Got a request from commentor Ohio Mom:
Can you put up a post about the meet-up in Cincinnati this Monday, January 14th? The inspiration is Steve in the ATL’s trip to the suburb of Blue Ash.
We had one preliminary post a couple of days ago but we only got as far as deciding on Monday (rather than Tuesday). We still need to hash out a time and a place.
I suggested Slatts Pub on Cooper near Kenwood in downtown Blue Ash. There’s a parking lot and it shouldn’t be too hard for people to find — just to the east of the strip mall with the Walgreen’s. But if someone has a different idea, that’s fine. We just need to nail this thing down.
There are a couple of other issues. One, it’s supposed to snow six inches this weekend, though I’m optimistic about the roads being mostly clear by Monday night. But maybe others don’t want to risk it.
Also, CarolDuhart2 needs a ride. Cintibud offered to give her a lift but I don’t have anyone’s email.
Anyone wants to get in contact directly, send me a message at annelaurie (dot) bj (at) gmail (dot) com, and I’ll forward it.
Pogonip
Anyone who has time, enjoy the Cincinnati zoo. It won’t be busy because of the zoo.
Buckeye
I will wave to everyone from Dayton.
DCrefugee
How about a Florida meet-up?
SiubhanDuinne
@Pogonip:
That is one of America’s great zoos. I’m hoping to drive from the ATL to Owen Sound, Ontario, later this spring, and if I time things right I can work in an overnight in CIN and a visit to the zoo. Maybe even a meetup? We’ll see how timing and itineraries work out.
Steve in the ATL
@DCrefugee: I was there a couple of days ago—didn’t see you anywhere!
zhena gogolia
@Steve in the ATL:
I can’t believe we missed the opportunity for a Wallingford meetup.
Steve in the ATL
@zhena gogolia: I know! Very good odds I will never be there again, but you never know…
zhena gogolia
@Steve in the ATL:
Let me know in advance!
zhena gogolia
Is this a politics-free zone? WaPo:
zhena gogolia
@zhena gogolia:
I just wrote to Rosa De Lauro saying it’s time to start impeachment proceedings. Enough is enough.
PsiFighter37
It is very short notice, but I am out in Denver for business and will be free this coming Tuesday evening (1/15) after 7PM or so. I am staying in the heart of downtown and would love to get a drink or two with any Juiciers who are in the neighborhood. I don’t think I have made a meetup since July 2013 in Seattle, so would love to get a chance to see any folks!
sukabi
@zhena gogolia: then this is very relevant to that….Obama expanded the FBIs & CIAs ability to use NSA intel as one of his last EOs.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
TSA workers can expect a paycheck this week as their boss gives them a bonus
Gravenstone
@zhena gogolia: Can’t let anyone else know what the boss told him.
Mary G
@zhena gogolia: This is a really big shoe dropping. Hopefully Adam is preparing a post on how unusual and suspicious it is.
Honus
Blue Ash was one of my favorite bands. From there. Anybody else remember them? I have their vinyl.
WaterGirl
@PsiFighter37: Oh my gosh, I remember you talking about the meet up you went to. Time passes so quickly!
Ohio Mom
@SiubhanDuinne: Remind is, and if this meetup for SITATL isn’t too traumatic an experience, we’ll have one for you.
Ohio Mom
@Honus: Never heard of them. Maybe they predate my arrival here in 2002.
Frankly, I have a hard time imagining anything interesting coming out of this anodyne suburb. I think I will try googling them.
Ohio Mom
@Steve in the ATL: What time are your meetings usually over? Do you think you’ll be available by 6:30? We need to set a time.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Ohio Mom: WE WILL HAVE ONE FOR HER REGARDLESS. Sorry to shout.
I’m game for Monday regardless of weather, which is of course easy for me to say since I’m very close. Though I may be coming from work in Dayton, depending on how this weekend’s rush project goes.
@Ohio Mom: Nor have I and I’ve been here longer. I must ask a local musician or two…
Slatt’s seems like a good idea b/c it has parking. I think cintibud put his email in a reply spelled out, but now I can’t find the thread. Has anybody met Steve in the ATL? We should have a green balloon or 2 if not.
