I've metioned this before, but it's always worth revivng: At one of my first jobs we had 3 young ladies who shared an office on the maufacturing floor. Their last names were, and I shit you not: Dix, Butts and Cox.
Yes, the Dix, Butts & Cox office. Hilarity ensued. Hey, I was 19, whaddya expect?
After I read this, it was determined that I must play at least the Peggy Lee cover, that morphed into another good song 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳, written by Springsteen and covered by many...
Do you know how to tell a weasel from a stoat? They are weasily distinguishable because they are stoatally different. Next: how to titillate an ocelot.
Click the TABZ - take the Tripz - eat the flowers, man - lay back relax Kamala’s got this - what? - not till November - and THEN they’ll try to pull more shit - I need more flowers - stat -
I am talking to this flower- Camper Van Beethoven; /yhs/search?fr=yhs-iba-synbg&ei=UTF-8&hsimp=yhs-synbg&hspart=iba¶m2=9dUI1n2R0BLDxNuWfiP4aSFOTltNdSPoIx38%2BUf%2FiXrvPdoGmStdlfwLFZYDvqkAJrWWk4yNReCLnBD%2FqPsDZd7olTZcV8HMx1G%2Fk786sE2Tis1g8dJd8zxVWs%2BbKztBnq1TfqUiqPYK9pXifXmJFyorDuCsYXJE71Y6G5tfejBggk%2FYseII2ZxCb%2BDZ7%2Fb72QeiGg370w%2FSP2OgekQ%2F7SsjxhC%2FFfC06a22PAjE%2BrUV2%2Bms5RBj35ML4lj%2BlUUgd8g6%2FVpKDe0M955g1qcvqA%3D%3D¶m3=HpCyCT2cXaKG4CVDR00rqo2oG1rIHjMij4XuH%2FTb7Mq5%2BD7nKHV7HbklYj%2BJk78VP6q0gqqgfm5JlV3Y32KeKTMESR1xn7%2BD7HplkrACkWf%2Bgn3Bx9Ph55kuMNHs3fe0XmAKJLsyTIMcV%2F9bGIVqYSge5ur6yvi49LO95tE8wwdagMbNoIwhhtIqfWVD0S6MrHLiCVmXYPkjw%2FjOip0952N8cc0g6wv7TrKIEtYZ65J1XlDkXN0GwVUDJ37ocODQcWOXRiZdco66F9PXaGAgD4ZTegvp5RpyEd5j5uCz7N6CIDowaXRevLpdLX6S7NwMByoi7Th23StKb2ij2eRyqMNlXxsvHdKQi9vMU56xnBQ%3D&p=i+was+talking+to+this+flower-+camper+van+beethoven&type=f2%3A%3B.6850610d4680680b2811f3dcdca6be379af%3B5.ac4855281165c33587e858a8e3b01611ec4ceacc0ec960448b74805219ec715ff444160f185fa8ab2404f80e99d#id=1&vid=1e869db248a9bc8c2b725bd43f48f28f&action=click
Well, I did NOT have RFK jr. calling for his own "Up to the Mountains, Down to the Countryside" movement among the Revolutionary Vanguard Youth on my bingo card.
The excerpt by Fred the third in Time magazine is weird. Not the content, but the structure. He tells two anecdotes but tells them out of chronological order. It really makes you wonder if there isn't something equally wrong in the mind of Fred c Trump III.
To review: Fred c Trump III tells us that in a White House meeting during the teeth of the coronavirus crisis, he was able to secure a meeting with leading us HHS executives and the president regarding his plan to make the provision of services to people with disabilities and their caregivers more efficient and effective. This anecdote ends with a private moment between the nephew and his uncle, the asshole Donald John Trump, in which the president tells Fred c Trump III that disabled people are too expensive to live and that they should be somehow allowed to die. Fred c Trump III reports dutifully that he heard this, was appalled, and said and did nothing in response.
