What is Holi, the Hindu festival of colors and how is it celebrated? https://t.co/mkGo53fWlf
— The Associated Press (@AP) March 22, 2024
Sounds like a pretty good Monday to me… “What is Holi, the Hindu festival of colors and how is it celebrated?”:
… Typically observed in March in India, Nepal, other South Asian countries and across the diaspora, the festival celebrates love and signifies a time of rebirth and rejuvenation — a time to embrace the positive and let go of negative energy.
For one of Holi’s most well-known traditions, celebrants clad in all white, come out to the street and throw colored powders at each other, leaving behind a kaleidoscope of pigments and joy. Festivities with music, dancing and food ensue.
Holi is celebrated at the end of winter and the beginning of spring, on the last full moon day of the Hindu luni-solar calendar month of Falgun. The date of the festival varies depending on the lunar cycle. Typically, it falls in March, and will be celebrated this year on March 25…
In many parts of India, people light large bonfires the night before the festival to signify the destruction of evil and victory of good.
On the day of Holi, entire streets and towns are filled with people who throw colored powder in the air. Some fling balloons filled with colored water from rooftops and others use squirt guns. For one day, it’s all fair game. Cries of “Holi hai!” which means “It’s Holi!” can be heard on the streets. Holi has also been romanticized and popularized over the decades in Bollywood films.
The colors seen during Holi symbolize different things. Blue represents the color of Lord Krishna’s skin while green symbolizes spring and rebirth. Red symbolizes marriage or fertility while both red and yellow — commonly used in ritual and ceremony — symbolize auspiciousness.
An array of special foods are part of the celebration, with the most popular food during Holi being “gujia,” a flaky, deep-fried sweet pastry stuffed with milk curd, nuts and dried fruits. Holi parties also feature “thandai,” a cold drink prepared with a mix of almonds, fennel seeds, rose petals, poppy seeds, saffron, milk and sugar…
Lots of Americans are hoping for a somewhat different celebration…
they're just like us https://t.co/ltkca65xXC
— zeddy (@Zeddary) March 24, 2024
On The Road – Albatrossity – Westward 2015, week 2
OzarkHillbilly
So….
Anything happen while I was unplugged from the world?
Baud
Happy Holi.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Just some blech.
ETA: Were you with the grandkiddies?
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: I see Eric has taken over WATB duties this week. He needs more training. Potty training that is.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Not sure his dad can afford it.
Anne Laurie
I figure it’s a sign that even the most dedicated Trump handlers have decided bitching about this is a dead loss. They’ve shoved The Dumber One out on stage, and presumably are saving Junior for something less toxic…
Halteclere
I’m currently in the Delhi airport for my flight back to the US. We participated in Holi last night and this morning. This was one unique way for my wife and daughter to get their hair colored!
MagdaInBlack
@Anne Laurie: Last I saw from Jr was Friday on “Newsmax” crying about the unfairness of it all. Granted, I haven’t looked too hard since.
Newsmax : even more of a cesspool than FOX.
Baud
@Halteclere:
Have a safe flight.
satby
@Halteclere: Bucket list item for me! Hope you enjoyed your trip, I love India.
@OzarkHillbilly: SSDD. Welcome back.
Baud
@satby:
Isn’t your retirement day coming up?
Mai Naem mobile
One of the many reasons I couldn’t stand TFG even back in 2016 were the stories of how he stiffed all these small businesses and construction related businesses that built his resorts and casino. It was kind of personal because my dad had a business like that where he would occasionally get screwed like that. It’s one thing if something unforeseen happens and you truly can’t pay your bills but there were always people like TFG who had the money but figured they wanted something for free. Anyhow, I have to believe there’s dozens if not hundreds of people who’ve waited for years to see TFG get slapped really hard by karma and are thoroughly enjoying it happen in real time.
Chris T.
What Eric (and/or Don Jr) T***p do(es)n’t realize is that when you’re a real billionaire, they let you borrow $500M…
Ken
@Mai Naem mobile: Who knows, karma may have something special in store. Imagine if Letitia James has to keep seizing and selling properties because, in addition to the mortgages, they all have a bunch of thirty-year-old mechanic’s liens.
Manyakitty
Does anyone know what time the Great Disgorgement is scheduled to begin?
SFAW
McMegan with the “it’s a process crime, therefore not real” argument. Effing awesome.
What a moran.
ETA: “Brigaded”? WTAF? Is there some new, ultra-hip meaning of the word that I, as an old fart, don’t know? Because the context for her use of it doesn’t exactly apply.
ETA2: Is conspiracy to commit murder also not a crime, if the target doesn’t get killed? Numbskull.
There go two miscreants
Bill Withers is no longer around to get an apology, but luckily those new lyrics (in the Deering cartoon) are not likely to become an earworm!
Also too: I’m still chuckling about “Don Poorleone” from yesterday.
brantl
@Ken: We would have to make a cake, to commemorate that.
satby
@Baud: ApRIL 27th! And two days later I’m on the train out west to ABQ and a visit with a friend.
Coincidentally, Cheryl Rofer’s cat Ric passed away over the weekend. She mentioned it on Blue Sky, but you can’t convey condolences directly unless she follows you there. So I sent them through one of her mutuals. (She isn’t who I’m visiting).
Greg
I would like to see a group of really wealthy Dems tell trump they will front the bond on the condition that he cease running for president. No more rallies, no ads, no going on TV for campaigning, refuse the nomination. For that, he gets his bond.
Eyeroller
@SFAW: I’m not sure whether this answers your question, but “brigading” in social media is when a group of organized or semi-organized people do something, usually something negative like downvoting or the equivalent.
satby
@Mai Naem mobile: I heard at least one if the owners of those small companies committed suicide after going into debt on materials and additional staff to work a big tfg project after the scumbag stiffed him. A friend of that man made a video about why he’d never vote for tfg.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Yep, all 5 of them in one place at the same time for the first time. Addy and Vivi (the youngest of the STL girls) had never met their NOLA cousins (Lyriel and Izara) before and they immediately forged a fearsome foursome.
Dawg help the world.
Cora (the eldest) on the other hand just stayed out of the kill zone and laughed.
SFAW
@Greg:
No idea if that’s legal, but even if it is, I can see TFG agreeing to that, then reneging. As he has done on every commitment in his life.
hueyplong
The Clay Jones cartoon has Trump wearing a Russian flag lapel pin. Maybe they already do and I just haven’t noticed, but all cartoonists should do that.
More than anything else, Ukraine is the thing that should have been a bridge too far for “patriotic” GOPers, but apparently nothing is.
Baud
@satby:
If a Dem did that, it would have been national news for a year.
@OzarkHillbilly:
So sweet.
SFAW
@Eyeroller:
It does answer my question, thanks very much.
It also tells me that I am no longer ultra-hip. [Advanced students will get the joke.] And that McMegan is one of the Kewl Kids.
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
That’s about as anti-blech as you can get. Must have been great.
Manyakitty
@OzarkHillbilly: oh my! Those kids have splendid names! Sounds like the best possible way to spend your time 😍
satby
@SFAW: McMegan has never, ever in her life been a Kewl Kid.
