Because something went kablooey with the website today, half our front pagers can not post pictures. I’ll pick up the slack:
She always knows when the clean sheets go on the bed- and this time she didn’t even wait for the clean duvet cover.
Speaking of the website, tomorrow I get my first preview.
SiubhanDuinne
The Six-Minute Stomp. Nice.
(Love seeing Lily. She must be just the sweetest pup ever.)
redshirt
Will the new site have “Recent Responses” section?
Shana
My cat does the same thing. Usually, though when I’m trying to take off the dirty sheets.
rikyrah
So pretty.
Elizabelle
Lily!
Oh, she is sweet.
What is Thurston’s status? Is the new home with the young terrier still a possibility?
Either that home or yours, Thurston is a lucky pup.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@Shana: Our cat “helps” us make the bed with fresh sheets, gets under the top sheet and rolls around and swats at us while we work on it.
She finds it disturbing when we strip the bed to wash the sheets, usually because she was still using them.
jl
What is a duvet? How is it pronounced in West Virginny?
Edit: thnx to Cole for very cute pet pic.
TaMara (BHF)
That’s adorable Lily. Making beds is a team sport here as well.
If we have been lacking pictures, here’s Bixby doing the crazy eye.
MomSense
Lily! Good girl.
Gin & Tonic
Speaking of the website, tomorrow I get my first preview.
Don’t bother. It sucks.
Renie
What did you decide to do about Thurston? Can we have a picture of Steve?
NotMax
You may be the only non-blue-haired person in WV to use the word duvet.
Red sheets?
Commie!
cckids
@TaMara (BHF): So cute! He must make you laugh every day.
Here is my Olivander doing his version of the crazy eye. Or just chilling. Because nobody can relax like Olivander.
Mary G
She always looks so cozy.
JPL
@cckids: Although I’m not a cat person, the pictures are really cute.
SiubhanDuinne
@MomSense:
Lily always* looks like a little fawn.
*(On the rare occasions we actually see a photo of her.)
J R in WV
The duvet is a feather-filled comforter you sleep under when it’s getting cold, and you want an open window. LL Bean sells them, but so do most department stores.
We have 2 of them, one just barely covers a queen size bed, and the other is big even for a king, which we will pull out come winter.
Old fashioned, but I think most folks in WV know the word. We still use them a lot. Esp when the power goes out, before generators were a thing.
@NotMax:
I’m not a blue hair!! I’m bald. Since 1972!
mclaren
Given the proclivities of your dogs, Cole, a picture is worth a thousand turds.
JPL
Trump is defending his answer to the whacko who wants to eliminate the Muslims by saying Christians need support in this country. Their religious liberty is at stake.” Trumps campaign manager said only Trump speaks for Trump. Criticized press coverage of Q.
link
It might be time for the news media to ignore him. Ratings are not that important.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@J R in WV:
I think the duvet is the pillowcase-like thing you put over the comforter, not the comforter itself. We may need a housewares person to weigh in.
Pogonip
So who gets Thurston? The bachelor or the bachelorette?
redshirt
I’m rooting for the Chiefs. Despite their racist name.
Morzer
This made me laugh:
http://www.theonion.com/article/gop-promotes-carly-fiorina-male-candidate-after-st-51331
JPL
@Mnemosyne (tablet): I think you are right. It’s just a cover over a comforter.
The actual comforter can be of different weights.
benw
Louisville giving Clemson everything they can handle.
SoupCatcher
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
Google is perfectly happy to return many results for ‘duvet cover.’
Roger Moore
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
Nope. The duvet is the comforter, and the thing on the outside is a duvet cover.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@JPL:
It gets confusing, because they sometimes get labeled as “duvet covers,” which would imply that the thing being covered is the duvet. So I’m not sure if “duvet” is the French word for “comforter,” or duvet is its own word and “duvet cover” is like “ATM machine.”
JPL
@benw: My friends husband and son drove to Louisville to watch the game.
Clemson is still ahead.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Roger Moore:
So why do you cover a comforter with a duvet cover and not with a comforter cover?
ETA: And just to be bring things full circle, LL Bean refers to them as “comforter covers.”
JPL
@Mnemosyne (tablet): duvet is the french word. A duvet cover is just a cover. Some of those silly covers are quite expensive.
schrodinger's cat
Doggie thread needs a kitteh!I can has asylum?
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
Same reason you drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?
JPL
@Mnemosyne (tablet): Normally they are down comforters that are white, so the cover can add color. The covers, like pillow cases are often machine washable.
Elizabelle
Have y’all noticed the “Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump” from his functionaries, when they’re interviewed.
Very deferential, and I don’t hear it from other candidates’ staff members or the news critters.
Caught a tiny bit of Jake Tapper this afternoon (I know, it was enough), and some male Trump employee was saying Mr. Trump, Mr. Trump, so Tapper started calling him that too.
And then Tapper asked some question about “Jeb.” It was glaring.
Then, saw a little of some woman at top of hour about the anti-Muslim brewhaha, and she’s saying “Mr. Trump” too.
Over and out.
benw
@JPL: I hope they’re not LOU fans, that missed FG was brutal.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Trump to his build-a-wall, just-read-his-hat, Obummer-is-a-Mooselim audience, “Jeffery Sonnenfeld, Dean of Yale Business School, you know who he is, right?”
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@JPL:
Oh, I know what they are — we own several, even though we live in Southern California. Still, words that don’t quite correlate drive. me. ber. ZERK!
Elizabelle
@schrodinger’s cat: Ahhh. I’d heard about a refugee and his kitten.
So human and humane.
benw
@redshirt: I’ve been watching the AFC West since forever and did not know that the stupid Chiefs fans did the “Tomahawk Chop”. WTF stupid Chiefs fans?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Elizabelle: I think if you want access, you have to call him “Mr Trump”, I’ve noticed Robert Costa doing it, but he also seems to a rather formal young man (said the old fart approvingly). And while I despise her, and I think it’s part of her campaign, people referring to “Carly” drive me a bit nuts.
JPL
@benw: Definitely not Louisville fans.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@NotMax:
This is probably the only reasonable explanation, ie that English sucks.
Actually, since I don’t remember seeing comforter (or duvet!) covers until the 1980s, I’m assuming it’s one of those words that was imported from its original language even though the thing it referred to already had an English word for it.
I may be reading too much Bill Bryson right now.
schrodinger's cat
@Elizabelle: I tried to put boss cat in a sling. He didn’t co-operate. Also, my sling was substandard.
JPL
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: If he were elected what would they call him? I know what I would call him.
redshirt
@benw: They need to change their NA symbology.
glory b
Lily’s a cutie, but isn’t it time to clip her nails? I walk my dog so much we never need to clip.
Trump’s says the real issue is that Obama is waging a war on Christians.
NotMax
@JPL
Mr. YOOGE.
NotMax
@NotMax
(No edit function.)
Scratch that.
