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Thursday Night Open Thread

by WaterGirl|  September 10, 202010:09 pm| 56 Comments

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Someone HumboldtBlue posted this in an earlier thread today. Something good!

These ppl found a baby goat trapped in a pit. They took him home & cared for him overnite.

The next day they tried to find the owner but had no luck. While looking – they found a group of goats with the same white fur.

Then this happened.

Humanity.?❤️pic.twitter.com/tMR4hqmedY

— Rex Chapman?? (@RexChapman) September 10, 2020

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  1. 1.

    kindness

    September 10, 2020 at 10:13 pm

    Awwww. Sweet. See? People aren’t all bad.

  2. 2.

    WaterGirl

    September 10, 2020 at 10:17 pm

    If anyone is still catching up on threads and notices who put that in a thread earlier today, let me know and I can add the h/t.

  3. 3.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    September 10, 2020 at 10:19 pm

    Biden has really good people

    Susan Glasser@sbg1

    From Trump’s lips to attack ad in a very short time

    President T. V. Fuddlehead

  4. 4.

    cope

    September 10, 2020 at 10:19 pm

    My wife and I watched “My Octopus Teacher” on Netflix yesterday.  If you question the likelihood of a human/mollusk relationship, this movie might challenge those beliefs.  It was that or “The Social DIlemma” which I didn’t have the stamina to watch what with everything and all.

  5. 5.

    SFBayAreaGal

    September 10, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    So cute. Dang that smoke in my eyes.

  6. 6.

    HumboldtBlue

    September 10, 2020 at 10:22 pm

    Someone posted this in an earlier thread today. Something good!

    What am I chopped liver?

  7. 7.

    WaterGirl

    September 10, 2020 at 10:23 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: Wow, that’s good!

    From Trump’s lips to attack ad in a very short time https://t.co/89vSyYDxTx

    — Susan Glasser (@sbg1) September 11, 2020

  8. 8.

    WaterGirl

    September 10, 2020 at 10:24 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: I couldn’t remember!

  9. 9.

    Martin

    September 10, 2020 at 10:26 pm

    Youtube just recommended a live broadcast about the Oregon fires. I jumped in – they were IDing the antifa people they believe were setting the fires.

    Jesus fuck, Google. Get your shit together.

  10. 10.

    dmsilev

    September 10, 2020 at 10:29 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: 8 hours of Fox viewing in a day would be worrying for a retiree with nothing better to do. For a President? In the middle of everything that’s going on?

  11. 11.

    HumboldtBlue

    September 10, 2020 at 10:30 pm

    @Martin:

    Followed a Twitter thread from a right-wing jackass running for Senate in Oregon claiming antifa people are being arrested all over and are the arsonists behind the fires.

  12. 12.

    Jeffro

    September 10, 2020 at 10:31 pm

    @Jim, Foolish Literalist: It was amazing.  Keep firing for effect, Team Joe!

  13. 13.

    Martin

    September 10, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: I have to admit I do kind of love that Oregon republicans are dumb enough to not know the difference between the Bureau of Land Management and Black Lives Matter.  I mean, it’s tragic, but given how fucked things are, I can’t see how adding more idiocy to this situation could make it any worse.

  14. 14.

    Jeffro

    September 10, 2020 at 10:33 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: What else are they going to do?  Recognize that climate change is real and has real-world effects?  Stop following ‘Q’?  Realize that their gunz ain’t helping?

    Ok, seriously…I hope they get called out and stopped before someone gets hurt.

  15. 15.

    Jeffro

    September 10, 2020 at 10:34 pm

    @Martin: it’s like they’re on a hair-trigger for all the wrong things.

    Actually, it’s EXACTLY like that.

  16. 16.

    Amir Khalid

    September 10, 2020 at 10:34 pm

    CNN has this alarming story up about potentially dangerous Amazon Basics electrical products.

  17. 17.

    Kay

    September 10, 2020 at 10:35 pm

    FREELAND, Mich. — President Donald Trump made wildly inaccurate claims at a rally outside Saginaw on Thursday night, suggesting he has revitalized auto manufacturing in the state when it actually lost jobs even before coronavirus hit in March.

    Bravo to the Detroit Free Press. Thank fucking God someone there knows you can’t print the lie first and then correct it 500 words later. Composing a paragraph in a rational order that might actually impart the information. For this I am grateful.

  18. 18.

    sanjeevs

    September 10, 2020 at 10:36 pm

    I’ve been reading Peter Strzok’s book (FBI former head of Counterintelligence) and posted up my notes on the Clinton and Trump pre-election investigations. Since a couple of people were interested, here’s my notes on the post election to Comey firing chapters.

