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Chicken Scratch (Open Thread)

by Betty Cracker|  October 19, 20157:09 pm| 103 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Election 2016, Open Threads

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Here’s part of my flock scratching over the site where the mister recently raked up some bamboo leaves:

  

Freshly turned grubs, mmm! What’s up this evening? Who’s playing on MNF? How’s the Canadian vote shaking out?

Open thread!

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  1. 1.

    WereBear

    October 19, 2015 at 7:20 pm

    Letting all animal lovers know:

    Way of Cats Fund Drive

    and thanks to all the Juicers who have helped out!

  2. 2.

    ThresherK

    October 19, 2015 at 7:21 pm

    The heat’s been turned on at the request of my wife.

    Cats are (re)discovering the winter comforter on our bed. My wife’s tabby, who goes on the bed because “mommy is there” a bit, now is sore that the other cat is encroaching on “his” turf.

  3. 3.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    October 19, 2015 at 7:22 pm

    There’s also besuboru at 8:00 EDT.

  4. 4.

    jl

    October 19, 2015 at 7:25 pm

    Thnx for chix pix. Glad they got some good grubs. Cracker is a gracious and merciful mistress of the chickens.

    Edit: there is something very calming and soothing about watching happy chickens browsing around for chicken goodies and emitting satisfied clucks.

    At first glance I thought that the red spotted chicken at the upper left had bee trained to rake for grubs and i was very impressed. We could never get our chickens to work like that.

  5. 5.

    divF

    October 19, 2015 at 7:36 pm

    I’m on an airplane to DC. Thank FSM for internet in the air!

    “Here, have some grubs, ohhh, these are very tender baby worms cooked in holy corn oil.”

    ETA: also watching the Guardian liveblog of the Canadian elections.

  6. 6.

    WereBear

    October 19, 2015 at 7:38 pm

    Last night it was 10!

    And we got our first snow.

  7. 7.

    frosty

    October 19, 2015 at 7:42 pm

    Via Booman, quote from the WaPo:

    By 59-29 percent, more Americans say Republicans’ disagreement in selecting a House speaker is a sign of dysfunction rather than reflecting healthy debate within the party, according to a new Washington Post-ABC News poll.

    There’s that number again!

  8. 8.

    redshirt

    October 19, 2015 at 7:47 pm

    @efgoldman: Same here, but I’m not turning on my heat till 11/1 at the earliest.

    I woke up to 58.5 in my kitchen this morning. But there was sun all day, and with sun I ended the day at 67.

  9. 9.

    David Koch

    October 19, 2015 at 7:48 pm

    ABC News/Washington Post Poll — Oct 15-18, 2015

    Obama Job Rating

    Approve…………….51%
    Disapprove…………45%

    At this point in his presidency, George W Bush had 29% approval and 68% disapproval rating.

  10. 10.

    Jeffro

    October 19, 2015 at 7:48 pm

    hey, Jim Webb is thinking about running as an independent…oh wait, excuse me, Independent:

    https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/post-politics/wp/2015/10/19/jim-webb-may-be-contemplating-running-as-an-independent-instead-of-as-a-democrat/

    Go for it, Jim! You’ll pull about .01% of the vote away from Hillary, a like amount away from the GOP nominee, and leave your reputation pretty much in tatters. Can’t wait to hear what part of the Dem platform you had a problem with…hmmm…

  11. 11.

    Patricia Kayden

    October 19, 2015 at 7:49 pm

    Those are some really cute chicks.

    Trying to follow the “live” Canadian election results online. http://www.thestar.com/

  12. 12.

    beltane

    October 19, 2015 at 7:50 pm

    @David Koch: Just goes to show how W was able to unite the country.

  13. 13.

    srv

    October 19, 2015 at 7:50 pm

    If only America had listened to Trump 15 years ago:

    In 2000, 19 months before Sept. 11, 2001, Donald Trump wrote extensively of the terrorism threat the United States was facing.

    Trump, who at the time was considering a presidential bid on the Reform Party ticket, went so far as to say that an attack on a major U.S. city was not just a probability, but an inevitability.

    “I really am convinced we’re in danger of the sort of terrorist attacks that will make the bombing of the Trade Center look like kids playing with firecrackers,” wrote Trump in his 2000 book, The America We Deserve. “No sensible analyst rejects this possibility, and plenty of them, like me, are not wondering if but when it will happen.”

    Trump even mentions Osama bin Laden by name, in a criticism of an American foreign policy that too quickly jumps from one crisis to the next.

