Many Californians’ regularly scheduled broadcasts were interrupted Thursday morning with strange emergency messages warning of extraterrestrial invasions and the beginning of Armageddon. The bizarre warnings aired on TVs in the Orange County area, affecting Cox and Spectrum cable users, according to the Orange County Register.
(via Adam emailing it to me)
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Corner Stone
Melania has her proctologist gloves on, apparently.
warning of extraterrestrial invasions and the beginning of Armageddon
Warning? Or promise?
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David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@efgoldman: that’s only because there already is a putting green outside the oval office. Ike had one installed. LBJ hated it.
And so he walked me over to the French doors that went out to the Rose Garden, and it’s the area where Eisenhower had his putting green. And he looked out, and he looked at me, and he looked down, looked out, looked down. There were pockmarks on the floor where Eisenhower’s golf shoes had hit the floor. And he finally looked at me, and he looked at the floor, and he said, “Look what that son of a bitch did to my floor!” And then he patted me on the back and said, “Have a nice trip.”
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Gin & Tonic
@Corner Stone: 1. Put your head between your legs. 2. Kiss your ass goodbye.
How would one “prepare” for a nuclear attack, exactly?
Why…
Duck… and Cover…
Of course!
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brettvk
I think it’s a damn shame that we’ll never know exactly what goes on in that woman’s head. I’d be fascinated to really know what she thinks of her journey, because (and I’m projecting, because that’s all any of us can do) I really don’t think she expected to end up where she is and it probably doesn’t feel real to her.
I’ve got to get out and find gloves to match my gardening togs.
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Emma
@Corner Stone: There used to be a poster with instructions about exactly that. IIRC the last instruction was “put your head between your legs and kiss your arse goodbye.”
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David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@geg6: Here’s his hilarious/obscene story on medicare failing passage the first time. (tape)
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brettvk
@Major Major Major Major: Oh, yeah, that. Just what we need right now, tech-savvy nutcases ratcheting the suspense a little higher. OTOH, the Rapture would simplify things for the midterms.
I can’t track it down at the moment, but I have a US gvt booklet from the early ’60’s with several plans for building combination dry bar/fallout shelters in your basement. N.B. (IIRC), fallout, not blast, shelter. Tip: lots of bricks…
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trollhattan
@Corner Stone:
Get all those corks out beforehand, especially the reds.
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sukabi
@NotMax: yes, but that was for biological attacks…
@brettvk:
Our summer French visitor (a very wise sixteen) quickly notes, “Oooh, she hates him.” It’s even more adorable with the accent and evidently is a widely held European opinion.
Many too stuffed from the Rosh Hashanah table to be aroused. ;)
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Jay Noble
Back in the 80’s we had one of those EBS messages interupt whatever it was we were watching in the dorm. Ya, ya we know “This is only a test”. Hurry it up we’re missing the show! Message ends. but then, just a blank screen. And then up pops a General. Oh Crap!
Seems he wanted to tell us about some neat upgrade they had just made.
@NotMax: Pretty sure that was in the case of a “dirty bomb” (a conventional explosive packed with radioactive material to spread radioactive contamination) not an actual nuclear bomb attack.
Many Californians’ regularly scheduled broadcasts were interrupted Thursday morning with strange emergency messages warning of extraterrestrial invasions and the beginning of Armageddon.
So normal California Weirdness or are we now actually living in a B movie?
@trollhattan: I’m not so much interested in the quality of her marriage as I am in the trajectory of her career. I mean, the relationship to Trump just squicks me out. But here’s a mildly talented, mildly pretty Eastern European who maneuvered herself into a well-paid position, then got swept into the White House. She didn’t foresee that, I’d bet, and I don’t think she wanted it. It’s a goddamned American saga that we’ll never get to see onscreen.
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dmsilev
So normal California Weirdness or are we now actually living in a B movie?
More functional than Trump’s. Just don’t piss off people we may need. She may be only one who can figure out what he’s babbling about soon.
Seriously, I think Trump is seriously senile. Josh Marshall had a tweet about Trump apologizing to a crowd that FLOTUS couldn’t be at some appearance, but she was standing six inches away from him right by his side. Trump is seriously, and I am not kidding, losing it big time.
And BTW, I did not know you could grow diamond tennis bracelets outside in DC. I’ll quit making fun of he savage and hellish East Coast climate. Guess it has its uses.
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dmsilev
@Adam L Silverman: Does Mike Pence wear a jacket with his name on it just in case he forgets who he is?
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brettvk
@lamh36: Not surprising. I never saw the humanitarian in him; to me all his performances sort of seethed below the surface.
ETA: And ISTR that his first marriage ended in divorce after like 30 years, and I thought at the time, “Gee, Mrs. Lewis, you put up with it this long, why not stick it out?” I was very young then.
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jl
@Adam L Silverman: Yeah, thanks for finding that.and posting it.
Trump is out of it. I predict FLOTUS will be spending lots of time in the garden.
” Just don’t piss off people we may need. She may be only one who can figure out what he’s babbling about soon. ”
Actually, not certain Trump understands exactly who FLOTUS is now. So, no point. Make as much fun as you want.
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Jeffro
Hillz on loving goldfish crackers: “we passed around a bag of ‘flavor blasted’ goldfish and discussed whether it was better than the original. Some of my staff thought yes, which was incorrect.”
Perhaps a case of artful editing. The longer clip makes it seem more like awkward phrasing than senility. (Relevant snippet starts at about 0:50.)
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Corner Stone
@Jeffro: HRC on AMJoy tomorrow. I have my phaser set to “Record”.
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David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Adam L Silverman: Maybe he doesn’t recognize her without her make-up.
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Corner Stone
Joy is a much better interviewer than Maddow. I hope I’m not over preparing myself for this session. But I hope she digs in and gets HRC to bleed from her eyes or her wherever.
But here’s a mildly talented, mildly pretty Eastern European who maneuvered herself into a well-paid position, then got swept into the White House.
Mildly talented at what?
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Baud
@Corner Stone: I hope she gets HRC to say “fuck.” I don’t even care about the context.
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Corner Stone
Speaking of mean, but not funny. Megyn Kelly is a garbage human being.
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jl
@Steeplejack: No. I don’t see any awkward phrasing. I see a guy who is out of it regarding who was standing there with him.
Trump was talking more or less in an appropriate and thoughtful way about the disasters, so maybe doing that really taxed the old guy’s noggin, with all the tremendous required focus. I’ll assume that’s it, until more evidence develops.
