Here’s a photo submitted by valued commenter LAO:
I like the idea as a novelty gift but not for practical use. If I ran out of toilet paper and exhausted all other suitable household paper products, I’d consider shredding magazines before I’d resort to allowing an image of…that…near my bum.
It’s a gorgeous day here on the west central coast of Florida — mid-seventies and cloudless blue skies. The weather has put my lazy old dogs in high spirits; they want a walk every hour or so.
This weekend, we’ll wander around the marshes in search of migratory birds, watch sportsball and probably cook out. What are you up to?
rikyrah
Funny picture. But, no, I could not have that in my house.
Villago Delenda Est
I’d prefer the head by itself in a wicker basket.
Mike in Pasadena
Wiping poop on Trump would provide a measure of pleasure. . . .
dr. luba
That paper might be nice to have at a party, especially if Trumpist relatives might be attending……..
Breast cancer conference on saturday, and a Halloween party. It’s going to be cold–need ot find a costume I can wear outdoors in Michigan in almost November, for the hanging out in the haunted woods and around a fire part of the evening. May have to go with Yooper again……
rikyrah
anyone gonna front page the speech that Attorney General White Citizens Council did before the Heritage Foundation?
rikyrah
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 10/26/17
Trump administration doing a bad job turning word into deed
Rachel Maddow points out an emerging pattern in the Donald Trump administration in which the declarations Trump makes are not supported by the work to get those thing done, most egregiously in the case of the Russia sanctions he signed into law but never bothered to implement.
Betty Cracker
@rikyrah: It’ll have to be someone other than me. For my own mental health, I am on a temporary news blackout. I just can’t right now. I really and truly can’t.
rikyrah
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 10/26/17
Refugee office pressing anti-abortion agenda on minors in custody
Brigitte Amiri, attorney for a girl who fought the Office of Refugee Resettlement to exercise her right to an abortion, and won, talks with Rachel Maddow about how the office under Scott Lloyd is actively trying to deprive vulnerable girls of their reproductive rights.
rikyrah
THE RACHEL MADDOW SHOW 10/26/17
Grassley staffer ran private investigation into Clinton e-mail
Rachel Maddow looks at the Trump Russia investigations seeks details into a Trump supporter’s efforts to recruit hackers to find Hillary Clinton’s e-mails, and reporting that Barbara Ledeen, a staffer for Senate Judiciary Chairman Chuck Grassley, was engaged in a similar pursuit.
rikyrah
Republican tactics put children’s health program in jeopardy
10/27/17 08:00 AM—UPDATED 10/27/17 08:05 AM
By Steve Benen
Congress had a deadline of Oct. 1. That was the day current funding for the Children’s Health Insurance Program (CHIP), which has traditionally enjoyed bipartisan support, expired.
Health care advocates initially hoped lawmakers would act soon after, and the missed deadline would be inconsequential, but nearly four weeks later, there is no solution.
Why not? Vox’s Dylan Scott explained:
In other words, House Republicans effectively said, “We’ll make sure those 9 million children are covered, but Democrats have to agree to pay for it by undermining the Affordable Care Act.”
When it’s $1.5 trillion in tax cuts, Republicans aren’t especially concerned with figuring out how to pay for their priority. When it’s $8 billion in health care funding for kids, it’s a very different story.
Schlemazel
Flying into Las Vegas tonight, driving to LA Saturday with a pass through the Mojave Desert. Spend a few days with family in LA then on to the San Bernardino National Forest and Joshua Tree Park on the way to spend a couple days in Phoenix with family. Absolutely the right time to do this, It is snowing here today & the forcast is for rain or snow for most of the next 2 weeks – UGH.
Gravenstone
Pretty much my exact feelings. Maybe it’s better suited as tinder for a fire.
Mnemosyne
I woke up with a (mild) migraine and my sprained knee still hurts, but I’m at my writing conference anyway. ?
Mike in Pasadena
Why all the hubbub about JFK papers? Everybody knows Killary did it right after she murdered Vince Foster and all the employees in the WH travel office.
Mnemosyne
@Schlemazel:
I’m at my conference and wouldn’t be able to get to an LA meet-up, but tell Bill, Ruckus, etc to go ahead without me if they want to have one.
Schlemazel
It seems to me having Dumps face on the paper is redundant. There is already shit on the paper before you even start wiping.
geg6
Nothing really on my weekend agenda other than the usual cleaning and wash. Oh, and a hair appointment tomorrow, which means I’ll stop by my sister’s for some Sister Saturday visiting.
