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Open Thread: Polar Bear Down!

by TaMara|  December 19, 201810:09 pm| 123 Comments

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It was windy here today. I was working in my office when this guy blew by. I snagged him and tied him to a tree until his people could reclaim him. He is the size of a car.

I keep looking back at 2018 and cannot believe how many things feel like they happened years ago instead of months. So goes the Trump years…

Anything blow through your world today?

Open thread.

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  1. 1.

    zhena gogolia

    December 19, 2018 at 10:18 pm

    Haha, I read this thinking it was Betty Cracker, and I was picturing this polar bear blowing all through the Everglades, right past Burl Ives and Christopher Plummer.

  2. 2.

    TaMara (HFG)

    December 19, 2018 at 10:19 pm

    And this appears to be happening. I’m out of can’t evens.

    The logical conclusion of this entire con https://t.co/gJ8BIrRzbA

    — Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) December 20, 2018

  3. 3.

    Morfydd

    December 19, 2018 at 10:20 pm

    We have an extra garbage can from an unknown neighbor after Friday’s wind storm… and are down a fence. Heavy winds expected tomorrow. Sigh.

  4. 4.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2018 at 10:23 pm

    @Morfydd: Maybe it’ll blow a new fence your way.

  5. 5.

    mapaghimagsik

    December 19, 2018 at 10:24 pm

    good save. Losing that really blows.

  6. 6.

    Jay

    December 19, 2018 at 10:24 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):

    I’ve always said there should be a tax on stupid.

  7. 7.

    Aleta

    December 19, 2018 at 10:25 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): I keep waiting for him to sell name plaques of sponsors with a promise to affix somewhere on (or sort of near) the wall. Plaques made by a private company that Eric and Jared own, say.

  8. 8.

    Mary G

    December 19, 2018 at 10:30 pm

    Hoocoodanode (WaPo):

    The Pentagon chief also had tried to explain to Trump that there would be more chaos in the region and future problems for the United States if the troops leave, they said.

    On Wednesday, it became clear Trump was brushing aside his defense secretary’s advice.

    Once considered among the most influential advisers to a president with no prior government or military experience, Mattis has been repeatedly overruled by Trump in recent months and left out of key discussions as the president pursues his own national security path.

    The retired four-star Marine Corps general Trump likes to call by his detested nickname, “Mad Dog,” is now at a low point in his influence with Trump and potentially also a short-timer, current and former U.S. officials said.

    We are indeed through the looking glass and off the map. I am trying the imagine who the replacement will be.

  9. 9.

    Peale

    December 19, 2018 at 10:35 pm

    @mapaghimagsik: yep. I can imagine that when it’s owners came home at the end of the day and found it missing, they’d feel very deflated.

  10. 10.

    Jay

    December 19, 2018 at 10:38 pm

    @Mary G:

    Requires Senate Confirmation, so nobody.

  11. 11.

    Geoboy

    December 19, 2018 at 10:39 pm

    @Mary G: The replacement for Mad Dog Mattis? Why, Jared.

  12. 12.

    Peale

    December 19, 2018 at 10:40 pm

    For the first time since 2014, I’m staying home for the holidays. No plans. Just five closets, a pantry and a freezer to clean. Bookshelves to thin. Cupboards to reaprganize. I want to start 2019 organized. And after one day, I’m proud to say…I might have tossed enough junk to gain six square inches in my walk in bedroom closet.

    Time to admit the reason I have no room is that I’m a hoarder and move out.

  13. 13.

    danielx

    December 19, 2018 at 10:40 pm

    @Aleta:

    The BEST plaques! The most beautiful plaques, for really special people!

  14. 14.

    Steeplejack

    December 19, 2018 at 10:42 pm

    I had an excellent news-free day. Drove out to Marshall, VA, with one of my best friends, whom I’ve known since college, to hit the Red Truck Bakery. Picked up a rum-soaked fruitcake for Bro’ Man—he has bought them in past years and claims they’re great—and some other goodies, including baked goods and a couple of little bottles of soy sauce and Worcestershire sauce aged in bourbon barrels. Will see how those turn out.

    My friend hit a resale shop across the street and found a number of gifts for hard-to-shop-for people. Proceeds went to some local animal charity. Psyched about that.

    I got on the Google for “restaurants near me,” and we ended up motoring over to Warrenton to have barbecue at Shawn’s Smokehouse. Score! Incredibly good brisket and ribs. Definitely going on the permanent list.

