"Narrow-striped mongooses1 are diurnal, foraging in the top soil for invertebrates, bird and reptile eggs, insect larvae, worms, snails and the like." So; not the sort of mongoose you'd want to protect yourself from cobras?
You've reminded me of a video short done by zookeepers at some zoo or another (maybe Dallas, I forget), where they talk about noseblindness being an important part of the job. I'm betting that almost all our zoo friends are pretty stinky, TBH.
I am shocked, shocked to find out that there's corruption in Chief Justice Roberts' Supreme Court. Well, maybe not that shocked; Thomas and Alito are only following their leader.
I hear what Pritzker is sayin', but Biden ran for president a few times, then was VP, then was just a Dad, and then was PRESIDENT. So it can happen... although I think AOC may be gearing up to run too, so we may have some awesome people to choose from in '28.?
But let's get through the midterms first, for if we lose that, it may not matter who runs in '28! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh.....
“The Sleazebag, Radical Left Congressman from the failed State of California, Ro Khanna, should not be allowed on FoxNews unless you have an ‘anchor’ who is capable of disputing his lies, one after another, and closing down his FAKE (Bullshit!) narrative. He is similar, but worse than Hakeem Jeffries, only with a somewhat higher IQ. This morning he tried, on behalf of the Dumacrats, to take credit for the Steel Industry pouring back into the U.S., knowing full well that the Dumbs virtually destroyed it, and I SAVED IT, through strong Tariffs (PLUS!). Our Country was DEAD during the last “Administration,” and now it is hotter than ever before. We can’t allow the Dumacrats to take credit for this. If elected, they will fully destroy our thriving, and now very respected, Nation. I will NOT let that happen!!!”
I would think the MAGA Russophiles would be more characterized as "Duma"-crats.
" Thirty years ago [hantavirus] made its first leap to humans, " Some think the 'English Sweat' that killed, among many others, Arthur the Prince of Wales (and thus set up both King Henry VIII and his problematic marriage to Catherine of Aragon) was a hantavirus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweating_sickness#Cause
"Illinois Governor JB Pritzker thinks Kamala Harris should and probably will run again in 2028. What do you think, dear reader?"
As much as Democrats may "historically favor fresh faces after a defeat," the word "fresh" is VERY flexible. Joe Biden was considered "fresh" after Hillary Clinton lost.
So I would not worry if Kamala Harris ran again. I would easily vote for her again.
Anyone with a "D" after their name (excepting Fetterman) would be an improvement. While I think Kamala Harris would be a good president I'm leaning towards Pete Buttegrieg, though I wonder if America is ready for a gay president?
He should run as the running mate of Kamala Harris.
Is America ready for a gay or female President? I think today, America is ready for somebody who is not Trump, and we should strike while America still feels this way. (It won't last.)
"Hantavirus used to be an empty threat parents muttered at preschoolers to keep them from crawling under restaurant tables, but no mas. Thirty years ago it made its first leap to humans, then in 1993 the human-to-human kind reached the US, and has been going more viral ever since,"
I am not sure where that description came from, but:
1) The first modern clinical identification was in 1931 in China, and the Hanta part of the name is from the Hanta RIver in Korea, where there was an outbreak during the Korean War. But Chinese medical texts from the 12 th century describe a disease very similar to it.
2)In 1993 there was an outbreak in the 4 Corners area of the US Southwest , but it was not human-human transmitted; a warm wet winter had greatly increased the deer mice population, the virus's natural reservoir, and the resulting greater human contact with the mouse poops in the home triggered an outbreak. It was identified as a new strain of the virus.
The mortality rate was high because most of the patients were elderly and lived in remote areas of the Navajo reservation.
3) It has NOT been getting "more viral ever since"; for example, there have only been sporadic cases in the US 4 Corners region.
Unless Marcie meant 'viral' in the internet way...
I really respect the effort to disbar John Roberts, but I realize it won't succeed. More important, however, is the ongoing process of documenting his corruption, cataloging it, and making it central to the national conversation. That work, as Karen Carpenter sang, has only just begun.
