The GOP is selling it hard on Twitter today:
Adam Schiff ain’t buying it:
Treasury will finally punish Russian individuals who, for the most part, were already indicted or subject to sanctions. This from the President who said he was tougher on Russia than Obama. These sanctions will send a message to Russia, just not the one we want to send.
— Adam Schiff (@RepAdamSchiff) March 15, 2018
I have no idea how this shakes out. Anyhoo, open thread, I guess.
TenguPhule
Big talk upfront.
No delivery once the media’s attention is distracted by a shiny new object.
/Talking about This “Tough on Russia” talk by Trumpers.
Corner Stone
Corner Stone
Gin & Tonic
I wonder how many poorly-tailored blue suits he owns.
VeniceRiley
It also sends a message to PM Ms. May in the UK. And that message is: You’re on your own.
Corner Stone
Where is Mumbia, India?
zhena gogolia
@Gin & Tonic:
He ain’t no Prince of Wales.
SiubhanDuinne
Thank gods, finally, an Open Thread!
It’s Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s 85th birthday!! Happy birthday, Notorious RBG, and I hope you keep on kickin’ ass for many years to come!
She really deserves her own thread, but absent that, let’s cheer this remarkable woman on a nice milestone birthday, shall we?
Dorothy A. Winsor (formerly Iowa Old Lady)
I’ve been away from home because prospective buyers came to look and I had writing to do. I heard on the way home that a pedestrian bridge collapsed at a university in Miami. Apparently it was completed yesterday or the day before.
cosima
@VeniceRiley: Apart from the EU nations who have given their support? I’m sure it comes as no surprise at all to Ms. May that he was not going to be helpful.
rikyrah
Happy Birthday, Justice Ginsburg
TenguPhule
@SiubhanDuinne:
All threads are open to derailment.
TenguPhule
@cosima:
And even that has been less then optimal. Brexit is really biting them in the ass here.
Brachiator
@zhena gogolia:
More the Baron of Wailing.
SiubhanDuinne
@TenguPhule:
True, O King, but some derail in different directions.
different-church-lady
@Gin & Tonic: All of them, Katie.
Elizabelle
I truly don’t like posts illustrated with photos of Trump.
Betty: couldn’t you use your mad art skillz and put him in a Mexican wrestling mask? Excise him with a cockroach costume? Something???
VeniceRiley
@cosima: I’m all for cheering on European countries being very very aggressive in their pushback and protection of each other, the Baltics, the stans, and wherever else they can counter Putin’s malign forces.
By the way, SoCalers, I found a restaurant and am planning an April adventure. They only seat once per night! This is the kind of experience I crave, rather than typical dinner and a show. Others, feast your eyes and be jealous. I hear you must wear shoes though. So bogus, that!
http://www.hobbitrestaurant.com/
It’s 10 minutes from my apartment!
Do you have a unique spot where you are? What is it?
Corner Stone
@zhena gogolia: I enjoyed his suit that was highlighted the other day. However, he enjoys his trousers a little more blousy than I would suggest.
hellslittlestangel
HB, RBG.
Yeah, he’s been very tough on Russia. For instance, he refused to appoint Rex Tillerson SoS until Putin said, “please.”
different-church-lady
@SiubhanDuinne: …and please please PLEASE live to see your 88th birthday.
Cookie monster
@cosima: Australia also voiced support.
oatler.
Live to be 300, Ruthie Baby!!
piratedan
@Corner Stone: while I understand where Kasparov is coming from, Obama still had the mistaken belief that the GOP had issues with him personally (they did) but felt that they would still do what was right for the sake of the country (they didn’t). So in a way, sure you can ping Obama for believing that these guys would place the good of the country over the evidence of a foreign power meddling in our affairs but to be honest, how many of us would have refused to believe how incredibly craven these bastards actually are?
I mean, I’ve always believed that they were wrong in their approach to policy and goals and such, but to find out that they’re only in it for themselves and those who have bought them is still an incredibly disappointing revelation.
