Motley Moose – Archive

Good morning Motley Meese! Hope your weekend was lovely. Mine could have been exhausting – 410 miles each way to take Mom back to Tennessee, but Kidlet drove all but one hour the whole trip. Payback for all my years as a chauffeur, I guess.

This week’s shot is from a couple of weeks ago in Catoctin, MD. This is unretouched as it came off the camera. I just loved how this flower almost glowed in the light.

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In an udder disaster for Dairy State Dairyerres, a Vermont cheese has won the award for Best of Show in the American Cheese Society competition held in Madison WI:

Best of Show

Cellars at Jasper Hill, VT

Winnimere

From the White House – Weekly Address

In this week’s address, President Obama tells the American people that his plan for creating a better bargain for the middle class builds on the progress we’ve made, fighting our way back from the worst economic recession of our lifetimes.

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With the 2013 Newport Jazz Festival coming this weekend: perhaps its most magic moment took place fifty-seven years ago, after the jump ….

I’m doing AIDS Walk Austin for the 26th time on October 20. Twenty-six years. How can it have been that long?? Back in the old days, I used to shyly ask for donations. Now that I know so many who are affected, I walk up to total strangers & ask — I’m not asking for something for myself, but for funding that keeps friends of mine getting the meds they need. Anyway, here I am again, asking for money for the Walk. Below the fold are the ways it helps, but first, here’s my AIDS Walk Austin page. Please donate if you can.

Interrogatories

Have you ever had a census-taker come to your house? (I always just get a form to mail in.) Did you eat his liver with some fava beans and a nice chianti?

Have you ever ridden on a cable car?

Who wears the look better: Eddie Munster or Paul Ryan?

Do you like to gamble? Have you ever won anything?

What’s in your glove compartment?

The Twitter Emitter

God is punishing us for thinking we know what God is punishing us for.

— LOLGOP (@LOLGOP) July 31, 2013

With all the pressing matters before Congress, I'm glad Darrell Issa found time to name all the water around the US after Reagan.

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) August 1, 2013

First I created stupidity. Then, to give it some place to go, I created people.

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) August 1, 2013

As revenge for this Snowden mess, Obama should stick to the summit with Putin, but staff it entirely with flamboyant gay dudes. #takethat

— daveweigel (@daveweigel) August 1, 2013

Al Qaeda leaders say they may take August off: "Let's give Ted Cruz's plan to bring America to its knees some more time to work"

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) August 1, 2013

Ariel Castro sentenced to life without possibility of parole, meanwhile Juror B37 isn't sure what he did was even a crime.

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) August 1, 2013

Look on the bright side #ArielCastro. At least you know how long you'll be trapped in a prison and why you're there.

— Crutnacker (@Crutnacker) August 1, 2013

Skinny jeans are a poor substitute for skinny genes.

— God (@TheTweetOfGod) August 1, 2013

Glad the GOP blocked Obama's jobs bill. It wastes so much money fixing roads and bridges when the free market will just fix them by magic.

— Top Conservative Cat (@TeaPartyCat) August 1, 2013

Senate confirms Samantha Power as UN ambassador, despite Republican concerns that she is intelligent, well-qualified and female

— The Daily Edge (@TheDailyEdge) August 1, 2013

Good morning, Moosekind. TGIF! Don’t forget to let your peeps know where to find you.

Happy Lammas!!

Hold on there … those are happy llamas … which is not the same thing at all!

Today is August 1st, the pagan holiday of Lammas or First Harvest. It is the first of three harvest celebrations on the Wheel of the Year. But because this is a pagan holiday that does not have a corresponding non-pagan holiday, it may be one that you have never heard of.