That spells “moon.” Here’s tonight’s moon:
The mister grilled steaks, and I made baked potatoes for dinner. So I had the easy part.
What’s up with you this evening? Open thread!
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SiubhanDuinne
The penumbral eclipse was really nice here in the ATL.
Don’t think I can stay up long enough to catch the comet, although I’d love to see it.
Larkspur
It’s a Snow Moon! Steak and baked potatoes and a full moon and you with an elegant new hairdo. Life is good.
Mustang Bobby
My brother and I have successfully infiltrated the Boca Raton Resort and Golf Club for the weekend — all expenses paid — where we will be participating in the annual Concours d’Elegance car show and fund raiser. Nary a pussy-hat to be seen, but our very presence is a subtle form of resistance. And fun.
geg6
We had steaks, too! And a nice Tempranillo. ?
Al Franken is on Bill Maher tonight.
Baud
I thought this was going to be a post about one of the protests.
amk
mooning murka.
Jeffro
Mrs. J & I went out for some Thai in Fairfax…oh my was it ever good. Had no idea that “Singha” was Thai for “Bud Light” (but per the beer discussion in that earlier thread, that was just fine with me, actually ;)
Villago Delenda Est
What a lovely moon!
Donald can’t take that away from us.
raven
From Athens
dmsilev
@Villago Delenda Est: Someone should tell Trump that he needs to put a giant golden T on the Moon. It would spark a new era in space technology and keep him at least partially occupied.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I was watching the UCLA – Oregon(Bruins Won!!!) game last night and I noticed that the Bruin mascot(Joe Bruin) mooned the opposing players when they were attempting free throws.
ETA: Can’t see the moon here, it’s raining.
debbie
Too cloudy here, dammit.
Corner Stone
Not sure I really want to be reminded of Stephen King’s The Stand at this point.it’s all too fucking real.
Shana
@Jeffro: Where did you go? That’s my neck of the woods.
I’m partial to Kob Kun, down the street from me.
Eric S.
@Mustang Bobby: I’m jealous. I’d love to be at that car show. Work is going to prevent me from going to the Chicago Auto Show this week. First time I’ve missed it in years.
aimai
Struggling with two papers due back to back next monday and tuesday. Suddenly given a blessed extension on the harder one, in good shape for the “easier” one (potential role for social workers in working with refugee children in the public school system) and so am watching Victoria (BBC version) with spouse and child. The horror I experience trying to write my research methods paper can not be overestimated so the momentary respite I feel is extreme.
raven
@Mustang Bobby: Wow, night Bobby!
Adam L Silverman
@aimai: Hit me up with an email. I used to teach design and method, as well as epistemology. I’ll be happy to help however I can.
amk
psw: the weekend is here. you know what that means.
Elmo
Leftover sketties here. I made a three-day sauce a week ago: started with seared oxtails braised in red wine, a mirepoix, and two heads of garlic. Then spicy Italian sausage, and simmer alllllllll the next day in sauce to loosen the oxtails. Serve on day three.
Oh and of course adding the powdered dried red peppers from our own garden, dried in the dehydrator and pulverized. OMG. Best sauce I’ve ever made.
Chet Murthy
These ICE raids … they’ve come to CA (LA and central valley) and I’m sure they’re headed to the Bay Area. Anybody got any idea what groups are doing something about this? Or what a right-thinking person could/should do about it?
Gin & Tonic
Spending the evening recuperating from a day of skiing. Damn, it was cold today.
Baud
Chyron on Rachel says increasing number of Patriots plan to skip White House meet.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Here’s a tweet showing the Louisville protest at McConnell’s house.
Gin & Tonic
@Elmo: Didja leave some for me?
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: Local radio this evening said it was up to 5. Haven’t turned on the tube.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: does trump even watch sports?
Skepticat
Amazing how tRump’s Florida vacations are causing problems here in the Bahamas. The no-fly zones are fouling up charter flights between here and parts of Florida, and considerable air freight is not getting through from PBI. My neighbors haven’t been able to get back to the States because their charter plane simply can’t escape the zone, and a local fisherman isn’t able to get his catch to clients in the Palm Beach area via his usual carrier. I don’t really understand why so much area must locked down for so long, but I keep hearing from people who are seriously inconvenienced. When I talked to the head of immigration yesterday about applying for residency, she laughed and said she expected a lot more requests because of tRump.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Doubt it.
