Define the danger. Preferably in political cliches, sports analogies and beltway dork speak. pic.twitter.com/hPdLQZaVIj
— Bob Schooley (@Rschooley) September 15, 2015
Mark Halperin, always lunging for that pinchbeck crown…
.@MarkHalperin Inspiring fear and hatred of immigrants is dangerous enough, don't you think?
— Tony Fratto (@TonyFratto) September 15, 2015
No further replies from Halperin, at least on the public Twitter. I’m assuming his response would run along the lines of “But the optics, Tony! Trump’s optics are reliably A+!”
I will say, for all his talents, Trump's imitations of @KarlRove & George F Will aren't that good.
— Mark Halperin (@MarkHalperin) September 15, 2015
OMG cable anchors & pundits wondering why Trump fans are cheering for a stump speech the anchors/pundits have heard before. #newtothem
— Mark Halperin (@MarkHalperin) September 15, 2015
I badly want to hand that man a drum major’s baton. Preferably one with a Loony Tunes lit fuse at the business end…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
and this one
only Bill Kristol is a surer omen of doom! Is this good news for Ted Cruz?
Thoughtful Today
PUKEFUNNEL!!!!
Major Major Major Major
You know you’re losing when you’ve won Mark Halperin! #losing
Jordan Rules
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Have mercy!! No for real! Someone have effin mercy.
Is he trying to convince himself??
Anne Laurie
@Major Major Major Major: Good to see you back!
(note: Forgive me if I’ve missed your comments on earlier threads… )
srv
Trump really owned it in Dallas tonight. He has a gravitas none of the other candidates have on stage and people really get it. No teleprompters, no academic bearing, just the real thing.
If it’s an act, someone should give him an Oscar.
Tommy
My mom is close to a life long Republican, well until Obama. It wasn’t Obama that made her change her vote, it was Palin. Mom felt she was shit all stupid. She didn’t want other people to think women were as dumb as Palin. Her vote was that darn simple!
I told her nobody thinks that as she runs elections in her district. Let me say that again, my mom runs elections in her district, she isn’t stupid!
It used to like pulling teeth to get my mom to talk to me about politics. Maybe it is generational. Just something you don’t talk about. I pushed her …….
Only recently since Trump has got poll numbers for weeks on end has she called ME to rant. She is livid.
If you have lost the 78 white lady you fucked up.
Omnes Omnibus
@srv: You’ve become completely silly. It is sad.
redshirt
@Omnes Omnibus: So many caricatures these days.
srv
The Ayatollah sends his latest threat.
Mike E
Srv:N²O
NotMax
Sign of the food fad times.
Took a stroll down the Halloween candy aisles at a big store the other day, just to see if there was anything new that caught the eye (no intention of buying anything – that’s for the day after Halloween, if at all).
Spied a colorful box with generic holiday cartoon figures. Big, bright, bold letters announcing Healthy! Gluten-free! Kids love ’em! (Also a calorie count per pack.) Quite pricey compared to the usual Halloween sweet fare.
The product contained little individual packs of cookies, in two flavors, proudly listed in colored blocks on the front.
Flavor 1: Oatmeal raisin. Pretty standard, even plebeian, right? No big surprise there, albeit kind of dull.
Flavor 2: Orange/Chocolate/Beet. Really, truly. All I could immediately muse was “An open invitation to having your house egged.”
Mike in NC
Halperin is perhaps the lowest of the bottom feeders this go-round. Gotta get that book out in 2017.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
I finally got tired of my own whining about all of my unfinished projects and picked this baby sweater back up. It turned out I was further along than I remembered, so hooray for that. Now I have to try to not think about my huge backlog of other UFOs, plus the stuff I want to make for my nieces and nephews for Christmas …
Suzanne
@NotMax: One year at Halloween, my mom was on a health kick. So she bought individual boxes of cereal for the trick-or-treaters. And it was shit like Rasin Bran, not even Cocoa Puffs or Froot Loops.
I told her that she deserved everything that happened to her house and that I wouldn’t help clean it up.
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
Mom spontaneously decided when I was maybe 11 or 12 that she’d knit me a sweater. Eventually finished it, by which time I was in grad school.
Sweater did fit her fairly well, though. :)
Major Major Major Major
@Anne Laurie: thanks! Good to be back in the land of the living, though I’m not out of the woods yet.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@NotMax:
IIRC, beet sugar is more common in processed food than cane sugar because it’s way cheaper to manufacture. Funny that they’re now packaging it as a “healthy” alternative when sucrose is sucrose is sucrose.
