(John Deering via GoComics.com)
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Speaking of Lucifer’s testicles… (I owe someone a hat tip for the link to that parody site, and as soon as I find out who it was they’re getting a bill for brain bleach.)
And another Easter treat for those of us who grew up in the Catholic/Christian traditions:
Damn. #Easterhttps://t.co/fO1L1utryO pic.twitter.com/0FVMnFolix
— Radass.com (@Radass) March 26, 2016
Adam L Silverman
Thanks AL, you saved me from doing the next Easter open thread and setting it up with this:
http://www.wfsb.com/story/31572301/parents-turn-easter-egg-hunt-at-pez-into-mess
There is something very wrong with our society…
schrodinger's cat
Back from my neighbor’s Easter brunch. I have a better offering than either Trump or Cruz
Beedi from Omkara, an adaptation of Othello set in the Hindi heartland.
Foot tapping music with raunchy lyrics and hawt Bipasha Basu and Vivek Oberoi is not that hard on the eyes either. Sung by Sukhwinder Singh and Sunidhi Chauhan.
RaflW
Mmmmm, raspberry stigmata. We are some seriously strange creatures, us humans.
Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)
Those are some cold-ass cookies!
@Adam L Silverman:
But what is Easter if not for sacrifice? You know, suffer the little children and all
LAO
@RaflW: I didn’t get it, till your comment. Time for a nap.
Adam L Silverman
@Schlemazel (parmesan rancor): I don’t think suffer in that sentence means what you think it means
lamh36
Princess Zoe does NOT like to be awakened early, even if it’s Easter Sunday :-)
https://twitter.com/psddluva4evah/status/714164417508683776
Origuy
Meanwhile in Pakistan, this happened.
RaflW
Oh, and this is the man that something like 27% of America wants as president:
Adam L Silverman
@Origuy: There is some speculation it may have been timed to target Pakistani Christians out and about celebrating Easter.
Tom Levenson
Ouch.
That is all.
RaflW
@Origuy: And we will see, once again, how folks like Cruz and Trump freak out when it’s Europe, and not when it is brown people. Much of the press, too. This disparate coverage of what happens in Africa, India, Pakistan, really anywhere not ethnically ‘white’ is pretty stunning.
Baud
The body and blood of Christ — now in one delicious cookie!
Mai.naem.mobile
@Adam L Silverman: on the tweeter machine they’re saying its in retaliation for an RAW guy being taken down by the Pak government. Apparently it was at a childrens park so most of the killed are kids and women.
schrodinger's cat
@RaflW: True, although the Mumbai attacks of 2008 by Kasab and company did get wall to wall coverage over here.
schrodinger's cat
@Mai.naem.mobile: Why would Taliban care about RAW, the intelligence agency of India? That makes no sense.
Baud
@RaflW: Given how much the media amps up the fear, maybe we’re better off that they only care about certain peoples.
Adam L Silverman
@RaflW: Interestingly enough I went to the BBC site and it was on the online equivalent of below the fold.
Adam L Silverman
@Mai.naem.mobile: That wouldn’t surprise me either.
ETA: wait, they’re saying on twitter that a Muslim suicide bomber blew himself and a bunch of people up because an Indian intel officer was killed? That would surprise me.
smith
@lamh36: Cute! Calm before the storm, though — in a couple of years it will be an all-day sugar high.
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: For those who like actual numbers, here’s an interesting infographic.
MattF
Someone put a lot of effort into that ‘Landoverbaptist’ site. It’s very… ‘special’…
RaflW
@schrodinger’s cat: So the NYT has the Pakistani bombing in the upper left corner, one story only on the FP. BBC has it below an ad, the top stories there include one about Sanders and one about a Concorde aircraft that never flew. I mean, really, such breaking news on man’s 1970s desire to fly past Mach 1!
Brussels garnered multiple stories and mass hyperventilation from the virtually all the Western press. There is a very obvious difference. I’m sort of shocked actually by the BBC, since so many people in the UK hail from or have connections to the India-Pakistan region.
I know it’s overworked to say ‘racism’ all the time, but, alas, I call racism.
Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)
@Adam L Silverman:
I knew that but I have heard it used that way more than once. The first time was a 60 Minutes report about physical abuse in an Irish orphanage. The Head priest quoted that to justify some pretty horrific beatings.
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
By historical standards, the death rate from violence is amazingly low.
Gardenfli
Apparently a faction of the Pakistan Taliban has claimed responsibility for the attack.
Adam L Silverman
@Gin & Tonic: What’s missing is the total number of attacks per year as well. I’ve got that chart somewhere. What’s interesting is that whether its incidents of terrorism per year or deaths from terrorism per year, its still a relatively low N phenomena given the geographic and population size of Western Europe.
Its also interesting to look at the pre 1990s numbers. A lot of those spikes, especially in the 1980s, had to do with the Troubles.
Adam L Silverman
@Schlemazel (parmesan rancor): Tracking. My favorite, as it doesn’t involve children being beaten or justifications thereof, is how the meaning of “suffers fools gladly” has changed over time.
rikyrah
@lamh36:
Zoe has no time for your foolishness..LOL
rikyrah
Those cookies are scaring.
The thing about the Easter Bunny – Peanut was 4 years old before she’d take a picture with the Easter Bunny that didn’t include crying.
Elmo
Ha! I saw that cookie pic yesterday and promptly posted it on my FB feed. Half my friends are in hysterics and the other half are Not Amused.
raven
@Adam L Silverman: I hit the guys facebook and got an “accepted” but no message yet. It’s the first time I’ve seen someone who listed Athens as where they live but had no common “friends”. I thought I had emails from you but I can’t find them. I’m markann at that google mail thing.
Gardenfli
@schrodinger’s cat:
Yup, although I think most of the attention on the Mumbai attacks probably stemmed from the fact that it was an attack where 10 guys with guns could take an entire major city hostage and kill well over a 100 people. It was one of the first major successful attacks (IIRC-which I may not be!) to use that sort of tactics to great success. In other words, I think most of the attention from the press was because of the shock that with little resources it was relatively easy to terrorize an entire major city and kill scores of people.
Of course similar tactics have been used since then in Paris, Nairobi, etc.
eemom
Those cookies are gross. Though I bet they taste pretty darn good.
SiubhanDuinne
Oh dear.
I’m afraid … that … was
//whispers//
me.
I’m sorry, Anne Laurie ?
schrodinger's cat
@RaflW: Pakistan is a basket case, Belgium is not. You don’t shed tears for some one who dies everyday (An Indian proverb). Harsh but true. Not denying that there may also be some racism involved.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Heh. when I’ve found myself in those situations, I’m often surprised at who is Not Amused.
Gin & Tonic
@Elmo: I saw your post about travel earlier but couldn’t respond at the time. Just wanted to chime in with the recs to go to Iceland. You will not be disappointed.
MomSense
@Origuy:
My son got a Facebook notification asking if he was ok since they think he may have been near the blast. The next notification asked him to tell his friends he is ok. We were all a bit WTF.
Adam L Silverman
@raven: if you’re talking about the guy I’m trying to reconnect with, his LinkedIn shows him living and working in Atlanta. So I’m now very confused.
Regardless, thanks, I appreciate your assistance.
MomSense
@SiubhanDuinne:
Did you see the PBS American Masters program on American Ballet Theater? It was wonderful. We watched it on demand this morning.
schrodinger's cat
@Gardenfli: It was not the first time Mumbai was a target. There were the 1993 blasts after the riots that followed demolition of Babur’s Mosque (courtesy Mr. Modi’s party). Several other incidents in aughts were local trains were targeted etc.,
A Ghost To Most
I guess Tissue Thin Pseudonym is in hockey heaven. The women Gophers are up 3-1 over BC with 5:30 left.
Origuy
@MomSense: Facebook screwed up.
raven
I was had put a turkey breast on the grill and the bride just ran in and yelled “the grill is on fire”. I got it out with the extinguisher but I don’t think the bird should be ate! Off to the store.
