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Large Marge Gets Owned

Becca Balint, Vermont Democrat Representative, took to the floor of Congress to share some of Large Marge’s batshit crazy ramblings in a House Resolution to censure her.

And it goes like this:

Whereas Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly fanned the flames of racism, antisemitism, LGBTQ hate speech, Islamophobia, anti-Asian hate, xenophobia, and other forms of hatred;

Whereas Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly debased the memories of thousands of victims of the terrorist attacks on September 11, 2001, by perpetuating conspiracy theories to shift blame and responsibility for the mass murder;

Whereas Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly assaulted the foundation of our democracy by perpetuating conspiracy theories related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol which sought to halt the peaceful transfer of power;

Whereas Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly called for violence against elected representatives and their families;

Whereas Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has repeatedly espoused antisemitic rhetoric and conspiracy theories, including through inflammatory evocations of the Holocaust;

Whereas, on May 20, 2021, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said that the mask mandate in the House of Representatives was akin to Jews being ‘‘put in trains and taken to gas chambers in Nazi Germany’’;

Whereas, on May 25, 2021, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted that, ‘‘Vaccinated employees get a vaccination logo just like the Nazi’s forced Jewish people to wear a gold star’’;

Whereas, on February 26, 2022, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared at a white nationalist event that was condemned by the Republican Jewish Coalition as ‘‘appalling and outrageous that a Member of Congress would share a platform with an individual who has actively spread antisemitic bile, mocked the Holocaust and promoted dangerous anti-Israel conspiracy theories’’;

Whereas, on February 26, 2022, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene appeared at a white nationalist event that was condemned by the Republican Jewish Coalition as ‘‘appalling and outrageous that a Member of Congress would share a platform with an individual who has actively spread antisemitic bile, mocked the Holocaust and promoted dangerous anti-Israel conspiracy theories’’;

Whereas, on September 1, 2022, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a tweet comparing President Joe Biden to Adolf Hitler that said ‘‘Joe Biden is Hitler. #NaziJoe has to go’’;

Whereas, on September 1, 2022, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene posted another tweet of a doctored video showing President Biden speaking with audio of Hitler, swastikas in the background and a mustache akin to that of Hitler;

Whereas, on July 21, 2021, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said that if she was ‘‘in charge’’ she would ‘‘kick out every single Chinese in this country that is loyal to the CCP. They would be gone’’;

Whereas, on December 19, 2021, while at a Turning Point USA conference, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene referred to Asian Americans as ‘‘yellow people’’, a slur that has been historically used to malign the Asian Amer ican community in the United States;

Whereas Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has a history of perpetuating LGBTQ hate speech, including through her use of offensive posters in the halls of congressional office buildings beginning on February 24, 2021;

Whereas, on November 22, 2022, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted that an LGBTQ California State Senator was a ‘‘communist groomer’’, an offensive slur that has been used to stoke fear and incite hatred of LGBTQ Americans;

Whereas, on March 7, 2023, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene again referred to members of the LGBTQ community as ‘‘groomers’’ and spouted anti-trans rhetoric on the Floor of the House of Representatives;

Whereas, on June 1, 2023, the first day of Pride Month, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene tweeted a photo showing an anti-trans poster that she had displayed in the hall outside of her congressional office;

Whereas, on February 22, 2019, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene posted a video on Facebook claiming that Muslim American Members of Congress were not ‘‘really official’’ because they didn’t take the oath of office on the Bible;

Whereas, on June 17, 2020, Politico reported that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene repeatedly engaged in Islamophobic rhetoric and suggested that Muslim Americans do not belong in the United States Government;

Whereas, on May 10, 2021, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene referred to fellow Muslim American Members of Congress as the ‘‘Jihad Squad’’;

Whereas, on November 30, 2021, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene yet again referred to fellow Muslim American Members of Congress as the ‘‘Jihad Squad’’;

Whereas, on June 17, 2020, Politico reported that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene referred to Black Americans as ‘‘slaves to the Democratic Party’’ and said that they should be proud to see Confederate monuments;

Whereas, on June 17, 2020, Politico further reported that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene stated in a video, ‘‘I know a ton of white people that are as lazy and sorry and probably worse than Black people’’;

Whereas, on May 18, 2023, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene compared being called a white supremacist to a person of color being called the ‘‘N-word,’’ a vile racial slur;

