Has anyone met a Marine who does crossfit who is also a vegan? Because that would be the single most annoying person in the world.
— Angry Staff Officer (@pptsapper) January 12, 2017
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Has anyone met a Marine who does crossfit who is also a vegan? Because that would be the single most annoying person in the world.
— Angry Staff Officer (@pptsapper) January 12, 2017
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Jim, Foolish Literalist
the only thing that would make that person more annoying would be…. Nope, never mind
debbie
Is there even such a thing?
Baud
Y’all are good people.
Corner Stone
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: +Jehovah’s Witness?
Mnemosyne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Are you pondering what I’m pondering, Pinky? ??
lamh36
Open thread…cool…
So anyone have any experience with the DHHS hiring process? Particularly the process for CDC in Atlanta?
Adam L Silverman
@debbie: I’m sure there is one. Somewhere.
clay
How about a Marine who does crossfit who is also a vegan… and who wants to constantly re-litigate the Democratic primary?
Mnemosyne
Also, too, I was asking in the other thread about connecting flights through ATL, but I just discovered that there’s a non-stop red eye so … never mind.
/Emily Litella
Steeplejack (sky-high wi-fi)
It’s funny.
clay
@Mnemosyne: Which park(s) are you going to?
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: You’re killing me….
(this will make sense to lamh and no one else…)
Josie
Thanks, Adam. You made me chuckle and that is not annoying at all.
satby
Had to retweet that, because it’s so funny. Thanks for the pick-me-up!
Cacti
Since it’s an open thread…
WTF on the Chargers moving to Los Angeles? I thought they might move, but to Los Angeles?
L.A. didn’t even care about the Chargers when they were without a team for 20-years and only 110 miles away.
Mater Dei High School probably has a larger L.A. fan base than the Chargers.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
From Cole’s twitter feed, not really surprising but… fuck him
He’ll deserve every ad of the Republican blaming him for the fall out. Fucker.
Adam L Silverman
@Steeplejack (sky-high wi-fi): Jusd czeqing tu sea iv ur steel with ous
lamh36
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon’s video.
Van Buren
Any random Cowboys fan is just as annoying.
lamh36
@Adam L Silverman: I know…I didn’t want to burden ya with this one… :-)
Adam L Silverman
@Van Buren: as in a random fan of the Dallas Cowboys or a random Cowboy who is a fan of something/anything?
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: The funny thing is, as I was driving to the gym this afternoon I was wondering where things were at. Its my fault. I created a disturbance in the Force…
raven
Here’s How Rudy Reyes Got To Star As Himself In HBO’s Generation Kill
A real recon jar head who played himself on the mini-series and was always getting shit for his weirdo diet and exercise.
Steeplejack (sky-high wi-fi)
@Adam L Silverman:
It’s a habit, not a typo. It’s going to bleed into your professional writing and you’ll look like an ignoramus.
Baud
@Adam L Silverman: I read it as a fan of random cowboys.
NotMax
It was the best of days, it was the worst of days. In Florida happenings, a wedding to remember.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I, of course, oppose all manner of leaks and hacking, so I really hope there’s no latter day George Smiley planning something with understated, scholarly ruthlessness.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: I had that saved for a Floriduh Woman post this weekend…
lamh36
@NBCNightlyNews
For 1st time in US history, Lady Liberty is depicted as a woman of color on US currency.
Larkspur
I find these comments disturbing and difficult to understand. I will go elsewhere. Happy evening, everyone!
Mike J
@NotMax: Flavoured whiskies are for people with no taste.
lamh36
the portraits I’ve seen of Queen Victoria, sure doesn’t show her as being this “attractive”?
I mean why do casting folks not even try to cast folks closer to the image than just the latest cute skinny girl?
It was one of my problems with the Keira Knightley version of Pride and Prejudice.
@PBS
We’re THREE days away from the #VictoriaPBS series premiere on @MasterpiecePBS!
lollipopguild
@Mnemosyne: What’s this i hear about violins on television?
WaterGirl
@Adam L Silverman: Hey Adam, I truly love your posts and all your contributions here, so I am quite surprised to see you threaten to ban Steeplejack for being a pedant about spelling or grammar. We are all on edge with the upcoming Trump apocalypse, so I am hoping you have just had a rough day (day/week/month) and will change your mind.
I would hate to lose either you or Steeplejack at BJ.
Adam L Silverman
@WaterGirl: It was amusing the first four dozen times. He/she can keep it to themselves or not. I’m no longer humoring him/her.
Mnemosyne
@clay:
All of them, Katie!
Seriously, we have 4 full days on the ground, so we may run out of things to do by Friday.
