Beyond parody, but not beyond highlighting. TPM does the hard work of listening through an hour of Rep. Steve King (IA-Douche Canoe) explaining racism in modern America to a sympathetic local radio host:
“I’ve watched them pit us against each other for a long time. And by the way, it also should be said that someone like Lacy Clay, who’s a member of the Congressional Black Caucus — there is no ‘Congressional White Caucus.’ It is a self-segregated caucus and it is a caucus that they drive an agenda that’s based on race. And they’re always looking to place the race card. They’re always looking to divide people down that line. And I have friends in that caucus. I get along with them personally, but their agenda is to play the race card. And we have a President who had a perfect opportunity to eliminate a lot of this friction in this country, and instead, he and his attorney general have been in a place where they’ve created friction rather than eliminated it.”
Jim Newell, at Wonkette, once called Steve King “probably the biggest asshole in Congress.” Steve King seems determined to hang on to that title, despite all competition.
Via Ed Kilgore at the Washington Monthly, who adds “It’s going to be fun to watch entire 2016 GOP presidential field suck up to this dude.”
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Apart from updating our point&mock lists, what’s on the agenda for the evening?
Baud
CWP = GOP
El Caganer
So this is the official Republican Party spokesman for “black people are the real racists.” Christ. And these bozos – the Kings, the Gohmerts – get re-elected by huge margins. Goober rules, sanity drools.
Southern Beale
It’s funny that the douche canoes have such a problem with the existence of the Congressional Black Caucus. Nothing says “I don’t get it” like whining about the Congressional Black Caucus.
Here in Tennessee, State Rep. Stacy Campfield tried to join the state black caucus. In a troll-y sort of way. Glad he lost his primary a few weeks ago.
Chris T.
@Baud: You beat me to it…
Keith G
In a collection of folks who are amazingly intolerant of those whom are different than themselves, Steve King is truly on a different level. I used to think that when Jesse Helms did the world a favor and became a rotting corpse that we had seen the last of his kind of super hater in our federal government.
Oy, was I wrong about that.
schrodinger's cat
Is this black friend an imaginary one?
Villago Delenda Est
King is truly a vile creature. So are those who keep reelecting him.
Manday
Ah, the white politician’s version of “some of my best friends are black”.
It would have become really interesting if the interviewer had interrupted King at that point and said “Name one!”.
I guess if King was really quick on his feet he could have done a Palin and replied “All of them”.
Villago Delenda Est
@Keith G: You clearly did not reckon with the incalculable power of the near sheriff, to cause white heads to kerplode by his mere existence.
Baud
@Baud:
Ugh. I meant CWC of course.
Kay
This always sounds like ” why aren’t they talking about me, my issues, my feelings?”
I’m sorry, but that’s how it sounds. He’s mad that he has to listen to someone else talk- Ferguson.
Cacti
@Baud:
x3
The congressional white caucus is the GOP.
How many black GOP representatives?
schrodinger's cat
@Kay: Did you see NYT, the other day? Now Frank Bruni has joined in the public school teacher bashing. What is with these punditwits and the teachers?
Iowa Old Lady
I’m embarrassed that this fool is from my state. Not my district, thank god.
jeffreyw
Making a start on pizza dough for tomorrows feeding. Pondering rooting my phone, there’s a new one button does it all app out there that seems to be the hot shit. Rooted my old transformer prime yesterday as a trial run, seems OK so far. Unsure what will happen to the rooted phone if Samsung or Verizon does an update.
Villago Delenda Est
@Cacti: I think the last black member of the GOP congressional caucus was the war criminal Allan West.
Before that, I think it was J.C. Watts, whose own father told him he was as crazy as a chicken for Col. Sanders.
schrodinger's cat
@Cacti: Since Eric Cantor’s loss haven’t they become exclusively Christian too?
ETA: I think there is a black GOP senator who was recently appointed, but his name escapes me right now.
Dog On Porch
Though hardly the epitome, King is an exemplar of 230-plus years of “boneheads-in-congress assembled”.
But that’s all he is– just another bonehead in congress, one that patriots of our generation are called on to endure.
By the way, Iowa: “Fuck you, too”.
Baud
@schrodinger’s cat:
Depends on one’s views about Jesus.
Villago Delenda Est
@Iowa Old Lady: WTF is wrong with that district that they keep electing a guy who makes Neanderthals look like Enlightenment philosophers?
El Caganer
@schrodinger’s cat: I suppose. Depending on how one defines Christianity. And Baud got there first.
schrodinger's cat
@jeffreyw: Is Homer a home kitteh or is he still the garage kitteh?
Villago Delenda Est
@schrodinger’s cat: South Carolina, IIRC.
schrodinger's cat
@Baud: I share Gandhi’s opinion about Christ and Christians, both.
ETA: In fact, I find the extremely devout of any faith who think that they have all the answers, scary as hell.
Baud
Anyone watching Rachel? How many Texas officials have DWI’s? Jeez.
srv
IDK, Steve, not sure you want any lube with all that throat ramming.
scav
I guess the existence of the very GOP proves they’re out to divide us politically as a nation, given they’re a self-segregating set of individuals out to drive a self-serving agenda.Trying to divide us, always playing the conservative center-right card card. Every year, every two years, especially every four years, ginning up the antagonism and raising money off the politicization of governing.
