Glad to see that ACA got a temporary reprieve- now we need to be make sure they don’t kill it with 1000 cuts.
At any rate, I picked up the car today from the shop, and after a sacrifice of blood and money to the Subaru gods, my car is running like a champion. Thought I would share part of my conversation with the dealership guy to demonstrate why they hate me but love my money:
Subaru guy: Ok. You’re all ready to go. Here’s what we did. We-
Me: I’m not going to understand this.
Subaru guy: -something something sensor something something bushings something something injector something something next oil change something something come back in 30k miles.
Me: What about the blinking tire pressure gauge thing?
Subaru guy: We checked the TPS and it is ok and your tires are fine and inflated ok.
Me: What if it starts blinking again?
Subaru guy: Just ignore it. It just means your tires might need some air or the battery might be dying on it.
Me: They MIGHT need some air? Isn’t that precisely the same amount of information I had in my Subaru that DIDN’T have a TPS? What’s the point of that thing then?
Subaru guy: *Pauses* If the light comes on and stays on then get your tires checked.
Me: You just told me to ignore the light.
Subaru guy: Only if it is just blinking. If it comes on and stays on you have a problem.
Me: How can we be sure? We already have no idea what it means when it is blinking, why should we trust it if it comes on and stays on?
Subaru guy: *Pauses* I’ve never known that light to come on and stay on unless there is a problem.
Me: Ok, whatever. What about the check engine light?
Subaru guy: It’s off.
Me: It was off when I came here. Did you fix whatever it was that was making it go on?
Subaru guy: We think so. But if it comes back on come back and we will fix it.
Me: Isn’t that why I am here right now?
Subaru guy: *Pauses*
Me (sensing there is hate building in his heart): You know what, never mind. How much?
At any rate, the car ran like a dream, and I saw a noticeable increase in gas mileage, and apparently the bushings have something to do with the way it rides, because it was so much better and really fun to drive. I took advantage of the beautiful weather and headed to Pittsburgh to pick up an antique armoire we found on Craigslist for $100 bucks, and man is it a beauty. This thing is worth a helluva lot more.
I put it right in the foyer as soon as you walk in the front door. It’s off center right now because I need to get something for the legs so they don’t fall through the cold air intake, but it looks perfect there. It’s cedar lined, and has drawers on the right side and a space to hang jackets and put shoes on the left side.
My house is really starting to shape up. Now I need to figure out what to hang above it the armoire.
TenguPhule
There’s your problem. Should have converted to Toyota instead of sticking with that Heathen False god.
schrodingers_cat
Tunch photo, glowering at everyone, that’s what the space needs.
I miss that kitteh!
schrodingers_cat
@TenguPhule: Agreed, Prius FTW!
cain
See, this is where we miss having Car Talk around.. Imagining John as a caller talking about his Subaru problem would have been comedy gold.
Quinerly
Had two Subaru Outbacks. Put over 250,000 miles on each. Switched to a 2015 Ford Escape (4WD) a little over a year ago. LOVE IT. So much cheaper to maintain, better gas mileage, and to me a more comfortable ride. I “Escaped” the cult of the Subaru. Just saying….
dlm
I wouldn’t hang anything above it. It’s perfect.
TenguPhule
@cain:
“And after sacrificing the traditional chicken and peering into its bloody entrails, The Prophet John did lament and wail at the portents of money to be spent on fixing the Holy Engine Block of Mt. Caerbannog.”
Major Major Major Major
Nice armoire.
I’m up in a cabin in Sonoma for the weekend with some friends, so yay! Good to get away from the city for a couple days.
Iowa Old Lady
Gorgeous piece.
oldster
“My house is really starting to shape up. Now I need to figure out what to hang above it.”
Really? You want something to hang above your house?
I’m trying to think. What’s more patriotic: an American flag? Or an effigy of Trump?
Nah, go with the flag. You’d get sick of looking at Trump after five minutes.
Adam L Silverman
@cain: Would have been FCC fines!
HinTN
Monet
jharp
I haven’t been to Pittsburgh in years after traveling there monthly in the 90’s.
One of the coolest great cities of North America.
rikyrah
Your house looks beautiful. You are choosing great pieces. LOL at the Subaru conversation.???
Bg
Such fun to watch you in nesting mode
joel hanes
hang above it
A nicely-framed picture of her, Cole you great oaf;
better if it’s a picture of her with her kids
Uncle Omar
John, a suggestion following a story. My wife has an older Toyota Solara that has had, for years, a tire pressure alert light that was always on. This week she took it to a non-Toyota mechanical shop and after they finished work on it she mentioned the TPS. The mechanic showed her a hidden button near the speedometer and told her to hit it once, pause then hit it three more times and the signal went off. He said that the signal was designed to get people to get people to take the car to the Toyota dealer where the dealer could sell other crap and that the method of turning it off is not in the manual nor will Toyota dealer mechanics ever tell you about it. So, my advice is to find a reliable mechanic not connected with a dealership who might know a secret about Subaru sneakiness.
