Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

The current Supreme Court is a rogue court. Very dangerous.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Republicans want to make it harder to vote and easier for them to cheat.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

I know this must be bad for Joe Biden, I just don’t know how.

I was confident that someone would point it out and thought why not me.

So many bastards, so little time.

Found liable for massive fraud, is required to post a massive bond, gets a break, then files a *fraudulent* bond!

Yeah, with this crowd one never knows.

No Justins, No Peace

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

Let me file that under fuck it.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

New McCarthy, same old McCarthyism.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

He imagines himself as The Big Bad, Who Is Universally Feared… instead of The Big Jagoff, Who Is Universally Mocked.

A lot of Dems talk about what the media tells them to talk about. Not helpful.

It’s all just conspiracy shit beamed down from the mothership.

“Why isn’t this Snickers bar only a nickel?”

The problem people have with Biden’s age is the color of the VPs skin.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

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Yeah, I would’ve posted this last night, but Adam got there first. It’s still pretty!
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Apart from watching the GOP burst into flames, what’s on the agenda for the day?
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  9. 9.

    gene108

    I sort of want to see what Christmas is like in Australia (or Southern Hemisphere in general) because it is summer time.

    All the stuff we do to beat back the cold and dark, which is traditional for Christmas, really would not apply.

    I mean they’d open gifts, and go to the beach because it is hot out. I wonder if it is like a non-stop party till the sun goes down.

  11. 11.

    bystander

    I was glad I was unaware of the attack yesterday as I waded up Amsterdam Avenue through the stream of screaming trick or treaters. I love when the parents dress up to chaperone. One kid’s mother had made herself up as Frida Kahlo. (Not Frida Kahlo with an iron bar through her pelvis, tho.) She won Best Costume in my mind. Then, I got home to hear about the horror in Lower Manhattan.

  24. 24.

    bemused

    I’ve seen a few costumes of handcuffed trump in orange prison suit but not trump in striped prison duds. I suppose the striped prison gear is passe.

  27. 27.

    gene108

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    What are you talking about, it’s been 85 here on Christmas Day.

    But it still gets dark early. Sunset in L.A. on 12/25/2017 is 4:50 pm. Sydney Australia is 8:07 pm.

  29. 29.

    gene108

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    @gene108: I sort of want to see what Christmas is like in Iran.

    Maybe like Eid in the USA? Though there maybe enough Christians (I do not know) to warrant a day off.

    I was in India for Cristmas six years ago. It is an official holiday, but only the Christians observe anything. For everyone else it is just a day off to kick back and relax.

  32. 32.

    debbie

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    Don’t forget Trump’s pre-election interview where, when asked what he thought about Russia’s sketchy behavior, he responded, “What, you think we’re so good?” Nice. Presidential.

  38. 38.

    Cermet

    So, in China they once produced a Santa-Claus nailed to a cross (really would love to own one) for christmas (old photo I saw from years ago.) Tends to demonstrate the real meaning of christmas here in the ‘states’. Next, church’s will hang christ from a dollar sign so many of their ‘worshipers can pray to their real god (hint, not the person) …lol.

  55. 55.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    On an amusing note, we have a local dustup regarding a local member of the Democratic caucus. He’s pathetic, his council job is his only job, he’s a financial disaster, he looks like a flabby Chester the Molester and he’s “grabby” (by way of disclaimer, I know him). He tried to play grabass with another councilwoman, and both the Democratic and (less numerous) Republican caucuses are done with him. The Council President (one of my officemates and a friend of mine) is going hellbent for leather trying to accommodate this need to express justice and disgust.

    Enter right wing nut job attorney Thomas A McAdam III, a former friend of mine. McAdam fell for all the anti-Clinton stuff in the early 90s and became quite the promulgater of every chain email that ever came out of your uncle’s email account. He used to be a decent lawyer (we had cocounseled on some cases), but now he’s all about white male rage. We don’t even acknowledge one another in passing anymore.

    Anyway, he’s been representing the pathetic councilman, and drawn attention to his own writing and thoughts by being so bombastic.

    This article was the result. I’ve never seen anything like it.

    Enjoy.

    Dan Johnson’s lawyer is an unapologetic sexist and racist and wants you to know it

    …

    “My prejudice against women lawyers is widely known,” he said matter-of-factly when I called him recently to ask about offensive things he’s posted on his Facebook page.