Brachiator
@Corner Stone:
Mumbai is the city formerly known as Bombay.
schrodingers_cat
@Corner Stone: You mean Mumbai, right?
Mumbia is next to Nambia.
schrodingers_cat
@Brachiator: It was always known as both Mumbai and Bombay, they dropped the anglicized version in the 90s.
ETA: Many other Indian cities followed suit.
cosima
@TenguPhule: Putin worked so hard to make Brexit happen. I’d love for this to be something that works against that. It would be interesting if EU countries came to the realisation that supporting the UK could effect two important changes: 1) reversing anti-EU biases that exist in the UK, thereby 2) leading to a higher likelihood of Brexit being reversed… There’s not really justification for reversing Brexit right now, though public opinion is more against than for it, but a strong show of support from EU countries could justify it, especially if the response from the US is tepid.
However, the headlines I’ve seen on this side of the pond today seem to say that the EU nations’ responses were unequivocal. There are EU countries that have their own issues, and perhaps their responses were not as vocal or emphatic as one might have liked, but I’d say the UK feels supported by its neighbours.
TenguPhule
Some humans are just fucking bastards.
trollhattan
@Brachiator:
Isn’t that Barron of Whaling? His clothes always scream “harpoon me!”
Corner Stone
@schrodingers_cat: No. The video MSNBC showed of HRC speaking in India misspelled the location as Mumbia. It was a jab at their mistake.
schrodingers_cat
@Gin & Tonic: He belabors under the mistaken impression that loose clothes make him look slimmer. Not.
tobie
I guess Mumbai made the US news because Hillary Clinton was there. Chuck Toddles did not approve of her speech–in fact, he didn’t seem to approve of her speaking at all. Heidi Heitkamp said on talk radio in response to the question when Hillary will go away, “Not soon enough.” I so regret having contributed to Heitkamp’s campaign in 2012. She’s awful. I’m not expecting a California-style liberal in North Dakota but, sheesh, the state should be able to find a blue dog with a bit more class than this.
schrodingers_cat
@Corner Stone: I got that after some delay, and I added to the comment.
Corner Stone
@piratedan:
This is the mistake people continue to make. They are arguing from a false premise. It’s not a political issue, it is a national security issue.
Brachiator
@SiubhanDuinne:
Looking forward to the delivery of many more Ginsburns!
schrodingers_cat
@tobie: Fuck Chuck Todd.
ETA: I miss Mumbai.
Tom
@different-church-lady: Or at least until the Democrats retake the Senate in 2018 and invoke the McConnell Doctrine.
MisterForkbeard
So, Trump is getting tough by still not enacting the sanctions that Congress passed, right?
debbie
@SiubhanDuinne:
SNL often has Kate McKinnon portray RBG at their news desk. The real RBG likes it!
Imagine! An august jurist has a sense of humor!
Corner Stone
@tobie: Chuck Toddler served up that slow softball to his panel and they all got their HRC hate on. Bloody Bill Kristol already had desirable GOP ads they could make to bust D’s in red state elections.
Chuck looked like he wanted to spit every time he said Hillary’s name or referenced her.
TenguPhule
@Corner Stone:
Sadly, its both.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Hee hee
I hope she’s got fifteen nasty lawyers with some investigators straight out of a TV show
TenguPhule
@MisterForkbeard:
With new boasts of sanctions he won’t be enforcing any time soon.
And like his boasts about “saving jobs”, there will be no big media blowup about how he didn’t do shit down the road.
TenguPhule
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Boy is she in for an unpleasant surprise.
Corner Stone
@TenguPhule: No. The GOP are all compromised traitors. Understanding that fact makes it a national security issue. It always was.
tobie
@schrodingers_cat: I can imagine. Things are so screwed up here right now. I’ve always liked the feel of Mumbai, though I haven’t spent much time there. Chennai’s my usual port of call.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I wouldn’t rely on Page Six, but jeez, five kids!?!