Corner Stone
@Gin & Tonic:
Shut up, shaddup, shattup!
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
It’s up to 6 now. There was another article about Kraft dining at MaraLago with Trump and Abe.
danielx
Going to see a band called Stella Luna and the Satellites, not very original, But hey, live music.
? Martin
@Chet Murthy: Spread the word. Tell people to not answer the door – ICE need a warrant to even check papers. If you are in a position of authority, know your rights and responsibilities. For instance, I am under instructions not to interact with federal officials without my employer’s legal council present. We are making extra efforts to ensure our immigration data is secure and not part of federal datasets unless legally required. Support state and local efforts:
https://www.lamayor.org/statement-mayor-garcetti-ice-enforcement-actions
I’m going to wild guess that there will be a rally on the 26th (Oscar night). Be there. The community needs support from people that don’t look like they would have their papers checked.
danielx
@Skepticat:
Considering the number of people who dislike him, no great wonder. Dronez, you know.
chris
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Interesting picture. I expected to see a bunch of people outside a large spiky gate. You know, to keep the terrorists out but that doesn’t look like it even has bulletproof windows.
Corner Stone
There is no scale I am aware of to describe how much I hate these fucking Untuckit button up shirt ads.
“Common problem. My solution.”
No, you fucking hipster douche canoe. NO!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Only if he owns the team.
Gin & Tonic
@Corner Stone: Fucking windy, too.
humboldtblue
M-O-O-N spells scotch and the bastards who make it hate them some Trump.
geg6
@? Martin:
Yeah, we’ve gotten similar instructions.
Betty Cracker
@Elmo: Dear dog, that sounds heavenly!
@Chet Murthy: We are bracing for it here in FL. Our DACA kids are scared shitless. Wish I had better advice, but I don’t know what to do either.
@Skepticat: Yeah, every time Fuck Nugget goes to Disgraceland, it’s gonna scramble airspace. I keep hoping the SS will get the stones to tell him he has two choices: 1600 Penn or Camp David. But I guess that’s not gonna happen.
Waldo
@dmsilev:
… and make the Martians pay for it.
Gin & Tonic
@debbie: Maybe Kraft can fill him in on how the game ended, as Il Donaldo reportedly left his party before halftime.
Sab
@debbie: Too cloudy here also
Tripod
Grande Dame.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Betty Cracker: So Dolt45 has been in office 3 weeks and he’s taken 2 vacations in Disgraceland?
humboldtblue
@Chet Murthy: What Assembly district are you in? Start there and if it’s a GOP district GO HERE it’s a key state issue and it’s front and center in priority
dm
@Major Major Major Major: I don’t know. But he pals around with the owner of the Patriots.
Oh, hey, he even owned a team of his own, once upon a time (in the USFL)
? Martin
@Betty Cracker: We’re in full on crisis mode at work. I’ve got hundreds of students on visas from the 7 countries, so that was last week. I’ve got hundreds of DACA students, and upwards of a thousand students with DAPA parents, so that started today. They’re all confused, scared, etc.
There are plenty of days when seceding doesn’t sound like such a terrible idea.
? Martin
@dm: Yep, and he made a move to get an NFL team. I don’t think he cares about sports, I think he just wants the status that comes with owning a team.
rikyrah
@Gin & Tonic:
I think that it’s up to 7. I know 6, but maybe 7.
dm
@debbie: Well, the Patriots are probably jaded about the whole visit-the-White-House thing. After all, they got to go in 2014 when the place still had class.
Miss Bianca
@Elmo: I can haz dinner at your hous plz?
Well, ok, I had a nice cornmeal crust pizza and some Chianti, so I can’t complain, but still…!
Humdog
Steak chez humdog as well. And clouds, so no sky shows.
JanieM
@dm: Brady skipped in 2014. Not that I’m a big football fan in the first place, but I do live in New England, and I was done with Brady after that. He went when Bush was president. In 2014 he pleaded some bullshit excuse about family commitments IIRC.
amk
What do you think of twitler’s threat of signing a new diktat on travel ban? Are the sane state attys prepared for it?
