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You are here: Home / Politics / Domestic Politics / Ice Shortage on Derby Day

Ice Shortage on Derby Day

by Betty Cracker|  May 5, 20186:37 pm| 58 Comments

This post is in: Domestic Politics, Nature, Open Threads, General Stupidity

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A local shortage — our ice maker is busted! I had one tray of huge ice cubes, which I emptied into a plastic bag and smashed to make the crushed ice required for mint juleps.

Luckily, I have a Yeti tumbler, which means one ice tray will be sufficient. Yeti discontinued the NRA discount a while back, and morons posted videos of themselves blowing up $400 coolers.

Anyway, I digress. My money’s on Vino Rosso for the win. Hope he’s a mudder. Safe race to the horsies! Open thread!

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  1. 1.

    Steve in the ATL

    May 5, 2018 at 6:40 pm

    Men everywhere celebrate the event that establishes that two minutes is the proper amount of stamina

  2. 2.

    Omnes Omnibus

    May 5, 2018 at 6:42 pm

    I always choose the booze themed horse if there is one.

  3. 3.

    NotMax

    May 5, 2018 at 6:43 pm

    Hearsay is sounding off about Audible.

  4. 4.

    realbtl

    May 5, 2018 at 6:44 pm

    Damn, given the current governor of KY I was hoping that the Derby ran out of ice.

  5. 5.

    Steve in the ATL

    May 5, 2018 at 6:44 pm

    @NotMax: I always choose the app themed horse if there is one

  6. 6.

    efgoldman

    May 5, 2018 at 6:44 pm

    mrs efg sometimes intuits these things. She says pink/purple silks.

  7. 7.

    Yarrow

    May 5, 2018 at 6:45 pm

    My fridge has been sitting in the middle of my kitchen all week. Unplugged, doors open, everything removed. Fun times. After running through diagnostics, cleaning the coils, letting it defrost and drain (ice somewhere the defroster wasn’t reaching, judging from the thuds a few hours after unplugging it) it seems to be running much better. Took the opportunity to clean out things that had been sitting there too long. Cleaned all the shelves and drawers and freezer baskets. Cleaned the fridge inside and out. I’m really tired.

    The fridge seems to be running okay. It’s making ice and the thermometer shows the fridge temp in the safe zone. I’m still a bit wary, though. I’ve put some things back into it, but I’m not doing a big shopping trip until I feel more confident.

  8. 8.

    Steve in the ATL

    May 5, 2018 at 6:45 pm

    @realbtl: and he’s actually from Connecticut

  9. 9.

    Steve in the ATL

    May 5, 2018 at 6:46 pm

    @efgoldman: so…Adam Silverman is his usual drag outfit?

  10. 10.

    SiubhanDuinne

    May 5, 2018 at 6:46 pm

    I pulled Free Drop Billy and Solomini in the PERFECTLY LEGAL AND ABOVEBOARD pool in which I partipate. Fortunately 25% of the total take goes to last-place finisher, so I might still recoup my investment.

  11. 11.

    germy

    May 5, 2018 at 6:46 pm

    This nightmare scenario described by @imillhiser is very real and is why progressives cannot afford to ignore what Trump is doing to the courts as they think about charting our path forward. pic.twitter.com/k5UggRb1pb— Brian Fallon (@brianefallon) May 4, 2018

  12. 12.

    efgoldman

    May 5, 2018 at 6:48 pm

    @Steve in the ATL:

    two minutes is the proper amount of stamina

    I’m old enough to remember when the race went off a few minutes after five. Gakk. Almost six, they’re not in the fucking gate yet.

  13. 13.

    JPL

    May 5, 2018 at 6:49 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: Do you know anything about the judges running in Fulton county? When I lived in Dallas decades ago, a nice defense atty would give me a list.

    also, mint juleps taste yucky.

  14. 14.

    efgoldman

    May 5, 2018 at 6:52 pm

    @efgoldman:

    She says pink/purple silks.

    Of which I see none.