Your YOOGEness.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I remember Michelle Bachmann in 2012, when she briefly spiked in the polls and the voices in her head told she might have a chance, paid her call on “Mr Trump”, I think a couple of the other wannabes (Cain? Santorum?) did the same. The only brief glimmer of respect I had for scummy Willard was when he insisted his meeting be on neutral ground with a minimum of press coverage. The someone told him he needed the Birther and Birther-leaning types, so he brought Trump in whole hog.
And speaking of which, I’m pretty sure I just heard Stuart Stevens, who was probably in the room when that decision was made, if he wasn’t the one pushing it, bemoaning Trump’s failure to push back against the racist goon in his audience. If Lawrence O’Donnell pushed back at all, it was after I switched back to the football
benw
@redshirt:
What do you mean? Also, that was a rough loss for LOU fans. And I forgot how much I loathe Clemson’s coach. I’ve only seen him on the TV, but he acts like such a weasley twerp.
Roger Moore
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
Strictly speaking, a duvet is not exactly the same thing as a comforter. A comforter sits on top of a sheet and blanket, while a duvet (apparently from the French word for down, another sign that it’s intended to refer to the quilt rather than the cover) is intended to replace the whole sheet/blanket/comforter stack. Because the duvet is right next to the sleeper, it needs a washable cover so it doesn’t get gross or need washing itself. A comforter doesn’t need the same kind of protection, and some comforters are elaborately decorated and intended to be used without any kind of cover.
MomSense
@SiubhanDuinne:
Lily is a sweetheart. Just look at those eyes.
Morzer
@NotMax:
The Yuuugeidocious Presence
Elizabelle
Just wandered over to Talking Points, and the idea of Chuck Todd getting a weekday show is as unpopular there as it is here.
Chuck’s getting no love, and a lot of derision.
Which he deserves.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Roger Moore:
I spent one winter sleeping in a semi-finished attic quite comfortably between a flannel bottom sheet and a duvet with a flannel cover (which got washed regularly).
jl
@efgoldman:
‘ How is it pronounced in West Virginny?
“Bedspread” ‘
I need to brush up on my WV French pronunciation.
ruemara
People, this is a Duvet.
I like Lily’s very feminine wiles being used there. She’s quite the coy lady.
Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA
Hi Lily! Say hello to Steve and Rosie for me.
NotMax
True story, from just last month.
So have a friend who runs a computer and related electronics repair business. One of his customers came in to show off and lend him a “digital life monitor” and insisted he keep it for a few days and use it to “adjust his aura” and all like that.
Squat off-white box with a lot of multi-colored LED lights in an array on the front. Power cord and a USB cable out the back.
Friend, of course, proceeded to hook it up and watch the lights flash (not that he bought into the crapola in any manner, shape or form).
Then unplugged it and opened it up. The USB cable was a dead end, connected to NOTHING inside the box, nor was there any corresponding connection inside which it might conceivably hook up to.
lamh36
My dinner tonight, Classic NOLA dish, Yaka mein! But instead of with beef. I made mine with chicken!
https://twitter.com/psddluva4evah/status/644676743610036224
Aleta
When I was a kid, my neighbors kept a davenport in their living room. It smelled different than anything in my house.
TaMara (BHF)
@cckids: What a cutie. Not a small cat. Love.
redshirt
@efgoldman: That interception was not his fault.
catclub
@jl: A duck themed bidet.
Cervantes
@Mnemosyne (tablet):
“Duvet” was imported from the French 250 years ago and became English before we had the word “comforter.”
redshirt
EEE-YAYAYAYA
Botsplainer
Took the missus to a debacle of a football game tonight. We had a great time, but left at halftime as tomorrow is busy for each of us. It is about a mile and a half walk to where we parked; others were leaving too, and it was a beautiful, clear night. As we get within about a hundred yards of our car, we hear squeals and a sickening loud thump behind, followed quickly by a roaring engine and shouts of “stop”. There was no question what was going down. I started moving for the road in front of the car as wife stood to side to call 911 – the car was accelerating and actually zigged toward me before roaring by at sixty through an unmanned gate into the ring around the fairgrounds complex. I had to leap back, never got a good look at the plate. The driver almost ran somebody down at the gate. We’re hoping the camera picked it up at the gate. She was doing 60, and had run over a pedestrian.
I’ll never forget that sound.
As we drove home, she said with cold fury “that bitch tried to run you over”…,
Morzer
@efgoldman:
Neither QB has looked particularly sharp in this game. Might be because both defenses have been impressive.
Cervantes
@NotMax:
Did he announce his discovery?
redshirt
@Botsplainer: Who was trying to run you down?
Morzer
@Botsplainer:
How are things on the domestic front? Are you preparing to retreat from Moscow?
Cervantes
@Botsplainer:
Glad you’re OK.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@lamh36:
Looks delish!
Botsplainer
@redshirt:
Some random drunk/junkie who did a hit and run on a pedestrian but didn’t want to stop.
NotMax
@Cervantes
Not to her. All I related transpired after she’d left, when he had some time towards store closing. Just by chance I had wandered in that day to shoot the breeze and share his AC before continuing on running errands.
Basically it was a fancied-up color organ, with the minimal circuitry necessary to make a show of it..
redshirt
@Botsplainer: Damn. You should keep your head down.
Morzer
@NotMax:
“a fancied-up color organ, with the minimal circuitry necessary to make a show of it…”
In other words, a Trumpatron.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@redshirt:
Hit-and-run driver fleeing the scene.
Botsplainer
@Morzer:
There’s a charm offensive underway.
And there is nothing like nearly getting creamed on the road to inspire positive feeling.
NotMax
@Morzer
Extended golf clap.
mclaren
@NotMax:
The 2000s version of the orgone energy box.
redshirt
@efgoldman: They all know Peyton is weak.
redshirt
And the refs.
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@Cervantes: I was wondering the same, but figured it might not matter to the True Believer.
redshirt
Dang.
Morzer
@NotMax:
I promise you, that box with lights could win election as a GOP candidate in Texas.
Geeno
I just gots ta get my scent on that scentless (clean) thing.
It’s a very dog thing.
This is her home – it must smell like her.
Omnes Omnibus
@Morzer: Does it have cowboy boots?
Jerzy Russian
Fumble!
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@Aleta: We had a davenport when I was a kid, in the 1950s. It smelled like dust no matter that Mom vacuumed it ever week.
Morzer
Man, the Chiefs have really worked overtime to achieve that level of unnecessary suckitude.
benw
Holy shit! The Denver defense will carry this team.
cckids
@TaMara (BHF): No, he’s quite the chubster, and the most dog-like of our cats. A snuggle bunny & lovebug.
redshirt
Wow. Peyton Lives!
Geeno
Lily is still the heart stealer she was the day you met her, JC.
THAT is an adorable pup.
Morzer
@efgoldman:
Make ’em red enough and that device could be looking at multiple terms of office.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@efgoldman:
Andy Reid (or designated minion) has been a bullshit play-caller since forever.
Cervantes
@Morzer:
And then put a pair of glasses on it and it could run for president.
Jerzy Russian
Sweet Jesus, what an ending!
Morzer
I can only imagine that Andy Reid would rather lose than go to overtime, because that was a spectacularly stupid series of choices he and his team made in the last 30 seconds.
redshirt
God wanted Peyton to win.
