Author Michael R. Hicks

We don't know for sure. I think so, but it's hard to confirm. :-(

You know that things are really screwed up when Rand Paul is the one making sense...

Europe's $24 Trillion Breakup With Visa and Mastercard A 130-million-user payment system backed by 16 major banks just launched to challenge Visa/mastercard

It's not an understatement to say that the global power structure is undergoing an incredibly dramatic shift. One piece of it is that Europe is finally starting to wake up...
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No, that wasn't on my radar, but I'm absolutely not surprised. And people - men, especially - keep wondering why women don't come forward. Ugh.

Thanks - us, too!

Having grappled with some Ikea furniture, it's now time to make some soupe á l'oignon...

Thanks, yeah, she's okay now. It passed after maybe 5-10 minutes, which in a way made it even more freaky. Now she's back to her normal grumpy old ladycat self, lol

Yeah, I've avoided reading the files myself; the summaries others have posted were horrifying enough. We can't run all these fuckers through the guillotine fast enough.

Oh, yikes! We never had trouble like that with the cats, but I know we used to back when I was a kid and my parents were breeding and showing Weims. But yeah, I hope we don't have any more of those. Yikes.

The files can be accessed, but it's not easy. The DOJ was supposed to redact the names of the victims, but instead they redacted many of the names of the perpetrators and left many of the victims exposed. Not all the files have been released, and many that were released have since been deleted.

Exactly. They bombard us with texts begging us for money, then don't do a damn thing except what the donor class wants.

I really have to wonder what it is with Democrats in Congress when they send out tripe like this: WE UNDERSTAND WHAT'S HAPPENING. The question is, WHAT ARE OUR ELECTED OFFICIALS - LIKE YOU, SENATOR - DOING ABOUT IT? Just bonkers, these people...

I still have an account on X, but don't actively use it except to scan for news sometimes, because it's a platform owned by a Nazi, and Musk absolutely IS implicated in the Epstein files.

Time to watch more Fringe!

MEOW! Happy early birthday to Finn!

The vet here in town is good, where we take her. As the saying goes, it sucks getting old! But if we live to be as old as she is in cat years and are in as good a shape, we'd be doing really well!

Yeah, that was pretty freaky. :-(

So, the day started off with our almost-19-year-old cat having a neuro event that left her blind for about five minutes. Fortunately her sight returned, but holy hell. And how's your day going? *sigh*

Not sure about how our neighbors might prepare it, but we had it with little potatoes, lol

Yeah, gonna try to get more in. Today I just did a little bit, as I've been battling an almost-migraine. Hopefully tomorrow I'll get more done! And good luck to you tomorrow!

It's a beef bourguignon kinda night...

Time to step away from the insanity for a while and get some writing done...

Well, the difference for our dogs was really in training and temperament. All the dogs we had in field trials also showed in the ring, but not all were the other way around.

C'est vrai, mais il faut que je finisse ça. Plus ça traîne, plus ça devient lourd.

Yeah, Heidi was a great dog. Funny, though: my parents also did field trials, as weims are hunting dogs. Heidi was an awesome pointer, but she couldn't swim worth a damn. Dad tossed her in one time to get her to swim, and all that was sticking out of the water was her tail like a periscope...

Ikr?

Oh, jeez: just found this. It's my mom with Heidi, another of our dogs...

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...through the seal, and pooled on the bottom inside the door.

"See!" I told Mom. "SEE! It wasn't me!" Then we all laughed, lolol

Here's one of the best ones, though: my mom used to get after me all the time for spilling OJ in the bottom of the fridge. I told her I didn't do it! Then one day she caught Brad, one of our male dogs, peeing on the fridge door! The pee went down the front of the door, then wicked up somehow...

Just spent the afternoon calling banks and the phone company to continue sorting out my dad's estate. My emotional tank is now empty for the day...