EAT MORE CHURROS!
Oh and I also had 2 churros today and they were pretty bomb so if you ever get nervous go eat a churro
— Chloe Kim (@chloekimsnow) February 11, 2018
And the guy in the Oval Office should definitely lead the way on that — don’t worry, even Taco Bell sells (what they call) churros now!
(Anybody piping up that a fat old guy with rage issues who never exercises shouldn’t be indulging in sugar-frosted fried dough deliciousness… shutupshutupshutup…)
Further, because branding is all-American, I hope for Ms. Kim’s sake that San Diablo Artisan Churros are delicious.
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Also Olympian, in a different sense:
Hope they're not done with the Oscars "In Memoriam" montage yet because dude just got fucking murdered pic.twitter.com/70bP0dRDOo
— Jason Bailey (@jasondashbailey) February 13, 2018
?BillinGlendaleCA
I’m just trying to figure out where Chloe got churros in Korea. Both madame and the kid are quite taken with Miss Kim; not just because she’s a fellow Korean, but they both said she’s cute.
Sm*t Cl*de
I’m pretty sure that legal citizens who happen to be racists and Nazis are called “racist and Nazi” anywhere in the world.
? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?
What a shame about Kevin Sorbo, I liked him as Hercules even though it was a cheesy show. Lately all he does is fundamentalist freakshow stuff like “God’s Not Dead” that was based off a bullshit story that never happened.
patrick II
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I think the kitchen at the Olympic village has food from many cultures.
Also, Chrissy Teigen has been referred to as “Queen of Twitter”. This is not the first time I have seen her sharp wit at work. I think she got into a minor twitter war with Trump last year.
(((CassandraLeo)))
So… who is Kevin Sorbo supposed to be and why are we supposed to care what he has to say? That’s one of the most molten takes I’ve seen all year, though.
Steeplejack
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?:
See, this is what is wrong with our “Information wants to be free—right now!” society. I don’t need to hear this stuff in real time. As you said, Kevin Sorbo was a pretty good Hercules in a cheesy but amiable show. Now I won’t be able to enjoy it as much. Not that I seek it out, but it’s in the back of my mind in case I am hospitalized and the TV only gets five cable channels, one of which is Heroes & Icons. But I digress.
The time for me to hear that he’s a right-wing head case is 40 years from now, in his obituaries. Or actually never, since—I suddenly realize—I’ll probably die before him. Bummer.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
You can always say you watch it for Iolaus/the widow Twanky … and Falafel.
:)
Citizen Alan
Respectfully disagree. While the Hercules show was not great television in general, I would argue that Sorbo was actually the worst thing about it. Nearly everyone else to appear on the show acted rings around him, from Bruce Campbell and Michael Hurst to Lucy Lawless and a very young Karl Urban.
patrick II
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
@patrick II:
I still think she got the churro at the Olympic Village — I saw a short documentary about how they like to have some home cooking for all of the athletes. But after thinking about it, I don’t know there are any Hispanic countries in the winter Olympics
Anne Laurie
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
I get the impression that Korean street-food vendors will whip up practically anything that looks salable, and let’s face it: fried dough and sugar are pretty much street-food staples everywhere.
If they weren’t already widely available, I’m guessing there will be an outbreak of delicious fried-dough “chloes” in every self-respecting Korean street market…
(TBH, I may be overgeneralizing from the very tasty ‘French patisserie’ treats at the local H-Mart.)
Steeplejack (phone)
@NotMax:
Do not want.
Sm*t Cl*de
Churros without hot chocolate are like beer without akvavit.
Patricia Kayden
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: One of the guys who acted on “Glee” committed suicide before being sentenced for child pornography. Now I’ll never be able to watch that show again.
Adria McDowell
@patrick II: Did you not see the glory that is the Mexican ski team’s uniforms??? *insert grito here*
They better have churros for those amazing outfits.
patrick II
@Adria McDowell:
I have now! I’m guessing not the greatest skiers, but get a gold for uniforms.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Anne Laurie: Having been to Korea, you won’t find non-Korean food on the street. I’m sure the Olympic village has a wider selection as patrick II noted.
Cckids
@patrick II:
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@?BillinGlendaleCA: “Pardon The Interruption” was raving about her today. A star is born. (video)
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Cckids: Drumpf sure is a snowflake.
NotMax
@David Merry Christmas Koch
It’s spelled “snowflake” but it’s pronounced “flaming asshole.”
(((CassandraLeo)))
@NotMax: Raymond Luxury Yacht libel! Or Throatwarbler Mangrove, if you prefer.
(Or Throatwobbler – I’ve heard different people claim the script had both of these, and the pronunciation makes it almost impossible to tell. Though Throatwarbler would make more sense, as there is an actual bird by this name.)
JGabriel
Anne Laurie @ Top:
So … churros are basically latin doughnuts?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@JGabriel: Umm, no. More stick like and crunchy.
JGabriel
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Danke.
OzarkHillbilly
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Madame and Kid are quite right to be taken with Ms Kim.