Smiling Mortician
@schrodinger’s cat: Agreed.
jeffreyw
@schrodinger’s cat: Homer is still garage kitteh.
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud: It’s really interesting that the only one Perry went after just happened to be a Democrat, who ran a investigative office that was looking into some of his initiatives for evidence of corruption.
What a coinky-dink!
Kay
@schrodinger’s cat:
It’s funny, because they’re oddly out of synch. The rest of the ed reform crew are backing off. I think they know they over-reached and alienated a lot of regular people. Duncan himself issued an apology for his obsession with standardized testing today and California hired some kind of “message framing” outfit to tell them how to talk to parents about Common Core. “Stop bashing teachers and public schools” was the general message. They recommend they stop using “a crisis frame”, in other words, stop threatening people. It’s good advice. It’s here if you’re interested.
We’ll see, but it won’t be the first time the NYTimes editorial page team were a year behind.
Do you think it’s because they’re all friends with Campbell Brown and Dan Senor? Would you be surprised if they were and that was a big driver of this? I wouldn’t. :)
Hunter Gathers
@schrodinger’s cat:
If the teachers would just suck it up and take a pay cut and give up their pensions, the pundits get a nice tax cut. Which they desperately need. Expensive bottles of wine, tailored wardrobes for Sally Quinn’s cocktail parties and nicer penthouse apartments don’t pay for themselves.
Besides, most teachers are teaching the children of those people, and you know how those people are. What with their stubborn refusal to be savvy voters and vote for their GOP betters.
Baud
@Villago Delenda Est:
The guest just said that the prosecution and judge are all Republicans. I didn’t know that.
Baud
@Kay:
Hey! That’s good news about the strategic retreat. I give you all the credit.
schrodinger's cat
@Kay: I am sure that is one of the drivers, the MSM is very inc*stuous, especially the Beltway media.
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud: Oh, so perhaps it ISN’T a Democrat plot to get Governor Goodglasses, then?
Iowa Old Lady
@Villago Delenda Est: I don’t know. Iowa has only four districts. King’s is the fourth, the northwest one, so closer to Nebraska and S. Dakota. In order to keep the same population in the four districts, King’s got physically larger last time because the population there is very thinly spread. It’s rural.
As you go from east to west in Iowa, it gets more conservative. Des Moines and Iowa City affect the second and third districts. That’s where all the population growth is. I live in a metro area of about 90K in the first, Bruce Braley’s district. John Deere has manufacturing facilities here and there’s an African American population.
But none of that explains voters’ willingness to vote for this clown.
schrodinger's cat
@Kay: My reply to you is in moderation, I used a naughty word in a non-naughty context but WP doesn’t do nuance.
Baud
@Villago Delenda Est:
Hard to be certain. Those Democrats are sneaky.
schrodinger's cat
@jeffreyw: Give the nawty kitteh some skritches from me. I hope his banishment ends soon.
jacy
Me, I’m quietly freaking out. If anyone remembers the last time I posted, it was that my husband of 17 years was having an affair with a single mother at my youngest son’s school and was leaving me. Well, I was having a lot of emotional issues, which made me unfit for pretty much anything, so I went to the doctor, who put me on anti-depressants and and anti-anxiety medication. She was also helpful in finding a large abdominal mass, roughly the size of a nerf hoops basketball, in my abdomen. Tomorrow I’m going to get a CT scan to see if I should be calling a surgeon or writing a will. I BLAME OBAMACARE.
On the upside, my husband collapsed and was taken to the hospital, so I rushed over there and found HER at his bedside just as they were pumping him full of morphine for pain. I then proceeded to tell her what an awful person she was for the next 90 minutes over his unconscious body, in many artful and colorful ways, including calling her a pathetic two-bit southern gothic junior league whore, and leaving the room with the words, “The thing I find most disappointing about this whole thing is that he chose someone so unexceptional. I would tell you that I hate you, but you’re just too sad and pedestrian to deserve that much of my attention.” Turns out that it was just acute diverticulitis due to stress, but hopefully it will be recurrent. Often.
Oh, and the nine-year-old has been diagnosed with acute acid indigestion due to stress that’s made him vomit for three days straight and is now on prescription Zantac.
I say bring on the zombie apocalypse because it’s got to be less stressful than the last 4 weeks.
Smiling Mortician
@scav: @scav:
I dunno about that conservative center-right thing. I don’t really see anyone in the GOP pretending to be anywhere near the center these days unless we accept that the Overton Window is now entirely right of center (which it might be).
But the trying-to-divide us thing, well, yeah. And the way they do it is pure projection — showing the scared/angry/panicked white folks an image of an “other” America filled with darker types who are taking away “their” country. The media help them immensely in selling this projected image. Bunch of white people who aren’t racist assholes (we know who we are) need to start being a little louder and a lot more courageous.
Baud
@jacy:
Well now I can’t complain about anything for at least a week. Thank you very much.
