I can tell you’re trying to concentrate. I’ll sit 2 feet away and stare at you so hard you will physically feel my steady, unblinking support. You’re welcome pic.twitter.com/A867qWNrS2
— Jorts (and Jean) (@JortsTheCat) January 19, 2022
Book Club posts in an hour or so — here’s an Even More Open Than Usual Thread to tide y’all over…
The whack a feathery mole toy is officially a success. It's day four and they're still obsessed. pic.twitter.com/rcd2J5FXmU
— JJ MacNab (@jjmacnab) January 12, 2022
Semyon the cat takes his job — wearing a uniform and lounging around the fire station — very seriously https://t.co/YCuhqicklY pic.twitter.com/qGrsrpn7kE
— The Moscow Times (@MoscowTimes) January 19, 2022
Anonymous At Work
Asking for a friend. What’s the maximum decibels at which a cat can lick their own a$$-hole?
NotMax
Set the WABAC machine to 1990 and dial the Respite control up to 11.
;)
debbie
Uh, oh. New variant alert!
debbie
hells littlest angel
I’m very worried that Donald Trump may have a stroke. Very, very worried.
hells littlest angel
@debbie: Ell oh ell. And I only say LOL when I literally LOL.
Mike in NC
ABC News: Supreme Court votes 8 to 1 against Fat Orange Clown’s request to hide his treasonous activities.
Mallard Filmore
“I’ll sit 2 feet away and stare at you so hard you will physically feel my steady, unblinking support.”
When Cat’s pupils diallate he is ready to pounce, claws out and biting hard. I have to grab a plastic grocery bag, kept in easy reach for exactly this reason, and snap it loudly. I don’t heal as fast as I used to.
Scout211
Reposting from a dead thread downstairs:
PSA: If you need a rapid in-home test before your free ones are delivered, Costco has the Flo-flex brand back in stock right now. $47.99 for a box with 5 tests in it. Flo-flex.
They had them in stock a few days ago and then quickly sold out. They are currently back in stock. Delivery estimate for my address was January 24th.
Bill Arnold
@Mike in NC:
With Thomas saying he’d support obstruction of
justiceinvestigation. Because Republicans must be protected from the law, I guess.SiubhanDuinne
@hells littlest angel:
Yes, but are you CONCERNED? Is your BROW FURROWED?
Litlebritdifrnt
@Mike in NC: Tee Hee. Wonder how things are at Mar a Largo this fine evening.
“Get me my Lawyers!”
“Errr, Sir you don’t have any more Lawyers, you refused to pay any of them”
debbie
@Scout211:
Is there a list anywhere of brands of tests to avoid or are they all effective?
Ken
@debbie: Those cats have a definite look of “I don’t know why you did this to me, but for the rest of your life, you will need to check your shoes before putting them on.”
debbie
@Ken:
Yep!
Ken
@hells littlest angel: He might fake one, to avoid going to trial. But that’s an interesting psychological riddle: Would a narcissist take the Vincent Gigante route?
burnspbesq
@Bill Arnold:
Legal Twitter thinks Thomas is concerned that the docs in question incriminate his wife.
Scout211
@debbie:
Here’s a recent review of the tests in NYT Wirecutter.
Ken
@burnspbesq: Then he should have recused himself, at a minimum. Resigning in disgrace is too much to ask.
Baud
@burnspbesq:
Oh please oh please oh please.
Yarrow
@burnspbesq: Because they probably do.
mrmoshpotato
@Bill Arnold:
Thomas is no doubt trying to protect his POS, treasonous wife.
Wag
Breaking news–SCOTUS clears the way for the Jan 6 commission to get Trumps presidential records. 8-1 decision
OK, I’m late to the party. BUT LET THE PARTY BEGIN!!!!
mrmoshpotato
@Ken: “Take your last picture, human.”
dmsilev
@Litlebritdifrnt: Isn’t Rudy technically still a lawyer?
burnspbesq
Trump could still petition for cert, and Kavanaugh thinks there are some circumstances in which a former Preznit should be able to assert executive (and, presumably, deliberative process) privilege, but I think the disclosure by the Archivist to the Committee would make the current case moot.
prostratedragon
“Happy Feet Blues [Oh But the Third Day],” Winton Marsalis septet
dmsilev
@Bill Arnold: Anyone who thinks that “Republicans are awful” is a new thing that started with Trump or at most Bush the Younger should remember that Bush the Elder nominated that guy to replace Thurgood Marshall.
Baud
Kavanaugh’s concurrence is a complete non sequitur. Probably why no one else joined him.
geg6
I must have the whack a mole thing. It’s a necessity now that I’ve seen it.
Bill Arnold
@burnspbesq:
Ah, LOL! (Literally, just now.)
Baud
@Ken:
You should talk to Anne Laurie. She’s mapped it all out in the morning thread.
Leslie
SIAP on a previous thread: https://www.politico.com/news/2022/01/19/donors-threaten-cut-funding-sinema-527413
debbie
@Scout211:
Thanks!
Another Scott
@burnspbesq:
(via eclecticbrotha)
Cheers,
Scott.
Leslie
@geg6: Agreed.
danielx
@hells littlest angel:
If he did, how could you tell?
smith
Depends on what you mean by “technically.” His NY law license was suspended last summer, and I don’t think it’s been reinstated. Don’t know what that would mean vis a vis a federal case, though.
geg6
@Leslie:
Just hit Chewy and got one. Cleo will go insane.
Steeplejack
@geg6:
Link or product name? I have some friends whose cats would love it.
