I loved that show. I had maternal aunties who could have easily served as understudies for each one of those incredible, iconic ladies!
My badass Aunt Mary Alice could've covered for Maude in a heartbeat. Except for her hair; she was a hairstylist and overdid the dye, turning it a dark evergreen shade. In all honesty it suited her perfectly.
I loved watching Golden Girls partly because my grandma resembled Rose (the same height as Betty White, short fluffy white hair, soft but not fat), with the same personality, but with a hillbilly accent and hillbilly tales. Exactly that dotty and folksy, and libel to cut you with an insult that you never saw coming because you thought she was too sweet and dumb to be paying attention.
You wouldn’t think that the show would have appealed to a couple of pre-teens, but it was one of the few things my sister and I could agree on. And not just because of Mamaw’s resemblance to Rose. That show was dope in general. “NO, I WILL NOT HAVE A NICE DAY!” is in the family lexicon.
Re such insincere stuff that companies require the already underpaid and too often mistreated front line staff to say, I've been calling the Boston Globe much too often lately to ask for my newspaper to be delivered already. If it weren't for the fact that I really want to have my newspaper on paper, I'd take the scary amount of money they charge me for it and spread it around to deserving places like this one, but instead I find myself hearing the insincere platitudes from the Globe folks. The one I finally commented on is that they always apologize for the wait when I've regularly been getting through to a human (because now I know how to outfox the irritating AI) immediately.
Fun fact, prior to "Golden Girls," creator Susan Harris presided over one of the most trangressive, progressive, and controversial sitcoms of all time, "Soap." It created a national controversy! If not familiar, I encourage everybunny to check it out, the talent is amazing :)
I loved watching the show as a tween when if first aired. My mom loves telling the story of the time I asked what an orgasm was because, I said, "One had it and one didn't" after watching an episode.
When she retired, Mama started playing Senior's Bingo at several of the fast food places in town. The prizes weren't much - free food, but the real draw was playing a game she loved for free and making new friends. She started sitting with three other ladies, and one of the men who was a regular player called them "The Golden Girls." He called Mama "Rose," after Betty White's character and Mama loved it.
Thank you so much for the response! How on earth would PAB find out about doing that. I guess we can hope that these fools continue to hoist themselves on their own petard :(
Dogs will eat grass when they have an upset stomach. As roughage to help the expulsion process, one supposes. But maybe they learned about "medicine" from hanging with people aka "cultural transmission".
Our Liz has been guest commenting on Legal Eagle for a couple of months now. Full hosting, with Devin just introducing her, not just appearing with her. She's not bad for a newbie. She's good at explaining stuff, and she already has the key part down: make sure that every word adds content and meaning. But she is gonna have to develop her screen charisma. That's not a diss, projecting charisma on screen is a skill, like any other, and she's still fairly new to it. And Devin's giving her plenty of room to grow.
Take responsibility for your SCHOOL COMMITTEES or BOARDS.
Get involved in the EDUCATION OF OUR CHILDREN.
Run for local, state and/or federal office...
NO MORE EXCUSES.
Raise the Flag, Say the Pledge."
*****************
Nice words, huh? You know who said them?
"General" Michael Flynn
You know what these words are?
THE MISSION STATEMENT OF THE QANON MOVEMENT
They are posted on the home page of the QAnon Cretin board. Go to www dot GreatAwakening dot win if you don't believe me.
And you know what? So far, the QAnon Cretins are WINNING BIGLY at the local level - at least, they are in Texas. Probably in lots of other red states too, and maybe even in a blue state or two.
SO - VOTE in down-ballot elections. HELP those that are running against QAnon Cretins because I guarantee you that the QAnon Cretins have a candidate in EVERY LOCAL RACE.
Has he been stripped of his rank yet? Can he be? As a military brat, I wish that my Dad, 1st Sergeant Thomas Cone, Jr., could visit this jackass from the beyond and have a word. Or several
It turns out that the president would have to call him back to active duty and then court-martial him. This is what PAB wanted to do to retired generals that were criticizing HIM back in The Dark Days.
Briefly scanning the NYT article on Trump it looks like the IRS current beef with Trump on his Chicago tower scam doesn't even include the mysterious $48 million loan he claimed he got from another Trump LLC no one can find documents on that he used to offset part of the loan write off that he should have paid taxes on. That is a problem with some proposals on student debt forgiveness. When loan repayment is written off and you do not have to repay it the loan balance written off is considered like income and you have to pay taxes on it.