  15. 15.

    germy

    May 5, 2018 at 6:56 pm

    Thread:

    6) To even get into power, Democrats have to overcome the Electoral College, Senate malapportionment, gerrymandering, voter suppression laws, and a bevy of other similar problems that force them to play at the downhill end of an unlevel playing field. https://t.co/E6kP6Levw3— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) May 4, 2018

    7) Then, when they do win, they have to overcome a slew of veto points — the filibuster, congressional committee structure, a Supreme Court dominated by Republicans whose majority is increasingly willing to embrace made-up legal theories in order to strike progressive laws.— Ian Millhiser (@imillhiser) May 4, 2018

  16. 16.

    oatler.

    May 5, 2018 at 6:59 pm

    “Aaaand it’s-a Beetle Bomb.”

  17. 17.

    Steve in the ATL

    May 5, 2018 at 7:00 pm

    @JPL: Bobby Wolf was a college classmate and is a friend. He’s a career prosecutor but not an asshole, which is why he will never be the DA.

    Ken Hodges is running for court of appeals. Went to law school with him. He was an asshole then. Haven’t seen him much since.

  18. 18.

    Mary G

    May 5, 2018 at 7:02 pm

    You all can thank me later if he comes through:

    Take some Lily pictures for us. I am in withdrawal.— Mary Michel Green (@marymichelgreen) May 5, 2018

    I will! My phone is upstairs but she was just begging for scraps from dinner and she has not done that in over a month!— Woop Ditty Scoop Poop (@Johngcole) May 5, 2018

  19. 19.

    schrodingers_cat

    May 5, 2018 at 7:03 pm

    @germy: We will just curl up and die then, like our progressive betters want us to.
    Also too, WTF is a progressive, what is wrong with liberal.
    As far as I can see progressive seems to be the code for purity pony politics

  20. 20.

    jl

    May 5, 2018 at 7:05 pm

    But that weird-ass Floridaman Yeti tumbler is still legal in these, our great United States?
    Was that thing sold that way, or is that one of Cracker’s surrealistic home brew arts and crafts projects?

  21. 21.

    Mary G

    May 5, 2018 at 7:06 pm

    @germy: I posted about that thread twice yesterday to general ho hums, but it is right on.

  22. 22.

    Caphilldcne

    May 5, 2018 at 7:08 pm

    I feel the need to say Go Caps. Beat the evil Penguins.

  23. 23.

    schrodingers_cat

    May 5, 2018 at 7:09 pm

    @Mary G: He is also pimping that Purdy piece that JGC front-paged last night. I don’t agree with the premise of that piece. Its the usual BS bot nonsense dressed in academic jargon.

    ETA: People are not waiting with bated breath for progressive Nirvana. Their agenda is not as exciting as they think it is. They are also woefully short on specifics.

  24. 24.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 5, 2018 at 7:11 pm

    @germy: I do think we should just pack the court as payback for Garland.

  25. 25.

    germy

    May 5, 2018 at 7:11 pm

    @Mary G: It’s an interesting analysis of how the RW has stacked the deck against us, but I remain optimistic we can bounce back. The women’s march, the Parkland students, the MeToo movement, increasing voter registration.

  26. 26.

    schrodingers_cat

    May 5, 2018 at 7:13 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: I agree. We should play to win. Fuck collegiality and bipartisanship.

  27. 27.

    maeve

    May 5, 2018 at 7:14 pm

    Meanwhile Merriam Webster gives instructions for finding your Derby horse name – mine is Uzbek Republic (although I liked the runner up – Ubsequiousness – if you do Twitter the MerriamWebster dictionary is one you should follow!
    https://twitter.com/MerriamWebster/status/992806910800822273

  28. 28.

    schrodingers_cat

    May 5, 2018 at 7:15 pm

    @germy: It will work until it doesn’t. It happened in California, it can happen nationwide.

  29. 29.

    Baud

    May 5, 2018 at 7:16 pm

    @germy:

    So the circular firing squad thing was a bad idea?

