Updated to note that the attacker in Ohio was the *brother* of a sex creep who had volunteered for a GOP campaign and was fired.
The attacker himself was just a violent creep with no known sex crime history (though he did once to steal 3 DVDs from a supermarket), and we don't know much more about him yet. (Wonkette doesn't regret the error because it was originally in the Columbus Dispatch, which quietly updated its story)
Wotta loser this guy is! Get back to me when he's shoplifted 8 track tapes from the thrift store. Because then I'll be able to sell him that old 8 track player I got for $2 at the police auction 25 years ago. Capitalism FTW!
Were? You act as if that's in the past, when there's a nice spinner of overpriced "just released" movie DVD's near the checkstands, plus a full bin of discount DVD's (ok, not exactly recent releases) at our tiny supermarket. THE PAST LIVES!
That's why I have such faith in the accuracy of Wonkette's reporting. If all news outlets were so fastidious in confirming initial reports and correcting errors, this country wouldn't be such a shithole.
All of the male hummingbirds have left for migration. But I'm still filling the feeders with fresh nectar every other day because the females are eating up a storm. Probably to gain weight for their own migrations.
Every time I think of a hummingbird gaining weight I start smiling. I'm thinking 1/2 Ounce??
When I visit LA in a few weeks we’ll probably go to the Huntington Library, which has one of the few original printings of Audubon’s Birds of America, an enormous book with life-size prints of each bird. They turn the page once a week to show a new plate.
Oh, lucky you! When I visited years ago I happened upon a Gutenberg Bible. Ask me how thrilled I was???! Yow!
I adore the Huntington. The paintings, some famous, vast gardens with marvellous and mysterious plants I had never encountered before, the building and grounds, and most importantly The Rose Garden Tea Room where I could (genteelly) gorge myself on cucumber sandwiches and scones with jam and clotted cream. I do have my priorities. Heaven.
teacher told us when we were seven that back in the Middle Ages, the only book in town was on a chain and every one in town who could read could read that page, and then the next day a man would come and turn the page, so that everyone in town who could read could read that page, we just thought it was Calvinist guilt to make us grateful for Gutenburg and libraries and Scholastic, but now we are like Rollerball, where all the books are on computers, and our forum are competing podcasts that no one watches. Holy dystopia, Batman!
Anyway, Rosh Hashana is on Friday, beginning at sundown on 9/11, and I need to get a card into the mail today to wish my Jewish neice and nephew and two great nephews a prosperous and blessed New Year.
FDR ran on the New Deal compact, and I think Teddy or someone else ran on a Square Deal compact. How 'bout we have a president run on a "Fact-Based" compact with Americans, unstead of all these delusional based (think RFK, Jr) people.
Does Trump pay for his Truth Social account or does he charge it to the government? I don't think the government should be paying for what is essentially his private social media. Also I don't think the people generating all these disgusting memes should be government employees.
I used to have a sailboat. It was berthed in King Harbor in SoCal. I lived 300 miles away and went down most weekends to do maintenance on her, and sometimes even go sailing. I got a phone call one day from the Harbor Patrol telling me they had recovered my boat from the bottom of the harbor. Someone stole her and scuttled her on the breakwater. I had to pay big bucks to have her raised and hauled to a friend's yard. She was a total loss, though we eventually got her seaworthy again. In the interim, an LA Sheriff's Office helicopter spotter her behind the fence and took a picture of the registration number. They started sending me tax bills on a hulk. I mailed them the title and said take the boat, I'm not paying. After years of fighting, you know they prevailed. Still mad about it.
It’s a dumb troll, floating the idea of renaming NM, but…New America is so blue they created paid childcare jobs for family members, paid for w/ taxes on oil & gas.
They're small sucker potatoes and losers. Killed in the Strait of America by a country that I'm sure will shortly be renamed as Middle East America, on the planet America, which circles the star America in the Milfy Way galaxy. Pretty sure he hasn't thought of renaming galaxies. Yet.
