This guy is three months old and already fully potty-trained:
I probably just jinxed him and he’ll shit on the rug tonight, but I don’t think so. When he needs to go out, he goes to the back door and issues a single bark and waits to be let out. He does the same to request reentry.
Badger is my first micro-dog, and as I got used to having a small dog around, I immediately understood why the Queen chose an attrition policy for her Corgi herd as she aged: it’s so easy to trip over the little guys! But their portability has advantages too.
Hubby and I are taking a motorcycle trip this weekend, and family members who are well known to both dogs will be house/dog-sitting. But I’m missing the mutts already and will worry.
Open thread!
Baud
He looks like a dog out of an old timey cartoon.
Zoey2020
That looks says otherwise. Love it!
Zoey2020
@Baud: Yosemite Sam the Young One.
Brachiator
Very expressive eyes!
debbie
Will you be carrying him in your purse? //
trollhattan
@debbie:
I’m thinking fanny pack.
geg6
He really is too adorable.
Major Major Major Major
Such a cutie! He’s gonna be totally spoiled while you’re gone, you know.
dmsilev
@Major Major Major Major: Like he currently lives a life of incredible deprivation and hardship?
zhena gogolia
I’m totally in love with him.
HumboldtBlue
He’s a handsome good boy.
Interesting look at California and national politics and issues (NYT if you abstain from hat pub)
trollhattan
A pet-dad brag: Rocco Leroy Brown Sugar Ray Charles, who landed at our casa at about 10 weeks had a scant few pee accidents before being effectively housetrained within the month. I suspect it’s in large part from spending adequate time with mom which, because we got him from the breeder he had had.
Stealing and sometimes eating our stuff is down but damnit, he’ll still do it. He’s cost us far more in clothing than his sticker price.
Shell
I think as time goes by, dogs,in general, are getting smarter.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
is the McMurtry for James or Larry? neither or both?
Talking to my neighbor of ten years the other day, I found out we’re both Lonesome Dove junkies. Each read the book at least three times, neither of us could count how many times we’ve watched the movie
Mary G
Badger is full of personality. You may have trouble getting the pet sitting family to leave after you get home!
Betty Cracker
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Neither — my husband just came up with that out of the blue.
satby
Aloysius was supposed to have been my father’s middle name, after a godfather or great uncle or something. But the honoree wasn’t able to attend my father’s baptism so my grandfather, named Sylvester, quickly informed the priest that the middle name was to be Arthur.
I’m taking it as a sign Betty. My dad died 28 years ago today at 56 years young. He’d get a kick out of Badger’s very Irish name.
Mnemosyne
@HumboldtBlue:
I do generally abstain from FTFNYT, but that seems like a pretty accurate take to me. Contrary to what the right wing likes to say, California is full of those dreaded technocrats and “centrists” who want to formulate actual plans to fix problems, not just make pie-in-the-sky promises.
Gelfling 545
Bostons are smart little beasts. My daughter had 2 several years ago. She didn’t even have to trsin the younger one. She just learned from the older one.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
I never read the book, but oh boy, Duvall and Jones on the screen together! <3
Major Major Major Major
@dmsilev: Puppy-sitters always spoil! They’re like grandparents.
trollhattan
Following today’s Jeff Sessions announcement of adding moar! deputy US attys to fight drugs and such, you must go see The Onion’s new Twitter banner photo.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: whatever, old white centrist woman
dmsilev
@Major Major Major Major: You forgot ‘neoliberal’.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Major Major Major Major: OH! get a load of Matt Breunig over here!
Elizabelle
Badger’s a smart little one. Sized for a cycle sidecar too. As is Daisy.
lamh36
Open thread…cool.
