Democrats offer a vision for a better America. It’s in our hands if we just get out and vote. pic.twitter.com/mFRVN2Gtgz
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) September 11, 2022
Biden spoke briefly with pool in Delaware before leaving for DC for a wreath laying at Pentagon. Asked about Sept 11 and Guantanamo, he said he has a plan. Asked about Russian losses in Ukraine, he declined to share info. Says he has not yet spoken with King Charles. via @nancook https://t.co/hJi5lwzMmR
— Jennifer Jacobs (@JenniferJJacobs) September 11, 2022
Every piece of this is important. Ukrainians couldn’t have gotten here without our help. But ultimately it’s not us who got to this point, it’s the Ukrainians
Nationalism can be a force for inclusion & solidarity against racist authoritarianism
Let’s hope they make this a rout https://t.co/DuXv9Mkc15
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) September 11, 2022
Kaine: My gut tells me the reason that Donald Trump took all this classified information.. was probably to try to either sell it or have it as a get out of jail free card. pic.twitter.com/TBypKI4sZP
— Acyn (@Acyn) September 10, 2022
It’s official: the Permanent Republican Party wants TFG gone. Good luck with that, bhoyos!
Ex-White House lawyer Ty Cobb calls Donald Trump a "deeply wounded narcissist" who acted in "criminal" manner. –@maddowblog https://t.co/O4ktzAMJXm
— MSNBC (@MSNBC) September 10, 2022
DougJ, once again winning today’s internets:
How it started. How it’s going pic.twitter.com/TAJiFQ8YrT
— New York Times Pitchbot (@DougJBalloon) September 11, 2022
A play in three acts pic.twitter.com/2U6wU1eCwn
— Peter Wolf (@peterawolf) September 11, 2022
NotMax
As the focus has been on the death of a head of state, a quick rundown of expired U.S. presidents.
narya
Tomorrow is dad’s 92nd birthday . . . and 93 looks increasingly unlikely. Gonna talk to my brother later, as we try to convince my mom to get some help in the house. She is 87, and has more repaired and replacement parts than most people (though her bocce team apparently made it into the final round yesterday :-) ), and I’m worried she’s going to hurt herself trying to help him. It’s hard to know how much this is a covid-adjacent issue. They’ve both managed to avoid getting it, but dad stopped moving two years ago. The decline from lack of moving around has been steady, and the pace of decline is picking up again.
DAW, how was the lit fest??
Dangerman
Get of jail free card? Maybe. But TFG is motivated only by getting paid and getting laid (too bad he didn’t have what it took to be a giggalo).
Baud
Agree that it was Important to have this victory (🤞) for themselves.
J.
Or could DougJ be MaureenD’s secret Twitter bot?
germy shoemangler
@narya:
My MIL needs help and we’re trying to get a visiting helper for her (we live an hour + away from her) but she reads articles like this
Unfortunately this happens on a regular basis. If people were less desperate maybe we wouldn’t keep seeing larceny like this.
It’s a problem because she doesn’t want to move in with us (doesn’t want to give up her house) and a nursing home is “out of the question” in my wife’s opinion.
evap
It’s always nice to see someone you know being the absolute best as what they do. (I actually met DougJ at a BJ meetup in DC when I was living there for two years 2013-15.)
RAM
“No matter how cynical you get, it is impossible to keep up.” Lily Tomlin
Van Buren
@narya: My mom will be 88 in a few weeks. She is reaching the point where she needs someone at the house. She is dead set against that for fear that they will steal from her(Thanks, FOX, for making her paranoid!) When my sister raised the possibility of moving into a facility, she said she did not want to do that because they would make her eat meals with people she did not like.
RAM
@J.:
You never see them together in the same room, so…
SFAW
@NotMax:
I doubt the same pre-video ad pops up for everyone, but the ad for “Tru Earth Laundry Strips” was hilarious.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊
NotMax
Belated mention that season one of the original French series The Returned is free for the month of September on Prime. First series yours truly ravenously binge watched years ago upon initially signing up with Netflix.
SFAW
@RAM:
The first time I saw that line was in (I think) an Art Buchwald column, wherein he posited that Paul McCartney and Spiro Agnew were the same person, because …
Disclaimer: The ravages of age mean that my recollection of the specifics (e.g., Spiro Agnew) may be incorrect, of course.
narya
@germy shoemangler: @Van Buren: Oof. We’re fortunate in a multitude of ways. My brother lives near my parents, and my SIL works for a home health aide agency, so it’s more a matter of convincing my mom that it’s time. I talked to her this morning (dad has a few issues right now), and tried to talk her into it, and bro is gonna call later so we can join forces. Bro and I aren’t all that close any more, but he and SIL have definitely been there for my parents and I’m really grateful for that. But it’s so fraught, for everyone
ETA, I totally agree on not wanting to eat meals w/ people I don’t like.
germy shoemangler
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
Baud
@Baud:
Ugh. Left out “Ukraine”
Dorothy A. Winsor
@narya: LITfest was a nice community event–families with dogs and strollers out for a walk, etc. Not enough traffic to generate buyers though. I thought the competition with Printers Row would hurt them, and I think it did. Still, Mr DAW and I enjoyed ourselves. I’d never seen Highland Park before, just heard of it after the July 4 shootings. It’s a really nice town.
zhena gogolia
DougJ has such a great ear for their tired clichés.
zhena gogolia
I’m raging at the NYT this morning. Cover of Sunday Times magazine illustrates a story on “How educators and students are navigating the hyperpoliticized terrain of American education.” The illustration has a bunch of stickers with things like “Black Lives Matter” and “Defund Libraries,” none of them directed at a particular person, except the one that is at the top on the right and that is the most visible thing that hits you in the eye when you look at the cover: “LET’S GO BRANDON.”
I hate them with the fire of a thousand suns.
NotMax
On the list to visit when in NYC this time was the Museum of Chinese in America. Worth a gander; even Mom (initially blasé about going) came away pleased and has since been recommending it to her friends.
Admission currently free thanks to a donation made by the former Mrs. Bezos. Downtown Manhattan, on Centre Street a few doors south of Grand.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@narya: Your mom sounds like she might be a tad stubborn. :-)
That’s tough. 88 is really old to have total responsibility for caring for another adult. Just physically, you can’t do things like lift them. Best of luck to you and your brother.
And I get what she means about being forced to associate with people you don’t like. Mr DAW’s sisters finally had to trick his mother into going into assisted living. (They convinced her to visit for 2 weeks, saying she could go home if she didn’t like it. They lied.) MIL’s main complaint was that the place was full of old people.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@NotMax: My vision is screwed right now because I’ve had one eye operated on but the other won’t happen for 2 more weeks. So I misread your recommendation to be for the Museum of Cheese in America
Starfish
@zhena gogolia: The illustration seems nonsensical. The libraries, the “critical race theory” nonsense, and the LGBTQ ones are attacks directly on schools. “Let’s Go Brandon” is irrelevant to the education conversation.
