Perhaps after Putin's goons get kicked back to Moscow Ukraine might just lend of few to send her toys (and maybe her and her brother) to the bottom. The Ukrainian sea drones seem pretty damned awesome.
I've looked at those boats of hers. I can't see in them anything boat-like. And I think she has 7 of them. By boat-like I mean that quality in boats-- I mean the human quality boats have. And also the physical beauty. It highlights the strangeness of a woman who'd have the policy interests featured in this article. I don't mention her "educational interests" being the profit she makes from a system of punitive lending to students. I mean, she was a natural for Secretary of Ed., right?
I mean, in highschool I wrote a short story about killing my best friend while on acid and feeding her body down a garbage disposal. Thank God it was the 70s and nobody recommended me for a psych evaluation.
She knew about the story, btw. We thought it was funny at the time. And yes, we're still friends to this day.
I note the reference to Ted Bundy and his vw bug. He was just starting his "career" when I moved to Seattle. He was a very active young Republican back then who was mentored by the Republican governor, Dan Evans. I had a coworker who knew him from young Republican circles. She was very surprised the way it played out. Misogyny is a republican core competency.
Yes, the trivia question is who was the first person to drive across the North Cascades Highway when it was officially opened to traffic? And the answer is Ted Bundy, who was functioning as Dan Evans's driver.
That's profoundly accurate: The modern republican party has reclaimed all the traditions and values of the pre-civil war democratic party: Jeff Davis's racism, Andrew Jackson genocides, James Henry Hammond's niece rapes, Dan Sickles murdering and insanity defense. What a crew!
Almost time to start chopping veg. I would be done, but there was a lot of old stuff the wife had tossed into the lower back of the fridge. Nasty stuff. It's all tossed and the storage units are washed.
I've been cutting back on my vices for the last fortnight- Salads and fruit for lunch, no beer on weekdays, several miles of walking- but tonight I'm treating myself and I have to say, keeping this shit as a sometimes treat is a great idea.
Yes, there's stout on the way. There may be red meat. There is most certainly solo dancing XP.
All of this could be avoided if I could get the timing of the Wonkzoom right. Sometines, I like to talk.
Leader Jeffries, in counting the votes on this CR, has basically silenced the Crazy Caucus®. The whacko amendments to must pass bills are probably never going to work again. Speaker McCarthy couldn't do it ... he couldn't control the crazies. And now, Speaker McCarthy will probably be "vacated." Since their are too many crazies in the House, the chances of Mr Jeffries becoming Speaker are essentially zero. Let the slap fight and name calling begin, and may it provide wonderful entertainment for us.
Those are usually farmers on their land. They’re still hardcore GQP even if Donnie wants to decimate their workforce and closed Chinese markets for their products.
Jeffries would be wise to reject any attempt to make him Speaker, if he has to rely on Rethug votes (and he would) to get that to happen, because you just can't trust these people. They have no honor, no integrity, no scruples.
Rep TOM TIFFANY (R-WI 7) Had some scruples with his chocolate milk yesterday. Said the milk came from the finest BROWN COWS in the DAIRY STATE. The scruples were given to him from CPAC. "So you know they gotta be good" he told ACTION NEWS.
I would guess that they’ll paralyze the chamber for a month or more. There is no one in the GQP who can garner the requisite votes. The Democrats in the House should just let the GQP fight it out in a nice nasty public spat.
Kinda ot, but I hope not. Up here in Canuckistan today is a national holiday, formally known as the Day for Truth and National Reconciliation. Today is meant to honour the child victims who were taken from their families and forced to attend residential schools where the policy was to "kill the Indian and save the man." We are asked to contemplate the horrors those children and their families endured and also to reflect on how colonialism still infects our present day.
I honestly don't know if such a day will work. In fact, the cynical side of me sees it as little more than a PR move done by our national ruling party--the Liberals--about fifteen years ago. I think that Red Dress Day (May 5), an unofficial day to mark the many missing and murdered indigenous girls and women and two-spirited people, has more impact. But today is a relatively new day of remembrance and so I hope it will have an impact.
