Such a good day in the world of politics. Ended with bringing home three new fosters, a sweet mama cat and her two tiny babies. About 3 weeks old now, trying out their shaky – legged walking skills slowly.
Sometimes it is good to look around and appreciate our world. Today is just such a day.
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beltane
Where are you?
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Germy Shoemangler
Got hooked on the new PBS show
FIRST PEOPLES
Africa
The appearance of Homo sapiens on the African landscape some 200,000 years ago is detailed. Scientists now believe that the early humans evolved in many places across the continent at the same time, not just in eastern Africa. Also: DNA evidence that early Homo sapiens inter-bred with other human species in Africa.
Also: DNA evidence that early Homo sapiens inter-bred with other human species in Africa.
Fuckers.
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Elizabelle
@Germy Shoemangler: I love that James Fallows, who is a whipsmart guy, found out his DNA included Neanderthals.
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Elizabelle
@Baud: Maybe it was the early folks who fought Harryhausen dinosaurs but had not developed much of a spoken language. (1 Million Years BC last night on TCM. Pretty good flick, although mostly famous for Raquel Welch in a fur bikini.)
Going to set up a new router and inbox a Chromebook. Tech goodies arrived a bit early, capping off a nice day. I’m still enjoying the glow of the positive Supreme Court ruling.
Looking up info on flyball and agility, because Muppet is a tiny high-speed psycho. Her new funnest game in the whole world that she made up all by herself is to zoom across the living room, jump up, bounce herself off the back cushions of the loveseat, zoom back the other way, rinse and repeat.
She needs an outlet for this energy that isn’t my furniture. Or we need a much bigger house.
In an emotional telephone interview with Yahoo News on Sirius/XM radio, Clyburn said he was on his way from Charleston airport on Thursday to a prayer service for those slain at Emanuel African Methodist Episcopal Church when Obama called.
“The president called, and we talked, and I noticed that he was very emotional in talking about Clementa” Pinckney, the pastor and Democratic state senator killed in the attack, Clyburn said.
“I mentioned a couple of names (of victims) to him. He said, ‘Those are my people! Those are my people!’ He repeated that two or three times. I could tell that this event has struck a very emotional chord with him. So I was not the least bit surprised when he informed us that he would be coming to the service,” Clyburn said. Obama will deliver the eulogy for Pinckney on Friday…
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Hal
The fair housing act decision really deserves more coverage everywhere. I get it’s overshadowed by the aca decision, but this is also important.
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MazeDancer
Just played back Mr. Robot pilot recorded on Wednesday.
Amazing TV. Just remarkably good.
Cannot believe all those anti-capitalism ideas got on television. In ace drama. (With a bonus Neil Diamond soundtrack moment.)
Apparently, USA renewed it for Season 2 even before the pilot aired.
Really, if you like great TV, you do not want to miss it. Here’s the pilot ep online: http://goo.gl/7mrWl6
If you have cable/Apple TV you can also get it at USA OnDemand on your TV.
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a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Elizabelle: And a notably high percentage of Neanderthal markers at that!
@Elizabelle: I thought that was true of everyone, to some extent? I did a 23andMe test a couple of years ago that showed I had 3.1% Neanderthal DNA.
(Also, evidently I have two copies of the CCR5 Delta 32 mutation, making me resistant to HIV, which was a weird thing to learn. Sadly, I can’t seem to find any way to use it to help anyone else. Suggestions welcome.)
She needs an outlet for this energy that isn’t my furniture. Or we need a much bigger house.
How about getting her a treadmill. There are pets running wheels that let the pet run and run and run. They are a bit expensive ($249 or so) but they look like interesting. The cat rescuer I know wants to get one once she moves into her house.
@MazeDancer: Good show, unlike most of the other mediocre stuff they’re trotting out for the summer, like ‘Aquarius’ and ‘Astronauts’ Wives Club’. ‘Tyrant’ is also very watchable.
Summer’s here, the weather’s been delightful and my little flower garden is blooming, so between all the good news today and processing the horror of Charleston, I picked a great week for an all alone deck staycation.
Rebublicans create despair, and Obama’s policies have created hope. Full stop. Obama was the crowbar thrown into the right wing gears thanks to Bush’s one man fail parade, and he’s taken the opportunity to ratchet the country left ALL BY HIMSELF (plus Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid), with nothing but disrespect and revilement thrown at him the whole time by the GOPers, and his better “progressives” who never wanted to credit him or would have done it better and been purer. He’s handled every happy and sad situation with the right words and a calm demeanor and class. He acts in good faith. The symbol of racism is being wiped out and his health care bill has taken root JUST THIS WEEK. His work here is done. Well played, Barack, well played.
Like he said, now it’s time to go back to work.