Nepo hires are the sad sacks of that social set.
OzarkHillbilly
@SFAW: I’m beat. It’s gonna take me a year just to recover.
Honus
@Ken: in most states mechanics liens expire after a set time if not reduced to a judgment, usually about six months. And they are discharged in bankruptcy.
Ken
@SFAW: That is why the radio-controlled explosive charge surgically fused to his second cervical vertebra is such a critical part of this deal.
lowtechcyclist
Josh Marshall gave a reminder about Trump Tower the other day, along with other Trump-named properties:
So if Trump licensed to some other entity the right to have his name on their building, then it’s up to that entity to keep or remove his name. I suppose that entity might be another Trump company, the one that has the servicing contract, in which case James could potentially seize that entity and pull the name off the building.
Otherwise, and more likely I expect, it would be up to whatever management company, condo association, or whatever that has those rights. The only thing to do about that is to (a) make Trump’s name a big fat negative to most people, (b) identify the entities that have these rights for the various properties that have his name on them (seems like a good crowdsourcing project), and (c) publicly identify them to get public pressure on them to change the name.
OzarkHillbilly
@Manyakitty: The STL girls:
Cora Eileen (14)
Addelyn Rose (4)
Vivien Louise (3) (redhead)
The NOLA twosome:
Lyriel Persephone (3) (redhead)
Izara Muse (18 months) (redhead)
Gawd help my sons when they reach teenage-dom.
SFAW
@Ken:
Better there than his dingus — they wouldn’t be able to find a charge small enough.
Manyakitty
@OzarkHillbilly: oh boy! I call all that hope for the future! Dawg bless all those strong little ladies!
Ken
@Honus: Don’t harsh my karma, dude. Or my fantasies of karmic retribution.
SFAW
@lowtechcyclist:
Why do you lie??? Why, just this weekend, I received an e-mail from the would-be emperor telling me “Trump Tower is mine! Mine MINE MINE!!!!!”
And he wouldn’t lie about something like that.
ETA: No, I have no idea how I got on the mailing list. But reading some of the stuff causes me to lose IQ points.
OzarkHillbilly
@lowtechcyclist: So, Marred a Lardo it is then.
Also his golf courses?
SFAW
@OzarkHillbilly:
Except for the obviously creepy nature of doing so, part of me hopes that AG James has an order to exhume Ivana (who’s in Bedminster), to see if there are missing TS documents, or other smoking guns, in her grave.
OzarkHillbilly
@Manyakitty: I’ve said this before but I’ve always wished I had a daughter to wrap me around her little finger. Now I have 5 (granddaughters that is).
All it takes is one “Pleeeeease PawPaw?” and I am a slave to their demands. My reward is plenty of hugs and snuggles.
catclub
ummmm,…. I thought your fantasies of karmic retribution would harm your own karma.
Manyakitty
@OzarkHillbilly: Love it — everyone wins!
catclub
The problem with really rich people is that they got rich for a reason – they don’t like to give away money.
And in particular, they don’t like to give away money and have it benefit some other rich person who did NOT give away money. So they are all making sure that everybody ELSE pays their fair share. So nothing ever gets paid out.
I think I outlined the same problem for a bunch of rich GOP donors to pay off Trump not to run in 2016.
ETA:Mackenzie Scott is the only counterexample I know of.
PAM Dirac
@OzarkHillbilly:
My family was 6 boys. My mother’s sister had 3 boys and 2 girls. Luckily for proper order and decorum as well as our parents’ sanity we grew up on the east coast and they grew up on the west coast. We occasionally get together in one place and prove that if we grew up in the same neighborhood, we probably would all be in jail.
Betty
@OzarkHillbilly: Three redheads. Now that’s trouble.
PAM Dirac
@catclub:
I think Melinda Gates is doing pretty much the same thing.
Frankensteinbeck
@lowtechcyclist:
I guarantee the Trump brand name is a requirement of the original contract. If selling Trump’s assets ends up breaking those contracts, a lot of those names go out the window. Trump’s name has been bad for business since his presidency, which is part of why he’s flailing now. He’s been supporting himself on political donations as his properties lose money.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@OzarkHillbilly: Sounds like a good time
Honus
@Ken: didn’t mean to. It’s just that mechanics liens are kind of a specialty of mine, like Studebakers.
Catclub makes a good point though, about karma!
Frankensteinbeck
Leticia James has had people investigating and planning out selling Trump’s assets, so I’m sure they’ve got a list and an order of operation, and are ready to start immediately. I wonder what’s first?
Assuming Trump doesn’t come up with the bond at the very, very last minute. I doubt it, but it is at least possible he has a deal lined up he’s been hoping to avoid because it’s not actually a gift where he gets to screw the other guy by not paying it back.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone 😊😊😊
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty: That’s why I note it.
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: It was horrible, absolutely horrible. I loved every minute of it.
Soprano2
@MagdaInBlack: I love how they think things that happen to “normal” people every day are so unfair when they happen to the cult leader.
prostratedragon
This handy survey, which has been making the rounds lately, gives a clue to how tricky this exercise will be: “What Real Estate Does Trump Own in NYC Anyway?”
Scout211
I guess Jim Jordan has some tough questions on 60 Minutes last night from Lesley Stahl.
Meidas Touch videos posted at the link.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
sdhays
@SFAW: There you go “sniffing” “it’s the law”.
Soooo unsophisticated.
SFAW
@sdhays:
As Lurch would say: You rang?
Kay
Because they all think he’s going to win. If anyone needs an extra incentive to beat Donald Trump, know that by doing so you’ll be beating all of commercial media. They’re backing Trump and have already written Biden off. Luckily for us, Joe Biden has been underestimated his entire life and this is yet another example.
But we’re the underdogs in this race- make no mistake. The money wants Trump. If we beat him we beat all of them.
Baud
@Kay:
That’s been true for many years now.
OzarkHillbilly
No thanx, I have no where near the needed level of self loathing to inflict that on myself.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Could we combine the two holidays described in the top post? Pay $5 to squirt the fat orange blob with colored water from a squirt gun?
Kay
It’s why RFK Jr is staying in. He is following the conventional political media wisdom that Trump will win. He (and his wealthy backers) hope to get a slot – an actual position of power – in a Trump Administration. He’ll get it too. Trump will put that fucking lying fraud at HHS or something.
Beat Trump you beat the anti vaxx nepo baby too.
hueyplong
@Scout211: Ms. Stahl demonstrated that these clowns are so accustomed to FoxNews and Newsmax just letting anything potentially awkward go that they’re baffled when someone asks a yes-or-no question, they fail to answer, and the questioner simply asks it again until the answer is given or else the silence/refusal becomes something of an embarrassing admission (or, in GOPer terms, an inappropriate “gotcha”).
This is also why Democrats who persistently ask questions in hearings nearly always look smart. Their opponents have no experience in anything even resembling cross examination.
rikyrah
@Mai Naem mobile:
I hear you 👏🏾👏🏾👏🏾
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
I love those names. Ozark.
