My dad *loved* those fucking things, even though he could afford any damn cigar he wanted.
Best thing was our old cat would steal them from his ashtray; he’d sit under the table, then reach up with a paw, and somehow blindly snag the one dad was still smoking without fail, even though there would be several discarded butts there as well!
Usually dad wouldn’t realize he’d been robbed until the cat started batting his stogie across the floor. 😼
My hope is that the Rs fail to use intimidation and voter removal to help them in the midterms and that it takes long enough to get new justices in that we have a Dem majority and can kick the court/President in the nads, figuratively speaking.
Keep in mind, also, that unwinding the tariffs already collected, PARTICULARLY given this maladministration, is a fertile ground to be rife with waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption, and especially will be unable to address those small businesses already destroyed. But no, clearly knowing this would be the case, the bastards on the Supreme Court still couldn't bring themselves to address this issue quickly on the shadow docket. They let it snowball to hundreds of billions of dollars while sticking their fingers up their asses and simultaneously railroading fascist abridgement of individual liberties and democratic principles through the shadow docket in record time.
Rusty garden weasels don't deserve what those "justices" deserve from rusty garden weasels.
As someone who used to do internationl trade nonsense for a living, I imagine there are analysts all over the country grimacing at their spreadsheets and dreading the next twelve months. Unless things have changed in the last five years or so, the "request for refund" paperwork will be enormous. Never have I been so happy to be retired.
I had a package disappear during shipping — the vendor insisted that there were three attempts to deliver, the shipper said it vanished before it got to the US. I'm certain it was one of the many packages to get dumped because dealing with very small tariffs was more trouble than it was worth.
So the vendor, despite their shipping confusion, did make a replacement and ship via Fedex instead of the original shipper and it arrived promptly. And then I got a bill from Fedex for $2 in tariffs - the shipper listed its value at $10 instead of the $50 I paid, which probably is close to what it cost them.
Yeah, there's a reason we used to have the "anything under $800 is exempt" rule.
The great and powerful New York Times has an opinion(?) piece by Nate Silver, et al, about top picks for the Dem presidential candidate. Given my hate for the NYT and their oligarchs, I’d rather read about the Kardashians, which I will never do. I called them “unserious “ … a big thank you to the Wonketeer who turned me on to this perfect word … and raised concern about the mainstream media’s inevitable hit pieces. Aaaand … they allowed it. I kinda feel like I pulled off a Charles Dickens thing. Comment on their silliness, and then twist my own knife:
“As always, “we” … I’m being nice … the mainstream media … are unserious. AOC in the second spot, and Jon Stewart anywhere to be seen, makes the whole list ridiculous. I love her politics, frankly, but she won’t run and shouldn’t be president any time soon. She’s very smart, smart enough to know she’s too inexperienced still.
These fun thought exercises don’t interest me. What I think about … dread … is how the mainstream media will take the gloves off and start running hit piece after hit piece (162 a month, maybe) attacking the Democrats that their masters would keep in check.
The Republicans fight dirty, anything to win? Mainstream media: “Hold my beer.”
End quote. Yeah, my arm hurts from patting myself on the back. But leeeeeetle tiny gains. Leeeeetle, but gains.
Last thing I heard from the Heritage Foundation was that they were debating whether to be Nazi or Notzi, so I gotta hand it to them for reaching out in a new direction.
Not sure what is most remarkable about that Ohio mayor. Is it that his last name is Dingus? Is it that he's sniffing the panties of a girl in his home? Or, is it that he's accused of running someone over? In any case, he's a perfect example of MAGAt.
Since I'm from Ohio, and I've been to Butler, I tried to find more info on this guy. Weird that they drop the "ran over a guy with his car" part at the very end of the article, but I guess if you live there you probably already knew it. The person he ran over was wanted on some kind of warrant - was the mayor trying to like vigilante catch the guy? That's nuts. I didn't find anything really Trumpy about him from the 2023 campaign; he said he wanted to turn an old ski resort into new housing lots, and get a generator for the community center so it could serve as a shelter during weather events. I guess if you give some guys even the tiniest bit of power (mayor is a part time job that pays $600/month) their inner pervert immediately gets unleashed. His official mayor facebook page is still live.