Whereas, on January 28, 2021, a video of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene resurfaced in which she used a harmful and offensive slur targeting Americans with disabilities which the National Down Syndrome Society called ‘‘heartbreaking and unacceptable’’;

Whereas, on November 1, 2018, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene denied the attacks on September 11 saying there was a ‘‘so-called plane that crashed into the Pentagon’’ and that ‘‘It’s odd there’s never any evidence shown for a plane in the Pentagon’’;

Whereas, on November 17, 2018, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene peddled a vile antisemitic trope when she claimed that wildfires in California were caused by space lasers operated by members of the Jewish community;

Whereas, on August 17, 2020, a video of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene resurfaced in which she stated that the mass shooting at a country music festival in Las Vegas, Nevada, where 60 people were murdered, was perpetuated in order to pass anti-gun legislation;

Whereas, on January 19, 2021, Media Matters published a screenshot of a Facebook comment from Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene where she emphatically agreed that the mass shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School, where 17 students and teachers were murdered, was a false flag event;

Whereas, on January 21, 2021, Media Matters published ascreenshot of a Facebook comment liked by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene that claimed 9/11 was ‘‘done by our own Gov,’’ to which she responded ‘‘That is all true’’;

Whereas that same comment liked and agreed to by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene further claimed that the mass shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary where 26 people, including 20 precious children were murdered, was staged;

Whereas, on September 3, 2020, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene posted an image of herself holding a gun next to images of three Members of Congress with a caption encouraging ‘‘going on offense’’ against them;

Whereas, on January 26, 2021, CNN reported on posts, comments and likes made by Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene from 2018 and 2019 in which Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene liked several posts and comments on Facebook demonstrating her support for the execution of several Members of the Democratic Party including Speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, and President Barack Obama;

Whereas, on January 26, 2021, CNN further reported that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene liked a Facebook comment in January 2019 that stated, ‘‘a bullet to the head would be quicker’’ in reference to the removal of Speaker Nancy Pelosi;

Whereas, on January 26, 2021, CNN also reported that deleted videos showed Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene calling for the execution of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and stating that she was ‘‘a traitor to our country, she’s guilty of treason’’ and should ‘‘suffer death or she’ll be in prison’’;

Whereas Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene has perpetuated the ‘‘big lie’’ related to the 2020 Presidential election by espousing conspiracy theories and by threatening and inciting violence;

Whereas, on October 26, 2021, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene downplayed the actions of those who participated in the January 6 attack on the Capitol and said ‘‘if you think about what our Declaration of Independence says, it says to overthrow tyrants’’;

Whereas, on November 4, 2021, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene went to visit those incarcerated related to the January 6 attack on the Capitol in what she referred to as ‘‘the patriot wing’’ of the D.C. Jail;

Whereas, on November 10, 2021, Representative MarjorieTaylor Greene referred to those who participated in the January 6 attack on the Capitol as ‘‘political prisoner of war’’;

Whereas, on December 10, 2022, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene said that if she had organized the January 6 attack on the Capitol, ‘‘we would have won. Not to mention, it would’ve been armed’’;

Whereas, on July 19, 2023, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene displayed graphic pornographic images during an official committee hearing that she claimed depicted a member of President Biden’s family;

Whereas, on July 19, 2023, Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene sent an official press release and posted to her official congressional website public hearing commentary featuring graphic pornographic images she claimed depicted a member of President Biden’s family; and

Whereas Members of Congress have promised to always have the back of Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene no matter the extent of her vile and hateful behavior:

Now, therefore, be it Resolved, that Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene be censured; Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene forthwith present herself in the well of the House of Representatives for the pronouncement of censure; and Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene be censured with the public reading of this resolution by the Speaker.

The resolution came hours after Large Marge’s own resolution to censure Representative Rashida Tlaib for “leading an anti-American and anti-Semitic insurrection.”

Score one for Becca.

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The Funny Papers

Christopher Weyant, Clay Bennett, Ann Telnaes, Mike Luckovich, Jack Ohman, Lalo Alcaraz, Chris Britt, Marc Murphy, Adam Zyglis, Bill Bramhall, David Horsey, Ed Hall, Mike Peters, Gary Huck,

Why Is It ...

… that Halloween is the only day of the year when we get it right? I mean, strangers come to our doors, beautiful or ugly, odd or scary, and we accept them without questions and give them good things.

