More years ago than I'd like to admit I had a close friend who had a magnificent canine called Bud. Bud was a wolf and one of THE most beautiful beasties I have ever had the honor to lay my eyes upon.
One day when I'd stopped by my old friend's house to visit I was left absolutely speechless when out of no where Bud ambled up to me, sniffed at my clothing, and then decided to lie down at my feet, gazing up at me like a puppy who wanted his tummy rubbed.
I reached down and gently started petting that massive beast; he curled up and napped in front of me with his head resting on my feet.
Following that visit after I got into my car to drive home I was momentarily overwhelmed as I contemplated that massive, wild beast trusting me like that. It actually brought tears to my eyes for a few minutes.
Gorgeous. Dad had some affinity for polar bears after he retired and framed about a dozen pics of them, and put them up around the house. I love to see them. I should ask my brother if be'll keep them up, or perhaps he prefers to pass them along to me.
It's rather overwhelming to consider the fact that that precious fluffy little bundle of bear will be big enough and strongly motivated to tear you into bite-sized shreds within just a matter of months.
Were you even born yet in 2000? Fucking purity ponies and single issue voters let Dubya get close enough that the Republicans could cheat and install him. Result? 9/11, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and any number of other calamities. No Republican candidate this century has won the majority of votes cast, but whenever the count is close enough, they cheat and install their guy. The only way to be sure of avoiding them regaining power is to win so decisively, so obviously, that they can't do it. Offer policy alternatives, organize and demonstrate, fine, but never forget the fucking orcs we are up against. Do you like the idea of the guy who attempted the first putsch in our history being rewarded with another chance to wreck whatever is left of the guardrails against dictatorship? This is not hyperbole, this is sober fact. You certainly know a woman or two, and maybe you know a person on the lgbtq+ spectrum, and you have no doubt met an immigrant or two.
Let us prevent a genocide in our own country first, against the asylum seekers and not-heterosexuals.
" I was only hungry for a matter of six hours and it sent me into a spiral of discomfort, frustration and fear."
I don't want to just dump on the woman who seems to have an awesome array of physical problems, but there she is living independently with helpers. Why no "backup cereal", such as Our Editrix had on hand? Everybody should have the necessary to shelter in place for a week or two in a well-regulated society, what with snowstorms and earthquakes and whatnot. Likewise everybody should be able to cope easily with "six hours" of non-injurious discomfort? Civilization, bless it's heart, is not going to guarantee continuous comfort to everybody all the time. (Last week hereabouts the internet was down ALL DAY!!!) The church I have been going to lately has a voluntary fast day once a month, in solidarity with people who are involuntarily fasting, and also to stay in practice for REAL hard times.
Comfortable people in the Regency period didn't just eat bread, but a fancy sort of roll called a "Sally Lunn bun." This was basically a type of very light, mildly sweet milk bread that was invented in Bath (where Austen lived for a time) and became wildly popular in the early 19th century.
Ah. The final scene in Fargo season 5: the bitter 500 year old immortal sin eater is released from his curse when he accepts, and bites into, a milk biscuit made with Love. Blessed grace!
Just yesterday I had a bitter argument on a Newsweak comment section with an idiot who announced that trickle down works, that tax cuts for rich fuckwads result in higher tax revenues, and Reagan was a great man who saved our economy.
LA Times: Review: ‘Randy Rainbow for President’ rolls through L.A. leading the anti-Trump resistance
Randy Rainbow, leader of the musical theater resistance to Donald Trump and his train of fascist Mini-mes, had a campaign stop at Los Angeles’ Orpheum Theatre for his “Randy Rainbow for President” tour on Friday.
His platform? Make America Gay Again. (He said he’s vying to be the first twink in the White House since Jared Kushner.) But what he’s really after is to restore the nation’s fabulousness with a concentrated dose of common sense.
My mother used to cut a cabbage in quarters and cook it in a pressure cooker with lots of black pepper and a small piece of uncooked bacon or a ham bone. It was very tasty and very inexpensive.
