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Those with a queasy tummy may want to skip ahead …

As you may know, Carlos was diagnosed pre-diabetic earlier this year and we instantly made changes to his, and our, diet. No more bread—which for bread-a-holic Carlos was a tough loaf to stop swallowing—and no more honey.

But he’s done very well, and we will every so often have toast for a light, quick breakfast, though I allow Carlos just the one slice; I am the Bread Bull Dog. So this one morning he had some plain non-fat yogurt with oats and banana and the one slice of bread. He cut up an overripe banana and served it in his yogurt, so when he had his slice of toast and spooned some honey on the bread I thought he’d put some brown slices of overripe banana on the bread. But this banana was not quite right and so I asked him to see the honey pot he’d kept in the cupboard filled with the sweet gooey stuff. I pried off the lid and found the jar half-filled with honey and roughly 4 or 5 dead cockroaches as well.

Yes, hold your gag reflex, Carlos was spreading honey and dead cockroaches on his toast and before any of you asks, “How the hell dirty is your house.” Remember that the honey pot had been sitting unused and unopened for over seven months.

The upside of this, you may ask, and yes there is an upside: for over a week now I have been giving Carlos a bad time about this or that and when he complains, all I need to say is …

“I saved you from eating cockroaches.”

… and the complaints stop..

This Tuxedo Memory is from May 2011 …

Tuxedo Thursday

“Oh, I give up.”

The look on his face, like he’d been caught doing something wrong, or, probably truer, that he was annoyed at being disturbed, along with the paws up, kills me.

That darn cat …

The White House had zero fucks to give when GOP Pennsylvania Representative Mike Kelly objected to President Biden's efforts to provide relief for student loan debt.

On Thursday, Kelly took to X, formerly Twitter, to rage about Biden's decision to cancel $9 billion in student loan debt for 125,000 borrowers who owed, on average, $72,000. And the White House responded by saying that Mike Kelly has had over $1 million in government loans forgiven himself.

Hypocrisy, thy name is GOP.

Democratic Florida Congressman Jared Moskowitz thinks that Palm Beach County ought to tax Thing 45’s Mar-Illegal property at the $1,500,000,000 value the Former-Fake-One-Term-Twice-Impeached-Currently-Four-Time-Criminally-Indicted-Not-My-President-Gurl claims its worth.

And with DeSantis running Florida into the ground, the state could use the money raised on Thing 45’s other BIG lie.

Navy sailor Information Technician 2nd Class Thomas James, who intervened to stop the mass shooting at Club Q last year, has received the Navy and Marine Corps Medal, the highest noncombat award for heroism, awarded to those who put their own life in jeopardy.

As the shooting went on James grabbed the barrel of the murderer’s weapon and restrained him until police arrived: James suffered a gunshot wound in his abdomen and burned his hands as a result of his actions.

Thank you for your service to your country and to your community.

Alice Cooper has come out as anti-trans, claiming that children identifying as trans is a "fad" and that adults are "confusing" children by "telling [them] 'Yeah, you're a boy, but you could be a girl if you want to be.'" 

Odd, coming from a man who, Rolling Stone noted, "built a career partly out of defying and toying with gender expectations," but who clearly is an ignorant bigot. And who is now out of a partnership with Vampyre Cosmetics, who ended their relationship with Cooper over his bigotry saying:

"In light of recent statements by Alice Cooper we will no​​​​​​​​​ longer be doing a makeup collaboration. We stand with all members of the LGBTQIA+ community and believe everyone should have access to healthcare. All pre-order sales will be refunded."

Sorry, not sorry, Alice. Alice? Wait, isn’t that a girl’s name? Odd, this hate coming from a man who was born Vincent Damon Furnier but now identifies as Alice.

Read Me a Story, Stella is a children’s picture book about a pair of siblings reading books together and building a doghouse.

Sounds cute, but apparently it’s on a banned books list because, well, gay. Oh, no, not because the siblings are gay, or are reading gay stories, or have gay parents but because the author’s name is Marie-Louise Gay.

Yes, the book was added to a list of potentially “sexually explicit” books to be moved from the children’s section of Alabama’s Huntsville-Madison County Public Library system because, as HCPL executive director Cindy Hewitt noted there was the word “gay.”

Seriously.

Remember when Robert F. Kennedy Jr. got into the presidential race and the GOP was thrilled because they thought he'd take votes away from Joe Biden and help Inmate # P01135809 win and perhaps govern, not from the Oval Office but from the prison laundry?

Well, things have changed since RFK started spouting some of his wingnuttery, and changed even more when he announced he might run as an Independent. If that happens Biden goes from being ahead of the criminal by 3 points to being ahead by seven points.. Kennedy’s presence erodes Inmate # P01135809’s lead among independents and cuts into his support among Republicans.

Go for RFK.

And to cleanse the palate of crazy, here’s a couple of the cats … Consuelo sunning in the sunroom during our recent cold mornings as it is the warmest room in the house, while Rosita sleeps on the bed … or pretends to sleep?

This is model and actor Henry Watkins of the dazzling smile—yes, I know, it’s just that one photo but still—and beautiful body. But the real issue is: Would You Hit It?

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Thomas James, U.S. Navy Petty Officer 2nd Class and one of the Club Q guests who charged at the shooter, on why he did it and what the LGBTQ+ community needs to do:

“I simply wanted to save the family I found. If I had my way, I would shield everyone I could from the nonsensical acts of hate in the world, but I am only one person. To the youth, I say be brave. Your family is out there. You are loved and valued. So when you come out of the closet, come out swinging.”

