An owl hangs out in my condo area, never gotten a shot of him. I hear he hangs out on the fence by the pool. I hear him hooting and run outsides with my camera. No luck so far.
Linda McMahon Education Secretary says universities should be allowed to do research as long as it’s in line with what this administration is trying to accomplish
I know, "socialism!" but what if we had a part of the government that did private equity takeovers? Provide a valve so existing owners can get out of the business with a decent payout, but instead of shoving all that debt onto the shell of the company and murdering it with layoffs, just toss the debt into the big pile, and just have a functioning company that doesn't have to meet ridiculous growth curves. Geoffrey ToysRUs and Party City Balloon Guy become government employees, and their companies continue to live and provide people with toys, balloons, etc.
Alice gets a tube treat after she gets her eye drops. I think she likes to pretend that she is an innocent victim, being abducted when I am giving her them. “O halp, halp.” A few minutes after I had finished the drops this morning, and she had finished stomping off in a floofy snit, I found this:
"Sen. Joni ["Breadbags"] Ernst (R-Iowa) got an earful from angry constituents about Republican legislation that includes major cuts to Medicaid and food assistance relied upon by millions of vulnerable Americans. “People will die,” one woman is heard shouting at Ernst at a town hall in Parkersburg, Iowa, on Friday, according to a video of the event obtained by HuffPost.
“People are not ― well, we all are going to die. So, for heaven’s sakes, folks,” Ernst responded, prompting more jeers from the audience."
It's interesting that Republican politicians' attempts to downplay the concerns of their constituents never end the way they hope they will.
Maybe they should try a different approach. Perhaps some helpful billionaire can give them substantial heaps of money to take out attack ads on everyone who criticizes them.
Florida man, uh, Representative Greg Steube ( pronounced Stew- bee ) introduced a bill to force the WMATA ( Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ) to rename itself as the "Washington Metropolitan Authority for Greater Access", or WMAGA, by withholding federal funding. It also would require them to rename the Metrorail to "The Trump Train".
This was so reminiscent of the Reagan worshipers forcing Alexandria, VA. to rename Washington National Airport as Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport - and one Congressman from Georgia ( Bob Barr ) threatening to withhold federal funds from DC if they didn't change all their signage to the new name.
But, really, one has to read the Maddowblog post at the link above, to see all the ways asshole Republicans have been trying to curry favor with FFOTUS by renaming various entities for him. It really exposes what absolute dolts these people are.
President Donald Trump has apparently suffered from “mental anguish” as a result of a CBS News “60 Minutes” interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris last year, his lawyers alleged in court documents.
Trump’s attorneys made the claim Wednesday in a motion to deny Paramount Global’s request to dismiss Trump’s lawsuit, which First Amendment experts have called “frivolous and dangerous,” against CBS over the editing of the interview."
I got a little HULK SMASH at the HOA meeting last night. It's wonderful because I don't care if I do something to remove me from the board. I feel FREE. Free to jump in and say "Sheila, I'm going to need you to stop now and we'll take up your (very special) issue later."
"But, I just want to..."
"No. Thank you."
"I'd just like to..."
"No. I'm going to mute you so we can get through the rest of the agenda."
"But--"
"Write it down. Moving along."
Nobody takes control, so I will be that person until I get thrown out, because I don't need a 3 hour meeting where people with no friends come once a month to spill out all the conversation they might have had if they had friends.
I can imagine! You don't want to shut down people who need to talk, but everyone needs to learn that they can't say everything they've been saving up for their whole lives all the time.
On occasion........... people do go very VERY off-piste. Somebody's got to be the captain! Happily it's not all the time, right? I'd love to see you in court!!
Thinking about ants this morning. Probably because a clump of them set up a home last night under one of the cat dishes. I didn't pick it up last night after leaving it out for the day for the cats to feed from, so an army of ants marched in from a gap under the French doors to the back deck and set up their little settlement there. Anyway, is a confid-ant an ant you'd tell your secrets to, or an ant that really knows what it wants from life and feels ready to achieve its goals? I know that a curr-ant really likes small raisins and electricity.
We have little sugar ants (piss ants) all over the neighborhood. Kill one nest, and within a day or two, scouts from a different one will have scouted out the newly opened territory.
