Not an ideal exchange this Sat. night but nonetheless from #MSSEN–>
NBC: Could you clarify & articulate what you were apologizing for?
Hyde-Smith: If I hurt anybody’s feelings, if I hurt anybody’s feelings–you know, we’re just staying on the issues that are on peoples’ minds… pic.twitter.com/CxSPMzoFNy— Vaughn Hillyard (@VaughnHillyard) November 24, 2018
Cindy Hyde-Smith attended an all-white segregation academy set up so that white parents could avoid having to send their children to schools with black students. She later sent her daughter to a similar school. A must-read story from @ashtonpittman: https://t.co/sttp9yQUcc
— Matt Viser (@mviser) November 24, 2018
Cindy
Hyde-Smith has embraced Confederate history more than once. My dive into her long political career and how it impacts her US Senate bid: https://t.co/NVVBAJttHJ— Matt Viser (@mviser) November 23, 2018
If only the Democrats could learn not to be so rude and divisive, laments the NYTimes…
I’m looking forward to the sequel to this article, “Across America, Republicans Risk Speaking Boldly and Alienating Voters of Color.” https://t.co/31S1veNuqe
— Jamil Smith (@JamilSmith) November 25, 2018
Blacks, Gays, Shod Women Continue To Throw Away Rural White Vote By Their Continued Stubborn Insistence On Existinghttps://t.co/virni2Ns4Z
— WhatCouldGoWrongHat (@Popehat) November 25, 2018
Aleta
Horrible feeling and thankful at the same time: https://twitter.com/real_farmacist/status/1066165092444721152
(Sincerely, deeply thankful we’re none of those people.)
NotMax
All Hyde, no Jekyll.
Damien
I feel like Democrats should just go ahead and lean into this and just go for taxing rich people until they’re forced to drive for Uber, implementing steel-clad voting laws while also suppressing the middle-class white women vote, seizing all golf courses and NASCAR tracks for use as solar energy fields, and banning raisins in potato salad.
Let’s just go all in on alienating white people
Luthe
White supremacy is a hell of a drug.
patrick II
Yesterday I went to a party for a seven year old boy. There is nothing more joyous than a seven year old ripping open gift packages and yelling “Just what I wanted!”
The party was held it a house in Whiting, Indiana, an area where immigrants from all over the world came to work in the industries lining the South shore of Lake Michigan. There were about ten adults attending the party and before the ceremonial candle blowing we all sang Happy Birthday. First in English, started off by the boy’s mother, an immigrant who’s father was killed by a bombing in Belfast, but then another lady sang in Czech, then someone said what about Polish? So they sang again in Polish. One lady, a teacher and an immigrant from Mexico, then sang a Spanish version of Happy Birthday, and finally my wife chipped in singing the song in Mandarin.
We all laughed. It is a type of joy Ms. Hyde-Smith will never know.
cain
@Luthe:
Sez the columnists at the New York Times.
Kraux Pas
By definition, only the perverse, swarthy hordes of Demonrat voters can be impolite or uncivil. Good God-fearing Republicans are simply defending themselves against the establishment.
NotMax
@patrick II
Yeah, at her parties they probably sang K-K-K Katy.
Without the hyphens.
O. Felix Culpa
@Aleta: Exquisitely, embarrassingly awful.
cain
@patrick II:
Well you know, she has own joys.. being an asshole, and enjoying the joy of white supremacy.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Kraux Pas:
Your comment reminded me of that Pochahontas song “Savages”. I bet this plays through RWNJ heads all day long:
“Demonrats, Demonrats; barely even human!”
Kraux Pas
@cain:
What greater joy can there be than simply knowing you are inherently superior because of your heritage?
Kraux Pas
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
On “Judge” Jeanne Pirro’s show she performs this song every night.
cmorenc
ANY white person who grew up in the South and went to school in the 1960s, the era when the post-Brown transformation to integrated schools was an ongoing contemporary thing – can be forgiven for the period in their youth when their perspective was too much (then) like Cynthia Hyde-Smith’s. Harboring racist attitudes toward blacks seemed back then as natural as swimming in water did to fish.
