Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Biden: Oh no. We’ve upset Big Pharma again.

Since when do we limit our critiques to things we could do better ourselves?

Russian mouthpiece, go fuck yourself.

Washington Post’s Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

Donald Trump, welcome to your everything, everywhere, all at once.

FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Pelosi: “He either is stupid, or he thinks the rest of us are.” Why not both?

Every day Vance writes another chapter in the book called “Worst VP Pick Ever”.

The truth is, these are not very bright guys, and things got out of hand.

Let there be snark.

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

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

I really should read my own blog.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

I’m more Christian than these people and I’m an atheist.

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

So many bastards, so little time.

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

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Lord Smallgloves’ motto: No grift too small, no scheme too petty.

Apart from reinforcing the truth of that, what’s on the agenda for the day?

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  3. 3.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Today’s contribution to the Annals of Chutzpah: Chris Christie rips ‘liar’ Eli Manning: ‘He got caught’ in fake memorabilia scheme In it there is this little gem:

    Christie, who is reportedly exploring a career in sports talk radio after his term ends, spared no criticism of “the liar Eli Manning” while discussing the unfolding lawsuit.

    I guess we won’t have Chis Christie to kick around anymore…. Oh, who am I kidding? We’re going to kick that lying, loudmouthed, useless prick around every chance we get, especially whenever he gets the pizza order wrong.

  4. 4.

    satby

    Cleek’s law as a governing philosophy not working out so well. But Drumpf’s die hards think every single thing he does is great BECAUSE it pisses off liberals. I’m seeing comments to that effect from friends of friends on the cesspool of stupid people and cute animal videos that FB has become.

    I have to go back to work today though tomorrow we’re off. I worked Thursday night because they needed help moving the files from two rooms. The move had been expected literally for two months, but when I got there the office manager hadn’t planned any strategy for moving the shelves and files other than us just sliding them to their new location, apparently unaware that the flimsy metal shelves were bolted to the wall, weighed over 600lbs fully loaded, and were too tall to slide through the door. I was livid. They called yesterday for me to come in, but I had made plans and wouldn’t change them, so I expect major blowback at some point today. And I will go apeshit on her ass if it starts. Worst manager in my almost 50 years of work.

  8. 8.

    amk

    I remember the loony left and the msm minions jumping like monkeys over the kenyan’s ‘secrecy’, when it turned out to be a nothingburger in the end.

  9. 9.

    satby

    @rikyrah: Good morning! And thank you! I’m going to be fine, I have a bias towards deferring as much as possible to my elders and she’s in her 70s. Just ironic that after looking for another job for months and having what should be a perfect one fall into my lap, now I’m counting the days until I can quit.
    She’s a nice person IRL, but as a manager she’s the worst: petty authoritarian and unable to think strategically or proactively.

  10. 10.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @satby:

    And I will go apeshit on her ass if it starts.

    What the hell, you were looking for a job when you found that one.

    @rikyrah: Blech.

  11. 11.

    satby

    @amk: in Eric Hoffer’s construction of the “True Believer”, far left and far right have more in common with each other than they do with the rest of us. More like the line from left to right is the outer circle of a pie chart with those two slices next to each other and the rest of the political spectrum taking up the rest of the pie. Nothing I’ve seen has ever refuted that in my opinion.

  12. 12.

    satby

    @OzarkHillbilly: I would have already quit, but the doctor is a saint and I don’t want to shaft her. I turn 62 next month, and SS will be an income increase, so I could get along on just that if I wanted and I think I do ?
    Plus the soap biz, if course.

  14. 14.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Almost missed in coverage of the announcement about the WH visitor logs (although I see it’s mentioned in the NYT caption above) was this tidbit:

    Along with the policy reversal comes the end of the open WhiteHouse.gov website, which the administration calls duplicative of other federal government information sites. By closing the site, the White House estimates it will save over $70,000 in taxpayer dollars by 2020.

    It’s the bolded part that gets me. A whopping $70,000 savings over a three-year period, WOW!! That’s one-third of the individual membership fee for Mar-a-Lago.

    Tone-deaf, short-sighted, and ham-handed.

  16. 16.

