Bizarre day today- it hit high 70’s for a while and I could feel how intense the sun was on our walks, but it was so breezy that it felt cool. A front is blasting through the south of us, and no accumulation here, but it is overcast and the sky is angry down Tuscon way. Leftovers from last night’s burritos are on the menu.
I weighed myself today and I am down about 13 lbs from when I arrived here, and I haven’t been starving myself. I have been more conscious of what I eat, and eat only within a 6-8 hour window every day for the most part, but I think the bulk of it is all the walking. That’s good because that’s something I intended to start biking while out here but the bike that was right for me was too spendy. Maybe I’ll give it 6-7 months of walking and revisit the bike when I am back here and might actually need a different one.
The other thing is I am drinking a ton of water. Just a shitload. Not because I am thirsty but because I think I am still scarred from my time in the Army and my headspace is still “You’re in a desert you should be drinking even when not thirsty.” For the first couple weeks we were in the sand we had to watch each other urinate to see if they were pissing yellow and if you were you had to make them sit down in the shade and not move until they had drank a canteen full of water.
I don’t know if it is the same way, but the day I got into basic training until the day I got out they were super fucking serious about being hydrated and avoiding heat stroke. It was very serious trouble if one of the guys you were in charge of became what was then called a “heat casualty.” Like serious fucking trouble to the point I think I would rather accidentally discharge a firearm into the floor of the Colonel’s office than have one of my fucking privates have a heat stroke.
I mean it makes total sense so it would not surprise me if they are still that way, because it’s such an easy fix in a training environment or non-combat situation. And it’s been the case for a while that the most expensive thing in the United States military is always the soldier. The cost of training and logistics to create just one soldier is so astronomical many of you would be shocked. I mean, this is the US Military. If the soldiers, sailors, and flyboys were not the most expensive thing, none of us would be issued helmets and the sure as fuck wouldn’t have spent billions over the years worrying about ejection seats in planes.
All Hail the Wet Bulb, our benevolent ruler, who cares for us in the heat.
Another day, another billionaire makes a whole ass out of himself:
First time in NYC? https://t.co/FPqVhMduP7
— Adam Kinzinger (Slava Ukraini) 🇺🇸🇺🇦🇮🇱 (@AdamKinzinger) February 28, 2024
I had room service once (I think it was in Boston), but it had to be around 2002-2003, so twenty years ago. I got in super late that night form my flight, pissed off (this was in the years right after 9/11), went to bed immediately, and woke up starving. Ordered a basic breakfast- eggs, a meat, potatoes, coffee. It was like 35 bucks. This was NOT the fucking five star Carlyle Hotel in NY where I ordered this, and it was 20 plus years earlier.
Jesus christ tax every billionaire into the fucking ground.
Mistermix already mentioned it earlier, but the news that Mitch McConnell is retiring is not surprising, not given how bad his decline has been. I hope his retirement is short and miserable. I keep repeating myself these past few weeks, but that is not surprising since this has been around for 20+ years, but the list of people who have done more damage to the United States than Mitch McConnell is a short one. The person who came up with MBA programs is up there, and Leonard Leo is really working over time. Rush Limbaugh and Grover Norquist are up there. Art fucking Laffer. Maybe Gingrich. But it is not a long list of people in the modern era who have done more damage than McConnell. Fuck him. I hope he gets a cyst on his ass so he is in pain every time he sits for the rest of his life.
As I said before, I am a garbage person.
That’s it for me, I ‘spose. I saw a couple half-hearted attempts to make uncommitted narratives some new life, but even those were phoned in.
I should probably note- I understand why people are pissed and they should be marching and doing everything they can to end this disaster, but the simple cold logic is that Trump would be worse for the people they care about. It’s not even debatable.
Save your protest votes for when there isn’t a good chance you will make things worse. Because Dean Phillips and that aura lady are not going to beat Trump no how many times you click your heels together and say “Hillary is 44.”
TeezySkeezy
Also we live in the Iranian system of government where unelected clerics control the government.
NobodySpecial
And this, kids, is why every convention goer worth his salt finds the place with the complimentary continental breakfast. You may not get the hotel monogrammed towels or the mint on your pillow, but you damned sure get enough carbs for a full day of walking. People in love with status pay, but fuck all that.
rmjohnston
We just had a billionaire donate a billion dollars to the Albert Einstein School of Medicine to keep it tuition free in perpetuity. Yes, we should tax them all into the ground, but some are a whole lot better than others.
