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Thursday Morning Open Thread

by TaMara|  November 7, 201910:29 am| 135 Comments

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I posted this on the book of faces this a.m., still confused how it all came to this:

My mornings now consist of a big white duck following me around the yard, squawking to be picked up and snuggled like a puppy. No longer happy to just get scritches. Once I pick her up and dutifully snuggle her, she’s happy to resume being a duck and waddles off when I put her down.

I just did not see this coming. I kept thinking she’d grow out of it.

smh

white duck

Penelope, mud-covered as always

She’s unique, that’s for sure. Luckily, Maddie and Mabel do not judge her for her weird obsessions, nor have they developed her habit of needing human interaction. They are happy for food, fresh pool water, and afternoon lettuce breaks.

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  1. 1.

    Keith P.

    November 7, 2019 at 10:34 am

    Some friends of mine recently got into chickens. 10+ of them in their backyard, all vastly different from one another (I can’t remember all the breeds). It is amazing how much time I spent just feeding them and watching them walk around the yard. One even jumped into my lap when I tried to finish feeding them sunflower seeds.

  2. 2.

    Baud

    November 7, 2019 at 10:35 am

    My mornings now consist of a big white duck following me around the yard, squawking to be picked up and snuggled like a puppy. 

    That used to be me, but the restraining order put an end to that.

  3. 3.

    Scuffletuffle

    November 7, 2019 at 10:35 am

    Penelope is awesomeness incarnate.

  4. 4.

    Mary G

    November 7, 2019 at 10:36 am

    That coffee cup. Aw, that’s nice…
    BWAH HA HA snort.

    Pearl/Penelope should be in one of your books. She reminds me of Louise Penny’s Rosa.

  5. 5.

    geg6

    November 7, 2019 at 10:40 am

    You can call her Penelope all you want, but she’ll always be Pearl to me.

    And I love her. I just love her.

  6. 6.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 7, 2019 at 10:42 am

    @Baud:

    That used to be me, but the restraining order put an end to that.

    May I say, once again, how very happy I am to have you back!

  7. 7.

    Frankensteinbeck

    November 7, 2019 at 10:46 am

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    2020 without Baud would be like 2020 without Baud.

  8. 8.

    Aleta

    November 7, 2019 at 10:47 am

    Gabriele Corno @Gabriele_Corno

    A ride

    Hummingbirds humming

  9. 9.

    Aleta

    November 7, 2019 at 10:55 am

    @SiubhanDuinne:
    Of all the blogs in all the worlds in all the universe, you and Baud walked into this one. And Tamara and everyone here. Astoundingly good luck.

  10. 10.

    Patricia Kayden

    November 7, 2019 at 11:03 am

    Ducks as pets. Chickens as pets. This is such s as cool blog for animal lovers.

  11. 11.

    rikyrah

    November 7, 2019 at 11:03 am

    PEARL is the cutest duck. I just think it’s adorable her wanting to be cuddled :)

  12. 12.

    eclare

    November 7, 2019 at 11:04 am

    Penelope is so adorable!

  13. 13.

    Patricia Kayden

    November 7, 2019 at 11:05 am

    This is YOUR idea of "Keeping America Great" Senator @SenJohnKennedy?A world in which you call the most POWERFUL woman in the United states "dumb" while you and Trump snicker like two prepubescent 10 year-olds? You can just keep it! #BlueWave2020pic.twitter.com/JZI8RKXsc6— Peter Morley (@morethanmySLE) November 7, 2019

  14. 14.

    Gravenstone

    November 7, 2019 at 11:05 am

    Now Cole is gonna want his very own snuggle duck.

  15. 15.

    TaMara (HFG)

    November 7, 2019 at 11:09 am

    @Aleta:
    @Patricia Kayden:

    I wonder if some wayward wanderer stumbles on this blog, reads one of these posts (Pearl! Penelope! Snuggle ducks), and our non-sequitur rotating tag lines, shakes their head and moves along, wondering “who are these crazy people?”

  16. 16.

    spudgun

    November 7, 2019 at 11:16 am

    Aww, my gurl Penelope Pearl! Such a sweetie-

    I delurk for pet pix ?

  17. 17.

    schrodingers_cat

    November 7, 2019 at 11:19 am

    I love this musical composition by Sukhwinder Singh, and he sings it as well. Chal Chal mere sung sung, from the movie Astitva (Existence) from the early aughts. On screen is Tabu playing the bored and neglected newly wed stuck in a loveless arranged marriage being seranaded by her music teacher (Mohnish Bahl).
    You can tell she is a newly wed by all the prominent symbols of being a married woman (of soubhagya)
    that she is sporting. The green bangles, the sindoor in her part and the red dot on her forehead.
    * soubhagya == good luck
    Married women are called soubhagyawatis (lucky ones)

  18. 18.

    zhena gogolia

    November 7, 2019 at 11:19 am

    Love that duck.

  19. 19.

    RAVEN

    November 7, 2019 at 11:21 am

    Here’s the photo exhibit my wife did for the event.She said “I don’t know why you have all these pictures if not for something like this”!

  20. 20.

    schrodingers_cat

    November 7, 2019 at 11:26 am

    @schrodingers_cat: Here is the link to the composition, which I forgot to add.
    To this comment

    I love this musical composition by Sukhwinder Singh, and he sings it as well. Chal Chal mere sung sung, from the movie Astitva (Existence) from the early aughts. On screen is Tabu playing the bored and neglected newly wed stuck in a loveless arranged marriage being seranaded by her music teacher (Mohnish Bahl).
    You can tell she is a newly wed by all the prominent symbols of being a married woman (of soubhagya)
    that she is sporting. The green bangles, the sindoor in her part and the red dot on her forehead.

