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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Happy Divali!

by Anne Laurie|  November 14, 20207:35 am| 145 Comments

This post is in: Open Threads, Religion

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… A traditional Diwali greeting is to say ‘wishing you a Diwali that brings happiness prosperity and joy to you and all your family.’

You can also wish: ‘May your life be as colourful, shimmering and magical as the lights of Diwali.’

Another can be: ‘May every aspect of your life be as luminous and wonderful as the lights on the lamps of Diwali.’

Sweets, lights, but maybe smaller family gatherings and (hopefully) not quite so many fireworks this year — at least not in pollution-beleaguered Delhi. But this of all years, we can use all the lights we can get!

The Associated Press reports:

The north Indian city of Ayodhya kept its Guinness World Record for a second year on by lighting 606,569 oil lamps and keeping them burning for at least 45 minutes as part of the celebration of Diwali, the Hindu festival of lights.

Thousands of volunteers lit the lamps, called diyas, along the Saryu river’s banks, through lanes and at houses as dusk fell Friday in Ayodhya, where Hindus believe the god Ram was born and where he returned after 14 years in exile.

The city lit 409,000 oil lamps last year.

Uttar Pradesh state government spokesman Shishir Kumar said the lamps were a stunning spectacle for thousands of visitors who thronged the river banks while ignoring coronavirus social distancing norms…

*sigh*

… There has been a push towards a “digital Diwali”. In Delhi, prayer ceremonies will be broadcast on television and social media to encourage people to stay at home. In an attempt to stop the use of firecrackers during Diwali, the UN environment programme launched a series of augmented reality filters where people could have exploding e-firecrackers, known as e-pataakhas, on their Facebook and Instagram posts instead of setting off the real thing…

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  1. 1.

    Baud

    November 14, 2020 at 7:37 am

    It feels like Diwali season starts earlier every year.

    ?

  2. 2.

    Mousebumples

    November 14, 2020 at 7:44 am

    Just posted this in the fundraising thread but I wanted to repeat it here too –

    Tony The Democrat (@DemocratWit) tweeted at 9:22 PM on Fri, Nov 13, 2020:
    Write #PostcardsToVoters for the Georgia Runoffs!

    GA Dems have a second chance to use the superpower of their vote to make a difference. Encourage them to enroll in Absentee Vote by Mail.

    Help Dems @ossoff, @ReverendWarnock, and @BlackmanDNA win!

    Text JOIN to (484) 275-2229 https://t.co/Z2HwsPujin
    (https://twitter.com/DemocratWit/status/1327451763406999552?s=03)

    I’m going to work on a few dozen postcards this weekend. Who’s with me?

  3. 3.

    rikyrah

    November 14, 2020 at 7:47 am

    Good Morning, Everyone ???

  4. 4.

    rikyrah

    November 14, 2020 at 7:48 am

    Think about it ??

    #Biden now has 12,688,861 more votes than Hillary Clinton in 2016. that is pure outrage at this administration. this is simply a staggering number of people. #Election2020— Skeptical Brotha ??? (@skepticalbrotha) November 14, 2020

  5. 5.

    NotMax

    November 14, 2020 at 7:48 am

    An d so it begins.

    Rep.-elect Marjorie Taylor Greene, R-Ga., challenged the House mask rule during the first session of new member orientation.

    Our first session of New Member Orientation covered COVID in Congress.

    Masks, masks, masks….

    I proudly told my freshman class that masks are oppressive.

    Source

    I for one would not be averse, indeed would welcome Madame Speaker assigning Greene what those in the know deem the crappiest office available. And in no uncertain terms directing the sergeant-at-arms to deny her entry to the floor should she be found in noncompliance with masking rules.

  6. 6.

    rikyrah

    November 14, 2020 at 7:48 am

    @Mousebumples:

     

    Yesssssss ???

  7. 7.

    Baud

    November 14, 2020 at 7:49 am

    @rikyrah:

    Good morning.

  8. 8.

    debbie

    November 14, 2020 at 7:51 am

    @Baud:

    Baud, every day with you here is Diwali.

  9. 9.

    debbie

    November 14, 2020 at 7:52 am

    @NotMax:

    Such a delicate flower; will she be able to stand up to the tough fights she has to face as a legislator? //

  10. 10.

    p.a.

    November 14, 2020 at 7:54 am

    Enjoy the holiday!  And there’s reason to celebrate (conscientiously)!  ??

  11. 11.

    Baud

    November 14, 2020 at 7:54 am

    @debbie:

    I’m more a Festival of Blights than a Festival of Lights.

  12. 12.

    Jeffro

    November 14, 2020 at 7:57 am

    @rikyrah: It is staggering.  trumpov ramps up the GOP base, but he ramps ours up even more.

    This article (which I saw last night, as did at least one other late-night poster) gets to the heart of trumpism, no ifs, ands, buts, or “economic anxiety”

    “…much of the Trump 2020 phenomenon can be explained by a far simpler way of looking at the electorate: There are White evangelical Christians — and there is everybody else.

