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John Wright's avatar

"the bureaucratic equivalent of a fat, drunk uncle in diapers—too bloated to manage, too messy to confront, and too old to care." - now that's a creative visual I really didn't want to "see"!

James's avatar

Yeah, so there's an image, once you "see it" you can no longer unsee it hahahaha!!!

Kendra's avatar

I'm so glad I have aphantasia lol

John Wright's avatar

Is that a handicap or a blessing? 😇

Kendra's avatar

It's a blessing - hard to get PTSD (truly). Interestingly I'm super visual but would probably suck in a line up. I also find I now know when I'm sleeping because I see images in my mind. I can see them just not make them consciously. I remember sitting in mindfulness sessions and having no idea that everyone else was "seeing" the sandy beach lol

Tara Townsend's avatar

Yep. Can’t unread that.

Ginny Moore's avatar

“Meanwhile ordinary Americans are just standing in CVS trying to figure out why a tube of toothpaste now requires a retinal scan and a payment plan.” 🤣🤣🤣

You crack me up every time 😘.

Happy Birthday you Golden Girl Bad Ass! ❤️🤬🍑🥰

Kaycee's avatar

HOW ABOUT WE TAKE THE MONEY BACK FROM THE STATES THAT ARE ALLOWING THE FRAUD?????? Not just, Hey, you guys over there, we are not giving you more money til you do your job and go after fraud.

How about that? Nick Shirley identified them in Minnesota and is now doing the same in California. Sara Gonzales of The Blaze is doing it in Texas. So, JDVance, if you are the czar, then take the money back and say, "Hey fucktard states that have not been doing your jobs for who the fuck knows how long, you get the money once you recoup the fraud you have let happen in your fucking state (don't care if blue or red)? Oop, and if you don't get the money back from the fraudsters, then you never see that money again. How about you have to prove it that the companies are actually real and bring the receipts to get the money from the FED?"

p.s. sorry for the profanity but I am so tired of this.

Tim Pallies's avatar

And how about no more Pentagon funding until they can produce an audited budget?

The Great Santini's avatar

That’s BS. The Pentagon is the most audited Federal Agency. Worked for them for years. Every dollar I ever saw was tracked to the end of the earth. You go out on a field exercise, lose a 1/2 inch socket and “the man” is docking your pay for the replacement. Take your government toolbox to the pawn shop and the MPs will come arrest you at morning formation in less than 5 days.

When I worked in R&D and Procurement I had to explain my actions and use of money to my boss, his boss, the Contracting Office, the Pentagon, the Congressional staff, and any Representative or Senator who happened to wander by.

If you want to understand what’s going on here realize that this is political kabuki theater designed to distract you. Like when they told us our tanks and other armored vehicle couldn’t operate is a desert before Desert Storm. Complete lie. The vehicles were tested in the desert, the troops trained in the desert and the vehicles were regularly operated in a desert for 12 years prior to Desert Storm. They worked fine in the desert and we all knew it.

It’s the same bunch who are telling you that Iran is really winning the war, apparently by allowing us to destroy their Navy, their Air Force, their entire Air Defense network, missile launchers, drones and speed boats.

Was there waste, fraud and abuse? You bet. But mostly coming directly out of Congress. The fact is the Government has never been a GAAP operation and never will be as long as we have a Congress.

Sorry for the rant, but you just hit one of my pet peeves.

David Nelson's avatar

GS (no relation to BS), I request permission to enter a Bumper Sticker of the Year entry in your name, and under your ethos. I propose it shall be: "Audit CONGRESS!" (I believe it will have a very good chance of making the finals...)

In fact, G (may I call you G?), I'd like to take it a step further--again with your permission--and propose that an All-NEW Political Party be founded UPON THIS BUMPER STICKER and named the "Audit CONGRESS! Party," candidates from which will enter Congress 𝘱𝘳𝘰𝘱𝘦𝘳𝘭𝘺 aware of responsibilities and repercussions, after signing a pledge, and a binding agreement on their own term limits.