Unfair, eventually garbage can be rendered inert and harmless.
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jl
@Corner Stone: Mildly talented at being a mildly pretty Eastern European? I’ll go with that.
@Corner Stone: She’s saying weird BS for a supposedly intelligent person. Maybe she wants to get canned from her new gig. Looks like Fox News critical thinking burrowed down into the marrow of her bones.
@Corner Stone: Hey, I’m sitting in the same town I moved to in second grade, contemplating late-life student loan debts. She was born in a town-you’ve-never-heard-of in Slovenia, quit college, and made it to New York and a secure retirement. I forebear to speculate on her talent(s) but she must have at least one.
SleepingGiant is doing good work in Canada too, removing advertisers from Rebel Media.
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jl
Four day alt-right free speech festival at UC Berkeley self-clowned itself into an afternoon press conference in San Francisco.
For awhile I thought they were intentionally sabotaging a reasonably well organized event in order to troll UC Berkeley. But, I can’t imagine they wanted it to self-destruct so completely. So, pure indiscipline and pure dumbacity must have played a big part. And maybe a little sloth, too.
Yiannopoulos’ Planned ‘Free Speech Week’ Appears To Implode Spectacularly
” after student organizers failed to file the proper paperwork to reserve university buildings, and after Yiannopolous apparently neglected to notify some of the scheduled speakers that the event was even happening, the affair has been reduced to a Saturday press conference in San Francisco. ”
I just can’t find it in me to have any respect for someone who willingly fucks pigs.
I’m guessing David Cameron isn’t high on your great British PMs list.
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TenguPhule
Train wreck time:
Trump campaigning in Ala.: ‘Rocket Man should have been handled a long time ago — by Clinton’
Stupid fucking fucker. Clinton DID handle it until Bush and Republicans in Congress welshed on the deal.
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Baud
@Cheryl Rofer: It would be cool if Kim Jong Un showed up at the Moore rally.
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jl
@Baud: Baud 2020! doesn’t necessarily have to feel bad that got no invite. You’re probably one of the ones they forgot about.
Edit: OTOH, the Trumpster base will believe anything. So, there could be nothing at all, not even a press conference, and dozens of news stories documenting their complete negligence, and it wouldn’t make any difference. They can just lie about it and the base will believe them.
So, maybe that is their plan. I retract my criticism and congratulate them on their ruthless efficiency.
Lessons that Baud 2020! campaign could learn, maybe?
She’s saying weird BS for a supposedly intelligent person. Maybe she wants to get canned from her new gig.
Well, her highly-visible, universally-panned, microscopically-rated Sunday night show was dead as soon as NBC stick it in the Sunday football slot, from which it was fated to disappear almost instantly.
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hitchhiker
The weirdest thing about this photo is her hair. Who goes out gardening with their long hair loose like that? I have hair about that length right now, and ffs — it gets into your face. Strands blow into your mouth. If you try to push it away while wearing gloves (esp dirty ones from touching dirt in your garden), you’ll regret it.
I get so bored with all the model-posed photos of Melania and Ivanka, but this one makes me want to follow her around the garden and see what happens in the next frame.
I would have shown up. I have some free speech to offer them.
Baud 2020: “Feel my Constitutional Authorateh!”
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jl
@TenguPhule: Maybe Trump is referring to Hillary, you know, when she messed up her presidential term so badly? Why wasn’t she impeached anyway? (Deep State, you just know it).
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VOR
@NotMax: Yes, the Dubya administration recommended duct tape and tarps. But in their defense, that was for chemical and biological weapons. Duct tape – what can’t it do?
A Republican elected as county coroner in Idaho is facing public corruption charges for grotesque scandal involving dozens of dead bodies.
Nathan Hess worked at the only funeral home in the mortuary-lacking Valley County, ID. Hess was also the elected county coroner, which created a conflict of interest when Hess has fired from Heikkila Funeral Home.
“Valley County Coroner Nathan Hess, Heikkila’s previous funeral director, had apparently stopped taking the bodies to the county morgue after he was fired from the funeral home on Nov. 11,” the Idaho Statesman reported.
“He was keeping the bodies at his home in the coroner’s truck and transporting them to Boise,” said Scott Carver, who took over as Heikkila Funeral Home director on the first of December.
He was getting $400.00 a piece for the bodies from the House morgue…
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JPL
@Cheryl Rofer: I put it on and his speech is disjointed, but he is also pretty low energy. He might be reading from the teleprompter now, but he is still off. He loves the white house, btw
lol CNN is a tad confused also.
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eclare
@Corner Stone: Thanks for the heads up, DVR is set for AMJoy.
Kelly’s weird self destruction as potentially credible journalist is almost Trumpian
She gave up any semblance of credibility years ago, with “Santa was white” among other idiocies.
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Gravenstone
@TenguPhule: Sorry, in that context it seems rather clear Trump is using “handled” as a euphemism for killed. Fucker is gonna get us into (another) war at this rate.
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jl
@efgoldman: I wasn’t talking about credibility with BJ-ers, I was talking about cred with people who watch CW BS on TV. I thought maybe that BS was an act for Fox News. But looks like she is nuts and believes that stuff.
@efgoldman: Must be nuts. If she though that Fox News nonsense would fly with general population, that would make her really stupid. Anyway, at least one of the two.
If she had been sane and smart, she could have cynically fit in with the savvy media in-crowd no problem Just don’t put on toxic crazy shows and say toxic crazy stuff.
As I said, a Trumpain self-destruction in progress.
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sukabi
@efgoldman: years of exposure to Ailes droopy jowls, roving hands and floppy moobs have driven her mad… Well that and the constant stream of propaganda they bathe in 24 / 7… It’s the Stanford Experiment without the bars.
If she had been sane and smart, she could have cynically fit in with the savvy media in-crowd no problem Just don’t put on toxic crazy shows and say toxic crazy stuff.
MK really is not very bright or very good at her job. She made 70 year old white males remember their days of lust and sexual harassment while on Fox. But in the real world not every eyeball is fixated on her Golden Goddess persona.
She is a garbage human being.
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Gravenstone
Because I need a fucking palate cleanser, the new Black Country Communion album (IV) dropped today. This is a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7FssPpNG2w after a couple of listens through. Song is about the director of the band on the Titanic who played the passengers off before going down with the ship. (metaphors? not me)
And just because I’m of the mood for more bravery in the face of adversity, another epic about a much lesser known disaster – the crash of the R101.
