Commander enjoyed his first trip to the beach. pic.twitter.com/EhP0fNqFIU
— President Biden (@POTUS) January 2, 2022
Liable be a busy week, like it or not…
On Thursday, President Biden and Vice President Harris will deliver remarks to “mark one year since the January 6th deadly assault on the Capitol,” per the White House schedule.
— Kaitlan Collins (@kaitlancollins) January 2, 2022
The lawmakers investigating the Jan. 6 insurrection are preparing to go public in the coming months. Televised hearings and reports will show what the committee has learned about the riot and former President Trump's attempts to overturn the election. https://t.co/zaPrs7FCTb
— The Associated Press (@AP) January 2, 2022
A reminder, positive progress:
— Acyn (@Acyn) December 31, 2021
ICYMI: 2021 was a year of some significant wins for women. Here are some of the highlights pic.twitter.com/8i4xQTVAe1
— Reuters (@Reuters) January 2, 2022
SiubhanDuinne
I was saddened to see that the world-famous palaeontologist Richard Leakey has died. And I was astonished to learn that he was three years younger than I. Anyhow, RIP to him.
Baud
I had already forgotten about Juneteenth. Looking forward to the sales.
debbie
@Baud:
I’m already looking forward to having the day off.
debbie
A poignant reminder from last night:
Baud
@debbie:
Does Ohio recognize the end of slavery?
debbie
@Baud:
Just realized. Sigh. From scrolling Twitter last night.
Kay
June 19th is my birthday. I always liked it as a birthday- schools out, start of summer, but now it’s even better :)
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone ???
Ken
President’s Day is mattresses and Labor Day is grills. What will be Juneteenth’s big sales item?
SiubhanDuinne
@Kay:
It will be interesting to see what kinds of celebrations and observances evolve to commemorate Juneteenth. Will it become yet another over-commercialised holiday, as Baud suggests, or will it replace Memorial Day as the unofficial beginning of summer picnics and outdoor concerts, or will it kind of merge with Solstice festivities in wild, pagan rites, or what? Fun for you that your birthday will be part of the mix!
Spanky
Sitting here chilling with the cats at the start of our biggest snow in a couple of years. Five to 10 inches, which is a fairly bfd here in Confederate Southern MD. Teachers are probably happy for a delay in the return to covid-filled classrooms.
Spanky
@SiubhanDuinne:
MLK Day is already getting commercialized. You can count on it.
ETA but first it will become the Right Wing Festivus. Airing of grievances for 24 hours straight.
MJS
Televised hearings coinciding with my retirement? Perfect.
SiubhanDuinne
@Spanky:
It’s the American Way!
Kay
@SiubhanDuinne:
June 14th is the birthday of one of my children. I told him “It’s also Flag Day!” when he was little and he looked disappointed. Wanted a flashier holiday.
Donald Trump’s birthday too, which he discovered on his own.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Baud
@Spanky:
“Free yourself from high prices!”
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne:
Why would people move the beginning of summer back?
Spanky
@Spanky: Aaaaaand the power just went out. Too little snow or wind to do that. Hmmmmm.
Happy to have the Generac kick on, though.
Frankensteinbeck
My book release is tomorrow! Yay!
Baud
@Frankensteinbeck:
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satby
The NYT gets something right? Via Jay Rosen, and unpaywalled.
lowtechcyclist
@Spanky:
Yeah, the snow looks beautiful out the window. I hadn’t taken down the outdoor Christmas lights yet, so I turned them on early this morning so they could add a touch of decoration to the snow.
The Northern HS principal sends out an email when students or staff have tested positive for Covid. Something like fifty NHS students/staff tested positive between Thanksgiving and Christmas. I’m gonna show up at the next school board meeting (via Zoom) and remind them that the schools were only able to stay open due to the mask mandate; if it hadn’t been for that, half the school would have had Covid before Christmas break. The board is clearly unhappy about the mask mandate, but it’s saved their asses already.
