Trump crashed a charity event for kids with AIDS, sat on stage, danced the Macarena, left without giving a dime. https://t.co/VsFXTokjdR
— Steven Ginsberg (@stevenjay) October 29, 2016
“What wrong with you, man?"
A look at the life of @realDonaldTrump, thru eyes of ppl who thought he would help them.https://t.co/IgzvRn6Ej6— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) October 29, 2016
If this guy’s pretending to be a billionaire wasn’t such a profitable grift, his adult children would have him under supervised guardianship, because some of these stunts seem distinctly pathological. Kudos to the Washington Post‘s David Fahrenthold for staying focused:
… For as long as he has been rich and famous, Donald Trump has also wanted people to believe he is generous. He spent years constructing an image as a philanthropist by appearing at charity events and by making very public — even nationally televised — promises to give his own money away.
It was, in large part, a facade. A months-long investigation by The Washington Post has not been able to verify many of Trump’s boasts about his philanthropy.
Instead, throughout his life in the spotlight, whether as a businessman, television star or presidential candidate, The Post found that Trump had sought credit for charity he had not given — or had claimed other people’s giving as his own…
In the books he wrote or co-wrote about himself, Trump frequently praised charitable giving in the abstract — casting it as a moral response to his vast wealth… In the same books, Trump seemed to regard charity differently when he encountered it in his day-to-day life. In those cases, it sounds like a hassle. A game he can’t win, and hates playing.
“The people who run charities know that I’ve got wealthy friends and can get them to buy tables,” Trump said in “The Art of the Deal,” explaining why he’d turned down a charity request from New York Yankee Dave Winfield. “I understand the game, and while I don’t like to play it, there is no graceful way out.”
“I can remember a friend who asked me why I had so many charity events at my properties,” Trump wrote. “I said to him, ‘Because I can!’. . . It’s a great feeling, and it makes all the work that goes into acquiring all those beautiful properties and buildings worth it.”
But that’s not entirely a story about how Trump gives money away. It’s also a story about how Trump makes money.
Charities pay him to rent out his clubs and banquet rooms for fundraiser galas. At the Mar-a-Lago Club in Palm Beach, they can pay $275,000 or more for a single night. Sometimes, Trump has given donations from the Trump Foundation to the charities that are his customers. But in some of those cases, he still comes out ahead…
Astounding two paragraphs from @Fahrenthold. https://t.co/GrnQvnHhQr pic.twitter.com/djoSmG3SyV
— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) October 29, 2016
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
Trump’s one cheap motherfucker if he used his foundation to pay his son’s $7 Scouting fee.
Corner Stone
Yeah, of course. But emails.
Baud
He along with Kurt E. are definitely the heroes of this election mediawise. Hope they don’t end up like Woodward and Bernstein.
Chyron HR
@Baud:
Killed by The Comedian?
Another Scott
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman): What are you talking about? Donnie has given bigly, yoogely. Nobody gives more, believe him!:
He’s given away “millions” – of other people’s money. He rightfully takes credit, “that makes [him] smart”!! What’s not to like? You don’t understand business, do you?!?!
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.
(“But emails” is right.)
Iowa Old Lady
@Corner Stone: Lord yes. It’s bizarre. Is it that none of this crap about Trump is surprising so people shrug and move on? They already know what he’s like and they’re either horrified or vote for him anyway.
This campaign has really showed me the power of the exiting narrative to control what gets talked about.
Ruckus
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman):
That’s just the minimum thing that makes him the fucking asshole that he is. The fact is that he’s been the shit head that we all think he is for decades. IMO, at least since he became an adult. But I suspect a long time before that. He is the poster child for assholes of privilege. The only difference now is that he jumped on the big stage and far more people who he can’t pretend to buy have seen how big an asshole he is.
Mary G
It’s astounding how Fahrenthold is still pantsing all the other reporters on this stuff. He looks at public records, calls ordinary people up and gets the scoop. The rest of the “press” sits on their asses protecting their precious access to people who they must know are constantly lying to them.
aimai
That is an astoundign story. Farenthold deserves a god damned Nobel for it.
Corner Stone
“Bring the rain!”
Still my favorite part of all the really terribad Transformer movies. I mean, besides Megan Fox running at any given time. Of course.
donnah
All of these facts about Trump should have come out when he first ran for President. Maybe his loyal followers would still have applauded him for being a misogynistic, cheap, phony slimeball, but maybe some Republicans with any degree of decency might have had second thoughts. But no one was asking him the hard questions or digging as hard as they were against Hillary.
