Trump announces a dramatic last-minute deal! Peter Baker of the Times goes on at length on a pint I have made before (Where? Hmm... this from Mar 2018 for sure.) - Trump creates this drama and then solves it. Or at least, "solves" it. North Korea has been the most harrowing example but the China trade war (with an inevitable "victory" in time to keep the economy humming for November 2020) is becoming the most consequential.
Narc,
Those are amazing pix. It was a very high end helicopter and could land in the water, so I wonder why it didn’t. Sad for the pilot (I think)
Posted by: Jane | June 10, 2019 at 08:52 PM
MM,
Bellavia is DJ in Buffalo. LOL.
Posted by: Jack is Back (Again)! | June 10, 2019 at 08:52 PM
If this was looking like a bad movie script its not an accident
https://mobile.twitter.com/SaraCarterDC/status/1138173499997134848
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 08:56 PM
Jane,
Choppers are different than fixed-wing aircraft, once you lose any control or engine there is no gliding down to a water landing. You are totally screwed.
Posted by: Jack is Back (Again)! | June 10, 2019 at 08:56 PM
Plus crosswinds between buildings, in that part of town
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 08:57 PM
Way to go Warren, make Kim more paranoid:
https://www.google.com/amp/s/www.wsj.com/amp/articles/north-korean-leaders-slain-half-brother-was-said-to-have-been-a-cia-informant-11560203662
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 09:00 PM
Oberlin's musical school is still excellent. Some of the students play in the clubs I go to.
Posted by: Captain Hate | June 10, 2019 at 09:00 PM
Actually comes from a Bezos reporters book, Anna fifield. It's not unlike with rifaat Assad, security chief now living in marbella.
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 09:03 PM
narc,
He was above the structures. Most likely updrafts but that doesn't help a mechanical problem.
Posted by: Jack is Back (Again)! | June 10, 2019 at 09:04 PM
Probably and the short time span before the crash wouldn't suggest that problem.
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 09:08 PM
Previously they burned say Karzai brother before he was assassinated
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 09:10 PM
narc,
No crosswinds above the structures at his altitude. Do you have a pilots license of any kind?
Posted by: Jack is Back (Again)! | June 10, 2019 at 09:10 PM
Bellavia Medal of Honor story
https://www.armytimes.com/news/your-army/2019/06/07/this-soldier-is-about-to-be-the-iraq-wars-first-living-medal-of-honor-recipient/
Posted by: President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA | June 10, 2019 at 09:12 PM
Playing Durant.
Oh boy, this should be interesting.
Posted by: Jack is Back (Again)! | June 10, 2019 at 09:13 PM
It's about time, it's a shame his name is not more widely known.
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 09:13 PM
Jib,
Did you look at the route?
Posted by: Jane | June 10, 2019 at 09:17 PM
Jane,
What route? Makes no difference. If it was mechanical ( most likely ) you cannot control a chopper.
Posted by: Jack is Back (Again)! | June 10, 2019 at 09:21 PM
KK and I, shared a few messages this weekend.
oh and.
INDIVISIBLE.
Posted by: GUS | June 10, 2019 at 09:21 PM
My eye sight was probably not good enough for a pilot's license
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 09:23 PM
Jane to clarify if it was a hard landing as the reports (but I wait for the NSTA report, then again most likely, it was mechanical or pilot error. I go with mechanical. The route doesn't seem to have anything to do with it. And rain like in NY at the time should have no effect for a seasoned chopper driver.
Posted by: Jack is Back (Again)! | June 10, 2019 at 09:25 PM
Of course if hes spent a decade living in Malaysia how much insight would he have into the younger Kim's operations, keep in mind their spymaster was the chief negotiator for 7 years.
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 09:28 PM
I would love to see the Raptors win this thing just to reset the NBA. But I am off to bed. Slaap Lekker, tot morgen.
Posted by: Jack is Back (Again)! | June 10, 2019 at 09:29 PM
Jim Jordan is a real warrior! Watch him go after John Dean!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 10, 2019 at 09:34 PM
Even Bezos admits dean was a dry hole dang nabbit.
