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This morning, we hiked up to the lofty summit of Cockroach Mountain. I took the dogs so they could help haul my lazy ass up the steep incline; I just held the leashes and said, “Mush, you huskies!” At the top, there is a helluva view of the paddling trails that lead out to Tampa Bay:

You can see St. Petersburg and Tampa from the summit, and also Port Manatee:

There were many red dragonflies, including this one, whose wing looks a bit bedraggled:

Here’s the view to the northeast:

According to the parks and rec people, Cockroach Bay got its name when early explorers observed horseshoe crabs in the area. Sounds like Chamber of Commerce mythology to me; the explorers were probably swarmed by flying roaches and said, “Let’s get the fuck outta this Cockroach Bay!”

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  3. 3.

    Sab

    Seriously, y’all named a port after sea cows? I love sea cows but I would never name a port after them. They don’t seem very organized or portish at *all.

  5. 5.

    DCrefugee

    Starting to crowd my neck of the woods, Betty…

    ;-)

    I get a kick out of streets in Sillysota named with the word “ridge” in them. There’s not a fooking ridge within 250 miles of this place.

  7. 7.

    Betty Cracker

    @Dolly Llama: I don’t think we’re a very good team. But man, I want the last 40 seconds of last week’s game playing on continuous loop on my tombstone! ?

  8. 8.

    Anonymous At Work

    According to the parks and rec people, Cockroach Bay got its name when early explorers observed horseshoe crabs in the area. Sounds like Chamber of Commerce mythology to me; the explorers were probably swarmed by flying roaches and said, “Let’s get the fuck outta this Cockroach Bay!”

    Betty, and go where in Florida that isn’t overrun by cockroaches?

  9. 9.

    Sab

    Sea cows don’t like ports. Ports have boats with propellers which are dangerous to sea cows, especially their young.

  11. 11.

    MomSense

    Such pretty scenery! Our dragonflies are not nearly as colorful. The red is beautiful.

    Going to walk the dog and then getting in the car to spend the weekend splitting and stacking wood at my dad’s place. I guess splitting wood will be good preparation for shoveling snow.

  12. 12.

    WaterGirl

    Just got back from the farmer’s market. I always stop at the woodworker’s booth; he makes some nice things and I have purchased multiple bowls and salt & pepper shakers and gifts from him over the years. We chat whenever he’s there.

    He also makes pens (which don’t really grab me) but I usually look them over anyway as we chat. Today I see a pen with the confederate flag inset in the barrel. I’m not exactly sure what I said, but…

    I think I opened with something like “I can’t believe you have a confederate flag on this pen.”
    Him: I just make what people buy.
    Me: the confederate flag has turned into a racist symbol, I don’t think you should be making those.
    Him: I make what people buy.
    Me: I don’t think you should be making or selling things just because racists want to buy them.
    Him: Silence
    Me: Okay, see you next time.

    He’s a conservative, religious christian. Silly me, I used to think the majority of christians actually believed the teachings of Christ. grumble grumble

  13. 13.

    kindness

    How tall is that hill? Somehow I thought the highest elevation in Florida was about 10 feet (not including the panhandle).

    And really Betty, you of all people. Palmetto bugs. That way they don’t sound so bad.

  15. 15.

    Sab

    I spent my childhood in Florida. I think is gorgeous, but also phucking flat. My town was 7 feet above sea level, and that was before global warming.

  16. 16.

    WaterGirl

    @MomSense: Channel your anger at the Racist-in-Chief and I bet you could split and stack the wood in half the usual time. Be careful, you might have to pace yourself.

  19. 19.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    I just held the leashes and said, “Mush, you huskies!”

    Growing up in snow country, lots of kids including us tried that with sleds and bigger dogs. Never worked. Jack London was lying about those dogs who are just dying (sometimes literally) to be in the dog-sled team.

  22. 22.

    Sab

    Can’t go anywhere because of marathon. This year was pathetic. Plump white people trudging by while some car blasts Springsteen “Born to Run”. I promise you no one is running at this point. I shouldn’t be so critical. I would just as soon not trudge 26 miles on a Saturday morning, but in prior years people actually ran it, in about two hours. This year not so much. We whites don’t seem to be swift.

