I hope nobody misled you into thinking the recovery would be quick. The people I know who had "slightly sore throat" for about a weekend are deeply annoying, and I enjoy telling them so.
Oh, I know better than that. I didn’t have the sore throat at all. Just fatigue and the worst headache. I still have the fatigue. It’s getting a little better finally.
So, does PAB's stated plans to attack Chicago make him a domestic abuser? His frustration at being unable to influence Putin or gain respect on the world stage needs an outlet, punching down on domestic targets is all he's got.
Hello everyone. I woke really late and Viggo (my cat) decided to punish me by barfing up all his breakfast because I was late giving it to him. Happy Sunday!
They called me to be on the Sunday shows but I told them I wanted to sleep in and sent my pal Ezra Klein in my place. He's much better at that "talking" stuff anyway. 🤪
"In about three weeks, the government’s funding will run out. Democrats will face a choice: Join Republicans to fund a government that President Trump is turning into a tool of authoritarian takeover and vengeance or shut the government down."
I really want them to shut it down but we all know that the repugs won't take any blame for it and our corporate media will tell the rubes that the democrats are evil. I see no way out of the mess we're in.
Even the press will have to point at the GOP and their total control (including not arguing with POTUS) and admit no Democrats were seen creating this mess.
Mr. Ulbricht could have a shot at an even bigger payday. In recent months, some U.S. officials who prosecuted him have privately discussed an outlandish scenario: He could return to court to try to claw back some of the funds seized from Silk Road.
Over the years, law enforcement has recovered tens of thousands of Bitcoin that hackers had stolen from the site. While in prison, Mr. Ulbricht forfeited his right to that digital currency, some of which has sat untouched in government-controlled wallets.
The pardon could give him an opening to claim some of those coins or other crypto that the government recovers in the future, legal experts said. Even a long-shot lawsuit could provide leverage for a settlement.
The potential prize would be immense. When Mr. Ulbricht was arrested, one Bitcoin traded for $132. Now it trades at about $110,000.
That means the government’s Silk Road stash is worth at least $7.5 billion.
Article about Silk Road criminal that Trump pardoned for votes:
His freedom has brought the prospect of financial rewards. At the Bitcoin Conference, Mr. Ulbricht raised about $1.3 million in an auction of his possessions, including canvases he painted behind bars, an old sleeping bag and his prison sweatsuit.
One item sold for 5.5 Bitcoin, or roughly $600,000, nearly half the total haul. It was an inmate identification card that designated Mr. Ulbricht as prisoner No. 18870-111.
Especially when they sue anyone else for editing anything. ARE MAGAts BORN MISSING GENES FOR LOGIC AND CRITICAL THINKING, or are they just willfully ignorant cretins????
Seems like grounds for an IRS investigation of the U.S. Tennis Association for political activity by a non-profit when we get back in power. I’m done with playing with asymmetrical rules.
Cool in Atlanta this am when I walked Molly...leaves are starting to fall because we've had one or two cool mornings lately and the trees and the leaves are jumping the gun.
They'll be sorry, in the 80s the rest of the week.
This morning I found a partially nibbled bouillon cube. The box had fallen out of my spice cupboard and one of them must been left behind to be discovered by Harry who must have thought it smelled amazing. Looks like he took a bite into it and didn't like it. Probably because it was veggie. I imagine him spitting it out, what is this shit, this ain't chicken!
I found a (live, thankfully) mouse in the bird seed container this morning. Must have gotten into the bag, then got buried in seed during a bag to bin transfer. Glad I noticed the little guy, and now I know why one of the cats has been so desperate to get into the garage.
A long time ago, I was making spaghetti carbonara and was cooking bacon which drove my previous cat completely wild. I also had on onion chopped in in half on the counter ready to be cut up. I turned around just in time to see Alex biting said onion in a bacon smell fueled frenzy and gagging dramatically.
Rumble our battle-tabby was diagnosed as a corpulent kitty and sentenced to cardboard diet biscuits. Lady Vorpal mixed them half and half with regular biscuits at first to transition her on to them. We heard a regular 'p-tak!' sound coming from the kitchen... she was spitting them out against the baseboard and eating rhe regular biscuits.
