The people in charging of planning the Republican National Convention in Jacksonville are so incompetent that the local Republican sheriff is warning that “we can’t pull it off” — seriously.
The sheriff of Jacksonville, Fla., said he can’t provide security for the Republican National Convention because of a lack of clear plans, adequate funding and enough law enforcement officers.
“As we’re talking today, we are still not close to having some kind of plan that we can work with that makes me comfortable that we’re going to keep that event and the community safe,” Duval County Sheriff Mike Williams told POLITICO…
Williams said the event, scheduled for Aug. 24-27, was announced in June, giving his agency little time to plan and prepare. The Republican National Committee has not yet nailed down which convention events will be at which venues, making it more challenging. And a pledged $50 million grant has been paired [sic] back to $33 million and, Williams said, there are strings attached that make letting [sic again? FFS, Politico!] contracts too difficult.
“We do need law enforcement officers and we’ve gotten commitments, but not to the level that we thought we needed. And a lot of that is people having virus concerns from their communities, and I understand that,” Williams said.
“But there’s a lot of things that need to happen: an event schedule nailed down, and being able to sign contracts and spend money so that we can prepare for this event. And none of that has happened yet,” he said. “So here we are inside of 40 days, and I haven’t really pulled the trigger on anything RNC-related when it comes to finances or contracts and so, you know, only related to security, mind you, nothing, nothing related to any of this.”
Jesus, what a fucking clown show. I’d bet a substantial sum the venue details haven’t been ironed out because the Trump/RNC people are trying to shake down the locals. It’s possible they’ll have to cancel the whole thing.
Speaking of clown shows, Trump is going to resume his daily 5 PM ET coronavirus briefings, starting tomorrow. That’s great news for three people, in no particular order: Joe Biden, Sarah Cooper and Joy Reid, none of whom will ever lack for material now.
“I think it’s a great way to get information out to the public,” Trump said, adding they would likely resume on Tuesday at 5 p.m. ET — the same time he typically briefed in the spring.
“We had a good slot. A lot of people were watching,” Trump said, using television ratings lingo to describe the sessions: “We had record numbers watching,” he said. “In the history of cable television there’s never been anything like it.”
True — there’s never been anything like it. Also speaking of clowns, these motherfuckers:
I'm not sure which is worse: DeSantis blowing the question off or Rubio posting nice words about Rep. Lewis accompanied by a photo of himself with Rep. Cummings. (Now deleted.) Maybe Rick Scott will do something awful and/or embarrassing to give us a GOP Florida Man trifecta.
— Betty Cracker ? (@bettycrackerfl) July 18, 2020
Speaking of mocking clowns, this video was shared in comments, I’m told, but I think it deserves the front page treatment because it’s hilarious:
— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) July 13, 2020
All the emails are really that bad. I receive Trump campaign come-ons on one of my burner accounts, and y’all wouldn’t believe how hard they’re trying to sell me a Trump-Pence welcome mat. Or maybe you would. Anyhoo. Open thread.
Princess Leia
Maybe Chad should send his shock troops in to help Jacksonville.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
with a picture of The Lone Danger itself
AliceBlue
A Trump-Pence welcome mat?? Is this really a thing?
Annie
Here’s another clown car in the pile-up – the idea to hold events outdoors. In August. In Jacksonville. That’s my hometown. It will be hotter than blue blazes. People will drop from heat exhaustion before they can get COVID-19.
SiubhanDuinne
That young woman is going to have a mighty sore throat from all the screaming.
Baud
@Annie: Death by heat exhaustion kills the virus.
Barbara
Well, I haven’t had the hard sell for FREE yard signs! But I have had the hard sell to meet the quarterly deadline to make a donation and get a 5X match! That’s from the side I actually support. Maybe after you have made enough contributions you just learn to ignore this stuff.
A Ghost to Most
The sheriff knows they will get stiffed on the costs. A rare moment of sanity from a sheriff.
Danielx
Only
The
Best
People.
Regarding daily briefings, what passes for Trump’s brain trust (Hope, Jared, et al) thought starting briefings again was a good idea. But – they were trying to figure out how to have them somewhere other than the White House so that briefings wouldn’t be taken over by Crazy Drunk Uncle to talk about whatever comes into his head while on camera. Talk about futile – trying to keep Trump away from daily media exposure? Good fuckin’ luck with that. Never mind that the best thing they could for his ever-declining chance of re-election would to keep his mouth sealed with gorilla tape until November 5th.
Baud
The only question is how long the media pretends it’s a coronovirus briefing and continues to air it.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Baud: I’m in the give-him-enough-rope camp on those briefings, but they should put in a two minute delay and fact-check him in real time on screen
Frankensteinbeck
This is what happens when you build a movement of assholery. You get the proudly ignorant, the grifters, the fail upwards crowd, and the whiny ass titty babies. You get them as voters and as leaders. It’s a huge voting pool, but you get to a point where the party as an organization can’t find its butt with both hands.
Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)
@SiubhanDuinne: Yeah, she kind of started at 4, briefly, then escalated to 8 and more or less stayed there, which made the moments when she ramped it up to 10 less effective than they could have been.
dmsilev
I’m sure all of the various ad-makers are very appreciative as well.
Trump must really be feeling the withdrawal symptoms from lack of (attended) rallies.
J R in WV
A Trump-Pence Door Mat?!?!!??
I would wipe my feet on that sucker!!!!!
terraformer
Geesh, still caught up in the “ratings” metric. What a complete shit-show of a President we have. “Your favorite President, me…?” I mean FFS.
What an absolute failure of a human being.
Doug R
Welcome mat for trump*/pence: https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/0324/7941/2283/products/go_away_coco_doormat_1200x630.jpg
hells littlest angel
@AliceBlue: My guess is:
…WELCOME…
WHITES ONLY
WaterGirl
@SiubhanDuinne: It’s worth it, though, because it really is funny!
Betty, is that secretly your daughter? :-) If so, you should be very proud of her. She’s very funny, and has a gift for mockery, I think.
WaterGirl
@Baud: I know, I know! Pick me!
The answer is: Way too long.
pamelabrown53
@SiubhanDuinne:
Yeah, she’ll probably have a sore throat, maybe even laryngitis but damn! what a good screamer! I especially appreciated that her scream wasn’t high pitched.
P.S. Just a little more than a year ago, I lived just south of the Duval county line (Jacksonville), in St. Johns County. A lot of majorly rich assholes (tax cuts, deregulation are their only issues). Still democrats can and do win in that area. Hopefully, the RNC convention fiasco will further push Florida into the Biden electoral win column.
Jeffro
@Baud: I was just gonna say…he can call it a Covid-19 briefing all he wants; we all know it’s really just a bash-Biden briefing.
Hey as long as the networks keep cutting away from him the first time he veers off topic/starts bashing Biden/lies, he should get about 30 seconds of airtime every given day. It’s still 30 seconds too many, but I’m still good with it considering the impact on his numbers.
Gin & Tonic
Open thread, so two news items from Ukraine. Today marks four years since prominent investigative journalist Pavel Sheremet was killed by a car bomb in broad daylight in the center of Kyiv. Nobody has been arrested.
A week ago a medic tending to a wounded soldier in the east was killed, despite a declared truce and the fact that he was wearing a white helmet. Since this administration is silent in the face of Russian bounties on US soldiers, they will certainly not comment on war crimes committed by Russian-backed forces elsewhere.
West of the Rockies
How DeSantis (lumpa lumpa burnin’ meh) remains so smug eludes me. He’s got Putin’s dull, lifeless demeanor but with Blago’s hair.
Miss Bianca
Oh, Jesus Christ jumping, I *needed* the belly laugh from that last tweet, YOU DON’T KNOW HOW MUCH!11!!
Betty, how do you stand being surrounded by RW swamp things? I am starting to lose it in my Trumpy community. Honestly, the natural beauty of my surroundings is only going so far with me these days.
dmsilev
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Maybe bring back the old censor bleeping-out machines and turn on the buzzer whenever he lies. I’m sure many people would find listening to an hour-long bleeeeeeeeeep to be preferable to actually listening to Trump.
Gin & Tonic
@Doug R: My sister bought me one of those a bunch of years ago.
Mike J
Letting contracts is correct.
VOR
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: See, now they can point to this picture as proof Trump wasn’t against mask wearing. Not his fault, he accepts no responsibility for the needless deaths which could have been avoided.
I’d bet he rarely, if ever, wears a mask in public again.
bluehill
If hospitals aren’t sending the data to the CDC any more, I wouldn’t be surprised if the numbers start looking much better in his briefings.
trollhattan
@Miss Bianca:
That last item is perfection. Does it capture the essence of a teenage girl? Oh yes, it truly does.
Lots will be voting for the first time this fall. They understand they have a lot to vote on.
dmsilev
And with regards to the convention, the site for one of these things is usually set a year or so in advance for good reason. Planning a big event of any sort takes a lot of time. To do it in a month or two, even without the whole pandemic thing, is hard even for people who know what they’re doing. Run by a bunch of clowns, well, you’re going to get the Fyre Festival of political conventions, and for much the same reasons.
Frankensteinbeck
@bluehill:
The old briefings were lies from beginning to end. His polling started climbing… then hit bottom, much worse than they’ve ever been, when it became apparent that all of his claims were lies. And it’s stuck there.
Lacuna Synechdoche
Betty Cracker @ Top:
For a moment there, part of me thought, “You know, it might be nice to have a place where I, and my guests, can scrape shit and mud all over Trump’s and Pence’s names.”
