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You are here: Home / Politics / Domestic Politics / Say hello to “Dartboard Squirrel”

Say hello to “Dartboard Squirrel”

by Betty Cracker|  February 7, 201710:35 pm| 154 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Nature, Open Threads

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Years ago, my husband installed a dartboard in our tiki bar in a very ingenious manner. Since the structure lacks walls, he affixed it to a sturdy board that is mounted to the rafters on hinges. It swings down for use and can be locked back up against the rafters when no one is playing.

We haven’t played darts in a while. I noticed the other day the cigar box that contains the darts had been moved. Upon closer inspection, I saw bits of the bristle board poking though the cracks and noticed that the wire circle that sections off the target wedges and bullseye was hanging out the other side of the board. Then I noticed that the culprit was inspecting me:

So squirrels have made a nest of our dartboard. We’re tempted to unlock the bolt and swing the board down, but there might be a squirrel avalanche. You win this round, squirrels.

Open thread!

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  1. 1.

    jl

    February 7, 2017 at 10:38 pm

    A critter gone wild in the very domicile of a delicate maiden post. Knew it was Lady Cracker before even looking at the top.

  2. 2.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 7, 2017 at 10:39 pm

    SENATE GOP VOTES DOWN CORETTA SCOTT KING

    GOP Senate votes down reading of letter from Martin Luther King’s widow on the subject of Trump’s AG nominee….

    I don’t think that’s a headline and story they really want

  3. 3.

    schrodingers_cat

    February 7, 2017 at 10:40 pm

    Well at least its not a baby alligator or python.

  4. 4.

    Mike J

    February 7, 2017 at 10:40 pm

    Dartboard squirrelfessional,

    Sorry, I just woke up from a nap and am still logy.

  5. 5.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 7, 2017 at 10:42 pm

    @jl: Maybe you want to rephrase this:

    A critter gone wild in the very domicile of a delicate maiden

  6. 6.

    Betty Cracker

    February 7, 2017 at 10:42 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yeah, Elizabeth Warren is banned from the debate on Sessions for reading the letter. Nothing fascistic about that!

  7. 7.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 7, 2017 at 10:44 pm

    I may just have arranged to have drinks with a senior W DoD official. It was not intentional.

  8. 8.

    Major Major Major Major

    February 7, 2017 at 10:45 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Yertle really shit the bed with that one!

    Not that anybody will care.

  9. 9.

    Corner Stone

    February 7, 2017 at 10:46 pm

    Telling a sitting female Senator to sit down and shut up. That is some level of balls I am unaware of.

  10. 10.

    laura

    February 7, 2017 at 10:46 pm

    Ceiling cat’s got nothing on Dartboard Squirrel!

  11. 11.

    Hal

    February 7, 2017 at 10:47 pm

    Wait, so anything related to Sessions nomination and subsequent denial to a federal judgeship is off limits?

  12. 12.

    PeakVT

    February 7, 2017 at 10:47 pm

    but there might be a squirrel avalanche

    A squirvalanche? Could make for a good yoo-toob video!

  13. 13.

    Emma

    February 7, 2017 at 10:48 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Women will. I can assure you of that.

  14. 14.

    mai naem mobile

    February 7, 2017 at 10:48 pm

    That pic makes the squirrel look like a huge scifi horror movie sized squirrel.

  15. 15.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 7, 2017 at 10:49 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    Well at least its not a baby alligator or python.

    Not this time….

  16. 16.

    mai naem mobile

    February 7, 2017 at 10:49 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: make sure you tape it and get him good and drunk so you can get some real juicy stuff.

  17. 17.

    skerry

    February 7, 2017 at 10:49 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Every Dem Senator should get up there and read the letter.

  18. 18.

    burnspbesq

    February 7, 2017 at 10:50 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I don’t think that’s a headline and story they really want

    I don’t think they care. In their eyes, Sen. Warren is just being a pain in the ass.

  19. 19.

    CaseyL

    February 7, 2017 at 10:50 pm

    @Hal:

    Wait, so anything related to Sessions nomination and subsequent denial to a federal judgeship is off limits?

    Remember: it’s OK to be a racist; it’s not OK to call someone a racist. Because racism doesn’t exist, or wouldn’t if we didn’t keep calling attention to it. Or something like that.

  20. 20.

    Tokyokie

    February 7, 2017 at 10:50 pm

    Have you considered using the squirrels as a dartboard? Although you probably wouldn’t want to use the fancy tungsten-alloy darts on them.

  21. 21.

