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Yep the black squirrels do seem kind of scrawny. It was just weird to see them all over the place when I never saw one before.
LOL good kitty! My old Bootsie would raid rabbit nests for fun and leave them on our doorstep. Sometimes it was like 5 dead little bunnies in a day. One time I caught her with three hanging out of her mouth at once, strutting around through the yard like she owned the joint.
She rarely ate them, lol just killed them, and I found more than a few decapitated ones which I always thought was strange. Somewhere there's a rabbit head stash but I just never found it.
Our black ones are very small.The grey ones are fat and sassy and the red ones in between.
Jay's cat has declared war on the moles. She's winning.
we've talked about the squirrels here before.... little terrorists. I never saw black ones until I started to go up to Michigan and then I was like what the hell did you guys do to the red ones? Our squirrels here are more brownish with an occasional red one here and there.
I also had plenty of moles in MI. I thought they were cute but my ex was out there chasing them with a shovel and trying to poison them in her spare time. LOL
Geez, Mark sounds triggered! I think he called Jack Smith, Jack Reed by mistake.
I have a whole slew of squirrels in my garden digging up the sunflower seeds they buried in the winter. There are holes everywhere. You're welcometoas many as you'd like. They are mostly grey, a few red and a few black.
I'm surprised Fox even agreed to run the ad.
lol, the chipmunks would be all over you. My last dog, we called it her house but now with this one, she doesn't take commands so easy. I try to keep it simple for her and she's probably heard me mumble that guy's name under my breath so often that she knows it's not party time.
When I clean the bathroom and stuff, I don't want her in the chemicals so I have to make her go in for a bit, otherwise she goes in on her own if she's scared. Loud noises totally freak her out and I can't keep track of her if she's outside by herself.
Good method training! I'm having beer and popcorn. The cat is having small bite size pieces of deli honey ham.
Me and the doggo are having milk and peanut butter cookies! Not so much milk for her but she gets her stash of pet friendly stuff.
I'm trying to teach her to go to her crate every time I say trump. It's not working all the time but she's getting the hint.
Interesting thread
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— Robert Costa (@costareports) June 9, 2023
NEW AD: No one is above the law, not even former presidents.
— Republican Voters Against Trump (@AccountableGOP) June 9, 2023
Airing on Fox News primetime next week. pic.twitter.com/ob7pxRp4pM
Yes, black and orange would be excellent.
And would that be a Bad Thing?
He's right. They should all say the same thing, but they won't.
Ever hear what a DickClown sounds like?
Well here you go:
Fox's Mark Levin: "President Trump is 76 years old. If the Department of Justice gets its way, he will die in federal prison." pic.twitter.com/wH2gUJtWiM
— Brian Stelter (@brianstelter) June 9, 2023
Asa Hutchinson calls on Trump to withdraw from the race for president. pic.twitter.com/Wvh8QRV3sE
— Ron Filipkowski (@RonFilipkowski) June 9, 2023
That seems to me to be very appropriate.
I am celebrating the 2nd Indictment with a Ninkasi beer called Total Domination which is what I hope Trumpty faces in jail from his cell mates.
Yeah that sounds like him. Hope he listened you!
Chief Justice Roberts should immediately amend the rules to permit cameras in federal courts. The American public is entitled to watch the proceedings against Trump in their entirety. Anything less would be an injustice.
— Joyce Alene (@JoyceWhiteVance) June 9, 2023
I wonder if Thomas somehow believes he isn't black. Or at least would rather not be.
We should give some thought to an appropriate Indictment Cake. Or perhaps an entire Indictment Dinner!
Tomorrow, I shall buy some Indictment Wine.
Supreme Court Rules Against Dog Toy Resembling Liquor Bottle
https://www.nytimes.com/2023/06/08/us/dog-toy-jack-daniels-supreme-court.html
The case, a trademark dispute, pitted Jack Daniel’s against Bad Spaniels Silly Squeakers, which looks like the distiller’s distinctive bottle and adds potty humor.
“This case is about dog toys and whiskey,” Justice Elena Kagan wrote for a unanimous court, “two items seldom appearing in the same sentence.”
