The line from the Financial Times is that misery builds character, and that politicians need to have through some Serious Shit
which is why We should establish of a state force of hooligans, who will punch any random citizen in the face whenever they fucking want
or at the very least, snap into a million pieces the legs of anyone running for office
you boomers
2.
Corner Stone
How could ABC possibly ever compete with that combo?
3.
Corner Stone
Why do all the rotating taglines seem like they are generated by a gay man?
4.
GregB
Just saw a Tweet stream that indicated that Trump had put a Giuliani allied white collar defense lawyer at the head of the GSA, so they were resting easy about the fact that their inside guy would run cover on info requests.
Waaaauuuugghhh!!!!!!!!!!!
Ice cream is pretty much out of the dialysis diet.
Goodbye B&J NY Superfudge chunk
So long, Brigham’s peppermint stick Hasta la vista , Ice Cream Machine (a local place) mint chocolate chip and cinnamon sugar (not together)
It’s been an adventure
@WaterGirl: “how the fuck did you lose to a pineapple”
13.
WaterGirl
@John Cole: Please please please! I love the rotating tags that come from a great comment or from the post itself Someone added a bunch of phrases they have found somewhere, and it’s just not the same.
14.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: Heck, there’s nothing in there about corn fields or book libraries or crying when people don’t vote.
@WaterGirl: The person involved in the update did not understand the rotating tags. They were not intended to be merely cute phrases. I still blame Tommy.
17.
Patricia Kayden
@GregB: Everything in your comment suggests that Trump is nothing but a criminal who needs to hide what he does from the public. Mueller must be shocked at what he’s discovering. Nixon on steroids.
You aren’t on a phosphorous binder? They can cover up a lot of bad eating, like yogurt, cheese (i.e. pizzas, grilled cheese, etc) and ice cream, in moderate amounts of course.
21.
Mike in NC
We did our annual Christmas tradition for the past 20 or so years and watched “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” with a great cast that included Chevy Chase. We still laugh our asses off at the various classic scenes with the underwear model, the lights on the roof, the yuppie neighbors, the squirrel, etc.
@Major Major Major Major: Love the second photo for a “serious” look, but that bottom photo is the absolute best!
27.
Ruckus
@Major Major Major Major:
He looks like he could chew off an arm or other appendage rather easily. I take it he gets whatever he wants.
Nice pictures btw.
@frosty: I loved that video – that would be a good one. I want Major Major Major Major to run some sort of script that searches the blog comments for the words “rotating tag”. We all say “I nominate this for a rotating tag”, but no one else ever sees that.
30.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
The first picture is “What are you looking at?”
@Ruckus: I’ve been pretty impressed with the quality of pics from my new phone as well. The cameras on the phones have come quite a ways in the past 3 years. They still have the tiny sensors though, so I’m not junking my NX-500.
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TheMightyTrowel
@efgoldman: can you have non dairy frozen treats? Milk products and i don’t get on but coconut and almonds milk ice creams are excellent and i have a cuisinart ice cream maker that you can just dump fruit in and get a tasty frozen treat out of. Best so far is 750g banana plus 60g chopped up dark chocolate. Nom.
@WaterGirl: It’s what Adam always says, either to remember to hydrate of stay frosty.
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Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: I know that he was gone, but Alain has done yeoman’s work and I don’t want to come down on him.
ETA: But fuck Tommy anyway. He was in my fraternity, and he said he hazed people. Just saying. The casual racism and anti-antisemitism was just icing on the cake for me.
I am, and the nutritionist at the kidney center understands very well about humans being human and cuts people a lot of slack(*). But I’m only fife months in, and I had a hard time getting stable on peritoneal home dialysis, so for now I’m leaving it alone. Cole just triggered it, bastard.
ETA: What I really miss is bacon and sausage (of many varieties). We’re trying to find some “unprocessed” (spelled) “expensive”) in our area
(*)She describes a patient who goes to the center for overnight dialysis three nights a week, and who every couple of weeks send out for a large pizza – at the center – and eats it. Their philosophy, if they forbid it, he won’t show up.
