My man has the skills to pay the bills.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) March 11, 2019
Is this Zumba? ‘Cuz if it is, we may have found the exercise class Cole has been looking for all these years…
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My man has the skills to pay the bills.
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) March 11, 2019
Is this Zumba? ‘Cuz if it is, we may have found the exercise class Cole has been looking for all these years…
by Betty Cracker| 197 Comments
This post is in: Birdwatching, Open Threads
Here’s a tricolored heron with its breakfast:
I think the luckless critter that was on the menu is a frog; my husband suspects it’s a crawdad.
Fun facts about tricolored herons: the male builds a rough frame for the nest, and the female does the trim work, adding smaller sticks, grass, etc. IIRC, the plumage is the same for both sexes. The blue skin around the bill means he or she is ready for romance!
Open thread!
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Pelosi announces vote to override Trump’s veto https://t.co/sjE4eNOKfi
— Raw Story (@RawStory) March 15, 2019
Veto override in House is unlikely — but Pelosi wants to put Republicans on record a 2nd time with the vote: “House Republicans will have to choose between their partisan hypocrisy and their sacred oath to support and defend the Constitution.” https://t.co/ZHB5UN2T1c
— Billy House (@HouseInSession) March 15, 2019
During a normal presidency — remember those? — this kind of legislative breakdown would be front-page news for at least a week. Per the Washington Post:
President Trump issued the first veto of his presidency Friday to secure federal money for a border wall that he promised as a candidate and considers a crucial priority for his reelection, capping a week of confrontation with both political parties…
Rebuffed by Congress in his demands for billions for the wall, Trump had declared a national emergency at the Mexican border last month, a move that would allow the president to circumvent the will of lawmakers and spend billions on border barriers.
Congress backed a resolution of disapproval, with the Senate voting 59-to-41 on Thursday for the measure. Twelve Republicans defied Trump and joined Democrats on the legislation.
The rare rebuke from members of his own party was symbolically important, but Congress does not have the votes to overturn Trump’s veto. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) immediately announced a March 26 vote to try, saying that “House Republicans will have to choose between their partisan hypocrisy and their sacred oath to support and defend the Constitution.”…
He doesn’t expect to be in the Oval Office until September, is my bet. So it’s straight to the smash’n’grab portion of this Russian-enabled heist…
Striking details here: some GOP Senators asked White House for legal memo backing emergency, list of projects to lose funding for wall. White House refused. They voted for it anyway. https://t.co/FD39lvccj4
— Susan Glasser (@sbg1) March 15, 2019
The emergency declaration vote was an excellent test of the sincerity of conservatives in the chamber and most of those self-styled champions of small government and individual freedom voted to give the executive branch the power to do pretty much anything
— Adam Serwer?? (@AdamSerwer) March 14, 2019
4 states have joined our lawsuit against the President's declaration of a national emergency.
We now have 20 states standing up & fighting back against this declaration that would divert funds for critical programs & harm people across our entire country.
— NY AG James (@NewYorkStateAG) March 13, 2019
Two things:
1) Nancy Pelosi forced McConnell to walk the plank
2) Pelosi never lost the caucus like this https://t.co/iyS0JhsgXe
— The Hoarse Whisperer (@HoarseWisperer) March 14, 2019
Saturday Morning Open Thread: Doubling DownPost + Comments (211)
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I just can’t with the 80s music, so here’s a good-looking woodpecker instead:
And here’s a crappy photo of a Sandhill crane on the wing:
It was yelling its head off, as they usually do when they fly, at least around here. I wonder if the migratory flocks screech for the entire trip? Human children are capable of it, so it’s a possibility.
Open thread!
by Adam L Silverman| 227 Comments
This post is in: Music, Open Threads
I’ve got nothing really to say right now about what happened in New Zealand earlier today (their time) that I haven’t said too many times before over the past 3 and 1/2 years. I may write something about it in a day or two, but I also may not.
But since you all have been arguing about 80s music in the comments to the previous thread, here’s a post with a bunch of it. Some one hit wonders. Some imported from across the pond. Some of it good. Some not so much.
You can argue over it in the comments. 1/2 the videos/songs after the jump.
https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x22vqs
And just because it is! Also, the title of my master’s thesis in comparative religion.
