The dog at the end is like "What were you, raised by wolves?" https://t.co/8p0AEFKTiW
— Patrick Chovanec (@prchovanec) May 27, 2022
(To be fair, that golden gives his human the same look, sometimes… )
U.S. prosecutors get guilty verdict in Capitol riot case, extending win streak https://t.co/OiFg8bEMJ8 pic.twitter.com/DcRt59dO1j
— Reuters (@Reuters) May 28, 2022
Local media:
"The time for us to stop mass shootings in this country is right now, right here, today."
Protesters are making good on a promise to put pressure on the NRA during its annual convention in Houston this Friday.https://t.co/u3Oqvl6rzN
— Chron (@chron) May 27, 2022
https://t.co/q1P6Ni3sz1 pic.twitter.com/YorFCz4t5M
— pillsy (@DucksForDuckGod) May 27, 2022
Three days after a gunman killed 19 children and two teachers at a school in Texas, speakers at the National Rifle Association’s convention in Houston insisted that changing U.S. gun laws or restricting access to firearms was not the answer. https://t.co/3gmoL9SHRI
— The Associated Press (@AP) May 27, 2022
We’re about six months from this being the actual new reason we can’t defund the police
— Noise Misato’s Broken Boss DS-1 (@standingsays) May 27, 2022
I have no problem with this solution. The final one, as the case may be. https://t.co/YzK3BgYjHM
— Slava Malamud 🇺🇦 (@SlavaMalamud) May 25, 2022
“would be a cool time for “fiscal conservatives” to gut police departments that only exist as daycare for men”
Warning: rhetorical question ahead.
How much of society exists for this purpose? It’s astonishing. The older I get, the more I see how many of our institutions are designed, maybe not expressly for, but with an objective of “keeping young men out of trouble” or propping up mediocre men because “they have families” who ostensibly depend on them.
I read that CBS is rewriting the TV show S.W.A.T. to have the team playing foosball the whole episode.
They said they wanted to make the show more realistic.
This is off-topic, but I am excited, so I am going to share! We got our new outdoor furniture this week, and Mr. Suzanne, who is simultaneously “frugal” and exceedingly particular, says he really likes it. More than the last stuff, even. Considering that I got it on sale, I am calling that a win. I have been looking now for decor items, including a rug and pillows to replace the ones that got destroyed. Last night, we went to Costco, and they had outdoor rugs for $80, and they had nice-looking outdoor pillows for $10. We seem to be landing on a neutral palette with lime green-cobalt blue accents. Works for me. I think I am going to look for a blue side table and a blue glazed accent planter, and then call it a finished project.
I have enjoyed every morning coffee and every dinner out here this week. It’s just great.
@Suzanne
👍
@Baud
It is amazing how quickly that dude destroyed a lot of stuff. When I think back on it, it’s almost unbelievable. The truth that it takes much more effort and time and resources to build than to destroy has definitely manifested in this case.
@Suzanne
>>it takes much more effort and time and resources to build than to destroy
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Advantage: Conservatives
So it seems Uvalde police are experiencing the same kind of threats that Salvador Ramos routinely made against teenage girls online, but police are actually getting protection from other officers. It turns out we can do something about these threats when we care about the victims.
@Suzanne
That sounds like a really pretty color scheme.
@ Suzanne: The new set-up sounds really wonderful! I hope you and your family really enjoy it.
As for the NRA, we’ve tried it their way many times and did nothing; it’s time we try something else and see if it helps. Can’t be any worse than the current situation.
I’m reposting this Twitter thread I came across last night from an older sibling of students at the school who paints a different picture of the town of Uvalde than Abbott et al. appear to be depicting.
https://twitter.com/deenoonandraws/status/1529871163312201728?s=21&t=9UE_s0g5QJG5cjBuInqVNw
@Suzanne, we have also had some great finds at Costco for outfitting the house and patio. Great to hear you are recovering your space and peace.