Come out and fight to be treated equally in this country. Fight for your rights, fight for your lives, fight for a government that represents all the people.

Keep in mind that it doesn’t take a good guy with a gun to stop a bad guy with a gun, it takes a gay man with no gun who is tired of not feeling safe in his own country.

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Michael Elizabeth Pence, former Vice President, says Thing 45 “demonstrated profoundly poor judgment” for dining with Nick Fuentes and Kanye West:

“[Thing 45] was wrong to give a white nationalist, an antisemite and Holocaust denier, a seat at the table and I think he should apologize for it. And he should denounce those individuals and their hateful rhetoric without qualification.”

Michael Elizabeth Pence clearly still has Mother’s balls and is clearly trying to run in 2024, because now he’s getting tough on his old boss., but while they were in office Pence followed the racist traitorous leader like a dog.

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Jesse Watters, Fox News host, apparently suggesting women need to stop cutting their hair and being nicer to men:

“Women need men, and men need women. We need each other. And if you understand nature, you understand there is not a war between the sexes. We need to make love, not war. And you need to stop chopping your hair off and calling us ‘toxic.’ We are on a mission—yes, we peacock, but we peacock for your attention—so fall in love and let’s all live happily ever after.”

Watters admitted to wooing his wife, Emma—who was a younger producer working on his show at the time and he was a married man—by sabotaging her car.

“When I was trying to get Emma to date me, the first thing I did was let the air out of her tires. She couldn’t go anywhere. She needed a lift, I said, ‘You need a lift?’ She hopped right in the car.”

Sounds like a predator to me.

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Anthony Fauci, when asked if he thinks attacks on him will “wane” in the new Congress:

“The Republicans, had they won the Senate, they would be bringing me before the committee that Rand Paul likely would be chairing. That’s not going to happen because the Senate is not in the Republican control. But the Republican House has said that they’re going to—and that’s fine with me. I’m very much in favor of legitimate oversight. Absolutely. I mean, I’ve testified before Congress—given the 38 years that I’ve been director—literally hundreds of times, in many oversight hearings.”

Don’t come for Fauci and let the guy who suggested drinking bleach or shining a flashlight up your ass or that this was a nothing virus and would go way in the Spring and then let 1,000,000+ Americans die get away with anything.

But the GOP wants to punish anyone who hurt Thing 45s ego.

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Paul Ryan, former GOP Speaker of the House, blaming Thig 45 for Republicans’ Senate loss in the midterms:

“I was not a never-_____er, but I am a never-again _____er. Why? Because I want to win. And we lose with [Thing 45]. What we now know, it’s pretty clear is, with [Thing 45], we lose. I don’t mean this personally—it’s just evidence. It’s palpable right now. We get past [Thing 45], we start winning elections. We stick with [Thing 45], we keep losing elections, that’s just how I see it.”

Oh Paul, welcome to the right side of history … finally. And only after the losses of the GOP this month. To be clear, you pandering asshat, if any of Thing 45’s chosen candidates had won, you wouldn’t be saying this at all; you’d continue goose-stepping like you’ve always done.

Now, kindly fuck off.

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Kevin McCarthy, vowing to boot Democrats from committees if … big if … he’s elected Speaker:

“I’ll keep that promise. And one thing I said from the very beginning, Eric Swalwell cannot get a security clearance in the public sector. Why would we ever give him a security clearance in the secrets to America? So I will not allow him to be on Intel. You have Adam Schiff who had lied to the American public time and again. We will not allow him to be on the Intel committee either. And you look at, Congresswoman Omar, her anti-Semitic comments that have gone forward, we’re not going to allow her to be on Foreign Affairs.”

Notice not a word about inflation, gas prices, borders, fentanyl, just ways to punish the Democrats. The GOP hasn’t learned that they are slowly becoming a minority in this country with their Do Nothing But Complain stance.

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Adam Kinzinger, outgoing Republican Congressman who put country over party, on Kevin McCarthy:

“I think he has cut so many deals with bad people to get to this position that I think he’s not going to be a leader at all. I think he will be completely hostage to kind of the extreme wings of the Republican Party. And I, frankly, don’t think he’s going to last very long. Maybe he will prove me wrong. But it’s sad to see a man that I think had so much potential just totally sell himself. I have done this business for a while. And I will tell you, they’re just the ‘hope yes, vote no’ caucus. They vote no on everything, or now they’re only going to vote for the most conservative stuff.”

Sad, but Kinzinger may be right, and if he is, just imagine who might get the Speaker of the House job.

That’s scary.

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Greg Kelly, Newsmax host, behaving like a child:

“Hakeem. This is Hakeem Jeffries, and he’s been there since 2012, and everybody says, this is probably the next minority leader. Could be a Speaker someday. Not much in the way—just like Kevin McCarthy—not much in the way of intellect or accomplishment. For this guy, though, you know what his calling card is? The name. Hakeem. I mean, that is–come on–that’s fashionable. That is so cool right now, and I think that’s what’s happening here.”

Kelly also suggested Nancy Pelosi “staged” the assault on her husband; he also called the Dallas police to “report” a drag show, and in August he claimed that a Capitol police officer beaten unconscious by rioting Proud Boys had actually “fallen and bumped her head.”

So, yeah, he’s an idiot.

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