GOP Sen. David Perdue of Georgia will quarantine after coming into close contact with someone who tested positive for Covid-19 https://t.co/i4AIgkoDeI
— Jim Acosta (@Acosta) December 31, 2020
This year will end as it began — with powerful Chaos Energy.
David Perdue is 71 years old.
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) December 31, 2020
Per the Washington Post:
Sen. David Perdue, one of the Republican candidates in the pair of Georgia runoffs that will determine the trajectory of Congress for the next two years, is quarantining after coming into close contact with someone connected to his campaign who has tested positive for the coronavirus.
Perdue’s campaign said that he tested negative for the virus Thursday but that he and his wife would quarantine, “following his doctor’s recommendations and the CDC guidelines.” The statement did not identify the person who was diagnosed.
The runoff elections will take place Tuesday, and Perdue had several campaign events scheduled for the final sprint, including a rally in Dalton, Ga., with President Trump on Monday. Perdue’s campaign could not be immediately reached for comment with details on how long he would be absent from the campaign trail…
In a statement on Twitter, Perdue said he and his wife have been tested regularly throughout the campaign. He has attended several rallies in which attendees did not adhere to strict social distancing guidelines, including a Trump rally in Valdosta. Perdue typically wears a mask at campaign events, in contrast with many who attend…
So — does Trump cancel? Will he be able to resist having the stage all to himself?
Goddess forgive me, given the quality of his recent interviews, Perdue may be better off *not* showing up…
David Perdue is asked what part of his service as a senator he would like to highlight to voters. His response is not ideal pic.twitter.com/5ozjGBlI7b
— Acyn Torabi (@Acyn) December 30, 2020
JPL
Perdue may be better off *not* showing up… That’s my concern.
raven
@JPL: Not showing up to what?
Also thar asshole Saxby Chambliss had a “minor” stroke.
Just Chuck
Isn’t that pretty much the prerequisite for running as a Republican?
raven
Two Republican members of the House of Representatives tell CNN that they expect at least 140 of their GOP colleagues in the House to vote against counting the electoral votes on January 6 when Congress is expected to certify President-elect Joe Biden’s victory.
NotMax
Dammit. I know that tiny violin is around here someplace.
debbie
I wonder if all these people saying they’re asymptomatic really are.
trollhattan
@JPL:
GMTA–my first thought was keeping Purdue off camera is the best thing his strategists could have done for him.
COVID seems to have become a Republican badge of honor or something: “What, you didn’t catch it yet? Slacker!”
Baud
@raven:
How many signed on to the Supreme Court brief? It was about that many.
NotMax
@debbie
Talk about a slippery slope!
:)
mrmoshpotato
“I’m gonna vote for him because he might be sick with a deadly virus.” would be some interesting reasoning.
debbie
@NotMax:
Fixed. ?
Suzanne
Tots and pears.
mrmoshpotato
Hmm…142 Rethuglicans. Still no match for the Sun.
Anne Laurie
His own rally.
@Just Chuck: Well, for a modern Repub, ‘the obligations of the office’ pretty much means acting as a speed bump against getting anything done, so…
mrmoshpotato
@Suzanne: Ketchup and a chocolate sauce.
dmsilev
Is Loeffler also scheduled to attend? I thought they were mostly doing joint campaign events.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Dimocracy in action.
Suzanne
@debbie: To be fair, some of the symptoms are “fatigue” or “cough”, which is not really illuminating to those of us who never get enough sleep and/or have allergies and post-nasal drip for much of the year.
natem
@raven: “I stood up against all those
Blackfraudulent voters for Dear Leader in 2020. Now, send me money.”mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Oh, these fuckers aren’t dim – they’re traitorous fascists.
BruceFromOhio
Fifty more clams each to Ossoff and Warnock, and avoiding everything again until, Gaia knows, when this crap is finally over. Which seems like never ever.
Waiting to see if my House thug is one of the traitors so I can hound his officelings mercilessly for the next two years.
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
¿Por qué no los dos?
Ajabu
Awww…
Thoughts and prayers Motherfucker.
Mallard Filmore
@mrmoshpotato:
So there will be a written objection to the counts. Each chamber will go meet to decide how to vote, accept or reject the electors. The Democrats send the issue to a committee and never return, run out the clock and we get President Pelosi.
As wonderful as that would be, what happens when there is a Democratic President-elect and a Republican House? The Republicans will object and run out the clock, making the Republican Speaker the President. For the following four years.
Yes, no ???
(small edit)
RobertDSC-iPhone 8
Breathe deep, asshole.
