Things that made my day:
“I am sorry for all the times I stabbed men, just a little, in my previous workplace. After years of counseling, I stopped stabbing men.”
— Kate Harding (@KateHarding) October 28, 2017
The entire thread is worth reading.
And of course this won the day, yesterday, as far as I’m concerned:
Managed to make it through another day yesterday without rubbing an erection on women without invitation.
— Former Innocent Kid (@Johngcole) October 28, 2017
I had planned on a writing post today, but our guest had to postpone. So we’ll shoot for next week.
Who haven’t you stabbed today? Open thread.
Baud
The stabbing was consensual.
TaMara (HFG)
Also, there was a duck update on Friday that I was going to cross post here but just haven’t gotten around to – you can see it here.
But here’s a little Bixby to make up for it:
sukabi
That whole thread is full of WIN, as is Cole’s admission. ?
sukabi
@TaMara (HFG): that’s a whole lot of Bixby….photo is HUGE.
Baud
@TaMara (HFG): You seem to have a thing for massive photos.
TaMara (HFG)
@sukabi: Sorry, seems to be no control on how those linked jpgs are received – fine on Chrome. If you click the link you should be able to see it fine.
Major Major Major Major
@TaMara (HFG): Cute sign! Bixby looks concerned.
Baud
@Major Major Major Major: He’s checking for ducks before crossing.
germy
As the New York Times notes, The Terms of My Surrender was always planned as a 12-week run at New York’s Belasco Theater, and it closed as planned last week. This would make Trump’s assertion that it was a “forced to close” false.
shinobi42
Kate Harding is one of my all time favorite ex blogger/writers. And this is one of my all time favorite blogs. Peak internet nerd.
Major Major Major Major
@Baud: …touché.
germy
Kathy Griffin is naming names (and phone numbers) including some undercover friends of drumpf.
sukabi
@TaMara (HFG): just thought you’d like to know…it’s not scaling down on android phone. ? might be something to do with how wordpress handles images…
NotMax
@germy
That it was a limited run, with the closing date announced ages ago, is of course UNFAKE NEWS.
germy
@NotMax: It’s a trivial thing I suppose, but it illustrates the way drumpf uses twitter as a tool to spread falsehoods. I’m sure his followers are sharing info about Moore’s failure of a play closing early as we speak.
Steeplejack
That stabby thread is hilarious! Best thing I’ve seen on Twitter in ages. Maybe since Owen Ellickson’s epic fake Trump tweet saga before the election.
“Tired of women in the workplace staring at my neck when talking to me . . . my eyes are up here!”
NotMax
@germy
Sorry to seem repetitious. Comment was made simultaneous with your edit/addition.
mai naem mobile
@germy: Andy Cohen looks like a real douchebag..
germy
@mai naem mobile: And HarveyTeeEmZee talks to drumpf several times a week. Good buddies.
Villago Delenda Est
@germy: Playbill also issued a “Donald is a dipshit” notice.
I failed to stab either Uday or Qusay. My bad.
NotMax
@germy
The man is scum.
With appropriate apologies to real scum.
No doubt folks in Puerto Rico appreciate his continuing laser-like focus on the disaster there. //
? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?
@germy:
That comments section is mostly a shitshow of people accusing her of hypocrisy for doxxing, saying she’s having a mental breakdown, etc. Also, the dislikes are almost twice the likes.
Timurid
@Baud:
He wasn’t wearing a suit of armor. He was asking for it.
amygdala
@TaMara (HFG):
Where?
Gin & Tonic
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: Doxxing is very uncool, regardless of which side is doing it.
Mnemosyne
Just finished a Writer’s Digest conference, and now I have to kill 2 hours before the NaNoWriMo kick-off party two blocks away. I would have a lot more options if I weren’t still on crutches with my sprained knee. ?
NotMax
@Timurid
Trivia: The last suit of armor made for Henry VIII was designed for a man with a 51-inch waist.
germy
Mnemosyne
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?:
Unfortunately, Griffin pissed off a lot of people with her severed head stunt. But crazy people get harassed and molested, too.
