It's that time again: #LunarNewYear. Red packets of money will change hands and dragon dances will roar through the streets as people around the world usher in the Year of the Pig. Here are 11 things to know: https://t.co/IRAmom3XEw pic.twitter.com/zc8pwrh7dV
— CNN (@CNN) February 5, 2019
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Obvious jokes aside, Pig years are supposed to be prosperous — good for getting one’s house in order, taking care of those nagging health issues, and wrapping up old business before making a fresh start. Pretty safe goals! It’s predicted to be a good year for Sheep/Goats like me (and Rabbits/Cats like the Spousal Unit) so I’m going to greet the Spring Festival with a positive attitude… while it lasts.
VIDEO: Thousands pray for good fortune in the Year of the Pig at Longhua Temple in Shanghai pic.twitter.com/GT0h6UYGp2
— AFP news agency (@AFP) February 5, 2019
So here is how it’s going to be for me, a dog, in the year of the pig ! ““Hey, wake up ! It’s your turn to be on duty in the next few months” Happy #chinesenewyear2019 pic.twitter.com/NzWXX0b2NJ
— #meetmagic (@Goughy30) February 5, 2019
OzarkHillbilly
Blech.
?BillinGlendaleCA
The kid and I were born in the Year of the Pig, Madame was born in the Year of the Dog.
Jay
Wakanda was destroyed,
https://www.google.ca/amp/s/www.theringer.com/platform/amp/2018/6/28/17511818/black-wall-street-oklahoma-greenwood-destruction-tulsa
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone ???
rikyrah
Happy Lunar New Year!????
Jay
@rikyrah:
Have I told you how much I appreciate that you post here,
And that I learn?
Probably not, but you should know.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Baud
@Jay: What about me?
JPL
Good Morning. Who among us plans to watch the SOTU? Let me be first to say not me.
Jay
@Baud:
Not so much ??????
I don’t get to vote in the US, so no Baud 2020.
R-Jud
I’m also a sheep/goat, specifically an Earth Goat, which sounds like something one would summon to do violence to one’s enemies.
rikyrah
@Jay:
Thanks Jay
Baud
@Jay:
Can’t say I blame you.
You can still spread lies about my opponents on the internet.
rikyrah
@JPL:
I won’t even follow it on Twitter.?
I will find Abrams’ rebuttal on YouTube later.
Jay
@JPL:
CBC has pulled most Needy Amin coverage. The voice and video is too “triggering” for most of the audience, so instead we get soothing Canadian voices summing up the insanity.
Jay
@Baud:
Can your campaign meet or exceed Soros, Putin or the Cartels offers?
geg6
I am a dog, so supposedly a better year for me than last. Good to know because last year was a shitshow.
What is Trump? Any signs of a shitshow year for him perhaps?
Jay
@geg6:
Sadly, dog.
Good thing it’s all woo.
Sab
My jacy prints arrived yesterday. Absolutely met my expectations and more. Now to get them framed and up on the walls.
Kay
Unnamed source says there are “btwn 4 and 6” unnamed senators who will theoretically oppose Trump on something, as well as a number of secret dissenters in the House.
In case any of you were under the impression that congressional Republicans were completely irrelevant, they’re not. Any day now it’s possible that they could take action. They’ve taken this first step- releasing their plan of action. Next session they may even gather the courage to put their names on it.
Jay
@Sab:
Yay!
https://balloon-juice.com/2019/01/27/open-thread-and-helping-out-jacy/
NotMax
(yawns, glances around for orientation)
Pig. Dolt 45. SOTU.
Got it.
Jay
@Kay:
Furriowed brows and great concern.
Baud
@Jay: Do they offer dental?
@Kay: They’ll say no, as long as it’s limited to prospective Democratic presidents.
OzarkHillbilly
British Library’s collection of obscene writing goes online
Jay
@Baud:
Are you offering dental?
NotMax
@Jay
The dental plan is a tad … severe.
“Is it safe?”
:)
Baud
@Jay: You ask too many questions.
Kay
@Jay:
The emergency declaration really is a huge power grab. It makes congress completely irrelevant. They’re insane if they go along with it. But they don’t seem to care about retaining any congressional role, so they’ll all fold.