Gardenfli
@RaflW:
And the recent attacks in Istanbul & Ankara as this cartoon shows: http://indy100.independent.co.uk/article/turkish-people-are-sharing-this-cartoon-asking-where-our-sympathy-was-for-istanbul-and-ankara–ZJORO9A1eb?utm_source=indy&utm_medium=top5&utm_campaign=i100
I’m still surprised (although I probably shouldn’t be) that the massive ISIS attacks in Ankara, which kill scores of activists & young people hardly got any coverage here.
After the attack in Belgium, Sarajevo was one of the few places in Europe to show solidarity with both Belgium & Turkey.
raven
@Adam L Silverman: His facebook says he lives i Athens, he’s from Decatur and his dad is a prof at Emory.
Adam L Silverman
@raven: That’s him. He must have moved since I tried to connect via LinkedIn last year.
RaflW
@MomSense: A friend in Italy posted a bit ago that FB thinks she was near the blast as well. Great programming work, there, book o’ faces!
ETA: I see they’ve apologized. It’s not a terrible idea, but needs to work a little better!
Gardenfli
@schrodinger’s cat:
True, thanks for reminding me of the 1993 riots/bombings. What I meant about Mumbai being unique was that I got the impression that Mumbai was unique in the tactics used by the terrorists-the use of just a few guys with guns able to cause an enormous amount of destruction. You didn’t need to have the knowledge or the ability to build bombs-just the ability to get your hands on some old Kalashnikovs and you cause enormous damage.
schrodinger's cat
@Gardenfli: I actually wish that the media Punditubbies don’t go hyper like they did with Paris attacks, no matter where the attacks happen.
Adam L Silverman
@Gardenfli: what was unique, if that the right word, about the tactics used in the Mumbai attack was that they screamed Naxalite separatists. This was at the time, and still is, worrisome. Because it means one of two things. 1) The Naxalites, who combine Maoism with ethno-nationalist separatism, have begun training terrorists from other, non-Naxalite groups. 2) Groups such as Lashkar a Taibi have made a purposeful decision to adopt the Naxalite tactics, techniques, and procedures because they’re more effective, in order to confuse investigators – law enforcement, security, and intel services, and/or a combination of both.
Either of these is a bad thing.
Gardenfli
@schrodinger’s cat:
Also, people can probably imagine traveling to Belgium, not so with regards to Pakistan.
But that doesn’t explain while the recent attacks in Istanbul receive such little attention. Istanbul has cultural/geographic connections with Europe and is a part of Europe, and receives hundreds of thousands of visitors from Europe & North America and still attacks there are met by a shrug.
debbie
Those are some sick cookies.
schrodinger's cat
@Gardenfli: Bombay/Mumbai is India’s most diverse metropolis. Until the early 90s, I had naively assumed that Mumbaikars were immune to communal poison that infects the rest of India. For me those riots that followed the demolition of the Babri Masjid in late 92 and the bomb blasts in the March of the next year, shook my worldview and made me realize just how ugly things could get. The depravity of human beings towards each other has seldom surprised me after that.
I was in Mumbai in 1993 when the attacks took place. On the very next day I had to fly to Madurai, the trains were on time as was the flight. Nothing could break the spirit of the city, not even those horrific serial blasts that killed so many people, going about their regular business just the evening before.
Mai.naem.mobile
@schrodinger’s cat: @Adam L Silverman: the stuff I saw on twitter was several hours ago when #lahore was just beginning to trend. I go back to twitter joe and its all about the taliban and easter bombing. Why would the Pakistanis think the Indians would bomb them when they’re doing such a fine job bombing themselves? I just cannot understand poor countries so much money and resources on weapons and internal violence when they should be spending it on development and education.
Gardenfli
@Adam L Silverman:
I think until Mumbai LeT mostly focused on subcontinent issues-focusing mostly on Kashmir. The Mumbai attacks were also attacks against Israeli and Western interests/locations in Mumbai. It seemed that Lashkar was moving out of just focusing on Kashmir and now focusing on global targets-which was probably another reason it got so much attention.
schrodinger's cat
@Mai.naem.mobile: Hate is a stronger emotion than love, it seems.
Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)
@A Ghost To Most:
Me too! If you didn’t watch it you missed a great game
debbie
Does anyone read Jim Harrison? He moved on to the big Big Sky today. His book “Dalva” is one of my all-time favorites.
Glidwrith
@Mai.naem.mobile: Honestly, your last sentence is a good description of a certain segment of the population in this here good ol’ US of A.
SiubhanDuinne
@MomSense:
No, I didn’t, but thank you. That sounds wonderful!
Major Major Major Major
Daily Kos rec’d diary: Is It Over For Clinton?http://www.dailykos.com/stories/2016/3/27/1506794/-Is-it-game-over-for-Clinton
Anne Laurie
@SiubhanDuinne: Well, okay, you’re forgiven. But just this once!!!
Elmo
@Gin & Tonic: Thanks!
Amir Khalid
@Major Major Major Major:
Is it all over for the candidate leading by hundreds of delegates? Gee, that’s a tough one.
FlipYrWhig
@Major Major Major Major: My FB feed now favors “Bernie’s on a winning streak and woulda won the whole thing if the media hadn’t silenced him!”
SiubhanDuinne
@Gardenfli:
True of some people (North Americans) but by no means all. A former colleague had his first foreign posting in Pakistan and is really torn up by today’s bombing, in a city he knows well and impacting people for whom he has great affection.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Major Major Major Major: you made me look. That was snark-less? I vaguely remember OPOL from the days when I was a lot less discriminating in my blog reading.
@SiubhanDuinne: The columnist Richard Reeves was a foreign correspondent in Pakistan in the sixties and seventies. In some of his later columns (he retired) he would write about his affection for the country and his heartbreak at the last few years
Ultraviolet Thunder
@debbie:
Bummer. Seriously unhappy about this. I’ve read most of his fiction, and he used to live in the MI UP for a while. Must have read Brown Dog half a dozen times, and my wife loves that book.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Thank you for reminding me about Richard Reeves. I don’t think I ever read him regularly, but I do remember reading many of his columns, and I think a book (about the Kennedy years?) some time back. Good, thoughtful writer as I recall.
ETA: And now I’m wondering whether my ex-diplomat friend might have crossed paths with Reeves during his own years there. Would have been roughly the same time period.
Brachiator
@Adam L Silverman: The chart of terrorist attacks may also include incidents related to Basque and Catalan separatism, the conflict in Cyprus and related conflicts. I don’t know whether Mafia attacks on police and civilian targets would count, since this is not political.
Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)
@Major Major Major Major:
Why, its almost like Kos will let anybody post there!
debbie
@Ultraviolet Thunder:
I loved Brown Dog. He just kept keeping on.
Brachiator
@Adam L Silverman:
Weird. An attempt at comment got moderated. I was trying to note that the chart of attacks in Western Europe might also include incidents related to Basque and Catalan Independence, and to conflicts in Cyprus.
Ultraviolet Thunder
@debbie:
And The Woman Lit by Fireflies. THAT should have been a movie.
In his biographical essays in The Raw and the Cooked he described epic Hollywood meals with Orson Wells. Ending with everyone faking heart attacks to beat the tab. Actors.
Mike J
@Major Major Major Major: Betteridge’s law of headlines answers that.
raven
What a series of disasters! I torched the turkey and damn near the new deck. Ran to the store and got chicken breast to broil and serve with fresh greens and spuds. Half way through the broiling the new smoke alarm went off and it took 5 minutes to silence! I got dinner on the table but it weren’t what I’d hoped for!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Adam L Silverman: Pun alert (as I’m sure you knew). And people are more hateful and selfish than I’d previously considered.
Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)
@raven:
Sounds like a memorable family event!
raven
@Schlemazel (parmesan rancor): It’s just the two of us and the mutts so there’s that!
Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q):
Pasta how I wish I could say that
schrodinger's cat
@raven: At least you found that your smoke alarm works.
debbie
@raven:
Arghh. To lose the deck after all that work! Any chance your neighbor would let you grill in his back yard, safely away from your house?
