OH MY!!!! I love this! https://t.co/6vaY3ZD4dg
— Qondi (@QondiNtini) March 17, 2023
If you told teenaged me, fifty years ago, that the Black Vice-President and her Jewish husband would be hosting Ireland’s Indian-ancestry Prime Minister and his husband for St. Paddy’s Day, I would have complimented you on your imagination.
I mean, I’d have appreciated the concept, but I’d never have believed so many pieces would click into place like that!
Heck, I’d have had some trouble believing that Biden dude would ever be more than than Irish-American Pat Paulsen…
My mom always said, "Being Irish is about faith, family, and courage."
Happy St. Patrick’s Day! pic.twitter.com/8jzsOxbODR
— Joe Biden (@JoeBiden) March 17, 2023
I just discovered Second Gentleman Doug Emhoff and Irish Prime Minister Leo Varadkar are basically twins pic.twitter.com/OhOi4fwCHJ
— Qondi (@QondiNtini) March 17, 2023
Update: Biden’s day is extremely Irish still. pic.twitter.com/9Hx1EU7XXK
— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) March 17, 2023
A minor Friday Agreement between hostile clans, even…
McCarthy and Biden are both attending the Friends of Ireland Caucus St. Patrick’s Day Luncheon today at the Capitol. pic.twitter.com/WA8JEbKrr2
— Josh Wingrove (@josh_wingrove) March 17, 2023
Throughout my career, colleagues have kid me about quoting Irish poets all the time.
They think I do it because I’m Irish.
I do it because they’re the best poets.
This St. Patrick's Day, here's my favorite: pic.twitter.com/TmBQvsQkPs
— President Biden (@POTUS) March 17, 2023
Baud
I honestly thought Biden was going to post a limerick not suitable for children.
Narya
Her suit is EVERYTHING. That is all.
well, and, the rest is cool, also too.
Baud
My kind of guy.
NotMax
Who knew?
Art Carney channeling… FDR.
;)
Narya
I also like the playful clover in President Joe’s pocket. Playful is good.
Ken
And a thousand conspiracy-themed bulletin boards get another photo and a half-dozen strands of yarn. Crimson yarn.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone😊😊😊
NotMax
Been some years since last saw either of them so almost watched the entertaining Irish oddity Breakfast on Pluto or else Puckoon again but demanding, insistent naptime intervened.
Will snatch a slice o’ sleep whenever it comes. Priorities and all that.
;)
rikyrah
Match Day at Howard University Medical School🤗🤗😍
https://vm.tiktok.com/ZTR7b91vc/
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
NotMax
Day late but what the hey. An Irish ditty signature tune Nora Bayes warbled in the Ziegfeld Follies.
:)
Kay
They’re piggybacking on the anti trans panic promoted by outlets like the NYTimes and by several supposed “liberals” like Jonathon Chait. They did the same thing in Michigan in ’22- it got little or no media coverage but I was in Michigan a lot and the anti abortion campaign was actually an anti trans campaign. They lost big in Michigan- it didn’t carry a single candidate or issue – no one actually votes on “woke” – so here’s hoping they also lose big in the much more Republican state of Ohio.
The print ads in Michigan were amusing. So far up the ass of the Twitter- based, elite media, anti woke, anti trans crusaders that I bet it was completely unintelligible to an ordinary voter. It took me seeing it over to even understand what they were screeching about and I’m in no way a normie voter.
The pro choice message is pretty simple. We don’t want far Right politicians and religious fundamentalists (or their judges) barging into our bedrooms and examining rooms and hospital rooms. We want them to back the fuck off. We don’t have to lie to oppose them.
I’ve worked on Ohio issue campaigns before. It’s fun and rewarding especially with such a good issue where the anti choice side = anti trans crusaders because they can’t actually run on being anti choice (unpopular). We’ll need a lot of volunteers. Two birds with one stone! You can beat anti trans crasaders AND anti choice crusaders with one vote! Very efficient! :)
Steeplejack
@rikyrah, @Baud:
Good morning! 🙏
Baud
@Kay:
L’etat, c’est toi.
Another Scott
@Kay: Yup. They’ve drunk so much of their own Kool Aid that they think that it’s normal and good for a giant humanoid drink pitcher to break down people’s houses…
Cheers,
Scott.
NotMax
@Another Scott
Quasi-obligatory?
Kay
@Another Scott:
The lack of major media attention or investment in covering abortion and womens agency and rights may be a plus in these ballot iniatives- they would just fuck it up. They were caught out with the first set in 2022 – didn’t cover them at all- because they had already announced that no one cared about womens rights and would not come out for them and I don’t think it made a bit of difference in the public understanding of the issue. Media can not bother to show up again. Won’t make a bit of difference if they’re working or not.
Another Scott
@NotMax: +1
But I was thinking more of things like this (2:51) – for the youngsters who never had onions on their belt like us. :-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Baud
@Kay:
“In this Ohio diner, support for abortion rights outweighed by concerns over creeping wokeism.”
Kay
Have any of the free speech crusaders weighed in on the fact that American women can no longer have a private consult with a medical provider without (gross) GOP politicians and religious fundamentalists barging into the examining room, drowning her out?
Just super interesting to me which speech matters. Seems to depend wholly on the speaker- anti abortion activists may screech and make demands on individuals who are minding their own business and butt in anywhere they want, women receiving medical care must meekly and silently submit. Federal judges must receive complete deference and must not be questioned, law students can be shut down by law school management.
Gin & Tonic
@Baud: Todays challenge: use the word “Nantucket” in a G-rated limerick.
