Hemingway be damned. If bullfighting arenas really have to exist, they should just replace bullfights with playful bulls pushing giant soccer balls around.
(Tangential: up in the Sacramento River Delta, I stumbled upon a smallish bullfighting ring, a sort of beautiful green wooden structure just sitting out in the middle of the Delta grasses and palm trees. I was completely mystified, then learned that there are four of them in the state, and they're still active. They were erected by California's large Portuguese communities. Portuguese bullfighting does not involve harming the animals).
I saw a bull fight in Portugal years ago and that is what it looked like to me. Fancy bull dodging and the bull got a huge ovation when it entered the ring.
Meanwhile, here’s some other folks whose doors DHS is knocking down for their speech while the “free speech warriors” are very busy with anything else in the whole wide world.
I notice the deafing silence from Bari 'MAH FREE SPEECH!!' Weiss and her gang of weisswashers on this subject.
The fascist logic is impeccable. When you indoctrinate people to devalue their own lives, you have also succeeded in indoctrinating them to devalue the lives of others.
The Max Read article is fantastic. As is one of the comments to it where someone writes "If I were on that plane it wouldn't have gone down like that."
Everyone then jumps on that poster, and it's pretty funny.
He's already suspended the funds needed to proceed with the new tunnels under the Hudson ( illegally ), he now wants some lagniappe to release the funds - re0naming both Dulles International Airport and NY's Penn Station after him.
Can't we just rename every sewage treatment facility in America after him ( a la John Oliver's CT treatment plant ) - better yet, drown him in one.
Had to look up lagniappe - Wonkette is good for my vocabulary.
But as for that rename-every-sewer-plant thing... part of my job is working with the sewer plant guys, and I've come to the conclusion that naming any well functioning sewer plant after The Mad Yam or any of these assholes is a real live libulz against sewer plants. At least the well run ones. Maybe an old abandoned one, or one of those pig-shit lagoons...?
(it's amazing what waste treatment plants do! and for all of us! it's a combo of chemistry, good engineering and recycling!)
(recycling because the mostly-processed biosolids are plowed into the ground so non-food crops benefit from the nutrients)
(ok, enough rah-rah for sewer plants for the time being)
Man, that Trump death-cult thing, I don’t know. Of the penguin waddling off to its doom, that so mystified Werner Herzog, DHS (especially the Hitler Youth that run their social media) somehow claim, “Americans have always known ‘why.’” And then show a bunch of ICE raids.
No, it doesn’t make any sense. And In fact, they do not know “why.” If you asked them, they’d just give you the Smug Nazi Stupid Face, where they smirk at you ‘cuz you don’t get it, libtard. And when they *do* try to explain it, it’ll just be a contradictory mass of racism, misogyny, and self-pitying.
These fuckers’ nihilism breaks Werner Herzog’s brain. Herzog! I’d like to empathize, but they are the enemy, and at some point you just have to shrug and open fire.
So, do the people at Southern Living have a special gripe against snickers and kit kat? Because my pre-coffee reading on the chart seems to indicate higher levels in fruity/sour candies.
Maybe they just think their average demographic reader is more a chocolate fan, so they are directing attention at those products?
“But what you cannot do is to detain first and then sort out lawful authority later. Continued detention is not lawful just because compliance with release orders is administratively difficult or because an operation has expanded beyond the Government's capacity to execute it lawfully.”
I haven’t read all of it yet either, but the parts I skimmed made me want to go back to it when I have more time. But “because an operation has expanded beyond the Government’s capacity to execute it lawfully” is painfully on point.
I think it also just goes to show that the administration is just going to keep doing as they are doing *until someone stops them* not with words and orders, but with actions… like putting people in jail for contempt.
Your sporty hed gif info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/tilly-vs-bruno
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/a8b24ccb-11f9-4a37-9c0d-c4851bce578a?utm_source=share
I’m just gonna watch that all day.
Dr. King once spoke about
The urgency of now
A lesson learned in friendly play
By a puppy and a cow.
They live a kind of brotherhood
A thing that's good for all
Life would be more beautiful
If we could just play ball.
🥰
Say, you know who else only had one ball?
Most definitely reminds me of this!
https://pledge.wfmu.org/static/img/woofmoo-animated.gif
Ferdinand!
Buddy and Tilly are giant ball fans!
Hemingway be damned. If bullfighting arenas really have to exist, they should just replace bullfights with playful bulls pushing giant soccer balls around.
(Tangential: up in the Sacramento River Delta, I stumbled upon a smallish bullfighting ring, a sort of beautiful green wooden structure just sitting out in the middle of the Delta grasses and palm trees. I was completely mystified, then learned that there are four of them in the state, and they're still active. They were erected by California's large Portuguese communities. Portuguese bullfighting does not involve harming the animals).
Not harming the animals, eh? So it's, what, bull-dodging?
I saw a bull fight in Portugal years ago and that is what it looked like to me. Fancy bull dodging and the bull got a huge ovation when it entered the ring.
Same in southern France, we found out recently. Just Spain and its derivitaves are savages.
No stabbing involved?
Nope. No stabbing. No swords.
Those two are really having a... good time.
I didn't have the balls for this.
Calvin Ball?
https://calvinandhobbes.fandom.com/wiki/Calvinball
This is one sport that I would watch.
Related funny in Martini’s Chat House - https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/a8b24ccb-11f9-4a37-9c0d-c4851bce578a?utm_source=share
Dog and bovine try.
