I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
they are looking slimmer
I got a cat that looks just like that!
And she's got a brother down the street...
Sorry, that was me...
Sweet. I wonder what it is that cats know that we don't?
Atrios, how do you keep such a clean house? You should see the Snakepit Inc.. I have two dogs and enough loose doghair to knit sweaters for the whole Bush administration. Not that I plan to.
All the Kings Men. Is that the one about Huey Long?
Those
Cats
Don't
Approve
Of
Us.
Not one bit.
I don't think I'd turn my back on them.
Cats?
Yawn.
Ferrets?
Pshaw.
Instead, I give you...Friday Nudibranch Blogging
I think your cats are about to give you the paw.
They are plotting something, I wouldn't take your eyes off of that pair.
-Niiiiice- nudibranch!
It likes us.
Hell, they're cats. You never turn your back on a cat. >
I'll take the one on the left
Phila -
OMG.. what is that? A sort of anenome?
so beautiful!
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Spider - you'd know, since your cat has two heads.
those cats do look like they are up to something.
OT. But Fallujah has become our Grozny.
http://www.kevinsites.net/
2004_11_07_archive.html#110027008986926487
Philalethes - thanks for the link and the lovely nudibranch.
All the King's Men - Huey Long or Broderick Crawford.... I like the fireplace tho - wish mine were still brick rather than stone. Cold enough here tho for a fire. Pinon & mesquite tonight.
Watch out for the one on the left.
Nudibranch - cool - a new miscellaneous life form for blogging on Friday!
Cats are ready for a nice Friday Night fire and some kitty treats. A and Mrs A: a little snuggle and some hot Chocolate and Peppermint Schnapps!
They are definitely plotting something. That look says it all. "Stupid human, someday soon we will rule the world and you will be finished!"
Or something.
Oh, this is a very good Friday. I'm still at work, missing my sweet kittie. And she's at home, wondering why I'm not there to give her her half a can of Fancy Feast. So I'm enjoying your kitties, Atrios!
grey cat: "come on. we can take duncan."
black & white cat: "no. i'm too comfortable. maybe later."
The one on the right looks perfect to head the DNC.
grey cat: "oh, alright then. maybe i'll just yack on the carpet."
black & white cate: "please move over to the other side then."
I just googled. Nudibranch = sea slug.
Not a very flattering name for such an elegant creature...
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What you need for shots like this is a really good el-cheapo camera. One that gives good Red-Eye...
...my cats hack up hairballs, crap in the hallway, and mark territory, and the little demons spit and hiss at each other.
What am I doing wrong?
~~Resigning AG
I get the impression that a lot less effort is going into this blog lately. And the same goes for a lot of other blogs. Including mine. Is everyone so dispirited that they've lost their voices?
The grey's the enforcer. Tuxedo's the brains.
You keep these guys in your house?
DeeDee
She belongs to a couple of friends, but I rank at least third on her list of favorite Humans
That's the same look our dogs give us when my wife and I are doing the dirty. It's like, please stop, your embarassing yourself's.
On second thought, wonder what those cats are watching?
kent -
it is an honor that DeeDee has you on her list at all... you must be very special.
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I get the impression that a lot less effort is going into this blog lately.
You're wrong.
You can tell that Deedee is 100% a lady.
charlie don't know shit.
JFTB, I am very lucky to have so many Feline overlords, Six at the house, another one at deedee's house, 4 at my buddy kent's (another one) house, all the various neighborhood cats.
They seem to enjoy taking advantage of me. , and then there are the Canine Overlords....
I get the impression that a lot less effort is going into this blog lately.
Hey, it's hard work running this blog (not to coin a phrase)! And I love the kitties!
Echidne,
I was wondering the same thing. Look at that. No dust bunnies under the shelf.
I'm duly impressed, Mr. A.
grey cat:
"so, I hear that dumbass Santorum might run for preznit in four years."
black & white cat:
"yeah, read that in The Hill. Sometimes I just want to get the hell out of Pennsylvania."
I get the impression that a lot less effort is going into this blog lately. And the same goes for a lot of other blogs. Including mine. Is everyone so dispirited that they've lost their voices?
charlie don't surf
I think you're completely on your own with that impression. Seems to me Eschaton's been hoppin', same with First Draft and Echidne and pretty much everyone else. And I don't even think people are particularly dispirited, either, despite having good reason to be.
weekly cleaning lady. saved my marriage.
Hecate,
You're my number one all-star stand in. Nothing against all the others, but you did an A-1 job. Scared me how good you were. Probably should scare the A-man, too.
I've always thought that the Atrois house was unnaturally tidy.
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Atrios, I want your cats, and your fireplace.
A.
" No dust bunnies under the shelf."
C'mon - would dust bunnies survive these two? Toast, absolutely.
"Atrios"
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Dr. Pedant,
She is at that, we think that she and our Jack would make a fine couple.
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All The Kings Men
Excellent!
weekly cleaning lady.
Sometimes I feel like a complete failure. Like, I have called six or eight people to mow my lawn and shovel my driveway, and no takers. That's the trouble with this country--no one wants to work anymore
Um. Jack is PRETTY DAMNED BIG isn't he?
I don't know, Charlie, photographing kitties can be hard work. And I love Friday Cat Blogging.
James,
Coco is very funny, great mid yawn shot.
LOL
Jack is FAT!
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Black and white kitty: Did I hear you correctly? Dick Cheney sporting wood?
Gray kitty: OK, that's it. One hairball, straight, no chaser. Right here.
charlie don't surf, for fuck's sake. Blogs are smokin' after a short hiatus.
If you don't like the conversation here, there are thousands of others.
No blog can possibly exist for your individual pleasure.
Kent,
That cat is a behemoth! SO CUTE!
Dr. Pendant,
Thanks so much. Atrios has nothing to fear from me. I loved doing it and would gladly fill in again, but I'm not kidding -- it was hard work. I have a lot of respect for anyone who can do this day in and day out.
Atrios, you have a weekly cleaning lady? I am so jealous! I have a bi-weekly cleaning crew that comes in, but the hair balls still manage to accumulate quite a bit in the interim.
I'm thinking of getting my fireplace tiled -- has anyone ever done that and do they have any advice?
Phila -
OMG.. what is that? A sort of anenome?
so beautiful!
If ya like that, tune in next Friday! I've got a million of them, each more dazzling than the last. Very, very odd creatures...in terms of coloration, the only things weirder (to me) are the deep-sea jellyfish that are outlined with moving lights, like neon signs...you can see 'em in "The Deep" episode of the "Blue Planet" DVD series. It's halfway between heaven and a nightmare. The underwater lake, in particular, makes my head hurt just thinking about it!
Atrios, I want your cats, and your fireplace.
Not that I don't love my home, but I thought the same thing. LOL.
Jenny from the Blog,
He prefers Big Boned, and shops at the big and tall store.
Actually Jack got into a fight and had an abscess, and came home with a cone on his head. It was sad and hilarious at the same time, but he hated it. So I suggested that we should get a baby shirt, which would solve the problem without driving the poor guy crazy.
We ended up with a striped shirt and a pink shirt that said princess. Guess which one he wore.
It was the funniest thing in the world watching Jack walk around in a pink baby shirt. It kills me just thinking about it.
Yeah, what pie said!
I'll break my silence too. Atrian housekeeping positively intimidates me. It's like a Martha Stewart type magazine called "Blogging"
taking cat pictures is hard. the flash on our digital camera is a bit strong, and wiley is rather reflective, so we need to take pix without the flash, but that requires a steady hand and steady cats.
watertiger,
He's 22 lbs of kitten voiced fraidy boy.
Seriously, his meow sounds like a kitten and he is skittish as hell, but when calm he is the sweetest love machine.
Hecate, I've got more things tiled here than Carter's got pills. What d'ya want to know?
The floor may be clean but the cats are dirty.
how fucking retarded is this country?
from abc:
Many ABC Affiliates, Fearing Backlash, Shun 'Ryan'
By REUTERS
Published: November 12, 2004
Filed at 8:10 p.m. ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Nearly a third of ABC's TV affiliates, citing concerns over profanity, graphic violence and a government crackdown on indecency, refused to show the network's Veterans Day broadcast of the war film ``Saving Private Ryan.''
Of ABC's 225 affiliates, including 10 network-owned stations, just 159 carried the uncut presentation of Steven Spielberg's movie about the Allied invasion of Normandy, ratings service Nielsen Media Research reported on Friday.
The remaining 66 affiliates opted to shun ``Ryan'' in favor of other programming on Thursday night, meaning the film's three-hour-plus broadcast was unavailable to nearly 30 percent of the United States, Nielsen said.
from cbs:
CBS News Fires Producer Over Arafat Special Report
By REUTERS
Published: November 12, 2004
Filed at 8:03 p.m. ET
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - CBS News has fired the producer responsible for interrupting the last five minutes of a hit crime drama with a special report on the death of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, a network source said on Friday.
Word of the dismissal came a day after CBS apologized to viewers for breaking into ``CSI: NY,'' one of its top-rated shows, on Wednesday night.
``An overly aggressive CBS News producer jumped the gun with a report that should have been offered to local stations for their late news. We sincerely regret the error,'' the network said in a statement on Thursday.
I'm thinking of getting my fireplace tiled -- has anyone ever done that and do they have any advice?