Where were all of these stories, accusations and testimonials about Trump last year, when he was getting a toehold? No one in the press was willing to listen or do some fact-checking? It was probably simpler to rehash the same old Clinton accusations and useless charges. And that’s how Trump got this far. And it’s too late to change that.
Let as many people as possible come forward and speak the truth about Trump. At least let it be on the record.
Ian
7 F&*(ing dollars??!?!?! This reminds me of the Spy story where Trump cashed a 5 cent check. How fucking cheap and greedy a human being can be is a question now answered.
Corner Stone
@Mary G: It’s really weird. Like he has a hookup with the mafia or something. And anytime another reporter starts making calls or doing “research” some muscle shows up, rips up their notepad and asks them “You really want to be looking into that?”
It’s such a wide open target for like 40 years of public records. All DF is doing* is making phone calls and taking notes. “You know Donald Trump? Has he ever donated to your charity? No? Ok, thank you.”
It’s fucking mind boggling that no other “investigative” journalist has had the thought that maybe there’s an angle one fucking guy has not yet had the time to make phone calls about.
ETA, *no offense to DH, he’s doing the damned thing. But it’s not exactly as difficult as keeping Cole out of the ER come winter.
aimai
@efgoldman: That was a joke. My father has an actual Nobel. So I do know the difference.
Immanentize
The Boy Scout detail
Is BRUTAL
Ian
@Ian:
wow. I was so pissed off I forgot to censor the second F bomb.
Corner Stone
@efgoldman:
It’s all so petty. Who the F bothers to go through their foundation for $7 freaking dollars?
dmsilev
He hasn’t changed much in the last 20 or so years.
Immanentize
@efgoldman: My son and I got our haircuts today and the Wash/Utah game was on. Very impressive.
Immanentize
@aimai: I did not know that. Makes me want to both know you better and never risk saying a stupid thing in your presence ever again.
JPL
@Immanentize: All Fahrenthold knows is at the time $7 dollars matched the fee and nothing else that they could find.
Timurid
Reposting (since the thread I posted it in died minutes later):
It still amazes me how the White Establishment has lost its collective mind during this election. They’ve gone all in for the worst Presidential candidate since Franklin Pierce. It’s as if losing this election means that white babies will be trampled under Morlock jackboots for eternity. Did #blacklivesmatter and the terrorist attacks in Dallas and Baton Rouge mess with their heads that badly?
And the culminating blow is Comey launching a literal kamikaze attack against Clinton. He threw away his career on a plot to tilt the election… that almost certainly will not work. It’s like going all in with a 5-8 off suit, pushing your house, car and kids’ college fund into the pot. Because if you lose the hand… your wife and kids will be ravished by savage Negros? Or something?
This level of desperation is hard to comprehend. They’re acting like it’s 2056 instead of 2016, as if these really were the Last Days of White Privilege…
sigaba
@efgoldman: Has a Lit Nobel ever gone to a journalist? Does Churchill count?
Immanentize
@JPL: So either he paid $7 for his son as his big charitable contribution or he stiffed his son and paid for some other, maybe unknown, kid? Which makes him the bigger butt?
Immanentize
@Timurid: These are the last days of white privilege. Scalia is still dead.
Mary G
@Corner Stone: You might be right:
“Black jacuzzi off the dining room” just screams Tony Soprano associate to me.
Baud
@aimai:
Are you Sasha or Malia?
Anoniminous
@Timurid:
It’s the last days of total white control. And it is driving the bigots total batpoop bumphuck.
Patricia Kayden
The most charitable thing the Orange Bigot could do is to disappear from our t.v. screens after November 9th. I bet he won’t even do that.
Baud
@Immanentize:
@Anoniminous:
Yep. It’s really only a question of how much devastation we have to go through to get to the other side.
JPL
@Immanentize: Yup about right.
PsiFighter37
@dmsilev: That’s a dick thing to do. I know MacEnulty personally (from when I was a kid) – he does very good work.
Immanentize
@Baud: I know. And I have a beloved dear 15 year old son. What have we created as his bequest?
Mike E
@Immanentize: That reminds me…my Nino shrine/Amaretto bottle is nearly out, gotta get a new one!
Baud
@Immanentize: I am thankfully childless and will remain so. I don’t know what I’d do if I had to worry about a kid’s future.
dmsilev
@PsiFighter37: ‘That’s a dick thing to do’ is Trump’s family motto.
Another Scott
@Ruckus: He’s cheap in so many ways.
Donald Trump, billionaire™ endorses $0.13 check
Cheers,
Scott.
Timurid
@Anoniminous:
Not that they were exactly polite, but they weren’t nearly this nuts in 2008 and 2012… with an actual black candidate running.