Josie
Find an antique framed mirror to hang above it.
ETA: Preferably oval shaped
Psycholinguist
If you want to hang something over the house you’ll need a skyhook. Grandpa kept his right next to the postholes
Thru the Looking Glass...
Watching Trump and Ryan on PBS, whining about today’s events…
Trump: We came close but DIDN’T GET ANY HELP FROM THE DEMOCRATS…
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA… sweet, sweet schadenfreude…
Ryan: What can I say? I’m busy eating this shit sandwich right now… I’ll make a statement later…
Un-FRICKEN-real…
But… apparently it’s NOT the Republicans’ fault… must be Obama’s Deep State…
TenguPhule
@oldster:
Someone would set it on fire. Its mandatory.
Bokonon
Glad you found such a great armoire for such a good deal. Antique furniture is going for a song these days. So is traditional furniture in any style (particularly dark wood). I am seeing some truly jaw dropping deals on Craigslist and other places like community boards … where people are desperate to sell, and there are few buyers. Either people don’t have any interest or any money … or both. It is kind of sad. Especially when you consider the crummy quality of most of the new furniture available at retail these days. I would rather have something older and good quality.
[By the way – the Subaru Outback wagon that my wife and I used to own was a constant, niggling maintenance problem, and it drove us crazy. We finally offloaded it for a Hyundai Santa Fe, and we were very happy when we did.]
And of course the GOP is going to try the death-of-one-thousand-cuts approach. They’ve been doing that along, and Trump announced this afternoon that the ACA is now gonna fail, and the Democrats are gonna own it when it does.
So here comes the screw job on the entire nation. Unless the great and grand American public, in all its wisdom, is able to make the GOP listen to more than its core constituencies and billionaire donor class, they are going to make everyone hurt BAD until the public comes around and supports some alternative.
lahke
I like the mirror idea. It should reflect the hanging light fixture and double the light in your entryway.
waysel
Above it? ‘The Sleeping Gypsy’-Henri Rousseau. We need closer shot of door face veneer, with good light, please.
Baud
Put up a picture of Paul Ryan.
Mike J
Took a whirlwind day trip yesterday. 500 miles? A bunch. Saw sand hill cranes in Othello, WA. Then I went to Palouse falls. NEver been there. very impressive. I could see mountains in Idaho from there. Rockies? I dunno. This would have been a fine long day trip. BUt then, to be wacky, decided that while I was on the wrong side of the cascades, I might as well see Grand Coulee dam. Yep, it’s a dam. Saw it, drove home. The scenery up and down Banks lake was spectacular though,
When I get the pics off my camera I’ll post them.
waysel
@Baud: Ha!
Goku
@TenguPhule: Fuck Toyota and Subaru. Honda is the one true God! Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Honda R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn!
ET
@Josie: This John Cole is good advice.
satby
That is a beautiful armoire, and I really like the glimpse of the chandelier too! House is looking great John!
I spent the gorgeous breezy day planting 3 tiny little lilacs and two roses. I just got the shipping confirmation that two more lilacs and four blueberry bushes are on the way. And I still have 10 tiny sticks with roots that will grow into trees to come from the arborday.org people. That’s going to include two more lilacs. I may have overdone the lilac thing a bit.
Also am experimenting with selling my “seconds” soaps at a bulk price. Not sure how that will go. Getting ready for the farmers market this summer!
TenguPhule
@Baud: Going on a diet or trying to raise your blood pressure?
raven
@Mike J: We did the North Cascade Loop years back. Insane.
debit
Adding my vote to a mirror. I really love what you’ve done with the house, John. It looks very comfortable and homey.
I’ve had Subarus for years and found them to be sturdy and reliable, even with my somewhat indifferent maintenance.
raven
@raven: I guess it’s just the Cascade Loop.
raven
@debit: Why not get a Subaru shop manual and hang it on a hook.
Shana
@Josie: I vote for keeping an eye out for a piece of art. Take ABC with you to a local craft fair. Find something inexpensive that speaks to you. And you’re supporting a local artist.
Or go the the Art Department of you local college when they have a show and buy something there.
It will mean more that you found something unique and local.
Tilda Swintons Bald Cap
debit
@raven: My days of doing my own car repairs are over, thank dog. Bikes now, bikes I will work on all day long.
hovercraft
@Thru the Looking Glass…:
Don’t you know that if the democrats don’t work with republicans and help them destroy one of their and Obama’s great accomplishments, they are playing politics and not being responsible. Yes they did everything in their power to sabotage Obama, but that was then, now it’s time for us all to just get along. They’re so used to being the opposition party that they’ve forgotten how to govern, so it’s up to democrats to do the responsible patriotic thing and save them from themselves.
raven
@debit: I meant Cole.
Baud
@Tilda Swintons Bald Cap: I thought Bernie was ok on Chris Hayes. Michael Moore was off his rocker.
