Who woulda thunk that reporting and monitoring the spread of infectious diseases would be important... says this old, retired doc who did extra training in Infectious Diseases. Our imbecile presnit avails himself of every doc he can snag by the collar, but puts a lawyer with a worm-eaten brain in charge of the Nation's health... As is so frequently noted here, we are so very fucked.
I honestly believe that my Republican relatives think working for the government is some form of make work that doesn't actually do anything useful. Are they learning now?
I think the entire nation needs an explainer on “Chesterton‘s fence“ because that’s what this administration is all about… They rip out the fence before they understand or find out why it was put up in the first place
Nope. "He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a child. Teach him." That is you. Trumpers are "He who knows not and knows not that he knows not, is a fool. Shun him".
Like the House passing a bill making DST permanent. They tried that in 1974 and it was quickly scrapped because schoolchildren going to school in the dark turned out to be a bad thing. D'oh!
Time Patty Murray retired? Good lord! With all the crap 💩 that’s going on, she’s worried about DST? How fucking stupid is that?! Bung her out! And I used to think democrats were alright. Nuh! Think time is over for the two party system you guys have. How ‘bout a new one called the Independent Party? Then the really good candidates won’t have to worry about their Democrat “colleagues” kneecapping everything they’re trying to do like what happened with Mamdani. Just a thought - cuz the two parties seem to just feed off each other. 🇨🇦
In the movie Parenthood starring Steve Martin, his son sang this song:
When you're sliding into first and you feel like something burst, diarrhea, diarrhea
When you're sliding into third and you think you laid a turd, diarrhea, diarrhea
When you're sliding into home and your pants are full of foam, diarrhea, diarrhea
When the kid's mom, played by Mary Steenburgen, asks where he learned that song, he says "at camp," to which Steve Martin quips, well that was money well spent
When my little brother was away at camp the kids were apparently asked to write a postcard to their families. My little brother wrote "Fuck you oh penis dick. Love, Karl". I saw the card. The things you learn at camp!
I only got to one 'camp' not long after arriving in NY from Scotland. I'd come in first in class so the 'prize' was a week Upstate hosted by the NCCJ. Pete SEEGER was there and lead all the sing-alongs. I participated enthusiastically...these were MY kind of people of all races, shapes and sizes. Unsure if Hello Mudda was on the radio that year but I instantly loved it.
I ripped it from a CD many years ago, and it is still in my iTunes library. Along with everything by Tom Lehrer. Before he made his works available for free.
My father was a Tom Lehrer fan and I followed suit. He tried to hide the first album, the one with a cartoon Lehrer playing the piano with the flames of hell around the edges. But my brother and I found it. Dad was somewhat alarmed when I, age about 10, went around singing "Don't solicit for your sister / that's not nice . . ." not yet grasping what it actually meant. Can't recall whether he explained or I figured it out for myself.
'Someone' probably told him these were forms of endearment his family would love, lolol. When my German father-in-law came to the US bringing his family, none of them spoke English (including my husband who was just a small boy then). His Dad was very mechanically minded so was suggested to try out at Airplane factories (ending up specializing making engine parts for companies connected to Grumman. The other guys saw him coming from a mile away, so would 'teach' him English words,,,THE worst insults one could give to a black coworker (the n word, 'mf'er', etc.). OOF, Just awful, but as he'd recount this to me downstairs in his basement which he also kept spotlessly clean for his machinery, he'd launch into gales of laughter about his naivete. However, the good guys there caught on, realizing he was a 'furriner', took no offence and corrected him gently. He ended up with some solid friends - stayed there for YEARS and became one of their very best, although still awfully underpaid.
Hilarious! I was a camp counselor and I must say I never saw anything like that :). Even kid favorites like '100 bottles of beer on the wall' were quickly outlawed.
Not a boys' camp then? "Do your balls hang low, do they wobble to and fro, can you tie them in a knot, can you tie them in a bow, can you throw them over your shoulder like a Continental soldier, do your balls hang low?"
Random data point: My sister went to camp as a young girl and the only bathrooms at the camp were outdoor toilets of some kind. My sister drew a line in the sand on using one of those things, and she “held it” for a full week. A remarkable achievement. Didn’t think it could be done.
For the record on this important subject, I don’t think she broke any records. Viz:
The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia exhibits a human megacolon that held a record-breaking 40 pounds (18 kilograms) of feces. Belonging to a man known as the "Balloon Man," the 8-foot-long organ is preserved and stuffed with straw. He suffered from a severe case of Hirschsprung's disease.
Wow, poor child! My relatives in Alabama didn't have electricity or running water when I was a child, and when visiting for a few weeks I was afraid to go outside at night to use the latrine (fear of snakes and spiders). So they gave me a chamberpot to use in the house, which I found out later that my parents had used when they were children.
Wanna bet the fuckwit gets a GOOD case of it, sending him straight to Walter Reed? Oh wait, didn't he just go there - again? Imagine THAT stench. YUK. They'll need to fumigate before the next and real President takes office. Oooh, imagine them ALL getting it? Now THAT would be Karma coming around!
Is that the only vector, though? He's known for TOUCHING things he shouldn't 'just grab 'em by the p*ssy'. For someone CLAIMING to be so fastidious, I'd bet it's all fakery - an outright lie, like everything else about him. He also gets McDonald's hamburgers/fish sandwiches. Who prepared them? I STILL believe Karma will have her say - and way with him.
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Writing This Shit—
Donny's personal ambulance chaser Todd "Epstein Files? What Epstein Files" Blanche is being chew-toyed in a Senate hearing, but I was too busy writing to have been watching any of it.
I’m impressed, Doc! Especially with your use of the word tranche, which started out as a French word for slice, and has come to mean portion or division of a larger whole in English.
Supposedly the New York State Bar Association are recommending Blanche not be confirmed rattling off crimes of moral turpitude. Then why the fuck can't they file complaints with their very own Overseer of the Bar and get his fucking license yanked.
Blanche is such a good fit for this outfit that he will probably be confirmed. "Crooked lawyer confirmed as Attorney General". Also, we must remember that every GOP member of the Senate works for the Trump Family now. Even Cornyn and Cassidy, who Trump stabbed in the back, will vote for Blanche. Only because they want the chance to grovel for vig scraps from the Trump boys. There is no honor among the sell outs. Just cowardly obedience to the giant orange parasite living in our White House.
I am focusuing in Orange Shitler and his constant hammering of Iran (like Donny has probably hammered a few red light district ladies in his time), and his refusal to accept that he is a total dumbass.
Then I posted a live video in the digest of Live Pandas. I case you dont wanna read the fucking news (my gift to our readers).
Pandas are great but I use Puffins to self-soothe. They are utterly adorable. You would never believe that they can fly but they can. Maybe that's a lesson for all of us, that we can do the apparently impossible.
In honor of your uplifting comment, I'm going to wear my puffin pin today, to remind myself that Trump can pretend that Ossof and Warnock were not legitimately elected but that isn't the deciding factor. Other criteria must be met and I'm sure he'll be at least somewhat distracted by his appeal of the fraud on the court decision coming out of Florida yesterday.
Absolutely it does, Wendy. You don't think it's accidental that the world's #1 growth industry is TicTocs of cute tiny kittens doing their things, do you?
It’s true that he can’t handle being the losing loser that he is in any situation especially this one. But I’ve come to surmise though that the premise behind the Iran incursion is purely financial.
As easily manipulated as he is, it was probably pretty easy to convince him to deplete the armory and line his pockets at the same time. Eisenhower saw this fucker coming.
Somewhere in this evil timeline lurks Erik Prince the vile mercenary who is also all wrapped up in the Epstein files
I dont want to watch either. Will it be live? Because he may come off as a senile old coot, unless they give him a jumbo shot of Ritalin to keep awake and on task.
I finally realized, after viewing Blanche for about 5 seconds during his "testimony" (*current slang for "lying his fucking face off"), what he reminds me of: one of those creepy-ass wooden ventriloquist dummies. Look at how his jaw moves (mute your TV first).
Here you go jeff, Day late, dollar short or something.
Donald Fuckwazzle woke up Monday and decided the Strait of Hormuz needed a tollbooth. So we are at twenty percent. on a fifth of the world's oil, Because a dumbass cannot look at a body of water without seeing a parking lot he could be skimming.
Our Gulf allies called. said they'd rather invest "billions and billions of dollars" instead — a number with all the specificity of a toddler describing infinity.
Fuck this shit Jeff, I am just fucking tired.
Today is an ideation day for me, I just need to find a bridge.
I don't even read any Iran news pertaining to Trump anymore. He has a new policy every three minutes. It's just not worth the time to read what he extruded five minutes ago.
Here's the difference: A toll would generate revenue that in some capacity or other would have to be accounted for. "Billions and billions invested," means money slid quietly straight into Donny's pocket.
He cant do that because international law governing free access to waterways. Iran couldnt do it either. That's why Trump dropped the idea of charging a toll
"The Strait is classified as a strait used for international navigation. Under the framework of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and customary international law, foreign vessels—both civilian and military—possess a right of unimpeded "transit passage".
Have yet to see a single major news organization call for prez fatfuck to leave office as he’s a fecking rapist. Nor one to call for Brainworms to leave office because, well, too many reasons, far too many. Nor that blockhead to be booted outta the Pentagon because, oh, I dunno, war crimes and racist/misogynist as fucking fuck, nor RealWorld jerk to be booted out because he is worse than worthless, nor that Viceroy of Venezuela to be impeached because he’s a total shitbag whose destruction of USAID has doomed hundreds of thousands already and also killed one of the greatest sources of soft power, and on and on and on. Why? I don’t get it. I just do not get it. I do not get it and I never will.
America's media has lost it's balls and Americans, most of them are too lazy to get out in the street by the millions to demand Trump must go.....we are sitting targets.
Hundreds of thousands took to the streets to protest for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. They were beaten and some assassinated by local police but it was the Kent State Massacre in 1970, students on campus gunned down by Ohio National Guardsmen, that made state violence against citizens hard to normalize. Today, it's just another Tuesday.
I remember so vividly.....back then we didn't fuck around. Today's apathy is America is apalling. I guess they think Democracy is some kind of magic act that will return when these thugs are gone....the problem is they aren't going. If Trump were to drop dead tonight there are more of him in line.
Yes the Ohio National Guard was called out by the Ohio Governor at that time and the National guard shot and killed 4 Kent State Students! We are seeing government killing citizens in the USA for no good reason given as yet!
Beware our government can kill you for any Reason or give you terrible debilitating case of diarrhea, because they just can!
Neither will I, Neil. Except, as I have always said, follow the money. Their greed has overridden and canceled any decency and respect for others and society.
I get it. They are monsters and 'somehow' certain media seem to be afraid of them and the thugs they believe he'll turn loose against them. First, ABC PAYS him $16Million - then imagines they're free and clear? NO! It was a downpayment. Once one gives in, they're sunk. How have they not recognized this? I DO give kudos to Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan for their new book - basically telling him to go fuck himself despite the insults and threats. Also it's up to US to kick them the fuck out.
Changing the clocks is a stupid, outdated notion based on the myth that the country is still mostly rural, mostly populated by dirt farmers working the fields behind mule drawn plows. The right answer is permanent standard time allowing our circadian rhythms to attune themselves to the sun/moon cycle. But that's too much science for the brainless morons that populate Congress.
What makes that myth even more egregious, is that farmers have ALWAYS worked according to the natural cycle of the sun. Sun's up, so is the farmer. Sun's down, time to come in from the fields. No longer though. Modern tractors and harvesters have GPS, AND lights so that the farmer can continue to either plow/sow, or reap/harvest well after dark, or before the sun does come up.
So where DID it all come from, then? I always heard it was farmers. Same thing with the school year, why do kids go back just when the fall harvests would hit?
That's exactly where the "myth" came from. Farmers needed the "extra daylight". If I remember rightly, the primary reason behind the change was to help synch clocks up to the natural changing of the amount of daylight in winter and summer. As for the school year, can't really speak to that. After all, they're still in school during planting season as well.
Actually, DST lobbyists for the outdoor grilling and golf industries and others lobbied hard for DST in 1986. The grilling industry found they could add $100 to $200 million in profits in just one month due to DST. All these other excuses are BS. Follow the money.
What’s weird about this idea is that I’ve grilled out in the dark hundreds of times. There are these nice things available called electric lights that make it possible and enjoyable. Magical!
But another change would take another act of Congress. See the problem? Yes, permanent standard time is the answer, but why should they get it right when getting it wrong keeps them in office?
Yes! For some reason, probably brain numbness at this point, the DST choice and lack of epidemiological support and tracking of national disease trends has upset me more than the political developments of the day.
It's the shitcanning of science that will set the U.S. back forever. Today it's cyclosporiasis, which to date has caused no deaths. Tomorrow will be it cholera or typhus or a new lethal and untreatable germ like Covid? On another note, McConnell had polio as a kid but said zero against Brainworm's wrecking of childhood vaccination mandates. So enjoy your "watery, explosive diarrhea", America. Thoughts and prayers.
School should start later anyway. They've already found that early starting hours are really bad, especially for teens' alertness and ability to learn. We always started at 9, except for my amazing senior year in high school when I rigged my schedule to start at 11:17!!!!
I would think that allowing the U.S. population to get sick over preventable and spreadable illnesses would matter. But not with Fascist criminals in the WH. Could this be spread to the administration? (Not that I’m suggesting anything!) 😁
Jeff, I like the everyday photos of Claudia, they don’t seem mundane. They are a snapshot of real life. What a great way to share a story about Claudia. 🩷
One of your best headlines, Jeff. I snorted my coffee.
Call me old-fashioned, but I like it when the sun is directly overhead at 12 noon. Let's make standard time permanent. The uncontrollable pooping parasite is linked to bagged salad. Don't believe the triple-washed and ready-to-eat labeling. Buy unbagged lettuce and wash it yourself. Or, forgo lettuce until the problem subsides because the contamination is probably in the water used to grow the product. (Disclaimer: My opinion here. I'm not a scientist, I just read a lot. Make of it what you will.)
