This was his birthday present to @BarackObama and no one can convince me otherwise. https://t.co/3JmkvzeOLC
— Bethany Albertson (@AlbertsonB2) August 6, 2021
Of course, for much of Our Most Important Media, that job would seem to be repeating GOP talking points. But the latest job report has been greeted as genuinely good news. Some perspectives:
There is still a big gap in the labor market, but even with some slowing from this pace of job growth, we will be back to pre-COVID health by the end of 2022—a recovery *five times* as fast as the recovery following the Great Recession, thanks to the vaccine and to the ARP. 2/ pic.twitter.com/if03xjeJpf
— Heidi Shierholz (@hshierholz) August 6, 2021
BREAKING: The economy added 943,000 jobs in July and the unemployment rate plunged to 5.4 from 5.9 percent. @jasonfurman and @johnhopebryant respond.
"I have not found a blemish in this report."@MSNBC pic.twitter.com/x9ZsxWScZw
— Stephanie Ruhle Reports (@RuhleOnMSNBC) August 6, 2021
The July jobs report was universally hailed as a good one. But as the delta variant surges, there's worry the good news could be fleeting. Here are five takeaways from the July jobs report. https://t.co/uOWp4k83ag
— The Associated Press (@AP) August 7, 2021
Analysis | Among the good jobs news: Wages are rising as businesses look for employees https://t.co/LNEzOXqdAq
— The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 6, 2021
Jabs in arms, cash in pockets:
"My message today is not one of celebration, it's one to remind us we have a lot of hard work left to be done" on the economy and delta variant of coronavirus, @POTUS says.
"America can beat the delta variant just as we beat the original." pic.twitter.com/A5NqBUm7mi
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) August 6, 2021
Ankle-biters gonna bite — well, gum — ankles:
Asked why Biden goes home to Delaware so often, "because it's his home," @PressSec says. "You like going home, right? … He's human, too." pic.twitter.com/k2hqRG57UJ
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) August 6, 2021
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone???
rikyrah
Can’t believe that they are still whining about 46 going home on the weekends??
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Baud
@rikyrah: It’s the new playing golf.
Narya
Tan suit FTW.
debbie
Has the GQP stepped up to claim credit for the jobs report because they were the ones who kicked the lazy MFs off welfare? //
debbie
@rikyrah:
Commuting to Delaware vs. jetting to Florida. Yeah, far worse. //
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: Hey now, sometimes trump went to New Jersey.
artem1s
@rikyrah:
You just know the next variation on the question is going to be ‘why won’t you give credit to TFG for being a home body when he went home on the weekends?’.
germy
germy
debbie
@germy:
Has Peter Navarro’s head exploded yet?
Immanentize
@rikyrah: People commute into cities from further away than Biden’s home to the Whitehouse *Every* Day!
germy
@debbie:
How could they tell?
Immanentize
Jeffro
Wages are rising and most everyone wants in on the action; who could possibly have guessed that could be a thing, especially in the country?
(hint: most everyone to the left of the Randian nutcases)
OzarkHillbilly
The Five Universal Laws of Human Stupidity
Law 1: Always and inevitably everyone underestimates the number of stupid individuals in circulation.
Law 2: The probability that a certain person be stupid is independent of any other characteristic of that person.
Law 3. A stupid person is a person who causes losses to another person or to a group of persons while himself deriving no gain and even possibly incurring losses.
Law 4: Non-stupid people always underestimate the damaging power of stupid individuals. In particular non-stupid people constantly forget that at all times and places and under any circumstances to deal and/or associate with stupid people always turns out to be a costly mistake.
Law 5: A stupid person is the most dangerous type of person.
hat tip to OTB commentor Teve
Jeffro
Btw props to Dana Milbank for calling terrorists terrorists: They’re Trying To Sanitize Their Sedition
Keep at ’em, Uncle Joe. Keep talking about this, because the wired-for-Republicans snooze media are surely falling down on the job.
Immanentize
I’m up and going to the store early because the Immp is gonna make me some fresh rye bread!
We are leaving for a dash from safe(ish) Boston to not so safe Houston through unsafe TN and AR starting next Tuesday! 1900 mile Car trip with 20 y.o. college son? Parent Purple Heart may be awarded…
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: Yep. My shortest commute was 10 miles. (for 1 glorious week) My longest was 120. My usual commute was around 80.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly:
Platonicspoof
From the AP article:
My bolds.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly: Then there is commuter time! When I take the commuter train into work downtown, door to door it is about 40 minutes. If, however, I have to drive like so many do, it is 1.5 hours plus each way. Gotta love Boston traffic!
Immanentize
@Platonicspoof: Hmmmm, whatever might it be?
rikyrah
@Baud:
No, because they never whined about Dolt45 playing golf. They tried to normalize it.?
rikyrah
@Immanentize:
???????? for you and Little Imma
germy
Meanwhile…
debbie
@Jeffro:
Yep, why I was so glad Gym was kept off the panel. His longstanding policy of looking the other way would not have served the country at all well. //
debbie
@Immanentize:
Have a great trip! You both will deserve awards if you arrive in one piece.
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: Way way back when, when dirt was still new, I had an office job in downtown STL. I loved taking the bus. Got to sit and read my paper on the mostly empty bus while drinking my morning coffee. No muss, no fuss. I never understood why anyone would do otherwise unless they had no choice.
PST
I just got back from walking the dog. I realize that economic growth is uneven, and when some places look like they’re booming others remain depressed. That said, I just can’t believe all the change I see in my corner of Chicago these days. There are buildings coming down and new buildings going up everywhere I look. Earlier this summer, a building a block away came down more or less overnight, giving me a view of unused grain elevators farther down the street. Today the grain elevators have simply disappeared. I understand a new Metra station is going up there, so commuters to the West Loop don’t have to go all the way to the Loop. My street was mostly food processing and wholesaling when I moved in. Now it’s tech companies, and all around high-rise apartment buildings are going up. No condos, all rental, seemingly in the expectation that many thousands of young people will soon be looking for places to live where they can walk to work. Three buildings are going up within a few blocks of me designed from the ground up for biology labs to attract life science and pharma companies. (We can be the new Wuhan.) As the owner of an urban dog, I take walks from dawn to dusk, and no matter what time of day there are tons of men and women in hard hats cutting trenches in the streets, pouring sidewalks, going in and out of manholes, and erecting towers. From the narrow perspective of where I sit, the economy looks like a runaway train, with more jobs coming.
montanareddog
Oh, FFS. I was watching the Olympics earlier and some horsey event came on. The commentary mentioned Jessica Springsteen
Me: “I think that’s Bruce Springsteen’s daughter”
17yo on the sofa who only stops wearing his headphones when they fall off while he is sleeping: “Who’s Bruce Springsteen”
Am I really that old?
Baud
Bidenomics > Reaganomics
schrodingers_cat
@rikyrah: Outside of the Congressional Republicans, the Beltway media are by far the biggest enablers of ??
germy
Baud
@germy:
Really happy to see them promote their economic success.
