Took me a second to figure out why these babby goats are different than the babby goats I usually see on the interwebz, but it seems that your babby goats do not wear pajamas.
Gahhhhhh! What are you doing to me? For the last two days I've been plagued by the earworm "Mairzy Doats" and just when it was about to be replaced, you throw babby goats in my face!
:stomps of growley singing "a kiddley divey too, would't you":
Years ago I was doing some work for a woman who lived on 3 acres on a creek that was completely overgrown with mostly poison ivy and she hired a guy with 40 goats to clean it up, and boy, they sure did! One day I came to her house and the goats had escaped the electric fence enclosure and though I tried to round them up they completely ignored me. Lady called the guy and he showed up shaking a grain bucket and that got their attention! He told me he needed someone to move the goats from place to place and asked if I was interested, and when I asked what it paid he said there was no money in it at this time, but eventually I'd get paid. I said dude, I'm not working for free and the asshole acted insulted that I wouldn't consider his offer.
My ex's dad's family had a summer house on Long Island, and when he was a kid, my FIL would be sent there a week earlier than the rest of the family to get the place ready for summer.
I once said that must have been a lot of work, but he said it was the easiest week of his life. He'd just open the windows, stock the fridge, and borrow the neighbor's goats to let them go nuts on the property. They ate everything - poison ivy, vines, grass, small trees... everything. The place would look like he manicured it with scissors by the time they were done, and he wouldn't have lifted a finger.
I live in a semi-large blue city in a red state. We have a goat brigade that goes and cleans up overgrown areas and then they move on. Hubby saw it close to our neighborhood and couldn't staop talking about it.
We once went to a county fair when I was little. I leaned up against a goat pen to have my picture taken and by the time it was done the goats had eaten half of the back of my dress without me noticing because they were so fast and sly.
I have a friend who raises Angora goats, which are apparently the easiest goats for humans to get along with. They are still tough on incautious humans and just hell on the Watch Goose.
I have a friend who has a game farm, and his babby and nanny goats of all types are allowed to roam free... they head-butt the occasional visitor (it's mostly school trips, so the kids love that) and argue with some of the other free-roaming animals from time to time, but are generally well behaved.
The billy goats are all penned up because they're as aggressive AF, will mount anything, and seem to spend an inordinate amount of time peeing on their own noses.
And here we have a very rare breed of asshole goats. Note the coloration of the lower legs and matching stripe on the dorsal side. These are known as "Black Footed Assholes"!
Get rid of the EC, oh Orange Mass. When was the last time the absolute worst candidate won the popular vote but lost because of the EC? While it is possible for the worst to win both, in most cases, it seems that the popular vote winner is the best choice.
“President Trump will continue to appoint highly qualified men and women who have the talent, experience, and necessary skill sets to make America great again.”
"...does [Ernst] care about MAGA primarying her in 2026?..." Incumbents have always had a leg up when it comes to elections. Some of the worst people in the world get re-elected. So what is there to fear about being primaried? Unless you are such a terrible politician that a dead skunk would be more popular than you. So is she just that bad or just too lazy to campaign?
I don’t understand how, for a while, it seems like we’re making progress as a species and a civilization, and then Donald Trump gets elected and then maybe a guy who cuts off whale heads for a hobby is going to be in charge of heath care policy. I’m just so sad.
We never made our kiddo sit on Santa's lap, but when she was about 3 we were at a farmers' market and Santa was there with baby goats, so kiddo went up to say "Hi," mostly to the goats. One of her two strong memories of Santa from those days is those baby goats peeing on him. (The other is the time we were at a thing and the man playing Father Christmas and my dad knew each other, so when FC came up and said, "Dave! Great to see you again! How are you?" Kiddo's eyes were as wide as saucers: "Grandpa knows Santa?!?!")
Faulkner, “Yeah, I'm just going to say it, because it's the truth. So she's gravitating to power and the shiniest object in the room at that moment, the one with the really good lighting, Molly, is Donald Trump. So she goes over and kind of soaks that lightning up.”
