This is just an amazing quote. GOP controls all branches of government. How Cornyn describes it: https://t.co/6Ty9Qe6MJa pic.twitter.com/ejdab5z1cd
— Mazel Tov Cocktail (@AdamSerwer) July 19, 2017
Further proof — as if we needed it — that the entire Republican party has abandoned all thought of governing in favor of merely obstructing.
What’s on the agenda as we start the much-needed weekend?
"That's a luxury we don't have" –@JohnCornyn when asked "don't some people want to know the plan before they vote" on health care.
— Kelsey Snell (@kelsey_snell) July 20, 2017
CORNYN says it's a "luxury we don't have" to know what the bill is before the motion to proceed
— Peter Sullivan (@PeterSullivan4) July 20, 2017
Two words to @SenateGOP when @realDonaldTrump says “I'll have your back" when you vote to repeal health care: Jeff Sessions.
— Chuck Schumer (@SenSchumer) July 20, 2017
SiubhanDuinne
Holy fuck, that is a really terrifying thing Cornyn said there.
WaterGirl
Anyone who votes yes on a motion to proceed – without knowing what’s in a bill – is just a whore who
can be boughthas been bought with money or power or threats and has absolutely no business being in an elected official in this government.edited
Baud
And to think of all the times the right quoted Pelosi out of context…
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne: Not as terrifying as “we have the votes.”
hellslittlestangel
Of course The Orange Better One has your back. It’s the safest place to stick the knife.
MisterForkbeard
I mean, it’s clearly karmic justice for Republicans that when they finally control all three branches of government… that Donald “4 year old” Trump is president.
I’m just trying to figure out what the rest of us did to deserve it.
Peale
@WaterGirl: and of 52 GOP senators, 48 appear to be whores. Yet the GOP faithful will assume their good senator is really is an upstanding prick.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
To the phones! To the phones!
MisterForkbeard
@Baud: Yep! I’ve already seen redditors and facebook idiots saying the same thing. “Pelosi said worse and she did it first!”, conveniently ignoring what Pelosi’s quote was actually about.
Baud
@MisterForkbeard: Depends how you define “us.”
jl
My new suggestion from previous thread for talking points for people who have GOP ‘moderate’ ‘Senators’:
” I think a good opener would be ‘Listen, you idiot shitforbrains, are you planning to vote on some shit you don’t even know what it is? My goddamned dog can be trained to do that. I want to see your ass on the local news denouncing this whole corrupt asinine bullshit, or I’m going to see to it that your sorry ass is out of your cushy gummint job after the next election. ”
Good to be polite at the opening. Then you can move to ‘direct’ and if he or she won’t listen, then dial it up to ‘rude’. “
(((CassandraLeo)))
@WaterGirl: I must object to the comparison. Sex workers perform a valuable public service that generally makes lonely people happier, and I suspect it’s not work everyone could do. Republican Congresscritters are looting the country to the benefit of no one but their rich donors and Russia. They are thieves, not whores.
trnc
Awesome reply to republican predicament of majority in all branches of federal govt:
https://twitter.com/JustinCarinci/status/887662097525608448
MisterForkbeard
@Baud: Let’s go with “Democrats generally and the Balloon Juice commentariat specifically.” :)
debbie
@SiubhanDuinne:
Which? My vote is with the second one about not having the luxury of reading what you’re about to vote on.
Raoul
John Cornyn seems to be cracking under the tight leash McConnell has allowed him. I’d be sad for his mental state, but he’s a grade-A asshole, so, nope!
Bruuuuce
Some good news. The Senate parliamentarian has noted sections of the bill (including defunding Planned Parenthood) as it stands violate the rules for reconciliation and either need to be stripped or 60 votes will be required for passage. Huzzah! (And waiting for the rabid right to attack the parliamentarian as outdated, wrong, and a lie-brul plant in 3…2…1…)
Raoul
@(((CassandraLeo))): Themselves, their rich donors and Russia.
But, yeah.
nightranger
@MisterForkbeard:
Oh stop exaggerating. He’s at least 10, maybe even 14.
jl
Cornyn is a stupid and dishonest abject hack.
Several health care analysts, including BJ’s David Anderson said that bipartisan bill that Collins initiated earlier this year was a good start.
So, they have no choice, IF they want to jam through a strictly partisan, incompetent, dishonest, bill
That might be another issue to bring up in calls to GOP moderates. Instruct them to get on the damn TV and denounce the whole effort, and wash their hands of McConnell’s bullshit. You want a bipartisan bill, Apparently a good start was made at one earlier this year, but McConnell killed it.
If there is no honest and responsible process on a bipartisan bill, then GOP moderates need to get on TV and publicly denounce the whole corrupt mess.
Demand not only a ‘no’ vote, but demand no more participation in a corrupt and dishonest process.
WaterGirl
@(((CassandraLeo))): I would never call a sex worker a whore! A prostitute, call girl, escort, lady of the night, maybe, but not a whore. I reserve whore for someone of ill repute and I don’t put sex workers in that category.
Raoul
@Bruuuuce: Seems like we may get a show-down on the job of parliamentarian as the cherry on our constitutional crises sundae.
Or, maybe — just maybe — McConnell can use this “bind” of his precious Reconciliation move as his way out of having a vote and they can move on to screwing the pooch on the debt ceiling and the 2018 budget. I’m expecting more brinksmanship and klown kar fun then, too.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I was thinking the same thing.
jl
@Baud:
” And to think of all the times the right quoted Pelosi out of context…”
Some quotes don’t need much context.
Bruuuuce
@Raoul: Got the corn a-popping already.
smintheus
@Bruuuuce: Also, the parliamentarian ruled that funding for insurer cost-sharing payments isn’t allowed in the bill without 60 votes. That’s practically a nuclear-sized hole in the Republican bill…unless their object is to pass a bill that will cause the individual market to melt down almost immediately.
Quinerly
25% of Trump’s voters strongly approve of his job performance. 52% of Trump’s voters still believe Obama was born in Kenya. MSNBC reporting. Didn’t catch which poll.
Bruuuuce
@smintheus:
No, it seems clear that they’re doing their damndest to keep the markets from self-destruction until at least after the midterms. They’re con men, but they’re simply not very good at it outside of the actual used-car sales pitches.
Baud
@MisterForkbeard:
Took the party for granted.