Ta, Rebecca. Ta, Martini. I just finished the terrific fruit bowl darling Meccalopolis made before going to work. Will today be his last day, or will he be going back tomorrow for a final time? I also have flowery green tea, and just made myself a slice of elitist avocado toast. Coffee time! 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, catch up on any other vaccines you need, and get any kids in your family vaccinated as well, 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, Holly's heroic pilot friend Tony, Dolly Parton, who put up a million dollars of her own money to make the Moderna vaccine possible, and nearly eight million dead worldwide, possibly including Gav, who had long COVID. Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel (we love you, medicos of Wonkette, from student to active to retired), especially ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark RN. Stay safe. When we vote, we WIN!!
"now here’s a fun, true story. when Donny’s tyrant Klansman father Fred was completely lost to Alzheimer’s, his family built him a fake office where he would go every day to sign fake papers and have fake phone conversations with his secretary. having a familiar place to go every day kept old Fred happy and out of trouble."
Okay, just define the White House as temporarily fake. We’ve gone almost two years with a barely functioning administration. Why let its lies and subversion pass its walls?
the dead troops' families don't get benefits because we're not at war, but we're changing the seal of DHS so the eagle looks at the arrows instead of the palms because we're at war.
Updated to note that the attacker in Ohio was the *brother* of a sex creep who had volunteered for a GOP campaign and was fired.
The attacker himself was just a violent creep with no known sex crime history (though he did once to steal 3 DVDs from a supermarket), and we don't know much more about him yet. (Wonkette doesn't regret the error because it was originally in the Columbus Dispatch, which quietly updated its story)
I fell for it too. I will have to make some updates of my own. Thank you.
Emphasis on “known”.
IT WOULD BE IRRESPONSIBLE *NOT* TO SPECULATE.
DVD's from a supermarket?
Wotta loser this guy is! Get back to me when he's shoplifted 8 track tapes from the thrift store. Because then I'll be able to sell him that old 8 track player I got for $2 at the police auction 25 years ago. Capitalism FTW!
He's obviously a communist, trying to seize the means of movie distribution by stealing dvds at the grocery store.
DVDs at the supermarket? Those were the days, my friend.
Were? You act as if that's in the past, when there's a nice spinner of overpriced "just released" movie DVD's near the checkstands, plus a full bin of discount DVD's (ok, not exactly recent releases) at our tiny supermarket. THE PAST LIVES!
He just HAD to watch "God's Not Dead 2".
That's why I have such faith in the accuracy of Wonkette's reporting. If all news outlets were so fastidious in confirming initial reports and correcting errors, this country wouldn't be such a shithole.
Not trans. Not drag queen. Not immigrant. Not Leftie.
At the top of the Gurgle search page: a link to the BBC report.
Remember "The Whole World is Watching"
Error? Minor discrepancy.
ISWYDT
No sex crime history, meaning possibly hasn't been caught yet. I'd ask Eric Metaxas about it. His name is an anagram for "at a sex crime."
No cake for Vivek.
Your birdtacular gif of the day: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/the-beauty-of-birds
And your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/616ac12e-fc1f-403c-b055-a5142ff19d0c?utm_source=share
That was fascinating.
♫ The bird is a word ♪
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-4J1zyrW_VQ
Capercaillie Lammergeier Cassowary!
We be birding!
All of the male hummingbirds have left for migration. But I'm still filling the feeders with fresh nectar every other day because the females are eating up a storm. Probably to gain weight for their own migrations.
Every time I think of a hummingbird gaining weight I start smiling. I'm thinking 1/2 Ounce??
Oh, thank you! In my dotage, I've come to be an avid birder! I had ducks fly over my head on my walk this a.m. !
Owl at the awards ceremony :
"I'd like to thank all of the little peepers"
When I visit LA in a few weeks we’ll probably go to the Huntington Library, which has one of the few original printings of Audubon’s Birds of America, an enormous book with life-size prints of each bird. They turn the page once a week to show a new plate.
https://www.huntington.org/watch-read-listen/verso/big-page-turner
I believe there is another set of originals at the Field Museum in Chicago
That wouldn't surprise me. I love the Field Museum.
Oh, lucky you! When I visited years ago I happened upon a Gutenberg Bible. Ask me how thrilled I was???! Yow!
I adore the Huntington. The paintings, some famous, vast gardens with marvellous and mysterious plants I had never encountered before, the building and grounds, and most importantly The Rose Garden Tea Room where I could (genteelly) gorge myself on cucumber sandwiches and scones with jam and clotted cream. I do have my priorities. Heaven.
Envy. Enjoy!
