My favorite cats are the big cats.
My favorite big cats are the Snow Leopards.
Cuz they're the best athletes.
Sunday, May 19, 2019
Today's GIF
My favorite critters are cats.
My favorite cats are the big cats.
My favorite big cats are the Snow Leopards.
Cuz they're the best athletes.
My favorite cats are the big cats.
My favorite big cats are the Snow Leopards.
Cuz they're the best athletes.
Saturday, May 18, 2019
An Observation
Staring at your phone doesn't carry the same connotation of loneliness and alienation as it did 20 years ago, but the effect is almost the same.
Friday, May 17, 2019
Today's Beau
The Fifth Column - Justin King
Numbers, Chapter 5:
11 Then the Lord said to Moses, 12 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him 13 so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act), 14 and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure—or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure— 15 then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah[c] of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour olive oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder-offeringto draw attention to wrongdoing.
16 “‘The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the Lord. 17 Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water. 18 After the priest has had the woman stand before the Lord, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse. 19 Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you.20 But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”—21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse[d] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. 22 May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”
“‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.”
Numbers, Chapter 5:
11 Then the Lord said to Moses, 12 “Speak to the Israelites and say to them: ‘If a man’s wife goes astray and is unfaithful to him 13 so that another man has sexual relations with her, and this is hidden from her husband and her impurity is undetected (since there is no witness against her and she has not been caught in the act), 14 and if feelings of jealousy come over her husband and he suspects his wife and she is impure—or if he is jealous and suspects her even though she is not impure— 15 then he is to take his wife to the priest. He must also take an offering of a tenth of an ephah[c] of barley flour on her behalf. He must not pour olive oil on it or put incense on it, because it is a grain offering for jealousy, a reminder-offeringto draw attention to wrongdoing.
16 “‘The priest shall bring her and have her stand before the Lord. 17 Then he shall take some holy water in a clay jar and put some dust from the tabernacle floor into the water. 18 After the priest has had the woman stand before the Lord, he shall loosen her hair and place in her hands the reminder-offering, the grain offering for jealousy, while he himself holds the bitter water that brings a curse. 19 Then the priest shall put the woman under oath and say to her, “If no other man has had sexual relations with you and you have not gone astray and become impure while married to your husband, may this bitter water that brings a curse not harm you.20 But if you have gone astray while married to your husband and you have made yourself impure by having sexual relations with a man other than your husband”—21 here the priest is to put the woman under this curse—“may the Lord cause you to become a curse[d] among your people when he makes your womb miscarry and your abdomen swell. 22 May this water that brings a curse enter your body so that your abdomen swells or your womb miscarries.”
“‘Then the woman is to say, “Amen. So be it.”
Thursday, May 16, 2019
Bluff And Bluster
No, Bluff & Bluster isn't the name of Trump's favorite law firm, and as easy as it might be to believe, it's not the GOP's Media Consulting Company.
It is, however, pretty much 45*'s general approach to everything he tries to do.
He makes a big noise - he stomps and stumbles and wrecks the jungle - but it's almost always little more than display. All he wants to do is get people riled up enough that they do something they think he wanted them to do (or something they think will thwart whatever they think he's trying to get somebody to do), and then he makes a decision on which way to move after they've acted - so he can put himself in a position that best suits his own ambitions.
Get the other guy to commit, then counterpunch.
And always always always remember - the guy has no principles. Everything is fungible to him.
The first three words in 45*'s bible are GET THE MONEY.
But through it all, the one thing he's never wavered on is the question of What's Good For Vladimir Putin.
So I don't know what's up with the Iran thing, but what I think we can be dead solid sure about is that nobody in this total clusterfuck we call the US government right now is telling us the truth about much of anything.
WaPo:
The Trump administration has been on high alert in response to what military and intelligence officials have deemed specific and credible threats from Iran against U.S. personnel in the Middle East.
It is, however, pretty much 45*'s general approach to everything he tries to do.
He makes a big noise - he stomps and stumbles and wrecks the jungle - but it's almost always little more than display. All he wants to do is get people riled up enough that they do something they think he wanted them to do (or something they think will thwart whatever they think he's trying to get somebody to do), and then he makes a decision on which way to move after they've acted - so he can put himself in a position that best suits his own ambitions.
Get the other guy to commit, then counterpunch.
And always always always remember - the guy has no principles. Everything is fungible to him.
The first three words in 45*'s bible are GET THE MONEY.
But through it all, the one thing he's never wavered on is the question of What's Good For Vladimir Putin.
So I don't know what's up with the Iran thing, but what I think we can be dead solid sure about is that nobody in this total clusterfuck we call the US government right now is telling us the truth about much of anything.
WaPo:
But President Trump is frustrated with some of his top advisers, who he thinks could rush the United States into a military confrontation with Iran and shatter his long-standing pledge to withdraw from costly foreign wars, according to several U.S. officials. Trump prefers a diplomatic approach to resolving tensions and wants to speak directly with Iran’s leaders.
Disagreements over assessing and responding to the recent intelligence — which includes a directive from Iran’s supreme leader, Ayatollah Ali Khamenei, that some American officials interpret as a threat to U.S. personnel in the Middle East — are also fraying alliances with foreign allies, according to multiple officials in the United States and Europe.
So a coupla things:
- 45* is a chickenshit. As soon as he's assured that a couple of his buddies have a firm grip on him, he's the guy who makes a big show of "wanting to fight" while looking straight into the camera saying he could kill the guy if he wanted to, but not right now and blah blah blah.
- He can't commit until he knows more about what Putin wants, and even then he has to weigh it against what he can get from the Saudis &/or the Israelis in terms of money in his pockets.
Today's Tweet
Nobody goes broke overestimating the gullibility of the average rube.
For $45, Lance Wallnau and Jim Bakker will sell you a Trump/Cyrus coin that you can use as a "point of contact" between you and God as you pray for Trump's re-election in 2020. pic.twitter.com/EwKgGL7sNp— Right Wing Watch (@RightWingWatch) May 14, 2019
Esquire has the full accounting of it:
There's nothing like a televangelist to remind you this is a nation of salesmen.
Grifters from all over have greased into his Cabinet and administration, either to live high on the hog on the taxpayer dime or do some favors for industry so they'll get handed a sack of cash when they head through the Revolving Door. Fox News and conservative media and right-wing youth groups are all feeding The Base of aging Caucasians a steady diet of resentment and fear of a changing world in exchange for advertising revenue and donor cash.
And of course, the Evangelical leaders who backed Trump without regard for any discernible Christian principle are having a grand old time. There's nothing like a televangelist to remind you this is a nation of salesmen, and that more often than not, they're peddling snake oil. The latest example comes to us via the Jim Bakker Show, and an intriguing chap who goes by Dr. Lance Wallnau.
We are so fucked.
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