The National Civil Rights Museum in Tennessee will give the Freedom Award to former U.S. First Lady Michelle Obama and The Poor People's Campaign https://t.co/l2L6BSSGBK pic.twitter.com/C6Xgvj1v2Z
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 3, 2021
I love everything about this. Leading by example. https://t.co/0YWl3237N2
— Johanna Barmore (@JoBarmore) September 3, 2021
The Biden administration has an ambitious $7.5 billion plan to expand electric vehicle charging. Here are some details about the current state of the U.S. EV charging network https://t.co/toUG1g3Te2 pic.twitter.com/anZmVI79DS
— Reuters (@Reuters) September 4, 2021
Say I told you so without saying…
Last night, the Supreme Court officially overturned five decades of settled law and permitted Texas' unconstitutional abortion ban to stand.
Yes: They gutted Roe v. Wade without hearing arguments, in a one-paragraph, unsigned 5-4 opinion issued in the middle of the night.
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 2, 2021
If you're ready to restore integrity to our courts, join @OnwardTogether partner @WeDemandJustice today. It's past time to fight back. https://t.co/dJoqdrQW87
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) September 2, 2021
ICYMI:
Developing story —> https://t.co/qkPJp8wHV5
— John Kruzel (@johnkruzel) September 3, 2021
debbie
Joe Manchin should be belted into a chair Clockwork Orange–style and forced to watch Ida’s damage to New York and New Jersey. I didn’t see clips until last night and it is truly horrifying what’s happened there. Fix the damn infrastructure already!
stinger
I don’t understand how increasing the number of SC justices would prevent a conservative majority, at least at some point in the future. And that future might not be too far distant if Republicans continue to obstruct nominees when a Democrat is president and ram them through when a Republican is president.
Morzer
@debbie: Speaking of Joe Manchin, Kevin Drum does a very convincing job of demonstrating just what an hypocritical old fraud Manchin is when he whines about a “$3.5 trillion spending bill” and its terrifying effect on inflation etc:
https://jabberwocking.com/we-need-to-stop-talking-about-the-3-5-trillion-spending-bill-as-a-3-5-trillion-spending-bill/
OzarkHillbilly
I’m having a banner PawPaw wkend. Spent all day yesterday with GD Addelyn. When we took her home in the afternoon, we stopped and picked up teen aged GD Cora. We then spent the evening at my sons with Addelyn, Cora, and GD ViviLou. My son also made some killer beef short ribs for dinner.
Today, my NOLA son shows up with his wife and GD Lyriel. They will be here all day and spend the night. (I’m gonna barbecue a chicken)
On Monday the annual Labor Day Bike race returns to the Soulard/Benton Park neighborhoods (no race last year) and I will join my son and his vaccinated friends in their front yard to cheer and ring the cow bell for the racers and spend all day with all 4 of my granddaughters. Oh yeah, and pigout on the barbecued chicken, brisket, and pork shoulder my son is making for all.
Looking for a moderate 86 degrees and sunshine that day.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
?
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
So glad the NOLA branch of your clan is okay!
WereBear
This is Civil War Two: Electronic Boogaloo.
A favorite book on the pre-war period is by the extraordinary Edward H. Bonekemper.
The Myth of the Lost Cause: Why the South Fought the Civil War and Why the North Won is fascinating reading. It is an eerie mirror of the times we live in now.
Stealthy cheating through the legal system, blatant lying on the public relations front, violence and threats of violence, grandiose ambitions and lowly motivations.
The Confederacy will not stop. It can only be stopped.
germy
LiminalOwl
@WereBear: Thank you for the recommendation. Not that I need more books on the “to read” pile… but yes, that looks important.
germy
Kay
Enforcement authority. Just chilling. One of the factions of the Republican Party base now have “enforcement authority”.
They handed the Trump thugs with the zip ties a legal weapon.
debbie
@germy:
Well, he’s always supported looking the other way. ?
Ten Bears
The better-half has a short-list of Texas Companies to boycott.
germy
@debbie:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jim-jordan-accused-of-begging-former-ohio-state-wrestler-not-to-support-reports-of-sexual-abuse/2020/02/12/395e7314-4ded-11ea-bf44-f5043eb3918a_story.html
Dorothy A. Winsor
@OzarkHillbilly: That sounds wonderful if a bit chaotic. (I kept misreading GD as god damned, which seemed very un-PawPaw)
NotMax
Weekend long-ish view.
