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You are here: Home / Past Elections / 2020 Elections / Bailey Eats a Burrito

Bailey Eats a Burrito

by Adam L Silverman|  March 5, 20206:07 pm| 131 Comments

This post is in: 2020 Elections, Dog Blogging, Food, Food & Recipes, Humorous, Open Threads, Pet Blogging, Warren for President 2020

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We can use an open thread, so here’s a video clip of very good boy Bailey swiping and eating someone’s burrito at Warren campaign headquarters earlier today.

Bailey legit just swiped someone’s burrito. pic.twitter.com/MWr6ZeiJa2

— Gabrielle Farrell ? President Warren 2020 (her/s) (@FarrellGabriell) March 5, 2020

Current defense attorney, former Federal prosecutor, burrito aficionado, and Michael Avenatti bête noire Ken White has taken the case!

The evidence is circumstantial at best, my client has no statement, is my client free to leavehttps://t.co/LKzSDVryT8

— WorkThroughItHat (@Popehat) March 5, 2020

Also, everyone, for the love of someone’s, anyone’s, and/or no one’s (for the atheists) Deity or Deities (for the polytheists), please use horizontal mode for pictures and videos!!!!

Whose a good boy, with very bad gas? Bailey is!!!!

Open thread!

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131Comments

  1. 1.

    danielx

    March 5, 2020 at 6:10 pm

    That dog is completely innocent.

  2. 2.

    johnnybuck

    March 5, 2020 at 6:11 pm

    I don’t think he’s giving it back.

  3. 3.

    trollhattan

    March 5, 2020 at 6:12 pm

    Maybe he likes sleeping outdoors, because he’ll be a danger inside for the next several hours.

    Goldies do like them some people food!

  4. 4.

    debbie

    March 5, 2020 at 6:13 pm

    “You’ll never pry this burrito from my strong, pointy canines!”

  5. 5.

    JPL

    March 5, 2020 at 6:16 pm

    I had two packages of hamburger on my counter and returned from a short walk and both were missing.  I found the cellophane from one, but nothing from the other.  Anyhow the golden was appropriately shamed for both.   That night when I climbed in bed the dog was really antsy and besides himself.   He hid the second package under my pillow.   You just gotta love goldens.

  6. 6.

    jeffreyw

    March 5, 2020 at 6:17 pm

    Just take square pictures.  Solved!

  7. 7.

    Adam L Silverman

    March 5, 2020 at 6:17 pm

    @JPL: Midnight snacks!

  8. 8.

    Mary G

    March 5, 2020 at 6:18 pm

    Bailey deserves a burrito for all the hard work he’s put in. And no, they aren’t getting it back.

  9. 9.

    UncleEbeneezer

    March 5, 2020 at 6:19 pm

    If I’m taking a video and trying to emphasize height, I’m using portrait mode, damnit.  iPhone…cold, dead hand etc.

  10. 10.

    Roger Moore

    March 5, 2020 at 6:19 pm

    I don’t think a dog is capable of mens rea, and thus is incapable of being guilty.  Clearly, it’s the fault of the human who failed to guard their burrito with sufficient vigilance.

  11. 11.

    Lyrebird

    March 5, 2020 at 6:19 pm

    Thanks for posting this. I got an email invite to a Warren call, but I guess they’ve maxed out their call-in capacity. I PERSIST in believing my contributions to her campaign* were of some use. *Note I’ve also given to the Harris campaign and some others.

    I saw in the comments that onions can hurt dogs and cats, fwiw, but most BJ readers & posters know way more than I do about doggos.

  12. 12.

    trollhattan

    March 5, 2020 at 6:19 pm

    Speaking of things canine, watched the Nature episode “Arctic Wolf Pack” last night and holy crap, it gave me nightmares. They include graphic footage of awful things happening that are usually cut away from, accompanied by a voiceover saying “While seemingly cruel, this necessary part of keeping nature in balance…” Watch with care, and no kids in the room.

  13. 13.

    Roger Moore

    March 5, 2020 at 6:20 pm

    @Mary G:

    And no, they aren’t getting it back.

    And if they could get it back, I’m not sure anyone would want it.

  14. 14.

    kindness

    March 5, 2020 at 6:21 pm

    It’s in his mouth.  Tell him he’s a bad dog for stealing it but let him eat it.  I wouldn’t want it after he had it.

  15. 15.

    Adam L Silverman

    March 5, 2020 at 6:21 pm

    @trollhattan:

    “While seemingly cruel, this necessary part of keeping nature in balance…”

    You know you’re in real trouble when your significant other says this too you right before they turn the lights out at night…//

  16. 16.

    Adam L Silverman

    March 5, 2020 at 6:22 pm

    @Roger Moore: 3 second rule?

  17. 17.

    Elizabelle

    March 5, 2020 at 6:24 pm

    Bailey’s been waiting all campaign for them to relax, to let down their guard.

    And then he moves in.  Like a ninja.  He is all about the carnitas.

    Good dog.

  18. 18.

    trollhattan

    March 5, 2020 at 6:24 pm

    @JPL:

    Our first Dalmatian was strongly food-driven, probably a result of his rescue situation. He was clever, patient and tall, able to counter surf to the very back edge (little hops were sometimes involved).

    I once took a 2-pound chateaubriand from the freezer and left it in the sink to thaw. Or so I thought and the spouse and I questioned one another as to whether we’d talked about it but forgot and if so, why isn’t it in the freezer?