My main plan for the weekend is to make some comfort food, with enough leftovers to take us well into next week before having to do anything for dinner other than heat food up. I’m super busy next week at work and, no doubt, really won’t feel like cooking. John is making sweet Italian sausage stuffed banana peppers in marinara tonight. Tomorrow, I’m making a braised kielbasa, red cabbage and butternut squash dish. And Sunday, I plan on making a big batch of chili. Fall has finally come to Western PA, so it’s time for fall comfort food. Also plan to get caught up on Outlander and Project Runway.
@Betty Cracker:
I feel exactly the same way. Unless something major drops tonight, I am boycotting news today and probably for the whole weekend. I just can’t deal with it right now. I need a mental health break.
Schlemazel
@Mnemosyne:
I have not heard anything & will be online even less than I have been the last few weeks. If they do I will be sure to let them know
Humboldtblue
Welp, Kamala Harris can kiss her political career goodbye. Look at her, trying to get ineligible voters to cast ballots!
Plus, she has no charisma, smarts, whip-smart intellect and a genuine warmth that tends to remind you of another prominent successful charismatic, whip-smart and intellectual leader.
She’s got no future. None at all.
eclare
Sportsball, errands, household chores. All of a sudden about half of my lightbulbs decided that they had had enough, and I have twelve foot ceilings. Not looking forward to that.
Chris
Yeah, I find that seriously objectionable too. I’m slightly more fond of the idea of putting his picture on a urinal, so it never comes into contact with you. But even then, it’d just be creepy. I don’t want Donald Trump looking at me when I’m taking a piss.
Gin & Tonic
After three days of rain here, tomorrow is supposed to be gorgeous. I’m really hoping to take the bicycle out for a spin. Last weekend I tested my hand position(s) and found I can hold the bars in every normal position without discomfort. The test now will be how it handles road vibration and fatigue. My physical therapist has sort of reluctantly agreed to this plan (well, she didn’t forbid it, which is almost the same.)
eclare
@geg6: It’s been an interesting season for Project Runway, don’t worry, no spoilers from me!
BC in Illinois
Continuing on the asswipe theme.
This morning, at the bottom of the Balloon Juice page on my hand-held device, there appeared the following ad, complete with picture and chance to register my support
I’m in favor of it. Part of my “Let’s you and him fight” approach to the GOP.
eric
@rikyrah: here is the speech
Humboldtblue
@Betty Cracker:
I shut it down from March through about mid-July. I had gone to visit my dad and the TV was on all the time (I don’t have a cable subscription and am entirely web-based) and I was yelling at the television as my anger continued to rise.
I have a long list of news/politics/military bookmarks and I simply avoided them. I learned a hell of a lot about the history of Liverpool Football Club and the history of English football (read Does Your Rabbi Know You’re Here, fascinating study on sociology and sport), watched an entire freshman lecture series from Yale on the Revolutionary war (it was fascinating) and generally stayed away from anything that mentioned Trump or the news. It made for a wonderful summer considering the weather was extraordinarily lovely for the North Woods but I was inexorably drawn back in because I hate myself.
hedgehog the occasional commenter
Local Denver science fiction convention (MileHiCon) this weekend. Our merry band of crazies usually starts by taking over the hotel bar and playing Cards against Humanity most of Friday night. Looking forward to a Dolt-45 free weekend. May watch the Cyclones play TCU if there’s no interesting programming at gametime.
rikyrah
@geg6:
Sounds like good Fall food :)
Sloane Ranger
Nothing as exciting as some commentators planned this weekend. I am doing an online course with Futurelearn on the History of Hadrian’s Wall and hope to finish this week’s work tomorrow. Sunday my U3A Sunday Lunch Club will be dining at the Royal Oak in Walgrave.
Pengie
@Chris: Yeah, that costs extra!
hedgehog the occasional commenter
@Sloane Ranger: Oooo…I love Futurelearn. I took courses on Tudor cooking and the Wars of the Roses. May need to go back and look at their course catalog.
The Moar You Know
$6.95 for Donald Trump? Too much money.
NotMax
@Sloane Ranger
Number of Mexicans who crossed the border once Hadrian’s Wall was completed: 0.
:)
JPL
@The Moar You Know: I’d be tempted to light it on fire. There’s no way I’d want a picture of the traitor in my house.