    …

    McAdam said he believes women generally are poor lawyers because they take things too personally. “A lot of people don’t take women lawyers seriously because they act like little girls,” he said.

    …

    Did I mention he represented the Confederate sympathizers who sued to keep the old Confederate memorial near the University of Louisville?

    …

    While acknowledging his dislike of women lawyers, McAdam seems to think that it’s all right to say whatever you want as long as it’s couched as a joke.

    “It’s hyperbole. It’s a joke. Humor is hyperbole,” he said.

    “I think it’s funny to tell jokes about women,” McAdam said. “I think it’s funny to tell jokes about Catholics. I’m a Catholic.”

    And if people don’t share his sense of humor, McAdam doesn’t care.

    “A lot of people think I’m an asshole. I confess to being an asshole,” he said.

    If you poll the women lawyers in Louisville, and a lot of the men, you’re unlikely to find many who would disagree.

    First time I’ve seen the word “asshole” bandied about so approvingly in the paper.

    Delicious.

  61. 61.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Baud: So there I sit, holding a thing I would never have bought for myself, can’t possibly think of why anyone would ever think I would want such a thing, and I look up to meet the hopeful, expectant eyes of the gift giver who thought long and hard and searched widely to find the perfect gift for me, and….

    I am a lousy liar. I can mouth all the right words but never hide my true feelings. So now I not only have some useless piece of shit, I have a nice heaping dose of guilt too.

    Fuck that shit.

  63. 63.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    @eclare: I get my wife stuff that when she opens them, her first reaction is “I hate this”; about 6 months later she’ll tell everyone how much she loves the gift.

    ETA: Two years ago on Christmas, the kid and I took the dogs out for a walk, I told her what I’d gotten her mom and said, “she’ll say she hates it, but in 3 months, she’ll love it” That’s exactly what happened.

  67. 67.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    As I think about it, McAdam and I may be the last living members of the coffee klatsch that routinely discussed the photographic proof of Mitch McConnell’s love of chicken with three unimpeachable people who actually saw the photos.

    To his credit, I think he still despises McConnell.

  68. 68.

    different-church-lady

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Some of them are already at, “COLLUSION ISN’T TREASON, LIBTARDS!!!”

    Which makes the next step, “What’s wrong with treason?” — Oh, wait, the cabinet’s already there with their embrace of that poor, misunderstood President Lee.

  69. 69.

    TS

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: I tell my husband what to buy me – and more often than not I go with him to do the buying. Solves all the gift issues & keeps us both happy. I am, however, brilliant on the buying side. With no religious leanings I firmly believe it is better to give than receive & I have a great time buying gifts. Mostly folks like them – or they sure act as if they do.

  70. 70.

    eclare

    @OzarkHillbilly: Well said. I finally, at the age of 48, have convinced my parents not to get me shit. Every year up til now it was exactly as you described. And then thinking how long do I have to keep this shit in case they pop over and ask how I like it?

  71. 71.

    Kay

    @different-church-lady:

    It IS funny to watch the goalposts move- the standards lowered yet again. I knew it at the outset. They’ll require Trump meeting Putin and handing over the nuclear codes to meet the “collusion” standard.

    Luckily, Comey blurted out the real standard in one of his unprofessional talking jags and it isn’t even “collusion”- media and Trump use that word. Law enforcement is using “coordination” so Mueller will be using “coordination”. They made up “collusion”.

  73. 73.

    germy

    This morning about 5:30 I told my wife I was going outside to bring the garbage and recycling bins out front. I told her I was also going to walk into town to purchase cat food and some other incidentals.

    So I guess she heard the first part, but not the second part.

    Because when I returned home, the cat was running around in circles and then rubbed furiously against me, then flopped on her back in front of me purring loud.

    I thought this was odd, and the look my wife gave me was odd as well. She finally told me she thought I’d fallen and hurt myself outside because it took me so long to return. Still being in her robe and unwilling to step outside into the cold, she ran from window to window, trying to see if I was on the ground outside unconscious. She finally convinced herself that if I would have yelled for help if I’d fallen, and turned uneasily to her morning coffee.

    The cat picked up on her anxiety apparently, and was relieved to see me return unharmed.

