Busy two days. Had a bunch of stuff to take care of yesterday, and this morning I was off at the farmer’s market when Christion called me an told me he needed to go to the hospital. He cracked a tooth two weeks ago and never told me or DID ANYTHING ABOUT IT and his face had swollen up the size of a grapefruit, so I rushed home and spent a couple hours there. He’ll be fine, on some strong antibiotics and off to a dentist on Monday.
I was kinda pissed at him because HAD HE TOLD ME I could have told him that stuff like that is nothing to screw around with and that those types of infections can quickly escalate into life or death situations. I took to calling him Elephant Man and asking him if his siamese twin wanted me to pick him up some soft food. which I suppose was unnecessary.
I’m off for a nap and then I am taking Walter to Harry and Chatman’s Barn With Inn for a little romp and to meet some other dogs.
BruceFromOhio
Barn With Inn weather widget has some interesting numbers.
Looks like a fun place for critters and humans.
Pogonip
Glad Walter’s well enough to romp. Has he barked yet?
I hope Christian feels better soon!
germy
from the Washington Post:
Amir Khalid
@germy:
Trump surely knows better than to actually lie under oath. I take it that deposition was given under oath. How much of it is true, and how much was self-serving half-truths?
germy
@Amir Khalid: perhaps same ratio as when he’s NOT under oath?
Pogonip
@srv: did any of you read Jackie Chan’s autobiography? If not, get thee to the library. He’s a funny athlete who’s led a fascinating life since he was sold to the Chinese Opera at age 8 or thereabouts.
sigaba
Kenny Baker, British music hall performer and the actor behind “Star Wars’s” R2-D2, dead at 81
germy
@srv: Jackie’s the real deal. His own stuntman.
I wonder if Trump will have the greenscreen man behind him for all future rallies? To sort of nudge him when he goes off topic, while staying invisible to the cameras? Better than the shock collar some here have suggested.
Pogonip
I pulled a muscle in my leg and am walking like Tim Conway’s old-man character (I just dated myself). I sure hope it’s not this sore tomorrow when I MUST go to the big box. For now, I sit with my ice pack and await a romp account from Walter’s factotum, Cole.
Ultraviolet Thunder
Hope Christion is better soon. I’ve been in that situation and it’s miserable.
germy
@Pogonip: Jackie’s a big Buster Keaton fan. I’m always reminded of Keaton standing quietly while the house falls down on him whenever I see Mr. Chan defy danger…
redshirt
@germy: Even back in the early 1900’s everyone on that film begged Keaton not to do that stunt. He didn’t listen. He was crazy. Crazy talented too.
germy
@redshirt: Crew turned their back during the take.
lamh36
Watching Olympics and wondering if the Divers are nervous about the green pool…
Also following the #KatrinaPiersonHistory on twitter @LoraineBlue9
Moses received Fifteen Commandments, but Obama vetoed five of them.
lamh36
Alright USA Men’s #volleyball let’s do this!
#Olympics #Rio2016
MattF
About mouth/tooth infections– I’ve had a few, and I’ve found that dentists/endodontists will generally drop everything and help you out.
Mary G
@lamh36: Are you OK in all the rain?
MattF
@efgoldman: Ugh. Tell me about it. There’s basic changes in gait and balance that go along with aging.
Mary G
John, did Walter have his follow up over visit yesterday? How much weight has he gained? Please take photos of him romping and meeting the other dogs.
Earl
@John — if Christion needs help either w/ the unexpected hospital visit or emergency dental visit, please let us (me?) know. Been there, done that, right after college before I had a proper job.
Mary G
@Mary G: Follow up get visit, FuAutoCorrect.
When did vet become not a word?
pamelabrown53
Yo John! I always love your daily crisis bulletins.Yet today I have my own daily crisis: I live in north east Fl., agreed to house a Hillary campaign organizer for the duration the day before yesterday.I was astonished by the speed of response. Our organizer is scheduled to arrive this coming Tuesday. Now I’m freaked:. Spent much of today making certain that there’s plenty of drawer/closet/bathroom space so that he can have a cool, calm, collected space to unwind while he works to deliver Florida to Hillary.
Still, the selfish part of me worries that I’ve taken a too big bite.
Schlemazel
@redshirt:
Harold Lloyd, a great comic silent actor, not only did his own stunts (most famous picture is of him hanging from a tower clock minute hand in “Safety Last”) was missing a thumb. The hand he is hanging on to the minute hand with only has the 4 fingers.
