Tony and Maria Hovater were married this fall. They registered at Target. On their list was a muffin pan, a four-drawer dresser and a pineapple slicer.
[…]It was a weeknight at Applebee’s in Huber Heights, a suburb of Dayton, a few weeks before the wedding…
[….]In Ohio, amid the row crops and rolling hills, the Olive Gardens and Steak ’n Shakes, Mr. Hovater’s presence can make hardly a ripple. He is the Nazi sympathizer next door….
Nice polite Republicans
I love my local public radio station (WXXI, 88.5), and they do a very good job of covering local political issues. But…there’s no question that NPR’s political coverage is dogshit. They kow-tow Republicans because they’re afraid of getting accused of teh librul bias, and of getting their gubmint funding cut. Here’s the thing, though: 2% of their funding is federal, the other 98% comes from shmucks like you and me. So fuck Steve Inskeep with a rusty totebag:
Thanks, the reason I’d think that is because you literally linked your donation with a story coming out your way. That’s not what your donation is for. Ever. Thanks for the material; we’re exploring it and other information.
— Steve Inskeep (@NPRinskeep) November 25, 2017
Lethargic Saturday Open Thread
I think this guy is onto something:
Trump gets all the attention, but the most important thing happening right now is the global, simultaneous hijacking of media distribution by reactionary ideologues and bad-faith profiteers. https://t.co/2Q53k9kUgp
— Kevin Roose (@kevinroose) November 25, 2017
Booman calls our attention to a confession in plain sight by one of the Russian ideologues who allegedly played bad-faith profiteers to catapult a stooge into the Oval Office.
If these machinations are ever fully revealed and widely understood in their historical context, it will be simultaneously one of the most tragic and stupid scandals in US history. What credulous bumpkins so many of us are!
I’m going to shift gears to hang onto a semblance of normal life in these maddening times: It’s a perfect day for a BBQ in my neck ‘o the woods, so I’m off to the store to get supplies momentarily.
Today is Rivalry Day in college football. My crappy Gators are playing the perhaps equally crappy Seminoles at noon in the least consequential UF-FSU game in many years. Lots of better games on, but that’s what we’ll be watching first.
Hope you all are enjoying your weekend. Maybe it’s just me, but I feel like we’re reaching a tipping point, and perhaps soon, we American Juicers will have our own parts to play in trying to save our country. So rest up and get ready.
Russiagate Open Thread: Young Prince Jared Is Troubled
“Do you think they’ll get the President?” – Jared Kushner https://t.co/WVpnZaedgK
— Renato Mariotti (@renato_mariotti) November 22, 2017
And well he should be! Gabriel Sherman, at Vanity Fair, says “’Kelly Has Clipped his Wings’: Jared Kushner’s Horizons Are Collapsing within the West Wing”
… [I]t wasn’t long ago when Trump handed Kushner a comically broad portfolio that included plans to reinvent government, reform the V.A., end the opioid epidemic, run point on China, and solve Middle East peace. But since his appointment, according to sources, Kelly has tried to shrink Kushner’s responsibilities to focus primarily on the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. And even that brief appears to be creating tensions between Kushner and Kelly. According to two people close to the White House, Kelly was said to be displeased with the result of Kushner’s trip to Saudi Arabia last month because it took place just days before 32-year-old Saudi Crown Prince Mohammad bin Salman arrested 11 Saudi royals, including billionaire Prince Alwaleed bin Talal. The Washington Post reported that Kushner and M.B.S., as the prince is known, stayed up till nearly 4 a.m. “planning strategy,” which left Kelly to deal with the impression that the administration had advance knowledge of the purge and even helped orchestrate it, sources told me. (Asked about this, Sarah Huckabee Sanders responded, in part: “Chief Kelly and Jared had a good laugh about this inquiry as nothing in it is true.”)
