Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

No one could have predicted…

I might just take the rest of the day off and do even more nothing than usual.

Motown is Joe-Town!

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

It’s a new day. Light all those Biden polls of young people on fire and throw away the ashes.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Republicans are the party of chaos and catastrophe.

“Let’s not pretend [Trump] wants to engage in high-minded discourse.”

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Putin must be throwing ketchup at the walls.

We are aware of all internet traditions.

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself. We’re allowed to grow past that.

Russia bombs Ukraine’s maternity hospitals; Republicans in the House can’t sort out supporting Ukraine.

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

An unpunished coup is a training exercise.

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

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Friday Morning Open Thread: Happy International Dog Day!

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A made-up gimmick of a holiday intended to push… awareness of how many good dogs are waiting for homes. Because we all need more excuses to talk about our four-legged companions.

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(Zevon, via Papillon Rescue PA)

Yes, there are people who take even worse pictures of their beloved pets than John Cole.

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(Gloria, accidental failed foster —–>)

sydney be a lert(<----- Sydney, via State Island shelter)

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(For balance: National Cat Day is October 29th.)

Apart from remembering the good stuff, what’s on the agenda as we wrap up the week?

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  1. 1.

    Raven

    Bucha Knuckleheads. I’m in the old bedroom, very little sleep as I continue to recover. Evetytime I get up (and that is a lot) the Bohdi comes to check on me.

  3. 3.

    satby

    @Raven: He’s concerned, and that’s sweet. I’m just too stressed out to sleep, exactly one week for me to go before I have to be all moved out. I’ll make it, but as I take one car or truckload over to the new place the stuff in my old place gets busy making more stuff.

  4. 4.

    TheMightyTrowel

    I’m in Sydney Qantas lounge sipping champers and en route to Japan for a 10 day conference-stravaganza. Very exciting for me (so much sushi! so many colleagues/friends) and my students (next week’s class is cancelled so they get a 3 week spring break).

    Miss my cats already. sniff.

  8. 8.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @Raven: My Yorkiepom still checks on me anytime I’m in the bathroom. I think she still remembers me falling in there the last time I was drunk. She’s cute and smart as a whip, but with a king sized attitude.

    I’m planning tomorrow’s adventure: the Arboretum(it’s got the Queen Anne house from Fantasy Island) and a block in Glendora with amazing bougainvillea. I’ll probably only take my main camera with the stock lens and the new fisheye lens. I posted some examples of pics taken with the fisheye in an earlier dead thread, here’s a link.

  17. 17.

    Mustang Bobby

    It looks like Invest 99L will pass south of Florida but we’re still supposed to get a lot of rain this weekend, so I will forego taking the Pontiac out for the trip to the tour of the antique auto museum up in Broward County.

    I can take credit for pushing the storm away; I renewed my renters insurance this week. Had I not, we would have been pummeled. Karma, y’know.

  20. 20.

    KlareCole

    @raven: oh gee, must be the pain pills. The white stuff in the blue bottle helps. Sure hope you feel better soon.

  23. 23.

    greennotGreen

    Since this is an open thread, I will give the update I promised. Although I’m feeling some better, the CT scan showed disease progression, so I’ve been pulled from the clinical trial and will be trying a new chemotherapy when the current one clears my system. However, I fear that means a few weeks of low energy and not feeling well.

    I fostered dogs for a few years until my “failed rescues” got up to ten. If the time comes when no drugs hold back the cancer, I may turn to this wonderful community to help rehome my babies.

  24. 24.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @raven: My nurse recommends prunes, though I’ve convinced her that it might not be a great idea to have them while on a hike in the mountains when facilities are somewhat, eh, less developed.

  29. 29.

    greennotGreen

    Thank you all! Now, I’m going to attempt to go back to sleep, so see you in another thread.

  33. 33.

    Immanentize

    @raven: Oh. I now remember that part of my hernia repair experience. Well at least I can attest you will forget most of the unpleasant parts. I do remember it all gets better pretty quickly….

