This was in Denver yesterday. Right after I took this picture, the guy at the right asked me “Do you want to help get Bobby on the Colorado ballot?” My answer, “Absolutely not.” I’m usually polite to petition gatherers, but come on — Brain Worms Bobby, one of the few anti-vaxxers who actually might have needed Ivermectin? Hard pass. Not that it justifies rudeness towards them, but I’d bet a fair amount that these were paid petition-gathers because Junior’s new running mate has a big bank account and is paying for his ballot access effort.
Also, “Declare Your Independence” is a chef’s kiss effort to attract the glibertarian moths to this particular flame. The target audience for this campaign is folks who have the same perspective as a house cat: they’re the most independent and fierce individualists who’ve ever pooped in a box, never mind that their whole existence is dependent on the largesse of their owners.
Barbara
I was getting texts for a while from someone connected with his campaign. Thankfully no longer. However tempting, you really shouldn’t respond because it just shows them your willingness to engage.
Omnes Omnibus
I see that you have chosen violence this morning.
Scout211
Politico thinks that Trump is confronting his RFK, jr “problem with vaccines.
LOL. Fighting for the anti-vaxx fringe. 🙄
And another cray-cray event. Elise Stefanik is pulling out the stops to get Trump’s attention.
Secretary of State?
lowtechcyclist
@Barbara:
That’s why I only text family and friends. It’s rare that I get a text from any person or entity that I have no connection with.
I get emails from all sorts of clowns, but almost all of those go to the email I use for making political contributions. Most days, I don’t even look at what’s coming in at that address.
$8 blue check mistermix
@Barbara: I think “stop” is a great response that shows non-engagement and makes then drop you from their list of “active text contacts”…
Another Scott
@Barbara: Obligatory…
https://imgflip.com/i/8qkr6k
(Will probably only last an hour as I don’t have an account.)
Cheers,
Scott.
MattF
The slow dawning among the Trumpists of the notion that RFKJR takes more votes from Trump than from Biden is entertaining, but only mildly. Fighting over the ‘crazy’ demographic is not a hopeful sign.
waspuppet
The “clever” RFK Jr. talking point is “Tell me why I should vote for Joe Biden without mentioning the name Donald Trump.” Well, tell me why I should vote for Junior without mentioning the name Joe Biden.
I can hear the response “Aw c’mon man; don’t you think the more people on the ballot, the better?”
No.
MomSense
I’m so sick of anti-vaxxers. Maine became somewhat of a magnet for them because we had religious and philosophical exemptions for attending public school. Ever since those exemptions were repealed by the legislature ( and survived a challenge on the ballot ) those parents have been pulling them out of public schools to varioius private or home school options. I’ve been surprised to see people I know posting pro Kennedy crap.
Maine topsoil has a lot more mercury and other harmful things in it than the thimerasol they are so worried about.
Starfish
A lot of local election stuff feels like this in Colorado now. It is all the dumbest stuff by the worst people. No, you can’t close down the local airport because you don’t like airplane noises. I will not be signing your petition.
karen marie
@Scout211: Rep to the UN – like Haley – would be a better bet.
On a seperate but related thing – in re Boebert out front of the NYC courthouse. Her claim is Trump doesn’t even know what he’s on trial for.
If I were a supporter of Trump, I’d find it a bit alarming that despite the trial being almost over and his having multiple lawyers whose job it is to explain things to him, he’s not clear on the charges.
PS Tilapia is terrible. Why do people eat it?
Miss Bianca
@Starfish: I feel you COMPLETELY on this. Local politics in CO used to be where you found some, at least, of that now-mythical beast, the Reasonable Republican. Not any more – with the advent of the nationalized Culture Wars infecting local races, even the non-radical ones can’t be trusted any more.
SW
Bobby has been broken since June of 1968. Best to characterize him as a victim of gun violence. This has the virtue of being true. Scorn doesn’t work. Pity is kryptonite.
Scout211
Sadly, his fans will readily believe that obvious lie because “deep state” reasons. I imagine it doesn’t sit well with his attorneys but they get their millions up front so maybe they are fine with it.
thruppence
Gods, I hope Boebert loses; an embarrassment to Colorado and the country. What does that say about her supporters?