Omnes Omnibus
Angry Staff Officer is usually quite funny.
debbie
@lamh36:
As was pointed out by a commenter, Sacajawea was the first WOC on US currency. But I worry about RWNJ reactions.
lamh36
@Adam L Silverman: It’s a bit confusing…more so than the VA thing…but it’s not that big a deal…didn’t want to send ya some long azz email bout another thing.
lol
JordanRules
Whoa. What’s going on around here?
WaterGirl
@Adam L Silverman: Sounds like maybe you both push each other’s buttons, which happens with people sometimes. It’s the threat of banning that I find disconcerting. BJ would be a lesser place if we lost either of you.
P.S. Steeplejack is a he.
Adam L Silverman
@lamh36: Its not a problem, send away if you need.
Baud
@JordanRules: What it is ain’t exactly clear.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Young Victoria.
lamh36
Media Alert: Central Time Zone:
JPL
@WaterGirl: I definitely agree.
WaterGirl
@lamh36: I would be worried that in a Trump world, he could decide we don’t need the CDC. After all, weren’t they involved with all that pesky zika virus stuff?
But I take it you are thinking of changing jobs and relocation? is the (not so new) boss making you crazy? (I have been out of the loop a lot after the election, so there is probably a backstory here that I have missed.)
randy khan
@clay:
Or who’s a libertarian. But that might be redundant.
Mike J
@Omnes Omnibus: Nobody’s as good looking as Jenna Coleman.
WaterGirl
P.S. I will fight you for Idris. Did you donate so you can get the date?
lamh36
@WaterGirl: oh..you KNOW I donated…I mean it’s for the kids…lol
lamh36
Patti Austin, Elijah Kelly Patti Austin
Harlem Jazz Era
#APeoplesJourney #TakingTheStage
WaterGirl
@JPL: Thanks for chiming in! We need all the good guys we can get.
Baud
@efgoldman: I’ve had enough of your lip, Goldman.
WaterGirl
@efgoldman:
I so very much hope you are right and the kidding went over my head.
You don’t think I could be on edge, too, do you? :-)
NotMax
Off the beaten track movie alert at 9 in the morning on Friday on TCM.
The Lady Takes A Sailor – no one believes a woman’s tale of being rescued from drowning by a mystery submarine.
chris
@NotMax: You ain’t havin’ fun, til somebody calls 911.
rikyrah
If you need a laugh, Click on this link, and follow the story. HILARIOUS
WaterGirl
@lamh36: Just trying to figure out if I have to donate daily in order to have a chance against the competition. :-)
I love that he hams it up so much, kind of making fun of himself as he does it. “And I mean Anything. You. Want. Anything.” Too funny.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Oh, no! We are entering the age of authoritarianism. It’s even infected Baud. It’s worse than zika!!!
raven
Hice replaced Paul Braun in our district. I thought you might like to read this post about a town hall his reps had tonight.
Gin & Tonic
Here’s Andrei Soldatov in The Guardian about that golden shower dossier.
schrodingers_cat
@lamh36: Not a fan of QV. India is still paying the price of her “benevolent” reign of forty or so years. Channeling raven, fuck QV.
I don’t get the American fascination with the British Royals.
NotMax
@efgoldman
Agree, although it was heavy-handed. The use of your instead of you’re was the tell.
raven
@NotMax: Checkout Cinderella Liberty if it comes around.
Baud
@efgoldman: I’ll take your chins and make mincemeat out of them, you dirty rat.
clay
@Mnemosyne:
No, there’s always something to do. I live in Fla., and have been to WDW a ton of times, with and without kids. You may have already said this, but who all is going? Is it a family trip? Are there kids? If so, what ages? Are you staying on property?
I think you’re going at a good time… the Christmas crowds should’ve died down by now.
Politically Lost
Hey Adam, just wanted to thank you again for the security at mass protest events post again. We forwarded a link to the women’s march organizers and got a great response.
My wife and I are putting together our essentials this weekend and will be referencing it again. Flying in on inauguration day and flying out the day after. Ugh. But, worth it.
Getting ready for the long grim struggle the orange jackass and his minions in the congress.
lamh36
Gary Clark Jr and Alvin Ailey Dance Thearer..
Birth of the Blues
#APeoplesJourney #TakingTheStage
Baud
@WaterGirl: America loves tough guys who don’t take no sass from no one.
raven
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: It wasn’t a tell. I know I make silly spelling errors, especially when I’m not paying much attention – like a quick, amusing open thread because we haven’t had one in a while. It’s why I have multiple colleagues proof my written work. I don’t need it constantly pointed out. Like most people, I am quite good at picking up editing issues in other’s written work rather than my own.
JordanRules
@NotMax: Whew. I was really confused.
Wasn’t looking forward to a pedant revolt.
ETA: Welp, nevermind. Weirdness.
amk
good
byeluck, murkkka.you gonna need it.
