Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

Let there be snark.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

All your base are belong to Tunch.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

We are aware of all internet traditions.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

This really is a full service blog.

Everybody saw this coming.

You don’t get to peddle hatred on saturday and offer condolences on sunday.

Damn right I heard that as a threat.

If you’re pissed about Biden’s speech, he was talking about you.

Battle won, war still ongoing.

Schmidt just says fuck it, opens a tea shop.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

Conservatism: there are some people the law protects but does not bind and others who the law binds but does not protect.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Eh, that’s media spin. biden’s health is fine and he’s doing a good job.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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How is the paste buffett in the Fox greenroom, Peter? Do you have a favorite flavor?

It’s a sad loss to the Media Mudlarks…

And yet, the voters seem okay with it!

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  4. 4.

    Lacuna Synecdoche

    Jordan Fabian via Anne Laurie @ Top:

    POTUS awards Medal of Honor to Col. Ralph Puckett, Jr., & said his first response was to ask “why all the fuss” & ask if medal could be mailed

    “I was going to make a joke about the Post Office but decided not to do that,” Biden said. “I think you deserve a little bit of fuss”

    I think Biden should have made the Post Office joke. Something along the lines of, “Well, maybe when we get a competent Postmaster General.”

  7. 7.

    Lacuna Synecdoche

    @debbie:

    “The Art of an Actual Deal” works for me, Peter, you jerk.

    How ’bout The Art of a Good Deal?

    I like the way that implies that Trump is a bad deal and bad dealer, without actually saying it outright.

  8. 8.

    Baud

    POTUS awards Medal of Honor to Col. Ralph Puckett, Jr., & said his first response was to ask “why all the fuss” & ask if medal could be mailed

    Puckett said fuck it.

  9. 9.

    artem1s

    @germy:

    What was Peter’s question to Psaki? I missed it.

    he was trying to gotcha her by framing the WH negotiations on various bills as The Art of the Deal or something TFG could have done with a wave of his tiny hands.

  13. 13.

    Lacuna Synecdoche

    @Amir Khalid:

    The CDC, I have just read, is telling Americas not to hug or kiss their chickens. I did not know this was a thing in America. Is there something here that my fellow jackals should fill me in on?

    BBC:

    According to the CDC, one-third of the people reported ill in the recent outbreaks have been under the age of five.

    I’m guessing it’s common for children to show indiscriminate affection towards animals. Maybe the CDC wants parents to be a little more alert to the risks of letting kids play with barnyard fowl?

  16. 16.

    MagdaInBlack

    Ms Psaki is a wonderful replacement for the previous cartoon character with the lyin’ mouth and the cross around her neck.

  17. 17.

    Lacuna Synecdoche

    @germy: ​
    Douchey’s question was (I’m translating it into plain English here):

    Could you say that in a way that references Trump so we can frame it as a gotcha moment in our Fox News chyrons? The “art of finding common ground” is a little long for our viewer’s attention spans.

  19. 19.

    raven

    @Baud: He said fuck it on Hill 205 but his comrades didn’t

     

    At 10pm, the Chinese began their attack by firing a mortar salvo against Puckett and his Rangers. Six waves of Chinese forces assaulted the hill for the next four and a half hours. Several times, Puckett was forced to call in artillery fire “danger close”, placing the Rangers within the danger radius of the friendly artillery. During the course of the battle, he was wounded several times, once by grenade fragments and then twice more when two mortars landed in his fox hole. After his wounds rendered him barely conscious, Puckett ordered his Rangers to leave him behind and abandon the position. Two of Puckett’s Rangers, PFCs David L. Pollock and Billy G. Walls, ignored his orders and initially carried him and subsequently dragged him down the hill as they received ineffective small arms fire. Puckett was medically evacuated from the hill and would be hospitalized for a year due to the wounds he suffered that night.

  21. 21.

    OzarkHillbilly

    “It’s simply, simply wrong. I will not let that happen,” President Biden tells me about the Justice Department seizing the records of reporters.

    Well actually, he said seizing hers would be OK. And yes, he was being sarcastic.

  22. 22.

    Kay

    The immigration number in that poll is interesting because while immigration is Biden’s worst issue, it was ALSO not a great issue for Trump.

    They were both around 50% on immigration. Trump’s immigration position only looked “good” in comparison to the rest of his numbers, which were lower across the board.

  25. 25.

