Did some zillowing of 🏘 houses in Central FL today, just to see. There's a 55+ "affordable" community right on RT 1 and with good access to the Wabasso causeway where they have some cute prefabs for $75-100K. I've totally got my heart set on it. I'm planning to move when I'm 55 so it seems just perfect. The house is cheap enough that the mortgage will be practically nothing and then, once I move into my dad's house, I can sell it or just keep paying the mortgage until I sell it. Seven years feel SO FAR OFF, but I know it will go fast. Captain Hiram's, my favorite restaurants hosts trivia Tuesday's from 6-8 and I cannot WAIT to find a team! There's also an open mic night at another bar.
The coast in Central FL, "the treasure coast", is so beautiful. I cannot wait to get my wagon, ice chest, towels, and umbrella. I cannot wait for the constant battle of sand in my house again.
Everyone (even rich people, none of whom are Wonkette subscribers) buys food and gas and clothes far more often than they buy new cars. And some people never even buy one new car in their lifetime (trump Huh?). So every day every person is reminded that the orange pricktator is in charge of making everything more expensive. And yet, the GOP seems mostly unaware of this phenomenon. For instance, my GOP Rep has been sending out emails about support the police week. Not a word about more expensive groceries.
Trump should be required to watch the 1983 film, Wargames. It’s a very compelling, thoughtful film about the futility of war, and about how all the killing in the world is always conveniently justified by those with the power to kill. If we have the most powerful weapons and biggest nukes, we can surely keep the world safe. No matter how sophisticated we think we are, and how many billions we spend on “national security” and defense, we are all just Lord of the Flies children with tribal, brutal instincts and never enough humanity.
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Tuesday defended the amount of money reportedly spent on President Trump’s revamp of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and told critics to “stop the henpecking.”
The New York Times cited federal records that showed the actual cost of the project to repaint the bottom of the pool “American flag blue” and mend leaking joints was at $13.1 million. Trump originally said the repairs would cost $1.8 million.
The Interior Department added $6.2 million to the existing $6.9 million contract, the outlet reported.
“Stop this henpecking. $13M? This is an iconic American place and was in serious disrepair,” Fetterman said on the social platform X, sharing a screenshot of the headline for the Times’ story. “Get over the TDS and celebrate this is getting done for our 250th.”
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Listen, you fucking moron.
No one fucking cares about any legit repairs it might need.
It's that HE, and YOU, don't fucking understand that the 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 Pool wasn't named the 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 Pool because someone drew that name out of a hat.
The 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 Pool is painted that gunmetal-ish gray on the inside so as to maximize the...wait for it...𝐫𝐞·𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭·𝐢𝐯·𝐢𝐭𝐲 of the images of the Monument and Memorial on either side of the pool.
So, you're trying to justify paying $13M to destroy the entire point of the 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 Pool.
I read this shit and cannot believe you were smart before the stroke either.
National Guard troops caught playing a game mocking Trump. The anonymous art group Secret Handshake installed a pair of satirical arcade game cabinets on Monday at the D.C. War Memorial, titled Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell https://xcancel.com/AaronParnas/status/2054198760943628427
International Awareness Day for Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases
International Day of Plant Health
International Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Awareness Day
International Nurses Day
National Anthony Day
National Hospital Day
National Limerick Day
National Mental Health Provider Appreciation Day
National Nutty Fudge Day
National Odometer Day
National Tampon Day
National YA DIG Day
Sex Differences in Health Awareness Day
🌘 On this day the Moon will be in a Waning Crescent phase. This phase is best viewed just before the sunrise in the western sky. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon.
