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Paging Bookdragon!

by Hillary Rettig|  October 31, 20164:21 pm| 33 Comments

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You won the cookbook giveaway!

Sent an email yesterday but never heard back. Hopefully you’ll see this today and contact me so you can get your book.

If I don’t hear by tonight I will draw another number.

Also………open thread!

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  1. 1.

    Steeplejack (tablet)

    October 31, 2016 at 4:26 pm

    Stupid lurkers coming in here and taking books that rightfully belong to valued commenters. This wouldn’t happen under Trump! We need to build a wall.

    ETA: Crooked Hillary!

  2. 2.

    Jeffro

    October 31, 2016 at 4:27 pm

    Nickel bet there’s a re-draw

  3. 3.

    Mary G

    October 31, 2016 at 4:33 pm

    Babies in Hillary costumes.

  4. 4.

    Jeffro

    October 31, 2016 at 4:34 pm

    Since this is an open thread…just thought I’d share a quick laff: my dad’s still crowing about Huma this and Brazile that…”100% certain that there will be a criminal investigation (of HRC) either before or after the election…” yadda yadda yadda.

    So I asked him, “Let’s assume y’all get your scalp…and Kaine takes office. What are you going to do with yourselves for 8 years while a squeaky-clean, more-liberal-than-hills guy builds on Obama’s achievements and expands the Obama coalition? Ask to see his birth certificate??”

    No response.

  5. 5.

    Elizabelle

    October 31, 2016 at 4:37 pm

    @Jeffro: My sympathies with having to deal with your parents on the political front.

    Great comment. Let us know when he comes up with a rejoinder.

  6. 6.

    Mary G

    October 31, 2016 at 4:49 pm

    @Jeffro: Yeah, but this causes a problem with the 25th Amendment. When the VP post is open,the president nominates a replacement who has to be approved by a majority of both houses of Congress. If Republicans control either house, they’ll vote no, even if Lincoln returned in a time machine. Then if Kaine should meet with an accident, meet the new boss, President Paul Ryan. Even typing that phrase gives me the heeby-jeebies.

  7. 7.

    TaMara (HFG)

    October 31, 2016 at 4:50 pm

    I feel like I’m clearly in the minority, but I hate Halloween.

  8. 8.

    slag

    October 31, 2016 at 4:50 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): Lock her up!

    Thanks, Obummer!

  9. 9.

    PsiFighter37

    October 31, 2016 at 4:50 pm

    Polls have Blunt with a slight lead and Bayh tied in IN.

    GOTV…we have to take the Senate. Then fuck the filibuster and that stupid blue-slip tradition.

  10. 10.

    catclub

    October 31, 2016 at 4:51 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): For cookbook, it is Cooked Hillary.

  11. 11.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    October 31, 2016 at 4:51 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): can I sit at your table? Even though I’m a big fan of spooky/supernatural stuff, think it’s great that young kids have a good time, but…. meh

  12. 12.

    Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)

    October 31, 2016 at 4:54 pm

    Deciding to a break from politics earlier today, I redid my phone.

    Twitter
    Facebook

    The phone is a Google Nexus 5 running CyanogenMod 13, the latest Nova Launcher beta, and the Lone Elite theme.

    And yeah, I’m still a gun enthusiast despite not owning any right now and voting for Hillary. :)

  13. 13.

    TaMara (HFG)

    October 31, 2016 at 4:55 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I love kids, I love costumes, but I stress about having enough candy, how to wrangle the dogs (if it was just Bixby, I think we would be ok, but Bailey is our wildcard this year)…and all the hype around it, I feel like the Grinch for not being all excited or decorating with cobwebs and ghouls.

  14. 14.

    Mnemosyne

    October 31, 2016 at 5:01 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):

    G hates Halloween, which is why he’s known around our place as The Enemy of Fun.

  15. 15.

    Iowa Old Lady

    October 31, 2016 at 5:03 pm

    @PsiFighter37: If the Senate went back to a talking filibuster, nobody would have to change any other rules. They’ve made it too easy to obstruct.

  16. 16.

    ProudGradofCatLadyAcademy

    October 31, 2016 at 5:03 pm

    Thank you for all the tips and comments on the last open thread! I will look for the Da Bird. I was hoping for something that kept her occupied while I was in office/not at home/not available to play. It breaks me the way she comes in on my Work at home days(soon to be permanent) and whines at me to play. She has a vet visit scheduled.
    I scoop her litterbox twice a day, was told by cat owning colleagues/friends that playing with for 40 minutes a day was really excessive and a bad habit because I “trained” her not to play by herself. Same friends said scooping the litterbox twice a day was also a tad bit much. But, I like it clean and not smelly and it takes two minutes. I change it out with a bleach wipe out twice a month. Is that too much also?

