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Nothing says ‘pro-life’ like letting children go hungry.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Hi god, it’s us. Thanks a heap, you’re having a great week and it’s only Thursday!

The willow is too close to the house.

“When somebody takes the time to draw up a playbook, they’re gonna use it.”

If America since Jan 2025 hasn’t broken your heart, you haven’t loved her enough.

Let’s bury these fuckers at the polls 2 years from now.

There are some who say that there are too many strawmen arguments on this blog.

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

Today in our ongoing national embarrassment…

I am pretty sure these ‘journalists’ were not always such a bootlicking sycophants.

Stop using mental illness to avoid talking about armed white supremacy.

If you can’t control your emotions, someone else will.

We know you aren’t a Democrat but since you seem confused let me help you.

Black Jesus loves a paper trail.

President Musk and Trump are both poorly raised, coddled 8 year old boys.

She burned that motherfucker down, and I am so here for it. Thank you, Caroline Kennedy.

Take hopelessness and turn it into resilience.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Proof that we need a blogger ethics panel.

Give the craziest people you know everything they want and hope they don’t ask for more? Great plan.

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  7. 7.

    mai naem mobile

    I think the animals at Casa Cole are planning revenge on JC a la Home Alone. Maybe Lily pooping in a bucket and Thurston and Steve booby trapping the bucket above the door as JC enters the house. Then,JC won’t be shaving Steve’s butt anytime soon.

  11. 11.

    satby

    @Major Major Major Major: Deepest condolences Majorx4. At least she’s at rest now after such a tough time. Knowing the suffering was over was a great comfort to my sisters and I, and I hope it helps comfort you and your family too.

  20. 20.

    Mary G

    @Major Major Major Major: I won’t say I’m sorry because at some point it’s a relief. She looks so happy in her wedding dress! The Monet exhibit photos are great, I wish I could go.

    My smart cat Shiloh learned in about two days that I would give him a treat when he used the scratching post instead of the rug. It got so I would hear furious scratching whenever I was anywhere within earshot of a post, which in my small house, is pretty much everywhere. I give them snacks at night now, usually at 7 p.m., and at precisely that time, he used the post that’s right behind my desk.

  23. 23.

    debbie

    @Major Major Major Major:

    The Met had a wonderful exhibition back in the late 1980s, I think (Origins of Impressionism). I recognize some of your shots.

    Condolences on your grandmother. My favorite aunt passed last weekend, and I’ve had enough soul to last me a decade.

  30. 30.

    Yarrow

    @Major Major Major Major: Condolences. That is a great photo. She looks so happy. It’s nice you can be with your parents at this time.

    I saw the cat video earlier today and I just love it. When Left Cat figures out that Right Cat’s bell works it just slays me every time.

  38. 38.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    @Major Major Major Major: My condolences and peacefully at home is good, though it’s horrible that it was so rough for so long. That photo of her is stunning – she looks gloriously happy.

    @NotMax: That’s wonderful, and makes me miss SEK.

    @Mingobat f/k/a Karen in GA: Sorry to hear the dramamine was a disappointment. Enjoy the cabin!

  41. 41.

    PhoenixRising

    Major(4), condolences. As my 95yo grandmother said recently, 90 ain’t nothing to sneeze at. Hope you’re looking back at a lifetime of memories.

    I would pay for cable to watch Shul Train.

    In closing, tabby cats are all that.

  44. 44.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Majorx4, condolences. Peaceful passing at home is good. The way my dad went. Mom, not so lucky. ICU. Sucked, but would have sucked less with cat between her legs.

  46. 46.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Jeffro: I think you’re reading that wrong. What this report indicates is that the counterintelligence investigation is spreading out.

  52. 52.

    dmsilev

    @Adam L Silverman: Weren’t most of the Atlanta fires set by the retreating Conferates (to deny Sherman anything useful) rather than the Northerners? Or maybe I’m confusing it with some other Southern city taken by the Union, since there were quite a few…

  54. 54.

    Adam L Silverman

    @dmsilev: I’m not 100% sure, but I’m thinking a combination of the two. My understanding is that Sherman did burn a good chunk, especially the railroad head/terminus. If I’m recalling correctly there was an attempt to burn anything usable before Sherman and his army got their. And then he burned whatever hadn’t been burned as part of his teach them a lesson through scorched earth strategy.

  58. 58.

    Glidwrith

    @Adam L Silverman: Sir, I would have you know that your Dog Lantern rhyme is an instrument of torture that I and my offspring are gleefully using on my husband and their father. Thank you!

  59. 59.

    TriassicSands

    The huge flaw in that Pavlovian experiment is that each cat should be able to reach only one bell. The tabby has figured out — correctly, it’s the human who is too dumb to realize it — that when the tabby rings the other cat’s bell, the tabby should get the other cat’s kibble or treat. By continually ringing the white and black cat’s bell, the tabby can starve the other cat and emerge triumphant. Therefore, each cat should be able to reach only one bell.

    Second conclusion — humans are cruel.

  60. 60.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Glidwrith: You are quite welcome. If you’re looking for the actual oaths, because you need additional material to torment them with, you can find them here:
    http://greenlantern.wikia.com/wiki/Lantern_Oaths_(Disambiguation)

    Red Lantern Corps Oath
    “With blood and rage of crimson red,

    Ripped from a corpse so freshly dead,

    Together with our hellish hate,

    We’ll burn you all–that is your fate!”

    Orange Lantern Corps Oath (also the new Presidential oath of office)
    What’s mine is mine and mine and mine.

    And mine and mine and mine!

    Not yours!”

    Sinestro Corps Oath
    “In blackest day, in brightest night,

    Beware your fears made into light.

    Let those who try to stop what’s right

    Burn like my power Sinestro’s might!”