So many horrible, unspeakable things.
Ohio Mom
@jl: Hey! You stole my script!
Seriously, I am not quite that obnoxious but you hit my usual talking points.
clay
WaPo says Sessions discussed campaign matters with Russian ambassador, according to Intelligence reports.
He’s boned.
Timurid
Tasty little Friday dump here…
Boussinesque
I know there was some discussion of Democratic sloganeering around these parts the other day, and I just randomly had one pop into my head unbidden, and I wanted to get some thoughts: “Take Back America”.
I dunno if it’s too militant, or has unfortunate racist/sexist implications that I’m not seeing right now, but I thought it captured what I’ve been feeling as I’ve watched these incompetent, immoral bullies, grifters, and traitors try to take our rights (to vote, protest, walk down the street without fear of harassment), our money, our safety net, and our national dignity. Those’re OURS. They belong both to our conception of what America should be, and to each and every one of us as citizens, and I’ll be damned if I’m going to let them get away with it without a fight.
WaterGirl
@clay: I was just about to mention that there had been no Friday news dump today.
Timurid
@clay:
Normally I’d be cheering, but this could start the dominoes falling for a run at Mueller…
TenguPhule
Or that they have unpalatable choices as to how they retain power.
But I’m sure their souls are a small price to pay for a Fascist Regime.
Baud
@clay:
WE ONLY TALKED ABOUT ADOPTIONS!!! OH, MY PRECIOUS HONOR!!!
smintheus
@clay: Woo Hoo!
trollhattan
This Scaramucci feller shore can dance a purdy fandango.
Yeah, that’s our Donny–three-sport letterman and everything!
WaterGirl
Since there’s not much happening at the moment, maybe this would be a good time to ask a question.
So the evil nion-profit finally paid me the 1,400 they still owed me for hours worked, but they still have not paid me the $175 or so that I am owed for expense reimbursements. I have email from June 7 from the CEO saying “I will see that you are paid for this”, but it’s been over 7 weeks and I have not received it. They are also 3 weeks past the end of their fiscal year.
Repeated email messages get no reply. Texted with the president of the board one week ago today and she said she would take care of this last monday, but I have heard nothing. Called her multiple times this week and sent one email message.
Any thoughts on how I might proceed besides small claims court, which would be a gigantic pain in the behind?
TenguPhule
@Peale:
All 52 are whores. Its just a matter of negotiating the price.
sukabi
@nightranger: disagree, unless that 10 – 14 year old has some kind of dehanced abilities.
Cheryl Rofer
@Bruuuuce: Here’s more about the Parliamentarian’s findings.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
Is it really worth it going to court? Can’t you send a letter to the board?
TenguPhule
@WaterGirl:
How comfortable are you with getting local media involved in this? They’re always looking for a story and if you make it clear that either you get the check in hand that day or else the company gets shit on its face from the press, that might just work.
patrick II
ABC News: “Despite cancer diagnosis McCain says, “I’ll be back soon””
He may have to rush back from his Obamacare established life saving medical treatment and vote to make sure other people get left to die.
smintheus
@WaterGirl: Show up at the CEO’s front door. If you feel like going nuclear, show up at his/her church. You’ll get what you’re owed.
jl
@Ohio Mom: Wow. I’m glad that’s what you said.
My script was a little over the top. I take out the bad words, even for DiFi.
But, if you are accused of being impolite, always remember to try to take the other person’s point of view.
“But, I am being polite. I’m really trying. You want to hear ‘rude’?”
MisterForkbeard
@Boussinesque: I like it. I’d prefer something that contained a hint of progress rather than simply recovering from a loss, but it’s good, short, and to the point. Maybe it can be improved… not sure. “Retake our Freedom”, maybe?
TenguPhule
@Bruuuuce:
And McConnell will quickly replace them.
This has already been projected.
WaterGirl
@debbie: I had thought I might write to the board president asking when the next meeting is, stating that I would be taking the matter to the full board. It hadn’t occurred to me to send a letter to the board.
Any advice on how I would find out the email addressed of the board members? Otherwise I wouldn’t be at all sure that my letter would be shared with the entire board.
Baud
@patrick II: Amazing.
jl
@Cheryl Rofer: Thanks.
But this is a sinister development, and I want to hear what President Leader Trump has to say about it.
I mean, shit the vary word ‘parliamentarian’ has Deep State DemocRAT mole written all over it.
Look closely near the ‘m’, and you can make it out.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@jl:
Why the hell would you want to do that?
WaterGirl
@TenguPhule: That would be most satisfying! But I am a bookkeeper and that kind of publicity would no doubt hurt me in finding new clients.
edit; And I doubt it would be a plus with my current clients, either.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Timurid:
Trump will have to fire Rosenstein first as Deputy Attorney Gen if Rosenstein refused to fire Mueller. Or he could fire Sessions,though that would be stupid and the Neo-confedrate would then cut a deal with Mueller.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: DiFi would cut the sass right out of him.
Quinerly
Looks like Sessions is going down.
trollhattan
Hmmm
ETA duh, iz upthread also too.
WaterGirl
@smintheus: Hmm, the church might be a lovely idea. More of an implied “in your face” than showing up at her home, which would certainly be viewed as a threat, and the CEO’s husband is a cop.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I guess she’s useful for something.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
I would do that second. If it were me, I’d wait 30 days after the president said she’d take care of it. I would want to give them a chance to make good before getting more assertive.
Patience always worked for me back when I was freelancing for small NPOs. Out of all the jobs I was hired for, only one took more than 30 days to pay me.
Baud
@trollhattan:
Heh.
sukabi
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: from the sounds of it he may cut a deal to just keep his own ass out of jail…so sad?
debbie
@WaterGirl:
Don’t do that. Stop.
jl
@?BillinGlendaleCA: DiFi’s staff seem to prefer High Snark.
I think the worst I do is stuff like “As usual, your boss talks a good game in the first innings, but as usual no follow through” and I have asked her staff if she was joking in some statement that got me pissed.
I’ve never even called her a corrupt old battle-ax.
Yeah, I suck and I’m a coward.
smintheus
@WaterGirl: If you’re not getting answers to your emails, then showing up at someone’s house (unarmed) can hardly be construed as threatening per se.