I see in the WaPo some military group cancelled an award to Tom Hanks, who's done so much for them (funded World War II Memorial in DC, "Saving Private Ryan" and other stuff. ) I interviewed him once at a premiere and he is the nice guy you'd expect. I can't imagine what the problem is.
It was the West Point Alumni Association, which actually only cancelled the award ceremony for Hanks:
"....Hanks, 69, was to receive the prestigious Sylvanus Thayer Award, which recognizes an “outstanding citizen” who did not attend West Point and has a distinguished record of service that exemplifies the academy’s ideals: “Duty, Honor, Country.” A ceremony and parade were scheduled for Sept. 25.
Bieger wrote that the alumni association, in coordination with the academy, “will not be holding the Thayer Award ceremony” as originally scheduled and apologized for the cancellation. The email did not say whether Hanks’s award has been revoked or if it will be presented in some other format...."
When the award was first announced in June, the alumni association's chairman said this:
"...“Tom Hanks has done more for the positive portrayal of the American service member, more for the caring of the American veteran, their caregivers and their family, and more for the American space program and all branches of government than many other Americans,” Robert McDonald, a former secretary of veterans affairs and the alumni association’s board chairman, said in the June announcement...."
But, of course, the assholes at the Trump administration couldn't stand for honoring Hanks, and the head of the West Point Alumni Association apparently "obeyed in advance" without consulting the rest of the organization or it's members.
As a child, the beginning of this movie haunted me for YEARS. That little girl in the painting, aging until she disappeared, was horrifying.
Without spoilers.
That was the fastest F1 race in history.
190 miles in 1hr 13 minutes.
Huh.
Too bad they flattened out the Parabolica. Moar speed!
Was it on 1-94 between Bismarck and Fargo?
It’s cool and damp and I still feel sick but I have to go into work—likely all day.
It's Sunday. Why can't you tell them to blow it out their collective rear ends?
I’m not going to tell a judge to bite me when I miss a deadline!
Fellow Sunday work warrior, I salute.
I am on week two after testing positive for covid and I still don't feel quite right. Sorry you have to work all day! Try to take it somewhat easy.
I hope nobody misled you into thinking the recovery would be quick. The people I know who had "slightly sore throat" for about a weekend are deeply annoying, and I enjoy telling them so.
Oh, I know better than that. I didn’t have the sore throat at all. Just fatigue and the worst headache. I still have the fatigue. It’s getting a little better finally.
So, does PAB's stated plans to attack Chicago make him a domestic abuser? His frustration at being unable to influence Putin or gain respect on the world stage needs an outlet, punching down on domestic targets is all he's got.
The mayor of Chicago had salt trucks blocking roads to keep ICE out over the weekend. We are definitely in civil war territory now.
It’s been obvious he’s an abuser from the get-go.
He beat Jr for wearing normal clothes to a baseball game.
Right? Who wears a suit to a baseball game??? I know his kids are assholes too but it's not like they had any kind of a chance.
In the early 60's suits were very common at baseball games. And women were not. More stuck in the past from TFG.
Yes, hurt people hurt people.
I feel domestically abused whenever I hear Trump open his ugly-anus yap.
I wore out two remote controls muting that.
Hello everyone. I woke really late and Viggo (my cat) decided to punish me by barfing up all his breakfast because I was late giving it to him. Happy Sunday!
Omg, the makeup effects in that movie scared the shit outta me when I was a little kid lol 😆
I saw it first the first time last year and they scared the shit out of me!
They called me to be on the Sunday shows but I told them I wanted to sleep in and sent my pal Ezra Klein in my place. He's much better at that "talking" stuff anyway. 🤪
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"Stop Acting Like This Is Normal"–[NYT] https://archive.ph/OoXEe#selection-4310.1-4310.2
"In about three weeks, the government’s funding will run out. Democrats will face a choice: Join Republicans to fund a government that President Trump is turning into a tool of authoritarian takeover and vengeance or shut the government down."
Let 'em shut it down.
THEN we'll throttle the fascist fucks and sickeningly subordinate shits senseless.