    * soubhagya == good luck
    Married women are called soubhagyawatis (lucky ones)

  21. 21.

    schrodingers_cat

    November 7, 2019 at 11:27 am

    How big is Pearl or is she Penelope?

  22. 22.

    chris

    November 7, 2019 at 11:27 am

    “Lord love a duck!” as my Nana used to say.

  23. 23.

    Nicole

    November 7, 2019 at 11:28 am

    Awwww…. that photo made me remember working as a first-person interpreter at the local zoo, back in the 1990s, where there was a free-roaming Cape Barron goose named Lucy. Lucy didn’t like to be petted, but she really liked to stand next to you and keep you company, which was nice when things were slow. She also really, really liked Poland Spring water, and when I had a bottle of it with me, would wait for a quiet moment and then start to cough, as though she was dying of dehydration (mind you, she had a water dish in easy reach at all times). Being a sucker, I’d fill up the bottle cap, let her drink it, and then she’d be good… for about five minutes, and she’d then do the coughing thing again.

    I fell for it every time. She had me super well trained.

  24. 24.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 11:29 am

    When Trump's lawyer needs a lawyer and nobody wants to lawyer for the lawyer. https://t.co/MQDGbQkfe1— Robert Young Pelton (@RYP__) November 7, 2019

  25. 25.

    Raven

    November 7, 2019 at 11:29 am

    @chris: Mollymuck

  26. 26.

    pat

    November 7, 2019 at 11:29 am

    @RAVEN:

    OMG, what a lot of work! Congratulations!

    I was going to say something about seeing similar displays (fewer pics, of course) at funerals but I decided not to .

  27. 27.

    RAVEN

    November 7, 2019 at 11:31 am

    @pat: We just had that discussion. “Well, you did a slide show for my retirtement”[email protected]

  28. 28.

    rikyrah

    November 7, 2019 at 11:31 am

    @RAVEN:

    That is so wonderful. You are so blessed. Looks amazing.

  29. 29.

    dww44

    November 7, 2019 at 11:33 am

    @RAVEN: Wow. I knew you were a prolific photographer, but this is amazing. Exactly where and for how long is the exhibit?

  30. 30.

    pat

    November 7, 2019 at 11:36 am

    @RAVEN:

    So I should add that it is great that you are there to see it. Relive your life, so to speak.
    Enjoy!

  31. 31.

    dmsilev

    November 7, 2019 at 11:37 am

    WaPo banner headline right now:

    BREAKING: John Bolton willing to defy White House and testify in impeachment inquiry if court clears way, say people familiar with his views

    I assume “people familiar with his views” really means “Bolton himself, but just a fig leaf of plausible deniability”. In any event, seldom has the phrase “root for injuries” been more applicable.

  32. 32.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 11:37 am

    In the past 24 hours we've seen op-eds arguing that Medicare for All would be *bad* because:– People would use it– People would no longer have to work bad jobs for good health careReally useful window into how parts of the ruling class think about the people below them. https://t.co/noDLLiZdYE— Christopher Ingraham (@_cingraham) November 6, 2019

  33. 33.

    BC in Illinois

    November 7, 2019 at 11:39 am

    On a topic that no one was asking for . . .

    Kathleen Parker of the Washington Post is here to tell you that
    Clarence Thomas Is An American Hero.

    She doesn’t really say much about him that is heroic – as in, anything that he has ever done or said that leads anyone into a better world, a better place. What she tells us is that:

    1. Clarence Thomas grew up poor.
    2. He is no longer poor.
    3. He has some deep, heroic thoughts and qualities hidden inside.
    4. He shared this hidden heroism with an interviewer, who made 30 hours of interviews into a two-hour film.

    “It is a marvel of filmmaking that two hours pass so quickly. At the end of a screening I recently attended, there weren’t many dry eyes in the room.”

    I’m sure.

    And as for the heroism, which you may have missed seeing in his public life . . .

    “And, you, dear reader, will have to wait for the rest of the story until May, when PBS plans to air the documentary.”

  34. 34.

    Raven

    November 7, 2019 at 11:40 am

    @dww44: UGH, White Tiger is right up the street in Athens and, apparently, it will be up until the 1st of Dec.

  35. 35.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 11:41 am

    Dear @RudyGiuliani: Please don't stop tweeting. Also, can you go on national TV again? Important for the American people to keep hearing that U.S. policy towards Ukraine was for the personal benefit of your client @realDonaldTrump instead of for U.S. national security. Thanks. https://t.co/arvqEbaf3X— Ted Lieu (@tedlieu) November 6, 2019

  36. 36.

    Elizabelle

    November 7, 2019 at 11:41 am

    Pearl was just socialized differently, perhaps. Or maybe it’s just her own little duck personality.

    Consider yourself lucky. Some day you will miss the fuss and feathers.

  37. 37.

    Elizabelle

    November 7, 2019 at 11:43 am

    @RAVEN: Wow. It’s a Raven museum.

    Glad the surprise gathering came off so successfully.

  38. 38.

    RAVEN

    November 7, 2019 at 11:47 am

    @Elizabelle: It wasn’t a surprise, it’s tomorrow night. I agreed to a birthday/retirement party reluctantly and she immediately invited family without considering it’s a home game and the inn is full! It’s going to work out but another weekend would have been better for out of town folks.