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PsiFighter37
Bristol Palin got knocked up again, and this just months after calling off her engagement. Hoocoodanode?!
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lamh36
Not much on tv right now, so I’m watching VH1 Soul
YES!! I knew VH1Soul was gonna be playing MJ videos today!
Watching Thriller right now….and yes, I’ve got the move down.
Many cite his disarming humility. Despite his rapid rise, searing intellect and oratorical gifts, he never conveyed superiority or belittled opponents, they said. He managed to empathize with those who disagreed with him, while also firmly presenting his own views.
A towering presence at over six feet tall, he spoke extemporaneously in an elegant Barry White baritone, but rarely raised the volume. If he had a failing, several colleagues said, it was that he could be too gentle with adversaries who deserved harsher treatment.
…. He managed to keep his religious and political lives largely separate, and although firmly grounded in the A.M.E. church’s activist tradition he chose to work within the system, seeing himself more as a persuader than a firebrand.
“He knew that the decisions to pave roads, to provide clean water, to provide economic freedom were not made in the churches,” said Mr. Brown, now the pastor of Mount Zion A.M.E. Church in Charleston.
… Mr. Pinckney’s late mother, Theopia Stevenson Aikens, was a baseball fan who named her son after Roberto Clemente, the Pittsburgh Pirates All-Star, who had died in a plane crash seven months earlier while delivering aid to earthquake victims in Nicaragua, family members said. His last name, one of the most storied in South Carolina politics, is that of a pair of white slaveholding cousins who signed the United States Constitution.
…. A born leader, Mr. Pinckney was serious-minded and almost freakishly poised from an early age, so bookish that his mother forced him to play baseball to get him out of the house. His athletic career ended quickly after he was beaned, Ms. Johnson said.
As a student at Jasper County High, Mr. Pinckney took to wearing suits, ties and starched white shirts to school, even on dress-down Fridays in sweltering heat. If his classmates saw it as a quirky affect, their respect for him was such that they rarely teased him.
“His mind-set was already that he was going to be professional and profound,” said Roslyn Fulton-Warren, who graduated in the same class. “He led by example pretty much. We never questioned him.”
Such a loss.
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JPL
@raven: They are finally moving along and it won’t be long before your addition is done.
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raven
@Iowa Old Lady: They put up plastic and I’m sure it helped but, damn, that part of the house catches the afternoon sun and it was hot in the kitchen tonight. They should start framing Monday so we’ll see how far they get and whether or not they work on the 3rd. Either way it’s progress. Also, it’s hard to tell from that shot but the peak of the roof is 25 feet off of the basement floor. Those guys busted their asses today working that high up.
@Karen in GA:
The 23andMe stuff can be interesting. I was interested to see that it was able to get my background to a T: I am 50% Ashkenazi (including typically Askenazi mitochondrial DNA) with the other half categorized as European/Northern European/British and Irish. It gives me some confidence both that they have some idea what they’re doing with the ancestry stuff and that my own family’s genealogy is broadly accurate.
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PurpleGirl
@PsiFighter37: Rather than vowing never to have sex outside of marriage ever again, Bristol would be better off if she promised not to have unprotected sex ever again. As my mother used to say, “if you can’t be good, be prepared.”
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raven
@Elizabelle: I keep thinking about my Drill Sgt at Ft Campbell in 1966. His name was Dallas A Pinkney, probably just a coincidence and not related but this man was a true leader too.
Twitter is lighting up with this most hilarious response to a teabagger (concerning the Confederate flag) ever written.
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KG
@Germy Shoemangler: not surprising, I think they’d already figured out that homo sapiens also interbred with Neanderthal and Denisovan, so it wouldn’t surprise me that there was even earlier interactions.
Bristol Palin is trending on twitter. It is hilarious!
MJ @MJGWrites 1h1 hour ago
The only thing the Palins know how to Pull Out on are their jobs. Bristol Palin. #BristolPalin
Gene Pompa @genepompa 1h1 hour ago
So relieved to hear that Bristol Palin has Obama Care to help with the delivery of her new baby. #ExcellentTimingBristol
INGLORIOUS BASTARD @ConchGunny 1h1 hour ago
LMAO! GAWD and to think her mother got that close!
allisyn @alcal__ 1h1 hour ago
Just to clarify – Bristol Palin can have not one but TWO babies out of wedlock, but gay marriage is a sin? Makes total sense. #not
ex Alexander @LexAlexander 1h1 hour ago
I’m trying real hard not to be mean regarding Bristol Palin. But gotta be said: She has made a CAREER out of both slut-shaming and hypocrisy
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Roger Moore says:
June 25, 2015 at 8:37 pm
@David Koch:
The best one I saw was describing Bristol’s stance as “Screw as I say, not as I screw”.