Kay
@Baud:
The ultra liberal states of….Michigan and Pennsylvania and Wisconsin rejected the anti woke, anti trans Twitter/NYTimes/Substack crusaders so now they’re peddling the same shit they’ve been screaming about for 4 years in a redder state, Ohio. Maybe they can sell it here. Who knows. But they’re going to have to work at it this time.
Kay
Some of the blue/purple state governors and legislatures have been really delivering: Minnesota, Michigan, Pennsylvania, New Mexico, Illinois. They’re outworking a lot of the “bluer” states on the east coast.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Biden is absolutely right about Irish poets.
It’s interesting how you get these outbursts of talent in the same place at the same time: Elizabethan theater, early 20th century Irish writers, scientists in various specialties.
Deputinize Eurasia from the Kuriles to St Petersburg
@Gin & Tonic:
There once was a man from Nantucket
A genius who created a “duck kit”
With a bill on his chin he looked up and grinned
If my tongue was a point, I’d duck spit
Ripley
@Gin & Tonic:
There once was a man from Nantucket
Whose foot got quite stuck in a bucket
He was heard to declare
As he fell down the stairs
AAAaaiieieegghhhh!!!!
Skepticat
It’s encouraging to see stable leaders with genuine smiles.
But just when I think Maine might be an enclave of mostly sane people, we get L.D. 123, An Act to Eliminate the Educational Purposes Exception to the Prohibition on the Dissemination of Obscene Matter to Minors. According to a letter to the Press Herald, “L.D. 123 criminalizes librarianship and subjects our communities to costly lawsuits over anything that might be considered ‘obscene,’ from classic literature to an anatomy textbook.”
I know obscenity when I see it, and this bill is it.
mrmoshpotato
@Another Scott: OMG oh yeah!
Baud
@Kay:
Dare I hope it breaks through to people that the parties are not the same.
Kay
I don’t think women are moving forward in the US. I don’t think it’s zero sum and I don’t think everyone else has to step back in order for women to move forward, but I also am not willing to pretend that a loss of basic bodily autonomy and agency for women in the US is somehow “progress”. It just isn’t. Women are going backward in the United States. In about half the states they have a lesser set of rights than men do. Women could start moving forward in the US again- it’s possible- but not if no one will admit they are now moving backward. I don’t understand the reluctance to admit it, or even look at it honestly. It’s already happened. What’s the point of pretending it didn’t?
Lapassionara
So, word from Trump is that he is getting arrested on Tuesday, or so I hear. Manhattan DA.
Kay
Right now, today, in the United States, a single far Right federal judge will decide whether any American adult woman amy access a certain prescription medication that is legal, safe and effective.
The judge may say “no”. He may forbid ALL women in the US from that medication, whether they live in a state that has a full set of rights for women or a state that has a lesser set of rights for women. ALL women will be barred.
Backwards. A lurch backwards.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Lapassionara: I just saw the Trump tweet more or less announcing that. I couldn’t read it. I mean, physically, I couldn’t. It’s free-flow gibberish to start with, so your brain freezes. And it’s all caps, which makes it impossible to see where sentences start and stop. Assuming there are sentences, of course. I have no idea
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Kay: We may need civil disobedience against these discriminatory laws. Of course, that’s easy for me to say. I’m not a pharmacist or doctor or pregnant woman who’d be risking arrest
Lapassionara
@Baud: not only are they not the same, one party has gone completely to the right, so far right that it is adopting totalitarian government principles, all in the name of “freedom.” It is a danger to our economy, our standing in the world, and, as Kay points out, women’s lives.
Cheryl from Maryland
@Baud: Notice it’s “her life.” What a giveaway.
NotMax
@Another Scott
If it weren’t from so long ago I’d swear the singing voice of the anthropomorphic pitcher was dubbed by Harvey Fierstein.
;)
Suzanne
@Narya: OMG her suit is FABULOUS. I love that color. I try to buy things in that color for myself, but they are difficult to find. I feel lit’s more flattering to my skin tone than navy blue.
I am starting to plan a road trip up to Mass for the Brimfield Antiques Flea Market thing. I hear it is awesome. If anyone has ever gone, I would love some pointers, especially regarding where to stay. I am primarily looking for art — coming from an open-concept 1980s builders-grade home to a 1920s foursquare means that I now have a lot more wall space. Also open to (a few) decorative objects, though I am not too much of a clutter person.
TS
@Kay:
Their first lie is in the names they give their groups – this one almost as bad as pro-life for those who only care about life before birth
Just saw this in our news
Wyoming Governor Mark Gordon has signed a bill prohibiting abortion pills in the state and also allowed a separate measure restricting abortion to become law without his signature.
I am at a complete loss to understand why any women support these measures or continue to vote for men imposing their will in this fashion. It is taking women back to 18 kids and die at 40.
Baud
@TS:
A lot of black people support Democrats.
prostratedragon
@Gin & Tonic:
There once was a man from Nantucket
Whose fielding was like Kirby Puckett.
He chased down all flies
To disbelieving eyes.
If one could get by him was luck it.
Suzanne
@TS:
Lots of people lack the imagination to think that something bad will ever happen to them.
It’s a really fucked-up way of thinking, because bad things happen to people all the time.
Suzanne
@Lapassionara:
I’m going to Costco this afternoon; will buy popcorn.
Joey Maloney
My favorite quote of Pat Paulsen’s: “I’ve upped my standards. Now, up yours!”
TS
@Baud:
And because of that, too many vote for the GOP – I understand that.
I also think that those with wealth realise they can just pop over to one of the states that support women’s choices so they really don’t care what happens to anyone else.