“Why don’t we have any teachers when we want to micromanage professionals with master’s degrees?”
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
What’s weird about the whole passing of the crown is that it seems like everyone on all sides is pretending that the royal family have political power.
Feathers
So Charles III has indeed stripped his biracial grandchildren of their royal titles. The law as it currently stands says that they are now Prince and Princess. The updated line of succession shows them as Master and Miss.
After Archie’s birth the British media went all out saying that his lack of title was Harry and Meghan’s choice. In the Oprah interview Meghan said it most certainly was not.
In his defense, Charles has consistently said he wants for their to be fewer Princes and Princesses. Those out of the line of succession will need to be getting jobs and supporting themselves. We are left with his being unwilling to financially support them, but having HRHs with corporate bosses is personally embarrassing.
A real issue is that the law hasn’t changed. A new law would not only have to pass parliament, it would have to be agreed to by all the Commonwealth countries. Does anyone think that the majority Black commonwealth countries will agree to stripping Meghan’s children of royal titles when she has said she does not want that to happen. Several of the Caribbean countries have announced their desire to leave the Commonwealth, apparently another did yesterday. A question for CIII: Does he think Canada, Australia, and New Zealand will go along with this? Interesting times ahead.
Haven’t read all of yesterday’s royals thread, but I confess to being a part of the proud tradition among the Irish of being both anti-monarchist and harboring a low key obsession with the royal family.
p.a.
Maureen Dowd! I had not heard that the issues with cryogenic revival were solved.
sab
@Dorothy A. Winsor: When my dad went in his aide’s son talked up the excellent male/female ratio. We still had to lie and say the contractor working on the house was slow.
zhena gogolia
@Starfish: I wrote in a complaint. I said they owed an apology to the POTUS and to their readers.
WereBear
i was enlisted to cheer up my grandmother after she moved to assisted living from an apartment with steep stairs. Soon enough, our weekly calls resumed with, “Guess what? I didn’t do dishes today, and I don’t think I’ll be doing dishes tomorrow.”
This was a turning point.
WereBear
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Sign me up for the museum of cheese because of course they would have free samples.
germy shoemangler
As a constitutional monarch, the Queen had no power. But this did not mean she had no influence. That influence was primarily exerted at her confidential weekly audiences with her prime ministers. She had the benefit of a far longer experience of public affairs than any of them, going back to the days of Winston Churchill, her first PM. Audiences, based on the Queen’s assiduous reading of official papers, may well have had an effect on the thinking of her prime ministers.
Barbara
@Feathers: There are so many circles within circles here that I just come back to the most succinct articulation of the issue, which is, why should we pay people just so they can be better than us?
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Por qué no los dos?
Baud
@Barbara:
Agree. I’m happy to be better than everyone for free.
(I don’t pay for the royal family, so not my fight).
narya
@Dorothy A. Winsor: She IS stubborn, but the fact that she’s talking to me helps. And I even managed to make her laugh this morning, which she needs as much as anything else. My dad’s oldest sister went into assisted living, and very much liked it, though, at the age of 91, she too complained that there were too many old people there. She died last year–96, I think?–along with everyone else in my parents’ generation, on both sides.
I want to go to the cheese museum and sample EVERYTHING.
Barbara
@Baud: Yes, not my fight either, but it’s getting kind of tedious to be inundated with so much royalty-centric news coverage this week.
Baud
@Barbara:
I’d imagine there’s some tourist dollars associated with the royal family. I have no idea what the balance sheet says about that.
JML
My 81 year-old mom broke her hip last month, and she’s been the caregiver for her husband who has dementia. During her recovery (she’s doing really well, was released from in-patient rehab quickly, is managing stairs well, was cleared to drive again, and is being released from at-home PT next week) her husband (not my dad) went into memory care. The family consensus has been this was a move that should have happened sooner, because he’s in significant decline and simply can’t be left alone any longer.
Mom’s been talking about bringing him home once she was “better”, even with all of us saying this was a bad and dangerous idea. This weekend she drove up to visit him (with the intention of bringing him home next week). After visiting, she no longer thinks that’s viable, because she’s now seen how far he’s declined with fresh eyes, after not seeing it during daily life. Hard day for mom, but sadly probably the best option.
Barbara
@JML: So sad, but at least she is well enough to visit.
Barbara
@Baud: I don’t know but feel compelled to add that France, Italy and Germany have lots of tourism without a monarchy. I doubt if tourists visit Spain, the Netherlands or the Nordic countries because of their monarchs.
germy shoemangler
@Barbara:
Irish Twitter and Black Twitter discovered each other, so that’s something…
Snarki, child of Loki
Stealing this, because it’s too good not to:
Wokeness out of control: Charles to be new Queen.
frosty
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Wouldn’t the Museum of Cheese be in Wisconsin?
WaterGirl
@Baud: It was obvious from what you wrote. “They” is Ukraine. “We” would have been us.
Betty Cracker
@J.: Nah. She’s not that clever. ;-)
Spanky
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
That was my complaint about my high school reunion.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@germy shoemangler: If you go the “independent contractor”, route, be certain to go ahead and buy workers comp coverage. I’m defending a fluke incident now, and the law is fuzzy.
hilts
Fred Wellman @FPWellman
This is how you lose your democracy.
Matthew Dowd @matthewjdowd
Sep 9
Media priorities: ABC, CBS, and NBC are covering King Charles speech live today; none of them carried President Biden’s primetime address on threats to our democracy.
h/t https://twitter.com/FPWellman/status/1568293331104415746
germy shoemangler
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg:
We don’t know what to do. I tend to prefer an agency, but right now MIL is vetoing all suggestions.
Anne Laurie
Let’s be honest, between modern medicine and the increasing mechanization of warfare, there’s just no need to keep all those second cousins and in-laws available as pedigreed breeding stock in case of a plague or a rebellion.
Harry’s been The Spare since the day he was born; he certainly knew about his increasingly unlikely ‘utility’ since he was old enough to understand the mathematics of 2+2. The day his older brother’s wife successfully produced a heir, Harry became as redundant as an extra testicle. (And that’s leaving aside the persistent rumors about his actual paternity… nothing like being / feeling oneself an actual red-headed stepson… )
Don’t know what the former Ms. Markle thinks, but I’ve pretty much assumed that all those years of tabloid-worthy ‘hi-jinks’ — culminating in a marriage to someone guaranteed to give the Masters of Protocol collective aneurysms — have been Harry’s way of fighting back against the role he was literally born to. Can’t blame him, but the wide-eyed performance of outraged innocence gets a little more threadbare by the day.
