I remember back in, oh, the 90s or so, when someone discovered Speedy Gonzalez singing that line on some cartoon compilation videotape, and the local news went berserk over it. I *think* it was around the time the new Mighty Mouse cartoon got nuked for MM snorting powdered flowers.
Bugs Bunny made me curious about mind altering shit. If your old enough, you know exactly which cartoon it was, something to do in a castle, with the fucked up red monster and the mad scientist. He slips Bugs a dose of something that had Bugs hella tripping!
I think it was Paul Krugman, writing about 2001 or 2002, that Democrats should stop worrying about the Federal Deficit because whatever Dems do to balance the budget the Rs would blow up the next time they are in power. Carter-Reagan, Clinton-Bush, Obama-Trump. It's why we can't have nice things.
> The GDP grew again in the third quarter, too, and those wild-eyed radicals at the Wall Street Journal crooned that the next president will “inherit a remarkable economy.”
Economic results lag political action by about 2 years. It was the PAB economy up to 2022, and it's the Biden economy through '26 (unless PAB gets in and just really fucks things up right from the jump, which, possible). Should (gods forbid) PAB get elected he'd be crowing about "his" great economy for the first 2 years.
Elon Musk's plans to save the world always begin with us giving him All The Money, everyone else making tons of sacrifices (I mean, being totally hardcore), and then at some indeterminate point in the future he'll save humanity.
He probably couldn't make the affordable EVs happen because we didn't give him All The Money enough.
Did you stay at the Aloha Inn in Sparks, NV? That was my scariest hotel carpet. I would not walk on it without my shoes. Also, scariest hotel room in general; smear of blood on the wall behind the bathroom door, sheets kinda iffy so we brought in our own bedding (this was at the end of a 5 week road trip), and when I went to get ice, the door handle came off, so that we were trapped in our room with a phone that did not work. We had to flag down a guest passing by the window to open the door for us.
In 2002 I stayed in a hotel in a small city in China that was to be drowned soon by the Three Gorges Dam. We were unceremoniously dropped off by our boat at about 10:00 p.m. in heavy rain. Apparently this was the closest town to our destination, another several miles downriver. The city was all but deserted, with most residents having already been relocated. At the top of a long, steep, slippery street, up which we dragged out bags, we found a guest house that reluctantly let us in. They too were pretty much closed up permanently, but gave us a room. The sheets had not been changed. The water trickled out of the shower head. The door not only would not lock but wouldn't close. I got up at one point to try to find some hot water for tea and just about screamed, as there was an old woman with stringy long hair sitting motionless at a table in the hallway. I thought she was dead.
So there was a shooting in downtown Orlando last night. 2 people died and 6 injured. The shooter is 17 and since the paper referred to him as a Teenage Boy I am guessing he is white.
Actually later I saw a photo and he does not appear to be white. Assuming that is actually him — if he’s a juvenile, I don’t know if they put pics in the paper or not.
He's here in this country to make money in ways he'd be unable to do if he was not a citizen. He has no love for this country - or any other that I can see - well, maybe Russia. He certainly has no respect for our Constitution. Lone Skum remains Skum, but unfortunately, he is not alone.
i see that donald understands that dick cheney has to go along with his daughter, but that liz should face a firing squad (or words to that effect). that clown doesn't have the balls to go after a man ever, but beating up on a woman is his style every time.
Met someone visiting from Arkansas last night and she and her husband are voting for Kamala. Everyone at the party was and yes, I live in CA SF area but to hear others be do forget and the young girls and their families doing the same made me think that there is just no way that this election is close. When you have the GQP already promising to create chaos that tells you that they are skeert bad.
And the girls of TikTok spreading the word Lort help them all. Pointing out that MAGA is only tearing families apart doesn’t make anything great and perhaps it’s time to abandon that whole nonsense.
Maybe enough daughters will guilt their dads into voting for their rights because they do want to protect their children. There is hope.
Thornton is so handsome! I'm glad he gets to visit us in the form of pics. (Sheepishly reaches into secret Halloween leftover candy stash. What? Those minis taste so good with a fresh hot cup of coffee or tea, you know. My kid has another, "hands off" candy stash.)
