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The other morning, we were headed to the AT&T store because Carlos was having issues downloading an app to his phone. He tried, I tried, but the apps wouldn’t download, so off we went. But, after starting the car, we both heard a low humming noise coming from the engine and Carlos, as he does, freaks out about the car breaking down while I’m at work or catching on fire while I drive or what have you. So, after the phone store, he called our mechanic to see if we could take the car right then; well, they didn’t have time for it, and suggested we take it to our nearest Ford dealer, who could only give us an appointment about ten days later.

Carlos, again, was not happy, and so he called our mechanic, again, and tried to get an appointment, but they are two weeks out with appointments because one of their mechanics was recovering from hernia surgery. Then, because he’s a local guy, and knows us, he said to bring the car by, and he’d give it a cursory ‘listen’.

Which we did … and he sat in the car and listened to the hum; he raised the hood and listened to the hum; he got back in the car and, I thought, accidentally hit the wiper button, and the wipers tried to work but couldn’t. The wiper blades don’t move the same direction; one moves left, and one moves right from the center outward. The mechanic got out of the car and adjusted the blades with the driver’s side blade on  top and the passenger side on the bottom, and, what? No more humming.

What does this have to do with Carlos, you ask? Well, we took the car to the car wash over the weekend, and while I vacuumed it out, Carlos, wiped water spots from the car and the windshield … where he lifted the two blades and then put them back in the opposite order which caused the motor to hum because the blades couldn’t adjust all the way down.

Uh huh. I was able to tack this one onto Carlos, though, to be fair, I didn’t know the wipers had to be placed in a particular order. Still, we laughed about this for hours!

Tuxedo wants you all to know he isn’t really concerned about the GOP imploding, but how ,much it will cost to change their logo from GOP to GQP.

Oh, apparently it didn’t take long at all … and in Arizona, the GQP is doubling down on its support for the former president, and it seems to be having a negative effect on the party.

It appears that, since the attack on the Capitol last month, some 9,944 registered Republicans have left the GOP. Not good look for a state that flipped Blue last November.

Maybe the 'Q' is for quit.

One of those QAnon nutbags, Marjorie Taylor Traitor Greene of Georgia, is in the crosshairs of top House Democrats who are moving to force her off multiple committees this week— with or without Minority Speaker Kevin McCarthy’s help.

House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer delivered an ultimatum to McCarthy: either Republicans move on their own to strip Greene of her committee assignments within 72 hours, or Democrats will bring the issue to the House floor.

Greene, who believes a Jewish laser started the California wildfires, was appointed by McCarthy to the Education committee.

Seriously.

I know they’re homegrown domestic terrorists,  but they’re also incredibly stupid. I mean, they took selfies with their phones; they made calls with the phones. The FBI used those phones to round up these terrorists. But one was especially stupid.

Troy Faulkner, an Ohio insurrectionist and traitor, was identified by his shirt, which had both his name and phone number on it.

Now Faulkner faces several federal charges.

We’ve all seen amber alerts about missing kids, but recently, in Texas, because of course, there were two very odd alerts about missing children issued.

Last week some Texans received an Amber Alert identifying both the kidnapper and the alleged victim; the alert described the kidnapper, identified as Chucky, as a 28-year-old with red hair, blue eyes, who stands at 3’1″, and weighs 16 pounds. He was wearing blue denim overalls with a multi-colored striped long sleeve shirt and wielding a kitchen knife prior to his “disappearance.” The victim was identified as Glen, the son of Chucky as five years old, weighing 6 pounds, standing at 2’3″, and also with red hair and blue eyes, and wearing a blue shirt prior to his “disappearance.”

Subscribers of the Texas Alert System received the email alert three times on Friday.

About a knife-wielding doll from a movie and his doll son.

Seriously.

In Alabama, their idiot GOP Senator with the cartoon sausage name of Tommy Tuberville was asked about the lunacy of GQP Representative Marjorie Taylor Traitor Greene and spewed this nonsense:

“I haven’t looked at what all she’s done. I’d have to hold back a statement on that…[I’ve] been traveling. This weather’s been a little rough. [Didn’t] look at any news or whatever.”

Yes, the weather was so bad that he didn’t see the news… for the past few months?

Nicely done, Alabama, you’ve once again elected stupid.

Big news in Country Music … TJ Osborne, left, half of the country duo The Brothers Osborne, has come out as gay:

‘I’m very comfortable being gay. I find myself being guarded for not wanting to talk about something that I personally don’t have a problem with. That feels so strange.'

But he needs to talk so that country music doesn’t stay the bastion of anti-LGBTQ+ sentiment. Where gay artists fear being themselves.

So, good on you, TJ.

But, on the flip side … country star Morgan Wallen, right, has apologized  after a video surfaced of him using the N-word. Wallen’s use of the slur comes on the heels of him being cut from Saturday Night Live because another video surfaced in which he was partying while defying COVID protocols.

In addition, radio stations are dumping the country musician even though his album Dangerous: The Double Album, is at #1 on Billboard charts for a fourth week in a row.

Sadly, I think I know which one country music fans will rally behind …

Sam Cushing is what you call a social media influencer, and I will say there are a lot of things he could, um, influence me with.

He’s a traveler, pianist, composer and strategy consultant and personal trainer who is not afraid to show off his best assets.

Oh, and he’s gay.