Baud
@Spanky:
Fixed.
geg6
@Spanky:
Exactly why I’m not going to my 45th at the end of the month. Despite getting multiple texts from people I never hung out with back then begging me to come.
JWR
ICYMI:
Oh, the “reopen oral arguments to the public” sort of normalcy. I was hoping he’d decided to rein in the judicial activists on “his” court.
narya
@germy shoemangler: It’s definitely a bonus that SIL works for an agency (pretty much runs the place, actually; isn’t an aide herself).
Wyatt Salamanca
“Monarchy is wrong in principle, wrong in practice and bad for democracy. We strive for a democratically elected head of state.”
The Alliance of European Republican Movements
https://www.aerm.org
“The monarchy is a broken institution. A head of state that’s chosen by us could really represent our hopes and aspirations – and help us keep politicians in check.”
Republic
https://www.republic.org.uk/what_we_want
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@germy shoemangler: As I understand it, she could have declined Johnson’s request to prorogue Parliament as he aimed for “no deal” BREXIT (once it became apparent that it was a shitshow). She also wields the ability to withhold assent to laws proposed by Parliament (also a potential “anti-BREXIT” move).
As was the case always, she declined to do anything good for anyone not in her family.
Baud
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg:
That’s an argument for monarchy and against democracy.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@Barbara:
“Tourist Dollars” is a phrase often thrown out there by Brits in favor of retaining the Monarchy. I think it has about as much value as “Summer Dollars” on Amity Island after the first shark attack.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@JWR:
Ironically, Roger Taney mumbled similar sentiments after Dred Scott got decided.
Raoul Paste
@geg6: I don’t know how large your graduating class was, but if it’s fairly large, I would suggest that you go.
I went because I thought there might be surprises and yes. there were .
iIt’s an interesting opportunity. YMMV
germy shoemangler
Lauren Boebert Picks Argument With Debate Moderator
trigger warning: Contains video of Boebert being Boebert.
It seems to me the rules of the debate were formulated with Lauren’s past behavior in mind. “No cursing, no personal attacks, no props” etc. So strange.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@germy shoemangler:
You could take the hard route – advise her that she either avail herself of contracted help or receive no assistance from you at all, including yardwork.
If she wants the fictive independence, grant it.
Anyway
@narya:
I’ll go with you to the cheese museum and sample everything –stinkier the better.
Frankensteinbeck
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg:
As I understand it, she has these powers so long as she never uses them.
Splitting Image
@Wyatt Salamanca:
Over the past twenty years, the American experiment with a head of state chosen by the people, and more than half of the time by the lumpenproletariat, has made me far more supportive of constitutional monarchy than I used to be.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@Baud:
The Saxe-Coburgs always wanted to pretend that they serve the subjects of the UK, when all they actually serve are their own interests along with a few lucky insiders. This was something that would have genuinely served the people, yet she failed.
She was always more than willing to use the power of the crown ahead of time to serve her own perks and privileges (laws that would have affected her went through a pre approval process).
zhena gogolia
@germy shoemangler: Great. By that standard, every Democratic presidential candidate can start with a harangue about how the MSM moderators have treated them and their opponents in the past.
Baud
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg:
Blame Boris for not preclearing Brexit with her then.
germy shoemangler
@zhena gogolia:
Every presidential debate I’ve ever seen has been hosted by corporate media tools who used “how we gonna pay for it?” Republican talking points against every Democratic proposal.
I’ve never seen a Democratic candidate be anything less than gracious about it, too. (Maybe Bernie grumbled a couple of times.)
germy shoemangler
If I Were King Of The Forest not queen, not duke, not prince
My regal robes of the forest would be satin, not cotton, not chintz
I’d command each thing, be it fish or fowl, with a woof and a woof, and a royal growl
As I’d click my heel all the trees would kneel and the mountains bow and the bulls kowtow
And the sparrows would take wing, if I were king
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@JWR:
He doesn’t really have any power. The only power he has is to assign who writes the decision, but he can only exercise that power if he’s in the majority. So he would have to vote for every shit decision and then write all the opinions himself. BUT in that case the 5 religious fanatics can refuse to join and form their own majority opinion, which would leave Roberts with a useless concurring opinion.
Splitting Image
@Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg:
The problem with blaming QE2 for not stopping Brexit is that Johnson and Farage took their case to the people to get support for their plan, and they got it. Having done that, it was the elected Parliament’s job to implement the plan as they saw fit.
Of course, Johnson may go down as the worst Prime Minister of all time, but that’s on him and his voters. QE2 trying to throw a monkey wrench into Brexit would have been thwarting the will of UK voters, not acting in their defense.
Long story short: UK Conservatives voted for Brexit, and deserve to get the results good and hard.
Chief Oshkosh
@Baud: I’m in Quebec City and, as near as I can tell, QEII’s passing is of, at best, passing interest. I realize the history here makes Quebec the most likely province in a Commonwealth nation for such an observation, but it is striking to me. As noted in a thread yesterday, they can’t seem to decide on which flags should be at half-staff (or half-mast), but as one of my hosts said, “we’ll for sure do it half-assed!”
Queen of Lurkers
@Feathers
I was born and grew up in an erstwhile colonized land. Combine that with professional expertise in British history, I too have a fascination with the (ridiculous) rules that govern monarchy and the whole aristocratic edifice of Britain.
I am not sure where you read that Charles III had designated the Sussex spawn as Master/Miss. The website you linked to says that it has not been updated following the death of QEII. I think the website just reflects what the current situation is.
Incidentally, do you know Mike Bartlett’s play Charles III? I am hoping that its central conceit — that the monarch can refuse to sign a bill — will come to pass.
The young Liz Truss was right: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2qfg1AQnWIM
How did she turn into a charmless automaton?
Aussie Sheila
@Wyatt Salamanca:
I am an Australian citizen. Twenty three years ago I voted ‘yes’ in a referendum to become a republic. It was lost, because people were divided about the method of selection for the President/Head of State. At the time I supported direct election by the people.
Now, I would only support such a change after Parliament drafts and after debate, passes a law that clearly lays out the powers of a HoS. In our case, the Governor General has reserve powers that allowed a right wing arse hole to sack a Labor government in 1975.