We have spent the past few years legalising abortion throughout all Australian states (without previous pretexts of needing multiple doctor’s opinions) and it is frightening to see this legislation could so easily be changed.
prostratedragon
The only hospital in Sandpoint, ID will no longer provide obstetrical services.
Dr. Jakyll and Miss Deride
@Gin & Tonic:
To come up with clean rhymes for Nantucket
Was a challenge, but I could not duck it;
First I soared through the breeze
With the greatest of ease,
Then I went for the landing and stuck it.
Amir Khalid
@Joey Maloney:
“Make 7-Up yours!” — Orlando Jones, in an actual soft-drink campaign from the 1990s
Gin & Tonic
@Suzanne: You’re planning on the May session? (The July one is usually really hot.)
Brimfield is kind of the middle of nowhere. If you’re coming from the west, you’ll find plenty of options around Springfield. I’d even suggest finding a nice place in the Berkshires (Lenox, Lee, Pittsfield), although you’ll be an hour away.
Wear comfortable shoes, there’s a lot of walking involved.
NotMax
@Gin & Tonic
Nantucket’s a town in the Bay State
Where most of the seafood is first-rate
Bypass the oyster bar
When a month has no R
Else the outcome is far from sedate
Gin & Tonic
@Dr. Jakyll and Miss Deride: Solid, solid effort. Honorable mention to the others upthread.
Layer8Problem
The frickin’ Wikipedia article left out Pat Paulsen’s episode of The Monkees. I’m appalled. But I learned he was on The Wild Wild West and Get Smart too, which I should have known, so I learned something. Always try to learn something every day.
frosty
@Dr. Jakyll and Miss Deride: Kudos! So far you’re the winner. I like the metaphor in the last three lines.
prostratedragon
@prostratedragon: Make those eyes “incredulous.”
Suzanne
@Gin & Tonic: Yes, planning on May. I am very much looking forward to it. Arizona was relatively unpopulated until 1950-ish, so it doesn’t have the same critical mass of antique and cool old things. I have been enjoying the stuff I find here in PGH.
What are the price points like? More low-end ephemera stuff, or high-end?
Kay
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
“Arrest” isn’t the ony issue. Antichoice religious fundamentalists are suing anyone who assists a woman. It’s an attempt to silence women and scare them into sitting down and shutting up. They’re sending a message – “oppose us and we will drag you into court and ruin your life”
Women in Texas are the property of the men who impregnate them and the state, even if the legal relationship bestowed by marriage no longer exists. This could happen to any woman in the US. Living in a “blue state” provides no protection, just as living n a blue state will provide no protection from far Right federal judges outlawing medications or standard “best practices”medical care for women.
frosty
@NotMax: A wise choice, not rhyming Nantucket, but it still needs work on the rhythm. see Suibhan Duinne* for pointers.
* I see why everyone types Suburu Diane now. Less hassle from autocorrect. Plus spelled right.
kalakal
@rikyrah: Good morning!
Gin & Tonic
@Suzanne: Wow, wrote a long-ish reply and it went “poof.” Anyway, prices run the gamut. Lots of NYC people come up, so it’s not always the bargain you’d think. But I don’t know much about this stuff – my DIL is a legitimate design/furniture expert, I’m along for the ride.
Raoul Paste
Nan and Jill went up the hill
To fetch a pail of water
But the water-well was dry
And Jill said bye-bye
And as for the bucket, Nantucket
NotMax
@Layer8Problem
Recently came across what can only be described as a post-mondegreen and now can’t stop hearing the end of the theme song from The Monkees that way.
We’re just tryin’ to be friendly
Come and watch us sing and play
We’re the young generation
And we got Saddam Hussein
;)
Another Scott
@Gin & Tonic:
There once was a klutz from Nantucket
Whose head got stuck in a bucket.
“Next time I think,
I’ll try fixing a sink!”
He no longer wears shirts from UNTUCKit
Cheers,
Scott.
Kay
Fired because a Right wing parent alleged he was “woke”
I’d say let’s see if the tens of elite antiwokesters with huge media platforms are concerned about the cancellng of this guy, but I already know the answer- we won’t hear a peep out of them because they are frauds and phonies.
Suzanne
@Gin & Tonic: Cool, thank you. I figure, even if I don’t buy a lot, I’ll enjoy the hunt. I enjoy my small-but-growing art collection. And, in this house, I actually have a mantel! So now I need cool stuff on it.
Baud
@Kay:
Canceling people is a negative.
Being woke is a negative.
When woke people are cancelled, it’s a positive.
It’s just math, Kay.
MomSense
Had an amazing day at the swamp. I didn’t see any of my beloved ibis but I did see three kinds of warblers, a swallow tailed kite circled over us, two red breasted hawks flew over us onto a branch next to us, a barred owl, egrets, anhingas (including watching one hatch!!!) and then alligators. Typically I’ve only seen them just chilling l, but yesterday one of them swam into the swamp we were observing. He then went under the water and swam across the swamp. He came up turned, went back under, and then leaped out of the water jaws open with a fish! The splash he made was incredible, too. Poor guy next to me had a major camera set up and he was snapping away. After the leap he said “that was the shot of a lifetime and I didn’t get it”. Alligators are magnificent and terrifying creatures.
We had plans for another excursion today but my dad is too tired.
NotMax
@frosty
The problem with rhyming Nantucket
With anything other than bucket
Is much of the prose
Would shock a bluenose
The upshot is mostly “Nope, chuck it.”
.
kalakal
Interesting article on some of the other jurors on the Georgia grand jury after all the heat and no light spread by foreperson the other week
Charging Trump?
Another Scott
@Kay:
PBA.edu – FAQ:
Interview with him from yesterday (50:27)
Lack of tenure is a red flag. It invites all sorts of interference with teaching and research. And that’s why RWNJs are fighting so hard to eliminate it.