WHAT CANNOT BE FORGIVEN are Southerners who didn’t at some point grow out of those early attitudes – and undergo a profound metamorphosis that accepted blacks as equal human beings, etc. The problem with Cynthia Hyde-Smith isn’t that she went to (actually, her parents sent her to) an all-white academy. The problem is that at her core, she never grew past that racial/world view.
MagdaInBlack
@patrick II:
That! is a wonderful way to spend the day ?
Omnes Omnibus
PSA: My name is Omnes Omnibus and I have an alcohol problem. I discover over the past few weeks that I developed true physical need for alcohol, so as of yesterday I have stopped drinking. Last night was kind of ugly. Today is better so far
Mike in NC
That picture of smirking Fat Bastard makes it look like he wants to grab Cindy by the you-know-what.
Yutsano
@Omnes Omnibus: *hug* All my love and support. You’ll get through this. We’re behind you.
Mr Stagger Lee
I am glad that somebody slapped Rob Manfred, the commissioner of Major League Baseball up the head about giving Ms.Imperial Wizard money for her campaign was just bad optics, for a league that celebrates Jackie Robinson and Roberto Clemente. Jesus if Roger Goodell or Adam Silver of the NBA pulled that stunt they would be ran out.
The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion
@Omnes Omnibus: Hi, Omnes! It gets better. Good on ya for figuring it out and having the guts to confront it.
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: Drive on brother. It will be strange when you lived a “drink if you win, drink if you lose and drink if you get rained out” life it takes some time to adjust! Take a look at “A Drinking Life: A Memoir, by Pete Hamill “. No whiny stuff, just a hard look at where he came from and where he went.
Platonailedit
The land of the free and the home of the brave indeed.
NotMax
@Omnes Omnibus
Oh my.
One day at time, bucko, one day at a time.
frosty
@Omnes Omnibus: Glad to hear it’s better today. You’ll have lots of support among the jackals. Best wishes for you.
hilts
This sentence is a perfect thumbnail description of village idiot David Brooks.
And of course racist asshole Cindy Hyde-Smith will win with a very comfortable margin.
Mississippi Goddamn!!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LJ25-U3jNWM
raven
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Omnes Omnibus:
Hope you get the help and support you need to get past this. We all support you.
Omnes Omnibus
Thanks folks,. My family knows what is going on and is going to be wonderfully helpful. I will come to the people here if I need advice from people who have lived it.
JPL
@Omnes Omnibus: One day at a time.
O. Felix Culpa
@Omnes Omnibus:
May every day be a step in the right direction…and if there’s a misstep…just redirect again. You’re one of those vaunted “valued BJ commentators” in my book and I wish you all the best.
Anne Laurie
@Omnes Omnibus: We’re here for you. Stay strong & good wishes!
Mary G
@Omnes Omnibus: Welcome. It will utterly suck at first, but it does get better.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Congrats.
It will get better and easier. But it can take some time.
I never had that physical thing so I can only speak to the mental desire to escape into that good time feeling. Once I got away from that I found out that it really wasn’t all that good a feeling and quitting was best for me. I hope you find that.
If you need a virtual shoulder, it’s here.
PhoenixRising
@Omnes Omnibus: Congrats and don’t try to white knuckle through symptoms of detox; they can make you dead. If you don’t know what those are, find out now!
Detox is a biological process that may require medical management, sobriety is a state of being there are many roads to achieving, don’t mix them up please. Looking forward to your comments for many years in the future!
Amir Khalid
@Platonailedit:
Isn’t that an act of war? Tear gas may be non-lethal, most of the time, but it’s still a weapon.
Ruviana
@Omnes Omnibus: Best of luck. I just hit my fifth year of sobriety. It gets better.
debbie
@Omnes Omnibus:
I hope the best for you in getting past this.
Mr Stagger Lee
@Omnes Omnibus: :-) :-) :-) :-) :-)
Amir Khalid
@Omnes Omnibus:
Congratulations on taking this positive step. Do you have access to any kind of support group?
raven
@Ruckus: Same here, quit in one day after 30 years. I think the ending of my marriage was so intense that stopping was a distant second and, once I got away from it, I kept thinking “what the fuck was that all about”?
White & Gold Purgatorian
@Damien: Amen. Let’s go back to the good old days when Uncle Sam took 90% or so of the upper crust’s upper income. The government needs money, they need to go where the money is, and that is not in the paychecks of the bottom 98%. Speaking as a white shod woman, it wouldn’t alienate all white people either. Many of us would applaud.