Gin & Tonic
@raven: Pretty early for dinner if you ask me.
lamh36
So if we assume Bernie wins majority of caucuses, HRC wins primaries…where will that leave us?
raven
@debbie: I have a fireproof mat under it and the extinguisher close by. Also, our neighbor is out tenant, we own the house next door!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: I’m just happy to read you had no injuries this time. Cooking Dangerously: a series of essays by raven of Athens.
Schlemazel (parmesan rancor)
@raven:
so, a good time was had by all!
We had one son here. I roasted a lamb leg & it was perfect. Its nice when it works out that way but the best stories come from the catastrophes not the successes!
lamh36
raven
@Schlemazel (parmesan rancor): Nice!
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Awww, too bad. Sounds like one that should go into permanent family lore that always gets better (read ‘worse’) with every telling.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s about a year since I tripped carrying a plate of chicken to the grill and sliced my ulnar nerve (and damn near my whole pinky)!
ruemara
@lamh36: He’s dreaming in public.
About to switch making whole lemon tarts here. Dinner at a friend’s and dropping off dessert for another. Just wrapped up, literally, hummus, spinach & feta rolls (vegan has no feta). Just a light baking day after a morning workout. Need to make time for a little catchup labor before the dinner.
CaseyL
@raven: Sounds like the Great God of Al Fresco Dining has it in for you. Maybe you shouldn’t cook outdoors…?
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: I remember that. I had just returned from Baton Rouge where my youngest had given himself 3rd degree burns on one hand catching an almost done chicken that fell off the grill. It’s like outdoor cooking is more dangerous than ISIS or something!
ruemara
Raven, I’m sorry, but I’m laughing at your grilling disasters today. I’m glad you didn’t hurt yourself and that the deck is… not burnt down, I hope.
raven
@ruemara: I wouldn’t post it if I didn’t want it to lighten people’s day. Besides, Cole is a piker.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: I remember that too!
lamh36
So I swear I just saw someone tweet the dumbest thing.
So since Bernie won Hawaii, this dude saying, that means he “can win non-white votes”.
I was like, ummm, not quite..Hawaii’s non-white population, is NOT even close to indicative of the mainland US. but ok…
ruemara
@lamh36: there’s a whole fucking narrative that has had the effect of making me furious. Whatevs… I’m making tarts.
Patricia Kayden
@Major Major Major Major: She’s still leading in delegates (especially super delegates), so no, it’s not the end for Clinton. Silly question.
@lamh36: Or given that she’s leading the polls in many Northeastern states, maybe not.
Elie
Baked a coconut cake from scratch for dinner with my good friend Martha and her family. Also making a butter lettuce and green pea salad with herbs — very springy. The cake is wonderful and easy to make (which I always love)
I have put out an extra feeder for the incoming hummingbirds. They will be nesting in the next month and will need the nectar for the biddies as they hatch. I have one feeder attached by suckers on my office window and I love watching the Rufous and the Anna hummingbirds buzz in and out… Ahhh aint spring grand?!
Thor Heyerdahl
@Major Major Major Major: What a train wreck. Only my second comment at GOS in 3 years. My other one was also pointed at another delusional Berniac.
Luap Nor supporters had to go somewhere I guess.
Major Major Major Major
@ruemara: The BernieBros have to speak for the blacks and Latinos and Asian-Americans, who can’t speak for themselves. They’re like an annoying Lorax.
Elie
@lamh36:
Besides its the denominator! You know how many people turned out for the WA caucuses? Twelve thousand! The state pop is 7 million. (I don’t know how many registered Dems there are but I imagine we are at least a slight majority. For Pete’s sake, as I said yesterday, this caucus stuff aint all that and its not right to make more of the results than they are. A small bunch of motivated partisans made their presidential choice. That is all.
Cacti
@lamh36:
Closed primaries go especially badly for Bernie.
Remaining Closed primaries:
NY: 247 delegates
PA: 189 delegates
MD: 95 delegates
OR: 61 delegates
KY: 55 delegates
NM: 34 delegates
DE: 21 delgates
DC: 20 delegates
Cacti
@Elie:
I was actually wrong about that yesterday. The totals were for precinct level delegates for each candidate for the next caucus.