The Baltimore Sun is my paper, and I waiting for the other shoe to drop. This morning's op-ed included a defense of affirmative action. The author is in a PhD program at Wharton and in law school at Penn.
Thank you, please keep us posted if you see changes in coverage that are unfavorable to our Democracy there. I found a "Sample Edition" of Epoch Times on my doorstep last week, I didn't know what it was so I took a look, it was bonkers with huge articles of nonsense with big headlines on each piece. One about the Capitol Police may actually be defamation case worthy, should I send it to them or just file a littering complaint?
It's 7:30 out here in the Californias, and it's looking to be a beautiful damp day. Assuming you ignore the shitnado that struck at the bottom of the stairs, down the hall, and across a rug. And the several large lakes of Maine Coon vomit in the bedroom. I can see why people share their homes with cats and other creatures -- so relaxing.
Wait, are you the one who had a blowout on my floor, then blamed it on the cats? Well, the one cat with the evidence on her fur, that I still need to pin down and bathe?
don't remind me to tell you about the time the great dane my roommate had sprayed poo around the entire house one night on every surface and 4 ft up all the walls. it was unbelievable. we all crawled out our windows and called the steam cleaners. they got a hefty bonus.
I waited 5 hours for my birthday room at the Fairmont in SF (looong ago.) After spending an unconscionable amount of $ waiting in the bar, I unloaded with "What's the problem? Did somebody f*cking die in there?"
SER- Thank you for the story about Majiah Washington. I hadn’t heard her part in the story. Oh. And I came to a theory as to why our neighborhood has fewer power outages than others. There are almost no big trees between our houses and the big power substation for our neighborhood.
Still reading through the tabs but hahahahahaha from the otherwise totally terrifying article about SCOTUS
'It fell to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to remind Kavanaugh that the fact that the law changes based on who wins an election is not a nefarious woke plot to confuse people who like beer but “a function of democracy.”'
tldr; Kav is cackling at the prospect of being Supreme Leader, Alito is deluding himself the founders wanted him in charge, and Gorsuch feels like he may make mommy proud of him yet. Thomas (presumably) is just cashing checks, and good for a vote without bothering with the boring parts.
Tasting History is one of my favorite YouTube channels. Also, I find it very cute that he has an on-theme Pokemon doll in the background of every episode.
I listened to Elie Mystal explain chevron doctrine and what the SC is about to do on the majority report yesterday.
"In denying the right they usurp of exclusively explaining the constitution, I go further than you do, [...] If this opinion be sound [Marbury V Madison] then indeed is our constitution a complete felo de se (act of suicide). [...] The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please."
If you had that fur and a large mom to snuggle with, you’d be warm in the snow too. It’s your hed gif source info at the click… https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/polar-bear-cub-of-the-arctic?r=angu9&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
I don't understand how polar bear cubs go from being tiny kittens to eating Arctic explorers for breakfast.
Such an adorable lil’ killing-machine-in-training!
I just melted.
The paws on that little guy x
A furry mama
With snow white hair
Is quite the polar
Opposite of bare.
*Lady's Auxiliary Club applause gif*
Love the white gloves.
Smart, social, astonishingly beautiful soon to be huge apex predators...
Had a white Malamute named Kodiak last century, he enjoyed a snuggle and never once ate my face!
More years ago than I'd like to admit I had a close friend who had a magnificent canine called Bud. Bud was a wolf and one of THE most beautiful beasties I have ever had the honor to lay my eyes upon.
One day when I'd stopped by my old friend's house to visit I was left absolutely speechless when out of no where Bud ambled up to me, sniffed at my clothing, and then decided to lie down at my feet, gazing up at me like a puppy who wanted his tummy rubbed.
I reached down and gently started petting that massive beast; he curled up and napped in front of me with his head resting on my feet.
Following that visit after I got into my car to drive home I was momentarily overwhelmed as I contemplated that massive, wild beast trusting me like that. It actually brought tears to my eyes for a few minutes.
