From wise commentor & rescue angel Satby:
Here’s some kitten crack for the jackals. I think there’s over 20 right now at Becky’s maternity ward / abandoned kitten orphanage. These skinny little guys were abandoned. Lots of sweet little faces to brighten up your day. All will be available for adoption, but not until they have been fixed and immunized, so that’s still some weeks in the future. Just in case anyone falls in love ?
[At the top], a bonus kitten pile pick of not-so-feral Turtle’s kittens, both adopted and bio. The one giving us the eye is Turtle’s mini-me.
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Not sure these orphans would have much use for pease pudding, but who could resist trying to satisfy such pleading little faces?
SiubhanDuinne
What sweet little faces!
OzarkHillbilly
Blech. Cuteness overload at 4:15 am. NOT how to start a Monday.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone ???
rikyrah
So much cuteness ???
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Anybody want to look at my portfolio website and tell me if it sucks? It’s billinglendaleca.com.
JGabriel
This page/post is what most news sites would look like if Make America Kittens Again actually worked.
JGabriel
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I can’t tell if it works or not. Is it supposed to redirect everyone to free porn?
(I keed, I keed! It works fine. Nice star porn. But why do all the photos look like they have some sort of huge ghostly, erm … erection … in the center of them?)
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
I’m guessing when Drumpf found out Macron’s congressional speech was critical he had the three ripped out. Either that or desperate to pay off his debts he sold it on craiglist.
WereBear
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Actually, that’s a good template for what you are doing. I like it.
Gorgeous photos. Struck by the urban/nature blend.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JGabriel: Thanks. I want to add tooltips to the social media icons to the right of the menu, still trying to figure out the CSS.
WereBear
I think I got a spike in my kitten fever. Adorbs. I would love to take them all home and see how they grow into adulthood with each other.
I will take a grant.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WereBear: Eventually all the pics in the slideshow in the main page will be in the galleries.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: How do I know you aren’t scooping up our metadata?
SiubhanDuinne
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
Neither of those scenarios would surprise me in the least, but apparently the tree is fine, merely in quarantine for a while to ensure it has no parasites or diseases that might threaten other nearby trees.
Edit: http://fortune.com/2018/04/30/macron-trump-tree-white-house/
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I don’t know how to do that, I’m still figuring out tooltips.
WereBear
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Figured so. Are you planning to fine-grain the galleries? People seem to like more categories to browse through, especially if you are going to have a lot.
Don’t break their tiny brains.
OzarkHillbilly
@?BillinGlendaleCA: It blows.
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: The French press say it is at an ICE holding site as an illegal alien pending deportation proceedings.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WereBear: There’ll be quite a few more galleries(infrared, buildings, waterfalls…).
ETA: I’ll probably also break up Galleries if they become too big as well. I’m not sure what ‘too big’ is yet.
@OzarkHillbilly: I knew I could count on you!
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Ok good. It’s very nice. A lot faster than Flickr.
satby
@?BillinGlendaleCA: it looks great!
Delighted you’re finally going pro so I can get one at some point.
rikyrah
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Really beautiful ??
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Heh!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Flickr’s been plagued by neglect the past few years, Smugmug just bought them, that may improve. But there’s quite a bit fewer pics here that on Flickr.
@satby: Thanks, it’ll probably go live later this week.
@rikyrah: Thanks much.
satby
@rikyrah: Good morning ?, thanks!I
@OzarkHillbilly: ?
satby
@WereBear: inorite? I can’t take any kittens but if I could, one of Turtle’s little black ones and that little white guy at the bottom would be mine. There’s three all white ones in that litter, and they may end up as special needs since there’s a high rate of deafness in white cats with blue eyes. It’s a genetic mutation.
Edit, which I know Werebear knows, explanation for others.
OzarkHillbilly
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Ana Navarro:
Immanentize
Good morning All. Thanks so much for the Kittens, @satby: .
And @?BillinGlendaleCA: It looks great! When I read you we’re figuring out ‘tooltips’ I read that as you were going to add a section of photography tips (very tired, in Chicago). But even though I read that wrong, you certainly have written enough very helpful photog tips here to make a great user section for the site….
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Immanentize: Thanks, congrats to Immp(I got to thread where you related his team’s victory at Ford Field late and it was pretty dead by then).
I should probably spend less time figuring out the tooltips on the social media icons and more time making the FYWP blog look more like the portfolio site(and also putting tips and content on the blog).
satby
@Immanentize: how long are you going to be in Chicago?
debbie
@JGabriel:
Combine that with the app that turns his tweets into childish scrawls and America would indeed be better!
debbie
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
Quarantine.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: Regular folks will learn about the “controversy” this morning. I hope the false sanctimony outrages people on our side into committed action.
bystander
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Could we have a gallery of Baud in infrared? Vaselined lens shots?