Geeno
@redshirt: God, Schmod – “the Formula” knew the Broncos would win with the spread (+2 locally). Outright wins are just icing.
Suzanne
@Pie Happens (opiejeanne): What’s the difference between a davenport and a couch or sofa?
I recently schooled someone on the difference between storefront and curtain wall.
Jerzy Russian
@redshirt: If that what God wants, then that is what God gets.
Morzer
@efgoldman:
There was a certain tender beauty in the referees rushing over to gently raise Manning from the turf every time the Chiefs had the outrageous brutality to lay a questioning finger on him.
redshirt
@Jerzy Russian: God builds up Peyton only to tear him down as an example of Pride and Gluttony.
Morzer
@efgoldman:
Originally from… Massachusetts!
Morzer
@efgoldman:
Another betrayal by Obama! If he’d really wanted formatting buttons…
redshirt
@efgoldman: Something strange is afoot. I fear the UPDATE us nigh.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: A sofa traditionally had two arms and a back and was designed for sitting. A couch had at most one arm and was design for a woman in a corset to be able to recline comfortably. A davenport is another term for a sofa – a company called Davenport was a popular manufacturer. I do not know why I know this.
Amir Khalid
@efgoldman:
Per Wikipedia, Davenport sofas were originally made by Massachusetts furniture maker A.H. Davenport & Co. The name has since become a generic term for sofa in the US.
Cervantes
@Suzanne:
Not much. Davenports were originally called “Davenport sofas.”
But now all this talk of recumbency is making me sleepy.
Have a great evening.
PurpleGirl
@schrodinger’s cat: Was going to leave a comment at your blog but I can’t remember my WordPress password….
I first saw the picture of the guy and his kitteh at the FB page of a kitten rescuer I know. It’s a beautiful picture and story — even though his own future was up in the air, he wouldn’t leave his pal behind. That is one loved kitteh and I’m glad for the kitteh to have his love.
David Koch
Miracle at the Meadowlands: Redux
Andy Reid should be fired for bumbling error that was resolved 37 years (don’t run the ball with seconds left on the clock).
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: I always thought the one-armed couch was a chaise. I’ve also heard “fainting couch”.
Thank you for the education.
PurpleGirl
JGC — thanks for the picture of Lily. She’s a sweet critter and deserves being featured.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: Fainting couch due to the corsets…
FlyingToaster
@efgoldman: No formatting buttons here. Of course, I can
fuck with HTMLdo my own formatting in a pinch.I’ve finished everything but the dalek piñata: whovian plates, bowtied napkins, sheets of Dr. Whooves stickers, TARDIS favor bags.
FT+3, well, if I pour a 3rd glass of Carr’s Ciderhouse :)
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: I had always thought they were for doin’ it. ‘Cause they’re perfect for that.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: I’ll just leave that alone.
Morzer
@Suzanne:
Is that a davenport in your living-room, or are you just pleased to see me?
Omnes Omnibus
@Morzer: Davenports are sofas. Do try to keep up.
Geeno
Saying “Davenport” for sofa was like saying “Mercedes” for car. A Davenport sofa was just that good back in the day.
Suzanne
I am having a hate-my-job day. Not my firm, just the job in general. I may quit and work at Starbucks. Or doing data entry. Data entry sounds ideal.
Morzer
@Omnes Omnibus:
I never have trouble keeping my davenport up.
Morzer
@Suzanne:
You could become a davenport model and lie around languorously eating chocolates and telling the world that all a girl wants is a big, strong davenport to relax with.
Geeno
@Suzanne: Just make sure you won’t miss the money even if you don’t miss the job.
Otherwise, Liquor stores are a good source of boxes for your office clearing.
It’s fun making the boxes empty, too.
PurpleGirl
@Suzanne: My sister the furniture maven would have said “chaise lounge”.
Suzanne
@Morzer: I’ll settle for lying around languorously.
Sick of being fuckin’ exhausted all the time. Fuck. Thirty more years of this, if I’m lucky.
Suzanne
@Geeno: I will miss the money. That’s the problem.
Im trying to decide if i’ll really miss it that much, though.
Amir Khalid
Test link to Wikipedia article on Davenport sofa
Omnes Omnibus
@Amir Khalid: Nope.
Morzer
@Amir Khalid:
Your link it does not.
Amir Khalid
@Amir Khalid:
No good.
Test link to Wikipedia article on Davenport sofas
Better. But when does the link button come back?
Morzer
@Amir Khalid:
Mission Accomplished!!!!
Jerzy Russian
@Suzanne: I suspect if you are like most professionals just out of school, you will really miss the money until those loans are paid off.
Some weeks I wonder why I do what I do given all of the stress and all of the things I want to do but can’t because of everything going on. Other times, I love the hell out of my job.
Roger Moore
@Amir Khalid:
When Steve coughs it up along with a hairball.
Amir Khalid
Oh, by the way, it’s September 18 — the 45th anniversary of Jimi Hendrix’s death. RIP Jimi.
Steeplejack
@redshirt:
Fear the updatening!
Steeplejack
@PurpleGirl:
If she were a real furniture maven and not a poseur she would say “chaise longue.”
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: No music threads for a while.
Origuy
Soonergrunt is tweeting that he and his wife are splitting up. He’s having it rough.
Amir Khalid
@Origuy:
Damn.
Aleta
@Morzer: very funny
Aleta
@Morzer: just keep your powder dry
Steeplejack
@Botsplainer:
Okay, I feel compelled to weigh in, but I’ll try to keep this
shortto the point. As always, take what’s useful and leave the rest.Way back in the day I had a long (over a decade), messy relationship with a woman who was beautiful, talented and crazy—not spittle-flecked, bat-shit crazy, but crazy enough in a subtle, insidious way to get me to do things not too dissimilar from going to the store to get a home pregnancy kit because someone’s vasectomy might have spontaneously reversed itself.
So I speak from experience when I say that you need to get out. I thought it was bad several months ago when you scotched the plans for the hipster pad downtown and went back to the status quo ante, and now I think the situation has gotten much worse. And no amount of exciting drama, whether provided by you, by her or by the universe—“That bitch tried to run you over!”—can mask the fact that this relationship has flatlined.
You are working on the relationship (in your mind). She is “working” on the relationship, in the sense that she (consciously or unconsciously) is trying to pull you back into orbit so that you’ll balance the checkbook, cook dinner, make her drinks and generally keep the household running while she jets off to Australia to get her cervix pounded by the small nameless guy. Her diagnosis—NPD, BPD, whatever—doesn’t matter. She’s nuts. And, more important, you’re not going to “save” her (or fix the relationship).
You said you will have some time apart in October and then some tough decisions will be made. My advice is to use the time apart in October to reactivate the hipster pad (or suitable substitute) and get your exit plan nailed down in detail, so that when you get back together you can present it as a done deal and have the intestinal fortitude and support network in place to withstand the pleading, drama and seduction that will inevitably follow. Trust me, the decision about the death of the relationship has been made. You just haven’t gotten the word.