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TenguPhule
Trump is fucking rambling all over the place.
Rocketman, McCain, kneeling football players, what the fuck.
MK really is not very bright or very good at her job. She made 70 year old white males remember their days of lust and sexual harassment while on Fox. But in the real world not every eyeball is fixated on her Golden Goddess persona.
She is a garbage human being.
Megyn Kelly: “Santa is white!”
Adult: “Santa’s not real.”
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JPL
@TenguPhule: Nancy and Chuck were nice to him and so was China and Russia.
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Omnes Omnibus
@hitchhiker: Wow. Santa is what he is, which is imaginary. Unlike the Easter Bunny, who is real and evil.
If she had been sane and smart, she could have cynically fit in with the savvy media in-crowd no problem
I don’t know. I bet her agent got her an ironclad contract which pays off whether she succeeds or (most likely) fails.
She’s crying all the way to the bank.
@efgoldman: yes. But unlike Santa, who places gifts in a proper setting, the bunny hides them where they might never be found. He gives nothing. Santa wants homemade cookies which smell delicious when they are baking. The Easter bunny wants your home to smell of vinegar.
One of my favorites: Robert lived in *Rockford where he ate only the heads off of chocolate bunnies.
*I don’t believe it was actually Rockford, but I was dating a Robert in Rockford at the time, so for Easter I cut the head off a chocolate bunny, put the wobbly chocolate head on a popsicle stick, and somehow attached the caption to the whole thing. Imagine me trying to explain that to my boyfriend’s parents when meeting then for the first time that weekend for Easter.
Omnes, apologies if that should have included a trigger warning.
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JPL
@WaterGirl: lol
My mutt killed Peter the Cottontail, and then brought him/her to me. I think he was expecting it for supper. Sad
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WaterGirl
@JPL: That does not sound fun. When I was in grad school, I was working on a project with a fellow student at the dining table when my cocker spaniel came in from outside. We could not figure out where the awful smell was coming from.
Finally, we discovered a dead bird hanging by its claws from the underside of my cocker spaniel’s chest and tummy area. That was a fun one to untangle. Hopefully your bunny was fresher than the bird was.
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jl
@lamh36: So, is elevator twerking in bikinis a thing going around now? Or does Nye hang out in weird places?
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hitchhiker
Story on twitter now about the plaid shirt, which is made by a French company and sells for $1,500 or so.
I don’t care. She’s a model doing some modeling. On the daily, this gig is probably not that different from all those fashion shoots, and at least now she can be sure she won’t have to take all her clothes off at any point in the process.
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jl
@TenguPhule: Trump’s base loves them some open-mic-night-at-the-comedy-club politicking.
Trump is also clearly losing it, but playing to the room is a part of it too.
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JPL
@WaterGirl: No bugs on the bunny, so pretty fresh. I’m fortunate because my yard backs up to 11 acres. Finch’s catches go over the fence into the great burial ground.
This story makes me wish I were more proficient at swearing.
You can audit my fucking course for a small fee.
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Feathers
Somebody needs to get Key & Peele’s blessing and do the “Melania Anger Translator” skit.
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lamh36
@jl: smh…teenagers are IDIOTS…film at 11:00…just nowadays they have social media, so they can’t ever forget how stupid they used to be…smh
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Gin & Tonic
@Peale: I can’t say I’ve ever understood the concept of gifts at Easter. I can understand Christmas, based on the story of Christ’s birth and wise men coming from afar bringing gifts. But Easter? Hey, your Lord and savior was tortured and killed to atone for your sins, but then faked them all out and ascended bodily into Heaven. Have a candy bar! WTF?
The Easter food/candy treats are a vestige of post-Lent celebrations. Lent itself was a 40-day period of abstinence, probably begun somewhere in pre-historical days as a way to make sense of the season when there wasn’t a hell of a lot to eat, between the last of the winter storage and first of the spring crops. It’s nicer to think you’re fasting by choice than to freak out about how you’re starving, eh?
In Seattle we have an annual Peep Sculpture contest that’s a great reason to read the paper on Easter morning.
@hitchhiker: I know all that, and maybe phrased myself wrong. Lately it seems that I see a lot of “Easter shopping” and “gifts” in “Easter baskets.” It’s like a mini-Christmas, and it just a) seems really off, when compared to the ostensible religious significance and b) seems *much* more pronounced than I remember it from when I was younger. Sure, springtime, rebirth, emptying the larder because it’s planting time, yeah, but it’s also the central miracle and doctrinal key of this particular faith, which I thought should be (and as I recall, was) treated with solemnity and awe, and not just another shopping occasion.
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Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: @WaterGirl: One always starts at the head when eating a chocolate bunny. It is known.
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WaterGirl
@efgoldman: Fuck is my go to swear word, but I definitely need some additional words – sometimes one word just isn’t enough. “Bastards!” doesn’t count, because that’s my go to when I’m not really upset but just want to say something cathartic. If there are additional words covered in your course, please let me know where to send my registration.
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WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: Have you listened to the David Sedaris Easter story? Laugh out loud funny, in my opinion.
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WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: The ears, to be more specific. In fact, I always start with the left ear. My left, bunny’s right.
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WaterGirl
Thanks for all the kind responses, helpful suggestions and commiseration.
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Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Add modifiers to fuck. As in “shit fucking moron.” Also don’t be afraid to re-use versions of fuck. As in “Fuck him. Fuck him up his stupid, fucking ass.”*
*h/t Corner Stone.
@WaterGirl: Depends on the size of the bunny, doesn’t it?
it’s also the central miracle and doctrinal key of this particular faith, which I thought should be (and as I recall, was) treated with solemnity and awe
There is nothing so solemn that Americans can’t commercialize it.
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Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Were are the Atonement stickers for Yom Kippur?
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Omnes Omnibus
@Omnes Omnibus: FYWP didn’t let me edit to fix the typo.
“How did you get through the Trump years, WaterGirl?”
“I expanded my vocabulary.”
As for bunnies, you raise a good question. Apparently I have never eaten a bunny whose head is small enough that I could bite the whole thing off at once. In case you want to send a bunny my way, I always prefer dark chocolate. Milk chocolate is awful, and they shouldn’t even be allowed to call the white stuff “white chocolate”.
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Citizen Alan
While I dislike her as a person, there is something about Melania Trump that I find deeply saddening. She reminds me of Susan Alexander from Citizen Kane who wanted nothing more than to be the kept arm-candy of a wealthy man only to be nearly driven mad (and actually driven to a suicide attempt) because of said wealthy man’s obsession with making a common gold digger into something “worthy” of his own greatness.
