Here is a thing everyone should really come to terms with early on in life: Someone can be very nice in all their personal interactions with you and still be a bad person. https://t.co/bdcsr3kg9i
— Julian Sanchez (@normative) July 8, 2018
So it turns out that Darla Shine, who is married to the man who used to expedite Roger Ailes’ workplace sexual harassment and who has just been hired by Donald Trump, is the sort of lazy white suburban racist who whines endlessly in public about not being able to use the n-word. And also, of course, about how vaccines cause autism, especially in those darker-skinned kids, because you know their genes just aren’t resilient like ‘normal’ peoples’ or something. Per the Washington Post:
The wife of Bill Shine, the new White House deputy chief of staff for communications, has come under scrutiny for racially charged remarks and unfounded medical theories posted to her Twitter account, according to a report by the website Mediaite.
Darla Shine, a former television producer and the author of a book about the joys of being a stay-at-home mom called “Happy Housewives,” reportedly made statements questioning why white people would be labeled racist for using the n-word while black people would not, defending the Confederate battle flag and highlighting instances of black-on-white crime.
Shine’s Twitter account has since been deleted…
Shine also tweeted stories that put forth debunked information about the danger of vaccines at least a dozen times, Mediaite reported. Any link between autism and vaccines has been disproved by various studies over the years.
“Biggest national security threat is autism!” she wrote in a tweet that tagged Trump, according to HuffPost. “How can we run a country when half of all boys will be autistic by 2050?”
“1 out of 10 black boys has autism,” she wrote in another tweet.
She also implied that the addiction treatment drug Suboxone, not racism, induced Charleston, S.C., church shooter Dylann Roof to kill nine black parishioners.
“Yes lets blame the Confederate Flag instead of Big Pharma and the psychiatric violence inducing Suboxone Dylan Roof was taking,” she wrote in 2015, according to Mediaite…
Of course, when one of his own precious class is threatened, Erick “Voice of the GOP Gate Community” Erickson was compelled to leap to her defence…
Did you see his one reply though? A shutout so far … pic.twitter.com/sChg4yRtF8
— Tap me when its over (@VinceValence) July 8, 2018
A convenient argument just in case you once accused a Supreme Court Justice of bestiality. https://t.co/DSQJx0PAIV
— Doug Mataconis (@dmataconis) July 8, 2018
(Erickson once called Justice Souter ‘a goat-fucking child molester’ on Twitter, which contrasts badly with his more recent professional-Christianist grifting, which is one reason why he’s so tender towards other white grifters’ Kinsley-gaffe tweets.)
BUT SERIOUSLY, people…
Bear with me because I am writing a book about autism and have been working on my chapter on autism and race so my jimmies are rustled on this, Particularly, @calebecarma reported a tweet by Darla where she said "1 in 10 Boys has autism." 3/https://t.co/dlydUQEMis
— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) July 8, 2018
But The CDC said the study was "most likely a result of immunization requirements for preschool special education program attendance in children with autism." Hooker was said to have "manipulated the media in a very savvy and sophisticated way". 5/ https://t.co/JUIB4vQnv1
— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) July 8, 2018
The danger with this is it plays on (very legitimate) fears African Americans have of the medical community as the result of the Tuskegee experiment. Per @fivefifths, a study showed it "reduced life expectancy among black men over 45 by over a year" 6/ https://t.co/Vth07JqBl8
— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) July 8, 2018
Again referring to @annamerlan, the Nation of Islam teamed up with noted anti-vaxxer Robert F. Kennedy Jr. to prevent a personal belief clause from being stricken from California's laws on vaccines. Their attempts failed. 9/https://t.co/Yn28kcMW5k
— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) July 8, 2018
One of the reasons why the allegation more black boys are autistic if they are vaccinated is so absurd is that study after study shows that in fact, black kids are much more likely to not get an autism diagnosis. 12/
— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) July 8, 2018
The ultimate kick in the gut for anti-vaccine conspiracy theorists? In the most recent CDC survey, the reason for the uptick was the racial gap in autism diagnosis was "were smaller when compared with estimates from previous years" 14/https://t.co/d8rfr3V5dS
— Eric Michael Garcia (@EricMGarcia) July 8, 2018
debbie
In what context would a statement like that be acceptable, Erick?
Brachiator
It’s no coincidence that Trump surrounds himself with people who think like he does. Racists who also uncritically accept conspiracy theories, and probably had lifetime subscriptions to the National Enquirer. Bonus points if they worked for Fox News.
Breaking,. The Guardian and others reporting.
And yet Putin is supposed to be our best buddy.
eric
@debbie: when he does not have to publicly defend it. In private, they are all good with it. Every last one of them
germy
Darla must be so pissed off right now.
I really bet this is the last thing she expected, all this criticism. I mean, she must be seething right now.
It won’t effect her husband’s new job in the administration, of course. They’ll circle their wagons around him.
But all this negative attention must be driving her nuts.
Mary G
Tweet from the man who’s replacing Darrell Issa:
Some of those donors are Juicers! Thanks!
patrick II
@debbie:
Can quoting a tweet be out of context? The context was 144, or now 288, characters. It’s not like lifting a line from a book.
kindness
I am not surprised that the wife of Roger Ailes top aide is a nut. Isn’t that part of the requirement with the current administration?
Corner Stone
Eric Michael Garcia’s twit thread lost me somewhere. What is his contention based on all the disparate studies, biases and history on this issue? That it’s a falsehood that black kids are diagnosed with autism at higher rates?
