We had a cat who liked sushi (except that he'd eat around the watercress), and he especially loved the nori. I could get his rapt attention by holding up a sheet of nori and tearing off a strip for him. One time my husband made him what he called a kitty reefer, catnip rolled in a strip of nori. Once was enough for us.
The other night I fell asleep right in this chair. No biggie, happens every night...but I woke up and thought "why is this bowl still full of food?". I had fallen out while *still eating dinner*. LOLSOB.
The things the Trump regime is threatening to do, from attacking all manner of free speech to killing veterans benefits to cutting Medicare/Medicaid are terrifying. But remember, we’re not supposed to take Trump “literally” when he and his minions say they want to gut our freedoms and take away benefits we’ve earned. Just because he repeatedly threatens to let the leopard eat our faces doesn’t mean he will actually do it.
And if he does, the leopard will totally only eat the faces of people we hate, right?
I agree. Pardon everybody who has been wrongly convicted by prejudiced or corrupt criminal justice in the United States. Pardon people like Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu Jamal, and Stephen Donziger. Look at the list of people Amnesty International has compiled for the United States. Look at the Innocence Project. Please!
I have heard people propose that some high-profile individuals who are now under suspicion of being Democrats or sympathizers of Democrats be pardoned PRE-EMPTIVELY. I do not understand this. Can somebody help me understand this? I am largely ignorant of US-American criminal law, so keep this in mind when I say that I have two problems with the proposal of "pre-emptive pardons."
1. Firstly, how does a pre-emptive pardon work? Suppose President Biden pre-emptively pardons me. Does this mean that I get to commit my next crime for free, or that alternatively, the next time Republicans in the US Congress try to charge me falsely with some crime, I can say "Haha, I have a get-out-of-jail-free card"? But what happens the SECOND time congressional Republicans falsely accuse me of a crime? How ... does ... this ... work?
2. Secondly, I remember dimly in 2016 that somebody in the ACLU proposed that President Barack Obama should pardon George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for war crimes committed during their time in office. Yes, you read that right. The reason for this proposal was that this pardon would demonstrate that President Obama implicitly held Bush and Cheney responsible for war crimes (such as lying to justify the Second Iraq War and using the US Armed Forces to torture prisoners of war), even though Bush and Cheney were never tried or convicted. The point was to create a permanent official record stating that President Obama believed that Bush and Cheney should have been tried and convicted of war crimes, even though our US Congress was incapable of doing so.
So if President Biden pre-emptively pardons someone, for example Dr. Anthony Fauci, will he be effectively admitting that Fauci had committed a crime? Because this would be the WRONG message to send. Dr. Fauci never did anything wrong, so it makes no sense to me that President Biden should pardon him.
Mumia Abu Jamal was convicted in state court so Biden can’t pardon him.
Preemptively pardons have been a thing since at least Ford pardoning Nixon. They do, however, come with a tacit admission of guilt. So if, say Fauci accepts a pardon, republicans can point to that and say he’s admitting guilt to whatever crimes they make up. So some people might refuse pardons on that grounds.
But they’ll have to weigh the hit their reputation would take against the cost of spending years paying lawyers to fight bogus charges in court with the stakes being years in prison if they lose. This is how authoritarian regimes roll. And it’s why people from Scarborough to Bezos are surrendering in advance.
I am deeply, strongly opposed to the American military. We use it post-post-colonial fights, we use it to oppress people. Even in (eg) Iraq, when we tried to help rebuild infrastructure, we did it stupidly and ineffectively.
I could go on (and on and on and on).
BUT. Whatever wrong the government may have done with young lives and souls, there's a fundamental promise that if you do this thing we'll take care of you. That should be sacrosanct. Pay the vets. Take care of their health.
Turns out sports gambling is not that profitable for anybody. Casinos in Vegas never made money from it. They offered it as an accommodation for their gamblers. Slots, cards and dice games, the odds all favor the casino, guaranteed Not sports betting, they know that. States that had hopes of windfall tax revenues, are still hoping. The online casinos are limiting bets from winners. Apparently the pro gamblers were feasting on FanDuel and DraftKings. Which led to them treating the pros like "card counters" and banning them. Many of the "pros" in the story I read had started gambling as card counters, interesting. The gruesome toll gambling takes on people's lives is certainly not worth any amount of "tax revenue" or greed. California rejected that shit, unequivocally, last time they tried. There's plenty of other gambling choices in CA, don't need more. They'll be back though, they're greedy.
