NEWS: On Thanksgiving, Pope Francis will meet @RevDrBarber, who's leading a revival of MLK's Poor People's Campaign. Barber is among international grassroots leaders meeting @Pontifex that day. https://t.co/PsYcqqJd9x
— Laurie Goodstein (@lauriegnyt) November 20, 2017
"“[The Pope] wants to bless this movement, and meet with other activists from around the world who are fighting against poverty" @RevDrBarber https://t.co/z81oBDYGkR
— Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons (@GuthrieGF) November 20, 2017
… Dr. Barber, who officially stepped down in October after 12 years as president of the N.C. NAACP, will be part of a two-day conference attended by social justice advocates from countries like Canada, Senegal, Italy, Ireland, Tunisia, Ghana, Brazil, and the United States, among others.
It’s no doubt that Dr. Barber’s involvement in the 50 anniversary of Dr. Martin Luther King’s 1968 Poor’s People’s Campaign caught the attention of not only national, but international social justice leadership, like Pope Francis, who is world reknowned for his personal and official advocacy for the poor.
Just last Sunday in St. Peter’s Basilica in Vatican City, Pope Francis, the leader of the Catholic Church, celebrated a special Mass for poor people on the first World Day of the Poor, eating with 1,500 from Italy, Poland and France.
The pope also denounced those who express indifference to the plight of the poor, calling such behavior “ a great sin.”
“It is when we turn away from a brother or sister in need, when we change channels as soon as a disturbing question comes up, when we grow indignant at evil but do nothing about it,” Pope Francis said. “God will not ask us if we felt righteous indignation, but whether we did some good.”
Dr. Barber’s organization, Repairers of the Breach, “seeks to build a moral agenda rooted in the framework that uplift’s our deepest moral and constitutional values to redeem the heart and soul of our country,” it says on its website.
“Our deepest moral traditions point to equal protection under the law, the desire for peace within and among nations, the dignity of all people, and the responsibility to care for our common home.”…
Rev Barber has also been a leader in organizing, protesting, & pressuring to ensure voting rights. https://t.co/Oy7HuN25eF
— Dana Houle (@DanaHoule) November 20, 2017
Meanwhile, at the opposite end of the spectrum, the Washington Post reports that Grifters Gonna Grift…
A weekend conference organized by white nationalist Richard Spencer was shut down after the owners of the Maryland farm he rented discovered he was behind the event.
The think tank that Spencer leads, the National Policy Institute, hosted the conference for about 100 people at Rocklands Farm, a winery and events venue in Montgomery County. Spencer said in an interview that a third-party logistics company contacted Rocklands Farm on behalf of the National Policy Institute this month and didn’t reveal that white nationalists were affiliated with the event when they booked it. The company told the farm’s management only that it was a “corporate” gathering, according to Spencer.
The conference started about 11 a.m. Sunday and was scheduled to continue until 8 p.m. Caterers at Rocklands Farm served brunch, and participants recapped 2017. At about 4 p.m., Spencer said, someone working the event learned that Spencer was there, and management told everyone to leave…
The National Policy Institute booked space at Rocklands Farm after the property manager at the Ronald Reagan Building and International Trade Center, a federal facility in the District, told the organization that it couldn’t host its conference at the building. The two sides had been in communication for months before a private management company rejected the request over safety concerns…
Spencer described the Rocklands Farm gathering as a policy conference, in which attendees paid $225. Spencer said before the event that it was to feature Daniel Friberg, the European editor of AltRight.com, and Kevin MacDonald, described by the Southern Poverty Law Center as “the neo-Nazi movement’s favorite academic.”
The organizers didn’t publicly disclose beforehand that the event would be held at Rocklands Farm, Spencer said. Instead, organizers arranged for vans to pick up attendees at various locations and drive them to the farm.
After Rocklands Farm management told them to leave, those vans then shuttled the conference attendees to another private space outside the District before they then went to dinner at a restaurant, Spencer said.