But then I thought, “Oh, what’s the point? It’s just redundant when they so prolifically spend all their own time covering themselves in shit.”
trollhattan
@West of the Rockies:
I’m reminded of Scotty Walker’s utter soullessness.
Republican governors, they’re a special bunch.
joel hanes
@terraformer:
still caught up in the “ratings” metric
He sees no need for himself to learn or change or grow, and will never do so.
randy khan
Pedantry note: “Letting” actually appears to be correct. It’s not regular person usage, but it’s the word you’d use when talking about them in a technical kind of way.
As for the texts, I am on the White House email list (a mistake, I know), and it’s a very strange combination of messages that at least mimic the standard PR puffery and unhinged, nastygram messages that no leader of a Western democracy ever would have considered sending in the past. And even the ones that kind of look like standard White House “we did something good for you” often have a belligerent edge. Among other things, there are tons of digs about stories the media just won’t tell.
WaterGirl
Open Thread? I went to the hair salon today for a cut & highlight for the first time in 4.5 months. I had some reservations about it, and still do, in fact, but I see that Illinois is very much going in the wrong direction with COVID these days, so I felt a lot like I did toward the end of February – I’d better get this stuff done now before things get even less safe.
On the plus side, they were very careful and safety conscious, and there weren’t many people in the salon. Not to mention that I no longer look (and feel) like the Count of Monte Cristo when he was still in the dungeon.
Except no beard, of course.
bluehill
@Frankensteinbeck: Yeah good thing they don’t learn.
Baud
@dmsilev: I vote for a gong like you had on the Gong Show.
NotMax
Bidding wars for running bleach shave ice stands must be intense.
//
Another Scott
My grandmother collected stamps and I have one of her albums. She saved “postage stamps” with pictures of Dick and Pat Nixon on them.
Donnie’s people need to up their game. There’s still lots more crap they can be selling for fundraising.
:-/
Cheers,
Scott.
dmsilev
@Baud: My plan B is a whole series of buckets of Nickelodeon Slime.
Barbara
@WaterGirl: I had my hair done last Thursday. I was nervous too. The salon owner works with one other person, and he told me that they were committed to having no more than one person being served at a time through January, so that they can disinfect between every client, without exception. I wore my mask throughout the appointment. Just kind of amazing.
fancycwabs
@Princess Leia: Seconded (or even higher! I’m not gonna go through all the comments to check.)
Nicole
So Ed Henry wasn’t the only Fox News person in the harassment lawsuit, Carlson and Hannity are also mentioned:
https://www.chicagotribune.com/entertainment/tv/ct-ent-fox-news-harassment-lawsuit-20200720-6iarmqfxarckzahwgnatjlc3wq-story.html
NotMax
Somehow missed this nugget from a few days ago.
4 dead, 26 hospitalized in Arizona after ingesting tainted hand sanitizer
“What about the word hand don’t you understand?”
Jim, Foolish Literalist
oh, this will piss off The Beast…
Nicole
@WaterGirl: Two weeks ago, I went for the first time since January, and I was also anxious, but I realize this is going to be the new normal- figuring out how to do life with minimized, but not zero, risk. My salon did a good job keeping patrons apart, and everyone was masked.
And, as you said, if things go bad again, I may have to be prepared to go months before the next visit (I’m in NY, so fingers crossed they won’t, but you never know).
Kent
Especially the older obese wheezing demographic that is the GOP hierarchy.
Gin & Tonic
@dmsilev: A million years ago we took the kids for the obligatory Florida trip of Disney and Universal. Honestly don’t recall which one Nick is affiliated with, but in whatever was the live show, my son was selected to be slimed (much to his delight.) You sit on metal bleachers for the show, and there’s one section that’s labeled “Slime Family.” Oh how proud I was to sit there.
phdesmond
betty,
i wouldn’t be hard on Politico for the second typo. i think they are using “let” in its second dictionary meaning, where the RNC would be the lessor of contracts.
let (v.) Old English lætan (Northumbrian leta) “to allow; to leave behind, depart from; leave undone; bequeath,” also “to rent, put to rent or hire”
Kent
Honestly I doubt they are trying to follow Trump. They are probably trying to get drunk off the alcohol content and found out the hard way that methanol or isopropyl alcohol are poisonous. Drinking hand sanitizer is probably the new glue sniffing. Especially if some is actually made out of ethanol by distilleries.
geg6
@WaterGirl:
I had my first cut since February as soon as my county went green here in PA. And I’m due for another one this week. I can’t wait. I’m a week overdue and have a very short cut. I’m sick of all this hair and it seems to be growing faster now that it got a taste for doing whatever it wanted. ;-)
That said, the salon space is gigantic and they are keeping it to 4 clients at a time. I’m probably at least ten feet from the next chair when I’m there. And they are very strict with cleaning, have one-use plastic on all the chairs, require masks, take your temperature and have sanitizer all over the place. I felt okay with all the precautions.
Mike in NC
RNC don’t need no stinkin’ plans!
different-church-lady
I probably would have joined the Strike for Black Lives today, but I don’t really have a job to walk off of anymore…
Kay
There is a little red truck parked on the street by the convenience store close my office. So it looks like it doesn’t run and it never moves, but up until today it has had a huge Trump flag flying from the bed.
The flag is gone. I’m dying to know why they took it down. Now it just has the much smaller companion American flag the cultists fly along with the Trump flag. De-Trumpified? A family intervention?
Miss Bianca
@Kent: “Look, it’s simple. Don’t inject bleach, don’t drink hand sanitizer. Don’t – Christ on a cracker, do we have to spell EVERYTHING out for you?!”
FelonyGovt
@WaterGirl: Good for you. I missed the window when Los Angeles County hair salons were open (closed again now). If my hair gets any longer and grayer, all I will need is a cauldron and a broom.
Jess
@Baud: See? It WILL go away!!!1!!
Another Scott
@Frankensteinbeck: IIRC, he stopped the previous briefings shortly after people were going “WTF?? Inject bleach??!!”. Presumably he’ll say something else totally wrong and unhinged soon. He can’t help it.
Cheers,
Scott.
narya
I very much need the ends of my hair trimmed (I wear it long, so i don’t have to worry as much about maintaining a “style:), but I cannnot bring myself to do it. I barely leave the house except to go for a run (when it’s in a braid anyway), and on zoom i just look a bit shaggy. Back when I was working at the bakery, making a relative pittance, I didn’t get it trimmed for more than a year–basically, until I started back in OfficeWorld. The same person has been cutting my hair for 27 years, and both she and the salon would be hyper careful, but . . . it seems like a risk I don’t need to take and an expense I don’t need to incur (says the person who is re-doing the whole kitchen . . .).
different-church-lady
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Well, it is traditional for the president to throw out the first pitch, so it’s no surprise Fauci‘s doing it. Wait, what?
A woman from anywhere (formerly Mohagan)
@WaterGirl: I feel you! I had my first haircut in 3 1/2 months around the first of June when salons were allowed to open again and have an appointment for tomorrow (little over six weeks later, which is my usual interval) which I feel very lucky about since the salons will be closed again after this week. Our County Health lady is trying to keep Mendocino County off Newsome’s bad list and retain local control, and our infection rate has gone up quite a bit lately. Originally the order closed salons last Saturday (basically, no notice), and I was in despair. My husband offered to lend me his electric hair shaving kit and I’m tempted … he wears his as close as a concentration camp inmate but boy is it cool and low maintenance.
debbie
You want clown car? I’ll give you clown car. Listen to this interview with Mike Evans (on NPR’s Here and Now), one leader of the Evangelical movement), twist himself into pretzels to avoid talking about Trump’s racism and lack of leadership.
NotMax
@phdesmond
Yup. Don’t they put “Space To Let” signs in empty building windows any more?
WaterGirl
@Barbara: Wow. There were others patrons in the salon, but no one anywhere near me.
It was weird. I didn’t feel nervous or anxious while I was there, yet at the same time I was aware that I was more at risk than I normally am.
Interesting times, for sure.
Brachiator
This reaction video was hilarious and creative. I just hope that younger people are also registering to vote. And of course come out on election day.
debbie
@WaterGirl:
I went about a month or so ago. In addition to being the only one there, masking up, sanitizing, etc., I had washed my hair ahead of time so I wouldn’t have to worry about that. I was in and out in less than 15 minutes, way quicker than usual.
My next appointment is after Labor Day. I’m not hopeful they’ll even be open then.
Martin
@NotMax: 4 fewer non-mask-wearers. Potentially 26 more. I’m okay with this.
WaterGirl
@Nicole: Yep. I am pretty sure at this point that I’ll be skipping the haircut at 6 weeks and just do the cut & highllght every 12 weeks, until this settles down. Which I believe will certainly be at least a year or two from now.
Plus, if you’re staying home, who sees you anyway?
Ken
Doesn’t a person have to be dead to be on a postage stamp?
Betty Cracker
As I confessed here the other day, I got my husband to cut my hair a while back because it was driving me nuts. He did just fine because it was an easy job — all he had to do was cut it evenly straight across the bottom. It’s not perfect, but it’s fine.
Well, I cut his hair yesterday, and it turns out short, layered haircuts are a lot harder! I told him that before I agreed to cut it, and I said there was a good chance I’d screw it up. He said if I did mess up, we’d resort to the clippers for a brush cut. Well, I did screw it up, and I think we should do the clippers, but he thinks it looks okay. Whatever, man.
raven
@debbie: Our problem is that my wife’s hairdresser is also our tenant and we have real doubts about her social distancing. She’s taking all the precautions at the salon and she might use her porch but it’s till nerve time.