    Post Election

    1. The day after the election Strzok was upset. Trump had won and  ‘The prospect of bringing our cases to a close had moved beyond the horizon’. Yup, if Clinton had won the Counterintelligence case would have been closed. No harm, no foul, right.
    2. Trump’s Inauguration – a Who’s Who of shady Russians attended. There were so many questionable characters in town the FBI didn’t have nearly enough manpower to track them – Maria Butina was there, Viktor Vekselberg, Natalia Veselnitskaya (Trump Tower meeting lawyer), Konstantin Kilimnik, Sergei Millian  and many more.
    3. Mike Flynn and the Kisliak call investigation: Strzok and another agent conducted the interview with Flynn. Initially the planned to conduct a regular interview but Comey intervened to order them to ‘help jog Flynn’s memory’ by quoting phrases from the transcript. If Comey intervened like that for Strzok’s interview with Clinton, it isn’t mentioned in the book.
    4. Flynn took the interview at the Whitehouse. Before the interview he gave Strzok and the other agent a tour of the WH and talked about how important counterintelligence would be with Flynn as NSA.
    5. Flynn lied to Strzok during the interview even though he knew they had a transcript of the conversation with Kisliak. They gave him a chance to revise his answers each time but he didn’t budge.
    6. Later Strzok and his FBI colleagues met the DoJ to discuss the Flynn interview and possible charges. During the meeting a senior DoJ official tells the FBI not to conduct overt investigations like this without prior DoJ approval
    7. On the Friday prior to Flynn being fired (February 10), the Whitehouse calls the FBI in a panic. Mike Pence, having stood up for Flynn on ‘Face the Nation’ is now worried that Flynn lied to him. Pence requests the FBI file on Flynn and this is provided.
    8. Strzok says this came as a significant relief – Pence ‘hadn’t knowingly covered for Flynn’. Flynn departs on February 13.
    9. Anyone who watches Maddow will know what bullshit this is. As she has repeatedly pointed out, Sally Yates told the the Whitehouse (McGahn) on January 26 and 27 about Flynn. For 3 weeks Pence had done nothing. Only when charges were imminent did he feign concern.
    10. Two days after Comey was fired, Rosenstein meets with the FBI leadership to discuss the Russian election interference. After the regular briefing Rosenstein asked Strzok to remain behind. Rosenstein asks for details on the cases the FBI had built against administration officials. Strzok provides the information.
  19. 19.

    WaterGirl

    September 10, 2020 at 10:37 pm

    @Amir Khalid: Congratulations on your re-upgrade to K.

  20. 20.

    Ken

    September 10, 2020 at 10:38 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: Antifa controls lightning and wind now?  Personally I wouldn’t get in their way….

  21. 21.

    Percysowner

    September 10, 2020 at 10:41 pm

    OOPS

  22. 22.

    sanjeevs

    September 10, 2020 at 10:41 pm

    @HumboldtBlue: That was the push on social media when Australia went on fire last January. It was arson, not climate change.

  23. 23.

    geg6

    September 10, 2020 at 10:43 pm

    I love you for posting this.  It soothes my bruised heart.  Plus, I ❤️ goats.  Especially baby ones.

  24. 24.

    WaterGirl

    September 10, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    @geg6: I cried happy tears.

  25. 25.

    Matt McIrvin

    September 10, 2020 at 10:44 pm

    @Jeffro: They treat fires like they treat COVID-19. Ignore the widespread conditions that cause it to spread and concentrate on blaming somebody else for starting it, because that gives you a villain that’s not you.

  26. 26.

    Percysowner

    September 10, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    Biden ad during the football game.

    Here’s the 60-second spot that ran — pic.twitter.com/sJJTl6Umw0— Medium Buying (@MediumBuying) September 11, 2020

  27. 27.

    Jeffro

    September 10, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    Just going to say this one more time and then I’ll shut up: it is a TREAT to watch Mahomes, Hill, etc at work.  They are amazing.  Re-peat!!  ;)

  28. 28.

    Martin

    September 10, 2020 at 10:45 pm

    @sanjeevs: Climate change doesn’t start fires. It just take what would otherwise be small nuisance fires and turn them into massive fires.

  29. 29.

    geg6

    September 10, 2020 at 10:46 pm

    @cope:

    I have a friend who says The Social Dilemma is must see, but I also do not have the heart to watch it right now.

  30. 30.

    Jim, Foolish Literalist

    September 10, 2020 at 10:52 pm

    @Ken:

    Antifa controls lightning and wind now?  Personally I wouldn’t get in their way….

    Is that what Antifa is? The next marvel/mutant/whatever the fuck movie? Who plays Antifa?

  31. 31.

    Kent

    September 10, 2020 at 10:52 pm

    @Martin:

    Youtube just recommended a live broadcast about the Oregon fires. I jumped in – they were IDing the antifa people they believe were setting the fires.