Where this all leaves Kushner in Trump’s ever-changing orbit is a topic that’s being discussed by Republicans close to the White House. During Kelly’s review of West Wing operations over the summer, the chief of staff sought to downsize Kushner’s portfolio, two sources said. In the early days of the administration, sometimes with the help of a small cadre of Ivy League whiz kids who staff his Office of American Innovation, Kushner dreamed up scores of business “councils” that would advise the White House. “The councils are gone,” one West Wing official told me. With some of their purview being whittled away, “they seem lost,” the official added…
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Late Night “OhfortheloveofMurphy” Open Thread: Still in Contention for World’s SMALLEST Man
“President” of (what used to be) the world’s greatest power, and this is what obsesses him:
Time Magazine called to say that I was PROBABLY going to be named “Man (Person) of the Year,” like last year, but I would have to agree to an interview and a major photo shoot. I said probably is no good and took a pass. Thanks anyway!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) November 24, 2017
I got that same call! https://t.co/Do5I1g1KuV
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) November 24, 2017
Only way this could have been better is if he’d ended it with “Bite me!” instead https://t.co/GZuo2IRMuc
— Allahpundit (@allahpundit) November 25, 2017
The President is incorrect about how we choose Person of the Year. TIME does not comment on our choice until publication, which is December 6.
— TIME (@TIME) November 25, 2017
Huh. If this is true, it means the President wasn't telling the truth about a purely ego-driven issue that has nothing to do with protecting the United
— Tom Nichols (@RadioFreeTom) November 25, 2017
Have I pointed out recently that this is all the Republicans’ fault? Good job, GOP!
How many times has an organization had to fact-check the president of the United States this year? https://t.co/j4MwOCQ4Zi
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) November 25, 2017
Everything is Awful
Here are some pretty flowers my sister gave me yesterday:
They are in the crystal vase from the consignment shop I love in Wheeling, Sibs.
Washington Man: Getting Freaky On the Highway Edition!
Troopers arrest Washington State couple accused of having sex while driving, crashing car into a tree with their baby in the back seat https://t.co/XX4l69PjcB
— CBS 4 News (@kgbt) November 23, 2017
ELBE, Wash. (KOMO) – A naked man and woman were having sex in their car, while driving on State Route 7 with their baby in the back seat, when they crashed Wednesday night near La Grande, according to the State Patrol.
The crash happened around 6 p.m. in the 48400 block of Mountain Highway.
Troopers said the man was driving when he missed a curve, went off the road and crashed into a tree.
Witnesses told troopers both the man and woman were naked when they got out of the car. Troopers said they were also both impaired.
You’d expect this type of behavior to take place in Florida, and, historically, you’d be correct:
A couple seen having sex while driving on Interstate 95 followed a couple in another car who was watching them, eventually pulling a gun during a confrontation at a business, according to the Nassau County Sheriff’s Office.
Deputies said Louis Carr was in a car with his girlfriend and 3-year-old son driving north on I-95 at the Airport Road exit about 3:30 p.m. Sunday. They had left the Jaguars game early, and that’s when they say they saw Suzanne Welker giving Ernest Gonzales oral sex while Gonzales was driving a SUV.
“I pointed to my old lady. She looked across me about that time, she jumped up in the seat bare butt, mooned us through the window,” Carr said of the suspect.
While the couple was watching the suspects, they said Welker was trying to climb Gonzales’ lap, and she was naked and could be seen clearly by everyone in the area, deputies said.
Also, Wisconsin, wait, what?
A Wisconsin couple wasn’t going to let anything get in the way of their good time. Not even the beam of a police flashlight.
The man and woman were arrested Monday after being caught having sex in their car — and then refusing to stop.
According to the police report, Officer A. Westpfahl was called to Adams St. to investigate a report of someone suspiciously looking into cars. He didn’t find anyone, and began walking up to the home of the person who’d called 911 to talk to her.
As he approached her home, he said suddenly heard “what sounded like someone moaning.” Suddenly, the 911 caller called out from an open window on the second floor and said there were two people in front of her home having sex in a car.
At least the couple in Wisconsin were in a parked, though obviously not completely stationary, car.
Anyone else? Chicago, IL come on down! So to speak.
This whole thing gives new meaning to the term double airbags, 5th gear, and cruise control!
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