Kay
@germy:
I’m upset about this. They had an actionable, specific plan to overturn that election. The entire public commentary at the time was that it was just Trump people coming to terms with their loss and that everything was just fine. We were misled, and we were misled in a way that absolutely benefitted the Republican Party and individual members of the Trump Administration. The public were kept in the dark, for months. The people that didn’t reveal this protected the bad actors by not revealing it. If the public had been told there was an ongoing coup plan inside the Trump Administration and that at least one of the Trump hires in the DOJ was aggressively promoting it- the truth- the public perception of that period would have been entirely different.
I am sick and tired of finding out what is going on in my country six months after the events. These people are taking it upon themselves to manage what we find out and when we find out about it. They’re way out of their lane.
JMG
Good morning from downtown Brooklyn! It is my son’s wedding day. My custom fit new suit will come off the hangar for the first and who knows, maybe last, time. Gonna be hot and humid, even in Prospect Park where the wedding will take place. We all nearly melted during the rehearsal. I awoke making minor mental changes to my wedding toast. I am very happy, and he is very lucky to be marrying a wonderful young woman who is already a superb addition to my family. Can’t lie though. Part of me is counting the hours until I’m back on Cape.
montanareddog
@germy: “Is Peter Doocy the physical incarnation of Charlie Brown or Wile E Coyote? Discuss”
mrmoshpotato
@montanareddog:
Oof. So much great music, kiddo! (And not just The Boss.)
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Immanentize:
Louisville once had a really nice interurban train system and an efficient set of trolley loops (in fact, my great grandmother was killed by one in 1934, saving one of my great uncles or aunts). Story goes that GM bought up the lines, shut everything down and ripped up the tracks sometime in the 40s or 50s.
Dumbest decision ever. I’d totally enjoy a short car park trip with train commute.
Nicole
@montanareddog:
Yes (as are the rest of us). But in fairness, if he’s 17, he’s a good 35 years away from Bruce at his peak in the mid 80s. When I was 17, I wasn’t all that familiar with artists who dominated music in the early 1950s. So it goes. Those glory days, they pass you by.
Geminid
@OzarkHillbilly: Your comment made me think of yesterday’s Washington Post obituary of psychologist Albert Bandura. He is known for his theory of social learning. When Bandura was 90, he wrote what sounds like an interesting book: Moral Disengagement: How People Do Harm and Live With Themselves (2016).
Bandura’s parents emigrated to a small town in Saskatchewan from Poland and Ukraine. They saved enough money to buy a small farm where they eked out a poor living. Things got so bad once they had to strip off a layer of their thatched roof to feed their cattle.
Bandura learned carpentry skills while in high school, and used them to support himself while getting a degree from the University of British Columbia at Vancouver. He got a PhD from the University of Iowa in 1952 and then joined the faculty at Stanford, where he remained the rest of his career.
OzarkHillbilly
@PST: I heard on the radio yesterday that commercial construction is lagging while residential is booming. All I could think was, “It’s all booming here.” Almost enough to bring me out of retirement.
Not.
If you have to ask, you have your answer.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@montanareddog: LOL. Did you see “Blinded by the Light”? This high school kid becomes a Springsteen fan and everyone else makes fun because it’s so old fashioned. It’s a good movie.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@JMG: Have a wonderful time! It’s great to see your kid with someone who loves him.
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
It is booming. I have never seen anything like it. They had no “summer slowdown” in manufacturing here at all- there’s usually a slowdown and that’s when they all take their vacations- it just didn’t happen. Kids start school here in two weeks and there was no break for hourly people at all.
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
@montanareddog:
Wrong context but still applicable.
Also, yes.
Kay
@germy:
We need all the information now. It’s 7 months after when we should have gotten it but now we need all of it. If the play is going to be “throw it to the state legislatures” we need to be prepared for that and look at the specifics of what they planned and which people were willing to go thru with it. We already know there was one Right wing lawyer in the DOJ who was actively working on it- there are others.
montanareddog
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I did see “Blinded by the Light” and despite its cheesiness and predictability, I still found it fun. Hell, man cannot live by Tarkovsky and Bela Tarr alone.
HinTN
@Immanentize: If you come by these here parts (near enough to the I-24 / I-59 junction) you can stop for a meal or just a rest in one of the most beautiful locations in my known world. WaterGirl can put you in touch.
germy
@montanareddog:
OzarkHillbilly
Wow, this looks really good: CODA. This interview took me to the trailer.
germy
@Kay:
I’d like all hearings televised. I’d like to see aggressive questioning, and not limited to little 2-minute soundbytes.
Spanky
Woo hoo!
germy
@Geminid:
He didn’t spend the rest of his life paying off student loans?
What a time it was to be alive.
Geminid
@Immanentize: Yesterday you were asking about @Sasha Beauloux’s posture towards John Fetterman. I told you that she had said she was going to lay off Fetterman until Labor Day. This resolution did not last. Yesterday, after Conor Lamb announced he was running for the Pennsylvania Senate seat, war broke out on Twitter. Like a good Napoleonic general, Beauloux marched to the sound of guns and opened fire.
germy
montanareddog
@germy: perfect
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: By these people do you mean the media?
Kay
@germy:
They need a litigator to ask the questions. They can submit their questions ahead of time and a professional litigator can organize them and ask them. They can do their own follow up questions based on the facts that are established in the first portion and the follow up questions those facts raise. The valuable thing in the hearings is time but they need a complete notion of that that- not their individual time- not “your time is up”- the whole thing. They should welcome this. The first part is the grunt work.
Skepticat
@Immanentize:
As last month I did an 1,900-mile international/East Coast trip with three cats and a very talkative friend who’s become a keto-diet evangelist, you have my profound empathy. I hadn’t yet been able to be vaccinated, so another friend sent me a loooong list of instructions for avoiding problems, including avoiding rest area facilities in favor of trips into the woods. All in all, it was fine (we skipped the woods), and I hope your trek will be as easy and even enjoyable.
Kay
@schrodingers_cat:
Well, yes, but in this instance that’s not their fault. They were operating with what they knew. I actually think they did a great job as far as consistently and constantly rebutting the lie that Trump had won. I wasn’t unhappy with their work at all during that period.
I’m not blaming anyone who was operating without information. We didn’t know because certain key people made a subjective decision that we shouldn’t be told. I resent that. I don’t think that is any way their job. DOJ lawyers aren’t responsible for the political fall out of events or facts. It isn’t their job to manage public perception of the government. They will not be able to do that without interfering politically. The minute they’re managing perception they’re interfering politically. Those two things can’t be uncoupled.
germy
@Kay:
Good point. The quality of the questions is most important.
MomSense
@Immanentize:
HA!
Kay
@germy:
It’s just that people know how to do this already. It doesn’t have to be “well, I was a state AG back in 1993 so I know how to ask questions and establish a timeline and facts, sort of, I think”.