Old Dan and Little Anne
My wife got me that TP as a gag gift sometime before the election. You know, back when things made a bit of sense. Now it sits inside our downstairs vanity mirror alongside a set of scary teeth. Visitors never inquire about either. Liars! Maybe this is the weekend drumph has his stroke.
Laura
We will be boiling the house and decorating for next Fridays Dia de los Muertos shindig. It’s a good time for eating, drinking, dancing and remembrance -and the Ofrenda gets more crowded every year as the collectives’ losses increase.
Sugar skulls will be decorated on Sunday and it will be nice to have papel picado hanging from the ceilings all week.
Several years ago, the cops showed up due to a noise complaint. The officers did a walk around and found that we were all their parent or grandparents age and after recognizing the DJ they instructed us to party on.
LurkerNoLonger
@rikyrah:
What exactly are these people trying to find? It’s like the search for the lost city of Atlantis. There’s nothing there! Give it up!
Humboldtblue
Maybe we should start a parade of our won like the good folks from Brno, Czech Republic.
Patricia Kayden
@rikyrah: That’s me. I wouldn’t want it anywhere near me. Would bring he wrong spirit into my living space and block all of my blessings. Lol.
lollipopguild
@Humboldtblue: Hope all the women politicians in the Democratic party understand what will be thrown at them if they run for President. I hope some of them run but they should do so with a very clear idea of what they will face.
Jeffro
I’m trying to think – if I make that my desktop picture on a state computer, is that a violation of the acceptable use policy? Or does it constitute a HIGHLY acceptable use, in Orangemandias’ case?
debbie
@Mike in Pasadena:
I don’t have a dog, but I’d buy doogie poop bags with his face on it, just for the fun of it.
rikyrah
‘Grassroots’?
Have I ever heard of Tri-Delt or Kappa Alpha Theta being described as a ‘ grassroots’ organization?
Uh huh
Uh huh
Don’t think so.
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Sorority sisters rally around Frederica Wilson in feud with Trump
OCTOBER 26, 2017 5:38 PM
WASHINGTON – President Donald Trump has earned the ire of yet another black grassroots group thanks to his rhetorical attacks on Rep. Frederica Wilson, one of an historic black sorority’s most prominent members.
Alpha Kappa Alpha, the nation’s oldest Greek-lettered sorority founded by black college women, recently launched an effort to show support for Wilson, who’s been feuding with Trump for days over his handling of a phone call to the widow of a U.S. soldier.
The latest blow is another chapter in what’s been an ongoing battle between the president and the black community.
debbie
@BC in Illinois:
Not with that haircut!
raven
GO DAWGS!!!!
frosty
Remind me of my cavorite graffiti of all time, at a Minnesota rest stop in the mid-2000s. Above the TP dispenser, someone had written: “Picture of George Bush. Wipe to develop.”
ThresherK
Hey, can anyone tell me if DailyWire is worth my time or worth believing? I’ve got links I don’t know if I even want to give clicks to.
Patricia Kayden
@Mike in Pasadena: It was Obummer, I tell ya! It was he when he was a wee Kenyan lad!
Jeffro
@Humboldtblue: Harris-Gillibrand or Gillibrand-Harris 2020…even assuming that the Mango Menace can keep up his nonsense/keep out of jail for three more years, America will be starved for someone who smiles, can speak clearly, has half a brain, and isn’t a Republican.
(Sorry Joe, Elizabeth, and Wilmer!)
Jeffro
Whitefish Spokesman Insists Company Procured Puerto Rico Contract Fairly
I clicked on the link half-expecting to see Joe Isuzu on camera…
Major Major Major Major
Today, my random horrible knee pain seems to have subsided just in time for me to see the doctor about it this afternoon, because of course it did.
Still little to do at work, but at least I’m doing it from home, lol.
MomSense
I’m going to a school open house tonight. My son was invited to a leadership council at the Hyde School and his bus doesn’t come in until about 7 so it will be weird to walk through the school without him. I need to figure out how to fit in a long walk with the dog or she will go nuts. Might have to be a late walk.
My mom is coming in for a visit starting Sunday so I need to clean the house!
Jeffro
Meanwhile, Trumpov himself is getting involved in the Uranium One non-story…lifting a gag order on an FBI informant involved in the issue.
If it gets proven later that “Uranium One” is being re-raised in order to distract from the Russia/treason case…isn’t that yet another part of the pattern of obstruction of justice here?
Sic ’em, Bobby Three Sticks!
Major Major Major Major
Extract From Plato’s Republic: On That Which Is Correct Politically
Amir Khalid
@debbie:
I think Neal Patrick Harris might tell you it’s not for sale.
