(B.C. via GoComics.com)
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Sometimes you’re the bronto, sometimes you’re the squirrel…
Every flora / fauna news story I’ve clicked on recently has been depressing, and now it’s raining again. Given this is New England, I should be glad it’s not snow, but at least a decent snowstorm would cover up the wet leaves I haven’t gotten around to raking yet!
Cermet
That is why I got a mower with a catch bag; I don’t mow the grass toward’s autumn end (towards it leafy end, that is), wait for the leaves to fall heavy and then mow it. A lot easier than raking. Touch up is a breeze as well.
However, did get the snow blower out – changed its oil, filled the tank and tested the beast. Ditto with the stand-by generator. This snow season will be extra bad thanks to AGW – that warming far too often translates to be more snow and wetter. heavier snow at that.
Raven
The kudzu has died!
oatler.
@Raven: Kudzu… now THERE was a comic strip.
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ? ??
satby
Today is going to be warmer and wet, it rained most of yesterday too. The extent of my tidying up the yard will consist of clearing off the patio table and belatedly covering it up. Leaves are a sodden lost cause, they’re just going to stay in place until spring. Overnight tonight the temps are going back down and the next few days will be colder than normal again.
Spring cleanup will be a real bear next year. But the bulbs I planted only a week (?) ago should be getting a nice start with all the moisture.
satby
@rikyrah: Good morning ?!
NotMax
@oatler.
Speaking of comic strips, November 24 marked 100 years since the first appearance of Gasoline Alley. Not in nearly as many papers as in its heyday, but still going.
Dorothy A. Winsor
It’s finally warm enough here to melt the snow we got last weekend. That was still sticking to the sides of the trees–the sides, not just the limbs–as late as Thursday.
tobie
Good morning, folks! I’d mention this bit of gossip in the thread below on Giuliani’s cancelled bash in honor of himself but I think the thread is dead, so I’ll ask here if there have been any follow-up on reports that Dershowitz used the services of some of his client’s Jeffrey Epstein’s underage prostitutes.
In other news, it looks like Trump’s meeting with Xi went nowhere. As far as I can tell, the only take is that the US won’t raise tariffs on Chinese products from 10% to 25% in the next 90 days while talks continue. Anyone else have a read on the ‘negotiations’?
geg6
Going up to 60F today! And some sun! It’s been so wet, even with the cold, that I feel like a frozen mushroom. Gotta get out in it today.
Raven
@NotMax: Sargent Connie Rodd was created by Will Eisner and started as the secondary character of PS: The Preventive Maintenance Monthly. Connie was seemingly a femme fatale straight out of one of her creator Will Eisner’s Spirit comics. She not only kept the Army’s wheels rolling, she did all the paperwork as well, she did seem to do a lot of lecturing however. This was due to her primary role of being the literal pin up girl for preventative maintenance. https://comicvine.gamespot.com/sgt-connie-rodd/4005-62316/
Raven
I’m taking Santa to a kids event in my vintage truck this afternoon.
JPL
@Raven: There will be shrieks of joy! Have fun.
satby
@Raven: that should be fun!
It was balmy enough (at 45°!) that I sat out on the porch with my coffee for a couple of minutes. It’s being able to just sit outside that I miss in winter.
NotMax
Rub a dub dub, four germs in a … module.
Gvg
It’s raining here for the next several days. Chilly, rainy, gloomy but we need the rain and the shopping crowds are smaller because of it. However next stage is more internet shopping. Toy buying is a pain with Toys r us gone and sorry Walmart and Amazon aren’t really good substitutes. The surviving independents seem to have compensated by either being educational or aimed at adult collectors. Not what I need for 9&10 year old nephews.
NotMax
@Raven
Enough time left to cobble together a big red crepe paper (or similar) ‘nose’ for the noble steed?
MomSense
@tobie:
I thought this came out about Dershowitz and Prince Andrew several years ago and well before the 2016 elections. I thought there was some kind of legal proceeding involving Dershowitz.
I figured the Epstein matter plus the trump models and some other stories about trafficking of minor children were behind the Republican promoted conspiracy theories about the pizza place. The GOP desperately wanted people to look elsewhere.
NotMax
Mowing is overdue. Had planned on getting to it on Friday but was feeling punk all day and skipped it. Rained Saturday, supposed to rain again today.
If need it on Monday, there’s a machete hanging in landlady’s garage.
