First things first- that bullshit stunt Trump signed about police reform isn’t worth the paper it was written on so there is no point talking about it.
Now to the important shit- I posted some pictures of the backyard and everyone was “Screw the yard what about the birds?” Ask and ye shall receive.
Geranium nest is active and occupied:
Dead Fern nest #1 is active and occupied:
Live fern nest appears to have been abandoned:
Dead fern nest #2 is similarly abandoned:
The nest at the top of the column has had its inhabitants move on, and the birb house on the porch is now home to a wasp nest, which I am just going to let be because wasps gotta live somewhere and that’s as good a place as any.
Once the occupants of the dead fern nest #1 move on, and I am going to move the nests into live ferns in case they came back for a second litter. Is it called a litter? I don’t know, but that is what I am calling it. Regardless, I am composting the dead ferns and transferring the nests into new plants so they don’t feel like the landlord just up and kicked them out. I don’t know if that is how this works I am not a bird specialist but that is how I am gonna approach itr.
Frank Wilhoit
Not a litter, it’s a clutch.
jeffreyw
They were waiting on their housewarming gift. Worms are most often offered but they will take crickets.
Kay
I know the polls are all fake news but it’s fun and we should enjoy it.
While we can :)
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
At Trump Speech Yesterday: “This is boring!”
Kay
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Ivanka’s boring too. A bore. There’s nothing exceptional about these people other than the meanness. They’re assholes. Without that, they’re just mediocre.
LuciaMia
I think they’re called a ‘brood.’ Chickens on the nest will be said to be getting all broody.
‘Clutch?’ I think that might be snakes. Or dragons! (Anne McCaffrey’s books,)
Just Chuck
Ermagerd! Birbs!
joel hanes
If they were house finches, as earlier Cole pictures suggest, the adults most love small black oilseed sunflower seeds, and will also eat niger, and maybe safflower seed
Rob
Moving the nests won’t matter because songbirds like the ones currently nesting on your porch don’t reuse their nests.
https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/after-birds-leave-a-nest-can-i-clean-out-the-nest-for-future-use/
joel hanes
@LuciaMia:
clutch is correct for bird eggs
Rob
@LuciaMia: Clutch can refer to birds too. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clutch_(eggs)
eta cross-posted with joel hanes
mad citizen
@Kay: Agree, but because I think Trump won’t be on the ticket. Watched some video of today with his right arm twitching and such. The dementia is relentless. Not to mention his limited speech and heavy breathing and other signs.
Birds: I have two bluebird boxes front and back. Sadly no bluebirds nested in them this year. In the front I had some kind of wrens which I think are gone. In the back I had the box on a pole where I could peer in anytime. Last week the 4 fledglings (never IDd them positively–starling or carolina wren?) were young and eager to see if I had any food. In a few days they rightfully scrunched down when they saw me approach.
I’m not sure if all 4 made it, it seemed like 3 were in there developing, and the one laggard left midday today. I had to guard my cat against them, he was lurking around the box with no way of getting to it. He is a killing and eating machine–chipmunks, small squirrels, birds.
Omnes Omnibus
@LuciaMia: I’ve also seen teen girls described as “broody” in British novels, movies, and TV shows. I think it comes after “horse mad.”
MisterForkbeard
@Kay: I think in both of those cases most of the undecideds will go to the Republicans, but they just don’t want to admit they’re supporting these monsters right now.
That said: If we can get the GA senate seat, we’ve got the Senate. Go dems.
Benw
@Frank Wilhoit: I thought “clutch” was what scary antifa makes patriots do to pearls?
laura
Next year there’s gonna be baby birbs nesting in Cole’s beard – possibly the pockets accross the front of his summer overalls and the post regaling us of the Steve/Thurston/baby birbs standoff will be one for the ages.
Also, your pictures are charming and thank you!
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Kay:
Their collective narcissism, entitlement, and assholishness really is all that’s interesting about them.