Baud
@bystander: I’m too cool for infrared.
Immanentize
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Thanks! It was awesome to watch and be part of. A well-timed positive!
@satby: Just until Wednesday morning. It’s my annual Clinical Teachers’ conference. I am running a scholarship workshop with a friend, but as I missed it last year, mostly I’m just reconnecting with friend/colleagues.
Baud
Damn, Today show is actually showing the Wolf slam about the media loving Trump.
Kay
I hope the Republican who is running as a Democrat only because he can’t run as a Republican doesn’t win.
Democrats here are really mad that Franken resigned- was pushed to resign, is their take. I was surprised how upset they still are about it. Obviously it doesn’t matter in Minnesota- Minnesota Democrats would have to be upset and I don’t know if they are. But Gillibrand’s got a problem if she’s running for President. They;re mad. They think he was pushed out with no process and that it was a Right wing set up, and they liked him. They’re mostly women, BTW. They think he was held to an unfair standard and no one else will ever be held to that standard again, which is pretty much the definition of “unfair”.
zhena gogolia
These kittehs are so cute. We’ll be adopting next summer, but I’ll have to stay true to our local cat shelter, which is run out of a very nice woman’s home since we don’t have an official one in this town.
rikyrah
@Immanentize:
Congratulations to Little Imma ??
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
Good! I’m hoping it will be like Colbert — outrage for the first 24 hours, then the message starts seeping through . . . . Thanks, Youtube!
debit
I love the eye markings on the ginger tabby. Looks like db. And that white and tabby is a dead ringer for our beloved Max. If I could, I would take them. Sadly, the inn is full.
Baud
@Kay: I think people are fairly angry. Which is fine, as long as it doesn’t cause people to sit at home during the general.
debit
@Kay: This Minnesotan is still absolutely livid with rage. Yet, I will vote for her if she’s the nominee.
satby
@Kay: Richard Painter has kicked ass on Drumpf and the current Republicans lack of ethics. If he can help push the Senate toward holding the kleptocrats accountable he’s welcome to join our party as far as I’m concerned. I’m not from MN, and I don’t get a vote, so the state voters will decide.
Edit, I originally put kleptocrats, and Kindle didn’t like that, thought I misspelled Democrats. Maybe it should have stayed lost.
Baud
Damn. Need to see the video.
https://www.theguardian.com/sport/video/2018/apr/30/rodrigo-koxa-rides-biggest-wave-ever-surfed-video
Baud
@satby: Putin has hacked your Kindle!
Kay
@zhena gogolia:
I’m hoping it will be like Colbert where she goes on to a long and profitable career after taking this awful gig where only knock knock jokes are deemed appropriate. God almighty. Give that a pass. No one told her it was a fake state dinner.
Whatever they paid her it wasn’t enough, especially in that industry, where Sean Hannitty is paid enough to amass a real estate empire and Matt Lauer made hundreds of millions for..no one knows what. It wasn’t debate moderation, that’s for sure.
satby
@Baud: wow!
zhena gogolia
@OzarkHillbilly:
That whole thread is priceless, especially the gif at the tweet by SOY saying, “He got his feelings hurt.”
zhena gogolia
@satby:
I agree.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Damn, that’s a big wave. Even though I’m a Southern Californian by birth, I’ve never surfed.
debit
@satby: I’m keeping an open mind. I’ve liked Painter in his post Bush career, but I don’t know anything about Smith. I don’t know if she’s kept her head down or if she’s just not done anything newsworthy yet.
zhena gogolia
@Kay:
I always go into a rage in the checkout line at the supermarket because of all the National Enquirers on display. Yesterday the headlie was “The Woman Who Brought Matt Lauer Down.” I was seething. “Matt Lauer brought Matt Lauer down, you jerks!”
ETA: I was going to correct my typo, but “headlie” is really good so I’ll leave it.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: So Putin was the thief?
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
I hope Wolf ignores them all.
Actually, she should do whatever’s best for her career and if that means telling them to screw off, I’ll be even happier.
zhena gogolia
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
He put it with his Super Bowl ring and his billions of stolen cash.
Steve in the SFO
@?BillinGlendaleCA: dude—that’s good stuff
Baud
@zhena gogolia: And the pee tape.