We finally had the last of the laminate flooring installed today. They started weeks ago, but repeated screwups with the order left our stairs unfinished until this morning.
Now the tile guys have to come back a third time to fix the mistakes they made the second time, when they were here fixing the mistakes from the first time.
And eventually we’ll get around to putting everything back where it belongs.
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Brachiator
@Karen in GA: Neanderthal used to be a brute. Now having some Neanderthal is the Thing. Supposedly, the preliminary evidence is that some non African populations have some Neanderthal. This may be only the beginning of learning more about early humans and human diversity.
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raven
@Karen in GA: Our tile is slated to cost as much as the siding!
I just love p.a. carpenter, and he was on fire today:
The Apocalypse Cometh: Married Gays on Obamacare in Stylish Anti-Confederate Outfits
As pleasurable as it is to see the Court’s defense of Obamacare today, that’s nothing compared to the incomparable pleasure of watching the right’s reaction to it. The poor dears are simply beyond rage, and I have the distinct feeling that ACA-covered cardiovascular stress tests (of recent familiarity) are being ordered by the thousands, if not the millions, as I write.
The right is spitting mad, as the old imagery has it, they’re clutching their chests and huffing and puffing and grasping their shrinking swinging balls, wondering and groaning: What in God’s name has happened to this blissfully assbackward country?
An acute case of anti-pseudoconservative sanity?
And if we think the right is emotionally and physically collapsing over today’s Supreme decision, just wait till the Court prohibits those assorted state prohibitions of legally married love — you know, between those people.
Rank homophobia will convert to mass Santorumism, Marco Rubio and Scott Walker will attain new heights in dimwitted demagoguery, and Jeb Bush will find his own balls in a vice. Oh dear, oh my, how to placate the spitting-mad, decency-torching villagers without burning up all general election hope? Don’t sweat it, Jeb. That was never possible.
And of course need I remind anyone that all this fury will come in the immediate wake of the GOP’s bars-and-stars’ forced retirement? The liberal bastards just elbowed their way past the Moronic Scions of Confederate Veterans and now they’ve successfully defended six-million desperately needed healthcare subsidies — damn! — and they’re about to throw rice at thousands of newly, happily and legally married queers.
Oh, Jesus, oh Lordy Lord, piss on that proverbial fire, grab the kids, call in the lapdogs and unleash the hounds. All hell is breaking loose.
@Karen in GA: First of all, both pups are adorable. And I hate to say this aloud, but Bixby does the same thing. So far I have not lost any furniture. But must find a way to channel his energy in another direction. YIKES. So…let that be some comfort to you that Muppet isn’t 135 lbs.
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raven
@Elizabelle: Where did you find that, I’ve googled the bejesus of his name. He was in the unit in the Korean war that I ended up in when I went in 67, the 7th Infantry Division.
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the Conster
My favorite quotes from today:
“Pure applesauce”
“Congress approved the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them”
“Let’s go back to work”
“argle bargle argle bargle argle bargle”
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Brachiator
@PurpleGirl: I understand that Bristol scrupulously used contraception. She watched a video where someone put a condom on a banana. Palin did the same thing, but got pregnant anyway.
Sorry. I could not help myself. I seriously wish her well, hopes she learns whatever she needs to learn, and is as understanding of others as she would like us to be towards her.
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ThresherK (GPad)
“Alright, hosers, I want all twelve us of fighting for every meter on all three downs!”
@Elizabelle: I have picked it up on a couple of sites, thanks!
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Villago Delenda Est
@Brachiator: That is so New Testament. Does not compute in the world of the Palins.
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NotMax
Confoozled by the maintenance plan for the new riding mower landlady bought. (And woo-hoo! Sold the old one in 2 days on Craigslist.).
One paragraph clearly states that once per year full preventive maintenance by them is entirely free.
Another states that cost of items (such as air filter, spark plug, etc.) that are periodically changed will receive a 25% discount off regular sale price.
Anyone have experience within this arena? It’s from Sears.
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trollhattan
@Elizabelle:
What a way to learn about him–only upon his wretched death. I feel similarly about Gabby Giffords, who at least lives on but what a loss of an effective leader who could have gone very far, indeed. We need more people like them, not fewer.
This week is the straight white male apocalypse no matter what happens re gay marriage. It’s Sunnydale, and they’re not Buffy.
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Nicole
Today Is out tenth anniversary. Had a lovely dinner at a restaurant we haven’t visited since right after we married, but had to cut it short when the babysitter texted that our wee imp started throwing up. Ah well. ACA was upheld today, so it’s all good.
Wee Imp’s birthday is in five days. I remember our fifth anniversary, when we thought we still had five weeks until he was coming out. Ha!
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trollhattan
@David Koch:
Lord, what a find. Oh, to be one-tenth that clever.