They were insane
JPL
@pamelabrown53: You are such a good person!
Frivolous
Hope Christon gets better soon. I admire your niceness to him, John Cole.
lamh36
@Mary G: I’m good thx…the rain and water is West of NOLA or on the other side of the lake and river…so up round Baton Rouge way.
Mai.naem.mobile
Please post pics of Walter romping.
Hope Christion feels better. Hope he has dental insurance. Try and get the dentist to save the tooth(even if its $$$) esp. if its not an end of chain tooth. Pulling a tooth in the middle weakens the whole chain.
gogol's wife
@pamelabrown53:
You’re doing God’s work!
lamh36
@people
Olympic officials offer an explanation for the mysterious green pools — and say they will finally be drained:
rikyrah
You wrong for that Elephant Man crack…
but, then again, you’re right..LOL
Reinforces that there are Elders out here looking out for him, and just cause he’s grown..doesn’t mean that he’s GROWN….
he still needs help and guidance.
So happy Walter’s getting out.
You’re still good people, Cole.
opiejeanne
@germy: I hope Zakarian not only wins but is awarded legal costs.
philadelphialawyer
More on Trump and the missing money…his campaign had 20 million on hand at the end of June. He says his campaign raised 80 million in July. And now has 37 million on hand. So, where did the rest go? He should have 100 million, if there were no July expenditures. And we know he spent nothing on TV ads, and very little on GOTV, State offices and so on. Where did the other 63 million go? Is he just crazy overcharging the campaign for every Trump Inc expense he can dream up? Is he paying his wife and kids big money out of campaign funds? Is the reality merely that, yeah, the campaign technically “raised” 80 million, but that was gross and not net, and the professional fund raisers got the bulk of it? Did he actually repay himself the money he lent the campaign and claimed that he had “forgiven?”
Ruckus
@germy:
There is one proper word for Trump. Delusional. You could make it somewhat better with two words. Totally delusional. OK three words would be best. Totally fucking delusional.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@philadelphialawyer: Travel expenses? Fuel for his plane?
Earl
@philadelphialawyer: $80m is joint with RNC. The RNC probably raised the majority of that based on previous effort levels from the Trump campaign. I have no idea what agreements there may be about distribution between RNC and Trump. My guess is the RNC controls a bunch of that cash and may prefer to send it to downticket candidates who are putting in some effort.
Ruckus
@efgoldman:
My immediate inferior on board ship for 2 yrs was nicknamed Ensign Parker. He did hold that rank btw but he was a ringer for the character. I think someone actually called him that to his face once. Not sure if he understood.
philadelphialawyer
@Earl: How much did the Trump campaign itself raise? And why is it so hard to get this information? I see all kinds of numbers thrown around, from 34 million to 80 million. And when does Trump have to file again? For July.
Thoughtful David
@philadelphialawyer:
Didn’t probably $42M of it go to paying back the loan he had made to his campaign earlier?
Wormtown
Yes, please post pictures. Also, has he barked. also thank you
philadelphialawyer
@Thoughtful David: I keep reading no. That he really did “forgive” the loan. And that he filed “FEC paperwork” that proves it. But I have my doubts, this being Trump!
Aleta
I remember when I learned about the life-saving (my life!) power of antibiotics, watching a red infected line grow toward my heart. After I finally surrendered to the doctor (but I’m young! I don’t need no reeking doctors!) the first two antibiotic tries didn’t stop it. The horror! Before that I truly didn’t get it.
cckids
@MattF:
Yeah, depends on where you are, how much $$ you have and whether or not you have a regular dentist. My son had one in April-May, and the dentist he finally found who would even see him made him wait 10 days. And if he hadn’t had the financing/cash up front, wouldn’t have seen him at all.
It ain’t like an emergency room.
Shana
@efgoldman: I thought I’d heard recently that bookings are way down at all his properties. How he makes that into “good for my brand” is beyond me unless he’s thinking of all those campaign events that his campaign coffers pay his properties for.
Ruckus
@Aleta:
This year I had a massive E-Coli infection after a procedure. It takes over your entire life, there is no particular point of pain, you just get massively sick. And you can’t even really tell how sick because while it comes on slowly, it is relentless, so you get sicker and sicker but there really isn’t pain, the usual sign. When you get proper medical help it takes several days to start to understand how sick you really were. Strangest illness I’ve ever had. And I’ve had a lot of them over the years.