Eunicecycle
I have a sad story. My brother’s brother-in-law may have killed his own mother. The BIL is an obnoxious Trumper and antimasker. He and his wife (my sister-in-law’s sister) decided to go to FL to see his parents for Christmas. On the way BIL becomes very ill with Covid symptoms. But of course since they “don’t believe in Covid” they kept on going. Within 3 days of arrival his mother got sick and was hospitalized. Then his father got sick and was hospitalized. Then his mother died. His father is still alive, so far. I can’t believe how selfish and ignorant some people are. And my brother said his BIL will have no regrets, because they are also “Christians” who believe it’s God’s will when someone dies.
debbie
@Suzanne:
Granted, but I wonder if that cavalier attitude contributes to the lie that COVID is no big deal.
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax: Sure – dim, traitorous fascists.
NotMax
@Mallard Filmore
That’s not how it works.
Mallard Filmore
@Eunicecycle:
Go forth and kill.
orsonk
For what it’s worth, I wrote a song for the Georgia Senatorial elections. It’s only 46 sec long, so really a song snippet. https://youtu.be/VCTg1ShSMGM
Suzanne
@debbie: Probably. It looks like normal winter-crud, until all of a sudden, it doesn’t.
And for probably at least fifty percent of the people who get it, it IS no big deal. The capriciousness of the illness makes it more scary, to me, but I am somewhat neurotic by nature, and usually assume the worst will happen to me.
mrmoshpotato
@Eunicecycle: Wow. I’m so sorry.
Anonymous At Work
Senator David Perdue just displayed some impressive martial arts techniques. Not often that a man can stomp on his own dick with both feet at once.
scav
@Eunicecycle: Honor thy father and mother.
Apparently.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
Hoax
sab
@Eunicecycle: Wow. I am am so sorry for you and yours.
My husband’s extended family thinks we are nuts and unfriendly (they blame me) because we don’t trust any of them enough to visit or allow visits. It’s not me. It’s him. I had been taking way more chances than he does. No more. My extended family follows Chinese rules: no shoes in house; strip and wash when you come home; wash your hands and face every time you think about it; and never go out without a mask and gloves.
Matt McIrvin
@Suzanne: Yes. At any point since this pandemic began, I could have had early COVID symptoms and not really noticed.
Mallard Filmore
@NotMax: It must be! I saw it on the internet!
I put “greg doucette van jones spoiler law potus” into the Google thingy and the first result was:
https://digg.com/video/why-donald-trump-cant-overturn-the-election
He claims to be a Constitutional Lawyer. I am not so I could be misinterpreting his explanation.
sab
@Suzanne: My stepson’s work place tests a lot. He tested positive. In normal work environments he wouldn’t have been tested. A couple of days later he lost taste and smell. That is an important symptom. He never had a fever. He has been tired for weeks, but that was just a grueling work schedule.
zhena gogolia
@orsonk:
Nice!
Martin
@Baud: I still contend they shouldn’t be seated.
piratedan
I’m at the point where I think it would be better to try these folks for sedition who continually call into question our recent election with nary a shred of evidence other than they don’t like the results…
fine, you want exile or imprisonment? We have some serious fucking problems in this country and this public political masturbation needs to end.
Patricia Kayden
dmsilev
@Eunicecycle:
Let me guess: they’re also ‘prosperity Gospel’ types.
Baud
@piratedan:
They have a seditious heart, but they haven’t used force, so it’s not criminal.
Patricia Kayden
tokyokie
@Eunicecycle:
So would it be God’s will were someone to cap his miserable honky ass?
Mike in NC
Perdue is irredeemable scum.
Martin
@Eunicecycle: This is why I don’t own a gun. How could you not shoot someone like that in the head, as an expression of God’s will.
Eunicecycle
@dmsilev: I wouldn’t be surprised. I have to say the times I’ve been around them they don’t preach to me, but my brother and his wife get it from them a lot. I know the BIL has tried to get my brother to join one of those Christian groups that is supposed to help you be a good father (Oathkeepers maybe?) But considering his own daughter can’t stand him and literally moved to another country to get away from him and her mom, I’m not sure the group really helps
Gravenstone
Corrected for the folks at home.
Suzanne
@sab: My BiL works in a hospital and tested positive this summer. He got tested before he felt sick at all. He had a day of gastrointestinal yuckiness, and then felt completely fine within a couple of days. Never had a fever, never had loss of taste or smell.
This illness is stealthy.
Eunicecycle
@tokyokie: I could tell you a story about the idiot BIL bringing a handgun in the house against my brother’s expressed wishes, but I really shouldn’t pile on him so badly.
Soprano2
@Suzanne: It’s not the kind of fatigue you get from not getting enough sleep. It’s “I can barely get from the couch to the bathroom and back” fatigue, at least that’s what my husband had.
sab
@Suzanne: YES! Stealthy.
Martin
@Eunicecycle: Oathkeeper is an anti-government militia, so probably not. I think Promise Keeper is the one you’re thinking of. They do the promise ring thing between dad and daughter, and its fucking creepy as shit to have a daughter saving her virginity for her father, let alone the whole ‘property right’ veneer to the whole thing.
