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I read an article this morning mentioning that current vaccination rates are falling to a scary place. Parents for various reasons are not bringing in their littles for their shots and/or are not competing a required series. 😞

Billy Goat Acres.

(Try Hard) Erica is in a longstanding three-way with Tom and Tom's assets. Putting aside "He's a good man" can you see her investing 20 years in Tom and a railroad pension? It does appear that it works for them but it is what it is.

My cat floves the big scenes on this show. She's perched at the end of the bed, staring at the TV, ears forward, purring like a mofo. Me too.

S1.E13 Coming up after the commercial, Kyle and Kim in the limo: "You stole my goddamn house!"

Heh, she also intended to say hospitals and ventilators and came up with hospilators. Covfefe!

MJ inherited its 3-hour slot from Don Imus but Imus was always live for the third hour, right? Imus In The Morning was a three-hour simulcast and I remember it as three live hours. MJ was live for three hours for at least a little while, yes? You might enjoy looking at MJ's Wiki Wicca article, if it's been awhile (or you never have). There are 38 (thirty eight!) people listed as recurring guests or contributors and it's written as though they are regulars. At least that's how I took it. That sounds like a deep bench. And there is no mention that the third hour is a repeat every day. The show is described as having moved from basic news talk to enterprise journalism. Which is defined as the specialty of in-depth investigative reporting with a unique slant not seen elsewhere with any regularity. I shitteth you not. "Stunningly superficial" is quoted in its entirety and gets its own paragraph. And Joey hiring Mika the night before MJ's audition is cited.

"We are not human beings having a spiritual experience; we are spiritual beings having a human experience." ~ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin Philosopher, Jesuit priest, paleontologist, geologist.

^^^ While they goad him, to engage even more of his attention. There's plenty to go around, isn't there?

He And She smugly made numerous references to conversations and phone calls, oh-so-casually saying "Jared this" and "Ivanka that." They tag-teamed, He went after Jared and She went after Ivanka. Until they over-stepped, and were dropped like a dollar watch. They never saw it coming, they were insufferable, they thought they were bullet-proof. They got played, is more like it.

Watched the first 5 minutes of poorly rated Morning Psycho on MSDNC just to see if he is as “nuts” as people are saying. He’s worse. Such hatred and contempt! I used to do his show all the time before the 2016 election, then cut him off. Wasn’t worth the effort, his mind is shot! They are gloating, gloating, that 45 slammed them a few minutes ago and they are goading him to say more. Joe, especially, is best described as unctuous, repeatedly using the term "Sir," and saying go back to your day, you have more important things to do. He also couldn't help mentioning how good their ratings are, saying they don't need a booster. Barf, barf, barf. This is exactly why I retired from politics last June and why I kick myself every time I think, "Oh, I can take a peek." Barf.

Before her massive head-to-toe makeover she was mousy little squirrel bait, relatively speaking, and the inner Kylie matched the outer Kylie. (Especially when compared to her mom and three oldest sisters, her role models). She didn't grow into the outer Kylie, she purchased her. How can there not be a disconnect?

You're collectively gonna think I'm nuts but this is the third time it's happened and I didn't say anything the other two times. When Mika wears a light color top and we (I) talk about her bewbs because something is noticeable in the light color, she wears a dark color the next day and keeps it up for quite awhile - maybe until she forgets or she thinks we (I) forgot. The last time it happened was when she wore a fitted pink top on April 1 and oakville posted a Daily Caller link that day. The imbalance caught my eye because of the chyron and I wrote a wondering post, was there a sour implant or maybe a mastectomy, because things were not what they had been. One was nearly sitting on the chyron and the other clearly was not. She has worn dark tops or layers since then (two weeks). There was a change after Stormy Daniels and Michael Avenatti were frequent guests for awhile. Whether Joe's appreciation of Stormy's assets spurred something, I cannot say. Somewhere around then Mika wore a kimono/a robe over her usual outfit every day for a week, I remember that. I notice this kind of stuff because I worked in a salon and spa where co-workers and clients enjoyed getting boob jobs and liposuction and other improvements and they were not shy about before-and-after conversations and comparisons. Well, I'll go sit in the corner by myself for a few days. Carry on. https://dailycaller.com/2020/04/01/joe-scarborough-everyone-but-trump-coronavirus-coming-january/