HAL
Joy Reid showing us how real journalism works.
germy
mai naem mobile
@germy: I used to listen to a Sirius XM talk show host several years ago who had known Harvey Levin for decades and said he was a scumball.I’ve caught a few minutes of TMZ flipping channels and he just comes across as one of those scumbally fixers on the seamier side of Hollywood. Just an ick factor.
germy
@HAL: So rare on TV.
Steeplejack
@HAL:
Right on, Joy!
mike in dc
She had a really small knife and it seemed kind of soft and rubbery. It was more awkward and embarrassing than anything else, and I haven’t even thought about it for years.
Omnes Omnibus
I found this poll of the military rather interesting.
xjmuellerlurks
Thanks for posting the stabby tweet thread. It’s outstanding.
germy
So Puerto Rico has cancelled that contract with the Montana firm
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@HAL: That was excellent.
NotMax
FYI.
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus: Interesting because I thought the election went the other way.
germy
We were watching evening news on Friday (I think it was CBS). Reporter traveled out to Montana to try to talk to the CEO. Cabin in the middle of nowhere, end of a long, private road. No one would answer the door, and then when the reporter tried to leave, a truck pulled up and blocked his access out.
“A sheriff has been called and the situation is being addressed” is how the reporter ended his segment.
Why they felt they had to intimidate a TV journalist I don’t know.
Aleta
Today as I was being interviewed about my important book, an irrelevant question showed that people don’t understand me. Long ago when my brain was still immature and we had different rules, I attempted to form relationships with men who were trying to work. In doing so I occasionally may have violently kneecapped them, even junior ones.
Now that they have said in public that it hurt, which they never did before, I’ve reflected deeply upon my behavior and come to understand that causing pain and wrecking lives in the workplace is not OK.
But I’m only admitting to any part of those things that actually did happen. Plus I remember it differently. And it was consensual. And of course, I have no way of knowing if the anonymous accounts might have happened, so I cannot admit to any part of them.
Also, things I wrote in my book that I said were all true were actually fiction, or else brave and sophisticated satire, which at the time everyone knew, and anyway the other guy wrote those things. Besides, we were pretending we were Hunter S. Thompson.
In conclusion, as an impeccably honest person, I deeply apologize for anything that might be proved true.
Baud
@germy: How can Puerto Rico cancel a federal contract?
MoxieM
@Baud: Or are ducks like deer–they have to read the sign to know where to cross?
germy
@NotMax:
I bet that’ll give drumpf and congress some ideas…
germy
@Baud:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/puerto-rico-governor-says-contract-to-whitefish-company-should-be-canceled/2017/10/29/e5336cda-bcb8-11e7-97d9-bdab5a0ab381_story.html?hpid=hp_no-name_no-name%3Apage%2Fbreaking-news-bar&tid=a_breakingnews&utm_term=.b3aa202846bb
BREAKING: Puerto Rico’s utility canceled the controversial $300 million contract with a Montana firm hired to repair its electrical grid.
The announcement by the island state-owned utility came hours after Puerto Rico Gov. Ricardo Rossello called for the contract with Whitefish Energy to be canceled.
danielx
Haven’t stabbed anybody today, but I’m feeling stabby and the day is far from over.
NotMax
Sexit?
HeleninEire
Gawd I hate being behind 5 (well for the next week 4 ) hours behind you guys.
Just catching up on threads. All the things I wanted to say in the previous threads were BRILLIANT!
Damn shame.
germy
Gin & Tonic
@HeleninEire: Um, you’re ahead of most of us, not behind. You should be coming up with all the brilliant stuff first.
NotMax
@HeleninEire
6 (soon to be 5) hours behind the east coast here. Amir is in a whole other day!
Roger Moore
@germy:
Any time somebody tries to intimidate a journalist investigating them, you can be it’s because they don’t like what the investigation will reveal.
HeleninEire
@Gin & Tonic: LOL. That right there is the kind of brilliant thing I was talking about.
