Anything for SCIENCE!
.@Nickelodeon sent its slime to the @Space_Station to study how liquids behave in zero gravity pic.twitter.com/mLdhiVf64F
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 15, 2020
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Republicans, this is your chance to own Obama by not voting. https://t.co/aJFNIfCoBl
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Sarah Cooper is the Vaugh Meader of this current moment:
How to more cases than anybody in the world pic.twitter.com/VA9bPJiQ6i
— Sarah Cooper (@sarahcpr) May 15, 2020
Baud
Maybe Biden should choose Sarah Cooper as his Veep.
OzarkHillbilly
Escaped tiger caught with lasso on streets of Guadalajara
Baud
Readership capture.
Note: Bernie actually isn’t the bad guy in this story. In fact, there aren’t really any obvious good guys or bad guys, except maybe one or two who suggested they won’t support Biden.
Barbara
I’m seeing some strange ads — “Click here to find out why Jesus didn’t exercise.” Because he had to walk everywhere?
debbie
Sniffing the marker was the perfect touch!
Listening to NPR reporting Dem plans for their virtual convention, I thought it would be great if someone could shame Trump into insisting that the GOP convention be traditional with wall-to-wall bodies and no masks. If only! ?
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Solo un otro día en México.
Baud
@Barbara:
Jesus didn’t exercise. He exorcised.
debbie
@Baud:
AOC’s “defection” to the Biden campaign is what did them in.
germy
Baud
@debbie:
This story didn’t get into that. It’s more about disarray about organization and direction.
germy
@OzarkHillbilly:
It almost sounds like he stole a lasso and they caught him on the street with the lasso in his teeth.
I would have said “Escaped tiger lassoed in Guadalajara”
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Yep, dawg do I miss Mexico.
debbie
@Baud:
They wouldn’t be self-reflective enough for that. But as long as there’s disarray!
debbie
@germy:
Wish s/he’d had the balls to draw the diner as Trump.
Barbara
@Baud: Interesting article, actually. Reading through, the most practical quotes are from Jeff Weaver, though I have no doubt he is also trying to write his own ticket by creating a super PAC to support Biden. Near the end someone laments the lack of infrastructure to continue the mission of the Sanders campaign — like, maybe, a political party would do?
Baud
@Barbara:
That’s the most frustrating thing. Progressives have and have had the opportunity to exercise outsized influence as a faction within the Democratic Party, but that would require accepting the need to work with moderates to achieve a majority. A bridge too far for some.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: Jeff Weaver makes sense here:
This is the post-Sanders realignment. People who are interested in the POLICIES championed by Sanders are working within the two-party context to move forward. People who were in it for the cult of personality are spinning their wheels angrily.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: I’ve only been to Cancun and Puerto Vallarta, but never “real” Mexico.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
I think Weaver is more of a mercenary rather than a true believer. It was weird seeing him make sense.
zhena gogolia
Vaughn Meader.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: me too.
@Baud: highly recommend Mexico City and Zacatecas, assuming that once a vaccine is developed that other countries will allow Americans back in with proof of it.
WereBear
@Barbara: Strange is the new normal.
?BillinGlendaleCA
Getting ready to go OTR to the Owens Valley.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Happy trails.
Barbara
@Baud: I went to “real” Mexico when Mexican friends invited us to their daughter’s quinceanera. After the event in Mexico City, we visited some market towns in Michoacan. It was around six months before a significant upswing in violence. I wish I could find a way to go back. It was really special. Many people who heard us made a point of telling us that they had lived in the US or had relatives who did.
WereBear
@Betty Cracker:
Likewise, my take.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Betty Cracker:
IIRC, Obamacare was a BFD.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Thanks, it’s gonna be a long drive.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: The places I have been and the people living there are beautiful.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
satby
@?BillinGlendaleCA: safe trip! Looking forward to the photos, and all the best to Madam today too!
satby
@rikyrah: Good morning!
OzarkHillbilly
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Your memory is faulty. It was a complete sellout to the insurance companies.