TenguPhule
@WaterGirl:
This CEO sounds like she’s going to take a giant flaming dump on you when she associates with them in her circles anyway. Still might want it as a Plan B, you could even spin it as “I am perfectly discreet provided you don’t try to stiff me, hell hath no fury….etc.”
TenguPhule
@smintheus:
Unfortunately, reality doesn’t work that way.
trollhattan
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
We could call it the Saturday Night through Tuesday Mid-afternoon Massacre.
jl
@Baud:
” DiFi would cut the sass right out of him. ”
I never want to hear from DiFi personally in her ‘lecture mode’.Probably call me a ‘young man’ and shit.
Edit: If I lose control I’ll just sign it ‘BillinGlendale’ or ‘Baud’. Then she’ll mind. Why haven’t I thought of that. And Baud has no fixed return address to put on the envelope…. perfect!
TenguPhule
@WaterGirl:
Go to the media or give up on the money. DO NOT CONFRONT HER.
Roger Moore
Cleek’s Law strikes again. The “Hastert Rule” said they could only pass a bill if it got support from a majority of the Republican caucus, and it was observed only when the Speaker felt like using it as an excuse for killing something he didn’t like. Boehner extended it by saying a bill had to be able to pass without needing any Democratic votes, and applied it far more regularly. Ryan and McConnell seem to be following the Cleek’s Law version, which say it’s not only mandatory to be able to pass exclusively with Republican votes, but that it has to piss off the Democrats so much that they refuse to vote for it. That version is going to make legislating very, very difficult, especially when most legislation will require some Democratic votes to get cloture in the Senate.
debbie
@debbie:
What percentage of what they’ve paid you is $175? Like 1%? Is it really worth all the confrontations, etc., that are being suggested?
Keep in mind that NPOs are a small community and are often in contact with each other. Do you really want to risk your professional reputation on potential future clients?
Timurid
More dumpage…
Bruuuuce
@Cheryl Rofer: Thank you. This is informative and helpful, though not quite as optimistic in some respects as the article I’d seen. Also, apologies to Elizabeth MacDonough, Senate parliamentarian, for earlier assuming the officeholder was male,
@TenguPhule: The question becomes whether he can insert sections that will stand up to the parliamentarian’s scrutiny and keep the bill passable by reconciliation, because that’s the only way he has even a chance to pass his abomination.
lamh36
SOOOOO…the KKKleeber Elf is a big fat traitorous LIAR…
For real, how soon before Trump fires him, or Sessions actually does resign to work on his own defense…let Cheeto deal with his own shit…
Baud
Kevin Drum has a nice run down of the parliamentarian rulings.
http://www.motherjones.com/kevin-drum/2017/07/parliamentarian-deals-yet-another-killing-blow-to-trumpcare/
p.a.
@TenguPhule:
Stop insulting whores.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Timurid: I’m paywalled
sukabi
@WaterGirl: write a letter to the editor of your local paper describing your issues with getting paid by this non-profit and send the CEO and board a copy of the letter stating that if your bill hasn’t been completely paid by such and such a date that the letter will be sent to the paper.
Non-profits don’t like bad press…especially if they’re not paying their bills.
TenguPhule
@Bruuuuce: I meant he will replace person, not the sections of the bill.
Mnemosyne
@WaterGirl:
Do you have a lawyer friend who would be willing to write them a nasty letter for free or cheap?
Major Major Major Major
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Yeah, every time I can’t read the WSJ because they seem to have paywalled the whole thing, I get upset before I remember that it’s the WSJ and what I’m being prevented from reading is an Op-Ed by Tom Price or Ben Sasse or such.
Bruuuuce
@Baud: Thanks. It begins to look like a good Friday, after all.
@TenguPhule: I expect the slime to start flowing any moment. GOP SOP, after all.
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@lamh36:
Now calm down, please… all that fast talking makes poor Jefferson nervous!
Mnemosyne
@trollhattan:
If they end up needing the same number of votes for repeal that the Democrats needed to pass it in the first place, I will start to feel like maybe there is a little justice in the world after all.
Bruuuuce
@WaterGirl: Have you considered going to the consumer advocate at the local TV station? Embarrassing them might actually work in this case.
WaterGirl
@debbie: Their fiscal year ended 3 weeks ago on June 30, and they pay EVERYTHING from grants. So either she has already written the check so she could put it on the grant report, and she is just not sending it to fuck with me, or she has not written the check, which I think means she has no intention of ever paying me, because she has no money of her own that is not from grants. It’s maddening.
@debbie: Okay, now you’re just making me look bad. Or foolish. :-) Because when I do the math, it’s 4/10 of a percent of what I was paid over the 6 months I worked there. sigh. It just galls me to let it go because what she is doing is petty and vindictive.
edit: but maybe I’m the one who is being petty since a relatively small amount.
MomSense
Holy fucking shit they got Sessions! I am having a traitorous mofos are going down dance party at my house and you are all invited! Dogs, introverts, jackals- all welcome!
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: Well, they will if they want to do a real repeal. This current “repeal” is actually no such thing.
Quinerly
Kushner really has a problem with government forms. 77 major assets not included originally. WSJ reporting.
lamh36
Exiting Sean Spicer on SNL jokes: A lot were ‘over the line’
http://share.ew.com/gIOwCSF
Worldwide reaction…
WaterGirl
@MomSense: And you were having a good weekend before this news came in!
Karen
Whatever this guy has been smoking must be strong; or else he is even more delusional than dolt
good Karma?
http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/343190-scaramucci-makes-press-briefing-debut-as-communications-director
MomSense
@WaterGirl:
Unfortunately the filing fees for a small claims action may eat up most of what they owe you. Send an invoice with a letter asking for payment within 30 days.
MomSense
@WaterGirl:
C’mon over! We are having a party!
tomtofa
OT: I know Jared is in charge of middle east peace now; I haven’t yet heard his comments on the current Temple/Mount situation there. Soon, probably…
Maybe he’s been more involved in the just-ended China trade talks, that went nowhere. Anyone heard what he’s said about that?
smintheus
@Baud: Wow, much more than WaPo reported has been gutted by the parliamentarian. She has all but built a brick wall in the path of the Republican leadership, especially by blocking the six-month lockout provision. That makes it vastly harder for Republicans to pretend that they’re ending the hated individual mandate, which is virtually the only claim they could make which would be popular with anybody.