Teddys Person
@germy: I know, right? Consequences are for the little people.
gene108
I did some door knocking for Andy Kim, who is running to unseat Tom MacArthur (R, NJ-3). The organizers sent us out to a town with a local parade that day, which cut back on where we could go. We completely skipped on turf because of the parade.
I don’t know, if I should be worried at this lack of Google-fu or if it is just a one-off and they really have their stuff together, because this will be a tough fight to flip the district.
The people in the campaign are very sincere and also very young (to my middle aged eyes).
On the bright side, there are a lot of people fired up and volunteering, who – like myself – usually did not volunteer much before.
Corner Stone
“Conservatives” absolutely hate to have their own statements and words quoted back to them. So uncivil!
debbie
@germy:
She’d be the perfect ladies-who-lunch buddy for Mnunchin’s wife.
NotMax
@Brachiator
Dolt 45 will tweet that she bought it on Amazon and blame Bezos.
No more farfetched than what he and his trained simians type out and press Enter for every day.
germy
@debbie: I just hope they don’t take their anger out on the hired help. Cleaning & cooking staff, etc.
germy
@Teddys Person:
I’ve become paranoid enough to suspect she kept her own children fully vaccinated. Her crackpot theories are really cover for denying healthcare to… those… people.
khead
So… she’s basically a Fox-watching, meme-sharing, Facebook feed grandma.
hueyplong
Interesting pre-emptive play by Erickson, saying you can’t judge on tweets when a certain someone communicates only in tweets.
If he were smart, he would have said you can’t judge people based on tweets or one-off interviews with Lester Holt.
germy
@hueyplong: Eric: “You can’t judge people by what they say or do. You can only judge them by how much I praise and defend them.”
Me: “Okay, based on that, I judge them poorly.”
dmsilev
So, what’s the dividing line? Is one Tweet OK, but two or more an accurate statement of beliefs? Or does it have to be at least 1000 characters?
Or, more likely, if something is inconvenient for a conservative, it doesn’t count, for all values of something.
PPCLI
I remain amazed at how Shine and Fox News generally have been able to slip away from responsibility not only for enabling culture in which the most shocking sexual-harassment and outright sexual abuse could take place, but also for going like a pack of wild dogs after any woman who complained.
Hoodie
@Brachiator: Seems to me the English (and the French and the Belgians, who the hell knows about Croatia) should pull out of the World Cup. Let Putin sit in an empty stadium. Maybe he can entertain GOP visitors there.
hueyplong
@germy: I’ll phrase it the same way going forward (with the standard refusal to give credit).
Groucho48
@patrick II:
The right takes the part of the 2nd Amendment they like out of context all the time.
jl
@debbie:
” In what context would a statement like that be acceptable, Erick? ”
We need to back up a bit, though. What does ‘taken out of context’ mean for a tweet. Someone help me on this, please.
Edit: other commenters got there first. but I don’t see an explanation as to how, yet. I was going to comment on the amazing things one learns reading this blog. But since I don’t understand it yet, I better hold off for now.
Ryan
“Shine’s Twitter account has since been deleted…”
This is the admission of guilt. Given that it happened after Bill took the job.
Mr Stagger Lee
Excuse me, but I thought the two sons of Rupert was supposedly working in the background to pull Fox News back into the the word of sanity, wasn’t a former office of one of the departed Fox hosts turned into a sanctuary for Muslim employees.(Snark Off)
Ohio Mom
@Corner Stone: For a long time, autism was underdiagnosed across all communities; now that the general awareness level has gone up, doctors/medical personnel and educators are more adept at recognizing the symptoms, the rate of diagnoses has risen.
Minorities were especially overlooked, as were females. Now that they are being properly diagnosed, it looks like the rates are going up.
Some of this was because the sorts of evaluations and rating scales for autism, while more refined than they used to be, still depend a lot on professional judgement. There are no medical tests like blood work or genetic testing.
If developmental delays and behavior issues were present in a minority child, the would-be evaluators might have just shrugged their shoulders, as in “What do you expect?” In the sixties, some professionals believed only white kids could have autism.
My kid is white and middle-class and seventeen years ago I had to really push our pediatrician to refer us to a qualified developmental pediatrician for a thorough evaluation.
If I was suspicious of the medical community, or less confident of my rights or insurance coverage, he probably wouldn’t have been diagnosed until kindergarten, when his teachers would have done their version of an evaluation for their own purposes.
Autism tends to present a little differently in girls, which is why they’ve been underdiagnosed. This is changing as our understanding of autism increases but the combination of being a minority and a girl surely lead to this group being under diagnosed.
I’ve been interrupted a couple of times and it took me a while to type this all out. Somebody else may have already answered your question.
Chyron HR
“Bill and Darla Shine are wonderful people because they hate ni**ers just as much as I do.”
H.E.Wolf
@gene108:
Congrats on volunteering – Andy Kim’s campaign is lucky to have you! Here’s hoping that today’s snafu was an anomaly; and thank you for your service!
SiubhanDuinne
@Brachiator:
Is Dawn Sturgess (or her partner, still in critical condition) thought to have been a former Russian spy or journalist or something in Putin’s sights (like the Skripal father and daughter), or was she just a staggeringly unlucky random person?
Ohio Mom
@Ohio Mom: I should add that many kids with autism used to get a label of “mental retardation” (what we call Intellectual Disability these days). Probably some others were labeled Emotionally Disturbed.
Again, now that awareness has increased, and the evaluation instruments are in wider use, these kids are getting diagnosed correctly.
