Catching up on Dark Passage a week later, hope that's okay, it's one of my very favorites.
Bacall was widowed at 32 in 1957, much like Jackie Kennedy, widowed at 34 in 1963. Both had two small children.
JFK died Nov 22, 1963, just before Caroline's sixth birthday on Nov 27 and John Jr's third birthday on Nov 25.
Bogart died on Jan 14, 1957, just after Stephen's eighth birthday on Jan 6 and seven months before Leslie's fifth birthday.
Leslie was named Leslie Howard Bogart after the actor Leslie Howard, who refused to appear in 'The Petrified Forest' unless the studio signed Bogart to play Duke Mantee.
Two Navy dolphins (yes, there are such things), trained to alert sailors to things underwater worth examining, tapped their bottle noses to the prow of a divers' vessel, to signal potential danger.
They had found a torpedo lost decades ago by the battleship Iowa during target practice off of Coronado.
The sailors ignored the first alert but when the dolphins persisted the divers went down and found
The FDA has label images to help customers distinguish the contaminated berries on its site.
The recalled frozen berries were sold at Publix stores only in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.“
Wait?! Ain’t Publix a Trump supporting business? Expect confusing apologies from FDA tomorrow.
I don't take the NYT anymore, but someone left out the Sunday Magazine in the mail area of my building, which means I get to indulge myself in my beloved Spelling Bee puzzle.
A friend described his compulsion to finish it as an expression of mental illness.
And in other "you have to be effing kidding me" news, Pig gets not even a slap on the wrist for victimizing woman (at least one). ACAB.
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Prosecution of a former Napa County Sheriff's deputy for distributing nude pictures of a woman has been paused after he asserted mental health issues including sex addiction and posttraumatic stress disorder.
Visiting Napa County Superior Court Judge Julie M. Conger granted a request for mental health diversion to former deputy James Robert Fotherby, 44, of Napa, over the objections of prosecutors. The court placed Fotherby on mental health diversion for one year "which essentially pauses the criminal case," the Napa County District Attorney's Office said Friday. "If he successfully completes mental health diversion, the charges are dismissed by the court."
Fotherby was charged with invasion of privacy and distribution of intimate images, both misdemeanors, and a special allegation that would require a minimum of three years' probation upon conviction, prosecutors said.
Hey skeptic? Re the wildfires, which I finally just looked up... Would it be best if you guys did leave for the night? If you need a little boost for hotel or gas or whatever (only thinking that bc I would), I could send 20 and I'm sure others would too. Anyway, let us know what's best for you.
I'm loathe to speak for those with their own voice, but I'm confident in saying that the Car-rypt Keeper can go fuck himself is the sentiment prevailing...
Surely some banana republic, some 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 banana republic needs an election consultation...
This caustic, capitalist [very bad four letter word] had better cease and desist defaming democratic socialists unless he wants a few of us to make him look even MORE vapid and domineering than he actually is.
“[Kurt] Andersen's fifth novel contains a scene set in 2035, where President Donald Trump is at Trump Tower celebrating his 89th birthday. As he descends his famous golden escalator, the president dies of a "massive brain stroke," Andersen said.“
Who loans a 24 yr old kid billions of dollars to gamble on AI hedge funds? It appears that he was smart enough to lose other peoples money, but still. Please explain again how situational awareness beats common sense.
Everything is fine. A few hours ago, however, the wind was picking up, smoke was overwhelming the house and I was getting pretty damned nervous. I was getting more than a little anxious recognizing that if the fires got much closer and endangered our property that I didn't have the means to put Ripper in his pet carrier, grab the folder containing various important legal documents, toss all of that and a small bag containing a change of clothes and my meds into the car and get the fuck out of here.
As long as the winds don't dial back up everything will remain just fine.
My thanks to all of you for giving a genuine damn. There is nothing else that I fear the way I am terrified of fire and this morning quite frankly scared the hell out of me.
