“Is it OK to come in?” Finnegan asked from the doorway, a hand clamped tightly over her eyes.
“Come in, Marcy,” Joe said. His pupils were blown out by the cocktail of drugs they had given him for the State of the Union address and his hands still shook like chihuahuas.
“Are you sure?” she asked.
“He left a w-w-w-week ago,” Joe said.
Finnegan took her hand away and look cautiously around the room.
“He’s gone,” Joe said tiredly.
“I can’t believe you invited him in here.”
“It was his for four years,” Joe said. “New carpets and flooring, new drywall and mercury-impregnated paint doesn’t change that.”
“You know what they say about things you can’t unsee?” Finnegan asked. “That’s literal. I went to the eye doctor. I have a dead spot in my right eye from your make-out session. Low blood pressure optic nerve stroke. They said it was from when I fainted.”
“That’s just how politics works,” Joe said. “You make out with your predecessors, you help Hillary bury a body, you spring Tom DeLay from a drunk tank.”
“And I’m totally gay now.”
“That’s nice, dear. Don’t bring any fats home.”
“I’m so sorry about the State of the Union address, Grandpa. Those horrible women heckling, those gargoyles sitting behind you.”
“Being exposed like that is just the job of the Vice President,” Joe said.
“You’re the President, Grandpa.”
“I know that!” the old man snapped.
“Please calm down,” Finnegan said. She began searching her pockets for a Miltown.
Joe looked up at her and smiled. “Hey, sweetheart. When did you get here.”
“We need to get you in bed, Grandpa,” she said forcefully.
“I truly believe the Iranian people will never love Putin. Donald taught me that much.”
“Trump is just so gross,” Finnegan groaned.
“Just be glad he didn’t bring his hat,” Joe said. “That little bastard is a real fucker.”
“His hat?” Finnegan asked. “What are you talking about?”
“The hair,” Joe whispered. “Make them vacuum again. If even one is left behind…”
Joe’s eyes closed and his head fell forward.
“Grandpa?” Finnegan asked. “Grandpa?” She shook him gently.
When he didn’t respond, she slapped a big red button on the Oval Office desk. An ice-cold Diet Coke slid up out of a recess in the desk. Slapping another large red button on the side of the desk lowered the lights in the office, the security shields came down over the windows, and a jazzy version of “The Girl From Ipanema” began to burble.
“Which one is it?” Finnegan shouted over the music.
She felt under the desk and found a toggle and flipped it. A portion of the office wall slid away and a bidet thrust itself in the room. A siren began to warble and wail.
A thick line of drool was hanging from Joe’s mouth and it reached down into his lap.
“Where’s the medical emergency button?” she screamed.
Finnegan ran her hand down into Joe’s shirt. His LifeAlert necklace was missing. Someone began pounding on the door to the Oval Office, muffled shouting, the bleep-blorp of the Secret Service trying to over-ride security settings.
She began slapping at all the buttons on, under, or near the Resolute desk. The toilets in the Presidential Shitter flushed repeatedly, the music changed to Boys II Men, a rack of dusty swords and muskets slid from the wainscotting, and the skeleton of a large eagle fell from the ceiling.
“Fuck,” Finnegan screamed. “Fuck, fuck, fuck.”
She pushed her way through the half-open door of the Presidential Shitter, thought for the thousandth time about how they should change the name, and shut the door behind her. The water in the hydrotherapy pool was boiling and the expensive Japanese toilet seemed to have fallen into a defensive crouch.
Finnegan lit one of the massive deodorizing candles and slapped off the lights.
To her wavering reflection in the giant mirror, she said clearly and in an even voice: “Hunter, Hunter, Hunter.”
The siren stopped and the toilet relaxed. She heard Joe in the office proper cry out, “My boy! My beautiful boy!”
She looked out, barely cracking the door, to see her grandfather up out of his chair, kissing her father and crying.
Hunterjuice!
Eww!
/Teenage girl voice
Apparently some teenage girls are into him. Or he’s into them.
He’s Epstein’s obvious heir apparent.
Hunterman.
…or maybe Huntyman.
Fantastic. All the buttons…
That’s where I really LOLed. Diet Coke button!
Slightly less disturbing.
Trivia, most latex pain had mercury as anti-fungal preservative. (once in the day, had to test a lot of Hazardous Waste)
latex pain
I’m not sure about this. I’ll wait ’til an expert here can confirm. I’m pretty sure we have some experts in the subject around here.
Wow. Just Wow.
Don’t bring any fats home.
