This is how Rosie sleeps every day- right smack dab in the middle of the carpet, with her eyes open, and she won’t move if you need to walk somewhere:
I’m pretty sure if she dies in her sleep I won’t notice for two days.
by John Cole| 38 Comments
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This is how Rosie sleeps every day- right smack dab in the middle of the carpet, with her eyes open, and she won’t move if you need to walk somewhere:
I’m pretty sure if she dies in her sleep I won’t notice for two days.
by John Cole| 84 Comments
This post is in: Dolt 45, Clown Shoes
You can’t make this shit up:
Here's a photo of Ty Cobb & John Dowd casually & loudly discussing details of Russia investigation at @BLTSteakDC while I sat at next table. pic.twitter.com/RfX9JLJ0Te
— Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) September 18, 2017
Mr. McGahn supports cooperation, but has expressed worry about setting a precedent that would weaken the White House long after Mr. Trump’s tenure is over. He is described as particularly concerned about whether the president will invoke executive or attorney-client privilege to limit how forthcoming Mr. McGahn could be if he himself is interviewed by the special counsel as requested.
The friction escalated in recent days after Mr. Cobb was overheard by a reporter for The New York Times discussing the dispute during a lunchtime conversation at a popular Washington steakhouse. Mr. Cobb was heard talking about a White House lawyer he deemed “a McGahn spy” and saying Mr. McGahn had “a couple documents locked in a safe” that he seemed to suggest he wanted access to. He also mentioned a colleague whom he blamed for “some of these earlier leaks,” and who he said “tried to push Jared out,” meaning Jared Kushner, the president’s son-in-law and senior adviser, who has been a previous source of dispute for the legal team.
After The Times contacted the White House about the situation, Mr. McGahn privately erupted at Mr. Cobb, according to people informed about the confrontation who asked not to be named describing internal matters. John F. Kelly, the White House chief of staff, sharply reprimanded Mr. Cobb for his indiscretion, the people said.
Obligatory:
by David Anderson| 41 Comments
This post is in: Open Threads, OLD MAN YELLS AT CLOUDS
A horrific forecast:
NHC now expects #Maria to approach Dominica tonight as a Cat 4, and strengthen to near Cat 5 before landfall in USVI/PR pic.twitter.com/XKvGg14Sx4— Eric Holthaus (@EricHolthaus) September 18, 2017
For those in the Caribbean, be careful.
For everyone, review your response plan just in case.
This post is in: Hail to the Hairpiece, Open Threads, Popular Culture, Ever Get The Feeling You've Been Cheated?
'9 to 5' stars @LilyTomlin and @Janefonda took a jab at Trump while presenting at the #Emmys (WATCH) https://t.co/YzL89yEdfp pic.twitter.com/9Ho5gXg1Me
— Variety (@Variety) September 18, 2017
Except…
enjoying all these awards for Resisting Trump Bravely With Art after the show asked us to laugh with Sean Spicer
— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) September 18, 2017
Did you catch @seanspicer's cameo at the #Emmys? Relive the bizarre moment (WATCH) https://t.co/LWXKfTS2VK pic.twitter.com/4W5SvT2wa3
— Variety (@Variety) September 18, 2017
Colbert, per NYMag:
…— “And we all know the Emmys mean a lot to Donald Trump. Because he was nominated multiple times for Celebrity Apprentice but he never won. Why didn’t you give him an Emmy? I tell you this. If he had won an Emmy, I bet he wouldn’t have run for president. So in a way this is all your fault.”
— “I thought you people loved morally compromised antiheroes. You like Walter White. He’s just Walter Much Whiter.”…
Remember how #SNL let Trump host during the primaries, but then became The Resistance bc Kate McKinnon played "Hallelujah"
— Dave Weigel (@daveweigel) September 18, 2017
Hillary's supposed to go away but Spicer helped further the agenda of a sociopath and he's booked on awards shows. Okay. #Emmys
— shauna (@goldengateblond) September 18, 2017
Congrats to @seanspicer for his new job as the punchline to an unfunny joke
— Dan Pfeiffer (@danpfeiffer) September 18, 2017
everyone who had a hand in bringing spicer on stage should be deeply, profoundly embarrassed
— Ashley Feinberg (@ashleyfeinberg) September 18, 2017
I wonder if it even occurred to anyone at the Emmys that Spicer might be a bad idea. Was it an edgy choice or a haha no-brainer to them?
— Nathaniel Friedman (@freedarko) September 18, 2017
Power is all about who gets forgiven. Who gets fresh starts.
— Chris Hayes (@chrislhayes) September 18, 2017
I know people who were offered opportunities to lie for Donald Trump and quietly declined.
Harvard & The Emmys calling the wrong folks
— Tim Miller (@Timodc) September 18, 2017
Really, I think the bigger problem is the TV industry is still benefitting financially from the monster they had a huge hand in creating.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 18, 2017
Reality TV created a fictional, competent Trump that he was then allowed to perform on news programming. And that's a systemic breakdown.
— Schooley (@Rschooley) September 18, 2017
Trump believes TV producers better understand the public than what’s reflected in polls, according to @TuckerCarlson https://t.co/bJH2MrCaIU pic.twitter.com/Y6W3motq4V
— Michael Calderone (@mlcalderone) September 17, 2017
the year is 2028. Spicer now edits The Atlantic & Seb Gorka has a 9:00pm show on MSNBC. The GOP candidate for President is a noose. It wins.
