Here’s a church we passed during our travels this morning. We’re on our way to take the mister’s recently returned snowbird mom out to lunch.
Haven’t seen much of an uptick in the return of actual birds yet. Probably next month.
We’ve checked out a few roadside stands, but so far, no baskets suitable for packaging up deplorables for sale. Will keep looking.
Later today, there will be football to watch. What are you up to?
raven
I gave my tix to a buddy so he could take his son.
Corner Stone
Wondering if all this thunderating I am hearing is going to be another episode of “All Show and No Go”.
trollhattan
Mowing the weeds then four-hour RT drive for the kid’s soccer match.
Mai.naem.mobile
I am really tired of Trump. BTW his face looked really unhealthily red during the forum. Like he was going to have heatstroke.
WereBear
Tricky cloudy day, but we had our thunderstorms on Thursday.
Hillary Rettig
Very New Englandy that church.
Mustang Bobby
Snowbird season in South Florida usually starts around the middle of October when it’s Canadian Thanksgiving and the cottage up at Lake Simcoe gets closed up. You’ll see the Ontario and Quebec plates mixed in with all the rest, especially in Naples and Hollywood.
Chat Noir
@Mai.naem.mobile: Me too. The clip I saw online showed him looking really puffy in the face. I can’t stand his voice or anything he says so I rarely watch.
kindness
Early September Snowbird? Where’s she from, Alaska? My Grandparents used to go down after Thanksgiving when they were younger. After Halloween when they got older. Myrtle Beach.
The Ancient Randonnuer
Should have invested in pearl futures last fall, but I hear the fainting couch market hasn’t taken off yet.
Pogonip
I hope Cole is house-ing today. I can’t wait for the next installment!
We are cleaning this weekend.
Origuy
Cole may think he has problems with home maintenance, but he doesn’t live in Duart Castle on the Isle of Mull:
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
Must admit, I’ve never heard of Nicholls State in my life, either in a football or an academic context.
Manyakitty
Hey, I’ll be in Tampa from 9/22-26 to visit my parents. Anyone local feel like a meet-up? Maybe in Ybor City or something?
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: Buddy of mine here in Athens went there!
WereBear
@Origuy: I’m sure if the ancestors came back, they’d be all, “What are you mucking about for? You can do so much better now!”
Hillary Rettig
We’re seeing Beetlejuice tonight on a big screen and with a rowdy audience!
Can’t wait!
raven
@SiubhanDuinne:
Keith P.
@Mai.naem.mobile: He looks generally unhealthy, so I’m sure the stress of campaign is wearing down his heart (along with taco bowls, McD’s, and KFC). Given how much Trump projects (and my own personal bias) I’ve suspected for a while that all his attacks on Clinton’s health are trying to divert from him feeling that he’s about to have one of those Chris-Farley-through-a-table moments. I’m guessing he’s got at least 2 organs screaming for help, and maybe 3-4.
Shell
Hot and sticky, sticky weather up north here in Jersey. Looking forward to more September-like temps tomorrow.
Joy Reid on MSNBCs ‘Joy In The Morning.’ is one of the few shows worth watching. It was sheer pleasure watching her calling out a Trump surrogate on his phony equivalency.
REID: ‘You can’t say it’s a fact when it was not.’
Her other guest was more blunt.
EICHENWALD: ‘Several points. number one, I’ve been coming on TV for years to talk about these kinds of things and every time I’m on with a Trump Surrogate, they just get on and lie. They say what they want to be true, they say what they think is true, they say what they’re telling each other is true.’
WereBear
@Keith P.: Seconded. It’s a tough slog for experienced politicians. I doubt Trump has any experience with any kind of work whatsoever.
If he hasn’t already been melting down off camera I will eat a hat made of Jolly Ranchers.
MattF
@WereBear: Right. “It’s made out of piles of rocks because that’s all we’ve got in this bloody country.”
WereBear
@Hillary Rettig: Do they have a “Rocky Horror” series of routines?
OzarkHillbilly
As the good book says, “Good news will stay and bad news will refuse to leave.”
Heard from the Doc a little while ago: Torn rotator cuff and a torn biceps tendon (or something like that, bad connection-bad ear). Going to schedule the surgery on Monday, probably happen the following week as I need minimum 5 days (IIRC) off the xar3lto and on the loven0x.
It’s what I was expecting tho the lack of news had given me hope otherwise.