TenguPhule
@Corner Stone: There is always political fallout when people in charge of running the government are actual traitors.
Yarrow
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Could be that they know Jr. is going to prison so they’re sheltering assets with her divorce settlement. Or she can see the writing on the wall and is taking the money and running.
Corner Stone
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Divorce, especially with kids involved, is never a really great thing. But I hope he fucks up publicly and she fucking buries his sorry ass for all time. So Mueller has to dig DJT JR up from a plot somewhere so he can frogmarch him to prison.
tobie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I’ll be catty. This is schadenfreudelicious!
TenguPhule
@Yarrow:
Given that they’re all greedy fucking grifters, how exactly does he expect to get any of the money back from her?
Corner Stone
Jeebus. Kathleen Parker is much worse than I remembered. And I already hated her guts.
Geeno
@VeniceRiley: OMG That looks good. Have a blast. We used to have a couple places like that around here, but they closed up a while ago. Now it seems like I find a restaurant I want to go to, and it closes the next week.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@debbie: as a gruff friend of mine said to his 24YO son and DIL who need his help with the bills when they told him he was gonna be a grandpa for the third time: “You know, they know what causes that now”
(Oh, dear god. Kathleen Parker and Donna Brazile? Why, Ari, why?)
Brachiator
@Corner Stone:
What a bunch of dopes! I’d love to see a still of that caption.
@tobie:
Jeez. Where do these goons get off? I can see reporting on a speech. I can even see criticizing it, in context. But who gives a fuck about whether they approve of her speech?
Roger Moore
@Corner Stone:
It’s both. The underlying problem is that it was an attack on our political system, so normal national security approaches weren’t going to work. The moment Obama made a big deal about it, the Republicans were going to claim he was trying to use vague national security claims to discredit Trump for blatantly political reasons. Worse, they were obviously going to get away with it because our news media sucks so badly they would have played up the political wrangling angle without bothering to investigate the truth of the underlying allegations.
NotMax
The long search for wrists to slap appears to have ended.
@schrodingers_cat
“Calling Dr. Mumbai. Calling Dr. Mumbai. Emergency, come right away.”
:)
ruemara
@TenguPhule: What a horrible man!
@piratedan: It’s always the black guy’s fault. Never the fault of the guys actually not doing anything.
SiubhanDuinne
@VeniceRiley: @debbie:
I think I’ve mentioned here before that I saw RBG about in, 2015? Maybe 2014. Anyhow, she was delivering a talk on “The Law in Opera” at the Castleton Opera Festival. One of the people I was with was on crutches, so we got priority handicapped seating and ended up in the front row about 6 feet away from Justice G.
She was super-funny, very thoughtful and perceptive, and showed a real knowledge of opera. And FWIW, it was clear that she really cherished Scalia as a colleague and friend (he was still alive at the time) no matter how profoundly they disagreed on points of law.
Corner Stone
@Roger Moore: Any political fallout is one aspect. But the way to address it is from a national security perspective. You don’t go into a fight against a thug like Putin with one hand chained to your opposite leg.
Mary G
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: I hope she’s got a lot to tell Mueller.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Roger Moore: I think the reason Rs started clinging tighter and tighter to trump is 1) they’re pleasantly surprised (I’m neither) to find out he didn’t mean any of his campaign rhetoric about not cutting taxes on the rich or defending the safety net and 2) they are pleasantly surprised (I’m surprised, not pleasantly) at the largely ho-hum response of the public to Russian interference
Roger Moore
@TenguPhule:
Or she has some prime blackmail material.
Corner Stone
@ruemara: He was POTUS and he took an oath.
Gin & Tonic
@tobie: Probably not for their kids.
MomSense
Yikes. I’m enjoying an adult beverage and somehow got in the middle of a football discussion. It seems that everyone hates the Patriots.
