Trigger Warning: Don Lemon is doing the post Town Hall show!
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Trigger Warning: Don Lemon is doing the post Town Hall show!
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Baud
The TV is safely off.
I continue to believe that the Dems should ditch moderators and only have town hall.
All three probably had their best night of the season. My only major criticism was in the quality of the questions that Clinton got, which I thought wasn’t as substantive as Sanders and O’Malley got.
I would have kicked ass had I been invited.
amk
mh370!!!
Adam L Silverman
@amk: No love for Kathy Griffin’s rack?
(I think I’m ashamed I wrote that…)
jl
@Baud: As always, the silent strength of Baud was impressive. You captured the vote of every single one of the audience who knows their Baud.
jl
@Adam L Silverman: You are working for the Baud campaign, aren’t you?
Baud
@jl: Thanks, jl. What you recognize as silent strength, some people view as a lack of passion. Oh well, I’m not going to get every vote.
Adam L Silverman
@jl: Apparently I’ve been offered the job of bouncer in the Baud Administration.
Rule 1: Never underestimate your opponent. Expect the unexpected.
Rule 2: Take it outside.
Rule 3: Be nice, until its time to not be nice.
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: True. You only need about 65 million.
NotMax
Satisfying nap this afternoon.
Went out to pick some lemons which are currently ranging from 10 – 12 inches around. For a a pasta dish may make tonight or tomorrow, Weird thing is that about one-fifth of the lemons on the tree right now are not yellow, but orange.
Not pale orange either. Navel orange orange.
dmsilev
@Adam L Silverman: I hope you check IDs at the White House door and only allow in people who’s mental and emotional ages exceed 21. Which will exclude virtually all Republicans and most network reporters and pundits.
Baud
@NotMax: Best segue from Don Lemon ever.
Baud
@Adam L Silverman: Impressive. I hope my other patronage appointments are preparing as thoroughly as you are.
jl
@Baud: I agree with you that this town hall was surprisingly good. Some of that, as I said in previous thread, may be due to the poor moderation of the debates.
To counter the unfair treatment of the Baud campaign, we could ship a life-size cut-out photo with a loop of some of the famous Baud campaign lines. Like “pull my finger” and ‘if you were drunk, then it would make sense’
BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax:
Dude, I think those are grapefruit.
Mike J
@Adam L Silverman: I once had to use a Fender Telecaster on somebody in a bar. Problem had started while i was at the back tuning in a quiter spot. One of the few times i would have preferred a Gibson. They tend to be heavier.
Baud
@jl:
Don’t forget, “Reach across, not around.”
Or is it, “Reach around, not across”?
No worries. I’ll get it down before the summit with Putin.
BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: You forgot, ‘I’ll show up in assless chaps’.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Suggested sampler to hang on the wall of campaign HQ, same as the one pictured here.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: Lifting from Road House?
Adam L Silverman
@Mike J: You go to war with the guitar you have, not the guitar you want.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: I want a Gibson.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Funny thing is that Lil Abner is actually the only musical I can actually sit through. The classic film version, with Stubby Kaye is brilliant:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_TfcJ82FAhw
Gin & Tonic
@BillinGlendaleCA: There isn’t any other kind, by definition.
jl
@Baud: Just don’t stagger over to the moderator and throw up. And don’t try to wedgie your opponent on national TV.
Or, at least try to maintain until one of the GOPers goes there.
NotMax
@>BillinGlendaleCA
Citrus is going crazy this year so far. Could use the fruits hanging on the orange tree for lawn bowling.
Betty Cracker
@NotMax: Sounds like Meyer lemons, but presumably you’d know if you had a Meyer lemon tree. They’re my favorite kind of lemons — larger than average and sweeter.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: Sort of. I worked as a bouncer for several years in grad school. At a very large entertainment complex in Scotland. Those are pretty standard.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Gin & Tonic: I know, but the full description sounds better.
