I don’t know whether to howl or to snipe…
Let me sing you the song of my people pic.twitter.com/IxkAVdcDia
— Amina Akhtar (@Drrramina) November 5, 2019
The Week:
– Beto out/Bloomie innish
-Elections happened
-R’s demand public hearings/testimonies
-D’s complied
-R’s say, won’t watch
-Stone trial a sh*t- show. Not referring to his food poisoning
-Judge orders Trump release taxes
-Trump Foundation scam
-Jr. wrote, “Daddy Dearest”— Ana Navarro-Cárdenas (@ananavarro) November 8, 2019
The President pressured a foreign country to smear his political opponents. Please read his words:
“The US has been very good to Ukraine. I wouldn’t say it’s reciprocal.”
“I would like you to do us a favor though.”
“There’s been a lot of talk about Biden’s son.” https://t.co/l4gNiodL6N
— Nancy Pelosi (@SpeakerPelosi) November 7, 2019
More transcripts!
Two WH officials told lawmakers the "blatant" push for politically motivated investigations from President Trump left "no ambiguity" what the Ukrainians needed to do to secure a highly sought meeting — and the effort was coordinated by Mulvaneyhttps://t.co/plUJPe07ia
— Jeremy Herb (@jeremyherb) November 8, 2019
This week, House Dems released **2,677** pages of testimony from 8 impeachment witnesses.
Fiona Hill's was longest at 446 pages.
Overall, a very tough week for Trump.
Public phase of impeachment will likely be even harder for him than private one. https://t.co/4k0boPrvl3
— Alexander Nazaryan (@alexnazaryan) November 8, 2019
Lt. Col. Alexander Vindman – 340 pageshttps://t.co/tquIBa6Cry pic.twitter.com/SslyYnKOQS
— Jamie Dupree (@jamiedupree) November 8, 2019
Between Trump, Jim Jordan, Matt Gaetz, Don Jr., Devin Nunes, John Kennedy, Sean Hannity, Rand Paul etc. it’s been a real douchebagapalooza this week.
— Trent Capelli ?? (@TrentCapelli) November 9, 2019
Framed as statements, these are presumably the draft articles of impeachment. https://t.co/SJ5S3bmS3q
— Ross Garber (@rossgarber) November 7, 2019
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ? ??
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Steeplejack (phone)
@rikyrah:
Good morning. ?
Guess I will get up and make coffee.
Baud
Central Planning
Good morning everyone!
Since it’s an OT, any ideas for a small gift for a friend/acquaintance’s 60th birthday? Something inexpensive, since we’re not good friends, but nice or funny would work. Worst case is a card with a small giftcard to Wegmans or something like that.
JPL
@Baud: Are the hoping to delay the proceedings?
JPL
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Kathleen
@rikyrah: Good Morning all.
JPL
@Central Planning: Wine.
Baud
@JPL:
I’m not sure what they’re game is. The House has already said they are moving forward with voluntary witnesses. Maybe they think they can get a favorable ruling from one of their judges and use it to undermine impeachment.
OzarkHillbilly
“What is the bravest thing you’ve ever said?” asked the boy.
“Help.” said the horse.
Central Planning
@JPL: What if she doesn’t drink? Grape juice? :)
Raven
Got through the party and it was really nice, lot’s great food and my seared tuna came out really well. It was well attended and lots of fun. The Arizona wine depart in an hour and LA is recovering from the red eye and event.
OzarkHillbilly
@Central Planning: Buy her something she can throw away with out ever using and not feel guilty about it.
Central Planning
@OzarkHillbilly: Or something nice enough to re-gift.
Baud
@Raven: Nice.
RAVEN
We said no gifts a but a few people brought stuff including a bottles of wine and champagne. I guess the fact that it’s been over a quarter of a century since I had a drink passed them by. There was beer and wine but I gave the gifts to the kitchen crew!
RAVEN
@OzarkHillbilly: Or frame hundreds of pics and create a display!
OzarkHillbilly
@Central Planning: That would probably work for anyone other than me.
mrmoshpotato
The real question is: Who’s headlining?