Movies news (I know you’ve missed it…LOL)
Ya’ll know how much I love me some John Wick and since I find Halle Berry’s skills as an actress a bit touch an go for me, my only advice to Halle comes from RuPaul: https://media.giphy.com/media/KEQzTcbdIvyaA/giphy.gif
trollhattan
@lamh36:
Swore that said “Sofa” and instantly wondered what Tim Burton has been up to.
lamh36
I love my city…but my state…SMH. I would love to retire and die here in NOLA, but manhn…that’s at least 25+/- years from now…
ETA: I’m single with no dependants and a good paying job, so I’m doing better than average…I can’t imagine if I was doing half of what I am now.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: Shouldn’t you be boxing kangaroos and evading drop bears?
rikyrah
Badger is so cute ? ?
lamh36
@Omnes Omnibus: I’m done with them already…them kangaroos knew not to mess with me…LOL
Mnemosyne
@Major Major Major Major:
Okay, that still makes me laugh EVERY time. ???
lamh36
Thank you majority of white America…YOU did this!
Oh and let’s not forget those who wasted their vote on 3rd party idiots…
I don’t blame the disenfranchised, but I certainly do blame the idiots “just can’t vote for HRC” losers or the “both sides” crowds, or the “all pols are the same crowd…
Mnemosyne
@dmsilev:
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
That involves a story that I’m not willing to put online, but would tell at a meetup.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: I always make sure to search my gmail to get the wording just right.
Mary G
Gabriel Sherman at Vanity Fair shows not all is well at Fox News:
They probably have a voodoo doll of David Hogg to stick pins in over there. Sad!
rikyrah
Ted Cruz is a punk azz BYTCH ?
https://twitter.com/byrdinator/status/1003759232389402624?s=19
lamh36
The best thing about my Aussie VayKay…I barely heard anything Chump related…unless I looked to my social media acounts, and even then, thx to the time difference, I was too busy enjoying my time in the future!
Gin & Tonic
@lamh36: You’re already back? How time flies.
rikyrah
@lamh36:
She betta not mess this up??
lamh36
@Gin & Tonic: I know…ya”ll barely missed me huh…lol…Didn’t even get to notice my absence…LOL
lamh36
Gin & Tonic
@lamh36: I’ll excuse that by saying I was on vacation myself and only sporadically connected.
Major Major Major Major
@lamh36: Same happened to me during my last two Asia vacations. Fun with time zones!
pnwjmk
I take special pride in seeing Badger doing so well. Bostons are my university’s mascot. Boston U. represent!
Amir Khalid
@lamh36:
I know that a visit to the White House is traditional for teams that have won a Superb Owl or similar, but is singing The Star-Spangled Banner usually on the programme?
MomSense
He’s so adorable.
Yarrow
@lamh36: What a big fat baby.
Glad you had a great time and got back safely. Have you readjusted to the time difference yet?
lamh36
SOME of the kids are all right (I can’t say all, cause their are still some young repubicans out there…bleh)
Yarrow
@rikyrah: What a coward.
Dorothy Winsor
Iowa’s primary is tomorrow too. I’m moving to Illinois early next month, so I won’t be able to contribute to how the candidates we select will do. But I really want at least my own district (IA-1, Rod Blum) and one of the state legislative houses to flip. At the moment, the all R governance is scurrying around trying to make us Kansas.
lamh36
@Amir Khalid: Honestly, I don’t even watch them, not even with a President I like. I end up watching a clips…so maybe the run up to the actual presentation?
Mnemosyne
@lamh36:
Heh. I went to my niece’s graduation here in So Cal and it was all about diversity and inclusion. The student who was named “outstanding female student” (they do one outstanding student of each gender instead of valedictorian/salutatorian) was the one who organized and led their anti-gun rally this year, among many other things.
And the Asian-American speaker who’s planning to study human biology ended her speech with a really great rap. ?
Gelfling 545
The question must be asked. Badger is a genius but is he a STABLE genius?
VeniceRiley
Small dog means small poops. They’re the best beasts.
Amir Khalid
I was acquainted with a number of Catholic boys in my youth, including an Aloysius or two, since I went to a Catholic mission school. (The name seems to be exclusively Catholic around these parts.) But everyone I knew pronounced it “Alloy see us”. I didn’t learn the correct pronunciation until I heard George Clooney say the name in Oh Brother, Where Art Thou?