-Heart
I'm hearing the tune in my head.
Very sporty - we like ball - just not baalroom -
i kinda would like to see his name on it for the demolition.
Tilly and Buddy having fun with a ball!
Four legs good…two legs bad!
Meanwhile, here’s some other folks whose doors DHS is knocking down for their speech while the “free speech warriors” are very busy with anything else in the whole wide world.
I notice the deafing silence from Bari 'MAH FREE SPEECH!!' Weiss and her gang of weisswashers on this subject.
so much for trump being able to transfer his vaporware meme coins to a more stable crypto.
The fascist logic is impeccable. When you indoctrinate people to devalue their own lives, you have also succeeded in indoctrinating them to devalue the lives of others.
The Max Read article is fantastic. As is one of the comments to it where someone writes "If I were on that plane it wouldn't have gone down like that."
Everyone then jumps on that poster, and it's pretty funny.
And poor Walter White had to do it the hard way
Perhaps it's already been noted here, but the ego of the massive asshole in the White House has once again outed itself:
Link: https://www.ms.now/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/trump-gateway-federal-funds-rename-dulles-penn-station
He's already suspended the funds needed to proceed with the new tunnels under the Hudson ( illegally ), he now wants some lagniappe to release the funds - re0naming both Dulles International Airport and NY's Penn Station after him.
Can't we just rename every sewage treatment facility in America after him ( a la John Oliver's CT treatment plant ) - better yet, drown him in one.
think that was tried with shrub. hard working sewage treatment plant workers didn't appreciate it much.
Had to look up lagniappe - Wonkette is good for my vocabulary.
But as for that rename-every-sewer-plant thing... part of my job is working with the sewer plant guys, and I've come to the conclusion that naming any well functioning sewer plant after The Mad Yam or any of these assholes is a real live libulz against sewer plants. At least the well run ones. Maybe an old abandoned one, or one of those pig-shit lagoons...?
(it's amazing what waste treatment plants do! and for all of us! it's a combo of chemistry, good engineering and recycling!)
(recycling because the mostly-processed biosolids are plowed into the ground so non-food crops benefit from the nutrients)
(ok, enough rah-rah for sewer plants for the time being)
Man, that Trump death-cult thing, I don’t know. Of the penguin waddling off to its doom, that so mystified Werner Herzog, DHS (especially the Hitler Youth that run their social media) somehow claim, “Americans have always known ‘why.’” And then show a bunch of ICE raids.
No, it doesn’t make any sense. And In fact, they do not know “why.” If you asked them, they’d just give you the Smug Nazi Stupid Face, where they smirk at you ‘cuz you don’t get it, libtard. And when they *do* try to explain it, it’ll just be a contradictory mass of racism, misogyny, and self-pitying.
These fuckers’ nihilism breaks Werner Herzog’s brain. Herzog! I’d like to empathize, but they are the enemy, and at some point you just have to shrug and open fire.
OT: Arsenic in candy? If only there was some kind of agency that could prevent that.
https://www.southernliving.com/arsenic-in-candy-11900535
So, do the people at Southern Living have a special gripe against snickers and kit kat? Because my pre-coffee reading on the chart seems to indicate higher levels in fruity/sour candies.
Maybe they just think their average demographic reader is more a chocolate fan, so they are directing attention at those products?
Money shot!
“But what you cannot do is to detain first and then sort out lawful authority later. Continued detention is not lawful just because compliance with release orders is administratively difficult or because an operation has expanded beyond the Government's capacity to execute it lawfully.”
Also? FUCK Stephen Miller
Also, too? Epstein.
Yeah, I didn't read the whole transcript, but the first few pages of the judge's statement are something special.
I haven’t read all of it yet either, but the parts I skimmed made me want to go back to it when I have more time. But “because an operation has expanded beyond the Government’s capacity to execute it lawfully” is painfully on point.
That line really caught my eye too.
More on Brett Kavanaugh's Frankenstein creature.
https://open.substack.com/pub/chrisgeidner/p/150-days-of-kavanaugh-stops-minnesota?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=email
Here's a quick summary of that doj lawyer's argument.
https://youtu.be/9ZlOhSt_qW0?si=hn31YWXsVF7gf03B
I’ve never heard of a lawyer asking to be found in contempt so she can get some me time. That transcript is insane.
I think it also just goes to show that the administration is just going to keep doing as they are doing *until someone stops them* not with words and orders, but with actions… like putting people in jail for contempt.
Yep. Everyone named Respondent needs to get their asses handed to them.
Sleep deprivation can make you crazy.
"I'm just relaxing here on the floor. Just relaxing. I'd probably not even react if you rubbed my belleh. Not at all."
https://substack.com/profile/35452475-john-the-retired-mailman/note/c-210783283?r=l3vaz
" (I find it helpful to highlight the text as you’re reading if like me you can’t take the white on black print.) "
Reader Mode in Safari (Macs, iPad and iPhones) works wonders for that; I use it all the time.
Chrome has a similar tool, https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/14218344?hl=en&co=GENIE.Platform%3DDesktop but it's inferior to Safari, which just cleans up the text and displays the web page like that in the main view instead of a sidebar.
Seriously, this is a major reason why Safari rocks...
Did I read that right? Saturday's movie is at 8 instead of the usual 9 eastern?
No, it will be at our regular time of 9pm ET. The post goes up at 8pm so that was probably the mix up. Thanks for catching that Lil Snot!