Something funny from the Twitters:
Good morning. Another day, another 5ft squirrel trying to break into my car. pic.twitter.com/8Er21o3wla
— Paul Bronks (@virtuallydead) April 28, 2017
Man, it’s hot here in West Central FL today! Summer is going to be beastly. It always is, of course. But the sun-blasted hellscape will be even more hellish than usual, is my prediction.
Pursuant to the weather, I was looking for summer cocktail recipes online earlier. My search led straight to one of my pet peeves: a compendium of recipes (or livable towns, recommended hiking boots, sought-after vinyl records — anything that lends itself to the listicle treatment) that requires the reader to click through item by item instead of scrolling down or clicking a particular entry from a list of links.
I get why they do it; it’s more swipeable for mobile, and page clicks generate ad revenue. But it’s annoying AF, particularly when the separate page for each item then requires you to click yet again for the full recipe. I feel like someone’s Pomeranian being forced through a virtual agility course.
The navigation scheme of this one collection I saw made me want to hunt down the web designer and punch him in the dick: Not only do you have to page through to find the recipe, then click to see the ingredients and measurements, some of the recipes contain custom mixers with cutesy names like, say, “Buccaneer Betty Mix,” so you have to click through to that page to find out what the fuck it is!
I know — “boo-fucking-hoo, you have to depress a button on a mouse four whole times to assemble an entire cocktail recipe — wah!” Still, they’re gonna drive me back to print, I swear, the money-grubbing shitweasels.
Anyhoo, open thread. And feel free to share refreshing drink recipes (alcohol or nah)!
PS: I ultimately settled on an old favorite I invented a few years back.
PPS: For some reason, “St. Elmo’s Fire” is playing without the sound on our tiki bar TV. (Hubby’s golf tournament must’ve ended.) I will never hassle my kid about Gen Z fashion sensibilities again. Ever.
Baud
You forgot the First World Problems tag.
JCJ
Ottawa wins in OT!
Adam L Silverman
@JCJ: That was a great shot.
Mnemosyne
You forgot the worst part of all, especially on a mobile device — when you’re on screen 7 of 10 and the whole goddamned thing force reloads and sends you back to screen 1.
This happened to me yet again on one of those clickbaity Facebook posts yesterday, but it was probably for the best since I am a hypochondriac and the subject was things that people went to the doctor for that they thought were minor, and 90 percent of them were “… and then they found out they were riddled with malignant tumors and died two days later.”
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
In fairness, there are multitudes who deserve that fate.
raven
It’s blown me right off the beach up here in the panhandle and supposed to be worse tomorrow. It’s been a strange mix of circumstances with good surf fishing, a calf injury that could have been worse, a brutal 8 hour deep sea trip and a few hours catching ocean cats in the gale. We’re going to the new fishing area on the bay bridge for sunset and to see if it’s possible to fish there. I may hit it in the morning of our last day.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: Is there one? Honest to Christ, there are so many no one can keep track…
JCJ
@Adam L Silverman:
NY Rangers must be bummed. I turned on the game at the start of the third period when it was 4 – 2. Nice win for Ottawa.
Baud
@Betty Cracker: Too many tags. Another First World Problem!
Schlemazel
A) just don’t click, you are only encouraging them
B) might I suggest lemoncello on ice? very simple, very tasty &particularly suited to hot, humid, weather
Schlemazel
BC – also, let me know if that link I sent you to the audio clip works. I have never done that before so I have no clue.
In the last 10 years I have gone from being an innovator to being a follower, a stick in the mud grandpa
efgoldman
@JCJ: @Adam L Silverman: Not what you call stellar playoff goaltending at either end. Compare to Talbot (who I don’t think is a great goalie) last night.
AdamK
1. Obtain a bottle of cheap liquor. 2. Open bottle. 3. Raise bottle and tilt toward face. 4. Pour hooch into mouth. 5. Swallow. Repeat until you no longer know who’s President.
Adam L Silverman
@JCJ: Neither team played well. The Rangers were streaky and Ottawa’s power play was, by an large, a mess. Both goalies were also uneven.
O. Felix Culpa
We got 8 inches of snow just outside Santa Fe today; a friend a few miles away registered 12 inches. Probably more snow than we had all winter. Fortunately it made the landscape pretty for a while and is now melting.
As for drinks, I open bottles of mid-priced wine and also enjoy gin & tonics that someone else makes for me.
JMG
So for a first world problem, a first world (and how!) cocktail, given us by the head barkeep at the Brighton Hotel in Paris. He calls it “Capricious.” It is delicious and potent. Ingredients are vodka, grapefruit juice, Countreau, sweet vermouth and champagne. He didn’t give us the proportions because hey, it’s his job, but I did see he mixed the non-champagne ingredients together, poured them into champagne flutes about half-full, then added the champagne. I assure you, a successful experiment with proportions will prove rewarding,
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: Talbot stole that game last night. Or, set the conditions to allow Edmonton to steal it. But that’s what you want to go deep in the playoffs to the cup: a goalie that can steal a game or two for you.
Omnes Omnibus
Negroni.
Major Major Major Major
As I mentioned last thread, I went to see the anime Your Name this afternoon, which was really sweet and beautiful and I definitely recommend seeing it.
Unrelated: Samwise has figured out that this time of year he can combine his two favorite things, hiding under the futon and laying in the sun. https://imgur.com/a/MztJs
Betty Cracker
@raven: Nevertheless, he persisted! ;)
@Schlemazel: Did not work on the phone, but I’ll try it on the laptop and get back to you!
@AdamK: Elegant solution! :)
lollipopguild
@Major Major Major Major:” I thawt I saw a Puddytat”
greennotGreen
Throughout my illness I’ve been pleased and impressed with the quality of my nursing care, but in my last (and final) hospitalization during which I had a nasal gastric tube put on so that anything I ingest is immediately pumped out, one of my nurses poo-pooed some of the instructions. “It’s okay to have some red wine,” she said. Which I did along with my family last night. As I said, excellent quality nursing care!
Major Major Major Major
@greennotGreen: you deserve it!
Formerly disgruntled in Oregon
@greennotGreen: sounds excellent for sure! Glad to hear you are in good hands!
SiubhanDuinne
@greennotGreen:
I am enjoying a glass of red wine at this very minute, and I lift it to you! (And to your nurse, who sounds cool.) Have been thinking of you frequently, especially this past week, and sending you hugs and white light and warm fuzzies.
CarolDuhart2
@greennotGreen: Good for you, may these days be the good ones for you.
Thru the Looking Glass...
Since this an open thread, I will ask this here…
There seems to be rumors afloat that the by now infamous dossier from Christopher Steele may be longer than originally thought. Over at the Palmer Report, which seems to be well thought of, there was an article posted yesterday discussing new allegations of direct involvement by the Trump campaign in the Russian hacking… and the article in turn referred to another article at the Guardian, also well thought of, that talked about this…
So my question isn’t about the reliability of these claims… it’s about that dossier and whether it might turn out to be longer than what’s been circulating since January, meaning ‘we’ haven’t seen all of it yet…
And I question this for several reasons…
The pdf of the dossier I found on line was 35 pgs long, but those numbers – 1 thru 35 – were all HAND WRITTEN on those pages, and not numbered 1 thru 35 coming out of a printer… also, the dates on each individual report showed some pretty big gaps in the sequence… some reports were weeks apart by the calendar, and the actual numbers assigned to each report (not the page numbers) jumped accordingly.
The first report is #080 and is dated June 20, 2016.
The next report is #086 and is dated July 26, 2016.
The final report is #166, with the date December 13/2016.
From 080 to 166, there are 86 numbers and from June 20 to December 13 is almost 6 full months.
We have 16 reports in the dossier, out of a possible 86, if the numbering is accurate. Are there possibly an additional 70 reports out there?
Are there possibly 79 reports out there that were issued sequentially prior to Report #080, dated June 20, 2016?
