Bovino will tell Ellis, "You're not the boss of me." Like Trump does to judges. And find immunity does not roll downhill. Best hope. The judge uses an ICE holding cell for his contempt sentence.
The Orange trees are in fruit. We leave the oranges in the trees and draw tiny pumpkin faces on them to scare away the mongooses, who ravage the fruit when there are no baby chickens to slaughter.
so they hacked the charlie kirk 'they didn't love him enough' sites: we need to start doing that to every right wing doxxing (or just doxxing in general really its a repulsive thing) site, and all their hate sites - lets start naming and shaming them 'anonymous if you're listening'
So Trump had ab MRI when he was at Walter Reed recently. While, sure, nothing's too good for the president, still it;s not something they do for the fun of it. And when he says it came out "perfect" ... well, like his "excellent" health, that's a load of BS.
Years ago--maybe 25, maybe 30 even--a "foodie" guy did the bit where he committed to following the little cookbook that came with food assistance for a family of 4 and his thoughts have stuck with me. I've certainly had lean times, but I also have that privilege where it's not like I was going to starve, and I wasn't working multiple jobs, and (thank GOD) wasn't trying to feed anyone but myself.
So he was clear that he obviously could stop any time he wanted to, and was just cooking for himself (and maybe his wife. But anyway--the first thing he noticed was the amount of time that went into the whole endeavor. Like, you make this master dry mix that then gets put into different things, and you have to make a couple of batches. Not a lot of fresh produce or seasonings or things like that. And I wish I could remember how he phrased it, but the recipes had a little of an "ethnic" tilt, except without the flavor that we all enjoy. Like, oooh, this dry mix is going to be "Mexicali muffins" because we're adding a can of creamed corn. They didn't take advantage of dried beans and such--mostly just adding the dreaded mix to ground beef and such to make it go farther.
It was very time consuming and just sort of blah.
I know I like to sometimes make something that takes extra time, but that's because I have it, and it's worth the effort. Just being like, hey, serve the kids last night's "Loaf" but stuck into muffin tins! is rude.
The thing is too--not all of us have that knowledge and time to enjoy a pot of what was dried beans. You have to fix them up a bit. Again, time and money, and maybe the ability to fix them up with some fresh herbs or something. And parents are going to have the added stress of knowing they don't have a snack for their kids, or someone's going to revolt about having whatever for dinner again.
It's all set up to punish people who are already at their limits sometimes. There's an idea that poor people also shouldn't enjoy their food, or have really healthy food, or even--if you can imagine--eat something that's not "morally improving" sometimes. Life is hard enough. Whenever I hear the folks who are like, "and then THOSE PEOPLE go and get a Happy Meal at McDonalds', when they could have used that money to buy some squash seeds!" it pisses me off so much. Not everyone has the time/ability/space to garden. And yeah, sometimes you haven't had anything "nice" and you're fucking tired, and the kids want a treat, and you should be able to give them that.
Ohhh I could sooo add to your rage. And paragraphs. I was lucky enough to be two blocks from the Catholic food pantry that offered fresh veggies (and protein often) on Fridays. They were wonderful people. The line for help was always a block long.
Most of us lived in motel rooms; some with children. A tiny fridge, a hotplate.
People always thanked the volunteers. I would go back outside to a long table, and trade (or just remove) things in the box I couldn't eat or use (4 pounds of frozen chicken, potato chips or other crunchy stuff) for food I wouldn't waste. Everyone did that.
My social security barely covered my rent. The nearest grocery store was two miles, round trip; the two minimarts nearby had frozen meals twice the price of the store and they're crap.
I could totally go on. People don't want to be poor. They don't say *yippee I'm screwing the government by getting free food *.
That's another thing I forgot about--it's all well and good for folks to be like, go someplace and stock up and cook for the whole week--where, pray tell? With a hotplate and microwave? Yes, it would be great and probably cost effective to make a big casserole and soups and freeze them, but there's no place to make them and not enough room in the mini fridge to keep them.
Yep. When I read the *stock up * advice I thought it was horse shit. I had a really good mini fridge, and a microwave. I bought my own hotplate and I had a mini slow cooker. But it was just me. It's worse now because the only *sale* price on protein is if you buy the *value pack* of pounds of food.
Wonderful when I had a family to cook for, but really shitty for me.