  23. 23.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    Sounds like Chamber of Commerce mythology to me; the explorers were probably swarmed by flying roaches and said, “Let’s get the fuck outta this Cockroach Bay!”

    Reminds me of the opening scene in “Fresno”, the funniest thing on TV that nobody ever watched. The Spanish conquistador commander is riding through California as his scouts come back one by one reporting on the wonderful grape vines they’ve found. One returns with a bunch of grapes that have dried up in the sun. The Captain takes a mouthful, then spits them on the ground and says “Pfah! Tastes like fresno!”

    (It starred Carol Burnett and Charles Grodin and was a pitch-perfect takeoff on the popular evening soaps of the time like “Dynasty” and “Dallas”, only instead of oil the fortunes were built on raisins. In Fresno, obviously.)

    (I think the audiences were humor-impaired and didn’t understand it was satire. Even when Carol Burnett has to ride in the back compartment of a station wagon because, as the chauffeur sadly explains, the Rolls Royce is still in the shop)

  24. 24.

    MomSense

    @Elizabelle:

    A little bit of the early colors- yellow and red – but the foliage seems to be a little late this year. It’s probably better in the mountains and inland where it is colder.

  28. 28.

    Amir Khalid

    @kindness:
    I had the same thought. It seemed … a bit optimistic, let’s say, to call that a view from a mountaintop.

    @Sab:

    Plump white people trudging by while some car blasts Springsteen “Born to Run”.

    As I mentioned in another thread, it so happens that today is his 68th birthday.

  29. 29.

    A Ghost to Most

    :: Looks at 800′ foothill looming over house ::

    Different strokes. Flatlands weird me out anymore.

  34. 34.

    No Drought No More

    I think you’re probably right about cockroach hill. Years ago I stood at the point where Brigham Young first laid eyes on the great like, and I figured the conversations went something like this:

    B.Y.: “We have arrived at our new home, blessed be God”.

    B.Y.: [3 hours later, to a scout he’d sent ahead to check out the lake]: “Salt? Bullshit! We’re no where near an ocean”.

  43. 43.

    bemused

    I saw my first Hummingbird Moth which has been hanging around my Bee Balm the past week. Very interesting moth. My 94 yr old mother-in-law said she had never heard of Hummingbird Moths when I told her.

  52. 52.

    Tenar Arha

    @eclare: I’m getting stoked. I saw them towards the end of their set at Lollapalooza in the 1990’s, they were awesome! Anyway, so this time I hope to see a whole set.

  53. 53.

    trollhattan

    If it makes Floridians feel better, on the California coast are Garrapata Beach and State Park, garrapata meaning tick in Spanish. They’re not inaccurately named and the park trails also feature poison oak and quite large cacti–stay on the trail and consider not bringing the dog.

  56. 56.

    trollhattan

    @bemused:
    We don’t have them in the west and I only learned of them fairly recently. Hard to believe they exist, or an insect that big can actually fly!

    If I were in charge I’d extend their range out here and bring fireflies with them.

  58. 58.

    aimai

    @WaterGirl: Good for you! People don’t get to be ignorant of what they are doing and then lay claim to living an intentionally, publicly, “values driven” life. If public, professing, confessing, christians can’t hold themselves to a higher standard than the market then they need to get out of the business of trying to dictate to others what their values should be. You did the right thing.

  61. 61.

    aimai

    @Tenar Arha: Great web site–I had no idea there was a food truck festival in Salem in a couple of weeks! I am supposed to be at a free seminar for clinicians on sitting with/holding/containing/supporting suicidal patients right now. But I realized after I had signed up that I have to write three papers and do the readings for three courses this weekend before plunging back into a crazy week of work/study next week so I’m sitting in a library trying to write the papers instead. No festivals for me! Although I was just in Malden last week taking a computer course so everett/malden doesn’t seem as far away as it used to seem. Have a great time!

  62. 62.

