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Polly Styrene's avatar

SWEETLES!

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Bandit's avatar

She's very content. 🤗😊

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Kenneth R. Mintz's avatar

What is my tabby cat, The Empress, doing in your video clipped ear and all? And she just got off my chest from doing her daily claw massage? 😄

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SimulationCommander's avatar

All my tabbies agree that yours sounds adorable!

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Kenneth R. Mintz's avatar

She agrees naturally.

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suannee's avatar

Missing his Mom. What did he get up to out there?

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cat's avatar

Awww, kneading the bread!

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Lillia Gajewski's avatar

Is that Bonnie? Has she decided to be an indoor kitty? She looks like she's in heaven.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

It IS Bonnie! She came in to hang out with G for a couple hours last night.

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Yancey Ward's avatar

My mother calls that "making bread".

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Rosemary B's avatar

I love my kitties.

They are indoor only, they prick up the carpet daily, we don't care

Princess meows constantly, especially after she uses the litter box. But sometimes she is just upstairs howling. So I, or hubbs, go up there to see if the box needs scooping but she just runs to her night time prison room (they are wild at night) and tries to pick up her brush with her teeth.

and she just wants pets.

Miles eats up most of her food. They have separate night time prison rooms because Miles would be a buffalo by now and Princess is already a spry kitty, and both of them are cornish rex. Princess did not get much fur really. Her butt is naked.

So, this is my rattle on today.

I am kind of in a shitty mood.

hubbs and I have been 'invited" to meet with my controlling son in law and my youngest daughter, next Friday afternoon. We have not communicated with them in over a year because I was banned from family. My daughter is stupid and compliant to accept this.

Anyway, I was scolded last year for sending too much medical information about vaxxes for kiddos, they have three, and also mRNA vaxx long term injuries.

It has been a year.

Also, daddy, he is 99 and getting old but wowie he is always in such a positive mood. I love that. Every day I go to his palace living neighborhood (Ashby Ponds) and we go to the gym and bike for 15-20 minutes.

I hope every one has a nice week-end, I am gonna try.

I am so grateful for my husband. He is also very positive and funny.

We watched an old movie we have never seen. it was called Horrible Bosses

Anyone seeeeen it? For hollywood crap it was pretty good. I like Jason Bateman

love, Rosemary

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Hope the reunion goes well. Who knows, you might be the first person in the world to get a real apology.........

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Rosemary B's avatar

We are not counting on that.

It is going to be very weird. I am just going to think about clowns.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Probably a good strategy, don't want to be disappointed.

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Rosemary B's avatar

and I do not want to make Jerome angry by telling him he is a controlling and foolish guy. So, I am just going to keep my mouth shut. They sent us this weird email on where and when to meet, first it was noon but then they said 2:00 so they could feed their kids (3, 4 and 5, yes, my poor daughter had 3 babies in 3 years)

and we obliged. They also chose the meeting place.

Initially, I really just asked Lizzie if we could meet somewhere just the two of us but Jerome would not have it.

What a revolting development

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NatteringNaybob's avatar

SC - now that's contentment and affection. Gingerpuss G LOVES YOU.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

That's Bonnie! :)

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Rosemary B's avatar

I got fooled.

Bonnie is a sweetie.

My Princess does this rolling around and then crashing her head into me

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NatteringNaybob's avatar

SC - Although the video seemed redder, upon further review that is not Gingerpuss G. Aunt B LOVES YOU TOO.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Yeah the coloring is a little off, I think cause it's dark?

Bonnie still has tiny kitty face, where G is growing into his a little.

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NatteringNaybob's avatar

Bonnie is a female of the species, G is a male, this is the way.

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Rosemary B's avatar

Agree. Best Kittyboy EVER!

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Leskunque Lepew's avatar

Nice...

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Duchess's avatar

Aaawww...so happy.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

I'm working on a long piece on Influenza Like Illness. Still, not finished .... So I knocked out another vent ...