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 09:37 PM
BlueReaganite
@Blue2Reaganite
3h3 hours ago
Jim Jordan
Matt Gaetz
Devin Nunes
Louie Gohmert
Mark Meadows
Doug Collins
John Kennedy
That's about all we've got folks. The rest are useless. 7 people.
=========================================
Anybody got any other names? I think he's listed all I could think of.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 10, 2019 at 09:39 PM
Oops: Just thought of Dan Crenshaw!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 10, 2019 at 09:40 PM
Glad that Jim Jordan spoke up.
Still, at this point I won't throw a hat in the air unless/until a Dem is indicted.
Don't care about conviction or length of sentence. Just want to see evidence brought out in court for all to see. Then, go from there.
<#TwoWeeks>
Posted by: President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA | June 10, 2019 at 09:44 PM
It's a little larger than the Remington taskforce
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 09:44 PM
Well it's probably fake news:
https://www.nola.com/entertainment/2019/06/abortion-bill-could-prompt-ncis-new-orleans-to-leave-the-crescent-city-report.html&m_entry_id=Y6HQCTYIAJD6HDO556T2YE7D4Y&m_entry_author_username=mbscott
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 09:53 PM
Get the champagne ready, Toronto.
Posted by: Captain Hate | June 10, 2019 at 09:54 PM
I loved it when Jordan said Dean "went to prison" and the clown Dean corrected him.
So this CRIME of which DEAN was convicted and Trump was never charged with or accused of lets DEAN walk, yet the POTUS should be impeached for NOT DOING IT.
Posted by: GUS | June 10, 2019 at 09:54 PM
Autorotation, Jack. But same as airplanes, you need altitude to trade for airspeed. And flying over Manhattan, due to the proximity of LGA, TEB, EWR and JFK, VFR traffic usually gets pushed to very low altitudes.
Posted by: Another Bob | June 10, 2019 at 09:55 PM
Why John Dean today? This thread has some good answers.
https://threadreaderapp.com/thread/1138218316135223301.html
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 10, 2019 at 10:00 PM
Yes it's very absurd, the proper parallel would be to Marc elias clinto staffer and atty for perkins and coie who paid fusion to put the dossier together.
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 10:01 PM
Jellenne @jellen805
2h2 hours ago
"How do the Dems plan to pay for medicare for all?" -Gaetz
"What?"-Dean
"Well I figure if we're going to ask you about things you don't know anything about why not start with the big stuff?" -Gaetz
I'm ded.
Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | June 10, 2019 at 10:06 PM
Look at Narc’s link Jib.
Posted by: Jane | June 10, 2019 at 10:06 PM
Dean is intriguing in the light of silent coup, which suggested a whole nother rationale for watergare they sued and the case was thrown out.
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 10:07 PM
Lol, he slapped him with a halibut.
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 10:08 PM
Of course goldsmith has been a weasel for 15 years, if not longer.
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 10:10 PM
Pretty bad look for the Toronto fans though.
Let’s remember this the next time some Canadian condescension comes out way.
Posted by: Another Bob | June 10, 2019 at 10:12 PM
Sorry about the length of this. It's the text of that surgeon's essay in Esquire in 1976 about abortion. It's all the more powerful because he was not motivated by faith and saw something he didn't expect to see. Also because he is extraordinarily eloquent. If you haven't read the whole thing you should, regardless of your position.
What I Saw at the Abortion
A stirring—the liberal-minded doctor is troubled
January 1 1976 Richard Selzer
...There is the flick of that needle. I saw it... in that room, a pace away, life prodded, life fending off.
The doctor observed…the man saw...
I am a surgeon. Particularities of sick flesh is everyday news. Escaping blood, all the outpourings of disease—phlegm, pus, vomitus, even those occult meaty tumors that terrify—I see as blood, disease, phlegm, and so on. I touch them to destroy them. But I do not make symbols of them.
What I am saying is that I have seen and I am used to seeing. We are talking about a man who has a trade, who has practiced it long enough to see no news in any of it. Picture this man, then. A professional. In his forties. Three children. Lives in a university town—so, necessarily, well—enlightened? Enough, anyhow. Successful in his work, yes. No overriding religious posture. Nothing special, then, your routine fellow, trying to do his work and doing it well enough. Picture him, this professional, a sort of scientist, if you please, in possession of the standard admirable opinions, positions, convictions, and so on—on this and that matter—on abortion, for example.
