Reminds me of neighbor dog! When we lived back on the farm among the trees, our principle crop was leaves. Like FEET of them. I would rake mazes through them for the kids and of course, the big pile. Neighbor dog would sit patiently by while I made the pile and then Leeeaaaappppp into it the second I put the rake down
Greetin's and salutations, it's all gone a bit pear-shaped for your old china Russell, and no 'addock and 'ake. 'E's 'avin' a right hard time, oo-er, not for the first time but this one is much less agreeable, innit? They've only gone and fahnd 'im guilty of that most dreadful, heinous and vouchsafed indeterminitely terrible criminal activity the learned council calls "brie and grape", oh an' it's an 'orrible thing, foresooth. They're puttin' your old mate in stir, porridge, the big 'ahse, makin' 'im do bird which, given the circumstances, alright officer you can stop 'ittin' me wiv your massive truncheon now! Gadzooks!
Also I'm eye rolling at a handful of people shouting some of the Dems' best show horses for leadership in the chambers. No. That is a WORKHORSE job. It is a waste of Raskin or AOC or any of the other firebrands to stick them in admin.
The job is to manage getting as much shit done as possible in limited time. Senate leader especially needs to be a master of procedure and rules.
Van Hollen is the only remotely sensible name I've seen the internet throw around, and AES had to hand it to them (I still think Schatz is more likely). Bernie is staying head of budget, as he should. Murray is staying head of appropriations. Warren is going to chair banking (which has a broad reach, actually). Blumenthal is gonna stick to investigations because he's really doing well on working to unfuck healthcare. Booker is going to stay a firebrand and probably go for the presidency again. I don't even think any of them will RUN for leader outside maaaaybe Booker if somehow something gets weird.
Workhorses, people. You want a good administrator. That is the gig. YES that makes it harder for the masses to guess who b/c they pick the show horses who are better at other things and better known. But it's what we need.
This has been a great week. I haven't been this happy in quite some time. I was a poll worker for the midterms, and it was exhausting, but worthwhile. We had a three-page ballot because, in addition to the governor's race (won by the incumbent, Maura Healy, who also handed out candy on Halloween from her home in Arlington, MA, a five-minute walk from my house), there were 9 ballot questions. Big turnout, even though the outcome was no surprise. Totally off topic: Boston's Logan Airport held a contest for the Voice of Logan. The winner will record greetings to welcome people to MA and make various other announcements over the PA system. Out of 6,000 video entries, the winner was Christopher Donisi, a native of (East) Arlington --my neighborhood. My daughter tells me Chris's brother was in her graduating class at Arlington High. Yay for us!
It's been a revelation watching political debates go on with a gay couple I know where there is a nearly 40-year age difference between the two of them. They're in LA, so this primarily manifested itself in a Bass-Raman split. But watching them find common ground has given me all kinds of hope. Young people have a lot to learn from older people, but more importantly, older people have a megafuckton to learn from younger people.
I said, in reference to Schumer and Jeffries, I used the word spinelessness. I misspoke. It's not spineless at all, not remotely, to protect the old guard. It takes great fortitude to be the face that insists on more of the same. To be accurate, they are simply there to protect the status quo as much as they can. Defending that with imaginary behind the scenes scenarios, imagined strength, while all they have shown is support for genocide and milquetoast, takes some real trickery of what the evidence shows.
"President D____ T____ signed a proclamation on Thursday that he said would designate the White House’s Oval Office and Cabinet Room as national landmarks — a move he said would protect the two West Wing spaces from future changes."
Will they be leaving all the shit stains in the carpets?
2024—Trump cultists gloat that Project 2025—of which he’s been claiming ignorance—“is the agenda. Lol.”
2016—FBI Director James Comey says never mind about those emails.
2012—Trump tweets, “The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.”
2000—Saddam Hussein stops accepting dollars for oil, thus undermining U.S. hegemony and possibly shortening his own life.
1998—Newt Gingrich says he’s resigning as Speaker of the House because he’s “not willing to preside over people who are cannibals.”
1984—Reagan defeats Mondale—it’s mourning in America.
1971—The AEC detonates a 5-megaton nuke—the largest ever exploded in the U.S.—one mile below Amchitka Island, 87 miles from a Soviet naval base in Siberia.
1965—In Times Square, five men burn their draft cards, the first such protest of the Vietnam War.
1944—In Cairo, Zionists assassinate Lord Moyne, Britain’s minister to the middle east. In 1982, Israel honors the assassins with a stamp.