    Ken

    @Amir Khalid: My theory is that the chicken-kissing announcement was a prank, and as could be expected some of the RW have stepped in it. Someone posted a Fox chyron last night, it looks like Tucker Carlson went out to find someone who really, really loves chickens and is offended by this government intrusion.

  26. 26.

    MagdaInBlack

    @Amir Khalid: Some people here who keep backyard chickens turn them in to little snuggly pets, dress them up like dolls and shower them with hugs and kisses. People are weird..

    > I have no issue with scarves on ducks, just to be clear ?

  28. 28.

    NotMax

    A shot of movie merriment into the arm of the weekend. From deep in the vault: joined in progress, a flight of pre-code fancy.

    Okay, okay, Busby Berkeley it ain’t, but sufficient at the time to drum up box office business.

  29. 29.

    geg6

    I have to say, I never thought I’d love Joe Biden the way I do today.  I just love him.  My only wish is that my mom was alive to see this.  She was a Joe Biden fan from the moment he was elected to the Senate.  She had good instincts when it came to the character of men.  My dad was the best man I’ve ever known and she married him.  She picked Handsome Joe as a good man way back when and she absolutely nailed it.  I wish I could apologize to her for making fun of her fan girl attitude toward him all those years.  Sorry Mom!  You were right, as usual.

  30. 30.

    Starfish

    @Amir Khalid: We have been cooped up for a very long time and are basically hugging and kissing any creature we come across in public which is generally fine unless we are hugging and kissing lizards, chickens, or bears.

  36. 36.

    Ken

    @Kay: So we could phrase that as “Biden’s worst poll numbers are better than TFG’s best numbers, on TFG’s signature issue.”

  40. 40.

    HalfAssedHomesteader

    @OzarkHillbilly: Sarcasm works when you’ve got some rapport.  It just comes naturally for most people.  Something TFG could never achieve.

  42. 42.

    OzarkHillbilly

    An Iranian couple have been arrested for drugging, murdering and dismembering their film-maker son, Babak Khorramdin, 47, and also confessed to killing their daughter and son-in-law in the same way years earlier.

    The case has stunned Iran, where it has been splashed across the front pages of newspapers with headlines including “Society in shock” and “Occupants of terror house”.

    It also prompted intense discussion on social media about a legal system that offers relative leniency to parents who kill their offspring. Murder is usually a capital offence in Iran but people who kill their children face a maximum of 10 years in jail.

    Khorramdin’s parents could still face the death penalty, however, if they are put on trial for the murder of their son-in-law.

    Any parent of a teenager would understand. s//

  43. 43.

    germy

    I hugged a duck once.

    I thought it was the love affair of the century, but then she presented me with her bill.

  44. 44.

    Kayla Rudbek

    I have come to the conclusion that I am going to have to replace most of my bras due to the surgery.  I tried to put on a regular sports bra this week, and it simply didn’t fit me correctly anymore.  The frustrating thing is that I will probably have to go further down in size after the radiation treatment is done.

    And it’s weird to be so reconfigured; I feel like I’m going to have to do extensive exercise to get my body from torso to knees and my upper arms to match up with my chest.

  48. 48.

    WereBear

    @Kayla Rudbek: When things are changing, all we can do is ride the rapids.

    I have learned that at such times, the hits keep coming. I wait for them to stop before I entertain my best ideas for recalibration.

    Because we are changing, too.

  50. 50.

    mrmoshpotato

    In Biden White House, the Celebrity Staff Is a Thing of the Past

    Oh NYT.  Fire yourselves into the Sun.

  51. 51.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    @germy:

    I hugged a duck once.

    I thought it was the love affair of the century, but then she presented me with her bill.

    Take your kudos and GET OUT

    :P

  54. 54.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    When the Countess was a five year old girl in the Philippines living off base, her folks had a Filipina housekeeper/cook and a guard. There was one chicken that had been her special pet, named and clothed and much loved. One day, her beloved pet disappeared but there was a fantastic chicken dinner.  She was pretty traumatized about it.

    My rule is that if it has a name, it doesn’t get eaten.

  57. 57.

    Calouste

    @Ken: It’s the first step on a long path that will end with the long-standing Balloon-Juice recommendation of “don’t lick electrical sockets”. And every step along the way Tucker Carlson will be there to encourage the cult to buck those recommendations in the name of freedumb.

  58. 58.

    Mai Naem mobile

    I don’t know much about military medals. I didn’t realize a soldier could recieve the same medal several times. Col Puckett seems like a genuine old fashioned military hero. I believe he has 6 purple hearts and 2 distinguished service medals in addition to a million other medals.