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
I loved Gasoline Alley as a kid! On the farm where I lived every summer, there was a calf that was “mine,” and I named him Skeezix after my favorite character in the strip. And I remember thinking that “Nina Clock” was just the cleverest, punniest name ever!
Patricia Kayden
@tobie: According to Salon, a report came out connecting Dershowitz to under aged partners. I’m sure more details will emerge in the near future.
SiubhanDuinne
@geg6:
We’re forecast for a high of 70° — which, even in Atlanta, seems a bit warm for December! Not that I’m complaining, mind you.
tobie
@MomSense: Interesting. I hadn’t put two and two together and thought of Pizzagate as a diversion tactic. The reason Jeffrey Epstein is in the news again is because the Miami Herald had a huge expose four days ago about the number of girls–almost all were underage girls–he trafficked and how then AG Acosta offered Epstein a plea deal that amounted to little more than a slap on the wrist. Dershowitz was Epstein’s lawyer.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Well, the 70-year-old oak in our yard is down. Now I’m reading articles on how to turn stumps into planters. Seems like a lot of work, just drilling and chiseling, but straightforward.
The comics discussion reminds me it’s been months since I read the Comics Curnudgeon blog. I highly recommend his take on the comics to you jackals.
tobie
@Patricia Kayden: I hope that happens and he withdraws from public life once and for all in disgrace.
Lapassionara
Good morning, everyone.
I was occupied with other stuff yesterday and missed all the college football games. Looks like the Evil Empire will be in the top four, but that Georgia gave them a good game. Sigh.
Ken
@Raven:
That is not dead which can eternal lie…
Schlemazel
We got 2-3 inches of the white stuff last night, the big fluffy kind So this AM I live in a Currier and Ives.
ANyone have experience with Mus musculus? We have lived here for 23 years & every fall I have had to put out traps. Normally I will get 2-3 mice early and then nothing. I do go around most summers and look for entry points to plug but did not manage that this year. I am still catching them and have hit a new record 17! (as a comparison old record was 4). Maybe there is some new gateway or the vermin or maybe this was a wildly successful breeding season but I’m wondering if anyone has a guess as to what might make such a huge difference.
Lapassionara
@tobie: and was also “serviced” by one of Epstein’s sex slaves, if her allegations are true. So why would any network ask this POS to comment on anything until we know whether the allegations are true?
Schlemazel
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
I love comic curmudgeon! I thnk most jakals would feel very much at home amidst the snark and wit
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Gvg: I’m squirming over self promoting to a friend but my book Finders Keepers is for 10 and up. The boy central character is 12, so that might work for your nephews.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Losing a big tree is always awful. We once had a giant willow tree come down in our backyard, just missing the corner of the house. The dog was very confused when he went out.
tobie
@Lapassionara: Short answer, IOKIYAR. Sad but true.
Schlemazel
@Raven:
WAIT! You have a vintage fire truck too? Details, please!
I was an on call for several years and I tried very hard to get our folks to pitch in on buying & restoring one as a parade unit but only the motorheads were even mildly interested. This was no a social organization. I even had plans for a 8-man hand pump cart and was in the process of ordering the parts when I got the jb in FL and the move put all of that off. 30 years later I guess it might not happen now, don’t have the workspace I did then
SiubhanDuinne
@tobie:
I believe Adam has lined up a guest expert to do a post for us on that whole situation.
Schlemazel
Good news this AM!
Kid Schlock got the boot as Grand Marshall of the NAshville Christmas parade, which is just OK BUT
James Shaw Jr., the Nashville guy who wrestled the gun from a shooter at a Waffle House in April, was appointed as his replacement!
Sometimes it is not enough that a bad guy suffer sometimes a good guy gets rewarded at the same time
tobie
@SiubhanDuinne: Cool. I must have missed that. Thanks.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@Schlemazel: Given Shaw’s non-whiteness and how other situations like that have played out, I guess we can consider ourselves lucky the cops didn’t shoot Shaw and give the gun back to the shooter.
debbie
@tobie:
In regard to the latest “deal” with China, I’m wondering if farmers will have to return the subsidies Trump bestowed upon them to shut them up? Or will they serve as bribes for 2020?
This, combined with the Nothing New NAFTA, has been a real laugh fest.
