135 thoughts on “Extraordinary One Time Meme Post”

    2. The aardvark brings out bonbons to tide us over because of course Fluffy thinks popcorn insufficient. We are having a BBQ. The sea serpent in the minion pool is contributing shrimp — both to the BBQ and as a shrimp cocktail to tide us over.

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    3. The cart is over in the corner. *points with tail* There’s plain, caramel, kettle corn, extra butter, no butter (very plain), white cheddar, hot cinnamon (special request), more plain, and a small tub of popcorn cluster crunch with pecan pieces and a chocolate drizzle.

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      1. Do not try the tubs for Fluffy. Or the sea serpent. Or, for that matter, the aardvark.

        Ambulance service is reliable in that one will show up. Which dimension it will take you to for treatment is less so.

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  2. Mystery cat report:

    It snowed again. Bit less than a foot, drifts up to two. The mini fuzz horde catterized the house again. Doofus is conked out on top of the library shelf. Nasty scampered in with his pink dino, which needed to be washed again, much to his consternation. Why does it need to be washed? Because it was slimy with dirty snow kicked up by the salt trucks is why. Silly cat.

    Neighborcat and Othercat did not immediately appear. This happens sometimes as the two get their hunt on. They’ve hunted in the snow, in thunderstorms, and once during a really loud party two houses down that got the cops called on them thrice. They brought in a small raptor once- not the dinosaur, the hunting bird. It apparently hunted the wrong “prey.”

    As the evening went on, still no Neighborcat. This was unusual. He rarely misses the evening check in. So out I went to see what critter he’d murderized this time. Probably trying to drag something thrice his weight back to show what a mighty hunter he is. Wouldn’t be the first, nor even the hundred and forty-first time. Othercat was probably in on the shenanigans. Like the last time they hunted skunk.

    No cats under the porch. It’s a bit warmer there, so sometimes it’s a spot to hide in while the white wet stuff comes down. Checked the garage. Nope. Uncatterized. Called for the fuzzballs. Still no scruffy little fuzz. Huh. That’s odd.

    So up and down the street it was. In the snow. Flakes fatter than a silver dollar coin. Wet, sticky ones too. Got a few down the back of my jacket. Not fun, that. By the time I came back down the street, my footprints were half full.

    About the time I was like to head back inside for something hot to get in me, finally spotted it. Underneath the Christmas tree pine, limbs bowed down low with solid glowball warming, kittycat prints. Ah ha. Gotcha.

    So up and under the tree do I go. I can remember back in the day, sneaking up under these kind of trees in the snow. Wind doesn’t bit down under there. It’s a teensy might warmer. The snow insulates. Once you get a warm spot in the dirt, you don’t want to move. And so there they were. Neighborcat and Othercat.

    Plus one.

    In between the two huddled furry monsters was a kitten. A not even eyes open kitten. Barely a few days old, max, by my reckoning.

    What. The. Fuzz.

    So of course into the house we went. Bottled up the littlest monster, because that’s what you do with infants. Called around the neighbors to check and see who was missing a microfuzz.

    Nope. Not a one. No preggers kittycats around. No wild ones noticed. No new neighbors. Nobody saw some fool dropping off a feline and running, as sometimes happens with idiots that take a responsibility they aren’t prepared for and panic, dumping it somewhere.

    Where did the scampy little thing come from? That’s the question. In the middle of a bloody snowstorm, no less. How in Heaven’s name did it survive? It’s now gumming the towel it’s burrito wrapped in, just finished two bottles just about back to back. Where the heck does it put it all? There’s a black hole in this one’s stomach, like as not.

    The foursome are mighty curious of the newest tenant of the house. Everyone wanders up to take a sniff and give her the hairy eyeball. No frostbite, surprisingly enough. Just one noisy, stinky, messy, needy little wad of fuzz. Doofus got a little too close and the wee one took a nosh on his nose. Backed him up right smartly, that did. Wee little thing has no sense of personal space. Or balance. Thus the burrito wrap. Shivery little thing needs the warmth. A toasty towel from the drier was just the thing.