CarolPW
@Mike J: I love Palouse Falls. On your way up the coulee did you stop and look at dry falls? The exhibits at the rest stop are worth looking at, particularly if you have looked at the eastern Washington channeled scablands and wondered what the hell they were about.
debit
@raven: Oh no. No no no no. I can only imagine and shudder at what could happen if Cole did his own car repairs.
Gindy51
An old oval mirror.
TenguPhule
@debit: Something along the lines of: ….And then hilarity ensued.
raven
@debit: Dude was tanker, he oughta be able to wield a wrench.
hovercraft
Schumer, the President has to learn to lead.
Baud
@hovercraft: He’s good.
debit
@raven: Guy was in the service, you think he’d be able to handle a mop.
Barbara
@Shana: Totally agree with this approach. Don’t even make a point of looking for something. Someday you will be somewhere and see something just screaming to go above the armoire. Although I think it looks great as is.
SFAW
@Psycholinguist:
He might need to secure it with about 10 or 12 yards of shore line. And he’ll need a second skyhook to hold the wind shifter.
evodevo
What Uncle Omar said at #17 Also – I have had Subaru wagons for YEARS…. put a piece of tape over the check engine light and ignore it … pay attention only when it quits running. One of mine has had the light on for over two years. Finally went off on its own (maybe the light bulb burned out? Who knows.) My husband has those tire inflation thingys on his Beemer and finally just took them off because they were so annoying.
raven
@debit: And a buffer.
hovercraft
@Baud:
I’m happy with our leadership.
Unlike those idiots on the other side, they understand subtlety, they are both sticking the shiv in without being bellicose.
Notice how Mitch has quietly made himself scarce. He’s leaving this shit sandwich for Twitler and ZEGS to enjoy.
Baud
@hovercraft: Me too. A lot of people were skeptical of Schumer, but I think he’s done a good job so far under difficult circumstances.
TenguPhule
@debit: And we all know what happened next.
SFAW
@Thru the Looking Glass…:
Hey, asshole, you want to know how to get help from the Dems? Stop doing fucked-up things, and act like a goddamn adult for a change, instead of a petulant three-year-old who wants to destroy the country just so you can grift a few million more $.
Or even better idea:
0) Fire Bannon
1) Fire your entire cabinet,
2) Get Nancy Pelosi named Speaker,
3) Force Pence to resign, then …
4) Do the world a favor and YOU resign as well.
Trust me, it will work out just fine that way.
hovercraft
Schumer runs down the list, Sotomayor, Kagan, Roberts, and Alito all got 60 votes, if this one can’t then you change the judge not the rules. Me likey!!
amk
too early to start using lame-duck prezinent?
jl
Hope Cole’s car keeps working. And, like raven said, why not get a manual? You look for one on the internet and download.
Wouldn’t a tire gauge and just checking the tires work? Even I do that. I’m not going to trust the tires to some jackass warning light on the dashboard.
In my experience, after a car is of a certain age, and stuff has happened, the repair people all say the same thing about inconsistent and mysteriously blinking check equipment lights.
Also, did Cole ask the guy who sold him the armoire what to do if a warning light starts blinking?
Baud
@amk: Only in Russian.
amk
So cole, I heard you were bitching about dems on twitterdom. What was that all about?
Omnes Omnibus
Nothing needs to go above it. It looks good as it is.
p.a.
Flashing TPS light generally means a bad signal to the sensor. The batteries in the ‘transmitters’ weaken, or new rims with transmitters the sensor doesn’t respond to. Depending on the auto manufacturer the light may flash continually or flash then stay on. Flash then go off? Don’t know. Some info.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
one side lied about the other side’s bill, and their own. The other side told the truth about their bill, and the other side’s…. so
At least Broder was actually Broder, and five hundred years old. Fournier is a sick man.
Apparently he has an autistic son and has written a very moving book about it. I wonder how other people in that community, who don’t have his kind of job and financial and insurance security, feel about TrumpCare vs ObamaCare
jl
@amk: Cole was tweeting about ‘dumb blogs’ too. I’m not going to look into that one very closely.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Let’s see. Obamacare is the law, Trumpcare is not. Not really much of a debate.
Baud
@jl: Couldn’t mean this one. He doesn’t read it.
Jeffro
@Thru the Looking Glass…:Via TPM:
amk
pete souza shade
raven
Awright, let’s have ONE decent game tonight!
Jeffro
@raven:
Ok, that is pretty fucking funny…so much inside baseball here…
Jeffro
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: sure looks like the prospect of TrumpCare has cemented majority support for Obamacare for the foreseeable future. Maybe Fournier could suck. on. that.
amk
the golden shite.
jl
@Baud: @Jeffro:
The mashups of Trumps campaign and administration ramblings will make some great campaign ads when the time comes.
And Baud’s platform will look coherent by comparison, if it, whatever it is, decides to run again.
Omnes Omnibus
Wasn’t the WI game supposed to have started 10 minutes ago?
Goku
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: As its been said, many times, many ways… BOTH SIDES!
p.a.