The nearest market had a great thing 😋- they sold individual celery stalks by the pound! Yeah it often cost more than a whole head, but I didn't waste it. A head of celery in a mini fridge quickly becomes a lab experiment. Along with the half onion, parsley, cilantro, etc etc.
I was technically retired but got a job I thought would help. It was piece work at a skill I knew well. After 5 weeks I had earned $4.84 an hour. And had to listen to faux news all day.
My (ex) mother-in-law was a social worker and a small part of her job was teaching her clients how to cook. Some were generational clients, who through no fault of their own* never received that type of support (for so many reasons) from family.
It was also a challenge thanks to the food desert that some communities deal with. It's hard to use your benefits when all you have is some meagre quick mart to shop in.
*There is not fault for anyone in need. That's why it is called "need" and not punishment
Exactly this! Plenty of people don't know how to cook and budget and figure out those things, and they don't have those resources. And the food deserts--don't get me started. You shouldn't have to take another 2 hours to try to get out of them to buy ingredients.
Not sure if I’d ever succeed in quieting my mind properly, because “turn down for what” is permanently ironed into my brain folds with that meme of the white people rolling their speedboat. :P
As wacked out and sickeningly stressful as our daily lives have become secondary to living in a nation lorded over by an over-sprayed, orange, viciously vindictive, maliciously melodramatic madman that meditation album by 'Lil John might be a wise investment.
Sitting down and FOCUSING that rage to a specific method of vengeance is considerably more productive than the furious chaos most of us are caught up within.
And if you're not thoroughly pissed off you're a fucking idiot.
Rump stated again that he really wants to meet with North Korean Un. He just adores his dictators and, well he’s sort of “in the neighborhood”.
I seemed to have read a blurb somewhere that all the data on the Charlie Kirk site was stolen by the experts they used. As a way to get back at them or something.
Do you think that the fact that Venezuela has the largest oil reserves of any country on earth has anything to do with what is happening in the Caribbean?
Here is a link to Smedley Butler's wiki page. Look at the quote from his anti-war lectures (some things never change) -
Smedley was a good Marine and two time winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor. What changed him was how his fellow soldiers in the Bonus Army were treated by the government. Here is Smedley exhorting the Bonus Army -
More history you are not taught in school. An important book is "American Midnight" by Adam Hochschild which covers what happened in the US during 1917-1921. Here is the author giving a lecture on his book.
Everybody loves carving pumpkins, even baby clouded leopards. Your hed gif info for today: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/gemma-and-meru-carving-pumpkins
And your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/389a14fa-925a-4d7c-a34e-9a0b8437eb1d
Lancelot: "Tis an ocelot!"
Grail Knight: "he chose poorly"
Punkin kittehs 😸
Oh. Leopards, you say. I thought they were Bengals.
Never leave me alone in the wilderness, guys.
From the standpoint of surviving the experience, is there a meaningful difference between leopards and Bengals?
Bengal cats are nothing like Bengal tigers.
Pumpkin carving leopards
Seem oddly out of place
The minute that they're finished
They eat the pumpkin's face.
If only they could eat
one more toothy face
and leave inside the skull
enough shit to fill the space.
MAYHEM!
Porcupines love pumpkins too
https://youtu.be/_dnB3IapeAA
Those little squeaks!
Teddy Bear the porcupine is a real star. I don’t know what he says, but mostly “I like food” I think.
But let's not forget the pumpkin's ultimate predator: The corgi!
https://youtu.be/N2_HkWs7OM0
Gemma and Meru! Hope they have a steady pumpkin supply... Pretty tough on the furniture too
They grow up so fast. They'll be gnawing peoples' faces off in no time.
But they won't gnaw off MY face, because reasons.
Don't be so sure. Those leopards have to eat.
Babby leopard cuteness overload!
Li'l Feller sez, "Meh. Pay attention to meeee!!1"
https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!kmFm!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2Fmedia_upload%2Fcomment%2F0e4b5476-2801-4ce4-bf8c-e617f0569eb3%2Fe85d28c8-9220-4ce3-b5b4-96b7f515743a.jpeg
...needs moar pumpkin
(scritches)
Clouded leopards are so cute. Those huge paws.
Snow leopards need woolly murder mittens
Babby Leopard Kittehs eating Pumpkin Faces!
When do the republicans faces commence?
