Mary Vaccuum Day is a better way of describing it. A lot of people confuse it with the other Holy day for Mary, the Immaculate Conception which also has nothing to do with her becoming pregnant with baby Jesus. Amazing how even the church is able to recognize more aspects of a woman's life than just her carrying a baby.
Also, Lemon Meringue is my favorite pie, if Key Lime isn't available. If both are not available, I switch to cheesecake.
Now that one of Chicago’s WGN main sponsors is NorthShore Adult Diapers, WGN should change their slogan from “World’s Greatest Newspaper” to “World’s Greatest Nappies”.
It was like that in the 90s as well. I got on top of this for a couple of years in my division by proving that marketing behavior specifically, and the culture in general, undermined project performance. If you're going to "redeploy" the "bottom 10%;" reward the "stars," and make execs earn their bonuses by beating deadlines, what did you expect would happen to "teamwork?"
Then HR hung numbers on it and that's how I caused the Executive Bonus to become the Employee Bonus in '97.
So they laid me off the following year. Hell hath no fury like that of middle management exposed while bonuses are reallocate to labor.
This is how I missed the 30% markup going to...100%, if I read your comment correctly. Unless "make a dollar for a dollar" was just an expression.
In Catholic school we kids talked about the Immaculate Deception. But that's a different Mary holy day. I wish we had known about Pushkin's Gabrieliad back then. Alex damn near got prosecuted for first degree blasphemy for writing that. The Russian Orthodox Church was seriously offended.
In Derangement News, first Trump didn't like the electromagnetic catapult system used on the new Ford class carriers, Now he doesn't like the look of the Flight tower on them as well. It would take tens of billions of dollar to replace the launch and even more to move the Flight Tower, not to mention the years it would take to make these modifications. 2029 can't come soon enough.
Ugh. War is bad. But, kind of like mining equipment, hard not to admire weapons for those of us that dig tools. I hate that about myself, but here we are.
Looks are important, but they aren't the main point, babby Trump.
Warfare is changing at the speed of innovation, but still today, an aircraft carrier battle group, now officially called a Carrier Strike Group, is an essential strategic element for reminding rivals and opponents just what they're dealing with, and for delivering difficult to match firepower and force projection should cooler heads not prevail...
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s war against Iran is stretching the limits of U.S. aircraft carriers and leaving the western Pacific without one of the key American warships as China shows more signs of aggression.
The USS George Washington is departing the Pacific and expected to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East amid growing concerns about mental health and supply issues aboard the long-deployed carrier. The Lincoln has had its time at sea extended from its original May return date to support operations against Iran..."
And, of course, this comes at a time when everyone in the world knows where US ordnance inventories are. And also know the competence of our policy makers.
I wonder what they're thinking in Beijing? If I was an American living in Taiwan, I'd know what I was thinking...
During my youth, I encountered the occasional circumstance, "TTG" was short for "Time to go!" There was also "emergency exit plan RMAO" (Ran my ass off)...
This is bad news for Japan, and VERY BAD NEWS for South Korea. I expect China and North Korea to start flexing their muscles in the area before the end of the year.
And once again, for the GOP voters in the back - none of this needed to happen. Iran was on board with a non-nuclear power agreement, but Prezident Petty Petty Princess couldn't stand that Obama had negotiated it. So now your gas and groceries cost too much, you lost your manufacturing job when the factory three towns over closed because they can't afford to import raw materials due to tariffs. And YOU voted for this. Although, I will grant you that you were too stupid to understand the likely outcome, or too proud to listen to other people explain it to you in small words.
Imagine being a sailor on the USS George Washington, sailing to the Middle East to replace the Lincoln, knowing that the latter ship has been at sea for nine months and is coming apart at the seams. And knowing that the GW's deployment will be open-ended and will end up just like the Lincoln's.
My favorite story along these lines came from Gabriel García-Marquez. I think it happened in both One Hundred Years of Solitude and in the novella called something like The Sad History of Remédios the Beauty and her Wicked Grandmother.
