Best places to find cheap airline tickets. I’m traveling to DC. My flex dates are July 21-27. I ne ed to be in DC A Wed Thurs and Fri in case I get WH tour.
So air transport would be good but I’m open to other means of transportation.
Best places to find cheap airline tickets. I’m traveling to DC. My dates are July 21-27. I ne ed to be in DC A Wed Thurs and Fri in case I get WH tour.
So air transport would be good but I’m open to other means of transportation.
Yeah, I saw that. I stopped following the press secretary stuff a while ago.
8.
Suffern ACE
I’m surrounded by climate change deniers today. “I’m not a denier! Anyone who tells you the science is settled isn’t a scientist. Scientists are still testing Einstein’s theory. Science isn’t settled. Even the guy who used to own the weather channel admits that it’s all about advancing careers”.
Shall we try to do a DC area Balloon Juice meetup while you are here? Do you have the time?
PS: I don’t know about cheap air tix. Sorry. But come on up!
13.
Suffern ACE
Did you know more birds are killed by solar panels than were ever killed by pesticides?
14.
jibeaux
@Suffern ACE: just a plucky band of oil companies and millionaires standing up to Big Science!
Lamh, try Southwest if they go to/from where you want. They don’t show up on the aggregator websites.
15.
Belafon
@Suffern ACE: “Yes, they are still testing Einstein’s theory, but they still use it as the best theory on gravity. We don’t stop accepting gravitational pull just because we call it a theory.”
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wmd
the U.S. House made an historic move by voting to prohibit the Drug Enforcement Administration from interfering with state medical marijuana laws. The bipartisan amendment passed with 219 ‘yes’ votes.
The House also approved amendments prohibiting the DEA from interfering with state hemp production laws and hemp research programs.
These historic votes are major victories. It’s the first time that Congress has ever approved any major marijuana law reform.
The winning comment on the online article at the Kansas City Star:
“….Isn’t it time we stopped letting bored, wealthy people own our government?….”
18.
Belafon
Gotta love some of the Newsmax headlines:
Should Hillary Run in 2016? Vote in Urgent Poll Now
Vote now to stop Hillary from running! You’re vote in a self-selecting online poll is all that stands between her and the presidency!
19.
jl
Thought this article on TPM made some good points (Which I have yet to see mentioned on the news, where firing one guy is supposed to work some kind of magic. But then, thinking in terms of causal relationships is not a strong point of our failed corporate media experiment.)
So, thought I would repost it from the Shinseki thread.
@Belafon: Most of the morons who read Newsmax would argue that Hillary is too young to be president.
21.
MikeJ
@Suffern ACE: Everything in science can be overturned when better evidence comes along, so in that sense nothing is ever settled. However, if you ignore relativity when programming a gps receiver you’re not going to wind up where you want to be.
22.
CONGRATULATIONS!
the U.S. House made an historic move by voting to prohibit the Drug Enforcement Administration from interfering with state medical marijuana laws. The bipartisan amendment passed with 219 ‘yes’ votes.
@wmd: I am honestly stunned. Didn’t think that had a chance in hell of passing.
This is the first really good political news I’ve heard in years.
Get it through the Senate and let’s get that fucker signed!
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scav
@Suffern ACE: Scientists have yet to prove conclusively there are sentient, let alone intelligent, humans in your immediate vicinity! (Test programs being developed, null hypothesis is not, to be on the safe side. Granted, a few do posit a null of r-brain baseline capability.) Tell them you need to run a few more tests on them and their qualifications before you are willing to entertain their theories about anything.
I’d passed the contact Congress link to a few people. Quite a few organizations were pushing it – SSDP, DPA, NORML, ASA. I don’t think i got an alert from Firedoglake, which is surprising because they’ve been pretty good on cannabis activism.
26.
raven
@lamh36: Web specials $164 – $399 each way Southwest Easy to Balmore.
Yes, they are still testing Einstein’s theory, but they still use it as the best theory on gravity.
This. They’re looking to see if they can find holes and/or make it work better with quantum mechanics, but General Relativity makes it possible to build GPS that works and fly spacecraft to other planets accurately, neither of which you can do with Newtonian gravity. Newtonian gravity can be seen as an approximation or special case of Einsteinian gravity that gives “good enough” results for ordinary situations here on Earth. Similarly, Einstein’s gravity will wind up being an approximation or special case of whatever replaces it that gives “good enough” results even for exotic, tricky, high-precision calculations here in the solar system.
