Because a lot of things suck right now, please enjoy these lions' amazing reaction seeing woman who hand-reared them… for the first time in seven years.
pic.twitter.com/yGMuId1JK2— Randi Mayem Singer (@rmayemsinger) February 20, 2019
A spokesman for the park told MailOnline their footage had been taken and it was incorrectly being reported that Michaela had been separated from the lions for seven years.
That's not the case, Michaela comes to see them sometimes three times a month,' the spokesman explained.— René (@DaMountainManCO) February 20, 2019
The driveway is for when the jaguars come over.
…I’ll see myself out
— Jo (@msjolene) February 20, 2019
Elsewhere…
And here it is.
The resolution from House Democrats terminating Trump's national emergency: pic.twitter.com/R1PKKKSZQB
— Greg Sargent (@ThePlumLineGS) February 21, 2019
Adam Schiff, in the Washington Post, “An open letter to my Republican colleagues”:
… To my Republican colleagues: When the president attacked the independence of the Justice Department by intervening in a case in which he is implicated, you did not speak out. When he attacked the press as the enemy of the people, you again were silent. When he targeted the judiciary, labeling judges and decisions he didn’t like as illegitimate, we heard not a word. And now he comes for Congress, the first branch of government, seeking to strip it of its greatest power, that of the purse.
Many of you have acknowledged your deep misgivings about the president in quiet conversations over the past two years. You have bemoaned his lack of decency, character and integrity. You have deplored his fundamental inability to tell the truth. But for reasons that are all too easy to comprehend, you have chosen to keep your misgivings and your rising alarm private.
That must end. The time for silent disagreement is over. You must speak out…
Special counsel Robert S. Mueller III may soon conclude his investigation and report. Depending on what is in that report and what we find in our own investigations, our nation may face an even greater challenge. While I am alarmed at what we have already seen and found of the president’s conduct and that of his campaign, I continue to reserve judgment about what consequences should flow from our eventual findings. I ask you to do the same.
If we cannot rise to the defense of our democracy now, in the face of a plainly unconstitutional aggrandizement of presidential power, what hope can we have that we will do so with the far greater decisions that could be yet to come?…
My over/under on the odds of any Republican taking up Rep. Schiff challenge is ZERO, because Republicans. But I’m sure we’ll get some interestingly baroque explanations as to why all these brave Constitutional conservatives can’t collect even a palmful of courage for this challenge.
BeautifulPlumage
Good AM to all the early rising east coasters. Thank you, Anne, for your late evening [waves to fellow west coasters & other time zones] & overnight posting.
sukabi
That is a fierce love those lions have. Kind of frightening, sweet but frightening.
Good morning to you as well BP.?
rikyrah
Good Morning,Everyone ???
OzarkHillbilly
Blech.
Spanky
@rikyrah: good morning, Sunshine!
Blech, also too.
Now to drag my sorry ass out of bed one last time this week ….
Amir Khalid
@sukabi:
The video refutes everyone who claims that cats don’t love their humans.
Mary G
We have a frost advisory. Extremely rare in So. Cal. I want to whine about it, but it’s nothing compared to the polar vortex you guys went through.
eclare
Touching video, but no way in hell would I get close enough for lions to hug me like that!
OzarkHillbilly
@Amir Khalid: Some cats…
BeautifulPlumage
@sukabi: Yes, those are very big paws! Great footage, and appreciate the follow up tweet about the frequent visits.
Brachiator
Under the right circumstances the Lions would look at the woman and see a nice snack. Lions and tigers ain’t kitty cats.
Pete Downunder
G’day from down under where it’s Friday night already. The Australian edition of the Guardian publishes a local cartoonist who goes by the nom de plume of First Dog on the Moon. You may not get some of the local references to the news items but I think you’ll get and appreciate the drift. Our right wing party – known without apparent irony as the Liberal Party is becoming more and more RWNJ and is very white and male as the more sensible politicians particularly the already few women are fleeing. The left wing majority party, now in opposition, – the Australian Labor (spelled the American way for some reason) Party – is led by un-likeable dirt bag named Bill Shorten but is still likely to take power after the May election. I think we are still better off here that you folks up there as we have Medicare For All, a lack of polar votexes, and best of all Dolt 45 is a long, long way away.
First Dog on the Moon
Steeplejack
@rikyrah:
Good morning! ?
I went to bed early (for me) last night, before 11:00. Woke up to the housecat clamoring for her (way before) predawn snack. Put her off for a while, then got up when I couldn’t stand the mewling any more. I thought it was about 4:30, but it was a little before 3:00! Damn.
Couldn’t go back to sleep—of course she was lights out again within 15 minutes—so I read for a while on the phone and finally decided to get up. Craving toast with peanut butter and honey, for some reason. Just had that and am sipping a cup of coffee. Listening to Kenny Burrell’s Moon and Sand. Good, spare version of “Stolen Moments” at 24:50.