Words rarely heard in orchestra hall: “If it’s not wet it doesn’t work.”
eclare
@OzarkHillbilly: Sounds wonderful!
Dorothy A. Winsor
I sent a new book to my editor this week. We’ll see if she likes it, though I probably won’t hear until the end of October.
rikyrah
@OzarkHillbilly:
Sounds like an awesome time??
rikyrah
Good Morning, Everyone???
NotMax
@Dorothy A. Winsor
Ditto.
Ryan
@stinger: Good point. Abolish the Senate.
germy
“Nothing about this is normal!”
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6FXxHNqGBPM
germy
@Dorothy A. Winsor:
Sometimes it’s like dropping a leaf down a well and then waiting to hear the splash!
Benw
@OzarkHillbilly: yay family!
@Dorothy A. Winsor: yay book!
OzarkHillbilly
@Dorothy A. Winsor: @NotMax:
At 3 in the AM GDs #3 & 4 are “God dammit”. GD #2 is now entering the Terrible Twos, and suffering from Stolen Attention Syndrome and GD #1 is a teenager so they are both God dammit more often then not.
Except of course for when they are with MawMaw and PawPaw, then they are all so cuuute.
Benw
So I found out yesterday that my flight’s been changed to layover at Heathrow. So I need to add UK travel protocols, which are stricter than my destination. So I’m currently in a line around the block waiting for a PCR test at the minute clinic! Probably a good idea to have a negative test anyway.
Wheee
OzarkHillbilly
@germy: Too funny.
zhena gogolia
@OzarkHillbilly:
I’m so glad you’re getting to visit with them!
sixthdoctor
@Morzer: I keep this twenty-year-old Onlon infographic bookmarked whenever Joe Manchin and his ilk make the news.
Suzanne
@OzarkHillbilly: That sounds fun! Enjoy!
Dorothy A. Winsor
@germy: Yeah, you really have to start another project and forget about the finished one. Otherwise, you go batty.
@Benw: What a pain! But a negative test would be reassuring. Delta is sneaky.
germy
Nelle
@OzarkHillbilly: I have a Cora granddaughter too. We may have won the lottery.
Kay
It’s really going to be up to the Democratic Party political end to educate people about this law.
Republicans don’t want to talk about it, which means media won’t pursue it.
Joe Biden can’t do everything by himself and he shouldn’t have to- Democrats raise a shit ton of money and employ scads of political professionals. Are we getting our money’s worth?
OzarkHillbilly
@zhena gogolia: My wife sticks with her job (good company, shitty work, not so good pay but local) Because her wkend is Thurs/Fri and we get Addelyn on Friday. If it was Sat/Sun we would be “stealing” one of Momma’s days with her daughter and that is so not gonna happen. My wife is adamant about how important it is to her to build as strong a bond as possible with her granddaughters, thru time spent with them in these early years.
It was something that was not possible for us with GD #1, and we can feel it.
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: Let the good times roll.
Nelle
We are old grandparents of young girls (husband is 77 and I’m 70; they are two and four). We have taken them two days a week since we moved here (sine Cora was born and Eleanor was one and a half). There is a good possibility that we will die before they have strong memories of us. But. What we are building is a substrata of being loved.
My grossmama, a very poor refugee, took turns living with her children before she was too frail to travel. We were poor too, so when she lived with us, she and I shared a bedroom. She was born in 1873; I was born in 1951. We did not even share any spoken language, just the language of love and shared breath of sleeping. I was six when she last lived with us. But oh, she was the relative who loved me unconditionally (well, she couldn’t exactly tell me that she didn’t – her languages were German and Russian and I only had English). On my shelf, in the place of honor, is the inexpensive dimestore porcelain cat she gave me when I turned five. It has occupied the special spot in my house in seven states and two countries. So, that is the goal we have.
raven
GO DAWGS!!!
Betty
@OzarkHillbilly: Don’t see how it gets better than that. Enjoy it to the fullest!
