I’m going to bigfoot myself with an Authors in Our Midst post in a couple of minutes, but I wanted you to have an open thread to discuss other things. But stop by the Authors’ post to check out the latest author highlighted.
Meanwhile, here is Bixby unboxing his gifts.
Bixby LOVES his boxes, so I saved a box and packed some new chew toys into it. He had much more fun opening the box than playing with the toys.
Funny story I may have told you before, but he loved boxes AND our UPS driver when he was still a puppy (100 lb puppy) and one day on a walk, he almost knocked over the UPS driver, trying to get to the boxes the driver was carrying. I was embarrassed, the driver was amused.
Also, I made some hopped up chocolate chip cookies, adding coconut and oatmeal because why not? Recipe here.
Open thread!
NotMax
Waiting for
Godotcookies.:)
TaMara (HFG)
@NotMax: ? ?
TheronWare
Bixby yay!
mrmoshpotato
Does the big fella tear boxes to shreds like my sister’s pitbull does?
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Our little guy (beagle mix) likes to shred tissues and napkins. I have a habit of accumulating them in my pockets, and he’ll pick my pockets and then take his treasure off to shred at various favorite perches around the house, We usually don’t catch him at it, we just find the evidence.
When we first adopted him at 18 months, he used to love to shred toys, especially squeaky toys. We had a running joke about Sam being able to perform a double squeaker-ectomy is 30 seconds. His brain actually seems to have matured in that aspect if not too many others, and we now actually own old doggie toys. With intact squeakers.
Kelly
Our cats Phoebe and Martin recognize the sound of the UPS truck and get excited at the prospect of NEW BOXES.
TaMara (HFG)
Seditious fool has President Pelosi trending on twitter and I’m here for it.
There are those who call me...tim... (Still posh)
Our pet peeve enjoys her rawhide chews but not just for chewing, oh no. She has to make Fetch happen. Throw it down the hallway, endangering all devices and fragiles, so she can start it all again. And she barks until you comply. Tedious, but hey.
debbie
@TaMara (HFG):
Navarro is even stupider about this than he is about economics.
TaMara (HFG)
@mrmoshpotato: No, he’s pretty much done with it after he’s opened it. LOL. It seems to be just the thrill of finding out what’s inside.
TaMara (HFG)
@Kelly: My cats ignore boxes and I feel like I got defective critters. No box fun for us.
There are those who call me...tim... (Still posh)
@TaMara (HFG): “The only thing that can alter it–” begins a sentence I’d rather not hear aloud. Jesus.
MagdaInBlack
Gordita has had her pick of boxes this year, from amazon. She spent so much time in one I was starting to worry, but she got bored with it and moved on to a different one. Now she’s back to HER big red chair, boxes are suddenly ALL boring.
Elizabelle
Homer Simpson voice: “Coconut.”
Will have to make up a batch of those cookies. Have everything in the house to make those, and they would be divine with hot coffee for an alternative breakfast.
narya
I had a bunch of egg whites left over from the batch of hazelnut sable I made (one of which I filled w/ poached pears and hazelnut frangipane and the other of which is in the freezer), so I’ve been aging the whites, and today is macaron day. Also: venison cheesesteaks. And this morning’s run was slushy but not icy, so yay for that. I signed up for a year-long virtual challenge, so we’ll see how many states I can complete.
SiubhanDuinne
@There are those who call me…tim… (Still posh):
Especially when that sentence is preceded by “LOL.”
planetjanet
Could you substitute steel cut oats for the rolled oats? I keep steel cut oats around as a pantry staple, but not rolled oats.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
audio of trump trying to bully Brad Raffensberger (GA Sec of State) into accepting and affirming his conspiracy theories, and implying that Raffensberger is a criminal. A mob boss with the keys to the Justice Departement for the next two and a half weeks
“I just wanna find 11,780 votes”
Yutsano
@narya: What? No pavlova? I am disappoint. :P
mrmoshpotato
@TaMara (HFG):
“Hm. New silverware. Meh. You enjoy that hooman.”
TaMara (HFG)
@planetjanet: I think you can, the texture will be different, but still tasty.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Jesus.
mrmoshpotato
@Elizabelle:
Mmmmmmmm.
Elizabelle
@planetjanet: I googled quickly and short answer: no, too chewy with the long-cooking steel cut. Some possibility short-cooking steel cut could work.
You’ll want to research. Appears you may be able to use a cup of long cooked steel cut — with additional flour — per cup of rolled oats.
Happy googling.
TaMara (HFG)
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: JFC…I vowed not to listen to anything this guy says in 2021, but had to listen to this. Just fucking incredible. I’m assuming the GA SOS leaked this.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@TaMara (HFG):
had to be, right?
Elizabelle
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Trump is such a criminal.
Raff, flat out: “Well, Mr. President, the challenge that you have is the data you have is wrong.”
Very short pause, but Trump barrels on. Starts asking about shredding.
planetjanet
@Elizabelle:
Thanks, Elizabelle.
MattF
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: And this was YESTERDAY. Holy shit, if I may say so myself.
Elizabelle
Trump: “Have they moved the inner parts of the [Dominion] machines, and replaced them with other parts?”
Official: “No.”