Hungry Joe
The Russians are a threat, and Trump’s just the guy to deal with them; he’s WAY ahead of the game. As he pointed out the other day, we’re going to need a … Space Force! Yeah! Can I play? I wanna be captain of a space ship. With ray guns! Fire all ray guns! **PYOO**PYOO**!!! Got him! … Uh-oh, we’re hit! Gotta crash land on Planet Zzyxon! Look out — monsters! **PYOO!**PYOO**!!! … Yeah. Space Force. Love it.
SiubhanDuinne
@TenguPhule:
That makes me sick, and sad, and furious.
Corner Stone
@Yarrow:
I’m not a member of Mueller’s team but isn’t there something about proceeds of criminal activity? Can’t all their shit be attached and confiscated if it can be proven DJT JR did the RICO?
Brachiator
@tobie:
Come on, Melania! You can do it, too!!
MomSense
@TenguPhule:
Stories like this make me wish I believed in hell.
ruemara
@Corner Stone: Yes. None of which granted him the power to compel the media to report the truth & the GOP to act like something sorta patriotic.
Corner Stone
@ruemara: Neither of those things was required for him to act. Much less have Susan Rice tell the NSC team looking for countermeasures to “stand down”.
Roger Moore
@Corner Stone:
If one political party in the country is already cutting deals with him, we’re going into the fight with less than full strength no matter how much we might wish otherwise. To put it another way, what specifically should Obama have done differently that would have produced a better outcome?
Major Major Major Major
@debbie: but does she ever quote Futurama: “you Ruth-Bader believe it!”
MomSense
@TenguPhule:
He wants the details to stay on the down low.
Corner Stone
@Roger Moore: I am not the CinC. However, they apparently had a working team of NSC professionals who had a catalog of potential countermeasures they could have been implemented or maybe threatened. Telling Putin to “knock it off” didn’t seem to get the desired results.
eclare
Vanessa filed. Comcast is out, so no link. How does my phone service never go out?
Sm*t Cl*de
I am shocked, shocked! to find Ben Carson taking advice from an egregious fraudster.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/mar/15/ben-carson-adviser-naved-jafry-resigns-hud
Corner Stone
Thank God Kathleen Parker is no longer on set. What a horrid POS.
MomSense
@Corner Stone:
It has been reported that we did take counter measures which apparently cannot be canceled by trump. Some of them were apparently planted in some fashion and can be initiated ar any time. I keep looking for bizarre things like when accounts were drained from a Cypriot bank known to hold a lot of Russian money.
rikyrah
The blood of America’s poor fuels a multibillion-dollar industry
Medicaid, housing subsidies, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program—these are some of the things that make up the backbone of the U.S.’s social safety net. And the federal government, guided by President Trump’s proposed budget for 2019, is seeking to make deep cuts to all three of them
Yet while this threatens the government’s social safety net, one of a different kind continues to expand. Americans are flooding into the country’s blood-plasma donation centers in greater numbers than ever before, seeking to make up for low wages or small benefits checks, or even as their only source of cash income during a spell of extreme poverty. Their blood plasma—which historically has been collected disproportionately in the country’s poorest communities—is fueling a multibillion-dollar worldwide industry.
Blood plasma, being a vital component of certain medical treatments, is extremely valuable, and there’s not much standing in the way of American adults who want to make some money off of what’s in their veins—so long as they weigh more than 110 pounds and are in good health. A standard visit lasts 90 minutes and usually pays between $30 and $50. Unlike other countries that ban giving plasma more than once a week or limit the number of sales in a year out of concerns for donors’ health, the U.S. permits up to two plasma donations a week, every week.
http://www.msn.com/en-us/money/markets/the-blood-of-americas-poor-fuels-a-multibillion-dollar-industry/ar-BBKfNJn?li=BBnbfcL
schrodingers_cat
@tobie: I have never been to Chennai. Mumbai is more than a port of call, I was born there.
Elizabelle
@eclare: Yeah. NYDaily News has it too. Uncontested. Interesting. Save those assets.
