I've seen his tomb in the Catedral in Sevilla, he sailed for Spain. I know there was some discussion of his being from Genoa, but really? Who's going to be so quick to claim as theirs someone who got lost, looking for spices and bumped into the Bahamas?
Got double jabs yesterday. One nostril producing massive quantities of snot. Bet that’s not a published side effect. OTOH, it’s a known immune response so that’s a positive.
Nope. That little one has moved on. I have started letting the two working cats outside for brief perimeter patrols. It’s cooling off a bit now so they’re not that eager to stay out for long stretches.
More like 4 weeks of garbage because I missed taking it out the last 3 weeks. I did it myself. Fortunately, I have 2 big bins on wheels, so it wasn’t too difficult. I just have to psych myself up to take the bins from my garage to the curb. I can use the bins sort of like a walker, but the tricky part is walking back from the curb without my cane.
And they picked up the garbage while I was at my PT appointment, so I’ve already brought them back in. Whee!
Agreed. My lower back has been acting up over this weekend. It is nothing compared to what you are experiencing, but it *does* make adulting extra difficult.
My crime prediction for calendar years 2025 and 2026. A sharp decrease in unsolved stranger-involved and mass/serial murders. When you can legally inflict pain and suffering as an ICE agent, why would your everyday psychopathic killer risk it?
5:49 am - Northside of Chicago - I can already hear the fucking helicopters buzzing 🚁 - which they have been doing for the last 5 days - assume its CBP
...The effect is linked to the dam’s vast reservoir on the Yangtze River. By concentrating water in one region, the structure redistributes mass across the globe. This changes Earth’s moment of inertia, the same principle that governs how a figure skater spins faster or slower by moving their arms. The result is a subtle but detectable delay in rotation...
There's some that issue concerns on geographical scales, and point out that wobble would be a bit of worry. We better get on it, because a few millennia can go by just like that!
I'm sure Trump flying his ass around the world has at least as great an impact on Earth's rotation.
Also too: The moon is slowly moving away from the Earth, this probably has at least as great an impact on the Earth's rotation. We've been doing the occasional leap second every few years since the 70's.
The Earth and the moon's relationship is billions of years old, and approximate stability was the result. The concentration of mass by super-damming rivers is a contemporary phenomenon. Other such concentrations will induce wobble, which may change things tectonically...
This is the pre-dam explanation...
"...The Moon continues to move away from Earth at a rate of about an inch-and-a-half (4 cm) per year, its drift slowing as it goes. The energy propelling it away comes primarily from Earth’s oceans, which both bulge out in response to the Moon’s gravity and exert a gravitational pull of their own on the Moon. Earth’s bulging oceans don’t exactly match up with the position of the Moon, they’re always a little out of sync because it takes time for all that water to shift and pile up. This interaction does two things: it creates friction that slows Earth’s own rotation, and creates forces that change the Moon’s orbital speed, causing it to fall farther away into space..."
Well, I am still fighting a migraine attack that came on Thursday so I am calling out sick today. Lame, but my head hurts and I am so insanely tired and zapped. Fucking sucks to have to work next weekend. -_-
She’s awesome, but I wish she would put some of that $$ towards an actual liberal media outlet. Imagine if she’d gotten control of WaPo in the divorce.
I can tell "The Substance" is a fantasy, because there's been no mention of how much Demi's character is paying to be turned back into a hot 20-something for a week at a stretch.
Donald Trump Says He Doesn’t Think He’ll Get Into Heaven
"Speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Sunday, he said: "I think I'm not, maybe, heaven-bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly in Air Force One."
He added: "I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven. But I've made life better for a lot of people."
<In 2015 Donald Trump then a candidate for the President of the United States the first time was asked if he would ever ask for forgiveness or repent from something he had done. He famously responded, “why do I have to repent or ask for forgiveness, if I am not making mistakes? I work hard, I'm an honorable person. I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don’t bring God into that picture. I don’t.” https://www.randallholm.ca/post/does-anyone-know-what-repentance-is-anymore
A toxic fuck, ruminating on mortality... like a particularly slow school child, except for the "...in heaven right now as we fly in Air Force One...". 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 mental health trouble, the lout's brand.