Not that there’s not a fair overlap between oathkeeper and promise keeper in practice.
Roger Moore
@sab:
We had someone at my work who tested positive and only developed symptoms a few days later. She was unusual in that she was actually running COVID tests* and could put her own sample in any time she felt like it, so she was tested a lot. She was negative on Wednesday, off work through Saturday, positive on Sunday, and symptomatic (loss of smell) on Tuesday.
*It’s an experimental test that’s still working on an EUA.
mrmoshpotato
@Patricia Kayden: The Rude Pundit’s pinned tweet sums it up nicely.
Viva BrisVegas
Greeting from 2021.
So far it looks just like 2020.
Suzanne
@Soprano2: For some people, yeah, it’s terrible. For others, they don’t experience that. Which is why I don’t think it’s surprising that people are underestimating this. For majority of people, it really is NBD.
I am just the kind of person who generally assumes that the worst will happen to me.
mrmoshpotato
Made my correction. WordPress is weird.
zhena gogolia
Happy New Year from Shirley
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pMr5oU3uDSs
sab
Until people are vaccinated we need to assume everyone is positive. If you have not been vaccinated you are banned from my bubble.
Dan B
@Eunicecycle: Horrible story. The lack of empathy and the lack of remorse make it clear what “Christianity” is for them, a toolkit for being blameless. I’d bet their pastor doesn’t allow them to read the Bible.
Eunicecycle
@Martin: yes you’re right. I was too lazy to look it up. That does sound creepy, with the father-daughter ring bit. Another reason why the daughter moved out of the country!
Dan B
@Eunicecycle: I amend my earlier comment about these “Christians” – blameless and clueless. There are more descriptors but there are more things to do, like relaxing, eating, and celebrating the end to an awful year.
sab
On a brighter note, I made pizza last night using Joy of Cooking pizza recipe ( proof 1 packet yeast in 1 1/3 cup 85 degree water for ten minutes.) Mix 4 cups flour, the yeast/ water, and 2 T olive oil. Let rise in warm environment for two hours. ( I put in oven I had briefly heated to warm.
Two hours later divide dough in half. Refrigerate half in plastic bag. Spread the other half over pizza pan. Supposed to be twelve inch but I like crunchy thin crust so I spread much wider.
Spread tomato pizza sauce over the crust. Add stuff. I use pepperoni, chopped sweet onions, sliced black olives, sausage, green or red peppers, peppocinicis( sic), and whatever else you need or want. Then top off with grated cheese: sharp cheddar, mild cheddar, mozzarella.
Bake at 400 degrees for about 40 minutes
ETA: If you like the pizza, do the same thing in a couple of days with the rest of the day. Otherwise throw it away.
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@Eunicecycle: The BIL sounds like a real a-hole. Did his folks invite him? They should have told him to stay home.
realbtl
Regarding those who refuse to get vaccinated at what point do the insurance companies say no vac policy, no insurance policy for your business.
sab
@realbtl: My dad’s nurse’s aide is 55 years old and remembers Tuskegee and lately Warp Speed. I disagree with her choice but I understand it. Also my dad needs her. Everyone in the nursing home has had a chance to be vaccinated. The only ones at risk there will be outsiders and those who chose not to be vaccinated.
Roger Moore
@Dan B:
I’m going to have to remember that description. It really is about avoiding guilt. Nothing is ever their fault. If it is their fault, Jesus forgives them, and you’re a bad person if you don’t forgive them too.
Roger Moore
@sab:
You can also turn the leftover pizza dough into a loaf of bread, a batch of rolls, bread sticks, or whatever.
Eunicecycle
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony: Honestly I’m not sure. I haven’t seen his parents in years, since we all lived in the same small town in SW Ohio. But I guess BIL felt fine when they left VA, where they live now, and since the virus is a hoax, why wouldn’t they travel? Freedom and all that.
prostratedragon
@Eunicecycle: At least it kept her on Earth.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Perdue is a terrible campaigner. So much so, that my first thought was he’s faking. In my rational moments, I think not. But….
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Martin:
Promise Keepers took a massive rhetorical hit in Season 2 of Shameless. Not sure that it’s ever been seen the same way….
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@sab:
A good dough recipe makes all the difference. We found a really cool appetizer white pizza recipe using speck, caraway, mascarpone, bufalo mozzarella and Parmesan that’s out of this world good.
Bill Arnold
@Eunicecycle:
Exodus 21:15 (KJV) : “And he that smiteth his father, or his mother, shall be surely put to death.”