A very young woman ascends bodily to Heaven. García-Marquez said in a memoir that the *real* story was that a very young woman in a village got pregnant and her parents sent her away. BUT they told all the neighbors and townspeople that she had bodily ascended to Heaven. I had bought a pile of books in Spanish to improve my reading; I don't know if this appears anywhere in translation.
It may have been mentioned downthread -- I just got here and I'm not going to look -- but today is the eighty-first anniversary of the surrender of Japan, ending the Second World War.
Trump named three NFL teams he thinks will make it to the Super Bowl, the Patriots, the Rams and Ny. Giants. Just a heads up for all who bet the sportsballs.
Ta, Robyn, and Happy Caturday to all who celebrate. We're sipping flowery green tea and eating luscious fruit bowls on this, our second anniversary. Marrying Meccalopolis has made me the happiest woman on earth, and we decided to remain newlyweds for the rest of our lives. I rarely watch your videos, but Shari Lewis and Lambchop on Playboy After Dark and GWAR on the Joan Rivers show were hilarious. Good day, beloved Wonketteers. We love and appreciate you all and we bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, get a booster shot six months after your last (and get kids in your household vaccinated also, too), and stay the fuck away from us or anyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because we love you, too. Do this in memory of 27 Club member Treg, Holly's heroic pilot friend Tony, and around eight million dead worldwide (maybe including FukuiSanYesOta; he had long COVID and that can lead to cardiac arrest). Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel (we love and appreciate you, medicos of Wonkette, including retirees), especially ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark RN. Please, please stay safe. When we vote, we WIN!
Late comment!
Mary Vaccuum Day is a better way of describing it. A lot of people confuse it with the other Holy day for Mary, the Immaculate Conception which also has nothing to do with her becoming pregnant with baby Jesus. Amazing how even the church is able to recognize more aspects of a woman's life than just her carrying a baby.
Also, Lemon Meringue is my favorite pie, if Key Lime isn't available. If both are not available, I switch to cheesecake.
Now that one of Chicago’s WGN main sponsors is NorthShore Adult Diapers, WGN should change their slogan from “World’s Greatest Newspaper” to “World’s Greatest Nappies”.
"ALL THE WAY FROM ANTARCTICA, JUST TO RUIN YOUR DAY, IT'S GWAR!"
I worked at Intel in the 2000s. It was my first close encounter with Marketing people.
The thing they always talked about, and a thing that stuck with me
was making "a dollar and a dollar":
Doubling income by selling a thing -and- also charging a lock-in toll to use the thing.
We were trying to invent streaming and they were gonna sell set-top box chips to America.
It made them giddy.
That, and bragging about the big European hits to their expense accounts.
Of course, the chip and the initiative and engineer's work went nowhere because today,
any CPU can stream internet video, while marketing sleeps in First Class on the plane ride back.
Oops.
It was like that in the 90s as well. I got on top of this for a couple of years in my division by proving that marketing behavior specifically, and the culture in general, undermined project performance. If you're going to "redeploy" the "bottom 10%;" reward the "stars," and make execs earn their bonuses by beating deadlines, what did you expect would happen to "teamwork?"
Then HR hung numbers on it and that's how I caused the Executive Bonus to become the Employee Bonus in '97.
So they laid me off the following year. Hell hath no fury like that of middle management exposed while bonuses are reallocate to labor.
This is how I missed the 30% markup going to...100%, if I read your comment correctly. Unless "make a dollar for a dollar" was just an expression.
👆👆👆👆👆👆 Why Kodak missed out on Digital Cameras and the iPhone.
Yeah .. the videophone wasn't a great project either.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Funny how you never hear Republicans talking about the "disastrous withdrawal" from Afghanistan anymore.
In Catholic school we kids talked about the Immaculate Deception. But that's a different Mary holy day. I wish we had known about Pushkin's Gabrieliad back then. Alex damn near got prosecuted for first degree blasphemy for writing that. The Russian Orthodox Church was seriously offended.
