ABBE LOWELL FORWARDED A LETTER FROM THE SENATE TO THE EMAIL PRANKSTER, WHO SENT IT TO CNN https://t.co/S74AV1tf0H pic.twitter.com/SgaI9qML1q
— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) September 28, 2017
Or maybe it’s just that his lawyers have no faith in Young Jared’s veracity? Via CNN [warning – autoplay]:
In his closed interview with the staff of the Senate intelligence committee, White House senior adviser and presidential son-in-law Jared Kushner did not share the existence of his personal email account, which he has used for official business, CNN has learned.
CNN has also learned that the chair and vice chair of the committee were so unhappy that they learned about the existence of his personal email account via news reports that they wrote him a letter via his attorney Thursday instructing him to double-check that he has turned over every relevant document to the committee including those from his “‘personal email account’ described to the news media, as well as all other email accounts, messaging apps, or similar communications channels you may have used, or that may contain information relevant to our inquiry.”…
The emphasis in the letter on “all other” personal accounts not known by the committee would seem to be a reflection of the frustration the committee leaders feel with that fact that Kushner was not up-front about the existence of his personal email account and their desire for him to cover the bases of all his possible communications avenues when responding to their letter. This issue could become more serious if there emerge any emails or communications related to the investigation into Russian interference in the 2016 election that Kushner has not turned over, and whether he did so with the express purpose of concealing information from the committee…
Kushner has been criticized in the past for initially not disclosing more than 100 contacts with foreign leaders including those from Russia, as well as ownership of a multimillion dollar tech company with links to Goldman Sachs and businessmen Peter Thiel and George Soros. Kushner was also one of three top campaign officials or surrogates who failed to disclose a June 2016 meeting with a woman billed as being with the Russian government and having incriminating information on Hillary Clinton.
What can he say, he’s just a very private fella…
encephalopath
Wait… why would the email application auto-fill the the address of the prankster? Unless, of course, the lawyer had been communicating with the fake Kushner previously. No email application I’ve ever used puts people in your address book just because some spam showed in your inbox.
How much correspondence has the Kushner legal team had with UK Kushner impersonators?
TenguPhule
In any other administration, he’d be in jail by now.
But with this illegitimate regime, he’s still sucking taxpayer money.
Baud
I hope Mueller runs an undercover sting operation on Trump.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
Why?
A Ghost to Most
Jared had the role models he needed to become the, whatever he is, he is today.
A Ghost to Most
@TenguPhule: Seems the Russians got there first.
Baud
@TenguPhule: I’d like to see the video.
Felony Govt (formerly Old Broad in California)
I went to law school with Abbe Lowell. He was kind of an ass.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
Baud2020: In your Base, Spying on your Doods.
TenguPhule
@Felony Govt (formerly Old Broad in California): I take it that was his best point.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Doesn’t seem that’d be that hard with this crew.
SFAW
This is the first time I have ever written this in this — or any — blog, but:
I feel like buying some popcorn.
No, I don’t think this means the end of Lying Littledick’s Maladminstration — and I’d break out the bubbly for that anyway — but Kushner is just such a fucking moron, like his FIL, that I really can’t wait to see how he fucks up next.
I’m also hoping that Uday’s two-week “off the grid” trip to Canadia to go “moose hunting” turns out to be just what I (or perhaps we) think it is, meaning one or more meetings with Russkie граждане in the employ (direct or indirect) of Vladi Vladimirovich, Then I’d buy a shitload of p-corn, and invite you all over.
ETA Don’t tell Omnes that I wrote that, by the way. It’ll destroy my doomsayer cred in his eyes.
lollipopguild
@TenguPhule: Baud2020 all your basest people belong to me.
Anne Laurie
@encephalopath:
It was already known that Lowell had been in contact with the prankster pretending to be Kushner. (Lego porn? Really?)
Lowell either didn’t know enough, or just didn’t bother, taking the prankster’s email out of his ‘reply all’ autofill. So either he’s not the best lawyer for such a complicated situation… or he’s not wasting much time for a client he figures won’t pay him anyway, right?
Gin & Tonic
Is Jared really that stupid?
MisterForkbeard
@encephalopath: Outlook 365 and prior does this. If I receive a direct e-mail from someone (not to a distribution list) Outlook remembers their name.
This is one reason I kept getting email from an old boss to my personal e-mail account – I’d sent him an update on something while I was on vacation, and even though he never replied to it I still got mail from him sometimes.
Baud
Why is Google showing Glenn Greenwald in my news feed? What’s the point of sharing all my data with them? It’s like they don’t know me at all.
lollipopguild
@Gin & Tonic: Yes Katie.
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
You honestly need to ask?
Gin & Tonic
@debbie: It still surprises me from time to time.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I bet if I email them and said I had dirt on Elizabeth Warren, I could get a meeting.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Maybe they know you better than you do.
encephalopath
@MisterForkbeard:
Maybe I was just always turning that stuff off when I set up a new account for myself.
