Floriduh! Monkey, what have you been up to?
Of course… https://t.co/HUnpqDybEw via @nbc6
— Deebs ????? (@DeebsFTL) March 20, 2018
From NBC 6 Miami:
Police were trying to find a monkey that was on the loose near the King of Diamonds strip club in North Miami Beach Tuesday.
The monkey came from an industrial area west of I-95 and was reportedly loose in the area of the club near Northeast 6th Avenue between 179th and 180th streets.
Police said the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission was assisting in the search.
FWC officials said the Vervet monkey is a wild animal. A colony of them live in Dania Beach but some have migrated south, officials said.
The search was being suspended, FWC officials said.
Stay frosty!
Open thread.
(As far as we know from the reporting, no monkeys – wild or otherwise – nor ecdysiasts were injured in the making of this post.)
Corner Stone
I’m feeling a kind of kinship with that monkey right now.
Corner Stone
Stormy’s attorney Avenatti is doing his absolute *best* to goad M Cohen and Trump into losing their cool. He’s pushing hard on all the buttons.
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: You’re wanted by the police? On the way to a gentlemen’s club? Both?
rikyrah
We had elections today in Illinois.
Feebog
There are feral monkeys in Florida?
Corner Stone
@Adam L Silverman: I can neither confirm nor deny at this time.
Jeffro
Let’s see…Florida had alligators and mosquitoes to begin with…added pythons and monkeys…what’s next?
patrick II
Stormy Daniels lawyer is talking to Ari right now and says Trump and his lawyer Cohen have stepped into every trap possible. Stormy and her lawyer are playing chess and Cohen is playing Tic Tac Toe — badly.
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: He’s very good.
Corner Stone
But, really, I mean – you find yourself in Florida on an otherwise boring Tuesday night. Whattaugonnado, amirite?
Miss Bianca
So who’ going to be first to make the obligatory lame reference to “monkey business”? Me? Really?
efgoldman
@Feebog:
They find them on the rightmost side of the aisle in the state house.
Adam L Silverman
@rikyrah: Did you win?
Omnes Omnibus
@? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?: Why?
Betty Cracker
@rikyrah: I’m working late tonight and checking the returns every now and then. Looks like that bastard Lipinski is going to win, if the projections hold. That’s a pity.
Adam L Silverman
@Feebog: Yes. Some are the descendants of escaped monkeys that were brought in for the various 1950s/1960s tourist attractions. Some are escaped exotic pets or their descendants. Some are dumped former exotic pets or their descendants. They are very, very dangerous. And they don’t avoid populated areas.
Corner Stone
That fucking auto-reload auto-play feed on the main page needs to die an untimely death.
Calouste
@patrick II: Suggesting that the shitgibbon is an idiot who falls for the simplest of traps sounds like a very good way to have him make even more mistakes.
chris
@rikyrah: Not over yet and Newman/Lipinski is very close.
Adam L Silverman
@Jeffro: Canadians, Yoopers, and other various northerners from October to April.
Corner Stone
Lost a lot of respect for Betsy Woodruff with her BS and thoughtless reply on how to deal with Fake News.
Adam L Silverman
@patrick II: With his own toes.
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: When I lived in Miami, my law enforcement aikido students used to swear by the food at the strip clubs. Said they had the best food, for the most reasonable prices anywhere in south Florida. Miami – what you gonna do?
patroclus
Primary night in the Land of Lincoln! Most of my candidates are losing (as usual), but J.B Pritzker is really delivering a barn burner right now. I was for Biss, but JB’s okay and had moved left. My Muslim woman Congressional candidate – Sameena Mustafa – is also losing but Quigley’s not terrible. My AG candidate is also losing – Nancy Rotering, but Kwame Raoul is okay. So, I voted my convictions but feel good about rallying round this November. JB is really giving a good speech!
Corner Stone
@patrick II: And Avenatti is not wrong! I still have zero idea why Trump would admit to being has named aka Dennison and join a lawsuit to enforce an agreement his own lawyer said Trump had no idea about!
