Looks like we need an open thread.
We are on day two of a three-day snowstorm. Scout is over it:
I am not ready for winter this early.
Open thread
ETA: I feel like I need to add, three consecutive days of snow or rain is very unusual here, so we tend to get whiny about it.
dmsilev
Come to Southern California, where’s there’s no snow!
Bear in mind, the state is currently on fire. Yes, al of it.
HumboldtBlue
This piece from Deadspin captures Trump and his administration pretty accurately I think.
SFBayAreaGal
I am so looking foward to rain. I live in the SF Bay Area and it is dry, dry, dry.
Mary G
We are all Scout today.
HumboldtBlue
@dmsilev:
The latest alter from PG&E? Power could be shut off at any moment in the next 24 hours with no warning.
People are now angry and they are getting angrier. The cost of this bullshit is staggering. The local corner store has rented a generator to keep the lights on and that’s fucking expensive. The Co-op and other food businesses have gone above and beyond in keeping their doors open, again at a staggering cost.
The lack of clear and accurate information from PG&E and subsequently our county OES is baffling and enraging and it’s clear this is the new normal unless some drastic and immediate changes are made.
It’s only a huge inconvenience for me, I have only myself and my cat, Salad, to look after but there are thousands of others here in mortal peril. Radio stations are coordinating with service providers to assist the elderly who have seen their generators break down or who have seen medication gone bad or WHO DIDN’T HAVE ANY FUCKING WAY TO HEAT THEIR HOMES WHEN THE MERCURY DROPPED WELL BELOW FREEZING!
I have been peevish and annoyed, but imagine what the people in Puerto Rico must feel? Imagine not knowing when you will have a safe reliable source of electricity, I have endured three days and it’s infuriating, imagine waiting a year?
This is capitalism run amok and yet another example of how there are no free markets just a rigged market bent on ensuring corporate profit over the common good. People are starting to notice.
TaMara (HFG)
A deer runs in front of woman’s car – she totals the car, but is FINE. Unfortunately for first responders, she was dressed like Carrie for her haunted house job:
Kent
My local GOP here in Clark County Washington (Vancouver WA which is suburban Portland) just elected a party official who is a known child molester: https://www.columbian.com/news/2019/oct/27/election-of-party-official-rocks-clark-county-gop/
Sickos and enablers, the entire lot of them. He won election to the party chair with 70% of the vote of party officials. These people need to be burned out of our body politic.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Re-upping this
Here’s the D’s 8 page resolution on impeachment procedures.
Here’s a one page fact sheet.
Patricia Kayden
Poor Scout. I hate winter too. We have a few nice days left in Southern Maryland but looks like the weekend will be much cooler.
In other news, I guess McConnell didn’t get the memo.
trollhattan
@TaMara (HFG):
Oh dear lord! That must have been in interesting conversation.
TaMara (HFG)
@Dorothy A. Winsor: If no one front pages it shortly, I’ll do it, since I’m housebound.
Patricia Kayden
@Kent: He resigned.
https://friendlyatheist.patheos.com/2019/10/29/convicted-child-predator-resigns-from-leadership-role-in-clark-county-wa-gop/
But yeah. How hard is it not to eject a pedophile?
trollhattan
That’s more a bundle of legs masquerading as a dog. Legs everywhere!
Had to replace the filters and fire up the furnace last week–the nights are getting pretty cold (and too damn long, maybe that’s just me). Don’t mind that so much but the wind and resulting fires (and smoke) are simply horrid.
Kay
I love snow days. I have a new white wool scarf to wear when it gets cold. Very soft. I think I like the change of seasons because the clothes change.
Kent
@Patricia Kayden: Well, OK, but they still elected a known pedophile. That’s more on THEM than it is HIM.
Patricia Kayden
@Kent: Agreed. There’s no excuse for electing a pedophile.
Elizabelle
@HumboldtBlue: My sympathies. Gonna be fascinating how California handles PG&E going forward. Crisis is here. The fires are going to keep happening and happening, and that power grid needs a major update.