WaterGirl
@FelonyGovt: Let’s just say that I wasn’t feeling my most attractive!
edit: I’m sorry you missed your window. But maybe you dodged a bullet!
Another Scott
@NotMax: Speaking of Space Toilets, on the Kojo Nnamdi show this afternoon there was a NASA astronaut getting questions from school kids and talking about the toilets on the Shuttle and on the Space Station. Interesting stuff.
What’s that?
Oh.
Sorry.
Cheers,
Scott.
Ken
@NotMax: Next up, people who read that headline and think it’s safe to ingest non-tainted hand sanitizer…
different-church-lady
@Ken: I find your proposal acceptable.
evodevo
@Kent: In my day, the local alkies would try to process Sterno cans to get the denatured alcohol out to ingest…needless to say a lot of them were blinded or died..
Another Scott
@Ken: Yes, but they weren’t real USPS postage stamps. Just shaped like them. To sell to collectors (and to plaster on campaign/fundraising mailers, etc.).
Cheers,
Scott.
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@Baud: like all things American the Virus will die being over fed.
WaterGirl
@narya: I cut mine myself, twice. Just washed my hair, combed through it, waited a few minutes until it formed little clumps, and then snipped about an inch off of each clump while it was still wet.
I bet that would work great on your long hair.
Ken
@Baud: and the host, so it’s a two’fer
evodevo
@Kay: Got several of those here locally – keep me updated if you find out why…
Jess
I’ve been cutting my own hair. I’ve been giving myself trims between professional cuts for years, but now that I’ve stopped coloring it, I decided to get good scissors and do it myself from now on. For short cuts, the key is to use thinning shears–much lower risk of making mistakes, and a more natural finish. There’s a chick on YouTube that gives a great demo.
rikyrah
Take the muthaphuckas in Portland and send them to Jacksonville
Aleta
Florida (NYT)
debbie
@raven:
Well, that’s no good.
rikyrah
They shouldn’t air them live. If anything worthwhile is said, they can pull up the video later.
Stay in the basement, Joe.
Just stay there.
Aleta
NYT
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@Jim, Foolish Literalist: His own supporter don’t cringe at blatant needness like that? I though the whole appeal of a strong man ruler was he’s the tough daddy who is going to keep you safe, not your teen emo son somehow got in charge of the country.
debbie
@SiubhanDuinne:
She was channeling Doug Collins and Gym Jordan.
SiubhanDuinne
@Kent:
“Hotter than the hinges of Hades,” my grandmother used to say.
Roger Moore
@AliceBlue:
What patriot doesn’t want to wipe the mud and dog shit on their shoes all over Trump and Pence? FWIW, this has always been my problem with themed welcome mats. A friend gave me a welcome mat with the logo of my favorite sportsball franchise, and I to explain that being viewed as a doormat is a major negative in the sports world.
Baud
@debbie:
Technically true, since Trump isn’t going to fall from 80 percent to below 50 percent. If Trump is anywhere near 50 percent, however, he’s going to suffer a historic beating.
The Golux
@Barbara:
I last had a haircut on December 23, and I am ready. My hair hasn’t been this long since the autumn of 1973, when it was past my shoulder blades, then cut most of it of while doing landscaping. When I do get it cut, it will probably be the shortest since it’s been since 1965.
Baud
I’m completely sold on doing my own hair from now one. $10/month saved!
rikyrah
@dmsilev:
It’s alllll about the grift. Nothing, but the grift.
Johannes
@dmsilev: Hell, I had to plan an academic and professional conference and that took a year of my life, and we didn’t have to worry about the balloons or the fascism.
Ken
I’ll choose to take that as a positive sign – that he’s starting to realize the magnitude of the disaster in Florida – and not a cowardly CYA move by a spineless politician.
Oh, heck, as they say in Florida, ¿porque no los dos?
germy
I’ve never had much luck with barbers or stylists over the years.
I had one great barber, the only one who lived up to the term “Master Barber” because his skills were outstanding. But he eventually retired and then soon after died of old age. He would taper and trim the back of my neck and then proudly hold a mirror up so I could see his handiwork. He had been cutting hair in the 1940s, and his trims were perfect.
After he retired, I didn’t have much luck. Last year I tried a new barbershop in my neighborhood. One that goes for the “retro” experience. The young man hacked at my hair, snip snip snipping all over randomly. When I asked to see the back I could see him roll his eyes contemptuously and walk across the room for a small mirror. I told him that his attempt at recreating the old barber experience was lacking.
And then I tried salons. A very nice young lady seemed to do a good job. But when I got home I noticed everything was uneven. Left side longer than the right. Back uneven, etc.
So then I tried another macho barbershop. Asked for a skin fade. He did it, and his fade looked like I’d had my hair shaved by an angry mob for collaborating with nazis. And when I got home, I folded my ears down and saw he had left a longish, unshaved fringe of hair around each ear.
So when the pandemic hit, my hair got really long. I started looking like 1970s Geraldo Rivera. But I finally couldn’t take it anymore, and asked my wife to cut my hair.
Using just scissors and a tiny beard trimmer, she gave me one of the best haircuts I’ve ever had!
She didn’t follow the rules of current barbers and stylists, with all the feathering and layering and thinning. She simply trimmed around my ears, and cut the back short, but left it long enough on top that I can comb it back. It’s what barbers used to do decades ago. It looks and feels great, she enjoys doing it, and I will never return to a “professional” barber again.
cope
@Gin & Tonic: Nickelodeon is Universal turf. Our daughter was on their show “Legends of the Hidden Temple” when she was in high school. She was paired with a big athletic young man and I was sure the two of them would work through all the puzzles and physical challenges in a flash. They failed to complete the first challenge: walking across a floating bridge of what looked like 2 X 6 boards. Each partner had to kneel at waters edge and hold the boards stable enough for the other to cross. She made it across just fine while he was holding the boards. He never made it when they switched roles.
I just found the cache of VCR tapes that has her appearance on it and will probably get it digitized for her embarrassment.
rikyrah
@WaterGirl:
Been waiting for the new operating system at work to kick it. Going on a month now. I just want it to get up and running, so that I can scan the backlog of work that I have, so when Illinois does go to complete hell again, I’ll have enough work to do from home. I just need 4-5 weeks. If we can get up and running this week, and I get up to Labor Day with no interruptions, I’ll feel a lot better.
debbie
@Baud:
The clown dodged question after question about how he could support Trump knowing the racist things Trump had said and done. All he could come back with was, “But he supports Israel!”
The Torah would not support Trump, but this pseudo-Friend of Israel does.
rikyrah
@Nicole:
UH HUH
UH HUH
rikyrah
@NotMax:
I missed this one too.
Ingest….
uh huh
uh huh
Barbara
@WaterGirl: If you can find a good color match, root touch up dyes can lengthen the time between color appointments for two or three weeks per application. They don’t work nearly as well if your natural color is darker than the cover up. Salon guy said they’ve had to fix some real disasters recently.
Aleta
I bet there will be a lot of Republican-on-Republican lawsuits after the election, as the C.toreelectT, and the contractors for the RNC, and the T Org. all skip out on bills and promises.
Ken
@Baud: Another possibility is that he still gets 80% of the evangelical vote, but the evangelicals don’t turn out in the same numbers. Say, because tens of thousands of them have left in disgust over the last four years, especially the younger cohort.
rikyrah
@debbie:
they have shown themselves to be complete and utter frauds.
One of the by-products of the Dolt45 era.
Them being clowns to be mocked is more evident than ever. Been collecting all kinds of receipts these past 4 years.
debbie
@NotMax:
Jello shots in the Time of COVID?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I renew my occasional calls for Dianne Feinstein to blow off classification rules, blow the biggest loudest whistle possible, resign from the Senate (or not), look at Bill Barr and say, “Come at me, big boy”
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@rikyrah: Wouldn’t that just be Apex Trump if they were funding the Portland goons off of the budget for security for the GOP Convention in August and an now there is no money is left.
rikyrah
@Aleta:
Well….well……
I got nothing….
CaseyL
I’ve been coloring my own hair for ages, and currently have one kit in the house. The idea was not to do it until I was sure the office was re-opening and I’d be around other people.
That was back in, um, May. Now we’re each going into the office for one day per week, one at a time, for the foreseeable future. So I don’t know when I’ll bother to color my hair.
And my roots are probably longer than one kit can handle, anyway.
I still think it might be fun to wait until the roots are a good 4-5 inches long, then color only the part closest to my scalp, then rinse and repeat… so I have horizontal stripes of red/gray-brown/red/grey-brown/red….
scav
All I can get is With Infection Now, Needlessly — Dangerous Interactions eXacerbate Interminable Epidemic as the revealed motto, ethos and branding scheme of Winn-Dixie. close.
Ken
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: It was just a day or two ago that Biden said that Russia and China are interfering in the election, based on what he’s now seeing in the intelligence reports. Wonder if he’s the source?
Enhanced Voting Techniques
@Aleta: That Villages article is quite interesting, you can almost see the reason this whole don’t care attitude from the elite is being driven by these rich twatwaffles in their gated community who though they were safe from the Virus until now.