    Gin & Tonic

    February 7, 2017 at 10:50 pm

    I don’t have a tiki bar.

  22. 22.

    Major Major Major Major

    February 7, 2017 at 10:50 pm

    @Emma: after everything else Trump did, this is what will get white women to vote blue?

    I’m not saying it isn’t awful but I doubt it’ll get much play.

  23. 23.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 7, 2017 at 10:52 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Would it matter if it was intentional?

  24. 24.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 7, 2017 at 10:52 pm

    @Corner Stone: I’m a forty-nine year old white guy from Flyoverland. I cannot imagine that telling Warren that she will not use the words of Coretta Scott King to tarnish the good name of Jefferson Beauregard Sessions will play well (and I know he didn’t choose his name, but he’s chosen to live up to it).

  25. 25.

    PhoenixRising

    February 7, 2017 at 10:53 pm

    I’m out. This thread is going to have me dreaming of a squirrel avalanche onto Mitch McConnell’s desk tomorrow consisting of the top story: Senate’s Dierksen Office Building Evacuated Due to Faxes Of Long-Lost Coretta Scott King Letter on Jeff Sessions.

  26. 26.

    Emma

    February 7, 2017 at 10:53 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: I didn’t say anything about voting right now. I’m talking about anger. And women don’t rely as much on “play”. I was at my dentist’s this morning — an all-women office — and we spent quite a time discussing the President* and his poisonous brood. That conversation rippled out to other women. This will too.

  27. 27.

    Corner Stone

    February 7, 2017 at 10:54 pm

    I wish Warren had pulled out her walking cane and went over to beat Mitch into the hospital with it.

  28. 28.

    Corner Stone

    February 7, 2017 at 10:55 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: It’s kind of like a “sorry, not sorry” announcement, tbh.

  29. 29.

    Major Major Major Major

    February 7, 2017 at 10:56 pm

    @Emma: fair enough.

  30. 30.

    efgoldman

    February 7, 2017 at 10:56 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    I’m not saying it isn’t awful but I doubt it’ll get much play.

    As i said in the last thread: Apparently Yertle McTurtle’s staff never explained this tweetler thing to him – that a message can get around the world instantaneously. Several Dems have already twittled about it.

  31. 31.

    mai naem mobile

    February 7, 2017 at 10:56 pm

    For the Metro Phoenix BJrs Paul Gosar (R AZ4) is having a town hall meeting on Thurs Feb 23, 6pm at the Best Western in Gold Canyon. For people not familiar with Gold Canyon it’s 5-7 minutes from Apache Junction right off I 60. It’s basically <30 mins from the East Valley.I am going to try and be there work willing. I think this is a test run for a GOPr townhall in AZ because I think it's intentionally set where it is to minimize turnout. They want to know if they need to be scared.

  32. 32.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 7, 2017 at 10:56 pm

    @Hal: Senate Rule #19 is written to prevent senators from disparaging each other on the floor of the Senate, as well as within committee/sub-committee work. That’s what Senator McConnell invoked. It really doesn’t apply here given the nature of the debate – Senator Sessions fitness to be the Attorney General, but McConnell wants to move things along and wants to protect Senator Sessions, hence the invocation of Senate Rule 19.

  33. 33.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 7, 2017 at 10:56 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: No. Fucking Princeton.

  34. 34.

    efgoldman

    February 7, 2017 at 10:58 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    I wish Warren had pulled out her walking cane and went over to beat Mitch into the hospital with it.

    Lots of tradition there. Charles Sumner was from MA.

  35. 35.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 7, 2017 at 10:58 pm

    @skerry: The letter is actually already part of the existing Congressional Record from when Senator Sessions was nominated for and denied appointment to the Federal judiciary.

  36. 36.

    burnspbesq

    February 7, 2017 at 10:59 pm

    @Corner Stone:

    Sumner’s revenge!

  37. 37.

    Gin & Tonic

    February 7, 2017 at 10:59 pm

    @Emma: My daughter, my first-born baby (now a mother herself, but still my baby) has been relatively non-political most of her life, although understanding and fulfilling her civic duty to be educated and vote. But I tell you, this Betsy DeVos thing has turned her into someone I barely recognize. She is on fire! It’s probably relevant that she is a union thug public school teacher in a majority-minority district, but I’ve really never seen her like this. I know others have remarked on the conversion of their loved ones, but this is a sight to behold.

  38. 38.

    Steve in the ATL

    February 7, 2017 at 11:00 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    Princeton

    I went to law school there!