Every sports commissioner was pushing/mandating these vaccines for healthy young athletes. I, for one, have not forgotten. Also, those fearless sports commentators with their brave "hot takes" are actually just wimps, always supporting the Current Thing.

https://billricejr.substack.com/p/my-hot-take-on-our-fearless-sports

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Sports "reporters" are no different than any other -- stray from the script and you get canned. If the bosses say to act afraid of the invisible apocalypse and push the miracle jab, that's what they will do.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

"Stray from the script and you get canned." Exactly. Every one of them KNOWS this. They don't need to get a memo saying this either.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Yet when you run the numbers -- even back of the envelope style -- you quickly come to the conclusion that in any group of 50 people, it's almost certain that multiple people personally know somebody who was injured by the vaccine. Yet they still pushed it...........

https://simulationcommander.substack.com/p/vaccine-injuries-and-whit-merrifield

the number we’re going to use is 150, though when we’re talking about communications networks, we’re really talking about a combination of professional networks (baseball players almost certainly have larger ones than normal people), people in the monkeysphere, and opposing teams and THEIR monkeyspheres. But to err on the side of caution, we’re going to ignore everybody but that original 150 ‘monkeysphere’ number.

We’re FURTHER going to assume that each of the 50 people in the immediate Royals organization (players/coaches/trainers, etc) ARE ALREADY in the monkeysphere of everybody else, leaving each person in the organization ‘knowing’ only 100 new people.

50 people in organization x 100 people each person knows = 5000 people

So people in the Royals organization ‘know’ (or communicate with, or are friends with, whatever) 5000 people between them. In the US, we average roughly 1.8 vaccine shots per person. (Just over 600 million doses, about 335 million people) Obviously this number is higher in adults, but we’re going to assume these 5000 people include an equal number of children, which is obviously going downplay the numbers. (again)

So the 5,000 people in the immediate Royals circle have taken roughly 9,000 doses between them. The German government recently stated that serious adverse reactions occur about every 5,000 doses — meaning that it’s very likely that there are two people in the immediate 5,000-person circle who have had a bad reaction themselves. (Direct evidence)

But when you talk to your friends, they also talk about THEIR friends, don’t they? Once again we’ll assume the ‘worst’ for our math and assume THOSE friends also only know 100 new people to add to the circle.

5,000 person ‘immediate’ circle x 100 people = 500,000 ‘friend-of-a-friend’ circle

And since those people also average 1.8 shots per person, there are 900,000 doses between them. And using the German 1-in-5000 doses data, that means we can expect 180 serious vaccine reactions in those 900,000 doses. That’s a lot of stories that get relayed (via circle 1) back to the Royals (or whoever — because remember, this works with any group of 50 people).

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Duchess's avatar

Bill, I just thought of another anomaly....when did the CDC start lumping influenza and pneumonia into ILI? This was imho a way to blur the lines so they could more easily tell us that 60000 people die of the flu, take your shots....I mean, I want to know WHO (names) DID this and WHEN...and I'd like to see them prosecuted. It would also give me a good idea of the timeline for when the CDC jumped the shark and became 100 percent puppet of pharma....

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SimulationCommander's avatar

The main scam as I recall it was that they simply dumped covid into that "ILI" box without "updating" the pandemic disease thresholds.

In practice, this meant that nearly ANY covid activity (0.4% IIRC) would bump the "ILI" stats into "pandemic" territory -- because there's always some level of ILI activity across the country.

Hope this makes sense, I'm not through my coffee yet. If not let me know and I can give it another swing.

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

Me too, Duchess. I've wondered the same thing. I could probably find the answer or might have it in some of the thousands of articles I have saved. About 10 to 15 years ago, the public health agencies went all in on ramping up the fear-factor with the flu. The first thing they did was massively inflate the number of "flu deaths." There's no doubt these agencies, pre-covid, existed almost exclusively to promote flu vaccines.

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Duchess's avatar

Well I didn't know you had a substack so I just subscribed and also read your stack on all the banned things like light bulbs...and boy, did I rant.

Thanks for that... I needed to get it out of my system....

