Today is also Leonard Cohen's birthday. I am not a fan but want to acknowledge his birthday,

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 21, 2023:

I love, love, love this song. It is haunting and so moving. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YrLk4vdY28Q

NIGGARDLY - Adjective…1) ungenerous with money, time etc.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 21, 2023:

I have used this word, and remember hearing it most of my life. I suppose that miserly would be safer in our current climate. Too many less than educated people might think it is referring to people of color.

Let me warn those Americans opposed to providing full support to Ukraine in their struggle to defeat...

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 21, 2023:

You're preaching to the choir.

Did you watch this?

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 20, 2023:

No, at that time I was 15, and my evil step witch and my dad had control of the TV. I remember hearing about it, and reading about it, but never got to watch it. OMG, 50 years ago!!

Is it too much to ask?

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 20, 2023:

I've been thinking that for about 45 years, not sure when I first heard of "the donald."

Sweet and sour chicken.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 20, 2023:

She's eating, it's a win.

MOUE.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 20, 2023:

I am familiar with this word, but I'd bet I had not seen it in 5 years.

Wednesday morning cuteness

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 20, 2023:

Adorable! I love ginger babies.

Stochastic terrorism: noun; the public demonization of a person or group resulting in the incitement...

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 19, 2023:

I don't think his vocabulary is that good, but other than that, spot on!

Black cats get lucky when cries are heard coming from Marysville storm drain – KIRO 7 News Seattle

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 19, 2023:

Thank you for such a feel good story.

LACKADAISICAL - Adjective…lacking enthusiasm and determination; carelessly lazy; carefree ...

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 19, 2023:

I love this word!! It describes so much so well, and isn't used nearly enough.

Hobbit house.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 19, 2023:

Adorable!!

Rep. Jennifer Wexton diagnosed with progressive supranuclear palsy

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 18, 2023:

Wow, that is a harsh disease.

Monday morning cuteness...Pack essentials only!!!

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 18, 2023:

Absolutely essential!

KIBOSH - Verb…decisively end or reject (something); “he kiboshed the idea”.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 18, 2023:

I have kiboshed and been kiboshed, never thought about where the word came from. Very interesting.

Have you done it?

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 17, 2023:

I just recently canceled some subscriptions I was no longer reading. I have another few that might follow that same route.

JABBERWOCKY.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 17, 2023:

It has been more than a few years since I heard the word or thought about this poem.

A song that defined a generation [youtube.com]

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 16, 2023:

OMG YES. That was the protest song of our generation, the song of the working class. Things haven't changed much in 50 years.

I am getting ready for when gravity inverts the floor will be on the ceiling.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 16, 2023:

I hope we get a warning before that happens, can you imagine flour and sugar dumped all over the kitchen!

I am trying to change my thinking and the way I think.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 16, 2023:

Controlling our thoughts is one of the hardest things to do.

Runnin my own bizznuzz...... [twitter.com]

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 16, 2023:

that is one chill cat!

The Boebert saga continues…

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 16, 2023:

LB is such a piece of work, and gives me a great desire to avoid the state she is from. If the population elected her, what does that say about them?

INCORRIGIBLE - Adjective…(of a person or their behaviour) bad beyond correction or reform; not ...

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 16, 2023:

I have used this a few times, and a few times it was applied to me!! I think of the American cartoon character Dennis the Menace when I hear this word, or even Calvin of "Calvin and Hobbes".

[dailymail.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 15, 2023:

Family values my hiney.

Best picture I've seen of him yet.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 14, 2023:

Perfect image of the orange cheetoh.

Thursday morning cuteness

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 14, 2023:

Love the ginger babies.

How long could you stay silent? How about 12 days?

