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White supremacy is terrorism.

Baby steps, because the Republican Party is full of angry babies.

Democrats have delivered the Square Deal, the New Deal, the Fair Deal, and now… the Big Joe Biden Deal.

We still have time to mess this up!

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

The Giant Orange Man Baby is having a bad day.

The Supreme Court cannot be allowed to become the ultimate, unaccountable arbiter of everything.

But frankly mr. cole, I’ll be happier when you get back to telling us to go fuck ourselves.

I have other things to bitch about but those will have to wait.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

…and a burning sense of injustice to juice the soul.

The new republican ‘Pastor’ of the House is an odious authoritarian little creep.

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

Republicans in disarray!

… riddled with inexplicable and elementary errors of law and fact

Russia bombs Ukraine’s maternity hospitals; Republicans in the House can’t sort out supporting Ukraine.

The lights are all blinking red.

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

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  3. 3.

    TBone

    “When I ain’t got nothin’ to say, my lips are sealed!  Say something once, why say it again?”  Bah bah bah bah bah!

  4. 4.

    VFX Lurker

    I just filled out my vote-by-mail ballot for California’s March 5th primary. Will drop it off in a ballot drop box later tonight.

  5. 5.

    Scout211

    @VFX Lurker: I just filled out my vote-by-mail ballot for California’s March 5th primary. Will drop it off in a ballot drop box later tonight.

    Thanks for the reminder. Ours are sitting on my desk and we need to get them filled out and dropped off.

  6. 6.

    kindness

    @Scout211: I’m dropping mine at the local county Registrar of Voters downtown Monday.  Hand it to a human and all that.  Looks like the poling place near me isn’t going to be there on election day.

  7. 7.

    NotMax

    “The universe is like a safe to which there is a combination. But the combination is locked up in the safe.”
    – Peter De Vries
    .
    ;)

  11. 11.

    Yutsano

    Our 14 year old border collie just went over the Rainbow Bridge this afternoon. He passed at home on his own. My mom was devastated. I’ll be sending a picture to WaterGirl here in a minute.

  14. 14.

    Yutsano

    @Elizabelle: ​Thank you. He was definitely a good doggo. He used to watch my nephews up until he couldn’t walk anymore.​

    EDIT: if it wasn’t for the fact that they live in the desert I’d look at getting them another Newfoundland puppy.

  17. 17.

    BigJimSlade

    In regards to the thread earlier today that mentions the pie filter a lot, I’m making, for the first time, a cherry clafoutis tomorrow to bring to a Super Bowl get together :-)

  20. 20.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    I got something to say. Sliced spicy Buffalo chicken, Stilton blue and jalapeno cheddar cheeses on a toasted roll with butter, mayo, lettuce and tomato.

    With a hot creamy tomato soup to dip it in. That’s all.

  24. 24.

    mrmoshpotato

    @BigJimSlade: Mmmmmm.

    I still need to experiment with how full I can fill puff pastry for Cherry Explode’ems.  Stop it, underfilled cherry turnovers.

  26. 26.

    3Sice

    Did you hear my covert narcissism I disguise as altruism
    Like some kind of congressman? (Tale as old as time)

    It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me
    It’s me, hi, I’m the problem, it’s me
    It’s me, hi, everybody agrees, everybody agrees…..

  31. 31.

    NotMax

    @mrmoshpotato

    underfilled cherry turnovers

    Oh, so you’ve been to the Foodland bakery department.

    On the other hand, when they do (intermittently) appear – at another market – the coconut turnovers are firm and fully packed. Drawback is too much cloyingly sweet glaze on them, though. Wind up scraping most of that off.

  39. 39.

    Jay

    @Yutsano:

    I am so sorry for you and your Mom’s loss.

    We know that we will only have them for a while, will love them wholly, will have our hearts break when they pass,

    and yet we keep adopting them,

    because the love both ways is well worth it.

  43. 43.

    Lyrebird

    @Yutsano: Wow, a wonderful and highly resilient doggo in a climate opposite to Newfoundland’s!  Thanks for sending the photo, I will send good thoughts to you and your extended family when I get to see it.

  45. 45.

    Yutsano

    So I don’t dominate this thread:

    Thank you everyone! He’s already leaving a big hole in our hearts.

  47. 47.

    lamh36

    Evening or Good night POU.

    I’m having a rough time adapting to the PST vs CST.  That 2hr time difference is rough.  I’m either up to early  or I’m feeling sleepy too early…jeez.

  51. 51.