ELKFLA's avatar

Mandate zero based budgeting. No more taking last year's numbers and slapping X% plus onto it. Every expense line item has to be justified and budgeted for every single year. That's the way it works pretty much everywhere except Clown World, DC.

David Nelson's avatar

The "assumption of inflation" so favored by Big G is a serious "driver of inflation."

Justin's avatar

I'm reminded of the day before 9/11, 2 TRILLION dollars were announced to be lost by the DOD. The records were kept in one of the world trade center buildings and in the exact spot where the missile hit the Pentagon. (there were no airplane parts found there at the Impact site).

A day later, records that would show where the money went went up in smoke, as one of many ulterior motives were carried out in the attacks.

James's avatar

I believe that was 3.2T Justin, according to Donald Rumsfield, and I had also read a long time ago that they emptied out all of the vaults under the towers that supposedly contained pure gold 3 days prior to "the attack," although I was never able to verify that.

Correction: that info about emptying the vaults may have started like 2 - 3 weeks, not days, before that attack.

Dave Scrimshaw's avatar

Thanks for reminding them.

Anthony S Burkett's avatar

It's not having a Congress that's the problem... it's the miscreant, liars, thieves and punk-ass bitches that inhabit Congress... That's the problem... and don't get me started on the largess that they have entitled themselves to by means of their elitist criminality.

Dave Scrimshaw's avatar

But why not tell us how you REALLY feel?

Anthony S Burkett's avatar

I only hesitate because this is a family Substack, and I wouldn't want to cause undue mental trauma with the full and unbridled verbal brunt of the unmitigated despise that I have for the filthy vermin that inhabit our government... specifically, but not limited to... the Congress (both Houses)

Tim Pallies's avatar

No offense taken.

“The Pentagon completed its 8th consecutive, and most recent, annual department-wide financial audit on December 19, 2025, for the 2025 fiscal year. As with all previous attempts, the Department of Defense (DoD) did not receive a clean opinion, failing to pass the audit due to significant material weaknesses. [https://pocan.house.gov/media-center/press-releases/pocan-biggs-introduce-audit-pentagon-act, https://www.reuters.com/world/us/pentagon-fails-eighth-audit-targets-2028-pass-pentagon-says-2025-12-19/, https://www.moaa.org/content/publications-and-media/news-articles/2025-news-articles/recommended-reads/pentagon-fails-another-annual-audit/, https://www.militarytimes.com/news/pentagon-congress/2025/12/19/pentagon-fails-financial-audit-for-8th-year-in-a-row/, https://truthout.org/articles/pentagon-fails-8th-audit-in-a-row-as-congress-grants-it-1-trillion-budget/]

Key Audit Details:

Result: The Pentagon has failed every full department-wide audit since they began in 2018.

Failed Audit Scope: The 2025 audit highlighted issues in tracking assets, including those in the Joint Strike Fighter Program.

Future Goal: The DoD has stated a goal to achieve an "unmodified" (clean) audit opinion by 2028.”

So is this mistaken?

The Great Santini's avatar

Just another example.

Back in the day I was seeking a new cutting edge capability. A large corporation had a very interesting capability that we wanted to explore. We did a couple of years of fixed price contracting to refine the technology. But we finally came to the point where we needed it developed to higher shock, vibration and temperature standards. The corporate fathers baulked. That final development effort had significant cost risk.

Now this corporation passed its audit every year. I knew because I looked into it. I wanted to know if I had a reliable counter party before proceeding.

This cost risk situation was nothing new for the government. We usually used cost plus fixed fee contracting. So, we told the corporation to submit a proposal for that contacting method. After 6 months of effort that corporation bowed out. Why? Because they couldn’t meet the much higher audit requirements for cost plus contracting.

Does it make sense to you that a corporation that passes its audit every year can’t meet the higher government audit standards, but that the organization that requires those standards for contracting “can’t pass an audit”. I would like to say that this is an isolated case. But it’s not. It’s an every day occurrence in the Defense Industry.