Eric S.
Softball Saturday. I’m already to bat but not throw worth my shoulder.
Sunday I’ll l be making stew, catching up on laundry, and deciding what materials and colors are going into my bathroom. There’s been a leak off and on for a coupe years and it’s just gotten beyond minor repairs. The floor has to come up and with that I’m completely rehabbing it.
tobie
@Jeffro: I’m just waiting for one marginally literate media head on CNN to ask a GOP-shmuck peddling this crap why we should lend credence to any of these unproven allegations, as they stem from opposition research paid for by the Trump campaign, when his party says we can’t lend credence to any of the proven allegations in the Steele report, as it was part of opposition research funded by the Clinton campaign. Just one…and I’ll raise a toast to them.
Major Major Major Major
@tobie: Well, when the president does it that means it’s not opposition research, of course.
bystander
(A) What happened to TengUPhule?
In a similar vein, I no longer am trying to figure out in which tumbrel to put Sebastian Gorka. I think Gorka should be used for quality control testing at the guillotine.
(B) I hate the entire twitler regime.
different-church-lady
@Mike in Pasadena:
If some of the rumors are true, it might be pleasurable for him as well.
Major Major Major Major
@bystander: He was here during his regular hours yesterday. I think he’d been on vacation somewhere with weird time zones. Japan?
TenguPhule
@Villago Delenda Est: Seconded.
tobie
@Major Major Major Major: The uranium one story was dug up by an oppo research firm the Trump campaign hired during the campaign. Now the administration is using its authority to force the Justice Dept to lift a gag order on an FBI agent to go after his opponent. With this we’ve entered banana republic domain.
different-church-lady
@LurkerNoLonger: It’s more like a search for the lost city of Philadelphia: “IT’S NOT LOST, YOU IDIOTS.”
TenguPhule
@Laura:
Where’d you find a cauldron big enough?
trollhattan
@BC in Illinois:
Considering his on-going war with his own hair I’m amazed Gowdy makes it out of the house in the morning to go fight anybody. Multitasking!
debbie
@Amir Khalid:
Oops.
lollipopguild
@bystander: It slices! It dices! It makes Gorka fries!
different-church-lady
@Mike in Pasadena:
Government of conspiracy theories, by conspiracy theorists, for conspiracy theorists.
Major Major Major Major
@lollipopguild: Why would you want to make inedible food?
TenguPhule
@bystander:
Went to Japan.
Was gloriously news and Trump free for three weeks.
Came home, Trump busy trying to get my state targeted by North Korea.
As you might imagine, this kinda killed my post-trip buzz.
lollipopguild
@Major Major Major Major: You are making food for the sharks. (Obligitory) We’re going to need a bigger boat.
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major: To serve to unwanted Republicans?
Amir Khalid
@different-church-lady:
No matter what them files say, I will maintain my belief that The Cigarette-Smoking Man dunnit.
Mike in Pasadena
@different-church-lady: Ewwwwww!
TenguPhule
I see Jennifer Rubin has decided to start writing her columns after smoking a bong or two.
Yeah, sure. His only sin to the Republicans is that he doesn’t bother with fig leaves.
BC in Illinois
@Jeffro:
On January 20, 2021:
D. John Trump will be 73 years old (no matter where he will be residing at that time);
Joe Biden will be 77;
Elizabeth Warren will be 71;
Bernie Sanders will be 78.
I would like to see all of them together on the stage at the convention and on the campaign trail, along with Hillary Clinton (73) and Barack Obama (59). I will go out of my way to see any of them . . . as they stand together in support of the Democratic nominee.
I will never say anything against the accomplishments, abilities, and service of those people privileged to be born during the 1940s. I count myself as one of that crowd myself. (Young President Obama, child of the ’60s, is termed out, though he has much to offer.) But I want to see all of them working for . . .
Kamala Harris (57 on inauguration day 2021)
Kristen Gillibrand (54)
Sherrod Brown (69)
Cory Booker (52)
Julian Castro (47)
Chris Murphy (48)
Adam Schill (60)
Mix and match as you desire.
But don’t get me wrong. I’m all ready to throw my support behind Frederica Wilson, who will be 79 on Inauguration Day. I just want to see a President worthy and ready to have a campaign commercial highlighting her support.
no comment
Planning to be out of town on election day, so yesterday I voted absentee in VA.
This weekend, my husband & I will be looking into replacing our broken dryer.
tobie
@BC in Illinois:
It’s Adam SCHIFF. Innocent typo, I know.