Roger Moore
@realbtl:
Right now, the vaccine is only available under and emergency authorization, which means the government acknowledges it doesn’t have enough safety data to be really confident it’s safe. Because of that, it’s legally difficult to force people to get vaccinated. IIRC, FDA wants at least 6 months of safety data before it can grant a regular, permanent approval, so it won’t be until sometime in the spring before that can happen.
There’s also the question of when there will actually be enough doses of vaccine out there that businesses realistically can require people to be vaccinated. Essential businesses like healthcare that have priority access will certainly be able to demand their employees be vaccinated, but other businesses can’t realistically demand it until there’s enough vaccine to go around.
sab
@Roger Moore: Bread sticks yes. Bread might be a sad loaf.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
Grilling filets on charcoal while having a bourbon with one of my last Olivia Series V Robustos right now. Feels kind of nice to run this shitty year out the back door this way.
Baud
@Bill Arnold:
I believe Mike Pence has the authority not to count those laws.
raven
@Roger Moore: Well I don’r know how it works but, in Georgia, they added people over 65 to the 1st tier and I was able to get and appointment for January 12 at the health department.
sab
My husband just pointed out a high school classmate from my homeroom who died of covid this year. Really talented artist. Her dad with same job as my dad died early. So her family stressed economicaly as mine wasn’t. Sweet kind person her whole life. Damn.
Eunicecycle
@Bill Arnold: and it seems like there’s something in the Bible about honoring your mother and father, and not killing them seems the least you can do to honor them.
Ugh I just went to the sister-in-law’s Facebook page and they are also big antivaxers, too. She had some kind of rant about the vaccine altering your DNA and then you can never get rid of it!!! Also election stolen!!! Glad I don’t live anywhere near them anymore.
NotMax
@sab
Shredded mozzarella and sliced pepperoni, sprinkle with oregano and basil, roll it up like a jelly roll, bake in a loaf pan.
Steeplejack
MSNBC is rerunning Obama White House photographer Pete Souza’s documentary The Way I See It at 8:00 p.m. EST (and again at 10:00 p.m.).
Baud
@Steeplejack:
Thanks!
sab
@NotMax: Main pizza or the leftover dough? Sounds tidier than my pizza. I confess I eat my pizza with a knife and fork. My husband goes commando and we have to burn his shirts afterwards ( or at least wash them on max filthy, which tatters the rest of the wash load.)
prostratedragon
@sab:
Focaccia: “Allowing the dough to rest 18 to 24 hours in the fridge yields the best results.”
Quinerly
I just took a spin around Trump atty Linn Wood’s Twitter. Wood has been on a 2 day plus rant that boils down to accusing Chief Justice Roberts of being a pedophile and involved in the murder of Justice Scalia. Plus, Wood has some sort of knowledge that J Epstein is still alive and all will be revealed shortly. Epstein was involved in the adoption of Robert’s children.
Finally, Wood is on tape with his old law partners professing that he may be God. (https://lawandcrime.com/2020-election/lin-woods-ex-law-partners-claim-he-was-taped-admitting-to-assaults-asserting-he-may-be-christ-coming-back-for-second-time/)
Trump picks/hires only the best!
NotMax
@sab
Leftover dough.
sab
@NotMax: That sounds very enticing. The next pizza might not be a pizza.
Baud
@Quinerly:
The 2024 GOP primary is going to be competitive.
sab
@sab: Bounced it off husband. He is very silent. Hmm. This will happen. Thanks, Max.
Credit Not Max # 92.
Baud
@sab:
That’s not Max.
realbtl
@Roger Moore: Agreed just thinking down the road. Will insurance companies help with vac numbers? I’m thinking yes.
Baud
@Quinerly:
I continue to be impressed with how absent Hillary Clinton is in all these new conspiracy theories.
Jeffro
@Martin: agreed. Take ’em to the mats, Democrats!
sab
@Baud: It’s NotMax where I am. Max, NotMax, whatever.
Lawyers reading the fine print ruin everything.
Kent
No, this is wrong. There is no committee involved and there is a 2-hour time clock. They need to vote each objection up or down. This is the language of the Electoral Count Act of 1887
Any objections in the House or Senate will have a maximum of 2 hours for debate then get voted up or down. If the House or Senate vote them down then game over and we proceed. As long as Pelosi retains a majority in the House then this is all going to be over on January 6 and Biden will be certified.
All this does is force every GOP Senator and Congressman to go on the record as to whether they support Democracy or Sedition.
Jeffro
@Patricia Kayden: Dem messaging should be 50% “watch what Republicans actually DO with their offices/power, not what they SAY – they’re busy trying to sound like US” and 50% pointing out GOP hypocrisy/double standards in general
Just pound it for 10 years and see if it has any effect. I’m thinking yes.
NotMax
@sab
Call me anything, just don’t call me late for dinner.