I’m sure this was a prank, but the look on Trump’s face made it obvious he was pissed
LuciaMia
Cole will become the new Radagast the Brown.
Aleta
Are these pots of ferns just sitting on the porch floor, or are they hanging higher up? How big do the pots and foliage have to be that they feel safe to nest in?
mrmoshpotato
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): The Soviet shitpile mobster manbaby can’t stand being called boring! LOL
And suggestive text is realizing that after “Soviet” comes “shitpile.” It will come to realize “mobster” then “manbaby” or “conman.”
Baud
@Kay:
They are exceptional assholes though. Gotta give them that.
MisterForkbeard
I’m really happy that the media and population basically just seems to ignore Trump’s latest stunt as worthless:
Haven’t even seen anything about it on my facebook feeds. The whole thing was a giant failure and everyone knows it. The only thing it will do is let Republicans argue that Trump is addressing the problem, but they were already doing that.
piratedan
I believe that all empty nests should be moved to The Willow… just sayin…
Baud
@MisterForkbeard:
The reforms also never be implemented.
dnfree
@Rob: people say birds won’t or don’t re-use nests, but we have had cardinals and wrens do so, sometimes the same year and even in multiple years in an increasingly ratty-looking geranium we wintered over. One year I was going to get a new geranium, but the cardinals showed up and looked puzzled, so we brought the old one out for them.
MisterForkbeard
@Baud: I’m seeing a lot of coverage of “these aren’t actually reforms, they’re sort of ‘maybe we should do the thing someday’ and in some cases ‘Bill Barr can decide if he wants to do any of this and can selectively enforce it’.
No one seems fooled at all.
mrmoshpotato
@mad citizen:
Hooollly shit. That would be… Wow.
Dump’s basest base of bigots and imbeciles that the GOP has been errr cultivating for 40+ years would revolt like no other! There were Russthuglican voters in 2016 who’d never voted before, and not because they were too young, but because they didn’t have someone who “says what I’m thinking” until a racist, fascistic demagogue came along who also let Fox take a shit in his skull (h/t driftglass).
No One of Consequence
A clutch is a collection of eggs (unless they are in a carton)
A brood refers to the collective of hatchlings.
Would-be-pedant at your service!
– NOoC
Yutsano
@MisterForkbeard: Wow. That first line is almost bold for the FTFNYT. I don’t think that one got by Maggie.
Baud
@MisterForkbeard:
The one thing I saw that was halfway kind of interesting was the database of bad cops. Which means that the police will go apeshit over it.
Baud
@Yutsano:
Technically, second line. Baby steps.
mrmoshpotato
@piratedan:
Appetizer? The willow eats the empty nests, then the willow eats the house?
Baud
@mrmoshpotato:
“I say ‘Fuck,’ you say ‘Trump!'”
pluky
@LuciaMia: brood is what the parents do. clutch is the collective term for the eggs.
Mike in NC
@MisterForkbeard: One sunny day about a month ago I saw a “Trump 2020” banner flying in front of a house in our development. Didn’t know the owner, and it quickly disappeared for whatever reason. Today I was coming back from an errand and saw a large black and white Old Glory with a single blue stripe on it flying from the same pole. I thought that explained a lot: retired cop, most likely from NY or NJ, as are a majority of the people in here.
Omnes Omnibus
@mrmoshpotato: Birds’ nest soup. Duh.
Baud
This guy probably had no shot against Sasse even in a wave year, but still.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
I don’t keep track of nesting around our yard, I have no idea where the babies might be. The only one I’m aware of is one up under the eaves, but I’ve seen evidence in more than one season that that one was raided by snakes and squirrels.
We definitely have at least one resident pair of cardinals, but I have no idea where they hang out when not on our deck.
I one time stumbled across a nest in a bush accidentally. I only became aware of it because there was a very agitated papa bird who came fluttering out and flapping around in front of me, and did the whole routine of pretending to be hurt, “hi, Mr. Predator, I am a wounded bird who is very delicious and much more interesting than anything in that bush. Oh please don’t follow me!” It was a wonderful performance so I gave him the satisfaction of pretending to fall for it.