  39. 39.

    CaseyL

    November 7, 2019 at 11:51 am

    “Find someone who looks at you the way Penelope looks at TaMara.” That is so cute and sweet. Apparently, birds can imprint on humans at any age :)

    @RAVEN: Holy cats, what an amazing exhibit! I would have loved to be able to see it in person. An amazing life, well-lived – and well-loved, too. Once again: congrats to you; Well Done! to your wife, and I hope you both enjoy retirement for many many years!

  40. 40.

    schrodingers_cat

    November 7, 2019 at 11:54 am

    @RAVEN: Is that your house? You should write a memoir/autobiography. You have the pictures!

  41. 41.

    chopper

    November 7, 2019 at 11:59 am

    @Baud:

    you say “fuck a duck” out loud ONE TIME…

  42. 42.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 12:01 pm

    Folks, Europe no longer thinks Trump is a one-off and the US will return to being the standard bearer of the West. They are ready to move on without us. Basically, you can forget superpower status. It's done.Happy Thursday! https://t.co/gAcaYuZ5eO— Alex Finley (@alexzfinley) November 7, 2019

  43. 43.

    chris

    November 7, 2019 at 12:01 pm

    @Raven: ??? Google is no help

  44. 44.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 12:07 pm

    per capita health expenditures vs life expectancy https://t.co/OufKPciatF pic.twitter.com/8Oxm7bYtmt— southpaw (@nycsouthpaw) November 7, 2019

  45. 45.

    NotMax

    November 7, 2019 at 12:10 pm

    @RAVEN

    Well hung.

    :)

  46. 46.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    November 7, 2019 at 12:14 pm

    @RAVEN: Your wife is right. Also, holy cow, that’s a lot of pics.

  47. 47.

    Josie

    November 7, 2019 at 12:15 pm

    I want a Pearl/Penelope of my very own. How could anyone resist that?

  48. 48.

    trollhattan

    November 7, 2019 at 12:20 pm

    @BC in Illinois:
    My dead tree paper, which has canned most of their op-ed staff, ran that Parker drivel today prominently in the LH column. Mr. High-Tech Lynching a “hero”? If you don’t think so you’re just a blind liberal.

    She has also proclaimed Nikki Haley shall be our first woman president so, you know, she’s reliable on these matters.

  49. 49.

    rikyrah

    November 7, 2019 at 12:22 pm

    Will someone explain Apple TV to me? I get from some people that it’s a streaming service. I google it, and I see a box that looks like another Firestick device.
    Can I get the content on Apple TV without spending the money for the device?

  50. 50.

    Aleta

    November 7, 2019 at 12:22 pm

    @RAVEN: She must really like you!
    (Love is beautiful … so’s the wall.)

  51. 51.

    pat

    November 7, 2019 at 12:29 pm

    @BC in Illinois:

    His story and determination are remarkable, and I’m sure he has many good qualities. The fact that his rise was partly due to affirmative action does not cast doubt on his intelligence or perseverance. The fact that he has ruled in every possible case against affirmative action, pretending, along with his conservative cohort, that we live in a true meritocracy, and denying other young black Americans the same kind of opportunities that allowed him to excel…this makes him the worst kind of hypocrite.

    This is the top liked response to that drivel.

  52. 52.

    NotMax

    November 7, 2019 at 12:30 pm

    @rikyrah

    Apple TV is a device, Apple TV+ is a streaming service. Two different animules. As for info on the streaming service, here ya go.

  53. 53.

    rikyrah

    November 7, 2019 at 12:30 pm

    Holocaust survivor under guard amid death threats

    An 89-year-old Holocaust survivor in Italy has been assigned police guards for protection after receiving hundreds of threats on social media.

    Liliana Segre, who was sent to the notorious Auschwitz death camp at 13, has been subjected to a barrage of anti-Semitic messages in recent days.

    It comes after Ms Segre, an Italian life senator, called for parliament to establish a committee to combat hate.

    The motion passed despite a lack of support by Italy’s right-wing parties.

    Members of the nationalist League party, led by Matteo Salvini, the centre-right Forza Italia and the far-right Brothers of Italy all abstained from the vote in Milan last week.

    The motion called for the establishment of an extraordinary commission in Italy to combat all forms of racism, anti-Semitism, incitement to hatred and violence on ethnic and religious grounds.

    Ms Segre said after the vote that the abstentions made her feel “like a Martian in the Senate”.

  54. 54.

    NeenerNeener

    November 7, 2019 at 12:31 pm

    @rikyrah: I have an Apple TV device. The remote is so bad the device is unusable. I think Apple is also starting their own streaming service and I suspect that you can only get it on their expensive device with the abominable remote, so I’m going to pass on it for now.

  55. 55.

    FlyingToaster

    November 7, 2019 at 12:31 pm

    @Baud:

    That used to be me, but the restraining order put an end to that.

    Dude…

    Jeebus, I’m glad you’re back.

  56. 56.

    MattF

    November 7, 2019 at 12:36 pm

    @rikyrah: There’s four different things that are called ‘Apple TV’.

  57. 57.

    rikyrah

    November 7, 2019 at 12:37 pm

    Anyone from Kentucky wanna explain the whole MattJones situation?
    Who is he? What does he have to do with the Senate race?

  58. 58.

    rikyrah

    November 7, 2019 at 12:38 pm

    Thanks for the Apple TV info :)

  59. 59.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 12:42 pm

    Laura Ingraham blames the GOP losing VA on "demographic changes," "foreign born population" and an altered "demographic makeup" pic.twitter.com/ZwfMSLBFCU— Andrew Lawrence (@ndrew_lawrence) November 7, 2019

    Funny how Faux has all the Nazi Shows.