    Bruno wasn’t talking, but the paper presented itself in the backyard the next day, “processed.” Bastard gnawed down two pounds of frozen beef, avec wrapper, without us knowing a thing. How he got it out of the very deep sink was never revealed.

  19. 19.

    Elizabelle

    March 5, 2020 at 6:26 pm

    Thinking maybe they’re worried about choking or bloat?

    Cuz Bailey has finished that burrito as fit for human consumption.

    Does Bailey have an Instagram account?  Didn’t Governor Jerry Brown’s wonderful Corgi Sutter (RIP) have one (maybe it was Twitter)?  That could be a great way to keep in touch with supporters and troll the orange one.

  20. 20.

    trollhattan

    March 5, 2020 at 6:26 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:

    Heh. “I will keep one eye open. I will keep one eye open. I will keep….”

  21. 21.

    Martin

    March 5, 2020 at 6:26 pm

    Any dog owner knows that the rule is any food left or presented within non-jumping height becomes a public good.

  22. 22.

    Adam L Silverman

    March 5, 2020 at 6:27 pm

    @Elizabelle: Or gas!

    You doing better than last night?

  23. 23.

    Adam L Silverman

    March 5, 2020 at 6:27 pm

    @trollhattan: The safe word is…//

  24. 24.

    Elizabelle

    March 5, 2020 at 6:29 pm

    @Adam L Silverman:   Oh yeah.  Thank you for asking.

  25. 25.

    MomSense

    March 5, 2020 at 6:32 pm

    Bailey is a novice compared to the hardened criminal that is my dog.  She knows the high value items and holds them ransom – for cheese!  It’s like a drug deal trying to swap the cheese for the item.

    Stepped wrong off a step stool (skipped one of the steps) so I’m going back to RICE and avoiding all things political.

  26. 26.

    burnspbesq

    March 5, 2020 at 6:33 pm

    Not a crime for which judges commonly order restitution. And the defendant is probably best buds with AG Healy.

  27. 27.

    Martin

    March 5, 2020 at 6:36 pm

    Sweet Jesus.

    The Grand Princess is holding just off of San Francisco.  A patient from the previous cruise died from nCoV. There’s 2500 people on board and 21 show symptoms. The feds are arguing they should stay on ship because there isn’t enough capacity in the entire united states to effectively quarantine them, and they have no protocol for dealing with this. The head of HHS says that Congress should consider more capacity for future quarantines.

    They have no fucking idea what they’re doing. It’s been 5 weeks since the first case in the US, and they’ve done nothing. They saw the Diamond Princess incident and did nothing.

  28. 28.

    Mai naem mobile

    March 5, 2020 at 6:36 pm

    Bailey is Biden and the Burrito is Bernie

  29. 29.

    danielx

    March 5, 2020 at 6:36 pm

    Once upon a time, the daughter unit and I were having special dinner at home with her “favorite steaks”, which happen to be filets – large filets. For some reason we got up from the table to investigate something – we come back and there is Greg, our late and much lamented Oriental Shorthair, standing up on his hind legs on the daughter unit’s chair with her filet hanging out of his mouth. It was as big as his head and he looked like an alligator trying to swallow a pig. Naturally my first reaction (stupidly) was to yell “drop it!”. His reaction, naturally, was to vanish out the cat door going out to the garage like a grey streak.

    Like I was going to put it back on her plate – although a cat bite is probably safer than a human bite.

  30. 30.

    Redshift

    March 5, 2020 at 6:39 pm

    @Lyrebird:

    I got an email invite to a Warren call, but I guess they’ve maxed out their call-in capacity. 

    It just rang for us and then said it couldn’t connect “from this type of phone” or something. I think someone screwed up seeing up the call, because conference systems usually tell you if they’re just over capacity.

  31. 31.

    geg6

    March 5, 2020 at 6:40 pm

    Hahaha!  I love Bailey!  Reminds me of our dear departed Otis.  He loved all people food.  Vigilance was necessary.  Koda loves people food, too.  She won’t take it if it’s in the kitchen or on the dining table, but we often catch her licking the dirty dishes if we have left the dishwasher door open and stepped away for a minute.  And she loves ice cream so much that we buy dog ice cream that they have at a local store.  The things we do for our pets.

  32. 32.

    Barbara

    March 5, 2020 at 6:41 pm

    @JPL: He was surprising you with a treat!

  33. 33.

    trollhattan

    March 5, 2020 at 6:42 pm

    @Martin:

    Gov Gav has been front and center, knowing that nothing of help will come from D.C. other than by accident, but the state’s resources aren’t remotely as broad or robust as the fed’s so hard to say what we can do directly. (There may also be a question of who has control of ship traffic, not up on maritime law.)

    He did declare an emergency which allows us to tap those theoretical fed resources.

  34. 34.

    Elizabelle

    March 5, 2020 at 6:43 pm

    @Martin:   I saw that.  What amazed me is how flatfooted Princess’s response has been.  The passengers learned about the situation from CNN — and then the captain made an announcement 5 hours later.  Princess, of course, owns the Diamond Princess quarantined in Yokahama Bay in recent weeks.  Not like they did not have some time to think about this.

