Tuesday Thought #3

 

Bobservations

Carlos’ hernia surgery is scheduled for November 5th. Last week he said he wanted to call the surgeon:

“Why?”

“It’s not bothering me anymore so maybe I don’t need the surgery.”

“Honey, you still have the hernia and the surgery is still necessary.”

“But it’s not—”

This week he said he wanted to call the surgeon again:

“Why?”

“It’s really bothering me now.”

November 5th cannot get here soon enough!

He was looking into new cell phones this week, and I muttered something about wanting a laptop. He said:

“We can talk about that, but I’d like to do the phones first.”

I said:

“How come when I want something it’s ‘Let’s talk about that later,’ but when you want something you get it right away?”

In his howler monkey voice, he shrieked:

“What am I getting?”

I smile sweetly and said:

“You get to have surgery.”

Luckily, I wrestled the frying pan from his hands before he could use it.

Bigot, homophobe, and woman-hater Karen Pence, AKA Mother, says she loves the way _____ treats young women according to The New York Times’ White House correspondent Katie Rogers:

“Tonight, in Minnesota, a state the campaign really wants to win, [Karen Pence] is on stage praising POTUS. She says she likes how he treats young women and sees the respect he has for his daughters. ‘As a mom, I was all in’ after seeing how he interacted with her daughter, Charlotte.”

Yup, she self-avowed Christian is ‘all in’ with a man who has been married three times, cheated on all three of his wives and said this:

“I moved on her, and I failed. I'll admit it. I did try and fuck her. She was married. And I moved on her very heavily. In fact, I took her out furniture shopping. She wanted to get some furniture. I said, ‘I'll show you where they have some nice furniture.’ I took her out furniture—I moved on her like a bitch. But I couldn't get there. And she was married. Then all of a sudden, I see her, she's now got the big phony tits and everything. She's totally changed her look… You know I'm automatically attracted to beautiful—I just start kissing them. It's like a magnet. Just kiss. I don't even wait. And when you're a star, they let you do it. You can do anything. Grab 'em by the pussy. You can do anything.”

Karen Pence thinks that this is a man who treats women well.

Delta Airlines flies from Salt Lake City to Houston every day, but one recent trip was completely different: this time Delta took 120 girls between 12 to 18 to NASA's Johnson Space Center for International Girls in Aviation Day, an event designed to encourage more women to enter the male-dominated field.

Even better, these 120 girls, who came from area STEM schools, flew on a  with an all-female pilot and flight crew, ramp agents and gate agents on the ground, and women in the control tower giving pilots instructions.

Girl power in action.

Twitter user Mercurial Era celebrated their grandmother Winnie’s birthday on the social media site with a clip of their 100-year-old grandmother holding up a Make America Great Again hat and saying:

“All I want for my birthday is for someone to impeach this sucker.”

Let’s give Grandma Winnie the best gift ever!

See the clip HERE.

Last week Kellogg put Raisin Bran, Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops and Frosted Mini Wheats “all together” on one box to make a statement about LGBTQ inclusivity. The company also made a $50,000 donation to GLAAD to support its annual anti-bullying Spirit Day, saying:

“We all belong together. So for the first time in history, our famous mascots and cereals are offered exclusively together in the same box for All Together Cereal. It’s a symbol of acceptance no matter how you look, where you’re from or who you love. We believe that all people deserve an environment where they can be their best selves. That’s why Kellogg’s has joined forces as an official partner of GLAAD to celebrate Spirit Day, the largest most visible anti-bullying campaign in the world where millions wear purple to stand up against bullying, and to support a more accepting world for LGBTQ youth. Kellogg is donating $50,000 to GLAAD to support their anti-bullying and LGBTQ advocacy work. Each limited-edition box of All Together Cereal includes individual boxes: Raisin Bran, Corn Flakes, Rice Krispies, Frosted Flakes, Froot Loops and Frosted Mini Wheats.”

And bigots and homophobes everywhere went nuts, telling Twitter they would no longer eat a Kellogg cereal.