    SFAW

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    I am shocked, shocked I tell you.

    WTF?!?!?!?!? Have you NOT been paying attention? You think quoting some bullshit line from The Maltese Falcon is funny?

    [gulps some coffee … caffeine starting to take effect …]

    Oh, good morning Ozark, how you doin’?

  20. 20.

    SFAW

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    will save over $70,000 in taxpayer dollars by 2020.

    Yeah, I noticed that, too.

    It hadn’t really occurred to me that someone could Gish Gallop through various corrupt practices and corruption scenarios. Until now, that is.

    I am SO ready for this entire nightmare Administration to be over, whether via multiple impeachments, or multiple criminal indictments.

  21. 21.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @SFAW:

    You think quoting some bullshit line from The Maltese Falcon is funny?

    No, I think the Trump joke on America is funny. But then I have a rather Putinesque sense of humor.

  23. 23.

    bystander

    Just read this on FB on Andy Borowitz’s page:

    The thing about what the MOAB does is also an absolutely perfect description of the typical Republican male: doesn’t penetrate but will still do damage.

  25. 25.

    SFAW

    @satby:

    Casablanca. Have moar

    Yes, I know. Give me a little credit, will you?

    Sorry to hear about your idiot office manager, by the way. I’ve worked for (and with) assholes before — some of them legendary within the (rather large) company — but most of them were smart enough to figure shit like that out before zero hour.

  26. 26.

    NotMax

    At 2:00 a.m. Sunday, TCM is showing an outré SF tale, Death Watch.

    French director, filmed entirely in Scotland, ahead of its time in depicting reality TV.

    @satby

    Saw your comment in a dead thread soliciting paint suggestions for the cabinets. Painted the ones in the kitchen here with Varathane brand semi-gloss plastic-based paint some 30 years ago, and they still look as good as they did the day the paint dried. Paint holds up extremely well to cleaning and scrubbing.

  27. 27.

    SFAW

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    No, I think the Trump joke on America is funny. But then I have a rather Putinesque sense of humor.

    OK, now you’re scaring me.

    Or something.

  33. 33.

    Betty Cracker

    I’m trying to talk my husband into joining me in celebrating a holiday I just invented: Bad Saturday. Observances include brunch with bloody Marys and mimosas, marathon viewings of MST3K and general debauchery. No chores of any kind are allowed on Bad Saturday. Only fun things.

  35. 35.

    satby

    @SFAW: I try not to let my previous management experience out in this job because I’m not and do not want to be the manager.
    But hell, you measure the wall where you want to put shelves when you’re doing that at home, and she hadn’t even done that. I did, and marked the wall, and raided the stores tool box for tools to unscrew the wall bolts she didn’t realize were there. Completely unprepared and no knowledge of the scope of work involved. And perfectly willing to endanger her workers with unsafe practices until I flatly refused and said I would leave.
    Yep, still pissed.

  36. 36.

    aimai

    @SiubhanDuinne: I am writing a paper on the Opioid Epidemic for one of my social work classes in welfare policy. At the start of the semester you could get information from the NIH and CDC about Opioid Addiction in various sections and the Obama admin had done quite a bit of work. All of a sudden, pages that I know were there before are missing, under construction, or in one case have a bizarre “you are not eligible to view this site” on them. Unbefuckinlievable.

  39. 39.

    Tokyokie

    The line from The Maltese Falcon that gets a lot of play here is, “The cheaper the hood, the gaudier the patter.” Thank you, Mssrs. Huston and Hammett.

  40. 40.

    Raven

    @Betty Cracker: we leave for the beach Thursday so lots of prep this weekend. Even though I only fished one day on our ill-fated November trip I still want to clean and lube my reels and check the other gear.

  42. 42.

    Raven

    @OzarkHillbilly: yea, my homeboy. Steve Beshakas and Silvio Santini were buddies of mine in high school and very good friends with John. Belushi used both of their names in SNL skits.

  43. 43.

    Raven

    @Raven: Silvio Insana not Santini.