  30. 30.

    germy

    May 5, 2018 at 7:18 pm

    @Baud:

    So the circular firing squad thing was a bad idea?

    It’s great if only one rifle is loaded.

  31. 31.

    Mary G

    May 5, 2018 at 7:18 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: @germy: I couldn’t even get through the Purdy piece, but I thought Milhiser’s point that Democrats have to go big was spot on. The right wing is going to have obscene amounts of money to chip away at things if the Democrats try the Obama method of meeting them half way again. Just nuke the filibuster and have the ideal bill to restore & improve Obamacare ready to be passed on Jan.1, 2019. Trump will scream, but I bet they can sell it to him as his own idea and get him to sign it, or negotiate it.

  32. 32.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 5, 2018 at 7:22 pm

    @Mary G: the Purdy piece looked pretty bad, I didn’t even click through after reading the excerpt.

  33. 33.

    schrodingers_cat

    May 5, 2018 at 7:22 pm

    @Baud: We have an open state legislature seat, there are 8 people running in D primary. And the most airy fairy pie in the sky person of the 8 called themselves “progressive” and was advocating for term limits. They have a few buzzwords they keep repeating again and again even when you grill them on the specifics.

    ETA: They are the left version of the Tea party.

  34. 34.

    clay

    May 5, 2018 at 7:23 pm

    It’s a beautiful night in St. Augustine, and I’m here to see The National in concert. Gonna enjoy myself for a couple of hours and forget the shitty state of the world.

    Peace, jackals!

  35. 35.

    Baud

    May 5, 2018 at 7:24 pm

    @Mary G:

    Just nuke the filibuster and have the ideal bill to restore & improve Obamacare ready to be passed on Jan.1, 2019.

    A lot of people would not consider that going big. That’s our big problem.

  36. 36.

    Baud

    May 5, 2018 at 7:25 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: I think they are trying to mimic GOP tactics.

  37. 37.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 5, 2018 at 7:29 pm

    @Baud: being idiotic has been a successful tactic for the GOP, yes.

    @schrodingers_cat: I think ‘progressive’ came into vogue after the Reagan/Gingrich/Limbaugh types were finished turning ‘liberal’ into a dirty word to many Americans. Obviously it goes back quite a ways though.

  38. 38.

    schrodingers_cat

    May 5, 2018 at 7:31 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Right now, its seems to be embraced by BS supporters who think economic anxiety is the biggest problem we face.

    ETA: Most progressive arguments hinge on economics. Progressives are then a subset of liberals. I am for liberal values and not just in econ.

  39. 39.

    debbie

    May 5, 2018 at 7:40 pm

    There were progressives long before Wilmer’s arrival. Just because he’s appropriated the word doesn’t make him one.

    I often get asked what the difference between a “liberal” and a “progressive” is. The questions from the media on this subject are always something like, “Isn’t ‘progressive’ just another name for ‘liberal’ that people want to use because ‘liberal’ has become a bad word?”

    The answer, in my opinion, is no – there is a fundamental difference when it comes to core economic issues. It seems to me that traditional “liberals” in our current parlance are those who focus on using taxpayer money to help better society. A “progressive” are those who focus on using government power to make large institutions play by a set of rules.

  40. 40.

    Brachiator

    May 5, 2018 at 7:41 pm

    @Mary G:

    Just nuke the filibuster and have the ideal bill to restore & improve Obamacare ready to be passed on Jan.1, 2019.

    A pretty good idea. This is an area where the Democrats could really galvanize across the board public support, and also counter the Republicans’ inability to repeal and replace Obamacare.

    Trump will scream, but I bet they can sell it to him as his own idea and get him to sign it, or negotiate it.

    Who knows. However, I want to see the Democrats regain control of Congress, and make Trump have to react to their policy initiatives.

  41. 41.

    schrodingers_cat

    May 5, 2018 at 7:42 pm

    @debbie: There is more to being a liberal than just economic policies.