    White evangelicals are only 15 percent of the population, but their share of the electorate was 28 percent, according to Edison Research exit polling, and 23 percent, according to the Associated Press version. Though exit polls are imprecise, it seems clear that White evangelicals maintained the roughly 26 percent proportion of the electorate they’ve occupied since 2008, even though their proportion of the population has steadily shrunk from 21 percent in 2008.

    This means White evangelicals turned out in mind-boggling numbers. Because they maintained their roughly 80 percent support for Republicans (76 percent and 81 percent in the two exit polls) of recent years, it also means some 40 percent of Trump voters came from a group that is only 15 percent of America.”

    I still can’t decide whether to feel relief that the 2020 election may just have been the high-water mark of white supremacy and still failed, or sheer terror at how close the orange monster came to winning despite everything he did (or in the case of Covid response, didn’t do)

    Maybe both?

  13. 13.

    rikyrah

    November 14, 2020 at 7:57 am

    ???

    ?LOL…the best way to start your weekend:@BrianKarem: “You lost the election! When will you admit you lost the election?”@realDonaldTrump: ??#TrumpLost #TrumpConcede #BidenHarris2020 #BidenWon pic.twitter.com/RV67toAcxQ— Dena Grayson, MD, PhD (@DrDenaGrayson) November 14, 2020

  14. 14.

    OzarkHillbilly

    November 14, 2020 at 7:58 am

    @Baud: We have your new campaign slogan: “BAUD BLIGHTS!” Fits rather well on a bumper sticker.

  15. 15.

    rikyrah

    November 14, 2020 at 7:59 am

    @Jeffro:

    It was never about them.

    It was always about getting our side turned out and votes counted.

  16. 16.

    scribbler

    November 14, 2020 at 8:00 am

    @Mousebumples:  I’m with you!  I have a few extra postcards left, and more postcards coming in a few days.  My mood always felt better when I dropped a batch into the mailbox these last few months.

  17. 17.

    NotMax

    November 14, 2020 at 8:00 am

    For grins, Stephen Sondheim’s most tongue twisting tune.

    :)

  18. 18.

    rikyrah

    November 14, 2020 at 8:01 am

    @Jeffro:

    Think that it would be more for our side if not for Post Office shenanigans and Voter Suppression

     

    How many couldn’t vote in Florida because of the POLL TAX

    and multiply that across the country

  19. 19.

    Baud

    November 14, 2020 at 8:02 am

    @Jeffro:

    That’s the most interesting analysis I’ve seen yet.

    Kudos to them for understanding the value of the vote.

  20. 20.

    Kay

    November 14, 2020 at 8:07 am

    Crumlish appeared skeptical of Kerns’ arguments to have the votes disqualified over technical errors voters made in filling out their ballots, such as failing to write their addresses on the outer envelope, and ultimately denied her requests.
    “What consideration should the court give to the thousands of electors who are unaware that the [campaign is] seeking to invalidate their votes,” he pondered. “You are seeking to disenfranchise the voters … for whatever reason.”

    The Trump lawyer admits the votes were legally cast- she just wants to throw out 8000 of them.
    There’s a process to “cure” ballots where the voter is notified when something has to be corrected or the vote CAN’T be counted- what if we put in a process where the voter is notified when a losing Republican candidate – Trump in this case but now that he’s normalized this in the GOP there will be others- is attempting to throw out their vote?
    This was a Zoom hearing because the Trump legal team have been exposed to covid by the Trump campaign team, but you could probably fill a gallery in a court with the actual voters they’re attempting to disenfranchise.

  21. 21.

    NotMax

    November 14, 2020 at 8:12 am

    @Kay

    you could probably fill a gallery in a court with the actual voters they’re attempting to disenfranchise

    With room to spare for the entire payroll of the Ringling Bros. circus.

    ;)

  22. 22.

    p.a.

    November 14, 2020 at 8:12 am

    @Jeffro: Undoing the Electoral College is the one-stop shopping place for enabling progressive change at the national level.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Popular_Vote_Interstate_Compact

    May be easier than changing the Constitution.  State legislatures become major battleground.  There is a codicil (h/t Animal House) in the agreement preventing last-minute flip-flops.

  23. 23.

    NotMax

    November 14, 2020 at 8:13 am

    Fix.

    @Kay

    you could probably fill a gallery in a court with the actual voters they’re attempting to disenfranchise

    With room to spare for the entire payroll of the Ringling Bros. circus.

    ;)

  24. 24.

    NotMax

    November 14, 2020 at 8:20 am

    @p.a.

    Runs up, in some interpretations, against a Constitutional speed bump (as well as a concomitant decade(s) long legal sorting out)..

    …Article I, section 10 of the Constitution, provides that “[n]o State shall, without the Consent of Congress, . . . enter into any Agreement or Compact with another State.” The Court in 1893, however, stated in Virginia v. Tennessee that congressional consent is required only for a compact if it is “directed to the formation of any combination tending to the increase of political power in the States, which may encroach upon or interfere with the just supremacy of the United States.” Source

  25. 25.

    debbie

    November 14, 2020 at 8:21 am

    @Jeffro:

    This means White evangelicals turned out in mind-boggling numbers.

