Small Talk: Out of Genoa

[boes]

Miamama, thanks for the offer of refuge.  You might just have a tent city on your hands if the worst comes to pass.

I'm mentally hiding out until Tuesday.  I just couldn't take adding to the depression of seeing almost half the country turn into people I ....... 

So I've stopped watching the PBS Newshour, which is the only news I've been able to watch during this election cycle.  They, at least, refuse to let anyone who comes on their show be actively hateful.  But the depression they're all feeling at the possible outcome started to come through the screen.

So I'm mentally hiding out.  I voted by mail about a week ago.

And I'm hoping that this sort of utterly vile hatred does NOT win.

[peacheslatour]

Same here, friend boes. I think it's gonna be okay. The FBI just announced that they found nothing untoward in her emails (which, duh. Anybody investigated as many time as she has is not going to make any stupid fucking mistakes at this point) and are not pursuing it further. Might be too late for some, but early voting results look very promising. I'm feeling better. She's doing better in the polls than Obama (may Allah be with him) was at this time. Only two more days!

[valleycliffe]

sheesh, ryan just said that hillary should never be allowed anymore classified info cause she is a national security risk and could have endangered the usa....uhhh, paul, i think rudy and his fbi friends are more of a theat...why aren't u talking about orange von clownface and his ties to russia and his love of putin.  cause, yanno, he says nice things about donald and donald says nice things about him..he would be such a puppet..

[Snaporaz]

Paul Ryan's favorite author was a Russian bag lady who based the "hero" of her shit novel on a convicted murderer of a little girl.  

I'm would like to echo boes' thanks to miamama for the kind offer, but I'm not going to be chased away by Comrade Gropenov.  However, I will invite myself for a celebration cruise on her yacht if when he loses!

[crowsworks]

I always wondered if the gripe of the FBI had something to do with Bill making all the alphabet agencies work together during the  Millennium when the right predicted the sky would fall and the world would end. I don't know if they were mad it didn't happen or if he stopped it.

[NinjaPenguins]

Well, I'll pack a bag just in case...

Snaporaz, let me guess. Ayn Rand?

[Snaporaz]

Yes, Ninja.  All of her novels are required reading for all of the staffers and interns in his office.  He even has a preference for the order in which they are read.  

I think the FBI problems are mostly in the New York office, instigated by Rudy Giuliani and that joker who used to run that office (he now runs the charity which received the $1 million donation DT was shamed into making by The Washington Post five months after he raised it at a charity event for veterans...[side note...DT initially claimed he raised $6 million at that event.]).  The article LeftPhalange linked to spells it all out nicely.  

[NinjaPenguins]

33 minutes ago, Snaporaz said:

 

Yes, Ninja.  All of her novels are required reading for all of the staffers and interns in his office.  He even has a preference for the order in which they are read.  

 

Isn't this a violation of the Geneva Convention?

[peacheslatour]

Let's all go Galt!

[jewel21]

13 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

It's only a budgie? What the hell is she bitching about? Budgies are a cakewalk compared to something like a cockatoo.

 

I know, budgies are like starter birds.

She bought it some seed and a new cage. The bird seems to like her and let her pet it and how my cousin appears to be enamored with it. She took it home and is actually keeping it in her room. The bird seems skinny to me based on the pictures she showed me but otherwise seems like a tough cookie. She's adapting well, already eating some seed and lettuce, and chirping. Her stools seem off and I worry she might have an infection but otherwise seems to be okay. Maybe now that my cousin seems to like it, she'll take better care of it than she had originally led me to believe. One can only hope.

Meet Sweetie.

 

[LeftPhalange]

http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2016/11/pence-trump-ryan-republicans-election/506705/

“I don’t endorse Trump, but I’m voting for him,” she said after the rally. Clinton, Watts said, is plainly worse. “How do I tell my children I voted for her?”

No comment.

[boes]

8 hours ago, jewel21 said:

I know, budgies are like starter birds.