    We can’t afford to make that mistake again.

  14. 14.

    Patricia Kayden

    October 19, 2015 at 7:50 pm

    @David Koch: This is great news for Secretary Clinton or Senator Sanders. President Obama’s approval rating should be in the upper 50s. He’s been an awesome President. Don’t know how he keeps so calm given his odious opponents.

  15. 15.

    beltane

    October 19, 2015 at 7:51 pm

    In Canada, Liberal is red.

  16. 16.

    redshirt

    October 19, 2015 at 7:51 pm

    Many years ago I spent an October in a cabin in the woods with no sun or heat or insulation and it was cold and brutal and I was frozen.

    My current residence is super insulated and has 100% sun and the difference is enormous. I’m still comfortable.

  17. 17.

    Patricia Kayden

    October 19, 2015 at 7:55 pm

    @Jeffro: I was ecstatic when Webb beat Macaca Allen for the Senate seat in Virginia but I don’t think he has any political future. Why he’s running for President is beyond me. Betty’s chickens have more of a chance of winning than he does.

  18. 18.

    srv

    October 19, 2015 at 7:56 pm

    Trump was warning us while Jebito was giving Atta a driver’s license:

    In the days after the 2001 attacks, news broke that most of the 9/11 hijackers carried driver’s licenses or identification cards issued by Florida’s department of motor vehicles — an agency controlled by Bush
    …
    Mohammed Atta lived in Delray Beach and rented an airplane. He had been stopped a few months before 9/11 by Florida law enforcement officials, and was told to appear in court the next month. However, he was not arrested and, the Times wrote, “deputies never learned that Atta reportedly was on a U.S. government ‘watch list’ of people tied to terrorist activity.” The newspaper also noted that while Atta tried and failed to get a driver’s license at one Florida facility, he was able to get one later at another facility.

  19. 19.

    WereBear

    October 19, 2015 at 7:58 pm

    @Patricia Kayden: Too conservative for the Dems, waaaaay too moderate for the Republicans. He’s a man without a party.

  20. 20.

    Patricia Kayden

    October 19, 2015 at 7:58 pm

    @divF: Thanks for suggesting a website for watching the Canadian election results. Go Trudeau!!

  21. 21.

    Patricia Kayden

    October 19, 2015 at 7:59 pm

    @WereBear: Thankfully, I don’t anticipate that he’ll take away any votes from the Democratic Presidential candidate next November. I think we’ve all learned from Nader 2000.

  22. 22.

    Baud

    October 19, 2015 at 8:00 pm

    @Patricia Kayden:

    Hope so.

  23. 23.

    Archon

    October 19, 2015 at 8:01 pm

    @WereBear:

    An independent Webb could potentially hurt the Democrats in a close race in Virginia, but overall I think he gets more votes from Republican leaners then Democratic leaners.

    I still would be surprised however if he got over 1 percent of the vote.

  24. 24.

    Jeffro

    October 19, 2015 at 8:01 pm

    @efgoldman: Harold who?

    j/k

    Seriously, I know he has no reputation or national recognition to speak of but what an egomaniac. “I’m polling at near 0%…therefore the focus on Hillary and Bernie is evidence that the whole process is rigged…the solution is to run as an Independent, even though I have no personal war chest, no sugar daddy, and (apparently) next to zero supporters.”

    Hey Jim, all those Reagan Democrats you thought you were gonna get? I’ve got news for you, they’re all Republicans and have been for two decades. I’d rather have Michael Steele than you in the party. I’d almost rather have David Brooks…ok, wait, that was just me being emotional…never mind about Brooks.

  25. 25.

    Jeffro

    October 19, 2015 at 8:02 pm

    @efgoldman: .01% from each party…tops…

  26. 26.

    Poopyman

    October 19, 2015 at 8:03 pm

    @srv:

    We can’t afford to make that mistake again.

    Damn right! You won’t catch me reading a book by Donald Trump.

  27. 27.

    Origuy

    October 19, 2015 at 8:07 pm

    It would be good to have a thread for the Canadian elections, but they won’t heat up until the polls close in the Eastern time zone. I found this:

    Voting hours across Canada (all times local):

    Newfoundland Time: 8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m.
    Atlantic Time: 8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m.
    Eastern Time: 9:30 a.m. – 9:30 p.m.
    Central Time*: 8:30 a.m. – 8:30 p.m.
    Mountain Time*: 7:30 a.m. – 7:30 p.m.
    Pacific Time: 7 a.m. – 7 p.m.