Soprano2
Hubby’s brother and his wife came over to visit yesterday afternoon. Strangely enough, hubby didn’t perk up when they came like he did when our friend Phyliss came a couple of weeks ago. In a perverse way I was glad, because I wanted them to see what he’s like now for real. His brother in particular has been in denial that it’s even true, because to him hubby seemed pretty normal before. He can’t be in denial any more, at least if he has any sense at all. It was good to see them.
I believe James has already filed in one NY County where TFG has property, so it sounds like she’s ready to start taking things when he can’t file the bond. I assume they’ve analyzed all of his holdings to figure out what he actually owns and where they can get the most value for their trouble. We’d all like to see him lose Trump Tower or his plane because we know it would hurt him psychically, but she wants money!
rikyrah
@satby:
Saw that video 😢😢😢
Soprano2
@Scout211: It’s funny, these people think they’re so tough but they rarely talk to any news outlet that isn’t already in their corner, so on the rare occasion they do they have no idea how to handle it. It’s why they’re always wailing about “unfairness”, it’s the only way they can explain their terrible performance.
Soprano2
But it’s not about her being a TFG supporter, it’s about her promoting the stolen election lie. If they could find a TFG supporter who would admit Biden won the election, they’d hire that person in a heartbeat. Of course, all of TFG’s supporters promote that lie, which is why the networks don’t have any of them on their programs. It’s a Catch-22 for them. I hope they don’t try this again after seeing the blowback.
Chief Oshkosh
@SFAW: McArgle-Bargle is such a perfect nepo twit. She’s just dimly self-aware enough to know that people find her contemptible, but she just can’t quite figure out why.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
What time is the actual deadline on the bond? When can I stop worrying some sugar daddy bailed him out?
Kay
@Soprano2:
Agree. I wish she had been charged in Michigan. Michigan DID charge several lower level insurrectionists who tried to steal the election, but they declined to charge the bigger (national) people like her.
All of political media think the GOP wil be in power after November, hence the groveling ass kissing of Republicans (led by the NYTimes, as usual). They’re wrong a lot though, so we can take comfort in that.
schrodingers_cat
Happy Holi to everyone! Rangpanchami or the (rough translation :5th day of colors) is a big deal in the north of India. Krishna (who was brought up by cowherders) playing with the gopis (cowherders).
I have shared this with you before but my absolute favorite Holi song is from Navrang (9 colors or 9 emotions that cover the human experience). Navrang is set in a princely state in British India and is about a life of the court poet. It one of the great musicals of Hindi cinema.
Here he is tasked with coming up with a Holi celebration song. His muse is his wife played by Sandhya.
Arre Jare Natkhat Na Chule Mera Gunghat* from Navrang (Nine Colors) made in 1959 by V. Shantaram. Sandhya’s performance, playing both the male and female parts, makes me wish that I could dance like her.
(Radha is telling Krishna not to touch her veil and be a pest)
ETA: Unfortunately many roadside Romeos take Holi as a license to pester women, stalk them etc.
Soprano2
@Kay: Is it that they think that, or they’re hoping for it? As we all know, the TFG presidency was terrible for most people but it was great for the press. All the access, and articles, and clicks, and books they got to write had to make them happier in their profession. I think if you could get them all in a room and promise not to reveal anything they said, they’d all admit that even though they don’t like TFG personally they loved it when he was president because they felt more relevant, had lots of access to people at the White House, and generally enjoyed their jobs more than they do now. They were constantly able to write stories that needed little or no research, and it’s hard not to think they liked that a lot more than covering Biden, who actually does things. I always think of the story you relayed about Marcy Kaptur saying the press would never cover the things Congress was actually doing because they would rather surround MTG in case she did something outrageous.
JWR
@Scout211:
I saw a bit of the Jim Jordan interview last night, and it’s weird how he tends to nervously chuckle whenever he’s asked about the stolen election claims. He knows that any but the most anodyne of responses will buy him a trip to the woodshed, which episodes I’ve heard he really enjoys. (“Spank me, big boy!”)
Shorter version is that yes, he really does know that he really is a piss poor bullshitter, but doesn’t much care, so screw ‘im!
zhena gogolia
@OzarkHillbilly: Those names are fabulous!
SiubhanDuinne
Nominated!!
ETA: Haven’t read any other comments yet, so maybe others have already claimed it.
Kay
@Chief Oshkosh:
I don’t know what she’s talking about. People don’t “file complaints” with the government. The government doesn’t bring complaints on behalf of individuals or companies – the government brings the complain on behalf of the state. New York. Or “the People of…” Or “The United States”
The offense is an offense against “the public” represented by the state. She doesn’t understand the basic stucture of the legal system. This is a pretty important distinction! It’s not actually up to an insurance company to determine if laws have been broken or if there’s been a harm. The state does that. ONLY the state.
Kay
@Soprano2:
Kaptur was so right. We just saw it again last week. Greene did that elaborate play acting where she pretended she was going to file something, got blanket media coverage and then filed nothing.
She played them. We talk about how she isn’t very bright but she seems to play these people in media weekly, so what does that say about them?
zhena gogolia
@Kay: My phone sends me stories (I didn’t ask for and don’t click on) about who would be better for the economy, Biden or Trump. Hell, TIAA sends me e-mails about who would be better for the economy, Biden or Trump. They do not have a grasp on the fact that if Trump wins, it’s all over.
mrmoshpotato
@satby:
Amtrak’s Southwest Chief? Getting yourself a sleeper car?
zhena gogolia
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s kind of amusing, actually.
Baud
@Soprano2:
The NYT probably already has an advance copyright on The Decline and Fall of the United States.
TBone
Hickory dickory TICK TOCK MFER 😁
Anyone who bails him out today should be forced to undergo a mental competency exam.
🎶
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=r8pYpii2Atg
Kay
@zhena gogolia:
The complacency baffles me. I have never in my life felt as… comfortable as these people feel every day.
They’re just so sure that everything will remain FINE for them. I felt really alone after 9/11 because everyone was “I never DREAMED anything TERRIBLE could happen or that a cascading series of errors could end in catastrophe!” I just assume there will be a huge fuck up every ten years or so. Who the hell are these people and what kind of charmed life have they led?
Ladyraxterinok
@Kay:
I hope the Biden/Harris campaign is super prepared for all the closed voting places in cities, the last minute purging of voter rolls, and all imaginable (and non-imaginable) vote manipulations the GOP has ready
japa21
@Baud: Authored by Haberman
OzarkHillbilly
@zhena gogolia: I’m sure it is, but there are some people I refuse to watch just as a matter of principal. Mainly because they are desperate for attention and I feel duty bound to deny it to them. It’s a cross I must bear.
Besides, if I actually listened to them I might lose a few IQ points and I don’t have that many to spare.
Baud
@japa21:
An Insider’s Guide to the Decline and Fall of the United States
Soprano2
@Kay: It says that they much prefer politics as reality show than real politics, because the reality show version is much more fun and lucrative to cover.
TBone
It’s the cherry on top that he’ll be in Court in NY today. Delicious. Oh, plus the Appeals Court renders decisions on Tuesdays. Not Mondays.
Eric S.
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I’m just an old computer programmer so take this with all the grains of salt.
