Another rainy road trip. The fauna is interesting:
PS: We’ve been ranking non-denominational church nomenclature according to grift potential, and we’ve concluded that anything with “Tabernacle” in the name has high grift likelihood, at least around here, as many appear to be “Prosperity Gospel” plate-passers. Have you noticed similar trends in your area?
jeffreyw
Working up more dough for sammich buns, making my patented killer fruit salad, and thinking about how far behind I am in uploading photos to the various hosts I use.
MattF
Found the collected short stories of Clarice Listpector in my local B&N and bought it. Here’s the NYT review.
jacel
This brings to mind a song done by Bruce Forman’s group Cow Bop: “I want to be a cowboy, but I’m afraid of cows. Moo moo moo how they scare me.”
Betty Cracker
@jeffreyw: Willing to share that fruit salad recipe? ????
trollhattan
Wonkette has a story about a Texas (natch) judge who ordered a kid to 1. marry his girlfriend (in 30 days) 2. attend Bible study 3. go to counseling to avoid jail for punching her ex.
Who says nullification is a bad thing?
kindness
Avoiding for a moment a project of wiring the house with cat6a ethernet cable. It’s 2015. It’s time. Just don’t like crawling around in a 3 foot crawlspace. Wish we had full basements out here but houses don’t. Something about an 8′ water table. I’m sure it’s not there now with the drought and all.
They said that Schumer’s shiv in the back was going to blow over but I see in my morning papers many are trying to make something big about it. Of course they would and damn well Schumer knew they would. The asshole should have just quietly voted no and shut the hell up about it. Major league dick head move there Chuckie.
MattF
@MattF: My apologies. Only one ‘t’ in Lispector.
WereBear
Sick in bed and watching All About Eve. Because I never get tired of it.
My trick to finding stuff on Netflux when I’m nit in the computer? Searching for the letter “e”. Almost everything has that letter in it.
trollhattan
@kindness:
Schumer blows, full stop. Recent appearance with the second-cousin does nothing to erase what he just did WRT Iran. Hard to fathom how deeply dug into US politics the Likud Part has become.
D58826
Some one at Slate made the following comment about the GOP presidential candidates approach to foreign policy – Today’s Republican foreign policy has all the hallmarks of any social primate’s dominance display. It involves thumping on one’s chest, screeching loudly, baring teeth, tearing up grass, shaking trees and flinging feces.
I would be hard pressed to find the GOP’s foreign policy approach summarized in fewer words (well maybe totally f**k up beyond repair might qualify)
WereBear
@D58826: Would Me Tarzen, you Jane! work?
MattF
@D58826: Funny how every single person who knows what they’re talking about supports the Iran deal. Actually, not at all funny.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
In Woodinville, WA we have the Imprint Church (some form of Baptist), the Elevation Church, and something called the Alliance Church. Also the Presbyterian church calls itself Exile Church.
I don’t know if these are grifters, but their names are a bit disturbing.
And just for the record, I intensely dislike the modern services of my own denomination, to the point that I stopped attending. The last church I attended offered both a traditional and a modern service. Most of the new hymns in our hymnal are just awful drivel, or unsingable (Charles Ives’ setting of a poem by Whittier; I love Ives but that was totally unsinkable, especially for the congregation.) I was a professional church musician for several years. Bah, humbug.
tybee
we’re cleaning up after the midnight seining expedition on the north end of tybee island.
did have an interesting encounter with a stingray about 4′ across. i have the barb in my possession (long enough to go completely through your leg/ankle/foot) so now it’s harmless to waders, seiners and other innocents for a bit. it will grow another, eventually.
jeffreyw
@Betty Cracker: Well, this one has red grapes, green grapes, peaches, pears, kiwi, pineapple, oranges, and bananas. All of it has to be fresh, and cut the grapes in half.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@kindness: There are full basements in Seatte. On the eastside we are watching a new house being built and the owners are taking advantage of the drought to dig one heck of a nice basement. In a normal year they’d have hit water at about 2 – 3 feet.
Rex Everything
Shouldn’t that be “the fauna _are_ interesting”? I’ll defer to the real experts, though…
gbear
Last tuesday I decided to tackle my Diet Coke addiction. I’ve been a diet pop drinker my whole life and it’s been a 6+ can a day habit for years. Caffeine is the least of the evils in DC so I’m allowing myself a mocha frappuccino as a morning startup and then drinking water for the rest of the day. I woke up with a headache this morning (the first one) and I’m sore all over – especially my legs.