ETA s//
Barbara
@Betty Cracker: I don’t even know whether many who resist party infrastructure are really part of a personality cult so much as they are simply the type of people who resist most kinds of institutional structure. The example of Occupy Wall Street looms large in my mind — formless by design, and basically inconsequential.
Betty Cracker
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Right, but the subject of the quote is raising the minimum wage to $15, which has now become a mainstream view in the party. It has also become a mainstream view in the party that the ACA needs to be expanded significantly. Progress!
OzarkHillbilly
I call bullshit. No way Barr approved this.
Betty Cracker
@Barbara: I think that’s true. One of the worst aspects of Sanders being the face of the progressive wing of the party (not for everyone, but he was for many) was that he defined himself in opposition to the party. Progressive Dems like Warren, Porter, Pressley, AOC, etc., don’t have that enormous baggage.
Mo MacArbie
Our newest Johnny-One-Note nym has been so repetitive that it’s giving me an earworm.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
I don’t think anyone objects to the party moving left. People like me believe that the rhetoric and tactics used by some of those who try to move the party to the left have damaged our cause (and the country), and we wonder if there is a better way that is less destructive.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
I agree. His strategy depended on Dems being so desperate that they would become self-hating.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly: Trump wants Burr punished for the report of the Senate Intelligence Committee that there was, in fact, Russian interference/collusion in the 2016 campaign aimed at helping Trump. So, punished he will be.
First step, removed as Chair from the Intelligence Committee.
The tell is that no such action is going against Loeffler.
Baud
According to a reddit commenter, Biden said this on MSNBC about Trump.
Immanentize
@Mo MacArbie: I love that song (“Suspicion” for those afraid to hit the link). But associating that with the Obsessed Nimrod of Division is not what I think of when I read his Blech.
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: You are correct sir, I had forgotten about that.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: I think there are plenty of Democrats who object to the party moving left, at least on certain issues. It’s fascinating to watch the evolution of policy consensus over time. It’s hard to find an anti-choice elected Democrat outside the former Confederacy these days.
ETA: The Reddit commenter told the truth. Biden said that on O’Donnell’s show last night. I saw a clip early this morning.
Baud
@Immanentize:
How about this?
Immanentize
@Baud: That sounds like a parody of Trump, the likes of which we have never seen before.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
When I said “anyone,” I meant people who matter.
Immanentize
@Baud: Ha! Another entry into the “Journey-O Styx Wagon” hall of fame!
Baud
@Immanentize:
Full story with video.
That makes it seem like he’s talking about the AG office.
Immanentize
@Baud: Which is true and a very nice way to swing at Trump.
Mo MacArbie
@Immanentize: I guess I change the title to a word that sounds kinda like it…
OzarkHillbilly
From the department of DUH!:
I feel for these people.
Betty Cracker
@Baud: Democrats like John Bel Edwards matter. I’d vote for him if I lived in Louisiana, just as I voted for Lawton Chiles here in Florida when he ran against Republican douche-canoes. It’s the South, so we’re not going to get a Gavin Newsom.
raven
Kool Aid Pickles!
germy
A commenter here yesterday was advocating for “blue states” splitting from “red states”
But NY is a blue state, and this happened:
Every blue state is full of red loons, and every red state has progressive people who live there because of family, jobs, etc. so I just don’t get the argument.
Also, look at the crowd in the above clip. So young! Which is why I get irritated when I see the “Once all the old boomers die out, everything will be fine!” argument. Idiot racists appear in each new generation.
Spinoza Is My Co-pilot
Sarah Cooper’s Tik Toks are the first and only way I’ve ever been able to stand hearing the vile scumbag’s voice. Her “How to Medical” (with the asshole’s “shine a light inside, maybe inject bleach” stunning nonsense) is my favorite, but all of them crack me the hell up and I’m glad for the comic relief in this, this time I have no words for.
germy
Biden says he would not pardon Trump or block investigations
ATLANTA (AP) – Democratic candidate Joe Biden said that if he wins the presidency he would not use his power to pardon Donald Trump or stop any investigations of Trump and his associates.
“It is not something the president is entitled to do, to direct a prosecution or decide to drop a case,” Biden said Thursday on MSNBC. “It’s a dereliction of duty.”
