I Didn't Say It ...

Angie Nixon, Democratic Senate candidate from Florida, demolished J “Dufus” Vance after he said she “doesn’t belong in America” and should “get the hell out”:

“I don't wanna COUCH my words here: I know JD Vance, his eyeliner, and absent Ashley Moody are used to running away from people when things get tough because they care more about themselves and their billionaire buddies than the people they represent. But this is my home. The most ordinary man imaginable came to my home state to tell me to ‘get out of America’ while they enjoyed the comfort of buildings my ancestors built. Imagine standing on the shoulders of the people who built this country & then telling their descendants they don’t belong here! Wanting lower property insurance & healthcare for families isn't un-American; it’s what working people deserve. They can take their tech-bro cash and their weird, intrusive agenda somewhere else, because I'm not going any damn place. I don’t go high when they go low. I get LOUD. Because the soul and humanity of this country are at stake.”

Nobody has any right to tell any American to “get out” of the country just for having different ideas. That goes against the founding principles of this nation and the Constitution that Vance supposedly is upholding.

But J “Dufus” is a pawn who will do what the billionaires tell him to do like telling a Black woman she doesn’t belong here.

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Bernie Sanders, Democrat Senator from Vermont, on Cankles’ new ego ad:

“This is what authoritarianism looks like . Thirty-eight days before the midterms, [the] Narcissist-In-Chief … is illegally using $430,000 in taxpayer dollars to run a 30-second ad on Fox praising himself. This is what you’d see in North Korea, not America. Fox; take this bogus ad down.”

Can you imagine how the regime would shriek and cry and pout if a Democrat president using taxpayer money to create an ad to boost his fragile ego?

No, you can’t because that would never happen.

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Bradley Whitford, actor, on the ICEstapo prison camps:

“We live in a country that has internment camps. As of July 2026, there are 65,756 human beings in detention camps. There are 6,200 children who have been detained since [Cankles] took office. [His] promised was to go after the worst of the worst, yet only 3% of those detained have a violent felony conviction. These are not criminals in interment camps. These are human beings, many of whom were in the middle of going through what they thought was the legal process to become citizens.”

That is not America.

And yet just this week a thirteen-year-old boy and a three-year-old girl, who had been in a detention camp without their parents or family, went before a judge who ruled that they are to be deported to a country where they are not from, never lived or don’t have family there.

That is not America … is it?

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Claude Malhuret, French Senator, on Cankles ineptitude:

“After assembling the most powerful army in the world, failing to win a war against the middle power, causing oil and gas prices to skyrocket and delivering incoherent speeches, the golfer from Mar-a-Lago shamelessly admits to being stunned by the Iranian response, which was entirely predictable and now calls for help from his allies who he was insulting just yesterday, and they replied to him, ‘You didn’t consult anyone, you have no plan and we have no reason to follow you blindly into the fog.’ [Cankles] … now has no choice, but between two equally bad options: to withdraw shamefully, pretending without convincing anyone that he has achieved his objectives, or to trigger an escalation with results that have been known in advance since Vietnam, Iraq or Afghanistan, a quagmire, and in the end, a disgraceful departure, leaving the field open at the time to the Communists to Daesh [ISIS] or to the Taliban.”

His war for oil, his war for profit, his war to enrich billionaires and oil companies will end up causing more fear and more terror in the world, but, hey, as long as he got a few coins who cares about America?

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Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Democratic Representative from New York, on the Cornell University gang rape:

“There were several students suspended and put on track for deportation by Cornell University for protesting the genocide in Palestine on campus. We do that for someone engaging in Free Speech and protest on campus, but we make rapists write an essay.”

The claim that students were told to write essays as punishment comes from a civil lawsuit filed by the victim but university states that essay-writing was never the sole consequence given.

Not the “sole” consequence given? What were the others? Clean your room? Pick up trash?