Wasn't Columbus a Spanish homicidal maniac?
I've seen his tomb in the Catedral in Sevilla, he sailed for Spain. I know there was some discussion of his being from Genoa, but really? Who's going to be so quick to claim as theirs someone who got lost, looking for spices and bumped into the Bahamas?
I’ve been introduced to many Wonkette writers over the last 20 years.
This was a kick-ass article and I need to know more about this Canadian reporter. He may be too polite for this blog….I have wories.
Andrew used to identify as our aspiring Canadian boyfriend. I’m thinking that he’s cooled down on that ambition, for reasons.
Got double jabs yesterday. One nostril producing massive quantities of snot. Bet that’s not a published side effect. OTOH, it’s a known immune response so that’s a positive.
Thank you.
Seen your mink lately?
Nope. That little one has moved on. I have started letting the two working cats outside for brief perimeter patrols. It’s cooling off a bit now so they’re not that eager to stay out for long stretches.
𝘑𝘶𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘪𝘵𝘯𝘦𝘴𝘴 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘴𝘴𝘪𝘰𝘯 𝘪𝘯 𝘚𝘱𝘦𝘢𝘬𝘦𝘳 𝘰𝘧 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘏𝘰𝘶𝘴𝘦 𝘔𝘪𝘬𝘦 𝘑𝘰𝘩𝘯𝘴𝘰𝘯’𝘴 𝘷𝘰𝘪𝘤𝘦 𝘢𝘴 𝘩𝘦 𝘦𝘹𝘱𝘭𝘢𝘪𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘭𝘢𝘴𝘵 𝘸𝘦𝘦𝘬 𝘵𝘩𝘢𝘵 “𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘰𝘯𝘦𝘴 𝘤𝘰𝘯𝘤𝘦𝘳𝘯𝘦𝘥 𝘢𝘣𝘰𝘶𝘵 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦. 𝘙𝘦𝘱𝘶𝘣𝘭𝘪𝘤𝘢𝘯𝘴 𝘢𝘳𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘵𝘺 𝘸𝘰𝘳𝘬𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘤𝘭𝘰𝘤𝘬 𝘦𝘷𝘦𝘳𝘺 𝘥𝘢𝘺 𝘵𝘰 𝘧𝘪𝘹 𝘩𝘦𝘢𝘭𝘵𝘩𝘤𝘢𝘳𝘦.”
𝗥𝗲𝗽𝘂𝗯𝗹𝗶𝗰𝗮𝗻𝘀 𝗮𝗿𝗲 𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗽𝗹𝗲𝘁𝗲𝗹𝘆 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝗼𝗳 𝗶𝘁 𝗼𝗻 𝗵𝗲𝗮𝗹𝘁𝗵𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗲
And it becomes more obvious every time they talk about it.
https://www.publicnotice.co/p/republicans-healthcare-shutdown
Empty Gee is even calling bullshit on it all, which should tell anyone how badly they're losing this blame game.
Remember that the only reason she is complaining is that the House bill she voted for will raise her kids' health insurance costs.
Enemy of my enemy and all that. We can go back to hating her later...
Asshole speaker who has kept the House out of session for 3 weeks now says what?
Oh yeah, they are going to propose that bill to replace Obama care ANY MOMENT now!
After not doing so for the last 3 weeks, I managed to take my garbage bins out to the curb just now. Yay, me.
Does that mean that you had someone else take it out for you? Or that you had to drag three weeks worth of trash out?
Either way, triumph, and take that, ya damned trash cans!
Oh, and at your suggestion, I bought a cheap chess set online. Might set it up later.
More like 4 weeks of garbage because I missed taking it out the last 3 weeks. I did it myself. Fortunately, I have 2 big bins on wheels, so it wasn’t too difficult. I just have to psych myself up to take the bins from my garage to the curb. I can use the bins sort of like a walker, but the tricky part is walking back from the curb without my cane.
And they picked up the garbage while I was at my PT appointment, so I’ve already brought them back in. Whee!
It sounds like time to take it easy now. Make haste slowly, even when it’s frustrating.