Oh, and you can have the five kiddies too. Looks like they have four young sons and a daughter.
Corner Stone
There is simply no way Heidi Przybyla is 44 years old.
Brachiator
Heard about this earlier today. It was inevitable but still kinda sad
I knew that much of the collapse of the company had to do with competition from Amazon, etc. But I didn’t realize the extent to which kids are no longer buying “traditional” toys.
And of course, there is crushing debt, partly thanks to firms like Bain Capital.
Chyron HR
@Corner Stone:
“SUSAN RICE DIDN’T SAY THE RIGHT WORDS! OBAMA SENT THE STAND DOWN ORDER! WAS HE ALONE THAT NIGHT!?!?!”
I legitimately can’t tell if you’re doing this on purpose.
piratedan
@ruemara: @Roger Moore: when you consider how this presidency has been covered, I think Roger has it pegged correctly that if Obama had thrown down the gauntlet and gone public, we’d be in the process of having the Constitutional crisis on the doorstep of the election rather than now, 18 months later.
Is there a preference here? Perhaps it would have been way better to have had the blood bath then….
In certain respects, Putin understands us really well and he may continue to pull strings here for a while longer because he’s played the white nationalists, the evangelicals and greens superbly. The GOP has essentially been compromised, if not outright purchased. Our problems are manifold, the media is not mandated to report the news with any kind of accuracy, they’re allowed to spin and frame it however they wish. Currently, how they wish to frame things favors those people who prefer to wreck our established political and societal norms.. that generates rage clicks and drives advertising money. Plus the folks behind the scenes are probably making money for guiding the framing of the stories themselves, its hard otherwise to explain the reason for the shitshow of Oped hires that we see that are so blatantly stupid, out of touch and wholly apologetic of the GOP. The GOP is desperate and the Putin threw them a lifeline to allow them to stay in power, fuck tomorrow, we’re in charge today!
Corner Stone
@Chyron HR: Take it up with David Corn and Michael Isikoff.
bystander
@Yarrow:
But that makes her look like she is just in it for the money.
I’m almost enjoying this as much as seeing Tillerson get all choked up last week. It does add to the “rats/ship” simile.
Corner Stone
@bystander:
Why else would anyone copulate with DJT JR ?
rikyrah
Prince Henry to wed Rachel: Queen uses Harry and Meghan’s real names as she gives formal consent to their marriage
In a letter to the Privy Council, she expressed her approval of upcoming wedding
The first six people in the line of succession must obtain the Monarch’s consent
Those who do not seek prior approval are banned from ascending to the throne
Prince Harry and his fiancee Meghan set to marry on May 19 at Windsor Castle
By Rebecca English, Royal Correspondent for the Daily Mail and Alexander Robertson For Mailonline
PUBLISHED: 09:45 EDT, 15 March 2018 | UPDATED: 15:42 EDT, 15 March 2018
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-5505117/The-Queen-formally-gives-consent-Prince-Harry-Meghan.html#ixzz59rRKRbzz
TenguPhule
@Corner Stone:
So President Obama should have had the GOP leadership discreetly killed to send a warning to the rest of them?
lgerard
@Sm*t Cl*de:
Again, the lack of even the rudimentary due diligence in trump world never ceases to amaze me
A simple credit report would have exposed this clown
VeniceRiley
@Hungry Joe: LaUra Dern all through Star Wars: TLJ: “PEW PEW PEW” http://www.msn.com/en-us/movies/news/charming-proof-laura-dern-kept-saying-%e2%80%9cpew%e2%80%9d-while-shooting-her-last-jedi-blaster/ar-BBKcHV3?ocid=ientp
Fair Economist
@VeniceRiley:
We live very close. I’ve walked past the Hobbit on occasion although I never ate there.
debbie
@MomSense:
They’re very hate-inspiring.
Roger Moore
@Brachiator:
I had heard the main culprit was their attempt to expand beyond toys and into baby stuff with Babies-R-Us. The markets seem similar enough, but they’re actually very different so Toys-R-Us lost a lot of money trying to expand.