One of the ways things like this help is that it sparks conversation with kids, both at school and at home. My daughter works at a daycare, and they talk about it, in age appropriate ways, with the kids three and over. Basically "Kids were taken away from their parents, just because they were different, and that's wrong. We remember it so nobody ever tries something like that again". Even very young kids can understand that.
Survivors come into schools and tell their stories to the kids. That does have an impact.
an excellent dramatization of the attempt to erase Native American identity and culture was shown about six weeks back on "Reservation Dogs", episode 3, season 3. It is moving, well written and well acted, and I recommend it to the attention of anyone to whom this issue matters. If it doesn't get you where you live, better check to see if you have a pulse.
Yes, it's a start. In fact, for the national government and most provincial governments to acknowledge their policies were racist and even genocidal is a place to start. Sadly, there are some politicians who think that these children were lucky to attend such schools and don't know what the kerfuffle is all about.
anything to chip away at the monstrous smugness of white people, the belief that we can still do anything we want to them, that any time any white business wants to seize more land from a reservation which is according to treaty a SOVEREIGN NATION and not just a vacant lot with a few vagrants on it.
I was running errands so did not start until 1:57 pm EST. Not that I was watching the clock or anything. Small batch vodka and fancy pants peach honeysuckle fizzy water may Seem weird, but very tasty.
Question for our viewers: In this week’s movie poster, is Babby Axl fighting alongside Tucker and Dale against Evil, or is Babby Axl playing the role of Evil?
In my mind he totally walked away from that crash and grows old with Zoe. Nothing you say will convince me otherwise. This is one fact I will completely ignore.
He's one of those actors whose presence doesn't automatically mean the work will be good, but he will almost always be one of the best things in the work.
Losing him and David Blake within. A week or two of each other are two of the only three celebrity deaths that really crushed me. Leonard Cohen at the end of 2016 was the third.
There is no Nobel prize for math. Apparently Alfred Nobel had a low opinion of mathematicians. Starting in 2003 the Norwegians have been awarding the Abel Prize which is a comparable prize for mathematicians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Prize
The so-called Nobel prize in economics was devised by bankers to honor their own kind. I don't regard it as comparable to a real Nobel prize, nor to the Abel prize.
squeaker, that is the perfect name for the Raving Looney Caucus's chew toy. watching Qevin's via dolorosa so reminds one of a little squeaky toy in the mouth of a big, slobbering dog,
Got to use my battery powered hedge trimmer for the first time. It was a lot of fun. The bushes look much better.
I also surveyed the equipment for our vacation. I got the firebowl out of the box and into its bag. Next, we need to get a couple of propane tanks for it. From Walmart I need butan tanks for the tabletop stove. I have a few battery packs coming for my heated vest and seat. I feel like I am ready to not freeze!
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous city in California, with 808,437 residents, and the 17th most populous city in the United States as of 2022. Wikipedia
I haven't heard a peep about Betsy DeVos since the end of the Trump administration. What's she up to?
Spending tons of money in Michigan to promote awful Republican candidates, who mostly got shellacked last November.
I'm going to go out on a limb here and say she's somewhere having a grand old time continuing to do evil, but with less scrutiny and no oversight.
If there was justice in the world, she’d be watching her various yachts sink to the bottom of whatever bodies of water they’re sitting in.
Perhaps after Putin's goons get kicked back to Moscow Ukraine might just lend of few to send her toys (and maybe her and her brother) to the bottom. The Ukrainian sea drones seem pretty damned awesome.
I've looked at those boats of hers. I can't see in them anything boat-like. And I think she has 7 of them. By boat-like I mean that quality in boats-- I mean the human quality boats have. And also the physical beauty. It highlights the strangeness of a woman who'd have the policy interests featured in this article. I don't mention her "educational interests" being the profit she makes from a system of punitive lending to students. I mean, she was a natural for Secretary of Ed., right?