NotMax
@Central Planning
Funny coffee mug? (example – another) Fill it with some top of the line chocolates before wrapping.
OzarkHillbilly
@RAVEN: My mother hated pictures of herself. She was a beautiful woman but I swear to Dawg in 78 years she might have had 3 actual, honest to god, decent pictures taken of her. I tend to avoid the camera myself, but for different reasons.
RAVEN
@OzarkHillbilly: I have about 25000 pics in my flickr. The girl said “what do you have them for if not for this”!
ETA I have to say my wife hates that I’m always taking pictures of her and posting them!
RAVEN
Here’s the tuna https://flic.kr/p/2hHeoyB
mrmoshpotato
@RAVEN:
“It’s for in case you ever forget what you look like.”
mrmoshpotato
@RAVEN: Looks yummy and completely out of tune.
OzarkHillbilly
@RAVEN: Heh. I frequently take pics of my wife while studiously avoiding the lens. They say what’s good for the goose is good for the gander. I disagree.
OzarkHillbilly
@RAVEN: I’ll be over for leftovers in about an hour.
RAVEN
@OzarkHillbilly: There’s paella (sans camrones) but no fish. That was about 15lbs and it got et!
Anne Laurie
@Central Planning:
Barnes & Noble gift card, assuming there’s a convenient store in her neighborhood. Books, magazines, music — also lots of small ‘nice things’ like chocolate & mugs & toys, if she wants to pass the happy thought along to someone else. And they do little gift bags for the cards, too.
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
All of them, Katie.
OzarkHillbilly
A French doctoral student has been denied residency in Quebec after officials in Canada’s francophone province ruled that she had an inadequate command of her mother tongue.
This story leaves me speechless. In English as well as French.
NotMax
Neglected to include this little item in the food fail thread a few weeks ago. Simultaneously humorous and pathetic.
:)
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Well, technically, it is true.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@OzarkHillbilly: The first of five chapters of her dissertation was in English, the rest in French. It’s almost as if some bureaucrat only read a couple pages before declaring it to be entirely in English.
I also like how they passed a law banning the greeting “bonjour-hi”. How does enforcement for that work exactly?
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly: Excusez moi madame. You do not speak French. Your accent is not crazy enough.
p.a.
@Central Planning: Massage voucher, 1 session ~$75, if that’s in your price range. If there are therapy schools in your area sessions w students can be ~$25. If your friend doesn’t mind being a guinea pig.
mrmoshpotato
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
I believe it involves the fish slapping dance.
zhena gogolia
@Raven:
Congratulations!
germy
I saw this song lyric quoted over at LGM, in honor of the billionaires:
p.a.
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Years ago I was toying w the idea of visiting Montreal for a Canadiens game the week the old Forum was closing. Didn’t pan out. It was the weekend of the anti-anglais riot on St. Catherine St.
NotMax
@Ceci n est pas mon nym
Dix lashes with a chat-du-neuf-croissants.
;)
frosty
@RAVEN: My wife hates pictures too so I quit taking them. Both of us were much more photogenic 40 years ago!
RedDirtGirl
@rikyrah: @Baud: Good morning, you two.
frosty
Anne, the title of this post just nails this timeline doesn’t it? I feel like I should have been taking notes for the last three years. I suppose somewhere there’s a website like “This Week In Trump” but it might be too scary to read.
Less news plz!!
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Ouch. The croissants’ flakiness would make that particularly painful.
JPL
@RAVEN: I love tuna, yum!
chris
Fuck! Snow! That is all.
mrmoshpotato
@frosty:
What brave, insane soul…?
mrmoshpotato
@chris: ? It’s beginning to look a lot like November 9th?
OzarkHillbilly
@mrmoshpotato: Daniel Dale.
OzarkHillbilly
@chris: Winter is coming.
Today- Sunny, with a high near 59. Southwest wind 7 to 11 mph.
Tonight- Clear, with a low around 41. Southwest wind around 7 mph.
Winter is coming.