Okay, let’s see if today’s crosswords are up.
Steeplejack
@Pete Downunder:
Good stuff!
Gotta close that link or it will devour the Reply button. If you use the two-step method—mash the link button at the start of the text you want to describe the URL—you have to mash it again at the end. (It will show as /link.)
satby
Happy Friday all!
@rikyrah: Good morning ?
@OzarkHillbilly: ?
@Spanky: and one for your blech too ?
satby
@Steeplejack: I hate mornings like that. I see a midday nap in your future.
OzarkHillbilly
Brexshit gets shittier very day. Now they are eating their own.
satby
@Amir Khalid: and good evening to you Amir! I see your former PM’s case continues. What’s the latest scoop on that, is the Goldman Sachs banker thing related?
satby
@Pete Downunder: Whoa! It’s almost like he could be writing about the US.
Amir Khalid
@satby:
There is indeed a Goldman Sachs-1MDB connection. Business Insider has a good summary here.
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: @Amir Khalid: Yep, GS is in trouble.
OzarkHillbilly
Reading “Doctor Rapp“, one of the long reads JC was kind enough to direct me to, and this cracked me up:
R-Jud
There’s a great long read up in the FTFNYT Magazine on the $15 minimum wage:
Betty Cracker
Greetings, morning crew! Was just reading in the local paper about a man who stole a yacht from a nearby marina and motored down the coast more than 100 miles to another mooring, where he was apprehended. I’m familiar with the waterways around the site of the theft and the landing, and it takes some skill to safely steer a boat from point A to point B. He’s now facing 30 years in prison as a habitual offender. He’ll probably be the best sailor in the correctional system.
Baud
@rikyrah: Good morning.
Raven
@Pete Downunder: I was in Sydney on R&R for the moon landing!
R-Jud
@Betty Cracker:
Could come in handy when most of the state’s underwater.
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: Imagine if you will trump inflicted with the same syndrome.
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: 30 years for a little joy ride???
Raven
@OzarkHillbilly: theft, grand
Raven
OzarkHillbilly
OzarkHillbilly
@Raven: You say tomato, I say tomatah…
The Midnight Lurker
Sweet Jesus, those are big cats! That lady might want to invest in one of those diving helmets they wear when hunting killer cats if she’s going to make frequent visits.
The only way I would ever own one is if I could take it on the plane with me. “Yeah, it’s my ’emotional support’ lion, so you better keep your little Shitzu outta sight!”
@Pete Downunder: Thanks for that! Heard you had a climate change casualty, a little rat-like critter?
Gelfling 545
Awake earlier than I would like because Flora has an early vet appointment. We were at the animal ER yesterday because she broke out in itchy welts, got a fever and her face and throat swelled so much she had trouble breathing. I had to cut her collar off. They gave her a couple of injections and some swelling went down. Now to see what’s really going on. Very worried about my poor girl.
OzarkHillbilly
@Raven: How did I know he is white.
Betty Cracker
@OzarkHillbilly: According to the paper, he’s got an extensive record of prior convictions. It doesn’t say if the other crimes were nautical in nature.
Steeplejack
@satby:
Magic 8 Ball says, “Likely.”
Immanentize
@Amir Khalid:
I love that the estate of Basquiat is somehow implicated. I think Warhol would have approved.
A Ghost To Most
Cats rock.
I still believe the urge for self-preservation will overtake the Rs. Cracks are forming.
Pie don’t work unless you let it.
/K
OzarkHillbilly
@Raven: My 2nd thought is, Why the SWAT team? Why not just a couple of detectives walking into his midday office to put the cuffs on him?
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: I was just being snarky.
Steeplejack
@Raven:
He’s lucky he’s not black. He would be dead.
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly:
Brexit is a tautological mystery like a Mobius Strip or a Klein’s Bottle — it is shitty within shitty and on the time scale just gets shittier.
Steeplejack
@Gelfling 545:
Healing thoughts to Flora!
Immanentize
@OzarkHillbilly:
Hey, SWAT teams need work too!
The highest paid official in my neighboring town of Somerville, MA is the head of their SWAT team. You know, late nights, overtime and all….
Steeplejack
@OzarkHillbilly:
“Predawn incident.”
I wonder about that a lot. Along with the general militarization of the police, everything has to be an “op” now, the more guns and gear the better.
Anybody is going to be freaked out if someone starts pounding on the door at 5:00 in the morning. Who knows what could happen? As you said, why not detail a couple of plain-clothes cops to stake out his place and pick him up when he’s at Starbucks or something? He’ll be carrying his scone and tall two-pump whole-milk white mocha and won’t be able to reach for his 15 guns.