What happened with Tommy? Was there some glorious flame to death or GBCW thread that I missed?
43.
Yarrow
@efgoldman: Have a look online. You might be able to order the kind of bacon and sausage you need and have it delivered for less than you can get it nearby.
This made me smile:
10/ It appears that obtaining the documents from GSA also allowed Mueller to surprise witnesses who were not prepared to talk about emails that they didn’t think he had.— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) December 16, 2017
44.
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: Maybe we can bug Alain about that once he’s back up to full speed.
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I know. I almost typed “stay frosty” myself, but I was afraid I would get booed. :-)
@Ruckus: I thought the first photo was more “do not fuck with me”, but you could be right.
Considering your musical background, that typo made me lol.
46.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Yep. Not good, so glad the Tommy chapter is closed. I’m sorry if that is still affecting Valdivia.
47.
Ruckus
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I have a very nice Nikon and 3 very nice lens but I find that I use the camera once every year or so. I should probably sell it.
48.
Omnes Omnibus
@eemom: He is gone. He told people that he had “God Mode” while I assume that he was drunk and upset with people like me. Shortly after that, he lost the keys.
49.
Duane
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Couldn’t get past the FT’s paywall. I’d like to know more, now that I’m curious.
Also, fuckem. (hi old man)
50.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
F**king You Tube, I am a white middle aged male so I must just love men’s right videos. I mean talk about a pack of limp dick wusses. What kind of useless twat spends all of his time whining about women? They go about “I am an alpha male”, WTF do these dorks think that means; of course everyone dependent on you wants to fix their problems. They can glory in being the patriarch, no, they whine like a child. Gods it’s sickening.
@Ruckus: A very handsome boy! With attitude. What more can you ask for in a cat. Besides being photogenic and being willing to sit for photos. Samwise has it all. Still love that big yawn.
58.
eclare
@Mike in NC: Can you believe Julia Louis-Dreyfus was in that? Amazing. Love that movie.
The casual racism and anti-antisemitism was just icing on the cake for me.
That, plus he never ever used fivewords when ten would do the same job, and he never, ever wrote a post without extolling the god like virtues of his parents, the Gibraltar of parenthood, so much so that I think he was in denial about something.
Wasn’t he also stalking one of the female regulars?
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eclare
I just lost the refresh button on tabs on Firefox. I’ve rebooted and no luck, anyone have any advice?
It’s his house, he can decorate it as he sees fit.
(Okay, maybe except for that Grateful Dead visual atrocity.)
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Jay Noble
One thing that has become very annoyinng to me in the Mueller coverage is the recurring use of inaccurate verb tenses – Mueller Obtains Trump Emails. No. He obtained them some time ago.
I also caught an interesting tidbit over at DKos that by using the GSA’s email and databases, the Trump transition gave up any claim to an expectation of privacy. Anything done through them was the Government business and subject to Government Audits. Mueller is an authorized Auditor. :-)
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Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
He commissioned it from Ted & Hellen, a not-terribly-good portrait artist and by far the vilest troll I have ever come across in these threads.
@NotMax: I think I saw those later seasons of Reboot as it eventually appeared on Cartoon Network, after ABC cancelled it on Saturday mornings. I have the DVD set of the complete series.
@rikyrah:
That’s exactly how it is supposed to happen. They are supposed to know long before the perps or their lawyers think they might or do. Otherwise it’s just a fishing expedition. And mainly because it’s difficult to ask the right questions if you don’t know the answers or who to ask them of and in what order the people and questions should be asked. A major reason it takes so long to make it work, getting those answers, going through everything and building a case. Today it takes less time because it used to be all on paper and every scrap had to be gathered, read, cataloged, and just plain handled. Now there is more info to go through but, you get thousands of emails or digital images, like checks, which can be searched for key words in at worst minutes or in many different ways.
Having read the article, it isn’t terrible, but it ISN’T great either. I’m going to paste a little bit in that I feel like commenting on.