The Simp in the Suit
@Roger Moore:
Nuked them from outer space? It’s the only way to be sure…
Brachiator
@rikyrah:
Ah, that explains it. Some dope falsely claimed that the Queen was confused and referred to Meghan as “Rachel” because that’s her character’s name on the tv show “Suits.”
Jeffro
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: for #2 there, I’m sure that most every day they wake up and go “you know, if it was Clinton who was compromised by, say, China our people would’ve already birth this fucking country to the ground – LOL!”
Major Major Major Major
@VeniceRiley: oh that’s wonderful thank you.
@debbie: I barely care about football and even I hate the patriots.
Jeffro
@Corner Stone: you noticed that as well ?
VeniceRiley
@Fair Economist: Lets brunch sometime if you like. I am under this name on twitter. How are Orange county Mining Co. and Orange Hill?
I live on the other side of the baseball stadium.
The Simp in the Suit
@Brachiator: They really are the mob.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
President T. V. Fuddlehead
Brachiator
@Roger Moore:
Oddly enough, they started out in the baby stuff business.
I guess the Babies-R-Us expansion might be mentioned in more detailed stories about the company’s collapse, but most only mention how the company’s debt prevented them from being better able to invest in strategies to deal with online retailers. I don’t know whether there was really much that they could do in any event. Brick and mortar stores are having a tough time unless they offer some special experience.
trollhattan
Florida construction firm participating in building the collapsed bridge evidently not familiar with memes and internet traditions.
Origuy
@VeniceRiley: Have you ever been to the Magic Castle? You have to be a member or guest of a member. It’s a private club in North Hollywood for stage magicians. You don’t have to be a magician to be an associate member, but only magician members can use the library. I went with the husband of a woman who decided to become a magician member and practiced until she was able to pass the reviewing committee. They do offer classes. Dinner includes a couple of performances of various types of magic.There is a dress code.
raven
@Origuy: Was that where they went in “Love”?
VeniceRiley
@Origuy: Yes I have been to The Magic Castle (twice, ages ago!) and enjoyed the shows and the drinks. The food not so much.
raven
@VeniceRiley:
SFAW
@schrodingers_cat:
Really? They all changed their anglicized names to Mumbai? That’ll cause a bit of confusion, Bruce!
TenguPhule
US Senate candidate proposes arming homeless people with shotguns
SMH.
TenguPhule
Saudi crown prince warns it will build nuclear bomb if Tehran does the same
Unexpected Consequences, The LARP!
p.a.
Mumbia is a regional capitol in Narnia and the home of political prisoner Mumia.
Fair Economist
@Brachiator: The Bain Capital looting is the primary cause of the Toys-R-Us bankruptcy. They took literally billions.
WhatsMyNym
@Brachiator: That debt is crushing, no way it would survive…
Margins are always tight in retail. With large interest payments they have no cash to invest in keeping the stores current.
Steve in the ATL
@SiubhanDuinne:
You know this, but for the newbies: all threads are, in theory, open threads, regardless of how they are tagged.
In practice, however, certain specialized threads tend not to devolve into open threads, to wit: Anderson/Mayhew insurance, on the road, and meet ups.
You’re welcome.
Brachiator
@Fair Economist:
iHeart Media has filed for bankruptcy. And what do we have here…
efgoldman
@piratedan:
To yonder Stone, Obama is the most clueless, feckless, out of touch president since maybe Buchanan or Harding.
Because CS from his perch, glued to MSNBC, was all-knowing and all-seeing
Steve in the ATL
@Origuy:
I assume that was the beginning of the end of that marriage?
Corner Stone
@efgoldman: Shut up, troll.
Tenar Arha
@Fair Economist: Yep. One thread I was reading was saying something about how Bain even saddled Toys R’ Us with Kay Bee Toys debt. It seems Bain killed the last two toy store chains standing….