ETA: It’s also what BAUD!!!2016!!! said.
jl
As for the results. I think HRC really helped herself for the Iowa caucuses. I think she won, in that respect.
Amir Khalid
@Omnes Omnibus:
Aren’t Gibsons the ones made with wood from endangered tree species?
PurpleGirl
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Yay for you! That’s really good.
satby
@Baud:
I’m totally working the intensity in preparation for my cabinet appointment.
Baud
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Congrats!
@BillinGlendaleCA: In context, it was much more statesmanlike than you make it seem.
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid: Allegedly.
BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: But, barfing on the Japanese Prime Minister is perfectly acceptable.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: what gauge?
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: No, they are made with pickled cocktail onions.
jl
I watched a youtube of the Fusion town hall. That was recent, wasn’t it? That was pretty good too.
Edit: I think I meant Univision. I’ll try to find it.
Edit2: what the hell was that I watched? I can’t find it now.
satby
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Oh, well done you!
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA: Maybe. He did lose his reelection bid.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Heh, outreach!!!
(or is that reach out, or reach around…)
Omnes Omnibus
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Bravo.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
The non-musical film made twenty years before the musical version is an, um, interesting experiment. The saving grace is that it includes Buster Keaton among the cast.
Adam L Silverman
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Mazel Tov! Mumtez Jiddan!
PurpleGirl
@Amir Khalid: I don’t think all of them are, but yes, Gibson was caught using wood from endangered trees and they paid a hefty fine.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman: HO.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Never seen that one.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: To a Clinton, no less.
ETA: Just stay away from the sour kimchi, Baud.
PhoenixRising
@Amir Khalid: only in the sense that all trees are somewhere endangered now.
I think you’re thinking of an import ban on rosewood that Gibson asked for a carve out (pun intended) on, because they make their guitars in the US. The other guys not so much.
(Since I’m interested in both acoustic guitars and logging in SE Asia, for different reasons, I thought I’d go ahead and swing at that one, but if it was intended for Baud, our candidate, I’m sure he will speak up.)
Adam L Silverman
@BillinGlendaleCA: That’s model trains, right?
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus:
Fresh from the Department of Redundancy Department.
Prescott Cactus
@Gin & Tonic:
When Customs doesn’t catch them they are.
PhoenixRising
@BillinGlendaleCA: well played. I’m out. Bedtime.
Baud
@PhoenixRising: I just so happen to have an open seat on my SE Asia Logging Policy Committee. You’d be perfect.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: It was for Amir’s benefit.
PurpleGirl
@PurpleGirl: FYWP — wouldn’t let me edit my comment.
I don’t remember what the fine was, but they did have problems because of the wood they were using.
Amir Khalid
@PhoenixRising:
Omnes says Gibson guitars are made from pickled cocktail onions, and I trust him on this.
jl
This what I watched:
2016 Brown & Black Democratic Presidential Forum
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vt3n7ugOj80
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Definite B movie, nearing C level.
Trailer.
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: Oh, dear. One really has gotten hold of the wrong end of the stick.
Baud
@jl: Oh wow. I didn’t even know that existed.
Adam L Silverman
Time for me to rack out. You all have a nice night. And I will do a Malheur standoff update sometime tomorrow.
PhoenixRising
@Baud: Thanks for the offer. But if we’re going to continue the current policy regarding the issue, which in sum is “Yes, and can you get it done before relations with China are normalized so we get the wood?” I’m afraid I have to spend that time in some more productive fashion.
Like playing the Gibson I don’t own. My dad, who was an artillery LT, bought it in 1965. I’m taking care of the guitar for the next generation.
Villago Delenda Est
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Two Words:
Woo!
Hoo!
Congratulations!
jl
@Baud: I guess that explains why you didn’t appear at that one.
Worst campaigner than Jeb.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I do not know the song and I am not clicking on the link.
The Republic, Blah Blah Blah...