Ruckus
@HeleninEire:
You could completely rearrange your daily schedule to comment here. Yes it would be inconvenient in your daily life but think how much better ours would be!
I’ll put this in just in case
/snark.
I’ve floated by your newish home decades ago in the navy but have never been there. Would like to go and look around, supposed to have roots there. You live in a beautiful part of the world, glad you could stay and enjoy it.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Steeplejack:
I’m probably guilty of this one, but it isn’t so much a misogyny thing as it is an autism thing. I do the same thing to men. Unless I make a conscious effort to do so, I don’t look people in the eyes.
Patricia Kayden
@germy: Michael Moore’s clapback is awesome. Trump is an idiot. Moore’s show was scheduled to end and it’s ending as scheduled. Was that fact so hard for Trump to find out before tweeting out what he thought was an insult? He’s so childish and petty.
Mnemosyne
@mai naem mobile:
Harvey from TMZ is the Danny DeVito character from LA Confidential, who finds out too late that knowing where all of the bodies are buried can be dangerous in itself.
Elizabelle
Hello buds. @ a Monster movie fest. Frankenstein down. The Wolf Man next up.
Major Major Major Major
@? ?? Goku (aka The Hope of the Universe) ? ?: YouTube comments are the worst comments on the Internet.
germy
@Patricia Kayden: I wonder what news Monday will bring.
Omnes Omnibus
@Baud: I found the officer/enlisted difference to be the interesting thing.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax: “When the
PresidentPrime Minister does it, it’s not illegal”germy
@Elizabelle: Our antenna tv station is having a cat afternoon.
A movie just ended with Vincent Price about his dead wife who comes back as a cat to haunt him,
followed by
Cat People
Curse of the Cat People
Cat’s Eye
Baud
@Omnes Omnibus: Right. That’s what was reversed from the election. I thought enlisted went for Hillary.
Mnemosyne
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
Stare past their shoulder instead of looking at the boobs.
raven
@Mnemosyne: Walter Winchell!
Major Major Major Major
@Omnes Omnibus: As always, the Marines are… the Marines.
Baud
@Mnemosyne: Women have shoulders?
seaboogie
My favorite tweet in that thread was to the effect: “My stars is stabbing what they are calling it today? Back in my day it was called “doing our knifely duty”.
Patricia Kayden
@germy: Itching to find out which cretin connected to Trump has been indicted by Mueller. Mueller is moving faster than I thought he would. I keep hearing people say that it took investigators 2 years to get rid of Nixon. Perhaps Mueller is operating on the (correct) belief that we can’t survive two years of Trump.
Mnemosyne
@Elizabelle:
IMO, The Wolf Man holds up pretty darn well, and Lon Chaney Jr plays the role perfectly. It’s the only one of the Universal monsters that was played by a single actor.
Snarkworth, short-fingered Bulgarian
I would like to lodge a protest. When we announce that a valued member of the community has had some sort of health event, could we either provide more information or refer to where on the blog that information could be found?
Thank you for your time.
Patricia Kayden
@NotMax: The last paragraph in that article is quite shocking. So the MP thought it was okay to suggest to and then watch a subordinate intern buy sex toys? Really dude?
Mnemosyne
@germy:
Was it Tomb of Ligeia? One of my favorite Price movies. The seance still gives me the creeps.
“I will always be your wife!”
patrick II
@HAL:
1. Joy Reid is great.
2. Joy had to do her homework to be prepared to make those counterarguments. Something not many talk show hosts do. And of those that do, too many are too polite, letting their republican guest liars ramble on without direct and factual riposte.
3. 99.99% of white people who watch Joy and think they are smarter than her because they are white are blinded by incorrigible racism.
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@Patricia Kayden: I’m thinking it will be someone more minor than we hope. Flynn’s son, for instance, so Mueller can use that to pressure Flynn.
raven
@Snarkworth, short-fingered Bulgarian: Steeplejack posted all anyone knows on the last thread. Don’t get all huffy without doing a little work yourself.
germy
@Mnemosyne: Yes! That’s it.