The same guy who happily accepted a job from Barack Obama just became a suicide bomber in a Hail Mary plot to flip the election to a white supremacist demagogue. What. The. Actual. Fuck.
NeutronFlux
@Baud: This
Corner Stone
@Immanentize:
Ahhhh, that’s better.
/Homer
Mai.naem.mobile
If Farenthold contributes to Trumpy not winning, he should get the Nobel Peace Prize.
As far as Trumpy, hes a scam artist,plain and simple. A conman. A crook. Used car salesman.
bystander
@Patricia Kayden: That’s why I like the idea of TrumpTV. The networks are not going to give free airtime to Trump the way they do now when he’s their competitor. If all goes right, Trump and Epshteyn and the Shoplifter and Kelly with the hair that looks as if she stole it from a much abused doll will all be fading in the rear view mirror.
Anoniminous
@Timurid:
I know Conservative Republicans in DC and their Hillary Hate is mind boggling. Actual, visceral, hatred. In 20 years I have yet to have one of them give me any rational explanation. Ten years ago it was Whitewater and Vincent Foster. Now it’s Benghazi and emails.
Mai.naem.mobile
Why do Dem presidents appoint GOP FBI directors? Secs of Defense? How come the GOP just appoint a Dem to a non important cabinet position(DOT)?
PsiFighter37
@Mai.naem.mobile: I guarantee you it’s not going to happen again anytime soon after this. The Cabinet needs to be on the same team in this day and age.
Patricia Kayden
@bystander: And we will never have to see them or hear their lies ever again. Works for me.
@Mai.naem.mobile: Good question. Perhaps future Democratic Presidents, beginning with Hillary Clinton, will learn not to do so. Comey has shown how partisan he can be and all in a vain effort to hurt Clinton.
Clinton is doing well in early voting, btw.
JPL
@Mai.naem.mobile: Comey was the head of an organization that was doing very important work to prevent terrorism in our country. He also appeared to be above politics, so at the time, he seemed to be the right choice. I agree with Psi.. it won’t happen again.
mdblanche
When I dance they call me Trumparena
And the charities they say que tengo dinero
They all want it, they can’t have it
So I come and dance beside them
Move with me, sniffle with me
And if you’re good I’ll pretend to give you money
Dale a tu hurón ahogado alegría, Trumparena
Que tu hurón ahogado es pa’ darle alegría y cosa buena
Dale a tu hurón ahogado alegría, Trumparena
Hey Trumparena!
Baud
Just got an email from Podesta about the Comey thing. They are fighting back hard. Amazing. I hope it works, but it makes me happy.
Corner Stone
@JPL: There is no excuse.
Corner Stone
@Baud:
God, you’d think he would’ve learned by now…
Baud
@Corner Stone: Arne Duncan must be happy to no longer be Obama’s worst appointment.
Baud
@Corner Stone: Chaffetz is going to subpoena me, isn’t he?
Corner Stone
@Baud: HRC is still going to win this election. And hopefully, the Senate will also flip.
If those things happen, Arne Duncan will still be, by far, the worst fucking thing Obama has done wrt domestic policy and personnel.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I don’t know how these things work, but the whole damn caucus should’ve signed this letter
Baud
@Corner Stone: Don’t know. Trying to mess with an election is pretty severe, even if it ends in failure.
The Pale Scot
@donnah:
All those NYC based reporters avoided taking the elevator down walk out onto the street and just ask a local, don’t get no road trips out of that. The Hamptons probably banned the entire clan from NE L.I. Those bodies are in very shallow graves.
I’m going to make some lemon drops tonite and slide on over to WBGO to watch some Jazz in America videos. Start of with Shannon Powell and John Boutté and then maybe some Leroy Jones at the Dew Drop Social & Benevolent Jazz Hall.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Yglesias isn’t even trolling here, but I hope somebody sends this to Trump, it’ll drive him crazy every time he sees
it
NW Phil
@Anoniminous:
I personally don’t expect any change (I’m very white). It’s just these clowns with no self-esteem who expected the “others” to bow to them, and were always angry when it didn’t happen.
Timurid
@JPL:
Because some time this December Obama is going to drive him out into the woods, and he’s going to make him dig his own grave.
And not to repeat myself, but Comey had to know this would be the outcome, and he did it anyway. Because his biggest regret is that he has but one life to give for his race…
Jeffro
@Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman):
I think Mark Cuban put it best – something like, “If he were a real billionaire, he wouldn’t mess with this nickel-and-dime stuff”. I think he was talking about Trump flacking his “Trump Steaks” line, but really it applies to everything.
different-church-lady
It should have been obvious, I should have seen it a lot sooner, but it all makes perfect sense now: it’s nothing but a manifestation of Cleek’s Law. They don’t really care if Trump becomes president beyond the idea that it would be the ultimate way to drive liberals up a wall. They don’t actually comprehend the idea of a Trump presidency beyond that one simple fact.
