Have at it.
Had another good dinner- we made pork chops, mushroom risotto, a cauliflower dish, and a spinach/beet/goat cheese salad. Tammy is a better cook than I am. For dessert I cored a couple apples and sliced up a pineapple and baked it with a brown sugar/butter/raisin/cinnamon/walnut mix. Yummy.
Now sitting here watching the Steelers with Lily and Samantha.
A lot of you got pissed because I said Franken should resign. Maybe I was too hasty, but I’m happy with how things seem to be playing out. I don’t understand why the Senate needs to investigate something that happened before someone was a Senator, but Franken called for it, so whatever.
We’re about to bathe Samantha and Steve (separately) so I will put up some pics in a bit.
khead
Stillers are never gonna cover the 7.5. Relax about Franken. Last time I checked he wasn’t cruising the Mercer Mall in Bluefield, WV.
Corner Stone
We’re in a fucking war and we’re getting our ass kicked. How bout we try turning the rifles to point outside the circle for just a little bit, hmmm?
Corner Stone
@khead: Ben just doesn’t have it. He’s thrown more dive balls than a roster full of Texans QB’s.
And Bryant needs to just sit out til he’s traded. He’s killing them.
TenguPhule
@Corner Stone: Seconded.
Lyrebird
Yes but not pissed at you so much as at the idea! Glad to have such a good place to learn and to vent where disagreeing with the Blogfather is okay, too.
I’m angry at people who play see-no-evil re: Moore’s predation and turn around and act like this is way more than it was.
Lyrebird
@Corner Stone: I like how you put that.
khead
@Corner Stone:
I passed on betting in DE tonight. Pretty sure this game is gonna end up under a TD and the number in DE was 7.5
There’s something…. not quite right about the Steeler O this year. A friend of mine keeps insisting that Ben has already checked out for retirement.
Mike J
I never understand why employers are supposed to take the place of the justice system. I thought it was stupid when people wanted to ban Michael Vick from the NFL after he did his time in prison, and I think it’s stupid that the NFL should suspend that jerk from Dallas after he committed a felony.
When people commit crimes, arrest them, try them, send them to prison.
lamh36
Twitter suspended Elon James White twitter account…why you ask…
NotMax
Dolt 45 administration’s rah-rah for coal exhibit in Bonn (predictably) lays a giant egg.
Canada’s on a roll.
dmsilev
A somewhat sad situation at work today. We have this pond which is home to 4 ducks (and close to 100 turtles, but that’s another story), and the ducks had been paired off nicely. One pair was a male and a female, the other was two males. However, it looks like the homosexual pair had a nasty breakup, because there’s only one of the two left, and I guess the other one has been exiled to another pond or something. The lone male looks kind of lonely now without his companion.
I guess that’s what they get for joining in such an unholy union.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Well done, Twitter.//
@Mike J: Their contracts contain morals clauses, maybe?
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus: Funny how you can’t sign away constitutional rights unless it’s the NFL.
khead
Lmao. Guess the Stillers were just fine. I’m a dumbass.
NotMax
Let’s see – whose adult children’s pastimes might this affect?
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
I guess this means John Blutarsky won’t run for president in 2020. (photo)
Corner Stone
@khead: Helps when your D balls out with 4 INTs and 5 sacks.
Villago Delenda Est
@lamh36: @jack needs to be beaten up by some small men with hammers.
Mike J
@Corner Stone: And Kam might not play Monday. Grr.
RoonieRoo
I demand Samantha pics!
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: Try joining the army. But seriously, they aren’t losing their Constitutional rights, they are making a deal.
Yarrow
@lamh36: This sort of stuff is happening a lot.
Amaranthine RBG
I’m having quite a time with my Color Guard Director He made the unilateral decision to switch from wooden to poly rifles. Which, nevermind the cost difference between the two, but it is a major expense to buy a new one, period.
And this is doubly vexing because I am also a Sponsor, so I am paying for a lot of the rifles for people in our scholarship and mentorship program.
Theres a time when you should allow the Director autonomy as a Member, but the Director owes a duty to the Sponsor to safeguard the tradition. So I can’t decide who should defer.
Major Major Major Major
Future Man on Hulu is kinda fun.
Yarrow
So tomorrow’s Friday. Any bets on some fun surprises from Mueller?
Citizen Alan
@Mike J:
Um, people sign away constitutional rights all the damned time. I imagine pretty much every single contract you’ve ever signed with any company, not to mention every single EULA you clicked without even reading, required you to waive your right to a jury trial in favor of arbitration.
lamh36
The “biplolarity” of folks today including yourself John, from mob mentality “he should instantly resign” outrage, to being like…”oh, wait, ok, nevermine” ..in a matter of hours…
FUQ’N exhausting!
