Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Something needs to be done about our bogus SCOTUS.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Tide comes in. Tide goes out. You can’t explain that.

Washington Post Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Every reporter and pundit should have to declare if they ever vacationed with a billionaire.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

if you can’t see it, then you are useless in the fight to stop it.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

Cancel the cowardly Times and Post and set up an equivalent monthly donation to ProPublica.

This year has been the longest three days of putin’s life.

White supremacy is terrorism.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

Radicalized white males who support Trump are pitching a tent in the abyss.

You cannot love your country only when you win.

They were going to turn on one another at some point. It was inevitable.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

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I shared warm wishes with my friends and family on FB yesterday and one slip of the keyboard and suddenly things went awry:

Ducks, Dicks, same thing

 

The hazard of having ducks. One slip of the finger and suddenly instead of texting someone ducks pictures, you’re sending them dick pix.

Also, my saga of Google Home adventures continues.

True story:

I’m not sure, but I think Google Home is going to go to HR about me.
 
Me: When’s the snow going to stop? (desperation in my voice)
 
GH John Legend voice: According to the NWS, snow showers will end by 4 pm
 
Me: (excited and grateful) Thanks, babe!
 
GH John Legend voice: Anytime. And you can call me google assistant.
 
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Bonus Scout (she seems to have ennui):

great dane puppy has ennui

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61Comments

  1. 1.

    trollhattan

    Big lazy dog is bigly lazy. I’m sure the body language speaks for many.

    The fam, who struggled mightily to get over the Grapevine through snow closures yesterday, learned VERY early this a.m. that the 8:30 soccer match had been cancelled, due to rain making the fields muddy. Twelve hours they’ll never have back, although Thanksgiving pizza in a packed mall is a memory that will never go out of style.

    So now they get to go back over the Grapevine (light snow showers predicted) and on to Fresno, and hopefully a meet-and-greet with Devin’s cow. At least nobody cleated my kid today.

  3. 3.

    mrmoshpotato

    Also, not to detract from the embarrassing typos, but this is spot on and needs to be spread wide and far.

    The thing that angers me the most about the madness is how everyone treats Trump as an actual president. The majority of media go about it as this is just normal. It isn't. It should not be covered as normal either. I don't mean FOX either. You expect them to lie. /1— Shar G (@hapkidogal) November 29, 2019

  4. 4.

    JAFD

    Tell Roger-of-the-large-hands to check out

    morekeyboard.com

    Got one a while back.  Improved my blog commenting tremendously.

  7. 7.

    Major Major Major Major

    The one time it DIDN’T autocorrect a bad word to duck…

    When you’re making an iPhone app, the button to say “disable autocorrect for this input” is a duck with a line through it. Cracked us up at the office when we found out.

  9. 9.

    laura

    @Baud: coffee straight out of the nose right onto screen, hands, jammies and bedding.

    Oh Baud, so so so very glad you back Bauding it up!

  13. 13.

    Yarrow

    This thread made me laugh. Half eaten pies, doggos with fat tummies and a few guilty looks.

    Here is a thread of dogs who destroyed Thanksgiving dinner

    — Ian Boudreau (@iboudreau) November 29, 2019

  19. 19.

    Gelfling 545

    Among those present at our feast yesterday were 5 dogs from 15 lb Flora the Pug to 100 lb Marshall the Malamute. My nephew, the host, has his dogs self feed. Flora had never seen such an abundance of dog food as I strictly control her intake. She’s spent most of today sleeping off her dietary excesses. They were all Very Good Dogs.

  21. 21.

    Yarrow

    So the No Quid Pro Quo call didn’t actually happen.

    At the heart of the impeachment inquiry, members of Congress may have been mistakenly led to believe that there were two phone calls between President Donald Trump and Ambassador Gordon Sondland in early September—with the second call having the possibility of helping the President’s case. That’s not what happened. There was only one call, and it was highly incriminating.

    The call occurred on September 7th. In this call, Trump did say there was “no quid pro quo” with Ukraine, but he then went on to outline his preconditions for releasing the security assistance and granting a White House visit. The call was so alarming that when John Bolton learned of it, he ordered his’ deputy Tim Morrison to immediately report it to the National Security Council lawyers.

    Link. WaPo has a similar report.

    As this article was in the publication process at Just Security, the Washington Post published a report raising doubts about the existence of the September 9 call. The analysis that follows is consistent with the Post’s report and, among other points, shows why Sondland’s “no quid pro quo” call is in fact the same as the September 7th call that Morrison reported to NSC lawyers on September 7th.

