Fell asleep in my chair and went to bed, woke up and couldn’t sleep, so I checked the website and it has been unattended for hours. There is no chance in hell I am wading into those other threads, so here is a fresh one for you. I apologize for leaving you alone for so long:
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Joseph Nobles
Well, thank goodness. ;-)
Yatsuno
O hai! We’re just beating each other up down below. Pay us no mind.
Big R
The first rule of Open Thread is that you do not talk about Open Thread.
Biff Longbotham
On the way in to work I listen to Limbaugh for the comedic value, and lemme tell you, he didn’t disappoint. He had the gall to say that Obama has had an easy time of it in life, he has had “the skids greased” for him. Thinking of Shrub almost made me rear end the person in front of me at the light.
The Dangerman
I just figured it was another shutdown. Or at least a slimdown.
Tommy
My dad was over the other day. He brought his car over, the one he loves. A ’57 Ford Thunderbird. He asked my mom to marry him in it, like 59 years ago. Later found that darn car and bought it!
We head out to eat and he is so proud. He went to Best Buy and got a CD player put into the car.
Music playing, which is so rare for my father ….
I think I said, “hey dad, are you listening to Miles Davis?” He then went on this story telling of how he’d listened to Miles live with his father, an amazing story. I am like “dude you know I love Miles Davis, didn’t know you listened to him.” I reached over and cranked that stereo and we ran down that road listening to Miles and were happy.
MoeLarryAndJesus
I blame Obama.
Wait, what?
Villago Delenda Est
@Tommy:
Oh, now that’s a good story!
Jane2
I crossed the border earlier and the US guard said his leave was cancelled and no one was getting paid. He let me rant about politicians who shut down a government and leave workers stranded…for a border patrol agent, that is astounding. Pissing off voters who might naturally gravitate to conservative candidates has consequences…I hope.
Villago Delenda Est
@Jane2:
Was the guard specific about which politicians were to blame?
It does no good to cast a pox on both sides. There is one side, and one side only, that is to blame for this mess. Hint: Nancy Pelosi is not on the side to blame.
NotMax
(Best Muppet Animal voice)
Fresh thread! Fresh thread!
Tommy
@Villago Delenda Est: As a kid I only had access to 8-tracks. Jim Corce. John Denver. And the “Man In Black.” Cash was the shit. I am so not hip but that man rocks.
Loneoak
@The Dangerman:
Nice try, but we all know Cole won’t slimdown any time soon. (Me neither, fwiw.)
badjim
I’d comment, but I’m afraid of falling afoul of Cole’s Law.
NotMax
@Tommy
Back in the Stone Age, worked at a summer camp. One of the vans used to transport the little
monstersdarlings on special trips and such had an 8-track.One day, the owner of the camp was at the wheel, driving a full load of campers somewhere or other, and put in a tape.
Within seconds, cries of “Put on something good! Change the tape! Get rid of that!” rang out.
The owner, still barreling along at highway speed, calmly reached over, popped the tape out, rolled down the window and tossed out the tape.
No one ever complained about the musical choices being played again.
amk
If only boner would follow cole’s example.
Omnes Omnibus
@badjim: I like the mustardy cole slaw in Memphis.
NotMax
Someone at the National Weather Service has a nicely honed sense of humor.
Who knew?
wasabi gasp
Cruz on fire.
NotMax
Couple of off the beaten track stories.
FBI hauls in a digital stash.
A whole ‘nother version of The Sting.
wasabi gasp
Lick a road.
badjim
I love sauerkraut and cooked cabbage, but for some reason fresh cabbage fills me with dread straight out of Lovecraft. I’ll happily eat hot sausages with peppers and savor the ensuing fiery eruptions, I’ll cheerfully rationalize a bit of gastroesophageal reflux after a hearty meal of spaghetti, but somehow the tasteless burps I get from raw cabbage horrify me.
TheOtherWA
Those wasps sound nasty. It’s beginning to look as if Mother Nature might be a wee bit annoyed with us human types. Ever heard of the Lone Star tick? The bite can turn you into a vegan. Srsly!
http://america.aljazeera.com/articles/2013/10/3/the-tick-that-canturnitsvictimsvirtuallyvegetarian.html
“This allergy is so weird,” she said. “It’s turned my life upside down.”
Doctors had misdiagnosed her early reactions as a stomach virus or the flu, but recent research has validated what her own research had already uncovered: Richey is living with an allergy to red meat, likely brought on by a tick bite she suffered barely a year ago.
TheOtherWA
I meant hornets. Those hornets sound nasty. The blog won’t let me edit my comment.
Tommy
@NotMax: My brother and I each year buy my parents satellite radio. They travel a lot and well, hearing the St. Louis Cardinals baseball game is key. I don’t know much of the music my dad listens to. I just found it strange he was listening to what I listen to. Small world.
Another Holocene Human
@badjim: raw cabbage contains a goitrigen that is destroyed during the fermentation process and also, I think, by cooking.
You would have to eat a lot of raw cabbage to develop a goiter, but if you were starving, and the cabbage was the only crop that made it that year….
TriassicSands
@Big R:
Of course, stating the first rule violates the first rule. One of life’s great mysteries.
Matt McIrvin
@Villago Delenda Est: Yeah, I really wouldn’t be surprised if, assuming this thing blows over without destroying the country, Democrats ultimately get blamed and it ends up being a political net gain for Republicans by November 2014.
WereBear
@Matt McIrvin: Maybe not this time.
I’ve seen previously “meh” people sit up and notice, and somewhat political people shooting fire from their eyes.
None of them are blaming the President or the Democrats.
kc
Steeeeeeeve!
Matt McIrvin
@WereBear: I’ve seen a lot of “dammit, those Washington politicians, you just can’t trust them” (which is always a pro-Republican sentiment in the long run, even if the person harboring it doesn’t realize it), and of course the conservatives I know are 100% blaming it on Democrats. The people excoriating the Republicans were all liberal-leaning in the first place. So it’s hard for me to judge whether this is moving the needle any.
Matt McIrvin
I heard that Governor Patrick was being interviewed on NPR or somewhere the other day, got the standard “but aren’t both sides to blame?” question and got to flat-out respond “NO! Both sides are NOT to blame.” Good to hear it once in a while.
Matt McIrvin
Polls seem to suggest that people are worried, but reactions are entirely partisan and probably aren’t moving the needle at all in terms of political alignment–this isn’t going to make Republicans any more or less popular:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/10/04/economic-confidence-shutd_n_4046099.html
Lynn Dee
How do you know if the site’s unattended? No new threads? Something else?