    WaterGirl

    @Sister Golden Bear: Sometimes I think they must use random criterion for decision-making on which shows to keep. But most of the time I accept that it’s not random, it’s just that clever, intelligent, thoughtful shows don’t count for anything, it’s all about the advertising.

    That’s why I’m surprised that This Is Us is so popular.

  66. 66.

    Mr Stagger Lee

    @germy: Now Trump has gone to war against the NFL, I want to see all the Black Players kneel in defiance to Trump. Also I like to see those in the New England Patriots give Dumpf the silent treatment if he visits their locker room. (Dumpf and Patriots owner Robert Kraft are BFF’s). Also in sports news, Dumpf has disinvited the Golden State Warriors from the White House. I doubt Stephen Curry, Kevin Durant and the rest of the Warriors really any f@cks to give.

  67. 67.

    Redshift

    Florida Man of the day

    ‘Ghost boat’ owner in Key West jail, officials say

    MELBOURNE, Fla. — The abandoned “ghost boat” that washed ashore near Melbourne Beach earlier this week was last registered in the name of a man who is jailed in Key West on  attempted murder, kidnapping, and a variety of other charges, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission confirmed.Jeffrey Ray Sundwall, 47, of Key West is an inmate at the Monroe County Detention Facility.The abandoned 45-foot sailboat Cuki was reported Tuesday morning on the sand at Spessard Holland South Beach Park. A magnet for park visitors, the vessel may not be removed for another two weeks to two months because of its size.

  68. 68.

    Eric U.

    @MomSense: here in Central Pennsylvania, we are starting to have leaves on the ground. Most of the trees are still pretty green though. I don’t recall that is the usual order of color/raking in the past.

  70. 70.

    randy khan

    I took the dogs so they could help haul my lazy ass up the steep incline; I just held the leashes and said, “Mush, you huskies!”

    It’s the least they could do for you after the evacuation incident.

  71. 71.

    Redshift

    @DCrefugee:

    I get a kick out of streets in Sillysota named with the word “ridge” in them. There’s not a fooking ridge within 250 miles of this place.

    One of my favorite street names in the Northern Virginia suburbs is “Sea Cliff Drive.” Three hours from the ocean and not a cliff in sight.

  73. 73.

    WaterGirl

    @Mr Stagger Lee: That’s my hope, too. That Trump’s spittle-flecked rage against the NFL and taking a knee will help ALL players to take a knee or stand with those who do.

  74. 74.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @WaterGirl: Or the perceived advertising. The very popular Murder She Wrote was cancelled because the people who liked it were “too old”. Obviously Leslie Moonves had not seen the success of the Fox business model (in fact, I think it was before Fox showed how preying on the elderly can be a multi-billion business model, not just confined to individual con men trying to get your social security check).

    And yes, you young whippersnappers, we olds hold onto our grudges a long time. Hell, how much of 2017 politics is still driven by hatred for 1968 hippies who no longer exist?

  78. 78.

    trollhattan

    Found out recently we have a Random Lane in our metroplex, which cracks me up considering the aspirational names beloved by developers, especially so given that it happens to feature really fooking big homes.

  79. 79.

    Jeffro

    @Redshift: back up in DE, I was driving through a suburban development one time when I just happened to notice that all of the streets were named after the locations in the Thomas covenant series …crazy…

  82. 82.

    WaterGirl

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: It’s so true! The youngsters that are so coveted for TV ratings are living with their parents and are having trouble getting jobs. At this point, people 50-60 probably have more disposable income, Bastards! Agist bastards!

  83. 83.

    Amir Khalid

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:
    Ah, but unlike Fox News, Murder She Wrote was never about poisoning the minds of its older-skewing audience. (ETA:) So it was doomed.(I remember the show; it was really good, and Jessica Fletcher was who we all wanted to be when we got older.)

  84. 84.

    Mary G

    I follow one rightwinger on twitter just to see what they are talking about (he’s a never-Trumper) and his crew are all up in arms about a high school football team in Seattle. The whole mostly-white team knelt during the national anthem and the outrage and demands for firing the school administration and all the commie teachers RIGHT NOW were legion. I said I was proud of the kids and that their demands for firing everyone but the coach were stupid. The guy DMed me demanding I stop following him and spoiling his threads! I told him to block or mute me or STFU.

