It’s going to be 85 degrees today. In October:
Notice the mold on the deck that was painted two months ago. This is what it is like living in a tropical rain forest. I’m going to end up having to purchase a power washer.
On the agenda today is picking the pole beans, picking more tomatoes and pulling up some plants, and football.
BTW- did you notice the angel in the middle of the field just enjoying her best life:
Every time I see her lying in the grass my chest swells and I just sit and watch her for a while. She is just such a sweet, good natured, lovely dog.
Vidya Pradhan
Those unpainted slats on the deck are setting my OCD teeth on edge. I guess I missed the post where you explain why they are there.
Elizabelle
Yeah, that looks like fall in West Virginia.
Yea Lily! Keep enjoying that best life.
biff murphy
after u clean yr deck (bleach) and let dry, paint with an antimicrobial paint, or maybe boat paint. had the same. goodluck
HinTN
Very nice, Cole. You’ve created a wonderful space. Thanks for sharing.
Fair Economist
Yep, the weather keeps getting crazier. We are getting a streak of cool weather here in SoCal, but it is literally for the first time in years. We go for months sometimes with almost every day above average temperature. Like the Lake Woebegone children, except it involves more sweating.
John Cole
@Vidya Pradhan: Because the original deck that I fell through did not have pressure treated lumber, so when I replaced everything this spring underneath with pressure treated lumber, and the railing, and that entire corner, I did not rip up every board on the deck because that would have cost thousands more. What I am doing is when I notice a board going bad, I replace it. Those two were replaced after I painted. Eventually I will have replaced every board but I don’t see any reason to do it all at once. I’m not made of money.
JPL
Eighty-five sounds cool, by comparison. This is suppose to be our last 90 degree day, until next year. Next weekend it is suppose to be in the low seventies for the high. Geez low seventies has been our night time temps.
lollipopguild
A dog who is outstanding(lying down) in her field.
Hungry Joe
Humans have screwed up a lot of things in the last 35,000-odd years, but damn, did we do a good job domesticating some of those wolf critters. And those altered wolf critters, I suspect, have in turn enlarged our hearts. In addition to all the ordinary/necessary owner/doggie stuff, I’ve spent A LOT of time just staring at Alice (Aussie mix, for the record), marveling at how her being happy makes me happy. We’d be different without them. We’d be less without them.
Trump, as we know, has never had a pet. Which is part of why he’s different. Which is part of why he’s less.
Hungry Joe
@John Cole: So your deck is a Ship of Theseus in the making.
Amir Khalid
It’s only been 28°C (82°F) today here in tropical KL.
Humdog
John, do you have problems with your deck becoming slippery? Gravity is not your friend. We finally switched to a special paint that has grit in it so we don’t go skiing across when BBQing.
maeve
It’s a temperate rain forest (that’s a thing – I live in one although not literally in the forest just adjacent to it – the Tongass in SE Alaska). Fun fact to know: biodensity is higher in a temperate rainforest but biodiversity is higher in a tropical rain forest.
We’ve actually had a “drought this summer/fall with up to two weeks at a time with no rain. Enjoyed the sunny weather but the forest isn’t as happy and bears are coming into town more often because the salmon don’t like the warm waters.
Patricia Kayden
Normally it would be a BFD for a President to have engaged in fraud prior to his election but with Trump it’s just another day ending with the letter y. Nothing is shocking anymore and no one cares that we have a sleazebag in the White House. The NYT is claiming that Trump has had a winning week with Kavanaugh’s confirmation, a new trade deal and good job report so it’s all good.
Patricia Kayden
@HinTN: It’s a lovely backyard. I can just imagine the dogs and cat running around chasing each other and having loads of fun there.
Gelfling 545
I have so much garden clean up to do and also bulbs to plant but the heavy rains the last few weeks have made it impossible. I have hopes for early this week. And now I’m being plagued by flying ants indoors and can’t find where they’re getting in.
NotMax
I miss creosote.
;)
Honestly think your deck may be larger than the entire cottage in which I reside.
TomatoQueen
Lily ruling her realm!
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
For some reason, I associate “creosote” with eating till you bust.
dlwchico
My youngest niece has been wanting a puppy for a while now. My sister finally found one for her. She went to a labradoodle breeder (I have issues with that, but it’s not my choice to make) and got a puppy. He’s 9 weeks old now. They have had him for about a week. This is my youngest niece with her new puppy: https://i.imgur.com/VE3fhOy.jpg
My sister called me this morning to tell me that the puppy has had 3 seizures over the past few days. She is going to contact the breeder today, but I don’t know what they are going to be able to do about it, except maybe take the puppy back and give her a refund. I know that the girls are already pretty attached to the puppy though.
CaseyL
What a lovely prospect from your back yard! The hills, the trees, the houses within the trees.
I know it’s not Paradise (unless “Paradise” means “a free-standing structure into which you pour all your money”) but it looks idyllic.
I look forward to photos showing autumn foliage.
Amir Khalid
Meanwhile, it’s scoreless between Liverpool and visitors Manchester City. City lead the Premier League on goal difference, but a home win would take Liverpool back to the top on points.
lollipopguild
@Hungry Joe: Pets need attention, all attention must be on trump.
trollhattan
@Amir Khalid:
“I’ll have the lot.”
PaulWartenberg
85 degrees in Central Florida in October would be wrong. We ought to be in the 70s by now, and damn it all West Virginia should be in the 60s.
Christ. We are living through physical evidence that climate change is real and the SOBs in charge want to make it WORSE.
Reason #670592890 to GET THE DAMN VOTE OUT FOR DEMOCRATS.
trollhattan
@dlwchico:
Oh, how horrible.
The many “doodle” combos now being sold have little history and I consider them all a crapshoot. I get it though, as many set the cute dial on 11 and IIUC most acquire the poodle no-shed quality.
My kid wanted a puppy, not an adopted adult and so we went the breeder route for our current doggie and I’ll say unreservedly that having adequate time with mom and yet getting him sufficiently young to fully bond made it worthwhile. Also, too, the breeder has a long history and the papers go back two generations.
NotMax
Cranked out a near perfect loaf of corn rye courtesy of the super duper bread machine. Texture is spot on but is a whisker too far over into the sour side if munched as a naked slice.
Eminently edible however, and still tweaking the recipe. Musing that including a small drizzle of molasses next time will bring it to OMG level.
Michael Cain
Accumulating snow up in the high country this weekend. Snow line might drop as low as 6,000 ft Tuesday evening. Forecast says lows just below freezing Tuesday and Wednesday nights.