James E Powell
@Kay:
No lie. I watched a bit of her commencement speech. It was the first time I had ever heard her speak. Dead eyes, lifeless voice, nothing to say that wasn’t cliche.
But there is a NYT & Village version of Ivanka, the one that is a moderating influence on her father’s harsher tendencies. I think we’d all be shocked to learn how many people actually believe that Ivanka exists.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@MisterForkbeard:
I’m continually amazed that BLM has become mainstream now and the views on police and policing basically changed overnight.
It’s such a shame that a man’s death had to make that happen
LuciaMia
@mrmoshpotato: Thats right. Remember Old Man Willow, from The Fellowship of the Ring.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@mrmoshpotato:
He absolutely can’t stand that. He looked like he was going to cry in that clip
James E Powell
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
It is a shame, but changes usually don’t come without death and misery. And even then, often nothing happens. See, e.g., Sandy Hook.
mrmoshpotato
Miss Bianca
BAY-BEE BIRBS!!
Baud
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
The Biden people should use that nugget of information about Trump’s psyche.
mrmoshpotato
@Omnes Omnibus: Well played, sir. Unlike baseball that’s not being played. :(
Ken
There have been many such deaths. An interesting question is why now? The video and the duration of the slow murder surely played a big part. (I’m sorry, “slow alleged murder”.)
Other factors? The videos of the protests, particularly the police actions at the protests, I would think. Tear-gassing the protestors outside the church for the Bible photo-op.
mrmoshpotato
@LuciaMia: Of course! (he said to a joke about an unread book)
Baud
Thank god antifa has finally been declared a terrorist group.
Baud
@Ken: It’s almost impossible to predict what the trigger will be. That’s why it’s so important to keep pressing forward even when you think nothing is happening and nothing will never change.
mrmoshpotato
@Miss Bianca: Doot doot doot…
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@James E Powell:
It’s very sad. As Baud points out, it’s impossible to predict when the breaking point is when real change can happen. That’s why it’s important to never give up and take every possible opportunity to advance the cause
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Ken:
That’s a good point. I also tend to think the stress of the pandemic and subsequent lack of other distractions helped focus a lot of people’s minds.
I was very happy to see Biden had raised $80 million in May from mostly small donors
Martin
@Ken: Hard to deny the calousness of the GOP against the backdrop of Covid. The usual arguments of ‘if xxx had followed the rules he wouldn’t be dead’ which usually has the effect of people tuning out the details of what actually happened and just trusting authority doesn’t work so well when there’s 100,000 dead americans that did follow the rules, and the GOP by all observations just doesn’t give a shit about those 100K or about preventing the next 100K. If anything, they’re encouraging the next 100K.
It makes clear that the GOP doesn’t just devalue the lives of black people, but of pretty much everyone. I think the George Floyd death, stacked up so close in time to Central Park Karen showing how white people wield the police as a weapon, and the video showing the good ol boys in Georgia itching for lynching also makes it hard to argue this is an isolated policing problem and not a broader societal race problem.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Baud:
For ads absolutely
Baud
This guy isn’t fit for any position except president of the United States.
Baud
Some more positive news.
WereBear
I agree. Habit is much more powerful than people realize. A stretch in lockdown shook up a lot: for good or ill.
Rob
@dnfree: That is interesting.
bluehill
@mrmoshpotato: Ouch!
Another Scott
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: Obligatory…
(via Popehat)
Cheers,
Scott.
bluehill
@Mike in NC: I think these flags and their type are less outwardly offensive versions of the confederate flag. Kind of like using “thugs” instead of the n-word. Same underlying sentiment, but harder to get called out.
Ken
@Baud: Good they started paying attention. How many months did it take?