    LA Times story (with a great visual of ship cruising near the Golden Gate Bridge).
    On Grand Princess, confusion, missteps reigned as coronavirus spread, passengers say

  35. 35.

    Mai naem mobile

    March 5, 2020 at 6:45 pm

    @Martin:  Trumpov has the  equivalent of Heckuva Job Brownie in charge of he coronavirus situaton.  And Trumpov is literally so stupid he doesn’t know the difference between a vaccine and  a medication to treat the illness. How does somebody so stupid make I through life. I genuinely would like to know Trumpov’s IQ because I have a feeling it’s in the 90s or lower.  It’s like the low IQ stuff about Maxine Waters is projection like everything else is with him.

  36. 36.

    Josie

    March 5, 2020 at 6:45 pm

    Typical golden.  Mine (Baron) once ate an entire stick of butter – very carefully took the paper off first – earning himself the nickname “Butter Dog.”  Another time he stole 3 steaks off of the counter which were waiting to be put on the grill.  He never took anything if we were watching.  He was always sly enough to wait until our backs were turned, and he was really quick.  I miss him so much.

  37. 37.

    JPL

    March 5, 2020 at 6:45 pm

    @Barbara: He trusted me, unfortunately.

  38. 38.

    Mnemosyne

    March 5, 2020 at 6:48 pm

    @trollhattan:

    Someone on Twitter was like, “Aww, let him keep it” and everyone else was like, “Have you ever BEEN in a small office with a dog that is feeling the aftereffects of eating a burrito?!” ?

  39. 39.

    Mary G

    March 5, 2020 at 6:49 pm

    I went to the infusion center today, where many of the clients are olds in fragile health. I was curious to see if they took any extra precautions due to the coronavirus and they didn’t, really. They put up new signs that if you have a cough, cold, etc, to ask for a mask. Instead of the Clorox wipes from Costco they’ve always had, there were giant industrial size generic containers of wipes. Evidently people were swiping them right and left.  They didn’t get around to taking my temp until I was already hooked up and getting the drip. Every chair was taken, so nobody’s worried. Their usual procedures are very careful, so there really isn’t much more they have to do except have the nurses wear masks. They don’t want to.

  40. 40.

    Steeplejack (phone)

    March 5, 2020 at 6:52 pm

    @Mai naem mobile:

    How does somebody so stupid make it through life?

    Money is a tremendous insulator. And Trump  has a sociopath’s cunning for the things he cares about, i.e., himself.

  41. 41.

    debbie

    March 5, 2020 at 6:52 pm

    @Josie:

    I climbed up on the dinner table and ate a stick of butter when I was about a year old. To my horror, I later learned it was margarine, not butter.

  42. 42.

    Elizabelle

    March 5, 2020 at 6:54 pm

    @Redshift:  @ Lyrebird:   Yeah.  Same experience not getting through.  It just rang and rang and rang.

    Alas.

  43. 43.

    Martin

    March 5, 2020 at 6:54 pm

    @trollhattan: I agree, but I don’t know that Gav can do anything here – it’s federal jurisdiction, I think.

    If you’re on a cruise, nobody is coming to save you. I suspect if you’re caught outside of the country, same deal.

  44. 44.

    Mary G

    March 5, 2020 at 6:55 pm

    @Martin:

    @Elizabelle:

    Plaintiff attorneys are probably chartering boats to take them out to the ship to sign up clients. I don’t see how Princess survives this. It’s such a giant fuuuckup.

  45. 45.

    Another Scott

    March 5, 2020 at 6:55 pm

    @debbie: My mom used to tell a story about me being a toddler wandering around the dining room table while the adults were just about to eat a meal of rabbit and fixings and me pointing at it and asking:

    “Kitty?”

    And them almost (but not quite) losing their appetite.

    Hehe.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  46. 46.

    Martin

    March 5, 2020 at 6:55 pm

    @Steeplejack (phone): Oh, massive insulator. If you have enough money, the people around you will move heaven and earth to ensure you don’t fail, because if you do, they can’t get any of it.

  47. 47.

    Martin

    March 5, 2020 at 6:56 pm

    @Mary G: I agree. They’re done as a company. I’m not which of our airlines survive either – it’s gonna be bailout-o-rama later this year.

  48. 48.

    Martin

    March 5, 2020 at 6:59 pm

    @debbie: My corgi once ate 5 bottles of 200 pills each of vitamin E.  Ate all the plastic. Ate all the pills. He ran around the house for 3 days leaking oil like a 1975 Dodge Dart.

    Oh, and he once tore into a 5lb bag of flour, eating we estimate about ⅓ of it, and scattering the other ⅔.

  49. 49.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 5, 2020 at 6:59 pm

    @Martin: I think in US waters it’s the feds, in international waters it’s the country of registration.  Gav can’t do much.

  50. 50.

    trollhattan

    March 5, 2020 at 7:00 pm

    PG&E continues its fight to be the honey badger of corporations–they just don’t give a fvck.

    PG&E Corp., struggling to exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy, wants to pay as much as $453 million in bonuses to thousands of executives and employees.

    The utility asked a bankruptcy judge Thursday for permission to renew its bonus plan for 2020, saying in court filings that the payouts are needed to help the company implement its “broad vision of a transformed PG&E.”