If I moved any slower, I’d be a tortoise 🐢
It takes a lot of courage to keep moving when you’re in pain.
Thanks, although I don’t know about that. Someone has to feed the kittehs, and I’m the only one in this house with opposable thumbs, so…
Here's a few choruses of Monday, Monday to help you celebrate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h81Ojd3d2rY
Can’t trust that day.
Glad you are getting some relief!
Adulting is hard.
Not as it hard as it was for us kids when my Mom was running the household.
Adulting while experiencing constant pain is even harder.
Agreed. My lower back has been acting up over this weekend. It is nothing compared to what you are experiencing, but it *does* make adulting extra difficult.
I really wish I’d appreciated my body a lot more when I was younger, including even a year ago.
My crime prediction for calendar years 2025 and 2026. A sharp decrease in unsolved stranger-involved and mass/serial murders. When you can legally inflict pain and suffering as an ICE agent, why would your everyday psychopathic killer risk it?
Right! Just join ICE!
5:49 am - Northside of Chicago - I can already hear the fucking helicopters buzzing 🚁 - which they have been doing for the last 5 days - assume its CBP
Half. The other half is News hoping for sensational video.
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Good morning. Took me a minute.
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Zombie AI Christopher Hitchens talks about Ben (dry wifey hooha) Shapiro.
Ben Shapiro Gets WRECKED by Christopher Hitchens
Christopher Hitchens Resurrected (15:00) : https://youtu.be/mjRVn_zy2Us
There’s hope.
"From 𝘣𝘦𝘺𝘰𝘯𝘥 the grave, he wrecks..."
Fitting for the season
𝗡𝗔𝗦𝗔 𝗖𝗼𝗻𝗳𝗶𝗿𝗺𝘀 𝗖𝗵𝗶𝗻𝗮’𝘀 𝗧𝗵𝗿𝗲𝗲 𝗚𝗼𝗿𝗴𝗲𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝗺 𝗛𝗮𝘀 𝗦𝗹𝗼𝘄𝗲𝗱 𝗘𝗮𝗿𝘁𝗵’𝘀 𝗗𝗮𝗶𝗹𝘆 𝗥𝗼𝘁𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻
...The effect is linked to the dam’s vast reservoir on the Yangtze River. By concentrating water in one region, the structure redistributes mass across the globe. This changes Earth’s moment of inertia, the same principle that governs how a figure skater spins faster or slower by moving their arms. The result is a subtle but detectable delay in rotation...
https://orbitaltoday.com/2025/09/03/nasa-confirms-chinas-three-gorges-dam-has-slowed-earths-daily-rotation/
Earth is ~4.54 billion years old. It has spun-balance itself into more-or-less equilibrium. Now it's not...
Even more astonishing is that China is adding the generation capacity of the Three Gorges dam in solar panels, every 3 weeks.
We don't need dams like this anymore. Just need to put solar panels on box store roofs and sheep pastures.
I am pretty sure this is incorrect, because time has definitely been speeding up.
"NASA calculations show the impact [.06 microseconds/day] is tiny compared to natural events"
There's some that issue concerns on geographical scales, and point out that wobble would be a bit of worry. We better get on it, because a few millennia can go by just like that!
Dam(n)
I'm sure Trump flying his ass around the world has at least as great an impact on Earth's rotation.
Also too: The moon is slowly moving away from the Earth, this probably has at least as great an impact on the Earth's rotation. We've been doing the occasional leap second every few years since the 70's.
The Earth and the moon's relationship is billions of years old, and approximate stability was the result. The concentration of mass by super-damming rivers is a contemporary phenomenon. Other such concentrations will induce wobble, which may change things tectonically...
This is the pre-dam explanation...
"...The Moon continues to move away from Earth at a rate of about an inch-and-a-half (4 cm) per year, its drift slowing as it goes. The energy propelling it away comes primarily from Earth’s oceans, which both bulge out in response to the Moon’s gravity and exert a gravitational pull of their own on the Moon. Earth’s bulging oceans don’t exactly match up with the position of the Moon, they’re always a little out of sync because it takes time for all that water to shift and pile up. This interaction does two things: it creates friction that slows Earth’s own rotation, and creates forces that change the Moon’s orbital speed, causing it to fall farther away into space..."
