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For this episode of Tales of Carlos I need to refresh your memories of his first baseball game. When we lived in Miami, Carlos’ boss took the entire staff and their spouses and significant others to a Marlins baseball game. I was excited because, as a kid, we often went to see the Giants play the Dodgers—Dad was a Dodgers fan—or see the Oakland A’s play, but Carlos had never been to a baseball game.

We’re at the stadium and—I forget who the Marlins were playing—the Marlins had the first at bat; three outs and the other team was up, and they had three outs and the first inning was over. Carlos stood up, stretched his legs and said:

“Great game.”

“Sweetie, it’s not over yet.”

“But both sides had a turn.”

A discussion of innings and the idea that there would be at least nine of them ensued. Now, cut to Tuesday morning, this week, and there was a news story on about a rapper and Carlos says:

“Pete Rose, the baseball player?”

“How do YOU know Pete Rose?” [And let's not even dive into why Carlos thought Pete Rose was a rapper]

“It’s a famous name.”

"But how do YOU know he was a baseball player?”

“I don’t know, I don’t even know innings.”

The man slays even when he’s not trying.

This Tuxedo Says is from April 22, 2021: Tuxedo is also overjoyed at the idea that, somewhere in Mar-a-Lago, Thing #45 is throwing an epic hissy fit.

And it’s stunning to see that, no matter how things change, history repeats:

I don’t know who came up with this idea, but whoever thought of having cakes on cakes is an absolute genius!

I’ll be honest, I wouldn’t pay six bucks to see Lionel Richie in concert but if I paid six hundred dollars to see him and all I got was an hourlong interview of Richie with Robin Roberts talking about his new book, I’d be in jail about now. But that happened this week when fans … seriously? … showed up at a Times Square concert venue for “Truly: An Evening of Lionel Richie and Friends.”

And now they are clamoring for their coins back … y’all should’a asked me first, I’d charge you just sixty bucks apiece to listen to me.

Sidenote: yes, the poster for the event says, “In conversation on his memoir,” but his Vegas residency is also called “Truly: An Evening of Lionel Richie and Friends” so I understand the confusion.

But again, they wanted 600 bucks a person to hear him talk?

The same guy telling pregnant women to 'tough it out' has been complaining about climbing one flight of stairs now for three days straight.

I have been painting the sunroom for the past few days. I was just going to do the ceiling since we had the skylights removed but then I decided I didn’t like the yellow walls so I'm switching that up.

But Rosita and Consuelo have been loving having the room all to themselves and taking advantage of the warm tile floors on these cool mornings. And while Consuelo looks like a lady enjoying the sun, Rosie sprawls out like a drunken whore quite well.

Apparently GOP tool Derrick Van Orden wants California Governor Gavin Newsom arrested for saying Stephen Miller is a fascist but … and this is for the people in the back:

STEPHEN MILLER IS A FASCIST.

PS I found this photo online … has Miller had work done?

Stevan Miladinovic is from Serbia and has a master’s degree in industrial engineering but has been living in Miami and Thailand as a model of late … so Would You Hit It?

Architecture Wednesday: Catskills Cabin

Nestled atop a hill this peaceful retreat is located less than two hours from New York City. Sitting on 46 acres, you ascend the private driveway winding through forested hillsides and instantly feel calm as this house comes into view.

Thoughtfully sited on the land, the home affords commanding views of the surrounding countryside, and benefits from the integration of passive solar principles. Californian and Japanese architectural influences, plus generous-sized windows throughout, contribute to a Zen-like feel and connection to nature in every space.

The home is constructed using premium materials and finishes: red slate and copper roofing, walls clad in wood shingles and stone sourced from the property, and radiant-heated bluestone floors throughout the first floor. A stone fireplace rises through the center of the double-story living and dining space with overhead beams extending to an impressive curved wall of floor-to-ceiling windows. A suspended balcony overlooks the great room while a dramatic open staircase connects all levels.

In addition to the spacious two-story great room, the first floor comprises a well-appointed kitchen with walk-in pantry, marble counter tops, Wolf oven, Sub Zero fridge, Gaggenau steam oven, and brick pizza oven. Also on the first floor is a primary bedroom suite, laundry area, and a screened-in porch adjacent to the kitchen that’s perfect for morning coffee, evening dining, or an afternoon nap.

The second floor has two additional bedroom suites. The east-facing suite, currently used as office and lounge, features a traditional Japanese Hinoki wood soaking tub in the bathroom. All bathrooms have towel warmers. On the balcony there’s space to sit and read, or simply take in the dramatic and distant view.

The full, unfinished basement has vast storage space—suitable for creating a workshop, studio, or workout space—the mechanical room, and garage parking for two vehicles; a dumb waiter allows for groceries to be easily transferred from car to pantry.

Outside, an extensive open porch flanks two sides of the main entrance. The 46 acres property is mostly wooded with large stone outcroppings and is suitable for hunting or, better yet, hiking along old trails, perfect for nature walks, foraging, and forest bathing. A small creek flows near the westerly boundary across Bethlehem Road.