Ohio Mom
@germy: It’s pretty hard to find a reputable pediatrician who will keep your kid as a patient if you don’t agree to vaccinate. Some will change the vaccination schedule a bit to accommodate the nervous nellies but that’s as far as they will go.
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@Hoodie:
They really should. It would be a hollow victory for Russia if they won by default.
Redshift
@SiubhanDuinne: As far as I’ve heard, the thinking is they were just unlucky. And the likelihood of poisoning random people is why using nerve agents or radiological poisons is so much worse than, say strangling.
Sherparick
@Brachiator: Trump’s best buddy. Screw the rest of us.
Redshift
@Corner Stone: Newt Gingrich did try to declare that if he had changed his position on something, accurately reporting his previous statements was lying.
?BillinGlendaleCA
OT: The youngin’ and I(Madame went along for the ride) went out for our Milky Way shoot last night to Red Rock, she was quite excited when she saw the Milky Way on her camera screen. Here’s a pic I shot with the new NX1 and the “S” lens.
ETA: I did not use the sky tracker for the above linked photo, that is composed of 8 shots stacked and averaged in Photoshop to reduce noise and increase clarity.
efgoldman
@germy:
Being the special delicate snowflake she is.
Anti-vaxxers shuold suffer criminal penalties one did in a LawnOrder episode)
B.B.A.
@Sherparick: L’etat c’est moi, or some such.
satby
@?BillinGlendaleCA: love the composition on this one!
Ruviana
This is sure going to drive Orac crazy.
efgoldman
Apropos of nothing: A Trumpista running for statewide office in RI has been running his boat back and forth along the beach, blasting “patriotic” music and displaying hiis huge campaign billboard. Today he put it on the rocks. Karma is a bitch.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@satby: Thanks, I actually had to add in Mars and the car headlight from the last shot since they weren’t in all the shots in the stack. Mars was just rising at the time(at first I thought it was an airplane). I think the kid is excited about Astro-photography now. Madame got a pic of Mars with her cellphone and was excited by that. I think the kid will be borrowing my NX-500 for her trip to Australia and New Zealand.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman:
“Instant Karma’s gonna get you…”
debit
Huh. I wonder if MSNBC will finally forgive her for saying “blow job” on the air and rescind her ban for an interview.
sukabi
@Corner Stone: the brief look I did thru his thread, is the initial study is based on numbers of black autistic children in a school SPECIFICALLY FOR SPECIAL NEEDS children. Of course the numbers are going to be higher than in the general population.
That would be like going to this WHITE HOUSE doing a study and claiming that 90% of white men in the country are belligerent, short-fingered man-babies.
efgoldman
Edit is super slow to post, reply button gone from the post i edited.
Mnemosyne
G and I saw a special screening last night of a new movie called Sorry to Bother You, and it was pretty spectacular. I didn’t entirely realize going in that its genre is probably best described as near-future sci-fi. The classic film I would compare it to is Terry Gilliam’s Brazil — an alternate universe that seems familiar at first and then slowly becomes more and more surreal.
If you want to see a movie that’s going to surprise and challenge you while still being entertaining and optimistic (in its own twisted way), this is the one for you. Not for kids — too much sex, drugs, and bad language.
efgoldman
@efgoldman: Left out the link
hueyplong
@efgoldman: If video surfaces, please post a link.
efgoldman
@hueyplong:
Already done, post just above yours in my timeline.
NotMax
@efgoldman
Oh, gneiss!
The Vulgar Boatman. Was he blasting “Let the Eagle Soar?” If so, that’s at least a misdemeanor of some kind in and of itself.
:)
Mnemosyne
Also, a bleg — is there a reasonably cheap program for Mac that would allow me to resize JPG and/or TIF files? I have Photoshop at work, but it would be massive overkill for what I want to do.
Humdog
@sukabi: Not 90% white, short fingered man babies, just 68%. Ha!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Mnemosyne: While it will do more than just resize pics, I’ve liked Affinity Photo. It’s available for pretty much every platform(Windows, Mac, Android, IOS, and Linux). I think it’s $40.
Also the kid learned last night hat you have to do post on Milky Way pics.
schrodingers_cat
Venal man hires other venal man who has married a woman without any redeeming virtues. No one of this is surprising.
debit
@Mnemosyne: Gimp.
hueyplong
@efgoldman: Thanks, turns out the still photos got it done for me. Schadenfreudelicious.
B.B.A.
Lapassionara
@efgoldman: Good news. Thanks.
NotMax
@Mnemosyne
Unfortunately, Irfanview (free, tiny footprint, just works) does not have a version for Mac. But they do offer recommendations:
Top Alternatives to IrfanView for Mac
There’s also this I came across sometime or another, but cannot speak to how well it works.
Aleta
Abusing children, protecting the abusers and refusing to protect babies is the Republican Party way.
Brachiator
@B.B.A.:
Fuck this Roberts guy.
schrodingers_cat
@Aleta: Our country is being governed by a party that represents the minority and operates like a crime cartel.
Steeplejack
@efgoldman:
My first recourse on all FYWP problems lately is to do a “hard” page refresh, which also refreshes the underlying cache pages. Ctrl-F5 in Chrome and Firefox. Shift-[refresh page button] if you’re doing the phone/tablet thing.
schrodingers_cat
@Brachiator:Agreed fuck this Roberts guy. The R party is not all of America. They have usurped power by means fair and foul, but they are not all of us.