    I am all for bringing back the regulatory regime of the New Deal era for banking and capital markets and deficit spending in a recession. That’s Keynsian economics I wouldn’t necessarily call that progressive.

  42. 42.

    Corner Stone

    May 5, 2018 at 7:49 pm

    @Mary G:

    chip away at things if the Democrats try the Obama method of meeting them half way again.

    Yeah. Uh, can we all agree this is not the time for that approach?

  43. 43.

    JPL

    May 5, 2018 at 7:49 pm

    @Steve in the ATL: Thanks

  44. 44.

    debbie

    May 5, 2018 at 7:54 pm

    @schrodingers_cat:

    Meaning of terms have changed a lot over time, but I see liberals as working differently within the current system and progressives as working differently in order to change the institutions. But I’m certainly no economist.

  45. 45.

    debbie

    May 5, 2018 at 7:55 pm

    @Mary G:

    Please nuke omnibus bills while you’re at it.

  46. 46.

    Corner Stone

    May 5, 2018 at 8:00 pm

    @debbie: He can be pretty annoying, and lately pretty cranky as well. And as it’s the only way to be sure…

  47. 47.

    Elizabelle

    May 5, 2018 at 8:07 pm

    I was happy Justified won, and that all the horsies survived.

  48. 48.

    debbie

    May 5, 2018 at 8:09 pm

    @Elizabelle:

    I was too afraid to watch. All that mud looked so slippery.

  49. 49.

    Major Major Major Major

    May 5, 2018 at 8:13 pm

    @debbie: best way I saw it described is conservatives maintain hierarchies, liberals encourage movement within hierarchies, and leftists/progressives flatten hierarchies.

  50. 50.

    Elizabelle

    May 5, 2018 at 8:14 pm

    @debbie: Horses handled it like a breeze. Commentators saying they were running a fast race at the outset. First time I learned the jockeys have layers of goggles that they peel off as they get dirty; the used goggles stay attached but out of the way.

    And, with respect to wingnuts shooting up Yetis: let them. They can get food poisoning from spoiled food. Good outcome for all of us.

    I have a Yeti Hopper 30 or 40; it’s so watertight professional photogs use it to protect their camera gear while out rafting or just traveling.

    You can sometimes find Yetis at a steep discount at Marshall’s stores, although I have not seen any for some time now.

  51. 51.

    debbie

    May 5, 2018 at 8:16 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Works for me.

  52. 52.

    Miss Bianca

    May 5, 2018 at 8:18 pm

    Well, I was with Betty, I picked Vino Rosso for win, and some combo of Justify and Mendelssohn for place and show. But no more giving the benefit of the doubt to furrin-bred and -raced hosses for me, next year! First Thunder Snow, then Mendelssohn, dead last two years in a row!

  53. 53.

    Elizabelle

    May 5, 2018 at 8:20 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: Flattening hierarchies. OR promoting anarchy. Your choice, purity ponies!

  54. 54.

    schrodingers_cat

    May 5, 2018 at 8:51 pm

    @Elizabelle: They want revolution, BS bros have their “Our Revolution”. Also too, they mainly attack Ds, rarely say anything bad about the Rs.

  55. 55.

    Elizabelle

    May 5, 2018 at 9:10 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: Yeah. Not a fan of the Bros either.

  56. 56.

    rikyrah

    May 6, 2018 at 5:49 am

    @schrodingers_cat:
    One big NOPE ? to bipartisanship

  57. 57.

    Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)

    May 6, 2018 at 7:39 am

    @Elizabelle:

    You might try TJ Maxx stores as well, since both are divisions of TJX and carry the same merchandise.

  58. 58.

    Betty Cracker

    May 6, 2018 at 8:13 am

    @jl: The design on the Yeti tumbler is from a restaurant in Brooksville, Florida called Cracker Kitchen. I’m sure it’s obvious why I’m fond of the place. The food is first rate — highly recommended if you’re ever in the neighborhood! :)

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