My lilacs are getting ready to pop. There are at least a dozen in my tiny yard. I’m not complaining.
I like to make sure we have an open thread going for those who aren’t interested in the writing threads. What’s on the agenda today? We are expected to have a nice day after several days of gentle rain, so I might get outside to garden.
If you’re a movie buff and Hitchcock fan you might be interested in this event:
Fanthom Events is having a big screen showing, limited run. Click here for details.
Open thread.
Big Ole Hound
LA Times just started a total expose of Trump in a four part series. Beginning of the end? Lets hope.
MJS
Going to see North by Northwest tonight. Can’t wait.
Another Scott
@Big Ole Hound: Via a jackal downstairs, Our Dishonest President. It is indeed a good read.
Cheers,
Scott.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
About to catch a showing of Ghost In The Shell. Just rewatched the 1995 animated movie, we’ll see how it compares.
Mike J
Fathom events, not Fanthom. I know a hawk from a handsaw.
CaseyL
@Mike J: …no matter which quarter the wind is blowing?
Corner Stone
It’s supposed to be raining here at some point. It was supposed to overnight and now they have it as raining again today. I’ve got stuff to water, people!
p.a.
NxNW 2pm EDT. Leaving soon.
SiubhanDuinne
@MJS:
I’m seeing it Wednesday. Very excited — been decades since I watched NxNW on the big screen.
Mike J
@CaseyL: At the south end of lake Washington, good weather means winds north by northwest. When storms come in, the wind is from the south. There’s no reason to waste time or energy on sanity until there’s a storm.
Corner Stone
People! A cautionary tale, told by an idiot:
I wanted to veeeerrryyy lightly dust my fries with a tiny bit of Carolina Reaper powder. The lid has a flip top open/close and small holes under for disbursement. Which I have taped about 3/4 of the holes inside over so I don’t use too much at one shake. Not only is it insanely fucking hot but it is also insanely fucking expensive.
I carefully flip open the top….and the whole damn thing pops off. Causing a very fine powdery mist of Carolina Reaper dust to sift its way all over my fries. But more importantly, all over my finger tips and as I came to find out later, to my delight, even some in my eyebrows.
There has been *much* joy in my household over the last 18 or so hours. Much.Joy.
sukabi
@Corner Stone: lol…don’t fear the reaper?
JPL
AARGH! The person who organized a group to go to the 6th district candidate forum, did not know you had to preregister. Ugh.. I guess I’ll just go pull weeds.
JPL
@Big Ole Hound: Thanks
@Another Scott: Thanks to both of you, since I missed it earlier.
Doug R
@Corner Stone: So you jury-rigged a bottle filled with one of the world’s hottest peppers? What could possibly go wrong?
Mike J
@JPL: Doesn’t sound like they did much organizing. There’s the difference between organizers and activists.
Iowa Old Lady
@Corner Stone: Given the joy, are you sure that was an accident? Remember the smart alecks who would loosen the caps on the squeeze ketchup containers?
gwangung
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant): As you may know, this remake does not enjoy a particularly good reputation in the Asian American community. Be interested in what people think.
debbie
TaMara, I hope you’ll share pix of your lilacs. They won’t be blooming here this year because of Bastard Winter. ?
JPL
@Mike J: For a small scale city council election, the person is doing pretty good, but a few events have been a bust. I wanted to attend obviously, for other reasons than wearing a t shirt for a city council candidate.
SiubhanDuinne
@Iowa Old Lady:
Aaaaaaaaand yesterday was April 1st, classically the time to loosen lids, switch out the salt and sugar, etc.
dmsilev
@Another Scott: I read that this morning over breakfast (I’m a dinosaur and still like print papers). A good read that makes one wonder whether some snarling jackals staged a stealth takeover of the LA Times Editorial Board.
Brachiator
Crap. Looks like it’s playing tonight near me, but I have other plans.
Love Hitchcock, and NBNW is a particular favorite.
karen marie
If you haven’t seen it (or if you have and are unaware), the Peter Cook/Dudley Moore movie Bedazzled is on Netflix. It is amazing! Moore’s best movie, imo. If you’re inclined to believe its premise, it explains a lot about how we got to Trump. I cannot get over how well it stands up to the passage of time.
delk
The CSO is playing the score to North By Northwest while they show the film. We saw them do The Bride of Frankenstein and The Raiders of the Lost Ark. Very amazing live performances.
dmsilev
Oh boy. He found his phone again.