    Then we came back to town—Marshall and Warrenton are about 40-50 miles west of the Beltway—and I ended up putting together a bedside desk/​table for friend’s aged mother, who is in an assisted-living facility near me. Thing was a piece of crap—do not buy this from Hammacher Schlemmer!—but I got it assembled somehow, and I guess it will serve the purpose, so . . . mission accomplished?

    Came home tired but happy and have been delicately wading into the threads. Nice to have a day away from the Trumpian chaos. Plus it was sunny and up around 50°!

  15. 15.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2018 at 10:43 pm

    @Mary G: If we’re lucky GEN (ret) Keane. If we’re unlucky Senator Tom Cotton.

  16. 16.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 19, 2018 at 10:44 pm

    @Jay: the incoming Senate is trumpier than this one, Graham or Cotton would cruise through hearings, especially Graham as an insider’s insider. I shudder to think of those hearings, starring Joe Lieberman and 4,579 mentions of John McCain

    Hell, this hack is probably gonna coast on in

    Dustin Volz @ dnvolz
    NEW: William Barr, Trump’s choice for AG, sent an un­so­licited memo ear­lier this year to DoJ excoriating Robert Mueller’s in­quiry into potential obstruction of jus­tice, calling the probe “fa­tally mis­con­ceived”

    ETA: Well, maybe not coast. Harris and Whitehouse will leave him limping a bit

  17. 17.

    Mike in NC

    December 19, 2018 at 10:44 pm

    @Mary G: Kris Koback

  18. 18.

    lamh36

    December 19, 2018 at 10:46 pm

    Oooh new set pics from John Wick 3!!

    Mann only John Wick and the power of Keanu Reeves can make me excited to see what Halle Berry is bringing to the franchise!!
    Halle, gurl… “don’t fuq it up!”

    https://twitter.com/johnwickmovie/status/1075511774516981760?s=21

  19. 19.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2018 at 10:47 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist:

    Dustin Volz @ dnvolz
    NEW: William Barr, Trump’s choice for AG, sent an un­so­licited memo ear­lier this year to DoJ excoriating Robert Mueller’s in­quiry into potential obstruction of jus­tice, calling the probe “fa­tally mis­con­ceived”

    And there’s the requirement to recuse.

  20. 20.

    NotMax

    December 19, 2018 at 10:47 pm

    Hm, appears to be a juvenile. Best scoot indoors when stressed out mama bear comes a-lookin’ for him.

    ;)

    @Mary G

    Eventually Mulvaney will be Acrtng Everything.

  21. 21.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2018 at 10:48 pm

    @lamh36: They look cheery.

  22. 22.

    Jerzy Russian

    December 19, 2018 at 10:48 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): This idea is not as dumb as it sounds. I think the first emperor of China used GoFundMe to finance the first sections of the Great Wall of China. Actually, upon further reflection, it is as dumb as it sounds…

  23. 23.

    NotMax

    December 19, 2018 at 10:48 pm

    @NotMax

    Acting, not Acrtng.

  24. 24.

    kindness

    December 19, 2018 at 10:51 pm

    OMG a pic with you with the bear like it was a trophy hunt would be funny. Obviously fake gun gives bonus points.

  25. 25.

    eemom

    December 19, 2018 at 10:51 pm

    @Peale:

    I can imagine that when its owners came home at the end of the day and found it missing, they’d feel very deflated.

    Yeah, but they’d be totally juiced to find it again.

  26. 26.

    NotMax

    December 19, 2018 at 10:53 pm

    @Adam L. Silverman

    If we’re whatever is multiple clicks beyond unlucky, Paul Ryan.

  27. 27.

    Barbara

    December 19, 2018 at 10:53 pm

    @Steeplejack: Marshall is nice. There are some good wine tasting places not too far off the path from Marshall.

  28. 28.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2018 at 10:54 pm

    @NotMax: The President would never pick Ryan for anything. He thinks Ryan’s weak. And he’s right about that.

  29. 29.

    different-church-lady

    December 19, 2018 at 10:56 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): To the extent that this might bankrupt some of his fans, I’m all for it.

  30. 30.

    Morfydd

    December 19, 2018 at 10:56 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: that would be… exciting. I think I’ve already talked my mom into a hedge though. As long as I don’t have to paint it!

  31. 31.