Once Parliament passes a law explicitly prohibiting a putative President from doing anything involving elected officials, and ensuring they act at all times on the advice of the prime minister, I will again support a campaign for a republic. Until that time I am content with our current arrangements. TFG has made me and many others like me think again long and hard about a popularly elected HoS.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
It’s one thing to point out, as Boris Johnson of all people did, she was the last world leader (“leader”) to wear a uniform in WWII, the last time the West won a clear victory with moral clarity. No one else could have given her Covid speech, for example. “We will meet again.” It’s quite another to hear Katie Tur ask, as I heard her do the other day, with an earnestness that should be reserved for the outcome of a life and death matter, “How will King Charles handle the Harry and Meghan situation?”
Jeffro
The Post has a nice pair of articles up today: one on how inflation and gas prices are dropping/consumers are feeling confident again, and one about how the GOP is seeking a “reset” for the midterms since…inflation and gas prices are dropping/consumers are feeling confident again.
Left mostly unsaid: the GOP is tied firmly now to trumpian corruption, insurrection, and crazy-ass-extremist positions on abortion and guns. They were counting on inflation to help them win this November and…whoopsie!
Go for that “reset”, Republicans! Since you don’t have any money left courtesy of Rick Scott, it’s really all you’ve got. ;)
germy shoemangler
But HRC won the popular vote. TFG was elected thanks to our electoral college
Calouste
@Frankensteinbeck: I can think of only one instance in a modern constitutional monarchy where Royal Assent to a law wasn’t automatic. That was when Baudouin of Belgium refused to sign a law that liberalized abortion (he was a staunch Catholic). But rather than blocking the law, he asked the government to temporarily declare him unable to reign, the law was approved by the government itself under the provisions that apply in that case, and things returned to normality 24 hours later.
Geminid
@frosty: Wisconsin has the Mustard Museum in Middleton, on the western edge of Madison. Founder Barry Levenson started the museum in 1992, after an epiphany in a supermarket condiments aisle. He was looking at the mustard jars, and:
Levenson was once a Wisconsin assistant attorney general, and now teaches food law part time at the University of Wisconsin’s school of law. From the Times of Israel.
germy shoemangler
@Geminid:
There’s this not too far from where I live:
https://nationalbottlemuseum.org/
Tenar Arha
Hey BJ’ers, this is OT & late in the thread, but are we doing a fundraiser for Pakistan or Jackson, Mississippi?
If not, anyone have a good suggestion for a locally connected charity for those places?
Aussie Sheila
@germy shoemangler:
True, but we have compulsory elections ( which I support), and preferential voting, which I also support.
This means that in a vote for one position, ie president or HoS, the preferences could shake out to produce a very bad result. This doesn’t matter so much in a system where there are 150 individual electorates, and people overwhelmingly vote for a party representative, and where preference deals are done by all sides to ensure a usually, not totally insane outcome. But where the whole country becomes one electorate, I am not so sure.
I am much more invested these days in ensuring as much social democracy as possible, better housing education and green energy policies and stronger rights and protections for workers. I don’t care about Charles 111. He doesn’t have any effect or say in our polity, in fact less than the current Governor General, who is also an arsehole btw.
I am so off presidential systems now, it would take a lot to get me even remotely interested in a campaign for a republic now. Note that the current ALP government is committed to a referendum on this topic, but before that we will have a referendum on enshrining an official voice for indigenous people in our Constitution. That is far more important in my view than posturing about abolishing our current arrangements for HoS. There is no way way a future GG would do happened in 1975, and there is some tidying up to do to ensure that ministerial appointments aren’t able to be snuck through as happened here in the last year, but other than that I just don’t feel strongly about it any more.
Ken B
@Dorothy A. Winsor: That would be in Wisconsin.
Edmund Dantes
@Baud: this guy usually does pretty good researched videos on a variety of topics. this one is about cost of UK monarchy
https://youtu.be/bhyYgnhhKFw
There is also the part where the monarchy turned over revenue generating land in exchange for income from the state. So that would need to be untangled.
BellyCat
Maybe mentioned in the presidential portrait thread recently, but this seems a great opportunity. Sponsor a competition, before the election, to portray the treasonous FPOTUS.
Rules: No gore permitted. Historical treatments of treason welcomed. Trump has to be alive.
One can imagine portraits behind bars, an orange jumpsuit for the orange menace, the “last moments” before a firing squad (blindfolded with cigarette, of course), walking the plank off a ship, gallows in the background, etc.
Creative interpretations abound!
Baud
@Edmund Dantes:
Thanks. Saved for later.
UncleEbeneezer
@JML: We are currently dealing with a nightmare scenario. MIL is double-lung transplant recipient (9 years ago) and is in hospital, ready for Skilled Nursing rehab but even if she recovers enough to eventually go home, their place is on the second floor and she won’t be able to handle the stairs. FIL is Bi-Polar, had a stroke last year and insists on being with her but also wants to be in charge of decisions even though mentally he really isn’t equipped. He’s also not strong enough to be her primary caregiver. So we need to basically find them both a nursing home. They have no other family to help and we would never be able to afford assisted living. They don’t want to go to a nursing home, but honestly there’s just no other option. They barely scrape by on SS/Medicare, have no nest egg and haven’t made any real plans for their elder years. FIL is 84, MIL is 76 but also transplant survivor/immunocompromised. Trying to navigate all of this is driving my wife (and me too) a bit bonkers.
Baud
@BellyCat:
What do you have against Al Gore?
frosty
@geg6: My advice is to go, but then, I met my wife at our 10th. The one in 2009 was an eye-opener as a lot of people clearly disliked Obama. In 2019 it was clear that our class was politically split – there were a bunch of people I didn’t talk to at all, which was fine with me.
In general, other than 2 or 3 people, there’s nobody I want to see more often than every 5 or 10 years. I’ve arranged to have lunch with those few once a year or so.
scav
@germy shoemangler: I’m not sure the US can claim the ‘success’ of the popular vote as a national virtue seeings we’ve always had the electoral college. “Oh! Look! It works (%in theory) if you don’t do it like us!”
Besides, the issues @Aussie Sheila: seemed to be talking about involved the powers afforded the leader and not wanting to jump hastily into an untested /unvetted / not carefully thought out system of reining in their authority — and noted the existing system there isn’t perfect yet either. Governments are hairballs. That whole involved silly convoluted system of the Venetians was installed for reasons.
Brachiator
@germy shoemangler:
Sadly, there are always some people who are not trustworthy. My mother lives with my sister, who has a helper come by on weekdays. She had to get rid of one helper, who was not reliable. The new person so far has been much better.
trollhattan
@p.a.: Given her “mouth wouldn’t melt butter” the NYT’s resident mean girl seems to not need cryogenics, just an actual sense of humor transplant.
Geminid
There was an interview of new Alaska Representative Mary Peltola in Politico Friday. Ms. Peltola told reporter Brakton Booker she thought her 10 years representing a western Alaska district in the state legislature helped her build a reputation as a pragmatic politician:
After Peltola left the legislature she served on her city council, as a tribal court judge, and on an inter-tribal fish council.