Anyone have the stomach to watch how Fux is spinning today’s debacle?
raven
@Omnes Omnibus: The second game is never on time. I think it’s saying 10:13.
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Fuck you, Ron, you dishonest piece of shit.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
the commercial has been made, I’m ready to donate to crowd-fund this one, or a slicker version, anything. Get this on Jeopardy and Judge Judy and Let’s Make a Deal and Bass Fishing This Week and Church Chat and whatever the fuck. Sow doubt, piss him off
FlyingToaster
@Adam L Silverman: Re: Car Talk
Dewey, Cheatam and Howe ALWAYS enforced the 7-second delay. ALWAYS.
There would have been an abrupt insertion of a canned Tom-n-Ray “word about our sponsors” and a great deal of unexplained laughter. I remember a few of those.
amk
blog mod still stuck up on the word ca*inos? sheesh.
jl
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m happy to leave that guy out of the debate. We should probably encourage him to just make that tweet into a template for everything he sends out to the public.
raven
@p.a.:
Whoa, this old world keeps spinnin’ round
It’s a wonder tall trees ain’t layin’ down
There comes a time
Omnes Omnibus
@raven: Hey, I made an effort to be available to watch it. The least they could do is play the game.
p.a.
How will Rethugs, conservative media, and flatworm MSM spin conspiracy with foreign power to influence election as not being high crimes and misdemeanors?
PaulW
Just putting my two cents out there about the current implosion of the Republican Party failing – for now – to do anything right whilst in power.
PaulW
@p.a.:
Fox Not-News likely blaming Democrats for not “contributing” to “make the newer better NO HEALTHCARE FOR YOU POORS plan” pass the House.
‘Cause the Far Right hates it when their obstructionist habits come back to bite them in their collective ass.
amk
twitler, why you no tweet today?
Goku
@amk: Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: President Infallible cannot fail, he can only be failed. Nothing is ever his fault. Imagine if the standards applied to Trump applied to the rest of us? Society would cease to function
PaulW
@amk:
He’s still reliving the emotional high of pretending to be an awesome truck driver from yesterday.
(imagines trump humming the tune “Convoy” over and over like a cursed Ear Worm)
Iowa Old Lady
@PaulW: Can you believe that? Why would the Ds vote to undo their own legislation?
p.a.
@amk:
scene: wanders around dimly lit residence, hair askew, robe belt trailing behind…
“a phone, a phone. my kingdom for a phone…”
cain
@Adam L Silverman: haha, so true. But that’s like 90% of the entertainment!
raven
@Iowa Old Lady: Especially without being asked!
lamh36
So how soon before the President Cheeto twitter storm? I’m betting 5 on it.. being overnight Saturday…
amk
bannonatzi’s shitlist ready yet? zegs must be feeling lonely up there.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@satby: Are there any community supported agriculture groups in your area? The one we subscribe to offers local products in addition to the produce; your soaps might be a good fit for a similar organization.
efgoldman
@TenguPhule:
I happened to look at the info label on the door pillar of my ’16 Toyota Camry yesterday and found….
… that it was manufactured/assembled at the Subaru plant in Indiana.
amk
@Iowa Old Lady: I am very happy the entire dem caucus collectively said go fuck yourself to twitler, zegs & co. Unity pays.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I can just about remember the chorus (we got a great big convoy, truckin’ through the night//Yeah, we gotta mighty convoy, ain’t she a beautiful sight)
@lamh36: Ivanka’s in Aspen and Kellyanne goes back to the leafy Jersey suburbs on weekends. Tick… tick… tick…
cain
@amk:
It is his usual, he hates dem more now that he is a dem than when he was a Republican. I then tried to troll him with a jbarro tweet where jbarro was bitching about democrats as well. :-)
cain
@Jeffro: That will create some uncomfortable mutterings from his supporters who have been talking with their fist upraised about how Trump is going to get rid of the evil Obamacare on day one.
cain
@FlyingToaster: I miss those guys. They were involved so many other things too.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Uncle Omar: Or…teh Google is your friend. The OXS light on my dearly departed Jetta would come on every 30k miles. The button to reset it was also a secret. I looked on teh Google and found a page that had the location. It was behind the coolant reservoir.
satby
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: I’ll have to research that, thanks for the thought!
p.a.
from TPM via whatever:
Legislative Branch in the hands of 6 year olds. And I may just have insulted 6 year olds.
amk
psa: kenyan’s big grin gif. you have been warned.
efgoldman
@hovercraft:
I said a couple of threads ago that McTurtle was the real political and procedural winner today. Because this pile of pigshit cratered in the house, he doesn’t have to decide between trying to wrangle 51 (or 60) votes to pass it, or let the Dems filibuster it to death.
cain
@p.a.:
Real legislating takes work and has in fact risk. Republicans are best when they are out of power and in power for short durations.
cain
@amk: We really need to replace the Obama “Chill the fuck out, I got this” with “Chill the fuck out, we all got this”
lamh36
Mahn…Stouffers Meat Lover’s Lasagna…SOOOO GOOD!
http://gifsec.com/wp-content/uploads/GIF/2014/12/Lick-Finger-GIF-2015.gif
amk
fuck these carpetbaggers.