    Time will tell whether the mystery of the critter ever gets solved. In the mean time, there’s work to be done. Neighbor cat tried to share his dead mouse with the newest addition, but she don’t have the teeth to chomp it with yet. Othercat’s keeping close watch on the wee one. And Doofus is off pretending his nose is squashed, burying his fuzzy face between the couch cushions.

    Hope y’all have a warmer day out there. It’s a good day to be an American today. And a lucky one for one tiny fuzzball. Be safe. Be thankful. Be ready for what comes, come what may. There’s evils enough in this world to be wary of. But there’s beauty and wonder to be found, too, if one’s canny enough to recognize it when one finds it.

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    1. My friend who fosters lost animals was approached on Christmas Eve by a 5 week old kitten. While she was packing to go out of state. So I got a call: “Do you still want a kitten?”

      Leo seems to be adapted well to Stately Kiernan Manor. But he was overexcited yesterday so I have 3 new bandaids on my hand and arm today…how long before they stop trying to disembowel their human friends?

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      1. Depending on the cat, a few weeks to a few months to never. The young ones don’t know how to be careful with their claws and teeth. Usually it’s the older cats that teach them. If they’re alone, you need to teach them their manners.

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        1. We had a lab-aussie pup who would chew anything. I was very glad when she lost the puppy teeth, so I didn’t need all the band-aids.

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        2. I always found a tap on the head and a stern “No claws” or “No bite” worked. Along with praise and pets when they weren’t being rude with their sharp bits.

          Of course my cats were considerably older when I got them.

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      2. No help here. All I can suggest longer term is start clipping the little nails now. Okay, at this stage those little needles are too tiny, but go through the motions. Start clipping as soon as claws are actually big enough. You’ll thank yourself later as the cat moves into old age and at that point it is a “must”, or the nails curl into the pads and now you have a veterinarian visit. Trust me, wait until “must”, be well armored or be prepared to take to veterinarian or groomer regularly.

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          1. At least won’t fight about it. Verbal on their disapproval. Shouldn’t need blood infusion afterwards.

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    4. I’m so glad you found the wee one. Good luck. remember to rub her tummy to make her go poo. cotton ball, in circles. And it helps if you can wear her close to your body. They can’t regulate temperature. That’s how our little Valeria came to us. Some day I’ll tell you the story of the UPS man an the third boob. I don’t suppose she’s orange? Coming yesterday, Gato Naranja Mala seems the obvious name ;)

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    6. Aww. New baby.

      Concur with Sarah comment below. Keep her close for warmth. Peeing and pooping help is required. Need to make sure, but in all likelihood Neighborcat and Othercat will assist with this. After all they are the ones who rescued her first.

      Also one begging for pictures now, and over the next few weeks as she grows and thrives.

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      1. BTW this is how we got our D’Artagnan, older son’s cat, now dead almost two years (At the honorable age of 21.) He was not bottle baby, but 8 week old, walked in in the middle of a snow storm. We never found where he came from or why he chose us. He just darted in, while we were bringing groceries from the car, helped himself to gooshy food, touched noses with each of our cats, and settled down. Weird IS cat.

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    8. I was deprived of sleep last night because of the bottle babies from last May decided to get the zoomies. For two hours. And he’s 9 months old and 10+ pounds of solid muscle, and I was his favorite ricochet board for much of that time. I finally got fed up and shut the bedroom door…and then woke up at 530 this morning because i was freezing (it’s been miserable here)

      Still worth it though. (But this is, generally, why I don’t foster animals. They’d all be foster fails like these two were.)

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        1. I have what was supposed to be a foster… I’ve had her since last Feb, although it might be truer to say that she’s had me… she sleeps on the Chewbacca squashmallow beside my pillow and paws at the blankets to be let under when it’s cold and comes and purrs on my chest when my alarm goes off to try and keep me from leaving.

