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Late Evening Open Thread: Floriduh Monkey! Looking For A Good Time

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Floriduh! Monkey, what have you been up to?

From NBC 6 Miami:

Police were trying to find a monkey that was on the loose near the King of Diamonds strip club in North Miami Beach Tuesday.

The monkey came from an industrial area west of I-95 and was reportedly loose in the area of the club near Northeast 6th Avenue between 179th and 180th streets.

Police said the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission was assisting in the search.

FWC officials said the Vervet monkey is a wild animal. A colony of them live in Dania Beach but some have migrated south, officials said.

The search was being suspended, FWC officials said.

The monkey was probably just looking to take in the show…

Stay frosty!

Open thread.

(As far as we know from the reporting, no monkeys – wild or otherwise – nor ecdysiasts were injured in the making of this post.)

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  2. 2.

    Corner Stone

    Stormy’s attorney Avenatti is doing his absolute *best* to goad M Cohen and Trump into losing their cool. He’s pushing hard on all the buttons.

  7. 7.

    Jeffro

    Let’s see…Florida had alligators and mosquitoes to begin with…added pythons and monkeys…what’s next?

  8. 8.

    patrick II

    Stormy Daniels lawyer is talking to Ari right now and says Trump and his lawyer Cohen have stepped into every trap possible. Stormy and her lawyer are playing chess and Cohen is playing Tic Tac Toe — badly.

  10. 10.

    Corner Stone

    But, really, I mean – you find yourself in Florida on an otherwise boring Tuesday night. Whattaugonnado, amirite?

  11. 11.

    Miss Bianca

    So who’ going to be first to make the obligatory lame reference to “monkey business”? Me? Really?

  15. 15.

    Betty Cracker

    @rikyrah: I’m working late tonight and checking the returns every now and then. Looks like that bastard Lipinski is going to win, if the projections hold. That’s a pity.

  16. 16.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Feebog: Yes. Some are the descendants of escaped monkeys that were brought in for the various 1950s/1960s tourist attractions. Some are escaped exotic pets or their descendants. Some are dumped former exotic pets or their descendants. They are very, very dangerous. And they don’t avoid populated areas.

  17. 17.

    Corner Stone

    That fucking auto-reload auto-play feed on the main page needs to die an untimely death.

  18. 18.

    Calouste

    @patrick II: Suggesting that the shitgibbon is an idiot who falls for the simplest of traps sounds like a very good way to have him make even more mistakes.

  21. 21.

    Corner Stone

    Lost a lot of respect for Betsy Woodruff with her BS and thoughtless reply on how to deal with Fake News.

  23. 23.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Corner Stone: When I lived in Miami, my law enforcement aikido students used to swear by the food at the strip clubs. Said they had the best food, for the most reasonable prices anywhere in south Florida. Miami – what you gonna do?

  24. 24.

    patroclus

    Primary night in the Land of Lincoln! Most of my candidates are losing (as usual), but J.B Pritzker is really delivering a barn burner right now. I was for Biss, but JB’s okay and had moved left. My Muslim woman Congressional candidate – Sameena Mustafa – is also losing but Quigley’s not terrible. My AG candidate is also losing – Nancy Rotering, but Kwame Raoul is okay. So, I voted my convictions but feel good about rallying round this November. JB is really giving a good speech!

  25. 25.

    Corner Stone

    @patrick II: And Avenatti is not wrong! I still have zero idea why Trump would admit to being has named aka Dennison and join a lawsuit to enforce an agreement his own lawyer said Trump had no idea about!
    And whatever goods Stormy has on Trump they are laying breadcrumbs all down the path to a really bad end for Trump.

  33. 33.

    Chet Murthy

    OT: the Parkland youth leaders. The *message discipline* on these folks! I’m completely in awe! Whatever that government teacher (and their other teachers) did to prepare these folks for their historic challenge, we need more of that, STAT! They

    (a) repeatedly stress how this is a nonpartisan effort, and everybody of good heart & will is needed

    (b) repeatedly stress how we can’t be demonizing people who think differently (e.g. Kyle Kashuv (sp?))

    (c) and call out everybody in power on the other side with brutal scorn as only a teenager can

    (d) and they’re making sure to include other voices (people of color) and other efforts (reproductive rights)

    Geez, we need to create an army of people with these skills. And just to be clear, I DO NOT think their skills were somehow hatched in the cauldron of their nightmare of 14 Feb . I think they were merely trained well, and their skills were just untapped, unleashed by what was otherwise a horrible event. If we had thousands of such young people, imagine how they could completely change our movement — all the parts of our movement(s).

  34. 34.

