embarrassing typo I ever saw (printed on thousands of instructional packets to help subscribers mail insurance enrollment documents back to a company) was “Please affix labia…” Imagine the paper cuts!
Bobby Thomson
@Amir Khalid: stationary or mobile makes sense. Stationery or electronic makes sense. Stationary or electronic doesn’t make any sense.
Another Holocene Human
@Mike in NC: No, much better, Cotton had it translated into Farsi but the Iranian foreign minister was educated in the US and speaks perfect English, which he used to rubbish the letter the next day.
Lurking Canadian
@Amir Khalid: Your interpretation makes much more sense than mine. I was thinking she meant “they can’t have landlines nor cellphones neither!”
trollhattan
Hey everybody, they’re starting to manufacture Dick Cheneys in Europe!
Amir Khalid
@Mike in NC:
The Iranians it was meant for are better educated than Tom Cotton; some of them have doctorates from universities in America. Their English, like their understanding of American political process, is probably far better than his. As for their Arabic — these guys are Muslim clergymen, ’nuff said.
Cervantes
@Betty Cracker:
In fact, the error occurs twice in that document.
Go ahead, ruin my day, why don’t you?
Another Holocene Human
@trollhattan: that is genuinely amazing
Cervantes
@Bobby Thomson:
Except to the extent that electrons are always mobile.
Pogonip
@Mike in NC: I’m now amused by thinking of the Iranians flipping through an Arabic/Farsi dictionary as they work through the letter. “Why couldn’t the damn fools have written in Tagalog? My maid speaks that!”
eric
@Cervantes: i hate people that think there grammar is better than everyone elses’.
Another Holocene Human
@Cervantes: Oh gosh, somebody just about killed me yesterday, was it an ad? They said electrons move through your home wiring at the speed of light. Bullfriggingshit!
Electrical current, yes, The electrons in copper, not so much. Just for comparison, the electrons hitting the phosphor dots in your CRT television were going almost that fast and that thing would heat up, hum, attract static, send harmful radiation flying everywhere, and suck down power like nobody’s business.
Even lightning doesn’t travel that fast. Come on.
MomSense
Just opened my package of soaps and lotion I ordered from Satby. The lotion is by far the best Inhabe ever used. Light, non greasy, really moisturizing, and heavenly fragrance. I chose the grapefruit. I can’t say enough about how fantastic it is.
trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
Owwww! (or so I’d imagine)
Local seafood restaurant had a seafood platter that included ingredients you’d expect–salmon, shrimp, scallops–and one you wouldn’t–crap.
And since it was back in the day of expensive printed menus they kept the damn things for a couple years, resorting to white-out and ink to correct the little typo.
Betty Cracker
@MomSense: I’ll have to order some lotion from her. I’ve tried the soap, and it’s fantastic. Gave some away as Xmas gifts, and the recipients raved about it too. Satby knows what she’s doing!
Amir Khalid
@trollhattan:
Many years ago, I had a colleague named Kenneth Teh. When Kenneth tried out the first release of Microsoft Word with spellcheck, it kept correcting his surname to The.
Cervantes
@Another Holocene Human:
Sorry, what’s your point?
@eric:
I blame Obama.
TaMara (BHF)
All they should be allowed are stone tablets and chisels. Fuck all of them.
MomSense
@Betty Cracker:
I’m going to order some more things as gifts for friends and for a baby shower. I’d like to try the nail oil bcaise this winter has not been kind to my hands.
I highly recommend the lotion and the grapefruit fragrance is crazy good.
satby
@MomSense: Oh, so happy you like it! Thanks again!
satby
@Betty Cracker: (blush) thanks Betty!
MomSense
@satby:
So good, Satby. I’m going to spread the word.
Brachiator
Earlier this week, there were posts in reaction to a case in which police offices shot a mentally ill man to death. I don’t know if everyone knew that the Supreme Court heard arguments this week in a case that directly relates to this.
There was a very good public radio discussion on California station KPCC about this. You can listen at the station’s website (an attempt to link did not work).