    Starfish

    @lamh36: I was so excited when you said you were moving to SF in your blog! Let me live vicariously through your travel adventures.

  55. 55.

    Starfish

    @eclare: Yeah. I don’t know how to consume music anymore.

    Does everyone get Spotify? What do they do?

    I just watch this video by the Darkness on repeat even though it is over 20 years old.

  57. 57.

    Scamp Dog

    @Yutsano: My dog of a lifetime was a Border Collie. She had two puppies right after I got her, spent a week lost on the Pawnee National Grasslands before finding her way to a farmhouse, confronted coyotes whenever we ran into them, and was the best dog at all of the training classes we went to. I still miss her.

    May his memory be a blessing.

  62. 62.

    lamh36

    @Starfish: yes…I can’t wait to get settled in with work and new places…so I can see what the West coast travel seen has to offer.  Most of my travels have been East coast…Can’t wait.

  63. 63.

    lamh36

    @Steeplejack: Right now I’m just here to look for housing, but so only a short time.  Of course I’m gonna be able to acclimate once I’m here permanently it’s get easeir the longer I’m here of course.

  65. 65.

    eclare

    @Starfish:

    I just listen to the local “hits” station, but commercials don’t really bother me.

    Anytime I turned it on, though, that song played.

    Not on Spotify.

  72. 72.

    Starfish

    @eclare: I had a Spotify subscription for a little while during the pandemic because it let me bond with my coworkers.

    However, they don’t pay their smaller musicians well, and I want to support things that are not necessarily top ten.

    I tend to be whimsical in my choices.

  74. 74.

    prostratedragon

    @Alison Rose:  Good doggie! A couple of border collie stories I like to recall — in the early days after 9/11 there was a run on search dogs of the usual breeds for this work, so someone tried border collies. Who proceeded to herd the airport passengers. Then there was the farmer who toured the croft in a pickup with his b.c. at his side, when, near the highway along the property line, he spotted a lost lamb. The man exited the truck to get the lamb, leaving the dog behind the wheel. Hilarity (with no injuries) ensued.

  79. 79.

    RevRick

    My wife and I are going to the Allentown Symphony Orchestra tomorrow afternoon to hear them perform Richard Strauss’ Don Quixote for viola, cello and orchestra; Mozart’s Overture to Don Giovanni; and Bizet’s Suite from Carmen. I understand there will be sportsballing later in the day, but I’m a UConn college basketball fan, so….

  81. 81.

    Kelly

    @Yutsano:Condolences. Some dogs are just mother creatures.

    Back in the 1970’s, when my nephews were toddlers, my folks had a short, fat spaniel looking mutt, Freckles. When a child was at the cling to the furniture stage of learning to walk she would lean against the couch offering her back for the child to grab tiny handfuls of fur for support. Then she would carefully walk the child around the room.

  87. 87.

    CaseyL

    @Yutsano: I’m so sorry.  Hugs to you, your Mom, and the rest of the family.  There is no pain like losing a much loved animal: we know it’s going to happen someday, but that doesn’t make the grief any less.

    It’s late, and so probably too late for this thread, but I could use some advice:

    I torqued my knee a little doing some invasive-plant-clearing at a park.  I’ve already iced it once (which seemed to make it hurt more), and took some Aleve.  It doesn’t hurt to bend when I’m sitting down with no weight on the leg, but it’s generally achey.  Seems to be coming from inside the knee.

    I won’t panic unless it’s much worse tomorrow.

    But advice is welcome.

  88. 88.

    NotMax

    @RevRick

    Mom went to see the new ‘modernized’ production of Carmen at the Met recently and came away unimpressed.

    Music unchanged, however in this version instead of Carmen working in a cigarette factory she works in a munitions plant. And Escamillo is not a toreador.

  89. 89.

    eclare

    @CaseyL:

    I have never hurt a knee, but when I hurt my Achilles, ice was the answer.  Fifteen on, fifteen off, fifteen on.  Elevated.  Yes, the ice hurt, but it helped tremendously.

    One of my former bosses was a linebacker at UGA.  He said he never would have survived without ice.

    But there is a lot more going movement wise with knees.  Give it a few more days of ice and taking it easy?  Then call a dr?

  91. 91.

    CaseyL

    @eclare: Thanks!  Ice is back on (well: a bag of frozen berries) and I had forgotten about elevating it.

    Oh, if nothing works, I fully intend to call a doctor.