@Mike J: Yes… Les Pauls have solid bodies…
BillinGlendaleCA
@Adam L Silverman: Yup.
Anne Laurie
@Omnes Omnibus: Balloon Juice After Dark!
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Congratulations!
BillinGlendaleCA
@Anne Laurie: That’s a scary thought.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Congrats.
ThresherK (GPad)
@NotMax: I did not know that existed, and now I want to see it.
Elizabelle
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: Way to go! Congrats!
Good night, all.
And thanks again (to JPL?) for the town hall link. (Here it is, for future reference. Worked pretty well; had to refresh occasionally.)
http://www.livenewschat.eu/democratic-debate-live-stream/
amk
@Baud: ever get a feeling nobody tells you anything any more?
NotMax
@efgoldman
Directed it one time. Had a live actor portraying the statue of Cornpone in the town square.
Seated, because it would be too much to ask of him otherwise. Agreeing to be made up in silverish body make-up and stay stock still was above and beyond, without risking pain from cramping on top of that.
But we arranged for his arms and hands to be in a different position each time the lights came up, up to and including thumbing his nose during one long scene. Took a while for the audience to catch on and already be giggling in anticipation of the next appearance.
During curtain calls, the cast parted and he got to stand and take his solo bow.
Mike J
@The Republic, Blah Blah Blah…: Most telescope too.
PurpleGirl
@efgoldman: Yes, and now I’m hearing part of it as an earworm…. damn you.
Mike J
@Mike J: Stupid autocorrect.
Omnes Omnibus
@PurpleGirl: Every once in a while I provide a good example. I will readily admit that my advice is usually far better than my example.
NotMax
@efgoldman
Not also Julie Newmar as Stupefyin’ Jones?
Davebo
Can I just say that the rumor that Baud is self funding his campaign is a lie?
The truth is, Cambodian children under the age of 14 are sewing volleyballs with their teeth to generate revenue for Baud’s evil campaign.
That’s not all bad, but the fact is there are children in Iowa willing to do the same work but Baud hate’s Iowan’s.
I’m not saying that the candidate named for an antiquated measurement of data transfer rates is evil (though we all know he is). I’m just saying think about those Cambodian children.
Davebo
@efgoldman: Five words of butchered english.
Obviously a Baud supporter!
Mike J
@Davebo: Tecvhnically it’s not a measure of transfer rate, it’s a measure of state changes. In practice it usually means the same thing, but there is a difference.
PurpleGirl
@efgoldman: Well, yesterday I heard deBlasio’s comments about the areas not cleaned and he mentioned Sunnyside and Woodside. I live in Woodside but on Queens Blvd, which was plowed. Not sure it will cost deBlasio as not plowing cost Lindsay because deBlasio was open and forthcoming about the problem.
ETA: What I think was more of a problem this morning was that the public schools were open today. Getting to the schools was a major problem for a lot of kids.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Just watched Mrs Christie’s Bully Boy get petulant and sarcastic with someone who asked him why he wasn’t taking care of business in his home state.
He may finally get that bump into double digits.
The Republic, Blah Blah Blah...
@Mike J: I assume you mean most TeleCASTERS too?
True… and those Les Pauls were HEAVY…
Davebo
@Mike J:
Nobody likes a smart ass! And seriously, can’t everything be described as a measure of state changes?
I would work full time trying to derail Baud’s virtual presidential campaign but sadly I’m having a hard time monetizing the effort.
Damn! How does Sarah Palin pull it off?
Davebo
@The Republic, Blah Blah Blah…: But the sound!
Omnes Omnibus
@Davebo: Plus, they simply look cooler than any Fender. Also, I won’t argue with Mick Jones and Mike Ness.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Davebo:
It’s the rack.
(and the fancy pageant walkin’)
The Republic, Blah Blah Blah...
@Davebo: You mean the difference between whacking someone over the head w/ a hollow body vs a solid body guitar?