Catherine D.
@WaterGirl:
Can you get snail mail addresses for the whole board? Certified letters, return receipt requested. Cheaper than small claims.
lamh36
very good question:
Timurid
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Kushner was no more forthcoming on his financial disclosure form than he was on his SF86…
smintheus
Comment on the parliamentarian ruling is in moderation for who knows what reason.
Quinerly
Corner Stone picked a fine time to just abandon us.? SAD!
TenguPhule
@Quinerly:
And Sessions just re-authorized “Confiscation upon accusation”.
Oh dear.
WaterGirl
@Catherine D.: I poked around on their website a few weeks ago and I didn’t find names of board members, so no contact information at all. That’s why I have been communicating with the board president – I had her phone number in my phone and previous email correspondence.
geg6
@Quinerly:
I can’t wait for that slimey, smug little bastard and Lolita to be frogmarched out of the WH in cuffs. I might hate them more than I do Dolt45. I’ll have to ponder that.
Baud
Politico
Haha.
MomSense
@Quinerly:
Ha!! I think he and his son are taking a vacation. We’ll have plenty to celebrate when he gets back.
smintheus
@lamh36: Why would the IC have let Trump know they had those intercepts?
mai naem mobile
The Dolt45 administration is just projectile diarrhea every fucking day. Now Sessions discussed campaign stuff with Kislyak? WTF?
Also McTurtle the money grubbing traitor deserves all the bad karma he gets. Zero sympathy here.
Quinerly
@lamh36:
My exact thoughts when I heard it.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Baud:
Wonder what those numbers are now?
dmsilev
@lamh36: Seems unlikely to me. After all, Trump can fire Sessions basically on a whim and make up whatever bullshit excuse he wants. Unlike with Comey, it probably wouldn’t get too many people upset.
WaterGirl
@debbie: I have one more question I would like to ask you off-line. If that would work for you, I can let Anne Laurie know that she could send you my email address.
Ohio Mom
@jl: on occasion, I apologize for being um, loud. I admit I am pertrified about what will happen to my autistic teen when his dad and I are gone, and there is no more Medicaid to support him because Intern’s boss thought tax cuts for millionaires was more important.
Okay, it really isn’t much of an apology. But maybe it helps those interns get a clue. I can hope.
frosty fred
@sukabi: I agree; after years of receiving faxes at all hours I got a local nursing home either to a) change their fax number, which was one digit off our home phone, or b) make sure their medical office correspondents had the right number [I neither know nor care which they did] by just threatening to write the local paper that I was being sent confidential medical reports.
lamh36
@lamh36:
Baud
@lamh36: Hugh Hewitt basically just did that on CNN.
mai naem mobile
@lamh36: that was my first thought . Sessions is a POS as well and deserves possibly more bad karma than McTurtle. Maybe Dolt 45 was a Democratic mole after all hee hee. He’s certainly tearing through the GOP like a termite .
BBA
@Bruuuuce: He could always abolish the filibuster. I’ve been treating this as not an “if” but a “when.”
Figured the nuclear option would only come out for tax cuts, though.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@MomSense: @mai naem mobile: @Timurid:
The entire administration is falling the fuck apart and is dragging the entire GOP agenda down with it
Gelfling 545
@sukabi: I was thinking that. I taught middle school for years and not one of my kids was that dumb. Not even the one who tried to get by me with a forged hall pass -to which he had forged my name; or the one who stole the answer key for the Spanish exam from my desk – except he was taking the French exam. Both of them had more smarts than Trump and were nicer people. Trump’s like the 4 year old who says that, yes, he put all his toys away but please don’t go look.
Quinerly
@MomSense:
I remember when he was sorta planning it. I just enjoy blurting it out at least once on these types of threads. It was suspicious when he and his crush, Joy Reid, were MIA at the same time. Come to think of it, how long has Corner Stone been MIA? Three weeks now?
JMG
@trollhattan: Three-foot putts? I can make those, and I stink.
lamh36
@Baud:
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
Would this count as payment for services, IOW would the labor board of your state be of any help? Now I do live in CA but I know that few want to get on the wrong side of the state labor board here. You mentioned small claims court, do you have all the documentation, the text messages, anything in writing that they owe you the $175? Because those are the only 2 ways I know of to get what is owed you. OK one more, do you know any lawyers? I only had a couple of times that I had to collect money when I owned a business but a letter from an attorney at least let them know I was serious and in the end it worked. It was for a bit more $ though. About $27,000 total between the two.
sukabi
@lamh36: they’re all a bunch of tiny snowflakes aren’t they?
WaterGirl
@Gelfling 545:
priceless!
Gelfling 545
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
“dragging the entire GOP agenda down with it”
You say that like it’s a bad thing.
JMG
@smintheus: Because they’re more where that one came from.
Major Major Major Major
Manafort and Jr. have agreed to testify at a private session next week.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@lamh36:
He does that and his fucking goose is cooked
lamh36
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Gelfling 545: It’s not. The chaos though isn’t great for general governance or our image abroad
Baud
@lamh36:
Wait. I thought it was all a distraction for us.
WaterGirl
@Ruckus: Yes, I have an email message dated 6/7 that says “I will see that you are paid for this.”
It’s a reimbursement rather than payment for time worked, so the labor board is out. If I hadn’t received the 1,400 check for my hours, I would surely push on and get an attorney to send a letter. But for 175.00 I wouldn’t even want to ask my attorney niece to take the time to write a letter. I already asked her to look at the crazy contract I was given to sign in May, so I won’t bother her again. I guess that gives me my answer.
Bruuuuce
@BBA: He could, Probably would, if he couldn’t go for reconciliation and thought he had he caucus in hand. Since it’s clear that he’s having trouble getting to 50 (please, FSM), he’ll hold the nuclear option for something all the enemies of the Republic can agree on, like grifting from the poor to cut taxes for themselves.
Quinerly
@lamh36:
Yep. That’s where it is going.
lamh36
@Baud: So Sessions can’t leave if he wanted to, his own people would see it as abandonment…serves his azz right.
Gelfling 545
@WaterGirl: write them a letter and send it return receipt. Tell them that if you do not receive payment in x amount of time you will have no choice but to refer it for collection. Not that you will probably but they don’t know that
Baud
@lamh36: Sessions has been a deplorable much longer than Trump. I welcome this feud.