By Adam Liptak
Reporting from Washington
June 8, 2023, 2:30 p.m. ET
The Supreme Court ruled on Thursday that the First Amendment did not protect a chew toy for dogs resembling a bottle of Jack Daniel’s from a lawsuit claiming trademark infringement.
The toy, the Bad Spaniels Silly Squeaker, has the shape and other distinctive features of a bottle of Jack Daniel’s but with, as an appeals court judge put it, “lighthearted, dog-related alterations.”
The words “Old No. 7 Brand Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey” on the bottle are replaced on the toy by “the Old No. 2, on your Tennessee carpet.” Where Jack Daniel’s says its product is 40 percent alcohol by volume, Bad Spaniels’ is said to be “43 percent poo.”
A tag attached to the toy says it is “not affiliated with Jack Daniel Distillery.”
Justice Elena Kagan, writing for a unanimous court, seemed amused by the dispute. “This case is about dog toys and whiskey,” she wrote, “two items seldom appearing in the same sentence.”
She added that the characteristics of the whiskey bottle were familiar to almost everyone.
“A bottle of Jack Daniel’s — no, Jack Daniel’s Old No. 7 Tennessee Sour Mash Whiskey — boasts a fair number of trademarks,” she wrote. “Recall what the bottle looks like (or better yet, retrieve a bottle from wherever you keep liquor; it’s probably there).”
After reproducing a color photograph of the bottle, she continued: “‘Jack Daniel’s’ is a registered trademark, as is ‘Old No. 7.’ So too the arched Jack Daniel’s logo. And the stylized label with filigree (i.e., twirling white lines). Finally, what might be thought of as the platform for all those marks — the whiskey’s distinctive square bottle — is itself registered.”
Trademark cases generally turn on whether the public is likely to be confused about a product’s source. In the Bad Spaniels case, a unanimous three-judge panel of the Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, in San Francisco, said the First Amendment required a more demanding test when the challenged product was expressing an idea or point of view.
“The Bad Spaniels dog toy, although surely not the equivalent of the Mona Lisa, is an expressive work” that uses irreverent humor and wordplay to poke fun at Jack Daniel’s, Judge Andrew D. Hurwitz wrote for the panel.
But Justice Kagan said there was no role for “any threshold First Amendment filter” in the case. Rather, she wrote, “the infringement claim here rises or falls on likelihood of confusion.”
That is the classic inquiry in trademark cases. But Justice Kagan, in returning the case to lower courts to analyze it, said the chew toy’s mockery of the liquor bottle had to figure in the analysis, as it was not obvious that consumers would think that Jack Daniel’s was responsible for a toy poking fun at itself.
Justice Samuel A. Alito Jr. made a similar point when the case was argued in March, imagining a pitch meeting with a Jack Daniel’s executive.
“Somebody in Jack Daniel’s comes to the C.E.O. and says: ‘I have a great idea for a product that we’re going to produce. It’s going to be a dog toy, and it’s going to have a label that looks a lot like our label, and it’s going to have a name that looks a lot like our name, Bad Spaniels, and what’s going to be purportedly in this dog toy is dog urine,’” Justice Alito said, suggesting that consumers were unlikely to think the chew toy was produced or endorsed by the distiller.
Justice Kagan echoed the point in her opinion. “Consumers,” she wrote, “are not so likely to think that the maker of a mocked product is itself doing the mocking.” She added, “Self-deprecation is one thing; self-mockery far less ordinary.”
In a concurring opinion, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justice Alito, cautioned lower courts against being too credulous in assessing surveys, which are commonplace in trademark litigation, “that purport to show that consumers are likely to be confused by an allegedly infringing product.”
Those surveys, she wrote, “may reflect a mistaken belief among some survey respondents that all parodies require permission from the owner of the parodied mark.”
In a Supreme Court brief in the case, Jack Daniel’s Properties v. VIP Products, No. 22-148, lawyers for the distiller wrote that “everyone likes a good joke.” But the chew toy, the brief said, “confuses consumers by taking advantage of Jack Daniel’s hard-earned good will.”
Lawyers for the toy’s manufacturer, VIP Products, said it was following “in the playful parodic tradition that has ranged over a half-century from Topps’s Wacky Packages trading cards through ‘Weird Al’ Yankovic.”