  39. 39.

    Major Major Major Major

    February 7, 2017 at 11:00 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: better than Senate Rule 34.

  40. 40.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:00 pm

    @Corner Stone: I worked with and know several of them that I provided support for in 2008. They were also professional when I dealt with them as were the ones under President Obama.

  41. 41.

    skerry

    February 7, 2017 at 11:01 pm

    Going to make a sign “Nevertheless, She Persisted”

    “She was warned. She was given an explanation. Nevertheless, she persisted,” McConnell said on the Senate floor.

  42. 42.

    efgoldman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:02 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    So squirrels have made a nest of our dartboard.

    Try mothballs or moth flakes. It’s how we got rid of Rocky Racoon and his family in our attic. Toss some up above the board, or hand some netting as close as you can get with mothballs in it.

  43. 43.

    Gin & Tonic

    February 7, 2017 at 11:02 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Ew.

  44. 44.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 7, 2017 at 11:02 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: Ha!

  45. 45.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:03 pm

    @efgoldman: I have a very close friend from grad school who is now the acknowledged authority on Congressional (and by extension American politicians) tweeting. He wrote the first assessment of it shortly after members of Congress started tweeting and its become a sub-specialty ever since. I keep meaning to ask if he’s branched out into Congressional use of instagram or vine or tindr or grindr or anything like that. I’ll text him tomorrow and report back!

  46. 46.

    Howard Beale IV

    February 7, 2017 at 11:04 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: And Buzzfeed reported that King’s letter was never entered into the Congressional Record during Sessions’s nomination back in the 80s by none other than Strom Thurmond.

  47. 47.

    Emma

    February 7, 2017 at 11:04 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Women I know — even one or two very conservative Southerners — are pissed and spoiling for a fight.

  48. 48.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:05 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: Okay, good to know.

  49. 49.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 7, 2017 at 11:05 pm

    @Corner Stone: Very good friend trying to get his friends together. I said okay before he mentioned the Bushie who was in his club in college.

  50. 50.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:06 pm

    @efgoldman: Remember, members of Congress are indemnified from criminal prosecution for anything they do as part of the course of their official duties. So if there’s a parliamentary justification for bludgeoning a fellow member of Congress to death, this could get interesting.

  51. 51.

    lamh36

    February 7, 2017 at 11:08 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: keep seeing folks talking bout Coretta Scott Kings letter is ” on the record” from previous hearing…ah …nope!

    Coretta Scott King’s letter wasn’t entered into record by Strom Thurmond. McConnell trying to keep his legacy intact
    https://mobile.twitter.com/JoeSudbay/status/829153107334533120

  52. 52.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 7, 2017 at 11:09 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Princeton dining clubs tend to throw politically different people together. To the extent that Princeton undergrads are vastly different.

  53. 53.

    efgoldman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:09 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    this Betsy DeVos thing has turned her into someone I barely recognize. She is on fire!

    mrs efg and I will be married 40 years this August. She’s voted every time, but is basically non-political; I’m the political junkie in the house, especially since I discovered this place and other blogs ~2004-05.
    This morning she was sitting with her laptop, following the DeVos vote in real time…. and cursing up a storm.
    Peach Pustule and his merry band have energized a shitload of people.

  54. 54.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:10 pm

    @Howard Beale IV: Yep, it had to be done afterword. Thurmond prevented it being read in. I believe he invoked a Rule 19 challenge.

  55. 55.

    efgoldman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:11 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I have a very close friend from grad school who is now the acknowledged authority on Congressional (and by extension American politicians) tweeting.

    Of COURSE you do.

  56. 56.

    Mike J

    February 7, 2017 at 11:12 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: Any thoughts on Yemen blocking US ops? Seems they don’t want a loon directing armed people around their country.

  57. 57.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:12 pm

    @efgoldman: It is what it is.

  58. 58.

    Gin & Tonic

    February 7, 2017 at 11:13 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    To the extent that Princeton undergrads are vastly different.

    I’m sure they are. I’d even bet that you’ll find more than one shade of blue oxford button-down among the entire student body.

  59. 59.

    Timurid

    February 7, 2017 at 11:13 pm

    At this point every Democratic Senator should take their turn at the podium with a copy of the King letter and make McConnell rebuke each and every one of them.

  60. 60.

    Emerald

    February 7, 2017 at 11:13 pm

    McConnell might not be too worried about the fallout from his action tonight if he’s sure that AAs and others just aren’t going to be able to vote in 2018. Getting Sessions in as AG will pretty much assure that, especially after Roberts gutted the VRA.

