Freakin out in the ATL and closing shit down. I hope it doesn’t snow at all and they look like dorks again!
3.
JPL
All of our local schools have closed Tuesday and Wednesday in preparation for the weather. In other news there was a shooting in a Kroger’s. I can attest to the fact that the local grocery stores have been packed today so the shooting had to cause panic. Two ladies are in the hospital but are suppose to be fine.
4.
Amir Khalid
Don’t know what’s going on in ‘Merica, sorry. But I was in a supermarket (in KL) today, and this white dude walked by who bore a striking resemblance to The Blog Lord. About six feet tall, blond, glasses, not slim (ahem), rather casually dressed. Except he didn’t have the scraggly beard, just a vaguely stubbly chin. I know, it probably wasn’t him. But for a moment there …
5.
Betty Cracker
Staying with my mom, who is still in pretty bad shape, but there’s not a damn thing to be done about it at the moment. We’re watching curling on TV. WTF, curling? WTF?
Apparently, some “Forbes” lady wandered over to the corpse of “Time” to declare her freedom from having to date pesky liberal menfolk.
I’ve dated guys from a smorgasbord of racial and ethnic backgrounds, but that’s a separate matter. Unlike race, being liberal is a choice, just like being conservative is a choice. No baby pops out a liberal or conservative; it’s a state of mind he adopts later on. He may be conditioned from birth, but there comes a time when he chooses Chomsky over Hayek.
My political beliefs stem from data analysis, academic pursuits, and travels abroad. Plenty of my close liberal friends who have similar backgrounds come to polar opposite conclusions, and that’s dandy. But it doesn’t mean I want that cognitive processing around me 24/7 in the most intimate of unions. Tolerance does not equal tenderness. Romance is a union of body, mind, and soul, and when we’re out of sync on politics it’s a huge mental obstacle.
See what she did there? Hayek and Chomsky are concise counterpoints to one another! But hey, she’s been to a smorgasbord.
Looking at the weathers in my neck of the woods, it looks like we got a cold shit sandwich to eat tomorrow night, and then it gradually gets better until March. THANKS OBAMA!
Before she agrees to a date, they’re required to shout, “Stop raping people!” over the phone.
18.
Betty Cracker
@BGinCHI: I bet it would be fun to play it. Chess on ice? I don’t know about that. Shuffleboard on ice seems more like it. But you understand its mysteries better than I do, so I’ll defer to your greater knowledge on the issue.
19.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
speculation that this is rank opportunism aimed at being Charlie Crist’s running mate, but I don’t care
Former Florida Rep. Ana Rivas Logan announced her plans to leave the GOP and register as a Democrat, according to the Tampa Bay Times. “The GOP of today is not the party I joined,” she said. “It’s not the party of my parents. It’s a party that has been radicalized and held hostage by a group of extremists.” http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/florida-lawmaker-leaves-republican-party
20.
Corner Stone
@Soonergrunt: Heh. Maybe they hired the CGI contractors that did Healthcare.gov
21.
BGinCHI
@Trollhattan: I thought it might be “Be more like my father!” followed by “You can never be like my father!”
Mayoral election in San Diego tomorrow — progressive Alvarez vs. conservative, same-old-same-old, developer-backed Faulconer. Walked a precinct yesterday; will do the same tomorrow, doing knock & drag from about 2pm till about 7:30 (polls close at 8:00). Going to be very, very close.
We all have to put our feet on street. Every time. I do not particularly enjoy precinct-walking; I always hate it for the first 15 minutes, then get into a groove and it’s … well, not fun, but not so bad, either, and I find it enormously gratifying once it’s done. Thing is, it’s necessary. It makes a difference. And it’s something most of us can actually do.
And if you can’t, for whatever reason, you can volunteer in the campaign offices: data entry, putting polling-place stickers on thousands of door-hangers … they’ll find something for you to do.
And the precinct-walking experience has revealed a great window of opportunity: door-bell repairman. At least 40% of them don’t work. Now all I have to do is learn how to repair doorbells.
23.
Mike in NC
Attending a funeral in Charlotte, where they are expecting between 2 and 8 inches of snow in the next 48 hours.
24.