Baud
@debbie: The majority of white evangelical conservatives (kudos to the 20% who did not vote for Trump, unless they voted third party) really, really want to think of themselves as morally superior to the rest of us. That’s gone now for at least a generation or two. Trump is all they have left. There’s no path out for them, and they know it.
@Ken: True. Which might be better for down ballot races.
NotMax
@Jim, Foolish Literalist
Speaking of which, isn’t Barr supposed to
show up atslither over to the Capitol some time this week?Martin
@Ken: Used to be. They just relaxed that rule.
They weren’t actual postage stamps but stamps you could put on your mail in addition to the postage.
Still need to be dead to be commemorated on currency.
Dorothy A. Winsor
Get the money up front, Sheriff Williams.
Patricia Kayden
Frankensteinbeck
@Enhanced Voting Techniques:
Trump’s whole appeal is “Whiny ass titty babies like us are the real strong men and everyone should worship us.”
JoJo
@Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA): Well, the emails I get every half an hour from the Trump campaign basically sound like that in my head when I read them. Also, it is always my LAST CHANCE TO (get Trump/Pence doormat, meet President Trump, etc.) until I get another LAST CHANCE!@!!!!!111!!! to do the exact same thing. And all of these last chances come about every half-day. It really is insane.
Catherine D.
@Betty Cracker:
I want stock in Flo-bees! I’d like to get my hair cut, but it’s at the point where most of it goes into a short pony tail with clips holding the dangly bits in. Since my money is on us getting locked down tight again by mid-September after the undergrads return, I might as well let it grow and keep the ponytail. I’ve gotten goodish at trimming the bangs
My biggest need is for new glasses, and I managed to reschedule my cancelled April exam appointment for tomorrow. I think I will take the bus, wearing both mask and face shield, because parking is a pain downtown.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: some more details from Natasha Bertrand
Ron Effin Johnson, a tool in every sense of the word
lgerard
My favorite trump campaign appeal is the one exposed by Jed Legrum, the “win a date with donald trump” scam.
Contributors were supposedly entered into a contest to win a chance to meet with trump and share a meal with him. Legrum investigated 15 contests and discovered that not a single one had an actual winner.
Read about it here
(hit the let me read button)
Kay
@Jess:
I stopped too. I kind of like the grey streaks so have thought about stopping but once you start coloring it you feel like you have to keep doing it. Putting off the awkward grow out phase.
I’m getting kind of a kick out of what are (for me) very dramatic stripes of white-gray.
MattF
Trump will insist on a dramatic entrance to the stage through a cloud-filled doorway, with laser lighting– and if doing that that means killling a few dozen people, that’s the price Republicans should be willing to pay for viewing the One approach his appointment as GodKing.
fxdshdw
@Ken: Maybe we should offer him, yknow, the opportunity to be on a stamp without mentioning the ‘Must Be Dead’ part…
rikyrah
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Just a reminder…
JOHNSON SPENT JULY 4TH IN MOSCOW.
NEVER EVER FORGET IT
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: That’s a good strategy, but I’m not sure we’ll have 4-5 weeks before that happens. Do you have any other options for scanning everything?
Kay
I bet they wish they had never announced an in-person event. It’s going to be a fucking nightmare from start to finish, but they’re too ridiculous and bull-headed to admit they made a dumb decision.
They should say they’re cancelling for weather. No one believed it that last time they used that lie as an excuse, but honestly, at this point, what does it matter? What’s one more lie in the daily 40 or so they blithely tell.
Uncle Cosmo
@Kent: Dad’s motor pool unit came ashore on Okinawa &, as usual, while the shop was being set up they unloaded incoming boats. One such consignment was a bunch of 55-gallon drums labeled “alcohol”. When the guys drove off in a truck to deliver the drums they managed to, ahem, lose 3 of them – which found their way under a sand dune on a beach just out of sight.
A couple of evenings later it was time for the mechanics to party, & a bunch of them (Dad not among them, he didn’t like to drink) set off for the beach with corrugated steel cans of fruit juice (lots of this, particularly pineapple, floating around the Pacific), aiming to pour out some juice & top off with the contents of the drums. (Look up “Torpedo Juice” for one such contemporary concotion.)
Dad recalled the moans & groans on the partygoers’ return, as they staggered to their tents, some screaming, I can’t see! I can’t see! For the drums contained denatured alcohol – ethanol adulterated with (among other things) some significant %age of methanol – which in sufficient amounts causes blindness and even death.
No one died, & the blind all recovered their sight – but none of them ever went near the nearly-fatal sand dune again.
Noncarborundum
@phdesmond: Nobody’s seen “Rooms to Let” signs?
WaterGirl
@Barbara: Hmmm. She does 3 different colors, so I doubt if I can match that! :-)
I’ve been wanting to add some violet to my hair, but I was thinking the ends rather than the roots so I guess that’s out…
NotMax
@CaseyL
You could get a whole Power Rangers ‘do going on.
;)
Wapiti
@germy: I was going to a barber here in Seattle, in before times. Old guy from Alaska. We talk about Alaska tribal issues (he’s Aleut), the environment, gardening, politics. He cut my hair fine, but to some degree I was there for the bullshitting session.
But with the pandemic, he’s been closed, and since he’s ~70, I doubt he’ll reopen soon. I’m feeling scruffy.
Ken
@WaterGirl: Would your phone camera give sufficient resolution?
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
What the hell is wrong with how he looks? I’ve come home from work on a hard day looking like that, and I’m no damn count. I mean I can count but still…..
Roger Moore
@different-church-lady:
I just checked the Wikipedia entry on the first pitch ceremony. Apparently, Trump is the first president since Teddy Roosevelt not to throw out the first ball at least once during his term. FWIW, this wasn’t because Roosevelt broke tradition. Taft was the first president to throw out the first ball in MLB, to Walter Johnson, the Nationals’ ace, who then asked Taft to sign it as a souvenir.
I knew that the tradition used to be for the person throwing out the first ball to throw it from the stands to either the pitcher or catcher, but I hadn’t realized how long that tradition held on. Reagan was apparently the first president to throw out the first ball from the field, and Clinton was the first to successfully throw from the mound rather than some distance in front of it.
MattF
@germy: I got my recent haircut from Miguel, the guy down street who has been cutting my hair for about 20 years now. Don’t know what I’ll do when he and his wife retire.
Kay
Why doesn’t Chad send the Trump secret police down to provide security at the convention?
They all work for Trump anyway. Maybe they’ll leave the rest of the country alone and officially sign on with Trump 2020. Head on down now. Start putting up fences. Hop to it. Dear Leader has another assignment for you.
Uncle Cosmo
@debbie: Next weekend I’m due to see my Sicilian barber. Last time there were maybe 8 people, all masked, in a 1200 sq ft salon. I’ve been in dollar stores recently that were more crowded, so no worries here.
Galahad Threepwood
I can’t see any benefit to more daily briefings from Trump, either to the country or to him politically. He was doing this before and that’s when his polls started to slide, if I’m remembering right. If he goes back to using the briefings to lie about the virus and fight with the media–and I can’t see why he wouldn’t–then I don’t see how that could improve his standings. It could, however, start to batter my psyche again, and I am not looking forward to that.
WaterGirl
@Ruckus: It was an okay look for him, but as I recall he cleaned up very nicely!
I’m just saying it wasn’t a good look for me. :-)
Ruckus
@Patricia Kayden:
Well when the only place you have left to look for talent is the bottom of the toilet bowl, surly all you can expect to find is a turd……
MattF
@Galahad Threepwood: In fact, Trump got a little boost in approval when he first did the briefings, but then his approval started a gradual long-term decline. Went from a 5% gap between approval and disapproval to the current 15% gap.
Ruckus
@WaterGirl:
I was saying that I’ve got a mirror and I’ve seen me in it after a long day at work and once in a while………
Patricia Kayden
J R in WV
@Miss Bianca:
My “In the Car” hand sanitizer is ethanol, 77% which would = ~154 proof. Will not try to ingest it, stickin’ to high end gin, Irish, Bourbon. No sanitizer whatsoever!
Bet it tastes vile…
zhena gogolia
I’m supposed to get my hair cut in the first week of August. It’s a one-at-a-time place, so I think it’s okay. I have never dyed my hair, so the gray/silver doesn’t bother me at all, it’s the long, long hairs that get into everything. My husband’s been chopping my bangs, so it’s as if Moe Howard had decided to go hippie.
trnc
The case against Ed H is probably pretty easy, since she must have the crap he sent over email, and considering Fox fired him the same day. I wonder if Hannity’s demeaning comments were aired, but the article implies they were on the set but necessarily filming at the time.
Tucker is gross and obviously inappropriate. He should be fired if he propositioned her, but I’m not sure she would be awarded damages if he didn’t threaten her or try to force her in any way. I mean, it isn’t like he’s a democratic president from Arkansas.
Kay
The sewer of a workplace that is Fox News overflows again:
Seriously. Get out. Whatever they’re paying you it’s not worth it.
germy
@Wapiti:
I enjoy a good conversation with a barber. Years ago I had one barber who I enjoyed discussing music with.
But more recently their idea of conversation was to ask a series of personal questions. Here’s some examples:
“What do you do for a living?” (okay, not a bad question, but it happened once about thirteen years ago after I’d just be laid off and I didn’t feel like getting into it.)
“What does your wife do for a living?”
“Where do you live?” (I tell them the street and they reply “Where on that street exactly?” Why do you want to know? Planning on bringing me a housewarming gift?)
“Where were you born?”