@Citizen Alan: No sympathy or empathy from me for Melania. She married a total fucking woman-hating pig for money; she gets everything she deserves. Except to be first lady: she does not deserve that.
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WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: She’s your mom, so I will let that go. I’m sure she shows good judgment in other things.
Would better describe the character of Alexander as a naif, not a gold digger.
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SFBayAreaGal
@TenguPhule: Sounds like Orson Welles, War of the Worlds Radio show
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Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: She also likes the “The Notebook.” At the same time, as a teacher, she challenged the rule that male teachers an an extra stipend because they were the primary bread winners for the family. She was working, my dad was in school, and I existed. She won. She has never had edgy artistic taste, but she actually fought a real fight and won.
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WaterGirl
Good for your mom! Did they remove the rule completely or did they make an exception for her particular case?
My mom also fought some gender-related battles, and won. Not to mention that she took the pill when it first came out, in spite of it being a mortal sin in the catholic church to do so. She told her priest and said he could excommunicate her if he wanted but the rule was wrong and she wasn’t going to live by it. The priest never took action against her. She was a force of nature.
P.S. I saw The Notebook but I do not remember any of it.
Yeah. I think she signed on for the “rich Manhattan trophy wife” gig and was very happy with that. This whole First Lady thing and being in the public spotlight 24/7 has got to be hell for her.
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WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: No sympathy from me. If you marry a pig for money, that makes you a pig, too. “Lie down with dogs” and all that.
Goodnight, all!
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Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: They changed the rule so that any primary earner got the stipend.
She just casually mentioned it over Labor Day weekend. I asked for details, because I thought it was a thing. She said she really didn’t remember; she just did it. I still think it was a thing.
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frosty
@Omnes Omnibus: Or expand to more parts of speech: “Fucking fuck the fucking fucker up his fucking fucked-up ass.”
@Gin & Tonic: I’ve still got a wall poster from the ’60’s with that on it lol
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evodevo
@The Pale Scot: The broadcast of Alas Babylon on Playhouse 90 in 1960 was the first time it hit home for me … I was 13 and just beginning to pay attention to world events.
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Jay C
Showing my age, era, I guess: the first image that crossed my mind when I saw that pic of Melania was Eva Gabor in “Green Acres” (though Eva spoke better English):
“Hallo kiddies! Velcome to Vite House Garden. I LUFF garden! Is remind me of beink beck on de farm ven I vas leetle girl in Slovenia. Only deeference is dis time I don’t haff to pool de plow!!”
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debbie
Long sleeves in this weather? Insanity!
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
I don’t think her english is that functional.
efgoldman
I expected “the president” to have long since turned it into a putting green.
NotMax
A tisket, a tisket
A strumpet with a basket
Corner Stone
How would one “prepare” for a nuclear attack, exactly?
Hunter Gathers
I just can’t find it in me to have any respect for someone who willingly fucks pigs.
Major Major Major Major
Mysterious Apocalyptic Message Interrupts TV Broadcasts in California: ‘Violent Times Will Come
(via Adam emailing it to me)
Corner Stone
Melania has her proctologist gloves on, apparently.
Baud
@Corner Stone: Very carefully?
jeffreyw
@Corner Stone:
You bend over, grab your knees…
Mnemosyne
@debbie:
I dunno, everyone in the photo seems to be in long sleeves.
I always wear long sleeves outdoors because I burn really easily, so I don’t judge.
NotMax
On the money saving side, this White House generates more than sufficient manure, so there’s no need to buy any.
efgoldman
@Corner Stone:
In her case, by showing her new line of designer lead clothing
Yutsano
@Hunter Gathers: To be fair, we only have evidence that she did this once.
Unless she used the turkey baster method. In which case my respect for her would increase. NOT MUCH…but it would.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
Warning? Or promise?
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@efgoldman: that’s only because there already is a putting green outside the oval office. Ike had one installed. LBJ hated it.
Gin & Tonic
@Corner Stone: 1. Put your head between your legs. 2. Kiss your ass goodbye.
Thru the Looking Glass...
@Corner Stone:
Why…
Of course!
brettvk
I think it’s a damn shame that we’ll never know exactly what goes on in that woman’s head. I’d be fascinated to really know what she thinks of her journey, because (and I’m projecting, because that’s all any of us can do) I really don’t think she expected to end up where she is and it probably doesn’t feel real to her.
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
Well, that’s creepy. But my first guess is “poorly thought-out attempt at a viral marketing campaign.”
Roger Moore
@NotMax:
Since when has Trump cared about saving money? He’s probably charging the government a pretty penny for all that fertilizer.
geg6
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
I know…fuck LBJ and all that. But he really did have the best quotes.
NotMax
@Corner Stone
Wasn’t it the Dubya administration which recommended duct tape and tarps?
Betty Cracker
@Major Major Major Major: I saw that in the Gizmodo feed about midday. Would have freaked me out if that came on my TV!
Sloane Ranger
@Major Major Major Major: I wish to be the first to welcome our new extraterrestial overlords.
Eljai
@Major Major Major Major: My sister in KC sent me an article on the same thing happening there! I just figured it was Sinclair Broadcasting.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: We also have the start of the Tribulation coming this weekend!
Timurid
@Corner Stone:
A fist full of Vicodins and a fifth of Jim Beam?
lamh36
Evening BJ…how’s it hanging?
Baud
@lamh36: Hey, you.
p.a.
I’ve got to get out and find gloves to match my gardening togs.
Emma
@Corner Stone: There used to be a poster with instructions about exactly that. IIRC the last instruction was “put your head between your legs and kiss your arse goodbye.”
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@geg6: Here’s his hilarious/obscene story on medicare failing passage the first time. (tape)
brettvk
@Major Major Major Major: Oh, yeah, that. Just what we need right now, tech-savvy nutcases ratcheting the suspense a little higher. OTOH, the Rapture would simplify things for the midterms.
p.a.
I can’t track it down at the moment, but I have a US gvt booklet from the early ’60’s with several plans for building combination dry bar/fallout shelters in your basement. N.B. (IIRC), fallout, not blast, shelter. Tip: lots of bricks…
trollhattan
@Corner Stone:
Get all those corks out beforehand, especially the reds.
sukabi
@NotMax: yes, but that was for biological attacks…
lamh36
So I got my EW Fall TV Preview Guide in the mail.