Baud
@WaterGirl: Is there another corporate officer you can talk to? A CFO or General Counsel.
lamh36
Ohio Mom
@WaterGirl: Do you think it would set things in motion if you contact the source of the grant and play dumb: Hi, did you write the final check, because I want to close my books and grantee organization hasn’t been in contact with me nor paid me.
Because the granting organization probably wants to know the funds they disbursed are being spent the way they were promised they would be. It would be a subtle revenge on this woman who is stiffing you.
I was in the nonprofit world for two decades. It can be a real snake pit.
MomSense
@Ohio Mom:
Do not apologize! The fear you feel is legitimate. I work with families who are in the same place as you. Your son has a home with me. We can share contact info with Anne Laurie.
Gelfling 545
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: No, it’s not great in that sense but if we have to suffer through them at least we won’t have their infernal agenda in place. I think our international repute will be better in the long term if we manage to stifle their feverish imaginings.
Baud
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: That was baked in on Election Day.
WaterGirl
@Baud: The evil person is the founder of the nonprofit and the CEO. She has no CFO. I have seen bills from an attorney, and I do recall the name.
The other option might be their auditor – not the auditor from the various granting agencies but the person who does their audits for the state that are required in a year when you receive more than x amount of funds. I had a really good working relationship with him, but I wasn’t sure if it would be appropriate to bring this to him or not. What do you think?
Patricia Kayden
@SiubhanDuinne: Terrifying that legislators who are being paid and were elected to know what they’re voting for couldn’t care less when it comes to a bill which could kick tens of millions of their fellow Americans off Medicaid. This is no longer about healthcare. It’s about destroying President Obama’s agenda and getting tax cuts for the rich. That is all. Hope Trump supporters are satisfied now.
rikyrah
@clay:
Who dropped the dime on Attorney General White Citizens Council?
Baud
@Gelfling 545: Our victory against fascism will be an inspiration to oppressed people everywhere.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
Of course. I’ll look for it.
Redshift
My interpretation of Cornyn’s statement is they can’t possibly get the votes for any repeal bill if anyone knows what actually in it. An appalling thing to say, but hopefully accurate.
If that’s the case, their only hope is to get enough GOP senators to fall for a line of BS like McConnell’s “don’t worry about those projected Medicaid cuts; future administrations will never actually do them.” That’s unlikely to work better than it did the last time. Goopers can be deeply stupid about almost anything but their own political survival.
TenguPhule
How long has Sessions been working for the Russians?
This could invite interesting lines of investigation into the RNC.
It would be irresponsible not to speculate, now that we’ve got proof of at least one treasonous member of GOP Congress.
danielx
@nightranger:
Is not! Eight, maybe, and a very immature eight at that.
Baud
@WaterGirl: Don’t know. I’m not familiar with that position.
WaterGirl
@MomSense:
You never fail to amaze me; you are one of the kindest people ever.
Baud
@WaterGirl: MomSense is my Plan B if life doesn’t work out.
debbie
@WaterGirl: @WaterGirl:
You’re not being foolish. I just don’t want you to lose sight of the big picture. You’ll get your money, but you need to go about it calmly.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
You paid money out to do work for them. They owe you the money. They aren’t paying it out of the goodness of their hearts, they owe you the money. Every dime of it. Sure it may not be worth the effort but on principle……… And remember I’ve been an employer, I made out checks to pay people for decades. If I didn’t like their work I fired them. And I paid them for the full day that they came in. Not a big deal over all but they had expected to be paid for showing up and working, not being fired. An employer is trading your time and expertise for money. Did you give them the time and expertise? Then they owe you the money.
I’ll say it one more time, no matter what, if you did what you promised them you upheld your end of the contract. They have not. They owe you.
You may notice this is a point with me. People’s work furthers the goal of the company, be it a profit or non-profit. They advance their business by the sweat and effort of your labor. Their end is to pay you money.
hovercraft
@Major Major Major Major:
Huh? Interesting
Just yesterday it was reported that Mueller’s only conditions for allowing them to testify was that it had to be under oath and in public.
WaterGirl
@debbie: Just sent AL a message. thanks
TenguPhule
Its as if the Trump regime is the political equivalent of the Hadron Collider.
danielx
@WaterGirl:
1. If you have a friend who is an attorney, ask him or her to write a nastygram for you. Generally does wonders to speed the plow.
2. Mention social media in connection with his shitty organization, which generally works wonders also.
WaterGirl
@Baud: We had better buy her a bigger house! We should also have a say in where she moves to, if she is still looking for work in another state, don’t you think?
sukabi
@Patricia Kayden: that’s all it’s ever been about. McConnell and the other confederates stated from the beginning of Obama’s first term that they were going to block everything he wanted to do, and ensure he was a 1 term president. Now they’re left with trying to erase his accomplishments from history and damn the cost.
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@Baud: Ok, don’t get carried away. We’re not the French resistance
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
If Mueller is somehow fired, could he release all of his team’s findings to the public?
danielx
@TenguPhule:
No, they’re pimps. WE are the whores – let’s say human cattle – who are being bought and sold.
WaterGirl
@Ruckus: Thanks. This is really clear cut. I was billed for the payroll program each month and the nonprofit reimbursed me. Since it was payroll for 150 people, it wasn’t cheap.
The $175 I am waiting for was the cost of the payroll program for May. Maybe I need to go find that video where the guy is at a conference, with graphic designers, I believe, and he schtick is to have them repeat this phrase: “Fuck you, pay me!”. Thanks for the encouragement.
edit: she was spitting mad that I resigned, and this is all payback.
Baud
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Have you seen some of the dystopian rhetoric here?
BBA
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Depends on whether he’s able to hit “publish” before he’s escorted out of the building.
Major Major Major Major
@hovercraft: that’s what my CNN alert says!
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: Are they testifying under oath? That, to me, is more important than the “in public” part, but both would be best.
MomSense
@WaterGirl: @Baud:
Satby told me I could live with her if I needed a place and that really stuck with me. We take care of each other and that goes for everyone here.
Omnes Omnibus
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Speak for yourself.
TenguPhule
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Not without violating a lot of federal laws.
Mike in NC
@Patricia Kayden: Trump supporters will never be happy so long as a single non-white person has a decent life in America.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
Don’t count the labor board out. You spend money on their behalf and that can count, at least depending on the state.