  60. 60.

    trollhattan

    November 7, 2019 at 12:47 pm

    @pat:
    Says it far better than I could have.

  61. 61.

    trollhattan

    November 7, 2019 at 12:48 pm

    @Jay:
    If Ingraham and Coulter are ever allowed to be at the same place and time, a singularity will open and we’ll all vanish in a “poof.” Too much vileness for one planet.

  62. 62.

    trollhattan

    November 7, 2019 at 12:50 pm

    @rikyrah:
    “I hate you for hating hate” is a really tough concept to wrap one’s brain around. Poor lady deserves better.

  63. 63.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 12:51 pm

    @rikyrah:

    Matt Jones, a radio personna, is exploring running against Yurtle the Turtle, as a Democrat in the Senate race,

    Because he has a popular ( 50 stations) radio gig, and has used it to attack Yurtle, and iHeart has paid for promotional tours for him and his show to “press the flesh”,

    The Kentucky GrOPer’s are claiming that there is an illegal “in kind” Campaign contribution going on,

    Even though Matt has not declared, filed paperwork, or is a Cantidate.

    Just the ususal working of the Refs and riling of the base, in a rigged system for the GrOPers.

  64. 64.

    Anya

    November 7, 2019 at 12:51 pm

    It’s amazing how pundits pretend election interference and third party votes didn’t affect the 2016 results. Also, looks like republicans’ voter suppression tactics are an accepted reality. Dem pundits should mention it every time they are asked to talk about election results or anything related to any election.

  65. 65.

    Tenar Arha

    November 7, 2019 at 12:54 pm

    @rikyrah: I’m pretty sure I’m buying a brand new iPhone this holiday season, and it’s going to come with a free 1 year subscription to Apple TV+, so I’m holding off buying a 1 month trial or something bc they’ve got a few upcoming originals that look fun like See, For All Mankind, & The Morning Show.

  66. 66.

    Tenar Arha

    November 7, 2019 at 12:54 pm

    @rikyrah: I’m pretty sure I’m buying a brand new iPhone this holiday season, and it’s going to come with a free 1 year subscription to Apple TV+, so I’m holding off buying a 1 month trial or something bc they’ve got a few upcoming originals that look fun like See, For All Mankind, & The Morning Show.

    ETA oops, it looks like these all launched Nov. 1st…

  67. 67.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 12:58 pm

    These Ukrainian soldiers were killed in August 2019, while President Trump was withholding congressionally voted military aid to pressure Ukraine to exonerate Russia and defame his political opponents https://t.co/DF5K1XSF33 pic.twitter.com/n7lJ6Ewg8j— David Frum (@davidfrum) October 4, 2019

  68. 68.

    rikyrah

    November 7, 2019 at 1:01 pm

    Zeke Miller (@ZekeJMiller) Tweeted:
    !!! DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — A top aide to Democratic presidential candidate Tom Steyer in Iowa has privately offered campaign contributions to local politicians in exchange for endorsing his White House bid, https://t.co/UCW2pCldsw https://twitter.com/ZekeJMiller/status/1192494858369425408?s=17

  69. 69.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 1:02 pm

    Oh no, Dolt 45 broke Daniel Dale:

    Trump says the whistleblower's source probably does not exist, which makes no sense. He is saying false/misleading/bizarre things in rapid succession, faster than I can type.— Daniel Dale (@ddale8) November 7, 2019

  70. 70.

    MattF

    November 7, 2019 at 1:07 pm

    @Jay: Fact-checking Trump is a hard road, not for amateurs.

  71. 71.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 1:09 pm

    Up and coming GrOPer,

    Proud Boys leader Enrique Tarrio has absolutely zero political experience. He hawks merch with hateful slogans, and he once spent 16 months in federal prison for running a scheme that involved selling stolen diabetic test strips online. https://t.co/L9HZls4Paj— Miami New Times (@MiamiNewTimes) November 1, 2019

    Head of the official Latino’s for Trump Org and other GrOPer groups in Floridah!

    Probably in charge of Floridah Man’s housewarming party.

  72. 72.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 1:13 pm

    Just thinking about the time @GlemGreenwald used the Proud Boys' police-chaperoned tour of Portland to degrade grassroots antifascist organizing, and how, when I critiqued him, big left accounts accused me of being an imperialist and made weird allegations about "antifa circles." pic.twitter.com/vc8qKgl7Aa— Alexander Reid Ross (@areidross) November 4, 2019

  73. 73.

    trollhattan

    November 7, 2019 at 1:14 pm

    @Jay:
    Where’s a whistleblower’s whistleblower when we need one?

  74. 74.

    RAVEN

    November 7, 2019 at 1:15 pm

    @chris:

    Meanwhile the protagonist of George Axelrod’s Lord Love a Duck is equal parts Billy Liar and Mick Travis, a florid fantasist who anticipates and transcends the flights of fancy conjured up in the likes of Altman’s Brewster McCloud and the recent Submarine. Styling himself as “Mollymuck”, a bird thought to be extinct “but isn’t”, the then middle-aged Roddy McDowell plays ostensible high-schooler Alan Musgrave, a man with a “psycho-suicidal personality” who squawks incessantly and is prone to running over members of his graduating class with diggers. He’s hopelessly in love with Barbara Ann (Tuesday Weld), a “total vulgarity of our time”, whose mother is a cocktail waitress but dresses like a Playboy bunny, insists that “Everybody has got to love me. Everybody,” is named after Barbara Stanwyck and Ann Sheridan and longs to be a movie star. Barbara Ann melds two of Axelrod’s chief concerns in his work as a screenwriter – the sweat-soaked male gaze of unrequited sexual rapacity in The Seven Year Itch and the oddball female kitsch of Breakfast at Tiffany’s – and drags them kicking and screaming into the tail end of the 1960s, and arguably several decades beyond that.