BGinCHI
@Betty Cracker: I got hooked when I lived in Toronto. It’s got slow rhythms but it’s a very cool sport once the strategy becomes clearer. Seriously.
Trade the broom for a mop, keep the jammies and ice and you’ve got yerself Cole’s perfect sport.
26.
Suffern ACE
@BGinCHI: The last 3-4 yards, when they’re sweeping like crazy and the stone starts changing direction and you wonder if it’ll hit or miss it’s resting spot are quite suspensful and instense, if you ask me. One of the more interesting 3 seconds in sports.
The LA story is that yesterday a suspected drunk driver went barreling the wrong way down the 60 freeway at 100MPH, plowed head-on into a pair of SUVs killing 6 people, including her sister. She survived with moderate injuries (I cannot imagine how given the photo). Today we learn she has a previous DUI conviction.
More trains, please. I’ve managed to successfully get from Times Square to Long Island, and also to Connecticut while blind drunk. Requires several trains, carries risks of getting on wrong train, getting robbed, falling on tracks, among others, but doesn’t carry the risk of killing innocent people.
32.
IowaOldLady
Mr IOL loves curling. He got hooked when we lived in Detroit and got Canadian TV.
But my dad was Canadian. He curled and so does my brother in MN.
Possibly, or else it was VA’s Domain Administration team
I’ve heard nothing but bad things about IT workers for the VA.
45.
Gene108
I think if we have a female Presidential nominee it has to be someone like Hillary Clinton, whose husband’s accomplishments will not be overshadowed by the lady becoming the first woman President.
Too many fragile male egos and some elderly conservative women’s egos that could not handle the change of a woman’s career out shining her husband’s career.
@BGinCHI: That is — by far — the funniest thing I’ve read in way too long. Should have been my line. My teeth, they gnash with envy.
47.
Goblue72
Starting the week worried about a GOP Senate. Tired of losing to these shitbags.
48.
MomSense
I took up tai chi recently and true to my type A personality keep pestering my teacher to show me the next postures. Apparently it is not a race or a competition and I am supposed to be patient and take my time. I have hated “be patient” and “take your time” since I was a toddler, thank you very much.
Sending you a hug, Betty. Have spent many a day (and night) sitting with and caring for family members and it is not easy. The only thing I can say is that those times are so precious to me now. Keeping you and your mom in my thoughts.
49.
Soonergrunt
@Corner Stone: And probably everything you heard is 100% true.
50.
Chickamin Slam
Second time trying to post.
My father and I had coffee with someone from the past. He is 76 and his wife thinks he might be getting Alzheimer’s. So it would be good to get him out of the house for a bit, chat about stuff, even if the conversation gets hard to follow. I had promised his wife I’d do it at some point so today was it.
He loves his grandkids and wants to visit them in Phoenix. Perhaps after his doctors run a few tests first he might be cleared to fly down there. He will celebrate 50 years of marriage in June.
51.
Suffern ACE
@Howard Beale IV: Wow. Perhaps VW should start a wispering campaign that it will allow Muslim employees break time to pray. Then the legislature will vote to burn the plant down.
To clarify, Hillary drew a lot of crap in 1992 because she had a career outside of being a political wife. Vaguely remember something about cookie recipes as part of the campaign.
The freak out to a “political husband”, who subsumes himself and his goals to further his wife’s career will have the same or greater backlash as there was in 1992 to a “political wife” having a career outside of being a prop for hubby’s career.
53.
LanceThruster
Got a bug/spider bite of an unknown source mid-week last week that now looks like half a cherry tomato under the skin. The progression has been toward healing but it’s unlike anything I’ve encountered. The map shows it could have been a brown recluse but the symptoms do not seem to fit. Slow lingering irritation versus overnight crisis. – http://www.badspiderbites.com/necrotic-arachnidism-syndrome/.
Tell my wife I love her very much (she knows!)
54.
Bill in Section 147
@Howard Beale IV: Next thing you know they will demand VW move operations out of ‘Merica.
55.
Suffern ACE
@MomSense: When you actually get into the competitive Tai Chi, you’re lack of patience will be used against you.
56.