They have so much legitimate constitutional power, yet they’re so cowardly they’re reduced to planting veiled threats to stop him. They could just stop him. Completely lawfully and properly, under their own power. Trump probably sees it as weak, and he wouldn’t be wrong about that.
Pelosi stopped him by stopping him- by taking the perfectly legitimate power and process she has and using it. He won’t fuck with her again.
Jay
@Baud:
Sorry, already on the Soro’s plan.
Passed on the Cartel plan, because all they offered was recreational drugs, but Canada.
Putin offers tea, but I’m a coffee guy.
Immanentize
@Kay:
I just like the fact that Maggie has to report on what the Washington Post scoops her on almost every week
Then she adds her own innanities to appear relevant.
Jay
@Kay:
Yup. Nancy Smash/Orange Crush is going to save the Union.
Immanentize
The NYTimes could report on whether Pence is feeling heat from the new inauguration committee subpoenas from the NY US Attorney. He was the head of that group.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: What do you suppose Senator Graham’s angle is in all of this? He’s been encouraging Trump to make the power grab for weeks, even though it undercuts his own chamber’s authority, something he used to care about when PBO was in office. I’m usually slow to embrace conspiracy theories, but Graham’s reversals on so many issues really does make me wonder sometimes. On the other hand, maybe he’s just a chickenshit who wants to hang onto his seat forever and is afraid of being out-Trumped in a primary.
Jay
@Immanentize:
They won’t, until everbody else has.
They are the FTFNYT for a reason.
Kay
@Baud:
“We’ll sue” God almighty is there any limit to the cowardice? They don’t have to sue! They have the senate. They have nearly unlimited options to stop him. Judges don’t want to do their fucking job and they won’t do it. They’ll send it right back to the cowards, as they should.
They’re afraid of him. I used to think it was because he has something on them, but he’s too disorganized and self-centered to blackmail them. They’re just flat out afraid of this person. They’re scared he’ll give them a mean nickname.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Nail her, Kay.
Nail them in this ridiculous anonymous bullshyt???
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: Pence has already spoken on that issue.
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker:
Dingdingdingding… We have a winner.
Immanentize
@Kay: I think they are afraid of his deplorable base who could take them out in a primary because many of them know they really haven’t done much for the folks back home.
But Trump is running next time (I presume) and he is not going to give a hoot about anyone but himself. He won’t campaign for others, nor will he try to hurt senators or house members in primaries. He will be focused solely on him.
rikyrah
@Immanentize:
Never forget that Race Bannon is up to his eyeballs in all this shyt. Just cause he doesn’t say anything, doesn’t mean that he isn’t thick in it.?
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly:
Well played, but no mention of God so I think that must be an actor/body double.
A stand in named “Schultz?”. Hmmm.
Jay
@Betty Cracker:
Adam seems to be in Graham’s head,
( probably has to shower often),
Breaking stuff seems to be Graham’s plan(?),
I don’t know the end goal.
Immanentize
@rikyrah:
I promise not to forget that.
?BillinGlendaleCA
So my credit card is expiring, I got a new and need to update some recurring payments. I go to AAA and they want my user ID and p/w, not sure I have one, so I try to register, already registered. So I ask them to send me my user ID, it’s going to an email account that I’ve not used in 10 years. First world problems…
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: Hmmmm…. No mention of Mother either.
Nicole
During the last Year of the Pig, 12 years ago, the WaPo had a cute article about how many Chinese couples planned to have a child during that year: https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/politics/2007/03/01/oh-to-be-born-in-the-year-of-the-pig-span-classbankheadauspicious-cycle-in-chinese-calendar-has-hospitals-bracing-for-a-baby-boomspan/45e83859-b65d-4308-946e-067ab9430198/?utm_term=.8a2a9cc71abc
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
Cowardice. He doesn’t want to do his job, because that carries risk.
I wonder when they’ll realize that all they talk about is Trump’s stupid fucking wall and their entire agenda has now been consumed with it. It’s a condition to them doing anything else. They can’t move on from this wall.
We’re not even talking about an immigration law here, or even pieces of a law. They have been wholly consumed with a pissing match over 7 billion dollars for 2 months. It’s TINY. A down payment on a subset of a subset of an issue. This is their hill to die on? 7 billion for a “down payment” on a piece of wall?