    NotMax

    December 19, 2018 at 10:56 pm

    @Adam L. Silverman

    Guess I oughtn’t have left the snark tag as implied.

  32. 32.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 19, 2018 at 10:56 pm

    Brian Stelter @ brianstelter
    Coulter said “Trump will very likely not finish his term and definitely not be elected to a second term.” Fox cited her comments around 7:05. Then this…
    Trump Alert @ TrumpsAlert
    realDonaldTrump appears to no longer follow @AnnCoulter. (This bot cannot tell if this was an unfollow, suspension or block.)

  33. 33.

    Platonailedit

    December 19, 2018 at 10:57 pm

    Repost

    A blind amphibian which burrows underground has been named after Donald Trump in reference to his comments over climate change.

    The newly discovered worm-like creature will be called Dermophis donaldtrumpi, after a sustainable building company paid £19,700 in an auction by the Rainforest Trust UK for the honour of naming it.

    The creature is a type of caecilian, with caecus meaning “blind” in Latin, and is only able to detect light or dark.

    Mr Bell said it is appropriate because Mr Trump can only see the world in black and white and has claimed in the past that climate change is a hoax by the Chinese.

    The Dermophis grows an extra layer of skin which their young peel off and eat – known as dermatrophy – which Mr Bell has likened to Mr Trump handing some of his children White House positions.

    Because the amphibians live almost entirely underground, Mr Bell said the creature was like Mr Trump who has avoided scientific consensus on climate change and handed energy lobbyists jobs with the US environment agency.

  34. 34.

    Jerzy Russian

    December 19, 2018 at 10:59 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Say what you want about the president*. Unfollowing @AnnCoulter is the right move!

  35. 35.

    different-church-lady

    December 19, 2018 at 11:00 pm

    @Jerzy Russian:

    I think the first emperor of China used GoFundMe to finance the first sections of the Great Wall of China.

    No, that was Kickslaver

  36. 36.

    Platonailedit

    December 19, 2018 at 11:03 pm

    @Jay: This current cowardly senate thugs will approve anything the totus thug puts up.

  37. 37.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 19, 2018 at 11:04 pm

    Anything blow through your world today?

    Signed a lease for an apartment in Turtle Bay. 700 square feet, we’ll live like kings!

  38. 38.

    Mnemosyne

    December 19, 2018 at 11:05 pm

    I posted early this morning asking for jackal good vibes because my brother in IL had had to take our mother to the ER with a suspected stroke. As always, jackal good wishes seem to have contained the damage to a minor, if scary, stroke. They’re keeping her in the hospital overnight but have already started speech therapy and physical therapy.

    As soon as she gets home, we are all going to express our extreme displeasure that she decided on her own to stop taking Plavix a year ago— you know, the medication that prevents blood clots from forming so she won’t have a goddamned stroke! ?

    Argh. I love her, but she is a stubborn old woman who drives us fucking nuts sometimes. At least she’s still here for us to yell at her about it.

  39. 39.

    TaMara (HFG)

    December 19, 2018 at 11:06 pm

    Hey, looks like the Bay area had something blow through! A confirmed meteor at sunset:

    Video of what was (likely?) a #meteor that appeared just after 5:30 p.m., view looking west from San Francisco. #SF pic.twitter.com/Fr71PJZQBE

    — Daniel Alrick (@SFmeteorologist) December 20, 2018

  40. 40.

    Ben Cisco

    December 19, 2018 at 11:06 pm

    Last full week off – and I am ready for it! Rain for the next two days solid, think I’ll cue up some movies or something…

  41. 41.

    zhena gogolia

    December 19, 2018 at 11:06 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    I’m glad it’s not too bad.

  42. 42.

    A Ghost To Most

    December 19, 2018 at 11:07 pm

    Not too windy here today, but we are generally blocked from wind coming down the canyons. A north wind rolls down Rocky Flats to us.

  43. 43.

    EBT

    December 19, 2018 at 11:08 pm

    We got two new kittens today.

  44. 44.

    Kay

    December 19, 2018 at 11:09 pm

    I found the money for the wall:

    President Donald Trump boasts a particularly wealthy circle of advisers.
    Together they’re worth $10 billion. Trump has claimed that by appointing rich individuals he is ensuring his team is “representing the country” instead of being in it for the money, Business Insider reported.

  45. 45.