“I’m not mad, but if I were a business owner, I would not do that,” Spencer said. “If communists came to my establishment, but they were civilized, I couldn’t imagine kicking them out. So I’m certainly disappointed, but we are not going to retaliate. It’s just life in 2017 for us.”…
Spencer knew damned well that no reputable public venue would let him in without a steep damages deposit, so he hustled his hundred deluded marks in under third-party cover. (Wonder if he conned them into paying their own restaurant tabs, after he was fortuitously ‘busted’.) And now he gets to play White Male Martyr for the rubes — no doubt guaranteeing that his next “policy conference” will attract even more racists, probably for an even higher cover charge.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
Betty Cracker
Twitler is on a racist tear from Disgraceland this morning.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Anne Laurie
@Betty Cracker:
Hmmm….
Baud
Spencer, however, will eat up more media attention.
@Betty Cracker:
LeVar again?
Baud
@Anne Laurie: He goes nuts on Twitter every day. That tweet is meaningless fortune telling.
Mary G
@Baud: LaVar, the ungrateful. Don King without the hair. With a failing NFL losers in between. Barely coherent.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Betty Cracker: So basically another day ending in ‘y’.
ETA: As usual, Baud gets there first.
Mary G
@Mary G: I saw a few minutes of the turkey pardon and the audience was 100% pasty white people. Jim Crow for our times.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mary G: Trump taking LaVar’s bait is the best thing that ever happened to LaVar; on the other hand he was offering his opinion of Luke Walton’s coaching which may not play out so well for his son.
Schlemazel
Spencer is a bad grifter if all he could take in was 22.5 for the afternoon. I would think the conference center with brunch would eat up a lot of that. Of course this could just be the setup phase of the con.
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: Another day ending in a ‘y’.
(((CassandraLeo)))
AFAIK, most communists these days aren’t advocating genocide. Some may be advocating guillotines for Spencer and his ilk, but there’s still no equivalency to be drawn. Logic has never been Nazis’ strong suit, to be fair.
?BillinGlendaleCA
In other news, my hike to Mt. Pinos is now on hold with madame informing me that I will have to take her to work on T-day. On the bright side I got a pic of the snow at the local fancy pants mall, unfortunately it almost completely melted before it got down to where the people were since it was still 70 degrees at 8pm.
Raven
I don’t think I have ever fished down here without a single bite all day!
OzarkHillbilly
@Mary G: Even the turkeys were white.
Baud
Bad news from politico
The article says she hadn’t decided on the tax bill yet. Ugh.
OzarkHillbilly
@Raven: That sucks.
p.a.
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Nobody likes a gloater. (Sent from a resident of the unofficial slush and sleet capital of the US. Chrome autocorrect turns capital to capItaly!)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@p.a.: You see, it’s also supposed to be 94 degrees this afternoon.
p.a.
@OzarkHillbilly: bad day fishing still better than etc…
p.a.
@?BillinGlendaleCA: DoubleDogGloat!
Amir Khalid
It’s been reported that some confused Trump supporters think LeVar Burton is the father of LiAngelo Ball, and have begun attacking Burton on social media.
Words fail me.
satby
Good morning all, especially @rikyrah: !
I have to get lots done today to make up for yesterday, which didn’t seem so productive. Ever have one of those days where everything seemed like a huge effort?
JMG
I read the Murkowski article. It was a skilled exercise in hedging. Committed herself to nothing except the non-starter of putting mandate repeal in Alexander-Murray, which isn’t gonna pass and she knows it.
Raven
@p.a.: Yea, I’m trying to hold on to that. It was a decent day compared to Monday. It’s going to be in the low 70’s which is a hell of a lot better than the 50’s.
Baud
@JMG: I hope you’re right. Curious why she spoke on that, however.
p.a.
Anyone have issues loading here w Chrome? I get 90-95%, so everything works and format is normal, but page just takes forever to completely load. Chrome on android, LTE and wifi, mobile page.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby:
Everyday.
debbie
@Schlemazel:
Shouldn’t the bounced check in Florida have prevented any future bookings?
debbie
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D58826
debbie
This tweet is better:
NotMax
Holiday mood music.
All That Meat and No Potatoes – Fats Waller
Stuffy Turkey – Thelonius Monk
Sweet Potato Pie – Ray Charles & James Taylor
satby
54 years ago today JFK was assassinated.