    So did Catholics. Biden is no Catholic, according to them.

  26. 26.

    WaterGirl

    November 14, 2020 at 8:21 am

    @Mousebumples: I have a post scheduled for 10am with that and other opportunities to help with Georgia.

  27. 27.

    Baud

    November 14, 2020 at 8:23 am

    @debbie:

    You have data on the Catholic vote?

  28. 28.

    debbie

    November 14, 2020 at 8:23 am

    @Kay:

    Her entire argument is absolute bullshit. When you vote at polling places, you get a second chance to review your choices before locking them in. This is no different.

  29. 29.

    germy

    November 14, 2020 at 8:24 am

    Four-Year Existential Dread Still Yet to Concede

  30. 30.

    WaterGirl

    November 14, 2020 at 8:24 am

    @rikyrah: We need more of that.  Every time he shows his face in public.  Every reporter, when called on needs to start with that.

    You lost the election.  When will you admit you lost the election.

    Loved the “sir” that was tacked on at the end.  Technically respectful, but I thought it was shade.

  31. 31.

    debbie

    November 14, 2020 at 8:26 am

    @Baud:

    Anecdotal. Catholics were often interviewed on NPR and on local outlets here. Even so, it’s no different than it was back in 2004 with Kerry. Can’t possibly be a “real” Catholic if you’re not staunchly pro-life.

  32. 32.

    NotMax

    November 14, 2020 at 8:27 am

    @debbie

    Her entire argument is absolute bullshit.

    Well, no one can argue they’re not being entirely consistent in that.

    //

  33. 33.

    Jeffro

    November 14, 2020 at 8:31 am

    @rikyrah: oh, absolutely

    Eliminating obstacles to voting = #1 priority for Team Blue now (as it should be every cycle)

  34. 34.

    Jeffro

    November 14, 2020 at 8:32 am

    @p.a.: I’m good with folks pushing the NPVC and a constitutional amendment.  We have to get this ball rolling any way we can.

  35. 35.

    Kay

    November 14, 2020 at 8:34 am

    @debbie:

    I was pleased with the judge’s question because you rarely hear the interests of the voter represented.

    In my reading over the last 20 years, there’s been a shift from protecting the interests of the voter to protecting the interests of the candidate. These people followed all the applicable rules and I don’t know if they checked but if they DID check they believe their vote has been accepted and counted. There should be notice to them if a sleazy, corrupt candidate like Donald Trump is attempting to throw it out. If we can notice them to cure a faulty ballot we can notice them if someone is trying to throw their vote out.

  36. 36.

    Elizabelle

    November 14, 2020 at 8:36 am

    @Mousebumples:   Thank you for the info!  Just got a list of 30 addresses, and it will be a pleasure to write the cards this weekend.  Good to be already set up with them.

    ====

    Jackals:  a friend and I would be interested in phonebanking to Georgia voters, too.  Who would you suggest we contact?

    And good morning, and happy Diwali.

  37. 37.

    debbie

    November 14, 2020 at 8:38 am

    @Kay:

    Seconded. Voting is a right.

  38. 38.

    raven

    November 14, 2020 at 8:38 am

    @Mousebumples: There was a nice Ossoff rally in Athens last evening.

  39. 39.

    Jeffro

    November 14, 2020 at 8:43 am

    @debbie: the Milbank piece notes that some (presumably significant) portion of non-evangelical Protestants and Catholics also turned out for trumpov and his white supremacist campaign.

    He could have just said, “White Christians”, but I think he wanted to note the especially high turnout by white evangelicals and their especially high level of devotion to trumpov.

    It has been very eye-opening for me to read more about how the evangelical movement was and is fueled by white supremacy.  I always thought these folks just ‘happened’ to be intensely religious(!).  I’ll be lowering my Intelligence and Wisdom scores accordingly.

  40. 40.

    NotMax

    November 14, 2020 at 8:48 am

    @Jeffro

    Presumably your Charisma stays at 18.

    ;)

    /D&D ‘humor’

  41. 41.

    Baud

    November 14, 2020 at 8:49 am

    Every analysis I hear about is basically “Biden did worse with every demographic group.”

  42. 42.

    Mousebumples

    November 14, 2020 at 8:51 am

    @WaterGirl: awesome, thanks!

    @rikyrah:,?

    @scribbler: glad to hear you’re writing too!

    @Elizabelle: awesome! I know i saw a tweet this morning from Ossoff’s campaign with a volunteer link. I’d suggest the candidates, though WaterGirl’s post may cover that.

    @raven: glad to hear it! I love on the ground updates!

  43. 43.

    gene108

    November 14, 2020 at 8:55 am

    My cousin’s son (his wife is Jewish) is having his Bar Mitzvah in about an hour. Guests will attend via Zoom.

    It was supposed to be in the spring, but 2020 got in the way.

    When I looked up the day, the calendar on my phone noted it’s also on Diwali. Hopefully it’ll be extra auspicious.

    Hope some family in India can see it as well, since it’ll be 8:30 pm IST, when it starts.

