My father is 96 and a half years old. In his long life he has never seen anything like what’s happening to our country. I love him. And I want the country he fought his whole life for. pic.twitter.com/ZeTPTKTS2u
— Rob Reiner (@robreiner) October 30, 2018
Barack Obama To Visit Georgia And Florida To Support Stacey Abrams And Andrew Gillum
https://t.co/RCYGlu2NIu— Elayne (laynie) (@LaynieR) October 31, 2018
Damn. Hillstradamus. https://t.co/CQ8YK5IpwB
— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) October 30, 2018
So, in review, during the period when Robert Mueller absolutely wouldn’t have made headlines, Jacob Freaking Wohl put him in the news while taking down himself and Gateway Pundit in the process.
Reminding voters of Mueller before the midterms. Priceless.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) October 30, 2018
Take solace in the fact that Trump’s desperation is a result of knowing what’s coming on Tuesday.
He knows he is seven days from the worst public shaming of his lifetime.
Narcissists rage when drowning.
Watch with detachment and it becomes downright zen. He knows he’s losing.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) October 30, 2018
Chyron HR
Jeez, I thought Mel Brooks was supposed to be the 2,000-year-old one.
NotMax
The name means nada to me but I suppose carries weight in entertainment biz circles.
Late to the party, but better late than never.
rikyrah
Good Morning,Everyone ???
JGabriel
Damn, I hope I hit 96 as hale, hearty, clear, and sharp as Carl Reiner appears to be in that video.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@rikyrah: Good Morning???
NotMax
Halloween.morn music.
And a bonus track for any hang tenners.
(Less bouncy tunes in the wings for later in the day.)
satby
@?BillinGlendaleCA: @rikyrah: Good morning rikyrah, Billin, and everyone ? !
It’s going to be an ugly race to the finish judging from the loud and proud deplorables at the market yesterday. I hate being in a red state.
Immanentize
Hello All!
Oddly feeling better today re: next week. My feelings of dread and “just get it over!” Seem to have been replaced with hope.
And Red Sox victory parade which means I am staying home, far away from my University which is on the parade route!
p.a.
Where was Cole when Whitey got whacked? It would be irresponsible not to speculate.
Immanentize
@satby: what say these deplorable ones?
Immanentize
@p.a.: Not at the scene of the crime, fer sure. Cole is a Capo, not a finger.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Immanentize: Wouldn’t have been so much easier for you if the Dodgers had won?
ETA: The kid was at Game 5, wasn’t a happy camper.
Immanentize
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I am sorry for the kid, but…. Meanwhile folks who went to game four got to see two games in one night! (18 innnings!)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Immanentize: Something deplorable that can’t be repeated on a family blog.
NotMax
@satby
Heck, it’s a state which cannot decide on a time zone.
On the other hand, a state which gifted us Jean Shepherd, Marjorie Main, Hoagy Carmichael, Carole Lombard, Cole Porter and Kurt Vonnegut Jr., which makes up for much.
:)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Immanentize: She had a friend who went to game four and IIRC left early.
OzarkHillbilly
Hey Norm? How’s about facing the reality that our medical system SUCKS!!!?
ETA article quoted in whole because it just encapsulates everything that is wrong with medicine in the US
satby
@Immanentize: very little to me personally. Two old white geezers were hollering at each other at the other end of the market about how great Drumpf was, I assume because both were too vain to wear the heating aids both obviously needed. The market takes up almost a city block, and I was laughing to myself about what Fox-addled idiots they were when an older (than me anyway) white woman walked by and asked what was so funny. I told her I was laughing at the guys proclaiming their love of Drumpf and she said she thought he had done a lot for the country (ugh). I’m past giving a shit if these assholes buy anything from me so I told her he’s ruining the country. Her response was “well, would you rather have Obama” in a tone that just reeked of racism, and I told her “any same person would rather have Obama”.
I seriously don’t want to share a country with these people because I despise them. I just… hell, even despise isn’t strong enough.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax:
Makes up for Mike Pence? Really?
