Shorter local CO press:
Lauren Boebert remarkably paid off an almost $20K lien in October….
During a campaign where she reimbursed herself a remarkable amount — just over $20K — for campaign miles.
Just a coinkydink, I'm sure.https://t.co/aBxNQYy6LA
— emptywheel (@emptywheel) February 5, 2021
I’ll repeat myself: Gunbunny Wannabe hasn’t got the funding, or the ambition, to be a real challenge to democracy. While she’s in Congress, the trickle of nasty little ‘reveals’ will continue, until she gets pestered enough to retreat to some minor branch of the Wingnut Wurlitzer, where swapping funds from Peter to Paul is ‘standard business practice, if you’re smart, reeeeally.’
MTG, on the other hand, has family money behind her — not a massive amount, but enough to district-shop for marks voters who’d find her insane bigotry ‘refreshingly honest’, voters who’ll happily keep her in congress until she gets another rich White person with their same prejudices killed. Or until she somehow makes herself ridiculous in their eyes, which is a stunt I just don’t have the imagination to parse…
This is art. ???
? She makes Michelle Bachman
Look like Maya Angelou ? https://t.co/GayprPxbuj pic.twitter.com/FaWmws20Fu— The Hoarse Whisperer (@TheRealHoarse) February 3, 2021
CODave
The preferred naming convention is “Glock Barbie.”
mrmoshpotato
But I thought both sides were equally as bad?! Who’re the gunhumping conspiracy nutjobs on the Democratic side? /s
NotMax
@CODave
Shooty McShootface?
//
Martin
@mrmoshpotato: You must not be aware that Biden has a Peloton in the WH.
burnspbesq
@mrmoshpotato:
we don’t need ammosexuals. We have Young Turks, Sirota, Dayen, and Rose Twitter. ?
burnspbesq
ETA: and Taibbi is still out there somewhere.
mrmoshpotato
@burnspbesq: Wouldn’t say they’re the same as the ammosexual gunhumpers.
NotMax
If it’s not one thing it’s another.
Drove landlady to the hospital to get her second shot today. On the way back, halfway there, the Check Engine light on the dashboard of her car came on.
mrmoshpotato
@Martin:
The! Horror! Exercising in the White House!
lurker
@mrmoshpotato:
@NotMax:
Pretty sure that NotMax meant to respond to mrmoshpotato.
Shooty McShootface (D[sort of]-Rose-Twit-istan) is the congress critter from Rose-Twit-istan. Rose-Twit-istan is at the junction of Vermont, Massachusetts, San Francisco and Berkeley (the California one). To get to Rose-Twit-istan, you have to drop a tab of acid and travel through a higher dimension. Recovery involves a combination of smoking marijuana and various other medicinals such as kombucha, anthrax and tire rims.
Rose-Twit-istan recently renamed its school from an name honoring George Washington to Sanders-Ocasio-Cortez school. Immediately thereafter, Rep. McShootface denounced Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and Bernie Sanders as the absolute worst kind of sellouts, no better than Senators Cruz or McConnell or Rep. McCarthy. McShootface also stated “I am not a crank.”
I might or might not be a crank, but I probably need some sleep. ; – )
mrmoshpotato
@NotMax:
Did you check? Was the engine still there?
lurker
@mrmoshpotato: hopefully they already exorcised it on the 20th. After they got the door open.
NotMax
@lurker
Nope.
Just tossing into the mix something less crude than the obvious alternative, Sh*tty Sh*tty Bang Bang.
;)
lurker
@NotMax: oh… i was just trying to be completely factual
(looking for sarc thingy… and a closing parenthesis
NotMax
@mrmoshpotato
Far as I’m concerned it’s Schrödinger’s engine.
:)
cain
@burnspbesq:
? Somewhere .. out there, if love can see us through ?
NotMax
@lurker
No harm, no foul. It’s all good. Maybe we could push the acronym, SSBB.
;)
NotMax
@NotMax
Or kewl it up: S2B2.
:)
DMcK
Somewhat disturbingly off-topic, but the rotating banner ad beneath the link to Cole’s Twitter is currently touting something called the “Caring Cradle”, which purports to allow you to have, and I quote, “MORE TIME with a BABY who has DIED”. I really, really don’t want to know what it is, how it works, or why it exists, to be honest.
lurker
@NotMax: you have a cat powering your car? i mean a lot of us have a hamster to run the processor or do the processing in the computer, but a cat for an engine is next level…does it only run when the cat thinks you do not want to go anywhere?
lurker
@NotMax: kinda like shooty mcshootface better … ssbb reminds me too much of ssdd … mileage varies on that stuff though
burnspbesq
@cain:
If you lived in the New York TV market in the 1960s and 70s, you remember Mike Taibbi as a very good investigative reporter for Channel 2. As a result, you approach the son with expectations that have been, to put it mildly, unmet.
lurker
@burnspbesq: wow … that is some local knowledge that provides an amazing perspective. as disappointing as he has turned out to be from my perspective well away from there, I bet watching him is just devastating with that as a background. probably makes cuomo the younger look less disappointing relative to mario, but i bet that is hard to watch too.
cain
@burnspbesq:
IT seems the apple has fallen far from the tree, rolled down a hill and fell into a pond.
sab
@burnspbesq: At least you aren’t his dad. Talk about disappointment.
lurker
@sab: hmmm…remind me not to introduce you to my dad
burnspbesq
@lurker:
Considering some of the governors we’ve had in Jersey in recent years, Andrew Cuomo doesn’t look so bad.