    It characterized the proposed payments not as bonuses but as “incentive based compensation plans” that puts a portion of employees’ pay at risk and is designed to keep them focused on meeting safety and other important targets. PG&E — driven into bankruptcy by billions of dollars in liabilities from the 2017 and 2018 wildfires — said it has revamped the plan to make the payouts heavily weighted toward safety.

    Last year, U.S. Bankruptcy Judge Dennis Montali approved a $235 million bonus plan for about 10,000 employees but rejected PG&E’s request to pay bonuses for a dozen executives. In disallowing the executive payments, the judge wrote there was “simply no justification for diverting additional … funds to incentivize them to do what they should already be doing.”

    On Thursday, PG&E outlined two separate plans. One plan would pay cash to about 10,000 workers. The total payout would range from $89 million to $266 million, depending on performance. At the maximum level, the employees would receive an average of $26,600 each.

    The second plan would reward 400 executives with stock in PG&E. The total would range from $28 million to $187 million. The executives would get an average of $467,000 worth of stock each under the maximum level.

    With balls like that, the Warriors could use the help this season.

  51. 51.

    debbie

    March 5, 2020 at 7:03 pm

    @Martin:

    Guess he was all about the chewing and not flavor. Yuck!

  52. 52.

    Mary G

    March 5, 2020 at 7:04 pm

    When the dog picks you. pic.twitter.com/XGUMdf9Z6r— Andrew (@ANDREW1ALBERTT) March 5, 2020

  53. 53.

    WhatsMyNym

    March 5, 2020 at 7:04 pm

    @Martin:
    You mean this company…

    Princess Cruises is a cruise line owned by Carnival Corporation & plc.[2] The company is incorporated in Bermuda and its headquarters are in Santa Clarita, California.[3] As of 2018, it is the second largest cruise line by net revenue.[1] It was previously a subsidiary of P&O Princess Cruises, and is currently under Holland America Group within Carnival Corporation & plc, which holds executive control over the Princess Cruises brand. The line has 18 ships cruising global itineraries that are marketed to both American and international passengers.

  54. 54.

    Josie

    March 5, 2020 at 7:08 pm

    @Martin:

    The only thing that saves us corgi owners from their rampaging appetites is their short legs.  If they could reach the counters/table, nothing would be safe.

  55. 55.

    debbie

    March 5, 2020 at 7:09 pm

    @Martin:

    Here’s a genius idea:

    This is absolutely horrifying.Rick Santelli on @CNBC says we should consider giving coronavirus to everybody to just get it over with.That way it won’t wreak so much havoc on the economy.This is your brain on capitalism.pic.twitter.com/Uv5UYyKtxy— Joshua Potash (@JoshuaPotash) March 5, 2020

  56. 56.

    Martin

    March 5, 2020 at 7:10 pm

    @Josie: No shit. Thankfully 24″ might as well be a mile for them.

  57. 57.

    West of the Rockies

    March 5, 2020 at 7:11 pm

    Hey, Adam, have you heard about a GWB-appointed judge who is demanding the unredacted Mueller report?  Buzzfeed is suing for it via the FIA.  Big news or meh?

  58. 58.

    trollhattan

    March 5, 2020 at 7:12 pm

    @debbie:

    That’s EXACTLY what antivaxxers are doing when they have their chicken pox “parties.”

    Stupid is as stupid does. And this does.

  59. 59.

    WhatsMyNym

    March 5, 2020 at 7:12 pm

    @WhatsMyNym:   I should have added the whole company, Carnival, has over 100 ships.   They’ll find a way to write off any losses.

  60. 60.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 5, 2020 at 7:13 pm

    @debbie: This is someone who proved in 2009 that he’s not all that bright.

  61. 61.

    debbie

    March 5, 2020 at 7:14 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    And yet he still has an audience! Gah!

  62. 62.

    trollhattan

    March 5, 2020 at 7:14 pm

    Hey everybody, here’s an opportunity.

    President Donald Trump’s reelection campaign is asking supporters to make a donation for a chance to meet the first lady in California.

    “Win a trip to meet first lady Melania Trump in Beverly Hills,” the campaign literature says. A date for the event was not included, though it is believed to be scheduled for mid-March.

    Mrs. Trump largely avoided campaigning and fundraising during the 2016 presidential campaign.

    Now doesn’t that sound like fun? N minutes of whispering “Smother him with a pillow, just do it. C’mon, a simple pillow. You can find one easily. The pillow, got it? Set yourself free, and the boy.”

  63. 63.

    Adam L Silverman

    March 5, 2020 at 7:14 pm

    @West of the Rockies: Yep. Judge Walton. He all but called AG Barr a liar in his order this afternoon. Barr has about two weeks to give him the unredacted Mueller report for his review.

  64. 64.

    Martin

    March 5, 2020 at 7:15 pm

    @debbie: Honestly, just give it to Trump. Shit will get done after that.

  65. 65.

    Fair Economist

    March 5, 2020 at 7:15 pm

    @Martin: Oh, the Grand Princess cruise got worse. A Canadian passenger on the Mexico cruise in February with the dead patient in Placer County just tested positive. An article interviewing some othe Cali folks from the cruise found two sick, one with coronavirusish symptoms. If it wasn’t widespread in the US before it is now.

  66. 66.

    Martin

    March 5, 2020 at 7:16 pm

    @trollhattan: I’d considering doing it just to give her nCoV, but there’s no way it’d get passed to the President. Is there one where I can meet Ivanka? That’d work.