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 14, 2023:

I live alone, but with cats, and I talk to my cats when necessary. My job is telephone customer service, so I'm talking all 8 hours long, I am grateful for my lunch time when I read my current book and don't talk to anyone. Honestly though, I wouldn't want to HAVE to go 12 days without talking. I think you'd miss out on meaningful connections with other people.

chiliad PRONUNCIATION: (KIL-ee-ad) MEANING: noun: 1.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 14, 2023:

interesting!

For anybody that grew up in the central time zone fom 1966-75 and remembers Clyde Clifford's late ...

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 14, 2023:

I don't remember this song at all.

Throw your voice ...or X-ray glasses, or how about some onion gum?

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 13, 2023:

I remember those ads.

Wednesday morning cuteness... We heard the can opener

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 13, 2023:

Adorable!

Happy Tuesday and a pheasant evening and stop goating around.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 12, 2023:

Happy humpday eve.

Tuesday morning cuteness...2 much time on there hands

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 12, 2023:

That is one gentle, placid kitty.

What a beauty!

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 12, 2023:

Such a beauty!

Restaurant review…

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 11, 2023:

Hard to enjoy your meal under a death glare.

Monday morning cuteness...Selfie

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 11, 2023:

adorable!

Has anyone tried this?

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 11, 2023:

I don't do things like this because I don't have many sunny windows that the cats don't have access to.

I look forward to Golden Week each Fall.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 11, 2023:

I loved Western Washington in the fall.

Trump triptych no. 2:

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 10, 2023:

Good ones!!

DeSantis triptych:

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 10, 2023:

Good ones!

Climate triptych + 1:

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 10, 2023:

Sadly true and likely prescient.

Trump triptych no. 1:

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 10, 2023:

Good ones!!

GAMOMANIA.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 10, 2023:

I must be the opposite of that. I've no desire to marry again, although third time is supposed to be the charm (yes, I've been married twice). I am definitely not looking, so that narrows the opportunities.

A sign o’ stupidity too!!

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 10, 2023:

It is delusions of grandeur, a chimera to those fools. It has no toehold in reality.

FASTIDIOUS.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 9, 2023:

I am not a fastidious person, but one of the persons I raised started out just like me but morphed into my sister; one of the most fastidious and organized persons on the planet. Genetics is weird.

Perineum sunning is still a thing?

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 8, 2023:

A few bricks short of a full load.

The "stable genius" plots and strategizes...

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 8, 2023:

stable genius, belongs out there with the horses and goats.

EUPHEMISM - Noun…a mild or indirect word or expression substituted for one considered to be too ...

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 8, 2023:

I love euphemisms, how to be scathing without being scathing. With small folks around we frequently use euphemisms to keep conversations PG13.

I will never understand it…

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 8, 2023:

good ones!

Looks like many of the old, humane, civil and rational old-timers are gone from the site, and are ...

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 7, 2023:

I have not noticed that there is less respectful dialog or uncivil folks. I do notice that many of the old timers have not come back.

Doldrums A state of moody angry listlessness, characterized by a feeling of life being pointless, ...

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 7, 2023:

The hot, lazy days of August in Nebraska can give one the doldrums.

DROLL.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 7, 2023:

I have heard that used as an insult so often.

It's down to us.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 7, 2023:

Sadly way toooo accurate.

Pillow guy crying about money? Go sob into one of your shitty pillows! [uproxx.com]

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 7, 2023:

Cry a freaking river, you made your bed now kwitcherbitchin.

[facebook.com] COULD YOU PLEASE REPEAT THAT MR BUSH

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 7, 2023:

He's such a dim bulb, the whole family just doesn't connect the dots very well. Poor Barbara, I think she was the brains of the family.

The loving gaze is a giveaway.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 6, 2023:

My dog was only happy when he was with people. My cats hardly acknowledge when I'm home, unless they are hungry. When they're hungry they're stuck to me like glue, and i just realized I need to fill up their food bowl again.

I haven't posted food in a while, have been rather busy since my roof had been repaired.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 6, 2023:

Congrats on finding something everyone likes!