I'm into the rustic look. We did ours in slate.
Love the Delft tiles, handpainted Mexican, handpainted anything.
Google.
aww, Kent. He may have hated the shirt, but there's nothing more gruesome than the dreaded cone head. Sorry I called him fat. I've revised that to pleasantly plump.
Charlie not surfing... I just don't agree. Eschaton these days has been absolutely energizing. Varied, stimulating, hopeful and fantastic. I give it a big 
hee. (me with my new toys)
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Kent, Jack is a specimen! (And jenny, he just got big bones.) He and the lovely DeeDee would make luscious kittens. Of course, I'm sure both have been "fixed". My best baby Farley got almost that big before his untimely end. I still miss him.
I agree, no one is particulary dispirited by the re-election of Bush. That means Bush is doing a good job and y'all are in denial.
GWPDA,
My fireplace is made from a white sandstone and I'm thinking of having it tiled with some Arts & Crafts style tiles. Wondering if it's prohibitively expensive and how they'll hold up, how to find a good person to do it, etc.
Philalethes
Couldn't agree more. This site and blogosphere is hopping. But this admin just makes it really easy for us. And Hecate excellent job. We all have much to be proud of.
Anonymous -
NO, I'm personally devastated. And I fear more than ever for the world each and every day that monster is in office.
But that has nothing to do with the quality of Eschaton.
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My Theo was a 22 pounder as well; but when he was standing he was as high as my knee. Rather like a small spaniel. He also retrieved. I once threw a surprise party for my boyfriend and had 35 people crammed into my apartment. Theo stretched out on his back, spread-eagle in the middle of the living room floor. Everyone had to step over him to get to the crudites.
His sister just watched in bemusement from the couch.
I was only able to share jack and deedee with you guys cause i was able to borrow a digital camera, and let me tell ya, half the pictures are blurry.
It was not the cakewalk I expected, and I have some photographic experience.
The biggest problem is when they decide they want to come to you just as you hit the shutter -- Blurry cats.
The slightly too late comment is a particular specialty of mine..
No. I'm in the schuylkill or the delaware but I'm definitely not in de nile. Anony trolls are too easy to beat.
mena -
join the club!
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atrios,
my kitties want to know if they can come over for a sleepover.
let me know.
I fucked a girl last night that voted for Bush. Life goes on.
agree, no one is particulary dispirited by the re-election of Bush. That means Bush is doing a good job and y'all are in denial.
Dude. You're trolling a Friday night catblogging thread. It's Friday night; go get a date and see a movie. Honestly.
Theo stretched out on his back...
I love it! What an image. That's one of the great things about cats--you never know what they are going to come up with next.
Charley has a habit of picking up my daughter's doll clothes and leaving them in his food dish. For awhile I thought that maybe he was playing with them and then stopping to eat, but it happens nearly every day, now. For some reason, he wants to store doll clothes in the food dish. Too weird.
Did she give you her number?
Anonymous -
Don't soil this sweet thread, okay? Gee, why does your ugliness have to permeate... there oughta be a law...
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Our kitty, Chessie. .
Hecate, it's surprisingly easy. Find a good tile retailer in your area. They'll sell you the right stuff and help you through doing it, if you're inclined. Or install for you , if you're not. The hard part is choosing a tile.
I agree, no one is particulary dispirited by the re-election of Bush. That means Bush is doing a good job and y'all are in denial.
Anonymous
Whip us up a Venn diagram for that statement, will ya?
Dude. You're trolling a Friday night catblogging thread. It's Friday night; go get a date and see a movie. Honestly.
What she said.
Where Chessie goes, the blues play...
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Thanks mena, he's a sweety. Yes they are both fixed or they might make nice grey kitties.
Sorry about Farly.
A neighbor had a elderly dog which he'd walk every day. Our cat liked the doggy and would go out and rub snouts, purr around and roll over. When doggy died, the neighbor came over distraught, asking, with apology, if he could possibly buy our kitty. We gave kitty to him--she probably got a better master and top-shelf catfood. Apparently that was the case--kitty seldom came by afterwards to visit after she found the high life.
Bryan,
Nothing cooler than a cool cat!
Bryan, that is one seriously laid back cat.
mena,
Thanks! I'll check Washingtonian. I need someone to do it; I'm definitely no good at things like that.
Philalethes:
Whassa Venn diagram?
Dr. Pedant,
Of the two, he was the real clown. He also liked to be vacuumed, which cut down on my cleaning up around him. Whenever I'd run the cleaner, he'd come running and sprawl out in front of it, disemboweling the hose when it would suck up his fat.
And his sister would watch on in bemusement.
(She was the sweetest cat, happiest when I sat on the couch, so she could sit on the pillow behind my head and rest her paws on my shoulders.)
Sigh. I miss 'em.
Billy B, it's what separates the men from the boys.
Whip us up a Venn diagram for that statement, will ya?
Here...
watertiger,
My condolences.
My cats run and hide when I vacuum.
In Re: Cats
(I especially admire the grey mouser)
Did anyone ever read A Stroll with William James, an homage and biography by Jacques Barzun?
It's a really interesting book about a fascinating person. James, a frail man, went up the Amazon River in a canoe with Louis Agassiz in 1865. James was the person who gave us the notion that the "conquest of nature" was the moral equivalent of war, among other things.
But that's not the cat point. That point is that James, late in life, regarding all that he had learned, and all that lay unlearned before (and increasingly after) him, wondered in his journals if humans in the cosmos were not pretty much in the same epistemological position as cats in the library...
Is the gray one's name Fritz?
Thank y'all. As cat owners, you know that pose with the glasses was good for all of three seconds.
The other 10 or so pictures we've put on the web can be found here.
Mena,
It makes a vas deferens, doesn't it?
You can make a Venn Diagram here.
Here is an example of the great picture ruined, by the "what you doing over there, you must have a hand free for petting" This is Kitainy Yevshenky, the first cat I got, and he's still chugging along at 14 years
Kitainy on the move
How did you get Chessie to hold still or is it photoshopped? My cat won't hold still for much of anything except his share of the bed if he's cold!
Hecate - mena is right - choosing tile is the hard part. One warning - if you are doing it yourself (which I did in a kitchen) do not use Mastick (sp). Thin set is easier to work with. Mastick takes forever to set and tiles try to slide.
konopelli,
For all we humans have acheived, it's the cats who know how to honor life.
One more time: "I don't think they chose to be cats. Cats is what they were meant to be."
--Johnny Gentle, Famous Crooner. Right here on Cat-blogging Friday, a few weeks back.
Well, another night spent alone at the keyboard.
You guys are real, right?
Another tail tale.
Friends of significant other had an adorable 3 year old daughter and a big back yard with a shallow creek. A stray orange tabby adopted them and hung out in the back yard.
The child came in the house, crying that the cat had scratched her...in fact she did have tiny scratch on her leg. Her dad was over-protective and not a cat-lover and went out to swat tabby.
Tabby was down by the creek as dad headed out with the newspaper. As he was about the whack the puss, he stopped dead. There was a big snake down by the creek. He realized that Tabby was simply keeping his daughter away from the snake.
How did you get Chessie to hold still or is it photoshopped? My cat won't hold still for much of anything except his share of the bed if he's cold!
Hecate - mena is right - choosing tile is the hard part. One warning - if you are doing it yourself (which I did in a kitchen) do not use Mastick (sp). Thin set is easier to work with. Mastick takes forever to set and tiles try to slide.
Dr. Pedant,
Thanks. I haven't gotten kitties since; and it's been a while.
Now I suffer what I like to refer to as 'canus' envy -- I walk by dog runs in the NYC parks and stop to admire the pups.
Needless to say, if I see a kitty in a store, I have to go in.
Watertiger?
Or, a la Derrida, a vas differance...
Mastic, I believe, is for perfectly flat surfaces. You'd have to use thin-set (cement) on a fireplace, I believe. Mastic is also quite hateful. Sticks to everything and impossible to remove.
His sister just watched in bemusement from the couch.
watertiger
ROTFLMAO, That is an example of a cat owning a room. Jack would run screaming and hide under the bed in similar circumstances.
watertiger - oh, it does indeed.(snork)
Not mine, but my friend's new kittens (taken about three weeks ago). Here and here.
I hate cats and catblogging.
How about some bird blogging or scenery blogging?
Thanks for turning me on to the Venn diagram guys.
Dude. You're trolling a Friday night catblogging thread. It's Friday night; go get a date and see a movie. Honestly.
Hey, somebody's gotta speak truth to power!
Besides, as I'm sure Anon can tell you, all the women nowadays are hairy-legged, bleeding-heart feminists, and all the movies are anti-patriotic liberal pap. So his decision to live as a frustrated, obsessive, chronically masturbating, Web-based "Lone Wolf" is actually a remarkable act of personal conscience.
pie,
I'm real. Still at work. Still on a frapping conference call. It's still early out on the West Coast and they're in no hurry to end this call.
1. Atrios - Thanks for the bonus photo. It's been a long week and I was jonesing hard for my regular fix of non-allergenic beautiful cats.
2. Philalethes - The nudibranch was spectacular! More, MORE!!
3. Charlie don't surf - Well, I for one will admit to being dispirited. The numbness of denial is starting to wear off, but I've cut waaaay back on my daily visits to the blogosphere. I think I may have to leave town on January 20 if the Republican vibes get too strong around here.