    How sensible!

  28. 28.

    David Koch

    October 19, 2015 at 8:07 pm

    Uh-oh. Larry David has sold you out!

  29. 29.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 19, 2015 at 8:08 pm

    Hey, Canadians! Bernard Valcourt has lost his seat! Much loathed among Canada’s Aboriginal communities, so my First Nations friends are already celebrating.

    This is going to be a verrrry interesting evening.

  30. 30.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 19, 2015 at 8:08 pm

    From the clouds a heavenly beauty descends..

    From Sanjay Leela Bhansali”s upcoming historical romance Bajirao Mastani, to be released in December. Bhansali also made Devdas. I think Ranveer Singh may be my new crush. Move over Cumberbatch.

  31. 31.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    October 19, 2015 at 8:10 pm

    I really hope I’m not going to get a frickin’ migraine every damn time it rains this winter, because I’m already tired of it. I’m hoping that it’s the push-pull from dry-and-90 to raining and back to sunny-and-90 within a few hours that’s causing the headaches.

  32. 32.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 19, 2015 at 8:10 pm

    @Origuy:

    Apparently for the first time, Canada has dropped that rule about not reporting any results until the last polls closed in the West. Very sensible acknowledgement that in today’s social media environment local outcomes can’t possibly be kept a secret.

  33. 33.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 19, 2015 at 8:10 pm

    Ugh, I can’t believe MSNBC fired half their contract players just to give that hack Michael Steel more airtime. I think he has tears in his eyes talking about Bush and 9/11.

  34. 34.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 19, 2015 at 8:12 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: What are the polls saying?

  35. 35.

    srv

    October 19, 2015 at 8:12 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone): It’s probably the iPhone.

  36. 36.

    David Koch

    October 19, 2015 at 8:12 pm

    Katy Perry endorses Hillary. Will campaign for her in Iowa.

    I’m sure some snob will try to discount this, but she has 77 million twitter subscribers world wide (more than anyone) and some incredible curves.

  37. 37.

    Roger Moore

    October 19, 2015 at 8:14 pm

    @Patricia Kayden:

    I think we’ve all learned from Nader 2000.

    I wish I could be that optimistic, especially because Webb isn’t trying to draw from the same pool of disaffected Democratic voters that Nader was.

  38. 38.

    mdblanche

    October 19, 2015 at 8:15 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: The Liberals are winning almost every seat in Atlantic Canada. That was expected but the margins are higher than expected.

    ETA: And now they’re leading in every seat in the region.

  39. 39.

    srv

    October 19, 2015 at 8:17 pm

    And you people thought Bush was a clown:

    WASHINGTON (Reuters) – U.S. military personnel rammed into the gate of a medical aid group’s hospital in Afghanistan last week to enter the grounds of the building hit in a U.S. air strike earlier this month, a Pentagon spokesman said on Monday.

    Medecins Sans Frontieres, or Doctors Without Borders, said in a statement on Friday that a U.S. tank had entered the grounds of its hospital in Kunduz without permission, damaging the compound, destroying potential evidence, and distressing its staff.

    Department of Defense spokesman Captain Jeff Davis said on Monday that the vehicle in question was not a U.S. tank, but rather an Afghan tracked vehicle transporting a U.S. team on Oct. 15 to conduct an inspection to determine the structural integrity of the building.

    The team mistakenly believed there were no MSF personnel at the site, and rammed into the gate to gain access to the compound, Davis said.

  40. 40.

    Baud

    October 19, 2015 at 8:18 pm

    @David Koch:

    I’ll have to work extra hard to get Lady Gaga.

  41. 41.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 19, 2015 at 8:19 pm

    @mdblanche: Will that hold for other geographical regions too?

  42. 42.

    mdblanche

    October 19, 2015 at 8:21 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: We’ll see…

  43. 43.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 19, 2015 at 8:21 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    Most recent I saw from Oct 17 (Oct 6 in parens, and sorry cannot post link or image of graph):

    Liberals 44 (29)
    Tories 22 (26)
    NDP 8 (11)

    The upward trajectory of the Grits in the past few days has been quite stunning.

  44. 44.

    Origuy

    October 19, 2015 at 8:22 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: My sense (based on spending a week in the Maritimes this summer) is that Atlantic Canada is a lot more liberal than the West. Not sure how Ontario and Quebec break out.

  45. 45.

    redshirt

    October 19, 2015 at 8:22 pm

    Is there a Canadian Ralph Nader?

  46. 46.