I don’t know how proud they are now but still in cells!

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 6, 2023:

They are gonna be proud old men that can't get it up anymore.

Wednesday morning cuteness

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 6, 2023:

What a sweet baby!

Republican Group Airs Scathing Anti Trump Ad On Fox News - YouTube

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 5, 2023:

Woot!! Love the dissension in that party.

No sooner had the Fulton County Sheriff released Donald J.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 5, 2023:

He's such a shyster, I hope this is another nail in his freedom coffin.

Proud Boys’ Enrique Tarrio gets record 22 years in prison for Jan.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 5, 2023:

It isn't as much as I would have liked, but enough to clip his wings for a while and give him plenty of time to "learn some new skills..."

Ex-Proud Boy leader Enrique Tarrio has been jailed for 22 years: [bbc.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 5, 2023:

Couldn't have happened at a better time, or a better person to receive such a "reward." Justice is served, and I hope he chokes on it.

That's a load of Bull Sh!t... [youtu.be]

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 5, 2023:

This is just a few miles further west from me. I posted a few days ago, but you have video. We have some special characters out here.

BLOVIATE - Verb…talk at length, especially in an inflated or empty way; speak or write ...

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 5, 2023:

Jeeze, does that describe the American former Cheetoh in chief, or what. Bloviating orange gasbag. I've known this word forever, just haven't heard it in a while.

Still wondering why Miss Lindsay isn't here?

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 5, 2023:

What a motley crew.

I love the "Matt" satirical cartoons.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 4, 2023:

He lied then, there is no reason to believe he would not lie again.

This male cat had been staying in some bushes in my back yard for over a month.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 4, 2023:

Good for you!! I love me ginger kitties, but I don't want a male cat. I like my girlies. It is good that you realize your limits with cats. My city limits us to three cats per household.

Good job by the EU.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 4, 2023:

I hope the US follows suit.

Why does Trump relentlessly attack the free press?

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 4, 2023:

Trump is a wanna be dictator with a small pr_ck and limited brain power. He wants to control stuff to compensate for his lack of endowment.

Can you imagine? (but someone would have to take one for the team and read the whole bible)

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 4, 2023:

I think it is a great idea.

ABSTEMIOUS.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 4, 2023:

This is a word I remember from Regency era romances of my younger days. I don't think I've ever seen it used anywhere else. As for me, yes I am abstemious when it comes to alcohol, but with chocolate all bets are off.

Interesting combination though…

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 4, 2023:

Interesting!!

Getting jumped by the shark:

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 3, 2023:

Love it!

MESSAGING SYSTEM APPEARS TO BE WORKING! I've received a message, so I guess the system is working.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 3, 2023:

Not working for me, I have not been able to reply for several days.

For all newbies or anybody: The Message Feature either doesn't work at all, or erases messages ...

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 2, 2023:

I notice on the screen it says socket status: no connection. I have never noticed that before. It is weird, I got a message earlier today, and discovered just now my response did not get sent. @WalterGreens I received your message and I am unable to reply to you.

That's it, in a nutshell (empty, of course.) !!!!

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 2, 2023:

Yep, and all those "Proud Boys" running around thinking they're hot s_it. They just ain't hot.

Cats and cannons collide at Gettysburg’s feline-themed Civil War museum - WHYY

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 2, 2023:

Too funny!! Interesting hobby though.

Saturday morning cuteness

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 2, 2023:

I love ginger kitties!

Sa·ty·ri·a·sis noun 1.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 2, 2023:

Yes, if/when women express their sexuality they are condemned as whores, when a man expresses his sexuality he is admired or at least not discouraged. Definitely double standards.

Ok, I am late with my happybirthday wish for Van Morrison's 79TH birthday on aUGUST 31; but we are ...

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 2, 2023:

Nice!! Thanks for the head's up.

Cat cartoons

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 2, 2023:

Good ones!