Steve in the SFO
@Kay: remember Rich Little the year after Colbert? Wow was he awful! But safe.
satby
@Baud: @debit: it still infuriates me, and I hope it derails any plans Gillibrand has to go for the nomination. Because it would be hard for me to vote for her. I would, grudgingly, in the general if she was the nominee, and only in a primary if her opponent was
Harold StassenWilmer.Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
I see Trump says Wolf’s performance was “filthy.” LOL
Kay
@satby:
I disagree because Republican policy objectives shouldn’t benefit from Trump. It moves that seat Right and that’s a win for them. They shouldn’t be rewarded. There have to be consequences for that Party. They shouldn’t get both the far Right and also the center Right by running as Democrats.
I get that he’s figured out that the only way to get more moderate GOP policy is to run as a Dem, but Trump shouldn’t create a situation where Republicans pick up disaffected R voters by changing the letter next to their name. In the scheme of things that’s a move Right- it’s a reward for that Party and they haven’t earned rewards. What do Democrats get out of this deal? They get a Right wing “Democrat” PLUS the official GOP incumbents, who are far Right. That’s a bad deal for our voters.
Far Right R’s + center Right R’s running as D’s = win for GOP policy objectives, net. If he wants to be a Democrat he has to bring something to the table for Democrats. OUR policy, not George W Bush’s. We can and should demand that.
It’s not the job of the Democratic Party to save moderate Republicans from their own stupidity and greed and recklessness. They’d never do it if the situation were reversed.
Immanentize
@zhena gogolia: I liked:
Baud
@Kay: That’s why primaries should be closed. So Democratic voters can make the decision about who should represent them for themselves.
Baud
@Immanentize: That’s excellent.
rikyrah
@Baud:
Saw it yesterday ???
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: I love that you always call him Little Imma – he’s probably taller than most of us here! :-)
WaterGirl
@debit: Me, too, if you substitute Illinois for Minnesota.
rikyrah
@Kay:
I am still mad about it. Because, it was obviously a set up. And, folks fell for the banana in the tailpipe. Also, he didn’t get due process. Yes, I am a woman. Yes, I am STILL giving Gillinbrand the side eye.
WaterGirl
@satby: All we know is that he is going to run as a Democrat. No idea who he will choose to caucus with, but there’s a good chance it will rhyme with Republican.
Kay
@Steve in the SFO:
I don’t- I never watch it. I hate awards shows. I also am cranky about charity events. The cost. I’m the boring person who says “why not skip the event and just give the money we would have spent on the event to the charity?” I go to one for public interest lawyers every year because a judge I like buys a table and invites me and honestly, they’re insufferable at this thing.
I have the perfect person for next year. Roseanne. It’ll be a love fest. Until she starts ranting about the Obama/Clinton pedophile ring and all the Trump administration officials applaud.
satby
@Kay: and how do you propose to restrict party membership only to those you consider suitable Democrats? He has to join the party to run as Democrat, and though I haven’t kept up with his policy positions other than on ethics because that was his role, I assume as a Democrat he would support the party platform. I’m not fond of purity tests.
Voters can decide, and I agree with Baud that party primaries should be closed.
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): If anybody knows filth, it’s trump.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Keep bringing the truth, Kay.
Baud
@WaterGirl: LOL.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Holy cowski! I didn’t know I was holding my breath the whole time I watched – until i took a breath at the end.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: “I learned it from watching you, dad!”
rikyrah
@satby:
That’s how I feel, satby. She’s my last choice, save for one other.
Baud
@Kay:
The journalists too.
rikyrah
@Kay:
You are right, Kay. Absolutely right. Hope that the Lt. Governor has a strong campaign. It’s May, when is the primary?
Kay
@rikyrah:
I didn’t take a side because I don’t know. I did like Franken though. I floated him as a Presidential candidate on this very blog.
I would have backed him in a Prez primary. He’s sort of my perfect candidate. A more media savvy Sherrod Brown, was my take. Obviously that was wrong because Sherrod Brown for all his rumpled crankiness is still employed and Franken is not.
Why hasn’t Dick Durbin ever run? He’s a middle state liberal.
debbie
@Kay:
I’ve heard a couple of interviews with Painter. He is very ticked off about Trump. It would be interesting to see him interacting with McConnell.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steve in the SFO: Thanks, I get lucky sometimes.?
Immanentize
@rikyrah: @WaterGirl:
He will always be Little Imma to me. Even though he is now taller than me! Currently when he stands next to me, he enjoys looking at the top of my head and telling me my hair is thinning. But the is still so thin he needs to run around in the shower to get wet. So I got him on weight… ?
Chyron HR
@Baud:
Damn, Today show is actually showing the Wolf slam about the media loving Trump.
Did they then look directly into the camera and solemnly intone, “This was a vicious attack on Sarah Huckabee Sanders’s appearance. Two and two does not equal four.”
WaterGirl
@satby:
I think that’s a pretty big assumption. I hope he is asked that question every single day during the campaign.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Kay: They should start their own party, maybe the “Sane Republicans”.