SallyCat - My wife and I were suprised, but not shocked, when she kept the glasses on for three seconds. Chessie had seen me setting up the tripod for a while beforehand; we knew we had a chance because she didn't come by me to see how I was doing. Aileen put the glasses on and I clicked the picture as soon as her hand was away.
We're real, pie.
Did you see Lost In Translation? Maybe like that.
Pie,
Here in NYC, it's raining, it's cold, the lines for "Kinsey" are WAY too long, I've got too much work to do, and I'm still exhausted from last week's debacle.
It's called "procrastination", at least on my part.
so we need to take pix without the flash, but that requires a steady hand and steady cats.
A camera with some form of anti-shake or image stabilization does wonders. I have a Canon S1, and I can take reliably steady photos down to 1/15s at the wide-angle end of the zoom, and I don't have a very steady grip.
Also, here's another one of Ava.
Damn, Phil. Remind me to stay on your good side.
Ohhhhh, you're all over here, now.
I promise, the picture of Angus on my homepage will not give you housekeeping envy. And I even cropped out most of the clutter. It's hard work cleaning a house when you have a 15 pound tabby lump in the middle of wherever needs cleaning. That and the kids. With their projects. And Legos. And then the cat gets in the middle of the Legos...
Well, another night spent alone at the keyboard....
Here, I'll make you feel better: You wanna know how torqued I am? I'm trying to identify the other books on the shelf. So far I've identified Naked and Palm Sunday, but I can't tell what that red-spined Signet Classic is. Middlemarch? Oversoul help me...
Well, another night spent alone at the keyboard.
You guys are real, right?
Oh, for fuck's sake.
Grow up.
Does stealing someone's name give you a Cheney erection?
Good grief.
Mastic, I believe, is for perfectly flat surfaces. You'd have to use thin-set (cement) on a fireplace, I believe. Mastic is also quite hateful. Sticks to everything and impossible to remove.
That's about right. Mastic withstands weight and is more elastic. Use it on floors. For vertical surfaces, a thick mixed thin-set mixture is best.
To: karbenr@assembly.state.ny.us
Dear Assemblyman Karbenr,
I have been informed that you have an objection to the to an exhibit titled "Made in Palestine". While I have heard you issued a two page press release stating that this exhibit offends you as a Jew and it promotes terrorism, I would like to know how you came to this conclusion. What about the exhibit do you feel offends you as a Jew and promotes terrorism?
Do the people of Palestine living in this country and people of Palestine decent not have the right to display and celebrate their culture? Why do you find it offending? At first your move to suppress the expression of a group struck me as a totalitarian exercise. However the more I thought about it your act seems more Fascist. If I am wrong then I will gladly apologize however, the people coordinating this exhibition seem to be no threat to the country and your Jewish values. Thank You.
Jason Gooljar
AIM: progressiveny04
Website : http://ourdemocracy.tripod.com
Oh, for fuck's sake.
Ha! That's our PIE!
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One more time: "I don't think they chose to be cats. Cats is what they were meant to be."
I don't know, I have a theory that we were the second ones offered thumbs. The Cats said "No thanks, we'll take advantage of the idiots that choose them"
Jason,
I'm a Jew and Karbenr offends me. Tell her I never want to see or hear her again. Roughly what she wants for the exhibit.
Biblio: "Monopoly?? MONOPOLY!? There's not a word big enough for how much *I* own!"
Is it true that they're gonna deploy regular army troops in the capitol for the 'coronation' of the Horse's Ass??? I couldn't farouking believe it. Is it true? Snipers on the roofs? Bagdhad on the Potomac? jeesis...
Hecate - -Great article- in LA Times the other day about Tropico tiles. What you'll need is basically a good tileguy. Tileguys who know what they're doing are a little bit rare; you need to find out if they use mud rather than adhesive. Your best bet will be to find somebody who knows stucco; if he doesn't do tiling he'll know somebody who does - if you can find somebody from Oaxaca you're in business. The truth of it is that
[Real] Pie,
Man, I can't believe I fell for that hoser! I AM tired. And besotted with all of these kitties!
Fuckity fuck fuck. Close bold tag.
Konopelli: Like you really are suprised? *sighs* I'm just not anymore. I'm ready for any sort of shit now.
Dude. You're trolling a Friday night catblogging thread. It's Friday night; go get a date and see a movie. Honestly.
Hecate
Made me laugh out loud! New keyboard, please!
What's that on the bookshelf? "Kino's Men"?
Ha! That's our PIE!
I used to hate saying fuck.
This asshole troll is gonna get his ass kicked, the fucking loser.
I suppose he's pissed off that his intelligence isn't being stroked.
Ah, fuck.
kent,
Sounds right to me. It's no mistake I have to drag my ass out of bed every morning to go to work, while the cats sleep in.
Bagdhad on the Potomac?
They're protecting the Bush Boy from all his fans.
The snipers are there to pop a cap in the cat's ass that egged the presidunceial limo in '01, lessen he tries it again.
pie,
Is that America's Asshole? He's here in Minnesota, if it is. One of these days we're going to find his ass, and then it is grass.
Kitainy on the move
kent
Sure that isn't Cousin It?
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Nosy Rosie:
I believe it's "All the King's Men."
Atrios - those cats look like Patience & Fortitude, the "Library Lions" who guard the NY Public Library.
Charlie - Relax. After this election, when many of us worked our tails off, we need a time to de-compress, re-connect with friends and recharge our batteries. When the fur starts to fly in Washington, we'll hit the ground running once again.
Anonymous - W certainly will resume (as The Economist so aptly put it, "his incompetence") in earnest after the holidays. We'll be ready.
Hecate: in the words of the Guiness Guys, "Brilliant, Brilliant"!!
Does anyone else's cat open the cupboards and bang them closed again...over and over and over? I have 2 kitties. One does that. It drives me nuts!
It's no mistake I have to drag my ass out of bed every morning to go to work, while the cats sleep in.
Then you're fortunate. Being among the ranks of the nominally employed, I have no fixed hour of awakening, so I try to prolong it as long as possible. If I'm partiulcarly recalcitrant, Ava will force the issue by trying to knock my clock radio off the windowsill onto my head. That's usually about 5:45 AM.
Is that America's Asshole? He's here in Minnesota, if it is.
He is? How do you know that?
Oh, criminey, I had all this good tile stuff for Hecate.
Here. Neat tiling in my house. Here. Tropico tiles Here - Talavera tile supplier.
Bottom line. Find somebody nearby who does real stucco work. Then, ask them if they know somebody who does tile work - WITH MUD- and not adhesive. If you can find a guy from Oaxaca, you're in business, but the mud is what counts.
It all last forever. It's beautiful.
gottalaff -
Yup.
Got a cupboard banger right here.
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Dr. Pedant, what was it Bill Hicks said? Something like "Kids are pretty smart. You know how I know? Cause there aren't any kids with a full-time job...and kids." Same logic goes for cats, pretty much.
Someone once asked James Gould Cozzens how he could write about having kids, having had none himself. Cozzens replied that he owned dogs and therefore knew all about ingratitude.
pie,
off-line, ok?
I am doing a drive by post - bedtime. Atrios, get a cheesy L.L. Bean fireplace rug (1/2 circle. Furballs need it to look New England like, and appreciate the heat.
Jenny f.t.Blog...so do you just tolerate it? We tried a couple of things, and I'ms still hearing doors banging...And they're not even doing it right now! Gaaaaaaaa!
gottalaff -
I used to think it was a poltergeist. And she doesn't do it all that often. My sympathies if you've got serial cupboard bangers. Gotta love 'em...
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By the way, it's so good to be back. I was inadvertently banned when another AOL member got banned. I hated that. I missed you all.
off-line, ok?
Bagdhad on the Potomac?
Sure, we had Nuremberg on the Hudson.
Why wouldn't they introduce a little cultural exchange during the inaugur-Installation.
Dog story -
When I was in college, their was this mid-size mix breed dog that seemed to be everywhere. On campus during the day, intramural fields in the afternoon, frat houses and parties in the evenings. Everyone seemed to know this dog. Turned out he was the pet of some long term female students that lived across the street from campus. The dog must have covered ten miles of the city in a day crossing busy streets and navigating to all these places. How he always knew where the kick-ass parties were I will never know. One time he went missing, and turned up at the pound. I don't know what went down, but the dog catcher never messed with that dog again, giving him back his free reign. My roommate and I would occasionally see the dog hoofing it across town, and we would stop and put him in the back seat taking him where he was headed (usually a kegger or something). Never seen anything quite like it.
Does anyone else's cat open the cupboards and bang them closed again...over and over and over?
Rizzo used to thump the cabinet doors in the process of climbing inside. He used to take his afternoon nap under the bathroom sink, and he'd have to fiddle with the door some to get it open. Then I brought Ava home, and she would hear the door thumping and come running, so as follow him into the cabinet. I think he was bugged by this, liking as he did his private time, so he learned how to open the doors without thumping, and close them quietly behind him. I witnessed this one day and was absolutely flabbergasted by his dexterity.
Jenny...Thanks for the support : )
At least I know my poor, crazy kitty isn't alone.
My troll repellant: Fuck Fuck Fuck
gottalaff,
You bet you gotta laff!
Have you thought about some kind of foam stripping, from the hardware store, along the edge of the cabinet doors, to silence the banging? The cat maybe likes the sound...