The former vice president made his statement in response to a voter who asked him on Lawrence O’Donnell’s show, “The Last Word,” whether he would “commit to not pulling a Gerald Ford in giving Donald Trump a pardon under the pretense of healing the nation.”
Biden responded, “I commit,” before offering a more lengthy explanation of his view that the president must allow the Justice Department to operate without interference.
zhena gogolia
@Spinoza Is My Co-pilot:
Looking at her is a lot easier than looking at him, too.
Immanentize
@raven: Ha!
That scares me.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Re what happens if Burr resigns, there’s an article in Washington Examiner saying that if it’s before Sept 4, it triggers a special election in November. If it’s after that, the gov appoints the replacement who serves out the remainder of Burr’s term (as we’ve been discussing).
zhena gogolia
@germy:
That person has no “argument.” They’re just trolling.
Of course you’re absolutely right. When I saw that yesterday, my first (stereotypical) thought was, oh, that’s in Mississippi or Georgia.
Sab
@Betty Cracker: OT sort of. My dad’s nursing home required our nurse’s aide come through an agency. They pay her $11 per hour and charge me $22. That seems excessive. I pay her the difference to get her up to what I was paying her before.
$11 an hour to risk her life taking care of an old man with dementia. And the agency gets the same for doing almost nothing.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Christ on a cracker!! That is an offense to god and all that is holy in this world. I can’t wait to try it.
Uncle Cosmo
@Mo MacArbie: I remember when that 45 came out – some of the disk jox were babbling like they’d found the next Elvis. When what they found was the textbook definition of a won-hit oneder.
raven
@Immanentize: We’re watching a “Somewhere South” episode about dumplings and they went to Clarksdale, MS where there were many Chinese grocery stores. There are only a couple left and “Gene’s” had the pickles.
germy
@zhena gogolia:
I hadn’t seen this before, the finished story that reporter filed:
Immanentize
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Added to the resignation issue:. In North Carolina (by law) the Governor must choose a replacement from the same party.
Mo MacArbie
@Spinoza Is My Co-pilot: It’s the little things that really get me, like the way she sniffs the Sharpie in the new one.
debbie
@germy:
Yep, count Ohio in that happy bunch. Can’t wait to see how the reopening of public pools works out.
Professor Bigfoot
@Baud: That’s part of it for me… but it just seems that they refuse to accept that *black people* are a powerful bloc within the Democratic Party and therefore should be respected- and made common cause with.
I have not been able to escape the nagging feeling that the Sanderista Brigade are motivated by the fact that the Democratic Party has put itself four-square behind civil and voting rights, and not the “left vs right” economic/class model.
That is– they’re salty that Negroes have power in the Party.
Sab
@Betty Cracker: Ohio is red as can be, but we still keep voting for Sherrod Brown. I have in-laws in Louisiana and they love John Bel Edwards.
I think Mike deWine just gave us enough rope to hang ourselves if we behave badly. Then he will shut us down again, while saying “I warned you.” I don’t much like him, but he has become politically deft.
Our secession sea lion is just silly.
Immanentize
@debbie:
Does no one remember polio?
Immanentize
@raven: I like the South a lot in it’s amazing quirkiness. I haven’t been to Mississippi in probably 20 years now. I’d love to drive through when dropping the Immp off at college this Fall, but unlikely on both counts it seems.
Betty Cracker
@Sab: That’s nutso! Good for you for making up the difference. Sounds like they won’t just let you hire your own person from an approved agency directly?
rp
@germy: I don’t have a ton of sympathy for that reporter. WHY was he covering these idiots? Why did he feel the need to tell their story? The media shouldn’t be giving these crackpots oxygen.
germy
@Immanentize: McConnell does. But he doesn’t care.
Uncle Cosmo
@OzarkHillbilly: How’s that any worse than sweet pickles? Or “bread & butter” pickles?
I picked up (on sale, natch) a couple boxes’ worth of Kool-Aid flavor sticks** in sour blue raspberry & sour apple flavors. I might sacrifice a few plus a few packs of artificial sweeteners to adulterate a small bottle of pickles & see what results. Deep blue raspberry pickles might be fun.
