Showing posts with label President Obama. Show all posts
Showing posts with label President Obama. Show all posts

Thursday, May 21, 2026

Bobservations

On Tuesday Carlos was being driven to Columbia for a court interpretation and I was gleefully dancing at the thought of having the house to myself for short time. But then he told me Blue-Eyed Paul was coming to repair the dryer and would call when he was on his way. I said that was fine because …

“Paul lets me hold his tool while he works.”

“He what?”

“I get to hold his tool while he works.”

Just then he got a text that the court case was postponed and he looked at me and smiled and said he was staying home.

“Damn! Then I won’t be able to hold Paul’s tool?”

“Sweetheart, I can’t see a thing. He could be here now with his tool in your hand and I wouldn’t know.”

Truth.

This Tuxedo Tale, co-starring MaxGoldberg, is from September 2009 and is one of the rare instances when these two boys were not getting along and it reminded me of an old TV show …

“Tuxedo Carrington and MaxGoldberg Carrington Colby Dexter are ready to go at it … I can't wait until one of them pushes the other into the fishpond on the Carrington Estate!”

Seriously? A planned U.K. production of Dreamgirls has been canceled after the rights holders withdrew permission for the show to move forward following complaints over the production’s casting. The Gillian Banks Creative Productions saw their show cancelled after announcing a Dreamgirls cast in which nearly all of the principal roles, with the exception of Curtis, were played by white performers.

Yes, a musical about the rise and fall of a Black all-girl singing group in the 1960s was recast with all-white performers.

Make it make sense.

On February 2, 2009, just thirteen days into his presidency, Barack Obama finished a meeting in the Oval Office with Jim Douglas about the nation’s economic recovery efforts. As photographers prepared to leave the room, Obama noticed something out of place: the sofas had been shifted to make room for the press setup and had not yet been returned. Instead of stepping away and waiting for staff to handle it, Obama simply walked over, grabbed one end of a sofa, and asked Douglas to help move it back.

White House photographer Pete Souza captured the moment, and the photograph quickly became one of the most widely shared images from the early Obama years and still speaks volumes about the kind of human Barack Obama has always been.

Remember that entitled tourist I posted about last week who hurled a rock at an endangered Hawaiian monk seal?

Well, he’s been identified as Igor Lytvynchuk who claims he was actually doing a good thing … by trying to save a pair of helpless turtles.

Lytvynchuk is now facing federal charges. If convicted, he faces faces up to one year in prison for each charge and a fine of up to $50,000 under the Endangered Species Act and a fine of up to $20,000 under the Marine Mammal Protection Act.

I guess it’s good he’s rich, eh?

In an interview with Variety, writer Madison Sinclair revealed just one of the jokes—about Melanie and MAGA comedian Tony Hinchcliffe—that was cut  from Netflix's The Roast of Kevin Hart:

“Tony is like Melania: The only thing relevant about him is that he opened for Trump once, too.”

Snap!

Cankles’ showed off his brilliance the other day by coining a new word, and explained it like a toddler:

“Dumocrats. Because they’re dumb, I—they’re dumb. It’s D-U-M. I got rid of the B. So you’re only changing one letter, right? E goes, the U comes.”

That only made many in the Democrat party opt to rename the GOP as the “Rape-ublican party.”

Eren Semerci is a Turkish fashion model, actor, and television personality who appeared on a version of Survivor, so Would You Hit It?

Thursday, October 30, 2025

Bobservations

As I’ve said before, Carlos and I love Jeopardy and watch it most nights, playing along. But the other night we got stumped by the final Jeopardy question:

“Missionary William Ellis  reported in 1825 that ‘his bones were preserved and considered sacred’ by the people of Hawaii.”

I said:

“Father Damian”

“Who?”

“Father Damien, Part of Hawaii was a leper colony back in the day so they’re probably honoring him.”

“Oh—”

“Or it’s King Kamehameha.”

And both were wrong; it was Captain Cook, leading Carlos to say:

“Who?”

“Captain Cook. He was an explorer in the Pacific.”

“Captain  Kirk? From Star Trek?”

“What!??!! Captain Kirk? From a TV show? They saved his bones from when he died in 1825 even though he was in a TV show in the 1960s? Oh my god, do you think Star Trek was real and Kirk and the Enterprise traveled back in time to 1825 to explore the Hawaiian Islands?”

“I’m not talking to you for the rest of the night.”

I thought that was best.

This Tuxedo Says is from May 2021 …

"Tuxedo doesn’t wanna tell y’all how to vote, but he does think you’ve been getting it wrong for years."

And while he’d never tell you how to vote, he would demand that you, ahem, CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE!!

Texas Governor Hot Wheels followed Florida Governor Gogo Boots' lead by demanding that all rainbow Pride crosswalks be painted over because he Hates The Gays.

So, in a statement of support for the LGBTQ community, Oak Lawn United Methodist Church in Dallas decided to paint their front steps leading to the church in rainbow colors. Senior Pastor Reverend Rachel Griffin-Allison called it a demonstration of faith and inclusivity, conveying that every person is created in God’s image and deserves dignity and belonging. The church sees this not as a political stance, but as a commitment to love and support marginalized communities.

It's a sign of Resistance, too.

Many in The Cult have begun ranting that Obama built a basketball for anywhere between $200M and $376M court while president and that’s no different than Cankles erecting The Jeffrey E[stein Ballroom.

But here’s the deal, you neanderthals … no offense to actual neanderthals … Obama converted an existing outdoor tennis court into a basketball court by painting new lines and installing a couple of hoops and it cost nowhere near the hundreds of millions y’all claim.

He didn’t fucking bulldoze a house.

We had a small glitch with the kitchen this week. A cabinet felt off-center and there were some panels that weren’t the right ones, so I called the company and their contractor and designer came out to talk it over. Luckily, our contractor was here—he’s doing tiles work and installing new lighting—so we all were able to talk it out and get the problems solved … but not the problem of my mouth … so when their contractor asked if  one line on the wall was straight and Craig, our contractor, said there were no straight walls in any house he’s ever worked in, and I said:

“There’s nothing straight at all about this house.”

The designer, Carlos and I chuckled; the contractors didn’t get the joke. But as they were leaving the designer joked about not having a negative review on Facebook from me, and I said:

“I would never leave a bad review on Facebook. I’d just firebomb the office and torch the business to the ground.”

She laughed; I didn’t … for a couple of moments!

Gabriel Burger is a Brazilian model based in São Paulo—which we know makes him one of Maddie’s favorites—but Would You Hit It?