Also, too, turns out that the “something” behind the hysteria about HFCS is that fructose intolerance is more common than people realize, so consuming something that’s “high fructose” can cause nasty digestive symptoms in some people. However, evidence seems to show that it’s kind of like MSG — if you don’t have a specific sensitivity to that ingredient, it’s not going to do you any specific harm, though of course too much sugar of any kind is not healthy.
Cap'n Phealy
Someone get Trump a pi-ano, and have him play “Those Endearing Young Charms”. Problem solved. You’re welcome.
https://youtu.be/h1rXcm2mbKI
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
Whether or not the cookies contained any beet sugar, cannot say. What they were touting was beet flavor.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Major Major Major Major:
Hopefully your kitteh has been a good nurse during your convalescence. My late great Boris was a good nurse, but he did reach a point when I was laid up after knee surgery when he had to make it clear that I was disrupting his schedule and didn’t I have somewhere I should be other than his favorite spot on the couch?
NotMax
@Cap’n Phealy
A Private Snafu reference!
Anne Laurie
@NotMax:
Nah, probably just advertising that they were using “healthy” beets instead of Red Dye #whatever. Lots of pseudo-chocolate “organic” products use beets and/or carrots to get the proper dark-red-to-brown tone.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@NotMax:
Try eating a piece of a beet that’s been roasted, not pickled. What you’ll taste is sugar.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne (tablet): I’m so glad my generation of white people are over the msg hysteria thing. It affects like less than one percent of the population if not fewer than like fifty thousand. But now it’s so entrenched that no business would dare remove the No MSG Added sign for fear of Yelp death (although the wording on those signs should give you a hint as to what msg you know *is*)
Cat’s doing fine, managed to trick us into four meals yesterday though.
Mike E
I just made a batch of hummus using Alton Brown’s recipe that substitutes peanut butter(!) for tahini. Scrumptious.
kdaug
“And lo, the useless were useless still”
Sometimes I try to replace “Halpern” with “Ignasio”, just for fun. Maybe with a poncho/sombrero or something, thirsty in a desert.
But nope, he still ain’t interesting. Probably just me.
NotMax
@Anne Laurie
Believe this pic may be of the same company’s product.
They also apparently market these:
Lemon Broccoli cookies
Zucchini Gingerbread Carrot cookies
Banana Squash squares
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
Monosodium glutamate is just a beard.
What MSG really stands for is Makes Stuff Good.
;)
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Major Major Major Major:
It’s confirmed to be a migraine trigger for some people, and if you’ve never had a migraine before, it can freak you right the hell out, especially if you get some of the weirder symptoms like auras.
Still, it was pretty silly for people to decide that a food additive that had been around for at least a century was OMG POISON! because some people got migraines from it.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne (tablet): I’ve had migraines. I get them from chicken. Doesn’t mean I go around having every American-style restaurant take it off the menu in a fifteen-year full fledged panic and convince my friends it will kill them all.
Tommy
@Mike E: There is a happy thing in this comment. Have to try that.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@Major Major Major Major:
You clearly do t have any friends who have gotten really, really into things like the Paleo diet. Don’t you know that grains are POISON and they’re going to KILL US ALL!?!?
MSG is just another in the long series of food freakouts by Americans, but it scared people because it had a scienc-y name in the 1970s.
Tommy
@Mike E: I always felt a hit team was coming for me. Telling me I am doing it wrong>.
kdaug
@srv: Um, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SZW5dX4FsPk
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
Just for sh*ts and grins, look at the ingredients list and scan a few of the reviews at the link given above in #27.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
I’m desperately behind schedule on revising the novel. Working a dozen overtime shifts over the last six weeks was a large part of the problem, but I think they largely have their personnel problems behind them. I need to revise at least three chapters a day for the next week+ to meet deadline. I got my quota done for today.
When I got out of bed this afternoon, I found an email in my inbox asking if I could work Wednesday night training someone in. I’m mad at myself for saying yes.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne (tablet): fair point. They just aren’t assholes about it I guess. Oh, can I have the steak salad, and you can just give the cheese to M^4 here for his hamburger…
Now, acquaintances who do that shit, yeah. Got them. Lotta antivax overlap. Can’t consiser them friends I guess.
Major Major Major Major
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym: hang in there, as the kitten says. You got this!
Ruckus
@Major Major Major Major:
Good to hear.