Domestic short hair tabby (fka vheidi)
@?BillinGlendaleCA: gosh that’s gorgeous
Chetan Murthy
@Brachiator:
If we interpret “faith in America’s goodness” as a faith that the country would make good decisions, then Roberts is right, yes? I mean sure, we can have faith and belief in the goodness and sanity of (even) a majority of American voters. But that majority wasn’t enough to ensure that we made a non-dropped-on-the-head-repeatedly-stupid decision. That seems to meet the criterion of “Obama was so f’in’ wrong” to me. It’s not a sin that he was wrong in this way. I’d rather he be wrong in wanting us to be better than we are, than in the other direction, after all.
ETA: And sure, the GrOPers aren’t “all of America”. But they’re -enough- of America, that America made a really, really, really, really bad decision. And unless/until we’re ready to fight a war between the states, we can’t pretend that America didn’t do that.
Platonailedit
Spite voting matters.
dmsilev
@Mnemosyne: Preview (included with ever Mac) can do resizing and cropping of jpg, png, tif, and few other formats. Unless you need batch processing or something like that, it should do the trick.
Suzanne
I wish Souter had sued him for slander.
I never want anybody to forget about this.
Just like I have never forgotten that convicted felon Dinesh D’Souza is a convicted felon and abstinence spokeswoman and single mom Bristol Palin had two children out of wedlock while the whole family told us how godly they are.
Platonailedit
@B.B.A.:
Right, it was the black man’s fault that majority of the country is fucked up racists. Nice trolling.
Citizen Alan
because he disagreed with Souter on an issue about eminent domain. I mean, Jesus, the fucking pettiness of him.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Domestic short hair tabby (fka vheidi): Thanks, I’m happy with the way it turned out.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Citizen Alan: And how will they get the land to build Trump’s wall(it will never be built)? Eminent Domain.
Jamey
@NotMax: Trillo and Error?
Ohio Mom
@sukabi: I finally went to read that entire thread by Eric Michael Garcia, who explains he is researching and writing about autism and race. I had a real “aha” moment there because a number of years ago, the big new hot autism book was “Unstrange Minds” by Roy Grinker.
He is an American anthropologist with an autistic daughter and his book is about autism in various countries around the world. He had traveled to those countries and it was an interesting review of how culture effects how people view and deal with autism.
The “Aha” was because I realized that I have read more about autism in foreign countries than in American minority communities. Once again, we see that our neglect as a nation of Blacks and other minority groups is ubiquitous. Even those of us who think we are enlightened keep tripping over our blind spots.
Anyway, you nailed it, autistic children are going to be statistically over-represented in a special needs program, and of course they are all going to be vaccinated because public schools require students to prove they are up to date on their shots.
That is the way the causation arrow goes, it is not that they are autistic because they have been vaccinated.
And why are there so many enrolled in preschool? Because of increased awareness among the official diagnosticians that they had been letting their blind spots stop them from seeing autism in minority children.
cmorenc
Quintessential example: the late US Senator Jesse Helms, R-NC. He was by all accounts a peach of a neighbor, and very polite, friendly and considerate person-to-person, including to blacks he knew personally. My only personal encounter with him was when he introduced himself to me on the streets of Raleigh one summer afternoon. (BTW: Helms was a much taller, bigger man than came across on the TV – he was at least 6″4, if not 6″5, whereas I’d expected him to be more like 5″10).
Nevertheless, Helms was not only the original asshole Tea Party Republican before there were Tea Party Republicans (before Newt Gingrich even even won a state office) – but also long the original asshole RW media commentator who did a daily 5-minute often overtly racist editorial on WRAL TV in Raleigh before he was ever a Senator, back before Rush Limbaugh was even an obscure top-40 music disc jockey in Missouri.
Platonailedit
Swamp begets cesspool.
NotMax
@BillinGlendaleCA
Just a mention that a friend here who takes scads of space photos (nebulae and suchlike) has some of his favorites printed out at a commercial printing place here (they have equipment to handle large sizes, do a lot of large stuff such as blueprints) in 2′ × 3′ size, suitable for framing, which he gives out (rolled up) as gifts.
According to him it is surprisingly inexpensive. Caveat is that his wife works there, though.
The Lodger
@efgoldman: Also, a beach.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@NotMax: My portfolio is at Smug Mug and they have commercial printing available.
(Clicking on my nym also gets you to my portfolio).
JWL
“..Where the home in the valley meets the damp dirty prison
And the executioner’s face is always well hidden..”.
Platonailedit
Brexit sec exits.
What an amateur show.
rikyrah
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Gorgeous?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@rikyrah: Thanks much.
Bemused senior
@Mnemosyne: look for imagemagick… Open source and command line driven but excellent.
Mnemosyne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
@debit:
@dmsilev:
Thanks! I may try Preview first, if only because I have it already.
I’m having trouble with a logo I want to out on my author website, and I suspect part of the issue is that it’s too big. FYWP is real, y’all.
Mnemosyne
@Mnemosyne:
*put, not out. I hate not being able to edit on mobile. ?
Dorothy A. Winsor
@?BillinGlendaleCA: What a gorgeous picture.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Thanks, I think it’s a keeper.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
LOL.
SPOILER ALERT for a going on twenty year old TV show: Tony Soprano did that to harass some civilians who were displeasing him. Ya gotta love the kind of genius who thinks that’s a good way to build some favorable name recognition.
boatboy_srq
@Mnemosyne: Serif used to make something worthwhile. I think Affinity boight them. Search PhotoPlus and see what comes up. MSRP is two digits.