Baud
@Chyron HR: They discussed the criticisms. It was a fair report.
debbie
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
Thanks. I needed that laugh! Almost as good as his insisting he should get the Nobel Peace Prize.
WaterGirl
@Kay: Dick Durbin is the solid character actor who will never be the star. Just my opinion as someone from Illinois.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay:
He’s smarter than that.
Kay
@rikyrah:
May 8. I’m a Cordray person. I wrote Cordray a letter once to thank him for backing Obama early- that was brave at the time. Everyone though Obama was a long shot. That was risky for his career and Obama needed what that campaign called “validators” at that time- names people knew to make them seem viable. Cordray was also an excellent AG.
Mayors matter a lot to Democrats in Ohio because they need huge margins in urban areas and Cordray has the mayors, so I was glad to see that. They’re important. In 08 Clinton had the D establishment but Obama had the mayors so I knew he would be okay if he were the nominee.
satby
@WaterGirl: well, considering his signature issue is corruption in the Federal government he may not caucus as much as you think with the current crop of Republicans. I haven’t really got a dog in that race, but someone focused on the Drumpf crime family’s corruption would be a plus in the Senate.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Kay: Heh, Al Franken; Sherrod Brown with jokes.
WaterGirl
@Immanentize: Well, the hair thing is a bit harsh :-) but I get that he will always be your baby. I don’t know if you made up the line about being so skinny he has to run around in the shower to get wet, but I love that. Never heard it before.
rikyrah
Anyone here watch Timeless? I really like this show.
Through the recommendation from a friend who also likes time travel shows, he recommended Continuum on Netflix. Finally finished it this weekend. Really liked it.
Kay
@WaterGirl:
I saw him on CSPAN recently and I thought “he’s a good speaker! Why do they never push him to the front?”
satby
@Kay: I really hope Cordray wins too.
satby
@Kay: Durbin is right where he wants to be.
OzarkHillbilly
@?BillinGlendaleCA: There are those among us who say they already have. They call themselves “Democrats.”
debbie
@satby:
One of my brothers, back in the halcyon days before he went all Trumpie, was friendly with Cordray and supported him in elections. I’m sure he won’t this year though.
danielx
overwhelming kitteh cuteness first thing in the morning! it burns!
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: I watch Timeless and I like it a lot. I was disappointed to read last week the prediction that it won’t get renewed this year. I loved continuum! Another really solid show, and both shows make me think, which is a plus.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: yeah. Remember us? The “big tent” party? I say we should enjoy gaining allies. If later they don’t reflect their constituents wishes, they can be defeated by someone more in tune.
Kay
@satby:
If he wins he still has to win the governor’s race, which will be hard. It was always hard for the Democrat to win in Ohio but Clinton got creamed here and Obama won relatively easily in 2012. If they vote for far Right for governor the state is probably a lost cause in Presidential races. Put it in the Indiana column. I think a lot of Ohio media and political people don’t want that to happen because they really cherish the “bellweather” exaggerated importance but nothing is forever and the state may just go far Right. If so, Democrats will have to replace those electoral votes, so hopefully they have a state they can pick up.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: While I see Kay’s point, I can’t really get too worked up over letting (DEM) voters have their say.
Baud
@Kay: We keep hoping North Carolina is on the cusp. And people dream about Texas within the next decade.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: me neither. I have a visceral reaction to purity tests though. They’ve worked out so well for the country so far: driving one party nuts and helping to derail another’s likely win.
Painter is on the TeeVee calling Drumpf and his surrogates liars. More please.
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@satby: I mostly agree with this, but at the moment, I’m not sure we can wait until “later.” Bad stuff is happening.
satby
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): that’s why strong allies are good. All hands on deck in the goal of getting rid of (or mitigating the damage of) Drumpf and the rest of the traitors.
Platonailedit
@satby: Carpetbaggers are thin reeds to depend on for anything. Especially, the rethug kind. Purity test or not.
satby
@Platonailedit: and traditionally they don’t do well. MN voters can decide.
O. Felix Culpa
@Immanentize: Did your son’s team win? I missed the thread with that news. Congrats!!!
Kay
@Baud:
I like Georgia as a potential better than North Carolina. They have that huge blue city! I suppose you could do both- equally difficult.
Texas is the dream of course. It’d be like Republicans taking California. I know not one thing about Texas, though and I lived in both NC and GA so maybe more familiar.
Virginia was a huge win for Democrats. If that’s reliably D it’s a different map. The best would be one of the western states. Arizona! Barry Goldwater’s state! That’s why I was so excited about the teacher’s strike there. Something’s up with that place.
satby
We’re going from a low of 32° with frost to a high today of 70° with fire warnings. Time to uncover the roses. Have a great day everyone!