Amir Khalid
FYWP ate my comment. I was saying that Mo Salah looks like he needs a break and Daniel Sturridge needs to be in the starting XI for Liverpool.
WaterGirl
@dlwchico: Oh, that’s terrible. A young pup with seizures is not a good thing. Unless you can get them under control, they are really hard on a body.
Decades ago I got one of my cocker spaniels from a pet store in a mall where I had visited him for 3 months — but refused to buy from them because I didn’t want to give money to the puppy mill supporters. I only broke down and got him after he got so old (4 or 6 months, can’t recall which) that they were going to send him to 8 different stores over 8 weeks and if no-one took him, they were going to put him down.
I told them I would take him “today” if I could pay them half price — at least they wouldn’t make any money off of him. They did, and when the vet found a problem right away, I called the store at the mall. Those fuckers offered me my money back, as if it was a flaw in a new shirt or a scratch on a table.
If this happened today, I probably would have shouted: I ALREADY LOVE HIM, YOU PIECES OF SHIT.
Back then I simply declined their offer and hung up the phone.
Martin
About to drive up to Vandenburg with the boy in a few hours to see the SpaceX launch/landing. Weather looks ideal.
Amir Khalid
My laptop ‘s headphone socket is on the fritz. Easily fixed, right?
Amir Khalid
Man City’s Riyad Mahrez misses a penalty! Liverpool spring back to life, but can they score?
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Sure it’s not the headphone jack? If you have or can cadge a spare pair, simple enough to confirm or dismiss that.
The words laptop, fix and easy do not naturally play well together.
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
I’ve done that test already. It’s the socket. The audio’s okay on the built-in speakers, but built-in laptop speakers suck.
Amir Khalid
@Amir Khalid:
No. Is draw.
trollhattan
@NotMax:
This.
If it doesn’t have bluetooth built in get a USB BT dongle (how I love that word) and go wireless.
Cracking open a laptop case to replace a 50-cent part is basically a nonstarter, unless it’s still under warranty.
Betty Cracker
@WaterGirl:
Exactly. I hope the pup ended up okay despite the early problem.
WaterGirl
Email from the Southern Poverty Law Center
WaterGirl
@Betty Cracker: He had a long, happy, healthy life until his last couple of years. He lived to be 16.
edit: in case it wasn’t clear, he was happy to the end, just not totally healthy toward the end.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Hm. Does the laptop have Bluetooth capability?
Might be less costly to pick up Bluetooth speaker(s) which come with a headphone socket.
Another Scott
@Fair Economist: I was up in Banff last week. It’s usually in the 50s this time of year. Instead, the highs were around freezing and they got about a foot of heavy wet snow. Fortunately, it melted from the roads relatively quickly, but as it was the TransCanada Highway (1) was closed for about a day as a result of accidents, etc.
Heading to a high of 87F today in NoVA.
Indeed, this is not normal. :-(
Cheers,
Scott.
Betty Cracker
@WaterGirl: Glad to hear that. I’m sure you gave him a wonderful life filled with love. All dogs deserve that, and too few get it.
Amir Khalid
@trollhattan:
You mean, just get a pair of Bluetooth headphones? Yeah, I could do that, but I really like the headphones I do have.
PaulWartenberg
NEW DOCTOR WHO IN 5 MINUTES!
Litlebritdifrnt
Are you all ready for the new Doctor Who? Cant wait to see what Jodie does with the role. Of course I love the fact that she is a Northerner :)
HAL
So today is the day for stories about the committed Trump supporter who was supposedly on the fence about voting in the midterms but is now definitely voting for the Republicans, something this mythical person has never not done, because of Kavanaugh.
Also, I’m still laughing at Angry Black Lady calling Kavanaugh Brad McBeer.
delk
A few months ago I was very impatient but today I am grateful that the new Dr. Who is premiering. An hour of enjoyment for us fans to take a break from politics and the overall ugliness of yesterday. Just what the (new, female) Dr. ordered.
jeffreyw
This was gonna be a picture of peppers but Imgur is choking today.
delk
@Litlebritdifrnt: loved the trailer of her breaking the glass ceiling.
Gex
@Amir Khalid: Maybe. Though I bet getting bluetooth headphones will be easier than replacing the audio port on a laptop.
JPL
I just put on the Falcons game…Let me say that at least John is happy. ugh
@Another Scott: I blame Obama.
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
Verily, it doth. Turning Bluetooth on shouldn’t be a problem.
Another Scott
@WaterGirl: Donated++ They’re a great organization.
Thanks for the pointer. (I get so much e-mail from them and other outfits that it’s hard to keep up…)
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Betty Cracker: I’m willing to bet that any of the republicans who voted for Kavanaugh would return that puppy in a heartbeat. If they had a heart at all, which assumes facts not in evidence.
As I typed, i wondered: “oh my god, do they really care more about dogs than they do about women?” Sadly, I am guessing the answer is yes.
Roger Moore
@Amir Khalid:
If you like your existing headphones, you can get an adapter that lets them connect via Bluetooth. It’s a bit clunky, but might well be cheaper than trying to replace the headphone socket.
WaterGirl
@HAL:
I think we should all call him that, forever.
Of maybe SC Justice Brad McBeer, so everyone would see the mockery.
jeffreyw
What”s4Dinner is alive and well, though.
https://whats4dinnersolutions.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/20181007_100919-1600×1200.jpg?w=1040
https://whats4dinnersolutions.files.wordpress.com/2018/10/20181007_100907-1600×1200.jpg?w=1040
WaterGirl
@delk: So if I have never watched a single Doctor Who, if I watched it today,would it make sense to me?
gvg
@PaulWartenberg: 85 degrees in October in Central Florida has been normal my whole life. Rising seas are evidence of Global warming, but honestly, I though, “how quaint it must be to live in a place that normally gets lower temps before December” when I read this post. Most Thanksgivings in Florida have been shorts weather, and not just barely too. I am 55 and grew up on Orlando. I remember when climate started to get colder and Orlando’s orange groves froze out and moved to South Florida (in the 80’s). Historically Florida was getting colder over the last 100 years and it’s only stated to reverse in the last 15 or 20.
WaterGirl
@jeffreyw: That looks like me, last year. I had peppers covering every surface. I seriously scaled back this year because of the broken ankle. Beautiful!
Another Scott
@jeffreyw: JeffreyW picked a peck of pretty peppers!!
Nice! Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
Fair Economist
@dlwchico: Seizures in young non-purebred dogs are usually infectious in origin. If the puppy is actually a labrador x poodle it’s unlikely to have a genetic defect. If the breeder is trying to create a “labradoodle” strain then the usual “purebreds tend to have genetic problems” applies.
trollhattan
@WaterGirl:
Nope. I can offer up my kid as a Who translator, however.