JPL
@lamh36: It’s my flag, and it’s my anthem, and it’s time that he stop dictating what it means. Somehow we have to take back our country from the lunatic.
Dorothy Winsor
@Mnemosyne: I love the endless creativity of kids. I’m kind of jealous of it, actually.
Mnemosyne
@Amir Khalid:
At the abovementioned graduation, the Senior Choir sang “The Star-Spangled Banner” to kick off the ceremony and … yikes. Half the kids should have been given stepladders so they could hit the high notes they missed. ?
Their school is known for academics, not so much for arts.
Major Major Major Major
@Mnemosyne: To be fair that song is fucking impossible to sing.
SFBayAreaGal
49er fans, Dwight Clark passed away today from ALS. He was 61
different-church-lady
So since I’m in a foul mood and I just read that Benedict Cumberbatch stopped a beating in NYC yesterday, and Cumberbatch played Assange, it got me thinking: it’s kind of surprising how many of our valued commenters got played by Assange at first, but it was also kind of useful to us directly here, in that we now have a better understanding of some of the weak spots in our defenses. The folks who were most anti-Hillary were also the ones who stayed on the Assange bandwagon longer than everyone else. They gave us insights into the lizard brain of the non-self-aware racist left. The next time I see someone trumpeting an anti-state cursader (or worse yet, Greenwald-class paranoia pundit) I’ll recognize them for what they are.
(This post may or may not offer a coherent worldview.)
JPL
@SFBayAreaGal: I was just reading about that, and so sad because he was so young
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
Skipped my high school graduation altogether. Wasn’t the least bit interested in attending or participating, and had already left the state by the time it was scheduled.
Was guilted into going to college graduation. Yawnfest. True to form, the college president mispronounced my name when I was called up to get the sheepskin. Gave me a chance to commandeer the mic and issue a correction.
lamh36
@Yarrow: not at all…smh..hopefully I can remedy that a bit with the next 2 days off. I’ve somehow managed to have 2 days off a week for the next 2 weeks, and I plan to use each day to replenish what I missed on days I have to work.
Baud
@different-church-lady: Wasn’t Ecuador supposed to kick his ass out?
WereBear
What a good boy!
Were I to need a micro-dog, this big dog fan would get a Papillon. I talked my mother into one and she had the best time.
M4
@different-church-lady: it was in London, right by 221b Baker Street.
different-church-lady
@M4: Yeah, I’m all confusicated today.
Mnemosyne
@NotMax:
I went to all of my graduations (high school, college, and master’s degree). My name was mispronounced every time.
I have an uncommon first name that people are incorrectly confident they know how to pronounce, and a four-syllable last name. This is why I’m going to use a pen name for my books. ?
Origuy
@Shell:
I’ve been wondering about that. When I was a kid, dogs chasing cars was a common meme. When was the last time you saw or even heard about a dog chasing a car? Maybe it still happens in rural areas; I don’t spend much time around farms any more.
JPL
@NotMax: I can top that. My son skipped his, but wanted me to go with him to watch his friend graduate. I hate to admit it, but although I respected his decision, I couldn’t do it. It just seemed odd to watch my son’s graduation without my son.
Fortunately college graduation was fine.
Shell
Just had my first sweet corn of the season (looked like it was just picked). It was fabulous.
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
Don’t recall there even being a ceremony scheduled for the graduate degree. If there was, didn’t bother with it.
WereBear
The more they are treated like people, the more like people they become.
lamh36
I swear I never really take any of these dumb azz online quiz stuff, but I did take this one and I LMBAO…at this “love style” quiz result, cause it was SOOOO accurate…LOL
I’m an AVOIDER…if that ain’t the truth…I freely admit it!
Lord I shouldn’t laugh, but I even LOL at the description, even though it discusses some serious stuff.
Well at least I’m only 64% an avoider..I’m only 50% a pleaser…only 36% of a controller…only 29% of a vacillitator…only 14% of a “victim” (Common complaints about Victims: They let people walk all over them. It seems like they thrive on chaos)…
My highest marks were between avoider/pleaser.