Benw
@Dorothy A. Winsor: yeah, I have to get another test before returning; so, fully vaxxed, fully masked, and 2 PCR tests, I’m hoping this will be a relatively safe trip.
Chief Oshkosh
@Kay:
We’re not the customers.
OzarkHillbilly
That is the nut of it.
JPL
@Nelle: Memories.
My oldest grand son is two and a half, and his baby brother is seven weeks. They will be visiting tomorrow and we’ll get out the wading pool, one last time.
JPL
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s the most important building block that we can give.
OzarkHillbilly
@raven: Been meaning to tell you, my eldest granddaughter is playing on her junior HS’s football team. Blocking tight end and kick offs. I told her those are good positions for those who like to hit. She grinned.
There go two miscreants
Slightly off the main topics, but open thread:
Time To Stop Believing Deficit Bullshit
https://ritholtz.com/2021/09/deficit-bullshit/
Kay
@Chief Oshkosh:
But if they’re going to raise more and more from small dollar donors shoudn’t there be an explanation of how it is spent?
Democrats and liberals have a multi-billion dollar marketing operation. The campaign professionals wait for the New York Times to tell them what’s important? What do we need them for, then?
eclare
@raven: Are you going? I’m SEC, I’ll be pulling for you too.
Just Chuck
@Kay: They’re the dog that caught the car and they know it. The majority of even Texas is pro-choice and they know it. It’s up to us to turn their vague unease about the doom of their careers into reality.
germy
The GOP tells the NYTimes what’s important. Then the NYTimes passes that info on to Democrats.
Kay
@germy:
It’s nutty to get no information on how it’s spent. There’s endless analysis of how much is raised, and where it’s raised from but then there’s the completely inexplicable giant hole on how it’s SPENT.
Just Chuck
Let’s not forget it was the backlash to an overreaching punitive right-wing law (Prop 187) that turned California from a swing state to a bastion of blue. Colorado took a similar path after the passage of Amendment 2 (no, not that 2nd amendment). And those were both ballot initiatives, the goobers in the TX lege don’t even have that to stand on. The CO one wasn’t even repealed, it was struck down by a court, but the backlash against the right wing kept momentum.
Tho CO politics are such that they may have to split the state sometime and give the half west of the continental divide to Utah. Or maybe Wyoming, their style of wingnut seems a better fit.
germy
“Ya lookin’ for the money? Where the money go? I fool ya… I stash it in my briefs!”
(Lee Scratch Perry)
eclare
@raven: Just saw that the game is in Charlotte.
Jager
My grandson from Santa Cruz is just starting his freshman year at Rochester Insitute of Technology. His birthday was this past Tuesday. I think his first birthday away from home was wearing on him. He called me in between classes. He talked for an hour, like most kids he hates to talk on the phone, so I was stunned and amazed. His mom called me later and said he kept her on the phone forever. He called his brother, sister, and his dad too.
I don’t think he’s spent that much time on the phone in his entire life!
I asked him about his roommate, he said he’s very quiet. I asked D-Man, does he have good hygiene? He said yes. I told him, you’re lucky, you’ve got the perfect roommate.
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Jager: That first year is a hard one.
Oddly, the last year of college often is too. Until then, they’ve known what they’re doing the next year their whole life. Now they don’t.
RedDirtGirl
@Dorothy A. Winsor: How exciting!
stinger
@Dorothy A. Winsor: Well, that’s good news!
OzarkHillbilly
My experience with teenagers is the exact opposite. They love talking on the phone, as long as it isn’t anyone related to them.
Starfish
@Just Chuck: The number of people wanting Boebert’s district to be gone in this thread cheered me up.
WaterGirl
@OzarkHillbilly: That sounds like heaven, Ozark. Great food and grandkids! And your own kids!
OzarkHillbilly
Well, nothing’s perfect. ;-)
zhena gogolia
@Nelle:
That’s so nice. All my grandparents were dead by the time I was born.
Chief Oshkosh
@Kay:
I think it’s an open question as to whether they aren’t a net negative for society. I try to give to individual campaigns and specific causes, like Stacey Abrams’ project(s). [OT:Sadly, I thought work would slow down by now for me to be able to be more active beyond sending money to these groups. Not so far…]
WaterGirl
@Benw: Where are you going? I must have missed it when you talked about a trip.
germy
Dorothy A. Winsor
@RedDirtGirl: @stinger: Thank you. Assuming my editor buys it, it wouldn’t be out until 2023 probably. God knows what state we’ll all be in by then.