According to Wikipedia, Simon Kuper is a British author, born in Uganda of South African parents, and moved to Leiden in the Netherlands as a child, he has also lived in South Africa (to escape the Dutch winters), Stanford, California, Berlin and London. He studied History and German at Oxford University, and attended Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar. He now lives in Paris with his family. With that world experience and education, he chooses to write about sports. Except when he decides to write about world political affairs and geopolitical strategy as in this short article.
While FT is correct that “Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy”… I’m not here to share good data with friends, I’n here to critique the terrible errors of logic and fact this aurthor made all the way through his article, or as far as I can stand it… here starts the critique:
I didn’t want Brexit, but I assumed the Brexiters had a plan. I didn’t think Donald Trump had a plan, but I assumed the Republicans did. They didn’t. Whether you like these people or not, the question is: why are they incompetent?
At this point we just have to forgive the stupid assumption that people with deeply self-centered and evil intentions may be intelligent. We here know that greed is so very seldom going to produce good policy. Right wing nationalists always have a plan – the problem is that their strategic plan is based upon their incorrect beliefs about globalism and freedom of movement. There’s also a big hit of the stupid, necessary to think that globalism and freedom of movement are bad things for economic management.
It seems that the Brexiters really thought the EU would just bow to their demands; that they never imagined the Irish border might be a problem. Even now, the cabinet still hasn’t discussed what sort of Brexit it wants. Last week’s deal with the EU may leave the UK tracking Irish regulations for ever (or as Brexiters call it, “freedom”).
In the US, when Republicans finally got their chance to abolish Obamacare, it turned out they had spent seven years not preparing an alternative. Much of their tax bill got handwritten overnight by lobbyists. And Russiagate’s key characteristic is amateurism. Mike Flynn and others didn’t declare obvious contacts with foreign officials, assuming nobody would notice. Trump appeared to incriminate himself by tweeting that he knew Flynn broke the law, but then his lawyer said he’d written the tweet. Richard Nixon’s downfall was not his crime but his cover-up; this time there’s hardly any cover-up. The only comparable folly in recent US-UK history is the Iraq war. So what explains this incompetence?
Here the author gets close to acknowledging that the British still operate from the wrong assumption that they are a world-spanning empire, which informs their relationships with the rest of the world’s governments. They are a (very small) nuclear power, and so sometimes have veto power, but it doesn’t do them any good in international economic terms – you can’t have economic relations with a radioactive waste. The EU has ALL the power in Brexit negotiations because they don’t care, and in the end they can expel England and end England access to the continental EU, should they decide they are better off without England and with Ireland and Scotland.
It’s useful here to recall the contrast — often drawn in the US in the 1990s — between the “greatest generation” who fought the second world war, and the baby boomers. From the 1940s until the 1990s, most politicians in both countries were men who had fought a world war. That experience shaped them. Harold Macmillan, British prime minister from 1957 to 1963, had been wounded five times in the first world war. …
Macmillan reflected much later that posh officers such as himself, leading working-class troops, “learnt for the first time how to . . . feel at home with a whole class with whom we could not have come into contact in any other way”….
You could tell similar stories about Clement Attlee (badly wounded in Iraq in the first world war, prime minister 1945-1951), John F Kennedy and George HW Bush. In 1975, 81 per cent of US senators were military veterans…
Other 20th-century leaders of these countries — Lyndon B Johnson, Bill Clinton, John Major — had a different visceral experience: poverty. They too knew in their bones that government mattered.
But both countries have now fallen into the hands of well-off baby boomers, born between 1946 and 1964 — the luckiest members of the luckiest generation in history. These people had no formative experiences, only TV shows. They never expected anything awful or unknown to happen.
Our author seems to be going somewhere, but goes off the rails badly at the end. I’m a Boomer. One of my first formative experiences was the Cuban Missile Crisis, when I attempted to dig a fallout shelter in very hard ridgetop caprock with a pick and shovel. I was eleven. We survived, though I still have nightmares about it, because it reoccurs as we see today in the Persian Gulf and the Korean peninsula. Then the president who guided the free world through that near-death experience, J F Kennedy, was shot through the head in Dallas TX, which hasn’t changed much since then.