Way to go humans. -_-
Well, I am still fighting a migraine attack that came on Thursday so I am calling out sick today. Lame, but my head hurts and I am so insanely tired and zapped. Fucking sucks to have to work next weekend. -_-
𝗠𝗮𝗰𝗞𝗲𝗻𝘇𝗶𝗲 𝗦𝗰𝗼𝘁𝘁 𝗗𝗼𝗻𝗮𝘁𝗲𝘀 $𝟰𝟮 𝗠𝗶𝗹𝗹𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝘁𝗼 𝗘𝘅𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗼𝗹𝗹𝗲𝗴𝗲 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗖𝗮𝗿𝗲𝗲𝗿 𝗢𝗽𝗽𝗼𝗿𝘁𝘂𝗻𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗲𝘀 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗟𝗼𝘄-𝗜𝗻𝗰𝗼𝗺𝗲 𝗨.𝗦. 𝗦𝘁𝘂𝗱𝗲𝗻𝘁𝘀
https://www.goodnewsnetwork.org/mackenzie-scott-donates-42-million-to-expand-college-and-career-opportunities-for-low-income-u-s-students/
She’s awesome, but I wish she would put some of that $$ towards an actual liberal media outlet. Imagine if she’d gotten control of WaPo in the divorce.
Gee. That would pay for a week and half's worth of fuel on her ex-husbands trophy yacht.
At the self serve dock...
Okay, it's 0630, I've been awake for three hours. Time for exercise.
Later!
netanyahu is playing trump and he's just sitting there grinning like A Idiot.
Well, I hope the spit valve gets clogged.
(Musical wind instrument joke. Sue me.)
The Jews like me. They really really like me.
I can tell "The Substance" is a fantasy, because there's been no mention of how much Demi's character is paying to be turned back into a hot 20-something for a week at a stretch.
Demi herself might be able to give a credible estimate, from her experience...
Donald Trump Says He Doesn’t Think He’ll Get Into Heaven
"Speaking to reporters on Air Force One on Sunday, he said: "I think I'm not, maybe, heaven-bound. I may be in heaven right now as we fly in Air Force One."
He added: "I'm not sure I'm gonna be able to make heaven. But I've made life better for a lot of people."
https://www.newsweek.com/donald-trump-not-get-into-heaven-air-force-one-israel-gaza-ukraine-russia-10868158
Now where am I supposed to go to get away from him?
REPENT OR SPEND ETERNITY WITH TRUMP
And my former MIL? Fuck, what a hard call.
<In 2015 Donald Trump then a candidate for the President of the United States the first time was asked if he would ever ask for forgiveness or repent from something he had done. He famously responded, “why do I have to repent or ask for forgiveness, if I am not making mistakes? I work hard, I'm an honorable person. I think if I do something wrong, I think, I just try and make it right. I don’t bring God into that picture. I don’t.” https://www.randallholm.ca/post/does-anyone-know-what-repentance-is-anymore
A toxic fuck, ruminating on mortality... like a particularly slow school child, except for the "...in heaven right now as we fly in Air Force One...". 𝘛𝘩𝘢𝘵'𝘴 mental health trouble, the lout's brand.
That visit to Walter Reed must have been really bad. And I'll bet Juicy Divan and his oligarch nazis know, also too.
Let's watch how JD preens himself this week to keep the MAGA faithful.
Oh, I'm pretty positive you won't be seeing the inside of heaven, Donny, and not just because I'm an atheist and I don't believe it exists.
Wherever he ends up, I bet he's heartened that his best friend, JEFFREY EPSTEIN, will be there.
Well, maybe heaven just happens to look the same as the inside of Putin's rectum.
What will poor Lindsey do? His snug and warm condo in Orangini's arse will have to be vacated!
Nah. Just look at Trump. It's obvious that his arse has plenty of real estate.
Well, I never thought Spongebrain Shitpants and I would ever agree on something.
Former USAID recipients say "hey".
Finally a moment of self-awareness.
Broken clock of self-awareness phenomenon.