** One per half-liter bottle of water makes a disgusting concoction; one per liter is surprisingly refreshing.
germy
@rp: I had the same thought. “I’m trying to tell your story!!” Why?
There have been demonstrations by renters protesting rent increases. There have been demonstrations by nurses protesting lack of PPE. I haven’t seen them on TV, just online.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Joe Biden’s answer is good, I think. He sounds self assured and bluster-free.
Frankensteinbeck
@Baud:
My takeaways from that article:
The grifters in Sanders’ organization are worried the money supply will dry up.
Sanders is interested in nothing but himself. If he’s not on the ballot, he only goes through the motions.
Sanders does not want anybody to find out where his money came from in this election.
Sab
@Betty Cracker: Nope. They have to come through an agency. She has been working for us for 12 years. Originally she was hired to help with my mom who was physically disabled but mentally okay. When Mom died she stayed on to take care of Dad who is physically okay but mentally pretty much gone.
After the lockdown she was blocked for about a month. Every agency wanted to do a background check that would take 2 to 3 months. She finally found one that would take her on our reference. When she got back in she found that he was being neglected. Wet diapers not changed. Meals ignored. It’s scary.
I understand why they have the new rules. I think they are right. It just made it hard for those of us who had lucked into an amazing caretaker. But I think everyone is better off and safer under the new rules.
My siblings will be pissed as hell when they find out I blew their inheritance keeping Dad safe amd comfortable. Thankfully we have an inheritance to blow.
Uncle Cosmo
Persuade a solid Democrat – or maybe some respected figure who’s on our side of the fence but not seen as overtly political – to change their registration to Gee-Oh-Pea & then appoint them. Preferably someone with the stones to tell Yertle McTurtle to GTFO of my office! if he ever tries to walk in. Have the soon-to-be Senator file the change-of-registration papers less than an hour before their appointment to the Senate – just to rub their noses in it. They wanna fuck with us, we oughta fuck with them.
snoey
@Immanentize:
Polio is an intestinal virus which usually has fecal-oral transmission, so pools were a different situation than with corona virus.
Sab
@snoey: What about the locker rooms. Those will be scary.
Baud
@Betty Cracker: Fair. I’m not sure what he’s said about the national party. I think southern Dems are more worried about their image than their ideology.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Yep. Very strong. No pandering. Not trying to explain or defend.
snoey
@Sab:
Not saying that its a good idea, just not directly comparable.
Sab
@Barbara: Oh come on. Sometimes he rode donkeys.
Sab
@snoey: Okay. U r right on that point.
Spinoza Is My Co-pilot
@zhena gogolia: That’s what makes her so damn funny. Her expressions and body language capture the dipshit’s staggering stupidity perfectly.
Betty Cracker
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I liked that answer too, even though Biden occasionally has a disconcerting habit of telling people not to vote for him. :) But I liked the comment in this instance because it was real and human, i.e., the accusation is monstrous if true, but it’s not true.
Maybe it’s my media bubble, but it seems like the Reade story is losing steam. Good. It’s bullshit. People took her seriously, looked into it, and the story started falling apart.
If it becomes a non-factor — if every prominent female Biden voter isn’t hounded by the media for supporting Biden because it’s widely recognized that Reade is lying — that’s the best possible outcome for MeToo, IMO. The point wasn’t to automatically treat accusations as convictions; it was to stop dismissing accusations out of hand.
lamh36
Good morning BJ.
Time to change my resume and professional email signature.
Ahem! Y’all can now address me as LAMH, M.S., MLS(ASCP).
Govern yourselves…accordingly??
https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/002389e243d4f355aa1d94376dc1c073aac07e6386f5d2f3ee6dd43fc423e87e.gif
zhena gogolia
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
That is a great answer.
NYT, but this is a great article about a false accusation against a woman professor — https://www.nytimes.com/2020/03/18/magazine/title-ix-sexual-harassment-accusations.html
debbie
@Immanentize:
They probably can’t even spell it. //
Sab
@lamh36: What about the 35 preceding lamhs. Don’t they deserve respect? //
Good job.