A tempest in a teapot! Who here hasn't dismembered at least one girlfriend?
Naw, man. That sounds too much like work.
She can do it herself if that's what floats her boat, though she better cleans the tools after. ¬¬
I mean, in highschool I wrote a short story about killing my best friend while on acid and feeding her body down a garbage disposal. Thank God it was the 70s and nobody recommended me for a psych evaluation.
She knew about the story, btw. We thought it was funny at the time. And yes, we're still friends to this day.
Republican "values"? Not at all surprising!
I note the reference to Ted Bundy and his vw bug. He was just starting his "career" when I moved to Seattle. He was a very active young Republican back then who was mentored by the Republican governor, Dan Evans. I had a coworker who knew him from young Republican circles. She was very surprised the way it played out. Misogyny is a republican core competency.
To be fair, if you are good at something and you enjoy it, why wouldn’t you do it full-time? #beyourself
Yes, the trivia question is who was the first person to drive across the North Cascades Highway when it was officially opened to traffic? And the answer is Ted Bundy, who was functioning as Dan Evans's driver.
If one has serial murderer tendencies, the GOP provides the best cover of credibility.
And an insanity defense if you get busted.
That's profoundly accurate: The modern republican party has reclaimed all the traditions and values of the pre-civil war democratic party: Jeff Davis's racism, Andrew Jackson genocides, James Henry Hammond's niece rapes, Dan Sickles murdering and insanity defense. What a crew!
I'm sure Betsy, with all her millions, will contribute to make this right.
Money she got from Amway. Ick.
Important safety tips kids. Don't admit Uncle Ruckus to a college campus. Don't date Uncle Ruckus
Almost time to start chopping veg. I would be done, but there was a lot of old stuff the wife had tossed into the lower back of the fridge. Nasty stuff. It's all tossed and the storage units are washed.
My back is killing me. Time for Aleve.
A Trump supporter who's also a murderer? Perish the thought!
He's a misogynist murderer. An M&M if you will
Maybe he can shoot some shoplifters
EDIT- O/T: This is clearly NOT the open thread :O
I've been cutting back on my vices for the last fortnight- Salads and fruit for lunch, no beer on weekdays, several miles of walking- but tonight I'm treating myself and I have to say, keeping this shit as a sometimes treat is a great idea.
Yes, there's stout on the way. There may be red meat. There is most certainly solo dancing XP.
All of this could be avoided if I could get the timing of the Wonkzoom right. Sometines, I like to talk.
I did not have “Kirk — from the Enterprise — is a flat-Earther” on my BINGO card.
https://substack.com/profile/155629765-sterwonk/note/c-41044256
Karma will get you for that post.
Leader Jeffries, in counting the votes on this CR, has basically silenced the Crazy Caucus®. The whacko amendments to must pass bills are probably never going to work again. Speaker McCarthy couldn't do it ... he couldn't control the crazies. And now, Speaker McCarthy will probably be "vacated." Since their are too many crazies in the House, the chances of Mr Jeffries becoming Speaker are essentially zero. Let the slap fight and name calling begin, and may it provide wonderful entertainment for us.
Let’s put up a billboard mocking ex-Speaker Qevin when he’s unceremoniously dumped soon. I know exactly the spot on the 99!
Wait, you mean he had sex with congresswoman Spork toes for nothing? What a sucker
I'm in for $25
I'll chip in a KRUGERRAND or two!
While you are at it, cover over some of those dopey signs blaming Newsom for their chronic groundwater overpumping.
Those are usually farmers on their land. They’re still hardcore GQP even if Donnie wants to decimate their workforce and closed Chinese markets for their products.
Jeffries would be wise to reject any attempt to make him Speaker, if he has to rely on Rethug votes (and he would) to get that to happen, because you just can't trust these people. They have no honor, no integrity, no scruples.