They are going to spend as much time and energy on this stretch of wall as Bush II spent on an entire immigration overhaul.
It’s not just that it’s dumb- it’s so small. Trump has now conditioned his entire presidency on this section of fence. He gave Pelosi so much leverage. She could just oppose this small and unpopular piece of his immigration agenda and tie him up for months.
Kay
@Immanentize:
Any congressional majority who complain about executive power grabs are full of shit. They have more than enough power to stop any President, and they always have had it. They don’t want to. They don’t lack power or process or numbers- they lack will.
I always wonder about it because I feel like if I went thru the hell of getting elected to Congress I would zealously guard the constitutional power I had. I would use it. It seems such a bad trade- to choose “safety” over doing your job. Why even get the job?
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Kay:
Beats working for a living.
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@Betty Cracker: His primary occurs in 12 months. he’s sensitive about getting kicked out by a teatard. and not for nothing, two sitting gop congresscritters have been primaried out of office in the last 6 years
Immanentize
@Kay:
This is exactly what the “line item veto” was about — Congress wanted to give all sorts of goodies to their constituents, but then wanted the president to save them by vetoing the obviously stupid ones. Congress just didn’t want to do the hard thing. The Courts saved the country from that insanity. Can you imagine Trump and this Congress with a line item veto?
Same with the tax cuts. All gift, but no responsibility.
Jay
@Kay:
Adam’s talked about Graham and Yurtle as insergents.
I don’t get it.
I’m more Forest Brothers,
They are more “burn it all down”,
But they will furrow their brows for the MSM while doing nothing.
OzarkHillbilly
@?BillinGlendaleCA: I recently had to interact with my medicare part D insurer online.
“If you don’t already have an account click here to set one up”
I do so, fill in all the relevant fields and click “Next”.
“You already have an account.”
The wife must have set it up when she did that other thing. Try signing in with what I think she would have used.
“You don’t have an account.”
OK, I must have screwed up the 1st time. Try try again.
“You already have an account.”
OK, click on “Don’t remember fuck all, send me relevant info.”
“You don’t have an account.”
Arrrrgggghhhhh………….
“You already have an account.”
MOTHERFUCKERS I WILL SKULLRAPE YOU!!!!!
“You don’t have an account.”
MICKYYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jay
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
???????
Jay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Remember how computers were gonna make life easier?
NotMax
@OzarkHillbilly
Nub of problem diagnosed.
OzarkHillbilly
@?BillinGlendaleCA: You think they work on the Wingnut Welfare circuit?
JPL
@Nicole: My grandson should arrive today. DIL was induced a few hours ago, but not much happening yet.
NotMax
@Jay
Paperless office!
Ranks right up there with “nuclear power will make electricity too cheap to meter.”
debbie
@JPL:
Agreed. It’s going to be horrible. Apparently one of the guests will be a boy who has been bullied because his last name is Trump. :/
Kay
@Immanentize:
They’ve already given him so much:
Senate R’s prefer this.
Confirmation and public hearings on his low quality hires are politically risky, so they’ll just meekly submit to this congressional side-step.
He announces this, publicly, and still they do nothing.
JPL
@Jay: Follow the money. McConnell needs money to fund his power grab.
OzarkHillbilly
@Jay: @NotMax: My poor suffering wife.
Jay
@JPL:
Best wishes.
Betty Cracker
@JPL: How exciting! Do you already have grandchildren, or is this one the first?
JPL
@debbie: Be best
OzarkHillbilly
@JPL: WHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Jay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Most of our wives, OWM, right?
JPL
@Betty Cracker: The first and I might add he’s a week late.
OzarkHillbilly
@Jay: Get off my lawn.
debbie
@JPL:
So excited for you!
Jay
@JPL:
Breath deep, relax.
I was 8 weeks early, Mom was on tholidimides, (sp)
It is what it is.
If the child has 8 fingers and 10 toes, it’s good.
Kay
@debbie:
I love to think of the tens of low quality hires coming up with that. “How do we get the President and the First Lady to show empathy?” Find someone with their name.
