Mom and I are going to be part of the #PuppyBowl this Sunday during the #SuperBowl! Who are you all cheering for in the big game? I’m rooting for snacks and snuggles. pic.twitter.com/ogiddCVYPa
— Commander Biden (@BidenCommander) February 12, 2022
This year's Super Bowl broadcast might be one of the biggest ever, since this is the first time the country’s largest sporting event coincides with the Winter Olympics. Here are some things to know about the game, as well as Super Bowl-related programming: https://t.co/B2YtbC9leK
— The Associated Press (@AP) February 12, 2022
HOW CAN I WATCH THE GAME IF I AM A CORD CUTTER?
NBC’s Peacock streaming service will have the game for OTT devices and services, smart TVs and mobile devices. It will also be available for free on the NFL website/apps as well as Yahoo Sports. DirecTV Stream, Sling TV, Hulu with Live TV, YouTube TV and fuboTV also have NBC…
Just look at this little Nugget ?? @flldr
?? #PuppyBowl Game Day: Feb. 13 at 2p ET on #AnimalPlanet and @discoveryplus pic.twitter.com/c2d9E9avP5
— Animal Planet (@AnimalPlanet) February 8, 2022
Here are the dogs competing for your attention in Puppy Bowl XVIII! ?? https://t.co/DqKnC306Nh
— Entertainment Weekly (@EW) February 12, 2022
The MEOW-velous stars of the Kitty Halftime show have something to say ????
?? #PuppyBowl: Sunday at 2p ET on #AnimalPlanet and @discoveryplus pic.twitter.com/99w2Vca3s4
— Animal Planet (@AnimalPlanet) February 12, 2022
Few signs of Super Bowl trucker protest, monitoring firm says https://t.co/D7OOHftlwM pic.twitter.com/RekuIp8eqw
— Reuters (@Reuters) February 12, 2022
Baud
Go Commander!
MagdaInBlack
I stepped out on the balcony late Friday night and the whole neighborhood smelled of bacon. I assume someone had the smoker going for Super Bowl feasting. I should go knockin’ on doors til I find that meal
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
So this was my FB campaign kickoff statement on my personal page and my campaign page.
I’ll accept all suggestions and critiques.
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Nice.
Feel free to include that Baud! has endorsed your candidacy.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Baud:
“Endorsed by Baud, the Harold Stassen of internet grassroots presidential campaigns.”
Baud
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
In all seriousness, it’s great that you are stepping up like this. Especially so since you are a liberal Dem in Kentucky.
Ken
I don’t see how that follows, in fact I’d expect the opposite as people choose to watch the Olympics instead of the Bowl. Are they using “biggest” to mean “most-promoted”, perhaps?
mrmoshpotato
? ARE YOU READY FOR SOME FOOTBALL????️
Ken
What if Fox News gave a riot, and nobody came?
mrmoshpotato
105 puppies? Flags are gonna get thrown left and right!
OzarkHillbilly
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I’d like to say you’ve got my vote, but I wouldn’t want your campaign to be smeared with allegations of voter fraud so I won’t.
Baud
@Ken:
As much as I would like to see them get their comeuppance, my inner responsible Democrat recognizes that the best outcome is nothing happening.
mrmoshpotato
@MagdaInBlack: I can taste the air! And it’s delicious!
Anne Laurie
The station running the Olympics is also running the Super Bowl, during the prime-time slot. So people who were tuned to the Olympics will, the networks hope, continue watching through the SB, while waiting for the post-primetime Olympics coverage.
(Remember, it’s not about the sports, it’s about eyes on the advertising during those sports.)
mrmoshpotato
@Ken: Whiny ass titty babies too afraid of a beatdown for interrupting the Superb Owl.
Ken
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s 2022. The one thing that’s certain is that his campaign will be smeared with accusation of voter fraud.
Congratulations on your decision, Comte. Joking aside, I hope the campaign doesn’t turn ugly. Though my sister serves as a child advocate for a family court, and I understand the job often turns ugly.
Ken
@Anne Laurie: Ah, I hadn’t noticed it was the same network — because I fall outside both circles on the “watches winter Olympics” /”watches football” Venn diagram.
rikyrah
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: ??????????
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Ken:
Oh, it’s already ugly. This judge is known for vindictive behavior – the other challenger got into the race because of the judge’s behavior. The judge got even by lending her support to an ugly newspaper hit piece on the woman the night she recused herself from the case.
I called the challenger to lend her my support on that issue. I’m also backing off my pledge to the incumbent to not be nasty after she pulled that garbage.
Also, she was so retaliatory against a prior challenger that he quit practicing. Another prior challenger is supporting her because he’s afraid of her, etc.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone???
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Betty Cracker
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Well done! A couple of punctuation nits, since you asked:
Good luck!
lowtechcyclist
I think we should call it the Euphemism Bowl.
Can you imagine the names of other major occasions having to be talked around, the way this one is, with references to the “Big Game” in ads and stuff? “Get ready to grill for the big Fireworks Day celebration!” “Buy your stocking-stuffers here for J.C,’s Birthday!”