Good advise.
a rack of dusty swords and muskets slid from the wainscotting
Now that’s a cool feature.
Douglas Adams would approve.
Doesn’t everyone have one of those?
I am a bit ashamed that I didn’t have secret rooms built into my house.* I didn’t want to sacrifice the apparent square footage.
*AFAYK
Our neighbor has a great one. I’d tell you where, but then he’d have to kill you. And me, for telling you.
You’ve been living in AK for what? A month and a half? And the neighbors are already showing off their secret rooms? The long winters must make them
gullibletrusting.A little over a year now. But my country-boy charm and rugged good looks does have that effect on folks.
Uhhh…
When I remodeled one of my rooms there was a corner that had access to plumbing for the bathroom next to the room, so I put it behind a ‘hidden’ door. Haven’t gotten around to building the bookcase on it like I want to.
Thermal imaging makes them kind of useless, no?
Plus you have to kill your builder and all the workers that know about it and that takes a lot of trips to the robot hog farm.
My sister has one, complete with bookshelf. One bookshelf swings out as the door. I think it is cool.
Ce sont les mots juste!
Poetry, we’ve all seen both and understand the similarity
She began slapping at all the buttons on, under, or near the Resolute desk. The toilets in the Presidential Shitter flushed repeatedly, the music changed to Boys to Men, a rack of dusty swords and muskets slid from the wainscotting, and the skeleton of a large eagle fell from the ceiling.
The details are just so divine!
The diet coke callback was great.
Best line?
I’m curious what happens if a hair of The Hair is left behind. Does a new Hair spawn?
Normally, yes. But when the cell division process is damaged by radiation or harsh product, look out–you’re into Hat territory then.
Oh, I was thinking that Gamma Rays were the origin of Don King’s Hair.
I think it might take a wayward electron beam to get to that level.
Other way around. Don King’s hair is the origin of Gamma Rays. Why do you think fighter he surrounded himself with became an unstoppable hulk?
I believe its like leaving a bug, but capable of some low form of mind control for the near by easily influenced.
It’s a tough choice, like a list of 10 and finding the only one that doesn’t fit.
Yes, but it is close.
My favorite
‘ his hands still shook like chihuahuas.’
I can see it so vividly.
Typo?
I didn’t look it up. The mysteries of late 80s R&B naming conventions can be quite opaque at times.
I has a fraternity rother obsessed with them.
“Just be glad he didn’t bring his hat,” Joe said. “That little bastard is a real fucker.”
Masterpiece
Everything just ties together so beautifully.
That rug really tied the room together, did it not?
Fuckin’ A Walter.
https://c.tenor.com/cuTFXQnJeGsAAAAC/obviously-youre-not-a-golfer-big-lebowski.gif
Like Eurasian watermilfoil.
…and these critters…
https://extension.umn.edu/natural-resources-news/keep-your-eyes-out-invasive-clams-summer
we’ve got that watermilfoil on my lake/dammed river. How does the Guvment deal with it? By chopping it up! Just make more! The guy driving the chopper has a job for life.
Is it a good sign or a bad sign that I only know what a wainscotting is because of Monty Python’s Flying Circus?
You have sheep?
That’s how I know it.
Aaaaaaaah! Corporate sent out an internal email in support of Ukraine.
Same here. Although we don’t have operations in that country, they set up multiple forums for people to support each other in these trying times.
They aren’t offering paid time off to go fight.
I’ve noticed that corporations as of late feel the need to comment on every national and foreign event.
*nods sullenly*
We actually have an office or two in Ukraine, but every level of management used the crisis activation emails as an opportunity to virtue signal.
There was a blue and yellow billboard on the 64 this morning:
WE STAND WITH UKRAINE.
I am getting ads on my social media to buy clothing in support of Ukraine.
But the best is i’m getting ads for a dating site for Ukrainian women.
When does she arrive?
Does she have a sister?
On the 64 whats?
Interstate 64 in Norfolk VA.
NATO Joint Forces Command Center probably bought it.
Mine is matching employee donations 200%.
Aren’t the donations going to wind up going to Russians in the long run?
If they are used to buy Javelins and Stingers, yes. At a high rate of speed.
Nice
Only 100% match. And used for IRC, UNICEF, or UHCR. So basically pissed down the pot of grift. Allegedly because employees are asking how they can support Ukraine. Bullshit. If rank and file employees really were interested, they’d donate directly and would have done so already. Astroturfing by HR and CSR.
Also “Women are great. let’s celebrate them!”