Chyron HR
“I’m not a nazi! This 88 tattoo represents my love for the film Back to the Future!”
“And what about the swastika tattoo?”
“Oh, I got that one because I’m a nazi.”
OzarkHillbilly
Heh.
OzarkHillbilly
@Chyron HR:
I’m a Hindu.
rikyrah
Good Morning Everyone ???
Bobby Thomson
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: didn’t know he was in that, or that he was an asshole. Agreed.
Mustang Bobby
@OzarkHillbilly: He’s Noel Coward on skates. Love it.
Baud
@? ?? Goku (aka Baka Amerikahito) ? ?: I feel the same.
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
I so want to know whether she’s a Republican before I fall in love. I can’t take another Michelle Kwan situation.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Well, being an anchor baby might push her counterclockwise on the political dial.
Kay
Margaret Good in Florida ran on environmental protection and education. These are good issues for Democrats in Right-leaning (but not far Right) Trump-ish areas.
Republicans are HORRIBLE on education and the environment! They’re so vulnerable there. You could really go crazy on them with the environment- filthy water and dirty air- no one wants that. No one.
Kay
And the Trumpsters care about state races because they sent Cory Lewandowski down there to rally the far Right base.
cosima
@OzarkHillbilly: She was so adorable when being interviewed (as seen on BBC) — talking about needing to pee, needing to hold it b/c she knew she’d be drug tested, but couldn’t hold it any longer, being hungry, someone gave her ice cream and it’s delicious (she was eating the ice cream as she was being interviewed)… All very unfiltered teenager talk, and even 5 years from now she will be hugely embarrassed that she said those things, but definitely entertaining. Anyone who says her image is over-produced would have looked pretty stupid after watching that — she may have sponsors, and be photogenic, but she seemed the antithesis of polished/produced to me.
I have been clicking around trying to find a clip to watch of her father, being interviewed, saying she is his American dream. All of the clips that I’ve found are NBC, and I cannot watch them from the UK! I suppose I will have to wait until a bit later when they’re not fiercely protecting their Olympic video coverage.
Baud
@Kay:
I read that the GOP lost their supermajority in the legislature because of this win.
OzarkHillbilly
Somehow or other, I just can’t feel sorry for old Rex.
Kay
Why is this (probably lie) better than the LLC (probably lie)? He thinks one of these lies is superior to the other, but I don’t know why.
Baud
@Kay: Avoid investigation into the LLC?
rikyrah
@Kay:
You are right, Kay.
Because semi-sane people hear the GOP stance on issues and recoil.
Make them defend Pruitt’s environmental rollbacks. Make them defend the safety regulations that Dolt45 has removed.
rikyrah
@Kay:
He is hoping that by taking the blame, nobody will look further, Kay.
I don’t believe it for one nanosecond-that he paid her himself.
Kay
@Baud:
Great! The other thing that makes statehouses ripe targets is a lot of state representatives are just not qualified and not smart.
They don’t really get paid enough to do the work full time and listening to their debates in Ohio they just don’t work very hard at it, and they weren’t real qualified to begin with. You could knock out a lot of them.
If you think the US House is bad listen to a state leg debate sometime. My God. They don’t know basic election law in Ohio- any random poll worker is better versed.
Kay
@rikyrah:
I don’t know but I bet she focused on state environmental protection issues, which with that governor and far Right leg should be easy pick’ins. But it’s a good example of using what is really a federal issue in a state race-
Ken
@rikyrah: Dear IRS Hotline: If a lawyer pays a porn star hush money on behalf of a client, is that tax deductible? Asking for a friend.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Kay,
Don’t know if you know this, but there’s at least a FIFTY million dollar slush fund out there from the Inauguration. Only USA Today and Maddow continue to ask questions about it.
Can you imagine if 44 had a 50 million dollar slush fund that was unaccounted for????
The curve for Unqualified White Men is REAL???
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
@Kay: He’d already passed his quota of true statements for the week. After all, it was Tuesday already
ETA: Actually, you know how the Trump administration tells these lies that they plan to claim are true? Like the one about the Trump Tower meeting being about adoption? Well, yeah but that’s because adoption is connection to sanctions. Maybe Trump “gave” him the money, so now they both claim it’s his.
Baud
@Kay:
I have some inking of hope that our side may be starting to take our democracy seriously again.
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady): Interesting question. If the quota is zero, is it still a quota?
OzarkHillbilly
Sounds just like what happens in some bars.
Kay
@Baud:
You would alienate your future colleagues by running on it, but I’m convinced part of the reason GOP state reps rely so much on far Right think tanks for pre-written state law is because they can’t write it themselves. The jobs are treated as part-time and unimportant- they make their real money elsewhere. They accept what lobbyists tell them because it generally aligns with their ideology and they simply don’t know enough about any one issue to draft anything. It’s easier to just use the ALEC law and slap a new caption on it.
Our state legislatures are really poor quality. It’s part of the reason they’re so vulnerable to corruption.
Baud
@Kay: I believe in a lot of states, the job really is a part time one. It’s is kind of thankless work. God bless the good ones.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Cricket roadies!