  44. 44.

    WaterGirl

    November 14, 2020 at 8:55 am

    @Elizabelle: Georgia thread scheduled for 10am.

  45. 45.

    Elizabelle

    November 14, 2020 at 8:55 am

    @WaterGirl:   Just saw that.  Excellent

    And on Master’s weekend, yet!

  46. 46.

    NotMax

    November 14, 2020 at 8:57 am

    @Mousebumples

    We may well be witness to the first billion-with-a-b dollar senatorial race.

    I’ll leave it to the the Lincoln Project to decry Ossoff’s opponent as Perdon’t.

  47. 47.

    OzarkHillbilly

    November 14, 2020 at 8:59 am

    @Baud: I guess that’s why he won.

  48. 48.

    Baud

    November 14, 2020 at 9:00 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: 

    Less is more.

  49. 49.

    japa21

    November 14, 2020 at 9:01 am

    @debbie: He is as far as I’m concerned. In fact, most Catholics I know voted for him.

    Catholics are not a monolithic category. Wide diversity of views.

     This is an interesting POV on it.

  50. 50.

    Nicole

    November 14, 2020 at 9:02 am

    @NotMax: 

    NotMax! We made the Apple Butter Old Fashioned recipe you linked to yesterday evening and it was every bit as delicious as it looked. I drank 2.5 of them, myself.

    Thanks again for posting the link!

  51. 51.

    germy

    November 14, 2020 at 9:02 am

    There’s sort of a disconnect between what I see on the regular news and what I see on blogs like this.

    On the regular news, they say Biden won, but it was a close race.  Biden won what Trump won in 2016.

    But then I visit sites like this, and I get the impression Biden won by much more.

    Even the maps look different.  On TV, they showed a map, and the red states really overpowered the tiny blue areas.  And then I see frontpagers here link to maps, and the blue areas look really big, comparable to the red states.  Same amount of wins, but the proportions seem different, like the blue states are displayed larger.

  52. 52.

    OzarkHillbilly

    November 14, 2020 at 9:06 am

    @germy: If we weight the maps by population of voters as opposed to cows that’s what we get.

  53. 53.

    NotMax

    November 14, 2020 at 9:06 am

    @Nicole

    (scrapes toes in the dirt, blushes) Aw shucks, you’re welcome. Cheers!

  54. 54.

    Nicole

    November 14, 2020 at 9:06 am

    @Mousebumples: Thanks for letting us know!  My 200 postcards just arrived yesterday, so I just texted for addresses.

  55. 55.

    Elizabelle

    November 14, 2020 at 9:07 am

    @japa21:  Fascinating to finally see the Catholic Church’s sexual abuse scandal land at  John Paul II’s door.  (In this case, with his knowing of allegations against former Cardinal/now defrocked priest Theodore McCarrick and elevating him anyway.)

    I always knew this is why the conservatives insisted on canonizing him so jet-pack quick.  They wanted to try to inoculate him against this.  Won’t work.  (I never think of Trump as a POTUS, or JP2 as a saint.  Illegitimate, in both cases.)

    As with politics, the conservatives within the churches are killing the institutions they are embedded within.  Viva Pope Francis.  (Say that as a lapsed Catholic, but Francis admirer.)

    ETA:  I also want to know why Ratzinger (aka Pope Benedict) scrammed. During his lifetime.  Something was up with that.

  56. 56.

    Elizabelle

    November 14, 2020 at 9:08 am

    @Nicole:   Now we will need the cocktail recipe brought forward.

    And we will endeavor to keep our potables off the postcards, although no reason the two cannot be combined, otherwise.

  57. 57.

    gene108

    November 14, 2020 at 9:10 am

    @germy:

    Democratic leaning states have way, way more people. That’s the one thing I’ve come to hate about the EC now is how it skews how impressive Biden’s win is over Trump based on the popular on.

    This is a 1980 level rejection of an incumbent, but it doesn’t feel like it because of the EC map.

  58. 58.

    raven

    November 14, 2020 at 9:10 am

    @Elizabelle: The third round will start at 10:30

  59. 59.

    debbie

    November 14, 2020 at 9:11 am

    @Jeffro:

    It has been very eye-opening for me to read more about how the evangelical movement was and is fueled by white supremacy.

    It’s what gave them (in their minds) their legitimacy. I’m curious as to what kind of interaction there’s been between white and black evangelicals. Can God’s love overcome racial hatred?

  60. 60.

    Nicole

    November 14, 2020 at 9:12 am

    @Elizabelle: Here’s the link, although NotMax gets all credit for finding it:

    Apple Butter Old Fashione

    Really good, and much more tart than sweet.  The apple butter adds a slight thickness to the consistency, but it made for a really nice mouth feel.

  61. 61.

    NotMax

    November 14, 2020 at 9:13 am

    @Elizabelle

    Here ya go.

  62. 62.

    Elizabelle

    November 14, 2020 at 9:14 am

    @raven:  Are you rooting for any golfers in particular?