Similarities:
Differences:
I found this fascinating…
Mnemosyne
@WereBear:
I would probably end up with a herding dog of some kind, because for some reason dogs in that breed category love me. They run right up to me and want to sit in my lap. Shelties and border collies seem to think that I’m the best. ?♀️
SiubhanDuinne
@Mnemosyne:
Do you have any idea how many people don’t know how to pronounce “Mnemosyne”?
JPL
@SiubhanDuinne: I can’t even spell it. Copy and paste sure, but that’s about it.
Baud
@SiubhanDuinne: You should talk, Suburu.
WereBear
@Mnemosyne: i love the working group. Herding dogs are very smart: maybe that’s why they like you :)
lamh36
The fact that MSM rather talk about Bill C instead of what happened to Sen Merkley last night!
https://twitter.com/_EthanGrey/status/1003759853259632640
“someone allegeding to be a Senator”…WHAT DA FUQ!
khead
@lamh36:
From the actual press release:
Kinda hard to believe but it gets worse.
satby
@SiubhanDuinne: I’m guessing about as many as those who don’t know how to pronounce Shivon Dunn.?
Mnemosyne
@SiubhanDuinne:
I have blood relatives who can’t pronounce my real first name correctly. ?
I probably mispronounce my own nym anyway. I’m terrible at figuring out pronounciations.
lamh36
@lamh36: this tells me they need time to clean up the place…which is even MORE uncomfortable to think about
Omnes Omnibus
@SiubhanDuinne: I always assumed it was pronounced Throatwarbler Mangrove.
Mnemosyne
@WereBear:
I think they sense my ADHD and realize that I’m a human who actually needs their everyday help. ?
NotMax
@satby
Have been toying with the idea of changing my nym.
The Artful Codger. Too immodest?
M4
@satby: I thought it was Subaru Dianne.
lamh36
@khead:
schrodingers_cat
@Mnemosyne: In fairness to them, the national anthem is hard to sing, for anyone.
satby
@NotMax: I like it! I always lose track of who is who when people change nyms, at least for a while.
satby
@M4: archaic Gaelic is my thing, my second son is named Padhraic.
Edit: he goes by Pat and has a different last name.
HumboldtBlue
@Mnemosyne:
Same with me, it was written by a Santa Cruz columnist that’s why it made sense.
The Lodger
@NotMax: Too derivative.
Amir Khalid
@Mnemosyne:
I have just learned from Wikipedia that it’s “Knee moss innie”. I too had been mispronouncing it up to now.
NotMax
@The Lodger
A Mr. Hitchcock on line one….
;)
Kay
Forced patriotic displays from the President! Only apply to black people, though.
Do we still own the White House, or have the Trumps transferred title to their sleazy real estate company? I want them to come to the property we own. They should appear outside the gates to this ridiculous castle he’s invented.
M4
@satby: my name is Gaelic, though mostly phonetic. Still people sometimes struggle.
Amir Khalid
@NotMax:
Depends. How much of a codger are you?
schrodingers_cat
Speaking of national anthems, I love this instrumental and vocal versions of India’s national anthem arranged by A. R. Rahman in the early to mid aughts with the best of India’s musicians and vocalists, some who are not with us anymore.
Jana Gana Mana written by Rabindranath Tagore.
NotMax
@Amir Khalid
:)
As the saying goes, close enough for government work.
Mike in NC
@khead: What a pathetic petulant child.
Humdog
My “super genius” Blue gave me quite a laugh. She is newly trusted off leash on our forest walks. She zooms everywhere and comes back to my whistle, unless there is deer poop to be had. Last week, she was off somewhere and i whistled just as I was coming upon the steep trail we do not take after a rain – too much clay soil it becomes a slip and slide. Anyway, she was sitting atop the clay hill, and she never sits. I whistled her down and she tilted backwards, beginning to slide down the hill on her bum! Her eyes got big enough to see the whites and her back feet were stuck in her ear holes. Her ears were flying back like Snoopy flying his dog house. She landed at my feet and bounded up. I called her back over to smack the “mud” off her bum, found she had slid over a stick that left a painful scratch on her tender parts and I laughed at her some more. The last laugh was on me, however, as the “mud” was dog doo. She must have had a long dingleberry, hence the sitting down. But now I had poop all over both my hands a good two miles from home.
