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I have family coming to visit, so I have been cleaning, cleaning, cleaning.
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japa21
Cleaning is over-rated.
WaterGirl
Steeplejack would have texted me hours ago to let me know I wasn’t the only one playing hooky. Reason #101 why I miss Steeplejack.
cain
Well, I got comment #444 – made my day.
Also this:
https://www.reddit.com/r/AnythingGoesNews/comments/1f1mwld/fox_anchor_matt_vereen_is_arrested_on_child_porn/
Matt Vereen arrested on child porn charges. But sure, it’s drag queens that are bad.
WaterGirl
@japa21: I cannot disagree!
On the other hand, this will be the cleanest my house has been since the pandemic.
SatanicPanic
It’s Monday so I’m thinking about the weekend. It’s Labor Day and the beaches will be packed but I am definitely feeling like going to the beach.
scav
@WaterGirl: At least once a decade, just for the practice.
WaterGirl
@cain:
No idea who Matt Vereen is, except that I can see from the URL that he’s an anchor on fox, but glad to see another sick bastard off the streets.
Next up, the speaker of the house? That would not surprise me at all.
japa21
@WaterGirl: We go on a cleaning rampage for good friends. Family isn’t going to be fooled.
Baud
Never a bad day to play nookie.
cain
@WaterGirl: Half of the GOP congress are probably compromised.
Baud
@WaterGirl:
It’s a local Fox station.
lowtechcyclist
I’m getting a colonoscopy in the morning (had my last one at age 60, and I’m 70 now so that’s why), so I’m in my ‘nothing but liquids’ day. And in a few hours I’ll have to drink 2 liters of that stuff that doesn’t just wash out your mouth, it cleans out your whole system, right on down the line. Whoopee.
Having a colonoscopy really wouldn’t be that big a deal if it weren’t for the $#@! prep.
Belafon
The diary finds other relevant 6:11 bible verses, including
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/8/26/2265847/-Theologian-of-the-year-Megyn-Kelly-reveals-astonishing-biblical-prophecies-regarding-Donald-Trump?pm_campaign=trending&pm_source=sidebar&pm_medium=web#comment_89471131
FastEdD
@WaterGirl: True, the ones who try to prove how “moral” they are, usually aren’t. “I have sinned” sob sob sob!
Scout211
As we discussed downstairs, the Harris team surprised the Trump team, asking for the the debate mics to be turn on for both speakers. The Trump team wanted the mics off like the Biden team previously negotiated.
Now it appears that Trump is undercutting his team and would “prefer” both mics on.
Jackie
@WaterGirl: Here’s the announcement from his neck of the woods – SC
So he works for the local Fox affiliate – NOT FAUX News.
edited for formatting
BretH
@lowtechcyclist: Last time I did the pills. I found them MUCH nicer than the liquid. YMMV of course
ETA to add this isn’t terribly useful information for you this time around :)
dmsilev
I hate Mondays. I mentioned on Friday that we have a FUBAR’d utilities situation at work due to a bit of an oopsie resulting in a very large pipe gushing large amounts of water. Well, our team got temporary water hookups in place. Yay! It’s failed twice in two days, for six hours at a go. Boo! Keeping up with this and try to run all of our gear (which we need to do our work) is Not Fun. It takes two to three uninterrupted days to restart some of our systems….
I just hope the glitches are ironed out.
BR
I hope Harris gets Stephen Colbert or Seth Meyers to stand in for Trump in debate prep. A normal political type won’t provide the kind of off the rails vibe like the real deal — you need a comedian who has studied Trump for a long time and can improvise the true weirdness of Trump.
dmsilev
@Scout211: He’s a very stable genius who negotiates the very best deals.
Old School
@WaterGirl:
Just give us all your phone number so we can text you when we want a new thread.
Scout211
@lowtechcyclist: Suggestions:
Use a straw to suck down that prep liquid. It helps the liquid avoid most of your taste buds.
After you suck it down, stick a lemon popsicle in your mouth. It will cut the nasty taste and soothe your taste buds
ETA: Several jackals here also recommended sucking on lemon slices after drinking the prep liquid.
BretH
@BR: Sarah Cooper!