Omnes Omnibus
@cain: They don’t know how to govern. They don’t even know how to rule. Over the past generation, Congressional Republicans have effectively devolved into nihilists.
Jeffro
@p.a.: Not that Trumpkins will do it, but let’s parse that statement for just a few seconds – it’s incredibly honest, for once.
“We used to take votes most every day to repeal Obamacare ’cause we knew Obama would veto it, and we thought it would make us look like big chest-thumpin’ warriors back home.”
“And then…and THEN…we find ourselves here, in power, and – dang that Obama! – repealing Obamacare means taking health care away from, like, TENS OF THOUSANDS OF PEOPLE IN EACH OF OUR DISTRICTS! It’s like, seriously?!? How the heck did that get into Obamacare? I thought it was just about him ramming his big…er…government’s big mandates down our…down people’s throats. No Freedumb! And so yeah, it was easy to get irritated and maybe we forgot about what we would actually [replace] with…it’s almost like that was secondary or something”
“But we’ve only had 60-something days to come up with a replacement plan and as sure as the free hand of the market is both indivisible and omniscient and all knowing too, we’re going to come up with something down the road that’s better…because that ramming…I think about it a lot…”
amk
@cain: the kenyan sure did leave some ‘poison pills’ & ‘landmines’ for the thugs to commit sepukku just out of their spite & envy.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@efgoldman:
Astute observation… no doubt McTurtle is breathing easier right now because of that…
And we now know exactly what kind of shit sandwich Ryan was eating earlier today…
Lizzy L
@amk: Unity pays, yes. And Joe Fucking Manchin has already announced that he will not support Schumer’s announced filibuster of Gorsuch’s confirmation, because some stupid bullshit, yadda-yadda, dignity of the Senate, whatevs.
Horse’s head in his bed, now.
efgoldman
@Goku:
Now he’s blaming Ivanka and Jared for being off skiing.
One has to wonder who it is in the WH who calls CNN 4-5 times a day.
Omnes Omnibus
@Thru the Looking Glass…: I’ll still take this win.
amk
@efgoldman:
President
InfallibleInfantile.With due apologies to all infantiles.
amk
@Lizzy L: Hopefully, today will be an eye opener for joe.
efgoldman
@p.a.:
Barton is a RWNJ, but he’s been in congress since before the inmates took over the asylum (1985). Apparently that gives partial immunity to the prion disease.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Omnes Omnibus:
There… better, no?
Frankensteinbeck
@Tilda Swintons Bald Cap:
Can you tell me more about this, please? I am really hoping context will show Sanders did not actually say something Lieberman-level jackass.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Lizzy L: and Heitkamp will probably go along with him, maybe Donnelly, maybe McCaskill, maybe Tester, possibly Bennet (“two wrongs don’t make a right”). Angus King? Bob Casey? Who knows. That still means McConnell has to kill the filibuster, which he’s probably going to do anyway, and that’s much more likely to be a party line vote. I think it’s almost impossible to actually keep Gorusch off the court– it would require Collins and Murkowski (possible) and at least one other Republican (unlikely)to defend the filibuster, which is hard to imagine. I think we just have to hope that Kennedy really likes his job, and RBG is as hale and hearty as JP Stevens
efgoldman
@Thru the Looking Glass…:
All true, but they’re nihilists, too. Not all of them, but certainly the kkkrazy kkkaukus and thousands of their state legislators.
Omnes Omnibus
@Lizzy L: @amk: We need 42 Dems. Right? Reid and Pelosi knew how to count and would release people to vote the other way if their local politics required it and they could afford to. I think Schumer knows that too.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Omnes Omnibus: (edited) forty-one, no?
Omnes Omnibus
@Thru the Looking Glass…: @efgoldman: Nihilism matters.
cain
@Omnes Omnibus:
Their entire philosophy can be boiled down to tax cuts. That’s pretty much it. They really don’t know how to do anything else.
Goku
@efgoldman: Wow. Jared and Ivanka are going to be pissed I’m sure. They should go on Dr. Phil for counseling. It would be fitting
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yes. I was thinking safety margin.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Omnes Omnibus: Absolutely… this is the best I’ve felt since Nov 7…
cain
@amk:
I love our american kenyan in chief.
Peale
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: the way to keep him off the court would have been democrats caring about the court. Our own low information voters don’t give two shits about having a liberal court.
p.a.
@efgoldman:
More of a disease vector then…
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: He just shat on Ivanka? Jesus fuck!