Well, back to work, because telework means no snow day.
John S.
@Kay:
My son’s birthday is also Juneteenth!
JMG
@Kay: Tell your son you know of someone (me) whose birthday is June 30th. Flag Day looks pretty glamorous compared to End of the Fiscal Year Day.
lowtechcyclist
It was paywalled for me.
Cameron
@SiubhanDuinne: Maybe celebrating the right to vote? If we still have it by then, I mean.
OzarkHillbilly
@JMG: End of the Fiscal Year Day beats the hell out of Tax Day. (my wife’s)
OzarkHillbilly
Webb’s sunshield is fully deployed.
Nicole
This clip of Betty White from Golden Girls was making the rounds of social media over the weekend (dunno if it was posted here already, apologies if so). Story is she improvised everything after the line about the circus. True or not, it’s very funny and it’s great fun watching Arthur and McClanahan break.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=80q1x-EN9qM
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
I doubt they would, and I’m not recommending, just spitballing.
daveNYC
Glad to see that Fox is pushing the idea that increasing the debt ceiling counts as a ‘win’ for the Democrats. No possible way that won’t help cement the idea that blocking any increase in the debt ceiling should be a core Republican value no matter what chaos would result from it.
Geminid
From time to time I look up “Clean Energy News.” Yesterday I hit on a story from Electrik.co, about how Scotland had missed it’s 2020 goal of 100% clean energy consumption by only 1.4%. One of many components in this effort was the “world’s most powerful tidal turbine,” set up last April:
Kay
@JMG:
LOL
OzarkHillbilly
@Nicole: “Only once. They shot him straight into a tree. After that no other herring would do it.”
Too funny.
lowtechcyclist
@OzarkHillbilly:
Now if she’d gone on to say it was the tallest tree in the forest, and it was toppled by the impact of the herring, that would have been perfect.
Soprano2
@Spanky: We only got a dusting of snow, but it’s currently 14 degrees outside. Way too cold for my taste, but after the record warm December we had it’s a good corrective. There was a story about a hiker who found a black snake on the trail in mid-December. They’re supposed to be hibernating right now. Because of the severe cold, we brought the two outside cats we have (that we want to turn into inside cats) in on Saturday. So far so good, they and the dogs have reached an accommodation that if the dogs get too close, the cat hisses and runs away. One of the cats can touch noses with our most cat-friendly dog, so that’s good. Unfortunately, we didn’t have time for long introductions, although they’ve seen our dogs in the yard for months now. It was imperative to get them inside before the temps dropped into the teens. One of them already found and killed a mouse (we have an old house with an unfinished basement, so we get mice). For the most part they’re adjusting pretty well. I won’t let them out again unless I have to, but I feel that they’re going to be like a couple of other cats I’ve had in that they won’t be happy just staying inside. I guess we’ll see.
Kay
@satby:
It is good, thanks. The rhetoric is ratcheting up not down, too. You wonder when the people who thought this was “going away” with Trump recognize it. Maybe they never admit it.
I keep thinking about Obama saying “when the fever breaks” which seemed likely at the time but now no longer does.
That was 2012. They’re so much further Right now, full blown anti-democratic authoritarianism.
Baud
@Kay:
They’ll keep pushing right until voters stand up to them.
OzarkHillbilly
@lowtechcyclist: And everybody stood around saying, “We are no longer the Knights Who say “NEE!” We are now the Knights Who say, “Icky icky wheep bwong ooooeeee!”
Or something like that.
coin operated
@Baud:
My sister lives on the Olympic Peninsula in WA state and will tell you that summer doesn’t begin until July 4th. Her neighbors, along with most of the PNW, will nod in agreement.
Kay
They don’t want the base to know elections are valid. They prefer if they’re lied to consistently.
Texans paid for this Trump-demanded audit and their secretary of state, who is also paid by them, buries the result because it goes against the narrative he wants. Just wholly corrupt.
How long until they just produce fake audits? Why bother with a real one?