The judgement needs to be fulfilled. Until it is I assume it is possible for a sugar daddy to step in and bail him out. I don’t think that’s likely. It will take a while to liquidate any seized property, especially with all the complicated relationships discussed above.
TBone
@Eric S.: I can’t see him winning on appeal but anything is possible as we have seen. Popcorn for supper day!
Soprano2
Lots of people live like that, though. I think this is why my mother was so devastated by it when my father cheated and left her – she thought those bad things happened to other “bad” people who deserved it, not “good” people like her (not that everyone wouldn’t be devastated by such a thing, but she literally never got over it). I haven’t been like that since my parents got divorced when I was a senior in high school and then my father died of a heart attack when I was 21. I am fully aware that bad things happen to everyone, sometimes out of the blue. It makes me less happy but more resilient when bad things do happen. It’s helping me right now (sometimes, other times I still rail inside about why my husband got dementia when awful people are still fine).
Kay
@Soprano2:
Kaptur also talked about how the state level coverage is gone. When she started the Cleveland Plain Dealer had two full time reporters covering the federal government with a focus on how federal issues impact Ohio. In DC. In person. She had relationships with them so she could let them know iof tyhere was a committee vote or something they should cover. Now there are none. Zero. So we get the view of the national media, exclusively – rigidly conventional, conservative in temperament, and people who defer to power – which is the reason they’re successful in the industry. We used to have some state level weirdos with different ideas – now we get this bland, corporate, consistent LINE.
OzarkHillbilly
Dogs can understand the meaning of nouns, new research finds
It’s worse than that. They can spell too.
Also, this:
Some people just can’t say no.
Hey, why’r y’all lookin’ at me?
Kay
@Soprano2:
I have a close friend who lost his teenage son. He’s a dentist and active on volunteer boards and such so he knows a ton of people and a lot of people gave him the book “when bad things happen to good people”. He’s a really thoughtful person and he told me he ended up feeling this book was offensive. He said “did they think bad things only happened to bad people? So only bad people had their kids die, except that doesn’t apply to me because I’m “good”? That sucks. WTF is that? I don’t want that”.
I think about it a lot.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: I still miss Molly Ivins.
NotMax
Transplanted for the morning folk from the Medium Cool thread because it’s so nicely performed.
Moonlight Sonata, with a beat.
SiubhanDuinne
Just hearing that the CEO of Boeing, and apparently several other executives as well, resigned this morning.
TBone
@SiubhanDuinne: flew the coop before they were indicted, inquiring minds want to know (they can still be indicted)…
Kay
@SiubhanDuinne:
Oof. Good. There’s more to come out on that story.
Soprano2
@Kay: I’ve come to think things like that are offensive, too, kind of like how people think a “nice” person being killed is more tragic than if a “not nice” person is killed. I bought a book about being a caregiver that looks like it has a lot of good information and is relatively short (the one they always recommend, “The 36 Hour Day”, is long and intimidating. I don’t have time to wade through 300 pages to figure out what’s relevant to me!). One thing she said in the introduction stuck in my craw, though, that there will still be a lot of joy in the days ahead. I can’t WAIT to see what she says about that, where this “joy” is. Is it in watching my husband lie on the couch and sleep for hours on end? Is it watching him lose weight because he won’t eat, so that I’m desperately trying CBD/THC to see if I can get some of his appetite to come back? Is it in how he hardly talks to me anymore? Is it in how I can’t get him to go anywhere with me at all now? Where, exactly, is this “joy” going to be? Why do they feel the need to try to make you look on the bright side of every tragedy? The only “bright side” I’ve been able to see so far is that now that I’m making the decisions we have a gas furnace that just comes on and goes off without me having to do anything, and I can get rid of a bunch of the crap that he’s accumulated over the past 40+ years without him protesting. That’s it. Everything else is shit right now as far as I’m concerned.
MomSense
Greetings from the Starbucks drive through line in the next town where there is power. We lost power Saturday for the 5th time this winter. Aside from losing the contents of my refrigerator and freezer, we do have a backup heat source so at least we aren’t freezing at home.
The utility hasn’t said when we will get our power restored. We are still in the “assessing” category. When trees came down bringing power lines with them it caused a chain reaction that had transformers exploding and damaged substations.
WTAF in the year 2024 of our lord with climate change here (this is the fifth ice storm this winter) we are dealing with a failing infrastructure that was designed for 1949 and hasn’t even been properly maintained. Why the hell do we still have wooden utility poles and above ground utilities? It is an inconvenience for me but these things have caused thousands of deaths in California and Hawaii.
The reason I’m writing this from the drive thru line is because I have no GD cell signal at my house or in the neighborhood or until I get downtown and I don’t live in a rural town.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
“Don’t let the missing door hit you on the way out.”
//
TBone
@NotMax: 😆
Layer8Problem
@NotMax: A delayed thank you for mentioning a few weeks ago that Babylon Berlin‘s hitherto unavailable fourth series was going to be on the combined MHz Choice/Topic later this year.
I’m also pleased to find out that a third series of Fisk will be along later this year. Entertainment’s getting sorted out, so let’s get on with the removal of the political garbage.
Melancholy Jaques
@Kay:
In 2016, it seemed the political media were all certain that Hillary Clinton would be president, hence they (led by the NYT, as usual) felt free, or obligated really, to constantly push negative stories about her so she didn’t get big win.
TBone
The clock says 2 hours and change…
https://payuptrump.com/
I thought it was till the end of the day, but apparently not?
Melancholy Jaques
@Kay:
I don’t thing Greene played the media. I think they work together. She is a regular source of stories that get clicks.
TBone
I am awaiting watching George Stephanopoulos laughing about another frivolous, certain-to-lose lawsuit on live TV as well.
CaseyL
@SiubhanDuinne: Yeah, but the resignations don’t take effect until the end of the year – probably so they can get another few months of pay/benefits.
And they seem to be promoting from within, so the company leadership will be from the same poisonous pool of finance-and-marketing MOTUs.
IOW, the changes are going to be cosmetic, designed to appease nervous investors. Not to address the actual, foundational failures.
Hoodie
@Kay: I guess by “complaints” she means civil lawsuits. Of course, they’d actually have to know they’ve been defrauded to bring such suits. The loss here is a lost opportunity cost, money the lenders could have made if they had known Trump’s numbers were bogus and charged him an appropriate interest rate and/or lent their money to more worthwhile businesses. This from someone who has an MBA from U Chicago and is supposedly qualified to comment on economics. It’s mindboggling that nitwits like her actually get accepted at name schools and jobs at major journalism outlets.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Soprano2: Oh, Soprano, I’m sorry. Not that that fixes anything. But sound off all you like. God knows, nobody here expects other posters to be cheerful all the time.
Kay
@Soprano2:
One of my sisters was an opiate addict. At one point in her decline she lived with us because my father and another one of my sisters had this dumb idea that I could run a sort of rehab. They were desperate. I did it because I adored her before she got sick but it was a disaster. She was really mean to me because I knew she was using and wouldn’t drive her to Indiana emergency rooms to get drugs (she was known in Ohio and no one would give her anything), which upset my husband and my youngest child and eventually she left. She died of the disease, I took it hard, and one of my friends said “you didn’t deserve that”. I was taken aback. Who deserves that? I think less of her for saying that, like she’s putting people into “deserve” and “don’t deserve” baskets.