At least they should come up with a better euphemism. I suggest Hyperbole, spelled that way for the obvious reasons, but pronounced as if it was spelled ‘Hyperbowl.’ But ‘the Big Game’ sounds like something out of 1950s wholesome fiction for kids.
debbie
Good grief, Commander’s growing fast!
germy
Richard Marx vs. Lenny Dykstra:
Mousebumples
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: good luck! Have you reached out to Run For Something for… whatever sort of support they could provide too?
randy khan
@Ken:
The game and the Olympics are on the same network, so there shouldn’t be any cannibalization.
lowtechcyclist
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Looks great! My only suggestion is replacing the ‘or’ in “empathetic or efficient” with ‘and.’
Kay
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
I’d take this out. It’s too personal and it doesn’t flow from the first paragraph (“service”) which is excellent.
Baud
@germy:
Why is that a thing?
Barbara
@Ken:
Well the ice dancing finals begin at 8:15 pm. The top contenders won’t skate until 10:30 or later but I am definitely in the ice dancing camp. Also, it’s Valentine’s Day tomorrow and a lot of restaurants around here are offering a special menu all weekend as well as tomorrow.
randy khan
@germy:
I’m having a little trouble believing Lenny Dykstra actually wrote that second tweet. He’d probably need someone to spell “effete” for him. Although the pathetic “he/him” thing does kind of sound like him, so maybe he cut and pasted from someone else’s tweet.
debbie
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
So much for an impartial judiciary.
Great FB post! I had a cousin years and years ago who lost her child to her abusive husband (in Covington, I think) and then threw herself in front of a bus. I know how much Kentucky needs reforming and I hope you’re the one who does it!
debbie
@germy:
Marx is clearly the better Tweeter. Do you know what started this?
Gin & Tonic
How things are going:
The Blinken/Biden team is not winning friends.
germy
@debbie:
Dykstra with his first tweet.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: You asked for it!
My 2 cents, use if it’s useful
Para 1: delete “consistent” and “all of.” Change “in regard to” to “from.” Change “impact” to “affect.” I’d delete “heavily” too but I don’t feel strongly about it. ?
Para 2: comma inside quotation marks. Otherwise, good.
Para 3: delete “why” after “reasons.” The second sentence (ie the rest of the paragraph) is long enough to be hard to read. Maybe change to something like “My lengthy experience in this area of law has taught me lessons about the various systems of…” Then period after “state.”
Para 4: period after “pm.”
germy
https://www.latimes.com/world-nation/story/2019-12-25/americans-are-retiring-to-vietnam-for-cheap-health-care-and-a-decent-living-standard
debbie
@germy:
Out of nowhere? Someone’s been hitting the hootch.
I should be militantly against the statement, but I can’t stop laughing at this: “The only women who’ve called out your name in 30 years were bailiffs.”
Betty Cracker
@debbie: That is a helluva zinger right there. :)
BlueGuitarist
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
yay you!
Yay downballot candidates!
minor text suggestion: start with the people here deserve… then I decided to run.
Literally (!) putting the people first.
Dorothy A. Winsor
A couple of days ago, it dawned on me that Trump/pandemic anxiety had created much more stress in me than I realized. I’d been thinking sympathetically about people with that stress, but hadn’t realized before that I’m one of them. So I’m making more effort to keep busy, see and call people, get out when I can, etc. I remember waking up happy, and that wasn’t so long ago. I need to get back to that.
germy
debbie
@Gin & Tonic:
I object to “second sort” of human beings. It seems to me like Biden’s trying to avoid direct military confrontation which has got to be what Putin wants.
(This morning, NPR ran a great report by a Ukrainian American correspondent’s return to Ukraine to visit his relatives.)
NotMax
Retro interlude, just for the heck of it.
When a dime was a dime.
;)
germy
@debbie:
I think he was on a hunt for a liberal to insult. He found Richard Marx listing his pronouns on twitter. That was enough for him to launch an assault.
debbie
@germy:
I guess tweeting back about she/her would have been the mark of an amateur.
For the record, Dykstra sucked even back when he was leading the Mets.
Kathleen
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Best of luck to you!
Gin & Tonic
@debbie: He is trying to avoid direct military confrontation by withdrawing Foreign Service personnel from the country? How does that work?
zhena gogolia
Putin is responsible for the situation in Ukraine. Putin.
Eolirin
@Gin & Tonic: If Ukraine gets invaded we’d have to send troops in to get our people back? They’d end up clashing with Russian troops, starting a shooting war between our countries?
Spanky
@mrmoshpotato: No.
jnfr
I am a huge Puppy Bowl fan. The Animal Planet app seems to be working on my Roku, so I’m looking forward to this!
mali muso
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Be kind to yourself. I’m also realizing how much the past years have affected me. Went to a concert last night (masked of course) and couldn’t stop crying my eyes out at the drop of a hat.
Van Buren
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Mrs. Van Buren has worked in Family Court for 30 years. It’s a tough place to be if you want to keep your faith in humanity.
Baud
OLYMPICS SPOILERS BELOW
Go Erin Jackson!!! ????