Income tax on $48 million plus interest and penalties should be pretty steep too. Along with the dozens of above market price cash sales of condos to Russians in Florida, a big sign of possible money laundering, and other loan write offs over decades, there were so many red flags on Trump business deals it's pure negligence the IRS was not auditing him every year. If a parent gives you $10,000 as part of a down payment on your first house there are hoops both of you have to jump through. But a Russian citizen paying $400,000 cash for a condo that should sell for only $300,000 receives no attention. I bet he is not the only wealthy person the IRS ignores.
When Deutsche Bank was saying at his New York fraud trial they would have given him the loans a few years ago even knowing his asset valuations were greatly inflated and Trump said all the loans within the statute of limitations were repaid I had to laugh. That should have resulted in Deutsche being investigated for loan fraud, ignoring underwriting rules for someone they had previously written off hundreds of millions of dollars in defaulted loans that were past the statute of limitations. Something no news media sources were reporting, leaving most people to think Trump always paid his debts. But Deutsche should have been broken up decades ago after paying hundreds of millions of dollars for money laundering, much of it in Russian rubles. Funny how Deutsche and Trump have such close ties to Putin.
Funny thing we've all learned over the last ~25 years is that our legal and financial regulatory "systems" are all set up to enable and facilitate rich, racist white men's crimes against the people of this country, with munnie laundering and tax evasion being the most brazen.
When the penalties and fines are always less than the ill gotten gains, you can pretty much guarantee that fraud is rampant and the risk of getting caught is just an acceptable "cost of doing business." Basically, the government says "you perpetrated a theft against your fellow taxpayers and citizens? That's fine as long as we get a cut if it becomes public knowledge."
Rudy Giuliani won’t be getting his radio broadcast gig back anytime soon, according to the MAGA-loving station owner who yanked him off the air after he questioned the legitimacy of President Joe Biden’s election win earlier this month. The former Trump lawyer was suspended and his show on WABC canceled after his remarks, The New York Times first reported on Friday. As for his future with the station, “It’s pretty hard to bring him back,” station boss John Catsimatidis told the New York Post on Sunday. “His behavior makes it very hard to reverse course. He makes it hard not to terminate him.” The newspaper reported that Catsimatidis himself filled in for Giuliani on his regular 10 a.m. slot Sunday, saying the former New York City mayor had “three strikes” against him, having previously warned him about failing to toe the Big Lie. “We warned him once,” Catsimatidis previously told the Times. “We warned him twice. And I get a text from him last night, and I get a text from him this morning that he refuses not to talk about it.”
I need to go back and review the Rules For Radicals and see if there is any mention about mis-use of double negatives and how they affect the curvature of space-time in our continuum.
Because the quotes you have used here from RWNJs might contain weapons grade stupidity best kept inside a nuclear reactor containment vessel. Let's not open any weird multiverse gateways on a Monday.
This reminds me of something forever in my memory.
I was 6 1/2 years old when my parents and I arrived in NY aboard the USNS General MB Stewart (one of a number of WW2 Liberty ship used to transport WW2 DPs throughout the world.) As the ship inched into NY harbor, I was at the railing and amazed and overwhelmed by the height and size of the buildings and their many, many windows. To the side of one building I saw a car in a fenced in yard. I couldn't understand why someone would have a car that was in a fenced in yard (with no apparent access.)
wow, turns out the design of the retail is so bad, there are whole stories written about it.
It has the record for longest vacancy over 5000sq ft in Chicago history.
They've cycled through multiple leasing agents. It's a total cluster. Every decision they could have made they made wrong. Low ceilings, too much outdoor deck (Chicago winters???) No visibility from the street, needs detailed directions to even find it on foot.
Life tweets from NY. Cohen just entered the stand ... obviously this will go on for days, but if you care, and you are still on Twitter, start here ;-)
Cohen steps up to the witness stand. He's wearing a charcoal suit, crisp white shirt, and a pink tie.
The prosecution must have heaved a sigh of relief that he did not show up wearing the shirt he wore in a TikTok video last week, which featured an image of Trump behind bars.
Well, she has such a broad knowledge and throws in so many references that I am often at a loss.
I also admit that I didn't follow most of the life tweeting for the last weeks; 30 minutes of daily retrospective for each trial day from the lawcast podcast is sufficient for me.