Please, Donald, tell us all about the “love and strength” in the GOP.
SiubhanDuinne
@Brachiator:
Check the Fathom site and see if your theatre does either or both of the Wednesday encore screenings. I always try to catch the Wednesday matinees of these TCM big screen classics. Have seen some great films in recent months — All About Eve, Carousel, Dr. Strangelove, and Singin’ in the Rain, among others.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
Watching Michigan softball on an off day of the Women’s World Ice Hocjey tournament. Yesterday was an amazing day of hockey. Germany beat the Czechs 2-1 in game that, if not god, was at keast interesting in the sense that I’ve never seen a team spend as much time in the offensive zone without generating any good scoring chances as the Czechs.
Then the U.S. bombwd the Russians 7-0, which is always a good time. It uncluded two goals ib the last 25 seconds to produce a score that better reflected the play.
In the night cap, Finland beat Canada for the first time ever. 4-3. It eas a great game. Finland was never agead by more than one, but also never trailed. Canada is in big trouble, which just breakd my heart.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
love and strength. His language fascinates me. Even with Bush or Palin word-salads you could usually figure out what they were aiming for and missing.
Brachiator
@gwangung:From an earlier post…
I also saw Ghost in the Shell today, which fails to improve over the graphic novel or great animated film version. Great production design, but glum soundtrack and undistinguished direction. Some of the best action scenes are lifted straight from the animated film.
I have mixed feelings about the controversy over the casting. I don’t think it matters as much here given the material’s fantasy universe even though there’s a twist which pointlessly steps into the controversy. Given how similar themes about robotic identity have been explored better before (Robocop, Blade Runner, The Matrix, Ex Machina, Westworld), Ghost in the Shell needed to offer something deeper and more original, and actually the good cast and acting sometimes offers hints of a much better movie that could have been shaped from the raw material here.
Oatler.
The inflection James Mason gives to “Rapid City”.
Corner Stone
@Iowa Old Lady: Probably not. Unless your pet raccoon Rocky has a cousin hanging out down here?
Mai.naem.mobile
@Another Scott: Hey,Scott saw your post about your cat. Sorry to hear about her passing. Sounds like you gave her a nice long life and she sounds like a great companion.
Tripod
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Shut up Don, you’re drunk.
Brachiator
@SiubhanDuinne:
Unfortunately, Wednesday is even worse for me. But you know, I may just rent it. It would be fun to see it again.
Mai.naem.mobile
I have this cold from hell. I have had a few bad upper respiratory infections including the flu but this one is by far the worst. The cough does not stop. I’m exhausted just from the cough. I want a little mini vacuum in my left nostril to suck all the mucus out on a regular intermittent basis.
dmsilev
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I think he’s trying to back down from his “primary those disloyal bastards” tweets he squeezed out about the Freedum Caucus last week and saying that the GOP is one big happy family united in their common dream to fuck over poor people.
lamh36
It’s supposed to rain here in the Metro NOLA area, flash flood warnings and all. So far, it’s overcast, but not rain just yet. But my sis in the Baton Rouge area says it’s raining there, so it’s still coming.
I’m resting my leg been twinging the past couple of days and catching up on Major Crimes episodes I missed! Sanchez adopting a lil boy…aww…Rusty all grown up and wanting to become a lawyer…aww…Sharon and Andy…aww…lol
I’m watching On Demand, and seeing this preview trailer for CLAWS on TNT with @NiecyNash …looks good!
https://youtu.be/gGGQqsIRwsY
Mai.naem.mobile
@dmsilev: he means the love of money in the GOP and the strength of the person giving you the money in the form of campaign donations and wingnut welfare gigs.
Baud
@dmsilev: Everyone is learning quickly that they can walk all over Trump.
Mnemosyne
@Mai.naem.mobile:
I bet that’s the same virus I had. The goddamned cough was absolutely relentless unless I took Sudafed every four hours on the dot. The one plus was that it never turned into bronchitis, so I slept fine as long as I took a Benadryl before bed to keep the post-nasal drip under control.