Matt McIrvin
@NotMax: It’s interesting to look at those early strips and realize that 100 years ago, Gasoline Alley was the equivalent of a specialized geek comic, focusing on cars and the men who tinkered with them. Today it’d be a webcomic about video gamers.
satby
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: when I had a huge old growth oak taken down in Chicago I did this. The stump was 2 feet high, so I dug out enough of the spongy wood to make a deep enough depression in it to add soil and plant some annuals. It got deeper every year, so I could plant more and larger plants. It’s pretty much gone now but it was a nice yard feature for several years.
Dorothy A. Winsor
This is a cute story.
Gelfling 545
Much as I love gardening and am pretty decent at it, my track record with indoor plants is abysmal. Yesterday I invested 5 bucks in a frosty fern. According to my research the plant basically wants to be left alone in not too bright light. Maybe I can do this.
Mike in DC
@debbie: I guess my question vis a vis China is, what the hell is our “ask”? Which trade practices specifically do we think are unfair and want ended or changed? Is this reasonable?
Tenar Arha
@Lapassionara: @tobie: Every time I read a new expose on one more of these men who acted as nexus of corruption & exploitation, I think about how the media ignored these stories in 2015 and 2016 to take another whack at Clinton & I’m ready to flip tables.
Everything they’ve been able to dig up & verify since then, mostly was already there. The groupthink was so strong that Clinton would win, that [you had one job! gifs forever]
The NYT has never fully reckoned with their fault in engineering ?’s win. And they’re so obviously obliviously stupid, they let MoDo take another whack at Clinton, of all people, 2 years later on the Op-Ed page yesterday. So we got Dershowitz-palooza last summer, when they could have investigated him. And no freaking editorial yesterday about him at all. Not a breath.
Raven
@Schlemazel: No, just my 66 chev.
tobie
@debbie: China has said nothing about buying US agricultural products yet. This is the White House’s spin. They’re desperate for a “win” and yet everyone know that China has them over a barrel.
@Lapassionara: @Tenar Arha: It is amazing the Derpowitz is still invited on TV given these allegations. If I recall correctly, one of Epstein’s victims wanted to make a statement on the eve of the election that she had been forced to have sex with Trump but then never came forward. I can’t say I blame her: she had every right to fear retaliation. But it’s one of the umpteen things the press never bothered to investigate.
Full Metal Wingnut
Spousal unit and I adopted a pug/chihuahua mix. About 2 years old. Very sweet girl but still a little skittish. She’s got that dopey pug look too.
debbie
@Mike in DC:
Trump’s asks have never been specific and have never been anything more than demands to make things fair, whatever that might mean. I used to think this was because he didn’t have a clue what was needed, but maybe it’s actually to set it up so that he can’t be said to have failed.
Ken
@Mike in DC:
Yes, so it’s the furthest thing from Trump’s mind.
As far as I can tell, he’s angry about the balance-of-trade deficit, which arises because we export soybeans and import high-end consumer electronics (go figure). So his response is to increase tariffs, and now US consumers pay more for the electronics and the Chinese are buying soybeans elsewhere.
Such examples of international negotiation don’t come along often, which is fortunate or the US would have gone bankrupt decades ago.
debbie
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
And no one stops to help. So typical!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Tenar Arha: I keep wondering what this crap show tells us about people. Are the Rs in power a particularly corrupt group? Or would we find this in any group under equal scrutiny? I’m inclined to the former, but it scares me.
Schlemazel
@Raven:
Aw. Well, thats cool too. I don’t remember you ever mentioning it before.
Schlemazel
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Back in the 90s Bartcop used to run bits about a child sex ring being run by some GOP folks that was tied into GHWB’s WHite House. There was some evidence but it all seemed a bit far fetched to me & tinfoil hat territory. Maybe the truth was right there all along. I wish ol Bart were still around because he had gathered a bunch of clues
satby
@Full Metal Wingnut: congrats on the new furbaby! Pictures so we can all squee?
Schlemazel
http://www.bartcop.com/1514.htm
Here is a newspaper account
http://www.bartcop.com/wtpage1.gif
JPL
@Full Metal Wingnut: Pugs are so sweet!
MomSense
@MomSense:
I saw that the Miami Herald finally tracked down the victims but what has confused me is that we have known for several years that Dershowitz was caught up in it. He was named in a suit by one of the women several years ago.
trollhattan
@tobie:
Yeah, I had expected this to be Trump’s undoing but at the last moment the suit was withdrawn. Teflon Donny and the magic fix, again.