  75. 75.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @germy:

    I’m trying to convert a 6 month kitten from canned food that requires a mortgage to dry food.

    He’s not real happy about it.

  76. 76.

    HeleninEire

    @gene108: Tim Minchin has a lovely song about that called “White Wine in the Sun” Check it out.

    ETA: Feathers beat me to it.

  77. 77.

    Kay

    The thing that is depressing to me about the Trump/Russia coordination investigation is how little Congress knows. WTF have they been doing for 9 months?

    They really have to take back some power, that branch of the government. They’re becoming increasingly irrelevant. If you compare this to their role in Iran-Contra you can see how they have all but abandoned their oversight role.

    It’s not good government. The system wasn’t designed to work without a real, functioning legislative branch. Speeches aren’t enough. They have a real substantive oversight role and all the power anyone could need to perform it. They have backed so far off their constitutional duty the President and the executive branch occupy WAY TOO MUCH of the distribution of ;powers. It’s broken and it won’t work well as long as it’s broken.

  78. 78.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Baud: Yeah, I shouldn’t care so much about the feelings of people I love.

    My ex in-laws used to buy their own gifts, wrap them up and on x-mas morning, open them up and say “Look what you got me Honey. It’s just what I’ve always wanted!” If you’ve always wanted it why didn’t you buy it back in July?

    christmas in America has become nothing more than a prop for walmart/target/nordstroms/ad nauseum’s bottom line. It is just an exercise in over the top consumerism. We give my sons and DILs money. My wife takes care of her daughter and SIL. My granddaughter is also up to my wife because I have no idea besides money. As for me, I tell them all to save their money as anything I might want I already have and what is the point of my giving them money if they are just going to spend it on me?

    It is a completely pointless exercise.

  79. 79.

    Viva BrisVegas

    @gene108: We would never go to the beach on Christmas Day, that was family time. The only time you would drive on Christmas Day would be to visit relatives. The day for the beach was Boxing Day. Although we were put off by the crowds and traffic and usually went bush for a barbeque.

    As for partying, it’s hard to party when you are full of a roast dinner and it’s 100 degrees outside.

    New Years Eve and New Years Day are the times for all night partying.

  81. 81.

    germy

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: From what I understand, the canned wet food has more protein. The dry stuff has too much filler.

    This is a good resource

    Canned food is healthier than dry food because:

    All canned foods contain an appropriate (high) amount of water which is critical for urinary tract health. Please see Opie’s page – Feline Urinary Tract Health.

    The protein in canned food is more apt to be higher in animal-based protein versus plant-based protein – contrary to most dry foods. Keep in mind that we are feeding cats (strict carnivores) not cows.

    The carbohydrate level of most canned foods is lower than that of most dry foods.

  82. 82.

    Kay

    They allowed Kushner to leave when they were in the middle of questioning him! I mean, Jesus Christ. You are a CO-EQUAL branch. Stop kissing his ass. Do your job. Pick up that constitution you’re always yammering about and READ it- it contains your job description. ORDER these assholes to appear.

  83. 83.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: One friend of mine was a federal public defender for the southern district of IL. I don’t remember all the particulars but she got some mob guy off a rather weak charge at a preliminary hearing. He was so grateful he told her if she ever needed anyone rubbed out, he’d do it free of charge. She likes to remind all of us that she still has a ‘hit’ coming if we ever piss her off.

  85. 85.

    Kay

    @eclare:

    Did you hear Paul Ryan, constitutional scholar? It’s not his job. Yeah, dumbass, it is. They did this to themselves. Congress has an ENORMOUS grant of power. THEY CHOOSE not to pick it up. All their fucking bullshit whining about Obama as dictator and all they do is hold these useless meetings. No one respects them because they don’t deserve respect.

  88. 88.

    Quinerly

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: My Ivan and John Lennon like the Petsmart branded “Authority” canned food. The vet said it was so much better for them than the cheap “kitty crack” and much cheaper than the high end stuff. Comparable to some priced double. Wet food better for urinary tracks. You can hit the Authority on sale with the store discount card. I also use their dry too.

  91. 91.

    Ohio Mom

    @bemused: We still have striped prison garb here in Cincinnati — just more evidence this part of the world is always behind the times.

  92. 92.