    Method to their madness.

  61. 61.

    burnspbesq

    February 7, 2017 at 11:14 pm

    What the holy hell?

  62. 62.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:15 pm

    @Mike J: I’m not surprised. The Awlakis are a large and influential family throughout Yemen. My understanding is that the 8 year old Awlaki girl and her mother had been taking to that area by her grandfather who is a member of what passes for Yemen’s government right now. But even more so than that, as we’ve heard a lot of recently, borders have to be enforced. If anyone can enter your country and commit acts of violence, you don’t have a country.

  63. 63.

    Corner Stone

    February 7, 2017 at 11:15 pm

    @lamh36: Every D Senator should start at the part of that letter the previous one left off. There is nothing more important than can be said about this asshole right now.

  64. 64.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    February 7, 2017 at 11:15 pm

    Dartboard’s in the cupboard? Dart’s in the cupboard? Squirrel’s in the cupboard…

    Farewell and adieu to you Spanish ladies….

  65. 65.

    Another Scott

    February 7, 2017 at 11:15 pm

    @efgoldman: It’s a pretty good story for fundraising, also too. I sent her a US Grant tonight.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  66. 66.

    Peale

    February 7, 2017 at 11:15 pm

    @Mike J: I’m confused as to which government of Yemen we’re talking about at the moment. The one that we’re trying to destroy? The one who allies with Al Queda every once in awhile to push out the one we don’t like?

  67. 67.

    lamh36

    February 7, 2017 at 11:15 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: i thought i had read that the letter was “lost” but an enterprising journal from WSJ i believe found and published a copy of the letter

  68. 68.

    efgoldman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:16 pm

    @Gin & Tonic:

    I’d even bet that you’ll find more than one shade of blue oxford button-down among the entire student body.

    Maybe even a stripe or two. Brooks Bros sells ’em.

  69. 69.

    burnspbesq

    February 7, 2017 at 11:17 pm

    Listening to a replay of this afternoon’s oral argument in the Ninth Circuit. DOJ lawyer getting skewered. I am enjoying it.

  70. 70.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 7, 2017 at 11:17 pm

    @Gin & Tonic: Well, to the extent that these two people are a black Bush official and a pasty white Obama/Clinton banker….

  71. 71.

    Gin & Tonic

    February 7, 2017 at 11:17 pm

    @burnspbesq: Economic anxiety.

  72. 72.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:18 pm

    @burnspbesq: This is not a problem. As the new Administration and a member of Congress have announced, these folks are not a problem, not extremists, and not terrorists.

  73. 73.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 7, 2017 at 11:19 pm

    @efgoldman: 90% of my work shirts are BB.

  74. 74.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:19 pm

    @lamh36: I’d read that.

  75. 75.

    lamh36

    February 7, 2017 at 11:20 pm

    ‪Notice too ALL FEMALE GOP SENATORS votes to shut Warren up!‬

    These are the 49 shameful senators (all Republicans) who voted to ban the words of Coretta Scott King tonight. senate.gov/legislative/LI…

  76. 76.

    fuckwit

    February 7, 2017 at 11:20 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: Princeton can use a man like Joel.

  77. 77.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 7, 2017 at 11:21 pm

    @burnspbesq: @Gin & Tonic: I am a decent shot. So is my dad. My brother is okay.

    ETA: My dad is better than me with a long gun. Full disclosure.

  78. 78.

    lamh36

    February 7, 2017 at 11:21 pm

    ALERT @OfficialCBC response to @SenWarren being silenced for reading #CorettaScottKing ltr is HOT @payneNBC @NickTShow @CornellWBrooks
    https://twitter.com/lvburke/status/829178250987524098

  79. 79.

    Corner Stone

    February 7, 2017 at 11:22 pm

    @lamh36: You mean Collins and Murkowski aren’t the heroic warriors we saw them to be when they sooooo bravely voted against DeVos?
    This is my shocked face.

  80. 80.

    efgoldman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:24 pm

    @Corner Stone: @Timurid:

    At this point every Democratic Senator should take their turn at the podium with a copy of the King letter and make McConnell rebuke each and every one of them.

    They won’t do it, but ‘Fie wuz the Dem caucus, I’d call a press conference and all just stand there with duct tape over their mouths.

  81. 81.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 7, 2017 at 11:24 pm

    Matt Viser ‏@ mviser 7m7 minutes ago
    Senator Jeff Merkley (D-Oregon) is now on the Senate floor, reading portions from the Coretta Scott King letter.