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          1. None of our current cats do the nightly bury into the blankets and sleep between mom and dad. They’ll help make the bed, getting entangled in the sheets and blanket, but not sleep under them. Both hand raised kittens, from they were very tiny did. Cuddle right up to bare skin … I’m ticklish. Thump would cuddle up on the pillow and insist on tucking his head into the back of my neck (I sure miss that cat).

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            2. Jase hates being under fabric. Unless it is laundry on the floor, including bed sheets. In which case he dives in and out, buries himself, and generally acts like an orange cat of little brain.

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              1. ” an orange cat of little brain?”

                Is there any other type of “orange cat”? [Evil Grin]

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                1. Well there is the Hoyt Orange Engineer … Our orange Thump (not quiet, thus his name) was smart. He must have distributed his brain cells between Tj and Hoyt household Orange cats.

                  Either that or orange cats have been fooling us all along. Just too smart for our own good.

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      2. If I shut the bedroom door, the cold air doesn’t reach the thermostat in the hall and the room gets colder than a witch’s you know what. So I occasionally have a purring lump sleeping on my legs or attacking my feet.

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        1. Heating at my house is a woodstove, no thermostat at all…

          (Propane stoves are currently out of commission, and I was too bleary to remember the little space heater, lol.)

          Little bugger apparently was feeling guilty: he spent most of last night snuggled up to my knee. He NEVER sleeps with me…

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  3. Anyone else notice a striking similarity between the face of Elon Musk today, and George Takei as Sulu? Most especially the Elon pic in “Scissorhands” above.

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  4. I didn’t get squat done either…but now I feel a little better about it.

    I did watch a lot of CSPAN. Favorite was the fife, drum and bugle part of reviewing the troops. Do they do that every time?

    Time to get back to MAGA. Work, accomplish!

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    1. WordPress (DE) ate my comment. Shorter version now.

      I/we spent much of yesterday cleaning up a couple tree’s worth of pine cones. Wanted to get it done before that dirt turned into mud or something close. Doing yard work wearing mittens is interesting, but between $SPOUSE, Kat-the-dog and me, we got it done.

      Now to see if any of this can be burned. Not very hopeful, but it’s been dry since early this year. Cold to make up for it.

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      1. Be careful. The cold without accompanying moisture/snow, makes everything drier, pulls what little moisture there is out of the soil.

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        1. There are several* years of pine needles that are turning into duff, and that’s helping to retain some moisture.

          A lot of our soil is like popcorn; walk on it and you sink down a couple-three inches. About the only bare dirt that isn’t like that is where the very occasional creek runs. (Takes a heavy snowfall and a heavy rain afterwards. Happens maybe every 5 years.)

          ((*)) “Several” because reasons. Between medical adventures and lengthy projects (some lengthy-er because medical…), raking up needles was way down on the Honeydo list. Sigh.

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  6. We had a decent snowfall early this year, but nothing since. Thus, any pine cones that dropped show up nicely. Wayyyyyy too nicely. So I got the Coleman yard trailer (formerly a tent trailer, debodied and redone as an open box with used decking) and tools of destruction and got a bunch of cones before lunch. Way too cold for it to be fun; discovered it is possible to pick up cones (poop-scooper FTW) in mittens. It warmed up, so after lunch $SPOUSE and Kat-the-dog and I got the rest.

    For obscure reasons, Kat-the-dog goes nuts whenever any of us get on a tractor, whether the garden tractor or the utility one. She hasn’t seen me on a tractor since fall, so there’s a bit of a memory gap. [Makes note to remove the tire chains. Makes for a lumpy ride with very hard gravel. The snow blade can get stashed, too. Awaiting a 2′ dump to remind me not to do that in winter…]

    The burn pile array has a nice new pile. If it stays dry, I might try a burn. Gotta work on that carbon footprint.

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  8. Seriously, the Left’s Hitler delusion is psychotic at this point. I don’t think real Nazis were this obsessed with Hitler. This obsession with a dead political movement is poisoning our public discourse.