Attorneys and judges are subject to discipline, and for many years I wrote about these cases as a journalist. And with your forebearance, here's how I'd summarize How Things Work:
The system is arcane, secretive and opaque by design. Remember, the law is a guild. You may pass the bar but still not be admitted to practice for "reasons", but that's another story.
Only about 5-10 percent of complaints against attorneys result in formal discipline. For judges, the percentage is far, far lower. The disciplinary commissions typically are controlled by the top courts of the bar licensing entity that admits and regulates lawyers and judges, so they are captive entities without independence or impartiality. In short, they favor the profession, not the public. That's my experience through more than a decade of up-close observation.
Complaints against lawyers and judges are not matters of public record unless and until the disciplinary bodies charged with administering the complaints open a formal discipline proceeding. And that only happens AFTER a judge or attorney has been given ample opportunity behind the scenes to correct or mitigate their illegal or unethical conduct. Remember, again, the real aim is protecting the profession.
Members of the bar have an ethical obligation, in theory, to report any conduct that violates the rules or professional conduct/judicial ethics. But in practice, lawyers and judges tend to operate like cops: You didn't see nuthin', and don't say nuthin'. Sorry to say, that culture is not unique to law enforcement, but is rampant in the legal profession as well.
If you file a disciplinary complaint against an attorney or judge, in most cases, however, YOU may share that complaint with the public. There may be reasons not to do so, but going public is usually an option.
I can tell you that as a legal reporter, some of my best, most read work came from people who complained, waited for the disciplinary machine to do something, and then out of frustration because nothing was happening, leaked the complaint to me.
It was always funny how quickly attorney/judicial discipline cases got opened after the public caught a whiff of a stalled but legitimate complaint.
“In honor of Mother’s Day, a reminder that peak feminism is having babies,” she wrote. “The most radical thing a woman can do is embrace her biological destiny.”
She is trying to make "Biological Destiny" a thing:
“Our biological destiny is to have babies — not slave behind desks chasing careers while our civilization dies,” she wrote in April.
3 'Fully Functional' Arcade Games Erected At D.C. War Memorial
Secret Handshake, the group responsible for erecting statues around Washington, D.C., memorializing the friendship between President Donald Trump and late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has struck again, and this time its focus is the administration’s war with Iran.
Three “fully functional” arcade games were installed Monday at the District of Columbia War Memorial. According to the group, the game features “furious tweet battles against Iranian schoolgirls, low-flow shower heads, and other threats to American freedom like DEI and The Pope, and an opportunity to collect several Trump style peace trophies.”
Baby boky-boky! Your hed gif source info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/baby-boky-boky
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/e44b4b74-6bdb-47a0-9600-9d219812d68d
The Boky-Boky
lives only in Menabe
where she only hunts in daylight
and only sleeps at night
Moon geese! :D
So adorable! Eek! 🐐🐈🐑
I love playing with my mommy.
"Narrow-striped mongooses1 are diurnal, foraging in the top soil for invertebrates, bird and reptile eggs, insect larvae, worms, snails and the like." So; not the sort of mongoose you'd want to protect yourself from cobras?
Fortunately, there are no cobras in Madagascar.
Did the mongooses eat them all?
St. Patrick cleared them out.
I bet he had mongoosial help.
I find it okey dokey
And certainly good news
That a baby boky-boky
Is at the Berlin Zoo.
It's really very fortunate
There's only one of these
Lest someone initiate
The usage of "mongeese".
Very cute, but I bet they're stinky!
Human babies can be pretty stinky too.
You've reminded me of a video short done by zookeepers at some zoo or another (maybe Dallas, I forget), where they talk about noseblindness being an important part of the job. I'm betting that almost all our zoo friends are pretty stinky, TBH.
They're not mustelids, like mink, ferrets, and weasels, but I'll bet they stink to high heaven.
You can hear the baby from here say "Mooooom, Mooooooom!" I hope all the types of Mommies here in the Wonketariat had a wonderful day yesterday.
Momgooses her pupgoose!
Try saying "baby boky-boky" three times fast.