Cognitive dissonance and middle aged eyesight are an interesting pair. I was looked at records online: "Lou Reed and his Orchestra? He made a big band record? How did I not...oh, it says Les Reed and his Orchestra. Makes more sense"
Your hed gif source info: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/trippin-tuxie-touches-toes
And a meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/805892b0-6c50-4283-8387-ee766c2fb6cf?utm_source=share
She's been hitting the 'nip again hasn't she? "1, 2, 3... 3... how many toes am I spozed to have??"
I'm am overtaken by the cute. Happy kitty.
Judgemental cat is judgemental. "Who's the moron that designed this thing to be so far from my mouth? Seriously, who?"
SQUEE! I love cats and their toe beans. Thank you Martini!
Kitteh: Hmm, I wonder if these feetsies are as tasties as babby otter feetsies...
I love the focus that kitties show certain tasks--it cracks me up!
I once toured the home that Hemingway had in Key West. The cats there all had six toes on each paw.
Next door neighbor had a poly. That cat was mean.
Those kittehs are famous!
They acted like they knew it, too.
Ugh, foot cramps! I hate those!
The kittah seems to be admiring its rear murder foot.
Have you ever really LOOKED at your toes?
Catnip is the Cannabis of Cats...
We had a cat who liked sushi (except that he'd eat around the watercress), and he especially loved the nori. I could get his rapt attention by holding up a sheet of nori and tearing off a strip for him. One time my husband made him what he called a kitty reefer, catnip rolled in a strip of nori. Once was enough for us.
Yes, and they're UGLY.
Cat nip man.
Not even once!
Nice! A morning toes-t.
OH,,,there you are. :)
I fell asleep! I guess I’m still catching up with my jet lag.
The other night I fell asleep right in this chair. No biggie, happens every night...but I woke up and thought "why is this bowl still full of food?". I had fallen out while *still eating dinner*. LOLSOB.
Ah, Suzanne. Thanks for that video.
Joe pardoning Dr. Fauci was just a rumor. But maybe he should. Imaginary criming is the worst thing you can do to MAGAhats and Qnuts.
The things the Trump regime is threatening to do, from attacking all manner of free speech to killing veterans benefits to cutting Medicare/Medicaid are terrifying. But remember, we’re not supposed to take Trump “literally” when he and his minions say they want to gut our freedoms and take away benefits we’ve earned. Just because he repeatedly threatens to let the leopard eat our faces doesn’t mean he will actually do it.
And if he does, the leopard will totally only eat the faces of people we hate, right?
I think Cohen explained his ethnicity in the song "Almost Like the Blues" on his wonderful album "Popular Problems."
♪♫ So I let my heart get frozen to keep away the rot.
My father says I’m chosen; my mother says I’m not.
I listened to their story of the Gypsies and the Jews:
It was good, it wasn't boring!
It was almost like the blues. ♪♫
Re bounties. Just a reminder that the neighbor of the Frank family turned them to the dutch equivalent of the Gestapo for a reward of, like, $3.78...
Will the bounty hunters be protected from any civil or criminal liability if they go after citizens or legal immigrants by “mistake?”
An "oopsie! my bad." will get them off.
"Yes, Joe Biden, just pardon everyone please!"
*** *** ***
I agree. Pardon everybody who has been wrongly convicted by prejudiced or corrupt criminal justice in the United States. Pardon people like Leonard Peltier, Mumia Abu Jamal, and Stephen Donziger. Look at the list of people Amnesty International has compiled for the United States. Look at the Innocence Project. Please!
I have heard people propose that some high-profile individuals who are now under suspicion of being Democrats or sympathizers of Democrats be pardoned PRE-EMPTIVELY. I do not understand this. Can somebody help me understand this? I am largely ignorant of US-American criminal law, so keep this in mind when I say that I have two problems with the proposal of "pre-emptive pardons."