Gretchen
Mrs. Trump is probably wise to start the divorce while there is still money to split. It’s interesting that this happened the same day that Trump Org. Documents were subpoenaed. The lawyer bills are going to start really hurting now.
Fair Economist
@VeniceRiley: The hill spots are pretty fancy for brunch. I’m a cheap date most of the time. Anything you like at the Orange Circle?
I think you have to follow me back for me to PM you. I followed you, tag of the greek philosopher who invented the arrow paradox followed by 10 times 41. It’s supposed to be a different one of my online personas but I’ve never made a twitter account for FairEconomist.
Fair Economist
@Tenar Arha:
Two birds with one stone, eh! You have to admire their technique…
@Brachiator:
I’m content that they killed iHeartRadio, nee Clear Channel, which had a heavy right wing bent. Good riddance on that one.
Aleta
@TenguPhule: But let’s give him points for thinking it through.
Corner Stone
@Fair Economist: Makes one wonder how much stock they own in Amazon.
TenguPhule
@Tenar Arha: Christmas this year promises to be interesting.
Brachiator
@TenguPhule:
Oh my, this is about to get interesting. Those naughty White House sources have been whispering that Trump is just itching to bust out of the Iran deal when parts of the agreement come up for renewal in May. He’s hot to do it, especially with Tillerson out and new advisors surrounding him.
In his own special realm, he probably thinks he will look weak if he goes back on one of his signature promises to bust up the “bad” Iran deal. And besides, his best buddy Bibi Netanyahu keeps telling him that the Iranians are even worse than the North Koreans.
Decisions, decisions…
TenguPhule
@Aleta:
I would like to note the two absurdities here.
1) If you’re using a shotgun to plink at cans….you are doing it wrong.
2) Hock the shells for food/cash. Stealth Welfare?
Major Major Major Major
@Steve in the ATL: how are we scoring the LA meetup thread used to plan the SF meetup?
efgoldman
@Corner Stone:
Truth hurts? I’m to lazy to count up your references to MSNBC, just in this thread.
Corner Stone
@efgoldman: That’s your best shot, troll?
JR
@schrodingers_cat: Free Mumbia!
Steve in the ATL
@Major Major Major Major: close enough for government work?
Mnemosyne
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I know someone who said to her (adult) son, “I’m getting you a vasectomy for Christmas” when he announced a fourth grandchild was impending around the same age. ?
patrick II
@bystander:
It is amazing how much more he cared about his own job at State than the hundreds of career State Department officials he pushed out of the door .
Sm*t Cl*de
@TenguPhule:
I’ve seen that movie.
lgerard
Arming the homeless could easily make panhandlers self sufficient and thus no longer in need of public services.
Problem solved!
p.a.
Open Thread, so: My first visit to Smashburger yesterday. Barely ‘meh’ level. Lots of options, wasn’t impressed with the beef quality, sandwich was barely above lukewarm, and the fries would have been at home at McDivot’s. I’ll stay with 5 Guys. Since I live on the proper coast, In n Out is not an option. Some local establishments do a good job too.
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
It’s Beginning to Look a Lot Like Snipmas.
:)
p.a.
@Sm*t Cl*de: @lgerard: Arm them, then provide them with free Uber/Lyft to gated neighborhoods.
NotMax
@p.a.
Tried Five Guys when in NY. Was seriously underwhelmed. Taste-free being the key word.
Mnemosyne
@VeniceRiley:
In her big scene with Carrie Fisher, you could see that her inner 8-year-old was screaming, OMG I’M HERE WITH PRINCESS LEIA AND SHE’S MY BEST FRIEND AND I HOPE THIS DREAM NEVER ENDS!!!
Yarrow
@Corner Stone: They’ve shown they’re not smart and the lawyers they hire aren’t all that smart either.
Steve in the ATL
@Yarrow: you get what you pay for
Lawyers are not a smart expense to go cheap on
NotMax
@Steve in the ATL
Exhibit A: Jared & Ivanka.
