See, this is exactly what I am talking about when I wishfully think of storming the Heritage Foundation or something “Follow me! To the barricades!” not just me running at some building like a lunatic. Good kittens!
My late girl Midnight used to dash down the hall towards the kitchen when I got up and headed in that direction, then stop and turn around to see if I was still coming to give her food.
She's also the kitty who, when I put some new, expensive gourmet cat food in her bowl, walked up to it, took one sniff, walked away, then proceeded to attempt to eat a scrap of paper on the floor.
Antics like that are why I am convinced that, when they finally haul me away to a loony bin, the sign on the door to my padded cell will read, "Craziness cause: Kitty cats. Can't cure."
Bipartisanship requires that both parties negotiate in good faith. When one party constantly lies about it's goals and agenda there can be no negotiations.
NYT: "Three top officials from President Trump’s 2024 campaign urged Republican lawmakers on Tuesday morning to move away from the president’s chosen moniker for his signature domestic policy legislation and instead rebrand it as a boost for ordinary Americans.
In a closed-door briefing called to discuss midterm congressional campaign strategy, the officials encouraged lawmakers to refer to the measure as the “Working Families Tax Cut Bill” or the “Working Families Tax Plan,” according to members who attended.
The attempt to relabel Mr. Trump’s top legislative achievement was an implicit acknowledgment that the law is deeply unpopular, with its sweeping cuts to Medicaid and social safety net programs, as well as changes to the Affordable Care Act. Those polices are now threatening Republicans’ chances of maintaining control of the House. More than 64 percent of voters view the legislation unfavorably, according to recent polling.
In the briefing, which was entitled “Love at First Vote,” the Trump campaign officials conceded that the package was not polling well. But they dismissed that as a branding problem rather than an issue with the actual policies that Mr. Trump signed into law two months ago."
"Fox News host Jesse Watters appeared deeply troubled Tuesday that “Lightyear,” a digitally animated children’s movie from 2022, features a lesbian couple that (gasp!) kisses each other — and claimed this mundane representation of reality is “a slippery slope.”
Jessica Tarlov said “You can be comfortable with the fact that there are two men kissing or two women kissing. I’m not saying you need to go deep into their bedroom and what’s going on there, but I don’t see what’s so offensive about that. There are gay couples all around us.” Tarlov noted that same-sex couples have “every right” to kiss each other, only for Watters to ask, “Lesbians?” He then interrupted to ask if she meant “gays,” prompting Tarlov to explain that both male and female same-sex couples deserve representation.
Co-host Paul Mauro asking Tarlov, “What about trans? The problem is trans is next.”
Watters then reaffirmed his own bigotry and said, “It’s a slippery slope, Jessica.”
NYT: "During remarks at the White House on Tuesday, Mr. Trump told reporters that “when you leave the room, you’ll see that we just, over the last few minutes, literally, shot a boat — a drug-carrying boat.”"
I never liked Walking Tall, even though I did like Joe Don Baker in other roles. Buford Pusser was a thug, and Walking Tall was am especially egregious example of Hollywood glorifying thug cops. And even as a kid I knew that a backwoods sheriff in rural Tennessee was much more likely to bust up local gamblers because he wanted a bigger cut than they wanted to give him than for anything related to "law and order." I am totally unsurprised to learn that Pusser was a wife-beater and murderer. I'm glad he died young.
It was shot in and around Mrs DV's hometown and some her family members appear as extras. Every now and then we'll watch it just to marvel at how little the town has changed in 52 years.
"A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, one of the most conservative federal appeals courts in the country, agreed with immigrant rights lawyers and lower court judges who argued the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 was not intended to be used against gangs like Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan group Trump targeted in his March invocation.
Lee Gelernt, who argued the case for the ACLU, said Tuesday: “The Trump administration’s use of a wartime statute during peacetime to regulate immigration was rightly shut down by the court. This is a critically important decision reining in the administration’s view that it can simply declare an emergency without any oversight by the courts.”"
Per the article, Southwick and Ramirez found it unjustified, Oldham dissented. That is a Bush and Biden appointee in the majority, a Trump appointee dissenting (naturally). Look for Ho to agitate to have the 5th take it up en banc and/or the Upremes to grant cert just to declare it yet another thing off limits to judges to determine.
NYT: The third judge on the panel that struck down President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, Andrew S. Oldham, wrote a 131-page dissent in which he assailed his colleagues for questioning the president’s authority.
“Today the majority holds that President Trump is just an ordinary civil litigant,” wrote Oldham, a Trump appointee. “His declaration of a predatory incursion is not conclusive. Far from it. Rather, President Trump must plead sufficient facts — as if he were some run-of-the-mill plaintiff in a breach-of-contract case — to convince a federal judge that he is entitled to relief.”
Reading that link about Nebraska and the county fair. How can this be America? Racism tears its ugly head in the Heartland, but if this is the heartland then we badly need a heart transplant.
