This is what Hurricane Dorian looks like from space https://t.co/wTEuaMH97Z pic.twitter.com/pvHvABJEDJ
— CNN (@CNN) September 3, 2019
We've never seen a satellite loop like this and hope to never see anything like it again.
It's hard to even conceive of something this horrific. https://t.co/XInyqpFBXv
— Capital Weather Gang (@capitalweather) September 2, 2019
Shocking to see that despite #Dorian remaining over the Bahamas, flooding has already begun in #Florida #HurricaneDorain #DorianHurricane #Dorian2019 https://t.co/sGe6Zq403G
— Kelly Nash?️ (@KellyNashRadio) September 3, 2019
Stay safe, everyone in Dorian’s path — hope those of you who’ve had to, or will have to, evacuate are able to check in when you get the chance.
For those of us watching and worrying from a distance:
Quick Report from The Bahamas! We @WCKitchen getting food and water into containers to deliver to Abaco and Grand Bahama. We also hope to land tonight or tomorrow morning by air when #HuricaneDorian moves. Whatever it takes support the many families impacted, we will be there… pic.twitter.com/LUNZHKhDri
— José Andrés (@chefjoseandres) September 2, 2019
We’re in touch with our partners in the Bahamas and #HurricaneDorian has done catastrophic damage. Please donate to support local relief efforts and RT to spread awareness -> https://t.co/8ribEWIwni pic.twitter.com/ni3Y1AIMR0
— GlobalGiving (@GlobalGiving) September 2, 2019
And, because this is Balloon Juice…
These are some of the 97 dogs Chella Phillips is safely harboring in her home during Hurricane Dorian. She says 79 of them are in her master bedroom! Chella runs a dog rescue called The Voiceless Dogs of Nassau, Bahamas. pic.twitter.com/agMvsDtcME
— Travis Herzog (@TravisABC13) September 2, 2019
Chella Phillips said the dogs are going to the bathroom "nonstop…but at least they are respecting my bed and nobody has dared to jump in." https://t.co/hJK8amLJ3m
— ABC7 News (@abc7newsbayarea) September 3, 2019
… She continued: “We may not get hit as hard as other islands and the saddest part is that after the hurricane leave the Bahamas, some islands will take a long time to recover…Each island has [an] abundance of homeless dogs, my heart is so broken for the ones without a place to hide.”
Phillips told ABC News she has spent 15 years rescuing homeless dogs and finding them homes in the United States. Her story has been widely circulated online, prompting an outpouring of support and financial donations to support her rescue efforts…
?? This amazing woman, Chella Phillips, rescued more than 100 homeless dogs before Hurricane Dorian hit the Bahamas!! Please check out her Facebook page and donate if you can! ????https://t.co/v7iGX1npk0
— Katie Phang (@KatiePhang) September 3, 2019
Chella Phillips: if you wish to help financially, the PayPal is: [email protected]
— J????son (White Rabbit) (@JpClark819) September 3, 2019
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
Quinerly
@rikyrah: Good morning from Poco and his tribe!
rikyrah
@Quinerly:
Morning to Poco and the tribe ? ??
Patricia Kayden
What a compassionate woman Ms. Phillips is to rescue so many homeless dogs. And kudos to Chef Andres for feeding people in need wherever they are. A true hero.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Baud
So many doggies!
OzarkHillbilly
Blech.
RAVEN
Stick a fork in me. . .
OzarkHillbilly
@RAVEN: Nope, not quite done.
Raven
@OzarkHillbilly: maybe some shoutin!
satby
@RAVEN: Congrats!
@OzarkHillbilly: [email protected]rikyrah: ?
We’re a generous bunch here at jackal central, and I know there’s way too much need competing for our resources, but Ms. Phillips will have a basically uninhabitable house by the time this is over, along with still needing to keep all those dogs fed. So if you have a few coins to send her you can be sure they’ll be gratefully received.
And I always contribute to Chef Andres because he’s amazing in his ability to just get in and get people fed while the rescue orgs are still spinning up a response.
OzarkHillbilly
@Raven: Is the fat lady still warming up? Or is she into the final aria?
Congrats either way.
rikyrah
@RAVEN:
Congratulations ??
rikyrah
Nothing but a drug dealer ???
Raw Story (@RawStory) Tweeted:
Louisiana congressman’s pharmacies sold 1.5 million opioids to towns with population of 6,000 people
https://t.co/XUbJIxuspv https://twitter.com/RawStory/status/1168661842681618436?s=17
rikyrah
Patriot Coburn (@PatriotCoburn) Tweeted:
Holy Shit the protesters in Hong Kong are grabbing the canisters of tear gas dropping it into liquid nitrogen and turning it into its harmless solid form. https://t.co/MskDny3MCw https://twitter.com/PatriotCoburn/status/1168006395884519425?s=17
JPL
@rikyrah: That seems bad, but you know IOKIYR.