(I say “we” because while I may live in Texas, I am 201 fa life.)
John Revolta
ATTN: Don’t watch this video if you don’t want to laugh (it’s short):
https://twitter.com/spconnolly/status/1357057343893221380?s=20
(h/t Dickylee @ LGM)
sab
@John Revolta: I must admit that you are right about the funniness. 3:30 am and I woke my cat up laughing.
Origuy
@NotMax: The first thing to do when the Check Engine light comes on is to check that the gas cap is tight. If it’s loose, the vapor pressure in the fuel system will be off. If it’s not that, it should be checked soon, but it’s usually not critical unless you are about to get the smog certificate.
sab
@Origuy: I always have difficulty distinguishing the check engine light from the needs maintenance light. I only just learned that they were different.
Bruce K in ATH-GR
My brain sees “Shooty McShootFace” and insists on substituting “Face McShooty”, which I know is wrong because Greene seems to want to shoot other people in the face.
Martin
Good news that CA is slowly getting vaccinations back on track. We’re averaging nearly 200K a day now, which is sort of the minimum for us carrying our weight. It seems like the care facilities are in rather good shape, but the general public program is the part that needs catching up.
Barbara
@burnspbesq: Mike Taibbi later worked for one of the network news shows, NBC I think. He was definitely legit.
Yutsano
@cain: Okay stop that you. :P
cain
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Chris T.
@NotMax: There’s an old joke about Brian Kernighan’s car (taken from the “ed” editor, which had a single error message, “?”):
People used to laugh and laugh at this, and now cars have one big question mark, which lights up and says “CHECK ENGINE”.
(I have a thingy I bought ages ago, that plugs in and reads out the code that set the “MIL”, as they call it: the Malfunction Indicator Light. You can use it to clear the light, too. It’s handy. They have nicer ones now that do bluetooth to your phone.)
Chris T.
@Origuy: Once you fix the gas cap, the light will go off by itself, but it takes a while: the system has to run several “full checks”, which means cold start, warm start, and so on. The nice thing about a code reader is that it will tell you “oh yeah that’s a your gas-cap-needs-proper-screwing-on light”. (I bought mine because I had a car that randomly detected phantom conditions, and it was important to figure out whether each check-engine was a glitch or something real. Haven’t needed it since I replaced that car, after someone drove into it.)
satby
7° out now, “real feel” (which I guess is Accuweather’s term for wind chill) is -15. Supposed to skyrocket to a high of 17° today. Same weather all the way to the 16th, with three snowstorms predicted. Fucking groundhog.
Is it just me or has it shifted from January being the coldest month to February?
mrmoshpotato
@satby: 7° feels like -1° in my neck of the woods.
rikyrah
@satby:
February was always bad, IMO
Kicks you one last time before the dawn in March
satby
@mrmoshpotato: @rikyrah: yeah, little difference between here and what Chicago weather temps are. I checked. I also checked where I intend to be next year about this time: Aguascaliente, MX. 49° now, 78° high later. My Mexican sons think that’s cold ?
Dan B
@satby: Awful temperature. Reminds me of the winters I spent in Chicago.
It is 45 in Seattle. We hit 52 today. The forecast is for upper 40’s for the week. Hellebores are in bloom and Sarcoccoca is filling the front yard with its honeysuckle fragrance. Camellias are blooming. I learned from Midwestern winters to go west. Although I did end up far to the north of Minneapolis.
Back to snoozing.
Chyron HR
@Bruce K in ATH-GR:
And yet the results speak for themselves.
satby
@Dan B: “No bad weather, just bad preparation” I think was a slogan for REI stores. I like that a freeze like this will kill off ticks for next summer. First time learning to x-country ski was in -25° weather, actual temp, not wind chill. And needed to shed at least one layer to keep from sweating and then having that freeze on your body. So I don’t mind it, as long as it doesn’t last more than 10-11 days. But I expect this weather in January!
satby
Bill Penzy’s latest letter:
For a moment we are in a rare break from politics as usual. Enjoy it!
Along with the thousands of orders from our Groundhog Day email offers came the usual few dozen emails of rejection and upset, but what was anything but usual was the doubt that had crept into the outrage. Reading, communicating, reading responses, it’s very clear that for those who thought they would be sticking with the Republican Party no matter what it becomes, some souls are actually starting to be searched.
It took just over a decade for unlimited political spending to bring the Republican Party to the events of the last two months, but where next? It took consistently echoed lies to create the propaganda that brought us to January 6, but until this coming week’s impeachment plays out no one is sure what lies will need echoing next. So for now an eerie quiet has come over the usually ALL CAPS communications of the right. It’s as if we’ve arrived at the eye of the hurricane.