Sunday- Sunny, with a high near 65. Southwest wind 6 to 8 mph becoming north in the afternoon.
Sunday Night- Rain likely after midnight. Cloudy, with a low around 34. North wind 6 to 10 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%.
Winter is coming.
Veterans Day- Rain likely before noon, then a chance of rain and snow between noon and 1pm, then a chance of snow after 1pm. Cloudy, with a temperature falling to around 28 by 5pm. North wind 10 to 13 mph, with gusts as high as 23 mph. Chance of precipitation is 60%. Little or no snow accumulation expected.
Monday Night- Partly cloudy, with a low around 14.
Winter is here.
Tuesday- Sunny, with a high near 27.
Tuesday Night- Mostly clear, with a low around 13.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@p.a.: I’ve been to Montreal a couple times. Last time, we were just doing a little car trip around 4th of July. We didn’t know about Canada Day, July 1. We check into our hotel, start strolling around the neighborhood and suddenly somebody walking by hands us little Canadian flags and there’s a huge parade.
mrmoshpotato
@OzarkHillbilly: So true. That Canadian-born, American treasure.
Ken
Might as well start with the crimes to which Trump has confessed.
Shantanu Saha
Since the Rethugs are pivoting to throwing Giuliani and Mulvaney under the bus in order to save Trump, Schiffino has to add this old chestnut of a question: “What did the President know and when did he know it?”
OzarkHillbilly
@mrmoshpotato: He listens to trump so I don’t have to.
chris
@OzarkHillbilly: @Ceci n est pas mon nym: Ah, yes, the language police! I’ve forgotten the details but years ago there was a huge fight over the apostrophe in “Tim Horton’s.” There is no “‘s” possessive in French and they weren’t having it but it’s a trademarked name and eventually Big Donut won but it was profoundly silly and went on for months.
Ceci, the bonjour-hi thing got tossed.
debbie
@Baud:
I think Mulvaney hears Trump’s bus revving up its engine.
JPL
This site keeps up with trump so you don’t have to, https://whatthefuckjusthappenedtoday.com/ I had it bookmarked and would check, but discovered it caused me to much angst. Someone with better stamina than I might enjoy it though.
Ken
@debbie: “Mulvaney? No, he didn’t have any authority for that. He’s only the ‘Acting’ chief of staff.”
Serious question, is there any legal precedent resolving just what “Acting” members can and can’t do?
mad citizen
@JPL: JPL beat me to it, was just going to post the link. You can also get the update emailed to you every day. It’s a great resource to see the complete picture of how phucked up things are each day.
We went to Montreal a couple years ago and loved it–early April, I was there for a work meeting. I still get emails in French from the restaurant we ate at. Last night I showed one to my wife and she said she would rather go back to Montreal than go to France, where we’ve never been. We also spent a couple nights in Quebec City and that was also great. Friendly people, though I do realize mostly we’re in the touristy areas.
Amir Khalid
@Ken:
With what Trump has already volunteered his confession to, all the House needs to do (and indeed all it can do) is log the evidence. The only problems are those of abundance: so many impeachable acts, so much evidence of each and every one. I’ve said that in theory the House could wind up with a book-length Articles of Impeachment if they so chose.
What happens next is up to the Senate, I suppose. Will an overwhelming weight of evidence cause a tipping point where even Republicans realise that Trump poses a continuing danger to the republic? I would hope so, but with this Republican party I dare not predict it. It still seems a real possibility that Republicans will abandon America to save Trump. To repeat a Cold War slogan out of context, lieber rot als tot.
Kattails
@Central Planning: Is there a nice little bakery near her that you know about, tea shop, chocolate shop, someplace she could take herself for a treat? Good local coffee roasters? We need data! How much you wanna fork over? Do you know if she drinks? I buy modestly priced wine for myself but am always happy to see a decent bottle roll through, or if you have a package goods store that sells the “nips”, the little bottles, a basket with some little cordials ( I can name names if you want) and maybe a pretty little glass which could be had from an antique shop for a couple of bucks; or you know flowers always work. Some high-end olive oil in a fancy bottle and balsamic, everybody eats, & you don’t even need to know if she’s on whatever diet is the current one.