Then, Fred c Trump III proceeds to tell us an anecdote from years earlier. This is the story of how he and his wife welcomed a child into their family who was disabled, and how that child as in heir to the Fred c Trump senior Fortune was provided with a strange Cash fund made up of contributions from the other heirs. That anecdote concludes, similarly, with a private comment from Donald John Trump to his nephew Fred c Trump III that they'd all be better off if Fred c Trump III would somehow allow his child to die. Donald John Trump tries to soften the blow, apparently, by suggesting that this would allow Fred c Trump III in his remaining family to move to Florida and live in comfort. In an echo of the first anecdote, which happened after the second anecdote, Fred c Trump the third reports that he was appalled, but said and did nothing.
This all raises a question: what the living fucking hell is wrong with Fred c Trump III?
Put back into the correct order, Fred c Trump the third new that his Uncle Don was an unvaried monster, who saw his child as a lump of flesh unworthy of life. Some years later, Fred c Trump III then decides to leverage his nepotistic ties to secure White House meetings with senior United States government officials. Then in this excerpt from his memoir, Fred c Trump III tells us that he was surprised that his uncle, still a monster and perhaps even more so, repeated what he had told him some years earlier that his child is a lump of flesh unworthy of life, and then added that this was true of all disabled people in the United States. Fred c Trump III does suggest that he has a normal morality, because he said that inwardly he recoiled at the idea that these words were coming not only from his uncle but from a president of the United States who will did supreme executive power over a government serving greater than 330 millions of his fellow citizens.
The whole thing is passing strange. Why would Fred see Trump the third think that Donald Trump was any different so many years after he told him that his child should just fucking die?
There's something about people who are given advantages and their views on disabled. For example, Ah-nold, who got impossible genetics for muscle building and handsome looks, said back in his early days "If you hang around cripple people long enough, pretty soon you learn how to limp". How privileged are you to think disability is a choice?
With the selection of JD Vance as Donald Trump’s running mate, the values that undergird the tradwife lifestyle are taking center stage at the highest levels of politics. Vance has fashioned himself as a champion of the so-called nuclear family, disparaging “the sexual revolution” and divorce. Days after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022, Vance tweeted: “If your worldview tells you that it’s bad for women to become mothers but liberating for them to work 90 hours a week in a cubicle at the New York Times or Goldman Sachs, you’ve been had.”
He has also suggested that Kamala Harris, who is likely to become the Democratic nominee for president after Joe Biden ended his presidential campaign on Sunday, should not have political power because she does not have biological children.
For this week’s migraine, last night I had a 2 hour ice water brain bath in a Pyrex baking dish on the floor. Eyes covered. Listened to a movie with good sound. I like Rush. Niki Lauda! Niki Lauda!
Then after that movie ended, I watchlistened to The Importance of Being Earnest because it also has fun sound, and did my neck and back stretchy twisties with my sleep mask on.
Also a gummy, peppermint oil on forehead, kombucha for gut head connection,… what else…
It’s you hed hid source info, nom, nom: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/tulip-and-petunia-and-a-floral-buffet
Nice times! Sea otters spotted off Oregon coast, a rare sight after a century of near-extinction
https://www.opb.org/article/2024/07/03/sea-otters-spotted-off-oregon-coast-a-rare-sight-after-a-century-of-near-extinction/
like
Nom, nom indeed!
hibiscus-beavers! squee!
I know a guy who’s last name is Beaver. Let’s just say I have a hard time taking him seriously.
"I hear that Beaver fella is a reeeal ____!"
I just reminded myself that Donald Westlake wrote a hilarious caper novel called
𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘱, 𝘐 𝘈𝘮 𝘉𝘦𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘏𝘦𝘭𝘥 𝘗𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘳 featuring a protagonist named Harry Künt...
I've metioned this before, but it's always worth revivng: At one of my first jobs we had 3 young ladies who shared an office on the maufacturing floor. Their last names were, and I shit you not: Dix, Butts and Cox.