    Jesus fuck, Google. Get your shit together.

    Local news here in Portland area had on the mayor of Mill Creek, one of the towns that was evacuated and burned.  They just went back in there and encountered looters going through homes that weren’t burnt.  Several were arrested. Of course not an ANTIFA or black person in sight.  It’s all white rural MAGA meth-head scavenger types.  All locally born and raised.

    Of course that won’t make the national news.  Cause white looters?  That’s not really a thing is it?

  32. 32.

    dmsilev

    September 10, 2020 at 10:53 pm

    @Percysowner: Nice ad. On the other side of the great divide, Republican worries rise as Trump campaign pulls back from television advertising

    Fearing a coming cash crunch, President Trump’s campaign has pulled back from television advertising over the last month, ceding to Democratic nominee Joe Biden a huge advantage in key states and sparking disagreements over strategy within the president’s senior team.

    Republican officials have been inundated with calls from worried activists and donors who complain about constant Biden ads in their local media markets, with very few paid Trump responses, according to people familiar with the conversations. Some Republicans close to Trump have been baffled at the decision to sharply curb advertising and have told the president he should change course.

     

    Stepien has told others that cutting the ad budget was necessary because it was impossible to cut other spending, such as staffing or a campaign headquarters. He has described facing difficult choices, as he tries to save considerable money for the final 30 days before the Nov. 3 election.

    I trust ‘Trump family grifting’ counts as ‘other spending’.

    Edit:

    The president’s son-in-law, Jared Kushner, a senior White House adviser, continues to oversee the campaign’s major financial decisions,

  33. 33.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    September 10, 2020 at 10:55 pm

    @Amir Khalid:

    Amazon’s iPhone  charging cords bite ass. They rarely last.

  34. 34.

    Melusine

    September 10, 2020 at 10:58 pm

    Came late to the thread this was in, but for anyone interested in Lilith – she wasn’t cast out of Eden. She got fed up with Adam’s asshattery, spoke the secret name of God, grew wings, and flew off to the Red Sea where she spent her days frolicking and fucking sundry demons. Eventually Adam whinged God into sending 3 angels to fetch her back, but she refused, so God made Eve to shut him up. Got blamed ever since for killing children and stealing the seed of sleeping men, cause she was jealous of Eve. As if!

    Couple of feminist theologians wrote a piece in the ’70’s/early ’80’s about Lilith going back to the garden, to whisper wisdom and encouragement to Eve over the wall.

    Before her cameo in the Bible she was the Handmaiden of Inanna, who danced through the streets calling people to the Temple for sacred sexual rites. Lilith is ?

  35. 35.

    mrmoshpotato

    September 10, 2020 at 10:59 pm

    @Amir Khalid: No mention of Underwriters Laboratories in the article.  Not surprising.

  36. 36.

    Ken

    September 10, 2020 at 11:00 pm

    @dmsilev: Members of Congress can no longer keep unspent campaign funds for their personal use on retirement. Did they bother extending that restriction to the executive branch?

    (Not that it matters, the campaign can just spend all the money on a big farewell party at Mar-A-Lago.)

  37. 37.

    lashonharangue

    September 10, 2020 at 11:02 pm

    @Kent:

    white looters – yes it’s a thing

    https://www.statesmanjournal.com/story/news/crime/2020/09/10/oregon-wildfires-looters-arrested-beachie-creek-fire-santiam-canyon-fire-evacuation/3463562001/

  38. 38.

    Brachiator

    September 10, 2020 at 11:06 pm

    The baby goat story was very charming. I kid you not.

  39. 39.

    Patricia Kayden

    September 10, 2020 at 11:07 pm

    Things are going great with the school re-openings.Teachers die of COVID in South Carolina, Mississippi, Missouri, Iowa and Oklahoma as schools reopen https://t.co/nq4RZ5ET6y— Holly Figueroa O'Reilly (@AynRandPaulRyan) September 11, 2020

  40. 40.

    Patricia Kayden

    September 10, 2020 at 11:10 pm

    @dmsilev: ? It’s great not having any Trump ads on my tv.  What a mess that an incumbent President can’t even get his campaign together.

  41. 41.

    WaterGirl

    September 10, 2020 at 11:10 pm

    @Brachiator: My dad would have approved of that comment.

  42. 42.

    dmsilev

    September 10, 2020 at 11:13 pm

    @Ken: Well, I was thinking more in terms of real-time looting. Trump family members and various hangers-on as salaried campaign workers or consultants, many many stays at Trump hotels, he or Jared or someone is probably getting some sort of kickback on whatever space the campaign is renting for an HQ (which, you note, was on the list of untouchable expenditures) etc.

  43. 43.