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      1. Donks be like a convention of subbies “…wont someone please be cruel?”, and the doms all said “Nope, not attending.”

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  12. take a chill pill on pardon dooming, also

    Prisoners released, if abused in ways that are a crime against humanity/human rights abuse?

    They can maybe file civil suits now.

    Which are maybe the key to establishing a fact pattern under law.

    Which is maybe such that the government can find that the magnitsky act should be enforced against certain persons.

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    2. If some of the stuff posted on Gateway Pundit is real, I can see criminal charges against some of the guards/thugs.

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  14. I think there was one this morning showing Melania in her outfit saying Trump was the first POTUS to unlock the Mysterious Stranger perk from the Fallout games.

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    1. You can almost hear that “whistle… wah wah wah.”

      Put her in a gunbelt with a pair of sixguns. Wowzer.

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      2. Or a sawed-off 12-ga; her outfit has the look of Doc Holliday in “Tombstone”. I can almost hear her saying to Kamala “You’re my huckleberry”.

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        1. Or, y’know, crossed bandoliers of. 45 Long Colt and not much else. Uh, sorry, where was I?

          I think it’s the hat. With her razor-sharp facial features, hiding the eyes like that is oddly intimidating. And while I wouldn’t exactly say she’s got RBF, she can look quite serious when she wants to. Combine that, facial geometry, and the hat, and she looked simultaneously hotter AND colder than the DC wind chill yesterday.

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          1. “Or, y’know, crossed bandoliers of. 45 Long Colt and not much else. Uh, sorry, where was I?”

            On a Korean MMO? ;-)

            (Seriously, saw a video trailer on YouTube for a “gunslinger” class for Black Desert Online earlier today.)

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  16. Apparently after the Inauguration yesterday, Harris promptly flew to LA County and visited a fire crew. She certainly doesn’t think she’s done with politics yet.

    On another note, there’s a post on X that went viral last week. A woman posted a picture of a note she said her female friend had been given at a hacking convention. According to the info provided, she was handed the note by a guy at the con. It says she looks nice, her hair also looks nice, and would she like to get together? A phone number (which is covered up) is also on the note.

    The post was made with a “look at the silly loser of a man” sort of tone. But the response was a strong backlash. People noted that some guy had taken the risk of trying to ask a woman out, and his reward had been public (albeit anonymous) ridicule. With attitudes like that it’s no wonder so many men aren’t asking women out.

    And then people looked closer, and noted that the hand-writing looked decidedly feminine…

    The current theory is that the whole thing was made up in an attempt to mock men as hapless losers.

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    1. at a hacking convention?

      *If* true, it was probably all the poor guy could do to pass a note complimenting her hair. The denizens of such conventions often do *not* people particularly well.

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        1. I didn’t mention that, so I’m guessing that you saw the original post on X. But for those unaware, yes, the claim was also made that the recipient of the note was the only woman at the con.

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    2. One alternative interpretation:

      Posting of the note identifying it as an anonymous “fail” is, however unintentionally, a public service. Because it lets the awkward young men know that *this was not a useful approach.* So they don’t do it themselves. An opportunity to learn from others’ mistakes is a *good* thing.

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      1. Perhaps.

        But as I noted, the handwriting on the note has a decidedly female style to it. That would suggest that it was a fraud from start to finish, purely to dunk on men.

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      2. In addition to what I wrote in my other response –

        The sort of guy who goes to a “hacker con” is probably not the most self-assured individual out there in a social situation. So if the note is real, this is likely a decided “working up his courage” moment for the poor guy who wrote the note. It’s not the most artful or romantic ask. But it’s also not rude, and there’s nothing vulgar about it.