You must run into unhelpful comments a lot because most of the people our age are afraid of dementia so we’re probably horrible about it. I try not to be but I’m sure I am.
Kay
@Hoodie:
And the damage is to the general system. Fraudsters harm free markets. We have to have real numbers to make good decisions. McMegan should go look at some corrupt countries. No one wants to do business there because nothing is true or reliable. This is what these people are going to do to us – their stupidity and lack of internal ethics or guardrails are going to kill the golden goose they all worship.
I really cannot bear how they put no thought into these essays. It’s offensive. Earn your paycheck, lady. Be grateful the dopes in media pay you at all.
Frankensteinbeck
@Kay:
They also think nobody really cares about Dobbs. They thought Biden was unpopular within his party and would not win the primary. They did their god damnedest to make that true, and it didn’t happen. At all. Even Biden’s worst results were within the normal range.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m not surprised that dogs understand words, why should any dog owner be? I’m pretty careful to use some words in very specific circumstances to help him learn them: car ride (never use when the destination is the vet), lunch, walk.
It’s kind of amazing that dogs can learn something as complicated as any kind of word. I think body language is much more natural for them, and so hand signals have always been part of the interspecies communication around our house. And sometimes those “words” just pop up without a formal training program, such as the one that says, “come on over here and jump in my lap”.
Soprano2
@MomSense: I’m so sorry you’re going through that, we had a major ice storm here in 2007 and it still makes me twitchy even thinking about it. I hope you get power back soon.
OzarkHillbilly
It’s in little things, small reminders that even tho so much has been lost he is still the person you fell in love with. Of course, eventually even those things slip away and all you have are the memories.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Soprano2: So sorry you’re going through this. Our next door neighbors have been going through it, and as we’re both in our late 60s it’s a stage of life I ponder a lot. Not that I draw any useful conclusions. I’ve been reading all your posts and my heart goes out to you.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Eric S.: OK, so the deadline is noon.
@TBone: My understanding from listening to a metric buttload of legal commentary is that this deadline has to do with the appeal. If he can file a bond with the court by the deadline then he’ll be able to appeal and temporarily stop enforcement of the judgment. But he has to come up with the full amount, plus there might be a margin of 20% I think I’ve heard some people mention.
Otherwise the sheriff starts nailing “loser” notices to the doors.
Since IIRC he did manage to come up with the bond in the E. Jean Carroll lawsuit, she hasn’t gotten any money and that case must be somewhere in the appeals pipeline now.
Hoodie
If McArdle had bothered to even follow what actually happened in the trial she’d know that that was the crux of the entire thing, i.e., Trump basically admitted that the valuations were lies, the bulk of testimony was about the magnitude of the lost opportunity for the banks. I think people like her reach a point where they’re so isolated from consequences that they think they should be paid simply for existing. I guess there’s certain irony to “journalists” at NBC getting up in arms when the management hires McDaniel, when many of them have tolerated and even promoted this kind of lazy bullshit forever.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Dogs know verbs too. I can say, “You wanna go…” and Billy is up and jumping all over me. I don’t even get to say, “for a walk?” or “for a ride?”
Soprano2
@Kay: I’m so sorry, it’s always tough to lose someone you love but it’s got to be particularly hard to watch that person destroy themselves and be helpless to do anything about it. Yes, I get a lot of advice from people. Mostly I listen and nod because I know it’s well-meaning and comes from a place of love, but every now and then I have to tell them I don’t want to talk about it anymore. The regular customers at the bar are really worried about him. I keep telling them they might not ever see him again, I think they don’t believe me. I’m waiting for his doctors’ visit on Wednesday; I think he’s depressed, and hope the doctor will at least try something for that. I also hope the doctor prescribes home health people, because I need the help. I’m hoping he’ll do things for them (like take a shower) that he won’t do for me. I can’t remember everything all the time, just typing this I remembered something I was going to do before I left the house that I didn’t do this morning. It takes up so much space in my brain that I have to be double vigilant about everything else so I don’t forget appointments and stuff like that.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@OzarkHillbilly: Difference between a dog and a human: The human is not going to answer that question till they hear how the sentence ends.
Kay
@Frankensteinbeck:
Agree. I comfort myself with that. That, and Joe Biden is a genuinely underestimated person and has been his entire career. I think part of the reason they sneer at Biden is he went to state schools. You really cannot overestimate what snobs these people are. The NYTimes covers Harvard obsessively and insanely and to the exclusion of every other higher ed institution because they think their schools are the only schools that matter.
Underdog races are fun. I can say from personal experience it is just a blast when the conventional wisdom douchebags are all betting against you. It’s freeing.
gvg
@Soprano2: I don’t think he has to win in order to make them more watched stories. He is going to do terrible things when he loses and people are going to watch the news. Hiring an insider who can tell them what crazy and or bad things are being planned by the loser will also increase their revenue.
Soprano2
@OzarkHillbilly: Maybe someday that will make me feel joy, but right now all I feel is pain when that happens, because it reminds me of what we’ve lost. This huge change since he was in the hospital has been really hard on me. I thought it would be six months or more before I needed help, but now I need it soon. It’s a big mental adjustment.
Soprano2
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Thanks for that. I think a lot these days about what will happen to me if I get like this, I have no family that’s close to me at all.
Melancholy Jaques
@Hoodie:
There is no accountability for the political media.
Hoodie
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: From what I understand, the appeal will proceed irrespective of whether the bond is posted. If he fails to post the bond, James can commence enforcement of the judgment while the appeal proceeds. One interesting thing is that, while James has to go through some hoops to put Trump’s real estate holdings on the auction block, she can pretty quickly get at any bank accounts and income streams (e.g., royalties) he’s receiving. That may really constrain his ability to maintain his lifestyle or even meet other debt obligations.
Kay
@Soprano2:
Isn’t it weird who ends up being on your “sincere” list and who doesn’t? I had a client who checked up on me for months after my sister died. Just text messages – “thinking about you”. Her son had died of the same disease hence how we ended up together for legal issues but I would feel this rush of gratitude when I would see the text, at a time that nearly everyone else was annoying to me. It was just pure in a way, from the gut.
TBone
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I just listened to some pundit saying what difficult decisions Tish is facing in deciding what to seize first, like there are no prescribed rules, precedent, or experts to advise her in existence. These effin people. About as realistic as a sandpaper dildo.
Mr. Bemused Senior
@Soprano2: my situation was different (cancer, not dementia). The only advice I can offer is, get help. You are probably running on fumes (I certainly was toward the end).
Take care of yourself as much as possible, you need it.
PAM Dirac
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
If he can file a bond with the court by the deadline then he’ll be able to
appeal andtemporarily stop enforcement of the judgment.I’m pretty sure he can appeal no matter what, but posting a bond stops enforcement during the appeal. What a lot of apologists don’t want to bring up is that drumpf has already lost this case; there is a judgement against him. The notion that he shouldn’t suffer any consequences for that judgement doesn’t seem to be based in any law, but more a whine of “Don’t you know who he is?”