    Corner Stone

    @Gretchen: Woodruff basically blamed the voters. Saying they had plenty of websites, fact checking sites and news orgs they could do the legwork to find out for themselves about things.
    Now, I agree with better voter education. But there has to be a better organizational and foundational way to label sources/sites that are harmful/heinous. A huge chunk of people can’t check 4 or 5 sites three times a week to track down some rabbit hole of nonsense. And those fact checker sites are garbage anyway. Why do we have them in the first place? Because the fucking media have been captured by both siderism instead of just reporting the actual facts.
    IOW, it was a bullshit copout on her part.

  39. 39.

    satby

    @rikyrah: and it looks like Lipinski held on in a squeeker, dammit.

    My old community organizer compadre Tio Hardiman was running for governor and I never even knew it. But I’m glad Kwame Raoul looks like he won his primary.

  40. 40.

    patroclus

    Il-3 is still very tight – Lipinski 51 Newman 49 (about a 1400 difference) with 90% in.

  42. 42.

    lamh36

    Welp…I’ve been down the youtube rabbit hole watching clips of Frank Rogers testifiying in front of the Senate in 1969 to support a bill that would fund/support public television around the country…

    You can blame the release of that new Mr. Rogers’ documentary I mentioned in one of the previous threads (ICYMI: WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? – Official Trailer [HD] – In Select Theaters June 8

    And here is the clip of Fred Rogers testifying: May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications

    …ROGERS: I’m constantly concerned about what our children are seeing. And for 15 years I have tried in this country and Canada to present what I feel is a meaningful expression of care.

    JOHN PASTORE: Do you narrate it?

    ROGERS: I’m the host, yes. And I do all the puppets and I write all the music and I write all the scripts.

    PASTORE: I’m supposed to be a pretty tough guy, and this is the first time I’ve had goose bumps for the last two days.

    (LAUGHTER)

    ROGERS: Well, I’m grateful, not only for your goose bumps but for your interest in our kind of communication. Could I tell you the words of one of the songs which I feel is very important?

    PASTORE: Yes.

    ROGERS: This has to do with that good feeling of control, which I feel that children need to know it’s there. And it starts out, what do you do with the mad that you feel? And that first line came straight from a child. I work with children, doing puppets in very personal communication with small groups.

    What do you do with the mad that you feel, when you feel so mad you could bite, when the whole wide world seems oh, so wrong and nothing you do seems very right? What do you do? Do you punch a bag? Do you pound some clay or some dough? Do you round up friends for a game of tag or see how fast you go? It’s great to be able to stop when you’ve planned the thing that’s wrong and be able to do something else instead and think this song. I can stop when I want to, can stop when I wish, can stop, stop, stop any time. And what a good feeling to feel like this and know that the feeling is really mine, know that there’s something deep inside that helps us become what we can, for a girl can be someday a lady and a boy can be someday a man.

    PASTORE: I think it’s wonderful. I think it’s wonderful. Looks like you just earned the $20 million.

    (LAUGHTER)

  46. 46.

    Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)

    @Adam L Silverman: Mostly rhesus monkeys. IIRC the primary danger is that a strain of herpes they carry leads to potentially-fatal encephalitis.

    Nothing to do with escapees, but I actually have a pet white-throated capuchin seven years older than I am (1988 vs. 1995). Back in Brooklyn my family had actually been looking for a shar-pei, but saw an ad in the paper for monkeys from Venezuela – the guy selling the monkeys had been training them to help paraplegics, but he had too much and the monkey my mom & paternal uncle bought was one of the excess.

  49. 49.

    satby

    @Corner Stone: my former friend, the journalist, told me the same thing. They seem to forget that’s THEIR full time job description, not the public’s. The fourth estate exists to inform the public, but fact checking them shouldn’t be our full time job.

  50. 50.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Jager: I figured. Whenever I need restaurant recommendations some place I’ve not been I ask the cops. They always know the good places to eat. And usually good food for low prices.

  51. 51.

    patroclus

    @Eric S.: Rauner is toast in November. Both Biss and Kennedy were strongly pro-JB in their speeches. It won’t be Obama-Keyes-like, but we’ll win by at least 10 points. Still hoping for a late Newman surge in Il-3.

  53. 53.

    No Drought No More

    On April Fools Day, someone should pose as a reporter and phone Dan Quayle to ask his opinion about anything.

    Harry Truman said Herbert Hoover actually cried a little when invited to the White House for the first time after being exiled by FDR in 1933, and upon being asked by the new president for his thoughts on rebuilding Europe after WW2. Hoover was manifestly the right guy to ask, and Truman was sensible enough to recognize it. Best of all, Hoover’s reaction was eminently human. Indeed, it’s hands down the most human moment of his life of which I’m aware. That said, I’m not inclined to question Roosevelt’s animus towards Hoover as being anything other than well deserved, and will never censure his memory for it.. Yeah, someone should see if they can get Quayle to cry, too.