Full Metal Wingnut
@satby: I will figure out how to do that and see if i can later!
rikyrah
Marc E. Elias (@marceelias) Tweeted:
So, if you want to look at fraud in the 2018 election, you have three Republican efforts in three different states (MT, NC and VA). When paired with their none stop effort to suppress the vote you get a really clear picture of the modern GOP as we head into 2020.
https://twitter.com/marceelias/status/1068994754799644672?s=17
jeffreyw
@NotMax:
So.. Eat shit and die! For science!
Mr. Mack
@Raven: love to see a pic.
MomSense
@tobie:
I borked my reply because I can’t find my glasses. I set them down while trying to find places to store all the stuff from the move and now I can’t find them.
LGF featured an article 4 years ago maybe about an elected GOP official in the south who adopted two little girls and then apparently they disrupted his household because they were devil children (some horseshit like that) so he gave them to someone else. That person molested them. These people were all part of some “Christian” ministry together.
There have long been stories that have come out of survivors of some of these “Christian” groups that older me will have sex with teen girls as part of preparing them to be good servant wives. When Roy Moore was revealed, some of these stories surfaced again.
Anyway, I figured all along that these bizarre pizza ring and other pedophile stories were pushed by GOP operatives and the conspiracy peddlers as a way to head off any attention to massive problems within some “Christian”, Quiverfull, and perverted oligarch circles. Remember those bizarre parties Steve Bannon had at his Florida rental where the drugs melted the bathtubs and other bizarre things? I figured there was probably perversion of all kinds taking place.
rikyrah
@MomSense:
I hope that the Epstein matter buries Dershowitz.
On Black blogs, we have believed the ugly for awhile because of this…
Luther Campbell of 2LiveCrew…. said during the 2016 campaign that he was invited to party with Dolt45 back in the day… BUT HAD TO LEAVE.
Ever since that story came out… we had to wonder….what could be so wild that the founder of 2LIVECREW had to take a pass ???
Mike J
45F here today and I have to take the boat in for bottom paint. No wind so we can’t even sail her part way. Motoring from Renton to Shilshole, and have the fun of going through the Ballard locks.
We did come 3rd in our last race of the year yesterday though, so that was good.
rikyrah
Did you all see this Evil?
I loathe these demons ??
https://twitter.com/hawillisdc/status/1068923519180972032
rikyrah
Good!!!
The Associated Press (@AP) Tweeted:
BREAKING: Israeli police recommend indicting Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on bribery charges involving Israel’s telecom giant.
https://twitter.com/AP/status/1069151916976939008?s=17
Immanentize
Hmmmm. Top naval commander for the whole of the middle East found dead in Bahrain. Apparent suicide?
That is sad and gets my mind spinning conspiracy fantasies….
Immanentize
@rikyrah: Kirstjen Nielsen and John Kelly have studied history….
rikyrah
brokie ??♀️ (@arieella_) Tweeted:
It’s December 1st, which means it’s that time of year for me to beg you all to help me get presents for my school babies! ??♀️ as always, I appreciate your generosity & your sharing of this tweet ?
https://t.co/vGw0jqIJzm #Amazon https://twitter.com/arieella_/status/1068917053178949632?s=17
Bex
@satby: In Michelle Obama’s book there is a passage that describes a Chicago winter. I can’t quote it all, but it describes the moment when you realize it’s coming to an end and deciding to wash the windows and wipe down the sills. “Maybe you spend the whole day considering new ways to live before finally you fit every window back into its frame and empty your bucket of Pine Sol into the sink. And maybe now your certainty returns, because, yes, truly, it’s spring and once again you’ve made the choice to stay.”
gene108
@trollhattan:
When your fan base is comprised of potentially violent and heavily armed white men, who fantasize about starting race wars to wipe out minorities, and therefore have no problem threatening people with violence, who may hurt their hero, you have the ability to harass and threaten people into silence.
The media just brushes this off as the cost of doing business, or something. If you go after right-wingers, you better expect to be threatened with violence and probably have to go into hiding. There’s nothing we can do about it, that’s just the way things are.
It is a really terrible state of affairs that this violence has been so normalized.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Immanentize: Mine too.
rikyrah
@Immanentize:
Don’t smell right.
Yes, I am suspicious ??
Immanentize
On the Epstein story… If some people were paid off to keep quiet during the campaign, the payer-offer would have been Michael Cohen. The Miami Hearld article could in part be an offshoot of the Cohen cooperation.
rikyrah
Nobody Front Paged this?