HumboldtBlue
If you have Peacock you can watch Iowa’s Caitlin Clark against Minnesota as she chases Pete Maravich’s all-time collegiate basketball scoring record. She trails by 51 points going into tonight’s game, and she already has six 3-pointers early in the second quarter.
TeezySkeezy
@NobodySpecial: Also we already live under a system of government in which 9 unelected religious clerics have the final say. We are Iran. Hell, with the kind of nutter Republicans we have in office, “great satan” may actually become official vernacular.
Brachiator
This person also is cheap with the tip.
eclare
That breakfast receipt says “in room dining,” so I assume he ordered room service. Everyone knows that prices are super jacked up for room service. Put on a pair of pants, mister, walk down the block, and I am sure you can find a restaurant where a Diet Coke is less than $8.
Eta> I just saw that the reader context said it was room service, also.
TeezySkeezy
Any system of government can become any other system of government without a single change to the written laws. We are living through an especially grievous example of this right now. For a western nation, anyway. This has happened plenty of times in history so in that sense isn’t new…but it is for me and mine and I hate it.
MattF
Hydration seems kinda fashionable these days, but it is, nevertheless, a thing you should do. My physicians all order me to drink large amounts of water, and I try earnestly to do it. And, it really does help.
Omnes Omnibus
@TeezySkeezy: If we were Iran, it would be much easier for me to get good khoresht-e ghormeh sabzi. Prenez un grip, mate.
Memory Pallas
Ladyraxterinok
OT
Just discovered this very weird bit of Iowa history. Elkader Iowa is named for an Algerian fighter in the early 1800s against the French colonizers…Abh el-Kader. Look him up in Wikipedia
The brief Elkader Iowa history on the internet says the original settlers named the town for one of their heros
Now I wonder how they heard about him
.
TeezySkeezy
@Omnes Omnibus: iran with a different cultural poster plastered on top.
you are doing the “calm down calm down asshole its not that bad” thing, just so you know.
edit: we are on the same side btw, however much we go at it. Enjoy
edit 2: and i mean it. Same side.
edit 3: unless you are calling for preemptive violence then, in general, that is NOT my side or proclivity. No to that.
Omnes Omnibus
Cole, my OCS company commander always told a story about having had to be packed in ice due to dehydration back when he was a 2LT. We usually had to drink two canteens and then refill before we loaded onto buses to go anywhere for training. The run for the treeline after a long bus ride was a thing to behold.
Jeffro
Beer companies of the world, you’re missing out on some SERIOUS sales here: graveside concession stands for all of these RWNJ ‘luminaries’! McConnell, Leo, Limbaugh, Norquist, Gingrich…trump’s eventual resting place would need something like a ‘lazy river’ around it, of course…
Chacal Charles Calthrop
@rmjohnston: Charitable donations have always been tax-exempt
zattarra
@Memory Pallas: The tip was pre-calculated by the hotel at exactly 15% of the pre tax total. Cheap bastard should have added an additional gratuity. Hotel should have had the tip post tax total.
Omnes Omnibus
@TeezySkeezy: No, I am telling you to get a fucking grip. And now I am not going to respond to you anymore because I don’t want this discussion to take over this whole thread.
TeezySkeezy
@Omnes Omnibus: i like pie!!!!
Frankensteinbeck
@Omnes Omnibus:
Here is your Today’s Internet.
wjca
Try an Afghan restaurant. Unless you are somewhere that lacks the finer things in life.
BretH
Shoot, even my super righteous 20 yr old daughter turned to me yesterday and admitted that she really had to vote for Biden, and that maybe next election would be the one where she could vote for a younger progressive.
eclare
@BretH:
Yay!
Omnes Omnibus
@wjca: There is an Azerbaijani place across the street from my office, but that wasn’t really my point.
Lapassionara
@BretH: Great. Does she have friends she can influence?
Suzanne
@MattF:
That’s so weird. My years in the desert made me an insane water drinker. Two cups of coffee in the morning, then water water water all the rest of the day and night. And most places you go have bottle fillers in addition to drinking fountains (which are disgusting and you should never use one).
piratedan
we got some nice rain down here in the Old Pueblo and it’s almost always welcome, although my sinuses will not benefit from it, the desert in the springtime can be quite pretty and with as wet as the winter has been, the likelihood of a spectacular wildflower display is high.
like a lot of you, I too am filled with anger and disgust with how events are unfolding with our SCOTUS and how what is plainly obvious to us as we take what we’ve seen and what was said by those involved make their guilt problematic. The methods adopted by Trump and his argument that everything he did was part of his office are absolutely ludicrous and if he had any confidence in those positions, he would have used them up front post the election in 2020 and he instead planned and plotted a coup in the shadows.
glc
It’s a position. One of two, really. It might be time to reread the letter from Birmingham jail.