JPL
@Omnes Omnibus: Word of advice.. stay away from the news for a few weeks. Trump is toxic and can drive normally sane people to explode.
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: Yes, I do and I will be contacting them tomorrow.
Gelfling 545
@patrick II: Beauttiful. Just beautiful.
Barbara
@Omnes Omnibus: Best of wishes. Better to pull back before it reeks havoc in other areas of your life.
Timurid
Looks like I got back from Mexico just in time…
Daniel'sBob
Blizzard in full swing in northern Illinois with added benefit of thunder and lightning.
HeleninEire
@Omnes Omnibus: Good Luck. One day at a time. We’re here for you.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: Hi Omnes!
I’ve been though it, you’ll get through it. September was 8 years for me. Your fellow jackals are here for you.
a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)
@Omnes Omnibus: Good luck and take care.
Mary G
FelonyGovt
@Omnes Omnibus: Hugs and best wishes. You have lots of support here.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Omnes Omnibus: Respect.
Gelfling 545
@Mike in NC: I don’t think it’s wise for any woman to let him stand that close.
JPL
I’m watching an old movie “Ordinary People” , When it first was screened there were many discussions about the mother’s reaction, and now as I’m watching it again, why were there no discussions about the dad.
WereBear
@Omnes Omnibus: May things continue to get better.
Ruckus
@raven:
It was about escape. It’s always about escape.
It never works. Oh you escape, but it’s like going over the wall into a max security prison. A lot harder to get out than it was to get in. And, as we are adjustable beings, we adjust to the prison we make for ourselves. But one day you look around and see that you really are a prisoner, but one who can get out. That getting out takes effort and sacrifice, like most good things. It’s easy to hide, it’s harder to stand and not give in. So we hide for years. Till we are hiding in plain sight, invisible to only ourselves.
SenyorDave
@Omnes Omnibus: I know its a cliche, but one day at a time. The BJ community supports you!
debbie
@JPL:
Because the mother’s behavior was so shocking. I remember seeing it with my mother. We had a very difficult time talking about the movie afterwards.
chris
@Omnes Omnibus: Good for you! Get some help from people IRL who’ve been where you are.
JPL
@debbie: She protected herself at the expense of her child, but watching it again the father could have helped more. He worked.
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus:
Good for you!
Gelfling 545
@Omnes Omnibus: Best wishes to you on your journey.
J R in WV
Best of luck Omnes!
Keep in touch ~!!~
tobie
@Omnes Omnibus: Good luck to you. I used to suffer from terrible anxiety and one counselor told me it’s best not to think too far ahead. Just choose a time window you can deal with–for example, 45 minutes or an hour and say to yourself, okay, for this span of time I’m just going to think about anything but the task at hand. I imagine a similar strategy would work in trying to get a handle on certain impulses. Hang in there.
Jay
@Omnes Omnibus:
Hugs.
WereBear
@Ruckus: That was great.
Haroldo
@Omnes Omnibus:
Well done – wise and courageous. I’ve found recovery to be a social thing – it’s great that you intuitively know that (I for so long viewed it as an individual cross to bear).
P.S. And this is not as flip as it may seem: it might do to stay away from our Packers tonight.
debbie
@JPL:
I agree. I think he was afraid to do anything because he felt the tension in his wife and his son. He didn’t want to upset anyone, but that only made it all worse.
MomSense
@Omnes Omnibus:
Good for you! I’m glad to hear today was a little better than yesterday. Hope your days keep getting better. Let us know how we can support and encourage you.
debbie
@JPL:
Actually, I think she was monstrous (which upset my mother for some reason). The other son was always her favorite, and TImothy Hutton knew that. Every time she looked at him, he thought she was thinking why he hadn’t died instead.
Starfish
The stupid Mississippi voters who are more worried about his progressivism than his racism got on my every nerve today. Some state senator was saying that she had worked with Espy and that he was too liberal when his ads are about how he voted for the Republican governor and is eager to work across the aisle for the people of Mississippi. This is how I replied.
A lot of people I know are going to vote for Espy, but I doubt that it will be enough.