“The case centers around the 2008 shooting of Teresa Sheehan, a mentally ill woman living in San Francisco, by two police officers. Police were called to the group home where Sheehan was staying to help transport her to a mental health facility. The two officers charged into the room without waiting for backup and shot her at least five times after she lunged at them with a knife.
Sheehan survived and sued the police. The Ninth U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in February upheld her right to sue. And now the Supreme Court will get to decide.
At issue is whether the Americans with Disability Act requires police officers to provide reasonable accommodations and change their procedures when they are taking an armed and mentally ill person into custody.”
Court watchers said that it did not appear that the Court was sympathetic to the argument that the police had to take extra care, but who knows what the actual ruling might say.
ThresherK
@Amir Khalid: For those of us whose vintage radios are so full of tubes the cats think of them as heat boxes, “stationary” does indeed describe “electronic device”.
I have it on the highest authority that Lee DeForest invented the Audion vacuum tube because he wanted something to keep his cat warm.
But, yes, I dig.
fuckwit
@Amir Khalid: Spell-check is for checking spells. To make sure your writing is not enchanted or cursed, perhaps by witches or shamen.
SPELLING-checker, please. It amazes me in a thread filled with people pedantically bitching about stationery being misspelled, people are actually talking about software checking their writing for spells. You want to check its SPELLING, not its spells. Different thing.
trollhattan
@fuckwit:
Taking trolling to the next level of elegance. :-P
fuckwit
@trollhattan: I figured that’d make a few people loose their shit.
Amir Khalid
@fuckwit:
Come on, man. No one calls it spelling-check.
ETA: Maybe they should, but no one does.
fuckwit
@Amir Khalid: True. But they’re all wrong.
trollhattan
@fuckwit:
Your still Teh Batman.
TooManyJens
@fuckwit: “It’s the breast stroke, Les, not breast stroking.”
Calouste
@Pogonip: Amir can correct me hear, but Islamic clerics, of which there are quite a few in the upper regions of the Iranian government, know Arabic, as that is what the Quran is written in. Of course, whatever the GOP has written probably comes across to them as engrish anyway.
Cervantes
@efgoldman:
Tom?
Germy Shoemangler
NEW YORK — A grand manor will close its doors to millions of weekly guests after “Downton Abbey” concludes next year.
Producers of the popular British period drama on Thursday confirmed it will end after its sixth season, scheduled to air in the United States in early 2016. The series, which airs earlier in the U.K., will have its finale on Christmas Day, 2015.
“Our feeling is that it’s good to quit while you’re ahead,” executive producer Gareth Neame said during a conference call. “We feel the show is in incredibly strong shape, the scripts that we’re working on for the upcoming season are fantastic, and the show is so popular globally. But the danger with this sort of thing is to let it go on forever.”
Cervantes
They were called spelling-checkers, and spelling-correctors, for a while (late ’70s, early ’80s).
Germy Shoemangler
@efgoldman: I remember, about thirty years ago, we were designing some ads, and instead of “Catch The Spirit!” I proofread “Catch The Spirt!”
It was an ejaculatory moment I prevented that day.
trollhattan
@Germy Shoemangler:
Meaning the rumours of Jeremy Clarkson coming aboard to play Neville Chamberlain were completely spurious.
I will miss Violet’s quips and hate-watching dreary Edith.
raven
hoop
Germy Shoemangler
@trollhattan: Violet seemed under quite a bit of stress. She clutched her chest every time her butler and maid would hiss at each other. I wonder if she’ll make a grand exit next season.
trollhattan
@Germy Shoemangler:
Knowing Maggie Smith she’s lobbying for it.
Spratt is hilarious and the war between the two has been epic.
Germy Shoemangler
On March 13, Madrid became a no-kill city, making the euthanasia of stray or abandoned animals illegal. That means all animals—even homeless ones—are free to live their lives.
Another Holocene Human
@Germy Shoemangler: Gee, what could go wrong …
https://www.aspca.org/fight-cruelty/animal-hoarding/animal-hoarding-faq
Germy Shoemangler
@Another Holocene Human: Hoarded animals suffer horribly. I remember stories about houses full of dead cats under piles of trash.
When the cats achieve supremacy I hope they treat us right.