There were two sides to that type of argument then (as the letter very clearly acknowledges; the man felt a real need to explain himself) and there are two sides now, and very likely at every point in between, in one respect or another.
This actually strikes me as more or less the ideal time for a protest vote, unless you’d prefer they do it in November.
Sure Lurkalot
I assume Kyle ordered breakfast from the room service menu…I’ve stayed in a boatload of hotels and have yet to see one without prices. At $1000/night minimum, the clientele does not ask or care?
Suzanne
As for the stupid room service bill….. what grown-ass adult drinks orange juice? Especially with a meal. Especially for $14.
HumboldtBlue
@Omnes Omnibus:
We were doing a speed march from one training range to another, about 2:30 in the afternoon at Fort Benning, sun is a mutha, humid, post-lunch, been going hard since wake-up at 4:30.
A squad mate ahead of me suddenly wandered off the track into the woods, mumbling to himself. We had him in the back of a bobtail within a few minutes with ice under his armpits, his groin and on the back of his neck and then headed to the emergency room which was a long way off.
I still remember the face on two little boys when we got to the doors of the emergency room and got him onto a gurney.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: I often drink orange juice. With breakfast. I do draw the line at room service breakfast prices though.
ETA: We already covered this. Grown ass adults get to have ice cream cones when they want. They can also have fucking orange juice for breakfast.
eclare
@Suzanne:
I like orange juice occasionally, and I only buy the good, expensive fresh squeezed stuff, no Tropicana.
I would prefer a really good orange, but they haven’t been good (at least the ones for sale in my store) for a few years. They are way too pithy and dry. Florida must have had some bad growing seasons.
eversor
As a now pro Christian. Trump 2024, JD Vance for senate leader! More judges for Leo. Let’s have us some Jesus!
wjca
I understood your point. And agreed with it. But I gave in to temptation. Mea culpa!
Urza
Heh, first time I saw the pie filter in action. Thats good.
eversor
@Omnes Omnibus:
corporate card!
Suzanne
@Omnes Omnibus: Orange juice makes everything taste like orange! You can’t taste anything else! It’s weird with a meal!
As a thing by itself, yummy.
eclare
@HumboldtBlue:
Fort Benning? That march must have been brutal.
Doc Sardonic
@Suzanne: As a Florida native, orange juice is for Screwdrivers and Mimosas and other adult libations. If you pair it with a good wheat beer (not that Shocktop mule piss), it is good for a shandy.
Citizen Alan
@eversor: Yawn
wjca
This one drinks orange juice for breakfast routinely. The habit of 3/4 of a century, and not likely to change. “There is no life before orange juice.”
But at $14, I definitely would be getting it somewhere else.
Suzanne
@eclare: I love oranges. I don’t juice them, usually. Just chow down.
Omnes Omnibus
@Suzanne: No one is forcing you to have it.
RaflW
My partner is not one to get up fast in the mornings. So when we travel, he gets room service! Because I go get the included Hampton breakfast buffet items and bring ’em back to the room. I should start charging him $19.20 for it, though. Cover charge & gratuity. :)
Suzanne
@Doc Sardonic: Agree. I don’t think I’ve had orange juice except in a cocktail since I was a kid.
I just…. eat oranges.
AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team
@BretH: so there’s hope for my 23-yr old? Maybe she’s already more level-headed on this than I fear, but she has been pissssed about Gaza. Very rightly so.
AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team
Am I the only one thinks a BJ Discord could be fun, if well moderated and not a pain for WG or Cole or any other front-pagers?
I just miss you all, living alone as I do (:
Doc Sardonic
@eclare: Not enough cold weather. Contrary to popular belief oranges need weather in the range just above freezing to sweeten. Given also our wet season is now coming earlier it is not the best thing for citrus.
eclare
@RaflW:
Make it easy on him, round up to an even $20.