  67. 67.

    Martin

    March 5, 2020 at 7:17 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: What are the odds Barr actually produces it?

  68. 68.

    Sister Golden Bear

    March 5, 2020 at 7:17 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Per CruiseMapper, currently the Grand Princess is offshore, seemingly in international waters.

    Docking at the Port of San Francisco does require a permission first, although how much teeth that ultimately has is unknown.

  69. 69.

    Mnemosyne

    March 5, 2020 at 7:18 pm

    @Mary G:

    That’s how our oldest cat got me to bring him home. It took me a few weeks to talk G into it, though.

  70. 70.

    trollhattan

    March 5, 2020 at 7:18 pm

    @Martin:

    IC wut you did dere.

  71. 71.

    Marigold

    March 5, 2020 at 7:20 pm

    Once, my husband was using the restroom and heard a rustling in the adjacent bedroom. By the time he was able to investigate, Watson had found and consumed an entire bar of artisan tallow-based shaving soap including the paper wrapping. He almost didn’t realize what had happened, but he looked in the dog’s mouth and smelled sandalwood. His fur was so soft afterwards!

  72. 72.

    WhatsMyNym

    March 5, 2020 at 7:25 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear: The Coast Guard is flying test kits to them.

  73. 73.

    West of the Rockies

    March 5, 2020 at 7:25 pm

    @Martin:

    I nervously second that question.  Mr. Silverman?

  74. 74.

    Roger Moore

    March 5, 2020 at 7:26 pm

    I guess I’m lucky.  My cat, Jake, is curious about human food, but that extends only to wanting to sniff what I’m eating.  The only exception is tuna, but even then he just begs for it rather than trying to snatch some.

  75. 75.

    Elizabelle

    March 5, 2020 at 7:27 pm

    @Mary G:   Oh yeah.

    The LA Times story is incredible.  Passengers boarded the ship to Mexico on February 11 — which is a week after Princess’s very own Diamond Princess was quarantined in Yokahama Harbor.  All over the news.

    Passengers got emails and some expected they would be checked carefully on boarding.  But no.  They were handed a form asking them to self-report if they were sick and if their recent travels had taken them to an area of concern.

    Some expected they would at least have their temperatures taken.

    Nothing.

    Several passengers who took the 10-day cruise to Mexico (returned February 21) are sick right now.  Two in Pittsburgh were tested by their health department and are isolated in their home awaiting results.  They initiated contact with the health department.

    Other passengers are ailing; one reports wheezing badly at night.  No word from the health departments, which have a massive job tracking everybody down.  Princess reached out to its February passengers with an email last week warning them of the exposure.

  76. 76.

    West of the Rockies

    March 5, 2020 at 7:27 pm

    @Mary G:

    These pretzels are making me weepy.

  77. 77.

    Roger Moore

    March 5, 2020 at 7:29 pm

    @Martin:

    What are the odds Barr actually produces it?

    I predict Barr will successfully stall until after the election, which is the main point.

  78. 78.

    Mnemosyne

    March 5, 2020 at 7:30 pm

    @Fair Economist:

    I’m starting to suspect that it began spreading several months ago but it only drew attention to itself once it hit Wuhan. I wouldn’t be surprised if it turns out to already be pandemic.

  79. 79.

    Uncle Cosmo

    March 5, 2020 at 7:31 pm

    @Josie: Typical golden.

    I don’t use my vet-in-training nephew’s golden’s given name. I call her “Hoover.” (After the frackin’ vacuum cleaner, not the ex-President!) Smart enough to lurk where food’s likely to drop from tables like manna but not smart enough to know what’s food & what isn’t – anytime anything hits the floor in her presence there’s a group scramble to scoop it up before she can snarf it down.

  80. 80.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 5, 2020 at 7:33 pm

    @JPL: Meat pillow!

  81. 81.

    Sister Golden Bear

    March 5, 2020 at 7:34 pm

    @WhatsMyNym: Yep.

    One bit of good news, California (like New York) just ordered insurance companies to waive out-of-pocket costs for customers seeking screening and testing for coronavirus.

    Also, the state is releasing millions of N95 filtering face masks that have been stored in a climate-controlled setting as part of California’s emergency planning reserves for use in low-risk health settings.

  82. 82.

    Mary G

    March 5, 2020 at 7:34 pm

    @Elizabelle: Guy that was on the ship to Mexico and sick, but Carnival left his name off the passenger list and he trouble getting screened. Gah!!

  83. 83.

    Uncle Cosmo

    March 5, 2020 at 7:36 pm

    @Martin: @Adam L Silverman: What are the odds Barr actually produces it?

    Probably about the same as one of his bodyguards (US Marshalls?) whipping out his sidearm & putting a three-group in the fucker’s forehead.

    And stop calling me Shirley.

  84. 84.

    Roger Moore

    March 5, 2020 at 7:37 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    Also, the state is releasing millions of N95 filtering face masks that have been stored in a climate-controlled setting as part of California’s emergency planning reserves for use in low-risk health settings.

    It’s nice to be in a state with competent government that cares about its citizens.  I wish everyone in the US could feel the same way.

  85. 85.

    Rob

    March 5, 2020 at 7:37 pm

    @Mnemosyne: I saw a tweet from/link to a reliable source that I believe said that the virus started circulating in humans in China during the month of November. Unfortunately I can’t remember the source.