Production value is top-drawer if you’re into that sort of thing.
Beautifulplumage
Good morning from a late sleeper on the west coast.
Nice pics in both garden threads this morning. I’m hitching up the overalls to harvest the basil I grew this year. The seeds came in a white elephant gift exchange so the 6 little plants are like Cope’s pineapples and Satby’s purple potatoes. I mostly have been picking the lower leaves for their aroma’s pick-me-up quality.
I’m going to write postcards today. I cut cards out in different colors & bought stamps earlier this year, but the craziness at my workplace never let up (I finally took a 2 day weekend only because my car is getting fixed and I didn’t want to bus in on Saturday schedules). I appreciate the links for action and giving posted here. Canvassing or phone calling would be hard right now given my depression and anger.
You folks have been a huge help since I came aboard in 2015. Thanks to all of you for this community.
jeffreyw
@Amir Khalid: You could try one of these.
Fair Economist
@WaterGirl: Supposedly this new season is written to make it easy on new viewers. I can’t say if it’s true and I know Who too well to be able say myself even after I watch (have to wait 3 more hours here on the left coast.)
Aleta
@dlwchico: Beautiful picture. You probably know as much or more about poodles and seizures, but here’s the bit I know.
In poodles, esp standard ones, the cause of seizures is often inherited. If that’s the cause, then at least it’s not from another serious health problem like a tumor.
The breeder should be informed right away so they will stop breeding the parent and will notify other buyers so those puppies won’t be bred. (It’s possible they weren’t aware that the parent carried the gene or whatever.)
If your niece wants to try to keep the pup, her parents could ask the breeder to pay for tests to figure out the cause, and to pay for some for treatment. (If they’re not cooperative, some labradoodle organizations and groups could be contacted to publicize a warning about the breeder.)
Some puppies grow out of seizures. My niece bought a young standard poodle from a show breeder because he’d had a seizure when young so he could not be bred or shown. He’s never had another one though (6 or more years along now). There’s also medication that works for some dogs.
But knowing the costs they will face and the risks would be important. The breeder should pay for that first vet visit too. If they won’t, I’d dispute the credit card charge for the dog and tell them a complaint will be filed with the state AG, craigslist if they advertised there, etc.
dww44
Well, it’s gonna be 90 or 91 today;it has been even hotter for the last week. Indeed we’ve had the hottest weather of the season, mid to upper 90’s for the last two to 3 weeks. Was at a fund raising event for a little arts non-profit yesteday. One of the young members mentioned that she was going the Fair that night. I remarked that I had fond memories of going to the fair but it was almost always nice and cool many years ago when I was young. Noted that October was formerly my favorite month but that global warming/climate change had sort of ended that. One of the Mom’s, a very good one at spear heading fund raising events, remarked that she thought that it wasn’t so much the warming as it was that the seasons had shifted, since it stayed cooler in the Spring for longer (it doesn’t;last year it did, but that was an anamoly). I might add that she is the wife of an Air Force high ranking officer at the nearby base and has always home schooled her two daughters. She also is doing a fund raising involving raffling off a gun that she says all the guys will go for. Very nice people, but goodness this anti science (they don’t they are), gun fetishness and anti all taxation mindset is just wearing me down.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
Thanks for sharing. My company has a special day toward the end of the month where they will match donations 2 for 1. I gave to SPLC last year, but I hope this new fund will also be eligible.
trollhattan
@Fair Economist:
FWIW Episode 1 is being broadcast in real time around the globe. Certain Who fans are probably miffed about having to be up at 3:00 a.m. Monday morning.
Amir Khalid
@WaterGirl:
You might not understand very much of Dr Who if you watch the show, but you will become intimately familiar with the sights of Cardiff, Wales.
delk
@WaterGirl: it could. Usually with a new Dr that is a lot of backstory because the Dr is often confused with the new body and new companions.
daize
@jeffreyw: Those are beautiful! What do you do with extra peppers at the end of the season?
J R in WV
@Amir Khalid:
I use USB-connected speakers with our laptops, they seem to work great like that.
Ben Cisco
@Amir Khalid: Not necessarily. If you confirmed that it’s not the headphones or the laptop speakers at fault, you’re probably looking at a “cold” or broken solder joint attaching the jack to the mainboard. Not for beginners.
Aleta
@dlwchico: @Aleta: A genetic cause would mean both parents carry the gene, not one like I implied.
Like Fair Economist said.
WaterGirl
@Fair Economist: Thanks! I just created a Season Pass and will see how it goes. I do like the new Doctor Who actor, so I’lll give it a shot.
WaterGirl
@debbie: It’s great that they do that, and that they (at least sort of) let you chose where.
John S.
If you think it’s bad in West Virginia, try living in South Florida.
That’s one of the things that makes people in Floriduh the way they are – the heat/humidity makes them crazy.
Fair Economist
@trollhattan: Not in the Pacific Timezone on BBC American, according to their website. It’s showing a rerun right now. BBC America PT is usually just BBC America ET with a 3-hour shift and I guess they didn’t want to change it even for this. They’ll be rerunning the episode all day so it won’t be hard to catch anyway.
Dorothy A. Winsor
If you don’t know Ann Reed’s song “Heroes,” now’s a good time to listen to it.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
Well, they do have a list of eligible organizations, I suppose because their money will also be going to them, but it’s more reasonable than I expected. I gave to SPLC, ADL, Planned Parenthood, and Doctors Without Borders — none of which would receive the approval of the RWNJ arm of the GOP.
trollhattan
@Fair Economist: It’s on right now here (NorCal). Recording it to watch with the kid when she gets back from soccer.
WaterGirl
@debbie: No kidding! Glad to see more than the standard right-wing Salvation Army and the Red Cross — who will never get my money!
NotMax
@trollhattan
Last time I watched any Doctor Who was nearly 50 years ago. The term production values did not apply.
:)
Michael Cain
@Ben Cisco: “…you’re probably looking at a “cold” or broken solder joint attaching the jack to the mainboard. Not for beginners.”
Second the “not for beginners.” Given the density of most laptop motherboards and the prevalence of surface-mount components these days, I’d approach the task with a lot of caution, and I’ve been tinkering with printed circuit boards for most of 30 years.
MomSense
My son stopped at my favorite bakery on his way here to pick up some bread. He saw a friend today who told him that her friend (who works at that bakery) told her Malia Obama was at the bakery yesterday with her roommate. Her roommate is the daughter of our former family doctor. My son is very sad.