Shana
After the cabinets we have paid for are delivered tomorrow we’re firing the contractor who has dragged out an 11 week addition/remodeling project until now. We’ve been fighting with them, on a low level, for ages and are now getting ready to hire a replacement and drag the first guys to court. Fortunately, we’re friends with our state senator who’s a good lawyer, so at least we have that going for us. We hope to be done before the end of the year. Wish us luck.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@jacy:
That is some high quality invective there. Keep your chin up.
El Caganer
@jacy: I’m sorry to hear that. You’ve got a lot to carry at the moment.
Kay
@Baud:
Obama Admin. are polling horribly on public schools.
It’s 27% (I’m not kidding, that’s the number).
Duncan went to Toledo two weeks ago and met with 9 principals and apparently got an earful. They don’t have enough funding and there are too many initiatives and they’re not doing anything well because they’re doing 50 different huge things. My own feeling about is that ed reform is as much a political coalition as it is a cohesive policy theory, and the political coalition demands a lot and every single one of them get everything they demand. Sometimes it’s directly contradictory. It doesn’t hang together, because the various factions don’t actually have the same agenda. The “accountability!” people are behind all the testing, and they seemed very powerful within the “ed reform movement”. It was Texas parents who eventually rebelled, they started the revolt on testing, which is interesting, because that’s where it all started.
Dog On Porch
@Iowa Old Lady: Geez. I no sooner insult Iowa voters (upthread), than I read your decent post about what’s what in Iowa..
And who am I to spout off about Iowa? My native state bequeathed the nation both Nixon and Reagan.
Maybe it boils down to every state brews their own brand of crazy.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@jeffreyw:
I’ve never rooted a phone, but it sounds like you need to be prepared for things to break if you do an update. E.g. see this thread on rooting a Samsung GS5. Make a good backup and know how to go back to the pre-rooted state.
HTH. Good luck!
Cheers,
Scott.
(Who has a Nexus 4 that he has never been brave enough to root.)
Brian R.
I bet with a little work, we could get every member of the CBC to sign an open letter titled “We Are Not Steve King’s Friend.”
schrodinger's cat
@jacy: {{{{}}}}} and Good luck! I am keeping my fingers crossed for you.
Hal
@jacy:
I’m truly sorry for your problems, but I love this insult. Don’t know what it means, but I love it.
lamh36
https://twitter.com/Lawrence/status/502633999416979456
jacy
@El Caganer:
At least anger makes me less weepy. Although it makes me more stabby. And now I’m going to enjoy my barium “Banana Smoothie,” which I think is an example of untruth in labeling.
Baud
@Kay:
Well, I hope they can adjust in the next couple of years and turn lemons into lemonade. But after hearing from you about all that’s been going on, I’m glad to see that things may be turning around.
Of course, you still have the problem that if the Dems move in the right direction, the whole issue becomes partisan.
jacy
@Hal:
Sometimes the words just won’t stop coming out of my mouth. I would have been a great orator if I didn’t hate being around crowds of people. The cats and dog do hear a lot of invective-filled speeches, but they seem not mind as long as they get cookies at the end.
Kay
@Baud:
I have to stop reading about it because I’m driving my youngest crazy. I’m like “are you okay?” now that he’s back at school. He’s actually a fairly cheerful, stoic and also deeply unserious goofball so he’s looking at me like “WTF is wrong with her?”
I get a little obsessed. Just a tad.
Hal
Open thread etiquette question. My co-workers mother just past away, and the office bought a card and flowers for her. For some reason two other co-workers went in on a card themselves and asked if I wanted to donate for their card. No flowers or anything, just a card with cash. When I think of a card with money I think of a celebration; birthday, graduation, just got married. “Sorry your mom died, here’s 50 bucks” seems tacky to me, so I said no thanks. Has anyone else ever heard of this?
rikyrah
Larry O says absolutely no incident report in Ferguson with the Michael Brown murder.
He’s showing it on tv right now.
It’s fucking BLANK, except for Michael Brown’s name on it.
It was the ACLU’s lawsuit that got it.
trollhattan
Yeah, buddy.
<blockquote>After more than two years of legal battles, The Sacramento Bee has prevailed in a court fight to force the release of the names of police officers involved in the November 2011 pepper spray incident on the University of California, Davis, campus.
The final step in the fight came late Wednesday, when the California Supreme Court dismissed an appeal by the police officers’ union seeking to stop release of the names.
UC officials said late Thursday that they plan to release the officers’ names later tonight, after the Federated University Police Officers Association makes an effort to notify the officers.
The issue stems from the fallout of the pepper spraying of students during a peaceful protest on campus that raised international outrage. To deal with the outcry, UC officials asked for a full, independent report on the incident to be compiled by a task force headed by former state Supreme Court Justice Cruz Reynoso.
Read more here: http://www.sacbee.com/2014/08/21/6645851/bee-wins-legal-battle-for-names.html#storylink=cpy
Baud
@Kay:
Haha. I can envision it. I’m OK mom. It was just a test.
Shana
@Hal: Not me. I’m with you that it seems weird. It could, however, be meant to help defray the costs of the funeral. I can’t place it, but I heard at some point in the past that it’s a fairly common thing for some group or another.
different-church-lady
Had.
