Why can't their faces be superimposed on those revolting, ugly villains that pass through here each day? Or superimpose a real kitty like a leopard on their real faces?
Made the mistake of tuning in to the Blanche hearing again. And there was Josh H blathering as he questioned a woman who apparently is one of or the person who made the recommendation to Joe to commute the federal death sentenced inmates to life. When he started going through the list of them, he began with Dylann Roof, who he described as a neo-nazi or white supremacist, which was a little ironic, given that Josh loves those types, right?
If I had to go to sea, submerge hundreds of feet, above thousands of feet of potentially crushing water … and HegSith was on my crew … would I just just end myself *before* we went to sea? Rather than wait to die with the rest of the crew in short order? Do you know what sailors would do with an incompetent, dangerous crewmate?
I recall an “evolution” in USS George C. Marshall’s engineering. Being a Machinist’s Mate, I always stood watch out in the engineering spaces, and I knew my shit. But once, don’t know why, I was standing around right outside Maneuvering (the engineering control room) when an order came across. Something like “ahead flank.” Now I knew there were clear actions. But seeing it? Those jokers at the panels, always looking for some sort of distraction?
Attention to panels. (Well, that was unsaid.) Click. Click click. …. Our senior reactor operator, IIRC, kinda looked like Papa Smurf. Really. All smiles and relaxation? Dead serious … for half a minute …. Click. Click. “Pumps running in …. “ Aye. That was a crew putting a 78 Mw reactor through its paces.
This is when one’s jaw drops a bit. Not when some dick whips out and erects itself.
OT. Interesting chart today. (Oh no. Not more weeds.) Not at all surprising just looking at my own. I only have 2 stocks, most is in ETFs of the Dow and S&P. After all the excitement, and roller coaster rides, I am up less than $200 for the last 7 weeks. I would not ever be mistaken for Warren Buffet. I have a beard.
So I do not give advice on investing. But I do recall that olde maxim on the Street about diversification and not putting all of your eggs in one fukin' basket. If I had to, I would say
stay away from semiconductor stocks. But whaddo I know.
re: I guess Pete Hegseth’s not getting enough attention lately, he wants to test our troops’ precious bodily fluids and life essence
Some readers may not recognize your literary reference, but it's brilliant: Gen. Jack D. Ripper from the insane novel (and even insaner movie starring Peter Sellars) Dr. Strangelove -- a title which today might sound like something kinky but is, in fact, an anti-war polemic from the height of the Cold War. And also, hilariously funny, if you can get past the part about WWIII starting ... now I will end this post by envisioning Herr GropenFuhrer (the Orange Toad) playing the part of Slim Pickens, riding The Bomb down to glory like a Saturday night session on a mechanical bull, but without the beer. Ahhhhhh ...
He can mess around with ballrooms and water ponds and even tariffs, but if he fuks up the military, we won't have any problems to fix cause we won't have a country.
Wonder where the massive tax breaks for corporations went, along with the skimming that drove inflation during the Biden years? It was so much even the c-suite suits couldn't grab it all, so STOCK BUY BACKS galore. Prop up the stock prices, hide all that now embarrassing megabuck$ and all is well in the board room. Those used to be illegal, by the way. That rule disappeared in the Reagan years, tho maybe it was Clinton doing a bipartisan centerist thingy.
"Stock buybacks were legalized in the United States in 1982 when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), under the Reagan administration, passed SEC Rule 10b-18"
Ta, Rebecca. Ta, Martini. Darling husband Meccalopolis served our flowery green tea, and I made our fruit bowls. I LOVE our cherry pitter, which has the fabulous name of jujube enucleator. For real. I hope with the pantherette yesterday and the little lynx today, we're having kitteh week. Speaking of which, our black tortie Ebony is up to her old tricks. She knocked over the trashcan in the bathroom, arranged several pieces of used paper towel in a pattern on the floor, then did the same on a small area of blue carpet in the living room. I suppose that means she's almost all better. Good day, beloved Wonketteers. We love and appreciate you all and we bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, get a booster shot six months after your last and catch up on any other vaccines you need (and if there are children in your life, make sure they're vaccinated also, too), avoid indoor and crowded outdoor gatherings and when you must meet, remove masks only to eat, drink, and take quick photos, and stay the fuck away from us and anyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because we love you, too. Do this in memory of 27 Club member Treg and heroic Tony, Holly's pilot friend, among nearly eight million dead worldwide. Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel (we adore you, all medicos of Wonkette, active and retired), especially ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark, RN. Stay safe.