I hear ya, LOL Before the church caught on that the Salamander Letter was a forgery they hurriedly were gathering "experts" who if called upon could explain that in some neighborhoods in the olden days the translation from Reformed Egyptian (LOL) of the word salamander was spirit, so technically still an angel, and that would preserve the "truthiness" of Joseph's original visions in the woods. Also, again keeping in mind they were unaware that Hofmann was a forger, for all they knew there were more copies of or references to the Salamander Letter that another source could bring forward. If that happened all their buying and hiding of documents would be for nothing. There was much fretting and burning of the midnight oil while they did all they could to prepare for the reveal they feared would come at any moment. Are we all aware of what a whistleblower in the church's financial department leaked last year? After years and years of funneling "extra" tithing into an investment fund the current value of the church's bank account is right at one hundred billion dollars. One hundred billion. And there are properties and businesses worldwide outside of the investment fund. You can read all about it in the Salt Lake Tribune but not so much in the other Utah newspaper, the one owned by the church, The Deseret News. That is quite the rags to riches story in less than 200 years. Ya done good, Joseph! They said they kept the cash a secret because they didn't want members to think they could skimp on their tithing. They said that! Widows and orphans are still being told if it's your electric bill or your tithing, pay your tithing. If it's groceries or tithing, pay your tithing. Does it make more sense now, why polygamy openly thrives in Utah? See, we can think all we want that the mainstream church and the AUB and FLDS and RLDS and the other sects are separate and distinct but they all share the same hive mentality, the same way of looking at things and doing things. The more you know the better you understand the Browns. Utah ain't called the Beehive State for nothin'.

Which sailed right over her young head. The adults who were in the room and watching at home got the joke - and Portia had no clue and no frame of reference unless her parents had been hissing at each other about it. Would they do that? Or did her dippy mother make an "uh oh" face that drew her attention? How was it worded ... "a younger woman" IIRC. The Horror! What a vile choice of words! The cat's out of the bag!

If anyone is looking for a long read here are three books that in a roundabout way are about polygamy; bear with me. The first and most basic tenet of faith and membership is that you must believe in Joseph Smith. His visions and revelations (including the restoration of polygamy) are the cornerstones of the church's founding. If you believe this, that and the other but do not believe in Joseph Smith you will never qualify, you will never be worthy and you will never be a Saint. Selling old and rare documents is a very lucrative and very specialized way to make a living. I moved to northern Utah in July 1985 so I was fresh off the boat when a series of three bombs went off in Salt Lake City in October 1985. Solving that case led to a master counterfeiter and forger of rare documents, a Salt Lake City native named Mark Hofmann who lost his faith when he was a teenager but went on a two-year mission in England to please his family. During his mission he discovered and became interested in rare books. He secretly read Utah native and UCLA professor Fawn Brodie's (quite good) 1945 Joseph Smith biography No Man Knows My History and that book cemented his doubts. Brodie's family tree includes patriarchs who were church bishops, apostles, a BYU president and the ninth church president. Needless to say, Fawn McKay Brodie was excommunicated. (Her 1974 Thomas Jefferson bio An Intimate History was the first deep dive into Jefferson's relationship with his slave Sally Hemings, which was later validated by DNA). After Hofmann returned home from his mission he started buying and selling legitimate rare books and documents. Then he began to make a very, very good living forging and selling rare bibles, and signatures and letters belonging to many of America's Founding Fathers, Abraham Lincoln, Daniel Boone, Mark Twain and many others - along with a previously unknown poem "written" by Emily Dickenson. The kicker is that, among his other customers, he was forging and selling documents and holographs to the church which showed that Joseph Smith was a liar and a charlatan, and the church was buying them as fast as Hofmann could produce them - not to add them to its massive archives but to conceal them. It progressed to where he was bypassing the church's historical department and selling directly to the First Presidency ... ... because the church's foundation rests on Smith's veracity. At one point Hofmann set up a bidding war between the mainstream church and the RLDS (Reorganized LDS) over a document indicating that, upon Smith's death, according to his divine revelations his successor should be his eldest son Joseph Smith III - rather than Brigham Young, who sent the body of the church to the Utah Territory and later headed the church there (in the theocracy known as Deseret). Joseph Smith's eldest son and his followers formed the break-away RLDS church when Joseph was killed and it is still today the largest second-tier sect. The salamander reference comes from a forged letter which revealed that in Joseph's visions he was visited by a talking salamander and not by an angel, which caused some major interpretation gymnastics in the bowels of church headquarters. The first two titles are available as ebooks, the last one is not. It was an intricate case and these are very detailed books, similar in scope and style to Truman Capote's In Cold Blood and Vince Bugliosi's Helter Skelter. It may sound like I have totally spoiled you but I haven't because there are many more layers and this is just an outline so you can decide if you are interested. I read all three books but it was so long ago that I can't remember which I liked the best and none were returned after the final time I loaned them. Bastards! The Mormon Murders: A True Story of Greed, Forgery, Deceit and Death (1988 - 590 pages) by Steven Naifeh Salamander: The Story of the Mormon Forgery Murders (1988 - 556 pages) by Linda Sillitoe and Allen D. Roberts A Gathering of Saints: A True Story of Money, Murder and Deceit (1988 - 416 pages) by Robert Lindsey

I bought it after I read your post, it was almost $6, more than I usually like to pay but I wanted it and I knew I would like it. Today I got Ann Eliza's book that the novel was based on, Wife No. 19, for a dollar. So it evened out!