Today my kiddo has her first ballet recital. The rehearsal last week was hilarious, with her and the other tiny girls in tutus skipping merrily around the stage somewhat heedless to the choreography. Looking forward to small and meaningful joys like this.
@Shalimar
So on a related note, I obviously support red-flag laws. One of the important details, though, is who is allowed to report the person. Do you have to be family or a close friend? Is it anonymous or is it legally discoverable? Do you get an order of protection (which police don’t have to actually enforce, BTW)? The reason I am thinking about this a lot is that often these shooters seem to have family who are almost as bad as they are. Adam Lanza’s mom actually bought him those guns. I have had the displeasure in my life of being in some sort of relationship with a few people who I would have certainly reported, if there was a social infrastructure to do so.
@ mali muso
There is very little that’s more entertaining than the little kid dance recital, soccer game, or Christmas pageant. Seriously, I still remember antics and laugh from events back when I was a teenager. Just hilarious. Enjoy.
Appearance of morning thread is the traditional signal of incipient beddy-bye time here.
🙂
Not all that sleepy at the moment, however. Took the new vehicle out for s short spin of maybe 5 miles, local streets and highway, at midnight simply to see how well the headlights function and what the interior lighting looks like at night. They’re quite impressive. Don’t do much night time driving anymore so purposely chose a time when the roads would be nearly empty to begin to become accustomed to driving it in the dark.
@ Suzanne: There’s an interview with this shooter’s mother (somewhere on Twitter) who said her son had his reasons. I believe the grandmother was the caretaker due to the mother’s issues, but jesus.
So it took cops from the evil federal government to stop the killer.
@debbie
Yeah, I don’t like the idea that only family can report. First of all, it’s too small a group. No one will report anyone if it’s easy to identify the reporter. It puts that person in danger. And family is usually too small a group. Also, families are too close to be objective observers of danger, because they probably (understandably) also see the person that they love. But on the other side, family is also where a lot of this shitty behavior is learned or at least fostered.
@Suzanne
“The older I get, the more I see how many of our institutions are designed, maybe not expressly for, but with an objective of “keeping young men out of trouble” or propping up mediocre men because “they have families” who ostensibly depend on them.”
Slight disagreement here because this could read as reverse gender discrimination. The Powers That Be seek to maintain power and eliminate disruption or opposition. The fact that TPTB are mostly aging males is a byproduct of the past. The gender is incidental. I’ve had the pleasure of TPTB controlled by both genders (in academia) and it can be equally toxic.
Vertical structures are the problem. Not the gender (entirely).
Someone on here yesterday asked how to counter the R narrative about Chicago & gun laws lot working etc. Here’s a good article with facts
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/05/27/us/politics/fact-check-trump-cruz-nra.html?referringSource=articleShare
“There were more gun murders in Chicago than in any other U.S. city in 2020, fueling the perception that it is the gun violence capital of the country. But Chicago is also the third-largest city in the country. Adjusted by population, the gun homicide rate was 25.2 per 100,000, the 26th highest in the country in 2020, according to data compiled by the gun control advocacy group Everytown for Gun Safety.
The three cities with the highest gun homicide rates — Jackson, Miss.; Gary, Ind.; and St. Louis — had rates double that of Chicago’s or more. All are in states with more permissive gun laws than Illinois.
Chicago’s reputation for having the strictest gun control measures in the country is outdated. Mr. Cruz cited the city’s handgun ban — without noting that the Supreme Court nullified the ban in 2010. An appeals court also struck down a ban on carrying concealed weapons in Illinois in 2012, and the state began allowing possession of concealed guns in 2013 as part of the court decision.
Today, Illinois has tougher restrictions than most states, but it does not lead the pack, ranking No. 6 in Everytown’s assessment of the strength of state gun control laws, and No. 8 in a report card released by the Giffords Law Center, another gun control group. Conversely, the state ranked No. 41 in an assessment on gun rights from the libertarian Cato Institute.”