I’m amused/annoyed at how people were writing articles lauding the United Healthcare murderer for being so super sneaky and showing up so many systems for being ineffective in IDing or catching him and less than twenty-four hours later, authorities seem to have caught him. I’m not a big fan of the surveillance state, but I also don’t see how murdering health care executives will address any of health care’s issues. And for god’s sake, when will people realize that what authorities say is different from what they know?
On Monday, Donald Trump announced his selection for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights: Harmeet Dhillon, a far-right California lawyer with a track record that could pose significant threats to transgender Americans. Dhillon, known for her staunch opposition to LGBTQ+ rights, has represented Chloe Cole, a prominent anti-trans detransitioner who has called puberty blockers a “gateway drug” and testified in favor of numerous state-level trans bans. Cole’s lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente is just one example of Dhillon’s alignment with far-right anti-trans movement. With the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division at her disposal, Dhillon’s appointment signals an alarming shift that could make life increasingly difficult for transgender people nationwide, including those who have sought refuge in blue states to escape anti-trans legislation.
Dhillon has repeatedly expressed extreme anti-transgender views on social media, often engaging with and praising the Libs of TikTok account—an account whose posts frequently precede bomb threats targeting schools and hospitals. In one such post, Dhillon commented on a school in Idaho respecting a transgender student, stating, “We are talking IDAHO, folks. Not coastal California. I’m telling you this predatory gender madness is everywhere!” In another post, she responded to Glenn Beck by calling gender transition a lie, writing, “Make it unsafe for American doctors to destroy young American lives through the lie of sex change aka ‘gender transition.’ Expand the statutes of limitation. Make insurance paying for these procedures also pay for detransition. Make it stop.” In that interview, Dhillon doubled down, declaring that hospitals providing gender-affirming care must be “made unsafe” to do so.
Goats on a bucket, two bits! Your header image source info, mes amis: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/king-of-the-bucket
And your meme chat thread de jour: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/9c33b3ba-e00b-47df-9fe9-859cec889aa3?utm_source=share
King of the Mountain!
Those cute things are probably a few days old, but they know what they are ABOUT! I could watch them all day.
Took me a second to figure out why these babby goats are different than the babby goats I usually see on the interwebz, but it seems that your babby goats do not wear pajamas.
Gahhhhhh! What are you doing to me? For the last two days I've been plagued by the earworm "Mairzy Doats" and just when it was about to be replaced, you throw babby goats in my face!
:stomps of growley singing "a kiddley divey too, would't you":
Well thanks, now that's in my mind.
I thought I was the only person in the world who got that particular ear worm!
I loved that Deep Purple song ....
♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫♫
Do Do Do.
Do Do Do Do
Do Do Do
Do Do
Goats on a bucket
The time for tabs is nigh
[oblig]
Buttheads
LOL, babby goats on a bucket! LOVE BABBY GOATS!
Obligatory goat video reply:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0YaTFCxQiR8
(I love this one. Makes me laugh every time. "Wuh wuh wuh wuh whu!")
I haven't laughed that hard in days. Thank you for the stress break. :)
GOAT or GOAT, am I right?
One, two, three, four. I declare a bucket war.
Sometimes it's hard to tell the little rams from little nannies
Even though it's plain to see that butt's are sure not fannies.
*poetry slam finger snaps*
Thank you my beatnik friend. I may grow a goatee in your honor.
Now ...where did I leave that beret?
Got any 'tea'?
No tea here. But we can get all hepped up on goofballs.
I'll jump in on bongos.
Goats are playing King of the Bucket.
Years ago I was doing some work for a woman who lived on 3 acres on a creek that was completely overgrown with mostly poison ivy and she hired a guy with 40 goats to clean it up, and boy, they sure did! One day I came to her house and the goats had escaped the electric fence enclosure and though I tried to round them up they completely ignored me. Lady called the guy and he showed up shaking a grain bucket and that got their attention! He told me he needed someone to move the goats from place to place and asked if I was interested, and when I asked what it paid he said there was no money in it at this time, but eventually I'd get paid. I said dude, I'm not working for free and the asshole acted insulted that I wouldn't consider his offer.