?♂️
?!
Oh, it’s March now.
Madness, madness!
I’m heavy on the delete button. I had a brownbag lunch invitation for discussing the importance of pronouns and other inclusive language. That thing was deleted in milliseconds. I’ve noticed an actual psychological harm if I let them linger in the inbox. Just knowing it’s there eats at my brain.
My school just did that – from the head honcho. I’m tempted to ask them when they plan to send one about Yemen, Chad, Sudan, etc, but, you know, deaf ears and all.
“Does that mean the CEO is going to go fight on the ground?”
How did Matt Lauder get to install buttons?
Most people would probably assume that was a Clinton addition. Fun fact, it was actually Gerald Ford. He was apparently quite the lothario when he was in the White House. He and Betty would tag team all the interns. They would just line them up outside the Lincoln bedroom on Saturday nights and go through ’em one by one. The room came to be known as “The Ford Assembly Line.”
Models T&A make sense now…
I have a dead spot in my right eye
So say we all, who have read the work of SF.
She looked out, barely cracking the door, to see her grandfather up out of his chair, kissing her father and crying.
And now Finnegan has another blind-spot to deal with?
I know I do.
No mention of Hunter’s coke and viagra fueled erect state at this point, SugarFree? I’m disappointed. Unlike Hunter, you’ve gone soft.
The desk buttons almost got me in trouble, had to fake a coughing episode so no one would know why I was laughing.
Hilarious, SF!
Obligatory?
Perfection.
Tricky’s first and more or less only (credited) film role.
I always feel like I’m reading the literary results of watching Spike and Mike’s Twisted Festival of Animation one too may times.
AS AN ASIDE
We are experiencing some technical difficulties with the site. I want you all to know that we are not working on it. The only people smart enough to work on WordPress are either busy or really mad at us right now.
Who is mad, did I miss some internal glibs gossip?
I’m mad.
…as a hatter!
No music?
I am dissapoint in you Tundra.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MRuS3dxKK9U
I don’t like it when mommy and daddy fight.
I’m mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore
As my piano teacher liked to say, “Humans get angry. Dogs go mad.”
If any of the students misbehaved, she’d say, “I’ll crown you!” So you can imagine my opinion of the traditional hymn “Crown Him With Many Crowns”.
I STAND WITH GLIBERTARIANS!
*stands on top of desk*
ATTICA! ATTICA!
Two bits.
Four bits.
Six bits, a peso.
All those for Glibs,
Stand up and say so!
OH CAPTAIN, MY CAPTAIN!
I’m a Christian. My ears are not garbage cans!
i’m getting ads for a dating site for Ukrainian women.
There was a young blonde girl (presumably a refugee) on the teevee at the gym this morning whom I would gladly take in.
Poor Strawberry isn’t looking too good this morning. I’m sort of looking forward to her cracking live on camera.
Oh, to think of her going all Howard Beale.
How about going all Howard Dean?
In the spirit of Sugarfree: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K7V70N-iquE
(the original vid was a classic, but seeing them side by side is too much).
Joe’s eyes closed and his head fell forward.
“Grandpa?” Finnegan asked. “Grandpa?” She shook him gently.
*throws flag, blows whistle*
Fifteen yards for taunting.
Poor Strawberry isn’t looking too good this morning. I’m sort of looking forward to her cracking live on camera.
She’s been racking up some hard miles.
Who’s Miles?
Those eyes look deader and deader, like a doll’s eyes.
Obligatory.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIEm-4meekQ
I know it’s not the original, but we’ve all seen that one a billion times.
It’s really something, isn’t it?
I keep imagining the scene in her kitchen this morning when the early numbers came in. Her husband will be wearing the large sunglasses today!
I didn’t catch the end last night.
Biden appears to end the #StateOfTheUnion with a demand for US troops to “go get him!”, presumably meaning Putin.
“May God protect our troops, thank you, go get him!”
The general tone from the US/UK is that we are on a war footing with Russia.
The usual line is “God bless America.” I’m not sure who is being addressed and who is to be gotten.
I’m not sure who is being addressed and who is to be gotten.
That’s OK. Neither is Biden.
JFC
Doddering old corrupt fools will get us all killed.
You know… the guy! That bad guy. Saddam!
Back in old Bucharest and it is not nuked yet.
Time to go pick up your hot refugee!
Hot Ukrainian women are waiting for your call now!
Dial 1-900-PUTIN-OUT
There’s still time.
oh shush
*sigh*
At that price, I can’t afford not to buy one.