@debbie: someone who loves the shooter’s parents should tell them to stop making comments to the media. I don’t think they have any bad intent, but by all accounts, they’re both highly dysfunctional addicts who are/were shitty parents and bear some of the blame, so they should refrain from opening their mouths in public except to apologize.
debbie May 28, 2022 at 8:58 AM
It’s interesting and if SHE doesn’t support these politicians or policies I can understand why she feels helpless, but Uvalde is a very Republican town- 60% for Trump and a GOP House member – so in this case they are getting the gun policy they voted for.
It’s only 15,000 people so if it went 60% Dem it might not have mattered for Abbott and it wouldn’t have mattered for Trump carrying Texas but they can’t really say they are being held hostage- most voters there are voting for people who gut gun regulations.
El Paso could say they are being held hostage- they vote 67% Dem- but Uvalde is a place that votes Republican.
Open thread? I had an EKG on Thursday because my cardiologist detected a heart murmur and wanted to know how serious it was. The results came back “minor,” so that’s good.
Kay Catholics
@Kay
40% of Uvalde is being held hostage.
@Dorothy A Winsor
👍
@Raven
How are you feeling today?
Raven May 28, 2022 at 9:26 AM
Sure, but maybe “rural” is a better indicator because I imagine El Paso – 80% Latino- is pretty Catholic too.
Dorothy A Winsor May 28, 2022 at 9:25 AM
Nice to know you’re gonna be with us a little longer.
@raven
>>Kay Catholics
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I initially thought that was an order of Catholics like the Jesuits that I hadn’t heard of.
DW. The sore throat has passed and I’m in day 5. It’’s driving me fucking nuts having my wife walk around in her mask talking to me like I can hear her. I can’t hear her WITHOUT a mask even with my hearing aid! In summary, I never felt badly except for the sore throat and the anitviral seems to work. Thanks
Kay, yea, could be.
Dayton police shot and killed the Dayton shooter within one minute of the first shots fired, which was backed up by bodycam footage of the 5 police officers who confronted him – they stopped him before he even entered the bar – 9 dead but it would have been a lot more- and they were widely praised for good work so we really can tell good police work from bad police work.
No one has to pick “pro police” or “anti police” – it’s a false choice that people operating in bad faith are presenting- we can recognize and reward good work and punish bad work without getting into that at all.
bad work
OT Our metroparks is having a native plant festival today, with activities and vendors of native plants. Location is at a former golf course that they bought and restored to native grass and plants.
@ Dorothy A Winsor: Great news!
Test:
Diego Maradona konnte alles mit einem Fußball.
Cole tweeted that BJ is back. Is that just a test or are we really ready to go home?
https://twitter.com/Johngcole/status/1530543216373772288
William Lopez, an assistant professor at the University of Michigan who studies fear in immigrant communities, immediately worried about the anxieties undocumented parents might experience. “Border Patrol also on the scene,” he wrote in a widely shared tweet on Tuesday afternoon. “I pray for those parents fearing that their kids are dead and debating whether or not they’ll be arrested if they go to find out.”
@DAW – Follow up, he says Tuesday.
Tuesday is the day we plan to go home to a SHELL of Balloon Juice.
We have the banner and the balloon guy. And the comment system, though I’m not entirely sure it’s functioning normally. We have tags that could rotate, but no tags. No pie filter. No forms.
It’s pretty much just the banner with the balloon guy, the comment system and tags that can rotate, but no tags.
But if they could only find 3 things, those are the 3 things I would have asked for.
I will put up a post later. Tuesday will be the day we go back.
@WaterGirl – If we go back Tuesday, what day can we start complaining about the new/old site?
@Gin & Tonic
Start early and avoid the rush.
😉
Gin & Tonic May 28, 2022 at 9:59 AM
We stopped?
@WaterGirl – That’s great news! It’ll be like moving back into the house in mid-remodel.
@Dorothy A Winsor – Your link doesn’t work for me, and I still get the temporary page. Must have been premature.
@CaseyL
“Jeeze. Who picked the new wallpaper? Ray Charles?”