I’ll admit, I’m really the MOST excited about the Will & Grace reboot! If ya’ll could see how BIG my smile was watching this behind the scenes TODAY footage!
Take An Exclusive Behind-The-Scenes Look At The New ‘Will & Grace’ Set! …
Saw an early review of the first 3 eps and I can’t wait
SPOILER ALERT: don’t read this article if you care about that kind of thing
Relax! The New ‘Will & Grace’ Is Woke, Anti-Trump, and Still Funny
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Philly Phanatic scores a date with a beautiful reporter and he blows it. (video)?
J R in WV
It is funny. A little mean to The Donald, who earned it long ago.
Steeplejack
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
Who the fuck is retelling that anecdote?
trollhattan
@brettvk:
Our summer French visitor (a very wise sixteen) quickly notes, “Oooh, she hates him.” It’s even more adorable with the accent and evidently is a widely held European opinion.
NotMax
@Major Major Major Major
Many too stuffed from the Rosh Hashanah table to be aroused. ;)
Jay Noble
Back in the 80’s we had one of those EBS messages interupt whatever it was we were watching in the dorm. Ya, ya we know “This is only a test”. Hurry it up we’re missing the show! Message ends. but then, just a blank screen. And then up pops a General. Oh Crap!
Seems he wanted to tell us about some neat upgrade they had just made.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Steeplejack: roger wilkins
KithKanan
@NotMax: Pretty sure that was in the case of a “dirty bomb” (a conventional explosive packed with radioactive material to spread radioactive contamination) not an actual nuclear bomb attack.
NotMax
Power to the tweeple.
The mysterious group that’s picking Breitbart apart, one tweet at a time
trollhattan
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
She related at all to Mayor Frank? Much better looking from what I can recall of his honor.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@trollhattan: ahahahahhahahaha. that’s a good one.
She sure is pretty. (photo)
TenguPhule
@Corner Stone:
Food and water for 14 days. A nice big shelter with closed windows
/No I’m not joking, this is straight from our official government preparation guide.
eclare
@lamh36: Thanks for the Today footage, must see teevee in my house also! And I swear, the actors look like they haven’t aged a day.
lamh36
@eclare: Yes… esp Megan Mullahly and Sean Hayes!
lamh36
Wow…
Mofo EXPLICITLY said…”I INTENTIONALLY EXCLUDE…”
Left it to the 2nd wife and the 25 year old adopted daughter…
Wasn’t he like, not in his right mind for years tho? Wonder if the kids will CONTEST it…
TenguPhule
@Major Major Major Major:
So normal California Weirdness or are we now actually living in a B movie?
TenguPhule
@lamh36:
Low and to the left.
At least, that’s what we all keep telling Cole.
lamh36
On my movie radar this weekend…Kingman:The Golden Circle.
I’ve got work this weekend, and next weekend, I’ll be visiting DC. If not for those things, I’d likely be seeing the film this weekend.
Adam L Silverman
I’ll just leave this here:
brettvk
@trollhattan: I’m not so much interested in the quality of her marriage as I am in the trajectory of her career. I mean, the relationship to Trump just squicks me out. But here’s a mildly talented, mildly pretty Eastern European who maneuvered herself into a well-paid position, then got swept into the White House. She didn’t foresee that, I’d bet, and I don’t think she wanted it. It’s a goddamned American saga that we’ll never get to see onscreen.
dmsilev
There’s a difference?
J R in WV
@Major Major Major Major:
Oh Damm! I’ve been meaning to go get more ammo, and now it’s too late!!!! DAMM!!!!
jl
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
” I don’t think her english is that functional. ”
More functional than Trump’s. Just don’t piss off people we may need. She may be only one who can figure out what he’s babbling about soon.
Seriously, I think Trump is seriously senile. Josh Marshall had a tweet about Trump apologizing to a crowd that FLOTUS couldn’t be at some appearance, but she was standing six inches away from him right by his side. Trump is seriously, and I am not kidding, losing it big time.
And BTW, I did not know you could grow diamond tennis bracelets outside in DC. I’ll quit making fun of he savage and hellish East Coast climate. Guess it has its uses.
dmsilev
@Adam L Silverman: Does Mike Pence wear a jacket with his name on it just in case he forgets who he is?
brettvk
@lamh36: Not surprising. I never saw the humanitarian in him; to me all his performances sort of seethed below the surface.
ETA: And ISTR that his first marriage ended in divorce after like 30 years, and I thought at the time, “Gee, Mrs. Lewis, you put up with it this long, why not stick it out?” I was very young then.
jl
@Adam L Silverman: Yeah, thanks for finding that.and posting it.
Trump is out of it. I predict FLOTUS will be spending lots of time in the garden.
Baud
@Adam L Silverman: That’s much worse than catching pneumonia.
jl
@jl:
” Just don’t piss off people we may need. She may be only one who can figure out what he’s babbling about soon. ”
Actually, not certain Trump understands exactly who FLOTUS is now. So, no point. Make as much fun as you want.
Jeffro
Hillz on loving goldfish crackers: “we passed around a bag of ‘flavor blasted’ goldfish and discussed whether it was better than the original. Some of my staff thought yes, which was incorrect.”
(Swoon)
Steeplejack
@Adam L Silverman:
Perhaps a case of artful editing. The longer clip makes it seem more like awkward phrasing than senility. (Relevant snippet starts at about 0:50.)
Corner Stone
@Jeffro: HRC on AMJoy tomorrow. I have my phaser set to “Record”.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Adam L Silverman: Maybe he doesn’t recognize her without her make-up.
Corner Stone
Joy is a much better interviewer than Maddow. I hope I’m not over preparing myself for this session. But I hope she digs in and gets HRC to bleed from her eyes or her wherever.
The Pale Scot
@Corner Stone:
A) Drive as fast as possible to the nearest likely target
B) Bend over and kiss your ass good-bye
Because you really really don’t want to be around after
Threads
Scariest film I ever watched,
Major Major Major Major
@Jeffro: heh, good to see she hasn’t lost her sense of humor.
Corner Stone
@brettvk:
Mildly talented at what?
Baud
@Corner Stone: I hope she gets HRC to say “fuck.” I don’t even care about the context.
Corner Stone
Speaking of mean, but not funny. Megyn Kelly is a garbage human being.
jl
@Steeplejack: No. I don’t see any awkward phrasing. I see a guy who is out of it regarding who was standing there with him.