This is horrible.
But the big picture is important as well – Politicians interfering with education instruction is bad, full stop.
Keep politicians out of the classroom!
Cheers,
Scott.
WaterGirl
@Kay: Besides the people who are fight against women having agency over their lives and their bodies, who thinks things are not moving backwards for women?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Kristine
@Gin & Tonic:
There was a young man from Nantucket
Who bought a new shirt so to tuck it
But the tail was so long
It dragged like a sarong
So he carried it with in a bucket
laura
@Baud: Pat Paulson’s brother Fred makes and sells the best, The Hotest, fresh horseradish you can get. It’s called Fred’s. Those Paulson boys each added to life’s rich pageant.
John Barleycorn
There was a young cook from Nantucket
Who’s meal was so poor that we chuck’d it
To improve the taste
And reduce the waste
You take the corn cob and you shuck it
Betty Cracker
Repubs are backing away from a South Carolina bill that proposed charging women who have abortions with murder. Looks like that’s still a bridge too far for them, at least for now. Nine Repubs who’d signed on took their names off it.
FastEdD
My colleague Matt was one of my students in Summer School, and many years later he was a fellow teacher at CMHS. He still works there and we’ve been friends for 40 years. Performed in bands together too.
He told me the story about one kid who kept wearing T Shirts with cuss words on them. Matt’s been known to use a few f bombs when appropriate, but as an educator he responsibly told the kid he couldn’t do that and to wear it backwards. One day the kid showed up to school proudly sporting his new shirt that read:
THE MAN FROM NANTUCKET
Matt just laughed and laughed and told the kid, “You win. Nice shirt!”
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: Not in Pending, SPAM, or Trash. Very strange.
Layer8Problem
@NotMax: Jesus, you’re right, I’m hearing it now!
zhena gogolia
@NotMax: So cool! I didn’t know he was from Mount Vernon.
opiejeanne
@Kay: I read last night that Wyoming’s state lege had voted to outlaw abortion pills. This seems to have flown under the radar and there’s barely a peep about it today.
opiejeanne
@prostratedragon: Washington state is seeing a lot of women coming from other states in order to get health care including abortions, mostly from Texas but especially from Idaho because it’s next door.
opiejeanne
@opiejeanne: I see that Kay has mentioned it now. It didn’t fly under her radar.
Geminid
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: The Orange Churl will take his victim act to Waco, Texas next Saturday, March 25th. He’ll stage his first campaign rally of the year at the Waco Regional Airport.
Omnes Omnibus
@Geminid: Maybe. OTOH, he might be otherwise occupied.
Layer8Problem
@Geminid: Well, I think he’s a flight risk, but DA’s offices and judges never listen to me.
sdhays
@TS:
This idea is insidious and also really lacks imagination. If you have a medical crisis, you don’t have time to get on a fucking plane to fly 1000 miles to get the basic care you need before you bleed out/develop a life-threatening infection/etc.
All of my life “abortion” has been bandied about like it’s something on a menu, as if “elective” abortion is the only thing that happens. But it’s not. Lots of abortions happen to people who want to be pregnant and have children but things don’t work out. Now, their “choice” is to flee their state if they have the means or fucking die.
RR_Mikey
Posts like this about a celebration day at the White House are so uplifting. There was never anything like this during the reign of the blob.
dmsilev
So, if Trump is offered bail, will the courts insist on having the cash put in escrow or something, given his long history of nonpayment of debts?
Geminid
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m guessing Trump will make bail for these charges. I mean, I’d like to see him spend a few months in the Riker’s Island jail, but I expect he’ll be free to harangue his followers next Saturday..
Spanky
@Baud: Is this too long for a rotating tag?
zhena gogolia
@RR_Mikey: I agree.
Omnes Omnibus
@Geminid: Sure, but that spoils the joke.
Sure Lurkalot
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
He’s calling for violence…”take our nation back”…same words as when he incited an insurrection. The Soros dog whistle. It’s ridiculous that our media won’t report what his words mean.
zhena gogolia
RIP Dubravka Ugrešić.
Spanky
@Suzanne: Never been, but I know people who hunt rusty iron there, so can’t help on the art. But as G&T says, there is much walking, and pray for rainless days in those fields.
And prepare to carry purchases long ways back to the car. I.e., take a husband.
Amir Khalid
@dmsilev:
It will be interesting if TFG becomes the first ex-POTUS to jump bail.
PAM Dirac
There once was a girl from Nantucket
Who carried her wares in a bucket
Nothing that was bought
Evoked impure thought
So all you low class pervs can suck it.
Geminid
@Omnes Omnibus: Well, the joke flew right by me. I am just a simple meteor.
But now I’m hoping for bad weather for the rally, maybe a hail storm. And tornado watches.
Baud
@PAM Dirac: Winner.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Geminid: I did hear somebody say that the standard procedure would be for him to be held in a cell after fingerprinting and mug shots, while waiting to see the judge. But even a couple of hours would probably be too much to hope for.
I’m going to take my satisfaction from the fact that he’ll be processed at 100 Centre Street, where my daughter and I spent 72 hours in 2004 at the behest of Michael Bloomberg and the RNC (me outside in various courtrooms, her inside somewhere in a holding area with hundreds of others).
She went to check out the protests at the RNC and was watching one of them start to assemble in lower Manhattan when the police put up a fence around the crowd of 2000 or so, arrested them, and held them in a cell without a hearing, without doctors, without access to lawyers, and without charges until George W began his speech 3 days later, at which point they unceremoniously dumped them all out the back door of the courthouse.