For the 16 reports included in the dossier, the report numbers and dates are consistent, which is to say, as the report numbers get higher, the dates stay consistent chronologically. There is one exception to this: Report #086 is dated July 26 and report #094 is dated July 19, one week earlier. All the other reports are consistent in regards to their numbering and dates. And in some cases, while the numbers are consecutive, the dates are the same, as w/ reports #0111, 0112, & 0113, which are all dated September 14, 2016.
There’s a gap of five numbers (081 to 085) and over a month between dates. Does that mean a) no reports were written between June 20 & July 26?
Or b) that the missing numbers in that sequence were used for company reports done on other subjects?
Who passed the dossier to McCain? Who did the redacting? And it was pointed out somewhere (don’t recall exactly) that no Russians potentially associated w/ this died until the dossier reached the FBI’s hands…
Just asking…
Thor Heyerdahl
@efgoldman: Chris Osgood was not a “great” goalie and he won 3 cups for the Wings and started in net for two of them.
(Let’s see if FYWP lets this through)
hellslittlestangel
Some day this will be an old saying: If it’s free, you’re the product.
J R in WV
Betty Cracker:
Your Kraken Kolada recipe has me interested…. where does one procure coconut water? Do you have to tap a real whole coconut? Or will a good liquor store carry some in a back corner under the other mixers?
And if Florida becomes uninhabitable during out lifetimes, drop us a note. We are prepared to allow you to park a camper on the property, if you promise to keep the boxers under control and to mix drinks for us when appropriate.
Thanks!!
Tokyokie
@J R in WV:
Coconut water can be found at Asian grocery stores, especially those run by Vietnamese and Thais (which is mostly the case around these parts). There’s even an official coconut for LFC, which I’m sure our Malaysian friend keeps in his fridge.
Mnemosyne
@greennotGreen:
Glad to hear that the nurses and your family are taking good care of you. We are all thinking of you.
Mnemosyne
@Tokyokie:
Or, if you live in Southern California, you can get it in any supermarket or mini mart. It’s popular stuff out here.
trollhattan
White linen.
Local concoction. #2 gin (Hendricks) & tonic
Looking at the national drought map I see the Southeast including Florida is in deep. Nice to see most of California not included for the first time in half a decade.
debbie
@Major Major Major Major:
And, being under a glass table, he can keep track of everything in the room. Win!
zhena gogolia
Print is superior technology.
Yarrow
Mojitos are my go to hot weather drink. Always so refreshing. Love the muddled mint.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
Super simple hot day cocktails:
Blue Eye: a glass of limonata (or better yet, Kas Limon) over ice, with a half-shot of blue Curaçao in it. Piped delicately to the bottom of the glass with a straw, if you’re fancy; just dumped over, if you’re not. Slice of lime on the rim.
Bloodshot eye: Same thing but with aranciata rossa instead of limonata. Slice of blood orange on the rim.
Question for jackals and parents of jackal pups: Our 13-year-old son, a pretty independent city kid (we live in San Francisco and he gets around on public transit), has been going out for walks to the park or around the neighborhood lately as a break from studying. Today he announced he was going for a walk and would be gone an hour or more. Two hours later he was back, having taken the bus and BART downtown and treated himself to a solitary milkshake at Super Duper before returning the same way. Should I be retrospectively freaked out? I was fine with the idea that he was out walking around, but if he hadn’t come back, we’d have been looking in completely the wrong part of town. He did take his phone.
Time for one of them there cocktails.
zhena gogolia
@greennotGreen:
I’m thinking of you with great warmth and sympathy.
debbie
@greennotGreen:
That’s the kind of nurse you deserve!
Yarrow
@greennotGreen: That nurse sounds great! She knows how to put the patient first. Glad you have excellent care. We are thinking of you.
Betty Cracker
@greennotGreen: Nurses are the best. Been thinking about you. Good to see you in the circle of jackals.
@J R in WV: It’s widely available here, typically in the supermarket where fruit juices are sold. La Croix coconut would do in a pinch. Y’all have La Croix, right? We may take you up on that climate change refugee offer; will bring mixers as well as boxers if so!
efgoldman
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
I don’t think so, especially during the day,
When I was that age i took the T all over Boston by myself (I just liked riding it), and to my grandmother’s apartment in what was considered a changing-to-dangerous neighborhood.
Not very much older and I rode the #7 subway in NYC by myself.
City kids are just different. More self-sufficient, less afraid.
Even our daughter rode the T but with a friend at that age.
Mostly the DANGER is a function of more, quicker reporting and not actually more crime.
Mnemosyne
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
With the caveat that I am not a parent, you could say something like, “Honey, the next time you change your plans like that, please text us. If there had been an earthquake, we wouldn’t have known where to look for you.” It sounds like he didn’t do something you had told him not to do, so it would be unfair to punish him, but I think it’s okay to calmly ask him to make sure to keep you informed next time as you silently scream on the inside.
Jay Noble
Happy Camper Freshman – Fill 32 oz. glass with ice. Add 1/2 pint of strawberry or cherry flavored vodka. Top off with Mountain Dew. Must drink all in less than 30 minutes.
:-)
Betty Cracker
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: If you have an iPhone and he’s on your account, you can track him to the square yard with the “Find My Phone” app. I’m sure Android has a similar thing. I tracked my teen and make no apologies for it; if I’m paying the bill, I get to be Big Sis.
gbbalto
@greennotGreen: Glad to hear that you are good hands and enjoying company of your family. We will keep you in our hearts.
Yarrow
@J R in WV: Coconut water should be available in most supermarkets that have a “natural foods” section. It’s been quite trendy for awhile as a natural low carb drink full of electrolytes. You might even find it in with fruit juices but usually I’ve seen it in the natural foods sections.
Mohagan
Oh, Betty, I know EXACTLY what you mean. Sometimes I get sucked in by BS like “Hollywood couples you’d forgotten about”, but usually it’s curated recipe collections that are actually good so I persist with the clicks (sigh)
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@efgoldman: @Mnemosyne: @Betty Cracker: Hmm. Yeah, you’re probably right – it’s not the transit/downtown part that has me worrying (he does that daily) – it’s that he wasn’t specific about where he was going, or changed his mind on the fly, and I thought he was heading in one direction when he actually went somewhere else entirely. If he’d said “going downtown – see ya!” that would also have been fine. He has an Android and we have iPhones, so we’ll have to figure the tracking thing out. I haven’t said anything to him because I don’t want him to think he did anything wrong until I decide if he did.
Monsieur Colette and I constantly repeat to each other that the dangers are no greater than when we were kids – we just hear more about them now.
SiubhanDuinne
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
@efgoldman:
It was, of course, a very different time, but I was riding the El from the western suburbs to downtown Chicago and back home when I was 5 or 6 years old. I had gone downtown with my mother so often that I was familiar with the route, the train numbers, the stations. In retrospect it is a bit horrifying, but I was a pretty smart kid and my mother and grandmother apparently had no worries about my heading out on my own for a few hours. I do remember once when the Lake Street train just never came, so after close to an hour I finally got on one that would take me to a block from where my great-aunt lived, showed up unexpectedly on her doorstep, and was eventually sent home in a taxi with no one the worse for the adventure.
Today, my mom would be jailed for child neglect, I suppose.
Ruckus
@J R in WV:
You obviously don’t live close enough to a Whole Paycheck. They have coconut water bottles stacked half way to the ceiling. And if you lived close to a WP you might also live close to an organic bedding store, because one can’t lay one’s wealthy ass down on just anything. That’s disgusting!
Iowa Old Lady
@greennotGreen: Good decision
A Ghost to Most
I used to be fond of good gin and lemonade, when I lived in hot, humid climes.
We have gotten a bunch of snow here the last day, but it will be gone soon.
Baud
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
With Google maps, you can now set it up to share your locations with each other.
Adam L Silverman
@Thru the Looking Glass…: It isn’t that dossier is longer, rather, as The Guardian reported yesterday Steele decided that he needed to produce additional memos based on what his informants were telling him after he submitted the dossier. He turned these additional memos in to a senior British Intelligence Officer (I think we can surmise this is his former boss at MI6 who referenced the dossier in the first public speech ever made by a director of MI6).
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/28/trump-russia-intelligence-uk-government-m16-kremlin
Yarrow
@Thru the Looking Glass…: I thought I read that there were two dossiers. Maybe “two” and “longer” are really the same things.