When asked about Alaska’s new ranked choice voting system, Peltola said she hoped it could function as a damper on extremism:
Ms. Peltola said she thought her positive special election campaign resonated with voters:
I hope that Representative Peltola gets a chance to debate her Republican rivals in this November’s election. I think she’ll do well.
Anonymous At Work
Gitmo detainees aren’t in legal limbo because their trials are “ceaselessly postponed” but because Shrub, Cheney (the elder) and other tortured them for information and then destroyed evidence related to the tortures. REPUBLICANS EAGER TO TORTURE eviscerated the evidence record coming and going as to render these detainees un-trial-able under American law.
Mo MacArbie
@BellyCat: I wonder what the artist of Piss Christ is doing these days?
Percysowner
ARGGH! The one thing I worry about is becoming a burden on my daughter. I’m 69 and in pretty good health, all in all, but the thought of my daughter having to make hard decisions because I can’t or won’t makes me anxious. Now, I have told her husband that, even if I get whiny and obstructive, she is NOT to martyr herself for me. If she has to shove me into a home, she shoves me into a home. That doesn’t mean I still don’t worry about it. I just had a new grandson born a month ago, so I want to live long enough that he remembers me, 10 years at least, but that means there is more of a chance that I will become incapable of taking care of myself.
Growing old is not for the faint of heart.
germy shoemangler
@scav:
I claimed our experience as a failure. We should have had President Hillary Clinton, not the monster who was installed by the EC
zhena gogolia
@Mo MacArbie: Oh, great idea! Serrano to the courtesy phone!
Ken
@Feathers: Maybe some of nations that want to leave the Commonwealth will compromise, by designating Harry and/or Meghan and their descendants as their Head of State to keep a connection to their former royals.
Some might also choose to read it as a giant F. U. to their former royals, but I couldn’t possibly comment.
zhena gogolia
@Percysowner: Try it without any children or nieces and nephews. I’m terrified.
Brachiator
@Jeffro:
The cost of living is still high and the economy is still struggling to recover. But things are clearly much better under President Biden and I hope that positive changes in the national mood helps the Democrats in the midterms.
narya
Update: talked to my brother, and he’s heading over there tomorrow, with a mandate. He and I agreed that overnight help, to get dad to the toilet when needed and then help get him dressed in the morning, is the way to go. There will be fussing, but bro says he can usually get dad to listen to him; fingers crossed. I think the current situation is unlikely to be stable: either he gets over this UTI and gets a little better, or it just gets a lot worse very quickly. But having someone there to ease some of the strain on my mom is really required.
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Geminid
@Brachiator: I think that trump also is a drag on the Republican vote now, especially among independents. Mitch McConnell and other leaders would like nothing better than for trump to disappear the next 8 weeks, but the orange churl isn’t about to let that happen.
Baud
@Edmund Dantes: That was interesting. Thanks.
MomSense
We have some happy news. My kid’s band is going to play the Levitate Flannel Jams music festival on Sunday 10/9. It’s a big deal and they are really excited about it.
First we have another brother to marry off and I can’t wait. It’s going to be a beautiful ceremony with my dad officiating. The bride is also a musician so their musician friends and family will be a big part of the day.
Baud
@MomSense:
👍
scav
@germy shoemangler: Ahh! Misunderstood entirely. Luckily, I think the hairball assertion is universal.
Brachiator
@Baud:
Not at all. A lot of ceremony, and assent of Privy Council and presence of former prime ministers. But all of this is entirely separate from the machinery of actual government. All of the proclamations and documents and declarations of royal sovereignty and protection of the realm clearly exclude the monarch from any governmental power.
They have been doing this for a while now. They’ve got it down to a system.
Baud
Interesting Queen fact. According this someone on Reddit, many of the Queen’s corgis were related.
https://i.redd.it/mhdom12008n91.jpg
Jeffro
the WHAT now?
What part of the economy is ‘struggling to recover’?
Frankensteinbeck
@Anonymous At Work:
They’re also in legal limbo because when Obama tried to do something about it, congress near unanimously said FUCK YOU, THEY STAY IN GUANTANAMO FOREVER. It is one of the few occasions where I am ashamed of the Democratic Party.
Baud
@Frankensteinbeck:
I blame Obama.
Baud
@Jeffro:
The part where a Democrat is president.
Mimi
Don’t know of a cheese museum but there is a cheese castle https://www.marscheese.com/#
Matt McIrvin
@Splitting Image: What I generally figure is that in a modern democracy, whether you have an elected head of state or a figurehead monarch doesn’t functionally matter a great deal and is probably just a historic artifact. Other things are more important, such as the actual structure of the government and how elections are held. But the UK’s monarchy in particular does seem to be extremely expensive for them.
MagdaInBlack
@zhena gogolia: I’m an only child of 2 only children. Sorta same boat as you. Widow, no kids, no nieces or nephews, nobody. I try not to think of it. But ya, fear.
Jeffro
@Baud: more-than-fair point, LOL
Anonymous At Work
@Frankensteinbeck: That too. Can’t move them because NIMBY and “tough on [non-Republican] crime”. Can’t try them because “states secrets” and torture. True limbo. Democrats dropped so many balls in 2009.
That said, Blue Dog Caucus got hosed and, I think, wizened up that “GOP-lite” was a loser when the most hated politician in their districts switched from Lincoln to LBJ.
Brachiator
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
That’s probably a fun place as well.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@MomSense: Happy news indeed.
trollhattan
@Mimi:
There is also a Corn Palace.
Along with Wall Drug and Mt. Rushmore, the only “high spots” on the dreary and endless I-90 drive across South Dakota.
JWR
More pouty John Roberts. From ABC :
I know! I know! An expanded, more representative court?
Barbara
@UncleEbeneezer: Oh my. Is it possible to find a first floor or elevator accessible apartment? That might make in-home care more feasible. Are they in a state that has implemented the “in lieu of nursing home” Medicaid coverage for in-home services? Basically, you can qualify for care at home if the only alternative is Medicaid nursing home status. There are still income requirements.
trollhattan
@JWR: Jeez, the butthurt continues. “We do what we want, and what we want now is for you to shut your pieholes about what we do.”
Pretends to not be “one of them” while being one of them.
Baud
@JWR:
I’ll do it!
Feathers
@Anne Laurie: I feel great sympathy for Harry and as someone fairly estranged from my family at this point, “outraged innocence” is a pretty reasonable label for how you feel when your family says that they love you, but their actions prove otherwise. I think it follows the pattern of much misogyny and/or racism, that you are welcomed as long as you perform your role and don’t make any demands. Then a moment comes (mental health crisis in my case) and they let you down in a way that forever ruptures the relationship. You are left wondering what, if any, love they ever had for you. Apparently he’s also in therapy which leads to even more questions about the past.