    PaulW

    October 19, 2015 at 8:23 pm

    please please please Canada go sane tonight.

  47. 47.

    PaulW

    October 19, 2015 at 8:23 pm

    which network is covering the Canada election results?

  48. 48.

    David Koch

    October 19, 2015 at 8:24 pm

    @Baud: Future Headline: Ladies go Gaga for Baud

  49. 49.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 19, 2015 at 8:24 pm

    @PaulW:

    CBC :-)

  50. 50.

    David Koch

    October 19, 2015 at 8:27 pm

    @PaulW: SCTV

  51. 51.

    mdblanche

    October 19, 2015 at 8:27 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: Their livestream is available south of the border tonight.

  52. 52.

    guachi

    October 19, 2015 at 8:30 pm

    Cspan2 in America for the CBC simulcast.

  53. 53.

    redshirt

    October 19, 2015 at 8:30 pm

    @PaulW:

    please please please Canada go sane tonight.

    Watch sane people split their votes so the insane can vote as a block and win.

  54. 54.

    Shana

    October 19, 2015 at 8:32 pm

    @Patricia Kayden: With you on that one. He supposedly didn’t run for reelection because he didn’t like being in the Senate. How in hell he thinks being President would be easier or better is beyond me. He’s also lousy on the campaign trail. Saw him a couple of times during the campaign and he was visibly uncomfortable. Couldn’t even bring himself to ask for campaign funds. In someone’s living room in front of about 50 people.

  55. 55.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 19, 2015 at 8:33 pm

    Can’t remember where our various Canadians are located, but in case anyone here lives in or near Owen Sound (Georgian Bay/Bruce Peninsula), my cousin Dave Carr is anchoring local election coverage on Rogers. Big guy with a full beard and an affable manner.*

    (ETA: *Which makes him sound a bit like Santa Claus)

  56. 56.

    divF

    October 19, 2015 at 8:35 pm

    @PaulW:
    It looks like the Liberals are running the table in the Maritimes and Newfoundland. The last riding that was leaning Conservative in NB just flipped to a Liberal win, according to the Toronto Star.

    ETA: Oops, it flipped back again. But it is only one out of 32.

  57. 57.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 19, 2015 at 8:37 pm

    Schaden your freude

    ‏@ writerknowles
    Chris Christie in 10th place, polling at 1% in new NBC/WSJ poll. Ouch.

    Somewhere Mika Brzezinski is quoting Pauline Kael, but probably doesn’t know it.

  58. 58.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    October 19, 2015 at 8:38 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    For some reason, I thought of Captain Jim from LM Montgomery’s “Anne’s House of Dreams”:

    I thought I was only a moderate Grit, but when the news came out that we were in I found out how Gritty I really was.

  59. 59.

    David Koch

    October 19, 2015 at 8:41 pm

    ?Liberals are CRUSHING Canada?

    So far they’ve won 31 seats, while conservatives have only won…… wait for it….. 1

    ➡️Results↩️

  60. 60.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 19, 2015 at 8:42 pm

    @David Koch: How many seats in their House of Representatives?

    ETA: Wikipedia say 338, so the winning party needs 170
    seats.

  61. 61.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 19, 2015 at 8:43 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone):

    I should have pegged you long ago as a “Girls’ Own” aficionado!

  62. 62.

    Peale

    October 19, 2015 at 8:45 pm

    All I need is 7 more TDs to Beckham, and I’ll win this week.

  63. 63.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 19, 2015 at 8:45 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:

    As of today, 338 seats in the Canadian House of Commons.

  64. 64.

    Patricia Kayden

    October 19, 2015 at 8:47 pm

    @David Koch: Yes. If the Liberals sweep Ontario and Quebec, they should be golden. It’s going to be a long night for a Conservatives.

  65. 65.

    Mnemosyne (iPhone)

    October 19, 2015 at 8:47 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    It’s really only Anne I love — I never got into any of Montgomery’s other heroines. In retrospect, it’s because Anne clearly has ADHD, just like me.

  66. 66.

    David Koch

    October 19, 2015 at 8:48 pm

    What are they putting in the Molson

    ?Blue Jay fans are going nutz.

  67. 67.

    Roger Moore

    October 19, 2015 at 8:49 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat:
    They have a House of Commons, not a House of Representatives, and it will have 338 members this time around.

  68. 68.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 19, 2015 at 8:52 pm

    @Roger Moore: OK I should have said the lower house of the Parliament. I was not sure what the Canadians called it.

  69. 69.