Rep TOM TIFFANY (R-WI 7) Had some scruples with his chocolate milk yesterday. Said the milk came from the finest BROWN COWS in the DAIRY STATE. The scruples were given to him from CPAC. "So you know they gotta be good" he told ACTION NEWS.
/headdesk
And they'll blame him for all their bullshit
Odds Republicans get a new Speaker and Matt Gaetz gets a black eye are pretty high.
I dunno, who has the votes to replace him? No one I'd say. We're stuck with him for now.
I would guess that they’ll paralyze the chamber for a month or more. There is no one in the GQP who can garner the requisite votes. The Democrats in the House should just let the GQP fight it out in a nice nasty public spat.
Hit The Road, McCarthy!
Too bad his parents didn't name him Jack.
Who will want the "job?"
Black eye? These people worship guns. Matt Gaetz gets "votes" is more likely.
I will make extra popcorn to share.
Concerning Mr. McCarthy, to quote Scarface: "Eh, I never did like dat cacaroach anyway."
Kinda ot, but I hope not. Up here in Canuckistan today is a national holiday, formally known as the Day for Truth and National Reconciliation. Today is meant to honour the child victims who were taken from their families and forced to attend residential schools where the policy was to "kill the Indian and save the man." We are asked to contemplate the horrors those children and their families endured and also to reflect on how colonialism still infects our present day.
I honestly don't know if such a day will work. In fact, the cynical side of me sees it as little more than a PR move done by our national ruling party--the Liberals--about fifteen years ago. I think that Red Dress Day (May 5), an unofficial day to mark the many missing and murdered indigenous girls and women and two-spirited people, has more impact. But today is a relatively new day of remembrance and so I hope it will have an impact.
One of the ways things like this help is that it sparks conversation with kids, both at school and at home. My daughter works at a daycare, and they talk about it, in age appropriate ways, with the kids three and over. Basically "Kids were taken away from their parents, just because they were different, and that's wrong. We remember it so nobody ever tries something like that again". Even very young kids can understand that.
Survivors come into schools and tell their stories to the kids. That does have an impact.
an excellent dramatization of the attempt to erase Native American identity and culture was shown about six weeks back on "Reservation Dogs", episode 3, season 3. It is moving, well written and well acted, and I recommend it to the attention of anyone to whom this issue matters. If it doesn't get you where you live, better check to see if you have a pulse.
It's worth a try.
Every little bit helps, methinks.
Yes, it's a start. In fact, for the national government and most provincial governments to acknowledge their policies were racist and even genocidal is a place to start. Sadly, there are some politicians who think that these children were lucky to attend such schools and don't know what the kerfuffle is all about.
anything to chip away at the monstrous smugness of white people, the belief that we can still do anything we want to them, that any time any white business wants to seize more land from a reservation which is according to treaty a SOVEREIGN NATION and not just a vacant lot with a few vagrants on it.
My plans for the rest of the day after the double jab.
Couch. Movies. Ice cream. Wonkette. What's our movie tonight?
ETA: Also, remembering how to spell, but I don't swear on that one.
Spelling is overrated. Says someone who has problems with spelling.
Y'all come and sit a spell!
*set a spell, right?
I am drunk, so nap, water, more nap, look at mansions I will buy to house people when I win the Powerball tonight, movie, sleep.
Today seemed like a very good day to day drink the day away. So I am.
I’m going to be sensible and wait until at least noon before I start drinking. Wait, it’s already 12:47? Looks like I have some catching up to do.
I was running errands so did not start until 1:57 pm EST. Not that I was watching the clock or anything. Small batch vodka and fancy pants peach honeysuckle fizzy water may Seem weird, but very tasty.
I may have made two cocktails too many last night, resulting in my dear wife being hung over, so I’m just enjoying some Old Rasputin.
http://wonkmovie.com/
https://ziggywiggy.substack.com/p/wonkette-movie-night-sept-30-tucker
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1465522/?ref_=fn_al_tt_1
Question for our viewers: In this week’s movie poster, is Babby Axl fighting alongside Tucker and Dale against Evil, or is Babby Axl playing the role of Evil?