    Mnemosyne

    December 19, 2018 at 11:09 pm

    @zhena gogolia:

    I hope it scares her into actually doing what her doctor tells her to do. My poor brother had a really shitty day at the hospital with virtually no cell phone reception trying to keep the rest of us informed while he was trying to keep her calm.

  46. 46.

    TaMara (HFG)

    December 19, 2018 at 11:09 pm

    I love this stuff. Years ago, on two drives through eastern Nebraska, I saw a meteor right in front of my car and land in field – so close I could see the glowing embers. First time I thought I imagined it (driving through NE will do that to you) but the second time, couldn’t deny it.

    I saw it fall!! Very exciting!! pic.twitter.com/7gOyRyxH7L

    — Linda (@confan415) December 20, 2018

  47. 47.

    Steeplejack

    December 19, 2018 at 11:10 pm

    @Barbara:

    Trump wine?! ’Cause that would be cool.

    That area has a number of little towns that are suspiciously top-heavy with restaurants, gift shops, craft stores and other exotica. I can’t figure out what the economy is based on, unless it’s just day-trippers and retired Washington bureaucrats buying farmettes.

    Anyway, it was good to get out of the usual rut and see some new stuff. I had been to Marshall before but hadn’t seen much of it. (Not that there’s a whole lot to see.)

  48. 48.

    TaMara (HFG)

    December 19, 2018 at 11:11 pm

    @EBT: Thought you could just slip that in there, did ya? We will need pictures!

  49. 49.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 19, 2018 at 11:11 pm

    @Mnemosyne: oh no! Hugs!

  50. 50.

    Ohio Mom

    December 19, 2018 at 11:12 pm

    @Peale: I think most of us have too much stuff. And it’s hard to get rid of because that requires a lot of decision-making.

    I do most of my decluttering in jags, like it sounds like you are doing, but I also maintain an “out box” of things I think I am ready to get rid of, and I fill that bit by bit, when inspiration strikes. Eventually it is taken to the Goodwill store.

    I’ve found inspiration in Marie Kondo’s idea that some items just need to move on to their next home.

    Anyway, six inches is a good start — good luck to you!

  51. 51.

    Ben Cisco

    December 19, 2018 at 11:13 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Glad it was minor and that you get more time with her. Cherish it even if/when it makes you nuts.

  52. 52.

    A Ghost To Most

    December 19, 2018 at 11:13 pm

    @Mnemosyne:
    Glad to hear she’s doing better. Maybe she will listen now.

  53. 53.

    NotMax

    December 19, 2018 at 11:14 pm

    @Major Major Major Major

    Congrats. Midtown or more to the east?

    Lived for a year or so just below there, at 2nd and 40th.

    Trivia: The name Turtle Bay has nothing to do with the animal. It is derived from Deutel in Dutch, meaning knife, the shape of a protected cove in the East River thereabouts. Cove long ago lost to industrial landfill.

  54. 54.

    Steeplejack

    December 19, 2018 at 11:16 pm

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Congratulations! Depends how it’s laid out. My place is ≈625 square feet and doesn’t feel cramped. But I share it only with the housecat, not another human.

  55. 55.

    Viva BrisVegas

    December 19, 2018 at 11:16 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):

    The organiser of that GoFundMe is a fully accredited member of the wingnut gravy train.

    Watch that money evaporate. Not even the IRS will have a clue where it went.

    If he was serious about money for the wall, he’d go ask someone with real cash like the Mercers.

    The upside is that after this money gets sucked away, the magats will have less to throw at the feet of Trump.

  56. 56.

    Villago Delenda Est

    December 19, 2018 at 11:17 pm

    @Kay: What is amazing about that snippet is that the stupid contained has not collapsed upon itself.

  57. 57.

    Ohio Mom

    December 19, 2018 at 11:17 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Hah! Ann Coulter and Max Sawicky agree on something. Never thought I’d type that.

  58. 58.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 19, 2018 at 11:18 pm

    @NotMax: sorta in the middle.

    And yeah, I saw that googling it, sort of like how Fishkill doesn’t have anything to do with killing fish.

    But they used to have turtles there anyway as a total coincidence, so I’m just going to pretend ??

  59. 59.

    Platonailedit

    December 19, 2018 at 11:20 pm

    Should be noted that the continuing resolution that the Senate just passed didn't include all of the money for Trump's wall that he wanted.— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 20, 2018

  60. 60.