    ImageAt COD John created his own outlet to further his objective – he formed a comedy troupe with friends Tino Insana and Steve Beshakes, with whom he shared a common love for music, good times and laughing. Laughs abounded whenever the three got together, and for fun, John taught Tino and Steve scenes he had learned at the Compass Theater. Soon they were performing in friends’ living rooms, then at parties. When they began working up material of their own, they dubbed themselves the West Compass Players and booked jobs at local schools and events.

  44. 44.

    ThresherK

    @aimai: Hey, I never got to wish you encouragement on your path to LCSW and beyond.

    I know, it’s quite a callback because you mentioned it days ago. There’s a certain emotional skillset required for the task, and I’ve read enough of you to believe you have it.

    —

    It’s taken five months to come up with Area President, perhaps The Onion style ultimate moniker for Trump? The man is nothing but an inexhaustible font of material for comedy.

  46. 46.

    Just One More Canuck

    @OzarkHillbilly: Those are great pictures. The line in the story “nothing lasts forever, except for high school” is so true

    Tony Danza was pretty easy to pick out

  47. 47.

    Steeplejack

    @Raven:

    Grab some more coffee, boss. That’s Tony Danza in the picture, on the right. The guy next to him ain’t Belushi.

  48. 48.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Raven: Good catch, I missed him entirely. I was speaking of the guy on the far right. According to wikipedia he graduated from Malverne High just before Szabo began teaching there.

  49. 49.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @aimai:

    They make it easier for evil people to do horrible things. They make it harder or impossible for good, honest people to do productive and useful things.

  50. 50.

    gene108

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    I do not recognize anybody. Who is it we are supposed to recognize? The suspense is killing me.

    Edit: Never mind. Seems like my question has been answered.

  52. 52.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Just One More Canuck: He “leaped” out at me, which is rare as I am so often oblivious to famous faces. He had hardly changed at all by the time he took his place in Taxi. (which is still one of the funniest sitcoms in my memory)

    @Steeplejack: I looked up Belushi’s wiki page and he was in New York during the correct time frame, made it plausible to me anyway.

  53. 53.

    mai naem mobile

    I think there will be a cultural slang term “Trumping” after Dolt 45 is done which will stand for something. Just not sure what it will stand for. A politician whose lies are extreme and pathological? a politician who drops bombs when his illegal actions are about to catch up on him? A conman politician where his whole family is in on the con???

  56. 56.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @SiubhanDuinne: And in that spirit I give you Rep. Jim Sensenbrenner, R-Wis:

    “You know, nobody’s got to use the internet….I don’t think it’s my job to tell you that you cannot get advertising through your information being sold. My job, I think, is to tell you that you have the opportunity to do it and then you take it upon yourself to make the choice.”

    The congressman’s press office doubled down on this, responding to a tweet claiming Sensenbrenner said “not to use the internet” by stating, “Actually, he said that nobody has to use the internet. They have a choice.”

    What world do these assholes live in? Oh right, the Medieval one.

  57. 57.

    debbie

    @satby:

    Good luck and keep an eye on lasting for the additional SS. It’s amazing how difference a good or bad manager can make.

  59. 59.

    debbie

    The next demonstration at the White House should only have signs with Trump’s old Tweets on them, and the demonstrators should chant, “The most lying president ever!”

  61. 61.

    Scout211

    @aimai:

    Ah, memories. I have a BSW and an MSW and dreaded the social policy classes but found them very interesting. I had a very good run as an LCSW and have recently retired. Good luck on your future career.

    Can you email or call someone at CDC and ask for the information for academic purposes?

  62. 62.

    What Have the Romans Ever Done for Us?

    This would be a major problem except that nobody ever visits him at the White House, because he’s never there. You gotta go down to Mar A Lago and risk food poisoning for a meeting.

  63. 63.

    debbie

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    I think someone should ask him if he has actually read the legislation, considering he’s stated that he didn’t realize what was in the Patriot Act, which he co-wrote.

  64. 64.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Tokyokie:

    But what use does the Republican president have for good, honest people?

    Oh, he doesn’t. He wouldn’t want them around, and he certainly wouldn’t want them in his administration. I was talking about good, honest people like aimai who is suddenly finding it much harder to conduct her research because of the arbitrary decision to deny access to basic informational web pages.