Mandalay
Q. What to these very rich people, often perceived as being assholes, all have in common?…
Larry Ellison
Carl Icahn
Michael Bloomberg
T. Boone Pickens
Mark Zuckerberg
A. They have all taken the pledge “to dedicate the majority of their wealth to philanthropy”.
Of course this doesn’t mean they are not still assholes. But it does mean that they have a good side, and that they are definitely not complete assholes.
Other famous people on the list (who are not generally perceived as assholes) include Richard Branson, Jon Huntsman, Paul Allen, Ted Turner and David Rockefeller, and of course, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
Good for them. All of them, Katie.
57.
Howard Beale IV
@Bill in Section 147: Ya gotta love the money these clowns are spending to have these kinds of statements made:
A worker opposition group called Southern Momentum echoed that position in a statement
“Further financial incentives — which are absolutely necessary for the expansion of the VW facility here in Chattanooga — simply will not exist if the UAW wins this election,” Maury Nicely, a Chattanooga labor lawyer representing Southern Momentum said.
Now pray tell-how does some attorney know with 100% certainty that VW needs the largesse of the TN legislature to expand?
@Gene108:
Why not Tammy Baldwin? We know her husband won’t be overshadowed by her achievements.
59.
burnspbesq
Rivaly week on ESPN2 kicks off with two, shall we say, hotly contested women’s basketball games: Duke-Carolina followed by Tennessee-Vandy.
I’m still massively irked at NBCSN for pre-empting the EPL to show speed skating on Saturday morning. If it had been biathlon, it would have been OK, but speed skating?
@Betty Cracker: curling sounds soothing at any rate.
61.
Comrade Jake
@Goblue72: Saw something today over on Sully’s blog – some idiot said “Well the good news is that with a GOP Senate and House they’ll actually have to govern!”
A) Who is he kidding?
B) I don’t want those fuckers actually trying to govern. Jesus.
@Howard Beale IV:
I note the unusual shape to this labour dispute. But stopping tax incentives to punish VW for supporting the union could lead to Chattanooga being the ex-site of a VW plant. And that would lead to loss of jobs and revenues in Tennessee. Is that what these Republicans actually want?
@? Martin: I was once driving back to Houston from Dallas late, late at night after seeing a concert there (both of us stone sober). I was near dozing off, when I saw headlights in front of us. My friend calmly changed lanes and the guy sailed past us with a relative speed of at least 100 mph before I fully woke up. Never been so retroactively scared for my life, ever. (I did call the cops immediately)
67.
Poopyman
I just took a nap. It’s gonna be hard giving some things up when I get unlaid off, which looks to possibly be sometime in the next couple of weeks.
And waiting for 5 inches of snow and sleet Wednesday night.
68.
Suffern ACE
@Amir Khalid: It is a right to work state. They don’t want union workers. That is kind of what right to work is about. Incentivizing factory owners in union states to relocate with the promise that the state will do everyting they can short of forming death squads to keep labor from organizing.
VW is supposed to be thanking the state legislature, but its like they’ve invited in lepers.
Ugh. IIUC brown recluse bites become necrotic with time (as noted by your link) and can develop into large open wounds. What I don’t know is whether there’s a treatment beyond antibiotics for secondary infections.
Any possibiliy of Lyme disease? A red circle can be a symptom.
72.
drkrick
@burnspbesq: There are no EPL games – it’s an FA Cup weekend. Check Fox Sports.
73.
Amir Khalid
@LanceThruster:
Have you noticed any improvement in your ability to climb walls?
Wow. Perhaps VW should start a wispering campaign that it will allow Muslim employees break time to pray. Then the legislature will vote to burn the plant down.
No, not burn the plant down.
The legislature would have NORAD nuke it from orbit.
78.
Amir Khalid
@Gene108:
I wonder when the Tennessee Republican party will bring that up. They don’t assemble Beetles there, do they?
If it can be blamed on the UAW, I fail to see the problem.
There is a deep cultural hatred of unions in the South (former Confederacy). There already exists a culture of blaming unions unwillingness to take cuts as a reason factories close.
In short, if the TN leg screws VW over the UAW, the political fall out should be minimal as people are already primed to blame the UAW for interfering with a good thing.
81.
shelly
Yeah, the winter that’s never gonna fuckin’ end! This Thursday, eight more inches of snow? YeeHah!