All right.
Now listen.
It is the western wing of the fourth floor of a great university hospital. I am present because I asked to be present. I wanted to see what I had never seen. An abortion.
The patient is Jamaican. She lies on the table in that state of notable submissiveness I have always seen in patients. Now and then she smiles at one of the nurses as though acknowledging a secret.
A nurse draws down the sheet, lays bare the abdomen. The belly mounds gently in the twenty-fourth week of pregnancy. The chief surgeon paints it with a sponge soaked in red antiseptic. He does this three times, each time a fresh sponge. He covers the area with a sterile sheet, an aperture in its center. He is a kindly man who teaches as he works, who pauses to reassure the woman.
He begins.
A little pinprick, he says to the woman.
He inserts the point of a tiny needle at the midline of the lower portion of her abdomen, on the down-slope. He infiltrates local anesthetic into the skin, where it forms a small white bubble.
The woman grimaces.
That is all you will feel, the doctor says. Except for a little pressure. But no more pain.
She smiles again. She seems to relax. She settles comfortably on the table. The worst is over.
The doctor selects a three-and-one-half-inch needle bearing a central stylet. He places the point at the site of the previous injection. He aims it straight up and down, perpendicular. Next he takes hold of her abdomen with his left hand, palming the womb, steadying it. He thrusts with his right hand. The needle sinks into the abdominal wall.
Oh, says the woman quietly.
But I guess it is not pain that she feels. It is more a recognition that the deed is being done.
Another thrust and he has speared the uterus.
We are in, he says.
He has felt the muscular wall of the organ gripping the shaft of his needle. A further slight pressure on the needle advances it a bit more. He takes his left hand from the woman’s abdomen. He retracts the filament of the stylet from the barrel of the needle. A small geyser of pale yellow fluid erupts.
We are in the right place, says the doctor. Are you feeling any pain? he says.
She smiles, shakes her head. She gazes at the ceiling.
In the room we are six: two physicians, two nurses, the patient, and me.
The participants are busy, very attentive. I am not at all busy—but I am no less attentive. I want to see.
I see something!
It is unexpected, utterly unexpected, like a disturbance in the earth, a tumultuous jarring. I see something other than what I expected here. I see a movement—a small one. But I have seen it.
And then I see it again. And now I see that it is the hub of the needle in the woman’s belly that has jerked. First to one side. Then to the other side. Once more it wobbles, is tugged, like a fishing line nibbled by a sunfish.
Again! And I know!
It is the fetus that worries thus. It is the fetus struggling against the needle. Struggling? How can that be? I think: that cannot be. I think: the fetus feels no pain, cannot feel fear, has no motivation. It is merely reflex.
I point to the needle.
It is a reflex, says the doctor.
By the end of the fifth month, the fetus weighs about one pound, is about twelve inches long. Hair is on the head. There are eyebrows, eyelashes. Pale pink nipples show on the chest. Nails are present, at the fingertips, at the toes.
At the beginning of the sixth month, the fetus can cry, can suck, can make a fist. He kicks, he punches. The mother can feel this, can see this. His eyelids, until now closed, can open. He may look up, down, sideways. His grip is very strong. He could support his weight by holding with one hand.
A reflex, the doctor says.
I hear him. But I saw something. I saw something in that mass of cells understand that it must bob and butt. And I see it again ! I have an impulse to shove to the table—it is just a step—seize that needle, pull it out.
We are not six, I think. I think we are seven.
Something strangles there. An effort, its effort, binds me to it.
I do not shove to the table. I take no little step. It would be . . . well, madness. Everyone here wants the needle where it is. Six do. No, five do.
I close my eyes. I see the inside of the uterus. It is bathed in ruby gloom. I see the creature curled upon itself. Its knees are flexed. Its head is bent upon its chest. It is in fluid and gently rocks to the rhythm of the distant heartbeat.
It resembles ... a sleeping infant.
Its place is entered by something. It is sudden. A point coming. A needle!
