i don't understand the 'he deserves another chance mentality' - he's not a three year old who fucked up on his first go at something non vital, threw shit everywhere, had a massive tantrum, but should have another chance to learn better. he's a fucking facist
Birthdays: Benjamin Franklin, Anne Bronte, David Lloyd George, Konstantin Stanislavski, Carl Laemmle, Alphonse Capone, Nevil Shute, Betty White, Newton Minow, Eartha Kitt, Vidal Sassoon, James Earl Jones, Douglas Wilder, Shari Lewis, Muhammad Ali, Andy Kaufman, Steve Harvey, Jim Carrey, Michelle Obama, Genndy Tartakovsky, Zooey Deschanel.
Obituaries: Rutherford B. Hayes, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Patrice Lumumba, Clyde Tombaugh, Richard Crenna, Virginia Mayo, Art Buchwald, Bobby Fischer.
For an honest early morning laugh out loud experience, Guillermo's segment on the Emmys at the end of Jimmy Kimmel's monologue is both sweet and hilarious.
As snow swirled down after midnight on Tuesday, about three dozen migrants, including two families with children, huddled on the sidewalk under thin blankets outside a city office in Brooklyn.
They had temporarily left their homeless shelters to spend the night camping in the 20-degree wind chill for a chance at a prize whose significance was not quite clear: a New York City-issued identification card called IDNYC.
Some said they had been told by shelter workers that the card was a necessary step on the road to legal employment. One woman who was six months pregnant said she had heard she needed the card to get seen at a public hospital.As winter settles in, the situation faced by the 68,000 migrants in city shelters has grown more precarious and left many eager to find their way to self-sufficiency but confused about the many rules that govern the steps to get there.
Jimmy Darwin, 26, from Peru, had a spot near the front of the line. He had arrived at 7 a.m. Monday and built a little house for his 9-year-old daughter and his wife out of cardboard boxes and a suitcase.
“They told me I need the city ID first, so then I can start the application for the work permit,” Mr. Darwin said.
...The city says that it issued 50 percent more IDNYC cards in 2023 than in 2022, but whether they can even help migrants get work is murky.
“IDNYC does not provide work authorization and does not impact immigration status,” Neha Sharma, a spokeswoman for the Department of Social Services, said in an email. “We continue to work to address any misconception around this.”
1524: Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail to find a westward route to the Pacific. He won't, but they'll name a bridge after him in New York Harbor.
1773: Capt. James Cook leads the first (recorded) expedition south of the Antarctic Circle.
1893: Lorrin Thurston, with others, overthrows the Hawaiian government and deposes Queen Liliʻuokalani.
1912: Robert Scott's expedition reaches the South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen's group had gotten there first, a month earlier.
1917: For $25 million, the United States buys the Virgin Islands from Denmark. Cha-ching!
1920: The Volstead Act goes into effect, beginning Prohibition in the US.
1945: Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into custody by the NKVD. He's never seen publicly again.
1950: Thieves in Boston steal more than $2 million from a Brink's Company office.
1961: Outgoing US Pres. Eisenhower gives a farewell address to the nation, speaking out against deficit spending and the "military-industrial complex." Also 1961, Patrice Lumumba gets murdered in circumstances that suggest that Belgium and the US were in on the hit.
1966: A B-52 collides with an airborne tanker over Spain, killing 7 airmen and dropping three 70-kiloton nukes. Two hit the dirt near the town of Palomares, and one goes into the sea.
1991: Operation Desert Storm begins. Iraq fires Scud SRBMs into Israel in an effort to provoke Israeli retaliation.
1998: Matt Drudge breaks the news of the Clinton-Lewinsky Affair.
2007: The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight (midnight being the end of the world) in response to North Korea's nuclear testing.
2016: US Pres. Obama announces the Iran nuclear deal, or "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action."