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: probably because we don’t get enough sleep. ?
debbie
@satby:
I was just reading about your brining debate. As long as you thoroughly rinse off the brine inside and out, it won’t taste salty at all. Then be sure to pat the turkey dry so the skin will crisp up.
d58826
@satby: I was in 11th grade.; It was in study hall in the auditorium and this stirring passed from row with kids whispering about the president being shot. We all thought it was a joke. Then we were dismissed back to our homerooms. After about 20 minutes in HR someone came in and said he was dead. School was dismissed at that point. I can remember it like it was yesterday. I remember my Mom talking about how she remembered exactly what she was doing on Dec 7th 1941 and then I understood what she meant
Jeffro
@Betty Cracker:
Just trying to picture the reaction if Hillz, Obama, any Dem went on a public tirade against an American citizen this way…
“I am God” + ‘toddler-level insult’. Unbelievable.
debbie
@d58826:
I think this is the first year I didn’t automatically remember the date. :(
?BillinGlendaleCA
@debbie: Trump just made LaVar’s day, the man lives for this shit.
Raven
@satby: And 5 years later Paul “Andy” Stein was killed in Operation Meade River.
http://www.vvmf.org/Wall-of-Faces/49649/PAUL-A-STEIN
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Yep. And LeVar will keep it going. He is the hero America needs.
d58826
@debbie: also my late FIL and our bassett hound’s :-) birthday so have 3 triggers
d58826
@Baud: The more he eggs Der Fuhrer on the less time Der Fuhrer has to start WWIII with NK.
satby
@Raven: so young.
Baud
@d58826:
Baud!/LaVar! 2020!
Betty Cracker
I don’t know anything about LeVar Ball — never heard of him until Trump started tweeting about him. But this “poor man’s Don King” business is just straight-up racism, correct?
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
@Jeffro:
Remember the “Beer Summit”?
Raven
@d58826: When I went to my 50th hs reunion in September we toured the school a remembered which classroom we were in tha day.
OzarkHillbilly
@debbie: Well said. ;-)
Raven
@Betty Cracker: Well, he’s a real loudmouth asshole.
satby
@d58826: I was in third grade, but similar memories of some kids whispering before the principle came in the p.a. to announce it. Then, because it was a Catholic school, we all knelt and said a decade of the rosary before we were sent home.
Matt
@Schlemazel: it’s moar profitable if you pay the venue with a bad check, like in FL
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Betty Cracker: Like Don King, LaVar has a big mouth. We hear quite a bit about LaVar here in LA. His son plays for the Lakers(last year he was at UCLA).
Baud
@Raven: Don’t you mean “They are…”
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: No, Baud. You don’t want ANYTHING to do with LaVar.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: That might have something to do with it.
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
I thank you.
Elizabelle
I always think of JFK on November 22.
I see that David Cassidy has died. Aged 67. Never had a crush on him, but Bobby Sherman. Another matter.
Cassidy had dementia. Doesn’t it seem a lot of people have been suffering with that, earlier? Maybe it’s just demographics, though, and faster dissemination of news. Less privacy.
Amir Khalid
@Betty Cracker:
I’d never heard of LaVar Ball either — is he a locally prominent person?
debbie
@Jeffro:
I didn’t hear Trump’s turkey pardonning remarks until late last night. I’m appalled that he’d say out loud that he was purposely erasing his predecessor’s actions.
Betty Cracker
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I think Don King was one of a dozen or so black men who supported Trump, so it would surprise me if Trump were making the comparison because King and Ball are both loud mouths or assholes — as is Trump, of course. But then again, Trump rarely makes sense. As far as I can tell, the only things he’s consistent about are racism, misogyny and self-regard.
debbie
@Amir Khalid:
Professional basketball player.
NotMax
@satby
Trivia: 158 years ago today, Darwin’s “On the Origins of Species” was first published – all 1250 copies of the first printing sold out on the same day.
JMG
@Baud: No legislator in the history of the world who was a key vote on a bill hasn’t tried to leverage their position somehow. Murkowski really wants Alexander-Murray. This was her shot at leverage.I mean, you could read her comment the other way, too. No Alexander-Murray, no tax cuts for you.