Jackie
Maria Bartiromo asked RFK jr if he thinks Biden should be drug tested before the June debate. His response? He burst out laughing in her face, then when asked again, said “NO!”
Even RFK jr doesn’t believe TIFG’s projections! Notably, she didn’t ask Junior if TIFG should be drug tested.
https://www.rawstory.com/rfk-jr-biden-test/
West of the Rockies
@Scout211:
She’s not fit to be secretary of the Apple Valley Elementary School 7th grade Chess Club.
RSA
I was once approached by someone with a clipboard asking me to sign a petition, something having to do with a Libertarian candidate getting on the ballot. I declined. I later realized that my refusal was in line with libertarian ideology. No benefit to me personally.
Thor Heyerdahl
And he’s a creep…
Baud
The Founders believed in vaccines.
artem1s
this is why I hate creating legislation thru ballot initiatives. too many of our state legislatures are completely dysfunctional due to gerrymandering and wingnut extremism. it shouldn’t be the responsibility of the voters to make the legislature do their jobs. and in most cases the problem that the ballot initiative is supposed to address is just ignored by the legislature, AG and Governor that caused the problem in the first place. on top of that there is absolutely nothing the keep the extremists from collecting signatures for their repressive ballot initiatives. in Ohio the same instrument that put anti-same sex marriage on the Ohio Constitution was used to protect women’s abortion access in the wake of Dodd. the Roberts court overturned the first which lead to national same sex marriage legalization. ironically the same court will probably overturn the second too.
Suzanne
Open thread? Weird piece in FTFNYT. A New Centrism Is Rising in Washington
Has there really been a move right on social issues? I would say, on the whole, no….. but the patriarchal backlash is real.
dmsilev
@karen marie:
Maybe he too has brain worms? Instead of drug tests, we should insist that debate candidates submit cranial MRI scans.
Baud
@Suzanne:
I think they mean the backlash.
Also, young men are becoming more misogynistic, although it’s a wash because young women are moving left.
Jeffg166
Driving passed the Art Museum in Philadelphia last Thursday I saw one lone person holding a large Kennedy banner. Everyone was ignoring them.
Another Scott
@Suzanne:
Quoting FTFNYT:
All together now!
“Name two!!”
:-/
Seriously, we’re a country of 330-ish million people with around 760 billionaires and around 24.5 million millionaires. That there are “many” people holding an opinion, and willing to talk anonymously to a FTFNYT reporter, is not news or evidence of anything at all.
I couldn’t get past the second paragraph of your excerpt. You have a stronger constitution than me.
Grr…,
Scott.
Baud
@Suzanne:
I also won’t believe Americans are moving left on economic issues until they vote that way.
trollhattan
@karen marie: Tilapia is the skinless boneless chicken breast of fish.
It’s farmed at nearly the same scale, a low-maintenance freshwater fish. Ocean farming of salmon and the like is a lot harder and environmentally fraught.
I don’t like catfish, either.
trollhattan
@Jackie: I can remember a time, in the hazy past, when Maria Bartiromo seemed able to say seemingly smart things about business and finance. WTH happened to her, brain worm? She’s awful now.
Baud
@trollhattan:
People conform to their environment.
Baud
@Jeffg166:
That’s practically an act of endearment for Philadelphia.
Spanky
@Baud: I would argue that young men are no more misogynistic than when we were young. They’re just getting called out on the behavior that used to go without pushback. And they don’t like it.
Society as a whole has decided that treating women as equals is a good thing, and that leaves some of the, ummm, less enlightened baffled and enraged.
Scout211
I don’t see men becoming more misogynistic. Seems about the same to me or even a tad bit less so since my younger days. What I do see though, is more public expressions of pride in their misogyny and angry defensive responses to being called out on it. Plus more people calling them out.
ETA: and what Spanky posted
Spanky
@Suzanne: What I got from that quote you pulled is that the FTFNYT has no idea who are the political elites, nor what gives them that cachet.
ETA spelling of fancy words.