WaterGirl
@OzarkHillbilly: Ha!
Miss Bianca
@WereBear:
Just ordered it from the library, thanks for the recommendation!
germy
debbie
@germy:
Were I to speculate (and I will), I wonder if he had been assaulted by the doctor too. No tears from me.
germy
@debbie:
From what I understand, the doc abused students. I think Jordan was a staff member by then, a colleague of the doc.
Maybe you’re right, though. Who knows? Jordan ain’t talking.
OzarkHillbilly
@germy: I wonder if he joined in. Or was a passive observer.
Miss Bianca
@Just Chuck: Let me tell you something, in case you didn’t know – it’s not just the Western Slope that has retrogressive politics. Try coming down to my neck of the mountains in south central CO sometime. In fact, I’m thinking about moving *back* to the Western Slope because I find the level of right-wing BS in my county so hard to take.
Ksmiami
@debbie: Fuck Joe Manchin.
Miss Bianca
@Starfish: Ooh, I like the looks of this map better than the last draft I saw.
Immanentize
@Jager: If you ever get to talk to your grandson again after he spent his lifetime talking allowance ? please pass along the advice my son came up with for himself before he left home for the first time for college:
“If I can just find one person who I like and likes me, I’ll be OK.” And of course, even in a pandemic, he found many.
PS I really like RIT — brick city. Many of my friends from HS ended up there. Good place for a smart kid. Except, you know, winters.
debbie
@Jager:
Sweet. I still remember that lonely feeling at the beginning of freshman year. Nice that he felt he could reach out to you.
Miss Bianca
@germy: Speaking of Butler, just finished her Wild Seed, which she wrote in 1980. Weird, fascinating story – apparently the “beginning” of a series that she started in the 70s (or prequel, I guess, I’m not sure of the right word to use here.)
germy
@Ksmiami:
debbie
@Ksmiami:
Agreed. I was able to connect with friends back in NJ this morning, and they’re all okay. No power, but no water either. I call those wins!
Ceci n est pas mon nym
Don’t see this mentioned above, so I’ll drop this here. Greek composer Mikis Theodorakis has died at 96. Best known outside of Greece for composing the music for “Zorba the Greek”, but he was a national hero for his resistance to the military junta that controlled Greece in the early 70s.
Here’s a great NYT obituary.
And here’s a Greek flash mob doing the Zorba dance in Ottawa.
Villago Delenda Est
The Federalist Society needs to be annihilated. They hate the Constitution, they hate the Enlightenment, they’re dedicated to taking this country to feudalism.
raven
@OzarkHillbilly: Great!
Ksmiami
@Villago Delenda Est: just the people in it…
RedDirtGirl
Hi Jackals, RDG here with my update on Molly from Thursday’s Rescue Bleg. I just finished Facetiming with Molly’s mom’s son. She’s a beauty, there’s no doubt about it. I didn’t actually get to see too much of her since she had just woken up from a nap and was on the move, but I learned a lot more about her.
She ticks off a number of boxes on my wish list:
Older, mid-sized, short-haired, active, likes to lean up against you, and what I think of as the holy grail – from a loving home.
She has allergies that require specialized food (hydrolyzed) and medication: desyrel, anafranil, and a third (can’t see the label in the photo they sent). Without these she licks her paws, scratches and has dandruff and, I think, rashes. I will research this a bit, but I don’t think it means more than a modest increase in my monthly expenses.
As a first time dog adopter, I have been holding out for an older dog with the idea that I would find one that was on the mellower side of the spectrum. Not because I’m a couch potato, but so that its youthful exuberance was a thing of the past. Molly is a young 7. It’s a bit hard to get a read on her usual level. While she clearly has a lot of energy, some of that comes from the stimulation of her current environment.There are two other dogs where she has been for the past 4 months, and she would be a singleton in my apartment.
I have 2 concerns that I know you guys can’t resolve for me, but I’m happy for your thoughts.