    EBT

    December 19, 2018 at 11:20 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): I actually just tossed pictures and stories of the kittens and existing cats in to the submission tool!

  61. 61.

    Steeplejack

    December 19, 2018 at 11:20 pm

    @Mnemosyne, @zhena gogolia:

    What Mrs. Gogol said.

  62. 62.

    Steeplejack

    December 19, 2018 at 11:21 pm

    @EBT:

    Congratulations on the acquisition!

  63. 63.

    Platonailedit

    December 19, 2018 at 11:21 pm

    Remarkable that a group of Trump supporters are now raising money to build Trump's border wall after he campaigned for years on forcing Mexico to pay for the wall.— Kyle Griffin (@kylegriffin1) December 20, 2018

    They are all easy marks of rubes, Kyle.

  64. 64.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 19, 2018 at 11:22 pm

    @Steeplejack: it’s laid out just like we like them. Two big rooms, buncha closets. Our last place had a kitchen that was way too big.

  65. 65.

    John Revolta

    December 19, 2018 at 11:22 pm

    Hey! That bear just shat out my car!

  66. 66.

    EBT

    December 19, 2018 at 11:23 pm

    @Steeplejack: Yeah I want to get them all on the cat tree at once, for a fun family photo. I think Takkun will take a few days to get used to new cats in her space.

  67. 67.

    NotMax

    December 19, 2018 at 11:24 pm

    @Major Major Major Major
    So you’re bound to become intimately familiar now with the nooks and crannies of Grand Central.

    sort of like how Fishkill doesn’t have anything to do with killing fish

    Or Flushing doesn’t have anything to do with….

    ;)

  68. 68.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    December 19, 2018 at 11:24 pm

    “They’re about to have a country where no Republican will ever be elected president again. Trump will just have been a joke presidency who scammed the American people, amused the populists for a while, but he’ll have no legacy whatsoever.”

    Ann Coulter

    When you’ve lost Cronkite>Eva Braun, you’ve lost aryan Nazis.

  69. 69.

    Barbara

    December 19, 2018 at 11:27 pm

    @Ohio Mom: I find that it helps if you can locate a recipient that will use your donations. I resisted dealing with all the kiddie art supplies, some of which were really nice, until I found out that the new art teacher enthusiastically received all donations. My local library takes donations of magazines and books. My local flower shop takes any and all vases. And so on.

  70. 70.

    Barbara

    December 19, 2018 at 11:30 pm

    @Mnemosyne: It certainly could have been worse, and fortunately wasn’t. I know that people can be stubborn but sometimes drugs have side effects that are unpleasant or worrisome. Hopefully someone can straighten out her ongoing drug regimen.

  71. 71.

    Steeplejack

    December 19, 2018 at 11:32 pm

    @EBT:

    [. . .] I want to get them all on the cat tree at once, for a fun family photo.

    LOL. Good luck with that!

  72. 72.

    Mandalay

    December 19, 2018 at 11:33 pm

    @Jerzy Russian:

    Unfollowing @AnnCoulter is the right move!

    In the world of RWNJs I have more time for Coulter than most of them. She is still a really nasty piece of work, a vile grifter, and a generally shit human being, but she does have a couple of saving graces:

    – She regularly concedes that the whole outraged pundit thing is just a game. Not explicitly, but close enough. She doesn’t take any of it seriously. I wouldn’t be surprised to see her say in an interview in a few years time “Well of course it was all a sham! Of course it was just a way to make money! How thick do you have to be to have taken me seriously?…“.

    – She has never been a kiss ass to Trump. She’d certainly sing his praises if he talked about being cruel to brown people, but the moment he went soft she’d be on his ass, and telling her followers to ditch Trump if he didn’t show some spine. I haven’t checked, but I’m pretty sure Trump would never dare to go after Coulter. She could do real damage to his support if he pissed her off enough: she’d call him weak.

  73. 73.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 19, 2018 at 11:37 pm

    Interesting POV on the trump ‘foundation’

    Harold Pollack @ haroldpollack
    The NY AG suggests that the Trump Foundation is a comprehensive fraud. I fully believe this, but I am also truly puzzled. (thread).

  74. 74.

    khead

    December 19, 2018 at 11:39 pm

    @EBT:

    Thought you could just slip that in there, did ya? We will need pictures!

    Yeah, this. And congrats!

  75. 75.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2018 at 11:42 pm

    @Major Major Major Major: So you’re moving into Trump’s building.