  63. 63.

    debbie

    November 14, 2020 at 9:14 am

    @Nicole:

    I made apple butter yesterday to use up a mess of apples I didn’t really want to eat.  Now to figure out what to do with it.  ??‍♀️

  64. 64.

    schrodingers_cat

    November 14, 2020 at 9:15 am

    @Baud: I know you are kidding but Diwali usually falls anywhere from the last two weeks of October to the first two weeks of November. Actually it is kinda late this year.

    According Solar-Lunar Hindu calendar.

    Thanks AL, Happy Diwali.

  65. 65.

    Mousebumples

    November 14, 2020 at 9:16 am

    @Nicole: nice!

    And to anyone who wants to join in but doesn’t have postcards, the Post Office sells prestamped postcards for $0.39 each. ($0.35 of that is for the postcard stamp). Not the most heavy duty of postcards but they work!

  66. 66.

    MagdaInBlack

    November 14, 2020 at 9:17 am

    @debbie: Its great stirred in to yogurt, and on toast…and pretty much right off the spoon plain =-

    On a non political note; the squirrel I raised 2 years ago is still coming for breakfast. Yogurt covered pretzels are the fave this week =-)

  67. 67.

    Elizabelle

    November 14, 2020 at 9:17 am

    @Nicole:   @ NotMax:

    Thank you.  First attempt will be made with apple juice; have everything but cider in-house.  (Will get some cider, and more bourbon, soon.)

  68. 68.

    Amir Khalid

    November 14, 2020 at 9:18 am

    There’s a Malaysian custom of holding open house for friends and family on festive days like Eid al-Fitri, Christmas, Chinese New Year, and, yes, Deepavali as we call it here. That custom has added an extra dimension to these festivals, making them also celebrations of Malaysians’ diversity and unity. Because of you-know-what, open house can’t be done this year, and that brings me sorrow.

  69. 69.

    NotMax

    November 14, 2020 at 9:18 am

    @debbie</a.

    If I were Pennsy Dutch (am not, nor do I play one on TV) first free association response would be smearkase and apple butter.

    :)

  70. 70.

    raven

    November 14, 2020 at 9:18 am

    @Elizabelle: I’m all in for Tiger. It’s been nuts this morning, the indications were that they would just have the “featured groups” on ESPN +. Then it said they’d stream it all live on Masters.com. Then they put it live on ESPN and moved Game Day (which is being held at the Masters) on ESPN 2!

  71. 71.

    germy

    November 14, 2020 at 9:19 am

    @gene108:

    According to the broadcast TV news networks, Biden barely squeaked into his win. Apparently they don’t want any of us thinking he has a (gulp!) mandate!

  72. 72.

    Matt McIrvin

    November 14, 2020 at 9:19 am

    @germy: Conservatives really love county-level maps of who won each county, because it always looks like a solid red country with tiny blue islands in it. But the tiny blue islands are where most of the people actually live.

    There are exceptions. Arizona, say, doesn’t look like that because of Native reservations.

  73. 73.

    Nicole

    November 14, 2020 at 9:20 am

    @Elizabelle: My spouse did a batch with a pecan whiskey that he’d bought on a whim, and it also worked out well in place of the bourbon, so there’s room to tinker with the recipe, for sure.

  74. 74.

    germy

    November 14, 2020 at 9:21 am

    @MagdaInBlack:

    How do you know it’s the same squirrel?  Is it possible he and his friends are taking turns?

  75. 75.

    OzarkHillbilly

    November 14, 2020 at 9:21 am

    ‘People got involved’: how Los Angeles progressives swept the election

  76. 76.

    Elizabelle

    November 14, 2020 at 9:22 am

    @Nicole:   I was wondering about trying the recipe with some apricot or blackberry jam.  It is fall …

  77. 77.

    MagdaInBlack

    November 14, 2020 at 9:23 am

    @germy: I tell myself it is. =-)  ….it comes to the patio door and looks in, then waits on the rail. And brings a friend who runs when I open the door.  The one who doesnt run, I say is mine =-

     

    Eta: it fell out of the rafters at work. One on the body techs came to me, because, well, he knows me. I brought it home, raised it on kitten formula, peanuts and banana chips. When it got warm out, I left her on the patio in her cage, door open. She eventually left on her own.

  78. 78.

    NotMax

    November 14, 2020 at 9:23 am

    @debbie

    Incidentally, with turkey day upcoming, have heard tell that substituting apple butter (better thickened if a commercial variety) for half the pumpkin in a pumpkin pie works well.

    Or just use it as a topping for traditional pumpkin pie.

  79. 79.

    Nicole

    November 14, 2020 at 9:23 am

    @debbie: Being South Central PA born and raised, I would, of course, suggest some scrapple for all that apple butter, but that would require tracking down scrapple.

  80. 80.

    Elizabelle

    November 14, 2020 at 9:23 am

    @raven:   Tiger for me too, then.   My late mother loved him.  Will root for Tiger in her memory.

    I like the comeback stories, and toughness.

  81. 81.

    Nicole

    November 14, 2020 at 9:24 am

    @Elizabelle: Ooh!  I like blackberry in just about anything, so I’d say go for it and report back on how it worked in it.