WereBear
@?BillinGlendaleCA: stunning. Will be shared.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@boatboy_srq: Yup, that’s Affinity Photo.
Platonailedit
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Platonailedit: raises hand// and even more that the majority of whites voted for him.
In other news, if you care to read the link, this is the second set of tweets I’ve seen about Alan Dershowitz showing his ass to the good people of Martha’s Vineyard. Not metaphorically.
SiubhanDuinne
@JWL:
debbie
@Mnemosyne:
Take a look at GraphicConverter.
https://www.lemkesoft.de/en/products/graphicconverter/
Platonailedit
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
watb? Literally? Ugh.
SiubhanDuinne
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
That’s just stunning, Billin. I’ve said before that it’s really hard for me to pick a favourite among your Milky Way photos — each is more gorgeous than the last, or the next — but this has to be right up there.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@WereBear: Thanks.
sukabi
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: wow, if true it certainly explains a lot. Years of exposure have fried his brains…both of them.
burnspbesq
@Hoodie:
I think not fining or suspending Vida for his pro-Ukraine Instagram post is as far as FIFA is willing to go to piss Putin off.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@SiubhanDuinne: Thanks, I’m working on a couple more; and I have to do some for the kid(I volunteered to do the processing for her shots).
burnspbesq
@SiubhanDuinne:
They never will be missed.
jonas
@hueyplong: Conservatives one minute: tweets bypass the fake news MSM and take the FACTS straight to the people! Conservative another minute: Hey, it’s just tweets! You can’t take those seriously.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Not clicking on that.
Llelldorin
@efgoldman: You have to love right-wing incompetence. I’ll be giggling over the Wreck of the Wingnut Joe Trillo for the rest of the evening.
Matt
Joining the fuckstoopid megachurch Christianists in their ongoing war against logic.
IMO we’re rapidly approaching a point where we’ll have to decide as a species whether we prefer kowtowing to imaginary friends or staying alive.
Sm*t Cl*de
@SiubhanDuinne:
The would-be assassins left in a hurry and scattered a trail of Novichok-contaminated stuff all over Wiltshire. Additional casualities were not a big concern for them.
PaulWartenberg
@Platonailedit:
what happened is that the Tories set up a vote on the EU in order to appease enough Tory voters to show up and vote for them instead of the UKIP third party.
then they all fail to adequately explain just why Leaving the EU would really fck up their country, leaving it to the UKIP racists to fearmonger about immigrants stealing everyone’s jobs (hmmm…) to where nobody knows what they’re voting for or against.
and then stuck with a result nobody in Parliament wanted – neither Conservatives nor Labour wanted this hot potato – the Tories have been forced to come up with SOME kind of plan to finish Brexit without ever coming out and admitting “Shit, people, we only held this vote to keep the racists in line. We really didn’t WANT to break up our financial and trading ties to the rest of Europe.”
‘Cause now, the plans they’re coming up with – where May is back a “soft” Brexit that doesn’t really follow through on cutting all ties the way the Leave followers want – still doesn’t make ANYBODY happy to where we’re about to see another collapsing UK government.
Meanwhile, the ones enjoying this shitshow are Putin and his various White Nationalist buddies from across the globe who are all hoping to crash every Western-style Democracy in order to assure they forge their own White Nationalist fiefdoms and drive our world back to the pre-World War days of “Balance of Powers” and border strife between neighboring nations.
Roger Moore
@hueyplong:
What he really means is that you aren’t allowed to judge people based on what they say or do, only on what’s in their hearts. Since only God knows what’s truly in their hearts, that means you are never allowed to judge them. Of course this rule only applies to Evangelical Christians; they’re perfectly free to judge everyone else as much as they please based not only on what they say and do, but on what the “Christians” believe they want to do.
MagdaInBlack
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Theres a mental image I could do without.
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Its ok, no actual footage ?
PaulWartenberg
@efgoldman:
A boatsman who didn’t know how to navigate the tides and avoid the rocks. Typical Republican’t.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
To borrow from (IIRC) David Niven, he is a man determined to share his shortcomings with the whole world, on the beach and on CNN
and since I’m sure he’s the type to obsessive survey social media, I hope he’s thinking now, “Fuck! I never thought that would leave the island!”
hueyplong
@PaulWartenberg: Let’s face it, lots of right wingers struggle with the concept of tides.
japa21
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Saw your note yesterday. Welcome to the “Land Beyond O’Hare”. I don’t know what part of Barrington you are in but it is a nice place. So nice that the bedroom community I live in wanted to change its name to Barrington Estates several years ago. It didn’t.
Sm*t Cl*de
Don’t forget her retweet of that weird bit of Putin propaganda dreamed up in some troll farm to appeal to the Antivax / Truther intersection and recruit the Moron Vote, “Russian president Vladimir Putin says that Western governments are enslaving humanity through vaccines”.
Anyone who took that seriously is too stupid to live and needs to be hounded relentlessly.
Central Planning
@Mnemosyne: Mac’s Preview might work. The Tools menu has an “Adjust Size…” option.
debbie
@debbie:
P.S. It’s free.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@japa21: I’m within walking distance of downtown Barrington, next door to the public library. At the moment, I’m still stunned by the move to appreciate the place, but I’m looking forward to making a new life. Also to getting back to normal parts of my old one
Roger Moore
@NotMax:
My local Costco will do 24″x36″ prints for about $20/each. They’re very high quality, and they’re used to dealing with serious photographers. I have several prints that size, and they’ve come out fantastic.
efgoldman
@Platonailedit:
Not the majority, not close.