  59. 59.

    Ken

    @mrmoshpotato: Or just discuss the actual deal that TFG made with the ghost-writer for “Art of the Deal”.  It was insanely good for the writer, almost as if TFG had no idea what’s considered normal for these contracts.

  64. 64.

    zhena gogolia

    @geg6:

    I was a fan girl for him early in his career, then lost it, although I was happy when Obama picked him as VP. But you’re right, he has transcended all my expectations. He is just a good person, and that comes through.

  65. 65.

    opiejeanne

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Same thing happened to my ducklings when I was 3., When they grew up they went to live on a farm in the country and we had several “chicken” dinners. I didn’t find out what happened to them until I was a about 10 and had a vague memory of them.

    I was so naive at age 3: we lived in the country.

  68. 68.

    Mai Naem mobile

    I was dumb enough to turn the TV to Larry Kudlow’s show on Fox Biz. He had on Steve Forbes, Stephen Moore and Art Laffer. Mr Wrong All The Time was extolling the virtues of the roaring twenties and at the same time how bad FDR was.  Ofcourse its all about low taxes because they have no other solution to any problem.

  70. 70.

    MomSense

    Kids were all home last night.  The dog is in heaven. They’re heading out now and I think she is going to mope insufferably.  We may have to go into the cheddar reserve for her today.

  74. 74.

    Ken

    @MagdaInBlack: My suggestion of ” stewing hens” did not go down well

    Well you certainly don’t want to fry them when they’re that old.

    But seriously, what were their alternatives?  Feed the hen until it dies of old age, then give it a shoebox burial? (While hoping it didn’t die of something contagious….)

  77. 77.

    gene108

    @HalfAssedHomesteader:

    Sarcasm works when you’ve got some rapport. It just comes naturally for most people. Something TFG could never achieve.

    To do sarcasm to any degree, you need a sense of humor. TFG has no sense of humor. He is a mirthless man.

  78. 78.

    WereBear

    Yesterday, with both WereBears in the fully-vacced zone, we had breakfast at a favorite diner. They are still distancing there; we wore out masks unless we were seated in our favorite booth, and we had a good time.

    Over-tipped, as we have been doing for takeout!

  80. 80.

    tom

    The way Jen Psaki handles Peter Doocy, I sometimes picture them as characters in Casablanca:

    Doocy: You despise me, don’t you?
    Psaki: If I gave you any thought I probably would.

  82. 82.

    NotMax

    @Baud

    Off the beaten track film, Men & Chicken. Ultimately a frilly semi-grotesquerie of abusrdist farce, if a confection would be a sweet ‘n’ sour gumdrop. No longer no charge on Prime, currently free (with ads) on Tubi TV.

  84. 84.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Dorothy A. Winsor:

    In the People’s’ Republic, everything that didn’t fail is full-on open. There’s high vax rates, tourists walking about, restaurants are humming and buildings have cleared away most of the Breonna Taylor riot damage and graffiti. So long as LMPD doesn’t fuck up by being stupid again, things can return to normal and we can start rebuilding our broken finances.

  86. 86.

    MomSense

    @mrmoshpotato:

    My grandparents raised chickens on their farm and at the end of the summer we would help with the great chicken massacre.  My grandmother put all of us kids  in bathing suits.  After he chopped their heads off, my grandfather would hang them on a big tree upside down and we would take them, dunk them in boiling water, rip their feathers out, and then my grandmother would do the messy part of dealing with the innards.  The problem was that we were too speedy with the feathers part so I always got stuck helping with the grossest part.

    My dad didn’t help at all.  He had his cameras out and the most mischievous grin on his face.  I didn’t understand why until I looked at the photos years later.  A bunch of cute little kids covered in chicken blood and feathers wearing flowered bathing suits.  It’s Stephen King level Maine weird.
    Grandma was super practical though. We just went swimming in the pond at the end of the day.

    ETA chipped to chopped

  89. 89.

    TaMara (HFG)

    @MomSense: I have fond memories of helping my grandparents with the chicken massacre, I was under 6. I think kids innately understand these things. It helped that NONE of the chickens were any more than chores we had to do when we were there – collect eggs, spread feed, etc.

  90. 90.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @gene108: TFG has no sense of humor.

    But he does have a well honed sense of cruelty, which in his mind passes for the same.

  91. 91.

    Suzanne

    @MagdaInBlack:

    Ms Psaki is a wonderful replacement for the previous cartoon character with the lyin’ mouth and the cross around her neck. 