    Elizabelle

    Good morning all. Happy November.

    LA Times: now director/producer Brent Ratner is the next serial sexual harrasser on the grill. Six women come forward; many are prominent actresses, and his behavior is that of a pig.

    Six women accuse filmmaker Brett Ratner of sexual harassment or misconduct

    In good news for lawyers, his sent the LA Times a 10-page letter refuting the allegations. Billable hours!

    Pushing back against and punishing this kind of entitled behavior might reshuffle the deck more than we know. And, so far the score-settling is happening more in the entertainment world. But this kind of power and abuse of less powerful will not stop there.

    Maybe coordinated efforts will bring down some high rolling MOTU financial types, and more politicians. We are learning that it’s quite incredible, the types of people who run for public office or attain great professional success, with this kind of tawdry abuse in their past.

  94. 94.

    gvg

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: try a different brand or line. I had to switch to wet because of some cat health issues that made me concerned. the cat did not like it at all-regular purina that other past cats have liked. I had thought switching to wet would be easy so I was surprised. Eventually tried a different line also by purina and she loved that. Hypothisis is some preservative or flavor doesn’t taste right to her. It was several flavors in that particular line, not just one. i chose Purina because they do actual testing and research on nutrition.
    Dry can make them prone to dehydration and not have enough protein but the poop stinks a lot less and it doesn’t spoil. It’s usually cheaper but there are expensive dry foods too.

  96. 96.

    Kay

    I had low trick or treater turnout for Halloween so I scared the children with my over-enthusiasm – PER trick or treater it was too high- would have been normal had there been more. It was really borderline needy.

    They pick that up and it scares them :)

  98. 98.

    satby

    @OzarkHillbilly: at times like that you have to concentrate on the loving thought the gift was meant to convey and express appreciation for that, if you can. But I know what you mean, my family have me gifts for years that made me wonder if we were actually even acquainted. If I hadn’t known they loved me but just didn’t get me, I might have thought they disliked me a lot. My family of birth tended to project.

  99. 99.

    rikyrah

    @Kay:

    The thing that is depressing to me about the Trump/Russia coordination investigation is how little Congress knows. WTF have they been doing for 9 months?

    trying not to know, Kay.

  100. 100.

    Emma

    Last night we were talking about the Manafort passport issue. According to a Maddow guest, at least one passport was obtained under an alias. Has anyone else heard that?

  101. 101.

    rikyrah

    This young woman is better than me, because I would be in jail for beating her azz.

    White freshman who rubbed used tampons on her black roommate’s bag gets arrested

    HARRY SHUKMAN
    TEUTA HOXHA
    She boasted about poisoning her ‘Jamaican Barbie’

    Brianna Brochu, a white student who bragged about harassing her black roommate by rubbing used tampons on her bag, pouring moldy clam dip in her lotion and putting her toothbrush inside her rectum, has been arrested.

    Brochu, a freshman at the University of Hartford, posted on Instagram about how she “finally got rid of her roommate,” who she referred to as “Jamaican Barbie.”

    Local police confirmed to The Tab tonight that they have arrested Brochu. A source close to Brochu told us that she has been charged with breach of peace and criminal mischief, and faces a hearing on Wednesday at 10am.

    Chennel “Jazzy” Rowe, the freshman roommate of Brochu, revealed the shocking allegations in a Facebook video.

  103. 103.

    Kay

    @rikyrah:

    They have a different job than Mueller because Mueller has all the protections for defendants and the accused he has to follow- he’s pursuing convictions.

    They’re supposed to be holding the transparent hearings that inform the public, a la Iran Contra. I still don’t know shit about what happened in 2016. WHEN is someone planning on telling us?

  104. 104.

    rikyrah

    Quick Takes: Sarah Huckabee Sanders Excels at Gaslighting
    A roundup of news that caught my eye today.

    by Nancy LeTourneau
    October 31, 2017

    * During today’s press briefing, this is what Sarah Huckabee Sanders said about the plea agreement the Mueller team reached with George Papadopolous:

    “Papadopoulos is an example of actually somebody doing the wrong thing while the president’s campaign did the right thing,” Sanders said. “All of his emails were voluntarily provided to the special counsel by the campaign, and that is what led to the process and the place that we’re in right now is the campaign fully cooperating and helping with that. What Papadopoulos did was lie, and that’s on him and not on the campaign, and we can’t speak to that.”