The majority of those who get off their asses and vote, register, march….
Like a supertanker turning slowly, slowly at sea, the larger polity is waking up and resizing what we have to do.
Ohio Mom
@Matt: The Nation of Islam is a very small cult — accordingly to Google, approximately 20,000-50,000 members.
Certainly one glue that holds them together is a deep suspicion of whites. The anti-vaccination movement is just perfect for them, they can claim vaccinations are another Tuskegee type of experiment.
chris
@Sm*t Cl*de: My favourite anti-vaxxers are the ones who claim that vaccination is a plot to depopulate the world. Terrible plot, doesn’t seem to be working very well.
For those interested, you can read lots of anti-vaxx stuff at reddit without having to interact with antivaxxers. Like flat-earthers and chemtrailers they should be avoided because you can’t even…
? ?? Goku (aka Amerikan Baka) ? ?
@Chetan Murthy:
No, Robert’s wasn’t right and neither are you.
Sloane Ranger
@PaulWartenberg: To be fair, some people did try to explain why Brexit was a bad idea but, unfortunately, it’s technical and takes longer than a 30 second soundbite. While they were trying,the Brexiteers were screaming about job stealing immigrants, putting the “Great” back into Great Britain and how immigrants were free riding off the NHS and the social safely net.
I watched a Select Committee recently, they were taking evidence from the people behind Cambridge Analytica. They said that the Remain campaign had made it all about evidence and facts while they’d made it about emotion and that’s why they won.
Roger Moore
@jonas:
Anyone who expects Conservatives to be consistent has not been paying attention.
Sloane Ranger
@Platonailedit: Oh God, Peter Bone. It would be my MP! He’s an idiot. David Cameron used to take the piss out of him regularly. As he’s a Tory that tells you everything you need to know.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Sloane Ranger:
Sounds familiar.
A Ghost To Most
@Platonailedit: Plenty of us are. I cut out my racist family in 2007.
efgoldman
@efgoldman: Too late to edit. Not resizing, realizing.
trollhattan
@Roger Moore:
Photo nerds may want to know that Costco photo lab printers are color-profiled by Dry Creek Photo and we can download profiles for individual printers.
Costco is really hard to beat for price:performance.
WereBear
@Sloane Ranger: I’m now certain that you could convince a third of the population to fear cake and burn down bakeries.
efgoldman
@WereBear:
All of them, or just the ones with child trafficking in the basement?
Ohio Mom
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I just looked up your new town — I see it is pretty far out from downtown Chicago, but not quite as far as that train museum in (I think it was) Union. We went there once when Ohio Son was about nine and really enjoyed it. Though I think one visit was enough.
In the other direction, we’ve spent some time in Elk Grove, and there is a surprisingly amount of ethnic food there: Polish perogi restaurants, Serbian restaurants, and a huge combination Japanese supermarket and mall (and the mall has a great food court).
Good luck with the unpacking!
Platonailedit
raven
@Dorothy A. Winsor: My ex is from there and I spent a good bit of time there in the 70-80’s. He was the minister at the Community Church of Barrington.
Her folks are in pics 28&29
https://ccbarrington.org/our-history/
TS (the original)
@Sloane Ranger:
And Russia – Putin’s plan is to break up Europe – trump and the brexit people are helping him 100%
Gvg
@SiubhanDuinne: the British article I read when the news broke, had a specific and direct police quote that the victims and their families had no connections with Russia or espionage. It was amazingly clear. The British authorities knew that everyone would want to know that. I am guessing it was also important to establish so they could know if their might be more etc.
Calouste
@Matt: People who believe in “life after death” might be less concerned with staying alive.
Platonailedit
@Sloane Ranger:
Teresa’s neither here nor there plan is a sure fire fail. She is a typical example of failing upwards.
What the fuck is the miscalculating Cameron doing now a days? Haven’t seen him since brexit.
dexwood
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Cutting in to say I admire what you’ve done, a move, a new life chapter. I’m ready to do the same, but we care for my wife’s 90 year old parents two doors away. Happy to say their health is good, they are not a burden, but when the time comes, we’re out of here. For the present, we’re committed. They’ve been so good to us.
ruemara
@Mnemosyne: You liked it? I’ve heard really good things.
Amir Khalid
@Ohio Mom:
In a lot of Muslim countries the Nation of Islam’s decidedly unorthodox beliefs wouldn’t even be considered Islam. After Elijah Muhammad’s death his son Warith Deen Muhammad led the original Nation of Islam toward mainstream Sunni Islam; Louis Farrakhan broke away and basically set up a group of dead-enders.
Ohio Mom
@dexwood: Where do you dream of moving to?
I don’t think moving is in the cards for the Ohio Family but it is nice to daydream about.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Ohio Mom: The commuter train runs through Barrington, so we can get to Chicago on it. Our son and DIL live about 30 minutes farther out. They’re the main reason we moved here. They came over today and we took them out to dinner.
@raven: Pretty church. We’re going to go to the Unitarian church not far from here as a way to meet people. Barrington is pretty Republican from what I can see. We need to find the resistance.