    Redshift

    October 19, 2015 at 8:55 pm

    @Roger Moore: There’s no need to worry about a Nader scenario. I live in Virginia, and Webb just has no significant following to build on.

    He had a big enough group of passionate supporters to sway a Democratic Senate primary, where the initial candidate was perceived as being a corporate tool. They supported him because they wanted someone more progressive, they moved on to candidates like Obama, and now he’s spent this campaign pissing on people like then.

    Also, Webb hates campaigning and he hates fundraising, so he’ll never even have a Nader level campaign, even in Virginia.

  70. 70.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 19, 2015 at 8:56 pm

    @Redshift: Why is he even running? To sell a book?

  71. 71.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 19, 2015 at 8:58 pm

    @Mnemosyne (iPhone):

    Anne clearly has ADHD

    Oooh, an entirely new way of reading LMM, the Patty books, the Patty Fairfield books, the Maida series…..

    Aren’t I just going to have fun this winter on my annual trawl through childhood favorites!

  72. 72.

    Gravenstone

    October 19, 2015 at 9:01 pm

    @redshirt: Hey now, Canada isn’t Maine.

  73. 73.

    Redshift

    October 19, 2015 at 9:04 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: Damned if I know. He’s a successful author (from before he was a politician), so I don’t think it’s that.

    I suspect he’s been convinced (by people like Mudcat Saunders) that there’s a constituency for a conservative Democrat, and that he can bring people together.

    Honestly, when he spoke last year at a local campaign event, his main message was about economic justice, and how Democrats should be able to make that issue their own. If he was actually talking about that, he might be doing slightly better.

  74. 74.

    beltane

    October 19, 2015 at 9:07 pm

    Word is that the Conservatives are in the process of getting “obliterated” in Canada. Although I live 30 miles south of the border, this makes me very, very happy. Wingnut tears are sweet no matter where they flow.

  75. 75.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 19, 2015 at 9:08 pm

    I just sent a message (en français) to a French-Canadian friend. In it, I used the word vraiment.

    Autocorrect insisted on turning “vraiment” into “crabmeat.”

  76. 76.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 19, 2015 at 9:10 pm

    @efgoldman: I don’t actually care, I am just mildly curious. He seems so curmudgeonly and cranky, and not a people’s person. Why then subject oneself to all the meet and greet and mingling that running for President requires.

  77. 77.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 19, 2015 at 9:12 pm

    @beltane: We need to come up with a recipe for wingnut tears

    1 shot whiskey
    Angostura bitters
    and a dash of lime
    some simple syrup
    crushed ice

  78. 78.

    Peale

    October 19, 2015 at 9:15 pm

    I don’t know if I can accept ‘ridings’ as a political term. How it differs from a district, I’ll never know.

  79. 79.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 19, 2015 at 9:16 pm

    @schrodinger’s cat: 1 shot whiskey

    Old Granddad?

    Good lord. TRMS has a poll showing Martin O’Malley has fallen to statistical zero with Lessig and Chafee. That to me is as big a surprise as any in this weird-ass election cycle. I’d think he would be at least between 5 and 10%

  80. 80.

    Baud

    October 19, 2015 at 9:18 pm

    @beltane:

    Excellent.
    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I’m surprised too.

  81. 81.

    Peale

    October 19, 2015 at 9:21 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: it’s gotta hurt. Biden isn’t running, didn’t go to the debate, and didn’t lose any ground. At least o’malley appears to be playing the game. It’s like coming in fourth in the all star ballot to two over the hill stars batting .255 and the player who’s been on the DL since April.

  82. 82.

    David Koch

    October 19, 2015 at 9:21 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I don’t know, I find him to have zero authenticity and zero charisma. Plus he likes to criticize Obama. That’s a formula for less than zero.

  83. 83.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 19, 2015 at 9:25 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Why not? Or we could go with one shot gin, since tears are clear. Bombay Sapphire, perhaps?

  84. 84.

    PurpleGirl

    October 19, 2015 at 9:27 pm

    @Origuy: I have a number of acquaintances who live in the British Columbia and they are decidedly conservative, of the American personal responsibility cult type. Individualism to the utmost. One in particular thinks an American-style medical system would be preferred to what Canada has now.

  85. 85.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 19, 2015 at 9:27 pm

    @efgoldman: On paper, he’s a great candidate, all his positions and a lot of his moves as governor of MD (decent sized, southern(ish) state) seemed like they should have made him the hero to the D-Kos crowd (what I know of them, I haven’t looked at that site much in the last five years or so). Young-ish compared to Clinton.