Snowy saunter, your hed gif info: https://martiniambassador.substack.com/p/strollin-snowy-owl
And meme chat: https://open.substack.com/chat/posts/bd33210f-cd35-4a5b-a6b8-59516f5d43f5?utm_source=share
The Snowy Owl
likes extra cold air
so she can store food
in her underground lair
Thank you Martini, for the Morning Owl.
Who knows
Where the Snowy Owl goes
When it snows?
nice
I love the “What’s all this, then? Nope!” at the end of her snowy stroll.
Good for Norman. It would be a shame to have shot those birds.
If I ever catch that rascally rabbit!
"Fuck this! My feetes are COLD!"
Owl takes a walk until he remembers that he has wings.
“Oh right, I have wings! Fucking Mondays.” *flap*
Ha!!
Thanks
Terrible cheap cigar
My dad *loved* those fucking things, even though he could afford any damn cigar he wanted.
Best thing was our old cat would steal them from his ashtray; he’d sit under the table, then reach up with a paw, and somehow blindly snag the one dad was still smoking without fail, even though there would be several discarded butts there as well!
Usually dad wouldn’t realize he’d been robbed until the cat started batting his stogie across the floor. 😼
I had forgotten that. I loved the picture of the owl on the packaging. Back in the day when tobacco wasn't locked up.
That's being blunt.
WINNER WINNER CHICKEN DINNER.
Kaboom?
That is one sketchy looking pigeon.
/looks closer
Ayup!
He's late to the parliament.
"It still takes 3 licks to get to center of a Tootsie Pop!"
When you gonna make up your mind?
When you gonna owl you as much as I do?
What a hoot 🦉
"Wesley Dingus seems nice." How the hell was he repeatedly allowed to go into the teen age girls bedroom in the first place ?!?
Is that banner at the DoJ flammable?
"Asking for a friend"
Wesley Dingus. If he doesnt change his name and move to Croatia, he's doomed for life.
Maybe best Tabs ever.
The writers for this season have gone completely off the rails...
𝘈 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘯 𝘖𝘩𝘪𝘰 𝘪𝘴 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘵𝘸𝘰 𝘤𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘵𝘴 𝘰𝘧 𝘷𝘰𝘺𝘦𝘶𝘳𝘪𝘴𝘮 𝘢𝘧𝘵𝘦𝘳 𝘩𝘦 𝘸𝘢𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘤𝘢𝘶𝘨𝘩𝘵 𝘰𝘯 𝘤𝘢𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘢 𝘴𝘯𝘪𝘧𝘧𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘢 𝘵𝘦𝘦𝘯 𝘨𝘪𝘳𝘭’𝘴 𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘦𝘳𝘸𝘦𝘢𝘳. [...] 𝘛𝘩𝘦 𝘉𝘶𝘵𝘭𝘦𝘳 𝘮𝘢𝘺𝘰𝘳 𝘪𝘴 𝘢𝘭𝘴𝘰 𝘧𝘢𝘤𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘯𝘶𝘮𝘦𝘳𝘰𝘶𝘴 𝘤𝘩𝘢𝘳𝘨𝘦𝘴 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘢𝘭𝘭𝘦𝘨𝘦𝘥𝘭𝘺 𝘳𝘶𝘯𝘯𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘰𝘷𝘦𝘳 𝘢 𝘮𝘢𝘯 𝘸𝘢𝘯𝘵𝘦𝘥 𝘧𝘰𝘳 𝘷𝘪𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘪𝘯𝘨 𝘱𝘢𝘳𝘰𝘭𝘦 𝘪𝘯 𝘑𝘶𝘭𝘺 2025.
We should probably point out, in keeping with your complaint about the writers, that the mayor's name is Wesley Dingus.
Campaign slogan: He fights crime with crime!
Dingus...
America has asked for a full release of the Epstein files, and Pres. Trump has risen to the occasion, authorizing a full release of the alien files.
Thank you, Heritage Foundation, for giving a hand job, not a hand out.
Hey Sammy! Take your buddy Clarence with you when you go.
You realize that he's going to be replaced with a forty-year-old asshole who makes Kavanaugh look like a Rhodes Scholar, right?