JPL
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Teenagers in Massachusetts see the Red Sox as a powerhouse, but oldies such as myself, remember the decades of losses. Yankees suck btw.
NotMax
@BillinGlendaleCA
I said much, not everything.
;)
satby
@NotMax: we’ll see. You’re safe in a state of normal people.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: Isn’t it nice to be unique?
NotMax
@satby
Present company excepted?
:)
Raven
It’s actually the sunset but we get great sunrises off our deck here.
satby
@NotMax: ????
And on another subject, watched the new season of Shetland on Britbox’s 7 day free trial. Totally gripping.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JPL:
FTFNYY.
satby
@Raven: gorgeous!!
OzarkHillbilly
Obviously a Libtard do gooder who can’t mind her own business..
OzarkHillbilly
@Raven: Beautiful.
JPL
@satby: Welcome to my world.
debbie
@satby:
Tell me about it. I never lost my New York mouth, and it’s all I can do to keep quiet when they start spouting their racist, neo-nationalist, quasi-Aryan crap.
JPL
@Raven: You are so lucky. Have you already booked the same place for next year yet?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: She’s just going to do those risky hikes now that she knows the nanny state will bail her out.
rikyrah
I have been so busy at work, that I didn’t hear about the Bobby Three Sticks scam until I was about to go home.
These muthaphuckas ?
Immanentize
@NotMax:
Love him. He still holds the record for the longest song title ever which I memorized when I was probably about 12 or so….
I’m a cranky old yank on a clanky old tank on the streets of Yokohama with my Honolulu Mama singing those beato, beato, flat on my seato, Hirohito Blues.
Immanentize
@rikyrah:
But luckily for all, stupid muthaphuckas
hueyplong
@JPL: Same here. Sometimes I put in earbuds with no music playing so I won’t have to interact with people saying things like that. They expect you to give them an Amen once they have witnessed to you about Trump.
All the racists feel liberated from the shackles of “political correctness” so they can “finally” share how they really feel. As a guy so pale he got sunburned in Edinburgh, I am apparently assumed to be someone anxious to share in their verbal celebrations.
Yesterday I youtubed Obama interacting with Stephen Curry as a kind of curative. They acted as though they could go 60 seconds without grappling with mortal enemies.
Tokyokie
@Chyron HR:
I understand that Carl Reiner and Mel Brooks, who is 92 himself, get together most every night to watch TV and maintain a running commentary about what they’re watching. And I’m sure the show they put on for themselves is far better than those they’re watching. Damn, I’d love to get an invite.
And, of course, Carl’s son is one of the good ones.
TS (the original)
Who knows if this is accurate or a massive outlier – but I’ll take it for a reason to be cheerful
Democrats are leading Republicans by 17 points on a generic ballot, according to a new USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll.
from the Hill
Edit: The USC Dornsife/Los Angeles Times poll surveyed 3,922 adults and had a margin of error of 2 percentage points.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Tokyokie:
Of course he is, he’s a Bruin.
Immanentize
@Raven: Love it. You know your pics are the closest thing I’ve had to a vacation in a long time.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TS (the original): A poll from U$C? We’re doomed.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Immanentize: Pretty much the same here, I’m going though the kid’s pics from New Zealand.
Immanentize
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
The Immp and I will take a long well deserved Vaca next summer. I hope.
You’ve gotta get one too.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@satby: I hear ya. Yesterday at both dinner and B&N, old white women (my demo) at the next table were saying things that depressed me. One was going on about how Blasey Ford was lying about Kavanaugh, and the other spouted a string of Trumpian nonsense (he’s going to do away with birthright citizenship, people in Pittsburgh should welcome the president’s visit, etc.). I stayed out of it because there was no way to make a dent.
TS (the original)
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I know nothing about them – do tell
Edit: I see 538 marks them a C – weighting 0.77 – so not the best!