And whatever goods Stormy has on Trump they are laying breadcrumbs all down the path to a really bad end for Trump.
debbie
@patrick II:
Why would he say that out loud?
chris
Just for fun check out this house for sale in Detroit. I hate dusting and polishing.
Adam L Silverman
@Omnes Omnibus: Good question!
JR
@Adam L Silverman: When I was in Thailand, I decided to take a pass on this particular tourist attraction.
Gretchen
@Corner Stone: what did she say?
Mike J
@rikyrah:
Check out the nonsense about the Democratic pope on twitter.
Achrachno
@Corner Stone: She’s ex National Review, no? Have her views evolved?
Chet Murthy
OT: the Parkland youth leaders. The *message discipline* on these folks! I’m completely in awe! Whatever that government teacher (and their other teachers) did to prepare these folks for their historic challenge, we need more of that, STAT! They
(a) repeatedly stress how this is a nonpartisan effort, and everybody of good heart & will is needed
(b) repeatedly stress how we can’t be demonizing people who think differently (e.g. Kyle Kashuv (sp?))
(c) and call out everybody in power on the other side with brutal scorn as only a teenager can
(d) and they’re making sure to include other voices (people of color) and other efforts (reproductive rights)
Geez, we need to create an army of people with these skills. And just to be clear, I DO NOT think their skills were somehow hatched in the cauldron of their nightmare of 14 Feb . I think they were merely trained well, and their skills were just untapped, unleashed by what was otherwise a horrible event. If we had thousands of such young people, imagine how they could completely change our movement — all the parts of our movement(s).
Corner Stone
@Gretchen: Woodruff basically blamed the voters. Saying they had plenty of websites, fact checking sites and news orgs they could do the legwork to find out for themselves about things.
Now, I agree with better voter education. But there has to be a better organizational and foundational way to label sources/sites that are harmful/heinous. A huge chunk of people can’t check 4 or 5 sites three times a week to track down some rabbit hole of nonsense. And those fact checker sites are garbage anyway. Why do we have them in the first place? Because the fucking media have been captured by both siderism instead of just reporting the actual facts.
IOW, it was a bullshit copout on her part.
Jager
@Adam L Silverman: They are right.
Adam L Silverman
@chris: I did not know that Liberace had a house in Detroit.
GregB
@Corner Stone:
I am in love with his calm and cool and unflappable demeanor.
One hell of a poker face.
Jager
@chris: See the size of those slippers in the bedroom picture…yikes.
satby
@rikyrah: and it looks like Lipinski held on in a squeeker, dammit.
My old community organizer compadre Tio Hardiman was running for governor and I never even knew it. But I’m glad Kwame Raoul looks like he won his primary.
patroclus
Il-3 is still very tight – Lipinski 51 Newman 49 (about a 1400 difference) with 90% in.
MomSense
@Feebog:
And Burmese Pythons!
lamh36
Welp…I’ve been down the youtube rabbit hole watching clips of Frank Rogers testifiying in front of the Senate in 1969 to support a bill that would fund/support public television around the country…
You can blame the release of that new Mr. Rogers’ documentary I mentioned in one of the previous threads (ICYMI: WON’T YOU BE MY NEIGHBOR? – Official Trailer [HD] – In Select Theaters June 8
And here is the clip of Fred Rogers testifying: May 1, 1969: Fred Rogers testifies before the Senate Subcommittee on Communications
NotMax
Where’s Josephine Baker when we need her?
Eric S.
@patroclus: It looks like Rauner id’s going to hang on but the RWNJ Ives is giving him a run.
Gretchen
@chris: yikes! How would you sleep in that house with all those statues looking at you?
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@Adam L Silverman: Mostly rhesus monkeys. IIRC the primary danger is that a strain of herpes they carry leads to potentially-fatal encephalitis.
Nothing to do with escapees, but I actually have a pet white-throated capuchin seven years older than I am (1988 vs. 1995). Back in Brooklyn my family had actually been looking for a shar-pei, but saw an ad in the paper for monkeys from Venezuela – the guy selling the monkeys had been training them to help paraplegics, but he had too much and the monkey my mom & paternal uncle bought was one of the excess.