I expect some of these questions to be addressed when indictments are handed down and trials start but some of it will never come out. Rumor is that grand juries are convening right now.
I also think Giuliani is in deep with this mess and the corrupt NYC FBI office. Wouldn’t surprise me if that is somehow the link where things went wrong and people started dying. I read some cryptic tweet that he was singing like a bird to the FBI. He’s been awfully quiet in public and his “cyber security firm”‘s website has apparently been taken down.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@greennotGreen: Glad to hear you are getting good care, sorry about the circumstances leading to it.
Adam L Silverman
@J R in WV: Grocery store in the water aisle. I like the one with a splash of pineapple. I drink the stuff to help rehydrate after working out.
Timurid
Trump is holding a full on Black Mass at his rally tonight…
Ruckus
@greennotGreen:
Someone once said something about nurses, maybe that they are the one’s who make you feel better.
Good to hear from you.
Michael Bersin
Constant deluge of rain all day in west central Missouri and Kansas City. The Climate March for Kansas City was moved to the Plaza from Washington Square Park because of the weather. At noon over 200 people marched around the Plaza. From 1:00 to 3:00 p.m. over a thousand participated in a rally at Unity Temple on the Plaza.
Climate March – Kansas City – April 29, 2017
ThresherK
Spousal ThresherK and I had dinner out, restaurant patio, ninety restful and well-fed minutes in a very pleasant late afternoon/early evening. And now I’m having an incredible pollen attack, despite all the precautions.
Fortunately she is also an allergy sufferer, so she understands.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@SiubhanDuinne:
I like your mom. She sounds like mine.
We’re definitely outliers among the parents we know in allowing our kid more autonomy than most, maybe because we both had pretty freewheeling, go-everywhere childhoods in the 60s and lived to tell about it. I’ve been caught by surprise a few times when other kids have, with our permission, accompanied our son on some local adventure and then those kids’ parents were horrified we’d allowed it. (I’m talking about things like walking a half mile to the park or going to a Halloween fair, not hitchhiking.)
JPL
@greennotGreen: I’m so pleased you were able to enjoy your wine. It’s nice to see you comment again. I’m not alone, in saying that I’ve been thinking about you.
schrodingers_cat
@J R in WV: Goya sells it in cans like Coke cans, check out the Latin section of the grocery store.
efgoldman
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
Yeah, I might reinforce that. Especially in the cell phone age. We didn’t have that option. but about the last thing my mom would say as I went out the door was “call if [your plans change/you’re going to be longer
‘Zackly.
By raw stats, things are much safer now
skerry
200,000 people marched in DC today in the People’s Climate March. Once again, more people than attended the inauguration. I haven’t heard the total count from all the satellite marches. It was 90 degrees in April. Perfectly normal.
There are some nice videos on twitter.
JPL
@Timurid: Twitter told me they were chanting lock her up. I haven’t watched, but can we assume that the audience is filled with white guys who came out of the woods.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@greennotGreen: Hooray for simple pleasures. I hope you enjoy many more.
efgoldman
@SiubhanDuinne:
As a parent, I wouldn’t have been real fond of that AT THAT AGE,
But if, for instance, you’re in NYC when school gets out, you see kids of almost any age walking home by themselves, or going to the subway or a bus.
Adam L Silverman
@Timurid: @JPL: Apparently LTG Flynn bought a ticket…
germy
Samantha Bee on Rupert Murdoch:
gene108
@greennotGreen:
I am so Happy you are still with us. Best news I have had this week!!!
Baud
@Adam L Silverman: I wonder if and when they will realize that he is not going to lock her up.
The Pale Scot
I’ll put money on that. The water temperature at St Pete beach never went under 70 this winter Usually it dips under 65 around xmas and stays there for couple of months. With that and a good north wind the beach is cleared of tourists. Cool and empty, my kind of beach.
Along with heat there’s gonna be a bumper crop bugs. It never got cool enough to winnow the hordes
efgoldman
@JPL:
Never a meteor around when you need one.
It was in Harrisburg; not a very big city.
CBS interviewed some people waiting for it. Totally delusional.
Adam L Silverman
@Baud: Did you see the interviews that Nicole Wallace from NBC did with Trump supporters? These people are really, really poorly informed people. Some are also self deluded. And there’s quite a lot of overlap with just plain stupid. Like the Terminator they can’t be reasoned with and they will never stop…
Mnemosyne
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
If that’s the case, that’s the part I would emphasize — you would like him to tell you if he changes his plans in case there’s an emergency. It sounds like it just hasn’t come up before, so you can probably be like, “Okay, I realize I haven’t mentioned this before, but from now on can you please call or text me if your plans change? It’s okay to change your mind about where you’re going, we’d just like to know in case of emergency.”
I think kids in California get pretty well drilled in school about earthquakes and earthquake safety, so you can just call it part of your family emergency plan. (You do have one, right? ?)
Baud
@Adam L Silverman: I did not see that, as evidenced by the fact that I haven’t shot myself in the head.
Villago Delenda Est
@J R in WV: Just about any grocery that is into organic stuff should carry it. Of course, this is in Track Town, USA, which is stuffed to the gills with such grocery stores. WV might be a bit more problematic outside the college towns.
efgoldman
@The Pale Scot:
I am a fan of Deadliest Catch. This season’s programs were taped last winter. The water temperature in the Bering Sea is warmer; two consequences: the crabs have moved to deeper, colder water, and the storms, which were scary enough, are more intense and potentially more dangerous.
schrodingers_cat
@Adam L Silverman: TV needs to stop celebrating stupidity, that’s how we got the current President.
Baud
Hillary should go on a Free as a Bird tour in Trump states.
schrodingers_cat
@J R in WV: Or you can buy a coconut, its scored in the middle. Break it with a hammer and get the water inside.
Capri
I have gotten into drinking Revolvers lately:
3-4 parts bourbon, 1 part Kahlua, 4 dashes orange bitters. Can either drink straight or on the rocks. The Kahlua and orange smooths out the bourbon in a delightful way,
I discovered the drink on one of those horrible click-through lists. Something like “Bartenders 10 favorite drinks” or the like. I tried it because it was the only one that didn’t include a slew of crazy ingredients along the lines of essence of heirloom tomato or pawpaw bitters.
debbie
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
NYC school kids regularly rode the buses and subways by themselves. I was usually a little worried for them.
Mnemosyne
@Baud:
That depends on if Bannon or Kushner decides that arresting her on trumped-up* charges will distract the media from their treason with Russia.
* Pun very much intended.
Baud
@Mnemosyne: There’s not even a grand jury. It’s not something they can decide to do last minute.
debbie
@Baud:
Are you sure about that?
Baud
@debbie: Yes.
Mnemosyne
@Capri:
I’ve started getting more into gin drinks. A good Strawberry Collins is a thing of beauty that sneaks up and smashes you on the back of the head.
efgoldman
@Baud:
Evil Leprechaun isn’t the sharpest knife in the bar association chandelier, but even he knows better.
DocSardonic
Current favorite hot weather beverage, since I am forced to cope with this predistopian hellscape with Preznit Cheeto Fuckwit alcohol free, is old fashioned southern iced tea. This is from a recipe I shigged in New Orleans.
6 Earl Grey tea bags
2 mint teabags
Water
Bring water to boil with tea bags. Allow to steep until it reaches you desired strength. Add sweetener, type and amount of your choosing. Serve over ice with a slice of lime or lemon. Makes 1 2 quart serving.
Now for the non alcohol restricted.
The Dublin Donkey, take a recipe for a Moscow Mule, throw out the vodka, replace with Irish whiskey.
geg6
@greennotGreen:
I’m toasting you right now with my yummy Pinot noir. You are my hero.
efgoldman
@Baud:
That’s a little drastic. Hitting yourself with a ball peen hammer is sufficient.
Cheryl Rofer
@Thru the Looking Glass…: I read that Guardian article a little differently than
@Adam L Silverman does. He could be right that a number of additional memos on the Trump-Russia connection exist that Steele didn’t include in the dossier. Or, as you say, they could be company memos on other subjects.