WaterGirl
@Politically Lost:
I must have missed that one – do you have a link to the thread or some idea of which day it was? I tried to scan the thread titles but I didn’t see anything that sounded like that.
I would be very interested in that article because I see more protests in our future and some serious overreach from trump and cops.
Another Scott
@clay: and who wants to constantly re-litigate the
Democratic primaryBill Clinton administration?FIFY?
;-)
Cheers,
Scott.
Adam L Silverman
@Politically Lost: You are quite welcome.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
(Psst. It might have been the ‘ignoramus’ crack. Not needed in order to fix a typo.)
WaterGirl
@Baud: You had me with your brains and your humor. Tough doesn’t do much for me.
MomSense
@rikyrah:
Loved it.
lamh36
@WaterGirl: he had me at hello there and I was ready to donate after he said
“I’ll let you pound my yams”
Baud
@Another Scott: True dat.
Gin & Tonic
So, by way of debriefing, as this is an open thread that seems to have gotten a bit dark, some may recall that I was planning to make one of these for dinner on Dec 25th (vegetarians and vegans should just skip this post.) We did. It was fucking awesome. I highly recommend this – follow the instructions exactly, and it comes out perfectly, looking exactly like the photos. My oven seems to be a bit slow, so in the end it took pretty close to 5 hours. N.B. – if you’re using a meat thermometer, take it out before the “crisping” step. I failed to do so and it melted.
This dish is probably not recommended if you have cholesterol issues.
raven
@Adam L Silverman:Here is the security post.
Baud
@WaterGirl: Aw, man. And I was just getting good at it.
WaterGirl
@debbie: I’m not saying there wasn’t provocation. But whatever happened to proportional response?
Miss Bianca
The comments on that tweet are pretty funny, too…
NotMax
Well, that was a weird ad which just ran. Interstate Batteries promoting “God’s love.” WTF?
@Adam L. Silverman
I comfortably sit corrected..
Adam L Silverman
@WaterGirl: Here you go:
https://balloon-juice.com/2016/12/18/peaceful-assembly-and-personal-security/
SFAW
@rikyrah:
I liked the comment/tweet from “King Keenen” telling Drew to take the seat with him.
But I expect that’s because I’m weird.
WaterGirl
@raven: thanks, raven!
Adam L Silverman
@raven: Oy vey…
WaterGirl
@Adam L Silverman: thank you! I never would have found it since it was from december, when I was still deep into hiding after the blow on nov 8.
Major Major Major Major
So exactly how much pedantry is too much pedantry?
ThresherK
That mention of crossfit reminds me of SEK’s cat’s posting. And I miss SEK again.
Corner Stone
@Baud: Says who, numbnuts?
Baud
@efgoldman: I decided I need a middle aged blond woman who can lie on TV without shame.
WaterGirl
@Baud: You’re the best with smart and funny. I’m not sure chest beating is really your thing.
Miss Bianca
@Gin & Tonic: Damn…I’m coming to your house for dinner next Xmas. I’ll bring the gin. ; )
Adam L Silverman
@WaterGirl: Thank @raven: he got the link and posted it before I did.
As for the content, you’re/your/eur/yewer/uar quite welcome.
Baud
@Corner Stone: Yo mama.
lamh36
Usher for James Brown Segment
“Papas Got A Brand New Bag” “I Feel Good” “Say It Loud” “Get On Up”
#APeoplesJourney #TakingTheStage
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Times are hard. Here are zoo animals playing in the snow, including a baby elephant!
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
Twice as much as halfweigh.
/homophone teasing
Corner Stone
@Miss Bianca: Next Xmas! Ha! Pull the other one, sister!
JordanRules
@Major Major Major Major: Yeah. Pretty curious myself.
I’ve raised my displeasure before about racists not being banned (to be fair, not on Adam’s watch and it’s been a while) so I’m a little disoriented right now.
Peale
@WaterGirl: our first response in every health crises will be to seal the borders and spray all immigrants with herbicides. People who complain that herbicides don’t actually fight bacteria will be ridiculed as eggheads. The CDC won’t really be needed again until there are widespread birth defects in immigrant neighborhoods, by which time the scientists who work there will be replaced by white evangelicals, who will blame those defects on the filthy moral lives of colored foreigners.
Yeah, I’m not really looking forward to our new “only drama” Regime.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Speaking of which, I just saw her speak the other day. I know it’s petty to say so, and maybe sexist, but she looks awful and terribly unhealthy. Like she’s trying to compete with the woman who is married to James Carville, whose name escapes me for the moment. Are they alcoholics? Or is it just the lack of soul eating them alive from the inside out?
