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So, we know that for years I called Carlos Mister Magoo, as his eyesight progressively got worse … hey, it’s a term of endearment, and he knows it.

Well, this past Monday he went out to clean poop from the yard where Ozzo grazes; Ozzo has been confined to a small spot in the yard because he gets out, and we cannot find the spot, and with his bad eyesight, something awful could happen.

So, Carlos was cleaning poop, and came back in the house and told me his new name was:

Mister MagooPoop.

And so it is …

Back in June of 2010, I posted this about The Great Tuxedo:

“Artist's Model

Years ago, in San Francisco, a friend and I stumbled upon a cool little furniture store in the Mission, where I saw this piece of wrought iron sculpture called "Twisted Kitty."

I bought it instantly.

This morning, finding Tuxedo on the floor, I wondered if, in one of his Nine Lives, he'd been the inspiration.”

That cat could contort himself into so many positions.

On Fourth of July, the Republican Party’s official Twitter account posted this:

“247 years ago, our forefathers told Ol’ King George to get lost! Happy Independence Day from the GOP!”

Nice, I guess, but the flags they used in their graphic were not American flags but Liberian flags. Yes, the GOP can’t spot an American flag to save their lives.

Now a Confederate flag on the other hand …

A gunman armed with an AR-style rifle and a handgun and wearing a bulletproof vest killed five men and injured a toddler and teenager in a mass shooting in Southwest Philadelphia this week.

Just another day in the United States of Guns.

PS There were a total of sixteen mass shootings on Independence Day.

In Wyoming, for now, abortion pills will remain legal in Wyoming after a judge ruled that the state’s first-in-the-nation law to ban them won’t take effect as planned while a lawsuit proceeds.

In Florida a federal court blocked the state’s new drag show law, ruling the state’s effort to bar children from attending drag shows, or readings, is overly vague and likely unconstitutional. That news came one day after another federal court overturned a DeSantis-backed law prohibiting gender-affirming care treatment from being covered by Medicaid.

In Illinois Governor JB Pritzker signed legislation to ban libraries from banning books. Banning bans; I like that.

In Kentucky, a federal judge has blocked the state’s ban on gender-affirming care for trans youth from taking effect.

In Michigan, Nexstar Media Group fired one of its television news directors who sent out a memo urging reporters to lessen their coverage of Pride Month because the stories were upsetting conservative viewers.

Is anyone surprised about this? In a Supreme Court facing ethics challenges with at least four conservative justices, now comes the news that Lorie Smith’s, the website designer, case of denying service to a gay couple was an utter and complete lie.

The case [303 Creative LLC v. Elenis] was a hypothetical case about what might happen if a gay couple asked bigot and homophobe Bible-thumping Lorie Smith to design a website for their wedding.

Yes, the Supreme Court  ruled on a “what if” but if we vote, and if we get more than 67 Democrats in the Senate there could be a change to these grifting, lying, rogue, ruling for cash Justices. Impeach them.

After picking her son up from school one day, the mother asks him what he that day and he says:

"I had sex with my teacher."

The mother is furious and when they get home, she orders him to go straight to his room to wait until his father gets home. When the father gets home, the mother angrily tells him the news of what their son had done. As the father hears the news, a huge grin spreads across his face and he goes to his son's room and asks him what happened at school.

"I had sex with my teacher."

“Oh, son, I’m so proud of you, and so I am going to buy you that bicycle you’ve been wanting.”

On the way to the store, the dad asks his son if he would like to ride his new bike home, and the son says:

"No thanks Dad, my butt still hurts."

I warned you.

The Barbie movie opens soon and while I won’t be seeing it—it seems too cutesy and whimsical and, well, kinda dumb—there are some attractive men in it. So this week we’ll play Which One Would you Hit? We’ll start in the upper left corner and move clockwise through the mens, starting with Ryan Gosling, Ncuti Gatwa, Scott Evans, Simu Liu, Kingsley Ben-Adir and Conner Swindells. In full transparency I’d pick Kingsley Ben-Adir because he’s hot and he also satisfies my Barack Obama fantasies. Now it’s your turn …

The Funny Papers

Ed Hall, Pedro X. Molina, Kevin Siers, Michael de Adder, Lalo Alcaraz, Jack Ohman, Darrin Bell, Steve Breen, Clay Bennett, Steve Brodner, Mike Luckovich, David Fitzsimmons, Gary Markstein

The Bad and The Good ... Monday April 11, 2022

These really are the easiest posts to compile, because, literally, there are dumb people everywhere ... but that's what makes it so frightening. So this week, I decided to include some Good News as sort of a palette cleanser for the crazies …

ALABAMA

GOP Governor Kay Ivey has signed two anti-LGBTQ+ bills into law, a day after the state Legislature passed the legislation along party lines on the last day of the legislative session.

SB184 criminalizes gender-affirming surgeries for trans youth.

HB322, is Alabama’s ‘Don’t Say Gay’ bill, which also only allows people in schools to use the bathroom of the gender listed on their birth certificate.

Alabama and Kay Ivey and the GOP hate LGBTQ+ people.

Washington DC

Six GOP Congress members opposed a bill passed last week that encouraged efforts to document and preserve evidence of Russian war crimes during the war in Ukraine.

They don’t want to see evidence of war crimes because they don’t want to make Putin angry.

The six are, no surprise: Andy Biggs, Warren Davidson, Paul Gosar, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Tom Massie, and Scott Perry, and they are all  members of the House Freedom Caucus.

Vote. Them. Out.

Oklahoma

The GOP-controlled House gave final legislative approval last week to a bill that would make performing an abortion a felony, punishable by up to 10 years in prison. The bill will be sent to GOP Governor Kevin Stitt who says he will sign any anti-abortion bill that comes to his desk.

Governor Stitt, who contracted COVID in July 2020, announced a statewide day of fasting and prayer against COVID in December 2020.

On his inauguration day in January 2019, he declared that the primary mission of his administration would be to “bring people to Jesus.”

In April 2021, he signed into law a bill that legalizes running over protesters.

Cuz that’s what Jesus would do.

Tennessee

House and Senate Republicans are voting on legislation this week that would bypass the Supreme Court’s 2015 Obergefell ruling that finds same-sex couples have the same rights and responsibilities to marriage as their different-sex peers.

The bill creates all-age marriages classified as common-law “one man and one woman” unions while mandating the state defend in court any clerk who decides to not issue a marriage license for any reason.

Yes, The Gays can’t marry, but adults can marry children in Tennessee.

And now for some Good News …

KENTUCKY

Democratic Governor Andy Beshear vetoed a Republican-priority measure that would ban abortions in Kentucky after 15 weeks of pregnancy and regulate the dispensing of abortion pills because he questioned the constitutionality of the bill and criticized it for not including exceptions for pregnancies caused by rape or incest.

As an example, he said that a girl impregnated by her father—raped by her father—would have to notify him of her intent to get an abortion.

State lawmakers will have a chance to override the veto when they reconvene next week for the final two days of this year’s 60-day legislative session.

COLORADO

The left-leaning state has just enacted a law that enshrines a woman’s right to have an abortion in the state.

The Reproductive Health Equity Act affirms that pregnant people in Colorado have the right to continue a pregnancy and give birth or have an abortion, and it blocks public entities from denying or restricting that right.

Colorado joins 15 other states and Washington, D.C., in codifying the right to have an abortion either prior to a fetus's viability or throughout a pregnancy in state law.

CALIFORNIA

The California Senate Judiciary Committee passed SB 1327—legislation authored by Democratic Senator Robert Hertzberg and sponsored by Democratic Governor Gavin Newsom—to limit the spread of assault weapons and ghost guns.

Following the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision last December allowing Texas’s ban on most abortion services to remain in place, Governor Newsom directed his Administration to work with the Legislature to propose a measure, modeled on the structure of Texas’s abortion law, to enable private citizens to hold the gun industry accountable through civil litigation for the proliferation of illegal firearms.

SB 1327 allows private citizens to bring civil actions against any person who manufactures, distributes, transports, imports into the state or sells assault weapons, .50 BMG rifles, ghost guns, or ghost gun kits.

WISCONSIN

Kelly Ruh, a Wisconsin official who two years ago posed as a presidential elector for Thing 45 in an to overturn the 2020 election, lost her re-election.

Ruh sought a second term as an alderperson in De Pere but lost to Pamela Gantz. She received a subpoena from Congress earlier this year over her involvement in Stop-the-Steal efforts.

Please note that the Good News, the sensible news, comes from Democrat-run states, and Democratic Governors. That speaks volumes.

Get educated and save yourselves from The Stupids.

And CAST A GODDAMNED VOTE!

Good News: Barronelle Stutzman's Hate Cost her $5,000 and Her Job

I have been blogging about Barronelle Stutzman, owner of Arlene’s Flowers in Washington, for years now, and I’m hoping this will be the last time.

Back story: Barronelle had a gay coulee, Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed, who used her business for a decade, buying flowers for their birthdays, for their anniversary, for holidays, for condolences, and, well, just because. And when marriage equality came to Washington state, Ingersoll and Freed went to Arlene’s Flowers to order for their wedding, and that’s when Barronelle told them that her religion forbid her from selling flowers to gay men for their wedding.