  94. 94.

    mrmoshpotato

    @CaseyL: Ah, you know the frozen veggies (berries) trick too!  No need to buy actual ice packs.

    Hope it feels better in the morning.  Take it easy.

  97. 97.

    Alison Rose

    Aw, sad:

    Bob Moore, who followed his passion in the middle of his life to found Bob’s Red Mill, died Saturday at his home, officials connected with the company said. He was 94.

    He took his love of healthy foods and milling whole grains to found the company in 1978 in Milwaukie. The company quickly grew from just serving the Portland region to being a global food brand with more than 200 products in more than 70 countries.

    When he was 81, officials said, he began an Employee Stock Ownership Plan for the company. At this time, more than 700 employee owners own the company.

    He remained on the board until his death.

    “Bob’s legacy will live on forever in all of us who had the opportunity to work with him and is infused into the Bob’s Red Mill brand,” Bob’s Red Mill CEO Trey Winthrop said in a statement. “He did everything in his power to leave us on a strong path forward. All of us feel responsible and motivated to preserve his old-world approach to unprocessed foods; his commitment to pure, high-quality ingredients; and his generosity to employee owners and educational organizations focused on nutritional health.”

  101. 101.

    Yarrow

    @CaseyL:  Rest, Ice, Compression, Elevation. With ice, make sure there is something between the ice pack and your skin, like a thin dishtowel. You can damage the skin if you put the ice directly on it. 15 minutes on, 15 minutes off for ice. You can ice for the first 24 hours. If it isn’t at least a little improved you might want to get checked out.

  102. 102.

    Sister Golden Bear

    @CaseyL: @Yarrow: I’ll second Yarrow’s advice. A bag of frozen peas is ideal for icing your knee. Ask me how I know.

    Also, if you can tolerate ibuprofen, I’d do a day’s worth of that, since it’s an anti-inflammatory. Just be careful because it’ll mask the pain, and potentially led you to over do it.

  103. 103.

    sab

    @CaseyL: When my husband had his first back surgery they recommended making icebags with a dishtowel, a gallon ziplock bag and a 50/50 water/ rubbing alcohol solution. Soak the dishtowel in the solution, zip it into the bag and then freeze it. It sort of freezes cold but it doesn’t get really stiff like an all water icepack. We always have three of them in the freezer.

  104. 104.

    Ruckus

    @lamh36:

    I lived in Marin county for almost 6 yrs. It was an amazing place. I enjoyed it quite a lot. Actually only went into SF 2 or 3 times during that time. But in my travels when I worked in professional sports I traveled to 46 of the states, have seen a number of National parks all over the country and places I would never have expected to see when I was a kid. I’ve traveled through much of Europe and enjoyed most of it. And much of this country is actually is pretty nice. And yes there are exceptions, and most countries have at least some.

  105. 105.

    Bruce K in ATH-GR

    Since it’s an open thread, I opened the home page of the New York Times, and was gobsmacked to see an article headlined: “Why is age such a big problem for Biden, but not for Trump?” Of all the unmitigated gall…

  106. 106.

    Tony Jay

    @Bruce K in ATH-GR:

    Been said a bajillion times. It’s pure trolling with a side of reputational gaslighting.

    If you pushed one of them up against a grimy toilet wall in the back of a Heartland diner and demanded an explanation, they’d probably stutter something about just following the public’s lead in deciding what to cover. But once the third finger gets flushed around the u-bend and Mr Pincers moves His snippy attentions south, they’d sobbingly admit that ‘the public’ is just a euphemism for the narrative handed to them in their twice yearly ‘Themes & Direction’ meetings with senior editorial staff.

    Being extra-bitchy about the targets of their faux reportage is probably just a coping mechanism.

  107. 107.

    Tony Jay

    @CaseyL:

    I did my right knee on Boxing Day while stopping myself slipping on an ice rink. Didn’t hurt much until later that evening, but Jeebus H. Christ did it hurt that night. The only way I was able to sleep was by tucking a pillow behind the affected knee and lying on my back with it bent and elevated.

    Things I didn’t do.

    1) Ice. Bags of something frozen wrapped in a kitchen cloth works fine.

    2) Ibuprofen. Brings down the swelling.

    Boy, was that a night.

  108. 108.

    sab

    @sab: I realize that assembling this is impossible when you are already injured. But these icepacks have served us well for the last ten years. Others should think about it. We all trip and fall and injure ourselves.

  109. 109.

    prostratedragon

    If you can’t take NSAIDs like ibuprofen or advil, Tylenol often works. Extra strength.

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