“How many brothers and sisters do you have?”
etc.
I like talking to barbers, I just don’t like talking about myself.
Ruckus
You guys…
I got a haircut this morning, like every other week of the year, didn’t have to leave the house.
Of course it’s a buzz cut with trimers but baldish has it’s advantages, I don’t look any different in the middle of a pandemic than I do every other week.
Uncle Cosmo
@Patricia Kayden: You know what they say:
(Unless he’s watching on TV from afar – then he’s rooting for a meteor strike…)
Patricia Kayden
@Baud: White Evangelicals were never morally superior to the rest of us though. Trump just showed them up for the bigoted hypocrites they’ve always been.
trnc
@Patricia Kayden:
Ya know, when I saw the text of that tweet quoted somewhere, I thought it was satire.
BruceFromOhio
Hard pass. Holding out for Trump-Pence urinal cakes.
debbie
@J R in WV:
Be careful about leaving sanitizer in a hot car.
Aleta
Galahad Threepwood
@MattF: Thanks man, that’s what I thought. I also thought they stopped the briefings the first time because of the fallout from the “injecting disinfectant” thing. I suspect he believes getting in front of the cameras will help him control the narrative, but I don’t see how that works for him this time around.
Chief Oshkosh
@dmsilev:
It’s possible to do it, especially if the customers are a bunch of clowns who are lazy and just give up early and turn it all over to the pros. The pros (event organizers, venue admin, union staff, etc.) feast on such. The events go well because the pros totally take over, but they really, really charge through the roof.
The problem here is, the pros know that Trump won’t pay, so they ain’t gonna lift a finger until the check is deposited.
BruceFromOhio
@Baud: And you won’t test positive for it, either.
Patricia Kayden
@Nicole: I’m surprised that FOX didn’t just settle these lawsuits before they could see the light of day.
Matt McIrvin
@evodevo: Sterno always reminds me of The Andromeda Strain, which had the old alcoholic who survived the alien plague germs because he was destroying his brain with methanol. Maybe these people were reading Crichton…
germy
@MattF:
Unfortunately, in my experience there aren’t that many skillful barbers. I don’t know why, if it’s because young people don’t pursue it as a career, or if the advent of the Beatles erased a lot of institutional memory from the profession. Many of them don’t even have the proper tools.
I’ve seen lots of barbers who basically know only one style. No matter what the customer asks for, they get that one style. And then others who are careless, and leave tufts of hair. And I’ve been left bleeding more often than I care to remember by some over-caffeinated barbers. And I remember a bad case of “barber’s itch” from a place that didn’t bother soaking their scissors in that blue antiseptic stuff.
So eventually a barber visit was something I’d dread and put off. And now with the pandemic and my local barbers requiring customers to sign a release… I’m happy to let my wife trim my hair. The end result isn’t any worse than what the “professionals” used to do for 25 bucks plus tip.
trnc
@NotMax: Apparently, ingestion happens often enough that some can say what would normally happen if you did:
Wowzer!
Central Planning
@scav: “Nixed, I Win” is an anagram for them. Way to own the libs!
The internet anagram server also lists “I Nix New Id” as a possibility, but not really any more that make sense.
trollhattan
Know how there are suddenly not enough tests and not enough labs to process the tests for everybody who should have one? Well, don’t blame Sportsball!
Let’s see, 32 teams with nearly a hundred players each at the beginning of camp, trainer and coaching staffs, divide by .9 and carry the two…that’sa crapton of testing!
Amir Khalid
@J R in WV:
You’ve got to scrape the shit rght off your shoes.
Miss Bianca
@Kay: I feel like I got ahead of the COVID-19 coloring crisis curve by deciding to stop coloring my hair last summer. Got my hairdresser to cut it super close and let it grow out again. I like it! I actually think I look younger that way. But I very much doubt anyone will now mistake me for my older sister’s daughter now! ; )
And I was supposed to get a haircut earlier this month but then just before that happened we got a sudden spike in positive COVID-19 tests in our county and my hairdresser said “fuck it, I’m closing till August 1st.” Can’t say I blame her, but my head is starting to resemble a wayward crop of thistledown…ah well, luxury problems.
Central Planning
@BruceFromOhio: I just checked; you can make them at peepeeface.com There are probably others.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@debbie:
I hadn’t thought of that. I do.
I recently started a new big bottle that I keep in my car, and it smells terrible. just the other day I finally put my finger on what it smells like: Cheap tequila. Not that I’m an expert on tequila, but it smells awful. I assume the good stuff doesn’t stink like that.
piratedan
just idly wondering if we do chase these scoundrels out of office and we do actually manage to convict them for their various and sundry crimes against the American people, would it make sense to strip them of their US Citizenship and send them all back to Vlad (or whoever else’s payroll they were on), that way whoever really owns them can decide to house them and feed them instead of the American taxpayers
Baud
@Patricia Kayden:
Well, I know they weren’t. But they lived in a bubble in which they could lie to themselves that they were. That bubble is much smaller now.
trollhattan
@Matt McIrvin:
Wasn’t straining AquaVelva through bread a prison trick for making it drinkable? Think I’d rather go the pruno route, personally.
Uncle Cosmo
@Patricia Kayden: There’s a distinction between evangelicals and evilangelicals. I know a few of the former; generally nice folks when we’re not talking religion. I gather most of the rest are the latter.
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Yeah, I was surprised to hear that warning earlier this year. I always had a little bottle in my car last summer, but it got so hot, the gel turned to liquid. Could have been worse, as it turns out.
Central Planning
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Nothing bad will happen to sanitizer in your car, except maybe it will spurt a little out if you have one with a flip top.
https://vitalrecord.tamhsc.edu/is-it-safe-to-keep-hand-sanitizer-in-a-hot-car/ says:
Roger Moore
@The Golux:
Don’t you usually cover it with an undescribable hat?
debbie
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
Also, I think it was NPR that reported manufacturers of the “new” brands are using methanol and then adding fragrance to cover up the smell of methanol.
Brachiator
@Ruckus:
I don’t go for do it yourself grooming. I had not had a haircut since before the Los Angeles County lock down and managed to get one before some indoor businesses were closed again. I went early to a small barbershop. I feel so much better!
Some barbers and hair salons have asked the governor to set aside regulations that prohibit them from setting up outside. This seems reasonable. I think that we should try to accommodate businesses where we can instead of going for a second shut down unless absolutely necessary.
NotMax
@trollhattan
Makin’ scotch.
:)
Ken
@Galahad Threepwood: You’ve got to look at it from Trump’s point of view. He knows – as he said in the Wallace interview – that’s he’s right about the virus and the best-informed guy in the world. So he’s imagining himself going out there and reassuring everyone with “trust me – it’s going away by itself,” and all of the reporters will swoon and say “oh, sir, how wonderful, you are just the bestest president ever, sir.”
My own expectations are rather different.
Kristine
@WaterGirl:
Okay, what have I missed? I know they now include “probable” cases in their totals, and the state has been divided into smaller zones for purposes of monitoring and possible re-closings. I do know about the Lake Zurich HS debacle–I know outdoors is safer but holding sports camps etc with close contact and spectators was damned idiocy.
Last week, I checked several monitoring sites, and found Illinois ranking anywhere from “medium/yellow” to “OMG” and I really don’t know which to believe.
jl
Just heard a news report that Trump signed some executive order allowing private health care providers to deny or limit coverage to LGBTQ, those with ‘limited English ability’ (whatever that is supposed to mean), and women.
Yeesh, hard to believe. This was a national corporate news outlet, and it has come to my attention lately that they produce a mediocre to shit product in terms of accuracy, so not sure that is what is really happening.
But, if it is accurate, they’ve run off of some kind of cliff of insanity. Women, really? I figure their plan is to disrupt the election, suppress the vote, and try to keep in power through electoral college dispute. But if they lose too much of the population, that won’t do any good. Not enough Trump rabid base to pull that off, and they are trying to alienate everyone else, often through transparently flimsy goofball, but scary, pretexts.
Maybe BJ news hounds can confirm or debunk this report.
gbbalto
@debbie: Not to worry – had to check that out as part of my job. Will not start a fire.
ETA – Per the National Fire Protection Association, needs a temperature of 700+ F, which won’t happen in the hottest car.
trnc
@J R in WV:
I’m thinking further up the body would be my choice. Would then ship to the White House if it weren’t for the poor person in the WH mail room who probably already has to deal with a lot of crap. Pun intended.
geg6
@WaterGirl:
Well, I have a lot of Zoom meetings with colleagues, co-workers, students and parents, so lots of people see me. I would like to look well groomed for those. Plus, I have super thick hair, which is one of the reasons I cut it all off. When I wore it long, I still had to wash it every day (it’s also oily) and it could take over an hour just to dry it and brush it out. And since it has been over 90 degrees for the last two weeks and the heat is expected to last at least another week, I have to get it cut. I usually get it cut every four weeks. I’m on week six right now and I’m about to shave it all off.
debbie
@gbbalto:
Good to know the blazing interior of a car isn’t hot enough(!), but I am sure the heat would compromise the effectiveness of the product, no?
CarolPW
@Catherine D.: My glasses got out of adjustment (nose piece) and no matter how many times I rejiggered things it didn’t work. Got so bad even the shower water hitting my nose was really painful. My glasses now have blue vet-wrap around the nose area, very stylish! Nose skin is almost back to normal, and glasses look stupid but I don’t care.