Spanky
@Suzanne: You might consider a dry run closer (somewhat) to home – Renninger’s Kutztown Antique and Collector’s Extravaganza on April 28-29. Not nearly the scale or reputation of Brimfield, but Eastern PA will cough up some good stuff.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Geminid: You made me look. High of 75 and mostly sunny. I was a little surprised he wasn’t going to Iowa, but I’m sure he’s waiting for the weather to grow more clement.
I wonder if Stephen Miller had to explain why Waco or if the penny dropped right away
James E Powell
@Kay:
Naturally every professor in Florida & all the first amendment anti-cancel culture people have rallied to this person’s defense.
Burnspbesq
Taoiseach Leo is a little conservative for my taste, but as a symbol of an increasingly pluralistic and inclusive Ireland, he’ll do just fine.
Orange is the New Red
@Suzanne: I have been going to Brimfield for 20 years or more. Lived next town over for 10 years. Happy to give pointers. There is good basic info online as well. I suspect local hotels raise prices those weeks, get what you can as soon as you can.
Geminid
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: A good weather forecast? Darn!
The airport is right next to Waco Lake. I was hoping for a rain of frogs and catfish.
LiminalOwl
@Skepticat:
@Kay: Have you seen this lovely bit of self-contradiction? Teachers cannot discuss reproductive anatomy with children of less than seventh-grade age. (Per The Mary Sue blog; I haven’t yet found a primary-source article.) Someone asked one of the pols if that meant that one of the (many) girls reaching menarche could not ask her teachers for info, and was told yes. Though it sounds like they might generously make an exception for that case.
lollipopguild
@PAM Dirac: Winner, Winner, chicken dinner.
LiminalOwl
@Suzanne: Haven’t stopped there, but the time spouse and I drove through (because GPS), it was a ten-mile traffic jam. You might want to plan accordingly.
(Also, we are less than an hour away, if you’d like to meet for tea or a meal.)
I agree about dark green and wish clothes in that shade were easier to find.
MomSense
Welp, I was actually going to brave the pool today (not a pool person) but it’s closed. The red tide is bad and I don’t feel like swimming with dead fish, jelly fish and something that makes your eyes burn just walking by. With all the multi million dollar homes on the beach here you would think they would have an interest in taking better care of their oceans. WTAF
Mai Naem mobile
@Amir Khalid: more like the first ex-POTUS to post bail.
I frankly think the media should stop reporting about all the preparations for a TFG indictment for security reasons. I am pretty sure NY’rs are smart enough to not put themselves in danger when he does get indicted. They’ve had enough practice with all the terrorist threats, UN meetings, TFG visiting there between ’16-’20 etc. All this reporting just eggs on the MAGAts and let’s out details nobody needs to know. Yeah, i know about the ‘it bleeds, it leads’ stuff but lots of these media people live in NYC. Don’t they even care about where they live?
dnfree
@Baud: I didn’t realize Pat Paulson died so young. He had great campaign slogans. “We can’t stand Pat”, for example.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Now and forever and always, His Kevin
Quinerly
Kevin McCarthy on Twitter this AM:
“Here we go again — an outrageous abuse of power by a radical DA who lets violent criminals walk as he pursues political vengeance against President Trump. I’m directing relevant committees to immediately investigate if federal funds are being used to subvert our democracy by interfering in elections with politically motivated prosecutions.”
SiubhanDuinne
@LiminalOwl:
WaPo covered this story yesterday. Here’s a non-paywalled (gift) link.
Mai Naem mobile
@Kay: that judge is going to release the decision right when the TFG stuff goes down in the hope that it gets forgotten and he’ll probably be right because the political media can only pay attention to one major issue at a time.
Another Scott
@LiminalOwl: We can’t let Bulgaria or Nigeria beat the USA in the teenage grandmother competition!!
:-(
Cheers,
Scott.
Mai Naem mobile
@Quinerly: Kevin needs to just go back to picking out the pink Starbursts(or was it skittles?) to send to his Orange Overlord. Really, he’s more useful doing that.
sdhays
@Mai Naem mobile: The national political media doesn’t need much help to forget to report about women’s health and rights.
Quinerly
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Great minds…..
I’m listening to MSNBC. Had to Google to find the Tweet.
I have no idea how all this ends. I woke up thinking maybe we would be better off as a country if Trump flees. Don’t get me wrong. I want him prosecuted on all levels. I am just so weary. How one man…a fucking low class, bankrupt, degenerate, game show host can destroy a country….what he has unleashed on this country. My mind still has a problem processing this.
Had hoped today to get back to my beautiful side yard…a work in progress with these new flagstones and JoJo’s turf. 5 tons of sand was delivered Tues. But 6 inches of snow dumped on me here outside of Santa Fe. Now I’m stuck inside with MSNBC on in the background.
Geminid
@Quinerly: Did you get snow at your place? I read that four hikers had to be rescued from the Sandia Mountans yesterday. They’d come all the way from Michigan to hike the La Luz trail
Ed. Now I see you did get snow. I guess it will melt fast. It could make for more wildflowers in coming weeks
Are you placing the flag stones? That can be fun if you don’t do too much at once.
Quinerly
@Mai Naem mobile:
Thanks for the laugh. I think it was Starbursts.
sdhays
@Another Scott: OMG, that’s so disgusting! Grandmother at 17!!??
Mai Naem mobile
@Another Scott: i don’t believe that. Also its disgusting and child abuse even by 1884 standards.
sdhays
@Quinerly: The country needs to pop the bubble on the idea that Presidents can’t – and shouldn’t – be prosecuted. It’s a very toxic idea. Ex-Presidents and Presidential candidates shouldn’t have get-out-jail cards, and future Presidents and candidates should be given evidence that they can’t count on that “rule” anymore.