Ken
By the way, did “Geranium nest is active and occupied” etc. strike anyone else as sounding like WWII espionage movies?
schrodingers_cat
@bluehill: BTW thug is pretty racist. Thug in Hindi and many other Indian languages means a huckster (someone like the Orange person in the WH) but the British used it as a wholesale racist slur to demonize groups that put up any resistance to their rule. And labeled those groups as ones that had a natural propensity to steal and kill. And slaughtered people wholesale for being thugs and patted themselves on the back for getting rid of India’s “thugs”.
cain
@Baud:
It’s amazing that even with this evidence, they’ll still spend time focusing on far left groups and ‘non violence’ movements. Meanwhile this example and even the malheur forest where you had snipers trained on federal cops – still wasting their time with BLM and AntiFA.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Martin:
Oh, believe me some don’t. I had this lovely exchange just yesterday:
Moron:
Me:
Moron:
Me:
Moron:
I get very r/iamverysmart, “i’M sO lOgIcAl” vibes from this idiot. Gotta love the culture of single mother hood, everything went to hell when the CRA was passed, and poverty is the REAL problem facing black people comments. Completely ignored my points (which were deleted by fucking Youtube) about systemic racism being partly responsible for poverty
Miss Bianca
@mrmoshpotato: OMG, *harsh*. Funny, tho.
Kay
@Baud:
Beautiful. Short and sweet but clear as a bell. We could all just say this, exactly.
Mary G
Short and sweet:
Uncle Joe is definitely growing on me.
Morzer
“wasps gotta live somewhere and that’s as good a place as any”
I have a feeling that the next naked mopping update from Casa Cole is going to include a denunciation of wasps, their friends, allies and relatives.
Baud
@Kay:
I mean, it’s not like they put a blue cop symbol on it.
Kay
Steve Schmidt loves the word “slovenly”. He also described Barr’s secret police, the prison guards, as “slovenly” :)
Ken
@Morzer: Hey, at least they’re wasps and not murder hornets. Probably.
Miss Bianca
@Kay: I love that word too. : )
schrodingers_cat
@Kay: They were slovenly, wearing rumpled t-shirts. And fat.
Kay
@Baud:
I know I’m a conventional person but it makes me cringe. It’s a bridge too far. Can you imagine taking a flag and making it about you, personally? Changing it to glorify yourself? Just the EGO in that.
Baud
@Mary G:
Baud
@Kay:
Um….yes.
Martin
@Kay: He really loves the word ‘repudiated’.
Kay
@schrodingers_cat:
Sadly, they were. Schmidt’s sense was they weren’t military because they were too sloppy. Then we found out they were BOP.
I think they brought them in just because fake-general Barr wanted an army to command. Pathetic.
Miss Bianca
@Kay: Man, for every larval Nazi we might have out there in the Young Generation, we seem to have a score or more of bright, beautiful, inspiring young people who see things with a real moral clarity, express themselves with simple eloquence, and lead by example.
The kids are all right. Proud to follow them. : )
Kay
@Baud:
Right. I keep forgetting you’re trying to be commander in chief.
Ken
Well, given that everything Trump touches dies, if he does drop out of the race we can hope it will be at the point that causes maximum damage to the Republican party.
For example, after the convention has conducted the
oath of fealtyvote but before he’s accepted the nomination. Then the party members have to spend an extra week or two of interminable arguments and votes, squeezed into whatever poorly-ventilated venue they managed to find after Trump nixed the arrangements, until they can settle on a compromise candidate that absolutely everyone hates. That would be about right, I’d think.A Ghost to Most
The WaPo comment servers are melting down from the load on the New Mexico shooting (11.5k comments since this morning). The whole country is howling.
Here? Birbs.
Kay
@Miss Bianca:
It is literally why I like kids. Everyone else is horrible. 8 year olds are the highest and best example of human beings.
bluehill
@schrodingers_cat: I didn’t know that. Guess I shouldn’t be surprised by the etymology of the word.