Amir Khalid
@Ben Cisco:
If I decide to have it fixed, it will be at a repair shop.
MomSense
@NotMax:
We lost power and cable so I missed it today. Damn
Amir Khalid
@Michael Cain:
In addition to making movies? You’re a man of many talents, Sir Michael.
Betty Cracker
@WaterGirl: @John S.: I attribute it to a chemical reaction from mixing mosquito repellent with sunscreen. It’s just a theory…
trollhattan
@NotMax:
“Exterminate! Exterminate! Exterminate!”
We had “Dr. Who” watching parties in college. Also, too, “The Prisoner” “Monte Python” etc. Bog bless the BBC.
trollhattan
@MomSense:
No worries, they’ll repeat it a gajillion times this week. Hopefully your cable non-provider fixes things.
Mnemosyne
I got my assignment from Postcards to Voters and I’m super excited because it’s Stacey Abrams and her running mate in Georgia. Now I need to do my sample postcard and email a photo of it so they know I’m legit.
WaterGirl
@MomSense: So close!
P.S. I just checked and Doctor who starts again at 2:30 central time and again just after midnight and there’s some special episode at 6:30pm tonight that looks like maybe it has extras?
jeffreyw
@daize: I chop them up and cook down with tomatoes and onions for a homemade rotel-type sauce. With just a few peppers I’ll go with sloppy joes or chili, maybe some pico for tacos.
LuciaMia
Warm grass-Dogs approve!
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Justice Brett “Boof” Kavanaugh.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: How about:
Justice Brett “Boof McBeer” Kavanaugh.
edit: did you see my reply on the previous thread?
satby
@dlwchico: labs are prone to seizures be side they have been overbred, now so are labradoodles. That’s an unscrupulous breeder (duh, they all are) and will just offer you another dog very likely to have the same problem.
My Rosie was used for breeding at a puppy mill and has severe epilepsy. She’s thrived for the 10 years I’ve has her, it’s possible that the seizures can be controlled with medication. Unfortunately, any puppies she had that were sold or also used for breeding are possibly epileptic too. Breeders don’t care, they just want the money. It kills me that people continue to buy from them thinking they’re guaranteed specific breed traits they want. Nope. Not likely.
Steeplejack
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Brava! Finger-picking a 12-string.
trollhattan
Speaking of pets, I know where you can get a lion.
WaterGirl
New low:
After the last 3 weeks, I am so angry that I just yelled “You bastards!” at the onions that had over-browned as i left them on their own to post a BJ comment. At least I was able to laugh about that.
The good news is that they weren’t so brown that I can’t use them in my soup.
They say that spicy food and dark chocolate can both lift your spirits when you are down. Today, spicy southwest vegetable soup; tomorrow, homemade chocolate pudding.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Yes, just went back and looked. Mildly sorry I lumped you (and debbie) into my response, but the “Hey, I Googled it and found this” response always makes me want to scream. It’s like salt in the wound. My Google-fu is solid. And my point stands. Which is better, for n readers to hunt down the source of a quote or for the original poster to graciously provide a link or citation?
And remember, this is a blog where we get daily evidence that many commenters can’t seem to use the Google to find out, say, what’s the deal with the disappearing Interpol chief. (Note: Not bashing that commenter; it’s just the most recent example that came to mind.)
raven
@dlwchico: Here’s my experience for what it’s worth. Lil Bit the cocker got dumped in a box at our vet 11 years ago. Her eyes were really bad and, for some reason, they removed her tear glands. After we took her she developed bladder stones (surgically removed), Autoimmune hemolytic anemia, a blown ACL and laryngeal paralysis. She almost suffocated to death from the Lap Par but was saved with “tie-back” surgery but now has to eat sitting up in a Bailey Chair. She gets 7 meds in here eyes twice a day and three once. Every other day she gets Atopica for the autoimmune problem. We have been fortunate to have the resources to take care of her but, if i didn’t work at home I have no idea how we could do what it takes. We wouldn’t have it any other way but I’m glad I didn’t take her on with the notion someone else was going to care for her.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Fix’d.
raven
Jesus
satby
@Aleta: both parents may carry the gene, but they can be carriers only, not epileptic themselves. Lots of info here: tl:dr is that the cause of inherited epilepsy in canines isn’t fully understood and is probably polygenic.
satby
@Steeplejack: pet peeve of mine too. Especially when an apparent college student asks easily researched questions rather than look it up themselves. Always feels like they want someone else to do their homework or research for their paper.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: You have the best google fu of anyone I know, no doubt about that.
I agree with your point about links; your delivery was a bit cranky :-) but I put it down to jet lag and adjusting to being home after your long trip. Not to mention that if you’re half as angry as I am about Brett “the Boof McBeer” Kavanaugh, that can slide out sideways. As in my yelling at my onions for getting too brown while I was away from the stove.
germy
Amir Khalid
@WaterGirl:
They’re your onions. If you can’t yell at them, who can?
WaterGirl
@satby: I always ask rather than googling if think it’s something I might regret later — some things cannot be un-seen.
It’s a holdover, I think, from when I clicked on a not clearly labeled Omnes link and got the “fuck me in the ass because I love Jesus” video. :-) Which is so totally awful and simultaneously so funny/awful that I couldn’t look away. In fairness to Omnes, I will confess that I watched the whole thing.
Litlebritdifrnt
Don’t know about anyone else but I thought the episode was perfect. The whole idea of the Doctor still being in the “cooking” process throughout the episode was hilarious and reminded me of previous episodes when the new Doctor had no idea who he was. I won’t say anymore for those who have not yet seen it but I thought Jodie was absolutely brilliant.
Yutsano
@trollhattan: ONLY IN KENYA!!!
raven
@WaterGirl: That’s Garfunkel and Oates.
raven
@WaterGirl: Google “I’m Pretty in Buffalo”.
SenyorDave
Rant for today:
Is Kellyanne Conway a member of the human race? Assuming she is, how could any person willingly stay married to her? No amount of money could be worth having to tolerate her presence voluntarily.
dlwchico
@Fair Economist: She’s a commercial breeder and breeds for ‘labradoodles’ specifically. Charged my sister $2500 for this pup. She’s been breeding them for 12 years, supposedly.
WaterGirl
@Amir Khalid: Good point!
But anyone with anger to burn is welcome to yell at my onions. I’ve always been a good share-er.
Heretofore, the only inanimate object I have ever addressed with “you bastard” is my scale — when it surprises me with a number that is higher than anticipated, especially if I have been good!
germy
@SenyorDave:
She’s his beard.