One storm we could actually halt.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 1, 2023:

That is the most lethal one of all.

Apparently Ramaswamy is heavily invested in the fossil fuel industry.

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 1, 2023:

Yeah, we don't need a livable planet.

Donald Trump's former lawyer Rudy Giuliani pleads not guilty to Georgia election fraud case: ...

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 1, 2023:

I agree, finally I don't dread reading the news.

Analogy of the month:

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 1, 2023:

Good one!

Friday morning cuteness...Where is the catnip???

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 1, 2023:

Baby, move back from the screen, it will cross your little eyes!

"I'm not a terrorist" says a Proud Boy who tried to overthrow the US government: [abc.net.au]

HippieChick58 comments on Sep 1, 2023:

That's what they all say.

Just leaving this here

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 31, 2023:

I can't wait to see the perp walk.

Poetic justice indeed (but he'd do a Johnny Cochran ,"if you' suit don't fit you must acquit")

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 30, 2023:

He'd look like a spoiled stuffed sausage.

Wednesday morning cuteness

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 30, 2023:

As distant as it seems, Winter is coming, and she/he is just getting ready!

WOEBEGONE - Adjective…sad or miserable in appearance; looking sad, forlorn or heartbroken,; ...

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 30, 2023:

An American author wrote "Lake Woebegone Days", novel that was popular a few years ago. Lake Wobegon Days[1] is a novel by Garrison Keillor, first published in hardcover by Viking in 1985. Based on material from his radio show A Prairie Home Companion, the book brought Keillor's work to a much wider audience and achieved international success selling over 1 million copies.[2] Like some of Keillor's other books, it is unusual in that it could be said that the audiobook preceded the publication in written form. The work is a humorous account of life in fictitious Lake Wobegon, Minnesota, a heartland small town. Its early chapters are written in the form and style of a history of the town and later ones chronicle the lives, concerns, and activities of its inhabitants, with inter-generational tensions and relationships forming a major theme. Most of the latter material was originally delivered on radio in the form of monologues. Due to the nature of the original material, the second half of the novel has many recurring characters but little in the way of plot, resembling an incompletely integrated group of short stories.

@Lizard_of_Ahaz lol gottem

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 29, 2023:

True dat.

THE MANY TRIALS AND TRIBULATIONS OF INMATE NUMBER P01135809 Donald Trump claims that all the ...

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 29, 2023:

> Your conclusion: "However, there is a far simpler explanation: Donald J. Trump is a lying, conniving, egomaniacal, money-grubbing, power-hungry, neo-fascist, sexual predator and all-around crook, and his feeble protestations of innocence constitute a criminal's lame attempt to evade accountability. You decide," is spot on. I go with the simple explanation.

2023 lbs in 2023 !!! [fb.watch]

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 29, 2023:

It's cool that they grow them so big, but that doesn't make for good eating.

Kibble time for the kitties.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 29, 2023:

Meals on wheels.

VITUPERATION - Noun…bitter and abusive language; sustained and bitter railing and condemnation;...

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 29, 2023:

I have been subjected to vituperative diatribes in the past. Now I just laugh and walk away.

I don’t remember but I’ll take it.

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 29, 2023:

I'd figure out how to work her into the schedule.

August 28 is an auspicious day in my family: the birthday of Johann Wofgang von Goethe, my father's...

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 28, 2023:

My mother's birthday was March 15th. She passed when I was 14. When I was 30 I gave birth to my second daughter on March 15th. I thought that was a great way to honor my mother. One of her granddaughter's have her middle name, Mae. (Mom's name was Minnie, so not a good name for a human girl now.) And one of the great grands also has Mae as a middle name. She honors both my mom and her dad's mom's mom.

Neil deGrasse Tyson on India's Moon Landing & Its Significance | Firstpost POV - YouTube

HippieChick58 comments on Aug 27, 2023:

Fascinating. I love NdGT, he lays it all out clearly.