Uncle Cosmo
@trollhattan: There was a saying in Iceland (which is definitely part of Scandinavia by prevalence of alcohol abuse) that if a couple invited you & your partner over for the evening, it would likely not end before the aftershave had been consumed.
(I was walking through downtown Reykjavik early on the Friday evening after 9/11 & the streets were deserted. The young lady behind the counter at the Subway shop told me that the locals had already settled into their bar or tavern of choice, & were unlikely to emerge before dawn. FTR the BAL for DUI on the island is zero, zip, zilch, nada…)
gbbalto
@debbie: Yes, if the container was not fully sealed, the alcohol would evaporate. I don’t keep sanitizer in a hot car just for that reason.
ETA – I have good sealed containers, but if the pressure built up, I would not trust them to nt pop open a bit…
NotMax
FYI (including listing recalled product at link).
phdesmond
@Noncarborundum:
@NotMax:
it is fortunate for my police record that i never had a can of spray paint or a magic marker with me when i saw those signs, or else i would have been strongly tempted to write a letter i in between the o and the l.
trollhattan
@NotMax:
IDK if that’s the pinnacle of movie-making but it’s movie-making taken to great heights. I’ll wager the cast had a fine time.
trnc
It does say to keep it in a shady spot, since direct sunlight may eventually degrade the chemicals. Then again, most of us probably go through a small bottle in the car pretty quickly.
Roger Moore
@Uncle Cosmo:
Unlike that nasty denatured stuff, I have access to 200 proof USP (i.e. pharmaceutical) grade ethanol in the lab. I always find it amusing when my lab ethanol has a label saying it’s kosher but not for Passover.
BruceFromOhio
@Central Planning: My evening, it is made! Perhaps the entire day as well!
gbbalto
@NotMax: Methanol is readily absorbed through the skin: ethanol and (I believe) isopropanol are not.
Patricia Kayden
NotMax
@Roger Moore
“Ahem. About that gallon jar of olives under your desk….”
:)
JPL
@jl: Truthfully he did say the DACA decision gave him the right to do anything, so I would not be surprised. His brown shirts are out gassing and beating people, and we can’t stop him. This stuff is getting scary.
Salty Sam
There used to be a barber shop in the little town just down the road from my house, with the most appropriate name for such an establishment- the “It’ll Grow Back!” Barber Shop.
The exclamation mark made it art.
Roger Moore
@J R in WV:
Check the other ingredients. Mine listed isoproyl alcohol in the “inactive ingredients” section even though it’s just fine at killing bugs. I think they’re required to include something like that to make it unsuitable for drinking if they want to avoid a liquor tax.
Baud
trollhattan
Fundy fresh freedom fight meets mammon worship temptation. Round 1 goes to the Devil.
MobiusKlein
@Roger Moore: Lab grade Ethanol often uses benzene to remove the last bits of water. There may be traces of benzene left, so you are not in the clear.
And yes, I know this the hard way too
Baud
gbbalto
@Salty Sam: When I was young and had hair, my parents would send me to a local barber whose signature touch was that no two sideburns would be cut to the same length or angle. All the neighborhood kids understood.
Amir Khalid
@Galahad Threepwood:
I can’t see any benefit to more daily briefings from Trump, either to the country or to him politically.
Actualy, it will benefit the country. Even more people will see, every day, how jaw-droppingly bad he is at presidenting; and that will keep his polls going in the right (for America) direction.
jl
@JPL: GOP electoral chances are crashing in so many places, there won’t be enough illegally deployed federal police and marshalls and prison guards to suppress the vote. Maybe Dems should start crash program to get young adults out to vote in person. Standing in line masked mostly outside won’t be that risky for anyone. High risk and elderly are problematic because they are significantly endangered even if risk of infection is low.
gbbalto
@Baud: I don’t have a lot of respect for W, but he did speak at a D.C. mosque one week after 9/11 and stated that Islam is a religion of peace. He did keep the anti-Muslims at bay during his term. I will respect him for that.
ETA: I never saw any sign that he was a racist. Consider his Cabinet appointments.
Baud
Nicole
@rikyrah: And here I thought Carlson’s unexpected-but-no-really-it-was-planned vacation was over his head writer being outed as an online racist troll. Looks like nope, maybe it was something else. ;)
narya
@Kristine: I examine the FYNYT maps every day, looking at new cases, and new cases by county. The new case count per day isn’t dropping, which is unfortunate, but it’s not spiking sharply, either. There is an upward trend since mid-June, but only very slightly. And it’s pretty localized–one of the spikes was mostly in Kankakee County a week or two ago. I like that site because you can see where the spikes are–and then you look and it’s red (big increase) in terms of percentage increase, but the NUMBER of cases is less than 10/day.
Salty Sam
…No Phone, No Pool, No Pets…
jl
@Nicole: So many bigshots at Fox did garbage behind the scenes, they probably have to prioritize who to sacrifice to try to make the problems go away. Hannity > Carlson.
NeenerNeener
I’ve been trimming my own bangs and letting my hair go gray, so I’m in no hurry to go back to a salon. I wanted to skip my dentist appointment for the end of the month too, but I’ve had sore gums for the last 4 days that just aren’t going completely away with salt water rinses and cold packs, so I’m going to have to keep that 7/31 appointment and pray. I’m hoping it was just overdoing it with floss, but with my luck it will be an actual problem.
Elizabelle
You guys probably already posted this, but whiplash from Winn-Dixie. That “customer feedback” must have been something.
WaPost:
Deep South supermarket Winn-Dixie will require face masks after all
With stores in five states that went for Trump in the last election, Winn-Dixie clung to its ‘no face-coverings required’ policy. The grocery store changed its position hours after Trump declared masks ‘patriotic.’
Baud
SiubhanDuinne
Quick reminder for anyone still around on this thread:
Joy Reid’s new prime time show on MSNBC launches at 7:00 pm EDST (about 10 minutes from now). Among her guests on this first night: Hilary Clinton and Joe Biden.
Roger Moore
@debbie:
No. The thing that makes hand sanitizer work is the alcohol, and it isn’t going to boil off or anything in your car.
germy
@SiubhanDuinne:
She couldn’t get any big names?
/
cope
@gbbalto: When I was in 4th grade, the barber my mom sent me to (he was within walking distance of home) was called “Shakey” by everyone. I always got it buzzed so it didn’t matter.
NotMax
@Elizabelle
Black and orange. Is it Halloween already?
//
Baud
CaseyL
@NotMax: I wish! No, my hair is much too thick and curly for that look.
Roger Moore
@trnc:
The key is that the chemicals are there to give it that thick consistency and moisturize your skin. The active ingredient is alcohol, and heat and sunlight aren’t going to mess that up.
trollhattan
@MobiusKlein:
The School of Pharmacy kids routinely purloined reagent grade ethanol, which was used in various odd punches. I recall no deaths or blindings, but evidence of overindulgence was pretty common.
Kept to beer, myself.
J R in WV
@Roger Moore:
You are quite correct, along with 8 other hard to spell for a non-chemist ingredients.
But it does leave my hands soft and clean feeling!
Will not drink, of course. That is why I buy bourbon/gin/run/rye etc, etc. To drink!
Hand sanitizer is to sanitize your hands. I use quite a bit during my Corona-Roulette trips into town, and Clorox Wipes on the industrial respirator I wear for the Kroger’s run.
When I’m in the car ready to head home, squirting and mask wiping galore.
Baud
gbbalto
@cope: Mine wasn’t shaky but just not good, but he was 2 blocks away.
ETA – He would try to do more sophisticated cuts than the buzz cut, and was OK except for the telltale sideburns.
Kent
My dad had Dick Nixon shot glasses in the basement bar when I was growing up in the 70s.
WaterGirl
@debbie: Why, what happens? Mine lives in my car.
Roger Moore
@gbbalto:
Methanol is absorbed through the skin more than ethanol or isopropanol, but it isn’t absorbed that much. And the lethal dose for methanol is fairly high. A quick check in my Merck Index says the lethal dose is typically around 100ml, though it can be lethal with as little as 30ml. Still, that’s about 1 ounce of pure methanol as the lowest expected lethal dose, which you are not going to get by using hand sanitizer to clean your hands, even if you’re using it 10 times an hour. The only way you’re going to get a lethal dose of methanol from contaminated hand sanitizer is if you drink it.
NotMax
@CaseyL
And then there’s Catalina.
:)
Baud
Joe on Joy!
Baud
Joy seems nervous.
Roger Moore
@NotMax:
One of the labs was disposing of an empty 5 gallon drum that had held USP ethanol. I joked that it was a party in a can and then did the math. If you assume one drink is 1.5 ounces of 40% alcohol, that’s 0.6 ounces of pure alcohol per drink. 5 gallons is 640 oz, so that would be over 1000 drinks. Yeah, that would be enough for a big frat party.
Baud
Joe: “Trump surrendered.”
NotMax
“The ReidOut” is a terrible name for Joy’s new show. If a play on words is necessary, “Must Reid” would have been infinitely better.
IMHO.
Baud
@NotMax: Agree.
WaterGirl
@Kristine:
Illinois on June 17
Illinois on July 20
States Are Reopening, See How States Rise and Fall
SiubhanDuinne
@NotMax:
It looks worse than it sounds.
SiubhanDuinne
@germy:
Well, you know, she’s the new kid.
