Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

All hail the time of the bunny!

Jack be nimble, jack be quick, hurry up and indict this prick.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

I swear, each month of 2025 will have its own history degree.

“woke” is the new caravan.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

The real work of an opposition party is to oppose.

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

When I was faster i was always behind.

Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The republican caucus is covering themselves with something, and it is not glory.

This isn’t Democrats spending madly. This is government catching up.

Republicans firmly believe having an abortion is a very personal, very private decision between a woman and J.D. Vance.

We will not go quietly into the night; we will not vanish without a fight.

Those who are easily outraged are easily manipulated.

Roe is not about choice. It is about freedom.

Our job is not to persuade republicans but to defeat them.

We cannot abandon the truth and remain a free nation.

I really should read my own blog.

They punch you in the face and then start crying because their fist hurts.

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Sunday Afternoon Open Thread

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Looks like we can use an open thread!

I will also take this opportunity to let you guys know that we have a couple of quilt raffles for Ukraine coming up.  With these two raffles, we hope to bring our thermometer in the sidebar to $100,000.

The quilts are from Quiltingfool.

The two raffles will be going on at the same time, but raffle tickets will be specific the specific quilt.  I will be putting the images of the quilts up in a day or two, but I wanted to give you a heads up.

This time the quilts will be lap quilts rather than full-sized quilts for a bed.

Each raffle ticket will be $25 each.

First prize will obviously be the quilt that is being raffled off.  But each raffle will also have 2nd and 3rd prizes.

2nd prize:  (this is an unfinished version)

Quilt Blocks, Resumed! 1

Third prize:

Quilt Blocks, Resumed!Interested people can purchase as many or as few raffle tickets as they like.

Back to the open thread!

Reader Interactions

49Comments

  1. 1.

    narya

    Adding this to the new thread (it’s also at the end of the previous thread): For you jigsaw puzzle lovers, I started doing these. No, not as satisfying as doing meatspace puzzles (which I have loved since I was very young), but I don’t end up with More Stuff. Plus, cats can’t get to them.

    Those quilts are GORGEOUS.

  2. 2.

    karen gail

    Love the new direction quilts are going, when I learned back in the 1960’s everything was hand done and reworked old patterns.

  3. 3.

    Mike in Pasadena

    After President Biden wipes the floor with his opponents, first line of Wash Post’s headline is, “When Joe Biden lost. . .” Our liberal media at work to elect trumpty dumpty for another massive tax give away to the obscenely wealthy owners of America.

  5. 5.

    TBone

    PSA Turner Classic Movies is going hard for Black History Month and I am so here for it!  And damnit I want a quilt so bad but if I get any more bedding in this house (a strange weakness I have), hubby will move out.  I’ll tithe in another manner for aid to Ukraine.

  9. 9.

    Another Scott

    Yay Quiltingfool! She does amazing work. Looking forward to the raffle.

    Meanwhile, …

    Florida Democrats
    @FlaDems
    31m

    Florida now has the HIGHEST average car insurance rates in the U.S. 🤨

    Carlos Guillermo Smith
    @CarlosGSmith
    1h

    Florida now has the HIGHEST average car insurance rates in the U.S.

    The state should be enacting reforms to lower driver costs— they’re not.

    Instead DeSantis, FLHSMV, and the GOP legislature are pushing new policies to block trans people from getting accurate driver licenses.👇🏼

    [ images ]

    Feb 4, 2024 · 6:44 PM UTC

    So much winning…

    Keep hammering them on these real-life pocketbook items, while also talking about their meanness and incompetence.

    Forward!!

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  11. 11.

    NotMax

    Nutso but harmless friend (Independently wealthy, able to function somewhat okay except when off his meds) lived by himself in the sprawling family home on a farm in Pennsylvania. Family had settled there in the 1640s.

    Anyhoo, to get back to the topic, in the attic there were several large cedar chests which contained carefully folded quilts from as far back as the 17th and 18th centuries. At one point when he was not firing on all cylinders he decided it would be a fine idea to drag them out and spread them around on the floors of various rooms as throw rugs.

  12. 12.

    twbrandt

    I live in Dearborn, Michigan, where the police have been placed on alert after the Wall Street Journal published an opinion piece calling Dearborn calling the city “America’s Jihad Capital”. It is true that Dearborn has a slim (51%) Muslim majority, and the Muslim community here is very upset with the Biden Administration’s Middle East policies. But calling it the “Jihad Capital” is completely untrue, bigoted, and inflammatory. Assholes.

  16. 16.

    Another Scott

    @NotMax: Yikes!

    :-(

    But it reminds me of long ago seeing a story about rug weavers somewhere over in central Asia.  Once they were done making them on the loom, they would drag them out and throw dirt and mud all over them and grind it in, then rinse them off and dry them.  It made them look more “authentic” or something.

    :-/

    I’ve come to the conclusion that, ultimately, it’s just stuff.  It’s better for stuff to be used than to be just locked up in a box somewhere.

    Thanks.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  17. 17.

    trollhattan

    Since midnight we’ve accumulated 1.19 of the predicted “New precipitation amounts between a quarter and half of an inch possible.” And it’s just lunchtime.

    Glug.

  21. 21.

    Elizabelle

    Quiltingfool:  Might you be persuaded to make a few more Patrons?  For pillows, framed art, even lap blankets?

    I love that little doggie.

  28. 28.

    TBone

    @NotMax: now I’m crying because. Old, old farmhouse that relatives recently had to clean out for sale with chests of quilts and every other doodad imaginable under the sun stuffed under its eaves (they didn’t have dumpsters or garbage truck service back in the day) was hard on us. Thankfully, some of great grandma’s hand sewn quilts, lace, and embroidery were given to me.  As well as paperwork including a Massachusetts Bay Colony document and many family property deeds going back to Freetown, MA (Assonet Village) where an ancestor named Lot may have owned a tavern. Damn.  One of the deeds mentions King George. And old, OLD correspondence from ancestors (one a whaler who listed all the nations he’d eaten his bread in and who admonished his descendants with Balaams Prayer and another who gives an account of traveling West in a covered wagon).  Tears of loss and of joy.  Damnit. Who TF walks on a quilt?!

  34. 34.

    NotMax

    Normally award shows not my bag (Tonys excepted). Isn’t tonight the Grammy Taylor Swift awards show?

    Have an inkling Kid Rock will not be honored.
    ;)

  35. 35.

    A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)

    @TBone: yeah, we watched When We Were Kings documentary last night and it was just as good as I remembered from seeing it a long time ago. Won an Academy award for best documentary. For those who don’t know, it covers the legendary Ali-Forman fight in Zaire, the “rumble in the jungle”. Talking heads include Norman Mailer and George Plimpton, as well as music by BB King and lots of interviews with Ali.

  38. 38.

    Yutsano

    @TBone: ​I implore you: PLEASE let us know that a link is paywalled. I’m not signing up for his Substack just to read the occasional article that gets posted on here. It’s not just you, but it happens often enough that I needed to say something. Thank you for coming to my TED Talk.

  44. 44.

    MomSense

    These are so beautiful!
    I would be willing to knit something as a raffle for Ukraine.  I need to wait a month or so until my life settles a bit. I could do a blanket, dog sweater, something for baby, hat, mittens/gloves, cowl, and/or scarf.

  46. 46.

    Edmund dantes

    I can vouch for quilting fools quilts. I used her to make one for my Ukrainian friend and it turned out amazing. Pleasure to work with her.

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