The trading cards, for fake products that mimicked real ones, like Ratz Crackers, Jolly Mean Giant and Gulp Oil, were enormously popular in the 1970s, for a time outselling Topps baseball cards. “Yet the world did not end,” VIP Products told the justices.
LOL he wants too much power. Thinks he could be Secretary of Defense or something. In pure GOP fashion, I lied to him and said I would consider it as long as he got the rest of the chipmunks signed up to vote for me.
Told him he needs to start picking pockets instead of lunch bags to reposition us as real players. Stolen popcorn does not buy airtime.
So there are four Justices on the Supreme Court that believe race discrimination is constitutional?
Happy 2nd Indictment day for those celebrating!!
Yep! MSNBC and NBC are reporting it, too. But the one to break the news was Trumpty himself. He wrote at Truth Social that he'd be in court on Tuesday. Of course he said that before, in New York, and it didn't happen till a week later.
So here we go....
Hah! And The Shower Cap is only 26 hours away.
Hah! And The Shower Cap is only 26 hours away.
Mueller, She Wrote
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Trump Indicted!
BREAKING: Donald Trump has been indicted by the DoJ in the documents case. Details are scant, but I have heard that there are at least 7 counts which include Obstruction, Conspiracy, and retention of national defense information (793e under the espionage act).
Follow me here for a complete breakdown of the charges. Trump has posted that he has to appear Tuesday at 3 PM. The charges may be unsealed at that time, or we may get them sooner
Have you spoken to Alvin about this enterprise?
Has to be where the criminal activity occurred; hiding, moving and lying about what had been turned over.
They are talking about a 'speaking indictment' that will lay out the charges to the public, in language we will understand. Presumably potential jurors will also understand.
It’s a bit disturbing that it will be in Florida.
CNN reporting that Trump has been indicted in the So Dist of FL
Family Values
BREAKING—
— MeidasTouch (@MeidasTouch) June 8, 2023
This is Republican City Councilman Matthew Reilly.
You probably remember him as the Chairman of the Cranston Republican Party who resigned last month from his position, but retained his job as city councilman after being caught passed out with a crack pipe in his car… pic.twitter.com/8QlC1JVy9K
Apparently Trump is the one saying he has been indicted.
Per Donald, Donald has been indicted. pic.twitter.com/SXInUPbPhU
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) June 8, 2023
Jonathan Karl is usually on the ball
Donald Trump been indicted. His lawyers gave been informed that he needs to report to federal court in Miami on Tuesday, per @KFaulders
— Jonathan Karl (@jonkarl) June 8, 2023
NEW: one of Jim Jordan’s whistleblowers was suspended for leaking sensitive information and was caught lying to the committee. The matter will be referred to the DoJ. Only the best people! https://t.co/bsRzo13peh
— Mueller, She Wrote (@MuellerSheWrote) June 8, 2023
There are still players with ethics.
The PGA golfers were totally blindsided. Let's hope the few things being proposed to undo this travesty will prevail.
Good. I have been having a running gun battle with a Saudi lover on the Golf board.
https://investorshub.advfn.com/boards/read_msg.aspx?message_id=172089528
The PGA caved for money and cut a deal with the devil.
Rory McIlroy turned down $300M since he wanted no part of LIV golf.
Messi just turned down a similar figure to play soccer in Saudi Arabia and opted for Miami.
There are still players with ethics.
Alexis Ohanian buys first TGL team, dubbed Los Angeles Golf Club
Alexis Ohanian is also the principal owner of Angel City FC, SBJ's Team of the Year in 2023
The TGL is moving into its next phase of development, as Reddit co-Founder Alexis Ohanian has become the first owner of the six-team league, announcing the launch today of the Los Angeles Golf Club. Ohanian, also the founder of VC firm 776, is joined in the ownership by his wife, Serena Williams, and her sister, Venus. Ohanian and both Williams sisters were early investors in TMRW Sports, the parent company of TGL that was founded by Tiger Woods, Rory McIlroy and former Golf Channel President Mike McCarley.