Mapanghimagsik
@Scout211: interesting. Are they looking for him to shoot himself in the door and go Cray?
cain
@Scout211:
He is so easy to manipulate.
Hungry Joe
POSTCARD UPDATE — SERIES 2
Postcards to Swing States:
Yesterday — 17
Running total — 47
lowtechcyclist
@BretH:
The doc’s office sent the prescription to the pharmacy as soon as I made the appointment. I didn’t really have an opportunity for input.
RaflW
Heat index is 102º right now in Minneapolis, so it’s a great time to run errands (well, akshually both the car and Traders Joe are air conditioned so it’ll be fine).
We joke about State Fair weather in Minnesota, there’s something about that event that seems to attract heat waves, but dew points near 80 are not fun. Much improvement expected in the next 24-36 hours. Phew!
(eta: Dunno why we started laughingly calling it Traders Joe, but I think it has to do with people around here calling a semi-related chain ALDIs. Even though there’s no S. Do people in other places say “I’m going to KrogerS”? “Goin’ ta Safeways”… nope.)
JiveTurkin
Possibly the most ridiculous thing the Times (or any other major newspaper) has published. Opinion | Trump Can Win on Character – The New York Times (nytimes.com)
Trump might win on character against Charles Manson or some other mass murderers, and I’d have to give him the edge over convicted pedophiles. He loses against most of the rest of the country, and that includes most people in prison.
Math Guy
Heat index of 110 here in Minnesota. I’d hoped that I’d left this kind of weather behind when I moved here from Missouri. Spent most of the day inside reading and trying to negotiate a truce between our two cats.
zhena gogolia
@BR: JL Cauvin would be perfect.
RaflW
@JiveTurkin: Rich Lowry is so desperate. His poor Sara Palin starbursts have all turned to dust.
zhena gogolia
@BretH: Sarah Cooper just lipsyncs — she doesn’t improvise or do an impression. It’s JL Cauvin she needs.
zhena gogolia
@JiveTurkin: Love your nym! I just listened to that song.
KrackenJack
OT: A couple of friends and I have a software startup. We’re self-funding it through consulting. We’re looking for someone who can help us put together a couple of web pages and a logo. It’s paid work, but obviously not a lot of it. Eventually we’d like to refactor the UI / UX, but we are focused on extending our base functionality. If you can recommend someone, it would be very helpful. Thank you in advance.
Starfish
@lowtechcyclist: I am going to get my first one in several weeks, and I cannot tell you how much I am not looking forward to this.
trollhattan
CalFire is getting Hercs for airborne firefighting. Cool!
https://www.facebook.com/CALFIRE/videos/3955851517969617?comment_id=1055146002615997
lowtechcyclist
@JiveTurkin:
It’s Rich Lowry, who a decent newspaper wouldn’t even publish, and he’s saying he can ‘win on character’ by smearing Harris’ character, rather than by being an exemplar of it himself.
Why would you want to support someone who can only win by bringing down the opposing candidate? That’s really fucked.
Jackie
Jack Smith officially appeals the dismissal of the classified documents case:
trollhattan
@Jackie: Doesn’t Judge Cannon have the doctrine of “because I said so, that’s why” to buttress her decision?
Mousebumples
@Old School: I think she’s at 867-5309. 😅
Hungry Joe
I’m wondering if minimal debate prep wouldn’t be better. Candidates — okay, not Trump — go in so crammed full of facts and figures to be spewed out when/if that topic comes up that they end up sounding nothing but tedious. (Biden did that A LOT.) Harris knows policy, she knows how to answer, interrogate, defend. Maybe she should just watch Trump’s debate histories, bone up on a few possible curveball questions, and then … wing it. She’s sharp, savvy, knowledgeable, and honest, and all that might come across much better if it isn’t canned/pre-packaged/practiced to death.
Scout211
@Starfish: Look up the pre-colonoscopy diet. The step-down diet for a few days before your prep day makes all the difference in the world as to how the prep day goes and whether you can get a full clean-out.
My first colonoscopy was awful. But eating according to the pre-colonoscopy diet for the few days before the procedure, my second one went really well. It was like night and day.