It makes you wonder how the cops were ever able to arrest anyone back in the days before SWAT teams.
debbie
@sukabi:
I had that same feeling whenever my brother’s German Shepherd came running over to greet me. “Oh, please, let Rex be happy to see me. Please, Please.”
gene108
@Raven:
Seems a bit excessive to send SWAT in to arrest a guy for practicing medicine without a license…
OzarkHillbilly
@Immanentize: Something about the name Somerville, MA scream “sleepy little suburb”. Is it?
@Steeplejack: My NOLA son missed a court date neither he nor his lawyer had been notified of. They sent a out a “Fugitive Apprehension Team” in full SWAT regalia to arrest him. He walked out of his building in time to see these cops sneaking around the corner and said,
“Can I help you?”
Baud
@Raven:
What the hell kind of Super Door did this guy have?
rikyrah
Uh huh ?
David Begnaud (@DavidBegnaud) Tweeted:
Marc Elias had just started to cross examine Mark Harris who won the 9th Congressional district seat in N.C., when all of a sudden Harris’ team asked for a break. When they returned, Mark Harris said 2 recent strokes left him with “recall” issues & he asked for a new election.
https://t.co/DjGcfGkSAy https://twitter.com/DavidBegnaud/status/1098781355054383105?s=17
Amir Khalid
@Immanentize:
It seems to me there’s a Roger Stone-ish whiff coming off my former next-door neighbour Najib.
Gin & Tonic
@Steeplejack:
That doesn’t get your rocks off.
debbie
@rikyrah:
A stroke of betrayal from his son is more like it.
gene108
@A Ghost To Most:
Republicans have die hard supporters. As long as Indiana, the Dakotas, South Carolina, Mississippi, etc. will vote for Republicans, they have no need to change. After losses, just slink back to their lairs in Kentucky, SC, etc and plot a new plan for taking over the country.
I don’t have a huge amount of hope these states will ever change, no matter how much more liberal CA or NYC or other urban and suburban areas get over time.
Bess
They got back from lunch late and missed the part of the training seminar which taught “Put down the bags of donuts before proceeding.”.
Baud
For those of you who love Apple and live to hate Goldman Sachs, now you can have the best of both worlds.
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: How is he doing?
?BillinGlendaleCA
The kid posted a pic of her in a jet getting ready to head for her long weekend in Tokyo yesterday evening, I figure she should just about getting into Narita.
Steeplejack
@Baud:
Yes, nothing reassures you that it’s the police outside like shotgun blasts at the door.
Gin & Tonic
@Immanentize: Ahem. A Klein bottle is not a tautological mystery, it is simply a non-orientable surface. (One of the things I still remember from topology.)
Baud
Y’all are also glossing over that this guy was the mayor!
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: You left out the part where it costs $1500 a year, just like the iPhone.
Gin & Tonic
@Baud:
It’s so non-public, in fact, that it’s in Bloomberg News.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Probably a security door, they’re pretty hard to get though.
Steeplejack
@Gin & Tonic:
They could disguise themselves as Girl Scouts and take him by surprise. That’d get their rocks off, I bet.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
So tempted to upgrade to the S10. I’ve decided against it, but it’s a pretty sweet device. I do hope by the time I upgrade, however, they refine the under display camera tech so there’s no cut out.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: It’s a really nice phone, but I agree on the cutout. I’m not a fan of the notch either.
Then again, I’m a Note man. I’ll see what the Note 10 looks like come September. I’m still really happy with my Note 8.
Baud
@?BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah my S8 isn’t that old and still serving me well. I just keep telling myself that the tech will always get better, so there’s no need to buy the latest thing. It’s hard though.
OzarkHillbilly
@JPL: He’s back to work finally. It’s still hard for him to make it thru a whole shift with the pain but it’s better. He’s working at what seems to be a good place, an old Cajun/Creole restaurant (60+ years?) a few blocks off from Bourbon Street that is never empty or slow. My oldest and I were gonna head down for a wkend visit right about now, but he can’t take the time off.
Soon.
The Midnight Lurker
Holy shit, Batman! I’m just thumbing through Hanson’s little manifesto and I am simply stunned. How did this guy ever pass review?! He’s clearly nuts!
And another thing… apparently, Hanson got pinched in a street buy? And that’s when the Feds fell over the dead body in the living room. First rate detective work, guys.
How many more of these radicalized whackos are out there? And in what positions of power? We need much, much better tracking of these goons.
Islamic terrorists… get ready to hold some beers.
satby
@gene108: Indiana voted for Obama in 2008, he carried the state. Same election that put Joe Donnelly in the Senate until last year. It can be done, a Democratic candidate can win, but it takes huge turnout. Our team is erratic at that.
Betty Cracker
@rikyrah: I’m still pissed about the GOP getting a do-over. The cheater has been disqualified; therefore, the guy with the most legit votes should assume the office.
