Winter is here bitches.
Sunday Night Open Thread- GAME OF THRONES MOTHERFUCKERSPost + Comments (159)
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Winter is here bitches.
Sunday Night Open Thread- GAME OF THRONES MOTHERFUCKERSPost + Comments (159)
This post is in: 2020 Elections, Gay Rights are Human Rights
Pete Buttigieg has officially announced:
South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg officially launched his presidential campaign on Sunday, formally vaulting the Midwestern Democrat who was largely unknown over a month ago into the large — and growing — field of Democrats vying to take on President Donald Trump in 2020.
Buttigieg cast his candidacy as a direct rebuttal to Trump’s campaign — including his slogan “Make America Great Again” — and highlighted his belief that the country needs both a generational change and an entirely different political figure to lead the country past Trump. Buttigieg’s argument is that he, a gay, veteran mayor from the Midwest, is just that kind of different politician.
“My name is Pete Buttigieg. They call me Mayor Pete,” Buttigieg said to cheers. “I am a proud son of South Bend, Indiana. And I am running for President of the United States.”
He said: “I recognize the audacity of doing this as a Midwestern millennial mayor. More than a little bold—at age 37—to seek the highest office in the land. … But we live in a moment that compels us each to act.”
It almost seems like no big deal that a gay man has a real chance at one day becoming a major party’s Presidential or VP nominee, but it kind of is a big deal. It was only 25 years ago that my then roommate and best friend, who was closeted, spent so much time and energy making sure the mirage of his heterosexuality remained in place. I mean, I feel like I just blinked it happened so fast, but it really didn’t- it took a long time and a lot of hard work and there are still are swaths of the country who are just as bigoted as they were decades ago. It’s just such a big deal.
This post is in: Domestic Politics, Trump Crime Cartel, All Too Normal, Clap Louder!, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?
This is something I’ve been wondering about too.
Crowd sourcing a question about Mike Pompeo’s service record. Appears he served 1985-1991 in Army after graduating #1 at West Point. Why resign at start or in middle of Gulf War and how common for WP top grad to leave only as Capt after 5 years?
— Jon B. Wolfsthal – aka a Globalist (@JBWolfsthal) April 14, 2019
Obviously, I can’t speak for Jon, but this may have been partly evoked by this:
I asked Peru’s foreign minister what he might do if sanctions against Maduro start negatively impacting the humanitarian situation in Venezuela. Pompeo stepped in & said I “shouldn’t ask questions like that” & accused me of blaming the crisis on the US. I didn’t, but you decide: pic.twitter.com/6rVJp8iF4Y
— John Hudson (@John_Hudson) April 14, 2019
This post is in: 2020 Elections, Open Threads, Proud to Be A Democrat, Warren for President 2020, All we want is life beyond the thunderdome
Elizabeth Warren on how she stays motivated in the fight against the Trump administration
“Whenever I feel tired or I think I've done enough, I’ll close my eyes and I will see Donald Trump getting sworn in to office and I'm BACK! Let’s FIGHT! Let’s GO!” pic.twitter.com/EHHL6Psm8u
— ??????? ???????? ⚡️ (@Patrickesque) April 14, 2019
15 YEARS!!!!!
Kamala Harris releases 15 years of tax returns https://t.co/kLiTBpNZ8q— Janet S (@JanSImagine) April 14, 2019
Yes, 2020 Dems so far are raising less money than the 2008 Dems, per the Q1 numbers.
But they have MANY more donors.
In Q1 of 2007, Obama had 104K donors ($240 per donor!).
That's compared with:
Sanders 525K ($35avg)
O'Rourke 163K ($58)
Buttigieg 159K ($44)
Harris 138K ($87) pic.twitter.com/AC7L7KV70i— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) April 12, 2019
The fundraising story of 2020 (so far):
Goodbye, bundlers.
Hello, ActBlue.
— Mark Murray (@mmurraypolitics) April 12, 2019
by Adam L Silverman| 218 Comments
This post is in: America, Crazification Factor, Open Threads
https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1117401998247301126
Also, Jared Kushner can’t text with Muhamed bin Salman in violation of the National Records Act until this service outage ends.
Open thread.
Our Long National Nightmare is Over! Now Go Outside and Play!Post + Comments (218)
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Blessings to you, Ozark Hillbilly!
If nobody else will… I guess I’ll send you some more garden pics.
You can see magnolia blossoms beyond the extravagant forsythia and I’m damn lucky to have a few of their blossoms to enjoy this year. Last Sunday night the lows hit 27. That was OK but Monday night it hit 25. I thought I’d lost them all, again, but as it turned out about 1/3 survived.The daffodils didn’t care, and the frost did not stop the hydrangea from budding or keep the purple coneflowers from sending up their first tender shoots.
This weekend’s expected mid 30’s lows has convinced me to wait till after the weekend to plant my tomatoes tho.
Bonus pic: The Woofmeister and Percy. “drinkin’ wine, eatin’ cheese, and catchin’ some rays, you know.”
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We’ve got daffodils like that, now starting to bloom along the south-facing front yard. There’s a rotation every year — first the old-school yellow daffs that were here when we bought the place, next to the heat-leaking basement window; then the specialty multi-colored daffs along the same axis; next the ones along the north-side chainlink (which are coming up nicely but not yet flowering); and finally the ones in the shaded side yard.
The Spousal Unit is taking an interest in the garden, this year. Which is good, because I can use all the help I can get hauling bags of compost and mulch. But it’s also slightly scary, because his ideas of what makes a good garden are… not always in harmony with mine. He has, for instance, an inordinate fondness for groundcover, and anything with blue flowers; given a free hand, our yard would consist of an expanse of vinca with some species iris and a few lilacs fighting for their lives above the wave — six weeks of early-spring color followed by six months of ‘why does everything look so drab out there?’
What’s going on in your garden (plans), this week?
by John Cole| 37 Comments
This post is in: Dog Blogging, Lily
Went to PVSEC for our every six week treatment, and all good news for Lily. Doctor said she was even good enough to get sedated to have her teeth cleaned and have a benign cyst removed. Also, a new bow:
She’s a very good girl.