(No evidence of this, just thought I’d throw out a wild conspiracy theory. Maybe I can be prezdent someday)
raven
L.A. tried to tell me I wasn’t very pretty
And they don’t give a prize to girls who are witty
So f**k you in the face
You need to get out of this place
To the flyover states
And remember what people look like
JMG
Political quants, notably Nate Cohn of the Times, but others too, have spent the afternoon on Twitter basically saying the Democrats won’t win either the Senate or House because of geography, tight polls in individual districts and mostly, because after Trump’s win none of them will ever forecast a Democratic win ever again. Harry Enten of CNN seems like a nice fellow, but he makes tweet forecasts that seem to include hunches and feelings. Not real scientific.
WaterGirl
@raven: I am giving you the side-eye, wondering if you are setting me up.
germy
@JMG:
They hope if they keep repeating that, it will become so.
Like Seth Abramson did with wilmer; he kept saying bullshit he knew wasn’t true, in hopes of creating reality out of it. I can’t remember what he called the technique.
dlwchico
@Aleta: Thanks for all the info. She’s contacting the breeder today.
My nieces lost their dad to brain cancer about 4 years ago. It would be pretty terrible if this pup had a brain tumor.
WaterGirl
@SenyorDave:
Sometimes the juxtaposition of two comments can be humorous. Your comment, followed by the next one:
Amir Khalid
@Steeplejack:
Meng Hongwei is under arrest and facing corruption charges, so sayeth Auntie Beeb. Meng has also resigned as president of Interpol. I wonder what’s up.
raven
@WaterGirl: I like their work, they don’t mess around.
Steeplejack
@germy:
I’m not even going to ask you for a link for that!
I do want to take this opportunity to thank you for your exemplary link-fu since we discussed the issue sometime back. (Being serious.)
JMG
@germy: I don’t think it’s that It’s mostly ass-covering with a dollop of something else — the need to get clicks. If there’s no suspense, fewer people are going to read election forecasts, whether they have math in them or not.
TheOtherHank
re: Dog Siezures
Our mutt started having seizures ( at least one a day for a week ) and they’ve been controlled since then with daily doses phenobarbital for several years.
Yutsano
@Amir Khalid: That is…not good. Has anyone checked his ties to Jiang ZeMin? XI has been…removing elements of the old presidency slowly.
schrodingers_cat
@Steeplejack: Sometimes the advice from the hive mind is better than google’s search algorithm.
Corner Stone
@satby: That is not why he does it. He vacillates between outrageously dumb positions that are indefensible to mentioning or asking questions that are transparent. You’ll also note the attempted pile on when he spots an unpopular opinion he can bandwagon against another commenter.
WaterGirl
@raven: Love the sweet voice juxtaposed with those lyrics!
Ladyraxterinok
@germy: Sounds like the ‘name it and claim it’ theology popular in charismatic/pentecostal circles. Also known as the ‘blab it and grab it’ theology.
Mnemosyne
@SenyorDave:
IIRC, Kellyanne and George Conway met while they were both working for Ken Starr. They deserve each other even if George is having second thoughts about Trump now. He’s reaping what he sowed.
Aleta
dog in fog
(pics of him in the world always give me a thrill because he used to live in a pen)
WaterGirl
@schrodingers_cat: Agreed! I will ask here about recipes because I want a GOOD tried and true recipe and not a hundred recipe links from google.
But I don’t think those are the kinds of things that Steep is referring to.
ruemara
I keep jumping in a bit late to threads, but here’s a very surprised 1 year old kitteh. Getting caught up with the good Doctor, since I have no Zumba today. Very disappointing.
Steve in the ATL
@Yutsano: with all the ellipses, I’m reading your comment in William Shatner’s voice
LuciaMia
I thought that was Peggy Noonan’s forte.
WaterGirl
@ruemara: Great photo!
I am apparently stupid today because I can’t figure out what’s disappointing — no zumba? The Good Doctor tv show? Or if your reference to getting caught up with the good doctor means Doctor Who, and you are disappointed with that.
Steeplejack
@schrodingers_cat:
What does that mean?
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Exactly.
raven
@WaterGirl: This’ll kill ya
This Party Took a Turn for the Douche
Aleta
@satby: Yes, that’s why I mentioned that a breeder may be unaware at first that the parent carries it, since it can be recessive in both parents. My understanding is it takes two parents, each with recessive gene, to produce an offspring with seizures? (Only talking seizures of the standard poodle hereditary type, not from other causes.)
germy
@Steeplejack:
You were right to insist on links. Facts and sources matter more nowadays than ever.
debbie
@germy:
A simple “Link, please” would have been more productive, not to mention more polite, something else that doesn’t seem to matter as much anymore.
germy
@debbie: I’m late to the thread; I was talking about the times steeple asked me for a link.
I had gotten out of the habit of providing links because I assumed no one followed them. I think steeple is (or was?) a journalist, so citations matter to him.
Steeplejack
@debbie:
I have done the “Link, please” thing until I’m blue in the face.
ruemara
@WaterGirl: No zumba. so I’m right inbetween romanian deadlifts and jump lunge sets. While catching up with the new Doctor, who I am quite liking.
jl
Thanks for nice garden pic. Yes, I always look for a Cole critter in a Cole yard pic. Nice doggy.
schrodingers_cat
@Steeplejack: Balloon Juice hive mind is better for product recommendations or recipes as watergirl was saying because instead of listicles one gets personalized advice and/or recommendations.
Doug R
@WaterGirl:
A lot of the good Doctor Who episodes are think on your feet style. Don’t really need a background to watch the new ones. All you really need to know is the Doctor regenerates every few seasons so she’s a little confused herself at the beginning of the season.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
William Cohen owes the country an apology
I am reminded of a quote, that I believe was coined or at least passed along by the now infrequent visitor Davis X Machina, that Susan Collins is living proof that it is indeed possible to fuck one’s brains out. I remember because it was the only remotely interesting thing I had ever heard about her.
God bless Cecily Strong
Elizabelle
@germy: I love links.
And now FYWP seems to be OK with “naked” ones, if we’re on our phones and it’s hard to embed with the link button.
I rarely take anything at face value until I see the link. The story is sometimes … quite different than someone would have you believe.
Ruckus
@germy:
He called it what you did – Bullshit.
Oh you meant what he called it in public.
Steeplejack
@germy:
Whether or not I was a journalist (I was), links and sources are going to become ever more important in the era of on-line, crowd-sourced, instant news. Christ, I have seen examples on this very blog—which I consider to be one of the most reliable aggregators of political commentary—where a commenter makes a bad joke, speaking in the alleged voice of some politician, and in the same thread someone else runs with it as “something true that they read somewhere on the Interwebs.”