:)
Bill Arnold
@Quinerly:
Late in the Before Times, there was dispute about Epstein’s autopsy findings:
What’s Going on With Jeffrey Epstein’s Autopsy? The dead financier’s brother hired an independent expert to examine the autopsy, who says there could be evidence of homicide — but the medical examiner maintains it was suicide (October 31, 2019)
Lin Wood appears to be suggesting that this was all theater, and somehow the pathologist hired by Epstein’s family was either duped or was also faking it.
sab
@prostratedragon: New possibilities. My cooking would be much better if I had any Italians in my background.
JaySinWA
@Martin: I don’t think the Oathkeepers see themselves as anti government. They are violently pro constitution in an interpretation of government that is radically different from government as we know it. Oathkeepers wiki. Even though the Wiki describes them as anti-Gov. They are advocating violence to keep Trump in office now.
But Promise Keepers sounds more like the group described.
sab
@NotMax: You live in Hawaii. I live in Ohio. You will always be late for dinner unless we call it breakfast.
ETA or is that vice versa?
Jeffro
@mrmoshpotato: it’s an excellent point.
Why do the views/feelings/votes of 74M trumpies count for more than 81M Biden voters? (I know we all know the answer…I’m just saying we should ask, ask, and ask some more)
Baud
@Kent:
It says a max of two hours. Is there a minimum?
It’ll probably be two hours since they all like to hear themselves talk.
Jeffro
@Quinerly: Can’t imagine looking at that insanity and going, “You know…this fella may have a point here…”
But then I guess it’s probably more gradual a process than that.
Baud
@sab:
You don’t know whether you live in Hawaii or Ohio?
Kent
I have no idea. I also don’t know if they treat all the objections together in one 2-hour block, or if every objection gets its own separate 2-hour block. If that is the case they could be there all night.
Dan B
@Jeffro: GOP doesn’t like democracy and neither does their base.
How many were elected in states that Biden won? How many where Trump prevailed?
TS (the original)
@raven:
Does the fact that Georgia has two critical senate elections have anything to do with the availability of the vaccine?
danielx
@Quinerly:
His meds appear to need adjustment.
Or, I want some.
Baud
@Kent:
I hope it’ll be over during viewing hours. I’m kind of glad there’ll be an “announcement” of Biden’s win. And I expect the objections will be rejected in both houses. Also glad the GOP will be on record. Let’s see if our people have long memories for once.
sab
@Baud: I don’t know when dinner is in Hawaii in Ohio time. We is just rubes here.
Dan B
@sab: My father said my mother’s cooking was “bland” after they’d been married a few months. The spice rack she was given as a wedding present was full 42 years later, except the cinnamon. All the herbs and spices smelled the same, dusty.
My brother and I both went into cooking. My former sister in law said it, “was for survival.” after a meal my mother cooked.
Scottish-Irish southerner, western Arkansas. The reverse of Italian
She was highly educated so cooking was her idea of torture.
PsiFighter37
@TS (the original): Almost certainly. Any public policy decision the GOP makes around COVID-19 seems to be based purely on political consequences. That said, once Biden gets into office, you know that the GOP governors will amp up their vaccine rollout and then run on being a ‘check on the federal government’ that helped them out in the first place. I don’t think they are cynical enough to slow-walk distribution and get people killed and think they can brainwash people into believing it is Biden’s fault.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@sab:
If you like crispy crust and don’t already have one, get a baking stone (or two if you want breadsticks with your pizza!). Preheat the stone(s) and prep the pizza on parchment and a large platter; slide onto preheated stone and let ‘er rip.
sab
@Dan B: I still have spices from my mother who died in 2012. Some of her spices dated before I was born in 1954. I will never use them but I will probably never throw them out. Mom thought the only good spice was butter.
ETA she was a good cook by British pre WWII standards.
Mallard Filmore
@Kent: Thanks. I wonder how that Doucette fella got it wrong. Anyway, either path gives an acceptable answer. And considering the ratfucking that is possible with Doucette’s explanation, yours is better.
Llelldorin
@Bill Arnold: I suspect he’s using the usual extremist Christian’s interpretation of Acts 10—”When I break Mosaic law it doesn’t count, but when you do you’re a hellbound sinner.”
sab
@Odie Hugh Manatee: I have a pizza pan with tiny holes in it that works great for pizza. Yours sounds more versatile for other stuff.
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
@sab: I think your mom went to the same cooking school as my Mom ? she rarely even used salt or pepper when cooking. My husband looks to cook and loves spicy food. My taste buds had to be retrained.
sab
@Dan B: My tenured college professor sister can’t even boil an egg reliably.
Personally, I think cooking competently is more important than fluent Mandarin in America, but that’s just me.
Her husband manages to do both well.
Gin & Tonic
@sab: Life skills I made sure my children had before they left the house: cook, swim, drive a manual transmission.