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Pogonip
@Elizabelle: Yes, he sounds like a fine man, a tragic loss not only to his family and friends, but to many others.
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Brachiator
@Karen in GA: Ah, but these days, Neanderthal is a sophisticated metrosexual, eating a healthy paleo diet, getting vegies at the Whole Food savannah.
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Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: RIP. I loved the Emma Peel era Avengers.
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FormerSwingVoter
Heh. Cool Twitter hashtag in response to Trump’s nonsense: #HispanicGirlsUnited
Just played back Mr. Robot pilot recorded on Wednesday.
I’m going with a wait and see approach. The main character got revealed a little too early to maintain tension throughout a whole season.
Nice concept and the guy looks like he could F some shit up. I’ll give it a few more epis.
Young whippersnappers, take note: a lot of books you missed are coming back into print. The most recent I’ve noticed is William March’s The Bad Seed, about the brattiest brat ever, and a number of Michael Crichton works, including my favorite of his, Congo, which contains ( deep breath): greedy villain, talking gorilla, crossing war zones, hippo attacks, cannibals, volcanic eruptions, a lost city, an unknown ape species, and of course loads of technobabble; about the only things Crichton didn’t squeeze in there are Tarzan and Jane. Don’t let that horrible Congo movie put you off the 2 hours of fine entertainment in the book. (The movie of The Bad Seed is pretty good except for the dumb Hollywood ending.)
@efgoldman: Very sad news. One of the digital broadcast stations here runs The Avengers, including the early shows with Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale. Many of the episodes still hold up, and Mrs Peel will always be cool.
Thing that always amazed was that as an actress, Diana Rigg usually radiated all the sex appeal of a bag of wet laundry. But her Emma Peel was the supernova exception.
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PurpleGirl
@Nicole: Happy anniversary, and happy birthday to the wee one in advance. (My favorite knitter calls babies ‘wee ones’ and I think that is so cute.
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JCT
@David Koch: TBogg took a brutal swipe on Twitter :
“Honestly, I’ve been trying my hardest to keep my chin up on this one.” #BristolPalin . “Pants” is not spelled c-h-i-n.
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PurpleGirl
@FormerSwingVoter: Love some of the postings. They are soooo true.
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WaterGirl
@raven: Oh my gosh, this is really happening! Wow. So excited for you.
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PurpleGirl
@Brachiator: I understand the temptation to snark :) I wish her well too. I wish she had an aunt or another adult female to help mentor her because I think it’s clear that her mother doesn’t know how to teach her daughter about real life.
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WaterGirl
@Brachiator: Thank you for saying that! It never occurred to me that I could find The (real) Avengers on TV. Just checked Tivo and found that they are listed. Looks like the final episode of season 6 will air on July 1. With any lucky, maybe they will start the series over from the beginning after that. Crossing fingers.
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JCT
@PurpleGirl: She should start by not taking fees to lecture others about abstinence.
You would have thought she would have learned this lesson after her first unplanned pregnancy. Agree about her lack of any parental guidance, but hell, she’s 24!
Did you ever see Diana Rigg in the TV series (BBC, I think; miniseries, I guess: maybe three or four episodes) called Mother Love? It aired somewhere around 1985 on PBS’ Mystery! and haunts me to this day. For some reason it seems never to have been released on home video/DVD. I would give quite a lot to watch it again (bonus: David McCallum as her ex-husband).
If the channel you found The Avengers on is NBC+, chances are that they will rotate back to the beginning of the series, or some earlier stretch. That’s the usual modus operandi on that and similar channels (WeTV, MeTV, etc.).
You are FUCKING GENIUS!!! A couple of years ago you found my grandmother’s song about the roses, now you track down a DVD I thought didn’t exist.
Can I set you to finding the children’s book I have tried to remember for 60 years now? Regardless, I owe you a Jeroboam of your favorite adult beverage.
I think I tried (unsuccessfully) to find that book when you mentioned it in the long thread about children’s books. You mentioned the names of the kids in the family and the time frame (’40s–early ’50s), maybe a few other details, but the trail was cold.
And, yes, I’ve got you down in my book for a drink for that song from the magazine of the 1850s. That was possibly my greatest career Google search.
I am. Will be in NoVA for Notorious RBG giving a talk on “The Law in Opera” on July 11, then kind of loose for a few days but hoping for a BJ meet-up around 14-15 or so, then to Boston for a surprise 70th b’day party for an old friend, then back, so I could probably do a meeting around 21-22 if the previous week doesn’t work out. Or both.
@NotMax: I do a lot of small engine maintenance/repair. The best thing you can do for your mower is to use non-ethanol gasoline. Usually, there is one station in every town that offers it, because commercial mowing companies know they need it. You will have none of the problems associated with the damage done by ethanol. Change your oil once a year, drain it for the winter. (Or use an additive) Keep it lubed. Sears puts out crap these days, but you can mitigate that to a large extent. Good luck.