But as I read the article, it seems to talk about only one more memo, dated December 13, 2016. A memo with that date is included in the dossier as #166.
The missing numbers are indeed a question. I’ve worked through the dossier to try to simplify it. You might find my version helpful. I also wrote a longish article about it.
I find most news articles on the subject immensely confusing.
Adam L Silverman
JPL
@geg6: So true.
Yarrow
@Adam L Silverman: She’s been doing these for months. They’re kind of interesting in a way, but in general it’s all the same thing. Dumb white people who “hope” Trump will bring them whatever they think they want — like Santa.
There was one interview early on with a woman who ran a diner in Allentown, PA (I think). She seemed kind of normal, just was worried about her town and lack of jobs. And then Nicole asked her some question about immigration and her expression changed and you could see what was underlying the whole Trump thing. It was just a flash for a few seconds. But all the Whites First and racism and hatred and fear of The Other was visible.
Peale
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: if get him a tile to help him find his keys and wallet whatnot. Then you in effect have installed a tracking device on him in the name of being helpful.
Mike J
@efgoldman: Time Bandit passed within about 50 yards of me in Lake Washington. Don’t know what it was doing there, had party decorations on it. Rental?
Mnemosyne
@DocSardonic:
One of the good, non-alcoholic side effects of the current Mule craze is that there are a lot of really good ginger ales and ginger beers available now. I like Fevertree even though it’s so gingery that it makes me sneeze.
SiubhanDuinne
@efgoldman:
The El in those days was safe as houses. Mind you, by the time I was attending Northwestern, 14-15 years later, it was a different story, and I never felt quite comfortable riding the train by myself except in broad daylight. Still don’t, for that matter, when I visit Chicago. But I felt no fear, and obviously my mother didn’t either or she wouldn’t have allowed it. It truly was a different time.
Baud
@Adam L Silverman: They’ll be so disappointed when Trump is impeached.
JMG
OK, now for a summer cocktail anyone can make. My late father’s whiskey sour recipe. Take one blender. Put in one can of frozen lemonade. Take empty lemonade container, fill it with Seagram’s 7 and put in blender. Then fill blender with ice cubes and blend. See with an orange slice.
PS: I donated to Obama and volunteered on both of his campaigns. if he’d had a 100-day rally in Boston, I of course would have had better things to do. These Trump people would drink poison in expectation of the Rapture if he told them too. Some are assholes, some are morons, others are both.
rikyrah
Go Auntie Maxine
https://youtu.be/Ty3-YggjUvM
germy
Someone here said they make a point of never looking at reader comments on their local online newspapers. I think I’ll follow their advice.
A few days ago I read a local article, scrolled down to the comments and the usual RW stuff. Out of curiosity, I googled the name of one of the commenters and found his twitter comments. He is a local businessman. He used the german word for “subhuman” in one of his tweets; I think it was about liberal protesters.
This is like invasion of the body snatchers. They look normal, but I don’t want to do business with them or have them in my house.
SiubhanDuinne
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
There was a news story a couple or few years ago about a mom who was taken into custody because she allowed her child to play in the children’s play area at the park across the street. Without hovering, presumably.
When did being a helicopter parent become normalized?
germy
@Baud: Disappointed enough to break heads?
M. Bouffant
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: 50 yrs. ago when I was 13, I was taking Seattle’s public transit to the U District looking for reefer, so a milkshake seems tame. Is it possible he didn’t tell you what his plans were because he thought you’d tell him not to? Never volunteer information was my motto as a youth (& to this day).
Have you issued him a ‘phone? We’re all flying out of the nest sooner or later.
ThresherK
@Adam L Silverman: My itchy eyes are to blame, but did anyone else read:
Seth Owen
A lot of empty seats visible in the picture. Meanwhile the streets of Washington (and St. Petersburg, Russia!) are full.
Villago Delenda Est
@Adam L Silverman: @Thru the Looking Glass…: Adam, Thru the Looking Glass posted something long about the latest Christopher Steele stuff. Might be fodder for a post later in the evening?
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne: Another reason I’m glad I never begat offspring.
Adam L Silverman
@SiubhanDuinne: Yep, that was in Maryland. She and her husband have been in an ongoing fight with local law enforcement and child protective services since then.
Baud
@germy: Hopefully only their own.
germy
@Adam L Silverman: Is the keystone guy working security for the event?
Baud
@Adam L Silverman: I thought she won eventually.
farthestnorth
Nice time at Denver climate march. Anybody can march in nice weather; here it was 30 degrees and snowing, but thousands of people showed up anyway. Enthusiastic crowd. Can’t believe I am marching to the same Bob Dylan, the Byrds etc tunes as 40 years ago–but the kids in charge seem to like the classics so that’s good I guess
geg6
I just can’t with this Pens/Caps series. I despise the Caps almost equal to how much I despise the Flyers (spit). But I respect them more as a team. This shit is going to give me a heart attack.
rikyrah
Monday, Apr 24, 2017 11:00 PM EDT
Bye bye, Bernie: He’s not fit to captain the Democratic ship if he can’t stop chasing the great white male
The Democratic Party is selling out women and all marginalized groups in favor of Bernie Sanders’ dangerous myths
Anna March
from the article”
Economic populism and what are commonly erroneously and dismissively referred to as “social issues” — such as reproductive rights, immigration reform and civil rights for people of color, those who have disabilities, people of all faiths, LGBT people and women — are indivisible. Sanders routinely demonstrates his own lack of progressive values by dividing them.
There is no economic populism without abortion rights and civil rights. No one can have economic justice if he or she doesn’t have fundamental rights. Yet Sanders has made it plain that abortion rights are negotiable and brushes off “identity politics.” He consistently argues that his values — and his alone — should define what it is to be progressive. (Which can’t help but remind one of Donald Trump’s unilateral defining of terms.)
Further, Sanders routinely divides matters of race and gender and class — which, again, cannot be untwined — by discussing the “pain” and needs of working-class voters and perpetuating the dangerous myth that the Democrats have ignored them. Sanders has insisted that Democrats have failed to reach these voters, while dismissing the fact that 75 percent of working-class voters of color voted for Clinton, not Trump, last year.
debbie
@Adam L Silverman:
Glenn Beck took up the parents’ cause for a day or two.
Adam L Silverman
@ThresherK: No. But as I used to live in a bedroom community of Harrisburg, I may be inclined to recognize the name.
rikyrah
From TOD:
efgoldman
All of a sudden the “reply” button is broken and the formatting buttons are gone.
rikyrah
John R Chase @JohnRChase
Trump just called refugees & immigrants vicious snakes at a Harrisburg PA rally.
geg6
@Adam L Silverman:
I can’t read the shirt completely, but I do recognize the fat ugly nativ skinheads of the Commonwealth. I hate these people and, sadly, I live surrounded by them.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: Or Costco, they also have it.
rikyrah
Jonathan Riley @JonRiley7
Trump says not to have compassion for immigrants. He says they are snakes using sympathy to sneak in and murder us. Demagoguery!
#TrumpRally
Peale
@rikyrah: there are not black proletarians and the only jobs are factory jobs.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Not for me.
Gelfling 545
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: From experience I can tell you that “What if something happened to you?” won’t work because, don’t be silly. Nothing can happen to a 13 year old, right? Best for us was what if WE had an emergency and needed you?
?BillinGlendaleCA
I just returned from a hike in the San Gabriels; got some good pics, though I’m not completely happy with the ones of the LA basin.
jl
@rikyrah: Thanks. Do you have a link? I can’t find the story on their webpage.
rikyrah
Robert Freedland @robertfreedland
Trump now reading Poem The Snake. By Al Wilson. He compares immigrants to snakes with “colored skin”.
germy
@rikyrah: He’s playing the “what if” game in this tweet, and it’s brutal:
https://twitter.com/JohnRChase/status/849383911180382208
geg6
@geg6:
Obviously, I meant “native.”
Edit button not working. FYWP.
Peale
@rikyrah: I hope we get video.
