scott is 6′3″. logan is 5′3″. scott is literally a foot taller than logan i never wanna see them eye level for dramatic glaring panels ever again @ marvel artists.
My headcanon is that every time Scott does something Extra Logan immediately pulls out his glarin’ foot stool so he can glare at Scott in his damn eyes
It’s like ten thousand poems when all you care for is strife It’s fucking the man of your dreams… and then fucking his beautiful wife
Huh
And isn’t it Byronic, don’t you think? A little too Byronic? Yeah, I really do think.
IT”S LIKE FLEEING TO SPAIN ON YOUR WEDDING DAY BEING A SHITTY DAD TO ADA LOVELACE LIKE THE OTTOMAN FORT THAT YOU JUST COULDN”T TAKE AND YOU WOULDA THOUGHT YOU’D BE BIGGER
It's the fact that's it's not just Trump, it's all the people piling up with him that scares the carp out of me.
“By threatening to take a chainsaw to nearly every worthwhile thing the federal government does, the administration has made a better case for the liberal vision of government than Democrats themselves have managed in a long time.”
“The administration is acting like a caricature of the cruelhearted scrooges Democrats would like everyone to believe they are. The program that helps fund Meals on Wheels, Mulvaney said, is “just not showing any results.” I mean really — how many of those elderly shut-ins have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and gotten jobs? And as for after-school programs for kids, “There’s no demonstrable evidence,” Mulvaney said, that “they’re actually helping kids do better in school.” He said about climate change research that “we’re not spending money on that anymore.” As a result, even some Republicans are recoiling from the administration’s budget. Rep. Hal Rogers (R-Ky.), who used to chair the House Appropriations Committee, called the cuts “draconian, careless and counterproductive.””
I mean really — how many of those elderly shut-ins have pulled themselves up by their bootstraps and gotten jobs? And as for after-school programs for kids, “There’s no demonstrable evidence,” Mulvaney said, that “they’re actually helping kids do better in school.”
Yeah, those elderly people who just want to have a little dignity, a little food, and aren’t able to get out of their homes for some reason or another … fuck those goddamn parasites, right, Mulvaney?
And hungry kids who are so poor they can’t get a good meal before they go to school? How are those little ingrates ever going to learn how to do high-frequency trading and get ready to argue about the carried interest deduction if they’re wasting all that time eating instead of watching Morning Bell on CNBC? Fuck those little shits, right?
All the gods of myth and legend are real, but having your prayers answered depends on discovering which god can hear you. You figured out which god is listening to your prayers, but they’re not what you expected.
Suzy
was dissapointed. Most people her age had discovered their deity so
far, and she was starting to think she was godless. She turned the
next page of McBayers’ Little Book of Deities,
and tried reading their names aloud to see if she’d get a reaction.
It had taken her weeks just to get through Chinese spirits and
deities, and had finally reached the first page of Egyptian
Gods and you.
“Ammit?
Amun? Anhur?” Nothing. Her heart slowly sank again.Three
more tries, and she’d stop for now.
“Anubis?”
The
ground shook. The lights in Suzy’s room flickered and went out. A
single flame hovered in the middle of the room, and as it grew to a
blaze it changed form. Within the blink of an eye, there was a tall
figure standing in Suzy’s room. The body of a man, and the head of a
jackal. His eyes shone bright as he peered at her.
WHAT
IS IT, SUZY OF THE HOUSE MILLER?
“You’re
the deity that answers my prayers?”
INDEED.
I, ANUBIS, WHO RULES OVER THE LAND OF THE DEAD, IS HERE TO ANSWER
YOUR REQUESTS.
Suzy
thought for a moment. “O great and mighty Anubis who rules over the
afterlife, can I please have a puppy?”
Anubis
seemed taken aback.
IN
THE CENTURIES THAT I HAVE BEEN PRAYED TO, THIS IS THE FIRST TIME I
HAVE BEEN REQUESTED SOMETHING LIKE THIS. CHILD, HOW OLD ARE YOU?
“I’m
eight and a half. My mommy says that if I can take care of a puppy, I
can keep it.”
ARE
YOU CERTAIN YOU DO NOT WISH FOR ME TO BRING PLAGUES UPON YOUR ENEMIES
OR WEIGH A SOUL FOR YOU?
Suzy
shook her head. “I want a puppy.”
CHILD,
IN TRUTH THIS WISH I CANNOT GRANT. MY JOB HAS BEEN TO BRING PEACE AND
LEAD SOULS INTO THE AFTERLIFE, NOTHING MORE. IF I WERE TO CREATE A
HOUND FOR YOU, IT WOULD BE FORMED OF BONE AND SOUL ALONE.
Suzy
thought for a second. She would have liked to have a nice fluffy
puppy, but then she remembered how Aunt Marge’s Sphinx cat was still
nice, even without fur.
“No
fur is fine, as long as they don’t bite and make a mess.”
Anubis
nodded, and raised a hand. Underneath his palm an intricate symbol
appeared on the floor. It glowed bright, and the floorboards burst
apart. Up sprang a massive skeletal dog, bigger than suzy herself.
Its eye sockets held blue flame, and its jaw hang partly open in a
perpetual grin. It slowly walked over to Suzy and nuzzled her.
“What
does it eat?”
IT
WILL NOT NEED SUSTENANCE, AND WANTS NOTHING MORE THAN TO SERVE ITS
NEW MASTER. I HOPE THIS WILL SUFFICE.”
“I
love it. Thank you, Anubis.”