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Baud
That looks Islamic in design.
Elizabelle
What is it?
Riley's enabler
Such a good day in the world of politics. Ended with bringing home three new fosters, a sweet mama cat and her two tiny babies. About 3 weeks old now, trying out their shaky – legged walking skills slowly.
Sometimes it is good to look around and appreciate our world. Today is just such a day.
beltane
Where are you?
Germy Shoemangler
Got hooked on the new PBS show
Baud
@Germy Shoemangler:
Fuckers.
Elizabelle
@Germy Shoemangler: I love that James Fallows, who is a whipsmart guy, found out his DNA included Neanderthals.
Elizabelle
@Baud: Maybe it was the early folks who fought Harryhausen dinosaurs but had not developed much of a spoken language. (1 Million Years BC last night on TCM. Pretty good flick, although mostly famous for Raquel Welch in a fur bikini.)
Betty Cracker
@Elizabelle: It’s the ceiling of the Tampa Theatre, the local area’s Art Deco jewel.
Brachiator
Going to set up a new router and inbox a Chromebook. Tech goodies arrived a bit early, capping off a nice day. I’m still enjoying the glow of the positive Supreme Court ruling.
Elizabelle
@Betty Cracker: Looks wonderful.
Judy Blume’s husband owns an older movie palace in Florida. Think that’s cool.
Mike J
@Germy Shoemangler: Good content, horrible audio mix when I watched it in mono on my bedroom set.
Karen in GA
Looking up info on flyball and agility, because Muppet is a tiny high-speed psycho. Her new funnest game in the whole world that she made up all by herself is to zoom across the living room, jump up, bounce herself off the back cushions of the loveseat, zoom back the other way, rinse and repeat.
She needs an outlet for this energy that isn’t my furniture. Or we need a much bigger house.
lamh36
This to remind me to set my DVR tomorrow!
Obama to Clyburn: Charleston victims ‘are my people’
Hal
The fair housing act decision really deserves more coverage everywhere. I get it’s overshadowed by the aca decision, but this is also important.
MazeDancer
Just played back Mr. Robot pilot recorded on Wednesday.
Amazing TV. Just remarkably good.
Cannot believe all those anti-capitalism ideas got on television. In ace drama. (With a bonus Neil Diamond soundtrack moment.)
Apparently, USA renewed it for Season 2 even before the pilot aired.
Really, if you like great TV, you do not want to miss it. Here’s the pilot ep online: http://goo.gl/7mrWl6
If you have cable/Apple TV you can also get it at USA OnDemand on your TV.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Elizabelle: And a notably high percentage of Neanderthal markers at that!
Karen in GA
@Elizabelle: I thought that was true of everyone, to some extent? I did a 23andMe test a couple of years ago that showed I had 3.1% Neanderthal DNA.
(Also, evidently I have two copies of the CCR5 Delta 32 mutation, making me resistant to HIV, which was a weird thing to learn. Sadly, I can’t seem to find any way to use it to help anyone else. Suggestions welcome.)
PurpleGirl
@Karen in GA:
She needs an outlet for this energy that isn’t my furniture. Or we need a much bigger house.
How about getting her a treadmill. There are pets running wheels that let the pet run and run and run. They are a bit expensive ($249 or so) but they look like interesting. The cat rescuer I know wants to get one once she moves into her house.
raven
They took the siding off of the house today!
Mike in NC
@MazeDancer: Good show, unlike most of the other mediocre stuff they’re trotting out for the summer, like ‘Aquarius’ and ‘Astronauts’ Wives Club’. ‘Tyrant’ is also very watchable.
Iowa Old Lady
@raven: Whoa. That’s airy.
the Conster
Summer’s here, the weather’s been delightful and my little flower garden is blooming, so between all the good news today and processing the horror of Charleston, I picked a great week for an all alone deck staycation.
Rebublicans create despair, and Obama’s policies have created hope. Full stop. Obama was the crowbar thrown into the right wing gears thanks to Bush’s one man fail parade, and he’s taken the opportunity to ratchet the country left ALL BY HIMSELF (plus Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid), with nothing but disrespect and revilement thrown at him the whole time by the GOPers, and his better “progressives” who never wanted to credit him or would have done it better and been purer. He’s handled every happy and sad situation with the right words and a calm demeanor and class. He acts in good faith. The symbol of racism is being wiped out and his health care bill has taken root JUST THIS WEEK. His work here is done. Well played, Barack, well played.
Like he said, now it’s time to go back to work.