A set of fun, colored gel pens and blank note cards. A cute stuffed bunny, tie a big ribbon, but it in a nice bag with a good card.
mrmoshpotato
@Amir Khalid:
Narrator: No. It turned out the Russthuglicans were a bunch of traitorous bastards owned by the Kremlin.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Central Planning: A box of treats. I usually get baklava or very rich scones from a Scottish bakery. Or I support a charity or artist or writer friend by giving their scarf/picture/book/soap/calendar.
OzarkHillbilly
Oh to have been a 17th century shipwright. Of course, if I had I would have been dead long ago.
rikyrah
@Raven:
Yeah????
Steeplejack
@Central Planning:
Here are a few things that might be good. (I was just doing a little early Christmas planning last night.) They’re “tech” items that non-techies can use/appreciate. Nothing over 20 bucks.
‣ Tablet/phone stand, $15.99. Someone gave me a different stand last Christmas. It was awful, but I liked the idea, and I found this one, which is great. I am regularly surprised at how much I use it. Particularly good for streaming cable TV on the tablet next to the computer.
‣ Goal Zero solar-powered lantern, $19.95. Just sent this to a friend for her birthday. Nice for power outages, can be recharged with sunlight. (Also via USB.)
‣ Anker Powerline II three-in-one cable (Lightning, USB C/Micro USB), $17.99. I have this, along with the charger below, in my car. I can give anybody a charge—iPhone, tablets, old and new Android phones, etc.
‣ Anker USB car charger, $17.99. I keep this in the doughty Kia for fast charging. Much better than the one (hard-to-reach) existing USB port.
rikyrah
@OzarkHillbilly:
If I ever meet Mr. Dale in real life, I am going to buy him dinner.
Honus
@RAVEN: there’s your answer for Central Planning. A nice bottle of champagne will be appreciated when opened, or can be regifted if nicely if the person doesn’t imbibe.
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Q: How do you find a 17th century shipwright?
A: Look in the want adz.
;)
Steeplejack
@RAVEN:
Looks good! And happy birthday.
rikyrah
Someone from NPR who actually did their job??
Tamara Keith (@tamarakeithNPR) Tweeted:
This was an epic project. But I’ve found primary source material and deposition excerpts for every major allegation in the whistleblower complaint. https://twitter.com/tamarakeithNPR/status/1193143613875785730?s=20
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Horrible. :)
chris
@OzarkHillbilly: A few days on the bottom end of the pit saw would fix that.
Barbara
@mad citizen: We’ve been to Montreal and throughout Quebec many times in every season. We found a Quebec hotel chain that has wood fires and breakfast spreads of the things people generally love most about French food, like breads and jams. It is kind of our go to place when we want to get away without making complicated travel plans.
RedDirtGirl
@NotMax: Speaking of food fails, this had me in stitches. (Crossing fingers that I finally have the hang of inserting links!)
ETA: obviously not ?
Citizen_X
@OzarkHillbilly: This reminds me of an Irish friend who entered a graduate program here. He had a little meet-the-new-student meeting with the faculty, and at the end, one professor asked him, “Where did you get your wonderful command of the English language?”
He just stared, dumbfounded, until some other prof gently defused the situation, but all he could think was “Hello, the Irish? You know, Yeats? Joyce? Behan?”
germy
@Barbara: What is it like crossing the border back into the States? I haven’t done it in thirty years. Back then it was a simple matter. Is it more annoying nowadays?
Steeplejack
@RedDirtGirl:
But, hey, you’ve got that emoji thing down!
Just put in a naked hyperlink. We can stand it.
Richard Guhl
Let’s be clear. The GOP response during the public hearings will be pure primate dominance displays with loud vocalizations, chest thumping, pulling up grass, shaking trees, and flinging feces. What they say will not matter. Their entire effort will aim to distract, derail, and discredit the impeachment hearings.