Mnemosyne
@Calouste:
In my experience, fundamentalists of all stripes are absolutely terrified of dying, because they’re secretly pretty sure that they’re going straight to Hell just like everyone they disparage as a sinner. They don’t care if anyone outside their little circle dies, but they’re the same ones who will fight to keep Grandma’s life support on well past the time when the rest of the family thinks it’s time to let her go because they’re so terrified of what the afterlife really holds..
dexwood
@Ohio Mom:
Our dream is modest. A new neighborhood in New Mexico where we currently live. A different house, one with a studio annex, more room for dogs and chickens, walking distance to one of the many fine brewerys here.
raven
@Amir Khalid: I don’t know how much you know about Malcolm X and his journey. We just had a young African American woman elected to the city council and she chose to be sworn in on the Autobiography of Malcolm X. The right wingers had a goddamn stroke with all that “hate whitey” bullshit. If they read the book they’d see that his pilgrimage to Mecca made him realize it wasn’t white people, it was America.
Amir Khalid
@Platonailedit:
Amid the Tories’ post-Brexit “My God, what have we done?” funk, Teresa May was the last one standing in the contest to succeed Cameron as party leader and PM. She hasn’t played either role with distinction.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@dexwood: Once Mr DAW retired, we had nothing tying us to Iowa. We moved there about 20 years ago to take jobs with Deere and ISU. But we knew we needed to be closer to our son as we age. This is a senior living facility, the kind where you move gradually into more and more care as you need it. I hope that lessens the burden on him.
You’re good people to care for aging parents like that.
raven
BTW Elijah Muhammad was from Sandersville, GA the home of Kaolin.
Ohio Mom
@Amir Khalid: Thank you — I think I knew that a long time ago but forgot — it sounds very familiar.
On one of my regular routes through town there is one big intersection where fellows from the Nation hawk their newspapers. They are always upbeat and full of energy, in their suits and bow ties. I know they are part of a very nutty group but they seem harmless enough.
Sloane Ranger
@TS (the original): True. Bur we, at least want to maintain good relations with Europe based on mutual needs, culture and respect for the rule of law. Have you looked at some of the Eastern European nations recently? They are much closer to Putin politically even if they are not talking publicly about leaving the EU.
Platonailedit
@Amir Khalid:
From home sec to leader of con party to pm. Stepping stones of failure all the way.
Amir Khalid
@raven:
I read the book and saw the movie.
Mnemosyne
@ruemara:
It was really good — funny but also managed to convey some serious messages and have an optimistic tone despite the darkness. I know they’re using the “white voice” thing a lot in the trailers, but there’s a lot more to the plot than that.
It starts out surreal and then takes a really weird and dark turn in the third act. I don’t want to say more than that so you can be surprised, too.
MagdaInBlack
@Ohio Mom:
If one cannot find the ethnic food of choice in this area, one is not trying. It’s stunning the variety of GOOD ethnic food available.
* You’re thinking of Mitsuwa Market….possibly the best place to get sushi in the area. Their food court is amazing !
J R in WV
@Mnemosyne:
Polarr Photo editor, https://snapcraft.io/polarr Very inexpensive.
Platonailedit
Recycling money to his own corrupt lil hands. Be best.
The Pale Scot
@Mnemosyne: I think you can do that in Preview, and I bet Pages allows simple editing. Just ask on youtube,
Another Scott
@Groucho48: I saw a vanity license plate yesterday:
2A LUV
They had a “Life Member of the NRA” sticker, also too.
Because of course they did.
(sigh)
Cheers,
Scott.
Ohio Mom
@Dorothy A. Winsor: That sounds very pragmatic, strategic and forward-thinking.
Sloane Ranger
@Amir Khalid: To be fair, she hasn’t had a lot of support. The Referendum left the Tories as divided as when they started, only this time,with one group loudly triumphant and the other angry and bitter. Neither side is really fond of May, who was a Remainer but a lukewarm one. She got the job because she was the least objectionable candidate to the greater number of party members. And Remainers and Brexiteers have been squabbling around her and sticking knives into her ever since.
Someone asked about Cameron. He’s been keeping out of the limelight and quietly raking it in through speaking engagements.
MagdaInBlack
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Barrington proper is, or was, “old money.” Barrington was always wealthy, but lately more MegaMcMansions…..see Barrington Lakes.
So ya, its R country, but we’re here too !
* waves ef goldman Fuckem banner from Arlington Heights
Amir Khalid
@Sloane Ranger:
In that situation no Tory leader was going to get the support they needed to lead effectively. Were it up to me, I would have refused to accept Cameron’s resignation: “You made this mess, you clean it up.”
Omnes Omnibus
@MagdaInBlack: Which county? Kane or DuPage?
lollipopguild
@Mnemosyne: My own personal experience with a lot of right wingers is that death is for lesser people, they truly believe somehow that they are not going to die. At least they put on a good show of thinking that they are not going to die.
Fair Economist
@Amir Khalid: I find it amusing that May’s latest plan to follow EU rules for everything *except* services will throw the City of London financial industry to the wolves. A fitting punishment for their longstanding support of the Tories.
Ohio Mom
@MagdaInBlack: Yes, that is the name of the Japanese market. We found it by accident, and that just added to our affection for the place.
Ohio Son is a great fan of parody music and every June for the past three years we have taken him to the Funny Music Project weekend festival at the Elk Grove Holiday Inn on Busse.
At first sight the first year, we were discouraged at the location — it looked like there was nothing nearby except warehouses and light industry. But we keep finding odd little corners with interesting things.
Dev Null
@burnspbesq: Never? Well, hardly ever.
efgoldman
@Another Scott:
The ammosexual kids had 13 (!!) people – including two parents – turn up for their “huge” pro-gun rally against Parkland in Florida. They’re doing really well, aren’t they?
MagdaInBlack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Barrington is either Cook or Lake, depending on where you live. I think Dundee Road is roughly Cook-Lake line. AH is in Cook.