    Arkillo Version
    “In blackest day, in brightest night,

    Beware your fears made into light.

    Let those who try to stop what’s right

    Burn like my power Arkillo’s might!”

    Green Lantern Oaths
    Green Lantern Corps Version
    “In brightest day, in blackest night,

    No evil shall escape my sight.

    Let those who worship evil’s might

    Beware my power–Green Lantern’s light!”

    Alpha Lantern Corps Version
    “In days of peace, in nights of war,

    Obey the laws forever more.

    Misconduct must be answered for,

    Swear us the chosen–the Alpha Corps!”

    Alan Scott Version (Original Golden Age oath)
    “And I shall shed my light over dark evil,

    For the dark things cannot stand the light;

    The light of…THE GREEN LANTERN!”

    Rot Lop Fan (F-Sharp Bell) Version (Rot Lop Fan is from a species that is sightless)
    “In loudest din or hush profound,

    My ears catch evil’s slightest sound.

    Let those who toll out evil’s knell

    Beware my power, the F-Sharp Bell!”

    Medphyll Version (Medphyll is from a species of sentient plants)
    “In forest dark or glade beferned,

    No blade of grass shall go unturned.

    Let those who have the daylight spurned

    Tread not where this green lamp has burned!”

    Barin Version
    In this place of black and grey and dark…

    the green shall be my light, my hope, my strength.

    All that is good is all I defend.

    I shall not falter.

    Sodam Yat (31st Century Version)
    In brightest day, through Blackest Night,

    No other Corps shall spread its light!

    Let those who try to stop what’s right,

    Burn like my power, Green Lantern’s Light!

    Kho Version
    “Against Dishonor and Traitor’s Flight,

    I stand beside my clan to fight,

    with dying breath I claw and bite…

    Beware my power–Green Lantern’s light!”

    Blue Lantern Corps Oath
    “In fearful day, in raging night,

    With strong hearts full, our souls ignite.

    When all seems lost in the War of Light,

    Look to the stars, for hope burns bright!”

    Indigo Tribe Oath
    “Tor lorek san, bor nakka mur,

    Natromo faan tornek wot ur.

    Ter Lantern ker lo Abin Sur,

    Taan lek lek nok–Formorrow Sur!

    Star Sapphires Oath
    “For hearts long lost and full of fright,

    For those alone in Blackest Night.

    Accept our ring and join our fight,

    Love conquers all with violet light!”

    Black Lantern Corps Oath
    “The Blackest Night falls from the skies,

    The darkness grows as all light dies.

    We crave your hearts and your demise,

    By my black hand, the dead shall rise!”

  61. 61.

    Mnemosyne

    @TriassicSands:

    Except that if you try that bullshit on a cat, they nope out of there. Unlike dogs, cats have no interest in playing a game that doesn’t directly and immediately benefit them.

  62. 62.

    NotMax

    @Adam L. Silverman

    Possible that memory is ill serving me, but recall that Hal Jordan originally spoke nothing and that the oath was suggested by his Eskimo mechanic pal with the unfortunate nickname.

    All pre-retcons, of course.

  63. 63.

    CaseyL

    Repeating from a semi-dead thread downstairs:

    I just saw on FB, and The Daily Buzz, that George Takei is going to run for Nunes’ seat in Congress. He and his hubs bought a house in Visalia for that purpose.

    Anyone here live in Nunes’ district? CA-22?

  65. 65.

    Adam L Silverman

    @NotMax: He was Inuit. Tom Kalmaku. As far as I remember that was not the case. Alan Scott, the Golden Age Green Lantern, had long had an oath. Though, because at that time in the continuity his lantern wasn’t connected to the Guardians (later retconned to make a connection), he wrote it himself. The original Alan Scott oath:
    “…and I shall shed my light over dark evil.
    For the dark things cannot stand the light,
    The light of the Green Lantern!”

    Alan Scott’s oath was revised in the 1940s into the one Hal Jordan and the rest of the Corps would eventually use. Alan Scott first used it in Green Lantern #9 from 1943 written by Alfred Bester. Apparently the line in “brightest day and in the darkest night” is from a letter written by a major in the Union Army to his wife before the 1st Bull Run.
    http://www.civil-war.net/pages/sullivan_ballou.asp

    But, O Sarah! If the dead can come back to this earth and flit unseen around those they loved, I shall always be near you; in the garish day and in the darkest night — amidst your happiest scenes and gloomiest hours – always, always; and if there be a soft breeze upon your cheek, it shall be my breath; or the cool air fans your throbbing temple, it shall be my spirit passing by.

  66. 66.

    Adam L Silverman

    @CaseyL: @Yarrow: If anyone tweets with him, feel free to send him a direct message telling him if he needs someone to assist with national security strategy and policy, defense, nationals security, and intel inputs for his campaign that I would consider it an honor and a privilege to help.

  67. 67.

    Yarrow

    @Adam L Silverman: Maybe you should contact him through more formal methods. He’s got to have an agent or representative that wouldn’t be that hard to find. You’re certainly qualified for the job! What a great job to get to work with him.

  68. 68.

    Adam L Silverman

    @Yarrow: I did some quick snooping and other than his twitter feed, I can’t find any points of contact. His website wouldn’t load.

  70. 70.

    J R in WV

    @Major Major Major Major:

    Sorry for your loss, although a quiet death at home is about the best you can hope for. My mom died at home, in my dad’s arms.

    I’m glad it was peaceful, and that your parents were with you. That’s her in 1952, then? A beautiful bride!

    I hope you have a nice weekend with company and your family all around you. Take care.

  73. 73.

    D58826

    The cats have the human well trained. They ring the bell and the human delivers food:-)

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