Frankensteinbeck
@cain:
I disagree. Their entire philosophy can be boiled down to ‘I would rather burn the country down than let anyone but white men have it.’ 90% of the support for tax cuts is ‘Fuck you if you think a single penny of my hard earned money will be spent helping darkies.’ True Randians like Ryan are fringe, which is one reason why absolutely no one liked his health care proposal.
cain
@Omnes Omnibus:
He’s going off the rails. His only friend is his the guy who snuggles him to bed every night, Steve Bannon. Since you know his wife is over at Trump tower, probably enjoying a nice glass of merlot.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Omnes Omnibus: True…
However… a lot of different groups could be described as nihilists… neo-Nazis… KKKers… the Black Bloc nitwits…
Republicans are their own special breed of nihilist…
Frankensteinbeck
@cain:
As unpleasant a thought as it is, I have assumed we will find out he actually is sexually assaulting female interns.
cain
@Frankensteinbeck:
The thing is, that’s the only proposal they had on the table. Everytime Republicans were put in charge that’s usually the first thing they did.. I would say tax cuts is the only thing the House can agree on at the moment. They won’t be able to do anything that Trump campaigned on as that would require working with each other, and even though they have a majority, they probably hate each others guts.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@cain:
Like a freight train taking a dirt road…
Omnes Omnibus
@Thru the Looking Glass…:
At least 2 of 3 vote GOP.
efgoldman
@Frankensteinbeck:
Wilmer gotta’ be Wilmer. He is not a Dem; he was a Dem of convenience for about a year, but even before the convention he had registered to run for re-election as an independent.
Fuck him and the donkey he rode in on.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Peale: a source of constant bewilderment to me. CBS news had two older women from Sun City, AZ, who were die hard trump supporters. I was at the gym and didn’t catch all of their reasoning (“reasoning”), but one of the them was wearing a T-shirt that had Trump Supreme Court repeating in run on print.
What subtitles I did catch were about strength and a businessman and whatever he does about health care will be better than what we’ve got. They lived in Sun City, AZ, which I believe is a private development with a minimum age of 60.
cain
@Frankensteinbeck:
It’s possible that is what it is.. I’m sure Republicans are all breathing a sigh of relief that it isn’t male interns.
cain
@Thru the Looking Glass…:
So stealing that! Haha!
Lizzy L
@Omnes Omnibus:
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I don’t think we can keep Gorsuch off the court. They need eight Democratic votes to break the filibuster. If they don’t get them, they’ll blow it up. They may not get those eight. Still, after 7 long years of Republican obstruction, it would be really fine to give the Republicans nothing, zip, zero, nada, not a single vote.
Frankensteinbeck
@cain:
Oh, they leap to gutting rights for every minority they can find and enacting voting restrictions as well. Trump is a true distillation of his party. He certainly plans to slash taxes on the wealthy, but his first priority was making brown people’s lives utter Hell.
EDIT: I include women as a minority because they are treated that way, despite being a majority.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Omnes Omnibus: True…
cain
@Frankensteinbeck:
That would require actually understanding how governance works. More likely he’ll encourage a bill that fucks everyone.
p.a.
@Thru the Looking Glass…: the presidential train is off the rails and running the country into a ditch while buzzards circle the administration…
mixed metaphors b us
(going to bed so I won’t have to read the grammar nazis’ “those aren’t metaphores” comments…)
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I Ain’t Gonna Play Sun City.
Frankensteinbeck
@cain:
Executive order on immigration – and several since. Witness how he has turned the ICE free to be the biggest assholes they feel like. They are terrifying the Hispanic community, and that was the whole point.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Frankensteinbeck:
Hmmmm… I wonder what percentage of the Hispanic demographic is gonna vote Democratic in 2018?
Lizzy L
@Thru the Looking Glass…: Ah, come on. That’s too easy…
All of them, Katie!
cain
@Frankensteinbeck:
True dat. Here in PDX, we have ICE everywhere like the stasi. Watching schools, courts, and approaching people on the street. It’s a fucking mess. PDX just voted to be a protected city.. we will continue to give a fuck you to Trump.
Ruckus
@raven:
Didn’t he drive the tank, not work on it? Sure he may have had to adjust something once in a while but fix it?
cain
OK, I clearly don’t understand this new meme of that includes “Katie” WTF is this about?
cain
Trolling the shit out of Cole, but he’s not rising to the bait. He probably doesn’t even know who I am. Hah.
danielx
@schrodingers_cat:
Second that.
Ruckus
@debit:
He was army, not navy.
Mike J
@CarolPW: Othello, where we went for the birding, is in the middle of the scablands. Potholes park is right there. Beautiful scenery. Freaked me out to not see a single tree all the way to the horizon. Mind blowing. Wouldn’t want to live there, but stunning to see for a day or two.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@cain: It’s from an interview that Sarah Palin did w/ Katie Couric back when she was mcCain’s VP candidate…
During the interview, Couric had her got’cha moment w/ Palin when she asked Sarah which newspapers she read… Palin froze like a deer in the headlines before answering, ‘All of them, Katie’…
danielx
@Thru the Looking Glass…:
Here’s a nice scenario: ICE agents waiting outside polling places (in San Antonio, say) hassling people for ID.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: The people who use them maintain them. If something is seriously wrong, specialists come in. He knows how to work a wrench.
efgoldman
@cain:
Not new at all. Goes back to 2008.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Lizzy L: It’s what I do… setting people up for slam dunks…
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Omnes Omnibus: Like looking through a yearbook: I know you, I know you… I know I knew you once…
efgoldman
@danielx:
Non-citizens can’t vote. Hell, in Texas, actual citizens can’t vote. And the assholes get a check for this? From my fucking tax money?