    @David Koch: As a Wire fan I was brought up short when I heard he was the model for Tommy Carcetti, and even more so when I found out how well founded that (apparently) was. Like you I find him pretty charisma free. I haven’t heard his Obama criticism, but I have found his criticism of HRC pretty hollow, considering none of it bothered him in ’08 when he assumed he might be her Veep pick.

  86. 86.

    mdblanche

    October 19, 2015 at 9:31 pm

    And the polls are closing from Quebec to Alberta…

  87. 87.

    mdblanche

    October 19, 2015 at 9:41 pm

    CBC calling it for the Liberals.

  88. 88.

    David Koch

    October 19, 2015 at 9:41 pm

    BREAKING CBC: TRUDEAU WINS IN LANDSLIDE

    Justin Trudeau to become 23rd Prime Minster of Canada

  89. 89.

    Baud

    October 19, 2015 at 9:42 pm

    @David Koch:

    Yay.

  90. 90.

    David Koch

    October 19, 2015 at 9:43 pm

    @Baud: Thanks Obama

  91. 91.

    mdblanche

    October 19, 2015 at 9:47 pm

    @David Koch: I’m sure Obama will be privately thrilled to finally be able to meet with a Canadian Prime Minister who won’t be trying to sell him a pipeline.

  92. 92.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 19, 2015 at 9:48 pm

    @David Koch:

    My Facebook (which is probably half Canadian) is just exploding with joy!

  93. 93.

    PaulW

    October 19, 2015 at 9:49 pm

    The Blue Jays are just killing the Royals.

  94. 94.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 19, 2015 at 9:50 pm

    @mdblanche:

    OTOH, Obama and Trudeau are diametrically opposed on TPP. But in general, the relationship should warm up considerably over the frosty tenor of the last few Harper years.

    HEAVE STEVE!
    SCARPER, HARPER!

  95. 95.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 19, 2015 at 9:51 pm

    @PaulW:

    Yet another piece of excellent news coming out of Canada!

  96. 96.

    Elie

    October 19, 2015 at 9:54 pm

    @David Koch:

    YAYYYYYYYAYYYYAYYYYA!!!!!!!

  97. 97.

    J R in WV

    October 19, 2015 at 9:57 pm

    @David Koch:

    Any Democrat who disses President Obama while running for office deserves what he is about to get. In business it would be fired, in politics it’s LOSER !!

    Obama is even better than President Clinton was, and Clinton did pretty well with the hatred he had to put up with. I never understood why the Republicans hated him so hard, it was almost like the racist hatred they have shown President Obama.

    I guess it was because no Democrat is really eligible for the presidency to a real republican, you think?

    But pretending Clinton’s affair/lies about said affair was High Crimes was just sad. And the American people saw it for what it was and supported their popular president.

    I suspect that’s all that has kept them from impeaching President Obama, the history of how their attempt at ending President Clinton’s wound up.

  98. 98.

    Comrade Mary

    October 19, 2015 at 10:07 pm

    Hi, guys!

  99. 99.

    David Koch

    October 19, 2015 at 10:32 pm

    @Comrade Mary: well, his mom was a gorgeous model. So it obviously rubbed off.

  100. 100.

    FlyingToaster

    October 19, 2015 at 10:54 pm

    @Jeffro: The Democratic Party platform does not acknowledge the superiority of Scots-Irish Appalachia. Which is what he wants to be president of.

  101. 101.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 19, 2015 at 11:07 pm

    @David Koch:

    Margaret Trudeau is in the rare company of Abigail Adams and (spit!) Barbara Bush in being the wife of one national leader and the mother of another.

    You’ll thank me one day when you’re playing (Canadian-invented) Trivial Pursuit, or (Canadian-hosted) Jeopardy!

  102. 102.

    Cervantes

    October 20, 2015 at 12:31 am

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    Margaret Trudeau is in the rare company of Abigail Adams and (spit!) Barbara Bush in being the wife of one national leader and the mother of another.

    Hester Pitt (UK), Kamala Nehru (India), Begum Nusrat Ispahani (Pakistan), Rahah Noah (Malaysia), Kwa Geok Choo (Singapore), Aniseh al-Assad (Syria) — and others, and assorted queens world-wide and throughout history, too, if you want to count them!

  103. 103.

    schrodinger's cat

    October 20, 2015 at 10:00 am

    @Cervantes: Kamala Nehru was dead long before Jawaharlal became Prime Minister, let alone Indira Gandhi.

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