The tree shaking will all be about the manufactured investigation of the Bidens and 2016. Save for the Toddler-in-chief, I doubt any of the Republicans believe that there’s any there, there, when it comes to the investigations. Their aim is to create the possibility that there might be, even though they know there isn’t.
OzarkHillbilly
@chris: I doubt it. In my 35 years on all kinds of job sites doing all kinds of dirty, nasty, soul crushing, body destroying work, I saw all kinds of “technological improvements”, all designed to make our lives “easier”. Not once did they because no matter how techniques changed, the bosses always demanded more.
The job never got any easier.
RedDirtGirl
@Steeplejack: I can do it! I know I can! gnocchi fail ??
ETA: So close! ?
H.E.Wolf
@Central Planning:
Perhaps a small donation in their honor to an organization that suits their interests/values?
Steeplejack
@RedDirtGirl:
Almost but not quite. You got the link-mo-tron working, but your hyperlink is missing a colon after “http”. Fixed: gnocchi fail.
ETA: Looks like you didn’t erase/overwrite the “http://” that FYWP thoughtfully provided. Always get rid of that and replace it with your hyperlink.
RedDirtGirl
@$&%#!
please work
Just One More Canuck
@germy: a few months ago we took our daughter to a soccer camp in Eerie, Pennsylvania (we’re in suburban Toronto). Going into the US at Buffalo took about 5 minutes mostly because we had one of my daughter’s friends with us whose parents weren’t able to come – coming back into Canada took about a minute
And to those who mentioned It, montreal, along with Vancouver are the best cities for visitors
RedDirtGirl
Fuck it. Google fried gnocchi fail.
jeffreyw
@NotMax:
You look in Cap’n Craig’s List!
Arr arr arrrr
mad citizen
@Barbara: Do you mind sharing the name of the hotel chain? For future reference. Thanks in advance.
Just reading rikyrah’s link to the NPR story annotating the whistleblower complaint. It’s voluminous. All they have left is stonewalling and then possibly the R senators selling our nation out a second time. It always brings back the thought I heard a lot when I was a kid during the Nixon era–really I think the right wingers would use against indicted people, but then turned around and used against Nixon, but if you didn’t do anything wrong, then you have nothing to hide. https://hti.osu.edu/opper/lesson-plans/nixon-and-watergate/images/i-have-nothing-to-hide
In our current case Trump argues his phone call was “perfect”, but no one asks him what that means. What is the difference between an “imperfect” and a “perfect” call? He’s just branding it. So they proceed along the two tracks: simple stonewalling; and that what he did wasn’t wrong. Hopefully americans can still see that it was totally wrong, beyond the pale.
RedDirtGirl
@germy: I’m bringing back my button that says:
Be Nice To Me, I’m Rich
OzarkHillbilly
@Citizen_X: Heh, A buddy of mine went to Ireland back around 1980. Spent 3 or 4 weeks there. It wasn’t until his last week that he was able to decipher half of what was being said.
zzyzx
How did we managed to go from the euphoria of the Berlin Wall collapsing to the depression of nationalism everywhere in just 30 years?
tony in san diego
@Central Planning: go to your local thrift store, and find a tchotchke that will appeal to your friend’s tastes or interests. Silly little thing, only a couple dollars.
OzarkHillbilly
@zzyzx: We’re humans. That’s why we can’t have nice things.
RedDirtGirl
@Steeplejack: Thank you!
OzarkHillbilly
Monroe, Louisiana
Supporters of Donald Trump listen as he speaks during a campaign rally at the Monroe civic centre.
Looks like child abuse to me.
Steeplejack
@RedDirtGirl:
So let’s see you do a good one!
chris
@OzarkHillbilly: Yep. “Here’s a really cool cordless tool! Now use it over your head all day.”
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: Man, if he keeps drawing those types of crowds, he’s certain to win Louisiana in 2020.
JR
@OzarkHillbilly: that ship sank almost immediately
pinacacci
Open Thread so since I can’t comment more often, I’m still enthralled with the enchilada video. I love that granny.