  67. 67.

    efgoldman

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    No, I think the Trump joke on America is funny.

    SFAW was getting his mawning snahk in, in owah distinctive New England way.
    But the only thing that’s getting me thru is the black humor of the situation, and how risibly incompetent and stupid the whole maladministration – what there is of it – is.
    In fact, that’s always been my defense mechanism, since I was a teenager.

  69. 69.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Every time I think “Now I’ve really heard it all,” I get fish-slapped by something like this. I am in a perpetual state of disequilibrium these days.

  72. 72.

    efgoldman

    Watchdog group will sue to have White House visitors log released.

    Didn’t some RWNJ legal group – Judicial Watch, maybe? – sue the Clinton administration to release the logs of who HRC talked to about health care? And win?
    I remember that President Darth Cheney refused to release the petroleum industry names that he met with early in W’s tenure. I don’t remember how that one turned out.

  75. 75.

    msdc

    “It continues to amaze me that there is one of these for every occasion.”

    Also applies to Greenwald.

  76. 76.

    efgoldman

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    We have entered the Looking Glass.

    We have gone thru it, back out the other side, circled it, gone out and back thru again, pretty much every day since January 20.

  78. 78.

    Tokyokie

    @SiubhanDuinne: I realize that, but the broader point is that unless a person can provide a benefit to the Republican president, that person is of absolutely no concern. Thus the suffering his maladministration inflicts on good, honest people is so much collateral damage. If such people didn’t want to suffer, they should have, like virtually all fundamentalist Christians, compromised their beliefs in order to benefit from his rule.

  82. 82.

    Spanky

    Interesting headline:

    She said, he said: journalist accuses Woodward of ‘breathtaking betrayal.’

    Interesting because it’s from the Washington Post. Ol’ Bob might have known for some time that the knives are out for him, but now there’s no pretense otherwise.

  83. 83.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @efgoldman:

    I remember that President Darth Cheney refused to release the petroleum industry names that he met with early in W’s tenure. I don’t remember how that one turned out.

    IOKIYAR. As I recall we got nothing, not that we really needed it. Just the usual CEOs.

  84. 84.

    efgoldman

    @Tokyokie:

    I believe Cheney won that legal battle.

    Yeah, I think I remember being really pissed off that the same legal basis wasn’t applied to Clinton and Darth. But then, we were all just getting used to the concept of IOKIYAR

  87. 87.

    efgoldman

    @Woodrowfan: @TenguPhule:

    except for actual shit. Then it becomes double crap or something

    Good thing Citron Shitweasel is a germophobe; otherwise he might try the same shitty stunt as the governor of West Virginia.

    Gov. Jim Justice on Thursday vetoed a budget bill passed by West Virginia lawmakers last weekend, saying it would be like “signing our death certificate” and unveiling his latest prop — an actual piece of bull excrement, hidden under a covered dish and revealed as a metaphor for the budget.

  88. 88.

    Tokyokie

    @efgoldman: I did a down-and-dirty Google search, and in response to suits by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Judicial Watch (didn’t look closely enough to determine whether they were separate actions or whether they were consolidated into one case), Cheney claimed executive privilege in regard to who participated in the meetings. Circuit court of appeals rejected the privilege claim, Supreme Court overturned decision, 7-2. However, an examination of White House visitor logs produced most of the names of those involved.

  95. 95.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @bemused: I feel it is safe to say that right wingers as well as everybody else, use and benefit from the internet. I suspect they are just bowing down to their corporate overlords and taking campaign payoffs to ignore the long term consequences and go for the quick upfront profit taking. They’ll all be dead soon anyway, and besides, it could never happen to them.

  96. 96.

    MomSense

    @aimai:

    I have a friend who has been doing research on that subject for NIH for a number of years and she is beside herself with worry and anger.

  98. 98.

    Ben Cisco

    @bemused:

    Rightwingers see no value in anything they don’t use or benefit from. Total self-centered cretins.

    Yup. If they can’t fleece it, frag it, fry it, or fuck it, they’re NOT interested.

  99. 99.

    hovercraft

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Christie, who is reportedly exploring a career in sports talk radio after his term ends, spared no criticism of “the liar Eli Manning” while discussing the unfolding lawsuit.