She bought it some seed and a new cage. The bird seems to like her and let her pet it and how my cousin appears to be enamored with it. She took it home and is actually keeping it in her room. The bird seems skinny to me based on the pictures she showed me but otherwise seems like a tough cookie. She's adapting well, already eating some seed and lettuce, and chirping. Her stools seem off and I worry she might have an infection but otherwise seems to be okay. Maybe now that my cousin seems to like it, she'll take better care of it than she had originally led me to believe. One can only hope.

Meet Sweetie.

 

I love her!

Edited November 7, 2016 by boes

[Cupid Stunt]

8 hours ago, peacheslatour said:

Let's all go Galt!

One for all, and all for ME!

[valleycliffe]

who's john galt?

[boes]

10 minutes ago, valleycliffe said:

who's john galt?

John Galt is the so-called hero of Paul Ryan's favorite novel by the uber hack Ayn Rand.  He's the chief protagonist in Atlas Shrugged.  And man, if you're not only shrugging but fully asleep by the time the novel answers the question, "Who is John Galt", you're a stronger person than I.

[valleycliffe]

30 minutes ago, boes said:

John Galt is the so-called hero of Paul Ryan's favorite novel by the uber hack Ayn Rand.  He's the chief protagonist in Atlas Shrugged.  And man, if you're not only shrugging but fully asleep by the time the novel answers the question, "Who is John Galt", you're a stronger person than I.

LOL  i know, guess i should have added an ;)..

i have read both atlas shrugged and the fountainhead when i was younger....

who is john galt was a recurring question in the book.

[peacheslatour]

There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs.

[jewel21]

I love her too, Boes. I must admit, I'm jealous she's not mine. I'm going to go see her later on today and bring her a few things.

[valleycliffe]

i used to be a voracious reader at one time..read everything and everything..

lol, i would get stuck on authors tho and would read all their books..loved michener, robbins, doestoevsky (?), jrr tolkein, harlequin novels.  whatever i could get my hands on.  stacks of books from the library..

i also used to read to my girls and they are voracious readers now and instilling the same in their children.  i also never censored what my kids read.

[Joimiaroxeu]

[peacheslatour]

"There are two novels that can change a bookish fourteen-year old's life: The Lord of the Rings and Atlas Shrugged. One is a childish fantasy that often engenders a lifelong obsession with its unbelievable heroes, leading to an emotionally stunted, socially crippled adulthood, unable to deal with the real world. The other, of course, involves orcs."

-John Rogers

Edited November 7, 2016 by peacheslatour
for attributation.

[valleycliffe]

lol, i have a confession to make.

sometimes, i used to read the last page to see how it ended.....***hangs head in shame***

[NinjaPenguins]

I love Sweetie's facial expression in the bottom pic! That bird has personality.

LeftPhalange, I have some comments if you'd like to borrow them. First, a vote is pretty much the strongest endorsement of a candidate you can make. Second, how does one tell their children they voted for Hillary Clinton? "I voted for Hillary Clinton." There. Simple. Or you could have these conversations after electing Donald Trump:

"Honey, I've given tacit approval to a legion of creepy old white fucks with Jesus fever to crawl up in your uterus. You're welcome."

"Son, you've been drafted into our war against Luxembourg. I'm not sure where it is. His Orange Majesty says it's over there somewhere. Make us proud. USA! USA! USA!"

"Yes, Jimmy, it used to be called the White House. Now we call it The Gold Leaf Palace by Scion by Trump. I'm taking Grandma there next month to play the slots in the new Lincoln Bedroom Casino and Resort. All that Social Security money went to pay for the Bad Hombres Memorial Wall down south. Isn't it nice we got these vouchers for an afternoon of gambling to try and get a little back?"

"Calm down, Suzy. I'm sure when your friend Amina said her parents were sent to a camp, she meant they were on a nice camping trip. Probably got themselves some nice vouchers for a weekend at YellowScion National Park and Nuclear Waste Storage Facility. I hear they've got bear hunting there now, and the bears are real slow on account of this mystery illness. Well, you could ask Amina, but I think I saw her on this bus with all the other little brown boys and girls. Why are you crying?"