“The Democratic consultants telling leadership they shouldn’t talk about the fact that Trump has sent the military to invade two American cities now. You fucking kidding me with this?”
Because the consultants know that telling them to just use common sense and speak the truth don’t pay the bills on K Street
Onward kitten soldiers! Your hed gif source info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/a-caboodle-of-cadets
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/34a93926-6e6c-463b-b529-921dc993dc9b?utm_source=share
Who says cats cannot be herded!
World Cat Herding Champion!
The gif starts a little late, I think. That lead kitten starts out with a big high-step, and I just bet they're imitating their human.
“Imperial March”-John Williams, “The Empire Strikes Back”
And here I was watching with "Teddy Bear's Picnic" going off on the sound system in my brain.
Here they come marching
The pussy cat parade
The pussy cat brigade
Is holding a big parade
Fuzzball Kitten Gang activity like this is what forced someone to send the National Guard to LA and DC!
Obviously these furry marauders were up to no good. Shoplifting? Littering? Jaywalking?
Whatever it is they are up to it does not bode well for the victim they are stalking! Yo Human! RUN!
bodega training
They pooed in the sandbox and buried big balls.
Oh, and they say it’s tough to herd cats! Why look at them, as well lined up as if that Judas pig Babe had done the job.
The march of kittens is much, much better than the march of progress anyway.
See, this is exactly what I am talking about when I wishfully think of storming the Heritage Foundation or something “Follow me! To the barricades!” not just me running at some building like a lunatic. Good kittens!
"We're marching, marching to Shibboleth,
With the Eagle and the Sword!..."
The guy leading them HAS NO SHOES. 🤔
IT ALL FITS TOGETHER
Tails up!
Should have little orange flags.
My late girl Midnight used to dash down the hall towards the kitchen when I got up and headed in that direction, then stop and turn around to see if I was still coming to give her food.
She's also the kitty who, when I put some new, expensive gourmet cat food in her bowl, walked up to it, took one sniff, walked away, then proceeded to attempt to eat a scrap of paper on the floor.
Antics like that are why I am convinced that, when they finally haul me away to a loony bin, the sign on the door to my padded cell will read, "Craziness cause: Kitty cats. Can't cure."
Awwwww....Dawwwwww...kittens, staggering little kittens! Start my day with a smile!
The tiny kitten parade! I plotzed.
Oh, but jail for the instagrammer who put cutesy music over the little mews and meows. Jail for ONE THOUSAND YEARS.
Crucifixion's too good for 'em!
Followed by one million years dungeon.
When a gaggle of kittens marches with more enthusiasm and order than the troops in Trump's birthday party/parade it leads to questions.
I love it that that display of atrociousness will forever be known as trump's birthday party parade
Can’t help but think he’s very disappointed to not be invited to the military prom!
Bipartisanship requires that both parties negotiate in good faith. When one party constantly lies about it's goals and agenda there can be no negotiations.
German has a word for this much-too-brief stage of life (or at least, Austrian German does):
Autodromkatzerl = "Bumper Car Kittens"
Ferrets at four weeks, their eyes and ears just recently opened, go through a stage people refer to as "popcorn ferrets."
It's like taking the lid off a pan of popcorn on the heat.
NYT: "Three top officials from President Trump’s 2024 campaign urged Republican lawmakers on Tuesday morning to move away from the president’s chosen moniker for his signature domestic policy legislation and instead rebrand it as a boost for ordinary Americans.
In a closed-door briefing called to discuss midterm congressional campaign strategy, the officials encouraged lawmakers to refer to the measure as the “Working Families Tax Cut Bill” or the “Working Families Tax Plan,” according to members who attended.
The attempt to relabel Mr. Trump’s top legislative achievement was an implicit acknowledgment that the law is deeply unpopular, with its sweeping cuts to Medicaid and social safety net programs, as well as changes to the Affordable Care Act. Those polices are now threatening Republicans’ chances of maintaining control of the House. More than 64 percent of voters view the legislation unfavorably, according to recent polling.
In the briefing, which was entitled “Love at First Vote,” the Trump campaign officials conceded that the package was not polling well. But they dismissed that as a branding problem rather than an issue with the actual policies that Mr. Trump signed into law two months ago."
Just ignore that fellow behind the curtain! Listen to me! The trump teriff tax is being misunderestimated!
Yesterday I read a news story that referenced "a conservative think tank" but my brain corrected it to "a Confederate think tank".
I have decided: Not A Bug. Instead: A Feature.
The doggos are the cutest :)
Kelly is angling for a 2028 run IMO...AZ flipped RED in the Presidential and he is mindful of this.
"Fox News host Jesse Watters appeared deeply troubled Tuesday that “Lightyear,” a digitally animated children’s movie from 2022, features a lesbian couple that (gasp!) kisses each other — and claimed this mundane representation of reality is “a slippery slope.”