I’ll still be positive about it
Tokyokie
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I did not know that. But his coming from a family that could afford the tuition at the University of Spoiled Children and choosing to be an UCLAn instead heightens my already high esteem of both Carl and Rob.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@NotMax:
Reminds me of artists refusing to play Sun City during apartheid. It’s a good tactic. Fox has poured poison into the American ear for decades now. No wonder we’re sick.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Immanentize:
That will never happen.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@TS (the original): (It’s a U$C poll, I went to UCLA.)
OzarkHillbilly
Looks like even the Iranians are getting ion on the assassination craze:
I actually find Qassemi’s statement worthy of consideration. It certainly seems awfully convenient for the Saudi’s to take a little of the attention away from their own assassination screw ups and focus it on their mortal enemies.
MazeDancer
PostCard Patriots is all texting and phone-banking info for the last week.
You can text for Beto, Claire, and Florida Democrats. (They’re all BJ Candidates now)
OG BJ Candidates Luria, Heitkamp, Rouda, Fershee, Small, and Fletcher all have remote phone banks. Instructions on site. (And worry not about taking to people, you’ll mostly be leaving messages.)
If you missed the announcement yesterday – PostCard Patriots sent 12,162 PostCards in just 27days.
Way to go, Writers!
PostCardPatriots.com
Elizabelle
That’s a great Carl Reiner ad. Thanks.
Good morning, jackals. Boo!
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I have found that citing simple irrefutable facts is a great way to shut them up. It won’t change their minds but at least I don’t have to endure their stupidity.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Good morning.
Baud
@satby: Good morning.
Baud
@JPL: A new Evil Empire is born.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: ???
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Blech.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: ?
@OzarkHillbilly: Blech.
Baud
Today show mentioned the obligatory “political extremes on both sides” in covering the Florida governor race.
OzarkHillbilly
Why the UK’s Brexit negotiation tactics drew a blank
Apparently, it never occurred to the Brits that the EU doesn’t need them but that they very much need the EU.
satby
@Baud: Good morning ?
@OzarkHillbilly: ? (I was waiting)
Kay
I’m going to the Great Lakes Water Conference Friday. It’s annual. It’s environmental/science/government types so I’m sure there will be a lot of election chatter. Kasich gets an “F” for (not) protecting Lake Erie so he probably won’t show. I’m not sure he lives here anyway, honestly. He should probably go the New Hampshire water conference :)
satby
@JPL: @debbie: @Dorothy A. Winsor: I at least can chat with sane people here. And truth to tell, a lot of the women vendors at the market are not going to be Republican voters for the foreseeable future and aren’t afraid to say so.
But until we get something in place to stop the blatant lying by the propaganda media this country is going to continue to be in a world of hurt.
Maybe we should ask Germany how to deNazify.
Baud
@satby: Good morning.
Ken
@Immanentize:
“Tony, my gardener says the willow needs more fertilizer and bone meal.”
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Baud: Yesterday I heard one pundit say the Ds are just running against Trump. They don’t have something for people to vote for. That kind of thing is bad for me. I just had a heart attack.
Baud
@satby:
I thought she left after 2016.
Steve in the ATL
@Kay: I ate grouper last night in a restaurant in Cleveland. Was it likely caught in Lake Erie and, if so, how many days or hours do I have left to live?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@satby: It occurred to me yesterday that my Iowa neighbors were more liberal than the folks I have around me here. Never thought I’d say that.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor: They wouldn’t be where they are if they didn’t lie.
JPL
@Kay: The fact that Kasich is treated as a moderate shows how far down that rabbit hole we have fallen. Thanks for pointing out the harm his policies have done.
Steve in the ATL
@Baud: you can take Matt Lauer and Megyn Kelly off the show, but it’s still right wing garbage.
Kay
I must say it’s a pleasure to watch all the Republicans who ran against Obamacare now having to lie and say they support it.
About a quarter of the local election coverage is on how Republicans are lying about healthcare. If you want to, you can read in great detail how they’re lying- tens of quotes, the lawsuits, the 2010 campaign ads. Literally the first thing DeWine did as AG is join a lawsuit to eradicate it, and now he has to lie every day and insist this never happened.