Charlie hears the water running in the morning and jumps up on the bathroom counter to watch the water while I shave. He can't quite figure out how I got all that water in that pipe, adn then got it to come out like that. But by God, he's working on it...
BGK..Apparently Rizzo's smarter than my Teenie. She doesn't care about getting inside. She just likes the repetitive thumping. Maybe she's associating it with me banging my head against the wall after elections.
Damn.
Send it to Tena. She'll forward.
She told me about your email. I was really touched.
gottalaff,
Havent come across that particular behavior, but Sylvia has to move the water bowl. It might be a foot or two,
or a couple of milimeters, but it has to be just so.
The rest of the cats drink out of it regardless where syslvia see fit to locate it.
Time to check for Aurora Borealis.
pie,
I sent you a message through a mutual friend. No need to give up any info. Sorry it didn't occur to me initially...
gottalaff, I wish you could.
Sad, really.
Dr. Pedant...yeah, we did put felt on the rims, and it softened the sound for awhile, but didn't stop it. We must have a house that resonates this kind of noise or something. And now the felt is thinning. It's a good thing my cats are adorable and lovey dovey. Otherwise one of us would have to move out...and you know that would be me, right?
Sylvia has to move the water bowl. It might be a foot or two,
or a couple of milimeters, but it has to be just so.
Nothing like kitties with OCD.
kent -
cats are sooo funny about their water. Mine moves the bowl too and shapes her body into an arch to drink. I keep the water very shallow so she gets the satisfaction of dipping in. gee, she really owns me...
*
Pie, what did this refer to? Sorry, I can't find a reference:
"gottalaff, I wish you could.
Sad, really."
So who's running America? Looks from MSNBC like Brit Boy Blair is:
"A senior Bush administration official told NBC News on condition of anonymity that the trip was scheduled in just the last few days as part of an “intense period” of outreach to the European community."
"Blair wants Bush to allay European fears that the United States would take military action against Iran. The United States wants Iran dragged before the U.N. Security Council to face sanctions, claiming it is trying to build nuclear weapons. Iran contends that its nuclear program is peaceful and aimed at generating energy."
So, after some post-election sex with Tony, Bush lets Tony tell him what to do with Palestinian problem and it means leveraging even more of your childrens future by spending more American "capital."
“I intend to use the next four years to spend the capital of the United States on such a state,” Bush said with Blair at his side. “I believe it is in the interests of the world that such a truly free state develop. I know it is in the interest of the Palestinian people.”
Farewell to the notion of true American leadership.
Ships passing in the night...
Pie...
Sorry, I don't know what you're referring to:
"gottalaff, I wish you could.
Sad, really."
I can't find which comment that goes with.
Sure that isn't Cousin It?
Fielding Mellish,
LOL, no not cousin it, but he is always ready for some loving. "hey what you doing? it cant be THAT important"
Ooops, sorry about the double post. I didn't seem to show up the first time.
Philalethes, that's one gorgeous jewel of a creature! I didn't know nudis came in that shape, thought they were all tubes with frills.
Now, a cat in a nudibranch hat: just the thing for the next Mardis Gras parade!
Kent,
My cats used to love to get in the shower to catch the last drips. I always thought cats hated getting wet. Go figure.
gottalaff -
Have you tried safety locks for the cabinets? Such as you might get if there's a new baby in the house?
No idea if it would work, just a random thought.
Oh, feh, on cats. It started raining and thundering here, which meant Arthur had to locate a new safe hidey hole. I've just now finished tucking him in, in his blankie. 80lbs of pure, wrinkledy muscle, has to be tucked in. And blankie has to be there too. We can only all hope that the villains don't assault the rancho during a thunder storm, cause if so, Himself won't be a great deal of assistance.
Snugglebunny,
Thanks for that. Yes, we did try them. Our cabinet doors are weird, so they only fit on some. And they do work...yay!!! Silence!! Well, on 2 doors, anyway.
“I intend to use the next four years to spend the capital of the United States on such a state,” Bush said
I wish the idiot Bush Boy would stop using the "capital" reference. First, he ain't got none and second, it really pisses me off the gall of this individual thinking he has anything close to political capital.
gottalaff, nevermind.
The comments were coming fast and furious and I was on the phone.
Continue.
To the real never to be imitated Pie...we love you!
Okay, roger that, Pie.
Billy B: It's because he learned a new word. In order to remember how to use it right, he has to repeat it X number of times. Unca Karl taught him that.
Re: cabinet banging. I used to know someone who had a cat that was not only polydactic, but had damnnear opposable thumbs.
He liked to demand more food by methodically opening and banging shut every cabinet in the kitchen he could reach. And, no, he didn't do it the easy way, by grabbing the bottom ledge of the door: he wrapped his little kitty fingers around the outside edge, just like a small human would.
He was sweet and scary-smart, and I used to tease his human about what a shame he was fixed, that he couldn't sire an entire race of opposably-thumbed cats
Cat blogging comment:
"Don't fuck with the Wongs."
freelove,
First Dubya pisses off the fundies by not burning Mary Cheney and her partner at the stake, and now, despite all of his proclamations to the contrary, it turns out that
George &hearts Global Tests.
CaseyL:
Hahahahahaha ::breath::hahahahahaha!
That would have been some genetic gift!
Off Topic: (It deals with cats, but actually deals with pussy.)
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"Lindsay Lohan, Wilmer Valderrama Break Up."
"Mean Girls" star Lindsay Lohan and her boyfriend, Wilmer Valderrama, have ended their relationship. They have broken up, but are still friends," Valderrama's publicist, Heidi Slan, told The Associated Press Friday. She declined to provide details. Lohan and Valderrama acknowledged being a couple in July, after Lohan turned 18. The couple's breakup was reported Friday by People and Us Weekly magazines. Lohan's publicist, Leslie Sloane Zelnik, didn't immediately return a call seeking a comment from the AP. Us Weekly quoted Zelnik as saying, "I can confirm that they have amicably split, but the two remain close friends and supportive of each other's busy careers. Valderrama stars on the Fox sitcom "That '70s Show."
Lohan, who also starred in "Freaky Friday,' was hospitalized in Los Angeles in late October for a high fever and headaches. She became ill while filming the movie "Herbie: Fully Loaded."
If you're wondering why I'm bringing this us. Then your guess is as good as mine. I would like to know what the F*CK prompted Yahoo news to give this thing lines as if it were news?
Who the F*CK cares about this?!?!?!?!
Why is Yahoo news giving it coverage?!?!?!
This is our media folks. Billions upon billions of potential news stories that actually *matter* to us and they report on some dumb broad and her dumbass boyfriend breaking up?? This lady has Hilton sister written all over her.
MYOB'
.
What's wrong with this picture?
FALLOUJA, Iraq — The mosque had been taken, but the fire kept coming. "We've got chunks of territory, but these guys [insurgents] are all over the place," Marine Lt. Brandon Turner said Thursday as he stood amid shattered glass and concrete under the green dome of the Khulafah Rashid mosque, his fellow Marines resting on a plush red carpet.
gottalaff:
Did you catch the press conference? The
Bush Boy was trying to give a response up at the podium and went into vapor lock. Just stood and stared for about 5 seconds.
God Damn. How in the hell is this wuss the president?
gottalaff, jftb,
Two of ours are wetheads as a result of lapping up water from the shower drain,
A friend of mine had one that refused to drink water from anywhere but the kitchen faucet. I have seen all manner of behavior in cats, nearly as wide a range as displayed by humans.
OT.
I hate it when CEO bush keeps yacking about capital. Does he think he is the reincarnation of Adam Smith?
Jackass.
Someone mentioned a lack of effort on this blog? Here's something for you all to consider--treat it like a midterm POli Sci 201 question:
1. In what ways can the current administration be expected to do lasting damage to the U.S.?
2. Are these damages amenable or reversible withing a roughly 20-year time span (I.e., by the time my kids are adults)?
3. If yes to 2
a. how can this reversal or amelioration be accomplished?
b. how could the damage be lessened as it is occurring such that the recovery or ameliioration time is shortened?
Actually, I'm not BSing. I sincerely think these are things we all have to start thinking about.
GWPDA - Dogs and thunder, go figure. My mutt weigh's the same as my wife, but at the sound of thunder he lay's at my feet requiring a constant patting. His predecessor was the same way. Obviously goes back to inherited learning, same as turning a few circles before laying down (pat down the bedding grass).
GWPDA,
Do you have one of them wrinkly dogs?
D'oh.
Have a nice evening, everyone.
I'll look to the skies tonight.
gottalaff - Yeah, don't you kind of wonder how long before they'd be running things? - overtly, that is, not just by training us to obey their every whim.
Billy B,
I didn't see it, but I read and saw excerpts. Beats me how he can even dress himself in the morning. Or eat. Oh. Wait. He can't eat, he chokes on pretzels.
CaseyL,
I often wonder how my own opposable thumbs and how I use them have affected the rest of the human race. Oh, and in case you haven't looked it up yet, Bush doesn't have opposable thumbs. He hasn't evolved.