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Alexandra
DougJ: precious little on ‘teh Jeb is handsome’ watch so far… but plenty of gushing about George P. Bush on the lush factor
Once Jeb joins battle with Hillary, I expect the fawning over his shoulder-width to become something to keep a watch on.
That stuff you dug up about how handsome Chris Christie is was killer.
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Suffern ACE
@lamh36: @raven: Agree. Look into Baltimore. It does add a bit of time to the trip to take the train, but if time on the first and last day isn’t an issue, it’s not a problem. BWI is usually cheaper.
Lamh, if moving hotels isn’t an issue, consider staying by one of the hotels in Arlington by National Airport or Alexandria. As long as you’re by the metro, you’ll be fine. DC hotels are much much much more expensive during the weekdays. Also, nothing much happens in DC at night during the week. Outside DC the pricing is better. I stayed at a Residence Inn in Alexandria Old Town last weekend that wasn’t bad. If you want to be in DC, you can move Friday night. Or stay where you are.
Oh gosh yes re Southwest to Baltimore today. I’m glad someone was thinking.
Plus: excellent MARC (local) train service from BWI airport to Union Station DC, where you can hop on Metrorail’s red line or hail a cab.
MARC only runs weekdays, if I recall. And you can take food on it!
Southwest also flies to Dulles, but ground transportation can add up unless you take the Washington Flyer or shuttle buses … you can transfer to the Vienna (VA) Metrorail. Or rent a car.
Assuming Southwest to Washington National* (aka DCA) would be more expensive, but maybe you can get a deal.
*Others call it Reagan National. I refuse to do so. Locals did not choose that name. Republicans in Congress stuck us with it.
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Villago Delenda Est
@Betty Cracker: Probably tired of all the bullshit he has to put up with from the three year old twits of the WH Press Corpse.
Not as much as you think. If you’ve ever used a GPS, you’ve depended on General Relativity to get you where you were going. I think this XKCD sums it up pretty well.
The most resonant thing I’ve read about politics and life in the last five years, was someone somewhere describing humans as ‘status-seeking social apes’.
Once read, never forgotten.
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Villago Delenda Est
@Roger Moore: Yeah, but it’s the visceral satisfaction of the screams of terror and all the noise of the rounds going off that is the attraction here. I mean, if you’re going to engage in mass murder, do it with some panache.
“You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts…but you cannot deny he’s got style…”
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Anoniminous
Was being yakked at, asked questions, and generally distracted when fixing lunch. I grabbed a handful of dried fruit out of what I thought was the bag of large raisins. Turned out to be the bag of small prunes.
The rest of the afternoon and early evening shall be interesting.
@Villago Delenda Est:
I thought the satisfaction would be from removing the largest possible number of parasites from the body politic. And I think the mass poisoning approach has a certain panache as well. Perhaps Polonium 210 would be a better choice, especially for the ones who like Putin a bit too much.
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Villago Delenda Est
@CONGRATULATIONS!: The entire Oregon House delegation voted in favor of this…even Greg Walden, the sole Rethug.
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Villago Delenda Est
@Roger Moore: Well, that too, given the etymology of “hysterical”.
A dozen problems with charter schools – Washington Post, May 20
School reformers keep talking about charter schools as if they were the answer to public education’s problems, when there is a great deal of evidence that shows big problems with the charter sector.
For example, a report on Pennsylvania’s charter schools recently released by a state legislator found that only one in six of the state’s charter schools is”high-performing” and it notes that none of the online charters is “high-performing.”
………………
These charter schools also serve significantly fewer special education students than traditional students. Only two of these 28 high performing charter schools have a special education student population greater than the 15% average of traditional public schools. Further, as noted in the 2013 Special Education Funding Commission report, charter school enroll significantly less special education students with severe disabilities than traditional public schools.
Lupita Nyong’o Optioned Film Rights to Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah. WIN!
If you all need me, I’ll be laid out at the altar because my heart just couldn’t take the awesomeness. IndieWire confirmed that my main boo Lupita Nyong’o optioned the film rights for my other boo and Naija sisthren Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s book Americanah!
Good luck on the White House tour! We applied six months ahead to get into ours, but it was well worth it. Incredible place with incredible history. And tiny inside. All the rooms are so tiny, which you’d never guess from pictures.
We were especially lucky because Pres Obama was taking off in his big official helicopter and so we got to stand outside and wave at him as he got on (he waved back). They said that only happens once a year or so.