Melania’s victim complex is really extraordinary, for someone who has been so extraordinarily privileged. She married the right person. She’s as self-centered as he is. I laughed out loud when she said she was the most bullied person in the country. It’s perfect. I think she gets much less attention than prior First Ladies, negative or positive, because she’s such a non-entity. She doesn’t really do anything at all. It’s fine! But it’s insane to consider herself some kind of lightening rod. No one pays her any attention at all. She could move back to NYC and it would take months before it was even noticed.
Jay
@debbie:
Not your lawn. Eminent domain dude.
Kay
@debbie:
Melania now may actually get some attention, with the subpoenas on the party she ran. Maybe she didn’t actually run it and instead just hired her crony- that one job- so maybe she won’t be pulled into it.
They all lie so much it’s impossible to even read tea leaves. She probably exaggerated her own role.
NotMax
@Kay
If the poor kid thought he was bullied before….
Immanentize
@JPL: Go JPL FAMILY! Expansion plans on track and under budget….
debbie
@Kay:
And I hope she comes to regret that.
JPL
@Jay: Call the Midwife had an episode about the miracle drug.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Oh man, I feel your pain! After we moved, I had several incidents like this. And they make you feel like the stupid one because you can’t crack their code.
Jay
@Jay:
Weird, supposed to be a response to Ozark,
Sorry Debbie.
OzarkHillbilly
The new alternative facts.
ETA: “The chairman of the Flemish nationalist party the New Flemish Alliance, which was until recently in government, last month urged the young protesters “not to believe in the apocalypse” but to go back to their books and have “confidence in the future and in the power of innovation”.”
debbie
@JPL:
I love that series!
Jay
@JPL:
Yeah. It got nasty.
I turned out sort of okay.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@JPL: How exciting!
Baud
@Kay:
I would depose them, ask them why they didn’t vote against Trump, and then tell them there’s no standing for chickenshits.
OzarkHillbilly
@Jay: Is too!
Jay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Another Russian backed “Party”,
Funny that.
Bobby Thomson
And right on cue, Ronnie “Donald Trump is 6’3″ and 239 pounds. I am not a crackpot.” Jackson is back for the physical examination.
Maybe this time people won’t slavishly assume that military rank or title is a guarantee of honesty or character.
Jay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Is not!
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: Hopefully all the necessary infrastructure is in place.
Jay
Off to bed, be best.
Steeplejack
Random day to watch a bit of Morning Joe. After 20 minutes I wanted to punch everybody but Mika in the face (especially Michael Steele and Bob Woodward), had to turn it off so I didn’t blow a valve. So, business as usual.
They were talking about Harold Schultz saying he couldn’t run as a Democrat because the party has gone so far left, and Joe said, “Wait a minute! That’s wrong! That’s wrong! Polls show—” I thought he was going to point out that the Democratic Party is a centrist, barely left party whose policies are supported by most Americans. But no, of course not. Joe said polls show that when people are asked if they want the Democratic Party to go more left or be “more moderate,” they want “more moderate.” Wonder where that poll came from. Joe’s not even a both-siderist. He’s basically, “Oh, when will Trump be gone and I can call myself a Republican again?!”
Okay, I’m good for another few weeks or so.
Karen S.
@Kay:
Exactly right about Melania, which is why I never got on board with the “Free Melania” crap that was floating on social media early on after the inauguration. It seemed to be mostly pushed by white feminists, from what I could tell. It was strange. How could they not see that she’s as bad as him?
OzarkHillbilly
@Jay: You can have my lawn when you pry it out from under my cold dead mower!
Baud
@JPL: Awesome.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
A good hot pastrami sandwich and you’ll be right as rain.
Baud
@Karen S.:
I’m ok with that as a tactical strategy. How awesome would it have been if it had worked.
Actual sympathy? No.
germy
@Kay:
She might not agree.
Plenty of rich guys she could have latched onto, without all these extra headaches. And it’s possible he’s physically (as well as emotionally) abusive.
I have no sympathy for the birther queen, but she might not be completely satisfied with her life choice.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Steeplejack: Just reading that made my blood pressure go up.
NotMax
@Betty Cracker
Keep forgetting to inquire if the hedgehog is still around.