“ And Adam gave names to all cattle, and to the fowl of the air, and to every beast of the field; such as the Boky-Boky and the Trash Panda.”
Sounds like Jack Benny's Maxwell starting up.
Mel Blanc could do it all.
Yes, he could.
Hence this, published after his death: https://choicefineart.com/cdn/shop/files/Speechlesssigned.jpg?v=1704499432
His son filled his shoes as well as one could.
😢
Mama Bekily is the boky-bokiest!
CAMEL!
I am shocked, shocked to find out that there's corruption in Chief Justice Roberts' Supreme Court. Well, maybe not that shocked; Thomas and Alito are only following their leader.
NOW do y'all believe me when I say John Roberts is what happens when the Klan switches from white robes to black ones?
Is anyone keeping track of how many times someone in this thread has said "And don't call me Shirley"?
I hear what Pritzker is sayin', but Biden ran for president a few times, then was VP, then was just a Dad, and then was PRESIDENT. So it can happen... although I think AOC may be gearing up to run too, so we may have some awesome people to choose from in '28.?
But let's get through the midterms first, for if we lose that, it may not matter who runs in '28! Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaahhh.....
A Sunday toot, from the Leader of the Free World:
“The Sleazebag, Radical Left Congressman from the failed State of California, Ro Khanna, should not be allowed on FoxNews unless you have an ‘anchor’ who is capable of disputing his lies, one after another, and closing down his FAKE (Bullshit!) narrative. He is similar, but worse than Hakeem Jeffries, only with a somewhat higher IQ. This morning he tried, on behalf of the Dumacrats, to take credit for the Steel Industry pouring back into the U.S., knowing full well that the Dumbs virtually destroyed it, and I SAVED IT, through strong Tariffs (PLUS!). Our Country was DEAD during the last “Administration,” and now it is hotter than ever before. We can’t allow the Dumacrats to take credit for this. If elected, they will fully destroy our thriving, and now very respected, Nation. I will NOT let that happen!!!”
I would think the MAGA Russophiles would be more characterized as "Duma"-crats.
" Thirty years ago [hantavirus] made its first leap to humans, " Some think the 'English Sweat' that killed, among many others, Arthur the Prince of Wales (and thus set up both King Henry VIII and his problematic marriage to Catherine of Aragon) was a hantavirus: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweating_sickness#Cause
"Illinois Governor JB Pritzker thinks Kamala Harris should and probably will run again in 2028. What do you think, dear reader?"
As much as Democrats may "historically favor fresh faces after a defeat," the word "fresh" is VERY flexible. Joe Biden was considered "fresh" after Hillary Clinton lost.
So I would not worry if Kamala Harris ran again. I would easily vote for her again.
Anyone with a "D" after their name (excepting Fetterman) would be an improvement. While I think Kamala Harris would be a good president I'm leaning towards Pete Buttegrieg, though I wonder if America is ready for a gay president?
No. amurriKKKaka has lurched backwards at least five decades under Pussy Ass Bitch. It's not going to vote for a woman either.
What policies of Pete's would make you vote for him? Or did you too have the honor of carrying a machine gun around another country?
He should run as the running mate of Kamala Harris.
Is America ready for a gay or female President? I think today, America is ready for somebody who is not Trump, and we should strike while America still feels this way. (It won't last.)
"Hantavirus used to be an empty threat parents muttered at preschoolers to keep them from crawling under restaurant tables, but no mas. Thirty years ago it made its first leap to humans, then in 1993 the human-to-human kind reached the US, and has been going more viral ever since,"
I am not sure where that description came from, but:
1) The first modern clinical identification was in 1931 in China, and the Hanta part of the name is from the Hanta RIver in Korea, where there was an outbreak during the Korean War. But Chinese medical texts from the 12 th century describe a disease very similar to it.
2)In 1993 there was an outbreak in the 4 Corners area of the US Southwest , but it was not human-human transmitted; a warm wet winter had greatly increased the deer mice population, the virus's natural reservoir, and the resulting greater human contact with the mouse poops in the home triggered an outbreak. It was identified as a new strain of the virus.