Will she be a big barker? She is definitely a vocalizer. At her mom’s house, which was a double, she didn’t bark when the neighbor who shared the stoop came in, but did bark when the letter carrier arrived. I live in an apartment building where people are walking by my door throughout the day, and some of them have dogs.
How will she do at home when I am at work? Her mom has been retired for a while, and for the past few months she has been in a house full of people. I am planning on working from home for the first week she stays with me, if she moves in, of course, but that is a big unknown. And re:crating, they tried it when she was a puppy and she hated it. I’d certainly be willing to work on it again.
Okay, there you have it.
Please feel free to weigh in…
Anomalous Cowherd
@germy: (#8)
Ya know, a few minutes on PubMed turned up four or five peer-reviewed journal articles which demonstrate the link between caffeine consumption and miscarriages:
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8165152/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/29276412/
https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/20306287/
https://www.nih.gov/news-events/news-releases/couples-pre-pregnancy-caffeine-consumption-linked-miscarriage-risk
Are the Talibangelist vigilantes gonna target Folgers and Coca-cola for aiding and assisting miscarriages? How about Jolt and No-Doze? Or will caffeine-induced miscarriages be the solution that Texas women turn to in the face of this reprehensible legislation?
Ksmiami
@debbie: Biden needs to pull Manchin aside tell him that he either stops with the bs, or no federal funds go to West Virginia- not for 4 years and everyone in the Dem party will start campaigning against him. At this point better to just draw clear lines and be strong than lose with a mealy mouthed excuse.
Mai Naem mobile
I think Kathy Hochul and Gretchen Whitmer have Jacinda Arden feel to them. Especially Hochul. I don’t know crap about NY politics and I don’t know if the stuff I’ve read about Hochul are just puff pieces but I like what I’ve seen on camera. I don’t know crap about Michigan politics either but i think Whitmer would be an awesome VP or POTUS candidate.
Ksmiami
@Anomalous Cowherd: in South America, antacids are used as well.
WaterGirl
@Mai Naem mobile: Whitmer does have that certain something.
I watched her speak either right before the November 2020 elections or right before Georgia in January (surely probably November) and I could feel it. This was after they tried to kidnap her and she was strong and confident and just plain impressive.
Benw
@WaterGirl: CERN! I have to be on both the Swiss and French sides of the lab so I have to follow 4 countries safety protocols for the trip: Switzerland, France, UK (transiting Heathrow) and the US.
JPL
@RedDirtGirl: Older dogs are the best. Don’t rule a crate out. If you put a nice bed in it and leave the door open, he might discover it’s a nice sleeping area. At some point, you can then close the door. I cover Finch’s crate with a towel, so it has a cozier feel to it.
Ceci n est pas mon nym
@debbie: We (Philly suburbs) pretty much missed the worst effects of the storm, but are now under water restriction. A lot of the local water treatment capacity was damaged and the utility just says “it will take some time” and “take all possible measures to curtail water use until further notice.”
You may have seen pictures of the Vine Street Expressway flooded in Philly. Didn’t take the Philly residents long to break out the inner tubes and start diving off the bridge, despite warnings from officials that you probably need a tetanus shot if you swim in this water.
Edit: This is the overpass on the Vine Street Expressway where people were seen diving and tubing the next day.
raven
@RedDirtGirl: We’ve had Artemis about three weeks. Because of her injuries we were not even sure she could bark but we found out by down loading “Pet Monitor”
and using our iPad to watch and listen while she is alone. I turns out she barks and howls when we are gone. If the foster has a device you might set it up with them and see how she behaves when alone.
zhena gogolia
@raven:
Did you somehow overlook #80?
If so, on behalf of my dear departed daddy, Fuck LBJ.
Mai Naem mobile
@Anomalous Cowherd: Years ago I knew somebody who went to Mexico and got the drugs for an early chemical abortion. I’ve forgotten the details but there were two drugs. One was some kind of easliy obtainable GI drug. The other one was harder to obtain. But she ended up getting her menstrual cycle/miscarrying(she had done an OTC pregnancy test) before she started the drugs.
raven
@zhena gogolia: Thanks, I’m watching Gameday and half-way paying attention to BJ!
Baud
@rikyrah:
Good morning.