Be careful while eating, because a sudden need to cough while chewing a bite of sandwich is what caused my Heimlich adventure.
amk
gopee poutrage about dnc chair
sayingtelling it like it is – gopee doesn’t give a shit about voters – is funny.StringOnAStick
@Mai.naem.mobile: There is a truly nasty cold/respiratory infection going around lately; 2 weeks ago one dental assistant in my office was out all week, then last week the other one got it and was out all week. Both are people who can’t afford a week off work, so I know they were seriously sick, and in between their illness one of my fellow RDH’s was out as well. I’ve got a mountain biking vacation coming up in 2 weeks so I really, really don’t want to catch this one.
Tripod
@dmsilev:
He reached out to the Democrats, and specifically the CBC. How the fuck did they (he?? who is in charge?) think screwing over his only solid constituency would play?
WaterGirl
@dmsilev: Well, it’s kinda true – they love to hate.
Corner Stone
The only thing worse than Sen Turtle blatantly lying about Garland and Gorsuch is that Chuckles not calling him on any of it beyond a kind of, “Huh, you don’t say?” type follow up question.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant):
I have been interested by the previews, but I would have thought that the original (excellent) movie was on the “no need to remake” list. My fear is that it will be a gorgeous but empty CGI-fest.
Baud
@amk: Dave is right. Who in America has the credibility to tell the Democrats shit? We’ll decide what’s over the line for ourselves.
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant):
I saw it last night – adored it. I found it a very thoughtful production, and knew nothing about it going in.
Corner Stone
Chuck Todd. The R’s were rewarded for all obstruction all the time.
God damn idiot.
mattH
So, I have an animal issue. My wife and I rescued a stray cat last July, and he’s just the cutest thing, playful, almost constantly loving, but he has huge food issues. Today he went over the line, when I turned my back to grab a plastic bag to put some ham in, he hopped up and started eating what I had just cut. I only had my back turned for a few seconds. He’s never been this blatant with me. Any suggestions on how to mitigate this would be helpful.
germy
Someone was waving a protest sign recently:
Trump shouldn’t get to appoint a supreme court justice in the final year of his presidency
Baud
@Corner Stone:
amk
@Baud: Turning the other cheek is an overrated bs.
Betty
This monster has hit all over the place. Can take as long as 4-6 weeks to feel normal again. Hope your healing time is shorter.
MattF
@StringOnAStick: I think I got a (relatively mild) case of it. The day-by-day effects have been ‘themed’. Friday, the theme was mucous and snot, Saturday, the theme was coughing. Today, the theme has been sleep. My hope is that tomorrow I’ll be relatively OK, merely feeling like I’ve been kicked in the head repeatedly.
Baud
@amk: Never take advice from a god unless you are one.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: last week rumors were going around twitter that they don’t have the votes to kill the filibuster. Hard to believe. I assume Collins and I guess Murkowski could take them down to fifty, but I’m stumped at who the others are. I know a lot of the old Dem bulls– Leahy, Levin, Feinstein, ex-Senator Biden– were obstacles when the Dems had control. I can’t see Hatch or McCain playing that role.
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: That would be something. I assumed the nuclear option was a done deal.
GregB
This fucking bum Trump is going to treat all of the autocrats, dictators and tyrants like great leaders and all of the democratic leaders like a pack of assholes.
Shaming this country by the minute.
amk
@Baud: In the mythical world, gods were known to slap each other. So yeah, fuck ’em and their tips for good living.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
My guess is that it’s the same kind of love Trump has been expressing for Amash lately.
GregB
@amk:
Have this short loop handy for whenever the naughty language police on the political right head for the fainting couches over those foul mouthed lefties.
Trump’s trash talk.
debit
@mattH: I’ve had cats that begged when I was eating (sitting next to me on the couch and trying to snag my food from my plate) but never had ones that jumped on the counter. I’d suggest being proactive: putting double sided sticky tape on the counters or crinkled sheets of foil. Teach him not to jump up in the first place.
ETA: My cat that begs was semi feral, so he’s an opportunist as well. If you have a place where you prepare his food, make sure it’s away from where you prepare people food. My cats know to run to the table in the basement where the cat food is stored. Doesn’t stop them from begging in the kitchen, but they don’t actually expect to get food there.
Frankensteinbeck
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
It’s not that hard. “Shut up, WE’RE the good guys!” Bear in mind he lives in a constantly changing fantasy land. He rarely refers to anything real. He heard someone accuse him of being weak and hateful and having lost in the AHCA fiasco, so he’s shouting that he’s rubber and we’re glue.
