Chuck Grassley says the senate won't have enough time to vote on the farm bill because the senate has a couple of days off and the last week of June off.
We was talkin about seersucker here and I wondered if I could get a summer dress of it, so went online and found one claiming that claim.
It is not quite seersucker, more of a raunched tube top with ribbon straps and a gingham like pattern skirt, though the actual material is cotton. Pretty nice dress despite not being seersucker. Gots pockets even, and 30 bucks is pretty cheap for 100% cotton.
Except....
They sewed the ribbons on waaayyyy too close to the arm pits. Like you do up the straps and they just fall right down over the shoulder. It ain't like I got small shoulders either.
That’s annoying! Sometimes the ruched part climbing too high contributes to the problem. You could shorten the straps by folding down at the back and tacking the excess - this might make it possible to move them towards center back, too, without taking them out, because for $30 the ribbons may shred easily.
I’ve noticed a lot of “fallen straps” as a trend for my kid’s clothes so if that’s the issue, I might just add second straps in a similar or contrast color closer in to maintain that look. Sometimes you can steal the ribbons tacked into the side seams that are for keeping the dress on a hanger, those have been evilly long of late.
U.S. has been holding Ukraine back from attacking in Russia for fear of nuclear escalation. Hints have been dropped that using U.S. made weapons in Russia would be allowed, recently. No one expects a formal announcement, they just expect things in Russia to go boom and we read about it later.
This john Henry owns the the Pittsburgh Penguins and Liverpool football club and other sport assets. Seems making money is better than winning and making money.
Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to be interviewed by New York probation officials Monday, a required step before his July sentencing in his criminal hush money case...Trump will do the interview via a computer video conference from his residence at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida...One of Trump’s lawyers, Todd Blanche, will be present for the interview. People convicted of crimes in New York usually meet with probation officials without their lawyers, but the judge in Trump’s case, Juan Merchan, said in a letter Friday that he would allow Blanche’s presence
1692: Bridget Bishop gets herself hanged for “certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft and Sorceries” in Salem, Massachusetts. That ol’ black magic had her in its spell, huh?
1793: The Jardin des Plantes opens in Paris; a year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
1854: The US Naval Academy graduates its first class of officers. Huzzah!
1898: US Marines begin the invasion of Cuba in the Battle of Guantanamo Bay. Yay.
1935: Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and with his friend Bill Wilson Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio.
1942: In retaliation for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich, German troops massacre the population of the village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia. 422 civilians are killed.
1944: In retaliation for French partisan actions, German troops massacre the population of the village of Oradour-sur-Glane. 642 civilians are killed.
1944: In retaliation for Greek partisan actions, German troops go on a killing spree in the village of Distomo. 218 civilians are killed.
1944: Joe Nuxhall becomes the youngest person to play professional baseball (with the Cincinnati Reds). He was fifteen years old.
1947: Saab produces its first automobile, a real Saab story.
1963: US Pres. Kennedy signs a law aimed at giving women equal pay with men. How’s that coming along?
1967: Israel takes the Golan Heights, and Syria asks for a cease-fire. The Six-Day War ends on time.
1977: James Earl Ray escapes from a Tennessee prison. He’ll get caught three days later, the slippery little shit.
1991: Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped. She won’t be freed until 2009.
1996: Sinn Fein not showing up to the Northern Ireland peace talks? No problem! We’ll start without them, so there.
1999: Serbian leader Slobby-dan Milosevic cries Uncle in Kosovo, and NATO stops the airstrikes.
2002: Kevin Warwick, a certified Schmott Guy, sets up the first direct electronic communications link between two human nervous systems. His own, and his wife’s.
2003: NASA launches the Spirit rover to Mars.
2009: 88-year-old troubled loser barges into the US Holocaust Museum and opens fire, killing a museum special police officer. He is wounded and taken into custody, and will die in prison of old age. Good riddance.
