Bits & Bytes

HEARTY CONGRATULATIONS: Mindful Webworker has a new granddaughter! Woot! Woot! Woot!

2019_03 24 Alex slippers

MASCOTS: I made Mama Buzz’s cold feet some fancy schmancy slippers (pure rubber soles, alpaca insoles, merino wool crocheted uppers). The kids have been having fun trying them out.

2019_03 25 AOC failed business

AOC: “Herein lies the hypocrisy of progressives. Lefties only seem to care about collecting that revenue when it’s coming out of other people’s piggy banks. When it’s their time to ante up and do their part, not so much. Maybe Alex would realize how sucktastic taxation is if she actually paid it. Though, I’m not gonna hold my breath expecting her to learn anything.” – Steven Crowder

We’re not the only ones getting sick of her. In his speech at AIPAC on Sunday, House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer took a not-so-veiled shot at Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar and Rashida Tlaib, telling the crowd “By the way there are 62 freshmen Democrats. You hear me? 62, not 3.”

2019_03 25 Streisand Jackson

WELL DARN: After reading the following, I literally went through my entire CD collection trying to find a Streisand CD to ceremonial throw away. I thought I had one, but maybe I threw it away the last time she said something this horrible.

Streisand seemed sympathetic to Michael Jackson, saying, “His sexual needs were his sexual needs, coming from whatever childhood he has or whatever DNA he has.”

And while she admits he did molest children, she didn’t think it did them all that much damage, because, you know, they got to hang with Michael Jackson! Also, “it didn’t kill them.”

Within hours of her bizarre remarks being publicized, she walked back on them, talking about the lifelong pain of childhood sexual abuse and the culpability of the parents. Whatever, Babs. I still wish I had a CD of yours to throw away!

BLEXIT: Where Black Lives Actually Do Matter – What are the The Democrats going to do about so many of “their blacks” waking up and leaving the plantation? #BLEXIT cannot be stopped. Black people are figuring out the leftist scam to keep minorities uneducated and poor.

UK PC SUCKAGE: “The United Kingdom has truly entered the twilight zone. Parents are having their children taken away from them because they do not want them given powerful drugs and surgeries that will irreversibly change them, and people are getting visits from the cops and being compelled to show up at the police station for tweeting—accidentally or otherwise—beliefs about gender that nearly all of humanity held scarcely a decade ago.”

ITALIAN LIVES MATTER: As per usual, if it doesn’t advance the Progressive agenda, the MSM ignores it –

On March 15th, an anti-immigrant white man, who wanted to send a message to the world, killed 50 people inside a mosque in New Zealand.

If you missed the story, you probably live in a backwoods cabin with no TV, radio, or internet.

On March 20th, a pro-immigrant black man, who also wanted to send a message, kidnapped and tried to immolate 50 children on a school bus near Milan, Italy.

If you missed the story, you probably live outside of Europe, because nobody else covered it.

According to the European media, a school bus driver who migrated from Senegal several years ago hijacked his bus-full of middle school children, forced the three school chaperones to handcuff the children with plastic ties, then took off on the highway, ramming into cars along the way.

When he was stopped by a police barricade, he set fire to the bus which he had previously doused with fuel. Luckily the police were able to break the bus windows and free the students. No one was seriously injured but several children suffered shock, bruises and smoke inhalation.

The bus driver told the panicked children that what he was doing was revenge for his own three children who had died while crossing the Mediterranean in an attempt to get to Italy.

He told police that he was retaliating for the thousands of migrants who had drowned in the sea crossing in recent years.

TRAGIC: Coral Springs police confirmed on Sunday that a second Parkland shooting survivor has killed himself.

IS THE POPE A DEMOCRAT?! — In 2016, Pope Francis established a Vatican commission to look into the history of female deacons. It ended its work and gave the pontiff their report in mid-2018. He has withheld the results, which were, in short, that “there is no historical evidence that in the patristics women were ordained as deacons.”