"Listen, Emily. When we go on our Gold Leaf House tour this afternoon, don't get upset if Lord Trump grabs you in your danger zone, okay? It's a sign of respect, believe me. Just ask Ivanka. No, it's still not okay for other men to do it. I know it's confusing, dear, but remember what happened to Aunt Rosie? She up and swung her purse at him. Just did it on instinct, I guess, and of course she had her can of Coors in there like always. Poor Lord had to put a Scion steak over his eye. She hasn't spoken to us since we signed the waivers for the waterboarding."

"Davy, as it turns out, the Scion Tin Level Health Plan only covers breast implants, vaginoplasty, and penis pumps, not removing appendix. So, after you get out of here, we're moving into a new place. It's a little small, so we sold Spot to pay for your antibiotics. Your own room? Well...I don't think it would be safe for you to live in the trunk. The important thing is you don't blame yourself for this. It's not your fault you have such low stamina. Sad. Why are you crying?"

[peacheslatour]

Oh, NP....I have to go lie down. I think I broke my spleen. *wipes away tear*

[valleycliffe]

NinjaPenguins (see what i did? as a sign of great respect i capitalized the NP of your name), i am offering you a standing ovation with cheering BRAVA BRAVA BRAVA the whole while..

wish this could be posted on a political site.

[peacheslatour]

We have a politics forum here on Prev. Maybe we can re-post it over there.

[Shicklove1]

20 hours ago, Snaporaz said:

To be fair, I think The Wasilla Hillbilly (I will not say her name...if you say her name, she appears...) is like the alien queen in Aliens.  She gave birth to the Tea Party, and she was the original voice for all of those people who couldn't stand the thought of a black family living in The White House.  Comrade Fuckface von Clownstick is merely an offshoot of that.  It just seems like he started it because he isn't speaking in the coded language they used.

No early voting or mail-in voting here in Pennsylvania.  But I will wait however long it takes to vote.  #I'mWithHerToo

I think her best line was she could see Russia from her home or was it balcony.  She is not the brightest bulb in the room.  Or maybe she is a Putin fan too.

[valleycliffe]

49 minutes ago, Shicklove1 said:

I think her best line was she could see Russia from her home or was it balcony.  She is not the brightest bulb in the room.  Or maybe she is a Putin fan too.

LOL  i think that was tina fey who said that while playing the wasilla hillbilly...

i saw on cnn one of the reporters was asking random people who said it and all of them said it was palin...then the reporter told them it was tina who actually said it.

[peacheslatour]

Palin never said that. what she DID say was:

"As Putin rears his head and comes into the air space of the United States of America, where do they go? It’s Alaska. It’s just right over the border. It is from Alaska that we send those out to make sure that an eye is being kept on this very powerful nation, Russia, because they are right next to, they are right next to our state."

Still her typical idiotic word salad.

[Shicklove1]

2 hours ago, valleycliffe said:

LOL  i think that was tina fey who said that while playing the wasilla hillbilly...

i saw on cnn one of the reporters was asking random people who said it and all of them said it was palin...then the reporter told them it was tina who actually said it.

Sorry about that I have heard it so often I thought she said it.  Still doesn't change my mind she is not the brightest bulb in the room.

[valleycliffe]

52 minutes ago, Shicklove1 said:

Sorry about that I have heard it so often I thought she said it.  Still doesn't change my mind she is not the brightest bulb in the room.

yep, i agree with you..sometimes, if you have to listen to her speak, you really don't understand a word she is saying..at least i don't.  i just keep going huh? huh? what?  then i turn the channel.

[peacheslatour]

I forgot to tell you guys. I got up at 4:am on Sunday to go to the bathroom and as I passed the window, I looked out and saw a two point buck standing at the end of our driveway! I walked over to the window and he walked slowly, gracefully down our driveway to the front garden. I could have reached out and touched him if the window had been open. After kind of looking around a little, he made his way into the back yard. It was just so beautiful to see him standing there so majestically in the moonlight. It was like a Harry Potter movie. Prolly no big deal for you country folk, but we live in town. There has been a lot of construction up the hill for the new light rail and many lovely creature will be displaced. It's pretty sad, actually, but seeing him made my weekend. Just thought I'd share.