  75. 75.

    RAVEN

    November 7, 2019 at 1:18 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: No, it’s White Tiger Gourmet. BBQ and vegetarian “food without an attitude!

  76. 76.

    dexwood

    November 7, 2019 at 1:19 pm

    @RAVEN:

    Needs votive candles, looks like an altar. Well done Mrs. Raven and wishing you, Raven, many more years of new photos.

  77. 77.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 1:30 pm

    EVERYONE needs to see this.A wire map of white supremacy in the Trump administration on immigration.Check out the link here:https://t.co/vp2R47ZtXP pic.twitter.com/pr9KeUEqXD— Hassan Ahmad (@HMAesq) November 6, 2019

  78. 78.

    Duane

    November 7, 2019 at 1:31 pm

    @chopper: You can’t be too careful. Baud could be an abduckter.

  79. 79.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    November 7, 2019 at 1:34 pm

    @Jay: Yes, Laura. The GOP lost VA because they got fewer votes from the people who vote. What’s your question? That’s how it works.

  80. 80.

    Nicole

    November 7, 2019 at 1:40 pm

    So “Senator Warren” is trending on Twitter, because Mitt Romney tweeted a derogatory thing about Warren’s health care plan, in it referring to her as “Prof. Warren.”

    It never fails to amaze me what petty dicks the GOP are. They cannot help themselves.

  81. 81.

    MattF

    November 7, 2019 at 1:40 pm

    NYT article on Russian security force ‘invading’ a famous physics institute. Considering how Trump admires Russia, one feels a chill.

  82. 82.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 1:41 pm

    "An explosive new study reveals that political misinformation is running rampant on Facebook as the 2020 election approaches… The study found that most negative misinformation (62%) was about Democrats or liberals…" https://t.co/b5AXLOFYIe— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) November 6, 2019

  83. 83.

    schrodingers_cat

    November 7, 2019 at 1:43 pm

    @RAVEN: Thanks because it did look like a restaurant.

  84. 84.

    Raven

    November 7, 2019 at 1:45 pm

    @schrodingers_cat: It’s an old time general store that used to serve “Cat Head Biscuits” and other southern goodies.

  85. 85.

    lafcolleen

    November 7, 2019 at 1:50 pm

    Lurker but taking advantage of this open thread. just posted my first podcast on spotify. I’m co-host and we talk about “Legal Aid Matters” in Chicago. ur first podcast is with the new director of the Office of New Americans working from the Mayor’s office.

    https://open.spotify.com/show/1c4tgMPjr6ozWPWJAXskUS?fbclid=IwAR0iI59dbRGamuX5cWz6m8HE4PJloU_BEJa_hghqF1wAP0-NuRr93P5TNUI

  86. 86.

    Miss Bianca

    November 7, 2019 at 1:53 pm

    @lafcolleen: Wow, cool!

  87. 87.

    trollhattan

    November 7, 2019 at 1:53 pm

    @Nicole:

    It never fails to amaze me what petty dicks the GOP are. They cannot help themselves.

    So true. And consider that Willard is the new standard-bearer for Republican decency and centrism. They’re that far gone.

  88. 88.

    FlyingToaster

    November 7, 2019 at 1:55 pm

    @Nicole: That’s weird, because most of us up here in the People’s Republic follow Charlie Pierce’s lead and call her “Senator Professor Warren”.

    Oldie but still goodie

  89. 89.

    RAVEN

    November 7, 2019 at 1:57 pm

    @FlyingToaster: I always want to be called “Private Doctor Johnson”!

  90. 90.

    trollhattan

    November 7, 2019 at 1:57 pm

    @Jay:
    The closing grafs of a Vanity Fair article about how “everybody hates Zuckerberg.”

    Setting aside whether Facebook suffers Microsoft’s fate (personally, I think it gets broken up—eventually—or regulated in one form or another), there are structural reasons why it’s unlikely that Zuckerberg will face a Gates-like humbling. For one, Facebook’s stock keeps rising, and the board has no reason to take a stand against him. Zuckerberg continues to have complete control over his company, and appears to be growing more defiant, not less. While Dorsey has worked to gain favor with colleagues in Silicon Valley, Zuckerberg has doubled down.

    My guess is that Zuckerberg is too far down the road to turn back. Even if he follows the Bill Gates path, one day quits running the company he started, and spends every waking hour taking on the world’s biggest challenges, I doubt anyone will want to watch Inside Mark’s Brain: Decoding Mark Zuckerberg. Unlike Gates, who reached a crescendo and then seemed to spiritually evolve as a human being, Zuckerberg still seems laser-focused on growing Facebook’s bottom line—no matter the social cost. As someone who once worked with Zuckerberg at Facebook told me, this is just who he is. “Zuck is the most driven person I have ever met. No matter what he decides to do, he will be the absolute number one at it; it’s just the way he’s built,” the person said. “He could be in charge of a nonprofit, and it would be the biggest nonprofit in the world. It just so happens that he started Facebook.”

    We’re so screwed.

  91. 91.