Diet pop is a hard thing to quit because it basically sets off a craving for more, and it’s available everywhere. It’s in machines on every floor of my office building. Every store sells it (I can buy a DC at my cat food store; I can buy one whenever I get gas for my car), and it’s always a featured item somewhere.
It’s total crap, and I need to get it out of my system. I quit alchohol over 30 years ago and it’s been a snap to stay sober compared to the craving for diet pop.
jl
@Rex Everything: Cracker is the blog’s Florida correspondent.
Anyway, that tropical cow seems to be looking at something interesting, Maybe the fauna in question is, ‘is’ I say, Cracker. You sayin’ Cracker ain’t interesting?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
noted radical calls for Dems to stand up to Schumer
Rex Everything
@jl: Not me. I like Betty Cracker.
gogol's wife
@gbear:
I know what you mean. I’ve been off Diet Coke AND coffee (even decaf) for years, but just the sight of a frosty bottle makes me salivate. But it’s definitely not a good thing to drink.
Scout211
@gbear:
Good for you. Very unhealthy brew, diet cola is.
I ditched it about a decade ago. Try not to get impatient because the taste for nice cool water develops slowly. It took me months before I started craving water instead of diet Pepsi.
jl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Thanks. That is a good idea. I think no need to wait for the ‘if’ part. I’ll drop Boxer and DiFi a line that Schumer pulled a dick move (as Cole put it) and he should pay some consequences.
Schumer’s explanation was pure BS, IMHO too.
He’d be much worse than Reid. There should be someone better to replace Reid.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I was looking for a list of still undecided senators, couldn’t find one but I found this from Reuters:
that’s some pretty blunt talk, even anonymously, wrt AIPAC. they’re usually handled with perfumed kid gloves that are used once and then burned. I think I saw a pro-deal ad from J-Street last night. Has anyone else seen that? That’s a cause I could donate to.
gbear
@gogol’s wife: I hope I can stay with it. I’ve tried and relapsed about a half dozen times. I’ve always disliked coffee (even the good stuff) except as an ingredient of a mocha. There has to be a lot of chocolate involved.
Brachiator
@Betty Cracker: BTW, I’ve been away from the Internets for a few days working on various projects, and only recently caught up with your post about a difficult pregnancy and how it emphasizes the absolute idiocy of the idea that the government should even dare to intrude on a woman’s and a family’s health decisions.
Very moving and impressive stuff.
FlyingToaster
Around here (Greater Bwahstin, or more specifically, Watertown MA), there are rankings of grift:
1) Roman Catholics — despite the decimation of Catholic Charities, they are still the best professional grifters around
2) “Planted” Evangelical churches; they often have the word “Fellowship” or “Temple” (non-Jewish) in their title, like Reedeemer Fellowship Church on Mount Auburn
3) Mormons, like Romney’s church in Belmont
Churches don’t do that well around here. Unitarians let every community group use their churches, so you see them and various ethnically-centered churches (Watertown Armenians, for instance), but everyone else sells them off to build condos.
tybee
@gbear:
make tea. iced tea. get your caffeine without that nasty coffee being involved.
shell
Trying to get up some energy to do some pickling. Giardiniera and need to make the spicy garlic dills before the cucumbers start to get soft.
ruemara
No knead coconut milk based challah rising nicely on the counter and I have about a pound of fresh pears to puree. I can either make a granita, a cake or some sort of pop. Still need to mince & sugar the figs and goat cheese.
So it’s been a year since Michael Brown was killed, we have yet another dead young black man and the story of the Force Science Institute and Bill Lewinski. Like I’ve said, all the pointing and laughing is nice, but the whole story died despite the blood on this man’s hands.
MomSense
@gbear:
Try ice water with a slice of fresh lemon and a sprig of mint. I like rosemary, too but it’s not for everyone. A little sparkling water is nice with lemon and mint, too. Sometimes I think the fizz is part of the addiction.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@gbear: Part of my childhood was spent outside of Atlanta, so I grew up on Coca Cola. I never, ever liked the taste of diet soda, and even now can’t stand it. I do have an occasional weakness for Dr. Pepper, but these days it tastes weird to me (maybe the HFCS vs sugar issue).
I’ve never been a coffee drinker, but was addicted to tea in grad school – I would brew a teapot full for an hour or so, drink it throughout the day, then wonder why I couldn’t get to sleep at night… :-/ I would get horrible headaches when I tried to cut down, but they went away after a day or two.
