Faith Hill

She's the sweetest thing ever.

Tulsa tonight! #Soul2Soul pic.twitter.com/KbKUwHlfK5

— Faith Hill (@FaithHill) May 11, 2017

The Frightful Five

This is pretty good, from Farhad Manjoo, at NYT.

The "frightful five" are Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook, and Google. Which ones could you do without, from the easiest to the toughest? I'd ditch Facebook with no problems, lol. After that, though, it's not so easy to ditch any of these. We're not just talking about ditching one product, but the entire company. I like Microsoft Word, and at work I like Microsoft Outlook for email. And I'm on Apple all the time, since I have an iPhone, which I love. Amazon's mostly for books and stuff, but Google's my bread and butter. I blog on Google, email with gmail.com, and of course search Google exclusively. It'd be hard to give up. So, you get the picture. Manjoo would be bummed to bail out on Amazon, because he uses it for everything and has been since it first went online, which is interesting.

Amazon, Apple, Microsoft, Facebook and Google dominate our lives. What would happen if we had to give them up? https://t.co/Q5jJX0h9y7

— The New York Times (@nytimes) May 14, 2017

Mother's Day Brings Out the Worst

The worst in feminists, and leftists generally. What is so wrong with these people?

Good grief! I've had three kids and that didn't happen once. https://t.co/UGEihs31Bj

— Melissa Mackenzie 🌐 (@MelissaTweets) May 14, 2017

THE DAY I PEOPLE FOUND OUT I WAS PREGNANT WITH THING1 what was the day i ceased to be a person and became a vessel, a body without will

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

THAT DAY I CEASED TO BE A PROFESSOR & PROFESSIONAlL, that day i ceased to have 2 Masters & still debating to complete my PhD...

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

MY INTELLIGENCE
MY BRILLIANCE
MY TALENT
MY GALL
everything that could define my being, my brawn, disappeared in an ether of condescension

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

I WAS NOT TO BE TALKED TO
I WAS TO BE TALKED AT
i became the VERIFIED property of my spouse, carrier of his spawn, property of his tribe

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

and yet...
and yet...

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

MOTHERHOOD IN 'AMERICA'
Motherhood is an ideal they hold so high, so dear... it's more than an aspiration; it's a manifest destiny...

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

MOTHERS IN 'AMERICA'
as complete human beings expressed in all their complexities?... what do you mean mothers are people?!?

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

AMERICA
LOVES
THE IDEA OF
MOTHERHOOD
it hates,
nay,
it despises
MOTHERS
to the point of
denying our personhood
and our humanity

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

MOTHERS
shouldn't be paid for their mothering
MOTHERS
shouldn't get all the health care they need
MOTHERS
shouldn't be trusted with choices

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

IF USA REALLY LOVED MOTHERS, if this nation really loved not just mothers but all womb-carriers as PEOPLE, motherhood wouldn't be an ideal

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

IF USA REALLY LOVED MOTHERS AS PEOPLE we wouldn't have politicians giddy sending our babies to war

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

IF USA REALLY LOVED MOTHERS AS PEOPLE we wouldn't have 50 million applauding into the White House a guy who bragged about sexual assault

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

IF USA REALLY LOVED MOTHERS AS PEOPLE we would all have HEALTH CARE as the human right it is, regardless of employment or marital status

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

IF USA REALLY LOVED MOTHERS AS PEOPLE you wouldn't rant about stay-at-home moms as 'welfare queens' but ensured we all had a basic income

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

IF USA REALLY LOVED MOTHERS AS PEOPLE you wouldn't fight so hard to deny us & babies free health care, schooling, food, housing

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

IF USA REALLY LOVED MOTHERS AS PEOPLE y'all wouldn't spend energy insulting me onhere instead of pondering all the ways y'all mistreat us

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

IF USA REALLY LOVED MOTHERS AS PEOPLE you wouldn't belittle the labor of Mothering & penalize mothers in old age for those unemployed years

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

IF USA REALLY LOVED MOTHERS AS PEOPLE you would never confuse employment with labor and use that to deny mothers social services in old age

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

IF USA REALLY LOVED MOTHERS AS PEOPLE we mothers wouldn't have to defend our CHOICE of motherhood as proof of our will as free individuals

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

YET HERE WE ARE MOTHERING in spite of living in one of the most misogynist, woman-hating, feminine-loathing cultures in Human history

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

YET HERE WE ARE MOTHERING in spite of living in a country where it is still up to debate whether it's a choice to be or not to be a mom