Baud
@RAVEN:
Happy day!
OzarkHillbilly
Details which will never be forthcoming because, “we haven’t got any ideas, trust us”
Sounds an awful lot like the Republicans’ promise to replace a repealed ACA with the “best healthcare plan ever.”
Raven
@OzarkHillbilly: see here how everything, leads up to this day. And it’s just like any day, that’s ever been.
OzarkHillbilly
@rikyrah: A headline soon to be seen: “State Capitol Republicans introduce new legislation barring the possession of the chemical nitrogen in it’s dangerous liquid form”
JPL
@Raven: When do you go fishing?
JPL
The pictures from the Grand Bahamas are horrifying, and it’s going to take a long, long time for them to recover. Jose Andres has been preparing meals and hopes to deliver them today, but the damn storm needs to move first.
Raven
@JPL: 3 weeks.
satby
A red sky morning here. Big storm system heading through the Midwest, part of the high pressure system keeping Dorian stuck.
Baud
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
@RAVEN: Happy day! Congrats on both your official retirement and semicentennial of your return from the Nam.
Spanky
@RAVEN: Ah, so a fellow gentleman of leisure now, eh? Welcome to the club and prepare for some psychological realignments.
Spanky
@Baud: Sounds rather low, actually.
Ken
That CNN image from space was terrifying. Then I realized it was taken through a circular window, and I wasn’t seeing the whole Earth. Now it’s just – well, still terrifying, but not apocalyptic.
Baud
@Spanky:
The story says it promises this.
I haven’t looked at the details.
OzarkHillbilly
Intimate portraits of Barack and Michelle Obama – in pictures
This one cracks me up: “1 March 2008
Providence, Rhode Island. Barack does press interviews by phone between events. When he sees Shell photographing his shoes, he says he has already had them resoled once since he entered the race. They were his lucky shoes.”
NotMax
Pretty sure we’ve seen this plot before in fiction… ;)
laura
@RAVEN: Congratulations as you saunter over the finish line and settle in loafer’s paradise! I hope that you realize there’s going to be fretting until your safely returning from the upcoming fishing trip with the emotional support yellowfin tuna.
Kay
Smart. Democrats should own trade the same way they own health care. Like with healthcare, the Republican Party is in complete disarray on it and have gotten nothing done.
NotMax
@RAVEN
Laissez les bons temps rouler.
Baud
@Kay:
I’m glad to see him not be cagey about the tariffs. I don’t know that other candidates have been so straightforward.
Raven
@Spanky: yea, I’ve been reading up. I have an undergrad and masters in rec and leisure studies and a doc in adult ed so I hope I can figure it out
Raven
@laura: you can tuna piano. . .
debbie
@RAVEN:
Over the finish line! Congratulations!
Kay
@Baud:
To me, it’s like Trump and the GOP came unprepared on all these issues. Came out swinging, but now that it’s time to produce they are all over the place (even within the Party) and have nothing real to offer. Health care most notably, but also trade and guns and climate change. They haven’t really done anything for the last 4 years. They haven’t reconciled any of Trump’s positions with their own and Trump’s “positions’ are just loud boasting and lying.
More and more it’s “Democrats think THIS and…what is it Republicans think?” There’s really one political Party v Donald Trump.
debbie
@Kay:
If there has to be a raise-your-hand question at the next debate, let it be in answer to: Do you believe tariffs are counterproductive and ineffective, and will you work to end the current escalation?
Dorothy A. Winsor
I can’t figure out how to copy the picture of this poem, “Small Kindnesses.” So I’m just going to link. It’s wonderful.
And I like all jackal hats.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: And we should totally disturb that gel. What could go wrong? Any report of a strange dog running around the Moon?
Another Scott
@Kay: Yup. They think that as long as they whisper sweet nothings to their base then everything will be fine.
They still haven’t passed a FY20 budget because the Senate has done absolutely nothing with the bills that the House sent over months ago.
Oh, yeah? Well Beto said a bad word, so both sides!!1
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
@Kay:
When is the last time the GOP pushed a real policy proposal to deal with anything? It predates Trump. You might have to go back to W. He had awful proposals but he still had proposals.
I’m a little worried we’ll be fractured as well in 2021, but we’ll have to cross that bridge when we get to it.
zhena gogolia
@Raven:
Congratulations!