  82. 82.

    debbie

    November 14, 2020 at 9:25 am

    @MagdaInBlack:

    Great ideas, thanks. Have you ever frozen it?

  83. 83.

    MomSense

    November 14, 2020 at 9:26 am

    I really miss helping my friend prepare food for their temple’s Diwali functions.

  84. 84.

    debbie

    November 14, 2020 at 9:26 am

    @NotMax:

    Everything goes with smerkase (or, as we spell it out here, schmearcase).

  85. 85.

    raven

    November 14, 2020 at 9:27 am

    @Elizabelle: Yea, it would be impossible to match the win last year but I still enjoy watching him play. My dad, on the other hand, really hated the “arrogant Stanford bastard”. I never why but that was the way he was and he was a major golf fan (and player).

  86. 86.

    NotMax

    November 14, 2020 at 9:27 am

    @Elizabelle

    Could well work using WaPo’s stripped down version of the recipe.

  87. 87.

    MagdaInBlack

    November 14, 2020 at 9:30 am

    @debbie: Yes, when I was earth mother, we had 6 acres and 100 apple trees( which we thinned down to 30.) It freezes well.

    The guy we bought the place from thought he was gonna get rich on apples. He didnt.

  88. 88.

    Sab

    November 14, 2020 at 9:30 am

    @Elizabelle: My lapsed Catholic husband has always called JP2 “George Ringo” to distinguish him from JP1.

  89. 89.

    germy

    November 14, 2020 at 9:31 am

    @MagdaInBlack:

    Oh, I didn’t know the rest of the story.

    I think it’s the same squirrel, and I think he likes you a lot.

  90. 90.

    debbie

    November 14, 2020 at 9:31 am

    @MagdaInBlack:

    Thanks.

  91. 91.

    Amir Khalid

    November 14, 2020 at 9:31 am

    @MagdaInBlack:

    It’s definitely the same squirrel. They do form personal bonds with humans.

  92. 92.

    Matt McIrvin

    November 14, 2020 at 9:32 am

    @germy: USA Today was responsible for a lot of this because in the aftermath of the 2000 election, they had that county-level Bush vs. Gore map that got passed around everywhere (and might have contributed to the whole “blue vs. red” iconography we know today). But I really like this page they’ve got showing county data in different ways:

    https://www.usatoday.com/in-depth/graphics/2020/11/10/election-maps-2020-america-county-results-more-voters/6226197002/

    one demonstrating that most of the US is purple, and another showing Biden vs. Trump vote margins as differently sized circles. That second one really gives a good picture of what’s going on.

  93. 93.

    Frankensteinbeck

    November 14, 2020 at 9:32 am

    @Jeffro:

    It has been very eye-opening for me to read more about how the evangelical movement was and is fueled by white supremacy.

    It’s a hate cult, period.  Very IGMFY.  It starts from the theological premise that their little sect are the only good people, and they are good solely because they praise Jesus in the correct way.  Other actions are irrelevant.  That opens the floodgates for every kind of vile malice, and those floodgates spew.  Racism is still the foundation stone and central pillar, but it’s an entire grotesque culture that equates cruelty with righteousness.

    @debbie:

    I’m curious as to what kind of interaction there’s been between white and black evangelicals.

    My understanding is that the vast majority of even the most socially conservative blacks know their white counterparts want them enslaved again.  As for the whites, I remember someone telling an anecdote about moving from the North to the South.  Up North, the church would have sermons about how to get blacks into the congregation.  Down South, the woman in the next seat asked her how Northerners keep blacks out of the congregation.

  94. 94.

    MagdaInBlack

    November 14, 2020 at 9:34 am

    @germy:  @ Amir  :

    It likes a reliable food source ;-)

  95. 95.

    LurkerNoLonger

    November 14, 2020 at 9:37 am

    @germy: Popular vote: not close. Electoral college: Well…not that close either. I guess what I’m saying is, it wasn’t close :)

  96. 96.

    Elizabelle

    November 14, 2020 at 9:37 am

    @raven:   OMG, it’s only been one year since Tiger won the Masters?

    Yes.  It was just 2019. [The Masters. List of winners and runners-up]

    Feels like it’s been three, at least.  It’s combination of 2020 and trumpTime.

  97. 97.

    Amir Khalid

    November 14, 2020 at 9:40 am

    @MagdaInBlack:

    Humans too form a personal bond with their food sources. ?

  98. 98.

    NotMax

    November 14, 2020 at 9:41 am

    @MagdaInBlack

    It’s when they begin tapping their toes while staring at their little wristwatches that they become really annoying.

    :)

  99. 99.

    germy

    November 14, 2020 at 9:41 am

    @LurkerNoLonger:

    And yet CBS News claims Biden’s win is basically the same as Trump’s 2016 win

    The average normie hears stuff like this in passing and believes “no big deal.”

    Well, it IS a big deal.

  100. 100.

    MagdaInBlack

    November 14, 2020 at 9:43 am

    @NotMax: Somewhere I have a recipe for apple butter pumpkin pie. Thank you for reminding me !