Gin & Tonic
@Eolirin: Biden has made clear that he’s not sending in troops.
Betty
@Kay: Maybe that paragraph could be used later once he comes under attack from the mean judge.
The Thin Black Duke
I would love it if those trucker assholes tried to disrupt the Superbowl. They’d be arrested faster than BLM protestors marching in front of Greg Abbott’s front lawn.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: Do you disagree with that decision?
Betty Cracker
I got your Puppy Bowl right here…
debbie
Already stated.
Torrey
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: So I had a bit of spare time (read: I was putting off some less interesting tasks), so I did some editing. In fact, I overdid it. It’s sort of extensive–do you want me to send it to you privately or should I just post it here? Watergirl has my email address.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Hahahaha.
Chief Oshkosh
@Eolirin: That’s what I assume, too.
debbie
@zhena gogolia:
Has anyone here said otherwise?
Chief Oshkosh
@Gin & Tonic: And this is likely one tactic to do just that, to avoid having to send in troops. If Americans are taken by Russians, pressure will be intense to get them out, to “do something!”
I’m not justifying this assumed tactic, but I can see it as a tactic.
Gin & Tonic
@Omnes Omnibus: The decision not to send in troops to evacuate Americans? I understand that, as do all expats I know there. The decision to order embassy personnel out? Yes, I disagree vehemently, as I have expressed on numerous occasions. Fuck it, he *still* has not nominated an Ambassador. A diplomatic solution is important here? Bullshit.
I’m growing so weary of explaining shit. In contrast with most commenters here, I do not believe that Biden sits at the right hand of God, and I will point out what I think he is fucking up. Anyone with a modicum of understanding of the situation on the ground there knows that this administration’s actions and words are playing poorly. Yes, they are grateful for the materiel and such, but there is no reason sanctions could not have been imposed yesterday, particularly if the US seems to believe (although it is not sharing that intelligence with the UA gov’t) that invasion is “imminent.” And withdrawing Embassy staff is a clear signal of weakness.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: A Gator!
Brachiator
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Suggestion:
Zipping through the comments, I see that there are a lot of good suggestions.
Best of luck!
germy
Breakfast in bed. Thanks, kitty.
Another Scott
@Gin & Tonic:
No doubt you’ve seen this, but for others on the thread. Pravda.com.ua (via KyivIndependent) – Google Translate:
Telling foreigners that things are dangerous and they may soon not be able to leave (not by air, anyway) if things get really bad seems to be prudent warnings.
Cheers,
Scott.
zhena gogolia
@debbie: Biden seems to be getting most of the blame.
debbie
@Another Scott:
Not like that hasn’t happened before.
Omnes Omnibus
@Gin & Tonic: Thank you for your response.
debbie
@zhena gogolia:
A large number of Americans now seem to prefer an authoritarian government over supporting a democracy. ?
Gin & Tonic
@Another Scott:
“with so many airlines afraid to now fly in/above Ukraine, there’s a feeling that it’s us who fell under sanctions and not Russia”
Geminid
From the Times of Israel:
The article reports that there are an estimated 10 to 15 thousand Israelis in Ukraine; 4,500 have registered with their embassy.
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: I got my morning chuckle and a half.
MagdaInBlack
@debbie: I don’t think we here get to object to how they are feeling at this point.
OzarkHillbilly
Biden is not withdrawing the embassy staff because he is afraid the Russians might kidnap/maim/kill them. Even Putin is not stupid enough to deliberately target them. He is withdrawing them because wars are chaotic and their are no guarantees. Shit happens and the innocent bystander is always the first to get killed.
An ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure.
narya
@Kay: @Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I agree with Kay. I could take a hack at editing it with a fine-tooth comb if you want, but overall I think it’s great–and great that you’re running.
raven
Go LA Dawgs!!!
zhena gogolia
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’m not so sure about that. He isn’t as smart as people seem to think, and he is quite evil.
oldgold
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
I am sure it felt good to write this; however, I am not sure publishing it is where wisdom lies.
I would keep the part that recites your excellent qualifications for the position and edit out or at a minimum tone down the direct criticism of the incumbent. What if the incumbent wins, you, and more importantly, your clients may pay a considerable price.
If you feel it is necessary to go on the attack, and it might be, I would strongly encourage you to take this out, “and the other problems in this circuit.” No point in pissing off the entire bench.
Omnes Omnibus
@MagdaInBlack: Yes, what may be reasonable and appropriate actions for the US government to take are not necessarily actions that Ukrainians may welcome.
OzarkHillbilly
@zhena gogolia: Putin is not very smart, but that is not the same as raving mad. The repercussions would be disastrous for Russia and his advisors know it.
eta and besides, what possible gain could he get out of attacking our embassy?
Kay
@Betty:
I base this in two things. One was a survey Ohio courts conducted probably ten years ago where they asked litigants and defendants and witnesses and others who have interacted with the court system what they thought of their experience. The main complaint was it’s a club from the outside- we all know one another, they see this, and they feel “outside” the process. I didn’t see the survey- a magistrate told me about it so it’s second hand but that feels accurate to me based on my experience.