TS (the original)
@Gin & Tonic:
I did that for years (real cars have gears) – then tried recently after 20 years with an auto transmission & no way could I drive the car. Did not believe it – until it happened.
NotMax
@Gin & Tonic
Also how to do laundry. And balancing a checkbook.
LuciaMia
@trollhattan: And more fodder for wingnut conspiracies. “How come only Republicans are coming down with it?”
Jim Appleton
@NotMax:
Ding ding d8ng!!1!
Skepticat
@sab:
My former mother-in-law thought salt and pepper were exotic spices. She was a fabulous baker but cooked all her vegetables to bland mush.
Just Chuck
@Eunicecycle:
So do viruses. That’s how they work. But, well, we’re not expecting logic, consistency, or basic knowledge from these folks.
Yutsano
I haven’t seen this mentioned yet, but Represntative Jamie Raskin lost his son tonight.
Baud
I won’t be around for much longer tonight. Happy new year, everyone.
mrmoshpotato
@Quinerly:
and involved in the murder of Justice Scalia.
^^ Well that’s new. These morons are insane.
Baud
@Yutsano:
How sad. I like him.
mrmoshpotato
@Baud: Happy new calendar year, Baud!
Elizabelle
@Baud: Happy New Year, Baud. It’s got to be a better one.
Odie Hugh Manatee
@sab:
Yup, you can use it for anything that doesn’t spread out (too much). We also have a couple of dished stone rounds for deeper stuff.
We tried the perforated bottom stuff but my sis convinced us to give stone a shot and we’re glad we did. Nothing but golden crust, every time.
HeleninEire
@Baud: Happy New Year, Baud. ❤
Viva BrisVegas
@Kent: Out of curiosity, is it possible for GOP loons to object to the returns from all 50 states?
If so, does that mean 2 hours of deliberations times 50? Surely they would only get through a couple of states per day.
zhena gogolia
@Yutsano:
Oh, I’m so sorry. He is a really good guy.
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
Happy New Year! We missed you on the Zoom.
HRA
@Baud: Happy New Year Baud!
NotMax
@Viva BrisVegas
Nothing precludes it. 51, because D.C.
mrmoshpotato
@Skepticat: Oregano? What the hell?
debbie
@Baud:
Happiest New Year!
mrmoshpotato
@Viva BrisVegas: Why would these asshats object to states their orange god emperor won?
opiejeanne
Fireworks!
TS (the original)
@Baud: And happy New Year to you
phdesmond
@Yutsano:
cause of death not mentioned.
mrmoshpotato
Came across this on an account I follow.
phdesmond
@Baud:
Baud for whatever in 20XX !
Jim Appleton
Ages ago in Mexico, I learned of their holiday traditions.
Christmas is minor, mostly not around 12/25.
New Years, though is paramount.
On 12/31, you will see innumerable small groups of people doing nothing more than briefly gathering randomly and closely and radiating happiness. Mexico is typically upbeat, but this day is very special.
They are stopping to thank a friend, acquaintance, shop vendor, … for any reason related to the past year, or … not. And to wish well for the coming year.
It takes seconds. The depth of communication is ritualized but clearly honest and compelling.
A Mexican wishing you Happy New Year means it in a way that may be foreign to some.
I’d like to honor, not appropriate, that rite by thanking you for you. And to wish you and yours an awesome New Year.
dmsilev
Pence seeks rejection of lawsuit that aimed to expand his power to overturn the election
Wonder whether anyone told Trump before the response was filed (by a DOJ lawyer).
Skepticat
@mrmoshpotato: Love it! Thanks.
mrmoshpotato
@Skepticat: It’s a classic around our house. Great episode with the chili cook-off.
frosty
@Gin & Tonic: If cooking also includes heating up frozen wings and fries, 3/3 for one kid, 2 1/2 /3 for the other. I don’t think he learned to swim all that well. In my defense, I made them learn to drive on a stick before they ever saw an automatic. The younger one still is, the older one has an automatic in his pickup.
@NotMax: Laundry, yes, as soon as they could carry their clothes down to the basement. Balance a checkbook? What’s a check? I don’t think either one has ever used a check.
NotMax
Pleasant, laid back Zoom today.
Viva BrisVegas
@mrmoshpotato: To create a greater shitshow and keep the “stolen election” vibe going for a few more weeks.
In their minds, if they can hold up the count for 14 days the horse may yet learn to sing.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
I ended up zooming with my cousin and brothers for 2-1/2 hours (starting at the same time) and totally missed the BJZoom. Hope to join in tomorrow.
Noskilz
@Eunicecycle: Sorry you are having to deal with such a terrible situation.
SiubhanDuinne
@phdesmond:
A bumper sticker for the ages!
SiubhanDuinne
@opiejeanne:
Yes. Since the sun set.