  76. 76.

    Platonailedit

    December 19, 2018 at 11:42 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Fuck that learned helplessness from pollack. The scum was a con man his entire life and to pretend that pollack is puzzled how the scum con doesn’t have a ‘passion’ for any cause is utter bs.

  77. 77.

    Mart

    December 19, 2018 at 11:43 pm

    @Steeplejack: You do not want to go near this place.

    Trump wine?! ’Cause that would be cool.

    With all the foreigners working there very good chance of your car being broken into while you tour and taste. Believe me.

  78. 78.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2018 at 11:45 pm

    @Mnemosyne: We’re keeping good thoughts. My Mom’s a speech language pathologist and former rehab director, so feel free to reach out offline if you’ve got questions regarding the therapy.

  79. 79.

    danielx

    December 19, 2018 at 11:45 pm

    @Platonailedit:

    If Tangerine Torquemada could arrange it, there would be black clad figures with knives in their teeth crawling down the chimneys of that company.

  80. 80.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    December 19, 2018 at 11:46 pm

    @Platonailedit: Fuck that learned helplessness from pollack.

    jesus, you’re weird.

  81. 81.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2018 at 11:46 pm

    @EBT: Congratulations!

  82. 82.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2018 at 11:46 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): Please check your email.

  83. 83.

    John Revolta

    December 19, 2018 at 11:47 pm

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch:

    “They’re about to have a country where no Republican will ever be elected president again………………………. he’ll have no legacy whatsoever.”

    Sounds like a pretty damn good legacy to me. If only she was right for once.

  84. 84.

    khead

    December 19, 2018 at 11:48 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):

    So, who gets the cash when the go fund me ends up in the crapper?

  85. 85.

    debbie

    December 19, 2018 at 11:50 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    I missed your previous post. I hope your mother makes a speedy recovery. I hope she’s learned not to self-unprescribe her medications.

  86. 86.

    Major Major Major Major

    December 19, 2018 at 11:50 pm

    @EBT: nice!

    @Adam L Silverman: sure.

  87. 87.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 19, 2018 at 11:53 pm

    @TaMara (HFG):

    Years ago, on two drives through eastern Nebraska, I saw a meteor right in front of my car and land in field – so close I could see the glowing embers.

    You sure it wasn’t something more like this?

  88. 88.

    divF

    December 19, 2018 at 11:55 pm

    @TaMara (HFG): I saw this just as I was getting home from the gym – very striking.

    The quote from sfgate.com left something to be desired though.

    A mysterious light in the sky that popped up over the Bay Area around 5:30 p.m. has people wondering whether it is the entrails from a rocket launch, …

  89. 89.

    Mainmata

    December 19, 2018 at 11:55 pm

    @Ben Cisco: Here in MD it’s going to be more rain. This region has seen historic annual rainfall amounts this year (also predicted by most climate change scenarios).

  90. 90.

    Dan B

    December 19, 2018 at 11:57 pm

    We had several downpours yesterday – Seattle style, not eastern US style but close. My Mike guy had to go to his rental house and deliver a dehumidifier because the pond outside the downstairs master bedroom overflowed. Drain was plugged. Of course I designed the pond and 6 inch pipe for the drain… so might be blamed.

    It could have been worse. A town on the other side of Puget Sound had a tornado that tore off roofs and collapsed some buildings. Tornadoes are EXTREMELY rare here. Nobody has records of the last one that did damage.

    And the neighbor’s giant Snoopy blew over. Ha!

  91. 91.

    Steeplejack

    December 19, 2018 at 11:57 pm

    @Mart:

    Yeah, I know. The Virginia ABC stores have a few lonely bottles of Trump wine gathering dust on a back shelf. Slightly odd, considering that wine can be sold at wine shops and grocery stores, etc. The state has a monopoly only on hard liquor.

  92. 92.

    khead

    December 20, 2018 at 12:01 am

    @Major Major Major Major:

    I can’t lie to you about your chances (in Turtle Bay)…. but you have my sympathies.

  93. 93.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 20, 2018 at 12:01 am

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Is Ingraham, She-Wolf of the SS still on Team MAGA? If so, the President is still running 50% in the crazed Aryan pundit department.

  94. 94.

    poleaxedbyboatwork

    December 20, 2018 at 12:01 am

    @divF:

    A mysterious light in the sky that popped up over the Bay Area around 5:30 p.m. has people wondering whether it is the entrails from a rocket launch, …

    Reading entrails. Results mixed.