WereBear
@debbie: That was my take. I found the father to be far more compassionate. THatbsoeech he made where he told her whatnshies he wore didn’t matter made me cry.
That was a turning point. Like he realized he couldn’t tiptoe around her anymore.
dexwood
@Omnes Omnibus:
You can do it.
Omnes Omnibus
My local cable is having signal issues in the run-up the the Packer game. Gah!
Amir Khalid
@JPL:
I think the script was structured with the dad, played by Donald Sutherland, as the good guy, while the mom, played by Mary Tyler Moore, was the one making the son suicidal. Upon reflection, I have to agree that placing all the blame on one parent on a siruation like that is not entirely realistic.
CliosFanBoy
OO: Hang in there! One Day at a Time…
Omnes Omnibus
Thanks again everyone.
JMG
Hyde-Smith will win by double-digits. Mississippi should still be under direct military rule of Federal troops.
Anne Laurie
@Amir Khalid:
As I understand it, using tear gas on unarmed civilians of another country certainly opens the users up to prosecution. But as some mid-level apparatchiki are probably assuring each other, How many divisions does the Hague have?
JPL
@debbie: It’s so odd watching it close to thirty years later with tears in my eyes at points in the movie that I didn’t notice before. Beth and Conrad both buried their feelings.
I do miss the olden days where you went to a movie and then out for coffee to dissect the true meaning of what you saw. I’m old enough to remember when a group of us went to see Cries and Whispers and decided that going for coffee was not going to happen, cuz we had no idea what the red screen meant.
Ruckus
@Haroldo:
Well, there certainly is an individual side to recovery, each one of us has to do our own work, but there is a great deal of society that will help and support your recovery, guide you in one or more of the many different ways it takes to get there and help you when you need that help. So I think it is both, an individual effort, but you don’t have to do it alone, society will support you.
glaukopis
@Omnes Omnibus: The strength and honesty in your statement tells me you can get through this. And we support you.
Haroldo
@Omnes Omnibus:
It might be for the best. I had to turn off the Badgers yesterday…..
JPL
@Amir Khalid: Today’s dads are more emotionally connected because many companies give family leave to both sexes.
It’s a good movie to watch decades later especially as a female trying to hold everything together.
NotMax
@JPL
Vividly remember what happened while we were waiting outside on line for the next showing (no multi-screen places then), watching the audience come out from the just ended showing. Usually they’re talking about the movie, or bantering – you get the idea. This was the first and only time I ever saw the entire audience exit in total, absolute, stony faced silence.
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
As with the rest of the jackals, here for you, will try to support you as much as I can.
Glad to hear you’ve taken the first steps, keep up the good work!
hervevillechaislounge
@JPL:
I’ll never forget my abject shock when Mary Tyler More snatches Timothy Hutton’s breakfast and scrapes it into the trash. Who knew Laura Petrie could be such a frosty CU-next Tuesday?
Congratulations, Mr. Omnes, and please see a doctor if your physical symptoms persist; detox can be deadly!
debbie
@JPL:
I really ought to watch it again, but just thinking of it is making my throat kind of lumpy.
(You should have heard our discussion after 2001. Very heated!)
schrodingers_cat
@Omnes Omnibus: I wish you luck in this journey and if there is anyway I can help let me know.
schrodingers_cat
So who fired the tear gas and under whose orders? Who is in charge here?
Yarrow
@Omnes Omnibus: Late to the thread but sending good thoughts. One day at a time and all that. Lots of people here who have been there.
JPL
@hervevillechaislounge: Who knew.
aretino
It’s funny that Mississippi Republicans chose Hyde-Smith so that they wouldn’t be dragged down by a wild-eyed Neo-Confederate like Chris McDaniel.
Haroldo
@Ruckus:
“Well, there certainly is an individual side to recovery, each one of us has to do our own work, but there is a great deal of society that will help and support your recovery, guide you in one or more of the many different ways it takes to get there and help you when you need that help. So I think it is both, an individual effort, but you don’t have to do it alone, society will support you.”
I am well, well aware of that now. A number of years ago, however….it’s no accident that alcoholism thrives in social and psychological isolation.
Manyakitty
@Omnes Omnibus: Sending you peace, love, and strength.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus: Tomorrow better still.