I used the one posted by Kaiser. Here is the .pdf chart. But there are many different ones posted on the internet by different medical groups.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Scout211:
I’m on an every 3-year cycle and am gonna put this on a post-it note and stick it to my monitor because in 2 years, I’m libel to forget and these are such great ideas.
Jackie
And, repeating from earlier: Tulsi Gabbard formally endorsed Donald Trump.
Who has more influence in swaying voters?
1)Tulsi or
2)RFK jr?
3)Or none of the above?
I pick the third option.
Lapassionara
@Jackie: Thank you. I find the fact that we have a national security risk running for the presidency and having some chance of winning just so demoralizing.
HumboldtBlue
Randy Rainbow meets JD Vance.
ssdd
@RaflW: dunno about Safeway but “Krogers” was more common that “Kroger” when I was growing up in Cincy.
Delk
DNC sure lucked out on the weather last week. Wonder what the protests would have been like in 100+ degree weather.
tam1MI
I have family coming also and have been getting the place together for them. I am hiring Molly Maids for the cleaning, I just don’t have the time to do it myself.
Spanky
@lowtechcyclist: Yay you. I had one 2 weeks ago and my guts are finally back to a normal schedule.
Booger
@Hungry Joe: Let’s just merge the two prep threads–debate and colonoscopy. I’d pay good money to watch that!
Captain C
As long as you stay off the glue, you’re fine.
Captain C
@lowtechcyclist:
Having a colonoscopy really wouldn’t be that big a deal if it weren’t for the $#@! prep.
The worst part is that until it’s over, you cannot trust your farts!
Spanky
@Belafon:
Psalm 6:11 says, “May all my enemies be ashamed, and stricken with terror. May they turn back in sudden disgrace”
JiveTurkin
@Hungry Joe: I think debate prep is important, but against Trump it is definitely style over substance, IMO. I hope she can piss him off so he starts talking nonsense about golf, etc. Call him out on specific lies on a topic or two, maybe GDP growth or job creation, but don’t try to talk numbers.
Delk
Jack Smith filed an appeal.
Jackie
So TCFG’s not the only one ditched by the Arizona Police Association! 😂
Scamp Dog
@ssdd: Same for me, who grew up in Michigan.
Math Guy
@Belafon: Well, 6×11=66 so 6:11 is “code” for 666. Also, 6 is a perfect number and 11 is prime, so there. Numerology belongs in the same basket at astrology and cryptocurrency.
Dangerman
My last, after Night 1, I wasn’t “prepared enough”, so I had a second night of getting “prepared”. Two nights of … well, you know.
They did the procedure but still not 100% prepared to their satisfaction, so next time, they are giving me the let’s stop fucking around stuff. Not sure I’m looking forward to that one.
catclub
@Mousebumples: not pennsylvania 6 five thousand?
catclub
@Jackie: You mean, which one drives more voters away by their endorsement?
Still a tough call.
Jeffro
@Scout211: the Harris team is going to ask that the debate format be changed from ‘debate’ to ‘knife fight’, and trump of course will puff out his chest and go “whatever…I don’t care”.
(and then I woke up. but still! =)
Steve in the ATL
@Baud: close enough!
tam1MI
In Michigan we have a chain of stores called Meijer (pronounced MY- er), and everybody calls it Meijer’s.
BretH
@zhena gogolia:
Had to look hm up but he’ll do nicely! Wasn’t until watching him I realized how absurdly hard it must be to mimic that stream-of-excrement style of speech.
Hoppie
@RaflW: Here in southern California we go to Ralphs, among others. (I looked it up, the grocery got its name before the slang term emerged.) Back in central Kentucky we actually did call it Krogers, where the slogan used to be “let’s go Krogering, the happy way to shop!” Thankfully, they never adopted that slogan to their west coast chain….
Gin & Tonic
@Baud:
Baud with the truth bomb; just surprised everyone else just let it slide by.
H.E.Wolf
I think the possessive (apostrophe-s) for stores has a long tradition behind it. Maybe it’s left over from the days when one went to the grocer’s or the butcher’s, etc. (i.e., a one-person shop).
Plus, it’s a fun local tradition, as witness the examples in this thread.
