Bobservations

The other morning Carlos got up early because he had to be in court that morning for a translation, and I lazed in bed while he showered and such. I awoke to hear him calling the cats to breakfast. I stretched and yawned and slowly opened my eyes and then heard a crash and a …

“Oh f*ck.”

I got up and stumbled down the hall, asking:

“What broke?”

“One of those ceramic pieces on that cabinet.”

And there it was, a small vase my Aunt Norma had given me when I moved into my first apartment about a hundred years ago. I scooped up the bits of ceramic, and the tiny chards, took it into the kitchen and tossed it into the trash. Carlos apologized and apologized and apologized and apologized, even though I told him it wasn’t a big deal, accidents happen, blah blah blah, and I went off to work. But when I came home that afternoon I found that Carlos had dug the vase from the trash and glued it back together; but, you know, his eyesight. So the piece looked a little Dali-esque, kind of slumped over a bit, a couple of pieces of ceramic sticking out.

And I love it, and I love him for putting it back together and giving it a little more character than it might have had before.

This Tuxedo Memory is from  December 2010

"The Christmas Tuxedo"

One thing about Tuxedo, he loved the Christmas tree and never ever bothered it, but just used it as a place to nap.

Some people are annoyed about seeing ‘unhoused’ people asking for change while wearing nice, clean clothes; how can they dress so well and panhandle? Well, I donate lots of clothes, nice decent clothes, that I no longer wear to thrift stores and shelters and such and who knows who gets them.

This is a reminder that you have no idea where the person outside your bank or grocery store got their clothes and that they don’t owe it to you to be dressed in rags so you can feed your ego about helping out. If your life is warm and dry, and you aren’t hungry, and have a place to lay your head simply be grateful. And helpful.

It struck me that Taylor Swift and Beyonce pulled a fast one on y’all. They sold you concert tickets and then filmed the concert and then sold you tickets to the movie of the concert so you can watch yourselves watch them perform … and pocket your money.

Dan Patrick, GOP Lieutenant Governor of Texas, is pissed that Colorado wants to remove Inmate # P01135809  from the ballot in the upcoming presidential primary for engaging in, and inciting, the January 6 insurrection and so Patrick wants President Biden off the Texas ballot because of the border crisis—that Biden inherited from every president who came before him and didn’t pass Immigration Reform. And Patrick laughingly said it’s because:

“Seeing what happened in Colorado makes me think—except we believe in democracy in Texas—maybe we should take Joe Biden off the ballot in Texas for allowing eight million people to cross the border since he’s been president disrupting our state.”

Texas and Democracy haven’t gone together since Texas decided to make women property of the state and control their bodies so Texas and Danny Patrick can fuck all the way off.

In his closing remarks at the trial last week Rudy Giuliani’s own attorney compared him to a fanatical “flat-earther” who will never stop believing the 2020 election lie and asked the jury to “have sympathy” when determining how much he owes the plaintiffs in his defamation suit.

And the jury came back with a $148,000,000 settlement for Ruby Freeman and Shaye Moss, two Georgia election workers whose lives were upended because Rudy is a liar and a cheat.

It was a good day.

This is Matt Bershadker, the CEO of the ASPCA, and he makes over $1M a year; he’s made some $7M since taking on that job. 

If you want your donations to go to shelter pets, instead of millionaires, give your hard-earned money to local shelters.

Something to ponder … back in the day men used to claim that certain women were witches and they would throw them into the water to see if they drowned. If they did, in fact, drown they were not witches.

Today we have men who say the only exception to abortion is if the mother’s life is at risk so they want to force her to carry the baby to term. And then, if she dies as a result she was at risk and could have had the abortion.

That’s the way men think.

This is Christopher Côté, self-made fitness model, content creator and owner of his own clothing line—odd since he wears little to no clothing a lot—Chrisnation. All well and good but the issue is: Would You Hit It?

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Beto O’Rourke, former Texas Representative and candidate for governor, taking on a heckler at a rally who laughed as he described the gun used to murder 19 children and two teachers in Uvalde:

“It may be funny to you, motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me, OK?”

O’Rourke rightfully fired back at the laugher, who was standing among a small group of supporters of GOP asshatted Governor Greg “I don’t care about dead kids” Abbott.

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Dan Patrick, Texas GQP Lieutenant Governor, saying the US Constitution was literally written by God:

“We’re a nation founded upon not the words of our founders, but the words of God because he wrote the Constitution. We were a Christian state and lost that for many years.”

No, asshat, we were never a Christian nation and Texas was never a Christian state, which is what we have Freedom OF Religion, and Freedom From Religion.

God wrote the Constitution? I haven’t heard such ridiculous ignorance in a looooong time.

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Mick Mulvaney, former acting chief of staff for Thing 45, saying that the reported informant who tipped off authorities about where those classified documents were stored at Mar-a-Lago would have to be “very close” to the former president:

“This would be someone who was handling things on day to day, who knew where documents were, so it would be somebody very close inside the president, my guess is there’s probably six or eight people who had that kind of information. I didn’t know there was a safe at Mar-a-Lago and I was the chief of staff for 15 months.”

Rumors fly that Melanie wants no part of a second term in the White House and maybe she’s the one who squealed.

I kinda believe that.

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Lindsey Graham, South Carolina GQP Senator and former Junior Miss, on same-sex marriage:

“I think states should decide the issue of marriage and states should decide the issue of abortion. I have respect for South Carolina. South Carolina voters here I trust to define marriage and to deal with the issue of abortion. Not nine people on the court. That’s my view.”

Graham said he believes the Supreme Court’s 2015 decision to legalize same-sex marriage would not be overturned, but that doing so “would be up to the court.”

Yes, the lifelong “confirmed” bachelor is anti-marriage equality probably because there isn’t a gay man alive who’d put a ring on it for Miss Lindsey. And that poor dear frets so much about always being a bridesmaid and never a bride, that she forgot that South Carolina legalized same-sex marriages in November 2014, before SCOTUS did in June of 2015, so we were ahead of national curve you pandering queen.

Come for my marriage, ma’am, and see how that works for you.

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Traitor, after stating his name, pleaded the Fifth while being deposed by the New York Attorney General, and then said when asked to answer a question:

“Same as before.”

He said that 440 times, even after saying only mob bosses plead the Fifth.

For once he and I agree: he’s a criminal.

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Glenn Youngkin, Virginia’s GQP Governor, on outing children to their parents:

“With regards to informing parents with most important decisions about their children, I think everybody knows where I stand, parents matter. Parents should be at the forefront of all of these discussions. And I firmly believe that teachers and schools have an obligation to make sure that parents are well informed about what’s happening in their kids’ lives. And one of the things we learned last year during the campaign is that parents were tired of being pushed to the background in their child’s education.”

He says parents matter, but those LGBTQ+ kids who might be kicked out their homes, or worse, when outed to their parents, he doesn’t give a flying fuck about.

And this isn’t about education, it’s about shoving young LGBTQ+ Americans back into a closet to make these fucking Republicans feel better.

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