    Here is how Wikipedia defines gaslighting: “a form of manipulation that seeks to sow seeds of doubt…in members of a targeted group, hoping to make them question their own memory, perception, and sanity. Using persistent denial, misdirection, contradiction, and lying, it attempts to destabilize the target and delegitimize the target’s belief.” In other words, it goes beyond lying and becomes a form of manipulation.

    Sanders wants us to believe that the Trump campaign should get credit for the arrest of Papadopoulos. She also suggests that his crime was to lie—something that had nothing to do with the campaign. Of course she didn’t mention that he lied to cover up his conversations with campaign officials about setting up meetings with Russian operatives, which actually has everything to do with the Trump campaign. Also, there’s this:

  105. 105.

    tobie

    @Kay: I know I’m preaching to the choir here but one of the reasons the Judiciary and Intelligence Committees in the Senate have done so little is that they don’t want to do anything. (The House is a lost cause.) Chuck Grassley’s behavior has been particularly brazen. He’s chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee and has done whatever he could to throw sand in the works…so much so that a Senator like Feinstein who is not one to muddy the water has had to start her own investigation. Mother Jones has a good piece on this. Money quote about how much the Democrats bent over backwards before giving up on the charade:

    Feinstein this summer agreed to allow Grassley, an Iowa Republican, to pursue tangential probes that appeared aimed at appeasing conservatives wary of investigations of a Republican president. This summer Feinstein signed onto letters Grassley sent seeking information from former Attorney General Loretta Lynch regarding her role in the Justice Department’s investigation of Hillary Clinton’s use of private email. But Feinstein said Tuesday that their agreement broke down in recent weeks as Republicans insisted on focusing on inquiries into matters such as the sale of a uranium company to Russians while Clinton was secretary of state, and allegations that the Justice Department soft-pedaled its Clinton probe.

  107. 107.

    rikyrah

    No such thing as a moderate Republican…..
    JMO

    Where Moderate Republicans Are Wildly Popular
    by Martin Longman October 31, 2017

    Morning Consult has updated their popularity ratings for the nation’s fifty governors. Some of the results aren’t too surprising. The least popular governor in the country is Chris Christie of New Jersey. He’s followed by Connecticut governor, Dan Malloy. Also trailing the pack are Republican governors Mary Fallin of Oklahoma, Sam Brownback of Kansas, and Bruce Rauner of Illinois.

    What’s less predictable is the profile of the most popular governors.

    The two most best-rated are Larry Hogan of Maryland and Charlie Baker of Massachusetts. Not far behind them are Phil Scott and Chris Sununu of Vermont and New Hampshire, respectively.

    What they all have in common is that they are Republicans serving their first term in states Hillary Clinton won. In fact, Vermont, Maryland, and Massachusetts were some of her strongest states.

  109. 109.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @satby:

    if you can

    As I said, I can mouth all the right words, but I am a lousy liar. Just leave me out of it.

  110. 110.

    Emma

    @satby: For years I got Three Kings presents from a friend, whose sister (sister!) gave her high end clothing totally unsuitable to her coloring and shape. She would turn around a year later and send all the stuff to me with her Christmas present. Finally the sister learned to give her a gift certificate, usually to Williams-Sonoma or another quality cookware place. Happiness was achieved!

  111. 111.

    Patricia Kayden

    Ben Wexler’s tweet is the bomb. I’m dying with laughter. We’re in scary times but it’s good to laugh from time to time so thanks Ben.

  112. 112.

    satby

    @gvg: @Spanky: I always feed all the critters Purina chow with fresh water on the side and most of my guys end up living on the far longer side of breed life expectancies without unusual vet bills. Canned food is used to hide medicine in, or for occasional treats. It’s one pet food product that’s never been recalled that I know of.
    Less dental issues too.