It’s often said that today’s politicians have no experience outside politics…, but they do: performing on mass media…. Thoughtful people who couldn’t bellow simplifications on TV drifted out of politics….Theresa May, as prime minister, had to give the “three Brexiteers”, Johnson, David Davis and Liam Fox, jobs for which nothing in their experience had prepared them. Days after Trump’s election, his daughter Ivanka seized control of a transition meeting, praised Flynn’s “amazing loyalty”, and asked him, “General, what job do you want?” This month in Alabama’s senate race, Trump endorsed another loyalist: alleged paedophile Roy Moore….
Everyone raised since WW II under baby-boomer rule has learnt [should be aware] that awful and unknown things can happen anytime….
Boomers are divided, some have become IGMFY nationalists, gun huggers, Nazis, and don’t remember or never knew about the Cuban Missile Crisis, DEFCON 5-1 etc. They are Republicans, or at least when they vote they vote for Republican candidates who promise to keep them on top – IGMFY.
The rest of the Boomer generation remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, the JFK and MLK and RFK murders, Nixon’s treason with the North Vietnamese, Reagan’s treason with the Iranians, Bush’s war crimes in Iraq AND the greatest terrorist attack in our nation’s history during his first term. We have no illusions about Trump’s treason, which is more blatant and more serious than any president in history. I just hope the military is able to keep trump from starting WW III to attempt to distract the world from his lessor crimes. At that point he will have joined the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Ghengis Khan, Pol Pot and Mao as the greatest genocidal mass murders in history.
If he does enough damage he could cause the end of civilization, which would remove our ability to fight global warming with global engineering. Really, everything Trump touches is the kiss of death. Even the “Tax Cut” bill will do more harm than anyone can imagine – just what we need at the beginning of the war on climate change – the beginning of the Greatest Depression !!!
Left out the Boomer wars, Korea and Vietnam, my bad. There was so much wrong about this Boer’s article it was hard to hit every error as hard as it deserved.
I think it is pretty well established in the serious economics thinkers that a great big tax cut right on top of the Roaring 20s caused the Great Depression, and personally I think this big ol’ corporate tax cut on top of the current boom bubble will cause another equally bad economic contraction. We can hope Keynesian politicians will be in charge from the get-go so that it won’t be as great as it could be if Trump is in charge of the first 5 or 6 years of a depression.
I think one investment many people should seriously consider is downloading “Nuclear War Survival Skills” and reading it. It’s about civil defense, building a shelter in your yard with a pick, a shovel and stuff found in most homes, like shower curtains and bed sheets. Written by an engineer at Oak Ridge National Lab named Cresson Kearny.
I was surprised to learn that exotic filtration isn’t very important because fallout particles are so heavy, so if you have 8 or 10 feet of entrance tunnel you pull fresh air through, most of the radioactive material will fall out onto the tunnel floor. Low tech, but tested for accuracy by people who knew their radio-chemistry. Foreword by Dr Teller, whoever that was! /s
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Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
The line from the Financial Times is that misery builds character, and that politicians need to have through some Serious Shit
which is why We should establish of a state force of hooligans, who will punch any random citizen in the face whenever they fucking want
or at the very least, snap into a million pieces the legs of anyone running for office
you boomers
Corner Stone
How could ABC possibly ever compete with that combo?
Corner Stone
Why do all the rotating taglines seem like they are generated by a gay man?
GregB
Just saw a Tweet stream that indicated that Trump had put a Giuliani allied white collar defense lawyer at the head of the GSA, so they were resting easy about the fact that their inside guy would run cover on info requests.
Then that guy died.
Now Bobby Three Sticks has the emails.
John Cole
@Corner Stone: someone has been adding them. I need to weed a bunch out.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): “need to have *gone* through”
efgoldman
Waaaauuuugghhh!!!!!!!!!!!