So when you tell me that the DoD can’t pass its audit, implying looser standards than corporate audits, and I’ve had this experience repeatedly, I know it’s BS.

Tim Pallies's avatar

I only referenced the DOD failing audits repeatedly. I know nothing about audit standards.

The Great Santini's avatar

No, it’s just ridiculous. The Government runs on a cash basis. It never meets GAAP standards, so it can never pass an audit. But all of the money and property is strictly accounted for and tracked by law and regulation. The laws and regulations do not align with audit procedures.

Every item of property is strictly controlled. As a young Lieutenant I had to do a report of survey on every item of equipment that was lost or damaged during a field problem. It was a great waste of manpower and time, but we did that anyway. I once did a report of survey on 500 bed sheets. We held the Supply Sargent responsible for the loss and he paid for the sheets out of his own pocket. A corporation would have written those items off. Not the service.

I know of a situation where a woman used her government travel credit card to purchase a TV. She paid for the TV out of her own funds. But the government review (that happens literally every month) turned up that charge and the woman was fired within a week. Not because she’d defrauded the government. She hadn’t. But because she used the travel card for an unauthorized expense. For every travel voucher I submitted, and I submitted 60 or 70 a year, I had to have receipts for everything. If we had a meal with a contractor we had to pay for the meal to avoid the appearance of impropriety. People who violated these rules got caught, got fired or in some cases sent to jail.

The corporation passes its audit with much looser controls of property or money than the services have. So, this is all BS and political theater.

Dave Scrimshaw's avatar

9/10/2001: Rumsfeld says $2.3 TRILLION Missing from Pentagon

The Great Santini's avatar

That Rumsfeld said it was a damning indictment of his utterance.

You know why Osama Bin Ladin escaped from Tora Bora? Because Rummy decided we shouldn’t send US troops in to finish the job. Instead we should rely on the Afghans.

Once, while that worthy was SecDef, he emitted a 8 paragraph paper about how we were expected to do business. The best summary of the 8th paragraph, “don’t do nothing stupid”. One of the comments by a more astute member of my staff was the question, “Can we just apply paragraph 8 to paragraphs 1 thru 7 and ignore this thing?” Unfortunately, the answer was ‘No.’

Anthony S Burkett's avatar

And JUST like THAT!... the very next day 911 happened... Who can say "Distraction" with out laughing... not me.

CeeMcG's avatar

But the Pentagon hasn’t passed an audit in 7 years. That’s just inexcusable

The Great Santini's avatar

First, see my comments above.

Second, what is actually inexcusable is the rank stupidity of the people they send to do these audits. In one situation that I am familiar with the auditors reported that an organization had all the trucks they were supposed to have but were missing some 20 shelters. The shelters were mounted on trucks. The organization even had trucks without shelters so that it would be obvious to a simpleton that there was something different about the trucks that had the shelters mounted. In fact the shelters all had data plates that described them as the aforementioned ‘missing’ shelters. And they were all shown on the organization hand receipts. This was pointed out to the auditors. Was the report changed? No it was not. This was not resolved until it was being discussed at a legislative committee hearing. And even after that the report wasn’t changed. The committee just chose to ignore it.

KatWarrior's avatar

KAYCEE!!! You GO GURRL!!! Everyone should be as pissed and this fecking shite just might be culled.

I live in the Communist Republic of Cali (SoCal) and I am laser focused on getting SP, The Prattman sailing through the gorilla primary June 2nd. The shit stain, shite for brains, Karen Bass is headed for the eternal dumpster fire with any luck, and God's mercy and grace!

I don't even live in the City of Lost Angeles, and I understand the importance of this election. Good news is, The Prattman is all anyone is talking about because his message is articulate, genuine, and delivered in these fabulously produced memetic short films!

Pray for The Prattman!!! ;)

Kaycee's avatar

I am a native born Californian although my parents moved us out in 1977. I have been following Spencer Pratt and reading his stuff here on substack and X, watching all his videos! He is amazing - I am hoping and praying for his win for the mayoral race. Another question of the fraud though, does he have an icecube's chance in Hell of winning due to voter fraud? I think CA has perfected it and been doing it the longest and unless those fucktards get exposed and removed, is there even a chance???