No red circle, but it’s curious enough that I think I’ll want to pony up my deductible and have it checked out. I saw a little spider that I thought was a baby daddy long legs (so I thought nothing of it) but now that I know more about what to look for in a brown recluse I’m not so sure. I also thought it might be a flea from my kitty with an unusual reaction on my part but this seem different too. One of the other causes of said symptoms was from an ingrown hair (which I’ve had on rare occasions – but again, never to that degree).
At least I’ll attain electronic immortality by posting my festering boil on the “Show us your spider bite” page.
@LanceThruster: Did your kitteh bite you. I once had a nasty infected finger due to a kitteh bite. Took industrial strength antibiotics and over a week to heal.
@LanceThruster: I doubt it’s a spider bite after this long. They usually kick your ass hard within hours – a day a most. If it’s been more like 5 days, sounds like an infection or disease related rather than venom related. Venom acts fast.
I was also thinking the newly adopted rescue kitty might have scratched me. She plays rough. The ‘love’ bites are no longer too hard (I scold her with a mild “genTULL!”) and I back off quickly when she breaks out the claws. There’s a naturally occurring fungus in the dirt around here (though both my cats are exclusively indoors) and I know it helps speed things up when I put triple antibiotic cream on cuts and scrapes.
Thanks. That makes me feel better. I know in our first aid classes on spider bites that the scary famous last words were, “I didn’t think it was anything serious.”
I was referring to last weekend. If your reading skills were up to snuff, the use of the world “still” would have alerted you to the fact that I was referring to past events.
I am well aware that this coming weekend is an FA Cup weekend, as the club I have supported since boyhood is one of the 16 still alive, and is heavily favored to reach the quarterfinals.
95.
Howard Beale IV
Well, at least we still have a domestic auto manufacturing industry: Toyota announced they’re pulling out of Australia by 2017, and with it, the last auto plant Down Under.
On day four of something that isn’t the flu, but has the exact same symptoms. Daughter is well again. Son has what the doctor calls ‘mild pneumonia’ in his right lung, and wife sounds like a walking TB ward.
I’m starting spring cleaning in the desperate hope the fvcking jet stream will take the hint and shift, to allow an early spring. I figure this has at least as much chance of success as the groundhog method.
I am carefully timing the high wall washing for when my son the beanpole comes home. Little does he know…
BGinCHI
It’s cold.
raven
Freakin out in the ATL and closing shit down. I hope it doesn’t snow at all and they look like dorks again!
JPL
All of our local schools have closed Tuesday and Wednesday in preparation for the weather. In other news there was a shooting in a Kroger’s. I can attest to the fact that the local grocery stores have been packed today so the shooting had to cause panic. Two ladies are in the hospital but are suppose to be fine.
Amir Khalid
Don’t know what’s going on in ‘Merica, sorry. But I was in a supermarket (in KL) today, and this white dude walked by who bore a striking resemblance to The Blog Lord. About six feet tall, blond, glasses, not slim (ahem), rather casually dressed. Except he didn’t have the scraggly beard, just a vaguely stubbly chin. I know, it probably wasn’t him. But for a moment there …
Betty Cracker
Staying with my mom, who is still in pretty bad shape, but there’s not a damn thing to be done about it at the moment. We’re watching curling on TV. WTF, curling? WTF?
raven
@Amir Khalid: Was he limping?
Trollhattan
Apparently, some “Forbes” lady wandered over to the corpse of “Time” to declare her freedom from having to date pesky liberal menfolk.
See what she did there? Hayek and Chomsky are concise counterpoints to one another! But hey, she’s been to a smorgasbord.
H/T (with muttered curses) Wonkette.
http://ideas.time.com/2014/02/10/why-i-cant-date-a-liberal/#ixzz2sxNXVECu
BGinCHI
@Betty Cracker: I fucking love curling. Don’t knock it till you have watched it for a while and gotten the hang of how it works.
Chess on ice, baby.
Amir Khalid
@raven:
His gait made it hard to tell.
FRANCH
Looking at the weathers in my neck of the woods, it looks like we got a cold shit sandwich to eat tomorrow night, and then it gradually gets better until March. THANKS OBAMA!
Soonergrunt
Glenn Greenwald’s new site about security and privacy is a massive security hole and privacy sieve.