Iowa Old Lady
@debbie: I hate the way Trump has made me hope that Amash gets renominated.
Iowa Old Lady
@Baud: It’s taken me a while to conclude that if we can’t use the filibuster because we’d lose it, then we don’t really have it.
sukabi
@dmsilev: yep…someone called for a hatch act violation against the WH communications director for using official communications for electioneering.
Mnemosyne
@mattH:
Because cats want to be our friends, the most effective punishment is to deprive them of our company. Pick the cat up, put him in the other room, and close the door. Don’t let him back in until you’re done with food prep.
Baud
@Iowa Old Lady: Agree. And it can be used against us without political ramification. No one will blink an eye of the Republicans get rid of it.
Brachiator
@Steeplejack (tablet):
Not entirely empty. I enjoyed the movie, but it was a bit of a disappointment.
The opening box office was merely adequate. A bad sign is that the Saturday box office was weaker than Friday. The slew of other spring and summer movies will quickly push it to smaller screens.
The animated Boss Baby apparently overperformed and took number 1 from Beauty and the Beast.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I suspect in the long run this will have all the consequences of, to steal a line I saw here a couple days ago, a fart in the wind, and I don’t know what “Paste” is, but….
you shouldn’t have to be deeply political to run for political office. And Jon Ossoff says “Hey!”
mmmm…… no.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
as in he wants to fuck him? I do think that’s how trump understands the word “love”
amk
nice tee.
the girl? ok, what about her?
Thru the Looking Glass...
Just found this online…
Trump’s Impeachment Will Happen This Is Released
.
I’ve been reading about the server for months now… back before the election, I kept wondering why it wasn’t being treated like a bigger deal at the time… I did read at least one incredibly convoluted ‘explanation’ that said it didn’t mean anything bit it came across as deliberate BS at the time…
(Apologies if anyone’s already covered this here…)
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
As opposed to New Jersey Republicans?
Yeah, Tom might want to let this one go.
Corner Stone
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
And if elected, and she casts a vote for ZEGS as Speaker….all of these goals will come true.
MattF
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I agree, but there is some precedent for it. Nowadays, the R/D divide is starkly ideological, but it wasn’t always that way. Once upon a time, Jacob Javits ran and won as a Republican, mainly because he couldn’t get over the hurdles to running as a Democrat. If Ms. Brown ran and won as an R, that would be quite a joke on Republicans and Democrats alike.
Mnemosyne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
And she thinks Republicans are going to vote for her?
That’s adorable.
debbie
@Baud:
I say let them go nuclear. It will show they don’t have an insurmountable majority and they can’t do the work of governing. When the time comes that the Dems have control, by reinstating the filibuster, the Dems will show that they are the party of grownups.
amk
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: well, nj dems thought christie was doing heckuva job and gave him a second term and he promptly drained the state. who knows?
Mnemosyne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
The district is currently represented by Republican Leonard Lance. If the calculation is that people in the district won’t vote for anyone without an R after their name, it may be the right gamble. But I doubt it.
And, yes, I’m fucking sick of people who look at the massive 6-year obstructionism by the Republicans and decide that it’s all the Democrats’ fault.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Mnemosyne: I think I read that LL’s district is north Jersey horse and McMansion land? I don’t think Christie Todd Whitman and Carmela Soprano are gonna vote for the earnest young woman who wants to raise their taxes, the issue that, barring war, trumps (ahem) all others for tote-baggers
WereBear
Here is what today looks like around these parts:
https://www.instagram.com/p/BSZNC8hg6RX/?taken-by=saranaclakeadk
Frankensteinbeck
@Mnemosyne:
She’s obviously bought the line that the Democratic Party is corrupt and in thrall to Big Business, so I assume she believes that Republican voters are just economically anxious and a REAL progressive agenda will prompt a voter revolution. This, actually, is why I’m pissed at Bernie. He didn’t just run against Clinton. He actively encouraged conspiracy theories that painted the entire Democratic Party as the enemy of all that is progressive. He abused his power over young idealists to convince them to never vote Democrat again.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Frankensteinbeck: and he was doing it on Friday, on a stage with Elizabeth Warren
Steeplejack
@Iowa Old Lady:
Thanks for putting that so succinctly. It will come in useful when I try to explain this to a couple of less politically savvy friends.