Brachiator
@Omnes Omnibus:
Best wishes to you.
Thor Heyerdahl
@Omnes Omnibus: All the best to you from north of the border
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: welcome to the club! You’ll do great. Sorry the coffee is terrible.
There are mild benzos specifically for the next few days’ troubles, don’t be afraid to ask.
Ruckus
@Haroldo:
Very, very true.
Like I said it’s a prison that you put yourself into. You can get out but it takes more effort than it took to get into in the first place and it feels like you are all alone. Except for your fellow travelers. That feeling is what keeps a lot of people in, they have a “support team.” Of course that support is a millimeter wide and a millimeter deep because none of that team wants to admit that they want to leave and almost none of them have any idea how to get out anyway. That first step feels like jumping off a cliff that is straight down and 5 miles high. Till you take it and find out it isn’t and that it’s very much worth it and that each step beyond is easier.
BTW congrats on finding your way.
Platonailedit
At least, the Swiss have not gone ‘native’ and ‘populist’.
Geoduck
@cmorenc: And as noted in one of the tweets, she sent her own daughter to such a school. She’s gone the opposite route of learning anything,
Omnes Omnibus
Sorry to have taken over the thread.
zhena gogolia
@Omnes Omnibus:
It’s an open thread!
poleaxedbyboatwork
@Omnes Omnibus: Takes formidible courage and unsparing honesty to confront oneself. Props. My old man was a stone drunk for most of my life (scotch), then he quit. (Dumped the sticks, too, cuz why not?) Only way out is through, as the sayin goes. Ain’t gonna be easy, as I’m sure you’re well aware. But there’s immense strength in simple recognition, n support from others and want-to from yourself will fill your sails when you need it most. Best wishes.
JPL
@Omnes Omnibus: You know the old saying.. on balloon juice you never have to be sorry or something like that.
Brachiator
@cmorenc:
What is this “back then” shit? The 60s gave white people an opportunity to give up their long held racist beliefs, but a chunk of them, in the South and elsewhere, looked desperately for a place where they could feel comfortable in their bigotry. Ironically, the party of Lincoln opened up its loving arms to them, even as the Democrats began its internal struggle to try to purge itself of its racist past.
The struggle continues. It is a hopeful sign that you have a number of people of color running for statewide office in the South, But it is sad to see white people hide behind “conservative” values to vote for white candidates who will never have their best interests in heart.
MomSense
@Omnes Omnibus:
No need to apologize. We are all really glad you trusted us enough to share.
Bill Wilson
@Omnes Omnibus:
Much better than the religious fools who put me and Bob up as icons:
https://secularaa.org/
And watch out for 13th Steppers! I was one myself.
Brachiator
Oh, by the way, Trump’s new tax law helps people save up for segregation academies.
Obviously, this was meant simply to give parents more choices when it comes to educating their children. But clearly it is a boon to bigots as well.
MattF
@Omnes Omnibus: Well, my own drinking days are long over… but I’ve seen, close-up and personal, what an alcohol habit will do, over the years, to the formerly-smart and formerly-beautiful. You’ve made the right choice.
A Ghost To Most
@JPL:
We all have our bears to cross.
Jay
@Platonailedit:
The Great British Brexit Bake Off has scared the crap out of “The Nationalists” and the process has taught many people in the “Know Nothing” Parties and their supporters about the benifits of the EU.
Even the Poles have stopped slamming the EU.
Anne Laurie
@schrodingers_cat:
Hoary old ‘joke’ about a carload of drunks weaving down the highway: Nobody waz driving, Offisher… we waz all inna back, singing!
If there is sufficient pushback (which I’m not convinced will happen), the co-conspirators of the Thug-in-Chief will release a Reaganesque ‘mistakes were made’ non-apology. If that doesn’t satisfy the media — and, barring death or escalation, it almost certainly will — they’ll find some bottom-level grunt to hold up as a Terrible Example and prosecute (as they did with Lynndie England). But the odds, I’m afraid, are very much that this will be remembered only by future historians, discussing the minutia sparking the Great North American Border War…
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Nothing to apologize for. This is a very important item for discussion. Look how many of your fellow travelers have shown support, some of whom have been in your shoes. Not one person is being that dick in getting in the least upset. We understand. Every once in a while things do need to be about you. This is one of those times it’s for you, and anyone else who wants to make that decision.