Juju
@$8 blue check mistermix: I got some texts from Support Trump Now, or something like that. They didn’t have the Stop option. On the third unwanted, no way, no how, uh uh, never, never, never text they sent, I hit the report as junk and block option that comes up with unknown texts. I don’t have any idea how they got my phone number, but if I get more texts from them I will do the same thing. Boy does that organization seem desperate. They need money NOW NOW NOW.
Kay
It is just nuts that Lauren Boebert went to court to support Trump but did not go to court to support her son.
They’re all such lousy parents. Maybe cult members are always lousy parents.
Baud
@Spanky:
@Scout211:
I didn’t mean to compare young and old generations. I’m talking about the way young generations are heading.
ETA: Older men were definitely collectively worse as both young men and as old men.
Suzanne
@Baud:
I think the reporter meant that Americans support Social Security, Medicare, even Obamacare, etc…. but I also don’t see Republicans supporting raising taxes on the rich.
However, I have noted before….. lots of Americans like left-ish policy, but they hate leftists.
Juju
@Kay: Not only lousy parents, also awful human beings with no redeeming qualities.
Baud
@Suzanne:
Then they ask themselves why things keep going downhill.
Kay
@Juju:
Mothers almost always show up in support of young offenders, not support of the crime, obviously, but of the person. She’s a real outlier. Truly bottom 10% of shitty parents.
Another Scott
Speaking of our brains tricking us…
The Coffer Illusion.
I couldn’t see the circles until I found a link that pointed them out.
Hint: Look at the vertical segments between the squares.
Yet another illustration that our eyes and brains aren’t objective cameras.
Cheers,
Scott.
Spanky
Having lunch this cloudy afternoon with some chillin’ music, Stan Getz and Joao Gilberto.
Baud
@Kay:
What has her son done to own the libs? Nothin
Omnes Omnibus
@Another Scott: Are you saying that Christopher Isherwood was lying?
Steeplejack
@trollhattan:
The short version is that Bartiromo went nuts after she moved to Fox News in 2013—or her inner nut was allowed to emerge. Plus she is married to a billionaire, or presumed billionaire. (Her father-in-law was Saul Steinberg.)
She is a defendant in Smartmatic’s still active lawsuit against Fox News and some of its anchors.
Another Scott
@Omnes Omnibus: You’re determined to bring culture to this place, and me, aren’t you??!
Maybe he was right about that, sometimes…
;-)
Thanks.
Cheers,
Scott.
Starfish
@Suzanne: I think it is more along the lines of what John was talking about. People have real fatigue around the magnifying glass being put on issues that they really know nothing about.
If things were normal, you would see the discussion of these issues just swooshing over people’s heads, and people would still fail to care about those issues.
But no, we are going to go have culture wars against school children so people have to care about these things.
I just watched the commencement speech for the University of Michigan Medical school online, and several graduates in the audience are wearing keffiyehs in support of Gaza. But people want to go have culture wars against… uh… the future doctors? It is really weird.
Kay
@Suzanne:
I just think it’s bad analysis. Social issues don’t lend themselves to ballot issues so we don’t have many examples, but the one we do have is abortion, where the public seems to be much more progressive than the people who work at the NYTimes.
It’s also bullshit that “centrists” support social issues. Almost the entire “centrist”commentary group lost their fucking minds over “wokeness” – so the moment they were actually threatened with out groups rising they abandoned their support of social issues. They’re just Republicans.
jimmiraybob
Elect Random Cat 2024!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@MomSense: A right winger here got shingles that went into his left eye and he’s now blind in that eye. Needless to say, he hadn’t had the shingles vaccine
Another Scott
What’s stronger than the Streisand Effect? Maybe the Gina Rhinehart Effect??
Cheers,
Scott.
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud:
And we have Dobbs to thank for it.
Kay
Faced with reams of video evidence the NYTimes finally has to admit the NYPD are just beating the shit out of peaceful protestors. The billionaires ordered them to do this and like good little goons they’re happy to take orders.
I wonder if anyone in government will obect to this, or is it just open season on these particular protestors and this particular political speech? Are cops just rogue state agents now? They can do anything they want with no consequences?
jimmiraybob
@Baud: “The Founders believed in vaccines.”
That’s because they actually had always experienced the ravages of disease.I still remember a cousin dying of Polio when I was in my earliest years.