That really does seem like the easiest way to end up sending something to a place it shouldn’t go.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Or Hillary, they probably think she’s running again.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Maybe I’m a Bro
And didn’t know
It.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Or Chelsea!
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
The only surprise is who would win the Stupid Contest, Abbe Lowell or Ty Cobb. Though, there is a distant contender for that award.
Major Major Major Major
@SFAW: Popcorn is tasty and high in fiber!
@Gin & Tonic: See AL above you, this is his lawyer being the idiot.
SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet)
@Gin & Tonic:
:: whistles to self, drums fingers on table, while attempting to come up with a new and clever way to say “SATSQ” ::
Major Major Major Major
@SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet): If you come up with one, please share it with the blog. It is needed.
JGabriel
CNN via Anne Laurie @ Top:
Well of course they’re unhappy. Republicans spent the entire election weaponizing the use of private email accounts against Clinton, and now they’re staring down the barrel of gun, aimed at them, that they built and paid for.
TenguPhule
@Gin & Tonic:
We can only hope.
Felony Govt (formerly Old Broad in California)
@TenguPhule: Actually, his best point was his curly blond hair, but he is now bald.
TenguPhule
@JGabriel:
The Republicans will sell us the rope we hang them with.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
Or they know you too well.
MomSense
@SFAW:
I’ll bring the beer.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
What if Baud was one of us?
Just a slob like one of us?
Chyron HR
@debbie:
Well, Ty Cobb possesses the secrets of the Pelnish lore, so he has that going for him.
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major: But who is the real fool, the fool or the fool that hired him?
Miss Bianca
@SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet): Is there a longest nym award? I think you just snagged it.
A Ghost to Most
Clueless, or intentional?
geg6
This fucking guy. I can’t decide if he is really stupid enough to think he can get away with this shit. You’d think the son of a criminal might have learned a thing or two about how not to end up in prison.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Miss Bianca: I’ve seen some longer than that, I think.
Upgraded my Hackintosh to High Sierra, yeah me.
Major Major Major Major
@?BillinGlendaleCA: How is it? I asked about it at work and IT laughed.
Anne Laurie
@geg6:
From everything I’ve read, Jared — like his old man — doesn’t think Daddy did anything wrong, he just got punished by haterz & luzers for being too extremely awesome. If he (and, may it please Murphy the Trickster God, his wife’s father) end up in jail, that will just be more haterz & luzers at work.
A guy with this mindset (using the term ‘mind’ loosely) doesn’t learn from experience. Especially if — again, from reports — he is maybe not the most engaged intellect ever to have Daddy buy his way into HBS….
JGabriel
@Miss Bianca:
Maybe, but I suspect there is someone, out there somewhere, who probably typed in, as their nym on some site, the entire title of the Fiona Apple CD more commonly known as “When the pawn …“.
MomSense
@TenguPhule:
Just a jackal on this blog
Tryin’ to type on his phone
Kathleen
@Baud: Cue Harold Melvin and The Blue Notes:
If You Don’t Know Me By Now
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nbaSh8i5ey
ETA: Take THAT HeleninErie & Satby!!!!!
Humdog
@Major Major Major Major: doesn’t “duh” cover SATSQ with only 60% of the characters?
SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet)
Hey, who was it who was giving me a hard time last night because I called out Charlie Pierce for wrongly using “flaunt” when he should have used “flout”?
Happy to report that he quietly made the change. Don’t know whether he saw my comment here (he is known to lurk at BJ now and then), or a similar comment on his FB page, but I’m happy he’s paying attention.
Thanks, Charlie!!
:: waves ::
Kathleen
@Baud: OMG! Glenn Greenwald ads are gaslighting our Baud! Snap out of it! (Administers type of slap hard boiled detective employs in noire movie). We need you to be strong!!!
dmsilev
@A Ghost to Most:
Yes.
Redshift
@Gin & Tonic:
From everything I’ve read from people who’ve actually met him, yes. He has that Trump-Dunning-Kreuger thing of thinking he’s brilliant because no one around him is ever allowed to tell him he’s wrong, plus the belief that being rich will always allow him to get away with anything, because it always has.
Among the many lessons I hope get learned from this maladministration is that rich assholes should stay out of the federal government because it’s the one thing that can still fuck them up.
SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet)
@Miss Bianca:
Oh, I don’t think this comes close. I’ve seen nyms here that run to at least three lines, and are laden with emojis and other graphics. Mine is but a passing breeze.
MomSense
@Kathleen:
I’m totally singing the harmonies and doing the moves.