  35. 35.

    Face

    I thought this was a post about enjoying a kielbasa with mustard or polish sausage with onions.

  37. 37.

    Emma

    Started my new blood pressure medication last night. Woke up with the spin-dizzies. I am reliably informed that it is a common occurrence for the first couple of days, until the body gets used to it. Stayed home because I’m walking sideways into walls.

    @greennotGreen: You hang in there and let us know what is happening. Sometimes just sharing is a relief.

  40. 40.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    @raven:

    Oooh, the swanky grocery store has Australian “eating licorice”

    It’s a laxative. Think this through carefully.

  44. 44.

    Ultraviolet Thunder

    I’m home from the work trip to CT, where a stupefyingly complex 7pS pulse laser kicked my butt. I have to go back and fix it, but I’m in the office for at least 10 days. I’d rather be standing on a ladder wrangling 300 micron long pulses of light than sitting at a desk.

  45. 45.

    one_particular_harbour, fka Botsplainer

    We celebrated by waking at 6:30, going into the front yard to pee, then having a delicious bowl of kibble. Later, he’ll celebrate with a fresh bowl of water in his pen. Yay!

  46. 46.

    Eric S.

    I’ve been awake for 2 hours and now it’s time to get up and go to work. Feeling stressed with work, a relationship on the rocks, and my own medical travails. I know this is Dog Day but it was nice having a warm fuzzy kitteh curled against my side the last 2 hours.

    Hang in there, @greennotGreen. We are all pulling for you.

  47. 47.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @satby: May I suggest a dumpster? I always asked myself 2 questions: ‘Have I used this in the past year?’ and ‘Am I likely to use this in the next year?’ If the answer to both was “No.” out it went.

  49. 49.

    OzarkHillbilly

    The freude is very schaden: Trump campaign chief is registered to vote in Florida at unoccupied home

    Stephen Bannon’s enrollment is apparent violation of crucial swing state’s election law requiring voters to be legal residents of county they register in

    ETA: Stephen Bannon, the chief executive of Trump’s election campaign, has an active voter registration at the house in Miami-Dade County, Florida, which is vacant and due to be demolished to make way for a new development.

    “I have emptied the property,” Luis Guevara, the owner of the house, which is in the Coconut Grove section of the city, said in an interview. “Nobody lives there … we are going to make a construction there.” Neighbors said the property had been abandoned for several months.

    Bannon, 62, formerly rented the house for use by his ex-wife, Diane Clohesy, but did not live there himself. Clohesy, a Tea Party activist, moved out of the house earlier this year and has her own irregular voting registration arrangement. According to public records, Bannon and Clohesy divorced seven years ago.

  53. 53.

    Cat48

    @raven:

    Constipation? Start taking stool softners so everything will pass easier. It helped me after surgery when everything hurt.

  54. 54.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Baud:

    Clohesy, who has worked on conservative films produced by Bannon since their divorce, also has a voting arrangement that appears to contravene Florida regulations. Rather than register to vote from her rented homes in Miami, she was and continues to be registered to vote in neighboring Broward County from a mailbox at a shipping facility in the city of Pompano Beach.

    The use of such mailbox addresses is not allowed by Broward County, which requires that residents use their home address. “You have to give the address where you live, so you can’t use a PO box,” said Tonya Edwards, a spokeswoman for the county supervisor of elections.

    Clohesy appears in the county election register as living at 102 Governmental Center, which is actually the address of the elections supervisor’s office. Edwards, the spokeswoman for the office, told the Guardian this designation was intended for homeless people.

    It’s a shame Trump is going to need another new campaign chief so soon:

    Under Florida law, voters must be legal residents of the state and of the county where they register to vote. Guidelines from the Florida department of state say that Florida courts and state authorities have defined legal residency as the place “where a person mentally intends to make his or her permanent residence”.

    Wilfully submitting false information on a Florida voter registration – or helping someone to do so – is a third-degree felony punishable by up to five years in prison.