ArchTeryx
I’m a metal pig. Stubborn, materialistic, and I’ll go to the mat to help the people in my orbit. It fits me to a T.
Thank heavens my fiancee’s a fire rabbit!
OzarkHillbilly
@germy: All the rich, horny guys in need of eye candy for the arm, and this is what I pick?
Steeplejack
@NotMax:
I’m about due for one. Although the last time or two I felt like I was getting shorted a bit on the amount of pastrami. Started looking at recipes for making it at home.
Baud
@Steeplejack:
That poll doesn’t surprise me, especially if it is not of Democrats but all Americans. Only half of Dems identify as liberal. “Moderate” will always win out over any sort of ideological designation across the whole population, especially since the media does such a poor job informing people what “left” Dems actually want to do.
germy
@OzarkHillbilly: Probably her thoughts exactly.
Betty Cracker
@JPL: Awww, that’s wonderful. Best wishes for the new addition and the entire family! :)
Tenar Arha
@JPL: Oh wow. Congratulations!
Steeplejack
@JPL:
I probably will. Still hoping against hope that my dream will come true: right before Trump begins, Nancy Smash leans forward and whispers to him, “Hillary says hi.”
JPL
@Steeplejack: A family originally from Brooklyn owned a local deli that had the best sandwiches. I haven’t found anything comparable. They finally closed and moved to FL to retire.
NotMax
@Steeplejack
Wonder how many hours she’s spent practicing her poker face?
;)
Gin & Tonic
Back in the US. Long wait, unfortunately, for the next flight.
JPL
@Steeplejack: It’s not worth it. At least tune in late so you don’t have to watch his grand entrance.
Betty Cracker
@NotMax: Mr. Hedgehog joined the Choir Invisible a while back, poor thing. But he had a good long life, was coddled all of his days, and went out in his sleep, apparently. We should all be so lucky!
rikyrah
@JPL:
Good luck for the family. Hope that you can post a picture of the lad tomorrow ??
rikyrah
Uh huh ?
Citizens for Ethics (@CREWcrew) Tweeted:
Democrats requested records of any emails between Josh Hawley’s attorney general’s office and the consultants running his campaign. Hawley’s office told them they didn’t have any emails to turn over.
But the emails did exist.
https://t.co/xLrlsji8QY https://twitter.com/CREWcrew/status/1092770096454475776?s=17
Steeplejack
That CNN article on the Chinese zodiac is a little inaccurate. If you were born near the start of the calendar year, you can’t just go by the year, because the start of the lunar year varies. I would be a Dragon strictly by year, but I was born in January, before the lunar new year, so I’m actually a Rabbit.
Handy calendar here, showing when the lunar year actually started.
It’s important to be precise in our half-baked astrological superstitions!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Baud: Most people believe their own position is “moderate.”
rikyrah
@Kay:
Not for lack of trying by the MSM to make this non-entity happen ?
She has no substance whatsoever
Baud
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I certainly don’t consider myself a radical.
rikyrah
@Kay: keep on pointing this out. Keep those receipts, Kay.
NotMax
@Betty Cracker
BTW don’t know if you happened to see this.
Baud
@Kay:
As long as they’re not “czars,” it’s all good.
Betty Cracker
@OzarkHillbilly & @germy: In almost 100% of the photos of the two of them, you can nearly make out the thought bubble over her head that reads, “Why aren’t you dead yet?”
To her credit, she chose a corpulent specimen known for consuming fried chicken and hamberders — who does not believe in exercise! And yet he’s still snuffling up air daily. I bet it strikes her as totally unfair.
Baud
@Betty Cracker: “Damn his good genes!”
germy
Steeplejack
@JPL:
As an old-school newspaper reporter I sat through many a terrible speech, so I think I can take it. I will have my hand on the remote at all times in case I need to bail out.
Mostly I want to get a sense of whether Trump is going to try for what (he thinks) is reasonable or go full-on nutso. Probably won’t need more than five minutes for that.
Betty Cracker
@NotMax: I did not see that — thank you. My father hunts alligators (only when he has a permit, naturally!) and has reported finding rocks in their bellies. I figured it was because they are all brain stem and jaws and scooped up rocks accidentally while going for other prey, but now I see there’s a strategy behind it. Fascinating!