Does anybody else believe that Richard Martinez is going to keep hammering at the N.R.A. until something happens? I’m pulling for that guy. I can’t begin to fathom going through what he’s been dealing with, but he’s up on his feet, speaking out about guns. Naturally, the wingnuts are already dumping on him. with a name like Martinez, they’re bound to scour his life for any sign of perfidy…
62.
raven
@jnfr: I once got to see Nixon’s chopper land on the WH lawn. 1000 Nam Vets giving him the finger, it was swell!
The child and family were just staying over night and seemingly had no involvement with the issue that brought the cops to/through the door – not that it would be better if they had.
@Villago Delenda Est:
The etymology is exactly what I had in mind. It neatly summarizes the whole stereotypical misogynistic nonsense that surrounds any woman trying to make it in a traditionally male environment.
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raven
@Keith G: Jesus, in Cornelia. That’s the fucking mountains. It looks like the family is Lao.
66.
Hal
I’m sad NPR is ending Tell Me More. I liked the topics the show covered, though Michelle Martin’s willingness to give Bush II speech writer Mary Kate Carey a platform to constantly defend her old boss was annoying. Still, the story she tells of what gave her the idea for the show is really interesting. Not much left to listen to for me on NPR in my neck of the woods.
A former Georgia police officer must stand trial to defend himself against misconduct alleged in a lawsuit stemming from the fatal shooting of a Southern Baptist minister in a botched drug-sting investigation in 2009, the 11th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Feb. 4. But two supervisors were cleared of failing to properly train him in the use of deadly force.
The appeals court said a lower court acted properly in refusing to dismiss a civil lawsuit filed in 2010 by the widow of Jonathan Ayers, pastor of Shoals Creek Baptist Church in Lavonia, Ga. Ayers, 28, was fatally shot by Deputy Sheriff Billy Shane Harrison, who mistook him for a drug-dealer suspect fleeing arrest in a gas-station parking lot in Toccoa, Ga., on Sept. 1, 2009.
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Dee Loralei
@Elizabelle: I’m gonna be in DC June 11&12, let’s have a drink! After dinner would work best for me, since my son and I are traveling with my elderly father and he doesn’t do late dinners well. But my son and I are playing tourist those 2 days and have our nights after 7:30 or 8 p, free. Anyone interested?
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Man, I hope so — I am pulling for Mr. Martinez too. Read a quote from him yesterday in which he acknowledged that the loons would hammer him full-force. He said something like “My only child is dead. There’s nothing worse that can happen to me.” I just can’t….
He’s a brave, educated, passionate man with the best motivation on earth to take those NRA scum bags on. Godspeed, Mr. Martinez.
I-Team: Bronx Building Turns Away Black Tenants, Lawsuit Charges
By Ann Givens and Chris Glorioso
NBC 4 New York
A Bronx landlord discriminates against black people, telling prospective tenants who are black that there are no vacancies in their buildings just moments after telling white people that the building has available apartments, according to a lawsuit filed after secret recordings were made by undercover testers. Chris Glorioso reports
A Bronx landlord is accused of discriminating against prospective black tenants, telling them there are no vacancies available moments after telling white applicants that the building has open apartments, according to a lawsuit filed after secret recordings were made by undercover testers.
This week, the housing testers for New York’s Fair Housing Justice Center took the I-Team with them behind the scenes of one investigation, sharing recordings captured by hidden microphones, that they say reveals blatant discrimination by one Bronx landlord.
He’s made of tougher stuff than I, and I’m cheering for him. Sadly, losing a son is only the beginning of his troubles considering the ethics and mental health of his newfound enemies.
ETA we found out last night the neighbors’ son is a UCSB student and knew one of the female victims. This stuff isn’t just news fodder, it’s real people, real lives.
It was never in the cards for the NBA to punish him seriously for what he said, except incidentally. The other owners don’t want the league to be able to hand out real punishments for fear they’ll be next. They wanted to get rid of Sterling as a PR move, nothing more, nothing less.
@Cacti: He could have sold it any time though, he probably wants the team more than he wants the money.
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Belafon
@rikyrah: In one of those bad things/good things, make sure you add that as an addendum to anyone who reads Coates’ article and says “well, it’s not happening now.”
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Dee Loralei
@Elizabelle: I’m excited and up for anything. I want to meet all of you guys! And I don’t care where. We’re staying in VA supposedly right on the metro line, because my father does not want to actually go in to DC so Cooper and I are playing tourist whilst he is playing expert witness.
YAY! This is gonna be great. BTW, my son is 23 and really cute if anyone is around his age, or has a daughter, friend etc who might want to meet a handsome young man from Memphis. But he’ll be happy to hang out with us anyway, and he’s a good liberal boy. LOL
I hadn’t heard that, and I’m sorry. I can’t claim to be a regular Tell Me More listener — my local NPR station has jerked around the schedule a couple of times (and really have been airing it for only the past couple of years) — but for the most part, when I have heard it, I’ve found the programs to be thoughtful and the topics intelligently discussed.