Thank you - saw that on TV news last night, throwing away the bagged lettuce I just bought yesterday. Though I'd rather make a nice salad with it and send it to RFK, Jr.
I buy bagged lettuce at Trader Joe's, but I always wash it in vinegar water 3 times. I trust that they wash. Especially when romaine is still attached to the stalk.
The problem is that cyclospora is a protozoan parasite, a single celled animal, if you will, not a virus. These parasites produce spores called oocysts, which resist washing and even bleach. Viruses are much easier to inactivate than the oocysts.
Thank you, Ann! I went to the ER knowing I needed IV fluids because I was dangerously dehydrated after more than a week of being unable to keep anything in. They let us languish for hours, as you do in the ER these days. The doctor finally came in and told me I couldn’t possibly be dehydrated because my potassium levels were fine; treated me like a Gomer! Finally, she looked at the labs again, and my levels were dangerously tanked. I got the IV, and some *delicious* (sarcasma font) oral potassium. I am a tough old bird, and survived, but it was an ordeal. Nobody tried to diagnose what had caused my illness. It seems to match cyclo most closely.
Unfortunately, cyclospora can’t be washed off because they form a biofilm on leaf surfaces. Remove the outer 3 layers of leaves, discard, and then wash the inner ones.
I beg to differ. Certified organic irrigation rules prohibit the use of synthetic chemicals and require that water sources be maintained to prevent contamination. Additionally, organic farmers must follow specific guidelines to ensure that the water used in irrigation is safe and compliant with organic standards. For example, the use of sewage sludge in crop irrigation is not permitted.
Well, that's good to know and I stand corrected on that point, but like I said, contamination happens. I've not seen any evidence that buying organic is protection from the kind of outbreak that's occurring now.
Earlier cyclosporiasis outbreaks were suspected to be from raspberries, cilantro, and basil, probably from contaminated irrigation water. Wikipedia says several outbreaks were from Mexico and Central America, where water quality is not as stringent.
I used to grow SO much good stuff, then we added on a second garage just for hubby's precious 1969 RoadRunner. It took over THE best sunny spot where I'd grown cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce and a raised bed for herbs...and just a little distance away, my own bed of gorgeous dinner-sized peonies I'd nurtured along for 20 years. When they threw debris from the construction down onto what they assumed was an 'empty space' I ran outside to tell them that was where my precious flowers were and NOT to use it as a dump. They agreed. Couple of hours later after I'd finished some chores, came back out to see a HUGE pile of bits of 2x4's, old roof shingles ALL exactly where I'd asked them not to be. They were much too heavy for ME to move and hubby shrugged it off as 'too late' to do anything about. Lost all of my peonies that year - so when I dug for them the next they'd somehow disappeared. Broke my heart so I never planted again. I've been getting a hankering for movable raised beds now...just maybe I'll grow MY own stuff on my sunny patios, like you - next Spring. They'd have to be high enough so the dog can't steal everything. :) The good thing is anyone with even the tiniest outside balcony can have a movable raised bed 'garden' IF they get sufficient Sun.
That construction crew would've been, perhaps, somewhat taken aback by my extensive vocabulary of obscenities. Especially for their destroying peonies.
I transformed my front yard into a riotous cottage garden--I've no use, not being either a horse or a goat, in having a huge expanse of lawn: why would I waste my time tending to useless grass? Instead--an array of flowers, plus tomatoes, zucchini, garlic, beans, raspberries, rhubarb--and salad in one raised planter and watermelons in the other (a slight chance the bunnies won't get them up there). So my yard is the one with all the bees, butterflies, rabbits--even a red fox!
Favorite moment from this spring: chatting with a neighbor who was debating a run to the store--she'd realized that there was no lettuce in the fridge for taco night; however, the baby was still napping and would want a snack when he finally woke up, and then she'd have to load him into the car and go through the whole process of shopping with him, and all just for lettuce for taco night. So, I told her to wait, went to the raised bed, and filled a bag with assorted leafy greens (organic, to boot!) and handed it to her. Problem solved; taco night saved. LOL!!
UNfortunately, I was alone at home ON disability after more issues with my lower back disks - while hubby was still working and the guy 'in charge' was a friend and neighbour whose wife was a close friend. HE'd hired the sub-contractors but wasn't there that day, usually pretended to pay attention to my needs but I knew he fobbed me off most often. Former cop, thought he had all the answers and women were mostly to be seen and not heard from. I usually stayed on good terms with the actual workers since HE didn't treat them very well, nor did their 'middle-manager' boss. Back then I never used bad language either and usually provided water, made coffee, bought lunches and baked goods. I LIKED the actual workers - it was their 'bosses' who fucked up and didn't give a crap about my plants - told them where to throw the debris. I've always wanted an English cottage garden but - hubby loves his green lawn (at least in the front of the house). I do get my plants in my spots where I can. Yours sounds amazing!
This is like the illustrative reason I utterly loathe dealing with contractors. At some point, maybe I'll encounter the unicorn male contractor who has even a fragment of a thought of the idea of maybe offering a crumb of respect to a woman who hires him.
It depresses me that a lovely friend of mine — the one who came and picked me up and drove me to the emergency room when I broke my ankle and sat with me there for 4 hours while we watched a congressional hearing on fracking on C-Span — now works for RFK jr. WHY?
Grateful as always for the explosive report about the Secretary of "Health & Human Services." Watch for him to hold a press conference saying it's all part of the new strategy to make meat and potatoes the cornerstone of the American diet. No more parasite-loaded hamster food causing sprints to the nearest ... oh god -I'm not going in there, did you hear those sounds?
Aside from the brainworm doing everything possible to ruin the name "Kennedy" faster than you can say "Senator from Louisiana" ... I'm still fuming about Marco "The Shoes" Rubio wanting to dismantle the ICC.
I provided the following guidance for him, but have not received a thank you as of yet.
Canada supplies a lot of our potatoes so with their newly found backbone and realization that there are many other countries accepting their products "meat and potatoes" may just be high priced meat.
Yes, and thankfully Argentina’s Javier Milei who is Musk’s chainsaw buddy, a friend of Scott Bessent, and the recipient of $20 billion of U.S. taxpayer funds is ready to fill the new demand (And as a near-vegan, I’m commenting about beef. See what this administration does to people?)
Failure to scientifically monitor the screwworm has compromised American beef producers as well. Funny how damage to the U.S. economy always benefits some foreign dictator.
I’m old enough to remember when we used to do science.
I wonder when the socialism hating cattle ranchers ask for a bailout similar to the billions of taxpayer dollars given to the socialism hating farmers because of the pedo criminal elect’s failed tariff economic policy.
178-year old Methuselah (Chuck) Grassley begins the confirmation hearing of the most corrupt attorney general (even after John Mitchell who went to prison) by asking questions about agriculture & abortion pills. That tells you where this 2-day MAGA shit show is headed. This country is doomed.
Let's see who votes for this guy. I guess he can still lead the country as AG even though he hopefully will be disbarred. The Republicans keep digging that hole don't they?
When I was in the Army, 50 years ago, I met some Australian guys at a joint-forces exercise. They had what they called the "Dance of the Flaming Assholes" where they'd get naked and shove a rolled-up piece of paper up their asses. Then somebody would light the paper on fire while the performer farted. It looked quite a lot like the guy in Jeff's gif.
fun true fact: I wrote this entire post without once using the word 'diarrhea,' except the two times it appeared in a quote
Who woulda thunk that reporting and monitoring the spread of infectious diseases would be important... says this old, retired doc who did extra training in Infectious Diseases. Our imbecile presnit avails himself of every doc he can snag by the collar, but puts a lawyer with a worm-eaten brain in charge of the Nation's health... As is so frequently noted here, we are so very fucked.
I honestly believe that my Republican relatives think working for the government is some form of make work that doesn't actually do anything useful. Are they learning now?
It's so cute that you think Republicans might actually learn something.
I know. It's really too much to hope for. They just can't seem to connect any of the dots.
They are too stupid to know how stupid they are.which makes them extremely dangerous.
The Dunning-Kruger people…
Only if they get sick, otherwise it’s not a problem.
I think the entire nation needs an explainer on “Chesterton‘s fence“ because that’s what this administration is all about… They rip out the fence before they understand or find out why it was put up in the first place
I never knew about "Chesterton's fence", which puts me in the same camp as the Trump administration!
Nope. "He who knows not and knows that he knows not is a child. Teach him." That is you. Trumpers are "He who knows not and knows not that he knows not, is a fool. Shun him".
AND as the lions are eating their guts, scream WHY over and over.
And, “Don’t eat me; eat The Democrats!”
shee-rah: EXactly!
Like the House passing a bill making DST permanent. They tried that in 1974 and it was quickly scrapped because schoolchildren going to school in the dark turned out to be a bad thing. D'oh!
Time Patty Murray retired? Good lord! With all the crap 💩 that’s going on, she’s worried about DST? How fucking stupid is that?! Bung her out! And I used to think democrats were alright. Nuh! Think time is over for the two party system you guys have. How ‘bout a new one called the Independent Party? Then the really good candidates won’t have to worry about their Democrat “colleagues” kneecapping everything they’re trying to do like what happened with Mamdani. Just a thought - cuz the two parties seem to just feed off each other. 🇨🇦
Seems like that word should be sang to “Oklahoma”!!
In the movie Parenthood starring Steve Martin, his son sang this song:
When you're sliding into first and you feel like something burst, diarrhea, diarrhea
When you're sliding into third and you think you laid a turd, diarrhea, diarrhea
When you're sliding into home and your pants are full of foam, diarrhea, diarrhea
When the kid's mom, played by Mary Steenburgen, asks where he learned that song, he says "at camp," to which Steve Martin quips, well that was money well spent
When my little brother was away at camp the kids were apparently asked to write a postcard to their families. My little brother wrote "Fuck you oh penis dick. Love, Karl". I saw the card. The things you learn at camp!
If you don't remember Allan Sherman's "Hello, Muddah, Hello, Fadduh," do yourself a favor and look it up!
A long-time family favorite. I learned it at camp in the mid-1960's.
I only got to one 'camp' not long after arriving in NY from Scotland. I'd come in first in class so the 'prize' was a week Upstate hosted by the NCCJ. Pete SEEGER was there and lead all the sing-alongs. I participated enthusiastically...these were MY kind of people of all races, shapes and sizes. Unsure if Hello Mudda was on the radio that year but I instantly loved it.
I ripped it from a CD many years ago, and it is still in my iTunes library. Along with everything by Tom Lehrer. Before he made his works available for free.
My father was a Tom Lehrer fan and I followed suit. He tried to hide the first album, the one with a cartoon Lehrer playing the piano with the flames of hell around the edges. But my brother and I found it. Dad was somewhat alarmed when I, age about 10, went around singing "Don't solicit for your sister / that's not nice . . ." not yet grasping what it actually meant. Can't recall whether he explained or I figured it out for myself.
Oh, one of my all time favorites!
'Someone' probably told him these were forms of endearment his family would love, lolol. When my German father-in-law came to the US bringing his family, none of them spoke English (including my husband who was just a small boy then). His Dad was very mechanically minded so was suggested to try out at Airplane factories (ending up specializing making engine parts for companies connected to Grumman. The other guys saw him coming from a mile away, so would 'teach' him English words,,,THE worst insults one could give to a black coworker (the n word, 'mf'er', etc.). OOF, Just awful, but as he'd recount this to me downstairs in his basement which he also kept spotlessly clean for his machinery, he'd launch into gales of laughter about his naivete. However, the good guys there caught on, realizing he was a 'furriner', took no offence and corrected him gently. He ended up with some solid friends - stayed there for YEARS and became one of their very best, although still awfully underpaid.
I love this! 😂😂😂
The card is a family heirloom. Kid turned out ok, though.
Hopefully it is in a lovely frame in a prominent place 😆
Rarely do I laugh out loud while reading online but this... this did it!!
Hilarious! I was a camp counselor and I must say I never saw anything like that :). Even kid favorites like '100 bottles of beer on the wall' were quickly outlawed.
Not a boys' camp then? "Do your balls hang low, do they wobble to and fro, can you tie them in a knot, can you tie them in a bow, can you throw them over your shoulder like a Continental soldier, do your balls hang low?"
I learned the female version of this same song......"Do your boobs hang low......"
An old standard!
😂😂
Arne, that postcard made me literally LOL 😆 😂 🤣 😅 😄
Oh Lordy ! That is hilarious, Arne.
When you’re sittin’ in your Chevy and your shorts are feelin’ heavy diarrhea, diarrhea
Random data point: My sister went to camp as a young girl and the only bathrooms at the camp were outdoor toilets of some kind. My sister drew a line in the sand on using one of those things, and she “held it” for a full week. A remarkable achievement. Didn’t think it could be done.
Wow. Medical history.
For the record on this important subject, I don’t think she broke any records. Viz:
The Mütter Museum in Philadelphia exhibits a human megacolon that held a record-breaking 40 pounds (18 kilograms) of feces. Belonging to a man known as the "Balloon Man," the 8-foot-long organ is preserved and stuffed with straw. He suffered from a severe case of Hirschsprung's disease.
The things you learn at Jeff’s Place!
Wow, poor child! My relatives in Alabama didn't have electricity or running water when I was a child, and when visiting for a few weeks I was afraid to go outside at night to use the latrine (fear of snakes and spiders). So they gave me a chamberpot to use in the house, which I found out later that my parents had used when they were children.
😂😂. Well, great. I’ll be humming this little tune in my head all day! Thanks!
Some people think it's funny, but it's really dark and runny, diarrhea, diarrhea
Some people think it's gross, but it's really good on toast, diarrhea, diarrhea
When you're climbing up a ladder and you start to feel a splatter, diarrhea, diarrhea
I, too, went to camp. But I also rode the bus with much-older kids starting in first grade, so I have many of these.
When you're sitting in your Chevy and your shorts are feeling heavy....
Credit: My daughter.
🤣🤣🤣
lmao!!