Also, ironic that a lot of its customers will not be able to watch Frontline tonight. Their email:
Multiple blazes are currently raging across California — and 10 of the 20 most destructive blazes in the state’s history have happened in the last four years.
Patricia Kayden
Are Republicans so dumb that they’re still obsessing about the Whistleblower’s identity? The Whistleblower’s claims have all been validated. His or her identity is irrelevant.
trollhattan
@HumboldtBlue:
I deeply fear some Carl Icahn-type swooping in on PG&E’s still-warm corpse and taking over, just to break it apart and sell of the bits while raiding the pension fund (assuming they have such a thing). IDK what control either the bankruptcy courts or the PUC have over the company’s fate. But especially after the last couple months, PG&E as it exists would seem doomed.
In coal news, Murray Energy files for bankruptcy. Sorta ironic photo of the dude sporting an oxygen hose.
Sure Lurkalot
It’s brightening up in Denver…there are shadows outside…but I’ve gotten a few notifications that this is just a temporary stay and there’s more snow and wind on the way. Like TaMara, I’m housebound as my working spouse takes the AWD vehicle when it snows and the Prius is pretty much a skate on days like these. Still, my sympathies are with all the Californians in harm’s way and/or without power. Compared to that situation, three days of bad weather, while considered a tragedy in Colorado, is a blessing.
Sloane Peterson's knee therapist
Uh, oh. Apparently Devin Nunes’ aide inadvertently revealed the name of the Baghdadi K-9 hero instead of the whistleblower’s. Her name is Stormy. Absolutely no chance of a WH invite now.
Immanentize
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Thanks!
Hahhha hahhaahahaha
HumboldtBlue
@Elizabelle:
I interviewed too many people impacted by that fire, I can’t bear to relive those stories.
@trollhattan:
That’s my concern as well, we don’t actually get a solution but just more moving the pieces around the table and a lot of public policy statements about changes and adaptations and moving forward.
I admit I could not be more ignorant of the energy infrastructure and how it operates, what I do know is that PG&E fucked this up royally and like all corporate boondoggles the public will pay the price both with their lives and their wallets.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Patricia Kayden:
IANAL, and I imagine the Whistleblower Protection Act is a pretty specialized area of the law, but wouldn’t that also known as following the law?
ETA: Nicole Wallace, who even while she’s stinking up my TV with the boorish meathead Donnie Deutsch, just called Ingram, Yoo and Dershowitz “chickenshit”.
TomatoQueen
@HumboldtBlue: That’s a lovely piece that I will shove in the pie-holes of the centrists on my StupidbookFeed who objected ever so slightly to the sudden erm lack of decorum at a baseball game, just as soon as I get off this WORK computer. Mind you, I am still twitching about the adjective “buttery” in the phrase “buttery germaphobe” cos either it’s a reference to a hideous event I have thus far avoided successfully, or it’s a jumped-up way of saying greasy nutjob, which phrase especially in the context of baseball seems more erm proletarian or something.
I do like the idea of nationalizing PG&E in a California-style, or drowning all their executives in a bathtub, but am mostly scared for all of you, those who are in it, and those who are next, and those who might be in it after that, and my 89 year old auntie, who lives in Pasadena, right off Colorado Blvd., and still drives.
Immanentize
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Laws like that rarely apply to Congressional investigations. But Schiff is doing so because the Republicans are such dangerous leaking fucks. I swear Gym J. and his ratpack want people killed by the “mentally ill” folks with guns that seem to track their every word.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Sloane Peterson’s knee therapist: Is that true? LOL
trollhattan
@Elizabelle:
That was a hell of a morning, even fifty miles away. Saw a smoke plume on the horizon on the way to work, searched fire events and watched updates as it went from a few hundred acres to more than ten-thousand before noon. Scary.