Irony died again.
Yatsuno
Dammit Obama. You had one job…
Amir Khalid
@Trollhattan:
Quoth the lady:
A likely story.
BGinCHI
@Trollhattan: Then she should just date men on the right who disrespect women. I’m sure it will work out just fine.
Trollhattan
@raven:
Followed by several small and one large critters? Basket brimming with mustard?
BGinCHI
@Amir Khalid: If he even had a gait it’s not Cole.
Trollhattan
@BGinCHI:
Before she agrees to a date, they’re required to shout, “Stop raping people!” over the phone.
Betty Cracker
@BGinCHI: I bet it would be fun to play it. Chess on ice? I don’t know about that. Shuffleboard on ice seems more like it. But you understand its mysteries better than I do, so I’ll defer to your greater knowledge on the issue.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
speculation that this is rank opportunism aimed at being Charlie Crist’s running mate, but I don’t care
Former Florida Rep. Ana Rivas Logan announced her plans to leave the GOP and register as a Democrat, according to the Tampa Bay Times.
“The GOP of today is not the party I joined,” she said. “It’s not the party of my parents. It’s a party that has been radicalized and held hostage by a group of extremists.”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/florida-lawmaker-leaves-republican-party
Corner Stone
@Soonergrunt: Heh. Maybe they hired the CGI contractors that did Healthcare.gov
BGinCHI
@Trollhattan: I thought it might be “Be more like my father!” followed by “You can never be like my father!”
Or maybe I’m just thinking of Maureen Dowd.
Hungry Joe
Mayoral election in San Diego tomorrow — progressive Alvarez vs. conservative, same-old-same-old, developer-backed Faulconer. Walked a precinct yesterday; will do the same tomorrow, doing knock & drag from about 2pm till about 7:30 (polls close at 8:00). Going to be very, very close.
We all have to put our feet on street. Every time. I do not particularly enjoy precinct-walking; I always hate it for the first 15 minutes, then get into a groove and it’s … well, not fun, but not so bad, either, and I find it enormously gratifying once it’s done. Thing is, it’s necessary. It makes a difference. And it’s something most of us can actually do.
And if you can’t, for whatever reason, you can volunteer in the campaign offices: data entry, putting polling-place stickers on thousands of door-hangers … they’ll find something for you to do.
And the precinct-walking experience has revealed a great window of opportunity: door-bell repairman. At least 40% of them don’t work. Now all I have to do is learn how to repair doorbells.
Mike in NC
Attending a funeral in Charlotte, where they are expecting between 2 and 8 inches of snow in the next 48 hours.
BGinCHI
@Betty Cracker: I got hooked when I lived in Toronto. It’s got slow rhythms but it’s a very cool sport once the strategy becomes clearer. Seriously.
Trollhattan
@Betty Cracker:
Trade the broom for a mop, keep the jammies and ice and you’ve got yerself Cole’s perfect sport.
Suffern ACE
@BGinCHI: The last 3-4 yards, when they’re sweeping like crazy and the stone starts changing direction and you wonder if it’ll hit or miss it’s resting spot are quite suspensful and instense, if you ask me. One of the more interesting 3 seconds in sports.
cleek
hoping for massive piles of snow.
“working from home” is my new favorite thing.
JPL
@Mike in NC: Condolences. I assume you live in NC so be careful on your travels.
BGinCHI
@Suffern ACE: This also roughly paraphrases the sex life of the older white American male.
Soonergrunt
@Corner Stone: Possibly, or else it was VA’s Domain Administration team
? Martin
The LA story is that yesterday a suspected drunk driver went barreling the wrong way down the 60 freeway at 100MPH, plowed head-on into a pair of SUVs killing 6 people, including her sister. She survived with moderate injuries (I cannot imagine how given the photo). Today we learn she has a previous DUI conviction.
More trains, please. I’ve managed to successfully get from Times Square to Long Island, and also to Connecticut while blind drunk. Requires several trains, carries risks of getting on wrong train, getting robbed, falling on tracks, among others, but doesn’t carry the risk of killing innocent people.
IowaOldLady
Mr IOL loves curling. He got hooked when we lived in Detroit and got Canadian TV.
But my dad was Canadian. He curled and so does my brother in MN.