Nearby towns provide great shopping, dining, and brewery options, while the area also benefits from having a vibrant and growing arts community. And it’s all yours for $1.295M.

Dwell

Meme Dump

Ain't That America XVII

Well, the retribution has begun as Cankles is siccing his DOJ Lapdog Pammy Jo Bondi on his so-called enemies … he’s asking to release the Amelia Earhart files because of Jeffrey Epstein … he’s doxing Democrats … Border Barbie is helping her friends and donors while others suffer … and more. On the upside, Melanie has released a line of Christmas Ornaments … I haven’t seen them but I imagine they were created in the Devil’s Sweatshop with child labor … so let’s go ….

Cankles wants to release the files about Amelia Earhart and there are two possible reasons. One, a donor of his paid him to do it, or … Two, he needs another distraction from the Epstein Files.

Personally, I think that unless Amelia Earhart crashed on Epstein Island, no one cares.

Democrat Representative Mikie Sherrill and other leading Democrats want an investigation into a politically motivated leak by Cankles and the GOP of Sherrill’s unredacted military service records, which included her Social Security number and other personal details, to her GOP opponent in the New Jersey gubernatorial election.

This is the game they’re playing, putting out personal information of their opponents which could endanger their lives and their families.

Mob Boss Cankles is behind this.

For months, the complaints have rolled in from parts of the country hit by natural disasters that FEMA was moving too slowly in sending aid to communities ravaged by floods and hurricanes. Many officials blamed Koncentration Kamp Kristi Noem, whose agency oversees FEMA, after records obtained by ProPublica show how one locality found a way to get FEMA aid more quickly: ask one of Border Barbie’s political donors for help.

Those records show that Noem expedited more than $11 million of federal money to rebuild a historic pier in Naples, Florida that was damaged by Hurricane Ian in 2022, after a major donor contacted her. Noem flew to Naples on a government plane to tour the pier herself, and then had dinner with the donor, local cardiologist Sinan Gursoy.

Noem’s top adviser, and ALLEGED lover Corey Lewandowski, also owns a home in Naples near the pier; Lewandowski is an unpaid staffer—I’m thinking Staffer With Benefits—at DHS serving as Noem’s de facto chief of staff.

Grifters and liars and cheaters.

Texas GOP Gover Hot Wheels AKA Greg Abbott has signed a bill to restrict which restrooms transgender people can use in government buildings and schools and fines institutions up to $125,000 for violations.

Texas which has seen power grid outages, hurricanes, floods, school shootings, church shooting and all kinds of violence is more concerned about who pees where and not about taking care of the citizens of the state.

When Cankles took office eight months ago, the DOJ 36 experienced attorneys assigned full-time to investigate corrupt politicians and police officers; today it has two. The other thirty-four have either quit under pressure, resigned in protest or been detailed to other matters across the nation.

It’s almost like the Cankles Regime doesn’t want lawyers to look into corruption. I wonder why.

Bill Berrien, a Republican running for governor  of Wisconsin, is a so-called conservative who stands up for family values, and is especially critical of transgender individuals, saying they are engaged in “radical social experimentation.”

But, big surprise,  Berrien’s online footprint tells a different story: on Medium.com Berrien has an account that follows transgender porn star Jiz Lee and the authors of sexually explicit essays, like Octavio Morrison, author of “7 Types of Orgasmic Sensations” and Emma Austin, who has posted items such as “Pegging is A-OK,” and “I Love Getting Jackhammered.” In the past, he “liked” an article on “Polyamory Today” entitled, “My Husband Loves Watching Me Flirt With Another Man.”

Every GOP accusation is an admission, especially given that Berrien has been voraciously trying to scrub his dirty little online secrets.

UPDATE Bill Berrien has ended his Republican campaign for governor.

Exactly two months after Cankles signed his so-called Big Beautiful Bill a Virginia health care company blamed the law for the closure of three rural clinics serving communities along the Blue Ridge Mountains. The closures, Augusta Medical Group said in its statement, were part of the company’s “ongoing response to the One Big Beautiful Bill Act and the resulting realities for healthcare delivery.”

Keep this in mind as we move ahead and vote; the GOP passed this bill and now people in rural Virginia have far less access to healthcare.

At the UN last week, war criminal and Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu told fellow world leaders that Israel “must finish the job” against Hamas in Gaza, giving a defiant speech despite growing international isolation over his refusal to end the devastating war in Gaza.

As he spoke dozens of delegates from multiple nations walked out of the General Assembly hall en masse.

The US delegation, which has backed Netanyahu, stayed put but neither the US nor the UK sent their most senior officials or even their UN ambassador to their section.

Hundreds of federal employees who lost their jobs in Leon Skum’s cost-cutting blitz are now being asked to return to work and the General Services Administration has given the employees until the end of the week to accept or decline reinstatement.

No one saw this coming … except for everyone but Cankles and his Minions.

Democrat Adelita Grijalva won a special election for the Arizona congressional seat held by her late father. Grijalva, a former Pima County supervisor and Tucson school board member, captured Arizona’s 7th Congressional District, which includes Tucson, and will serve out the remaining 15 months of her father, Representative Raúl Grijalva’s term after he passed away in March.