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Tammy Duckworth, Democrat Senator from Illinois, offering a blunt, assessment of her own party's record:

"What happened in the Biden administration was we fixed all the stuff that [Cankles] broke and Republicans broke in their administration, but we didn't do anything innovative and we didn't make people's lives better. Fuck that shit, we're gonna make it better. We're going to put a public option on the exchange, or we're going to allow Medicare buy-in for 50-year-olds and older. We spent time in the Democratic Party with our leadership being polite, not wanting to break the filibuster because, oh, God forbid, if we blow up the filibuster then they might do it to us, and we're not going to do it. We're going to give their Supreme Court nominees the full process. We're going to do everything by the book. And what I've told Democratic leadership is, like, cut that out. You've seen what happened. They steamrolled us as soon as they took over. And it was to the detriment of the American people and to the detriment of America's national security around the world."

Again, it’s a woman standing up and speaking truth to power, and not some man who speaks in riddles and puns and what ifs.

Let’s elect more women to power.

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Bobservations

When we had the skylights taken out of the sunroom our contractor couldn’t match the wood on the ceiling so we agreed to just put bead-board up on the whole thing and I would paint it.

Last week Carlos stumbled upon some things we’d had hanging from the ceiling pre-renovation and he wanted to put them back up which started this conversation:

“I’ll just use the hooks we used before.”

“They’re gone.”

“Why are they gone?”

“Craig replaced the ceiling with bead-board so the hooks were taken down and I don’t know where there are.”

“They should still be up there.”

“Underneath the new ceiling?”

I told him I was going to get my cartoon frying pan and he muttered something.

“What that that?”

“I have a cartoon frying pan, too, you know.”

Now I’m sleeping with one eye open.

This Caturday is from May 2011 …

There are places in our house where cats are allowed to be … on the bed … on the couch in the sunroom … on the couch in the living room … on a kitchen table chair. There are not allowed on living room chairs ... or dining room chairs … or kitchen counters.

Tuxedo, however, because he's so delicious, gets away with murder. He is allowed on the bathroom counter, because he enjoys a sip of water from the faucet … he's allowed on one of the living room chairs … if he's in my lap. 

But now, apparently, he has granted himself access to a dining room chair. There he is, peeking at me when I asked if he was hungry.

And here he is, doing his Gargoyle impression from atop a living room chair. He doesn't use his front paws to hold on because he's been declawed … DO NOT DO THAT … so he looks like he's just hanging around. And he just looks so darned cute, that I looked the other way and ignored his infractions.

Luckily for us both, Other Daddy wasn't home.

Harriet Hancock—a Columbia attorney and stalwart advocate for the LGBTQ+ community and our families, and is the namesake of the Harriet Hancock Center, a Columbia institution serving that community—died September 23, just shy of her 90th birthday.

Harriet became a fierce advocate and ally for the LGBTQ+ community when her son Greg came out to her in the early ’80s. As she came to know other LGBTQ+ young people whose families had rejected or struggled to understand them, she realized how desperately South Carolina needed places of acceptance, support and belonging and so she built that place; the Harriet Hancock Center.

I first met her about eleven years ago when Carlos and I joined a group of LGBTQ+ South Carolinians who formed The Will of the People Fund to fight for marriage equality in our state. We achieved that goal in November 2014 following a federal court ruling in the case Condon v. Haley that struck down the state's ban.

Harriet helped establish the Columbia chapter of PFLAG—a national organization dedicated to supporting, educating and advocating for the LGBTQ+ community—in 1982. And she soon became a quite visible and active public spokesperson, combating prejudices and stereotypes on Columbia talk radio, writing letter after letter to state news media responding to the homophobic attitudes then commonplace in public conversations about AIDS and LGBT people.

She was a force of nature and she will be missed.

RIP Harriet, you’ve earned it.

The fact that MacKenzie Scott, Jeff Bezo’s ex-wife and one of the biggest single donors in history, has given out $26,300,000,000 to charity and not run out of money really puts into perspective how the arguments against a wealth tax are bull shiz.

When I saw these cakes the first thing that came to mind was, “Why on Earth would you cover those up?”

On September 24, 2026, Fox “News” hosts spent the day telling their audience that Democrats are Communists  and Communists are evil. And then they went home and put on gowns and tuxedos to run to the White House to attend a state dinner honoring an actual communist.

PS Then Cankles made a commercial about himself using OUR tax dollars in which he says he will take down the communists.

Was that before or after you invited them to the White House for Melanie’s goulash? And by goulash I mean she’s a Slovenian Hooker and goulash is one of her sexy time high priced moves. 