  82. 82.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 7, 2017 at 11:25 pm

    @Corner Stone: Golly!

  83. 83.

    efgoldman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:25 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus:

    90% of my work shirts are BB.

    How do you exist without shirt pockets?

  84. 84.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:25 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I had tactical training yesterday morning.

  85. 85.

    lamh36

    February 7, 2017 at 11:25 pm

    1. In midst of this McConnell blocking of Warren reading the King letter, let’s remember why the alt-right is excited about Sessions as AG.
    https://twitter.com/sarahposner/status/829147745243893763

  86. 86.

    Corner Stone

    February 7, 2017 at 11:26 pm

    @lamh36: Holeee sheet. Bull Connor? That’s going there.

  87. 87.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 7, 2017 at 11:30 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I am sharpshooter/expert on the day and weapon. Dad would be expert on any long gun.

  88. 88.

    tobie

    February 7, 2017 at 11:30 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’ll be curious to see if they tell a male senator to shut up.

    I’m surprised Dems haven’t asked the Senate Parliamentarian to weigh in on whether Rule 19 applies when a sitting senator is being discussed in the context of his nomination to a cabinet post i.e., not in his capacity as senator.

  89. 89.

    Omnes Omnibus

    February 7, 2017 at 11:30 pm

    @Corner Stone: Gwah?

  90. 90.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 7, 2017 at 11:31 pm

    Julian Sanchez ‏@ normative 2h2 hours ago
    Wherein the United States Senate discovers a phenomenon known as the Streisand Effect.

    If, like me, you didn’t know, the Streisand Effect refers to the time Babs sued to block publication of pictures of her beach house, making everyone want to see the pictures.

  91. 91.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:32 pm

    @Omnes Omnibus: I will update the dossier.

  92. 92.

    rikyrah

    February 7, 2017 at 11:32 pm

    B.C.- be careful about the critters.

  93. 93.

    lamh36

    February 7, 2017 at 11:33 pm

    ‪#CorettaSpeaksForMe‬
    ‪#LetLizSpeak
    #StopSessions‬

  94. 94.

    MomSense

    February 7, 2017 at 11:33 pm

    @burnspbesq:

    I don’t like that one bit.

  95. 95.

    rikyrah

    February 7, 2017 at 11:33 pm

    Not shocked in the least about what Turtle did. White Citizens Council defending White Citizens Council.

  96. 96.

    lamh36

    February 7, 2017 at 11:34 pm

    After Warren/Coretta Scott King silencing, head of Congressional Black Caucus (echoing King letter) compares Jeff Sessions to Bull Connor

    https://twitter.com/wesleylowery/status/829186284027576321

  97. 97.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 7, 2017 at 11:35 pm

    Steven Dennis ‏@ StevenTDennis 6m6 minutes ago
    Cory Booker is now up. (Merkley appeared to avoid the part of the King letter impugning Jeff Sessions)
    Steven Dennis ‏@ StevenTDennis 2m2 minutes ago
    Booker: “She wasn’t just quoting something that she heard on the street. She was quoting Coretta Scott King.”

  98. 98.

    Betty Cracker

    February 7, 2017 at 11:36 pm

    @efgoldman: I wonder if mothballs would work in the Republican cloakroom? ?

  99. 99.

    efgoldman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:40 pm

    @Betty Cracker:

    I wonder if mothballs would work in the Republican cloakroom?

    The RWNJs are at least as persistent.

  100. 100.

    Timurid

    February 7, 2017 at 11:41 pm

    @Betty Cracker: If they cut them into lines and snorted them, maybe.

  101. 101.

    CaseyL

    February 7, 2017 at 11:43 pm

    An avalanche of squirrels!

    The official collective noun(s) for squirrels are dray and scurry. A “scurry of squirrels” sounds perfect.

    But I kinda like “an avalanche of squirrels,” too. I speak as someone who for many years fed the ones around my house, and would often have eight to twelve of them outside waiting for me to scatter the peanuts. “Avalanche” is kind of how it felt – especially when they started fighting over the territory. I was caught between wanting to break up the fights (who knew the little bushy-tails would actually draw blood from each other!?) and, sanely, not wanting to get bitten myself.

    Any idea how many are up there?

  102. 102.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:43 pm

    @Betty Cracker: OT: You all okay with the storm front moving through Central Florida?

  103. 103.

    Major Major Major Major

    February 7, 2017 at 11:45 pm

    @CaseyL: as far as terms of venery go, it’s hard to beat “a parliament of owls”.