That was an interesting story about how Martin got the idea for the program. Thanks for linking.
Sterling is apparently about to sue the NBA for 1 billion bucks in damages. This, after Ballmer (chuckleheaded idiot that he is!) decided to buy the Clippers for 2 billion! I’ve seen some odd forms of victimhood epic fail in my time, but nothing quite as spectacular as this.
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends! One of my favorite albums.
Keep this up and Delbert McClinton will be appearing soon.
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Suzanne
@Elizabelle: Here in PHX, our main airport is called Sky Harbor. A few years ago, there was some talk of changing it to Goldwater Sky Harbor. That shit got shot right down. God forbid, if anyone ever tries to call it McCain Airport once the old bastard kicks it, I will oppose vehemently.
Sky Harbor is such a pretty name for an airport. I hope they never change it.
Enough on naming public infrastructure after people who don’t believe in it and won’t properly fund or maintain it.
I hope DC gets its Washington National Airport name back after Nancy Reagan passes. It’s geographically descriptive and honors our first president too.
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Marco
If we can really talk about everyrhing, I’d love to share that I’m about to fulfill my dream to visit the States. I live in Austria and have visited almost every country on the continent, but now I’m about to set feet at another one. I’ve already reserved my flight and I just booked a hotel at http://new-york.hotelscheap.org/, so I’m just so excited and I just can’t hide it! Hope that I can find something that’s actually cheap in NYC, just because I’ve heard that it is one of the most expensive cities.
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CLAPTON IS THE FSM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Or, the FGM – Flying Guitar Master!
lamh36
Best places to find cheap airline tickets. I’m traveling to DC. My flex dates are July 21-27. I ne ed to be in DC A Wed Thurs and Fri in case I get WH tour.
So air transport would be good but I’m open to other means of transportation.
Betty Cracker
Jay Carney resigned.
lamh36
Best places to find cheap airline tickets. I’m traveling to DC. My dates are July 21-27. I ne ed to be in DC A Wed Thurs and Fri in case I get WH tour.
So air transport would be good but I’m open to other means of transportation.
Suffern ACE
@lamh36: What city are your starting from?
lamh36
Best places to find cheap airline tickets. I’m traveling to DC. My dates are July 21-27. I need to be there Wed Thurs and Fri in case I get WH tour.
So air transport would be good but I’m open to other means of transportation.
DougJ
@Betty Cracker:
Yeah, I saw that. I stopped following the press secretary stuff a while ago.
Suffern ACE
I’m surrounded by climate change deniers today. “I’m not a denier! Anyone who tells you the science is settled isn’t a scientist. Scientists are still testing Einstein’s theory. Science isn’t settled. Even the guy who used to own the weather channel admits that it’s all about advancing careers”.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Airline tickets are stupid expensive right now because of gas prices, unfortunately.
Billy K.
@DougJ:
I thought you had evolved beyond the fist. When did you devo?
Trollhattan
@Suffern ACE:
Recommend donning the giant Mickey Mouse hands and giving out a liberal dose of dope slape, all around.
Elizabelle
@lamh36:
Shall we try to do a DC area Balloon Juice meetup while you are here? Do you have the time?
PS: I don’t know about cheap air tix. Sorry. But come on up!
Suffern ACE
Did you know more birds are killed by solar panels than were ever killed by pesticides?
jibeaux
@Suffern ACE: just a plucky band of oil companies and millionaires standing up to Big Science!
Lamh, try Southwest if they go to/from where you want. They don’t show up on the aggregator websites.
Belafon
@Suffern ACE: “Yes, they are still testing Einstein’s theory, but they still use it as the best theory on gravity. We don’t stop accepting gravitational pull just because we call it a theory.”
wmd
the U.S. House made an historic move by voting to prohibit the Drug Enforcement Administration from interfering with state medical marijuana laws. The bipartisan amendment passed with 219 ‘yes’ votes.
The House also approved amendments prohibiting the DEA from interfering with state hemp production laws and hemp research programs.
These historic votes are major victories. It’s the first time that Congress has ever approved any major marijuana law reform.
Michael Bersin
A right wingnut Missouri billionaire speaking at a Heritage Foundation event calls Missouri Governor Jay Nixon an “idiot”:
“…and that idiot vetoed an income tax cut…”
Apparently because Kansas is doing so well.