— sunny weather haver (@haircut_hippie) September 18, 2017
by David Anderson| 48 Comments
This post is in: Anderson On Health Insurance, Organizing & Resistance
One last push, two more weeks, thirteen more calls to make to protect that ACA and our vision of a just society.
Right now Cassidy-Graham is chugging along with the hope that the need to do SOMETHING means that the last bill standing is SOMETHING.
We can do something about it.
Call your Senators today. If you are from North Carolina, Florida or the Upper Midwest, tell your Senators that you don’t want your state to get whacked to reward Texas’ intransigence. If you are not from those states, ask your Senators to vote for Alexander-Murray as the only health care bill.
Call your Governors as they would be handed an incredible mess.
Call…
by Alain Chamot (1971-2020)| 22 Comments
This post is in: On The Road, Open Threads, Readership Capture
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Today, pictures from valued commenter ?BillinGlendaleCA.
The Getty Villa
J. Paul Getty was one of the richest men in the world in the 60’s and 70’s(he died in 1976), making his fortune in oil. He had a ranch house along the Pacific coast at the border of Malibu and Pacific Palisades that over looked the Pacific Ocean. He had amassed quite a large art collection so he opened a gallery adjacent to his home in 1954. This gallery began to run out of space so he commissioned a new museum modeled after the Villa of the Papyri at Herculaneum. This new museum opened in 1974(Getty never visited it since his primary residence was in England). It was a pretty big draw when I was in high school, but I never visited. After Getty’s death, his will created the J. Paul Getty Trust with an initial endowment of $600 from his estate. The Villa, though it had just opened was already running out of space; so they planned and eventually built a new museum complex in the west LA community of Brentwood(it took about 20 years due to NIMBY). With the new complex in place the entire collection was moved there and the Villa was remodeled to provided for a home for the Greek, Roman, and Etruscan antiquities as well as additional parking, an amphitheater(which also serves as the museum entrance), and seismic reinforcement. The Villa was reopened it 2006. We’ve been planning a trip to the Villa with a friend, but complications in schedules made it difficult; so I decided to try to get there myself via rail/bus. The journey took a while but was pretty easy to get there.
There are no fisheye pics here because I didn’t get the fisheye lens until later in the months; this trip probably encouraged me to get it.
View from the southern edge of the outer peristyle.
Taken on 2016-08-05
Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA
The Villa has two paristyles, one is the inner peristyle to the north which is surrounded by the museum galleries and the outer peristyle(towards the ocean) which is south of the main museum building. The outer peristyle surrounds formal gardens with a long pool(we still had water restrictions due to the drought so there was no water in the pool).
Outer peristyle in infrared.
Taken on 2016-08-05
Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA
Pretty much the same view as above but taken with my near infrared camera.
Outer peristyle from the second floor of the museum.
Taken on 2016-08-05
Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA
If you look close you can see the Pacific ocean above the trees at the right and center right.
Same view as above but in infrared.
Taken on 2016-08-05
Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA
This is an infrared view of the previous photo. I’ve added some red to the roof to give it a more realistic feel. As I was writing this up, the original photo looked really bad, the red was badly drawn in; my Photoshop skills have improved a bit since I did the initial conversion, so I redid the roof color.
Tile mosaic.
Taken on 2016-08-05
Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA
This was a floor mosaic from a Roman home.
Hail Caesar!
Taken on 2016-08-05
Getty Villa, Pacific Palisades, Los Angeles, CA
Bust of Emperor Augustus.
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I have updated the Trump-as-Toddler page again. Now up to 97 tweets. https://t.co/UkiOXdmADw
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) September 18, 2017
As I mentioned Sunday morning, I’ve got an old friend visiting from out of town, so my participation here is liable to be (even more!) spotty and unreliable this week. Think of it as a chance to rack up some TBogg comment units (500+ on a thread), and to read some of the longer projects available:
I'll believe that Trump is growing into the presidency when his staff stops talking about him like a toddler. https://t.co/yAZg1uZnpy pic.twitter.com/o8UltcVhda
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) April 25, 2017
… The point of the [original April 25] tweet was to push back on the occasional impulse by Very Serious People to claim that some speech or act by Donald Trump proved that he was “growing into the presidency.” The hard-working staff here at Spoiler Alerts has been examining Trump’s words and actions for the 2016 presidential campaign and thought this was nonsense. Hence the tweet.
The thing is, it quickly became clear that the evidence that Trump was not growing into the presidency was hiding in plain sight. Barely a week or even a day could pass without someone with access to Trump telling the news media in no uncertain terms the ways in which he was unfit for office. So I decided to keep adding to the thread…
… While Twitter followers can find the thread when I add to it, the functionality of Twitter is not ideal for finding it. Therefore, I have decided to curate this thread here at Spoiler Alerts as well. Below are all the tweets in this thread, in order. Every week I will update this post to include any additional tweets…
One last point: All I’m doing is curating these stories. The real credit goes to the myriad reporters who have wrested these anecdotes and quotes from individuals who, in all likelihood, genuinely want this president to succeed. Yet, in their heart of hearts, they know that the commander in chief of America’s armed forces has the oppositional nature of a 3-year old…
Most recent, so far:
I'll believe that Trump is growing into the presidency when his staff stops talking about him like a toddler. pic.twitter.com/7UpFNposMa
— Daniel W. Drezner (@dandrezner) September 17, 2017
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Apart from being eternally grateful to the Republican Party for wishing this stunted monster on the rest of us, what’s on the agenda as we begin another (hopefully slow news) week?
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