She’s just like: “Eat this. Yum” I apologize I forget who posted it but I gotta go to work so…sorry enchilada thoughts. Later kthxbai
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Citizen_X: One of Mr DAW’s colleagues was from England. A car salesman in Iowa asked him how long he’d been speaking English.
Omnes Omnibus
@zzyzx: Today is not just the 30th anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, it is also the 83d anniversary of Kristallnacht. There it is, your answer from one day in one country’s history.
Aleta
I do it slightly differently, easier for me, and I don’t have to erase the http. (Can’t say if it will work after The Change.)
1) write a comment 2) copy the link (from a page brought up in a separate window) *
3) on the BJ page, highlight a few words in my comment, 4) click on the link button
5) in the box that appears, insert the copied link and hit return (cursor should be at the end of the inserted link)
This automatically overwrites the http that comes up in the link box. In my experience on a macbook.
* or reverse: 2) first, then 1)
OzarkHillbilly
@chris: Don’t know if you know what a drywall lift is, but it’s a tool that one puts the 112 pound sheet of 5/8 firecode on and then jack it up to the ceiling and hold it in place while one screws it up. Yeah, we never used them. They took too long. So it was 2 guys on step ups holding the sheet up with one hand each and screwing it into place with the other hand. One sheet after another after another after another… all day long. And my wife wonders why my shoulders are shot (not really, she understands as well as she is able to)
@JR: Yep, For me it just would have been a beautiful thing to be a part of. Over the years I got to work a beautiful project or 2 but they were few and far between.
Aleta
@Aleta: all while failing to address @RedDirtGirl:
frosty
@germy: We took our trailer to Quebec City and Tadoussac last summer and had a great time*. Crossing back in was interesting, they wanted to know what we bought. I declared my case of beer and “groceries” so they went back, rooted around in the pantry and fridge and came out with grape tomatoes (these are OK, they’re from Mexico) and avocados. We got an accusatory “Why didn’t you declare this?” and I sat there thinking, “Duh, groceries?” but didn’t say anything.
* Except for trying to navigate the Quebec health care system in pidgin French when I had a shingles attack. One clinic was only $100 for the visit … after you paid $700 to have them type your info into the system. We found an anglophone one that only wanted $100.
zzyzx
@Omnes Omnibus: so basically your thesis is “the arc of the moral universe is long but it bends all over the place and lord knows where it’ll go next!”
Steeplejack
@Aleta:
The “http” is highlighted when the link box appears, so just inserting your hyperlink will automatically overwrite it. But Red Dirt Girl was appending her hyperlink—it came out as “http://https//www.dailymotion.com/video/x1ndcu9″—so I made it explicit that you have to get rid of the existing “http”. (Well, dunno if you absolutely have to, but it’s best to do so.)
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: “This Amurika dammit! Speak English!”
Great line from “Snatch”;
Omnes Omnibus
@zzyzx: I am not going to argue with Dr King’s version. I’ll just say that the bending may oscillate a bit, and progress isn’t steady.
ETA: But, nevertheless, life is grand.
zzyzx
@Omnes Omnibus: Well if you’re going to throw Camper Van videos at me, that’ll stop me from posting snarky comments ;)
Omnes Omnibus
@zzyzx: Often, the best defense is a good offense.
OzarkHillbilly
@Steeplejack: I found the trick is to right click on the link box and left click on paste when it pops up. If I forget and left click on the link box I have to either delete the existing http: or highlight and then right click.
Boris, Rasputin's Evil Twin
@OzarkHillbilly: You might not have enjoyed it. An article in “Archaeology” reported the shipwrights working on “Vasa” were Swedes and English, each working their side of the hull. Using different sized rulers. Then there was the little problem of her sinking almost at once. The king had approved plans that put the lower gunports too close to the waterline. Can’t blame the king, but the shipwrights probably caught hell.
zzyzx
@Omnes Omnibus: I assume you didn’t know that I was a big fan and – also 30 years ago about this time – I saw the band that I would become obsessed with (Phish) for the first time because a friend lured me to attend by describing them as Steely Dan covering Camper Van Beethoven.