The mortality rate was high because most of the patients were elderly and lived in remote areas of the Navajo reservation.
3) It has NOT been getting "more viral ever since"; for example, there have only been sporadic cases in the US 4 Corners region.
Unless Marcie meant 'viral' in the internet way...
edit: forgot the reference
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hantavirus_infection#History
A graduation speaker extolling AI got quite a reaction at the University of Central Florida – https://bsky.app/profile/cabel.panic.com/post/3mlk75u3om22e
I really respect the effort to disbar John Roberts, but I realize it won't succeed. More important, however, is the ongoing process of documenting his corruption, cataloging it, and making it central to the national conversation. That work, as Karen Carpenter sang, has only just begun.
Attorneys and judges are subject to discipline, and for many years I wrote about these cases as a journalist. And with your forebearance, here's how I'd summarize How Things Work:
The system is arcane, secretive and opaque by design. Remember, the law is a guild. You may pass the bar but still not be admitted to practice for "reasons", but that's another story.
Only about 5-10 percent of complaints against attorneys result in formal discipline. For judges, the percentage is far, far lower. The disciplinary commissions typically are controlled by the top courts of the bar licensing entity that admits and regulates lawyers and judges, so they are captive entities without independence or impartiality. In short, they favor the profession, not the public. That's my experience through more than a decade of up-close observation.
Complaints against lawyers and judges are not matters of public record unless and until the disciplinary bodies charged with administering the complaints open a formal discipline proceeding. And that only happens AFTER a judge or attorney has been given ample opportunity behind the scenes to correct or mitigate their illegal or unethical conduct. Remember, again, the real aim is protecting the profession.
Members of the bar have an ethical obligation, in theory, to report any conduct that violates the rules or professional conduct/judicial ethics. But in practice, lawyers and judges tend to operate like cops: You didn't see nuthin', and don't say nuthin'. Sorry to say, that culture is not unique to law enforcement, but is rampant in the legal profession as well.
If you file a disciplinary complaint against an attorney or judge, in most cases, however, YOU may share that complaint with the public. There may be reasons not to do so, but going public is usually an option.
I can tell you that as a legal reporter, some of my best, most read work came from people who complained, waited for the disciplinary machine to do something, and then out of frustration because nothing was happening, leaked the complaint to me.
It was always funny how quickly attorney/judicial discipline cases got opened after the public caught a whiff of a stalled but legitimate complaint.
So yes, the system is broken.
Thank you for educating me about a world I was not familiar with. Looks as though the Old Boys' network exists in every field. Disheartening.
Katie Miller's Mother's Day post:
“In honor of Mother’s Day, a reminder that peak feminism is having babies,” she wrote. “The most radical thing a woman can do is embrace her biological destiny.”
She is trying to make "Biological Destiny" a thing:
“Our biological destiny is to have babies — not slave behind desks chasing careers while our civilization dies,” she wrote in April.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/katie-miller-mothers-day-biological-destiny_n_6a019a6fe4b065a1677f09f4?origin=home-latest-news-unit
Too bad John Roberts' wife didn't follow that "stay home and have babies" advice.
OH Boky, it's Monday Tab's with Coffee ☕💯👍🤓
This is a hoot:
3 'Fully Functional' Arcade Games Erected At D.C. War Memorial
Secret Handshake, the group responsible for erecting statues around Washington, D.C., memorializing the friendship between President Donald Trump and late sex offender Jeffrey Epstein, has struck again, and this time its focus is the administration’s war with Iran.
Three “fully functional” arcade games were installed Monday at the District of Columbia War Memorial. According to the group, the game features “furious tweet battles against Iranian schoolgirls, low-flow shower heads, and other threats to American freedom like DEI and The Pope, and an opportunity to collect several Trump style peace trophies.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/strait-to-hell-trump-war-in-iran-gets-video-game-treatment-in-dc_n_6a01df59e4b0cb033e52da7c?origin=home-latest-news-unit
I would be thrilled to vote enthusiastically AGAIN for a president Harris. Yes! Go go go!!