Gin & Tonic
Earlier today I posted something to the effect that, having worked in and around infosec for nearly two decades, I’ve never known anyone who’s availed him/herself of the service of Giuliani Security. Turns out I’m not the only one.
The company website seems to be quite the technical disaster area, too. The technically inclined among you are probably already following @SwiftOnSecurity (if you aren’t, you need to) who’s retweeting various people’s takes on the site. Suffice it to say that Il Donaldo’s son could do a better job configuring it.
Baud
@NotMax: I think people like M^4 prefer to be called “gay.”
lamh36
@AtlantaMagazine
With 25 cases left, President Jimmy Carter and @CarterCenter are close to wiping Guinea worm disease from the planet
Miss Bianca
@ThresherK: CROSSFOOT!!
I miss SEK too. ‘Twas a rough year, 2016…
SFAW
@WaterGirl:
That’s for chumps.
Just remember what Sean Connery’s character said about The Chicago Way: “They bring a knife, you bring an M60 (Saco represent!), a flamethrower, and a small thermonuclear device.”
WaterGirl
@Adam L Silverman: I thanked raven for his link, then i saw your link and thanked you, too. My momma raised me right, at least on my good days.
Baud
@lamh36: Trump will take credit.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Now, see, that works! I guess if you can be funny when you’re beating your chest, it’s all good.
edit: wow, FYWP is harsh tonight. After I typed that and pressed submit, I got an error that said “please type a comment”. I mean, it’s not the greatest comment I’ve ever written, but not even recognizing it as a comment seems unduly harsh.
Lizzy L
@Major Major Major Major: All together now: All of it, Katie!
Miss Bianca
@Corner Stone: eh?
Baud
@WaterGirl: I’m going with the soul thing.
Gin & Tonic
@Miss Bianca: You can make it yourself – it’s not very difficult.
SFAW
@Gin & Tonic:
You and your associates/friends have probably never heard about Rudy’s cybersecurity dealings because you’re only familiar with companies that have non-white employees.
(Which is my roundabout way of calling America’s Most Insane Ex-Mayor a fucking racist. )
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: Don’t you mean, how many pedantry?
Miss Bianca
@lamh36: This is truly some amazing news. In years to come – presuming the human race is still around – Jimmy Carter may be remembered primarily as the man who helped wipe the scourge of guinea worm off the planet and oh, yeah – he was also POTUS!
scott alloway
@Cacti: Back to their original home (a one-year stay in 1960).
Gin & Tonic
@SFAW: Or because his company is incompetent.
WaterGirl
@Peale: It’s a testament to humanity that we are not all rocking in the corner. At least not all of us, not all the time.
Doug R
@Cacti: Chargers did start in LA
chris
@Gin & Tonic: I remember. At the time I passed the recipe on and sibling/chef has promised it for Easter. Dieting hard in anticipation.
Peale
@WaterGirl: it’s the early stages of leprosy. I hope it comes back as an affliction to those who cause suffering. Boils to employers who cheat workers of wages. Gangrenous pustules for the hypocritical wicked.
SFAW
@Baud:
If it’s a flat-screen TV, wouldn’t she fall off?
Adam L Silverman
Sorry bout that comment with the offensive link. I’ve sent it to the trash.
Baud
@Miss Bianca: The guinea worm call him history’s greatest monster.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@lamh36:
I don’t know… sounds like kind if a toxic work environment to me….
*taps mic
Is this thing on?
Another Scott
@Adam L Silverman: With respect, if Steep notices it, you can be sure that others here do too. He’s trying to help you get your thoughts across to your audience more clearly. Even if it’s annoying, you should appreciate that he has taken the time.
I cringe when my fingers get ahead of what I’m trying to type and silly errors get through here. But I don’t have the luxury of being able to go back and fix them when they’re pointed out…
Cheers,
Scott.
SFAW
@Gin & Tonic:
Yeah, I got that from your comment yesterday. But I didn’t want to miss an opportunity to call America’s Most Insane Ex-Mayor a fucking racist.
WaterGirl
@SFAW: I am a chicago girl, that should have been drilled into me at an early age along with vote early, vote often.
Adam L Silverman
@WaterGirl: Tracking, didn’t see it.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Well, it’s ugly, whatever the cause. I think if you look like that, you’re doing it wrong.
raven
My old man used to smack me and say “it wasn’t what you said, it was how you said it”.
chris
@WaterGirl: Alcohol would explain a lot.
Miss Bianca
@Baud: LOL!
You are truly one of the funniest human beings on the planet. : )
Baud
@WaterGirl: She’ll look like the cryptkeeper by the end of Trump’s term.
ms_canadada
@raven: Cinderella Liberty. Paul Williams wrote the lyric, John Williams wrote the music. “Hello, such a simple way to start a love affair…”
Paul Williams, along with Jonathan Winters, etc., was in the movie, (based on the book written by Evelyn Waugh) The Loved One. Classic!
raven
My Facebook is cumin with this:
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: If you ask me she looks pretty decrepit right now.