About 6 months ago I finally gave up tea after trying decaf and green tea, hoping to spare my poor teeth some of the jack-hammering they get at the dentist every 6 months. It didn’t help much on that score, but I find I don’t miss it. Cold water from the fridge is amazingly refreshing now.
Best of luck. It may take time to get off soda and caffeine, but it’s worth it IMHO. Your budget will thank you, too!
Cheers,
Scott.
JPL
@WereBear: Hope you are feeling better soon.
Amir Khalid
@jeffreyw:
When you said “fruit salad” for some reason I briefly envisaged you making Malaysian-style rojak. Which would probably never happen, given Mrs J’s not-fondness for spicy food.
shell
@tybee: Second the iced tea. If you have them, add some sliced strawberries; adds a lovely flavor. Can even put in the strawberry hulls
Davis X. Machina
Near here is the Bible-Believing Baptist Church. To be distinguished, presumably, from all of the other, non-Bible-believing ones…
There’s got to be an unaffiliated church name generator out there, with three columns. I’m pretty sure I’ve seen “Covenant”, “Fellowship” and “Gospel” boxed like a trifecta within 50 miles or so here.
scav
@MomSense: playing with variations of shrubs, some even made on the fly sometimes got me through summers when I was burnt out on teas but needed something more than plain water. Got it down to almost no added sugar versions too, depending on the day.
MomSense
@ruemara:
I’ve linked to the Dr. Death Lewinsky a few times and it got some comments but overall this story seems to be languishing. I went to his website and found links to the conferences they offer, the articles they plant in the LE magazines, and the newsletters they produce. It is truly terrifying content. I can’t explain why this story is being ignored. Clearly it debunks the notion that police brutality and murder is an isolated problem or the result of some “bad apple” officers.
MomSense
@scav:
Have you ever made lemonade with rosemary and honey? So good.
scav
@MomSense: Rosemary yes, I’m not sure about the honey (there was also a summer of all sorts of simple syrups in there). I’ll have to try it. Also have done some fun ginger-based drinks, good spiked with pineapple juice or stright-up (more work as there’s a lot of grating involved but golly for the flavor).
Brachiator
@WereBear:
If you are into podcasts, you might enjoy the June 21 episode of a podcast called The Canon.
Film critics Devin Faraci (Badass Digest) and Amy Nicholson (LA Weekly) have a conversation about “All About Eve.”
http://thecanon.wolfpop.com/audio/25663/all-about-eve
Fun stuff
WereBear
@gbear: I use seltzer if I want fizzy. In the grocery store they have all kinds of gourmet flavors, and at restaurants they’ll put in a splash of cranberry juice or something.
For the first couple of weeks you’re all “Gah, this is flavorless,” but then it turns around.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I thought coffee was good for you this week?
looking for a J-Street ad on Iran, I find this from NPR on-line
The NPR story helpfully embeds one ad from AIPAC, and another from the “Emergency Committee for Israel”. Nothing from J-Street.
also, too
jeffreyw
@Amir Khalid:
Admirably understated, Amir! Right up there with Greenspan’s “notable exceptions”.
gbear
@MomSense: @tybee: @I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
Thanks for the tips. I’ve been drinking filtered tap water from the office fountains that have a bottle-filling spigot, and maybe once a day buying a sparkling water for the flavors and the fizz. At home, I seem to be doing OK with plain water. I don’t have anything to add to it around the house right now. As long as I maintain the first rule – don’t buy it – I think I’ll be fine.
Karen S.
Just took my Italian prune plum pie out of the oven. I tempted fate and added a few more plums than the recipe called for. I know that baking is precision oriented, but I had a few extra plums so in they went. Well, the pie looks good, but the liquid (made from mixing the cut up plums with lemon juice, sugar and cornstarch) boiled over a bit.
The pie will taste very good, for sure. It just won’t be as pretty as I would have liked.
I’ll also get some piano practice in this afternoon and finish revising a story my wife wrote that we’re going to publish as an ebook on Amazon, Nook, etc.
gbear
@Brachiator: Thanks for that link. I love All About Eve.
WereBear
@JPL: Thanks!
It’s shingles and it’s Game of Thrones levels of suffering (imagine your worst sunburn, only someone is poking it with a sharpened forefinger every few minutes) so everyone think about the vaccine, people!
WereBear
Really? I guess that would work.
It’s just that I once must have let a hull fall in my smoothie when I was adding fruit and the whole thing tasted waaaay too vegetal.