Steve in the ATL
@JPL: he’s been really good at keeping the right crazy hidden from the national press. If he gets the 2020 or 2024 nomination, it will all come out.
And almost half the country will still vote for him.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steve in the ATL: It was nice knowing ya Steve.
Tokyokie
@Steve in the ATL: I’m not sure that the pollution of Lake Erie has made it sufficiently saline to support groupers.
Kay
@Steve in the ATL:
I love Walleye. I eat as much of it as I can get and I’m still..alive. Erie is polluted with phosphorus from agricultural run off so you’ll be able to use nitrogen very efficiently. If you’re a soybean. I should pay attention at this conference. I’m a little fuzzy on the science.
Another Scott
@TS (the original): Dornsife was the weird outlier poll that always had Donnie ahead vs Hillary because of one particular outlier voter. It seemed like a badly done poll.
And they got the popular vote wrong.
But they did get the result right. :-(
One good thing about Dornsife is that they (at least in the older poll) kept polling the same people every time, so they actually saw changes in attitudes of the same people. Dunno if they’re doing that here – I haven’t looked.
tl;dr – Be skeptical of every poll, but don’t automatically throw it out.
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
@Steve in the ATL: It’s much better since they’ve left. But I wouldn’t call it right wing. It’s more mainstream bothsiderism.
Immanentize
@Baud: the both sides reaction is so unconscious and ingrained, it’s like my grandmother crossing herself when we would drive past a cemetary. Action unconnected to thought.
Baud
@Immanentize: It really is. It’s quite fascinating, or would be if it weren’t so harmful.
Steve in the ATL
@?BillinGlendaleCA: if I’m still alive next week, I’m going to Palm Springs. What is must see or must do there?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Apparently Kanye West bailed on Trump – I had heard accusations that West’s whole MAGA was just an act to get attention like his so called fued with Taylor Swift. I take West’s action as a sign Trump is turning into a libiaity for even the reality TV crowed.
A Ghost To Most
@Kay:
There’s two types of fish: walleye, perch, and pike, and all that other stuff that tastes fishy.
Steve in the ATL
@Baud: I consider mainstream both sidesism to be right wing garbage. But maybe I am the radical one.
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Immanentize: I’ve seen people do it outside politics. I had to deal with instances of bullying were others were dismissing the bully’s victims as being equally at fault. The Both Sides is just pure cowardace on the part of the people doing it.
Baud
@Steve in the ATL: So it’s all your fault! Stop ruining our reputation!
Baud
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: Or extreme laziness.
Kay
@Baud:
Their base just has more clout than ours does. They don’t even recognize a Dem base exists and if they do they treat it with eye rolls and call all our people “interest groups”. They do not believe we are “real” voters- we’re the exception to the rule of Republicans. You see it over and over and over. To me the most glaring example is how they cover work- they don’t cover lower and middle class work unless it’s work done by white men. There’s this huge group of working people who are just not counted. I remember when the Obama Administration changed the rules on home health care aides- this invisible fucking army of black and brown women who were never mentioned before. If it’s not construction or mining or manufacturing it doesn’t count as work. It’s insane. Has no connection to reality.
Kay
@A Ghost To Most:
I see the walleye fisherman in the Maumee River and I feel like parking and heading down and being their new friend. They should share. It’s kind of wild to me how they fish right next to each other. I think of fishing as solitary. It’s crowded!
O. Felix Culpa
@OzarkHillbilly: “I find that citing simple irrefutable facts is a great way of shutting them up.”
Simple, on the order of ‘water is wet’? Because otherwise no facts penetrate or silence the nut jobs I have encountered. But maybe you deal with a better class of nut job.
A Ghost To Most
Just now in WaPo comments:
“Trump has been banned from more funerals than Westboro Baptist church”.
SFAW
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Sounds like a typical Dodger “fan.” [Kidding.]