Amir Khalid
Baby kittehs is sweet.
Kay
@Baud:
My daughter and her husband are probably relocating to Atlanta. They’re looking at neighborhoods. They’re just tired of Pittsburgh and they want to relocate now, while they can, before they have children. Affordable housing and tons of health care jobs, so they can pick and choose.
Platonailedit
@satby: Yeah, that worked so well for dems in 2016.
debit
@satby: I honestly think Painter will have a tough time. That’s Paul Wellstone’s seat. Norm Coleman sullied it, but Franken restored it. I’m willing to give Painter a chance to plead his case, but his former party affiliation is not going to be forgotten.
Kay
@Baud:
I worry that the “forget the voters who betrayed us in OH and MI and PA!” leaves us short of…states.
I think they better hang on to Pennsylvania. Texas may take a while!
SiubhanDuinne
@Kay:
There are plenty of us jackal-juicers living in metro Atlanta, so don’t hesitate to ask if your daughter and her husband would find local insights helpful. And regardless, at some point you’ll come to visit which would be the best possible excuse for a BJ meetup.
Kay
@SiubhanDuinne:
Thanks. He will be homesick because he grew up in Pittsburgh and his entire family lives there. I think it’s good they go off on their own though. They need their own thing. They live in the city now and they’re looking at city neighborhoods, partly because they don’t want to commute.
rp
@?BillinGlendaleCA: The site looks nice. Very clean and easy to navigate. The only think I don’t like is the single giant watermark in the middle of the photos. Can you make it more subtle?
rp
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Do you sell prints?
rikyrah
@Baud:
I think Texas angers me because the voters are there. They aren’t voting.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@debit: I’m torn between thinking that, in a hothouse, pure government kind of way, primaries should be a healthy thing, especially against an appointee, and OTOH thinking that now is not the time to primary an incumbent in a state that’s not quite blue enough for my peace of mind
rikyrah
@Kay:
I know.
There are two serious developments about Florida for November 2018
1. The Puerto Rican transplants. I hope the DNC is getting them registered.
2. That restoring felons their voting rights – that passes, and this would be the ballgame for Florida.
rikyrah
Cardi B and Offset with Sasha Obama pic.twitter.com/rjoajAw2e8
— Daily Cardi (@DailyCardi) April 29, 2018
rikyrah
Comedian ends comedy dinner by saying that Flint still doesn’t have clean water, an attempt to point out Washington’s continued neglect of people who need help.
Washington responds with a rigorous debate about the tone and civility of the comedian’s jokes.
Perfect.
— Jon Favreau (@jonfavs) April 29, 2018
SiubhanDuinne
@Kay:
That’s smart, especially here. We take an almost perverse kind of pride in our horrible traffic ?
When I worked in Midtown, I had several colleagues who lived within easy walking distance. Depending on where the jobs are, it’s quite doable. Good luck to them!
rikyrah
Amen.
The beltway press out here bitching about Michelle Wolf’s routine because a hit dog hollers. She made it clear how much they profit from Trump & how much they actively enable his shitty, mean spirited Presidency. So OF COURSE they’re defensively calling HER routine mean spirited.
— ?☠️ (@goddamnedfrank) April 29, 2018
rikyrah
Dear America, #Putin knew he could exploit the profoundly GREEDY #USMedia to weaponize #Trump & @GOP to DESTROY our Democracy.
How?
They PROFITED enormously from #Trump’s BIRTHER ATTACK on our last real President, @BarackObama. @michelleisawolf SHREDDED THE CURTAIN.
— Bobfr (@Our4thEstate) April 29, 2018
rikyrah
This year, 28% of Princeton’s freshmen are first generation or low-income. 60% of the student body receives financial aid. #60Minutes pic.twitter.com/q2A7pGtb3L
— 60 Minutes (@60Minutes) April 29, 2018
rikyrah
frm Coates “TheFirstWhitePresident” The first white president in American history is also the most dangerous president—and he is made more dangerous still by the fact that those charged with analyzing him cannot name his essential nature, because they too are implicated in it.
— Pretty Foot (@PrettyFootWoman) April 30, 2018
rikyrah
I’ve stopped telling people we need to “take back our country.” What if we didn’t go back? Let’s build something new. A place where we invest in your kids, you have a job you can count on, and you are guaranteed health care. Let’s build that America.