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Lemon Meringue Pie day. I can live with that.
In Derangement News, first Trump didn't like the electromagnetic catapult system used on the new Ford class carriers, Now he doesn't like the look of the Flight tower on them as well. It would take tens of billions of dollar to replace the launch and even more to move the Flight Tower, not to mention the years it would take to make these modifications. 2029 can't come soon enough.
... Highway to the Danger Zone...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=siwpn14IE7E
Ugh. War is bad. But, kind of like mining equipment, hard not to admire weapons for those of us that dig tools. I hate that about myself, but here we are.
Looks are important, but they aren't the main point, babby Trump.
Warfare is changing at the speed of innovation, but still today, an aircraft carrier battle group, now officially called a Carrier Strike Group, is an essential strategic element for reminding rivals and opponents just what they're dealing with, and for delivering difficult to match firepower and force projection should cooler heads not prevail...
𝗨𝗦 𝗽𝘂𝗹𝗹𝘀 𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗮𝗶𝗿𝗰𝗿𝗮𝗳𝘁 𝗰𝗮𝗿𝗿𝗶𝗲𝗿 𝗶𝗻 𝗔𝘀𝗶𝗮 𝗮𝘀 𝗧𝗿𝘂𝗺𝗽 𝗳𝗼𝗰𝘂𝘀𝗲𝘀 𝗼𝗻 𝗜𝗿𝗮𝗻 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗪𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻 𝗛𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘀𝗽𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲
WASHINGTON (AP) — President Donald Trump’s war against Iran is stretching the limits of U.S. aircraft carriers and leaving the western Pacific without one of the key American warships as China shows more signs of aggression.
The USS George Washington is departing the Pacific and expected to replace the USS Abraham Lincoln in the Middle East amid growing concerns about mental health and supply issues aboard the long-deployed carrier. The Lincoln has had its time at sea extended from its original May return date to support operations against Iran..."
https://apnews.com/article/aircraft-carriers-trump-china-pacific-iran-war-87cfb838de8c13464fa3cab1840ad87d
And, of course, this comes at a time when everyone in the world knows where US ordnance inventories are. And also know the competence of our policy makers.
I wonder what they're thinking in Beijing? If I was an American living in Taiwan, I'd know what I was thinking...
During my youth, I encountered the occasional circumstance, "TTG" was short for "Time to go!" There was also "emergency exit plan RMAO" (Ran my ass off)...
Sure hope that it doesn't come to it
This is bad news for Japan, and VERY BAD NEWS for South Korea. I expect China and North Korea to start flexing their muscles in the area before the end of the year.
And once again, for the GOP voters in the back - none of this needed to happen. Iran was on board with a non-nuclear power agreement, but Prezident Petty Petty Princess couldn't stand that Obama had negotiated it. So now your gas and groceries cost too much, you lost your manufacturing job when the factory three towns over closed because they can't afford to import raw materials due to tariffs. And YOU voted for this. Although, I will grant you that you were too stupid to understand the likely outcome, or too proud to listen to other people explain it to you in small words.
Imagine being a sailor on the USS George Washington, sailing to the Middle East to replace the Lincoln, knowing that the latter ship has been at sea for nine months and is coming apart at the seams. And knowing that the GW's deployment will be open-ended and will end up just like the Lincoln's.
"China, have at it. Everyone gets their Sphere of Influence"
DJT
"Despite the unfriendly look on this particular picture, there are many where we're smiling, Kim Jong Un and I get along GREAT!"
~
Then use one of _those_ pictures, dipshit! It really is that easy.
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-north-korea-2677711651/
Bug eyes thinks he's been working with trump for 10 years. https://xcancel.com/i/status/2088338000736305521 TBF, it probably just seems like 10 years.
Googly.
No notable birthdays today?
Robyn, were you unaware that the Junior Senator from Pennsylvania, John Fetterman, is 57 years young today?
Ah, so he wasn't born yesterday.