  113. 113.

    germy

    @Elizabelle: And this is NOT surprising:

    “My middle name is ‘misconduct.’ They know what they signed up for,” he said. “I didn’t grope anybody. I might have kissed somebody on the cheek to say good-bye and then licked them. That’s my thing — I licked Carrie Fisher at a roast. It’s me being funny. I’m not trying to sexually harass people.”

    http://www.vulture.com/2017/10/andy-dick-fired-from-film-for-sexual-harassment.html

    I mean, he’s been a dick for years. And some say he’s the one who got Phil Hartmann’s wife back on drugs (right before she shot her husband, and then herself)

  114. 114.

    rikyrah

    Establishment Republicans Will Lose Their Civil War With the Insurgents
    by Nancy LeTourneau
    November 1, 2017 PM

    As we draw closer to the 2018 midterm primaries, one of the most fascinating things to watch will be what I’ve described as the battle of the oligarchs. It pits Steve Bannon as the proxy warrior for the Mercers against Sen. Majority Leader Mitch McConnell as the proxy warrior for the Koch brothers. In terms we’ve been throwing around a lot over the last couple of years, it’s all about the insurgents taking on the establishment.

    But the truth is, this really isn’t much of a contest. The establishment might come out ahead occasionally in a specific skirmish, but when it comes to the soul of the Republican Party, the insurgents took over a while ago. Recently I pointed to an article by David Drucker titled, “Trump has won the civil war where it counts—with voters.” But as David Hopkins points out, that is the result of a victory that was realized a while ago.

    The increasingly bitter divide between the elected and unelected wings of the Republican Party pits traditional leaders like Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell against media personalities like Breitbart chair (and ex-Trump adviser) Steve Bannon — two men who are now openly attacking each other as they fight for control of the GOP…

    The turmoil in Republican ranks is often described as pitting the party’s leadership class against an unruly popular “base.” But as scholars of public opinion often point out, few citizens develop strong political opinions or are mobilized to political action without influence from trusted authorities. What’s changed is whom voters are listening to: Unelected elite actors, especially conservative media figures, are gaining influence over the behavior of Republican voters while officeholders and candidates are losing it…

    Many Republicans cheered the emergence of the modern conservative media universe during the 1990s and early 2000s as a necessary counterweight to the perceived ideological bias of mainstream journalism. They may regret that support today. Over the past decade, it’s become clear the conservative media can be weaponized against Republican politicians even more easily than against Democrats, since most of its audience is far more likely to participate in a Republican primary than to consider voting Democratic in a general election.

  116. 116.

    Kay

    @tobie:

    people hate Diane Feinstein but she uses her power. She’s tough. She was tough on Obama too. I admire that. California is fucking huge. REPRESENT THEM. Be a Senator. She’s terrifying, but in a good way! :)

    Sadly, she probably suffers from the sexism that became so apparent to me during Clinton’s run. Why isn’t she nicer?

    She’ll get something out of these pathological liars.

  117. 117.

    Patricia Kayden

    @rikyrah: I’m sorry to hear that Hogan is so popular in Maryland. I certainly don’t understand why. I won’t be voting for him and was shocked when he won. I hope the folks in Prince George’s County come out for the next gubernatorial election so he doesn’t get re-elected.

  118. 118.

    rikyrah

    @Kay:

    Kay
    House side – Nunes HAS RUSSIAN BUSINESS PARTNERS WITH TIES TO PUTIN.

    Senate side – Grassley isn’t pretending anymore.
    The guy from North Caroline has done a better job of pretending, but he doesn’t want answers either.

    I will say it again….

    THEY DO NOT WANT TO KNOW THE ANSWERS.

  119. 119.

    Chyron HR

    @rikyrah:

    White freshman who rubbed used tampons on her black roommate’s bag gets arrested
    She boasted about poisoning her ‘Jamaican Barbie’

    Wow, she sounds really economically anxious. I hope the Democrats stop playing identity politics and start listening to the concerns of the white working master race.

  120. 120.

    germy

    @Spanky:

    Contrary to popular belief, cats do not drink enough water from a bowl to make up for the hydration deficit caused by feeding dry food. Studies have shown that when cats are fed water-rich diets (canned or homemade diets) that mimic their prey (~70% water), they rarely drink from a water bowl yet their intake of water is double what it is when dry food (5-10% water) is fed. This is taking into account the water from the food as well as from the water bowl.

    http://catinfo.org/commercial-cat-foods/

  122. 122.

    tobie

    @Kay: Unfortunately Feinstein’s going to have the run of her life for reelection. Normally I would agree that a Senator in their eighties shouldn’t run for reelection but right now I feel like we need experienced legislators to preserve the memory of how institutions like the Senate are supposed to work.