The total turnout was around 200,000 which is still pitifully low.
Over 1.7 million voted for Obama in WA in 2008 and 2012.
boatboy_srq
Wait. It’s 2016 and you’re just discovering Betty Bowers now? Wow are you behind…. She had traditional marriage and abortion nailed a while back.
ThresherK
I might have been the first person here yesterday to be told that LandoverBaptist was a parody site. I’m glad I’m not the only one.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@A Ghost To Most: I was even more excited a week ago when the game was played. But, yeah, if you’ve never had the sports team you follow fanatically win four titles in five years, you should give it a try, because it’s a blast. So are 62 game winning streaks.
Elie
@Cacti:
Thanks for the correction. That 200K was statewide. I have no idea what the proportion of folks voted in the AK and HI caucuses, but I suspect also a small proportion of the overall Democrats….
Gotta go make my salad! Toodles….
JMG
Lamb is resting, new potatoes about to go in, then I’ll steam the asparagus.
frosty fka Bro Shotgun etc etc
@raven:
You’re definitely giving him a run for the money. Glad everything worked out and you got the two of you fed.
raven
@frosty fka Bro Shotgun etc etc: I have a 20+ year head start!
RaflW
@Amir Khalid: Clinton spent 0 dollars on TV in Washington state. This says to me that her campaign figured out early that it was better to invest in states where there wasn’t a built-in ultra-hippie advantage (I love Washington state, I’m not dissing, but that corner of the US is prime Bernie territory).
I salute Mr. Sanders on his fine performance this weekend. But it isn’t a surge, it is him performing well where he’d be expected to, and HRC being strategic and having a solid plan for how to win the nom, not win each state. I expect her to have a solid, strategic plan for the Electoral College drubbing that may well be coming, too.
I hope & expect she’ll also do some good down-ballot work in the general (which is what the “outrageous” Hollywood richie-riches were giving for that got Bernie’s ire). As I’ve said all along, I think the Dems are stronger for his run. I do not like that he seems* wholly uncaring about how any democrat does in November besides him.
*My impression, probably based on too little actual inquiry.
RaflW
@raven:
This wins for ‘Best of Balloon Juice’ for the day.
Maybe the week!
Mike J
@RaflW: Yesterday in the caucus a 23 year old white kid told me he thought Bernie was better on BLM. I just rolled my eyes, said, yeah, that’s why she’s getting 70-90 of the black vote and went on.
Hal
A summary of my problems with the current political race as it stands. Particularly from the point of view of a gay, black-mixed race man who has my doubts about Hillary Clinton, but recognizes the impact of, and is fearful of, a Trump and or Cruz presidency.
http://qz.com/644985/privilege-is-what-allows-sanders-supporters-to-say-theyll-never-vote-for-clinton/
How privileged do you need to be to imagine that it’s a good idea to risk the actual lives of vulnerable Americans because you “hate” Clinton so much that you vow to stay home if Sanders doesn’t get the nomination? How protected from the consequences of a Trump presidency do you need to be to think your hatred of Clinton constitutes, as I saw someone say earlier this week, an “inviolable principle,” meaning that it’s more important than the lives of vulnerable Americans? That all applies equally to any Clinton supporters saying the same about Sanders. (We have yet to see the full weight of American anti-Semitism aimed at Sanders, and if he wins the nomination, we most certainly will.)
Vote for whoever you like in the primary. But let’s step away from vicious attacks and hatred. Let’s step away from buying into debunked conservative propaganda about Clinton’s trustworthiness. Let’s look at the candidates’ actual proposals and weigh those proposals’ actual strengths and weaknesses. Let’s respect each other’s choices in the primaries.
And whoever becomes the Democratic nominee, the stakes are far, far too high for us to selfishly stay home because we didn’t get our first choice. I will happily, proudly vote for either Clinton or Sanders, and I hope you will do the right thing and join me.
RaflW
@Mike J: Maybe the wee laddie meant “better than he used to be” on BLM?