Kay
@Miss Bianca:
I like it so far too. My older friend told me the texture will change as I get older and I won’t like it later, but I’m glad I stopped coloring it. I have a side part and there’s a thick streak of grey down the length now. I feel very radical and reckless! I had this idea that it would be completely grey when I stopped (even though it wasn’t when I started) – like it would go underneath or something. But it didn’t! It’s exactly as streaky.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@NotMax: I always liked the name of her old show: The Reid Report
NotMax
@gbbalto
Quick peek down memory lane.
;)
gbbalto
@Roger Moore: There may be issues before you get to a lethal dose.
WaterGirl
@Kristine: You can see something similar here:
https://rt.live
Look at where IL was 2 months ago, then look where it is now.
There’s another one, too that shows us as very dark orange, and only NY and a couple of other states in that area are blue.
WaterGirl
@geg6: Yeah, the shorter your hair is, the more important frequent cuts are. I used to wear my hair short, so I get it.
Baud
I like Joe. He cuts into Trump like butter.
Roger Moore
@MobiusKlein:
The USP standard for ethanol is <200 ppm methanol and <2 ppm benzene. This is not your reagent grade ethanol; this is specifically intended for human consumption.
Patricia Kayden
@Baud: And thankfully, Biden doesn’t have the baggage that Secretary Clinton (unfairly) was weighed down with. Trump is left with desperately shouting “Hunter” for the next few months.
jl
@Baud: Me too. He’s making the right moves so far to build a very broad coalition. He’s been much sharper, incisive, and clearer in his message and delivery since the primary too.
So, sorry Baud, maybe I’ll come back next cycle.
frosty
@The Golux: Mine hasn’t been this long since sometime in the 70s. Holiday Hair, where I usually go, is open, but a) I’m retired, not working, and I don’t care what I look like, b) I’d just as soon limit interactions with people and c) I’m trying to see if I can grow a ponytail again. For that enticing bald-guy-my-hair-melted-and-ran-down-my-back look.
Baud
@Patricia Kayden:
I’m happy and sad at the same time.
Roger Moore
@gbbalto:
GWB was awful to blacks, but he was otherwise part of the wing of the GOP that saw winning over minorities as the key to long-term success. He actively courted the Hispanic/Latino vote, and he won a much larger percentage of it than any other Republican presidential candidate going back at least to Reagan. He also seemed to understand that non-extremist Muslims were vital to winning against extremists, though it showed up more in his domestic policy than foreign policy.
SiubhanDuinne
Hillary up
Elizabelle
Hillary looks great. She has long hair too, LOL.
Baud
I’m glad Joy reminded everyone that Hillary warned us.
NotMax
@frosty
The seven sins.
:)
Elizabelle
An adult vocabulary and a sense of humor.
Someone should put Hillary and Trump’s Fox interview up on a split screen.
And they mention the bounties on American troops story that is down the memory hole.
Elizabelle
Joy and Hillary keep talking about the US being regarded with pity and confusion.
Donald-bait.
VeniceRiley
2 good inches of gray and cut my own hair once already. Eventually, it will be all natural. trying for a gray Ursula Von Der Leyen. It’s hit and miss
Jo Jo las Orejas
@Baud:
Mi mamá se ríe de mí cuando Joe aparece en la televisión. Ella dice que me giro y miro. A veces mis orejas grandes se contraen. También hago lo mismo con ese comercial de Subaru. El del camionero perrito.
raven
@frosty: I let mine go for abut 6 months and had a huge beard but the virus hit and they said beards were no good for masks so I buzzed it all.
NotMax
Oh gawd.
#THEREIDOUT looks way too close to #THEREIDIOT.
Bad choice, MSNBC.
Roger Moore
@gbbalto:
This is true but the amount you’re going to absorb through your skin is really tiny. The amount you use to clean your hands is no more than a few ml, only a fraction of that is methanol even in the contaminated sanitizer, and not much of that is absorbed through the skin. You’d practically have to bathe in the stuff to get toxic effects by absorbing it through your skin. The big danger is drinking it, either accidentally by small children or deliberately by older people trying to get drunk.
JPL
Well she did have the Q stuff and that must count for something cuz of freedumb
Uncle Cosmo
@Kent: You could’ve stopped after the first 6 words & the world would probably have been better off – so long as it happened after Agnew quit. :^D
Baud
@Jo Jo las Orejas:
Me gusta que tu mamá está feliz.
MisterForkbeard
@narya: I’ve actually very happy recently that my county (in CA) has been trending downwards for the past week. Our 7 day rolling average of new cases peaked on the 12th with about 70. It’s been dropping down daily since and is now around 45 or so.
Hopefully it’ll stick this time.
Ruckus
@Brachiator:
It’s a buzz cut because I’m bald on top and thin on the sides.
The back of the neck may be somewhat uneven but I can’t see that so it doesn’t matter. And my hair is gray to white with a bit of tan/blonde sort of faded in here and there. Nothing I do is going to make a lot of difference and I’ve been doing this for a few years now, the initial fear of failure is long past.
My beard now, that’s gone from deep red 47 yrs ago when I started it on July 7th as I walked down the gangplank one last time, to gray fading to white with some color grown in just to keep it looking scruffy. That even though my hair wasn’t in the least bit red. I keep the beard full and about 4+ inches long.
I long ago figured out that I was going to look like I look no matter what or who cut my hair. 20 yrs ago I had an amazing lady cutting it and she did a fantastic job. Then it started. The great thin out. That turned to the great rout out, which turned into almost as smooth as a babies butt. At least I don’t have a combover like the guy on the airplane sitting in front of me once. 3 strands of hair, from just above his right ear plastered over one of the smoothest bald domes I’ve ever seen, all the way over to the left ear. Each strand looked like maybe 10 hairs all glued down and the 3 were each separated by about 1 inch. His wife sitting next to him saw me looking at his dome while I sat down, stifling the urge to tell him to man up and stop trying to fool no one. The look on her face told me she’d given up on that quest. It was all I could do not to burst out laughing. I took my own advice and I suggest that when it’s your time, and hopefully it never will be, but when it is, embrace it, it means you’ve arrived to geezer. BTW my cousin, who was almost bald in his late 20s hasn’t lost one damn hair and now has far more than me. It is what it is.
frosty
@NotMax: LOL. Although #3 is what I used to look like just before a haircut. Much longer now but not up to #5 (shudder).
SiubhanDuinne
@Kent:
Just to watch him die.
prostratedragon
@Jim, Foolish Literalist: Dropped by on my way elsewhere to see whether it had been posted. I can hardly wait.
frosty
@raven: I’m not a fan of huge beards. Awhile back I decided to do the hipster 3-day stubble thing. Guess what? When it’s gray you end up looking like a homeless guy. Back to the razor again.
Although currently I’m only shaving it all off every 4th or 5th day.
Ruckus
@gbbalto:
Any modern car will look rather wilted if it gets to 700 deg inside. The plastics melt before that temp. And of course if you are inside it would be rather uncomfortable as well.
Frosty Fred
@Ruckus: When my hair starts to stick out over my ears I remind myself of my father the last time I saw him, which is not a happy memory. The first time or two I shaved my head it must have taken three quarters of an hour–I was thinking the barber shop would be quicker (even allowing for the drive). With practice, and a better beard trimmer, it’s down to a routine–and in a couple of days no one can tell it didn’t start out as a buzz cut. In my experience it’s easier to do an even job by shaving.
Kay
At some point we are going to have to talk about these recurring problems with federal prosecutors.
I don’t know when it happened but they seem to be very reluctant to go after powerful people.
Jo Jo las Orejas
@Baud:
Ella será más feliz cuando saquemos a ese hijo de puta de la oficina y lo encarcelemos con toda su puta familia. Quiero morderlo en su saco de nuez.
sralloway
@Kay: You made a great choice. I have never understood why people color their hair. Natural hair colors are beautiful, especially silver on women in their 40s. Me? Haven’t had a hair cut since 2002 and my beard goes back to 1982, moustache to memorial
Day, 1972. My spilt ends keep falling off and the hair doesn’t live to the shoulder. So it goes.
Ben Cisco
Joe and Hillary did alright. Love that they both drove home the fact that Water Gait is unfit and (in Hillary’s case) is exactly what she said he was. The country should have listened to her.
Benw
Headin out for comet attempt x2! Last time was too overcast
Roger Moore
@frosty:
I find my stubble can get caught in the weave of a cloth mask, which makes them less comfortable to wear.
Ruckus
@Frosty Fred:
Thing is I hate, hate, hate fucking shaving. In case you didn’t notice that first sentence wan’t over written. I haven’t had a beard for 47 yrs for no reason. I’ll even risk the mask being slightly less effective to avoid shaving. And I care, I just really hate shaving.
different-church-lady
An article Cole posted on his Twitter sidebar:
Oh I dunno, maybe because she’s an asshole?
Baud
@Jo Jo las Orejas:
Eres un perrito muy bueno. Pero no morde al presidente Trump o te pasarás una infección.
sralloway
@WaterGirl: There are strands of colored hair one can put in. My wife, at 76 and still off-blond haired to her amazement (and disappointed there is no silver), has a number of the accoutrements with which she she plays. Her hair stylist made them for her at home. I put one in my beard for a laugh. No, we are not a normal couple. She looks preppie, I look “different.” She’s a therapist, I’m a retired journalist doing old home restoration work. But we have fun.
trollhattan
@Kent:
That certainly got my attention.
sralloway
@Ruckus: My hero. Four beardless years since 1968 for me.