    I hated the basic-ass Kayleigh McNeenerNeener almost as much as I hate Jared, and that is saying something.

    She strikes me as the kind of woman that trashy dudes find attractive. The kind of dumbass dudes cheat on their wives with but can’t stand to endure their company if they have clothes on. Not intelligent, not interesting, with no interests, or style, or personality.

  95. 95.

    zhena gogolia

    @NotMax:

    You put a smile on my husband’s face. But it made my back hurt when they started playing the drums that way.

  96. 96.

    raven

    @Mai Naem mobile: Sure you can. Some ribbons are worn with insignia  on them to indicate multiple awards. The Purple Heart has “oak leaf clusters” if more than one is received. The Navy can be funny, many awards for the heroism of a ship go to the captain but individual sailors can also receive them.

  97. 97.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @MomSense:  A bunch of cute little kids covered in chicken blood and feathers wearing flowered bathing suits.

    Hence I take mine to a Mennonite for processing.

  99. 99.

    Josie

    @TaMara (HFG): ​ You and MomSense are bringing back my own fond memories of my grandfather’s warped sense of humor during the chicken massacre. As he chopped off a head, he would say, “Go to heaven, little chicken.”​

  100. 100.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Suzanne:

    I call her sort of person “fun for a long weekend, just so long as you make a clean exit”.  The male equivalent to her is “you leave your husband and kids for him, but slink back in shame after two weeks”, which is how the Countess described Tony Bourdain.

    I admit a certain fondness for “slightly trashy” – it’s been a curse at times.

  101. 101.

    raven

    I always thought many military medals were chickenshit so this thread makes sense. (The MOH ain’t one of them)

  103. 103.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @cain: That was the reason for killing both their children. Their daughter because she became a drug addict, and their 47 yo son because he was still unmarried and they thought having *inappropriate relationships* with his students.

    **that covers a lot of territory and they did not go into detail.

  105. 105.

    cain

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Of course, it only gets attention because it’s a man getting killed not the chosen demographic. I also suspect inappropriate might mean ‘gay”.

  107. 107.

    Jinchi

    @HalfAssedHomesteader: ​
     

    Sarcasm works when you’ve got some rapport. It just comes naturally for most people. Something TFG could never achieve.

    Trump never did sarcasm. All of his insults and threats were sincere. He may not have gotten around to shooting someone on 5th Avenue, but he was perfectly happy to fill the morgues with covid patients.

  108. 108.

    OzarkHillbilly

    @cain: I also suspect inappropriate might mean ‘gay”.

    So do I but it could also mean having sexual relations with multiple women not his wife. Or if they are really strict (and it would seem they are) it could be something as simple as being alone in his office with female students and the door closed. Hard to say.

  111. 111.

    Urban Suburbanite

    The courtiers at Politico have to be excited now. The Biden administration is sort of tied to an ongoing clusterfuck with the Boston police commissioner – the current Labor Secretary/former mayor of Boston had picked someone for police commissioner who was accused of beating two women in 1999 (one was his ex wife). A bunch of Massachusetts political creatures are jumping into this, either blaming someone or finding a way to say it’s not their fault. And it’s probably going to get worse – this is the same department that had covered for a pedophile police union president since he was a patrol officer (not an exaggeration).

  114. 114.

    rikyrah

     

    ???? Only4RM ???? (@Only4RM) tweeted at 10:18 AM on Fri, May 21, 2021:
    Science is hard. For some, so is linear thinking. And don’t get me started about the whole cause + effect thing. But stay w/ me a bit:

    CDC guideline – Going unmasked ok, if ALL vaccinated

    US House, 40-50% of GOP not vaccinated = ?

    White House, full vaccination REQUIRED = ?
    (https://twitter.com/Only4RM/status/1395760847583068162?s=03)

  115. 115.

    MagdaInBlack

    @OzarkHillbilly: Yup, thats what I did. Altho I do have memories of my mother butchering chickens and how funny ( I thought) it was that they ran around a bit after their heads were removed.  I was 6.

  117. 117.

    mrmoshpotato

    @MomSense:

    my grandmother would do the messy part of dealing with the innards.  The problem was that we were too speedy with the feathers part so I always got stuck helping with the grossest part. 

    Hehehe

  119. 119.

    Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes

    @Urban Suburbanite:

    This sort of shit is what #MeToo was built for – weaponizing the woke into jeremiads against people on ancient allegations.

    It’s sick.

  121. 121.

