It has barely rained here in a month. We could use it.
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It has barely rained here in a month. We could use it.
The pain of the abused and the crimes of the abusers should not be politics. Human agony is not a game with sides.
"Scales at ten paces."
CBP over here couldn't find an alpaca at an alpaca farm. That has been the case for years.
By the way, tomorrow's "Democracy Besieged" entry is "Much Sucking Begets Little Succor", where we talk about the Cabinet we are currently stuck with and why that is because it needs to be laid out for some.
I made that decision eons ago for myself. I do my best to get people on board. I tell people that I want to leave a world where the United Federation Of Planets would be possible, not ..... whatever this is.
Metro Detroit here. Apologies in advance for the rain coming. Kind of jealous that the sky is still blue there.
A long hose and $20 at Ace Hardware and you don't need a fire department
Tossing your BMT on toasted Italian bread isn't a crime. Unless you put mayo on it instead of oil and vinegar.
It is becoming apparent, watching interactions on my street, that I am living near a few families that live their own version of "Ordinary People" but that haven't seen the end of that film, where Calvin finally lets Beth have it basically.
Part of me thinks that there is a non-zero chance that some of the meager agreement from the GOP side is because of assurances that, well, certain things aren't in there, but we shall see. I refuse to take anything at face value here, but the move towards transparency here is obviously correct.
Ah, so no legal authority. These people were just straight up murdered. Doesn't matter what they may or may not have been doing. They were murdered for.....optics, for a very specific audience. 11 people had to die because it soothed someone's appetite for violence. Yale Law School, folks.
If you're Trump, emotional and physical abuse and suffering are irrelevant as a matter of course, but particularly so when they would be inconvenient politically. This, from the man who made the Epstein Files a political centerpiece when discussing transparency, which he never intended to provide.
AFTERNOON BUMP...
Whatever. You knew what you were about to do and you did it anyway, you piece of shit.
Can you just declare yourself a royal in North America now? I have some ideas for myself then...
....and only the most innocent of the innocent spend millions on a flyover in an attempt to disrupt this presser, call everything a hoax, and threaten people who, for various reasons, desire transparency. Only an innocent person does that. Yep.
Do I dare explain how you can - wait for it - store what is produced? Battery storage farms are popping up all over the place for this very reason, as are thermal and pumped hyrdo plants.
So, we know of one person that likes pie charts.
That's kind of where I am at. We're basically at a point where "full faith and credit" is a symbolic joke, so we need to commit to making it a literal joke and then tell the GOP, "There, NOW you have a problem, so fix it."
"This will go a lot smoother if you consent to the decapitation." - Charles-Henri Sanson, to Louis XVI, maybe
"Yeah, Lorne is a fan of pinball. My favorite musical is Tommy and that's about a guy who plays pinball. It all fits." (KEY POINT: He was also "Lorne", being Jr. and me being III, so I tell people he was likely talking to himself in the store.)
I still tell my kids about getting the first-generation NES console for Christmas in 1985 and then my father demanding his time with Pinball (which he strategically bought with it) that afternoon once we set it up. Even then, I should have seen that move from him....because I do that too. LOL
Although, my sister's kids are more Playstation people. This gets debated at gatherings.
My mom is 81 and my sister and I are both nearly 50. She gives both of us a check. She still asks if the kids want gifts and we tell her, "OK, but it has to be gift card sized and say Nintendo or XBox."
Hopefully, you find something. A lot of people around me could tell a similar tale because of cuts over the summer.
Once the kids got up at what my father used to describe as "the crack of lunch", Christmas became some cash to do with as they will.
...and he might very well get millions from the same people who once made fun of Falwell and Swaggart and Bakker and others for doing this, in some instances.
*drops items, runs from store*
We don't spend a lot anymore for Christmas anyway since the kids are older and my wife and I are the sort that will just buy what we want when we need it, but yeah, I plan to spend even less than that.
I think Pritzker was asking for the people who apparently have not yet answered it for themselves. Obviously, the answer is "yes".
I went to a parochial elementary school and we didn't even do this shit. That was a long time ago, of course.
The City Of London is more or less where the Roman settlement of Londinium was. Sure.
Today, I demand that journalism just fucking say it, if they are able.
I Won’t Answer The Question Because I Profit From The Silence Journalist Oliver Darcy asked Semafor co-founder Ben Smith, who is also a former New York Times columnist, point blank if he believed democracy in the United States was in danger, and Mr. Smith's response was thus: "One thing you do see…
What a career arc for Linehan. Create a comedy classic that people quote 30 years on, then get arrested for being a world champion transphobic shitposter.
Some of it could be stripped and returned to Home Depot, provided they buy the claim that it was damaged in the packaging
He stiffed a sex worker. He totally did.
He needs to just shave all of it off, paint the whole dome orange, and if he survives to Halloween, give out candy as a really dim version of the planet Mars.
State Of California Threatened With Lawsuit From Attention-Seeking Drunk Not Named Danny Bonaduce
Veteran of a large electric utility here - we need to have a talk about our Energy Secretary.
Is he talking about Second World War? America was largely on the logistics / intelligence end in China, if I am not mistaken, since the bulk of the US combat forces were in the Pacific, yes? Chiang was the head of forces when it came to ground fighting.
We kind of have to face the possibility that there might be a few people out there who, when he does go, drink the Kool-Aid....literally.