But: Fuck the Dodgers. Well, more precisely: fuck Chase Utley and fuck Manny Machado.
Baud
@Kay: Totally agree. But to be fair, we could do a better job promoting ourselves on these issues too.
SFAW
@Steve in the ATL:
You’ll be fine, sort of. But you’ll have this “glow,” which some will mistakenly call a “healthy glow.”
Schlemazel
@OzarkHillbilly:
Facts have no impact on them that I have seen. Got into it this week with coworkers after one commented about ‘fake bombs’ when I pointed out the bombs were quite real they fell back to the fact none went off & the van was so obviously a set up. I am so enraged at the moment I cannot talk to these assholes about anything anymore, I just want to slap the shit out of their stupid asses.
Schlemazel
@Steve in the ATL:
Grouper is a saltwater fish so nope, didn’t come out of the eerie lake
Schlemazel
@Steve in the ATL:
I recommend a drive to the Mount San Jacinto State Park. Cable car ride to the top (bring warm clothes, it is cold up there all the time) easy trails to hike and you get a great view of the surrounding land. You can even see the Salton Sea from there. Having made the mistake of thinking that would be a fun drive I recommend you just enjoy the distant view and don’t see it up close
OzarkHillbilly
@O. Felix Culpa: In my experience 95% of people reflexively shrink from confrontation. Better has nothing to do with it.
Kraux Pas
@satby:
Perhaps the word you’re looking for is “deplore.”
Kay
@Baud:
I would settle for just convincing the Democratic base that this exists- not to “fight” it, but to deal with it. Can we stipulate that the Clinton emial obsession was flat-out Right wing manipulation of media? Because Clinton is nowhere to be found and they are exclusively covering the invading brown hordes story, because Right wing operatives ordered them to. The number one issue in the country is health care. Democrats are running on health care. Media don’t care- they’re covering “the caravan”. Just like they covered the invading black hordes in ebola, which was also bullshit. THEY are doing this. The “why” doesn’t matter- it’s the “what”. Let’s agree on the what. We may never need to get to the why, because who gives a shit why they do what they do? We have to figure a way around it.
If they were actually covering what people cared about all the caravan stories would be boring explainers on preexisting conditions. This one isn’t on “voters”- VOTERS wanted substance. Instead they got another panic about brown people invading. This is 100% on media. They did this. I hate to pile on them because I agree with them- Trump is going to get one of them killed, so I can’t even criticize. I’m afraid for them.
Tony Jay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Oh, it occurred to just over 16 million of us good and hard. Amongst the just over 17 million who voted for Quitting some of them were Little Englander brainfarts who angrily deny this, some were led to deny this by a massive Russian backed propaganda campaign, and some didn’t give a shit one way or another as long as they stuck it to brown people/posh people/clever people/just anyone. There was another big chunk of millions who just didn’t vote because… I don’t know, they’re really, really stupid I guess.
We don’t know how many people in Britain still feel this way because the Government and the lead Quitters are resolutely opposed to asking them. We had our democratic vote, and that’s all we get, no matter how different the eventual Brexit deal is from anything remotely like what the Quit campaign were promising back in 2016. If that’s not ‘taking back control’ I don’t know what is. /s
Heidi Mom
@satby: @satby: I did, too. Oh, that ending! The whole series was great, as are the books on which it was based (they treat Jimmy Perez’s family/romantic life somewhat differently, FWIW).
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: I agree. And I consider shutting them up in my presence a win, since their minds aren’t going to be changed. If we can make it a little less emotionally safe to spew their crap, it is a win. We’ve always had racists, nativists, and Bircher-Nazi types, but they used to know to keep their repellent views to themselves. If we can get back to that, what a relief. Because then the reduction of their ranks and of reeducation of their children can commence.
Elizabelle
@Schlemazel: Great advice. I love that cable car to Mt. San Jacinto. I love Palm Springs.
I love the Palms to the Pines Highway (74), that takes you up to Idyllwild, which is a beautiful little town to wander around.