  86. 86.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 5, 2020 at 7:38 pm

    @Adam L Silverman: If by “real trouble”, you mean getting your arm gnawed off in your sleep, then, yes!

  87. 87.

    Feathers

    March 5, 2020 at 7:39 pm

    Bailey realizes he doesn’t have to be on good behavior anymore!

    All these food stealing stories reminds me of my roommate’s crazy Siamese. She would ONLY eat stolen food. We ended up feeding her by putting cat food on a people plate, putting it on our lap while watching TV. She’d sneak up and eat when you weren’t “looking.” I often wonder what became of that cat once she wasn’t living in an apartment with six easily amused college students.

    Note: it wasn’t just the food thing, she would also race around the apartment, sometimes running headfirst into the wall.  She was basically a kitten when she arrived, so it wasn’t an abuse/rescue situation.

  88. 88.

    prostratedragon

    March 5, 2020 at 7:42 pm

    @Martin: Reminds me of when Tommy the Cat got into a large can of brewer’s yeast powder. He shone like the midday sun for a couple of days after, so I started sprinkling a little on his food. He liked it much better than I did.

  89. 89.

    West of the Rockies

    March 5, 2020 at 7:43 pm

    @Uncle Cosmo:

    I won’t say I didn’t smile at the image.

  90. 90.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 5, 2020 at 7:47 pm

    @Martin: Fucking awesome! /S

    ETA – who knew a mobster manchild would be a disaster with any power?

  91. 91.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 5, 2020 at 7:51 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Anybody who voted for Hillary?

  92. 92.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 5, 2020 at 7:55 pm

    @debbie: LMAO WHAT THE FUCK?

    (Gotta laugh because that idea is soooo STUUUUPID!)

  93. 93.

    Mnemosyne

    March 5, 2020 at 7:56 pm

    @Rob:

    I’m in Southern California in an  area with a large Chinese population, so the odds that it made its way here shortly after it started circulating in China are probably high. ?‍♀️

    The barn door’s been open for months, but we only noticed that the horses were missing last week.

    ETA: And by “Chinese population,” I mean “immigrant population that travels back and forth to China pretty frequently,” not just random Chinese Americans on the street.

  94. 94.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 5, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: Sorry, my ETA was also sarcastic. :P

  95. 95.

    Mnemosyne

    March 5, 2020 at 7:57 pm

    @Sister Golden Bear:

    I hadn’t heard this, so I just shared it on Facebook. Good to know!

  96. 96.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 5, 2020 at 7:58 pm

    @mrmoshpotato: Who knew?

    ETA: Have your snark-o-meter serviced.

  97. 97.

    Kelly

    March 5, 2020 at 7:59 pm

    Last week our cat Phoebe decided sourdough bread (the brand we’ve eaten her entire life) was fascinating. Ordinarily she keeps a polite distance when we’re eating. If however I have a bit of sourdough she is in my lap sniffing rapturously.

  98. 98.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 5, 2020 at 7:59 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: ? :P

  99. 99.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 5, 2020 at 8:00 pm

    @Mnemosyne: Even native born folk may well have family back in “the old country” and would travel to see them.  Most of the kid’s family on her mother’s side is still in Korea.

  100. 100.

    Mnemosyne

    March 5, 2020 at 8:04 pm

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:

    I just didn’t want to make it sound like I was seeing random Asian Americans in the street and assumed they were all flying back and forth to China. ?‍♀️

    My friend’s wife has tickets for the big BTS concert in May and he’s trying to figure out how to talk her out of it. I don’t think he’s going to have much luck. ?

  101. 101.

    Bill Arnold

    March 5, 2020 at 8:04 pm

    @debbie:

    Rick Santelli on @CNBC says we should consider giving coronavirus to everybody to just get it over with.That way it won’t wreak so much havoc on the economy.

    Sheesh, I had to watch that to verify that he was being at least semi serious (I’ve also seen it expressed by someone else).
    This is a mutation of utilitarianism to support corporate-persons, where the utility function is (attempting to) globally maximizing shareholder value. His assertion that mortality would be the same is wrong:  a slower infection rate might and probably will decrease mortality rate for a few reasons: (1) peak load on the healthcare system (for e.g. oxygen) might be reduced to below its capacity, (2) antiviral regimes might be developed and distributed that make serious cases more survivable.
    So he’s a psychopathic clown who if, given the choice between a slow pandemic that might kill 1% of the global population and an instant (OK 3-week) global cure that kills 3% of the global population, would choose the later.

  102. 102.

    Lyrebird

    March 5, 2020 at 8:11 pm

    @Elizabelle: @Redshift:

    Hey thanks… and my message was like “no routes available” or something.  I appreciate someone (one of you? dunno) pasting in the text of her staff message earlier.

    She got in for good reasons and (like others) got out for smart reasons.  Glad I can commiserate a little here and gather strength again.

     

    I’m also sad to see how widely promoted the propaganda attacks on SPW were… I mean there are plenty of reasons someone might support a different candidate, sure, and (cough) I am well aware that slightly stiff but empathetic schoolteachery women are not universally revered, and she may well be wrong on some things.  But both left and right leaning (e.g. on of those The FIRE leaders Popehat quotes) twitter feeds were passing on totally false garbage, oh she took a scholarship based on her claimed heritage, she did this, she did that…  Depressing.