Fuckem
cain
@Thru the Looking Glass…: I figured it was something to do with Katie Couric.. just didnt know the context. Thanks for explaining!
Goku
@danielx: Then I guess Democrats and progressives will have to organize to protect them at polling places. Fuck ICE
cain
@efgoldman: Thanks :)
Omnes Omnibus
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Yeah. It also happened to be the defining protest issue at my LAC in my day.
cain
@efgoldman: This is why I’m glad we got vote by mail here in Oregon. No crowds, and definitely no assholes.
PaulW
Interesting side note:
trump (and Bannon) wanted the House to go through with the AHCA vote so they could see who voted NO and then punish the transgressors. Ryan must have realized how insane that was – it would purge their own party and make them vulnerable to Dems in 2018 – so he HAD to cancel the vote when it became clear it wouldn’t pass. He was trying to avoid a full out self-inflicted Lose-Lose scenario.
Part of me wonders if trump/Bannon DID go through with a revenge plan, that it would have driven the NO voters to quit the party BUT NOT their seats, giving Dems enough time before the midterms to gain a majority and f-ck with trump (if he lasts that long)…
Goku
@efgoldman: Former felons I’m assuming?
danielx
@Ruckus:
Everybody works on the tank, especially when doing something really obnoxious like changing the treads. Driver is responsible for motive power, but there’s only so much in-the-field stuff you can do to a turbine and transmission. What there is doesn’t translate well to modern auto electronics unless you get additional training for it, instead of forgetting most of the tank stuff as soon as possible
Thru the Looking Glass...
@cain: I kept getting that answer (all of them, Katie…) dropped on me so ofter I finally looked it up…
danielx
@efgoldman:
There’s a lot of that sentiment going around. I wonder if anybody ever asks those guys “does your mother know what you do for a living?”
Ruckus
@TenguPhule:
I’ve owned 2 Toyota vehicles and they both were lemons. Owned two Nissans, one also a lemon. Have had far better outcomes with Fords. YMMV
Jeffro
@PaulW: Civil war in the R ranks…they can have it out tomorrow or three weeks from now, but they’re gonna have it…
Mary G
@cain: Sarah Palin and her infamous interview with Katie Couric shortly after McCain picked her.
“What newspapers and magazines do you read?”
“All of them, Katie . ” (Unable to name even one . )
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: The two best cars I have owned are my 1984 VW GTI and my current Saab 9-3.
efgoldman
Related to nothing else on this thread: Devin Booker of the Phoenix Suns dropped 70(!) on the Celtics tonight. But the Celtics won the game, same as when Michael dropped 60+ and Dominique dropped 60+ on them in playoff games.
Jackie
@Mike J: I live in eastern Washington – Tri-Cities. It’s beautiful here this time of year ?
danielx
And yes, that does sound like Cole fucking with the counter guy. I’d have had hate building in my heart in my heart too (“you know, we just fixed your car so it runs like a dream. why are you fucking with me?”).
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Jeffro: Popcorn time!
amk
running like a well oiled machine indeed.
Omnes Omnibus
@danielx: “is my car fixed?” “Yes.” “Cool, here is is my card.”
amk
amk
psa: twitler’s ugly lying punchable mouth vid.
amk
Thru the Looking Glass...
@amk:
Right… like a Putzmeister being used to clean out a septic tank…
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Different that the navy then. I worked electronic repair, navigation, communication, and I was not allowed to change a light bulb, that’s someone else’s job. About the only thing that crossed jobs was painting and cleaning and I only had to help paint for about 3 hrs out of 4 yrs.
SiubhanDuinne
@p.a.:
I had a boss once who said in a meeting “It’s time to sing ‘Kumbaya’ together because the stars are aligned and the train is leaving the station.”
Paraphrasing only very slightly. I know he managed to haul three or possibly four unrelated figures of speech into one sentence. What is wonderful is that I have not the slightest idea what the subject under discussion was, but have never forgotten that BLOCK THAT METAPHOR! moment.
amk
nancy smash not giving a flying fuck.
CarolPW
@Mike J: I live south of Othello Trees in yards, but once you get out of town no trees at all. You should see the Palouse (not the falls, but the area towards Pullman). Miles and miles of mostly wheat, peas and lentils with not a tree to be seen. Poor raptors have slim pickings for nesting.
amk
Mike J
@Jackie: I thought it very cool to walk out into the sage brush and it didn’t take very long before you couldn’t see anything man made, yet it looked like you could see forever. Like being on a sailboat.