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Bill Rice, Jr.'s avatar

I saw your posts. Thanks for subscribing. These wonderful Reader Comments are great "added value" for Substack subscribers. I love it when someone has the same pet peeves (or vents) as I do!

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Ray's avatar

who doesnt like making biscuits

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Ann Glover's avatar

I remember reading somewhere that purring is at a resonating frequency that promotes healing for humans. Couple that with paw-kneading massage therapy (and some gentle claw acupuncture...), I reckon that a cat is all one needs for an in-house doctor. 😏

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Rikard's avatar

Petting/playing with a dog for about 10-30 minutes will increase oxytocin-levels in both human and dog, making both feel much happier, calmer and at ease with life in general.

Powers of cat and dog, combine!

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SimulationCommander's avatar

I had (I guess still have) an amazing business idea:

You schedule an hour-long session. For 45 minutes, you just complain about whatever is going on in your life. For the last 15 minutes, you play with kittens.

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Rikard's avatar

Do it!

Therapy animals is a thing. Here, you can nowadays train a dog to becomea licensed therapy dog and hire it out to nusing homes et c.

The license means you get insurance-on-the-job and that restrictions on where you may bring dogs are mostly waived.

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Baltimoracle's avatar

"Clawcupuncture" ... getting " The Jab " X 10 ... mine would get me w/ his dew claws, too, if he could --- he's just THAT darn " loving"

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SimulationCommander's avatar

https://www.si.com/fannation/mlb/fastball/history/kansas-city-royals-and-jordan-lyles-making-notorious-baseball-history-with-each-start

The Kansas City Royals have now lost each of the first 12 starts this season from right-hander Jordan Lyles. With that many losses in a row to start the season, the Royals are in some dubious company.

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At least today Lyles didn't give up 4+ like he did in like 10 straight games.

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Baltimoracle's avatar

SimCom, please ... Puh-Lease believe me, my pimping Lyles to you was not a "Double-Super-reverse Mojo" ... always liked the Royals --- when the ALCS expanded to best of 7, and they beat the crybaby BlueJays after being down, I think 3-2, ( and then beat St.Louis in W.S. ) 1985.

And one of my favorite play-off games of my "so-called" adult life , was the Wild Card vs Oakland, 2014 (?).

So, I actually was venting that my " Woe's" bailed on him, and got K.Gibson, as a money-saving move.

So, of course, I was wrong again.

Apologies

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SimulationCommander's avatar

2014 wild card game was perhaps the best baseball game ever.

Somewhere I have a screenshot of the Yahoo! article stating that the Royals lost. (They published a wee bit prematurely)

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

I can't fucking take it. And it takes a lot to make baseball no fun for me.

But somehow they managed it. I don't think I can stomach anymore.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

The amazing thing is that we're going to get worse at the trading deadline when we move a couple lights-out relievers. (Barlow/Chapman)

Sort of like how trading Merrifield/Benintendi made the offense wretched a couple years ago.

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

Yup. We have problems and they need to get a 5 year "business" plan going...like 5 years ago.

It feels rudderless now.

I can't stand watching them laugh in the dugout after they've had a terrible inning.

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SimulationCommander's avatar

At least we didn't leave Lyles in to get blown up in the 6th -- again.

Instead we had an entirely DIFFERENT pitcher meltdown in a later inning.

#BabySteps

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Baltimoracle's avatar

Ryan, it's been 4 decades since my team has been in a W.S. ... all my fingers, all my toes, TWICE !

But ... Thank you, Lord, for Baseball !

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Ryan Gardner's avatar

My family and baseball and books are really all I need...:)

No better sport than baseball!

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SimulationCommander's avatar

Good thing, with the price of healthcare these days........

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Ann Glover's avatar

In fact, I think I will be petitioning the WHO to scrap all that other nonsense from their totalitarian treaty, and simply mandate a one-person-one-cat emergency declaration order for the global populace. Bill might be a little hacked off at first, but maybe he can work on a side-line grift of cat products (purr measuring instruments, feline-human health contracts, tail-twitch analysis labs, etc.) that will keep his monopolistic desires in check.

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