Kay
@Baud:
I actually have some hope for the Dominion lawsuit. Dominion’s lawyers need to interview county boards of elections members. Republican members are not permitted to hire companies who have been smeared by Fox and co. There’s direct and measurable damages and these are the people who make decisions. This is actually happening. Look at state level, sure, but the real action is county level.
Nicole
@JMG: You and my son have the same birthday! He was 5 weeks early so it was kind of stressful at the time, but now I think it’s cool he was born at the halfway point of the year.
daveNYC
@Kay: Even when they win they’re still the victims. That’s very important since it means they always have an enemy that needs to be destroyed.
Matt McIrvin
@OzarkHillbilly:
But they haven’t yet begun the tensioning to separate the five layers. They put that off a day from the originally stated schedule, which led many many people to conclude that NASA is covering up some terrible problem. As far as I can tell, though, a lot of it was that operations on Friday ran late and they wanted an extra day of rest in the schedule.
Nicole
@OzarkHillbilly: I was quoting that line all weekend. Also in awe of how long she held it before coming in with, “Only once.” That’s the comedic timing of a virtuoso (virtuosa?).
Steeplejack
@Frankensteinbeck:
Congratulations! Title?
Steeplejack
Easing into a pleasant snow day here in the DMV (as the local TV stations like to call it). I’m watching one station’s snowmageddon coverage to sample what’s going on. The snow is coming down quite hard. Down in Threadkill Lane it is noticeably deeper than it was when I got up about 7:30. A good day to not go out, which aligns exactly with my plans. I’m having a cup of joe and making sure the phone, computer and Chromebook are fully charged, in case the power goes out (which I do not anticipate).
I picked up my no doubt Omicron-drenched brother and BIL at National late last night after their week in London. I wore my new KF94 mask (which I like a lot) and made sure they were masked up (N95) in the doughty Kia for the drive to Sighthound Hall. They both tested negative on their preflight COVID tests, so there’s that.
Kay
@Nicole:
The Flag Day baby was 6 weeks early. They don’t tell you how that’s kind of a big deal. You hear about premature births but they don’t talk about the hair raising nature of a month early.
That experience is partly why I don’t want Justices Barrett and Alito in charge of regulating pregnancy. It is what I think about. The idea of ideologue religious nuts in the delivery room peering over shoulders looking for violations makes my palms sweat. I don’t want them in there.
Geminid
@coin operated: I read of a North Dakotan’s response when asked what people there do in summertime: “We try to have a picnic that day.”
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Frankensteinbeck: May you sell a million copies.
The Census Bureau picked us to fill out an American Community Survey form. It took 30 minutes because we both had to fill out separate parts too. One question asked our ethnic heritage. First, that’s hard for both of us. My maternal grandfather immigrated from Poland as a child. (He always said one of his earliest memories was learning to say “Please don’t shoot me” in both Polish and German.) My maternal grandmother’s family was Irish. My paternal grandfather’s surname was “DeLong” which suggests French but he was Anglophone Canadian. My maternal grandmother’s birthname was Henry, which suggest English to me. I didn’t think quickly enough to put European, which is the only sensible answer.
Besides, all the European distinctions they drew seemed pretty fine-grained to me as opposed to “African American” or “Hispanic.”
Baud
@Kay:
That would be nice.
Kay
@Baud:
Two things back them off. Prison and losing money. Dominion can’t put them in prison but they’re due a shitload of money and I hope they get it.
Matt McIrvin
@Dorothy A. Winsor: In 2010, I got sufficiently frustrated by that ethnic-identity question (to be remotely honest I have to list at least four things) that I just put “American”, thinking it was a good melting-pot answer, then found out from election analyses years later that that was the “I am a white racist” answer. Oh well
edit: …or maybe it was 2000. In any event, I was more naive then.