CaseyL,
Our littlest kitty, bean, (8lbs - maybe) also the best hunter is polydactyl with opposable thumbs. You can shake her little forepaws, but she (other than being a brutaly efficient killer) doesn't seem to use them for any nefarious activities.
she is the other wet head&trade:
kent, chris I have a proto-wrinkly dog - Arthur is a bone-mouth Shar-pei (aka, Chinese farm dog). But he does NOT like weather, any more than do I. Big old strawberry blond thing, he's tucked up now with yellow blankie and snoring gently. Weather's passed us by and all is well.
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Kent,
I love the name Bean!!!
Allen,
Thank you for your insights. We all need to be thinking hard and constructively right now.
I don't need an opposable thumb for
the Bush Boy.
Just the extended middle finger.
My mom is yelling at me to take out the trash, gotta go.
I hate that fucking bitch.
Billy B,
Amen.
me again. Hey, my only connection for a while has been at work, and I'm a fed so I don't dare blog post from the office.
Something I haven't seen noted:
We've all seen that Bush's margin is historic only for being narrow. Honestly, I doubt Clinton would have won in '92 without Perot both taking votes from Bush I and, more importantly, softening him up for clinto to step in when Perot stepped out of the race/off the planet for a couple months.
Anyway, the 2 things I haven't seen noted and I hope someone has data on--aren't 2 or at most 4 seats in Congress a pretty small coatail effect?
And what about 3 Senate seats (4 only if you think Zell was a Democrat which, from here 3 miles west of Stone Mountain, is not the consensus).
Trevor,
Are you insane? I mean, really insane?
chris/tx,
That "Dog-about-Town" Story was the funniest thing I have seen in a week.
esp. the part about picking him up cause you knew where he was headed and it happened to be on your way. Tooo funny.
"Knew where all the best parties were"
Brilliant.
The deaths of Miller and two other troops announced Thursday bring the number of troops with Michigan ties killed in Iraq to 36....
At the Miller home, the news of Dennis' death left his family raw.
"If George Bush would've walked on my porch today, I would've strangled him," said Kathy Miller, the soldier's mom.
I doubt Clinton would have won in '92 without Perot both taking votes from Bush I
Polls at the time indicated if Perot wasn't in the race, his votes would have been evenly split between the Dem and Rep. Both times. FWIW.
Doozerkitties part 3, the saga continues! (I'm gonna run outta cute intros real quick, don't you worry).
Whitley, preparing to do one of the 2 things he does best; sleep. (Eat, is of course, the other).
Fruney, the Halloween Kitty, looking a bit less eeeeevil.
and a much younger Fruney, about 3 months old, surprised on top of my truck one night.
cont.
I mean, whodathunk:George Bush, Flip-Flopper. Now I ain't no psycho-oligist, but with all them windsurfin' Kerry ads they had goin' I would now have to agree with that there sayin': "Projection ain't just a river in Egypt." Knowuddamean?
And yes, I am high as a kite. Glad you asked. Gotta go warsh dishes while listening to the local, weekly regae dj and then work for a little while on designing a kitchen. Just wanted to check in with y'all. Maybe see if there was any information on Arafat's condition or anything.
Our littlest kitty, bean, (8lbs - maybe) also the best hunter is polydactyl with opposable thumbs.
Jumping to near the end of this thread -- Kent, you're freakin' me out. I left a comment at your house -- that huge black cat you have is nearly a double of my Primary cat, and my Auxiliary cat is a polydactyl who's a grand total of 5 lbs. Now I find you've got a little polly, too. (Mine's named Shock 'cuz he has long spiky hair, even curls out of his ears, looks like he stuck a paw in a socket -- and it was kind of a shock that I took on another cat 'round here.)
They look hilarious padding around on those huge catcher's mitt paws.
Allen, I have seen comments and pieces on that very thing, in the papers and elsewhere. This whole "mandate" thing is baloney.
Thanks GWPDA and everyone for all the tile advice. When I get it done maybe I'll get my son to take a picture of my cat in front of it with his digital camera and I can share it with you.
Konopelli, there are always sniper on the roof of the WH
My mom is yelling at me to take out the trash, gotta go.
I hate that fucking bitch.
Trevor Webb
Trevor, damn if my timing was not spot on, I might have choked to death, or spilled my lungs through my nose, let alone any liquid in the system and on to the keyboard. Jesus man.
Hecate,
Yes, photos! But remember...no dust bunnies.
"If George Bush would've walked on my porch today, I would've strangled him," said Kathy Miller, the soldier's mom.
This makes me want to cry. I mean, break the fuck down. How in the hell did we end up like this?
I have a 14 year old son. He was asking me why we were in Iraq and if I thought he would have to go there sometime.
How in the hell do you answer that?
Mud!
Mud!
Hecate, the answer to everything is Mud!
(Mudd if you're in Virginia, of course.)
I guess you probably can't just go down to the Home Depot and ask, hunh?
Maybe see if there was any information on Arafat's condition or anything.
Arafat's condition is, uh, stable.
Cats suck. Their snobbishness is emblematic of Democrats.
Gorgeous kitties, as always.
If Hecate is still there, the Gustav Stickley Museum here in New Jersey has the most gorgeous arts & crafts tiles, but they ARE prohibitively expensive-more like art pieces than to tile a whole fireplace with.
GWPDA,
I figgered it had to be a Shar, love those dogs. A friend down the street has a large black mutt who has simmilar terrors when the thunderstorms come rolling through. Whenever it start lightning I feel for Shadow.
Billy B,
It could be worse. You could have to tell him what a blow job is.
"I have a 14 year old son. He was asking me why we were in Iraq and if I thought he would have to go there sometime."
Billy B, I have 20 year old twin boys. I'm hoping they'd be 4F if/when it comes to that (there's a good chance at least one would be). I'm saddened and sickened by all of this.
Don't much like cats, but this is great!
I'm lookin at this in Firefox 1.0 guys. You can live bookmark RSS feeds in the tabs. I just shickkanned my IE on the Mac. Don't need nothin but Blogger, Safari and Firefox now.
JM
I'm jealous - my two female cats hate each other's guts. I wish I could get them to get along like yours, bud.
kent - Thanks. No bullshit, I always knew I was at the party I was going to finish the night at (if you know what I mean) by if that dog was there. It was uncanny. Damn dog had more friends than anybody on campus.
It could be worse. You could have to tell him what a blow job is.
huh?
Bear, my 2 female cats, sisters, fight sometimes, but most of the time they're fine. I get so freaked out when they swipe and hiss, but things usually calm down. Are yours always at each other's throats?
karin,
My whole house is Stickley and I love their tiles. Someday I want to get to that museum.
kent -
it's tough on a guy to be here in the land of thunder and lightning. He's gotten a lot better tho, in the last couple of years, particularly since I re-made the house and he's found a whole bunch of really good corners, and so long as I'm there (and blankie), we're all right. He reminds me tho, of me - when I was wee, here, my mum made a big deal of opening the curtains and admiring the show during summer lightning season. After awhile, all us children agreed. Shar-pei are brave, but they're not one bit stupid - Arthur just has to work it all out.
It could be worse. You could have to tell him what a blow job is.
heh...heh...heh...
Touche.
That's a damn good answer. I'll use it on him. He'll get a kick out of that
I don't know, Charlie, photographing kitties can be hard work. And I love Friday Cat Blogging.
Milo
Oh, fuckin' A! You gotta be quick, that's for sure. All my best shots are pure luck.
Silleigh,
I had meant to respond to you last week or whenever you meantioned having the funny looking cat that looked like it was walking on catchers mits. I loved that image - It was you right?
Yeah bean has hands as big if not bigger than Jack, and she is a little spitfire.
Unfortunately she didn't beat up on Jack and his brother Ptolemy, when they were kittens and well, they like to chase her around, but will never catch her.
Hecate - my builder is the Stickley distributor for Arizona. We have an agreement. Let me know and I'll put you in touch.
Sorry dirtgirl,
I am a little slow on the uptake.
The booze tends to have that effect on me.
Hey, are those cats flaunting their homosexuality?
kent: Your Jack sounds like my Booger. His meow is an "Eeep", and he's the biggest fraidycat south of the Mason Dixon. Only about 14 lbs, tho.
OT: Over at "Little Green Footballs",the 'regulars' let it all hang out. Charles Johnson, swift to ban&delete for any criticism of bush or israel, seems to be just fine with the following:
#1 bigel 11/12/2004 12:10PM PST
Mecca and Medina would look soooo lovely as radioactive craters, dontcha think?
#5 PostalWorker 11/12/2004 12:12PM PST
Mecca and Medina for sure, lets throw in Riahd and Tehran for good measure. Nuke ém till they glow and use their asses for runway lights!
Preemptive strike please
#36 Infidel and Proud 11/12/2004 12:26PM PST
If we get nuked there is only one response: the complete extermination of every sub-human shit-eating pig-fucking muslim from the face of this planet.
Muzzies are not human. They are vermin.
Period.
7 Blue Lobster 11/12/2004 12:29PM PST
If it truly comes down to a choice between the survival of the West or the ascendency of Islam then:
1. Turn every major Muslim city into a glowing crater
2. Hunt down every survivor we can find and behead them
3. Mount their skulls on pikes as a lesson to the next 10 generations that the West will do what it takes to survive
4. Turn every area that we don't care to traverse looking for survivors into a hell of chemical weapon residue, mines, and radioactivity
5. Monitor those areas from the air; as soon as anyone comes out of a cave, nuke 'em
4 Infidel and Proud 11/12/2004 12:31PM PST
What do we do with the 7M (claimed) muslim rodents already infesting the US?