[Petunia13]

7 hours ago, jewel21 said:

I love her too, Boes. I must admit, I'm jealous she's not mine. I'm going to go see her later on today and bring her a few things.

She is so cute and with that flirtatious expression. Kinda wonder if she and sassy Steve would end up friend or crush objects lol. 

My mom had birds 2 yr ago the boys (giant parrots the ones that talk and make sound effects) liked a girl bird she kept in another room. They would call to her and sing and and once in a while she'd lay an egg. The parrots also thought my tiny black fluffball puppy was a bird darting on the ground and hopping from furniture object to object. They called him pretty bird and black bird and tried to engage him in calls. His reaction: 

Edited November 7, 2016 by Petunia13

[jewel21]

7 hours ago, NinjaPenguins said:

I love Sweetie's facial expression in the bottom pic! That bird has personality.

She really does. She's the polar opposite of Steve. First off, Sweetie is around 10 years old. Most budgies live up to 7 years so already she's impressive. Then, despite her old age, she loves to fling herself around her cage and chirp.

She is scared of nothing. She eats seeds, avicakes, pellets and seems to love them all. You put something in her cage and two seconds later she's trying it. 

It took me three years to convert Steve to pellets and a year and a half for him not to be scared of bread. I used to put small pieces of bread in his food bowl and he would be too scared to stay in the cage until I took it away. 

I must admit, I'm jealous of how easy going Sweetie is in relation to Steve. But damn it, Steve is cute. 

I made a joke that Steve is like the equivalent of Paul Anka the dog in Gilmore Girls. Both are neurotic, quirky and adorable. 

[Anna Yolei]

Heh. My mom had a pair of lovebirds, and the female was was always laying eggs. I was surprised one day when I went to thrown the eggs out that there was an actual live chick inside (one out of four that we got outta them...the others were males who the daddy bird would pluck the feathers out from before they were old enough to get handfed...and this was the mid 90s, before such info and solutions were easily availible).

She grew up to be a green bodied peach face that I named Sweetpea, which was the exact opposite of her temperament. The silly thing attacked anyone who came by her cage besides me and would fight her own reflection in the mirror.  It was pretty neat to have a pet that you raised nearly from birth though and she unfortunately passed fairly young...my best guess was that she'd gotten egg bound as she'd laid a couple in that week and was singing and chirping when I covered her cage the night before. Birds have really fast metabolism that make it difficult to get medical treatment in time. :(

[jewel21]

Birds are prey animals so they're really good at hiding their symptoms. By the time they start showing signs, they're big sick for awhile. And sometimes by the time the owner gets around to bringing them in for treatment, it ends up being too late, sadly. 

Examining their stools is a good way of telling if they're sick or not. Decreased appetite or a "fluffed" appearance is another sign. And if your bird is sitting at the bottom of the cage and fluffed, run, don't walk to the vet. 

[Anna Yolei]

That's just it....she acted no differently than she normally did and was singing on her perch the night before I found her on the bottom of her cage :( But this is good to know if I ever get another bird again. 

[jewel21]

That's so sad, Anna Yolei.

[miamama]

Go make us proud and vote, my American Prevert friends!!!!!

Do not let HIM win.

[MollyB]

2 hours ago, miamama said:

Go make us proud and vote, my American Prevert friends!!!!!

Do not let HIM win.

amen and amen.  (I voted by mail.)

Search and Rescue Department:  has anybody heard from Peach, Movinon or Hamster of Doom?  I miss them.

[peacheslatour]

DH and I also voted by mail last week. I love this state!

I talked to Movinon a while ago, she has a lot of stuff going on in her life but I think she still lurks. I don't know about the other two, but I miss them too. Also miss Red (Canadian).

[Snaporaz]

I was Voter #75 at my polling place.  You should have seen the line at 7:30 this morning.  I vote every year (primaries and general elections), and there's never a line (the exception being 2004...there was a line then).  I live in a pretty "deplorable" and mostly white neighborhood.  Loads of yard signs for Herr Gropenführer, and about three signs for Clinton, including mine.  However, the line was fairly ethnically diverse (for us), and I was pretty encouraged by the number of younger people and black people.  The talking heads have been saying that African Americans would be staying home this year, but that's not the impression I got this morning.  There also seemed to be a lot of first-time voters.

