Bobservations

When Tuxedo was spryer, he was quite the jumper. He’d jump to high shelves in the closet and then down to the floor, dropping over seven feet each time. He wasn’t allowed on counters—none of the pets at Casa Bob y Carlos are—but because he is The Great Tuxedo, he was allowed on the bathroom counter to drink from the faucet while we brushed our teeth.

Now that’s he’s older and less likely to make that leap, I pick him up and put him on the counter. I let him drink from the faucet while I brush my teeth, and when I am ready to rinse, I mumble, ‘My turn,’ and he wanders away from the sink to sit and wait until I set him back on the ground.

Last night, however, I walked into the bedroom and heard Carlos talking to Tuxedo, saying Tuxedo was ‘very thirsty.’ I went into the bathroom and found Tuxedo at the edge of the sink, with Carlos cupping his hands to make a little basin for Tuxedo to drink from.

I told Carlos then, and I will tell you all now: my husband is severely pussy[cat]whipped.

Try as he might, Tuxedo, and his two dads, cannot understand this country sometimes.

Last week, before Game 5 of the Eastern Conference Basketball Finals the Miami Heat began with a moment of silence in honor of the victims of the Robb Elementary School mass shooting in Uvalde, Texas that ended with this message:

"The Heat urges you to contact your state senator by calling 202-224-3121 to leave a message demanding their support for common sense gun laws. You can also make change at the ballot box. Visit Heat.com/vote to register and let your voice be heard this fall."

Gun control is once again a major issue after last week’s shooting, especially in Florida, where the state's GOP leadership is  pushing for a change in state law to allow residents to carry concealed guns without permits.

CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE!

Oh Marge Traitor Greene. You are really giving Lauren Boebert and Matt Gaetz a run for their money as the Dumbest Member of Congress.

Y’all might recall when Greene warned of Biden’s “gazpacho police”? Rumor has it she meant Gestapo, but maybe Marge was hungry. Well, she’s at it again, this time claiming that the government wants “surveillance on every part of your life,” including on what people are eating:

“Which is very bad because Bill Gates wants you to eat this fake meat that grows in a peach tree dish so you’ll probably get a little zap inside your body that’ll say ‘No, don’t eat a real cheeseburger, you need to eat the fake burger.’”

Peach tree dish?

Seriously, Georgia, between this moron and Herschel Walker, you state Republicans look like you only elect idiots.

The other day I ran a red light and crashed into a man's car; luckily, while both cars were heavily damaged neither one of us was hurt, and I said to the man:

“This must be a sign that we should meet and be friends for  the rest of our lives.”

And he agreed with; that’s when I looked in my car and saw that the bottle of 75-year-old scotch I’d just bought was still intact, surely another sign, and I said:

“Let’s toast to the fact that we survived this crash.”

I handed him the bottle and he took a long swig and handed it back to me. I put the cap on and gave it back to him, and he asked if I was having any, and I replied:

"Nah. I think I'll just wait for the police."

And what if it did happen?

Like McDonald’s did last week, Starbucks is leaving Russia and closing all 130 of its locations after 15 years in business saying:

“[Starbucks] has made the decision to exit and no longer have a brand presence in the [Russian] market."

Starbucks will continue paying its nearly 2,000 employees in Russia for six months and help them find new jobs, but no more Big Macs and no Half-caf, Half-decaf, extra foam lattes for you, comrade.

Now this did happen … a co-worker was telling the story of how he’d been at Food Lion and when the cashier gave him his change, one of the dollars bills had this written on it:

“I suck dick for a dollar.”

Everyone chuckled, but I said:

“I always knew you were a cheap cocksucker.”

Again, why I still have a job, I don’t know.

Over there in the UK a Rainbow 50p coin will be minted to mark the 50th anniversary of the Pride movement in the country.

The coin features Pride in London’s values of Protest, Visibility, Unity, and Equality in rainbows with the Pride progression flag. This will be the first time the LGBTQ+ community has been celebrated on official UK coin, and it begs the question: where’s our coin America?

The US Soccer Federation reached an agreement to pay its men’s and women’s teams equally, making the American national governing body the first in the sport to promise both sexes matching money.

About effing time.

Ah, Iggy Goncalves, a native of Brazil, who worked for Elite Models before he started his own agency, Iggy Models, Inc, and founded Miami Beach Fitness. All well and good, but all that matters is: Would You Hit It?