Trump was talking more or less in an appropriate and thoughtful way about the disasters, so maybe doing that really taxed the old guy’s noggin, with all the tremendous required focus. I’ll assume that’s it, until more evidence develops.
TenguPhule
@Corner Stone:
Unfair, eventually garbage can be rendered inert and harmless.
jl
@Corner Stone: Mildly talented at being a mildly pretty Eastern European? I’ll go with that.
@Corner Stone: She’s saying weird BS for a supposedly intelligent person. Maybe she wants to get canned from her new gig. Looks like Fox News critical thinking burrowed down into the marrow of her bones.
Timurid
@Adam L Silverman:
The look on Melania’s face when she hears it… my God.
TenguPhule
@Adam L Silverman:
Because we don’t already have enough nightmares of him going further off the deep end?
TenguPhule
@dmsilev:
Yeah, B-movies have to make some kind of sense.
brettvk
@Corner Stone: Hey, I’m sitting in the same town I moved to in second grade, contemplating late-life student loan debts. She was born in a town-you’ve-never-heard-of in Slovenia, quit college, and made it to New York and a secure retirement. I forebear to speculate on her talent(s) but she must have at least one.
chris
@NotMax:
SleepingGiant is doing good work in Canada too, removing advertisers from Rebel Media.
jl
Four day alt-right free speech festival at UC Berkeley self-clowned itself into an afternoon press conference in San Francisco.
For awhile I thought they were intentionally sabotaging a reasonably well organized event in order to troll UC Berkeley. But, I can’t imagine they wanted it to self-destruct so completely. So, pure indiscipline and pure dumbacity must have played a big part. And maybe a little sloth, too.
Yiannopoulos’ Planned ‘Free Speech Week’ Appears To Implode Spectacularly
” after student organizers failed to file the proper paperwork to reserve university buildings, and after Yiannopolous apparently neglected to notify some of the scheduled speakers that the event was even happening, the affair has been reduced to a Saturday press conference in San Francisco. ”
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/milo-yiannapoulos-berkeley-free-speech-week-falls-apart
Cheryl Rofer
Baud
@jl: Good.
Cheryl Rofer
He’s talking about how Kim will be “handled.”
I’m going to read the newspaper.
Mike J
@Hunter Gathers:
I’m guessing David Cameron isn’t high on your great British PMs list.
TenguPhule
Train wreck time:
Stupid fucking fucker. Clinton DID handle it until Bush and Republicans in Congress welshed on the deal.
Baud
@Cheryl Rofer: It would be cool if Kim Jong Un showed up at the Moore rally.
jl
@Baud: Baud 2020! doesn’t necessarily have to feel bad that got no invite. You’re probably one of the ones they forgot about.
Edit: OTOH, the Trumpster base will believe anything. So, there could be nothing at all, not even a press conference, and dozens of news stories documenting their complete negligence, and it wouldn’t make any difference. They can just lie about it and the base will believe them.
So, maybe that is their plan. I retract my criticism and congratulate them on their ruthless efficiency.
Lessons that Baud 2020! campaign could learn, maybe?
Mike J
@jl:
Standard Milo/Trump procedure. Make a lot of noise, don’t do any work to make it happen, say the evil, dumb, lazy, liberals are holding you down.
Baud
@jl: I would have shown up. I have some free speech to offer them.
efgoldman
@jl:
Well, her highly-visible, universally-panned, microscopically-rated Sunday night show was dead as soon as NBC stick it in the Sunday football slot, from which it was fated to disappear almost instantly.
hitchhiker
The weirdest thing about this photo is her hair. Who goes out gardening with their long hair loose like that? I have hair about that length right now, and ffs — it gets into your face. Strands blow into your mouth. If you try to push it away while wearing gloves (esp dirty ones from touching dirt in your garden), you’ll regret it.
I get so bored with all the model-posed photos of Melania and Ivanka, but this one makes me want to follow her around the garden and see what happens in the next frame.
Baud
@efgoldman: Good.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
Baud 2020: “Feel my Constitutional Authorateh!”
jl
@TenguPhule: Maybe Trump is referring to Hillary, you know, when she messed up her presidential term so badly? Why wasn’t she impeached anyway? (Deep State, you just know it).
VOR
@NotMax: Yes, the Dubya administration recommended duct tape and tarps. But in their defense, that was for chemical and biological weapons. Duct tape – what can’t it do?
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
What time is this Alabama rally tonight? I don’t know whether I’m hoping or fearing Trumpish stupidity.
ETA: I see it’s going on right now. Can I stand to listen? No. I can wait and read a report.
jl
@efgoldman: Kelly’s weird self destruction as potentially credible journalist is almost Trumpian in its ambition and audacity.
sukabi
Could this country get any weirder? Almost hoping for that alien invasion.
Republican coroner stores bodies in truck, is charged with corruption.
He was getting $400.00 a piece for the bodies from the House morgue…
JPL
@Cheryl Rofer: I put it on and his speech is disjointed, but he is also pretty low energy. He might be reading from the teleprompter now, but he is still off. He loves the white house, btw
lol CNN is a tad confused also.
eclare
@Corner Stone: Thanks for the heads up, DVR is set for AMJoy.
sukabi
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: it might be makeup related…his orange bronzer may be lead based.
efgoldman
@jl:
She gave up any semblance of credibility years ago, with “Santa was white” among other idiocies.
Gravenstone
@TenguPhule: Sorry, in that context it seems rather clear Trump is using “handled” as a euphemism for killed. Fucker is gonna get us into (another) war at this rate.
jl
@efgoldman: I wasn’t talking about credibility with BJ-ers, I was talking about cred with people who watch CW BS on TV. I thought maybe that BS was an act for Fox News. But looks like she is nuts and believes that stuff.
efgoldman
@jl:
Not only drank the kool-aid, she went to the store and got cases of it.
debbie
Lieutenant Governor Mary Taylor is a lying sack of shit. She makes the other Republican gubernatorial candidates look far better than they are.
Corner Stone
@Gravenstone:
At this point, another war is about the best outcome we can hope for. That’s better than exchanging nuclear strikes across 5 or 6 countries.
lamh36
Most Britons now want to stop Brexit, poll shows
Congrats…Briton… https://media.giphy.com/media/zNXvBiNNcrjDW/giphy.gif
Gelfling 545
@Major Major Major Major: I thought that started last January.
jl
@efgoldman: Must be nuts. If she though that Fox News nonsense would fly with general population, that would make her really stupid. Anyway, at least one of the two.