One thing I notice watching these older color films: the sets were apparently designed back in the days of B&W films. Ornate staircases and interiors from the 1940s, but used in these late ’50s/early ’60s color films.
The interiors are often pale blue, which photographed better in B&W.
Omnes Omnibus
@Major Major Major Major: So very true.
Mnemosyne
@germy:
Also, Curse of the Cat People is not at all what you’d expect from the lurid title they got stuck with. I think you’ll really like it.
schrodingers_cat
@Mnemosyne: How was your writer’s retreat?
Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho
It is a wonderful thread, and I knew I’d find incisive comments about it here.
HeleninEire
@Ruckus: COME VISIT!! Every Balloon Juicer is welcome here in my new home.
germy
@Mnemosyne: I loved it. I love both films. So beautifully photographed. And the sets; the interiors. That house!
I know folks were irritated by the sequel but it’s still a lovely film.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Why?
How different is the enlisted side from the officer side? Isn’t all of the officer side college educated? Not necessarily smarter, but a better chance of being/having more contact with people from different backgrounds. Enlisted, a bit younger perhaps, less well educated on the whole, less likely exposure to differing views. Such as it has been for a long time.
A noticeable number of the enlisted men I served with were better educated than many of the officers and it could make for some interesting situations, to say the least.
Snarkworth, short-fingered Bulgarian
@raven: I checked the last several threads and must have missed it. I am many things, but huffy is not one of them. But thank you.
Baud
TPM
Omnes Omnibus
@HeleninEire: Especially if they are named Baud?
Major Major Major Major
@HeleninEire: Can I crash on your couch?
Mnemosyne
@germy:
That can also be due to color shifts in the film stock that no one bothered to fix when they transferred it to digital. I know that black-and-white cartoons were painted in shades of gray, so I wouldn’t be surprised if they did the same thing for live action B&W films.
Tissue Thin Pseudonym
@Mnemosyne: If I’m paying enough attention to know where I’m staring, I make sure I’m looking the other person in the eyes. If I’m focused on all of the other things that terrify me about social encounters, I have no conscious awareness of what I’m looking at. Hence why I say that I’m probably guilty of it sometimes; I really have no idea.
Omnes Omnibus
@Ruckus: Because it was my (perhaps incorrect ) recollection that the exit polls indicated the reverse result.
germy
@Mnemosyne: I know George Reeves’ superman suit was not red and blue when they filmed the B&W episodes – pale blue looked better; less contrast.
Same reason Harpo (who had a red wig in live appearances) wore a light blonde wig for B&W films – red photographed black.
Vincent Price is so good in those early films.
The last film on schedule today is Cat’s Eye, an anthology from the early ’80s. Screenplay by Stephen King.
Ruckus
@Patricia Kayden:
As people said last night and as Adam has stated, the investigation has been going on for 18 months, not the 5 that has had Mueller as the person in charge. Given, also as someone stated last night a lot of the investigation is electronic, not a paper trail as Watergate had to be. A lot of things to check out 40 yrs ago would have to be located, read, stored…. Now a lot of it is at a click on a keyboard. So 18 months seems in the ballpark, even for something of this magnitude.
ETA Also EFG has been pushing the 2 yr Watergate issue as an example for people who wanted this to be over long ago. It was a parable, this shit takes time, maybe less now but still it takes time.
HeleninEire
@Omnes Omnibus: @Major Major Major Major: Absolutely and YES!!
Mnemosyne
@schrodingers_cat:
It was a conference, so very busy. 14 sessions in 2-1/2 days, so my head is spinning. I’m still trying to process everything, but I know my opening scene needs to be totally re-written.
TS
@NotMax:
I’m so impressed by the stamina of Hillary Clinton – and I’m wondering when she will say “enough” – and sue him and Fox News for billions. Bit of luck should bankrupt both
raven
@Snarkworth, short-fingered Bulgarian: Well I guess emotion is hard to gauge on a blog.