PS: I have seen somewhere that Trump fans are hollering at LaVar Burton on twitter under the impression he is LaVar Ball. Perfect.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: LaVar is locally prominent the same way car chases are, they happen and the local news covers it.
Amir Khalid
@Elizabelle:
Dementia runs in his family, per the reports. His grandfather and mother suffered from it.
rikyrah
@Amir Khalid:
Nobody said that they were the brightest bunch
?BillinGlendaleCA
@debbie:
No, LaVar is the FATHER of a professional basketball player.
rikyrah
@NotMax:
Thanks for the music ????
Baud
@Amir Khalid:
@JMG:
If I were LeVar Burton, I would have a field day.
debbie
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Then who’s the NBA player?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@debbie: Lorenzo Ball is the starting guard for the Lakers.
rikyrah
@d58826:
I remember my mother’s recollection of both December 7th, and Kennedy’s assassination. She and my father could describe the days to a tee.
Ruviana
@Elizabelle: It also ran in his family; mother and a grandparent (can’t remember which one) had it.
ETA: Beaten to the punch by Amir!
satby
@Elizabelle: I think dementia is recognized earlier now. And drug and alcohol abuse seem to be a risk factor for developing dementia earlier too.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I’m going to assume he won’t go to the White House if they win the championship.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Betty Cracker:
It’s a shock. Drumpf is usually loyal to a fault
rikyrah
@Betty Cracker:
It, of course is racism.
But, Ball is playing Dolt45.
The father is the worst kind of sports parent. He has Richard Williams-like arrogance, but something about him makes me weary. I fear for his sons. I just don’t think that they are going to turn out like Venus and Serena.
Amir Khalid
@JMG:
Maybe you saw it upthread: me #23.
Eric S.
Bonjour
One last day of work this week. I expect a pretty empty office and train this morning.
Mom arrives from Cincinnati later today.
This weekend’s work, other than stuffing my face, is making final decisions on materials for my bathroom gut rehab starting next week.
rikyrah
@debbie:
What’s appalling is that he did it at THE TURKEY PARDONING.
HE MADE THAT POLITICAL ???
debbie
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Thanks. Clearly I don’t follow the sport. ;)
debbie
@rikyrah:
And he thought he was making a clever joke! The man is an absolute abomination.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@debbie: Since Lorenzo played for UCLA last season, I paid attention since I’m an alum. LaVar’s second son(there are 3), D’Angelo was the one arrested in China, he’s a UCLA freshman. The third son(I don’t remember his name) is supposed to be the best ball player of the bunch.
Betty Cracker
@rikyrah: Trump ruins everything.
Kay
Win or lose, that Doug Jones is a class act. He’s like a breath of fresh air compared to the shrieking, bragging, mean-spirited Trumpsters. It’s amazing Democrats were able to get such a high quality candidate in such a long shot state.
That would be a fun campaign to help with- a huge upside to winning.
bystander
@satby:
I guess this means that on 9/11/2055 I won’t remember what happened 54 years earlier automatically. I will also be celebrating my 105th Birthday.
Baud
@Kay: Agree.
bystander
@Kay: Agreed about Jones. Yet the teevee heads can only repeat what twitler has to say about Jones. Seems it would be impossible for them to go one step further to refute twitler’s slurs with the truth.
satby
@NotMax: And the Bible thumpers have been fighting it since. Cool factoid, thanks.
JPL
@Anne Laurie: Please let it be true. It would be a Thanksgiving miracle.
BruceFromOhio
Happy Thanksgiving Eve to all! May Gaia bless your lands, your loves, and your lives.
My thoughts and prayers go out to Republicans in Congress who are held immutable by the reckless horrors they’ve unleashed on this country and her citizens. Now to do some good …
#Resist
Another Scott
Morning all.
Speaking of voting rights, VoteRiders is having a donor match and GivingTuesday is coming up. Consider giving to them, and similar on-the-ground voting rights groups, if you can.
Safe travels.
Cheers,
Scott.