Chetan Murthy
@efgoldman:
EFG, it’s a blessing, innit? Every time they try to come out in hordes, and manage a few dribs-n-drabs, it gives me hope that we’re gonna at least *start* to fix this catastrophe.
Omnes Omnibus
@MagdaInBlack: I never thought of Barrington as that far east, but okay. Thanks.
efgoldman
@Chetan Murthy:
A lot of them, like the anti-choice christofascists, are single issue voters
Roger Moore
@raven:
I don’t think they’d take that one lick better.
Dev Null
Random links for your reading displeasure:
The kids:
http://thehill.com/latino/395885-defense-contractor-detained-migrant-kids-in-vacant-phoenix-office-building
Reporting I’ve seen says this is illegal under state law.
https://www.facebook.com/donate/184273279098711/191950471664325/
In what kind of country do police confiscate baby inhalers? WTF? On what basis?
https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/08/health/world-health-breastfeeding-ecuador-trump.html
Vichy Times article reported up-thread, but the kicker is amazing:
This deference to Russia is becoming unseemly.
Another Marcy Wheeler report:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/she-broke-a-cardinal-rule-of-journalism-by-revealing-her-source-to-the-fbi-heres-why/2018/07/06/b3201632-8128-11e8-b9a5-7e1c013f8c33_story.html
Of the Government, by the Government, for the Government:
https://www.cbsnews.com/news/at-fda-tvs-now-turned-to-fox-news-and-cant-be-switched/
Jonathan Capehart at the WaPost on the Montana rally:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/07/08/why-trumps-montana-rally-was-scarier-than-normal/
MagdaInBlack
@Omnes Omnibus:
And we think of Barrington as a far nw suburb….altho now thats Crystal Lake McHenry area…the suburbs are a cancer.
Omnes Omnibus
@MagdaInBlack: As a wee child, I was in a far west suburb – Geneva.
ETA: Crystal Lake had a sunrise to sunset radio station in the ’70s that played edgy music. My dad was fan and he would tune in for the half hour or so that we could get it as we went up to WI to visit family.
Another Scott
@Roger Moore: +1
Cheers,
Scott.
MagdaInBlack
@Omnes Omnibus:
Geneva is a lovely, historic little suburb. Touristy at times now, but beautiful old homes.
I work up the river, in South Elgin, kind of the forgotten Fox River town. Thats in Kane Country.
ETA: in the ’70’s….my hs days, we got our good edgy music from WDEK….NIU in Dekalb, IL
Its where we discovered John Prine > Illegal Smile/Sam Stone….as referenced in the music post.
Omnes Omnibus
@MagdaInBlack: Swedish Days! Yea!
Chip Daniels
@Brachiator:
I just want to make America the place that Obama believes it can be.
efgoldman
@Chip Daniels:
Never has been, altho we can get a lot closer.
burnspbesq
@Dev Null:
I played the other big male role in “The Mikado” in HS, but I still remember most of the score, and that’s one of the best “patter songs” in the entire G&S catalog.
Kayla Rudbek
@Dev Null: same goddammed fucking thing at my agency with the goddamnned fucking Fox Nooz on at least one of the monitor/screen behind the checkout lines at the cafeteria where you have to see them. I bought a TV-B-Gone and it only worked for one day to turn the screen off!
Redshift
Hi, Dorothy (though I’ve probably long since missed you.) I have friends in North Barrington I visit several times a year. Perhaps we could have a meetup!
Omnes Omnibus
@Dev Null: You do realize that more than three links tosses you into moderation, right? And six links makes it so much less likely that anyone will click on any of them when comment gets released.
ETA: It starts to seem like homework.
Jay
@Kayla Rudbek:
a few scavenged parts from a dead microwave oven, an old tube tv, and some cheap components, assembled inside an innocent looking object, like a briefcase, can be assembled into a Faux Off switch.
Permenently fries electronics at a reasonable range.
Bill Arnold
@Omnes Omnibus:
I clicked on all of them, and skimmed them. Weird, perhaps. (Had to clear WaPo cookies again.)
What’s the limit now anyway? I thought it had been raised.
(Note another reason for links is that they draw attention, from automation, from humans, etc)
Kayla Rudbek
@Jay: the problem is that I only want to turn off one screen and not fry all four screens plus the wireless pay systems at the checkouts. I’m mildly surprised that no one else at my agency has come up with a home-brewed system like yours yet. Not all electrical and computer science engineers should be that oblivious, after all.
Omnes Omnibus
@Bill Arnold: Someone released them. Three remains the limit. And I am off to bed.
Bill Arnold
@Jay:
I haven’t tried it recently, but in the days of vinyl records, a Zerostat anti-static gun (they were red back then) would do a number on the electronics of the day. And in those days, including the early 80s, transistors were BIG; I suspect it would destroy contemporary electronics quite mysteriously and deniably if sprayed into an air intake. But, haven’t tried recently.
There are similar approaches. I will not enumerate them without encouragement. A TV-B-Gone is not permanently harmful, it just forces a recoverable state change.
lowtechcyclist
So which is it, Erick: we don’t judge people by what they say in a public forum?
Or is there a Twitter Exemption, where nothing said on Twitter should be held against anyone? And if the latter, what other fora does this exemption apply to, and why or why not?
ETA: If I were on Twitter (like I need one more time sink), I’d respond to his tweets with rather intense and personal criticism, but I’d conclude each tweet with “Remember, if you judge me on this, you’re doing life wrong.”