A spike of daylight pierces the chamber. Now the light is extinguished. The needle comes closer in the pool. The point grazes the thigh, and I stir. Perhaps I wake from dozing. The light is there again. I twist and straighten. My arms and legs push. My hand finds the shaft—grabs! I grab. I bend the needle this way and that. The point probes, touches on my belly. My mouth opens. Could I cry out? All is a commotion and a churning. There is a presence in the pool. An activity! The pool colors, reddens, darkens.
I open my eyes to see the doctor feeding a small plastic tube through the barrel of the needle into the uterus. Drops of pink fluid overrun the rim and spill onto the sheet. He withdraws the needle from around the plastic tubing. Now only the little tube protrudes from the woman’s body. A nurse hands the physician a syringe loaded with a colorless liquid. He attaches it to the end of the tubing and injects it.
Prostaglandin, he says.
Ah, well, prostaglandin—a substance found normally in the body. When given in concentrated dosage, it throws the uterus into vigorous contraction. In eight to twelve hours, the woman will expel the fetus.
The doctor detaches the syringe but does not remove the tubing.
In case we must do it over, he says.
He takes away the sheet. He places gauze pads over the tubing. Over all this he applies adhesive tape.
I know. We cannot feed the great numbers. There is no more room. I know, I know. It is woman’s right to refuse the risk, to decline the pain of childbirth. And an unwanted child is a very great burden. An unwanted child is a burden to himself. I know.
And yet . . . there is the flick of that needle. I saw it. I saw ... I felt—in that room, a pace away, life prodded, life fending off. I saw life avulsed—swept by flood, blackening—then out.
There, says the doctor. It’s all over. It wasn’t too bad, was it? he says to the woman.
She smiles. It is all over. Oh, yes.
And who would care to imagine that from a moist and dark commencement six months before there would ripen the cluster and globule, the sprout and pouch of man?
And who would care to imagine that trapped within the laked pearl and a dowry of yolk would lie the earliest stuff of dream and memory?
It is a persona carried here as well as person, I think. I think it is a signed piece, engraved with a hieroglyph of human genes.
I did not think this until I saw. The flick. The fending off.
We leave the room, the three of us, the doctors.
“Routine procedure,” the chief surgeon says.
“All right,” I say.
“Scrub nurse says first time you’ve seen one, Dick. First look at a purge,” the surgeon says.
“That’s right,” I say. “First look.”
“Oh, well,” he says, “I guess you’ve seen everything else.”
“Pretty much,” I say.
“I’m not prying, Doctor,” he says, “but was there something on your mind? I’d be delighted to field any questions. . . .”
...There is the flick of that needle. I saw it... in that room, a pace away, life prodded, life fending off.
“No,” I say. “No, thanks. Just simple curiosity.”
“Okay,” he says, and we all shake hands, scrub, change, and go to our calls.
I know, I know. The thing is normally done at sixteen weeks. Well, I’ve since seen it performed at that stage, too. And seen . . . the flick. But I also know that in the sovereign state of my residence it is hospital policy to warrant the procedure at twenty-four weeks. And that in the great state that is adjacent, policy is enlarged to twenty-eight weeks.
Does this sound like argument? I hope not. I am not trying to argue. I am only saying I’ve seen. The flick. Whatever else may be said in abortion’s defense, the vision of that other defense will not vanish from my eyes. What I saw I saw as that: a defense, a motion from, an effort away. And it has happened that you cannot reason with me now. For what can language do against the truth of what I saw?
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 10, 2019 at 10:13 PM
Its within thr realm of possibility for then to pull it out
Btw my rental car has Georgia plates.
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 10:15 PM
https://www.axios.com/pennsylvania-swing-voters-arent-ditching-trump-in-2020-3ef8be2b-1e2c-4b5a-aca2-95790a5561eb.html
Looks like Biden isn't going to pull voters from Trump back to Biden.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 10, 2019 at 10:17 PM
Yes it was the court ordered redistricting that makes it look competitive for them.
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 10:24 PM
Link goes to a Lou Dobbs clip (1 minute) about the Mexican deal.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 10, 2019 at 10:29 PM
Link goes to Lou Dobbs clip with Tom Fitton of Judicial Watch.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 10, 2019 at 10:31 PM
The is a Periscope account I watch every day. Today he has the results of research in which he has found connections between Resist, 2 separate accounts on Twitter, Hollywood people, a retired VP from Twitter, and IBM's artificial intelligence group. He said he will provide documentation later in the week, because it has a lot of names and is a little bit hard to follow.