Angela Merkel and others from the sane world have to be alternately laughing aloud and quite concerned about the coming 18 days.
mrmoshpotato
@Elizabelle: “I can’t take this shit today. I just can’t.” just rotated through the tags for me.
Elizabelle
@MattF: Yesterday! Jebus. Was guessing this was from before Georgia certified.
Fuck Trump. The criminal.
I hope this gets him in a LOT of trouble.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Glad it leaked. What’s with the missing segments? WaPo or Ga SOS?
MattF
@MattF: Also, one may assume that Trump has been calling R Senators and giving them the same treatment.
debbie
@TaMara (HFG):
I just posted it on my FB page, if only to piss off the Trump lovers in my family.
Elizabelle
@planetjanet: Think I saw that McCann (maker of steel cut oats) might have some info up on their website.
It’s an interesting question you raise. I just use rolled, but good to hear you might use others, in a pinch. Even in meatloaf.
But. Coconut. Mmmmmmm.
debbie
@Elizabelle:
I thought that was very brave of the SoS to say that. Apparently, he spoke so softly that Trump didn’t even hear him. //
MattF
@Baud: I’d guess WaPo wanted to get the highlights out. I’m OK with that– specifiying he needs exactly 11,780 votes…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
The Washington Post has a long write-up on the call. Didn’t Lindsey Graham once say that trump trying to intimidate state election officials would be a crime? Not that I expect him to do anything at all about it.
Elizabelle
Wow. Item is top of the WaPost: Breaking News.
In extraordinary hour-long call, Trump pressures Georgia secretary of state to recalculate vote
President Trump urged fellow Republican Brad Raffensperger to “find” enough votes to overturn his defeat.
“Extraordinary” is doing a lot of work there, no? Equivalent to the FTF NY Time’s use of “audacious.”
When “egregious” or even “appalling” is the correct descriptive.
mrmoshpotato
@MattF:
“Steal the election for me!” bellowed the traitorous orange mobster shitpile.
We’re less than 17 days away from the Biden/Harris administration…
Elizabelle
@debbie: The selective hearing.
Trump is channelling pure Hannity and rightwing alternative facts, it would seem.
Spanky
@MattF: Hope he’s got an updated list, ’cause there’s a new Congress in town.
Actually no, I don’t hope that.
There are those who call me...tim... (Still posh)
@SiubhanDuinne: yeah, that was the other thing.
mrmoshpotato
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
:)
rikyrah
Bixby ??
Ceci n est pas mon nym
How is what Trump is doing not illegal? And if it is illegal, is there any possibility at all of criminal prosecution post-Jan. 20?
That goes for not only this crime, but whatever other crimes he is committing between now and then. I expect it’s not a short list.
There are those who call me...tim... (Still posh)
@SiubhanDuinne: yeah, that was the other thing.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: what a time for future parents, hoping to teach the concept of “shame” to the kids.
Baud
New thread up on Trump’s call.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: from the article:
like a mobster, trump’s lizard-brain knows to keep it vague– “people are saying…” “isn’t it true…?”. He should definitely be impeached– not that I’m gonna start screaming about Pelosi. The American people are too disengaged, too immature, frankly, to demand it.
TaMara (HFG)
I just put up a dedicated post for the new trump phone call.
h/t @Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Elizabelle
Amy Gardner’s first paragraphs in the WaPost story. Kudos to her.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
My wife had to teach a university ethics course in Jan 2017. The students were PISSED. How do you justify to them that they should act ethically?
Elizabelle
@TaMara (HFG): Thank you. Bigfooted by Big Criminal.
debbie
@Elizabelle:
Just watch. Even though it’s his voice, Trump will call this fake news.
mrmoshpotato
@Elizabelle: The real pathetic thing is winning Georgia still has him losing overall. Even winning Arizona as well still has Biden at 279 electoral college votes to 259.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I want there to be CONSEQUENCES for four years of criminal behavior, goddammit! Not hand-wringing about “legally questionable behavior”. I want this fucker on trial. We need that as a supposed “nation of laws”.
kindness
Imagine this conversation at the dog park:
Pup1 – Man I woke up from a sound sleep this morning and my OneWhoFeedsMe was just sitting there staring at me.
Pup2 – Oh, mine does that all the time.
Pup1 – Makes me wonder how long they’ve been sitting there staring at me.
Pup2 – Yea, it’s kind of creepy.
Pup1 – Yea.
mrmoshpotato
@There are those who call me…tim… (Still posh):
Also how to deal when things don’t go your way – even if it’s beyond human control.
“No Donny, you can’t make that rock float in the air.”
mrmoshpotato
@Elizabelle:
NY AG James needs to drop a house on all of them.
mrmoshpotato
@kindness: LOL
Elizabelle
@mrmoshpotato: Yes!
You’ve seen the meme with the Donald’s long red tie poking out where the Wicked Witch of the East’s feet were.
Drop that house. Send Donald to the Big House.
Elizabelle
@debbie: He will.
And now, we hear that the WaPost put the recording up on Youtube. No paywall!
Nutmeg again
I always love to see the big guy… and I used to put oatmeal & coconut into my cookies, back when I had a household to cook for! Yum. I will enjoy, virtually.
There are those who call me...tim... (Still posh)
2 things: surely I’m not the only one to notice that from the red tie up, Trump is the colors of fire, right? Even an atheist can identify The Devil.
Also, let’s get back to dogs, okay?