Princess
This is the easiest colonoscopy prep ever and best of all, no prescription:
https://edge.sitecorecloud.io/unichicagomc-81nbqnb3/media/pdfs/adult-pdfs/conditions-and-services/cancer/colonoscopy/colonoscopy-miralax-bowel-prep-1.pdf
As for debate prep. No idea. I wonder if Harris will use Philippe whatshisname.
Piety, keep me strong
@Captain C:
As long as you stay off the glue, you’re fine.
Is that why LePage took mucilage off the market?
frosty
So two posts for the day. What happened to bigfooting the previous bigfoot?
I may actually have to do something productive here. Aacckkk!!!
Barry
@Hungry Joe: “I’m wondering if minimal debate prep wouldn’t be better. ”
in this case, it’s how to deal with a torrent of verbal diarrhea.
CaseyL
This one may interest Betty Cracker, if she stops by:
DeSantis Plan to Develop State Parks faces setback as golf course backer pulls out
Seems even GOPers in Florida like public parks and don’t want them handed over to for-profit enterprises to be “developed.” (The article notes that Medicare Fraud Scott tried the same thing when he was Governor, with the same result.)
zhena gogolia
@BretH: What’s amazing is that he improvises — he’s so inside Trump’s head that he can just talk like him. He also does fabulous Pence, McConnell, Elon Musk, and Cory Booker (my favorite).
Baud
@Barry:
Nice tie in to the discussion of colonoscopy prep.
karen gail
@lowtechcyclist: Hey at least they have changed the gas they use so you don’t hurt after it is over. My last one doctor told me that there were some questionable masses, but with no insurance it was no big deal. If I had had insurance I would have been told I was pre-cancerous; I had an honest doctor give me the news.
Steve in the ATL
@frosty:
Fuck that shit! It’s like I don’t even know you anymore.
comrade scotts agenda of rage
@Princess:
This part doesn’t inspire a lot of confidence:
Plus, as mentioned above, typically the doctor will have the prescription phoned in before you’re out the door. Plus, I’m guessing (I can’t remember offhand) that one is asked many times prior to the procedure “did you take all the crap prescribed?” and if the answer is “No, instead I prepped with Miralax”, they might call of the procedure.
Wyatt Salamanca
Francisco Franco is still dead and Trump and RFK Jr. are still batshit crazy assholes.
Plus, Bradley Whitford called out Cheryl Hines for her silence after her aforementioned batshit crazy asshole husband (ratfucker RFK Jr) endorsed Trump.
https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/west-wing-star-gets-personal-013454753.html
Jackie
@tam1MI: I’m guilty as charged. If an establishment is stupid enough to not add the “‘s” it’s not MY fault! It drives my daughter crazy!😂 She constantly corrects me; I finally told her I don’t CARE if there’s no “‘s” after Fred Myer or Safeway. I’m gonna do it anyway.
rikyrah
Alex Burness
@alex_burness
I cover felony disenfranchisement around the U.S., and have rarely seen something so shocking as what’s happening now in Nebraska: 2 state officials overruling lawmakers to rescind the voting rights of tens of thousands of people, weeks before an election.
https://x.com/alex_burness/status/1828136083802202567
tom
@Belafon: that is wonderful!
PaulWartenberg
submitted a vampire biker gang bar fight short story to Uncanny Magazine.
Gods help us.
billcoop4
I found prep to be remarkably undramatic (I’ve had worse diarrhea from other issues). Prep also took 10.5 hours to kick in for me, I think because I’ve gone low-ish carb. And there wasn’t much production — so little I called the MD doing the procedure to make sure I should come in since it was a 75 minute drive one way.
YMMV.
BC
tom
I just set up a recurring donation to Keeping Michigan, organized by Jason Sattler, LOLGOP on bsky. I decided on doing this because the Harris/Walz campaign seems to have no trouble raising money, and it is absolutely vital that we pick up as many local and state level seats as possible too. Since I live in Michigan, donating to a group dedicated to keeping us blue seems like the right thing to do.
Jackie
@rikyrah: Important enough to copy/paste for those who don’t click X tweets:
More info at above link.