In that light, one can see that Trump’s bad behavior does not affect their support one bit. In fact, the worse he behaves, the better it is for them, because it will drive liberals even crazier.
Jeffro
@Mai.naem.mobile: @JPL:
Damn skippy this won’t happen again…plenty of talent out there, and no more need for bipartisan overtures. They aren’t listening to anything but power, so let’s let Hillz know we have her back. Fire at will, Madam President.
Jeffro
@different-church-lady:
They think that somehow they would be able to control him, with no adverse consequences to the GOP or the country. It’s an exciting concept. So is letting my 11-year-old have a bottle of whiskey and the keys to my car.
Waldo
@Baud:
After all the scandal hype yesterday, it was a relief to hear both Podesta and HRC essentially challenging Comey to put up or shut up. They must know exactly what he’s got: nada.
lollipopguild
I think that there is a large group on the Right that would rather see the country destroyed(literally) than see a Clinton in the white house. If they can’t own and run the country then burn it to the ground.
Corner Stone
@Jeffro:
May I humbly suggest that you get out a little more?
debbie
@efgoldman:
I don’t think he’s lived an honest day in his life.
debbie
@Patricia Kayden:
He’ll be on Trump TV, so as long as you avoid that channel, you’ll be fine.
PsiFighter37
@lollipopguild: They had their chance the first time around and failed (although, I suppose, by stealing the election for Bush in 2000, they very nearly succeeded in a sense).
Jim, Foolish Literalist
economic anxiety part the Ican’teventh
debbie
@bystander:
Not only will the networks not give him free time, they’ll work to diminish his market share. Imagine the whining then!
pluky
@sigaba: there was recently a russian woman whose oeuvre was based on interviews. does that count as journalism?
Jeffro
@Corner Stone: I do? It was just hyperbole?
Matt McIrvin
@Jeffro:
Except that political appointees need to be confirmed by the Senate, and she may not have one on her side. And #NeverTrump Republicans are going to be crowing that she owes them a favor for deigning to not support her opponent.
pluky
@Timurid: two words — Supreme Court.
RK
Off topic but I found this a bit surprising. Fox’s pregame panel has three former baseball stars, two disgraced: Pete Rose and Alex Rodriguez.
lollipopguild
@PsiFighter37: They made sure that Bush won but then after bush was reelected he started screwing up and by 2005 it was obvious that Iraq was a mess. Obama can thank Bush for helping to get him elected. They were going to make Obama a one termer but that did not quite work out. If Clinton does win then Nov. 9th it will be an all out war on her.
jl
@RK:
” Fox’s pregame panel has three former baseball stars, two disgraced ”
At this point, that is probably just the producers booking guests consistent with their branding.
raven
Track meet in Oxford.
JPL
New chant at the Trump rally… Rather than CNN sucks now one of Sarah’s patriots and also a white supremacist is chanting Jew S A to the press. link
jl
@lollipopguild: If they think they can make it work electorally for them in the next midterms, the GOPers in Congress will continue their ruthless war of obstruction and malfeasance on responsible governance, with full backing from the GOP party apparatus.
At some point, the Democrats need to go back to the good old days, like back to FDR and Truman, who were willing to throw away a lot of the kabuki political theater of niceness and civility when necessary, and just use facts history, and logic and what people see with their eyes and hear with their ears, to argue that the GOP is full of no good bums up to no good, and time to throw them out of office. That will be hard since there are swarming hordes of hacks in the corrupt big corporate media and lobbying industries who will look funny at Dem politicians at their goofy parties and retreats. But it is hard work that needs to be done.
If Trump loses (God willing), he will be running around ginning up all sorts of outrageous incitement. There will have to be a response to that. First on the list is calling the GOP to account for Trump. Fact is, not a lot of difference on substance between Trump and establishment GOP, more just style and presentation (in addition to issue of Trump personal foibles, such as self-indulgence, severe mental sloth, and lack of self control).
Corner Stone
@Jeffro: Sure, sure. Everything is hyperbole until the 11 yr old brings home a pink slip won at the outlaw race meets.
Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap
Funny
NotMax
@raven
Feel as though wandered into a spy novel and forgot the countersign.
;)
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: All that time playing Need for Speed might pay off.