Baud
@Kay:
Sure, but there’s a lot of damage they can do even while staying within the law. They lack the discipline to care about the difference however, so that may be an advantage we have.
lowtechcyclist
Lord, do I hate this use of that acronym. The DMV is the place you go to deal with tags and title and license renewal. (Yeah, I know it’s the MVA here in Maryland, but I grew up in Virginia and spent >15 years of my adult life there too. It was the DMV there, and I think it was the DMV in South Carolina where I lived for five years. ‘The DMV’ will always have that connotation with me.)
Betty Cracker
@satby: It’s an excellent editorial. This Margaret Sullivan column at Le Post is good too. An excerpt:
I referenced the NYT piece in a comment this weekend, and IIRC, Geminid and I agreed we’d seen more coverage on the topic lately. That’s a great thing, but I think Sullivan has a point about centering the story via pro-democracy framing. There isn’t a more important issue. Maybe the upcoming 1/6 committee hearings will wake more non-cultists up.
Geminid
@Geminid: Correction: Scotland’s goal 2020 goal was 100% clean electricity consumption. The Biden administration’s goal is 100% clean electricity by 2035. Electricity generation accounts for roughly 30% of carbon emmissions. Reducing them in transport and industry are heavier lifts.
Nicole
@Kay: Boy, that’s the truth. In my case I got preeclampsia and had to be induced and I still remember watching the doctor doing the calculations in her head about risk of premature birth vs risk of maternal death. Scary.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
I think they did a good job once January 6th happened and regarding the lies about Trump losing the election. I was surprised and pleased how blunt they were at the time. I think there was a broad recognition of “this is a real threat”, which was just so comforting to me after what I saw as years of denial and that kind of super-clever flippancy OR earnest rationalizing, both of which are minimizing.
I’ll take late converts. Happily. Roll out the welcome mat.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Matt McIrvin: I wound up putting Canadian, which is as valid as any of their choices.
Betty Cracker
@Nicole: Yep — I was in the same exact boat. It was scary enough with myself, my husband and my MD making fraught decisions. The very least fucking helpful thing in the world would have been religious fanatics inserting themselves into our private business.
OzarkHillbilly
@Matt McIrvin: No matter where you go, you’re liable to find a pothole.
Matt McIrvin
@Betty Cracker: A thing that concerns me is that they might find a “weird trick” path to dictatorship that is 100% legal, in the sense of being consistent with the law according to reasonable judges particularly if they lean conservative. The efforts to legally ratify 2021-style nullification of a presidential election by state legislatures seem like they’re reaching in that direction.
There are crazier things they could do, though. The Constitution isn’t really designed to withstand bad-faith maneuvering by a party with majority control of the Presidency, the Congress and the Supreme Court, which they could easily get at some point in the near future even by winning outright.
And that if that happens, the military won’t be burdened by questions of illegal orders, and the media won’t treat it as concerning because, after all, they followed the law and the Constitution, dotted their i’s and crossed their t’s, so we have nothing to complain about.
Geminid
@lowtechcyclist: I listen to WTOP radio, through their Fredericksburg transmitter, so I hear “DMV” a lot. It is a crummy acronym. People in the Chicago area have it better. There, the radio stations talk about “Chicagoland.” From 600 miles away, it sounds kind of magical to me.
Baud
@Matt McIrvin:
You’ve just described the black Americans experience before 1965.
Kay
@Nicole:
I was slipping in and out of consciousness due to blood loss and I became aware that they were freaking out and running around. I guess I didn’t realize that it’s a group of people yelling things at and to each other.
Earlier in the evening I had what I recognized as a religious fundie nurse (I know the code better than they know it, after 50 years) who was whispering about God’s will in a crazy way and I told my husband “get and keep her away from me”. Which he did, because he gives not one shit what anyone else thinks :)
Steeplejack
@lowtechcyclist:
Yeah, it’s stupid, but they all use it. And it is somewhat convenient. We’ve got “NoVA” over here; I don’t know what they would call suburban Maryland.