KatWarrior's avatar

I am a hopeful idiot, I guess! I have some insider information on the whole voter fraud shite and you are accurate, Kaycee. We know precisely how they accomplish the steals now, so it is going to be more difficult, if not impossible.

Couple that with a massive turnout and the spigots of inserting dead people, phantoms living in Walmart parking lots, your great aunts long passed 100 cats, etc., will be near impossible.

Just as in the 2024 general election, turnout is massive numbers is a key metric/ingredient!

James's avatar

That must be exactly how this WEF puppet managed to beat out the "recall" and maintain his position to thumb his nose at the general population here, Kat.

KatWarrior's avatar

Indeed, James! That was stolen as well. Every single person I know, would happily put Gavin in a wood chipper and not bat an eye!

Frontera Lupita's avatar

We (us out here in SoCa and CA)all know that the “Newsom recall” election was totally rigged. I had friends who worked on the gathering of signatures for the petitions to get it on the ballot. They worked for a year on it and were often harassed while doing it. They had more than enough signatures and then some. So that means that there were PLENTY of people in Commifornia that wanted Newscum gone!

But funny come Election Day, the “election was called”, in Newscum’s favor, around 6 PM. The polls had not even closed and all the absentee/mail in ballots were certainly not counted.

I remember thinking…“those f**kers”…they did it again and rigged the election.

James's avatar

What wood chipper? Who's Gavin? What evidence? hahahahaha!!!

Frontera Lupita's avatar

Hey KatWarrior we need to meet up!

KatWarrior's avatar

Absolutely! I was part of a group collecting signatures every Sunday at the church I attended at the time. We picked different locations to set up outside of busy shopping centers.

We didn’t have to twist any arms to get thousands of signatures!

Frontera Lupita's avatar

Yes y’all got thousands of signatures. The question is whether the thousands of people who signed those petitions went to the polls and voted that day? Cause they surely knew about the recall!

CeeMcG's avatar

In San Diego and rooting for Spencer Pratt too!

Jenna McCarthy's avatar

He’s fantastic! Did you listen to his interview with Rogan? Worth the three hours!

KatWarrior's avatar

Geez, kk!! I will strap the iPhone in while outside working in the garden! 🪏

CeeMcG's avatar

Not yet, but I’ll try to give it a go. I love his ads and retweet them on X every chance I can. I wish San Diego could get rid of our regional idiot, Todd Gloria. Thank God I’m in El Cajon and we have conservative Bill Wells out here, but San Diego does its best to shuffle all the homeless out here. 😡

KatWarrior's avatar

CeeMcG, we have to be fierce, courageous, and vigilant(e)! Fight, fight, fight!!

Frontera Lupita's avatar

I live in the City of San Diego. Todd Gloria is the worst mayor to come along here in SD in the 39 years

I have lived here. He and his City Government has allowed high density “ADU housing” to be built in my neighborhood of Clairemont, on single family residential lots. (Amongst many other really bad policies, increased fees, and what have you.)

Just around the corner from me on a one block narrow street, the City has allowed 2 single family residential properties that sit side by side, to now have 14 units on each property. There are 12 one bedroom units, a single family 3 bedroom/2 bath home, and each garage has been converted into a studio, on each lot.

No off street parking was required, it is all street parking for the tenants and the neighboring residents.

This is in a single family residential neighborhood, of late 50’s, small, 1100-1300 square foot tract homes.

The word is that “the City allowed this”, as these two properties are “near a transportation corridor”.

The “transportation corridor” being Genesee Ave, the nearest bus stop being 5 blocks away.

CeeMcG's avatar

I’m glad I live in El Cajon and we have Bill Wells for mayor. The ADUs with no parking requirements and all the stupid bike lanes!! Agree, Todd Gloria is the worst. I’ve been here since 1963.