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

TODAY IS MOTHERS' DAY but it would be every day Mothers' Day if we truly loved the people who become mothers and not just the idea

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

I AM NOT AN IDEA
i am a woman, a person, an individual, who loves being a mom to my kids and loves mothering everybody around me

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

MOTHERS AREN'T AN IDEA
we are beings in our complexities and contradictions. we are people. we are individuals. we have human rights too

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

MY LOVE & SOLIDARITY goes out to all the moms & mothering people out there struggling in spite of the odds against us. i hear you. i see you

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

AND TO THE TROLLS SWARMING THANKS TO @MelissaTweets' PRIVILEGED NAY-SAYING you are all exactly proving my point. thanks for playing.

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

ONE MORE POINT: if 'America' truly loved mothers, y'all would adore us BLACK MOTHERS and rebuked as terrorism this:pic.twitter.com/AvkZFkzYT9

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

YOU CANT CLAIM TO LOVE MOTHERS, then find excuses not to support black, indigenous, trans, latinx, immigrant, muslim, poor, working moms

— Liza Sabater 🇵🇷👸🏾 (@blogdiva) May 14, 2017

Jennifer Delacruz's Cool Cloudy Forecast

Here's the lovely Ms. Jennifer, for ABC News 10 San Diego.

I'll update if the network's got another video up of Ms. Jennifer later.

Sunday Cartoons

At Flopping Aces, "Sunday Funnies."

#Trump to Clean House? Who's next? #YoureFired #ComeyFiring #MAGA #BenGarrison #cartoons prints https://t.co/kkVVbMtLnA pic.twitter.com/ikrwn5vw44

— BenGarrison Cartoons (@GrrrGraphics) May 14, 2017

Also at Theo's, "Cartoon Roundup..."

Shop Today's Deals

At Amazon, Today's Deals.

And see especially, Barska Optics and More.

More, Shop Canon Cameras.

Also, Banana Boat Ultra Mist Sport Performance Broad Spectrum Sun Care Sunscreen Spray - Twin Pack - SPF 30, 2 count, 6OZ.

Plus, Large Beach Towel, Pool Towel, in Cabana Stripe - (Variety, 4 pack, 30x60 inches) - Cotton - by Utopia Towel.

BONUS: Victor Davis Hanson, The Second World Wars: How the First Global Conflict Was Fought and Won.

Beate Muska Playboy Pictorial (VIDEO)

At Drunken Stepfather, "BEATE MUSKA NUDE OF THE DAY."

Kenza Fourati Takes It Off (VIDEO)

Following-up from last month, "Kenza Fourati Body Painting (VIDEO)."

Blonde Babe Shows Off Skimpy See-Through Bikini

At Sexy and Funny, "Hot Blonde Flaunts Bikini That's See-Through When Wet."

Lolz: Feminist Professor Caroline Heldman Weighs In on Firing of James Comey (VIDEO)

She's such an idiot.

Remember, from last month, "Professor Caroline Heldman Calls for 80 Percent Tax on the Rich (VIDEO)"?

Well, the far-left hypocrite's back, at CBS News 2 Los Angeles:

Uproar Over ABC's Cancellation of Conservative Tim Allen's Hit Show 'Last Man Standing'

Seriously. My wife and I love that show. It airs at 8:00pm on Friday nights, which is great. It comes on right after you've had dinner and had time to clean the kitchen. I always sit down to watch for a while, before going to my man cave for blogging and reading. And to think, "Last Man Standing" was having its best year in the ratings, its sixth season, and was averaging 8.1 million weekly viewers, behind only the leftist freak show "Modern Family."

Lame.

At Heat Street:

#ABC Besieged by Boycott Calls Over Cancellation of Conservative Tim Allen’s Show 'Last Man Standing': #BoycottABC https://t.co/XElPjFyYAB

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) May 13, 2017

San Carlos #KinderCare Cited for Numerous Violations (VIDEO)

My kid used to attend #KinderCare back in the day, in Fountain Valley and Irvine. It's such a nightmare sometimes. If you don't have family in the area, and you have a career --- as both my wife and I do --- it's a bummer to put your child in the hands of strangers. You have to be super vigilant. With luck, you'll wind up with excellent caregivers. We finally found a daycare center in Irvine with the owner who had her own special needs children, so she made sure our son got the attention he needed. But it takes a while until you can find the right place. This center in San Carlos should be shut down. Either that, or parents should bail out until it goes out of business.