I immediately thought of that catchy number. 🙂
Trumporrhea where the crap comes blasting out your rear
And you get the sweats with your gaseous jets
And the pain feels like it'll last a year
Trumporhhea, we have DOGE and RFK to blame
They cut the CDC and hurt food safety
We hope that they too get to feel the pain
We know we hate this regime
Stupid is their only scheme
And when we say
Go away, motherfuckers, go away
We're only sayin'
We hate your guts, MAGA dumbfucks
OK?!
😂😂😂
Nominated for a Grammy!!
If it’s on the stage hopefully a Tony 😂
👏👏👏 Exactly!
You were already the master of shitkazoo metaphors, this just allowed you to demonstrate your range.
I’ve heard the investigation in how this spread referred to as “Waterygate”.
Wanna bet the fuckwit gets a GOOD case of it, sending him straight to Walter Reed? Oh wait, didn't he just go there - again? Imagine THAT stench. YUK. They'll need to fumigate before the next and real President takes office. Oooh, imagine them ALL getting it? Now THAT would be Karma coming around!
He doesn't eat any vegetables, so is probably safe from it. Our loss.
Is that the only vector, though? He's known for TOUCHING things he shouldn't 'just grab 'em by the p*ssy'. For someone CLAIMING to be so fastidious, I'd bet it's all fakery - an outright lie, like everything else about him. He also gets McDonald's hamburgers/fish sandwiches. Who prepared them? I STILL believe Karma will have her say - and way with him.
I don't know. I wouldn't be surprised if he's secretly installed a McD in the basement.
As for the vector, all I've seen is veg.
Now that would be a REAL shit show💩
👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻
no shit!
Well ain't that just the shits!
The gif said it all
I prefer Trumparrhea.
Nice!
today in Shit That Happened While I Was Writing This Shit—
Donny's personal ambulance chaser Todd "Epstein Files? What Epstein Files" Blanche is being chew-toyed in a Senate hearing, but I was too busy writing to have been watching any of it.
He deserves nothing less except perhaps having his nomination shitcanned
MAGA AGs have the same styles
The worst in our history by miles
You motherfucker Blanche
Must release every tranche
Of trump in the Epstein files
I’m impressed, Doc! Especially with your use of the word tranche, which started out as a French word for slice, and has come to mean portion or division of a larger whole in English.
Well, besides tranche I could only think of branch or ranch to rhyme with his name
Perhaps Zorro Ranch? :P
Ram Ranch?
👍🏼😁
And disbarment.
Supposedly the New York State Bar Association are recommending Blanche not be confirmed rattling off crimes of moral turpitude. Then why the fuck can't they file complaints with their very own Overseer of the Bar and get his fucking license yanked.
The NY Bar is already considering complaints against Blanche, including the recent referral by the judge in the Trump vs. Trump pseudocase.
There's always prison.
Blanche is such a good fit for this outfit that he will probably be confirmed. "Crooked lawyer confirmed as Attorney General". Also, we must remember that every GOP member of the Senate works for the Trump Family now. Even Cornyn and Cassidy, who Trump stabbed in the back, will vote for Blanche. Only because they want the chance to grovel for vig scraps from the Trump boys. There is no honor among the sell outs. Just cowardly obedience to the giant orange parasite living in our White House.
The Press would go wild if any member of the Senate, Dem or GOP, told the truth.
I don't see that. Rather, I think the truth would be buried. No truth teller in T 2.0 has gotten any traction thus far.
And 90% of all TV news outlets are owned by oligharchs. They have all been bought in order bullshit the American voters.
I mean, damn jeff, you got out before I did.
I am focusuing in Orange Shitler and his constant hammering of Iran (like Donny has probably hammered a few red light district ladies in his time), and his refusal to accept that he is a total dumbass.
Then I posted a live video in the digest of Live Pandas. I case you dont wanna read the fucking news (my gift to our readers).
I promise our digest today will give some hope.
Take a day, Uncle Jeff. Seriously.
Pandas are great but I use Puffins to self-soothe. They are utterly adorable. You would never believe that they can fly but they can. Maybe that's a lesson for all of us, that we can do the apparently impossible.
In honor of your uplifting comment, I'm going to wear my puffin pin today, to remind myself that Trump can pretend that Ossof and Warnock were not legitimately elected but that isn't the deciding factor. Other criteria must be met and I'm sure he'll be at least somewhat distracted by his appeal of the fraud on the court decision coming out of Florida yesterday.
Oh, arne, I promise to find a good puffin live stream for tomorrow's "Watch this instead". will that work?
Honestly, I have to ask, does me doing that in the dailies help?
Absolutely it does, Wendy. You don't think it's accidental that the world's #1 growth industry is TicTocs of cute tiny kittens doing their things, do you?
Puffins rock.
According to Donny it’s Tic Tac.
Of course it helps. We desperately need to see something other than the shit show that is currently our government.
I find watching my pet dung beetle pushing his soccer ball around. It calms....
It’s true that he can’t handle being the losing loser that he is in any situation especially this one. But I’ve come to surmise though that the premise behind the Iran incursion is purely financial.
As easily manipulated as he is, it was probably pretty easy to convince him to deplete the armory and line his pockets at the same time. Eisenhower saw this fucker coming.
Somewhere in this evil timeline lurks Erik Prince the vile mercenary who is also all wrapped up in the Epstein files
Makes perfect sense. After all, that's what Dubya's Iraq war was about. That, and daddy issues.
What Aunt Tee says
Like it's been said many times, those markets aren't going to manipulate themselves.
God bless you if you want to watch that shit show.
I just can't.
My tenuous mental health is too fragile to risk watching. I will also skip Temu Hitler's speech on Thursday for the same reason.
Yes. Autopsy videos on YouTube are far more interesting and soothing.
Exactly Arne! I think I'll wait for Jeff to address the important points (if any.)
I dont want to watch either. Will it be live? Because he may come off as a senile old coot, unless they give him a jumbo shot of Ritalin to keep awake and on task.
Same, but I shall be watching Youtubes about ancient Roman disasters.
Same. Instead I’m streaming Bold and the Beautiful episodes from 1987. 😆
I finally realized, after viewing Blanche for about 5 seconds during his "testimony" (*current slang for "lying his fucking face off"), what he reminds me of: one of those creepy-ass wooden ventriloquist dummies. Look at how his jaw moves (mute your TV first).
like Clutch Cargo?
https://youtu.be/HViegKvKh5Q?si=o6t69E0zDqr1HusU
Here you go jeff, Day late, dollar short or something.
Donald Fuckwazzle woke up Monday and decided the Strait of Hormuz needed a tollbooth. So we are at twenty percent. on a fifth of the world's oil, Because a dumbass cannot look at a body of water without seeing a parking lot he could be skimming.
Our Gulf allies called. said they'd rather invest "billions and billions of dollars" instead — a number with all the specificity of a toddler describing infinity.
Fuck this shit Jeff, I am just fucking tired.
Today is an ideation day for me, I just need to find a bridge.
https://thistleandmoss.com/p/what-survives-the-morning-manbaby-orange-shitler-s-war-on-iran-rages
I don't even read any Iran news pertaining to Trump anymore. He has a new policy every three minutes. It's just not worth the time to read what he extruded five minutes ago.