TenguPhule
@NotMax:
I’d like a refund.
TenguPhule
@NotMax: They’re on Oahu now. I’m not paying $14 for a fucking basic cheeseburger.
JR
@Corner Stone: no relation to the Vanilla Gorilla?
JR
@Brachiator: Man, I will not shed one fucking tear for ClearChannel. Fuck those guys.
Origuy
@raven: I don’t know, I’ve never seen “Love”.
Feebog
@VeniceRiley:
Thank you for the link. May take the Missus for our 41st anniversary next month.
Amir Khalid
@Aleta:
I wonder if combat veteran Brian Ellison is aware that homeless people don’t have a lot of options for safely storing a shotgun and shells.
Jay
@cosima:
You need anything to read Chris Grey’s Brexit Blog.
Nothing, nothing, will ever fix Brexiteer’s attitudes towards the EU. They voted to leave because they hate the EU, they whine about the EU “punishing them” for leaving the EU because they were too stupid to actually understand the complex political, economic and security relationships built over more than 50 years of negotiations. And even to this day, they have no idea what the EU actually is, and how leaving it will change their relationship with the entire world.
Eg. The Irish Border.
Another example, on March 29th, 2018, with Brexit, hard, soft, doesn’t matter, UK Carriers can no longer fly transAtlantic under the EU CATA or EU Open Skys Agreements. Both those agreements took years to negotiate, and the UK hasn’t even started talks with Canada or the US about air travel.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@NotMax:
I’ve always liked Five Guys. They have the best fries.
Corner Stone
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?: Their fries are the worst. I wish they offered an alternative like onion rings or tater tots. Can’t stand Five Guys fries.
VeniceRiley
@Feebog: Happy Anniversary, Feebog! That’s sweet. Glad I shared! <3
(A friend who has been says the house made champagne is outstanding)
VeniceRiley
@Fair Economist: I like Anapalco at Alo Hotel for brunch. They have this duck dish that cooks a raw egg inside that satisfies my every desire for spicy protein and saucy cravings.
Sm*t Cl*de
@Amir Khalid:
They will also be provided with Claymore mines to protect their weapons caches.
NotMax
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
Chacun à son goût.
I found them way below par. Limp and mealy. Ended up tossing half of them into the trash.
Jay
@Corner Stone:
A day after telling Putin to “knock it off”,
The Russian FSB hacker group “Shadowbrokers” put the stolen NSA hacker tools up for auction, basically a “bring it on” Cyberwar challenge.
Russia’s spent the last decade building a Russian language based secure Linux network, and getting rid of Windows and other common Western software.
The NSA hacker tools don’t target Russian language Linux systems.
Yurtle the Turtle then told President Obama basically that The GOP wouldn’t back America in a cyberwar with Russia.
Geeno
@TenguPhule:
Why does this make me think she knows something.
Corner Stone
@Geeno: She knows he is a little dick, pencil neck geek who has been fucking someone on the side. Get out while the getting’s good.
cosima
@Jay: I well understand that there are hard Brexiteers — they are the equivalent of our RWNJs in the US, and their racism & stupidity makes them unmoveable. However, that leaves a lot of others who now feel very stupid for having voted for it. My husband works with one of them. He’s the only one that I know of who will admit to having voted for it and regretted it, but we keep a small social circle.
All of this Russia drama is shaping up to move the needle dramatically. The UK was complacent and now it’s biting them in the ass. How did they end up with all of these Russian exiles being targeted? Sweet Russian money. There are a lot of moving parts to this, and to EU, and quite a bit of overlap between the two — how that will shape things remains to be seen. However, it was a miscalculation, something rare for Putin, and I do take some small comfort from that. Or perhaps it was very calculated, in which case things will get much uglier, and (imo) Brexit even shakier.
Stephen
@cosima: Five minutes after the deadline expired, Australia’s High Commissioner in London, Alexander Downer, tweeted out his support. FVEY got this.