1922—After new owners of a Pennsylvania coal mine get its rating changed from gaseous to non-gaseous, a gas explosion kills 79 miners.
1917—After three months of fighting in mud, Canadians take Passchendaele, ending the Third Battle of Ypres; Allies gain five miles at a cost of 250,000 casualties.
What a wonderful, exhausting week! This weekend, maybe recuperate and take a rest like Stella: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/stella-has-a-snooze
And your meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/82a10157-b5ce-4c81-9ae9-ff666081a30e
Stella! Stella! Stella! That’s not Stella, it’s Blanche. Blanche! Blanche! Blanche!
GOOD JOB, LEAF BABY STELLA!!
That is a gif of complete contentment.
Ah, to sleep like a dog in leaves.
STELLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA... has the right idea. ❤️
Obligatory: https://youtu.be/lcP1trgOnoY?si=n_hdry6rqCMQNtAz
That doggo is ALL of us today....
Stella looks to be a passionate dog, completely committed to the cause, and catching winks before rejoining the fray
I can not hear the name 𝘚𝘵𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘢 without mentally adding 𝘒𝘰𝘸𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘬𝘪 and thinking Tennessee Williams and 𝘈 𝘚𝘵𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘵𝘤𝘢𝘳 𝘕𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘥 𝘋𝘦𝘴𝘪𝘳𝘦...
Prolly a personal failing.
STELLLLLA!!!!!
It's not just you...
Every time I see the name Tennessee Williams, I see the name Blue Roses.....
The nap will help her get her groove back.
Stella is amazing
If Stella in vengeance, we're all in need of more!
teefs! .... toofs!! ..... TOOFIEEEEEEES!!!
"Stewwa!"
Reminds me of neighbor dog! When we lived back on the farm among the trees, our principle crop was leaves. Like FEET of them. I would rake mazes through them for the kids and of course, the big pile. Neighbor dog would sit patiently by while I made the pile and then Leeeaaaappppp into it the second I put the rake down
That’s a patient dog!
Enjoy your well deserved rest, Stella!
Greetin's and salutations, it's all gone a bit pear-shaped for your old china Russell, and no 'addock and 'ake. 'E's 'avin' a right hard time, oo-er, not for the first time but this one is much less agreeable, innit? They've only gone and fahnd 'im guilty of that most dreadful, heinous and vouchsafed indeterminitely terrible criminal activity the learned council calls "brie and grape", oh an' it's an 'orrible thing, foresooth. They're puttin' your old mate in stir, porridge, the big 'ahse, makin' 'im do bird which, given the circumstances, alright officer you can stop 'ittin' me wiv your massive truncheon now! Gadzooks!
OMFG, that rancid, decaying, end-stage syphilitic CHANCRE Virginia Foxx
IS
OUT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! YESSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSSS!!!!!
Answer the damn question, Hakeem.
"“Why does universal health care keep getting sidelined by party leadership?”
Jeffries gives a misleading word salad answer to a direct question 🤔
Medicare for all. NOW. Any potential Speaker should guarantee it will get a vote.
Make Trump veto it. (He may not)"
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3mzmkaaptrs2r
Virginia Foxx is the Almira Gulch of the House.
Also I'm eye rolling at a handful of people shouting some of the Dems' best show horses for leadership in the chambers. No. That is a WORKHORSE job. It is a waste of Raskin or AOC or any of the other firebrands to stick them in admin.
The job is to manage getting as much shit done as possible in limited time. Senate leader especially needs to be a master of procedure and rules.
Van Hollen is the only remotely sensible name I've seen the internet throw around, and AES had to hand it to them (I still think Schatz is more likely). Bernie is staying head of budget, as he should. Murray is staying head of appropriations. Warren is going to chair banking (which has a broad reach, actually). Blumenthal is gonna stick to investigations because he's really doing well on working to unfuck healthcare. Booker is going to stay a firebrand and probably go for the presidency again. I don't even think any of them will RUN for leader outside maaaaybe Booker if somehow something gets weird.
Workhorses, people. You want a good administrator. That is the gig. YES that makes it harder for the masses to guess who b/c they pick the show horses who are better at other things and better known. But it's what we need.