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay:
I have to disagree Kay.
Health care? Tax cuts for the rich.
Trade? Tax cuts for the rich.
Guns? Tax cuts for the rich.
Climate change? Tax cuts for the rich.
They haven’t really done anything for the last 4 years? Tax cuts for the rich.
Ken
@Baud: As long as we don’t burn that bridge ahead of us.
mrmoshpotato
@debbie: @Kay: “Also, how are the tariffs the Democrats’ fault?”
*preemptively punches Chuck Todd*
Baud
@Ken:
No promises.
OzarkHillbilly
On mass shootings:
Says the black hole of morality named Tony Perkins.
mrmoshpotato
@Another Scott: They’ve been whispering? Seems more like yelling racist bullshit to me!
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
They’ve had the same message for centuries. Hopefully, their support of Trump will an eternal albatross around their necks.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Baud, how dare you! The Rethuglican party has been pushing policies for years to deal with the cronic problem of the rich being taxed at all! :)
Uncle Cosmo
@rikyrah: Just FTR, during the post-Cambodia student disturbances of spring 1970, Baltimore City cops came onto the Johns Hopkins Homewood campus & started lobbing tear gas canisters into a crowd of Hoppie students outside the dorms. Now the major sport at JHU was (& is) lacrosse – & some of the crowd retreated to their rooms, re-emerged with lax sticks & began scooping up the canisters & flinging them back at the cops, who retreated in disarray.
(Moral: Do not lightly chuck tear gas into a crowd at a lacrosse-playing school!)
OzarkHillbilly
Here’s an idea: Move.
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly: Has it been proposed yet that the bastards’ tax cuts get tax cuts?
“Oh won’t someone pleeeeease think about the tax cuts!”
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly: So the morality void shoots bullets at innocent people? Interesting.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
“Throw another soybean on the barbie” will never gain a foothold as a catchphrase.
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly: I hear the Aussie outback is nice this time of year.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: https://youtu.be/4oNRmtFSipI go to 2:20
Gin & Tonic
The newly-sworn-in government of Ukraine, with a median age of 39, is the youngest in Europe. The President is 41.
The median age of the US Senate is 61. The median age of Democratic House leadership is 72. The President is 73, and the median age of his three leading Democratic challengers is over 74.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: I find it very hopeful that they sound more and more desperate as their numbers grow fewer and fewer.
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
The Senate is younger than I thought.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
“The children were nestled
All snug in their beds
While visions of sugar prawns
Danced in their heads”
;)
Baud
@Gin & Tonic:
Also too, the only person too old to lead is Hillary Clinton.
OzarkHillbilly
@Gin & Tonic: One of these days, soon I hope, I am going to put,
“Stop letting old f**ks like me decide your future. Vote!”
on the back of my truck.
Gelfling 545
@RAVEN: Congratulations. ? Retirement has been one of the best parts of my life. Hope it’s the same for you.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
“Old man telling me to vote? I’ll show him.”
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Heh. The very words my teenage self would have replied with.
Raven
@Gelfling 545: Thanks, you can’t win if you don’t play!
Josie
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Thanks for this. I love it.
joel hanes
@Kay:
More and more it’s
It’s been Cleek’s Law for going on twenty years, maybe more.
joel hanes
@mrmoshpotato:
Any report of a strange dog
Protip: Do _not_ take the frozen corpse of the alien back to your base.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Josie: I read it yesterday and found myself thinking about repeatedly afterwards.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@OzarkHillbilly: There was a PSA to that effect in 2018. I have no idea if it was effective or not.
I like to think the prospect of being shot in school has made a bunch of kids aware of the problems letting the rich old white guys keep making the rules, that the Parkland kids aren’t the only ones who got a rude awakening.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: There’s no such thing as originality, just undiscovered plagiarism.
Sister Golden Bear
Good Morning/Evening my fellow jackals.
Horrifying photos of the Bahamas.
On a lighter note, thanks for the yogurt suggestion. I picked up some at some at the fancy grocery store at the Western-style mall.
Watching a Thai travel show about the exotic locales and strange ways of the natives of the U.S. and UK.
Tomorrow it’s the biweekly “beach house trip” to Dr. Suporn beach
housemansion. We can’t go in the water post-op (also because of jelly fish), but they serve us lunch, and people laze around waiting for their turn for a free Thai massage. It’s a nice change of pace and chance to be social, especially for the folks who’ve mostly been holed up in their hotel room.Hopefully the weather will cooperate, it’s monsoon season and we had a rainy afternoon today. OTOH, the good news is the rainy days usually provide a break from the Florida-like heat and humidity.