It begins at the 28-minute mark.
https://www.pscp.tv/w/1zqKVabyywMxB?t=5
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 10, 2019 at 10:35 PM
My eye sight was probably not good enough for a pilot's license
Is it corrected to 20/20?
Posted by: Captain Hate | June 10, 2019 at 10:37 PM
Pedophile scandal in UK
https://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/462604/We-can-t-prove-sex-with-children-does-them-harm-says-Labour-linked-NCCL
'We can't prove sex with children does them harm' says Labour-linked NCCL
EVIDENCE has emerged that the views of the Paedophile Information Exchange influenced policy-making at the National Council for Civil Liberties when it was run by former Labour Health Secretary Patricia Hewitt.
Posted by: President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA | June 10, 2019 at 10:38 PM
Rudy Giuliani
Verified account @RudyGiuliani
48m48 minutes ago
Martha MacCallum’s interview of Father Jonathan Morris’ reasons for leaving the priesthood was probing but still sensitive. Father Morris’ answers were agonizingly honest. Although not mentioned,they created a real question about the efficacy of the ban on priests being married.
=================
I missed this but will look up the video. I didn't realize that Father Morris had left the priesthood.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 10, 2019 at 10:42 PM
What you learn at a family wedding, One cousins
daughter is US attorney under John Durham in Ct.
Another cousins son is a Marine One pilot. I knew that
his brother was a Maine One pilot for Bush and Obama.
Two other cousins sons are secret service agents. One assigned
to Melania the other Barron. Democrat side of the family but
very complementary of the Trump family.
Posted by: lurkersusie | June 10, 2019 at 10:44 PM
I would have never guessed that, miss marple.
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 10:45 PM
How about that suzy.
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 10:46 PM
Narciso,
In further weirdo news, get this!!
https://thehill.com/policy/defense/447749-former-trump-chief-of-staff-reince-priebus-officially-joins-navy
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This is a serious story with photos and everything.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 10, 2019 at 10:47 PM
Well he was in the reserves and even went to the war college so it's not that surprising
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 10:48 PM
Video at link.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 10, 2019 at 10:50 PM
Narciso,
I didn't know he had been in the reserves or had gone to the war college. The things I learn!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 10, 2019 at 10:51 PM
It was in an earlier profile, as chief of staff he was like willie Keith
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 10:54 PM
I SOB’d, Ig. Because I read as much as I could stand from earlier today on that link. I was literally nauseous/nauseated [whichever].
On another note: go Raptors!
Steph Currie is my NBA MAP. The ‘A’ stands for annoying. Still glad I quit watching it years ago.
Posted by: lyle | June 10, 2019 at 10:57 PM
Dayum. lurkersusie has weighed in with some heavily cool anecdotes, lately.
I salute you, ma’am.
Posted by: lyle | June 10, 2019 at 11:00 PM
My grandparents had 59 grandchildren. The 59 grandchildren
have 295 children. Hard to keep track of everyone.
Posted by: lurkersusie | June 10, 2019 at 11:05 PM
lyle,
I was in major SOB mode, too.
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 10, 2019 at 11:08 PM
Still quite remarkable
https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm/273968/central-park-5-were-murderous-thugs-john-perazzo?fbclid=IwAR2phyQ8JUqD-1ERBZffwazJjhMaqTPrnrOOLrTPr9ATrVojOtHOxlZrdiY
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 11:10 PM
I understood there would be no math!
Posted by: lyle | June 10, 2019 at 11:10 PM
Looks like the warriors are going to pull it out
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 11:13 PM
I am heading to bed.
Nytol!
Posted by: MissMarple2 | June 10, 2019 at 11:16 PM
--Democrat side of the family but
very complementary of the Trump family.--
These days that's kind of like saying "we're from the Stalin side of the family but very complimentary of the Czar's family".
The progs have helpfully built a new closet for such people to live in...or else...