    She ran a classy campaign and she (another cough) redirected Bloomberg’s efforts.  Probably I am rambling on a dead thread.  Onward.

  103. 103.

    zhena gogolia

    March 5, 2020 at 8:16 pm

    @Lyrebird:

    I’m sorry she didn’t get more traction. She’s a good person. I hope we’ll prevail in November and she’ll get to make major contributions to the rebuilding effort.

  104. 104.

    Miki

    March 5, 2020 at 8:24 pm

    @Josie: That would be my standard poodle Mike. One Xmas Eve he figured out my mom couldn’t see him on her left side (she was blind in her left eye and had had 6 cervical fusions so couldn’t turn her head). While she chatted with her guests, Mike quietly  pilfered the lasagna, garlic bread, and part of her salad off her plate, keeping 4-on-the-floor the entire time.

  105. 105.

    Roger Moore

    March 5, 2020 at 8:24 pm

    @Bill Arnold:

    (1) peak load on the healthcare system (for e.g. oxygen) might be reduced to below its capacity

    It’s not just the healthcare system.  Our daily survival depends on a whole bunch of complex support systems continuing to work.  Who will make sure our houses have power and water, our sewers work, our trash gets picked up, etc. if everyone in the world is sick?  Does he expect workers in critical sectors to just work through their sickness?  And what would happen when everyone who survived was healthy again?  Does he really think we’d pick up without losing a beat?

  106. 106.

    Lyrebird

    March 5, 2020 at 8:28 pm

    @zhena gogolia: Thanks.

    I hope we’ll prevail in November and she’ll get to make major contributions to the rebuilding effort.

    From your lips to the FSM’s ears!!!!

    And if sanity and decency can prevail in November, Sen. Warren and many of the other candidates have really already contributed by shifting the goalposts in a good direction.  At least it seemed to me that Castro’s courage in talking about immigration got all the others to make sure they had equally good policies.  I’m not the one to evaluate Sen. Harris’ policies from her time as CA AG, but it’s sure clear that she moved the Dem middle ground regarding criminal justice forward.

    Okay more deep breaths…

    BTW Mrs. Gogol, when I read your comments I think how a Connecticut meet-up would be quite an interesting gathering!  Haven’t got any trips bringing me there, but a nice idea.

  107. 107.

    Fair Economist

    March 5, 2020 at 8:28 pm

    @Mnemosyne: @Rob: The virus had to have started before December because several people came in with pneumonia in early December. It takes about 2 weeks after infection to get there, plus because it was several they had to be third generation at least. So probably early November at the latest.

    At the same time it couldn’t be from *that* far back because this thing blows up too easily. I do wonder if it got to Iran relatively early, perhaps from pre-Huanan market transmission – that would explain the apparently enormous outbreak there. The Chinese are repatriating some students (is that ironic or what?) and their rate of infection implies 30,000 in Qom alone. Huge error bars, maybe not representative, blahblahblah, but still, oof.

    My friend’s wife has tickets for the big BTS concert in May and he’s trying to figure out how to talk her out of it. I don’t think he’s going to have much luck. ?

    Not to worry. If things aren’t controlled by then, BTS won’t come.

  108. 108.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 5, 2020 at 8:31 pm

    @Roger Moore:

    Does he expect workers in critical sectors to just work through their sickness?

    Yes. The guy’s a moron.

  109. 109.

    Martin

    March 5, 2020 at 8:37 pm

    Remember two days after Katrina when there was this almost sudden national realization that everything we were being told was a pile of shit and all of those folks at the Superdome were dying and nobody was doing anything about it? The media dialogue went from ‘what’s happening?’ to ‘do something, assholes!’ That was basically what killed Bush’s approval ratings.

    We’re closing in on that point. The reporting and questions are getting sharper, the answers from professionals are getting less diplomatic. It’s going to break open soon.

  110. 110.

    Rob

    March 5, 2020 at 8:38 pm

    @Fair Economist: @Mnemosyne:  The barn door has been open, sadly. I have been following @aliostad on Twitter who has been relaying information from inside Iran that shows that the official figures are (massively) under-reporting confirmed cases and deaths.

    And just this hour, Governor Hogan of Maryland held a press conference about the first three confirmed cases in the state, which are all in my county. I caught part of it on a Twitter live-stream which didn’t have the entire conference, so now I will go look for a news story or transcript.

  111. 111.

    Jeffro

    March 5, 2020 at 8:43 pm

    @trollhattan: Pay big bucks for a chance to “meet” the first lady*, hmm?

    Hopefully it doesn’t give her flashbacks…

  112. 112.

    Martin

    March 5, 2020 at 8:45 pm

    Posted this aft from a Vice News editor:

    I just landed at JFK after reporting on #coronavirus in Milan and Lombardy —the epicenter of Italy’s outbreak— for @vicenews. I walked right through US customs. They didn’t ask me where in Italy I went or if I came into contact with sick people. They didn’t ask me anything.

    Like I’ve been saying – nobody in the federal govt is taking this seriously. How many hours after some idiot lit his shoes on fire on a plane did we have to take half our clothes off to get on a plane? People have been flying into the US from CDC level 3 countries with no screening, no tracking, no nothing.

  113. 113.

    Another Scott

    March 5, 2020 at 8:47 pm

    @Rob:

    https://wtop.com/maryland/2020/03/gov-hogan-maryland-has-first-positive-cases-of-coronavirus/

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  114. 114.