That’s a job. Give it to someone who is really good at it and does it every day. It’s okay! Once that’s done they can do their follow up questions.
a thousand flouncing lurkers was fidelio
@Nicole: I saw that.
Nicole
@Immanentize: Route 40? Ohhhhh… we had to drive it last year in June on our way to OK and yeah, Arkansas… not only not a mask in sight but angry glares at our masked selves when we stopped for gas. My thoughts are with you both.
Kay
@schrodingers_cat:
We saw the same thing with Comey- even worse for him but he’s the worst so that’s not suprising.
This agonizing is uneccesary. That facts are what they are. Public perception of the facts is not their job.
The minute they’re down that road, “gosh I wonder if we reveal this if it will be shitstorm” they’re off track and out of their lane. It would have been a shitstorm. That’s okay! They don’t control all subsequent events.
Kay
@schrodingers_cat:
“But…but people will think there are treasonous insurrectionists in the DOJ!”
There ARE. That is TRUE. It’s somehow better for “credibility” that we not be told that in a timely manner? Are they more or less credible now that we have their self-serving narrative of what transpired 7 months after it happened?
PST
@germy:
I think Hayes is absolutely right to say that the draft letter to be sent by the DOJ to Georgia officials adds an important new dimension to our knowledge of the attempted coup. The idea that the insurrectionist mob would somehow succeed by force in overthrowing elected government can sound like a hairbrained scheme that could not possibly succeed. But if it were combined with alternative panels of electors endorsed by the legislatures of key swing states based on DOJ findings of possible or probable fraud, then the mob’s role in terrorizing Pence and wavering Republicans in Congress begins to sound more like a plan that could have worked. That letter really brought home the need for the House committee to dig deep into the plans that preceded January 6. It worries me much more to learn more about the legal strategy outlined in that letter that I already was based on the incitement of a mob and browbeating phone calls from TFG and his henchmen to state officials.
Central Planning
@OzarkHillbilly: When I was in college, we brought Meatloaf (singer, not good) to campus for some special weekend.
The concert was great, but it was painfully loud. I think my ears rang for two days. Anyway, during the show, multiple people asked me to ask the band to turn down the volume a little. So I did.
The response was “If it’s too loud, they’re too old!” Clearly they needed it louder to hear the band.
I must admit, I do love loud music that I can feel throughout my body. We saw Springsteen years ago. Brought earplugs and it was still loud but didn’t end up with tinnitus after the show
Also, too: Years ago I bought a USB chargeable plasma lighter. I thought it would be a great way to not have to buy BiC lighters. The first time I tried it all my kids winced in pain. The transformer frequency was high enough for all the yoots to hear it. My wife and I were blissfully unaware of it. They could hear it when I was at the other end of the house, testing for science.
NotMax
@Nicole
’50s music?
Get a load of Gisele “Morticia” Mackenzie.
:)
germy
Nicole
@NotMax: That was a hoot! Thank you for the link.
Geminid
@Kay: One thing I like about the Select Commitee is that there are only nine members. Five of the seven Democrats are fairly senior, and the other two, Raskin of Maryland and Luria of Virginia, are very solid members of the class of 2018. I think they will let pros take the lead in developing testimony.
Elaine Luria and another commitee member, Stephany Murphy of Florida, face tough reelection campaigns next year. But they both are serious people, and I don’t look for them to grandstand.
germy
https://www.thedailybeast.com/rudy-giuliani-admitted-he-lied-about-feds-slipping-him-info-ahead-of-2016-election-watchdog-finds?source=twitter&via=desktop
MomSense
@Immanentize:
Take a lot of photos of the two of you – the sillier the better. It’s going to be amazing.
Baud
@germy: That could damage his credibility.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: It would if he hadn’t already squandered it all.
Kay
@PST:
But it was the same play as Ukraine. They did it not once but twice and both times the target was Joe Biden. Because it wouldn’t have been “findings”. It would have been complete lies presented by a prosecutor to achieve a political objective. “All we need is for you to say Biden (then the election) is under investigation”.
It was not in anyway unimagineable that they would do this. They had just done it.
zhena gogolia
@germy:
So the same m.o. as Zelensky. Announce a fake investigation.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@germy:
And this, my friends, is why America can’t have nice things. Our first amendment jurisprudence (like everything else jurisprudentially) sucks.
Now, do I believe him? Probably not, but either way it’s terrible.
Kathleen
@Immanentize: Have a safe trip! Speaking of which, I remember a Parade article years ago about Ken Griffey Jr’s mom driving him to Arizona from Cincinnati for his first spring training. She said their biggest fight would be about the music but I believe she said her playlist would probably win.
sab
@Kay: And Cable News acts like the acting AG and his deputy were so brave for not signing on and are so brave for speaking up now. Better late than never, but jeez.
Chief Oshkosh
@Kay: That’s been my take on all of this since the installation of Shrub. Bottom line is: At best, institutions protect themselves, not the electorate.
NotMax
@immanentize<
Fingers duly crossed that Rice has its act together more than Texas.
JPL
@Immanentize: Safe travels.
PST
@Kay: Yes, of course, these would be “findings” and not findings. The draft letter was bullshit start to finish. And I agree that this conforms to the Trump playbook, so it is not unimaginable by any means. However, I still firmly believe that we have a better, more specific, picture now than we did before of the plot, making disclosure of the letter important both to understand the past and to anticipate future designs. Moreover, there are always people saying that we should not attribute to malice that which can be explained by stupidity. Not this time. This should encourage them to dig deeper, first and foremost to see if there is equally convincing evidence that this Clark character prepared letters for the other states. Who gave him his orders? What exactly did TFG ask Barr to do? If Barr can’t hide behind privilege he may well tell the truth. I doubt he has much stomach for perjuring himself to help his old boss these days.
Chief Oshkosh
@PST:
Italicized part is exactly what GA, TX, and other states are doing right now.
WereBear
@rikyrah: Good morning!
Looooove the tan suit! I think so many of us got the subtle joke.
Chief Oshkosh
@germy: It really is impressive to continue finding out just how incompetent Comey was…unless, of course, Comey was in on all of it.
PsiFighter37
That question about visiting Delaware is stupid beyond belief. How much time did that reporter spend thinking that would be a great question to ask? Dumbass.
topclimber
@Baud: Perhaps you are numerically challenged, but a negative percentage decrease times a negative baseline is a positive.
In other words, a positive increase in credibility. And libtards think they are so smart!
Steeplejack
@Kay:
Amen!
debbie
@germy:
I have to ask why she lets him ask questions every single time.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@PST:
“But it was done in accordance with the law. As conservatives, we believe in law and order, and will absolutely crush any unruly mob that tries to get us to act in any way other than Our Sacred Legal Mandate. Whattaya mean we should have to sweep the undersides of our cars every morning and afternoon for IEDs? Everybody knows that protests should be nonviolent – Ghandi! MLK! Giant puppets and drum circles will cause us to change our ways, not using car bombs or general strikes or kidnappings!”
– Fox and Friends, 2025
debbie
@JMG:
Hope the day is a wonderful one for your family and all of their friends!