It’s a big step, we are all glad you decided to take it and we are here to support you as best as we can. Some of us even know what that step feels like, don’t be afraid to ask what the next ones are like, we’ve taken those as well.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Sending thoughts and prayers—the good kind, not the Republican ones.
Omnes Omnibus
Again, thanks all.
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Congratulations for having the strength to realize it was a problem and to be willing to do something about it. Make sure you get some off-line support as well. You don’t necessarily need an AA group — the right therapist can get you on the right road. Good luck! ?
SFAW
@Omnes Omnibus:
Don’t be silly. Telling us took guts, and we’re glad you trusted us enough to do so.
And, besides, it’s not as if you started ranting about what a terrible candidate Hillary was, or how “Bernie wuz ROBBED!” If you did that, we might have given you a hard time.
Omnes Omnibus
@SFAW: LOL
Mnemosyne
@JPL:
Because everything that goes wrong with the kids is always Mom’s fault.
You’re welcome.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Omnes Omnibus: Ya know the jackals are with you. Drive on, as my dearest raven says.
Schlemazel
@Omnes Omnibus:
Thanks for your honesty, congratulations on your realization and best of luck on your recovery. I come from a long line of alcoholics and I know the damage they do and how hard it is to beat the demon. Your life will be better when you do not need it.
I consider myself very fortunate. I like a beer or a glass of wine but I do not need either. I go for weeks without it and at ‘worst’ might have a 6-pack a week in the summer. Having seen family who cannot make it a day without intoxication (my dad) and I am forever grateful that of all the evil visited upon me that is one demon I do not have to fight.
Mnemosyne
@Omnes Omnibus:
Every time I (over)share here, I’m reminded that there are at least a dozen lurkers or infrequent commenters who are dealing with the same thing but are too shy to comment. So IMO there’s a good chance you helped someone else come to the same life-saving realization even if they don’t post about it.
Schlemazel
I was just looking. Today we gassed women & children, the Russians moved against Ukraine and the 10 top trending topics on twitter are about the fucking NFL
Hell is real and we are condemned to it
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: You are one of the most solid people here, people know that and they care about you.
A Ghost To Most
@Schlemazel:
Random worthless factoid: Green Bay was originally called (in French) “The Bay of Stinks”. Any idea why?
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: Thank you.
Schlemazel
@A Ghost To Most:
Having been there a couple of times I can guess. And that was before the Packers arrived
“Chicago” is a French translation of the Miami-Illinois word “shikaakwa” which means stinky onion
meanwhile Saint Paul kept taking young men into the wilderness alone to train them up and Minneapolis is a made up word that includes the Lakota word for water and the Greek word for city in an attempt to sound sophisticated and inclusive
GregB
Omnes. It gets better.
H.E.Wolf
@Omnes Omnibus:
Wishing you strength and fortitude. May the wind be always at your back.
rikyrah
Hannah Drake (@HannahDrake628) Tweeted:
I just left the grocery store where an elderly Black woman was my checker. She said, “Do you see your receipt there?” I said, “Yes.” She said, “Never leave this store w/o your receipt.” It was in the way she said it I felt the weight of existing while Black. I took my receipt.
https://twitter.com/HannahDrake628/status/1066826058878599168?s=17
joel hanes
@Omnes Omnibus:
Good luck.
I have every confidence that you have the strength of character to master this,
one way or another.
rikyrah
@Omnes Omnibus:
Sending you positive thoughts. Hope you get the help you need.
John Revolta
@Omnes Omnibus: Good on ya, buddy.
The best part of my life started after I quit.
poleaxedbyboatwork
@A Ghost To Most:
Baies des Puants, Bay of Stinkers. My unnerstanding, subject to correction, is the green algae that oft thrives in the shallows stinks up the place. Apparently it’sa preexisting condition: The name Winnebago meant “evil-smelling” in playing-the-dozens Algonquin, and the French voyageurs translated that diss to “Puants.”
Course, it might just be a knock on Green Bay as the so-callt “toilet paper capital of the world”. (First splinterless TP!)
A Ghost To Most
@Schlemazel: Ah, that makes sense. Plenty of places like that along Lake Ontario.