2018: The Opportunity rover on Mars sends its last message to Earth. After waiting for another call, NASA declares the mission complete on February 13, 2019.
Comings and goings:
Birthdays: Hayakawa Kintaro, Frederick Loewe, Chester A. Burnett, Terence Ratigan, Saul Bellow, William Rosenberg, Barry Morse, Phil Mountbatten, Judy Garland, Maurice Sendak, James McDivitt, Jurgen Prochnow, Tara Lipinski.
Obituaries: Bridget Bishop, Andre-Marie Ampere, Edward Everett Hale, Antoni Gaudi, Marcus Garvey, Jack Johnson, Spencer Tracy, Michael Rennie, Adolph Zukor, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Louis L’Amour, Ray Charles, Gordie Howe.
1999: Serbian leader Slobby-dan Milosevic cries Uncle in Kosovo, and NATO stops the airstrikes. Footnote: will later be memorialized by PAB's thieving son-in-law.
Today in History: Lidice Massacre (1942), First Envelope with a Window Patented (1902), US Naval Academy Graduates First Class (1854), Benjamin Franklin Flies Kite (1752), Salem Witch Trial Hangings Begin (1692), Octopussy Premieres (1983), Italy Declares War on France and the United Kingdom (1940), Alcoholics Anonymous Founded (1935), First Radio Broadcast of a National Presidential Convention (1924), US Armed Forces Land at Cuba (1898), First Currency Mint Established (1652), Tritan and Isolde Premiers (1865), Oradour-Sur-Glane Massacre (1944)
Got out of bed about 20 minutes ago, drinking my coffee. Getting ready to take Bernie out for Mr. Lefty, who has an early call with his boss in which Mr lefy will tell him “I quit!”
Yup, thank Crom, he has been miserable.already has a prospect for a good job. He normally would not quit without something already lined up, but he REALLY can’t take it anymore! Thanks for putting Twisted Sister in my head at 6:30 am!
BG. I am the poster boy for ADD. If not for my therapist just mentioning 'you know, that could be due to ADHD...' in my 50's I would have no clue to why so much of my life is just this confused blur of ... stuff. This really sweet, bright, and dreamy boy turned into an adult that could never quite organise things correctly. And was punished for that.
Lols!!! Wake at 6.30. By 7.45am manage to drag self away from online to consider getting to work. Arrive at work late. Again. Thinks, 'Wow. This happens an awful lot. What could be happening?'
The only thing that's a worse time sink than the Wonkette comments is diving into a topic to write for Wonkette and ending up reading entire Supreme Court decisions with their accompanying dissents and concurrences and the media coverage thereof...
I could never be a workaday journalist. I have no idea when to stop the reading and declare I may not know everything but I know enough to pound out 1k words on the topic.
Downthread in the conversation about taxes on tips and such, the topic turned to benefits, specifically health care.
A friend of mine is diabetic, and two weeks ago he had his right foot amputated. He requires rehab after the stump fully heals, so he can learn to get around while they get his prosthetic ready.
Now for the fun bit: His insurance company has already turned him down TWICE for the rehab, which would likely have him getting periodic visits from a person at his home about 3X a week.
"Best argument for socialized medicine I've ever heard," I said, and for once he didn't try to argue with me.
...wait until he finds out the prosthetic business is a racket. Usually insurance covers very little if at all - they wear out before insurance will cover a new one. (this all experienced by a diabetic best friend who died a year ago)
A mutual friend who's a lawyer is planning on contacting the insurance company and the friend's congresscritter. Privately I hold out no hope - my diabetic friend lives in Arkansas.
Insanity. Your friend is already trying to cope with something life-changing, and insurance is, like, nope, figure it out yourself. I was recently denied a medication because "missing t2d dx", but I *am* diabetic.
Pooh thought about his diabetic friend and his amputated foot. "Today is the day we burn those melon-fucking insurance companies to the ground," said Pooh.