One-eyed trickster troublemaker doofus. Oh, yeah, she's back. We love you guys, Getting the secondary stereo set up in the library and then I might get some writing done. We'll check the chanterelle spot later with the dogs.
For what it's worth, yellow, red, orange, and even green skies are common during the summer month Down Here in Florida. We had both a yellow and an orange sky last week, in fact - very lurid.
Has to do with cloud cover and the setting sun, I'm told...
"Yes, Adam Carolla, what you and 'most every guy you know' does is called rape, not 'standard drunken blue collar dude behavior.' (Amanda Marcotte at Salon)"
This piece was good. She's always good.
I just wish I weren't hearing "I'm Ready for Love" by Bad Company in my head while I was reading it.
I've always thought of Adam Carolla as the version of Norm Macdonald that didn't bake right. You know? Like, he fell and dripped all over the oven and made a disgusting mess that you didn't want to deal with. So you left him there, and there he sits. Getting older, crustier, and grosser as time goes.
Your hed gif info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/lynx-explorers
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/7aac8805-9a55-4799-809e-004050b39f85
There seems to be a bit of wonkiness with images this AM. Maybe it will clear itself up by the time you click on these. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
The lynx to my heart.
Share these lynx!
Well I feel blessed. WE GOT KITTIES!!!!!! 🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱🐱😻
Why can't their faces be superimposed on those revolting, ugly villains that pass through here each day? Or superimpose a real kitty like a leopard on their real faces?
Do lynxes purr?
I don't think you want to go near enough to find out.....especially if Mama Lynx is around.....
Carnegie says “yes!”
https://carnegiemnh.org/cat-chat-101-the-basics-of-domestic-and-wild-vocalizations/
Oh! Thank you, Martini!!!
Is Babby Rynx!
When her kittens all go walkabout
The wise cat mother thinks
That she knows soon without a doubt
There'll be no missing lynx.
These wildcats may be predators
Hunting with aplomb
But til they go out on their own
They'll come back to nuzzle mom.
Chef's kiss to missing lynx!
"We am FEERCE!'
Lynx in and lynx out-and-about....
Click on Martini’s lynx!
Awwwww, at least these babies can retract their weapons.
😹. Murder needles!
Murdorable!
MOAR BABBY MURDER KITTENS!
I want to find a couple of those kiddens in my overly-leafy yard 🥰
Kitties!
ON THE PROWL!
Dat gif! I feel stalked.
Them babies gonna gitcha!
Rock the colors, Trix!
Oh, the boys will be boys defense?
Made the mistake of tuning in to the Blanche hearing again. And there was Josh H blathering as he questioned a woman who apparently is one of or the person who made the recommendation to Joe to commute the federal death sentenced inmates to life. When he started going through the list of them, he began with Dylann Roof, who he described as a neo-nazi or white supremacist, which was a little ironic, given that Josh loves those types, right?
Ode to Testosterone (Not)
If I had to go to sea, submerge hundreds of feet, above thousands of feet of potentially crushing water … and HegSith was on my crew … would I just just end myself *before* we went to sea? Rather than wait to die with the rest of the crew in short order? Do you know what sailors would do with an incompetent, dangerous crewmate?
I recall an “evolution” in USS George C. Marshall’s engineering. Being a Machinist’s Mate, I always stood watch out in the engineering spaces, and I knew my shit. But once, don’t know why, I was standing around right outside Maneuvering (the engineering control room) when an order came across. Something like “ahead flank.” Now I knew there were clear actions. But seeing it? Those jokers at the panels, always looking for some sort of distraction?
Attention to panels. (Well, that was unsaid.) Click. Click click. …. Our senior reactor operator, IIRC, kinda looked like Papa Smurf. Really. All smiles and relaxation? Dead serious … for half a minute …. Click. Click. “Pumps running in …. “ Aye. That was a crew putting a 78 Mw reactor through its paces.
This is when one’s jaw drops a bit. Not when some dick whips out and erects itself.
Goddamn. First thing I read this morning is Adam Corolla advocating spousal rape. Fucking hell, men are broken.
OT. Interesting chart today. (Oh no. Not more weeds.) Not at all surprising just looking at my own. I only have 2 stocks, most is in ETFs of the Dow and S&P. After all the excitement, and roller coaster rides, I am up less than $200 for the last 7 weeks. I would not ever be mistaken for Warren Buffet. I have a beard.
So I do not give advice on investing. But I do recall that olde maxim on the Street about diversification and not putting all of your eggs in one fukin' basket. If I had to, I would say
stay away from semiconductor stocks. But whaddo I know.