The winning comment on the online article at the Kansas City Star:
“….Isn’t it time we stopped letting bored, wealthy people own our government?….”
Belafon
Gotta love some of the Newsmax headlines:
Vote now to stop Hillary from running! You’re vote in a self-selecting online poll is all that stands between her and the presidency!
jl
Thought this article on TPM made some good points (Which I have yet to see mentioned on the news, where firing one guy is supposed to work some kind of magic. But then, thinking in terms of causal relationships is not a strong point of our failed corporate media experiment.)
So, thought I would repost it from the Shinseki thread.
Why Firing Shinseki Won’t Do Anything To Fix The VA
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/cafe/why-firing-shinseki-won-t-do-anything-to-fix-the-va
Mike in NC
@Belafon: Most of the morons who read Newsmax would argue that Hillary is too young to be president.
MikeJ
@Suffern ACE: Everything in science can be overturned when better evidence comes along, so in that sense nothing is ever settled. However, if you ignore relativity when programming a gps receiver you’re not going to wind up where you want to be.
CONGRATULATIONS!
@wmd: I am honestly stunned. Didn’t think that had a chance in hell of passing.
This is the first really good political news I’ve heard in years.
Get it through the Senate and let’s get that fucker signed!
scav
@Suffern ACE: Scientists have yet to prove conclusively there are sentient, let alone intelligent, humans in your immediate vicinity! (Test programs being developed, null hypothesis is not, to be on the safe side. Granted, a few do posit a null of r-brain baseline capability.) Tell them you need to run a few more tests on them and their qualifications before you are willing to entertain their theories about anything.
raven
@lamh36: Fly Southwest to Baltimore.
wmd
@CONGRATULATIONS!:
Here’s the email from the Drug Policy Alliance.
I’d passed the contact Congress link to a few people. Quite a few organizations were pushing it – SSDP, DPA, NORML, ASA. I don’t think i got an alert from Firedoglake, which is surprising because they’ve been pretty good on cannabis activism.
raven
@lamh36: Web specials $164 – $399 each way Southwest Easy to Balmore.
DougJ
@lamh36:
Where are you flying out of?
(As others mentioned, you might try SW to BWI which won’t show up on Travelocity.)
Roger Moore
@Belafon:
This. They’re looking to see if they can find holes and/or make it work better with quantum mechanics, but General Relativity makes it possible to build GPS that works and fly spacecraft to other planets accurately, neither of which you can do with Newtonian gravity. Newtonian gravity can be seen as an approximation or special case of Einsteinian gravity that gives “good enough” results for ordinary situations here on Earth. Similarly, Einstein’s gravity will wind up being an approximation or special case of whatever replaces it that gives “good enough” results even for exotic, tricky, high-precision calculations here in the solar system.
Alexandra
DougJ: precious little on ‘teh Jeb is handsome’ watch so far… but plenty of gushing about George P. Bush on the lush factor
Once Jeb joins battle with Hillary, I expect the fawning over his shoulder-width to become something to keep a watch on.
DougJ
@Alexandra:
That stuff you dug up about how handsome Chris Christie is was killer.
Suffern ACE
@lamh36: @raven: Agree. Look into Baltimore. It does add a bit of time to the trip to take the train, but if time on the first and last day isn’t an issue, it’s not a problem. BWI is usually cheaper.
Lamh, if moving hotels isn’t an issue, consider staying by one of the hotels in Arlington by National Airport or Alexandria. As long as you’re by the metro, you’ll be fine. DC hotels are much much much more expensive during the weekdays. Also, nothing much happens in DC at night during the week. Outside DC the pricing is better. I stayed at a Residence Inn in Alexandria Old Town last weekend that wasn’t bad. If you want to be in DC, you can move Friday night. Or stay where you are.
Alexandra
@DougJ:
Trust me, Jeb’s wide stance will sway the doubters.
raven
@Suffern ACE: And if you have to pee flying into Reagan is a stone bummer!
Betty Cracker
@DougJ: I don’t really give a crap either, but I know he has many fans here. Maybe Karen Finney could take over. That would blow some minds.
DougJ
@Betty Cracker:
Yeah, I was going to be excited if it was a controversial choice.
Elizabelle
@raven:
Oh gosh yes re Southwest to Baltimore today. I’m glad someone was thinking.
Plus: excellent MARC (local) train service from BWI airport to Union Station DC, where you can hop on Metrorail’s red line or hail a cab.
MARC only runs weekdays, if I recall. And you can take food on it!