Bobservations

Carlos’ hernia surgery is scheduled for November 5th. Last week he said he wanted to call the surgeon:

“Why?”

“It’s not bothering me anymore so maybe I don’t need the surgery.”

“Honey, you still have the hernia and the surgery is still necessary.”

“But it’s not—”

This week he said he wanted to call the surgeon again:

“Why?”

“It’s really bothering me now.”

November 5th cannot get here soon enough!

He was looking into new cell phones this week, and I muttered something about wanting a laptop. He said:

“We can talk about that, but I’d like to do the phones first.”

I said:

“How come when I want something it’s ‘Let’s talk about that later,’ but when you want something you get it right away?”

In his howler monkey voice, he shrieked:

“What am I getting?”

I smile sweetly and said:

“You get to have surgery.”

Luckily, I wrestled the frying pan from his hands before he could use it.

Bigot, homophobe, and woman-hater Karen Pence, AKA Mother, says she loves the way _____ treats young women according to The New York Times’ White House correspondent Katie Rogers:

“Tonight, in Minnesota, a state the campaign really wants to win, [Karen Pence] is on stage praising POTUS. She says she likes how he treats young women and sees the respect he has for his daughters. ‘As a mom, I was all in’ after seeing how he interacted with her daughter, Charlotte.”

Yup, she self-avowed Christian is ‘all in’ with a man who has been married three times, cheated on all three of his wives and said this:

“I moved on her, and I failed. I'll admit it. I did try and fuck her. She was married. And I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said, ‘I'll show you where they have some nice furniture.’ I took her out furniture—I moved on her like a bitch. But I couldn't get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden, I see her, she's now got the big phony tits and everything. She's totally changed her look… You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything.”

Karen Pence thinks that this is a man who treats women well.

Delta Airlines flies from Salt Lake City to Houston every day, but one recent trip was completely different: this time Delta took 120 girls between 12 to 18 to NASA's Johnson Space Center for International Girls in Aviation Day, an event designed to encourage more women to enter the male-dominated field.

Even better, these 120 girls, who came from area STEM schools, flew on a  with an all-female pilot and flight crew, ramp agents and gate agents on the ground, and women in the control tower giving pilots instructions.

Girl power in action.

Twitter user Mercurial Era celebrated their grandmother Winnie’s birthday on the social media site with a clip of their 100-year-old grandmother holding up a Make America Great Again hat and saying:

“All I want for my birthday is for someone to impeach this sucker.”

Let’s give Grandma Winnie the best gift ever!

See the clip HERE.

Last week Kellogg put Raisin Bran, Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops and Frosted Mini Wheats “all together” on one box to make a statement about LGBTQ inclusivity. The company also made a $50,000 donation to GLAAD to support its annual anti-bullying Spirit Day, saying:

“We all belong together. So for the first time in history, our famous mascots and cereals are offered exclusively together in the same box for All Together Cereal. It’s a symbol of acceptance no matter how you look, where you’re from or who you love. We believe that all people deserve an environment where they can be their best selves. That’s why Kellogg’s has joined forces as an official partner of GLAAD to celebrate Spirit Day, the largest most visible anti-bullying campaign in the world where millions wear purple to stand up against bullying, and to support a more accepting world for LGBTQ youth. Kellogg is donating $50,000 to GLAAD to support their anti-bullying and LGBTQ advocacy work. Each limited-edition box of All Together Cereal includes individual boxes: Raisin Bran, Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops and Frosted Mini Wheats.”

And bigots and homophobes everywhere went nuts, telling Twitter they would no longer eat a Kellogg cereal.

Kellogg, a billion-dollar corporation, basically went, “Oh well …”

Across the pond, over to the UK, a shopping center where England’s first Chick-fil-A opened a few days ago has announced this week that the anti-LGBTQ chicken franchise’s lease would not be renewed because of backlash from the LGBTQ; said the shopping center in a statement:

“We always look to introduce new concepts for our customers, however, we have decided on this occasion that the right thing to do is to only allow Chick-Fil-A to trade with us for the initial six-month pilot period, and not to extend the lease any further.”

It’s all because, even though Chick-fil-A pledged to stop giving to anti-LGBTQ groups, a new report shows the company actually increased its Hate Donations.

Oh, so sorry, Chick-fil-Hate, but you gotta shutter that shop because Hate don’t pay in the UK.