157 darrellbear 11/12/2004 01:14PM PST
Send 'em all to hell. Give 'em something to whisper about around the campfire for the next thousand years.
#182 American Infidel 11/12/2004 01:22PM PST
Mr. Pol & rightasrain
Moslems around the world belong to one nation:
Nation of Islam
First and foremost, they are MOSLEMS...Therefore, every single MOSLEM is fair game, when and if it comes to the dropping of the NUCULAR BOMB or BOMBS...
220 locutus 11/12/2004 01:44PM PST
My solution?
One word:germs
271 d_on_a_palehorse 11/12/2004 02:08PM PST
my patience is worn, there is no compassion left....I've heard this in the thread also.....we have the technology...why are we dicking around....let's end this now...finally...we can nuke them til they glow and shoot the rest of them in the streets...........
WTF are we waiting for?
"we shall march on a road of bones......"
321 'Nam Grunt 11/12/2004 02:44PM PST Muslims are nothing but ignorant, POS, look how they act, now believe it or not guys, I am not a racist redneck living here in Texas, they have nothing and never had anything, to be more clear, they are like cavemen, animals. (that should receive some replies from bleeding heart liberals).
322 restitutor orbis 11/12/2004 02:44PM PST
Can we exterminate them yet?????
oh please oh please oh please ??????
337 American Infidel 11/12/2004 02:57PM PST
#332 Jheka
So, very specifically, whe
GWPDA,
I just love the sensitive beasts. In what t-storm ravaged part of the country are you, I have the pleasure of living in tornado alley part two, and we get quite the show during the season here in southern Indiana.
Jesus, Mary and Joseph, and all the Saints forgive us.
Oy.
I love kitties. My cat named Elvis (lots of hair and attitude) also has six toes on each of his front paws. Can open any cupboard, can pick a disc out of a cubby in my desk, and loves to push everything left on the cupboards at night on the floor.
She hates any adult except me, but loves, no worships by 3 year old grandson. They chase each other without end -- cat bites boy, boy pushes cat, boy gets timeout for hurting the poor little ole kitty, and next thing, cat is sitting on boys lap purring.
Whatchagoingtodo. this cat has not let any adult other than myself pet him in 3 years. Odd. Or maybe it is saying something about me.
Well, WE all know the "mandate" is a load of crap, the point is to use Gonzales, the possible recount in OH, etc. to make everyone else see it's a load of crap.
I think in '92 Perot got 19% but to me his effect was more in the summer, when he beat up on Bush I and made it more possible for Clinton to become competitive (especially when Perot temporarily withdrew). In '96 I don't think Perot made much difference.
DOF, great cats. love the look of the young one on top of the truck.
christx, Honestly, I don't think I'll ever forget that tale. I am sure that there are now fewer than 10 conversations about that dog going on in bars across the land, accompanied by lots of "you gotta be kidding me" priceless. what was the name and what did it look like. (just to fill out the mental image)
The rest of the crap:
#1 bigel 11/12/2004 12:10PM PST
#332 Jheka
So, very specifically, where would you nuke, when, and using what yield?
I am not at all familiar with the type of bombs we have or their yield...I would like to save the real estate, afterall I would like to visit the Sphinx, the Great Pyramids, the area where archeologists believe the Garden of Eden was (the Fertile Crescent), take a cruise down the Nile, etc...etc...etc...
I would begin with their holy sites, followed by their most populated cities, etc...
The entire NATION OF ISLAM is fair game...
376 missouri boy 11/12/2004 03:44PM PST
WE DON'T HAVE TO NUKE ANYBODY TO TAKE ISLAM
OUT.
IF WE STARTED DESTROYING EVERY SHRINE , EVERY
MOSQUE, EVERY HOLY PLACE THERE IS IN ISLAM
(STARTING WITH THE 1500+ IN AMERICA ) WE WOULD
KILL ISLAM.
To be fair to other LGF commentators, there were quite a few who thought the above was wrong. Charles Johnson is not one of those.
" Muslims are nothing but ignorant, POS, look how they act, now believe it or not guys, I am not a racist redneck living here in Texas, they have nothing and never had anything, to be more clear, they are like cavemen, animals"
But he still is not a racist redneck living here in Texas. So where is he living because I think racist is surely somewhere in there and redneck is pretty obvious. I presume he is from Alabama or there abouts.
Allen,
Absolutely the point is to make everyone else see it's a load of crap. The challenge is, getting them to open their eyes enough to see it.
I had meant to respond to you last week or whenever you meantioned having the funny looking cat that looked like it was walking on catchers mits. I loved that image - It was you right?
Yep, Kent, that was me. I'm waiting for His Nibs to allow me to photograph him properly -- and if I have to start a blog of my own (it would be the lamest blog you ever read) or post his pic on one of my kids' LJs, I'm GOING to get his weirdness documented one o' these Cat-Blogging days.
It's weird looking at Big Cat and Little Cat, and you probably know what I mean: you've got a 20-odd pounder who has, I'm guessing, what seem like tiny li'l feet compared to Bean?
Huge cat / tiny feets
Tiny cat / GIGUNDO feets
* * *
Somebody upthread mentioned Firefox 1.0. I don't do RSS (yet) -- have you noticed any other difs between 1.0 and 1.0 PR? All I noticed was absolutely smooth, flawless installation, and all my favorite extensions continuing to work. (I'm jonesin' for one of those Firefox mugs Mozilla's selling.) I'm an agnostic but Firefox could become a religion of sorts...
One more then off to psiphi (in real life I'm a geek).
Boycott Fox. Not Fox News. How many of us seriously watch it? Fox. The NFL on Fox. The Simpsons. Not boycott all media, half the grocery chains in the country . . . focus on one thing and send a message. Fox may ignore it but others won't. And after a while, boycott Fox's advertisers too (yes, I know you'd have to tune in to figure out who they are, thank you).
TFH territory? Hell, I haven't regretted a minute spent playing with my kids instead of watching Fox.
Philalethes: That Nudibranch is adorable. Not yer basic petting type pet, though. I mean, no smoochies from me, no siree!
Anonymous,
Just another day in LGF land.
Are they still posting pics of UN helmets with bullet holes in them? They seem to like that.
SOS- how can you assure not being banned i am a regular poster but as of late have been getting banned by webmaster messages EVEN if I had not posted?
Atrios, you have two beautiful, well mannered, photogenic cats. I love the cats and the photo.
Billy B,
no worries. i took a risk being taken for a troll.
canvassing in PA i met my first soccer mom. she told me she wasn't sure she could vote for Kerry because she'd had to explain ORAL SEX to her kids. i mean, can you IMAGINE?
anon,
Thanks for dropping the LGF bomb. I was planning on wading through the sewage today, but now won't have to. About par for the course.
Banning problem: The same thing happened to me, outta the blue. Atrios explained to me that when one AOL member gets banned, it can spill over (I still don't get that). Does that make sense to anyone?
Arafat's condition is, uh, stable.
The Kenosha Kid
Best laugh so far today.
Pity we can't say the same for Palestine...
kent - far, far away from Tornado Alley - we're in Phoenix, at the confluence of weather from the coast and from Baja. Boom! Thwack!
I'm actually a bit worried now - Monday, the guys come in to do an acid wash on the pool - which means the pool gets drained first. Arthur is accustomed to having a fine old time on the top step, not minding the taste of chlorine - so I reckon that Monday afternoon will be spent retrieving the guy as he pursues the water, down, down, down, down.....
dirtgirl, I had one 18 year old boy, very much a social liberal, say he wouldn't vote for Kerry because he'd start the draft. Excuse me now, while my head explodes.
Sorry, 1 more. I keep hearing "Bush will show no restraint now."
Now?
I'd think being out of soldiers and money would force MORE restraint.
have you noticed any other difs between 1.0 and 1.0 PR?
1.0 has a qool new banner page, and XPI installation seems to be getting smoother all the time. Firefox is even pretty smooth on Linux now.
ot in another direction: does anyone know where chimpy is getting this palestinian-state-within-four-years noise? is he just not even going to pretend not to be doing ludes any more?
Pardon the blogwhore (Phila started it!), but the opinions of audiophiles are needed at:
powerpop.blogsot.com
Thanks!
Silleigh,
JM upthread reminded me that I need to look into the 1.0, the pre release did not work so well for me, but I have been using what ever was reasonably stable in the Moz/Phoenix/Firebire/Firefox for a couple three years or so.
Tabs absolutely rock
.....
The infinite variety of shapes, sizes and personality profiles of beasts continulaly astonish me. The best thin g is that they are innocent.
Hecate!
NYMary!
You there? I got a great deal on Crafts/Art pottery going ....
Always good to see a copy of "All The King's Men" on the bookshelf.
NYMary,
No need to appologise, I'm there.
kent: Thanks. I wish I'd had a decent camera then (now, too) and faster reflexes. She would come at me sideways, with a Bride of Frankenstein look on her face. Used to crack me up, but I never got a shot of it.
Atrios explained to me that when one AOL member gets banned, it can spill over (I still don't get that). Does that make sense to anyone?
generally AOL people get a different IP address every time they dial in, so you have to knock out a relatively large number of addresses in order to be confident of catching your target.
I suppose this could happen with any of the other major dialup ISPs as well.