Citizen_X
Oh, how gracious of the Nazis.
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
@p.a.:
Everything normal here.
I’m running Android Nougat, Chrome, and LTE.
Kay
I’m going to work for a couple of hours and then we’re going to Chicago to my son’s for Thanksgiving. He and his wife have an exchange student so the three of them are making the dinner. I was hoping they would make a Danish meal since I think I would love that food (having had it described to me numerous times) and both his wife and the exchange student are Danish, BUT- they’re making turkey. She makes really beautiful meals- last year she made a “mocktail” for my youngest in a fancy stemmed glass which he got such a kick out of- he was carrying it around like it was an egg and he was afraid he would break it.
Lapassionara
@satby: Yes. I noticed the date when I fired up my iPad this morning. Just the first in a string of assasinations that decade, one blow after another. And here we are, in the hands of an ignorant narcissist. I’m still waiting for the arc of history to bend toward justice.
satby
@Another Scott: They and Kander’s group are my two must donates this giving season.
Gin & Tonic
@Amir Khalid:
He aspires to worldwide prominence. Nay, galaxy-wide.
If you look up “loudmouth asshole” in the dictionary you’ll see his picture. Take the worst sideline sports parent you’ve ever encountered and multiply by a million.
satby
@Lapassionara:
As are we all.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: Sounds like fun! Safe travels!
Patricia Kayden
@satby: By Ted Cruz’ dad, per BLOTUS.
Another Scott
@p.a.: That sounds like a problem with an ad or an ad site. I just tried it on my V10 with Chrome and the front page loaded OK (took maybe 10-15 s for the progress bar to stop moving). Maybe try an adblocker with FF if it gets too annoying?
Oh, that was with the Desktop version on the phone. The Mobile version is faster (maybe 3-5s) for me.
HTH a little.
Cheers,
Scott.
(Who almost always uses the desktop version on a PC or Mac when I’m here.)
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Gin & Tonic:
Heh, QTF.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Kay: Have you seen his new ad – it’s really clobbers Moore (video)
Patricia Kayden
@Another Scott: That’s a great idea. Will throw a few coins their way to help out their righteous effort.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: Very good ad.
Patricia Kayden
@Citizen_X: How were they going to retaliate against a private business declining to host their bigotry? LOL. Spencer is an idiot.
O. Felix Culpa
@satby: I’ve been giving to VoteRiders regularly, but wasn’t aware of Let America Vote. Thanks for the heads up! I try to divide my giving between local and international causes. Beyond the advocacy groups I support, I’ll be donating to our food pantry (hunger affects an inordinate number of children in New Mexico) and Adelante, which provides services for children and their families experiencing homelessness. Internationally, I’ve given to Doctors without Borders and Partners in Health in the past. Does anyone have other favorite organizations to recommend?
Kathleen
@satby: That would be my whole life for the past year.
Good Morning Everyone.
Nicole
No problems with Chrome, but an updated Minecraft won’t run on the 7-year-old’s iPad. Oh, the humanity. It’s going to be a long holiday weekend.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
Thanks. It’s hard to get used to not hosting Thanksgiving anymore. I did it for years and now younger people do it. I like having big dinners so I enjoyed it but being a guest is also great- maybe better! I still have that sense that I’m not doing something I should be doing on the day before, though. They took the exchange student to Arizona last month and they’re taking him to DC in the spring. They must look odd as a threesome because he’s 17 and they’re obviously too young to be his parents yet they’re also clearly not siblings.
Colleeniem
@Baud: He (LeVar Burton) should use this! He has a delightful podcast reading short stories, that is a tonic for our times. Everyone needs this antidote.
Kathleen
@d58826: I was a freshman. I’ll never forget it either. I was a mess.
ThresherK
I had a dream about overcoming my introversion and playing my guitar and singing in front of more than two people.(Amir Khalid, the guitar is a ’60s Guild Blackstar, if you’re interested in buying it, well, if you weren’t half the world away from me.)
For today: Unload leftover moved stuff from wife’s car, put in items we’re giving our host (part of her collection of Oz stuff). Figure out what to make in the world’s cutest little oven that doesn’t run on a 60-watt bulb, and where all my unpacked kitchen implements are.
gene108
@Lapassionara:
Lynchings are no longer given legal cover.