Saxophonist David Sanborn who just passed away, suffered early in his life from Polio, including a year in an iron lung, but was eventually saved by medical science and jazz.
Haven’t heard much about Polio since the early 1960s & vaccine.
The founders also drank a lot of beer and other spirits rather than the locally available disease-laden water (they certainly would have benefited from an EPA).
Snarki, child of Loki
@dmsilev: “Maybe [Trump] has brain worms? Instead of drug tests, we should insist that debate candidates submit cranial MRI scans.”
Only the biggest, BEST brain worms! YUUUUGE brain worms!
HumboldtBlue
Breaking: Iran’s president is missing following a helicopter crash.
Villago Delenda Est
@Kay: The billionaires need to be transported to the Place de la Concorde via tumbrels, with little old ladies knitting as they receive their just desserts.
Gloria DryGarden
@karen marie:
tilapia are bottom feeders
might one say the same about trump supporters? I’m referring to the gobbling up of divisive lies, anger baiting, negativity and hate speech.
I just realized there’s even a double meaning, oops
Kay
@Villago Delenda Est:
Just gross that they’re on Zoom calls now with the NYPD, barking out orders. People just have no self respect – they’ll happily grovel for the Starbucks billionaire.
Broad daylight, smashing protestors head into the pavement while onlookers film the whole thing. Police don’t give a shit. They know Eric Adams is in their pocket. Out. Of. Control.
scav
@Kay: Haven’t you heard? Billionaires: the new oppressed minority!
Ruviana
@Another Scott: I saw a white and gold dress.
Juju
@Another Scott: That was pretty neat. It’s sort of like those magic eye books from a few decades ago.
Melancholy Jaques
@Suzanne:
My sense, meaning no data, is that normie voters don’t get riled up about what are called social or culture issues unless the Republicans lie about them and whip up a panic over them. If the right-wing propaganda apparatus wasn’t screaming about trans or critical race theory or whatever, normie voters would not have any reaction.
smith
Somebody here was hoping to find a “bleach blonde bad built butch body” t shirt a couple days ago. Well, Rep Crockett has heard the pleas of the public, and is now offering a Crockett clapback line.
Melancholy Jaques
@HumboldtBlue:
I know almost nothing about Iranian politics. Does it matter which person is president? Don’t the religious authorities control everything? Did I mention that I don’t know anything about Iranian politics?
Ken
@Another Scott: Oh, that’s who that image is. Thank you — I kept seeing it around without explanation. I thought it might be Ginni Thomas, or maybe that woman who “touched up” that Spanish fresco had been at it again.
One place I saw it was a reworking of the “distracted boyfriend” meme, with the left girl replaced with the King Charles red portrait, the guy’s head with one of the Trump trial sketches, and the right girl’s head with (I now know) Gina Rhinehart.
Eric S.
I’m sitting at the diner counter laughing my ass off and getting weird looks. This is excellent.
Baud
@Villago Delenda Est:
Or you could just paint hideous portraits of them. They apparently hate that.
Ken
Can her son complain on social media that she’s not supporting him, after which a few dozen “lone wolf” madmen will start firing shots at her for what the press will report as “unknown reasons”?
No? Well then.
HumboldtBlue
@Melancholy Jaques:
The Iranian president is the guy who implements the policies the mullahs want. Iran has a massive security apparatus, most of it focused inwards.
I started watching this video on Iran yesterday, it’s produced by Army University Press, and it details how the clerics took over the country, very informative.
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud: ¿Por qué no los dos?
Geminid
@Melancholy Jaques: Raisi is fairly powerful with the Islamic Republican system. He leads the more conservative faction that is now dominant.
Back in the 1980s, Ibrahim Raisi was a young prosecutor and then a judge, despite his lack of legal training. He earned the name “Hangman” for his role in sentencing thousands of political prisoners to death in secret proceedings. If Raisi is in fact dead, there could be street celebrations.
Tony Jay
@Kay:
Well now, hold on there a moment, hippy.
Can you 100% rule out the possibility that AI image copying technology was used to fake these images? Can you? Really? Can you do it to the satisfaction of those brave Police officers and the independent, non-partisan groups who have expressed spontaneously generated concern about the rampant antisemitism running rampant through the blood of these probably self-abusing protestors? Protestors whose blood is, quite suspiciously, as red as the Soviet/Ghynese flag?