Yutsano
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): As soon as he pulled out Thomas Sowell that was your point to back away slowly. Sowell is what conservatives think a black man should sound like. Right then it’s not a serious conversation and you’re done.
Baud
@Kay: I put my foot down when it came to putting my face on Statue of Liberty chachkas in the campaign store. Didn’t poll well in Michigan.
Baud
@A Ghost to Most:
WaPo reporting that Trump is going to court to block Bolton’s book.
Miss Bianca
@A Ghost to Most: You REALLY think we don’t spend enough time on the issues of the day?
I wouldn’t doubt that Cheryl has something lined up on the NM shooting. In the meantime, yeah…birbs.
We needs them, we haz them.
Martin
@A Ghost to Most: Worth observing that the very brave, massively armed fascists are either sniping police officers here in California, or assaulting relatively tiny protests. None of these assholes have the courage to walk into Atlanta and try their shit. But protecting Klamath Falls from the arriving antifa buses, they are on it!
Baud
Another WaPo headline of particular interest to Kay. (can’t access story).
frosty
@bluehill: The blue stripe flag isn’t the same as the Confederate, except to signal that you are a member of the Thin Blue Line tribe or that you support them. Nothing overtly racist or treasonous about it.
I’m pissed that the Tea Party hijacked the Gadsden flag. I liked that one, specifically because rattlesnakes are New World reptiles. I thought it was a good sentiment towards the British.
Martin
@Baud: Thankfully that won’t happen. WH had the chance to cite anything that was classified and they chose to claim that everything said to and said by Trump is classified, which not surprisingly, is illegal.
Wondering when Trump will roll out tort reform as a policy promise, as if he wasn’t personally responsible for about 20% of the lawsuits in the US.
MattF
@Baud: Tchotchkes.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Baud:
Oh, but that’s not flag desecration according to the right wingers. Because reasons
Baud
@MattF: I googled and chose the first spelling that came up.
zhena gogolia
Okay, my gym is reopening tomorrow. If I were a younger woman, I’d return — they sound as if they have their act together.
JMG
John, even stingy insects know you’re the softest touch for the animal kingdom for a 100 miles around. I do have a not urgent request. From the pictures of your yard and house, I know you live in a neighborhood of at least a reasonable sized town. Many of your posts make it seem like you are in a region where human settlements are kind of few and far between. Knowing nothing of northern West Virginia (only been to the southern past), I’d love an explainer post about your town, neighborhood, general area, etc.
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
Fun fact. My former husband is a native speaker of Yiddish. He says that Americans have it all wrong, and it’s really tsatskes. Of course Yiddish is not written in Roman letters, so it’s always a matter of what transliteration system you choose, but this isn’t really transliteration — he says Americans use the wrong consonants in that word.
Baud
@zhena gogolia:
It’s very unlike Americans to do that.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Martin:
It also shows that they can’t tolerate any dissent in spaces that in their minds “belong” to them. Then they make up delusional bullshit like “they’re all communist antifa outside agitators and can’t POSSIBLY be from there” to justify it to themselves.
They’re not freedom fighters, they’re jackbooted fascist thugs lying to themselves
Morzer
@Kay: Baud is more of a spirit animal in chief.
MattF
@Baud: Wikipedia:
So, I guess you’re not wrong, but it took some pondering to figure out what you were talking about.
Martin
Regarding Bolton’s book, we need some of our authors to inform us how best to buy the book which ensures maximum revenue to the publisher and retailer and minimum revenue to Bolton. I want to buy it and then break into Bolton’s house and steal back the $3 royalty that he earned.
Morzer
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): They are unfreedom fighters.
Goku (aka Amerikan Baka)
@Yutsano:
I was done at that point and I didn’t even know who the hell Sowell was. This guy was like a brick wall and I figured out I couldn’t get through to him. As soon as he brought up the Civil Rights Act and belittled the protests, I knew this fucker was a racist
MisterForkbeard
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka): This is why you do not comment on youtube.