Mnemosyne
@germy:
The only people who hate Curse of the Cat People are the ones who watched it expecting a horror movie, when the only real horror in it is that you find out that the “scary woman” is like that because her mother has severe dementia and has forgotten who her daughter is, and she’s upset and angry about it.
Baud
@HeleninEire: I would love to visit Ireland and maybe I’ll be able to take you up on the offer someday.
Bill Arnold
@Gin & Tonic:
Concur. Particularly when one is a public figure and the intent is to cause a heterogeneous horde of flying monkeys to attack the target. Unintended consequences are possible, and likely if nutcases get outraged or if the state gets involved.
Unrelated, last week for perhaps an hour Verizon (or something) was blocking a trump rumor central site (www.palmerreport.com), accessible through other providers, or tor or vpn or whatever. I didn’t capture a screenshot but recall something about guns and something (drugs? forget) and a placeholder website starting with the letter w.
The paranoid parts of me are wondering if tools for mass censorship in the US are being put into place. Didn’t pursue it though.
Baud
@Ruckus: It started 18 months ago, but the crime had been ongoing. It’s not as if the crime ended 18 months ago.
Mnemosyne
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
You’re missing the point: if you stare at a woman’s breasts, she will get upset with you. In your case, it’s probably best to explain that you have a hard time with eye contact so she doesn’t assume that you’re an asshole who would rather look at her breasts than at her face. Because otherwise she will assume that’s exactly what you are.
Is that clear enough? Better to explain up front that you have an issue than have women think you’re about to Weinstein them.
Ruckus
@HeleninEire:
Even if we all come on the same day?
I would like that. I have friends in the UK that I’d like to visit, I haven’t seen them for 14 yrs now and they aren’t spring chickens anymore. Wait, what the hell, I’m not either!
KS in MA
@HAL: Yes indeed–Joy Reed is the real thing!
HeleninEire
@Baud: Just let me know when. Hosting KSinMA’s friend next week. She wrote to Anne Laurie looking for my email address. I even welcome friends of the friends of the blog.
When are you going to South America? We will miss the hell out of you.
MomSense
I did an exhausting house cleaning today and then went to pick up my mom at the airport. She is in a cast and never told me she injured herself. I should have skipped doing half the cleaning and saved my energy.
The good news is that she and the dog are having a love affair. She has to sit so the dog is lying right next to her insisting on skritches. Every time my mom stops petting the dog, she gets a gentle nudge.
Oh and my kid is dressing as Mueller for Halloween. He’s wearing a suit and tie with an 8×10 photo for a mask. He typed out some legal looking papers that say indictment with a lot of Impeach and Fu@k trump for text. I’m definitely taking some photos Tuesday.
Roger Moore
@germy:
That must be from the less expensive productions. The blockbusters went to color much earlier and at least some of them went out of their way to show it off by going with the most blindingly garish color choices they could. Yes, I’m looking at you, Wizard of Oz.
I think there was something similar when TV switched to color. At least that’s the best explanation I can come up with for the color-coded shirts in ST:TOS.
Ruckus
@Omnes Omnibus:
Ahhh. I didn’t remember that. Well also do remember polls are no better than the people doing them and what, who and how they ask. Our notions of propriety and who we trust can get in the way of a lot of things, polls being a prime example. Faux news is an even better example.
Gin & Tonic
I saw on the Twitter that prince Jared just returned from an unannounced visit to Saudi Arabia. He returned yesterday. Isn’t he supposed to be all super-observant and shit? Why is he traveling on the Sabbath?
HeleninEire
@Ruckus: If you don’t mind sleeping on the blow up bed on the floor, I don’t mind.
Just one more canuck
@germy: what? No “Dr. Tongue’s 3D House of Cats”
Baud
@HeleninEire: in about 6 weeks.
germy
@Just one more canuck: If only.