Because if you can’t, then obviously we have no rational option but to take this as clear confirmation that the protestors themselves have faked everything, including the almost certainly Green-screened images of devastation across Philistine-held Gaza, quite possibly with the assistance of groups that may or may not be affiliated with other groups that may or may not be called the Underground Nazi Empire of Antarctica.
Why are you so biased?
Oh, now I feel super dirty.
Betty Cracker
@trollhattan: That’s only because you’ve never had my catfish beignets!
Sister Golden Bear
@Suzanne: Well you see the FTFNTY whipping up a moral panic against trans people existing is just a reflection of
real ‘MuriansFTFNYT’s editors “centrist” views. /sAnotherlurker
@Gloria DryGarden: i must disagree with your opinions about bottom fish. Cod Hake Haddock Flounder Halibut Rockfish Tilefish etc. are all bottom fish and they tast wonderful.
Tilapia and Catfish are bland because the flavor is bred out of them. My guess as to why this is the case falls on their standard diet. I think their good flavor in the wild is a result of the variety food they eat.
Sister Golden Bear
@Sister Golden Bear: On a related note the UK’s National Health Service has now essentially banned trans healthcare for youths based on the notorious Cass Report, which disregarded 99 out 102 studies on trans healthcare, misrepresented info gathered from trans youth, and was written by people with TERF ties.
WPATH/USPATH, the two groups that set standards of healthcare for trans adults and youth just released a statement denouncing the Cass Report. However, I doubt that’ll stop the reactionaries here from using the report as ammo to ban both youth and adult trans healthcare.
RaflW
@Scout211: “Rep. Elise Stefanik rebukes Biden and praises Trump in address to Israeli parliament.”
Putin loves this shit. I hated plenty of things about the GOP pre-2015 or so. But the ways that Republicans now use foreign policy disputes to wage electoral war really damages our ability to conduct FP and gives comfort to our enemies (except Putin is only an enemy to about 60% of Americans now).
catclub
It is cheap?
Ruckus
@Juju:
Boy does that organization seem desperate.
Well they are.
They may/will likely NEVER admit it but they know they are the exception. To everything. They want far worse than what Stalin or Hitler wanted. OK maybe not worse, I’ll concede equal. Humans that want control to justify their shitty concepts of, well anything, but really want control over everyone but them is the ever present concept of shitty humans since day one.
RaflW
@karen marie: To your PS, a friend calls tilapia ‘the tofu of fish’ but I find that an insult to tofu. Restaurants use it because it’s cheap, plentiful and tolerates overcooking without becoming mush. But that’s really just restaurants that feel obligated to offer a token to pescatarians.
No truly self-respecting chef would use that crap. Farmed catfish is much, much better if one wants a white fish.
For home use, tilapia should be avoided entirely. In the frozen section, my go-to white fish is baramundi. Can be a bit hard to find, but some Safeways and the occasional chain in the Kroger family may have it.
Jackie
@trollhattan:
Her brain is infected with MAGAts.
Ruckus
@Kay:
Maybe cult members are always lousy parents.
Ya think? It’s a cult when there is no logical, rational, non controlling part in the entirety of their beliefs. It is always selfish. It’s the ME, ME, ME generation, on steroids.
Ruckus
@Kay:
Are cops just rogue state agents now? They can do anything they want with no consequences?
Yes. It’s been this way for some decades but it started getting worse about 50+ yrs ago. I had buddies that wanted to be/became cops and I thought it might be a good career – till I rode along with the older one of them. I haven’t spoken to or seen him since. One of the worst 8 hours of my life – and I was in the military during a war. And had to carry a gun on in port watch with orders to shoot to kill any person not supposed to be on board. I’m sure glad I had at least some more sense than the officer that gave me that order.
Kay
@Tony Jay:
Were I in NYC I’d be a lot more scared of their out of control police force than I would a collection of protestors.
HumboldtBlue
DougJ kits it out of the park again.
Jinchi
The obvious response is why vote for Jr without mentioning his Dad.