Gorgeous. Dad had some affinity for polar bears after he retired and framed about a dozen pics of them, and put them up around the house. I love to see them. I should ask my brother if be'll keep them up, or perhaps he prefers to pass them along to me.
It's rather overwhelming to consider the fact that that precious fluffy little bundle of bear will be big enough and strongly motivated to tear you into bite-sized shreds within just a matter of months.
What fearsome, awesome beauty.
I wish them all the space to live and seals to eat.
They're so cute before they grow up, then eat your lapdog and your face.
"This comprehensive list of every mean thing Donald Trump said about Ron DeSantis"
Like the meme says, "Ain't nobody got time for that."
Were you even born yet in 2000? Fucking purity ponies and single issue voters let Dubya get close enough that the Republicans could cheat and install him. Result? 9/11, the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, and any number of other calamities. No Republican candidate this century has won the majority of votes cast, but whenever the count is close enough, they cheat and install their guy. The only way to be sure of avoiding them regaining power is to win so decisively, so obviously, that they can't do it. Offer policy alternatives, organize and demonstrate, fine, but never forget the fucking orcs we are up against. Do you like the idea of the guy who attempted the first putsch in our history being rewarded with another chance to wreck whatever is left of the guardrails against dictatorship? This is not hyperbole, this is sober fact. You certainly know a woman or two, and maybe you know a person on the lgbtq+ spectrum, and you have no doubt met an immigrant or two.
Let us prevent a genocide in our own country first, against the asylum seekers and not-heterosexuals.
" I was only hungry for a matter of six hours and it sent me into a spiral of discomfort, frustration and fear."
I don't want to just dump on the woman who seems to have an awesome array of physical problems, but there she is living independently with helpers. Why no "backup cereal", such as Our Editrix had on hand? Everybody should have the necessary to shelter in place for a week or two in a well-regulated society, what with snowstorms and earthquakes and whatnot. Likewise everybody should be able to cope easily with "six hours" of non-injurious discomfort? Civilization, bless it's heart, is not going to guarantee continuous comfort to everybody all the time. (Last week hereabouts the internet was down ALL DAY!!!) The church I have been going to lately has a voluntary fast day once a month, in solidarity with people who are involuntarily fasting, and also to stay in practice for REAL hard times.
Comfortable people in the Regency period didn't just eat bread, but a fancy sort of roll called a "Sally Lunn bun." This was basically a type of very light, mildly sweet milk bread that was invented in Bath (where Austen lived for a time) and became wildly popular in the early 19th century.
Ah. The final scene in Fargo season 5: the bitter 500 year old immortal sin eater is released from his curse when he accepts, and bites into, a milk biscuit made with Love. Blessed grace!
CNN found a Cletus who believes in the trickle down theory.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-tax-cut/
Just yesterday I had a bitter argument on a Newsweak comment section with an idiot who announced that trickle down works, that tax cuts for rich fuckwads result in higher tax revenues, and Reagan was a great man who saved our economy.
Ronnie Raygun was the start of the political "cult leaders" ... the Bushes were too bland to pull it off.
God help us. Doh!
"Jus' give it another 50 years!"
LA Times: Review: ‘Randy Rainbow for President’ rolls through L.A. leading the anti-Trump resistance
Randy Rainbow, leader of the musical theater resistance to Donald Trump and his train of fascist Mini-mes, had a campaign stop at Los Angeles’ Orpheum Theatre for his “Randy Rainbow for President” tour on Friday.
His platform? Make America Gay Again. (He said he’s vying to be the first twink in the White House since Jared Kushner.) But what he’s really after is to restore the nation’s fabulousness with a concentrated dose of common sense.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/story/2024-01-21/randy-rainbow-brings-his-campaign-for-president-to-the-orpheum-theatre
My mother used to cut a cabbage in quarters and cook it in a pressure cooker with lots of black pepper and a small piece of uncooked bacon or a ham bone. It was very tasty and very inexpensive.