ON THE GROUND FLOOR: In addition to his tech background, Ohanian is also the principal owner of NWSL club Angel City FC, the 2023 Team of the Year at SBJ’s Sports Business Awards in May. The purchase price for LAGC was unclear. “With someone like Alexis, not only can he make an immediate impact but he has a real vision of what the future of this can be,” McCarley told SBJ this morning. “He has a background in building communities both digitally and in real life. The team-based model representing a city with the right ownership made a lot of sense for us. It’s always been a key part of the business.” McCarley said talks with Ohanian started early on. When he and McIlroy first announced the creation of the TGL late last summer, they noticed Ohanian reacting positively to the news on social media. Within two days, Ohanian’s people reached out about getting involved. “He’s just got energy and ideas and the ability to execute on the ideas,” McCarley said.
TEAM PLAYERS: Each of the six teams in the league will be comprised of three players, and though they will be tied to a geographic location like LAGC, will compete out of the TGL’s home venue on the campus of Palm Beach State College. LAGC has hired Kayla Green, who worked for three years as head of marketing at Angel City, to the same role. The team also is launching a website at lagc.com. The bidding process continues for the other five teams, with somewhere around 40 groups – mostly North American-based – interested and at various stages of the process. While Ohanian was an early investor in TMRW Sports, that won’t be a requirement for other team owners. All team ownership groups are expected to be announced by late summer or early fall. McCarley has been in Palm Beach County meeting with prospective team ownership groups in recent days and had a site visit with CAA Icon, which is overseeing construction of TGL’s venue.
LOOKING AHEAD: The TGL launches in January and will play mostly on Monday nights, with a network partner or partners expected to be announced in the coming months. To date, 12 players have been confirmed for the league, led by Woods, McIlroy and Jon Rahm. With the full 18-player lineup not yet set, it was unclear what the makeup of LAGC looks like. TMRW Sports has about 30 full-time employees currently on staff.
https://www.sportsbusinessjournal.com/Daily/Issues/2023/06/08/Franchises/alexis-ohanian-serena-williams-tgl-team-golf.aspx
Makes you wonder what he was burning in the fire place.
Now you just need a PAC, $200M, a town hall on CNN and a campaign manager.
God Strikes Down Pat Robertson For What He Said About Gays, Hurricanes, 9/11, Haiti, Orphans ...
Doktor ZoomJune 08, 2023 11:53 AM
https://www.wonkette.com/god-strikes-down-pat-robertson
Pat Robertson, about to be sealed in carbonite.
I didn't realize until I started writing this Wonkette Remembrance that Pat Robertson and I share the same unused first name that John Wayne also didn't use, although I knew about John Wayne of course. Born Marion Gordon Robertson in 1930, the one-time GOP presidential candidate, televangelist, and culture wars hatemonger died today at the age of 93. Maybe he went straight to Heaven, which is a depressing thought, or to hell for all the people he focused rightwing hate on. Or maybe his brain shut down and that was that, which strikes us as most likely, if narratively unsatisfying. So it goes.
As Moms Mabley said of her ex-husband, "I was always taught never to say anything about the dead unless it’s good. He’s dead. Good." (Nope, not Bette Davis speaking of Joan Crawford. Everything you think you know is a lie.)
You can go elsewhere for the sober discussions of Robertson's business and media acumen, because we think his real genius was for saying inflammatory stuff that blamed all of the world's ills on women, gay people, abortion, and liberals in general, linking religious fervor with politics and generally enshittening America.
He had a knack for making political disagreements not mere matters of policy, but of framing them as a literal spiritual battle, with Democrats inevitably on the side of Satan. He wasn't the first to do that, but it really was his bread and butter.
He infamously declared in a 1992 fundraising letter prior to an Iowa vote on the Equal Rights Amendment that
"The feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
And while those are all noble goals, that's really not what the ERA was about, because it was actually about unisex restrooms. Everyone knows that.
Robertson also had a habit of blaming disasters on whatever sinners he was thinking of at any given moment; in 2001, he explained that the 9/11 attacks were God's retribution for the federal courts, pornography, abortion rights and church-state separation.
Talking again about 9-11 on his TV show a year later, Robertson described Islam as a violent religion that wants to “dominate” and “destroy,” prompting President George W. Bush to distance himself and say Islam is a peaceful and respectful religion.