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You All Asked For It: 80s Music Open ThreadPost + Comments (227)
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I’ll point out again that Republicans and others have been screaming that Ilhan Omar is an anti-Semite for comments far less explicit than this. Trump is assuming American Jews would (and should) vote solely based on Israel. https://t.co/fGaQQNlo0o
— Andrew Lebovich (@tweetsintheME) March 15, 2019
Count on Donald Trump to say the quiet parts out loud, and at the worst possible time. A white supremacist murders Muslims? Hey, look over there! —
… Speaking to a group of R.N.C. donors at Mar-a-Lago [last] Friday, Trump told the crowd assembled, “The Democrats hate Jewish people,” according to three people who were there. He went on to say he didn’t understand how anyone who’s Jewish could vote for a Democrat these days—perhaps still seething that Clinton got 71 percent of the Jewish vote in 2016, to his 24 percent—and proceeded to brag about how much he’s done for Israel, including his highly controversial decision to move the U.S. embassy to Jerusalem.
And, of course, it wouldn’t be a Trump speech without a completely deranged assessment of his chances of winning an election in another country: according to the president, if he could run for prime minister of Israel, “he’d be at 98 percent in the polls.”…
Hey, it’s what he’s thinking about, ergo it must be what’s important to everybody. Well, the *right* everybodies, ifyouknowwhatImean…
A lasting political fight in which Jews figure mostly as a passive, monolithic, two-dimensional, heavily stereotyped object doesn’t make me at all nervous because history has shown that this always ends well.
— Julia Ioffe (@juliaioffe) March 12, 2019
Exit polls put the split at 69-30 in 2012, 71-24 in 2016, and 79-17 in 2018. https://t.co/Ms1Teb0c83
— Yoni Appelbaum (@YAppelbaum) March 12, 2019
And for 25 years, "this is the inflection point and now Jews are going to become Republicans" has been remarkably stable as a dumb take. https://t.co/R27Dx0W5u1
— Nate Silver (@NateSilver538) March 12, 2019
Can't these schmucks get their stories straight?
Yesterday, the Democratic Party hates Jews.
Today, the Democratic Party is basically a cabal funded by Jews.
As a Jew, this is all very confusing, except it's not. https://t.co/5p3EZDIoLv
— Ben. No More, No Less. (@BJS_quire) March 12, 2019
If they’re going to call Jews leaving the Democratic Party “Jexodus” I’m calling the Christian rapture “the Chrapture.”
— The Volatile Mermaid (@OhNoSheTwitnt) March 12, 2019
Think we can make ‘Mike Pence, Chrapture Enthusiast’ happen?
Horrowshow Open Thread: When All Else Fails, Yell “Look! JEWS!”Post + Comments (30)
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Time and time again, this president has embraced and emboldened white supremacists—and instead of condemning racist terrorists, he covers for them. This isn't normal or acceptable. We have to be better than this. https://t.co/pniU3l0wte
— Kirsten Gillibrand (@SenGillibrand) March 15, 2019
Bizarre and fascinating. Trump makes generic statement about New Zealand massacre and then launches into a meandering speech about murderers and drugs "pouring" over the border in an immigrant invasion.
— Josh Marshall (@joshtpm) March 15, 2019
Cue up the Dumbest Man in Congress…
What is the "controversy" about people worshiping God in their chosen house of worship that a court, dispute resolution, or legislature would need to resolve?
What is wrong with you? https://t.co/dHGHypXL61
— Patrick Nonwhite (@NonWhiteHat) March 15, 2019
“There’s no need for all this violence, we can handle this unwanted minority group through legislation” was pretty much the Citizens Councils’ line whenever the Klan turned deadly.https://t.co/Xk5UkWeh3v
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 15, 2019
I forgot Gohmert took money from the head of the Council of Conservative Citizens — the white supremacist heir to the Citizens' Councils.
When that was exposed after the Charleston attack, Gohmert promised to give the money back. Apparently he never did.https://t.co/JjksjJUMSe pic.twitter.com/uGDM5nMe2M
— Kevin M. Kruse (@KevinMKruse) March 15, 2019
Also, you notice that the "good guy with a gun" crowd is not rushing to urge more Muslims to arm themselves.
— Mark Strauss (@MarkDStrauss) March 15, 2019
Kiwi friends are quick to point out that the shooter is an immigrant from Australia.
— brad daly (@bwdaly) March 15, 2019
GOP Venality Open Thread: A Susurration of CYAPost + Comments (142)