    I guess we won’t have Chis Christie to kick around anymore…. Oh, who am I kidding?

    Sports talk radio hosts tend to be republican assholes up here, so he should fit right in, as for him having the chutzpah to call anyone a liar, at this point we should just make a note of when a republican is not lying. Their entire governing philosophy is predicated on lying, claim they are doing one thing while they do the opposite, accuse the democrats of doing what they secretly plan to do.
    Christie being a lying hypocrite, is not shocking for any of us who have had the misfortune of living through his governorship, the countdown is on, can’t wait till he joins the rest of the many corrupt embarrassments we’ve had the bad judgment to elect here in the Garden State. There is one bright spot in all this, He went from a media darling, slated to be felated all the way to 1600 Pennsylvania Ave. the the pathetic liar forced to claim that he was a clueless dupe who had no idea what was going on right under his nose.
    “No I’m not a crook, but I am blind and dumb.” Not a great campaign slogan. “Lying sack of shit and Twitler flunkey”, much better.

  100. 100.

    Baud

    Atios hates Cuomo’s free college plan

    A free college plan that is precisely what happens when crappy Democrats take a good idea and arse it up every way they can.

  103. 103.

    SFAW

    @satby:

    But hell, you measure the wall where you want to put shelves when you’re doing that at home, and she hadn’t even done that. I did, and marked the wall, and raided the stores tool box for tools to unscrew the wall bolts she didn’t realize were there. Completely unprepared and no knowledge of the scope of work involved.

    Michael Scott brought to life. How lucky for you.

  105. 105.

    ThresherK

    @hovercraft: In certain settings, a sportstalk personality who is wrong on predictions can get called out on it more than political pundits. In other words, the David Brookses of the world, who live in a designed world with nobody tougher than Mark Sheilds or Alan Colmes in the opposite corner, needn’t apply.

    Christie has the thin skin, but his hair-trigger anger and power to cut the mic of anyone who is kicking his ass will make up for it. In other words, that corner of sports broadcasting most resembling the seamy underside of right-wing shitstorm radio is tailor-made for him.

    Should his “career” advance in that industry to the more respectable places, I predict another Monday Night Football bomb. “We put Rush Limbaugh in front of a national audience of ordinary Americans instead of Dittoheads, and he was still Rush Limbaugh! How did we not see that coming?”

  106. 106.

    hovercraft

    @amk:

    with N Korea crisis looming no ambassadors in place in S Korea, Japan, China, and no Asst Sec State for E Asia— Vali Nasr (@vali_nasr) April 14, 2017

    So my first inclination is to sarcastically say, it’s not like having people in those jobs might make a difference during this “crisis”, but then I realized, that it’s true, having people appointed by this moran in place would not make a difference in these dangerous circumstances. WASF

  108. 108.

    Baud

    @ThresherK:

    We put Rush Limbaugh in front of a national audience of ordinary Americans instead of Dittoheads, and he was still Rush Limbaugh! How did we not see that coming?”

    The Rush MNF debacle really foreshadowed Trump.

  110. 110.

    SFAW

    @hovercraft:

    but then I realized, that it’s true, having people appointed by this moran in place would not make a difference in these dangerous circumstances.

    Yeah, his real campaign slogan was “Make America Second-Rate Again.”

  111. 111.

    gene108

    @Baud:

    Tell her Chris Christie is in charge of Trump’s opoid commission. It’ll all be fixed in no time

    Motherfucker still has a day job. If he wants out of the governorship so badly, he should do us all a favor and resign.

  116. 116.

    gene108

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Christie’s a Cowboy’s fan. That right there should kill his career in talk radio in the greater New Jersey area.

    I have learned there are Cowboy fans, born and raised, in the greater NJ area. They are front runners, who jumped on the Cowboy’s bandwagon, in the 1970’s, when the Giants (for North Jersey football fans) and the Eagles (for South Jersey football fans) sucked.

  117. 117.

    different-church-lady

    @Baud: Incorrect. Under the rules of Calvinball, there was no way for him to be transparent no matter what he did.