Cyrus Amini is a French model of Spanish-Iranian descent and yet he’s giving me young Colin Farrell vibes and whenever I get a Colin Farrell vibe I … where was I? Oh, Cyrus. He’s a good poser, too; I’d like that second photo as a statue for the yard at Casa Bob y Carlos.

He rocks a suit, and a swimsuit, doesn’t he?

Briefly speaking, I’m back at those vibes …

Oh, Baby Jeebus, the man simply smolders.

Swoon.

The Funny Papers ... Around The World

The other morning, as I was posting The Funny Pages to my blog, Carlos suggested I post political cartoons from around the world that show what some other folks — besides us and U.S. — think of [t]Rump.

I politely told Carlos to get his own blog … and then I found this:

The foreign press from around the world and their views of [t]Rump. Some are funny, some are high-larious, some are scary … none of them seem to be on his side.

So, in no particular order, here they are …

Bulgaria By Christo Komarnitski

United Kingdom By Ralph Steadman of New Statesman

Austria by Petar Pismestrovic of Kleine Zeitung

Canada By Micheal De Adder of the Halifax Chronicle Herald

United Arab Emirates By Paresh Nath of The Khaleej Times

France By Plantu of L’Express 

Note that this one isn’t against just [t]Rump; that’s Hillary Clinton on the left. The cartoon insinuates that Trump is in the race just to make sure Clinton has an easy win in November.

The phrase translates to “Toward an eclipse of the moon” and refers to the legend that lunar eclipses—Blood Moons—are bad luck and how we could avoid the bad luck of [t]Rump by voting Clinton.

Australia By David Rowe of Financial Review

Scotland By Bryan Adcock of The Independent

Jordan By Emad Hajjaj

Ireland By Dan Murphy

Cuba By Ramses Morales

The Netherlands By Joep Bertrams

Which is your favorite?

h/t Groopspeak

The Rump Says Something Stupid [AGAIN!!!] And Twitter Goes Nuts

Last week the United Kingdom voted to Brexit … to exit the European Union [EU] in favor of isolationism, xenophobia, and economic collapse.

In effect, they built a wall around Great Britain to keep out the brown-skinned immigrants fleeing the Middle East.

Sound familiar? Walls? Xenophobia? Anti-immigrant?

Sound stupid? Well, here’s stupid. Donald [t]Rump was in Scotland the day of the vote and as the results were announced he Tweeted:

Now, to be fair [t]Rump is an ignorant turd who gets his facts from Melania when she’s posing nude for a men’s magazine, but even he had to have been aware, even his people had to have made him aware, that Scotland overwhelmingly voted — 62% to 38% — to stay in the EUU.

Yes, the man running for president cannot even get a simple fact right.

And so the great thing was the Twit-response from some Scottish folks, and others, to The Rump:

And there you have it, the man who would be president — goddess help us all — doesn’t even know what’s going on in the UK … when he’s in the UK.

Oh ... and "fucktrumpet"!!

Fusion

Architecture Wednesday: Holy Conversion

The St. Nicholas Church, built in 1792, was old and abandoned, sitting on a plot of land in Kyloe, Northumberland just falling into disrepair.

But then one couple — Sally Onions and Ian Bottomley pictured above — fell in love with the church and decided to buy it, move in, and bring it back to life. They restored key elements, like the vaulted ceilings and original stained glass windows; they fixed and improved the structure all the while adapting the old church into a modern spacious home.

The exterior remains intact, except for skylights running the length of the roof, and the original stained glass windows are repaired; much of the wood, from pews and beams, has been repurposed into new stairs and kitchen cabinets.

The St. Nicholas home sits on one acre, with a large garden, and outbuildings with planning permission for conversion to a 2 bedroom cottage. Inside, there are four or five bedrooms, two bathrooms, two reception rooms, two kitchens and a huge open plan living area. The home also features a French bathroom split over three levels, featuring stunning stained glass windows so guests can enjoy a view and a soak.

One bedroom, up under the rafters, is large enough for a super king size bed and offers a gorgeous countryside view. Up in the tower are a dressing area and two more bedrooms and at the very top, one last bedroom with the best view of all. The master bedroom, however, is on the main floor, replacing the altar and surrounded by eight beautiful stained glass panels.

The grand dining room is located in the nave of the church, and is open to a spectacular open living space with high ceilings, stained glass windows, and double staircase and balcony.

It’s for sale for £695,000, roughly $1.3 million American dollars

And it comes with its own cemetery, too!

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