JPL
@Betty Cracker: Isn’t it a special day for you?
rikyrah
Rep. Donna E. Shalala (@RepShalala) Tweeted:
I’ll make it clear, @SenSanders does not reflect the majority of the Democratic Party and our support for Venezuela’s interim president @jguaido and the Venezuelan people. Maduro is a dictator and must go.
https://t.co/Q1GDp9q2Tw #VenezuelaLibre https://twitter.com/RepShalala/status/1098671988887953409?s=17
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: Even though in some ways he is lucky, it sucks to be in constant pain.
rikyrah
José (@josecanyousee) Tweeted:
Bernie bro Waleed Shahid gets his ass handed to him by @PhilippeReines — watch until the very end. I promise it’s worth it.
https://t.co/UULj45rbA8 https://twitter.com/josecanyousee/status/1098729965657325568?s=17
ArchTeryx
That video hammers home the basic idea that lions are big cats better than any number of words. The two lionesses are giving her a classic kitty-hug, rearing up, planting their paws on her and grooming her. Even though big cats have no true purr, you can practically hear the happy rumbling as they’re competing to be the one to lick her face.
Yeah, after the utter wretchedness of the last week, I needed that.
Baud
@rikyrah:
Socialists gotta stick together, I guess.
Chris Hayes interviewed Sanders yesterday and, to Hayes’ credit, asked him to address the resentment from 2016. I found Sanders’ response pretty dismissive of the criticism. This is going to get worse before it gets better.
rikyrah
Da phuq,????
Katy Andersen (@KatyAndNews) Tweeted:
WATCH: A woman was shocked to discover her neighbor’s Corgi was sneaking onto her property at night and… riding her pony?
https://t.co/dQfpNAiRLG https://t.co/Da9gnWsJvB https://twitter.com/KatyAndNews/status/961227244072030208?s=17
eclare
@rikyrah: Excellent clip.
JPL
@rikyrah: Just a couple of friends sneaking out after everyone has gone to bed. Sweet
SFAW
Schiff’s piece reminded me a little bit of Niemoller. Traitor Turtle, being the good little latter-day Nazi that he is, is probably saying “Waaalll, Ah don’t see a problem.”
Traitor Turtle is probably also hoping that there are others like Christopher Hasson out there, only smarter and better-armed. It would be a Win-Win for him! “Will no one rid me of these meddlesome Demon-rats?”
Ken
@A Ghost To Most: The best part – in the sense of schadenfreude content – is that once it passes the House, the Senate has to vote on it. They can’t avoid it with a filibuster, or by McConnell refusing to bring it to the floor.
We'll see some true portraits in courage and leadership
.Haroldo
@Pete Downunder:
Thanks for this. I highly, highly endorse the First Dog on the Moon to everyone. Easily the best cartoonist going. And as @satby mentions a lot of the cartoons are easily translatable to the woeful state of US politics.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2019/feb/22/remember-being-shocked-by-tony-abbott-it-seems-like-a-picnic-now
OzarkHillbilly
@Steeplejack: That looks like a friend of mine.
True story: A bunch of old bearded grizzled reprobate artist friends of mine joined the official STL St Patrick’s Day Parade as the Venice Girl Scouts in full Girl Scout regalia, hairy legs and all (IIRC cookies too) They were banned from all future St Patty Day Parades because they had gotten in under false pretenses (the Powers That Be thought “Girl Scouts” meant actual “Girls” that were actual “Scouts”). They got revenge the next year by organizing an “Alternative St Patrick’s Day Parade” in the South Side neighborhood of Soulard. I can’t recall if we outdrew the official parade or not, but we definitely cornered the market on drunks and gutter fun that day.
They only did it for 2 years as it was a hell of a lot of work, but it was gloriously degenerative.
SFAW
@Ken:
I would not be surprised if Traitor Turtle found some obscure Senate Rule which says, in effect, “Any Resolution which would potentially embarrass any Russian asset occupying the Oval Office is RIGHT OUT, and shall not be brought to a vote.” It’s so obscure, no one ever saw it before 2/15/2019
?BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: Sounds like Pasadena’s DooDah Parade that spoofs the Rose Parade.
Steeplejack
@Betty Cracker:
Happy birthday, Betty! ???
ETA: Same to hedgehog mobile!
Kay
@Betty Cracker:
They didn’t disqualify him though. They never certified the election. They’re not putting Harris on trial. They’re putting the election on trial, before an election board. It’s a hearing on “irregularities”. The question is whether the irregularities affected the election. Yes. The election didn’t meet the standard to be certified. If Harris himself weren’t implicated the election still wouldn’t be certified, because there was fraud. But “fraud” – a knowing deliberate act- isn’t essential to this ruling. If they had mistakenly discarded ballots the board could still decline to certify, because the election wouldn’t meet the process standard.
Baud
@Betty Cracker:
Happy birthday!
Kathleen
@satby: Good Morning all. My stomach is saying Blech.
What did Hillary do now? Has her perfidy travelled across the seas?
satby
Great threadroll on the HoarseWhisperer’s tweet series about the impending Muller report release.