PST
@Chief Oshkosh:
Actually, what GA, TX, and other states are doing is worse, at least if I understand correctly. In 2020, I think that all that was possible by the time that letter could have gone out is persuade the legislatures to convene and appoint an alternative panel of electors for each state, giving a basis (however fraudulent) for the VP not to certify and the House to accept the alternatives and declare Trump the winner. What may be planned for 2024 is that the legislatures intervene earlier in the process to ensure that there is only one panel of electors in those states, the Trump panel, regardless of the popular vote. The legal argument will be stronger that way, backed up by the claim that the electors from each state are whoever the legislatures say they are and that the Constitution does not specify how they are to be chosen.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Do they think anyone cares?
germy
@debbie:
He’s an official member of the club. There’s also a “journalist” from newsmax who always asks dumb questions.
The other reporters (especially the women) who worked their way up the ranks; I wonder what they think when they hear Doocy jr’s and newsmax lady’s questions.
Anya
@Jeffro: I am disappointed that the MSM doesn’t make as big a deal as they made the Benghazi or Hillary’s emails? The images of the insurrectionists rampaging the Capitol should scare anyone who knows how political upheaval can end a democracy. I feel we’re insufficiently outraged or scared as a country.
Uncle Cosmo
@OzarkHillbilly: In the early Oughts I was posted to a contract with DoD’s Base Realignment and Closing (BRAC) project in an office building in Rosslyn VA. Since my home in Baltimore was (barely) more than 50 miles from the worksite, the contract would pay my commuting costs, and (after one disastrous r/t by car) I got a monthly combined pass for the MARC commuter train and DC Metro. So:
Half the time when I walked in someone would note my flushed, sweating face & ask if I’d just run a marathon.
I loved it:
And, perhaps best of all, in the course of regularly walking (often running) with a loaded pack for long distances, coupled with a new diet, I dropped 50 lbs that I dearly needed to lose in the course of the assignment.
About the only thing that might tempt me out of nearly a decade of retirement is the offer of a similar gig.
** BRAC data and deliberations were completely unclassified, but held far closer than any secret project I’d ever worked. All the Congresscritters with installations in their districts freaked out; even the lowliest of us would get calls from their aides every day (no one knew how they’d gotten the #s, also closely held) trying to worm information out of us so they could prepare attacks on any proposal that might cost business and/or jobs.
Citizen Alan
@montanareddog: Neither. Both those are largely sympathetic characters.
debbie
@germy:
Giuliani’s not smart enough to have come up with that by himself. He had already become Putin’s Puppet #2.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Are there legal barriers to insurance companies saying they won’t cover Covid treatment in the un-vaccinated? Cause I can’t imagine they want to pay for that. Then again, would that push the bills on to the public?
mrmoshpotato
@germy: Ghouliani should be beaten with his own bones.
Danielx
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Tan suits + going home on weekends = pearl clutching reflex.
debbie
@Kay:
I listened to an interview with Jane Mayer (“The Big Money Behind the Big Lie” in The New Yorker) about this and was nauseous after learning how much had been planned for so long and how incestuous the plotters’ relationships were. Sometimes, it felt like Claire Danes’ bulletin board had come to life.
Sure Lurkalot
@Kay: In August 2020, a friend sent me a report from a group called the Transition Integrity Project that laid out scenarios for a contested election titled “Preventing a Disrupted Presidential Election and Transition.” (Sorry, tried to link unsuccessfully)
Also, Thom Hartmann had many rants and guests postulating some of the methods of overturning the election that appear to have been well considered.
There were warnings…maybe we didn’t trust the sources or COVID occupied our fears, but some were pretty spot on.
I still believe the tactics did not succeed because of tragic flaws…incompetence and laziness. Like contesting elections in different states with a boilerplate lawsuit.
Geminid
@germy: Guliani claims he lied. Investigators may find out differently. Would Guliani be dumb enough to lie to these investigators about lying on a radio show? Yes.
Kay
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Obamacare would bar it :)
It’s great that Democrats got rid of health insurance exclusions. We don’t want to bring them back.
It’s going to be a huge hit for Medicaid in states that expanded and a huge hit for providers in states that didn’t. In states that didn’t expand it’s just uncompensated care. A catastrophically bad decision by those GOP governors and the hardest hit will be the “reddest”- rural providers.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
This person was recently invited to the campaign trail by a candidate claiming to be a Democrat.
Is that the same “but” that comes after “I don’t have a racist bone in my body…” or “I know this isn’t politically correct to say….”
Uncle Cosmo
Same story in Baltimore. I’m old enough to remember when trolley tracks ran southeast from the city center, down the median strip on Dundalk Ave about a mile from home.
IIRC at the time General Motors Coach (GMC) was the only major bus manufacturer, and it made excellent capitalist-robber-baron sense for them to buy and dismantle the trolleys in order to force cities to buy their crappy buses. Bastards.
Now, almost 70 years later, local metropolitan buses are probably the second most ideal application of regenerative braking EV technology, next to school buses. – (Which was pointed out by someone whose name I’ve forgotten at Netroots Nation as far back as 2008.)
germy
We go with the flow:
https://thenib.com/go-with-the-flow/
raven
Nicole
Just saw on Twitter: “Jessica Springsteen winning for ‘show jumping’ is like the exact opposite of a Bruce Springsteen song.” I laughed.
(I just asked my 11-year-old if he knew who Bruce Springsteen was and he said, “I’ve… heard of him.” I said, “Do you know what he does?” and he said, “No.”)
Kay
@Sure Lurkalot:
I actually knew they were going for it. Partly it was because media coverage changed- it became really grave and serious, so my sense was some of them saw the threat.
I didn’t sleep well and I sleep well, as a general rule. One of my younger sisters is also a lawyer and she’s smarter than I am. She was a real refuge for me because we could talk – discuss what they might do- without being jeered at. We would text throughout the whole day. Days. For months. I’m the “what if THIS” and she’s the “here’s the statute or case they would use for that” – just back and forth for weeks.
Cameron
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Right-wingers against corporate rule? Is that another word for unicorn?
Villago Delenda Est
The Village, and the White House Press Corpse in particular, needs to be nuked from orbit.
It’s the only way to be sure.
topclimber
@Kay: Perhaps some of the local manufacturing boom is explained by this
Villago Delenda Est
@raven: No great loss.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
terrible things… a disgrace what’s going on….
Brachiator
Going from 5.9 percent to 5.4 percent is not a “plunge,” but it is good.
Comparing the Covid economic slowdown to a recession is a continuing error which some economists and many business reporters keep making. It represents a stale conventional wisdom in which it is assumed that any number reported represents something significant.
Yeah the Democrats should take credit for the recovery and beat the GOP over the head with the data.
But remember that entire sectors of the economy have yet to recover and many types of jobs may be gone forever.
And the recovery disguises some fundamental ongoing dilemmas.
Republicans and their plutocrat masters love low employment, especially if it means that millions of people are forced to work jobs that do not pay a living wage.