Yarrow
@Ohio Mom: Blue Ash has a long Wikipedia entry. They were formed in 1969.
PsiFighter37
@WaterGirl: It is crazy how long ago this has been. The other one I was at Golden Road Brewing in LA, which was either March of 2012 or 2013. It is truly nuts how much time has flown by.
WaterGirl
@PsiFighter37: I know! I’m pretty sure you got married about 45 minutes ago; it feels like maybe a year at the longest. But it’s probably 3 or 4 years by now I would guess?
SiubhanDuinne
@Ohio Mom:
As long as he doesn’t take you aside with promises that everything you tell him is attorney-client protected, you should be fine.
raven
Anyone seen The Babushkas of Chernobyl?
Steve in the ATL
@Ohio Mom: I’ll definitely be available by 6:30. Probably even 5:30.
@SiubhanDuinne: hey, you weren’t supposed to tell them that! It was…you know, privileged and confidential.
Steve in the ATL
@raven: I only watch Fox News.
zhena gogolia
@raven:
No, but it sounds depressing!
RAVEN
@zhena gogolia:
Ohio Mom
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: Yes of course we will have a meetup for SiubhanDuinne. We we show her a grand time.
Since you may be coming the furthest distance, does 6:00 or 6:30 work for you?
The balloons are no problem, thers’s a store across the street that sells them (Blue Ash has its own Cappels).
I will go back to the old thread to get cintibud’s email. He and Carol can use Anne Laurie to make arrangements.
zhena gogolia
@RAVEN:
So, meetup in Chernobyl?
Steve in the ATL
@zhena gogolia: BYOGeiger counter
sukabi
@raven: no, but here’s an article on Putin’s pu$$ies.
It’s from several months ago, but timeline and $$ received is interesting.
raven
Here not try to inject a little class in this joint and this is what I get.
DCrefugee
@Steve in the ATL: Come back anytime. We’re always open…
grandmaBear (fka glaukopis)
I’m still expecting to make it, though I won’t know for sure until Sunday. I think Ohio Mom may still have my email from our previous meet-up. If not, let me know and I’ll get it to you.
debbie
@Steve in the ATL:
Good god, you travel a lot.
Ohio Mom
@Yarrow: After following your link, and a little additional googling, I learned that Blue Ash was from the other side of Ohio — Youngstown. Why didn’t they name themselves after a boring Youngstown suburb? Looks like they broke up while I was still a New Yorker.
Pogonip
@SiubhanDuinne: It’s worth the trip. And with luck, the baby anteater will be on display by then.
Also, above, I meant the zoo will not be busy because of the weather. ?
Ohio Mom
@grandmaBear (fka glaukopis): No,I don’t have it. Or maybe I do, I’m a bit of a paper hoarder. But I don’t know where it could be. You could send it to [email protected] and she will forward it to me.
So glad to hear granddaughter’s progress is making the doctors happy.
Ohio Mom
@debbie: Steve is proof that not all that unions are defunct — there are still businesses that have to negotiate contracts. In every corner of the country, including my little inner-ring suburb.
Raven
@Ohio Mom: It’s amazing to me that the IBEW has all these ads at Georgia Football games.
Ohio Mom
@Raven: My grandfather and uncles had a neon sign business in Brooklyn. From their stories I came to understand that the IBEW will outlast the rest of civilization. You don’t mess with them.
debbie
@Ohio Mom:
Unions in Ohio seem relieved to be seeing the backside of John Kasich. Interestingly, they supported the return of Larry Householder as Speaker of the House after he promised them there would be no anti-union legislation. I can’t imagine he will keep his word; he never has before.
trollhattan
Trump and the Republicans were more than happy to note an “illegal” was responsible for the murder of Officer Singh in Newman, CA, an officer who immigrated from Fiji. Never mind that “illegal” had warrants and should have been in the slam.
What will they have to say, I wonder, about the apparent assassination of Officer Corona in Davis, CA, now that the murderer turns out to be a 48 YO white dude who was ordered by the court to surrender his AR-15 last year after a battery conviction. Officer Corona, 22, was the daughter of a career cop who–wait for it–immigrated from Mexico.