Here's the difference: A toll would generate revenue that in some capacity or other would have to be accounted for. "Billions and billions invested," means money slid quietly straight into Donny's pocket.
Yes. The idea of a toll has supposedly been withdrawn.
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/world/trump-backs-away-from-plans-to-charge-fees-in-the-strait-of-hormuz
He cant do that because international law governing free access to waterways. Iran couldnt do it either. That's why Trump dropped the idea of charging a toll
"The Strait is classified as a strait used for international navigation. Under the framework of the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea (UNCLOS) and customary international law, foreign vessels—both civilian and military—possess a right of unimpeded "transit passage".
My motto, let somebody else watch it for us. Spare yourself, Jeff.
I go for Cliff Notes. I let the rancid bits be filtered out by trusted commentators.
The spineless Republicans will vote YES anyway & confirm him
Fetterman: Yea
If he’s confirmed I hope he will end up where Nixon’s AG Mitchell ended up….in jail.
Since it was reported that lame duck 🦆 Cornyn is on the fence I wrote him and will call urging him to vote no. Hope his loyalty to Trump has waned.
Any GOP who votes no is one extra but if Fetterman votes yes or any other, then Todd gets in and more mayhem.
Hope the various justices who have to deal with all these frivolous suits are buckling up.
Have yet to see a single major news organization call for prez fatfuck to leave office as he’s a fecking rapist. Nor one to call for Brainworms to leave office because, well, too many reasons, far too many. Nor that blockhead to be booted outta the Pentagon because, oh, I dunno, war crimes and racist/misogynist as fucking fuck, nor RealWorld jerk to be booted out because he is worse than worthless, nor that Viceroy of Venezuela to be impeached because he’s a total shitbag whose destruction of USAID has doomed hundreds of thousands already and also killed one of the greatest sources of soft power, and on and on and on. Why? I don’t get it. I just do not get it. I do not get it and I never will.
America's media has lost it's balls and Americans, most of them are too lazy to get out in the street by the millions to demand Trump must go.....we are sitting targets.
Hundreds of thousands took to the streets to protest for civil rights and against the Vietnam War. They were beaten and some assassinated by local police but it was the Kent State Massacre in 1970, students on campus gunned down by Ohio National Guardsmen, that made state violence against citizens hard to normalize. Today, it's just another Tuesday.
I remember so vividly.....back then we didn't fuck around. Today's apathy is America is apalling. I guess they think Democracy is some kind of magic act that will return when these thugs are gone....the problem is they aren't going. If Trump were to drop dead tonight there are more of him in line.
Yes the Ohio National Guard was called out by the Ohio Governor at that time and the National guard shot and killed 4 Kent State Students! We are seeing government killing citizens in the USA for no good reason given as yet!
Beware our government can kill you for any Reason or give you terrible debilitating case of diarrhea, because they just can!
Or shitting targets now
100% in agreement Neal!!
Neither will I, Neil. Except, as I have always said, follow the money. Their greed has overridden and canceled any decency and respect for others and society.
It's because Murc's Law is Cruise Control for Cool (and Clicks!)
I think it’s just a general passivity among a trained populace. But it’s close to right.
News organizations now must be profit centers. Therefore, goose/golden egg principle.
Sadly, this is stone cold true.
I know from experience. I worked for a local business journal that started writing puff pieces as a way to pull in advertisers.
I get it. They are monsters and 'somehow' certain media seem to be afraid of them and the thugs they believe he'll turn loose against them. First, ABC PAYS him $16Million - then imagines they're free and clear? NO! It was a downpayment. Once one gives in, they're sunk. How have they not recognized this? I DO give kudos to Maggie Haberman and Jonathan Swan for their new book - basically telling him to go fuck himself despite the insults and threats. Also it's up to US to kick them the fuck out.
Changing the clocks is a stupid, outdated notion based on the myth that the country is still mostly rural, mostly populated by dirt farmers working the fields behind mule drawn plows. The right answer is permanent standard time allowing our circadian rhythms to attune themselves to the sun/moon cycle. But that's too much science for the brainless morons that populate Congress.
100%…make standard time the permanent time.
^^THIS!!!^^ 100%!
Boo.
What makes that myth even more egregious, is that farmers have ALWAYS worked according to the natural cycle of the sun. Sun's up, so is the farmer. Sun's down, time to come in from the fields. No longer though. Modern tractors and harvesters have GPS, AND lights so that the farmer can continue to either plow/sow, or reap/harvest well after dark, or before the sun does come up.
And more than a few now have drone capability and run without human intervention.
So where DID it all come from, then? I always heard it was farmers. Same thing with the school year, why do kids go back just when the fall harvests would hit?
That's exactly where the "myth" came from. Farmers needed the "extra daylight". If I remember rightly, the primary reason behind the change was to help synch clocks up to the natural changing of the amount of daylight in winter and summer. As for the school year, can't really speak to that. After all, they're still in school during planting season as well.
Pretty much everything I learned in grade school was bullshit. I'm going to have to start over.
Actually, DST lobbyists for the outdoor grilling and golf industries and others lobbied hard for DST in 1986. The grilling industry found they could add $100 to $200 million in profits in just one month due to DST. All these other excuses are BS. Follow the money.
Shitgoddamn. Yep, follow the money once again. 🤦🏻
What’s weird about this idea is that I’ve grilled out in the dark hundreds of times. There are these nice things available called electric lights that make it possible and enjoyable. Magical!
But another change would take another act of Congress. See the problem? Yes, permanent standard time is the answer, but why should they get it right when getting it wrong keeps them in office?
I live in hot as hell Florida and look forward to the fall so there is less sun.
Yes! For some reason, probably brain numbness at this point, the DST choice and lack of epidemiological support and tracking of national disease trends has upset me more than the political developments of the day.
It's the shitcanning of science that will set the U.S. back forever. Today it's cyclosporiasis, which to date has caused no deaths. Tomorrow will be it cholera or typhus or a new lethal and untreatable germ like Covid? On another note, McConnell had polio as a kid but said zero against Brainworm's wrecking of childhood vaccination mandates. So enjoy your "watery, explosive diarrhea", America. Thoughts and prayers.
I LOVE DST. I live for it. Those long summer evenings are heaven to me.
Long dark mornings all winter long in the Northeast do not make up for the extra "sunshine" in the summer.
I wouldn't know. I'm not up in the morning.
New England here - agreed!
Agree. And to the "kids going to school in the dark" whiners, have school start an hour later in the winter.
School should start later anyway. They've already found that early starting hours are really bad, especially for teens' alertness and ability to learn. We always started at 9, except for my amazing senior year in high school when I rigged my schedule to start at 11:17!!!!
Could not agree more, Peter. Dark mornings disrupt humans' natural rhythm. But, I mean, "science," as you said, so....
I left word with my POS MAGA senators to vote "no" on permanent DST, for all the good it will do.
Standard time disrupts my rhythms. You know what's more disruptive? Trump in the White House needing to be reined in.