  101. 101.

    NotMax

    November 14, 2020 at 9:44 am

    @germy

    Indeed. Identical does not equal the same. Ask any twin.

  102. 102.

    MagdaInBlack

    November 14, 2020 at 9:44 am

    @NotMax: Already happens =-)

  103. 103.

    TS (the original)

    November 14, 2020 at 9:48 am

    @debbie:

     if you’re not staunchly pro-life.

    100% GOP terminology, which is used to inflame. The correct term to use is anti-abortion. NO-ONE in the GOP is pro-life. The numbers they have allowed to die with covid is proof of that. Their adherence to the death penalty is proof of that. Their rejection of any type of government support for people without food and somewhere to live is proof of that.

    I am more pro-life than any of them and I believe in a woman’s right to a pregnancy termination.

  104. 104.

    LurkerNoLonger

    November 14, 2020 at 9:48 am

    @germy: in EC votes technically it is the same, but the number of people who voted for Biden in each state that he flipped was drastically larger than when Trump won them in 2016. I think when the final popular vote total is announced it will be quite striking how large his win was and what a repudiation of Trump it was.

  105. 105.

    WaterGirl

    November 14, 2020 at 9:50 am

    For anyone wanting to write postcards, I suggest deciding on the organization before buying any postcards.

    Because different groups do things different ways, you can box yourself into a corner if you buy postcards before you decide which organization you want to write for.

  106. 106.

    Immanentize

    November 14, 2020 at 9:50 am

    @debbie: Holiday gifting!!

  107. 107.

    OzarkHillbilly

    November 14, 2020 at 9:51 am

    Theo [email protected]
    This Maori baby learning the Haka Dance is everything i want to see from the internet
    Flexed biceps Hugging face
    (:31 sec video)

  108. 108.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 14, 2020 at 9:51 am

    @NotMax:

    I’ll leave it to the the Lincoln Project to decry Ossoff’s opponent as Perdon’t.

    I swear to you I’m having a t-shirt made with that.

    EDIT: Just with the single word PERDON’T. In great big letters.

  109. 109.

    Aleta

    November 14, 2020 at 9:51 am

    @NotMax:  They have other things to do, important things, can’t just sit around waiting for slow bipeds.

  110. 110.

    topclimber

    November 14, 2020 at 9:53 am

    Celebrate Balloon Juice: Everyday a Festival of Slights.

  111. 111.

    Immanentize

    November 14, 2020 at 9:55 am

    @Sab: Hey, that’s my joke (George Ringo).  We came up with it as soon as JP1 was assassinated and we saw which way the white smoke was gonna blow.

  112. 112.

    Immanentize

    November 14, 2020 at 9:56 am

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    Calvin 1, Jesus 0

  113. 113.

    Immanentize

    November 14, 2020 at 9:57 am

    @NotMax: Well, don’t ask the fraternal twins….

  114. 114.

    NotMax

    November 14, 2020 at 9:59 am

    @SiubhanDuinne

    Paws crossed it will be a blue shirt.

    ;)

  115. 115.

    Immanentize

    November 14, 2020 at 10:03 am

    @TS (the original): There are some people — some radical nuns I know for example — who are as close to pro-life as possible.  They embrace the mantle of life theory (conception to death). Yes, they oppose abortion but they also support massive services for mothers and children and care of children.  And care of everyone.  And they support immigration humanity and sanctuary.  They fight poverty and fight for universal health care.  They are vehemently anti-war and anti-death penalty.  But besides the few who try to make the slogan “pro-life” a dedicated lifestyle?  Yeah, it’s complete bullshit.

  116. 116.

    OzarkHillbilly

    November 14, 2020 at 10:03 am

    @topclimber: Rotating tag line.

  117. 117.

    Baud

    November 14, 2020 at 10:03 am

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    .  It starts from the theological premise that their little sect are the only good people

    Ridiculous. Everyone knows Juicers are the only good people.

  118. 118.

    Immanentize

    November 14, 2020 at 10:04 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: I love that little dude and his moves!!

  119. 119.

    Frankensteinbeck

    November 14, 2020 at 10:05 am

    @Baud:

    Because we’re the only people that praise Baud in the correct way.

  120. 120.

    Immanentize

    November 14, 2020 at 10:07 am

    @Frankensteinbeck: the correct way:

    Face away from Baud, drop pants, bend forward!

  121. 121.

    WaterGirl

    November 14, 2020 at 10:08 am

    TaMara and I both had posts that went up at 10am, so I rescheduled the Georgia post for 11.  Didn’t want anyone wondering what happened.

  122. 122.

    Immanentize

    November 14, 2020 at 10:09 am

    @WaterGirl: So Wearbear is the Tamara post?  Great post….

  123. 123.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    November 14, 2020 at 10:14 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: That is wonderful.

  124. 124.

    NotMax

    November 14, 2020 at 10:15 am

    @Immanentize

    Wondering if Mr. Cole is equipped to handle donations to the site in Baudcoin.