I love her all the same!
Shell
I love that kind of pouty sound of ‘their’ rather than ‘the’ President. Like “now you’ve made Mommy sad.”
satby
@M4: my name isn’t particularly Irish. I always wanted to be a Siobhan or Eithne
schrodingers_cat
Badger has the cute. How is Daisy?
JPL
@Kay: The news media should not cover the event, but they will. We are in such dangerous territory, and somehow we have to fight back. It’s our flag too.
NotMax
@Humdog
Talk about things that would instantly go viral on YouTube!
;)
lamh36
https://twitter.com/ReutersPolitics/status/1003796287035248640
burnspbesq
Duke is in the super-regionals in baseball for the first time ever. Came from behind in four straight games, including twice today against Georgia in Athens. On to Lubbock to face Texas Tech this weekend.
Not bad for a women’s golf school.
M4
@lamh36: that guy just can’t fucking help himself!
burnspbesq
Macron ripped Trump a new one over the phone last week, and Theresa May piled on today. Loving it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I gotta say, this is one of the ceremonial aspects of the presidency that always made me roll my eyes, like the entire concept and institution of “First Lady”. But trump has managed to turn it into a weapon of racist politics.
NotMax
@M4
Helping himself (to whatever he could lay his hands on) is what got him into this pickle.
;)
lamh36
rikyrah
These kids have connected voting with their problem
https://twitter.com/nowthisnews/status/1003760305271398400?s=20
Platonailedit
@M4: If only the courts would help the traitorous tax dodger with that. Instead of just handing down wrist slaps.
lamh36
@lamh36:
JPL
@lamh36: haha
SiubhanDuinne
I love the NPR Sunday Puzzler, and have been playing it for decades. So far, have never been the weekly winner, but I live in hope.
I have almost two weeks to submit, and will surely refine my entries, but here’s the first pass.
TIE WALTONS. A loving family of Arkansas backwoodsmen kidnaps and torments the richest family in the state.
FATTER KNOWS BEST. Bud, Princess, and Kitten eat brownies, cake, pie, doughnuts, and cookies nonstop.
CHEEPS. Feral chickens invade a Boston bar “Where Everybody Thinks You’re Tame.”
FAMILY TOES. Kinky son of normal parents attempts to convert them politically by licking their feet.
***
Would love your reactions. Please, do your own entries. I promise I won’t steal.
rikyrah
Dolt45 is a coward
https://twitter.com/adamcbest/status/1003795905168986113?s=20
lamh36
Soooo this explains Chump’s distancing of himself from Manafort!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@lamh36: Dan Hampton, of the ’85 Chicago Bears, who said he disapproved of Obama’s policies, and his wife wasn’t invited–“and such small portions!”
more than sort of, we aren’t fucking Sparta
Platonailedit
Yup. Lock him up.
TriassicSands
Badger has got to be the spawn of Satan. Anything that cute simply must be evil. (Of course, Annie, my feline overlord opines that all canines are evil and must be smacked down immediately to show them their proper place.)
While small dogs may present a very real tripping problem, I think cats are probably much worse — dogs get in the way because they’re enthusiastic and want to be right there with you. Cats get in the way because they want to see if, when you trip, you can do a triple somersault with a half twist and still land on your feet — like they can.
jacy
@satby:
My second youngest is named Lochlainn. The youngest missed Conochobar by just a hair.
Raoul
@lamh36: Yup.
Using electronic means to try to avoid detection while on house arrest. Indeed Trump did (and still does) hire the best people.
Baud
@Raoul: The Bros are going to freak out because the feds outwitted the encryption.
M4
I mean it’s fairly safe to say that they let Manafort out on house arrest over and over specifically to catch him doing this shit, right?