Ocelot of fun!
Babou!
Box Eared Freak!
Bovino will tell Ellis, "You're not the boss of me." Like Trump does to judges. And find immunity does not roll downhill. Best hope. The judge uses an ICE holding cell for his contempt sentence.
The Orange trees are in fruit. We leave the oranges in the trees and draw tiny pumpkin faces on them to scare away the mongooses, who ravage the fruit when there are no baby chickens to slaughter.
so they hacked the charlie kirk 'they didn't love him enough' sites: we need to start doing that to every right wing doxxing (or just doxxing in general really its a repulsive thing) site, and all their hate sites - lets start naming and shaming them 'anonymous if you're listening'
So Trump had ab MRI when he was at Walter Reed recently. While, sure, nothing's too good for the president, still it;s not something they do for the fun of it. And when he says it came out "perfect" ... well, like his "excellent" health, that's a load of BS.
Checking for and probably finding signs of dementia
I wondered why there are photos of Lil Jon with Trump, so I did some digging. Lil Jon was on The Apprentice, and it's what you expect:
https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/lil-jon-confirms-donald-trump-called-uncle-tom/story?id=42827088
Well, wow.
Years ago--maybe 25, maybe 30 even--a "foodie" guy did the bit where he committed to following the little cookbook that came with food assistance for a family of 4 and his thoughts have stuck with me. I've certainly had lean times, but I also have that privilege where it's not like I was going to starve, and I wasn't working multiple jobs, and (thank GOD) wasn't trying to feed anyone but myself.
So he was clear that he obviously could stop any time he wanted to, and was just cooking for himself (and maybe his wife. But anyway--the first thing he noticed was the amount of time that went into the whole endeavor. Like, you make this master dry mix that then gets put into different things, and you have to make a couple of batches. Not a lot of fresh produce or seasonings or things like that. And I wish I could remember how he phrased it, but the recipes had a little of an "ethnic" tilt, except without the flavor that we all enjoy. Like, oooh, this dry mix is going to be "Mexicali muffins" because we're adding a can of creamed corn. They didn't take advantage of dried beans and such--mostly just adding the dreaded mix to ground beef and such to make it go farther.
It was very time consuming and just sort of blah.
I know I like to sometimes make something that takes extra time, but that's because I have it, and it's worth the effort. Just being like, hey, serve the kids last night's "Loaf" but stuck into muffin tins! is rude.
The thing is too--not all of us have that knowledge and time to enjoy a pot of what was dried beans. You have to fix them up a bit. Again, time and money, and maybe the ability to fix them up with some fresh herbs or something. And parents are going to have the added stress of knowing they don't have a snack for their kids, or someone's going to revolt about having whatever for dinner again.
It's all set up to punish people who are already at their limits sometimes. There's an idea that poor people also shouldn't enjoy their food, or have really healthy food, or even--if you can imagine--eat something that's not "morally improving" sometimes. Life is hard enough. Whenever I hear the folks who are like, "and then THOSE PEOPLE go and get a Happy Meal at McDonalds', when they could have used that money to buy some squash seeds!" it pisses me off so much. Not everyone has the time/ability/space to garden. And yeah, sometimes you haven't had anything "nice" and you're fucking tired, and the kids want a treat, and you should be able to give them that.
Ohhh I could sooo add to your rage. And paragraphs. I was lucky enough to be two blocks from the Catholic food pantry that offered fresh veggies (and protein often) on Fridays. They were wonderful people. The line for help was always a block long.
Most of us lived in motel rooms; some with children. A tiny fridge, a hotplate.
People always thanked the volunteers. I would go back outside to a long table, and trade (or just remove) things in the box I couldn't eat or use (4 pounds of frozen chicken, potato chips or other crunchy stuff) for food I wouldn't waste. Everyone did that.
My social security barely covered my rent. The nearest grocery store was two miles, round trip; the two minimarts nearby had frozen meals twice the price of the store and they're crap.
I could totally go on. People don't want to be poor. They don't say *yippee I'm screwing the government by getting free food *.
Fuck trumpf, bless the real Christians.
That's another thing I forgot about--it's all well and good for folks to be like, go someplace and stock up and cook for the whole week--where, pray tell? With a hotplate and microwave? Yes, it would be great and probably cost effective to make a big casserole and soups and freeze them, but there's no place to make them and not enough room in the mini fridge to keep them.