        The general consensus is that a simple “No, but thanks,” to the guy who wrote the note would have been sufficient. Plastering it up for all the world to see in an attempt to mock men (or the type of men who attend a “hacker con”) will merely crush his self-esteem, and encourage him to turtle up again where the fairer sex is concerned. It also does the same to other men. It is a genuine fear among men – particularly the more socially awkward ones – that an attempt to ask a woman out will lead to public ridicule when she rejects him. This incident reinforces that fear. And that’s an issue, given the number of complaints I see among both men and women about dating these days.

        Again, assuming that the note is legitimate.

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        1. It is a genuine fear among men – particularly the more socially awkward ones – that an attempt to ask a woman out will lead to public ridicule when she rejects him.

          In the #MeToo era, it leads to accusations both civil and criminal.

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          1. No, because it’s almost certain that the thing was a fraud, based on the hand-writing. However, if it is real, then someone out there knows that he asked a woman out, and she publicly ridiculed his attempt even if she didn’t identify the person who did it. That sort of thing hurts.

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  19. Might have 🤣laughed a bit hard over the software install and “Biden Uninstall” a bit hard.

    The Socialist NAZI (redundant, I know) democratic salutes is too true.

    Biden’s late minute pardon Fauci recipient meme? That image does not just apply to Fauci, but to everyone in that list he pardoned. The “family members” (“Everyone each screwed” ?) label will change. Just as true otherwise.

    President Trump dancing with Liz Warren OMG 👏👏👏👏👏

    Baron Trump. What did his parents feed him? Did they put him on stretchers at night? President Trump isn’t a short man. Baron towers over him and the rest of the family! Good looking young man.

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    1. If I had to guess, Melania’s genetics have probably been dealing with poor nutrition for several generations. In such cases there’s a tendency for the first generation of kids to be oversized. But subsequent generations end up looking more normal.

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    2. There was an argument online last night as to whether the kid is 6’9″ or 6’7″. Apparently last reported height was 6’7″…but that was about six months ago, and he IS of an age they’re still growing…

      In any case, that kid’s a perambulating obelisk. Very impressive. And I’d LOVE to know what he said to Biden when he shook his hand that wiped the smile off Biden’s face… (It was very short. Probably only “Goodbye” or “You’re done” but still)

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      1. *Raises paw* can vouch for guys growing later than some. A relative went to college at 5’ 6” and came back that summer at 5’ 9”. Seniors also seem to get growth spurts. I’ve learned to duck when the gents get enthusiastic, because they don’t always remember that they have wingspans.

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        1. I grew over two inches taller in my mid thirties, and another half inch in my mid fifties.

          Mom grew over 2″ in her sixties. -That- is six-sigma weird.

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          1. I won’t talk about my waistline, but my feet have gone from a size 13 at age 50 to a 15 at age 72. Lost two inches in height, too. Not uncommon, and the back doesn’t hurt as much as it could…

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          2. I did not know that about seniors. Huh. I might get my wish of topping six feet after all! (I stopped one measly inch short. I figured if I was gonna be stuck as a tall girl, I ought to have gone whole hog, lol)

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          1. Can you imagine if Trump had passed a vanilla ice cream cone to Biden at the inauguration?

            The Trollmaster stayed his Orange hand. That speech could have been a bloodbath of snark.

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            1. I mean. It was still a bloodbath. Just, you know, delivered in a soft voice. Is it just me, or is Trump mostly more soft-spoken than prior to July…? I know he’s certainly less bombastic, and definitely even more determined.

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              1. You didn’t watch the Emancipation Hall/Visitor’s Center speech to people who couldn’t get into the Rotunda (including Governor Abbott (?) of Texas). Trump said that Melania, Susan Biles, and other advisors told him not to be as pointed and accusatory as he had intended, and that he’d gone along with it.

                He then said some of the stuff he’d wanted to say in the inauguration speech, to his MAGA people.

                He also disclosed that Melania’s feet hurt in those heels.

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              2. He is being Donald J Trump, businessman who gets what he wants, as opposed to The Donald, bombastic entertainer

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      1. How all political uninstalls work. Luckily the prior install didn’t quite uninstall and clean up everything their prior political entity did (the tax cuts and tariffs, just the visible stuff). OTOH the last 4 years likely left some sticky stinky things lying around.