At ABC News 10 San Diego:

Kristen Keogh's Mother's Day Forecast

The lovely Ms. Kristen's been away for a while.

At ABC News 10 San Diego:

Court Rules Kentucky Print Shop Has Right to Avoid Making Gay Pride T-shirts

Good.

Screw the homosexual Nazis.

At WSJ (via Memeorandum and Vox Populi):

Court Rules Kentucky Print Shop Has Right to Avoid Making Gay Pride Shirts... https://t.co/xEoLZoiPgp

— DRUDGE REPORT (@DRUDGE_REPORT) May 13, 2017

A Kentucky appellate court on Friday ruled that the Christian owner of a printing shop in Lexington had the right to refuse to make T-shirts promoting a local gay pride festival.

The dispute represents the latest court fight testing the limits of antidiscrimination protections for gays and lesbians following the U.S. Supreme Court’s 2015 landmark ruling legalizing gay marriage nationwide.

The cases have led to a number of state court rulings against Christian-owned businesses that refused to bake cakes, design floral arrangements or take portrait photographs for same-sex weddings.

The ruling by the Kentucky Court of Appeals favored the business owner. A crucial difference in this case was the expressive nature of the service denied: literally words on a shirt.

In a split vote, a three-judge panel concluded that the store, Hands on Originals, couldn’t be forced to print a message with which the owner disagreed.

The dispute started in 2012 when Gay and Lesbian Services Organization in Kentucky asked Hands on Originals to make T-shirts with the name and logo of a pride festival...

Flashback to the Weekly Standard, "You Will Be Assimilated":

You Will Be Assimilatedhttp://t.co/1gu8Ivan7U pic.twitter.com/dguZejRK72

— The Weekly Standard (@weeklystandard) June 26, 2015

Rush Limbaugh: 'I Wish People Would Take a Moment and Step Back, and Realize What an Epic Presidency This Is?' (AUDIO)

At RCP, "Limbaugh: Can We Take a Moment and Appreciate How Epic Trump Presidency Is?"

I wish people would take a moment to step back and realize what an epic presidency this is and realize we are never gonna see anything like this again our lifetimes, and we’ve never had it prior to this in my lifetime. I mean, normally we get idiots like Jimmy Carter, who do great damaging things. I mean, while Trump is doing all this, the country is vastly improving! As I have detailed today. Some of the core things that were destroying the guts of this country are being reversed. And it’s…

Trump and Russia, Nixon and Watergate

Following-up from yesterday, "It's Not Watergate People. It's Just Fucking Not."

Here's another good comparative piece, at USA Today.

It's not the same, people. Leftists have gone insane.

Trump and Russia, Nixon and Watergate: What's different? https://t.co/yF064I23yD (Photo: AP) pic.twitter.com/yGldO7N2Ru

— USA TODAY (@USATODAY) May 11, 2017

Chris Wallace's 'Must-Watch' Critique of Trump White House (VIDEO)

I don't know if it's "must watch," but it's interesting.

At Mediaite, "‘It Took My Breath Away’: Chris Wallace Offers Stunning, Must-Watch Critique of Trump White House."

'It Took My Breath Away': Chris Wallace Offers Stunning, Must-Watch Critique of Trump White House https://t.co/tBvkODvgcT (VIDEO) pic.twitter.com/qTzr5455AO

— Mediaite (@Mediaite) May 12, 2017

Remember, Chris Wallace is an establishment insider. He represents the "hard news" side of the Fox News bullpen. Indeed, expect to see more of this kind of harsh, critical anti-Trump commentary as the network attempts to restore its mojo following the relentless left-wing wave of diabolical lawfare.

More video, with Martha MacCallum, "Wallace: White House answers only raise more questions."

Belgium Shining Bright from Space

A great piece, which points out Belgium's environmental hypocrisy.

Beautiful photography too. Absolutely astonishing.

At NYT:

A Photo From Space Shows Belgium Shining Bright, and Social Media Lights Up. https://t.co/clqnd3Pe0b

— Donald Douglas (@AmPowerBlog) May 12, 2017

James H. Merrell, Into the American Woods

*BUMPED.*

Merrell's a phenomenal scholar. Just absolutely outstanding.

Don't miss his work.

At Amazon, James H. Merrell, Into the American Woods: Negotiations on the Pennsylvania Frontier.

Kate Upton Feels Herself (VIDEO)

Via Theo Spark: