I Didn't Say It ...

Alan Ritchson, actor, on how his devotion to his faith has led him to be critical of the former president and the Catholic Church!

"I'm a Christian quite simply because of what Jesus calls us to do. Love other people until death … [But] Christians today have become the most vitriolic tribe; it is so antithetical to what Jesus was calling us to be and to do. [Thing 45] is a rapist and a con man, and yet the entire Christian church seems to be treating him like he's their poster child and it's unreal. I don't understand it. [And] I can't for one second support the Catholic Church while there are still cardinals, bishops and priests being passed around with known pedophilic tendencies. It's worth saying that the atrocities that are happening in the church that are being actively covered up, even to this day with people not being held accountable, is repulsive.”

Spot on; nice to see a man who calls himself a Christian calling out the hypocrisy of those so-called Christians, or the pedophile priests and the cult  that supports them

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Alina Habba, today on Fox News.

“I think that we’re seeing a painful, unfortunately, jury selection because we’re in the state of New York, which is definitely by design. There is no question that Bragg bringing this in New York—look at the Fulton County D.A., and so on and so forth, Washington, D.C.—these venues are selected exactly for this reason. Judges admonishing the defendant like today, I’ve seen it time and time again. I’ve been admonished like that—it’s by design. It makes you appear to be inept, it’s to make you appear to be stupid in front of a jury. And don’t think that it’s not intentional. All the trolls, all the journalists, they’ll put that out there.”

Honey, you don’t need any help looking, sounding, acting, and litigating like an inept former contestant on America’s Next Top Model.

That’s all …

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Marc Molinaro, GOP Representative from New York, also bashing Moscow Marge on CNN:

“We have a bipartisan government, and the only way good policy is gonna be made better, the only way we’re gonna stand shoulder to shoulder with our allies—Israel and Ukraine—the only way we push back against evil like Putin, is to do it in a bipartisan way. And I want to be judged by my ability and willingness to work across the aisle with anyone who’s honest and earnest about solving the problems that face America and the people I serve. [Marjorie Taylor Greene’s] theater and this constant effort to hold the Congress hostage has to come to an end. I’m gonna have no part in it. And a good number of my colleagues—conservative and moderate—believe that enough is enough. It is time to move on and to move past this kind of nonsense.”

Finally. I love seeing more and more GOPers speaking out about the histrionics and showboating and lying of Moscow Marge. Now, if her constituents would do something about her …

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Eric Swalwell, on Thing 45 and Mike Johnson meeting at Mar-Illegal:

“It’s too rich that [Thing 45] and Mike Johnson are talking to us about election integrity. That’s like having to listen to a lecture by Bonnie and Clyde on bank security. I mean, it’s absurd considering what they did in the 2020 election to try and overturn it.”

The ignorance, hypocrisy, and ability to blatantly lie is what Hair Furor does, but Johnson, who paints himself as a God-fearing man doing the same is even worse.

God is watching Christian Nationalist Mike Johnson and She is not happy.

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Stephen Miller, on Fox News, running his mouth about … style:

“The most stylish president and first lady in our lifetimes are [Hair Furor and Melanie]. [He] is a style icon! He changed American fashion on The Apprentice. People spent the next 10 years trying to dress like [him]. So, if anybody deserves a puff piece on their sense of style, it’s [Hair Furor] and the first lady. Joe Biden looks like a walking corpse! The only style article to be written about Joe Biden is how you have mastered the art of looking embalmed because that is what Joe Biden looks like every single day when they jerk him up and he goes about his schedule.”

The idea that someone who looks like he’s living in Hitler’s bunker while looking like the love child of Voldemort and Gollum thinks he knows what style is, and picks the guy who spackles himself in orange putty with the wife who is drawn so tight her ears meet at the back of her head, is high-larious.

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Billy Porter, gay icon, delivering a powerful speech about the current challenges faced by the LGBTQ+ community.

"I was 16 years old at the beginning of the AIDS crisis. We didn't have the luxury to hide. We didn't have the luxury to not be active. We had to go straight to the front lines to fight for our lives, and that's exactly what we did. We came together as a community, we fought back, and we succeeded in. Yes, the world changed because we came together. [And] we're now in a position where we must come together again. We must fight the forces of evil that are trying to destroy us. The one thing that I do know, and the one message that I try to exude everywhere I go, is that the change has already happened. We don't have any time for fear ... There's no need for fear. There's no room for silence. We speak, we write, we do language. This is how civilizations heal. I'm an artist; the only way I know how to do it is through my art. I am grateful that I can do it through my art. I am grateful that the people are receiving that, that you are receiving what it is that I'm trying to do. … Coming from the civil rights movement, you know, there's a song called 'A Change Is Gonna Come.' I love that song, but the change came, and the change went. What are we gonna do now? It's time for all of us to come together and figure out what 'going high' looks like in this new world order. It is not 1963. We cannot use the same tactics. I am not a politician, so I don't know what the answer is. But it's not what we're doing now. It's time to re-engage. It's time to pay attention again. It's time to get in these streets again. This is not a parade, it's a march. That's what it was when we started. This march [is] political."

And the march goes on …

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Bobservations

At one end of our back deck we have a huge Holly bush, roughly ten feet tall, and I am the one who usually trims it. I can reach a great deal of it from the ground and roughly three-quarters of the top from the deck but need a ladder to completely trim to top of Holly. Last weekend, I hauled a ladder from the garage and set it up alongside the Holly bush, and then called Carlos, who was edging the lawn along the fence line, to come hold the ladder while I finished my job.

Afterwards, he went back to his mowing while I carted the ladder back into the garage and then mowed the back lawn and cleaned up some other shrubbery that needed a cut.

Later, I was in the office and Carlos came back and said:

“Do I need to put the ladder away?”

“No, I put it away when I was finished.”

“Okay.”

We did some inside housework, and then I cooked dinner and after that I was back in the office doing some more paperwork when Carlos appeared in the doorway and said:

“Do I need to put the ladder away?”

“No, I put it away when I was finished.”

“Okay.”

“Um, are you Groundhogging me or gaslighting me?”

“Why?”

“Because you asked me that question a few hours ago.”

“I don’t remember … ”

Groundhogging, I think.

This Tuxedo Memory—with a little help from MaxGoldberg and Consuelo—is from August 2015:

“And, speaking of cats ... the other morning, ready to leave for work, I walked into the bedroom to make the bed and saw that.

I backed out slowly … and made the bed when I got home from work that night.

It’s not that the cats rule our house it’s just that meow meow meow meow rule. Uh oh.

Sidenote: my dear friend Laura saw this picture when I posted it to Facebook and saw that piece of pillow sticking out from the pillowcase and asked if it was some kind of corncob-shaped sex toy or something.

It isn't; we don't leave those out on the bed for the cats ... not anymore.”

Poor Consuelo, left alone there on the side of the bed with no cat cuddling her.

The transcript of an FBI interview made public last week details how Walt Nauta, an aide to Hair Furor, characterized what was the boxes of documents found at Mar-Illegal:

News clippings, hairspray, and shampoo.

Seriously. Boxes of news clippings, hairspray, and shampoo in the bathrooms, the ballroom and under the pool.

In January 2018, when reports first surfaced that her husband had paid off a porn star for sex, Melanie was furious, and jetted off to Palm Beach, leaving her cheating bastard of a husband in DC. And now that the criminal trial against Hair Furor has started, Melanie has not appeared with her cheating bastard of a husband in court; she has privately said this case is “his problem” and not hers, but also claims the case is election interference.

I wonder how she’ll feel when Stormy testifies to having sex with Hair Furor, all the gory, orange, mushroom sized details of it all.

There isn’t a jet that can take her far enough away.

Former congressman Madison Cawthorn reportedly crashed his vehicle into a Florida Highway Patrol cruiser on Monday; Alethea Shapiro shared on X that she was driving on I-75 at around 4:30 PM when a black sports car began tailgating her:

“I ignored it, assuming the person would go around me if they were so impatient, [but] when they didn’t I just decided to change lanes so I didn’t have to stress it.”

Minutes later, when traffic came to a standstill, she says that same vehicle ran into an FHP cruiser; FHP spokesperson Greg Bueno confirmed that a patrol vehicle was rear-ended by a car driven by a 28-year-old man from Cape Coral; public records show Cawthorn lives in Cape Coral.

The story doesn’t mean much since Cawthorn is a nobody once again, but after that video of his nekkid fun times with his male cousin or friend made the rounds last year, the headline:

Madison Cawthorn Rear-Ends Florida Police Officer

… took on a whole new meaning.

For the second day this week, Mr-Former-Fake-One-Term-Twice-Impeached-Currently-Four-Time-Criminally-Indicted-Not-My-President-Gurl  fell sleep in court; CNN contributor Norm Eisen tweeted:

“[Thing 45] is asleep again.”

After Maggie Haberman’s reporting for The New York Times about Napping Donald became a huge source for mockery from the media and from the Biden campaign, Hair Furor was pissy about the coverage and Haberman says he “glared” at her in court.

Well, at least he was awake.

I am heartbroken, heartbroken, I say to learn that "The Golden Bachelor" couple Gerry Turner and Theresa Nist are getting divorced after three months of marriage.

Who ever thought you could meet twenty-plus women, date most of them, schtup a few, fall in love with a couple, pick one of those and get married all in the space of a few months and that it wouldn’t last?

I mean, besides me?

This is Mark Romain, openly gay male dancer at RuPaul’s Las Vegas Drag Show, and one of the men chosen to receive a drag queen makeover on this season’s Drag Race. Hot and sexy and gay, but Would You Hit it?

Architecture Wednesday: Kinderhook Farmhouse

This is an old farmhouse in Kinderhook, New York, y’all, but she’s been well-maintained and nicely improved since she was built in 1789; yes, 1789. And she’s a big one, too, spreading out over 4,500 square feet with five bedrooms and four-and-a-half bathrooms sitting on a gorgeous, tree-filled 2.86-acre lot with mature trees, wide lawns and even a pool.

This center hall home is a prime example of an Adam-style Federal, developed to bring a lighter and more elegant feel to the Georgian architecture of previous eras. The design moved away from the strict mathematical proportions previously found in Georgian rooms and introduced curved walls and striking color schemes … like the greens; do I love me some green rooms.

The current designer-owners of the home have breathed new life into this neoclassic style, with a striking mix of color and form, and yet maintained some of the great traditional aspects of the house, including handblown glass windows, a thin, curved banister with wonderfully simple balustrades, three working fireplaces, and several more decorative mantels.

The original, stately farmhouse is surrounded by Samascott Orchards and could have been mine had I acted sooner and coughed up the $1.8 million asking price.

Damn my procrastination!

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