On Taking a Joke.
So the big story this week is Will Smith storming the stage to belt Chris Rock at the Oscars. I wasn’t watching it live but I woke up in the middle of the night as I usually do and I picked up my phone and turned on YouTube looking for the latest BTS news and the site was blowing up with the uncensored tape of the ceremony. I watched it and couldn’t believe my eyes. What an asshole.
Will Smith apologized “to the Academy” when he got is Oscar and then he put up another apology the next day on Instagram and both of them were self-serving horseshit. As of Thursday, March 31, WillSmith has not reached out to Chris Rock personally and begged his forgiveness and even if he does, Will Smith is forever a steaming pile of human turds to me.
I can’t stand his wife, either.
When I married my sweet Top Cat almost 18 years ago, I explained to him that I had a big mouth and at times I feel the need to call out some asshole (real life examples: the bitch who was texting in the movie theater, the the MAGAt in line at the gas station, the dip shit who had to tell me about my BLM flag that “all lives matter”). If that happens, I told him, he is never to step in and try to “protect” me from the consequences of my actions. And my darling Top Cat has done just that: he has walked away while I go nose-to-nose with some creep (I have anger issues) and let me handle the situation on my own because I am a grown ass woman with an adequate vocabulary and a spine. And that’s why I love him. He understands that I can handle myself.
Jada Pinkett Smith, not so much.
There’s another discussion worth having about How To Take a Joke, Even If It’s Not That Funny, Because That’s All It Was, An Unfunny Joke, And Nobody Was “Making Fun” Of Anybody for Chrissake…but I don’t have the energy.
Anyway…we didn’t have internet for 2 days here at Too Many Cats Manor on the north shore of Long Island this week, so my news coverage might be a bit skimpy this week. And lordy, what a week it was:
The Russians are talking about down-sizing their army in eastern Ukraine, which is a save-face way of saying “withdraw” but I don’t trust those bastards a bit and neither do the Ukrainians. We’ll have to hope for the best when it comes to de-escalating the war. But I found some happy” news stories dint meantime:
And this is the story of a British Army vet named Tim Locks and two pals who were in Ukraine distributing essentials such as toiletries, baby formula and nappies that had been donated by crowdfunding. After hearing from a conservationist in his hotel about two animals that needed to be rescued from the front line, Locks, 45, went on a daring four-day mission across war-torn Ukraine to save the lives of a lion and a wolf, driving a 1200-mile round trip from Lviv to Zaporizhzhia Oblast in the country’s south-east to save the animals.
Driving amid heavy Russian bombardment of Ukrainian cities, they declared their cargo as ‘a lion and a wolf’ at checkpoints, one guard telling the men there was a war on and it was no time to joke around. Tim said that he took the officer to the side of the van, opened the door, and showed him this proper big lion, “like Aslan out of Narnia.”
Once they crossed the border to Romania, they met a vet who spent two hours completing paperwork. Then they set off to the zoo in the north-eastern city of Radauti. Police helped them drive non-stop, providing a blue-lighted escort as the trio gathered up hundreds more miles. They used a forklift and the help of 20 Romanians in a tricky operation to lift the animals into their new home.
BTW, the animals have names. They are Simba, the lion, and Akyla the wolf.
It’s worth remembering (because it’s easy to forget) that not ALL Russians are assholes:
I like to think that this guy is a typical Ukrainian:
Actually, this guy (above) is the brother of the mayor of Kyiv, Vitaly Klitschko, elected in 2014 and re-elected in 2020.
Actually, it wasn’t the mayor who told Fox News that they had blood on their hands, it was the other Klitschko, the boxer, who said that (you can find the video on YouTube) and the guy speaks almost perfect English and he’s as big as a mountain. Both brothers are staying in Ukraine to fight the Russians.
Mom Klitschko, you raised your boys right.
In Jan. 6 news:
Madison Crawford is a 26-year old little shit representing the 11th Congressional District of North Carolina, and he is a liar and a MAGAt creep and this week he claimed that senior politicians from his party have invited him join their orgies (in order to show that some RINOs are as depraved as Democrats).
This is the little shit:
The Republican leader of the House took Madison into his chambers and gave him a talking-to about making other Republicans look bad, but so far Crawford has not retracted his claim. Now, Crawford is a well-known liar, but . . .
Anyway.
Trump had a rally in Georgia last week:
Here are some quotes:
The good news is that the rally was sparsely attended:
But .. .
Anyway. . .
And that’s my abbreviated round-up of the latest happenings in the demise of intelligent life on Earth.
When I’m not thinking about politics, I’m thinking about truth, beauty, love, and how to be the best version of me so I can be a light and a comfort to others.
Sorry that this week’s post is a bit slap-dash due to the time constraint and shitty WiFi. ON two mornings this week we woke up to temperatures in the 20s, and we even had as now flurry on Sunday.
Have a great weekend, everyone. I know that life will suck, will truly SUCK as long as there are Republicans in the world, but let’s hold on to our humanity, day by day, heart to heart, by treasuring the fleeting moments of joy and warmth and kindness that comes to us as an unearthly serenity in our souls as if bequeathed by angels, like this here picture of a wombat in a wheelbarrow:
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I hope you are well and just taking a little respite (a fed up with the world kind of vacation).
I lost track of you during the pandemic. Actually, I lost track of a number of things (and thoughts) during the pandemic.
Please call home.