… that people say asking questions of another person is key to being a good conversationalist and yet all I can think to ask is ‘What the fuck is wrong with you?’

… that if I don’t turn everything into a joke, I think it will destroy me?

… that my favorite winter activity is going back inside where it’s warm and putting pajamas on?

… that I can look past most people’s flaws ... emotionally distant, no problem ... slight drinking problem, I get it ... killed a man once due to circumstances you can’t talk about, been there ... but saying “I seen” instead of “I saw” is something I will not tolerate?

… that I’m at that age where I really appreciate a nice handrail?

… that everyday  I try so hard to be a good person and then someone pulls out in front of me going ten miles below the speed limit and I gotta try again tomorrow?

… that if you think you can win me over with food and drink, you’d be right?

… that I’d rather be “too sensitive” than be whatever the hell happened to half the population?

I Didn't Say It ... Mike Johnson Is The Devil

Mike Johnson, new Speaker of the House, in a 2004 op-ed.

“Homosexual relationships are inherently unnatural and, the studies clearly show, are ultimately harmful and costly for everyone. Society cannot give its stamp of approval to such a dangerous lifestyle. If we change marriage for this tiny, modern minority, we will have to do it for every deviant group. Polygamists, polyamorists, pedophiles, and others will be next in line to claim equal protection. They already are. There will be no legal basis to deny a bisexual the right to marry a partner of each sex, or a person to marry his pet. The state and its citizens have a compelling interest in preserving the integrity of the marital union by making opposite-sex marriage the exclusive form of family relationship endorsed by the government. Loss of this status will de-emphasize the importance of traditional marriage to society, weaken it, and place our entire democratic system in jeopardy by eroding its foundation. Your race, creed, and sex are what you are, while homosexuality and cross-dressing are things you do. This is a free country, but we don’t give special protections for every person’s bizarre choices.”

As with all homophobes, he uses fear to spin his so-called truth: let The Gays marry and the pedophiles will be able to marry children, or dogs, or toasters. In 2023 he still plays out that proven lie that being gay is a choice, when we know for ma fact it’s not,. But being a homophobic faux “Christian” bigot is a choice.

This motherfucker—I’d say pardon my language, but the man is a motherfucker—equates being gay to pedophilia and cross-dressing though most everyone with brains that fire on all cylinders, unlike Mike Johnson, knows that most pedophiles are straight men like Mike Johnson and most cross-dressers are straight men like Mike Johnson.

This cannot be allowed to stand.

CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE in 2024.

Vote Blue because the GOP has come for women, is now coming for people of differing faiths, and will soon be coming for the LGBTQ+ Americans, and once they’re done with that, they’ll come for all of you.

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Jenna Ellis, flipping on Mr-Former-Fake-One-Term-Twice-Impeached-Currently-Four-Time-Criminally-Indicted-Not-My-President-Gurl:

"As an attorney who is also a Christian, I take my responsibilities as a lawyer very seriously. I endeavored to represent my client to the best of my abilities and relied on others, including lawyers with many more years of experience than I, to provide me with true information, especially because my role involved speaking to the media and state legislators. What I did not do, but should have done, was make sure the facts other lawyers alleged to be true were in fact true. In the frenetic pace of attempting to raise challenges to the election in several states, including Georgia, I failed to do my due diligence. I believe in and value election integrity. If I knew then what I know now, I would have declined to represent Donald Trump in these post-election challenges. I look back on this whole experience with deep remorse."

What Jenna Ellis said in November 2020:

“With all those states [Nevada, Michigan, Pennsylvania, Wisconsin and Georgia] combined we know that the election was stolen from [Thing 45], and we can prove that.”

Huh, seems like Jenna Ellis knew exactly what she was doing: goose-stepping along with liars and cheats and criminals, but as the threat of prison looms closer, she has a change of heart and admits she is a liar, and a cheat and a criminal … and a moron.

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Mike Johnson, newly elected House Speaker, in a 2016 interview:

“You know, we don’t live in a democracy because a democracy is two wolves and a lamb deciding what’s for dinner. OK? It’s not just majority rule. It’s a constitutional republic. The founders set that up because they followed the biblical admonition of what a civil society is supposed to look like. What’s happened … over the last 60 or 70 years, is that our generation has been convinced that there is a separation of church and state. Most people think that that’s part of the Constitution, but it’s not. Remember, I’m a constitutional lawyer.”

No, you’re a Christian Nationalist, misogynistic, homophobic, transphobic bigot trying to hide your hate behind a cross.

Enjoy your time in office, asshat, 2024 is coming.

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Franklin Graham, on sin being the biggest threat to America … not war, climate change, or guns:

“Last night CBS 60 Minutes had a fascinating segment about the Five Eyes, intelligence chiefs from the U.S., the United Kingdom, Canada, Australia, and New Zealand, who are warning this nation and the world about the dangers China poses. FBI Director Christopher Wray said, ‘There is no country that presents a broader, more comprehensive threat to our ideas, our innovation, our economic security, and ultimately our national security.’ But we must also remember that the greatest threat to the human race is our complacency toward and the acceptance of sin. Sin is rebellion against God—and unless we repent and turn from those sins and believe on the Name of God’s Son, the Lord Jesus Christ, trusting Him as Savior—there is no hope.”

Funny that the man who virulently supports a thrice-married adulterer, and a man who cheats and lies about everything in his life, is talking about sin.

The sin of stupidity and lies lives in  Franklin Graham.

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Mike Johnson, in his acceptance speech as House Speaker:

“I want to tell all my colleagues here what I told the Republicans in that room last night. I don’t believe there are any coincidences in a matter like this. I believe that scripture, the Bible, is very clear that God is the one that raises up those in authority. He raised up each of you. All of us. And I believe that God has allowed and ordained each and every one of us to be here at this specific moment. This is my belief. I believe that each one of us has a huge responsibility today to use the gifts God has given us to serve the extraordinary people of this great nation, and they deserve it. There is a critical distinction that we used to have children memorize in school and they don’t do that so often anymore. But they should. All men are created equal. Not ‘born equal.’ Created equal. ”

Hey Mike? Ask your “God” why he raised up a thrice-married adulterous con-artist to the presidency. Ask your “God” why he raised up a pedophile enabler like Gym Jordan; a sexual predator like Matt Gaetz, and adultery like Marge, the queen of the public hand-job like Lauren Boebert; the adulterous New Gingrich and so many more.

Ask God why, if She wanted you in power it took her this long.

God didn’t raise you to power; your use of God as a weapon of mass distraction and fear did that.

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John Fetterman, Democrat Pennsylvania Senator, taking issue with a new school lunch resolution offered by the GOP that would allow people to deny lunch to a child because "God":

“I can’t even believe that this resolution is even real. This makes it possible for some random lunch lady to deny lunch to a hungry child because she says her god tells her to. School lunch should be free, and certainly free of judgment. Don’t we have better things to do in the upper chamber than picking on kids because of who they are?”

Sadly, apparently not.

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Bobservations

This past Sunday Carlos and I went to a concert in the park in  Camden and before we left I prepared everything to cook dinner once we  got home.

After the concert, which was good and it was a gloriously sunny cool day, we returned home and I set about cooking dinner. I served it and as we ate Carlos said:

“This is good.”

And I responded as I usually do:

“I know.”

That line slays; but I digress. After dinner, clearing the plates, Carlos asked what I called the dinner and I told him I didn’t know. It was a recipe I made up in my head and:

“We’ve had this before.”

“I know but my mother likes to know what we cook and so I wanted to tell her about this and  I don’t know what to call it.”

“Oh, um, call it Chorizo-Potato Hash, I guess.”

“What kind of meat is in it?”

“Chorizo.”

“I know but is there ground turkey in it.”

“No just Chorizo.”

“So no meat?”

“Chorizo is meat. What are you asking?”

“The kind of meat in—

“It’s chorizo. You know chorizo, you got me hooked on it. You grew up on it. Your mother cooked with it. It’s meat.”

“But is there ground turkey, too?”

At that point I took the frying pan from the stove and clocked him in the head. He gets it now.

This Tuxedo and Memory, also featuring his BFF Max Goldberg. is from August 2011

'WTF? It's Monday And I'm As Happy As A Basket Of Cats

Except these two don't look so happy.......'

I don’t even know what they were looking at but whatever it was it clearly it intrigued the Boys.

Continuing her history of championing utterly pointless measures that literally no one asked for, Arkansas governor, and Mr-Former-Fake-One-Term-Twice-Impeached-Currently-Four-Time-Criminally-Indicted-Not-My-President-Gurl’s liar,  Sarah Huckleberry Sanders has banned “woke” language from state documents.