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: I know. It’s cross country season.
jl
@NotMax: The cat sleeps on the mat. But no dogs barking.
hovercraft
@Corner Stone:
I have a confession, I have watched those terrimovies way more than I can count, in my defense my 10 year old was obsessed with Bumblebee for years. They were dumb, but we had so many hours together watching them that I have a special place in my heart for them. I am therefore much more tolerant of Shia Le Bouf than most people, though I drew the line at Eagle Eye, I only watched that once.
Mr Stagger Lee
@aimai: A Presidential Medal of Freedom, the highest medal given to civilian, in this country should bestowed on him, he contributed to saving the Republic.
NotMax
@efgoldman
But it was the best poop in the entire history of the human race.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: It was yuuge.
debbie
@efgoldman:
Good. I want him marginalized right off the side of the flat earth.
Iowa Old Lady
I’m watching Good Girls Revolt on Amazon Prime. It’s the story of women “researchers” suing Newsweek over job discrimination. Some bad memories there.
debbie
@Iowa Old Lady:
That was right around the time I moved to NYC and the building was just a couple blocks from where I worked. They didn’t get a whole lot of support as I remember.
Ian
@Corner Stone:
Can you go farther into detail? What specifically has he done wrong?
Iowa Old Lady
@debbie: Eleanor Holmes Norton led the suit.
redshirt
I’ve been offworld, so can someone tell me:
Are we doomed, or is all well on our path to taking back the White House and Senate?
Gin & Tonic
@redshirt: Yes.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ian: I don’t know about Corner Stone, but I would say supporting the expansion of charter schools, over reliance on standardized testing (including using it as way of judging teacher performance), and effectively working to kneecap public schools.
Gator90
@raven: Tee hee. Life is good.
JPL
@efgoldman: My little neighborhood had a FL and a UT flag hanging outside. It wasn’t like this when I moved here. In the olden days we were GA flag people.
mdblanche
@redshirt: Wait, aren’t you burying the lede here? You’re a redshirt who’s been offworld, and you’re still alive?!
debbie
@Omnes Omnibus:
Michelle Rhee Light.
Eric S.
It’s in the 60s here in Chicago so I have the windows open. I can easily here the crowd at Wrigley. I know something has happened at least 10 seconds before Fox shows me.
raven
@Gator90: That ain’t the game you should care about now.
Felonius Monk
@srv: I see that you have not forgotten how to blow smoke out of your butt-hole in your old age.
Tilda Swinton's Bald Cap
This is a big deal.
Link
Omnes Omnibus
@debbie: Exactly.
JPL
@Eric S.: That is so cool.. Go Cubs..
I assume you meant hear the crowd, but in the excitement erred.
redshirt
@mdblanche: One of the lucky ones!
Doug R
@redshirt: So it was you mooning the rings around Uranus?
redshirt
@Eric S.: I used to live right next to Fenway and had this same experience all the time. Hear the roar of the actual crowd, see them going crazy in the bleachers, then the TV would catch up. Was like having the ability to see 5 seconds into the future.
Eric S.
@JPL: I never include proofreading as a skill set on my resume.
Yes, typing and watching the game at the same time will be my excuse.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: I was not going to answer him because, give me a fucking break.
raven
@Eric S.: My ex SIL live in the apartments at Waveland and Sheffield in the 70’s. She hated that organ!
redshirt
@Doug R: Poor Uranus. Used to be a perfectly respectable God name, which then got attached to a perfectly respectable planet, and then…. memes happened.
I wonder if the Astronomers Union should just rename it at this point. How about Vulcan?
Jeffro
@Matt McIrvin:
I like the odds of at least a 50-50 Senate if not a 53-47 one. And there’s going to be a few GOP Senators who have had enough of this nonsense – not a lot, but a few. As for the NTR’s, they can crow all they want, she’ll just welcome them into the newest wing of the Democratic Party and tell them they’d better tow the line or see how well they are welcomed back by the Trumpistas.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: A good number of childless people pay little attention to education policy, so I was extending the benefit of a doubt. If asked why the things I mentioned were bad, I will be at give me a fucking break.
Eric S.
@raven: I knew what I was moving in to when I bought here. My only complaint is the news helicopters. Those bastages are parking on my roof, I’m sure of it. If I could confiscate every ounce of helicopter fuel for then next 3 days I would do it without hesitation.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@redshirt: Been working on the bunker?
raven
@Eric S.: Go out and get a can of rotor wash,
redshirt
@Eric S.: Revel in it. It’s a short term annoyance for a historical event. I was glad to hear all the helicopters above me when the Sox won in 2004. And oh yeah, just coincidentally a blood red lunar eclipse at the same time. Freaking magical.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: I am familiar with Ian.
redshirt
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Hrmmmm. No, not today. Working far away.