@Baud: encryption only safeguards messages in transit. And doesn’t do shit if you send them to an informant.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I should make Gabriel Sherman a more regular part of my media diet, I think
Gotta say, I never would’ve thought Carlson would outperform Hannity in the Battle of the Angry Lumps. I mean, Hannity is filled with a rage he doesn’t understand but it’s real, Tucker is a trust-fund-baby playing at it because he’s desperate to be on TeeVee.
Omnes Omnibus
@lamh36: So, so dumb. Manafort, that is.
JPL
@Baud: haha My uneducated guess is that Manafort’s bail is revoked and he is going back to jail.
Baud
@M4: I doubt that logic will prevent Greenwald from tweeting his concerns.
ETA: #slipperyslope
satby
@jacy: love that!
dmsilev
So, that’s bail rescinded and some extra charges thrown in for good measure?
catpal
my new favorite dog video walter the singing french bulldog
SiubhanDuinne
@SiubhanDuinne:
I wouldn’t either, if I hadn’t written a long research paper in university about “Western Musical Depictions of the Muses.”
(Mnemosyne, deity of Memory, was the mother of the nine Muses: Calliope, Clio, Erato, Euterpe,
Melpomene, Polyhymnia, Terpsichore, Thalia, and Urania.)
Platonailedit
dmsilev
@Baud: Nothing, not even a pack of wild boars, would keep Greenwald from tweeting his concerns.
However, in the interests of science, I think we should run the experiment anyway. Anyone have a pack of wild boars they’re willing loan out?
rikyrah
This THREAD is HILARIOUS??
https://twitter.com/roywoodjr/status/1003691921930375168?s=20
satby
@dmsilev: wonder how safe he’ll be there. I assume he’s going to need to be kept in solitary for his own safety. I have no doubt Putin could get him while incarcerated.
Uncle Cosmo
@SiubhanDuinne: THE TWINIGHT ZONE – Nostalgia-fest set in those long-ago days when you could see two MLB games for the price of one & still get home before you turned into a pumpkin…
Amir Khalid
@dmsilev:
And to think that this maroon managed the most recent winning presidential campaign.
TenguPhule
@JPL:
Depends. The judge has been kinda slow on the uptake with Manafort.
SiubhanDuinne
@JPL:
#140 is meant for you.
Lapassionara
@SFBayAreaGal: How very sad. Thanks for sharing the news.
TenguPhule
@dmsilev:
Drone strike might.
Calouste
@dmsilev: That’s be animal cruelty almost as bad as throwing the lions to the Christians.
Omnes Omnibus
@dmsilev: I think I could rootle up a number of bores. Would that help?
randy khan
@lamh36:
Stupid, desperate, both?
I mean, this is a really dumb thing to do.
Puddinhead
@SiubhanDuinne: Nice. Here’s two:
Nunsmoke – These Sisters of Mercy try to get their uptight Mother Superior to chill out
The Farts of Life – Jack eats the magic beans and miraculous hilarity ensues.
Amir Khalid
@Uncle Cosmo:
Ahem … 15-word limit on the pitch.
Baud
@Amir Khalid: We’ve learned that hate is a powerfully effective organizational tool.
Omnes Omnibus
@TenguPhule: What is the purpose of bail?
TenguPhule
Wapo article title.
/Must be five o clock somewhere
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
Feel free to steal.
Funsmoke – follows the adventures and foibles of a combination clown/forest ranger
One Gay at a Time – (it’s obvious and requires no explication, do the math)
Northern Sexposure – Keeping a brothel a going concern in a Yukon gold rush ghost town is a full time job
Dame of Thrones – Both family and business life are draining for this female plumber
Tight Gallery – Tales of corporate espionage and monkeyshines in the cutthroat lingerie business
The Big Fang Theory – An extended family of werewolves keen on adapting to suburban life
rikyrah
Beto,
This is a ready made AD.
Put it on the air-AS IS
Let the 18 seconds be right there.
Put this on tv
Put it on radio ads
https://twitter.com/byrdinator/status/1003759232389402624?s=20
SiubhanDuinne
@Uncle Cosmo:
Perfect, but you need to get your pitch/description down to 15 words or fewer per the instructions. But great concept!