Who did that at Woodstock? Townsend, whacked Abbie Hoffman over the head when Hoffman tried coming on stage during the Who’s set?
David *Rafael* Koch
@PurpleGirl:
Remember when deBlasio first entered office 2 years ago and a snow storm hit and some parts of the upper east side weren’t cleared but Queens was and the media started freaking out saying he was playing favorites, aiding political strong holds and punishing the rich. Now it’s the other way around and he still can’t win.
frosty fka Bro Shotgun etc etc
@Mike J:
But not the SG. Pete Townsend said he didn’t start out smashing his guitars, he just played so hard they broke. Something about feeling like they were made from balsa wood.
Davebo
@Omnes Omnibus: That and the custom has the nifty flip out speed winders.
But don’t get me wrong, I still love an old Tele. Maybe it’s nostalgia. The upside of liking old guitars, when things go to shit the pawn shops will always take them!
rook to queen's 8
@Mike J:
Not sure that “usually” still applies here. Was true back in the day when amplification and frequency modulations were the predominant norm, like back in the 300 bps/300 baud acoustic modem days,
but with the advent of commodity DSPs in the mid-1980s and the associated practicality of more advanced (comparatively, back in those days) modulation schemes like PSK, the distinction between baud (symbols per second) and bps (bits of information per second) has mostly diverged.
If you’re talking about the communications channel of serial-communications-console (which has become more of a low-level techie thing), then yeah, baud and bps are (almost?) always numerically the same. But the more ubiquitous coding used for WiFi and cell-carrier data links is all multi-bit-per-symbol.
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus: Teles are the coolest, after Rickenbackers, of course.
Omnes Omnibus
@Davebo: Honestly, I was a violinist and put the Gibson thing in for the onion joke. If I buy an electric guitar, though, it will be a Les Paul. I am a Wisconsin boy.
NotMax
@Mike J
No affection for Gretsch?
Goblue72
@David *Rafael* Koch: He’s a liberal. Liberals aren’t allowed to win. They must always be criticized and torn down by the corporate controlled media until a handmaiden to wealth – or in case of Bloomberg, wealth itself – can be installed.
Omnes Omnibus
@Goblue72: You are an idiot. Sleep well. And, since you are an asshole, fuck off.
Davebo
@NotMax: Back in 85 or so I used to hang out at a guitar shop called the music box in Jax FL and they had the ugliest pea green Gretsch semi hollow you could imagine.
One day Roy Clark of all people walked in and dropped 4k (in 85 dollars) to buy it.
At the time I knew nothing about Gretsch guitars but obviously that one was special.
Mike J
@NotMax: I had one! Not one of the really cool hollow bodies, but I liked it anyway.
James E Powell
@Davebo:
Was it this color? Gretsch has some strange colors, in addition to some natural finishes.
I started out with Les Pauls. Had two, sold them both. Sometimes I dream I still have the black custom. But when I had them, I almost never played them. Somewhere along the line I became a tele guy. Lately I’m intrigued by G&L updates of the tele, but I have yet to buy one.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Mike J:
Good popcorn.
Davebo
@James E Powell:
No, I mean seriously pea green. It was ugly but it was number x of who knows how many. Back then it was word of mouth to find it. Pre-intertubes.
It was awesome meeting Roy Clark. A super nice guy in addition to being a great musician. Allen Collins used to wheel his ass in also. Asshole.
mclaren
@Baud:
No.
Thunderdome.
“Two men enter, one man leaves, TWO MEN ENTER ONE MAN LEAVES!”
Or one woman, in this case.
Unintentionally hilarious Trump Playboy interview from 1990:
“I don’t use glitz in all cases. And in my residential buildings, I sometimes use flash, which is a level below glitz.”
.
tybee
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
congrats!
debbie
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
I just saw your decision in the other thread. Good move, especially with this news. Kirkus may be stuffy, boring, and traditional, but they’ve got major pull for the part of the market you need to crack. Congratulations!