Robertson really had it in for gay people and abortion, neither of which Jesus ever said anything about, and suggested that Hurricane Katrina in 2005 was God's punishment for legal abortion in the USA, which is a good thing to know because I'd always thought he'd blamed gay people for that one, too. (Turns out that was John Hagee, a different nutter.)
But Robertson did warn in 1998 that Orlando, Florida, was likely to be hit by hurricanes if the city flew rainbow flags in celebration of Disney's Gay Days promotion. And lo, hurricanes have indeed visited Orlando, but other parts of Florida too! Just to be on the safe side, Robertson also expanded that prophesy to cover the entire US and a wide range of catastrophes:
I would warn Orlando that you're right in the way of some serious hurricanes, and I don't think I'd be waving those flags in God's face if I were you. ... [A] condition like this will bring about the destruction of your nation. It'll bring about terrorist bombs, it'll bring earthquakes, tornadoes, and possibly a meteor.
Robertson also blamed the 2010 earthquake in Haiti on that nation's "pact with the devil," which is also what allowed Haiti's 1791 revolt against French enslavers to succeed, because without the assistance of demons, the Black rebels couldn't possibly have beaten white European colonialists. And indeed, Haiti has since then been beset by all sorts of tragedies and poverty, all of them the result of demonic forces, not geopolitical revenge by France and other "civilized" countries.
Oh hey, speaking of prophetic, back in 2014 Yr Wonkette predicted that someday, "Pat Robertson will shuffle off this mortal coil, and then we will have approximately 30% less things to blog about," although at the time we didn't foresee that Donald Trump's "presidency" and the resulting aftershocks would more than make up for it. (At the time, Robertson was mad that gay people couldn't be stoned to death, but instead were able to get wedding cakes.)
So much of Robertson's deranged fantasies involved gay people, only they weren't the fun kind of fantasies. Like that time he said that gay men in San Francisco and elsewhere deliberately spread AIDS to straight people:
"[If] they got the stuff they’ll have a ring, you shake hands, and the ring’s got a little thing where you cut your finger. [...] Really. It’s that kind of vicious stuff, which would be the equivalent of murder.”
Some of his hatemongering was of the more down-to-earth, practical sort, the kind that could really destroy some families, like his advice for how to shun your gay kids at Thanksgiving so they'd stop being gay. If that isn't an example of Christ's love, we ... oh, it isn't, not in any conceivable sense.
Once in a rare while, Robertson would surprise us by saying non-insane things, like when he said in 2013 that transgender people are OK because sometimes "there are men who are in a woman's body" or women in men's bodies, and "I don't think there's any sin associated with that." Or in 2015 when he acknowledged that police not only can make mistakes, but can be genuine murderers, as in the case of Derek Chauvin's murder of George Floyd.
But then he'd go and say some casually evil shit, like telling a woman to comfort a grieving coworker whose three-year-old died by telling her that maybe the kid would have grown up to be Hitler, so God took the baby to heaven to prevent that, and the potential Hitler baby is in heaven anyway now, so cheer up. He didn't explain why God neglected to kill the actual Baby Hitler, but hey, mysterious ways.
There was also his bizarre advice about how parents shouldn't adopt orphans, because who even knows what kind of sticky psychological goo they might have on them.
"You just never know what's been done to a child before you get that child; what kind of sexual abuse there has been, what kind of cruelty, what kind of food deprivation, etc., etc, etc. So, you’re not a dog because you don’t want to take on that responsibility. You don’t have to take on somebody else’s problems. I mean, you really don't.
Robertson even backslid on his seeming acceptance of trans people by 2016, proclaiming that he hadn't changed his mind about people who were really transgender, but insisting that was really rare, and so most people claiming to be trans are just faking it so they can go into restrooms to watch people poop, a thing that literally does not happen.
In conclusion, Pat Robertson is dead, good, and we will probably get by just fine without his help in averting hurricanes, since his record there is kind of spotty.
NEWS: Alexis Ohanian has purchased the first of six teams that will be part of the @TGL, the golf league that will launch next year with backing from Tiger Woods and Rory McIlroy.
— Josh Carpenter (@JoshACarpenter) June 8, 2023
◾️Ohanian's wife, Serena Williams, is also part of the ownership of Los Angeles Golf Club. pic.twitter.com/aUmkhpH1Dj
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