Today in History: Cross of Jesus Sold (1993), Lindbergh's 20-Month-Old Son Found Dead (1932), First US Planetarium Opens (1930), American Bowling Congress Ends 34 Year Ban of Membership to Blacks (1950), First Worldwide Radio Broadcast (1937), New York City Department of Health Passes First Ban in the US on Spitting (1896), Oldest University in the Americas Founded (1551), Donner Party Departs (1846), First Vessel Flies over North Pole (1926), Agricultural Adjustment Act Signed (1933), Federal Emergency Relief Administration Created (1933), Z3 Introduced (1941), Carter Meets with Castro (2002), WannaCry Ransomware Attacks (2017)
Today's birthdays: Kim Fields, Rami Malek, Jason Biggs, Mackenzie Astin, Samantha Mathis, Tony Hawk, Stephen Baldwin, Deborah Kara Unger, Vanessa Estelle Williams, Emilio Estevez, Ving Rhames, Gabriel Byrne, Billy Squier, Steve Winwood, Linda Dano, George Carlin, Burt Bacharach, Yogi Berra, Katharine Hepburn, Florence Nightingale, Myrtle Corbin (Four-Legged Girl from Texas), Edward Lear (Popularized Limericks), Tom Snyder, Julius Rosenberg, Otto Frank, Lincoln Ellsworth (Led First Trans-Arctic and Trans-Antarctic Flights), Max Adler, Justus von Liebig
Today's deaths: Perry Como, Roy J. Plunkett (Inventor of Teflon), Robert Reed, Dick Calkins, Erich Von Stroheim ("The Man You Love to Hate"), Sylvester II (Introduced the Abacus to Europe)
“I brought in my swimming pool guy, I’ve built the best swimming pools, hundreds, thousands of the most beautiful pools, I called him up and he said sir, it would be an honor, sir, to turn the reflecting pool into something you’d see outside an Olive Garden.”
That was last week. Today it’s “What pool guy? I don’t know anything about that.”
Mr. Goat has been disabled and then on SSDI for some 7 years now, so he gets SNAP. (And I haven't been able to work full time since long before that. Reasons.) Anyhow, I coupon and shop flyers and am creative and able to cook 6-7 nights a week, so I've always been able to feed us both pretty well on his monthly SNAP. But it's at about $215 these days. Went grocery shopping this afternoon, and even my 'creativity' is being challenged by the prices. And we're blessed to have reasonable rent because we've been here for 19 years. And my PT jerb is close to home so not a lot of gas in the car is often needed.
I just can't even imagine what families are trying to navigate right now with prices. Or those who work 2 or 3 jobs and don't have time to plan and cook multiple meals per day....my heart breaks for what this maladministration has done, and is doing, to the economy for the 75% of us great unwashed.
i don't think SNAP recipients should be prohibited from buying soda with an EBT card. i do think peeps buying soda with their limited SNAP funds are cray cray.
So glad you have a decent landlord. Our landlord jacked up our rent by about 50% over about ten years. Every time we wanted to renew the lease, he’d up the rent. Motherfucker.
Oh that reminds me, I’m going to take him to small claims court for not returning our security deposit.
Did some zillowing of 🏘 houses in Central FL today, just to see. There's a 55+ "affordable" community right on RT 1 and with good access to the Wabasso causeway where they have some cute prefabs for $75-100K. I've totally got my heart set on it. I'm planning to move when I'm 55 so it seems just perfect. The house is cheap enough that the mortgage will be practically nothing and then, once I move into my dad's house, I can sell it or just keep paying the mortgage until I sell it. Seven years feel SO FAR OFF, but I know it will go fast. Captain Hiram's, my favorite restaurants hosts trivia Tuesday's from 6-8 and I cannot WAIT to find a team! There's also an open mic night at another bar.
The coast in Central FL, "the treasure coast", is so beautiful. I cannot wait to get my wagon, ice chest, towels, and umbrella. I cannot wait for the constant battle of sand in my house again.
Make these next 7 years pass fast.
Don't feel comfortable in a prefab in hurricane territory, myself.
Huzzah! You can grow a gazillion different orchids outside there. Not quite as crazy as all the way south FL but still.
Everyone (even rich people, none of whom are Wonkette subscribers) buys food and gas and clothes far more often than they buy new cars. And some people never even buy one new car in their lifetime (trump Huh?). So every day every person is reminded that the orange pricktator is in charge of making everything more expensive. And yet, the GOP seems mostly unaware of this phenomenon. For instance, my GOP Rep has been sending out emails about support the police week. Not a word about more expensive groceries.
Trump should be required to watch the 1983 film, Wargames. It’s a very compelling, thoughtful film about the futility of war, and about how all the killing in the world is always conveniently justified by those with the power to kill. If we have the most powerful weapons and biggest nukes, we can surely keep the world safe. No matter how sophisticated we think we are, and how many billions we spend on “national security” and defense, we are all just Lord of the Flies children with tribal, brutal instincts and never enough humanity.
He wouldn't understand the message, call HAL weak and WOKE and lust after Ally Sheehy.
Like he would get the message in a movie for teenagers.
See, Dok, I know where you went wrong: I ctrl-f-ed your article, and nowhere does it mention egg prices.