Thor Heyerdahl
Testing here – FYWP has eaten 3 of my comments sent from my phone. Let’s see if this one works
rikyrah
Josh Dawsey
✔
@jdawsey1
Cops are too busy taking other protesters out to handle new ones. So trump supporters are holding protesters against walls while they wait.
7:22 PM – 29 Apr 2017
Villago Delenda Est
@rikyrah: Bernie might as well be of the alt-right now. Fuck him and the horse he rode in on, and all the Berniebros too.
geg6
@rikyrah:
He’s pissed because his stupid “illegals want to kill us all, EEEEEEEEK!!!!!11!!!!!” hotline got trolled.
germy
@Peale: He’s talking some serious shit. Unhinged. Will the villagers pretend to not notice, or will this be reported?
Villago Delenda Est
@rikyrah: Naked fucking racism.
Adam L Silverman
@Villago Delenda Est: Here’s my response from Comment 55 above:
It isn’t that dossier is longer, rather, as The Guardian reported yesterday Steele decided that he needed to produce additional memos based on what his informants were telling him after he submitted the dossier. He turned these additional memos in to a senior British Intelligence Officer (I think we can surmise this is his former boss at MI6 who referenced the dossier in the first public speech ever made by a director of MI6).
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/apr/28/trump-russia-intelligence-uk-government-m16-kremlin
jl
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
” I’m not completely happy with the ones of the LA basin. ”
So, I guess points for accuracy?
I thought you were going to explore nuclear waste dumps in the Simi Hills.
Baud
@germy: Obama’s paid speech is obviously the more important news.
geg6
@Villago Delenda Est:
Yup. He is one of them. So sick of him. And his worshippers.
Adam L Silverman
@germy: No, local skinhead.
Yarrow
@rikyrah: Wow. There’s video of this, right?
Adam L Silverman
@Baud: She may have. I never saw any reporting about what the final resolution was.
rikyrah
CNN
✔
@CNN
President Trump: “Sen. Schumer is a bad leader, not a natural leader at all… He is leading the Democrats to doom.”
7:32 PM – 29 Apr 2017
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
Well, so much for the notion that Bannon doesn’t have Trump’s ear anymore. ?
Adam L Silverman
@debbie: I’m sure he was a great help and comfort to them.
Baud
@rikyrah: That means that Schumer is a great leader and Dems are poised for a huge victory.
germy
@Adam L Silverman: From some of the tweets I’ve seen, they’re appointing themselves unofficial security. Attacking protesters, etc.
JPL
@Baud: Who would have thought that President Obama would give a speech on health care. I’m shocked. Hopefully, the speech is leaked.
I streamed the last five minutes of the speech, and I’m scared. The crowd was rabid.
Mnemosyne
@Gelfling 545:
The reason I’m thinking that the “earthquakes” talking point might work is that those get pretty emphasized for the kids at school here in California, and Comrade Colette in in San Francisco.
Yarrow
@Villago Delenda Est: He’s either a Russian agent, asset or just useful idiot. And his wife is under investigation by the FBI. The Dems need to distance themselves from him. I hope at least his staff’s Russian ties, if not his own, come out when the indictments are handed down. Maybe that will help.
germy
@JPL: this is a truly dangerous man.
Baud
@JPL: Yeah, I hope there are no minorities in the vicinity who might draw the horde’s attention.
germy
@Yarrow: egotistical useful idiot, I’d wager.
rikyrah
Something to make you smile
M. Bouffant
@SiubhanDuinne: You reminded me that in first & second grade I took the Southern Pacific’s S.F. Peninsula commuter train w/ all the work-a-daddies & suburban ladies headed to the City to & from school, which was in San Mateo, four stations from me, & then walked the several blocks to school from the station.
I wasn’t the only student who did this, so there were usually several of us walking from station to school, & the S.P. conductors kept an eye on us on the train (harder to get someone off a commuter train w/ conductors than a city bus stopping every two blocks, I suppose). Hard to judge today, but it worked then.
efgoldman
@geg6:
I want the ice to open up and swallow them both, but that’s just me.
But the Caps being the Caps, they’ll screw it up.
Villago Delenda Est
@Adam L Silverman: Ah, thanks, somehow missed your 55.
Yarrow
@germy: The Villagers are at the WH Correspondents Dinner so they’ll probably miss the whole thing.
efgoldman
@Omnes Omnibus:
Turned out to be a browser crash, but the little notification window was hidden behind the big windows. Rebooted, all is well.
germy
@Yarrow: Samantha Bee at the Other Correspondents Dinner, talking to journalists:
SiubhanDuinne
O/T, but I totally want to kick Vanity Fair in the junk right now. And I usually like VF.
Smedley the uncertain
@JPL: Under the rocks…
Cheryl Rofer
@Villago Delenda Est: See also my 96.
rikyrah
Benjamin Haas @BenjaminEHaas
Can’t watch these clips of Trump’s Army secretary nominee & feel comfortable w/ him leading our Army—especially LGBTQ & Muslim soldiers 1/12
Follow
Benjamin Haas @BenjaminEHaas
Trump’s Army secretary nominee thinks armed citizens need to protect the US from ISIS because the NSA, CIA, and FBI are unable to do so 7/12 pic.twitter.com/hPLaxG9Qbj
Peale
@Yarrow: they take middle class racism for granted. Call it resentment and pretend that it’s a natural given that it’s caused by liberals somehow.
Yarrow
@germy: That’s my guess as well, but Tad Devine seems a bit too closely involved. Worked with Manafort in Ukraine. I would not be surprised at all if there’s more there.
The Lodger
@greennotGreen: Great to hear from you.
germy
@Yarrow: Tad used an egotistical idiot to be the spoiler? It reminds me of the playwright in Springtime For Hitler, when he learns his play will be produced by Zero Mostel: “Dream of dreams!”
El Caganer
GF likes pomegranate, so I figure I’ll mix up some of these to welcome her back to Siesta Key from her trip up north.
http://www.saveur.com/article/recipes/crush-and-swizzle-cocktail
amk
twitler is ranting & whining again. zero adults in the gopee.
MomSense
@greennotGreen:
Raising a glass to you dear, greennotGreen.
Cheers!
dr. luba
I second gin and tonic–there’s nothing like a lovely G&T–and he quinine gives you a bit of protection against malaria, an important consideration now that global warming will proceed unchecked, no?
Gelfling 545
@Adam L Silverman: “It’s like the election never happened.” If only.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl: That’s next week, at least the recon.
ETA: We had pretty strong Santa Ana’s last night and I thought they’d clean up the air. It was better than when the kid and I went up there last year, but not the best. I may have to return during the summer, since all the buildings in DTLA were in shadow.
Adam L Silverman
@rikyrah: He’s started sending Chaldean Christians back to Iraq.
http://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/local/michigan/2017/04/19/iraqi-deportation-flight/100676612/
raven
Sunset on Choctawhatchee Bay
germy
@dr. luba: My neighbor told me he stopped drinking G&Ts because he feared the quinine was damaging his hearing. Is this really a thing?
Yarrow
@germy: Well, the Russians used Tad so that BS could drive a wedge in the Democrats and damage Hillary. That’s their goal–causing chaos in the US and weakening Hillary was a means to that end. I would guess that BS is egotistical enough to get caught up in it and think it was all about him and how great he is, when instead he was something off a useful tool.
Mnemosyne
@Yarrow:
Oh, shit, I forgot that was tonight. So a white power rally is Twitler’s counter-programming for that.
germy
@Yarrow:
He thinks that’s why all the villagers are interested in booking him on their talk shows. Not because they want to hear him talk shit about HRC and Democrats.
Yarrow
@Adam L Silverman:
The Chaldean Christians apparently voted overwhelmingly for Trump.
Adam L Silverman
@geg6: Says “Keystone State” above the keystone graphic. “Central PA” below it. There’s a local skinhead group called Keystone United. I’m not sure if the Pennsylvania HammerSkins are still doing anything.
raven
Chickenshit draft-dodging mother fucker.
Iowa Old Lady
I’m shocked (not surprised, shocked) by the casual way Trump stirs up hatred, anger, and racism as if he can play with that stuff and nothing bad will happen.
SiubhanDuinne
In the great scheme of things this is nugatory — but so fucking characteristic of Trump, so thin-skinned, jealous, and petty. Fuck him very much.
I wish I had a bigger vocabulary. “Fuck that fucking bastard son of a bitch motherfucker” starts to sound unimaginative after a while.
efgoldman
@Yarrow:
Which means actual reporters might do actual reporting.
debbie
I don’t know when the next writers’ post is, but Gloria Steinam’s interview with Annie Lamott is pretty good.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
That’s just gorgeous. Thanks.
When do you head home?
debbie
@raven:
Brannon’s baaaaaaaack.
Adam L Silverman
@rikyrah: Unless those Trump supporters are certified Federal or PA law enforcement officers, that’s a crime.
J R in WV
@greennotGreen:
Glad to hear from you, we all have been thinking about you. You are right, nurses are the central part of medical care. They saved my wife when she was in MICU with septic shock. They eased my father when he was in Hospice care with side-effects of successful chemo for Leukemia.
Hope you are comfortable, with family and friends around you, sounds like that’s the case, and we’re all glad for that. Best wishes from the green rolling hills of WV.
scav
@germy: Unlikely. The quinine in tonic water is fairly dilute compared to the medicinal doses. info
rikyrah
AM Joy w/Joy ReidVerified account @amjoyshow
.@SRUHLE: #IvankaTrump if you are making women’s issues your initiative you have to actually do something #AMJoy
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: Monday, we don’t like leaving here on Sunday.
p.a.
Frozen MinuteMaid yellow lemonade + MM frozen oj concentrates. Mix each per instructions, them combine. Drink as is or add alcohol of your choice; of course vodka, gin, everclear are the most likely.
Anyone ever do the watermelon thing? Cut out a plug, pour in everclear, let rest 24 hours so the alcohol distributes.
efgoldman
@SiubhanDuinne:
As a sometime writer, you know that clarity comes first. That’s as clear as can be. Good job,
Adam L Silverman
@Yarrow: Here’s the link:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ICo39_Zuk9Q
And here’s the embed:
The VP starts at the 35 minute mark. The President at the 45 minute mark. Give or take a tick.
p.a.
what happened to my alcohol related post? no ‘moderation’ message, it’s just gone.
rikyrah
@greennotGreen:
Been thinking about you. Sending positive thoughts out into the universe for you.
Adam L Silverman
@germy: They’re going to wind up facing charges.
Uncle Ebeneezer
@A Ghost to Most: When we were in Vietnam we lived on G&T’s. Something about that real quinine tonic and lime that makes 95 degrees/90% humidity, kinda pleasant.
We just went for sushi and had a version of this which also kicked serious ass for beating the current SoCal heat.
Adam L Silverman
@Villago Delenda Est: No worries.
Timurid
@germy:
All Villagers want is the day when the dusky kid making their double shot venti latte knows that he can’t let his ‘acha, sahib’ stupid, adoring smile slip for a second or else Villager complains, gets him fired and evicted, and he ends up spearing rats on the riverbank while dodging the Vagrancy Patrol. Or Villager could just pay a few bucks to have somebody drag him out of the shop and beat him half to death in the alley out back.
The Villagers would climb over a mountain of baby skulls to make that day come a second faster. As long as none of the babies belonged to anyone they knew…
efgoldman
@p.a.:
Apparently nobody in RI has anything useful to say about alcohol. A place where they put ketchup in chowda and clam juice in drinks….
Timurid
@Yarrow:
It doesn’t mean they can’t pleasure themselves to the video later. The marvels of technology…
Villago Delenda Est
@Cheryl Rofer: Cheryl, thanks! This stuff can be really confusing, part of the reason is that there is no set “narrative” for the journamalists to crib off of, so they have to engage brain, and hilarity ensues.
Adam L Silverman
@germy: @geg6: Apparently that logo on the back of that shirt is from the old Keystone State Skinheads. And the tat on the back of his head is the Afrikans Resistance Movement triskelion – their version of a swastika.
And @geg6: there’s nothing you can really do – they live everywhere. I’ve lived in PA for five years total – one 1 year and one 4 year stint. I love the place, but like everywhere else it has folks that are small minded.
J R in WV
@Villago Delenda Est:
@Tokyokie:
@Betty Cracker:
@Yarrow:
Yes, indeed we do have LaCroix, and coconut water, and natural foods sections at the grocery store, and Asian food marts, etc here in the boonies of WV. I was kidding mostly.
But thanks for all the help!!!
I make a margarita tonic. Tall glass full of ice cubes, two parts aged amber tequila, one or a little more part orange liquor, the better the better, juice of a lime, then fill the glass with tonic.
Pretty refreshing.
The Kraken Kolada sounds good too. Maybe a little sweet, perhaps a line or lemon could fix that…
Or just a Gin and Tonic, with a big squeeze of lime, and perhaps a dash of bitters… makes it look like pink lemonade~!
ETA: speling !!!
debbie
I guess Trump was also in KY today?
https://twitter.com/sugarcubedog/status/858479388249251840
rikyrah
Peter DaouVerified account @peterdaou Apr 28
Replying to @peterdaou @BarackObama
10. When Obama becomes a casualty of this internecine battle Sanders is determined to wage, EVERYONE loses. We shouldn’t stand for it.
73 replies 389 retweets 1,031 likes
Peter DaouVerified account @peterdaou Apr 28
Replying to @peterdaou @BarackObama
9. What we’re seeing today is a man desperately clinging to the spotlight, unwilling to let a new generation of progressive leaders shine.
42 replies 320 retweets 1,008 likes
Peter DaouVerified account @peterdaou Apr 28
Replying to @peterdaou @BarackObama
Peter Daou Retweeted Peter Daou
8. The Bernie Sanders of 2015, the one with a hopeful, positive message, is long gone. Some don’t realize it.
Peter DaouVerified account @peterdaou Apr 28
Replying to @peterdaou @BarackObama
7. The reason I vigorously oppose Sanders’s continued attempts to tear down the Democratic Party is because it strengthens Trump & the GOP.
50 replies 439 retweets 1,135 likes
Peter DaouVerified account @peterdaou Apr 28
Replying to @peterdaou @BarackObama
6. Now, Obama is in the crossfire. One of the Dems’ best assets risks being weakened because of the toxic legacy of the Sanders campaign.
27 replies 359 retweets 923 likes
Peter DaouVerified account @peterdaou Apr 28
Replying to @peterdaou @BarackObama
5. The media are salivating at the chance to go after Dems. What better than the issue of speaking fees, which Sanders used to slam Hillary?
23 replies 250 retweets 701 likes
Peter DaouVerified account @peterdaou Apr 28
Replying to @peterdaou @BarackObama
4. Just think of how incredibly counter-productive the attacks on Obama are at this moment in our history. A gift to the GOP. And the media.
Peter DaouVerified account @peterdaou Apr 28
Replying to @peterdaou @BarackObama
3. I’m accused by some people of “rehashing 2016” but my continued focus on Sanders is about the FUTURE and the opposition to Trump.
26 replies 258 retweets 776 likes
Peter DaouVerified account @peterdaou Apr 28
Replying to @peterdaou @BarackObama
2. Over the course of two years, Sanders has become a destructive force in American politics — under the guise of progressive purity.
24 replies 361 retweets 989 likes
Peter DaouVerified account @peterdaou Apr 28
1. THREAD. If you’re pissed off at the circular firing squad over @BarackObama’s speaking fees, you can thank Bernie Sanders. (1/10)
Villago Delenda Est
@raven: Sing it, brother. Sing it!
rikyrah
Kyle GriffinVerified account @kylegriffin1
Great breakdown: Malcolm Nance explains that the WH should know difference btwn “clearance” & “access” w/ Mike Flynn
raven
@The Pale Scot: I think that “cold weather” kills the bugs is an old wives tail. If it were true how would the North Woods have such viscous lil fuckers?
J R in WV
@Yarrow:
Pedantically, indictments are handed up to the bench of the presiding judge. Otherwise very interesting – thanks for the info.
raven
@The Pale Scot: Do Cold Winters Kill Pests?