This has been a great week. I haven't been this happy in quite some time. I was a poll worker for the midterms, and it was exhausting, but worthwhile. We had a three-page ballot because, in addition to the governor's race (won by the incumbent, Maura Healy, who also handed out candy on Halloween from her home in Arlington, MA, a five-minute walk from my house), there were 9 ballot questions. Big turnout, even though the outcome was no surprise. Totally off topic: Boston's Logan Airport held a contest for the Voice of Logan. The winner will record greetings to welcome people to MA and make various other announcements over the PA system. Out of 6,000 video entries, the winner was Christopher Donisi, a native of (East) Arlington --my neighborhood. My daughter tells me Chris's brother was in her graduating class at Arlington High. Yay for us!
It's been a revelation watching political debates go on with a gay couple I know where there is a nearly 40-year age difference between the two of them. They're in LA, so this primarily manifested itself in a Bass-Raman split. But watching them find common ground has given me all kinds of hope. Young people have a lot to learn from older people, but more importantly, older people have a megafuckton to learn from younger people.
Hmmm.
Built in around 2005.
20 bedrooms.
46 acres.
27 million pounds.
A bit of a fixer-upper.
=======
Tell me you ran out of money building your McMansion without telling me you ran out of money building your McMansion
https://www.rightmove.co.uk/properties/95176371#/?channel=RES_NEW
https://bsky.app/profile/generalboles.bsky.social/post/3mznbglvdok2d
Who needs 20 bedrooms? Unless this is some sex palace.
LOL... went to the listing, clicked on the map, zoomed a bit and found something delightful.
a place called Staines-upon-Thames.
now what could be the meaning of that....
The Thames in Stains meanders through the plains....
What the fuck were they trying to do, imitate Blenheim Palace?
“Have you and Brent Taylor spoken?”
@justinjpearson.bsky.social (TN Rep/D): “No, I’m not talking to that sexual predator.” 👀
“Whoa.”
https://bsky.app/profile/thetnholler.bsky.social/post/3mzmky7eydc2r
I said, in reference to Schumer and Jeffries, I used the word spinelessness. I misspoke. It's not spineless at all, not remotely, to protect the old guard. It takes great fortitude to be the face that insists on more of the same. To be accurate, they are simply there to protect the status quo as much as they can. Defending that with imaginary behind the scenes scenarios, imagined strength, while all they have shown is support for genocide and milquetoast, takes some real trickery of what the evidence shows.
"President D____ T____ signed a proclamation on Thursday that he said would designate the White House’s Oval Office and Cabinet Room as national landmarks — a move he said would protect the two West Wing spaces from future changes."
Will they be leaving all the shit stains in the carpets?
lol
Yeah, after Trump has been ravaging already created national monuments?
lol
Three things we need going forward:
𝗔𝗳𝗳𝗼𝗿𝗱𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆
𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗻𝘁𝗮𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆
𝗔𝗰𝗰𝗲𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗯𝗶𝗹𝗶𝘁𝘆
~ Rep. Jim Clyburn (D/SC)
Granny demon from hell! What a perfect description of Virginia Fox 🤣🤣🤣
All of the excuses for why journalists still remain on X are falling apart.
This date in what Virginia Foxx will soon be...
History
2024—Trump cultists gloat that Project 2025—of which he’s been claiming ignorance—“is the agenda. Lol.”
2016—FBI Director James Comey says never mind about those emails.
2012—Trump tweets, “The electoral college is a disaster for a democracy.”
2000—Saddam Hussein stops accepting dollars for oil, thus undermining U.S. hegemony and possibly shortening his own life.
1998—Newt Gingrich says he’s resigning as Speaker of the House because he’s “not willing to preside over people who are cannibals.”
1984—Reagan defeats Mondale—it’s mourning in America.
1971—The AEC detonates a 5-megaton nuke—the largest ever exploded in the U.S.—one mile below Amchitka Island, 87 miles from a Soviet naval base in Siberia.
1965—In Times Square, five men burn their draft cards, the first such protest of the Vietnam War.
1944—In Cairo, Zionists assassinate Lord Moyne, Britain’s minister to the middle east. In 1982, Israel honors the assassins with a stamp.
1922—After new owners of a Pennsylvania coal mine get its rating changed from gaseous to non-gaseous, a gas explosion kills 79 miners.
1917—After three months of fighting in mud, Canadians take Passchendaele, ending the Third Battle of Ypres; Allies gain five miles at a cost of 250,000 casualties.
https://www.nhgazette.com/2026/11/06/fri-nov-6-2/
Newt introduced the GOP to the taste of human flesh; he has/had no one to blame but himself.