So the first paragraph reflects that – “service” “public”- but the second is an insiders view – it’s what lawyers would say to other lawyers. Completely valid! Courts are workplaces. But they’re not the workplaces of the public.
zhena gogolia
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m not so sure he’s not raving mad. And he pays about as much attention to his advisers as TFG did.
ETA: I am so goddamned sick of him.
Kay
@Betty:
The second reason is my experience in my practice. I can tell you “we can take it up to the ct of appeals but it’s Judge Smith and I went to law school with his daughter and….” it’s true, it’s my opinion, but you don’t care – these are my problems :)
You have your own work problems.
lowtechcyclist
@Gin & Tonic:
THANK YOU.
I strongly agree that there’s just a bit too much ‘Biden/Pelosi/Schumer/Hillary can do no wrong’ sentiment here. I’ve certainly run into it a number of times.
Concur. They can be un-imposed once Russia demobilizes its troops.
OK maybe, but I don’t see how it isn’t still the best course of action.
If private US citizens choose to stay in Ukraine, that’s their lookout: they know what may be coming down, they can make their own decisions, and the US government isn’t responsible for them.
But our government IS responsible for our Embassy staff. If Russian tanks approach Kyiv, we’d have to get them out of there, and that would risk direct confrontation between American and Russian troops, which IMHO would be worse than ‘showing weakness.’
Thoughts?
MagdaInBlack
@Omnes Omnibus: Perspective is everything, isn’t it?
debbie
@MagdaInBlack:
I didn’t say we did.
Miss Bianca
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Go, Le Comte! Or should I say: “Allons-y!”
Ohio Mom
@Kay: This morning Cincinnati paper had an article listing 50 years of Ohio government corruption and naturally I thought of you. Googling for a link, I see the article originally ran in the Columbus paper, so maybe you’ve already seen it: https://amp.dispatch.com/amp/5296784001
I had the same feelings as when I look through things like my high school yearbook or one of those “The year you were born” lists. The moment when your memory is jogged and you can just about feel those old synapses connecting again.
debbie
@zhena gogolia:
I can’t speak to smarts, but he’s certainly an egomaniac. Maybe his ability to manipulate TFG has made him wildly overconfident.
Another Scott
@zhena gogolia: VVP has said pretty categorically that he’s not going to invade. Knowing that he lies easily, and the history of the “little green men” in Ukraine, there are several ways that one could parse this:
1) Belarus invades, not Russia.
2) Some puppet invites Russia in to protect the Russian speakers in Kyiv.
3) Little green men try to quickly take the government in Kyiv and invite Belarus and Russia in.
Etc.
Whatever happens, we know that he will try to claim that it’s not an invasion by him and Russia.
Grr…,
Scott.
Miss Bianca
@Kay: I agree with you on this one, much as I enjoy a good verbal pasting of one’s opponents.
Kay
@Ohio Mom:
Thanks I hadn’t see it. We’ll get a trial run on whether Ohians care at all about corruption this cycle, I think. They have to see the escalation, right? Even if you’re a “they’re all crooks” lazy person this kind of blatant corruption has to get through, I would think.
I brought up “Coingate” vs FirstEnergy to one of the D candidates, AG I think, to show just how much worse it has gotten. “Coingate” was a big scandal! Now it wouldn’t even make a ripple. Shit the charter school scandal ALONE was 60 million dollars and no one suffered any consequences at all, followed by the FirstEnergy scand which is what, a billion? If it hasn’t have been for the feds nothing would have happened there either.
Miss Bianca
@Betty Cracker: PUPPY BUTT!!
Oh my, Badger must be some sort of canine saint. Every photo I’ve seen of him has this long-suffering look to it.
Geminid
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Maybe use more active voice; for instance replace “my candidacy is the ideal solution to…” with “I intend to solve…”
Good luck!
oatler
EAT FOOTBALL
SLEEP FOOTBALL
DRINK COCA COLA
EAT FOOTBALL
SLEEP FOOTBALL
DRINK COCA COLA
debbie
In a happier vein:
Eolirin
@Gin & Tonic: Which is why he’s evacuating personnel. Do you think it would be tenable to hold to that if US diplomats were trapped in a war zone?
zhena gogolia
@Betty Cracker: OMG
Mike E
@Baud: The “thing” about twitter is the dick waving but I’m sure you’ve already gleaned this!
laura
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: might I suggest a contrast between a family court judge who fairly applies the law and a judge who over time has come to believe that they are the law.
Another Scott
That would seem on the surface to be a bad sign for those (few?) thinking that an early diplomatic solution is coming.
(via CherylRofer)
Cheers,
Scott.
James E Powell
@Kay:
Back in my Cleveland lawyer days, we used to joke that the Justice Center was the Just Us Center.
Geminid
@Geminid: “I will work hard to solve…” may be better. It wouldn’t hurt to use “work hard” or “hardworking” a couple times.
And no quiche at the introductory meeting!