I am a devout Catholic, but dang, I am so underwhelmed by this pope. I follow climate denier news and read that the leaders of the movement, like Lord Monckton, had made a big effort to present their evidence to Pope Francis while he was preparing the encyclical, Laudato Si. He wouldn’t see them. The encyclical stated his belief that man-made climate change is real and of urgent importance. This withholding of a report sounds like more of the same. Don’t like the message? Plug ears and sing “Neener neener neener” very loudly. ::sigh::

Vet vs PP

OHIO: On Thursday, Planned Parenthood locations across Ohio received notice from the Ohio Department of Health that their state funding will end next month.

The notice comes following a federal appeals court ruling this month that upheld a 2016 Ohio law forbidding the state from sending preventive health funding to any organization, or affiliate of an organization, that “performs or promotes” non-therapeutic abortions. The law was signed by former Gov. John Kasich.

2019_03 25 Herodotus

ANCIENT TEXT PRECISELY CORRECT: In the fifth century BC, the Greek historian Herodotus visited Egypt and wrote of unusual river boats on the Nile. Twenty-three lines of his Historia, the ancient world’s first great narrative history, are devoted to the intricate description of the construction of a “baris”.

For centuries, scholars have argued over his account because there was no archaeological evidence that such ships ever existed. Now there is. A “fabulously preserved” wreck in the waters around the sunken port city of Thonis-Heracleion has revealed just how accurate the historian was.

TISSUE ALERT!

EVONI: When one of her customers asked for help cutting his food, Evoni didn’t think twice. Her simple act of kindness went viral, and days later, she received a life-changing scholarship.

PETCO: Petco says all leashed pets are welcome in their stores — Two Texans decided to test that claim by bringing Oliver the African Watusi into their local Petco store on a leash. He was “welcomed with open arms” and is now one of Petco’s “favorite customers.”

ALEC: 11-year-old Alec left everyone in the crowd with goosebumps.

CHRISTMAS TREE: “So I asked my husband to toss the old Christmas tree during the cleanup efforts and noticed it was taking a REALLY long time… then I look out and see this struggle going down…”

BIG HANDS: “You should not be able to touch both ears with one hand.” This guy manages to make his big hands and small head into a very funny routine.

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  1. Son sent a great picture of the 1-year-old up-close inspecting the new baby sister.
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    That pic of Streisand is… unflattering. I’d read that she’s been hanging out with Demon Alcohol a lot; she looks it here. [Trump voice:] Sad.

    I think it’s funny how the -exit suffix has become like -gate. From forms of “Brexit” for other EU countries, to “Blexit.” Jexodus is still the best.

    That murderous school bus driver — glad it wasn’t worse. Wow.

    I note how he engages in group-think, random guilt by association, ideas not compatible with modern civilization, but just like the socialist injustice terrorists.

    Parkland “survivor” suicides: Does this number exceed that at comparable-size schools or is it just news because they’re “survivors”? We are having an ‘epidemic’ of teen suicides, school shooters aside.

    (I don’t think I’d suffer “survivor’s guilt.” At least, not after all I’ve already survived. I’m just grateful to see another day. So far.)

    Pope Francis… *types* … *deletes* (again)

    Vet clinics cleaner than PP abattoirs. No doubt.

    Another difference: vets who grieve when they go to spay a pet and discover, too late, she was pregnant.

    The gal cutting up the old guy’s dinner (my hands hurt in sympathy with him) is a nice story, and how nice the unexpected returns for her, but it’s a problem and a kind of a caution. Problem is, imitators who want to cash in on such public sympathy and generosity. Caution is, “do your good deeds in secret” now includes checking in all directions for cell cams.

    Steer at PetCo: Hilarious! Them are some serious horns on that feller. Could do very serious “bull in a china shop” damage if spooked. But, the girl petting his head, he looked like a puppy.

    Tug-o-war with dogs: If that guy wasn’t playing and having fun… then he’s an idiot and the dogs are smarter. Either way, hilarious.

    Yoiks! There’s a bunch of new posts below this one! Busy day.

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