I really want them to shut it down but we all know that the repugs won't take any blame for it and our corporate media will tell the rubes that the democrats are evil. I see no way out of the mess we're in.
Even the press will have to point at the GOP and their total control (including not arguing with POTUS) and admit no Democrats were seen creating this mess.
😳
More about the Silk Road asshole:
Mr. Ulbricht could have a shot at an even bigger payday. In recent months, some U.S. officials who prosecuted him have privately discussed an outlandish scenario: He could return to court to try to claw back some of the funds seized from Silk Road.
Over the years, law enforcement has recovered tens of thousands of Bitcoin that hackers had stolen from the site. While in prison, Mr. Ulbricht forfeited his right to that digital currency, some of which has sat untouched in government-controlled wallets.
The pardon could give him an opening to claim some of those coins or other crypto that the government recovers in the future, legal experts said. Even a long-shot lawsuit could provide leverage for a settlement.
The potential prize would be immense. When Mr. Ulbricht was arrested, one Bitcoin traded for $132. Now it trades at about $110,000.
That means the government’s Silk Road stash is worth at least $7.5 billion.
What’s a little more corruption between associates?
How much $$ would Ulbricht kick back to Trump?
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"Trump pardons Ross Ulbricht, creator of the Silk Road dark web marketplace"–https://www.npr.org/2025/01/21/nx-s1-5270051/trump-pardons-dark-web-marketplace-creator-ross-ulbricht
Brib *still* has coff for miilllyunth week.
She is staying home from choorch to-day, be-cauze I do not want anyone else to get thees coff.
I hope erryone has goodday to-day. Mebbe u weel watch some En Ef Ell today ? Mebbe no?
Anyhoo, have a gud time, cheep chpeep.
hope birb has better feelz soon.
my sleempz very bad. feel like i'mma dye any minute. 🦜🐦
The U.S. is planning to cut security aid to the Baltic states, who are NATO members (https://moderndiplomacy.eu/2025/09/06/baltic-allies-brace-as-u-s-prepares-to-slash-security-assistance/). Weakening NATO, and maybe later taking some bites out of it, is Putin's dream, and the U.S. under Trump is helping him realize that dream. Just handing Putin a gift, from his BFF.
They’re phasing out security to countries that border Russia. It’s no doubt as to who’s side they’re on.
Because of course they are. Trump is so far up Putin's ass it's just not funny anymore.
It would be redindant for them to have sex at this point. Probably it wouldn't be any good.
It's still creepy.
It is impossible for me to accurately express just how much I DESPISE this fucked up, damned dangerous timeline.
Article about Silk Road criminal that Trump pardoned for votes:
His freedom has brought the prospect of financial rewards. At the Bitcoin Conference, Mr. Ulbricht raised about $1.3 million in an auction of his possessions, including canvases he painted behind bars, an old sleeping bag and his prison sweatsuit.
One item sold for 5.5 Bitcoin, or roughly $600,000, nearly half the total haul. It was an inmate identification card that designated Mr. Ulbricht as prisoner No. 18870-111.
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/09/07/technology/ross-ulbricht-silk-road-comeback.html
It completely baffles me as to why anyone would want any of those things. I can't see them as investments (but maybe that's why I'm so poor).
The nouveau tech-wealthy are certainly different...
Yeah. Bless their souls.
As they’re separated from their bodies on those lamp posts.
OT. Not knowing your audience.
"'Cowards': Internet pounces after broadcasters warned to censor booing of Trump at US Open"
https://www.rawstory.com/trump-boo-cowards-tennis-open/?utm_source=superhead
Well, US Open, you gained one fan at the expense of the rest of your fans. Well played, old bean.
Well, when Bari Weiss is running CBS, there won't be any reporting at all that is critical of Trump and his MAGA authoritarianism.
[ Bari Weiss running CBS. Fucking kill me now ]
Especially when they sue anyone else for editing anything. ARE MAGAts BORN MISSING GENES FOR LOGIC AND CRITICAL THINKING, or are they just willfully ignorant cretins????
Fascists love the hypocrisy of demanding freedom and respect for themselves while supporting government oppression and disrespect for the other.