You get some Golden Girls in your header gif today, and some historical folklore info from me:
https://open.substack.com/pub/martiniambassador/p/henny-penny-the-musical
I loved that show. I had maternal aunties who could have easily served as understudies for each one of those incredible, iconic ladies!
My badass Aunt Mary Alice could've covered for Maude in a heartbeat. Except for her hair; she was a hairstylist and overdid the dye, turning it a dark evergreen shade. In all honesty it suited her perfectly.
My aunt Norma was a dead ringer for Bea Arthur, except saltier.
Oh my, that is a high bar!
Four women, who each brought a different comedic tone, made that an enduring show.
I loved watching Golden Girls partly because my grandma resembled Rose (the same height as Betty White, short fluffy white hair, soft but not fat), with the same personality, but with a hillbilly accent and hillbilly tales. Exactly that dotty and folksy, and libel to cut you with an insult that you never saw coming because you thought she was too sweet and dumb to be paying attention.
You wouldn’t think that the show would have appealed to a couple of pre-teens, but it was one of the few things my sister and I could agree on. And not just because of Mamaw’s resemblance to Rose. That show was dope in general. “NO, I WILL NOT HAVE A NICE DAY!” is in the family lexicon.
Re such insincere stuff that companies require the already underpaid and too often mistreated front line staff to say, I've been calling the Boston Globe much too often lately to ask for my newspaper to be delivered already. If it weren't for the fact that I really want to have my newspaper on paper, I'd take the scary amount of money they charge me for it and spread it around to deserving places like this one, but instead I find myself hearing the insincere platitudes from the Globe folks. The one I finally commented on is that they always apologize for the wait when I've regularly been getting through to a human (because now I know how to outfox the irritating AI) immediately.
What is all this chickenery?
And when is Wonkette going to get the Pullet Surprise?
OK, I'm done.
Is it up to me? OK, sirrah
OUT -------------->>>>
I love the Golden Girls! I was in my teens when it came out and still love them. My daughters know of and have watched as well.
Fun fact, prior to "Golden Girls," creator Susan Harris presided over one of the most trangressive, progressive, and controversial sitcoms of all time, "Soap." It created a national controversy! If not familiar, I encourage everybunny to check it out, the talent is amazing :)
It was one of my faves as a kid, right up there with Designing Women. It probably helped that they were on at 4:00 and 4:30 in syndication.
It was a great show, I loved it as a kid too. Really one of the great comedies of all time.
I loved watching the show as a tween when if first aired. My mom loves telling the story of the time I asked what an orgasm was because, I said, "One had it and one didn't" after watching an episode.
My favorite GG episode: "Condoms, Rose! Condoms! Condoms! Condoms!" "You just get out of prison, lady?"
When she retired, Mama started playing Senior's Bingo at several of the fast food places in town. The prizes weren't much - free food, but the real draw was playing a game she loved for free and making new friends. She started sitting with three other ladies, and one of the men who was a regular player called them "The Golden Girls." He called Mama "Rose," after Betty White's character and Mama loved it.
It's like you get me
Happy birthday, Bea Arthur!!!
The other Mr. Inforia and I just watched the sketch of Carol Burnett as Maude. High-larious.
Sunday May 19th we'll be at the Orensanz Foundation for The Shul Band's Music is Love concert. Ta, Rebecca. Ta, Martini.
Thank you so much for the response! How on earth would PAB find out about doing that. I guess we can hope that these fools continue to hoist themselves on their own petard :(
Dogs will eat grass when they have an upset stomach. As roughage to help the expulsion process, one supposes. But maybe they learned about "medicine" from hanging with people aka "cultural transmission".
SER's column won't let you post unless you're a paid subscriber. Lame!
Counter Argument- He's a professional who deserves to be paid for his content.
I do subscribe to SER's substack, just not Rupar's.
As I'm preparing for an orchestra audition next week, that tuba article hit juuuust right today!
Our Liz has been guest commenting on Legal Eagle for a couple of months now. Full hosting, with Devin just introducing her, not just appearing with her. She's not bad for a newbie. She's good at explaining stuff, and she already has the key part down: make sure that every word adds content and meaning. But she is gonna have to develop her screen charisma. That's not a diss, projecting charisma on screen is a skill, like any other, and she's still fairly new to it. And Devin's giving her plenty of room to grow.