Neither the Google aerial nor Bing aerial has been updated to show the burn, but if you look for Pulga to the east you’re seeing the ignition point. Paradise is directly west–on a plateau above the river canyon–and given the fire’s path there are perhaps three of four potential routes out of town. The one guy I know who lived there left his home in his truck, pulled into a parking lot due to backed up traffic, and continued out of town on foot. The truck survived, singed, he lost everything else but his very life.
Barbara
@Patricia Kayden: I just finished reading a book called In Hoffa’s Shadow, which was written by Jack Goldsmith, who you might or might not remember as one of the people working in the Office of Legal Counsel who rejected elements of post 9/11 surveillance permissions. He was kind of sort of one of the good guys, at least he was able to stand up to Cheney and Gonzales and get changes to what he viewed as illegal surveillance, and eventually he went back to being an academic, first at the University of Chicago and then at Harvard.
His adoptive/stepfather was, for more than two decades, the leading suspect in Hoffa’s disappearance, theorized as having been the driver who took him to wherever it was that he was killed. The book is an easy and entertaining read that covers the history of the Teamsters Union, Hoffa’s role in it, and how the mafia became so involved in the Teamsters, and along the way provides a rather colorful tale of his own upbringing and warm relationships with some of America’s most powerful mafiosi. Which seems pretty crazy when you think about it.
Anywho, his dad, Chuckie O’Brien, is supposedly the person that the latest Scorsese flick, “The Irishman” is based on. O’Brien’s mother was “LCN” (La Cosa Nostra) from Kansas City and she ingrained in him the code of Omerta, where the biggest sin of all is being a rat or a snitch. To the point that O’Brien will not explain much of what he knew or learned about Hoffa’s disappearance even after nearly anyone who might have been involved was long dead.
I wonder every day if Jim Jordan and people like him know how much they sound like a secret FBI recording of a meeting among “made men” plotting to kill the people who are talking out of school about their nefarious and criminal deeds.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Immanentize:
ah, thanks.
HumboldtBlue
@TomatoQueen:
I think the author nailed what we are all saying, Trump does not carry the dignity of the office with him, he is literally the shitstain on the office and calling him out is what decent and proud Americans should do.
Something is going to break in California because this is untenable.
germy
PEACE ISLAND.
Cats wake up in an island where humans have vanished. They (you) prowl around solving mysteries.
Patricia Kayden
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I like Nichole. She’s been pretty steady in her anti-Trump zeal. Will be sad if she reverts after he’s out of office.
StringOnAStick
@Sure Lurkalot: Hmm, looks like you and I live in the same area AND drive the same car! My Prius is in the shop for the last touches after a failed wheel bearing (the alignment is all that’s left to finish up). I put the snow tires on last week but I’d rather drive the Outback when it is like this, so hubby may work from home or go in later tomorrow since I have to be there by 6:30 am. I work downtown while living west side, so I am so not looking forward to tomorrow’s commute. The first snow/ice storm we had 2 weeks ago was before I had changed tires and every slight touch of the brakes made the Prius start to skate, and then I couldn’t make it up the steep and unplowed ramp to our parking area; at the time the truck with the plow blade on the front was stuck on it too. Of course 1/3 of my patients cancelled, but only after I had already gotten there. I expect tomorrow to be the same. CO State Patrol has issued a statement asking companies to send their workers home early today and allow them to get there late tomorrow because the roads are so bad and the heaviest snow will be evening and overnight. I don’t expect a whole lot of trick or treaters this year given how cold and icy it will be.
Patricia Kayden
@Barbara: Thanks for that interesting background on the Irishman film. I was leaning towards seeing it but your comment has sealed the deal.
And yes, Gym and his Republican ilk are part of a cult led by a bigoted madmen. That’s why they’re chasing down bogeymen like the Whistleblower.
tarragon
@Sloane Peterson’s knee therapist:
OK, I was trying to play a game of real or sarcasm and I’m stumped. Really?