Valerie's avatar

It a gorilla primary!?! All along my brain has been calling it a guerilla primary. 😮🙄 Honestly. I guess I haven’t seen it written out before.

KatWarrior's avatar

It’s actually called a Jungle Primary. Cali is the gorilla in the primary closet, so to speak. We have a massive number of delegates and our impact is gargantuan!

Just imagine if SP, The Prattman, Steve Hilton, and Chad Bianco win the primaries. That’s gorilla tactics baby!!!

Jay Erwin's avatar

I guess we can dream, but it’s not likely SH and CB will be the top 2. Too many brain-dead Dems in our state.

Frontera Lupita's avatar

Well maybe it will be different this time. 🙏🏼🤞🏼🫶🏼

Peggy's avatar

I am holding on to hope that it can and will happen. I just bought a house in SD County as my "leap of faith" that change can happen.

Trish's avatar

I just listened to the "Prattman" being interviewed on the

All In Podcast. He has great energy, I really hope he wins the primary.

KatWarrior's avatar

Obviously, me too!!

SHug's avatar

If Porter or her ilk get elected as Gov, CA is going to see some real misery.

KatWarrior's avatar

Fecking, fecktard! Please, please, God, have mercy on us 🇺🇸❤️🔥💥

Valerie's avatar

The use of the word fucktard in this case is completely legitimate. Completely.

Kaycee's avatar

it has to be one of my favorite words of all time! 🤣

Paige Green's avatar

It’s better than ass hat. Just reading the word was cathartic 😂

Anthony S Burkett's avatar

Personally I prefer "Ass Hat"... because for me it denotes "Shit for Brains".

Kaycee's avatar

HAHA 🤣🤣🤣

Karen Bandy's avatar

Substack wouldn’t let me click ‘like’. A glitch lately.

Kaycee's avatar

I have had that happen. it's okay! I don't get that fired up often, but honestly, if we are supposed to be winning, then we need to see funds being taken back from fraud allowing states, people tried, sentenced, and then sitting behind bars all the while they have to pay back everything - like all the Congressmen (that means men and women - hahaha) that have gotten rich off insider trading.

KatWarrior's avatar

🔥💥🔥❤️❤️❤️🙏🙏🙏

Karen Bandy's avatar

Did you see? I edited my comment, Substack wouldn’t let me like it!

Kaycee's avatar

substack doesn't want you to like me. :(

SHug's avatar

Karen & Kaycee, if you reload the page it generally corrects that.

Valerie's avatar

GenX? It was a classic for us. 😂

kittynana's avatar

@valerie- I'm a Boomer and it's my fav snark

kittynana's avatar

@Valerie- Fucktard is legitimate every second of every day

PEL's avatar

There never seems to be any restitution! Even if caught (so far a rare occurence) it’s like they get to keep most of it. And the judges in MN so far give them almost no jail time. It’s infuriating.

KatWarrior's avatar

Eventually, every well runs dry!

Cheryl's avatar

It's not really hard to audit...I (painfully) did this for decades in healthcare. We were tortured by the govt on charges we submitted for reimbursement. Back then, in the 1990s, 2000s, they wanted to make sure you actually had an order, performed the services, and the doctor signed off on the performed services. We had to obtain the patient's ID, Medicare/Medicaid cards as well. Doctors were in error about 50% of the time, go figure. We had to give back the money if it was found in error. That was the law and the game. Now it's seemingly a political game with our taxpayer money. I'm with you, let them recoup their own money! Cut them off period. When did NO ONE notice that so many Hospice companies set up shop in LA???? Time to fire the govt auditors too! Utter incompetence!

kittynana's avatar

@Kaycee- Many blue states are refusing to hand over their Medicaid records. The government is trying to play nice and give them time but that's going to end soon.

Kaycee's avatar

Oh I know! Believe me, I know.

🌱Nard🙏's avatar

Happy Birthday🎉🎉🎂🎂‼️‼️

“new watchdogs will be watching the old watchdogs who have been sitting around watching the fraud happen.”