JCT
@Iowa Old Lady: This is exactly how my colleagues at U of Iowa explained it.
They finally stopped giving me grief about my Governor (drunken Cactus Barbie) because my usual rejoinder was “really, how’s Steve King working out for you?”
We’ve got some real winners out here.
Jay C
@schrodinger’s cat:
Sen. Tim Scott : appointed to fill ex-Sen. Jim DeMint’s seat in 2013: running to complete the term this year. Apparently, a complete GOP hack: but then, as SC is a one-party state, rather like Cuba or North Korea, what would you expect?
RobertDSC-PowerMac G4 Dual 1.25
@schrodinger’s cat:
Tim Scott, R-SC.
Kay
@rikyrah:
What is this? Is the retired Philly police captain in Ferguson?
https://twitter.com/hashtag/Ferguson?src=hash
jeffreyw
@I’mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet: Yeah, I saw the towelroot thing but used the kingo app for the transformer job.
Jay C
@lamh36: @rikyrah:
Why would Officer Wilson need to file an incident report about shooting Michael Brown? All he had to was wait a couple of days and Breitbart.com or somebody would make one up for him?
AliceBlue
@jacy:
I remember your last post; I’m so sorry but good on you for telling off the “junior league whore”.
During my first year of college, my dad left my mom (after almost 30 years of marriage) for a co-worker. He and mom eventually divorced and he married this woman. I’ll never forget the first time I met her: not well educated or well spoken, not what you’d call attractive. Uptight personality. I kept thinking “you left your home and tore our lives apart for this”?
Suzanne
@jacy: Well, SHIT. I got nothing but hugs and good thoughts for you. I might also have a few choice words for the floozy.
Mandalay
@rikyrah:
IANAL but unfortunately that sounds like a very smart move. If this goes to court the cops are now free to concoct whatever story best suits the known facts from the killer’s perspective, without any fear of contradicting his incident report.
In the short term this will look bad for the cops, but how much worse can they look anyway? In the long term my uninformed guess is that it makes a conviction harder.
Hal
And just why can’t I say the n-word???
Reminds me of Seth Myers joke about Donald Trump at the White House Correspondents Dinner: [Trump has] said he’s got a great relationship with ‘the blacks.’ Unless the Blacks are a family of white people, I bet he’s mistaken.”
Suzanne
@jacy: Oh, and my ex-husband had colitis for a year and I couldn’t help but find the poetry in it. I feelz you on that.
Ubu Imperator
King’s district, IA-4, is not just geographically large and predominantly rural, as @Iowa Old Lady pointed out, but the cities in it-—Mason City, and now Ames (home of Iowa State University)—simply aren’t big enough to counterbalance the rural areas. (By comparison, IA-3 is also very sparsely populated, except for the greater Des Moines area, which is big enough to (often) help tip it Democratic.). The two largest cities in IA-4, Sioux City and Council Bluffs, are more problematic. Council Bluffs is actually the home of the Democratic majority leader of the Iowa Senate, but it’s also essentially a working class and rather drab suburb of Omaha. The whole NW corner has long been a stronghold for religious conservatives, so all they’re particularly interested in is if you’re agin’ abortion; say yes on that, and you can pretty much get away with anything else. Hence King’s success, despite the rest of the state wanting to stage an intervention for IA-4.
Mike in NC
@Jay C: Tim Scott is the very definition of an opportunistic grifter. He pandered to the teabaggers to get elected as one of “those people” who sympathized with the Confederacy, and parlayed that into a seat in the US Senate.
He’d gladly agree to show up at a Tea Party rally wearing bib overalls, eating watermelon and spitting out the seeds to the applause of the redneck audience.
Cervantes
@Villago Delenda Est: Tim Scott.
rikyrah
@jacy:
jacy,
I will be sending you all sorts of positive prayers.
rikyrah
@Mike in NC:
Scott is a slave catcher. Plain and simple.
Cervantes
@jacy: Good to hear from you again. Glad you saw a doctor.
Gin & Tonic
@AliceBlue: Men do really idiotic things. A close relative of mine left his wife and two adolescent daughters (and the continent he lived on) to show up at the doorstep of a woman he’d considered an old flame, and she said WTF? After he’d abandoned his wife and kids. What a maroon.
lamh36
@Mandalay: if it is SOP for PD, then at the least, Offcr Wilson, shouldn’t still have his badge or still being on PAID leave.
The Snarxist Formerly Known as Kryptik
@rikyrah:
Suspicious for an incident where an officer supposedly had his eye socket cracked.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Kay,
Duncan is the only Presidential appointment that I have despised FROM DAY ONE.
jacy
@AliceBlue:
I know, it’s so weird. You like to think that if you’re going to blow up multiple people’s lives it would at least be for something remarkable. This one has nothing to recommend her. Her opening gambit for any conversation is always, “You know, I do Cross-fit.” Before I really started to rant at her, I told her how much pain, stress, and anxiety she had caused for me and my children. She smiled brightly and said, “You know what could help you with anxiety? If you took a yoga class in the morning to start your day.”
I’m like, “The fuck? You know what would help my anxiety? If you hadn’t fucked my husband behind my back for the last year.” And that’s when I started ranting.