That’s in the handbook and everything
Wilfull ignorance is the dangerous, potentially deadly bane of the United States.
Seems like grounds for an IRS investigation of the U.S. Tennis Association for political activity by a non-profit when we get back in power. I’m done with playing with asymmetrical rules.
Get out those cell phones and upload the booing to the tickety tacks.
Absolute, unmitigated fucking p******.
The only good thing that can be said about TFG being in office is that he has unintentionally revealed who the assholes are.
That is all too brutally accurate.
And now those assholes MUST be removed.
Cool in Atlanta this am when I walked Molly...leaves are starting to fall because we've had one or two cool mornings lately and the trees and the leaves are jumping the gun.
They'll be sorry, in the 80s the rest of the week.
This morning I found a partially nibbled bouillon cube. The box had fallen out of my spice cupboard and one of them must been left behind to be discovered by Harry who must have thought it smelled amazing. Looks like he took a bite into it and didn't like it. Probably because it was veggie. I imagine him spitting it out, what is this shit, this ain't chicken!
WHY U TRICK WIF ME MOM!
I found a (live, thankfully) mouse in the bird seed container this morning. Must have gotten into the bag, then got buried in seed during a bag to bin transfer. Glad I noticed the little guy, and now I know why one of the cats has been so desperate to get into the garage.
A long time ago, I was making spaghetti carbonara and was cooking bacon which drove my previous cat completely wild. I also had on onion chopped in in half on the counter ready to be cut up. I turned around just in time to see Alex biting said onion in a bacon smell fueled frenzy and gagging dramatically.
Rumble our battle-tabby was diagnosed as a corpulent kitty and sentenced to cardboard diet biscuits. Lady Vorpal mixed them half and half with regular biscuits at first to transition her on to them. We heard a regular 'p-tak!' sound coming from the kitchen... she was spitting them out against the baseboard and eating rhe regular biscuits.
They don't get chunky by chance.
Hold it up to Harry's face and see if he scowls at it. Have a camera handy.
and several large band-aids
And a drum of Bactine.
"What kind of a cruel joke is this, hooman?!"
I see in the WaPo some military group cancelled an award to Tom Hanks, who's done so much for them (funded World War II Memorial in DC, "Saving Private Ryan" and other stuff. ) I interviewed him once at a premiere and he is the nice guy you'd expect. I can't imagine what the problem is.
It was the West Point Alumni Association, which actually only cancelled the award ceremony for Hanks:
"....Hanks, 69, was to receive the prestigious Sylvanus Thayer Award, which recognizes an “outstanding citizen” who did not attend West Point and has a distinguished record of service that exemplifies the academy’s ideals: “Duty, Honor, Country.” A ceremony and parade were scheduled for Sept. 25.
Bieger wrote that the alumni association, in coordination with the academy, “will not be holding the Thayer Award ceremony” as originally scheduled and apologized for the cancellation. The email did not say whether Hanks’s award has been revoked or if it will be presented in some other format...."
When the award was first announced in June, the alumni association's chairman said this:
"...“Tom Hanks has done more for the positive portrayal of the American service member, more for the caring of the American veteran, their caregivers and their family, and more for the American space program and all branches of government than many other Americans,” Robert McDonald, a former secretary of veterans affairs and the alumni association’s board chairman, said in the June announcement...."
But, of course, the assholes at the Trump administration couldn't stand for honoring Hanks, and the head of the West Point Alumni Association apparently "obeyed in advance" without consulting the rest of the organization or it's members.
Ask President Laura Loomer.
Looney Loomer: The Dipshit Whisperer
Doug, the recurring SNL character he played...
David S. Pumpkins FTW!
Hanks was flawless on Black Jeopardy.
Leaving no doubt who’s side they’re on.
Hanks is a well known supporter of Democrats. That's it. The US military embarrasses itself ... AGAIN.
I see your point, but then why did they offer the award in the first place?
Because its just been brought to a certain someone's attention, I expect
Trump hates anyone who gets more love than he does.
It's a CAVU morning here in Chicago and 50 degrees. The deck will be open, Beer Church an indoor/outdoor celebration today...
Come, all ye congregants, bring your own mugs