In a statement released earlier this week, the Laclede county sheriff’s office announced that 47-year-old Michelle Peters of Lebanon, Missouri, has been charged with first-degree domestic assault and armed criminal action.
Peters allegedly spiked her husband’s Mountain Dew drinks on “several occasions during May and June of this year” with the weed killer Roundup, as well as insecticide, according to the sheriff’s office.
“The victim began suspecting the soda was being tampered with after feeling ill. The victim provided video surveillance to the sheriff’s office, indicating that Michelle Peters was tampering with the Mountain Dew stored in a garage refrigerator. The victim was the only one in the household who drank Mountain Dew, kept in that refrigerator,” the sheriff’s office statement said.
In the probable cause statement, Peters told authorities that “she was mad … because she had thrown him a 50th birthday party and he was not appreciative”. The statement went on to add: “Michelle said she believed the chemical in the basement was Roundup when she put it in the Mountain Dew and did so to be ‘mean’.”
She allegedly added that she “should have just divorced him” and told authorities that her husband is “selfish and they have relationship issues”.
As a former Republican who spent decades pointing out flaws in the Democratic Party, I watch the current Democratic panic over President Biden’s debate performance with a mix of bafflement and nostalgia.
It’s baffling that so many Democrats are failing to rally around a wildly successful president after one bad night. But it does remind me of why Republicans defeated Democrats in so many races Republicans should have lost.
@wr: I have never been very fond of Mountain Dew, but one of my longtime caving comrades was practically addicted to the stuff. I saw him at the eclipse in April and he’s still kicking.
“Hey! You got Round Up in my Mountain Dew!”
“Well you got Mountain Dew in my Round Up!”
Two great tastes, now together for the first time in Pepsi Cola’s new Round Dew soda.
There are certain questionable food products I really enjoy having once a year. One glass of mountain dew over ice, usually in the fall while playing a board game while watching football. A single Easter peep. A McDonald cheeseburger happy meal–the size is perfect, both in calories and in how much you can eat before you realize what you are doing and feel disgusted with yourself.
They are one-night stand foods. Something you do while that dopamine wave is cresting, and you are immortal, but man do not stick around.
Rishi Sunak said he believes he will win the general election.
Asked whether he thought he would still be prime minister on Friday, the prime minister said: “Yes. I’m fighting very hard and I think people are waking up to the real danger of what a Labour government means.”
The Labour lead in the opinion polls has been 20 percentage points throughout the campaign.
That’s not just whistling past the graveyard, that’s whistling into the graveyard blindfolded.
“[It’s] like a sexual festival where they’re doing all this stuff,” DeSantis said at a press conference Thursday, without elaborating.
Shorter DeSantis: “Wah.” Most (More likely all) of the artists I have known over the years tended to be fairly liberal in their politics. I’ll bet the real reason for puddin’ fingers little temper tantrum is somebody said something mean to him.
“When I see money being spent that way, I have to be the one to stand up for taxpayers and say: ‘You know what, that is an inappropriate use of taxpayer dollars.’”
As a result, he has canceled almost the entirety of Florida’s already slim funding to the arts world, denying much-needed dollars to a diverse array of groups including youth orchestras and choirs, museums, art galleries, dance troupes, zoos, cinemas and community theaters.
Most rely on the state contribution to operate fully, or in many cases simply for their survival. So it makes little sense to any of them that what DeSantis sees as standing up for the taxpayer equates to killing performances, exhibitions and jobs.
I haven’t looked at the news or read anything political in the last 48 hours. I decided to end my weed fast and imbibe a bit.
Haven’t felt this relaxed in months.
Good news and bad news. First, infant and neonatal mortality rates are up in Texas by 23% since they passed Dobbs while it decreased 3% in the rest of the country. It looks like most fo this is the result of people being forced to carry fetuses to term that have fatal anomalies. No estimates on financial or emotional costs.
Good news, getting into the weeds, is that the FDA program to reduce drug shortages has been a resounding success. Shortages peaked in 2011-2012 at about 250/year. They had been running at about 25/year since the program was started in 2012 by the Obama admin. There was a bump last year due to one manufacturer having supply and facilities issues but overall the program is a success. Next tie someone claims the FDA is useless this is good to know. (Link available upon request.)
@OzarkHillbilly:
The fact that they both drink Mountain Dew, quite possibly the worst non-diet soft drink in the World, tells me that they deserve each other.