RaflW
@Chacal Charles Calthrop: True. But billionaires have gamed what counts as charity.
eclare
@Doc Sardonic:
The lack of good oranges has been noticeable the past couple of years. Thanks for the info.
HumboldtBlue
@eclare:
Yes, hot as hell, and by the time we had finished training and were lining up to get on
busescattle cars and go back to the barracks at Harmony Church, it would rain. A cloudburst, maybe some thunder and then rain just long enough to get your gear filled with sand and clay and drench you so that in the 100 percent humidity you couldn’t dry off.Omnes Omnibus
@AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team: There is plenty of discord here.
Betty Cracker
@Suzanne: As a thing with prosecco, even better! 🥂
Ksmiami
@TeezySkeezy: I’m ready to rip the Court to shreds. Brick by brick. It’s a failed institution that needs to die
eclare
@HumboldtBlue:
Ugh. I’ve been to Columbus a few times, and you could tell it has a horrible climate.
Omnes Omnibus
@HumboldtBlue: What time of year were you there? I was there from March to late June for OCS and then in early December for jump school. It was more pleasant in December.
Matt McIrvin
Hmm, is there some kind of bug that breaks the pie filter if a commenter changes the capitalization pattern of their name (making them un-pied, but impossible to pie until you delete the old filter entry)?
Just asking for no particular reason.
HumboldtBlue
@Omnes Omnibus:
Mid-June thru August in summers of ’84 and ’85 for PANG. I was supposed to go to jump school in December of ’85, but life happened.
Two years later, I was in the Air Force. If I remember correctly, the AF recruiter took me as non-prior service because I hadn’t accrued enough time of service with the Guard. Two years into my enlistment, I got a very large paycheck. It was back pay because I WAS an E-3 in the Guard. I never did understand how that happened.
Another Scott
@Brachiator: Yup. Not even 15% (without including the tax).
Everyone knows that room service is expensive.
Why doesn’t he go to the New York Cafe in Budapest and complain that his “NY” hamburger and fries cost $2245 + $25 = $2270 (with roundtrip airfare).
🤡
Cheers,
Scott.
Omnes Omnibus
@HumboldtBlue: If it makes you feel any better, I went from Benning in late June to Sill in July. Sill has a lot of skunks.
TeezySkeezy
@Ksmiami: By legal means of course. Everyone is angry these days but we must uphold civility.
schrodingers_cat
@Matt McIrvin: Yes I have noticed that too. Its super annoying. It probably is an easy fix if WG has the source code.
HumboldtBlue
@Omnes Omnibus:
I hired a young high school kid as a stringer for the sports desk many years ago, and I became friends with his dad, Scott Gourley, another Redleg who had nothing good to say about Sill.
Ksmiami
@TeezySkeezy: of course- but that institution has played out. It’s now an anti-democratic disgrace
TeezySkeezy
@Matt McIrvin: Nice! I actually do like peach pie the best though.
CaseyL
I’ve always been big on water, possibly got it from my Mom who is as well. My aunt (Mom’s sister) did not get that memo, and has never liked to drink plain old water. Has to be some kind of flavoring in it, even if only a lemon slice.
It’s nice, to be at the age where doctors start to ask about hydration, that I already have that habit ingrained.
stacib
@Omnes Omnibus: Sometimes, your sense of humor really cracks me up.
Leto
@AJ of the Mustard Search and Rescue Team: yes, having a BJ Discord (already horrible name btw) is a bad thing for a community like this. You don’t need an entirely separate site for communications, as well as having double moderations duties. They’re not paid enough to moderate this place as it is. The user base here already bitches endlessly if you have more than one thread “up” at a time. “How am I suppose to keep track of two things/conversations at once?” Threaded comments? Same argument.
And I’m a heavy disco user myself, so already know the pains of moderation of a large user base on one. If you miss us so much, participate more here.
eclare
@CaseyL:
My dad asked me once why I liked water so much, and I replied that I don’t even think about it. I prefer it with ice, but no flavoring needed.
He had some health problems later in life, and I always wondered if they could be related to dehydration. He occasionally drank a Gatorade after mowing the yard, but he never drank water.
TeezySkeezy
@Ksmiami: Scotus is an anti democratic institution but the problem it presents must be solved democratically. Express your anger. I do. But if we veer into destructive talk it isn’t going to do us any good. At best it doesn’t help and at worst it gives excuses.
Memory Pallas
@Memory Pallas:
Some how I managed to delete my comment at 11, which said that the Carlyle guest didn’t even tip 15% ( though he was close.)