Thank you! Just posted the same thing - before I read yours. My bad. But great idea.
Hey Jeff, I saw it called Trumporreah. Aparently he hates that word. We all know what to do now.
Isn't it a chronic condition for him? He's the parasite infecting the nation.
Bravo!!!
The World Karen
#ExplosiveTrumporreah LOL
Many thanks!
With apologies to whoever wrote the theme to GILLIGAN'S ISLAND
Just sit right back and you’ll hear the tale
The tale of a fucking twit
Who thinks that he’s the mighty king
But really he’s a dick.
His wife was a botoxed frozen face
A gold digger for sure
She sounds like Borat, but stupider
“Won’t you pleeze gimme more! Won’t you pleeze gimme more!”
His sons — entitled wannabes —
Brain dead that’s for sure
One’s a coke fiend, the other is
A dummy and a boor, a dummy and a boor!
A worst group of dopes you’ll never see
Liars thieves and crooks
With Donny Drumpf
Melanoma
Coke Fiend Boy
Crazy Kash
Supreme Court, too
Dumb Eric
and ‘Vanka too
Here on Drumpfigan’s Island!
The original... for those of you who don't know the song:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yfSLuEj99d0
Feel free to subscribe to my Substack. You'll have fun during this beyond dreary time in our country's history....
Great. Another ear worm ALL DAY. I could retaliate with The Brady Bunch and The Beverly Hillbillies.
Noooo, not that! A Rap Battle Royale of our resident poets! I want tickets.
I actually thought about doing a Brady Bunch one today!
It's always nice to leave something for another day.
I sang along!
I'm sure Sherwood Schwartz would not disagree!
Very clever.
👏😆 Borat only stupider🤣
I would think that allowing the U.S. population to get sick over preventable and spreadable illnesses would matter. But not with Fascist criminals in the WH. Could this be spread to the administration? (Not that I’m suggesting anything!) 😁
Jeff, I like the everyday photos of Claudia, they don’t seem mundane. They are a snapshot of real life. What a great way to share a story about Claudia. 🩷
I agree! Nothing mundane about The Daily Claudia at all. ❤️
The day I got out of the hospital and could be driven home was magical. I understand Jeff's choice of that picture perfectly.
If there were a way to make money from it they would be all over it.
One of your best headlines, Jeff. I snorted my coffee.
Call me old-fashioned, but I like it when the sun is directly overhead at 12 noon. Let's make standard time permanent. The uncontrollable pooping parasite is linked to bagged salad. Don't believe the triple-washed and ready-to-eat labeling. Buy unbagged lettuce and wash it yourself. Or, forgo lettuce until the problem subsides because the contamination is probably in the water used to grow the product. (Disclaimer: My opinion here. I'm not a scientist, I just read a lot. Make of it what you will.)
Thank you - saw that on TV news last night, throwing away the bagged lettuce I just bought yesterday. Though I'd rather make a nice salad with it and send it to RFK, Jr.
Bastard’s probably immune from hyperexposure and swallowing sewage water.
Bon appetit, Bobby!
I buy bagged lettuce at Trader Joe's, but I always wash it in vinegar water 3 times. I trust that they wash. Especially when romaine is still attached to the stalk.
I've had the virus...its bad.
The problem is that cyclospora is a protozoan parasite, a single celled animal, if you will, not a virus. These parasites produce spores called oocysts, which resist washing and even bleach. Viruses are much easier to inactivate than the oocysts.
Appreciate the learned, medical information, doc!
I clicked the like but definitely - don't like. I hope you feel okay now.
My sympathies.
Thanks Ann four 5 days later still not 100 percent. My friend suggested we order lunch from a "healthy restaurant" .
Thank you I am better.
I think I did, too, last year, though I’m not 100% certain. I wound up in the ER.
Sorry to hear that. were they able to do anything for you?
Thank you, Ann! I went to the ER knowing I needed IV fluids because I was dangerously dehydrated after more than a week of being unable to keep anything in. They let us languish for hours, as you do in the ER these days. The doctor finally came in and told me I couldn’t possibly be dehydrated because my potassium levels were fine; treated me like a Gomer! Finally, she looked at the labs again, and my levels were dangerously tanked. I got the IV, and some *delicious* (sarcasma font) oral potassium. I am a tough old bird, and survived, but it was an ordeal. Nobody tried to diagnose what had caused my illness. It seems to match cyclo most closely.
I figured fluids. Isn't a trip to an ER a delight? So glad you're doing better.
Sorry. I wasn’t that bad I had hydration packets I got at Aldi and drank that for two days…….Healthcare in this country is hit or miss. Feel better!
Unfortunately, cyclospora can’t be washed off because they form a biofilm on leaf surfaces. Remove the outer 3 layers of leaves, discard, and then wash the inner ones.
Thanks.
It's kale from the farmers market for me. Homemade kale chips should be safe. And eff yeah to permanent standard time.
Best way to eat kale.
Or better yet … spend a little more and buy a certified organic head of lettuce.
Organic means no pesticides. Not related to irrigation. Organic products can be contaminated at any stage of production, just like anything else.
I beg to differ. Certified organic irrigation rules prohibit the use of synthetic chemicals and require that water sources be maintained to prevent contamination. Additionally, organic farmers must follow specific guidelines to ensure that the water used in irrigation is safe and compliant with organic standards. For example, the use of sewage sludge in crop irrigation is not permitted.
Well, that's good to know and I stand corrected on that point, but like I said, contamination happens. I've not seen any evidence that buying organic is protection from the kind of outbreak that's occurring now.
Earlier cyclosporiasis outbreaks were suspected to be from raspberries, cilantro, and basil, probably from contaminated irrigation water. Wikipedia says several outbreaks were from Mexico and Central America, where water quality is not as stringent.
Well, that's reassuring.
Organic just means pesticides certified as “organically manufactured”. They use pesticides, and they are not completely safe.
I give up.
Or, better yet: walk outside to my raised planter and cut off enough leaves for my meal.....Yes--I'm gloating in a particularly obnoxious way. :P
~I still wash the lettuce and...I share with my neighbors.
I used to grow SO much good stuff, then we added on a second garage just for hubby's precious 1969 RoadRunner. It took over THE best sunny spot where I'd grown cucumbers, tomatoes, lettuce and a raised bed for herbs...and just a little distance away, my own bed of gorgeous dinner-sized peonies I'd nurtured along for 20 years. When they threw debris from the construction down onto what they assumed was an 'empty space' I ran outside to tell them that was where my precious flowers were and NOT to use it as a dump. They agreed. Couple of hours later after I'd finished some chores, came back out to see a HUGE pile of bits of 2x4's, old roof shingles ALL exactly where I'd asked them not to be. They were much too heavy for ME to move and hubby shrugged it off as 'too late' to do anything about. Lost all of my peonies that year - so when I dug for them the next they'd somehow disappeared. Broke my heart so I never planted again. I've been getting a hankering for movable raised beds now...just maybe I'll grow MY own stuff on my sunny patios, like you - next Spring. They'd have to be high enough so the dog can't steal everything. :) The good thing is anyone with even the tiniest outside balcony can have a movable raised bed 'garden' IF they get sufficient Sun.