OzarkHillbilly
@Gin & Tonic:
Just in time for the SOTU. You have my sympathies.
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Not me. I believe my position is right.
Kay
@Karen S.:
Because noting the reality of the First Lady means you’re not substantive and serious :)
Which didn’t stop any of the Top Pundits from attacking Hillary Clinton for insincere hairstyling or Michelle Obama for toned upper arms.
That was literally the rap on Clinton- her shifting hairstyle showed she was a cynical and poll-driven harpy. She had insincere hair.
I change my hair a lot- sometimes I literally cut it all off in a fit of crankiness, so I sympathized. It doesn’t mean anything.
Gin & Tonic
@OzarkHillbilly: Having traveled all night I expect and hope mercifully to be in the land of nod once it begins.
Immanentize
@Steeplejack: I’ve made pastrami (and it’s northern cousin, smoked meat) at home. It is not hard — but it is a several day process that really shouldn’t be rushed. But it turns out pastrami as good as I have had anywhere. Do it!
Immanentize
@Gin & Tonic:
Welcome back!
Steeplejack
@JPL:
The circle of foodie life. I live near Eden Center, a Vietnamese enclave in NoVA that has literally dozens of restaurants. There was one place that was my particular go-to for banh mi, and then one day it was just gone. Turned out the couple who ran it for years retired and moved to Florida. WTF? What am I supposed to do? Still haven’t gotten around to checking out the other banh mi places.
When I lived in Atlanta I really liked the Havana Sandwich Shop at Buford Highway and North Druid Hills Road. Have no idea if it’s still there. Also Henri’s in Buckhead.
Kay
@rikyrah:
Come on. If Michelle Obama had announced she was the most bullied person in the world, it would have been a 3 day story.
Imagine the Obama’s inviting an Obama who is bullied for that name. We would never fucking hear the end of it. It’s ludicrous. Two of the most powerful people IN THE WORLD are whining that their NAME isn’t respected enough.
They have lower standards for the Trumps. It will be hard to RAISE the standard after them, because that’s how standards work. Easy to lower, hard to raise.
Steeplejack
@Baud:
I agree about the poll. I was just surprised that that was what Joe pulled out of his ass to be his point. I should have known.
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: I just pulled up a couple recipes and a brisket is now on the shopping list.
After my 2 hams I’m ready for another project. I was gonna make some bacon but pastrami…. Dawg I love pastrami and you just can’t get it out here.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay:
Elect a DEM, that’ll bring ’em back up.
rikyrah
Of course ??
Anna Massoglia (@annalecta) Tweeted:
President Trump’s pick to lead the World Bank is Trump campaign advisor & Treasury undersecretary David Malpass, who was a Bear Stearns economist perhaps best known for his optimistic forecasts for the U.S. economy in 2007 just before the financial crisis
https://t.co/wJSf8BZXaA https://t.co/FWTZMe3vKC https://twitter.com/annalecta/status/1092667886064361472?s=17
Kay
@Baud:
I don’t think conservatives are sincere on the private property issue. I watched them gleefully cheer as fracking companies rolled all over property owners in Ohio. It’s more bullshit.
When it came down to oil and gas donors or rural landowners they threw the landowners under the bus so fast it was amazing.
Baud
@germy:
Fixed.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Steeplejack: I was born prior to the lunar new year in 1960, hence I’m a pig from 1959.
Betty Cracker
@Kay: So true. Melania Trump has to do something undeniably outrageous or unprecedented to get the Villagers clucking, like wear a jacket emblazoned with “I DON’T REALLY CARE” on a trip to visit children her husband effectively orphaned at the border or refuse to leave the golden penthouse in Manhattan to go live with Pig Man in the White House.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly: The critical steps to the process:
Brine for a couple of days —
Air dry in the fridge at least a day, usually two —
Smoke —
Rest over night in fridge —
Steam for about two hours —
Rest for at least a half hour —
Slice and eat!
Homade pastrami is so very fine!
Steeplejack
@rikyrah:
I think Malpass is also a World Bank “skeptic,” so he’s an ideal Trump pick for the slot.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly:
PS I am sure you know what Dorothy Parker said about ham:
“Eternity is a ham and two people.”
