Hahahahaha!!!! You know, at the beginning of this year, I didn't have any thoughts one way or the other about Taylor Swift, except to note that she had pissed off white supremacists who thought she was their girl. That was good and made me smile. But the longer this tension between her and the right wingers goes on, the more credit I give her and the more I fully support her. Trolling the maga, white power crowd was awesome. Trolling the Christofascist crowd: priceless. Thanks Taylor! 😁
Recipes and puzzles are the only reasons I keep my NYT subscription. Although today i am skipping the Spelling Bee because my first two words were common science terms and they were REJECTED! Further evidence we are already in the hand basket headed to hell.
OMG, just trying to keep breathing knowing that I will get the hell out of Texas in a year and a half…just trying to keep on keeping on while I’m stuck here.
Y'all. Nancy Pelosi called Katy Tur a Trump apologist to her face. And that was after beautifully explaining that Trump saw the worst job loss of any president and oh by the way other presidents had to deal with some real shit, too, but didn't suck as bad as Trump.
The skyrocketing of housing values has caused an issue in my neighborhood. You see, the neighborhood has 8 houses that were built in 2007, foreclosed upon or resold at some point, and as such, were all purchased for between $110-130K by the current owners. Some are now rental properties, but at least three of these are properly owned by first time homeowners, including ours. We actually paid off the mortgage already.
The rest of the neighborhood was built out with homes that sold for $200K or more at original retail price and are now reselling for $300K or more (2024 money, yo.) The biggest ones are $400-500K. Our house is now officially valued at $300K. We do not believe this, as in our minds, it's still the house we got off the clearance rack.
So the rest of the neighborhood is MAD AS HELL that the 8 older houses have the audacity to have lawns that are 15-17 years old and look like it. The HOA meetings are full of complaints about the UGLY LAWNS from THOSE HOUSES and WHY CAN'T WE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE LAWNS.
HOA rules only state the lawns must be mowed. It doesn't say the lawn has to be fluffy zoisia grass. If it was up to us we'd have a proper moss lawn, but as it is, I'm seriously considering just putting out some mint and letting it overtake the entire damn thing to spite them.
Edit: I should add, Mr. Anzu and one of the other homeowners of these older houses together have 2/3 majority on the HOA board, so the complains are met with: "Okay. Your complaint has been noted." And then we make sure the weeds are mowed and do nothing more.
Any neighborhood built after a certain year in Georgia has to have the right to charter one, simply because the neighborhood is required to have insurance on any retaining ponds within the subdivision. If the neighbors all agree to just pay their share of the insurance, then no HOA needs to be invoked, but if there's an issue beyond the insurance - in my neighborhood's case, the fact that no insurance was actually collected for about a decade and we got server a violation term from the county because nobody told us - then the HOA has to form simply to fight the legal battle as a representative entity.
Mr. Anzu ran for the board specifically to keep the biddies off it.
Make sure you can easily find the right kitten to match your outfit each day by investing in a clever organizer. It’s another quickie hed gif source post: https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/cats-in-a-shoe-rack
That kitten highest up on the hanging shelf is all, "It's me! I'm on the top! I'm top cat! You just try to come up here, buddy!" *bap* *bap* *bap*
What happened to my sweaters? They have animated!
I knew I shouldn't have eaten the brown acid.
Wardrobe catastrophe...
The video is adorable. Kittens falling out, swiping at each other, and generally being cute.
Like time travel, cat organization is the stuff of science fiction.
Requisite: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m_MaJDK3VNE
The lint brush is chef's kiss.
The sneeze!
*shrieks*
OMFG KLAUS SCHWAB FORCING KEETOOMS INTO CAPSULE HOTELS
(they don't have to be told to eat ze bugs, though; they usually do anyway)
Cattywood Squares!
Cat loving goths know that cat fur of any hue stands out on black.
Cat fur is glitter for cool people!
A little Sharpie on the cat fur will fix that. The hard part is gettting them to sit still long enough to apply it evenly.
Even black cats?
All cats are black in a dark closet.
Yes.
Look closely and one cant see the highlights.
Every black cat has one hidden white hair, and it will shed on your black clothes.
It's shinier than black cloth.
Remember. No white kittens after Labor Day.
I WILL NOT COMPLY
Hahahahaha!!!! You know, at the beginning of this year, I didn't have any thoughts one way or the other about Taylor Swift, except to note that she had pissed off white supremacists who thought she was their girl. That was good and made me smile. But the longer this tension between her and the right wingers goes on, the more credit I give her and the more I fully support her. Trolling the maga, white power crowd was awesome. Trolling the Christofascist crowd: priceless. Thanks Taylor! 😁
AI Priest Fired by Catholic Group After Pitching Gatorade Baptisms - Decrypt
https://decrypt.co/228360/ai-priest-catholic-answers-father-justin
What? Salvation and electrolytes in one package? What's not to love? 😄😄😄
"He cared less about the content of the deal than being able to claim foreign policy success,” she added."
This is the Modus Operandi of Trumpworld. All hat and no cattle. No doubt the Saudi/Israel "Peace" deal is an archetype.
Recipes and puzzles are the only reasons I keep my NYT subscription. Although today i am skipping the Spelling Bee because my first two words were common science terms and they were REJECTED! Further evidence we are already in the hand basket headed to hell.
This is some next level Trump draconian planing. Holy shit.
https://time.com/6972022/donald-trump-transcript-2024-election/
Recommended dog disguise: Baggy suit, long red tie, blond beehive comb-over.
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Heh, heh, heh.
awww....
𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩, 𝐕𝐞𝐧𝐭𝐢𝐧𝐠 𝐀𝐛𝐨𝐮𝐭 𝐋𝐚𝐰𝐲𝐞𝐫 𝐢𝐧 𝐇𝐢𝐬 𝐂𝐫𝐢𝐦𝐢𝐧𝐚𝐥 𝐓𝐫𝐢𝐚𝐥, 𝐒𝐞𝐞𝐤𝐬 𝐌𝐨𝐫𝐞 𝐀𝐠𝐠𝐫𝐞𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧
𝐻𝑒 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑔𝑟𝑖𝑝𝑒𝑑 𝑡ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑀𝑟. 𝐵𝑙𝑎𝑛𝑐ℎ𝑒, 𝑎 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑓𝑒𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑙 𝑝𝑟𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑐𝑢𝑡𝑜𝑟 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑣𝑒𝑡𝑒𝑟𝑎𝑛 𝑙𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑔𝑎𝑡𝑜𝑟, ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑛𝑜𝑡 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑓𝑜𝑙𝑙𝑜𝑤𝑖𝑛𝑔 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑢𝑐𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑠 𝑐𝑙𝑜𝑠𝑒𝑙𝑦, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑏𝑒𝑒𝑛 𝑖𝑛𝑠𝑢𝑓𝑓𝑖𝑐𝑖𝑒𝑛𝑡𝑙𝑦 𝑎𝑔𝑔𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑖𝑣𝑒. 𝑀𝑟. 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝 𝑤𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑠 ℎ𝑖𝑚 𝑡𝑜 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑤𝑖𝑡𝑛𝑒𝑠𝑠𝑒𝑠, 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑤ℎ𝑎𝑡 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑓𝑜𝑟𝑚𝑒𝑟 𝑝𝑟𝑒𝑠𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑛𝑡 𝑠𝑒𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 ℎ𝑜𝑠𝑡𝑖𝑙𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑟𝑦 𝑝𝑜𝑜𝑙, 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑎𝑡𝑡𝑎𝑐𝑘 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑗𝑢𝑑𝑔𝑒, 𝐽𝑢𝑎𝑛 𝑀. 𝑀𝑒𝑟𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑛.
𝑀𝑟. 𝑇𝑟𝑢𝑚𝑝, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑜𝑓𝑡𝑒𝑛 𝑐𝑜𝑚𝑝𝑙𝑎𝑖𝑛𝑠 𝑎𝑏𝑜𝑢𝑡 𝑙𝑒𝑔𝑎𝑙 𝑓𝑒𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑠𝑜𝑚𝑒𝑡𝑖𝑚𝑒𝑠 𝑟𝑒𝑓𝑢𝑠𝑒𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑝𝑎𝑦 𝑡ℎ𝑒𝑚, ℎ𝑎𝑠 𝑎𝑙𝑠𝑜 𝑤𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑒𝑟𝑒𝑑 𝑎𝑙𝑜𝑢𝑑 𝑤ℎ𝑦 ℎ𝑖𝑠 𝑙𝑎𝑤𝑦𝑒𝑟𝑠 𝑐𝑜𝑠𝑡 𝑠𝑜 𝑚𝑢𝑐ℎ, 𝑎𝑐𝑐𝑜𝑟𝑑𝑖𝑛𝑔 𝑡𝑜 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑝𝑒𝑜𝑝𝑙𝑒, 𝑤ℎ𝑜 𝑎𝑙𝑙 𝑠𝑝𝑜𝑘𝑒 𝑜𝑛 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑑𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑜𝑓 𝑎𝑛𝑜𝑛𝑦𝑚𝑖𝑡𝑦 𝑡𝑜 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑐𝑢𝑠𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝑠𝑒𝑛𝑠𝑖𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑡𝑜𝑝𝑖𝑐.
https://www.nytimes.com/2024/04/30/us/politics/trump-trial-todd-blanche.html
You hate to see it.
Of course, every story about how angry and miserable Donald Trump is just makes me giggle.
Well, the Serbs are generally a restrained, forgiving people, so I'm sure they'll be happy to let this whole condo thing slide.
On an unrelated note, they would also like to know when Jared Kushner next plans to visit Sarajevo.
I read that the property has some bad mojo from the past. Might be a bad idea.
OMG, just trying to keep breathing knowing that I will get the hell out of Texas in a year and a half…just trying to keep on keeping on while I’m stuck here.
thank you for voting in TX. seriously, doing the Lord's work.
It is a very depressing exercise when you know that Ted Cruz is going to win again
Hang in there....
You can do it. Grass, trees, birds, clouds.....
Y'all. Nancy Pelosi called Katy Tur a Trump apologist to her face. And that was after beautifully explaining that Trump saw the worst job loss of any president and oh by the way other presidents had to deal with some real shit, too, but didn't suck as bad as Trump.
"critics [of Swift's album[ have voiced concern over lyrics that seem to suggest that Christians are both hateful and judgemental."
No way. Shut the front door. Who would ever think that about the nice people terrorizing trans kids and calling teachers groomers.
I know PAB got a $9000 fine and for him it may be nothing.
It is the legal limit.
But also a message to a typical MAGA that wants to go to court to show loyalty, would be a hefty fine. I am ok with it.
And also jail could be next.
Really? It was the legal limit? I owe Merchan an apology. Thanks for explaining .
Yeah, $1K per violation.
In full disclosure, I am not a Swiftie, in spite of what Amazon's Brilliant Algorithms say, the best score I ever got was 5 out of 10.
But from what I have seen, TS just calls balls and strikes.
If it talks like an asshole, acts like an asshole,
looks like an asshole, it's probably an asshole.
Also when the Defense blitzes, ya check who is left on man to man coverage.
And you hit that man. Often the tight end. Oh well.
But it is not the work of the Devil.
The skyrocketing of housing values has caused an issue in my neighborhood. You see, the neighborhood has 8 houses that were built in 2007, foreclosed upon or resold at some point, and as such, were all purchased for between $110-130K by the current owners. Some are now rental properties, but at least three of these are properly owned by first time homeowners, including ours. We actually paid off the mortgage already.
The rest of the neighborhood was built out with homes that sold for $200K or more at original retail price and are now reselling for $300K or more (2024 money, yo.) The biggest ones are $400-500K. Our house is now officially valued at $300K. We do not believe this, as in our minds, it's still the house we got off the clearance rack.
So the rest of the neighborhood is MAD AS HELL that the 8 older houses have the audacity to have lawns that are 15-17 years old and look like it. The HOA meetings are full of complaints about the UGLY LAWNS from THOSE HOUSES and WHY CAN'T WE DO SOMETHING ABOUT THE LAWNS.
HOA rules only state the lawns must be mowed. It doesn't say the lawn has to be fluffy zoisia grass. If it was up to us we'd have a proper moss lawn, but as it is, I'm seriously considering just putting out some mint and letting it overtake the entire damn thing to spite them.
Edit: I should add, Mr. Anzu and one of the other homeowners of these older houses together have 2/3 majority on the HOA board, so the complains are met with: "Okay. Your complaint has been noted." And then we make sure the weeds are mowed and do nothing more.
I'm so glad I don't have an HOA. I have no doubt I'd be voted off the island.
Any neighborhood built after a certain year in Georgia has to have the right to charter one, simply because the neighborhood is required to have insurance on any retaining ponds within the subdivision. If the neighbors all agree to just pay their share of the insurance, then no HOA needs to be invoked, but if there's an issue beyond the insurance - in my neighborhood's case, the fact that no insurance was actually collected for about a decade and we got server a violation term from the county because nobody told us - then the HOA has to form simply to fight the legal battle as a representative entity.
Mr. Anzu ran for the board specifically to keep the biddies off it.
Yeah, HOAs suck. Thankfully our neighborhood predates the whole notion of a home owners association.
Here - for post #666 - is the new PAB theme song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rP_yWoH_Nxs