Ice cream is pretty much out of the dialysis diet.
Goodbye B&J NY Superfudge chunk
So long, Brigham’s peppermint stick
Hasta la vista , Ice Cream Machine (a local place) mint chocolate chip and cinnamon sugar (not together)
It’s been an adventure
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@John Cole: What is “New and improved, now with FRESH RAMPS” supposed to mean, anyway?
efgoldman
Rivers and Chargers always have been choke artists
Omnes Omnibus
@Corner Stone: @Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): During one of the recent upgrades, they asked for phrases to be added. Alain seems to be a decent guy, so I will blame Tommy.
WaterGirl
@GregB: What, nobody on Trump’s team noticed that the guy died?? The gang that couldn’t shoot straight.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@WaterGirl: “how the fuck did you lose to a pineapple”
WaterGirl
@John Cole: Please please please! I love the rotating tags that come from a great comment or from the post itself Someone added a bunch of phrases they have found somewhere, and it’s just not the same.
Corner Stone
@Omnes Omnibus: Heck, there’s nothing in there about corn fields or book libraries or crying when people don’t vote.
WaterGirl
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Your comment flew right over my head. Help, please.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: The person involved in the update did not understand the rotating tags. They were not intended to be merely cute phrases. I still blame Tommy.
Patricia Kayden
@GregB: Everything in your comment suggests that Trump is nothing but a criminal who needs to hide what he does from the public. Mueller must be shocked at what he’s discovering. Nixon on steroids.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@WaterGirl: References a Dilbert episode where the Pointy-Haired Boss is losing a game of chess to the aforementioned plant.
Can we talk about the FT article upthread?
Major Major Major Major
Samwise posed for some pictures with my new phone.
gene108
@efgoldman:
You aren’t on a phosphorous binder? They can cover up a lot of bad eating, like yogurt, cheese (i.e. pizzas, grilled cheese, etc) and ice cream, in moderate amounts of course.
Mike in NC
We did our annual Christmas tradition for the past 20 or so years and watched “National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation” with a great cast that included Chevy Chase. We still laugh our asses off at the various classic scenes with the underwear model, the lights on the roof, the yuppie neighbors, the squirrel, etc.
frosty
@WaterGirl:
Seconded. I want to see “And don’t forget to hydrate!”
Ruckus
@efgoldman:
Yeah I’m not there yet but good ice cream is very, very much a luxury. One that I can ill afford.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Completely agree about missing the point on the tags. I’m also game to blame Tommy, even though he was long gone by then.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus:
Of course.
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: Love the second photo for a “serious” look, but that bottom photo is the absolute best!
Ruckus
@Major Major Major Major:
He looks like he could chew off an arm or other appendage rather easily. I take it he gets whatever he wants.
Nice pictures btw.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@frosty: …and “Stay Frosty”.
WaterGirl
@frosty: I loved that video – that would be a good one. I want Major Major Major Major to run some sort of script that searches the blog comments for the words “rotating tag”. We all say “I nominate this for a rotating tag”, but no one else ever sees that.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
The first picture is “What are you looking at?”
Lyrebird
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Are you from the West Coast?
Google “what are ramps” if you’re not familiar with the culinary sense of the term. (they are yum!)
WaterGirl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I clearly have more self control than you do, because I thought it but I didn’t type it.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Ruckus: I’ve been pretty impressed with the quality of pics from my new phone as well. The cameras on the phones have come quite a ways in the past 3 years. They still have the tiny sensors though, so I’m not junking my NX-500.
TheMightyTrowel
@efgoldman: can you have non dairy frozen treats? Milk products and i don’t get on but coconut and almonds milk ice creams are excellent and i have a cuisinart ice cream maker that you can just dump fruit in and get a tasty frozen treat out of. Best so far is 750g banana plus 60g chopped up dark chocolate. Nom.
Major Major Major Major
@WaterGirl: i made a form to submit rotating tags but Alain keeps not putting it up.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WaterGirl: It’s what Adam always says, either to remember to hydrate of stay frosty.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: I know that he was gone, but Alain has done yeoman’s work and I don’t want to come down on him.