Anubis
looked slightly taken aback, but nodded peacefully.
FAREWELL
FOR NOW, SUZY OF THE MILLERS. IF YOU EVER NEED ANYTHING ELSE YOU HAVE
BUT TO ASK ME.
Suzy
nodded, and ran over to her parents’ room to show them her new dog.
She was pretty sure they couldn’t object to this pet.
The fiscal 2018 price for President Trump’s border wall is in: $2.6 billion. That’s a cost to U.S. taxpayers, not a cost many people any longer think will be picked up by the Mexican government.
As first installments go, it’s a pretty big number. Indeed, its size can be appreciated in one powerful way by setting it against some of the many budget cuts Trump proposed this week.
One year of spending on a border wall is the equal of, well, the federal funding for the Corporation for Public Broadcasting plus the $231 million given to the country’s libraries and museums plus the $366 million that goes to legal help for the poor.
Actually, the tab is nearly three times the cost of those combined budgets.
Care about the arts? Wondering where the next “Hamilton” might come from?
The federal government could increase the annual combined spending on the National Endowment for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Humanities by 900 percent or so and still not get to the $2.6 billion.
It’s worth noting the $2.6 billion will not actually go toward the big, permanent wall the president has committed to. That’s forecast to be around 10 times the $2.6 billion. The $2.6 billion will go to build a bunch of smaller walls and patch holes in the assortment of fences that now exist.
All these numbers confusing you? Wish you were better at math?
The $2.6 billion is more than twice the annual costs of 21st Century Community Learning Centers created across the country to fund programs run before and after school and throughout the summer. You could actually throw in the $190 million spent on teaching students with disabilities and limited English proficiency and still not match the wall costs.
The wall, of course, is supposed to protect Americans from the cheap labor making its way illegally into the country. It might strike some as odd that, while investing in the wall, the administration has opted to disinvest in a variety of economic programs. The Economic Development Administration’s $221 million budget is wiped out in Trump’s plan. Ditto the $434 million dedicated annually to job training for older low-income people. And the $119 million aimed every year at 420 economically depressed counties in Appalachia.
Had enough of this? Weary of politics and partisanship? Sick of talking about the wall? Want to get away from it all?
There are plenty of options, of course. What there won’t be anymore, under the Trump budget, are the $20 million spent on National Heritage Areas or the $13.2 million spent on the National Wildlife Refuge Fund.
Western Christians: Religion has no place in public life. The hijab should be banned. Kosher slaughter must be outlawed. Sikhs should stop wearing turbans and assimilate.
The Rest of Us: Can you maybe tone down Christmas by, like, 10%? Like enjoy it for sure, and go all out with your decorations and stuff, but maybe don't have nativity plays at public schools or wish people a 'Merry Christmas' unless you know it's their holiday? You know, like, just don't force it on those of us who don't celebrate?
Western Christians:...
Western Christians: Religious freedom is under attack.
Why are we going through this charade? (but yeah, watch the video if you haven't already)
Donald Trump continues to stun and amaze with the lengths he’ll go to accuse former President Obama of wiretapping. At his press conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, he said that “As far as wiretapping, I guess, by this past administration, at least we have something in common, perhaps.” Journalistic consensus seems to be that Merkel responded by looking bewildered or confused:
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Merkel truly looks bewildered by Trump saying "at least we have something in common" re: Obama wiretapping https://t.co/gRQF2U37Bf
But is that bewilderment or is it more disbelief that Trump would say that? It can equally be read as “get a load of this jackass,” to my eyes.
Trump also took an opportunity at the press conference to show that he really has no idea what it means to be president, by blaming Fox News for his administration’s claim that Great Britain helped Obama wiretap Trump Tower. According to Trump, “We said nothing. All we did was quote a certain very talented legal mind who was the one responsible for saying that on television. I didn’t make an opinion on it, that was a statement made by a very talented lawyer on Fox, and so you shouldn’t be talking to me, you should be talking to Fox.”
The man appears to fail to understand that an allegation about something a foreign government did at the behest of the U.S. government registers differently coming from the White House than from a Fox News analyst. And Fox News appears to be walking it back more quickly and effectively than the White House.
“I have written a poem for a woman who rides a bus in New York City. She’s a maid, she has two shopping bags. When the bus stops abruptly, she laughs. If the bus stops slowly, she laughs. I thought, ‘Mmm, a-ha.’ Now, if you don’t know black features, you may think she’s laughing. But she wasn’t laughing. She was simply extending her lips and making a sound. I said, ‘Oh, I see.’ That’s that survival apparatus. Now, let me write about that to honor this woman who helps us to survive.” Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (2016) dir. Rita Coburn & Bob Hercules
We’ll never stop missing Bill Paxton, one reason being our ongoing obsession with his 1996 tornado-chasing classic, Twister. The look on everyone’s face in this famous scene is how we feel at the end of this week. (Everyone including the cow.) How about you?
I reblogged an older version of this yesterday that contained an error, and @charadreemurr was nice enough to let me know they’d published an updated corrected version!
If you shared the original one, please consider sharing this corrected version as well.
Rex Tillerson, former oil man and current Secretary of State, presides over an emptied-out department facing deep budget cuts with limited influence in Trump’s White House. Despite this, he is responsible for handling a potential nuclear crisis.
I’m watching a documentary on Netflix about animals getting prosthetics and this vet just hand sculpted a prosthetic beak for an injured swan and the very first thing it did was use its new beak to bite someone
