It’s another weird night. We’ve got thunder, and a golf pro event, so we’re bottling transfusions for the driving range. We’ll see. Ask drink questions here.
I have a question, not about this drink, but I figured this was the best way to reach you. A New York Sour. First I ever heard of it was in an Alison Roman video for a "ham party." (google it.) Marker's Mark sponsored the video, so she made a punch bowl of rye and sour mix with a floating ring of frozen red wine (and club soda, maybe?). It looked like a good time, and the ham recipe is great.
At the restaurant tonight, I had a NY Sour, with rye, sour mix, a splash of red wine, and...egg white? I asked them to forego the egg white, because that just seems wrong to me. It's for frothing it up, the waitress told me. I think they topped it with soda instead. Anyway, my question is whether egg white is traditional to a NY Sour and what is the origin of this drink anyway? Seems likely to me that someone splashed their red wine into the whiskey sour of the person sitting next to them in a bar in NYC and that's how it began.
The red wine float is what defines a New York Sour as opposed to a whiskey sour. The egg white is also crucial; it adds froth, but it also contributes proteins to the drink that give the sour a silky mouth feel. It was first recorded in 1884 in H. O. Byron’s 1884 Book “The Modern Bartenders’ Guide.” For funsies, I made one sans egg white with the cheapest ingredients I could find. The end result was... mixed. https://www.wonkette.com/p/welcome-to-wonkette-happy-hour-with-this-week-s-cocktail-the-bottom-dollar-sour
Hooper, I've said this before, but please pay attention this time.
It is totally legit for you to pin your thread as long as you are here to answer. But it is Friday, and we wanna talk, so when you leave, could you please unpin your personal thread? It's really hard to have conversations when you gotta scroll past several pages of hours-old Hooper stuff.
Did you figure out the collapse feature? It's very helpful, not just for unwanted pinned posts. I use it a lot for sportsball random conversations throughout the day.
There are far too many. :) Mezcal is a local affair, made with whatever agave the distiller likes instead of blue agave. They’re almost all smoky and complex, but beyond that good luck.
My family used to go to a country club pool where they served transfusions (chocolate milk with either 7-Up or seltzer). Didn’t know the concept was taked from an alcoholic drink.
Lee Trevino enters the chat: when asked why he carries a 1-iron, Lee replied: I hold it up in the air in thunderstorms... not even God can hit a 1-iron.
Apparently, bitters come in all kinds of flavors - where can you even get these fabulous things? I live in Inland So Cal, not exactly the hotbed of high-brow drinking despite the best efforts of Total Wine & More.
Anti-trans ideology has been adopted by national and local organizations backing Republicans, and embraced as a winning strategy to push voters to the right. Dozens of right-leaning voters who spoke with Capital & Main or who gave public comments at local school board meetings expressed the belief that young boys were “pretending” to be girls solely to break high school sports records, or to get the chance at a college scholarship. The overwhelming reason people transition is to ease gender dysphoria, according to multiple studies.
In 2022, activists and donors at a meeting of the secretive, well-funded Council for National Policy (CNP) received a tutorial on how to use public school boards and transphobia to drive voters to the polls in Republicans’ favor. The previous year, Virginia elected a Republican governor and temporarily controlled the legislature following the implementation of the “Protect Every Kid” campaign to circumvent and overturn transgender-inclusive policies.
CNP members directed the crowd to do three things:
Identify three to five school boards that would publicly resist implementing the statewide transgender standards.
Rally public support through a school board that would block these.
Create a visible wave of resistance through the campaign, social media and “all of the above.”
Moms for Liberty, Parents Defending Education and Heritage Action for America have formed local chapters across the United States to whip up opposition to transgender students on school sports teams in the years since the meeting. The religious nonprofit Advocates for Faith and Freedom (AFF) and the nonprofit California Family Council are two of the organizations that have taken up the call in the Golden State. Kim Bengard, a member of CNP, has given $280,290 to AFF through her own nonprofit, It Takes A Family, over four years.
President Trump has chosen Dr. Phil McGraw to join the Religious Liberty Commission.
McGraw joined Trump on Thursday for a celebration in the White House’s Rose Garden in honor of the commission’s creation and the National Day of Prayer.