I didn't need to check for Dok's byline, the 'have a cow' comment couldn't have come from anyone else.
AP: Adults relive the musical camaraderie of their youth at band camps reprised for grown-ups [https://apnews.com/article/summer-band-camps-adults-music-fc09ccf0261bec0007f5e3b2ebc3570e]
Obligatory: Last summer at band camp...
A lot of people (China's People's Liberation Army) are saying China is taking Taiwan in 2027.
When is the Taiwan Semiconductor plant in the US expected to open?
They won't even have to fire a shot and they will have some of our advanced military technology for free...
Bassist and guitarist Ivan Král of the Patti Smith Group was born on this day in 1948. Here's "Break It Up" from the first Patti Smith album, Horses:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6QNOPYpIa3Q
And here's the Patti Smith Group performing "25th Floor" on the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1978:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DC8ijnYw-DM
And I'll add the title cut to her second album, Radio Ethiopia. RIP producer Jack Douglas, who died yesterday at the age of 80:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aAWQVAIB84
Sen. John Fetterman (D-Pa.) on Tuesday defended the amount of money reportedly spent on President Trump’s revamp of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool and told critics to “stop the henpecking.”
The New York Times cited federal records that showed the actual cost of the project to repaint the bottom of the pool “American flag blue” and mend leaking joints was at $13.1 million. Trump originally said the repairs would cost $1.8 million.
The Interior Department added $6.2 million to the existing $6.9 million contract, the outlet reported.
“Stop this henpecking. $13M? This is an iconic American place and was in serious disrepair,” Fetterman said on the social platform X, sharing a screenshot of the headline for the Times’ story. “Get over the TDS and celebrate this is getting done for our 250th.”
***
Listen, you fucking moron.
No one fucking cares about any legit repairs it might need.
It's that HE, and YOU, don't fucking understand that the 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 Pool wasn't named the 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 Pool because someone drew that name out of a hat.
The 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 Pool is painted that gunmetal-ish gray on the inside so as to maximize the...wait for it...𝐫𝐞·𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭·𝐢𝐯·𝐢𝐭𝐲 of the images of the Monument and Memorial on either side of the pool.
So, you're trying to justify paying $13M to destroy the entire point of the 𝐑𝐞𝐟𝐥𝐞𝐜𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 Pool.
I read this shit and cannot believe you were smart before the stroke either.
Yeah, nobody sees themselves in a hotel pool.
He wasn't smart. Tricky, though.
As zuludaddy would say, the English language has been murdered.
yeeeeees?
People DID warn us. Unfortunately the choice was between him and "Dr." Oz.....
Well the nukes weren’t part of the equation until you and Bibi started bombing Iran, you fucking corrupt failure.
The Israeli war against Iran that Temu Hitler signed onto literally left Iran twicecas powerful as it was before the war.
All this because a black man managed to get Bin Laden and work out a decent deal with Iran.
And insult and humiliate Trump to his face on TV..,
Just twice? They now know that they have absolute control of the global energy supply chain.
Nice work, Sparky.
the art of the deal.
They are so gonna get a nuke after this.
Brought all of the protesters of the regime back into the fold also too. THANKS TURNIP (stupid fucker).
National Guard troops caught playing a game mocking Trump. The anonymous art group Secret Handshake installed a pair of satirical arcade game cabinets on Monday at the D.C. War Memorial, titled Operation Epic Furious: Strait to Hell https://xcancel.com/AaronParnas/status/2054198760943628427
Weren’t they too busy rounding up criminals? I guess not.
It's the most work those poor souls have done in the last six months of standing around, at a million dollars a day.
sooooo,
Elon flies into China
with all kinds of ketamine and other fancy drugs because addict and asshole
what nao?
fuck that guy.
He goes to Chinese prison??? Please Please Please 🙏
Is it too much to ask that he gets disappeared into a Chinese prison camp?
The Great Leap Off A Pier?
he gives Xi Taiwan in exchange for a handful of magic beans?
Goya beans, no less.
I was thinking mung beans, but you're probably right.
Mung beans work also too.
“Mung” is the Sherwin Williams name for his shade of white exodermis.