Small town of Julian is darling. Have not been to Temecula.
But just walking or riding around Palm Springs and looking at the midcentury modern architecture makes for a great trip on its own. There’s some nearby hiking.
ALWAYS TAKE WATER. More than you think you will need. It is a dry, dry climate.
OzarkHillbilly
@Schlemazel:
If I had said it chances are they would have shut right up. Not because I am big and tough ( I am not) but because I am unknown. You are a coworker, that gives them a familiarity with which they are comfortable.
Me? I drive around a until recently sundowner town, in a truck emblazoned with an Impeach Trump bumper sticker and a sign telling them they are all getting fucked and another telling them I don’t want to hear about their friend Jesus while wearing a blue hat that says “Make Racism Wrong Again” and the only thing anyone ever says to me, in a very quiet voice, is “I like your hat/bumper sticker/sign.” All the RWNJ cross the street like I am the crazy guy nobody wants to get in a conversation with.
Which is just fine by me.
Elizabelle
@satby: Yup. They need to be put back under their rocks.
Did not used to have such a closed ecosystem, before FoxNewsWorld and the intertubes. They are not D for decent. They are D for …
Citizen Alan
@Kraux Pas:
“Deplore,” IMO, is actually too dignified for them. Hillary should have referred to them as a “bucket of shit.”
Schlemazel
The Penguins honored the Tree of Life victims. For some reason the flag displayed was the ‘Blue Lives Matter’ flag. WT everlovin F?
I wish I were making this up
OzarkHillbilly
@Tony Jay: Where ever one goes, the RWNJ are all the same, or so it seems.
Schlemazel
@Elizabelle:
We love Julian & that is one of the most beautiful areas in the entire State. I was not thinking that far away from Palm Springs because I didn’t know how much time they had in town.
Hey, one benefit of the bad decision to visit the Salton Sea was I got to visit Mecca!
And really the Sea is an interesting trip but not worth the time it takes when on a short schedule
satby
@Kay:
I wish I was because I used to be a nicer person, but “They that sow the wind, shall reap the whirlwind”. The media isn’t composed of uneducated idiots, they’re cravenly (in most cases) going along with the RW agenda because they think it will bring profits. Even though it’s obvious now that it enables and promotes a sickness in our society. I don’t wish anyone dead but I won’t be surprised when one of them is murdered. What will be sad is that it will end up being some local reporter who gets it, not any of the famous names like Chuckles the Toad, who thinks his both sides shtick will save him.
Elizabelle
@Citizen Alan: “Deplore” was enough to send the liberal media for its smelling salts. To the fainting couches!
Hillary’s mistake was apologizing. She should have owned those words. They were true ones.
OzarkHillbilly
@Schlemazel: I would guess they were thinking only of the 2 cops who got shot and the other cops who responded. Of course, it doesn’t help that hockey is a largely white sport with largely white fans so a little political stone deafness is to be expected.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: Ironically, the best take-down of this caravan hysteria I’ve seen thus far came from Shep Smith at Fox.
Elizabelle
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
That is so not true. Not even in our talking points for Abigail Spanberger.
We don’t need to run against Trump. Abigail — and her fellow Democrats — have great and practical ideas on their own.
Maybe that was a GOP pundit? Because they may realize voters are focused on healthcare and education, and their party offers no solutions. None. Look — over there! It’s Trump!
Schlemazel
@OzarkHillbilly:
You need to see the picture, Its the standard ceremonial puck drop with 3 white guys holding just that ugly flag. Apparently no Jews were harmed in the making of this ceremony
https://i.ytimg.com/vi/X6jaFHaZuHk/0.jpg
OzarkHillbilly
‘I’m not anti-Trump, I’m just pro-Jesus’: the evangelicals stumping for the Democrats
Dorothy A. Winsor
Trump has tweeted 5 times already this morning, mostly anti-immigrant “caravan” crap with one cheer for the stock market and one dig at the media for showing the protests in Pittsburgh.
satby
@Elizabelle: it’s always projection with them, because they are running on Drumpf and how the Democrats will impeach him and stop his agenda.
