Tropical Depression 9 is getting itself organized near Jamaica. Right now, all projections have it making landfall somewhere between central Louisiana and Mississippi by either Sunday or Monday. 18z models are tightly clustered on a track into south-central Louisiana, with a landfall Sunday into Monday. This would put NOLA, BR, and Lafayette at the greatest …
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Monday Morning Open Thread: Another Week Begins
Peter Doocy does not want you to retweet this video of the many times he has been humiliated by Jen Psaki, so you know what to do. #PsakiBomb pic.twitter.com/KIkmWm8Nc0 — MeidasTouch.com (@MeidasTouch) August 23, 2021 Once screened and cleared, we will welcome these Afghans to their new home in the United States with open arms. …
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Sunday Evening Open Thread: Look for the Helpers
For hours each day, these prison inmates make personalized quilts for children in foster care https://t.co/nfOwsP8ole — The Washington Post (@washingtonpost) August 18, 2021 We can be more than the sum of our worst days… Fred Brown was 25 years into a 15-years-to-life prison sentence when he discovered that he enjoyed cutting out fabric squares …
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Enough of the Bullshit
I’m stepping on Biden but I am het up enough I don’t care. Reading through the comments this morning, I am sick of some of the bullshit and venom a few of you are spewing. You’re trying your hardest to take a nice place and turn it into a fucking reddit/4chan forum, and I am …
Lazy, Hazy Days
Good evening from beautiful, smoky Sacramento. Where we have completely given up. We’re in day 3 or 9 million of smelling like burnt wood. The cats are in an advanced state of ennui. Plus side: It’s Stinky Pee Season! Minus side: It’s been years since I’ve seen a bottle of Tia Maria, the only acceptably …
Open Thread
Open thread. So… like me, you guys probably thought the meetup last night didn’t happen because PsyFighter was there for more than an hour and nobody showed. So we thought! Lurker Rob ActiveDad sent me a photo of the other Balloon Juice meetup at Whisky, Tango, Foxtrot in Denver last night. So sorry you guys didn’t connect! …
Denver Meet-Up: Wednesday, 6pm MDT, Whiskey Tango Foxtrot Patio
Latest note from PsiFighter37: Friendly reminder: going to do a meet up on Wednesday 8/18 at Whiskey Tango Foxtrot at 6pm local time in Denver. No reservations, but they say they have plenty of patio space, both upstairs and downstairs. See y’all there! Not a drinker, but if I were in the Denver area, I’d …
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