1. Firstly, how does a pre-emptive pardon work? Suppose President Biden pre-emptively pardons me. Does this mean that I get to commit my next crime for free, or that alternatively, the next time Republicans in the US Congress try to charge me falsely with some crime, I can say "Haha, I have a get-out-of-jail-free card"? But what happens the SECOND time congressional Republicans falsely accuse me of a crime? How ... does ... this ... work?
2. Secondly, I remember dimly in 2016 that somebody in the ACLU proposed that President Barack Obama should pardon George W. Bush and Dick Cheney for war crimes committed during their time in office. Yes, you read that right. The reason for this proposal was that this pardon would demonstrate that President Obama implicitly held Bush and Cheney responsible for war crimes (such as lying to justify the Second Iraq War and using the US Armed Forces to torture prisoners of war), even though Bush and Cheney were never tried or convicted. The point was to create a permanent official record stating that President Obama believed that Bush and Cheney should have been tried and convicted of war crimes, even though our US Congress was incapable of doing so.
So if President Biden pre-emptively pardons someone, for example Dr. Anthony Fauci, will he be effectively admitting that Fauci had committed a crime? Because this would be the WRONG message to send. Dr. Fauci never did anything wrong, so it makes no sense to me that President Biden should pardon him.
Mumia Abu Jamal was convicted in state court so Biden can’t pardon him.
Preemptively pardons have been a thing since at least Ford pardoning Nixon. They do, however, come with a tacit admission of guilt. So if, say Fauci accepts a pardon, republicans can point to that and say he’s admitting guilt to whatever crimes they make up. So some people might refuse pardons on that grounds.
But they’ll have to weigh the hit their reputation would take against the cost of spending years paying lawyers to fight bogus charges in court with the stakes being years in prison if they lose. This is how authoritarian regimes roll. And it’s why people from Scarborough to Bezos are surrendering in advance.
For anyone who wants to see what the final moments of a bug look like, from the perspective of the bug . . . https://bsky.app/profile/satanicpancake.bsky.social/post/3lcnuyqhct22l
My only gambling is eating whatever it is I've pulled out of the refrigerator. Or grabbed off the counter after it's been sitting out for a day or to.
Crypto IS legalized gambling, and the house ALWAYS wins.
> Oh no oh no, “bounties” for turning in immigrants would be very very bad. I assume it will absolutely happen. I am so sorry, immigrant friends.
Worked for Stalin. Worked for Hitler.
Can we agree to call him K-A$$
I am deeply, strongly opposed to the American military. We use it post-post-colonial fights, we use it to oppress people. Even in (eg) Iraq, when we tried to help rebuild infrastructure, we did it stupidly and ineffectively.
I could go on (and on and on and on).
BUT. Whatever wrong the government may have done with young lives and souls, there's a fundamental promise that if you do this thing we'll take care of you. That should be sacrosanct. Pay the vets. Take care of their health.
And for the love of fucking God: FREE LEORNARD PELTIER!
Let him go home and have some years of peace with his family, his community.
FREE LEONARD PELTIER!
Turns out sports gambling is not that profitable for anybody. Casinos in Vegas never made money from it. They offered it as an accommodation for their gamblers. Slots, cards and dice games, the odds all favor the casino, guaranteed Not sports betting, they know that. States that had hopes of windfall tax revenues, are still hoping. The online casinos are limiting bets from winners. Apparently the pro gamblers were feasting on FanDuel and DraftKings. Which led to them treating the pros like "card counters" and banning them. Many of the "pros" in the story I read had started gambling as card counters, interesting. The gruesome toll gambling takes on people's lives is certainly not worth any amount of "tax revenue" or greed. California rejected that shit, unequivocally, last time they tried. There's plenty of other gambling choices in CA, don't need more. They'll be back though, they're greedy.
Cognitive dissonance and middle aged eyesight are an interesting pair. I was looked at records online: "Lou Reed and his Orchestra? He made a big band record? How did I not...oh, it says Les Reed and his Orchestra. Makes more sense"