Doug R
@redshirt: Futurama dealt with this
raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Here’s one of our spoons walking past one of our bunkers.
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: Okay then. I guess I wasted pixels.
raven
@redshirt: They just got a bird at the hospital that is about 150 yards away. I can feel them fuckers long before I can hear em.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@redshirt:
Sounds more a sign of the apocalypse.
Eric S.
@redshirt: I’m a St. Louis Cardinals fan, but I’m trying. My National League loyalties have me pulling, if somewhat reluctantly, for the home team. Go … go… I can’t type it. Go hometown team!
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: Madison is going to be insane tonight. Home night game and then Freak Fest.
redshirt
@?BillinGlendaleCA: It was pretty weird. I went out on my roof. You could hear the entire city celebrating in this low pitched roar; up above in the blackness was the sound of a dozen or more helicopters, but they were hard to see. And then the blood red moon.
Then the party on the streets started. I’ll never forget it.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: God, I was up there for at least 2 Illini games that were on Halloween, what a town!
redshirt
@raven: I always hate hearing the medical copters cause you know someone’s life is on the line.
Major Major Major Major
@Doug R: rectum? Damn near killed ’em!
raven
@redshirt: These dudes practice a good bit.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: I figured that you would know what I was talking about.
raven
@redshirt: We had 4 WW2 planes here for a couple of days this week and they flew around a good bit. It was $4000 for 1/2 hour in the P 51 Mustang!
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: They’re recyclable.
redshirt
@raven: I’m sure. I meant the passenger in the copter.
The Pale Scot
@Corner Stone:
Chuckle
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: I saw the Dead in the field house one cold winter night in 1970 or so.
raven
@redshirt: I’m saying that it’s a new pad and they have been doing practice approach and landings.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: My last apartment in Columbus was only a couple of blocks from a downtown hospital and when they would practice, they would more or less take off, circle around my building, and then land.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Old High Street!
redshirt
@Doug R: TAKE MY MONEY!
redshirt
@raven: Ah. Gotchya.
different-church-lady
@redshirt: * Player who made the final out for the Cards wore #3. So did Babe Ruth.
* Lunar eclipse ended just before the end of the game, taking off any voodoo it might have caused.
* 18 years (to the day) since the last WS lost for the Sox in ’86, 86 years since their last WS win in ’18.
* 1918 penny found stuck to a Fenway Park concession stand earlier in the season.
* Gabe Kapler (RF, #19) and Johnny Damon (CF, #18) would frequently stand next to each other in the outfield.
It was in the numbers for the BoSox that year.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@raven: Memorial Day, Veterans Day, and the 4th the flyboys fly around their WWII airplanes here. I’m midway between two cemeteries.
different-church-lady
@redshirt: Just think about how the residents of Athole, MA feel.
Major Major Major Major
@redshirt: I was looking for a brain slug hat today for Halloween but didn’t find it.
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: This was about five blocks east of High. Back behind the main library.
DCrefugee
@Tilda Swinton’s Bald Cap:
One tidbit I’ve not seen in any of the news coverage is *when* did the FBI obtain access to the Weiner/Abedin computer? When did they take possession of it? Under what circumstances? If it is evidence in the investigation into Weiner’s sexting of a minor, is/was a search warrant necessary? If not, and that investigation has been ongoing for months, as seems to be the case, presumably the FBI has searched the computer by now, probably as soon as it came into their possession.
Why is this coming out now?
different-church-lady
@Tilda Swinton’s Bald Cap: The everlovin’ F? It sounds like that means either Comey is blowing complete smoke, or someone in the FBI was looking at those messages without a warrant.
The Pale Scot
@dmsilev:
I envision the motto in Latin over a stylized pen!s with orange fur on top.
NotMax
@different-church-lady
It’s pronounced Bouquet.
– Hyacinth Bucket
raven
@?BillinGlendaleCA: This outfit is from Stow, Ma.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: I was only there for football games but our nephew lives there and loves it.
Jeffro
May have already been linked to, but NY Mag has an insightful article on the last days of the Trump campaign…and how Kellyanne manages the man-baby.
Omnes Omnibus
@DCrefugee: @different-church-lady: You folks should enjoy this then. I can attest that what is said about modern e-discovery software is accurate.
redshirt
@different-church-lady: Awesome! It did really feel like magic. And I was right there – lived in the Fens. After the Sox beat the Yanks I hit the streets and it was like a music video – everyone else pouring out of their apartments. At first traffic is flowing on Boylston, but then by sheer mass the crowd takes over. I remember seeing the eyes of this Asian lady freak out as the crowd totally surrounded her and I’m not sure she had any idea what was happening.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: I believe that is the case. If you have that come up, use tiny.url.
redshirt
@different-church-lady: Like Massholes, I’m sure.
redshirt
@Major Major Major Major: Not even on Think Geek?!
different-church-lady
@Omnes Omnibus: It’s not a question of time to review — it’s a question of whether review is even legal as of yet.
