I am so sorry. I'm not familiar with either you or Tater, but I'm familiar with losing pets who have been my faithful companions. Several months ago I had to say goodbye to Xiong Mao, a 17-year-old cat who lived with us since he was rescued from a storm drain at the age of 6 weeks. Even those who don't know you are holding you in our hearts today.
Thanks. I have lived in my house 37 years, and the yard has become a burial ground for 5 dogs and 15 cats. Every one had a distinct personality, I grieved for them all, and I still miss every single one. May you find some comfort in the coming days, and know you're among people who understand that it's natural and human to grieve for an animal friend.
I don’t know how I would’ve made it through losing Cordelia without the support I found here. Easter weekend, 2020. Couldn’t go into the clinic with her so I had to pass her through the window, my car in the parking lot, not knowing that would be the last time I’d see her. Still hurts.
Oy vey. It's been a tumultuous week, with more to come next week. And I think I pulled my flexor hip muscles on my right (dominant) side. Do not recommend. I'm icing it and trying to use my left side more. I'm staying safe and making sure I'm resting it, too.
But honestly, I've been through worse. Our motel room is set up nicely, everything seems to be going smoothly with the paperwork, Farrah is camping out over at Menotsure's and loving it, and our son's made it safely to Albuquerque. So I'm not complaining. I'll be very happy when it's done, though! Thanks for checking in, love!
BTW, a few days ago the easy to look at yet vacuous local news anchor and the weatherman were talking about Charlotte's web and she said something like "It's been so long since I've seen it." The weatherman quickly said, "I've never seen it but have read the book many times."
Had a friend who adopted a pot bellied pig and kept it until it got over 100 lbs then god knows what happened to it. Anyway, her and hubby named it "Wheat." You know, "wheeeat wheeeeeeat wheeat!"
Mrs. Paxton divorcing Mr. Paxton on biblical grounds. The National Republican Senate Committee releases a statement saying they are disgusted and repulsed.
They say the one thing that can totally derail a politician's career is a dead girl or a live boy in their bed.
We know the Republican Party doesn't give a flying fuck about dead girls.
Dear Gov. Abbott: It's called "root cause analysis" you deflecting a-hole! Losing teams ask the question so that they can figure out what went wrong and fix it. If you're trying to pass off what happened last week as the results of championship teamwork, people aren't buying it!!
I hope your particular road to Hell is covered in deep, soft sand.
Edit: Mixed up two Texas a-holes: Abbott and Paxton
Excellent post about Justice Jackson. She is literally speaking truth to power.
She is also documenting to the rest of the world and to history about what is going down as someone who is extremely knowledgeable and was there to hear every argument.
I grew up in Texas. The dozens of camps in the Kerrville area are where Texans have sent their kids for generations. They're a kind of sacred ground for people in the state. There was a time that, if public officials had been this reckless with the lives of Texans' children, people wouldn't have waited for lawsuits to make their way through the courts.
But I knew something had changed about the people when I saw how Texans gave a pass to Ted Cruz. Time was, if some politician accused your father of killing JFK and said your wife was ugly, as Donald Trump did to Ted, you'd have been judged as something less than a real Texan if you didn't respond by whipping that politician's ass, or getting your own ass whipped while trying. But Ted just snuggled up to Trump like a puppy. I still have a lot of family there who don't deserve the regime they have to live under, but in the main Texas is getting the disasters it voted for.
"GOD DAMN THEM TO HELL. They are banning immigrant children from fucking Head Start."
This is LITERALLY the very same shit that flipped California from generally Red to reliably Blue back in the nineties. Proposition 187 barring undocumented from state services did pass, but the voters almost immediately regretted it. (That's actually kind of a feature of our initiative process).
Conventional wisdom is that Hispanics both flipped and organized following 187's passage, a neat explanation that's certainly supportive of White Replacement theories. The reality is messy and complicated, consensus about what imeans is nonexistent, and supports what someone who bases opinion on what they can observe rather than what pundits say feels in their guts: opinions about immigration changed rapidly across the board, with bigotry taking a big hit. The same thing happened with Proposition 8, banning gay marriage. That also won, but it burned out the core of bigotry that supported it in the process.
I like to think that California is special that way, but is it? The only thing that's truly different about California is that we're a sort of super-America, tomorrow's America today.
I'm so tired of all the sales come-ons, masquerading as 'do this/buy this/here's how it'll [make your life perfect].' Imagine if so much energy were spent on actually making lives better. And the crap has become so blatant, so ubiquitous, that it feels like one big, continuous slap in the face. 'Human? Pffft. You don't matter; it's all about your money.'
I am pasting this all over the place here. Crawling through wormholes and popping out of portals, saying, oh yeah, by the way, this reminds me in every article here, because it pleases me to post this unpleasantry. And I think everyone needs to know what her priorities are right now.
I'm sure she wants everyone to pick the first one since it has a Native American feel to it, and that's the closest she'll ever get to being invited on a Reservation.
“Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is going to profit off privatizing the National Weather Service because obviously”.
I remember reading about this (privatizing the NWS, or at least NOAA) in Michael Lewis’s “The Fifth Risk”, written during the first TRump shitshow. AccuWeather lobbied (and keeps lobbying) Congress to allow AccuWeather to monitize weather reporting using data gathered by NOAA. TRump 1.0’s pick for the head of NOAA was Barry Myers, whos brother Joel runs AccuWeather (source: CNN article “Trump’s pick to lead NOAA pushed for privatizing weather data”, Oct 14, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/14/politics/noaa-nominee-accuweather/index.html).
Happy Friday! Your hed gif source info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/petite-piglets
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/5b35b549-b515-4703-b034-e8c61ba9e0da?utm_source=share
This isn't my best day. Tater has passed.
I'm so sorry. You gave him a life full of love, that's the best any of us can do. It sucks to lose them, but life would be so empty without them
You are so right about that.
As a child , they'll listen to your trials and tribulations, as an adult , your heart aches , heartbreaks, and general life woes.
They needn't speak. Yet they understand.
Oh no, sweet Tater! I’m so sorry, Menot! Hugs to you.
Thanks. This house feels very empty today.
I'm really sorry for your loss, Menotsure.
And, yes. That empty house feeling is certainly awful.
I am so sorry for your loss. 💙
I am so sorry. I'm not familiar with either you or Tater, but I'm familiar with losing pets who have been my faithful companions. Several months ago I had to say goodbye to Xiong Mao, a 17-year-old cat who lived with us since he was rescued from a storm drain at the age of 6 weeks. Even those who don't know you are holding you in our hearts today.
Sorry about your cat. I am boarding a friend's cat and she is a sweetheart. She is very comforting right now.
Thanks. I have lived in my house 37 years, and the yard has become a burial ground for 5 dogs and 15 cats. Every one had a distinct personality, I grieved for them all, and I still miss every single one. May you find some comfort in the coming days, and know you're among people who understand that it's natural and human to grieve for an animal friend.
I'm sorry to see this. As OHJB would say, one day you'll think about him and smile at the memory.
I am so sorry. They demand so little of us and give so much to us. It is heartbreaking to have to let them go.
Damnit.
Someone is always gonna be in the Wonkitchen with a cup of tea and time to listen if you wanna talk.
Community is why I keep coming. It is very human place.
I don’t know how I would’ve made it through losing Cordelia without the support I found here. Easter weekend, 2020. Couldn’t go into the clinic with her so I had to pass her through the window, my car in the parking lot, not knowing that would be the last time I’d see her. Still hurts.
We get it.
Happy Friday, Martini! Thank you so much for always brightening my day. You truly have a gift!
And the move? How did that go? How's the beautiful Farrah?
Oy vey. It's been a tumultuous week, with more to come next week. And I think I pulled my flexor hip muscles on my right (dominant) side. Do not recommend. I'm icing it and trying to use my left side more. I'm staying safe and making sure I'm resting it, too.
But honestly, I've been through worse. Our motel room is set up nicely, everything seems to be going smoothly with the paperwork, Farrah is camping out over at Menotsure's and loving it, and our son's made it safely to Albuquerque. So I'm not complaining. I'll be very happy when it's done, though! Thanks for checking in, love!
Piggies!! They are so cute when they are babies.
Of course...so are people, and look what happens to them.
signed,
Grumpy Old Woman
Definitely not ice pigs.
O buon giorno pigoletti
Future porchetta
Pigoletto (aside): “Han tutto fatto il colpo?”
Ten thousand squees Martini.
I knew you’d approve, Weej 😉
Omigosh it's wee piglets! 💕 Snuffling!
I'll have one of those, and one of those, and I will teach them tricks. They're super cute when they get the zoomies.
Oh, no! I just ate some of their cousin!
Well, these are inedible, as all pet pigs are. I have ruled.
Yeah thanks a LOT, you bacon ruiner!!!!!!!
I'm glad I had my weekly BLT before I saw this.
Yeaaahhh, won't be having any for some time. 😿
N̶ice pig.
"Some pig!"
BTW, a few days ago the easy to look at yet vacuous local news anchor and the weatherman were talking about Charlotte's web and she said something like "It's been so long since I've seen it." The weatherman quickly said, "I've never seen it but have read the book many times."
It has been dramatized for both film and TV, so she could still be vacuous but not wrong.
Thank
You !
Perfect.
Had a friend who adopted a pot bellied pig and kept it until it got over 100 lbs then god knows what happened to it. Anyway, her and hubby named it "Wheat." You know, "wheeeat wheeeeeeat wheeat!"
So cute! It's an insult to call bad people pigs - an insult to pigs, that is.
ETA: Glad that I clicked and heard those sweet piggies snorting. Made my day!
"Really, this one is worth clicking on for sound, sourced below. Those little snorts are too cute."
Sure are. Sincere too. Those piggies are pretty happy with life...
snooty cuties
Squeeeeeeeeeeze me
Nem Nướng Cuon!
Should be nice and steamy that time of year...
Mrs. Paxton divorcing Mr. Paxton on biblical grounds. The National Republican Senate Committee releases a statement saying they are disgusted and repulsed.
They say the one thing that can totally derail a politician's career is a dead girl or a live boy in their bed.
We know the Republican Party doesn't give a flying fuck about dead girls.
Dear Gov. Abbott: It's called "root cause analysis" you deflecting a-hole! Losing teams ask the question so that they can figure out what went wrong and fix it. If you're trying to pass off what happened last week as the results of championship teamwork, people aren't buying it!!
I hope your particular road to Hell is covered in deep, soft sand.
Edit: Mixed up two Texas a-holes: Abbott and Paxton
"I am not going to evolve into a crab. Instead I am going to the San Juans next week where I am going to catch them and eat them!"
I seem to recall something about 'you are what you eat' though?
Excellent post about Justice Jackson. She is literally speaking truth to power.
She is also documenting to the rest of the world and to history about what is going down as someone who is extremely knowledgeable and was there to hear every argument.
I grew up in Texas. The dozens of camps in the Kerrville area are where Texans have sent their kids for generations. They're a kind of sacred ground for people in the state. There was a time that, if public officials had been this reckless with the lives of Texans' children, people wouldn't have waited for lawsuits to make their way through the courts.
But I knew something had changed about the people when I saw how Texans gave a pass to Ted Cruz. Time was, if some politician accused your father of killing JFK and said your wife was ugly, as Donald Trump did to Ted, you'd have been judged as something less than a real Texan if you didn't respond by whipping that politician's ass, or getting your own ass whipped while trying. But Ted just snuggled up to Trump like a puppy. I still have a lot of family there who don't deserve the regime they have to live under, but in the main Texas is getting the disasters it voted for.