For a good chunk of the population life is good, and this is not just the .01 percent. But for too many people, wages continue to be stagnant. Others cannot afford food and rent, and a $15 minimum wage is not enough to be sustainable.
The strong recovery is a start. And I tjink that Biden and his economic team understand this. I certainly have heard Treasury Secretary Yellen make comments about deeper economic issues that need to be addressed.
Kay
@Sure Lurkalot:
I get it. I don’t think downplaying threats is neccesarily malicious. They worry about markets and allies and international perceptions but I think there comes a time to just pull the fire alarm and allow repercussions to happen without interference. Because the interference changes public perception and the public is an ALLY. They need us and for us to operate we need real information. They don’t trust us and they have to.
There would have been broad public opposition to an attempted coup. Trump has never been popular. Obviously I’m a partisan so I want them tagged with it too, but I’m not asking for “spin” or a lie- I’m simply saying reveal and let the chips fall. It was time to do that. They had to let go of control of the outcome and they wouldn’t. That’s not their call.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Nicole:
In the day we sweat it out in the saddle
Of a fifty thousand dollar Arabian show jumper
At night Chef prepares a paleo friendly dinner
Of Grilled wild salmon and braised baby boy choi with garlic and lime…
doesn’t quite scan, does it?
WaterGirl
@debbie: Two initial thoughts on that:
If she didn’t they would make the story about how she’s discriminating against FOX “news”.
It gives her a perfect chance, day after day, to refute the FOX bullshit.
Anya
@germy: I don’t buy it. He is covering for his buddies. Isn’t the FBI office in NYC the one that welcomed Trump like he was a conquering hero? Do we doubt those MAGA assholes leaked to Giuliani?
Spanky
@raven: And Darwin nods grimly
zhena gogolia
@raven:
No comment.
germy
@Anya:
He tends to say different things, depending on whether he’s testifying under oath or not
He’s such a liar I honestly don’t know what to believe anymore.
Brachiator
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Did anyone ever ask Trump why he would go to Mar a Lago every freaking weekend?
Anyone?
Yeah and tan suits.
What a bunch of dopes.
Suzanne
@OzarkHillbilly:
Sexual harassment is the bad part of public transit.
Stop talking to me, creepy old men.
Nicole
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Ha!
Although that dinner does sound delicious.
stinger
@PST: How interesting! Thanks for this report! ( ❤️ urban dog ❤️ )
Miss Bianca
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: It would be a “Warmblood”, rather than “Arabian” jumper. Arabians are endurance-riding champs, but warmbloods dominate international show jumping/dressage/eventing.
What do you mean, I’m “missing the point”?
stinger
@JMG: May today be the least happy day of the rest of their lives!
Matt McIrvin
@OzarkHillbilly: If the bus is mostly empty, that makes it a lot more pleasant–but also more likely that the route is going to be shut down or reduced in frequency.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Miss Bianca: I wasn’t sure about that (I googled after the fact), or braising bok choi, but both sounded fancy to my pedestrian brain.
I also like the sound of a Connemara or a Hanoverian. I can just picture Patty and Bruce, all in denim and biker boots, “We’re sending Smith down to Kentucky next week to bring up a pair of Connemaras for Jessie…” (and I’m a huge fan)
Spanky
@Suzanne:
All right, all right! Sheesh!
Kay
@Sure Lurkalot:
I think they could put some guardrails in at the executive level that are better and more consistent than “let’s all resign to signal to the public that there’s a coup underway” or “let’s have all these national security professionals write a cryptic public letter that very bad things might be happening, or not, can’t say exactly!”
Fucking crazy making. Is this any way to run things?
Ken
I would guess zero, since my belief is that he’s being fed those questions.
Steeplejack
@Kay:
Somewhat related. On July 27 New York Times reporter Katie Benner (@ktbenner) tweeted:
A host of right-wing howler monkeys pounced and claimed that Benner was saying that all Trump supporters are “enemies of the state.” Benner deleted the (perhaps infelicitously phrased) tweet. But there is a valid point lurking in there.
Ken
@raven: Shoe-in for the Darwin Awards, unless they decide to switch format this year and award a group prize to COVID deniers.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Kay:
“But whatabout my future in case he’s successful?”
My thing is this – “show” resignations are for losers. You instead announce that you work for the American people, not a would-be tyrant, and you are holding your post as long as possible.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Uncle Sil has Jessie’s back!
gene108
@Anya:
There are two media ecosystems in this country, the MSM and right-wing media.
When the MSM and right-wing media converge on covering something is when I feel like I hear about it nonstop, which means only attacks on Democrats get this level of saturation
Republican misdeeds will never get this sort of convergence, so there will never be the attention paid to it that Benghazi or Whitewater or whatever else got.
Steeplejack
@OzarkHillbilly:
That’s the joke.
Nicole
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
@Miss Bianca:
Slate did a whole (pretty funny) article about how Springsteen’s use of “speedball” in “Glory Days” is incorrect, so I figured you were just honoring the Boss with your use of Arabians. ;)
Nicole
@Miss Bianca: That’s interesting about Arabians being good in endurance competition. I guess there are some benefits to being a desert breed.
Nicole
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: She made her first Olympics at 29- she’ll have decades to continue competing if she wants. Equestrian event riders can stay competitive well into middle age.
That was a nice tweet from SVZ.
Baud
@gene108: Good observation.
Immanentize
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yes, but what has Nils Lofgren said about it?
By the way, Bruce is not a very tall man… 5’10” is his publicity height. But he certainly likes to be the tallest mountain in the range:
Steve Van Zandt: 5’7″
Nils Lofgren: 5’3″
Steeplejack
@raven:
Presumptive Darwin Award winner. Just need to specify the category.
trollhattan
@raven: 18, so qualifies as “Florida Man.”
Dumb, dumb, dumb.
TBF my decision-making at 18 was probably a lot worse than I though it was, but I also didn’t have an audience to show off to.
trollhattan
1-6 case pleas. This one contains a kicker.
Gonna make for some awkward family gatherings, down the road. And by “down the road” I mean after his sentence is served, hopefully a very long sentence.
Sure Lurkalot
@Kay: It is fucking crazy. Like all of the so called journalists hiding the results of their access to milk the public. There is no duty to warn. The opposite of yelling “fire” in a crowded theater…yelling “there is no fire” in order not to scare or to monetize.
Immanentize
@trollhattan: You are assuming his SS brother does not fully support his behavior?
“Objection — Assuming facts not in evidence”
Immanentize
Thinking about Nils Lofgren —
My favorite tune by him:
White Lies (by Grin)
Kathleen
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Dropping this here:
https://ballotpedia.org/Justice_Democrats
Screen shot of deleted tweet:
https://twitter.com/ritamary6/status/1423517391816822789/photo/1
Cameron
@Kay: Perhaps some prison time would help. Not life,but 5 or 10 years. Pour enouragers les autres, ya mean?
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Jeffro: milbank & cillizza not boys anymore?