Just two more and he'll be tied with Kim Jong Il. Seriously though, why don't MAGA golfers like Jack Nicklaus and Bryson DeChambeau come out and congratulate his on these absolutely real wins? Surely they have no doubts about Trump's honesty.
I wonder if he bothers to play anymore or if he just shows up at the end to collect his trophy with the other players at the ceremony all scratching their heads and asking each other, "Did you see him on the course?"
There was a story in his first term about how he turned up one day and told the actual winner that it didn't count unless he could beat Trump at a nine-hole match. Trump cheated throughout and then took the trophy.
It is just mind-boggling how someone like him exists. How does he get away with being complely insulated from any and all fucking consequences for anything he's ever done?
It's disgusting. Unforgiveable. Mind-breaking and mind-boggling.
He manages to monkey-bar his way between reasons not to be held to account. For most of his life, he was unaccountable because he had the money and the goons to intimidate anyone who wanted to do so. In terms of his sexual assaults and rapes, he got away with it because the system has always allowed men to get away with it- especially wealthy and connected men. Then he managed to luck into being a celebrity, and that gave him several more passes. Then he became a political candidate, and that gave him even more. To investigate a candidate was already evidence of bias, to prosecute one unthinkable. Then he became President, and doing anything there would not only risk hurting him, and making the doer look biased, but damage "the office" (formerly held by slave owners, slave owner-rapists, genocidaires and Richard Nixon) so nothing could be done. Then when he was out of office he once again became a candidate, so nothing could be done because of the risk of looking partisan, then he won again.
It is mind-boggling. And that so many people have supported him, and still do, is equally mind-boggling. Without them we wouldn't have to suffer him, at least not as President.
The world is a complete shambles right now because nobody from Forbes to the racists who voted for him to the Nazi Republicans who figured if they held their noses and enabled him the stank would blow over them and never touch them wanted to believe it
BELIEVE IT
ORANGE PIGGY STINKS
BIBI STINKS
VLADIMIR STINKS
the whole world is literally going to hell because three old men who ought to be in jail for the war crimes they've committed are holding it hostage ... and they've corrupted so many enforcement systems along the way because they believe they're entitled never to be accountable to anyone or anything that most of everything has actively rotted to the core
It's a condition for playing the tournament. He's been known to retroactively claim a championship win based on an earlier, unrelated round of play. His scores are pure fantasy.
We're dealing with an unbalanced idiot child who has figured out they get what they want if they threaten to break all the good china.
Here's a data point. 20 years ago Donald Trump met Stormy Daniels, his youngest son was born and he played in the American Century Championship, a pro am event. Actor Jack Wagner won, former football QB Billie Jo Toliver came in second and Donald Trump finished 62nd just behind former football player union boss, Gene Upshaw.
Catching up on Dark Passage a week later, hope that's okay, it's one of my very favorites.
Bacall was widowed at 32 in 1957, much like Jackie Kennedy, widowed at 34 in 1963. Both had two small children.
JFK died Nov 22, 1963, just before Caroline's sixth birthday on Nov 27 and John Jr's third birthday on Nov 25.
Bogart died on Jan 14, 1957, just after Stephen's eighth birthday on Jan 6 and seven months before Leslie's fifth birthday.
Leslie was named Leslie Howard Bogart after the actor Leslie Howard, who refused to appear in 'The Petrified Forest' unless the studio signed Bogart to play Duke Mantee.
Two Navy dolphins (yes, there are such things), trained to alert sailors to things underwater worth examining, tapped their bottle noses to the prow of a divers' vessel, to signal potential danger.
They had found a torpedo lost decades ago by the battleship Iowa during target practice off of Coronado.
The sailors ignored the first alert but when the dolphins persisted the divers went down and found
the old explosive device.
https://www.ecoportal.net/en/handlers-ignored-alert-2-navy-dolphins-coronado-torpedo/31043/
Who doesn't believe dolphins?