Baud
NYT
Shana
@pamelabrown53: If your campaign worker is anything like mine, don’t expect to see much of him/her. Sometimes I’m still awake when she comes home but not often. I do occasionally see her in the morning. There’s a bunch of take and go foods in the fridge that she got at Trader Joe’s recently and some leftover indian from a few days ago. That’s about it.
mike in dc
@philadelphialawyer:
In about a week they have to file an itemized report. I expect they spent about 10 million on staff, Trump organization facilities and equipment, maybe 500 grand on Trump merchandise, and probably a decent “skim” for the fundraising op. Unless they are planning a massive last-minute blanket negative ad campaign, time is running out for the real election-winning stuff like ads, GOTV, etc. You can’t just dump money in September and October and hope for the best.
Gin & Tonic
@philadelphialawyer: I scanned through the $10 million or so in expenditures listed on his June report, and there’s just a ton of really mundane shit – airfare, car rentals, hotels, facility rental fees, office supplies, that sort of stuff. Quite a few for “field consulting”. Nothing that seemed particularly large in comparison to anything else. Anyone who wants to scan through it, go here. If I were bored I’d scrape the data and run some analyses, but I have other shit to do this weekend.
Ruckus
@Shana:
His pockets filling up is all that matters. In all aspects of his life, it is first and foremost about him. Always look at it from the standpoint of does it benefit D Trump in some way. It does not have to be a way that you see as a benefit, only that D Trump sees it as one. It is his defining characteristic. He is a grand example of a republican, it is always and in every way IGMFY.
Gin & Tonic
@philadelphialawyer: The loans were written off. It’s in the June report.
philadelphialawyer
@Gin & Tonic: Thanks, again!
Sloane Ranger
Watching Olympics. Great night for GB in Velodrome plus fingers crossed for repeat of Super Saturday!
Aleta
(Elizabeth Drew, American Democracy Betrayed)
philadelphialawyer
@mike in dc: Does that add up, though? Why only 37 million on hand if they raised 80 million, had twenty million to begin with, and only spent 20 million or so?
rikyrah
@philadelphialawyer:
I’ve been telling you…
The GOP is faced with the first Nominee that looks at the ACTUAL CAMPAIGN AS THE GRIFT.
I am SO not convinced that he ‘ forgave’ those ‘ loans’ to his campaign.
Uh uh
Uh uh.
philadelphialawyer
@rikyrah: I hear ya’. I’m just trying to figure out how he’s doing it. There are lots of “Trump” expenditures in the June list, of one kind or another. So, that part is hiding in plain sight. Why is that not a media issue, I wonder. Do candidates typically bill companies they own for so much shit? I don’t think so. I wonder about the loans too, no matter what the papers say, and about kickbacks, about family members as “consultants,” about all the sort of cryptic “ABC company” items, and so on.
hovercraft
@Amir Khalid:
He says that he ‘believes’ certain things, so technically he’s not lying. Crazy but not lying. According to actual ‘data’ his beliefs are not correct. From CNN
He has a habit of saying things he believes to be true, in an earlier deposition he stated that his net worth was based on his ‘feelings’.
hovercraft
I’m in moderation, and I didn’t even use any of the known triggers, or a naked link. Please release me.
sukabi
@Amir Khalid: all of it Katie.
Ruckus
@rikyrah:
As I said in my reply to Shana above it is always about what D Trump wants and thinks benefits him. He has lawyers to delay and roadblock for him. This is always how he has done business. It is how he was taught by his father. I’d bet that the FEC will come down on him but he expects to win and be president and therefore he will be able to do anything he wants and get away with it. I think the next 3 months will be an interesting one, if not a lot of fun, even to watch.
Ruckus
@philadelphialawyer:
Well look at conservatives yelling about the Clinton Foundation. About how it is getting enriched and exploiting the law. This is what they would do so they think the other side must be doing it too.
It is always projection. Always. Projection is the only constant.
Gex
Reposting from a dead thread:
I’m just amused because 7 years ago today I complained on FB about a David Frum piece in which he discusses under which conditions it would be okay to shoot a president. This was 2009, Republicans were calling the mandate fascism and they were marching around with guns talking Second Amendment remedies.
The article has of course been disappeared. I’d be curious if that was a regular process for the site or if it conveniently disappeared after Trump’s statements. In any event, while Trump is uniquely awful in many ways, a lot of the hate, violent rhetoric, and refusal to accept the results of the democratic process when Democrats win is not new or unique.
Most of the evidence of his words would be found in the comments, not the main post.