    Because you all have been so helpful, here’s a picture for you all! I don’t know how to embed so here’s a link:

    https://drive.google.com/file/d/0B_kJ_KEBJI_zdHEzeGRzeTJldHp3dU9yTWpsT3lMeDFFRzM4/view?usp=sharing

    The running joke is that I am a spinster cat lady, so she is sitting on what I call my antique shabby Lady Haversham chair in front of my antique grandfather clock with my spinster readers and knitting resting in my tea cup on top of the totally spinsterish tea cart. As my colleague said, “you really are a spinster cat lady aren’t you? ”

    I am, I really am!

  17. 17.

    FlipYrWhig

    October 31, 2016 at 5:04 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): I hate Halloween too. Or, more to the point, I tolerate kid Halloween, though I don’t remember liking it when I _was_ a kid, and find adult Halloween to be about the stupidest nonsense possible.

  18. 18.

    Steeplejack

    October 31, 2016 at 5:11 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):

    I don’t hate Halloween, but over the years I’ve gotten out of the habit. Don’t have kids and have rarely lived in neighborhoods with lots of kids. I was just sitting and reading on my tablet and thought about if/when I should sequester myself for a bit—leave the front lights off and retire to the back bedroom for a while. This is my fifth Halloween in this apartment, and I think I’ve only had one or two knocks in all that time.

  19. 19.

    JPL

    October 31, 2016 at 5:12 pm

    The comment says you won.. Who is you?
    I’m sure it was me, and the email went to spam. lol

  20. 20.

    Steeplejack

    October 31, 2016 at 5:16 pm

    @JPL:

    Check the post title.

  21. 21.

    Arclite

    October 31, 2016 at 5:20 pm

    @Mary G: Better Ryan than Trump or Cruz. I know, degrees of evil, but still.

  22. 22.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    October 31, 2016 at 5:20 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): Mr. Q is en route to a trade show, and I’m hiding because I can’t wrangle Layla Q and hand out candy at the same time. Plus we’re in a new temporary neighborhood and she’s pouting about his departure. And I actually like Halloween usually.

  23. 23.

    JPL

    October 31, 2016 at 5:21 pm

    @Steeplejack: haha Who is bookdragon?

  24. 24.

    Phylllis

    October 31, 2016 at 5:23 pm

    Got an email today that my application for tickets for the 2017 ‘Drive, Chip & Putt’ contest for kids the Sunday prior to the start of The Masters. Snapped them up, as it may be our only chance to get on the course. Plus the kids have been a lot of fun to watch the last couple of years.

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack

    October 31, 2016 at 5:25 pm

    @JPL:

    Presumably a lurker.

  26. 26.

    Hillary Rettig

    October 31, 2016 at 5:34 pm

    @Steeplejack (tablet): Ha ha ha! :-)

  27. 27.

    Bookdragon

    October 31, 2016 at 5:53 pm

    Wow! Yes, I am here. I never expected to win so I wasn’t checking my email.

  28. 28.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 31, 2016 at 6:15 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):

    I decorate with cobwebs year ’round. Saves time in October.

  29. 29.

    SiubhanDuinne

    October 31, 2016 at 6:17 pm

    @Jeffro:

    You’re 5¢ poorer (Bookdragon).

  30. 30.

    Pogonip

    October 31, 2016 at 6:33 pm

    @SiubhanDuinne: On 1 October we stop knocking down cobwebs! Then on 1 November we get them all swept.

  31. 31.

    D58826

    October 31, 2016 at 6:34 pm

    @Mary G: I made the same point in a thread yesterday. Response from some was I was having a pipe dream. Glad I’m not the only one who thinks this could happen. Now it is more likely that I will be able to use my ticket on RMS Titanic’s return trip to Liverpool but stranger things have happened and the GOP is completely unhinged.

    And the next pundit/VSP who says Comey isn’t trying to influence the election and will start a second amendment solution fund to put this person out of our misery. Comey is an old Washington pro. He knew exactly what the reaction would be. He could have put out a two word stmt -‘Clinton Emails’ and the medal and the GOP would have gone after it like a cat on 100 proof catnip. 11 days is just long enough to destroy Hillary’s campaign but not so long as you would expected to have real information to share.

    And one more thing that Comey will not want to talk about because of the election and all:

    A Group of Computer Scientists Believe a Trump Server Was Communicating With a Russian Bank

    No smoking gun according to the article but what are the terms used when it’s Hillary – optic/raises question/casts shadows/where there is smoke/etc etc etc.

    http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/cover_story/2016/10/was_a_server_registered_to_the_trump_organization_communicating_with_russia.html

  32. 32.

    The other other Max

    October 31, 2016 at 8:19 pm

    This is the best combination of humor and tastiness ever I see.

  33. 33.

    Oldgold

    October 31, 2016 at 8:36 pm

    David Corn at Mother Jones has just published an explosive article on Trump’s relationship with the Kremlin.

    http://m.motherjones.com/politics/2016/10/veteran-spy-gave-fbi-info-alleging-russian-operation-cultivate-donald-trump

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