Baud
@lamh36: Are you going to change your nym?
sheila in nc
@raven: My husband and I adore the “Somewhere South” shows. She does a great job of showing 1) all the influences on Southern cooking from around the world, and 2) the commonalities of foodways even if the ingredients are different.
Brachiator
@OzarkHillbilly:
Sounds like an old Marty Robbins song.
zhena gogolia
@Spinoza Is My Co-pilot:
Her lip-synching is virtuosic.
lamh36
@Betty Cracker: there are still kernels trying to be dragged out, like this PBS News article our today:
But the cat is out the bag that this was likely a hit job aimed at getting rid of Biden with this “admission” from one of the collabo:
Seriously, read the whole thread and tell me that doesn’t sound like an admission of rarfucqn guilt?
Raven
@Immanentize: I always laugh at these big pronouncements about “the South”. I never thought I’d live here and, poof, 35 years later I’ve been here half of my life. We sit here and chronicle the fools in “the North” and then get all pissy when it suits the narrative. Maybe I’m kidding myself because I live in a blue island but I like it here.
Ever read “The“The Bitter Southerner”?
debbie
@lamh36:
? Congrats!
zhena gogolia
@lamh36:
Congratulations!
sheila in nc
@lamh36: Yes ‘m.
(Congratulations!)
Dorothy A. Winsor
@lamh36: Doesn’t it feel great! Congrats. I had a 3-hour writer group meeting Wednesday night so I missed the surprise party. I looked afterwards and jackals are so creative.
Raven
@sheila in nc: My lucky fishing shirt is from a BBQ joint in Concord from 20 years ago! I don’t eat pork so I was glad when we found one that served chicken. I don’t even want to think about what’s going to happen with the “foodways”. My buddy down the block is on the lucky side because he has a bunch of picnic tables and a window he can serve from. Still, a good share of his business was catering an who knows where that is going. I did talk to a neighbor who’s a tech with Zaxby’s and he said they are doing fine.
Gin & Tonic
@germy: If I’m not mistaken, that clip was from Lawn Guyland, home of Peter King and Al D’Amato, both elected with overwhelming support. There’s lots of dumb rednecks out there.
Baud
@lamh36:
LOL. As if they’re going to rally around Joe Biden after there is no technical chance to replace him.
cope
@Betty Cracker: Thanks, Betty. My daughter has been working for Bernie since ’16 because of the POLICIES he espouses, not because of his personality. She continues to work to support those progressive POLICIES because she believes in them even though he no longer has a shot at nomination. That makes me very proud of her and is the main reason the steady anti-Bernie vitriol in here chaps my hide so much.
Addendum, Vaughn Meader relevant: at his first live performance after Kennedy’s assasination, Lenny Bruce looked at the floor, sadly shaking his head and opened with the line, “Poor Vaughn Meader”.
Raven
@germy: Google “The Hard Hat Riots”. None of this shit is new.
MomSense
@snoey:
Coronavirus also has fecal oral transmission.
sheila in nc
@Raven: The restaurants around here are surviving via takeout. But a couple of places have decided they can’t serve the kind of food they usually do and have the meals meet their previous standard, so they have closed for the moment. We try to patronize various takeout places a couple of times a week to help provide business.
SiubhanDuinne
@rp:
You’re directing your ire at the wrong person. The reporter, for a local TV station, was almost certainly assigned to cover the protests. He refuses enough stories, he’s out of a job. Personally, I’m glad he posted all the raw footage on social media, to show just how unhinged and dangerous these looms are. But you should be angry with his assignment editors/station owners, not the reporter himself.
raven
@sheila in nc: We too.
Brachiator
@OzarkHillbilly:
I heard about this on a recent BBC News podcast. They interviewed a father from Italy who went to another country to get his newborn child, but who has not been allowed and leave and return to his wife. It is causing a huge amount of distress.
The lockdown and other reactions to the pandemic is having countless unexpected consequences.
Gin & Tonic
Checking out Ukraine’s Channel 5, as I usually do in the mornings, came across a story about some 9-year-old kid in Tennessee who caught a 36-kilogram sturgeon.
