Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh has a few of those scattered among the many plants and flowers on display. Or did, when I was there last. They're quite pretty.
Holy shit! That Bulwark article quotes Mike Davis, who expects a role in a PAB administration as saying "We’re gonna put kids in cages. It’s gonna be glorious."
Here's the whole block-quote, it's all horrifying. (I don't know what happened to his #4, unless he counts deporting and imprisoning as 2 separate items)
But during my three week reign of terror as Trump acting attorney general, before I get chased out of town with my Trump pardon, I will rain hell on Washington, D.C. We’ve talked about this, Ben. I have five lists, ready to go and they’re growing.
List number one, we’re gonna fire. We’re gonna fire a lot of people in the executive branch, in the deep state.
Number two, we’re gonna indict. We’re gonna indict Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and James Biden and every other scumball, sleazeball, Biden, except for the five year old granddaughter who they refused to acknowledge for five years until the political pressure got to Joe Biden.
Number three, we’re gonna deport. We’re gonna deport a lot of people, 10 million people and growing—anchor babies, their parents, their grandparents. We’re gonna put kids in cages. It’s gonna be glorious. We’re gonna detain a lot of people in the D.C. gulag and Gitmo.
And list number five, I’m gonna recommend a lot of pardons. Every January 6th defendant is gonna get a pardon, especially my hero horn man. He is definitely at the top of the pardon list.
Patches O'houlihan not withstanding, AI comes up with this. I haz confuze.
The 5 D's of dodgeball are key strategies and skills for playing the game successfully:
1. Dodge - The most basic skill, but important to practice. Keep moving and dodging the balls being thrown at you. Duck, dip, dive and dodge to avoid getting hit.
2. Catch - If you catch a ball thrown at you, the thrower gets eliminated and one of your teammates can return. Master clean catches.
3. Distract - Use fakes and misdirection to distract or psyche out opponents. Get them to throw at the wrong time or location.
4. Discover - Find weaknesses in the other team's technique, positioning or patterns. Discover openings you can exploit.
5. Deliver - When you do throw, make it count. Use speed, accuracy and cunning to deliver hits and get the other team out.
Welp. I shouldn’t have read the article written by Joyce Vance. Evidently, there is some logic behind the appeal that Trump filed arguing that the federal case against him for the January 6th insurrection should be tossed out. The legal reasoning behind the filing is goofy ; but apparently, unless the federal courts hurry along the appeal process, there is a fair chance trial wouldn’t happen until after conventions and possibly the election. Swell.
It's Friday morning, so time to put out the trash for the morning bear to examine and critique, and to feed the trash pandas their special breakfast. That means you have to get off my lap, kitten.
So I went to the French soirée cocktail bénévole thingy last night despite feeling BLECH, and it was really quite agréable, although "cocktail" here meant wine/champagne, which was fine with me because I felt BLECH but had champagne anyway because everyone knows it's is a mortal sin to refuse champagne when it's offered.
But the great thing was that the event was in a Julia Morgan building I didn't even know existed, with a splendid view of San Francisco and all those little Julia Morgan details I love. And of course, as I predicted, all those French people were loopy-happy. When you take them out of their native grey-ennui habitat, free them from French bureaucracy and get them in a place close to nature, they *thrive.* I met some lovely people, including a beatific woman in her 70's who'd just conquered two bouts of cancer and looked *radiant* and a punk art teacher who was a dead-ringer for Patti Smith.
In addition, the Consul had to send a substitute, so friend X, who was upset she couldn't go (she gets absolutely *feral* whenever the Consul is anywhere within the pheromone impact zone), will feel smugly justified in having not attended.
The sheet pan lasagna recipe sounds delicious, but I read the instructions and it isn't going to save THAT much time over lasagna made the traditional way. All you will save is the time spent layering the noodles, sauce, meat and cheese in the baking pan, which takes me about 10 minutes. You still have to boil the pasta, cook the meat, heat the sauce, and mix it all together with the cheese. It takes me 1 hour and 45 minutes to cook traditional lasagna from the time I start boiling the pasta water until I serve the lasagna, but that includes 45 minutes of baking time in the oven, so prep time for traditional lasagna, including bringing a large pot of water to boil, is 1 hour.