Kenneth P. Vogel (@kenvogel) Tweeted:
NEW: Former top TRUMP fundraiser @ELLIOTT_BROIDY accepted at least $6M in laundered money to lobby the Trump administration to end an investigation by @TheJusticeDept into the Malaysian financier JHO LOW, according to court filings submitted Friday.
https://t.co/S0w95UlsNJ https://twitter.com/kenvogel/status/1068729199140032512?s=17
Elizabelle
@Bex: That is some excellent writing. You made the choice to stay.
@Immanentize: Yes. It could be. If so, hope that angle comes out. And wouldn’t you think there are plenty of people in Miami who were appalled at this lack of justice and were ready for the story to get some sunshine again? Thwarted justice in the Sunshine State.
rikyrah
Anyone know what House Committee oversees the Department of Education, and who the new Chair will be?
They need to investigate this??
Ben Wikler (@benwikler) Tweeted:
A friend of mine, encouraged by the Public Service Loan Forgiveness program, has been working in public interest jobs for years—and is now suddenly rethinking life plans. Right now, there are 550,000 student borrowers in the program. + who knows how many who’d planned to enroll.
https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/1064356772146757632?s=17
rikyrah
Ben Wikler (@benwikler) Tweeted:
Out of 30,000 public service applicants, the Trump/Devos team forgave the student loans of only 96 people. That’s a 99.68% rejection rate. Can you imagine deciding 10y ago to take lower salary & work in public service, counting on loan forgiveness—only to get this rejection now?
https://twitter.com/benwikler/status/1064355885751943170?s=17
gene108
@rikyrah:
I believe the program started under Bush, Jr and they built in a lot of loopholes to avoid having student loans forgiven.
It really is shitty how they managed this program.
Immanentize
@Elizabelle: Miami is a pretty corrupt place, but child sex rings still rankle.
And by saying the Herald story might be an off-shoot, I meant that the paper now felt empowered to run the story because of confirmation of actual cover-up.
This probably came not from Mueller’s team, but the US Attorneys Office for the Southern District of New York. For the Herald, the target really seems to be the former Miami US Attorney, now secretary of labor, Acosta. His personal involvement in the plea negotiations (Herald has the emails!) Really stinks. Dershowitz was the lawyer on the plea negotiations.
O. Felix Culpa
Coming in late, but good morning all! We were at a rare – for us – dinner party last night where we ingested too much food too late – for us – in the evening and slept poorly as a result. Woke up to SNOW! Now have a nice fire in the woodstove, drinking coffee and catching up on Balloon Juice witerati. All very hygge, as long as we don’t think about orange elephants.
Immanentize
@rikyrah: There are only so many front page posts possible in — a year!
Bex
@Elizabelle: There’s a backstory to the passage that concerns her mother, but the paragraph describes hope so well for everyone.
Elizabelle
@Bex: Costco did not have Michelle’s book in stock last week. I was wondering if they were sold out. Will go over again and find out.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@O. Felix Culpa: That sounds like a lovely morning. The units in my building all used to have gas fireplaces. Our unit actually had two, one in the living room and one in the kitchen. But as each one turns over, they’re removing them, so we have none. I think they were afraid the old folks would set the place on fire.
laura
That filth Cheney, the man from haliburton, is on TV again.
Frankensteinbeck
@Mike in DC:
I have (Celestia help me) listened to Trump talk about this, so I know the answer. Bear in mind, it’s a moronic answer, but it’s an answer. First, there’s the ‘trade deficit.’ Similarly to NATO’s defense budget, when Trump hears about a ‘trade deficit’ he imagines it as America paying China money and getting nothing in return. As long as there is a ‘trade deficit’, he knows America is getting robbed. As for what he thinks is causing it, and what he wants to change to fix it, there are two things. He wants Chinese tariffs on all US goods dropped to zero. All US goods must be sold as freely in China as in America. Also, China must obey America’s copyright laws. If we don’t return the favor, it sucks to be them and that is how it should be because our natural place is to be The Best with everyone catering to us.
He makes similar complaints that Europe has regulatory standards different from ours, and that offends him and is obviously an attack on the US. Europe has to accept whatever we give them or things are not ‘fair.’
That’s basically it. Muddy the waters a bit that he wants to be bribed.