Which is funny, because even a sizeable percentage of Republicans would see that as a selling point for the Democrats.
OzarkHillbilly
FYWP link fail at #122. Try try again: ‘I’m not anti-Trump, I’m just pro-Jesus’: the evangelicals stumping for the Democrats .
Dorothy A. Winsor
Over 100 members of the Steelers went to a funeral yesterday. Apparently the sister of one of the dead used to work for the team.
A Ghost To Most
@Schlemazel:
Forget it, Jake. It’s the Penguins.
No disrespect to Pittsburgh or the victims. Just a long suffering Caps fan cashing in some IOUs.
satby
@Heidi Mom: INORITE?!
So good. But my heart broke a little at the end.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Betty Cracker: The depressing old white lady sitting at the next table last night said Shep is a Democrat. You can tell by what he says.
I have to go write. I’ll see if I can salvage a short story that’s crap at the moment.
TS (the original)
@Another Scott: Thanks for that – I’ll just dream about them being right this time around
Manyakitty
@Immanentize: “Several Species of Small Furry Animals, Gathered Together in a Cave and Grooving with a Pict” is my longest song title.
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: Actually, Shep is very good at taking down RWNJ fever dreams. Did you ever see his pantsing of the FOX news Uranium One outrage? It was beautiful. I can’t find the whole thing but this gives the flavor.
Sean Hannity got his panties in a bunch and said that Shep needs to mind his own business and there was a collective melt down of 80 yr old minds that day.
He recently signed a deal for 3 more years at FOX and when asked why he replied something along the lines of “I shudder to think of what would replace me.”
schrodingers_cat
@Kay:Our media . Most of the decision makers and many on screen personalities are rich white middle aged men. They are more representative of T’s base than the average out of work factory worker in the Midwest or the coal miner in Appalachia.
To them the rest of us are inconsequential and hence invisible.
D’s in the northeast have a fair share of MSM’s beloved demographic, the working class white male, yet I never see them interviewed by the NYT or the Snooze Hour.
ETA: For example, most of the guys in the shop, who fixed our lab equipment etc were Ds.
Manyakitty
@MazeDancer: Are you all texting about issues, too? I got one about Ohio Issue 1 yesterday, and sent a nice response, just in case it was a Juicer.
WaterGirl
@Raven: So beautiful!
Manyakitty
@Steve in the ATL: How long are you in Cleveland? NEOhio meetup?
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: If you can take the time, here is the whole 11:25 takedown of the border “crises”
Gin & Tonic
@Elizabelle: Visited Idyllwild many years ago. It was lovely, but if I’m not mistaken, much of it burned down in recent years during one of the wildfires.
p.s. Not looking like Whitey died of natural causes.
WaterGirl
@MazeDancer: Did you see that A Ghost To Most replied to the kitty post early this morning?
Platonailedit
@Kay:
Good joke, Kay. If they did, there won’t be an ugly corrupt thug out there as their ‘leader’.
Barbara
@Kay:
This is the world according to Thomas Edsall, where the only members of the working class are white men doing blue collar jobs. Lots of black and Latino men do blue collar jobs. And lots of women do jobs that are as hard as blue collar construction work, like home health attendants, but which are somehow invisible to reporters, even when they are reporting on things like, for instance, visiting their parents in nursing homes. It’s one of the things (among many) that brings home how non-diverse people working in media really are, and often, how old they are as well. Their vision of the Rust Belt hearkens back to the mid-70s, which was, gulp, 40 years ago.
SFAW
@Gin & Tonic:
How terrible. I’m almost as sad as I would be if some terrible fate befell Steven Miller, Zinke, DeVos, and the rest of the Maladministration.