The men who bombed the church in Birmingham Alabama are in jail, and the prosecutor, who put them there may become a Senator.
The mob is a sorry shadow of its former self.
Sexual harassment is being taken more seriously (low bar, I know).
Extreme poverty in developing nations has been greatly reduced in the last 35 years.
Things are improving, despite Trump.
Lapassionara
@gene108: Thank you for reminding me. I think we should consider any day that does not end in a nuclear holocaust a “win.” But I have to work at keeping a positive attitude these days.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: My husband and I were talking about Thanksgivings past last night. My father-in-law was a master gravy maker. I really did learn a lot, though at first I thought it was cheeky of him to invade my kitchen when I was trying to put together a meal for more than a dozen people and be so generous with his advice, LOL! I miss the old guy now. We got along pretty well. My mother-in-law is an absolute darling! One of the nicest people I’ve ever met. I really lucked out there!
Maybe someday our daughter will host a holiday meal, but I suspect we are years away from that! She’s bringing the pumpkin pie this year, as she did last year. That’s one Thanksgiving dish she has mastered.
Amir Khalid
@ThresherK:
The Guild Black Star is indeed a lovely guitar, if it’s anything like this one I just saw on Reverb.com. Alas, that one was going for CAD$4,422 — about US$3,500, or RM14,200+ — somewhat beyond my budget.
satby
@O. Felix Culpa: only one I would add (because DWB and PiH are my faves too) might be the International Rescue Committee because of their work with refugees.
And can I just say how much I despise the current journalistic practice of calling refugees “migrants”? Positively Orwellian.
JPL
@Kathleen: I was a freshman also, but was home because we only had a half day of school. Part of me still blames Walter Cronkite for informing me that the president had died.
d58826
@?BillinGlendaleCA: and King has a lot more hair
d58826
@Kay: MY Mom always said she enjoyed Xmas dinner better than Thanksgiving dinner. Might have something to do with the fact that her sister did XMAS and my Mom did Thanksgiving. :-)
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
I think we all remember where we were when we heard news of the Thanksgiving Day Massacre (Photo)
danielx
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
danielx
@Amir Khalid:
Well, both names begin with B, so they could get them easily confused.
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
I’m glad they’re out in the world, as I’m sure you are too, that your daughter “launched” but I do miss all the intense activity around them- how kids draw you into other people and things. My daughter was the best at it- “I have to go to glass blowing class” – WTF- who sucked you into that? I would find myself at all her weird events. What I really want is a family “compound” in Utah where they all live next to me, forever. A…matriarchy! I would be a benevolent ruler. Really.
ThresherK
@Amir Khalid: I don’t know. I was randomly guessing at the age, and mine is black–not sunburst–with a touch different here and there.
Mine is probably not worth that much. I’d hope not, because it wasn’t represented as that year/series, and didn’t cost anything like that.
But it still falls into the category of “my skill hasn’t caught up with it”.
Florida Frog
I was canvassing for Doug Jones in Birmingham and spent Sunday evening at the Tabernacle Baptist Church listening to Rev. Barber. It was the perfect antidote to the pettiness and spite of Trumpworld. The sanctuary was filled to the brim with folk from all faiths and none who know that we must care for each other. Pope Francis and Rev. Barber are a formidable pair. I wonder where this friendship will lead.
O. Felix Culpa
@satby:
Yes. Yes you may. Thanks for the reminder about the IRC. They’re another good group and the need is great.
Chyron HR
@danielx:
In this case it’s more like “begins with N”.
Ruckus
@Elizabelle:
Dad was showing signs of Alzehimer’s at 65. We didn’t know till later that’s what it was but that’s how it turned out. He suffered another 19 yrs before it got him. A friends mom started showing about the same age, if I recall she made another 8-10 yrs.
d58826
@David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch: probably the greatest video clip of all time
hedgehog mobile
@Another Scott: Thanks!