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Denali
I have a question regarding Americans living abroad. When it is a good idea to register with the American Embassy? My son and his family(Hungarian partner) live in Hungry. He has lived and worked there for over 10 years. Because of the situation in Ukraine and Putin and Orban’s close relationship, I have suggested that he register with the Embassy. Is that a good idea?
satby
@Gin & Tonic: He HAS NOMINATED an ambassador whose appointment is being held up by seditionist Josh Hawley.
Baud
@satby:
Not nominated yet. Waiting on Ukraine to give its ok.
Puzzle in Ukraine Crisis: Where’s the U.S. Ambassador? – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Miss Bianca
@Anne Laurie: Completely o/t, Anne Laurie, but just wanted to say I checked out Outlaw Star based on your recommendation a few weeks back and thoroughly enjoyed it! I have a feeling that Joss Whedon did indeed get inspiration from this and Cowboy BeBop for Firefly.
Spanky
@Ohio Mom:
I LOLed.
Timill
@Another Scott: Or:
“Invasions are of foreign countries, and Ukraine is a (renegade) province of Russia. So I can’t invade it; it’s just a police action.”
Geminid
@Betty Cracker: Yesterday’s Washington Post has a fairly long article about Ron DeSantis’ intervention in Florida Congressional redistricting. He seems to be responding to a pressure campaign by Steve Bannon. Bannon claims that Florida Republicans were insufficiently ruthless in redistricting. Republican legislators say , in effect, we were as ruthless as the courts will (hopefully) allow.
satby
@Baud: ah, ok. Hawley has a hold on someone with knowledge key to this crisis though. Traitor, through and through.
Kay
@James E Powell:
Right? They hate that. I had a lawyer acquaintance who makes it his hobby to analyze me in a sometimes annoying way tell me that “happy lawyers” have to like at least two of the three groups- clients, judges and other lawyers. He said I’m happy because I like two – clients and judges. I was kind of horrified because it’s true and I felt exposed.
I like some of them! Just not really him :)
Baud
@satby: Undeniably.
Miss Bianca
@Spanky: Me too!
Nelle
@debbie: That’s great! My son has a border collie and I mourn for him not getting to be out and herding. I have a friend who is head shepherd at a sheep station on the central North Island of New Zealand. He has about 50 different whistles for his dogs. Each dog has his/her own set of whistles for what to do.
mrmoshpotato
@Spanky: :( Puppy Bowl at least?
mrmoshpotato
@Betty Cracker: Hahaha! ?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@satby: Celeste Wallander?
debbie
@Nelle:
They’re amazing to watch. Does the dog ever try to herd your son?
RepubAnon
@Ken: I expect all the truckers are too busy watching the pre-game shows to stage a protest… Besides, the tailgate parties started a week ago.
satby
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yep, I confused that with the ambassador post. I sit corrected.
Nelle
@Denali: We never registered with the American Embassy during the approximately ten years we lived in New Zealand. But when a dectective from King County wanted to find me in 2006 about a perp who had attacked me in 1979 (he was being taken back to trial under the new violent sexual predator act), that detective found me (landline phone in my husband’s name which is different than mine). When I asked how he found me, he said, in best Dragnet voice, “I’m a detective. That’s what we do.” (I’d lived in four other states after leaving Seattle and before moving to New Zealand).
My sister was registered with the Embassy in Kinshasa during the revolution that overthrew Mobutu. She refused to leave because the French refused to give her adopted, Black African daughters transit visas to travel through Paris and without that, no airliine would fly them. She wouldn’t leave without them because our family had history with what happens to young women in the path of soldiers (Russian Revolution). Way too dramatic, but bullets were flying when the American Ambassador intervened with the French and they got the visas. They made it out on the last ferry that left Kinshasa for Brazzaville, right after the assassination of the generals. (Someone said that American Marines, in Brazzaville had her location and were going to pull her out – she and a skeleton staff were about the only known Americans there. She had told them repeatedly not to risk any lives coming to get her. This was her choice and her responsibility.)
satby
The Guardian is reporting that about 8 am or so the last of the pickup trucks obstructing the bridge from Windsor to Detroit were removed. As of that report, the bridge still wasn’t open though.
Nelle
@debbie: She tries to herd other runners when my daughter is out running with her. She ends up running at unpopular times for people. She’s glorious and man, oh so fast!
Nelle
@Another Scott: We crossed Ukrainian airspace a week or two before the Malaysian plane was shot down in 2014 (we were on a flight from Tokyo to Istanbul). That attack is certainly on the mind of insurers.
sdhays
@Nelle: That is a wild, wild story. They could make a compelling movie out of that if your sister ever writes her memoirs.
Ruckus
@Anne Laurie:
When has it ever been about anything but money?
And no, I’m not being extra cynical this morning, why do you ask?
zhena gogolia
@satby: Nevertheless, I wonder why the fact that Ukraine hasn’t approved the nomination yet is Biden’s fault somehow. So your point is not entirely off the mark.
cleek
puppy bowl! filmed in glorious downtown Glens Falls NY, right next to a paper mill that keeps the whole area smelling of sulfur, all the year long.