Roger Moore
@Baud:
It seems they recently massively increased the amount of random crap they’re putting in feeds. I used to get a small number of carefully tailored items in the feed on my phone. Now it’s full of whatever news items Google has decided I ought to be interested in. They’ve obviously been spying on me because they’re doing better than completely random, but their AI obviously needs a lot of work.
Major Major Major Major
@MomSense: On the Internet, nobody knows that you’re a jackal.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@TenguPhule:
Waitaminite…
ONE HUNDRED?
Why the f’ is he NOT in far, far, far more trouble, let alone still have a security clearance?
Simply astonishing…
Roger Moore
@SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet):
Have you tried sarcasm? I’ve heard Balloon-Juice now has a sarcasm font.
Kathleen
@MomSense: I’ve always wanted to be a Pip.
A Ghost to Most
@dmsilev: works for me.
These fucking people. If HRC did this, Price would be demanding prison time.
IOKIYAR
MomSense
@Major Major Major Major:
Just a stranger on the blog
Tryin’ to type on his phone
Roger Moore
@TenguPhule:
Do we have to choose?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major: Seems OK, not a whole lot different than Sierra.
Frankensteinbeck
@Thru the Looking Glass…:
Because the president is the final authority on security clearances.
Gin & Tonic
@Roger Moore: I believe it has always had a sarcasm font.
MomSense
@Kathleen:
I may have belted this song out a few times when no one else was in the house.
I don’t want to do wrong
Roger Moore
@Major Major Major Major:
Unless you post at Balloon-Juice. That kind of gives it away.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Roger Moore:
No.
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major: Or in your case, a sea monster. Probably.
Roger Moore
@Gin & Tonic:
You’re right. Now they’ve added a non-sarcasm font.
japa21
@SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet): Who called you out? I am sure he saw your comment and, redfaced, corrected his error.
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: I thought that was everybody.
TenguPhule
@Roger Moore:
Landshark!
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major: No, that’s DougJ.
Hal
Just when you thing you’ve seen the stupidest fucking think ever on social media:
Like, the fuck?! Conservatives are so horrific at analogy.
TenguPhule
@Hal:
Cue the Libertarians.
Kathleen
@MomSense: A friend of mine just saw her in Lawrenceburg, Indiana and said she was fantastic and looked gorgeous.
Major Major Major Major
@TenguPhule: DougJ is everybody?
Kathleen
@Hal: Sounds like a David Shrillrota tweet. They must use the same pissed off 6th grader to compose their tweets.
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major:
Were you not aware of it?
It is one of Balloon Juice’s oldest traditions.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet): I didn’t call you out, but I did reply that to err is human, to forgive, divine. Is that what you were thinking of?
Kathleen
@Major Major Major Major: We are all Doug J.
MomSense
@Kathleen: m
Those old school performers are amazing.
jl
@Baud:
” I hope Mueller runs an undercover sting operation on Trump. ”
That would be great, if Meuller gets the goods. Baud 2020! promised to stay away from ideas, but I’ll give a pass on this one.
WaterGirl
@Kathleen: Did you see the (I think it was) Saturday Night Live episode from decades ago, where they just had the Pips on, doing the background and no one at the mic up front who would have sung the lead? It was funny.
edit: without Gladys Knight.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Major Major Major Major: We are all part of the
BorgDougJ collective.SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet)
@WaterGirl:
Yup, that was it. Sorry, couldn’t remember who had commented on my little pedantic rant last night. And I meant nothing offensive or negative by the term “called out” — just remembered there was a brief exchange.
TenguPhule
It was Tuesday. It feels like forever.
Major Major Major Major
@Kathleen: I thought we were all Georgians.
@TenguPhule: He’s back on the fucking steam thing again?
Kathleen
@MomSense: I’ve seen Kool & The Gang, Huey Lewis & News, Doobie Brothers – and, yes, they all worked their asses off. Their energy and enthusiasm after years and years of performing the same songs were amazing. They’re glad they can still perform and draw crowds and it shows.
jl
@Roger Moore: They’ve decided I want to buy large food items over Amazon. Is it the huge brains at Google doing that?
Side of aged beef. Hundred pound wheel of cheese. Industrial size batches of high quality pastry cream (frozen, delivered overnight).
Are they trolling me on the difficult time I have controlling my weight, or do they think I will buy that stuff?
Edit: I am tempted. Especially the pastry cream. I think it is some half-way made stuff, you defrost it and whip it up. I am picky about pastry cream. But, if I don’t like it, what am I going to do with the rest of the ten or whatever gallon bucket of it?
Edit2: I only buy technical books online. And specialized software packages. Maybe they are desperate to find something, anything I will buy. Or punishing me for not buying. I dunno. Now I have endless silly internet clickbait come-ons. Is that Google ad placement too?
Boatboy_srq
@Redshift: Assumes Lord Dampnut and his cronies will leave a government effective for such a task.
SFAW
@MomSense:
I like the cut of your jib, kid.