Baud
@philadelphialawyer:
Not sure if this has been linked to
Trump’s Missing Money
West of the Rockies (been a while)
Sorry to hijack, but was anyone else stunned by the story in the news yesterday about college-educated people moving away from the Republican Party? I, perhaps smugly, assumed college-educated people voted (by majority) Democratic.
Baud
@West of the Rockies (been a while): I think it’s college educated white people.
philadelphialawyer
@Baud: Thanks. Saw that. Article asks the questions, but doesn’t really have the answers.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@philadelphialawyer: A lot of the big numbers that Trump is claiming is for the “joint fundraising” operations with the GOP. Trump’s campaign doesn’t get all that money, and may not even be getting half of it.
I wouldn’t sweat the Trump numbers. Hillary seems to be raising plenty, and Trump’s not spending whatever funds he’s raising effectively. It would be good to know where the rest of the GOP and Superpac money is going, but we’ll probably find out soon enough.
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
Gelfling 545
@MattF: I was suffering from aging compounded by fibromyalgia. I started doing Taoist Tai Chi a few years back. I now walk better at 66 than I did at 50. Not a cure all but a great help. I understand that yoga can do similarily but have not tried it yet though I hope to now that I can get up and down on the floor without block and tackle.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Baud: Oh. *long, awkward silence… He looks away with evident embarrassment*
philadelphialawyer
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: I’m not worried about Trump raising money and Hills not. I know she is doing fine in that area. Also, your link is to old numbers, ending in June. And is kinda cryptic too.
“Trump Victory Committee, the main joint fundraiser that was started in May, raised $25.7 million through the end of June, according to the quarterly report the group filed with the Federal Election Commission on Friday.
“About $2.2 million of the total haul was transferred to Trump’s campaign, while $10.1 million went to the RNC.”
2.2 plus 10.1 does NOT equal 25.7.
rikyrah
A ‘Sex and the City’ for African Viewers
By JADA F. SMITH
AUG. 13, 2016
Let’s get this out of the way up front: “An African City,” the steamy Ghanaian web series about five young women looking for love in Accra, is an unabashed rip-off of “Sex and the City.” There are the ubiquitous five-inch strappy sandals, the scene-stealing dresses made of Fanti fabric and the bevy of men who hop in and out of the beds of Nana Yaa, Makena, Zainab and Sade. The women are as free and liberal about sex as their American HBO foremothers, with the exception of the fifth character, Ngozi, who is such a Charlotte.
The women fit perfectly into Carrie- or Miranda-type boxes. Nana Yaa, the main character, is a radio journalist who ponders existential dating questions in voice-overs throughout the show. Zainab and Makena both function as a Miranda — fiercely independent and all about their business. Ngozi is the church girl who works for a nongovernmental organization and purses her lips at too much talk about the male anatomy. And Sade is Samantha, with condoms spilling from the designer handbags that her rich, married boyfriend buys for her. The women spend an enormous amount of time sipping cocktails in dimly lit restaurants as they chat about rolling power outages, good condom etiquette and men who expect them to leave their jobs and make fufu all day.
But the show’s creator, Nicole Amarteifio, who moved from Ghana to New York and then back again, is also presenting an unseen side of culture on a continent that is usually depicted with footage of war, famine and poverty. There is none of that here. Instead, “An African City” struts into the lives of well-off African women. Makena is an Oxford-trained lawyer, and Sade graduated from Harvard Business School. Zainab sits atop a growing shea butter empire, and Nana Yaa’s father is the country’s minister of energy. Through the five women, “An African City” explores what it means to be a westernized young woman readjusting to the culture and surroundings of her home continent.
The five women are all “returnees,” the children of families who left Ghana for the West and then came home with so-called “returnee savior syndrome.” The phrase “to whom much is given, much is required” could be their unofficial motto, as it frames their interactions and challenges their way of thinking. They are constantly fretting about whether they would tip so little if back in Manhattan, or why the “white wedding” is considered better than a traditional one.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@philadelphialawyer: The rest of the money is sitting in the joint fundraising ledger and hasn’t been transferred yet.
Yeah, the numbers lag. The point is that all the Eleventy Bazillion Dollars that get tumpeted, heh, don’t get transferred to Donnie.
HTH.