Someone up thread mentioned small claims court costs. That may make it not worth doing financially but I did have a business neighbor who printed signs and he said he always took customers who didn’t pay to small claims court no matter how little they owed him, the principle of the thing. Knowing this guy I’d bet he got all his money or wouldn’t have done this and he said his claims ran around $50.
Keith P.
Kudos to Jeff Sessions for taking the initiative on the important issue of Russian adoptions.
boatboy_srq
The worst part of this is the GOTea proposal is, what, fifteen pages long? It’s not like their grand schemery is difficult to slog through: only Dems write legislation that actually fulfils some purpose besides transfer of wealth from the nation at large to the Special Xtianist Job-Creating Elect™.
TenguPhule
@Mike in NC:
FTFY.
I think its time to stop pretending they want to take prisoners.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Fuck you, pay me!
WaterGirl
@MomSense: We do! You know we will take care of you if they take your health insurance away.
As for Baud, I think there are about a million BJ crushes on Baud, so fights could break out. I can see it now: Come live with me! No, with me! You get away from him, he’s mine! We might just have to decide here and now that it’s MomSense, or it could get ugly.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus:
?Allons enfants de la patrie,
Le jour de gloire est arrivé !
Contre nous de la tyrannie
L’étendard sanglant est levé ! (bis)
Entendez-vous dans les campagnes,
Mugir ces féroces soldats ?
Ils viennent jusque dans nos bras
Égorger nos fils, nos compagnes !?
Patricia Kayden
@MisterForkbeard: Actually Trump probably has no idea of what is in Trump Care and will simply sign any legislation which comes to his desk. This incompetence is on Congressional Republicans who do not know how to govern but are experts at obstructing.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
You can’t call it rhetoric when Trump is actually doing it right in front of our lying eyes.
Baud
@WaterGirl: With my luck, I’ll probably end up with NR.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: No bras?
Luthe
Can we get a thread about the WaPo’s fresh story on Sessions and Russia?
TenguPhule
@Baud:
This is true. Hope you like being a vegan, Baud.
trollhattan
I so want to write headlines for the BBC
SiubhanDuinne
@Patricia Kayden:
Yes. It was never about healthcare, and was always about destroying anything and everything that had President Obama’s name or legacy attached to it.
Dear gods, I am appalled at how much I hate these people. This is not the person I want to be.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus: ?
I just copied and pasted.
WaterGirl
@Ruckus: I think this bothers me so much because I left one other client 4 years ago. I did the books and payroll for a salon and it was sold to someone who worked there. She wanted me to continue on, and during the transition I worked for both of them and she would say things like “Don’t tell Bob, but…” and that didn’t sit well with me.
So after a month, I said it’s been great, but I think it’s best if you find a new bookkeeper (not those words obviously) and she refused to pay me the $500 she owed me. I was really mad about it but I let it go then, which is why it’s so hard for me to let this go now.
SiubhanDuinne
@Omnes Omnibus:
I never took Spanish and am not sure what that means.
Gelfling 545
@Baud: And celebrated in song and story.
SFAW
@MomSense:
It’ll take me a couple of hours to get to Portland, but for some reason, I think you’re up in Oxford or Androscoggin County? Of course, my “dancing” makes Elaine Benes look like Ginger Rogers or Misty Copeland (so to speak), so consider yourself warned.
Patricia Kayden
@boatboy_srq: 15 pages for such a momentous bill shows how little the GOP actually care about healthcare.
jl
@Baud: Well, you still.. wait, I thought you said you were pasted. Never mind. I misread it.
MomSense
@WaterGirl: @Baud:
Ha!! This could get ugly with all of us fighting over Baud.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: That’s much shorter than the video from the conference, but it worked very well! I may have to bookmark that one.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I snorted!
Quinerly
@Baud:
Sessions is beloved in Alabama. I really don’t have any family to speak of (an only, born of two only children). With that said, the small amt of family I do have is in Alabama. What connections that survived the Obama Adm ended up being severed over Trump (and Sessions). In a Trump/Sessions feud, my money is on the home state boy. I can’t stress enough how much Alabama loves Jefferson Beauregard Sessions III.
MomSense
@SFAW:
Misty Copeland is sublime! All dancing is welcome!! C’mon over!
ETA Waldo!
Ohio Mom
@MomSense: I’m speechless.
I did not know you had a connection to the disability world. I will send Anne Laurie the okay to share my email.
But I can get rather snippetty with those insufferably smug interns, sometimes it is right for me to apologize a little. For my tone, only.
Sometimes I ask them why I only have to call my Republican Senator and Rep, “Why don’t I have to call Sherrod Brown! Because he does the right thing without being told! Why can’t you Republicans do the same!” That I don’t ever apologize for.
TenguPhule
@Quinerly:
We must destroy Alabama to save it.
hovercraft
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
No idea, but someone earlier pointed out that when Archibald Cox was fired the Watergate investigation did not end. On Monday morning the investigators went back to work and carried on because just like here, the underlying investigation preceded the appointment of the Special Prosecutor. To completely end the investigation, Sessions or his replacement would have to publicly order a criminal/counter intelligence investigation that began last summer, removing any pretense that it was a political witch hunt.
Who am I kidding, it would simply morph into a “deep state” Hillary- Obama conspiracy.
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne:
Pretty sure you have just spoken for hundreds of us on BJ. Seriously.
TenguPhule
@hovercraft:
You say this as if there would actually be any consequences for this in the only place that really matters now, Congress.
Quinerly
@MomSense:
Poco’s got dibs on Baud.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: घबराओ मत हम तुम्हारे साथ है |
Quinerly
@TenguPhule:
I’m liking the way you think (but, let’s not get carried away now……..).
glory b
@WaterGirl: Any thoughts on how I might proceed besides small claims court, which would be a gigantic pain in the behind?
Your state’s Corporation Bureau, or whoever is in charge of regulating nonprofits might be a solution. Otherwise, perhaps a call to your Attorney General.
A threat of that sort might be effective.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Keith P.: You would think Trump/Sessions would have an Adopt-Americans-First policy. Not this globalism stuff.
hovercraft
@Major Major Major Major:
I wasn’t attacking you, it was what they reported yesterday. I guess they must have gone back to him and he must have approved it. Someone from the Garbage Times pointed out that while it’s a loss for TV and all of us, testifying to staffers not intent on grandstanding may illicit more information that can be used against them.