LAO
@JPL: Jesus Christ, could the plot of this dystopian novel get any dumber? All the best people, right.
Baud
@TenguPhule: Is there evidence that it’s unhealthy?
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
All fabulous. Knew I could count on you!
Lapassionara
@SiubhanDuinne: These are great! I like Cheeps and Fatter Knows Best a lot.
TenguPhule
@Omnes Omnibus:
Allowing him to post bail in the first place given his prior bad behavior was not exactly the smartest thing to do. He then started the whole frivolous challenges in court to boot.
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
1000% off topic but I found a video you might appreciate.
I know you do electric but this is too good, the making of a Goodall Guitar.
TenguPhule
@Baud:
I would assume that sticking soft fleshy bits in metal orifices and vice versa tend to end badly.
JPL
@TenguPhule: He wasn’t sending encrypted love notes, so I don’t see how that happens. As I said I am not one of our legal eagles, but it seems clear there was witness tampering.
Omnes Omnibus
@TenguPhule: Do you know the answer to the question?
JPL
@LAO: Magic 8 ball says yes.
Baud
@TenguPhule: I’m not talking about the cheap ass robots with exposed metal and wires. I’m talking about the high quality stuff.
LAO
@TenguPhule: Bail is almost always granted in non-violent cases.
@JPL: attempted witness tampering.
lamh36
Look at what’s happening now:
https://twitter.com/arimelber/status/1003808250775654400?s=21
TenguPhule
@Omnes Omnibus: Yes.
SiubhanDuinne
@Baud:
The late, and deeply-lamented, General Stuck used to call me Sub Diane.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
Starring Cheech, Chong and Snoop Dogg in nun drag and DAME MAGGIE SMITH as MOTHER SUPERIOR ST GERTRUDE OF THE BLEEDING CHRIST
or maybe Willie Nelson
You just know Farley and or Adam Sandler pitched that to Lorne Michaels more than once.
LAO
@Omnes Omnibus: Do I win anything if I know the answer?
burnspbesq
I think it’s safe to bet on a second superseding indictment.
SiubhanDuinne
@satby:
DOY-neh. Sheesh.
Amir Khalid
@SiubhanDuinne:
Not long ago you were thinking about switching to your more easily pronounceable real name.
JPL
@LAO: whoops. We actually wouldn’t know if he was successful.
Aleta
@lamh36: That cheers me up. Thanks.
rikyrah
Philly ‘s Mayor on Dolt45
https://twitter.com/DZangaroNBCS/status/1003804181432500224?s=20
lamh36
Maddow saying the Manafort filing was done in DC and the VA prosecutor was made aware of the filing…does that mean anything important that it’s in DC and NOT VA?
Shana
@Mnemosyne: Very cool! I just got back late last night from younger daughter’s graduation where she got a Master’s in Art History. At her school, all three student speakers said they were wearing red ribbons to support the effort to convince the school to start an Asian Studies program which they said has been in the works for 27 years. Given that it’s a very selective small liberal arts college there were a surprising number of students of color. My understanding is that the school makes a concerted effort to increase diversity, both in economic and ethnic areas.
BTW, she’s moving to Dallas this summer to start a year-long internship at the Dallas Museum of Art. Any Dallas-area folks want to weigh in with advice about areas to look for apartments? She won’t be making a lot of money….
Aleta
@lamh36:
Trump’s Lawyers Argue That He Cannot Be Impeached Because He Was Never Actually Elected (Andy Borowitz)
LAO
@JPL: I’m just assuming the contacted witnesses ratted PM out within seconds of being contacted. It really doesn’t matter whether he was successful or not. Ignore me, I’m feeling super bitchy tonight.
dexwood
I have always been a fan of large dogs, still am, but 30 years ago, a 12 pound terrier/weasel mix came into my life and I understood the big dog heart and soul little dogs can possess. Since then, we have always had a large dog and small dog combo. Yay, Badger.
JPL
@lamh36: Here is his statement in full
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
One more, for the “Christian’ channel.