On the down side, Little Mike Johnson is putting off swearing her in as she would be another vote to release the Epstein  Files and Little Mike is Cankles' Little Bitch.

The Wall Street Journal, its parent company and Rupert Murdoch asked a federal judge to dismiss Cankles’ $10 billion defamation lawsuit over the publication’s report on his relationship with BFF Jeffrey Epstein.

Cankles claimed that the article could damage the reputation, hold for laughter, of a man who cheated on his first wife with the woman who became his second wife , and the cheated on his second wife with the Slovenian Hooker who became his third wife, and then cheated on his third wife with a porn star, all the while bragging about grabbing women by the pussy and being a sexual predator with Jeffrey Epstein.

Seriously? That reputation?

Participants gathered on the Melbourne Causeway in Florida to shine a Rainbow light on LGBTQ rights with the Light Up Melbourne with Pride event. Participants marched to the top of the causeway and lit it up in support of LGBTQ+ Americans.

This comes on the heels, the Gogo boot heels, of Governor Ronnie DeSantis who has banned the painting on sidewalks and crosswalks in the Rainbow colors.

Sorry, Ronnie, you cannot erase us.

And speaking of Melbourne, Florida … a push to rename a street in Melbourne after conservative activist Charlie Kirk has failed.

The Melbourne City Council voted down the proposal during a tense meeting when council chambers were packed with people who wanted to voice their opinions on Charlie Kirk and whether or not a road in the city should be named after him.

Good.

US District Judge Rita Lin of the Northern District of California has ordered the Cankles Regime to restore $500 million in UCLA medical research grants, halting for now a nearly two-month funding crisis that UC leaders said threatened the future of the nation’s premier public university system.

The opinion added hundreds of UCLA’s NIH grants to an ongoing class-action lawsuit that already led to the reversal of tens of millions of dollars in grants from the National Science Foundation, Environmental Protection Agency, National Endowment for the Humanities and other federal agencies to the University of California.

Lin ruled that the NIH grants were suspended by form letters that were unspecific to the research, a likely violation of the Administrative Procedure Act, which regulates executive branch rulemaking.

This week Cankles’ lapdog FCC Chair Brendan Carr was seen wearing a gold Cankles-Head lapel pin.

Members of the Fascist Cabinet as well as Congressional GOP goose-steppers are also wearing the pin lest they  suffer the wrath of their Dear Cult Leader.

We talked earlier about the “unendable” wars that Cankle says he ended since flopping his gelatinous buttocks in the Oval Office and so, here they are:

Egypt and Ethiopia have argued over an Ethiopian dam project on the Blue Nile, but they were not in a raging war in which thousands of people were being killed.

He also did not stop the conflict between Serbia and Kosovo from resuming because they were also not at war.

The conflict involving the Democratic Republic of Congo and neighboring Rwanda has not actually been resolved.

And India denies that Cankles was responsible for mediating its ceasefire, its truce, with neighboring Pakistan.

So, yeah, he lied … and no one is surprised … but wait, there’s more:

Cankles says grocery prices are down during his presidency but the fact is prices are up and going higher because of his tariffs.

Cankles says inflation has been defeated but the fact is that it’s also accelerating., up 2.9% last month, from 2.7% previously.

Cankles said European electricity bills are high,--which is true—but that ours are coming way down when the fact is electricity bills are up over 6.2% from when Biden was in office.

Cankles claimed that he has secured $17 trillion in investment in the US and yet his own White House Press Secretary, KaroLying Leavitt says it was $9 trillion in investment; did someone lose $8 trillion?

Cankles says China builds a lot of wind turbines and manufactures them for others, but barely uses wind power but, again, the fact is that China is the world leader in the use of wind power.

The man is delusional AF.

After Dr. RFK BrainWorm announced that Tylenol causes autism he pushed a “cure” for it, something called Leucovorin [folic acid]. Of note, is that Dr. Snake Oil Salesman Oz’s supplement company, iHerb, sells  folic acid so it looks like BrainWorm is trying to make coins for Snake Oil.

US Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent pledged to provide “all options for stabilization” to Argentine President Javier Milei as the South American country faces a market selloff in recent weeks. Options include, but aren’t limited to, currency swap lines, direct currency repurchases and US dollar-denominated debt from the Treasury’s exchange stabilization fund.

Funny, he wants to save Argentina’s economy while he destroys the American economy.

Slovenian Hooker and Floor Lamp Model Melanie has unveiled a line of Christmas ornaments―but fans … fans?? Seriously—will have to cough up $90 a piece or almost $500 for a set of six. But I do have a question: will there be ornaments with one of Melanie’s most famous phrases:

“Who gives a fuck about Christmas?”

Remember, Melanie was caught on tape uttering that line! And so I say:

“Who gives a fuck about giving coins to the Slovenian Hooker wife of a Fascist Pig?”

Not me.

Spend your money on better things, like donations to Blue candidates and then …