Jo Jo las Orejas
@Baud:
Tengo todas mis vacunas y mis dientes de chico grande están todos adentro.
Roger Moore
@Ruckus:
Yes, it’s great that the autoignition temperature of ethanol is up around 700°F. The flash point- the temperature at which its vapor in air can be ignited by a spark- is only 55°F, which is bad, given that you can get sparks in a car from static electricity*. Fortunately, the lower explosive limit in air is about 3%, meaning you’d need to evaporate about a cup of ethanol in a mid-sized car to get to the lower explosive limit. IOW, you should be safe as long as you limit your sanitizer to one of those mini bottles instead of a big pump bottle; even if the whole thing evaporates it still wouldn’t burst into flame with a spark.
*This is why gas stations tell you to ground yourself before pumping gas.
Ruckus
@Kay:
Really? Powerful people always have money or access to money, so they hire lawyers, the kind that the big firms hire and they can hire lots of them so any case gets to be a big deal, with a lot of push back and lots of motions and one could end up like the people that prosecuted O.J. Lots of time and money spent with no results. How often does that happen or at least how often is it possible? Hey it’s not close to right but until all criminal trials have court assigned lawyers only…. And how soon might you think that will happen? I’m going with never in 10,000 lifetimes.
sralloway
@VeniceRiley: It will be a hit.
WaterGirl
Oops – pay no attention to the post on Gaming that was up for a very very short time. That’s a post I was putting together ahead of time for Medium Cool and I accidentally hit Publish.
Ruckus
@Roger Moore:
Yes I understand and if that catches on fire the chance that the car would go up with it is pretty good. The chances are still rather slim.
dmsilev
@WaterGirl: I was wondering. Clicked on it, got a 404. Did manage to read most of it on the front page before it went away; looks like it’ll be an interesting thread one published for reals.
dexwood
@WaterGirl: Delete my comment, please, so I won’t come across as drunk.
The Lodger
@Central Planning: Windex.INI?
WaterGirl
@dmsilev: Sure, let’s call this advertising or promotion! Rather than an all-out mistake. I can go with that. :-)
BG is going on vacation for 8 days – two Wednesdays in August – and we’re getting things lined up ahead of time for when he is gone.
So many people last time said “Oh I wish I had known we were going to talk about gaming!” so I did plan to spread the word this time, but this was a total accident.
WaterGirl
@dexwood: It was a funny comment! But I deleted it for you because on the real Wednesday it might not make sense.
sralloway
@Salty Sam: I ain’t got no cigarettes.
You took me to my teens.
Jeffro
@germy: win!
There go two miscreants
@J R in WV: I would wipe my feet on that sucker!
You could set it aside and only use it on those occasions when you happened to step in dog shit.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
@Salty Sam: @sralloway: I didn’t make the connection right away. One of my uncles used to start singing that when he’d had a couple of jars. He passed before karaoke became a thing, and I have a hard time picturing him doing karaoke, even given those jars. More the piano bar generation.
WaterGirl
@sralloway: @Salty Sam:
I tended bar at a mexican restaurant for a year after I finished grad school – my mom was terminally ill and I didn’t want to start my first professional job when we were going through all that.
That song got played on the jukebox all the time. One of the patrons used to hang around while I closed up the place at night, and he would always put that on. It brings back fun memories of dancing as I got things ready to close.
Barry
@A Ghost to Most: “The sheriff knows they will get stiffed on the costs. A rare moment of sanity from a sheriff.”
IMHO, if he’s been around the block several times, and is working in a city with lots of conventions/etc., he has a good idea of how difficult things can get. He’s probably used to handling $50K events.
Ruckus
@sralloway:
The ship I was stationed on got my discharge orders on Tuesday the 4th by radiogram. I saw the printout shortly after. I had to be discharged by Friday the 7th at 12:00pm – noon. Gave them plenty of time to fuck with me, just because, and they didn’t miss the opportunity. Had to get a whitewall haircut and be totally smoothly shaved for those 3 days. Walked off the ship at 11:59. So in their minds a one minute reprieve. I got in my car and drove off without looking back. Didn’t shave for over a year, not so much as a trim. Have been on two navy ships since. The battleship Iowa and a DDG on navy day about 5 yrs ago with a friend. I did my duty, I worked hard, got screwed about the normal amount in my time, less on some assignments, more on others. Like most I was glad it was over. I’m also glad I served, even in the time of a shitty war we never should have been in. I think the military could be a lot better, I saw bits of that when I was in, it can also be far worse, I saw that as well. The captain of that last ship would have made Captain Bligh envious. I had good captains, I had one real shithead. Assholes like him make it worse for everyone. Most people were decent a few were assholes, deluxe model. Just like real life
Roger Moore
@Ruckus:
My point was that flash point is the more relevant criterion than autoignition temperature. Sparks are pretty common, so the temperature to be worried about is the one where a spark can ignite the substance you’re worried about, not the temperature at which it spontaneously bursts into flame. This is a big reason diethyl ether has such a fearsome reputation; its flash point is -49°F, meaning a spark can set it off even if it’s in the freezer. This is a real issue. I know people who have experienced explosions when they stored the bodies of animals that were killed using ether in a freezers that weren’t explosion-proof.
Of course there are some limits to that. If the autoignition temperature is low enough it can start to be a problem. For example, carbon disulfide- one of the chemicals I’ve worked with that really scares me- has an autoignition temperature of 90°C, so it can be ignited by a boiling water bath.
The Pale Scot
@evodevo:
It’s called “squeeze”
Ref: The Andromeda Strain 1971
Mingobat (f/k/a Karen in GA)
@JoJo: Oh, I know. I’ve received some myself. The desperate haranguing just screams “strength.”
JMG
@Roger Moore: Taft was a huge (in many ways) baseball fan and started the tradition. It only became a tradition because his immediate successor, Wilson, saw the publicity value.
Kent
They weren’t real postage stamps. They were “collectible” stickers you could put on envelopes and such as seals, not for postage.
zhena gogolia
I guess nobody’s minding the blog.
Kay
Bold! Judge Cortez isn’t fooling around.
Ruckus
@Roger Moore:
Aww, diethyl ether. Remember that being used as an anesthetic when I had my tonsils out, 64 yrs ago. Medicine has made some progress in the last 6 decades. Along with chemistry, physics, etc.
Elizabelle
@zhena gogolia: I know. We haz been abandoned.
HRA
@zhena gogolia: I was wondering the same thing.
Brachiator
Had to step out and now I see over 300 comments. Still talking about sanitizer or haircuts?
raven
wtf-k?
NoraLenderbee
@Baud: Yeah.
mrmoshpotato
Ugh. Guess daily Hal Sparks viewing is back on. Or I let Brian Tyler Cohen continue taking one for the team and enjoy his commentary.
LMAO! I’ll (continue) drink(ing) to that!
Psst….Russthuglicans, just burn your party to the ground and start again without being Putin’s bitches, or having your heads shoved up your asses, or thinking tax cuts for the rich solve everything and make everyone happy.
No charge for the advice.
Ken
Well, it is now the patriotic thing to do.
I am half expecting that at tomorrow’s briefing, Trump will say that he’s always been in favor of requiring masks and condemn the Democrats for opposing such basic public health measures.
mrmoshpotato
And space travel. Hehehe
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
Funny lady looks like a young Karen Allen (photo)
WaterGirl
I kept thinking someone would put something up. New thread.
WaterGirl
@WaterGirl: What does Old Karen Allen look like?
jc
@Danielx: In previous presidencies, there were stories that President X went for several days avoiding excess media exposure because they didn’t want the public to get sick of seeing him. Trump stomps all over that rule of thumb. You’d think there would be more prominent mainstream media voices saying: are you as sick of seeing this ugly mug as we are?
Medicine Man
@AliceBlue: Why not? Pence has had practice being a door mat in this White House.
NotMax
@WaterGirl
Oddly enough, Abe Vigoda.
:)
Just One More Canuck
@germy: Baud wasnt available
cope
@WaterGirl: From Wiki and a couple of years back.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karen_Allen#/media/File:KarenAllen17.jpg
Bill Arnold
@Martin:
If they’re not breathing, they’re not breathing on other people.
Bill Arnold
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
The mainstreaming of that concern should improve Adam’s mood. (It does mine.)
WaterGirl
@NotMax: I’m laughing because I know who that is. But I still have no idea who this Karen person is.
WaterGirl
@cope: That does look like her!
Aleta
“Nobody more Patriotic than me” — the fake-president criminal who sent thugs to maim, gas, kidnap and terrorize, and now threatens to have them invade Philadelphia, Detroit, Chicago, Oakland, and Baltimore because the mayors are “liberal Democrats.”
Aleta
David ? ☘The Establishment☘? Koch
@WaterGirl: Karen Allen was the lead actress in “Raiders of the Lost Ark” and “Animal House”
rikyrah
@Kay:
So, this is the reason for Tucker’s “vacation”
rikyrah
@Jim, Foolish Literalist:
He? was?in?RUSSIA?on?JULY?4th?
rikyrah
@WaterGirl:
No. Until we are operational, I am stuck?
Ol'Froth
I’ve been rereading James Randi’s ‘The Faith Healers” and I’m struck by how similar Trump’s operation is to those of the tent-show preachers.
WaterGirl
@rikyrah: I’m sorry to hear that. Ugh. Hoping the timing will work out for you.
RobNYNY
@randy khan:
Yes, “letting a contract” is correct, albeit rather obscure even in legal circles.