    Ah, but there was a reason for all these shenanigans:

    Acquiring Florida residency is often attractive to outsiders to the state due to Florida’s lack of state income tax. This allows people with a residency to legally avoid paying state income tax on so-called “unearned” income, such as dividends, interests and retirement benefits. Attorneys often advise people seeking Florida residency that it helps to assign their voter registration to a property in the state.

    Follow the money, always with these people it’s all about the money.

  57. 57.

    Punchy

    @OzarkHillbilly: Having some trub keepin up here….so BOTH Bannon and his battered ex- are illegally registered to vote in FL? Wow….just….wow.

    Somewhat related: isnt this Bannon supposed to be a bad boy, a shit thrower, a fighter etc? Is it just me or has he had zero effect on the campaign? Where are all his dirty schemes, his racist memes, his fevered dreams?

  58. 58.

    Elmo

    @raven: My wife suffers from a neurological disorder that affects the small muscles of the bowel, so she has struggled with severe constipation for many years. Her tips:
    Swiss Kriss
    Blueberries in yogurt
    And for the worst most intractable, there is a new medication called Linzess that she was surprised by – one dose gave her the absolute runs for two days, it was like a miracle.

  60. 60.

    Quinerly

    @Baud:
    I’m counting at least 4 wives for Bannon if he is married now. Think the piece on domestic violence mentioned a prior wife to that wife, now this Tea Party wife. If he is married now, that’s #4. Need flowchart!

  62. 62.

    Kay

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Residency is not as cut and dried as you might think though. You can see it in the Florida rule that is quoted- “mentally ..intend to return”.

    There was a bigger case in Ohio that went to a ct of appeals. The question was whether this business person who had several residences was a Chicago resident or an Ohio resident. He lost. He’s a Chicago resident.

    That said, an abandoned house would be fairly solid proof that he doesn’t live there.

  63. 63.

    Kay

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    The delightful part about it to me is it shows how easy it is to claim voter fraud. I don’t know if he’s voting fraudulently because there’s a whole residency analysis. Which is why people on the Right should stop accusing black people of it constantly. “Fraud” means something, in the same way screeching that something is “unconstitutional” means something. This whole “presumptively fraudulent” thing the Right has adopted and codified is wrong-headed.

  64. 64.

    TS

    So Hillary told them what is what on Morning Joe. Despite the attempts to overtalk her (which failed) and the attempts to attack the Clinton Foundation (which failed) and the questions on why people didn’t like her (which went nowhere) – she spoke like the veteran she is – answering the question with all the positive issues related to the topics they raised.

  65. 65.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Kay: He’s gonna have a hard time arguing that was the case if he’s done it before:

    Bannon previously rented another house for Clohesy in Miami from 2013 to 2015 and assigned his voter registration to the property during that period. But a source with direct knowledge of the rental agreement for this house said Bannon did not live there either, and that Bannon and Clohesy were not in a relationship.

    I sense a pattern emerging :-)

    @Kay: The delightful part for me is that he was among the loudest screachers about voter fraud, and here is being caught at just exactly that.

    The other part is what does this say about Trump’s hiring practices? Doesn’t he vet his people? 2 in a row.

  66. 66.

    debit

    @OzarkHillbilly: Seconding the dumpster. I ended up with two “bagsters” that proved insufficient and ended up calling 800 Got Junk for the rest. At that point I just said “everything in the basement. I don’t care how much it costs.” Which was a lie, because in the end, I did care because it was a lot. A dumpster would have been so much cheaper.

  67. 67.

    Keith P.

    Jeez, I’m trying to watch Morning Joe, but I can handle only so much of Mika B very concernedly stating that the Clinton foundation “just…just…raises questions”. Well, raising questions in and of itself is not bad, particularly when you have someone ON THE DAMN PHONE to answer those questions.

  68. 68.