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 10, 2019 at 11:25 PM
Not necessarily, considering their record of service:
https://nypost.com/2019/06/10/david-ortiz-may-have-been-targeted-by-hired-killers/
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 11:26 PM
--Looks like the warriors are going to pull it out--
Umm...
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 10, 2019 at 11:27 PM
Or not, that was my schrodingers ball theory
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 11:29 PM
Umm...
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 10, 2019 at 11:35 PM
There are regime apologists everywhere:
https://herald.report/who-is-murtaza-mohammad-hussain-of-the-intercept/
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 11:37 PM
“My eye sight was probably not good enough for a pilot's license
Is it corrected to 20/20?”
Only need 20/40 for the private pilot medical certificate.
Posted by: Another Bob | June 10, 2019 at 11:43 PM
I still fall short,
Among the more ridiculous sources that the intercept relies on is this el baghdadi character whi still insists the Saudis hacked Bezos emails when his mistresses own brother admitted he handed the phone to the Enquirer
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 11:48 PM
We just got a call from the owners of one of Bijou's pups from the second litter. Angel got bitten by a copperhead today. $1100 and a bag of anti-venom and it appears she will be ok.
She was sent home about an hour ago from the vet, and she is still scared and sore and now hiding under the coffee table.
Why is anti-venom for dogs $600 a bag and for humans closer to $30K a bag?
Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | June 10, 2019 at 11:51 PM
See if this works:
https://social.quodverum.com/interact/102247063615198429?type=reply
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 11:51 PM
Yikes stephanie
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 11:52 PM
The epitome of groveling to progs.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 10, 2019 at 11:53 PM
As crowder would say change my mind,
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 11:53 PM
Ah libel tourism like with the bin mahfouz the alamoudis the najim auchis I dint remember they were ever part of a suit.
Posted by: Narciso | June 10, 2019 at 11:55 PM
I know. Scary stuff. We have a creek about 50 feet north of our property and the dogs love to head towards that part of the property sniffing out smells. I dread the day they find a poisonous snake.
On a slightly more positive note, the red tail hawks and their babies are dropping rabbit and squirrel carcasses in the yard when they clean out their nest. Tippy gets all possessive and runs around the yard with them and rolls all over them. Thankfully, they are stripped and just bones. yuck! It takes 1/2 an hour and two people to get her back in the house; otherwise, she will sit in the backyard guarding the damn thing all day.
Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | June 11, 2019 at 12:09 AM
Had my own little pet escapade though much cheaper.
Chester was nosing around a piece of bark Friday afternoon, I thought.
When I bent down and looked it was a small bat with its wings/arms over its head. I poked at it with a stick and it opened its mouth slowly. Looked near death and Chet's rabies vaccine is up to date so I grabbed the thing with a ziploc bag and hove it in the garbozsh.
Started thinking about it today so I went to the vet who called animal control. They recommended a booster and they wanted the bat to test. So Chet gets his shot and I go fish the baggie out of the garbage. To my surprise the little brute is not only alive but much more active than previously. So I toss him in my truck and head off to animal control. Unfortunately he was crawling around in the bag so much I though he might chew his way out when I wasn't looking.
So, stopped by the vets on the way and asked for a small box to put him in. Told Sarah the cute office gal that I was visualizing driving down the road and having the creature pounce on my neck and render me non compos mentis and that if she saw me behaving oddly to pound a wooden stake through my heart. Finally got the little winged demon to animal control by which time looked like he had actually croaked.
The funniest part is Chester must have been worrying the thing in his choppers a bit because when I first found him messing with it there was a bunch of his drool on the walk and, heh, a decent sized bit of foam on his upper lip. I was pretty sure the incubation period for rabies is more than 15 seconds but it did give me a bit of pause at first.
$18 booster shot better than $1100 snake juice.
Posted by: Ignatz Ratzkiwatzki | June 11, 2019 at 12:11 AM
Well we have a canal that runs through the development and occasional I've noticed a small snake doing the wooded path when walking yogi
So apparently relating scientific data is the one unacceptable or transgressive thing
Posted by: Narciso | June 11, 2019 at 12:12 AM
Apparently Tim ball was sued by mann, nearly 9 years ago.