𝘈𝘭𝘸𝘢𝘺𝘴 𝘣𝘦𝘭𝘪𝘦𝘷𝘦 𝘵𝘩𝘦 𝘥𝘰𝘭𝘱𝘩𝘪𝘯𝘴!
Words to not be blown up by antique ordnance by...
Iranian diplomat accuses Trump of engaging in ‘cognitive warfare’.
What’s that old saw about letting your enemy defeat himself?
Seems like trolling to me.
He'll never get that. Ya gotta talk to him like to a small child. Or a cantaloupe.
Hanlon's razor! "Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity."
That Iranian diplomat is thinking too much.
𝘈𝘤𝘵𝘴 idiotic?
𝘓𝘰𝘰𝘬𝘴 idiotic?
𝘚𝘰𝘶𝘯𝘥𝘴 idiotic?
𝘚𝘮𝘦𝘭𝘭𝘴 like Trump?
It's not strategic! It's idiotic!
Unarmed in a battle of wits?
Not completely, we just have to wait to see the other half.
E. Coli….
“You can identify the recalled berries by the following UPC codes on the packaging:
GreenWise Organic Whole Blueberries, 10-ounce, UPC 41415-06453
GreenWise Organic Whole Blueberries, 48-ounce, UPC 41415-12053
GreenWise Organic Whole Mixed Berries, 10-ounce, UPC 41415-06753
GreenWise Organic Whole Mixed Berries, 48-ounce, UPC 41415-12153
The FDA has label images to help customers distinguish the contaminated berries on its site.
The recalled frozen berries were sold at Publix stores only in Alabama, Florida, Georgia, Kentucky, North Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.“
Wait?! Ain’t Publix a Trump supporting business? Expect confusing apologies from FDA tomorrow.
The daughter of the founder is. The company has distance itself from her and her J6 support.
The Diarrhea Lettuce Company Has Been Linked to Forced Labor
https://futurism.com/science-energy/diarrhea-lettuce-taylor-farms-prison-labor
"Yer slaves need to wash their hands, dammit!"
When prisoners make profits for you, make more prisoners.
Representative Ayanna P just referenced that on Rev Jackson's show
She named corp names, too
We were *just* told that we should be buy frozen berries, instead. (I'm not in any of those states, but I'm not taking chances).
I don't take the NYT anymore, but someone left out the Sunday Magazine in the mail area of my building, which means I get to indulge myself in my beloved Spelling Bee puzzle.
A friend described his compulsion to finish it as an expression of mental illness.
And in other "you have to be effing kidding me" news, Pig gets not even a slap on the wrist for victimizing woman (at least one). ACAB.
=========================
Prosecution of a former Napa County Sheriff's deputy for distributing nude pictures of a woman has been paused after he asserted mental health issues including sex addiction and posttraumatic stress disorder.
Visiting Napa County Superior Court Judge Julie M. Conger granted a request for mental health diversion to former deputy James Robert Fotherby, 44, of Napa, over the objections of prosecutors. The court placed Fotherby on mental health diversion for one year "which essentially pauses the criminal case," the Napa County District Attorney's Office said Friday. "If he successfully completes mental health diversion, the charges are dismissed by the court."
Fotherby was charged with invasion of privacy and distribution of intimate images, both misdemeanors, and a special allegation that would require a minimum of three years' probation upon conviction, prosecutors said.
So maybe I'm NOT such a sick, twisted, sadistic little bitch for wanting to aggressively castrate cops?
Hey skeptic? Re the wildfires, which I finally just looked up... Would it be best if you guys did leave for the night? If you need a little boost for hotel or gas or whatever (only thinking that bc I would), I could send 20 and I'm sure others would too. Anyway, let us know what's best for you.
Ha! In my perfect world, castration is just the first step. And not just for cops.
Oh, he's a Sick Fuck alright and should lose his Certification and pay that girl!
So no trial yet and they're already talking about probation?
Sounds right.
judges hate cases going to trial.
I hope the woman sues the shit out of him.