These are the rich white men at Cornell University who decided it would better suit them to protect seven rapists than the one girl who was terrorized by them and the fifty other young men in their text chain. They are as complicit as the seven rapists and their fifty coconspirators who did nothing when they learned of the rape.

Instead of teaching young girls how not to get raped howsabout teaching young boys not to be rapists. Oh, and in the cases of Kavanaugh, RFK Jr, and Cankles teach the old white men, too.

Wouter Peelen is a top international model, boyfriend of Elise Boers and father of their twins; and other than fashion magazines or runways you can find him on Elise's YouTube channel where his funny and loving appearance as a father a key element of the vlog and where you might ask yourself, Would You Hit It?

Architecture Wednesday: 1893 Renaissance Revival Loft

This home, this magnificent loft at 21 Bond Street stands within the NoHo Historic District of New York City as a remarkable example of late 19th-century commercial Renaissance Revival architecture. It was commissioned by real estate operator Leon Tannenbaum and designed by Buchman & Deisler in 1893, the six-story loft and store building—with one residence per floor with private keyed elevator—with a communal rooftop terrace and ownership of one-fifth of the ground-floor store was conceived as a modern interpretation of the Renaissance Revival style.

Its cast-iron storefront, framed by brownstone piers, Palladian-inspired second-story windows, and intricate rosettes set within a triangular pediment, reflects the decorative ambition of the era. Grouped openings on the upper floors—highlighted by terra-cotta fleurs-de-lis and a dramatic fanlight-style arch—complete the building’s elegant vertical rhythm beneath a classic iron cornice.

Originally conceived as a storefront-and-loft building, the residence was reimagined by a noted New York architect who stripped away Sheetrock, exposing the century-old brick and timber framing and added a massive new skylight at the center of the living room, drawing sunlight through 14-foot ceilings.

The flooring was replaced with Dinesen white oak planks, crafted from trees aged between 80 and 200 years and individually selected for their grain and proportion; each plank is joined with traditional oak butterfly joints, preserving the natural character and integrity of the wood. And antique European elements throughout the home introduce a sense of lived-in grandeur, like the addition of a Provençal-style mantel from the Paris flea market that anchors the living room fireplace.

The living room also features four oak-framed arched windows with blackout shades, 14-foot ceilings and exposed brick walls; a remote-controlled gas fireplace, an 11' × 10' operable skylight and a Sony projector with 125” motorized movie screen.

In the adjoining kitchen are high-end Miele appliances, custom oak cabinetry with antique chicken-wire glass, a Julien sink with integral drainboard and garbage disposal, marble countertops and vintage 1950s drafting chairs at the island.

The primary bedroom has South-facing steel windows with oak Venetian finish, 13-foot ceilings, a remote-controlled gas fireplace and floor-to-ceiling oak wardrobes with mirrored fronts. The primary bathroom has radiant-heated French terracotta floors, a deep porcelain cast-iron soaking tub, an antique Empire vanity with Belgian black-stone top, dual sinks and custom brass electric towel warmers; there are extra-large dual medicine cabinets, a heated toilet with bidet function and an operable window with motorized Lutron blackout shade

The three additional bedrooms each accommodate a king-size bed, feature built-in desks and divided oak wardrobes and solar-powered skylights with blackout shades. The secondary bathroom features heated French terracotta floors, an antique mahogany vanity with dual sinks, mirrored walls and walk-in glass shower, custom brass towel warmers and a heated toilet with bidet function.

The powder offers an operable skylight with blackout shade, along with heated French terracotta floors, a mahogany vanity with Belgian black-stone top, mirrored walls and heated toilet with bidet function.
There is also an in-home laundry room with both a large-load LG washer/dryer and a small-load Miele washer/dryer, an extra-large stainless-steel utility sink with professional spray faucet and a towel warmer for delicate items and clothing care. The home also features a Mitsubishi concealed central air system, Nest-controlled steam heat, Nest smoke and carbon monoxide detection, Lutron-controlled lighting, Dinesen solid European oak floors throughout dry areas, custom 8-foot-tall, 2-inch-thick oak doors and E.R. Butler & Co. Empire hardware throughout.

Seriously worth every penny of the nearly $9 million asking price.

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