ETA: But fuck Tommy anyway. He was in my fraternity, and he said he hazed people. Just saying. The casual racism and anti-antisemitism was just icing on the cake for me.
Davebo
@Major Major Major Major: Fabulous.
What phone?
Major Major Major Major
@Davebo: iPhone 8 Plus
NotMax
@https://balloon-juice.com/2017/12/16/saturday-night-open-thread-67/#comment-6681267
Predates its use there, but stay frosty was also emplyed a lot by the lead character Bob on the late, lamented cartoon series Reboot.
efgoldman
@gene108:
I am, and the nutritionist at the kidney center understands very well about humans being human and cuts people a lot of slack(*). But I’m only fife months in, and I had a hard time getting stable on peritoneal home dialysis, so for now I’m leaving it alone. Cole just triggered it, bastard.
ETA: What I really miss is bacon and sausage (of many varieties). We’re trying to find some “unprocessed” (spelled) “expensive”) in our area
(*)She describes a patient who goes to the center for overnight dialysis three nights a week, and who every couple of weeks send out for a large pizza – at the center – and eats it. Their philosophy, if they forbid it, he won’t show up.
eemom
@Omnes Omnibus:
What happened with Tommy? Was there some glorious flame to death or GBCW thread that I missed?
Yarrow
@efgoldman: Have a look online. You might be able to order the kind of bacon and sausage you need and have it delivered for less than you can get it nearby.
This made me smile:
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: Maybe we can bug Alain about that once he’s back up to full speed.
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I know. I almost typed “stay frosty” myself, but I was afraid I would get booed. :-)
@Ruckus: I thought the first photo was more “do not fuck with me”, but you could be right.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman:
Considering your musical background, that typo made me lol.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Yep. Not good, so glad the Tommy chapter is closed. I’m sorry if that is still affecting Valdivia.
Ruckus
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I have a very nice Nikon and 3 very nice lens but I find that I use the camera once every year or so. I should probably sell it.
Omnes Omnibus
@eemom: He is gone. He told people that he had “God Mode” while I assume that he was drunk and upset with people like me. Shortly after that, he lost the keys.
Duane
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): Couldn’t get past the FT’s paywall. I’d like to know more, now that I’m curious.
Also, fuckem. (hi old man)
Enhanced Voting Techniques
F**king You Tube, I am a white middle aged male so I must just love men’s right videos. I mean talk about a pack of limp dick wusses. What kind of useless twat spends all of his time whining about women? They go about “I am an alpha male”, WTF do these dorks think that means; of course everyone dependent on you wants to fix their problems. They can glory in being the patriarch, no, they whine like a child. Gods it’s sickening.
WaterGirl
@Yarrow: That tweet thread made me happy. :-)
@Duane: I didn’t know what “FT article” was referring to.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Maybe you should take up a hobby, they think I like photography(they’re right).
Omnes Omnibus
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: My YouTube offers Distillers and Rancid videos. Just saying.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
“What are you looking at?” said with the right tone is the same as “do not fuck with me”.
So we actually are in agreement on Samwise.
Elizabelle
@Duane: Here’s the FT article title. Brexit, Trump and a generation of incompetents
Copy and paste it into Google, google it. and then click on that. You can evade the FT paywall and read.
eclare
@Major Major Major Major: Regal kitty!
WaterGirl
@Ruckus: A very handsome boy! With attitude. What more can you ask for in a cat. Besides being photogenic and being willing to sit for photos. Samwise has it all. Still love that big yawn.
eclare
@Mike in NC: Can you believe Julia Louis-Dreyfus was in that? Amazing. Love that movie.
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus: F1, chess, and British panel shows.
Not one sailing video on my front page even though I watched the American girls 420 gold.
Omnes Omnibus
@Mike J: And more…
WaterGirl
@Elizabelle: Thanks for that. I have it opened in a tab to read tomorrow. And with that, I am going to head for bed. ‘Night all.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mike J: 420, eh?