Jay
@Steeplejack:
Ambush Interactive,
https://www.amazon.ca/Interactive-Electronic-Rotating-Auto-Shut-Entertainment/dp/B08X9X3XWR/ref=asc_df_B08X9X3XWR/?tag=googlemobshop-20&linkCode=df0&hvadid=459277312260&hvpos=&hvnetw=g&hvrand=8867840812388686695&hvpone=&hvptwo=&hvqmt=&hvdev=m&hvdvcmdl=&hvlocint=&hvlocphy=9001498&hvtargid=pla-1361694585756&psc=1
Steeplejack
@Jay:
Thanks.
Roger Moore
@Baud:
The appeals court said that Trump loses twice, once because his arguments are bad and once because the law doesn’t support him even if his arguments were good. Kavanaugh agrees that Trump’s arguments are bad but disagrees that the law doesn’t support him. He wants to preserve the ability of future ex-presidents to win on similar cases if they can make good arguments. That’s a relevant objection.
Even if you disagree and think the law doesn’t support Trump either, you could still support the idea that the court’s ruling on the underlying law is dicta. There’s a general legal principle that courts should rule on the narrowest basis that will support their decision. So they should rule first on the specifics of the case and only go to the more general law if they’re forced to. In this case, they could have stopped with the ruling on Trump’s case. Because of that, it makes sense to say that the ruling on the applicability of the law is unnecessary and doesn’t have any legal force, i.e. it’s dicta.
sab
@Roger Moore: Reeks of Bush v Gore. We hold this now, but defer to what other people we agree with will hold later, and meanwhile we held but left no precedent. ( Nifty magical legal reasoning there.)
Betsy
Hey so a few days ago I posted about getting exposed to Covid at my job, in a meeting at work with masked people who are vaccinated but nevertheless one of them came down with Covid and tested positive a couple of days after our meeting. My boss informed me of this but she never even expressed any sympathy or care or concernabout whether I might get infected? So anyway I did the quarantine thing, and waited five days and got tested and I’m negative so yay!
Except that I asked my boss if I could work remotely because I don’t want Covid and I don’t want any more exposures and it would be impossible to avoid them at work, as demonstrated last week. I can do my entire job remotely because all I do is sit in front of a computer screen all day and I’m not public facing and I barely even get a phone call every three days. And my boss said no and apparently her boss up the line said no. So I quit
CarolPW
@Betsy: Wow, a combination of “Good for you!” and “I’m sorry.” What a shit show. Let me/us know if there is anything I/we can do.
Steeplejack
@Betsy:
What CarolPW said. Way to stand up for yourself, and I hope this doesn’t put you in a bind. And good luck to those assholes finding a replacement for you!
I hope you didn’t give them any notice, because COVID is certainly not going to wait around for two weeks.
Roger Moore
@sab:
This is fairly standard legal reasoning and almost the opposite of what happened in Bush v. Gore. In that case, they court really did have to decide what the law was, but they tried to weasel out of having that decision serve as a precedent. In this case, they could very easily rule on the facts without ever touching the law, but they’ve chosen to rule on what the law is even though they don’t have to. It’s that “they don’t have to” that Kavanaugh is objecting to. If the court can rule the way they think is correct without touching the law, they should do so. That’s standard legal thinking.
Betsy
@Steeplejack: no, the word came down at 3:45 in the afternoon and I was out by 5:15ish.
Supreme irony alert?: My boss was out sick “working from home” so her cold refusal was by phone
@CarolPW: Thanks. I’ll need to make money some other way but at least I won’t be getting Covid. Although I’m double vaxed & boostered I want zero Covid.
It’s kind of like polio. I want zero polio. Even if I were to get polio and recover completely I would still not want polio!
Boss thinks everyone is going to get Covid eventually and we all just better accept it. Glad I left that.
CarolPW
@Betsy: I am doing everything in my power to not be one of the ones who get it – I have other things to do with my brain than let it turn into snot.
Betsy
@CarolPW: Yeah, good for you! Even an asymptomatic case does something to all the cells in your body, across multiple organs. I’m not able to restate what I read the other day in an article about this. But even mild Covid does long-term cellular damage. God only knows what the long-term effects of it will be on people. Kind of like post-polio syndrome maybe or shingles.
CarolPW
@Betsy: I fear it may be more like lead exposure – an apparently slight cognitive reduction that leads to long-term adverse societal effects. Not sad I’m too old to last long enough to see if I am right or not.
Betsy
@CarolPW: Aww. That’s a concern of mine as well. I hope you last a long time and you and yours see better times!
sab
@Roger Moore: As I have said repeatedly : IANAL. I passed the bar in 1980 on the multistate, gave it up in 1986. I have huge sympathy for non-lawyers who have trying to figure stuff out since then, and utter arrogant rejection of lawyers since then who sneer that we just cannot understand. Actually you guys have been winging it ever since (lawyerise for making shit up).
MobiusKlein
@Betsy: It’s not just ‘getting covid’, as it seems we can get it multiple times.
A job with some at home / at office flexibility should allow folks to tailor their in person attendance in accordance with current risk factors, such as spikes in your local situation.
Betsy
@MobiusKlein: I agree. That didn’t happen.
It was kind of a crappy job anyway. I need the money but now I am free to find my next step.
Hell, maybe I’ll find a better, *truly remote* job based in *another state*!
Meanwhile, I am so relishing the prospect of my alarm not going off at 5:40 AM tomorrow.
WaterGirl
@Betsy: Two days late and no one will see this, but good for you!
You did the right thing.