I don’t own a cat. He simply decided to live here and moved in. Sound familiar? An experienced cat landlord recommends these tactics for keeping cats off the kitchen counter. Give them somewhere else to climb. Keep the counter clean. Invest in a water fountain. Line the edges with foil or tape[...]
Archive for September, 2022
September 3rd, 2022 - 7:14 pm § in Misc.
A tweet to make your day
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Lindsey Graham digs himself in deeper
Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-SC) is a lawyer, so he should know legal outcomes depend on the facts of each case, and no two cases are exactly alike. This is basic stuff they teach to law students. Last weekend, Graham went on Fox News to say, to an already-inflamed audience that shouldn’t be hearing[...]
Florida school lesson
The handout below surfaced in a Florida sixth-grade class. It’s not an approved lesson. It was created by a teacher, on his own initiative, and distributed to students by a substitute. The school subsequently got complaints from parents (see story here). Let’s examine this. “Presid[...]
September 3rd, 2022 - 2:33 am § in Misc.
Mean adults kill a little girl’s pet goat for meat
“Last April, Jessica Long’s family bought a 4-month-old goat and took it to their Shasta County home, where Long’s young daughter named it Cedar, feeding and caring for it and bonding with it as she ‘would have bonded with a puppy,’ the Sacramento Bee says (read story here). �[...]
September 2nd, 2022 - 11:10 pm § in Law and Courts
Police misconduct stories on 9/2/22
Case #1 “An East Tennessee law enforcer who bragged about the ‘tune-up gloves’ he wore when beating suspects to remind them ‘who the boss was” and shouted ‘I’m not sorry for what I’ve done’ when a judge convicted him of civil-rights abuses is headed to feder[...]
September 2nd, 2022 - 10:46 pm § in Donald Trump, Politics
Who’s the most consequential Trump appeaser?
Nearly all Republicans either said nothing about Trump’s election lies and coup attempt, or even worse, parroted and justified it, but none had as much power to do the right thing as Mitch McConnell. In the first days following the Capitol riot, the GOP Senate leader publicly condemned the [...]
September 2nd, 2022 - 9:59 pm § in Donald Trump, Law and Courts
Would you buy a pardon from this man?
Nobody with a brain thinks the rioters who stormed the Capitol, assaulted police, and threatened to kill government leaders on Jan. 6, 2021, are anything but criminals. But Trump, who incited these people, said on Thursday, September 1, 2022, he will “very, very seriously” consider pardo[...]
September 2nd, 2022 - 8:55 pm § in Politics
Armed mob demands library ban books it doesn’t have
What the library will do instead is close, because the library director quit and the library lost its insurance coverage. Now there’ll be no books of any kind for anyone to read, no reading programs for kids … no nothing. Watch video below. The gunmen may have ties to the Redoubt Movemen[...]
September 2nd, 2022 - 8:26 pm § in Schools & Colleges
Kids with guns
“School had just started for the year on Monday,” the CNN story begins (here). “A suspect approached the victim, 17, during dismissal. The encounter became heated, and the suspect … also 17, shot at the victim multiple times …. School police performed CPR on the studen[...]