Depressing Threads

[LivingnLA]

Great posts @samhexum!!

[JayCeeKy]

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

-- Marcus Aurelius

[mike carey]

He wasn’t cut out for the police force, but his friendliness got him new work in politics.

In the ballpark, but not quite in politics. State governors in Australia hold ceremonial positions not executive ones. They are officially the representatives of the queen and have a similar role so they are not political, at least not in the party-political sense. They swear in the premier and cabinet ministers who are the executive then leave them to do the job of governing the state. Their official residences ('government house' in the state capitals) host official functions, and the governors themselves open fetes, attend official functions around the state and are the patrons of worthy causes. In my later days in the air force, we had a reception at Government House in Sydney for air force week. The then governor and her husband (who had played rugby for Australia) circulated amongst the crowd. He was a very popular person to chat to (as you would image in a mainly male crowd of RAAF officers and guests). I imagine a dog like Gavel would also have been popular.

[samhexum]

When you arise in the morning, think of what a precious privilege it is to be alive - to breathe, to think, to enjoy, to love.

-- Marcus Aurelius

Speak softly and carry a big dick.

--Marcus Iron

 

 

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[mike carey]

Speak softly and carry a big dick.

Damn, so I've been misquoting Teddy all along?

[samhexum]

11 Words and Phrases Popularized by Teddy Roosevelt

http://mentalfloss.com/article/48811/11-words-and-phrases-popularized-teddy-roosevelt

[LivingnLA]

Chapman University in the Los Angeles suburb of Orange.

 

Touching story but Orange is NOT an LA suburb!

 

http://www.cityoforange.org/399/About-the-City-of-Orange

[samhexum]

You’ve heard about a deadbeat dad — but what about a deadbeat doggy daddy?

A Manhattan marketing director is suing her surfer bro ex-husband, claiming he’s failed to pay more than $32,000 for the upkeep of their pet dog, a female fawn-colored English bulldog named Lola, since they split in 2012.

Sarah Bronilla, 39, married Josh Rosen, co-founder of the Soho lifestyle company Saturdays Surf, in 2006. The couple broke up a few years later and signed a separation agreement in September 2012, according to Bronilla’s Manhattan Supreme Court suit.

Since then Rosen hasn’t paid a penny to support Lola while Bronilla’s dished out $18,000 for dog food, $4,671.56 in vet bills and $12,000 for other expenses, according to court papers.

Bronilla “as of Sept. 10, 2012 has always and exclusively paid for all costs and expenses with respect to the upkeep of and dog food for Lola,” the single mom sniffs in court papers.

Rosen, who describes himself as a “perpetual child” in a 2010 interview, was supposed to regularly pay for and deliver the dog food to Bronilla’s Lower East Side apartment, send her $200 for other costs and split vet bills, the suit says.

After addressing the debts for her precious pooch, Bronilla mentions in the suit that Rosen also owes her $20,000 in alimony and $80,000 from the May 2017 sale of his share of Saturdays Surf.

Bronilla accuses Rosen, who now lives in Brooklyn, of neglecting Lola even though he’s apparently flush with cash since he received $1.6 million from the surf company deal.

She’s suing for a total of $132,000.

Rosen did not immediately return calls for comment.

 

NYPD hero K-9 unit Timoshenko returned to full duty after a vet removed his stitches.

He had a ruff time of it, but a hero NYPD pooch who suffered a line-of-duty injury is back on the beat, police said Friday.

Timoshenko was given a clean bill of health by a vet after she removed the brave German Shepherd’s stitches Thursday.

"We are happy to report that ESU K9 ‘Timmy’ is back to work,” NYPD Special Operations Division Chief Harry Wedin wrote on Facebook.

The canine crime fighter was sniffing out guns in an attic during a raid on Seabring St. in Red Hook on Aug. 11 when the ceiling collapsed underneath him, cops said.

Before his one story fall, Timoshenko helped locate a handgun, six rifles and two shotguns.

After the raid, Wedin posted photos of Timoshenko with a plastic cone around his neck to prevent him from pulling out his stitches.

Timoshenko, who has a special knack for sniffing out firearms, is named after 23-year-old Staten Island Detective Russel Timoshenko, who was killed in the line of duty on July 9, 2007, during a traffic stop.

 

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