I know that the intention of (most) people posting stuff is benign, but at a time when everybody is all “FTFNYT”—though they seem to keep linking to it a lot, go figure—it seems prudent and accommodating, and not too much to ask, to offer a link, or at least a citation, to the news flashes they are bringing to the blog. Sources matter.
Aleta
@Steeplejack: I used to always put in the link, but then (you’ll despair) I noticed it wasn’t always done here; at the same time I began to think it’s important to credit the writer and publication, so I do more of that instead. In that case I often skip going back for the link to save the wear on my hands. What you said makes sense though.
zhena gogolia
Still no nyms. No edit function. And now the front page does not reflect the number of comments on a post. I have to go to the comments and refresh to get the newest comments.
Jay Noble
Whe you’re just skimming the Thread:
119 Is Kellyanne Conway a member of the human race? Assuming she is, how could any person willingly stay married to her? No amount of money could be worth having to tolerate her presence voluntarily.
120 She’s a commercial breeder
And WaaterGirl got it first! :-)
Steeplejack
@schrodingers_cat:
Great, but that is totally not what I was talking about.
Martin
Vandenberg trip is off. Boy doesn’t feel well. Maybe next month.
The commentaries today on Kav are why I’m keeping my focus on CA. Progress at the federal level is going to be near impossible for a while. Yes, vote. Yes, elect Dems. Yes, keep pushing. But that’s all laying the groundwork for improvements down the road some ways. Immediate progress is only going to happen at the state level, and the results of those efforts are what’s going to shape federal policy when that day arrives. You want healthcare to happen? That’s only going to happen in the states right now. Pick a target, make it happen, and then fight like hell to keep it against federal efforts to knock it down.
I’m maxed out for my congressional race, and I have the benefit of a guaranteed Dem win for Senate. Solar panels go up in 2 weeks. If I can’t win politically, I’ll win economically. Ms Martin is hell bent and determined to only hire women owned businesses from here on out, and so far this year she’s succeeded. CA is more than a firewall at this point. We’ll launch our own damn satellite.
NotMax
@germy
Have always gone out of the way to provide links or citations (within FYWP limitations), possibly to excess.
Whether or not anyone clicks on them is up to the individual; at least the option is there.
jl
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Just saw that myself. So, Colllins is saying that the GOP thinks it has learned some BS PR lessons in how to market the brutality of their raw power politics to the marks. OK, then. Got it.
Hearing Collins’ speech, most of it, as much as I could stand was bad enough. But when I saw the pic of her very pleased smirk at what she thought she was getting away with, I felt sick to my stomach. Hope we can prove her wrong in November.
SenyorDave
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: “The one silver lining that I hope will come from this is that more women will press charges now, when they are assaulted,” the Maine Republican tells @FaceTheNation
Is she actually trying to diss Ford for not reporting the attempted rape when she was a 15 year old? Is she really going there?
Doug R
@raven:
I see in disguise they have Alia Shawkat from Arrested Development and Sarah Silverman as two of the douches.
schrodingers_cat
@SenyorDave: Yes she is echoing the Orangeman in the WH as all the RW trolls seem to be doing.
Steeplejack
@Aleta:
I don’t want to drag you into this, but your minimal “credits,” just giving the name of the publication and sometimes the author, aren’t really useful. Interested readers still have to do a Google search, especially if the story has dropped off the site’s front page (or it’s a “big” site).
Look, I know it can be a hassle to take that extra step to grab the hyperlink. But even on a phone you can have more than one tab open—Balloon Juice page and source page. Copy the excerpted text to your BJ comment, go back and grab the URL, close the source page. Yeah, it’s a bit of a hassle, but it beats multiple people trying to hunt down “Joe Blow, Rolling Stone” on the Google. The alternative is that they don’t bother and your reach is blunted.
schrodingers_cat
@Steeplejack: Point taken, I hadn’t read the whole exchange. I was trying to answer why asking BJ commenters might sometimes be better than doing a Google search.
WaterGirl
@Doug R: I watch Arrow and Flash and all those shows without having ever read a comic book or knowing any of the previous history. I am sure that a lot of stuff that goes right over my head is seen as significant to people who know the backstories, but I still enjoy the shows.
I will give the new Doctor a go. thanks!
Another Scott
@Steeplejack:
Hey! I resemble that remark!!1
It’s not my fault that they show up near the top of Google searches.
I blame Google. Yeah.
Cheers,
Scott.
Ruckus
@Martin:
Asking you and the hive mind.
For Senator we have DiFi and Kevin DeLeon. DiFi is 85 yrs young and Deleon seems to me like a deer caught in the headlights.
I’m leaning DiFi, experience, seniority, gender….
DeLeon seems like he wants to be a good guy but he doesn’t really know how. He’s not horrible, he’s not a republican…….
Any thoughts?
SenyorDave
Why not have a Democratic Senator go on the Sunday shows and when asked about Kavanaugh just say “We have a president who has 17 allegations of sexual assault against him and has admitted on tape that he is a serial sexual assaulter. It should not be surprising that a man who has multiple accusations of sexual assault was confirmed by the Republicans to sit on the Supreme Court”.
I want people to be reminded about accusations against Trump.
jl
@SenyorDave: Hard to tell. Collins has gone so far down the bad faith BS PR rabbit hole to keep her credibility as some kind of reasonable moderate afloat, she may have gone insane. Maybe she thinks she is doing some high toned Trump style gaslighting.
They are just barfing out BS. Like, we should use the same standards of evidence for a job promotion as we should for a criminal trail. If you ignore lies during confirmation hearing, they didn’t happen. The BS that men are helpless victims of unjust accusations from women, Which of course they are not. False accusations usually fall apart under investigation, as we have seen repeatedly in the news. Ford’s allegations did not fall apart, but they were afraid to really investigate enough to establish what really happened. The investigation had to be cut short anyway, or Kavanaugh’s lies uttered during the hearing would have become too blatant to ignore, regardless of what happened in the 1980s.
So, just all gaslighting, BS and word salad to cover it up.
Steeplejack
@schrodingers_cat:
Got it.
Cheryl Rofer
Adam just got an endorsement.
jl
@Cheryl Rofer: Balloon-Juice is the premier health policy, foreign affairs, national security, garden, Cole’s ~#@!!**& house and pet rescue and poop blog.
ruemara
@Cheryl Rofer: By Norm fucking Ornstein. Bravo, Adam
WaterGirl
@Cheryl Rofer: Who’s this Norm Ornstein guy? (just kidding!)
Wow, that is a big Joe Biden deal. Go Adam!
WaterGirl
@ruemara: hahaha — I see we had the same reaction!
Steeplejack
@Cheryl Rofer:
Kudos to Adam for that.
Aleta
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: It also pisses me off that she’s pretending her radically partisan speech was balanced just because she put in some support for victims of sex violence, as though she’s being fair by representing the Democrats’ viewpoint on that one. It isn’t a Democratic viewpoint, it’s a human issue.
She ignored or gave false answers to Democrats’ (and thousands of citizens’) objections to Kavanaugh. She didn’t bother to mention those individual citizens either, or the ones who changed their opinion of BK after his cold meltdown; instead she lied that that one side manipulated and whipped up opposition and slander. It was so blatant it often sounded like patched-together propaganda by the McConnell-Trump people handed off not long before she went on stage.
J R in WV
@WaterGirl:
And you’re not posting Omnes’s link to that video>>????!!
That’s just WRONG! I could use a laugh.
This morning (remember, we were night owls in the long ago, still are!) at 8 am a good friend and fellow student at Marshall U now in NC called to ask me what gives with Joe Manchin. He ranted and we chatted for over an hour, then I went back to bed.
Fun to talk with him. Great guy, had to leave for church, wife is the priest and he feels he has to support her, which I appreciate. She’s great too, her dad (Col Buzz) was a heavy aircraft pilot in the USAF, spent most of the Vietnam war flying dead troops home, made him a pacifist. Long history of military service in the family.
Still want that video link !!
Martin
@Ruckus: De Leon has been good in the state senate. There’s no way in hell he can stack up against someone who’s been in the US Senate for a few decades, who has seniority on key committees, etc. I think you have to handicap that kind of head-head. Eventually we’ll have a new person in that seat, and they’re going to look like a rookie next to Feinstein no matter what. I think DeLeon would be fine. I think he’s a pretty good representative of state interests. I also think that if Feinstein needs to give up her seat before 2024, that we’d find a good replacement.
In the end I’m leaning toward Feinstein for one reason – she has seniority. If the Dems win the Senate, she’ll be chairing her committees, and I would like a female from CA in that position. Committee seniority counts for a LOT.
Steeplejack
@J R in WV:
Enjoy: Garfunkel and Oates, “The Loophole.”
raven
@J R in WV: Heavy aircraft? 141’s?
Martin
@Martin: I should add, to be super-clear: There’s still decent odds that Trump gets another nomination before 2020. I like and trust Leahy, but if the Dems win the Senate, I want a woman chairing the Judiciary Cmte. If I were Schumer, I’d appoint nothing but women and minorities in the next Congress, just to drive that point home.
JWL
Beautiful yard, Cole, beautiful view. When my power washer broke, I found TSP and a good brush did the job just as well on my pavers. Needless to say, it was a lot quieter, too. And when the blessed* damp of the redwood forest that surrounds me caused the cheap paint I first applied to my small deck to splotch with mold during first winter here , I did what I should have done in the first place, by going back to the drawing board with TSP and applying better quality paint. It did the trick, and touching it up at the beginning of summer is all its taken to maintain.. and a nice little ritual to perform, to boot.
* blessed especially in light of the October fires last year that destroyed so much of the city of Santa Rosa, before cutting a wide swathe through Sonoma county just twenty miles east of my neck of the woods.. but the light hereabouts this time of year in the San Francisco north bay is still utterly fantastic a year later and it will be next year, too, and it’s a mystery to me why that is… But it’s been so my entire life..
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Martin: How close can you get to the launch site, do they allow the public on-base for the launch?
WaterGirl
@J R in WV: Okay, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjjh9PML8tE (you were warned)
I’m hoping one of the eagle-eyed young pups here can spot one of the 65 women who singed the letter in support of the rapist – this seems just up their alley.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rjjh9PML8tE
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Martin: I was leaning towards voting against Di-Fi(I voted against her in the primary), but after the last month I’m leaning towards re-elect.
trollhattan
@jl:
Pretty much, and also, too healthcare policy. Doesn’t fit well on a t-shirt though.
trollhattan
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
She did yeoman’s work facing down Grassley, Graham, Hatch and those other republican twinkies while they were attacking her and Dr. Ford. I was, frankly, proud of our senior senator after having been frequently exasperated by her in the past. And I don’t find DeLeon a worthy replacement.
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I’m probably going to vote to re-up Feinstein since the stuff Trump is pulling is mostly in her wheelhouse. Poor Kevin De Léon picked the wrong cycle to be a young man trying to push an older, more experienced woman into retirement.
Chetan Murthy
@Mnemosyne: Roger that, and for all the same reasons.
Aleta
@Steeplejack: I know that it doesn’t replace doing a search to read the article. And I often do give links. At times I believe it’s more important to credit the author, and as I explained, I don’t do both. (Which would be best I agree.) When I avoid doing a link, it’s to reduce stress on my hands, as I also explained. Not to avoid the hassle. I agree with your points however.
debbie
@Cheryl Rofer:
Nice! The world should know he’s more than just another cheesecake baker.
Elizabelle
test. Did Martin kill the blog?
WaterGirl
@trollhattan: I am not in California, but that’s exactly how I feel. I was ready for DiFI to be voted out, but after the past few weeks I can see that at this point in time we need the seniority and the gravitas she brings.
Doug R
@Elizabelle:
I AM Threadkiila!
debbie
@WaterGirl:
Especially when you compare her performance with Grassley’s (stumbling, bumbling, muttering), she’s got lots left in her.
Chetan Murthy
@debbie: Wasn’t Grassley the one who needed his staffer whispering in his ear what to say? And then he basically repeated word-for-word, including the staffer’s prompts which weren’t part of the speech? Or was that Hatch? So many old fogies, it’s hard to keep ’em all straight.
WaterGirl
@debbie: No kidding! Most of those old guys on that committee aren’t fit to hold any job anymore, let alone leadership positions in the US senate. It’s not about age, but they are tottering and don’t seem really sharp.
Gin & Tonic
@WaterGirl: Does nobody remember the fun of goatse links any more?
J R in WV
@raven:
Whatever was landing at Dover AFB loaded with caskets. I’m not AF aware, but big cargo aircraft, coming in from Hawaii, or from the Nam into Hawaii. His family told me he had been somewhat arrogant, but then his buddies at flag rank retired, and his not friends put him on ferrying dead troops home the rest of his career. He’s still alive, in his 90s. Had a hard time with that last assignment, never shot over his dogs again.
