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Those with a queasy tummy may want to skip ahead …

As you may know, Carlos was diagnosed pre-diabetic earlier this year and we instantly made changes to his, and our, diet. No more bread—which for bread-a-holic Carlos was a tough loaf to stop swallowing—and no more honey.

But he’s done very well, and we will every so often have toast for a light, quick breakfast, though I allow Carlos just the one slice; I am the Bread Bull Dog. So this one morning he had some plain non-fat yogurt with oats and banana and the one slice of bread. He cut up an overripe banana and served it in his yogurt, so when he had his slice of toast and spooned some honey on the bread I thought he’d put some brown slices of overripe banana on the bread. But this banana was not quite right and so I asked him to see the honey pot he’d kept in the cupboard filled with the sweet gooey stuff. I pried off the lid and found the jar half-filled with honey and roughly 4 or 5 dead cockroaches as well.

Yes, hold your gag reflex, Carlos was spreading honey and dead cockroaches on his toast and before any of you asks, “How the hell dirty is your house.” Remember that the honey pot had been sitting unused and unopened for over seven months.

The upside of this, you may ask, and yes there is an upside: for over a week now I have been giving Carlos a bad time about this or that and when he complains, all I need to say is …

“I saved you from eating cockroaches.”

… and the complaints stop..

This Tuxedo Memory is from May 2011 …

Tuxedo Thursday

“Oh, I give up.”

The look on his face, like he’d been caught doing something wrong, or, probably truer, that he was annoyed at being disturbed, along with the paws up, kills me.

That darn cat …

The White House had zero fucks to give when GOP Pennsylvania Representative Mike Kelly objected to President Biden's efforts to provide relief for student loan debt.

On Thursday, Kelly took to X, formerly Twitter, to rage about Biden's decision to cancel $9 billion in student loan debt for 125,000 borrowers who owed, on average, $72,000. And the White House responded by saying that Mike Kelly has had over $1 million in government loans forgiven himself.

Hypocrisy, thy name is GOP.

Democratic Florida Congressman Jared Moskowitz thinks that Palm Beach County ought to tax Thing 45’s Mar-Illegal property at the $1,500,000,000 value the Former-Fake-One-Term-Twice-Impeached-Currently-Four-Time-Criminally-Indicted-Not-My-President-Gurl claims its worth.

And with DeSantis running Florida into the ground, the state could use the money raised on Thing 45’s other BIG lie.

Navy sailor Information Technician 2nd Class Thomas James, who intervened to stop the mass shooting at Club Q last year, has received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, the highest noncombat award for heroism, awarded to those who put their own life in jeopardy.

As the shooting went on James grabbed the barrel of the murderer’s weapon and restrained him until police arrived: James suffered a gunshot wound in his abdomen and burned his hands as a result of his actions.

Thank you for your service to your country and to your community.

Alice Cooper has come out as anti-trans, claiming that children identifying as trans is a "fad" and that adults are "confusing" children by "telling [them] 'Yeah, you're a boy, but you could be a girl if you want to be.'" 

Odd, coming from a man who, Rolling Stone noted, "built a career partly out of defying and toying with gender expectations," but who clearly is an ignorant bigot. And who is now out of a partnership with Vampyre Cosmetics, who ended their relationship with Cooper over his bigotry saying:

"In light of recent statements by Alice Cooper we will no​​​​​​​​​ longer be doing a makeup collaboration. We stand with all members of the LGBTQIA+ community and believe everyone should have access to healthcare. All pre-order sales will be refunded."

Sorry, not sorry, Alice. Alice? Wait, isn’t that a girl’s name? Odd, this hate coming from a man who was born Vincent Damon Furnier but now identifies as Alice.

Read Me a Story, Stella is a children’s picture book about a pair of siblings reading books together and building a doghouse.

Sounds cute, but apparently it’s on a banned books list because, well, gay. Oh, no, not because the siblings are gay, or are reading gay stories, or have gay parents but because the author’s name is Marie-Louise Gay.

Yes, the book was added to a list of potentially “sexually explicit” books to be moved from the children’s section of Alabama’s Huntsville-Madison County Public Library system because, as HCPL executive director Cindy Hewitt noted there was the word “gay.”

Seriously.

Remember when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got into the presidential race and the GOP was thrilled because they thought he'd take votes away from Joe Biden and help Inmate # P01135809 win and perhaps govern, not from the Oval Office but from the prison laundry?

Well, things have changed since RFK started spouting some of his wingnuttery, and changed even more when he announced he might run as an Independent. If that happens Biden goes from being ahead of the criminal by 3 points to being ahead by seven points.. Kennedy’s presence erodes Inmate # P01135809’s lead among independents and cuts into his support among Republicans.

Go for RFK.

And to cleanse the palate of crazy, here’s a couple of the cats … Consuelo sunning in the sunroom during our recent cold mornings as it is the warmest room in the house, while Rosita sleeps on the bed … or pretends to sleep?

This is model and actor Henry Watkins of the dazzling smile—yes, I know, it’s just that one photo but still—and beautiful body. But the real issue is: Would You Hit It?

I Didn't Say It ...

Mike Kelly, GOP Congressman from Pennsylvania, comparing the impeachment vote and the bombing of Pearl Harbor:

“On Dec. 7, 1941, a horrific act happened in the United States, and it’s one that President Roosevelt said, this is a date that will live in infamy,” Kelly said, referring to the famous speech given by then-President Franklin Roosevelt after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. Today, Dec. 18, 2019, is another day that will live in infamy.” 

Yes, a group of Congressmen/women voting to protect this country from a wannabe dictator is exactly like out military men and women being attacked and murdered by a foreign power.

Hey Mike Kelly, when you pull your head out of _____’s you’ll see what an asshat you truly are; fuck off.