June Movie Night schedule is available!
https://open.substack.com/pub/ziggywiggy/p/wonkette-movie-night-june?r=2knfuc&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
"Local action = national impact
Take responsibility for your SCHOOL COMMITTEES or BOARDS.
Get involved in the EDUCATION OF OUR CHILDREN.
Run for local, state and/or federal office...
NO MORE EXCUSES.
Raise the Flag, Say the Pledge."
*****************
Nice words, huh? You know who said them?
"General" Michael Flynn
You know what these words are?
THE MISSION STATEMENT OF THE QANON MOVEMENT
They are posted on the home page of the QAnon Cretin board. Go to www dot GreatAwakening dot win if you don't believe me.
And you know what? So far, the QAnon Cretins are WINNING BIGLY at the local level - at least, they are in Texas. Probably in lots of other red states too, and maybe even in a blue state or two.
SO - VOTE in down-ballot elections. HELP those that are running against QAnon Cretins because I guarantee you that the QAnon Cretins have a candidate in EVERY LOCAL RACE.
Has he been stripped of his rank yet? Can he be? As a military brat, I wish that my Dad, 1st Sergeant Thomas Cone, Jr., could visit this jackass from the beyond and have a word. Or several
I wondered that, too.
It turns out that the president would have to call him back to active duty and then court-martial him. This is what PAB wanted to do to retired generals that were criticizing HIM back in The Dark Days.
Here's an interesting article on it: https://www.military.com/daily-news/2023/01/04/milley-advised-against-court-martialing-flynn-and-retired-generals-critical-of-trump-jan-6-testimony.html
Briefly scanning the NYT article on Trump it looks like the IRS current beef with Trump on his Chicago tower scam doesn't even include the mysterious $48 million loan he claimed he got from another Trump LLC no one can find documents on that he used to offset part of the loan write off that he should have paid taxes on. That is a problem with some proposals on student debt forgiveness. When loan repayment is written off and you do not have to repay it the loan balance written off is considered like income and you have to pay taxes on it.
Income tax on $48 million plus interest and penalties should be pretty steep too. Along with the dozens of above market price cash sales of condos to Russians in Florida, a big sign of possible money laundering, and other loan write offs over decades, there were so many red flags on Trump business deals it's pure negligence the IRS was not auditing him every year. If a parent gives you $10,000 as part of a down payment on your first house there are hoops both of you have to jump through. But a Russian citizen paying $400,000 cash for a condo that should sell for only $300,000 receives no attention. I bet he is not the only wealthy person the IRS ignores.
When Deutsche Bank was saying at his New York fraud trial they would have given him the loans a few years ago even knowing his asset valuations were greatly inflated and Trump said all the loans within the statute of limitations were repaid I had to laugh. That should have resulted in Deutsche being investigated for loan fraud, ignoring underwriting rules for someone they had previously written off hundreds of millions of dollars in defaulted loans that were past the statute of limitations. Something no news media sources were reporting, leaving most people to think Trump always paid his debts. But Deutsche should have been broken up decades ago after paying hundreds of millions of dollars for money laundering, much of it in Russian rubles. Funny how Deutsche and Trump have such close ties to Putin.
Funny thing we've all learned over the last ~25 years is that our legal and financial regulatory "systems" are all set up to enable and facilitate rich, racist white men's crimes against the people of this country, with munnie laundering and tax evasion being the most brazen.
When the penalties and fines are always less than the ill gotten gains, you can pretty much guarantee that fraud is rampant and the risk of getting caught is just an acceptable "cost of doing business." Basically, the government says "you perpetrated a theft against your fellow taxpayers and citizens? That's fine as long as we get a cut if it becomes public knowledge."
Cohen is going to give assmouth a coronary, (I hope)...
It seems to me Houston could just fire that guy. Make them sue us for a change.
Ah, new poll says Trump is ahead. It’s a good thing that polls are conveniently shaped to be shoved up the fundaments of those who take them.
Hmmph. Trump polls half a point ahead and it's "It's in the bag for him!" Another poll shows Biden with a 6 point lead and they shrug "It's so slim".
Exactly. It's all within the margin of error but let's pretend that doesn't matter at all.
Well, I don't take polls so why does my fundament feel like it's been reamed out with a spinning titanium garden gnome?