  87. 87.

    Elizabelle

    @Amir Khalid:

    Jessica Fletcher was who we all wanted to be when we got older.)

    Although, if she was on the houseguest list, keep her away from the property, by firearm if necessary. Death follows in her wake.

  88. 88.

    JanieM

    I was in a photo group on Flickr for a few years and got some grief once about a picture I took from the top of a firetower on top of a protruberance called “Mt. Pisgah” in Central Maine. The guy was complaining (all in good fun) because he couldn’t see any actual “mountains” in the picture. He was from Florida, no less!

    If I could have, I would have referred him to Betty’s pictures from Cockroach Mountain, elevation 30 feet, and pointed out that all things are relative.

  89. 89.

    Aleta

    I thought you must be joking about that name. So I looked it up:

    Big Cockroach Mound is a mountain within Hillsborough County and is nearby to Paradise Key and Snake Key.

    Hmm where to pitch camp ….

  91. 91.

    raven

    Turtle Mound is a prehistoric archaeological site located 9 miles (14 km) south of New Smyrna Beach, Florida, on State Road A1A. On September 29, 1970, it was added to the U.S. National Register of Historic Places. It is the largest shell midden on the mainland United States, with an approximate height of 50 feet (15 m).[3] The mound extends for over 600 feet (180 m) along the Indian River shoreline and contains over 35,000 cubic yards (27,000 m3) of shells.[1] Turtle Mound was estimated to be 75 feet (23 m) high before it was reduced by shellrock mining in the 19th and 20th centuries.[4]

  92. 92.

    Fair Economist

    @schrodingers_cat:

    How many cockroaches were there on the mountain? ::Shudders::

    You really don’t want to know. I was at a park recently with my son and niece and my son found there were swarms of cockroaches living in the cracks of the concrete. Dozens, maybe hundreds, in every crack. He chased some out and my niece was so disgusted she had to go home.

    This is in California, BTW.

  93. 93.

    trollhattan

    @JanieM:
    Per my NH bro it was pretty disruptive when the old man in the mountain de-faced one day, given the widespread use of it as a signature image. I suggested they go along with the program and become the Live free or experience discomfort state.

  94. 94.

    Baud

    @Jeffro: Good.

    Watching Joy interview with Hillary. I’m glad she’s free from all the bullshit. I’ll gladly hate the right people so she doesn’t have to.

  95. 95.

    Fair Economist

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: Well, Murder She Wrote ran for 12 seasons so it’s not like it was cut down in its prime.

    A friend of mine particularly enjoyed one episode where they lampshaded themselves (acknowledged absurdities of the plot within the show.) Jessica Fletcher was being questioned on the stand in one of the many trials, and the opposing attorney said “Ms. Fletcher, isn’t it true that 12 of your nieces and nephews were indicted for murder?” (which was a big trope on the show). She replied “But they were all acquitted!”

    Yeah, you didn’t want her to come visit, because not only would somebody die, you’d probably get accused of it. The Wiki mocks that with its description “[she] ferrets out the criminals in idyllic Cabot Cove, Maine, which apparently is the murder capital of the United States for the show’s 12-season run”.

  97. 97.

    zhena gogolia

    @Elizabelle:

    And don’t let your children go to the University of Oxford, where all the dons are either murderers, adulterers, plagiarists, or all three at once.

  98. 98.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Fair Economist: She is of course based on Miss Marple. Who Agatha Christie would always have explain away the alarming murder rate in her village with some line about how human nature is just as wicked in small cozy villages as in large cities.

    Still, I would find it a little worrisome to be a close acquaintance of either of these nice old ladies.

  99. 99.

    wmd

    Do folks around there call dragonflies snake doctors? For some reason this bit of vernacular came back to me recently and I’ve been curious about where it is in common use.

  101. 101.

    CaseyL

    Ah, the mighty Cockroach Mountain! From whose lofty summit you can see across the whole state!

    …at first I thought it was called that because it was composed of cockroaches. In Florida, that’s not impossible. They are social little fuckers. A mountain of ’em would probably be their idea of porn.