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Oscar Isaac , hot actor, on the hope that his and John Boyega’s characters in the new Star Wars film would be the franchise’s first gay characters and become romantically involved:

“Personally, I kind of hoped and wished that maybe that would’ve been taken further in the other films, but I don’t have control. It seemed like a natural progression, but sadly enough it’s a time when people are too afraid, I think, of…I don’t know what. … If they would’ve been boyfriends, that would have been fun.”

Um, Oscar? If I may … if you’d like to explore the idea of having a byfirend, I can help with that.

And if you wanna bring John Boyega along, well, I wouldn’t kick him out of bed either.

Just sayin’.

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Stephen Colbert, mocking Hallmark, and One Million Moms, over that minutes long boycott of the channel for airing a commercial featuring a same-sex couple:

“Let’s be honest. Your whole family isn’t getting together to watch Hallmark Christmas movies. Real moms watch them alone at night while trying to assemble a Fisher-Price kitchen, and drinking out of a wine glass that says, When Caleb Whines, Mommy Wines. We know [Hallmark doesn’t want controversy]. We’ve seen your movies. Hallmark doesn’t generate controversy, character growth, dramatic tension, or leading roles for black people. {And so} just like in the Hallmark classic, A Shoe Addict’s Christmas, there’s a happy ending. … Hallmark announced that they will reinstate the commercials. … There was drama, they broke up, they got back together, a wedding was involved, and everyone was white. Wow. They do have just one plotline.”

I love how he can smackdown both the 100 Moms and Hallmark at the same time.

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Adam Schiff, on _____’s lies that he misrepresented _____’s July 25 call with Ukraine: 

“He’s not going to intimidate me. I think it was quite deliberately designed to be a threat and this is the president’s modus operandi. I’m not the first person he’s made a veiled threat about, I won’t be the last. But this is precisely the kind of conduct Americans should not accept in the Oval Office. This is a president, after all, who has said of people who blow the whistle on him that they’re traitors and spies and should be treated as traitors and spies used to be treated. We used to execute traitors and spies. So this is not a president above threatening anyone who gets in his way, anyone who stands up to him.”

It’ll take a while because the GOP will crash and burn because of _____, but one day, oin the future, Republicans will look back and cringe at how they handled themselves at this time.

At least the one Republican, whoever that is, who still has a soul.

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Nicolle Wallace, MSNBC anchor, questioned the “manliness” of Senate Republicans defending _____, a man who attacked many of them in the past:

“_____ was brutal. It’s a good thing for him that they forgot about that. Years later, with impeachment all but guaranteed, this weekend both of those men [Lyin’ Ted Cruz and Miss Lindsey Graham]—both of those American senators—made clear they would defend _____ and won’t even pretend to be impartial.[My] question is about the manliness, the men, the character. I get the politics, but what about their pride?” 

They have none. They’re all afraid of a mean Tweet.

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Andrew Napolitano, Fox News … yes, Fox News … legal analyst, saying _____ should be impeached:

“James Madison, the author of the Constitution and the Bill of Rights, feared a government that was strong enough to protect the people would become too strong for the people to control. It would use its powers not for the nation’s betterment but its own. When the government fails to control itself, he argued, when the president becomes a law unto himself by violating the laws that pertain to all others, the remedy is impeachment. The framers’ greatest fear was a president who would unlawfully put his own needs above the nation’s or who would drag a foreign government into our domestic affairs. [_____] has tried to do both and threatened to repeat those attempts. That’s why the remedy of impeachment is acutely needed.”

Simply put; perfectly said. And on Fox of all places.

_____ must be fuming.

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The GOP Hates Children, Too

It’s fairly clear that the GOP doesn’t like The Gays because, many of them, most of the party, is working against marriage equality everywhere; hell, they’re against any and all legislation that might be deemed gay-friendly.

And we know the GOP is anti-women because this party, of mostly old men, wants to poke their noses into women’s vaginas — and not in the way a woman might enjoy — and wants to tells women what they can, and cannot, do with their own bodies, their own healthcare, and, well, doesn’t think women should earn as much as men even if doing the same job.

The GOP is also anti-immigrant, and uses fear-based rhetoric to spread their message; how many times have we heard the wingnuts like Michele Bachmann and Louie Gohmert suggest that these children, children, coming across the borders are only coming here to rape “our” women. Man, that’s anti-women — suggesting that we, I assume, men, own women — and anti-immigrant. And let’s be queer, it’s only the brown-skinned undocumented immigrants the GOP has trouble with, because you never hear them rant and rail against the white ones coming here illegally from Europe.

But now it appears that some in the GOP are anti-children, working to pass legislation to restrict who can adopt a child in this country.

There’s a new bit of federal legislation — S. 2706/H.R. 5285 — introduced this week by co-authors, and Republicans, of course, Mike Enzi of Wyoming and Mike Kelly of Pennsylvania, that would allow adoption or foster care providers to refuse service on the basis of their own personal religious objections.

And it affects everyone.

See, this new law, if passed, would allow a religious adoption agency from a non-Christian faith to refuse adoption services to a straight, Christian couple; a single parent seeking to foster a child could be denied; and, of course, let us not forget the gay and lesbian couples who would be told ‘No’ when asked if they might adopt a child.

Children, in need of a loving parent, adoptive or foster, would sit in orphanages or group homes because an adoption providers own personal religious beliefs will not allow that child to be adopted out to a loving home because, well, gay … or single … or of a different, i.e. bad, faith.

That’s the GOP people; working against LGBT rights, women’s rights, the brown-skinned, Hispanic speaking immigrants, and now children.

Is that the kind of party we want in an elected office? In any elected office?

via Human Rights Campaign