  56. 56.

    lamh36

    @lamh36: more about the clip:

    On May 1, 1969, Fred Rogers, host of the (then) recently nationally syndicated children’s television series, Mister Rogers’ Neighborhood (named Misterogers’ Neighborhood at the time), testified before the Senate Committee on Commerce Subcommittee on Communications to defend $20 million in federal funding proposed for the newly formed non-profit Corporation for Public Broadcasting, which was at risk of being reduced to $10 million. Subcommittee chairman, Senator John Pastore (D-RI), unfamiliar with Fred Rogers, is initially abrasive toward him. Over the course of Rogers’ 6 minutes of testimony, Pastore’s demeanor gradually transitions to one of awe and admiration as Rogers speaks.

    Oh and I saw a few weeks ago the headline about Tom Hanks playing Fred Rogers for a movie. I thought it was a biopic, but apparently not. This is the article that the Tom Hanks Mr. Rogers’ movie will be based on…funny enough, I recall reading it way back when in ’98.

    And I gotta say….if done right and they can match the feelings the article gives ya…Tom Hanks may be looking at another Oscar?

    The Definitive Mr. Rogers Profile: ‘Can You Say…Hero?’ via @Esquire

  61. 61.

    patroclus

    Cannabis legalization is at 89% in an advisory referendum – I think Illinois should act like the UK politicians with BREXIT and treat advisory referenda as binding!! But JB moved on it during the primary and is on record as supporting it, so it’s at least possible.
    @Eric S.: Newman narrowed it to 1350 in latest update.

  62. 62.

    lamh36

    @Omnes Omnibus: Sorrry… Mr. Rogers! I swear I never knew his first name until I was WAYYY older…and even then…I swear if I ever were to have seen him when he was alive, and he were to say “call me Fred” I’d probably wouldn’t still do anything but call him Mr. Rogers….LOL

  66. 66.

    Corner Stone

    @GregB: Avenatti was doing full on taunting macho tonight. He was calling M Cohen and Trump a couple of drunken bums chasing their lost monkey down a dark alley who ended up getting rolled over and over again.
    I hope somebody buys an ad on Fox & Friends that shows clips of Avenatti from tonight.

  68. 68.

    lamh36

    The documentary trailer, touched on a few of the themes that Fred Rogers’ discussed/incorporated on the show, that would likely seem “radical” in a children’s program…one of which was the assassination of Bobby Kennedy…

    One of the show after the death of Bobby Kennedy:

    FRED ROGERS: (As Daniel Striped Tiger) Well, what about your air?

    BETTY ABERLIN: (As Lady Aberlin) My air inside me?

    ROGERS: (As Daniel Striped Tiger) Mhmm. What if you blow all your air out? Then you won’t have any left, just like the balloon.

    ABERLIN: (As Lady Aberlin) But people aren’t like balloons, Daniel. When we blow air out, we get some more back in. Watch, I’ll blow air out (blowing up balloon).

    ROGERS: (As Daniel Striped Tiger) Oh.

    ABERLIN: (Blowing up balloon).

    ROGERS: (As Daniel Striped Tiger) What does assassination mean?

    ABERLIN: (As Lady Aberlin) Have you heard that word a lot today?

    ROGERS: (As Daniel Striped Tiger) Yes, and I didn’t know what it meant.

    ABERLIN: (As Lady Aberlin) Well, it means somebody getting killed in a sort of surprise way.

    ROGERS: (As Daniel Striped Tiger) That’s what happened, you know? That man killed that other man.

    ABERLIN: (As Lady Aberlin) I know, and a lot of people are talking about it right now.

    ROGERS: (As Daniel Striped Tiger) Too many people are talking about it.

    ABERLIN: (As Lady Aberlin) A lot of people are sad and scared about it, you know?

    ROGERS: (As Daniel Striped Tiger) I’d rather talk about it some other day.

    GROSS: So that was the day after Bobby Kennedy’s assassination.

    BIANCULLI: Yeah. It’s unbelievable to me that – that Fred Rogers would be so sensitive that he would think that even preschoolers would be part of the family dynamic where everybody was upset. And, you know, maybe parents wouldn’t bother to explain anything to kids that young. But Fred Rogers thought they needed it. But that’s just so unexpected to me, and I can’t imagine any children’s television program today daring to do that.
    npr.org/2016/11/10/501556982/the-greatest-hits-of-the-platinum-age-of-television

  70. 70.

    dmsilev

    @Omnes Omnibus: It’s a very Democratic district, so doesn’t surprise me that the GOP couldn’t find a serious candidate, but you’d think they could find a volunteer to run on the ‘at least I’m not literally a Nazi’ platform. Guess not.

  71. 71.

    patroclus

    Kelly Mazeski is winning in Il-6 to face Peter Roskam, a horrible Republican in a Congressional District that Hillary carried. She’s a breast cancer survivor and a decent candidate. If there’s a blue wave, she stands a chance.