You cannot use gender neutral language—Aunt Lydia calls it “exclusionary and sexist”—like “pregnant people,” “chestfeeding,” and “womxn,” which the order says should be replaced with “pregnant women,” “breastfeeding,” and “women.” During the signing, Sanders was asked why this was so urgent and how many times the banned terms had been used in Arkansas legislation and she replied:

“Does it matter if there’s one? Is that not enough? I’m not keeping a running tally, but I have seen one specific instance and we’ve had a number of other instances that have been reported to our office.”

She’s seen one instance. It sounds to me like Governor Sister Wife is ignorant and butt-hurt.

Maybe Tennessee is changing, or maybe the town of Franklin is just saying, “We’re not like the rest of the state.’

Franklin, Tennessee voters have resoundingly rejected Gabrielle Hanson for mayor, after it became known that she openly embraced white supremacists and Christian nationalism.

It feels strange to say that a racist and faux Christian bigot was kicked to the curb in 2023 … 1923, maybe, but 2023?

As I said at the beginning, Carlos and I went to a concert in the park last Sunday, but while driving though the Historic District of Camden, we passed a house that had been surrounded by huge hedges, overgrown shrubbery, and large trees for years—see above.

But I noticed that the hedges were gone and so as we left the concert I went back up the street and found the house that had been hidden from view for so long.

Stunning, and quite large and rather old, but someone bought it and cleaned it up and turned it back to its original showgirl’s glory; it still has the original entry gate seen at the far right.

This week, still unable to agree on a Speaker, House Republicans shouted down a reporter’s question about their newly chosen speaker-designate, Louisiana Congressman Mike Johnson.

He was asked about his efforts to overturn the 2020 presidential election and ignored the question while That Bitch, North Carolina’s lunatic GOP Represenyative Virginia Foxx yelled:

“Shut up! Shut up!”

That’s the GOP; they do nothing, can’t agree on anything, and don’t answer questions.

This is San Francisco 49er defensive end Nick Bosa, the new model for the SKIMS men’s underwear brand from Kim Kardastrophe. But this isn’t about her, it’s about the 6’4” twenty-six-year-old hunk and … Would You Hit It?

Architecture Wednesday: GWE Griffith House

I love a good Craftsman-style home, though I tend to prefer the more Arts-and-Crafts style than this, a Colonial Revival style home, but this one, the GWE Griffith House in Los Angeles, might just do. And the 2700+ square foot, four bedroom, three-and-a half-bath home was built in 1903 can be yours for just $2.8 million.

The home is believed to be the handiwork of architect Fred Dorn and named for its original owner George Washington Ewing Griffith, founder of the South Pasadena and the Highland Park Banks. Dorn completed construction on the home, at 110 South Avenue 58, in 1903 and then it was painstakingly moved to Highland Park’s Garvanza District in 1914 where it was once dubbed the most Beautiful House on the Block.

The Garvanza District comprises a rare collection of prewar … World War I … homes—Queen Anne, Shingle, Craftsman, Stick, Mission Revival and Tudor Revival—all of which were built outside of the community and later relocated to create one of LA’s first suburbs.

And while the exterior, with Moorish flourishes and a portico supported by handsome Corinthian columns, is of the Colonial Revival style, the interior is where the Craftsman style comes in, with its carved wooden staircase, hardwood floors, period moldings, double-hung windows, pocket doors and carved fireplaces with tiled surrounds.

Framed by a white picket fence this home is postcard perfection with its beautifully landscaped yard and wrap around porch. A formal, grand entry with voluminous ceilings welcomes you inside where you’ll find the formal living room, family room and dining room that opens to a stunning kitchen. Complete with original and custom built-ins, chef's appliances and hand cut tile floors this kitchen is perfect for cozy family dinners and entertaining friends. Also on the lower level is a powder room and laundry room with built-in dog wash.

Upstairs is an oversized primary suite with a beautiful balcony framed by classic Islamic arch style windows and large en suite bathroom. There are three additional large bedrooms on the upper level and two additional bathrooms.

A large backyard, with pool and spa, is the perfect spot to unwind or entertain. Some additional features include restored original hardwood floors and moldings, hand carved fireplaces, designer fixtures, brand new dual-zoned central heat/air, and all new plumbing and electric.

It’s old and new and worth every penny.

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