Mike in NC
@rikyrah: Exactly!
In SC, he will get re-elected without breaking a sweat.
Cervantes
@Dog On Porch: Can’t bequeath something unless you’re dead.
Regardless, thanks a lot.
MattR
@Mandalay: Sadly that sounds pretty reasonable. I was a bit surprised that people were making claims that Wilson suffered a fractured orbital bone because it was a very specific fact that could easily be contradicted. Even if he produced an X-ray, the prosecution could claim it was self-infllicted (or inflicted by a friend) afterwards to give Wilson an excuse for shooting Brown. There is enough cell phone video taken after the shooting to make a convincing argument that he wasn’t suffering from something that severe in the immediate aftermath. I am guessing that is why “sources” are now walking back that claim and saying that he just suffered facial swelling. That is something that conceivably could have been minor initially and got significantly worse over the next few hours and/or it would not be as obviously visible on a grainy cell phone video. As a result, it will be a lot harder for prosecutors to prove it didn’t happen. (EDIT: Though now that I think about it, a lack of bruising on Brown’s hands would probably be very strong evidence against him hurting Wilson in a struggle.)
@jacy:
Now that is chutzpah. Sounds like you showed remarkable restraint given the circumstances. Best of luck with everything.
Hal
@Mike in NC: When Michel Martin was on Tell Me More on NPR she had a segment where she described certain black conservatives as having an unspoken agreement with their mostly white supporters. They would tell those people what they wanted to here; black people are brainwashed, looking for handouts etc, and in return they would get their support. I have yet to see a modern black conservative who doesn’t fit that description to a T.
Calouste
@Baud:
Surely you mean the Congressional Caucasian Caucus?
Villago Delenda Est
@lamh36: Well, I’m shocked, shocked that a report was not filed.
Did this idiot think that no one would fucking notice that he fired a bunch of rounds at a kid and killed him?
“Perhaps if I don’t file an incident report, the whole thing will blow over. Yeah, that’s the ticket!”
Villago Delenda Est
@Hal: More projection. It’s always projection with “conservatives”.
Violet
@jacy: I’m so sorry to hear about how things have been going. What a mess. I hope the CT scan shows nothing to worry about.
That is awesome. Drop the mic.
Whatever you do, take care of yourself first. Love yourself. You deserve it. Keep us posted on how things are going.
Kay
@rikyrah:
Duncan travels with the labor secretary now, Perez, or they were together in Ohio 2 weeks ago. I like to think Perez is more popular than Duncan, less of a lecturing scold, and that’s why they put them together.
I approve of Perez. He was the one Republicans attacked for three years because he was in the civil rights division at the DOJ and he was enforcing voting rights law. They had some crazy fake-trial in 2010 where they asked him 5000 repetitive questions about the New Black Panther Party. Asked and answered! Move on!
That was early in the fake scandal litany. Many have probably forgotten it :)
My friend Ann told me Duncan was coming to Toledo on that trip but I had to work. It’s better I not meet him, really.
Villago Delenda Est
More Noisemax hilarity:
Rush: Ditka May Be Fired
Seems that Ditka made some comments on ESPN (where he’s a talking head) about the Washington Redskins name change movement.
Good. He should be fired for what he said. ESPN can’t afford to piss off everyone outside of Rush Limbaugh’s fan base. Not enough revenue there from advertising.
Mike J
If King really wants a congressional white caucus, why not form it? The CBC didn’t just spring out of the ground. People had to work hard and organize.
If he’s concerned that people will think him a racist for doing such a stupid thing, perhaps he should think about why.
(BTW, when I was a 12 year old who had grown up (to 12 years old) in the south, I thought that King’s argument was a good argument. I got over it as I got less stupid and more exposed to the world.)
FlipYrWhig
@Calouste: I think that’s the Kongressional Kaucasian Kaucus.
Scamp Dog
@jacy: that’s a tough spot to be in. I hope the medical news turns out well (for whatever value of well that’s possible) and you stay strong when dealing with the (soon to be?) ex.
Oh, and some good wishes for the 9-year old. What a situation to be in!
El Caganer
@Villago Delenda Est: Well, Rush certainly knows all about getting fired for saying stupid shit about football.
Suffern ACE
In defense of Don Lemon, a gun is a gun is a gun is a gun.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@FlipYrWhig: Wouldn’t it be the Kongressional Amerikan Kaucus or similar?
Besides, Caucasian sounds so, er, foreign.
/snark
Don’t they always tell us that they’re working for the “American people” and doing what the “American people” want? Isn’t it clear from their actions and policies that they think only people like them are real Americans? Surely they wouldn’t give up the opportunity to try to appropriate the name there as well?
(sigh)
Cheers,
Scott.
I'mNotSureWhoIWantToBeYet
@Scamp Dog: Well said.
Hang in there jacy. Best wishes.
Cheers,
Scott.
Mnemosyne
@jacy:
Holy moly! When the universe decided to fuck with you, it went all out, didn’t it? Hopefully it’s just a benign cyst, but I’ll keep my fingers crossed for you.