Kay
@Matt McIrvin:
To me the big (and real) legal risk is the state legislature primacy theory they’ve invented and adopted at the highest levels (Alito). That’s a real mechanism they could use and Alito and the rest of the far Right have already blessed it.
The Democrats election bill addresses it in kind of clever way- I was stumped. I didn’t see a way past it.
Baud
@Steeplejack:
how about The Submaryine?
Kay
@Nicole:
When religious fundie nurse was whispering to me in a conspiratorial way at 3 AM all I could think was “this TOO? I have to deal with this, ALSO?”
Get out. You’re terrifying.
Steeplejack
@Baud:
Okay, “DMV” it is!
Kay
Guffaw. This is news to the news people. “BREAKING”
They were faster off the dime when they were printing newspapers. Does “timely” play any role in “value”? If so, these people are going to go bankrupt. They’re the last to know.
Another Scott
@lowtechcyclist:
BypassPaywalls works very well. It’s pretty painless to install.
0. Generally follow the directions.
1. Download the .zip file, unzip it.
2. Put Chrome in Developer mode in the Extensions (move the slider on the upper right).
3. Click the “Load unpacked” button on the left, instead of drag-and-drop, and select the unzipped folder.
4. Check the list of sites, click OK, and you’re done.
HTH a little.
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
@Steeplejack: They could have gone with VMD. Is it because Delaware is the First State?
Jeffro
@Geminid: agree about ‘DMV’…not sure why they don’t just go with “DC area” but oh well.
Our power’s out once again down here. Ironically enough, at the top of the Fro to-do list for 2022: “get a generator”. Ugh.
Frankensteinbeck
@Steeplejack:
Please Don’t Tell My Parents I’m Queen Of The Dead! The title says most of it. Avery Special’s super power is necromancy, from a long line of necromancers, but right now she is the only necromancer alive. Oh, and she’s pretty bad at it. When she moves from Lexington, Kentucky to LA, a city with much more in the way of resources for kids with super powers, it turns out a whole lot of trouble has been waiting for the next necromancer. She immediately gets four great friends whose powers also lean dark. Two of them are in love with her. Being from Eastern Kentucky she’s not ready for one of them being a girl. Being one of my books she gets both of them, because why shouldn’t the heroine win it all?
Kay
White House correspondent for Yahoo News doesn’t understand the basic legal structure of the United States.
Pining for Ronald Reagan. It never ends. They pass it down to each successive generation of political reporters, like irrational hatred of the Clintons. A cherished norm.
Nicole
@Betty Cracker:
@Kay:
Holy cow, I cannot imagine having to deal with a religious fundamentalist in the middle of a situation where you are completely not in control of what is happening to your body. Because yeah, as you both know, it is so, so scary when things suddenly go south in a pregnancy. Worst I had to deal with, personnel-wise was an Eastern European nurse, who, when she saw that I was watching the monitor that kept track of contractions (because I found it reassuring to see when they were coming before I could feel them), decided it was too scary for me and turned it away. The second she left, I told my husband to turn the monitor back so I could see it again, but he told me he was too scared of her. I laugh now, but man, I was mad at him then.
Soprano2
@Kay: I’m honestly amazed that on NPR they still call it “The Big Lie” and call January 6th an insurrection. Normally by now they would have been beaten down by Republican whining into saying it in a much gentler way. They also reference vaccine and Covid misinformation correctly, as lies. It’s better than what they usually do.
Baud
@Kay: Yeah, that’s one dumb tweet.
I’m not even sure what it means. Biden has already made clear he wants schools open. Does the reporter want some sort of performance art out of Biden?
WaterGirl
@lowtechcyclist: Paywalled for me, too.
Google the title: Every Day Is Jan. 6 Now
…and click on the article from the google results. Then they let you see it, it’s not paywalled if you click as the result of a SEARCH rather than a link.
Steeplejack
@Baud:
I always thought it was because it sounded like “DMZ” in a cool, hard-bitten Roland Hedley way to the TV reporters.