GregB
The GOP also will have an Illinois Nazi as a fellow candidate. Ptooey.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Fred?
satby
@Corner Stone: my former friend, the journalist, told me the same thing. They seem to forget that’s THEIR full time job description, not the public’s. The fourth estate exists to inform the public, but fact checking them shouldn’t be our full time job.
Adam L Silverman
@Jager: I figured. Whenever I need restaurant recommendations some place I’ve not been I ask the cops. They always know the good places to eat. And usually good food for low prices.
patroclus
@Eric S.: Rauner is toast in November. Both Biss and Kennedy were strongly pro-JB in their speeches. It won’t be Obama-Keyes-like, but we’ll win by at least 10 points. Still hoping for a late Newman surge in Il-3.
Omnes Omnibus
@GregB: IL 3d? What the fuck? Unopposed? Seriously, WTF IL GOP?
No Drought No More
On April Fools Day, someone should pose as a reporter and phone Dan Quayle to ask his opinion about anything.
Harry Truman said Herbert Hoover actually cried a little when invited to the White House for the first time after being exiled by FDR in 1933, and upon being asked by the new president for his thoughts on rebuilding Europe after WW2. Hoover was manifestly the right guy to ask, and Truman was sensible enough to recognize it. Best of all, Hoover’s reaction was eminently human. Indeed, it’s hands down the most human moment of his life of which I’m aware. That said, I’m not inclined to question Roosevelt’s animus towards Hoover as being anything other than well deserved, and will never censure his memory for it.. Yeah, someone should see if they can get Quayle to cry, too.
Eric S.
@patroclus: As of right now, 21:47 CDT, WGN is not calling the 3rd. FSM, I hope Lipinski is ousted.
Adam L Silverman
@NotMax: Pretty sure wherever they buried her.
lamh36
@lamh36: more about the clip:
Oh and I saw a few weeks ago the headline about Tom Hanks playing Fred Rogers for a movie. I thought it was a biopic, but apparently not. This is the article that the Tom Hanks Mr. Rogers’ movie will be based on…funny enough, I recall reading it way back when in ’98.
And I gotta say….if done right and they can match the feelings the article gives ya…Tom Hanks may be looking at another Oscar?
The Definitive Mr. Rogers Profile: ‘Can You Say…Hero?’ via @Esquire
Jeffro
@Corner Stone: Raised in both-siders-ville…whatchagonnado?
Omnes Omnibus
@NotMax: Sadly, she died in 1975.
Adam L Silverman
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): There are also some chimpanzees too. They had a couple of bad incidents in Hillsborough and Pinellas counties several years back with them.
Steve in the DFW
@Adam L Silverman: dude—never talk to the cops!
patroclus
Cannabis legalization is at 89% in an advisory referendum – I think Illinois should act like the UK politicians with BREXIT and treat advisory referenda as binding!! But JB moved on it during the primary and is on record as supporting it, so it’s at least possible.
@Eric S.: Newman narrowed it to 1350 in latest update.
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: Sorrry… Mr. Rogers! I swear I never knew his first name until I was WAYYY older…and even then…I swear if I ever were to have seen him when he was alive, and he were to say “call me Fred” I’d probably wouldn’t still do anything but call him Mr. Rogers….LOL
Davebo
I had to look up ecdysiasts and once I did I cursed you Adam!
satby
@chris: that house can only be shown on sunny days? Price includes all contents? Probably a sad story behind the weirdness.
Adam L Silverman
@Davebo:
https://comicvine.gamespot.com/ecdysiast/4005-60100/
I could have used apparel removal specialist.
Corner Stone
@GregB: Avenatti was doing full on taunting macho tonight. He was calling M Cohen and Trump a couple of drunken bums chasing their lost monkey down a dark alley who ended up getting rolled over and over again.