Steve in the ATL
Jon Ossoff’s people just knocked on my door! No one from either party has ever done that since i’ve lived in the suburbs. I guess Tom Price didn’t need to canvass.
SiubhanDuinne
@WereBear:
Beautiful! Is that your normal view?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I’ve been wondering if this would happen, and a lot of people here have been predicting hit
mattH
@debit: I’ll start the foil and tape today, see if it helps. No idea how long he was out alone, but he’s been really good in every other way, short of trimming nails at home and snatching food from my other two cats. Not food aggressiveness so much as no fear in stealing from the others, so he eats in his own room.
@Mnemosyne: Should be doable. I don’t know that he’s so attention motivate as much as play. He learned that “treats come in bags” so a rattling bag of any kind brings him running, but I can keep his attention from them with a toy. I just can’t play with him every time he goes foraging.
Thanks so much, both of you ^_^
Mnemosyne
@Frankensteinbeck:
Yup. And they’ll all tell you that nuh-uh! they all totally made up their own minds and Bernie is just telling the truth. The fact that his “truth” is exactly what Republicans want them to believe because it lets Republicans stay in power, like, doesn’t count.
The person I got really pissed at on Twitter yesterday was a self-described “Baby Boomer feminist” who’s leaving the Democrats in a huff because they’ve been letting her down for decades. Bish, please. Who do you think it was that elected Nixon and Reagan? It wasn’t Millennials, you dumbfuck.
WereBear
@SiubhanDuinne: It’s a minute down the street. I wanted a certain mood.
lamh36
Old pic but shows the same current truth… Don’t come for #NiecyZoe unless you want major A-T-T-I-T-U-D-E ???
https://twitter.com/psddluva4evah/status/848616335223422977
dmsilev
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Besides the points that other people have brought up, it’s worth considering the source. Walker Bragman is a “Bernie-or-bust” type, and pretty strident about it. He’s not exactly an objective reporter here.
Baud
@debbie:
That’s a joke, right?
Vheidi
@mattH: squirt gun/plant sprayer filed with h2o. If bargles thinks about getting on the counter i just have to pull it out, case closed
Cain
@gwangung:
Meh. Lately there has been a bunch of people talking about ‘whitewashing’ and so this movie and Iron Fist have come under fire because the lead is white. I reject the whole thing. A race doesn’t own martial arts. So I don’t think we should be so offended about that. Now, there is some nuance to my position. For instance, “Last of the Mohicans” and “Last Samurai” where suddenly the hero is the white guy, that makes me roll my eyes because it is a form of usurping the local culture to some extent. I’m not offended anymore than I was offended at Indiana Jones and the Temple of Doom other than the fact that the movie accused nearly a billion people of eating monkey brains and other exotic proteins in a nation that is mostly vegetarian.
Mnemosyne
@mattH:
If he likes laser toys, allow me to introduce the best cat laser toy EVER when you need to distract kitty from something else. It’s automatic and random so that when (for example) we need to distract Charlotte from coming into the kitchen while I’m cooking, we turn it on and let her play with it while I do that.
Baud
@Frankensteinbeck:
Look, I don’t want to give the impression that the party is perfect or that people can’t raise legitimate concerns. What I’m tired of is people trying to improve things by shortcuts and gimmicks and, especially, through condescension and hatred and lies.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
I’m telling you — she is going to be your family’s first MD. Start saving for her education now!
Baud
@Mnemosyne: And from, it’s just a short hop to HUD secretary.
Cain
@Mai.naem.mobile:
I hope you feel better.. May I suggest getting some elderberry extract and Umcka root? They greatly helped me get over my cold or even prevent it from happening in the first place. I usually have about one cold a year (sometimes no cold!) and taking stuff like this really helps.
Mnemosyne
@Baud:
?? That’s a pretty rude thing to say, dude.
Baud
@Mnemosyne: Mocking Carson is rude now?
Baud
Joe Donnally (D-Ind) is voting for Gorsuch.
zhena gogolia
@SiubhanDuinne:
“Rapid City, South Dakota” in James Mason’s voice. Nothing better!