I suspect we wouldn’t be here if Ford hadn’t pardoned Nixon and allowed the country to “suffer” through a prosecution.
Jackie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: MTG already squawked in protest this morning – McCarthy is obeying her demands for *justice.* He is so pathetically predictable.
dmsilev
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’m sure the ace investigatory team of Jim Jordan and Marjorie Greene will get to the bottom of this, no problems at all.
Quinerly
@Geminid:
Pretty sure biggest snow of the season. My friends out on highway 14 in Cerrillos and Madrid got 8″. We got about 5″ here in Eldorado. Pecos got more.
Miguel and I were going to hit the yard hard today and tomorrow. He can only work on weekends. I had 21 railroad ties and rebar coming yesterday but couldn’t deliver because of the snow. Now everything pushed back at least a week. He can only work next Sun.
I’m impatient to put down 3 pallets of flags and a 1000 sq ft of fake grass for my dog to have his own private doggie park….First World Problems while the country is imploding.
Another Scott
@Mai Naem mobile:
Kuulpeeps.com:
Her mother was a few months older, according to that link.
Wikipedia lists a Peruvian mother who was 5 years 7 months (Caesarian).
:-(
Cheers,
Scott.
Sister Golden Bear
@Kay:
The bodily autonomy issue is one that I wish had more prominence in fighting off the 500+ anti-trans bills.
But potential normie support for trans people’s bodily autonomy is one major reason they’re framing us as predatory pedophiles.
@Kay:
It was never about free speech, it was about freedom from pushback and from consequences.
Geminid
@Quinerly: I hope it all goes well. It sounds like you have a good person to help out.
Quinerly
@Geminid:
3 pallets. Two pallets of the really large ones. One pallet of the smaller ones. Side yard patio already has some down that Miguel and I reconfigured in the Fall. So that was my initial experience (as his assistant) in laying the huge ones. Adding about another 130 sq ft to that. This turf was a left over roll I got for almost 1/2 price, so I’m making the the yard fit the turf and getting rid of pea gravel. Adding some flags in the main backyard around the koi pond and some more flags out front.
This project was also to keep my mind off of Trump.
Quinerly
@Geminid:
I like Miguel quite a bit. Smart. Has a 40 hr a week job with Albuquerque school system. This kind of job is side work. I could find cheaper labor, closer but I really like him. Sincere, conscientious. Wants to please. Probably could have done anything with his life if not for birth circumstances and poverty. I like helping him. He seems to like helping me. We chat a lot. He doesn’t charge me for chatting. He’s actually interesting to hang out with.
Kay
@Mai Naem mobile:
They barely cover it. When they do “cover” it it’s to profit off of women who are volunteers and open a vein and tell their personal pregnancy stories on op ed pages. They only cover women when they’re exploiting them for profit.
I wish women would stop playing along. Don’t submit any more free content to the NYTimes or the Washington Post. Stop letting them line their pockets on your personal stories. They won’t pay women to cover abortion? Then for God’s sake don’t do volunteer work for them.
Quinerly
@sdhays:
We DEFINITELY wouldn’t be here if this had been addressed with Nixon. I agree with you that Trump must be prosecuted. I’m just so fucking tired of it. I feel like we had a bit of a break from Trump 24/7 and I’m selfish….I was enjoying it.
gene108
@Kay:
During the Red Scare of the 1940’s and 1950’s the focus is usually on the Hollywood actors and directors, who got blacklisted.
There were also a lot of other people who lost their careers, because they might’ve been communist curious in the past or weren’t conforming to whatever standard was being set down.
https://whyy.org/episodes/schooled-red-tape-the-untold-stories-of-philadelphias-1950s-teacher-purge/
Leto
ACAB: Police stopped a Black couple in Tennessee – and took their children
Ohio Mom
@SiubhanDuinne: Thanks for the link. The article says the “bill would ban girls from talking about their menstrual cycles in school.” Are they going to get some kids to wear wires to rat out other kids?
How does anyone know what kids are saying to one another in the playground, at the lunch table, lined up waiting for the school bus, and so forth? There is lots of informal socializing in school, it’s an important part of the day.
Just another aspect of this proposal that is wildly nuts.
Quinerly
I’ll leave this here. Posted it last night when I couldn’t sleep.
More insanity in Florida. Mike Flynn seems to behind a lot of it.
https://www.motherjones.com/politics/2023/03/mike-flynn-and-maga-activists-wage-war-against-a-florida-hospital/
Kay
Before any more women do volunteer work for the NYTimes and the WaPo and submit their personal pregnancy stories to the editorial pages of those media businesses for the media companies to profit off of, I wish women would ask how much those media companies have invested in covering abortion and paying women to cover it. Money. How much did they spend.
Don’t open a vein for these assholes. They’re exploiting you. They want the gory stories of blood and anguish in pregnancy for clicks and advertiser dollars but they aren’t willing to invest any money on coverage or pay women to cover abortion. Don’t play along. No more free labor.
Geminid
@Quinerly: I hope your koi are safe. The one pond I built was in Waynesboro, Virginia and the owner ended up installing netting over it because a local heron would fly in and eat the koi.
And a water garden supply place over in the Shenendoah Valley thought somebody was sneaking in at night and stealing their expensive koi. It turned out to be a muskrat from the nearby stream
Quinerly
@Ohio Mom:
The articles I was reading yesterday focused on teachers. Example….11 year old girl gets her first period while in class. Goes to the teacher for help….what to do. Teacher can’t discuss anything about it with her and can’t help. Essentially, the girl is on her own in the bathroom.