Amir Khalid
This is a formidable enemy.
IowaOldLady
Also, more important, sorry about your mom, Betty.
Jibeaux
@Trollhattan: she sounds like tons of fun, what a loss.
BGinCHI
@IowaOldLady: I knew I loved you.
IowaOldLady
@BGinCHI: Shall we smooch in the corner?
SarahT
@Betty Cracker: Hang in there, Mom; and hang in there you, too.
Roger Moore
You’re supposed to spell it Amercia, like patriotic Real Americans®.
Corner Stone
@IowaOldLady: Keep me outta this.
Higgs Boson's Mate
@Betty Cracker:
Taking care of an ailing parent is very difficult for you both. Be sure to take care of you while you’re taking care of your mom.
Soonergrunt
@Amir Khalid: WORST. ON. THE. JOB. TRAINING. PROGRAM. EVER.
Howard Beale IV
Oh, lookie-Tennesee Republicans threatening future VW incentives if workers vote a union in.
Corner Stone
@Soonergrunt:
I’ve heard nothing but bad things about IT workers for the VA.
Gene108
I think if we have a female Presidential nominee it has to be someone like Hillary Clinton, whose husband’s accomplishments will not be overshadowed by the lady becoming the first woman President.
Too many fragile male egos and some elderly conservative women’s egos that could not handle the change of a woman’s career out shining her husband’s career.
Hungry Joe
@BGinCHI: That is — by far — the funniest thing I’ve read in way too long. Should have been my line. My teeth, they gnash with envy.
Goblue72
Starting the week worried about a GOP Senate. Tired of losing to these shitbags.
MomSense
I took up tai chi recently and true to my type A personality keep pestering my teacher to show me the next postures. Apparently it is not a race or a competition and I am supposed to be patient and take my time. I have hated “be patient” and “take your time” since I was a toddler, thank you very much.
This is going to be difficult for me.
@Betty Cracker:
Sending you a hug, Betty. Have spent many a day (and night) sitting with and caring for family members and it is not easy. The only thing I can say is that those times are so precious to me now. Keeping you and your mom in my thoughts.
Soonergrunt
@Corner Stone: And probably everything you heard is 100% true.
Chickamin Slam
Second time trying to post.
My father and I had coffee with someone from the past. He is 76 and his wife thinks he might be getting Alzheimer’s. So it would be good to get him out of the house for a bit, chat about stuff, even if the conversation gets hard to follow. I had promised his wife I’d do it at some point so today was it.
He loves his grandkids and wants to visit them in Phoenix. Perhaps after his doctors run a few tests first he might be cleared to fly down there. He will celebrate 50 years of marriage in June.
Suffern ACE
@Howard Beale IV: Wow. Perhaps VW should start a wispering campaign that it will allow Muslim employees break time to pray. Then the legislature will vote to burn the plant down.
Gene108
@Gene108:
To clarify, Hillary drew a lot of crap in 1992 because she had a career outside of being a political wife. Vaguely remember something about cookie recipes as part of the campaign.
The freak out to a “political husband”, who subsumes himself and his goals to further his wife’s career will have the same or greater backlash as there was in 1992 to a “political wife” having a career outside of being a prop for hubby’s career.
LanceThruster
Got a bug/spider bite of an unknown source mid-week last week that now looks like half a cherry tomato under the skin. The progression has been toward healing but it’s unlike anything I’ve encountered. The map shows it could have been a brown recluse but the symptoms do not seem to fit. Slow lingering irritation versus overnight crisis. – http://www.badspiderbites.com/necrotic-arachnidism-syndrome/.
Tell my wife I love her very much (she knows!)
Bill in Section 147
@Howard Beale IV: Next thing you know they will demand VW move operations out of ‘Merica.
Suffern ACE
@MomSense: When you actually get into the competitive Tai Chi, you’re lack of patience will be used against you.
Mandalay
Q. What to these very rich people, often perceived as being assholes, all have in common?…
Larry Ellison
Carl Icahn
Michael Bloomberg
T. Boone Pickens
Mark Zuckerberg
A. They have all taken the pledge “to dedicate the majority of their wealth to philanthropy”.
Of course this doesn’t mean they are not still assholes. But it does mean that they have a good side, and that they are definitely not complete assholes.