Villago Delenda Est
@Corner Stone: Chuckles the Toddler is vying with Mrs. Greenspan for the earliest tumbrel manifest number. Cripes how I loathe him. You have to give Jake Tapper some credit for behaving like an actual journalist the last few months. No such credit for Chuckles.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Well oiled machine
debit
@Vheidi: The problem with spraying is that the cat knows if you’re not around he’s safe to do as he pleases.
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud: Another DINO.
zhena gogolia
@Oatler.:
@zhena gogolia:
Ha, always read the whole thread before commenting on BJ!
Baud
@Villago Delenda Est: But he’s got that ad with the basketball and making people follow the rules.
WaterGirl
@Baud: Thank you. I read that and thought, hell no!
zhena gogolia
@amk:
Yessssss!
Baud
@Villago Delenda Est: Well, it’s Indiana. I’m curious to see what Bennet from Colorado does.
zhena gogolia
@mattH:
Never turn your back.
debbie
@Baud:
Really? You think McConnell can be stopped?
zhena gogolia
@GregB:
With admiring comments all down below it.
Baud
@debbie: He’ll blow it up. We’re not going to reinstate it when we get the Senate back, however.
WaterGirl
@debbie: Not speaking for Baud, but if they take away the filibuster from us, I sure as hell don’t want to reinstate it so they can block us like the did for the 8 years of President Obama.
Baud
@WaterGirl: You can speak for me.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: the fighters-of-the-real-enemies at PCCC have already declared war on Heitkamp and Manchin. I would rather focus on NV and AZ
WaterGirl
@lamh36: I see that face and I think: Do. not. fuck. with. Zoe. Am I allowed to say that? :-)
Baud
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I saw that. Can’t stop them, but I’ll be curious to see how much damage they do.
BBA
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I dunno, if NJ’s Democratic machine is as bad as NY’s it might be worthwhile to run on the opposition ticket. And Corzine was really fucking awful.
rikyrah
@amk:
We have 8 years of receipts.
But, what Perez is saying goes.back at least 30 years of truth.
BBA
@Baud: So they have 50 votes to confirm with 60 votes, but they don’t have 50 votes to confirm with 50 votes or 60 votes to confirm with 60 votes. Reminds me of the interminable ACA process. Ah, memories.
rikyrah
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
There wasn’t a state house or state senate seat that she could run for?
She has to show me where the GOP supports anything that she is doing
lamh36
Uh…is there a certain distance ur microwave should be from say the fridge and the stove…asking for a friend???
https://twitter.com/psddluva4evah/status/848625570116231169
West of the Rockies (been a while)
@Corner Stone:
Sorry, Cornerstone… I once had a “friend” urge me to try a spoonful of some wonderful BBQ sauce. It was Dave’s Insanity Sauce. My tongue blistered and I was in tears for 30 minutes. Some people are sociopathic.
Baud
@BBA:
@rikyrah:
That seat is currently held by a Republican, so I guess it is unlikely to do harm.
WereBear
@lamh36: That doesn’t look good.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@rikyrah: I guess we should be glad on some level that someone from that corner of the political world is aware of the existence of Congress. Usually they seem to the Obama could and should have ruled by fiat, like Presdinent B*rnie! would have done! because balls!
@BBA: I don’t know either, but it seems to me if there’s a case to be made for such a corrupt and sclerotic party, it could be challenged by an independent run for the state lege. Like Baud said, this is the quest for a short cut by somebody who’s been convinced that politics is really easy if we just got rid of money or corruption.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
I don’t know. Leaving it at 51 votes isn’t such a great idea either.
lamh36
@WereBear: IKR…
my last oven was near the stove, but I did have a bigger kitchen. I have a dishwasher attached to the reverse counter, but I wasn’t gonna use it, it’s a bit outdated, works I’m sure, but outdated…so I bought a dish drying basket…ya know…so I didn’t want it near the wet dishes…
But I’m thinking I may have to just go ahead and use the dishwasher as a dish dryer…lol…like my mom does…then I can use the bigger counter for the microwave
Mnemosyne
@Baud:
You weren’t mocking Carson. You were mocking the idea that a black girl should aspire to be an MD because, hey, she’ll just go bonkers like Carson anyway, amirite?
rikyrah
@lamh36:
Don’t mess with Zoe ??
raven
@lamh36: Doesn’t your dishwasher have a dry function?