So, all cat food bowls live in little saucers of cheap cinnamon. The ants won't cross it (until enough kibble gets dropped that they can forge a path to the inner bowl}. Wide low bowls (like for salad or pasta) hold a good quarter-cup+ of the dollar store cinnamon, and I use three-footed glass candy bowls for the food - the little feet keep the bowl part raised up above the powder, which seems to help.
I do have to change it out periodically but it's saved me a lot of waste over the years.
I heard that one should not kill an ant inside, not that I’m accusing you of thinking of such a thing, just being conversational here. Other ants will come and take the body home and bury it. Which, on a certain level, I kind of solemn and also kind of creepy. Is there music? Is there just a silent unspoken knowledge among them who was responsible for this? Nnn.
I believe what needs to be done on June 14th is people in DC should stand in the street and block the parade routes so the military can't go anywhere. We can have our own Tiananmen Square moment. DonOLD would be so mad his head might explode.
I thought about that but I feel we need to bring this to the people because we obviously can't count on the courts or congress to take him down. Police would probably just drag people away. I hope that's all that would happen but it would send a message to Taco Man.
I've stated here that I'm willing, ready and able. Hard agree, Mary. And not everyone is in such a position, in safety, and that's okay with me. But lots of us are.
I'm going to look into this non-violent and peaceful civil protest action potential.
Singing is often a good component, also and very too.
He'd order the protesters to be run down. And then we'd have another constitutional crisis. And then the conservatives on the USSC would have to reaffirm his right to do whatever the fuck whenever he wants wherever he wants because "executive privilege official acts god king."
But would that order be obeyed? I was born in a military hospital and been around the military all my life. I worked for the DOD twice in my life. I know there are assholes in the military but I believe the normal people outnumber the assholes. I guess I have more faith in the military though that may just be me being naive.
That little guy in the hed gif is a northern white-faced owl, a species with a surprising defense mechanism. Find out more and get source info here: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/grumpy-owlpants
Also a meme chat for you: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/079582e6-b813-4e48-9279-6fcc5e532b29?utm_source=share
What an interesting little chap
Does he sometimes play a chicken hawk in Foghorn Leghorn cartoons?
Is that defense mechanism always looking like they haven't had their morning coffee yet? Because that's a good one!
I love this little guy!
Gordie found that little owl quite intriguing. Almost as good as a mouse video.
Owl!! Joy.
I wish I could thin up like that.
Owl wants to speak to the manager, right nao!
So damn cute.
As these owls age they become 'curmudgeon owls'.
Hoot hoot.
An owl hangs out in my condo area, never gotten a shot of him. I hear he hangs out on the fence by the pool. I hear him hooting and run outsides with my camera. No luck so far.
How do you say "Harrumph!" in Owlese?
That owl has mastered the "Karen WILL See the Manager" offense.
l love an owl!
If you dare come after me
While I'm sitting in a tree
You will find I'm not one owl
In fact I'm really three.
A demon for the big foes
A puff ball for the small
A cute owl for my best buds
When they come to call.
(vicey-versy regarding size but we get it)
You have a talons for poetry.
OUCH, Whale!
Don't push, I know where the exit is!
Duely corrected.
I LOLed so hard at that transformation, Martini! Owls are awesome. Thanks for sharing
Owl be seeing you again
In all the old familiar places
Ok sorry
Owl have not of that, thenk yew...
Quite the headturner.
Linda McMahon Education Secretary says universities should be allowed to do research as long as it’s in line with what this administration is trying to accomplish
Let that sink in
No real university would be interested in facilitating what this administration is doing.
I know, "socialism!" but what if we had a part of the government that did private equity takeovers? Provide a valve so existing owners can get out of the business with a decent payout, but instead of shoving all that debt onto the shell of the company and murdering it with layoffs, just toss the debt into the big pile, and just have a functioning company that doesn't have to meet ridiculous growth curves. Geoffrey ToysRUs and Party City Balloon Guy become government employees, and their companies continue to live and provide people with toys, balloons, etc.
https://owlsintowels.org/
Bernard Kerik, who led NYPD on 9/11 before prison and pardon, has died at 69.
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/05/29/bernard-kerik-who-led-nypd-on-9-11-before-prison-and-pardon-has-died-at-69-00375830
We're not supposed to speak ill of the dead, so...
To paraphrase Betty Davis: “You should never say bad things about the dead, only good… Bernard Kerik is dead. Good.”
“I don't believe in speaking ill of the dead, even when it's the truth.”