Immanentize
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
me too!
Pigs of ’59 unite!
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: Who you calling a Ho?
Steeplejack
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
See? Critical life information!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: Not a HO, but a OH.
ETA: Funny story about the kid and that phrase.
OzarkHillbilly
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Oh, so he misspelled OHmade.
gene108
@rikyrah:
Chinese lunar calendar new year. Different lunar calendars have different New Years.
Sab
Anyone know where to get mooncakes in NE Ohio?
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly: ok. Laughing
Karen S.
@Kay: I’d forgotten about the “insincere hairstyling” nonsense. The Top Pundits and other media VIPs just don’t care about being craven. It’s not that they can’t see how craven they are and, let’s be honest, how craven the U.S. media has been for much of its history. They just don’t care. There’s also the unexamined racism and sexism, too. A noxious brew all round.
rikyrah
@Kay:
I don’t think conservatives are sincere on the private property issue. I watched them gleefully cheer as fracking companies rolled all over property owners in Ohio. It’s more bullshit.
They’re never sincere, Kay.
Never.
WaterGirl
@Sab: I’m curious. What did you order?
Tazj
@Kay: I’m sure you remember that the press criticized Hillary for keeping her hair long as SOS. She did it so she could style it herself while traveling around the world for her job. Many wondered if an older woman should be allowed to keep her hair long because longer hair should only be for young women.
I know it was scandalous that Michelle Obama bared her arms or dared to wear shorts on vacation.
schrodingers_cat
@Immanentize: Recipe please for the pastrami.
schrodingers_cat
@Tazj: I have heard the dogma. In India its the other way around. Short hair is for young women. I say fuck that shit, wear your hair any length you want at any age.
Sab
@WaterGirl: Shadow cat, who looks exactly like our meankitty, whose actual name is Shadow. Costa Rican tree frog. Gray tabby cat face. Little red fox in lavendar woods.. Bee thoughtful (tuxedo cat with bees and poppies.) Black cat on the green background.
OzarkHillbilly
@schrodingers_cat: FWIW, here are 2 I found. SmokedBeef Pastrami
and
Homemade Pastrami
The first needs a fire in a smoker, the 2nd is made in an oven.
ETA I intend to follow his pointers where they differ from the recipes
schrodingers_cat
@OzarkHillbilly: Thanks OH.
James E Powell
@Sab:
Try Koko’s on Payne.
Elizabelle
SOTU tonight. Looks like a really good day to stay off the internets. And tomorrow too.
Gorgeous weather in central VA. Might try to get out on a bike for a bit.
Cheryl from Maryland
Instead of the SOTU, I’ll be at a performance of Shakespeare’s Richard III. I’m certain it will be more truthful and realistic.
Sab
@James E Powell: That place looks amazing! Thanks.
dopey-o
@OzarkHillbilly: some of the best pastrami i have found is in st. louis. Carl’s Deli across from st mary’s hospital.
Carl recently retired and passed the shop AND THE SECRET RECIPE to one of his employees.
WaterGirl
@Sab: Thanks. I will have to go look. When I looked before, I was mostly focused on the pet portraits.
Josie
@Kay:
This is so true. They are doing the same thing to Texas property owners over the wall.
Gemina13
This is supposed to be a pretty good year for Dogs and Roosters. I’m a Dog (born in a Metal year, so I joke it makes me a Cast-Iron Bitch); SO is a Rooster (born in the same year as me, just a week or two short of the lunar new year). However, it’s not so good a year for Pigs, which describes my nephew. Born in 1995, diagnosed last year with osteosarcoma. I really hope he can get through chemo and into remission.
Gemina13
@dopey-o: This is going to sound blasphemous, but the best pastrami I’ve ever had was at Miracle Mile Deli in Phoenix, AZ. Miracle Mile was started by a Brooklyn native, and handed over to a guy who started working there as a busboy (and met his wife there as well). Just the thought of one of those sandwiches is making me salivate. Seattle has a pretty good pastrami sandwich at Tat’s, but . . . yeah, not the same. I would travel for that pastrami, and I. Hate. Phoenix.