  123. 123.

    rikyrah

    One of the reasons why I actually do like Twitter.

    The clapback to this muthaphucka was hilarious.

    Donald Trump Jr.’s Bizarre Halloween ‘Lesson’ Backfires Spectacularly
    That didn’t go over well.
    By Ed Mazza

    Trump Jr. doesn’t seem to know how Halloween works.

    The whole point of trick-or-treating, of course, is that children get candy ― free ― from friendly neighbors.

    But in a tweet Tuesday, the eldest son of President Donald Trump indicated that he would take half of his daughter’s Halloween haul and give it away to teach her about socialism.

    The tweet quickly backfired, with more than 30,000 comments. Many of them looked a lot like these:

  124. 124.

    Patricia Kayden

    @rikyrah: Wow. That’s the very reason why enrollment in Black universities is soaring. And yes, I would have beat her ass as well. I attended a Black university and never went through any nonsense with my Black roommates so I can’t imagine what that poor girl had to go through. This misconduct needs to follow that racist pig for the rest of her life.

  125. 125.

    germy

    Long-standing claims that cats have less dental disease when they are fed dry food versus canned food are grossly overrated, inaccurate, and are not supported by studies. This frequently stated (among veterinarians and lay people) myth continues to harm cats by perpetuating the idea that their food bowls need to be filled up with an unhealthy diet in order to keep their teeth clean.

    The idea that dry food promotes dental health makes about as much sense as the idea that crunchy cookies would promote dental health in a human.

    First, dry food is hard, but brittle, and merely shatters with little to no abrasive effect on the teeth. Second, a cat’s jaws and teeth are designed for shearing and tearing meat – not biting down on dry kibble. Third, many cats swallow the majority of their dry food whole.

    http://catinfo.org/#My_Cat_is_Doing_Just_Fine_on_Dry_Food

  135. 135.

    rikyrah

    Today’s Schedule for the Obama Foundation Summit.

    Today’s schedule:

    DAY TWO: NOVEMBER 1ST
    8:30 AM CT: MORNING SESSION—BUSINESS & SOCIETY

    In a discussion moderated by Cecilia Muñoz, we’ll delve into the role workplaces and employers play in building strong, healthy communities.
    with:
    Andy Puddicombe @ Headspace
    David Simas @ Obama Foundation
    Ai-jen Poo @ National Domestic Workers Alliance
    Hamdi Ulukaya @ Chobani
    Joe Gebbia @ Airbnb
    Brian Alexander, Author
    Mary Kay Henry @ SEIU

    11:45 AM CT: CONVERSATION WITH MRS. OBAMA
    In a conversation with poet Elizabeth Alexander, Mrs. Obama will discuss her sources of inspiration and what it takes to live a life of public service.

    5:00 PM CT: CLOSING SESSION—COLLECTIVE POWER
    Solutions to the world’s most pressing problems are being invented and adapted every day by groups of people who have found common cause. President Obama to speak.
    with:
    Liz Dozier @ Chicago Beyond
    Eric Liu @ Citizen University
    Common, Actor and Musician
    Brenda Eheart @ Generations of Hope
    Adebola Williams, Nigerian entrepreneur and journalist
    Tina Rosenberg @ Solutions Journalism Network
    Chef José Andrés @ ThinkFoodGroup
    Michael Tubbs, Mayor of Stockton, CA
    Bryan Stevenson @ Equal Justice Initiative

    8:30 PM CT: COMMUNITY EVENT
    Join thousands gathering for our community event that will celebrate civic leaders making a difference around the world and inspire those in attendance and watching live to make a positive impact in their own communities. Don’t miss performances by Chance the Rapper, Gloria Estefan, and The National.

  136. 136.

    satby

    @germy: @germy: Spanky was agreeing with you, I was offering the contrary opinion based on my lived experiences. The cat info vet has her strongly felt opinions too, and that’s her privilege. Other vets disagree.

    I’m not going to get into a pet food back and forth here. I quit that when I had lots of advice about one dog’s “food sensitivities” and a truckload of advice ( all wrong) about what she should be fed to reduce her skin issues. The dog had mange, not food sensitivity.