  102. 102.

    ByRookorbyCrook

    I always enjoyed the theory that Jessica Fletcher was a prolific serial killer who managed to pin her murders on other people.

  103. 103.

    NotMax

    I just held the leashes and said, “Mush, you huskies!”

    From your previous tales would have thought that superfluous, that they’d naturally be propelled by flatulence.

    ;)

  106. 106.

    Ruckus

    @WaterGirl:
    He makes what he likes and people buy that. Just like you (and I and everyone else) do. Good that you said something. His bland non denial said everything.
    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    1968 hippies who no longer exist?

    I”m still here!
    Although I do have to say that in 1968 I was pretty much an underground hippy.

  108. 108.

    Mnemosyne

    @opiejeanne:

    I’ve seen them, too. It’s a little startling to suddenly realize that the “bird” you were looking at is really a giant (if harmless) insect.

  111. 111.

    dmsilev

    @Fair Economist:

    Jessica Fletcher was being questioned on the stand in one of the many trials, and the opposing attorney said “Ms. Fletcher, isn’t it true that 12 of your nieces and nephews were indicted for murder?” (which was a big trope on the show). She replied “But they were all acquitted!”

    Jessica Fletcher, the world’s most successful serial murderer. Her signature move was to pretend to investigate the crime and frame someone else for it.

  112. 112.

    trollhattan

    @opiejeanne:
    Wow, now I’m really jealous. The distribution map I found only has them in a couple small parts of Oregon, but with climate oddness one never knows.

  114. 114.

    Redshift

    @Jeffro:

    back up in DE, I was driving through a suburban development one time when I just happened to notice that all of the streets were named after the locations in the Thomas covenant series …crazy…

    I would be afraid to go into that development, much less live there!

  116. 116.

    opiejeanne

    @trollhattan: I’m 67. Haven’t lived in LA County since 1968. I suspect they were attracted by something grown in the area, like walnuts. The remnants of walnut groves and peach orchards were everywhere. The groves were destroyed by insect infestations in the 1920s/30s.

    We also had them in Riverside County. They are not common in either place, but there’s no mistaking them.

  117. 117.

    trollhattan

    @NotMax:
    Wow, I don’t know which is better, that it was once Moron or Siding Number Two. My dentist hails from Taft and I have a checkup next month, time for some fun at his expense (post-cleaning).

  118. 118.

    opiejeanne

    @trollhattan: When I was a teenager I remember reading that some bright light decided we needed lightning bugs in CA and turned some loose as an experiment. There were reports of sightings around LA County that summer, but they were all gone after that. SoCal lacked something that they needed and could find in places like Missouri.

    Or maybe I just imagined this. .

    And huh. We do have them in California. A new variety was discovered in Topanga Canyon.

  120. 120.

    opiejeanne

    @trollhattan: How about a town named Lard? Manteca is the name the railroad chose for the siding/station at the town of Monteca after a squabble with the city officials.
    The city wanted the station to be called Cowell Station but there was already one in Tracy.

  121. 121.

    J R in WV

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym:

    @Ruckus:

    Me too, and a bunch of my neighbors.

    Oct 7th is the [37th or so, no one remembers the actual number for sure! Like I said, hippies…] Annual Intergalactic Homebrew Festival in the neighborhood. Obviously nearly everyone attending is either a Hillbilly, a Hippie, or both, like me. Most of the prize winning beer is really good. Judging in two categories, light and dark. I hope there’s also a pig roast, they start the pig roasting the evening before the dinner is planned, and slow smoke that big boy all night long, and all day the next day.

  122. 122.

    opiejeanne

    @raven: Ha! Nice. Some kid in a tv show was named Topanga, IIRC. I didn’t grow up near there so I’d have to use a map to find it.

    My husband’s last place of employment was Torrance. They used Torrance HS in Buffy. I suspect there is a kid somewhere named Torrance.

  123. 123.

    bemused

    @trollhattan:

    I learned there are four species of Hummingbird Moth and in our area, NE MN we have the Hummingbird Hawk Moth. Very cool markings, it’s bottom half is striped and I got a good look at its’ proboscis which has a handy right angle, the better to get into the flower.