PaulW
Going to a writers group session to keep myself writing. I have to finish a novella I’m going to use to teach an epublish class in two weeks.
Would also like to get more of my ebooks sold, but I’m terrible at marketing
WereBear
@OzarkHillbilly: Are those at least amenable to repair?
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Takes time but you can hack it.
PsiFighter37
2nd year wedding anniversary coming up…going back to the location where we had it to eat dinner tonight. Otherwise, just doing some cleaning up of the apartment…it’s a bit of a mess, and we’re going to have some company over the next few weeks as a friend stays over temporarily before moving up to Beantown.
Corner Stone
While “Basket of Deplorables” is a great band name, doesn’t it sound like something straight out of a Harry Potter novel?
OzarkHillbilly
@WereBear: Yes, tho to exactly what level I am unsure. Not like I was going to hang anymore drywall anyway tho. I’ll settle for relatively pain free.
WereBear
@OzarkHillbilly: Won’t we all :)
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: “Your friend is in good company. Brett Favre had his biceps cut in his throwing arm at age 39 and threw for over 4,000 yards the season immediately after, and John Elway ruptured his biceps without surgery and went on to win two Super Bowls. Not bad for guys with a part of their biceps left unattached!”
The Ancient Randonnuer
@OzarkHillbilly: Good luck. With proper rehab your fastball will be back in the high 90’s before you know it.
opiejeanne
Going to visit Twin Brooks* dairy, almost on the Canadian border. My older daughter has started a raclette business and the milk for the cheese she uses comes from there. They have an automated milking device that checks the cows for mastitis, sanitizes the udders, and milks the cows, and the cows decide when they need to be milked. Interesting to me that they not only want to be milked 3 times a day but they also give more milk with this method.
Taking our passports in case we want to hop across the border for lunch.
*Twin Brooks sounds much better than Double Ditch.
piratedan
@Mustang Bobby: out here in AZ, the telltales are plates from British Columbia and Saskatchewan… :-)
Villago Delenda Est
@Hillary Rettig: I thought the same thing!
jeffreyw
Making sammiches and sampling figs. Fig was not quite there, yet. Smoked shoulder with slaw was.
gogol's wife
@Origuy:
I Know Where I’m Going! Love it!
Cacti
Might go to the WA State Fair, but haven’t decided if I want to do it today or tomorrow.
Betty Cracker
@kindness: Close — Buffalo!
WereBear
@opiejeanne: This spring I visited, for work purposes, a model dairy farm nearby. The cows basically run the place, which suits me :)
Closer to the mountains, there’s lots of goat farms, similarly run with high humane standards. I welcome this development. Industrial farms are an abomination, and I see more interests in young people wanting to start their own such, small, operations.
Pogonip
@Origuy: If he stops making the castle payments and moves out, Cole might buy it.
Shell
Or a chapter from one of the “A Series Of Unfortunate Events”, books.
Amir Khalid
@Origuy:
If i were Sir Lachlan, I might think hard about getting the Scottish Government to pay for a complete demolition and rebuild of the castle.
Gindy51
@opiejeanne: When you think about it, if they had their calves left at their sides they’d be miked all day long.
Achrachno
“but so far, no baskets suitable for packaging up deplorables for sale” — so now we know where all these deplorables are coming from! Please stop, we have too many already.
opiejeanne
@Cacti: Watch out for the Trumpites and the NRA idiots.
I like the Green State Fair much better, the one in Monroe. Smaller, cleaner, seemed to not be filled with so many people my age who look so terribly old. The first time we went to the Puyallup one happened to be on Senior Citizens Day, so the entry cost a little less, and the place was jammed with OLD PEOPLE! The most hilarious moment was when we were in the commercial building with the vibrating recliners and every chair was occupied by an old fart who needed to lay off the funnel cakes. It looked like nap time at a kindergarten for the elderly. (Looking at myself now, needing to lay off the fattening stuff, and maybe dye my white hair, but it’s not the same, man: those people are OLD!)
Cermet
Wow, that looks exactly like a church near me. So, where is this?
opiejeanne
@Gindy51: Yes, of course, but I do love cheese. you just don’t get the same product from milking a carrot.
Schlemazel
Mowed the grass, aired out & folded the tarps used to move younger son into his new place.