  120. 120.

    workworkwork

    @SiubhanDuinne: No kidding. I teach online classes and do course and curriculum development. All online.

    As for what’s doing – I’ve got a lot of cooking this weekend.
    Today: My famous slow cooker chili and a couple of crustless quiches.
    Tomorrow: I’m going to try Adam’s slow roasted lamb recipe. (Wish me luck!)

  122. 122.

    bemused

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Right. I also don’t underestimate that Sensenbrenner and other Republicans are really too stupid to understand their actions can come back to bite their own asses some day. Even if they do, the short term $ benefit to themselves always wins out.
    Average Joe Republicans who are not politicians have the same priorities. I’m always amazed that they don’t seem to worry about their kids and grandkids futures. They’re only concerned about number one.

  124. 124.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @amk:

    Yeah, I also linked to it several comments up. But I can’t bear to watch for more than a minute or two at a time. Poor April, she’s so patient and stoic, and that looks so uncomfortable. Hope the baby is fit and healthy, but I will probably have to watch a rerun of the event as I’m about to do my poll-watching training for Tuesday’s special election and will have to miss the live birth event unless it happens in the next minute or two.

  126. 126.

    Alain the site fixer

    @workworkwork: any chance you could share the recipe for both? You can us the contact a frontpager form from quick links or post them here. If not, no worries, I don’t share some recipes!

    ETA: chili and crustless quiche are things I’m always interested in learning new recipes for!

  127. 127.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @bemused:

    I’m always amazed that they don’t seem to worry about their kids and grandkids futures. They’re only concerned about number one.

    Exhibit ‘A’: Climate Change.

  129. 129.

    hovercraft

    @Baud:

    Jared and Ivanka can handle it.

    Well they did free up some extra time by handing “women’s issues” off to that champion of women Stephen Miller. Could you find more comforting hands for this stuff? Sleep tight America, you’re in great hands!

  131. 131.

    hovercraft

    @ThresherK:
    @gene108:
    I think that even with radio jocks generally being jackasses, he’ll have a problem here, because of the Cowboys, that’ll get him a ton of callers calling in just to tell him to go fuck himself, and as you said he’ll lose it. Thin skinned buffoon on live radio with assholes calling in to see who can out-asshole the other, not such great radio. Unless maybe there’s a Jerry Springer model of radio I’ve somehow missed.

  133. 133.

    hueyplong

    “You think quoting some bullshit line from The Maltese Falcon is funny?”

    Yes. Pretty much always, though the effect is enhanced when the line is actually from The Maltese Falcon and not some other old school classic that all non-bot Americans know.

  134. 134.

    Corner Stone

    @laura: I guess I have a problem because that was what I thought she meant by “general debauchery”.

    Great Army officer’s name or better band name?

  138. 138.

    Quinerly

    Throwing this out on various threads. March for Science here in St. Louis, 1:00pm from Union Station. I’m putting together a group of friends to launch from my neighborhood (Soulard). Meeting by 12:15 at Howards Restaurant/Bar, 13th and Lynch (in the shadow of Anheuser Bush Brewery) to carpool. Meet back after the march for drinks, food..live music at 6:00pm. I’m the salt and pepper haired chick with rat tail. Bartenders can point you in the right direction. Probably will have a reserved table in courtyard if weather is good. Ozark, you still tied up with family commitments?

  139. 139.

    OGLiberal

    @gene108: This is true. I and my friends came of sports fan age in the mid to late 70s in NJ. Outside of one friend and myself, they’re all Yankees fans because the Mets stunk and the Yankees were winning the WS when we were kids. (Not even sure why I became a Mets fan but my one friend was because his father was a Brooklyn Dodger die-hard and would not have raised a Yankee fan.) But while I have always been a Giants fan with a side of Jets (different conference so easy to root for both outside of head-to-head) many of my friends, including my fellow Mets fan, are die-hard Cowboy fans, even to this day. Because the Giants were losers when we were kids.

    Interestingly, one of my friends was and is a Bucs fan and they stunk more than the Giants. He liked their helmets…the old ones, with the pirate in a feathery hat.