TBone
Washing machine flooded basement yesterday but not first floor laundry room where it sits. I called a plumber but hubby is yelling FLEX TAPE, THEY MAKE BOATS OUTTA THAT SHIT 🤣 and at this point I might just go there with him! In yesterday’s clothes again.
OzarkHillbilly
@Soprano2: I know. It took me a while to be able to smile at those small moments. With some it was not until he was gone. The moments of absolute helplessness became all but unbearable.
Thank dawg I had my wife to lean on. I don’t know how you do it without that support.
Frankensteinbeck
@Kay:
It’s not something I normally think about, but yeah, I believe it. The Cletus safaris reek of it. “Let’s go slumming and find out what the filthy manual laborers think!”
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
@Kay: That lack of anxiety drives so much poor decision making. It truly explain why so many people fail to plan for the future or take out student loans in excess of $100K for degrees in careers that don’t pay well. They just don’t worry about it. They shrug it off and think it will all work out fine.
Kay
If political media wins this and they credit a Biden loss to holding Trump accountable for crimes imagine how corrupt this country will become. No powerful person will ever be prosecuted again. No joke, we’re talking “failed state”.
They cannot win this. Their cynical, venal, self interested view cannot carry the day or this experiment is over.
cmorenc
@SFAW:
I seriously doubt Trump buried any of the docs in or immeidately around Ivana’s grave, at least not if his purpose was to retain them for sale or other nefarious use beyond mere symbolic defiance against losing in 2020. How could he access them from her gravesite without attracting notice? OTOH, it is a distinct possibility that he has secreted the still-missing portion of the documents in some other kind of hidey-place on the Bedminister estate, such as a secret storage space installed well before Ivana’s death.
smith
@cmorenc: One small comfort in all of this: the docs he hid away must have lost their value in the interim. Otherwise, he would already have his $464 million in hand.
Scout211
Oh, boy. I feel you with this one. People really are trying to be supportive but often they want to hear good news, like it’s some sort of disease that has a recovery period. I don’t even think they are aware of it. But when we tell them that things are getting worse, they aren’t prepared to respond to that information.
Thank you for sharing your story here. It definitely helps me and likely any lurkers who are in the same situation as we are.
TBone
@Kay: 1,000% correct
Chief Oshkosh
@Kay: Yep, it’s a very basic aspect of our society and legal system of which she apparently has the understanding of a child. And based on previous performance, as I wrote, she will not be able to understand explanations such as yours.
She’s right, we’re all wrong, and any discussion after that is just “brigading.”
Welp, maybe she’ll step on a rake and knock some sense into herself.
rikyrah
@OzarkHillbilly:
That is so adorable :)
MomSense
@Soprano2:
How are you doing? I hope you know we are here for you. It doesn’t just take a village to raise a child. All of us are rooting for you and want to make sure you have support.
TBone
@cmorenc: he stored classified documents in the shitter. I don’t put anything out of the realm of possibility after those photographs of national security breach at his tacky espionage fulfillment center.
rikyrah
@Kay:
You ain’t lying, Kay.
You ain’t even lying.
Paul in KY
It can’t be good to breathe in any of that coloured stuff they throw around.
rikyrah
@Soprano2:
Promoting?
She was actively involved in Michigan!
Paul in KY
Riffing off McArglebargle’s stupid quote above, you can embezzle money from entities that don’t know or care that it is missing.
rikyrah
@Soprano2:
They resent the competency of Biden and his Administration.
They actually have to report and understand POLICY following this Administration.
NOthing that they can hold back for their phucking books, because they don’t get books out of this Administration.
Paul in KY
@Mai Naem mobile: VP Clinton didn’t hilight that near enough (IMO) in her campaign.
cmorenc
I am grateful to Max Kennedy for his tweet clearly explaining the enormous hole in the claim that Trump’s grossly fraudulent representations of asset value e.g. in obtaining financing, were victimless “process” crimes – that no one was harmed by Bernie Madoff’s fraudulent representations, or FTX, or Enron, until the house of cards came crashing down when those who relied thereupon needed to call in and redeem the phantom value that was never actually there.
Paul in KY
@Greg: They know he’d lie his ass off and they’d never get the money back anyway, so…no.
sdhays
@Hoodie: I’m still reeling from the “sniffing that ‘It’s the law'” comment.
Like, if you’re going to say that Trump broke the law, but the law is unfair, write about that! Write about how unjust the law is and how it should be written.
Of course, she won’t do that because, obviously, the law isn’t unfair and is written the way it is for good reasons. She’s actually arguing that it’s unfair to make the law apply to Trump (and, by implication, other powerful people). But she doesn’t want to spell that out because…that’s not a popular thing to support. As Kay says, that’s arguing for turning the country into a failed state (even more than it already is leaning towards).
rikyrah
@Kay:
The complete and utter delusion bothers me too, Kay.
rikyrah
@Ladyraxterinok:
That’s why winning those Secretary of State Positions in the Key States was so important.
Georgia…yeah, you are correct.
And, I’m concerned about North Carolina and Florida.
sdhays
@Chief Oshkosh: You place unreasonably high expectations on that rake.
catclub
@Paul in KY: Curiously, there was just last week a crazy ruling against the SEC when they brought pump and dump stock fraudsters to trial. Crazy judge DID argue that since the people who lost money did not buy the stock DIRECTLY from the fraudsters, but instead bought it on the market….no harm done.
I expect this ruling to be overturned. it is insane.
rikyrah
@Eric S.:
It’s his entire behavior for his life. There is nothing, in the history of the way that he does business, that would get me, to have faith in putting up a half billion dollars for Donald Trump.
That’s serious money..I don’t give a shyt who you are.
rikyrah
@SiubhanDuinne:
They are criminals who should be charged.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
I keep thinking, surely he’s got some scam in mind to post the bond. I think I’ve got it. Hear me out.
There’s a con that works for online big-ticket items, like cars or your grandmother’s jewelry. The way it works is this. You advertise your item for say $5K. I send you a cashier’s check, but it’s $10K. Oops. I call you in a panic about my huge mistake and please, please could you send me the difference ASAP? Sure, you say, and do so.
Then the bank refuses the “cashier’s check”, or you deposited it and a couple days later (I think that’s the ideal scenario from the scammer’s viewpoint) it bounces because it’s a forgery. But the scammer has the money you sent, and maybe you even already sent Grandma’s necklace.
So think like a Trump and just scale this up. For instance, first you deposit a $1B check to the clerk’s office…
lowtechcyclist
@Soprano2:
I’d say they should cover sports because the stakes are low: if your team loses, life goes on just as before. Except that sports fans are more demanding of the sportsball reporters than anyone of significance is of the political reporters.