    Jeffro

    March 5, 2020 at 8:49 pm

    @debbie:

     

    @Bill Arnold:

    It’s not complicated…Santelli is basically crying for help in the worst way…”infect the whole world so I can finally stop with the dread, the DREAD!”

    How about we just infect Santelli?  That works for me.

  115. 115.

    Mary G

    March 5, 2020 at 8:50 pm

    Harvard Law has photos of all professors past and present in their halls. Students are leaving post-its with messages all around Elizabeth Warren’s.

    Why is this the tweet that broke me, that made me blink back tears in line at Trader Joe’s? https://t.co/4Afb4b8I3B— Jellicle Jew, Esq. (@clapifyoulikeme) March 6, 2020

    The one he refers to is “You’re better than all these fuckers.”

  116. 116.

    Elizabelle

    March 5, 2020 at 8:50 pm

    @Martin:   They don’t want to spend more on personnel, do they?

    A government run by idjits that don’t believe in government, and cannot grasp its power to act in times of crisis.

  117. 117.

    Martin

    March 5, 2020 at 8:50 pm

    NEW: Officials in Sunnyvale, California, say a 72-year-old person has died despite officers performing CPR. It was later learned that this person had been on a cruise ship with 2 people suspected of having coronavirus. No further details yet.

    Doesn’t appear the feds made any effort to track people from the Grand Princess. Chalk up a few more health care providers now on the quarantine list.

  118. 118.

    trollhattan

    March 5, 2020 at 8:51 pm

    @Fair Economist:

    BTS

    Bachman Turner Superdrive?

  119. 119.

    zhena gogolia

    March 5, 2020 at 8:52 pm

    @trollhattan:

    It’s a South Korean band. I googled.

  120. 120.

    Jeffro

    March 5, 2020 at 8:54 pm

    OT (or perhaps not, since this is an open thread): I swear this is true…

    …the family and I took a trip to Italy back in summer 2018.

    …the family and I took a cruise back in summer 2019.

    Total coincidences with outbreak locations in 2020, of course.  But um, we are thinking about taking a trip out west to see the ‘Big 5’ national parks this summer.

    So everyone please just stay east of the Mississippi until Thanksgiving this year please.

  121. 121.

    Rob

    March 5, 2020 at 8:56 pm

    @Another Scott: Thanks! I just looked at that and something from DC tv station WJLA.

  122. 122.

    Rob

    March 5, 2020 at 8:57 pm

    @Martin: Oh, great.

  123. 123.

    ?BillinGlendaleCA

    March 5, 2020 at 9:21 pm

    @Martin: Trump and his cast of idiots think this is the flu and there’s already a vaccine out there.  We are being lead by morons.

  124. 124.

    NotMax

    March 5, 2020 at 9:32 pm

    Much needed nap while a gang of new threads showed up, so only peeked in to see if anyone took you to task for “whose” instead of “who’s” in the post.

    No one did. (long sigh) Guess Steeplejack and Steve in the Wherever are absent.

  125. 125.

    mrmoshpotato

    March 5, 2020 at 9:51 pm

    @NotMax: Haha, didn’t even notice.

    And Steep and SteveInTheWTF are definitely slacking!

  126. 126.

    sdhays

    March 5, 2020 at 9:51 pm

    @Lyrebird: I truly believe that she deserves the Presidential Medal of Freedom for ending Mike Bloomberg’s Presidential bid. If the Republican Party was a healthy party, it wouldn’t have rolled over and piddled on its belly while Dump vomited to the nomination in 2016. If a billionaire with Bloomberg’s arrogance and history with women and minorities was able to swoop in and buy the Democratic nomination in 2020, it would have shown that the sickness isn’t just in the Republican Party. But he only won American Samoa, we passed that test, and we can all thank Elizabeth Warren for that.

    I don’t know if that helped or hindered her (it certainly helped her with me; I wonder if it had happened a month earlier if she would done better in the first few races), but I think she literally saved the Party, and the country, doing it.

  127. 127.

    burnspbesq

    March 5, 2020 at 9:52 pm

    @Mnemosyne:

    i wonder if there is anyone in Walnut or Monterey Park who hasn’t been exposed.

  128. 128.

    Bill Arnold

    March 5, 2020 at 9:59 pm

    @Martin:

    all of those folks at the Superdome were dying and nobody was doing anything about it?

    I knew a guy who ran a (the?) FEMA emergency medical operation in New Orleans. Good guy. He came back from that with a seriously haunted look.
    The smell. The bodies seen floating out to sea that nobody counted. The smell. Beyond that he didn’t talk about it much.
    I hope we don’t go there at a full national level. That would be bad.

  129. 129.

    Jim Parish

    March 5, 2020 at 10:01 pm

    This thread is probably moribund, but I can’t let it die without this classic of canine consumption, I Has a Sweet Potato: https://littera-abactor.livejournal.com/7748.html

  130. 130.

    misterpuff

    March 6, 2020 at 2:18 pm

    Bailey 2024

    A Taco Truck on every Corner

    and Two Treats in every Dogbed

  131. 131.

    BruceJ

    March 6, 2020 at 6:31 pm

    please use horizontal mode for pictures and videos!!!!

    Yes. Or Brad Pitt will punch it

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