And the rumors about the riding instructor are not true. By all accounts Charles and Diana’s marriage didn’t fall apart until after Harry’s birth, when Charles started fairly openly carrying on with Camilla. Also, Harry may somewhat resemble that guy, but he really looks like Diana’s brother.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Jeffro: The media. Their ratings have sunk since the Freak Show was closed.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Baud: Related – I thought they looked like Charles
Prometheus Shrugged
@zhena gogolia: Incorporating the Russian prostitutes might be the challenge with this theme…
Ohio Mom
@Geminid: Ohio Family stopped at the Mustard Museum in 2008 (immediately after we arrived home, Ohio Dad was laid off so I remember the year of our road trip to Minneapolis clearly).
As I recall, one small room of historical mustard crocks and such, and one larger room of mustards for sale from around the world, with many samples to taste.
I enjoyed it but I wouldn’t recommend anyone go out of their way to see it.
Aussie Sheila
@JWR:
Is there some way someone can shut these SC judges up?
It’s unbelievable the amount of public opining by judges that is permitted at your place. Shockingly unjudicial, very undemocratic and if I’m not mistaken, aren’t they straying into a separation of powers issue? Who the Eff gave them the power to opine on matters of public policy?
Some senior retired Dem judge needs to tell him to get back in his box, or resign and run for election.
Brachiator
@Jeffro:
Pick one. Food and housing prices are still high. There are still global supply chain issues.
Companies like Amazon, which shifted to accommodate stay at home workers is now dropping plans to open more factories and hire more people.
The food service and hospitality sector is slowly recovering.
Even though there has been GDP growth, which has never impressed me, wage growth is uneven. We are still fighting battles over the minimum wage and the idea of a living wage; meanwhile wage growth especially for lower income people and supposed essential workers continues to lag other income groups.
NPR Marketplace and other programs have had some good segments on GDP vs GDI, Gross Domestic Income.
We still have this interesting situation of record low unemployment along with employers claiming that they cannot find enough workers.
Barbara
@Feathers: Right — this is the only family Harry has, and he can’t see it only in the transactional terms of Royal, Inc. He seems hopelessly muddled about this. In that sense, letting go of royal status for his children would likely be healthy, at least not bequeathing to them his own conflict. He has a role model in his aunt, who absolutely refused royal titles for her own children.
Cameron
@BellyCat: Seated on his throne, The Golden Toilet.
Another Scott
@narya: Happy birthday to your dad!
Changes in life are hard.
My step-mom’s female relatives often lived to be 100+ – they had total cholesterol numbers in the low 1xx range. Just astounding. (My step-mom got some of the bad genes from her father’s side and like them died of cancer of the bile duct.)
One of her aunts moved into a “continuing care” place when she was in her 70s or so and it served her well for many, many years. Most of us can’t do that, and if we can we don’t have the temperament for it. And one always has to worry that some MotU will buy the place and make it “more efficient” by cutting staff and otherwise making it worse than one assumed it would be when one bought a spot.
It’s tough.
J’s parents lived with us for about 5 years after they sold their house. Her mom, somehow, qualified for long-term care insurance just before she aged out, and that was a huge help for 3 of those years (when the policy ran out). We had a home health aid here while we worked, and another to watch out for them while we slept (after her mom called the cops early one morning and said that she was a 16 year old girl that was kidnapped – that was a fun morning :-/…)
But, eventually, it got too much for our single aid, and she was having too many problems with the progression of her Parkinson’s and Alzheimer’s, and we had to move her into a local nursing home. J visited her every day after work, and more on the weekends. It was still a huge amount of time and stress for her…
Any option is hard. It’s hard to sleep soundly with oldsters and strangers in the house. It’s hard to have any down-time when oldsters’ needs never end, and they’re always on the knife-edge of falling – even if you’re 2 feet away – or having some crisis that requires an ambulance and a trip to the emergency room (and the hours of waiting). It’s hard to worry about them being in a facility away from home where they are frightened or angry or despondent about not being able to do what they want any more.
Getting old sucks, in many, many ways. But it happens to all of us and it’s best to find some peace with it, somehow.
Best of luck to you and everyone else going through these issues!
Hang in there.
Cheers,
Scott.
hilts
Sir Donald? the Queen hated him.
https://twitter.com/judgeyourself99/status/1568810638947803136
The Baron of Bankruptcy
The Duke of Divisiveness
The Lord of Lard Ass
The Sovereign of Stupidity
The King of Kleptocracy
The Ealdorman of Evil
The Count of Corruption
Sir Donald the Dope
https://twitter.com/InMediasRes2022/status/1568645130470522880
Actual Photo of Trump grabbing a p***y
https://twitter.com/EyesOfSurprise/status/1568958804511064065
MagdaInBlack
And because I love the oddball museums, let us not forget:
http://www.spam.com/museum
Ivan X
@Baud: Ritual, celebrity, tradition, pomp, circumstance, romance, it’s just human stuff that humans do.
Cameron
Seeing this is an open thread, I hope everyone who hasn’t already done so take a look at the Local Harvest website. Local food has been something I’ve been interested in since the ’90s (I was site manager for a CSA drop-off in Philadelphia for a few years), and I think it’s something people need to explore further. Supply-chain problems (including a possible national railroad strike in our near future) and drought/flooding throughout the country are sending prices higher already. I know an anecdote isn’t data, but last week 1/2 gallon of soy milk was $2.99 at Publix; yesterday it was $3.35. Not saying ALL FOODSTUFFS will cost 11% more, but it’s something to keep an eye on. Now if only I can get my friend on Siesta Key to split a CSA share with me…..
JWR
@trollhattan:
The scary part is the idea that he believes at least some of his nonsense.
@Baud:
Not sure how, but the job’s yours. ; )
Another Scott
@Splitting Image: +1
The monarchy might have some utility in the UK (tourism, etc.), but if they’re going to have it, under the rules the monarch must be subservient to democracy. Blaming her for not somehow saving the UK from the Brexit stuff they were lied-into voting for is yet another get-out-of-responsibility card for the horrible Tories and their enablers in the press.
Eyes on the prizes.
Cheers,
Scott.
Abnormal Hiker
@MagdaInBlack: Perhaps not that conveniently located for most jackals, but there is a Musée Baud in Switzerland.
Sister Golden Bear
@MagdaInBlack: Let us not forgot the late, great Pez Museum.
MagdaInBlack
@Abnormal Hiker: And it looks pretty cool.