WaterGirl
@SFAW: Perhaps BJ could be programmed so that every comment automatically has this appended to it: Giuliani is a fucking racist, the NYT is garbage, and Trump is a sociopath and a monster.
I wonder how long it would be before those 3 things came up when someone googles Giuliani, NTY or Trump.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
The same could be said about the descriptor ‘ignoramous.’
Baud
@Miss Bianca:
I’m funny how, I mean funny like I’m a clown, I amuse you? I make you laugh, I’m here to fuckin’ amuse you? What do you mean funny, funny how? How am I funny?
WaterGirl
@raven: Even after all the photos I’ve seen of your dad, I had no idea that your dad and my mom were the same person.
Adam L Silverman
@WaterGirl: We can’t even get the comments function and the scheduled posts function to work 100%.
raven
@ms_canadada: I think you’re thinking about Eli Wallach. I’ve always been a sucker for Masha Mason.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I think she literally will. I am hoping that Trump turns out to be a one-week president.
Gin & Tonic
@chris: My son has two friends, identical twin brothers. I’ve known them since they were in grade school. Since reaching more-or-less adulthood one of them has been a serious and committed drinker, while the other was an abstainer for a long time, and now has the occasional beer, with emphasis on occasional. They’re around 30. The one who drinks (he also smokes tobacco) looks ten years older than his brother.
Iowa Old Lady
At B&N today, I overheard two guys saying this Russian stuff just doesn’t sound like Trump. Now that’s annoying.
Baud
@raven: Yeah. For some reason, the left decided to go on an anti-Booker tear over this.
WaterGirl
@raven: ugh. that’s depressing.
raven
@WaterGirl: Ha, his fist coaching job was at Urbana High!
Elmo
@Doug R: For one season only in the AFL, before the modern NFL even existed.
Native San Diegans loathe and despise Los Angeles and all its works. For Spanos to take the team to LA….
I am a lifelong Charger fan. Since 1978. I have lived and died with the Chargers since I was 11 years old. I was one of the 80,000 who welcomed them back after the 1994 AFC Championship Game, after they defeated the Steelers on the road. I drove to the stadium honking and cheering and waving. I had season tickets.
They are dead to me. Fuck them.
chris
@Baud: Next week?
ETA Damn, Watergirl beat me.
Iowa Old Lady
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: They are so cute!
WaterGirl
@Adam L Silverman: You are right. I have clearly set my sights too high.
JustRuss
@lollipopguild: Heh, caught that sketch last night at friends place. Classic.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Catching up on the Rachel Maddow show, and the Senate Dems done good last night, including Heidi Heitkamp about whom I have had unkind thoughts.
I didn’t see anything about this today, how they all broke protocol to speak out against the Rs’ bill as they voted. The video would be worth looking for.
(And to the probable assholes, no, I don’t think this changes anything in the short term, but it showed energy and unity and planning. So good on Schemer, and good on Heitkamp.).
Baud
@chris: We need to start a Twitter meme about how William Henry Harrison was the best president because his term was so short and no one could ever top that.
NotMax
@ms_canadada
The Loved One – stellar cast, rambling and muddled execution. Rod Steiger’s Mr. Joyboy and his mother worth the price of admission.
Williams was what, about 12?
Miss Bianca
@Baud: “Aww right, that’s it, THAT’S IT!!”
At least I didn’t say, like my friend Mary used to say to me: “You’re funny. Funny-lookin’, that is.”
Adam L Silverman
@Iowa Old Lady: Its the lack of an accent.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: By left, you mean Bernie supporters right?
chris
@Gin & Tonic: Yup. I have personal experience of this phenomenon.
WaterGirl
@raven: I had no idea. We would have still been in chicago then.
Speaking of chicago, we are getting a Portillo’s here soon! We also just got a GIORDANO’S, but they were dumb enough to open at the mall, and I never go there.
WaterGirl
@chris: I share your hope!
lamh36
Tom Hank honors Tuskegee Airmen!
7 surviving members on stage!
Colin Powell on stage to shake hands & thx
#APeoplesJourney #TakingTheStage
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: I assume those are nearly concentric circles.
Iowa Old Lady
@Adam L Silverman: I’m sure that’s it.
chris
@Baud: Trump will show that Harrison dude!
WaterGirl
@efgoldman: She’s another one who looks awful. Seriously, hate shows even on the outside.
Miss Bianca
@schrodingers_cat: SHHHH!! Don’t use the “B” word!
ms_canadada
@raven: @raven: Eli Wallach was in the movie, but James Caan was Marsha Mason’s love interest. I have all of Paul Williams records (vinyl). He wrote so many great songs for the Carpenters.