Yes, marketing does work. Some times.
that all looks like gibberish to me
I learned something today. I really didn’t need to know it but now I do
Wait, that’s a complete upper?
Sans charging handle, BCG, sights. You know, the bits most of us have extras of anyway.
Bought one anyway.
You have extra BCGs?
Not after ordering this. ?
But I’ll probably order another back up.
I like how Dr. Jill steps in.
REPORTER: “As a Catholic, why do you support abortion?”
BIDEN: “I don’t want to get in a debate with you on theology, but you know…I’m not going to make a judgement for other people.”
REPORTER: “But you’re Catholic!”
If you don’t remember your sins, you don’t have to confess them. So no problem receiving communion.
Communionism?
Like most DC denizens, when they say they’re Catholic, what they actually mean is this:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KjdjDz8jhN4
That movie definitely has to be on the “to be cancelled” list.
Because of Short Round’s offensive Asian accent?
Oh, you sweet boy(?). As if that was the only thing that will be judged as ‘Not OK!’
You’re right I feel so naïve. Kate Capshaw’s appropriation of Indian culture and clothing is beyond monstrous. The only thing more offensive is her entire performance in that movie.
How about how it portrays the
noble savagesindigenous people as some sort of bloodthirsty theists!They’re actually okay with that. It shows how stupid and backwards all the religious plebs are. Everyone knows that atheists are the only civilized and enlightened people. Now if they worshiped Mother Gaia, and acted like that, we’d have a real problem on our hands.
the expensive Japanese toilet
? “I miss the shits down in assrica…” ?
/taps foot, nods head
Wait, that really happened?
Her brain reset a la “Good morning. Sunday morning.”?
Best reply.
🙂
WTF? Is she drunk?
Again, she’s 82. Definitely drinking the blood of children.
“We have to drink the blood so we can find out what is in it.”
In my mind, I just had an unholy image of Hunter servicing Nancy and letting her bleed him.
I probably should take a break from this place.
I’ve never seen her so excited. New rumor. Nancy is definitely pegging Joe.
Now we’re all blind.
Well, everyone except “One-eyed Nancy”. It doubles as a Go-Pro.
Sung to the tune of Jethro Tull.
OT – Hertz has gone scorched earth here.
If you’ve rented a car from Hertz, there could be a warrant out for your arrest
I’m going to be really curious to see if they manage to get prepetition claims paid. OTH, it also appears that Hertz hasn’t changed the way it makes charges of theft. It’s also a great example of something that folks don’t seem to get about libertarians. These kinds of abuses by large corporations with regulatory capture also need to get called out.
If I can say one nice thing about the Cato libertarians, it’s that they put up the boring, unsexy fights against BS like regulatory capture. It’s one of the more insidious parts of the public/private partnership that is our current Democracy/Empire/Fascist dictatorship.
Lincicome FTW
Paging JI to add Hertz employees to the Corrector series.
This is why at those rental places that leave keys in car for pickup and drop off I always snap a photo…always. Just send me a person that I can watch check my car back in please.
Court records show that police at the Indianapolis and Louisville airports did just that. After multiple reports of stolen vehicles that ended up being located on Hertz’s lots, those agencies reportedly said they wouldn’t take new reports from the company.
The LPD has many problems, but good for them. I will call them out when they do something right.
Heh.
The only people smart enough to work on WordPress are either busy or really mad at us right now.
Like this?
WTF?
The only people smart enough to work on WordPress are either busy or really mad at us right now.
Like this?
The squirrels are still working
It was pretty laggy for awhile this morning, but seems OK now.
The things you never notice:
I was just looking at a longer shot of Biden giving the SOTU, and noticed there are giant fasces on the wall behind him.
Those have been there for a long time, ISTR.
Check out the seal:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fasces#/media/File:Seal_of_the_United_States_Senate.svg
Looks like it predates (1886) the modern interpretation.
Those have been there for a long time, ISTR.
Hence, “The things you never notice”.
I never really noticed the schlubby looking cap before.
That’s from the French Revolution, if memory serves.
Huh, history goes back to Roman Empire, but the French used it heavily.
https://daily.jstor.org/the-rise-and-fall-of-the-liberty-cap/
It’s already in progress, but this was neat: What might happen if Russia does attack Ukraine?
Update by current conditions: True state of Ukraine’s military today
Well this sucks. My LG phone won’t work after this month with the Sprint / T-Mobile merger – and LG has exited the phone market.
