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Halloween Evening Open Thread

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Here’s a suitably noir photo that I took the other day down the road:

We’re setting up candy distribution operations in the carport and awaiting the kiddies. We’re giving out mostly Skittles this year. I bought them because I don’t like Skittles and therefore won’t be tempted to eat any leftovers.

Getting reports on my phone that something terrible happened in New York City, possibly a truck killing multiple pedestrians, but early accounts are sketchy. Stay safe everyone.

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  2. 2.

    Major Major Major Major

    A good friend of mine is just down the street from the thing in New York, but he doesn’t go outside much lol, so I don’t know any more than the rest of you.

    Trying to decide between drawing and working on a search engine for my writing site right now.

  3. 3.

    d58826

    Guy drove a truck down a bike path in NYC, near trade center. 6 dead. Been declared a terrorist incident. suspect in custody

    Der Fuhrer has been informed. Might well be the perfect storm for him to detract attention from Mueller.

  5. 5.

    Elizabelle

    @cope: Nevermore?

    It should be our keyword WRT all things Trumpf.

    @ Betty C: Thanks for the new thread. Was wondering if anyone had the keys! Photo is perfect.

  7. 7.

    Elizabelle

    @chopper: LOL. Someone will appreciate that when he gets here.

    Thank you, LBJ, for your work on civil rights. Yours is a mixed record; look at the good too.

  10. 10.

    Ian G.

    I work on the other side of downtown Manhattan from the incident, so hearing sirens. What’s chilling is that Stuyvesant High School is right there. I wonder if the terrorist or “activist” white guy was trying to massacre high school students.

  11. 11.

    NotMax

    Aren’t Skittles kind of a touchy selection in Florida still?

    @cope

    What was it that raven said?

    “Fuck LBJ.”

    ;)

  13. 13.

    Elizabelle

    @d58826: Yup.

    I am still happy that we don’t see Rudy Giuliani opening his yap much these days. May that record continue. Leave him to Fox.

  14. 14.

    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @d58826:

    Guy drove a truck down a bike path in NYC, near trade center. 6 dead. Been declared a terrorist incident. suspect in custody

    So the suspect failed the brown paper bag test?

  15. 15.

    Gin & Tonic

    Our friends Glenn Thrush and Nick Confessore have published an execrable piece of whining about oh how tough all this is on the Manafort family. The family that lived a life of almost unimaginable luxury, for decades, on the basis of tax-free blood money laundered through Cyprus? That family? Fuck them, and fuck Glenn and Nick. I hope Paulie dies in jail while his family has to eat at a Salvation Army soup kitchen.

  20. 20.

    JaneSays

    I was literally on that bike path during a visit to NYC just a few months ago. It’s three blocks away from One WTC on the West Side Highway.

    Chuck Todd reporting that suspect shouted “Allahu Akbar” upon exiting the vehicle.

    Fuck. I can hardly wait to see the vile forthcoming shit the orange buttplug will be tweeting in coming hours.

  23. 23.

    Roger Moore

    @Gin & Tonic:

    I hope Paulie dies in jail while his family has to eat at a Salvation Army soup kitchen.

    If he was a halfway decent parent, his children should have enough life skills to make it on their own even if daddy winds up in prison.

  29. 29.

    lamh36

    Saw a lot of folks responding to John Kelly on my twitter TL today.

    Obvious to me that John Kelly likely has been a racist bigot his entire military career, but couldn’t let his racist freak flag fly in uniform. you don’t just turn at the drop of a long career and “suddenly” become a xenophobic, racist P.O.S. nah, that shit been gestating. We know the “current” military frowns upon overt/open bigotry, so Kelly surely had to let all that hate simmer until he left service. So of course, the Chump admin speaks to him.

    What I’d like to know, is how did that simmering bigotry affect his interactions with soldiers of color under his leadership. I suspect tho if not OVERT actions, Kelly like many “simmering” bigots are able to hide it, or just compartmentalize the “good” P.O.C. from “THOSE PEOPLE”

  30. 30.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Roger Moore:

    If he was a halfway decent parent

    Quite the hypothetical.

    I want them all to suffer. I am not just uncharitable, I am vengeful. Sue me.

  34. 34.

    Tenar Arha

    I bought a giant mixed bag of Jolly Ranchers & Twizzlers. Then a giant mixed bag of Nestlé chocolates. Hopefully I’ve got enough but I won’t have too much extra. (Otherwise i will eat the candy).

    @lamh36: Aww.

  39. 39.

    d58826

    @Major Major Major Major: Oh that is easy to explain. First attack on WTC was in first year of Bill’s administration. Second attack was in first year of ‘W’s admin. And now another attack in NYC, near the WTC, in first year of Trump’s admin. They skipped the Obama years because they didn’t want to embarrass the secret Kenyan Muslim.

  40. 40.

    catclub

    @Roger Moore:

    “Allahu Akbar!”, so we can be sure it was terrorism and not just a lone wolf whose motivation will remain forever unknown.

    there was a time when suicide was prima facie evidence of insanity (i.e lone wolf crazy insanity) another bit that is now whites only.

  44. 44.

    Ohio Mom

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: You aren’t the only non-celebrant.