(Okay. Not too bad today.) Thanks.
https://finance.yahoo.com/markets/article/32-trillion-rotation-from-chips-to-the-magnificent-7-has-left-the-sp-500-going-nowhere-chart-of-the-day-100000821.html
re: I guess Pete Hegseth’s not getting enough attention lately, he wants to test our troops’ precious bodily fluids and life essence
Some readers may not recognize your literary reference, but it's brilliant: Gen. Jack D. Ripper from the insane novel (and even insaner movie starring Peter Sellars) Dr. Strangelove -- a title which today might sound like something kinky but is, in fact, an anti-war polemic from the height of the Cold War. And also, hilariously funny, if you can get past the part about WWIII starting ... now I will end this post by envisioning Herr GropenFuhrer (the Orange Toad) playing the part of Slim Pickens, riding The Bomb down to glory like a Saturday night session on a mechanical bull, but without the beer. Ahhhhhh ...
He can mess around with ballrooms and water ponds and even tariffs, but if he fuks up the military, we won't have any problems to fix cause we won't have a country.
Wonder where the massive tax breaks for corporations went, along with the skimming that drove inflation during the Biden years? It was so much even the c-suite suits couldn't grab it all, so STOCK BUY BACKS galore. Prop up the stock prices, hide all that now embarrassing megabuck$ and all is well in the board room. Those used to be illegal, by the way. That rule disappeared in the Reagan years, tho maybe it was Clinton doing a bipartisan centerist thingy.
Reagan:
"Stock buybacks were legalized in the United States in 1982 when the Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC), under the Reagan administration, passed SEC Rule 10b-18"
Ta, Rebecca. Ta, Martini. Darling husband Meccalopolis served our flowery green tea, and I made our fruit bowls. I LOVE our cherry pitter, which has the fabulous name of jujube enucleator. For real. I hope with the pantherette yesterday and the little lynx today, we're having kitteh week. Speaking of which, our black tortie Ebony is up to her old tricks. She knocked over the trashcan in the bathroom, arranged several pieces of used paper towel in a pattern on the floor, then did the same on a small area of blue carpet in the living room. I suppose that means she's almost all better. Good day, beloved Wonketteers. We love and appreciate you all and we bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, get a booster shot six months after your last and catch up on any other vaccines you need (and if there are children in your life, make sure they're vaccinated also, too), avoid indoor and crowded outdoor gatherings and when you must meet, remove masks only to eat, drink, and take quick photos, and stay the fuck away from us and anyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because we love you, too. Do this in memory of 27 Club member Treg and heroic Tony, Holly's pilot friend, among nearly eight million dead worldwide. Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel (we adore you, all medicos of Wonkette, active and retired), especially ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark, RN. Stay safe.
Slava Ukraini. 🌻🇺🇦💙💛
One-eyed trickster troublemaker doofus. Oh, yeah, she's back. We love you guys, Getting the secondary stereo set up in the library and then I might get some writing done. We'll check the chanterelle spot later with the dogs.
Huh! Whoda thunk? Just Doucebaggery Vance is a diva
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BKD0AN8kmpk
EXCLUSIVE: JD Vance’s Secret Service ‘FED UP’ with his DEMANDING personal requests
For what it's worth, yellow, red, orange, and even green skies are common during the summer month Down Here in Florida. We had both a yellow and an orange sky last week, in fact - very lurid.
Has to do with cloud cover and the setting sun, I'm told...
And dust from the Sahara.
"Yes, Adam Carolla, what you and 'most every guy you know' does is called rape, not 'standard drunken blue collar dude behavior.' (Amanda Marcotte at Salon)"
This piece was good. She's always good.
I just wish I weren't hearing "I'm Ready for Love" by Bad Company in my head while I was reading it.
I really hate Bad Company.
I have no idea who "Adam Carolla" is and wouldn't admit it if I did.
Nor do I. This is the first time I've ever read his name.
Same. I really wouldn't know who any of these right-wing influencer kind of people are except for Wonkette.
Should we check the Wonk Cave to see if they're OK?
I thought about that. They must be readying a really bad story.
Robyn's article just went up.
Thank you.
You mean the stock market has mostly become fictitious finance capital? I wonder if a German predicted any of this a century ago...
I've always thought of Adam Carolla as the version of Norm Macdonald that didn't bake right. You know? Like, he fell and dripped all over the oven and made a disgusting mess that you didn't want to deal with. So you left him there, and there he sits. Getting older, crustier, and grosser as time goes.
Best to just open the kitchen window, latch the oven door shut, and start up a cycle of self-clean.