PsiFighter37
Bristol Palin got knocked up again, and this just months after calling off her engagement. Hoocoodanode?!
lamh36
Not much on tv right now, so I’m watching VH1 Soul
YES!! I knew VH1Soul was gonna be playing MJ videos today!
Watching Thriller right now….and yes, I’ve got the move down.
Elizabelle
@lamh36:
Gonna drag this forward from the Rick Scott shitheel thread (great B Cracker art).
Am just haunted by all the good that Clementa Pinckney is not going to be able to do. Because he was taken out by a white supremacist manchild.
The world was better with Mr. Pinckney in it.
Such a loss.
JPL
@raven: They are finally moving along and it won’t be long before your addition is done.
raven
@Iowa Old Lady: They put up plastic and I’m sure it helped but, damn, that part of the house catches the afternoon sun and it was hot in the kitchen tonight. They should start framing Monday so we’ll see how far they get and whether or not they work on the 3rd. Either way it’s progress. Also, it’s hard to tell from that shot but the peak of the roof is 25 feet off of the basement floor. Those guys busted their asses today working that high up.
Elizabelle
@the Conster: So true.
Roger Moore
@Karen in GA:
The 23andMe stuff can be interesting. I was interested to see that it was able to get my background to a T: I am 50% Ashkenazi (including typically Askenazi mitochondrial DNA) with the other half categorized as European/Northern European/British and Irish. It gives me some confidence both that they have some idea what they’re doing with the ancestry stuff and that my own family’s genealogy is broadly accurate.
PurpleGirl
@PsiFighter37: Rather than vowing never to have sex outside of marriage ever again, Bristol would be better off if she promised not to have unprotected sex ever again. As my mother used to say, “if you can’t be good, be prepared.”
raven
@Elizabelle: I keep thinking about my Drill Sgt at Ft Campbell in 1966. His name was Dallas A Pinkney, probably just a coincidence and not related but this man was a true leader too.
raven
@JPL: Yea!
Mary G
@raven: Progress! It’s been a long haul for you.
David Koch
Twitter is lighting up with this most hilarious response to a teabagger (concerning the Confederate flag) ever written.
KG
@Germy Shoemangler: not surprising, I think they’d already figured out that homo sapiens also interbred with Neanderthal and Denisovan, so it wouldn’t surprise me that there was even earlier interactions.
Karen in GA
@PurpleGirl: I’m afraid we’d have to file that idea under “bigger house.”
And it doesn’t seem like it would do much to indulge her love of jumping. Because damn, she loves jumping.
Elizabelle
@raven: I wonder. Would be cool to find out.
And looks like your house is going to be beautiful.
For Bohdi to be quiet around. Poor guy.
Elizabelle
@Karen in GA: Muppet is so cute. She and Iggy are quite the pups.
Mike J
@raven: Thought of you earlier today when somebody asked for must see places in Vietnam,
raven
@Elizabelle: I’ve always been amazed that I found this article about him from the Stars and Stripes in 1961. He said he knew he was going to die in Vietnam but he is not on the Wall.
Elizabelle
@David Koch:
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@raven: Good news!
David Koch
@PsiFighter37:
Bristol Palin is trending on twitter. It is hilarious!
Karen in GA
@David Koch: That is a work of art.
raven
@Mike J: Dalat, Nha Trang, My Tho, Quin Non, Ha Long Bay. . . they say Hanoi is awesome too.
Island Dreams in the Coconut Kingdom, My Tho
http://oivietnam.com/2015/03/island-dreams-in-the-coconut-kingdom-my-tho/
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@David Koch: Perhaps Treezon, Temperance, or Truthy as a name?
Karen in GA
@raven: Oh wow. Congrats on the progress!
We finally had the last of the laminate flooring installed today. They started weeks ago, but repeated screwups with the order left our stairs unfinished until this morning.
Now the tile guys have to come back a third time to fix the mistakes they made the second time, when they were here fixing the mistakes from the first time.
And eventually we’ll get around to putting everything back where it belongs.
Brachiator
@Karen in GA: Neanderthal used to be a brute. Now having some Neanderthal is the Thing. Supposedly, the preliminary evidence is that some non African populations have some Neanderthal. This may be only the beginning of learning more about early humans and human diversity.
raven
@Karen in GA: Our tile is slated to cost as much as the siding!
Karen in GA
@Elizabelle: I can’t imagine life without them.
Mary G
I just love p.a. carpenter, and he was on fire today:
Karen in GA
@raven: Yep. Not surprised at all.
Elizabelle
@raven: He lived until December 1993. Buried in Bushnell, Florida. Service in Korea and Vietnam.
Sounds like a great guy. Would not be surprised if he is related to Clementa.
Gin & Tonic
@raven: Ha Long Bay is awesome indeed.