Gin & Tonic
Here’s what’s in some of the projectiles that Ukrainians are firing at russian troops: https://twitter.com/flash_news_ua/status/1568974304133652482?s=46&t=jtMGJY8x-DE_5QRkN6Cigw
geg6
@Raoul Paste:
We had 535 in our class. I was at our 40th just 5 years ago. Also, we have a FB group for our class and a good friend who just retired took on a project over the past year to try to track down every person in our class. He found all but a baker’s dozen, alive or not. I am also in touch with and have gotten together with a couple dozen of my old classmates, either IRL or through social media. There will be no surprises. I’ll go to the 50th for sure.
trollhattan
@Aussie Sheila: Here’s the rub: they make the rules and so whatever they say is within the purview of SCOTUS, becomes so. They can do what Trump (and Nixon) believed he could do.
zhena gogolia
@Feathers: Tina Brown’s Palace Papers definitively shoots down that rumor.
zhena gogolia
@Prometheus Shrugged: Artists are imaginative.
Gin & Tonic
@Sister Golden Bear: There is a Pez museum in Connecticut. I drive by the signs for it on I-95 all the time, but have yet to stop in.
zhena gogolia
@MagdaInBlack: A friend of mine wrote a book about Spam. It’s very amusing.
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic: Very circumstantial instructions on how to surrender.
Brachiator
BBC News is showing clips of the accession ceremonies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland to confirm that Charles is now king. In ancient days it took time to get the word out within the realm and the big and elaborate ceremonies were necessary to make certain that everyone knew who was now in charge, and to display the continuity of the power of the monarch.
The elaborate ceremonies also were used to reinforce the loyalty of the various lords and nobles.
Today the entire changeover could be done with a single Twitter message. But tradition matters.
The King’s Archers in Scotland have some righteously cool uniforms.
Gin & Tonic
@zhena gogolia: I like “Stand up straight”. No slouching when you’re surrendering.
MagdaInBlack
@Sister Golden Bear: Adding to my kitschy museum road trip.
Abnormal Hiker
@MagdaInBlack: I should have stopped in when I was walking by.
Feathers
@Barbara: But that was before this working-non working royals distinction came up. Also, because of assholish primogeniture laws, her children would only have gotten titles if her husband had accepted a Lordship from the Queen when they married, as Princess Margaret’s husband had. Prince Edward’s kids went by Lord and Lady, titles from their father’s Earl of Wessex title. Their parents announced when they were born that they could choose whether or not they would use the Prince and Princess titles they had a right to when they turned 18. Their oldest daughter is now 18 and talk of her becoming a Princess was floated in the press. However, the Wessex family is now entirely reliant on being in Charles’ good graces, so Lady Louise she remains.
My guess is that if Harry had married one of the blonde aristos he had been dating before Meghan, he would have followed the same path. But the shock of having his new family rejected by the old may have really shaken him. I can’t imagine being told that despite all the threats against them, only he and Meghan would have security. Archie would be on his own unless he was with them. Also, he recognizes the problem of the rules about titles being changed when it’s time to have a mixed race Prince. And that his agreeing to go along with him will taint him as well.
Narya
Thanks for all your comments, jackals. Yeah , it’s hard, so it’s helpful to have a place to share. And my family is way more fortunate than many; adds needed perspective.
Mike in NC
@Brachiator: There seem to be a number of young American news readers on TV who think that the capitol of Scotland is pronounced “Edinberg”.
Jeffro
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: also a fair point
Industries suffering since the mango menace was sent packing:
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@Aussie Sheila:
Scalia was the initiating normbreaker. Constant paid speeches before conservative ideologue groups. It got infinitely worse after Citizens United (Scam Alito muttering “not true” at Obama for predicting exactly what would happen was the cherry atop the shit sundae).
dr. luba
Jackie
@Feathers: I think Harry is the spitting image of his grandpa – pictures of Philip at Harry’s age are uncanny.
Also a reason QEII favored him.
schrodingers_cat
Are we done gushing over the death of the figurehead who presided over the waning Evil Empire?
I see two broad reactions:
Most white people: OMG I am grieving grandma, she was so soft and fuzzy with her lovely pastel hats like the easter bunny.
Meanwhile people from the countries that Britain had to be kicked out from had this reaction
Feathers
@Queen of Lurkers: That banner is currently on government websites, until the names and pronouns of the monarch can be updated. William, Kate, and their children all are now listed with their Wales titles. No update for the Sussex children.
@Matt McIrvin: Part of the issue is that there used to be lots of Kings in Europe, so the British pageantry was basically to assert that they had the best, richest, and most popular Kings and Queens. The other kings have scaled way back, but the British don’t seem to be able to let go of any of it. Charles talks about downsizing the monarchy, but those villages all want a member of the royal family there to open their fete or hospital wing or school… William and Kate seem unwilling to step into this role. The older generation created a certain model of what the royal family stood for and imbued it with a moral value. How do they step back from that? When they’ve been saying they provide value for the money spent, how do they cut back on the money without admitting they’ve kinda been freeloading?
@Ken: That would be brilliant. I’m sure Harry doesn’t want the job, but for them to ask is a new wish of mine.
Feathers
@zhena gogolia: Thanks, I knew somebody had.
Amir Khalid
@Mike in NC:
Maybe they think “Edinbruh” sounds too informal.
catclub
@Chief Oshkosh:
 
Are US flags really at half staff for QEII? I thought we fought a revolution?
MagdaInBlack
@schrodingers_cat: I haven’t see much gushing, just discussion. YMMV
J R in WV
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch:
“I thought they looked like Charles”
How can you be so cruel? They have enough of Di in them to be much more attractive than King Chuck III, don’t you think, really?
schrodingers_cat
@MagdaInBlack: BBC certainly has been gushing and so have many American copycats.
The same folks who insist that she is a powerless figurehead are also writing reams about her supposed legacy.
MagdaInBlack
@schrodingers_cat: My mistake, by we I thought you meant us on the blog.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
To be fair, I think those are different folks. Both problematic in different ways.
And I for one have welcomed the respite from the daily How Has Biden Disappointed You Today coverage.
Barbara
@schrodingers_cat: I’m not watching. It’s a big deal for the UK but I’m baffled by the US media reaction. Maybe it’s the linkage to the “greatest generation” legacy that persists. Sort of like a last hurrah. Most of that generation is already gone.
Martin
@catclub: Yes. And because we won the revolution, and then came back to save their asses from the Nazis, we can be gracious and lower the flag.
I mean, if we can lower the flags for Scalia, we can for the queen.
schrodingers_cat
@MagdaInBlack: She does have her fans on the blog too. Especially those whose exposure to the British Empire is only through the gauzy period dramas that PBS airs.