As far as the diverticulitis goes, as I understand it, it’s painful and annoying but won’t kill you as long as you eat healthy, high-fiber foods, get plenty of exercise, etc. — if you stray too much from the straight and narrow, you’ll have painful flare-ups. IOW, it’s probably the perfect revenge on a cheating husband who’s also the father of your children. So the universe seems to have done you a solid on that front. ;-)
PhoenixRising
@FlipYrWhig: Thank you, I can go to bed and rest easy, because someone said it.
@jacy:
If you did not reply to that by folding her into a full lotus with your bare hands, your mama raised you to be polite. If she’s still with you, send flowers. If she’s passed, go pay a visit & thank her.
burnspbesq
@jacy:
Get a will done. Right the fuck now. Even if that thing turns out to be an actual Nerf ball.
If you’re still legally married to that crumb and you die without a will, chances are that he gets whatever you own.
jacy
@Mnemosyne:
Well, right now his life consists of me yelling at him, the girlfriend yelling at him, his parents yelling at him, the kids throwing up, and a him scrambling to find the money for renting a crappy, dingy, tiny, sad apartment in a run down fourplex on a dead end street so he can be near the kids’ schools. Which I’m sure will work out well for all concerned. So hopefully he won’t take care of himself at all and will enjoy many morphine-filled jaunts into the nearest hospital until he falls apart like an old jalopy in a Keystone Kops film.
Not that I’m bitter.
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: Details to be added later once they figure out what their story will be. That means the rot is all the way up the chain since apparently no one had a problem with a blank incident report.
Amazingly ballsy, and not in a good way.
Edit: “That means the rot is all the way up the chain” – not that we didn’t know that already.
jacy
@burnspbesq:
Already done. I interviewed lawyers the first week, picked one I liked, and started taking care of business. As soon as I figure out a prognosis, I’ll decide where to head with custody and getting a judge to let me move the fuck out of Louisiana and back to Colorado. I understand it’s tough to do here, but I am a clever, determined, and resourceful girl.
snetzky
@Iowa Old Lady: he is from my district, and I am so ashamed. The problem is that most of his district is Bob Vanderputz/Family Leader territory, and those as whole just eat that shit up.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@WaterGirl: No, they can’t go back and fill it in. The fact there no report was done is out there. The DOJ sure as hell knows about it. And they are going to all over this police department as long as Obama remains in office and longer if he is succeeded by another Democrat.
@jacy: Good for you.
PurpleGirl
@jacy: I’m very sorry for your situation. I hope your child gets better, I hope you don’t have a malignant anything. And
pathetic two-bit southern gothic junior league whore
is awesome and wins you the Internets for tonight. Unfortunately, I don’t have anyone to tell that to, but I love it. So very descriptive and succinct.
WaterGirl
@jacy: I have to think that the nerf ball mass situation will go your way. I hope really good news is coming you way.
I have never hit anyone, and I’m not violent, really! But Ii think I might have strangled her after the yoga comment.
burnspbesq
@jacy:
Good deal. Fuck his shit up; he earned it.
One last thing that isn’t legal advice because I’m not admitted in Looziana: don’t file joint returns with that crumb. I he’s in a financial hole, screwing the IRS is going to look like a good idea to him. You don’t want your signature on whatever he might concoct that belongs in the fiction section of your local public library. Joint and several liability means the IRS can come after you for the entire amount of any deficiency, plus interest and penalties.
snetzky
The orbital fracture was all bullshit. LGF has details.
jacy
@burnspbesq:
Thankfully we’ve kept everything separate (because I’m a freelance business owner) and have never filed jointly. And he’s only every dealt with the reasonable me, he’s never seen the Samuel L. Jackson badass me that I keep locked up until it’s needed. I think he’ll be quite surprised. (Never screw with a mystery/crime writer — the do a lot of interesting research and meet a lot of interesting people.)
snetzky
@burnspbesq. Better to file married filing separately. Will truly fuck him over, especially if he’s been withholding based on married filing jointly. How do I know? My exodus it to me after she split with the kids.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): I figured that was their plan, anyway. What a shame that it won’t work out for them.
I hope the police department gets reamed by the DOJ. Now that would be justice.
Even the 83-year old woman I swim with at morning swim thinks the police have been going too far, thinks open carry is completely out of hand, and thinks the idea that more guns will make us safer is absurd. She is very conservative, but politics aside, I adore her.
snetzky
Can I just say right now that Autocorrect is my enema?
Mnemosyne
@jacy:
See? You get to look forward to him being in massive pain without him being in any real danger that would be bad for your kids. Win/win for you. ;-)
burnspbesq
@snetzky:
Word.
As a pro bono project, I got innocent joint filer relief from California for a woman who signed blank returns so her ex would stop beating her. It took 18 months and would have cost $60k at my standard BigLaw hourly rate.
WaterGirl
@jacy: Like others, I am quite impressed with “pathetic two-bit southern gothic junior league whore”.
I don’t share your knack, but I am rather proud of “the red queen bitch from hell”, which was my name for the mean, awful, arrogant red-haired first-year resident at the vet school who was beyond insensitive when I had one dog dying and the other dog in an unrelated medical crisis. And I even worked at the vet school at the time!