Martin
@trollhattan: PG&E is doomed. They’re in a financial death spiral. They can’t do the work they need to in order to prevent future fires other than cutting off power, as each fire costs them billions in damages. Other utilities like SCE and SDG&E are in much better shape to bury power lines, increase maintenance and inspections, and so on.
I don’t see how anyone can bail them out and run them as a utility. Private equity would love to loot their assets, but it’s not like they’re looting a pension, the courts will always ensure the victims get paid before the investors do. That’s why I think a public bailout is necessary. The taxpayer is always going to be stuck with the tab on this, so why fuck around and pay out the claims while not moving the utility in the direction of the public need. Give the utility to the public and get it over with.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Patricia Kayden: the way she talks about Obama and issues like choice and climate, I suspect her conversion began before trump came along
Elizabelle
Did Morning Jokes Joe or Mika ever have anything further to say about their grousing over the booing at the Nats-Astros game?
Because David Cay Johnston DID revise his article after reader feedback. And he saw our comments on Balloon Juice, and tracked back to yesterday’s blogpost. His story’s original ending:
Here is the newly revised version; it’s long but wanted you to see it: article is Trump’s Lying, Crazy, Self-Absorbed Weekend
First His Grotesque Account of the ISIS Raid, Then Washington Baseball Fans Chant ‘Lock Him Up!’
[His Raw Story article has several links embedded.]
Of course, David Cay Johnston is a very quick study and a solid reporter.
But keep pushing, Juicers. It gets noticed. At least by the journalists who actually want to get it right.
HumboldtBlue
@StringOnAStick:
You guys should meet up with this guy enjoying ramen on a snowy day.
piratedan
saw a tweet over on LGF about now that NCAA has made it possible for student athletes to be compensated for their likenesses being used by business promoting their products that Sen. Barr of NC (R) intends to submit immediate legislation to ensure that any amount spent compensating these athletes will go towards a reduction in kind of their scholarships….
Patricia Kayden
HumboldtBlue
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Go fuck yourself you self-righteous fumblefuck. Trump is actively breaking the fucking law you simpering git and calling him out is exactly what we should fucking do. Calling out the traitors and the criminals is exactly what decent Americans are doing and yet you sit there and dare to scold the people suffering directly from violence pushed and applauded by an entire political party.
Sit the fuck down and shut the fuck up
Ksmiami
@HumboldtBlue: take over pge, jail the executives and force them to move lines underground – in other words make utilities public
Kay
@Patricia Kayden:
That smearing is going well, wouldn’t you say? :)
They didn’t choose just the average witness to smear. They chose this exemplary person who is better than any of them.
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catclub
@piratedan: That just makes it even more clear that they are paid employees.
Elizabelle
I wonder if we should start caching some of the excellent non-sports reporting from Deadspin, that the the venture vulture capitalists are trying to shut down.
I wonder if they bought the publication/site in order to do just that. Anyone know?
Sloane Ranger
So, don’t know if it’s been mentioned earlier but the UK is headed for a General election on 12 December. Motion passed by about 20 votes.
Labour had supported a motion to go to the country 3 days earlier on 9 December so we would have had an election either way. Reasons given for 12th, need to wrap up a budget for Northern Ireland and “we always have elections on a Thursday.”
Elizabelle
@Kay: They always overreach.
I wonder if Vindman has any recourse against John Yoo, for saying he is involved in espionage.
I wonder even more if
Stanford LawUC Berkeley might separate itself from Yoo, once and if things become quieter. (Or even not.)Michael Allen
Early winter? So, I guess that global warming stuff is indeed a Chinese hoax. Or something. So there.
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@HumboldtBlue: You have a cat named Salad? Salad?!? That’s awesome. I have a cat named Chipotle. Any other jackals with cats named after food (or cat fud)?
Fair Economist
@Martin:
I think you meant “public takeover”. A bailout would leave it in private hands and that is not going to work anymore.