Another Scott
@Barbara: I’m not watching either.
I haven’t gotten out of the boat much, but in my poking around a little it seems like 9/11 is no longer 24-hours of GWoT retrospectives and the Twin Towers falling on a ghoulish perpetual background loop with grave intonations from RWNJs about how W kept us safe and so forth…
Maybe that’s a good thing about so many things happening at once the last few days – the press has to talk about something new rather than disaster porn about a horrible anniversary.
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
@Barbara:
The US media has long looked to the royals for tabloid journalism. A lot of Americans are invested in them as with any other celebrity.
Barbara
@Baud: Yes, understood, but the queen’s funeral does not really fit that model. It just seems excessive.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Plus we are all fans of the clipped received pronounciation. Even nonsense sounds important when spoken in that accent.
NotMax
Well, isn’t that special.
Mailed two priority mail packages here from NY on Tuesday, handing both over to the USPS at the same time.
“Expected delivery” for both on Saturday. Package #1 sitting on the porch when I arrived (a day later than anticipated due to airline snafus) on Friday. According to USPS tracking, package #2 is currently visiting Guam.
JWR
Teri Kanefield has several new posts up, this being the latest:
And my thanks to whichever commenter turned me on to her writings.
CaseyL
@NotMax: Maybe it’s visiting friends and family there…
I just don’t pay much attention to “expected arrival times” anymore. My attitude is more “It’ll get there when it gets there.” That way I’m pleasantly surprised when items arrive on time.
raven
@NotMax: I ordered parts for my shoulder belt installation on my Chevy the 2nd of September. The package came yesterday and it looked like it had been burned and there was nothing inside of it. It was sent USPS but was delivered by ups!
trollhattan
@Barbara: “Why, I can recall the last one in 1952 and believe me, there was nothing like this hullabaloo.”
¯\_(ツ)_/¯
A bit like “Ed Asner died.”
“Ed Asner was alive?”
Except she was in the news often enough folks probably knew whether she still was.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Barbara: I think MSNBC, just to speak from my own bubble, has wildly overestimated the interest of their audience. Appropriately enough, Boston Irish Lawrence O’Donnell gave the royals one rather incredulous “why are we talking so much about this?” segment when the other shows on that network seem to have gone 70/30 on breathless coverage
Sidenote: Diana’s brother writes history books, and promotes them as Charles Spencer ( think that’s his first name?). I heard him on a BBC podcast and they never mentioned his title. But they did introduce it by saying, We joined the author at his home in Althorpe…. The book sounds interesting, about the death of an early Norman heir in a Channel shipwreck, but I didn’t buy it.
The White Ship: Conquest, Anarchy and the Wrecking of Henry I’s Dream Hardcover – October 19, 2021
mrmoshpotato
From earlier today (not my video):
Stormasaurus.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@trollhattan: you hear about Betty White?
schrodingers_cat
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The Queen in particular and the monarchy in general is popular among the totebagger crowd. I am sure there is a big overlap with that and the MSNBC audience.
Ksmiami
@Feathers: meh in a few years, Archie will join a Stanford frat and speak Hollywood English and view his cousins as distant weirdos who drink too much tea. I mean he’s growing up in Montecito, CA; life’s pretty good
Geminid
@Ohio Mom: The Times of Israel story about the Mustard Museum and its founder and Chief Mustard Officer is interesting, and kind of funny. Mr. Levenson studied Jewish mustard lore and recites mustard references by sages like Nachmanides(sp?) and Rashi (who happened to live in Dijon, France).
Levenson also talks about the health properties of mustard, which comes from a member of the Brassica family. I learned that some marathon runners carry mustard in case of muscle cramps.
The article is titled “Meet the mustard maven who founded a museum for his favorite condiment,” Sept. 2021.
trollhattan
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Wait…what?!?
Baud
@Geminid:
I wonder if that’s where John’s mustard ended up.
Geminid
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The wreck of the White Ship is an integral part of the story Ken Follett tells in Pillars of the Earth.
MagdaInBlack
@mrmoshpotato: I take it the city got more rain than we out in the nw hinterburbs
We’ve just had a steady drizzle since I got up at 8.
trollhattan
@Geminid: I learned only last year soccer players will take mustard for cramps, right there on the field. Once I began watching for it sure enough, have seen at last half a dozen examples.
Always French’s packets, probably grabbed from the stadium vendors.
Who knew?
NB Subarus have not been linked in any fashion, to date.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
Dolphins are eating the Patriots 17-0
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@trollhattan: I saw Wambach do that 10 years ago. To be sure they rarely show it on tee vee
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
What’s the latest word on Francisco Franco?
:)
mrmoshpotato
@MagdaInBlack:
Full sewer system of rain.
MagdaInBlack
@mrmoshpotato: Well, now its pouring here, I cursed us.
Feathers
@Ksmiami: I definitely think they will be better off without the titles. Read somewhere that it has been noticed among the cousins that Princess Anne’s children have had a far easier and more private life than the York princesses, although their garbage parents may have had something to do with that.
I think the mistake was in not formalizing that nieces and nephews don’t become prince/esses when they made the change to make the line of succession gender neutral. Now it looks like retribution.
Joseph Patrick Lucker
@MagdaInBlack:
Given all that’s going on right now, can you justify this wall to wall discussion of the British Monarchy?
This is the most putrid, nauseating, and pathetic example of junk food journalism.
Another Scott
DJ Charlie.
(Sound on)
Cheers,
Scott.
MagdaInBlack
@Joseph Patrick Lucker: Please refer to comment #176.
Another Scott
[ womp, womp ]
Slava Ukraini!
Cheers,
Scott.
Calouste
@Feathers: The York princesses are also significantly higher in the order of succession than Anne’s children (due to male primogeniture), which leads them to having a larger role. Beatrice, the eldest, is now Counselor of State (which means she can take on some of the King’s duties) due to being the fourth in the line of succession that’s over 21.
Matt McIrvin
@Brachiator: I noticed that the rumors that Charles might choose some regnal name other than “Charles III” got quashed by various electronic means within an hour or two of his becoming King, well in advance of the official ceremonial announcement of this.
The general theme of a lot of it is “Charles is a NORMAL king, ignore what you heard.” The bit about Camilla being Queen Consort fits into that as well.
Matt McIrvin
@trollhattan: Mikhail Gorbachev’s death got a lot of the “My God, he was still alive?” reaction.
Matt McIrvin
@catclub: They lowered the flags for Pope John Paul II.
The Lodger
@frosty: Don’t diss the Tillamook County Creamery, conveniently located on U.S. 101 in Oregon. (Seriously, if you’re looking for a cheese museum, this is the place.)