— Rep. Eric Swalwell (@RepSwalwell) April 30, 2018
rikyrah
UH HUH
UH HUH
BREAKING: PM NETANYAHU WILL GIVE A SPEECH 8PM AND EXPOSE NEW INTELLIGENCE ON THE IRANIAN NUCLEAR PROGRAM, ISRAELI OFFICIAL SAYS
— Barak Ravid (@BarakRavid) April 30, 2018
this feels like the ginned up propaganda that cost US $7 trillion and how many thousands of lives in Iraq over the past fifteen years https://t.co/LZ6cz6uq5V
— Laura Rozen (@lrozen) April 30, 2018
bemused
@debit:
This Minnesotan agrees with you.
Spanky
They made Durbin apologize for saying this back in 2005:
And he cried when he apologized. I don’t need to see him running for any national office. The video of that apology would be plastered all over the airwaves and intertoobz.
chopper
@Kay:
the city is a nice place to live. public schools in the city area are an issue unless you live in a swath along Emory, which is a more expensive part of town real-estate wise (and it’s also pretty white).
gvg
@Kay: I disagree Kay. I don’t know if he “should win” because I don’t know what the other choices will be for those voters. Just like we would have voted Sanders over Trump, sometimes we don’t have good choices.
The other factor for me is a lot of republican voters are sticking with their party even though it’s not in their interest and some of them don’t even like the other republican electeds. They have locked themselves out of even thing of voting for democrats and at best sit out or vote independent. At some point, that needs to change. We can’t count on it to win and are correctly focused on “our” turnout, but it is simply better for the country if that echo chamber gets weakened. That means some prominent republicans publicly switching parties makes an important point. It would be even better if not all the switchers lost elections. I am not saying every one of the first few needs to win, but it shouldn’t be an automatic loss.
Senator Bryd didn’t switch parties but he did change a lot in his lifetime for the better. Howard Dean switched in the 60’s, Elizabeth Warren in 95. James Webb, Jim Jeffords were pretty significant votes for us. Wendy Davis was a switcher in 2006 per wikipedia. And current AZ Rep Tom O’Halleran was a switcher in 2013.
We’ll have to ask a lot of questions and check his record, but he might be OK
Trump OUGHT to be driving some republicans out of the party, both voters and officials. I know we need 2 parties to have worthwhile choices but right now I think we are at the stage where the republicans are going to shake a part soon. Afterwards there will be a resorting.
Spanky
@rikyrah: So, wagging the dog is not just a US thing, eh? Good to remember.
rikyrah
Hey Kay!
DWEEB VS. FLAKE: WELCOME TO A PREVIEW OF HOW THE MAINSTREAM MEDIA WILL COVER DEMOCRATS IN 2020
The New York Times has a story today about the top Democratic candidates in the Ohio governor’s race. The first thing the story’s author, Matt Flegenheimer, wants you to know about the candidate leading in the latest poll, Richard Cordray, is that he’s dull:
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rikyrah
Think Manhattan DA Cy Vance Goes Easy on the Rich? Look at How He Prosecutes the Poor.
By Tom Robbins
germy
Theater Criticism. Later, they’ll move on to Horse Race.
The actual… issues and policy positions… are always an afterthought.
But her emails!!!
@Spanky:
We’re the dog he’s wagging, unless you believe it’s happening while the Orange one and his flying monkeys are trying to justify breaking the Iran agreement is all just a huge coincidence.
Kay
@rikyrah:
I saw it last night. It’s funny because the big vicious fight is actually between Taylor and DeWine on the Right. DeWine is running ad after ad attacking her. All this while Kasich is running for President as the anti-Trump! That’s a lot of disarray on the R side, don’t you think?
But the NYTimes wants the Ohio governors race to be about “Left v Left” so I guess that’s the reality now.
Cordray is not an insane liar. That is true. If that’s a bar to getting elected now then God help us.
Spanky
@But her emails!!!: Bibi has his own very real problems at home. Time to wave the flag. And he knows how to play Trump as well as any (and every) other leader.
Spanky
@Kay: It’s only a bar to getting the NYT help you get elected. But I doubt the Grey Lady has as big an influence west of the Delaware Gap as they may think.
satby
@gvg: and you expressed it better and more fully than I did, thank you.
Di
@rikyrah: I love Timeless! This season is almost over – I really hope it gets renewed. Loved Continuum, too.
Kay
@rikyrah:
Cordray is really the best it gets in Ohio. They won’t get a better governor. It’s wrong (and really shallow) to portray him as weak or mealy-mouthed too. What he is is smart and really aggressive. He just isn’t shouty and rude. I found him somewhat intimidating when I met him when he was an AG and I’m to the point where almost no one intimidates me.
He’s sharp and his legal work wasn’t just aggressive- it was clever and creative. If he can’t go one way he goes another. What it is is “relentless”.
But her emails!!!