If she had been sane and smart, she could have cynically fit in with the savvy media in-crowd no problem Just don’t put on toxic crazy shows and say toxic crazy stuff.
As I said, a Trumpain self-destruction in progress.
sukabi
@efgoldman: years of exposure to Ailes droopy jowls, roving hands and floppy moobs have driven her mad… Well that and the constant stream of propaganda they bathe in 24 / 7… It’s the Stanford Experiment without the bars.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman:
Huh?
hitchhiker
@Omnes Omnibus:
Famous Megyn Kelly line.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7XYlJqf4dLI
JPL
Latest Trump comments, walk out of a football game if someone takes a knee, faith, family and guns. It does seem like he is reading and ad libbing.
Corner Stone
“Trump Rallies For Establishment Pick in Alabama”
That’s fucking gold, I tell you. Gold!
JPL
From twitter
Trump with a football-pander fail: I don’t have to be here, “I could be sitting home right now watching some of the games, tomorrow.”
https://twitter.com/ddale8
Corner Stone
@jl:
MK really is not very bright or very good at her job. She made 70 year old white males remember their days of lust and sexual harassment while on Fox. But in the real world not every eyeball is fixated on her Golden Goddess persona.
She is a garbage human being.
Gravenstone
Because I need a fucking palate cleanser, the new Black Country Communion album (IV) dropped today. This is a https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=s7FssPpNG2w after a couple of listens through. Song is about the director of the band on the Titanic who played the passengers off before going down with the ship. (metaphors? not me)
And just because I’m of the mood for more bravery in the face of adversity, another epic about a much lesser known disaster – the crash of the R101.
TenguPhule
Trump is fucking rambling all over the place.
Rocketman, McCain, kneeling football players, what the fuck.
Cacti
@Corner Stone:
Megyn Kelly: “Santa is white!”
Adult: “Santa’s not real.”
JPL
@TenguPhule: Nancy and Chuck were nice to him and so was China and Russia.
Omnes Omnibus
@hitchhiker: Wow. Santa is what he is, which is imaginary. Unlike the Easter Bunny, who is real and evil.
efgoldman
@jl:
I don’t know. I bet her agent got her an ironclad contract which pays off whether she succeeds or (most likely) fails.
She’s crying all the way to the bank.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus:
I’ll add that to your file.
efgoldman
@Omnes Omnibus:
The Easter Bunny is NOT a c-l-o-w-n.
rikyrah
@lamh36:
Uh uh uh?
lamh36
Ha… poor Bill Nye?
Love how one of the girls seems genuinely embarrassed once they recognize him…lol
@Savmasta
Bill Nye just walked into our elevator while I was snap chatting..”
Peale
@efgoldman: yes. But unlike Santa, who places gifts in a proper setting, the bunny hides them where they might never be found. He gives nothing. Santa wants homemade cookies which smell delicious when they are baking. The Easter bunny wants your home to smell of vinegar.
TenguPhule
@Omnes Omnibus:
Look, just because a few giant rabbits got out of control that one time and killed a bunch of people doesn’t mean you should condemn them all.
TenguPhule
@JPL: Stop trying to make sense of it.
Felonius Monk
@efgoldman:
What about this?
WaterGirl
@Peale: @efgoldman: @Omnes Omnibus: You guys are making me think of the B Kliban books:
One of my favorites: Robert lived in *Rockford where he ate only the heads off of chocolate bunnies.
*I don’t believe it was actually Rockford, but I was dating a Robert in Rockford at the time, so for Easter I cut the head off a chocolate bunny, put the wobbly chocolate head on a popsicle stick, and somehow attached the caption to the whole thing. Imagine me trying to explain that to my boyfriend’s parents when meeting then for the first time that weekend for Easter.
Omnes, apologies if that should have included a trigger warning.
JPL
@WaterGirl: lol
My mutt killed Peter the Cottontail, and then brought him/her to me. I think he was expecting it for supper. Sad
WaterGirl
@JPL: That does not sound fun. When I was in grad school, I was working on a project with a fellow student at the dining table when my cocker spaniel came in from outside. We could not figure out where the awful smell was coming from.
Finally, we discovered a dead bird hanging by its claws from the underside of my cocker spaniel’s chest and tummy area. That was a fun one to untangle. Hopefully your bunny was fresher than the bird was.
jl
@lamh36: So, is elevator twerking in bikinis a thing going around now? Or does Nye hang out in weird places?
hitchhiker
Story on twitter now about the plaid shirt, which is made by a French company and sells for $1,500 or so.
I don’t care. She’s a model doing some modeling. On the daily, this gig is probably not that different from all those fashion shoots, and at least now she can be sure she won’t have to take all her clothes off at any point in the process.
jl
@TenguPhule: Trump’s base loves them some open-mic-night-at-the-comedy-club politicking.
Trump is also clearly losing it, but playing to the room is a part of it too.
JPL
@WaterGirl: No bugs on the bunny, so pretty fresh. I’m fortunate because my yard backs up to 11 acres. Finch’s catches go over the fence into the great burial ground.
efgoldman
@WaterGirl:
Exactly, That’s how I taught my daughter and granddaughter to do it. What other way is there?
singing truth to power
Trivia (perhaps) about Melania in the garden:
“Trump wore a Balmain plaid shirt to the event, along with Converse sneakers, CNN’s Kate Bennett reported on Twitter.
Net-A-Porter is selling the shirt for $1,380, and it perfectly matched Trump’s [red] gardening gloves.”
WaterGirl
@efgoldman: I always knew I liked you.
WaterGirl
@singing truth to power: This story makes me wish I were more proficient at swearing.
Gretchen
I’m just glad they didn’t pave Michelle’s garden over and put a popsicle stand on top. That’s Trump’s usual style.
efgoldman
@WaterGirl:
You can audit my fucking course for a small fee.
Feathers
Somebody needs to get Key & Peele’s blessing and do the “Melania Anger Translator” skit.
lamh36
@jl: smh…teenagers are IDIOTS…film at 11:00…just nowadays they have social media, so they can’t ever forget how stupid they used to be…smh
Gin & Tonic
@Peale: I can’t say I’ve ever understood the concept of gifts at Easter. I can understand Christmas, based on the story of Christ’s birth and wise men coming from afar bringing gifts. But Easter? Hey, your Lord and savior was tortured and killed to atone for your sins, but then faked them all out and ascended bodily into Heaven. Have a candy bar! WTF?