Roger Moore
@Mnemosyne:
I wouldn’t be surprised either way. My background is in photography rather than cinematography, but black and white film is tricky stuff. Different black and white films have different responses to color, e.g. orthochromatic vs. panchromatic, so it’s entirely possible they chose colors that would work well with the film stock they were using. IIRC, getting a flat color response curve usually involved lowering the sensitivity to the most sensitive colors, so the panchromatic films tended to be slower, which could be a problem when shooting indoors. I know the Oscars used to have separate categories for B&W and Color in Cinematography and Art Direction because they were different enough to justify extra awards.
Shana
@germy: Sorry if someone else has already posted this, but Playbill corrected him. So funny, to me at least, Playbill doing fact checking.
Patricia Kayden
@germy: Didn’t read any of the comments but left her an encouraging message. She’s been harassed too much already for what turned out to be a tasteless joke. She has apologized for that and I’m glad that she’s doing a world tour and moving on with her life.
Ruckus
@Baud:
True. And also true, it will continue until however it stops.
However it seems it would be far easier to add new things to an ongoing investigation that had substance than starting all over from scratch. Let’s say you’ve uncovered everything that’s happened for the last 5 yrs concerning your investigation. You’d have it laid out and organized, if for no other reason to name names and who to continue to watch. Something could be added to the contents every day or every event or every week, whatever. Depending on how/what the previous work was showing, would determine if a new angle had to be investigated or simply added on. The ground work has already been mostly done.
Major Major Major Major
@MomSense:
Oh, fun!
@Gin & Tonic: They have a rabbi on speed-dial who lets them do whatever they want, IIRC.
germy
@Patricia Kayden: She sounded truly panicked in the 911 call dustup with her asshole neighbor.
I heard her interview with Marc Maron some time ago. Hers was not an easy career path.
Patricia Kayden
@Gin & Tonic: Jared strikes me as someone who doesn’t take his religious too seriously if it interferes with his ability to make business deals. That’s one sleazy dude.
HeleninEire
@Omnes Omnibus: Look at you. Thinking you are clever.
Ruckus
@Mnemosyne:
Isn’t that part of his issue though? If he could tell them he could also just not stare. He doesn’t have that level of control, it’s a specific problem and it’s enough of a problem that it happens well before he could even get to explaining it. And if he could explain it, is there anything that would not keep him from making it worse? He has a disease that makes normal social interaction anything but normal.
Patricia Kayden
@MomSense: You must live in a pretty blue neighborhood for your kid to be able to dress up like that. Hopefully there aren’t too many Trump supporters where you are.
Fleeting Expletive
In my dream world, the first indictments go to someone in the Mercer-Conway-Bannon chain, and also to Rohrbacher and Nunes. That would most assuredly shake the vipers’ nests. Plus which, guilt might not be that difficult to establish, and who would miss either of them (Ryan “that’s how we know we’re a family”)?
realbtl
@HeleninEire: Sent a request via Alain, I will be in Dublin next June.
HeleninEire
@realbtl: Yay.
Ruckus
@HeleninEire:
I’d probably prefer the floor, bad back which can not stand soft sleeping surfaces. The rest of me likes that though. No one ever said, from experience, that growing old was easy. If they did they were fucking lying.
HeleninEire
@Ruckus: “Growing old is not for sissy’s” Bettie Davis.
MomSense
@Patricia Kayden:
We are probably 60/40 blue. Fortunately he’s going to a party and all the kids there are true blue.
MomSense
@Gin & Tonic:
Hmmm, maybe he had to come home early. ?
patrick II
@Mnemosyne:
Sometimes people write fun or interesting things on their T. Shirts . One I saw asked “Why are you staring at my boobs? It was a trap.
?”
Patricia Kayden
Trump has dragged down the way foreigners view the US in 37 countries with the only two exceptions being Russia and Israel. So embarrassing.
Scandinavians seem to hate Trump the most. Smart folks.
bill arnold
@Tissue Thin Pseudonym:
Yes. Not on the spectrum personally AFAIK but still, for me and many others (some on the spectrum) in my workplace, “extroverts are the people who look at the other person’s sh0es.
(Can read microexpressions and faces reasonably well; it’s just too intense to do regularly, and sometimes feels like a violation of privacy. (Personally, my face is an open book, but that is mostly by choice.))