@Kay:
Our media wants politics distilled completely down to reality TV, Kay. There’s only a handful of pundits like Krugman left shouting “what about policy” into the Jovian scale cyclone of media derp.
Kay
We need to talk about how Politico has become muck-raking journalism and the NYTimes has become Politico.
It’s like they switched staff- one just became the other. We all say the NYTimes became Politico, but what if Politico also became the NYTimes! Net. It’s a wash :)
You don’t even need Russia with Trump. They’re incredibly fucking corrupt just daily. Russia is almost a distraction from what crooks these people are. It’s like a free for all. They can’t haul the grifter cash out of DC fast enough.
PaulWartenberg
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:
The tree never happened. it’s an Unpersoned tree now.
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: There are quite a few Politico alumni at Vichy Times, like Jonathan Martin for one.
JPL
@Kay: Traffic is terrible so they might want to live as close as affordable to where they work. The other thing to consider are the school systems. My son and his wife live in Sandy Springs and I live in Roswell.
JPL
@Kay: Just saw your other comment about looking at city neighborhoods, which is smart.
Kathleen
@Kay: I’m supporting Cordray. We also have a shot at unseating Chabot again.
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
@chopper:
I think Kay said that her daughter and son-in-law don’t have children yet, so making a decision based on school systems is something they can probably defer for a few years. You are both right, quality varies significantly across metro ATL’s different districts.
rikyrah
Nursing schools are rejecting thousands of applicants — in the middle of a nursing shortage
POSTED 10:05 AM, APRIL 30, 2018, BY CNN WIRES
There’s an acute nursing shortage in the United States, but schools are turning away thousands of qualified applicants as they struggle to expand class size and hire more teachers for nursing programs.
In America, experienced nurses are retiring at a rapid clip, and there aren’t enough new nursing graduates to replenish the workforce. At the same time, the nation’s population is aging and requires more care.
“It’s really a catch 22 situation,” said Robert Rosseter, spokesman for the American Association of Colleges of Nursing.
“There’s tremendous demand from hospitals and clinics to hire more nurses,” he said. “There’s tremendous demand from students who want to enter nursing programs, but schools are tapped out.”
There are currently about three million nurses in the United States. The country will need to produce more than one million new registered nurses by 2022 to fulfill its health care needs, according to the American Nurses Association estimates.
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Jane Kirschling, dean of the University of Maryland School of Nursing in Baltimore, said her school admits new students in the undergraduate program twice a year.
“We’re averaging 200 applications each time for 55 slots,” she said. “So we’re turning away one student for every student we accept.”
She said the nursing profession has surged in popularity for a few reasons. “Nursing offers an entry-level living wage with which you can support a family,” said Kirschling.
There’s built-in flexibility and mobility. “You can work three 12-hour shifts and get four days off,” she said. And nurses aren’t locked into a specific location, employer or specialty for the rest of their lives. “There’s tremendous growth opportunity,” said Kirschling.
JPL
@SiubhanDuinne: Living as close-in as possible makes lots of sense. Both of my sons are able to walk to work, but their work is located near the Perimeter l area.
rikyrah
Trump administration is rewriting a rule that protected transgender people from discrimination in health care. https://t.co/Z9FJkMTxY4
— The Associated Press (@AP) April 29, 2018
MomSense
I love those kittens. I want to take a nap with them.
bystander
@Kay:
I could see Painter as an excellent AG. I doubt I could vote for him as a senator/rep or anything. My fear is that the Democratic Party be infected by the explosion of the repub party.
Raven Onthill
While the press tries to destroy a black female comedian for saying what we all know is true about the Trump administration’s press secretary, the administration is deciding the fate of the illegal prison in Guantanamo Bay (they want to keep to keep it open, and send more people there) and Abbas Araghchi, Iran’s deputy foreign minister, says “The Iran nuclear deal is no longer sustainable for Iran in its present form, without regard to a US exit.”
Just another day, making America great again.
bystander
@Raven Onthill: Wolf is not black.
Ella in New Mexico
@Kay: Kay, this guy is so far from anything resembling a Republican that I’d have no concerns if he was elected. I actually wonder if he was calling himself a Republican to keep his job in the Bush White House, but stopped being one long ago.
satby
@MomSense: I guess we know for sure that one white boy pictured above is deaf. The other two may not be. They had one sibling that’s a tabby, so probably not affected.
Resolve wavering….
Ella in New Mexico
@rikyrah: Yep. I can testify that this is a huge problem. Which is why the national advocacy and education orgs are pushing for more nurses to get doctoral level degrees-we need teachers in higher ed desperately.
I’m in a master’s level family nurse practitioner program right now, and when I think of hanging around another 1.5 years for a DNP it turns my stomach. I just want to practice, maybe teach a few classes in the future if I can, but I don’t want to start a job in academia at age 56–I want to help people get good healthcare.