🎶There’s a country song in there somewhere 🎤

John Wright's avatar

Double cakes? Or are those cupcakes? 😇

Will Jenna's birthday be a "Texas sized party"?

David Nelson's avatar

Nard, re: "🎶There’s a country song in there somewhere 🎤"

Maybe a riff on the Beatles' "When I'm (A-Hundred-and-)Sixty-Four!"

Laura Kasner's avatar

Happy birthday dear Jenna!!! 😘❤️🥳🥳🥳

Love the pics 🥰

Ben Gay and stale peppermints 🤣😂🤣

Re the British Crown. I love Susan and Barbara.

https://rumble.com/c/PrometheanAction?e9s=src_v1_sa%2Csrc_v5_sa_o

Jenna McCarthy's avatar

Thanks friend! Also your link goes to a general page? XOXO

Laura Kasner's avatar

Yes. That page is where you can watch all their videos. It’s quite an education!

Mary H.'s avatar

Promethean Action is a must for everyone!

Janet's avatar

YES! They connect the dots of how the West got into this mess. But President Trump is trying to extricate us from the British economic TRAP we’ve been in for over 100 years. It’s happening. This site is a must read and watch.

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

Agree! Barbara and Susan are Truth Czars! 🤣

Laura Kasner's avatar

I was happy to know that someone turned Jeff Childers onto them.

Mary Ann Caton's avatar

The big picture they offer is invaluable.

Karen Bandy's avatar

Don’t forget the stale gum. Mom’s purse always smelled like stale Wrigley’s, the white pack! Peppermint?

Happy Birthday Jenna! I love May Babies as I am one!

J. Watson's avatar

We here at the Quality Hotspice Center take issue with your carelessly negligent bandying about of our quality...uhm...hotspices. We will be relocating to The Villages when we receive our next fraud...err...compensation payment from CMS, where we will ply our hot spices care to the senior community.

Indrek Sarapuu's avatar

As well as expanding with more locations in other states, to care for all seniors.

Here to bilk, sorry to serve.

FLGenX's avatar

“Here to bilk, sorry to serve” LOL!! 😂

Karen Bandy's avatar

And I resent your use of my name 🤣😉🤪

J. Watson's avatar

Okay, look, Karen...

No, you're right. I should have know someone had the name "Bandy," or perhaps the lesser distributed (but still important) "Hotspice."

Karen Bandy's avatar

Definitely not Hotspice, at least not at 8am! 🤣

Dammit, first the Karen name and now the Bandy name 😂

Why oh why did I keep my maiden name? I was a jeweler and it had a nice ring to it.

kittynana's avatar

@Karen- Jeweler? Ring? I see what you did there.

Paula Taylor's avatar

Happy birthday! So glad you exist to release the pressure valve with your brilliant humor!

John Wright's avatar

There is certainly a plethora of “rats in the grain supply.”

Enjoy your birthday Jenna!

Vee's avatar

HAPPY BIRTHDAY QUEEEN!!! 🥳🥳❤️

May your house smell like Ben Gay and stale peppermints for your entire birthday weekend.

Spot on as always about the criminals leading the investigation on the criminals! If we don't pay taxes, pay bills, and take a bribe, we are deemed to be criminals. If the government does it, it's normal. Talk about a scam.

Do you all remember when Rumsfeld told the world that $2.3 trillion could not be accounted for the day before 9/11? Me neither, but I saw close to a decade later and thought.... well that's weird. $2.3 TRILLION. That's insane. That is $2,300 billion dollars. How does thay much money disappear? https://youtu.be/N6la5p7Sg9g

Have a great weekend everyone and enjoy your birthday weekend Jenna!! 🤗

SHug's avatar

They siphoned it off to build D.U.M.B.s Deep Underground Military Bases.

That's why Elon did so freaking well with the tunnel boring company. they connected them DEEP underground with mag trains. Like, miles deep.

Anthony S Burkett's avatar

The records for that Pentagon audit... the one that found "an estimated $2.3 Trillion missing"... were on kept on file in Bldg 7.