Aleta
@Aleta: Those same neighbors also had a very very old recliner.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Several years ago, when FYWP was going through a similar rough patch here, I dusted off my HTML and made a manual template to do linkies, music and otherwise. It may be time for it again, unless this is just a “we do the weird stuff in the middle of the night” software thing. (And I’ve been there.)
RK
@Steeplejack: How do you know that woman isn’t crazy like a fox?
Omnes Omnibus
@RK: Does it matter?
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Exactly! Crazy is crazy, and he’s getting fucked over royally. Only his Stockholm syndrome is preventing him from seeing it and bugging out.
Steeplejack
Test music link: Deon Jackson, “Love Makes the World Go Around.”
Aleta
@PurpleGirl: Funny how chaise lounges will not admit to knowing any lounge chairs. But club chairs will hang around either one.
Amir Khalid
Test link to kitten video on YouTube
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: I offered him my advice last night. Get a lawyer. Follow lawyer’s advice. Don’t talk about it on blogs.
Omnes Omnibus
@Aleta: Most club chairs are sluts.
Steeplejack
Makeshift hyperlink for the updatening:
<a href=”http://www.what.com”>Descriptive text goes here</a>
Amir Khalidnk I've got the hang of
@Amir Khalid:
Okay, I think I’ve got the hang of doing links manually.
Aleta
@Steeplejack: oh very nice
Aleta
@Omnes Omnibus: but that leather ….
Amir Khalid
@Amir Khalid:
Okay, I’ve got the hang of doing links manually now. Yay me.
Mike J
@PurpleGirl:
Every time I watch a Tottenham game on TV they talk about Shane Long and the first three times they do it registers to me as “chaise lounge”.
Omnes Omnibus
@Aleta: On your own head be it.
Mike J
@Amir Khalid: If you want buttons, try the text formatting toolbar on Firefox. If you’re on Firefox.
Aleta
@Steeplejack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HJeLguRecYc
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Your advice was excellent. I saw that and all the other stuff but couldn’t overcome the hassle of typing more than a sentence or two on the phone or tablet. But this bullshit tonight vaulted me off the cushy chair and over to the real computer.
I have been in that situation where some crisis or “excitement” makes you think the relationship is alive or can somehow be retrieved (shared adversity, facing danger, etc.). Yeah, no, that only happens in Lifetime movies and bullshit like Hart to Hart and McMillan and Wife. And who the fuck would want a relationship built on that anyway?!
PurpleGirl
@Amir Khalid: Many thanks for a cute kitten video. The tabbies are adorable. Will have to share this with my kitten rescuer friend.
Steeplejack
@Amir Khalid:
Good on you, mate!
Omnes Omnibus
Clash
PurpleGirl
@Aleta: I always thought Suite Judy Blue Eyes was “Sweet Judy Blue Eyes”… Ah, earth mother Judy Collins, always a good choice.
Aleta
@PurpleGirl: me too, for the longest time
Redshift
@Aleta: We used to have a pet rabbit who was nicknamed “Recliner.” It was because he was a lazy boy.
Steeplejack
@Aleta:
Great song!
But I’m working the dark side of town tonight: Sandra King, ”Leave It Up to the Boys.”
Omnes Omnibus
@PurpleGirl: @Aleta: I saw it on the album cover before I ever heard it out loud, so I never had that issue. Of course, I turned five the year the song came out.
NotMax
Nice, much needed nap accomplished.
Per above, when a kid, the term davenport was reserved for sofas that pulled out (or on some models, cranked out*) into beds, as opposed to convertible sofas which had a separate bed frame and mattress underneath which one unfolded.
*An example of that type is featured in Preston Sturges’ film Christmas in July.
@Omnes Omnibus
Nash
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
All right, you’ve got it working! We’re some fucking codemeisters up in here.
Aleta
@Redshift: great name
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Wikipedia to the rescue.
PurpleGirl
@Amir Khalid: This reminded me to check the web site for The Museum of the Moving Image and their exhibition schedule. A show on how cats took over the Internet is still there and will be there until January 31st, 2016. Gives me time to get myself over there since I’m only a bus ride away.
But from the write-up it doesn’t seem to mention kitten cams. Yes, I’m a kitten cam watcher.
http://www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/
http://www.movingimage.us/exhibitions/2015/08/07/detail/how-cats-took-over-the-internet/
Steeplejack
@Aleta:
Here’s one in the spirit of Judy: Eva Cassidy, “Fields of Gold.”
Thoughtful Today
Attempt at
Jerzy Russian
@Redshift: We also had a bunny who was a professional sitter. He lived outside, but would periodically come into the house and sit in the same place by the front window for hours at a time.
Aleta
http://claudiarussell.bandcamp.com/track/dont-let-your-deal-go-down
(not the same lyrics as the bluegrass standard)
NotMax
@PurpleGirl
Enjoyed a White Cat while perusing the internet earlier. Does that count?
:)
Amir Khalid
@Thoughtful Today:
The blockquote works. Yay you.
Aleta
@Steeplejack: I hear it, and many songs, as diff interpretations of that same dark side
RK
@Omnes Omnibus: Could, yes.
Steeplejack
Lesley Duncan, “Love Song.” Later done by Elton John (with Duncan) on Tumbleweed Connection.
Omnes Omnibus
@RK: I don’t think so. From the POV of the person involved with a “crazy” person, the “crazy” person’s motivations don’t really matter – only the results.
Steeplejack
Can’t hear “Love Song” without listening to “Come Down in Time.”
Aleta
don’t let your deal go down
til your last gold dollar is gone
where were you last friday night
while i was lying in jail
walking the streets with another man
and you wont even make my bail
PurpleGirl
@NotMax: I say yes, because cat image on the internet.
RK
@Omnes Omnibus: I think motivations matter even if the end result may be the same.
Steeplejack
@Aleta:
LOL, I was too subtle. I meant dark as in the black side of town—black performers.
James and Bobby Purify, “Let Love Come Between Us.”
Omnes Omnibus
@RK: Okay, does it matter if someone’s partner turns out to be an asshole or if the person has NPD? If the relationship is toxic, shouldn’t the person get out?
Steeplejack
@RK:
Those subtle considerations are best left for after you have vacated the blast area and secured a safe position.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Speaking of time, Time Is.
@PurpleGirl
Thanks. May well light up another now.
(They’re very inexpensive but surprisingly full-bodied yet mellow and don’t smell like burning rope.)
seaboogie
@Botsplainer: I understand that you have long history together. And also read your comments about how she generally treats you and how you feel in that situation. Your new therapist is right: if she is a narcissist, you can’t fix that, and she isn’t going to want to. Not even her fault, most likely – it’s a personality disorder, and the nature of it makes her unable to perceive you and your efforts. Save yourself. Find a way out, and stick with the therapist.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Hmmm…. Dark End of the Street.
RK
@Omnes Omnibus: @Steeplejack:
I agree that if things are toxic get out–which is much easier to say than do unfortunately.
Steeplejack
Clarence Carter, “Slip Away.”
And another song very appropriate for the subject under discussion: “Lying Eyes.”
Aleta
Lie To Me
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SqEEo2uD3Qo&index=13&list=PLA8053B365D428F58
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Linky no work (missing colon). I fix.