JPL
Oh my! Cute overload
Pete Buttigieg on Twitter: “Chasten and I are beyond thankful for all the kind wishes since first sharing the news that we’re becoming parents. We are delighted to welcome Penelope Rose and Joseph August Buttigieg to our family. https://t.co/kS89gb11Ax” / Twitter
Woodrow/asim
Regarding the silence on the Democratic side, I think what’s going on in activist circles, per this tweet, has a lot to do with it:
Rep. Ocasio-Cortez and others have laid out some baselines of support, for fighting back, yet I think a lot of it is people who normally engage the Democratic Congresscritters to speak out, just being in their feels — and rightly so.
This is uncharted territory. I got chastised for saying the legalities are convoluted and complex, yesterday, in comments. And although I don’t think I got a response to my ask to have a TL;DR on that, (and I really am still open to that explainer, y’all!) I think it’s still true — there’s a lot here, a lot that needs careful unpacking and processing. Doing that when you’ve been working for years to fight back against this very situation, an effort intensified with the last two assholes to be pushed onto the Court?
From the Pro-Choice Activists I read, too many (not all!) are just fuckin’ drained, y’all. So: They might need time, and might be asking the Democratic side to hold on pushing this until they can get this shit right.
zhena gogolia
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I was crying through that whole thing, I don’t know why.
Another Scott
@RedDirtGirl: Barking at the mailman is almost universal. They’re an invader!! But it can be useful as an automatic doorbell. If there’s a way to have her meet the mailman/delivery person (especially if they have treats!) that can help.
Our Ellie hates foxes and barks and yeowls at night when she hears them in our yard. J cracks the door and tells them “go away!” and Ellie seems satisfied – until the next night…
Smart doggies want to understand what we want and make us happy. Figuring out our behavior that gets them to change theirs can be challenging, but rewarding. In general, try to make anything you want them to do fun and have good treats associated with it.
Our dogs have been able to tolerate being inside when we’re at work. You might have some “separation anxiety” issues at first – hard to know in advance. Rewards when you’re leaving can help.
We’ve never crated our dogs, but never tried very hard to get it to work. Our first dog whined pitifully when she was in it…
On the licking, etc., there are 10,000 different opinions on the effect of food on that kind of behavior. Supposedly chicken allergies are common. (Our current dog does not do well at all on fresh chicken and rice, while our two previous dogs loved it.) “Grain free” foods have been the rage in some communities, but I’m not convinced it’s a good thing. (Wild dogs, and our Ellie, eat almost anything they can get their nose on.)
My $0.02. Good luck!!
Cheers,
Scott.
Villago Delenda Est
@zhena gogolia: LBJ’s great crime was Vietnam. He was so afraid of being accused of losing it that he waded into Big Muddy and found the prevention was worse than the slogan. He was indeed a master of the Senate and knew how to get things done. He was willing to lose the South “for a generation” to get the Civil Rights Act enacted. Turns out he was an optimist.
Mike in NC
Silly Republicans thought they could win the 2022 midterms demagoguing over the withdrawal from Afghanistan. Yeah, no. Because nobody in this country gives a shit about pointless forever wars. They will, however, have a lot to say about the Texas Taliban and other fascist GOP legislatures trying to impose the will of old white men over all the women in this country.
germy
germy
Professor Bigfoot
@Mai Naem mobile: Big Gretch is a bad b*tch, no lie. There’s a reason she scares the wingnuts, and I am so here for it.
eclare
@RedDirtGirl: I had a Staffie Bull, about the same size, who went absolutely apeshit when I went to work. I had to crate her when I went to work because #1 wow she was a chewers and #2 I had two cats and I didn’t want Sophie to get too playful with them.
I talked with the vet, and the vet prescribed Trazadone, a mild sedative. Wow, what a difference. Before that one day I came home and she had somehow sacked a curtain into her crate and destroyed the rod.
As for crating, the best advice I got was to designate a treat just for getting in the crate. Do not use the treat for any other behavior. For Sophie, it was a sprinkle of Cheetos. :
And Trazadone is cheap.
WaterGirl
@Benw: CERN! Wow, that must be exciting for you.
edit: The trip to CERN, I mean. Not the 4 countries worth of covid protocols, obviously.
frosty
@OzarkHillbilly:
Our two sons both arrived home for the holiday at around 2:00 in the morning. We stayed up to greet them, and yes, it was perfect.