And don’t get me started about hemp protein. If you hacked off a hunk of those ropes they use to tie up ships with and made a smoothie with it… like that.
Trentrunner
@tybee: Just letting you know: I skim right by posts without conventional capitalization. If you can’t be bothered, I can’t be bothered.
WereBear
@Brachiator: Thanks! I do like podcasts.
And I may do Sunset Boulevard next. They go together so well.
MomSense
@WereBear:
So sorry about the shingles. I hope you feel better.
SoupCatcher
@kindness:
@Pie Happens (opiejeanne):
Super-basements are now the in thing on the peninsula here in the Bay Area. Even with the high water table. Below ground construction often doesn’t add to the official square footage of a house. Depends on the city. But, yeah, neighbors aren’t thrilled about all the water pumping that is necessary to build some of these monstrosities. Straight out of the depleted aquifer and, at best, into a tank or, at worst, into the gutter.
Botsplainer
Watching “Who Killed Laura Palmer in Space”, aka Ascension. Not shabby.
WereBear
@gbear: I think you have to look at something like Airplane! to find the same quotable ratio. So many fascinating characters, too.
SoupCatcher
Newspaper article links for previous comment (so as not to trip moderation).
Super basements.
Water issues with basement construction.
WereBear
@MomSense: Thanks, I’m working on it.
Right now the cats think I’m the most boring creature on the planet.
shell
Always wondered about that character. Tho he hooks up with Eve by the end (and heck, he shows up at the party with Marilyn Monroe) there still seems to be a gay under current to him.
tybee
@Trentrunner:
i’m glad you don’t like it. :)
Brachiator
Party like it’s AD 79. Here’s something for the foodies
A video and the recipe can be found at Gizmodo
http://sploid.gizmodo.com/how-to-make-bread-like-they-did-2-000-years-ago-1722790579
chopper
@Scout211:
the wife still gives me the stinkeye when i refer to her occasional diet coke as ‘poison’.
WereBear
It’s not coming from the actor who plays him, George Sanders, who was once married to Zsa Zsa Gabor and lived to tell the tale. (Yes, back then gay men would marry to cover up, but they sure as hell wouldn’t marry Zsa Zsa.)
I think it’s the dry, waspish, nature of his venomous portrayal.
ruemara
@MomSense: It’s kinda terrifying. You can get angry at cops but a clear enabler who’s been using fake science since ’04, you can’t work up the energy? You can hound a dentist for poaching a lion but not even shake off the ennui for a guy changing cops into self centered, paranoid time bombs? Really? Ok.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@chopper: I got a coke on a plane once and the flight attendant said “Here’s your glass of sugar and chemicals”. I was not amused.
EvenTheLiberalMSNBC (I have it on, muted, not really sure why) is all Trump and Megan Kelly for the last twenty minutes. For some reason they think we need Gary Johnson’s opinion. Trump is being cut out of some RedState debate/event. My only sadness I feel like it’s too early for him to stay mad enough to do a third party run.
WereBear
@ruemara: I’ve been linking to it every way I can, but I don’t see any traction, either.
chopper
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet:
HFCS is basically the same as processed sucrose only with a slightly different ratio of fructose so it is a little bit sweeter (fructose is sweeter than glucose). that being said, it isn’t a huge difference and unless you’re pretty sensitive to sweet it’s more likely something in the rest of the recipe changed.
now fake sugar i can taste a mile away. they all taste like chemical garbage to me.
Redshift
@gbear: I guess I’m lucky; the diet soda never bit me that bad. I mostly cut it out without much trouble, and one doesn’t give me a craving for more. I never liked coffee, but I went from working at software companies that all provide free soda to a news company that only provides coffee, and I’ve learned to drink it (only one cup in the morning, though.)
Also, my soda consumption never got too bad because if I had more than three in a day in dry weather, I got nosebleeds.
But water seeming really boring after switching from soda was definitely a problem. I mostly drink water now with food, and lemonade or flavored water otherwise.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@WereBear: you made me curious, and it looks like poor old Zsa Zsa is still with us, or her skeevey Euro-trash husband is keeping her in the freezer so that the will won’t be read.
shell
One of the characters refers to him as ‘that venomous fishwife. ‘
mainmata
@Rex Everything: fauna is a collective (or mass) noun and in American English such nouns are treated as singular. In Britain, they are treated as plural, which is why see curious creations such as: the government are going to implement their policy….
mainmata
@Redshift: I use those infuser bottles with lemons, oranges or other fruit making water taste more appetizing. Half of a lemon can go most of one day on two sometimes three refills. I grew up in a family that couldn’t afford (and didn’t approve of sodas so I never acquired any kind of dependence on them.