    Geminid

    @rikyrah: Political scientist Marcus H. Johnson is a good writer, and he has a lot to say. He must be talking about the decision to review the Fulton County, Georgia ballots. These “audits” have become a new source of income for grifting wingnuts. The grifters  are gaining experience and reputation for the 2022 elections.

  122. 122.

    Sure Lurkalot

    All this fowl talk has force fed me to the decision that tonight’s movie shall be a favorite that I actually own on DVD (but where?)…Chicken Run. Hope I find it!

  123. 123.

    Peale

    Can I just say that I’m relieved to have a president who can get through a meeting with South Korea without trying to humiliate them?

  124. 124.

    Another Scott

    In other news, …

    The Southern Baptist church, founded in 1845 to promote slavery, questions the morality of Lego making gay kids feel OK about themselves, claiming they really need Jesus, a guy who wore gowns, gender fluid hair, and never said a word against being #LGBTQ.https://t.co/5B5QQXiPtg

    — Mrs. Betty Bowers (@BettyBowers) May 22, 2021

    Mockery of their leaders is about the best tool we have at the moment.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  125. 125.

    Mike in NC

    The town of Annandale, VA has a large population of Korean immigrants. Years ago I started hearing roosters crowing at all hours of the day. Called the county Board of Health to crack down and tell these folks that keeping a chicken coop in your yard was illegal.

  126. 126.

    Feathers

    @Urban Suburbanite: Honestly, what would be great would be Walsh underbusing the Boston Police. (Who we just learned have over 30 officers who earned over $300,000 last year.) They are notoriously corrupt. The union will pickets events attended by politicians if they aren’t getting their way in contract negotiations, essentially shutting them down. The state police shut down the Democrats state convention one year back in the Dukakis days. Maybe Walsh is willing to finish out his career in DC. If so, he could let the world know what he knows about the Boston (and State Police) and help end the stranglehold these criminal gangs have on our cities, limiting their potential as the safe, productive, and sustainable living spaces for our future.

    Oh, and chickens. They are fluffy and fun to hug and kiss and it looks good on Instagram. However, domestic chickens kept in coops are dirty birdies who clean their feathers by rolling in the dirt they pooped in. You can let them, but wash your hands afterwards. Kissing them is basically licking raw chicken meat (same pathogens).

  128. 128.

    The Moar You Know

     

    This sort of shit is what #MeToo was built for – weaponizing the woke into jeremiads against people on ancient allegations.

    It’s sick.

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:  And it works like a well-oiled machine.  Absolutely superb design from beginning to end.   They know our weaknesses and have no qualms about using them.  Why don’t we even know theirs?

  129. 129.

    Starfish

    @Suzanne: Your descriptions here are brilliant. The second paragraph is how I felt about many of the women that were front and center in the Trump administration. The driving forces in their lives were a) not eating and b) making terrible fashion choices.

  130. 130.

    evodevo

    @debbie: ​
      Yep,,,birds AND reptiles excrete via cloacas, and almost always have a lot of Salmonella and E.coli in their poop, and also on their feet, and if they have been pecking around in the chicken pen, on their beaks….so…kiss at yur own risk…it’s been a thing since I can remember…

  131. 131.

    Starfish

    @cain: It’s unusual for a number of reasons:
    – It is a man.
    – He was pushing fifty.
    – He had a successful career.
    – The father had already killed two other people.

    The way that some people in this thread are trying to disparage a whole country by acting like honor killings are normal there is deeply weird.

  132. 132.

    Uncle Cosmo

    @Another Scott: Mockery of their leaders is about the best tool we have, period.

    FTFY. The one thing that drives authoritarians batty is to be ridiculed. Deep down inside they know they’re full of shit, and they’re terrified that the great majority of people will realize it. Mockery begets laughter; and when the mockery is consistent and continual, it eventually stops being funny, at which point people shun them. And then where are they?

  137. 137.

    Feathers

    @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Nope. This is a genuine scandal. Of course it is being framed as what did Walsh know, instead of holy fuck, the police union is totally evil and corrupt, here’s the proof. If Walsh had any sense, he probably tried not to know the details of the corruption going on. But this shit needs to come out. If he did help cover up a child molester on active duty in the BPD, he must go.

    As Labor Secretary, he could actually be a leader in the fight against the corrupt police unions which are holding back our communities. Hearings could be held, and he could tell what he knows.