Kathleen
@WaterGirl: No, I did not. But remember David Gregory’s back up dancing to Karl Rove’s “rap” at on the of DC Correspondent dinners? I used to say Gregory was one of Karl Rove’s “Pimps”. Some blogger – might be Pierce – still refers to Gregory as “Dancin’ Dave” to this day.
Kathleen
@Major Major Major Major: Keeping with the Gladys Knight theme (h/t Mom Sense), we are all Doug J on the Midnight Train to Georgia.
Doug R
@SFAW: They know Canada is one of the five eyes, right?
Probably surveilling any Russian assets?
Major Major Major Major
@jl: If I were Amazon, I’d for sure have my model occasionally give people left-field suggestions like that.
jl
@Major Major Major Major: They are always watching you So, look forward to the 100 pound wheel of gourmet, aged, Gouda. Only about a thousand dollars. Cheap.
SFAW
@JGabriel:
Hoagy Carmichael is rolling over in his grave.
[Since it’s a pretty obscure reference, Google “I’m a Cranky Old Yank”]
Tenar Arha
@TenguPhule: Did you see the LGM post on the inability of in air refueling for the replacements for Air Force One. *headdesk*
Quinerly
@Anne Laurie:
I didn’t understand Lowell taking this case in the first place. I’m sure we all remember him as Chief Minority Counsel to the Dems during Bill’s impeachment, plus years ago Lowell ran for office in Maryland as a Dem. Tonight, I finally checked his Wiki page to try to game out the puzzle in my mind. Recently, he’s represented Charles Keating, Jack Abramoff, and John Edwards. Enough said.
SFAW
@jl:
Unpossible.
What’s next, “gourmet Velveeta”?
Major Major Major Major
@jl: I have top-of-the-line anti-tracking stuff on this particular browser, so they might not know about your wheel of cheese experience, but of course it’s their job to beat those services too.
Gin & Tonic
@TenguPhule: If Il Donaldo has driven a car himself in the last decade, I’l buy this whole thread a round.
SFAW
@Doug R:
One can only hope.
dmsilev
@jl: Years ago, I bought some random thing from Amazon and was told that people who had bought that had also bought ‘Clean underwear from The Gap’. So many questions. For instance, does this mean The Gap also sells dirty underwear?
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major:
Sadly, yes.
SFAW
@Gin & Tonic:
Careful what you wish for.
TenguPhule
@Tenar Arha:
Can’t do LGM since they decided to change displays. I’m guessing its bad though.
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet):
I didn’t see anybody call you out, but I was silently cheering you. I saw Pierce’s column and thought about leaving a comment over there, but I couldn’t summon the energy. He also had one other semi-howler in that column that I can’t remember now.
Oh, I know. It was in his big finish. He said something like “If you voted for Trump [or something something] you deserve anything that goddamn happens to you.” That just jangles incredibly. It should be “You deserve any goddamn thing that happens to you.” That scans.
Boatboy_srq
@Anne Laurie: Sounds like the typical middle-aged-or-older, technodysfunctional attorney to me. Enamoured of the gadgetry, but too inattentive to use it properly or recogmize that it won’t work with the rest of his office equipment.
Gin & Tonic
@SFAW: a) that’s not a car; b) he’s not driving it.
TenguPhule
Via CNN:
Golly Gee, someone has a bee up her bonnet.
SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet)
@Steeplejack:
I noticed that, slightly, and it made me itch, slightly, but the flout/flaunt thing sent me right round the curve and I didn’t bother with lesser offences. In a perfect world, of course….
JMG
Lowell defends the people in the most trouble because they are the people who pay defense attorneys the most money. It’s just business. He wasn’t gonna become a public defender in Baltimore or anything like that. Since he’s not a chump, and isn’t really worried about collecting on his bill, I think this “mistake” was because Kushner has been lying to him, Lowell knows it, and took this means of showing how that could lead to Allenwood, Danbury or Lewisburg.
SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet)
@Steeplejack:
I own, and often wear, a tee-shirt with the slogan “I AM SILENTLY CORRECTING YOUR GRAMMAR” on the front. Every now and then I wear it when I’m working at the library. The librarians all love it.
Major Major Major Major
@Anne Laurie: maybe J-Kush really is into lego porn.
John Revolta
@SFAW: I’m gonna do this from memory:
I’m a cranky old Yank in a clanky old tank
On the streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu mama
Doin’ those beat-o, beat-o, dead on my feet-o
Hirohito blues
I haven’t heard that in maybe 30 years. Now how come I can’t remember somebody’s name five goddamn minutes after I meet them?
lollipopguild
@SFAW: I believe Kroger sells gourmet Velvetta. “Specially enhanced Velvetta to make your Velvetta experience just that more special!” You do not like velvetta? Commie!