SFAW
@schrodingers_cat:
Thought of you last night while watching Jeopardy. Category was “Three Fs,” clue was asking (so to speak) what position John Kelly has, and I blurted out either “racist motherfucker” or “racist-in-chief.” So, you have conditioned me about him, for which I am grateful. [Mrs. SFAW didn’t even blink when I said it, which surprised me a little.]
Gin & Tonic
@SFAW: Yeah, no tears. I read somewhere that one of the instruments used was a padlock in a sock. It’s good to see the old-school techniques still in use.
schrodingers_cat
@Barbara: All of Edsall’s pieces end in concern trolling Ds. Every single one. No exceptions.
schrodingers_cat
@SFAW: Happy to help!
In the annals of military men going to save us. What is with Mattis and this troop deployment on the border. Has he justified it? Or has anyone in the toady media even asked this question.
Ghost of Joe Lieblings Dog
@Baud:
Today condemns the extremists on both sides – those who want to assassinate Democrats and “kill all the Jews”, and those who say that is wrong.
bemused
@Kay:
Their lying has gotten so outrageously out in the open, at least seven R’s, including MN Rep. Erik Paulsen, are claiming the WAPO fact checker gave Four Pinocchios for report that Republicans are undermining protections for people with pre-existing conditions! Glenn Kessler is pushing back and naming names but damn, it’s shocking how low the R’s will go. Not surprising but still blows my mind.
bemused
@A Ghost To Most:
Ha, ha, that’s great.
schrodingers_cat
@bemused: They support T. There is no bottom.
bemused
@schrodingers_cat:
Too right. It’s a damn cult.
Tony Jay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Yes, Sir. There’s a market for easy answers to complex questions, and they are always selling.
Tony Jay
@bemused:
Glenn Kessler is pushing back at Republicans? Really? Take a look out of the nearest window. If you see lions lying down with lambs and fish playing hopscotch that’s three of the four signs that the Rapture is imminent!
Which is either a good thing or a total disaster, depending on how Christian the bulk of ‘Christians’ are.
Steve in the ATL
@Manyakitty: sadly, less than 24 hours. Got in last night, leaving this afternoon. If I’m back for a longer visit, I’ll try to arrange a meet up.
Manyakitty
@Steve in the ATL: Awww…, next time!
MazeDancer
@WaterGirl:
@A Ghost To Most:
Did not see. Thanks.
Here is what it says in the post. Sock was fostered and taken out of the shelter by Newman Nation of Senior Pets United in Napierville, IL. You adopt from them.
Their web site, which looks a little well-intentioned, but neglected: http://www.seniorpetsunited.org/
You will probably have more luck with email:
[email protected]
Good luck! And good for you for stepping up for that 24-year-old baby cat.
MazeDancer
@Manyakitty:
Right now, we’re just focussed on electing people.
But PostCarding for issues – local and national – is one of the ways we hope to keep the “I want to be meaningfully involved. I want to create change” energy to continue.
Sit in your Living Room. Change the World – That’s our goal.
Manyakitty
@MazeDancer: Sounds like a brilliant plan!
Skepticat
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
It’s indeed impossible to talk rationally with irrational people, but lawd, lawd, isn’t it tempting to make a dent in their thick skulls? I bothers me that I’m starting to get violent impulses, but terminal frustration and despair do that to ya.
BroD
@Barbara:
Well said!
MazeDancer
@A Ghost To Most:
@WaterGirl:
Newman Nation posted a video of Sock https://twitter.com/theNewmanNation/status/1057276597449957376 He looks pretty good.
They got a Twitter account just because of Sock, it appears. So you could also try tweeting them.
WaterGirl
@MazeDancer:
@MazeDancer: Could you maybe post that same information at the bottom of the original thread? That way if someone is reading the thread late OR if A Ghost to Most comes back to see if you responded there, he will find that info.
https://balloon-juice.com/2018/10/30/derp-state/#comment-7070047
debbie
@Kay:
I know you’re long gone, but Kasich just fired the state agriculture director because he wasn’t acting speedily enough to deal with the algae blooms in Lake Erie. I even heard him say he cares about Lake Erie! //