McGraw briefly spoke during the ceremony after being introduced by Trump. He’s been a supporter of Trump’s campaign and an advocate for his administration’s immigration policies.
“I can’t tell you how proud I am to see religion coming back to the White House. God bless you for doing this,” McGraw said.
Trump said in the order that federal, state and local policies have threatened the country’s tradition of religious liberty in recent years.
The commission will “promote citizens’ pride in our foundational history, identify emerging threats to religious liberty, uphold Federal laws that protect all citizens’ full participation in a pluralistic democracy, and protect the free exercise of religion.”
Besides McGraw, the commission includes members chosen by Trump who will serve as “educated representatives of various sectors of society.” Other members include Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R), former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, and New York Archbishop Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
Trickle down may not work in economics but it functions perfectly in fascism:
I work in an organization whose viability depends on some federal funding. So, obviously, diversity-equity-inclusion language, has quickly been revised out of all of the organization's positions, policies, and official documents. In a meeting yesterday, some of the discussion was about proactively removing yet more language over concern that, as DEI loses its value as a target, *other* words will soon also become verboten.
A look at pope history (truly the most 'his' type of history available) shows a pretty even distribution of good popes and bad popes and 'meh' popes. My favorite popes had to be the ones who reigned simultaneously in Avignon France and Rome Italy. Those guys kept excommunicating each other and creating all kinds of knotty metaphysical conundrums. So why can't donnie declare himself pope of American catholics and excommunicate whoever the college of cardinals lands on? There is actually precedent. He can just set up shop at the National Cathredral, decalre a new Crusade to "free Gaza" and promise pie-in-the- sky rewards for the Cletus cannon fodder he sends over to wage a war on the muslims.
As an American pope he will bring a new wrinkle to the theological debates Protestants have had here in America ever since the Pilgrims dropped Plymouth Rock on the indigenous People they met here. Our politics and history have had plenty of anti-catholic bigotry sprinkled on top. Our American baptists and evangelicals are united about theier opposition to the Roman Catholic Great Beast of Satan.
He will push her down the stairs like Ivana. Ok, he won't do it himself because that would mean hoisting his ass up a flight of stairs but he will have it done.
She's not smart enough to be Anne Boleyn, nor nice enough to be Catherine Howard, and not as pretty as either of them, so nope, she'll keep her head. But she won't fare as well as Anne of Cleves, who ended up wealthy and invited to all of the best parties.
Our own evangelical and baptist christians have been slagging "papists' and "popery" and all things Roman Catholic for centuries right here in North America.
So it will be interesting to watch them tie themseleves in knots about this new American pope.
Media under Biden: Jobs numbers were better than expected but fears of a recession still loom. Here’s why you should worry.
Media under Trump: Trumps says it’s okay if he causes a recession. Says we’ll have the greatest economy ever. We take him at his word and have no further questions. 🤷♂️
Seriously why do people not go to the Saturday Chat if you want to see kitties? By the end of the day it is usually filled with pictures. Y'all are missing out. Yes it works on the phone app for viewing. I don't know about an iPhone because i don't own one but it works on my Motorola.
The ship's cat was traditionally the responsibility of either the bosun or the ship's cook, who kept a little tray of ashes (from the stove) in the galley for kitty to use as a litterbox.
Having cats aboard a ship was considered bad luck, but sailors knew better than any that the ceaseless depredations of rats endangered their food and maritime supplies (rope, sails, etc.), esp. on long voyages.
So, they risked bad luck and welcomed cats aboard.
I boil up bologna and potatoes together as a kind of Swedish meal. Then the next day, I fry up the leftovers with eggs for breakfast. I'm not sure this is good for me, but it's good!...
This reflects my view- it's not offensive so much as it's ridiculous. It's juvenile and fatuous and it undermines any supposed authority Trump has. It's very Musky, in that it trades his dignity, at least the dignity he imagines he has and which belongs to his position, for jeering, idiot laughter from his supporters.
Hehe. Last night, as I was dozing off, I found myself wondering how the death Felon47 would be announced, should he pop his clogs while still in office. Would it be JD? And, if so, how long will it take for the first "JD killed Felon47" memes to pop up?