Fair Economist
@TenguPhule:
What will they do? Block US mass media in Russia? If we stop Russian agents from broadcasting in the US, they’ll stop Russian agent manipulated media from broadcasting in Russia?
Don’t throw me in that briar patch!
John Revolta
@WaterGirl: I remember that- it was hilarious! They did all the steps and shit……………”Too much for the man……………..Woo woooo!”
I think it was on the great but short lived Richard Pryor Show.
SFAW
@John Revolta:
Nice job!
One minor (possible) correction: I believe it’s “beat-o, beat-o, flat-on-my-seat-o” — but I’ll step out for a moment to check
.
.
yeah, my version is the right one. But you still get a prize. Maybe Gin & Tonic will but you a round?
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne (blah blah blah change it already):
I’m living it every day.
Roger Moore
@Hal:
It’s not so much that they’re bad at analogies as it is that they’re trying to justify awful positions. When there are no good arguments in favor of your position, you’re stuck pushing bad arguments.
SFAW
@lollipopguild:
Now you’re just fuckin’ with me.
SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet)
@Steeplejack:
Not so “SILENTLY,” though, amirite?
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet):
I had a good T-shirt in my IT consulting days:
I read your e-mail.
Informative or ominous, depending on tense.
SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet)
@Steeplejack:
My nymism proceeds at its own pace.
John Revolta
@Fair Economist:
You mean, what will they do that’s worse than what they pulled last November?
For God’s sake, don’t let’s try and find out!!
SFAW
@SiubhanDuinne (apparently trying to make a clean break from being a Mob Enforcer):
Well, except for the ones who pronounce it “Lie-berry.”
John Revolta
@SFAW: Close enough for jazz!
Steeplejack (phone)
@SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet):
Four full lines on my cell phone display. Four lines.
Corner Stone
Someone needs to put a gun to Mattie Duppler’s head and ask her again about this tax plan.
SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet)
@lollipopguild:
“Velvetta” reminds me of a lovely short-story mystery series from 40 or so years ago, about a specialty detective named Nick Velvet. His real surname was Velvetta, but he shortened it because he didn’t want to be thought of as a cheese-like product. Edward D. Hoch was the author, and the stories always dealt with the theft of intrinsically worthless things. No diamonds, or valuable papers, or high-priced cars or furs — just things like one or two letters off a sign in front of an abandoned building, or a week-old newspaper, or something equally innocuous. Velvet always had to figure out why the client would pay his high fee for stealing something of no value. Clever plotting.
ETA: Pretty sure I first read most of them in Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine, although they may have been anthologised in paperback at some point. Not even sure EQMM is still publishing.
Corner Stone
Call me crazy but I do not want a WH Cabinet HHS Sec who can afford to write a million dollar check to reimburse travel costs. I know lots of them are wealthy, on both sides, but they can’t possibly know what real life is like if that’s just a check they can toss off.
SFAW
@Corner Stone:
I thought he said he’d reimburse for the seat cost, not the cost of the charter flight itself?
SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet)
@Steeplejack (phone):
You break my heart. Talk to Mumphrey, or the Canadian Anchor Baby.
SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet)
@SFAW:
Some do, but only in Febuary. Which usually occurs during nucular winter.
Corner Stone
@SFAW: I don’t actually believe anything he says so I guess we’ll see.
dmsilev
@Steeplejack (phone): Would a bigger phone help?
Roger Moore
@SFAW:
You need to try to genuine aged Dutch Gouda. It’s one of the world’s great hard cheeses. And, FWIW, you can make something very like Velveeta, at least in terms of its melting characteristics, from just about any cheese, so you could make a gourmet “Velveeta”.
rikyrah
I will say this – don’t come for Jane Fonda if she hasn’t sent for you
………………………………………………………
Jane Fonda’s Death Stare to Megyn Kelly Soothed My Soul
Y’all. Y’ALL. In these times of dumpster fire, joy must come wherever we can find it and I have found glee today!
Megyn Kelly, white privilege Barbie, has a new morning show on NBC.
Those fools over there chose her over Tamron Hall, so you know I already wasn’t wishing the show well. Add to the fact that Megyn ain’t got the good sense God gave a goat and what you have is a “get busy, karma” holiday party.
Jane Fonda got a new movie she’s starring with Robert Redford, called Our Souls at Night so she decided to grace Megyn with her presence.
Sometimes, you gotta do lessers massive favors like this.
Elizabelle
@Corner Stone: Listening to NPR at rush hour: Price is paying for his seat.
His seat. Period. They made it clear he’s leaving most of the charter charges to the taxpayers.
Fucker. Although: has that changed? I may not have kept up.
TenguPhule
@Corner Stone: It was $52,000 and change. Cheap ass fucker will not pay for anything but his own personal seat.
rikyrah
NowThisVerified account @nowthisnews
Rep. Maxine Waters on Jeff Sessions is a must watch.