Feathers
@bluehill: @schrodingers_cat:
It specifically entered the English language through the novel Confessions of a Thug, written by an English policeman who had worked in India. It was one of the most popular crime novels of 19th c. England and is Birth of a Nation levels of racist. It’s actually based on a case that the author tangentially worked on. There has been research comparing the actual case with the novel. One of the damning points is that the suspects repeatedly said that they would never target women or children because modesty forbade it. In the novel, the lead character is a notably lecherous seducer, constantly obsessively stalking various women, even to the point of murdering their families to gain access to them. The book was a major driver of the fantasy of the rapacious brown fiend. In case you were wondering, I read it for a class in Victorian crime fiction. It’s a compelling read (a Victorian Stephen King novel) and easy to see how it did so much damage.
Thug is not a word that just randomly made its way into the English language.
zhena gogolia
@Baud:
He despises what he calls “New York American Yiddish.”
cain
@Goku (aka Amerikan Baka):
Just tell them to explain Tulsa – where black folks managed to make a thriving economy for themselves and then they got slaughtered.
Systemic racism is the root of all that “data”. moron.
MisterForkbeard
@Mary G: Likewise. I still see a lot of shrieking as various reports come in about large low-dollar funding hauls for Biden, or very good polling. Things like “People don’t actually LIKE Biden they just hate Trump! This is not an endorsement of Democrats!”
Whatever helps them sleep at night, I guess. Personally, I think he’s really rising to the occasion and showing fundamental decency and level-headedness.
Baud
@zhena gogolia: Splitters.
Calouste
@zhena gogolia: You mean just like American pronounce salmon en croute like it’s something in German cabbage (kraut) rather than French pastry.
cain
@A Ghost to Most:
Oh.. I guess right wingers are all in a tizzy because one of their own shot a federale eh?
JMG
@Feathers: A class in Victorian crime fiction? How awesome! Was it an English lit class. Under or post-grad?
When my now legendary, then quite junior American studies professor Richard Slotkin was inventing my major at the turn of the ’70s, we read French, British and US detective stories for most of one semester.
cain
@Baud:
Good luck on that – I think that would be a 1st amendment violation. But that’s the only play he’s got. I wonder what he is going to do with his niece’s book? Will that also be executive privilege?
Omnes Omnibus
@A Ghost to Most: We are bad people, and you really shouldn’t waste your time on us. Unless, and stop me if you have heard this before, it is all a part of your cosplay, Jeremiah Johnson hero routine.
dnfree
I saw an Infowars mask (black with white lettering) at the local Meijer’s today (Northwest suburban Chicago). Masks are required to enter the store and there’s a bored employee checking at the entrance. Inside the store, though, some masks are dropped to chin level, as this one was.
davecb
If you want to provide good food for small birds, mealworms are excellent https://www.supercricket.ca/live_mealworms.html
Ken
That is why I carry a staple gun with me everywhere.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@MisterForkbeard: I comment regularly on one YouTube site, he does tech comedy, so I leave snarky comments.
Yutsano
@cain: The Pentagon Papers already settled this 50 years ago. Once it’s out there in public it’s can’t be reclassified. Plus Bolton is not an idiot. He will have researched how to get his book out safely.
The fact that he’s a depraved jackass is a different matter.
Omnes Omnibus
@?BillinGlendaleCA: That’s how they get ya.
logjam
@Benw: A clutch of pearls. That’s good.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Omnes Omnibus: True, he’s Canadian, so I have to be careful.
Mohagan
@No One of Consequence: Thank you! So nice to have a clear explanation of the difference in meaning. The subtle differences in word meanings in a language always pleases me. And then there are things/actions I am astonished there are words for. Defenestration, for example. Reminds me of the old John Travolta movie about a missing nuclear warhead called Broken Arrow, which turns out to be the term the military uses for a missing nuclear warhead, and one of the characters rightly notes WTF, it happens enough there is a term for it?