    We turn off all the lights and go out to eat at a fish restaurant that does not cater to children. I’m okay with Halloween but my autistic kid doesn’t like it — though he’s no longer petrified like he was when he was younger.

    We got into the habit of this restaurant years ago and now it is a proud family tradition.

  45. 45.

    Elizabelle

    I bet the victims’ families don’t even know who is safe and who is not yet. Very sad.

    Although: this was not a suicide bomber, and it did not involve assault rifles. Very sad about truck and handgun(?) as weapon, but that smacks of desperation too.

  48. 48.

    Elizabelle

    Agree completely. Go about our business, be out in public, don’t let them change us getting out and about in our communities.

    More of us than them.

    Actually, we have workplace shootings with more vics several time each year, don’t we? I don’t mean to make light of this, but it’s getting full Serious People Terrorism Treatment on CNN, and meanwhile shootings with 3-4 victims don’t even get reported much nationally.

  49. 49.

    raven

    @Tenar Arha: Our neighborhood is ground zero for trick or treating so we’re going to amble down to see the kids. I’m going as a blind ref with Bohdi as my seeing eye dog and the Bride is putting on here flower outfit.

  57. 57.

    Elizabelle

    Gawd, if I’d gotten organized, it would be fun to dress as Sarah Huckabee Sanders. My guess: she’s gone by next Halloween.

    But you could do the pearls, and draw some eyebrows askew, and contort your face. Show up in bright colors. Say anything that comes into your damn head, sternly.

  58. 58.

    Tenar Arha

    @raven: Sounds like you’re making more of an effort than me. I just painted blood drops on my chin so with boots & leather jacket I look vaguely vampiric.

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    Enhanced Voting Techniques

    @lamh36:

    Obvious to me that John Kelly likely has been a racist bigot his entire military career,

    Nothing mysterious about it with Kelly, most of it is subverted into neutral comments like “Lee was an honorable man” or “the Civil War was caused by a lack of compromise” which is subjective enough that no one cared in the military. Heck, those statements by themselves would be simply clueless and ignorant outside the context of his comments about that Representative.

  61. 61.

    TenguPhule

    @Elizabelle:

    Gawd, if I’d gotten organized, it would be fun to dress as Sarah Huckabee Sanders.

    Why would you want to dress as a bag of garbage?

  62. 62.

    eclare

    @lamh36: I wondered about that too, the military has a lot of minorities, how do you lead troops when you are so obviously a racist POS? What is it called, unit coherence?

  63. 63.

    raven

    @Tenar Arha: I’ve got my old officiating stuff so it’s no biggie. The girl spent hours making hers for the Wild Rumpus Saturday. They held it but it had rained like hell for hours and the crowd was smaller than usual.

  64. 64.

    Elizabelle

    @TenguPhule: Cuz she’s recognizable. Not dressing up as anyone, though, and should probably scoot cuz it will be dark in 40 minutes or so.

  65. 65.

    Tazj

    Terrible weather here in Western New York. My vampire minion had slush on it. The kids are still asleep, too much candy and fun at school. I guess I’ll have to wake them up to go out in a half hour.

  67. 67.

    TenguPhule

    @eclare:

    how do you lead troops when you are so obviously a racist POS? What is it called, unit coherence?

    Racist officers have their “good darkies/bad darkies” split screen.

    The good ones wear uniforms and obey your orders.

    The bad ones suffer from something called free will.

  69. 69.

    Betty Cracker

    In retrospect, yesterday wasn’t the right time to clean the dog snot off the windows. They’ll get besnotted again tonight when the dogs go apeshit at every trick-or-treater.

  72. 72.

    d58826

    @Doug R: That was the time line that C. Todd mentioned. But I’m sure the bomb was a fake to to misdirect from Obama. We have always been at war with east Asia becasue of OBAMA and E-mails.

    yes snark snark

  74. 74.

    zhena gogolia

    @Gin & Tonic:

    I’m getting a subtle hint that you don’t like Manafort. I think Corner Stone also picked up on it the other day. We’re very sensitive.

  76. 76.

    TenguPhule

    @eclare: I’ve uploaded some to this blog’s form for submitting pics.

    I’m still waiting for our dear FPgers to post em.

    ETA: On this trip I learned that Japan loves penguins and seals.

  77. 77.

    japa21

    We usually don’t have many trick or treaters. Kids have to walk an extra half block to get to us. So this year we reduced the candy buy. You guessed it. A lot more energetic kids who don’t mind the extra walk. Going to be close as to if we have enough.

  78. 78.

    Tenar Arha

    @eclare: @Enhanced Voting Techniques: @lamh36: I know (via TNC and officer who used to blog at Charlie Pierce’s) that West Point trains officers thoroughly in current historical understanding of the Civil War, but I have no idea when a Marine General would have last taken a Civil War history course, or even been forced by necessary troop training to go over what his recruits were learning. That’s not an excuse for Kelly; I don’t know what officers in the Marines are supposed to know.

    Kelly had the same opportunity as us all, to continue learning. The interview made it obvious he didn’t bother, and that his actions at DHS were those of a bigot, not just a bigoted policy. He is who we thought he was.

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