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/913530259676438528
TenguPhule
@Elizabelle: It hasn’t changed.
frosty fred
@Kathleen: Irresistibly reminded of this Nicki Giovanni poem, which I remember her reading in Frederick MD, more years ago than seems likely.
rikyrah
Kenneth P. VogelVerified account @kenvogel
You know who’s loving Mitch McConnell’s mounting losses? Former @SenatorReid staffers. One, @AJentleson, wrote this:
https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/913481277151547392
Corner Stone
I wish someone would strangle the “Bada Book Bada Boom” guy on live TV.
Kathleen
@John Revolta: Same here. I remember lyrics to Lestoil commercial from 1959 and forget if I took my morning medication.
Kathleen
@John Revolta: Now I vaguely remember that. I will have to google it.
Elizabelle
@TenguPhule: the fucker speaks:
My seat. Not the pilots, not the lav, not the wings or the engine or the other seats on the chartered jet.
The Times does not specify, but I would guess Price’s seat is in the vicinity of $2,500/flight, if that, which is not 10% of the total charge. Anyone else seen how much these flights cost? Recall: one of them was 130 miles. Asshole could have been driven there, in an SUV, sipping champagne and noshing on caviar in the backseat. For way less. No pilots. No avgas.
Corner Stone
@rikyrah: Would have read better if he had titled it Sooper Geeenieus.
Elizabelle
@Corner Stone: I hit mute as soon as he’s on. It’s the most irritating commercial out there. I bet it gets people to change the channel or turn the set off.
Memorable, but awful.
TenguPhule
@Elizabelle: Last estimate was $420,000 (And those are just the flights we know of from FOIA requests).
He’s offering $52,000.
Let that sink in for a moment.
Kathleen
@SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet): That sounds like an extended Bob and Ray sketch.
rikyrah
What the elimination of the Estate Tax would mean for Dolt45 and others
https://twitter.com/SethAbramson/status/913515458057383943
rikyrah
Democrats just keep winning Republican seats they shouldn’t be winning
CNN
By Chris Cillizza, CNN Editor-at-large
Updated 12:13 PM ET, Thu September 28, 2017
Roy Moore’s victory in Alabama dominated the news on Wednesday. But, it was two far less high-profile races on Tuesday night — one in Florida, one in New Hampshire — that may well give us the best indication of where we are headed in the 2018 midterm elections.
In Florida, Democrat Annette Tadeo won a Republican-held state Senate district 51% to 47%. In New Hampshire, Democrat Kari Lerner beat a former Republican state representative to fill a state House district that Donald Trump won by 23 points last November.
Those twin wins make it eight Republican-controlled state legislative seats that Democrats have flipped in 2017 alone. (Republicans flipped a Democratic state House seat in Louisiana earlier this year although Democrats didn’t even field a candidate in that race.)
That means that of the 27 Republican-held state legislative seats that have come open in 2017 to date, Democrats have now flipped almost 30% of them — a remarkable number in any circumstance but especially so when you consider the average Trump margin in these seats in 2016 was 19 points.
Steeplejack
@dmsilev:
Why, I oughta . . .
SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet)
@dmsilev:
Or rotating 90° to landscape mode?
frosty
@Baud: Tom Lehrer reference?
rikyrah
Noam Scheiber @noamscheiber
Morning: Supreme Crt agrees to hear case that wld cripple public unions
Lunchtime: Gorsuch talks to group funded by same ppl funding case
Teddys Person
@rikyrah: I can’t even with these Rethugs. They all have more money than they know what to do with but still want more. Here’s a palate cleanser about a lovely young man who just came into some money.
Kathleen
@frosty fred: Oh, that poem is perfect. She grew up in Cincinnati.
Elizabelle
@TenguPhule:
Yup.
TPM:
FTF NYTimes: and note: there’s another $500,000 in jets for Europe jaunts:
But there’s more: jets cost is up to a million:
Even odds Trump fires Price’s ass, and some will praise Trump’s “ethics” and concern for taxpayer money. (Although, maybe not. The Secret Service has already exhausted its budget; Trump family is profligate… everyone who’s not a Fox jackass knows this.)
Unless — what might Price have on Trump and admin?
SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet)
@Kathleen:
Wally Ballou! International House of Toast!
Kathleen
@Corner Stone: Take a number.
burnspbesq
Re Lowell’s email: lots of good lawyers are dunderheads when it comes to technology, and the IT folks at law firms more often than not don’t have the clout to protect the lawyers from their own folly. Which is why there are poorly-attended programs on the ethical duty of technical compliance at lots of conferences these days. I probably have the slides from said presentation at the ABA Tax Section meeting two weeks ago, but if you’re guessing that I haven’t looked at them yet, you get a cookie.