High today in the forties! Woo hoo! Now, if I can only get the tractor mechanic to turn off the heat in the greenhouse at ten, when he's supposed to be there, cuz it's still pretty damn cold outside, and I'd have to turn it off when I leave at 6:40.
Well, I had a WONDERFUL time at my assignation. I did indeed curl up with kink partner to be his lap kitty in the cold weather (ᶜaᵗₗᵃdʸ dreams!) and it was heaven to open my eyes and see kink partner there as he--a short, Buddha-shaped, heavily-tattooed Mayan man--suits my fantasies, and who doesn't want to Open their eyes to a fantasy?
I liked when he shook his finger at me and said, "See, you don't have to get married to have love." I love when people say I Told You So and are right.
Fuck Ted Cruz just endorsed Trump. Who phoned him to remark how ugly his wife was
i don't understand the 'he deserves another chance mentality' - he's not a three year old who fucked up on his first go at something non vital, threw shit everywhere, had a massive tantrum, but should have another chance to learn better. he's a fucking facist
Is it wrong that I really love "Mansfield Park"? I also love "P and P", "Emma" and "Persuasion".
Ben Shapiro is the reason the phrase "annoying little right-wing turd" exists.
If Trump were to be President again, that would bring about the change we all really want. (Susan Sarandon, somewhere).
Oh, almost forgot.
The national anthem: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c_tELkI0vbU
Comings and goings:
Birthdays: Benjamin Franklin, Anne Bronte, David Lloyd George, Konstantin Stanislavski, Carl Laemmle, Alphonse Capone, Nevil Shute, Betty White, Newton Minow, Eartha Kitt, Vidal Sassoon, James Earl Jones, Douglas Wilder, Shari Lewis, Muhammad Ali, Andy Kaufman, Steve Harvey, Jim Carrey, Michelle Obama, Genndy Tartakovsky, Zooey Deschanel.
Obituaries: Rutherford B. Hayes, Louis Comfort Tiffany, Patrice Lumumba, Clyde Tombaugh, Richard Crenna, Virginia Mayo, Art Buchwald, Bobby Fischer.
For an honest early morning laugh out loud experience, Guillermo's segment on the Emmys at the end of Jimmy Kimmel's monologue is both sweet and hilarious.
https://youtu.be/y61HveQYuZc?si=gBhktXFrGQlMo2-S
Russia caucus still continuing.
https://twitter.com/Gerashchenko_en/status/1747572686933368914 ---
Russian media report that about 10,000 people are gathered by the court building in Bashkortostan.
wow
𝐌𝐢𝐠𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐭𝐬 𝐒𝐥𝐞𝐞𝐩 𝐢𝐧 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐒𝐧𝐨𝐰 𝐢𝐧 𝐃𝐞𝐬𝐩𝐞𝐫𝐚𝐭𝐞 𝐖𝐚𝐢𝐭 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐈𝐃 𝐂𝐚𝐫𝐝𝐬
As snow swirled down after midnight on Tuesday, about three dozen migrants, including two families with children, huddled on the sidewalk under thin blankets outside a city office in Brooklyn.
They had temporarily left their homeless shelters to spend the night camping in the 20-degree wind chill for a chance at a prize whose significance was not quite clear: a New York City-issued identification card called IDNYC.
Some said they had been told by shelter workers that the card was a necessary step on the road to legal employment. One woman who was six months pregnant said she had heard she needed the card to get seen at a public hospital.As winter settles in, the situation faced by the 68,000 migrants in city shelters has grown more precarious and left many eager to find their way to self-sufficiency but confused about the many rules that govern the steps to get there.
Jimmy Darwin, 26, from Peru, had a spot near the front of the line. He had arrived at 7 a.m. Monday and built a little house for his 9-year-old daughter and his wife out of cardboard boxes and a suitcase.
“They told me I need the city ID first, so then I can start the application for the work permit,” Mr. Darwin said.