Yutsano
@joel hanes: Sshhh,..let the Chinese learn the hard way.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@OzarkHillbilly: Oh it’s a message that bears repeating in as many forms as possible.
mrmoshpotato
@joel hanes: Counter-protip: Do take the frozen corpse of the alien back to your base. And be a dear and thaw it out.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: For me the message is as much to all the other old fucks who think they have a right to dictate what the future they won’t be around for should look like. Not that they’ll listen.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I hate how relieved I am that, under the best case scenario for next November, we’ll still have Joe Manchin to kick us around
Miss Bianca
@OzarkHillbilly: Hey, look, it’s barbie Barbie!
rp
@OzarkHillbilly: Well…he’s right. Except, as you note, the black hole of morality is on his side. they’ve devalued and degraded our institutions and shared sense of community.
Miss Bianca
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: IKR? The.worst.timeline.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly:
“Well stolen is half written.”
And happy last day to you, RAVEN. I think you should send us a pic of your finished Dylan poster?
catclub
@NotMax: Isn’t the far side of the moon always facing away from the earth? IN which case how does the rover transmit any info back to earth? Maybe there is a relay satellite ?
Yarrow
@RAVEN: Congrats! On to the next chapter.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I am no wonk, and I am not rooting for a recession, and I’m mostly afraid of what long term damage The Beast will do to the economy , and Senate Rs will let him do, to keep things (the DJIA) juiced up
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@catclub:
Yep.
At first I thought “by now surely there must be an internationally maintained array of lunar satellites” and just did a general search for “lunar communication satellite”. All I found were various proposals or planned launches that were at least a couple years away.
Then I searched “Chinese lunar communication satellite” and that one popped up right away. Launched specifically to support the rover mission.
Gin & Tonic
What’s this about BoJo losing his majority? Need Tony Jay or Sloane Ranger or somebody to weigh in.
Ruckus
@RAVEN:
You lucky bastard.
You worked hard, you worked decades, you get to enjoy your best day……
Your last day.
Congrats.
BTW, just for comparison, youngster, I’m walking out the door, to go to work.
chris
Another Scott
@Gin & Tonic: A conservative MP resigned from the party to join the LibDems.
https://www.bbc.com/news/live/uk-politics-49557734
Since BoJo only had a 1 seat majority (via his coalition), he no longer has one.
Cheers,
Scott.
catclub
@Gin & Tonic: Well, this makes it more likely that the bill to require Johnson to ask for a delay will pass.
1) Will Johnson refuse to do the bidding of the Parliament? It sure sounds like he will. That sounds like a constitutional crisis.
It gets taken to court?? What court?? How long would that take??
2) Will there be a snap election? In order to get an election there needs to be a 2/3rds majority vote for it. If I were in parliament I would vote against that. But I am not. No idea how that goes.
Another Scott
@catclub: An election will be called if 1) Boris loses a confidence vote (which only requires a majority); and 2) Nobody can form a government with majority support in 14 days. If that happens, the actual timing of the election would seem to be up in the air – at least a little.
This seems like the way the next vote will be called. The question is, can they do it in a way that prevents BoJo from crashing the UK out of the EU anyway (via delay, ignoring any bills Parliament passes, etc.)?
Cheers,
Scott.
Gin & Tonic
@Another Scott: Thanks, but Tony Jay’s opus is downstairs now.
trollhattan
@RAVEN:
Live the dream!
trollhattan
@Another Scott:
Can he fix this with a funny wig?
glory b
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: That is the best case scenario.
I have no idea why those critics think that WV will elect another Dem. I don’t know what magic he has, but they continue to vote for him.
stinger
@RAVEN: Congratulations! I’m hoping to pull the plug myself in the spring. I’ll be interested to hear if you get bored. Or broke.
stinger
@Kay: That’s because thay have a total of two policies: Cut taxes, and ban abortions.
stinger
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I like your books.
J R in WV
@OzarkHillbilly:
This person just can’t have neighbors, that’s all.
I’ve borrowed two big boxes of ancient family stuff, photos, letters, diaries, documents from my cousin. I’ve already finished the first box, scanning them at 600 dpi and cleaning up faded old photos.
Just now broke open the bigger box, and found my grandpa’s first union card after he got home from the Great War in 1919. Now known as WW I… On the UMWA union card his name, which was and is Henrichs, was de-Germanified into Hendricks. Probably by the union guy who signed him up.
It’s in great shape, looks nearly new, except for being just over 100 years old!