I suppose he'll continue to receive pay and benefits while he's "on leave."
OH FOR FUCK'S SAKE.
At the end of a year he'll be deemed "cured" and given his gun and badge back.
We're so boned.
He'll also probably end up with a few hundred thou from gofundme idiots.
Darren Wilson did
Remember ...?
ICE assholes, too.
Carville Crocodile shares his opinions....whatever side this guy is on I want to be on the opposite.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/politics/articles/carville-says-one-democratic-socialists-231504806.html
I'm loathe to speak for those with their own voice, but I'm confident in saying that the Car-rypt Keeper can go fuck himself is the sentiment prevailing...
Surely some banana republic, some 𝘰𝘵𝘩𝘦𝘳 banana republic needs an election consultation...
This caustic, capitalist [very bad four letter word] had better cease and desist defaming democratic socialists unless he wants a few of us to make him look even MORE vapid and domineering than he actually is.
Jaysum crimony but I DESPISE that man.
He needs to fuck off into the Sun tomorrow at the latest...
“[Kurt] Andersen's fifth novel contains a scene set in 2035, where President Donald Trump is at Trump Tower celebrating his 89th birthday. As he descends his famous golden escalator, the president dies of a "massive brain stroke," Andersen said.“
Nooooo. That’s 9 nine years….
I read his Turn of the Century novel, which was reasonably entertaining.
Don't remember a thing about it.
When it reaches the bottom does his corpse get sucked into the elevator and shredded?
Is Trump STILL President in the story...?
I stopped listening when it wasn’t January 2027.
Bonus video: From "Girl with the Dogs", Vanessa gives Quasimodo, a Persian kitty, a spa day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AuyDSlHgQcA
AI Hedge fund collapses on 24 yo Tech Billionaire and screws up his lavish wedding...you just hate to see it....
https://finance.yahoo.com/technology/ai/articles/tech-bro-45-billion-ai-133000175.html
Actually, I think he is a pretty smart kid. It takes a lot to lose $35 billion. In that amount
of time, I could lose only about 3 or 4 billion dollars. May be $5 billion if I bought Trump shit.
Who loans a 24 yr old kid billions of dollars to gamble on AI hedge funds? It appears that he was smart enough to lose other peoples money, but still. Please explain again how situational awareness beats common sense.
You'd never win at that one Eddie Murphy movie where he had to spend money...
"turtleneck enthusiast"
I live in Silicon Valley, and have not worn a turtleneck for 10 years.
Not necessary here.
That's one domino. We need to shake the table a bit harder.
Everyone in that article looks AI generated.
ivanka praised him. she seems like she really has her finger on the pulse for some reason. . .
On his 'pulse.' Right.
45 Billion reasons
They do.
Love the name: "Situational Awareness."
Evidently, not so much.
Well, to be fair, there is a "Situation" he became aware of....
Palpably, one might say.
[HOWLS of damned gratified laughter]
"The German born investor, and turtleneck enthusiast," HAHAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
The fucker still controls 10 BILLION!!!!
For now.
Losing billions can result in getting fired by the Partners.
… and he still gets the girl. Nothing lost but time, and he’s in his twenties.
He looks AI generated.
"Build me another tech bro jackass."
Snork...the "turtlenecks" are so affected.....
Maybe he's a fan of "Archer" and his tactlenecks!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8FYJfEHOuY0
They're probably his "thing," the way he lets us know he's not like the others.
Steve Jobs and that Girl Crook with the Blood testing scam wore them...
I admit I haven't been paying close enough attention to their fashion choices.
Although I do count Steve Bannon's shirts whenever I see him.
Old Three Shirts...
I thought Cakes was going to post a blueberry pudding type recipe today.
It is up now.
There’s a hole in the space time continuum.
Damn you Fukui
A spot of bother here and about. He's still getting used to the Tardis controls.
He's still messing with us from wherever he may be.
I assure you that he is.