Yes, the Dix, Butts & Cox office. Hilarity ensued. Hey, I was 19, whaddya expect?
everyone is nineteen under those circumstances.
True, and most of us are Dix.
to be fair, some are also Butts
I’m 60 and I just laughed out loud.
I'm 87 and laughed as well. I am also thankful that they weren't teachers in my department. The faculty room hangars-on would never stop.
Beaver! In the morning, beaver all through the night!
After I read this, it was determined that I must play at least the Peggy Lee cover, that morphed into another good song 𝘛𝘏𝘌 𝘍𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳, written by Springsteen and covered by many...
Good thing I didn't have plans for the morning...
The Cramps version, used in Near Dark, is another great version of the ill-fated Little Willie John hit
LOL!
“I’ll be here all week! Be sure to tip your head waiter Andre!”
Huh! I didn't know that beavers eat flowers. I always learn something new form Martini's source info. Thanks!
Lovely gif.
Now all I can think of is breakfast. Ta-ta!
Nice beaver!
Thanks I just had it stuffed.
Beavers are beautiful. And they are back in the U.K now.
You can’t beat the Great British Beaver
Stuffed with flowers, apparently!
How very Georgia O'Keeffe of them.
Hi, Biscus! We all float on.....
https://youtu.be/CTAud5O7Qqk
And that's why I wrote that. Good catch.
One of my favorite jams of all time. One day I'm going to do that at karaoke.
Oh, my. The otter, otter delightfulness of them.
Look closer.
Do you know how to tell a weasel from a stoat? They are weasily distinguishable because they are stoatally different. Next: how to titillate an ocelot.
I like beavers.
no bush?
Landing strip.
Click the TABZ - take the Tripz - eat the flowers, man - lay back relax Kamala’s got this - what? - not till November - and THEN they’ll try to pull more shit - I need more flowers - stat -
I am talking to this flower- Camper Van Beethoven; /yhs/search?fr=yhs-iba-synbg&ei=UTF-8&hsimp=yhs-synbg&hspart=iba¶m2=9dUI1n2R0BLDxNuWfiP4aSFOTltNdSPoIx38%2BUf%2FiXrvPdoGmStdlfwLFZYDvqkAJrWWk4yNReCLnBD%2FqPsDZd7olTZcV8HMx1G%2Fk786sE2Tis1g8dJd8zxVWs%2BbKztBnq1TfqUiqPYK9pXifXmJFyorDuCsYXJE71Y6G5tfejBggk%2FYseII2ZxCb%2BDZ7%2Fb72QeiGg370w%2FSP2OgekQ%2F7SsjxhC%2FFfC06a22PAjE%2BrUV2%2Bms5RBj35ML4lj%2BlUUgd8g6%2FVpKDe0M955g1qcvqA%3D%3D¶m3=HpCyCT2cXaKG4CVDR00rqo2oG1rIHjMij4XuH%2FTb7Mq5%2BD7nKHV7HbklYj%2BJk78VP6q0gqqgfm5JlV3Y32KeKTMESR1xn7%2BD7HplkrACkWf%2Bgn3Bx9Ph55kuMNHs3fe0XmAKJLsyTIMcV%2F9bGIVqYSge5ur6yvi49LO95tE8wwdagMbNoIwhhtIqfWVD0S6MrHLiCVmXYPkjw%2FjOip0952N8cc0g6wv7TrKIEtYZ65J1XlDkXN0GwVUDJ37ocODQcWOXRiZdco66F9PXaGAgD4ZTegvp5RpyEd5j5uCz7N6CIDowaXRevLpdLX6S7NwMByoi7Th23StKb2ij2eRyqMNlXxsvHdKQi9vMU56xnBQ%3D&p=i+was+talking+to+this+flower-+camper+van+beethoven&type=f2%3A%3B.6850610d4680680b2811f3dcdca6be379af%3B5.ac4855281165c33587e858a8e3b01611ec4ceacc0ec960448b74805219ec715ff444160f185fa8ab2404f80e99d#id=1&vid=1e869db248a9bc8c2b725bd43f48f28f&action=click
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NQOrVUbm5Xg
"The Rain, The Park & Other Things (I Love the Flower Girl)" -- The Cowsills
Wholesome.