WaterGirl
@glory b: Hmmm. Didn’t know there was a regulatory agency for nonprofits, but of course there must be! She does like to call our state representative whenever she has problems, perhaps I should mention that calling our representative will be my next step. :-)
MomSense
@Ohio Mom:
I’ll send her an email tomorrow morning. My mom lives in Akron and I was born a buckeye. We will all get through this!
TenguPhule
@Quinerly: I was half-joking.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat:
अपना वहि जॊ आवे काम्.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
What you have to work for her for the rest of your life? Do you live in a right to work state? I did for a while and I gave 2 week notice and a week later (I was being a smart ass!) the CEO was giving me shit about how I still worked there and he could still fire me. I pleaded with him to. He asked why. The parent company, a non-profit, had a rule that if you were fired for any reason other than theft you got paid a weeks salary for each year you’d worked. That would be a 10 week bonus for me leaving. About $10,000. And I wouldn’t have had to stay another week. Double bonus. Fucker declined to fire me.
Working is a contract between the employee/sub contractor and the employer. It isn’t slavery, you have the right to leave. Now if you are say building an additional lock for the Panama Canal that contract may have clauses about harm in leaving. But if you are supplying a normal business function to a company, usually not. If yours didn’t then screw her, she owes you money. It’s not your problem that she had to find someone else to do the work, that’s the breaks of business.
Major Major Major Major
@hovercraft: didn’t think it was an attack at all, I was merely citing a source.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
It’s been a tough 48 hours for the deep south
HA!
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Did you change your translator, this is a very country dialect, the earlier one was literary. Truth be told my Hindi is pretty pedestrian, its like my third language.
hovercraft
@TenguPhule:
Continentti was on earlier and said that nothing could induce the GOP to ever impeach him, period.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: I googled Hindi idioms.
What are your first two?
TenguPhule
Yet another edition of FUCK TRUMP COUNTRY and every fucking Trump supporter still getting media attention.
Roger Moore
@WaterGirl:
It’s not petty to want what they agreed to pay you, and it’s bad practice to let somebody screw you out of small sums to avoid kicking up a stink. At the very least remember it if you ever have to work with the same people again.
TenguPhule
@hovercraft: He’s right. Trump goes down, they all go down.
They will fight to someone else’s death to avoid that.
WaterGirl
@Ruckus: People don’t quit her. She loves to fire people. Seriously, I think she fired at least 10 people in the time I was there. She is a narcissist and I hate to say it but she is like a little trump.
She was FURIOUS when, after working for for 5 months she gave me what she said was the standard contract for contractors, I read the contract and said I was uncomfortable with a number of clauses and I wouldn’t sign it without my attorney reviewing it first.
I said something to the effect of “I watch you have contracts reviewed and changed all the time, why would it not be okay for me to do the same with the contract you want me to sign?” Do you know what she said? (of course you don’t) Her reply, word for word: “I like to think I’m special.” She said this in all seriousness, as if because she can be charming sometimes that makes everything okay. ugh.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: English and मराठी. I can speak and understand some गुजराथी too but not write or read it.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: Is Marathi very different from Hindi?
Major Major Major Major
@WaterGirl: I worked for somebody like that for several years and Trump reminds me of him rather frequently.
schrodingers_cat
@TenguPhule: उनको भाड़ मे जाने दो , let them go to hell. Problem is that they want to take us there.
sukabi
@WaterGirl: I hope you looked her in the eyes and said “Honey, I don’t think I’m special, I know I deserve to be treated fairly. With that in mind I’m going to have my lawyer look over this contract.”
Quinerly
@TenguPhule:
I wasn’t.
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: Different language same script, like Spanish and French, say. Sanskrit is the mother language for both, also both have many Farsi words.
ETA: Hindi has only two genders. Marathi has three, like English.
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: Thanks, now I don’t feel so bad! It’s kind of crazy, because she’s black and Trump would shit a brick to be compared to her and she would flip to be compared to him. She’s a control freak and a bully and can be very charming at times. People like that can get away with a lot. Until they can’t.
Jeffro
Since it’s an OT: y’all can skip seeing DUNKIRK unless you like being tense and depressed for 100 minutes.
But all the previews were nice.
WaterGirl
@sukabi: Sad to say, I was speechless.
frosty
@WaterGirl: GoFundMe from BJ, we’ll make you whole, walk away and fuhgeddaboudit. Not worth the aggravation.
Baud
@schrodingers_cat: Cool. Thanks.
raven
@Jeffro: Oh good, let’s have another fucking three hour light about that movie.
WaterGirl
@sukabi: Just to be clear, she was saying that SHE likes to think she is special, that’s why it’s okay for her to have a lawyer look over contracts she has to sign, but other people don’t get to do that with her contracts.
It was crazy, too. Her contract would have given her the right to bodily search me whenever she pleased, to search my computer, to be tested for drugs or alcohol, if she pleased, there was a bunch more crazy stuff, too. When I asked my attorney niece to look it over for me, there were several “WTF? I wouldn’t sign that” in the margins.
I so did the right thing by leaving.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
If it was me, and just me, what you said here would cause me to think, “I don’t fucking care how much small claims court costs, even if it’s more than I’m owed, fuck her.” She may be a normal business person and I may have been abnormal but that is just wrong. She is a bully and she is using your lunch money to make it work. She doesn’t own you, she may want to for her own glory but she just doesn’t. My boss doesn’t own me but I work hard for him because he respects me and my labor. He doesn’t always agree with how I do things and I’ve told him I’ll do it his way or leave, that’s my choice.
WaterGirl
@frosty: That’s kind, but there are so many more important things for people to do with their money than this. I would like to have the money, but it’s also the principle of the thing. She is stealing from me and that’s wrong.
I am not even looking to add another client until fall – after working an average of 65 hours a week for 6 months, I want some time to catch my breath before I take something else on.
Jeffro
@raven: Did I miss something?
schrodingers_cat
@Baud: You are welcome. Marathi is much older than Hindi too. It is one of the oldest Prakrits (languages derived from Sanskrit). More than a 1000 years old.