Anthony S Burkett's avatar

As Gomer Pyle would say... Surprise! Surprise! Surprise!

Mark Orlowski's avatar

Happy Birthday, young lady!

Gulls stealing fries is nothing. Once at Robert Moses SP Beach Field 5 a gull stole my entire cheeseburger.

🌱Nard🙏's avatar

Entire sub at Naples 🏖️…argh!

Mary H.'s avatar

I suspect most of us have a similar story! How about chicken off a hot grill !!!

David Nelson's avatar

How about a possum out of a CLOSED smoker?

Karen Bandy's avatar

Darrel, what part of the squirrel do you like best?

Anthony S Burkett's avatar

The front legs... like on frogs, they're the most tender. :)

Tonee norman's avatar

David,do you REALLY eat Possums? Just curious.

David Nelson's avatar

NOT WHEN THEY'RE STOLEN BY GULLS I CAN'T CATCH!!

...and not, so far, at any other time either yet, but one of the things I believe which can't possibly be true is that "Anything can be eaten if prepared properly." Like cremating it and dissolving and consuming the ashes in 25 gal. of blue-ribbon bourbon. I also think Rick Steves has probably eaten dead-possum and told us on PBS how great it was when some remote European villagers prepared it to prank him.

Anthony S Burkett's avatar

Oh Yes it is true! I can send you delicious recipes for crow... of which I have eaten many times... ;)

Tonee norman's avatar

YIKES!

Thank you 😝

ELKFLA's avatar

True story. I was probably 17 and a bunch of us were trying to grill hot dogs on the beach. The minute you turned your back, the seagulls would swoop down and grab the dogs right off the grill. Finally a couple of us got the clever idea to take some hotdogs and lure them further down the beach. We started tossing them up to the gulls - after we had doused them with Tabasco sauce. We thought we'd shown them, until they came back to our barbecue spot and crapped all over us.

Mark Orlowski's avatar

I believe then the old Chiffon commercial had it right…”Nobody fools with Mother Nature!”

Yana N.'s avatar

Entire lunch at the Fish market in Sydney shit-bombed by a gull. Intentionally! The buggers know that when they do that, you're done and leave it for them. Easier than trying to steal anything.

Kelliann's avatar

Chicken leg stolen from me

Roberta Stack's avatar

Happy Birthday Jenna! I hope you enjoy your special day!

The amount of fraud is astonishing and yet our government really hasn’t done anything about it. And you hit the nail on the head with this posting. It’s deeply disturbing all the government waste and abuse. Congress should be ashamed.

Mary H.'s avatar

They aren’t ashamed, they are probably getting kickbacks !

Abuelo Doug's avatar

"Quality Hotspice Center"--Brilliant.

Juju's avatar

I’m still waking up. I actually read “hospice” and missed out on the giggle, which is pretty sad given there was a giggle in every sentence today!

David Nelson's avatar

Anybody else read the pieces in snatches, so they're not over too quick? (No? Then I don't either. And never did. Nor would even.)

Tonee norman's avatar

Absolutely the same,juju. Then I felt kinda dumb that I didn’t get that brilliant joke till Jenna mentioned it…🤭

Anna Lafferty's avatar

Happy Birthday, HotSpice!!!

Anna Lafferty's avatar

I couldn't help myself ;)

Russell Schierling's avatar

"We have officially reached peak administrative state." In Southern Baptist churches this is called the Committee on Committees.

St. Alia the Knife's avatar

How many "government shutdowns" will it take for people to realize that except for the "workers" not being paid nobody notices? The Obama administration had to pay people (where did they get the money?) to block off parking lots and put up signs at parks and monuments to make sure that people knew the government was shut down. Whole agencies need to be shuttered. USAID and the Department of Edyukayshun are a starting point.

Tom from WNY's avatar

Happy Birthday! Being a Geezer is awesome!

Teresa Thibodeaux's avatar

Happy Birthday Jenna! Love love love your take on the world! Keep it up, you make us all giggle or scowl. Sometimes both! 🎉😜😘