Steeplejack
@Frankensteinbeck:
Sounds cool. I love all of your titles.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Kay: Besides which, Reagan crushing that union was a blow to organized labor in the US., which was already reeling.
Matt McIrvin
@Nicole: I’m pretty sure the in-home physical therapist I had after my knee surgery back in February 2021, a Russian woman, was an antivaxxer conspiracist. I didn’t pry as much as I maybe should have–the desire to get mobility back overrode my concerns there.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack:
We featured the new book in Authors in Our Midst a week or two ago. It was over the holidays, so some people may have missed it.
It looks great, check it out!
Geminid
@Baud: IThe reporter’s argument is based on the premise that Joe Biden is in a heap of trouble, and needs to find a clever way to get out of it. But even if Biden really was in trouble- and I don’t think he is- the only way out is through.
Betty Cracker
Okay, this is gross and embarrassing for the USA:
Poor Mr. Blinken.
Another Scott
@Jeffro: WPGC calls itself “The DNA of the DMV”. I don’t mind it.
It’s better than the “Tri-State” (around Cincy, and many other places), I think. Though I guess Cincyland! had no chance of taking off. ;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Thanks for the reminder. I got that in the mail a couple of days ago and set it aside for later.
Matt McIrvin
@Baud: Pretty much! It took a hundred years for language that was right there in the Constitution to actually get enforced, and for most of that time, the widespread majority opinion was that this was perfectly OK. They can take any of this away.
It’s harder, of course, if they’re doing it to a population that is a majority or nearly a majority. But not inconceivable. Black people were a majority in South Carolina for a while there.
Scout211
This new Will Bunch column is a must read, highlighting the secret “smoking gun” letter that could be the key to the January 6th insurrection investigation.
Geminid
@Jeffro: If you wait a while, you’ll be able to get a whole house battery instead of a generator.
I’ve still got electricity out here in Greater Stanardsville. We call it “the GS”.
NotMax
@Ken
Strong chance the stores will not be advertising white sales.
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Soprano2
@Baud: I think it’s more “Green Lantern” thinking or the One Weird Trick stuff, where they think he can wave his hand and make schools do what he wants them to.
NotMax
@Soprano2
Enhanced sightseeing.
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Matt McIrvin
@Spanky: During the push to make MLK Day a national holiday, Saturday Night Live did a sketch imagining cheesy car-dealer ads and such going “I have a dream… that you’ll take advantage of these AMAZING DEALS!” and that’s pretty much what we got. It’s the American way, I suppose.
Ken
@Betty Cracker: I have to wonder if Trump took a payment for that statement; and if so, did he need to register as an agent of a foreign government?
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
I hope that hurts Orban’s chances.
Matt McIrvin
@Baud: Presumably they want him to fire all the public-school teachers and hire scabs (he can’t even legally do that, as far as I know, the schools aren’t federally controlled).
Just more of “Biden is doomed unless he acts exactly like a Republican” (or like a fantasy of a Republican).
Taken4Granite
@Geminid: People tell a similar joke in northern New England: “I wanted to go fishing last summer, but I had to work that day.”
Enhanced Voting Techniques
Peak Tech Bro at work. They changed our emails so last Friday, during the national holiday IT sent us the new password to our old accounts and then disabled our old email accounts before we all came in today.
Baud
@Scout211: Keric can’t be the only one who has that letter. I wonder if the Jan. 6 committee has gotten it from another source who was unwilling to make a bogus claim of privilege.
JWR
This past weekends interviews with the Jan 6 committee co-chairs were good. Cheney said that TFG was in a dining room right off the Oval Office watching his Creation in action for over 3 hours, while co-chair Thompson said that they have information about sitting MoC playing a direct role that day. I hope our media can’t ignore this story.
Jackie
@Kay: My birthday, too! I’m so happy to reclaim my day from the TFG! Also the USA Army’s birthday.