BC in Illinois
@tobie:
Wow. I am sorry. Truly unintended.
Leto
@tobie:
25 part tweet that details the entire $hit operation. Putting this here again for continued reference.
bystander
@lollipopguild: Can’t wait for the tv sales shows.
@TenguPhule: Missed it. But once the conversation turned to tumbrels and beheadings with dull, inaccurately set blades, you sprang to mind.
Leto
@trollhattan: Draco Malfoy look-a-like just points his wand at his head, mumbles, “Douchus Bagus” and poof! Hair did.
Magic!
TenguPhule
@bystander: In my defense, I believe in using sharp oiled blades to avoid having to do it more then once per person.
tobie
@Leto: Thank you, Leto. I toast Caroline O. Now how can we get her succinct take on all of this onto network and cable news?
Kay
@Leto:
It never ends. Why do they keep promoting Breitbart shit? Can Daily Kos send them breaking news alerts and they’ll print them entire? WTF is wrong with these people?
Shana
@no comment: I sugest you check with a repair person first to find out what they don’t do a lot of work on. Saved my dryer money for at least a couple of years.
ETA: I recommend Vienna Appliance for that if you’re anywhere near Northern Virginia. I swear by them.
Roger Moore
@frosty:
We had something along the same general lines here. Somebody had written on the toilet seat cover dispenser “Mission Statement: Please Take One”.
Another Scott
@Amir Khalid: It was the singer, I think.
Cheers,
Scott.
Humboldtblue
The lawyers in the crowd can translate, but here’s a pretty good breakdown of the “Uranium One” non-story.
Highlights include:
opiejeanne
Fighting our way across LA.
J/k. It wasn’t bad. We’re about an hour away from the cabin now. We’ll dump our gear, release the cat, eat lunch, and fight the spiders. We haven’t been there since March this time so we may need some weapons. They’re just brown garden spiders.
On steroids.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Considering Trump’s aggressive use of air products to hide his gray hair and bald spot it would be do abrasive for one thing.
Ruckus
@Mike in Pasadena:
But how could you tell you had?
Ruckus
@The Moar You Know:
$.95 would be $.95 too much.
Now if it went for the cost of moving him out of our house, I could get behind that.
Leto
@tobie: Don Henley explained why she won’t be on any time soon.
@Kay: WTF is wrong with these people? I’ll let Lupe Fiasco explain.
Gin & Tonic
Has anybody seen Victorian and Abdul? My wife wants to go this evening, and I was wondering if it’s any good.
SiubhanDuinne
@Gin & Tonic:
Saw it last week and really enjoyed it. Judi Dench is a marvel.
Gin & Tonic
@SiubhanDuinne: That’s good to hear (especially from you.) Thanks.
J R in WV
@Major Major Major Major:
Why would weird time zones deter one from commenting? I’ve commented around the 24 hour clock, when the sleeplessness grabs me. Zulu is a long way away from everyone but HeleninEire…
But on vacation, too busy to blog…. mostly.
TenguPhule
@J R in WV: I was in Japan and avoiding the news. Because Trump was on it all the fucking time, even overseas.
The Lodger
@Chris: Reminds me of my project for the (fortunately non-enacted) Reagan dime. It involved a couple rolls of dimes, Gorilla Glue and access to all the urinals I could get to. Just glue one to the target point on each urinal, heads out.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Schlemazel: Let the LA jackals know what part of LA you’ll be in and when you may be able to get together with us. We’d be happy to see you.
J R in WV
@TenguPhule:
Yeah, when we visited Tuscany last May I didn’t ever attempt to keep up with news, though I did post off and on here, last at night Italian time.
I sometimes have trouble falling asleep. Even with medicated aid. Or wake up after 3 or 4 hours, not even close enough for me. That’s when I’m posting at 6 am… ;-)
Austin G Loomis
Our charming host skrev:
I wouldn’t use it for the same reason Adam-Troy Castro, in an Amazing
SteroidsHeroes review of the mercifully short-lived Marvel PoliceLobotomyAcademy comic book, wouldn’t employ the fabulous first issue in question for toilet paper purpose. Paraphrasing (because it would take too long to dig through my longboxes), he observed that childhood experiments with Silly Putty taught him that images transfer from paper to other surfaces, and having a sense of shame teaches him that, if he dropped dead after “tattooing” himself with the images from that comic, the coroner would be entirely justified in having him buried at midnight in an unmarked grave.