Uncle Cosmo
Makes perfect sense to me. People need someplace to live; they don’t need someplace to work if they can do it from home. Toss in hesitance by a substantial fraction (if not an absolute
minoritymajority, whoopsie) of the public to congregate in enclosed spaces and support businesses that cannot by their nature operate remotely and….We already have malls and strip malls and office buildings half empty here in Bawlmer. I fully expect commercial real estate to trigger the next financial crash. (So do my financial advisors, who’ve done me pretty well for the last quarter-century.)
IMO someone above my play-grade needs to be thinking right now about which edifices can be repurposed and which will need to be razed once the market goes prayer-shaped and the owners start tumbling like dominoes…
gwangung
@OzarkHillbilly: Yeah, I really liked that this picture got into a bidding war.
(On a related note, my theatre is running a reading about a Latinx family with deaf family members. All I have to say…holy crap is it tough to do this kind of work….)
Villago Delenda Est
@Steeplejack:
They are definitely enemies of the Constitution.
Which makes them my enemies. I swore an oath to that effect.
Kathleen
@trollhattan: I hope they’re awkward.
SFAW
@montanareddog:
WTF? Charlie Brown was a fundamentally good person. His biggest “fault” was that he sometimes placed too much trust or faith in others who did not merit it. Peter Doocy is just a RWMF scumbag, a nepotism hire for a Rethuglican propaganda medium. I have yet to see any redeeming traits showing up in his person.
Spanky
@Uncle Cosmo: Around here (exurban Southern MD), most of the construction is remodeling, and a lot that I know of is to create a better at-home workspace.
Whether employers like it or not, employees are making long-term commitments about their work environments.
trollhattan
@Immanentize:
I know a now-retired SS agent who did candidate interviews, which include a stint hooked to a polygraph. They work hard to weed out the weirdos and cowboys, especially because most applicants are LEO and military.
It’s for sure not perfect but they do understand what’s at stake.
SFAW
@Villago Delenda Est:
Can we get an exception for Yamiche Alcindor, please?
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Jeffro: milbank & cillizza not boys anymore?
@PST: then again, chris hayes also told us in many ways hillary would govern to the right of trump…
trollhattan
@SFAW:
Suspect they’re alluding to his Charlie Brown-Lucy with football relationship with Psaki. She’s gonna pull that football away, Peter, and yet there you are, kicking at air every time.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: orlando letelier wishes this were true.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@debbie: is jared pepe silvia? ivanka is “carol” in hr?
Immanentize
@trollhattan: Its one of those worlds where once you pass your candidate tests, there is really no follow up. Ask the SS guys for the Kushners who thought it was funny to foul the Obama’s bathroom and room given to the SS as a staging space. I will never forget that little horror.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@raven: the florida state assembly just lost its house speaker for 2030.
debbie
@raven:
Jackass never dies, it just changes hosts. //
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Cameron: no, it’s an allusion to el santo socialista de monteverde collaboraring with haw-haw hawley in december 2020 & january 2021 on proposals to boost the workingclass.
Ruckus
@rikyrah:
A lot of them are little children having a pout because they think the world that they think they are helping to build should look like the one in their tiny minds, and the real world doesn’t. They don’t like the real world, they think that their vision of a make believe world is perfect, minorities know their place and money is the most important thing and people with money are smarter than people with less and should be running everything because they are smarter, after all they have money. They come at the real world with unreal expectations, unreal ideals and have no idea that the world can change and not in a direction that is not the one in their tiny little minds.
At their core they are exclusionists. They think the world will be better when it is ordered, white, monied and likely religious. All will be right with the world if it would just move right. They are simplistic drones who couldn’t recognize complexity if it smacked them in the head. And there are quite a few of them.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@trollhattan: maybe his brother was one of el jefe’s praetorian guard cheering the events from the white house with jarvanka, el jefecito, kimberly guilfoyle, & the rest.
Steeplejack
Darwin Award (Posthumous) nominees coming thick and fast.
PST
@Nicole:
Absolutely! I was making my grocery list when I saw that, and it now includes everything I need. It made me realize that I’ve never cooked bok choy. I never even knew it existed until I was a law student, like J.D. Vance and fizzy water.
PST
@stinger:
You would never know she was born Amish. I live in a third floor apartment on a street with a fair amount of pedestrian traffic these days. Bernie and I often hang out on the balcony for hours, one of us reading, and both of us occasionally shouting out to passing friends. More than once when we were out walking I’ve had someone come up to us and say, “Look, it’s Balcony Dog.”
frosty
@OzarkHillbilly: For 14 years I commuted from Baltimore to Arlington VA via the MARC commuter train and two Metro lines. I told people at my next job that the thing I missed most was my afternoon naps. There were days I’d be asleep before we left Union Station. And with kids and dogs, the only time I could wake up without having to jump up and do something was about 30 minutes later around the BWI station.
Ken
I thought it was always posthumous. Do they have a special category for people who removed themselves from the gene pool but survived? Say by, oh, castrating themselves while holstering an un-safetied pistol?
Steeplejack
@Steeplejack:
Spanky
@debbie:
Oooh, now there’s a rotating tag.
Ruckus
@rikyrah:
Golf is a manly sport, played by hardcore athletes. The last president rode around a golf course cheating on his score. What could be healthier and more athletic than that?
OK I just retched a bit typing that.
Nicole
@PST: I love bok choy, too.
PST
@Immanentize: No one towered over Clarence Clemons, though.
SFAW
@trollhattan:
I doubt it. The football meme is not applicable. Psaki is not a mean-spirited person the way Lucy was (in the football situation, I don’t mean Lucy’s persona in general), and she’s not leading Douchey on with the equivalent of “I promise I won’t yank the football away at the last second.” Psaki is just responding to a dishonest moron who keeps trying to play “gotcha!”, and she probably lost her patience for that shit six months ago.
Ken
It does occur to me that
isn’t that encouraging, if you remember that the original wasn’t so much beaten by us, as by delta.
Steeplejack
@Ken:
I think self-sterilization counts, but point taken.
frosty
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: (Railfan here). There’s a lot more to the story than the GM/Firestone buyouts. Interurbans were built at the turn of the century, many parallel to steam railroads, to siphon off their passenger traffic, which of course was unprofitable to the railroads. When the Depression hit, many went under. Add in the boom in automobiles and there was no way they could compete.
There are a couple left which are now commuter rail lines: Chicago, South Shore and South Bend is one of them.
Losing the right-of-way was a blow to rebuilding rail transit too.
Redshift
@Ruckus: The core of conservatism everywhere is the promise of a return to an idealized past that never existed. And it’s always racist and classist because the real reason “everyone” was happier and better off then is that they never had to listen to the people who weren’t.
Ken
@Steeplejack: In a suspense movie, someone would be drawing an “X” through each face in the picture.
opiejeanne
@trollhattan: Of course Devlyn Thompson is from Puyallup. Of course he is.