I can’t believe I am typing this shit. What is happening to this country?
LiminalOwl
@SiubhanDuinne: Thank you; sorry I missed that.
Sure Lurkalot
@Quinerly: I tend to agree that this country would be better off if Trump flees. He’s going to ratchet up his calls for violence at every turn and a lot of his followers, both those with and without a tenuous connection to reality, will listen, are listening. His enablers will make it worse. And the media, well here’s an example of how useless they will be:
LiminalOwl
@Another Scott: Ugh, and Thank you. Boebert is probably green with envy.
Mike in NC
@Suzanne: Maybe be late to chime in, but we went to Brimfield about four years ago. My brother and his wife live on the South Shore. We enjoyed the fair even though we didn’t spend a lot of money. Mostly just walked around and took in the dealers. We stayed at some motel in Springfield that night on account of the weather (heavy rain). You will like the fair; everybody who loves to poke around a flea marker would, too.
Quinerly
@Geminid:
The koi are huge. Supposedly 15 years old. I need help this year getting the pond healthier. I think the 4 are too big for the size of this pond. Would love to find a home for a couple of them. But, Santa Fe being Santa Fe, I was told no one wants “used koi.” They are well over a ft long.
I named them…the really flashy one is Mick. The cute one is Keith. There’s Ron in the background. And the albino one….my ghost koi is Charlie. Ron could go. Maybe Mick. Keith and Charlie definitely stay.
When I lived in the inner city of St Louis all those years I had a goldfish pond. Finally gave up on the fish. Raccoons would raid it in the middle of the night. Bite the heads off and fling the little bodies.
jeffreyw
Trump Indictment Bingo
Leto
Manslaughter conviction of 21-year-old Oklahoma woman who suffered miscarriage sparks outcry
It literally doesn’t matter what the law states, the Christofascits are coming for everyone and everything.
Bupalos
@TS: I think most of the conversations I see here opining about why identity x would do something so clearly against the interests of identity x – coming to the conclusion that they don’t understand that it can and will hurt them – are really selling these causes way way short.
I think they are much more holistically and coherently about fleeing modernity and a desire to retreat to a fictionalized past in the face of a future they consider too terrifying. Opposing abortion is positively about recreating a stable and strict Christian hierarchy. It isn’t about “saving babies” as they claim but nor is it about “hating women” as many on our side boil it out. It’s about fear, and the fantasy that a strict Christian society can address the things these people are afraid of. And we are pretty ineffective opposing it because we too are too caught up in our own kinds of doomsaying about the present and future to speak up for the benefits to everyone of the progress we have made and are going to make.
Wyatt Salamanca
@sdhays:
Ford was an idiot for pardoning Nixon, but given Trump’s insanity I’m not sure that a successful prosecution of Nixon would have deterred Trump from committing criminal acts.
Trump deserves to die in solitary confinement in a supermax federal prison, but I’ll settle for him losing the 2024 election.
frosty
@Geminid: We’ve had to do the same thing. Lost all of our goldfish to a local heron and I figured out how to put a net over the pond. It’s strung over 3/4″ plastic conduit and looks pretty ugly, but we still have all our fish.
I need to redo it to look better. Another thing on the post-retirement to-do list.
Geoduck
A belated St. Patrick’s Day celebration from the Muppets.
Sure Lurkalot
@Quinerly: Will these nut jobs be happy when they shut down half of the hospitals? When their relative dies on a 45 minute ambulance ride to the closest facility, it will be Biden’s fault, no doubt.
Sooner or later, fewer people will want to be in a medical profession in this country. Your level of providing care depends on the patient, not any objective standards, and you risk arrest and/or death threats to boot.
oatler
Every fresh Q hell makes me believe that THIS is the death spasm, but it just keeps bringing more destruction. “Dying by inches from the ankles upward”.
Quinerly
@oatler:
The way I feel.
Plus, the nuts high jacked my nickname. Since lawschool my nickname was “Q.” And, sometimes even, “The Q.”
RedDirtGirl
@Kay: There is a great tweet that has side-by-side photos of Governors Walz signing this bill with Sarah Sanders signing the Child Labor Law. The expressions on the faces in the second photo are priceless.
Quinerly
@Sure Lurkalot:
What they are doing to community hospitals needs more press.
My brain is to a point that I can’t comprehend this. Hospitals and schools. They want to wallow in untreated sickness and ignorance.
Geminid
@frosty: Maybe you can find someone with a stand of bamboo. That stuff grows back as fast as you can cut it. If you get some that’s fresh cut, you may be able to lap and lash two together at their tops and make an arch.
Bamboo is very invasive, but it can be useful for light construction. There is a stand of it on the land where I live and a couple friends have taken some for tomato trellises. There’s plenty more if you want to drive to Greene County, Virginia and get it. There ought to be some closer to you though.
piratedan
there once was a lass from Nantucket
who went to the southwest on a junket
she went to a bar
to sample drinks from afar
instead of the beers that were just served in a bucket
CaseyL
Just saw this on YouTube, and had to share, because it is a lovely instance of humans doing good things for other humans, and for the environment, successfully:
Incredible Invention – Quiet Drones delivering medical supplies
Mark Rober is a former NASA engineer who is into challenging people (esp. kids) to get into science and engineering. He dreams up elaborate projects, carries them out, and films the whole thing. He’s a bubbly, enthusiastic ambassador for Science.
I subscribe to Rober’s YouTube channel, and I may have posted some of his videos before. Possibly his backyard obstacle courses for squirrels, carried out over three years, each one more complicated than the last, with a continuing cast of squirrel characters.
Anyway, check out this one. It will put a smile on your face for any number of reasons.