Le Comte de Monte Cristo, fka Edmund Dantes
I’m battling a pain in the ass bug that I seem to have passed on to the Countess. Last year, she got a gut bug mid meal.
Mindful of last years’ experience, and given that Dad actually seems to pick up and hang on to every resperitory thing that comes along, we’re begging off bringing Mom and Dad, and probably will be scaled back, only doing kids (my preference, actually). Mom is going to the German Christmas markets in a week and a half, and I don’t want her worrying about Dad with a bug.
rikyrah
@Kay:
have a safe trip, Kay. And, enjoy my fair city :)
Gelfling 545
@Betty Cracker: Most people haven’t apparently because LeVar Burton from Reading Rainbow is getting threats for this.
Amir Khalid
If anyone here’s interested in flying in style, CNN Money reports that there’s a Boeing 747 for sale online. It’s the last of three that went on sale after their owner, a Chinese freight carrier, went out of business, and is still in need of a forever home.
Spanky
@Amir Khalid: A forever home? Has it had its shots and been microchipped?
sheila in nc
@Kay:
Makes me smile, just thinking about it. Hmmm… maybe you are onto something…
hueyplong
@Baud: I saw what you did with that Lavar Ball “is the hero we need” thing.
@Betty Cracker: Trump is giving us a tutorial on racism. If you read something and don’t see how it’s racist, you have just learned a new racist trope.
Spanky
Alexandra Petri is at it again:
Kathleen
@JPL: We got to leave early. I walked from the school to downtown St. Paul to catch my bus home. It was a cold gray day but I needed to walk. That Sunday we were in the car on our way to cousin’s house when we heard Ruby shot Oswald. My dad believed from 11-22 that Hoover was part of conspiracy to kill JFK and began buying many books which I also read. I still agree with my dad. What we’re experiencing today is a consequence of that day. That’s why though I am appalled I’m not surprised by anything happening today.
Amir Khalid
@Spanky:
I doubt it’s been shot at, but like any 747 made in the past twenty years it should come with plenty of microchips.
sheila in nc
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Lonzo is the one who plays for the Lakers. LiAngelo is the one who is a current UCLA player and got arrested. The third son is LaMelo. LaMelo is a high school star but I thought I read somewhere that LaVar is pulling him out to be home schooled — maybe he doesn’t think the high school is giving him (LaVar) enough adulation. LaVar has a shoe company that created a $400 basketball shoe marketed under LaMelo’s name (some grumbling about how this affects LaMelo’s NCAA eligibility; LaMelo is already committed to UCLA.) The whole thing is ridiculous and I feel kinda sorry for the three young men. Also for the UCLA coach.
Steeplejack (phone)
@p.a.:
Yeah, I’m getting that on my Android phone. I can’t swear to it, but I think it’s related to the late (and interminable) loading of a Taboola video ad just below the “previous/next post” buttons. You don’t notice it if you have moved down below to read the comments.
Amaranthine RBG
I would think the fact that Spencer bounced a $10K check to a venue would be reason enough to turn him away—never mind his other, um, issues
martian
@Florida Frog:
Thank you for your work! Are you travelling to Alabama from Florida to work for the Jones campaign? Getting to hear Rev. Barber like that sounds amazing.
woodrowfan
@Mary G: I don’t understand why he is so mad at LaVar. I mean, Wesley was a MUCH more annoying character than LaForge, not to mention Dr. Pulaski ..
What?
Really?
Oh.
Never mind.
BC in Illinois
On the memories of Nov 22:
I was in a Jr High civics class. A vice-principal came to the door, asked the civics teacher to step out into the hall. When he came back, he told us the president had been shot. I don’t think we knew until later that he had died, but I think we all assumed it. I remember kids crying and the civics teacher describing what would happen. LBJ. Then school was called off early and I walked home.
On Sunday, my mother and I took the bus down to Pennsylvania Avenue to see the procession that took the body to the Capitol building. It was when we got back onto the bus that we heard the news about Oswald being shot.
On Monday morning, the Algebra teacher had this written on the blackboard:
I wrote that from memory (and just checked it–I was right, except that I wrote ‘your’ instead of ‘thy’).
I still remember what it looked like on the blackboard.