Omnes Omnibus
@Mohagan: In the military, if you can conceive of it there is a term for it and an SOP for how to handle it.
burnspbesq
@Baud:
suspect is an active-duty Air Force NCO. That is so not OK.
MisterForkbeard
@JMG: I took a 300-level class in the history of victorian literature in college as an elective. Incredibly fascinating, and it centered quite a bit on crime fiction and detective novels, which were born out of that period.
“The Woman In White” was regarded to be the first real detective novel in most ways and is incredibly interesting. It contains a lot of things that are now tropes, as well as demonstrating a lot of interesting things about victorian culture: The protagonists sidekick is this awesome woman who is completely sidelined (by everyone, even the author) because she’s ‘manlike’ in her ability to get shit done and be professional, and that villain is a man who’s portrayed with a lot of feminine characteristics.
Mohagan
@James E Powell: I bought the fantasy of Ivanka as a moderating influence up to about 6 months into Trump’s presidency, until it became apparent she wasn’t moderating shit. People who still believe it must want to believe it in order to ignore all the evidence of what she truly is.
rikyrah
@Kay:
Talentless bores ??
rikyrah
Cole,
You are good people.?
dnfree
@Omnes Omnibus: I had a college friend whose father was in the military. She said that growing up, he would suddenly exclaim to them something like “A bomb just went off in the kitchen! What do you do?” And they would have to respond instantly.
Sab
@dnfree: Blue herons and bald eagles reuse their nests. Around here they have nests built up to 2000 pounds, so heavy that their trees eventually fall over.
Ken
Actually it’s Trump’s personal attorney and fixer, Bill Barr.
Kay
@Baud:
It’s an odd story. 700 of them? That’s a lot. I bet it’s a zany Facebook-connected thing, where all the Trumpsters in a 6 county area got the message to go there.
There’s more to that story. We’ll find out they all thought Soros was there.
burnspbesq
@Kay:
WHO? That’s Des Moines. Somebody needs to make sure that any of those kids who turn 18 before election day get registered. Dems can use all the help they can get in Iowa.
Martin
@dnfree: I would accuse my father of planting bombs in the kitchen, because the likelihood that anyone else planted it is effectively zero.
Another Scott
@Yutsano:
Yeah, but it doesn’t become unclassified simply because it’s “out there”.
NPR (from 2016):
The Pentagon Papers were read into the Congressional Record, also too, but there was a court battle about it. Maybe someone should do that with Bolton’s book.
To be clear, Bolton has said there’s nothing classified in the book and I think he’s smart enough to be right about that. This is clearly Donnie trying to punish him for disloyalty.
Cheers,
Scott.
Kay
@Ken:
I know we’re all inured to this and “nothing matters” but could they possibly make it more clear they’re terrified of that book? Their reaction the past two days is akin to a complete confession.
“OH MY GOD, it’s going to come out!”
rikyrah
@Martin:
Like you, I think that it was those series of events
Along with the examples of police letting White men , armed to the teeth, take over Government buildings, and didn’t do shyt ??
What were they protesting about?
The RIGHT to get a haircut and go to Applebee’s and get free refills on their drinks?
While they had violence for peaceful protesters of a man who was MURDERED on video
burnspbesq
@Baud:
This is going to be HILARIOUS.
Please, God, rig the DC District Court’s assignment system so the case goes to Judge Walton.
rikyrah
@Mary G:
Biden is for this moment.
I can’t imagine Bernie handling these crises in the same way.
JMG
@MisterForkbeard: I read the Woman in White as a kid, like 14, because my mom was a mystery nut. I have complete collections of Agatha Christie, Maigret and Nero Wolfe as part of my inheritance. At the time, all that stuff sailed way over my head and I just thought it was kind of dull compared to Perry Mason or 77 Sunset Strip.
rikyrah
@Baud:
Keep on reminding us
Mohagan
@Omnes Omnibus: So super boy scouts, in the “be prepared” way.
rikyrah
@A Ghost to Most:
Is that where the White Supremacist did the killing??
bluehill
@frosty: I think the blue strip flag is going the way of the Gadsen flag. The “law and order” supporters of the police are really supporting the oppression of minorities. Win win because IMO there’s a disturbingly high amount of racism within the ranks.