  22. 22.

    Yarrow

    @Mnemosyne:  I reloaded and it came up right. I reloaded again and it reverted back to the wrong version. I reloaded again, still wrong. Wrote my reply, posted it and then original comment showed correctly. Then incorrectly. It was going back and forth so no idea what was going on. Also, ability to edit disappeared after first edit.

  23. 23.

    CaseyL

    @Gelfling 545:  Yay for Flora’s Very Happy Thanksgiving!  (After all, why shouldn’t doggies be able to join their humans in a food coma?)

     

    We did the Thanksgiving-flavored Indian Food thing at a local restaurant. Turkey makes a very good butter-chicken adaptation; Tandoor Turkey somewhat less so. I was a Very Good Girl and stayed away from the naan and mashed potatoes, then undid that with a double helping of Rice Pudding dessert. (The restaurant was, BTW,  packed.)

  24. 24.

    CaseyL

    @Baud:  Thanks for helping my coffee go down the wrong way.  Keep on like that, and you’ll be President some day!

     

    OK, another Comment Oddity:  Tried to add the reply to Baud to my original comment, but it took a couple of [Refresh]es for the comment to appear and when it did, no [Edit] button came with it.  So I added the reply to Baud as a separate comment.  When I refreshed twice to see that, both of my comments came up complete with [Edit] button.

     

    MacBook Pro, Firefox.

  25. 25.

    Jim Bales

    “u” vs neighboring “i” key — I get it!

     

    I teach photography. In communicating with my students, I often type  ”shutter“

    Jim

  27. 27.

    LuciaMia

    Hmmm, “Keep the d*cks warm but not too warm?”  Could be an admonition to not sit too close to the fireplace.

  28. 28.

    Obvious Russian Troll

    @CaseyL:  Went to a restaurant recently in Victoria, BC, which did French-Indian fusion food. Now, you might think such a thing is an abomination, but I’m here to tell you that it was a *tasty* abomination.

    They even had decent gluten-free bread (to the point where I was concerned that I’d accidentally gotten real bread, which I’m just going to say would not have been pleasant).

  29. 29.

    Kent

    Well, our Thanksgiving yesterday didn’t end with the old people going all MAGA.  Actually they are mostly old liberals who are more likely to bend your ear about campaigning for Adali Stevenson or something.

     

    No, in our household, the Thanksgiving tradition is that the oldsters pull out their iPhones and the grandkids stare at them in horror, take over the phones, and spend half an hour updating, installing apps, re-setting preferences to put things back like they are supposed to be so once again iMessaging starts working and the photo sharing starts working again and the keyboard is no longer set to Spanish or Albanian or whatever…..

     

    So in our family, Thanksgiving dinner is basically the annual free tech support for the oldsters.

  30. 30.

    Catherine D.

    My dear friend’s beau just cleaned my compost filled gutters. Worse, it was frozen compost. All hail Mathew!

  31. 31.

    jeffreyw

    We roasted a turkey last weekend, spatchcocked, herb butter. Big thing of gravy made with the turkey fat and broth made from the backbone, neck and giblets. We were eating on that all week long. Decided to go out for t-day dinner. Chinese was closed, old folks corral had a line out the door. We went to Applebee’s. We still have turkey in gravy.

  33. 33.

    zhena gogolia

    I just made cranberry sauce and tore up the sourdough bread to dry out for the stuffing I’m making tomorrow along with a turkey breast. My husband and I are going to have second Thanksgiving with turkey, after goose with friends yesterday. It was fun except when the conversation strayed into politics. You think it’s only MAGAts who don’t get what the Democrats are presenting for impeachment. It’s also too-cool academics who are so above it all. It terrifies me.

  35. 35.

    WaterGirl

    Hahaha.  I worked at a computer networking firm, way back when nobody knew what a network was and almost no one knew what even was.  Our email system had a simple way to send email or reply to the entire office.  One of the employees was a very religious fellow who liked to preach to the women that we were all going to hell because we were working instead of being at home taking care of the men.

    Anyway, one day right before the holidays he sent email to “All” explaining about the “hard dick problem” he had experienced.  It was perhaps unkind of us, but we really enjoyed that moment and had no sympathy for the utter humiliation he experienced.

  37. 37.