Now I have to decide which features I no longer want in the shitty replacements they are offering me.
Huh. I have an LG phone, too. Had to switch from an older LG when we switched from Verizon to Spectrum. I miss that old phone with the physical keypad. ? #JusticeForClubbedThumbs!
What model? I have an LG too and I’d like to know if I need to get on top of this before my service just gets cutoff.
Also, pissed about loosing LG phones. I had 5 in a row and I always liked them.
which LG phone do you have?
G-7 ThinQ
Really like it – particularly the amplifier setting for the headphone jack. None of the replacements being offered even have a jack.
Crap. That’s what I have. I love it. Sucks that I have to replace it.
I get crappy Sprint service at my house — Verizon is shit here too, but AT&T is good. I may have to switch carriers while I’m at it.
Sprint’s web site says “a 5G or 4G LTE device” is required. I thought the LG G7 was 4G LTE? It says it’s connected to LTE all the time.
I have a V60 that I love for the same reason. You can always buy a refurb that is compatible and likely cheaper too. I’ve had a T-mobile SIM in it for a few months so it should carry over. Their service has been pretty stellar. Almost everywhere I go I’m getting good 5g.
I need a headphone jack. That plus a fast processor are absolute requirements.
Pixel 5a has an audio jack.
I had LG phones for 10 or 15 years. When the last one failed, I couldn’t get another one. So I when with Samsung.
I don’t hate the Samsung, but I don’t like it either. And now the USB connector is fucked. I had to buy a wireless charger to keep the phone charged up. I can’t download photos to my computer anymore. Fuck Samsung.
I had good luck with Samsung, I always buy refurbished from Amazon.
My S6 lasted 6 years until fell into a tidal pool running on the beach.
I have an S10 now with 64GB because it has all of my 500 or so CD’s on it, hope for at least 6 years.
The Samsung has a nice camera. But, I can no longer get photos off the camera on to my computer.
Can’t you email them to yourself?
I have done that to get a photo I really needed.
But I have a habit of taking lots of photos of my projects and then downloading to computer. I use the photos for class notes and for articles that occasionally post here.
So, I need to be able to grab several dozen photos at a time.
I expect I need to find some bluetooth dongle to plug into my desktop to connect to my phone.
What about a cloud storage service like DropBox?
*looks below*
ah…
I set up a NextCloud server in my rack at home and my phone backs everything up there as it’s created.
Here’s a bunch of options to do it wirelessly. There’s a bunch of cloud storage options. Probably even one or two that aren’t owned by Google/Apple/Microsoft/Amazon.
Fuck cloud storage. I hate all the service providers.
You probably want a wifi sync app that will automatically execute when the laptop and phone are on the same network.
There are a few available. I don’t know which is best.
I wasn’t aware of those. I will investigate.
https://www.pcmag.com/how-to/how-to-wirelessly-transfer-photos-from-your-phone-to-your-pc#:~:text=PhotoSync,to%20low%2Dquality%20JPG%20images.
That was the link I meant to post. It lists some wifi transfer apps.
I remember now, my S6 did that to me and I took it to a repair place and they fixed it, but it was expensive because they broke the screen (which they warned me could happen).
The engineer in me wants to throttle whichever dumbfuck decided to put a cheap connector into a many, many hundred dollar phone.
They’re better than the rest, at least in my (limited) experience.
What about the LG G8? https://www.amazon.com/LG-ThinQ-LMG820TM-T-Mobile-Unlocked/dp/B07WGJ3NTF/ref=psdc_7072561011_t3_B08HBXM4RM
My last phone was a LG G8. I loved it.
That is a thought…
Guess who published all their trial data under cover of the Ukraine clusterfuck?
Hitler?
No that’s not right, I am not good at this.
This should be good. Do you have any links?
https://phmpt.org/pfizers-documents/
Just raw data right now.
Took ’em long enough to “clean it up”.
I wonder what the real data shows.
This is the stuff the FDA wanted 70 years to produce?
According to the commentary I’m reading, yes.
Interesting that they would release this without a gun to their head, especially after setting the expectations that we won’t get it until after everyone that cares is dead.
They were court ordered to…lol.
150 total, 125 of them released yesterday.
Basement nerds, assemble!
4CHAN……activate!
ewwww…
Letitia James?
Russia appears to be holding to its initial demands in the talks.
https://news.antiwar.com/2022/03/01/report-second-round-of-russia-ukraine-talks-could-start-as-soon-as-wednesday/
its demand for Russia to return Crimea
Ukraine is no where near the position of strength it would require for this to be taken seriously.