Amir Khalid
@Quinerly:
No Little Mick?
NotMax
Anybody yet mention this “mistake” down in benighted Florida?
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Would they then be the real Mick kois?
StringOnAStick
@Quinerly: Pea gravel makes excellent water-saving mulch for low water use garden plants, so you might want to save that for placing around plants and shrubs to help reduce water loss from the soil. You’re close to High Country Gardens if you have time to go look at their demonstration gardens.
Nelle
@Kay: This, a thousand times this.
Joy in FL
@kalakal: I just read that post. It is really interesting. Thanks for the link.
Ohio Mom
@Quinerly: Yes, I know the law is aimed at controlling teachers but I was taken off balance by the Washington Post’s wording about “banning girls from talking.” Maybe the reporter phrased it badly?
When Ohio Son was in elementary school, I was occasionally tickled to see him have the exact same experiences I’d had decades before and hundreds of miles east in NYC, such as recorder lessons in third grade and the separate boys and girls puberty talks, led by the school nurse, in fourth grade.
Steve in the ATL
Acronym Friday followed by Limerick Saturday. What a country!
PAM Dirac
@Baud:
Thank you. It’s an honor I’ll remember for as long as I can. It took me a while to respond because my wife, my dog, and I went out to our favorite local winery to pick up a few bottles of their bubbly (made with Grüner Veltliner and Viognier grapes). It seems the odds are increasing that multiple celebratory bottles of bubbly will be necessary in the near future.
Quinerly
@NotMax:
Saw that yesterday. It’s like a firehouse of this shit incoming. Daily. So much isn’t getting picked up.
cain
@Kay:
It just isn’t catching with the rubes – it’s because they don’t know any trans people causing problems or doing much of anything. Priests on the other hand…
cain
@Kay: I was pretty flabbergasted. When I was growing up in indiana, we had free lunches. I certainly don’t remember paying ! (it could have been rolled into the school fees dunno)
Oregon doesn’t have free lunches for all that we are blue and have blue majorities – we don’t seem to be doing much in this regard. The cost of education and just about everything is just way high. Combining food and rent here – I just don’t see how a couple can even afford a kid especially with both kids working.
Gvg
@Suzanne: i have been thinking more about fireworks.
Quinerly
@Ohio Mom:
Who fucking knows who it is aimed at? Old White men making laws about girls’ bodies. I think I read a snippet in one piece that a Repug involved in this didn’t know 11 yo girls can start their periods….without warning. This is the same crowd that don’t believe raped women can get pregnant….”the whole body shuts down” crowd.
With that said, I didn’t read WaPo piece because of the paywall.
cain
@Ripley:
There once was a cat from Nuntucket
Whose fur was so soft you wanted it to pet it
she would get all the stares
yet she declares
none shall touch it
Quinerly
@StringOnAStick:
You can’t fathom how much pea gravel I have moved…by drywall buckets from this side yard to front areas for cactus beds. No pea gravel has been wasted or harmed! The layout here is such with walls, gates, steps, paths that I couldn’t move with a wheelbarrow. I started moving this last May. A little bit everyday. At least 5 buckets a day. Pretty much everyday, weather permitting. It became an obsession and exercise program. Gravel was at least an inch thick, 3 inches in some spots. At least 2000 sq ft of gravel. Now have extensive cactus beds out front. Three piles of “back up” gravel on south side of a wall that look like I like I have 3 bodies stacked under each pile. I’m waiting to be called out by the HOA over the “bodies.”
kalakal
@Gin & Tonic:
There was a young lady from Nantucket
Who went on holiday in Phuket
When she told her friends where she’d been
There were suggestions and comments quite obscene
She said, you can take your innuendo and stuff it!
Geminid
@Quinerly: “Bodies? Oh, they’re from my last Home Owners Association.”
Joy in FL
@CaseyL: I just watched the video. It is awesome, and I’m so glad that I now know about Zipline. It also expanded my thinking about drones, which is a good thing, too. There are some really good things being done by a lot of people. Thanks for the link : )
Quinerly
@Geminid:
💚
WaterGirl
@Steve in the ATL: we may have to cancel Sunday if we don’t come up with something!
Suzanne
@LiminalOwl: Ooooh that would be fun! I will have the Spawns, so I am not sure how much flexibility I will have. Is there a good coffee place nearby? That will be easier than a meal.
Kathleen
@Kay: The TV ads I’ve seen state that the measure opposing State interference is “cutting out the parents” from having a say. By their own admission the measure specifies “State”! They’re vomiting word salads again. Throw in a few “workes” and “all lives matter” and you’ve got a Rethuglican outrage generator mad lib.
Kathleen
@Kay: To your point – I read article in WaPo yesterday about child marriages and my takeaway was: “have to respect religious beliefs”, “no one is getting worked up about it”, and “kids can’t vote”.
Kathleen
@opiejeanne: WaPo has a story on it today. I haven’t read it yet
Here is a gift link so you can read without paywall:
https://wapo.st/3mXOFEN
pluky
@Kay: A parent complaining about a module in a college student’s class sufficed to get a professor fired! This helicopter needs to land; it’s way passed the nuisance phase.
hotshoe
@Suzanne: lucky me, popcorn was in the food-bag distribution yesterday :)
LiminalOwl
@Suzanne: There’s a nice coffee place in East Longmeadow. Looks like there are several in Springfield, but we haven’t been here long enough to investigate. Spouse loves Dunkin’ and doesn’t look farther afield.
No, I lie; we had good coffee at two different breakfast places in, I think, West Springfield. One of them also had an amazing assortment of tea, and was quite family-friendly.
Really don’t know Brimfield at all yet, but can start researching.