Mixed
efgoldman
@raven:
Not in the winter.
Gin & Tonic
After nearly three days of complicated labor, my daughter managed to give her daughter a little brother today. We are thankful for modern medicine, in the absence of which either mother or baby (or both) would likely not have survived through this night.
trollhattan
Highest recommendation for today’s “This American Life”, which delves into the rise of Breitbart and how Cantor’s defeat became the test bed for Trump. The secret word: amnesty.
Some of these people aren’t stupid and thus, must be crushed under a boulder.
trollhattan
@Gin & Tonic:
Wow, great news and heartiest congratulations to all!
raven
@Gin & Tonic: Yes!
Adam L Silverman
@Yarrow: They bought the BS about only accepting Christian refugees. Desperate people make bad decisions.
Spanky
@greennotGreen: Here’s looking at you, kid.
J R in WV
@Cheryl Rofer:
Perhaps many news articles about the Steele memo are intentionally fuqed up? Also, there is no existing pattern for would-be reporters to follow, so they are left to sink or swim on their own. Never a good thing, as many of them can neither think nor swim.
And of course, being about dark security issues, everyone is making it as complicated as possible, to preserve their jobs no matter what happens in the end.
efgoldman
@Gin & Tonic:
Holy shit.
The stuff we take for granted.
Congratulations, grandpa.
I expect my cigar in the mail
Adam L Silverman
@debbie: Bannon never left. Also, the speechwriter is Stephen Miller.
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
Congratulations!
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Yarrow:
That would be delightful… I’ve read comments to that effect at numerous sites (Mensch, Nance, Schindler)… until indictments start happening it’s all just wishful thinking…
From a website I just found on line…
Was not Greenberg Traurig the firm that Jack Abramoff was once associated w/?
Oh yeah… it was…
I ask if there was more to that dossier because of the gaps in numbering & dates, plus the fact the page numbers were hand written…
Mnemosyne
@Gin & Tonic:
Congratulations! ?
Bago
I’ve worked in the online ad industry… our most shameful moment was accepting a million dollars for a front page interstitial for the worst Indiana Jones movie ever.
Adam L Silverman
@p.a.: It went into the trash. I’ve dug it out and it should be up now.
debbie
@Adam L Silverman:
Wasn’t his star fading when he threatened to take his talents elsewhere?
geg6
@efgoldman:
Not only is it a small city, it’s surrounded by some of the hillbilliest of hillbilly counties in all of PA. As bad as the hillbilly/KKK strongholds to the north and south of me, here in Western/Appalachian PA.
Mnemosyne
@Adam L Silverman:
Isn’t Miller one of Bannon’s acolytes?
J R in WV
@efgoldman:
No, not at all. Perhaps you should reboot your device?
ETA: No offense, just saying it works OK for me.
rikyrah
Political Woman @HRCNJVolunteers
Tonight was most negative, deeply disturbing, most divisive speech a sitting president has EVER given, GOP strategist David Gergen says.
7:59 PM – 29 Apr 2017
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: You don’t smoke.
JPL
@Gin & Tonic: Congrats! Hopefully, the entire family can rest easy tonight.
Aleta
5 funny video shorts (very short) about phone tech
http://video.newyorker.com/watch/the-new-yorker-shorts-5-films-about-technology
efgoldman
@Mnemosyne:
They are cojoined at the swastika.
schrodingers_cat
@Mnemosyne: Sessions staffer.
JPL
@rikyrah: Tonight was the most bat shit insane speech a President has given. fixed it.
trollhattan
@raven:
In the western mountains the shorter, warmer winters have enabled the bark beetle to kill hundreds of millions of trees, so that’s our future here. OTOH I’ve been harassed by mosquitoes and blackflies at 10k feet so there’s always something.
geg6
@p.a.:
Yes, about a thousand times. In my youth. Nothing stronger than red wine now that I’m an old lady though.
Adam L Silverman
@Thru the Looking Glass…: Right now Giuliani is in trouble for interjecting himself into a Federal case against a Turkish official with ties to Russian organized crime. He’s managed to piss off both the judge and the prosecutors. And it has people asking questions about what, exactly, he’s been doing since his term as mayor of New York ended.
Adam L Silverman
@debbie: No that was a local League of the South rally with a counter rally by anti-fa folks. From what I read the folks in Pikeville wanted both groups to go away and stay away.
efgoldman
@J R in WV:
You need to pay attention.
Adam L Silverman
@Gin & Tonic: Mazel tov!
Villago Delenda Est
@Gin & Tonic: Excellent news! Congrats to mom, dad, granddaughter, grandma, yourself, and all the other relatives!
Thru the Looking Glass...
@ThresherK: Whenever I see the name ‘Federalist Society’ in print, my mind always reads it as FEUDALIST SOCIETY on first glance… somehow seems more appropriate…
trollhattan
@schrodingers_cat:
Yup, klanistas and nazis–hard to believe they get along so well.
Adam L Silverman
@debbie: I’m of the opinion, shared by others, that a lot of this is variant of kayfabe.
Bago
@germy: Eh, print out a copy and post it in front of their business.
Adam L Silverman
@geg6: Camp Hill and Mechanicsburg and Carlisle are lovely. Sure, the central part of the state is basically central Alabama, but…
geg6
@Adam L Silverman:
You don’t need to tell me. Beaver County native, lived here my entire 58 years.
Adam L Silverman
@Mnemosyne: Sort of. He was brought to Senator Sessions attention by Bannon who met Miller when Miller was working for Bachman. Once linked up as a Sessions staffer he basically became Jeff Sessions Jeff Sessions. Together, Sessions, Miller, and Bannon (working from the outside) are the trio that came up with the strategy that tanked comprehensive immigration reform in the House after it Sessions failed to kill it in the Senate. Sessions first loaned him to the Trump campaign and then Miller formally left Sessions staff and joined the campaign full time.
Villago Delenda Est
@Adam L Silverman: All three of them need to be placed on a rocket ship to the sun.
NotMax
Very late (and haven’t yet read through) – easy to make and refreshing is the good old reliable Salty Dog.
Personally prefer them made with gin and using kosher salt to coat the rim of the glass. One of the very few things with an obvious saltiness which my palate finds acceptable.
J R in WV
@El Caganer:
Oh, sweet. Siesta Key. My folks spent time on Longboat Key in a rental condo before buying into a condo down in Osprey, on the road to Casey Key. I have jogged those beaches, and combed for shark’s teeth down in Venice on Manasota Key. Long time ago.
Went back to Key West a couple of years ago, disappointing, not like it was back in the early 1970s when we lived there. I was stationed there in the USN for a couple of years. Rough duty! Then I spent my last year in Mobile Bay and Pascagoula MS in shipyards, truly rough duty!
geg6
@Adam L Silverman:
Hell, every square inch of the commonwealth is lovely. Some of the most beautiful terrain anywhere in America and I’ve hit about forty of the fifty states. Ever changing and simply beautiful. But a lot of ugly is hidden in all that beauty.
NotMax
Oh, another one ideal for lazy summer days and nights is the Melonball.
Fill tall glass (Collins glass or similar) with ice cubes.
Pour a pony (½ jigger) Midori honeydew liqueur over the ice.
Wait a few seconds for it to make its way to the bottom of the glass.
Pour in desired amount of vodka. DO NOT STIR.
Top off the rest of the glass with orange juice. DO NOT STIR.
Not only attractive to the eye but also pleasing on the tongue.
Millard Filmore
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
Maybe 50 years ago Reader’s Digest had a little blurb about how one Daddy operated. “Where ever you are, call me when you leave and tell me where you are going. Then call me when you arrive.” Seems like the best way, especially now that cell phones are everywhere.
Adam L Silverman
@Villago Delenda Est: I own Tesla stock. I’ll bring it up with Elon at the next shareholders meeting…//
Adam L Silverman
@geg6: A lot of ugly is hidden everywhere. Unfortunately. And more’s the pity.