Mike J
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Blaze it.
Duane
@Elizabelle: Thanks Elizabelle.
Jacel
@NotMax: Reboot was one of the best shows ever.
rikyrah
@GregB:
?????
rikyrah
@GregB:
Follow this to its logical conclusion.
Bobby Three Sticks didn’t ask a question that he didn’t already have the answer to.???
Why do I smell repeated charges of LYING to the FBI being filed???
efgoldman
@Omnes Omnibus:
That, plus he never ever used fivewords when ten would do the same job, and he never, ever wrote a post without extolling the god like virtues of his parents, the Gibraltar of parenthood, so much so that I think he was in denial about something.
Wasn’t he also stalking one of the female regulars?
eclare
I just lost the refresh button on tabs on Firefox. I’ve rebooted and no luck, anyone have any advice?
ETA> Fixed.
NotMax
@Jacel
In case you’ve never seen the episodes they put out after the show was cancelled in the U.S., do check ’em out.
(Slangily put, Andraia growed up real good. :) )
@Omnes Omnibus
Also too, that none of us knew how to internet right.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
ten…?
did you know they are quite wealthy, but quite modest about it?
Amir Khalid
@John Cole:
This will result in people complaining that you weeded out their favourite tag line.
NotMax
@Jacel
Addendum to above.
There’s a season 3 and season 4. Only seasons 1 and 2 originally aired on ABC in the U.S.
Frisket rules. ;)
GregB
@rikyrah:
I think Jared will be following in his father’s footsteps.
Major Major Major Major
@Amir Khalid: oh no, how will Cole be able to handle bitching commenters
Amir Khalid
@Major Major Major Major:
No problem. He will just deploy his usual endearing grumpiness.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
It’s his house, he can decorate it as he sees fit.
(Okay, maybe except for that Grateful Dead visual atrocity.)
Jay Noble
One thing that has become very annoyinng to me in the Mueller coverage is the recurring use of inaccurate verb tenses – Mueller Obtains Trump Emails. No. He obtained them some time ago.
I also caught an interesting tidbit over at DKos that by using the GSA’s email and databases, the Trump transition gave up any claim to an expectation of privacy. Anything done through them was the Government business and subject to Government Audits. Mueller is an authorized Auditor. :-)
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
He commissioned it from Ted & Hellen, a not-terribly-good portrait artist and by far the vilest troll I have ever come across in these threads.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Am aware. Formerly known as spatula.
Jacel
@NotMax: I think I saw those later seasons of Reboot as it eventually appeared on Cartoon Network, after ABC cancelled it on Saturday mornings. I have the DVD set of the complete series.
rikyrah
@Jay Noble:
I love this about the Mueller camp.We find something out, and it happened weeks, if not months ago ?
Steeplejack
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
It’s paywalled, you nitwit.
Ruckus
@rikyrah:
That’s exactly how it is supposed to happen. They are supposed to know long before the perps or their lawyers think they might or do. Otherwise it’s just a fishing expedition. And mainly because it’s difficult to ask the right questions if you don’t know the answers or who to ask them of and in what order the people and questions should be asked. A major reason it takes so long to make it work, getting those answers, going through everything and building a case. Today it takes less time because it used to be all on paper and every scrap had to be gathered, read, cataloged, and just plain handled. Now there is more info to go through but, you get thousands of emails or digital images, like checks, which can be searched for key words in at worst minutes or in many different ways.
J R in WV
@Elizabelle:
Having read the article, it isn’t terrible, but it ISN’T great either. I’m going to paste a little bit in that I feel like commenting on.
According to Wikipedia, Simon Kuper is a British author, born in Uganda of South African parents, and moved to Leiden in the Netherlands as a child, he has also lived in South Africa (to escape the Dutch winters), Stanford, California, Berlin and London. He studied History and German at Oxford University, and attended Harvard University as a Kennedy Scholar. He now lives in Paris with his family. With that world experience and education, he chooses to write about sports. Except when he decides to write about world political affairs and geopolitical strategy as in this short article.