No grandchildren, no sign of them soon, and I’m perfectly OK with that. There relationships etc. are their business, not mine.
zhena gogolia
@Ceci n est pas mon nym: I just cannot find a CD of his music that’s under $40. I wonder why?
Ksmiami
@Mike in NC: idealogues are not good with unintended consequences. The tell is the lack of high level GOP people taking the victory lap. They know it’s toxicity
WaterGirl
@JPL: My little Henry did NOT like his crate. Especially after his ACL surgery when he had to sleep in the crate instead of on the bed with Tucker and me.
After three nights of a treat when he went into the crate, and he starting running to the crate and then waiting politely for me to open the door.
Not liking a crate is in my experience a solvable problem.
cain
@Just Chuck:
They are always going to overreach. The more people hear and understand what the bill does – the more that outrage is going to bill. As I said earlier, not even conservatives are protected from this bill – outraged liberals will almost certainly go after conservatives whose principles can even slightly be bent on something like this.
The first time a liberal/blue gets 10k off a conservative – that’s when shit will really hit the fan.
JPL
In case you missed it, our Secretary of Commerce has twins.. Picture at 100
raven
@Villago Delenda Est: And that fucking phony-ass silver star.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Kay: in orbanite america, only sovereign citizens can make citizen arrests
JPL
@JPL: whoops Secretary of Transportation.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@NotMax: thought this was going to be an orchestra performing wap
which would go well with the youtube clip i watched of sir mixalot performing baby got back with the seattle symphony
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@NotMax: it was that or gangster disciple
Dorothy A. Winsor
@Mike in NC: I walked past a TV with Fox on it this morning, and the host and Joni Ernst were talking about the evacuation in very sad tones. So Fox still thinks the story has juice.
frosty
Barking! I wish it had been just barking. We had a German Shepherd who would hover by the mail slot low in the front door, grab the mail, and pull it out of the mailman’s hand as soon as she saw it!
We’d get home and sort through the bills with toothmarks, LOL.
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@raven: no
pre-cte herschel walker ain’t walking thru that door
Another Scott
@frosty: rofl.
:-)
[eta:] Obligatory – https://mutts.com/product/strip-102011/
Cheers,
Scott.
Wag
@Kay: David Frum is convinced that the Texas abortion law is going to turn into an own goal for the GQP.
i suspect he’s right.
https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2021/09/texas-republicans-abortion-ban-backfire/619956/
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@OzarkHillbilly: +1 rhythmic slapping
Jackie
@JPL: I’m SOOOO HAPPY for them!???
eclare
@JPL: Adorbs!
zhena gogolia
Great version of Subterranean Homesick Blues by my friend:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPqA0yLJZRc
WhatsMyNym
@Morzer:
The Republicans will run against him on his lack of support for infrastructure spending from the Fed’s.
NotMax
@JPL
One kidlet named Joseph.
Coincidence?
:)
MontyTheClipArtMongoose
@Woodrow/asim: why is the queens auxiliary of ourrevolution indulging in identitypolitics/abortion division
if workers were just paid more, they could afford not to have abortions
Woodrow/asim
Reproductive Rights are not just about money/class — but they sure as hell play into that.
I said it before — for poor people across America, Roe has been a Dead Letter law for decades, due to restrictions. Clinic Closures + Waiting Periods + Parental Approvals alone has put this part of Reproductive Rights way outta range for many who need it, but lack funds to travel to another part of the state for, sometimes, days to get the Abortion they need.
This is why the groups in the ActBlue account Rep. Ocasio-Cortez posted have mattered for years, now — those are groups who oftentimes fund people to get this service in TX, in the face of all the existing logistical and legal challenges. If you don’t like her, fine! But respect that she’s likely been hearing from these groups more directly than a lot of us, for years — I know something of that space, and it’s hard work, now so much harder.
I wrote this not because I think I’ll change your mind.
I wrote it because I hope others will read this, and understand why these efforts matter, right now. And why, no matter how you might feel about Rep. Ocasio-Cortez‘s overall body of work, it’s worth it to actually pay attention for once, and to avoid the kind of internecine fights that drag our side down, so damn often.