    Gravenstone

    November 7, 2019 at 1:58 pm

    @Jay: Because Trump getting literally billions in estimated free media air time during the primaries wasn’t an “in kind” donation…

  92. 92.

    Zelma

    November 7, 2019 at 2:02 pm

    @RAVEN:

    Wow! What a lot of work. Clearly you are family of shutterbugs. When we tried to find pictures of my husband, we had a hard time because he was the picture taker. I guess someone else had that job in your clan.

  93. 93.

    Nicole

    November 7, 2019 at 2:04 pm

    @trollhattan: I was tempted to tweet back, addressing him as “George Romney’s Greatest Disappointment” but I held back because I’m a Democrat, and so I CAN help myself.

  94. 94.

    Raven

    November 7, 2019 at 2:06 pm

    @Zelma: I’ve taken many in the last 30 years or so but I hung with a bunch of artists in Champaign Urbana and they were on it.

  95. 95.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 2:06 pm

    Jesse Watters's mom is the only Fox contributor worth your time. pic.twitter.com/5M23d71wEN— nikki mccann ramírez (@NikkiMcR) November 6, 2019

  96. 96.

    chris

    November 7, 2019 at 2:10 pm

    @RAVEN: Wow! Thanks, I’ve never heard of this movie, looking for it now because it sounds like fun.

    ETA: Cued up on Prime!!!

  97. 97.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 2:11 pm

    His chieftain name is Kwaxsistalla Wathl’thla. Kwaxsistalla means “The smoke from his big fire reaches around the world;” Wathl’thla means “the late.” Chief Dick died of heart failure last year at age 89. He was a chieftain of the Kawadillikall Clan of the Dzawatainuk Tribe of the Kwakwaka’wakw First Nation, and took with him an unmatched knowledge of Kwakwaka’wakw music, culture and practice. But before he died he succeeded in passing much of his knowledge along, and in the process helped transform our common understanding of life on the coast before Europeans arrived, and before the residential school system devastated Indigenous families.

    “We would have lost the knowledge,” says Kim Recalma-Clutesi, also known as Ogwiloqwa of the Qualicum First Nation. “For six generations children in that area were removed to go to residential school. The only way to transmit that knowledge is to actually live there with the old people. He was the last contact with those really old teachings.”

    If you picture the residential school system as a giant meteor, an obliterating force that wreaked havoc in First Nations communities across Canada, you might assume all was lost. But the impact did leave survivors. Adam Dick was one. It is no accident that young Adam, a descendant of clan chiefs, was spared. His deliverance was the collective act of his community.

    Adam Dick was born in 1929 near Kingcome Inlet. “His mother had a prophetic dream when she was carrying him,” says Ogwiloqwa, Dick’s long-time partner of 26 years. “In that dream our Maker brought Adam to her and instructed her to look after him. And if a prophetic dream like that takes place our custom is to immediately surround that child with people who have traditional training. A plan is made even before they are born on how they will be brought up. And because he was born shortly after so many arrests had taken place from the potlatch prohibition time, the clan chiefs and the potlatch chiefs gathered and laid out a very strict training for him. So he was trained in many areas. Where someone might have been trained in stewardship, somebody else might be trained as a speaker — he was trained in everything.”

    He was also hidden from the authorities rounding children up for the residential schools. Like an infant prince threatened by a usurping tyrant, young Adam was spirited away to safety. “As a child he lived with his aging grandparents off the grid in a little shack that was meant for people to live in only for a couple of weeks in winter months to gather clams,” says Ogwiloqwa. “Their only transportation was a dugout canoe and they lived off the land.”

    https://thetyee.ca/News/2019/10/30/Residential-School-To-Chief/

  98. 98.

    Aleta

    November 7, 2019 at 2:14 pm

    (Longer thread) Greg Olear @gregolear

    …
    8/ Rudy was in the spotlight on 9/11 because President George W. Bush was AWOL all day, careening around the sky to evade…we’re still not sure.

    Osama Bin Laden was not Thanos, did not possess Infinity Stones, and was half a world away.

    9/ Donald Trump was not the first egomaniacal New Yorker to half-assedly lobby for an illegal third term. Because of term limits, Rudy could not run for mayor again when his term expired at the end of 2001. That didn’t stop him from trying.
    …
    11/ Giuliani Partners was billed as a management consulting firm, but all it really did was allow its clients to bask in the heroic glow of its eponymous founder. Rudy took a national tragedy and made it his own personal brand.

    12/ Rudy Giuliani: the pimp who trafficked 9/11.

    13/ Like a pimp, Rudy was not picky in selecting clients. If you paid the (exorbitant) bill, you were in. And the companies willing to plonk down the requisite coin tended to be shady af.

    14/ Rudy pimped out his 9/11 aura to: then-troubled Merrill Lynch; broke WorldCom; Nextel, whose lousy product contributed to the communication problems in New York on 9/11; and Purdue Pharma.

    15/ Once you’re in bed with Purdue, makers of OxyContin & the company most responsible for the current opioid epidemic in the United States, why NOT lobby for dictators and mob money launderers? Why NOT cavort with Manafort & extort Ukraine?
    …
    …

  99. 99.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    November 7, 2019 at 2:18 pm

    @Aleta: Or, in other words, Mr. “noun verb 9-11”.

  100. 100.

    rikyrah

    November 7, 2019 at 2:21 pm

    Top U.S. diplomat to Ukraine ties Trump to quid pro quo

    The top U.S. diplomat in Ukraine, Bill Taylor, told House impeachment investigators last month that President Donald Trump directed officials to tie military aid to Ukraine to demands that the country open politically advantageous probes, according to his deposition.