This is the problem–a lot of us nurses are there to help people, not go into higher ed and do research.
Kay
@JPL:
I think she would truly hate commuting. It just wasn’t part of her world growing up- I live 5 minutes from where I work. I get ridiculously impatient if I have to sit thru a traffic light rotation- like my rights are being violated :)
They don’t have children but they want children so they’ll have to think about schools. She was a Big Sister for years so she’s been in plenty of schools and she has…opinions about them- she’ll know what she wants.
I was and am active in the public schools here just as a community member and I once overheard my daughter and her middle school friends call the middle school “the sad factory”- you go in happy and come out sad. They may as well stick a knife in my heart! I felt like we were all trying so hard to make them like school and “the sad factory?” Jesus. What an indictment.
I know her. She’ll want some free play hippie school :)
J R in WV
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
It doesn’t suck, but a couple of remarks. None of your photos are square, yet you offer square print sizes, which seems a little odd. And some of the photos are nearly identical, which isn’t really a criticism, it gives folks an opportunity to puzzle over which they prefer. A brief discussion with each photo might be advantageous.
I like it. Do you plan to add a “contact me” function?
Best of luck with it. I bet you make at least all your film back!!
MomSense
@satby:
They are all so adorable. I miss having a cat. The other day an alley cat came up to me and I stopped for a really long time to pet and talk to him. I am thinking I will cut through that way more often. Such a beauty.
He has a collar and lives in an apartment building so not one of the ferals I trap.
MomSense
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I’m going to have a hard time choosing one of those Milky Way photos. Gorgeous
CindyH
@Kay: this exactly. I’m still mad and I’m from NC
ruemara
I’ll take 2, please.
Ruckus
@Kay:
This.
Did he vote for drumpf or did he work for HRC to get elected? Is he trying to use the D to get elected? We saw what the last asshole (BS) who did that caused. We need actual Dems, not some moke who is unhappy that his party wanted a fucking moron in charge but otherwise likes their positions.
Julia Grey
@Kay:
It was revealed that Franken made a joke out of the idea of groping an unconscious woman, and about six Democratic women then spoke up about his “cute” habit of patting or cupping women’s butts, all in good fun, of course.
Nope, nope, nope. This is not the political era to let people get away with offensive touching or other unwanted behaviors that we would condemn if he wasn’t Such A Great Guy.
It’s not funny, and boys must no longer be boys when it comes to this crap. I myself have had to pretend to ignore this ha-ha touchy stuff in years past, but now the jig is up for everyone.
HANDS OFF!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@rp: Yes, I can tweak it a bit, but it’s not going away because the answer to your second question is yes I will sell prints(and downloads) when the site goes live(maybe later this week).
?BillinGlendaleCA
@J R in WV: One of the things on the ‘to do’ list is tweaking the offerings to match the photos. I also have to had descriptive text, to some extent I just threw pics in there to test it out. The envelope icon in the menu is an email link, that’s why I’ve been stressing over the tooltip thing.
Mnemosyne
@Julia Grey:
And those women were … ?
The one named woman was upset that he grabbed her waist — not her butt.
TenguPhule
@Julia Grey:
None of his accusers was a Democrat.
3 confirmed Republicans, The rest unknown, because they refused to identify themselves.
TenguPhule
@Kay:
Of course she does. But trying to get any of her supporters to admit it is a lost cause.
Julia Grey
@Mnemosyne:
The GRABBING of anything, shoulders, arms, butts, waists, pussies is what has to stop.
Please. You are missing the point here. If we’d let this go, claiming it was all a Republican plot, our stance on this groping issue would have to accommodate so many exceptions that people would start to think it wasn’t a big deal.
I’m sorry, for me, who put up with this sort of cutesy handiness for 30 years, it is something to fight tooth and nail, now that we’ve finally got it started. It’s symbolic of our bodily autonomy and our drive to make people understand the very concept of CONSENT.
Do. Not. Touch. Me.
TenguPhule
@Julia Grey:
You twit, the woman in question ASKED HIM TO TAKE A PHOTO WITH HER.
It is PERFECTLY NORMAL to hold the waist in order to get close enough to fit in the photo.
I will give you the benefit of the doubt for now that you’re not a GOP ratfucker.
Chacal Charles Calthrop
kitties are adorable. Thank you Satby!!!
please keep the kitty crack coming
satby
@Julia Grey: you realize that all of us angry folks unhappy with the Franken railroading are women, right?
@TenguPhule: ” I will
give you the benefit of the doubt for now that you’re not a GOP ratfucker.”
I won’t.