  140. 140.

    O. Felix Culpa

    @rikyrah: So Trump’s cruelty and lies lead these poor, stupid schlubs to turn down FREE job training, which in turn prevents companies from moving to their communities because of lack of trained workers. Not a novel thought, but what a horrible man.

  141. 141.

    rikyrah

    @Patricia Kayden:

    @rikyrah: Wow. That’s the very reason why enrollment in Black universities is soaring. And yes, I would have beat her ass as well. I attended a Black university and never went through any nonsense with my Black roommates so I can’t imagine what that poor girl had to go through.

    I went to a PWI’s, both undergraduate and graduate, and just ironically, I had lunch with my college roommate yesterday. She lives in Colombia now, and was in town on business. Her husband has told their kids that they will not be returning to the USA as long as Dolt45 is there. And, her Trump voting family members can’t come visit either. She doesn’t disagree with her husband.

    I can’t imagine living with someone so vile. How can you be so vile, and you’re not even 21 years old.

  144. 144.

    Elizabelle

    @germy: It gets better.

    The sexual harrassment actually occurred while Orestes was at the Vichy Fucking Fuck the Fucking New York Times.

    Moar of this. Please.

  148. 148.

    germy

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: True (sad) story:

    The writer Don Marquis was a funny and bawdy guy. He had a happy life with his wife and kids. His youngest son passed away, and then his wife. His wife had been a writer, and a real soulmate.

    He remarried. His second wife was a christian scientist. They really didn’t have much in common, and she bossed him into doing things he didn’t want to do, like buy a big house and become a landlord, etc.

    One day, Marquis came home from work to find his favorite dog had been hit by a car. His wife was kneeling over the dying dog, reading Mary Baker Eddy to the poor thing.

  149. 149.

    Citizen Alan

    @O. Felix Culpa:

    I’m sorry, and this will sound awful, but I really don’t feel the slightest bit of pity for them. They’re peasants who literally refuse to imagine the possibility of any life for themselves better than the same lives of backbreaking struggle that their parents and grandparents had. And who also will probably treat their kids like s*** for daring to want any sort of better lives for themselves.

  150. 150.

    J R in WV

    @Baud:

    We don’t do Xmas any more, but we do have a winter solstice celebration with next door neighbors and friends from around the county. There’s also a xmas eve party where gifts are exchanged via a method I still don’t understand.

    Last year’s winter solstice I wore a tee shirt and took a flannel shirt, which I put on early in the evening, but then had to take off because sitting on the back porch it was too warm. So it was a tee shirt night the end of last December. But nothing is changing in the weather patterns. Nope. Nothing.

    We did not speak of the recent election or other political notions, but for a few seconds around midnight. In general “Can’t believe it!” STOP!!! Not now!

  152. 152.

    Gelfling 545

    @Kay:
    “They’ll require Trump meeting Putin and handing over the nuclear codes to meet the “collusion” standard.”
    You’re completely sure he hasn’t, right?

  153. 153.

    Gelfling 545

    @rikyrah: Part of my nephew’s job at his college is to conduct disciplinary hearings. I showed this to him. He asks what the frack the college was doing. B!tch should have been out the door before it ever got to that point.

  154. 154.

    TenguPhule

    @gene108:

    I sort of want to see what Christmas is like in Australia (or Southern Hemisphere in general) because it is summer time.

    All the stuff we do to beat back the cold and dark, which is traditional for Christmas, really would not apply.

    Er, you could just stop by Hawaii to see what it looks like.

  156. 156.

    TenguPhule

    @Kay:

    The thing that is depressing to me about the Trump/Russia coordination investigation is how little Congress knows. WTF have they been doing for 9 months?

    Some of them know more then enough. Problem is security clearances prevent them from revealing it under penalty of law. The rest are dirty fucking traitors.

  159. 159.

    Whereaway

    @Feathers: I first heard Fairport Convention’s cover of Tam Lin in early 1970. That song, and the album it’s on lead me to a life-long pursuit of Celtic and Celtic influenced music. Tricky Pixie’s cover of Tam Lin (and I had the pleasure of seeing them perform the song live in 2010) is the first cover of the song that I like -better- than Fairport Convention’s.

    And Damn You Anne Laurie – I now have another folk musician to spend money on …

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