Rudy Giuliani won’t be getting his radio broadcast gig back anytime soon, according to the MAGA-loving station owner who yanked him off the air after he questioned the legitimacy of President Joe Biden’s election win earlier this month. The former Trump lawyer was suspended and his show on WABC canceled after his remarks, The New York Times first reported on Friday. As for his future with the station, “It’s pretty hard to bring him back,” station boss John Catsimatidis told the New York Post on Sunday. “His behavior makes it very hard to reverse course. He makes it hard not to terminate him.” The newspaper reported that Catsimatidis himself filled in for Giuliani on his regular 10 a.m. slot Sunday, saying the former New York City mayor had “three strikes” against him, having previously warned him about failing to toe the Big Lie. “We warned him once,” Catsimatidis previously told the Times. “We warned him twice. And I get a text from him last night, and I get a text from him this morning that he refuses not to talk about it.”
https://www.thedailybeast.com/maga-radio-station-owner-unloads-on-ex-employee-rudy-giuliani?utm_source=web_push
I need to go back and review the Rules For Radicals and see if there is any mention about mis-use of double negatives and how they affect the curvature of space-time in our continuum.
Because the quotes you have used here from RWNJs might contain weapons grade stupidity best kept inside a nuclear reactor containment vessel. Let's not open any weird multiverse gateways on a Monday.
Weaponized malicious stupidity had been the Republinazi platform for +60 years.
Rootie is a fucking kÖØK.
Favorite part of the Trump double dip tax article:
"And some 70,000 square feet of retail space remained vacant because it had been designed without access to foot or vehicle traffic."
Only hires the best people. How do you design retail space with no access? I want more details.
" ... retail space with no access "
This reminds me of something forever in my memory.
I was 6 1/2 years old when my parents and I arrived in NY aboard the USNS General MB Stewart (one of a number of WW2 Liberty ship used to transport WW2 DPs throughout the world.) As the ship inched into NY harbor, I was at the railing and amazed and overwhelmed by the height and size of the buildings and their many, many windows. To the side of one building I saw a car in a fenced in yard. I couldn't understand why someone would have a car that was in a fenced in yard (with no apparent access.)
wow, turns out the design of the retail is so bad, there are whole stories written about it.
It has the record for longest vacancy over 5000sq ft in Chicago history.
They've cycled through multiple leasing agents. It's a total cluster. Every decision they could have made they made wrong. Low ceilings, too much outdoor deck (Chicago winters???) No visibility from the street, needs detailed directions to even find it on foot.
lol
https://therealdeal.com/chicago/2019/03/27/no-mans-land-how-trump-tower-became-chicago-retails-biggest-failure/
It was designed that way to CREATE the tax dodge.
"Here. I've marked the changes you architects need to make before we start construction."
"Is that the red crayon all over our working drawings?"
"Yes. Eric found my red sharpies and sniffed them dry."
"Is this a joke? You've removed all the access points for visitor and vehicle traffic! This removes the whole point of the project from the project!"
"But it adds an excuse to write off the project on my taxes. Now get to work and remove those doors and entrances!"
Who does he think he is? Milo Minderbinder?
Hardly. He's not about to give everyone a a share, after all.
Have you even tried his chocolate-covered cotton?
That AIN'T chocolate.
What a VAPID fucking idiot!
You can't make this shit up!
IKR?
I try and try to make up stories and this turd just keeps making everything I do seem so derivative and redundant.
Life tweets from NY. Cohen just entered the stand ... obviously this will go on for days, but if you care, and you are still on Twitter, start here ;-)
https://twitter.com/AnnaBower/status/1790014839173103743
Cohen steps up to the witness stand. He's wearing a charcoal suit, crisp white shirt, and a pink tie.
The prosecution must have heaved a sigh of relief that he did not show up wearing the shirt he wore in a TikTok video last week, which featured an image of Trump behind bars.
I much prefer Marcie's recaps.
Well, she has such a broad knowledge and throws in so many references that I am often at a loss.
I also admit that I didn't follow most of the life tweeting for the last weeks; 30 minutes of daily retrospective for each trial day from the lawcast podcast is sufficient for me.
i must confess i kinda love that michael cohen. sleazeball that he is, he makes me smile.
hope he keeps rocking orangeman's world.
Cohen looks like a young Woody Allen in that photo.
I believe you're right. Crop out the hair and focus on the facial features.