Jessica Tarlov said “You can be comfortable with the fact that there are two men kissing or two women kissing. I’m not saying you need to go deep into their bedroom and what’s going on there, but I don’t see what’s so offensive about that. There are gay couples all around us.” Tarlov noted that same-sex couples have “every right” to kiss each other, only for Watters to ask, “Lesbians?” He then interrupted to ask if she meant “gays,” prompting Tarlov to explain that both male and female same-sex couples deserve representation.
Co-host Paul Mauro asking Tarlov, “What about trans? The problem is trans is next.”
Watters then reaffirmed his own bigotry and said, “It’s a slippery slope, Jessica.”
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/jesse-watters-lightyear-lesbian-couple_n_68b811bfe4b0e9fcc5f36c89?origin=home-whats-happening-unit
When referencing "Slippery Slope" he is sublimninally talking about greasy palms!
Track now live on major services: Spotify https://open.spotify.com/track/4EZ67mMcLrtYmiQoV2gd1P?si=AITm18OZTW2Pe06XPHIShw&context=spotify%3Aalbum%3A1WLy2BfulQVQkFEmtaVdsT Apple https://music.apple.com/ca/album/last-exit/1837267711?i=1837267712 searchable probably pretty much everywhere now (search AJ Milne Last Exit) distributor claims something like 120 services; had no idea there even were that many). Stuff still settling in place across networks so no lyrics or credits yet but probably tomorrow.
We shot a boat!
NYT: "During remarks at the White House on Tuesday, Mr. Trump told reporters that “when you leave the room, you’ll see that we just, over the last few minutes, literally, shot a boat — a drug-carrying boat.”"
he has such a way with words, we shot a boat.
And then threw it out a White House window to make sure it was really, truly dead.
I never liked Walking Tall, even though I did like Joe Don Baker in other roles. Buford Pusser was a thug, and Walking Tall was am especially egregious example of Hollywood glorifying thug cops. And even as a kid I knew that a backwoods sheriff in rural Tennessee was much more likely to bust up local gamblers because he wanted a bigger cut than they wanted to give him than for anything related to "law and order." I am totally unsurprised to learn that Pusser was a wife-beater and murderer. I'm glad he died young.
I was 18 or 19 when it came out. It was the first movie ever where I walked out of the theater in disgust. I have no idea how it ends.
It ends kinda Klannish, I think. No sheets, but yeesh, vibes.
It was shot in and around Mrs DV's hometown and some her family members appear as extras. Every now and then we'll watch it just to marvel at how little the town has changed in 52 years.
The interwebs say it was shot in Jackson and Henderson. For “authenticity.” Jackson is what, fifteen times as big as Selmer? 😅
McNairy Country was washing its hair the week they were shooting.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH! [Deep breath] AAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!
What? 😇 You *said* to be loud. 😏
That Qasim Rashid post. Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn.
"A three-judge panel of the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, one of the most conservative federal appeals courts in the country, agreed with immigrant rights lawyers and lower court judges who argued the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 was not intended to be used against gangs like Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan group Trump targeted in his March invocation.
Lee Gelernt, who argued the case for the ACLU, said Tuesday: “The Trump administration’s use of a wartime statute during peacetime to regulate immigration was rightly shut down by the court. This is a critically important decision reining in the administration’s view that it can simply declare an emergency without any oversight by the courts.”"
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/trump-alien-enemies-act_n_68b7b4ebe4b06793d89c5d8a?utm_source=buzzfeed&utm_medium=iframely
Wait, whut? Who was on the panel?!
Per the article, Southwick and Ramirez found it unjustified, Oldham dissented. That is a Bush and Biden appointee in the majority, a Trump appointee dissenting (naturally). Look for Ho to agitate to have the 5th take it up en banc and/or the Upremes to grant cert just to declare it yet another thing off limits to judges to determine.
Oh, thank you! Oldham is an ignorant asshole.
NYT: The third judge on the panel that struck down President Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, Andrew S. Oldham, wrote a 131-page dissent in which he assailed his colleagues for questioning the president’s authority.
“Today the majority holds that President Trump is just an ordinary civil litigant,” wrote Oldham, a Trump appointee. “His declaration of a predatory incursion is not conclusive. Far from it. Rather, President Trump must plead sufficient facts — as if he were some run-of-the-mill plaintiff in a breach-of-contract case — to convince a federal judge that he is entitled to relief.”
Must be difficult to write a 131 page dissent with one hand, while the other is busy wanking off.
Reading that link about Nebraska and the county fair. How can this be America? Racism tears its ugly head in the Heartland, but if this is the heartland then we badly need a heart transplant.
... also that link about a federal judge SLAPPing a lawyer - it's sickening.
“The Democratic consultants telling leadership they shouldn’t talk about the fact that Trump has sent the military to invade two American cities now. You fucking kidding me with this?”
Because the consultants know that telling them to just use common sense and speak the truth don’t pay the bills on K Street