Soprano2
@Kay: I know, it’s both gratifying and exhausting because every time I go out there now I end up talking to the ones who are there about him. I hesitate to ask any of them to visit because I’m not sure I want them to see how he is now. I think they would be truly shocked to see him. There is one woman there who is a nurse in the ICU where he was in the hospital – she saw him and so understands better what’s happening, plus she’s dealing with it herself with a good friend who’s also a regular customer. I talked to her a lot on Saturday, it was actually helpful to a certain extent. She recommended that I start looking at facilities and even get on a waiting list if there’s one I think I would want for him because it takes awhile to get into them. That’s good advice, I think, because I’m a planner and don’t want to have an emergency where I need to do that but can’t because I’m not on a list and there are no slots. It’s easy to talk about it too much, I’m trying to guard against that so people don’t start avoiding me.
prostratedragon
@smith: They’re always a depreciating asset, especially after the target discovers they’ve been taken.
lowtechcyclist
@NotMax:
Awesome! I LOL’d.
Soprano2
@Scout211: You’re welcome, it’s reciprocal because it helps me sometimes to write about it. I think it’s hard for people to wrap their mind around the FACT that dementia is a) a fatal disease and b) a one-way ticket. We’re so used to things being cured because of modern medicine that we have a hard time accepting that not everything can be fixed. People don’t get better, ultimately they only get worse. Even I have a little bit of hope that if the doctor prescribes an antidepressant he’ll get somewhat better at least for a little while. According to people in my FB group that does happen, but it’s not permanent.
geg6
@SiubhanDuinne:
About damn time. Talk about failing up. The Boeing leadership team is a textbook example. I saw an interview a month or two ago with the Boeing CEO and he was an arrogant idiot. And completely stumped on how to answer persistent questions about the issues at the company. He just kept repeating the same non-answer over and over and over.
Paul in KY
@schrodingers_cat: The young lady dancing & singing in video is singing in falsetto, right?
Soprano2
@MomSense: Thanks for asking. I’m OK, I see a therapist every week so that helps. I think once his doctor has come and I have a better handle on the next steps to take I’ll be even better. Right now I feel like I’m in a holding pattern, and that’s frustrating.
geg6
@Soprano2:
As someone who is in a very similar situation, I feel you. All these people saying to look on the bright side of things is fucking insulting.
Barbara
@Soprano2: I am so sorry. Reading through all your prior comments as well, I find this kind of happy clappy spin on grief and loss and how to make the best of a bad situation to be infuriating. I hope you get the help you need for yourself and your husband.
@Soprano2: That is good advice, and I was going to say something like that but it sounds like you are already aware. The more waiting lists you are on and the more facilities you look at earlier in the process, the more likely you will be able to choose one based on sound data. A lot of people default into a care situation and then find it very difficult to switch, even when they know they should.
Paul in KY
@Soprano2: I will say that part of Pres. Biden’s re-election campaign is buttering up some of these press people. Has to be done. Get them some more access & hopefully some interesting things to write about that cast the POTUS in a good light.
smith
Oh, shit. The appellate court just reduced the amount of the bond required to stop James seizing his assets to $175 million. So it turns out Don Poorleone doesn’t have to obey the laws everybody else does after all.
Mr. Bemused Senior
What hath Jack Welch wrought?
This is what you get.
Manyakitty
@rikyrah: one hopes that Obama recommended they prepare a team of lawyers, maybe led by Marc Elias or someone like him.
narya
@Soprano2: I seriously hope that the doc can get you some help–it was absolutely vital for my mom to have that help. The gradually increasing needs almost sneak up on you.
Jackie
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
I’m not going to fret; if TIFG finds the money, we’ll learn who EXPECTS to own the next potential president, and know our enemy. If it’s a foreign autocrat, then even some of his most ardent supporters will think TIFG’s gone too far – IF MAGA’s really are the patriotic Americans they claim to be.
I’m HOPING he doesn’t get bailed out BECAUSE there’s not a single billionaire out there that expects TIFG to win the presidency.
satby
@rikyrah: it’s been 10 years since I was laid off from being on that account as my own company was preparing to merge with another, but Boeing was by far the most obnoxious account I ever worked on. I’ve tried to fly on Airbuses whenever it’s an option since.
smith
@Jackie: They just reduced the bond to $175 million. How much you want to bet that will turn out to be exactly how much he has been able to secure?
ETA: And they’ve given him an extra 10 days to comply.
TBone
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: that’s where retired judge Barbara Jones comes in handy. Monitor.
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/donald-trump/trump-financial-watchdog-informs-judge-40-million-undisclosed-cash-tra-rcna127360
Soprano2
Has anyone seen James Carville’s latest musings as told to Maureen Dowd? It can be summed up as “If only Democrats would throw women, minorities, gay people and non-Christians under the bus, the real voters who matter (white working class men) would start voting for them again”. He says there are too many women in charge in the Democratic Party, it’s too “feminine”. He seems to think Democrats haven’t won any elections since November 2020. I heard some of that same crap on the last Maher program I listened to. I think they honestly believe that if only Democrats could become like Republicans except for the tax cuts white people would vote for them again enmasse. It’s delusional. It’s almost funny to listen to them talk about it without ever once mentioning how racist, sexist and bigoted against gay people most Republicans are. “It’s a mystery why so many working class whites started voting for Republicans when minorities, women and gay people started gravitating to the Democratic Party, must be economic anxiety.”
hueyplong
@smith: I hope that isn’t a preview to what the appellate court will do to the judgment itself (reduce it to $175M).
Uncle Cosmo
Why should it? // It’s just
Neville Chamberlain, 27 Sept 1938.
(Attributed to Churchill in various forms, though never documented – this is the most colourful ;^D version I found.)
trnc
@Kay: Also, a financial institution doesn’t have much incentive to loudly proclaim they were duped.
TBone
@smith: wtf grrrrrrrr we are in banana Republic territory.
It doesn’t alter the original Judgment though?
lowtechcyclist
@Chief Oshkosh:
Fixed.
SiubhanDuinne
@smith:
Not only a lot less money, but additional time to come up with it.
No one is above the law, my flabby white Democratic ass.
TBone
@SiubhanDuinne: I am fuming. Which judge is in his pocket now? We The People (of NY) suffer a huge loss?
Until the Appeal verdict comes in…
smith
@SiubhanDuinne: And they wonder why the plebes no longer have any respect for the law.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
😂🤣
satby
@mrmoshpotato: yes, the SW Chief; and no, the sleeper cars are too expensive (for me, for a family it can be worth it). It’s just an overnight trip. I enjoy the serendipity of coach and the observation cars. I met great people and had great conversations last time.
SiubhanDuinne
@TBone:
I think I heard the judge’s name reported as Renwick. I devoutly hope I misheard. Bad enough my grandfather’s name was Cannon; his mother’s name was Renwick. I would prefer my forebears not be associated with these jurists, tyvm.
Sure Lurkalot
@Scout211:
Good there was pushback but I would have preferred “what were the concerns with the 2020 election?” It would’ve been a laundry list of illegals voting, multiple ballots, ballot harvesting, no IDs, rigged voting machines, etc., about which multiple lawsuits were filed and tossed out.
When the real concerns were alternate slates of electors and other schemes to throw the vote to state houses, not to mention an armed insurrection.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: That story is why any newbies in my house are in isolation until after the spay/ neuter. And I still have 10 cats, but by now I would likely have had 40. Fortunately, we were able to find good adopters for several, including the pregnant one four years ago and her 8 kittens (also all fixed).