EDIT – @laura:
Is he still seething with anger that America does not recognize how he was always right about everything?
tobie
@rikyrah: There is a House Committee on Education and the Workforce. The current chair is Virginia Foxx; the ranking Democratic member is someone named Robert “Bobby” Scott from Virginia. I don’t know anything about him, nor whether he’ll be chairing the committee come January. The link has a list of all current members.
O. Felix Culpa
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
LOL. This oldish folk had some initial challenges getting the fire going, but now it’s comfortably crackling in the background and heating our living/kitchen/dining room area. Ms. O is studying Swedish online in preparation for our June 2019 trip to Scandinavia and I’m thinking about working on my application for a political candidate training program. Perhaps it’s time to make another cup of coffee.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@laura: How is that man not dead yet?
O. Felix Culpa
@Dorothy A. Winsor: No kidding. If there were any justice in the world…
Elizabelle
@tobie: Bobby Scott is wonderful. Congressman out of Richmond, VA area. He was mine for a while, but they are always redrawing the district lines down here. Decent, humane guy.
Virginia Foxx to Bobby Scott is night to day.
ETA: Here’s Bobby Scott’s bio. “Bobby”, although he’s 71, with a Harvard degree. First African American elected to the House from Virginia since Reconstruction. https://bobbyscott.house.gov/about/biography
satby
@Dorothy A. Winsor: he’s a vampire.
The undead live until you hammer a stake through their hearts.
tobie
@tobie: I just looked up Robert Scott on Wikipedia. He’s an impressive figure and will, I think, be a thorn in Devos’ side.
Baud
For a break from all things Trump, it might be nice to have a front page post on the French fuel tax riots.
@rikyrah: Good morning.
tobie
@Elizabelle: Thanks. He sounds great. I just googled him and am now wondering why I hadn’t heard about him before.
Elizabelle
@tobie: He is beloved here in the RVA area. Not even sure he had a challenger this election.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I assume to praise old man Bush? I wonder if whoever is interviewing is thinking about how 2002 was in no small measure the battle between the Poppy and Darth for the soul of Dumbya, and Poppy lost.
Is Darth echoing the CW that Poppy’s decision to not go to Bagdad was a triumph of realpolitik?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: liberté, égalité et le gas à bon marché
raven
@Mr. Mack: 66 Chevy Longbed Fleetside
germy
Larry Storch posted on Facebook tonight…
“Dear friends. We are sad to let you know our beloved Captain, Mr Ken Berry passed away tonight. We just spoke with Jackie Joseph who confirmed the devastating news. We are at a true loss for words. Ken, we hope you know how much you were loved. Goodnight Captain. We miss you already.”
gene108
@satby:
He had a heart transplant. May make him immune from stakes through the heart.
Elizabelle
@raven: That is a cool-ass, authentic-looking truck. How long have you had it? What’s its MPG?
tybee
@raven: looks like you gutted a smurf in the bed.
Schlemazel
@raven:
I don’t know what to say, you almost never see a pickup truck that looks like it is used for actual work these days.
Dorothy A. Winsor
A Guardian article by Thomas Ricks: Understanding the psyche of today’s American oligarchy through magazine ads
raven
@Elizabelle: @Schlemazel: It’s mostly new within the last 10 years. Engine (4 bolt main 350), tranny (3 spd Saginaw) rear end, John Deere Blitz Black paint, seats and Our Lady of Guadalupe gear shift knob! I’ve owned it since 84. This was my 62 Jimmy, 305 V6.
Brachiator
@germy: Wow. I didn’t realize that Larry Storch was still alive. And Jackie Joseph. I remember the goofy fun of F Troop, a gaggle of goofy characters with Ken Berry’s hapless decency at the center of everything. Seems like more innocent days (even though I also liked grittier stuff)
Someone posted a great clip of Ken Berry dancing in the previous thread. And I also remember him from Mama’s Family, the Carol Burnett show spin off. A very talented man. So glad to see that his fans, friends and family remember him so fondly.
Elizabelle
CBS is way out ahead in reporting that Admiral Stearney’s death might be a suicide. Navy Times, NY Times, The Guardian all just saying death at home, no foul play suspected. WaPost just has an AP story, with pronunciation of the admirals’ names provided.
The whole of CBS’s “scoop” so far:
Vice Adm. Scott Stearney, who oversaw U.S. naval forces in the Middle East, was found dead Saturday in his residence in Bahrain, officials said. Defense officials told CBS News they are calling it an “apparent suicide.”