SiubhanDuinne
@Nelle:
This is wildly off-topic, but I think it was you who mentioned Orwell’s Roses by Rebecca Solnit a few weeks ago on a zoom call. You might be interested in this, from The Marginalian that arrived in my inbox today:
https://www.themarginalian.org/2022/02/09/rebecca-solnit-trees/?mc_cid=8e669c72bb&mc_eid=e463ac4d1e
M31
If violence hit the US Embassy, it would be fodder for the treason GOP and its media enablers to weaken Biden, which I’m sure is part of Putin’s calculation (and Biden’s)
‘enemies foreign and domestic’ indeed
Baud
@satby:
?
Cameron
@OzarkHillbilly: Not like such things haven’t happened before – Chinese embassy in Belgrade, 1999.
Kathleen
@Ohio Mom: I’m shocked that the Cincinnati GOP mouthpiece even acknowledged it.
jnfr
@Betty Cracker:
This is so wrong! Cute, but wrong!
Gin & Tonic
@zhena gogolia: Because it took him over a year to come up with a name. Stop making excuses for poor performance.
Read Anne Applebaum’s short piece in The Atlantic.
Coulda, shoulda, woulda.
mrmoshpotato
SAD!
Mike in NC
All of this happy horseshit about trucker protests brings to mind a couple of times that Trump was photographed behind the wheel of a big rig, pretending to blow the horn like some five year old. Guy probably never had a driver’s license in his life.
arielibra
Snacks and snuggles are my only loyalty.
Cacti
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Your statement is fine as a statement of principle. But remember, most people are fairly disengaged from who serves as a judge, and won’t vote one out unless given a compelling reason to do so.
If you’re running against the incumbent because they’re a bully, use the specific term “Bully”, loudly, publicly, and as often as possible. If they have a history of professional complaints against them, publicize those as often as possible. If you have lay people who have been bullied by this Judge and are willing to talk about it to others, have them do so.
You want ordinary people thinking “this Judge is a jerk to people like me.” Otherwise, lay people are likely to just think of this as a squabble between lawyers, and not give it much attention.
Anyway, best of luck to you.
schrodingers_cat
@zhena gogolia: Everything is Biden’s fault. Doncha know.
schrodingers_cat
@Gin & Tonic: Is she still married to the Polish fascist?
Fleeting Expletive
Kay
Yesterday. On foot. It’s easy to sit in a fancy truck and honk the horn.
zhena gogolia
@schrodingers_cat:
Here is one of her suggestions for a statement by the British foreign secretary:
Forgive me if I don’t take this article too seriously. She appears to have enlisted in the 101st Chairborne.
Great book on the Gulag, though
PLus:
Great diplomacy.
zhena gogolia
I have to get back to work. I am terrified about what Putin’s going to do and the suffering that’s going to be inflicted.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Omnes Omnibus
@zhena gogolia: Applebaum is always going to Applebaum.
Gin & Tonic
@schrodingers_cat: Guilt by association. Really classy.
Sister Golden Bear
@Ken:
Inglewood is a Black majority city, and the mayor made it extremely clear that he’s not in the mood to play — he said they’d tow vehicles so fast that there wouldn’t be a chance to create a blockade.
Funny how when people stand up to the MAGAts they become Brave Sir Robins.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
That does look like something that should have been taken care of sooner.
Kay
This is the real “forbidden subject”. We need to talk about why we’re seeing this over and over and whether police need to decide if they work for the public or for far Right groups.
Maybe it’s “preparedness” and small force size. I hope so. I don’t know how well Canada funds police but the US funds police plenty, and they seem to have no problem with elaborate shows of force towards BLM protestors, so I’m wondering.
Baud
@Sister Golden Bear:
Exactly.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: people in the comments are disputing Krugman on the numbers of trucks and protesters, but not that $300M/day.
If environmentalists’ protests cost the petroleum or logging industry $3M, we’d be awash in hysteria about “ecoterrorists”
Kay
Maybe polioce can explain to us why deliberately backing your trailer truck to block a road for 3 days is no longer something people get cited for. Because it was my understanding that there are traffic laws. Only some of us have to follow those? That wasn’t the deal. I think we have sufficient laws on the books to handle these situations. I don’t think we need a whole special set for Right wing insurrectionists. Just use the ordinary ones.
Ohio Mom
@Kathleen: The article does not consistently name the party of the wrong-doers. So a reader could miss the part that they are almost all Republicans, and that the crimes involving the largest amounts of tax dollars were all committed by Republicans.
It’s an older article that first ran elsewhere, maybe they had some space to fill while everyone on staff was busy with human interest Bengal stories. Really, I’m surprised they didn’t print the Enquirer on orange paper today.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I believe I read that there were more semis, but most left after the police first showed up. The three that are still there: I wonder whether their license plates are American or not.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
We’re awash in hysteria about things that are costless like CRT.
Kay
@debbie:
There are videos of the truck divers inexpertly backing up on city streets, jumping the curb and snapping street signs. I confess I’m baffled why citing them for this is some kind of elaborate negotiating/diplomacy process.
I once had a family member leave a car that wouldn’t start in a K of C parking lot. Police called him and told him to get it running or get it towed within 4 hours, or they’d tow it. There was no discussion about his feelings.