HumboldtBlue
Trump is holding back millions of dollars for relief efforts in Puerto Rico but we’re not supposed to call him a shitbag in public because “The Founders” or some such bullshit.
Fair Economist
@Sloane Ranger:
As I understand it, that’s an unmitigated disaster, because a lot of university students won’t be able to vote.
Elizabelle
@Fair Economist: Does the UK have any provision for absentee ballots? It would seem the universities have a real interest in keeping the EU pipeline open. They could encourage their students to engage in voting.
mrmoshpotato
Hot damn! 15 degrees of bbbrrr in Denver. I’m with Scout on this one. Freezing temps are an after-Halloween thing.
Elizabelle
@HumboldtBlue: You misread David Cay Johnston’s comment. You really did.
eclare
@Elizabelle: Thanks for the notice, will watch.
David ??Booooooo?? Koch
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:regarding Nicole: there’s no zealot like a convert.
hueyplong
@piratedan: Duke and UNC likely already realize the recruiting problem that would cause unless the states of Kentucky and Kansas follow suit. They’ll squash him like a bug.
Elizabelle
@eclare: I will too. Horrified at the toll climate change is taking on beloved California. The silver lining: California has a lot of smart minds who are all about solutions and mitigation. Give them better odds on dealing with this than Texas or Kansas or any red state.
HumboldtBlue
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
He was originally my neighbor’s cat but mama got sick and he started hanging out with me more and more. That began with him jumping into my apartment through the kitchen window (which was modified to let MY cat, Midnight, come and go freely) and eating some food and them immediately scampering away and jumping back outside when I heard him. Then one day he came in, ate, jumped on the kitchen chair and took a nap.
He spent a few weeks confining himself to coming and going through the kitchen and sleeping in the chair and then finally into the main room where he had to play second fiddle to Midnight until she passed. Now he’s got the joint to himself. He’s a “let me sleep between your legs when it’s cold” cat.
Martin
@piratedan: So, once again, CA’s economic resolve has national results.
@Fair Economist: Yes, public takeover. Thanks for the correction.
mad citizen
@HumboldtBlue: As a state regulator (staff), interesting comments. You’re saying the Value of Lost Load (VOLL) is very very high there. These episodes will provide data on this at least. Too bad if a lot of spending is needed since rates there are so high already. I agree with Martin, better to make it a public utility. I have a book by presidential R nominee Wendall Wilkie (Win with Wilkie) and state utility ownership of electric utilities was quite the debate in the 1930s.
Avalune
@HumboldtBlue: I’m really sorry for the BS you are having to endure on top of trying not to be on fire…but I just had to say Salad is a fantastic pet name.
HumboldtBlue
@Elizabelle:
Did I confuse the italicized parts and the non?
Elizabelle
New thread up with Impeachment Inquiry Documents.
Sure Lurkalot
@StringOnAStick: Ha ha, the AWD car we have is a Subaru too! Actually, the BooRoo is my car and the Prius is my partner’s that I get stuck with on days like these. But…one major difference…I’m retired and don’t have to be anywhere. My last years of work were consultancy and I worked at home on days like these. So, I’ve been fortunate for a while not having to drive in the ice and snow, the result of which is I suck at it now. Safe travels tomorrow, take the “good” car if you can!
mrmoshpotato
@Elizabelle:
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Elizabelle
@HumboldtBlue: I think so. DCJ was cautioning US not to become the brainless mob we are up against, but he is down with protest. He’d be the first to point out Trump sticking it to Puerto Rico, and of course that should be called out (and booed, in as many languages as needed).
Avalune
<3 Scout
bemused
@germy:
I had one of our cats sitting on my lap when I looked at the cat game. She was intrigued.
delk
With a name like Yoho
GOP Congressman Admits He Could Have Gone to Impeachment Hearings But Didn’t, Hasn’t Read Testimony
laura
@Martin: PG&E sold off their generating capacity in the ENRONing, and when the cost of electricity skyrocketed, they immediately ring fenced the profits in PG&E corporation and set up the PG&E the utility and passed the costs onto the rate payers just as the promised the wouldn’t.