Was very amused by that twitter thread. (Male, and it was refreshingly light on of overt hatred of males, which can be tiresome, like any hate.)
sukabi
@Aleta: ha! How long before taibbi has to answer this question?
Soooo…. Were you lying then, trying to make a name for yourself, or are you lying now to cover for your despicable behavior? Either way what has been proven is you are a liar.
bill arnold
@bill arnold:
Hm. For people plagued by FYWP issues, “sh0es” seems to work. Spelled correctly, it does not.
realbtl
@Ruckus: It ain’t easy but it beats the alternative.
Ruckus
@HeleninEire:
Bette knew the score. Hers wasn’t the easiest of lives, especially in the last third or so.
germy
@bill arnold: shoes?
Lurking Canadian
@Mnemosyne: This is the approach I use. One of the women in my office favors low-cut tops, and the nature of our interactions means I usually speak to her while I’m standing and she’s sitting behind a desk. If I look anywhere near her face…well, peripheral vision is a thing. I usually spend half the conversation looking out the window behind her. It probably feels weird from her perspective but I think it’s better than the alternative.
Hal
I’m feeling like the quickest way to get rid of Trump would be via a Kushner indictment. Either what it would ultimately reveal or from the apoplexy said indictment would induce in Trump, thus ushering in his impeachment and removal. One can hope I guess.
Ruckus
@realbtl:
I have a young friend who would debate you on that. Oh wait he can’t, he took the alternative. I’m striving to prove you right though.
I paid for this ride and I don’t want to feel that I wasted my money.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: South America stole our name, let’s drop the Big One*.
*Political Science, Randy Newman.
Fair Economist
@Roger Moore:
Actually even from the Tomb of Ligeia mentioned above (1964) there’s something about the color palette that screams “early color film” to me. I think it’s something about a preference for primary colors and disfavoring of complex color patterns (which would not have photographed well in B&W).
At least they weren’t using teal and orange.
BC in Illinois
@Gin & Tonic:
@Hal:
People, I said it on an earlier thread. You have to think this all the way through.
If Jared is indicted, then how will he ever bring peace to the Middle East?
Citizen_X
@Roger Moore:
Then what—other than, “the 70s”—accounts for the horrendous earth-toned uniforms in the first ST movie?
Steeplejack
@Snarkworth, short-fingered Bulgarian:
Last known details here.
Gravenstone
@Baud: I was really hoping they would then leave the field en mass, telling the owner to fuck himself. Alas, with NFL contracts largely non-guaranteed, no way was that happening.
Kirk
@Baud: I know I’m late to this thread, but since I didn’t see a good answer I’ll try.
Short version: because disaster relief falls under the Stafford Act, and the guiding principal of that act is “the government of the state/territory in which the disaster happened is in charge.”
FEMA isn’t in charge. It’s… incomplete analogy: it’s a temporary specialist providing assistance to the state’s full-time specialists.
Bottom line, then, is that while the feds can offer the contract to xyz, the state can say “no thank you” to that contractor, to the funding, or any related element of it all.
The feds only get to be in charge if martial law goes into effect. And that can only legally happen if there is no duly elected local (up to state level) government in control.
(I’ve got a very experience friend who uses me in every disaster as a ranting board about mis-perceptions and mis-presentations from media and others. I’ve begun to pick up one or two things as a result.)
Gravenstone
@Gin & Tonic: Seeking asylum landing spots?
Suzanne
@Hal: I have been fantasizing in earnest about a Kushner perp walk since we heard about these indictments on Friday.
Roger Moore
@Gravenstone:
Even with guaranteed contracts, the guarantee is only against things like injury, loss of effectiveness, and similar misfortune. Refusal to play because the owner is a dipshit, or even getting injured doing something particularly stupid, is grounds for voiding the contract.
Duane
@Major Major Major Major: I’ll see your YouTube comments, and raise you Yahoo comments.
That shit is unbelievable.
Boatboy_srq
@NotMax: “Sexit” would be the sequel to NSPWB.