Yep. When I read the *stock up * advice I thought it was horse shit. I had a really good mini fridge, and a microwave. I bought my own hotplate and I had a mini slow cooker. But it was just me. It's worse now because the only *sale* price on protein is if you buy the *value pack* of pounds of food.
Wonderful when I had a family to cook for, but really shitty for me.
The nearest market had a great thing 😋- they sold individual celery stalks by the pound! Yeah it often cost more than a whole head, but I didn't waste it. A head of celery in a mini fridge quickly becomes a lab experiment. Along with the half onion, parsley, cilantro, etc etc.
I was technically retired but got a job I thought would help. It was piece work at a skill I knew well. After 5 weeks I had earned $4.84 an hour. And had to listen to faux news all day.
I know the monsters don't give a fuck.
My (ex) mother-in-law was a social worker and a small part of her job was teaching her clients how to cook. Some were generational clients, who through no fault of their own* never received that type of support (for so many reasons) from family.
It was also a challenge thanks to the food desert that some communities deal with. It's hard to use your benefits when all you have is some meagre quick mart to shop in.
*There is not fault for anyone in need. That's why it is called "need" and not punishment
Yes! I replied to Babe before I read you. Thanks!
Exactly this! Plenty of people don't know how to cook and budget and figure out those things, and they don't have those resources. And the food deserts--don't get me started. You shouldn't have to take another 2 hours to try to get out of them to buy ingredients.
My circumstances are better now. I'll be donating next week (assuming asshole doesn't cut ss) to salvation army food pantry. It's the least I can do.
Hmm. Land action. Without congressional approval, no doubt.
Well, that ought to get him the Peace Prize.
Preferably a cell.
Not sure if I’d ever succeed in quieting my mind properly, because “turn down for what” is permanently ironed into my brain folds with that meme of the white people rolling their speedboat. :P
Speaking of Trump, does anyone else wonder if he's going to turn out to be the buyer for the French Crown Jewels?
Release the Epstein files. AND THE NEW PHOTOS OF THE WHITE HOUSE EAST WING.
Grave Alec Guinness voice: "That's no housecat..."
As wacked out and sickeningly stressful as our daily lives have become secondary to living in a nation lorded over by an over-sprayed, orange, viciously vindictive, maliciously melodramatic madman that meditation album by 'Lil John might be a wise investment.
Sitting down and FOCUSING that rage to a specific method of vengeance is considerably more productive than the furious chaos most of us are caught up within.
And if you're not thoroughly pissed off you're a fucking idiot.
Rump stated again that he really wants to meet with North Korean Un. He just adores his dictators and, well he’s sort of “in the neighborhood”.
I seemed to have read a blurb somewhere that all the data on the Charlie Kirk site was stolen by the experts they used. As a way to get back at them or something.
Do you think that the fact that Venezuela has the largest oil reserves of any country on earth has anything to do with what is happening in the Caribbean?
Here is a link to Smedley Butler's wiki page. Look at the quote from his anti-war lectures (some things never change) -
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smedley_Butler#Later_years
In closing here is Magpie Music singing "Follow the Money" (the starts at 3 minutes into the video) -
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2UxCuXId26E
Very interesting reading about Smedley Butler.
Well, now I'm going to have to rewrite/ relearn US history and our quest for plunder.
Smedley was a good Marine and two time winner of the Congressional Medal of Honor. What changed him was how his fellow soldiers in the Bonus Army were treated by the government. Here is Smedley exhorting the Bonus Army -
https://www.google.com/search?client=ubuntu-sn&channel=fs&q=smedley+butler+bonus+army+speech#fpstate=ive&vld=cid:8373833f,vid:Q_vJH2nrMl8,st:0
More history you are not taught in school. An important book is "American Midnight" by Adam Hochschild which covers what happened in the US during 1917-1921. Here is the author giving a lecture on his book.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6lBvmn-KyXg
Charlotte Clymer with a short Note on her long relationship with the East Wing, and how she can't really absorb the destruction:
https://substack.com/@charlotteclymer/note/c-169681971?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=mwtl3
That June Lockhart clip cracked me up!
I liked how the dog did not get the right thing. Were Lassie made today the dog would have unbelievably and unrealistic intelligence.
Were Lassie made today the dog would be CGI.