ETA: Great song.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Thanks. I is still learnering.
Thoughtful Today
Attempt at
Thoughtful Today
Attempt at
3??
Steeplejack
@Aleta:
O.V. Wright, ”A Nickel and a Nail.”
seaboogie
@Steeplejack: Yay you, Steep. I hadn’t read through all the comments, and made a much briefer rejoinder t0 the same effect. If you’ve been down any part of that road, you know that it is entirely hopeless, and you have to save yourself.
My therapist has observed that narcissism is so rewarded and venerated in our US culture (she’s from England)….(paging THE DONALD)…that we cannot see how off kilter and insidious this personality type/disorder is.
Thoughtful Today
!-)
Dogs and Cats Living Together! Mass HYSTERIA!
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: Ain’t it though?
Steeplejack
@Thoughtful Today:
Is simple:
NotMax
@Thoughtful Today
Needs to type in the closing tag.
Ah, see you got it in #218.
Omnes Omnibus
@Thoughtful Today: Dude, you have mastered it. Now what?
@Steeplejack: Slip Away is … damn.
Aleta
(good night)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpnZXh-XamM
Last Thing I Remember by Chauncey Bowers
The heat waves were crashing
When I finally heard the news.
The long and the short of it all became clear,
There was nothing I could do.
The last thing I remember is me waiting for you.
The last thing I remember… just waiting for you.
Whirl around, whirl around,
You’ll get dizzy by and by.
I mean you’re over there, or you’re over here,
But you’re never anywhere you have to try.
The last thing I remember is you not saying goodbye.
The last thing I remember… not even goodbye.
People say I’ve been feeling this way too long.
I don’t know, but that could be.
Any given day, I could walk away,
My heart has other plans in store for me.
For me.
One thing leads to another,
The road meets the rubber
Push comes to shove.
The night came and the freezing rain fell on me
There was no help from above.
The last thing I remember is being in love.
The last thing I remember.
Steeplejack
@seaboogie:
Exactly. And the carnage wrought by “We can work it out if we just try harder!” is incalculable.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
He/she could work on the whole Reply button thing.
Omnes Omnibus
@Steeplejack: It really isn’t an issue. TT will, vaguely, refer to everyone who doesn’t buy his/her/its opinion that Bernie is god as a troll.
Steeplejack
@Aleta:
Sweet dreams.
And you nailed it with your exit song.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Yeah, nothing like a gritty voice, that tight beat and a good horn section on top.
Tyrone Davis, “Turn Back the Hands of Time.”
Thoughtful Today
Thanks, Steeplejack & NotMax.
3 tries to figure out /blockquote
heh, ‘learning curve’
it’s mockworthy :)
Steeplejack
Even more wrenching one: Tyrone Davis, “Can I Change My Mind.”
Thoughtful Today
Bernie’s very human, Omnes, it’s always been about the issues and policies for me.-)
FTR, you brought him up.
Omnes Omnibus
Okay, sleep now. Cheers all.
seaboogie
@Steeplejack: WRT that (and a heads up to you, Botsplainer), one of the great messages that I finally incorporated from my therapist was that “If you blame yourself, then you can still have hope”, because you take on all responsibility for a thing that is ultimately incurable. Realizing that the other party is responsible kind of puts you in free-fall, because you cannot control that. And then you have to learn how to care for yourself, instead of the unquenchable other.
NotMax
@Thoughful Today
Did you happen to see his interview on Maddow Thursday?
He seemed kind of distracted.
Steeplejack
@Omnes Omnibus:
And your man Alex Chilton has it going on too: the Box Tops, “Cry Like a Baby.”
Steeplejack
@seaboogie:
True. You gotta know when to hold ’em and when to fold ’em. But the illusion of control is hard to let go.
ETA: The crucial “tell,” to me, is that the party of the second part is pulling stuff on Botsplainer that he sees—and sees through—on a daily basis in his law practice, yet he has been (hopefully no more) oblivious to it happening to him.
As my brother likes to say, if you’re looking around the (gambling game) card table and you can’t figure out who’s the patsy, it’s probably you!
TriassicSands
Ben Carson may be too smart for Republican voters and too stupid for smart voters.
His response about vaccines was pathetic — yes, Ben, we have ample evidence that vaccines don’t cause autism, but where is your evidence that we’re giving too many vaccinations too quickly? A weak pander to the ignorant, which given Carson’s religious beliefs, is probably one of his prime potential constituencies.
Since the Republican Party has divorced itself from science and Carson supposedly is in some form a man of science (creation science), where are the questions about evolution? He can endear himself to the hopelessly ignorant with a well-thought-out answer about evolution being the second biggest hoax ever put over on the Amurkin people…after climate change, of course. I’d love to hear Ben’s answer to how old the Earth is. It appears that he’s a young Earth creationist, which means that he not only doesn’t understand evolution, he’s woefully ignorant about geology. He also comes up short in paleontology/archaeology and with his answer about vaccines last night, it appears he has some work to do in medicine as well.
Carson is a prime example of a really smart incredibly stupid person. Trump seems more like a really stupid stupid person (no wonder he’s so popular with Republicans). Walker’s simply a dolt; a simpleton; and a prick(nice combination). Cruz, another intelligent idiot with a nasty streak as wide as Texas. Huckabee? Just an idiot; no sign at all of intelligence that I can see. Jeb doesn’t seem to know how to do much of anything but piggyback on the family name and connections.
I’ve always felt the real threats are Kasich, Rubio, and Fiorina (as VP). If HRC doesn’t get the nomination, then the rationale for Fiorina is weakened, but still there. Rubio’s youthful good looks will stand in stark contrast to Clinton (or Biden or Bernie). My guess is that he, like Kasich, will be able to pull off the “moderate Republican” act, despite all the evidence to the contrary. Needless to say, the media won’t provide that evidence and the American voters are nothing if not suckers for GOP play acting.
Steeplejack
Okay, I’m done for the night. Gonna go out with a simple song about a boy and his dog: Van Morrison, “Redwood Tree.”
Thoughtful Today
‘Cord cutter’ here.
I just get the snippets of Maddow that MSNBC posts to download.
They’re quick to post the show, I occasionally watch it for breakfast.
But sad for me that they stopped posting the whole show because apparently MSNBC hates Linux, I’ve never been able to get their stream to … you know … stream.
btw
Bernie’s on the Colbert show tomorrow night, hopefully he’ll be on his game.
seaboogie
@Steeplejack: @Steeplejack: Yeah – I’ve been getting a “scales falling from his eyes” message, along with a lot of very understandable anger and outrage…”patsy”, “chump” (I’ve been there on that one). The steps and path from realization, resolve, transition, venting, healing can be a long path – for me it’s been four years
, or forty years if I am honest with the root of it.
So here is a song for all of us:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QPMeDoOZ-L8
sharl
Gangsta puppy … #SnitchesGetStitches
Steeplejack
One last song: James and Bobby Purify, “I’m Your Puppet.”