Today is May 12, 2026 (Tuesday)
Chronic Fatigue Syndrome Day
Fibromyalgia Awareness Day
International Awareness Day for Chronic Immunological and Neurological Diseases
International Day of Plant Health
International Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Awareness Day
International Nurses Day
National Anthony Day
National Hospital Day
National Limerick Day
National Mental Health Provider Appreciation Day
National Nutty Fudge Day
National Odometer Day
National Tampon Day
National YA DIG Day
Sex Differences in Health Awareness Day
🌘 On this day the Moon will be in a Waning Crescent phase. This phase is best viewed just before the sunrise in the western sky. In this phase the Moon’s illumination is growing smaller each day until the New Moon.
Today in History: Cross of Jesus Sold (1993), Lindbergh's 20-Month-Old Son Found Dead (1932), First US Planetarium Opens (1930), American Bowling Congress Ends 34 Year Ban of Membership to Blacks (1950), First Worldwide Radio Broadcast (1937), New York City Department of Health Passes First Ban in the US on Spitting (1896), Oldest University in the Americas Founded (1551), Donner Party Departs (1846), First Vessel Flies over North Pole (1926), Agricultural Adjustment Act Signed (1933), Federal Emergency Relief Administration Created (1933), Z3 Introduced (1941), Carter Meets with Castro (2002), WannaCry Ransomware Attacks (2017)
Today's birthdays: Kim Fields, Rami Malek, Jason Biggs, Mackenzie Astin, Samantha Mathis, Tony Hawk, Stephen Baldwin, Deborah Kara Unger, Vanessa Estelle Williams, Emilio Estevez, Ving Rhames, Gabriel Byrne, Billy Squier, Steve Winwood, Linda Dano, George Carlin, Burt Bacharach, Yogi Berra, Katharine Hepburn, Florence Nightingale, Myrtle Corbin (Four-Legged Girl from Texas), Edward Lear (Popularized Limericks), Tom Snyder, Julius Rosenberg, Otto Frank, Lincoln Ellsworth (Led First Trans-Arctic and Trans-Antarctic Flights), Max Adler, Justus von Liebig
Today's deaths: Perry Como, Roy J. Plunkett (Inventor of Teflon), Robert Reed, Dick Calkins, Erich Von Stroheim ("The Man You Love to Hate"), Sylvester II (Introduced the Abacus to Europe)
National Limerick Day?
This is NSFW and offensive.
" There once was a man from Nantucket.
His cock was so long he could suck it.
He would say with a grin
While wiping his chin
'If my ear were a c**t I would fuck it"
🎶 Ooooh. Ohhho my mother douches with Drain-O 🎶
It wasnt an appropriate limerick to tell a 10 year old. But that was my Grand Dad for you.
I’m old enough to remember this:
“I brought in my swimming pool guy, I’ve built the best swimming pools, hundreds, thousands of the most beautiful pools, I called him up and he said sir, it would be an honor, sir, to turn the reflecting pool into something you’d see outside an Olive Garden.”
That was last week. Today it’s “What pool guy? I don’t know anything about that.”
I’ve done better jobs applying bottom paint.
The bill for work came due?
Mr. Goat has been disabled and then on SSDI for some 7 years now, so he gets SNAP. (And I haven't been able to work full time since long before that. Reasons.) Anyhow, I coupon and shop flyers and am creative and able to cook 6-7 nights a week, so I've always been able to feed us both pretty well on his monthly SNAP. But it's at about $215 these days. Went grocery shopping this afternoon, and even my 'creativity' is being challenged by the prices. And we're blessed to have reasonable rent because we've been here for 19 years. And my PT jerb is close to home so not a lot of gas in the car is often needed.
I just can't even imagine what families are trying to navigate right now with prices. Or those who work 2 or 3 jobs and don't have time to plan and cook multiple meals per day....my heart breaks for what this maladministration has done, and is doing, to the economy for the 75% of us great unwashed.
i don't think SNAP recipients should be prohibited from buying soda with an EBT card. i do think peeps buying soda with their limited SNAP funds are cray cray.
I think you're 'cray cray' for presuming to judge perfect strangers, as are the idiots who upvoted this comment.
i figured out how to make SNAP pay for baby wipes when i was eligible for it.
So glad you have a decent landlord. Our landlord jacked up our rent by about 50% over about ten years. Every time we wanted to renew the lease, he’d up the rent. Motherfucker.
Oh that reminds me, I’m going to take him to small claims court for not returning our security deposit.
I don't ever want to have to deal with another landlord for the rest of my fucking life and I hope that is the case.
These motherfuckers. :(
You are amazing with the cooking.
Thanks.