T̶h̶e̶ ̶s̶t̶r̶e̶e̶t̶s̶ ̶w̶e̶r̶e̶ ̶a̶l̶i̶v̶e̶ ̶w̶i̶t̶h̶ ̶c̶e̶l̶e̶b̶r̶a̶t̶i̶o̶n̶!̶ I didn't even know! Now I can ignore it with knowledge and purpose...
I assume that Mary knew that ancient Mosaic Law made the punishment for adultery death by stoning for both(all?) people involved...
"I'm 𝘱𝘳𝘦𝘨𝘯𝘢𝘯𝘵? Oh 𝘨𝘰𝘥!!!"
People been known to be ah, fluid with facts under those circumstances
My favorite story along these lines came from Gabriel García-Marquez. I think it happened in both One Hundred Years of Solitude and in the novella called something like The Sad History of Remédios the Beauty and her Wicked Grandmother.
A very young woman ascends bodily to Heaven. García-Marquez said in a memoir that the *real* story was that a very young woman in a village got pregnant and her parents sent her away. BUT they told all the neighbors and townspeople that she had bodily ascended to Heaven. I had bought a pile of books in Spanish to improve my reading; I don't know if this appears anywhere in translation.
"sent her away", is that the same as when you send the family doggo to the farm?
Only if the "farm" was called "Madame Marchand's Home for Wayward Girls"
It probably meant distant relatives; I certainly hope it wasn't to some religious home for unwed mothers.
I just found out that Medicaid has approved my custom wheelchair! They approved it! Yaaaay!
We are SO very happy for you! Another reason to celebrate. Now, let the Powers That Be find you a suitable apartment.
Woot!
Slicks, side pipes, a nitrous rig, and flames painted down the sides? Medicaid? That's excellent!
awesome! A little brightness in a difficult series of hurdles!
As they SHOULD! Congrats.
It may have been mentioned downthread -- I just got here and I'm not going to look -- but today is the eighty-first anniversary of the surrender of Japan, ending the Second World War.
Trump named three NFL teams he thinks will make it to the Super Bowl, the Patriots, the Rams and Ny. Giants. Just a heads up for all who bet the sportsballs.
I'll short them. It's the most obvious way to follow Murphy's newest law: everything Trump touches dies.
Wait, what about the New Jersey Generals?
I am surprised he didn't choose the Islanders, the Red Sox and the Knicks....
Gonna be interesting game this year. Rules committee must be working overtime.
I wonder how many end zones there's going to be...
Two words: Hydration Breaks!
Booooo!
Umm...three.
At the superb owl...
Ta, Robyn, and Happy Caturday to all who celebrate. We're sipping flowery green tea and eating luscious fruit bowls on this, our second anniversary. Marrying Meccalopolis has made me the happiest woman on earth, and we decided to remain newlyweds for the rest of our lives. I rarely watch your videos, but Shari Lewis and Lambchop on Playboy After Dark and GWAR on the Joan Rivers show were hilarious. Good day, beloved Wonketteers. We love and appreciate you all and we bless us all with love, health, peace, and grace.
Please, please stay safe. Wear a mask or two, wash your hands, sanitize when you cannot wash and let the sanitizer dry completely, stop touching your face, take Vitamin D, get a booster shot six months after your last (and get kids in your household vaccinated also, too), and stay the fuck away from us or anyone with whom you do not share a roof. Do this because you love yourself, and because we love you, too. Do this in memory of 27 Club member Treg, Holly's heroic pilot friend Tony, and around eight million dead worldwide (maybe including FukuiSanYesOta; he had long COVID and that can lead to cardiac arrest). Do this to honor the nurses and other frontline medical personnel (we love and appreciate you, medicos of Wonkette, including retirees), especially ICU Hera Mrs Land Shark RN. Please, please stay safe. When we vote, we WIN!
Slava Ukraini. 🌻🇺🇦💙💛
Thanks to the Wonkmeet in Redhook, Brooklyn all those years ago! This is a good place, y'all, we honor it and all of you.
Happy anniversary you two!
Thank you, Diane. We're very happy.