Kay
We had to cancel our Denmark trip – I got a full refund so that’s nice. My son has applied for jobs in Berlin – his Danish company sends him (or sent) him there periodically and he thinks he wants to be in a big city and he likes that one. So I may never see Denmark! Although I will see Berlin so there’s that :)
He was impressed with the Danish response to the pandemic. They (sensibly) opened schools prior to opening workplaces. If I were running the US response I would have prioritized reopening schools/daycares over workplaces too. Put everyone on opening schools safely THEN move to private sector. Of course, that kind of analysis is impossible in the US, where the national government has decided to just do no planning or work at all.
SiubhanDuinne
@lamh36, M.S., MLS (ASPC):That is so wonderful. Solidly official. Congratulations again.
lamh36
@Baud: Lol. heck haven’t changed or in 7 years I ain’t changing…
besides too many dang letters …LOL
lamh36
@Dorothy A. Winsor: it was a great thread! I really did appreciate all the effort
germy
@SiubhanDuinne:
If I had been assigned to cover that protest, I would have done it from the other side of the street, using a zoom lens. I would have shown their signs, and made the focus of the story the RW group that organized it, by reading some of the crazier comments it posts online.
No need to walk in the middle of the protest looking for quotes. They’re gonna scream fake news and give him the finger.
In the final story, he mentioned the organizing group very briefly, but didn’t go into any longer detail about what they stand for, what they’ve stood for in the past, and what they’ve said about Democratic politicians.
Rather than asking cockroaches what their favorite food scrap is, shine a powerful flashlight instead, while mentioning the diseases they spread.
Now THERE’S a story!
Brachiator
@sheila in nc:
Restaurants have been one of the few essential businesses remaining open during the lockdown and I have found it fascinating to read or listen to stories about how they are trying to adapt and survive. I also get to chat with a local coffee shop owner when I go by to pick up takeout.
A recent NPR Planet Money episode talked to a Chinese restaurant owner who is actually trying to expand his business. During the interview he talked about shifting from serving diners small meals to preparing takeout meals to feed a family for a day, or a single person for 3 days. He also talked about removing items from the menu that took a longer time to prepare or which used expensive cuts of meat.
Kay
My anecdotal impression too. People are sort of stunned and hugely grateful that something they heard about actually got to them- was real.
Betty Cracker
@lamh36: That PBS article is a net positive, IMO — they interviewed a ton of people who worked for Biden, and none corroborated Reade’s account. Robinson really let the mask slip there, didn’t he? IIRC, he’s the “journalist” who coached Reade’s brother? To hell with that guy.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: My poor kiddo is still waiting for her UI — the state system here is so screwed up that tens of thousands of people are still waiting for their crappy state check PLUS the extra $600, which would definitely be a godsend…if they ever get it.
Bruce K
@Uncle Cosmo: I read somewhere that it wouldn’t work – the governor apparently has to choose from among a group of candidates proposed by the party of the departing Senator, and the NC GOP would probably not cooperate.
Jeffro
@germy:
Great framing, love it!
Jeffro
Btw did anyone else see this (at WaPo or elsewhere):
The Great Realisation – a post-pandemic bedtime story
Pretty cool! Probably horrifies trumpies, which is also cool.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
Oh, that’s too bad. People were frantic which gets me all worried and worked up so I was relieved when it started to flow. Such a relief. I’m permanently scarred from the 2007-8 financial crash. I will never forget it. They’re just now getting notices that they qualify for the expanded eligibility- 1099’s, solos and part timers so that’s Phase Two. The “gig worker” UI thing has been on Pelosi’s radar forever, so hopefully states will retain the expansion.
I think we learned some from the financial crash. 600 a week really will help them avoid what I think of as “the cascade”, where their financial problems get bigger and bigger. It really doesn’t have to be a generational, profound catastrophe financially for them. We can halt it an give them a chance to get back up.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
My newest fretting is over kids. They have to go back to school. Our school is approaching it as “we have to open, so how to do that?” which I think is the right approach. Essential. Not negotiable. They have to go back, soonest. This is harming them.