Soprano2
It really is true here that there is a job for anyone who wants one. It might not be your dream job, but there are jobs. Almost every employer is looking for people, at all salary levels. The end of the pandemic unemployment in June made a little difference at the margins, but there are still “help wanted” and “text to apply” signs everywhere. The temp agency Penmac is advertising rides to work and getting paid daily. If you don’t have a job here it’s either because you can’t work or don’t want to.
James E Powell
@Kay:
Same here. And then finding out that no one will ever be held responsible. That those who would destroy our democracy have high paid jobs and are given free access to the mass media, book contracts, etc
The reason for it is that they protect the rich. The keep tax rates & wages low, make regulations insignificant, and keep it all hidden behind a wall of culture war bullshit.
Miss Bianca
@Nicole: Arabians are *the* endurance breed. If you want to be competitive at the 100-mile endurance race level, which is the elite level, it’s pretty much de rigueur to have an Arab or an Arab cross.
(I don’t know this from experience in endurance riding, although the little Arab gelding I used to ride was a hella trail horse. Too bad he was hella everything else, too, including reactive, or I’d have bought him. It’s just that I happened to interview an endurance rider for a magazine article, so that’s how I know what little I know about the sport.)
burnspbesq
@NotMax:
Rice has the advantage of being a private school and therefore outside the scope of Abbott’s bullshit executive orders.
Miss Bianca
@trollhattan: I gotta wonder if his brother the Secret Service agent was aiding and abetting, to be honest. Does that sound paranoid?
ETA: Or, you know, what Imm said.
Matt McIrvin
@trollhattan: But… Democrats are ALWAYS the Charlie Brown in that metaphor! Right?
dnfree
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: when did Cornel West go off the rails? I think it was a long time ago.
James E Powell
@germy:
@Kay:
I am also really sick of “behind closed doors” interviews rather than public testimony, under oath. Like Hillary Clinton did for a whole day.
Matt McIrvin
@SFAW: There’s always the other Charlie Brown, who is a clown, that Charlie Brown.
You’re gonna get caught, just you wait and see. “Now why is everybody always pickin’ on me?”
Mike in NC
Spotted a copy of the National Enquirer at Publix, with the cover story “Is Biden Senile?”. Of course the sleazy tabloid is owned by dirtbag Trump buddy David Pecker, who probably should be investigated by the Attorney General of New York just on principle.
Parfigliano
@trollhattan: Maybe he will have the decency to die in prison so as to avoid the awkard family situation.
Nicole
@Miss Bianca:
An Arabian, reactive? You don’t say! They’re so gorgeous to look at, but man, talk about a breed I have no desire to ever own.
trollhattan
@dnfree: I mostly hear him spout nonsense, and that’s nothing new. Deciding Obama is a traitor or what have you was when it became too obvious to ignore.
dmsilev
@dnfree: I,think it was a long drawn out process. One signpost was when he turned hard against Obama because he thought he had been slighted by not getting an invitation to Obama’s second inauguration (or maybe it was that his invite wasn’t good enough, I don’t remember).
burnspbesq
@Nicole:
Jessica Springsteen hit the parental lottery: she had parents who were stinking rich and extremely supportive. But she actually did all the hard work to get where she is in her chosen profession. Props to her.
Miss Bianca
@Nicole: Yeah, that little stinker dismounted me more often than any other horse I’ve ever ridden. Would just start corkscrewing when he freaked out about something till he’d screw me right out of the saddle and dump me on my ass (and it was *always* on my ass. Ow, my tailbone!).
The day he did it twice in 20 minutes was the day I said, “forget it, I’m never getting on this horse again.” And I haven’t.
MagdaInBlack
@Miss Bianca: In my late teens I worked for a woman who raised Arabians. After chores we would go riding. My choice was an Arab-Quarter cross named Scheherazade, but Puppy to her friends. Puppy had been a jumper, and lord she loved to jump. I could feel her bunching up for a stick in the path. A simple “psst” took her out of that mode, but we allowed logs and small streams. I still miss that horse. ?
TheflipPsyd
@PsiFighter37: Does Peter Doocy have family in Northern Delaware? Biden’s visits homecoming rile a certain portion of the Delaware population due to the traffic jams or as they call them “Joe jams.” I get tired of the complaint. One of the very first things I noticed when I first moved here 16 years ago were how much people complained about the traffic. Coming from Philadelphia and having had to commute on the Schuylkill Expressway twice a day, I actually thought traffic was so much better.
burnspbesq
@Immanentize:
“White Lies”’for the win.
dopey-o
Back when STL had a morning paper, and a rather good one, the Globe Democrat. Which unfortunately ran opinion pieces by one Pat Buchanan. The Globe’s editorial policy was “write stuff to scare the olds, Union thugs! Scary black people!”
Miss Bianca
@MagdaInBlack: Actually, if I were going to get into endurance riding myself, I’d look for a cross rather than a full-blood Arab – a Quarter/Arab or Anglo- Arab would be what I’d want.
L85NJGT
@Nicole:
I’ve seen them raced on the offtrack TV, I suppose as a novelty. They’re really slow compared to thoroughbreds, or even quarter horses.
Ken
@dopey-o: They also ran pieces by Phyllis Schlafly, one of which I remember as particularly irking. Voyager had discovered the “braided” rings of Saturn, and astronomy expert Schlafly leapt in to proclaim “braiding means a Braider”. In case the capital letter didn’t make it obvious, she name-dropped God repeatedly in the rest of the column.
Apparently her version of God had nothing better to do than to diddle the laws of physics to make pretty patterns that (at the time) were not visible from Earth. Astronomers have since figured out that the braids are no such thing, instead being an illusion caused by the varying density of a couple of the smaller rings, in turn caused by the quite non-miraculous Newtonian gravity of a couple of nearby moonlets.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@dopey-o:
SteveintheWTF wrote for them?
Nicole
@burnspbesq: Oh, yeah, I’m certainly not rolling my eyes because riding is hard (god knows it’s the hardest thing I’ve ever learned to do), but also yeah, to pursue it at that level definitely requires a certain amount of hereditary wealth (see also Bloomberg’s daughter). The only equestrian athletes I can think of who generally come from more blue collar backgrounds are jockeys. And most of them spend their careers financially struggling.
stinger
@PST:
Okay, now I’m laughing out loud!
Montanareddog
@SFAW: I was absolutely referring to the football meme. Both Charlie Brown and Wile E Coyote make the same dumb mistake over and over again, like Doocy. I was not at all linking Jen Psaki to Lucy (nor to Roadrunner for that matter)
Kay
@James E Powell:
It’s time to tell people what happened. Just that- what happened. January 6th was the end of this coup attempt, and is probably the least important part. It had been going on for months.
We learned some things- impeachment is “an empty revolver hung on a wall” – it’s a mechanism and process that is completely useless when it’s most needed. The only time you really need impeachment is when one faction abandons all norms, but that also means it won’t work at all, see: abandons all norms.