They picked the Lizzie Borden House over the Myrtles, the Winchester Mystery House, Hollywood as a whole, or the entirety of the Bridgewater Triangle? Wow, they don’t from haunted, do they?
I did the math yesterday, but to recap: If Palm Beach County had taxed Mar-a-Lego at PAB's valuation last year, PAB/whatever owns Mar-a-Lego would owe another $28,000,000 in taxes. For just one year. One just one of PAB's Palm Beach County properties (he has a few more).
Run that back ten years or so, then apply the same theory to PAB's under-valued holdings in other states, and you could make the case that PAB is bankrupt right now.
Every real estate developer I've known refinances every time they get a higher appraisal, and they take out the excess money. They think that's profit. It's not.
Hed gif critters that are kind of like sea anemones. Sea anemones are kind of cool, so there’s a little video here about them if you are interested. https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/sea-anemone-sea-anemone-sea-anemone
I thought they were Magic Rocks!
The coolest creature in the sea
Is the lowly sea anemone
But, if you sea one, let it be
They prefer their anonymity.
So many anemones
That was a cool one!
The anemone of my enemy is my friend.
Freud?
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fmedia_upload%2Fcomment%2F6bc2ae53-cdaf-4a7f-833d-242f2729d32b%2F7b8704de-d831-46ca-b471-058a5c2fcdaf.jpeg
Keep your fronds close and your anemones closer.
now that's some funny shit right there... :)
They attract clownfish. TFG needs to swim with them!
😆
Today's gif is beautiful, Martini. It's kinda soothing.
Thank you, friend 😊
Phipps Conservatory in Pittsburgh has a few of those scattered among the many plants and flowers on display. Or did, when I was there last. They're quite pretty.
Here's one.
https://images.app.goo.gl/NjKVNMkA9xscCB5v5
Yeah… I have to admit this was a 3D model fail in terms of carrying out a vision. But I still thought they were pretty, so I used ‘em anyway 😬
Holy shit! That Bulwark article quotes Mike Davis, who expects a role in a PAB administration as saying "We’re gonna put kids in cages. It’s gonna be glorious."
Here's the whole block-quote, it's all horrifying. (I don't know what happened to his #4, unless he counts deporting and imprisoning as 2 separate items)
But during my three week reign of terror as Trump acting attorney general, before I get chased out of town with my Trump pardon, I will rain hell on Washington, D.C. We’ve talked about this, Ben. I have five lists, ready to go and they’re growing.
List number one, we’re gonna fire. We’re gonna fire a lot of people in the executive branch, in the deep state.
Number two, we’re gonna indict. We’re gonna indict Joe Biden and Hunter Biden and James Biden and every other scumball, sleazeball, Biden, except for the five year old granddaughter who they refused to acknowledge for five years until the political pressure got to Joe Biden.
Number three, we’re gonna deport. We’re gonna deport a lot of people, 10 million people and growing—anchor babies, their parents, their grandparents. We’re gonna put kids in cages. It’s gonna be glorious. We’re gonna detain a lot of people in the D.C. gulag and Gitmo.
And list number five, I’m gonna recommend a lot of pardons. Every January 6th defendant is gonna get a pardon, especially my hero horn man. He is definitely at the top of the pardon list.
ACR quotes Scalise as claiming to be "Like David Duke without the baggage"
Mr Demi got his forgiven recently, too. He's a young thing of 47
What do you think of these song titles?
I have the 12 bar blues for you
Dog whistlin' for my baby
Patches O'houlihan not withstanding, AI comes up with this. I haz confuze.
The 5 D's of dodgeball are key strategies and skills for playing the game successfully:
1. Dodge - The most basic skill, but important to practice. Keep moving and dodging the balls being thrown at you. Duck, dip, dive and dodge to avoid getting hit.
2. Catch - If you catch a ball thrown at you, the thrower gets eliminated and one of your teammates can return. Master clean catches.
3. Distract - Use fakes and misdirection to distract or psyche out opponents. Get them to throw at the wrong time or location.
4. Discover - Find weaknesses in the other team's technique, positioning or patterns. Discover openings you can exploit.
5. Deliver - When you do throw, make it count. Use speed, accuracy and cunning to deliver hits and get the other team out.