    :)

  125. 125.

    debbie

    November 14, 2020 at 10:19 am

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    That makes for a real tension.

  126. 126.

    debbie

    November 14, 2020 at 10:20 am

    @TS (the original):

    No arguments from me.

  127. 127.

    Immanentize

    November 14, 2020 at 10:22 am

    @NotMax: I hope so because I am soggy with Baudcoin and need to unload them before Trump concedes!

  128. 128.

    Frankensteinbeck

    November 14, 2020 at 10:24 am

    Hey, does anyone know how the MAGA marches in DC today are going?  I guess it’s too early yet for them to get going?  My guess is they’ll be tiny, but it is an important measure for keeping track of how the Republican base will react to Trump’s loss.

  129. 129.

    Kathleen

    November 14, 2020 at 10:34 am

    @rikyrah: BUT DEMOCRATS DIDIT WRONG!!! //s

  130. 130.

    catclub

    November 14, 2020 at 10:36 am

    @NotMax: I think prominent “No Shirt, No Shoes, No Service” signs need an additional “No Mask” entry

  131. 131.

    Elizabelle

    November 14, 2020 at 10:39 am

    @Immanentize: 

    I wonder if we will ever know the true cause of JP1’s death. It was … startling.

    Makes me laugh, too, that the conservatives threw in sainthood for John XXIII to get their JPII over the line. No. Just. No.

  132. 132.

    MC

    November 14, 2020 at 10:40 am

    @Frankensteinbeck: All I’ve seen so far is a picture of 5 MAGA choads with a dildo that they’re going to “hit antifa” with.

  133. 133.

    Just One More Canuck

    November 14, 2020 at 10:52 am

    @debbie: Is she there to be a legislator or a bomb-thrower?

  134. 134.

    Jeffro

    November 14, 2020 at 10:54 am

    @NotMax: ha! (yes, going for the D&D reference there)

    more like 12, but thanks!

  135. 135.

    Kathleen

    November 14, 2020 at 10:54 am

    @Elizabelle: I read a book about that ages ago (don’t recall title and I have no google phu on my phone) but supposedly he was investigating Vatican finances which encompassed BCCI scandal. As anyone who loves watching Perry Mason or Law and Order knows, such interests lead to character’s demise.

  136. 136.

    Jeffro

    November 14, 2020 at 11:00 am

    @germy: geez you guys he ONLY ‘flipped’ five states and won by 7M popular votes…y’all act like he won some big “landslide” or something…?

    //?????????

  137. 137.

    Elizabelle

    November 14, 2020 at 11:06 am

    @Kathleen:   Thank you.

    Goes on the “scout out more about this” … in a few months.  Your mention of BCCI.  Yes indeed.

  138. 138.

    Original Lee

    November 14, 2020 at 11:11 am

    @NotMax: Argh. Should be interesting to see how many tickets she gets in the DMV once the masks-everywhere mandates go into effect on Sunday.

  139. 139.

    SiubhanDuinne

    November 14, 2020 at 11:13 am

    @Kathleen:

    @Elizabelle:

    I remember reading that. It was David Yallop’s book In God’s Name. I was always surprised at how upset I was at JP1’s sudden death. He had the sweetest, most benevolent face.

  140. 140.

    J R in WV

    November 14, 2020 at 11:25 am

    @Elizabelle:

     

    ETA: I also want to know why Ratzinger (aka Pope Benedict) scrammed. During his lifetime. Something was up with that.

    His boyfriend showed up in the news… IIRC~!~

    I can’t imagine, personally, but no figuring taste, right? Maybe it was the power?

  141. 141.

    J R in WV

    November 14, 2020 at 11:34 am

    @Frankensteinbeck:

    As for the whites, I remember someone telling an anecdote about moving from the North to the South. Up North, the church would have sermons about how to get blacks into the congregation. Down South, the woman in the next seat asked her how Northerners keep blacks out of the congregation.

    Was in Decatur GA for my brother’s wedding to a Georgia Belle. Methodist Church she grew up in. Exactly that question was asked by a member of the congregation of the Best Man, who was quite shocked…~!~

    “How do you all up North keep them out of your congregation?”

    “Say  WHAT?!”

    Actually, I’m pretty sure Joe said “I’m sure I don’t know!” which was as non-hostile as he could be at the moment. This was probably 25-30 years ago now, but that cuts them NO Slack in my book!

  142. 142.

    Elizabelle

    November 14, 2020 at 11:48 am

    @SiubhanDuinne: 

    Thank you. Goes on the reading list.

    @J R in WV: 

    They really, really need to do away with an all-male priesthood, and the celibacy requirements. It distorts their field of applicants.

  143. 143.

    Miss Bianca

    November 14, 2020 at 11:48 am

    @Nicole: 

    Yum…scrapple…haven’t had it in ever so long.

  144. 144.

    Miss Bianca

    November 14, 2020 at 11:54 am

    @OzarkHillbilly: eeee, that little face!!

  145. 145.

    debbie

    November 14, 2020 at 2:07 pm

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    He’s got it all down, even the tongue!  ?

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