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Hey Justa Dick Vance? That time you said school shootings are just "a fact of life"? That was when many of us hardened our resolve to kick your hairy ass in this election. It would be my absolute pleasure to watch your political career go up in flames.
One last Halloween hurrah… vintage cartoon for your hed gif today: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/toby-the-pups-halloween
And a meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/4bc08c38-6716-4182-8c26-b45b6b32f8a1?utm_source=share
♩ Witchy woman ♪
Dick Huemor?
It certainly fits in here.
Get Moe on the phone!...
Looks like Dick just kept things humming along -
I knew somebody here would pick up on that 😅
Interesting fellow: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dick_Huemer
His name is spelled two different ways on the credits and you have a third.
Hooray for Hollywood.
Halloween fun from 93 years ago!
Those early cartoonists were smokin' something.
Something strong.
“I’ll have what they’re having - uh - bathtub gin - no thanks.”
Speedy Gonzales and his co-stars once added a lyric, 🎶Marihuana por fumar!🎵 to their rendition of 𝘓𝘢 𝘊𝘶𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘢𝘤𝘩𝘢...
I remember back in, oh, the 90s or so, when someone discovered Speedy Gonzalez singing that line on some cartoon compilation videotape, and the local news went berserk over it. I *think* it was around the time the new Mighty Mouse cartoon got nuked for MM snorting powdered flowers.
I thought it was already in there:
La cucaracha, la cucaracha, ya no puede caminar
Porque no quere, porque no gusta, marijuana quer fumar.
At least that's the way my dad used to sing it in the shower. He was a professor of Latin American history. BTW, we're Irish.
Haha! The one I was taught said 'porque no quiere, porque le falta, la patita principal.'
I'm guessing that there was a version that adults sang, maybe when the air was redolent with the scent of mary jane and mebbe tequila.
And another when the kids were around...
Heh heh.
That explains a lot about Slow-Poke Rodriguez.
Remember being little and WATCHING those cartoons?! It was something else, alright.... No wonder we went for mind-altering "substances" when we could.
I learned a LOT watching those cartoons when I was short.
Some of us are *still* short, just no longer young.
I resemble that remark
Don't I know it!
Bugs Bunny made me curious about mind altering shit. If your old enough, you know exactly which cartoon it was, something to do in a castle, with the fucked up red monster and the mad scientist. He slips Bugs a dose of something that had Bugs hella tripping!
Come. Baaaaaaaack. Here. You. Rabbitttttt…..
Nighty night
You betcha. Chuck Jones was a MASTER.
I think it was Paul Krugman, writing about 2001 or 2002, that Democrats should stop worrying about the Federal Deficit because whatever Dems do to balance the budget the Rs would blow up the next time they are in power. Carter-Reagan, Clinton-Bush, Obama-Trump. It's why we can't have nice things.
Nooo! Don't tell anyone about my secret Halloween candy!!!🎃🎃🎃
Great post and links sharing now . peace to you
Hey, Dok! Can we get your take on this subject before the election? There's way more at stake than JUST American democracy:
"‘Crunch time for real’: UN says time for climate delays has run out"
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2024/oct/24/crunch-time-for-real-un-says-time-for-climate-delays-has-run-out
"Why climate experts say this election could be our last chance for meaningful action"
https://www.salon.com/2024/10/28/why-climate-experts-say-this-could-be-our-last-chance-for-meaningful-action/
> The GDP grew again in the third quarter, too, and those wild-eyed radicals at the Wall Street Journal crooned that the next president will “inherit a remarkable economy.”
Economic results lag political action by about 2 years. It was the PAB economy up to 2022, and it's the Biden economy through '26 (unless PAB gets in and just really fucks things up right from the jump, which, possible). Should (gods forbid) PAB get elected he'd be crowing about "his" great economy for the first 2 years.
Elon Musk's plans to save the world always begin with us giving him All The Money, everyone else making tons of sacrifices (I mean, being totally hardcore), and then at some indeterminate point in the future he'll save humanity.