Other famous people on the list (who are not generally perceived as assholes) include Richard Branson, Jon Huntsman, Paul Allen, Ted Turner and David Rockefeller, and of course, Bill Gates and Warren Buffett.
Good for them. All of them, Katie.
Howard Beale IV
@Bill in Section 147: Ya gotta love the money these clowns are spending to have these kinds of statements made:
Now pray tell-how does some attorney know with 100% certainty that VW needs the largesse of the TN legislature to expand?
Roger Moore
@Gene108:
Why not Tammy Baldwin? We know her husband won’t be overshadowed by her achievements.
burnspbesq
Rivaly week on ESPN2 kicks off with two, shall we say, hotly contested women’s basketball games: Duke-Carolina followed by Tennessee-Vandy.
I’m still massively irked at NBCSN for pre-empting the EPL to show speed skating on Saturday morning. If it had been biathlon, it would have been OK, but speed skating?
Aimai
@Betty Cracker: curling sounds soothing at any rate.
Comrade Jake
@Goblue72: Saw something today over on Sully’s blog – some idiot said “Well the good news is that with a GOP Senate and House they’ll actually have to govern!”
A) Who is he kidding?
B) I don’t want those fuckers actually trying to govern. Jesus.
ranchandsyrup
I put up a post about finding out about the passing of an acquaitance via facebook
BGinCHI
@IowaOldLady: I thought this was a family blog!
Amir Khalid
@Howard Beale IV:
I note the unusual shape to this labour dispute. But stopping tax incentives to punish VW for supporting the union could lead to Chattanooga being the ex-site of a VW plant. And that would lead to loss of jobs and revenues in Tennessee. Is that what these Republicans actually want?
Gene108
@Bill in Section 147:
OMG! You know who founded VW? Yeah, take a guess.
sparrow
@? Martin: I was once driving back to Houston from Dallas late, late at night after seeing a concert there (both of us stone sober). I was near dozing off, when I saw headlights in front of us. My friend calmly changed lanes and the guy sailed past us with a relative speed of at least 100 mph before I fully woke up. Never been so retroactively scared for my life, ever. (I did call the cops immediately)
Poopyman
I just took a nap. It’s gonna be hard giving some things up when I get unlaid off, which looks to possibly be sometime in the next couple of weeks.
And waiting for 5 inches of snow and sleet Wednesday night.
Suffern ACE
@Amir Khalid: It is a right to work state. They don’t want union workers. That is kind of what right to work is about. Incentivizing factory owners in union states to relocate with the promise that the state will do everyting they can short of forming death squads to keep labor from organizing.
VW is supposed to be thanking the state legislature, but its like they’ve invited in lepers.
? Martin
@Soonergrunt:
Seems like it was highly effective. Everyone very quickly left class that day an expert.
kindness
@LanceThruster: Was it a radioactive spider? You may need an agent if it was.
Trollhattan
@LanceThruster:
Ugh. IIUC brown recluse bites become necrotic with time (as noted by your link) and can develop into large open wounds. What I don’t know is whether there’s a treatment beyond antibiotics for secondary infections.
Any possibiliy of Lyme disease? A red circle can be a symptom.
drkrick
@burnspbesq: There are no EPL games – it’s an FA Cup weekend. Check Fox Sports.
Amir Khalid
@LanceThruster:
Have you noticed any improvement in your ability to climb walls?
Tone In DC
@Howard Beale IV:
Those Tennessee g00pers really want that plant in another state, don’t they?
There’s some land in Virginia ready for some manufacturing, I’d imagine.
LanceThruster
@kindness:
I don’t think it’s my spider senses that are tingling but that’s good to consider.
MorningtonCrescent
I’m going with Linda Smith’s description of curling: “housework on ice”.
Tone In DC
@Suffern ACE:
No, not burn the plant down.
The legislature would have NORAD nuke it from orbit.
Amir Khalid
@Gene108:
I wonder when the Tennessee Republican party will bring that up. They don’t assemble Beetles there, do they?
MikeJ
@Trollhattan:
Lyme isn’t one red circle. It’s a rash all over where each spot is a few inches across and looks like a bullseye.