While FT is correct that “Copying articles to share with others is a breach of FT.com T&Cs and Copyright Policy”… I’m not here to share good data with friends, I’n here to critique the terrible errors of logic and fact this aurthor made all the way through his article, or as far as I can stand it… here starts the critique:
At this point we just have to forgive the stupid assumption that people with deeply self-centered and evil intentions may be intelligent. We here know that greed is so very seldom going to produce good policy. Right wing nationalists always have a plan – the problem is that their strategic plan is based upon their incorrect beliefs about globalism and freedom of movement. There’s also a big hit of the stupid, necessary to think that globalism and freedom of movement are bad things for economic management.
Here the author gets close to acknowledging that the British still operate from the wrong assumption that they are a world-spanning empire, which informs their relationships with the rest of the world’s governments. They are a (very small) nuclear power, and so sometimes have veto power, but it doesn’t do them any good in international economic terms – you can’t have economic relations with a radioactive waste. The EU has ALL the power in Brexit negotiations because they don’t care, and in the end they can expel England and end England access to the continental EU, should they decide they are better off without England and with Ireland and Scotland.
Our author seems to be going somewhere, but goes off the rails badly at the end. I’m a Boomer. One of my first formative experiences was the Cuban Missile Crisis, when I attempted to dig a fallout shelter in very hard ridgetop caprock with a pick and shovel. I was eleven. We survived, though I still have nightmares about it, because it reoccurs as we see today in the Persian Gulf and the Korean peninsula. Then the president who guided the free world through that near-death experience, J F Kennedy, was shot through the head in Dallas TX, which hasn’t changed much since then.
Boomers are divided, some have become IGMFY nationalists, gun huggers, Nazis, and don’t remember or never knew about the Cuban Missile Crisis, DEFCON 5-1 etc. They are Republicans, or at least when they vote they vote for Republican candidates who promise to keep them on top – IGMFY.
The rest of the Boomer generation remember the Cuban Missile Crisis, the JFK and MLK and RFK murders, Nixon’s treason with the North Vietnamese, Reagan’s treason with the Iranians, Bush’s war crimes in Iraq AND the greatest terrorist attack in our nation’s history during his first term. We have no illusions about Trump’s treason, which is more blatant and more serious than any president in history. I just hope the military is able to keep trump from starting WW III to attempt to distract the world from his lessor crimes. At that point he will have joined the likes of Hitler, Stalin, Ghengis Khan, Pol Pot and Mao as the greatest genocidal mass murders in history.
If he does enough damage he could cause the end of civilization, which would remove our ability to fight global warming with global engineering. Really, everything Trump touches is the kiss of death. Even the “Tax Cut” bill will do more harm than anyone can imagine – just what we need at the beginning of the war on climate change – the beginning of the Greatest Depression !!!
J R in WV
@J R in WV:
Left out the Boomer wars, Korea and Vietnam, my bad. There was so much wrong about this Boer’s article it was hard to hit every error as hard as it deserved.
I think it is pretty well established in the serious economics thinkers that a great big tax cut right on top of the Roaring 20s caused the Great Depression, and personally I think this big ol’ corporate tax cut on top of the current boom bubble will cause another equally bad economic contraction. We can hope Keynesian politicians will be in charge from the get-go so that it won’t be as great as it could be if Trump is in charge of the first 5 or 6 years of a depression.
I think one investment many people should seriously consider is downloading “Nuclear War Survival Skills” and reading it. It’s about civil defense, building a shelter in your yard with a pick, a shovel and stuff found in most homes, like shower curtains and bed sheets. Written by an engineer at Oak Ridge National Lab named Cresson Kearny.
I was surprised to learn that exotic filtration isn’t very important because fallout particles are so heavy, so if you have 8 or 10 feet of entrance tunnel you pull fresh air through, most of the radioactive material will fall out onto the tunnel floor. Low tech, but tested for accuracy by people who knew their radio-chemistry. Foreword by Dr Teller, whoever that was! /s