    TS

    @Keith P.:

    Hillary handled it – every time. I think if Trump and or his “team” listened this morning, they may think further on how they can avoid any debates

  69. 69.

    WaterGirl

    @Raven: I have been away for a day or two, did the post-surgery pain finally set in? Hope you can get some good sleep soon. Was my mom right … was the “day after the day after” your worst day so far?

    P.S. Has the bakery called yet to ask where you guys are? So sweet that the Bohdi is checking on you, and I’m sure it’s more than “can we go to the bakery now?”

    P.P.S. Watermelon is your friend!

  71. 71.

    D58826

    France’s top administrative court has overturned the burkini ban. Says that the locals do not have the authority to impose such a ban. per – cnn

  72. 72.

    Ceci n'est pas mon nym

    @raven: My deepest sympathies as this is a side complication of some other issues I have that comes up once a year or so. I really try not to bore my lovely bride with endless discussion of my bowels and be one of THOSE guys, it’s kind of a romance killer. But I do tend to obsess about it just a little.

    I was consuming a lot of licorice this summer as I was in Denmark and it seems to be a favorite up there. Not sure why. Not only can you buy licorice candy EVERYWHERE (spelled “lakrids” but Danish pronunciation is even weirder than English and it sounds pretty much like the English word), always available in both “sweet” and “salty”, but it’s on the menu at every cafe as a flavoring for coffee, or as licorice-root tea, or as a tea blend including licorice-root.

    That said, I didn’t notice it had any particular intestinal effect. But I love licorice anyway, so that’s OK.

  73. 73.

    rikyrah

    @Kay:

    The delightful part about it to me is it shows how easy it is to claim voter fraud. I don’t know if he’s voting fraudulently because there’s a whole residency analysis.

    Yep…voter fraud….uh huh
    uh huh

  74. 74.

    rikyrah

    @D58826:

    France’s top administrative court has overturned the burkini ban. Says that the locals do not have the authority to impose such a ban. per – cnn

    good.

  76. 76.

    Cat48

    @D58826:
    Thank God, that video of a man ripping of a ladies Burkini made me angry. He gave her a hospital gown to put on??

  77. 77.

    WaterGirl

    @raven: Doggie love is the best. I’m sure the Bohdi feels better after his walk with you, the signal that all is right with the world. Glad it helped you a bit, too.

  78. 78.

    Kay

    @rikyrah:

    I always want someone to challenge them by saying “how DARE you accuse me of committing a felony?”

    Just forget about all the rules and laws and go to the basic disrespect behind the whole thing. That’s wrong all by itself.

  80. 80.

    Patricia Kayden

    @OzarkHillbilly: That’s fascinating. Bannon and his ex-wife appear to be the kinds of people Republicans rail against, i.e., people who violate voting laws. So when will Republican leaders demand that he step down from running Trump’s campaign?

  90. 90.

    Iowa Old Lady

    On my way home from the Y, I heard On Point on the radio. The host started by asking about how low the tone of the campaign had fallen, but the three guests were having none of it. They all said Clinton brought to the surface what’s been an undercurrent all along. Jack Beatty said she spoke dispassionately, not making accusations, but laying out what Trump and his supporters have said and done. He said if she says Trump is making Alt-Right mainstream and he has Bannon as his campaign manager, then that’s not an accusation. It’s a fact.

    I was stunned by the lack of both siderism. At least with this group, Clinton’s speech was a success.

  92. 92.

    catclub

    @Ultraviolet Thunder:

    where a stupefyingly complex 7pS pulse laser kicked my butt.

    Whereas I worked on my home’s attic exhaust fan. It had not turned on by the time I left for work, but I hope that was because
    the attic had cooled off overnight. Or maybe that fan motor has kicked my butt.

    Also saw love bugs. Two seasons of them here: Around May 31, and around August 31.

  93. 93.

    gogol's wife

    So I got my NYTimes from the yard this morning, expecting to see front-page coverage of Hillary’s historic speech. Nope. One article on Trump’s move toward a “more Obama-like” immigration policy, and one headline about the “weak bench” the Democrats have that’s keeping them from taking over the Senate.