Miss Bianca
@Hunter: Yeah, I remember my first beer…
Baud
@chris: I don’t think Trump has it in him to outdo Tippecanoe.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@efgoldman: he said “middle aged”
Terri Gross had an interview with Jeff Ross, the comic who hosts the Comedy Central roasts, and they spent a lot of time talking about how the roast of Rob Loew turned into a roast of Ann Coulter. You got the impression that Terri Gross would have echoed Jewel, that as a feminist, she was uncomfortable with a lot of the things said, but as someone who hates Ann Coulter, she found it really fucking funny.
NotMax
@Hunter
You spelled “Heil” wrong.
Adam L Silverman
@efgoldman: @Baud: @WaterGirl:
Here you go:
https://twitter.com/karenannmilo/status/819705108623687680
Yarrow
@Iowa Old Lady: I think it’s actually encouraging. It shows that “this Russian stuff” is filtering down to regular people enough that they’re talking about it at B&N. Sure, they’re trying to pretend it isn’t real because it doesn’t match their world view and they probably voted for Trump and don’t like feeling like they’ve been duped. But they’ve heard it enough to talk about it. That means we need to keep up the pressure and hope for more drip drip. (Yes, you saw what I did there.)
Corner Stone
@Hunter:
Oh my. I was with you right up til that complicated “final solution” part.
Gin & Tonic
@Miss Bianca: How challenging is the drive from MTJ to Telluride in winter?
WaterGirl
@Adam L Silverman: As caricatures go, that’s pretty close.
Another Scott
@schrodingers_cat: You said the bad word….
Cheers,
Scott.
chris
@Baud: He’ll show you and Tyler too!
Miss Bianca
@Adam L Silverman: that is freaking scary.
@Gin & Tonic: MTJ? Is that the Montrose airport?
Depending on amount of snowfall, driving from *anywhere* to Telluride in winter could be challenging…
Oatler.
@NotMax: JI think Williams was an adult at that time.
They told me, Francis Hinsley,they told me you were hung
With red protruding eyeballs and black protruding tongue.
lurker dean
sorry for the politico link but it’s the only one up so far. fucking outrageous, i hate this asshole chaffetz with all my being.
http://www.politico.com/story/2017/01/jason-chaffetz-federal-ethics-watchdog-trump-233575
FlyingToaster
@Hunter:
The only thing that will pass (and the only one that would need to) is an amendment to allow secession.
Hasta la vista, baby!
Adam L Silverman
@lurker dean: He’s already set up a closed meeting with Director Schaub and the House Oversight Committee. Congressman Cummings is trying to make it an open session of the committee so everyone can see it/hear it.
Gin & Tonic
@Miss Bianca: Yes, that’s the airport. The shuttle is $53/pp one way, so I’m trying to decide whether to rent a car or take the shuttle.
hovercraft
@WaterGirl:
It’s funny how these women, KAC, Anne Coulter and Mary Matalin, have made millions lying, they have achieved most of their life ambitions, and yet they are all seem angry and bitter. Their evil, because they are evil, has taken the joy out of their lives, and it shows on their faces. I guess spending your life trying to make other people lives miserable, it boomerangs on you. Karma, mother fuckers, she’s a bitch. Also throw in serial plagiarizer Monica Crowley.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@lurker dean: If I had based my entire career on the idea of succeeding Orrin Hatch (assuming hatch is not some sort of vampire or zombie and will eventually vacate the seat) I don’t know if I would count on the appeal of Trump-toadyism to Utah voters, especially if someone on my staff had ever cut out an article on this Evan McMullen guy and left it on my desk.
lurker dean
@Adam L Silverman: thanks, adam, i hadn’t heard that followup.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: I am a terrible editor of my own writing. I am also a poor typist, but I can spell well.
Miss Bianca
@lurker dean: Chaffetz is such a tool. My contempt for him knows no bounds.
Adam L Silverman
@Hunter: Really, after all this time you thought you’d try to sneak back in? Back in the box with you!
Regnad Kcin
@WaterGirl: Wait. There was blow to be had, after Nov. 8?
Baud
@Adam L Silverman: Thanks. I was about to advise him to correct your spelling. Glad you took the initiative.
Cacti
@Elmo:
This.
I only lived in San Diego for about 4-years, but that was long enough to learn that Los Angelans don’t give a rat’s patootie about any San Diego team and vice versa. And there’s no affinity for the Chargers’ one season of history there 55-years ago.
They’ll struggle to fill the 30,000 seat venue of the L.A. Galaxy where they’re thinking about playing until the Inglewood complex is finished.