Kathleen
@Betty Cracker: Happy Birthday!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@rikyrah: Thanks for that link. It perked me up.
Betty Cracker
@JPL & @Steeplejack: Thanks! Got my old school squad coming up for a sleepover. I suspect adult beverages will be served.
@Baud: I watched that interview and came away with the same impression. Kudos to Hayes for bringing it up, but I wish he’d followed up instead of allowing Sanders to dismiss it with a single sentence and then pivot to ME ME ME. May do a post on it later with a clip. It’s the question Sanders must answer if he’s to have a shot, but he doesn’t intend to answer it.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay:
Hmmmm… I seem to recall a number of recent elections in which ballots were “mistakenly” discarded but got certified anyway as the act did not “materially affect the outcome”.
rikyrah
THREAD by Frum:
David Frum (@davidfrum) Tweeted:
And as @chrislhayes – another target on the kill list – rightly observes: all of this comes in a context of the valorization of political violence by pro-Trump talkers.
https://t.co/Wotq0r5hCS https://twitter.com/davidfrum/status/1098927685185818624?s=17
rikyrah
Milt Shook (@MiltShook) Tweeted:
It’s not the same thing, and I didn’t imply it was. The point is, a terrorist was preparing to kill hundreds of “Trump enemies,” in a clearly racist plot, but too many seem obsessed with proving Jussie a “racist.” One is more important, and it’s not the Smollett story.
https://t.co/Vj5SahDyfK https://twitter.com/MiltShook/status/1098935373420326913?s=17
Lapassionara
@Baud: Did he ask when he was going to release his tax returns?
Good morning, everyone.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@satby: I hope he’s right that the train can’t be stopped. The damage to democracy is increasing by the day, and that’s apart from the terrible R policies.
rikyrah
Adam Jentleson ? (@AJentleson) Tweeted:
Press is covering Smollet wall2wall because it’s conservative click bait. But they’re giving credence to the idea that hoaxes are frequent when FBI data shows hate crimes have risen for 3 straight years. Meanwhile, a white supremacist stocked an arsenal & planned a killing spree.
https://twitter.com/AJentleson/status/1098719966646423554?s=17
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Betty Cracker:
Among many.
ETA: Happy Natal Anniversary.
satby
@Betty Cracker: Happy Birthday ???!
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Right, but that’s the “impacted the election” part. You just can’t punish every voter in the county for Harris’ fraud.
I do think they should have federal oversight of their elections in those counties. It’s systemic. They need watching.
Pogonip
Monkee Peter Tork has died at 77
https://evilbloggerlady.blogspot.com/2019/02/peter-tork-rip.html?m=1
It’s been a while since I saw it, but somewhere out there is a picture of a dark-haired, bearded man hugging a tiger whom he raised and returned to the wild.
satby
@Lapassionara: that question is being re tweeted to Wilmer and Nina Turner all over, and I think other Wilmer fluffers can expect it too.
My response on all social media has been a simple “fuck Bernie”.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: Credit where credit is due, they stepped in and said, “No more” this time. Finally. Because they couldn’t ignore it any longer.
satby
@satby: and Happy Birthday to hedgehog mobile as well!
clay
@Immanentize: Fractals of shit.
JPL
@Betty Cracker: Have fun!
eclare
@Betty Cracker: Happy Birthday!
raven
@Pogonip: Good interview with him from “The Wrecking Crew”.
NotMax
FYI.
Part fiction, part fact, part an indictment of the deleterious effect on an indigenous culture by white men, TCM will be showing Eskimo, produced during the early 1930s, at 2 a.m. on Monday (11 p.m. Sunday Pacific time). Enough of it is documentary in nature to today provide an informative and engrossing visual record of a way of life since vanished.
@Betty Cracker
Happy happy.
(Message in video works even better if one doesn’t see it as 11 but rather as //.) :)
SFAW
And a belated Happy Birthday! to Betty Cracker!
Betty Cracker
About the Mueller report: I’m reading/hearing a lot of content from prominent Democrats and other credible anti-Trump people that sounds like they’re preparing readers/viewers for a gigantic letdown. They don’t say so in those words necessarily, but that’s the subtext.
Betty Cracker
Thanks for the birthday greetings, everyone!
@SFAW: Thank you, and it’s not belated; today is my birthday, and I was born at 10:13 PM, so you’re early! :)
David ??Merry Christmas?? Koch
@rikyrah: I see Scarborough – one of the targets on the kill list – is furious with Drumpf for fomenting the violence and terror.
If only someone had warned Joe in 2016 not to vibrantly promote Drumpf’s candidacy.
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
The next question is if Harris and Co are held accountable by being charged with felonies and then if they’re actually forced to go to trial or if we once again go the sweetheart deal route.
There’s a state process and there should also be a federal process, since they had witnesses the day prior to Harris admitting to election fraud and there are emails from the son to the father literally saying “this is a felony”. Harris also led an obstruction effort, so there’s that too. Plus, he perjured himself.