Real people’s lives depend upon how we so-called Progressives, respond to this moment, y’all.
burnspbesq
In the North Jersey town where I grew up, we measure the severity of floods by the depth of water on the HS football/lacrosse field. This week it was three feet. The worst since Hurricane Agnes.
I expect I’ll be getting an email from the boosters next week, asking for a contribution to help cover the cost of replacing the artificial turf.
RedDirtGirl
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RedDirtGirl
@RedDirtGirl: Me again. Reposted my update to the original Rescue Bleg from Thursday. Might be a better forum if people have any thoughts to share. Link is in my comment above ?.
Audrey
I know there are Canadians that patronize this site, so I thought I’d drop some voting info here just in case anyone hasn’t seen it. (It does seem unlikely at a political blog, but you never know.)
You can vote now if you want to. I voted on Friday at my local Elections Canada office.
Here’s where to find info on how you can vote:
https://www.elections.ca/content2.aspx?section=vote&document=index&lang=e
Good Luck!
JPL
@RedDirtGirl: You need the dog.. I just saw this on twitter
taumaturgo
@Woodrow/asim: I agree. Reproductive rights are a class issue and ever since the 1977 anti-women Hyde amendment, poor working women are been stripped of said rights, while suburban moms’ could afford to jump on a flight and have an abortion.
taumaturgo
…and the appalling 1977 anti-women Hyde amendment.
James E Powell
@Ksmiami:
Manchin apparently enjoys talking shit in the press/media about Democratic plans, how exactly do you think he’d react to Biden cutting off money to his state?
James E Powell
@Wag:
After all that’s gone on in the last 20 years, I wonder if anything will ever cost the Republicans any votes.
If the Texas (and soon to be other states) abortion law is going to cost Republicans, pro-choice people who are currently voting for Republicans will have to start voting for Democrats. My question is, what have those people been thinking up till now? That Republicans who have been loudly and adamantly anti-choice were not really going to do anything about it?
Or do they separate things in their mind so that it isn’t the Republicans doing this, it’s the supreme court. A mysterious priesthood of sorts that have no relationship with their votes.
zhena gogolia
@RedDirtGirl:
I have no wisdom to offer — never had a dog. But I hope you can work it out with Molly!
WaterGirl
@RedDirtGirl: I will post your questions in a new thread.
WaterGirl
@JPL: I would love to know the woman who said that.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I see we’ve reached the LBJ fantasy stage already… smells like 2010 spirit
RedDirtGirl
@WaterGirl: Wow. More than I could hope for. Crowd sourcing my possible adoption!
Ksmiami
@James E Powell: we can start flinging his intransigence Rt back at him. Democratic Party needs to go on offense – stop cowering and not pushing every lever we have
James E Powell
@Ksmiami:
I don’t feel like anyone is cowering and President Biden is certainly doing the opposite of that on very tough issues.
I don’t know if anyone flinging intransigence at Joe Manchin will have any impact, but if the we in your sentence is people who do not live in West Virginia or donate big dollars to his campaign funds, then I’m guessing they will be ignored.
Personally, I consider Manchin to be an asshole. He should shut the fuck up and help his president to succeed, help his party to win elections. But he apparently thinks other things are more important.
Ksmiami
@James E Powell: I’d say sic the dogs on his daughter, her company and her Ill gotten gains unless he complies, but I’m ruthless like that. If Manchin had been reasonable we wouldn’t be in game theory matrix hell
greenergood
@Kay: I had a really horrible thought today, but because it’s Texas, I have to face it. The abortion rate for POC is much higher than for white women; what if Texas decided to prosecute those aiding and abetting white women’s abortions, but let the POC women’s abortions go through. This would represent a struggle between the white supremacist ‘you will not replace us’ people and the (mostly white) Xtian evangelical ‘all babies are sacred until they’re born’ people – and the awful question: who would win?? I don’t think this question is completely crazy – I think there are probably people thinking along these lines, but I’d really hate to meet them …
cain
@greenergood:
Doubt they will do that – they like locking up black/hispanic people – and they’ll have a private prison that the govt will pay for to hold them. Harsh long sentences. Especially for the men.
The white women? Slap on the risk – unless they are a godless liberal then repeat as for black women.