Nelle
Tragic news from Des Moines. Five children orphaned by father’s death in an icy crash last Friday. Their mother died in childbirth in August but the baby survived. The family, plus grandparents, had come to Iowa two years ago, as refugees from the Democratic Republic of Congo. The father was sole support; the grandparents do not speak English, do not drive, do not have jobs, and are ill. A Congolese pastor (I hope his) has set up a GoFundMe and it seems to be getting a response.
My brother-in-law, nieces, and nephew are Congolese and my experience with the Congolese immigrant community is that, even when poor, they are generous and supportive. I’m a little apprehensive of someone unscrupulous seeing an opening. I’ll be checking out that church with a Congolese friend later today, but really, not my business to monitor.
Iowa has moved into a weird, Trumpian space in many ways, but is still in their tradition of supporting refugees fairly well. It’s a puzzle.
Frankensteinbeck
@Ken:
Trump has always loved cruel autocrats. It’s the club he dreams of joining. The Russian leak during his presidency said that they didn’t need to control him. The fucking dumbass did everything they wanted without instruction because he wanted that stuff to.
Spanky
@Jeffro: Got a generator. “Whole house” And it’s running. And half the house isn’t energized, including the fridge, well, and baseboard heat. No rhyme or reason for it. Hoping that it comes back with the power.
I hate electrical mysteries.
Matt McIrvin
@Baud: …More generally, I agree that instead of obsessing over the details of foreign experience of autocracy as a model for what to expect, we first think of how the Jim Crow regime worked, and how its remnants still do. Because the US has always been a dystopian police state for African-Americans, and for a long time, for most of them, there wasn’t even a veneer of democracy to speak of.
Leto
@Matt McIrvin: @OzarkHillbilly: (CBS News) James Webb space telescope engineers take extra time to ensure smooth sunshade deploy
bemused senior
@Spanky: you might have a blown fuse where the power comes into the house. We had a half house outage in one of the big storms last week. It was a blown fuse.
Another Scott
I see that Chris Matthews is twittering about having learned stuff. Hmm…
An oldie:
Cheers,
Scott.
Leto
@lowtechcyclist:
It is. (SCDMVonline.com if you’re curious) In PA, it’s also the DMV, which to a degree doesn’t matter because I’ll always call it… the DMV. Because I’m an SC native, it’s also DUI (driving under the influence) though I’ve heard DWI and other variations.
narya
@Enhanced Voting Techniques: That is stunning in its fail.
@JWR: There are ways in which I am more upset about the MOCs participating than TFG, and I want them run out of town in disgrace. Coming up with another wacko scheme is TFG’s (and his sycophants’) main thing, but for MOCs to participate, and knowingly put their colleagues at risk like that? I keep think of Marge Gunderson’s line at the end of “Fargo.”
JMG
One thing I’ve noticed. While some Eastern Mass. school districts are closed today to allow for covid preparations, testing of staff mostly, many more have opened a couple hours late for the same reason. I assume their tests and other supplies arrived earlier. I can’t speak for the rest of the country, but here, it’s like a snow day, and not a major one, rather than a cataclysm.
Nicole
@Matt McIrvin: Seeing as how it was pretty hard for anyone to get a vaccine in Feb 2021 you likely made the right call there- I would have done the same thing. I wonder if she’s been vaxxed since. I’ve been skulking on the subreddit Covid19positive, and there are a lot of unvaxxed out there. Oy.
lowtechcyclist
@WaterGirl:
Thanks, that worked!
RobertB
@Spanky: If the generator is shared over all of the circuits in the house, then I bet your generator (or something in that magic box) has lost one of it’s 110V ‘legs’. Your 220V is really two 110v lines, that get split up amongst all of the 110V circuits in your house. Your 220V outlets are both of the 110V lines together. If you lose one, you lose what looks like random outlets in the house. That happened to me one time, and it was due to a bad transformer on the pole.
One thing to try is to turn off the power at the main breaker, reset all the GFCI breakers in your house (like all of the outlets in your bathroom and kitchen), then turn the main breaker back on. This is voodoo that I read on the internet, but can’t hurt. If that doesn’t fix it, I’d bet it’s a problem in your generator.