This is a Marathi abhang (devotional verse) sung by the Late Kishori Amonkar composed by a saint poet who was a woman who was also an untouchable written in the 13th century.
अवघा रंग एक झाला (Avagha rang ek jhala)
Major Major Major Major
@WaterGirl: mine gives extremely bad ‘positive’ references; charming.
TenguPhule
@Jeffro:
Earlier thread.
Some of the jackals are not Nolan fans.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@hovercraft: Impounding funds probably would.
raven
@Jeffro: Yea, the last thread started with a positive review and it turned into a big back and forth about movies. Over 300 comments and almost 6 hours!
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: nos bras Bad joke on my part.
@SiubhanDuinne: Arrrggghhh!
WaterGirl
@Ruckus: Funny you should say that. I used those words more than once “she thinks she owns me”. I am not very good at standing up to a bullying boss, I had one of those when I worked at the university and I just hung in there, hopeful that things would get better, so I was actually kind of proud of myself for standing up to her and deciding to leave. Now I’d like to have the rest of my money and put her completely behind me!
Jeffro
@TenguPhule:
Who’s Nolan? Oh, the director, right?
(just having fun here folks, I kid, I kid…)
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: Lovely. That’s the nice part about having my own business, I don’t need her as a reference.
Hopefully yours is in your past and I’m sure you are doing stellar work in your current position, so it may not matter so much what your even control freak former boss thinks. Bullies be gone!
WaterGirl
@Jeffro: Were you the person on the previous thread who said he hadn’t planned on seeing this movie but after the detailed review from JMN you decided to go?
Major Major Major Major
@WaterGirl: I don’t need his references any more. I’ve heard him give them for others and am extremely mad I ever needed his.
Iowa Old Lady
@Quinerly: That’s disturbing.
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: Sounds like a spiteful, hateful person. Glad you’re away from his reach! Why are so many people like that in positions of authority??? (You don’t need to answer that, I am just shaking my fist at the world as I say it.)
Jeffro
@WaterGirl: No (seriously!) – wasn’t me.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
It helps if you have had to stand up to people all your life and had success at it. I didn’t grow much from about 5th grade till HS and grew 3 inches after HS. I got picked upon a lot. I got pissed a lot but never did anything about it. Till one day in 5th grade, a “friend” who was very tall for his age kept picking on me. One day I had had enough. I turned and offered to fight him. He didn’t believe me. So I hit him. He folded like a cheap suit. Since then I’m respectful and have never started a fight. But I learned to stand up for myself and more importantly not to be a bully. Shortly after that I met a man who worked for my father. He is one of my heroes in life. Richard is his name. He is/was a black man of about 15-20 yrs my senior. Built like an NFL player, arms as big as my thighs. Gentle as could be he taught me about getting along without being a dick or a pushover. Along with lots of other stuff. I will always be in his debt. Everyone has limits though and it’s how you handle the bullshit that matters.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@raven: Nothing more pointless — or passionate — than an argument on “you should like/hate the entertainment I like/hate and if you don’t there’s something wrong with you”.
Far be it from me to restart any of that, for instance with a comment on how I really don’t like Audrey Hepburn and could never understand why she has such rabid fans.
We’ve been seeing a lot of art house movies lately, as many or more than mainstream movies. And they seem to be really outstanding lately, just incredibly good stuff is being made. Latest one we saw was Maudie, about Nova Scotian folk artist Maude Lewis (who I’d never heard of).
And by the way, I’ve never understood the whole thing about “folk art” or “outsider art”. I’m glad she found a set of collectors willing to pay her a few bucks for her paintings (not enough to free her from poverty), and her life story is really pretty inspiring. But still, I don’t understand WHY they collected her stuff.
More jackal fuel :-))
WaterGirl
@Jeffro: That’s good. It would suck to plan to skip a movie, then go see it because it got a great recommendation, and then you turn out to hate it.
WaterGirl
@Ruckus: Smiling as i read about your hero. That’s the trick: getting along without being a dick or a pushover. I think it might be easier for males to learn that than it is for females, because women are judged differently than men when they stand up for themselves. Anyway, better late than never for me!
Her being such a spiteful, vindictive person now helps me to know that I did the right thing by leaving, so that’s nice!
Lapassionara
@WaterGirl: Then take your time to decide what to do. Remember that you are not just you, you are also your business. Think of the best way to collect what you are owed, but at the same time building other and better customers.
WaterGirl
@Lapassionara: That sounds like very wise advice.
Sab
@Ohio Mom: I tend to get distraught sounding rather than angry. Don’t know which has more impact (hah hah.) The only good out of forcing a vote that I can see is that Portman might be forced to take a public stand on something, either the motion to proceed on a mystery bill, or an actual vote. I know all he wants is to phase out Medicaid, but I can’t prove it because he never has to vote.
He did look harried in the picture in our local paper. Wanted to do a happy dance when I saw it.
SFAW
@MomSense:
OK, that’s a little farther than Oxford and Androscoggin, so I can’t make it up there tonight.
Lots of nice areas in Waldo. Used to drive through it on the way to MDI, and there was one house in Stockton Springs I was semi-interested in. If it weren’t so far from civilization, I could see relo-ing there. (Yes, I know Augusta’s not too far from Liberty. Palermo, etc.) If I end up buying a camp in Kennebec, I’ll let you know.
Have a great time at your dance party!
sukabi
@WaterGirl: I got that. I was suggesting a polite way of saying “Fuck You very much.” ☺
Betsy
@WaterGirl: Send a certified letter.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
Sounds correct to me. However one of the things I learned from Richard is to give everyone agency as a human being. Until they prove otherwise well beyond any shadow of doubt.
ETA Just to clarify, I meant that I think you are correct, not that women should be judged differently.
glory b
This thread is probably dead, but, for WaterGirl, states incorporate corporations, and there is a state agency that will regulate them. Here i.n P, it is the Corporation Bureau, it’s part of the Department of State here.
Every state’s website should have a “Doing Business Here” kind of link which should give details about incorporating there.
I think most states require corporations to list the names of officers and board members as public records too..
No One You Know
@trollhattan: Um, now. Showing up at the house is personal in a way that crosses a line. Keep our professional. That stain lasts longer.
No One You Know
@trollhattan: Um, now. Showing up at the house is personal in a way that crosses a line. Keep it professional. That stain lasts longer.