RaflW
@Hal: Unfortunately I am seeing via FB a number of long time friends, mostly in my former state of Texas, who I think will be of the “No way, Clinton is horrible!” persuasion. Maybe being a voter in a state that hasn’t elected a Dem as governor since Ann Richards (26 freakin years ago!) makes one start to think voting barely matters. But of course the opposite is true. Staying home assures terrible folks like Perry and Abbott keep waltzing into office. Much to the detriment of marginalized and vulnerable folks.
satby
@raven: well, sounds like you still pulled off a nice dinner. Glad it wasn’t worse.
germy
American Airlines pilot arrested on tarmac after failing breathalyzer test
Peter Holley/The Washington Post March 27, 2016
Benw
While Mrs Benwrietta and I were out one of the dogs escaped. After several hours of flailing and some strange texts from the nice young man who found her, she’s home and acting like she’s too cool for school.
satby
@Hal: That’s a great article at the link, thanks for sharing!
Major Major Major Major
@Mike J: but those near folks just don’t know what’s best for them, y’know?
satby
@Benw: Glad she had a safe return.
ThresherK
@Hal: Good stuff. I may check out this Quartz place more often. I can’t really believe it’s taken this long for me to think of the word privilege to the “Bernie or Busters”, especially the ones I know personally. But it really fits.
Benw
@satby: thanks, all’s well that ends well.
Matt McIrvin
@lamh36:
With Clinton winning by a big margin in delegates.
Sanders has some more good states for him coming up–definitely Oregon, Montana, the Dakotas–and some more where he might conceivably win, like Wisconsin and Rhode Island. But these don’t give him anywhere near the number of delegates in the big Northeastern primaries like New York and Pennsylvania where Hillary has big leads and is probably going to romp.
Of the remaining really big ones, probably the best one for him is the biggest of all, California… but he’s behind there too. It’s not by quite as much, though, and there’s a lot of time for him to make a push.
It wouldn’t be a bid to actually take a majority in pledged delegates, though. It’d be a bid to remain a serious candidate, make some kind of argument to flip superdelegates, and (if that doesn’t work, which it probably wouldn’t) to maximize his influence over what happens next.
JPL
@Benw: Four days after I adopted Finch, he escaped. He went a block away and sat on someone’s door step. The lady let him in and he jumped into her arms. Since I had a number on his collar, she called to let me know. She also quizzed me about his treatment. He has a habit of telling tall tales.
NotMax
Again, because why not?
Kathleen
@rikyrah: I would describe her expression as one of regal disdain!
chris
Been away so I’m trying to catch up but I can’t. Still can’t get to Page 2. Anyone else have this problem or is it just me and my dumb Linux?
NotMax
@lamh36
Per census designations, Hawaii is just about 75% non-white.
Just FYI.
(And yes, the Bernie thing you cited was a stupid conclusion for its author to draw.)
debbie
@chris:
I believe you use this url and just substitute whatever date you’re looking for. I could be wrong, though.
https://balloon-juice.com/2016/03/27/
ETA: Whoa. A live link and no moderation?!?
prob50
@raven:
Easter: Christ, you know it ain’t easy.
Ultraviolet Thunder
@Hal:
I support HRC but if Bernie ends up with the nomination I’ll show up on election day and pull all of the D levers like I always do.
Anyone who leaves the down ballot candidates hanging over a dispute at the top shouldn’t call themselves a Democrat. Or maybe even a democrat.
Benw
@JPL: both of my dogs are enormous fibbers, especially when it comes to food.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Hal: I agree with that as well. It really pisses me off to no end to see any Democrat recycle conservative propaganda against another Democrat.
chris
@debbie: Lucky you! Thanks but that didn’t work. Next.
NotMax
@chris
It’s a known problem which has “been on the list to fix” for, let’s see – 4½ months now.
debbie’s suggestion at #136 is one workaround.
dr. bloor
@NotMax: Well, naturally the devil is in the details. In this case, the obvious details.
What percentage of Hawaiian non-whites are Black or Latina/o?
chris
@chris: Doh! If I change the actual day, ie. 26, it does work. Thanks, Debbie.