Southwest also flies to Dulles, but ground transportation can add up unless you take the Washington Flyer or shuttle buses … you can transfer to the Vienna (VA) Metrorail. Or rent a car.
Assuming Southwest to Washington National* (aka DCA) would be more expensive, but maybe you can get a deal.
*Others call it Reagan National. I refuse to do so. Locals did not choose that name. Republicans in Congress stuck us with it.
Villago Delenda Est
@Betty Cracker: Probably tired of all the bullshit he has to put up with from the three year old twits of the WH Press Corpse.
Wipe them out. All of them.
raven
@Villago Delenda Est: Time to cash in!
Villago Delenda Est
@Alexandra: “You can land a 737 on his shoulders!”
(which is something Tweety actually said about the Marquis de Mittens.)
ruviana
@Billy K.: Nope, mistermix.
Villago Delenda Est
@raven: Well, yeah. He needs to cash in before he brings an Uzi to a press briefing and opens up on that utter fuckstick Henry.
Trollhattan
@Suffern ACE:
Oh Lord, you’re in a worse fix than I thought. Exchange Mickey hands for Acme anvils.
raven
@Villago Delenda Est: And that punk Karl.
Villago Delenda Est
@Roger Moore: Most of us still live in a Newtonian universe, so it’s good enough for that, yup.
Roger Moore
@Villago Delenda Est:
Wouldn’t it be better to put bontoxilysin in their water cooler? You could probably get more of them that way.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mike in NC: That and too…vaginal.
Roger Moore
@Villago Delenda Est:
Not as much as you think. If you’ve ever used a GPS, you’ve depended on General Relativity to get you where you were going. I think this XKCD sums it up pretty well.
Alexandra
@Villago Delenda Est:
It’s deeply sad. But funny, too.
The most resonant thing I’ve read about politics and life in the last five years, was someone somewhere describing humans as ‘status-seeking social apes’.
Once read, never forgotten.
Villago Delenda Est
@Roger Moore: Yeah, but it’s the visceral satisfaction of the screams of terror and all the noise of the rounds going off that is the attraction here. I mean, if you’re going to engage in mass murder, do it with some panache.
“You know, Minister, I disagree with Dumbledore on many counts…but you cannot deny he’s got style…”
Anoniminous
Was being yakked at, asked questions, and generally distracted when fixing lunch. I grabbed a handful of dried fruit out of what I thought was the bag of large raisins. Turned out to be the bag of small prunes.
The rest of the afternoon and early evening shall be interesting.
Roger Moore
@Villago Delenda Est:
FTFY.
Roger Moore
@Villago Delenda Est:
I thought the satisfaction would be from removing the largest possible number of parasites from the body politic. And I think the mass poisoning approach has a certain panache as well. Perhaps Polonium 210 would be a better choice, especially for the ones who like Putin a bit too much.
Villago Delenda Est
@CONGRATULATIONS!: The entire Oregon House delegation voted in favor of this…even Greg Walden, the sole Rethug.
Villago Delenda Est
@Roger Moore: Well, that too, given the etymology of “hysterical”.
Anoniminous
@Alexandra:
Technically, that works for our hominidae brethren and sisthren: gorillas, chimpanzees, bonobos, and orangutans, too. And most primates.
(I say “most” because I know almost nothing of lemurs.)
rikyrah
KAY,
did you see this?
………….
A dozen problems with charter schools – Washington Post, May 20
School reformers keep talking about charter schools as if they were the answer to public education’s problems, when there is a great deal of evidence that shows big problems with the charter sector.
For example, a report on Pennsylvania’s charter schools recently released by a state legislator found that only one in six of the state’s charter schools is”high-performing” and it notes that none of the online charters is “high-performing.”
………………
These charter schools also serve significantly fewer special education students than traditional students. Only two of these 28 high performing charter schools have a special education student population greater than the 15% average of traditional public schools. Further, as noted in the 2013 Special Education Funding Commission report, charter school enroll significantly less special education students with severe disabilities than traditional public schools.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/answer-sheet/wp/2014/05/20/a-dozen-problems-with-charter-schools/
raven
@Anoniminous: Run Baby Run – The Newbeats
rikyrah
Lupita Nyong’o Optioned Film Rights to Chimamanda Adichie’s Americanah. WIN!
If you all need me, I’ll be laid out at the altar because my heart just couldn’t take the awesomeness. IndieWire confirmed that my main boo Lupita Nyong’o optioned the film rights for my other boo and Naija sisthren Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie’s book Americanah!
http://www.networkedblogs.com/Xj2Q0
:
lamh36
@DougJ: I’ll be leaving from New Orleans
jnfr
@lamh36:
Good luck on the White House tour! We applied six months ahead to get into ours, but it was well worth it. Incredible place with incredible history. And tiny inside. All the rooms are so tiny, which you’d never guess from pictures.