What defense officials? Are they even US officials? I don’t like the anonymous sourcing.
ETA: Forgot the linky. Voila. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/scott-stearney-us-navy-admiral-found-dead-apparent-suicide-2018-12-01/
raven
@Schlemazel: I conned the princess into the new engine on the theory that we HAD to have something for the garden. I had it painted flat black so I wouldn’t worry about it, it’s a glorified rat rod that hauls ass. Here’s what it looked like when I bought it.
Gelfling 545
@Full Metal Wingnut: Aw. She will bring you much joy.
Elizabelle
@raven: It looks so much cooler now. The red stripe just makes it. Do you still have the hood ornament?
You should lend that truck out to bands for their cover art!
Schlemazel
@raven:
DO you do your own wrenching? That sounds like a real project completed.
raven
@Elizabelle: The hood ornament was on there, I would not have added it but I won’t remove it either. I added the red last year.
raven
@Schlemazel: Here’s me, Raven and the young Bohdi when I sanded it down on the curb in front of the house. I put two tranny’s in but the engine and rear end were out of my league as far as equipment.
Cliosfanboy
@SiubhanDuinne: I was going to remark that I didn’t know G.. still had fans, then I remembered that I am still a huge Prince Valiant fan… Sometimes the old continuity strips are still fun many many years later.. :)
debbie
@Bex:
That’s how it is here. I’m walking, I suddenly see a snowdrop blooming in the middle of a small, muddied pile of snow, and I come home and start cleaning the windows. There are still cold days to come, but they don’t have the power of bleakness.
frosty
@Raven: I’ve got a few of the reprinted Spirit comics, Eisner was great! Never saw this Connie Rodd though.
raven
@frosty: They were scattered around the motor pool!
Baud
Reuters
Immanentize
@raven: Are the several G’s on the truck for the Florida Gators?
(Ducks and just avoids hammer thrown from Georgia)
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@O. Felix Culpa:
My wife just asked me this morning if I’d heard that word. Is it making the rounds lately or something?
By way of explaining, since it’s apparently one of those untranslatable things, she offered the equally untranslatable German word gemütlich. Which is, incidentally, one of my favorite words in the language.
piratedan
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: you might take some inspiration and create a “flower Tower” in it’s place…. here’s a place that has taken it to an extreme…..
http://www.glaciergardens.com/
they’re in Juneau and tbh, I never thought I was much of a plant enthusiast but this place was incredibly beautiful imho
Immanentize
@Brachiator:
Immanentize
@raven:
Did you lower the suspension from original?
raven
@Immanentize: Nope
Immanentize
@raven: Great front end on that truck.
A Ghost To Most
@raven:
Nice truck.
Elizabelle
@Baud: Well that should be interesting. And a highly sought-after transcript. Which might be way preferable to putting up with the GOP bloviating. (Recall the treatment of Peter Strzok. I would like it cost those blowhards some votes.)
December 7th, hmmm?
Mary G
@rikyrah: I asked Adam about that last night and he said it wasn’t his area of expertise, but it put Broidy into the Malaysian mess front and center.
trollhattan
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
2nd heart. And knowing Cheney, he has #s 3-6 picked out. I wonder if they know?
Let me guess, “Now that he’s finally dead, I’ll never forgive the first Bush for not letting me take Baghdad.”
Ohio Mom
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Hygge is all the rage in the DIY decorating blogosphere. Everyone is tossing woolen throws and fuzzy pillows around to make things cozy for the winter and posting the photos on Instagram.
That’s one of my secret lives away from BJ, looking at house porn when I’ve had too much current events and politics.
trollhattan
@Brachiator:
“Agarn!”
raven
How can a team with a useless OC and stupid head coach be the number 5 team in the nation? I’ll hang up and listen.
Amir Khalid
The Merseyside derby is on right now, and it’s a tight contest. Everton haven’t won at Liverpool in decades, but they’ve raised their game for this one as they always do. Interesting to see a woman assistant referee.
trollhattan
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
I first heard of hygge a couple years ago and later told my Danish friend “Now I finally understand how when I come over there’s always something to drink or eat in my hand within 30 seconds.” Danes are very good hosts.
Suzanne
@Ohio Mom:
This has been one of my favorite interior design themes in many years, as I love nothing more than snuggling up with blankets, reading a book, and couch-napping with the dog nearby. It is a theme for homebodies like me.