Gene108
@Amir Khalid:
If it can be blamed on the UAW, I fail to see the problem.
There is a deep cultural hatred of unions in the South (former Confederacy). There already exists a culture of blaming unions unwillingness to take cuts as a reason factories close.
In short, if the TN leg screws VW over the UAW, the political fall out should be minimal as people are already primed to blame the UAW for interfering with a good thing.
shelly
Yeah, the winter that’s never gonna fuckin’ end! This Thursday, eight more inches of snow? YeeHah!
LanceThruster
@Trollhattan:
No red circle, but it’s curious enough that I think I’ll want to pony up my deductible and have it checked out. I saw a little spider that I thought was a baby daddy long legs (so I thought nothing of it) but now that I know more about what to look for in a brown recluse I’m not so sure. I also thought it might be a flea from my kitty with an unusual reaction on my part but this seem different too. One of the other causes of said symptoms was from an ingrown hair (which I’ve had on rare occasions – but again, never to that degree).
At least I’ll attain electronic immortality by posting my festering boil on the “Show us your spider bite” page.
LanceThruster
@Amir Khalid:
Only at work and it’s as tortuous as it ever was.
xD
Anne Laurie
@Betty Cracker:
Two factors: (1) Cabin fever; and (2) Canadian beer.
schrodinger's cat
@LanceThruster: Did your kitteh bite you. I once had a nasty infected finger due to a kitteh bite. Took industrial strength antibiotics and over a week to heal.
? Martin
@LanceThruster: I doubt it’s a spider bite after this long. They usually kick your ass hard within hours – a day a most. If it’s been more like 5 days, sounds like an infection or disease related rather than venom related. Venom acts fast.
SatanicPanic
@Soonergrunt: It’s tough for them to convince successful people to stay in the field, and pass on their knowledge to new recruits.
Howard Beale IV
@Amir Khalid: Nope-Beetle’s are made in their Mexico plant. TN plant makes the domestic Passat in both the petrol and TDi varaints.
MomSense
@Suffern ACE:
There is competitive tai chi?? Wooo hooo!
We do “push hands” in class which I really enjoy. I am mostly doing this for health but it is fascinating to learn the applications for the postures.
Roxy
I am looking forward to the women’s ski jump. First time in Olympics that women will be allowed to participate in the ski jump.
I love watching the curling competition
LanceThruster
@schrodinger’s cat:
I was also thinking the newly adopted rescue kitty might have scratched me. She plays rough. The ‘love’ bites are no longer too hard (I scold her with a mild “genTULL!”) and I back off quickly when she breaks out the claws. There’s a naturally occurring fungus in the dirt around here (though both my cats are exclusively indoors) and I know it helps speed things up when I put triple antibiotic cream on cuts and scrapes.
LanceThruster
@? Martin:
Thanks. That makes me feel better. I know in our first aid classes on spider bites that the scary famous last words were, “I didn’t think it was anything serious.”
SiubhanDuinne
(Deleted because I apparently can’t read.)
burnspbesq
@drkrick:
I was referring to last weekend. If your reading skills were up to snuff, the use of the world “still” would have alerted you to the fact that I was referring to past events.
I am well aware that this coming weekend is an FA Cup weekend, as the club I have supported since boyhood is one of the 16 still alive, and is heavily favored to reach the quarterfinals.
Howard Beale IV
Well, at least we still have a domestic auto manufacturing industry: Toyota announced they’re pulling out of Australia by 2017, and with it, the last auto plant Down Under.
Comrade Dread
On day four of something that isn’t the flu, but has the exact same symptoms. Daughter is well again. Son has what the doctor calls ‘mild pneumonia’ in his right lung, and wife sounds like a walking TB ward.
So, yeah, fun times for all the Dreads.
AxelFoley
@Soonergrunt:
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!!
Howard Beale IV
@AxelFoley: Just goes to show you-speed kills.
Pogonip
I’m starting spring cleaning in the desperate hope the fvcking jet stream will take the hint and shift, to allow an early spring. I figure this has at least as much chance of success as the groundhog method.
I am carefully timing the high wall washing for when my son the beanpole comes home. Little does he know…
Pogonip
@LanceThruster: Have you seen a doctor?
LanceThruster
@Pogonip:
I go this Wednesday.