Note to all first-year residents: do not fuck with mama bear when both her dogs appear to be near death.
danielx
@jacy:
Got my vote for Today’s Win on the intertubes. I gotta say that your travails have stimulated you to produce a world class tongue-lashing, but my admiration is outweighed by a wish that at least some things start going better for you.
In other (dated) news, I can’t think how I missed this at the time, I don’t think it was covered here at Cole’s Continuing Narrative of Catastrophe. Short version: the editorial board of the Iowa State Daily stars in episode 1,793 of the serial drama “Young Republican Doucherockets”. Specifically, their editorial stance on the scandalous spectacle of the poors being poor enough to qualify for food stamp, most especially if they are poor college students making the campus and the university experience totally icky by being poor. Moreover, those poors having the absolute audacity to go to school in an effort to Not Be Poor Any More. Members of said board all having at least fourth hand knowledge of what it’s like to be poor, of course. Or perhaps not.
Sweet tidy bowl Jeebus skipping across the water. What is it with these sadistic fucknozzles and their urge to punish people?
Violet
@jacy:
“I have had it with this motherfucking pathetic two-bit southern gothic junior league whore in this motherfucking Louisiana.”
CaseyL
NPR had a story about a really depressing survey done by Pew about attitudes toward racism.
In a nutshell, the majority of Americans don’t think racism is a problem; they believe that blacks bring the problems on themselves; and oh, Darren Wilson had good reason to shoot Michael Brown.
The poll does show a huge difference in how Democrats v. the GOP view these issues.
But that hardly matters. What matters is that the majority of Americans are, apparently, Republican, racist, and happy that way.
(SFAIK, Pew has a good reputation when it comes to polling. So the poll is probably accurate. Which depresses me even more.)
scav
All this fuss about missing paperwork! Liberals and their everlasting Red Tape and Regulations and PC nonsense loaded up on the poor hardworking superior elements of society. If the experts, the police, decided there was a wrong, a danger to that community deemed worthy of protection, it was their job to correct it immediately, on the spot, not drag it into the courts and the whole document-evidence-court-falderal. I mean, forms forms forms forms forms. That’s not how it’s done in the movies. Will so enjoy watching the cleeks law enthusiasts go to bat supporting badged non-sheriffs not bothering with following rules as a necessary and traditional right practice that made this exceptional nation great.
jacy
I want to thank everybody for the kind thoughts and well wishes. Hanging out here the last hour has really made me feel a lot better. Juicers are always the best.
Eric U.
@Suffern ACE: I always say “gun” because it pisses off the true ammosexuals. I also say “Fi-nance” instead of “Fin-ance” because the people that are destroying our country don’t like it when you do that
Xenos
@jacy: Wow! No esprit d’escalier for you!
Now get a good lawyer (as in a sane, calm and sensible person, not someone to litigate the marriage but to get you out of it in decent shape), and take care of yourself and the child.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@Suffern ACE: I didn’t know that Gertrude Stein commented here.
pseudonymous in nc
Steve ‘Racist’ King is just a fucking racist. He’s the racist relative who forwards the racist email. He’s the racist uncle who sours Thanksgiving. He’s the racist commenter on a shitty blog. He’s not a special racist. He’s just a tedious racist.
He’s not exceptional. The notion is that he’s somehow outrageous because he’s in Congress. Well, just as Michele Bachmann is (till January 2015) representing complete loons, and Louis Gohmert is representing complete idiots, Steve King is representing common or garden plain ol’ dull racists.
gian
@burnspbesq: @jacy:
this is one time I have to say he’s correct.
whether you think your assets are independent property doesn’t matter if the state you live in thinks they’re shared.
I really don’t want to pry, or be a dick, but if the soon to be ex hubby is thinking with the little head and not the big one, I’d want a will to make sure the kids aren’t cross fitted for Cinderella lives without prince charming but with the wicked step mom.
the whole federal government versus state government thing matters here, I’d guess the state probate rules trump how taxes were filed, but this ain’t my line of work
gian
@scav:
to be even handed a few points on reports.
1) I’d expect the agency that the shooter worked for to not do much of a report, hence the shooter wouldn’t write a report, the report would be done to the supposedly independent non biased agency to do the report, who would try and interview him, but he’s a cop and knows that not invoking Miranda is stupid.
2) they may do an internal report which is protected and they may have interviewed him, but there may be a statute saying this can’t be given out (you see this in California)
3) if they have the management lieutenant types out doing crowd control and shouting obscene language at people, they may have a shortage of cops to write reports.
all that said/written the grand jury proceedings are secret. dumping it there is politics, in the hope that the buck can be passed to a secret proceeding. (one way or the other if you think about it, no matter what happens some constituency will be angry)
Mnemosyne
So I just realized that I have jury duty and my colonoscopy scheduled about a week apart. Does anyone (in Los Angeles County) know if that would be a huge problem if I end up on a jury since I would have to be gone for 2 days? Or is that one of the things I mention during the voir dire if they ask about non-refundable trips etc?
Anne Laurie
@jacy:
If I could figure out how to do it, this would totally be a rotating tag!