We were especially lucky because Pres Obama was taking off in his big official helicopter and so we got to stand outside and wave at him as he got on (he waved back). They said that only happens once a year or so.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
Does anybody else believe that Richard Martinez is going to keep hammering at the N.R.A. until something happens? I’m pulling for that guy. I can’t begin to fathom going through what he’s been dealing with, but he’s up on his feet, speaking out about guns. Naturally, the wingnuts are already dumping on him. with a name like Martinez, they’re bound to scour his life for any sign of perfidy…
raven
@jnfr: I once got to see Nixon’s chopper land on the WH lawn. 1000 Nam Vets giving him the finger, it was swell!
Keith G
So, an Atlanta area SWAT team conducted a drug raid which started off with them tossing a stun grenade into the house – it landed on a pillow next to the head of a sleeping child.
The child and family were just staying over night and seemingly had no involvement with the issue that brought the cops to/through the door – not that it would be better if they had.
Yay cops. Yay SWAT teams. Yay war on drugs.
Roger Moore
@Villago Delenda Est:
The etymology is exactly what I had in mind. It neatly summarizes the whole stereotypical misogynistic nonsense that surrounds any woman trying to make it in a traditionally male environment.
raven
@Keith G: Jesus, in Cornelia. That’s the fucking mountains. It looks like the family is Lao.
Hal
I’m sad NPR is ending Tell Me More. I liked the topics the show covered, though Michelle Martin’s willingness to give Bush II speech writer Mary Kate Carey a platform to constantly defend her old boss was annoying. Still, the story she tells of what gave her the idea for the show is really interesting. Not much left to listen to for me on NPR in my neck of the woods.
http://www.npr.org/2014/05/28/316677634/choosing-to-stay-when-tell-me-more-ends
raven
@Keith G: Same county
Dee Loralei
@Elizabelle: I’m gonna be in DC June 11&12, let’s have a drink! After dinner would work best for me, since my son and I are traveling with my elderly father and he doesn’t do late dinners well. But my son and I are playing tourist those 2 days and have our nights after 7:30 or 8 p, free. Anyone interested?
DougJ
@lamh36:
I think Southwest flies out of there and won’t show up on aggregators. They may or may not have the best deal, but worth checking out
Flights are brutally expensive this summer.
Keith G
@raven: That is a tough story to contemplate.
Betty Cracker
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): Man, I hope so — I am pulling for Mr. Martinez too. Read a quote from him yesterday in which he acknowledged that the loons would hammer him full-force. He said something like “My only child is dead. There’s nothing worse that can happen to me.” I just can’t….
He’s a brave, educated, passionate man with the best motivation on earth to take those NRA scum bags on. Godspeed, Mr. Martinez.
Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.)
@Elizabelle:
That would be fun. We need some of those here in or near Washington.
rikyrah
I-Team: Bronx Building Turns Away Black Tenants, Lawsuit Charges
By Ann Givens and Chris Glorioso
NBC 4 New York
A Bronx landlord discriminates against black people, telling prospective tenants who are black that there are no vacancies in their buildings just moments after telling white people that the building has available apartments, according to a lawsuit filed after secret recordings were made by undercover testers. Chris Glorioso reports
A Bronx landlord is accused of discriminating against prospective black tenants, telling them there are no vacancies available moments after telling white applicants that the building has open apartments, according to a lawsuit filed after secret recordings were made by undercover testers.
This week, the housing testers for New York’s Fair Housing Justice Center took the I-Team with them behind the scenes of one investigation, sharing recordings captured by hidden microphones, that they say reveals blatant discrimination by one Bronx landlord.
http://www.nbcnewyork.com/investigations/racial-discrimination-black-renters-bronx-woodlawn–260177541.html
Cacti
Steve Ballmer will be purchasing the Los Angeles Clippers for a reported 2 billion dollars.
Truly, Sterling is being punished.
Elizabelle
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
I am impressed with Richard Martinez. Believe his profession might be criminal defense lawyer? That skillset might serve him well.
I don’t think he is going to give up, and neither should we.
Elizabelle
@Dee Loralei:
Yes, yes, yes! Would be lovely. I should be around. Let’s keep asking around. Think we could get a good group together.
Would be fab to have a June meetup with you, and then a July meetup with lamh.