And thus the lawsuits began; Robert Ingersoll and Curt Freed sued for discrimination based on sexual orientation, and Barronelle Stutzman whined about the Baby Jeebus telling her not to sell flowers to The Gays … well, sell to them for everything but their wedding. The case went back and forth and round and round and now, it finally looks like it’s over, eight years after it started.

A settlement agreement has been secured between the anti-LGBTQ+ Alliance Defending Freedom and the ACLU which finally ends that lawsuit brought against Stutzman without forcing her to act against her religious beliefs or to pay potentially ruinous attorneys’ fees—a threat she has endured for years.

But all is not golden for Stutzman; she will retire from the business she owns—meaning her bigotry is no longer on display—and she will withdraw a pending petition for rehearing at the Supreme Court –her case was heard once and she lost because … hate—and she must pau Ingersoll and she must pay Ingersoll and Freed $5,000.

Not a lot of money but, just think, if Barronelle Stutzman hadn’t been such a hate-filled bigot, she might have made a few thousand dollars for Ingersoll and Freed for their wedding, and then continued to make more from them over these last eight years, but, instead, she has to cough up the coins.

Let me say it as simply as I can for people like Barronelle Stutzman: if a gay couple asks you to bake a cake, or make a dress, or take some photos, or rent them a venue, for their wedding there are not asking you to take part in their event. They are simply making a business transaction. It only becomes an issue when y’all whip out your Bibles, which, if you read carefully, says nothing about denying services to gay couples who wish to marry.

You read the Bible wrong and spewed hate, and in the long run, you lost.

Good.

Bye.

Barronelle Stutzman Gets Busted!

UPDATE: Judge Rules Against Florist Who Refused Service To Gay Couple

An Open Letter To Barronelle Stutzman

I Didn't Say It ....

Barronelle Stutzman Is Still Whining And Lying

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Tuesday Thought #3

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At work this week—we are now all officially working from home—my boss was trying to figure out staffing; there were some who refused to come in, some who wanted to come in, some who couldn’t.

So, he was asking who wanted to work and who wanted to stay home and I suggested that maybe Racist Co-worker work from home:

Me: I think she has a pre-existing condition.

My boss: She does? What is it?

Me: No one likes her.

My boss loves me.

Last week a federal judge in Charleston has blocked South Carolina’s Department of Education [SCDE] from enforcing a sex education statute that discriminated against the LGBTQ+ community and other protected classes of citizens.

The statute would have banned any and all discussions of so-called “alternative” lifestyles. In addition Judge Norton  ordered SC superintendent of education Molly Spearman to circulate a memo to local superintendents across the state providing them with a copy of the decree and informing them that sex education curricula should be “designed and implemented without regard” to the offending statute.

South Carolina. Dragged into 2020.

Idris Elba, My-Husband-In-My-Head has tested positive for coronavirus:

“I feel ok, I have no symptoms so far but have been isolated since I found out about my possible exposure to the virus. Stay home people and be pragmatic. I will keep you updated on how I’m doing. No panic.”

This proves that warmer weather won’t kill the virus, because Idris is the hottest man on Earth, and he got it.

Sidenote: I have messaged Idris about coming to Smallville and letting me take care of him. Oh, and tend to his needs for the virus, too.

Couldn’t have happened to a more deserving place.

Mar-a-Lago resort won’t be open to the public for a while as it undergoes a deep cleaning after several guests of _____ tested positive for the coronavirus.

It should have been closed years ago because, as a ______, property you know it’s infested with bed bugs, rapists, con artists and grifters.

And, true story, Mar-a-lago tested positive for coronavirus after hosting a lavish birthday party for Junior’s 100% plastic mistress Kimberly Guilfoyle.

But, and this is about con artists and grifters. Did Junior pay for Botox Barbie’s Birthday Bash?

Nope; when it came to picking up the tab, Daddy’s supporters paid, because the _____’s pay for nothing. Welfare family.

I only post this, not because I believe it, but because I love the idea of having to deny it …

Oprah took to Twitter to dispel reports that she had been arrested for sex trafficking after a raid at her Boca Raton home.

Seriously. Orpah had to say:

‘I haven’t been arrested for sex trafficking.’

Wow.

Dan Lipinski, the only House Democrat who refused to sponsor the Equality Act, supported the Defense of Marriage Act and voted against marriage equality and LGBTQ non-discrimination bills, and opposed a woman’s right to choose, was beaten by Marie Newman.

Bye hater.

In these trying times, we look to our leaders to keep us clam, to show us the way, to, well, in the case of Prime Minister of Spain, Pedro Sánchez Pérez-Castejón, and French President, Emmanuel Macron, and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau, to get my motor running while I self-isolate.

I’d like to limit my social distancing with these three. Just sayin’.