They would take selfies in the donation chair showing the spike in their arm and their juice and cookie! But ... crickets. Slogans and crickets.

He has resting sad face, that's what gets me. I can't help but think that what we see on Maddie's SM is the tip of the iceberg and on some primitive level he knows his mom isn't exactly enchanted with being his mom. It's like she was an only child and had no idea that littles need and take and are helpless and underfoot for the first few years. And that those are the best years of your lives together. You get to build a human from scratch! "Why is the sky blue?" "Because it's God's favorite color." And they believe you! Sad. Way sad.

We can be pretty sure she's not cleaning bathrooms or shampooing carpets or upholstery. Or doing a workout or walking. Or convincing her hambone kids to simma down. Wait, the hambones belong to Christine. Going by all the damage, what do either of those two do all day?

This one is new to me and I didn't see it posted here: March 5, 2020 This therapy is helping me triumph over my 20-year addiction to sleep medicine The Know Your Value founder and "Morning Joe" co-host says Dialectical Behavior Therapy, which she started about two years ago, has changed her life. https://www.nbcnews.com/know-your-value/feature/mika-therapy-helping-me-triumph-over-my-20-year-addiction-ncna1151176 This is the night Joey called his ballad "Let's Fall In Love" to Emily Jane Fox's attention. Barf. This was 10 months before the release of the first of his one-a-month-for-4-years EPs that lasted ... 3 months, was it? August 24, 2016 JOE SCARBOROUGH HAS A LITTLE SECRET . . . The renowned television host, and former congressman, is embracing his deep yearning—to be a late-in-life rock star. “I turned 50 and I said, I’m going to die and my kids are never going to see this side of me.” Mika Brzezinski, Scarborough’s morning show co-host, was perched on the edge of her seat in a booth just offstage, toggling an iPhone, a Chanel shopper, and a drinks menu as she sang along to every word of the song and waved her fists to the beat. She ordered a bottle of wine for the table and texted friends in order to get them to stop by. She was, all at once, an inspiring combination of groupie, hostess, and dutiful colleague. And maybe a little rock star, too, in jeans and black sunglasses resting atop her white-blonde hair. Scarborough and Brzezinski’s relationship has become a topic of fascination among, largely, the concentric circles of people who appear on their show and those who write about them. In late June, Page Six reported that Brzezinski’s recent divorce might suggest that she and her co-host were going to reveal that they were a couple. But that relationship, whatever it is, went undiscussed at Prohibition. (A spokesperson for MSNBC declined to talk about the pair’s relationship. Scarborough said his tweets speak for themselves.) Decades of songwriting have yielded a collection of about 400 songs, most of which no one has ever heard, because he had been paralyzed by a fear of judgment from ever performing them. Some of the self-consciousness came through as he rehearsed with the band. Scarborough tapped his Stan Smith sneaker to keep time, like a kid taking music lessons would, and he mostly kept his gaze fixed on his guitar. But he loosened up a few songs in. “Hey, Emily!” he shouted to me from the stage. “Remember when I told you I didn’t write love songs?” He was referring to a point in our conversation, maybe a half hour earlier, when I asked if he had written any such ballads lately. “I’ve written one in the last 40 years and we’re about to play it,” he shouted again. I asked whom it was about. Scarborough said he couldn’t remember, but said he wrote it about a year ago. At that point Morning Joe Music began rehearsing “Let’s Fall in Love,” a crooning waltz about a man who is convincing a woman to do just that. Scarborough kept his eyes closed for most of the song, his voice approaching the sincerity of a pleading Springsteen serenade. https://www.vanityfair.com/news/2016/08/joe-scarborough-morning-joe-music-band JUNE 20, 2017 Scarborough has apparently “spent the last year holed up in studios recording 50 of his 400 original songs.” He’ll roll out 200 between now and 2020, but says he “might take a quick rest” before putting out the remaining songs. https://www.thecut.com/2017/06/joe-scarborough-release-debut-ep-new-music-for-the-next-4-years.html

I'm expecting her to play the pregnancy card during* sticky exchanges or conversations. *Or after

All were good but that was my favorite. 😉

What I wouldn't give for 3 or 4 Hostess cupcakes right now! OK, 6.

Jose! Did you know his identical twin is a keeper at another zoo, Queens maybe?