Author: Elise Patkotak

Today is my Bird TLC day but because I am snowed in and my driveway won’t get plowed until the afternoon, I wasn’t able to go in today. So there I was up, dressed, dogs medicated and dogs and birds fed by 8 with my mornings plans canceled and too much coffee in me to go back to sleep. So what did I do? Well, so far I’ve:

1. Matched my Tupperware with lids and threw out all those lids and containers that had no mates. I matched approximately 12 containers with lids and threw out about 300.

2. Did Continue reading →

The POS currently sullying the White House would have us believe that if there was a school shooting and he was nearby, he’d run into the building with or without a gun. This from the man who got five deferments from military service because of bone spurs in his heels. Wouldn’t those spurs inhibit his ability to actually run into a building? To say nothing of his great girth which would mean his stomach would arrive minutes before he did.

Honestly, I don’t know what would be worse… hiding from a gunman or hiding from the POS – one would Continue reading →

So first the Rs release a memo detailing their version of the FBI’s activity relating to the Russian interference in our elections. Then the Ds released their memo on the same subject. And all I can say is, who gives a crap? You’d have to be an idiot to look at these memos as anything other than a political maneuver. Each put out what they want us to believe and shaded the facts to meet their already formulated theory on what happened. And it’s all just political crap that is taking up the time they should be spending on… oh Continue reading →

Heading upstairs last night to go to bed. Dogs following behind and in front of me except for Carm. Figured he was just slower because he’s old and on lots of pain meds and a little senile. But he has not lost that instinct that says, “This is my toy and I will protect it with all 11 pounds of my being.” So he gets to the first step and, because the stuffed animal is bigger than he is, he trips. He drops the Christmas bear. He stares at it for about a minute as though debating in his head Continue reading →

So let me get this straight. An armed terrorist… usually a mentally ill white male… enters a school with a rifle he’s fixed to shoot about a million rounds a minute. In a classroom is a teacher with a handgun. Somehow, that teacher is supposed to get his or her kids to safety and then start shooting his HAND GUN! against a steady rain of bullets from a jacked up rifle that is spraying bullets in every direction. What could possibly go wrong? Continue reading →

Given the suggestions from GOPers on how to improve safety at our schools with more armed police, perimeter safety measures and gun toting teachers, I have a better suggestion that achieves the same results. Let’s free every prisoner who is serving time for having or smoking a joint. Then, we take all that extra prison space and make high schools out of it. This way, we already have a safe perimeter and armed guards. I mean, that’s better than asking someone with a mental illness to give up their AK-47, right? Continue reading →

The GOP is pissing off an entire generation of voters who are sick and tired of being slaughtered in their classrooms. But the GOP is so solidly sold to the NRA that they still have to pretend that unlimited access to weapons of mass destruction are not a problem in America and not the cause of mass shootings. Well, the generation that has seemed to suffer the most from it are sick and tired of the carnage. But still the GOPers trot out their tired old lines. I mean, seriously, does anyone do anything but laugh when they piously intone Continue reading →

You are trying to accuse kids who recently saw their classmates shot to death that they have been somehow co-opted by the left. Seriously? You don’t think it might have something to do with hiding in a classroom while watching your teacher get shot to death trying to protect you? You don’t think it might have something to do with the 17 funerals they are attending for their classmates and teachers? You don’t think they might be just a bit pissed that the best you can come up with to protect them is to suggest that concealed carry be allowed Continue reading →

The comment section is back up and running on the blog. Apologies if you’ve tried to post a comment and were unable to. It’s those damn Russian trolls. They are trying to silence me but they will not succeed. My mother couldn’t do it. The nuns in school couldn’t do it. My ex-husband couldn’t do it. The Russians sure in hell don’t stand a chance. Continue reading →