We need to buy a new car and I hate car shopping. Any recommendations? Looking for a sedan, a couple years old, less than 30k on the clock. I have been looking online & it looks like Altima, Sonata, maybe a Camry or Buick Verano (those seem to be a bit more with the Accord at the very top of the price range.)
catclub
@Keith P.:
I have not seen him so I cannot comment, but I will note that I thought he would not be able to take the extensive travel of a campaign and he has done that, so far, – more than I expected.
We shall see.
catclub
@Cermet: Is that a silhouette of a ballerina on the front of the church?
Corner Stone
@WereBear: I could totally go for some goat right now.
NotMax
Sittin’ in NY on mom’s terrace, catching up with online stuff via tablet.
Flight time, including hanging around airports and flight delays, 17½ hours.
Villago Delenda Est
@Cacti: SCONES!
Gelfling 545
Baking bread today, which means fall has arrived, at least in my mind. I rushed to get the grass cut this am ahead of the predicted heavy thunderstorms. Now the sun is beaming down. Predictions of rain here (Buffalo) this summer have been wildly misleading.
Mike J
@Cacti:
I’m working the Democrats booth on the 21st.
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: I’m sorry.
NotMax
Sat next to someone who said she was one of the founders of vox.com. She had a Vox-branded laptop. Some interesting conversation, when she could tear herself away from furious typing on the Vox site.
bystander
@Shell: We watched and were amazed by Reid and her unwillingness to allow people to lie without challenge. How long before the MSNBC honchos fire her?
Lizzy L
@OzarkHillbilly: Good luck with the surgery — keep us posted!
Not sure what I’m going to do today. It’s chilly and overcast, not a fun day to hang out outside, so it’ll be something indoors.
sigaba
@NotMax: I was at Soho House about a year ago (don’t ask) and me and a friend ran into the founder of Vice Media, I managed not to punch him in the face. Charming guy, central casting bro-libertarian.
rikyrah
@PsiFighter37:
Happy Anniversary ? ? ?
Central Planning
Sitting around drinking sidecars. Anyone have recommendations for the best cognac or orange liqueur? Our last batch was armagnac instead of cognac, and grand marnier. Off to squeeze some more lemons…
bystander
@Corner Stone:
I heard Ennio Morricone playing in the background.
laura
I’m packing up the bathroom because we’re remodeling for our glorious moulding in place future. I’ve scrubbed my very last tub. Open shower with an overhead that Dave doesn’t have to duck under and a handheld halfway down the wall for seated bathing.
Then I’m getting a one month gym membership so I have a place to bath until it’s done. Otherwise, it’s blue room in the driveway.
Also, the Giants won and the Dogers lost, so shaping up for a productive weekend of toil and baseball.
debbie
Speaking of football, I don’t remember who Shannon Sharpe played for, but I like his style.
CaseyL
Glass class this morning; carpet cleaning this afternoon.
I’m leaving the rug cleaning to the professionals: My rugs should have been replaced a decade ago but I never want(ed) to spend the money. Got too much furniture, not to mention the 6 totally-full bookcases – it’s not the rug installation that’ll be expensive, it’s the moving-everything-around that’ll drive up the cost.
Cermet
@catclub: Looks like one – could be a notice about events …
brendancalling
Today?
Well, currently I’m at my local cafe, because my housemate had, ahem, a lady visitor this morning. Our house is pretty small, and I can take a hint.
Later today, I shall eat tacos at my favorite taqueria, where I practice my Spanish in advance of the Taco Truck Takeover that Hitlery is going to unleash. Earlier this week I re-learned that the word for tip (as in “gratuity”) is “propino” and when you order to go it’s “para llevar”.
After supplicating myself before the Dominant Imposing Problem-Causing Culture of Mexicans that Sell Tacos, I’ll head home and play some music with a friend (as long as the lovemaking is over and done, in which case we’ll find a park to play music). Then it’s pork loin for dinner and two-stepping at Roberts.
Phylllis
@debbie: Savannah State. And Denver in the pros, if memory serves.
Pogonip
@Schlemazel: My 2013 Accord with 30K and change miles is well behaved and economical to run. Don’t know about the resale value.
? Martin
@srv: I think you have an incorrect perception of how much overlap there is between the deplorable club and the $50M asset group. DJT would fit in quite naturally.
Pogonip
@Lizzy L: chilly and overcast? Where are you? I’m moving there.
geg6
Watching Pitt/Penn State. So far, happy that my alma mater is currently bearing my employer.
MattF
@Schlemazel: Accord is really a two-tier brand– the higher trim models poke up into the lower end of the luxe sedans, but aren’t all that different from the standard 4-cyl, no leather trim. May be hard to find cheaper ones, though.
raven
Nicholls is beating the Dawgs.