YES! Please ban him!!
That'll make it tough if he's re-elected and the G-7 holds a summit in Ottawa....
Chuck Grassley says the senate won't have enough time to vote on the farm bill because the senate has a couple of days off and the last week of June off.
It's hard doing your job ain't it Chuck?
Takes what, a few hours to do a vote?
Depends if Ron Paul is around.
True. Sadly, true.
snork
I am almost all packed. I just have to have a shower, then shove my PJs and toiletries into my suitcase. Then, to order bagels!
Maybe I love Quebec too much, but those should be croissants!!
In Montreal, home of the best bagels? Mais non!
Mais, non! I do not ingest hunks of dough!
You guys have fun!
Don't you need coffee to go with the bagels? Have a great time with Fuki!
Mmmm, bagels.
Bon voyage !
Yay!
Train is not until 11 and the train station is attached to the hotel, so not far to travel at all
That is pretty dang convenient XD Did you have a fabulous fun time?
First world problems:
We was talkin about seersucker here and I wondered if I could get a summer dress of it, so went online and found one claiming that claim.
It is not quite seersucker, more of a raunched tube top with ribbon straps and a gingham like pattern skirt, though the actual material is cotton. Pretty nice dress despite not being seersucker. Gots pockets even, and 30 bucks is pretty cheap for 100% cotton.
Except....
They sewed the ribbons on waaayyyy too close to the arm pits. Like you do up the straps and they just fall right down over the shoulder. It ain't like I got small shoulders either.
for sure, you get what you pay for XD
Whenever I think of seersucker, I'm reminded of Rip Taylor's one-liner:
"Like my suit? Its seersucker. I'm the sucker who bought it at Sears!"
That’s annoying! Sometimes the ruched part climbing too high contributes to the problem. You could shorten the straps by folding down at the back and tacking the excess - this might make it possible to move them towards center back, too, without taking them out, because for $30 the ribbons may shred easily.
I’ve noticed a lot of “fallen straps” as a trend for my kid’s clothes so if that’s the issue, I might just add second straps in a similar or contrast color closer in to maintain that look. Sometimes you can steal the ribbons tacked into the side seams that are for keeping the dress on a hanger, those have been evilly long of late.
💔
And here I was thinking that a seersucker was a prophet's rent-boy.
Inspired by you: https://www.furaffinity.net/view/56981868/ (you'll need to register as a Guest and select for seeing Adult material)
Objection!
The prophet's parrot might also suck seed
Having had a parrot I can firmly say that the last place I would let him near is down there.
Might end up missing a few things
But that was not the seed to which I was referring. to.
*eyes tenses. Shrugs*
(giggles) I like it. The prophet can only foretell the future in a post-orgasm haze, so he has an 'aide.'
As all well appointed prophets do.
(glances at the Muse, who tucks the idea into the folder for the Room of Infinite Monkeys) I have a couple ongoing stories; this one can wait a bit.
Make him a long haired assistant.
So he can be called Fluffers
King Charles Spaniel.
That won't be hard for The Wanderer's genre.
Hate it when the straps really aren't straps. Can you move the straps or would that mean taking the top apart?
I think I can if I just snick the threads holding it. could probably get away with just moving the front ones also.
worth it too. Skirt swirls a bit. I can put up with much for a swirly girly skirt.
I completely feel all of these feels.
Swirly Girly Skirt was the name of my daughters high school GO Go's garage cover band name.
Pentagon says Ukraine has bombed an important air field deep into Russia. Knocking out a few of pooties precious expensive planes.
But the US is still holding a leash on Ukraine, preventing them from reaching out as far as the HiMARS will reach.
U.S. has been holding Ukraine back from attacking in Russia for fear of nuclear escalation. Hints have been dropped that using U.S. made weapons in Russia would be allowed, recently. No one expects a formal announcement, they just expect things in Russia to go boom and we read about it later.
https://understandingwar.org/backgrounder/russian-offensive-campaign-assessment-june-9-2024
https://liveuamap.com/
Walking on a tightwire.