Will hold you in the light, as the Quakers say, concerning all the various health scares & other issues…
Violet
@Mnemosyne: Do you know what court you’ve been summoned for? In my recent jury duty (not in L.A., though) it was municipal court. They told us all cases were concluded that same day so no one would have to come back another day if they got on a jury. Criminal and civil don’t work that way.
You’ll probably get the opportunity to talk to judge abuot any concerns. When you mention that your colonoscopy is for a medical reason, not just routine precautionary, they may decide you’re a bad risk for a jury.
scav
@gian: But, given that there’s apparently a form, a form that was requested, apparently judged to be released and seems to be largely blank, I’m holding onto my general suspicion, unfair as that it may be. While there may not be a “final” report with definitive conclusions by that outside all-seeing impartial authority, there damn well better be an information trail with, yes, intermediate reports capturing details documented as close to the original time as possible, when events are fresh in everyone’s mind. It’s not as though people immediately took to the streets and no one’s been at home for a quick shower and lunch since.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@scav: Anytime there is an officer involved, there is a report that should be filed. While other investigations may take place, none of them obviate the need to get as near a contemporaneous report as possible from the person involved in the shooting. The fact that no such report exists is extremely hinky.
sempronia
@Mnemosyne:
Well, almost. If diverticulitis is severe enough, it can require surgery. During an acute flare, the safest thing to do is to remove the diseased colon and leave the person with a colostomy.
Think happy thoughts.
[wicked smile]
JCT
@jacy: @jacy: Whoa – I’m with WaterGirl, that yoga comment would have had me reaching for some IV tubing to wring her neck with. Keep your head up- the differential for that mass is extremely wide, lots of benign causes.
Looks like his low-class play date is inheriting a real winner – sounds like they deserve each other.
JCT
@Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name): Also raises some serious concerns regarding evidence collection and maintaining the integrity of the chain. Not surprising for a bunch of clowns who left a body in the middle of the street for hours in the August sun. What a horrible clusterfuck.
Omnes Omnibus (the first of his name)
@JCT:
Yes, whatever the end result of the investigations and trials, Michael Brown is dead and nothing will fix that.
Mnemosyne
@Violet:
We have one day, one jury here, so if I don’t get put into a pool that day, I wouldn’t have to go back. Unfortunately, there’s a good chance I would get picked because the Giant Evil is pretty generous with jury service days. I’ll just have to wait and see, I guess.
(I don’t actually mind ending up on a jury under normal circumstances, but the timing is awkward, to say the least.)
Chris
@Smiling Mortician:
Conservatives don’t play the center-right card, the MSM (not Fox) plays it for them.
Jeb Bush, Chris Christie, Mitt Romney, John McCain, Rudy Giuliani, have all been marketed to us in the MSM with paeans to how “moderate” they were, how “reasonable” they were, how they were “somebody people can work with.” Heck, even George W. Bush was marketed as far more moderate than he actually was.
The teabagger nuts are one thing, but outside of the 27%, there’s quite a few people who have this obsessive fantasy with finding One Of The Good Ones, some sort of Gorbachev-figure who can save the Republican Party and restore it to its Moderate, Very Serious true nature.
tybee
@Violet:
i’ve been privileged to know 4 or 5 folks who were very talented in the swearing arena.
2 of them were women and one of them could curse rapidly for more than 5 minutes and never repeat herself.
had me rolling on the floor several times. even when i was the target.
Just One More Canuck
@jacy: I like your style
Matt McIrvin
It’s not going to be fun, because the fundamentals (economics, headline problems in foreign policy, general dissatisfaction) suggest that the Republicans have an advantage in 2016. Democrats assume that changing demographics will help us and that Hillary Clinton can crush any loser they come up with, but we don’t even know yet that she’s running. It’s a worryingly specific scenario to hang all our hopes on.
My nightmare scenario is that Clinton decides to sit this one out, the Dem nominee is a weak campaigner who nobody’s heard of yet, and Ted Cruz or Rick Santorum or some such person who we think is unelectable actually gets elected.
Original Lee
@jacy: Goodness. I’m sorry you’ve been having such a terrible time. Best wishes on your health issues and hope the kiddo can find some good headspace.
A tiny little evil part of me kind of wishes you recorded your diatribe for posterity, because I’m sure it was full of awesome.
Fort Geek
@jacy: Late to the thread, but gotta say…bust ‘im up, lady!
Original Lee
@Hal: When my father passed, I received a couple of sympathy cards with gas gift cards and a J.C. Penney gift card in them. I think the idea was, “You have this huge unexpected expense on top of losing your loved one, and we’d like to help.” I think if you don’t already have appropriate clothes in your wardrobe, and if you have to do a lot more driving around than normal due to ferrying relatives around and so on, it can be a huge unexpected expense.
dslak
@jacy: As someone who recently went through a divorce involving an affair, you should really go no-contact with these nuts and look into some therapy or psychiatric care for yourself. Trying to reason with people who are rationalizing cheating is no way to stay sane. Here’s a good online resource for pulling yourself together if you’ve decided to leave – http://chumplady.com/.
The Fat Kate Middleton
@Iowa Old Lady: So you live in Waterloo, it sounds like. That’s my hometown.