Fig Brother – that pesky Satan plans to change history: kidnap Adam and replace him with a clone
LAO
@JPL: I can’t believe I have to root for the Eagles. Fucking Trump.
JPL
@LAO: I just want to know what encryption he used.
SiubhanDuinne
@satby:
Scots Gaelic for me!
Gin & Tonic
Jesus, but I hope Paul Fucking Manafort gets tossed in the can. I promise if I get that, I won’t ask for anything else for Christmas.
satby
@SiubhanDuinne: whoops ?
Omnes Omnibus
@LAO: I was going to turn to you when I failed to get an answer. So, yes, if unpaid resident expert status counts.
@TenguPhule: Do say then.
LAO
@Gin & Tonic: I think you’re going to get your Christmas wish, he was already under very restrictive release. Pretrial detention is the next step.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
Nice.
Might also be able to do something with “Big Brothel.”
Battery is at 1% so shall be away for a while. See y’all on the other side!
Jackie
@LAO: I’m a Seahawks fan. And, an underdog fan. My Seahawks family 100% rooted for the Eagles to beat the Patriots. NFC rules!!! ??????
JPL
@LAO: It just appears to be such a stupid move, and he had to know that he would be caught. Maybe one of his encrypted notes was to a white house staff member.
lamh36
Alright…more movie pop news.
Here’s a movie to put on my Fall Movie watchlist!
From Academy Award winning director of 12 Years A Slave, Steve McQueen and the writer of Gone Girl:
Not for nothing, but Viola Davis and Liam Nelson play a married couple in this film? They had me at Viola amd the kick azz female cast, but I gots secret crush on Liam Neeson…so even if he is nothing but first bit of the film..this makes me a happy woman!!!
Jim, Foolish Literalist
If that Will Shortz has any guts, you will be playing the puzzle live on tape this Sunday.
Omnes Omnibus
@JPL: They haven’t watched any spy movies or even one episode of The Wire.
LAO
@Jackie: I’m a NY Giants fan (to the extent that I call myself a fan these days), I was rooting for a meteor.
NotMax
@SiubhanDuinne
And the spin-off series, Madam-12.
:)
Jackie
@LAO: I’m an Eli fan – for the same reason: Any team that beats Brady and the Pats… ????
something fabulous
@lamh36: Welcome back! Hope you had a great time! When we met at the meet-up, you were just getting planning started– how time flies! Did you post about it anywhere? We want PHOTOS!
Elizabelle
@NotMax: You and Subaru Diane are good.
LAO
@Jackie: Yeah, I get it. The Patriots are really easy to hate, especially now in the Age of Trump.
lamh36
@something fabulous: thank you. I haven’t posted pics yet, but I’m planning to compile them all into a few picture post over at my blog once I get some well needed rest.
SiubhanDuinne
@Amir Khalid:
And I think I actually tried it, but was dissuaded by commenters I respect (God only knows who they are; I can’t remember.)
Omnes Omnibus
@LAO: Hey, have you seen the BBC series Silk? It is about a female criminal defense barrister. If you have access to Amazon Prime, check it out. I think you will like it.
Miss Bianca
@Baud: You guys! LOL!
LAO
@Omnes Omnibus: I have, I loved it. Thanks. (I love British police procedurals/legal shows because I don’t know enough about their system to constantly be saying, “oh come! that’s not how that’s done.”)
The Pale Scot
Betty don’t miss the chance to take Badger with you on the motorcycle trip! You just need a harness and a rad set of googles like Merlin the ‘cycle riding scottie
This is probably a dead thread, oh well
Calouste
The Twilight Loan: a documentary about the run up to the 2008 financial crisis.
Omnes Omnibus
@LAO: I am rewatching it now. It invalidates the “Hey. you can’t ask that” problem that US based procedurals have.
Brachiator
@SFBayAreaGal:
Just recently saw that. Very sad. RIP, Mr Clark.
Watched a YouTube video about The Catch, which marked the beginning of the 49er dynasty.
pluky
@Major Major Major Major: The trick is to start as low as one can. It is built on a drinking song after all, not Wagner.