        Am curious about the letter 46 left for 47 hidden in the Resolute Desk instead of in plain sight as is traditional.

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  20. Well, not quite right on the intro. At 10:05 my time, I double-checked the east coast time.

    A surge of energy then came over me! I got more done with the rest of the day than I did all of last week.

    Now, admittedly, I was up WAY past my bedtime last night, watching the highlights of the events, reading some of the EOs, poking (metaphorical) sharp sticks into various Left eyes.

    But I still feel quite good today, and believe that I will have another day of catching up on some of the massive backlog around here.

    If this lasts for at least 100 days, I’ll be in a much better place. MIGHT even get some words of fiction done…

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  21. I got jack crap nothing done yesterday, rejoicing, crying, more rejoicing, more weeping.

    I read this first thing this morning and I knew if I commented then, I’d be done again today.

    I can’t even describe the relief. I didn’t know the destruction of the republic weighed so heavy.

    Rejoice!

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  23. I went to see how troll boy is doing on his site. Not only is there a short Trump impersonater who was probably sworn in seperately, Musk is a paid crisis actor larping as a billionaire inventor/super video game guy/some third thing. He maintains that Musk gave the Nazi salute to undermine Trump and is going to slip the shiv in when his one world handlers give him the word.

    Aside from it being lunacy….someone invented the rockets and everything else so unless they have a captive genius in the basement…

    I know he is a troll but I think he slipped bis meds.

    and this is what I love about all this. Its not just masks….they all lost their minds.

    Every last one.

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      2. As he is a troll, I think he is mostly maling crap up to feed his folowers…..but I know he went from luke warm trump supporter to outraged deva when he didnt go Ceasar on the dems butts in 2020.
        Also Qanon betrayed him….Day not Trump

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        1. Oh. I had the wrong person. Same take as Voldomort on the “nazi” salute, but definitely not the T that he is… (AC, not He Who Must Not Be Named).

          Interesting that Sundance of CTH is highly skeptical of Musk. When he’s doing something good (Starlink, Starship), he’s wonderful. Some of the government stuff? There’s the skepticism.

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  24. Climate change alert- today we had a blizzard in New Orleans. Also Houston. Florida is getting snow.

    Anyone seen any flying pigs?

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    1. The Reader has a nephew in Savannah and friends in Myrtle Beach. Their uniform reaction is WTF is this? His grand nieces south of Jacksonville are bemoaning that they are only getting (cold) rain.

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      1. Not surprised. Jax has had two snowfalls since 1967. Given all the drivers promptly start playing bumper cars, that’s probably a good thing.

        But I’d rather have snow than cold rain, so I sympathize with them.

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    3. No, but so many other things have happened that I think Old Scratch is tapping the furnace thermostat and calling for a hurry-up coal and firewood delivery, because the ceiling is growing icicles.

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      1. We’re (supposed to be) used to the cold, but 10F this morning was 10 degrees more brisk than I preferred. Cold enough that Kat-the-dog only played for a little while. I still have to remind her that she is a border collie, not a malamute.

        OTOH, we’ve stayed above 0F so far. I hope S Oregon doesn’t get Algored.

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  25. Re: installing America 2.0
    There was a flurry of interest some years back about “America 3.0”

    With “America 2.0” being the big-government version whose start the book pegs around 1913.

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  26. WRAL-TV (Raleigh, NC) had a reporter in Nags Head (northern Outer Banks) reporting blowing snow around six pm EST. It started snowing in our neck of the woods (closer to Raleigh than the coast, by a little) around seven. It was snowing a little here around eleven. Maybe an inch of snow by then. Local TV website says 21 degrees F (or negative 6 Centigrade).

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    1. And i see this was previously posted. Ah well. Worth another look.

      -That- woman could stun in full 11B battle rattle.

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