    You are looking at #metoo as a defense attorney, but this country is being destroyed by people who think that unless there has been a conviction in a court of law nothing bad happened and you cannot talk about the truth the courts ignored. This has led  to contempt for the law, and this lawyering attitude is part of the problem. Are there going to be bad actors? Of course, there always will be. But to sneer at those who bring corruption to light is compounding the problem.  We can’t have a definition of “innocent until proven guilty” which precludes certain classes of people from being convicted of crimes. And then use that lack of criminal convictions to forbid discussing the problem.

  138. 138.

    Kay

    @rikyrah:

    I had a back and forth with a Trumpist on voter fraud yesterday. I am friends with his wife, not him, and I could tell it was making her nervous- she’s conflict averse- but I wasn’t mad (although he was) and I thought it was fine. I’m not conflict averse :)

    He brought it up because a school levy failed by one vote in the county last week. A provisional “no”vote was the decider. This was supposed to make me mad…because I support provisional ballots being counted and I support school levies? Not clear. Anyway. Indiana Air National Guard, active duty. He thinks Trump is the real President.

  143. 143.

    hitchhiker

    Last night while my favorite hapless baseball team was losing to the San Diego Padres by double digits, our local newspaper published the news that said hapless team is the least vaccinated in the MLB. Like, about HALF the players have exercised their personal choice to not get vaccinated.

    And one of them just got Covid, causing a bunch of unvaxxed others to have to go into quarantine.

    And that, friends, is when my affection for this hapless team evaporated like steam in the desert. Fuck ’em. I’m so fucking sick of stupidity. I’m so fucking sick of being asked to be patient and understand the fears of stupid people. I’m so fucking sick of being told I need to respect their Religion of Dumb Derp.

  145. 145.

    CaseyL

    @NotMax: It didn’t seem very racy to me; SFAICT they even had their bellybuttons covered up.  But then, I’ve watched some pre-Code actual porn, so maybe this one is only “not racy” compared to that :)

    As someone who did a lot of dancing, I can’t watch these numbers without noting things like how their hips are placed when they kick and their shoulders when they are doing upper body movements.  It’s a little distracting: I keep wanting to say “relax your shoulders!” and “keep your hips aligned!”

  146. 146.

    J R in WV

    @Amir Khalid: ​
     

    The CDC, I have just read, is telling Americas not to hug or kiss their chickens. I did not know this was a thing in America. Is there something here that my fellow jackals should fill me in on?

    Well, you probably remember TaMara and her ducklings? They are pets. Some people do that with a couple of chickens in their backyard. It’s a lot harder with 250 birds in a barnyard. Anyways, some poultry can carry salmonella and transmit it to their overly-close people. Don’t do that, the CDC says.

    Really, they love you for the food. I used to enjoy sprinkling hard corn to our yard-birds, they looked at me as if I was the god of chicken feed. But really, it was the food they adored, not me.

    Really fresh eggs from free range birds are so different from grocery store eggs, unless your grocery carries local free range eggs…

  147. 147.

    J R in WV

    @Kayla Rudbek:

    We’re just glad for your need for new clothes!

    I had to go to Penny’s when my Wife was about to be discharged from her long hospital stay, she lost a ton of weight, nothing she had at home would have fitted. And of course I know nothing about sizing undergarments on any woman, much less my girl who spent weeks in ICU, had surgery, did rehab to relearn how to walk, etc. So I got 5s, 6s and 7s, and stretchy bras as opposed to formal underwires… it worked, she wasn’t embarrassed. Long stay in hospital tends to eliminate ones ability to be embarrassed quite a bit.

    They had a little convoy walking with Wife down the hall twice a day, 2 nurse aides for the various tubes, big orderly right behind wife to catch her if she fell, never did, nurses were serious about her after a few weeks.

    Don’t over do it, stick to the advice of your PT and Docs. Best wishes for your continuing recovery and rehab.

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    Snarki, child of Loki

    “people have been warned not to kiss their parakeets, etc., for a while.”

     

    It’s okay as long as you don’t kiss them on the lips, so I hear.

  150. 150.

    J R in WV

    @Feathers:

    … We can’t have a definition of “innocent until proven guilty” which precludes certain classes of people from being convicted of crimes. And then use that lack of criminal convictions to forbid discussing the problem.

    Congrats, well said, agree totally.

  152. 152.

    LiminalOwl

    @Feathers: Thank you.

    I don’t have enough information to have an opinion on what Walsh did or didn’t know. But there is no question about the rapist pedophile police officer, or those within the policeforcewho did know and covered for him.

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