For duty and humanity,
I will do the GiadaDelarentis Lasagna!
Welp. I shouldn’t have read the article written by Joyce Vance. Evidently, there is some logic behind the appeal that Trump filed arguing that the federal case against him for the January 6th insurrection should be tossed out. The legal reasoning behind the filing is goofy ; but apparently, unless the federal courts hurry along the appeal process, there is a fair chance trial wouldn’t happen until after conventions and possibly the election. Swell.
LOL. I love Ruben Gallego
'Come back to coach': Arizona Dem needles Kari Lake as they fly on the same plane
https://www.msn.com/en-ca/news/world/come-back-to-coach-arizona-dem-needles-kari-lake-as-they-fly-on-the-same-plane/ar-AA1hKZlH
It's Friday morning, so time to put out the trash for the morning bear to examine and critique, and to feed the trash pandas their special breakfast. That means you have to get off my lap, kitten.
So I went to the French soirée cocktail bénévole thingy last night despite feeling BLECH, and it was really quite agréable, although "cocktail" here meant wine/champagne, which was fine with me because I felt BLECH but had champagne anyway because everyone knows it's is a mortal sin to refuse champagne when it's offered.
But the great thing was that the event was in a Julia Morgan building I didn't even know existed, with a splendid view of San Francisco and all those little Julia Morgan details I love. And of course, as I predicted, all those French people were loopy-happy. When you take them out of their native grey-ennui habitat, free them from French bureaucracy and get them in a place close to nature, they *thrive.* I met some lovely people, including a beatific woman in her 70's who'd just conquered two bouts of cancer and looked *radiant* and a punk art teacher who was a dead-ringer for Patti Smith.
In addition, the Consul had to send a substitute, so friend X, who was upset she couldn't go (she gets absolutely *feral* whenever the Consul is anywhere within the pheromone impact zone), will feel smugly justified in having not attended.
The sheet pan lasagna recipe sounds delicious, but I read the instructions and it isn't going to save THAT much time over lasagna made the traditional way. All you will save is the time spent layering the noodles, sauce, meat and cheese in the baking pan, which takes me about 10 minutes. You still have to boil the pasta, cook the meat, heat the sauce, and mix it all together with the cheese. It takes me 1 hour and 45 minutes to cook traditional lasagna from the time I start boiling the pasta water until I serve the lasagna, but that includes 45 minutes of baking time in the oven, so prep time for traditional lasagna, including bringing a large pot of water to boil, is 1 hour.
MMMMMMMMMMMMMmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm
In my personal experience, lasagna is an aphrodisiac for most (all?) men. It has never failed me once.
I'll allow it!
They picked the Lizzie Borden House over the Myrtles, the Winchester Mystery House, Hollywood as a whole, or the entirety of the Bridgewater Triangle? Wow, they don’t from haunted, do they?
I've been looking at that "John Fetterman's body double" shirt for myself. (I'm 5'2" and would be getting a small shirt....possibly even extra small)
I did the math yesterday, but to recap: If Palm Beach County had taxed Mar-a-Lego at PAB's valuation last year, PAB/whatever owns Mar-a-Lego would owe another $28,000,000 in taxes. For just one year. One just one of PAB's Palm Beach County properties (he has a few more).
Run that back ten years or so, then apply the same theory to PAB's under-valued holdings in other states, and you could make the case that PAB is bankrupt right now.
Oh, I'm already convinced that's he's basically running a Ponzi scheme but funded by real estate loans.
So long as the valuations keep going up he's just fine... But they need to go up a lot faster than inflation, so he helps the numbers along.
With his own trademark subtle touch.
I've got a dollar that says the NY fraud suit will bankrupt him.
I think you're exactly right.
Every real estate developer I've known refinances every time they get a higher appraisal, and they take out the excess money. They think that's profit. It's not.
So long as you keep spinning the plates fast enough they stay up in the air.
Trump is going to go through some very rough times.
I don't think the NY courts are going to back off and SCOTUS isn't going to take a state business law case.
Only question is can he get the dissolution stayed long enough for him to get into the White House again.
And I think there's a very good chance he loses the election.
Fingers crossed.
This tasty morsel from The Pretenders snuck past me until now.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e0rC5MRCWUM