WereBear
@lamh36: That’s not a bad idea of your Mom’s at all; and when company comes, you just close the door :)
lamh36
@WaterGirl: lol…it’s def an statement we’ve all made when we see the same face…lol
Baud
@Mnemosyne: Nope. Mocking Carson.
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
I would worry that you might accidentally melt the edge of the microwave since it’s overlapping the stove a little. You should probably move it.
lamh36
@raven: it does, but I don’t know that it’s that great…it’s an older model, and to be quite honest, the complex needs to update it soonner than later…but it def can be used as a drip dry
Mnemosyne
@Baud:
… by saying that any Black doctor would go nuts, too.
ETA: That may not be how you meant it, but that’s how it came across to me.
Baud
@Mnemosyne: Any one of us is capable of going nuts. Carson is just someone we know who did.
lamh36
@Mnemosyne: yeah…I figured. Besides, I don’t want a smaller mircrowave anyway…so I’m def move it…
gene108
@amk:
Christie greatly benefited from the Obama recovery in his first term.
The NJ Democrats, from what I have seen living in this state for 20 years, are like feudal lords, with Part Bosses ruling their local fiefs, first and foremost, and not always willing to unite under a single Party leader.
It didn’t help that McGreevey resigned in disgrace, and Corzine went around the Party hierarchy, by throwing a good chunk of his personal fortune into running for governor. There was no center to NJ Democrats, so they kept to their local power bases, doled out patronage and expected something in return.
Christie, initially was able to “buy off” many local Democrats, as they were more interested in controlling their “little piece of heaven”, than mounting opposition to Christie. He got very little scrutiny from the “loyal opposition”.
And then the GWB closing came to light, Christie’s fierce promise to rebuild after Sandy started getting mired in fraud and abuse, and he spent the better part of 2014 working for the Republican Governor’s Association, and then 2015 running for President, and 2016 campaigning for Trump, people are sick of his shit.
He’s been an absentee governor the last three years and the state hasn’t missed him.
He’s shown he’s not needed and no one wants him.
gene108
@Baud:
Hope the Dems voting for Gorsuck are making the same deal Collins, and I think Murkowski did on the Devos nomination: Vote against your Party to preserve your Street cred, but knowing their are enough votes in the Party to get the person confirmed or in this case opposed.
raven
@lamh36: The biggest issue with them is that the “dryer” is a heating element on the bottom of the unit and you have to keep any plastic items on the top rack.
lamh36
all right the microwave has been moved across the kitchen above the dish dryer/dishwasher?
https://twitter.com/psddluva4evah/status/848632249880858624
workworkwork
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: We saw it yesterday and enjoyed it. The production values are fantastic and I loved seeing the best action scenes from the anime translated to live action.
The casting was good, particularly Takeshi Kitano as Aramaki. He projected just the right qualities of wisdom and hard-won experience. (Just don’t mess with his team.) I would have liked to have seen more of the other members of Section 9, but there’s only so much time.
gene108
@Corner Stone:
But if Todd asked follow-up questions, no
oneRepublican will come on his show, because he’s being a Great Big Meanie ☹️??raven
We are re-watching Treme so I made duck gumbo!
joel hanes
@Corner Stone:
capsaicin is fat-soluble
so “wash” your face and hands with olive oil, or butter, or cream,
and then wash with soap
rinse, repeat
been there, although not with Carolina Reaper
chopper
@dmsilev:
to be fair to drumpf, nothing says “love” like gutting health coverage for tens of millions of people out of sheer spite.
WereBear
@debit: You are exactly right.
Here’s my tips for keeping cats off kitchen counters.
It’s a partnership.
J R in WV
@mattH:
@debit:
WE had a really big snow white tom cat with bright red spots that I rescued from the local hardware store. Named him Rufus for the red spot on his head. He was affectionate, and eventually at dinner would take a seat and be just so proper. Eventually one of us would give him a tiny scrap of whatever meat or seafood we were having.
He was totally polite and well mannered. We never gave him more than 1 or 2 tiny tastes, and he just purred and never demanded anything at all.
When he got aged a little, he would creep into bed after I fell asleep, and curl against my bald head, keeping both of us a little warmer. He was our second giant white cat with red spots, they were both wonderful partners to live with.