...The city says that it issued 50 percent more IDNYC cards in 2023 than in 2022, but whether they can even help migrants get work is murky.
“IDNYC does not provide work authorization and does not impact immigration status,” Neha Sharma, a spokeswoman for the Department of Social Services, said in an email. “We continue to work to address any misconception around this.”
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/01/17/nyregion/migrants-shelter-snow-nyc.html
This is awful. May they find comfort.
Fifteen Chiefs fans treated for hypothermia, frostbite. Two ends of the spectrum.
Today . . . in HISTORY!
1524: Giovanni da Verrazzano sets sail to find a westward route to the Pacific. He won't, but they'll name a bridge after him in New York Harbor.
1773: Capt. James Cook leads the first (recorded) expedition south of the Antarctic Circle.
1893: Lorrin Thurston, with others, overthrows the Hawaiian government and deposes Queen Liliʻuokalani.
1912: Robert Scott's expedition reaches the South Pole, only to discover that Roald Amundsen's group had gotten there first, a month earlier.
1917: For $25 million, the United States buys the Virgin Islands from Denmark. Cha-ching!
1920: The Volstead Act goes into effect, beginning Prohibition in the US.
1945: Swedish diplomat Raoul Wallenberg is taken into custody by the NKVD. He's never seen publicly again.
1950: Thieves in Boston steal more than $2 million from a Brink's Company office.
1961: Outgoing US Pres. Eisenhower gives a farewell address to the nation, speaking out against deficit spending and the "military-industrial complex." Also 1961, Patrice Lumumba gets murdered in circumstances that suggest that Belgium and the US were in on the hit.
1966: A B-52 collides with an airborne tanker over Spain, killing 7 airmen and dropping three 70-kiloton nukes. Two hit the dirt near the town of Palomares, and one goes into the sea.
1991: Operation Desert Storm begins. Iraq fires Scud SRBMs into Israel in an effort to provoke Israeli retaliation.
1998: Matt Drudge breaks the news of the Clinton-Lewinsky Affair.
2007: The Doomsday Clock is set to five minutes to midnight (midnight being the end of the world) in response to North Korea's nuclear testing.
2016: US Pres. Obama announces the Iran nuclear deal, or "Joint Comprehensive Plan of Action."
Race to the South Pole Puppet History. They covered a lot of events.
https://youtu.be/0AMtac7bv7Y?si=i6dK4_XPqWns7U0K
Radio Classics tells me today is the birthday of Popeye (1929) and the Corvette (1953).
Huzzah!
Today's The Devil's Panties hits the nail on the head, I think.
https://thedevilspanties.com/
They'll stick if you throw 'em at the wall.
High today in the forties! Woo hoo! Now, if I can only get the tractor mechanic to turn off the heat in the greenhouse at ten, when he's supposed to be there, cuz it's still pretty damn cold outside, and I'd have to turn it off when I leave at 6:40.
We're only supposed to get to 38 in Freedom Degrees today -- it's currently 18F. Not looking forward to walking the dog in an hour and a half.
Well, I had a WONDERFUL time at my assignation. I did indeed curl up with kink partner to be his lap kitty in the cold weather (ᶜaᵗₗᵃdʸ dreams!) and it was heaven to open my eyes and see kink partner there as he--a short, Buddha-shaped, heavily-tattooed Mayan man--suits my fantasies, and who doesn't want to Open their eyes to a fantasy?
I liked when he shook his finger at me and said, "See, you don't have to get married to have love." I love when people say I Told You So and are right.
Can't wait for next month.
Good for you!
https://youtu.be/-5i1cJIwE7M?si=aCd07k-4m8q56XFt
ROFL
Whee! So glad you enjoyed your A Assignation!
My first venture into furrydom was delightful!
Ben is doing that I don't like the guy but we should vote for him anyway thing.
It is some shit to pretend he is not precisely who he says he is.
Happy Humpday!
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HSIOW! Good morning!