An El Al flight diverted to Turkey for a medical emergency, but the airport authorities refused to refuel it. This is contrary to a bunch of treaties and ICAO standards and practices, which I’m certain Turkey is a signatory to.
I hope they at least took care of the passenger in need of medical attention.
Failing Memory™
I visit Panera most every day to take advantage of the free internet connection and use my Sip Club subscription, $16.75/month tax inc. for all the coffee and soda that I can drink. I also have a My Panera Rewards card that I present with each paid transaction (ordering a beverage through the Sip Club is not a paid transaction) and receive credit for visits that add up and get me a free bagel or $2 off an item. Sometimes discounts pop up randomly that are not associated with visits. Often the random discounts have to be redeemed the same date that they appear. Use it or lose it. So today before I left the house I got on the Panera web page and saw the $1 off Breakfast Sandwich discount that I knew I had since it also appeared on my receipt from yesterday’s transaction. I save the receipts to check SO I WILL NOT FORGET TO USE THE DISCOUNT WHEN I ORDER AT THE CASH REGISTER. When I got to Panera I used one of their ordering terminals not to order but to check again, $1 off Breakfast Sandwich. And I beat the clock for the cutoff time for breakfast. So far so good. It was maybe two steps and less than 5 seconds later and I was at the cash register to place my order and use the $1 discount. Most times the cashier will say “You have a $1 discount on a breakfast sandwich.” Not always. Not this time. You can see where this is going. I placed the order TOTALLY FORGETTING ABOUT THE DISCOUNT THAT I HAD CONFIRMED JUST SECONDS EARLIER! Fortunately this is a discount I can use at a later date. IF I DON”T FORGET!
This kind of thing happens more frequently recently.
The only bill I send in the US Mail these days is my water bill. The fee that is charged to pay the water bill on the internet is far more than the cost of a first class stamp. A whopping 73¢ beginning July 14,’24. It’s not like I forget to pay the bill. I have a Post Office Box that I check every day. My problem is that I will have the water bill check in an envelope with a stamp affixed sitting on the passenger seat of the car where I can SEE IT! I still manage to go into Post Office building, check my PO box. Get in the car and drive away only to see the water bill still in the car. Lately I have taken to holding the water bill between my teeth as I drive to the post office so when I get there I won’t leave it in the car.
But I need you to understand that if Pete Buttigieg is just a fag, if that human embodiment of a Wonder Bread, mayo and Oscar Meyer bologna sandwich is not respectable enough for them — and he’s not — then the rest of us have absolutely no hope of measuring up. Not even if we trim away every colorful, beautiful piece of our community, not even if the Sisters Of Perpetual Indulgence vanish into the ether, not even if we sacrifice the five elements of vogue on the altar of white supremacist cishet middle-class conformity: we can’t trim ourselves down to something they’ll accept.
The only other option is radical acceptance of our queer selves. The only other option is solidarity. The only other option is for fats and femme queens and drags and kinksters and queers and zine writers and sex workers and furries and addicts and kids and the ones who can look us in the eye and see all of us to say we’re here, we’re queer, get used to it just the way we did 30 years ago. It’s revolutionary, complete and total acceptance of our entire community, not just the ones the cishets can pretend to be comfortable with as long as we don’t challenge them too much, or it’s conceding the shoreline inch by inch to the rising waters of fascism until we’ve got nowhere left to stand and some of us start drowning.
That’s it. Either it’s all of us or it’s none of us, because if we leave the answer up to the Reagans of the world and all the people who enabled him in the name of lower taxes and Democrats who wring their hands, weeping oh I don’t agree with it but we’ll lose the election if we fight it right now, the answer is none of us.
@Beth: A month of pride is just too much. I am so looking forward to returning to my usual quiet self-loathing tomorrow.
I can’t quite tell whether Buttigieg is playing Respectability Politics or whether he really is just that aggressively normal. I kind of hope the latter, as he seems like a nice enough guy and he should live his best life.
That said, he seems like the kind of guy who will let his freak flag show by getting French vanilla ice cream.
ETA: We really need to add a camouflage patterned stripe to the flag for all the people who have to pretend to be normal, and maybe a beige one for the ones that really are that normal.
@OzarkHillbilly:
Not so much whistling past the graveyard, as playing the accordion in a crypt.
Which is having a ten-ton slab being slowly lowered into place atop of it.