  101. 101.

    rikyrah

    November 7, 2019 at 2:24 pm

    Foreign Affairs member: ‘Republicans were scared’ of Bill Taylor’s deposition

    Rep. Gregory Meeks tells Lawrence O’Donnell that Republican committee members feared that everything they asked William Taylor would just further confirm the whistleblower’s damning account. Meeks says that every transcript that has come out so far speaks for itself. Lawrence also discusses with Mieke Eoyang and Ned Price.

  102. 102.

    rikyrah

    November 7, 2019 at 2:25 pm

    Indicted Giuliani associate willing to cooperate with impeachment investigation

    One of Giuliani’s indicted associates, Lev Parnas, who helped dig up dirt on Trump’s political rival in Ukraine has indicated he’s willing to cooperate with the impeachment inquiry by testifying and supplying documents subpoenaed by Congress. Chuck Rosenberg tells Lawrence O’Donnell that “most defendants become convicted felons and most convicted felons look for ways to cooperate in order to reduce their sentence.”

  103. 103.

    germy

    November 7, 2019 at 2:27 pm

    Mr. Peanut. What are his political ideologies? He’s definitely a mega donor. pic.twitter.com/RKFwcyisRO— andrew kaczynski? (@KFILE) November 7, 2019

    a guy who sells his own people to be consumed for his profit is definitely a peter thiel type https://t.co/MFCoyWxV4J— b-boy bouiebaisse (@jbouie) November 7, 2019

    Reminds me of all those cartoon smiling pigs and chickens in chef’s aprons in the old newspaper ads for butcher shops.

  104. 104.

    rikyrah

    November 7, 2019 at 2:27 pm

    I believe Barr put this out..trying to stave off his own impeachment.

    WaPo: Trump wanted Barr to hold news conference saying Trump broke no laws in Ukraine call

    The Washington Post reports that Trump wanted Barr to hold a news conference saying President Trump broke no laws in call with the Ukrainian leader.
    Nov. 6, 2019

  105. 105.

    germy

    November 7, 2019 at 2:35 pm

    Again, that WaPo story is incorrect.

    Barr didn't DECLINE to do what Trump asked.

    He DELEGATED the exoneration of something the AG knew tied to an ongoing conspiracy investigation to his spox. Trump got his exoneration. Just w/o Barr provably involved.https://t.co/3KJgpRFf1v

    — emptywheel (@emptywheel) November 7, 2019

  106. 106.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 2:41 pm

    SCOOP: The $500k that financed the deal between RUDY GIULIANI & LEV PARNAS’s company, FRAUD GUARANTEE, came from a Long Island lawyer named CHARLES GUCCIARDO, who accused @HillaryClinton of “perpetrating a fraud on the American people” in 2016. https://t.co/6U4OINIoYt— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) November 7, 2019

  107. 107.

    rikyrah

    November 7, 2019 at 2:43 pm

    Trump nominee worked on illegal plan to deny help to scam victims

    Rachel Maddow reports on a memo that shows that controversial Donald Trump judicial nominee Steven Menashi helped craft an illegal plan to deny debt relief to victims of a scammy for-profit college.

  108. 108.

    Roger Moore

    November 7, 2019 at 2:48 pm

    @Nicole:

    I was tempted to tweet back, addressing him as “George Romney’s Greatest Disappointment” but I held back because I’m a Democrat, and so I CAN help myself.

    You might also have thought about the Mittlings and Ronna Romney McDaniel. It’s possible that Mitt is his father’s greatest disappointment, but he has some stiff competition.

  109. 109.

    The Very Reverend Crimson Fire of Compassion

    November 7, 2019 at 2:51 pm

    @lafcolleen: That’s awesome! Congrats!

  110. 110.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 7, 2019 at 2:53 pm

    @Jay: And how much crime was involved with that $500K?

  111. 111.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 7, 2019 at 2:57 pm

    @rikyrah: Ugh. I was kidding about all of these fuckers yelling at their Echos, “Alexa! Do all the crimes!”

  112. 112.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 3:09 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    All of it?

  113. 113.

    dfh

    November 7, 2019 at 3:17 pm

    Anyone know if that mug is for sale, and where? Excellent xmas gift I’m a’thinking.

  114. 114.

    rikyrah

    November 7, 2019 at 3:17 pm

    @lafcolleen:

    clap clap clap

  115. 115.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 7, 2019 at 3:17 pm

    @Jay: There’s no way all the crime committed by these fuckers only amounts too $500K. Paulie Walnuts did crimes into the millions.

  116. 116.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 3:20 pm

    BREAKING: @realdonaldtrump ordered to pay $2M in damages for misusing a charity’s money — using it to buy portraits of himself, pay legal settlements, and help his 2016 campaign. https://t.co/iJIZ5GVA5e— David Fahrenthold (@Fahrenthold) November 7, 2019

  117. 117.

    misterpuff

    November 7, 2019 at 3:20 pm

    @Jay: That’s because all the information about Drumpf that might be disparaging is TRUE!

  118. 118.

    laura

    November 7, 2019 at 3:20 pm

    @RAVEN: Raven, just a humble opinion, but that photo montage of Raven looks like a reflection of a man who lived a life among enough friends and family who cared enough to document him out doing the living, and if that’s not winning the non-monetary lotto, I dont know what is.
    I hope that this party helps with the transitioning from working guy to the Pope of Loafer’s Paradise. Let there be cake and carrying on!