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(Somewhat) restored BJ back on Tuesday! Great news!
CaseyL May 28, 2022 at 10:11 AM
I did ADA rebuilds on fast food restaurants after their grandfather clauses started running out, for several years. It always amazed me, and to be honest *made me rethink my fast food eating*, but a lot of them chose to keep their drive thru open. We’d put up a plastic curtain and seal up the kitchen as best we could but there was no way we could keep all the dust out. It always finds a way thru.
Anything to make a buck.
** some of the things I found… uck.
I have a fantasy: that the leadership of the Uvalde police department commit to cooperating thoroughly and fully with an outside investigative team, after which they will resign and devote themselves full-time to working toward gun safety, including an assault weapons ban.
Meanwhile, getting ready to head to Indy. Not sure how I feel about being in a crowd, but I’ll be wearing my N95 (in turn 4). We’ll see what dining options exist. We’re staying in a hotel tonight and tomorrow night, about an hour from the track; there appear to be brewpubs nearby, preferably with outdoor eating. We’re also willing to get takeout and bring it back to the room.
Baud, OH, Debbie: Thanks for the kind words
@Narya: Mr DAW is a racing fan too, and this is obviously a big weekend between Indy and Monaco. Have a good time.
I don’t know if this has been posted yet, but Bizbudding filed their lawsuit against 365 data centers yesterday. Here is a listing of the lawsuit but you have to get an account to read or download it.
The summary from law.com, which also requires an account to read the whole thing.
The suit, backed by Glancy Prongay & Murray and Morgan & Morgan, alleges that 365 Data Centers failed to take reasonable and necessary precautions to detect, prevent and mitigate cyberattacks. Counsel have not yet appeared for the defendant. The case is 3:22-cv-00715, Bizbudding, Inc.
ETA. The link to the filing broke the margin so I deleted it. Let me try again.
Above is the district court link. Hopefully this will not break the margin.
edit by WG: Link removed, but I am adding this information to a front-page post where I can add the link without breaking anything. 🙂
Oh no! I broke the margin again. Please can you fix it WaterGirl or Anne Laurie?
sorry!
@DAW
Good news! FYI I have apparently had a minor heart murmur my whole life and I didn’t even know about it until I was like 20. And apparently that’s really common and it’s nothing to worry about at all. I think they call it “functional”.
@Ozark Hillbilly: In re doing construction work at restaurants. My hubby was a floor installer for many years. He did a floor installation at a highly regarded local restaurant. When they were moving some coolers they thought the owners had put green indoor-outdoor carpet inside the food refrigerator. Upon closer examination, they realized the carpet was a very thick layer of green mold/algae. This wasn’t the only gross thing found in the kitchen area.
OTOH, he did talk about one lake bar/restaurant that would shut down for a week so they could thoroughly clean the fryers, stoves, etc.
Delivery folks and others who have to do work in restaurant kitchens have lots of stories!
Regarding heart murmurs, in the early 1940s when every able-bodied male in the S was entering the military, my dad enlisted in a program that allowed him to complete his current year at WVU. After which he rode a 1930s-style bus across the state to Huntington to an induction center.
During the physical before his induction the doctor listened to his heart for a long time, and then called another Dr over to also listen. “I think he has a heart murmur!’ the first doc told the second doc. Dad asked “Is that a good thing, doc?”
Yes it was! After that Dad was 4F, the only male member of all my family on both sides not to go off to war in the 1940s. He lived to be 80 with nary a heart issue all his life.
Covid and moving to a new state where we didn’t have any established favorite restaurants put an end to our going out to eat, and we haven’t felt much desire to change that. I know eating out is a important perk for a lot of folks, so I’m not judging. It has saved us enough money to go all organic and grass fed in our purchases for home consumption though.
As for heart murmurs, I’ve had one forever and I’m quite active. I look at it as a test of a health care provider’s hearing because only about 1 in 3 ever hear it or comment about it.