  104. 104.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:47 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: A glitter of Generals or Admirals.

  105. 105.

    Mary G

    February 7, 2017 at 11:47 pm

    Those knuckleheads have now assured that thousands more people will read that letter than would have if they’d just let her read it without comment. There must be 100 copies on my twitter right now.

  106. 106.

    efgoldman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:47 pm

    @CaseyL:

    I speak as someone who for many years fed the ones around my house

    Oh for FSM’s sake, WHY? It’s not like they needed the help.
    We’re trying to figure out where we can leave poisoned peanut butter without the birds getting into it.

  107. 107.

    lamh36

    February 7, 2017 at 11:47 pm

    Bullshit…nothingthe Dem can do to stop Sessions as long as all GOP votes for him…all they need is Pence like with DeVos.

    I want them to read every god damn bit do the letter so it’s ok the record for sure…so they when Sessions is confirmed and rolls back al the civil protection against racial discrimination like the racist assholes want…that letter from Coretta would we glaringly resonant!!!

    ‪@CharlesPPierce ‬
    My suggestion is that Ds stop talking about the Warren thing and get back on why Sessions is not the right choice for AG

  108. 108.

    SWMBO

    February 7, 2017 at 11:48 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Mothballs repel mosquitoes too. My dear departed MIL used them in the garage and porch and didn’t have any in the house.
    It’s a pity that a crucifix and a garland of garlic isn’t more helpful.

  109. 109.

    Major Major Major Major

    February 7, 2017 at 11:48 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: is that what we’re calling Trump’s defense braintrust now?

  110. 110.

    burnspbesq

    February 7, 2017 at 11:49 pm

    Washington’s state SG did a really good job in oral argument, even given the fact that some of the questions were softballs.

  111. 111.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 7, 2017 at 11:50 pm

    @Mary G:

    There must be 100 copies on my twitter right now.

    Also being shared extensively — lavishly, even — on FB.

  112. 112.

    Timurid

    February 7, 2017 at 11:50 pm

    I still don’t know why a Senator hasn’t yet stood at the podium and read the whole letter, ignoring any protests.
    What are they going to do, send him to Vietnam?

  113. 113.

    lamh36

    February 7, 2017 at 11:50 pm

    More than 44K people are currently watching Senator Warren read Coretta Scott King’s letter on Facebook live. facebook.com/senatorelizabe…

    ‪ https://m.facebook.com/story.php?story_fbid=724337794395383&id=131559043673264&refsrc=http%3A%2F%2Ft.co%2FBKYCy62mMh&notif_t=live_video_interaction&_rdr‬

  114. 114.

    Betty Cracker

    February 7, 2017 at 11:51 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I’m glad you mentioned it as I had no idea it was bearing down on us! I got a severe weather alert on my phone a while back but assumed it was for rip tides and didn’t read it (been getting those nonstop).

    One of my car windows is stuck down, damn it! I put a contractor bag on the door. Hope that holds. There’s too much crap on the carport to pull it under. Thanks for the heads-up! Are you battened down?

  115. 115.

    Corner Stone

    February 7, 2017 at 11:51 pm

    @lamh36: I agree 1000%. Why let this pass? They will never be able to explain why Sessions is the wrong choice without using this as the foundation.

  116. 116.

    burnspbesq

    February 7, 2017 at 11:52 pm

    If this case gets past the inevitable motion to dismiss, the discovery is going to be insane.

  117. 117.

    lamh36

    February 7, 2017 at 11:55 pm

    After being stopped by McConnell, Warren read the Coretta Scott King letter outside the Senate 1/2 thedailybeast.com/cheats/2017/02…

  118. 118.

    jl

    February 7, 2017 at 11:55 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: A paunch of advisers. A swindle of consultants.

  119. 119.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:55 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: No, but someone leaked about Flynn again. This time to HuffPo. Someone wants him gone.

  120. 120.

    jl

    February 7, 2017 at 11:57 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: I was going to mention that you are depraved, but I see you just did a good deed for the Lady Cracker so I’ll save it for later.. And probably everyone knows that anyway,

  121. 121.

    lamh36

    February 7, 2017 at 11:58 pm

    @Corner Stone: i’m so mad…didn’t even notice the typos

  122. 122.

    Calming Influence

    February 7, 2017 at 11:59 pm

    “Hey, you ever smell moth balls?”
    “Sure. Why?”
    “How’d you get their little knees apart?”

    What? It’s a critter thread, amirite?