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - CBS News has fired the producer responsible for interrupting the last five minutes of a hit crime drama with a special report on the death of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat, a network source said on Friday
Not that anyone here cares, especially with all of this great cat blogging going on, but the fact is that interrupting programming is a senior management call, one in the domain president or senior vice president of a network news division.
There are complicated issues with affiliates and the like that are involved.
And, according to the Reuter's article, she was explicitly told not to interrupt, but instead use a crawl.
Sounds like she deserved to be fired.
NYMary,
Do you mean powerpop.blogspot.com?
It doesn't work without "pot".
Thanks, theodoric, but I don't understand ISP talk. I may look smart, but I'm not good at anything with initials. Can you 'splain?
I will consider my cat Jeoffry.
For he is the servant of the living God, duly and daily serving Him.
For at the first glance of the glory of God in the East he worships in his way.
For this is done by wreathing his body seven times round with elegant quickness.
For when he leaps up to catch the musk, which is the blessing of God upon his prayer.
For he rolls upon prank to work it in.
For having done duty and received blessing he begins to consider himself.
For this he performs in ten degrees.
For first he looks upon his fore-paws to see if they are clean.
For secondly he kicks up behind to clear away there.
For thirdly he works it upon stretch with the fore-paws extended.
For fourthly he sharpens his paws by wood.
For fifthly he washes himself.
For sixthly he rolls upon wash.
For seventhly he fleas himself, that he may not be interrupted upon the beat.
For eighthly he rubs himself against a post.
For ninthly he looks up for his instructions.
For tenthly he goes in quest of food.
For having consider'd God and himself he will consider his neighbor.
For if he meets another cat he will kiss her in kindness.
For when he takes his prey he plays with it to give it (a) chance.
For one mouse in seven escapes by his dallying.
For when his day's work is done his business more properly begins.
For he keeps The Lord's watch in the night against the adversary.
For he counteracts the powers of darkness by his electrical skin and glaring eyes.
For he counteracts the devil, who is death, by brisking about the life.
For in his morning orisons he loves the sun and the sun loves him.
For he is of the tribe of Tiger.
For the Cherub Cat is a term of the Angel Tiger.
For he has the subtlety and hissing of a serpent, which in goodness he suppresses.
For he will not do destruction, if he is well-fed, neither will he spit without provocation.
For he purrs in thankfulness, when God tells him he's a good Cat.
For he is an instrument for the children to learn benevolence upon.
For every house is incompleat without him & a blessing is lacking in the spirit....
For the English cats are the best in Europe.
For he is the cleanest in the use of his fore-paws of any quadrupeds.
For the dexterity of his defence is an instance of the love of God to him exceedingly.
For he is the quickest to his mark of any creature.
For he is tenacious of his point.
For he is a mixture of gravity and waggery.
For he knows that God is his Saviour.
For there is nothing sweeter than his peace when at rest.
For there is nothing brisker than his life when in motion....
For he is docile and can learn certain things....
For he can jump from an eminence into his master's bosom.
For he can catch the cork and toss it again....
For he is good to think on, if a man would express himself neatly....
For by stroaking of him I have found out electricity.
For I perceived God's light about him both wax and fire.
For the Electrical fire is the spiritual substance,
F'n tags.
...
For the Electrical fire is the spiritual substance, which God sends from heaven to sustain the bodies both of man and beast.
For God has blessed him in the variety of his movements.
For tho he cannot fly, he is an excellent clamberer.
For his motions upon the face of the earth are more than other quadrupeds.
For he can tread to all the measures upon the musick.
For he can swim for life.
For he can creep.
Christopher Smart (1722-1771)
CS, Of course. But you sound like Backslider when you say that.
Or you can just click the homepage, natch.
gottalaff,
they might ban a range of I.P. adresses, which might include you if yours is in that range.
ex. the guy banned may have an adress like this
127.xxx.x78.123
you might have (x's are the same)
127.xxx.x78.654
they may just choose to lock out everthing in a range like say
127.xxx.x78.027
127.xxx.x78.868
so if aol assigns you an ip in betwixt them numbers and charlie puts that range in his hosts file you cant get in.
hope that helps, and if I misrepresented the situation, uber geeks are welcome to correct me.
Theodoric, it's not just the dynamic ip's that cause problems with banning AOLers. Most AOL users run through a proxy, so every AOL user appears to be coming from the same ip (that of the proxy). There's a way to bypass the proxy, but it;s been so long since I worked there I don't recall where the pref is.
And, according to the Reuter's article, she was explicitly told not to interrupt, but instead use a crawl.
Good for her. A sign of intelligence. We don't have to be mindless retards, just because we're told to by our "betters".
How very American.
Kent, thanks to you too. Okay, I'm a moron. What does ip stand for? If it refers to my trying to talk 'pooter talk, then call me IdiotPants. Help!
GWPDA,
LOL, that would make great video, I can just picture the old boy,"I gotta get that water."
What a lovely picture you have put in my mind.
Atrios explained to me that when one AOL member gets banned, it can spill over (I still don't get that). Does that make sense to anyone?
Yes. It makes perfect sense because AOHell doesn't make much sense. Lost that 2 years ago and haven't missed it for a second. My DSL came with MSN's whatever-it-is competitor, and I trashed that shortly after installing it. I like THIS internet better than the one that throws up ads and predigested "news" and garbage at me.
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OT again, F'fox: I did switch my homepage to the F'fox Google page; love that logo. Guess we'll miss the Google holiday logos, but THIS Fox is a GOOD Fox. Never saw myself getting passionate about a browser.
NYMary is this the page
you are talking about?
Silleigh, you are SO right. I detest AOL. I've been trying to get cable for months, and they're giving me all kinds of reasons why it can't be installed in my particular house, although it's available. DSL isn't available here. God, how I hate AOL.
Does anyone else's cat open the cupboards and bang them closed again...over and over and over?
Yup. We had two rather obnoxious cats (imagine!) who would open the cabinet doors to help themselves to their food. Tender Vittles, soft food in little bags they could easily tear into. So we put a rubber band around the knobs to keep the doors together. They hated that. Kept trying to open the doors, but they always snapped closed. Until the rubber band broke. There was cat food ALL OVER THE FLOOR when I got home from school.
I miss the little buggers.
Tow
Damn! Just click homepage.
(In my defense, I have a sleeping baby in my lap and am doing this one-handed.)
"LOL, that would make great video, I can just picture the old boy,"I gotta get that water."
What a lovely picture you have put in my mind."
Culminating in me lugging an 80lbs doggy out of the shallows when Buddy gets stuck 'cause his long black nails don't get much traction, pretty much like Frankenstein's Monster, with his bride.....
TOW, great story. We have no handles or knobs on our cabinets, and, of all things, there's wine glasses and pots, etc. in the ones they can reach. It's done out of pure mischief, wanting to get Mommy to see what's up in the kitchen...or the hallway...or the bathroom. Oh, and that's fun, seeing my personal stuff all over the bathroom floor. Good thing they're girl cats.
Gottalaff, why are you talking to AOL about cable internet access? Call your cable company. If they offer it, they'll gladly hook you up. No AOL needed. Cancel AOL after you get your cable internet.
There's a way to bypass the proxy, but it;s been so long since I worked there I don't recall where the pref is.
hmm. ok. makes sense if you're using their desktop.
I only ever use AOL for dialup access any more, running separate browsers.
I.P. Internet protocol.
In short each machine connected to the net needs a specific adress so everything gets to where its sposed to
go.
Bunny, my bad if I wasn't clear. No, I'm avoiding AOL like the plague, but contacting (you should excuse the expression...) Adelphia cable, who's fighting me on installation. Say they can't do it, but they can. I don't give up easily. I'll win, but it'll take some doing.
Thanks, Dr. Pedant. Someone once posted that Christopher Smart stuff before, but I forgot to save it.
Thanks, Kent! You've been there for a LOT of us tonight. You are a valuable commodity. Oh. I didn't mean to make you sound inanimate, sorry, lol.
Now, a cat in a nudibranch hat: just the thing for the next Mardis Gras parade!
CaseyL
Ask, and ye shall receive, my pet.
Kent: It's immensely frustrating when I'm at work, stuck on Mac OS9/IE5 for Mac, which is just an abysmal combination, and I can't even tab. I'm addicted to it at home. Tried tabbing in Netscape but it reliably crashes on about the 3rd tab (it's a POS computer). Aside from tabbing, the Firefox extensions are what really make this thing sing!
I've heard of a few folks having problems with various Firefox releases, but the only problem I ever had was trying to install 1.0PR over top of whatever it was before -- I needed to dump that first. Also, I can't configure Thunderbird to work with the AV program, or I'd dump Outlook in the blink of an eye.
Adelphia? Aren't they all in jail or bankrupt or something?
Karin, yes, the original owners, or whatever they were, are off to PrisonLand. But new people have or are coming in to take over and make us all miserable.
Silleigh, do whatever you can, but get shet of Outlook. Remember? Bill Gates is the AntiChrist?
A sensitive little verse from the Kitty Cat Poetry Corner...
All of us cat types is smitten
With the japes of a cute little kitten
The curtains all shredded
The mouses beheaded
And the hairball right there where you're sitten
Nader was right - again. I bet that burns you all, doesn't it?
When you interrupt the program (and advertising) stream, you are screwing directly with revenue (and ratings).