My hope is that the Rs fail to use intimidation and voter removal to help them in the midterms and that it takes long enough to get new justices in that we have a Dem majority and can kick the court/President in the nads, figuratively speaking.
Alysa Liu, a nonconforming, Gen Z, mixed-race young woman from Oakland winning the gold medal represents the America I want to believe in. ❤️
Thanks Evan 😊
Keep in mind, also, that unwinding the tariffs already collected, PARTICULARLY given this maladministration, is a fertile ground to be rife with waste, fraud, abuse, and corruption, and especially will be unable to address those small businesses already destroyed. But no, clearly knowing this would be the case, the bastards on the Supreme Court still couldn't bring themselves to address this issue quickly on the shadow docket. They let it snowball to hundreds of billions of dollars while sticking their fingers up their asses and simultaneously railroading fascist abridgement of individual liberties and democratic principles through the shadow docket in record time.
Rusty garden weasels don't deserve what those "justices" deserve from rusty garden weasels.
As someone who used to do internationl trade nonsense for a living, I imagine there are analysts all over the country grimacing at their spreadsheets and dreading the next twelve months. Unless things have changed in the last five years or so, the "request for refund" paperwork will be enormous. Never have I been so happy to be retired.
I had a package disappear during shipping — the vendor insisted that there were three attempts to deliver, the shipper said it vanished before it got to the US. I'm certain it was one of the many packages to get dumped because dealing with very small tariffs was more trouble than it was worth.
So the vendor, despite their shipping confusion, did make a replacement and ship via Fedex instead of the original shipper and it arrived promptly. And then I got a bill from Fedex for $2 in tariffs - the shipper listed its value at $10 instead of the $50 I paid, which probably is close to what it cost them.
Yeah, there's a reason we used to have the "anything under $800 is exempt" rule.
Friday morning for the (tiny) win:
The great and powerful New York Times has an opinion(?) piece by Nate Silver, et al, about top picks for the Dem presidential candidate. Given my hate for the NYT and their oligarchs, I’d rather read about the Kardashians, which I will never do. I called them “unserious “ … a big thank you to the Wonketeer who turned me on to this perfect word … and raised concern about the mainstream media’s inevitable hit pieces. Aaaand … they allowed it. I kinda feel like I pulled off a Charles Dickens thing. Comment on their silliness, and then twist my own knife:
“As always, “we” … I’m being nice … the mainstream media … are unserious. AOC in the second spot, and Jon Stewart anywhere to be seen, makes the whole list ridiculous. I love her politics, frankly, but she won’t run and shouldn’t be president any time soon. She’s very smart, smart enough to know she’s too inexperienced still.
These fun thought exercises don’t interest me. What I think about … dread … is how the mainstream media will take the gloves off and start running hit piece after hit piece (162 a month, maybe) attacking the Democrats that their masters would keep in check.
The Republicans fight dirty, anything to win? Mainstream media: “Hold my beer.”
End quote. Yeah, my arm hurts from patting myself on the back. But leeeeeetle tiny gains. Leeeeetle, but gains.
If I had access to a fire truck and several thousand gallons of ketchup… the funniest thing could happen.
Last thing I heard from the Heritage Foundation was that they were debating whether to be Nazi or Notzi, so I gotta hand it to them for reaching out in a new direction.
Not sure what is most remarkable about that Ohio mayor. Is it that his last name is Dingus? Is it that he's sniffing the panties of a girl in his home? Or, is it that he's accused of running someone over? In any case, he's a perfect example of MAGAt.
The Columbus (Ohio) Dispatch described the girl as living in his home.
So, not a family member, and Republicans are always so keen to have unrelated young people live with them.
So creepy
Since I'm from Ohio, and I've been to Butler, I tried to find more info on this guy. Weird that they drop the "ran over a guy with his car" part at the very end of the article, but I guess if you live there you probably already knew it. The person he ran over was wanted on some kind of warrant - was the mayor trying to like vigilante catch the guy? That's nuts. I didn't find anything really Trumpy about him from the 2023 campaign; he said he wanted to turn an old ski resort into new housing lots, and get a generator for the community center so it could serve as a shelter during weather events. I guess if you give some guys even the tiniest bit of power (mayor is a part time job that pays $600/month) their inner pervert immediately gets unleashed. His official mayor facebook page is still live.