Corner Stone
@hitchhiker: It’s a…uhhh…plaid shirt.
hitchhiker
@Gin & Tonic:
The Easter food/candy treats are a vestige of post-Lent celebrations. Lent itself was a 40-day period of abstinence, probably begun somewhere in pre-historical days as a way to make sense of the season when there wasn’t a hell of a lot to eat, between the last of the winter storage and first of the spring crops. It’s nicer to think you’re fasting by choice than to freak out about how you’re starving, eh?
In Seattle we have an annual Peep Sculpture contest that’s a great reason to read the paper on Easter morning.
http://www.seattletimes.com/life/meet-the-winners-of-our-2016-peeps-contest/
Lyrebird
@hitchhiker: ..and the bunny aspect of the spring fling (Easter) is pre-Christian, and all about fertility iirc. Makes the eggs make more sense…
efgoldman
@Lyrebird:
Every tradition has some kind of Spring fecundity connection, just as they all pause around harvest time.
MarkK
A $1300.00 flannel shirt? Disgusting
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: @efgoldman: @TenguPhule: No one remembers Anya from Buffy?
Gin & Tonic
@hitchhiker: I know all that, and maybe phrased myself wrong. Lately it seems that I see a lot of “Easter shopping” and “gifts” in “Easter baskets.” It’s like a mini-Christmas, and it just a) seems really off, when compared to the ostensible religious significance and b) seems *much* more pronounced than I remember it from when I was younger. Sure, springtime, rebirth, emptying the larder because it’s planting time, yeah, but it’s also the central miracle and doctrinal key of this particular faith, which I thought should be (and as I recall, was) treated with solemnity and awe, and not just another shopping occasion.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: @WaterGirl: One always starts at the head when eating a chocolate bunny. It is known.
WaterGirl
@efgoldman: Fuck is my go to swear word, but I definitely need some additional words – sometimes one word just isn’t enough. “Bastards!” doesn’t count, because that’s my go to when I’m not really upset but just want to say something cathartic. If there are additional words covered in your course, please let me know where to send my registration.
WaterGirl
@Gin & Tonic: Have you listened to the David Sedaris Easter story? Laugh out loud funny, in my opinion.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: The ears, to be more specific. In fact, I always start with the left ear. My left, bunny’s right.
WaterGirl
Thanks for all the kind responses, helpful suggestions and commiseration.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: Add modifiers to fuck. As in “shit fucking moron.” Also don’t be afraid to re-use versions of fuck. As in “Fuck him. Fuck him up his stupid, fucking ass.”*
*h/t Corner Stone.
@WaterGirl: Depends on the size of the bunny, doesn’t it?
efgoldman
@Gin & Tonic:
There is nothing so solemn that Americans can’t commercialize it.
Omnes Omnibus
@efgoldman: Were are the Atonement stickers for Yom Kippur?
Omnes Omnibus
@Omnes Omnibus: FYWP didn’t let me edit to fix the typo.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: I can see it now.
“How did you get through the Trump years, WaterGirl?”
“I expanded my vocabulary.”
As for bunnies, you raise a good question. Apparently I have never eaten a bunny whose head is small enough that I could bite the whole thing off at once. In case you want to send a bunny my way, I always prefer dark chocolate. Milk chocolate is awful, and they shouldn’t even be allowed to call the white stuff “white chocolate”.
Citizen Alan
While I dislike her as a person, there is something about Melania Trump that I find deeply saddening. She reminds me of Susan Alexander from Citizen Kane who wanted nothing more than to be the kept arm-candy of a wealthy man only to be nearly driven mad (and actually driven to a suicide attempt) because of said wealthy man’s obsession with making a common gold digger into something “worthy” of his own greatness.
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: My mom likes milk chocolate.
SFBayAreaGal
@Major Major Major Major: Didn’t see or hear anything up here.
WaterGirl
@Citizen Alan: No sympathy or empathy from me for Melania. She married a total fucking woman-hating pig for money; she gets everything she deserves. Except to be first lady: she does not deserve that.
WaterGirl
@Omnes Omnibus: She’s your mom, so I will let that go. I’m sure she shows good judgment in other things.
NotMax
@Citizen Alan
Would better describe the character of Alexander as a naif, not a gold digger.
SFBayAreaGal
@TenguPhule: Sounds like Orson Welles, War of the Worlds Radio show
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: She also likes the “The Notebook.” At the same time, as a teacher, she challenged the rule that male teachers an an extra stipend because they were the primary bread winners for the family. She was working, my dad was in school, and I existed. She won. She has never had edgy artistic taste, but she actually fought a real fight and won.
WaterGirl
Good for your mom! Did they remove the rule completely or did they make an exception for her particular case?
My mom also fought some gender-related battles, and won. Not to mention that she took the pill when it first came out, in spite of it being a mortal sin in the catholic church to do so. She told her priest and said he could excommunicate her if he wanted but the rule was wrong and she wasn’t going to live by it. The priest never took action against her. She was a force of nature.
P.S. I saw The Notebook but I do not remember any of it.
Steeplejack
@Citizen Alan:
Yeah. I think she signed on for the “rich Manhattan trophy wife” gig and was very happy with that. This whole First Lady thing and being in the public spotlight 24/7 has got to be hell for her.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: No sympathy from me. If you marry a pig for money, that makes you a pig, too. “Lie down with dogs” and all that.
Goodnight, all!
Omnes Omnibus
@WaterGirl: They changed the rule so that any primary earner got the stipend.
She just casually mentioned it over Labor Day weekend. I asked for details, because I thought it was a thing. She said she really didn’t remember; she just did it. I still think it was a thing.
frosty
@Omnes Omnibus: Or expand to more parts of speech: “Fucking fuck the fucking fucker up his fucking fucked-up ass.”
Oops, too much?
Omnes Omnibus
@frosty: Well done. You get it. I am so proud.
evodevo
@Gin & Tonic: I’ve still got a wall poster from the ’60’s with that on it lol
evodevo
@The Pale Scot: The broadcast of Alas Babylon on Playhouse 90 in 1960 was the first time it hit home for me … I was 13 and just beginning to pay attention to world events.
Jay C
Showing my
age, era, I guess: the first image that crossed my mind when I saw that pic of Melania was Eva Gabor in “Green Acres” (though Eva spoke better English):“Hallo kiddies! Velcome to Vite House Garden. I LUFF garden! Is remind me of beink beck on de farm ven I vas leetle girl in Slovenia. Only deeference is dis time I don’t haff to pool de plow!!”