― Ann B. Ross, Miss Julia Speaks Her Mind
Alice gets a tube treat after she gets her eye drops. I think she likes to pretend that she is an innocent victim, being abducted when I am giving her them. “O halp, halp.” A few minutes after I had finished the drops this morning, and she had finished stomping off in a floofy snit, I found this:
https://substack.com/profile/1687878-1d57a1d5931d/note/c-121469039?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=106di She had managed to not only take these out, but open the box herself.
"Sen. Joni ["Breadbags"] Ernst (R-Iowa) got an earful from angry constituents about Republican legislation that includes major cuts to Medicaid and food assistance relied upon by millions of vulnerable Americans. “People will die,” one woman is heard shouting at Ernst at a town hall in Parkersburg, Iowa, on Friday, according to a video of the event obtained by HuffPost.
“People are not ― well, we all are going to die. So, for heaven’s sakes, folks,” Ernst responded, prompting more jeers from the audience."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/medicaid-cuts-joni-ernst_n_6839af96e4b03a503eaaa26a
It's interesting that Republican politicians' attempts to downplay the concerns of their constituents never end the way they hope they will.
Maybe they should try a different approach. Perhaps some helpful billionaire can give them substantial heaps of money to take out attack ads on everyone who criticizes them.
What a great response..We are all gonna die..SMDH
Some--not naming names--should get on with it. STAT.
Heartless brat with socialized healthcare and a taxpayer-subsidized pension
I had no idea that pandas lived in the redwoods.
https://substack.com/profile/156971334-satanic-pancake/note/c-121464768
Teeheehee.
GLENDOWER: Why, I can call references from the vasty deep!
HOTSPUR: So can I, so can any man, but they'll still be AI slop.
I know it's late in the day to add a non-comment to the Tabs post, but I just had to post this when I read the headline:
"𝐑𝐞𝐩𝐮𝐛𝐥𝐢𝐜𝐚𝐧 𝐛𝐢𝐥𝐥 𝐰𝐨𝐮𝐥𝐝 𝐧𝐚𝐦𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐃𝐂 𝐌𝐞𝐭𝐫𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 ‘𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐢𝐧,’ 𝐚𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐫𝐭 𝐨𝐟 𝐚 𝐫𝐢𝐝𝐢𝐜𝐮𝐥𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐩𝐚𝐭𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐧"
Florida man, uh, Representative Greg Steube ( pronounced Stew- bee ) introduced a bill to force the WMATA ( Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority ) to rename itself as the "Washington Metropolitan Authority for Greater Access", or WMAGA, by withholding federal funding. It also would require them to rename the Metrorail to "The Trump Train".
Link: https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/republican-bill-name-dc-metro-trump-train-part-ridiculous-pattern-rcna209970
This was so reminiscent of the Reagan worshipers forcing Alexandria, VA. to rename Washington National Airport as Ronald Reagan Washington National Airport - and one Congressman from Georgia ( Bob Barr ) threatening to withhold federal funds from DC if they didn't change all their signage to the new name.
But, really, one has to read the Maddowblog post at the link above, to see all the ways asshole Republicans have been trying to curry favor with FFOTUS by renaming various entities for him. It really exposes what absolute dolts these people are.
All aboard!
https://i.imgflip.com/2mwhj.gif
GMTA.
Nah, here's the Trump Train: https://www.10tv.com/article/news/toy-train-ride-crashes-ohio-mall/530-60903656-f9db-4bcf-b752-7ca9d8e95ec4
Not a fan of podcasts either. I can read so much faster than listen. Maybe if I spent hours in the car every day...
They are really good for when I am cooking/cleaning/gardening. They help me to stay on task
That's the way I use them too - cooking, cleaning, gardening, sewing. And filing, when I'm in the office.
"Trump's Lawyers Claim Kamala Harris' '60 Minutes' Interview Caused Him 'Mental Anguish'
President Donald Trump has apparently suffered from “mental anguish” as a result of a CBS News “60 Minutes” interview with former Vice President Kamala Harris last year, his lawyers alleged in court documents.
Trump’s attorneys made the claim Wednesday in a motion to deny Paramount Global’s request to dismiss Trump’s lawsuit, which First Amendment experts have called “frivolous and dangerous,” against CBS over the editing of the interview."
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-claim-kamala-harris-60-minutes-interview-mental-anguish_n_6838ebe1e4b09b466de9b66f?utm_source=buzzfeed&utm_medium=iframely
There needs to be a class action lawsuit for all the mental anguish he's caused all of us.