Frank Wilhoit
@Ohio Mom: John W. Wolfe is spinning in his grave, but you can’t hear it ’cause he’s moving too fast.
Amir Khalid
@Betty Cracker:
Monsieur le Comte may be of the school that believes punctuation belongs outside the quote marks, unless it is part of the actual quote.
debbie
@Kay:
Right. Couldn’t the military have been called in if the police weren’t responding?
debbie
@Frank Wilhoit:
Oh, please. He’s been spinning since he was laid to rest.
Baud
@Amir Khalid:
He’s trying to win an American election. What will you suggest next? That he use the metric system in his campaign ads?
Baud
@debbie:
Apparently not, if I understand our Canadian friends correctly.
debbie
@Baud:
Not even American. Kentucky. ?
Baud
@debbie:
:-)
JPL
My biggest concern is that Putin’s biggest fan is goading him into attacking Ukraine. I wouldn’t be surprised if trump talks to him daily.
What would MSM say, except that it’s just trump being trump.
Geminid
@Baud: From what The Count said about a meeting of Republicans that he attended, he might do well with the campaign slogan “Who Lost China? [The Count] for Family Court Judge.”
HinTN
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I would take out up to 1/3 of the words (stop beating around the bush) and USSR a much more active voice. You’re eventually dating ernest you think the facts are so just get to it.
Also too, congratulations on taking the leap and GOOD LUCK!
germy
I like this dog:
James E Powell
@Kay:
When I started out, the senior partner to whom I was assigned told me that we must always be aware that while we go into the courthouse all the time, our clients might be walking in there for the first and only time in their lives.
I also heard that two out of three thing for being a happy lawyer. I honestly liked & disliked some from all three groups.
James E Powell
@Gin & Tonic:
Anne Applebaum? Please.
Geminid
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: Obviously the case backlog is an important issue because the delay hurts some of the citizens’ most vital interests. You can accuse the incumbent of not working hard, but that you will give hard working Kentuckians the dedication they deserve.
James E Powell
@Kay:
This is the case in pretty much every police department. Even in the bluest of the blue cities.
J R in WV
@JPL:
You actually believe Putin is still interested in talking to a looser like Trump? Who is barely in charge of some hotels and golf resorts?
I’ll bet Trump’s calls to Putin go to an office in charge of incoming goofy calls and are passed to a guy who can imitate Putin just for laughs. But maybe the GRU doesn’t have a Department of Humor?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@James E Powell: she has an un-lovely history for sure, but that article– in which unless I scrolled through a paragraph Joe Biden is never mentioned– is mostly about Western European complicity with Putin’s oligarchy, which is hard to argue with, but also much more complicated than her imaginary press conference from the UK foreign minister suggests. And as Zhena Gogolia indicates above, the bits about regime change in Moscow and “Europe will find its energy somewhere else” is a kind of supercharged Green Lanternism of international relations (edited)
Kathleen
@Ohio Mom: LOL! After I posted comment I realized they probably didn’t bother to list the party of the transgressor.
The Bengal madness is crazy, isn’t it? Did you see the story about former Bengal Andrew Whitworth being named as recipient of Walter Payton award? WLWT had a segment about Detroit Lions player Derrick Barnes, who is from Latonia (Covington), thanking Andrew for all the hours he spent mentoring him and encouraging him to pursue football. He said he wouldn’t have made it without him. The WLWT reporter kept referring to award as “Walter Payton Manning” award. She repeated this several times over a 2-3 day period. Or maybe they just reran the segment on video.
One morning she made a comment that “Biden didn’t deliver” (don’t remember the topic but I was so mad I changed the channel and refuse to watch 5 if she’s anchoring).
brantl
@Betty Cracker: Since the comma would then be against the rear quote, that’s wrong.
debbie
@brantl:
Betty’s correct (commas and periods always inside quote marks), but the quote marks aren’t really needed, so that would resolve that issue.
Benw
@Betty Cracker: you told Badger the other puppy you were considering was a Newfie, right?
:D
Geminid
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
@Geminid: Re case backlog: “Our citizens deserve to have their cases decided fairly under Kentucky law, and they also deserve not to have their lives put on hold any longer than necessary. I will faithfully serve both these critical interests.”
Like “hardworking,” “fairly” is a buzzword that might stand repetition. “”Faithfully” might be one too.
brantl
@brantl: There isn’t a list or subordinate clause, inside the quote.
zhena gogolia
@brantl: U.S. style is to put commas and periods inside the quotation marks regardless of the grammar of the quotation.
debbie
@brantl:
The way I read it, that clause was intended as an apposition.
zhena gogolia
@debbie: Betty is right about the punctuation.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@zhena gogolia: Yeah, in American English (as opposed to Uk), the comma always goes inside the quotation mark,
schrodingers_cat
@Gin & Tonic: Marrying a fascist demonstrates lack of judgment which is what you are asking me to rely on.
I am not holding her accountable for his politics or his actions that would be guilt by association.
schrodingers_cat
@zhena gogolia: Yeah she had an eyeroll worthy article about how we need to forgive people who voted for the Orange One after the 2020 elections.