I hope somebody buys an ad on Fox & Friends that shows clips of Avenatti from tonight.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: It’s okay. I was just making sure.
lamh36
The documentary trailer, touched on a few of the themes that Fred Rogers’ discussed/incorporated on the show, that would likely seem “radical” in a children’s program…one of which was the assassination of Bobby Kennedy…
One of the show after the death of Bobby Kennedy:
satby
@Eric S.: god, so do I. I have voted against that fucker in every election he’s been in.
dmsilev
@Omnes Omnibus: It’s a very Democratic district, so doesn’t surprise me that the GOP couldn’t find a serious candidate, but you’d think they could find a volunteer to run on the ‘at least I’m not literally a Nazi’ platform. Guess not.
patroclus
Kelly Mazeski is winning in Il-6 to face Peter Roskam, a horrible Republican in a Congressional District that Hillary carried. She’s a breast cancer survivor and a decent candidate. If there’s a blue wave, she stands a chance.
Eric S.
@patroclus: JB should – SHOULD – win handily in November.
Whatever good or bad he’s done, I’m happy to see Quinn losing for AG. I like him but time for the old guard to go. Raul isn’t exactly a fresh face but newer than Quinn.
Adam L Silverman
@satby: Full estate estate sale.
Corner Stone
@Adam L Silverman: Is there a reason she has a metal plated crotch piece? And what in the world is the hair dryer for? Or….do I really not want to know.
satby
@patroclus: Good, Roskam needs to go too.
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: He’s on Fox at 11 PM EDT.
NotMax
The late Taylor Negron’s monkey story.
(Whole thing is worthwhile but the monkey part begins around 4:45.)
Omnes Omnibus
@dmsilev:
Yep.
satby
@Adam L Silverman: sounds like… And no one in the family is left or no one wants anything. Which is kind of poignant, even in weird homes.
Eric S.
@satby: Never been in his district but to quote our esteemed colleague, fuck ’em.
Raoul
In open thread news, my friend Kevin Gaither is pulling away in his run to be the Democratic nominee for IL-15 to run against Rethug John Shimkus.
Kevin is leading his Dem opponent 62% to 38% with 90% of precincts in, so while it’s too small a race for the media to care to call it, I think he’s the lucky winner of a tilt at the windmill.
IL-15 has $1,656 in the “Nominee Fund” kitty. I think Kevin has raised about $5,400 so far on his own, so in percent terms this’ll be a bit of a boost. Thanks to those 88 of us BJers who’ve gone in for $172.23 to IL-15 via Doug’s ActBlue thermometer and pretty active nudging for all of us to keep donating.
And a reminder that as primaries get decided, nominee funds start getting allocated so we may want to give directly to candidates in the GOP flippable races. I have a spreadsheet of my top 50 or so. Kevin isn’t really one of the top 50, his PVI is a tough haul, but I’ll keep supporting him because, well, he’s a friend, and I think it’s great to get a Dem counter-narrative out there in small town America.
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: I have no idea on either.
patroclus
@Eric S.: I thought about voting for Quinn, but there are so many reasons I just couldn’t do it. Too much history and I once vowed (35 years ago) that I’d never ever do it, but then I was forced to (twice). Not again. I ended up voting for Rotering, which I suppose helped Raoul.
Newman narrows it again – ever so slightly. About 1300 now.
Adam L Silverman
@satby: Yep.
lamh36
@lamh36: oh…and not for nothing, but it was the same year after that PBS funding bill was approved, that Sesame Street premiered on PBS in November 1969.
So who can say for sure, but gotta think…that bills approval went along way to making Sesame Street able to happen thanks to public broadcasting funds!
satby
@Eric S.: my Chicago house is in that district. Called the kids last night and texted them this morning to go vote against Lipinski. I’m just sad I couldn’t because I don’t live there anymore.
Gin & Tonic
@Corner Stone: I missed him this evening, but from what I’ve seen at other times, Stormy is getting her money’s worth with this guy.
Eric S.
@satby: I met that smarmy bastard once. My GF at the time was being honored for becoming Nationally Board Certified as a H.S. teacher. It took a lot of self control to bite my tongue. It would have ruined her night.
chris
Quite the house, eh? My cat Steve would have the time of his life in there pushing precious things off tables and shelves.
On another note, Ladies and gentlemen, the Republican candidate in IL-03, Mr. Arthur Jones! JFC.
satby
@Eric S.: yeah, no sense ruining her night.