If only you could have been around to hear it in the Original Everett Dirksen, that man was an oratorical treasure trove.
Soylent Green is also organic.
Deputy Accused of Killing Sonya Massey Was Discharged From Army for Serious Misconduct
https://theintercept.com/2024/07/25/sonya-massey-police-killing-sean-grayson-army/
> Sean Grayson was previously discharged from the Army for serious misconduct — and still hired at six police departments in Central Illinois.
#ACAB
Horrifying bc it is completely unsurprising.
6 jobs in 4 years. Jesus H...
People who want a vacation in the country, there's already Willing Workers on Organic Farms. https://wwoof.net/
Re. asshole Netanyahu--The Nad is on it! Sick burn!
Well, I did NOT have RFK jr. calling for his own "Up to the Mountains, Down to the Countryside" movement among the Revolutionary Vanguard Youth on my bingo card.
The excerpt by Fred the third in Time magazine is weird. Not the content, but the structure. He tells two anecdotes but tells them out of chronological order. It really makes you wonder if there isn't something equally wrong in the mind of Fred c Trump III.
To review: Fred c Trump III tells us that in a White House meeting during the teeth of the coronavirus crisis, he was able to secure a meeting with leading us HHS executives and the president regarding his plan to make the provision of services to people with disabilities and their caregivers more efficient and effective. This anecdote ends with a private moment between the nephew and his uncle, the asshole Donald John Trump, in which the president tells Fred c Trump III that disabled people are too expensive to live and that they should be somehow allowed to die. Fred c Trump III reports dutifully that he heard this, was appalled, and said and did nothing in response.
Then, Fred c Trump III proceeds to tell us an anecdote from years earlier. This is the story of how he and his wife welcomed a child into their family who was disabled, and how that child as in heir to the Fred c Trump senior Fortune was provided with a strange Cash fund made up of contributions from the other heirs. That anecdote concludes, similarly, with a private comment from Donald John Trump to his nephew Fred c Trump III that they'd all be better off if Fred c Trump III would somehow allow his child to die. Donald John Trump tries to soften the blow, apparently, by suggesting that this would allow Fred c Trump III in his remaining family to move to Florida and live in comfort. In an echo of the first anecdote, which happened after the second anecdote, Fred c Trump the third reports that he was appalled, but said and did nothing.
This all raises a question: what the living fucking hell is wrong with Fred c Trump III?
Put back into the correct order, Fred c Trump the third new that his Uncle Don was an unvaried monster, who saw his child as a lump of flesh unworthy of life. Some years later, Fred c Trump III then decides to leverage his nepotistic ties to secure White House meetings with senior United States government officials. Then in this excerpt from his memoir, Fred c Trump III tells us that he was surprised that his uncle, still a monster and perhaps even more so, repeated what he had told him some years earlier that his child is a lump of flesh unworthy of life, and then added that this was true of all disabled people in the United States. Fred c Trump III does suggest that he has a normal morality, because he said that inwardly he recoiled at the idea that these words were coming not only from his uncle but from a president of the United States who will did supreme executive power over a government serving greater than 330 millions of his fellow citizens.
The whole thing is passing strange. Why would Fred see Trump the third think that Donald Trump was any different so many years after he told him that his child should just fucking die?
There's something about people who are given advantages and their views on disabled. For example, Ah-nold, who got impossible genetics for muscle building and handsome looks, said back in his early days "If you hang around cripple people long enough, pretty soon you learn how to limp". How privileged are you to think disability is a choice?
Thank you for being the voice of sanity in my life. This summer has been A LOT. Bouquets, hugs and kisses.