Currently we have two rescued feral cats who are affectionate, but also have trouble controlling their claws, so I’m covered by little slices and snags. I use alcohol to sanitize my forearms and thighs when they get a little too affectionate. At night they like to sneak into bed, fortunately the covers keep them from doing damage at night.
I wish we had a king bed, then there would be room for the dogs, who will join either of us for an afternoon nap. But not room for everyone at the same time.
Another Scott
@Mai.naem.mobile: Cat?!? j/k ;-)
Thanks for the kind words, Mai.
And thanks, everyone. I didn’t mean to hijack so many threads, but do appreciate the good thoughts.
Cheers,
Scott.
Juju
@mattH: I’m not a cat person because I am allergic to cats, but could you put him in a kitty carrier while your working with food and let him out when you’re done? Would something like that work with cats?
WereBear
@mattH: From my decades of rescue experience, it’s simple: he’s hungry. If he had any survival struggles at all, it was a life or death thing; and that leaves a mark.
Can you put a sliver of ham in his dish for him? And if he asks politely, he gets another sliver? This will teach him yours and mine.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Brachiator: Agreed. The soundtrack could have been lifted from any of a hundred other movies, and the griping about the cast turned out to be meaningless because they were given next to nothing to do.
hovercraft
@Another Scott:
Great read.
Only 70 days in. I decided to watch Meet The Press to see where the villagers are on this clusterfuck of an administration.
Amy Walters pointed out that Twitler is already at the point where Bush, Clinton and Obama were when they lost congress. His approval among republicans is high, but his mistakes and failures have already dispirited them, the strong approval is being swamped by strong dissaproval, 2 to 1, and he’s at 33% approve with independents. Right now he’s already lost the support he had from the middle and the only people who are energized are the democrats. Everyone on the panel agreed that between his fuckups and Ryan’s the GOP is in trouble, trash talking from the sidelines is easy, but governing is hard, and given the competing interests and priorities of the various factions, pulling them into a cohesive governing congress will be almost impossible. Cue the newest MSNBC host, Greta, it’s still early guys and you’re forgetting that if by election time the economy is growing at 4% all this wil be a distant memory and republicans will win!! Of course no one thought to ask her what was going to lead to this growth rate, I’m sure the answer would have been tax cuts, and if tax cuts are that stimulative why Kansas and Wisconsin are not shining examples for us to observe.
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes: I think that you are the target audience – among those who had no previous exposure.
The theater I went to had no matinees on opening day, and only one each over the weekend. My showing had less than 20 in it. Not a good sign…
Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant)
@Steeplejack (tablet): After rewatching the original, I agree there was no need for a remake. The effects were fine, and actually not over CGI-ified.
WaterGirl
@Mnemosyne: Wow, that’s not how I took Baud’s comment at all.
That may not have been how he meant it? Have you met Baud before? Of course that’s not how he meant it.
edit: and I say that as someone scorned by Baud just this morning in the little girl loves the water heater thread.
WaterGirl
@lamh36: Much better! I missed your whole move. What did I miss? Did you move to another city? Is the annoying boss at the old place or the new place? Promotion? Lateral move? Where are you now?
WaterGirl
@WereBear: *WHERE WERE YOU 7 YEARS AGO WHEN I GOT MY KITTIES AND TRIED TO TEACH THEM TO STAY OFF THE COUNTERS???
(pardon my shouting, but I surely wish I had read that a very very long time ago.)
Is it too late? They are 7.
p.s. the all caps was meant to be funny, not trying to be a jerk.
WereBear
@WaterGirl: Sure, it can still work :)
You have nothing to lose by trying, certainly.
Brachiator
@Ben Cisco (onboard the Defiant):
After a while, I got a little bored, and actually began thinking during the movie that it would be a lot more fun if it were more about the team and the Major. Her second in command (the guy who got the special spectacles) was interesting. The scene with the dog was typical (and kinda lame) character building, but there was one scene where he is walking and you see him with his clothing and weapons, and I thought “I like the way this character moves. I wish more was done to show his character by how he commands the physical space, not just how he is a sentimental guy who loves doggies.”
Barbara
I love North By Northwest! As a footnote to history. Remember the scene with the corn field and him dodging the plane? That was filmed just outside my home town, Corcoran, California, (North of Bakersfield and south of Fresno) and they had to plant the corn! I always laugh when I see that scene.