It's entirely possible, or if it isn't a stroke, something which causes him to lose coordination on the regular (someone suggested possible Lewy Body Dementia symptoms, which would fit with rapid cognitive decline and rigid muscles causing trouble walking)
Definitely looks like an injury.
This talk is fundamentally unpatriotic and feverishly anti-American. Any yet, the people currently in charge of the country are these very things. And people wanted that.
I noticed that too. He was hunched and leaning. I bet that arm doesn't get a lot of mileage now, if you will.
Trump would likely try even that to get out of their release, but much like Major Errol Phipps, who was the first man to fail to escape from Stalag Luft 112B, well..... Yeah, I have to believe that, even if years from now and he is gone, it would come out.
My dog's cognitive issues are not due to her vaccines and boosters. She comes by being a nutjob very honestly
I don't like that a can of beans could be more technologically advanced than me
That is a point actually. The United Federation Of Planets administrative center and Starfleet Academy's main campus are both in San Francisco.
These are the sorts of experiments in behavioral ecology that they must have cut from Mr. Wizard way back when
Dinner bump...
If anyone has some neighborhood or park beautification projects that need doing, the National Guard, though pricey, can weed a perennial bed and trim a hedge faster than most landscape contractors. Further, unlike the conventional guys, they aren't busy at this time of the year.
Pretty sure that non-federalized troops (because they would be under Texas control) in another state is just straight up invasion. It's not just illegal, but super extra illegal.
"He has a wife, you know?"
Remember to donate some bloob if you are able.
Wait, where's my money then?
The legend of the Seag lives today.
Why do we let Congress enable it? They have abrogated their own power because they would rather give BJs to a nearly dead man than look out for the American public. 330 million people and a little over 200 of them in the House and 50 in the Senate choose to empathize with his impotency.
Look at Hakeem Jeffries doing his impersonation of Jack Handey....
We see that. Weeds gone. Fresh pine mulch. Trash cans emptied and new liners placed. Very clean.
Oooooh, more people to scrub down the windows at the Sears Tower.
The hair is insane. His brow ridges make it look like he is slowly becoming Romulan. His color where you don't see orange is dreadful.
NOW that asshole chooses to be a real physician instead of a blowjob artist.
The hair was insane, but then mine would be too if I used a box fan to do a combover.
Yes, it's here. Any journalist who keeps saying "inching towards fascism" at this point is just trying to get clicks and make money off it, or worse, doesn't grasp what they are seeing, or still worse, they don't care to grasp it. One of the biggest problem right now is that failure of language.
Those brow ridges, whatever they did to prop him up, make him seem like he is turning either Cardassian or Romulan. Still early to say yet.
Why does he look like he is turning Romulan with the exaggerated brow ridges?
WH Doctor Victor Frankenstein:
Gonna take a lot of uppers if he's out for the duration.
Not shocked by that at all.
If these kids felt they could talk to their parents, they might. I bet the parents are part of the problem, in fact, in some instances, and for various reasons, but telling these kids - who are hurting - that they have to get permission from the people they might want to talk to the least is sick.
Correct. People respond to the straw man presented before them and Democrats often seem to end up being attacked for things they never said and don't believe necessarily. That's the whole game basically. People are ill-informed and generally terrible thinkers.
Will this be stapled to the toe tag?
Seriously, it could have been an e-mail.
Graham Greene would have been incredible on the Muppet Show.
Maybe we can put totems around his grave to bring luck to all that piss on it.
I didn't realize that rightful condemnation of a government which sides with the pedophiles and rapists rather than their victims would mean that folks at Reagan and Dulles were going to get fucked while a possibly dead man attempted a feeble distraction from words we need to hear.
We definitely have the people, but we don't have anyone in power who gives a flying fuck about what these people do. Fortunately, the rest of the world sees the problem when it comes to climate too.
I might sound like a moron, but if that's him, he doesn't sound well at all, and if that isn't him, well, where is he?
Lunchtime bump...
I mean, it's a good thing that it got out, right? He can just stay dead at 2 PM and not be reanimated to make the announcement
Will he be saying it himself, or will they put on a video?
Also, the screaming has clearly not been his words or his use of language. Someone is trying, someone may even be in the room, but...not him, or not the same presence.
How is it possible to be scared of a vegetable in a hat?
I ask again - a live announcement, a recorded announcement, an AI shitshow, or a really gross puppeteering attempt?
Ohio can't make Kroger go broke. Yuengling is on sale. They won't wear it.
Ben has a unique business plan.
We can only hope he is taking his own (and RFK's) advice, yes. LOL
I mean, my mother is only about three years older than Nadler. It's time, man. We can't have these people hanging around until they pass, as some of them have.
Which position does the dog fill on the TCU staff?
Today, we gripe about how we describe people like RFK Jr.
There Are No Vaccine Skeptics, But Only Morons ABC News did something the other day which again underscores one of the most basic problems with how people in Trump's orbit are discussed in a way which would make them seen sane and normal and competent when none of them are any of these things are…
It is amazing that many outlets seem to believe now that it is perfectly mundane and humdrum to speculate as to whether a sitting POTUS is even conscious, let alone alive.
*Trump has Miller knock Vance unconscious, places hand on skull* "Remember...."
Well, if that is because of Trump, he needs to hurry up and kick it if he wants out of that announcement he is supposed to make at 2 PM tomorrow.
America's Warfighters Provide Update On Their Court Mandated Community Service