Agreed about the book on the Gulag.
debbie
@zhena gogolia:
Agreed. Commas inside, hell or high water! I’m just not sure the quote marks are necessary.
brendancalling
@Gin & Tonic: Parsing and predicting what’s going to happen with Ukraine and how to deal with Putin is above my pay grade, but I know one thing. Anne Applebaum thought invading Iraq was a great idea. I don’t see her as a credible source on anything but making bad decisions. I’m not saying your POV is wrong—again, above my pay grade—but Anne Applebaum’s argument isn’t one I take seriously.
debbie
Gin & Tonic
@brendancalling: Did you read the article?
germy
@schrodingers_cat:
I didn’t know Radosław Sikorski is a fascist.
I’m not saying you’re wrong, I’ve just never read anything indicating that. What has he been up to?
Ruckus
@Kay:
There are Y Tube videos of truck drivers showing their lack of truck driving abilities. It is very much a learned experience in how to drive a truck reasonably, successfully, safely. And as someone who has driven an over 70 foot long truck/trailer across this country I can personally attest to that.
zhena gogolia
@debbie: It looks to me as if they are, because they’re an implied quotation of something the writer doesn’t agree with.
oldgold
G&T : You really think Putin’s decision will have a damn thing to do with whether there is an Ambassor or full staff at the embassy?
Damn, if Neville Chamberlain had only stationed a better Ambassador in Berlin.
brendancalling
@Gin & Tonic: I skimmed it.
Like I said, it’s Anne Applebaum, which means that from the get-go I don’t take it seriously. The Onion is more credible than anything Applebaum writes.
so yeah, I skimmed it, I determined it was dumb, and I saved myself some time and possibly a headache. See how that works?
Torrey
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes:
Last paragraph, suggest instead of “but the results will be positive” perhaps use “but I’ve never been one to back away from a little hard work” or “but we’re ready for it–and we’re in it to win it!” or something of the sort to finish with a strong statement of determination and optimism.
Geoduck
@JPL: I’d be surprised if they talk everyday, because the Shaitgibbon no longer has anything useful to give to Putin.
EDIT: I see someone already covered this, but the point stands.
cmorenc
Count me among those who couldnt care less about the stupor bowl. Otoh if SB is your thing, knock yourself out and enjoy. If there are any alpine ski or snowboard events being shown on tv i will watch that, otherwise it’s a rainy sunday good for playing some guitar.
cmorenc
@mrmoshpotato: no
germy
prostratedragon
@debbie: ?Gotta herd!!?
mrmoshpotato
@germy: Or Ron just sucks a bag of dicks.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@mrmoshpotato: Sounds plausible.
Cameron
@debbie: That’s weird – I thought he’d spent the last couple years denying that. Wonder what’s up.
Miki
@debbie: “Betty’s correct (commas and periods always inside quote marks), but the quote marks aren’t really needed, so that would resolve that issue.”
For American English punctuation, yes. But not for British English punctuation.
?BillinGlendaleCA
At 2pm PST(in about 55 minutes) I will not be allowed to fly my drone due to some superb owl, I’m beginning to hate birds.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
You should stage a freedom protest.
JPL
@germy: It might be that the Ram’s qb is rewarded for playing for the Lions for years. It’s the first time that he had an entire team supporting him.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: So you’re saying that should violate the 30 mile TFR? Not sure that would help me get my pilot’s license.
lowtechcyclist
@schrodingers_cat:
I stopped reading her in November 2004. Either the day before or the day of the election, she wrote a piece saying that it mattered less who won or lost than that we didn’t have another drawn-out conclusion like Florida 2000. I figured I didn’t need to read any more crap from her after that.
Now that I’m actually thinking about her for the first time in >17 years, I wonder if she said anything like that in the run-up to the 2020 election. Probably not, since it was obvious that if Trump lost, he’d challenge the outcome in every way he could.
@brendancalling:
Because of course she did.
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
While Dr. Biden participates in the puppy bowl, Melania will be attending the veterans of foreign escorts bowl.
eddie blake
@Miss Bianca: probably totally dead thread, but you also might wanna check out the adventures of the galaxy rangers, which ran in the mid-to-late-eighties in america. it’s much simpler than bebop or outlaw star, but you can see the influences as well as what IT influenced.- it’s a space western with cyborgs, aliens, super-soldiers and beam-weapon six-shooters.
it’s kind of cool. great aesthetic, interesting (dated) music but somewhat lacking in the plot department. great episodes sandwiched between kiddie fare.
J R in WV
Anne Appleby’s…? sorry, wait, I’ll come in again…
Anne who again? Anne Applebaum, you say?
Who?
Works for the Onion Ring Factory? What?
. . . . ;~)
On a completely different topic, I loved all the pics of the different kinds of owls.
Ruckus
@Cameron:
If SFB is denying it that means chances are about 99.75% that it’s true. And that other .25% chance is that SFB is lying.
MagdaInBlack
@mrmoshpotato: Oh I luv me some Hal.