Miss Bianca
@lamh36: Woot! Oh, my – so fancy!
What does MLS(ACSP) stand for? Where I come from, MLS referred to a Masters in Library Science. : )
lamh36
@Miss Bianca: Medical Laboratory Scientist (American Society of Clinical Pathology)
Its the national certification board for ALL Med Lab techs
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@lamh36: Isn’t Robinson the one whose family moved from the UK to Florida when he was five, and he still speaks with a British accent and (as somebody pointed out) dresses like the early 80s version of Dr Who? I suspect he’s not wrapped much tighter than Reade. This sage has introduced me to whole new cast of characters on the twitter fringe of politics
I’m still pissed at Chris Hayes, who doubled down on his condescension to those of us who saw through this farce from get-go (or the tic-toc) in his Chotiner interview. And I’m not holding my breath waiting for Rebecca Traister to walk back anything from that shockingly bad column that most of the people I follow on twitter felt compelled to signal-boost lest they be seen as complicit in… something.
germy
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I’ve seen photos. And I’m suspicious. Because usually the guys who dress in that “retro dandy” style are alt-right dudes. The dapper nazis.
He identifies as a progressive?
Kathleen
@Betty Cracker: Expanding/improving ACA was always the intent , in the tradition of SS and Medicare improvements thru the years. Unfortunately Dems had to expend all their energy to save ACA from Rethuglican efforts to destroy it (see court ruling on Medicaid expansion). Not fair to imply that Dem centrists caused block to improvements.
Brachiator
@lamh36:
Again, congratulations.
Even though I knew that there could not be any connection, when I read MLS(ACSP), I kept thinking about ASCAP, the music publishing organization.
Maybe when all this is over, someone will come up with a musical set in a laboratory, featuring the number “Doing the Pipette Slide.”
Kathleen
@Professor Bigfoot: I agree. It’s a subtext but obvious to those who pay attention.
Omnes Omnibus
@germy: Cool. Now do that woman can’t be a feminist because she’s wearing lipstick.
Kathleen
@Betty Cracker: Expanding/improving ACA was always the intent , in the tradition of SS and Medicare improvements thru the years. Unfortunately Dems had to expend all their energy to save ACA from Rethuglican efforts to destroy it (see court ruling on Medicaid expansion). Not fair to imply that Dem centrists caused block to improvements.
@lamh36: Congratulations!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Professor Bigfoot: @Kathleen: the day after the South Carolina primary, Himself lamented the influence of the corporate wing of the Democratic Party. The usual suspects (Moore, Ocasio-Cortez) followed suit. It was telling, more than irritating (if a less than infuriating) and I’m still surprised it didn’t get more of a pushback.
Kathleen
@lamh36: Congratulations! I think I accidently posted original in another comment
Miss Bianca
@lamh36: Congratulations again!
germy
@Omnes Omnibus:
Gee, now I’m ashamed for pointing out that the “progressive” who dresses like a mid-20th century country club capitalist might be full of shit and putting everyone on.
Kathleen
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I really don’t think many Liberals get it. BTW I think it’s one of the reasons many in the broadcast media hate Democrats and Hillary. Come for the misogyny and stay for the racism.
SFAW
@lamh36:
Congratulations!
Matt McIrvin
@lamh36: They still think that if something happens to Biden, Bernie Sanders will just naturally be his replacement. I can only imagine the shitstorm if it happened and they found out otherwise.
H.E.Wolf
Alas, the law in NC mandates that the Governor choose from a list of 3 Republicans chosen by the state Republican Party. (Since the hypothetically departing Senator is a Republican.)
ETA: Thank you to Bruce K for saying it more clearly, earlier in the thread!
mali muso
@Kay: I’m feeling this big time right now. My three year old is longing for her friends and for more stimulation than my husband and I can provide. She has almost daily bouts of tears and sadness in which she laments how much she misses her friends. BUT I am pretty terrified at the prospect of her going back to daycare which is a hothouse of transmittable diseases during the most regular of times. I don’t see how you keep three year olds from being all up in one another’s faces and I have no control over each of those kids at-home bubbles (or lack thereof). Just…ugh.