My ex's dad's family had a summer house on Long Island, and when he was a kid, my FIL would be sent there a week earlier than the rest of the family to get the place ready for summer.
I once said that must have been a lot of work, but he said it was the easiest week of his life. He'd just open the windows, stock the fridge, and borrow the neighbor's goats to let them go nuts on the property. They ate everything - poison ivy, vines, grass, small trees... everything. The place would look like he manicured it with scissors by the time they were done, and he wouldn't have lifted a finger.
I live in a semi-large blue city in a red state. We have a goat brigade that goes and cleans up overgrown areas and then they move on. Hubby saw it close to our neighborhood and couldn't staop talking about it.
i need this goat brigade cleaning up my failed state of a yard.
The work for food
Just like mama always said: Never trust a guy with 40 goats.
You could have had goat guy in your debt!
We once went to a county fair when I was little. I leaned up against a goat pen to have my picture taken and by the time it was done the goats had eaten half of the back of my dress without me noticing because they were so fast and sly.
They are little devils!!!
Those sneaky bastards! Someone needs to report them to Me Too.
I have a friend who raises Angora goats, which are apparently the easiest goats for humans to get along with. They are still tough on incautious humans and just hell on the Watch Goose.
I have a friend who has a game farm, and his babby and nanny goats of all types are allowed to roam free... they head-butt the occasional visitor (it's mostly school trips, so the kids love that) and argue with some of the other free-roaming animals from time to time, but are generally well behaved.
The billy goats are all penned up because they're as aggressive AF, will mount anything, and seem to spend an inordinate amount of time peeing on their own noses.
The Watch Goose, a Caldecott Medal winning story of a goose who shaped the world with her fierce, no-nonsense honk and a heart of gold.
Any relationship to Wobbles the goose?
They went to the same summer camp
And here we have a very rare breed of asshole goats. Note the coloration of the lower legs and matching stripe on the dorsal side. These are known as "Black Footed Assholes"!
Get rid of the EC, oh Orange Mass. When was the last time the absolute worst candidate won the popular vote but lost because of the EC? While it is possible for the worst to win both, in most cases, it seems that the popular vote winner is the best choice.
Small rays of light in these, our fallen times:
https://xcancel.com/KareemRifai/status/1866501302634619079#m
("Small, but significant detail from this report from Clarissa Ward on the ground in Damascus today.
Ward previously wore hijab in reports from rebel Syria.
Today she speaks to a Syrian woman, both without hijab, with other women without hijab visible among rebels in the back.")
I was thinking the CEO shooter had a grandma or somebody who was denied care and this was his revenge.
“President Trump will continue to appoint highly qualified men and women who have the talent, experience, and necessary skill sets to make America great again.”
In the spirit of Xmas, HO HO HO!
"...does [Ernst] care about MAGA primarying her in 2026?..." Incumbents have always had a leg up when it comes to elections. Some of the worst people in the world get re-elected. So what is there to fear about being primaried? Unless you are such a terrible politician that a dead skunk would be more popular than you. So is she just that bad or just too lazy to campaign?
I don’t understand how, for a while, it seems like we’re making progress as a species and a civilization, and then Donald Trump gets elected and then maybe a guy who cuts off whale heads for a hobby is going to be in charge of heath care policy. I’m just so sad.
Maybe that's the problem. You THINK we were making progress when Americans remained racist, greedy, religious, shitheads.
Fuck this timeline.
I thought Ernst would to succumb to the cult from the beginning. She gives no hope for stopping this ef'n insanity.
We never made our kiddo sit on Santa's lap, but when she was about 3 we were at a farmers' market and Santa was there with baby goats, so kiddo went up to say "Hi," mostly to the goats. One of her two strong memories of Santa from those days is those baby goats peeing on him. (The other is the time we were at a thing and the man playing Father Christmas and my dad knew each other, so when FC came up and said, "Dave! Great to see you again! How are you?" Kiddo's eyes were as wide as saucers: "Grandpa knows Santa?!?!")