Brachiator
@gbear: Some of this might be too obvious or dumb, but it just popped up today, so it may be of interest to you: A Brief Guide to Quitting a Bad Habit
from Lifehacker
http://lifehacker.com/a-brief-guide-to-quitting-a-bad-habit-1722768101
Amir Khalid
@gbear:
Coke Light — or Coke Zero, when I can get it — is my last remaining vice, and I’m never giving it up. Never, do you hear? NEVER!! (He said calmly.)
Ruckus
@ruemara:
You don’t have to convince me. Too many departments have the same MO and the same talking points for it to be chance.
There had to be someone or some organization pushing this.
And there is.
But it’s not a sexy story, it doesn’t have the stupidity of T Rump (or the rest of the idiots on the same team) but it is vitally important and needs to be brought to the forefront. Of course there are at least a dozen stories crowding for forefront space that aren’t being talked about much if at all.
trollhattan
Katie Ledecky completes her sweep in Russia. You go, girl!
WereBear
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I think she’s sucked up enough lifeforce from her hapless husbands to hang in a while.
Per George, upon their divorce: “I have been cast aside like a squeezed lemon.”
WereBear
@shell: And yet, he saves a marriage. One of those deeply buried hearts of gold.
I guess he regarded Celeste Holm’s character as a non-combatant.
Redshift
@mainmata: I should try those. Not growing up with soda may have helped me, too. We could afford it, but we didn’t regularly have it around the house. I only had it in restaurants, and we’d sometimes have root beer in the fridge in the summer.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@WereBear: If you covered him with garbage, George Sanders would still have style.
That’s what I knew about George Sanders before this thread (though I’m sure I’ve seen him in lots of movies), now, thanks to the rabbit hole of the internet, I know he was married to not one, but two Gabors. In the ‘scuse me while I kiss this guy file, I always thought Davies was singing “don’t tread on dearest Meredith”, and I could never figure out what studio-era star he was referring to. And I just realized he has three cast members of “Eve” in that song.
shell
I dont think you need to buy special equipment. Just any glass or plastic bottle with a tight fitting lid, so you can give it a good shake.
gbear
@WereBear: You can add This Is Spinal Tap to the quotability ratio too.
(I just got back from listening to the All About Eve podcast so I’m playing catch-up on the comments)
JPL
@Brachiator: There is a theory that a negative also helps. My sister-in-law stopped smoking six weeks ago. She has put a chunk of money aside to go to the NRA, if she starts again.
Amir Khalid
The Donald’s people actually made this argument to Valerie Plame to get her endorsement.
bemused
@gbear:
I rarely drink any coke or pepsi anymore and can’t stand the taste of any diet drink. Once in awhile a pepsi hits the spot but not for long. Soon I’m just plain thirsty or craving more. That doesn’t happen with other non-soda drinks. I don’t know if it’s the sugar or some other ingredient that kicks thirst in but it almost seems like a soda company trick.
bemused
@gbear:
Carbonation, the fizz. is part of the “ahh” in soda that I like. Instead of coke or pepsi especially on a hot day, I will pour a small amount of some kind juice into glass and fill it up with carbonated water.
Redshift
@Ruckus: Don’t have to convince me either; that article is horrifying. It’s like when it occasional cop commenter here responded to the discussion of Michael Brown by saying that yeah, we’re all horrified by that video, but by the time they’ve finished training, cops have seen dozens of videos of showers targeting police and not realizing that that’s a huge problem. People targeting police is incredibly rare, and train them to assume it could happen at any time and their primary concern should be self-protection, add systemic racism that exaggerates the threat of black people (and assumes the ones who aren’t a threat are disposable) it’s a recipe for the kind of slaughter we see.
ruemara
I go through jags of soda cravings but I limit myself to a diet Hanson’s and maybe a flavoured smelter once or twice a day. Since I drink a lot of water, my voice is drink mix ins like crystal lite. Luckily, they’re expensive unless the dollar store gets a batch. If you have the fridge space for a big jug of water, I like to do fruit infusions there. Slightly crushed raspberries and sliced limes; sliced lemons with rosemary (delish really), melon chunks with thyme. It’s good flavours, gets you off sweet things and you don’t have the problem of grody water bottle residue. Unfortunately, roommate coming and I have to give back the side of the fridge soon. Give it a go for those who want to get more water in their diet. Have to go out and watch a movie, so Shaun the Sheep & I have a date. Come back, mince some figs, coconut sugar some goat cheese, polish off the first script for Amy first animation and write synopsis for my first fiction short. Yes. I have set a time down and booked the crew. I’m directing my first short this October. Might as well use up my free time somewhere.