I'm not making any suggestions here, but it might be fun to start rumors that JD is warming his Handshake o' Death.
I've seen MANY references to the fact that Stinky won't make it to the end of his term due to Vance. BJ's owner, gay German billionaire Peter Thiel, didn't buy the US Vice-Presidency for his puppet for nothing.
This guy is SO right. I was raised catholic and we made pope jokes ALL the time. My parents were liberals and loved to laugh. We would tell jokes at the dinner table every night. It's only conservatives that don't seem to have any sense of humor.
"What do you mean we don't have a sense of humor? We think bullying and sexual harassment are HILARIOUS! And do you have any idea how many 'jokes' we know about 'Jews', 'fags', and 'n***ars'?"
Speaking as one coming from a family that has been staunchly Catholic for generations, RRS is absolutely correct. The photo is pathetic, but hardly blasphemous.
Even Sir Thomas More, who was later sainted, made jokes about the Church.
I've joked that if in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s it was the Communists who were the party of Jim Crow racism and the Republicans and Democrats were both for desegregation and civil rights, today the entire South and much of the Midwest would have centralized command economies.
"...US Vice-President JD Vance accused "bureaucrats" of rebuilding the Berlin Wall, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio slammed the designation as "tyranny in disguise"...."
He SHOULD'VE been arrested, federally charged and incarcerated until his criminal trial.
That this staggeringly corrupt, thoroughly nefarious felon and abusive menace remains in power is NOT acceptable. It's a graphic insult to the US Constitution and the entire concept of justice that the Fetid Fascist is still waddling around a free man.
I feel foolish for HOPING for YEARS Democrats would hold him accountable. Needless to say, I was horrified when Trump got in again, but sadly not real surprised DEMOCRATS have barely pushed back months into this coup
Ashli Babbitt, the woman who was shot attempting to break into the Senate chambers on Jan 6th, has long been ( falsely ) lionized by the idiots of MAGA. Despite the officer involved being cleared by two investigations, her family has attempted to cash in by filing a $30 million "wrongful death" suit - which Pammy Jo's DOJ has decided to settle ( no word yet on the amount of the settlement - but I'm betting we'll never know ).
It’s another weird night. We’ve got thunder, and a golf pro event, so we’re bottling transfusions for the driving range. We’ll see. Ask drink questions here.
I have a question, not about this drink, but I figured this was the best way to reach you. A New York Sour. First I ever heard of it was in an Alison Roman video for a "ham party." (google it.) Marker's Mark sponsored the video, so she made a punch bowl of rye and sour mix with a floating ring of frozen red wine (and club soda, maybe?). It looked like a good time, and the ham recipe is great.
At the restaurant tonight, I had a NY Sour, with rye, sour mix, a splash of red wine, and...egg white? I asked them to forego the egg white, because that just seems wrong to me. It's for frothing it up, the waitress told me. I think they topped it with soda instead. Anyway, my question is whether egg white is traditional to a NY Sour and what is the origin of this drink anyway? Seems likely to me that someone splashed their red wine into the whiskey sour of the person sitting next to them in a bar in NYC and that's how it began.
Thank you for your attention to this matter.
The red wine float is what defines a New York Sour as opposed to a whiskey sour. The egg white is also crucial; it adds froth, but it also contributes proteins to the drink that give the sour a silky mouth feel. It was first recorded in 1884 in H. O. Byron’s 1884 Book “The Modern Bartenders’ Guide.” For funsies, I made one sans egg white with the cheapest ingredients I could find. The end result was... mixed. https://www.wonkette.com/p/welcome-to-wonkette-happy-hour-with-this-week-s-cocktail-the-bottom-dollar-sour
Hooper, I've said this before, but please pay attention this time.
It is totally legit for you to pin your thread as long as you are here to answer. But it is Friday, and we wanna talk, so when you leave, could you please unpin your personal thread? It's really hard to have conversations when you gotta scroll past several pages of hours-old Hooper stuff.
Why not just be a belligerent asshole? Oh, I see you actually are!
Did you figure out the collapse feature? It's very helpful, not just for unwanted pinned posts. I use it a lot for sportsball random conversations throughout the day.
You can click on the vertical line to collapse it. But I don't care for pinned posts either.