TBone
@SiubhanDuinne: oh dear! That’s a weird coincidence! Chillingly weird.
Omnes Omnibus
I think we can take the reduction in the bond amount as a sign that the court of appeals thinks that the penalty was probably too high and will reduce it. The ten days of extra time are likely to be because Trump would have been looking for a half a billion and people who would not consider that might consider $175 million.* The rest of the stay is pretty standard.
Judgments get reduced on appeal quite often. I would not get overly concerned about this. It isn’t the best news, but I don’t think it is something nefarious.
*I hope not.
TBone
Am turning in my “avid and confident watcher of justice system” card and burning my bra.
Scout211
Yeah, I know how that feels. My sister and I are very close but I finally had to say to her that she needed to stop trying to give me pep talks. I know I can do this, so there was no need to tell me that all the time. I told her that I just wanted her to say to me, “That sucks!” So that’s what she does now and it feels so much more supportive. And her husband is very ill with chronic blood cancer so I do the same for her. Sometimes we just need others to see us and acknowledge our struggle. Please, no pep talks.
Anoniminous
@smith:
Once again I am reminded we have the best legal system money can buy.
Kay
@Soprano2:
I think you said you had an attorney to help with planning. I know you have a lot but try to get that done because an emergency petition for any kind of guardianship is more expensive and stressful than a planned petition. Start with a physician, because you’re going to need them to sign off on your petition. Ohio will also accept a PA or NP too, or a licensed psychologist, probably Missouri too Find out if “a doctor” would determine him as incompetent – it’s a legal standard so not a diagnosis so not something you have to feel bad or disloyal about in case you feel like you’re jumping the gun – you’re not. It’s housekeeping. Check that box.
There are also free guardianship classes you can take – you will be the guardian, hes the ward. Call your county probate court or look on your state supreme court website for the classes. You’ll learn a lot about what’s available to you.
evodevo
@TBone: Yeah…I thought he had till COB today…
Barbara
@Kay: In a situation like this it should be pretty straightforward to get a doctor’s determination of incompetence. I was kind of shocked when the psychiatrist for my terminally ill brother told me that she had already written the letter we needed for us to make decisions about hospice on his behalf. He had metastatic brain cancer and I would not have assessed him as being legally incompetent but she said he absolutely was. The letter might need to indicate that the condition is irreversible and permanent so that there is no question about whether it is recent enough to still be accurate.
Kay
@Barbara:
Agree. I wouldn’t have them do the letter yet – ours is a form and all physicians are familiar with it because they have to renew it every two years for every ward. I would just ask if they would sign if needed as he is now, hypothetically, so she has that assurance. I think judge is going to want a signature no older than 30 days. As you know a guardianship is a profound loss of rights for the presumpotive ward and judges pay a lot of attention to process- has to be just right (good! they should).
rikyrah
@Kay:
And, the VP went to an HBCU and a State School for Law School.
I feel you, Kay.
Jackie
@Omnes Omnibus: $175M still isn’t chump change. And the fact that TIFG has ten more days to cough it up, suggests he’s still holding his MAGA hat out for alms because he doesn’t have that amount in cash, either.
I AM pissed about the extra time granted!😡
Kay
@rikyrah:
I love that she went to a HBCU :)
Trump wil have no guardrails at all this time. He’s already been impeached, indicted, civil judgments, lost a re-elect, etc. He will have (at least) 4 years to do anything he and his monied backers want to do. The only way to stop him wil be to literally slap him in restraints and haul him out of there, and who will do that? His corrupt FBI head or AG? Fuck no. They’re going to use state power to protect him.
This is it. This is the big test. We either pass the test or we don’t.
rikyrah
@Kay:
You do not lie.
Which is why we have to buckle down and just get out the vote.
I’ll forever stand up for the Founding Fathers on this one.
They saw the Orange Menace coming. They gave us all kinds of ways to deal with him.
What they never saw coming was an entire political party turning on their oath to the Constitution. They did not account for that.
Or, for a Press that would both sides us into fascism, because they wanna sell books.
Kay
I cannot stop laughing. My 4 year old grandaughter has food dye tinted water in a big mason jar which she is calling an “aquarium”. She’s changing admission to this exhibit although there are no fish in the jar. She might charge “more” because she is “thinking about’ getting fish.
Eyeroller
@Kay: But everything is so expeeennsiiiiive! This inflation is all Joe Biden’s fault, and will go away as soon as Trump is back. And all these illegals are takin er jerbs.
This seems to be the level at which most voters are capable of thinking.
Kay
@Eyeroller:
I know. I wish they would think this thru. He’s going to be completely unbound. I don’t think the US armed forces will go against us (unlike the shameful fucking lawyers, who are an embarrassment). I think they’re professionals, know their mission, oath-driven, etc. But local law enforcement will do what he says, gleefully.
Juju
@Soprano2:Things will happen that will cheer you a bit, but they will be few and far between, and your definition of the bright side will change a bit as it has already. Those things you mentioned aren’t nothing. The only truly nice thing I can say about dementia in regards to my mother is based on something I don’t like to talk about or think about. My father was killed in a horrific accident right in front of my mother a little over 30 years ago. It caused a number of years of gut wrenching trauma for my mother. A few years ago we were talking about my dad and how much she missed him and then she mentioned something I had always suspected, that every day, in her mind, she saw the accident that killed my father. More recently my mother said to me that she knew my father had died, but she could not think how, or when. I am relieved that she doesn’t see that vision in her mind every day. That’s the only good thing about her dementia.
My mother hates Trump, and recently she cracked a joke about his hair and orange makeup. Something about how his hair and face looked like he stuck his head in a toilet full of pee and flushed it to do his morning grooming. It was pretty lame, but it made us both laugh and I was nicely surprised that she could still crack the occasional joke. I hope your husband surprises you that way someday.
Paul in KY
@Soprano2: Very sorry for his situation and also yours!
Paul in KY
@catclub: IMO, Iran Contra showed rich/powerful people that they could evade responsibility so much easier than they had thought.
Soprano2
@Kay: Thanks for the tip about guardianship. Lucky for me I already have the durable POA – we did that in 2013-2014 when we did our trusts. I already got the two letters I need for it, and I’ve used them a couple of times. I am meeting with an elder law attorney on Thursday to go over our trusts and ask them questions about things I might not know about or have missed. I also want to talk about asset preservation.
Yutsano
@OzarkHillbilly: Three redheads? Yer doomed PawPaw.
Denali5
@Kay:
Well, you just torpedoed my pending letter to my daughter, who has treated me quite badly. I really do feel that I do not deserve her behavior. I don’t understand it, except for the fact that she has some health problems. I have truly tried to help her. I don’t want her gratitude – but would like a relationship.
H-Bob
“Blue represents the color of Lord Krishna’s skin”; actually, it’s black (the word “Krishna” means black) but because it is artistically difficult to depict facial expressions on black paint, his skin color is depicted as blue so that his facial expressions can be depicted. However, most people don’t realize that and think his skin color is blue.