Jeffro
@Shana:
We’ll have to give that a whirl sometime soon! We went to Courtside – it’s usually that or Sisters as they’re closest. Still learning the ins and outs of the menus but it’s a very rewarding kind of study indeed!
Elmo
@Gin & Tonic: Just finished it off! Wife and I made four meals out of it – I always cook as though I’m feeding my three brothers, parents and myself, when it’s just me and my wife.
ThresherK
@? Martin: Jeffrey Loria is thinking of selling the Florida Marlins. Baseball is thinking of paying him to go away so he doesn’t drive the franchise any further into the ground.
I hope Trump’s not getting any ideas to get back in the biz.
Tonight we had buttermilk cornmeal pancakes. Pancakes are a winter storm must-have in our home.
Jeffro
@humboldtblue: the language is a bit blue but I might just have to play that for the wife and kids over breakfast tomorrow…nice, Sam Bee!
Elmo
@Miss Bianca: oh gawd, you said pizza. I loooooooove pizza!
My Dad used to say that the cornmeal (which I lurve btw) is from the Italian baker scratching his beard.
Sab
@Adam L Silverman: Is there anything you can’t do? (Hope that doesn’t sound sparky. Meant to be admiring.)
satby
@raven: beautiful! How you doing?
Elmo
@Betty Cracker: Thanks! I was really pleased with how it turned out. I had to chill it overnight to get the fat off, and the fat ended up being a quarter inch thick.
And spicy!
Adam L Silverman
@Sab: I can’t carry a tune to save my life, which also makes learning/speaking foreign languages difficult as my pronunciation is likely to create a diplomatic incident. I make really basic mathematical errors not because I don’t understand what I’m doing (for the most part), but because I can’t see the errors I’m making when I’m working the numbers – as in kicking a 3 into a 5 while doing the calculations (thank someone’s, anyone’s, no one’s Deity/Deities for computers!). I can neither water ski or snow ski. Nor can I ice skate. And there’s a bunch more things there too.
EBT
Walnuts cosponsored the bill to strip the sanctions from Russia. https://www.congress.gov/bill/115th-congress/senate-bill/341
Omnes Omnibus
Moon was beautiful here. No pics though.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: Yeah, I don’t think you were designed as a skier.
amk
@EBT: All that finger waving posturing from the cowardly couple was just that? Pathetic.
lgerard
@EBT:
I thought the bill was to limit trumps ability to lift sanctions by requiring congressional approval of any changes
zhena gogolia
Just watched the fantastic Smokey Robinson Gershwin award celebration. He is a class act — he sang “Our Love Is Here To Stay.” Beautiful.
Omnes Omnibus
Moon.
Adam L Silverman
@EBT: That’s not actually what that piece of legislation would do. It actually gives Congress the oversight of it. Meaning that the President cannot unilaterally lift the sanctions. Instead Congress would have to approve.
amk
@lgerard: No text so far. So, no context.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: I grew up where there isn’t any snow, so even if I was, its not like I’ve had a lot of opportunities to try.
lgerard
@amk:
no matter, mitch will bury it
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: There is a good (for the midwest) ski hill in my hometown.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: Final panel:
http://www.hoodedutilitarian.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/09/bloom-county021.jpg
Bupalos
You should have shared. Then you both could have had steak and potatoes instead of him having all the steak and you having all the potatoes. Next time post sooner and we can help you with this beforehand.
PS I know its probably a little embarrassing that you didn’t think of this yourself, but no one judges here.
Villago Delenda Est
@humboldtblue: Donald’s behavior in that is beyond terrible. He sets new standards in assholishness. The simple bullet of an assassin will not do for him.
efgoldman
@? Martin:
And the fact he gets piles of money like Scrooge McDuck, basically for doing nothing or even tanking.
That’s Dipshit Dollarsign all the way.
efgoldman
@amk:
The question is: Are there any competent and willing lawyers at DOJ prepared for it.
efgoldman
@Sab:
Adam outs the “poly” m “polymath.”
Uncle Ebeneezer
@Corner Stone: Yes, but still a great reference to drop.
humboldtblue
@Jeffro:
I know nothing about ‘blue’ language.
Sheesh.