  95. 95.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 20, 2018 at 12:03 am

    @Major Major Major Major: You moving in above or below the Saudi ambassador?

  96. 96.

    NotMax

    December 20, 2018 at 12:05 am

    @Adam L. Silverman

    To this day no one talks about the black sheep of the family, Third Avenue El.

    Local resident trivia: whoever posted the video with the quotes around the middle name is wrong; that’s his legal name.

  97. 97.

    EBT

    December 20, 2018 at 12:08 am

    I am gathering futher good photos of the kittens, and I will find a thread to take over with links of them. RIght now Hobbs and Archimedes are curled up on the cat tree while Binx walks around talking.

  98. 98.

    NotMax

    December 20, 2018 at 12:09 am

    @poleaxedbyboatwork

    Reading rocket entrails is exhausting.

    ;)

  99. 99.

    Chetan Murthy

    December 20, 2018 at 12:10 am

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: There was a bit of a discussion about this (indirectly) over at LG&M yesterday (or maybe day-before). About how Shitler is so devoid of any redeeming qualities, even when looked at from what would otherwise be odious points-of-view. To wit, I and others felt that even Shinola Miller as a better person than Shitler, because at least Shinola actually cared about something [sure, the something was pretty goddamn evil] whereas Shitler, well, he cares only about himself and his appetites.

    A man wholly devoid of qualities. And yeah, I think Pollack’s right.

  100. 100.

    Ben Cisco

    December 20, 2018 at 12:13 am

    @Mainmata: Wow. Between the rain and it getting dark around 4, not a lot of fun. Going to need a distraction without a doubt.

  101. 101.

    Adam L Silverman

    December 20, 2018 at 12:13 am

    @David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Apparently he’s lost Ingraham, She-Wolfe of the SS.

    It was supposed to be a “big beautiful wall” with a “big beautiful door.” Now it’s just an open door with no frame. Unreal. #BorderDisorder #GOPFail

    — Laura Ingraham (@IngrahamAngle) December 20, 2018

  102. 102.

    Cheryl Rofer

    December 20, 2018 at 12:17 am

    The @LickObservatory says the mystery streak of light seen by many in the Bay Area just after sunset was a meteor. https://t.co/aXJVhtNlCT pic.twitter.com/dSjthHTBey

    — Berkeleyside (@berkeleyside) December 20, 2018

  103. 103.

    Yarrow

    December 20, 2018 at 12:17 am

    @Mnemosyne: So glad to hear it’s not that bad. Getting therapy started right away can make a world of difference. Hopefully she’ll go back on the medication now. Parents can be so frustrating! Payback for when we were kids and teenagers I guess. LOL.

  104. 104.

    Mike in NC

    December 20, 2018 at 12:26 am

    I can’t keep up. First the Holy Wall was going to be metal, then invisible metal, but then metal slivers. It’ll never be built in the 21st century, so whatever…

  105. 105.

    EBT

    December 20, 2018 at 12:33 am

    Yeah, Takkun came out from under the bed and is hissing and spitting whenever anyone looks at her. I got a good laugh in at it and she just looked hurt.

  106. 106.

    scav

    December 20, 2018 at 12:44 am

    I’m of the crowd hypothesizing that all the people contributing to the wall are actually revealing themselves to be those oft-heralded “Mexicans” with checkbooks and thus documenting that they should be unceremoniously tossed from this fair nation forthwith according to their own cherished and great rulebook.

  107. 107.

    Yarrow

    December 20, 2018 at 1:22 am

    @scav: Makes total sense to me.

  108. 108.

    ruemara

    December 20, 2018 at 1:25 am

    @EBT: You have a Takkun too? Mine is my boy who is with my ex. But he’s still mine.

    Blew through? I have to shut down my social media management project and deal with the Digital Asset Management project for the next few months. I have enough leftover cookie dough to make another dozen and then I need to make some cupcakes for the charity Christmas Eve dinner. So I think I’ll make a few more and give that to the homeless drop in shelter for Christmas, along with much needed socks and personal grooming supplies. And that should close out christmas for me. Speaking of blowing in, I’ll be back in Seattle in January for PodCon, so should there be a BJ dining and roustabouting evening?

  109. 109.