Steeplejack
@Schlemazel:
Mission accomplished!
Compare and contrast with “Arkadelphia.”
Jackie
I live in PST, so 60 Minutes hasn’t started yet. But, after reading that Trump is throwing tantrums in response to their coverage of children separated from parents at the border – immediately set DVR to record.
Sister Golden Bear
@Omnes Omnibus: Congratulations on having the strength and courage to take the step. May you get all the help and support you need.
James E Powell
@Omnes Omnibus:
Wishing you the best; hope that every day is a better day.
Haroldo
@poleaxedbyboatwork:
I grew up there – we were told we had the highest per capita consumption of beer in the US (and the lowest per captia consumption of soap). I chose to believe at least half of that was true.
Omnes Omnibus
@Omnes Omnibus: My kitchen sink now smells like brandy and beer. Better safe than sorry. If I drink again, it needs to be a definite choice not a slip up after a long day.
poleaxedbyboatwork
@Haroldo:
Suds of bleary, nary a visage cleary?
Jackie
@Omnes Omnibus: Flush your sink with bleach PRONTO and give yourself a thumbs up and high 5!!! You CAN DO THIS!!!???
Eric S.
@Omnes Omnibus: Stay strong.
Ruckus
@rikyrah:
I always take my receipt. But have never thought about it that way, because I never had to. And no one should have to think about life that way, that everything has to be done because of what you look like and in fear that not doing that small thing may cost you your life.
And that takes me back to a girl I knew in school. She had polio, she wore braces, she used crutches and while I never saw or heard anyone give her shit, she was shunned by a large percentage of the kids, because she was different. And she has been one of my heroes because she kept her head up and carried on. But that isn’t in the same universe as worrying about being killed for what you look like, what you were born like. It also reminds me of a dear friend, who passed last year, who made a trip to Africa to see what’s what with her heritage. She had the same reaction to it as Richard Pryor, that eye opening discovery that everyone looked like him, that no one was looking for him to get out of line because of what he looked like.
satby
@Omnes Omnibus: One day at a time Omnes. Big virtual hug.
Steve in the ATL
@Omnes Omnibus: clearly god is testing you. Be strong!
Last CLE I went to had an hour on addiction and substance abuse. It’s all too common in our profession. You can do it!
Emma
@Omnes Omnibus: Sending you twice as much grace as is given me. Hang in there.
Omnes Omnibus
Did I mention my sinus infection?
pluky
@PhoenixRising: beat me to it, but to under score, with emphasis — acute withdrawl from alcohol (or benzos for that matter) can be LETHAL! If at all possible do so under medical supervision.
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: You got this!
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Okay, now that’s some serious shit! Cue the neti-potters!
Major Major Major Major
@pluky: This is very true. Careful, Omnes.
West of the Rockies
Wishing you well, Omnes… Stay strong but don’t shred yourself for being human.
Middlelee
@A Ghost To Most:
Wikipedia: The name of the bay in the Menominee language is Pūcīhkit, or “bay that smells like something rotting”.[7]
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: Hugs and many best wishes to you.
Shana
@Omnes Omnibus: I have a nephew who was an addict, drugs and alcohol , who got clean several years ago. His bottom was realizing that the mother of his child wouldn’t let him see his daughter until he got clean. Everyone has their own bottom. Good for you for having realized your situation. We’re here for you. Use the resources that are there for you. My nephew goes to AA and other meetings almost every day and that works for him. Find your resources and use them as often as you need them.
wasabi gasp
Lady looks like she been surgically separated from a banjo.
remima
@Mnemosyne: ::raising my hand::
Elizabelle
@Omnes Omnibus: All the best to you, Omnes. It took courage to tell us.
susanna
Omnes, good fortune to you, courageous man.
cintibud
@Omnes Omnibus: Belated wishes for strength and good luck Omnes
Denali
@Omnes Omnibus,
You can do this- we know. All the best.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: Way late to the thread…
Proud member of Team Omnes. We have your back.
workworkwork
@debbie: The brilliant part of this film was casting Mary Tyler Moore so against type. I think this gave more impact to her performance.
debbie
@workworkwork:
Yes, that was a double shock. Thanks for reminding me.