TenguPhule
@rikyrah:
Dinner: Gorsuch found dead in a dark alley, believed to have committed suicide by stabbing himself in the back. Repeatedly.
TS
@TenguPhule:
Politico just added a couple of overseas flights – those major cities with no commercial airline flights
“Accompanied by his wife, the HHS secretary journeyed to Geneva, Berlin, Beijing, Tokyo and other cities for events.”
Price’s wife, Betty, accompanied him on the military flights, while other members of the secretary’s delegation flew commercially to Europe.
HHS spokeswoman Charmaine Yoest said Price has reimbursed the agency for the cost of his wife’s travel abroad, but declined to say when he did so.
Tom Price used military jets
They just hate government waste, government employees and those they are meant to serve – but they love living the high life on the government tab
burnspbesq
@rikyrah:
So much for giving a shit about the appearance of impropriety.
TenguPhule
@TS: At this point I’ve lost count of the number of Scandalgates we’re on now.
Kathleen
@SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet): @SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet): I saw the nym “‘ly Ballou” on a thread the other night and lifted my mouse in a silent toast.
Also, too, “Ladies Grab Your Seats” with the closing line, “Damn the pop up toaster”.
Steeplejack
@TenguPhule:
Yeah, ’cause that plane was definitely flying to his kid’s house in Nashville anyway.
TenguPhule
Via Wapo.
He’s doubling down.
Tenar Arha
@TenguPhule: I’m going to block quote a paragraph or two below for you.
germy
@rikyrah: Interesting and brutal article you linked to:
Steeplejack
@Corner Stone:
Deep breaths, focus on that Aussie babe in the Trivago ads.
Tenar Arha
@rikyrah: It’s been gif’d already ?????
Amir Khalid
@jl:
Sounds like they think you run a restaurant.
Steeplejack (phone)
@SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet):
Great, then my display is 12-13 lines deep, and your nym still takes 2½ of them. Problem solved!
Villago Delenda Est
This motherfucker needs to go to jail, forever.
efgoldman
@Elizabelle:
Rich assholes only get to stay that way by not spending a dime of their own money.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Corner Stone:
I’m making a place for her on my punchable-faces list. (I’m behind on the DVR; just got to 8:12.)
Major Major Major Major
@Tenar Arha: I am completely fine with Trump’s AF1 not having in air refueling ability.
Elizabelle
@efgoldman: Yes.
I think Price goes down.
In happier news, how is the granddaughter time going?
Steeplejack (phone)
@Steeplejack (phone):
Jeez, might have to upgrade her to tumbrel manifest. Wotta tool.
Matt McIrvin
@JGabriel:
But wait… I NOT OKIYAR?
Shana
@jl: And all you have to do is find 99 friends who like gouda!
chris
A million bucks on chartered jets? Chump change!
Community health centres, on the other hand, cost a lot.
https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/2017/09/28/congress-must-act-weekend-9-millimmunity-health-center-funding-runs-out-weekend-if-congress-fails-ac/710310001/
A rusty chain saw is too kind. I’d prefer something lingering, like boiling in oil.
ThresherK
@SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet): Ah, Nick Velvet! I remember his caper of stealing air. Out of lottery ping-pong balls.
I went thru all the Ellery Queen novels and many of the mags, and still miss the show starring Jim Hutton and David Wayne.
MomSense
@Corner Stone:
The trump courtesans are exactly the kind of assholes that make me dream of guillotines.
efgoldman
@Elizabelle:
As expected, she is a delight, but her parents will pay when they get home over the weekend.
Today we went and met the cows at a local dairy farm (G&T and pa know it – Wright’s) and just had to go in their on-site bakery….
Right now she’s badly over tired. Mommy and Daddy aren’t here (she’s showing him where she went to school in Western MA) and she’s not used to them not being here when she is. So she’s bounced from our bed to hers to theirs’….
Shana
@Steeplejack: I’m fond of the guy in the Trivago ads. Very nice to look at.
Matt McIrvin
@SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet): Didn’t some foreign potentate recently give us the gift of a Komodo dragon?
ThresherK
@efgoldman: Wright’s Dairy Farm? Our regular holiday visits to folks near ye olde 146 always has a few pies from Wright’s.
Elizabelle
@efgoldman: Sweet. Maybe little one will sleep in more tomorrow, and you can catch up with her parents over coffee. Moar adventures await.
Gravenstone
@rikyrah: Even better, he gave that talk at a Trump property. Nothing like a little tip o’ the cap to the guy who gave you your lifetime sinecure.
Gin & Tonic
@efgoldman: You went to Wright’s and didn’t bring me back anything? Now I’m pissed.
Elizabelle
Watching the end of Burns’ Vietnam series. So very sad.
Amazed anyone from the invaded population ever helps us, given our history.
We have not done well by our Iraqi translators. South Vietnamese could have warned them about that.