Russia also wants Ukraine to recognize the breakaway Donbas republics of Donetsk and Luhansk
This is not unreasonable.
That one is a complete non-starter for a number of reasons, and Ukraine knows it. I expect they just put it in there as a negotiating tactic.
I think it’d be more reasonable to hold a referendum on their independence with international observers rather than just straight recognition. It’s hard to tell whether the two breakaway states are organic or instigated/magnified by Russian interference. Consider the “salami-slice” tactics of the PRC.
The Stockman article pointed to the voting patterns in the 2014 election, that put the pro-Russian in the presidency and precipitated a coup. The voting clearly indicated the split – far more graphically than our own red/blue split.
Voting for a Pro-Russian candidate is significantly different from voting for independence. A proper vote with observers in peace-time, no matter the result, would lead to a less acrimonious split than a unilateral and embarrassing cession after a defeat in battle – which would cause friction down the road.
I’m all for DPR and LPR to be independent or join Russia, so long as that’s what the people on the ground actually want – the trouble is getting an honest assessment of their desires.
The Donbas region has been getting shelled for the past six or seven years by the Ukrainians for seceding after the 2014 coup. They held a referendum back in 2015 to join Russia which passed easily, but Russia said no. Luhansk and Donetsk would rather continue fighting than rejoin Ukraine.
Luhansk and Donetsk would rather continue fighting than rejoin Ukraine.
I’m sure the actual Russian soldiers and “mercenaries” there would rather continue fighting. I don’t really have any info I trust about what the residents think. Referenda under Russian occupation don’t strike me as super-reliable.
I wonder if there are any border provinces in Russia that might prefer Ukraine? Why not hold referendums in all the border provinces, if we are moving boundaries around.
Yes, I know that (except for the referendum). And they’ve similarly been attacking Ukrainian forces with Russian help for the last few years too – but that’s immaterial.
As for the referendum, I’m not trusting a referendum that happened in a state of current civil war, with armed men on both sides, tempers running high, two more powerful neighbors jockeying for control, no oversight, etc. etc. The U.S.A. can’t even hold an election without massive irregularities and fraud, why would I think a region with all of that working against it could?
As for continuing fighting, you’re anthropomorphising. They aren’t Luhansk and Donetsk, they’re people in Luhansk and Donetsk, who claim to represent the will of the majority of non-combatants who may or may not agree.
Once again, I’m all for self-determination. I believe in it. But that’s just it, without some kind of impartial observer ensuring people are voting under the same rules and fairly, whose will is being expressed?
Why do I find it extraordinarily unlikely that the Russians mounted a full-scale invasion of Ukraine to . . . . maintain the status quo ante?
Except for the “parliamentary commitment to neutrality”, which strikes me as valid until the next vote. And the Russians know it.
Here’s a problem with these negotiations:
The Russians are asking for Ukraine to give. If they get what they want, they will have demonstrated that any time they want more, all they have to do is invade. And they are asking Ukraine to leave itself isloated and weak (“neutrality” means “no defense treaties with anyone”). If I’m a Ukrainian, there’s zero upside (other than the Russians stop this invasion, which isn’t small). But I would have no reason to believe they won’t be back. Sure, it sucks to be a buffer state, but this is just flat-out extortion, literally at gunpoint. That’s gonna be tough for the Ukrainians to agree to.
“ The expensive Japanese toilet seemed to have fallen into a defensive crouch.”
Pure poetry, every word of it. Perhaps my favorite Joemala yet.
Also, that photo with Hunter is supremely creepy. Is it photoshop?
Unaltered from New York Magazine.
https://nymag.com/intelligencer/2021/04/hunter-biden-memoir-beautiful-things.html
You are just so perfect at taking the real stuff and without doing a thing making it more horrifying.
I initially thought it was from that goddammed Popular Mechanics article that was published back during the Obama administration.
I still hate them for that pile of excrement.
But who hasn’t kissed their 5 year olds, girls and boys? I don’t remember but I’m guessing my 6 year old boy would have started rejecting any masculine advances.
I’m thinking I may have kissed my dad the last time I saw him, I’d have been early 30s and on my way overseas. As it turned out I was right. Just a glancing one on the side of a grizzled stubbly cheek.
Lady Jill MacBeth-Biden physically steering her doddering hubby away from the press.
https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-10570005/Jill-Biden-walks-drag-Joe-Marine-One.html
“To bed, to bed, to bed!”