Edited November 8, 2016 by Snaporaz

[Snaporaz]

PS:  I've seen posts from Peach over on The Walking Dead forum, so I think she must have bailed on Pratthole's twisted version of Y&R.

[NinjaPenguins]

I just cast my vote for HRC. The polls were busier than I have ever seen, which in my retrograde, pasty white neck of the woods is probably not good. I don't think Agent Orange will win the election, but he'll probably sweep my town and cause my blood to curdle with shame. I did see a couple of women in pantsuits, which made me smile. Then I went into the parking lot and saw a couple of junky trucks with confederate flag plates (I will not capitalize 'confederate', fuck you, you lost the war, get over it) and I wondered again when the hell this place will join the 21st century. 

My mother decided to not vote for Trump last night. The tipping point was watching the SNL Election Eve Special. As she watched Alec Baldwin imitate Coral Caligula (hat tip to MulletorHater) by simply repeating the words that came out of his puckered anus mouth, she looked at me and said "I can't do it. I can't vote for him. I thought I could, but it's not right." I can only hope many others reach a similar breaking point.

[peacheslatour]

Quote

(I will not capitalize 'confederate', fuck you, you lost the war, get over it)

Right? It is literally the flag of traitors. And I've seen it up here in WA. WTF, you idiots, nobody in your family fought in that war, so don't tell me "it's about heritage, not hate". It's a historical fact that that thing wasn't dragged out of mothballs until the early sixties. Hm, I wonder what kind of movement was happening in the early sixties?

NP, please give your mom a hug for me. :)

[miamama]

Yeah, Ninja mom for the win!!!

[Anna Yolei]

20 minutes ago, Snaporaz said:

I was Voter #75 at my polling place.  You should have seen the line at 7:30 this morning.  I vote every year (primaries and general elections), and there's never a line (the exception being 2004...there was a line then).  I live in a pretty "deplorable" and mostly white neighborhood.  Loads of yard signs for Herr Gropenführer, and about three signs for Clinton, including mine.  However, the line was fairly ethnically diverse (for us), and I was pretty encouraged by the number of younger people and black people.  The talking heads have been saying that African Americans would be staying home this year, but that's not the impression I got this morning.  There also seemed to me a lot of first-time voters.

What's interesting this year is the number of black friends and family of mine that aren't walking in goose step with the Democratic party. None of them are voting Trump, but neither are many so willing to brush off the Clintons' superpredator remarks or their association with Robert Byrd, who was a Dixiecrat back in the day and had ties to the Klan.

I think a big part of that has to do with BLM and people in general being more questioning as to how society has not been designed with us in mind. Socially, the black community leans nearly as conservative as the Evangelical Pharasees; but given we are still fighting for our basic rights to not get shot for Driving While Black, you won't see many protesting against trans rights or picketing abortion clinics. I am frankly baffled at the number of folks who see no parallels between LGBT rights and our struggles, but if the GOP stopped pandering to white paranoia and using codes to bash on brown people, they very well could pick up more Baptist blacks, Catholic Hispanics and yes, even some of the more religiously conservative Muslims.

[Anna Yolei]

15 minutes ago, peacheslatour said:

Right? It is literally the flag of traitors. And I've seen it up here in WA. WTF, you idiots, nobody in your family fought in that war, so don't tell me "it's about heritage, not hate". It's a historical fact that that thing wasn't dragged out of mothballs until the early sixties. Hm, I wonder what kind of movement was happening in the early sixties?

NP, please give your mom a hug for me. :)

Indeed, the confederate flag was basically trolling. Much what Pepe the Frog has become for 4chan.

Speaking of, I feel bad for his creator. The character was from an obscure comic and Pepe was the laid back one in his bunch who liked snacks.

http://www.politico.com/story/2016/10/pepe-the-frog-matt-furie-reclaim-cartoon-229757

[Cupid Stunt]

 

I'm with her.

[peacheslatour]

^^^^Beautiful.