Jay
https://apnews.com/article/us-news-milwaukee-wisconsin-coronavirus-pandemic-3d6db7b839be9276734088cb9d93a52d?utm_campaign=SocialFlow&utm_source=Twitter&utm_medium=AP
?BillinGlendaleCA
@zhena gogolia:
(367) SHIRLEY! AIRPLANE! – YouTube
SiubhanDuinne
@EmbraceYourInnerCrone:
My grandmother cooked beef until it was grey, and for the first two decades of my life, that’s all I knew.
I don’t have all that many kind thoughts of my ex-husband, but one that I’m genuinely grateful for is his introducing me to rare beef. I’ve never willingly eaten a steak more cooked than rare since 1963.
SiubhanDuinne
@Yutsano:
Oh, how terrible! Saw Rep. Raskin on MSNBC just a night or two ago, and liked him so much. What a tragedy.
NotMax
@zhena gogolia
For a minute thought you might for some reason mean this one.
:)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: Thanks, just set to record.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Baud:
Happy new year! ?
cain
@Eunicecycle:
I feel bad for your sister-in-law. Lawd. How can you be stuck with this man – and worse he’s killed relatives. Fuck this man.
Yutsano
@SiubhanDuinne: For all that is holy, do NOT go into the responses in that tweet! We really need to either bring shunning back or Twitter needs to find a better way to expel the Macedonian bots, because some of those responses are just horrid.
Jay
NotMax
@Steeplejack
That emoji is always confoozin’ to me as it also looks like someone bending over to moon the viewer.
;)
SiubhanDuinne
@Yutsano:
Thanks for the heads up. I’ll def avoid the comments. If they’re as vile as you suggest, I sure hope someone on his staff is screening them from the Raskin family.
CaseyL
@SiubhanDuinne: That’s how I grew up, too! Only with the edges cooked to char.
My Mom cooked all meat until there wasn’t a speck of blood anywhere near it: beef, chicken, pork. I thought it was because she didn’t know how to cook when she first got married, but decades later she said no, my Dad had a phobia about food poisoning/trichinosis/etc., and demanded all meat be cooked until all potential germs were gone.
The thing is, I’ve never entirely re-adjusted my palate. Medium-well is as close as I’ll ever get to “rare,” and I’m the only person I know who does NOT want her turkey or chicken to be “moist,” who actually finds juicy meat kind of gross.
No name
@Jim Appleton: This is lovely. Thank you for sharing it and a happy new year to you.
raven
@TS (the original): Hell if I know.
Steve in the ATL
@SiubhanDuinne:
That’s my strategy with Balloon Juice!
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack:
I think I’ve seen that documentary three times straight through, at least. Came to it late tonight because Zoom, but it’s a pleasure nonetheless.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steve in the ATL:
Your reputation for wisdom precedes you.
Steeplejack (phone)
@NotMax:
?
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: So this vaccine group change is all the news over here. I got an appointment for the 12th and I don’t see how that would impact the election?
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
No, I can’t see how it would. The election and the vax schedule ought to be entirely separate things.
raven
@SiubhanDuinne:
DECEMBER 31, 2020 AT 7:57 PM
@raven:
Does the fact that Georgia has two critical senate elections have anything to do with the availability of the vaccine?
MisterForkbeard
@mrmoshpotato: The theory that Scalia was murdered by Hillary was pretty popular for awhile in right-wing groups. Apparently one of the Podesta mails talked about getting a contractor for “upcoming wet-work” that was assumed to be about murdering Scalia.
Podesta, it turns out, was having his swimming pool renovated :)
Kent
I have absolutely no idea how the rules work. But they do need a counterpart in the Senate to make it work so it can’t be a solitary group of House loons.
This is where party discipline starts coming into play. You don’t want to get sent down to the worst offices in the entire Capitol you start behaving
One assumes though, that they won’t object to any states that Trump won because Democrats can call their bet and vote to say, disenfranchise Texas.
mrmoshpotato
@Viva BrisVegas: Reasonable explanation. But this shitshow is still insane. :)
mrmoshpotato
@MisterForkbeard:
That would be hilarious on a movie. In these past 4 years of shit, not so much.
mrmoshpotato
Did you all NYE Zoomers (Yes, Zoomers) incriminate yourselves earlier? I see it was going to be recorded…
mrmoshpotato
The Cheez-It Bowl is an annual college football bowl game that is played in Orlando, Florida, at Camping World Stadium
This shit is getting out of hand!
Benw
RIP the legendary MF Doom.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ayfv0SOjvRs
Jay
Subsole
@Quinerly: These people have literally driven themselves insane so they don’t have to acknowledge our humanity.
Viva BrisVegas
@Kent: For loony senators the GOP has Hawley and maybe a couple of others on tap.
They would also be depending on Democrats not invalidating any red states, as the Republicans would then use that as a concession that the election was indeed corrupt.