I'm going to go with the former, since he's in color in the foreground, and the EVIL seems to be just shadows in the background.
I would show up to watch Alan Tudyk read a phone book!
I AM A LEAF ON THE WIND.
In my mind he totally walked away from that crash and grows old with Zoe. Nothing you say will convince me otherwise. This is one fact I will completely ignore.
He is one of my favorite people. I really hope Resident Alien comes back soon.
He's one of those actors whose presence doesn't automatically mean the work will be good, but he will almost always be one of the best things in the work.
Have you seen him as a villain on Doom Patrol? It is an adjustment to make, seeing him in an unsympathetic role, but he plays it well.
He worked as a villain in Dollhouse. ("Alpha")
Creepy AF.
So, a lot like Alan Rickman?
Losing him and David Blake within. A week or two of each other are two of the only three celebrity deaths that really crushed me. Leonard Cohen at the end of 2016 was the third.
There was a post that week, picture of Alan Rickman saying "I am going to a very exclusive David Bowie concert, and you are not."
Bowie not Blake. Stupid autocorrect!!!!!
Good comparison!
Will this be the GQPee's new Speaker?
https://substack.com/profile/76665937-weejee/note/c-41043342?utm_source=notes-share-action&r=19n7td
Either that or the Mouth of Sauron.
yes!
Well, who else has won the Nobel for Physics and the Medal of Honor?
Physics? He won the Nobel prize for math!
There is no Nobel prize for math. Apparently Alfred Nobel had a low opinion of mathematicians. Starting in 2003 the Norwegians have been awarding the Abel Prize which is a comparable prize for mathematicians: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abel_Prize
The so-called Nobel prize in economics was devised by bankers to honor their own kind. I don't regard it as comparable to a real Nobel prize, nor to the Abel prize.
"There is no Nobel prize for math."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ngg5-uwQYI
Math and I have an understanding. I'm not it's therapist, and it can solve it's own problems.
that was after he retired from the papacy …
He would unify the conference, anyway.
Tan, rested, and ready with a supertanker full of lies.
New squeaker.
squeaker, that is the perfect name for the Raving Looney Caucus's chew toy. watching Qevin's via dolorosa so reminds one of a little squeaky toy in the mouth of a big, slobbering dog,
Got to use my battery powered hedge trimmer for the first time. It was a lot of fun. The bushes look much better.
I also surveyed the equipment for our vacation. I got the firebowl out of the box and into its bag. Next, we need to get a couple of propane tanks for it. From Walmart I need butan tanks for the tabletop stove. I have a few battery packs coming for my heated vest and seat. I feel like I am ready to not freeze!
After using the hedge trimmer did you count your fingers?
Still 11.
Have fun!!! Don't freeze!!! Freezing is bad!!!
This sounds like a fun group.
“San Francisco Republican Party County Central Committee”
a/k/a the Legion of Doom
More like The Guild of Calamitous Intent.
If you don't attend do they send you to the gulag?
New rule: Group W bench.
If someone doesn’t attend, they have to give up the room in the library. 4 person minimum.
Do they stink the way tramp thinks Beverly Hills people do?
They’re always looking for a 5th player for their B-ball team
There really is no San Francisco County. Look at a map and the boundaries are the same as the city.
Mayor London Breed. More or less.
What I mean is, the city and the county are exactly the same.
In square mileage, sure. But functions are different
San Francisco, officially the City and County of San Francisco, is the commercial, financial, and cultural center of Northern California. The city proper is the fourth most populous city in California, with 808,437 residents, and the 17th most populous city in the United States as of 2022. Wikipedia
The whole group can fit in a booth at a diner.
the image of being trapped in a corner of a diner booth with such vermin is enough to put you off your feed.
Could fit in a telephone booth if you remember those things.
Telephone booths were obsolete back in the late 70's, as the first Christopher Reeves Superman film played up for a great sight gag.