Dorothy A. Winsor
geg6
@Betty Cracker:
Did you read the twitter thread that satby linked above in #94? I was totally falling into that fatalistic mindset that we’re all going to have a very sad Fitzmas with Mueller, but I am now re-thinking that. The HoarseWhisperer totally makes sense and has given me a small flame of hope.
ETA: Have a very happy birthday, BC!
JPL
@Betty Cracker: That’s my fear.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay:
No no Kay, he’s just confused due to the sudden onset of a medical condition, He wasn’t even able to handle a single day’s testimony it was so tasking to his frail health.
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
I know how disheartening and then really enraging it is to see bad behavior and unlawful behavior rewarded over and over again, but only when the bad and unlawful behavior involves powerful people. Crime shouldn’t pay and it really does, but just for them. Everyone else gets draconian, crazily excessive and brutal punishment – except for powerful people who get..nothing.
But this board did their job. Now it’s up to law enforcement. So, ya, know, cling to that slender reed for a while :)
schrodingers_cat
@Betty Cracker: Which prominent Democrats? Link?
hedgehog mobile
@Steeplejack: Thank you!
Immanentize
@Betty Cracker:
Another successful trip around our friend, the sun! And these days that is saying something!
hedgehog mobile
@satby: Thank you!
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: I keep hoping that “This time is different.” Every now and again it is.
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: I’ll wish you soft snuggly Blechs. Sorry, it’s the best I can do today.
rikyrah
UH HUH
UH HUH
Who is Nomiki Konst?
By DANA RUBINSTEIN and LAURA NAHMIAS
02/21/2019 08:16 PM EST
Updated 02/21/2019 08:57 PM EST
No, it’s not. It’s a ratphucking organization funded by Republicans. Let’s not get it twisted.
StringOnAStick
@Steeplejack: you hit that nail quite directly. Cops and cop-adjacent officers love the excitement of arrests; it’s part of the personality of many if not most who want those jobs. Why bust someone at Starbucks when you can get all the tactical toys out a d get a huge adrenaline rush? I’ve worked with and been related to men in these jobs, they love this shit, it’s the ultimate little blue pill for them.
rikyrah
Happy Birthday, BC????????????
Kathleen
@hedgehog mobile: Happy Birthday!
JPL
@hedgehog mobile: Happy Birthday to you also.
eclare
@hedgehog mobile: Happy Birthday!
cmore
@Amir Khalid:
Yes they indeed do, even better with ketchup.
satby
@NotMax: I was thinking of telling you about a BBC crime thriller I just finished watching: Hidden. Bilingual English /Welsh and pretty good.
Edit: ok, that was a little unclear, I meant that while watching it I wanted to remember to tell you about it.
cmorenc
@Amir Khalid:
Yes indeed they do…and they love us even better with ketchup.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: But I’m not holding my breath in this case:
Yes, this same USAO will oversee any prosecutions resulting from the investigations in the 9th District Congressional race.
satby
The extended forecast for the next week shows March coming in like a lion (freezing cold) but then a decently gradual warm up to a normal spring is promised. I don’t mind winter too much, but by the end of February I’m ready for spring to begin.
StringOnAStick
@satby: yesterday I received a text message from the new! improved! Wilmer campaign, asking me if I was “in” . The text I sent back started with “fuck Bernie” and went on a bit from there. Because seriously, fuck that guy.
OzarkHillbilly
@hedgehog mobile: OK, you get a birthday Blech too.
JPL
@satby: The rain has been so relentless that when more thunder storms the night before last, the mutt just whimpered. I think we got six more inches of rain so far this week
NY Robbin
@Betty Cracker:
Have a very happy birthday fellow Pisces! (mine is Monday:)
Yarrow
@Betty Cracker:
Happy Birthday, Betty! Have a wonderful day!
Not sure what you’re seeing. Do you have any names or links? My take is that Democrats want to come across as sober and serious so they’re downplaying it. Let the report speak for itself.
JPL
@NY Robbin: Several jackals apparently have February birthdays. Have a happy Monday.
rikyrah
@hedgehog mobile:
Happy Birthday ?????????
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
Oh, that’s too bad. I saw they were absent during this whole thing, when, you know, the crime fighters really should have been on it because people were confessing all over the place. It’ll be really disheartening if we have what amount to a record of confessions and there’s no prosecution. There are countries where the legal system is a joke. People just learn to live with it and work within a corrupted system. There was never any guarantee we’d keep ours.
I expect we’ll see some action on corruption when big players start to have their contract rights infringed or ignored. Then they’ll be hell to pay. They can’t function without enforceable contracts. They act as if they don’t need the system but they need it more than anyone. They’re wholly reliant on it working.
schrodingers_cat
@Yarrow: I checked Schiff and Swalwell’s Twitter accounts, after reading that comment and I don’t see anything. I agree with your take.
frosty
@rikyrah: Love the gator and chicken emojis! Perfect for BC.