Elizabelle
@Gin & Tonic: I don’t know Wrights, but I remember the Newport Creamery from many years back. I heart Rhode Island.
raven
@Elizabelle: Read “Decent Interval” by Frank Snepp
Elizabelle
@raven: Thank you. Will look it up.
Thinking of you as I watch this. Have missed about half of the series; will catch up later.
efgoldman
@ThresherK:
It is, unfortunately , much, much too close to home.
OTOH, Crugnale’s, an excellent Italian bakery, is literally right next door to my PT place in the same strip.
efgoldman
@Gin & Tonic:
I only drive a Toyota; they wouldn’t let me into Scituate.
SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet)
@Matt McIrvin:
You mean the Komodo dragon, the world’s largest living lizard, a ferocious carnivore, found on the steep-sloped island of Komodo in the lesser Sunda chain of the Indonesian Archipelago and the nearby islands of Rinja, Padar, and Flores? That one?
Another Scott
@SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet): ICWYDT.
Hehe.
Cheers,
Scott.
Gin & Tonic
@raven: Bought that the week it came out.
To Elizabelle: PDF of that book is freely downloadable. Since Snepp himself cannot make any money from it (see 444 U.S. 507), you’re not cheating anyone by downloading it.
SiubhanDuinne (at some point in the indeterminate future to be known by my real name, Judith Mann Costello, but maybe not quite yet)
@ThresherK:
Wow! Can’t believe anyone even remembers the Nick Velvet stories! Not great literature by a long shot, but fun and clever diversions. (I feel the same way about Hugh Pentecost’s “Pierre Chambrun” short stories. Loved them, and must re-read one of these days.)
My mother subscribed to EQMM as far back as I can remember. And I kept the renewals going for years after she died.
Yes, I loved the TV series, too.
p.a.
@efgoldman:
heh. I don’t know where you live in C-land, but I’m betting it ain’t Valley Falls.
Tenar Arha
This just made me squee for this bouquet of 3 adorable kittens with a happy ending in Miami.
Tenar Arha
@Major Major Major Major: Hopefully it actually won’t be Trump’s (impeachment, resignation, or loses election in 2020 would do ?).
ETA I forgot the most important part, the wink to indicate I’m trying to be funny).
Elizabelle
I think Price will be fired or will quit, within 7 days time. Maybe sooner. Maybe tomorrow. This is outrageous, and has embarrassed the administration by its nakedness.
What do you guys think?
Corner Stone
@Elizabelle: I think I want him jailed, to include actual prison time.
He may resign but Trump can’t fire him. If he does, then what about Pruitt? What about Trump, himself?
Regnad Kcin
@efgoldman: irish riviera, you need yourself a tuna boat
J R in WV
@Gin & Tonic:
+ c) he can’t drive that, no F’n way!!!
J R in WV
@SFAW:
You ever hear of those famous Philly (PA) cheesesteak hoagies or whatever they call them? Molten velveeta cheeze whiz… unless you specifically ask for provolone, or some other real cheese they might have in Philly.
Terrible with cheezewhiz. Terrible!
SFAW
@J R in WV:
I was (un)fortunate enough to go to either Pat’s or Geno’s some years ago. I had never had a Philly cheese steak before then. Nor have I had one since then. Because ….
when I was in college, we used to get our subs from The Hawk Shops, just down the street. Although filling, their subs were pretty greasy, and we used to joke that the Hawk Bomb was given that name because of what it did to your stomach. But I would take one of The Hawk Shops’ greasiest cheese steak 15 times out of 10 over that crime-against-humanity they serve in Philadelphia.
The Philly cheese steak is like the Shitgibbon of the small-eatery world. “This is the BEST sandwich in the Universe, and I have the BEST (sort-of) cheese!”
ETA: In case it wasn’t obvious: yes, I have choked down a Philly cheese steak.
SFAW
@Gin & Tonic:
Oh, so all of a sudden you care about truth, accuracy, and reality? Friggin’ Lie-beral.
J R in WV
@Tenar Arha:
Another thing Air Force One requires that the average airliner doesn’t – twice the electrical wiring, all hardened against EMP from a nuclear attack.
Feebog
@Corner Stone:
“What about Trump himself?”
You are kidding, right?
J R in WV
We have a small franchise called Steak Escape, 6″, 9″ foot long. Steak, Chicken, Ham or Turkey, peppers, onions and mushrooms with the meat of the grill while you watch. Provolone. Great fries.
Malt vinegar, cajun sauce, I’m there every week or two, they know us. I usually get a large fry and a size larger sandwich just because I’m a regular and talk to them.
That’s a real cheese steak. Wonderful.
Anne Laurie
@Major Major Major Major:
I wouldn’t say this except on a dead thread, but I would not be surprised if Kushner downloaded actual crush porn. Possibly without understanding what the term meant!