El Caganer
@Adam L Silverman: A lot of the small cities (esp. county seats) are nice – I like Lancaster pretty much, too – but, yeah, some of the cities and most of the small towns aren’t places you’d rather be. Remember a number of years ago driving by the historical marker for Joseph Priestley’s home in Northumberland and wondering how he managed to wind up in the ass-end of nowhere.
NotMax
Could be a woman web designer.
Just sayin’.
opiejeanne
Weirdness today. My husband bumped into the Republicans next door this afternoon, out for their walk, and they mentioned that the previous owner of our house asked them how much we’d sell the place for.
So stunned I am still gasping about that three hours later.
I told Mr opiejeanne the answer is a million point two even though it’s now worth about $850k (we’ve done a lot of work but even that value makes us gasp when we see it) because the market has gone nuts and whatever house we’d be able to afford even with a hefty down payment would still need a massive amount of work (it’s astonishing how much a bad house costs) and we couldn’t really afford a turn-key place here even with a big wad of cash in our pockets.
Also, she’s a horrible human being even if she votes Democrat. She did terrible things to people here; they all have scars, emotional and monetary. I could tell you stories and you’d thank your stars you didn’t live next door or nearby her.
Steve in the ATL
@Adam L Silverman:
You are apparently referring to the fact that I did not hit one good tee shot today. Not. One.
#FirstWorldProblems
NotMax
@El Caganer
Reading/Kutztown area is very pretty.
J R in WV
@Gin & Tonic:
Congrats!! Truly, modern medicine, when it works right, is a miracle.
raven
@Steve in the ATL: Drive for show and putt for dough grasshopper.
El Caganer
@J R in WV: Siesta Key is great, but that’s GF’s price range – I live in Bradenton (which is cool; it was time to leave Philly anyway). What did you think of Mobile? I was there for a conference in the mid-90’s and was surprised by how much I liked it.
opiejeanne
@Adam L Silverman: I saw two that either Rachel or Lawrence featured: the first guy was an asshole, the second was stupid.
Ugh.
Timurid
@Adam L Silverman:
My first question after the Syria airfield attack was “shoot or work?”
Adam L Silverman
@El Caganer: I miss Carlisle. But life goes on.
J R in WV
@efgoldman:
Oh, come on, I didn’t see that when I posted, I’m tracking down the long list of comments. ;-) Give a guy a break!
Even tho my comment was an hour after you rebooted… it takes a while to read 200 comments if you’re replying to all of them!
NotMax
@raven
True story.
Made a beautiful drive, followed shortly after by a solid, resounding thunk.
Here comes the ball – back towards us.
Had ricocheted off a tree – ended up on the ground between 5 and 10 yards behind the tee.
El Caganer
@NotMax: They’re gorgeous places whose human inhabitants (particularly in Reading) aren’t doing so well. It’s funny that I would still recommend Pennsylvania to anybody who was looking for a place with fantastic cultural, historical, and natural attractions…but I ain’t moving back.
raven
@NotMax: You gotta be the ball. . .
efgoldman
@J R in WV:
Correct response is “no excuses, sir!”
J R in WV
@El Caganer:
I was in Mobile in 1972, and it was still kind of a small city then. I was on foot mostly, so I didn’t see much past the waterfront.
Most memorable thing about my time there was my ship was in a floating dry dock when Hurricane Agnes came by between Mobile and Pensacola. A little scary, even though it was away east of us. Rain made it opaque out the few ports left open.
J R in WV
@efgoldman:
Now you’re just getting shirty!
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Prosaic, stodgy street names, though.
East South Street
North West Street
and so on.
raven
@J R in WV: We went to Pensacola yesterday.
Adam L Silverman
@Steve in the ATL: My sincerest condolences.
Adam L Silverman
@opiejeanne: Yep. The creepy guy was creepy. The other guy was just dumb and self deluded.
Elizabelle
@ Betty Cracker:
Amazing writing.
Adam L Silverman
@Timurid: It was a shoot. Just a really ineffective one. Which, I guess, makes it a shoot that was really a work.
NotMax
@El Caganer
Lived in the area for several years back when.
Moved while there from the hamlet of Sinking Spring to a very, very nice low density mutli-unit rental complex named Flying Hills.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: And a stop sign or stoplight every block!
Lizzy L
@greennotGreen: Sounds like you are in good hands. Sending love your way…
@SiubhanDuinne: I rode the subways and buses of NY when I was 9 years old; no one thought anything of it. I’m a tad younger than you, but you are right, it was a different time.
@rikyrah: OMFG: this is incredible. It’s utterly shameful that this man has the position he has. [I can’t bring myself to call him by his putative title — I will not do it. He’s not my president.]
@Adam L Silverman: If only. Don’t hold your breath. (Not that you would…)
El Caganer
@NotMax: Harrisburg just copied the street names from Old City Philadelphia: central E-W street is Market Street, parallel streets are named after trees, and IIRC are in the same order as in Philly.
SiubhanDuinne
@Gin & Tonic:
Congratulations to all!
El Caganer
@NotMax: Moving up in the world, so to speak…
NotMax
@El Caganer
Nice to know, but I was referencing Carlisle.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Adam L Silverman:
I read about that Turkish problem… I wonder if it’s in any way connected to Flynn’s Turkish BS?
I could swear I read something about him (Rudy) possibly being involved w/ corrupt FBI agents and/or NYPD who helped leak intel about Hillary’s problems right before the election… I recall Erik Prince’s name popping up too…
I could see Rudy singing like a canary here, if his choice is talking or dying of old age in prison…
Temporarily Max McGee (don't count me out yet)
@raven:
I got some good news this week.
Cheryl Rofer
@J R in WV: I have a slightly kinder view. I agree that reporters are at sea because there is no set narrative. Another problem is that each article has to have significant backstory to make sense to the people (most) who haven’t been following along. Each “breaking news” is a small particle compared to the whole, so it’s hard to tell what’s new and what’s not. There are genuine problems in reporting this stuff.
Chet Murthy
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant): I’ll just leave this here: http://idlewords.com/talks/website_obesity.htm
Lyrebird
@Chet Murthy: Oh that is so beautiful! Laughing hard enough to get tears in my eyes, and I’m only up to the Pres. Taft photo switcheroo…
seaboogie
@greennotGreen: Toasting you with a glass of red wine! And I will direct my meditation intentions to you and your family, holding you and yours in fearless compassion throughout the duration of your journey, and beyond. Thank you for your presence here. Namaste.
Yarrow
@Adam L Silverman: Thanks. I’m not sure I can bring myself to watch it tonight. Don’t need nightmares. Maybe tomorrow.
@Gin & Tonic: Congratulations to your entire family! And thank goodness for modern medicine. And the fact that being female isn’t a pre-existing condition excluded by health insurance, at least for now.
SWMBO
@greennotGreen: Peace and comfort to you and your family. I have wondered how you were doing and am happy you are drinking in as much of life as possible.
@Gin & Tonic: Congratulations and a speedy recovery to all.
Xenos
Is cheap prosecco generally available in the states? If so, for early starts to hot weather drinking, I would recommend
-Hugo – muddled mint, President (elderflower liqueur) prosecco, on ice; or
-Aperol spritz – Aperol, prosecco , and top off with carbonated water, on ice of course.
Any cheap bubbly will do, really, whatever is at hand. Living in the EU, the taxes are heavy but the wine can be real cheap.
SgrAstar
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: Hi Comrade Collette- I grew up in that great city. Once I had learned all of the streets (Lake, California, Clement, Geary, Anza, Balboa…), as far as my parents were concerned, I was good to go. That happened when I was 12 or so. How wonderful that you have an adventurous, interested kid. I think it’s fine for him to explore, but good to keep in some kind of touch. Does he have a pass to the CalAcademy? Cheers!
WaterGirl
@greennotGreen: I have been thinking about you all week, wondering how you are and sending good thoughts your way.
gbbalto
@Gin & Tonic: Congratulations!
satby
@greennotGreen: very late to this thread, but sending peace and love.
The Pale Scot
@raven: I
Evolution my friend, or the Devil, take your pick.
Down here, a good frost will kill the hibernating ones, leaving just the eggs which a are hardier. Definitely makes a difference