Sure Lurkalot
@eclare: Same in my neck of the woods, the navel type oranges are awful. Thick skin, small dry fruit, no taste.
I have been buying mandarins and they been pretty good.
Leto
@Omnes Omnibus: @HumboldtBlue: the Air Force had a few deaths in basic due to water intoxication, aka the kids drank too much water. I remember with the first death, the kid had had about 13 canteens of water. The TI didn’t recognize what was happening. Heatstroke played a role as well. Lackland in the summer time is close to Arabian Peninsula conditions.
And because I took the Google trip down memory lane about this, saw that around the same time (1999) that an Army basic trainee also died of the same thing. Heat’s such a dangerous thing for all of us.
Jay
@Sure Lurkalot:
I go with Minneola’s when they are available. They are a “Tangelo”, half orange, half tangerine.
Purdy’s used to have candied Seville orange slices dipped in dark chocolate, but they haven’t been able to get quality Seville’s in years.
Frankensteinbeck
I’m confused. Are the Michigan primary results still good news for John McCain?
TeezySkeezy
@Frankensteinbeck: yes.
Sister Golden Bear
@wjca: I’m sure it was on an expense account. Which makes the performative poutrage all the more silly.
Michael Bersin
“…Maybe Gingrich….”
Wait, isn’t his mistress from his second marriage the former U.S. Ambassador to the Holy See?
NotMax
Speaking of things orange-y, anyone else remember Carnation Instant Breakfast?
The orange flavor (IMHO) violated several tenets of the Geneva Conventions.
The Golux
I actually think back fondly to the days (2016) when McConnell was easily the most malevolent shitstain among Congresscritters, but now, honestly, he couldn’t make the top (bottom?) twenty, what with Gaetz, Greene, Boebert, Ron Jonson, Cruz, Desantis, Gym Jordan…..
Also, when I hear the term “movement conservative”, my reaction is that they left out “bowel”.
TeezySkeezy
@eversor: dude (or dudette), *I* don’t even like you. Normally I would recommend solidarity among outcasts but…no, I will face this place alone no solidarity GFYS. (Also to the code jockeys, why is that 1. Down there i cannot delete it.)
Leto
@NotMax: they had an orange flavor? I remember the vanilla and chocolate. I opted for the vanilla because the chocolate was chalk like. Ick.
NotMax
When you spoke earlier of buying glasses suited to serving up old-fashioneds, meant to link something tuneful and plumb forgot.
Now rectifying that omission.
;)
HumboldtBlue
Clarence is upset with Dadimir Putin. Again.
teezyskeezy
@NotMax: You certainly muddled things. ;-)
(i’d joke about ducking but ’round here, not me. I just stand and take it.)
teezyskeezy
@The Golux: I feel like it’s always been just as focused on destroying democracy, but they just didn’t have the autocratic figurehead before. They were searching, searching, lusting for a king. Now they are good. He’s brought them into focus.
HumboldtBlue
If you’ve never seen an emu getting slapped, well, meet Kevin.
prostratedragon
@eclare: Try Minneola tangelos, if you can get them. Last year was apparently a vintage year, but even this year they average much better than most oranges. I eat one or two daily insread of juice.
NotMax
@HumboldtBlue
The late Rod Hull, “How to Groom an Emu.”
;)
Matt McIrvin
Yes… the pie filter is actually case-sensitive but the UI for it thinks it is case-insensitive and won’t let you pie differently capitalized versions of the same name, meaning that anyone can trivially evade it and become un-pieable by changing around the capitalization of their name, and we have a commenter who has figured out this bug and is gaming it. Needs fixing one way or another.
teezyskeeyz
@Matt McIrvin: Hi. wasn’t on purpose. Sorry. It really wasn’t. I mean it.
edit: and it wasn’t even a capitalization thing I just misspelled my nymn. Sorry, man, for real. I don’t want to subject you to my cold harsh self if you don’t like it. I’m really sorry.
frosty
@Omnes Omnibus: @HumboldtBlue: I think my son was at Sill in the summer too, PA National Guard. He’s never said anything about it, which may say all that needs to be said.