Yarrow
@hedgehog mobile: Happy birthday!
frosty
@rikyrah: Love the gator and chicken emojis! Perfect for BC.
Kay
@OzarkHillbilly:
How do you defend this system? It’s blatantly unfair and indefensible. It hammers little guys and swathes big guys in layers of soft cotton. No one should defend it. It’s broken. It won’t get less broken if we all protect “the institutions” and pat ourselves ion the back for The Rule of Law. It’s inequitably applied, so invalid.
Elizabelle
Happy Birthday ??? to Betty Cracker at the hour of her birth. And to all our birthday week jackals.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: It’s only fraud when it’s taking money OUT of my pocket, not when it’s putting IN to my pocket!
Yarrow
@schrodingers_cat: Yeah, I don’t know what Betty is talking about and she hasn’t elaborated so I can only go on what I’m seeing. Democrats who might know anything at all, like Schiff or Pelosi, are being sober and serious, acting like adults and taking their responsibilities seriously. I completely discount pundits and legal analysts, with the exception that legal analysts can explain process. Mueller’s office doesn’t leak so outside of a few elected representatives who are on committees, no one knows anything.
Acting like sober, serious adults is by far the best play. They show they take their responsibilities very seriously now and after the report (reports?) is released they can go forward from that position.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay: From the TPM article I linked above:
eta Harris’s son who testified is an AUSA in the Eastern District. that’s why he was able to bring receipts to the hearing. He already had it all.
Immanentize
@Yarrow:
This preview by Neal Katyal is about the most lucid I’ve read about the Mueller Report to come. Some good, some bad, but generally positive for the cause of Justice.
I have a number of points to pick with the Hoarse Whisperer’s musings. But as they say, we shall see….
O. Felix Culpa
@satby: That was a lovely read. Thank you.
Yarrow
@Immanentize: Yes, I read that Neal Katyal piece and agree with most of it. I also disagree with some of the points in the Hoarse Whisperer’s thread but we’ll see.
My main point is that I see no actual reasons to feel down or prepare ourselves for a letdown for when the Mueller report is released.
rikyrah
???
Breaking911 (@Breaking911) Tweeted:
Great-grandma fires pistol at man who broke into her Georgia home: “Mother fu*ker, if you come in here, I’m going to blow your damn brains out!”
She missed, but the alleged thief was so scared, he hid in a closet until police arrived – WSBTV
https://t.co/uRJyHalgLO https://twitter.com/Breaking911/status/1098686953959104517?s=17
rikyrah
Trump faces legal issues for the rest of his presidency, no matter what Mueller finds
By CHRIS MEGERIAN
FEB 22, 2019 | 3:00 AM
| WASHINGTON
President Trump is likely to celebrate if the final report from special counsel Robert S. Mueller III echoes Trump’s relentless claims of “no collusion” with Russia — or least doesn’t outline a criminal conspiracy between his 2016 campaign and the Kremlin.
No matter what Mueller concludes, the president remains in considerable legal jeopardy.
The Russia probe spawned a web of federal, state and congressional inquiries into virtually every aspect of Trump’s career — the company that bears his name, the campaign that won him the White House, the inauguration that celebrated his improbable victory, and the administration that he currently leads from the Oval Office.
Prosecutors in Manhattan, Brooklyn, Washington and Virginia are all pulling at threads that the FBI started unraveling two years ago. Legal problems, and possibly further indictments of Trump’s friends and aides, are likely to shadow the president for the rest of his White House tenure.
“Once you turn over one stone, there are a host of other matters that come to light,” said Bruce Udolf, who worked for the independent counsel’s office that investigated President Bill Clinton. “And you start turning over those stones as well.”
laura
@Betty Cracker: Happy Birthday – celebrating with life long friends sounds swell!
germy
JPL
@germy: Maybe he already has been indicted and it’s sealed. It seems unlikely that Mueller would allow him just to roam throughout the white house though.
Steve in the ATL
@JPL: well that’s no fun! Blue skies down here on St. Simons.
germy
@JPL: They do look worried lately.
satby
@StringOnAStick: I just unfollowed a friend on FB after two Wilmer pushing exchanges. Anecdotally, I’m seeing a lot of “nope, not this time buddy” even on Wilmer’s FB announcement, where he of course asks for donations. Hope he crashes and burns early.
bemused
Aiding and abetting Republican legislators are scum.
Yarrow
@JPL: Kushner is a target. His indictments will become public when the other big names are also rounded up. His indictments will not be made public too far ahead because they’ll reveal some of the other things the SCO is investigating.
Think of it like a mob roll up, which it is (Russian mob). The big guys are always rolled up at the end and at about the same time.
satby
@JPL: ?
@NY Robbin: And an early Happy Birthday to you!
