Bobservations

I’ve told y’all before that Carlos suffers from Retinitis Pigmentosa, which affects field of vision. Well, RP also sometimes comes along with Usher’s Syndrome which affects your hearing, and Carlos has long had hearing issues.

Now, sometimes he hears stuff, and sometimes he doesn’t, and sometimes I am surprised at the things he can hear. Case in point … the other day, strolling through blogland, I stopped in at Frank’s Reluctant Rebel. Frank and his husband live in New Mexico where they have some gorgeous scenery and some high intensity sand and dust storms. Frank’s husband, Leon, made a video of driving through a dust storm and I was watching it, the wind gusting and the dust and sand flying. Carlos enters the room and starts futzing with his trumpet, and then turns and says to me:

“Is the AC on?”

Cuz he heard the gusts of wind on a video of a New Mexico sandstorm on a blog on the computer. But it was 7AM, in April, and the AC would never be on.

I think he plays the hearing card so he doesn’t have to listen to me … not that I blame him, I do go on …

The word Karma has special meaning this week as we watched Tesla's stock plunge, losing some $100B in value, the day after Musk's announced deal to buy Twitter.

Sure, he’s still a very wealthy tyrant, but he did get a smack and I’m here for it.

For decades, auto accidents have been the leading cause of death among children, but in 2020 guns took the top spot,  with firearm-related deaths increasing 13.5% between 2019 and 2020, while gun deaths for those 1 to 19 years old jumped nearly 30%.

And still the GOP wants to allow open carry, no permits, no background checks, so when they pass a law banning books, or a Don't Say Gay, and tell you it’s about “the children” remind them that they are also passing laws making it easier to shoot “the children.”

This is so funny, until you see it in your own house again and again, and then start plotting your husband’s demise. I kid. Or do I?

Anheuser-Busch InBev has announced it is selling its stake in a Russian joint venture, taking a $1.1 billion loss as the company joins a global move to end business with Russia for attacking Ukraine.

I might have to pop a Bud.

Photographs have surfaced that show Madison Cawthorn, the Hitler-loving Christian conservative  congressperson from North Carolina, wearing lingerie. Could it be one of the GOP orgies he talked about last month?

Cawthorn’s response was this:

“I guess the left thinks goofy vacation photos during a game on a cruise (taken waaay before I ran for Congress) is going to somehow hurt me? They’re running out of things to throw at me... Share your most embarrassing vacay pics in the replies.”

Trouble is, this conservative “Christian” also says men are a dying breed being weakened by wokeness, but he’s the one in women’s’ underwear.

PS Cawthorn was cited again for bringing a gun inside Charlotte Douglas International Airport this week. He may not be cited or fined for this breach but imagine it had been a Black man who’d brought a loaded firearm in his carry-on luggage. Yeah.

PSS Cawthorn may have violated federal insider trading laws for promoting a pump-and-dump cryptocurrency scheme at a party with James Koutoulas, a hedge fund manager and the ringleader of the Let’s Go Brandon cryptocurrency.

It’s worth noting that Koutoulas' crypto is virtually worthless after reaching a peak market cap of $570 million.

While masked up, I was asked again in the grocery store—why is it always the grocery story with these nuts—if I was going to keep wearing my mask and I said:

“And I’ll still wear my seatbelt, and I’ll still get vaxxed and wash my hands and use sunscreen and stop for red lights and stop signs.”

Then I picked out a pineapple and continued on my way.

Mark Meadows is clearly the largest perpetrator of voter fraud in America.

We learned that Meadows and his wife, listed a rusted-out trailer in a holler of North Carolina as their residence so they could vote in the 2016 election in that state, but now it appears Meadows was simultaneously registered to vote in three different states—North Carolina, Virginia and South Carolina—according to state records.

Now, the overlap lasted about three weeks, but it might have continued if revelations about Meadows’s voting record had not attracted scrutiny in North Carolina.

Mark Meadows is still registered in Virginia and South Carolina.

I know next to next about model Yorky Burgos, though his name makes me think of horny little lapdog, and that’s not a bad thing. That said, Would You Hit It?