He's really quite mad.

Michelle Obama remains what she has long been: a role model.

There are more places than you can count in national parks where people can place themselves into positions of literally mortal danger. MODER8's post at #8 offers a horrifying reminder. (And thank you for posting.)

I know not everyone who gets into trouble in those situations arrived there through stupidity or a yen for a Darwin Award. Often it seems a certain lack of situational awareness plays a huge role in disaster's onset. A while back I was Grand Canyon, visiting with a ranger on the South Rim just outside Emery and Ellsworth Kolb's old photography studio in Grand Canyon Village at the head of Bright Angel Trail. A lady approached and asked the ranger where she might find "the elevator to the bottom." After the ranger politely replied there was no elevator to the bottom, and explained what was involved in actually getting to the bottom, I asked her if she'd ever been asked that before. "Getting to the bottom on an elevator?" she replied with a grin. "More often than you might imagine."

Try explaining a Memory Hole to a MAGAt.

"Melania Moo Cow" seems appropriate as long as it's "Hogzilla" for her partner Donald.

Then give ol' Texas a good, hard flush.
Thanks of a grateful nation.

If he did he was way off, e.g. "Blue Doze Blues" in 1928.

There was nowhere else to go, the outfit was getting separated, and events were moving fast - afterwards, quite a few of the cavalrymen were found lying in the "count fours" position for fighting on foot: three men dismounting with a fourth holding onto everyone's mounts. The swirling fracas moved so quickly isolated groups of soldiers often had just enough time to get off their horses, form a quick line, and die. Things got so confused that an Arapaho warrior killed what he thought was one of Custer's Crow or Arikara scouts only to find out he'd lanced a Lakota whose comrades were none too pleased.

"The NDAs are central to us understanding what actually happened," Garcia said.
...
"Of all the witnesses that have come thus far, this one has the potential to be the most groundbreaking deposition in my opinion," Comer told reporters on Friday morning before the hearing began.

Is there a bell on the next one?

Trump's Epstein Coverup continues ...

Boot Hill Cemetery at Ogallala, Nebraska may hold more than a few of their progenitors.

Weird, right? Plus taking out that girls' school. And, stepping back just a sec, how many shattered lives did the US create during this war? How many people did we kill? Seems almost like they might have a chip on their shoulder for ... reasons. But, hey, enough of that, let's make a deal, right?

Might these 13 points provide the outline for a performance marrying Alfred Jarrys Ubu Roi with the movie Idiocracy?

Fueled by a horrendous amount of MAGAt bootlicking and enabling.

"But the Emperor has nothing at all on!" said a little child.
Hans Christian Andersen
"The Emperor's New Clothes"

The list:

1. Devise unnecessary spectacle.
2. Disregard expertise.
3. Bypass normal procedures.
4. Declare victory too early (bonus if done by AI-slop post).
5. Spend way more than estimated.
6. Ignore the haters.
7. Realize it is not going well.
8. Bypass normal procedures once again.
9. Allege conspiracy and sabotage.
10. Redeclare victory.

"This leaves three steps to come in the future. If patterns hold, we should expect 11. More blaming (one contractor told Politico the repairs to the lining will take weeks), followed by 12. Losing interest. And then, of course, the most important one of all. The foundation upon which every Trump debacle is built. The perpetual-motion device of a petulant president:

13. Pretend it never happened, and move on to the next thing."

Quite the "two-week special military operation."

Speaking of pedophiles, how's Trump's Great Epstein Coverup holding up these days? It must be why we went to war with Iran, unless ... unless Trump really is so moronic he let Bibi Netanyahu lead him around as if he was a nose-ringed porker at the Iowa State Fair. Whattaya think?

So the regime was warned, decided to carelessly take the plunge by "working at Trump speed," and effed-up the job.

It's Trump's M.O.

The White House explanation. "'Trump Speed'? Nothing new, it's been around for more days than there are feet - as in the for measurement kind and not tourists giving themselves a bath or ANTIFAistas doing much worse -in the length of the Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pool, if each foot measured was considered to be not a unit of three-dimensional measurement but, rather, a measurement of time itself; namely, a day. In fact, you would need to collect no fewer than (meaning more than) fourteen Lincoln Memorial Reflecting Pools with feet counting as days - rather than measurements of length as we know it - jumbled together to equal the number of days (measured as days) since The Greatest President Ever appeared amongst us. God Bless Us, One and All - except those we hate." Claro?

Despite being a cradle Catholic, I know very little about exorcisms. I doubt many Catholics do.
#23 | POSTED BY EBERLY

A common feature of all religions, I I,anime. Try this one on for size:

From its beginning to death, human life is surrounded by their watchful care and intercession . "Beside each believer stands an angel as protector and shepherd leading him to life." Already here on earth the Christian life shares by faith in the blessed company of angels and men united in God.
The Catechism of the Catholic Church

Yum

Trump needs to read the memorandum he signed at Versailles.
It's a surrender document.
Iran won.
That is all.
Over and out.

We encouraged our son when a child to at least give what was on his plate a try. Like it? Fine. Don't? That's okay, too; no big deal, no freaking out. So when confronted with something new he would give it a go, then might quietly move along after calmly explaining: "Not my favorite." It's now a family-wide, laughing explanation.

Esposito: From this day on, the official language of San Marcos will be Swedish. Silence! In addition to that, all citizens will be required to change their underwear every half-hour. Underwear will be worn on the outside so we can check. Furthermore, all children under 16 years old are now... 16 years old!

Fielding Mellish: What's the Spanish word for straitjacket?
(Bananas, 1971)

The Truth Is Out There

Given the regime's reputation for lying, it's murder until there's persuasive evidence to the contrary presented.

That evidence has not been presented.

Telling.