The Baltimore Sun is my paper, and I waiting for the other shoe to drop. This morning's op-ed included a defense of affirmative action. The author is in a PhD program at Wharton and in law school at Penn.
Thank you, please keep us posted if you see changes in coverage that are unfavorable to our Democracy there. I found a "Sample Edition" of Epoch Times on my doorstep last week, I didn't know what it was so I took a look, it was bonkers with huge articles of nonsense with big headlines on each piece. One about the Capitol Police may actually be defamation case worthy, should I send it to them or just file a littering complaint?
Will do. The online Baltimore Banner is excellent on local news, but I need a real paper with my breakfast!
It's 7:30 out here in the Californias, and it's looking to be a beautiful damp day. Assuming you ignore the shitnado that struck at the bottom of the stairs, down the hall, and across a rug. And the several large lakes of Maine Coon vomit in the bedroom. I can see why people share their homes with cats and other creatures -- so relaxing.
Oh no, why the Coonie vom? Were they upset by the rainstorm? :((
She eats a lot of food (15-18 ounces of canned food a day, plus dry), and sometimes it comes back up. Especially if she decides she has to eat fast.
oh no, so sorry!
Wait, are you the one who had a blowout on my floor, then blamed it on the cats? Well, the one cat with the evidence on her fur, that I still need to pin down and bathe?
lol wasn't me.
don't remind me to tell you about the time the great dane my roommate had sprayed poo around the entire house one night on every surface and 4 ft up all the walls. it was unbelievable. we all crawled out our windows and called the steam cleaners. they got a hefty bonus.
woops told you anyway
I suspect a strange attractor at work, in the trumpian motion of his word salad.
Whar good hotel stories?
1. I stayed in a hotel and didn't get any bed bugs.
2. I stayed in a hotel and it didn't burn down.
3. I stayed in a hotel and not once did I find dismembered person spread throughout the room.
I've got a million good hotel stories.
I waited 5 hours for my birthday room at the Fairmont in SF (looong ago.) After spending an unconscionable amount of $ waiting in the bar, I unloaded with "What's the problem? Did somebody f*cking die in there?"
They booked me into a nicer room posthaste
SER- Thank you for the story about Majiah Washington. I hadn’t heard her part in the story. Oh. And I came to a theory as to why our neighborhood has fewer power outages than others. There are almost no big trees between our houses and the big power substation for our neighborhood.
Tree limbs, palm fronds, cars hitting poles and Mylar balloons are the top outages makers, so IMO, your theory is good.
Still reading through the tabs but hahahahahaha from the otherwise totally terrifying article about SCOTUS
'It fell to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson to remind Kavanaugh that the fact that the law changes based on who wins an election is not a nefarious woke plot to confuse people who like beer but “a function of democracy.”'
I couldn't bring myself to read that one. I haven't even had my coffee yet and I don't want acid reflux before that.
tldr; Kav is cackling at the prospect of being Supreme Leader, Alito is deluding himself the founders wanted him in charge, and Gorsuch feels like he may make mommy proud of him yet. Thomas (presumably) is just cashing checks, and good for a vote without bothering with the boring parts.
Ah, so the fuckery continues unabated.
Did you ever doubt it?
Not really 🫤
Same as it ever was
Same as it ever was, indeed.
Cold brrrrrrrr.
Bring your own water! :-)
No kidding.
Tasting History is one of my favorite YouTube channels. Also, I find it very cute that he has an on-theme Pokemon doll in the background of every episode.
He has a cookbook too!
I'm a shameless fan myself <3
I listened to Elie Mystal explain chevron doctrine and what the SC is about to do on the majority report yesterday.
"In denying the right they usurp of exclusively explaining the constitution, I go further than you do, [...] If this opinion be sound [Marbury V Madison] then indeed is our constitution a complete felo de se (act of suicide). [...] The constitution, on this hypothesis, is a mere thing of wax in the hands of the judiciary, which they may twist, and shape into any form they please."
- Jefferson
Feel like abolishing judicial review yet?