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I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Republicans in disarray!

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It’s easy to sit in safety and prescribe what other people should be doing.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

It is possible to do the right thing without the promise of a cookie.

Shut up, hissy kitty!

The arc of history bends toward the same old fuckery.

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

You know it’s bad when the Project 2025 people have to create training videos on “How To Be Normal”.

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

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

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

Hey hey, RFK, how many kids did you kill today?

The gop is a fucking disgrace.

Relentless negativity is not a sign that you are more realistic.

We will not go back.

They traffic in fear. it is their only currency. if we are fearful, they are winning.

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the 10% who apparently lack object permanence

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Acts Of Kindness: A Hero and A Fox

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We seem to have enough interest to try it. I’ve two stories tonight, I have a file of several y’all have sent me. So we’re a go for a few weeks, at least. I decided in my schedule, late Wednesday works best – so you’ll have a good news story to end your day or to begin your day, depending on when you want to check it out.

Tonight we have a hero rescuing a little girl and the joyful follow-up of going home from the hospital and a local musician and his favorite audience ever, a neighborhood fox.

The situation could have been much worse if a good Samaritan hadn’t rushed to help when she saw the incident unfold before her eyes.

Acts Of Kindness: Heroes and Foxes

Dusti Talavera (credit: CBS)

“I was looking out my window, and saw the kids to fall in,” said Dusti Talavera, who lives at the Addison at Cherry Creek apartments. “Before I realized it, I was on the pond pulling the two kids out, and that’s when I fell in the pond for the third kid.”

She recalled her story at the Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Office on Monday afternoon in a press conference. Talavera told CBS4’s Mekialaya White she acted immediately, not hesitating to put on her shoes and run outside to help the kids. She attempted to rescue them in water 15-feet deep.

“I knew it was me. It had to be me,” said Talavera.

Two of the kids made it out safely and unharmed. However, once Talavera was able to bring the 6 year old up to the surface and onto the sidewalk, she wasn’t breathing. She also had no pulse and was cold to the touch with soaked clothes.

Arapahoe County Sheriff’s Deputy David Rodriguez removed her coat and immediately began chest compressions and mouth-to-mouth resuscitation. Also assisting in life-saving CPR were Deputy Blaine Moulton and Deputy Justin Dillard. This continued until South Metro Fire Rescue arrived at took-over life-saving measures.

 

Full story on the musician and his fox:

(Twitter link here)

And here is your weekly puppy. Her 14-week photos are here if you need more puppy fix.

Acts Of Kindness: Heroes and Foxes 1

They look so innocent here, don’t they? Don’t let them fool you...this is where I found Trixie this morning.

You have probably already figured out I decided to do these posts for my own mental health. And it’s already working. I feel better.

The caveat is, for this to continue, much like Anne Laurie’s garden posts, I’ll need your submissions. So email me at [email protected] or whats4dinnersolutions (at) live (dot) com

Enjoy!

Reader Interactions

69Comments

  1. 1.

    Omnes Omnibus

    This is a good thing. Even if people don’t have much to add, just reading it will help.

  4. 4.

    SiubhanDuinne

    Trixie still looks so little next to Scout.

    BUT THEN … you look at the feet, and they are the same size! OMG, Trixie is going to be huge, and I just hope Scout’s ready for it, is all.

  5. 5.

    Benw

    The hero’s story was wonderful and I think the Scout/Trixie pic took a few years off my blood pressure! :)

  6. 6.

    mrmoshpotato

    Thanks for starting this topic. Great to hear all three kids were rescued. And I’m digging Andy’s banjo music.

    “This sandbox is sooooo small!”

  8. 8.

    eclare

    Love the fox story and the doggo pics!  Sitting here with a purring kitty in my lap, nice end to the day.

  9. 9.

    different-church-lady

    When the world is functioning correctly, the world is about love.

    The world does not always function correctly.

    Treasure the moments when it does.

  16. 16.

    Jay

    @different-church-lady:

    if you p/o the cats, they might eat your face while you sleep, not waiting until you are dead, //

    I am sure that the owners find the “quirk” amusing and more entertaining than Netflix.

    Jellyman has his weird quirks, which we tolerate, others, that we  don’t. He has recently given up his blanket and pillow cave, for trying to steal my heating pad everytime I get up.

  19. 19.

    different-church-lady

    @Jay: ​

    if you p/o the cats, they might eat your face while you sleep, not waiting until you are dead, //

    Look, that is exactly why you need to put the fear of opposable thumbs into them firmly at the beginning. “Is she dead? I’m not quite sure, better play it safe, because, you know, the whole grasping the pull tab on the cat food thing…”​

  21. 21.

    different-church-lady

    @Jay: Look, I’ve got certain information, certain things have come to light, and uh, has it ever occurred to you, man, that given the nature of all this new shit, that, uh, instead of running around blaming me, that this whole thing might just be, not, you know, not just such a simple, but uh–you know?

  25. 25.

    Jay

    @different-church-lady:

    I work, need to spend time at home with SWMBO and Jelly.

    Plus I’m not rich enough to afford an Icefishing tent/hut, Honda Inverter generator, tip up rods, radiant heater, pack couch, log pillows, outdoor carpet, big screen tv, satellite tv, beer warmer, ( to keep it from freezing), waterproof gopro to watch the hook and corner box stream to the bigscreen,

    instead, it’s a 5 gallon bucket, handline and keeping the bait warm in my mouth. Get’s old fast.