SenyorDave
Wii next step be for Clinton to identify Trump as a racist, sexist bigot? I hope so, I want that to be part of the conversation. Let HRC and her surrogates go on Sunday shows and call out Trump’s history of racism in his businesses, his statements about Mexicans and Judge Curiel, his lies about American Muslim communities celebrating 9/11, his re-tweeting phony statistics about black crime, his non-repudiation of David Duke until he tested the waters. Call him out for what he is.
germy
9/11 tapes reveal raw and emotional hillary clinton
Raven
Until we scored touchdowns on consecutive plays!
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
“bunny”?
Edit: n/m
BruceFromOhio
Cleaning, eating, and drinking. Did I mention eating and drinking? Waiting on thunderstorms to cool it the hell off a bit, then later grilling up grub for guests – can’t let a clean house go to waste now, can we.
Helen
Hillary has issued a statement. She apologized for generalizing but doubled down on “deplorable”. Good. Here it is in its entirety:
“Last night, I was “grossly generalistic,” and that’s never a good idea. I regret saying “half”—that was wrong. But let’s be clear, what’s really “deplorable” is that Donald Trump hired a major advocate for the so-called “alt-right” movement to run his campaign and that David Duke and other white supremacists see him as a champion of their values. It’s deplorable that Trump has built his campaign largely on prejudice and paranoia and given a national platform to hateful views and voices, including by retweeting fringe bigots with a few dozen followers and spreading their message to 11 million people. It’s deplorable that he’s attacked a federal judge for his “Mexican heritage,” bullied a Gold Star family because of their Muslim faith, and promoted the lie that our first black President is not a true American. So I won’t stop calling out bigotry and racist rhetoric in this campaign. I also meant what I said last night about empathy, and the very real challenges we face as a country where so many people have been left out and left behind. As I said, many of Trump’s supporters are hard-working Americans who just don’t feel like the economy or our political system are working for them. I’m determined to bring our country together and make our economy work for everyone, not just those at the top. Because we really are “stronger together.””
Raven
@SiubhanDuinne: pushover, easy win
“A term used to describe an easy or ‘gimme’ type of situation. Became prevelant in bars describing girls who were easy to take home, and grew into sports circles. A ‘bunny’ is a 5 foot jumper, a 20 yard field goal, an open net wrister, or an infield fly ball. Easily made plays.
“We lost the game because Mike missed a bunny at the end. That dude sucks, I ain’t playing with him no more…”
Les Bonnes Femmes
Gotta a new job! Going to be the Wine Steward at one of our newest stores, which opens six days before the election. Doing laundry, working round the house with the Wife, drinking Mimosas, and listening to the new Beatles Hollywood Bowl cd. Great great day!
PsiFighter37
@Helen: Strikes the right balance. I wouldn’t have apologized for anything, but that’s just me. The fact that she highlights Bannon’s record and everything else Trump has said is important.
germy
@Les Bonnes Femmes:
I remember I had the vinyl album back in the ’70s. I’m wondering if this new release has different versions, because they played several times there.
Also, Ron Howard’s documentary about their touring years will be coming out in Sept.
leeleeFL
@Mai.naem.mobile: I hate myself for even thinking this, but I think the nonsense about Hillary’s health is pure projection. He probably is not well and hoping to redirect attention. Somehow it will be Hillary’s fault if he does stroke out.
germy
Two deplorables: trump and dr. oz
Central Planning
@Schlemazel: I love my Acura TLX. I had a 2005 (TL back then) that had 200k miles on it – was a champ. My new one (2015) gets over 40 mpg (6 cylinder) on the highway around here. One of the biggest reasons I got the Acura instead of the top-end Honda was the quiteness in the cabin. The Accord just doesn’t seem as quiet to me.
Keith G
@germy: It has one or two (or a couple) songs left out of your edit. It also has been remastered to lessen the shrill screams of several thousand females. I listened to a side by side, and the difference is amazing.
Jeffro
It’s 91° here in Fairfax ( 98° with the heat index) and my RW-leaning father is asking if he can meet me halfway: he will admit climate change is a real problem just as long as he doesn’t have to admit Al Gore was right.
So much of what right-wingers believe is just their bratty oppositional reflex kicking in …
dmsilev
@Helen: Pretty decent. Backs off on ‘half’, but uses ‘deplorable’ over and over again and pounds the point about the outsized role that bigots have in the Trump campaign.