WereBear
@ruemara: Sounds like lots of lovely projects. I’m so glad to hear.
Mary G
@Amir Khalid: This is me, too. I am down to caffeine-free Diet Coke, purchased in two-time bottles only on sale and I refuse to go any farther, no matter how bad for me. I need one vice!
Mike in NC
@Amir Khalid: What’s sold in North America as Diet Coke is called Coke Light all across Europe. Not sure why there’s a distinction.
Chris
@Scout211: I did that whole30 diet thing once and even though I couldn’t stick with it (and didn’t lose much weight) I did successfully quit diet soda and transition to water in that 30 days. Now nothing is as good as cold water to me. Cold is key I found..
ruemara
@WereBear: I want to hear you’re getting better, so please rest.
I’m also falling for a local kitty.
Amir Khalid
@Mike in NC:
It’s mostly Coke Light in Asia too, although I’ve seen the occasional can of Diet Coke in these parts. Coke Zero only came along this year. I think it tastes a bit better than Coke Light.
MomSense
@ruemara:
It’s totally terrifying. Another young man was killed by the police in Arlington, TX yesterday. College football player with so much to look forward to in life and now his family and friends are grieving his death. His “crime’ was getting into a car accident at a car dealership and instead of getting help he was presumed to be a burglar and killed.
I’ve tried emailing the story to local journalists, opinion page editors, and other journalists. Nothing. Lewinsky’s company has three conferences coming up which could be good places to stage a demonstration or something. I don’t know. Right now I can’t afford to travel anywhere but I could kick in a little something to help get something going. I just can’t believe this is going to be ignored.
Tree With Water
(This is posted at Down With Tyranny.com).
“..Neo-fascist Texas Senator Ted Cruz couldn’t be happier. “I think it is fantastic news that Sen. Schumer has come out against the Iranian deal and has done so publicly and early. For several weeks now, I have been saying that I hope we see the re-emergence of Joe Lieberman Democrats, the re-emergence of Scoop Jackson Democrats…”.
Anyone disagree? Anyone believe the democratic party won’t takes huge strides backward upon Schumer’s election as senate leader? So, he feels obliged to represent parochial NY interests that are violently at odds with the best interests of the national democratic rank and file? So be it. But he proved himself unfit for as a leader by doing so..
Anyone that agrees with that should lean on senator Warren to withdraw her endorsement of Schumer for the powerful post of democratic senate leader. In fact, she may be the only one in a position to de-rail the treacherous bastard. Lest We Else Forget: Shumer also supported the Bush-Cheney plot to war with the vigor of a true believer.
Botsplainer
Trump has apparently fired his campaign manager.
Guessing that the manager was pulling his hair out trying to get Trump to quit being Trump.
D58826
@Tree With Water: Doesn’t matter who pulls the puppets strings – Bibi or Sharon – his loyalty seems to be to Israel and not the US.
jl
@MomSense:
Here is something I just noticed. Kid was in a drive thru lane at a burger joint, and a cop thought he saw reason to intervene. Cop claimed had to shoot to defend himself from getting run over, though kid was shot through side window. Girl passenger had a speck of dope, so it was all just collateral damage from a drug sting operation.
This kid happened to be white, but probably callous authoritarians don’t care since it always happens to other people: minorities, poor sluts, young punks you need to be taught a lesson. Really sickening.
Unarmed Teenager Shot By Cop While Getting A Burger
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=taDP1KfEmPU
JPL
@Botsplainer: Supposedly, Trump is going on Meet the Press and This Week tomorrow.
Amir Khalid
@Botsplainer:
Trump will be Trump. Trump shall be Trump. None can stand in his way. All hail The Trump!
jl
@Tree With Water: DiFi, who I think knows a lot more about foreign policy than Schumer, is strongly for the Iran deal. I’m writing her to ask her to oppose him for Minority Leader. Probably won’t, but all I can do I guess.
rikyrah
@MomSense: @ruemara:
The officer was a 49 year old ROOKIE.