Miss Bianca
@Gin & Tonic: Depends. If you are there just for skiing and just want to hang in town, I’d say take the shuttle. If you think you are going to want to hit some other spots (the hot springs in Ridgway, for example), rent a car.
ETA: Also depends how comfortable you feel with mountain driving. The road between Montrose and Telluride is not that bad, as I recall, but it’s been a while since I’ve been on it.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: Mine has always been, largely, being several thoughts/sentences ahead of where my fingers are on the keyboard. So I’m most likely to have two types of mistakes. The common its/it’s, your/you’re if I’m not paying close attention and the missing word or two because I’ve out though my fingers ability to type.
Adam L Silverman
@Baud: Nah, I did an IP check. It’s our old friend of many nyms.
NotMax
@Adam L. Silverman
Danke schön.
Another Scott
@Adam L Silverman: Thanks. He wasn’t at all subtle…
Cheers,
Scott.
lamh36
Gladys Knight…that voice is still GOLD!
#TakingTheStage
J R in WV
@lamh36:
Now come on, everyone knows Liberty is green, just look at her!
Gin & Tonic
@Adam L Silverman:
Trump in Moscow joke?
schrodingers_cat
@Adam L Silverman: That’s what I thought, the style was familiar.
Miss Bianca
@efgoldman: Good point!
Major Major Major Major
Remember when people were mad at all the white dude Dem senators who voted for the Iraq war, the fisa amendments, the patriot act, Medicare part d, the DMCA…. oh, you don’t?
Omnes Omnibus
@Elmo: Come to Green Bay like John Jefferson did.
Miss Bianca
@Major Major Major Major: No, silly…just the white WOMEN Dem senators.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Major Major Major Major: I can’t tell if you’re snarking about Corey Booker or the blogosphere’s love for the erstwhile AUMF Senator from MBNA. In case it’s the former:
and I am not a Booker fan and didn’t follow this debate
ETA: And I am a Biden fan, just one with a long memory and a degree of skepticism about even people I like
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: What’s the reference?
lamh36
@liamstack
Stunning Haaretz report: US intel officials warn Israel info it shares with Trump admin could be sent to Russia/Iran
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
Perhaps we travel in different circles because yes, yes I do. Expended many a pixel with the like minded on my old blog about such egregiousness at the time as well.
Miss Bianca
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Love “manic progressives”. TBogg strikes again!
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax:
нет проблем
(I have no idea if I got that right, so eithe G&T or Gogol’s Wife will have to let me know)
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: the lefties in a tizzy about Booker.
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I’ve been waiting for the smoke to clear before reading anything, thanks.
@NotMax: I certainly remember some people being (rightly) upset but nothing like I’ve seen with Booker today, Hillary ever, Obama when he was a senator.
ETA: the distinction being the difference between “sigh, there goes Ben Nelson/Joe Lieberman again” and “CALL COREY BOOKER RIGHT NOW AND LET HIM KNOW YOU HATE HIM”. Perhaps it’s just Facebook.
Adam L Silverman
@Another Scott: Hadn’t seen him/her in so long it took me a moment or two to realize who it was.
lurker dean
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: i hope you’re right. mcmullen certain had a good showing in the prez election, and is making a good name for himself challenging trump after the election. god forbid chaffetz ever wins that senate seat.
Adam L Silverman
@Gin & Tonic: Just sent you something to look at via email.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: OK thanks. To be fair, they hated white dudes like Liberman too.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: Booker has been a solid Dem overall – I disagree with him on a number of issues, but I don’t even agree with myself about everything. He is fighting the good fight against Sessions.
lamh36
Yes…NOLA Birthplace of Jazz!
Herbie Hancock performing “Watermelon Man”
#TakingTheStage
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
It was the pre-Twitbook era.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: I still hate Lieberman!
hovercraft
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
His vote was a combination of both, according to his office, he voted against because of the lack of safety standards, but I’m sure he was also looking out for a big constituency. Politicians protect their home state interests, this is not shocking, on balance he has turned out to be a improvement over our senior senator, Bob Menendez.
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: I feel about the same way about Booker, which is one of the reasons I am waiting to find out why that vote went the way it did before reaching a conclusion.
Cacti
@Major Major Major Major:
Of course.
The barbarians are at the gates, but the Berniecrats are still busy fighting their real enemy: elected Democrats.
Meanwhile, St. Bernardus of Burlington stopped by Morning Joe to assure the Trumpkins he won’t rule out working with the orange fuhrer. Revolution!
J R in WV
@schrodingers_cat:
I’m with you on the Brit royals and “aristocracy” – Lady Di and the whole crowd were and are despicable folk spitting and kicking down at the whole population of the world.
Everyone is below them in every way, to them.
Despicable! All of them!