Already in this quiet, voices on the right are questioning what their party has come to be. These voices are in no means a majority, but that there are any questioning voices at all brings hope. I’m guessing the eye of this hurricane will be short-lived, but before the next wall hits we’re thinking this is a time for rainbows.
What Have The Romans Ever Done for Us?
@rikyrah: Not just you. Here in the DC area it seems like real winter starts about a month later than it used to, if we get it at all. Then cool and damp linger longer into spring.
Morzer
@Bruce K in ATH-GR:
So she and Liz Cheney can bind over their shared family traditions. I was grimly amused by the fact that Principled Liz voted against booting Margarine Failure Queen off “her” committees.
Punchy
We’re about to get ~1-2″ and some cold temps and the local weather porn reporter is treating it like it’s a 1-in-a-mill event. Which it’s not because it’s <checks calendar> early Feb and 1″ is <checks nuts> a nothingburger, dammit.
SFAW
@lurker:
He uses a laser pointer, aims it somewhere down the road, and the car chases it. [He just has to be vigilant that he doesn’t get distracted and point it into a deep rut on the side of the road, or at a large tree.]
Of course, that (one weird) trick only works until the sun breaks through the clouds, whereupon the car stops, rolls onto its side, and goes to sleep.
mrmoshpotato
@Punchy:
Frozen pole dancing?
Kristine
@satby: In the same boat—make that deep freezer—here in NE Illinois. The only bright side is that snow amounts are supposed to be minimal, 3-4 shots of 1-3” over a week. Given the cold ? , it’ll likely be fluff stuff, which is easy to clear. Sometimes I can sweep instead of shovel.
Uncle Cosmo
Did it stay on, or flicker? I have been told (by folks who are paid to know) that a constant light is almost surely something trivial, like a sensor (I had one when the gas cap wasn’t sealing completely), and doesn’t much affect operation of the vehicle – but if it flickers on & off, pull over & have the machine towed to the shop.
ETA: If she really wants to know what the problem is, have her take the car to an Auto Zone or other store where they’ll read the code for free, instead of pulling into the repair shop where they’ll charge you $80 or more just to plug the reader into the port.
(You’re quite welcome!)
(O/t, Visual field working both for original comment and editing, yay! [FarFawks 85.0])
Uncle Cosmo
@John Revolta: It’s no Bambi Meets Godzilla, but it’s close! :^D
Woodrow/asim
This. For 90% of the population, doing this is the correct balance between care and cost, when the Check Engine light comes on.
The MIL//Code Reader is very much a Nice To Have if you have one or two reasonably well cared for vehicles, in my opinion. Even moreso if the owners aren’t really up on care car, themselves.
It really comes into its own if you have older cars, and/or live in areas where AutoZone and their ilk are hard to reach. If you are in the market, you’ll likely have better luck looking it up as an ODB-2 scanner when searching; nowadays most of these tools are named after the ODB-2 port that they plug into, on your vehicle.
brantl
@CODave: That’s a slur on Barbie, she’s much more authentic….
brantl
@NotMax: Boebert: Just tossing into the mix something less crude than the obvious alternative, Sh*tty Sh*tty Bang Bang. THIS NEEDS TO BE A ROTATING TAG LINE.
J R in WV
@Punchy:
We got 2-3 inches early in the week, while Wife was scheduled for a cataract procedure (RIGHT EYE) last Tuesday. I didn’t even sweep the walk, we just went to the all wheel drive SUV, I swept it off, we drove out.
No big deal. It’s February, deal with it.
If it had been 6 or 7 inches I would have plowed the half-mile driveway with the tractor, or cancelled the procedure if I thought the State Road hadn’t plowed the big hill, about a mile of steep to get out of the neighborhood to the state highway, which is almost always plowed unless the storm is underway.
I don’t get CBS, so we’ll watch the Puppy Bowl instead of the SuperB Owl on CBS… Have never figured out how to get CBS in the innertubes, they want you to enter your cable subscription in order to get the Internet Feed, which is stupid!
If I had cable, why would I be wanting the Internet connection? Stupid, like I said.
RepubAnon
@Chris T.: Funny how the cars don’t simply display the error code messages. Especially later models with LCD screens.
Of course, once we are all driving electric cars, there won’t be muck need for anything other than tire pressure and battery level
J R in WV
@RepubAnon:
You don’t know about the ABS sensors, wheel bearing sensors, Motor hi-temp sensors, electrical short sensors? I know I’m leaving some out, but you get the drift.
When my ABS sensor tripped, along with a wheel bearing sensor, it cost us $2K+ to get back on the road… Before that a main-driveshaft bearing failed, that probably wouldn’t happen on an electrical car with multiple motors, but would if there was just one motor and all wheel drive. More drift to get there…
OH, yeah, computer errors… I think a Tesla just stops if a computer throws an error, I would hate that behavior.
S. Cerevisiae
My rig is 16 years old now and I want to keep it going until it’s old enough to drink so I have a Bluetooth code reader called a Blue Driver, the app is free but the widget was about $100. I like that it gives a number of possible fixes and can also clear the codes, I used to have a fairy expensive code reader but I like this much better.