In honor of Fukui, who loved Berlin, here is the Berlin Zoo's new babby hippo named Little Bread Roll:
https://bsky.app/profile/elleisanisland.bsky.social/post/3ms2fabsjdc2g
Is that ... algae?!? Now we know where it came from. Visiting hippo families.
That is too much cute
I cannot
♥♥♥♥♥
Bread Roll is the Hero we need today...
Little man is ridiculously SQUEEEEE!
OMG, photogenic little cutie!
That perfectly precious little face!
People here have been asking if you and Paul are safe and not near the fire. I assume you are, and that's a relief.
Everything is fine. A few hours ago, however, the wind was picking up, smoke was overwhelming the house and I was getting pretty damned nervous. I was getting more than a little anxious recognizing that if the fires got much closer and endangered our property that I didn't have the means to put Ripper in his pet carrier, grab the folder containing various important legal documents, toss all of that and a small bag containing a change of clothes and my meds into the car and get the fuck out of here.
As long as the winds don't dial back up everything will remain just fine.
My thanks to all of you for giving a genuine damn. There is nothing else that I fear the way I am terrified of fire and this morning quite frankly scared the hell out of me.
While you have time, could you do evening except put ripper in the crate?
A few years ago I filled my truck with my guitars and guns and I had a go-bag by the door.
This time, I had the go-bag and the cat carrier. I don't need to be burdened by the rest of it. Just GTFO if the need arises.
In such emergencies it is essential to travel light, so to speak.
Be safe.
From "Girl with the Dogs", Vanessa gives Sable, a rescue kitty, a much-needed spa day:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HN8jJfNtU3U
Must be nice to always cheat on your golf courses
Trump allegedly just won his 43rd Club Championship today at one of his courses.
https://bsky.app/profile/ronfilipkowski.bsky.social/post/3ms4bl6awes2r
And of course people at that ceremony line up to kiss his ass and whiff his farts!
A-HA!
https://i0.wp.com/www.bondmovies.com/wp-content/uploads/2016/05/gf.gif?resize=700%2C419
And the other competitors were:
John Barron
David Dennison
John Miller
Amazing! He's also stopped 43 wars.
Where does he find the time?!
LOL! I scrolled fast and initially read this as "43 warts."
He hasn't even stopped 43 warts!!!!! Let alone wars. XD XD XD XD XD
Pathetic.
While a large chunk of the country is on fire. Nice; although he’d just make matters worse if he inserted himself into that situation.
That fucker won't even rake the sand trap, let alone a forest.
Just two more and he'll be tied with Kim Jong Il. Seriously though, why don't MAGA golfers like Jack Nicklaus and Bryson DeChambeau come out and congratulate his on these absolutely real wins? Surely they have no doubts about Trump's honesty.
I wonder if he bothers to play anymore or if he just shows up at the end to collect his trophy with the other players at the ceremony all scratching their heads and asking each other, "Did you see him on the course?"
There was a story in his first term about how he turned up one day and told the actual winner that it didn't count unless he could beat Trump at a nine-hole match. Trump cheated throughout and then took the trophy.
He's spent his whole life in contempt of the rules and gotten away with it. I'm afraid he'll never face real justice.
It is just mind-boggling how someone like him exists. How does he get away with being complely insulated from any and all fucking consequences for anything he's ever done?
It's disgusting. Unforgiveable. Mind-breaking and mind-boggling.
Money. Maybe it doesn't 'buy happiness', but at a certain level, it buys absolute impunity.
He manages to monkey-bar his way between reasons not to be held to account. For most of his life, he was unaccountable because he had the money and the goons to intimidate anyone who wanted to do so. In terms of his sexual assaults and rapes, he got away with it because the system has always allowed men to get away with it- especially wealthy and connected men. Then he managed to luck into being a celebrity, and that gave him several more passes. Then he became a political candidate, and that gave him even more. To investigate a candidate was already evidence of bias, to prosecute one unthinkable. Then he became President, and doing anything there would not only risk hurting him, and making the doer look biased, but damage "the office" (formerly held by slave owners, slave owner-rapists, genocidaires and Richard Nixon) so nothing could be done. Then when he was out of office he once again became a candidate, so nothing could be done because of the risk of looking partisan, then he won again.