  127. 127.

    Amir Khalid

    Leicester City 2-3 Liverpool is a nail-biter. The home side came back from 0-2 and 1-3 down, courtesy of Liverpool’s poor defending, and would have equalised had Mignolet not saved Jamie Vardy’s penalty. Liverpool need another goal to come away safely with three badly-needed points.

    ETA: FIVE minutes stoppage time to survive.

  128. 128.

    debbie

    Well, Steph sure seems to have gotten under Trump’s skin. Glad his Saturday afternoon has been ruined.

  129. 129.

    debbie

    If a player wants the privilege of making millions of dollars in the NFL,or other leagues, he or she should not be allowed to disrespect….— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 23, 2017

    …our Great American Flag (or Country) and should stand for the National Anthem. If not, YOU'RE FIRED. Find something else to do!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 23, 2017

  131. 131.

    Amir Khalid

    Leicester City 2-3 Liverpool at the final whistle. Whew. But dammit, Klopp! Everyone said you should’ve bought some defenders!

  134. 134.

    opiejeanne

    @raven:I know where the mall is; we were still going to lunch there with his work buddies up until a couple of years ago.
    We live in Seattle, our cabin is above San Bernardino near Lake Arrowhead, so it’s a bit of a haul. These days we try to pick a place somewhere between Torrance and the cabin.

  135. 135.

    opiejeanne

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: It may be really interesting.
    I’m vacillating between watching the Angels get killed in Houston or watching the Seahawks game against the Titans. I’ll record them both but peek at the score of one while watching the other. Not sure which disaster I want to see first.

  136. 136.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Donald J. TrumpVerified account
    If a player wants the privilege of making millions of dollars in the NFL,or other leagues, he or she should not be allowed to disrespect….

    Josh Barro‏Verified account @ jbarro 21m21 minutes ago
    “Me.” The next word is “me.”

    Simon Maloy‏Verified account
    sometimes we don’t really appreciate how stupid the president is
    he’s a massively stupid person who can not form coherent thoughts because he doesn’t read books and melts what’s left of his brain with TV

  139. 139.

    Amir Khalid

    @opiejeanne:
    The all-time champion of unfortunate place names is still the Austrian village of Fucking. Incidentally, Wikipedia tells us that there’s also an Oberfucking (Upper Fucking) and an Unterfucking (Lower Fucking).

  140. 140.

    Fair Economist

    @dmsilev:

    Jessica Fletcher, the world’s most successful serial murderer. Her signature move was to pretend to investigate the crime and frame someone else for it.

    Well, the murderers frequently confess, so she’d have to be a mind-controlling paranormal as well. Her remarkably blase attitude about the murders surrounding her is certainly odd, though. Most people would be seriously creeped out after only a few weeks of murders following them around, but she’s still happily digging for book material after 10 years of a murder a week.

    It would be a hilarious parody to reboot the show with that as the (initially unrevealed) premise and have all the “murderers” get dragged off screaming “but I didn’t do it!” Then for the finale of the first season, reveal the protagonist was the real murderer all along. Alternatively reboot it with the premise she’s cursed by a demon or something. After the big success of “It” I’ll bet that could sell at a pitch meeting.

  143. 143.

    Felonius Monk

    The chubby little No. Korean guy has called Trump a Dotard. I guess that means that Trump is now our DOTUS ’cause he sure doesn’t behave like a POTUS.

  144. 144.

    Amir Khalid

    @Fair Economist:
    True story: as a kid, I once checked out The Murder of Roger Ackroyd from my school library. But I never got to read the ending. The book was a cheap and elderly paperback, and after reading the penultimate chapter I noticed that the very last chapter had long since fallen out.