TaMara (BHF)
@Karen in GA: First of all, both pups are adorable. And I hate to say this aloud, but Bixby does the same thing. So far I have not lost any furniture. But must find a way to channel his energy in another direction. YIKES. So…let that be some comfort to you that Muppet isn’t 135 lbs.
raven
@Elizabelle: Where did you find that, I’ve googled the bejesus of his name. He was in the unit in the Korean war that I ended up in when I went in 67, the 7th Infantry Division.
the Conster
My favorite quotes from today:
“Pure applesauce”
“Congress approved the Affordable Care Act to improve health insurance markets, not to destroy them”
“Let’s go back to work”
“argle bargle argle bargle argle bargle”
Brachiator
@PurpleGirl: I understand that Bristol scrupulously used contraception. She watched a video where someone put a condom on a banana. Palin did the same thing, but got pregnant anyway.
Sorry. I could not help myself. I seriously wish her well, hopes she learns whatever she needs to learn, and is as understanding of others as she would like us to be towards her.
ThresherK (GPad)
“Alright, hosers, I want all twelve us of fighting for every meter on all three downs!”
Canadian football starts tonight.
Karen in GA
@Brachiator:
I was a clumsy primitive brute before it was cool.
NotMax
Found this graphic interesting (not of major import, but interesting nevertheless).
h/t Washington Monthly
Karen in GA
@TaMara (BHF): Yikes indeed. Although it’s probably easier to see/hear Bixby coming, so there’s that.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mary G: Time to go nuts on popcorn futures.
raven
@Elizabelle: I have picked it up on a couple of sites, thanks!
Villago Delenda Est
@Brachiator: That is so New Testament. Does not compute in the world of the Palins.
NotMax
Confoozled by the maintenance plan for the new riding mower landlady bought. (And woo-hoo! Sold the old one in 2 days on Craigslist.).
One paragraph clearly states that once per year full preventive maintenance by them is entirely free.
Another states that cost of items (such as air filter, spark plug, etc.) that are periodically changed will receive a 25% discount off regular sale price.
Anyone have experience within this arena? It’s from Sears.
trollhattan
@Elizabelle:
What a way to learn about him–only upon his wretched death. I feel similarly about Gabby Giffords, who at least lives on but what a loss of an effective leader who could have gone very far, indeed. We need more people like them, not fewer.
the Conster
@Mary G:
This week is the straight white male apocalypse no matter what happens re gay marriage. It’s Sunnydale, and they’re not Buffy.
Nicole
Today Is out tenth anniversary. Had a lovely dinner at a restaurant we haven’t visited since right after we married, but had to cut it short when the babysitter texted that our wee imp started throwing up. Ah well. ACA was upheld today, so it’s all good.
Wee Imp’s birthday is in five days. I remember our fifth anniversary, when we thought we still had five weeks until he was coming out. Ha!
trollhattan
@David Koch:
Lord, what a find. Oh, to be one-tenth that clever.
Pogonip
@Elizabelle: Yes, he sounds like a fine man, a tragic loss not only to his family and friends, but to many others.
Brachiator
@Karen in GA: Ah, but these days, Neanderthal is a sophisticated metrosexual, eating a healthy paleo diet, getting vegies at the Whole Food savannah.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: RIP. I loved the Emma Peel era Avengers.
FormerSwingVoter
Heh. Cool Twitter hashtag in response to Trump’s nonsense: #HispanicGirlsUnited
https://twitter.com/hashtag/HispanicGirlsUnited
Corner Stone
@MazeDancer:
I’m going with a wait and see approach. The main character got revealed a little too early to maintain tension throughout a whole season.
Nice concept and the guy looks like he could F some shit up. I’ll give it a few more epis.
Karen in GA
@Brachiator: Yeah, but that’s just the 3.1% of me that’s Neanderthal. That leaves 96.9% clumsy primitive brute.
MomSense
@MazeDancer:
I really liked it.
Pogonip
Young whippersnappers, take note: a lot of books you missed are coming back into print. The most recent I’ve noticed is William March’s The Bad Seed, about the brattiest brat ever, and a number of Michael Crichton works, including my favorite of his, Congo, which contains ( deep breath): greedy villain, talking gorilla, crossing war zones, hippo attacks, cannibals, volcanic eruptions, a lost city, an unknown ape species, and of course loads of technobabble; about the only things Crichton didn’t squeeze in there are Tarzan and Jane. Don’t let that horrible Congo movie put you off the 2 hours of fine entertainment in the book. (The movie of The Bad Seed is pretty good except for the dumb Hollywood ending.)
Pogonip
@Nicole: Many happy returns!
Villago Delenda Est
@David Koch: That is just brilliant. He waits until almost the very end to crank the snark up to 11, and it’s a very subtle cranking, too.