I mean I’m on the record about it but I don’t post enough here for people to remember that kind of detail…
Good lucky shot!
PPCLI
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
@OzarkHillbilly:
True fact: The people who choose to work in jobs enforcing the French language laws in Québec are among the pettiest people in the universe. At least one case like this will hit the newspapers every couple of years.
Steeplejack
@OzarkHillbilly:
There are many paths to link nirvana. Okay, several.
laura
@Raven: Very glad to hear the shindig was a good’n.
Hope you’re getting ready to boo like crazy when the Shitler slinks into the stadium.
Go Dawgs Go!
Barbara
@germy: Le Germain. It has locations in Montreal, Quebec City, and elsewhere in Canada.
ETA: oops, I meant that as a reply to mad citizen.
OzarkHillbilly
@Steeplejack: Yeah, and I still manage to screw it up one time out of every 20.
jc
Nunes, Jordan, Gaetz etc. are not just blatant enablers of a ridiculously corrupt president, they pride themselves on being totally arrogant pricks about it. They might as well say: how dare you call us out for our dishonesty, deceiving the American public is what we do.
RAVEN
@Omnes Omnibus: They’re playing here again soon.
CAMP-IN 2020
Thursday, January 23, 2020 @ 8:00PM — Saturday, January 25, 2020 @ 11:55PM
Cracker- CVB Camp-In Thurs-Sat
40 WATT CLUB , ATHENS GA
Raven
@laura: That’s Bama and LSU!
Omnes Omnibus
@RAVEN: Happy retirement, old codger.
Steeplejack
@OzarkHillbilly:
Aw, you’re a superstar, what with the number of (valued) Guardian links you throw up.
BC in Illinois
Totally off of any topic:
John Yoo (Professor of Law and Torture, UC Berkeley) has written a book, which is noted in LGM, under the title Annals of Toadyism. The actual title of the book is Defender in Chief: How the Constitution is being protected by Donald Trump. (Yes, that’s the actual title.)
Publication date: 7/28/2020, just in time for the post-mortems on the Trump presidency.
In the comments, there is a note about the “Revisionist History Book Club,” which included a biography of Caligula’s horse Incitatus.
Raven
@Omnes Omnibus:
Raven
@Omnes Omnibus:
Can you imagine us
Years from today
Sharing a park bench quietly?
How terribly strange
To be seventy
Old friends
Memory brushes the same years
Silently sharing the same fear
Time it was
And what a time it was
It was . . .
A time of innocence
A time of confidences
Long ago . . . it must be . . .
I have a photograph
Preserve your memories
They’re all that’s left you
JWR
@OzarkHillbilly: Sometimes I just paste the new link address into the link box and then press the End key to make sure the cursor is really there, and then the Home key to make sure the existing http:// is overwritten, but I usually hit Del before pasting in the link, just to be sure.
Baud
@BC in Illinois:
Poorly?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Robert DeNiro on the Joy Reid show.
I think he really hates going on TV. “trump is so bad, even the introverts are turning out”
chris
@OzarkHillbilly: I do, but I’ve never used one. Hanging board was easy when I was in my 20s but I couldn’t do it at all now. Never mind tape and mud while wearing stilts…
RedDirtGirl
@Steeplejack: Aw, man. You’re tough. Okay. Here goes…
Helen Keller was a badass!
ETA: I did it.
RedDirtGirl
@Aleta: Thanks, Aleta.
Steeplejack (phone)
@RedDirtGirl:
Link-fu satori. ?☸
RedDirtGirl
Was there a new post about Sondland up for a second? Or am I hallucinating?huh?
RedDirtGirl
@Steeplejack (phone): Are you a teacher? If I were really dedicated, I would practice each of the methods described above. But I think I’ll just stick with the one I seem to have grasped!
david
Three weeks ago, I answered a jury summons.
Left the house at 7 am. Drove 40 miles to the county courthouse. In the foyer,
there were 3 benches that could seat about 24 people, but there were over 60
people there. So most of us just stood around. We were finally seated. Judge
came in. Told us how patriotic we were. Court was great because if WE didn’t
make the decisions, then government would. And that’s bad, real bad. All the time,
I’m thinking, “You hypocritical motherfucker, YOU are government. You literally
work as part of the government. Every paycheck you cash is a government check.”