CarolPW
@Sab: Osprey reuse nests too, and they get to spectacular size. Seems that the big birds with substantial investment in their nest construction are loath to throw them away.
rikyrah
@Yutsano:
Sowell, Walter Williams, Shelby Steele, John McWhorter….
Back away..,
They use them as their “smart Black Friend,”??
Steeplejack (phone)
@zhena gogolia:
Just wanted to say that you nailed it in your Grantchester analysis the other night. I swung back by that thread and caught your last reply this morning.
rikyrah
@cain:
Rosewood, Florida too??
Miss Bianca
@dnfree: Uh…die?
That’s what I’d probably do if a bomb went off in the kitchen.
Martin
@burnspbesq: They haven’t even bothered filing a TRO, so by all accounts from the folks I follow, this is theatre to appease Trump by lawyers that know this has zero chance.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack (phone): I haven’t watched it yet. What was the analysis. (without giving away the story, of course)
J R in WV
@JMG:
Bethany is a small rural town of around 900 residents, with a small liberal arts college with nearly 600 students. John’s house is in a small residential neighborhood. Driving around Bethany is driving in the country, where fracking is underway.
I’m sure John would have more to say, but up north is a long way from where i live down south of Charleston.
Gvg
@Mohagan: I think it’s what HE really is. It’s not her fault he is…awful. He is also really headstrong. No one really influences him. Even fox, is just telling him what he wants to hear.
now Ivanka is to blame for promoting herself by claiming influence she doesn’t have. But she didn’t make him, he was like that before she was born, and really, he shaped her views on normal and possible. She’s damaged, but still an adult.
J R in WV
@burnspbesq:
Weil… the AF is nearly overwhelmed with Theocratic Christian Nut Jobs, even at the “Academy” in Colorado Springs, a well known center of TCNJ crazies. Even our friends in CO know how strange The Springs is… CRAZY!!
joel hanes
@Ceci n est pas mon nym:
I have no idea where [cardinals] hang out when not on our deck.
Most probably in the tops of some of the taller nearby trees.
Their song is distinctive* and one of the easiest bird songs to learn to recognize; when I hear it, it’s usually coming from a treetop (they don’t much sing when near the ground).
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* My grandmother used to say that it started out with “purty purty purty” because they were such purty birds.
joel hanes
@Kay:
they were BOP.
I think they brought them in just because fake-general Barr wanted an army to command.
IMHO, they brought them in because the military was making noises about not obeying unlawful orders, and Barr knew that the BoP riot squads would have no such compunctions. As fascists, they thought that the brutal put-down of the DC protestors would swing popular opinion to their side, the side of “strength”.
zhena gogolia
@Steeplejack (phone):
Oh, thanks. I think we’re on the same page. I’m hoping for improvement as it proceeds.
Ken
They are also territorial and live for a decade or more, both factors encouraging re-use of the nest.
zhena gogolia
@WaterGirl:
I’m afraid the analysis might give away too much of the story. Keep an open mind! Summary: the writers needed to be clever about incorporating the new vicar, and we think they haven’t been.
dnfree
@J R in WV: my mom grew up in Buckhannon, also a small WV town with a liberal arts college. She met my dad in San Francisco during World War II and they settled in Illinois. She said once wistfully that if you grow up around mountains, you never stop missing them. It’s a beautiful state.
WaterGirl
@zhena gogolia: Okay. I’ll hit you guys up after I watch it. I think there are two episodes so far this season, and I haven’t watched either of them yet.
Steeplejack
@WaterGirl:
Zhena gogolia’s analysis. (And you can scroll back to see the previous comments.)
ETA: Only one episode has aired so far.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: Thanks for the pointer to the thread. I have it in an open browser window so I can read it after I watch.