I’m surprised DSM doesn’t have an entry for “prairie crazy”, what happens to the unprepared mind for vast open space like that.
amk
ross douchebag’s tears
Trump’s presidency is flailing for many reasons, but lack of close advisers who’ve thought about translating populism into policy is key.
Heh asshole. Racism & Xenophobia are harder to legislate.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: Your machine is yours. Your gun, your tank, your track.
catclub
@Thru the Looking Glass…: I want a reporter to ask what he offered to the Democrats to get their votes.
amk
Omnes Omnibus
@catclub: They didn’t try.
Ruckus
@Mike J:
Have you ever crossed a major ocean? Nothing to see for a very, very long distance. The coolest was one night when with moonlight shining there wasn’t a ripple in the sea, all the way to the horizon.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@catclub: I’m guessing it was probably the same shit sandwich Ryan ended up eating…
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: By plane, yes.
Lizzy L
@PaulW: Exactly this. However, I can’t believe, even with your revenge scenario, which I totally believe would happen, that the Rs would quit the party. It would simply tear them apart further.
OTOH, MOAR popcorn for us.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: I’ve crossed two.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Does make sense, you might be out on patrol with no one else or maybe just other tanks. In the navy the entire crew is there to operate, maintain and repair the ship. So each segment works only on their own equipment. We had equipment in every compartment and in many places outside, including up on the mast. On that ship for two years and there were probably 10 compartments that I never set foot into. I did have to go all the way out the yardarm, twice. That was fun.
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: One. Several times.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Good answer.
Smartass.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: Me, I just wanted the guns to be where they needed to be and be ready.
Ruckus
@Lizzy L:
They may have one or two deflections. But not wholesale, it just isn’t in the cards. If they don’t agree with the side they are on, great, change. John did, many others have. It’s not like the republicans haven’t been assholes for some time. But, would you want a politician who changes sides when the going gets a little hot? I know, gift horse and all but that’s what I call chickenshit, and how could you trust them not to change back at some point? Weren’t the blue dogs of a few yrs ago rather a waste of a D?
Of course you could look at it another way – Utter bravery in the face of pressure to be a better human?
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
You sound like an officer.
I just didn’t want the ship to sink under me.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: I was. I avoided the Navy because of the sinking thing.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
I avoided the army and marines because of the shooting at me thing.
catclub
@Uncle Omar: My tire pressure warning light problem is that the batteries in the sensors wear out, (my car is 8 years old)
and you can replace the sensors for $40 each – plus labor – except at the dealer is it more like $60 each plus labor. so $300 to replace 4 $3 batteries.
replaceable batteries – what a concept.
catclub
@Omnes Omnibus: Which is the point of my question.
catclub
@cain: It is so new it is old.
When Sarah Palin was interviewed in the most gentle way possible by Katie Couric in probably 2008 or 2009, she was asked what newspapers (or magazines) she read.
She answered “All of them, Katie.”
Vhh
@lamh36: nope, only on Sabbath, b4 ivanka and kushner get on him by phone.
momus
Subaru, the best unhonored warranty in the business!
frosty
Do you need an armoire for a room without a closet? I have a very nice one with drawers, walnut, the antique dealer told me it was English from the 20s. I used it for all my clothes for 20+ years until we built an addition on this house and I got my own closet for the first time. LMK.
Marina
I vote for art above the armoire. I like the mirror idea, but then the first thing one would see when entering the house is oneself, which, depending on one’s mood, could be o.k. or not o.k. I like this:
https://www.artsy.net/artwork/imogen-cunningham-two-callas-1
If you click on the link, it’s ferociously expensive, but there are lots of less costly versions available: http://www.westongallery.com [prices may be negotiable.] Am biased because I love Cunningham’s art and also really liked her [when to a book signing of hers way back when]. She would have hated Trump and everything he stood for with every fiber of her being. She took this photo in her back yard. She was stuck at home with twins.
The car story made me laugh. I needed to. Thank you.
Zach
no idea how tps became nearly standard (except in cars with stupid thin tires) before backup cameras.
OldDave
@Zach: Because Ford Explorers with under-inflated tires were killing folks.
quakerinabasement
@schrodingers_cat: I too, also, vote Tunch photo.
Bill
@Uncle Omar: There is no secret button in a Subaru, Subaru doesn’t pull that crap. The TPMS light comes on when one or more tires falls below a preset pressure. The light blinks when one or more of the in-tire pressure sensors loses communication with the car’s computer. The car is 11 years old, the batteries in the TPMS sensors are exhausted. New sensors are ~$40 each and can be installed at the next tire change. The sensors will need to be programmed to be recognizable to the car. Or you can live with the blinking light, which only comes on after ~20 minutes of driving.
Bill
@catclub: The batteries in TPMS sensors are not replaceable, unless you’re pretty damn good with a soldering iron. I wish they were replaceable, but they ain’t. 40 bucks is a little stiff for the sensors, but way less than ruining a tire because you drove it flat, and certainly better than wrecking the car because you lost control due to an underinflated tire. TPMS is a good thing.