𝐒𝐮𝐧𝐝𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐞𝐬 𝐚𝐧𝐝 𝐫𝐮𝐠𝐠𝐞𝐝 𝐬𝐞𝐥𝐟-𝐬𝐮𝐟𝐟𝐢𝐜𝐢𝐞𝐧𝐜𝐲: ‘𝐭𝐫𝐚𝐝𝐰𝐢𝐯𝐞𝐬’ 𝐭𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐚 𝐜𝐨𝐧𝐬𝐞𝐫𝐯𝐚𝐭𝐢𝐯𝐞 𝐀𝐦𝐞𝐫𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐩𝐚𝐬𝐭 ... 𝐭𝐡𝐚𝐭 𝐝𝐢𝐝𝐧’𝐭 𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐬𝐭
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑖𝑘𝑇𝑜𝑘-𝑓𝑟𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑑𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑒𝑠𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑐, 𝑤ℎ𝑖𝑐ℎ 𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑒𝑏𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 ℎ𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑠𝑡𝑒𝑎𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔, 𝑚𝑖𝑙𝑘𝑚𝑎𝑖𝑑𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ‘𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑒𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑛𝑒 𝑢𝑟𝑔𝑒 𝑡𝑜 𝑡𝑎𝑘𝑒 𝑐𝑎𝑟𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑦𝑜𝑢𝑟 ℎ𝑢𝑠𝑏𝑎𝑛𝑑’, ℎ𝑖𝑛𝑔𝑒𝑠 𝑜𝑛 𝑎 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑡𝑜𝑑𝑎𝑦’𝑠 𝑅𝑒𝑝𝑢𝑏𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑤𝑜𝑢𝑙𝑑 𝑓𝑖𝑒𝑟𝑐𝑒𝑙𝑦 𝑜𝑝𝑝𝑜𝑠𝑒
With the selection of JD Vance as Donald Trump’s running mate, the values that undergird the tradwife lifestyle are taking center stage at the highest levels of politics. Vance has fashioned himself as a champion of the so-called nuclear family, disparaging “the sexual revolution” and divorce. Days after the US supreme court overturned Roe v Wade in 2022, Vance tweeted: “If your worldview tells you that it’s bad for women to become mothers but liberating for them to work 90 hours a week in a cubicle at the New York Times or Goldman Sachs, you’ve been had.”
He has also suggested that Kamala Harris, who is likely to become the Democratic nominee for president after Joe Biden ended his presidential campaign on Sunday, should not have political power because she does not have biological children.
https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/ng-interactive/2024/jul/24/tradwives-tiktok-women-gender-roles
At this point, Margaret Atwood is like, "Okay, even I think that's a bit too on-the-nose now."
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More good news, '20 election interference crimes finally going to trial let's go Colorado!
https://www.cnn.com/2024/07/22/politics/tina-peters-supreme-court/index.html
Weird. I am a California voter, and have no recollection of receiving a blowjob from *anyone* for my vote.
Triple Geeeeez Burger. In case you run into people that claim that Biden's speech was somehow recorded or whatnot because "watch".
https://x.com/dieworkwear/status/1816348629252346083
how many people does it take to read a non-digital watch?
anyway, if you look up Associated Press photos of the event, you can see his watch reads 8:06pm, which is when the address was televised. https://x.com/blackhawkce457/blackhawkce457/status/1816312833417609566
people on antidepressants [should] be sent to organic wellness farms to be “reparented.”
Fuck, Biafra wrote “Die on organic poison gas” decades ago. Now Junior wants to make it happen?
For this week’s migraine, last night I had a 2 hour ice water brain bath in a Pyrex baking dish on the floor. Eyes covered. Listened to a movie with good sound. I like Rush. Niki Lauda! Niki Lauda!
Then after that movie ended, I watchlistened to The Importance of Being Earnest because it also has fun sound, and did my neck and back stretchy twisties with my sleep mask on.
Also a gummy, peppermint oil on forehead, kombucha for gut head connection,… what else…
Woke up feeling much better.
❤️