"He knows he has an unusual penis. It has a huge mushroom head. Like a toadstool ... "
Stormy Daniels
Prosecution Witness

Nope, not NATO. Indeed, the US designates Argentina, Australia, Bahrain, Brazil, Colombia, Egypt, Israel, Japan, Jordan, Kuwait, Morocco, New Zealand, Pakistan, the Philippines, Qatar, South Korea, Thailand, and Tunisia. as "Major Non-North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO) Allies." Again, and quite specifically, not NATO.

Most Americans think he's a pile of shit.
#6 | POSTED BY LEGALLYYOURDEAD

And many who don't already will as the tawdry details of the case pour forth. Eh, Shroom Boy?

Israel is a NATO ally ... .
#10 | POSTED BY BELLRINGER

On what planet?

Forced to live surrounded by a diverse population? Fuhgedaboudit, when you can live in a place where ... everyone thinks just like you do! Check your brain at the door to your dream dump, pick up your pickleball pickling thang and swagger on down the cobbled streetknowing you'll never have to hear a discouraging word ever again. No, nay, never. Rubens and Rubenettes, have we got a deal for you!

Not when they're Cubans and it's Florida.

Up for sale, bought, fully paid for long ago. Theywag their tails and bark happily when a master lets them hear the sound of shuffling dinero and catch a whiff of its greasy scent.

Uh-oh, buckle up, buttercup: as of 1:32 Eastern, you could buy yourself a share in DJT for $22.60, down 15.07% from yesterday. Wow.

Sheesh. Can't the poor guy's attorney sneak some of his Adderall or the kids' coke into the conference room?

Well, it opened this morning at $27.25 and is currently priced at $23.10, still trending down, hard. Whoosh!

TWINPAC
What happened to the old tribal names is quite a story. Some monikers survived intact, albeit frozen in time by being tied not to one's own experience (as was the case previously) but as homage rendered through the name of an ancestor. Others were obliterated (for some): Hin-mah-too-yah-lat-kekt (Thunder Rolling Down the Mountain) morphs into "Joseph." I imagine Native American names and naming practices could prove challenging for genealogists. My own experience involved historical research, where kinship often loomed like a Gordion Knot in attempting to unravel, say, rivalries and alliances. Just adding, that relative of yours ... chances are good "Wild Goose" was a name that conveyed a broader message - and there would have been a story as to why the name was used. Honoring a relative? A hunting or war exploit? Personal characteristic? Good words from Rick Riordan: "Words are the source of all power. And names are more than just a collection of letters. ". Hang onto yours!

TWINPAC
LOL. He'd sure have a go at those Lakota, Cheyenne, Arapaho, and - on the other side - Crow names, e.g., Sitting Bull, Two Moon, Sage, White Man Runs Him, etc.

TWINPAC
At #23, that one's opener kinda writes itself: "There were good people ... on both sides." Hoohaw. From there, absolute hilarity ensues.

At Pickett's Charge Pickett charged. Uphill, downhill, all around those beautiful hills. So magnificent. Beautiful, really. Very magnificent and very beautiful. And also very beautiful and magnificent. Which is why they call it ... nobody seems to know this, it's weird ... "Gettysburg." I mean, wow.
~ Donald "I Have a Flunky Do My Own Research" Trump

Three card brag is a simple form of poker; you are dealt only three cards and these you can't change. If you don't look at your cards you're a `blind man' and you only put in half the stake. Three of any kind is the highest you can get: the odds are four hundred and twenty-five to one. Then it's a running flush - you know, all the same suit running in order; then a straight, then a flush, then a pair, and finally whatever the highest card you are holding. There are some tell-tale signs that are valuable; I am not going to tell you them because it took me long enough to learn them, but these can only help a player, not make one. So you want to play?
~ "Eddie"
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels

"making a surfer's seal-like silhouette even more enticing."

Absolutely. Look at a surfer from below (the shark's perspective), either sitting on the board or just lazily paddling, and ... yeah, there's definitely a seal-ish shape there. I know plenty of divers take comfort in believing they, on the other hand, do not resemble an edible. But if the sharks are getting antsy, perhaps they're less discriminating. One bite, just one. Perhaps the shark doesn't like that bite, shakes it off, and leaves the diver behind as it swims off in search of a real meal. Meanwhile, the diver contends with a severed artery. Oops. Diving is great, but do steer clear of the divers who boast of the number of dives they've had or other -------- rubbish. Oh, and please stay away from "shark feeds" and "shark experiences" which draw the critters by - in one form or another - chumming. Think about it.

Witnessing the results of this process up close - I'm talking of obvious, devastating damage to these micro-universes clearly observable a dozen or more years ago - has been one of life's profoundly disheartening experiences.

DeSantis and his investors/enablers are drawn to the thoughtless cruelties of the Gilded Age like flies to the elephant pen at the circus. And for the same reason: they're sheet eaters.

"Hell, he has to squat to take a piss."*

*Lyndon BainesJohnson discussing rival Adlai Stevenson

The eloquence and breadth of vocabulary demonstrated by most middle schoolers soars in comparison to Trump. On a good day, he seems to be working with (and constrained by) a 7-year-old's word bank. Ignorance and laziness seem to underlie the man's embarrassing bafflement by or outright dismissal of the world that lies beyond the stultifying limits imposed his own lazy incuriosity. And he seems to be getting worse. Much worse.

*Wahr *

"Sitzpinkler" - kinda catchy, nicht wahrv?

Killing journalists is one way of controlling the story.