It is mind-boggling. And that so many people have supported him, and still do, is equally mind-boggling. Without them we wouldn't have to suffer him, at least not as President.
This. Yes. 100%. It's just mind-boggling he even has a single supporter left.
But still around 30% of voters support this shit.
No, he never will. My hope is that he is granted some sort of Dickensian flash of awareness before he dies* that literally everyone hates him.
*drowning in a barrel of his own vomit
Uh -- coincidence?
Ron Filipkowski
@ronfilipkowski.bsky.social
How come Trump has won every golf tournament held at one of his own courses but has never won one on any other courses?
10:10 PM · Jul 30, 2026
https://www.wonkette.com/p/wonkette-movie-night-dark-passage/comment/306793561
"How come Trump has won every golf tournament held at one of his own courses but has never won one on any other courses?"
Because of nefarious Soros ANTIFA terrorist cells with funding from China sabotage his game?
because he literally cheats at EVERYTHING
When I say everything, I mean everything
The world is a complete shambles right now because nobody from Forbes to the racists who voted for him to the Nazi Republicans who figured if they held their noses and enabled him the stank would blow over them and never touch them wanted to believe it
BELIEVE IT
ORANGE PIGGY STINKS
BIBI STINKS
VLADIMIR STINKS
the whole world is literally going to hell because three old men who ought to be in jail for the war crimes they've committed are holding it hostage ... and they've corrupted so many enforcement systems along the way because they believe they're entitled never to be accountable to anyone or anything that most of everything has actively rotted to the core
Quick! Test their scorecards for bamboo!
first real laugh I've had at these shambles today, thank you
Because not even the irresponsibly wealthy Drumpfenfuehrer can own ALL of the golf courses.
We've all seen video of that doughy lump of shit swinging a golf club. He couldn't win a round of mini golf against Stevie Wonder.
I’d pay to see that.
Stevie just sang with his full band at the Obama Presidential Center
I don't think he's going to have the time in his schedule
Somehow
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7WwD5xmWPA
Stephen Hawking could beaat him.
I’d pay to see that too.
Yeah! And then Hawking could play him in mini golf!
It's a condition for playing the tournament. He's been known to retroactively claim a championship win based on an earlier, unrelated round of play. His scores are pure fantasy.
We're dealing with an unbalanced idiot child who has figured out they get what they want if they threaten to break all the good china.
Here's a data point. 20 years ago Donald Trump met Stormy Daniels, his youngest son was born and he played in the American Century Championship, a pro am event. Actor Jack Wagner won, former football QB Billie Jo Toliver came in second and Donald Trump finished 62nd just behind former football player union boss, Gene Upshaw.
https://www.nbcsports.com/american-century-championship/american-century-championship-2006-results
Well -- I mean, it wasn't on a golf course he owned
So he couldn't cheat like he usually does
So of course he lost
LOSER
Talk about upping your game.
*eye roll*
Did you know that they charge entry fees at a lot of tournaments? Not too many people know that"
Plus, even public courses disallow the "foot wedge"
Because..........Cheater, cheater, pumpkin eater!!
His caddies call him Pelé.
That is just ....
I don't even want the real Pelé's name besmirched in that fashion, lolsob
How come Trump had to become president to have a birthday party ?
Might be same answer . . .
So someone else would pay for it...
Funny, that...
Greg Bovino decided to have a Nazi rally in Indiana...and it triggered a counterprotest...
https://bsky.app/profile/olivia4t.bsky.social/post/3ms4cozx2pc2p
He still got to wear his new gestapo underpants, so it wasn't a total loss
Micro Nazi does what?//
There are more of us than them.