Still, wouldn’t it be easier….
prob50
@CaseyL:
If we give up outdoor grilling over exploding turkeys, filleted nerves and 3rd degree burns then the terrorist’s have won.
I just nuked some frozen lasagna for dinner. It wasn’t bad, but the event lacked even a morsel of drama.
Thor Heyerdahl
@BillinGlendaleCA: Over at GOS in the diary referenced by major^4 above, someone said Bernie is squeaky clean.
I commented that he hasn’t had his life dissected by the beltway media for 25 years. I was told to “bring it” by a Berniebot. Bring it I will, to the curb for pickup. Time to float away from there again.
chris
@NotMax: It does work for me, must have missed the memo. Glad to hear I’m not the only one.
BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: Bet you still know where your mustard is.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@chris: Everyone is having it.
Instead of trying to memorize the format for the daily archive link, look in the right sidebar for the Archives dropdown. Select the current month. The pagination links at the bottom work if you’re in the monthly archives.
Thor Heyerdahl
Lamb chops here with feta minted rice and lemon fried zucchini.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Thor Heyerdahl: I quit hanging around at GOS about 5 1/2 years ago, I also quit drinking 5 1/2 years ago.
raven
Cuze has roared back!
Thor Heyerdahl
@BillinGlendaleCA: I hadn’t been there in 3 years. There are a lot of people there who think politics on the Internet is the same as politics on the street. There’s gonna be a lot of gbcw diaries after Bernie runs out of states.
NotMax
@dr. bloor
Here’s data from the Census Bureau site:
Matt McIrvin
@Thor Heyerdahl:
That’s the thing: I don’t want to bring it, and neither does Hillary Clinton. Why should she? She’s probably going to win anyway, and smearing Sanders just hurts her in the long run by damaging her ability to bring the party together after the convention.
But it means that we have to just sort of grin and bear it when Sanders fans relay Breitbart propaganda about Clinton, and insist that she’s going down and Bernie-mentum is unstoppable. It’ll be over in a few months one way or another. But we’ll never be able to do the controlled experiment about whether Sanders’ approval ratings would really drop in a general-election campaign, unless he actually gets nominated.
chris
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: Thanks, that’s easy.
Gin & Tonic
@raven: Game like that and no hoop thread.
Mike J
@Thor Heyerdahl:
If your hands are clean, it’s usually because you haven’t been doing any of the hard work.
ruemara
@Hal: this is why I am not involved with either candidate right now, but will put in time & money in the general. I want your rights and mine protected. Trust me, I am there with you.
dr. bloor
@ruemara: Ditto. As much pissing and moaning as I am inclined to engage in on an ongoing basis, every election season I morph into A Democrat. The nominee isn’t Moses or Wonder Woman? Grow the fuck up, and pull the lever anyways. Lives depend on it.
Major Major Major Major
@BillinGlendaleCA: I was starting to think that was the trick.
Ruckus
@Major Major Major Major:
Come to think of it………….
Heliopause
@NotMax:
In addition to Hawaii, Alaska is the fifth least white state and the highest proportion native American state.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Mike J: it’s as if he never got in bed with the NRA to win a rural gun nut state in exchange for giving them blanket corporate immunity from little people filing victim law suits.
it’s as if Sanders never voted for the crime bill, the F-35, regime change in Iraq, for the wars in Kosovo and Afghanistan, against immigration reform, the auto rescue, the Ex-Im Bank, and closing GITMO.
they’re completely detached from reality.
different-church-lady
@Major Major Major Major: That man is an idiot.
different-church-lady
@lamh36:
Of course he can. It’s simply that he’s refused to until now. Or something.
Matt McIrvin
Sam Wang on Sanders’ dimming prospects.
A few commenters are going into intellectual contortions trying to come up with some way that he’s more likely to win. It’s true that you can draw a nice straight line through his national poll numbers and imagine that it will intersect Hillary Clinton’s sometime in the summer, but at best it’s before the very last primaries in June.
I suppose one possibility is that Bernie could finally gain majority Democratic support in polls taken after the primaries are over but before the convention, at which point his campaign could make a moral argument that the superdelegates have to switch to support the new popular consensus.