Sister Golden Bear
Trying to figure out what to wear tomorrow, since it’ll be 93 degrees down at Mom’s house in SoCal — and people dress up for dinner at the retirement community she lives in.
On the positive side, my sundresses get one last hurrah for the season during the rest of the visit.
#SoCalProblems
Miss Bianca
@O. Felix Culpa: Hey, completely o/t, but I’m heading down to Pecos on Saturday with BrewBuddy to meet up with some of our friends – as in, his friends meeting my friends. Also looking at a possible relocate – what’s Las Vegas like? I know they have at least a community college there…
Miss Bianca
@Colleeniem: “And this, kids, is an example of why learning to read is SO IMPORTANT!”
O. Felix Culpa
@Miss Bianca: Ooh, I wish I could meet up with you, but we have houseguests this weekend. As for Las Vegas, I don’t know the town well. Usually just stop there for gas on my way to Colorado to visit my sisters (they’re both in Longmont now; are you anywhere in the vicinity?) Las Vegas has some old time charm and is about an hour’s drive from Santa Fe. Quinerly’s been there and I believe Adam has been too. They might be able to fill you in some more. Would be cool if you became an almost neighbor!
feebog
Good Morning everyone. Windy and hot Santa Ana conditions here in SoCal, as several neighbors have already mentioned. I have half a page of “Must do” items today. My ex-sister-in-Law posted pictures of Thanksgiving 2012 on FB this morning. It was my Dad’s last. He died exactly three years ago. Thinking of him and going to call my Mom between errands this morning. All you jackals have at it on the tubes today, I’ll catch you on the backside.
Miss Bianca
@O. Felix Culpa: Yeah, it’s going to be a bit whirlwind for a jackal meet-up – down on Saturday and back on Sunday.
Felonius Monk
@Betty Cracker:
I suspect she had a very good teacher.
Florida Frog
@martian: Yes, a buddy and I drove over from NE Florida. I’ve lost my southern accent (used to live in Birmingham) over the years but encountered absolutely no pushback about being an outsider. People were lovely and glad that someone knocked on their door to ask for their vote. We had some great conversations and even helped some frail, older people get absentee ballots. As for Rev. Barber, I have no vocabulary for the atmosphere in that church. It even inspired this heathen.
BillyG
@p.a.: been fighting that for the last two days. Thought it was my laptops battery going bad, but some sites load with no problem, like natal weather service. What’s not working is stuff related to Google. Sigh and damnation@p.a.:
SgrAstar
@Amir Khalid: LaVar Ball is not a pro ball player. He is the father of three sons who have been trained to play in the NBA. Oldest son Lonzo is a starter fot the Lakers, age 20. The middle son, LiAngelo, was just released from China after the fabled Louis Vuitton shoplifting incident. The youngest son, LaMelo, is still in HS but has an offer from UCLA. LaVar is an attention-seeking buffoon. That said, my opinion of him has gone up considerably since he started bedeviling the preznit. Trump has totally met his match here. Another salient detail about the Ball family is that Tina Ball, mother of the 3 boys, was seriously disabled by a stroke, a fewmonths ago. LaVar has been taking care of her. Lots of stress in that family.
J R in WV
@d58826:
I was in 7th grade if I recall correctly, graduated in 1968. I was in science class to a guy who told us about how he couldn’t tell if a “little neegro boy’s hands were clean…” or not. When they announced over the PA that President Kennedy was dead, and we were all going home immediately, my teacher, bigot that he was, tried hard to conceal his smile.
That smile may have upset me more than the death of the president.
School was canceled the next couple of days. I was practicing the piano just a couple of days later, when I heard my mom scream in the next room, where she had just seem Lee Harvey Oswald murdered by Jack Ruby. I ran in, and saw that murder on tape delay just a few seconds later.
And today, what, 55 years later, no one knows who killed President Kennedy, nor why it was concealed. I read a book about right wing influences in Dallas not long ago, and the reason no one is sure who killed Kennedy is that there were so many right wing bastards ready and willing to kill the first catholic president of the US.
And many of them were in the military or security branches of the government. So guess who?!?!?