Elizabelle
@Betty Cracker:
It’s enough to lose a child to a random shooting, but then to hear it’s his only child. No words.
Trollhattan
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
He’s made of tougher stuff than I, and I’m cheering for him. Sadly, losing a son is only the beginning of his troubles considering the ethics and mental health of his newfound enemies.
ETA we found out last night the neighbors’ son is a UCSB student and knew one of the female victims. This stuff isn’t just news fodder, it’s real people, real lives.
Elizabelle
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.): @Dee Loralei:
Valdivia! eemom! Pink snapdragon. All our DC buds. Come on down. Perk up your ears and start thinking of a good place.
I’m wondering about whatever took place of the old Hotel Washington. Rooftop deck with amazing view of DC and monuments.
Also thinking Rosa Mexicano, right near Metro Center. Pomegranate margaritas! Tableside guacamole.
Or tapas at Jaleo. Or Capital City Brewpub or another brewpub.
Lots of good places near a Metro. Thinking caps, all.
Elizabelle
@Smedley Darlington Prunebanks (formerly Mumphrey, et al.):
PS: when I think of you, I think of your soulful, wonderful, beachcombing dog. Did the family Mumphrey adopt another pet yet?
Hal
@Cacti: I feel so sorry for him. I mean, the guy paid 12 million for the team. This is worse than slavery.
Roger Moore
@Cacti:
It was never in the cards for the NBA to punish him seriously for what he said, except incidentally. The other owners don’t want the league to be able to hand out real punishments for fear they’ll be next. They wanted to get rid of Sterling as a PR move, nothing more, nothing less.
SatanicPanic
@Cacti: He could have sold it any time though, he probably wants the team more than he wants the money.
Belafon
@rikyrah: In one of those bad things/good things, make sure you add that as an addendum to anyone who reads Coates’ article and says “well, it’s not happening now.”
Dee Loralei
@Elizabelle: I’m excited and up for anything. I want to meet all of you guys! And I don’t care where. We’re staying in VA supposedly right on the metro line, because my father does not want to actually go in to DC so Cooper and I are playing tourist whilst he is playing expert witness.
YAY! This is gonna be great. BTW, my son is 23 and really cute if anyone is around his age, or has a daughter, friend etc who might want to meet a handsome young man from Memphis. But he’ll be happy to hang out with us anyway, and he’s a good liberal boy. LOL
Joel Hanes
@raven:
flying into Reagan
National.
SiubhanDuinne
@Hal:
I hadn’t heard that, and I’m sorry. I can’t claim to be a regular Tell Me More listener — my local NPR station has jerked around the schedule a couple of times (and really have been airing it for only the past couple of years) — but for the most part, when I have heard it, I’ve found the programs to be thoughtful and the topics intelligently discussed.
That was an interesting story about how Martin got the idea for the program. Thanks for linking.
Morzer
@Cacti:
Sterling is apparently about to sue the NBA for 1 billion bucks in damages. This, after Ballmer (chuckleheaded idiot that he is!) decided to buy the Clippers for 2 billion! I’ve seen some odd forms of victimhood epic fail in my time, but nothing quite as spectacular as this.
http://nba.si.com/2014/05/30/donald-sterling-suing-nba-1-billion-clippers/
MazeDancer
Delaney & Bonnie & Friends! One of my favorite albums.
Keep this up and Delbert McClinton will be appearing soon.
Suzanne
@Elizabelle: Here in PHX, our main airport is called Sky Harbor. A few years ago, there was some talk of changing it to Goldwater Sky Harbor. That shit got shot right down. God forbid, if anyone ever tries to call it McCain Airport once the old bastard kicks it, I will oppose vehemently.
Elizabelle
@Dee Loralei:
Wunderbar. We will get a good group together. You’re here June 11 and 12th. Believe that’s a Weds. and Thursday evening.
Elizabelle
@Suzanne:
Sky Harbor is such a pretty name for an airport. I hope they never change it.
Enough on naming public infrastructure after people who don’t believe in it and won’t properly fund or maintain it.
I hope DC gets its Washington National Airport name back after Nancy Reagan passes. It’s geographically descriptive and honors our first president too.
Marco
If we can really talk about everyrhing, I’d love to share that I’m about to fulfill my dream to visit the States. I live in Austria and have visited almost every country on the continent, but now I’m about to set feet at another one. I’ve already reserved my flight and I just booked a hotel at http://new-york.hotelscheap.org/, so I’m just so excited and I just can’t hide it! Hope that I can find something that’s actually cheap in NYC, just because I’ve heard that it is one of the most expensive cities.