Cheers,
Scott.
catclub
@West of the Rockies (been a while): Nope, not surprised. Most voting is economic and income correlates pretty well with voting, so
most of those low economic stats folks vote more Democratic than GOP. And college educated generally means whiter and better economic status – so no surprise – more GOP voters. Scientists and PhD’s are probably leaning back to Democratic, but they are very small numbers. Medical Doctors lean GOP I suspect.
philadelphialawyer
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: Thanks. Thanks to all who provided info.
mike in dc
@Baud:
I think right-leaning college educated white people are deeply uncomfortable with overt racism and xenophobia. Dog whistles and stereotypes, they can live with, but they don’t want to associate openly with the stars and bars set or white supremacists. The fact that Trump comes across as, well, stupid and uninformed and incompetent is just icing on that s**t cake for them.
Lurker Extraordinaire
If having a cracked tooth is like having an abscess, that is NO BUENO! Been there, done that, never want to do that again. Hope Christion heals quickly.
When we finally get single payer health care in this backward ass country, it better include dental health. Bad teeth can cause heart problems if not taken care of!
Lurker Extraordinaire
@germy: This motherfucker needs to leave Eisenhower’s name out of his orange, shit-stained mouth.
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
It’s actually really common to have “local” versions of successful shows — just about every country has its own version of “The Office,” and “Ugly Betty” was a huge hit in several South American versions before it came to a network here. So I wouldn’t be at all surprised if HBO licensed “Sex and the City” to that show’s creators.
Ruckus
@Lurker Extraordinaire:
This seems to be a medical system problem. I’ve never understood why. The eyes and teeth are a part of the body and having them unhealthy makes doing a lot of things harder or damn near impossible and can lead to major medical issues as you state. Maybe it’s because eye glasses have to be replaced regularly and in the system we have glasses are expensive, therefore the system doesn’t want to pay for them. Teeth seem to be expensive as well, a root canal can easily run $1500. Now preventive care of teeth will lessen the need for expensive work but that is going to dentists, not MDs. On the other hand I can remember most of the adults I knew when I was a kid had prosthetics(false teeth!) from a bridge to all teeth. My last dental visit the dentist remarked that it is unusual to see someone my age without prosthetics. So maybe it’s just old concepts that everyone will need extensive dental work as they get older.
Lurker Extraordinaire
@Ruckus: I agree with everything you said. Orthodontics need to be covered as well. I know my dental problems stem from the fact that not only is my mouth too small for the full set of adult teeth, but I also had all four wisdom teeth. Luckily, the Army did a great job of removing them. Here I am, a few years away from 40, and I still have crooked teeth. Until they are straightened, I can’t properly clean. And of course, hardly any dental plans cover adult orthodontics. Hopefully, my daughter won’t have any of these problems, and if for some reason she needs braces and we can’t afford them, I’ll be hooking on the corner for them.
Lurker Extraordinaire
The sky is dark here in the Columbus area, but no rain like the forecasters have promised us. We need it, too, since we have been on the dry side.
Ruckus
@Lurker Extraordinaire:
Where in Columbus? Lived in Gahanna for 11 yrs.
NoraLenderbee
I picked 42 pounds of tomatoes today. Some of the Kellogg’s Breakfast (orange ones) were so big, they resembled pumpkins. The Amish Paste toms are huuuuge, too. It’s a good year.
Steeplejack (phone)
@hovercraft:
“Casinos” in the blockquote.
Brachiator
@rikyrah:
Sounds like an interesting show, especially the “returnee Savior syndrome” thing. If the show is in English or had English subtitles, I would like to check it out, if it were easily available.
As another poster has noted here, there are a number of hit shows adapted for local consumption. There’s a boatload of Doc Martin variants, for example, in various countries.
gwangung
@rikyrah: Um, this sounds very cool.
@Mnemosyne: No doubt, but there are no new ideas under the sun. It’s the unique variations that make a series fun, and the added depth from the cultural specificity makes it fun (and one local producer did a long running theatre serial that was an Asian American version of SATC).
Miss Bianca
Well, you all have convinced me to go get my crown replaced, finally…was waiting to save up the money to do it, but maybe I’ll just “charge it, please, like Eloise” and try to get it done this week.
phoebes from highland park
Has anybody ever looked up Trump’s voting record? I’d be interested to know how many elections he’s actually participated in because he doesn’t seem to know much about the actual electoral process.
Miss Bianca
@rikyrah: Ghana! That’s a country I’ve always wanted to visit. I wonder if we can get that series over here somehow??
Aleta
@Ruckus: Excluding teeth and eyes (and ears and brain) from health coverage is pretty barbaric really. It’s not just inhumane, it’s cost ineffective all over the place.
Richardjs
@pamelabrown53: