Such a pretty bird. All puffed up to keep warm. I get a lot of cardinals at my feeders, and some of them stay for years. I know this (in part) because for about four years, one of the male cardinals with a distinctive, partly white crest showed up almost every day. Sadly, he stopped showing up last spring. Because cardinals mate for life, I always wonder what happens to the partner of a cardinal who has died.
In the mtns of San Diego, we haven't gotten any snow yet this season (okay...10 minutes or so, just to melt in the rain). Just rain and cold temps but not at the same time. Usually we have had several snow storms by now. The wood peckers never left. I saw one on the road that was acting like a fledgling. So maybe a triple hatching this year?
Now there is a bird I'd like to spot in the wild. On a side note I have a collage somewhere called Four Lies. It is four photos, each for a season, but none of them represent the season you'd think it would be. One of them is a red cardinal on a snowy day.
Cardinals seems to have respect and great deference in the bird kingdom. Other birds give cardinals a buffer, seems like, and they seem to have top seed, so to speak, in the pecking order. Is it their striking red?
** Shrugs. ** Just things I noticed around the feeders.
You want to talk bossy in the bird kingdom, try hummingbirds. They are tiny and fighting mad. Hummingbird feeders always have plenty of holes but will a hummingbird share? Of course not. They dive bomb their rivals and make sure no one else is around while they feed. Napoleon complex.
Song birds (mainly goldfinches) like to hang on the chain and sit on the hummingbird feeder. When the hummingbird arrives, at .15 of the size of a finch, the hummingbird goes into attack mode.
Great. So we basically let the pedophiles get away with their child trafficking and rape, and their money laundering and tax evasion… and just for good measure we ALSO bailed them out when they severely over-leveraged their investments with mortgage backed securities.
Frankly, these guys are lucky their remaining accomplices aren’t regularly mobbed in the street and executed.
“I just left a great group of people from Iowa, and half of them were crying as they talked to me,” Trump said at an event in Clive, Iowa. “I don’t think they’re crying because I’m doing a bad job. You know, in theory, you cry if you do a bad, they were crying because I’ve done a good job.” “They said, ‘Sir, you’ve brought our country back,’” he recalled. “Crying, crying.” “One woman was fantastic,” he said. “She grabbed me, and she put her head right there, and her tears are pouring all over my beautiful suit. I figured, I get it, and I checked it out, and there was a lot of makeup all over. I said, ‘What the hell am I gonna do? Get myself in trouble!’” “She was crying, and I said, ‘Don’t cry. Be happy. Be happy,’” he said.
It seems that trump's Iowa speech did not go well. The Mirror reports that it was the maga audience booing. The WH says it was paid agitators (so predictable). Here's a youtube vid.
I watched about half of it and all I could see was typical Iowans typically lapping up everything he said with cheers and laughing in the right places. If any booing came after that, I wouldn't know because that was all I could stomach.
From the New Republic TAB!: "Here’s a disturbing fact: When Minneapolis parents started putting stuffed animals on their dashboards so that kids could identify safe cars driven by the volunteers assigned to ferry them safely home from school, ICE started doing the same thing."
The cats sure got lucky today. I was up at 4 a.m. for a bit and fed them, then ultimately was able to go back to sleep. When mr. cc got up at 7, he fed them again, not realizing. Lucky little bastards.
It appears to me that NPR is continuing the tradition of "both-sides-do-it." This morning's "Morning Edition" had a segment on why the new Democratic governor of Virginia, who ran on a platform that included "Affordability" is close to failing in that department, and comparing this to His Royal Lowness's campaign with a similar theme. The gov, Spanberger, has been in office only since January 17, but she's already marked for failure? Thanks, NPR, since your both-sideism worked so well in maintaining your government funding you seem determined to keep at it. Maybe the Dingleberry-in-Chief will phone in with a $10 pledge.
NPR has me totally confused. Not only did their attempt to appeal to conservatives flunk with an F-----, their continued attempts at bothsideism is alienating the audience that would give more money to sustain NPR. It's like NYTimeism and WAPOism are catching.
On Jan. 20th 1,700 students at Lakeside High School in Dekalb County, a suburb of Atlanta, walked out in protest of ICE activity across the country. Yesterday School Superintendent Norman Sauce (yep, that's his name), in a sternly worded letter warned students that such displays should take place after school hours, or else face disciplinary actions.
I'm sure he can't suspend an entire high school, so what does that even mean? No fruit cup at lunch?
Well, I'm just a bleeding heart liberal boomer, so what do I know... But I'd have played this differently: all student's who did the walk out would be required to do some sort of presentation/written piece on why they did the walkout and what their experience was. Maybe an essay, maybe a short video piece, maybe a group presentation, maybe some art piece?
Of course, being a BHLB, I'm all about teaching the moment. But also: I'd be very curious what they got out of the experience, what they learned, what they might do differently in the future.
Probably not. Dekalb County is Blue Blue Blue. And very progressive. More likely that the parents will have Superintendent Sauce removed. PLUS Dekalb is part of central Atlanta, it's not accurate to say it's a suburb,
DeKalb County is among the bluest parts of the Metro Atlanta Blue Blob. It has been a Dem stronghold for decades. I think it means he may have find a new job next year.
Your hed gif info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/leucistic-northern-cardinal
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/0e89ee02-cbbc-45f4-aa44-2889b3c1984b?utm_source=share
Such a pretty bird. All puffed up to keep warm. I get a lot of cardinals at my feeders, and some of them stay for years. I know this (in part) because for about four years, one of the male cardinals with a distinctive, partly white crest showed up almost every day. Sadly, he stopped showing up last spring. Because cardinals mate for life, I always wonder what happens to the partner of a cardinal who has died.
OK, I haz questions. Do hermaphrodite cardinals play on the men’s or women”s sportsball teams? Which bathrooms do they use?
Whichever, it still can beat Riley Gaines in a swimming competition.
How about holding your breath?
Some bazebawl fan from St. Louis on line two.
Leucistic Northern Cardinal sounds like someone who would get to pick new Popes.
In the mtns of San Diego, we haven't gotten any snow yet this season (okay...10 minutes or so, just to melt in the rain). Just rain and cold temps but not at the same time. Usually we have had several snow storms by now. The wood peckers never left. I saw one on the road that was acting like a fledgling. So maybe a triple hatching this year?
Now there is a bird I'd like to spot in the wild. On a side note I have a collage somewhere called Four Lies. It is four photos, each for a season, but none of them represent the season you'd think it would be. One of them is a red cardinal on a snowy day.
What a pretty birb, I’ve never seen any but the usual suspects when it comes to cardinals.
lucky to have seen leucistic cardinal and blue jay
Cardinals seems to have respect and great deference in the bird kingdom. Other birds give cardinals a buffer, seems like, and they seem to have top seed, so to speak, in the pecking order. Is it their striking red?
** Shrugs. ** Just things I noticed around the feeders.
Bird feeders are a place where the whole hierarchy of the neighborhood flock is on display. It’s a fascinating show: https://www.allaboutbirds.org/news/power-struggles-are-playing-out-at-your-feeder-heres-what-to-look-for/
They are bossy!
Not as bad as Blue Jays. They are like the Donald Trumps of bird world.
You want to talk bossy in the bird kingdom, try hummingbirds. They are tiny and fighting mad. Hummingbird feeders always have plenty of holes but will a hummingbird share? Of course not. They dive bomb their rivals and make sure no one else is around while they feed. Napoleon complex.
Song birds (mainly goldfinches) like to hang on the chain and sit on the hummingbird feeder. When the hummingbird arrives, at .15 of the size of a finch, the hummingbird goes into attack mode.
Little Bovino complex.
That bird looks like Divine.
Pink, but not quite a flamingo.
That dang thing must eat a LOT of bebby shrimps..... :)
How dare you call me a bigot! Some of my best friends are those all red guys.
Lovely plumage!
And it's not even pining for the fjords!
"Who does your feathers? Are they accepting new clients? You look divine!"
We're gonna make him blush, I'd think he'd be used to it by now...
It's a feathery floof! Beautiful floof of perfection. ❣️
"Are you looking at my tail?"
Of course, and a lovely tail it is!
Poor thing looks like it has snow piled all over it.
Great. So we basically let the pedophiles get away with their child trafficking and rape, and their money laundering and tax evasion… and just for good measure we ALSO bailed them out when they severely over-leveraged their investments with mortgage backed securities.
Frankly, these guys are lucky their remaining accomplices aren’t regularly mobbed in the street and executed.
“I just left a great group of people from Iowa, and half of them were crying as they talked to me,” Trump said at an event in Clive, Iowa. “I don’t think they’re crying because I’m doing a bad job. You know, in theory, you cry if you do a bad, they were crying because I’ve done a good job.” “They said, ‘Sir, you’ve brought our country back,’” he recalled. “Crying, crying.” “One woman was fantastic,” he said. “She grabbed me, and she put her head right there, and her tears are pouring all over my beautiful suit. I figured, I get it, and I checked it out, and there was a lot of makeup all over. I said, ‘What the hell am I gonna do? Get myself in trouble!’” “She was crying, and I said, ‘Don’t cry. Be happy. Be happy,’” he said.
https://www.huffpost.com/entry/donald-trump-crying-woman-story_n_69798890e4b035e2a079d6e7?origin=home-latest-news-unit
Sorry, but I'm not adding "Kristi Noem leaking" to my Pornhub queue.
Someone check Dr. Jones' prescriptions, because I think he's been prescribing himself *all* of the drugs.
> “He’s beholden to no tribe but himself, no ideology but his own”—that’s Weiss on Thiel
Is it? Are you sure that isn't a line from some old Ayn Rand novel?