Posted by: Narciso | June 11, 2019 at 12:18 AM
Yikes Ig! And yes $18 is better than $1100... and both out of someone else's pocket is better than mine.
Bijou's bout last summer with the irritable bowel set us back about $4K when it was all said and done including her stay at UGA, and it is still $150 a month just for her special food and prednisone.
Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | June 11, 2019 at 12:29 AM
Maybe that's what's wrong with San Francisco, there was a Dracula series in the late 70s I think it was with Michael Nouri and it was set in that eran
Posted by: Narciso | June 11, 2019 at 12:35 AM
Brian Kolfage is reporting that the new wall's gate has been padlocked OPEN.
FTA: Jim Benvie, an independent reporter who has been documenting activity along the border to his Facebook followers, posted a video Monday evening explaining what had just taken place. He said the ACLU filed a lawsuit with the local Water Commission and the Bureau of Land Management. As a result, federal officers came and opened the gate, and put a padlock on it, preventing it from being closed.
Benvie said the gate had been built to provide access for Border Patrol agents, but confirmed that U.S. Border Patrol were not the ones who locked the gate open. He said Border Patrol would never do that. “They love this gate,” he said, adding that the gate was opened by the International Boundary and Water Commission.
Posted by: Stephanie Nene Not Your Normal Granma | June 11, 2019 at 12:36 AM
No good deed goes unpunished, like that cross in the desert.
Posted by: Narciso | June 11, 2019 at 12:56 AM
Smallest violin jeff:
https://www.nysun.com/national/twitter-turns-on-an-editor-whos-already-woke/90723/?fbclid=IwAR1ZMpSnbzcMSp-JhGMUedjy4vamttYBAn0k_HRgK_uFnD1NuU3DFrd-jJo#.XP7bBI27FDA.facebook
Posted by: Narciso | June 11, 2019 at 01:08 AM
If it was my property that lock would break.
"Hoocouldanode?" "Din doo nuffin"
And if they put it back it would break again.
Posted by: President-Elect Jim,SunnyvaleCA | June 11, 2019 at 01:18 AM
Reminds me of Chinatown except without the water in the reservoir
Posted by: Narciso | June 11, 2019 at 01:24 AM
JohnH,
Am I getting punchy by the morning? Woke up two days in a row at 8PM. Need to stop doing that.
I was watching local TV coverage of the helicopter crash at 11PM when they mentioned the address - 787 7th. Ave. That's the Equitable building. I worked there for 5 years when I was an employee at Schroeder $ Co.
Weather lady came on to explain at the time of the accident flight visibility at that height was about 1/4 mile due to rain and fog.
I don't think the accident was weather-related, but it may have interfered with the pilot's ability to put the bird down.
Posted by: jim nj | June 11, 2019 at 01:40 AM
What was it like working at j Schroeder, one comes across it in story about the Dulles bros but that is about 60 years before your time there.
Posted by: Narciso | June 11, 2019 at 01:52 AM
Narciso,
60 years ago the firm was known as Werthein & Co.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wertheim_%26_Co.
colorful history
Posted by: jim nj | June 11, 2019 at 02:17 AM
Wertheim & Co.
Posted by: jim nj | June 11, 2019 at 02:18 AM
https://www.businessinsider.com/what-happened-to-japanese-f-35-that-disappeared-in-pacific-2019-6
Posted by: jim nj | June 11, 2019 at 02:55 AM
https://hotair.com/archives/2019/06/10/mexico-might-adopt-safe-third-country-protocol-agreement-doesnt-work/
This belies today's press coverage.
Posted by: jim nj | June 11, 2019 at 03:12 AM
jim nj, you stay up a few hours later today than you did yesterday, and you'll be on my sleep schedule!
We are waking early here too, and MM did yesterday--like 2:30. Maybe it's got something to do w circadian rhythms and the lengthening days?
Posted by: anonamom | June 11, 2019 at 05:07 AM
narciso at 11:14, that $41m payout by DeBlasio was what was truly disgusting about the whole affair, besides of course the sickening violence
Posted by: peter | June 11, 2019 at 05:23 AM
I have a movie recommendation: The Party, 2017, directed by Sally Potter
Posted by: peter | June 11, 2019 at 05:34 AM