Omnes Omnibus
@different-church-lady: I am just adding to the pile on.
Eric S.
@The Pale Scot: I was vaguely picturing a family crest. That’s perfect.
redshirt
@Eric S.: I understand how this would be difficult then. I can’t recommend you cheer for the Cubs given your allegiance. Maybe look at it as an interesting people watching time.
Steeplejack
@RK:
And Rose sounded like he was high. Or maybe just giddy at the prospect of being allowed out in (semi-)respectable society.
mdblanche
@Major Major Major Major: Just travel to the Brain Slug Planet and walk around not wearing a helmet.
Steeplejack
@redshirt:
Not the worst superpower ever, but in the ballpark.
debbie
@Omnes Omnibus:
FWIW, Grant Hospital.
Matt McIrvin
@redshirt: I remember the Red Sox moon!
Omnes Omnibus
@debbie: That is correct. I lived right by Topiary Park.
Steeplejack
@efgoldman:
Yes, it will.
And, though probably this is not relevant, I have occasionally seen FYWP choke on random YouTube addresses (which don’t contain recognizable words).
redshirt
@Steeplejack: You could actually accomplish a lot with this power. For instance, you should never lose a fight. Could avoid getting shot. Could win at the casino.
Steeplejack
@Jeffro:
Can you buy a clue on your link-fu?! I haven’t seen you get one right all this week.
Fixed: “Trump Campaign Final Days.”
Pro tip: When you create a link, erase/overwrite the
http://
prefix that FYWP supplies. You are getting double prefixes in all your links (or, in this case, a missing colon).debbie
@Omnes Omnibus:
That’s a nice little park. A small corner of incongruity in the neighborhood.
Omnes Omnibus
@debbie: My other place in C-bus was two blocks from Schiller Park. I chose my neighborhoods well.
Jeffro
@Steeplejack: Thanks! I’ll work on the erase/overwrite thing. Normally I have people who take care of this sort of thing for me, but it’s late…
anyway, test…
ETA – nailed it! Thanks SJ
different-church-lady
@Steeplejack:
In High School a friend and I invented “Neutrino Man”, a superhero who couldn’t help anyone because he was “Just passing through!”
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack:
How uncomfortable.
debbie
@Omnes Omnibus:
That’s not easy in that town. My brother lived on Schiller (Yaeger) for a few years. Great place to run a dog.
redshirt
@Steeplejack: It would actually be pretty useful. For instance, you should never lose a fight. You’d be pretty amazing at p0ker.
Omnes Omnibus
@debbie: I was at the corner of Deshler and High. Crappy apartment, but a great location.
redshirt
@different-church-lady: ZE GOGGLES! ZEY DO NOTHING!!!
Steeplejack
@NeutronFlux:
I.F. Stone is an icon of American journalism, but I don’t think he ever won a Nobel Prize.
Steeplejack
@redshirt:
Okay on the fight, and sports in general. I don’t see what it gets you in poker.
ETA: Remember that poker is a bad word and must be neuterized to avoid moderation.
redshirt
@Steeplejack: You’d see everyone’s play 5 seconds before you have to make your own. That’s like 5 extra seconds to make a decision!
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: aimai is Stone’s granddaughter. Her dad has the Nobel.
Major Major Major Major
@different-church-lady: how droll.
Steeplejack
@redshirt:
A decision based on cards that you still aren’t seeing.
Stella B.
@different-church-lady: I used to live on Middlesex Drive. The city had to replace a stolen street sign at least once a year.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
So why link to I.F. Stone?
redshirt
@Steeplejack: Yeah, bad example. I’m thinking too hard now on a gambling endeavor this power could help with. Blackjack?
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: I didn’t link to anyone. I am just trying to clear it up. Maybe I should have replied to more folks, but I figured that anyone in the conversation would see it.
frosty
@Steeplejack: What you have done, it has been seen.
Omnes Omnibus
@redshirt: Possibly craps, but five seconds isn’t much time.
Gator90
@raven: I can care about multiple things at once. UF grads are clever like that.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
NeutronFlux had a link to I.F. Stone, which is what I replied to. Can someone just tell me the name of aimai’s father? That would “clear it up.”
frosty
Roulette?
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Okay, Google says Walter Gilbert. Mystery solved!
different-church-lady
@Steeplejack: Not Jeremy Stone?