Miss Bianca
@Baud:
LOL!
@Frankensteinbeck: Yay!
Anyway
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Bwahaha!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@debbie:
That photo was snapped in Marseilles as memory serves, as the national colors were marched to send for safekeeping elsewhere.
EmbraceYourInnerCrone
@Kay: So sorry that happened to you and your family. I worried the entire time I was pregnant as the military hospital in my area had been shut down and the OB and the civilian hospital they sent me to were Catholic. Catholic hospitals apparently don’t have to follow patient’s wishes if it goes against the hospitals religion. Such bullshit.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Baud:
That’s a Madison Avenue slogan that would come right after that three martini lunch.
Kayla Rudbek
@Baud: now we just need some federal holidays in August, March, and April…
Ancient Atheist
Of interest is the Monday morning media pundits and politicians instant re-play what the weekend media pundits and politicians re-played about what happened last week with some considerable speculation as to what the future holds. Of course Jan 6th, 2021 and Jan 6th 2022 were the lede drivers.
For the record I do not accept the assumption that Republicans will win the US Congress and Senate in 2022; but if they do they will immediately stop all investigations into Jan 6th. That is Trump’s plan. And, the Republican plan. The time line is fluid… but soon Trump and others are going to need protection from criminal prosecution. I predict in April, May or June, 2022, Trump and the Party will declare that Trump is running to be Speaker of the US House of Represntatives. Yes, Congresswoman Nacy Pelosi’s job! Now Trump is a candidate for a Federal Office without even having to run! A Republican Congress will vote him in without question and he can avoid prosecution. From that perch Trump will guide the impeachment of President Biden and VP Harris and again assume the mantle of President of these United States. 2023 Federal Election? We don’t need one because Trump was denied his true four years with all that impeachment and prosecution stuff We will just move on to Dictator Trump for the forseeable future.
2022 is the year our Republic may fail.
Scout211
@Baud:
That was my thought as well. They do have (at the very least) a reference to the letter from Kerik’s attorney and know the title:
Matt McIrvin
@Nicole: At that time, my impression was that healthcare workers pretty much could get the vaccine if they wanted it… but many didn’t.
A little later they transitioned me to an outpatient PT gym, where they told me that the entire staff was vaccinated… except for one person who had “sold her slot on eBay.” I don’t know what that means either and I don’t think I want to know. Fortunately I didn’t interact with that staffer.
Miss Bianca
@Ancient Atheist: You don’t accept the assumption that Republicans will win the House and Senate in 2022, but you go on to spin a wild dystopian scenario about what will happen when they do?
Um. OK.
WaterGirl
@Miss Bianca: @Ancient Atheist: I believe he was laying out the scenario IF THEY WIN.
Note the last line is MAY fail, not WILL fail.
Jeffro
@Geminid: LOL re: GS ?
I’ve heard about these batteries from neighbors…will look into it!
jackmac
@lowtechcyclist: And I’ll add that DMV has unfortunately become the nationwide default abbreviation for any state driving authority. It’s not. Here in Illinois its the Secretary of State’s office that handles all driving matters. I can always tell someone who doesn’t hail from here when they say the need a service from the DMV.
Spanky
@Spanky: Trees are falling. Lines are down. I’m sure we’re not the only ones getting it.
Cell service was out but came back a weak 4G.
This may be turning into a utilities nightmare
Eta – ? I wrote this and sent it (I thought) around noon. Since then, the snow stopped, but power remains out. I spent the interval shoveling and just logged back in.
WaterGirl
@jackmac: But it’s still the Department of Motor Vehicles, even in Illinois where the SOS is ultimately responsible, I believe.
When people talk about the DMV, they are talking about the place they walk into to renew their license, etc. They are not talking about the bigger office of Secretary of State.
I have lived in IL nearly my entire life and that’s the way it’s always been.