Jeffg166
@Princess: I did that one for the last colonoscopy. I bought two different flavors of Gatorade to switch between them as I was drinking them. It was the easiest prep I ever did.
Lyrebird
@Mousebumples: I got it, I got it!
Ohio Mom
@Dangerman: Ugh. That happened to Ohio Dad the last go round, but the second one wasn’t until a couple of weeks later. It was scheduled later in the day to give the early morning half of prep more time to work.
Suzanne
Can we send Tulsi Gabbard to space on a Boeing Starliner? Like, yesterday?
tom
@RaflW: Oh, here in Michigan it’s Kroger’s, Meijer’s, Ford’s (I work at Ford’s), etc.
Kirk
@Captain C: wait, you’re saying there are times you trust your farts?
JCJ
@lowtechcyclist: No, but you have a tremendous opportunity for output.
JML
Spent the weekend cleaning stuff out of mom’s house, donating things to charity, and getting papers signed with the lawyer to try to move things forward on the estate. Oh yeah: paid for the funeral too. That was fun.
Also? The shit-ass credit card company has already sent my mom’s account to a collections agency. Bunch of fuckers, the lot of them.
caroln
@tam1MI: I’m old enough to remember when they were Meijer’s Thrifty Acres. It will always be Meijer’s to me
KatKapCC
@Kirk: Dang, sometimes jumping right to the bottom of the comments is a questionable choice.
rikyrah
@Jackie:
thank you
Captain C
@Kirk: Generally when I haven’t downed laxatives measured in liters, I can trust them to be gas. As for whether they violate the Geneva Conventions, well, that’s always hit or miss.
Harrison Wesley
@Hoppie: I believe that’s derived from “let’s go rogering, the happy way to shop,” but I may be mistaken.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@tam1MI: And if you add “Thrifty Acres” to Meijer it really dates you.
WaterGirl
@dmsilev: Progress! Even if it is 2 steps forward, 1 step back?
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@caroln: Me too as you can see.
Jackie
DonOLD’s week continues to get worse; and it’s only Monday!
Jeffro
@Math Guy:
@Delk:
it’s depressing to think about, but it must be thought about:
some of us can move to avoid earthquake zones and hurricane zones, and even ‘tornado alley’
we can check flood maps and adjust for “100/1000-year” floods as best we can
but the heat…heat waves…higher temps in general…there’s just no way to get away from it.
all the more reason to fight hard for the clear choice for progress on climate change/mitigation in this election.
mrmoshpotato
@SatanicPanic:
This is how to think!
RSA
I think the “rule” is that if it sounds like someone’s name, people tend to add an apostrophe s unless they remember it’s an exception. Like “Macy’s, for example. I’ve probably said “Kroger’s” and “Trader Joe’s,” not knowing or much caring whether that’s wrong. I think the only exception that’s stuck in my memory is “Nordstrom.”
mrmoshpotato
@Delk:
Stupider and suffering from heat stroke.
Doc Sardonic
I think adding the S to the store is our subconscious mind adding a possessive to the store name if it appears to be named after a person.
lowtechcyclist
@Spanky:
I don’t recall having any difficulty getting back to normal eating afterwards. I bought me an apple fritter at Roland’s today that I plan to eat after I get home tomorrow, so we’ll see how that goes. Today, of course, Jell-O is the closest I get to solid food.
Lapassionara
@JML: that may be illegal. I was an executor for an estate in Illinois, and creditors had to refrain from taking action until a certain period passed.
Lyrebird
@JML: UGH. Sympathies.
Still untangling similar paperwork here. Not my forte. Was lucky, she preferred cremation, so we could wait to have the funeral until we got some other things set.
Geminid
@Suzanne: Maybe not. KITV (Honolulu) reports that Gabbard is now subject to increased scrutiny when she flies, under the TSA’s Quiet Skies program. Gabbard complains that this is retaliation for her opposition to Vice President Harris, but there is something else going on I think. The feds have been cracking down on other people with ties to Russia and the TSA could be targeting Gabbard for her connections.
Nancy
@WaterGirl:
I don’t really invite family just to get a clean space but it is a nice side effect.
Lyrebird
@Doc Sardonic: Yep, that’s my vote.