    Brachiator

    September 10, 2020 at 11:15 pm

    @dmsilev:

    Nice ad. On the other side of the great divide, Republican worries rise as Trump campaign pulls back from television advertising

    I am glad that Trump is having problems, but radio and regular television is not as important as in previous years. Except maybe with older voters.

    Even though it is the Devil’s playground, social media is where you want to get your political message seen.

    I am relatively ancient, but the only time I see any of the political ads is when they are linked here.  I have not listened to conventional radio in years.  I even listen to public radio via podcast, where ads are typically stripped out.

    I have noticed ads for both parties on YouTube. I avoid the Republican ads like, well, like the plague. But I notice that some of the Democratic Party ads are old fashioned.  But I love how Biden is taking it to Trump.

  44. 44.

    rikyrah

    September 10, 2020 at 11:21 pm

    Awe, the goats???

  45. 45.

    MoCA Ace

    September 10, 2020 at 11:26 pm

    @sanjeevs: That was the push on social media when Australia went on fire last January. It was arson, not climate change.

    So?  there will always be lightning, idiots burning leaves, careless smokers, and arsonists to start fires.  Climate change makes them blow up and gives us our recent fire seasons.

    Fire science is hard.

  46. 46.

    Kent

    September 10, 2020 at 11:30 pm

    @lashonharangue: Not only do you got white looters.  You also got a high-speed car chase cross country through a fire zone and across a golf course.   All the Hollywood elements right there if they were black.

    But it will be crickets on Fox news because they’ll too busy talking about some knucklehead firebug with “tats” who tried unsuccessfully to start a fire down in Douglas County someplace so…maybe ANTIFA!!!

  47. 47.

    Patricia Kayden

    September 10, 2020 at 11:36 pm

    As my wife said at dinner, Trump shot 200,000 people on Fifth Avenue, and now we'll see if he gets away with it.— Bill McKibben (@billmckibben) September 9, 2020

  48. 48.

    cain

    September 10, 2020 at 11:37 pm

    @Matt McIrvin:

    It gives people a reason to point at so they can fundraise for it, but also it gives a people other than climate change to blame all these. By seeding stories of antifa and blm causing fires, they are trying to sow doubt.

    ETA: and you can bet that Facebook is the number one purveyor of all these conspiracy stories.

  49. 49.

    zeecube

    September 10, 2020 at 11:37 pm

    Thanks, Humboldtblue and WaterGirl.  I needed that today.

  50. 50.

    Steeplejack

    September 11, 2020 at 12:15 am

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:

    Anker all the way. Plus I was surprised at how much more I like the 6' length than the shorter ones. Way more convenient than you would think at first.

  51. 51.

    JaySinWA

    September 11, 2020 at 12:24 am

    @WaterGirl: I bet he got your goat.

  52. 52.

    Eric NNY

    September 11, 2020 at 1:32 am

    As a feller with goat kids, that makes my heart smile. My does are sweet nd good mothers,, but afer 20 minutes they lose focus.

  53. 53.

    Jay

    September 11, 2020 at 4:05 am

    Andrei Derkach is the son of Leonid Derkach, former director of the Security Service of Ukraine. Leonid was involved in the murder of a journalist who was about to testify on corruption. Initially ruled a suicide. Rudy has terrible friends. #LockHimUp https://t.co/vM9mFgR1cN— Robert Young Pelton (@RYP__) September 10, 2020

  54. 54.

    ghost cat

    September 11, 2020 at 7:24 am

    @WaterGirl:

    A longer version of the goat story can be found here

  55. 55.

    Chris Johnson

    September 11, 2020 at 8:26 am

    @Amir Khalid:

    CNN has this alarming story up about potentially dangerous Amazon Basics electrical products.

    I am currently being sent garbage products by Amazon, to almost-exactly-my-name and my address but not the account I use, in what they call a ‘brushing’ scam: someone is sending around shitty physical products so they can leave five star reviews and win the recommendations.

    One I threw away, one I didn’t open, and one is in packaging revealing that it’s a Miroco Light Therapy Lamp retailing for a little under $40. That product is ‘Fulfilled By Amazon’, and its reviews were already locked for suspicion of review faking.

    But not before that very product got to #1 in its category. It, a fake being pushed through brushing scams, is the top Amazon recommendation for this category. #1.

    CNN is on the money. This is a BIG problem. A lot worse than ‘I randomly got sent garbage products’. The by far largest retail outlet for products, which dominates mail and shipping and crushes other businesses with a CEO that is a bigger billionaire than anybody else and who’s prospered significantly as COVID turned people to online shopping, this unavoidable retail outlet is completely and totally untrustworthy for identifying, not just what’s good to get, but even getting things that are bare-minimum safe. This is dangerous on a whole bunch of levels.

  56. 56.

    WaterGirl

    September 11, 2020 at 11:49 am

    @ghost cat: Sweet, thank you.

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