Not saying that it would work or make sense, only that it sounds like the sort of thing Trumpists would do.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
The Countess is clearly drunk. She’s demanding that we get a McRib sandwich tomorrow after seeing a commercial.
Hoping she forgets this stupid demand.
Subsole
@Dan B: A girl I dated once said the key to good Irish cooking was to boil the food until it was harmless.
She weren’t kidding, either.
mrmoshpotato
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Start out 2021 right – by assaulting your taste buds, GI tract and dignity! ?
Jay
https://www.electoral-vote.com/evp2020/Pres/Maps/Dec31.html#item-5
zhena gogolia
@NotMax:
There’s only one Shirley for me.
It’s a little strange to call it “happy new year,” as Victor McLaglen dies in the middle of her song.
Jeffro
@Steeplejack: thanks for the tip! I have been planning on catching this at some point and tonight was the night, I guess. =)
Wow.
Miss our last real president!
NotMax
@Kent
The most important part of the legal procedure when objection is made.
More detail, from a second source (.pdf), current as of December 2020 (emphasis added):
Short version: If either chamber, by majority vote, rejects the objection then it is denied and the duly state-certified electoral votes are accepted as if no objection had occurred.
Jay
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
there are worse things to eat, not many, but some.
trick her, tell her you are going to Mickey D’s, then go to a decent Bbq joint and get pulled pork sandwiches as an appy.
Subsole
@Benw: Fuuuuck. One last gutpunch from 2020…
Suzanne
@Gin & Tonic: Mr. Suzanne has made it almost to the age of 41 without ever having learned how to drive a stick shift. It’s so weird.
The essential skill that I have been trying to teach my kids is how to tell which way is north. I am always in amazement to meet adults who can’t tell which way is north.
prostratedragon
@sab: Me too. I don’t, sfaik, but have northern Mississippi and Carolina Piedmont roots, and some things seem similar.
Suzanne
Damnit.
I just went outside on my front porch to get a little bit of baby-free time, and there is a group of people having a party at a house on the next block.
“But they’re outdoors, so it’s okay!”. BULLSHIT.
The Lodger
@mrmoshpotato: It’s almost worth going to a sports bar to see the Cheez-It Bowl on ESPN or Fox Sports 4 or whatever.
Okay, almost.
Jay
@Suzanne:
I learned to drive stick before syncromesh,
depress clutch, move it into neutral, depress clutch, move it into gear, ease out the clutch to spin the transmission up or down.
North is often either geographic, or iron in your nose.
From here, the mountains are north. In Saskatchewan, there is no north. It’s flat anywhere you look.
ltelf
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I think that if she does remember, she’ll pretend that she doesn’t out of sheer embarrassment.
gwangung
@The Lodger: I remember when the “big” New Year’s Eve bowl was the Bluebonnet Bowl. (Before it became the Astro Bluebonnet Bowl).
Dopey-o
AFAIK, you pay a 20% penalty for returning merchandise without the original packaging…
It is fucking creepy as shit (as you eloquently put it) that a father is so obsessed with his daughter’s vagina. I have never seen any commentary about the attitudes of the chattel-virgins’ mothers.
Probably don’t want to.
mrmoshpotato
@The Lodger: Have at it.
I’m still waiting for the We Have Just Completely Whored Ourselves Out Bowl*.
*Apologies to whores.
mrmoshpotato
@Jay: Saskatoon!
SFAW
@Subsole:
“Irish cuisine” is one of the better, but lesser-known, oxymorons.
Benw
@Subsole: Just fuck it. Op. Doomsday’s been on rotation all night
NotMax
@SFAW
A nice hearty shepherd’s pie (made with Guinness included) being the exception to the rule.
frosty
@Jay: Yeah, my TR-3 had a non-synchro 1st gear. I learned to double-clutch to shift down.
It also had a crank, which was useful when the starter occasionally decided not to work.
Kayla Rudbek
@Gin & Tonic: never trust a chemist who can’t cook!
tomtofa
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Don’t worry, they’ll be sold out by the time you get there. It’s a cult fave.
Drdavechemist
@Kayla Rudbek: Mrs Dr Dave had a colleague who said the same thing, and it’s a common phrase in our household. Both my college aged sons can cook more than acceptably.
Jay
@frosty:
Lucas, the Prince of Darkness.
Uncle Cosmo
@TS (the original): Try driving a stick in Northern Ireland on the wrong side of the road** after 3 decades of automatic transmissions. In the early Oughts, I went to rent an auto in Belfast & discovered I could get a manual for the whole weekend for the daily price of an automatic. Cheap barstid that I am, I sprung for a Ford Escort stick & did right well – shifting was the least of my difficulties.
** As I say to Brits who object: “It’s not the right side of the road, is it? Case closed!”