I Didn't Say It ...

Ronaldo Salgado, son of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo who was murdered by the ICEstapo, on burying his father:

“Today we laid my dad to rest. We were surrounded by family, friends, and members of the community. We played music, horses danced, and we celebrated the life of a man who provided for my mom and my brothers for more than 30 years. Tonight, I visited the site of where it all began. I was alone for the first time in 11 days. I was moved by all the candles, signs, and mementos that people have taken time out their day to place here. Thank you to all who have supported us through prayers, words of encouragement, and simply thinking about my family . I thought to myself, ‘with so much love from the community, how can I focus on any negativity?’ My dad made Houston home. And this city has been nothing but supportive. Thank you.”

The murder of Lorenzo Salgado Araujo should be a crime and those responsible need to be held accountable. He was not the undocumented immigrant who should have been detained and arrested and deported; he is not one of the criminals that the White Men and The Women Who Support Them regime was looking to find.

And to be clear, even if he was a violent criminal I thought the idea was to deport them and not murder them in cold blood.

Fuck ICEstapo; abolish ICEstapo!

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Jon Ossoff, Georgia Democrat Senator, slapping Defense Secretary and DUI hire Pete Hegseth over his lies about the war in Iran:

“You said, ‘Operation Epic Fury was a historic and overwhelming victory.’ You said Iran’s military had been rendered, ‘combat ineffective for years to come,’ and you stated we had ‘achieved every single objective.’ You stated four months ago that Iran’s military had been rendered ‘combat ineffective for years to come.’ Has Iran’s military been for the last four months combat ineffective?”

Hegseth, of course, stammered and stuttered and looked for the nearest bar because he couldn’t answer those questions. He’s lying. Americans are dying, innocent Iranians are dying, and we have clowns in charge.

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Jim McGovern, Democrat Representative from Massachusetts, on the idiotic logic of a demented man:

“[Cankles] says Democrats forgot to rig the election in 2016, successfully rigged it while he was president in 2020, then forgot how to rig it again in 2024. So the only election the Democrats supposedly stole was the one he himself controlled. You have to be a special kind of stupid to believe this bullshit.”

Seriously … if you think Cankles is right, read this quote again slowly and if you still think he’s right have someone with a higher education than you read it again and if you still think he’s right STFU because there is no help for your bran of ignorance.

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David Reddish, journalist, columnist, commentator, and novelist, on what life would be like if Democrats actually rigged elections:

“If Democrats were truly rigging elections, we’d have universal health care, gun safety, high-speed rail, paid family leave. Billionaires actually paying taxes, a Democratic Supreme Court [and] President Harris would be sipping mimosas in Jackie Kennedy’s intact White House Rose Garden right now!”

We would have arches and drained broken reflecting pools and cage matches on the lawn and his name scrawled on the sides of buildings and plastic gold ornaments everywhere he had space and Superglue™.

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Gavin Newsom, Democrat Governor of California, on Cankles’ big speech:

“Last night America watched the ramblings of a mad king. [Cankles’] address was not about the last election—it was about this one. Before a single vote has been cast he’s already laying the groundwork to rig this election and convince you not to trust the results if they don’t go his way. This is what authoritarians do. Don’t fall for it. Organize. Mobilize. Show up and vote in November.”

Sitting by and doing nothing because you didn’t like the white woman in 2016 or the brown woman in 2024 does no good.

CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE!

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Oh the things we do for love …

Backstory; several years ago my father had knee replacement surgery and I was out in Oregon helping with his recovery. He told me one day over breakfast that the pain pills made him constipated and the laxatives weren’t working so I might have to give him an enema. Long story short; my father dropped his pants, bent over the bathtub, and I did the deed.

Why tell that story now? Carlos has been having some stomach issues and his doctor requested a, um, er, sample. So Tuesday morning he had to use a human litter box, sans litter of course, and then scoop the poop into three small bottles. And because of his eyesight I was the one scooping the poop … after wearing several pairs of gloves and a COVID mask and then bleaching my fingers.

Again, what we do for love.

This Tale of Tuxedo is from  June 2010 and is another Tuesday Tuxedo. He just loved basking in the sun on a windowsill but often looked like he was riding the luge in the winter Olympics!

Such a peaceful punim.