That is one (entire Air Force - "a few") too few.
New critter model, which I think is adorbs.
https://substack.com/profile/17891073-martini-glambassador/note/c-58662545
She’s really adorable! The eyes and the bulb remind me of those things that live deep in the sea.
froggy slug anglerfish with wee hands?
LOL, sure. It’s supposed to be a just-crawled-onto-land style prehistoric critter, but I’m open to suggestions.
I would say mission accomplished then XD
I mean I got the entire proto-amphibian thing right off, so score there!
Also, make it purple. No reason, I just like purple.
Oh yeah, purple is a good choice.
Cute.
Probably not sexy enough to join your pantheon of furry fan art. Plus, no fur. ;-)
Beware of Cute things.
And I wrote of alien lesbian sexytimes yesterday.
Well, someone had to do it. Thanks for your service.
Dodgers Fans recieved police escorts while walking to Yankee Stadium.
Are Yankee fans assholes?
Yes, says former Yankees fan.
Is water wet?
Does the Pope shit in the woods?
Does the pab smell?
Does a Koch shit on the poor?
Are Cheetolini's base Koch suckers?
We can now add: Do Republicans want to cast aside democracy in favor of feudalism?
That one lacks some humour
Not if you say it in a joking lol voice!
Joking. Hysteria. Six of one, half dozen of the other
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Oh boy Red Sox owner John Henry is an asshole.
Won't sell the team because he doesn't sell assets...
The slave-owning class in the Old South would agree.
I saw last week that he said in an interview "Red Sox fans have unrealistic expectations"
Buddy, that's what baseball is all about.
Hunh. I thought he was a steel driving man. Also, dead.
This john Henry owns the the Pittsburgh Penguins and Liverpool football club and other sport assets. Seems making money is better than winning and making money.
Big feller I heard tell also
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Guess what happens today!
𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝘁𝗼 𝘂𝗻𝗱𝗲𝗿𝗴𝗼 𝗽𝗿𝗼𝗯𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗶𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗿𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄 𝗠𝗼𝗻𝗱𝗮𝘆, 𝗮 𝗿𝗲𝗾𝘂𝗶𝗿𝗲𝗱 𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗽 𝗯𝗲𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗲 𝗵𝗶𝘀 𝗡𝗲𝘄 𝗬𝗼𝗿𝗸 𝘀𝗲𝗻𝘁𝗲𝗻𝗰𝗶𝗻𝗴
Former President Donald Trump is scheduled to be interviewed by New York probation officials Monday, a required step before his July sentencing in his criminal hush money case...Trump will do the interview via a computer video conference from his residence at the Mar-a-Lago club in Palm Beach, Florida...One of Trump’s lawyers, Todd Blanche, will be present for the interview. People convicted of crimes in New York usually meet with probation officials without their lawyers, but the judge in Trump’s case, Juan Merchan, said in a letter Friday that he would allow Blanche’s presence
https://apnews.com/article/trump-probation-interview-hush-money-ff76617722766fb305d32d84a2bf3600
Merchan: More rope? Sure! Have some more rope.
Your honor , we need to reschedule. My client is golfing today.
If he gets probation at sentencing, he'll crow that he was TOTAL EXONERATION.
Imagine how much money the livestream could make.
Open it up to questions and comments from the viewing audience...
Today . . . in HISTORY!
6-10
1692: Bridget Bishop gets herself hanged for “certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft and Sorceries” in Salem, Massachusetts. That ol’ black magic had her in its spell, huh?
1793: The Jardin des Plantes opens in Paris; a year later, it becomes the first public zoo.
1854: The US Naval Academy graduates its first class of officers. Huzzah!
1898: US Marines begin the invasion of Cuba in the Battle of Guantanamo Bay. Yay.