Chetan Murthy
@rmjohnston: I think it’s a fine thing, but I’d note that back when we taxed ’em heavily, we could afford to have low college tuitions. In France, public medical schools don’t charge tuition. Getting rid of that taxation, and in exchange having richies endow and otherwise subsidize our educational institutions, is sort of like how Libertarians societies argue that the government doesn’t need to provide redistributionist welfare: instead, private orgs/individuals can provide charity.
eclare
@HumboldtBlue:
Hahaha…poor Clarence
VFX Lurker
I’ve gotten good at skipping over posts with variations of that commenter’s name, even if that commenter is sometimes slipping past the pie filter.
HumboldtBlue
@NotMax:
It’s always da feet.
eclare
@prostratedragon:
I’ll look for those, thanks!
feebog
The words John Cole and biking should never be in the same sentence. Same for mopping.
teezyskeeyz
@VFX Lurker: Sorry, but I feel like powers that be saw I just misspelled my name and let my comments through and it messed everyone up. I do truly apologize. For real. If people are that insistent about not listening to me, they should be allowed that. Please accept my apology.
edit: I really am sorry.
teezyskeeyz
Switching back to THE CORRECT SPELLING NOW, you all…3. 2. 1….
teezyskeezy
Pie mode again. Hi. This is the real me who disagrees with you and clearly you can disagree and we can still talk. great.
edit: Obviously not everyone just read that, lol.
wjca
“private orgs/individuals can” Can — but mostly don’t, here in the real world. Which is the core problem with Libertarians’ “solutions” to perceived problems in the world.
And since real people don’t behave like Libertarians’ ideal type, taxation, and government, is necessary. Unless you want to live in Somalia. And if you do, feel free to go there. Enjoy!
terben
@HumboldtBlue: Not an expert, but have seen a lot of emus. And that’s not one. Kevin is a Rhea, I believe.
teezyskeezy
So, Phoenix… (I had reason for this post but it vanished…so just posting a filler).
Mike E
@feebog: heh… Subaru + field
JWR
@teezyskeezy:
Not only do they now have their autocrat, but a quite effective autocratic demagogue, to boot.
@VFX Lurker:
And much easier, now that the commenter in question has taken to posting brief, trollish comments, instead of diatribes. I say “trollish”, because said commenter isn’t very good at playing that “fun” little game.
NotMax
@Mike E
Can’t pin that outcome on Cole, he lent the car to a fraternity bro.
teezyskeezy
@JWR: Really…? Like…that was extra mean. Meanie. You’re a meanie.
JWR
@teezyskeezy: I’m a meanie? No, you’re the meanie! Are you you, or is this the you who isn’t you being you? Wait a minute, you’re not the “commenter in question” from a few comments before this one? I demand a reply! /meanie /
PS. Wait, did you think I was referring to you in my “commenter in question” comment? I wasn’t. VFX Lurker knows who I mean.
teezyskeezy
@JWR: Oh I’m real don’t try to AI fluster me. I’m real and…dumb as hell.
teezyskeezy
@JWR: I think I am the commenter in question, actually. See, I’m not a troll. I’m a real boy. Just a shitty one, I guess.
JWR
@teezyskeezy: I’m real and…dumb as hell.
Now we know we have at least one thing in common! That’s progress, at least. ;)
teezyskeezy
@JWR: Like are you still trying to test whether I’m real or really trying to be a real human to another human? Hard to tell.
JWR
@teezyskeezy: I think I am the commenter in question, actually.
Nope, you’re not. Maybe it’s the aftereffects of today’s SC ruling. It was a rough day all around.
teezyskeezy
@JWR:OMG THEN WHO IS IT??? No one else but eversore? I even hate eversore!!!
Jay
@teezyskeezy:
it’s the one beginning with a e.
Shalimar
@teezyskeezy: I think Eversor used to be capitalized.
Chetan Murthy
@JWR:
I’m still angry AF about that.
JWR
@teezyskeezy: No, I thought you brought that up earlier, that a possible sock puppet might have hijacked your nym. But don’t worry. I think you’re real. Or as real as I am, anyway. ;)
JWR
@teezyskeezy: BINGO!
VOR
The problem posed by McConnell was that he was crafty and knew how to work the system. He could come up with semi-plausible excuses for his obstruction for the media. Many of the newer malevolent shitstains are just stupid, thus limiting the amount of damage they do. I think Tuberville could not have done his obstruction of military promotions without Mitch running interference.