NotMax
Upcoming at 6:30 a.m. Eastern, TCM is re-airing the 20th anniversary tribute to host Robert Osborne. Somewhere in it is a very short, very funny bit with him pretending to be soused while introducing a film of much less than stellar quality.
WaterGirl
@Major Major Major Major: Back in the land of the living is good. Does that mean you have had your surgery? I must have missed that.
Fred
Interesting that comments in this thread about Trump petered out at 19. Even srv, who is usually dogged, if as was noted silly gave up. Could this be a trend pointing to general boredom with the blathering clown? After the geek bites off the forty-first chicken head it stops being shocking. It seems shocking is all The Donald has got.
Thoughtful Today
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BERNIE BEATS
Genius.
:)
♫
(-:
magurakurin
@NotMax:
my thoughts exactly. Hallowen, or at least trick or treating for candy, is a form of blackmail initiated by children in the United States after the war. By the time I arrived on the scene in the late 60’s the candy companies had made a well established and acceptable practice. This hadn’t always been the case. But even in my era, cheaping out on Halloween candy definitely set you up for a bad night on Mischief Night the following year.
And seriously, people who give healthy shit to children on Halloween totally frickin miss the point of the whole damn thing. Candy, mutherfucker, do you have it!!!???? Apples, that ain’t no candy I ever heard of, say “healthy treat” one more time, I dare you, I double dare you mutherfucker, say “healthy treat” one. more. time!
BillinGlendaleCA
@magurakurin:
Wow, tough hood, must have kept the local dentists happy.
SRW1
@srv:
Gravitas?!
You wanna out-clown the uber clown, am I right? Gravitas is the last thing the audience looks for in a clown.
Thoughtful Today
“Define the danger. Preferably in political cliches, sports analogies and beltway dork speak. ”
———————–
Prescient 9/12.
9th down. 8th inning.
Synergistic political music…..
Just tune in…
BERNIE BEATS
♫
:)
Amir Khalid
@Thoughtful Today:
Dear God, that’s awful.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
Awful is not nearly a strong enough adjective. Deplorably odious and aurally noisome. Makes one long for Al Gore demonstrating the Macarena.
Thoughtful Today
hahahahahaha
You’ve crossed a line!
;)
Thoughtful Today
Amir, what did Gootube flow into?
i.e.
… What did Youtube queue into?
Amir Khalid
@Thoughtful Today:
???
Thoughtful Today
For me it queue’s into decent American folk music.
.my mmv (You’re countries mileage* may vary …
* should I calculate for metric?
Thoughtful Today
♫
^
What do you see?
What do you hear?
Another Holocene Human
@Tommy:
Trump is an old school Republican’s worst nightmare. The non-crooked ones.
The crooked ones hate him too because he stole their shtick and is running a cruder version of it. Actually, he’s killing their shtick.
raven
Joe has the nuts to rail AGAINST elites!
Another Holocene Human
@NotMax: I would defs eat orange+chocolate+beet, but not in cookie form. Sounds terribly sketchy.
This stuff is nothing new, remember those “frookies” from the 90s that were supposedly to be healthy cookies (not)?
Another Holocene Human
@Mnemosyne (tablet): Beet sugar turned sour for me when the beet sugar folks broke their contract with their workers in the midst of profits.
And the “something” is that a doctor did a very popular lecture posted to YouTube where he through innuendo and errors argued that HFCS is of the devil and causes metabolic disorder. The only actual point he had was that HFCS stabilized sweetener prices and made sweets cheaper.
The people that can’t stomach HFCS can’t even eat a strawberry either. I pity them. (I know because I went through a bout of it but fortunately got better.)
Another Holocene Human
@Major Major Major Major: Hmmm, you may be right about MSG, but 1/3 of the population is sensitive to sodium. I am one of them. It’s not a totally bad thing, in that I can adjust low blood pressure by ingesting table salt. However, if I ate one of those mid century East Asian meals with the Aji-no-Moto liberally applied I could get a raging headache and be wondering why.
Not from the tasty glutamate. From the sodium part.
kc
@srv:
LMAO!
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@srv: That’s a very annoying video (at least with the sound off, trying to read the subtitles). I only made it ~ 50% through.
Cheers,
Scott.
TerryC
@Mnemosyne (tablet): @Another Holocene Human: You would die, then after a single one of my meals :) I got acclimated to lots of salt as a kid and still do it – luckily, it does not affect my bp.
ellie
@NotMax: My mom began knitting a sweater for her first born son back in 1955. She finished it for his grandson a couple of years ago.