49 YEAR OLD ROOKIE?
what’s wrong with this picture?
WereBear
@ruemara: Potential SQUEE.
Will be looking forward to hearing the final decision.
jl
The Trump is a rump of course of course,
And no one can talk to a rump of course,
That is of course, unless the rump is the famous Mr. Trump.
Go right the dump and ask the rump
He’ll give you an answer right from the sump
He’s always talking a smelly dump,
Listen to Mr. Trump!
You Loser!
Tree With Water
@jl: I’m surprised to hear that, and I’m a Californian. That’s what happens, I guess, when you write off a senator as worse than worthless. You stop paying attention to anything they say or do.
jl
@rikyrah: There are places recruiting older people for police. Supposedly more mature and judicious. But maybe the training makes up for that.
Tree With Water
@D58826: If Schumer is communing with Sharon, I’ll withdraw my appeal to senator Warren. Because that will be proof positive he possesses spooky powers far beyond that of any person I’ve ever tangled with.
jl
@Tree With Water: When DiFi is good, she can very good. But she can be very bad. Worst thing about her is, IMHO, that I think she decides an issue early on things, and then postures around about making up her mind. So, in that sense, not a straight dealer.
What has enraged me about her is that she says she is considering what to do, you write and pester her office and listen to her respond to questions, and you get the same boilerplate. Not a big fan, but there could be far worse.
Edit: and some say through her husband, corrupt on some national security issues. Not familiar enough to know.
But, her strong support, and very clear and strong arguments for, Iran deal are important now. So on this issue, I am DiFi fan. I’ll think she will sway far more honest and thoughtful Senators than Schumer.
CarolDuhart2
@MomSense: Tweet it! More conventional media take weekends off these days, and if I remember, it took multiple tweets before the rest of the world took notice of Ferguson and #BlackLivesMatter.
Also re recruiting of older cops: a mixed bag. Sometimes you may also get someone with bad record that now is missing because it’s pre-Internet or files purged as well.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@jl: I’m pleasantly surprised to hear DiFi is on the right side of this issue, especially that she’s strongly for it
Davebo
@kindness: Why not Cat 7?
CarolDuhart2
That Iraq turned out so badly is proving to be our saving grace now. We spent 3 trillion to create a disaster. How much would Iran cost in lives and treasure?
jl
@CarolDuhart2: But the problem is that we are dealing with opponents willing to lie like a rug every single day.
So, new line is that Iraq was a hard won victory by the deeply flawed Dub, thrown away by the feckless and malicious Obama.
Which is pure BS, but they love pure BS.
So, always need to keep up with their BS and be ready to counter it.
And maybe remind GOPers you know that the deeply flawed Dub and his people will run a President Jeb! foreign policy. That will not be BS, and maybe a few of the salvageable GOP voters will realize that and we can peel a few more off the crazy train this cycle.
Tree With Water
@jl: I’m a native San Franciscan. Dianne has admitted that her political career in San Francisco had hit a dead end until the Harvey Milk-George Moscone assassinations. That’s true, too, and for one simple reason: she was-and-is a republican, flying under a false flag. Take politics out of the equation, though, and she has a lot going for her. I was living in the city that terrible November in 1978- Jonestown had occurred a couple of weeks earlier- and was mightily impressed with her innate dignity in the days after she ascended to the mayor’s office. Above all, her contribution in early on battling the AID’s epidemic was sterling. She wielded power effectively on many fronts in the initial years, and SF General Hospital trail blazed research and development back then due in no mall part to her efforts.. That said, I’ve been urging her to enjoy her retirement since March of 2003.
jl
@Tree With Water: I think she is very tough, quick witted, very smart and hard working. I will abstain from criticism for now, until Iran vote is over. I don’t understand why she doesn’t retire. To some, power and influence is addicting, and they want to die wielding it, or being perceived so.
Edit: no offense to NYers, but Schumer always struck me as a smooth high-toned hack and operator, and superficial on issues. But don’t know enough about him to know for sure.
srv
If you don’t want Jeb, give now, and give generously:
D58826
@Tree With Water: actually I was thinking of his vote for the Iraq war in reference to Sharon
Tree With Water
@jl: Harry Truman introduced me to the term, “potomac fever”. I had a lot of use for California senator Alan Cranston, but he caught it too, eventually. Dyed his hair orange and ran for president, and then got mired in the Saving & Loan scandal, something I like to think would not have happened when he first reached the senate.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@jl: Feinstein was infuriating in the Bush years, not just on foreign policy, IIRC she was also one of the Dem votes for the Bush tax cuts. You’d think if there’s any place somebody with her history would invite a primary challenge, it’s CA. But if she was an opportunistic Democrat and far too willing to go along with Bush, my recollection is she’s been a pretty fierce defender of choice. That said, I haven’t heard her on the latest PP attack. Has she gotten out front of it?