That construction crew would've been, perhaps, somewhat taken aback by my extensive vocabulary of obscenities. Especially for their destroying peonies.
I transformed my front yard into a riotous cottage garden--I've no use, not being either a horse or a goat, in having a huge expanse of lawn: why would I waste my time tending to useless grass? Instead--an array of flowers, plus tomatoes, zucchini, garlic, beans, raspberries, rhubarb--and salad in one raised planter and watermelons in the other (a slight chance the bunnies won't get them up there). So my yard is the one with all the bees, butterflies, rabbits--even a red fox!
Favorite moment from this spring: chatting with a neighbor who was debating a run to the store--she'd realized that there was no lettuce in the fridge for taco night; however, the baby was still napping and would want a snack when he finally woke up, and then she'd have to load him into the car and go through the whole process of shopping with him, and all just for lettuce for taco night. So, I told her to wait, went to the raised bed, and filled a bag with assorted leafy greens (organic, to boot!) and handed it to her. Problem solved; taco night saved. LOL!!
UNfortunately, I was alone at home ON disability after more issues with my lower back disks - while hubby was still working and the guy 'in charge' was a friend and neighbour whose wife was a close friend. HE'd hired the sub-contractors but wasn't there that day, usually pretended to pay attention to my needs but I knew he fobbed me off most often. Former cop, thought he had all the answers and women were mostly to be seen and not heard from. I usually stayed on good terms with the actual workers since HE didn't treat them very well, nor did their 'middle-manager' boss. Back then I never used bad language either and usually provided water, made coffee, bought lunches and baked goods. I LIKED the actual workers - it was their 'bosses' who fucked up and didn't give a crap about my plants - told them where to throw the debris. I've always wanted an English cottage garden but - hubby loves his green lawn (at least in the front of the house). I do get my plants in my spots where I can. Yours sounds amazing!
This is like the illustrative reason I utterly loathe dealing with contractors. At some point, maybe I'll encounter the unicorn male contractor who has even a fragment of a thought of the idea of maybe offering a crumb of respect to a woman who hires him.
I hate inorganic lettuce.
Snort!
No guarantee that label is authenticated organic. Washing all produce with baking soda and water appears to be recommended.
How is unbanned any different?
Good question. All I know is that the bagged stuff (you meant bagged?) is tied to these outbreaks more often than not.
Bobby Brainworm shitcans the CDC and now people are literally shitting themselves. Remove that fucker before we all start wielding chainsaws.🙄
It depresses me that a lovely friend of mine — the one who came and picked me up and drove me to the emergency room when I broke my ankle and sat with me there for 4 hours while we watched a congressional hearing on fracking on C-Span — now works for RFK jr. WHY?
Paycheck?
She/he's planning to make him a special cup of 'tea'? ;)
Maybe Trump will have to postpone his big speech because he is suffering from cyclosporiasis. It would serve him right.
It'll never happen - he doesn't eat anything that's green or fresh.
Or a cardiac infarction. I’m still hoping for a trifecta
I'd settle for a massive stroke. Just boom, down he goes.
The only produce he eats is what they slip on his big Mac
It wouldn't stop him from grandstanding. His handlers would just have to change his diaper more often!
yeah - now it'd have to be 'Mr. AND Mrs. wetwipes'.
His mouth already has it
Nah. He's already wearing a diaper, possibly two or three, so he won't cancel.
Thank you Jeff,
Grateful as always for the explosive report about the Secretary of "Health & Human Services." Watch for him to hold a press conference saying it's all part of the new strategy to make meat and potatoes the cornerstone of the American diet. No more parasite-loaded hamster food causing sprints to the nearest ... oh god -I'm not going in there, did you hear those sounds?
Aside from the brainworm doing everything possible to ruin the name "Kennedy" faster than you can say "Senator from Louisiana" ... I'm still fuming about Marco "The Shoes" Rubio wanting to dismantle the ICC.
I provided the following guidance for him, but have not received a thank you as of yet.
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/jul/13/marco-rubio-dismantle-international-criminal-court
Dear Marco,
There is a much easier way to avoid an indictment by the International Criminal Court.
Don’t violate international law.
Also, GFY.
Thank you for coming to my “TED Talk.”
Much as Kegbreath changed his title to "Secretary of War" RFKJr. should change his to "Secretary of Pestilence"
He might be waiting for Kegsbreath to correctly add Crimes to the end of his title.
Canada supplies a lot of our potatoes so with their newly found backbone and realization that there are many other countries accepting their products "meat and potatoes" may just be high priced meat.
Yes, and thankfully Argentina’s Javier Milei who is Musk’s chainsaw buddy, a friend of Scott Bessent, and the recipient of $20 billion of U.S. taxpayer funds is ready to fill the new demand (And as a near-vegan, I’m commenting about beef. See what this administration does to people?)
https://www.ncba.org/news-media/news/details/44430/argentinian-beef-import-plan-harms-us-cattle-producers
Failure to scientifically monitor the screwworm has compromised American beef producers as well. Funny how damage to the U.S. economy always benefits some foreign dictator.
I’m old enough to remember when we used to do science.
I wonder when the socialism hating cattle ranchers ask for a bailout similar to the billions of taxpayer dollars given to the socialism hating farmers because of the pedo criminal elect’s failed tariff economic policy.
Tick tock.
Just brilliant, all of it!
When you’re feeling low or sad, just remember this phrase: “PAY UP PORKY OINK OINK OINK!”🐷
178-year old Methuselah (Chuck) Grassley begins the confirmation hearing of the most corrupt attorney general (even after John Mitchell who went to prison) by asking questions about agriculture & abortion pills. That tells you where this 2-day MAGA shit show is headed. This country is doomed.
Let's see who votes for this guy. I guess he can still lead the country as AG even though he hopefully will be disbarred. The Republicans keep digging that hole don't they?
At least disbarment will be an on-the-record reality of how low this MAGA Republican criminal syndicate will go 🤯
That gif is hilarious!!! 😆😅🤣
When I was in the Army, 50 years ago, I met some Australian guys at a joint-forces exercise. They had what they called the "Dance of the Flaming Assholes" where they'd get naked and shove a rolled-up piece of paper up their asses. Then somebody would light the paper on fire while the performer farted. It looked quite a lot like the guy in Jeff's gif.
Golly, who knew that Australians were so creative. Was alchohol involved?
of course. They were Australians.
Figured. Why ask?
😂😂
Sounds like a perfect party game for a reScumlican Congressional barbecue!
I can see Hegseth doing this. Now I can't unsee it.
😆😅🤣
Hey, they were smart enough to use a paper tube. That reduced the chances of a singed asshole
I just realized Singed Asshole is a good alias for Bobby Brainworm
Or a band of devoted MAGAs
Perfect!
That's true…but it still made me flinch and clench when I read it! 😁
😳🤪😙😝😁😆
‘Loyalty over expertise”….yup….dumbest thing ever…yet not surprising with this demented old fool who only cares about himself!
Claudia looks great-and you have a nice Wednesday also!!
Jeff, you are hysterically funny!!! Thank you! ❤️