Good choice on the Maker's Mark, that's how we made them at the French Market in NO.
Used to love MM. Then we found Evans Williams 1783 small batch at half the price.
How did the Easter egg helicopter thing go, anyway?
We survived the carpet bombing. :)
As God is my witness, I thought eggs could fly!
Mezcal or Tequila?
Both. Splash of mezcal for smoky complexity.
OK, good idea.
We live in Mexico now. Are you familiar with all the Mezcal variants?
I never saw any of them or even heard of them back in the states. But I'm not a bartender.
There are far too many. :) Mezcal is a local affair, made with whatever agave the distiller likes instead of blue agave. They’re almost all smoky and complex, but beyond that good luck.
My family used to go to a country club pool where they served transfusions (chocolate milk with either 7-Up or seltzer). Didn’t know the concept was taked from an alcoholic drink.
The traditional “adult” country club Transfusion is 3 oz. Vodka, 1 oz. Grape juice, 1/2 oz. Lime juice, in a pint glass topped with ginger beer.
That sounds yummy
Think I'd much rather have that than a Moscow Mule
Sounds yummy! Although I might swap the ginger beer for seltzer because I love tart stuff.
I'd never heard of it, though I'm not the golfing or country club type. The grape juice is a bit jarring sounding- I wonder how it all works out.
With a full three ounces of vodka in the glass, I guarantee it works swell.
Maybe it's white grape juice
:-)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HbhvZ2y1V80
Here'a a current lightning map for Ohio, golf and lightning do not mix, at all. https://www.star.nesdis.noaa.gov/GOES/sector_band.php?sat=G19§or=cgl&band=EXTENT3&length=24
Lee Trevino enters the chat: when asked why he carries a 1-iron, Lee replied: I hold it up in the air in thunderstorms... not even God can hit a 1-iron.
A sportswriter asked Trevino what it’s like playing pressure golf on the pro tour
“The PGA isn’t pressure golf. Pressure golf is when you play a guy a round for 100 dollars and you only have 50 in your pocket.”
I'd never complain if Trump chose to golf in lightning. He's...possessed of an adult body, he can choose.
Aaaaah, rat farts!
NOAA? Say goodbye, we hardly nuua.
Golf clubs make such handy lightning rods!
Obligatory Caddyshack: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe5eL8LQdY0
Comin' outta nowhere....
That’s why golfers shout “Thor!” before they swing them. /dadjoke
Uff Da
That's a mighty fine dad joke. You have earned the right to sire more.
Mewmew?
This does not look pinned, sir.
Oh, sorry. I needed that pin to extract this splinter. I'll put it right back. That, and the gin I used to disinfect.
Vodka is disinfection, Gin for anesthesia.
*takes notes*
Fixed.
Apparently, bitters come in all kinds of flavors - where can you even get these fabulous things? I live in Inland So Cal, not exactly the hotbed of high-brow drinking despite the best efforts of Total Wine & More.
𝐈𝐧𝐬𝐢𝐝𝐞 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐏𝐥𝐚𝐧 𝐭𝐨 𝐔𝐬𝐞 𝐓𝐫𝐚𝐧𝐬 𝐒𝐭𝐮𝐝𝐞𝐧𝐭-𝐀𝐭𝐡𝐥𝐞𝐭𝐞𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐏𝐮𝐬𝐡 𝐕𝐨𝐭𝐞𝐫𝐬 𝐭𝐨 𝐭𝐡𝐞 𝐑𝐢𝐠𝐡𝐭
𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑐𝑜𝑛𝑠𝑒𝑟𝑣𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑣𝑒 𝑔𝑟𝑜𝑢𝑝𝑠 𝑠𝑢𝑐ℎ 𝑎𝑠 𝑡ℎ𝑒 𝐶𝑜𝑢𝑛𝑐𝑖𝑙 𝑓𝑜𝑟 𝑁𝑎𝑡𝑖𝑜𝑛𝑎𝑙 𝑃𝑜𝑙𝑖𝑐𝑦 𝑐ℎ𝑎𝑚𝑝𝑖𝑜𝑛 𝑎𝑛𝑡𝑖-𝑡𝑟𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑖𝑑𝑒𝑜𝑙𝑜𝑔𝑦 𝑎𝑠 𝑎 𝑚𝑒𝑎𝑛𝑠 𝑡𝑜 𝑓𝑙𝑖𝑝 𝑏𝑙𝑢𝑒 𝑠𝑡𝑎𝑡𝑒𝑠 𝑎𝑛𝑑 𝑑𝑖𝑠𝑡𝑟𝑖𝑐𝑡𝑠.