It should be taken over and turned into a public utility, but the government is specifically prohibited from using public dollars to advocate doing so. However, with the level of ire, it might be do-able.
I have PG&E for gas, and SMUD for electricity. Sacramento Municipal Utility District. Public power, not for profit, and the ratepayers forced the utility to divest and decommission the local nuclear power plant. Love my SMUD!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Elizabelle: At least in Southern CA, fires are not really more frequent. We had hellish fires when I was growing up, I’ve got lots of stories. What has happened here, and what makes fires more destructive to property and life, is the buildup in former open space. Most of this is luxury homes for the rich and famous.
HumboldtBlue
@mad citizen:
What boggles me (among a LONG list of things that boggle me) is that we have demonstrable working alternatives including the RCEA the internationally recognized Schatz Energy Center at HSU and a working solar plant at Blue Lake Rancheria and a biomass energy-producing facility.
As Martin has patiently explained, this is not about safety it’s about protecting PG&E, but how have we fallen so far behind that more than 3 million people are either without power or under an imminent threat power will be out again for an indeterminate amount of time?
Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)
@HumboldtBlue: I also like Greg Sargent’s take on the “Lock him up!” chant.
laura
@laura: should have pointed out that even if PG&E was not a royal f-up, climate change IS real, and the ultimate cause of three consecutive years of norCal firestorms.
HumboldtBlue
@Elizabelle:
Won’t be the first time I completely made an ass of myself in this forum, won’t be the last.
@Avalune:
It is a great name and I wish I could take credit. It always elicits a smile when I introduce him.
eclare
@Elizabelle: I worked at a public utility when CA took that awful vote. We all knew CA was screwed, power wise.
HumboldtBlue
@Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!):
I enjoyed that one as well.
Gbbalto
@Patricia Kayden: They are not dumb. They want his or her name out so they can be slimed and doxxed to discourage anyone else from doing the same.
BQuimby
Yeah, San Francisco here – too hot. Too dry. Too windy. Too burn-y. Need cold, fog, rain…
Elizabelle
BAUD’S BACK!
He made an appearance on the Baud thread from this morning. Says he will be back in a few days. Cannot believe we got Cole involved.
(On his own damn blog. Imagine that.)
trollhattan
@eclare:
Pete Wilson’s enduring gift to us all. Remember “rolling brownouts”? I sure do.
trollhattan
@BQuimby:
So damn weird to make it through October and not one lingering, soaking early winter storm. But, not weird, rather, the new normal. Shee-yutt.
eclare
@Elizabelle: Yay!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Elizabelle: Thanks for the heads up, I thought that thread was dead and buried.
Elizabelle
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Just happened to have it open on another tab, and what a nice surprise.
MoxieM
Oh my goodness, she looks like a dog who needs a treat, stat. Poor deprived baby, I know how she suffers.
I can’t wait for ole’ Murphy to get a good snowstorm here (if we even get them? I’m further south and right near The Big River–CT). Being a fur monster, and made to stand guard in the high mountains (Pyrenees!?) she has the coat for it. I still haven’t figured out the annual cycles of coat blow for her, and it’s going on year 3. It seems she has one major coat blow in the spring. (Anyone else who’s had a Pyr, do let me know about their coats, please-thanks.) Newfies are easy–1 spring dust storm of giant black tumbleweeds, and a smaller fall blow. This girl I have challenges me in so many ways–and I love her for it.
Sloane Ranger
@Elizabelle: We call them postal votes and anyone can apply for one. You don’t need to give a reason. The possibility of students applying for one was mentioned in the debate.
Sloane Ranger
@Fair Economist:
Was raised in the debate. Apparently most universities don’t break up until the 13th.
HumboldtBlue
USWNT has a new head coach.
He’s Macedonian which means our women keep on conquering.