  29. 29.

    Jay

    @different-church-lady:

    live bait kinda dies if it’s frozen and winter air tends to dehydrate the bait, less effective when freeze dried.

    worms arn’t too bad, maggots and mealworms are nasty.

     

    it’s the pushing them back forward with the tongue, continually, so they don’t crawl down your throat that get’s particularly tiring.

  32. 32.

    frosty

    @Jay: The things you learn on this full service blog. Honestly you had me at beer warmer. You didn’t have to go for the mealworms. Ughhhhh!

  34. 34.

    Jay

    @VeniceRiley:

    great tip, brilliant,  I’ll remember it for this weekend.

    need to find one of the tiny ziplocks, not the sandwich bag nor the freezer size.

    I’ll pass it on.

  35. 35.

    raven

    Apparently a spinal steroid injection can cause insomnia! I slept about there hours this afternoon and now POW wood awake!

  38. 38.

    NotMax

    @raven

    wood awake!

    TMI, dude.

    :)

    Seriously, so long as it ends up making you feel better, worth the trade-off. And welcome to the Wide World of Waking , a club in which so many here are charter members.

  40. 40.

    Jay

    @different-church-lady:

    it’s not so much the bait, as sitting on a 5 gallon bucket for a chair.

    That lip and the temp really cuts.

    I have a go fund me up to buy me a lawn chair. Raised $4.27 so far, Canadian.//

  46. 46.

    VeniceRiley

    @Jay: LoL I bet drug dealers would know. Though, like everything, you can probably find them on Amazon. Failing that, just let the rest of the bag hang out if your mouth.

    also a foam pad for the bucket. Ffs!

  47. 47.

    raven

    A liberal with a gun plugged him!

     

    Kuczwanski rammed his BMW into the Prius on the driver’s door, and began pushing the car sideways in the parking lot.

    Kuczwanski then shot a gun at the white Prius, according to the sources. The Prius driver drew a gun and fired back into the windshield of Kuczwanski’s BMW. Kuczwanski was hit and killed, according to the sources.

  50. 50.

    Jay

    @VeniceRiley:

    a foam pad?

    who do you think I am, Elon Musk?

    I wish I could afford foam, I can barely pay for maggots, sometimes I have to raise them myself,

    Don’t ask how,……  //

  52. 52.

    Jay

    @NotMax:

    I was told today by Corporate, as disposable workers, given Covid, we are supposed to be kinder to each other, CoWorkers and Customers,

    so, we are not supposed to tell people to €uck off,

    we are supposed to ask “how can I help you “€uck off?”

  55. 55.

    NotMax

    @Jay

    Wide awake raven actually has experience with fish and maggots.

    (At least I think that’s what he used to strip the flesh, but memory may be deceiving me.)

  59. 59.

    Jay

    @eclare:

    being a disposable worker, I try to go to work every day with a couple of jokes, some bitter, some just funny, sometimes all I have is short videos of cats or penguins being a€€holes,

    Covid is tough, if I can get a laugh, it’s worth it.

    One of my nicknames is “doom”, for being “up” on Covid since day 1.

  60. 60.

    Jay

    @John Revolta:

    then my butt falls down, there’s a vacuum seal, and when I stand up and stomp my feet to try to keep frostbite away, I just look stupid.

    Reverse Shriner.

  61. 61.

    Comrade Colette

    @NotMax: Screw thee. Not thou. Yeesh, Quaker diction has really gone to the dogs.

    I went to a Quaker college in the late 1970s. A couple of my actual-Quaker classmates told me that their grandparents dimly remembered their grandparents “thee-ing” each other, so that was last done maybe in the 1870s or 80s? Later than I would have expected, anyway.

  63. 63.

    NotMax

    @Comrade Colette

    Quaker college attendee too, though preceding you timewise.

    Wife of the founder of the summer camp where I worked during the 60s and 70s was a devout Quaker. Probably in her eighties or nineties by then (I know her husband died at over 100 during the early 1980s – he had been a champion collegiate swimmer round about 1905). Invited to several meals over the years at their little summer house on the campgrounds, during which she’d occasionally slip into thee-ing.

    Every time, during the meal they’d go into the same act, as follows:

    “Marge! Marge! Help, I’m having one of my memory spells!”

    “Oh my, David. Not again. When did you notice it this time?”

    “I don’t remember.”

    And both of them would break out laughing.

  64. 64.

    CaseyL

    @Jay:

    instead, it’s a 5 gallon bucket, handline and keeping the bait warm in my mouth.

     

    The sport of (Night) Kings!

  66. 66.

    TaMara

    @Comrade Colette:

    @NotMax:

    The entire thread was worth it to learn a new way to swear.  :-)

    @zhena gogolia: I gave up litterboxes a looong time ago – totes work really well.  With the high sides, they can’t dig hard enough to spray litter all over the room. I have another one you can’t see that is huge, I have a lid on it, with a hole cut out so they can privacy and really keeps litter and smell contained. The smaller one without a lid is for Emma, my 18 yr old, she needs accommodation at her age.

  67. 67.

    TaMara

    Okay…this seemed to work. Next week I’ll toss out an open thread before signing off for the night so you’ve got a place to play…

  68. 68.

    way2blue

    Great idea.  Thanks TaMara.  (I often go visit @buitengebieden in the evening to mellow—lots of engaging animal videos.)

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