NotMax
@hovercraft
Bring back Bill Bradley!
Central Planning
@Baud:
I think you mean “What its ain’t exactly clear.” Too soon?
Elmo
@Omnes Omnibus: Tempting – JJ was my first football hero – but I live in the DC area now, so…
Major Major Major Major
@NotMax: definitely coming around to the idea that the internet is enabling madness rather than just surfacing it.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: And he looked in awe of Congressman Lewis yesterday.
lamh36
African American Poetry & Hip Hop…of course performance by Common, Chuck D, Doug E Fresh.
#TakingTheStage
Gin & Tonic
@Adam L Silverman: Replied there. And the phrase you were looking for upthread is “без проблем”.
chris
@hovercraft: Yeah, safety standards on drugs from Canada. We’re just up here, y’know, and most of our drugs come from the US or are made here under license. Often new drugs in the US aren’t sold here because our boffins have to test them all over again although that rule has changed a bit recently.
Cory was protecting his people who don’t want you to ask why the price is so different.
Omnes Omnibus
@Elmo: Given the time frame you mentioned, I thought he might be big on your radar. One must construct one’s argument for one’s target/mark/jury/etc. You can’t go for the Racist Nicknames. The Pack is community owned – just saying.
Adam L Silverman
@Gin & Tonic: Already replied and thanks.
Omnes Omnibus
@Adam L Silverman: As fucking well he should. Few living people stand on equal footing with John Lewis.
Cacti
@chris:
When we’re all behind the wire for the crime of being not Republican, maybe one of your ideological compatriots can punch him or something.
sneezy
@SFAW:
This is a good policy.
schrodingers_cat
@Major Major Major Major: @Cacti: Useful idiot, just an idiot or something more? BS has voted many times with Sessions and Chuck Grassley against immigration bills that could have made life just a little bit easier for immigrants. His man of the people schtick is pretty hollow if you ask me.
chris
@Cacti: Being Canadian is ideological now? I was just stating a fact, other than that i admire what the man did yesterday.
Cacti
@chris:
No genius. I mean spending your energy sniping at your own team when the fascists are about to take over.
Like the German political left was busy doing while the Nazis were seizing power. Berniecrats would have made great Weimar era socialists.
Gin & Tonic
Anybody see the report in WaPo that Michael Flynn called the Russian ambassador in the US several times on the day that PBO expelled the 35 Russian “diplomats”? Is that a Logan Act violation?
J R in WV
@Adam L Silverman</a
I used to right grant proposals for funding from the EPA. Being from West Virginia, I'm especially picky about speling and grammar, because people from elsewhere sometimes think hillbillies are ignorant, or even stupid.
So I always went over the material I wrote after letting it lay for a while, which helps. Then I had two coworkers (MBA and math major) go over the docs, and then passed by my boss, just in case. Some years it was actually clean. But over the years, the guidance doc required more and more detail, and my output got bigger and bigger, with more charts and spreadsheets.
So eventually I found a stoopid error in a prominent spot in the grant app, which asked for over a million dollar !!!!! But I got the bucks, whatever.
Now I'm retired, it's been 8 years going on 9 since I sent one of those in. No more responsibility for other people's money. So glad I don't make those typographical errors no more!!
[sic ^12 ]
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Adam L Silverman: He should have. Everyone should be in awe of John Lewis. He was a superhero IRL before there were comics called graphic novels.
ETA: Or what Omnes said first, and better. ::shakes fist::
Omnes Omnibus
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Been there. Done that.
Still, it is worth saying again.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): No argument here.
Cacti
@schrodingers_cat:
Bernie’s immigration votes along with his vote to dump Vermont’s toxic sludge on an impoverished Texas border town and give his wife a paid gig on the waste dumping board of directors always had me leaning toward “something more”.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Omnes Omnibus: True story: I was editing as you were posting. FML.
Omnes Omnibus
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Hilarious. Or as close to it as we can get in this era.
NotMax
@J R in WV
Friend was stationed in Spain while in the Air Force way back when. One day, he had to fill out a form requesting a replacement part for a B-52.
Someone above him caught that he had mistyped a single digit of the part number and sent up a form ordering a replacement landing assembly ($750,000 at the time) instead of the small widget needed.
chris
@Cacti: OK, sorry. I guess we take what we can get, right?
Miss Bianca
@Cacti: Communists. Not Socialists. it was the Communists who were busy sniping the rest of the Weimar Left. Under direct orders from Moscow. Funny how that keeps popping up as an historical trope, nyet?
frosty
@WaterGirl:
Can we add “Fuck LBJ”? (waves at Raven)
Comrade Colette Collaboratrice
@Miss Bianca:
M. Colette is often told, “you’re not as funny as you look.”
(By me.)