  145. 145.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    @debbie:

    Ryan Danek‏ ryanthesaint
    #NFL owners who gave 1mil to Trump’s inauguration:Jerry Jones,Dan Snyder,Shahid Khan, Stan Kroenke,Robert McNair, Woody Johnson,Robert Kraft

    also, too

    John Harwood‏Verified account @ JohnJHarwood 22m22 minutes ago
    lots of white NFL stars have a chance to be Pee Wee Reese this weekend

  150. 150.

    rikyrah

    LeBron James to Dolt45 about Steph Curry:

    LeBron James
    ✔
    @KingJames

    U bum @StephenCurry30 already said he ain’t going! So therefore ain’t no invite. Going to White House was a great honor until you showed up!
    10:17 AM – Sep 23, 2017

  153. 153.

    rikyrah

    Ava to Dolt45

    Ava DuVernay‏Verified account @ava

    Ava DuVernay Retweeted Donald J. Trump

    Man, nobody with any sense or self-respect considers it an honor to be within a 10 mile radius of you. It is known.

  154. 154.

    Felonius Monk

    @Amir Khalid:

    “Dotard” is a more cutting insult than what’s in the original Korean

    I was aware that the interpreter/translator made a judgement call with Dotard — but it seems appropriate.

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    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Let’s give the interns something to do on Monday morning, fill up their voicemail

    Burgess Everett‏Verified account @ burgessev 15m15 minutes ago
    “Tweaks are being made” for Murkowski, per WH official. New Graham-Cassidy bill could drop this weekend

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    rikyrah

    Adam Bell‏Verified account @abell

    BREAKING: Now it’s the @UNC basketball championship team not visiting @realdonaldtrump White House

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    HeleninEire

    Yesterday would have been my mother’s 80th birthday. She died 43 yrs ago at the age of 37. I was 12. Damn time flies. This is not to be sad. Really, it was a long time ago. It is just astonishing.

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    rikyrah

    Christiana A Mbakwe‏ @Christiana1987

    Christiana A Mbakwe Retweeted Abby D. Phillip

    Trump used harsher language to describe Kaepernick than he used for the Neo-Nazi who killed Heather Heyer.

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    rikyrah

    Jemele Hill‏Verified account @jemelehill

    We have the best NBA player in the world calling 45 a “bum” & one of the best NFL RBs calling him an a-hole. What. A. Time.
    8:24 AM – 23 Sep 2017

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    rikyrah

    Clint Smith‏Verified account @ClintSmithIII

    Meanwhile Kaepernick has transparently donated nearly $1 million & Trump has lied about pretty much every donation he claims to have given.
    5:35 AM – 23 Sep 2017

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    rikyrah

    Judd Legum‏Verified account @JuddLegum

    People Trump has angrily attacked in the last few days:

    1. Jemele Hill

    2. Colin Kaepernick

    3. Steph Curry

    Notice a trend?
    6:19 AM – 23 Sep 2017

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    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    Adam Serwer ?‏Verified account @ AdamSerwer 33m33 minutes ago
    It’s telling that resentment towards wealth in sports is always directed at black athletes and not the vastly wealthier franchise owners.
    That’s because black athletes are seen as recipients of white benevolence, whereas rich white men by virtue of whiteness deserve their money
    The truth is the reverse: it is the athletes’ labor that makes the owners rich, not the other way around. Applies to many other things.
    But is is very clear in sports, where inherited wealth can rarely compensate for lack of talent or drive the way it can elsewhere.

    @rikyrah: who called him an asshole and where can I buy their jerseys?

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    rikyrah

    Ava DuVernay‏Verified account @ava

    Ava DuVernay Retweeted Peter Wood

    He’s not declaring war on NFL and NBA. Owners are his donors. He’s declaring way against black people with opinions.

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    Corner Stone

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    The truth is the reverse: it is the athletes’ labor that makes the owners rich, not the other way around.

    While “owners” get rich off labor is true in most cases, owners of professional sports teams mainly keep and increase their wealth through tax abatements and shifty record keeping. Somehow, all the NBA teams are still losing money each year but none of them are for sale…

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    trollhattan

    @Corner Stone:
    FWIW our NBA majority owner is Indian-American. Michael Jordan is Bobcats majority owner and I’ll speculate LeBron will eventually own a team. The other 28 teams….

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    J R in WV

    Local beach bar (no beach, just a beach bar) serves great crunchy fish tacos. They have local micro-brewery beer too!!

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