My heart breaks for her family; she looks like any of a dozen of my kid’s soccer buddies and was evidently a go-getting overachiever who grew up laser-focused on emulating her father and becoming a cop. We all want her, young women like her, Officer Singh and others to join our law enforcement ranks. Who wants to, knowing we have tens of millions of angry people armed to the teeth?
raven
@Ohio Mom: Yea when I ran the sports program in Urbana we would give them our fields for their annual tourney. We prepped them and then left them alone, none of the usual rules applied.
debbie
@trollhattan:
He’s got meth eyes.
A Ghost To Most
@debbie: And to the redneckiest places.
@PsiFighter37: I live in Golden, but I rarely drink, and have a one drink limit due to medication. I’ve also been to downtown Denver once in the 9 years I’ve lived here. So I’m not the cosmopolitan sort you’re likely looking for. Weed is my way.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Come on, Florida. You’re being challenged.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@debbie:
Weirdly, my union, UFCW Local 880, endorsed a few Republicans for the state legislature. I can’t imagine why.
realbtl
@raven: I got it, thanks.
trollhattan
@debbie:
Yeah, hard to argue. There’s that certain look….
Raven
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: Weirdly shit, ever hear of the hard hat riots?
debbie
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??:
Yeah, well, we’ll see how long it takes for the Legislature to screw them over.
realbtl
@Raven: He’s young so unlikely.
raven
Great headline, where’s my man??
Sebastian
Tick tock motherfuckers.
Yesterday: FBI investigated Trump as Russian asset.
Today: Trump took interpreter’s notes from private Putin meeting and forbad her to talk about anything (per The Hill and WaPo)
Tomorrow: ?
Alexa, order all the popcorn!
I am getting a feeling that this is planned and the US IC has started their final moves.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/amphtml/world/national-security/trump-has-concealed-details-of-his-face-to-face-encounters-with-putin-from-senior-officials-in-administration/2019/01/12/65f6686c-1434-11e9-b6ad-9cfd62dbb0a8_story.html
chris
@trollhattan: Related via @GreatDismal. NYDN 2016 article but I’m sure not much has changed.
A Ghost To Most
@Sebastian: Thanks, I was considering putting this up.
Every new piece of the puzzle brings more clarity to what has been obvious for some time. The motherfucker is a traitor.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Yarrow: I read that but it looked like they were from northern OH like Toledo or Warren. Interesting bunch, certainly.
Ohio Mom
@??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??: One of the great ironies is that union members often identify as conservatives.
I have no idea how your union determines which candidates to endorse but maybe they choose the least worse Republicans to mollify the membership. Because there might be a mutiny if the union only suggested Democratic candidates.
Amir Khalid
@Sebastian:
That has to be a violation of federal public-records law, right? Easily grounds for impeachment in a sane political environment.
Ohio Mom
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho: Got your email, wrote back.
Ohio Mom
@Amir Khalid: Probably not the only public records law violation in the last two years either.
Sebastian
@A Ghost To Most:
Of course he is. He sold us out, all of us. And everyone around him is either in on it or accepted it despite their oath.
Sebastian
@A Ghost To Most:
One thing I am afraid of is that soon a lot of folks will swing hard and become overzealous defenders of the Republic in order to cover up their complicity. We have to keep record and not let them slither away.
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@Amir Khalid:
Assumes facts not in evidence about the environment.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Amir Khalid: somebody alluded to this today, and I’d forgotten about it in the constant firehose of insanity– it’s Omarosa, so FWIW, but the Cohen angle actually makes it seem more believable now
A Ghost To Most
I just watched a Cowboys offensive lineman sack Zak Prescott (his own qb). I applaud his initiative.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Raven:
The ones from the late 60s? I’ve read a little about them. Unfortunately, there have always been conservative elements in the labor movement
raven
@A Ghost To Most: Bizarre wasn’t it, talk about “own goal”!
cintibud
Replied to Ohio Mom and Anne Lauire with my email and phone #. Ms. Cintibud and I should be there close to six, Looking forward to meeting folks!
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Ohio Mom:
I guess. They endorsed all Dems for the statewide offices and the federal offices.