ETA: and what I meant to respond to… the clinging to power: I always figured Old Man Byrd wanted to die in the Senate, and that’s why we were treated to his bellowing, self-parodic Foghorn Leghorn speech on “Miss-sizz Al-Lee-Tow’s Tee-yahs!” I don’t see Feinstein as quite so desperate to hang on to the end. Maybe she feels like a very youthful eighty-something.
Tree With Water
@D58826: And I saw an opening and went for the chuckle..
jl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I agree. I was infuriated with her then. She surely is smart enough and hard working enough to know what she was voting for was total high-test BS.
Edit: don’t know where DiFi is on PP.
D58826
@Tree With Water: (sigh)
Peale
@Botsplainer: lol. Nope. Trump looked at the polls, saw that he was leading, and said “wtf kind of vanity campaign are you running for me. I wanted a quixotic battle, not an easy victory”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Drawing a distinction between his foreign policy advice and pure political work, this may be the worst advice Kristol has offered Republicans since “John, have you heard of the young governor of Alaska? She’s a corker! A can’t-miss game-changer!”
Please, please, Big Donors, listen to Wrong Way Billy! Piss him off and drive him to an indy run!
tybee
i see where roger stone either left trump’s campaign or was fired. which one depends on whose lies you believe.
Xenos
@FlyingToaster: What ever happened to the Swedenborgians? I actually had a professional acquaintance with one of the “converts” who was engaged in the hostile takeover a few years ago.
Peale
@Tree With Water: ah yes. The Scoop Jackson Democrats…because what we really need to discuss right now is confiscating the land of those yellow skinned immigrants in the name of national security. I guess he was “colorful” so Chuck should wear that comparison with pride.
John Revolta
Moo Moo, Mofo!
I had a drummer from Queens who had hardly ever been out of NYC. When we went on the road, the sight of a bunch of cows in a field would amuse him and kinda freak him out. He would roll down the window and yell loudly at them, “MOOO, MUTHAFUCKAS!!!11!1!”
The cows and any nearby humans would stare at him, and us, like we were nuts. But hey, fuck dose guys, amirite?
Brachiator
@srv:
Trump may drop out of the race even sooner than I thought. Here he was back on June 17:
Now he is begging for money and blaming the media.
Part of his appeal to the chumps in the cheap seats was that he was too big to fail, that he didn’t need anything other than his own gargantuan ego to take on the GOP establishment.
People were willing to follow his show as long as it didn’t cost them anything.
Previously, I thought Trump would be done as soon as GOP voters began making hard choices in the primaries.
Now I don’t know whether he will even make it to the next debate.
Get the fork ready. He’s almost done.
trollhattan
@John Revolta:
I chat at every critter I bicycle past; can’t help it. My favorites are the zoo giraffes getting their late afternoon snacks. I consider the world an extended Larson cartoon.
bystander
We have a great church in Port Jervis, NY. The First Assembly of God. Not the most farsighted name in this acronymically-inclined world.
Brachiator
@Tree With Water:
Wow. You are a purist. I have not seen too many of you in the wild.
If Feinstein is really a Republican, then she is clearly California Democrats’ kind of Republican:
It’s kinda hard to argue with this kind of success. Clearly though, you know your California politics. What do you think about Kamala Harris?
Tree With Water
@Brachiator: “Purism” has nothing to do with anything. She gets such vote totals because the republican party of California committed electoral suicide on her watch. That’s also why her colleague in the senate is Barbara Boxer. As to Harris? At this point I trust her instincts. She immediately announced she would not seek the death penalty for a cop killer, which naturally antagonized supporters of the death penalty (Feinstein was absolutely furious, and made her disapproval loud and clear). As a life long opponent of state sanctioned murder, I naturally approved.
smike
@gbear: Seltzer water with fresh fruit juice helped me get off of the commercial soda. I missed the carbonation and the seltzer helped.
Duane
@MomSense:
Ramalama
Completely unrelated sortof, using the word “tabernacle” in Quebec is the equivalent of yelling “fuck” at a funeral. Or in a church. A church with a tabernacle.