Ooh, Tacobaby need a nice soft pillow for his ouchy bum-bum?
I got a little HULK SMASH at the HOA meeting last night. It's wonderful because I don't care if I do something to remove me from the board. I feel FREE. Free to jump in and say "Sheila, I'm going to need you to stop now and we'll take up your (very special) issue later."
"But, I just want to..."
"No. Thank you."
"I'd just like to..."
"No. I'm going to mute you so we can get through the rest of the agenda."
"But--"
"Write it down. Moving along."
Nobody takes control, so I will be that person until I get thrown out, because I don't need a 3 hour meeting where people with no friends come once a month to spill out all the conversation they might have had if they had friends.
So glad I do not have an HOA.
I love and adore you, sister-girlfriend. This sounds like how I've kept the reins in unusually rowdy group therapy situations. Yeehaw, hahahahaha!
I can imagine! You don't want to shut down people who need to talk, but everyone needs to learn that they can't say everything they've been saving up for their whole lives all the time.
I love and adore you too!
On occasion........... people do go very VERY off-piste. Somebody's got to be the captain! Happily it's not all the time, right? I'd love to see you in court!!
*not if I was the one in trouble, LOL
"Oh no, I hope Pope Leo’s Chicago video mass celebration for youngs won’t take away from Trump’s birthday parade!"
I mean, I hope it does, but Leopilled has already proven himself to be a conniving piece of excrement.
oh no! why?
Moved back into the papal apartment, wears all the fancy silk shit, and reeeaally anti LGBTQ.
Thinking about ants this morning. Probably because a clump of them set up a home last night under one of the cat dishes. I didn't pick it up last night after leaving it out for the day for the cats to feed from, so an army of ants marched in from a gap under the French doors to the back deck and set up their little settlement there. Anyway, is a confid-ant an ant you'd tell your secrets to, or an ant that really knows what it wants from life and feels ready to achieve its goals? I know that a curr-ant really likes small raisins and electricity.
We have little sugar ants (piss ants) all over the neighborhood. Kill one nest, and within a day or two, scouts from a different one will have scouted out the newly opened territory.
So, all cat food bowls live in little saucers of cheap cinnamon. The ants won't cross it (until enough kibble gets dropped that they can forge a path to the inner bowl}. Wide low bowls (like for salad or pasta) hold a good quarter-cup+ of the dollar store cinnamon, and I use three-footed glass candy bowls for the food - the little feet keep the bowl part raised up above the powder, which seems to help.
I do have to change it out periodically but it's saved me a lot of waste over the years.
Every once in a while, I build a diatomaceous earth Maginot line. Keeps them at bay until it blows or washes away.
I heard that one should not kill an ant inside, not that I’m accusing you of thinking of such a thing, just being conversational here. Other ants will come and take the body home and bury it. Which, on a certain level, I kind of solemn and also kind of creepy. Is there music? Is there just a silent unspoken knowledge among them who was responsible for this? Nnn.
Gounod's Funeral for a Marionette is traditional.
This brings the creepy factor up by a magnitude.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0pOXhAF7L0I
I believe what needs to be done on June 14th is people in DC should stand in the street and block the parade routes so the military can't go anywhere. We can have our own Tiananmen Square moment. DonOLD would be so mad his head might explode.
My biggest concern is that this would be all he needs to declare martial law
He can declare all he wants; doesn't mean it will happen.
It may happen in some parts of the country. Where I live, local LEO thugs would love nothing more than rounding up 'leftie antifa' folk.
I thought about that but I feel we need to bring this to the people because we obviously can't count on the courts or congress to take him down. Police would probably just drag people away. I hope that's all that would happen but it would send a message to Taco Man.
I've stated here that I'm willing, ready and able. Hard agree, Mary. And not everyone is in such a position, in safety, and that's okay with me. But lots of us are.
I'm going to look into this non-violent and peaceful civil protest action potential.
Singing is often a good component, also and very too.
He'd order the protesters to be run down. And then we'd have another constitutional crisis. And then the conservatives on the USSC would have to reaffirm his right to do whatever the fuck whenever he wants wherever he wants because "executive privilege official acts god king."
But would that order be obeyed? I was born in a military hospital and been around the military all my life. I worked for the DOD twice in my life. I know there are assholes in the military but I believe the normal people outnumber the assholes. I guess I have more faith in the military though that may just be me being naive.