Kay
@Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady):
I don’t believe any part of this story. I don’t believe 130k is hush money. I think the real story is much worse than that, including that Trump pays for sex and they hide that by expensing it somewhere.
I would look for regular and unexplained payments to various women he had sex with. The “130k hush money” is obviously bullshit. That wasn’t what the payment was for. It’s MUCH more embarrassing for the President if we find out he has to pay young women to have sex with him and runs the payments thru his lawyer or launders them thru as some ongoing expense.
Media are focused on the timing of the payment but they don’t know if there was only one payment and they don’t know what the payment was for- all they know is it happened around the time that hush money would occur. That’s not enough to connect the two so definitively. It could be a hush money payment (although it’s not enough to be one) but it could also be a payment for services rendered. We don’t know, but media doesn’t “know” either.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Heh.
(((CassandraLeo)))
@Kay: This can’t be emphasised enough. If you read the thread from last night, I went over some general info about why I wasn’t surprised at Good’s win, but more specifically, Sarasota County has a particularly strong attachment to its school system – with good reason.
I’m a graduate of the county’s secondary public system. I floundered around for years before finally finding a school that actually worked for me; it was Sarasota County’s gifted school, Pine View. It’s a fairly small school, but it’s produced some highly distinguished alumni, including one of the producers of one of last year’s Academy Award for Best Picture winner, Moonlight (not going to mention anyone’s name; you can look it up), and an author of a children’s book (Miss Peregrine’s Home for Peculiar Children) that was a national bestseller and got adapted into a film by Tim Burton a few years back. I was in the same class as the producer, as I’ve mentioned several times already. We were even in the same after-school drama program for all four years of high school.
But more broadly, this school (indeed, this county) has produced distinguished graduates largely because its quality of education has been so high. Republicans here weren’t always so vehemently anti-education – local politics here were weird. I know one of the former school board members here who ran as a Republican; he’s probably almost as far left as I am in his actual politics, but running as Republicans was just what people did to get elected, and there was a ton of ideological diversity at the local level back then. But the Republican Party overall has become so vehemently and rigidly ideological that I don’t think that’s possible now. Cutting spending is its own goal. (“The object of power is power,” as O’Brien says in Nineteen Eighty-Four.) They’re cutting funding without even thinking whether it’s a good idea. And thus you get stuff like the after-school drama program that helped to educate an Oscar-winning producer likely being cut to a shell of its former self if it even still exists.
This infuriates me, and I’m glad to see it becoming a basis of a successful attack on Republicans at the local level. That gives me hope for the future. Which is good, because that’s often in short supply these days.
I’ve got to head off for awhile – will answer responses later if I get the chance (and there are any).
raven
@Kay: I wrote tp Doug J asking to get a fundraiser post for Chalis Montgomery who is running against Jody Hice, the lunatic who took Pal Broun’s seat here in Georgia. I did realize that there was another candidate for the democratic primary until this “issue” exploded in the local rag.
Candidates Condemn ‘Violent Rhetoric’ by a Richard Winfield Supporter Against Chalis Montgomery
The back and forth between supporters of the two tells me there in no chance either of them will seat Hice.
Leto
@Baud: Just wondering what the background for that comment was because:
Immanentize
@Kay: if Cohen did pay for this himself, isn’t this reason for disbarment? Or at least a serious bar inquiry?
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
According to Wikipedia, Michelle Kwan was an outreach surrogate for Hillary in 2016.
pamelabrown53
@SiubhanDuinne:
Michelle Kwan was a Hillary surrogate. I went to see her at Flagler College in St. Augustine for a Women for Hillary event.
Chris
@(((CassandraLeo))):
“I’ll tell him you said that. I think he’ll be very hurt!”
SiubhanDuinne
@pamelabrown53:
Cool!
Neldob
Churros work well. Donuts work well too. Yesterday was a two donut day.
J R in WV
@(((CassandraLeo))):
My parents spent 3 years renting condos in various FL communities in the late ’70s and early ’80s, in order to select a place to spend winters. They finally settled on a nice place in Osprey, just south of Sarasota proper. So the two places I know at all in FL were Key West (in 1970-73) and Sarasota from early 1980s into the mid-90s.
Of course as a visitor for a couple of weeks we weren’t into the politics or school systems, but it always seemed to me like a relatively (for FL) progressive place, and from what you say that was true back then. But in any community with a really big retirement base, and Sarasota is definitely that, you’re going to get people reluctant to see changes. At many of the better restaurants there were lines in afternoon, which dwindled as you got later in the evening.
I’m glad to see that people can learn and be taught about who has the best interests of a community at heart! Sarasota has been experiencing red tide conditions right in town, in what I always called the yacht basin, from non-point source pollution with lawn chemicals people are using to keep their yards green even when nature wants it to be brown and fallow. Republicans will never fix that, and will probably try to keep Democratic office holders from fixing it.
The fact that the red algae are poisonous to wild life AND to humans will be totally ignored if those chemicals keep lawns green, and of course they do. So will paint.