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@debbie:
It won’t be long. The Ohio Assembly is R-dominated, as you know.
Baud
@Sebastian:
They notes have been leaked.
tybee
@raven: WTF? what damage? lol
Jim, Foolish Literalist
he’s putting on quite a show, this is just one of the highlights
he’s practically begging people to start talking about his own divorces
raven
@tybee: I thought maybe you had sent in a check!
Sebastian
@Baud:
“Yes, Daddy”
Remember how he tried to get Vlad’s attention across the room during G8 or G20 or whenever that was?
Miss Bianca
@Baud: No, it would be more like, “I am! I be BEST puppet! Not like Crooked Hillary – she would be the WORST puppet, not like me!”
ruemara
Speaking of meetups, Seattle Juicers, Friday night good for you? Or Saturday?
Sebastian
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Oooh, Pirro! Now that’s someone that makes my veins pop, more than SHS!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
When “Judge” Pirro is tired of it….
A Ghost To Most
@raven:
Now if someone could sack those fucking Cowboy homers Buck and Aikman.
Aleta
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
This is a really stunning way for the president to
targetthreaten a private citizen.who’s about to testify in public.Aleta
@Aleta: oops
plato
raven
@A Ghost To Most: I sent my LA nephew in law a UGA Gurley jersey for xmas!
Aleta
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
This is a really stunning way for the president to
targetthreaten a private citizen.who’s about to testify in public.A Ghost To Most
@raven:
He should like that. it was nice of the Rams to get good just as they arrived in LA.
raven
@A Ghost To Most: I was pissed, they sent it here instead of LA and it turned out the $50 “jersey” was a fucking t-shirt.
Aleta
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: “both at the Border and from within!” does not sound reassuring.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
does the laughing face emoji work in word press?
Amir Khalid
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
When it comes to Trump and Jared Kushner there is a lot to insult, so there’s that.
plato
Yup, it’s high time this question is asked publicly and repeatedly, especially of every rethug senator.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ohio Mom:
Okay, well, thanks anyhow.
SiubhanDuinne
@Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho:
LOL. You shall sit by me.
plato
Heard on bbc. Theresa May should act more like a British PM and less like a Brexit pm.
SiubhanDuinne
@Pogonip:
Awww, baby eatanters are very cute.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
????
joel hanes
@trollhattan:
What will they have to say
absolutely nothing. Those facts are politically inconvenient, and so must be ignored.
remima
@raven: Thanks to you, I’m watching it right now! :)
SiubhanDuinne
@Steve in the ATL:
Wait, I thought the burden of confidentiality was on YOU!
You gave me lousy advice, and I’m suing, see if I don’t.
raven
@remima: Oh cool, I rented for later.
Yutsano
@ruemara: Since it’s Saturday night, I’m guessing you mean next Friday or Saturday. I MIGHT make it as long as the unemployment money comes in for sure next week. Then (hopefully) I’ll be good.
Steve in the ATL
@A Ghost To Most: I was in the Denver area four times last year, dude!
@A Ghost To Most: everyone hates the Cowboys–even the Cowboys!
@SiubhanDuinne: zing!
??? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ??
@Steve in the ATL:
Don’t you mean America’s Team™? How could you possibly hate America’s Team™? Why do you hate America? //
Also, I had no idea TM was an emoji until tonight.
Jackie
@A Ghost To Most: As a Seahawks diehard fan…. YAY RAMS!!!
PsiFighter37
@WaterGirl: September 2014. Time flies ;)
Nancy
Rochester, NY, and area needs a meet up also. Days, dates, and times to be determined. I liked the Tap and Mallet and I really enjoyed meeting the intellectual elite of the area formerly known as Roch-cha-cha, now Roc-this or that. Balloon Juice readers, declare yourselves as the true elite. Remember that one from a few years ago?
https://www.tapandmallet.com/
Ohio Mom
Okay, looks like the meetup is between 6 and 6:30 at Slatts Pub in downtown Blue Ash.
Just have to let Slatts know we’re coming and get a couple o green balloons. Crossing my fingers all hoes as planned…
ETA: Arrival time is 6-6:30. Don’t know how long Steve in the ATL stays up.