    Wapiti

    December 20, 2018 at 1:28 am

    @Chetan Murthy: Well, there was that one time that Turnip was reported to have decked Turnip, Jr. That’s a good thing, sort of, maybe?

  110. 110.

    Yarrow

    December 20, 2018 at 1:37 am

    @Wapiti: Jr. had failed so had to be dealt with. That’s how I see that. No love for his kids. Either they do what he wants or they’re problems to be dealt with.

  111. 111.

    Burnspbesq

    December 20, 2018 at 2:00 am

    @EBT:

    We got two new kittens today.

    You probably have that backwards, but congrats!

  112. 112.

    Burnspbesq

    December 20, 2018 at 2:10 am

    I’m aggressively decluttering. Anybody want 1,300 vinyl records and 3,400 CDs?

  113. 113.

    Aleta

    December 20, 2018 at 2:20 am

    @Burnspbesq: Impressive.

  114. 114.

    Chetan Murthy

    December 20, 2018 at 2:24 am

    @Burnspbesq: Yeah, I ripped my CDs a few years ago, haven’t looked back. Just keep a few backup copies for incase.

  115. 115.

    David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch

    December 20, 2018 at 3:16 am

    Even the liberal Drudge Report is mocking Drumpf and hailing Nancy Smash

    https://i.imgur.com/E1eIfZS.jpg

  116. 116.

    Aleta

    December 20, 2018 at 3:24 am

    This fundraising ploy for the wall. Has the guy who’s doing it made a commitment to how he’ll handle the money?

    Do the donors think he’s handing whatever amount over to a federal agency? Or do they think it goes to Tr’s office? Do they really want the hated feds to take the money? Or do they think the gofundme guy will keep control over how it’s spent? Who do they think will own whatever part of the wall (they hope) gets built? All the people? That’s communism. The federal government? Why should the feds get it? Should GFMe guy privatize it? Don’t they get to own a share then?

    They’re not thinking this through too well. They don’t want higher taxes, they hate gov’t spending and waste, but they’ll turn their $ over with no vote over what happens to it. Such a scam.

    I think they’ve got bots out pumping people up to join the Patriot’s Army of Easy Marks. Fck yeah build the wall! No need for Mexico to pay!! Don’t need no stinking Congress!! We’ll do it ourselves. Yay!! That’ll show ’em !!

    Soon the fights begin. No one will ever know where that money went. No FOI requests allowed.

  117. 117.

    Viva BrisVegas

    December 20, 2018 at 4:28 am

    @Burnspbesq:

    Anybody want 1,300 vinyl records and 3,400 CDs?

    Ebay.

  118. 118.

    John Revolta

    December 20, 2018 at 4:40 am

    @Aleta: “I remember what my dear old Poppa said to me, just before they sprung the trap; he said ‘Son, you can’t cheat an honest man. Never give a sucker an even break, or smarten up a chump.'”

  119. 119.

    J R in WV

    December 20, 2018 at 5:02 am

    Well, do pet and love up to your previous cat, who can’t believe you got these two tiny interlopers when you HAD HER!!! She won’t understand why you wanted kittens, which to a non-parent cat are just a pain in the butt. Like your brother-in-law’s triplets.

    Mmenosyne, glad your mom appears to be doing well !!! Not surprised she stopped taking a drug to prevent stroke and not long after had a stroke; nor that she didn’t mention it to anyone…. This is how that would work also.

    Burnsy,

    What kind of music? Pop Country? Jazz, New Orleans style or Bee-bop? Acid Heavy Metal Death slam Rock? David Bowie, which era? Jimmi and the Mothers of INvention?

    Every Dead concert every played? I know a guy who would jump on that. If you have a good classical collection, with some classic rock added to the orchestral collection, and historic big band swing jazz, talk to me. In other words totally depends upon what kind of music is on the albums and CDs

  120. 120.

    rikyrah

    December 20, 2018 at 6:35 am

    @Mnemosyne:
    Sending prayers for a complete recovery

  121. 121.

    rikyrah

    December 20, 2018 at 6:37 am

    @EBT:
    Congratulations??

  122. 122.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    December 20, 2018 at 7:22 am

    @Mnemosyne: I’m glad that came out more or less all right.

  123. 123.

    Shana

    December 20, 2018 at 12:06 pm

    @Barbara: I’ve also had luck offering stuff to the cleaning ladies who come every other week to clean our house. They’re through a company and I figured they, or someone they know, could use much of what we donate.

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