Nicole
@Pogonip: thank you!
Brachiator
@efgoldman: Very sad news. One of the digital broadcast stations here runs The Avengers, including the early shows with Honor Blackman as Cathy Gale. Many of the episodes still hold up, and Mrs Peel will always be cool.
NotMax
@pogonip
Although they did kind of make up a little bit for that contrived ending with what happens during the closing credits.
NotMax
@Brachiator
Thing that always amazed was that as an actress, Diana Rigg usually radiated all the sex appeal of a bag of wet laundry. But her Emma Peel was the supernova exception.
PurpleGirl
@Nicole: Happy anniversary, and happy birthday to the wee one in advance. (My favorite knitter calls babies ‘wee ones’ and I think that is so cute.
JCT
@David Koch: TBogg took a brutal swipe on Twitter :
“Honestly, I’ve been trying my hardest to keep my chin up on this one.” #BristolPalin . “Pants” is not spelled c-h-i-n.
PurpleGirl
@FormerSwingVoter: Love some of the postings. They are soooo true.
WaterGirl
@raven: Oh my gosh, this is really happening! Wow. So excited for you.
PurpleGirl
@Brachiator: I understand the temptation to snark :) I wish her well too. I wish she had an aunt or another adult female to help mentor her because I think it’s clear that her mother doesn’t know how to teach her daughter about real life.
WaterGirl
@Brachiator: Thank you for saying that! It never occurred to me that I could find The (real) Avengers on TV. Just checked Tivo and found that they are listed. Looks like the final episode of season 6 will air on July 1. With any lucky, maybe they will start the series over from the beginning after that. Crossing fingers.
JCT
@PurpleGirl: She should start by not taking fees to lecture others about abstinence.
You would have thought she would have learned this lesson after her first unplanned pregnancy. Agree about her lack of any parental guidance, but hell, she’s 24!
SiubhanDuinne
@Brachiator:
Wait just an everloving blue-eyed minute here. Bristol Palin put a condom on a banana but got pregnant anyway? The fuh??
LWA (Liberal With Attitude)
Dunno if anyone else covered it, but the week just keeps getting better:
Kansas’ Abortion Law Suspended
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
@efgoldman:
Did you ever see Diana Rigg in the TV series (BBC, I think; miniseries, I guess: maybe three or four episodes) called Mother Love? It aired somewhere around 1985 on PBS’ Mystery! and haunts me to this day. For some reason it seems never to have been released on home video/DVD. I would give quite a lot to watch it again (bonus: David McCallum as her ex-husband).
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
First episode. Didn’t sniff out the others, but they should be easy enough to find.
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne:
I found this U.K. source with a Region 0 (playable anywhere) DVD on offer for £16.95.
Steeplejack
@Pogonip:
How are they coming back into print? Some e-book project?
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
If the channel you found The Avengers on is NBC+, chances are that they will rotate back to the beginning of the series, or some earlier stretch. That’s the usual modus operandi on that and similar channels (WeTV, MeTV, etc.).
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack:
You are FUCKING GENIUS!!! A couple of years ago you found my grandmother’s song about the roses, now you track down a DVD I thought didn’t exist.
Can I set you to finding the children’s book I have tried to remember for 60 years now? Regardless, I owe you a Jeroboam of your favorite adult beverage.
Thank you thank you thank you!!
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne:
I think I tried (unsuccessfully) to find that book when you mentioned it in the long thread about children’s books. You mentioned the names of the kids in the family and the time frame (’40s–early ’50s), maybe a few other details, but the trail was cold.
And, yes, I’ve got you down in my book for a drink for that song from the magazine of the 1850s. That was possibly my greatest career Google search.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack:
It was totally amazing. Every time I look at it, I am grateful all over again.
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne:
Aren’t you going to be in Washington next month? I have to go out of town for five or six days, but I hope I don’t miss you if you come.
SiubhanDuinne
@Steeplejack:
I am. Will be in NoVA for Notorious RBG giving a talk on “The Law in Opera” on July 11, then kind of loose for a few days but hoping for a BJ meet-up around 14-15 or so, then to Boston for a surprise 70th b’day party for an old friend, then back, so I could probably do a meeting around 21-22 if the previous week doesn’t work out. Or both.
Steeplejack
@SiubhanDuinne:
Cool. I’ll see how things firm up.
Mack
@NotMax: I do a lot of small engine maintenance/repair. The best thing you can do for your mower is to use non-ethanol gasoline. Usually, there is one station in every town that offers it, because commercial mowing companies know they need it. You will have none of the problems associated with the damage done by ethanol. Change your oil once a year, drain it for the winter. (Or use an additive) Keep it lubed. Sears puts out crap these days, but you can mitigate that to a large extent. Good luck.