Waratah
@lamh36: My daughter was just talking about the movie. I thought he was wonderful my children stopped their play and did not miss a minute of his show. I was able to get a lot of housework done.
Adam L Silverman
@Steve in the DFW: Only if they’re my students, paying me to consult or run an inservice, and/or asking for restaurant recommendations. Everything else they talk to my lawyer.
satby
@chris: the Democratic primary IS the election in IL-03, which is why I was hoping Lipinski would lose. It’s a solid Democratic area.
Edited to add: Lipinski will probably pull it off, but at least the jerk had to worry a bit. Good.
patrick II
@Adam L Silverman:
Just call me Dan,
Adam L Silverman
@patrick II: Okay.
chris
@satby: Yeah, I got that. So the best the Repubs could get is this dribbling bigot, Jones?
Eric S.
I won’t lie, I’m in a bar and thru one TV tuned to local news has the sound turned off. What’s Bruce talking about right now? None of the web sites I’m checking habe any thing new to say about GOP gubernatorial race.
satby
@chris: well, they used to ask me to be a Republican election judge because they couldn’t get people to do that either, and I listed myself as an independent (back when that didn’t mean embarrassed Republucan). Republicans are scarce in those parts.
Jager
@Adam L Silverman: Adam do you know why all the strippers in Miami look so happy? Because they all make more money than you do. (rim shot)
Davebo
@Adam L Silverman: Working in the oil patch I’ve been to such “gentlemans clubs” with my late wife.
Wasn’t nearly as fun as when I was in the Navy.
Adam L Silverman
@Jager: I was in grad school when I lived in Miami. So that was undoubtedly true.
Ken B
@Omnes Omnibus:
And he gets about 12% of the primary vote…
lamh36
@Waratah: with the show ending in 2001…it’s interesting to know that folks younger than say 20-ish…have no idea who Mr Rogers is or have never seen the show…although apparently there is an animated show on PBS called Daniel Tiger’s Neighborhood…that is based on characters from the “land of make believe” that has been on since 2012…so they may not have known of Mr Rogers, but his legacy of children centered programming lives on
Adam L Silverman
@Davebo: Noted.
danielx
@Adam L Silverman:
Wouldn’t involve as much vacuuming and dusting, but even more….unfortunate.
How a pimp built the ugliest house in America
Have driven by this place a bunch of times, but never seen the interior. At night, however, the fully lit up exterior has to be seen to be believed. I’ve seen general aviation airfields with fewer lights.
CaseyL
@chris: Oh. My. GOD. I think I’m in love. What a tchochke-festooned idiosyncrastic showplace. How does it manage to be so cluttered and yet so light and airy?
I’m particularly fond of the statues at all corners of the bed in one of the bedroom. Nothing like looking up during a passionate moment with your sweetie and seeing The Virgin Mary staring down at you.
I must look up the former owners. Mad as hatters, they have to have been.
Adam L Silverman
@danielx: I’ve seen pictures of that place before.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@danielx: Some pictures. Basically: The design materials all clash with each other, stone veneer is egregiously abused, and all the textures should be either filed off by hand or burnt off by blowtorch.
Adam L Silverman
This is funny!
CaseyL
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD): The accompanying twitter commentary is hilarious.
danielx
@Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD):
Oh, I’ve seen the pics. But I’ve heard from local realtors that you have to actually see it; pics just don’t do it justice. Really nice materials used in the worst possible ways.
NotMax
@Adam L.Silverman
For additional funny, please do watch all 16 minutes linked in #77 above.
Beautifully constructed comedy.
chris
@danielx: Just… wow.
Butthurt Jordan Trombone (fka XTPD)
@danielx: It’s the kind of thing built by and for rich people aware enough that they know narcotecture/dictator chic is tacky, but not enough that they actually have taste.
sukabi
@chris: thought the idea of staging a house was to get rid of all the tacky shit and clutter and class it up.
sukabi
@Corner Stone: I think he’s prepping for his FOX appearance on Tuesday(?)…he’s baited them into having him on.