Pie Happens (opiejeanne)
@Suzanne: They’re all couches, really, but Davenport was a manufacturer of them and the name was sometimes applied to all couches. My parents called ours a Davenport even though it was a basic generic frame they bought through a JC class in upholstery. They upholstered a sofa as well as a chair, I’m guessing in 1949. My sister still has the chair, but it has since been reupholstered in naugahyde. The original fabric was a chenille.
I’ve heard them called Chesterfields too, for the same reason. I think my grandmother called hers that.
Steeplejack
@seaboogie:
Cool. Now I’m really gone. Night, all.
Aleta
Lost in a crowd, Fantastic Negrito
http://www.npr.org/event/music/391288717/fantastic-negrito-tiny-desk-concert?autoplay=true
raven
Damn it’s early.
Aleta
@raven: no kidding
raven
Well, the Ville had their chances!
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: I’ve been up since 1. Shoulders started in and just wouldn’t let up. Gonna be a wasted day for me.
Thoughtful Today
hmm…
This Rachel Maddow video stream through RawStory.com worked for the first segment, stopped, then crashed the browser. [grrr]
“Bernie Sanders: Trump’s ‘weird’ anti-vaxxer rant may put thousands of kids at risk.”
Bernie was compelling and direct.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Wonder if you’ve got the labrum issues that I do?
In addition news, we are back in the kitchen save the shelves and doors in the cabinets.The bathroom tile is done (whoa on that bill!) and the painting of the rest of the addition should start soon.
NotMax
@raven
Yowza!
Amir Khalid
@Thoughtful Today:
“Bernie says sky is blue.”
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: HOORAY!!! Almost there…
No, they thought I might have a torn labrum but it’s just generic arthritis in the left one, I suspect the same in the right one, plus I have long had issues with bursitis in both. The biggest problem I have is I am allergic to aspirin which means I can’t take anti-inflammatorys because of cross reactions.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Aw shit, I’m starting to wonder too. I laid off swimming for 6 weeks after I was diagnosed in my right. I’m back to every other day but the left is stinging as well. I guess that’s what we get for being active!
raven
Well, we blew past the army motorcade
Abnormal load haulage
And the gravity of the situation
Came on us like a bit of new knowledge
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WyapSp10PAc
Keith G
Picking up the slack with just one (very cute) picture? Well…don’t strain yourself, Cole.
Where is Steve?
raven
@Keith G: I’m sure Cole is perched at his puter waiting to answer!
Keith G
@Amir Khalid: Well, give the guy some credit. 80% of those currently running for president could not correctly note the color of the sky.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Yep. Got any recent pics of the kitchen etc?
Amir Khalid
@Keith G:
For reasons probably known to you, I myself have not seen the sky in weeks.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Hmm, the embed link is gone and it doesn’t want to take the link.
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5740/21321623798_ee6f661546_b.jpg
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Looking good.
raven
It took, here’s another angle.
https://farm6.staticflickr.com/5789/20888324673_f0c2271f04_b.jpg
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Yea, we’re a little nervous. We had some major add-ons that were not in the original budget and them chicken are coming home to roost!
RK
Cole needs to pick up more slack and post a picture of his sink.
OzarkHillbilly
It’s time for the Ig Nobels!!! (embed link gone for me too)
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/18/ig-nobel-prizes-2015
“Entomologist Justin Schmidt and Cornell researcher Michael Smith jointly won for their painstaking experiments charting how painful insect stings are, and where the stings hurt worst. Smith pressed bees up against different parts of his body until the insects stung him, five stings a day, a total of 25 different locations, for 38 days. He rated the pain one to 10, and published.”
“The most painful parts: the nostril, the upper lip, the shaft of the penis.”
…
“the entomologist’s descriptions of 78 sorts of stings, written with the flair of a sommelier in a wine cellar with something to prove.”
“The bald-faced hornet, for instance, is in Schmidt’s estimation: “rich, hearty, slightly crunchy. Similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door.” Yellowjackets, on the other hand, sting “hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine WC Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.” Both rate a two.”
“The four-plus-rated bullet ant, in contrast, punishes a victim with “pure, intense, brilliant pain, like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a three-inch rusty nail grinding into your heel”.
OzarkHillbilly
If at first I don’t succeed, try try again.
It’s time for the Ig Nobels!!! (embed link gone for me too)
http://www.theguardian.com/sci…..rizes-2015
“Entomologist Justin Schmidt and Cornell researcher Michael Smith jointly won for their painstaking experiments charting how painful insect stings are, and where the stings hurt worst. Smith pressed bees up against different parts of his body until the insects stung him, five stings a day, a total of 25 different locations, for 38 days. He rated the pain one to 10, and published.”
“The most painful parts: the nostril, the upper lip, the shaft of the p3ni$.”
…
“the entomologist’s descriptions of 78 sorts of stings, written with the flair of a sommelier in a wine cellar with something to prove.”
“The bald-faced hornet, for instance, is in Schmidt’s estimation: “rich, hearty, slightly crunchy. Similar to getting your hand mashed in a revolving door.” Yellowjackets, on the other hand, sting “hot and smoky, almost irreverent. Imagine WC Fields extinguishing a cigar on your tongue.” Both rate a two.”
“The four-plus-rated bullet ant, in contrast, punishes a victim with “pure, intense, brilliant pain, like fire-walking over flaming charcoal with a three-inch rusty nail grinding into your heel”.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: What about fireants?
Morzer
@Botsplainer:
Well, the question you need to ask is whether you enjoy the torment and humiliation she inflicts on a regular basis. If you do, just lie back and take it and reflect that some people pay for this stuff at an extreme hourly rate. If you don’t, work out how you leave her behind to move on to a newer, better, happier life – and then follow your plan all the way without wasting more time or sentimentalizing yourself into further installments of enhanced life interrogation.
Mustang Bobby
@raven: I like that counter top color combination. Goes really well with the wood tones. (And I didn’t even take that part of the Radical Homosexual Training.)
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Yeah, that happens all too often.
Let me repost that link,
http://www.theguardian.com/science/2015/sep/18/ig-nobel-prizes-2015
w/ another highlight:
“A group of physicists from the US and Taiwan won for finding “the law of urination”: the principle that nearly all mammals empty their bladders in about 21 seconds (plus or minus 13 seconds), whether they’re the size of an elephant or a shrew.”
“Researcher David Hu said explaining that gravity was the great equalizer: “the taller the pipe, the faster the pee”.”
tybee
@raven:
i have an aluminum frying pan just like that, down to the nylon sleeve on the handle.
raven
@Mustang Bobby: That’s funny, we were just reviewing $ and noted that we had not paid for, nor received, the trespa countertop. I assume you mean the counter on the hoosier cabinet?
Mustang Bobby
@OzarkHillbilly: Okay, let’s see what happens when the elephant — or the shrew, for that matter — make it to 63 with an enlarged prostate. Heh.
NotMax
@raven
Is that new flooring? Regardless, from the little shown, looks nice.
raven
@tybee: More than once I have hooked that on the pot rack only to find I had only hooked the rubber handle. I broke two nice green glass juice thingy.
Mustang Bobby
@raven: Yes. It’s really nice. I’d rather have that for a counter top than the tile-and-grout I have in mine.
evap
@Mnemosyne (tablet): My Irish husband (who was raised in a house with no central heating, hence the need for such things) says “duvet” for the entire thing — comforter (my word) plus cover.
raven
@NotMax: No, that is heart pine that I did years ago. We had to go with standard yellow pine in the addition.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven:
http://insects.about.com/od/antsbeeswasps/tp/schmidt_sting_index.htm
Fire Ant
Pain Scale Rating: 1.2
Duration of pain: 2-5 minutes
How the sting feels: Sharp, sudden, mildly alarming. Like walking across a shag carpet & reaching for the light switch.
Keith G
@raven: Well…that was rhetorical in nature.
Morzer
@RK:
Cole has been letting his Metrosexual Credit Rating slide of late. Still, once Thurston gets through that difficult first decade, I am sure Cole will unlock that House Beautiful badge.
Mustang Bobby
@OzarkHillbilly: Um, no, at least not when I got stung by one. Hurt like a sonofabitch, so the comparison to a carpet shock is like the dentist saying “You’re going to feel a bit of a pinch” and then yanking out a molar.
NotMax
@raven
Not directly related, but a great item for the kitchen.
Silicon pot holders. Also work as a trivet and a jar opener. And can be run through the dishwasher. Gave Mom a pair when visited and, once she grokked they weren’t rubber or plastic, can’t stop raving about them. Says the only thing that works to ease opening bottles and jars with her arthritis and that she (finally) no longer uses a kitchen towel to remove hot items from the microwave.
Mustang Bobby
Oh, Dog, David Brooks is so panic-stricken by Trump and the rest of “the sophomore class at a Berkeley alternative high school” that he’s touting Rubio/Fiorina as the GOP ticket. Pitiful.
(Okay, so what happened to the little HTML macro buttons such as Link and Blockquote on the comment field? They’re gone.)
OzarkHillbilly
@Mustang Bobby: Well, pain is very relative. His pain scale is not the same as yours. That’s why Docs always ask you to rate your pain on a scale of 1-10, so they can judge how much distress YOU are in, not how much they think you should be in.
I have been blessed, or cursed depending on how you look at it, with a high pain threshold. Last year in LA I made the mistake of laying down on a fire ant nest to take some pics of a snake. It wasn’t long before I was a hoppin’ and a steppin’ but it was more of an irritation than actually painful.
David Koch
@Mustang Bobby: he’s only touting Rubio because of Rubio’s blatant pandering to the Neo-Con warmongers.
EricNNY
Just adding a comment to get us to 300.
David Koch
Man, NYT really hates Hillary.
Their lead front page article is a giant endorsement of the disgraced, failed HP executive.
Thoughtful Today
Amir,
I hope you see blue skies sooner than later.
Mustang Bobby
Via TPM: “NBC “Meet the Press” host Chuck Todd is getting his own daily afternoon program, among other staff changes at the network, according to a memo on Thursday from MSNBC President Phil Griffin.
Todd is scheduled to host “MTP Daily” beginning Sept. 28 at 5 p.m., according to the memo.”
Yet another reason to watch re-runs of “Family Feud.”
Amir Khalid
@Thoughtful Today:
Terima kasih.
JPL
Trump led the news again.
@raven: The kitchen is looking great.
OzarkHillbilly
@David Koch: Is she pro-choice? Probirth control? Pro fair wages? No, no and no?
No. She won’t help them with women.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
A little something for your dilemma.
Baud
Anne Laurie leaves a vacuum. Who fills it?
Baud
@Baud: Oh, wow. The content on the mobile site is different than on the regular web site. My comment will be perplexing to website users.
Morzer
@Baud:
Well, matoko-chan would help to bring in the crucial fangirl demographic to the Baud campaign…..
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: What’s up with Anne?
Morzer
@OzarkHillbilly:
Her internet went down IIRC.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: Last thing I heard was that she didn’t have Internet access, but it can’t have been down for this long. Maybe she can’t log into BJ because of the tech issues, but she should at least be able to comment. I hope she’s ok.
BillinGlendaleCA
@David Koch:
Have you read “The Hunting of the President”? This is not a new thing.
RK
BJ is acting up. Thurston has taken over this blog.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Baud!2016, of course.
BillinGlendaleCA
@RK: He heard about the plan to ship to a farm upstate.
MomSense
Not sure how I did this but I have sharp pain and numbness running from my neck to my shoulder blade. Kept me awake last night.
Morzer
@MomSense:
Any sinus problems?
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA: I can run a website. I’ll be too busy running a nation!
@MomSense: You should get it checked out.
RK
@BillinGlendaleCA: Yep.
Who doesn’t hate Hillary?
MomSense
@Baud:
I think she may be doing some big house repairs so that may have something to do with it. I hope she is ok.
Baud
@RK: I don’t.
Baud
@MomSense: Ok. I didn’t know about the house repairs.
RK
@Baud: Maybe you’re in denial. Sanders/Chomsky 2016!!
BillinGlendaleCA
@MomSense: Any pain in your arm, shooting pain like?
MomSense
@Morzer:
Always.
OzarkHillbilly
@Morzer: @Baud:
WHAT??!?!?!?!??? The horror! A fate worse than cancer! Seriously, I thought maybe something had happened and only made it into the comments. Glad to hear this.
Baud
@RK: I don’t know who’s getting my primary vote, but I don’t hate any of the top people running.
Chomsky on the other hand…
Morzer
@RK:
I thought it was Sanders/Alinsky?
MomSense
@BillinGlendaleCA:
Burning pain under my shoulder blade but not in the rest of my arm.
MomSense
@Baud:
Our houses took a beating last winter.
Elizabelle
Good morning all. 314 comments, huh?
RE the Trump gaffe at an appearance in NH: I think that thing was a setup. Have seen the footage a few times (MSNBC
almostorgasming to put it up, numerous times last night on 3 programs and I was only checking in from time to time; also on the Today show):the questioner has a very clear and disparaging voice; does not drop his syllables at all; it’s like he’s used to speaking (and speaking over people). On 2nd or 3rd hearing, I thought “radio jock” or talk show wannabe.
Trump did not handle himself well; he could have just said “Obama says he is not a Muslim”. I think he got away from the questioner pretty quickly, actually, and didn’t really inflame as much as he could have. (The campaign’s response about Christians losing liberty was way worse, IMHO.)
Anyway, I am wondering if another campaign or group set Trump up with that question. I am thinking it might be a more conservative group, since Trump is not a true believer. Could be someone else.
Last couple of times I heard that questioner, I really thought it was an act.
What say you all?
Baud
@MomSense: The amount of pain you’re describing seems high enough to have it checked out.
OzarkHillbilly
@MomSense: How about burning sensations? That’s how I found out about the bone spurs in my neck. 5 out of 7 cervical vertebrae. And no, nobody is operating on my neck.
Baud
@Elizabelle:
It’s Trump; don’t care.
Good morning, Elizabelle.