1935: Dr. Robert Smith takes his last drink, and with his friend Bill Wilson Alcoholics Anonymous is founded in Akron, Ohio.
1942: In retaliation for the killing of Reinhard Heydrich, German troops massacre the population of the village of Lidice, Czechoslovakia. 422 civilians are killed.
1944: In retaliation for French partisan actions, German troops massacre the population of the village of Oradour-sur-Glane. 642 civilians are killed.
1944: In retaliation for Greek partisan actions, German troops go on a killing spree in the village of Distomo. 218 civilians are killed.
1944: Joe Nuxhall becomes the youngest person to play professional baseball (with the Cincinnati Reds). He was fifteen years old.
1947: Saab produces its first automobile, a real Saab story.
1963: US Pres. Kennedy signs a law aimed at giving women equal pay with men. How’s that coming along?
1967: Israel takes the Golan Heights, and Syria asks for a cease-fire. The Six-Day War ends on time.
1977: James Earl Ray escapes from a Tennessee prison. He’ll get caught three days later, the slippery little shit.
1991: Jaycee Lee Dugard is kidnapped. She won’t be freed until 2009.
1996: Sinn Fein not showing up to the Northern Ireland peace talks? No problem! We’ll start without them, so there.
1999: Serbian leader Slobby-dan Milosevic cries Uncle in Kosovo, and NATO stops the airstrikes.
2002: Kevin Warwick, a certified Schmott Guy, sets up the first direct electronic communications link between two human nervous systems. His own, and his wife’s.
2003: NASA launches the Spirit rover to Mars.
2009: 88-year-old troubled loser barges into the US Holocaust Museum and opens fire, killing a museum special police officer. He is wounded and taken into custody, and will die in prison of old age. Good riddance.
2018: The Opportunity rover on Mars sends its last message to Earth. After waiting for another call, NASA declares the mission complete on February 13, 2019.
Comings and goings:
Birthdays: Hayakawa Kintaro, Frederick Loewe, Chester A. Burnett, Terence Ratigan, Saul Bellow, William Rosenberg, Barry Morse, Phil Mountbatten, Judy Garland, Maurice Sendak, James McDivitt, Jurgen Prochnow, Tara Lipinski.
Obituaries: Bridget Bishop, Andre-Marie Ampere, Edward Everett Hale, Antoni Gaudi, Marcus Garvey, Jack Johnson, Spencer Tracy, Michael Rennie, Adolph Zukor, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Louis L’Amour, Ray Charles, Gordie Howe.
1999: Serbian leader Slobby-dan Milosevic cries Uncle in Kosovo, and NATO stops the airstrikes. Footnote: will later be memorialized by PAB's thieving son-in-law.
Today in History: Lidice Massacre (1942), First Envelope with a Window Patented (1902), US Naval Academy Graduates First Class (1854), Benjamin Franklin Flies Kite (1752), Salem Witch Trial Hangings Begin (1692), Octopussy Premieres (1983), Italy Declares War on France and the United Kingdom (1940), Alcoholics Anonymous Founded (1935), First Radio Broadcast of a National Presidential Convention (1924), US Armed Forces Land at Cuba (1898), First Currency Mint Established (1652), Tritan and Isolde Premiers (1865), Oradour-Sur-Glane Massacre (1944)
(grins)
Workmate: 'I am a recovering alcoholic'
Self: 'Fancy name for quitter'
LOL
I woke up at 5, sat down with my coffee, and now it's 45 minutes later. It's the ADHD time blindness. Have a great day, everyone!
Woke up at 6:30 finding a tick on my head. Nope, nope, nope. Ain't gettin' back to sleep today.
Yikes! Did you remove it?
Oh, yeah. Flushed that puppy right down!
happens to me daily
Got out of bed about 20 minutes ago, drinking my coffee. Getting ready to take Bernie out for Mr. Lefty, who has an early call with his boss in which Mr lefy will tell him “I quit!”
ooooo Mr. Lefty not gonna take it anymore?