Miss Bianca
@TaMara (HFG): oh, wow – same thing happened to me recently! *Not* dressed up as Carrie, however, I hasten to add.
Martin
@Elizabelle: I will note that so far the CA fires haven’t actually been that bad. Mainly they’re getting greater attention. The Getty fire at 600 acres is tiny to the point of not normally deserving of attention other than it’s fucking downtown and every LA TV helicopter can cover it constantly, and nobody knows when a 600 acre fire will turn into a 600,000 acre one.
The Kincade fire is big, but we have fires that size every year, and thankfully it’s claimed no lives and relatively few homes.
That said, it would be nice if everyone would redouble their efforts to reduce carbon emissions and please vote for a president that won’t withhold our disaster relief because he’s butthurt about popular vote totals.
Sloane Peterson's knee therapist
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Oops, shoulda /s
Elizabelle
@Martin: The LA Times has been screaming about the fires, and has opened its fire coverage to nonsubscribers, as many papers do during natural disasters. Good to have some perspective from you.
LA Times: The same areas of California keep catching on fire. What about limits on home building?
Article says vast majorities of Californians (even those north of SFO) favor limiting (re)building in fireprone areas. A story from June with more details.
Albeit, 1 in 4 Californians lives in a fire danger zone, and they may not realize that; they’re thinking of their rural brethren and other people.
Weirdly, the LA Times never, ever gives a direct link to the “UC Berkeley Institute of Governmental Studies Poll, prepared for the Times”, and I have not gone hunting for it (yet). It was done on or prior to June 18 of this year, apparently.
StringOnAStick
@HumboldtBlue: That looks yummy, and the warmth would be appreciated on this 16 degree day!
StringOnAStick
@Sure Lurkalot: For extra values of “fun”, when I tried to get my snow tires/wheels changed last week they were so backed up that I went home and did it myself in the garage. Last wheel had a lug nut so frozen on there that it broke the bolt from the brake drum; all of them were overtightened so I had to stand on the lug wrench to get them loose. Fortunately that was easily fixed for $60 the next day. Now we’re trying to get the mechanic to answer the phone so we can pick the car up from the guy who did the wheel bearings, but just the answering machine currently. Do you have a Prius mechanic you like on the west side?
Mr. Mack
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice: My daughters cats are “pita-chip and pancake.”
Dan B
@Mike S (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!): Sargeant’s column is great but what scares me is that Barr may have already set in motion a purge of DOJ so that prosection becomes impossible.
Annnnd… What is the proper chant that’s a clear improvement on Lock Him Up? Investigate the president? Put Trump on the Stand? Trump is not King?
Funny how we haven’t seen any suggestions of how the fans should behave except “be civil”.
Hypocrits.
Elizabelle
And there’s another fresh thread up. Boo Louder. Looks good.
J R in WV
@Patricia Kayden:
Gym Jordan seems to still be unaware that unmasking a whistleblower is stone illegal!! Why is Gym Jordan so willing to break the law, so unaware of the legal boundaries surrounding legal whilstleblowers?
Perhaps because he is guilty, guilty, guilty of many crimes that young men were too embarrassed to accuse him of at the time???
Kent
@piratedan:
Performance art for the southern racists who are upset that the uppity n***er athletes don’t know their place. Zero chance it would ever make it through the House, much less the rest of the Senate.
J R in WV
@Comrade Colette Collaboratrice:
We have a cat named Punkin, for Pumpkin, which we fed her when she became a sphere by stealing food from everyone else. She was a starving tiny kitten, 6 months old, when wife rescued her from a bramble bush/culvert many year ago. Was nearly 20 pounds, now a relatively svelte 14 pounds.
We fed her pumpkin with the prescribed amount of actual cat food so she would feel full — now she just gets her recommended dose of cat fud in the bathroom with all the doors shut, so no one can eat anyone else’s food.
rikyrah
What happens to the ducks during snow days?