Matt McIrvin
@Ken: Reminds me of the Jack Chick tract in which the clean-cut Christian youth reduces his sneering atheist science professor to speechlessness by asking him how, if there is no God, protons stick together in the atomic nucleus even though like charges repel. You can’t explain that without Jesus!
Nicole
@L85NJGT: Yeah, which is funny as every Thoroughbred alive today traces its lineage back to one of three foundation Arabian stallions. But your average TB is now much faster than your average Arabian. I think QH were originally a mix of a Thoroughbred foundation sires and local horse breeds (which were likely descended from horses brought over from Spain).
I like Quarter Horses; I find them (generally) relatively chill and they can do a lot of things.
Jeffro
@MontyTheClipArtMongoose: one of these things is no longer like the other, I suppose. Good for Milbank!
Another Scott
ObOpenThread – More on Tuckems.
“There’s a club, and you’re not in it.”
(via nycsouthpaw)
Cheers,
Scott.
MagdaInBlack
@Nicole: One of my favorite books as a kid was ” King of the Wind” by Marguerite Henry, which is a fictionalized version of the Godolphin Arabian.
stinger
@Ken: Ah, but varying density means a Varying Densifier, no?
WaterGirl
@trollhattan:
Interesting take. My first thought was to wonder if the Secret Service brother shares this guy’s sentiments.
WaterGirl
@Immanentize: Ha! I see now that you got there first.
lashonharangue
@WaterGirl: My first thought was I wonder if this had anything to do with Biden requesting a specific SS detail.
zhena gogolia
Another one-post day, huh?
zhena gogolia
@MagdaInBlack:
I loved that book!
MagdaInBlack
@zhena gogolia: ?❤️?
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
No one wants the job.
Another Scott
ObOpenThread – Meanwhile, in South Korea…
China clamps down on cram schools — but South Korea is a different story
https://p.dw.com/p/3yYP8
Obvious parallels (and dangers) in the USA. Will we stop them before the inequality situation gets even worse?
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
Artistic Swimming (formerly Synchronized Swimming) is visually striking but I feel I should be watching it on Broadway rather than the Olympics.
PAM Dirac
@burnspbesq:
I’d go with “See What A Love Can Do” for the win, “White Lies” for show, and “Moon Tears” to place.
Yutsano
@dnfree: I think it started happening when Obama didn’t invite him to the Inauguration. Before then I recall West being enthusiastic about a Black President finally. But there was a massive heel turn right after inauguration. There were suggestions West took that as a huge snub, but something tells me we’ll never really know for sure.
WhatsMyNym
@Nicole:
Growing up on horse farm (as she did) is probably the biggest help to a future equestrian. Scholarships are offered at certain colleges. There is plenty of money in the business.
ETA: my sister loved riding and my parents couldn’t afford to keep a horse. So we lived near enough to places that she could work at for riding time/lessons.
Nicole
@MagdaInBlack: I loved that book, too! I was such a Marguerite Henry fan. My family vacationed on Chincoteague several years in a row due to my obsession with Misty (only one year for Pony Penning, though, as we found it was a nicer vacation without the crowds). I had my picture taken with (a very elderly) Stormy!
JAFD
@frosty: Lived, a while back, in Media, Pa – for a while the only town in the US to have a trolley running up and down the main street.
Montanareddog
@Baud: I had a similar thought when I came across the Rhythmic Gymnastics this morning, where a heavily made-up young lady in a sequinned leotard was throwing a hula hoop in the air. Brilliantly done, but it felt more like a circus or vaudeville act, than a sport.
The Thin Black Duke
@Yutsano: Let’s be blunt: Dr. Cornell West done lost his damned mind.
stinger
@Nicole: Envious!! Do share it!
Miss Bianca
@Nicole:
Another cool thing about Marguerite Henry was that, besides being a prolific author of horsey tales that I loved to devour, she was a really nice person who valued her young readers and took the time to write personal responses to their letters. (Ask me how I know!)
Immanentize
@PAM Dirac: Everybody is a critic.
Listening to White Lies today (haven’t for a while!) I realized how much the backup vocals sound almost identical to those of “Don’t Fear the Reaper.”
My mind is an odd place in which to hang out. But I have to go hang out there every day.
Yutsano
@The Thin Black Duke: No lie told. Cornel jumping to Bernie humping after Obama pretty much confirmed that. Lord knows where his brain is now that Biden is in office. No I’m not going to research it.
Yutsano
Okay so…DeJoy gotta go. Like now. This is blatant corruption.
MagdaInBlack
@Nicole: I’m a dummy, I didn’t remember “Misty” or “Stormy, Misty’s Foal.” I had those books too.
Immanentize
@The Thin Black Duke: I was so damn supportive of the good Doctor when he left Harvard for Princeton (the first time). And his writing was so good — clear and accurate.
He has been staring into the mirror too long, I fear.
debbie
@Miss Bianca:
I had never heard of her, but I ended up selling her books into accounts back in the early 1990s. Her sales were as strong as Hemingway’s.
Quinerly
@Another Scott: I had no idea. Just read Tucker’s father’s wiki page. (Dick Carlson) Must read, imo. I only knew the Swanson Foods connection re second wife.
trollhattan
@WaterGirl:
Will just note that Secret Service were at the Capitol too, at the very least Pence’s detail.
Another Scott
@Quinerly: Thanks for the pointer.
Yeah, there’s always more to the story.
Cheers,
Scott.
Quinerly
@Another Scott: I have to hand it to Tucker’s dad…. Amazing life story. Foundling home and all.
PAM Dirac
@Immanentize: I was going to listen to all those songs to confirm my memory. I didn’t have my music on the computer I was on, so I thought I’d just go to amazon and steam. I couldn’t find any Grin on Amazon to stream! What is the country coming to. I blame Obama. Wait, am I supposed to blame Biden now? I guess I have to ask Cornel West.
J R in WV
@germy:
While I have no respect for Dpoocy (sic) nor any stupid RWNJ reporters, there is a great possibility that the most stupid questions are given to these Newsmax and Faux reporters by their management, which may be more stupid than Doocy.
After all, those reporters were presumably interviewed and hired for those jobs!
Nicole
@Miss Bianca: Oh, that’s amazing!
@stinger: If I can find the photo. I fear it may have been lost in one of the floods of my parents’ basement, but at least I have the memory. She was in her 20s by then.
James E Powell
@Nicole:
It is also well-established that you don’t put fuelie heads on a 396.
Another Scott
@James E Powell: rofl.
Yup.
Cheers,
Scott.
evodevo
@Miss Bianca: Yeah…you want something to dilute all that hot blood…you don’t want a trail horse who’s gonna swap ends and bolt back down the road at 90 mph every time a squirrel jumps out or a twig falls out of a tree…
Kayla Rudbek
@Immanentize: yes, I know someone who works in federal law enforcement who’s commented to me that the Secret Service tends to hire ex-football players who can take a lot of bullets…
Uncle Cosmo
@SFAW: I think of him as Whine E. CryOhTea. Them balloon concoctions are as close to fambly jewels as Li’l Doocy is ever gonna boyhandle…