There are times when just a tease of some cakes is all you need … oh who am I kidding!

A reporter from The Atlantic recently asked Arizona Democrat Senator Mark Kelly if he thought the country was “ready to have a disabled first lady” should Kelly run for president. It was a stupid, rude, insensitive question which Kelly answered like this:

"In my opinion, we have a disabled president right now."

Kelly was defending his wife, former Congresswoman Gabby Giffords, who survived a 2011 assassination attempt that left her with speech difficulties and some paralysis.

That’s how it’s done.

Well, apparently the lettuce responsible for the explosive diarrhea outbreak came from a  company called Taylor Farms lettuce.

But then Taylor Farms parent company, Taylor Fresh Foods, met with FDA and White House officials to discuss the situation; of note is that Taylor Fresh Foods wrote a $1 million dollar check to Cankles’ MAGA Inc super PAC back in March 2025.

And now the FDA says the positive sample was a "false positive," even as CDC traceback data keeps pointing back to Taylor Farms. Sure, maybe it really was a lab error but when regulators change their story right after a closed-door meeting with the same company that funded Cankles’ PAC skepticism isn't paranoia, it's just paying attention.

I read on Facebook that the big boss at Taylor Fresh Foods, Bruce Taylor, should sit down and have a big salad of Taylor Farms lettuce and then tell us all again about how his product is okay.

I see a boycott coming …. 

Ohio GOP Senator Bernie Moreno has introduced the “Countering Atmospheric Nuisances Arising from Drifting Airborne Foreign Incendiary Residual Emissions Act” or the CANADA FIRE Act ordering sanctions, including a ban on U.S. government contracts with Canada because wildfire smoke from Canada is drifting over the United States.

I’m surprised he hasn’t filed a lawsuit against the wind.

And here was a little gift sent to me by a blogging angel … Savannah Marsh Mama. I will now be logging my Gay Agenda as I move through the world … equality, equality, drag queens and all love; oh, and brunch, of course!

xoxo

This here is 29-year-old Hungarian model and former professional tennis player Dan Zsolt and the question once again is Would You Hit It?

Architecture Wednesday: Tan y Coed

Wisteria trails elegantly over this Welsh stone longhouse, built in 1800,  located in a serene valley in Oswestry, Tan y Coed [‘under the trees’] and surrounded by the bucolic Candy Woods. It was carefully renovated to create a series of bright, open spaces. Outside is a separate one-bedroom guest house as well as a studio space, and a geodesic dome greenhouse.

Tan y Coed is a brilliant example of a Welsh longhouse; traditionally designed to house livestock—either cows or sheep—on the ground floor with living accommodations on the first, these houses are found across Wales and the rest of the country.

Beyond the front gate, a spacious driveway approaches the house where a path leads to the two main points of access: the formal entrance which sits underneath a porch, and a more frequently used side entrance, which leads directly into an open-plan kitchen, dining area, and living area.

The kitchen is composed of white cabinets and wood countertops and white-brick tiled backsplash set against original wooden floors. Beyond the kitchen is the oak, garden room extension, bathed in light throughout the day through the stretches of glazing on three sides and warmed by the underfloor heating beneath the slate floor.

A more formal dining room lies beyond in the original part of the house with parquet floors and a wood-burning stove; from there you enter an expansive sitting room, which also has wooden floors and an original inglenook—a small nook or alcove adjoining a fireplace—that is now home to a wood-burning stove; original exposed beams run the length of the ceiling overhead.

A set of contemporary open-tread stairs leads upstairs to the sleeping quarters; the principal bedroom has a bright en suite bathroom with a shower and access to a generous balcony while three further bedrooms are positioned on this floor, served by a shared bathroom. 

Behind the house, a barn has been converted into a one-bedroom guesthouse, constructed from the same Welsh stone as the house, equipped with a downstairs kitchen downstairs and a raised living space on the first floor. To the other side of the house, near the driveway, is a large new block that houses two open carports, a garage underneath and an open-plan room above, currently used as a gym.

And the gardens that surround the house are planted with thousands of daffodils, wild garlic and raised vegetable beds; a stream meanders from the end of the garden lawn towards the house, which fronts onto a pond where a new terrace raised on stilts sits above the water.

It all seems idyllic and peaceful and worth the £1.1M price tag considering it’s already been sold.

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