HumboldtBlue
Ódiame
teezyskeezy
@Jay: Too silly. But don’t worry we can hone this.
teezyskeezy
@JWR: if it was eversore it wasn’t me. If it was close to my nymn…it’s possible it could have been me but also maybe not. I wouldn’t let “does it piss me off” be the decider, to be clear. I sent email to betty cracker to shut any alternate spellings down though.
Mostly I think it’s still me. I’m the [invective here]
JWR
@Chetan Murthy:
Same here. What I really wonder about now is how the vote will be split, and by how much. Should be a 9-0 ruling, but will probably be 8-1 or 7-2, but no worse than that last.
teezyskeezy
@Shalimar: Do I look like I care???
Chetan Murthy
@JWR: You’re much more optimistic than I. I figure they’ll find a reason to drag things out until after the election. If TFG wins, they’ll decide he’s immune (b/c hey, he’s King); if TFG loses, they’ll decide he’s not immune, b/c hey, might as well cut your losses and move on to the next asshole leader.
Either way, our institutions will have failed us again.
JWR
@teezyskeezy:
Well okay then. You are mostly you, (I think), and not the “commenter in question”. But I never thought you were the “commenter in question”. Honest!
But now that I think about it… ;)
JWR
@Chetan Murthy:
Do you mean by the way I think the vote will go? No worse than 7-2? Well okay, I’ll take 6-3 if that’s all I can get. Pessimistic enough?
;)
teezyskeezy
@JWR: I would just unleash an ever *sore* tirade right now if i felt confident about things, but I don’t. Just as a joke. But things aren’t funny that way right now.
For real, I’m in the dumps round here though and I respect that. but when I started getting shit about “evading” filters I felt sad. not a troll. not on purpose anyway…then realized, hey, maybe someone is f-ing with my name…
But also maybe people just actually hate me. I’m not likeable. Accepted.
JWR
@Chetan Murthy: Jessica Levinson said on TV that this is an easy case, and I’m hoping she’s right.
JWR
@teezyskeezy:
And I respect that, too. But just you watch, things will get better come election day. Be well!
teezyskeezy
@JWR: I’m fine. It’s not like that.
Jay
@teezyskeezy:
sometimes, this is a hard site, (comments wise) to navigate.
We don’t have threading, and not everybody “replies” to a comment, while replying to a comment.
When you “reply”, the nym that you are replying to shows up, click on the nym, and you get the comment they are replying to.
When they are just replying, ???????? one is left guessing as to which comment, often not even yours, they are replying to.
Not everybody uses the // snark tag,
And we have wits here, pendants and grammar police.
Sometimes, a thick skin is needed.
JWR
@teezyskeezy: Okay, that’s good to know. Peace out!
AlaskaReader
@RaflW: Billionaires aren’t the only ones, add some churches and some non-profits to your list of those ‘gaming’ what counts as charity.
JWR
Colbert was pretty good tonight, but no mention of the SC granting cert in the immunity case. Maybe his guest, Chris Hayes, will be a bit more up to date on that.
ETA And right off, Chris Hayes brought it up.
a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)
@Ladyraxterinok: He was world-famous in his day. When he was in exile in France, he was so highly respected by the French some wanted to elect him President.
sab
@Suzanne: I haven’t liked orange juice since my mom gave it to me when I was a sick five year old, coming down with what turned out to be mumps. Oranges and mumps don’t mix.
Spent my elementary school years in Florida hating orange juice. That was weird.
sab
@TeezySkeezy: You are aware that Omnes doesn’t use the pie filter?
Paul in KY
@HumboldtBlue: Pete did it in 3 years, with no 3 pointer and with fewer games played. That being said, LSU was completely run as the ‘Pete Show’ and winning or losing games was secondary to Pete doing his thing. Plus the game was faster paced back then.
Uncle Cosmo
@Jay: Hey, o/t – Now that I have your detention, got an issue you (and other GN2TH [Good Neighbors To The North]) might be able to help me with:
I am shedjeweled ;^D to attend a wedding in Banff in mid-June. I take it the best way to get there is by air to Calgary then shuttle to the park. Moving on, since I’ve never before been to that part of the whirled, I’m contemplating rail to Vancouver, then Seattle, Portland, and eventually FranSan via Amtrak, and fly home. Looks like the second outbound leg (Jaspers??-Vancouver) is limited to really pricey tourist trains. Any advice for websites to search, transport, accommodations, restaurants or sights would be depreciated. ;^D (If you care to back&forth on e-mail I give the FPers leave to release my address to yinz. Thanx in advance!)