Soprano2
My day is a good one because I got hubby to take a shower. Now I have to clean house and get things ready for the helper tomorrow. I was feeling so bad earlier; there are many times I hate my life because it’s so frustrating and heartbreaking. That’s one reason I don’t retire, my job helps keep me sane. I’ll admit there are days I want to give up and put him in a facility where they can take care of him.
Oh, and RFK is a ratfucking tool. I listened to him on Maher’s podcast; even Maher mostly isn’t buying what he’s selling.
Tony Jay
@Kay:
If I were trapped on an ice-floe with a sexually aggressive polar bear, covered head to toe in toothpaste and wearing a “Touch Me, Taste Me, Chew Me” T-Shirt, I’d still be far more concerned about being blown to prices by a random police patrol.
The bear is just hungry. The uniformed fucktards are dangerous.
David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch
@Scout211: Secretary of State?
For which country?
Soprano2
@Baud: Except that many people seem to believe that the votes of young men count more.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack:
I had never heard of the billionaire Steinbergs. The only Saul Steinberg I know is the great and whimsical New Yorker artist. I love that Saul Steinberg, and was very sad to think he might have been related, even tangentially, to Maria Bartiromo. Thank goodness, not the same person.
zhena gogolia
@Soprano2: My heart goes out to you.
Soprano2
@Baud: In MO they do vote that way when it doesn’t involve voting for the party of women and black people. The state legislature is extremely dysfunctional, yet they keep returning the same party to power.
Brachiator
@Soprano2:
I have absolutely no idea what anyone sees in RFK Jr. But hell, I barely understand why the MAGA clowns still cling to Trump
.
trollhattan
Digby has a rollup of posts re. Biden’s Morehouse commencement address. Seems largely positive.
https://digbysblog.net/2024/05/19/remember-this-2/
BBC interviewed editor of the Morehouse student paper, who was quite dubious about the invite. Corn Pop opinion unknown at this time.
trollhattan
@Brachiator: IDK either but believe it’s the product of his riding the antivaxx horse since long before covid. Covid turbocharged him from deep fringe to “public figure.”
Plus, the billionaire running mate. Money may not buy happiness but it can sure buy attention. (Not always, see Howard Schultz.)
Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony
Americans don’t get riled up about social issues until it effects them personally. The Trans freakout wasn’t really astroturfed. It happened at the same time there was a push to redefine gender as not being biologically based and to ask people to share their pronouns. A whole lot of people were not there yet, saw it as an assault on cultural norms, and had a pretty negative reaction. It’s going to take decades before most people are genuinely OK (rather than just being polite) with that big of a revision of cultural norms around gender.
The next big cultural bomb to go off will be polyamory.
Pink Tie
@RaflW: We can almost always find barramundi in the frozen section of Costco. We also really like the bags of vacuum-sealed frozen mahi-mahi, but it’s important to dry it carefully before cooking. I’m thinking of making some into coconut fish curry this week.
UncleEbeneezer
Extreme Trigger Warning! (Very disturbing pics and vids in the link)
But not nearly enough has been posted here about the civilian, Israeli hostages, so I’m going to share the text only, from this thread. If your CeaseFire demands don’t include the unequivocal freeing/returning of these women, what are you even doing? Especially if you call yourself a Feminist.
Ksmiami
@UncleEbeneezer: why I really have little sympathy for Hamas and Palestinians.
Soprano2
@zhena gogolia: Thanks, most days aren’t that bad but sometimes it all crushes in on me. I’m a little anxious about the help – he did fine with the people who came for a few weeks after he got out of the hospital the second time, so I’m optimistic that he’ll be receptive to them, but with this disease you never know. I’m so banking on them to relieve my stress some – they can take him to appointments for me, then I can meet him there. That will help with how much time I have to take off work, and I won’t have the stress of getting him up and to the car. Sometimes that takes 30 minutes, he has no concept of time anymore.
Geminid
@Geminid:
@Melancholy Jaques: Laura Rozen posted some more commentary about Iranian President Raisi that said his power was mostly over internal matters, and that foreign policy and national security decisions are made by the office of Supreme Leader Khameini and the IRGC (Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps). So Raisi’s death would not affect external affairs very much if any.