Les Bonnes Femmes
@Keith G: Thanks. You’re correct. The real stand out track to me is Things We Said Today. Those boys understood song dynamics on par with our greatest Classical masters.
SiubhanDuinne
@Raven:
Oh, I knew what it meant! (Although I appreciate the comprehensive definition). I was just laughing a little because in an earlier thread you said UGA was playing a bunny today, and then you posted here that Nicholls was ahead. I posted my snark before I saw your other post about two touchdowns, hence my “never mind” edit.
germy
@Keith G: I was astounded by the remastering done by George Martin’s son on the recent release of studio stuff.
MattF
@dmsilev: I guess ‘half’ is undiplomatic.
germy
@Les Bonnes Femmes: Bob Dylan did a kick-ass version of “Things We Said Today” on a Paul tribute album recently.
Bob Dylan on the Beatles:
“We were driving through Colorado, we had the radio on, and eight of the Top 10 songs were Beatles songs…’I Wanna Hold Your Hand,’ all those early ones. They were doing things nobody was doing. Their chords were outrageous, just outrageous, and their harmonies made it all valid… I knew they were pointing the direction of where music had to go.”
SiubhanDuinne
@dmsilev:
It’s also effective in that she identified and immediately apologised for the inaccurate “half,” demonstrating that taking responsibility and making necessary corrections is the decent and grown-up thing to do — something we’ve never seen from her opponent.
Les Bonnes Femmes
@germy: Cool, thanks for the link.
Luthe
Adulting update: supplemental insurance bought, Roth IRA established, and the dentist says my mouth is 95% fine.
Now I’m off to a Taste of the Town event.
D58826
@Helen: I always the the ‘half’ part as a figure of speech rather than a precise math term. How many times have we used the phrase ‘half the time…..’ ? No one takes that as a precise unit of measure.
Iowa Old Lady
I’m rereading Bujold’s Warrior’s Apprentice. It’s so much fun.
sigaba
@Helen: I was hoping for the double-down, or if she was going to temper the remark, she’d at least figure out a way of doing it in less than ten words. Even if what she said was true it was totally unnecessary.
But no, she gives us two paragraphs that no reporter will even try to summarize and will simply boil down to “Hillary Apologizes.” She could have at least saved her retrenchment for the end of the statement or said something about “everyone’s” overheated rhetoric. But no; story of the day: Trump demanded apology, got one.
Matt McIrvin
@Hillary Rettig: The photo reminds me of the sculpture on the cover of They Might Be Giants’ “Lincoln”, which was evoking New England, among other things (the album was named after the town in Massachusetts).
germy
@efgoldman: Is everything ok in your family, healthwise? I haven’t read too many threads lately, but I remember you said there was an ER visit. I hope everyone is fine.
Mnemosyne
@Iowa Old Lady:
Fun until the author reaches inside your chest and rips your heart out for the ending.
I still love the book, though.
germy
@efgoldman: I’m a part-timer, unfortunately. Not in the union, and I don’t get benefits. I’m never here in the wee hours (when most of the fun happens, they say) and sometimes miss entire daytime threads because I’m in the yard wrestling trumpet vines.
debbie
@efgoldman:
If he’s the guy with the deer-in-the-headlights look in the video, you’re right.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
Watching Bama vs. Western Kentucky, which is more entertaining than I expected. Getting an MRI on Friday to see if my back is causing my sciatica. If surgery is needed, it’ll be round two for me (last one was in ’02). Not feeling enthusiastic about the prospect, especially given recent events. Either way, it’ll be better to get an answer…
Dog Dawg Damn
She buried the lede. Should have doubled down first. Tripled down even. Then buried a mild apology for “half” down under it. This press release is pure crap and Clinton campaign needs to get better at controlling narrative.
Uncle Cosmo
@Phylllis: Also a Baltimore Raven. Key contributor to the 2000-2001 season that ended with a lopsided victory in Super Bowl 35.
PaulW
Oh man the Gators are just stomping Kentucky.
Here’s hoping the USF BULLS play just as well.
Go bucs
Zinsky
About 6’2″. Love ya, Betty!
Armadillo
Spencer Hall on
College Football and Buffalo.
I wish I could write like that.
Barb2
@piratedan:
Snow birds —
And Washington State.
Lots more Canadians, often partying late into the night in Phoenix RV parks.