Well congrats.. https://i.imgur.com/AxoMF91.gif
lamh36
Villago Delenda Est
@Omnes Omnibus: I liked to point out that piss tests violated the 4th and 5th Amendments something fierce.
Amaranthine RBG
@lamh36:
Wait, did something happen with Sen. Franken?
Did he announce for 2020?
Corner Stone
@lamh36: Cole has always been like that. I don’t know how to explain what happened to Betty.
Omnes Omnibus
@Amaranthine RBG: I own three long guns, a Lefever side-by-side double 12 ga, a Iver Johnson single 20ga, and a 1898 Model Mauser with a cut down stock.
Fuck you.
khead
@Corner Stone:
Yes. Yes it does. Not quite the second half I expected. I mean, I am glad as a fan…. but the gambler in me is sure that if I had bet so much as $5 on Pitt then Tenn would’ve kept it close.
Amaranthine RBG
@Omnes Omnibus:
Help me Rhonda, Help Me
No Drought No More
Cole: Forgive my presumption saying this, but it think perhaps you’ve simply yet to hone your political reflexes vis a vis the GOP, where its utter political destruction as a national power is ground zero of your politics. You were raised a republican in a very conservative state, and you’ve come a long way in a very short period of time. It was less haste on your part, then, than a simple failure to anticipate the inevitable calls by republican party shits to exploit the decent (albeit initial) reactions of people like you that Franken resign. In their ceaseless struggle to kill our democracy, you set yourself up to be played by the bastards, is all. Live and learn.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Corner Stone:
And give up a fine Democratic Party tradition, never!
Corner Stone
@Villago Delenda Est: jack needs to have his wealth confiscated and then be sent to be customer service desk for a large org that has 400+ IT software applications in use.
Omnes Omnibus
@ ARBG: Don’t make drunk jokes if you can’t link. Incompetent pro-gun troll.
frosty
Since it’s an OT…. I just downloaded and installed the new Firefox. Man, I hate when the user interface changes. And it always does just so they can prove they changed the code. It doesn’t matter if it’s better or worse, it’s just “Oh, now the home button is on the left. It used to be on the right. It worked fine there, why the hell did you have to move it????”
First World Problems. That is all.
khead
@Amaranthine RBG:
I think the best part about your post is that all of that shit pretty much requires a football team to be viable.
Corner Stone
@frosty: I freakin’ hate it. Also too.
lamh36
@lamh36: more Joy Ann
?BillinGlendaleCA
@frosty:
@Corner Stone: Firefox is the spawn of Satan, almost as evil as Bill Clinton.
Amaranthine RBG
@khead:
Wha? Our league is self funded and affiliated corps by corps, not attached to any educational institutions or professional teams.
Lyrebird
@lamh36: WOW. She’s been direct before, but …wow.
lamh36
Villago Delenda Est
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Well, a lesser spawn of Satan than say Chrome or…Mickeysoft Dull Edge.
NotMax
@Villago Delenda Est
Netscape 4.0 – been a slalom down the mountain ever since.
;)
CapnMubbers
Nooooo, my pie filter disappeared and I had a long-ish list. Now I have to read the nym to avoid, oh woe.
Corner Stone
@CapnMubbers: It was a dark and stormy night.
Yoda Dog
Go, Joy, Go.
Villago Delenda Est
@Corner Stone: Suddenly, a shot rang out!
Mike in NC
Rented “Wind River” tonight and the wife was completely blown away by it (me too), so now I need to re-rent “Sicario” and “Hell and High Water” by the same writer/director for her to watch. Saw them alone late at night and they were terrific.
Amaranthine RBG
@Mike in NC:
“Come, I will show you”
TenguPhule
@Villago Delenda Est: But the sunrise survived.
StringOnAStick
@NotMax: Hunting elephants is evil and disgusting; I want Uday and Qusay in jail for that alone.
Aleta
Investigating Franken for things before he held office seems very stupid, but at the same time it lets Dems put Trump’s past assaults and harassment back into the news. It seems logical to me that with so many Franken videos on the internet and stories scattered everywhere, Franken has been expecting the dirt to be used at some point. Seems reasonable that Republican whips already had notes on him and phone numbers written down in the books they keep on people’s pressure points.
There’s millions and millions of dollars in play with the tax breaks. An anti-abortion win in there too. Rich Rs will literally sign off on murder if needed to get so much money. Franken knows that. He’s a tough smart angry player, not a baby. Millions of dollars at stake–harassment and bullying tolerated all through the culture– no one’s surprised there is usable dirt on both Dems and Repubs. I suggest it was going to happen in some form even without Weinstein. It’s hard criminals playing for high stakes.
StringOnAStick
@Aleta: Excellent assessment and good points.