    WaterGirl

    @Yarrow: That’s kind of nuts.  Would love to know what device and browser you experienced that with.  Chrome is my best guess. Let me know if you get a chance?

  38. 38.

    WaterGirl

    @CaseyL: I’ll give you a *dollar if you submit that through the Site Feedback form along with the URL to this thread.

    *a virtual dollar

  39. 39.

    WaterGirl

    Since I already the last 4 comments on a possibly dead thread, I just have to say that this thread is very funny and deserves at least 150 comments, if not more.  Maybe everyone is traveling like I am, and they don’t know what they are missing.

  41. 41.

    JaySinWA

    @CaseyL:

    OK, another Comment Oddity:  Tried to add the reply to Baud to my original comment, but it took a couple of [Refresh]es for the comment to appear and when it did, no [Edit] button came with it.  So I added the reply to Baud as a separate comment.  When I refreshed twice to see that, both of my comments came up complete with [Edit] button.

     

    MacBook Pro, Firefox.

    Glad to see it isn’t just us Chome bums playing BJ roulette.

  42. 42.

    WaterGirl

    @JaySinWA:

    Glad to see it isn’t just us Chome bums playing BJ roulette.

    An equal opportunity bug.  We should be proud.  Seriously, though, I can’t wait for Monday when I expect the developers will be back at work bug-fixing.

  44. 44.

    StringOnAStick

    Turkey question: I’m cooking ours today a d plan to spatchcock it since that worked so well last year. I have some compound butter I made with roasted garlic and cherry tomatoes; anyone else think it’s a good idea to put this under the skin before roasting?

  49. 49.

    NotMax

    @WaterGirl

    Did you see the mention in an earlier thread that commenting went kablooey for about 15 minutes or so around 11 p.m. blog time yesterday?

    Submitting a comment led to a 502 error page. BillinGlendaleCA concurred he was getting the same error.

  50. 50.

    WaterGirl

    @WaterGirl: @CaseyL:  Thank you, Casey!  That’s super helpful because it gives me your email access right there with the report, so I can get back to you with followup questions, if necessary, or notify you of the resolution.

  52. 52.

    Jay

    Saudi Arabia, for example, planned to sell up to five per cent of state-owned oil company Aramco in what was supposed to be the largest IPO in history, raising $100 billion to improve services and diversify the economy.

    Instead, the sale has been scaled back. Only 1.5 per cent of the company will be sold, and the share offering may only raise $25 billion — enough to cover the Saudi government deficit for about six months.

    The precarious balance in Saudi society is maintained through lavish government spending that has relied on oil prices of $85 a barrel to drive revenues. But Brent oil prices have not been at that level in the last five years. Saudi Arabia is running deficits of around $60 billion a year to maintain services — and head off unrest.

    https://richardhughes.ca/if-saudi-arabia-is-in-trouble-the-rest-of-the-oil-producing-world-should-probably-start-to-panic/

  54. 54.

    WaterGirl

    @NotMax: Yep, I saw that when I was at the train station and I believe I left a note saying the information was super helpful. you can’t fix what you don’t know about. thanks.

  56. 56.

    WaterGirl

    @The Lodger: Sadly, those warnings weren’t out back then, but if they were, that would have been a great retort.  I recall writing something to him in return, butI have no idea what I said, so let’s just pretend it was something clever.

  57. 57.

    Jay

    For the first time ever, the Trump administration is using an obscure provision of the PATRIOT Act that permits the indefinite detention of non-citizens on U.S. soil to keep a Palestinian man behind bars even after he finished his sentence. https://t.co/Jca82nyi3I— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) November 29, 2019

    Based on everything we’ve seen thus far, this case will be used as a test to see how much they can get away with. If they get away with this, what comes next will be even worse. Don’t let them get away with it.https://t.co/p6GXEwybxb— Caroline Orr (@RVAwonk) November 29, 2019

  58. 58.

    Jay

    There are definitely plenty of examples of Nazi terrorist acts and even Nazi accelerationist terrorist acts, but this wave is a distinct phenomenon powered by Steve Bannon's strategy and the Mercer family's money.— Gwen Snyder is uncivil (@gwensnyderPHL) November 29, 2019

  61. 61.

    TaMara (HFG)

    @StringOnAStick: Well, you’ve probably already taken care of it, but I always to an herb butter under the skin when I spatchcock the bird. I actually find it easier to reach the thighs then when the bird whole.

     

    Can’t wait to hear how it turns out.

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