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: I based my comments on things that aimai has said. It is quite possible that her mom is Stone’s child and the Nobel winner is her dad. She has never specified as far as I know.
SiubhanDuinne
@Iowa Old Lady:
I’m currently reading Lynn Povich’s book/memoir of the same title. I didn’t work in media or advertising specifically in the 1960s, but I was close enough to MadAve to identify closely with the era, and the role of women.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
She said once before that her mother is Celia Gilbert, the poet, which stuck in my mind.
redshirt
@Steeplejack: Are y’all doxxing at this point?
Steeplejack
@different-church-lady:
Who also hasn’t won a Nobel Prize.
different-church-lady
@Steeplejack: What’s a pedigree like that doin’ hanging out in a dump like this?
different-church-lady
@Steeplejack: No, no, the other one.
Steeplejack
@redshirt:
If someone drops it in a thread that her father has a Nobel Prize, I don’t think it’s out of line to ask who it is. Curiosity is piqued.
Steeplejack
@different-church-lady:
I thought of that, but about 30 seconds too late.
redshirt
@Steeplejack: Agree that it’s not a normal situation. But technically….
amk
years and millions of income tax evasion. multiple charity scams. so many bankruptcies. and yet the deadbeat of a fraud lives in a grand lifestyle publicly.
major IRS fail.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: I don’t feel that it is appropriate to dig further into her background. I see that Celia Gilbert is married to a Nobel winner. The Stone connection doesn’t enter into it.
SiubhanDuinne
@redshirt:
I am the same way about sirens of any kind — cops, ambulances, fire trucks. Someone is hurting or scared, almost by definition.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus, @redshirt:
Let us never speak of this again.
different-church-lady
@Omnes Omnibus:
Check out the maiden name.
SiubhanDuinne
@different-church-lady:
Pithy.
different-church-lady
@Steeplejack: This is a lot of fun, considering I didn’t know the first thing about any of these people (real or fictional) 20 minutes ago…
Omnes Omnibus
@different-church-lady: I am just saying that I don’t feel like going further with this inquiry. Too close to doxxing for me.
JR in WV
@different-church-lady:
No FBI agent has read the first email from Weiner’s devices, as they do not yet have a search warrant for the device(s). So Comey’s letter was based upon – well, on smoke coming out of his ass, frankly.
He doesn’t actually know if any emails related to Clinton in any way are on the devices he speaks of. No evidence whatsoever exists in his control, yet.
Firing offence in my book. On Monday, for cause.
ETA: speling, etc.
different-church-lady
@Omnes Omnibus: Why else do you think I never go to meet-ups?
redshirt
@different-church-lady: You’ve won a Nobel Prize too?
different-church-lady
@redshirt: Well, I wasn’t going to say anything…
Major Major Major Major
@different-church-lady: I feel so inadequate.
Lizzy L
@JR in WV:
Source, please. I haven’t seen this anywhere.
Omnes Omnibus
@different-church-lady: I’ve met people from here at meet-ups and elsewhere. I just would not consider outing them. aimai has provided certain info about her background (as have I), I checked out enough to find out whether the statement about a Nobel that she made was true. It seems quite probable. I will not pry further.
redshirt
@Major Major Major Major: I know, right? I was only nominated. :(
NotoriousJRT
@efgoldman:
Perhaps, but I am dancing.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jeffro:
Your link sucks goats, but there’s a photo of Ivanka and Jared in the article that appears to be a beta test for Prism.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack:
Heh.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack:
Not even half-assed.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Lost the confidence of the executive.
different-church-lady
@Major Major Major Major: You shouldn’t. Mine is only in one of the technical categories.
Aleta
This is a clearer description than many of Comey’s action: http://www.newyorker.com/news/news-desk/james-comeys-letter-and-the-problem-of-leaks
Lizzy L
@Aleta: That last paragraph says it all. I agree with efg, Comey’s departure will almost certainly wait until after the election, but I bet No-Drama Obama is Not Happy with his FBI Director at all.
grandpa john
@Lizzy L: There is one some where upthread post #117 hilda swinson
John
@efgoldman: My exact thoughts. Every time I think I can’t be more shocked at what a giant piece of shit Trump is, I find out I can. I mean, he actively HURT this charity by barging into their event. Damaged their relationship with a REAL major donor by stealing a photo op AND exploiting sick children while not giving a penny. What the fuck is wrong with this guy?
Ruckus
@John:
The list of what is right with him is much shorter. Not one fucking thing.
Jeffro
@SiubhanDuinne: I thought I already did a mea culpa for the link? SJ helped me out and they’ll be solid from here on out