Actual Questions on HHS applications
“I don't have much interest in having sexual experiences with another person"
“As an adolescent, I had bizarre fantasies or preoccupations"
“I consistently use my physical appearance to draw attention to myself”
Wtaf is this? The questions they use to potential targets to sexually abuse?
Why not throw in “I have daddy issues”
It's the goats, see ...
Faulkner, “Yeah, I'm just going to say it, because it's the truth. So she's gravitating to power and the shiniest object in the room at that moment, the one with the really good lighting, Molly, is Donald Trump. So she goes over and kind of soaks that lightning up.”
What is wrong with these people??
I’m amused/annoyed at how people were writing articles lauding the United Healthcare murderer for being so super sneaky and showing up so many systems for being ineffective in IDing or catching him and less than twenty-four hours later, authorities seem to have caught him. I’m not a big fan of the surveillance state, but I also don’t see how murdering health care executives will address any of health care’s issues. And for god’s sake, when will people realize that what authorities say is different from what they know?
The venn diagram between Trump cabinet, Vitamin companies CEOs, and CEOs with a criminal past overlaps way too much.
It's pill shaped.
...so I've missed out on TABs hours due to bullshit health reasons. That said, this piece of uplifting news will probably run again in the pm shift...
𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐏𝐢𝐜𝐤𝐬 𝐂𝐡𝐥𝐨𝐞 𝐂𝐨𝐥𝐞'𝐬 𝐀𝐧𝐭𝐢-𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐋𝐚𝐰𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐇𝐚𝐫𝐦𝐞𝐞𝐭 𝐃𝐡𝐢𝐥𝐥𝐨𝐧 𝐓𝐨 𝐋𝐞𝐚𝐝 𝐃𝐎𝐉 𝐂𝐢𝐯𝐢𝐥 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭𝐬 𝐏𝐨𝐬𝐭
𝑇ℎ𝑒 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑛𝑒𝑦 𝑟𝑒𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑠 𝑜𝑛𝑒 𝑜𝑓 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑚𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖-𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑝𝑖𝑐𝑘𝑠 𝑦𝑒𝑡 𝑓𝑟𝑜𝑚 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑎𝑑𝑚𝑖𝑛𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛. 𝐻𝑒𝑟 ℎ𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑜𝑟𝑦 𝑖𝑛𝑐𝑙𝑢𝑑𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑎𝑟𝑔𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑠𝑎𝑓𝑒 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑔𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑢𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑝𝑖𝑡𝑎𝑙𝑠.
On Monday, Donald Trump announced his selection for Assistant Attorney General for Civil Rights: Harmeet Dhillon, a far-right California lawyer with a track record that could pose significant threats to transgender Americans. Dhillon, known for her staunch opposition to LGBTQ+ rights, has represented Chloe Cole, a prominent anti-trans detransitioner who has called puberty blockers a “gateway drug” and testified in favor of numerous state-level trans bans. Cole’s lawsuit against Kaiser Permanente is just one example of Dhillon’s alignment with far-right anti-trans movement. With the Department of Justice’s Civil Rights Division at her disposal, Dhillon’s appointment signals an alarming shift that could make life increasingly difficult for transgender people nationwide, including those who have sought refuge in blue states to escape anti-trans legislation.
Dhillon has repeatedly expressed extreme anti-transgender views on social media, often engaging with and praising the Libs of TikTok account—an account whose posts frequently precede bomb threats targeting schools and hospitals. In one such post, Dhillon commented on a school in Idaho respecting a transgender student, stating, “We are talking IDAHO, folks. Not coastal California. I’m telling you this predatory gender madness is everywhere!” In another post, she responded to Glenn Beck by calling gender transition a lie, writing, “Make it unsafe for American doctors to destroy young American lives through the lie of sex change aka ‘gender transition.’ Expand the statutes of limitation. Make insurance paying for these procedures also pay for detransition. Make it stop.” In that interview, Dhillon doubled down, declaring that hospitals providing gender-affirming care must be “made unsafe” to do so.
https://www.erininthemorning.com/p/trump-picks-chloe-coles-anti-trans
Happy (?) Lutefisk Day?
https://substack.com/profile/155980809-pliny-the-younger/note/c-80905776