Morzer
@MomSense:
It’s possible your sinus problems and shoulder/neck issues are connected. I’ve found that one sign of approaching sinusitis is that my neck locks up and I can’t turn my head in one direction. Likewise, lots of aches and pains in the shoulder region.
Elizabelle
Also, news coverage on Trump and the debate is out of control.
The Republicans are one political party. You could be forgiven for watching as a visitor to the US and not thinking we have another.
Baud
Lordy, and I thought I was sickly. How do you people get through each day?
RK
@Baud: Chomsky forces us to look at our ugliness and hypocrisy so he can be irksome.
Elizabelle
@Baud: Don’t go being all sane on me, baud2016.
OzarkHillbilly
@OzarkHillbilly: Burning in the ARMS. Slight detail I neglected to add.
David Koch
Get a load of this: on Twitter “The Today Show” & The Wall Street Journal are mad at Trump for not rebutting yesterday’s mooslim question, yet 4 years ago those very same organs where repeatedly giving Trump a platform to push his birther smears.
They rode the back of the tiger and now they’re shocked he’s eating them.
Morzer
@Baud:
Obama is my lord and savior and my counter-tops praise his name.
Baud
@Elizabelle: It’s an act for the totebaggers and the Village. I’m still insane in the membrane.
Elizabelle
@Baud:
Moar pet pictures. Miri and the kitten runabouts.
Betty Cracker may not want to be up and dealing with us at so early an hour, but it might be Mrs. Cracker’s civic duty.
Baud
@Morzer: You also have Obamastone countertops? Me too!
RK
@Elizabelle: Anything is possible but something like that can also backfire. If it hurts Trump he has nobody to blame but himself anyway.
Morzer
@Baud:
Only Obamastone can kill the White Walkers.
OzarkHillbilly
@RK: Not mine. I am beautiful and a consistent asshole all the time.
Baud
So I finally got Android Pay, and now I have to input a credit card to get access to my stored loyalty cards. You suck, Google.
Baud
@RK:
Not if you don’t read him.
Morzer
@Elizabelle:
I would bet it doesn’t hurt Trump in the least with his admirers. He’s been peddling birther nonsense for years now, got his ass kicked by Obama in front of the entire press corpse – and here we are with Comrade Fakefur leading the GOP primary.
debbie
@Elizabelle:
I’ve had just about enough of Clown Trump. The sound bites I’m hearing are nothing more than “We’re going to take a look at that” and “We’re going to take a look at a lot of things.” He’s making vapid wraiths like Paul Ryan look substantial.
Baud 2016! has got to get busy and call out this Clown.
Baud
@Morzer: And I have the Whitey tape to prove it.
Baud
@debbie: Noooo. I want him to get the nomination. I can beat Trump without leaving this blog. The other candidates would require some effort.
debbie
@MomSense:
You could have slept funny and irritated a nerve. I’m prone to this same kind of thing when the season changes from summer to fall.
Morzer
@Baud:
Clearly my work with the TARDIS is not yet complete. I fear I must reconfigure the archive once again.
JPL
@Elizabelle: That didn’t dawn on me. The story should be that a person attending a Trump rally talks about ethnic cleansing.
This is from Dave Weigel’s twitter Also, it’s still very common to talk to people at conservative rallies and hear an insistence that Obama is a Muslim.
Elizabelle
Out on the deck with coffee, in a sweater and this morning had to put on leggings too. Still a little chilly out here.
Fall is on its final approach; late summer has been bowing out.
Internet headlines say we may not see as much foliage along the Blue Ridge this year, cuz it’s been dry.
Bring on autumn.
debbie
@Baud:
Oh, he’ll be getting the nomination regardless. But the longer you wait, the more difficult it will be to destroy the perception of his legitimacy. Just ask John Kerry.
Elizabelle
@JPL: Yeah. Saw Charlie Pierce on somebody’s show last night (Hayes?) and CP was saying he was floored that birtherism might form a core of Trump’s support. Like he’d forgotten about it.
I think most of it is anger with the establishment (GOP and Democrats too), but, yes, there are birthers, Muslim haters and all sorts of crazies in those rightwing fever swamps.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Google Pay doesn’t work on my ROM.
Elizabelle
@MomSense: Sorry to hear that. Ibuprofen is your friend, if you can take that.
Someone mentioned sleeping wrong. I’ve done that. Hope yours is a transient pain.
ETA: Agent Korra will likely distract you in some fashion today.
RK
Come to think of it, that question may be part of a conspiracy as it did come from the back and to the left.
Cervantes
@Baud:
And they say Republicans have all the smarts.
Morzer
@Elizabelle:
Charlie Pierce tends to overdo the reasonable man shocked at the folly of the GOP schtick.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA: I’ve heard that it screws over people who have rooted their phones. I’m luckily not that tech savvy. I’ll input a card and see how it works. People seem to like it.
Cervantes
@MomSense:
Ouch.
Take care, yes?
RK
54 Percent of Republicans Believe ‘Deep Down’ Obama Is a Muslim, Survey Finds
Elizabelle
@Morzer: Yeah. I was surprised he was surprised.
Elizabelle
Two new threads up. One with a surprise photo.
debbie
@raven:
Wow! They still make built-in bread boxes?
RK
@Elizabelle: Cole’s bedspread?
debbie
@debbie:
Also, laying on a heating pad for 15 to 20 minutes helps.
Elizabelle
@debbie: If MomSense can get it away from Korra.
Elizabelle
@RK: Interesting the way they worded that question.
Also, I wonder if all this “Christian, christian, christian!” stuff is set up as well to frame Bernie Sanders’ candidacy. The youngs may not be as worried about creeping socialism (as we have in the US military, for the most part) as their redbaiting elders. So, religion as a second line of defense.
The founders were so damn correct about separation of Church and State.
satby
@raven: really looking good!
Paul in KY
@jl: Tis pronounced Dooo-Vet, same as in KY.
MomSense
Thanks, all for the suggestions and concern. I took the gutters off my house on Saturday and Sunday but if that were the cause I should have had pain on Monday. Or maybe not. I don’t know. The spine is mysterious. I’m hoping it is a case of sleeping on it funny. I’ll get it checked out today if it doesn’t improve.
MomSense
@Elizabelle:
She loves to chew anything we are holding or wearing. She took the socks right off my son while he was napping!
PurpleGirl
@raven: The kitchen is looking good. One question — are you going to reverse the side the refrigerator doors on? Wouldn’t having the opening direction to the right make it easier to place things on the counter when a door is open? Is there enough room between the refrigerator and the wall to reverse the doors?
ETA: That wooden cabinet is gorgeous — is that a family heirloom or an antique picked up along the paths of life.
Matt McIrvin
@OzarkHillbilly: That actually is a pretty good description of a yellowjacket sting.
PurpleGirl
@David Koch: No way does this woman vote for Carly Fiorino. Her militaristic bent, her healthcare policies for women, her incompetence in work (she really is an example of reaching the level of your incompetence), all make this woman cringe.
Trinity
Lily is the greatest.
That is all.
Lurker
Lily needs a paw-dicure.
Lurker
Where are the pics of Rosie, Steve, and Thurston?
Elizabelle
I’m back, just to look at this little face and paw again.