J R in WV
Regarding fine guitar playing, and great singing, here’s a link to Susan Tedeschi and “Midnight in Harlem” with Derek Trucks and the Tedeschi Trucks Band in a less loud and great performance in concert.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6GkdCiqsFUI
satby
@dlwchico<
that’s fucking obscene. But she’s more than made her coin. Euthanising a defective dog will only cost her $100 or so. And people wonder why I despise breeders.
No idea how I screwed this comment up.
Fair Economist
@Ruckus: De Leon was the primary mover for the clean electricity by 2045 law.
J R in WV
@WaterGirl:
Thanks! Darn, now it want’s a signin – Fuq that!
Doug R
Well, Feinstein is 85. My dad made it to 91 and my mom made it to 89. Both were still sharp til the end, but I suspect DiFi won’t live out her term.
satby
@germy: I always follow links. It’s disappointing when an item is cited and doesn’t have a link, for me anyway.
opiejeanne
@Elizabelle: I can’t figure out how to link to articles on my iPhone. I keep thinking I know how to do it but I’m always disappointed.
I hate that my iMac won’t return automatically to the comment with the link, when I follow a link to look at things like Garfunkel and Oates. My elderly Samsung is smart enough to do it.
Also, on this iMac when I click on “reply” it doesn’t take me to the reply box although it does put the link to the comment in the box. Weird. It’s fine on the Samsung.
Elizabelle
@opiejeanne: Yeah, I don’t comment much from the iPhone. It is tedious, and small screen, etc.
In that case, the publication, writer if you recall, and as much of the title as you can remember should serve. I know we can’t always link, but I like to know where these blockquote passages come from.
(Of course, one can always copy some of the text into a Google search and see what pops up ….)
Michael Cain
@opiejeanne: “Also, on this iMac when I click on “reply” it doesn’t take me to the reply box although it does put the link to the comment in the box. Weird.”
Same behavior on my Mac Mini in Safari. In Firefox or Chrome on the same machine, no problem. Almost certainly some sort of JavaScript thing. I keep expecting all WordPress sites to collapse under the weight of broken/incompatible/obsolete JavaScript plug-ins.
tobie
@Cheryl Rofer: Congratulations, Adam. That’s one hell of a shout-out. Norman Ornstein, I’m hoping you not only read this blog but also participate in the conversation unbeknownst to us. Of course your identity would be revealed if you turned up at one meetup or another.
opiejeanne
@Martin: We’re pretty assured of keeping our two D Senators; Maria Cantwell’s challenger is a Trumpite but too chicken to mention she’s a Republican on her posters. Her website has a congratulatory comment to Kavanaugh. That won’t fly in this state (I hope) . The congressional race seems solid with Suzan DelBene, but in the neighboring district’s race, Dr Kim Schrier is facing nasty attack ads from Dino Rossi. We’re pretty involved in our state senator’s bid for election. Manka Dhingra won the special election for State Senate a year ago when the Republican holding the seat died of cancer immediately after his election. That seat was temporarily occupied by Dino Rossi, mentioned above. I can’t fathom why out of all of the various representatives and senators for our little area this one seat has been held by a Republican for a long time. Her election a year ago meant that 11 gridlocked bipartisan bills were passed after she was seated. Now she’s running against a vile racist who’s counting on name recognition as well as his time as head of the county Republicans to carry him over the line. Dale Fonk.
Manka Dhingra is the first Sikh to hold a state office.
Ruckus
@Doug R:
First, to answer you. No one know how long someone will live. My mom made it to 95 and she was still working and driving like a mad woman at DiFi’s age. She outlived everyone in her family by years and some by decades. I met a man who was 95 when we met. I saw him every year for 9 more years, he was great up to 102, lively, alert, etc.
Second, thanks everyone for the opinions. They pretty much parallel mine. And I’m one who thinks that the old whipper snappers should make room for the younger folks. And I say that as an honorary old whipper snapper, to be inducted into actual status, next birthday. But look at the senate, especially the conservative side. None of them are worth a shit, but many of them are way past their sell by dates as well. They keep getting money from those sources because they sit there and keep voting for shitty bills. They are reliable conservative votes and none of the money bags behind the conservative limelight want to risk losing one of them.
opiejeanne
@Doug R: No, I am Threadkiller!
Oh wait, was it already dead? Dang.
Ruckus
@Fair Economist:
Not saying he’s bad but I read up a bit on him and overall I’m not enthused. If he was running against one of those NJ carpetbaggers, like the asswipe running for governor, or one of the ruskies currently holding seats in the house, yeah he’d be my first choice by a long shot. But he’s not.
I see him as a place holder, better him than a repub, given the jungle primaries here, but not my first choice.
debbie
@Ruckus:
But not just any Bambi in the headlights. Someone will need much more than youthfulness to make it worth replacing an older, more experienced legislator.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: Apparently not.
Ruckus
@J R in WV:
Probably a C-130.
WaterGirl
@J R in WV: Did you see that Steep posted a link that doesn’t require the login?
It’s at comment #189 in this thread.
Ruckus
@debbie:
True but do think about where DiFi was 26 yrs ago.
Everyone starts at the bottom when they first step into national office. Bottom of that job. Sure they need state experience, like Kevin DeLeon has. If this was anywhere near normal times I’d vote for him in a heartbeat. I voted for DiFi last time, with reservations. But it isn’t normal times right now. Which is why I posed the question in the first place.
John Revolta
@Ruckus:
Man, you ARE old! ;^)
Elizabelle
@Ruckus: I support DiFi too. And Nancy Smash Pelosi.
We have not yet had a woman Senator from Virginia. Or a governor. That has to change, one day. For now, I am happy with Tim Kaine and Mark Warner. Especially TK!
Gin & Tonic
@WaterGirl: Kids these days…
J R in WV
@Ruckus:
I’m thinking, after some research, C-141s mostly. They were flying from Hawaii to Delaware, a very long flight in a Herc C-130.
J R in WV
@WaterGirl:
OK, that’s odd, but hysterical. I’ve heard about that secular religious loophole, but never imagined a funny and explicit song about it. … ;-)
Ruckus
@J R in WV:
That’s actually too far in either plane without refueling. And a long flight in either but the C-141 was 200 mph faster and carried more cargo. Both were in service during the Vietnam war but the C-141 entered service in 1965 and was done in 2006, the C-130 still flies to this day and is still being built. I think where it lands/takes off is probably more important than how fast it is. And of course there is always the C-5, put in service in 1970.
In the end probably both of us are correct, I’d bet they used both the C-130 and the C-141.