  123. 123.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 7, 2017 at 11:59 pm

    @Betty Cracker: Yep, we’re good. My dogs, 5 and 3, both provide lots of advanced warnings as they don’t like thunder, driving rain, and driving wind. So they’ve gotten their happy pills and I’m just listening to the rain on the roof, the thunder, and the wind. I’m likely to have to go out tomorrow and fix the neighbor’s patio furniture. He’s ill, just sold the place, and hasn’t been in his house for almost a month. He’s got a glass topped patio table with an umbrella through it that turns over in high wind as its not weighted properly. If I’d had more warning, I’d have secured it before it started pouring.

    Keeping good thoughts for your car’s interior!

  124. 124.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 8, 2017 at 12:00 am

    @jl: Not that I’m contesting being depraved, but I’m curious as to what brought this observation on now?

  125. 125.

    lamh36

    February 8, 2017 at 12:03 am

    Bernice King Thanks Elizabeth Warren Being “Soul of the Senate” During Sessions Hearing
    https://twitter.com/psddluva4evah/status/829193781358522368

  126. 126.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 8, 2017 at 12:03 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    I know [Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III] didn’t choose his name, but he’s chosen to live up to it.

    To his credit, he didn’t saddle his son with JBS IV. However, one of his grandsons is named Jim Beau.

    “G’night, Mama! G’night, Grandpa!”
    “G’night, Jim Beau!”

  127. 127.

    Timurid

    February 8, 2017 at 12:04 am

    @lamh36: Did he tackle her? Did he pull out a taser? Otherwise she should have kept reading right where she was.
    People, the comity train has long since left the station. Right now it’s orbiting Alpha Centauri.

  128. 128.

    Mnemosyne

    February 8, 2017 at 12:07 am

    I managed to burn myself making spaghetti sauce. Turns out the “stay-cool handles” weren’t. Ouch.

  129. 129.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    February 8, 2017 at 12:08 am

    @Timurid: this could scarcely have turned out worse for McConnell, it’s still blowing up– let it happen

  130. 130.

    Major Major Major Major

    February 8, 2017 at 12:09 am

    @Adam L Silverman: what did he do?

    And who leaks to HuffPo?

  131. 131.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 8, 2017 at 12:09 am

    @skerry:

    Going to make a sign “Nevertheless, She Persisted”

    I have an artist friend who does feminist drawings and sayings for t-shirts, buttons, posters, etc. First I heard of the Warren thing was on FB earlier when my friend posted that she was busy sketching out a “Nevertheless, She Persisted” design.

  132. 132.

    randy khan

    February 8, 2017 at 12:10 am

    @Timurid:

    I think the Dems have played it right. Not because of comity, but because the headline now will be “Republicans Stop Warren from Reading CSK Letter,” not “Warren Defies Senate Rules.”

  133. 133.

    West of the Rockies (been a while)

    February 8, 2017 at 12:10 am

    @Calming Influence:

    Oh, boooo!

    Okay, I laughed actually.

  134. 134.

    jl

    February 8, 2017 at 12:11 am

    @Adam L Silverman: You are doing good meteorological deeds right now. I am ever optimistic and always hope reprobates will reform them themselves. Don’t worry your pretty little head about it.

  135. 135.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 8, 2017 at 12:13 am

    @Major Major Major Major: Apparently he was unable to answer macroeconomic questions for the President when the President called him and asked him about weak dollar/strong dollar at 3 AM.
    http://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/trump-administration-leaks_us_589a45f1e4b04061313a1fbb?

    WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump was confused about the dollar: Was it a strong one that’s good for the economy? Or a weak one?

    So he made a call ― except not to any of the business leaders Trump brought into his administration or even to an old friend from his days in real estate. Instead, he called his national security adviser, retired Lt. Gen. Mike Flynn, according to two sources familiar with Flynn’s accounts of the incident.

    Flynn has a long record in counterintelligence but not in macroeconomics. And he told Trump he didn’t know, that it wasn’t his area of expertise, that, perhaps, Trump should ask an economist instead.

    Trump was not thrilled with that response ― but that may have been a function of the time of day. Trump had placed the call at 3 a.m., according to one of Flynn’s retellings ― although neither the White House nor Flynn’s office responded to requests for confirmation about that detail.

    Two sources confirm the leak.

  136. 136.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 8, 2017 at 12:13 am

    @jl: okay…

  137. 137.

    Major Major Major Major

    February 8, 2017 at 12:14 am

    @Adam L Silverman: this is not what the ads told me would be the subject of the 3am phone calls.