  140. 140.

    bemused

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Yup and we can keep on going down a long, long list of GOP and Trump deliberate efforts to do away protections of our kids and grandkids health and welfare.
    We have a female relative in her 50’s who adores her many grandchildren and will do absolutely anything for them and is very protective of them. She’s a Republican who I’m positive voted for Trump and still not doubting him. I heard she said about a month ago that “things are perking up” ala Trump. I can’t begin to fathom how she can be a Trumpette and not even have a thought about how her beloved grandkids could be negatively affected by this insane, miserable excuse for a human being. I would love to ask her if she thinks Trump is a great role model for kids.

  141. 141.

    pamelabrown53

    @Quinerly: #138.
    Thanks for the details and thanks for organizing. Spouse and I will be visiting from Florida. Can’t wait to meet you and hopefully other juicers. Howard’s sounds like a perfect place to meet.

  142. 142.

    workworkwork

    @Alain the site fixer: No problem, they’re both pretty easy.

    Slow cooker chili:
    1 lb. lean ground beef
    1 packet McCormick chili seasoning
    3 15 oz. cans diced tomatoes (I use the “no salt added”)
    2 15 oz. cans kidney beans (I use cannellinis – they’re more tender and add a bit of color)
    1 15 oz. can tomato sauce (I also use the “no salt added” variety)
    1/3 cup Splenda (I have type 2 diabetes. The original recipe uses brown sugar.)

    Feel free to substitute your own from-scratch ingredients with these or add more veggies like peppers. (Chili recipes seem to be very personal.) I just wanted something simple to put together. I was trying to duplicate my mom’s chili, which was one of my favorite comfort foods when I was a kid.

    Six to eight hours on low in the slow cooker and you’ve got eight servings of deliciousness. (I use a Hamilton Beach Intellitime so I let the slow cooker figure out the temperature.) Four hours on high also works if you’re in a hurry.

  143. 143.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    the Times of London won’t let me see more of this, but I don’t think we need to

    Trump demands gold‑plated welcome
    President insists on a carriage journey down The Mall to Buckingham Palace
    The Mexican president rode in the state carriage in 2015 but President Obama chose to spare his hosts the security nightmare. Mr Trump faces a more severe threat in October
    Donald Trump waving from the Queen’s royal carriage is not a scenario many would have foreseen a year ago, but it has become a very real prospect, forcing security services to plan an unprecedented lockdown.
    The White House has made clear it regards the carriage procession down the Mall as an essential element of the itinerary for the visit currently planned for the second week of October, according to officials.

  144. 144.

    Jim Parish

    Actually, I think the most applicable line from The Maltese Falcon comes late in the movie, when Gutman realizes how big a mistake he’s made and Joel Cairo blows a gasket:

    “You… you imbecile. You bloated idiot. You stupid fat-head you.”

  147. 147.

    workworkwork

    @Alain the site fixer:

    Base recipe for the crustless quiche (adjust ingredients to suit your taste):

    1 16 oz. Egg Beaters (or similar egg substitute. I believe this is equivalent to 10 eggs.)
    4 tbsp. all-purpose flour
    3 cups milk (I use skim)
    4 cups shredded cheese (i usually use sharp cheddar but I’ve also used swiss)

    I use a hand blender to mix these together. Bake at 450 for 55 minutes.

    That’s the base. I usually add veggies (easiest – nuke some frozen of your choice). I’ve also added bacon bits (either soy or the real thing) and sometimes I sprinkle shredded parmesan on top before cooking to give them a nice little crusty top.

    Jazz it up any way you want. For example, chopped spinach, pine nuts and goat cheese gives you a nice Greek style quiche. You could also jazz it up with sundried tomatoes.
    This makes eight servings and it refrigerates well. (I haven’t tried freezing them but I assume that works as well.)

  148. 148.

    Quinerly

    @pamelabrown53:
    It would be cool if a Front Pager would throw up a dedicated Meet Up thread maybe on a Wednesday before these marches. People could pipe in with their areas, pick places for Juicers to meet, if they wanted to….no pressure, no planning clusterfucks. Just a suggestion. Look forward to meeting you. I just put up an invite on my Book of Faces page to generate some interest. My neighborhood peeps pretty much hang at Howards on Saturday and Sunday anyway. Soulard is a neighborhood of misfits, hippies, and derelicts….we like our music and cocktails ?…Ozark will attest to it from his days in the area.?