Kellogg, a billion-dollar corporation, basically went, “Oh well …”

Across the pond, over to the UK, a shopping center where England’s first Chick-fil-A opened a few days ago has announced this week that the anti-LGBTQ chicken franchise’s lease would not be renewed because of backlash from the LGBTQ; said the shopping center in a statement:

“We always look to introduce new concepts for our customers, however, we have decided on this occasion that the right thing to do is to only allow Chick-Fil-A to trade with us for the initial six-month pilot period, and not to extend the lease any further.”

It’s all because, even though Chick-fil-A pledged to stop giving to anti-LGBTQ groups, a new report shows the company actually increased its Hate Donations.

Oh, so sorry, Chick-fil-Hate, but you gotta shutter that shop because Hate don’t pay in the UK.

Cyrus Amini is a French model of Spanish-Iranian descent and yet he’s giving me young Colin Farrell vibes and whenever I get a Colin Farrell vibe I … where was I? Oh, Cyrus. He’s a good poser, too; I’d like that second photo as a statue for the yard at Casa Bob y Carlos.

He rocks a suit, and a swimsuit, doesn’t he?

Briefly speaking, I’m back at those vibes …

Oh, Baby Jeebus, the man simply smolders.

Swoon.

I'm A Tree Hugger ... Sue Me

One thing I love about living in Smallville are all the trees. We must have over two hundred different trees on our property here, with every kind of tree from a Dogwood to a Pine, from Oaks to Crepe Myrtle and Magnolia. So, I'm a tree lover and a tree hugger, which is why this story bothers me.

After being flown into Los Angeles International Airport, the space shuttle, Endeavor, will find its permanent home at the California Science Center. And there's going to be a big to-do to celebrate Endeavor’s arrival, including a parade.

Nice, huh?

Except, in order for the shuttle to make its way through city streets on its way to the museum, several obstacles must be removed, including four-hundred trees.

Not, removed, and then replanted after the parade, but chopped down. And residents along the parade route aren't feeling happy about it.  Many of the trees are large, decades old, magnolias, firs and pines, and even though the California Science Center has promised to replant twice as many trees along the route, that is little comfort to residents.

See, they aren't transplanting full-grown trees to replace the ones removed; they're planting saplings that will take many years to grow into what will be cut down in a day for a parade.

Now, there were other options to avoid removing these grand trees, one of which would be dismantling the shuttle and rebuilding it on site. But some say that taking it apart to move it would permanently damage parts of the shuttle, and airlifting something that heavy from LAX to the museum is nearly impossible. In addition, the shuttle wouldn't fit under overpasses on freeways, so surfaces will have to do.

And the trees will have to go. Inglewood will lose 128 trees, and communities in South Los Angeles about 265 trees, though the exact number has not yet been determined. One route, originally set for the "parade" was scrapped because it would have meant the removal of trees that were planted in honor of the Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.

When are we going to learn that we can't continue to rape the planet and hope that she'll get better? This isn't progress, this is ridiculous. I personally don't see what's wrong with taking the shuttle apart and then reassembling it. It’s not like one day, in the distant future, we're going to send Endeavor back into space.

Why not save some trees. They're the only things being harmed by this.

via Treehugger

Realy, Fox"News"? Really?

Okay, so I don't watch Fox"News" because I like some facts in my news and not just the inane gibberish of a paid Rupert Murdoch pundit making giant leaps between the real story and how Obama will destroy America.

Case in point: first man on the Moon, Neil Armstrong died last week, but Fox"News" couldn't just tell that story. They had to spin the astronaut's death into some kind of anti-Obama message, and, well, dimbulb Monica Crowley did just that, Tweeting....

Yes, because Armstrong's death was not the story, it was just a way to prove that Obama is out to, um, Muslim-ize the space program. Or something. Then, because most of the world, even the dimmest of bulbs in the world, wondered WTF Crowley was saying so she tweeted this.....

The article Crowley cites actually says: 

"In an interview last month on Al-Jazeera, NASA chief Charlie Bolden said that one of NASA’s foremost tasks is to engage with Muslim nations. The White House disagreed, suggesting that the agency should perhaps focus on space exploration."

But why dwell on the facts, Monica, when you can twist the death of an American icon, an American hero,m into some rant against Obama.

Fox"News".

Not so much.

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