  138. 138.

    Timurid

    February 8, 2017 at 12:16 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    The White House is already leaking like the Titanic, but leaks only matter if the right people care.
    From the looks of the Nuremberg rally in the Senate tonight, none of them care.

  139. 139.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 8, 2017 at 12:23 am

    @Timurid: If/when it starts to look like it will effect their majorities in each chamber, they will start to care. I think they are putting up a brave front and aren’t sure which way to turn. They’re freaked over the phone calls and the number of constituents, regardless of party, showing up to their offices and town hall events opposing everything. To the point where it was reported this afternoon that the GOP House Caucus had a meeting about security concerns for when meeting with constituents. That takes us into this dynamic (partially related to the post I just put up):
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ig9IKQpu50o

    On the other side, they’re scared the President will treat about them and end their chances of reelection. I have no sympathy for them. They have sold out their country for temporary power, handing their inheritance as Americans to a hostile foreign power and that power’s quislings. They have no integrity. They have nothing but hypocritical self-righteousness.

  140. 140.

    rikyrah

    February 8, 2017 at 12:31 am

    @Adam L Silverman:
    Why Flynn?
    How about Secretary of the Treasury?

  141. 141.

    rikyrah

    February 8, 2017 at 12:34 am

    @Adam L Silverman:
    They can whine to politico and Fox Noise, but this is an issue that plays well with LOCAL media, who are only too happy to report what’s really going on on the ground.

  142. 142.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 8, 2017 at 12:36 am

    @rikyrah: 1) Not confirmed yet. 2) He probably doesn’t have those folks private phone #s. LTG Flynn as the National Security Advisor is, essentially, on call 24/7 because the President is on call 24/7 – even if the current one hasn’t quite gotten that memo. The Secretary of the Treasury is usually not on call 24/7.

  143. 143.

    Mnemosyne

    February 8, 2017 at 12:36 am

    @randy khan:

    Yep. Now the story is “Read the letter the Republicans tried to hide!” If Warren had persisted, it would have been “Out-of-control Dems break rules!”

    Well played, Sen. Warren.

  144. 144.

    SiubhanDuinne

    February 8, 2017 at 12:45 am

    @Adam L Silverman:

    I would have thought he’d call Jared.

    Jared would know.

  145. 145.

    Yarrow

    February 8, 2017 at 12:46 am

    @Adam L Silverman: That’s so stupid it’s almost funny. And then you remember the idiot in charge is the president and it’s terrifying.

  146. 146.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    February 8, 2017 at 12:54 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Maybe it’s just me, but I would think that a high-powered international business tycoon like DT would know about currency exchange rates and what the implications of strong vs weak dollar are.

    It’s almost as if he doesn’t know as much about business as he claims.

  147. 147.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 8, 2017 at 12:57 am

    @SiubhanDuinne: My guess is Jared turns his phone off after a certain hour.

  148. 148.

    Adam L Silverman

    February 8, 2017 at 12:58 am

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: Hoocodanode?

  149. 149.

    pvmike

    February 8, 2017 at 1:11 am

    @102 On first read, I thought the white supremacists were marching through Florida. We do live in interesting times.

  150. 150.

    Gretchen

    February 8, 2017 at 1:15 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Jefferson Beauregard didn’t change his name, but it speaks to where he came from and what his parents thought important when they chose the name of not one, but two Confederate generals for their bouncing boy. And that he hasn’t dropped the Beauregard. Lots of people have embarrassing middle names that they drop or deemphasize. Not JBS.

  151. 151.

    seaboogie

    February 8, 2017 at 3:16 am

    @Adam L Silverman: Should it come to pass, one hopes that when POTUS “feels” he needs the nuclear launch codes, the dude with “the football” will direct T to the Secretary of the Treasury. Much confusion ensues. Everyone has a good laugh later.

  152. 152.

    AxelFoley

    February 8, 2017 at 4:27 am

    @fuckwit:

    @Steve in the ATL: Princeton can use a man like Joel.

    Sometimes, you just gotta say, “What the fuck…”

  153. 153.

    George Sutherland Herscher

    February 8, 2017 at 1:12 pm

    @Steve in the ATL:

  154. 154.

    Singing Truth to Power

    February 8, 2017 at 2:32 pm

    After Warren was silenced, Merkley, Sherrod Brown, Udall, and Sanders read the letter, without being reprimanded or stopped. And the video of Warren being silenced had more than 5.0M views last I heard. McConnell didn’t do a very good job of crushing this –

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