JPL
@Steve in the ATL: f.k you
satby
@Immanentize: @Yarrow: I don’t see where those articles disagree with each other much, maybe I’m not reading closely enough. Both the HoarseWhisperer and Neal Katyal say that the report is likely to be a roadmap and referral for further investigation and prosecution. Isn’t that the gist of both?
Aleta
To celebrate Betty Cracker (and our good fortune) ? ?
https://vimeo.com/283502083
@hedgehog mobile: Happy Birthday! ? ?
Hedgehog’s Home, Canadian Film Board
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Yarrow: I hope, I hope, I hope.
Quinerly
Is it Betty Cracker’s birthday today? Very busy. Just glanced at the comments.
Mine too!
Happy Birthday, Betty! We share a birthday with Teddy Kennedy and Drew Barrymore. It’s also National Margarita Day!
Quinerly
@hedgehog mobile: happy 2/22! Mine too!
Yarrow
@satby: Yes, that’s the gist. There were some takes in the HW thread that I sort of shook my head at because they don’t match with my understanding. I’d have to read it again to find them.
@Dorothy A. Winsor: I don’t hope (because I gave it up in 2016) but I am completely confident it’s how it will go down.
I like to watch this video from time to time to have a visual to go along with it. It’s a bit out of date and wrong in some ways (Ivanka’s going down too) but I still love it.
Yarrow
@Quinerly: Happy birthday! Is Poco throwing you a party?
eclare
@Quinerly: Happy Birthday!
Amir Khalid
@satby:
If that happens, many jackals will no doubt rejoice to see Wilmer ignored and to hear the lamentations of his Wilmeristas.
Aleta
@NY Robbin: Happy birthday weekend ! ? ?
bemused
@Yarrow:
I had forgotten this great video. It needs to be updated to include all the more recent criminals, several busloads of them.
NY Robbin
@JPL:
Thanks so much!
You have no idea. Both of my sisters were also born in February (can you say my mother was regular?).
Yarrow
@satby:
Me too. People are sick of his bullshit and aren’t taking it this time. I’m not too worried about him because people are sick of him. So many better choices this time around.
Quinerly
@Yarrow: doesn’t seem to be in the party mood. Poco be pouting. We are unusually driving the dirt roads of New Mexico or prancing around Santa Fe on my birthday. Trying to finish the final clean out of the house I grew up in small town, Eastern NC. I turned 58 today and thought to myself this AM that it is the first time since I was 17 that I woke up here on my birthday. Very strange. Thanks for the well wishes.
Quinerly
@eclare: thank you!
Ruckus
@OzarkHillbilly:
I got a chuckle out of that as well.
Wonder if parents are going to start using that as teaching moment for kids, what not to do and why.
Just One More Canuck
Happy birthday to Betty, Hedgehog and Quinerly
Aleta
@Quinerly: what?!? Happy birthday to you 2/22
(dog on beach) https://vimeo.com/125501627
A Ghost To Most
@StringOnAStick: Well played.
M31
@OzarkHillbilly: “gloriously degenerative” the most poetic description I’ve seen in years
Ruckus
@Steeplejack:
What are you doing? You know that they bought all that swat gear for a reason, and just because they had to make up that reason, damnit they are going to show that all that swat gear is necessary, so they can get more. Have to have more and better swat gear than the next town otherwise they’d look punny and everyone would assume they had tiny little…….
satby
@Quinerly: Happy Birthday to you too!
A Ghost To Most
@JPL: The available evidence suggests there are still ~17 sealed indictments waiting in DC Federal Court, and have been since August.
Miss Bianca
Happy birthday to all birthday jackals. Wishing you joyous celebrations of your natal anniversaries.
satby
@Amir Khalid: I for one will do the dance of schadenfreude and joy.
Maybe even publicly. Fucker can’t go down fast enough for me.
Ruckus
@StringOnAStick:
We must be related. I got that email as well and answered, it sounds like pretty much the same. Started off with Fuck, and got more 4 letter wordy from there.
One nice thing, my mail program put that in the Junk folder. Smart mail program.
NotMax
@Quinerly
Happy birthday.
(Okay, ol’ Abe’s was a different date, it’s the cent-iment that counts.)
Ruckus
@NY Robbin:
All of us were born pretty much 9 months after an adults birthday or a holiday.
I see how that works.
chopper
@Immanentize:
it’s fractally shitty. no matter how much you zoom in it’s still just straight up shit.
Dave Empey
@JPL:
Not sure if that would be the worst Twilight Zone ever, or the best.
Quinerly
@NotMax: thanks! Washington’s true birthday is today too.
Quinerly
@satby: @Miss Bianca: thanks!
Quinerly
@Just One More Canuck: @Aleta: thanks!
J R in WV
@StringOnAStick:
I WISH I would get an email from Sen Sanders, so I could reply with “Fuck you, Russian stooge bigot misogynist!!”
Maybe I could get someone to send them my email?