>>>"Embattled” Kristi Noem is clearly leaking that it wasn’t her, it was Stephen Miller. . . . Not particularly exculpatory, there, Rohm.<<<
ISWYDT
Well someone has a birthday today, 6 years old. Brothers (in mayhem) Nico and Jesse.
https://substack.com/@pstokk989978/note/c-206463069?r=1ceahj
It seems that trump's Iowa speech did not go well. The Mirror reports that it was the maga audience booing. The WH says it was paid agitators (so predictable). Here's a youtube vid.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z_Tx9v9PsNQ
You're saying if I click on that link I'll hear the dulcet tones of tfg's bleat/honking voice and the reactions of his adoring subjects?
Nah, pass.
I watched about half of it and all I could see was typical Iowans typically lapping up everything he said with cheers and laughing in the right places. If any booing came after that, I wouldn't know because that was all I could stomach.
You took a lot more than I could have.
From the New Republic TAB!: "Here’s a disturbing fact: When Minneapolis parents started putting stuffed animals on their dashboards so that kids could identify safe cars driven by the volunteers assigned to ferry them safely home from school, ICE started doing the same thing."
The cats sure got lucky today. I was up at 4 a.m. for a bit and fed them, then ultimately was able to go back to sleep. When mr. cc got up at 7, he fed them again, not realizing. Lucky little bastards.
Child rapist, genocidal, Zionist sociopathic, narcissistic Trump doesn’t like the shootings or guns, it’s time to “de-escalate” & have “heart.” 🙏🏻
#LoveThyNeighbor #Children #Gas #Gestapo #Nazis #Murder #Christianity #DonaldTrump #MelaniaTrump #Catholicism #Evangelical #Baptist #Jesus #ProLife 😡🖕🏽🇺🇸
Toast, Tab's and Coffee in the Morning ☕💯👍
It appears to me that NPR is continuing the tradition of "both-sides-do-it." This morning's "Morning Edition" had a segment on why the new Democratic governor of Virginia, who ran on a platform that included "Affordability" is close to failing in that department, and comparing this to His Royal Lowness's campaign with a similar theme. The gov, Spanberger, has been in office only since January 17, but she's already marked for failure? Thanks, NPR, since your both-sideism worked so well in maintaining your government funding you seem determined to keep at it. Maybe the Dingleberry-in-Chief will phone in with a $10 pledge.
NPR has me totally confused. Not only did their attempt to appeal to conservatives flunk with an F-----, their continued attempts at bothsideism is alienating the audience that would give more money to sustain NPR. It's like NYTimeism and WAPOism are catching.
Hee, hee on “Whiskey Friday.” No company would dare sponsor that slop. Gotta go way down market. Mickey’s Big Mug, anyone?
I think Whiskey Friday was gonna be Tony’s weekly chat with DefSec Rapey McShitfaced.
On Jan. 20th 1,700 students at Lakeside High School in Dekalb County, a suburb of Atlanta, walked out in protest of ICE activity across the country. Yesterday School Superintendent Norman Sauce (yep, that's his name), in a sternly worded letter warned students that such displays should take place after school hours, or else face disciplinary actions.
I'm sure he can't suspend an entire high school, so what does that even mean? No fruit cup at lunch?
https://bloximages.chicago2.vip.townnews.com/decaturish.com/content/tncms/assets/v3/editorial/c/fd/cfd8725e-44fa-458d-8505-a28c36dd721b/696ff819d0b42.image.jpg?resize=1200%2C800
Well, I'm just a bleeding heart liberal boomer, so what do I know... But I'd have played this differently: all student's who did the walk out would be required to do some sort of presentation/written piece on why they did the walkout and what their experience was. Maybe an essay, maybe a short video piece, maybe a group presentation, maybe some art piece?
Of course, being a BHLB, I'm all about teaching the moment. But also: I'd be very curious what they got out of the experience, what they learned, what they might do differently in the future.
Suspending an entire school is just one part of the project 2025 education plan.
Suspending that many kids is going to hurt the school more than it will hurt the kids. Schools are paid via a “per head” formula based on attendance.
But leave it to a superintendent to not think about the real consequences of a dumb administrative decision.
So they should walk out ... after school?
I wonder how they might react to everyone showing up and sitting quietly and just not participating for the entire day.
Unfortunately sitting quietly and not participating is already what southern schools hope to achieve. :P
And if he does try to suspend the entire school, the parents of the kids will be occupying his office.
mebbee a stern talkin to by lunch lady doris
Did he have Chuck Schumer write the sternly worded letter?
It means the parents of his students are either Magas or Republicans.
Probably not. Dekalb County is Blue Blue Blue. And very progressive. More likely that the parents will have Superintendent Sauce removed. PLUS Dekalb is part of central Atlanta, it's not accurate to say it's a suburb,
I believe both you and Menotsure, but it makes me wonder how he got hired.
DeKalb County is among the bluest parts of the Metro Atlanta Blue Blob. It has been a Dem stronghold for decades. I think it means he may have find a new job next year.
Let us hope so. Or maybe even this February.
In seeming response to this, and similar warnings from multiple school districts, more walkouts across Metro Atlanta are planned for Friday.
GOOD.
Those kids have 1st Amendment rights just like the REST of us.