Steeplejack
@lamh36:
Yes, your ladyship!
Brachiator
@Betty Cracker:
In Southern California, the UI, SDI (disability insurance) and DMV systems were severely overloaded. I think for a time, unemployed people could not log on to officially certify work searches. And of course offices were closed.
I think it has gotten better and people are getting their benefits.
It has been infuriating to listen to talk show hosts talk about people not bothering to return to work because they are making more in UI than they were in wages. There is also a misconception that the $600 boost is permanent. Currently, I think it expires July 31.
ETA: I received a notice to renew my DMV identification. I thought about mailing it in, but then worried that there might be a pile of mail-in renewals, and nobody to process them. It took 3 tries over a number of days before I could successfully go online and do the renewal.
catclub
Loeffler is a non-case, She sold 0.6% of her holdings in the sales in question. And actually, it was her money manager who sold.
Who has inside information that the market will crash … and sells 0.6%
of their holdings?
Nicole
@lamh36: Congrats! I’m so happy for you. So well deserved.
Kay
@mali muso:
I think it’s huge for a lot of them- all ages. My youngest (high school) has just lost all interest in the schoolwork. The big draw of school for him was always “other people”. He’s a completely social animal.
His (former) gf, they are still friends, is the opposite- SHE had some struggles adjusting to her first year at college, she’s reserved and a little shy although REALLY bright, and she had JUST settled in when this hit. I am genuinely worried about her. She seems so lost.
Ohio is participating in a “best practices” study of child care practices in a pandemic. The goal is to have the highest quality practices in the country. I was pleased to see they’re shooting high.
We can do this. We don’t have a President but we can do it without the administrative branch of the federal government. We have to, so we will.
Kay
@mali muso:
Mine had an absolute meltdown about my forcing him to take an online english class this summer. Ohio has “College Plus” so they can take free college courses in high school which he has been doing and always liked. He’s usually easy going. It was full blown defiance- “no, I’m not doing it, I don’t care”
His high school guidance counselor, who he likes, intervened and she got him in but he’s struggling with this. I don’t think we should discount the price they’re paying.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@catclub: as I recall, there are similar excuses for Feinstein and Inhofe (wasn’t it?), but like I said yesterday, a good Dem party in GA will figure out how to make Loeffler say “Do you plebs really think I would bother cheating for a couple of million? it’s a rounding error?”
Hell, Collins may do it for them.
Wapiti
@lamh36:Ahem! Y’all can now address me as LAMH, M.S., MLS(ASCP).
Those extra letters look great on you!
artem1s
@Baud:
it was always a grift. and now they are pissed they are being cut out of the grift.
Another Scott
@germy: +1
The BBC News TV channel has been very bad about showing “both sides” of the US reaction to the pandemic. TV loves, loves, loves cosplay übermenchen with their (sometimes wooden) bang-sticks.
Lefties should have protests with, I dunno, SuperSoakers loaded with Slime or something. If TV will only cover over-the-top theatre, then maybe some sensible groups on the left should give it to them and maybe shame them to actually do their jobs and cover news to inform the public.
Or, maybe ACT UP! should get the band together, also too.
Grrr…
Seriously, TV is all about the spectacle. “Social Media” is even worse.
Cheers,
Scott.
J R in WV
@germy:
He
identifies ascurrently needs to claim to be a progressive?Fix’d that for ya’~!!~
SWMBO
@Brachiator: I had to renew my handicap tag and get the doctor to sign off on it. I dropped off everything just before lockdown and the doc got mine mailed in for me. I had stamped the return envelope and filled out my part. I got my replacement in about 10 days. I think it helped a lot to get it in ahead of the avalanche.
SWMBO
@lamh36: Congratulations and well done!
SWMBO
@catclub: Martha Stewart went to jail for less. And her husband is a high muckety muck and she should know better.
WaterGirl
@lamh36: That’s a lotta letters!
VFX Lurker
CONGRATS, LAMH, M.S., MLS(ASCP)!!!!!!!!!!!! Sending all the kudos your way. ❤️❤️❤️