Yup, thank Crom, he has been miserable.already has a prospect for a good job. He normally would not quit without something already lined up, but he REALLY can’t take it anymore! Thanks for putting Twisted Sister in my head at 6:30 am!
Never too early for a little Dee in your life.
I started signing that to Mr. Lefty, he laughed. Thanks Rubber Chick-Jen!
*struts and clucks*
Also sing Take this job and shove it to him
BG. I am the poster boy for ADD. If not for my therapist just mentioning 'you know, that could be due to ADHD...' in my 50's I would have no clue to why so much of my life is just this confused blur of ... stuff. This really sweet, bright, and dreamy boy turned into an adult that could never quite organise things correctly. And was punished for that.
SAME!! Also diagnosed in my '50s and suddenly everything made sense.
Lols!!! Wake at 6.30. By 7.45am manage to drag self away from online to consider getting to work. Arrive at work late. Again. Thinks, 'Wow. This happens an awful lot. What could be happening?'
Same here except it's 55° . I'm failing at connections and neither one us want to get up and close the window.
70°'s for highs this week. 50°'s for lows.
Cicadas still staying in Illinois.
I get that, too. Wonkette is a vast time-sink.
The only thing that's a worse time sink than the Wonkette comments is diving into a topic to write for Wonkette and ending up reading entire Supreme Court decisions with their accompanying dissents and concurrences and the media coverage thereof...
I could never be a workaday journalist. I have no idea when to stop the reading and declare I may not know everything but I know enough to pound out 1k words on the topic.
Downthread in the conversation about taxes on tips and such, the topic turned to benefits, specifically health care.
A friend of mine is diabetic, and two weeks ago he had his right foot amputated. He requires rehab after the stump fully heals, so he can learn to get around while they get his prosthetic ready.
Now for the fun bit: His insurance company has already turned him down TWICE for the rehab, which would likely have him getting periodic visits from a person at his home about 3X a week.
"Best argument for socialized medicine I've ever heard," I said, and for once he didn't try to argue with me.
...wait until he finds out the prosthetic business is a racket. Usually insurance covers very little if at all - they wear out before insurance will cover a new one. (this all experienced by a diabetic best friend who died a year ago)
A mutual friend who's a lawyer is planning on contacting the insurance company and the friend's congresscritter. Privately I hold out no hope - my diabetic friend lives in Arkansas.
Insurance Company operating principle: "Maybe they'll just die."
Insurance should be nationalized and the profit motive removed. All insurance.
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Healthcare should be likewise.
For profit prisons, for profit schools, for profit healthcare.
American Exceptionalism
There's a theme this morning!
I think I REALLY missed my spring staycation XD I am all sorts of not being able to have it with this morning ^.^
Well it’s spreading!
https://open.substack.com/pub/wonkette/p/convicted-felon-probably-maybe-banned?utm_source=direct&r=2kpbl7&utm_campaign=comment-list-share-cta&utm_medium=web&comments=true&commentId=58660525
They could at least send him a therapy parrot.
Teach it the theme to that Kevin Bacon movie as written and performed by Kenny Loggins:
So now I gotta cut loose
Footloose
Kick off the Sunday shoes
Please, Louise
Pull me off of my knees
Jack, get back
Come on before we crack
Lose your blues
Everybody cut footloose
I'm building one.
Insanity. Your friend is already trying to cope with something life-changing, and insurance is, like, nope, figure it out yourself. I was recently denied a medication because "missing t2d dx", but I *am* diabetic.
"What day is it today?" asked Piglet.
Pooh thought about his diabetic friend and his amputated foot. "Today is the day we burn those melon-fucking insurance companies to the ground," said Pooh.
"My favourite day," said Piglet.
Today, June 10th, is Portugal Day. It is a national holiday.
Excellent - mandatory Pastas de Nata all round!
Yay!