My word, but I’m looking forward, with malice aforethought and an evil grin, to the night of Thursday 4th of July.
I often forget to take the shopping list to the shops. Especially the office supplies list. The last time, it was sitting in the front passenger seat, too.
@Gustopher: We really need to add a camouflage patterned stripe to the flag for all the people who have to pretend to be normal, and maybe a beige one for the ones that really are that normal.
I pretended to be normal from time to time, but the truth is I could never fool myself and if I couldn’t fool myself, how could I fool anybody else?
@Beth:
Daddy Reynolds got away with fooling everyone else for two decades. But after the first panicky weeks I never fooled myself, except in this one thing: I always had a sneaking suspicion I was going to get away with it. Based on nothing rational. Fooling people wears on you, though, and when you get to the place where you no longer have to, you’re a million pounds lighter.
My daughter told us at lunch today about going to a Pride event in SF yesterday (I think near Pier 39?). Some dude with a megaphone was telling them how terrible they were and that they were all going to hell. She said, “It was a good reminder of why it’s important to do this. At the same time, what a dick.”
Putting the misery in Missouri.
Divorce certainly would have been cheaper.
Democrats: Stop Panicking
Philly editorial board says Trump should withdraw.
Facts over feelings, amirite?
@OzarkHillbilly: Is Mountain Dew with Round-Up really significantly worse than straight Mountain Dew?
@wr: I have never been very fond of Mountain Dew, but one of my longtime caving comrades was practically addicted to the stuff. I saw him at the eclipse in April and he’s still kicking.
“Hey! You got Round Up in my Mountain Dew!”
“Well you got Mountain Dew in my Round Up!”
Two great tastes, now together for the first time in Pepsi Cola’s new Round Dew soda.
There are certain questionable food products I really enjoy having once a year. One glass of mountain dew over ice, usually in the fall while playing a board game while watching football. A single Easter peep. A McDonald cheeseburger happy meal–the size is perfect, both in calories and in how much you can eat before you realize what you are doing and feel disgusted with yourself.
They are one-night stand foods. Something you do while that dopamine wave is cresting, and you are immortal, but man do not stick around.
Snort. I know he feels he has to project confidence but this is ridiculous:
That’s not just whistling past the graveyard, that’s whistling into the graveyard blindfolded.
@OzarkHillbilly:
“There must be an open grave around here somewhere!”
Shorter DeSantis: “Wah.” Most (More likely all) of the artists I have known over the years tended to be fairly liberal in their politics. I’ll bet the real reason for puddin’ fingers little temper tantrum is somebody said something mean to him.
The Florida GOP is now the NFP, the No Fun Party.
@Flat Earth Luddite: With a banana peel right next to it.
I haven’t looked at the news or read anything political in the last 48 hours. I decided to end my weed fast and imbibe a bit.
Haven’t felt this relaxed in months.
Good news and bad news. First, infant and neonatal mortality rates are up in Texas by 23% since they passed Dobbs while it decreased 3% in the rest of the country. It looks like most fo this is the result of people being forced to carry fetuses to term that have fatal anomalies. No estimates on financial or emotional costs.
https://jamanetwork.com/journals/jamapediatrics/article-abstract/2819785
Good news, getting into the weeds, is that the FDA program to reduce drug shortages has been a resounding success. Shortages peaked in 2011-2012 at about 250/year. They had been running at about 25/year since the program was started in 2012 by the Obama admin. There was a bump last year due to one manufacturer having supply and facilities issues but overall the program is a success. Next tie someone claims the FDA is useless this is good to know. (Link available upon request.)
Steve
@OzarkHillbilly:
The fact that they both drink Mountain Dew, quite possibly the worst non-diet soft drink in the World, tells me that they deserve each other.
I blame Bibi.
An El Al flight diverted to Turkey for a medical emergency, but the airport authorities refused to refuel it. This is contrary to a bunch of treaties and ICAO standards and practices, which I’m certain Turkey is a signatory to.
I hope they at least took care of the passenger in need of medical attention.