    The liberal NYTimes.

  95. 95.

    Original Lee

    Incidentally, in case y’all were wondering who benefits from Brexit, I think I might have founda smoking gun. Very convenient that systemic risk rules the banks have been complaining bitterly about are suddenly going (mostly) away, isn’t it?

  97. 97.

    Matt McIrvin

    Point of pedantry: the name “burkini” annoys me since the thing is neither a burqa nor a bikini, nor very similar to either. There seem to be people out there who think it’s a garment that covers the face, and I think the name is actually misleading them.

  98. 98.

    scav

    @D58826: Which would be exactly why they chose it.

    I’m somehow expecting something similar, but more painstakingly described in a more academie approved logique (the full Descartes) to emerge at the federal level. They pulled essentially that for the law on religious symbols in schools. It seems somehow characteristic that their underlying main objection would be the sloppy and imprecise language seemingly allowing les flics to randomly choose who to hassle about which long sleeves are religiously provakative and which are not. Just leads to bad international PR. But a tightly woven legalist intrastructure that makes a token nod to the threat of visible nuns and Amish sunbathing? Mission accomplie.

  99. 99.

    D58826

    At this point I really wish the Clinton’s had that magic murder machine. I can think of a few prime candidates, starting with Larry Klayman and a few congress critters.

    Time magazine has a story about how Hillary is failing to address the Foundation ‘scandal’ .
    The writer gave three examples of the ‘scandal’
    1. the AP story on the 84 people who had or tried to have a meeting with Hillary. The writer didn’t mention that the story has been debunked
    2. the sale of uranium to the Russians. The writer did not mention that 8 other agencies had to approve the deal as well
    3. But she saved the best and absolute worst ‘scandal’ for last – how the image of Bill on fund raising trips traveling the world with the rich and famous compares unfavorably with Jimmy Carter swinging a hammer for Habitat for Humanity.

    In the meantime we are being treated to speculation about the 14k new emails and what horrors they will revel. I understand the real reason Hillary set up that server was to try and keep Klayman from rummaging around in her e-mails. Obviously that failed but does anyone think that if she used a state department e-mail that Klayman would have gone away. He would have used a FOIA request to get the state dept. e-mails. Once they had them any mention, no matter how casual or inconsequential, of the Foundation or anything else would have generated a law suit to gain access to those documents as well. A little judge shopping and Klayman would have gotten an injunction to be present when Chelsea gave birth. And Klayman will dole out the e-mails in carefully selected batches with all of the ‘juicy’ parts highlighted from now till election day. The lazy media won’t even have to read them, just look for the parts with yellow highlighter.

  101. 101.

    scav

    @Original Lee: Except that it seems to be happening in both the EU and the UK, so banks would benefit in either case. As there have been instances of banks announcing they’re transfering important bits of their operations out of London and to the EU to retain the benefits of the open market, it seems there would have to be a stronger only within the UK benefit to banks to make BREXIT a net winner for them.

  104. 104.

    satby

    @OzarkHillbilly: @debit: I seldom dump anything, if it’s at all usable it goes to charity. What isn’t gets tossed or turned into rags throughout the year anyway.
    But OMIGOD, the paper I accumulate, even though I go paperless on all stuff

  107. 107.

    JR in WV

    @catclub:

    Many years ago our ’62 Fury III (not a collectible, what we could afford -$400) overheated after we drove through a cloud of love bugs, 1972, FL panhandle. It was VERY hard to get the radiator clean, this was long before hi-pressure car washes were invented.

    I was in the Navy, and people were very helpful. Amazing bugs…

  108. 108.

    workworkwork

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: My ginger tom sits at my feet while I’m in the bathroom, facing towards the doorway. Near as I can tell, he thinks he’s guarding me. As soon as I’m done, he trots back out and goes back to what he was doing. (Usually, that involves napping.)

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