As a Coloradan, I just want to say that Kyle Clark is a fucking treasure, and we love him.
"GOD DAMN THEM TO HELL. They are banning immigrant children from fucking Head Start."
This is LITERALLY the very same shit that flipped California from generally Red to reliably Blue back in the nineties. Proposition 187 barring undocumented from state services did pass, but the voters almost immediately regretted it. (That's actually kind of a feature of our initiative process).
Conventional wisdom is that Hispanics both flipped and organized following 187's passage, a neat explanation that's certainly supportive of White Replacement theories. The reality is messy and complicated, consensus about what imeans is nonexistent, and supports what someone who bases opinion on what they can observe rather than what pundits say feels in their guts: opinions about immigration changed rapidly across the board, with bigotry taking a big hit. The same thing happened with Proposition 8, banning gay marriage. That also won, but it burned out the core of bigotry that supported it in the process.
I like to think that California is special that way, but is it? The only thing that's truly different about California is that we're a sort of super-America, tomorrow's America today.
California Proposition 187:
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_187
It bares repeating, for Republicans, "Cruelty is the point."
I'm so tired of all the sales come-ons, masquerading as 'do this/buy this/here's how it'll [make your life perfect].' Imagine if so much energy were spent on actually making lives better. And the crap has become so blatant, so ubiquitous, that it feels like one big, continuous slap in the face. 'Human? Pffft. You don't matter; it's all about your money.'
I am pasting this all over the place here. Crawling through wormholes and popping out of portals, saying, oh yeah, by the way, this reminds me in every article here, because it pleases me to post this unpleasantry. And I think everyone needs to know what her priorities are right now.
https://www.instagram.com/p/DLyjaZ5s51o/
I'm sure she wants everyone to pick the first one since it has a Native American feel to it, and that's the closest she'll ever get to being invited on a Reservation.
The sheer existence of that painting is jaw-dropping and disgusting. (Tinged only slightly by wondering what's fake or real.)
'C'mon, good rural Americans. Declare war on those city folk. And drop off all your Ameros to us as you go forth. God bless the USA!'
Did you click on the painting and see that it was one of three that we were being asked to pick from for her?
Oh, that makes it *much* better. Freedom to choose!
Gnome on a horse, Gnome on a horse, or Gnome on a horse.
Those are, literally, the three choices. (I guess you pick the horse you like best?)
“Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick is going to profit off privatizing the National Weather Service because obviously”.
I remember reading about this (privatizing the NWS, or at least NOAA) in Michael Lewis’s “The Fifth Risk”, written during the first TRump shitshow. AccuWeather lobbied (and keeps lobbying) Congress to allow AccuWeather to monitize weather reporting using data gathered by NOAA. TRump 1.0’s pick for the head of NOAA was Barry Myers, whos brother Joel runs AccuWeather (source: CNN article “Trump’s pick to lead NOAA pushed for privatizing weather data”, Oct 14, 2017, https://www.cnn.com/2017/10/14/politics/noaa-nominee-accuweather/index.html).
Yup. Read the book too and the ongoing plot to ruin weather forecasting in the US is disgusting.
Donna Rose and my niece are the same age, and OMG ISN'T THAT THE BEST AGE? Still all that kid energy and curiosity, not into the teenage surlies yet.
Skateboarding not *just* a crime now, but actual TERRORISMS!!1! Also bike-riding, livestreaming, this post prolly also too ...
https://apple.news/AvFjvVTNuRjqrg16C7tCBsg
https://www.wired.com/story/dhs-tells-police-that-common-protest-activities-are-violent-tactics/
🤬
Speaking of Babby DR, bring back the lion of cuteness!
It's the zebra suit that always made my heart feel all warm and fuzzy
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1CO7wyiIPISTpdqijbol_D--fj0ZEJG2-/view?usp=sharing