Anyhow, we were held until 2 pm, then given an hour for lunch. Came back, and
waited another half-hour until we got restarted. Final selection for jurors. Those
not seated (including me, thankfully) were once again told how patriotic we were.
The judge left us with these words: “The three most important boxes in democracy
are the ballot box, the jury box, and the cartridge box.” And, he proceeded to
indicate that, if the first two boxes didn’t work, then it would be unpatriotic NOT to
use that third option. Yeah, this is East Texas, y’all. It ain’t turning blue in your
lifetimes, or the lifetimes of your children or grandchildren.
Finally dismissed, was told “the check’s in the mail”. Got home at 5 pm.
That check just arrived in the mail yesterday. It was $10.
$10 for a 10-hour day, with $15 in expenses ($6 for gas, $9 for lunch).
No wonder only 66 out of 350 summonses were answered.
But, hey, I’m “patriotic”. Or so I’m told.
Uncle Cosmo
@OzarkHillbilly: Bordel de putain! Ces cons don’t even speak proper French themselves – they speak français québécois, a vile admixture of 18th-century French & a shitpile of vocabulary from other sources. All I have to say to them is, Va vous faire foutre!
Srsly, I’ve been all over Yerp & can say a few words with not-horrific pronunciation in about a dozen languages but the most linguistically challenging place I ever visited was Montreal. (And that considering I’d had 4 years of French in HS & once sported an accent good enough to convince a visiting québéquien I was an exchange student from France!)
If I needed to ask directions, started en français, & got a pained look, I came to understand this was a tell that the person on the other side was anglophone; switched to English, aucun problème. If the respondent looked disgusted & answered in rushed & slurred québécois , I would always ask politely if they could speak more slowly (Pardon, m’sieur, pouvez-vous parler un peu plus lent?) – & get a reply in English (with the same disgusted look). But if I asked a francophone in English first, I’d get an angry shrug & a torrent of québécois before they stalked off. IOW they wouldn’t admit to knowing any English unless I started in French. Quel emmerdement!
Steeplejack (phone)
@RedDirtGirl:
Whatever works!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Uncle Cosmo: I saw a Canadian movie in Paris, and they put French subtitles up when the characters were speaking joual.
CaseyL
@RAVEN: Looks delish! Would’ve been fun to take pictures as the tuna was devoured, ending with a licked-clean plate. So glad the party went well and everyone had fun.
Regarding the posted impeachment questions – not only are they the armature for future articles of impeachment, I’m betting the intent is also to head off GOP efforts to drag the inquiry into the conspiracy theory weeds. Which they will do anyway, but this hopefully gives Schiff a tool to shut that nonsense down fast.
RAVEN
@david: That ain’t shit. If you get selected as an alternate here you sit in a fucking room with NO ANYTHING, print, electronic , nothing for the course of the trial.
Uncle Cosmo
@OzarkHillbilly:
Ezra Pound, for your delectation.
RAVEN
@CaseyL: I wasn’t in charge of that! Plus, the tuna wasn’t really the focus, the Paella was!
Central Planning
@Kattails: @Dorothy A. Winsor: @H.E.Wolf: @tony in san diego:
Thanks everyone for all those ideas. I ended up with a small giftcard and a sympathy^Wbirthday card that says on the inside:
Origuy
I heard “bonjour-hi” in New Brunswick, where they’re also bilingual but less anal about it. I’ve only changed planes in Montreal; I had to cancel a trip there a few years ago.
tomtofa
@OzarkHillbilly: Saw that ship, the Vasa, a few months ago. Amazing multistory exhibit hall. The ship flipped over and sank about 20 minutes into its first voyage – the builders used the currently fashionable Dutch ship building measurement calculations, which were unfortunately off by about a meter for the Vasa.
debbie
@zzyzx:
History moves in circles.
debbie
@Raven:
Now, that was a great album.