One commenter noted that Raisi’s successor would be chosen in an election held within 50 days, and would likely be from the same hard-line wing as Raisi.
Ksmiami
@Soprano2: Be good to yourself – and an advocate for your husband. Getting help and managing that help in a way that benefits him is really all you can be expected to do.
Ruckus
@dmsilev:
Do you really think there is a functional brain inside that?
I believe that the completely illogical concept that he is the greatest human being (THAT is HIS idea, not mine) and the actual reality is worse than any earthquake that I’ve been through. And I lived about 4 miles from the epicenter of the Northridge earthquake. (Good Times)
West of the Rockies
@Thor Heyerdahl:
And a weirdo…
Harrison Wesley
@David 🌈 ☘The Establishment☘🌈 Koch: All of them, Katie.
cmorenc
At the entrance to the Grand Junction, Colorado City Market grocery I just shopped at, Kennedy ballot access petition gatherers were out in force, and seemed to be attracting enough interest that quite a few shoppers were stopping to chat briefly in civil fashion with them, but more often than not without signing the petition. Grand Junction had a relatively higher %of anti-vaccets during the pandemic.
Another Scott
@karen marie: @RaflW:
An old on-line friend has a site called CloveGarden.com where he has spent years researching and collecting all kinds of information about food ingredients and cooking.
His Tilapia page has lots of info.
Now that page is from 2014, so maybe things have changed if the commercial farms have gone nuts. Dunno.
He’s got a huge page of info on other varieties of fish, if you’re looking for alternatives, also too.
[ snort! ]
FWIW.
Cheers,
Scott.
Ruckus
@Brachiator:
I’d bet the only people that cling to RFK jr do so because they don’t/haven’t seen who and what he is, someone that very likely his family would disown. Or more likely, they are as nuts as he is….
And it’s the same reason anyone clings to SFB.
raven
@Another Scott: On my last trip to the outer banks I said “redfish” to the guide I was with and he said, “I can tell you are no from here, the are Red Drum”! It’s also the case that speckled trout are not trout but drum
eta
great site
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Soprano2: I’m sorry. You’re working your way through it though. I’m guessing this is one of those things you learn to do by doing it, meaning you’re always a running a little behind.
Another Scott
@trollhattan:
There was a place in the speech where Biden was just about to go off-script to tell his Corn Pop story, but he stopped, smiled, and said, something like “I don’t wanna get started”, (here, around 27:50), and continued on with the speech.
:-)
Cheers,
Scott.
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@Juju: I saw the rectangles first, of course, but then I unfocused my eyes and I could see the circles. Developed the relaxing the focus technique when the Magic Eye books were popular – also pictures which can be 3-D.
catclub
@Another Scott: neat!
BigJimSlade
It’s not great, but, it stays firm enough for fish tacos and you can douse it with salsa and hot sauce?
Captain C
@Sister Machine Gun of Quiet Harmony:
It will be interesting to see how that flies in rural Utah.
AM in NC
@Another Scott: Very cool. I had to “relax” my eyes, like you do when trying to see those magic 3-d images that were all the rage a number of years back, and then I saw the circles.
tam1MI
@UncleEbeneezer: Sadly, the people who most need to see these names and the humans behind them will dismiss them as either “lies and propaganda” or “They got what was coming to them” before returning to their rants about “Genocide Joe” and trying their damndest to throw the election to Donald Trump.
Another Scott
@Melancholy Jaques: @Geminid:
There’s speculation coming out that Raisi was expected to become the next Supreme Leader. If he’s gone, that may shake the succession up quite a bit.
E.g.
Dunno. We’ll see what happens.
Cheers,
Scott.
El Muneco
@dmsilev: Yeah, I don’t think “The former President is probably incompetent even to stand trial, much less run the country” is the defense that Boebert seems to think it is…
Ruckus
@cmorenc:
I think many places had a high % of anti vaccine assholes, because this is a disease that was very bad for some and not all that for many. I think it really depended on how much exposure one had to people with Covid.
RaflW
@Another Scott: That’s cool. It is much harder for me to see the circles, and if I move my glance around the page at all, the squares pop back and I have to wait a sec and look between the squares to see the circles again.