Failing Memory™
I visit Panera most every day to take advantage of the free internet connection and use my Sip Club subscription, $16.75/month tax inc. for all the coffee and soda that I can drink. I also have a My Panera Rewards card that I present with each paid transaction (ordering a beverage through the Sip Club is not a paid transaction) and receive credit for visits that add up and get me a free bagel or $2 off an item. Sometimes discounts pop up randomly that are not associated with visits. Often the random discounts have to be redeemed the same date that they appear. Use it or lose it. So today before I left the house I got on the Panera web page and saw the $1 off Breakfast Sandwich discount that I knew I had since it also appeared on my receipt from yesterday’s transaction. I save the receipts to check SO I WILL NOT FORGET TO USE THE DISCOUNT WHEN I ORDER AT THE CASH REGISTER. When I got to Panera I used one of their ordering terminals not to order but to check again, $1 off Breakfast Sandwich. And I beat the clock for the cutoff time for breakfast. So far so good. It was maybe two steps and less than 5 seconds later and I was at the cash register to place my order and use the $1 discount. Most times the cashier will say “You have a $1 discount on a breakfast sandwich.” Not always. Not this time. You can see where this is going. I placed the order TOTALLY FORGETTING ABOUT THE DISCOUNT THAT I HAD CONFIRMED JUST SECONDS EARLIER! Fortunately this is a discount I can use at a later date. IF I DON”T FORGET!
This kind of thing happens more frequently recently.
The only bill I send in the US Mail these days is my water bill. The fee that is charged to pay the water bill on the internet is far more than the cost of a first class stamp. A whopping 73¢ beginning July 14,’24. It’s not like I forget to pay the bill. I have a Post Office Box that I check every day. My problem is that I will have the water bill check in an envelope with a stamp affixed sitting on the passenger seat of the car where I can SEE IT! I still manage to go into Post Office building, check my PO box. Get in the car and drive away only to see the water bill still in the car. Lately I have taken to holding the water bill between my teeth as I drive to the post office so when I get there I won’t leave it in the car.
@Mister Bluster:
It happens to us all. I’m sure most of us have walked into a room and forgotten why we went there. Even youngsters like DK. 😀
This is pretty horrifying:
France’s Far Right Wins First Round of Snap Parliamentary Elections; President Emmanuel Macron’s Party Comes in Third
I’m wondering what will happen when the modern Republican party is mainstreamed to the western world?
@OzarkHillbilly:
Heaven forbid a woman have hobbies.
Joyous Pride everyone!!!
I took my son to the Parade today. It was nice even if the CPD did its best to get it cancelled.
Also, anytime Daddy Reynolds tells us we’re doing trans/gay/queer rights wrong, this is what goes through my mind: https://www.tumblr.com/vaspider/687643661640581120/pete-buttigieg-is-just-a-faggot-its-very
Take a few minutes to read the whole thing.
@Beth: A month of pride is just too much. I am so looking forward to returning to my usual quiet self-loathing tomorrow.
I can’t quite tell whether Buttigieg is playing Respectability Politics or whether he really is just that aggressively normal. I kind of hope the latter, as he seems like a nice enough guy and he should live his best life.
That said, he seems like the kind of guy who will let his freak flag show by getting French vanilla ice cream.
ETA: We really need to add a camouflage patterned stripe to the flag for all the people who have to pretend to be normal, and maybe a beige one for the ones that really are that normal.
@OzarkHillbilly:
Not so much whistling past the graveyard, as playing the accordion in a crypt.
Which is having a ten-ton slab being slowly lowered into place atop of it.
My word, but I’m looking forward, with malice aforethought and an evil grin, to the night of Thursday 4th of July.
@Beth: Heh.
@Mister Bluster:
I often forget to take the shopping list to the shops. Especially the office supplies list. The last time, it was sitting in the front passenger seat, too.
@CSK:
Doors and thresholds are quantum vortices that steal short term memory.
I pretended to be normal from time to time, but the truth is I could never fool myself and if I couldn’t fool myself, how could I fool anybody else?
@OzarkHillbilly:
Oh, trust me, it’s remarkably easy to fool one’s self and everyone else. And then have everyone collude in the fooling.
@Beth:
Daddy Reynolds got away with fooling everyone else for two decades. But after the first panicky weeks I never fooled myself, except in this one thing: I always had a sneaking suspicion I was going to get away with it. Based on nothing rational. Fooling people wears on you, though, and when you get to the place where you no longer have to, you’re a million pounds lighter.
My daughter told us at lunch today about going to a Pride event in SF yesterday (I think near Pier 39?). Some dude with a megaphone was telling them how terrible they were and that they were all going to hell. She said, “It was a good reminder of why it’s important to do this. At the same time, what a dick.”