Anti-trans ideology has been adopted by national and local organizations backing Republicans, and embraced as a winning strategy to push voters to the right. Dozens of right-leaning voters who spoke with Capital & Main or who gave public comments at local school board meetings expressed the belief that young boys were “pretending” to be girls solely to break high school sports records, or to get the chance at a college scholarship. The overwhelming reason people transition is to ease gender dysphoria, according to multiple studies.
In 2022, activists and donors at a meeting of the secretive, well-funded Council for National Policy (CNP) received a tutorial on how to use public school boards and transphobia to drive voters to the polls in Republicans’ favor. The previous year, Virginia elected a Republican governor and temporarily controlled the legislature following the implementation of the “Protect Every Kid” campaign to circumvent and overturn transgender-inclusive policies.
CNP members directed the crowd to do three things:
Identify three to five school boards that would publicly resist implementing the statewide transgender standards.
Rally public support through a school board that would block these.
Create a visible wave of resistance through the campaign, social media and “all of the above.”
Moms for Liberty, Parents Defending Education and Heritage Action for America have formed local chapters across the United States to whip up opposition to transgender students on school sports teams in the years since the meeting. The religious nonprofit Advocates for Faith and Freedom (AFF) and the nonprofit California Family Council are two of the organizations that have taken up the call in the Golden State. Kim Bengard, a member of CNP, has given $280,290 to AFF through her own nonprofit, It Takes A Family, over four years.
https://capitalandmain.com/inside-the-plan-to-use-trans-student-athletes-to-push-voters-to-the-right
Shitty. It may work for a while but as with gays, eventually people will figure out there's no threat. Of course, it got FOTUS elected so.
What could go wrong?
𝐓𝐫𝐮𝐦𝐩 𝐭𝐚𝐩𝐬 𝐃𝐫. 𝐏𝐡𝐢𝐥 𝐟𝐨𝐫 𝐑𝐞𝐥𝐢𝐠𝐢𝐨𝐮𝐬 𝐋𝐢𝐛𝐞𝐫𝐭𝐲 𝐂𝐨𝐦𝐦𝐢𝐬𝐬𝐢𝐨𝐧
President Trump has chosen Dr. Phil McGraw to join the Religious Liberty Commission.
McGraw joined Trump on Thursday for a celebration in the White House’s Rose Garden in honor of the commission’s creation and the National Day of Prayer.
McGraw briefly spoke during the ceremony after being introduced by Trump. He’s been a supporter of Trump’s campaign and an advocate for his administration’s immigration policies.
“I can’t tell you how proud I am to see religion coming back to the White House. God bless you for doing this,” McGraw said.
Trump said in the order that federal, state and local policies have threatened the country’s tradition of religious liberty in recent years.
The commission will “promote citizens’ pride in our foundational history, identify emerging threats to religious liberty, uphold Federal laws that protect all citizens’ full participation in a pluralistic democracy, and protect the free exercise of religion.”
Besides McGraw, the commission includes members chosen by Trump who will serve as “educated representatives of various sectors of society.” Other members include Texas Lt. Gov. Dan Patrick (R), former Housing and Urban Development Secretary Ben Carson, and New York Archbishop Cardinal Timothy Dolan.
https://www.wdhn.com/news/trump-taps-dr-phil-for-religious-liberty-commission/
Isn't the rose garden pavement now?
One of my disappointments about Biden was he didn't restore the Rose Garden to how Jackie had done it.
Yeah, but can any of them turn water into wine?
No, but they can turn almost anything into a whine.
And everything else to shit in 100 days or fewer.
Gah
That "liberty" has been bastardized into a tool utilized to compel specific Christopathic attitudes upon the entire population.
They have usurped the "liberty" to impose beliefs upon the populace.
Disgusting. And Dolan is a fucking prick.
I hate smarmy Dolan so much. It’s gives me pleasure that he’s not on the pope shortlist
Trickle down may not work in economics but it functions perfectly in fascism:
I work in an organization whose viability depends on some federal funding. So, obviously, diversity-equity-inclusion language, has quickly been revised out of all of the organization's positions, policies, and official documents. In a meeting yesterday, some of the discussion was about proactively removing yet more language over concern that, as DEI loses its value as a target, *other* words will soon also become verboten.
The demands will never stop increasing.
Under an eliminationist regime, the circle of acceptability is always shrinking...
A look at pope history (truly the most 'his' type of history available) shows a pretty even distribution of good popes and bad popes and 'meh' popes. My favorite popes had to be the ones who reigned simultaneously in Avignon France and Rome Italy. Those guys kept excommunicating each other and creating all kinds of knotty metaphysical conundrums. So why can't donnie declare himself pope of American catholics and excommunicate whoever the college of cardinals lands on? There is actually precedent. He can just set up shop at the National Cathredral, decalre a new Crusade to "free Gaza" and promise pie-in-the- sky rewards for the Cletus cannon fodder he sends over to wage a war on the muslims.
As an American pope he will bring a new wrinkle to the theological debates Protestants have had here in America ever since the Pilgrims dropped Plymouth Rock on the indigenous People they met here. Our politics and history have had plenty of anti-catholic bigotry sprinkled on top. Our American baptists and evangelicals are united about theier opposition to the Roman Catholic Great Beast of Satan.
See also: Henry VIII (like Turmp, a murderous megalomaniac and monster)
Should Melania be worried about losing her head?
( Probably too much like work. He could just ask his buddy Putin to send over some of that special "tea" he serves. )
He will push her down the stairs like Ivana. Ok, he won't do it himself because that would mean hoisting his ass up a flight of stairs but he will have it done.
She's not smart enough to be Anne Boleyn, nor nice enough to be Catherine Howard, and not as pretty as either of them, so nope, she'll keep her head. But she won't fare as well as Anne of Cleves, who ended up wealthy and invited to all of the best parties.
Anne Boleyn is my distant auntie.
Melanoma is the antithesis of the former Queen.
I'm betting that scenario will be reversed.
As my Great-Uncle has commented: "There are Popes and there are Popes."
Our own evangelical and baptist christians have been slagging "papists' and "popery" and all things Roman Catholic for centuries right here in North America.
So it will be interesting to watch them tie themseleves in knots about this new American pope.
Meh. These newer cults and denominations...
IncompeDon isn't a pope.
He's a prick.
Replace “pope” with “poop” and we have a deal.
Media under Biden: Jobs numbers were better than expected but fears of a recession still loom. Here’s why you should worry.
Media under Trump: Trumps says it’s okay if he causes a recession. Says we’ll have the greatest economy ever. We take him at his word and have no further questions. 🤷♂️
Or else.
In memory of our late, beloved Caturday:
𝗖𝗮𝘁𝗾𝘂𝗶𝘀𝘁𝗮𝗱𝗼𝗿𝘀: 𝗢𝗹𝗱𝗲𝘀𝘁 𝗸𝗻𝗼𝘄𝗻 𝗱𝗼𝗺𝗲𝘀𝘁𝗶𝗰 𝗰𝗮𝘁𝘀 𝗶𝗻 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗨𝗦 𝗱𝗶𝗲𝗱 𝗼𝗳𝗳 𝗙𝗹𝗼𝗿𝗶𝗱𝗮 𝗰𝗼𝗮𝘀𝘁 𝗶𝗻 𝗮 𝟭𝟱𝟱𝟵 𝗦𝗽𝗮𝗻𝗶𝘀𝗵 𝘀𝗵𝗶𝗽𝘄𝗿𝗲𝗰𝗸
https://www.livescience.com/archaeology/catquistadors-oldest-known-domestic-cats-in-the-us-died-off-florida-coast-in-a-1559-spanish-shipwreck
Cool story but Caturday is still alive and kicking!
For Caturday, shouldn't that be alive and swatting?
But no photos or images, sooo...
Only if you don't want to make one click to the Chat, so... https://substack.com/chat/1783367/post/0b15cfd1-998e-42b5-a652-c57f0e6db57d
And you can post links here to anyone's pix!
https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/0b15cfd1-998e-42b5-a652-c57f0e6db57d?target_reply_id=1a3486a6-1d21-4004-83be-c104869a1233&showTarget=true
(edit) Oops, maybe not!
Yes you can!
Seriously why do people not go to the Saturday Chat if you want to see kitties? By the end of the day it is usually filled with pictures. Y'all are missing out. Yes it works on the phone app for viewing. I don't know about an iPhone because i don't own one but it works on my Motorola.
I only show up with my No Kitteh Lament.
Hopefully a page full of kitty pics can help soothe that.
It had to be cozy for sailors to curl up in their hammocks at night with one of the ship's feline mates snuggling up and purring next to them.
The ship's cat was traditionally the responsibility of either the bosun or the ship's cook, who kept a little tray of ashes (from the stove) in the galley for kitty to use as a litterbox.
How clever!
I was NOT aware of those fascinating details and enormously appreciate you taking the time to enlighten me.
< -- maritime history buff
Having cats aboard a ship was considered bad luck, but sailors knew better than any that the ceaseless depredations of rats endangered their food and maritime supplies (rope, sails, etc.), esp. on long voyages.
So, they risked bad luck and welcomed cats aboard.
Cat whapped the tiller, ship dashed on reef.
So that's what happened to the Edmund Fitzgerald...
Blood on the scarecrow...
...rain on the prow...
(sorry, couldn't resist XD )
"It was interesting to think about the idea of the cat being a pet or one that was looked after by the Spanish sailors," Bratten added.
oh, rats!...
The peculiar dish that takes me back to childhood? Fried bologna
https://www.csmonitor.com/The-Culture/The-Home-Forum/2025/0501/food-childhood-retro-Wonder-bread-hot-dogs
Now I have a variant of the Weird Al song stuck in my brain ...
I boil up bologna and potatoes together as a kind of Swedish meal. Then the next day, I fry up the leftovers with eggs for breakfast. I'm not sure this is good for me, but it's good!...
I've been hankering for tuna casserole for...a few years now.
I'm guessing it may be time to make some.
i have a moral obligation to use all the stuff in the freezer before it's past its prime that i may never see a tuna cassserole again. :(
Don't forget the green bean casserole with French fried onion rings
If someone else puts it out, I'll have some. Not something we ever actually made tho.
Gramma? Is that you?
https://bsky.app/profile/prchovanec.bsky.social/post/3lobds3saac2o
On the Pope pic.
This reflects my view- it's not offensive so much as it's ridiculous. It's juvenile and fatuous and it undermines any supposed authority Trump has. It's very Musky, in that it trades his dignity, at least the dignity he imagines he has and which belongs to his position, for jeering, idiot laughter from his supporters.
hands too big.
also too: not enough wattle puddling around the collar.
Papal Duncio
Might have to change the old joke saying, "Does the Pope shit in his pants?"
I mean, ask BJ Vance, the Pope-killer...
Hehe. Last night, as I was dozing off, I found myself wondering how the death Felon47 would be announced, should he pop his clogs while still in office. Would it be JD? And, if so, how long will it take for the first "JD killed Felon47" memes to pop up?
I'm not making any suggestions here, but it might be fun to start rumors that JD is warming his Handshake o' Death.
I've seen MANY references to the fact that Stinky won't make it to the end of his term due to Vance. BJ's owner, gay German billionaire Peter Thiel, didn't buy the US Vice-Presidency for his puppet for nothing.
Well, he's the Antichrist, anyway...
This guy is SO right. I was raised catholic and we made pope jokes ALL the time. My parents were liberals and loved to laugh. We would tell jokes at the dinner table every night. It's only conservatives that don't seem to have any sense of humor.
"What do you mean we don't have a sense of humor? We think bullying and sexual harassment are HILARIOUS! And do you have any idea how many 'jokes' we know about 'Jews', 'fags', and 'n***ars'?"
I rest my case!
Speaking as one coming from a family that has been staunchly Catholic for generations, RRS is absolutely correct. The photo is pathetic, but hardly blasphemous.
Even Sir Thomas More, who was later sainted, made jokes about the Church.
His desperation is palatable.
Ew. No it isn’t.
DANIEL!
Now do Sister Donalda
If MAGA loves a command economy does that make them communists?
People are saying.
The only thing they love is the racism.
I've joked that if in the 1930s, 40s, and 50s it was the Communists who were the party of Jim Crow racism and the Republicans and Democrats were both for desegregation and civil rights, today the entire South and much of the Midwest would have centralized command economies.
and the sexism...
Shut the fuck up Marco, you're out of your element.
𝗚𝗲𝗿𝗺𝗮𝗻𝘆 𝗱𝗲𝗳𝗲𝗻𝗱𝘀 𝗔𝗳𝗗 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗿𝗲𝗺𝗶𝘀𝘁 𝗰𝗹𝗮𝘀𝘀𝗶𝗳𝗶𝗰𝗮𝘁𝗶𝗼𝗻 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗥𝘂𝗯𝗶𝗼 𝗰𝗿𝗶𝘁𝗶𝗰𝗶𝘀𝗲𝘀 '𝘁𝘆𝗿𝗮𝗻𝗻𝘆 𝗶𝗻 𝗱𝗶𝘀𝗴𝘂𝗶𝘀𝗲'
https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cy4vz9jed5lo
Ah, yes - the new American diplomacy:
"...US Vice-President JD Vance accused "bureaucrats" of rebuilding the Berlin Wall, and Secretary of State Marco Rubio slammed the designation as "tyranny in disguise"...."
Germany made two mistakes.
The first was doing instant reunification and letting the "free market" solve the economic turmoil as former East German institutions collapsed.
The second was not instantly ruthlessly stamping out the Nazi fucks as they arose in response to the economic turmoil.
That's my outsider's opinion based on discussions with completely biased German leftists at the time.
I think that was the original text
I wish we could do this to them. That’s why Marco is hollering like a hit dog.
We definitely should have classified Trump's MAGA as terrorists by Jan 6th
He SHOULD'VE been arrested, federally charged and incarcerated until his criminal trial.
That this staggeringly corrupt, thoroughly nefarious felon and abusive menace remains in power is NOT acceptable. It's a graphic insult to the US Constitution and the entire concept of justice that the Fetid Fascist is still waddling around a free man.
I feel foolish for HOPING for YEARS Democrats would hold him accountable. Needless to say, I was horrified when Trump got in again, but sadly not real surprised DEMOCRATS have barely pushed back months into this coup
The automobile as Resistance:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_sBuCJgM28E
Hoppy trails to you. Yet morning bunny.
https://substack.com/profile/76665937-weejee/note/c-114139395?r=19n7td
I iz hiding
"I survived another Easter..."
Pensive bunny in the bush...
Another day, another round of crippling ennui.
Yeah, that about sums it up.
Here's another example of the FFOTUS admin pandering to the J6 crowd:
Link: https://www.msnbc.com/top-stories/latest/ashli-babbitt-settlement-jan-6-trump-doj-rcna204525
Ashli Babbitt, the woman who was shot attempting to break into the Senate chambers on Jan 6th, has long been ( falsely ) lionized by the idiots of MAGA. Despite the officer involved being cleared by two investigations, her family has attempted to cash in by filing a $30 million "wrongful death" suit - which Pammy Jo's DOJ has decided to settle ( no word yet on the amount of the settlement - but I'm betting we'll never know ).
Expect even more crowing from MAGA
The whole amount of the settlement reached will have to include the kickback to donnie and Pam's service fees.
The Babbitt clan will be lucky to see $274.35 before the IRS grabs it's chunk.
But the IRS won't have enough staff to "grab its chunk" after FFOTUS and his DOGE assholes get through with it
No Castle Doctrine in the People's House?
I thought she might have survived, but for some reason emergency responders were impaired in their attempts to get to the scene.
Swell, so that should make for a slam dunk settlement then for the survivors of Michael Reinoehl's wrongful slaying.
Oh cool, more party faithful stealing our money.
Wait.
She was just trying to hold back the crowd of patriotic tourists who were there peacefully?
Is that what they are going with?
They don’t need a reason.
Ashli Babbit Lied...
As has every MAGA who treat her as a martyr.