Maybe in Germany most people know this:
…but over here? And you could have a Mr. or Ms. Aldi.
WaterGirl
@Jackie: Lie, cheat, and steal. That’s all they’ve got.
The Audacity of Krope
I once had a friend with a magnet on her fridge that had a picture of Susie Homemaker, “Cleanliness is the sign of wasted time.”
Mousebumples
@Jackie: thanks for this. I sent it to a squishier normie friend. I don’t think she’s Trump curious but want to prevent third party voting in Wisconsin.
Nancy
@comrade scotts agenda of rage:
My doc gave me a list what not to eat for a week before. No whole grains, dairy, fruit, vegetables, beans, nuts. Am I forgetting anything?
White bread and pasta were OK.
Major blah. Didn’t want to eat that bland boring stuff which could have helped with the liquid day. White grape juice and chicken broth were strangely appealing.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@H.E.Wolf: In MIchigan, Ford is often Ford’s Motor Company
hilts
@Belafon:
Megyn Kelly is the same asshole who said she’s terrified of Tim Walz.
Unfortunately, her special brand of stupid is extremely popular right now
https://www.mediaite.com/news/megyn-kelly-singlehandedly-had-over-30-million-more-views-on-youtube-in-july-than-nbc-or-cbs-news/
AnthroBabe
@rikyrah: This is fucked up. Two people in Nebraska deciding that a bill that was passed by the Neb. legislature is now “unconstitutional” and abrogating the “right” to restore voting rights to the formerly incarcerated to themselves. The CAUCASITY
JML
@Lapassionara: yeah, my lawyer told me not to worry about it; they have to wait. just obnoxious.
Mike S. (Now with a Democratic Congressperson!)
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: For my last colonoscopy (last December ) it was 2 pills then the two mega doses of mirilax flavored with the non-red/non-purple fruit juice of my choice, Not bad, but the because my appt. was the first of the day I had to get up and finish the prep at 2 am!
louc
Ken Paxton is going full-bore KKK/Jim Crow on Latinos in Texas. They raided the homes of older volunteers who help register voters and also raided the home of a candidate running for a district that’s up in the air. It’s really outrageous and the DOJ better step in.
lowtechcyclist
@Nancy:
The diet I was given for the preceding few days was a low-fiber diet. It was like what you describe, but dairy and meat and eggs were OK. So I got a rotisserie chicken and ate a lot of chicken sandwiches on white bread hamburger buns the past few days.
Mike E
@comrade scotts agenda of rage: I had a failed procedure once when the “big jug” prep wasn’t available due to covid supply chain shortages, and they substituted in the tiny “twin bottles” method instead. I was livid. Volume is the only way to go when getting scoped, I can say from personal experience.
Uncle Cosmo
@Doc Sardonic: Here in Churn City when we Baltimorons refer to a grocery store most of us eschew the apostrophe-s in favor of a definite article: the Safeway, the Giant, the Shop-Rite, the Save-A-Lot, the Aldi, the Lidl, the Weis. The only store I can recall that didn’t get a “the” was a local chain with about a dozen stores that folded about 10 years ago, Mars Supermarkets. We’d say simply, “I’m going to Mars, can I pick you up anything?”
(NB Mars, which was owned by the D’Anna family, was named not after the planet but the Martin Mars, a large flying boat produced by the Glenn L. Martin Company’s Middle River plant about the time they opened the first store. However the logo, a solid red disk with white cursive lettering within, left a bit of ambiguity. And anyway it was fun to imagine going off in a spaceship to pick up a loaf of bread or a bottle of milk – even when the nearest store to my childhood home was a few doors down the street or later, across the street.)
Soprano2
@Jackie: Holy Crap, one of my Jazzercize teachers retired from being the news producer at KOLR10 just a couple of years ago! I’m sure she’ll know him. Geez…
skerry
@Scamp Dog: Krogers for me. Raised in central Indiana
Jackie
@Soprano2: It’s a small world…
I wonder if she and other co-workers had any inkling that he was/is a pedophile?
evodevo
@ssdd: Yep…still is down here in northern KY…I went to Krogers today, as a matter of fact…