  149. 149.

    SFAW

    @hueyplong:

    Yes. Pretty much always, though the effect is enhanced when the line is actually from The Maltese Falcon and not some other old school classic that all non-bot Americans know.

    Jesus H Christ, how many times do I need to say “yes, I know it’s from Casablanca” before people realize it was a fucking joke?

    No doubt, if I had said it was from The Invisible Man or The Adventures of Robin Hood, THAT joke would have been lost on people, too.

  150. 150.

    aimai

    @ThresherK: Hey ThresherK, yes, I am loving this new stage of my life and although its stressful I feel it calls on the best parts of me.

    Also: I love, love, love “Area President” its so perfect.

  152. 152.

    hueyplong

    @SFAW: When your explanation is even dumber than our mistaken assumption, whose problem is that? Hint: Yours.

  158. 158.

    amk

    Coming meme: If North Korea doesn't launch nukes, it's bc Trump's swagger stopped them. (Unlike the countless nuke attacks under Obama.)— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) April 15, 2017

  159. 159.

    SFAW

    @aimai:
    On an unrelated (to Claude Rains, that is) matter: are you in the process of getting your MSW? Based on one of your earlier comments, it seemed that way. Asking, because my daughter will be going for hers, either this fall or next, and I was curious what you thought of the program you’re in.

  160. 160.

    GregB

    There are people who support Trump who will never stop supporting him.

    In the last days of Hitler’s Germany, adults were sending their children to the front lines to fight for Hitler. Hitler met the children and was photographed bucking them up for their impending deaths on his lost cause.

    America, fuck yeah.

  161. 161.

    SFAW

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Did Shitgibbon also demand that they have bikini-clad models strew rose petals in front of the carriage before he rides by? And that the Queen kiss his ring? And that he gets to grab the Duchess of Cambridge’s “lower quarters” (so to speak)?

    Frankly, nothing would surprise me any more, vis-a-vis that moron.

  163. 163.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Corner Stone: Former commandant of the Légion Étrangère, c’est-à-dire

    Général de subdivision François Ulysse Baudoin André Ratatouille DeBauchery

    the infamous F.U.B.A.R. DeBauchery.

  168. 168.

    opiejeanne

    @NotMax:

    At 2:00 a.m. Sunday, TCM is showing an outré SF tale, Death Watch.

    French director, filmed entirely in Scotland…

    I read that entirely wrong and wondered how they were able to depict San Francisco in Scotland. Haha.

  173. 173.

    different-church-lady

    See, here’s how the amateurs do it:

    The Maltese Falcon? That’s from Casablanca you moron. Don’t you know anything about classic films?

    And here’s how a pro does it:

    Idiot: that’s from Out of Africa.

  174. 174.

    J R in WV

    @efgoldman:

    Little slow this morning? I never ever get there before someone else.

    I don’t even get up before anyone else! Dad worked second shift, often at work til 2 or 3 am. I worked there starting when I was 14, summers full time, during school part time. Second shift is my natural rhythm. So I lie in bed and read til 1 or 2 am, sleep til 9 or 10 or so. Less sleeping as I age.

  179. 179.

    SFAW

    @Mnemosyne:

    I once joked about not wanting to touch something with a 100-foot pole and had people helpfully correct me, so …

    That’s terrible! But let me mansplain it to you, anyway …

    By the way: was it you that mentioned Lion a few days ago? If it wasn’t, and you haven’t already seen it, you might enjoy it. In a weird way — mainly because I’m weird — I found it both depressing and (although I hate this word) uplifting.

  180. 180.

    Tehanu

    @SFAW:

    That’s exactly the same reaction I had. Normally I run miles to avoid movies about poverty and slums and lost children; I hated Slumdog Millionaire. But Lion got to me from the first I heard about it. I will say, I’ve never cried so much at a movie in my life, and not just at the end, when the tears were literally dripping off my chin. So, I’m reluctant to recommend it to people — I don’t know how they’d take it — but it was a really amazing experience and I’m glad I saw it.

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