Oh dear. When my Sunday School
teacher told us when we were seven that back in the Middle Ages, the only book in town was on a chain and every one in town who could read could read that page, and then the next day a man would come and turn the page, so that everyone in town who could read could read that page, we just thought it was Calvinist guilt to make us grateful for Gutenburg and libraries and Scholastic, but now we are like Rollerball, where all the books are on computers, and our forum are competing podcasts that no one watches. Holy dystopia, Batman!
Anyway, Rosh Hashana is on Friday, beginning at sundown on 9/11, and I need to get a card into the mail today to wish my Jewish neice and nephew and two great nephews a prosperous and blessed New Year.
Mail truck no roll day after shabbos.
🤣🤣🤣
Aw, so cool!
Thems be birbs.
I just knew this was going to be Audubon!
Birbs!
Mamdani is embarrassing both sides by walking his talk at a steady pace. And becoming more popular by the day.
“No Tab Pete.” One suspects some bartenders would disagree.
FDR ran on the New Deal compact, and I think Teddy or someone else ran on a Square Deal compact. How 'bout we have a president run on a "Fact-Based" compact with Americans, unstead of all these delusional based (think RFK, Jr) people.
Does Trump pay for his Truth Social account or does he charge it to the government? I don't think the government should be paying for what is essentially his private social media. Also I don't think the people generating all these disgusting memes should be government employees.
Taxing private planes, or private yachts or extra homes all sound like good ideas.
I used to have a sailboat. It was berthed in King Harbor in SoCal. I lived 300 miles away and went down most weekends to do maintenance on her, and sometimes even go sailing. I got a phone call one day from the Harbor Patrol telling me they had recovered my boat from the bottom of the harbor. Someone stole her and scuttled her on the breakwater. I had to pay big bucks to have her raised and hauled to a friend's yard. She was a total loss, though we eventually got her seaworthy again. In the interim, an LA Sheriff's Office helicopter spotter her behind the fence and took a picture of the registration number. They started sending me tax bills on a hulk. I mailed them the title and said take the boat, I'm not paying. After years of fighting, you know they prevailed. Still mad about it.
It’s a dumb troll, floating the idea of renaming NM, but…New America is so blue they created paid childcare jobs for family members, paid for w/ taxes on oil & gas.
May the God of all consolation comfort her and keep her with Him, Rebecca.
So are the dead soldiers 'small potatoes' or 'losers'? This regime needs to get its story straight.
They're small sucker potatoes and losers. Killed in the Strait of America by a country that I'm sure will shortly be renamed as Middle East America, on the planet America, which circles the star America in the Milfy Way galaxy. Pretty sure he hasn't thought of renaming galaxies. Yet.
I would say don't give him ideas, but I don't think he can read.
Did we even have 2500 troop deaths not related to combat or accidents in 2021? Because that seems wrong.
Birds are geniuses. Bugfuck nutbrains not so much.
Ta, Rebecca. Ta, Martini. I just finished the terrific fruit bowl darling Meccalopolis made before going to work. Will today be his last day, or will he be going back tomorrow for a final time? I also have flowery green tea, and just made myself a slice of elitist avocado toast. Coffee time! 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, catch up on any other vaccines you need, and get any kids in your family vaccinated as well, 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, Holly's heroic pilot friend Tony, Dolly Parton, who put up a million dollars of her own money to make the Moderna vaccine possible, and nearly eight million dead worldwide, possibly including Gav, who had long COVID. Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel (we love you, medicos of Wonkette, from student to active to retired), especially ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark RN. Stay safe. When we vote, we WIN!!
Slava Ukraini. 🌻🇺🇦💙💛
From Tiedrich:
"now here’s a fun, true story. when Donny’s tyrant Klansman father Fred was completely lost to Alzheimer’s, his family built him a fake office where he would go every day to sign fake papers and have fake phone conversations with his secretary. having a familiar place to go every day kept old Fred happy and out of trouble."
Okay, just define the White House as temporarily fake. We’ve gone almost two years with a barely functioning administration. Why let its lies and subversion pass its walls?
Glad what "No Tab Pete" means is explained in the link, you're right, that's gotta hurt.
the dead troops' families don't get benefits because we're not at war, but we're changing the seal of DHS so the eagle looks at the arrows instead of the palms because we're at war.
OK.