He probably couldn't make the affordable EVs happen because we didn't give him All The Money enough.
Had one of my scariest Halloween experiences ever, which was this carpet in this hotel room.
Did you stay at the Aloha Inn in Sparks, NV? That was my scariest hotel carpet. I would not walk on it without my shoes. Also, scariest hotel room in general; smear of blood on the wall behind the bathroom door, sheets kinda iffy so we brought in our own bedding (this was at the end of a 5 week road trip), and when I went to get ice, the door handle came off, so that we were trapped in our room with a phone that did not work. We had to flag down a guest passing by the window to open the door for us.
Not a good time
In 2002 I stayed in a hotel in a small city in China that was to be drowned soon by the Three Gorges Dam. We were unceremoniously dropped off by our boat at about 10:00 p.m. in heavy rain. Apparently this was the closest town to our destination, another several miles downriver. The city was all but deserted, with most residents having already been relocated. At the top of a long, steep, slippery street, up which we dragged out bags, we found a guest house that reluctantly let us in. They too were pretty much closed up permanently, but gave us a room. The sheets had not been changed. The water trickled out of the shower head. The door not only would not lock but wouldn't close. I got up at one point to try to find some hot water for tea and just about screamed, as there was an old woman with stringy long hair sitting motionless at a table in the hallway. I thought she was dead.
At least you got a script for a horror movie out of it.
Missing Tab: Scientists ruin *everything*: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c748kmvwyv9o
G'day. I said g'day, mate!
EV’s are Dok’s version of an A.D. tour. As soon as I got to that paragraph, I looked up at the byline.
No one was supposed to know about my secret Halloween candy. [Looks around suspiciously]
It is ALWAYS time for a Thornton pic. Meow.
So there was a shooting in downtown Orlando last night. 2 people died and 6 injured. The shooter is 17 and since the paper referred to him as a Teenage Boy I am guessing he is white.
If he's still alive, you can safely assume he's white.
Actually later I saw a photo and he does not appear to be white. Assuming that is actually him — if he’s a juvenile, I don’t know if they put pics in the paper or not.
Elon Musk's Machine for Fascism: A One-Stop Shop for Disinformation and Violence
https://www.emptywheel.net/2024/11/01/elon-musks-machine-for-fascism-a-one-stop-shop-for-disinformation-and-violence/
He's here in this country to make money in ways he'd be unable to do if he was not a citizen. He has no love for this country - or any other that I can see - well, maybe Russia. He certainly has no respect for our Constitution. Lone Skum remains Skum, but unfortunately, he is not alone.
Yup, him, Thiel, and Murdoch. If anyone gets deported it should be these three
i see that donald understands that dick cheney has to go along with his daughter, but that liz should face a firing squad (or words to that effect). that clown doesn't have the balls to go after a man ever, but beating up on a woman is his style every time.
what a loser.
Met someone visiting from Arkansas last night and she and her husband are voting for Kamala. Everyone at the party was and yes, I live in CA SF area but to hear others be do forget and the young girls and their families doing the same made me think that there is just no way that this election is close. When you have the GQP already promising to create chaos that tells you that they are skeert bad.
And the girls of TikTok spreading the word Lort help them all. Pointing out that MAGA is only tearing families apart doesn’t make anything great and perhaps it’s time to abandon that whole nonsense.
Maybe enough daughters will guilt their dads into voting for their rights because they do want to protect their children. There is hope.
Thornton is so handsome! I'm glad he gets to visit us in the form of pics. (Sheepishly reaches into secret Halloween leftover candy stash. What? Those minis taste so good with a fresh hot cup of coffee or tea, you know. My kid has another, "hands off" candy stash.)
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Hey Justa Dick Vance? That time you said school shootings are just "a fact of life"? That was when many of us hardened our resolve to kick your hairy ass in this election. It would be my absolute pleasure to watch your political career go up in flames.
sadly, we're stuck with him for at least a few more years, and probably more if there's enough money (there's always, somehow, enough money)