I ate some delicious steel-cut oatmeal this morning and feel like I am definitely winning this hygge thing.
A Ghost To Most
@raven:
Such a waste of Fromm’s masterful performance.
debbie
@raven:
Gah, the local news here will be filled with stories of angry, angry fans.
Aleta
I think it was Momsense who mentioned the embroidery from a relative’s house she just cleaned out. (I can relate–my mother had so much of it stored at her house, going back to her grandmother, etc.)
This morning I ran across ran across this: : )
from Interview with Annie Taylor of the Profanity Embroidery Group (PEG)
Ruckus
@tobie:
If he and his friend knew what disgrace was they wouldn’t be screwing under aged girls. They know what illegal is is the reason they hide what they do, not disgrace or shame or any thing other than illegal.
raven
@debbie: I don’t think so. I mean they can drag up some if they want but they were never going to take 2 loss team over a one loss conference champ.
C Stars
Has anyone yet mentioned this very bizarre episode of Dear Tweeter walking right off a stage he was supposed to hang out on to get his photo taken in Argentina? Come to find out that there’s a whole genre of videos of Trump randomly wandering around with no idea where he’s going. I like the collection here, though it’s the daily mail so the pop up ads are pretty bad.
What the hell is going on with this guy?
C Stars
@Aleta: This is a fabulous story. Thank you for posting!
trollhattan
@C Stars:
When Rocket Man called him “dotard” he (his ghost writers obv) was onto something. Donny’s a savant when it comes to chasing skirt and fleecing people. Everything else, SAD.
trollhattan
@Aleta:
Hilarious!
Ruckus
@Aleta:
Profanity is a fine use of human energy. A quilt of profanity to honor it is grand.
Mr. Mack
@raven: Nice.
Ohio Mom
@C Stars: Trump on the world stage reminds of when my 20-odd year old niece brought an extremely inappropriate fellow to Thanksgiving one year. Not smart enough for her, ill-mannered and a bit abusive.
Everyone studiously ignored what was going on, all the while hoping his stay in her life would be short-lived.
That is how I imagine the rest of the world is dealing with our poor choice for president (yeah, I know, Electoral College, Russian meddling, etc. But Trump is still what our system coughed up).
Now the story of my neice had a happy ending. We all breathed a sigh of relief when a new beau appeared. He was everything the old one was not, and we were glad when they married.
Ruckus
@C Stars:
What isn’t wrong with him?
OK now that that is out of the way….
I think he has Alzheimers. Others think it’s any number of mental illnesses. We know he’s massively narcissistic. My bet is that it’s quite possible that it is a number of things.
He is after all a medical marvel of mental health issues.
Brachiator
@germy: RE: Ken Berry:
Loved this bit from the Wikipedia biography:
A clip of Ken Berry as song and dance man, from the 1950s:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DQS8iysbBUg
ETA: Don’t know if it is the system or this new Chromebook that I am trying out, but the Quote/bold/link tool has disappeared.
Amir Khalid
This Merseyside derby has just had the kind of ending they wouldn’t have dared put in Roy Of The Rovers. Out-of-favour Liverpool striker Divock Origi, recently back from a loan spell in the Bundesliga, heads in a rebound off the crossbar in the 96th minute of injury time: 1-0 to the home side. But then Jürgen Klopp ran onto the pitch to celebrate before the match was over, a violation that could get him a caution or maybe even a fine.
Downpuppy
We have one more yard waste collection day, but most towns are done until April. Leaves seem to be falling 2 weeks later, and the DPWs haven’t adapted.
If you haven’t raked yet, no rush.
C Stars
@Ohio Mom: Whew! I can’t help but conflate the insufficient beau and Donald Trump after reading your comment, so… Heaving a very emphatic sigh of relief for your niece (and family!)
Brachiator
@Ohio Mom:
I don’t know if “odd year old” was accidental or intentional, but it is very witty. Glad things worked out for her late on.
joel hanes
@O. Felix Culpa:
Actually, Cheney’s soul departed this mortal plane decades ago. The Cheney we see now is animated dead flesh, a soulless revenant. Recall if you will that for a period of a year or two in 2010 — 2012, he had no heartbeat. True fact.
J R in WV
Ya’ll are so funny, Profanity Embroidery Group, Old Truck Remodeler pix, Cheney the soulless, Trump the Dimwitted.
You help me deal with current events resulting in fury!!!
Thanks.