  72. 72.

    Eric S.

    @patroclus: JB should – SHOULD – win handily in November.

    Whatever good or bad he’s done, I’m happy to see Quinn losing for AG. I like him but time for the old guard to go. Raul isn’t exactly a fresh face but newer than Quinn.

  78. 78.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @dmsilev:

    but you’d think they could find a volunteer to run on the ‘at least I’m not literally a Nazi’ platform.

    Yep.

  81. 81.

    Raoul

    In open thread news, my friend Kevin Gaither is pulling away in his run to be the Democratic nominee for IL-15 to run against Rethug John Shimkus.

    Kevin is leading his Dem opponent 62% to 38% with 90% of precincts in, so while it’s too small a race for the media to care to call it, I think he’s the lucky winner of a tilt at the windmill.

    IL-15 has $1,656 in the “Nominee Fund” kitty. I think Kevin has raised about $5,400 so far on his own, so in percent terms this’ll be a bit of a boost. Thanks to those 88 of us BJers who’ve gone in for $172.23 to IL-15 via Doug’s ActBlue thermometer and pretty active nudging for all of us to keep donating.

    And a reminder that as primaries get decided, nominee funds start getting allocated so we may want to give directly to candidates in the GOP flippable races. I have a spreadsheet of my top 50 or so. Kevin isn’t really one of the top 50, his PVI is a tough haul, but I’ll keep supporting him because, well, he’s a friend, and I think it’s great to get a Dem counter-narrative out there in small town America.

  83. 83.

    patroclus

    @Eric S.: I thought about voting for Quinn, but there are so many reasons I just couldn’t do it. Too much history and I once vowed (35 years ago) that I’d never ever do it, but then I was forced to (twice). Not again. I ended up voting for Rotering, which I suppose helped Raoul.

    Newman narrows it again – ever so slightly. About 1300 now.

  85. 85.

    lamh36

    @lamh36: oh…and not for nothing, but it was the same year after that PBS funding bill was approved, that Sesame Street premiered on PBS in November 1969.

    So who can say for sure, but gotta think…that bills approval went along way to making Sesame Street able to happen thanks to public broadcasting funds!

  86. 86.

    satby

    @Eric S.: my Chicago house is in that district. Called the kids last night and texted them this morning to go vote against Lipinski. I’m just sad I couldn’t because I don’t live there anymore.

  88. 88.

    Eric S.

    @satby: I met that smarmy bastard once. My GF at the time was being honored for becoming Nationally Board Certified as a H.S. teacher. It took a lot of self control to bite my tongue. It would have ruined her night.

  89. 89.

    chris

    Quite the house, eh? My cat Steve would have the time of his life in there pushing precious things off tables and shelves.

    On another note, Ladies and gentlemen, the Republican candidate in IL-03, Mr. Arthur Jones! JFC.

  91. 91.

    Waratah

    @lamh36: My daughter was just talking about the movie. I thought he was wonderful my children stopped their play and did not miss a minute of his show. I was able to get a lot of housework done.

  92. 92.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Steve in the DFW: Only if they’re my students, paying me to consult or run an inservice, and/or asking for restaurant recommendations. Everything else they talk to my lawyer.

  93. 93.

    satby

    @chris: the Democratic primary IS the election in IL-03, which is why I was hoping Lipinski would lose. It’s a solid Democratic area.

    Edited to add: Lipinski will probably pull it off, but at least the jerk had to worry a bit. Good.

  97. 97.

    Eric S.

    I won’t lie, I’m in a bar and thru one TV tuned to local news has the sound turned off. What’s Bruce talking about right now? None of the web sites I’m checking habe any thing new to say about GOP gubernatorial race.

  98. 98.

    satby

    @chris: well, they used to ask me to be a Republican election judge because they couldn’t get people to do that either, and I listed myself as an independent (back when that didn’t mean embarrassed Republucan). Republicans are scarce in those parts.

  103. 103.

    lamh36

    @Waratah: with the show ending in 2001…it’s interesting to know that folks younger than say 20-ish…have no idea who Mr Rogers is or have never seen the show…although apparently there is an animated show on PBS called Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood…that is based on characters from the “land of make believe” that has been on since 2012…so they may not have known of Mr Rogers, but his legacy of children centered programming lives on

  106. 106.

    CaseyL

    @chris: Oh. My. GOD. I think I’m in love. What a tchochke-festooned idiosyncrastic showplace. How does it manage to be so cluttered and yet so light and airy?

    I’m particularly fond of the statues at all corners of the bed in one of the bedroom. Nothing like looking up during a passionate moment with your sweetie and seeing The Virgin Mary staring down at you.

    I must look up the former owners. Mad as hatters, they have to have been.

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