  119. 119.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 3:22 pm

    @mrmoshpotato:

    For a mere $500,000 invested, you can buy at least $20,000,000 worth of criming. It’s seed money.

  120. 120.

    MattF

    November 7, 2019 at 3:23 pm

    It’s hard to call this ‘news’, but (WaPo):

    In the transcript of his closed-door deposition, George Kent, the deputy assistant secretary of state responsible for Ukraine, criticized Rudolph W. Giuliani, President Trump’s personal lawyer, for his comments about Marie Yovanovitch, the former U.S. ambassador to Ukraine.
    Kent testified that Giuliani’s “assertions and allegations against former Ambassador Yovanovitch were without basis, untrue, period.”

  121. 121.

    RAVEN

    November 7, 2019 at 3:37 pm

    @laura: Aw thanks, I’m very lucky and I know it.

  122. 122.

    Mary G

    November 7, 2019 at 3:41 pm

    Trump and Republicans lied about Hillary's "corrupt use" of the Clinton Foundation.A judge just ordered Trump to pay $2 million for violating charity laws by using Trump Foundation donations to help his campaign. Silence from those same Republicans.— Denizcan James (@MrFilmkritik) November 7, 2019

    EVERYTHING they accuse Democrats of doing, they’re doing themselves. But Twitler would still be scamming this if David Fahrenthold didn’t start asking questions, so hats off to Dave.

  123. 123.

    Mary G

    November 7, 2019 at 3:43 pm

    @RAVEN: Wow, she must really love you. That’s a lot of work. You deserve it all. Fuck LBJ.

  124. 124.

    Ruckus

    November 7, 2019 at 3:59 pm

    @Nicole:
    They aren’t petty dicks. That’s an insult to them.
    They work at being massive dicks – and are extremely successful at this one thing. Being massive dicks.

  125. 125.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 4:06 pm

    He denounced women’s rights and diversity. He refused to answer GOP and Dem senators’ questions. He may be tied up in Trump's Ukraine scandal. He's never tried a case.Republicans are ready to make Steven Menashi, 40, a lifetime federal judge anyway. https://t.co/5QNmwBdXeS— Jennifer Bendery (@jbendery) November 7, 2019

  126. 126.

    Jay

    November 7, 2019 at 4:09 pm

    Even if someone was asking Bill Gates to pay 100 billion in taxes (they're not), he'd have 6 billion left over https://t.co/jnslbzT1Sv— Steadman™ (@AsteadWesley) November 6, 2019

    Why won’t no one weep for the poor, poor Billionaires?

  127. 127.

    frosty

    November 7, 2019 at 4:31 pm

    @RAVEN: OMG Raven that is amazing! Your bride did an amazing job framing and arranging it all!!

  128. 128.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 7, 2019 at 4:34 pm

    @Jay: Call now and we’ll throw in a set of stolen, dull steak knives absolutely free!

  129. 129.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 7, 2019 at 4:36 pm

    @Mary G:

    EVERYTHING they accuse Democrats of doing, they’re doing themselves.

    Yup. “No puppet. No puppet. You’re the puppet. You’re the puppet.”

  130. 130.

    Dan B

    November 7, 2019 at 4:36 pm

    @CaseyL: O/T but I have some thoughts for retirement options. You’ve probably checked them out but here they are:

    Anacortes or Whidbey Island north of Oak Harbor. There’s great all year hiking and easy access to Chukanut Drive and the San Juans. Just be sure to be east if the Navy planes flights and avoid the windiest spots. Anacortes has a growing arts and community festival culture. Also hikes in the North Cascades are amazing. And it’s not too far from Glacier Peak Wilderness. Three of my top ten hikes are there.

    Bellingham has the university, lots of available properties and access to Chukanut, the San Juans, and mind boggling hikes around Mt. Baker. Access to Vancouver is fast enough for day trips. Mt. Baker area hikes include several in my top ten in the state. Avoid Lynden – Enumclaw north. Drawback is the winters are colder and wetter than Anacortes. Another drawback is my Koch related in-laws are there but they’re moving to Georgia soon.

    Bend / Redmond, OR. My neice and sister in law moved there several years ago. They miss the big city but enjoy the variety of terrain – if you haven’t been it’s dazzling and nearly people-free. John Day Fosdil Beds and surrounding areas are stunning and there’s something new around every bend. The Sisters Wilderness is also world class. Winters are chilly but dry and mostly sunny. Avoid Burns, but they did rise up and drive out the Bundys and Malheur gangs.

  131. 131.

    mrmoshpotato

    November 7, 2019 at 4:37 pm

    @Ruckus: Petty massive dicks?

  132. 132.

    rikyrah

    November 7, 2019 at 4:39 pm

    @Jay:

    Look at comment # 107. That’s who the segment is about. He also created an illegal scam that cheated thousands of students.

    only the best people

  133. 133.

    Steeplejack

    November 7, 2019 at 5:37 pm

    @dfh:

    Google “apple picking impeachment mug” and you get a load of choices.

  134. 134.

    catclub

    November 7, 2019 at 5:37 pm

    @Jay: Sen Kennedy of Louisiana actually stopped one of these extremely unqualified candidates one time,
    but this time, although he first was leaning towards no, somebody got to him and he is now a yes.

  135. 135.

    Jay Noble

    November 7, 2019 at 9:18 pm

    @trollhattan: Zuck has no Steve Jobs, Woz or Warren Buffet to challenge him. I think he crushed them all.

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