Used to be that a major breaking news story would be allowed to interrupt programming.
These days, even news is expected to turn a profit, and you definitely don't want to interrupt prime-time programming for unplanned news unless you have a very good reason.
Not an endorsement; just sayin'.
Gah, so far I hate Firefox. Just one more goddamned browser I'm forced to design for. And it just became safe to ditch making your sites work in NN4.x too. Blegh.
I tried to use Firefox, but I really didn't like it. So now it's just installed so that I can test my designs, and that is all.
I'm also not fond of the latest update for IE most of the time either. Maybe I'm just a creature of habit...
Lynne -- That's pretty damn awesome.
Yeah, "Anonymous", speaking as the unitary voice of the entire blogosphere, that just burns the hell out of 'Us".
Jesus, go away. Please.
(In my defense, I have a sleeping baby in my lap and am doing this one-handed.)
NYMary
Much better explanation than all the one handed typing anonymi, that stroll through at regular intervals.
charley don't surf,
My cat would like to call your attention to this from H. L. Mencken:
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents,
more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and
glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright
moron."
Nader was right - again. I bet that burns you all, doesn't it?
Not as badly as how the Bush administration is burning our country, our soldiers, and any hope whatsoever for our future.
BTW, why are you here instead of enlisting to die for your leader?
P.S., for the humans, I have two American shorthairs who are dying for their moment in the spotlight. I'm just trying to figure out this newfangled digital camera thingy. (Not all liberals are tech-savvy.)
Silleigh: hehe thanks. Chalk that one up to far too much hours put into work. Er, meaning, more than 15 hours logged this week. I is starting to get busy around here. (Note: I post less and lurk more these days.)
Mike Scheuer, who wrote "Imperial Hubris: Why the West is Losing the War on Terror.''
The senior CIA officer who has become an outspoken critic of the fight on terrorism turned in his resignation this week, citing a desire to speak more freely about problems in the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the debate over intelligence reform.
from salon.com
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Speaking of browsers, any opinions on Avant?
I cannot WAIT for Scheuer to be on 60 Minutes. He's on this Sunday, right?
Nader was right - again. I bet that burns you all, doesn't it?
a) I have no idea wtf you're talking about.
b) I really don't give a shit wtf you're talking about, so don't bother to explain it to me. Ralph Nader is about as important as the roadkill I'm going to drive over Monday morning on my way to work.
c) I'm going to bed now, so don't bother to mock me. I've suddenly become embarrassed that I'm bothering to address someone who's obsessed with Ralph Nader on a Friday night.
The senior CIA officer who has become an outspoken critic of the fight on terrorism turned in his resignation this week, citing a desire to speak more freely about problems in the hunt for Osama bin Laden and the debate over intelligence reform.
Will there be anyone competant left behind by the time this administration is through? Yeesh.
Lynne, I meant the Cat-Hat was awesome. (Wonder if my webmistress at work feels the same way about Firefox.)
...GWPDA, I'm still working on it, when I'm feelin' brave. I know about Bill Gates and all, but this is a Windoze machine and I have totally never gotten Macs after 4 years of working on a G3.
Most of us are probably more creatures of habit that we'd like to admit.
Jenny ftb,
He'll be on 60 minutes Sunday.
"Will there be anyone competant left behind by the time this administration is through? Yeesh."
There was never anyone competent to begin with.
the original owners, or whatever they were, are off to PrisonLand.
But new people have or are coming in to take over and make us all miserable.
gottalaff
Yep, 'cept that, slowly and surely, we's catchin' up.
That being said, you're one funny mutherfu4#%, my brother.
A couple of things:
1) When did it become okay to fire a news producer for doing his/her job (CBS fired producer for interrupting CSI:NY to report Arafat's death.)Have we become so dumb as a nation not to realize what is and isn't important on t.v.?
2) Those cats look like they've just committed the perfect crime, although the black & white one looks like he/she could snap under questioning.
Yep, Nader was right.
He knew that he had about as much chance as a kleenex&trade in a volcano of becoming president, so he whored himself out to the thugs, took their money, got some homeles people to do a spot of leafletting for him (unpaid) so as not to tip off everyone to his fraudulent acts,
then, come election day he laughs all the way to the bank wth his money, leaving behind a load of feckless shits like yourself, who still eat up his excrement with a spoon and come crawling back for more because they have absolutely nothing else to live for.
Happy?
Sill,
For a while you had to kill the old preference folder when installing a a new firefox because it would bresk things. Renaming the folder would also work.
You might try safari or camino, and for the moment I can't remember which mac product is the mozilla brand. At work I mean, if you are "allowed" to.
GWPDA,
Both scenes would be priceless, I had to pause for a bit of laughter.
Heh I got ya Silleigh but everything I type these days turns into a rant about something. LOL
Ranting about being too busy with paid client work is much better than ranting about being broke, though, I will admit!
Luckily for now, I've found my own damn boom despite the nastiness out there job-wise. It took three years of famine to do it so I'm hoping it'll last.
Of course, if the dollar tanks...all bets are off...(there I go ranting again). I'll stop now.
"That being said, you're one funny mutherfu4#%, my brother."
Hehe, thanks Billy B, 'cept I'm a goil. Not that I wouldn't mind trading teams once in awhile, but for now, I'm 100 per cent female.
Aurora Borealis check.
If you live north of 35 degrees latittude there might be a show in the sky to the north.
My cat would like to call your attention to this from H. L. Mencken:
"As democracy is perfected, the office of president represents,
more and more closely, the inner soul of the people. On some great and
glorious day the plain folks of the land will reach their heart's
desire at last and the White House will be adorned by a downright
moron."
Y'all are collectively scaring me tonight. My supervisor came in and laid that quote down on my desk this morning, knowing I'd appreciate it.
(I swapped her my favorite Mencken quote about how bad Warren Harding's writing was.)
There was never anyone competent to begin with.
gottalaff
OK granted, but I mean the people who were competent to begin with that the administration inherited. You know, like Richard Clark, etc. It's amazing when you think of all the resignations - it makes you wonder just much of a hack everyone else whose left really is.
Whereabouts is 35 degrees latittude? For the geographically impared.
I'm in MA. It probably doesn't matter anyway, I live in a city inundated with snow right now and I have a phone meeting tomorrow morning so I'll be going to bed soon anyways.
no dice in this neck of the woods
Lynne, right you are. I was just writing a "quip". And I just wrote the word "quip" because I've been wanting to use that word at some point, and you gave me the chance! Thanks! But, yeah, definitely, they are left with a void, besides the one in their collective heads.
Sweet things, nighty-night. Arthur is up and strolling and we're going to check the sky for the lights and then toddle off to sleep.
We'll find out on Monday whether we go up the hill or down it and up the hill again.
Sweet dreams.
And watch out for those cats!
Ooh, a quip, huh? Next it'll be a pithy remark, then a downright witticism!
Grey Kitty: So, I hear that asswipe Bush was re-elected?
Tuxedo Kitty: Yup, and they say we're the ones with peach pit-sized brains.
And watch out for those cats!
GWPDA
Especially ones with colorful hats...
Lynne, you said "pithy"!!! Another one of my faves. Okay, you're definitely on my A List.
And the last shall be frist.
silleigh
Is your supervisor an orange and white domestic shorthair?
7000 posts later, just chiming in to agree with Atrios re the weekly cleaning lady. Ours is a definite factor in making the jeebs household a happy place for mrs. jeebs, me and all the feathered, furry bunch o critters who share the house of jeebs
gottalaff
Billy B flushes red.
The big dumbass has made a fool of himself.
Please forgive my presumptiousness.
Lynne, you are north of 40, so you count.
CS,
I have heard of Avant, but havent checked it out. I am not on top of things as much as I used to be when I hung out at slashdot and freshmeat.
But I'm fixin to mess around with a couple versions of linux this weekend, and I'll see what the story is
Don't get too excited, I wanted to impress and went to thesaurus.com.
That said, I like the word too. Also, hebetudinous, a word that a recent AWAD email reminded me of, as in, "Bush has a very hebetudinous thought process."
Kent, ain't much out there for Mac OS9. (I did find a link to something at Moz tonight, though.) Box at work no likee OSX. I've tried 4 browsers including iCab and Opera. It's gotten so I choose a browser there based on what site I gotta get to. When Eschaton's running ticker-ads, it's Netscape or iCab, but my own company site is buggered in those. Yet I can only get into the backdoor to edit customer comments 'n stuff through Netscape. ARRGH! ::shutting up now, tempted to go back and look at Lynne's Cat-Hat again::
I really like that word "bresk," BTW.
Billy B, no problem, all is cool. I'm flattered that I sound so macho via a modem. Imagine what I could do with high speed.
yes, that intelligence shakeup is going just dandy...
Deputy Chief Resigns From CIA
Agency Is Said to Be in Turmoil Under New Director Goss
By Dana Priest and Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writers
Saturday, November 13, 2004; Page A01
The deputy director of the CIA resigned yesterday after a series of confrontations over the past week between senior operations officials and CIA Director Porter J. Goss's new chief of staff that have left the agency in turmoil, according to several current and former CIA officials.
John E. McLaughlin, a 32-year CIA veteran who was acting director for two months this summer until Goss took over, resigned after warning Goss that his top aide, former Capitol Hill staff member Patrick Murray, was treating senior officials disrespectfully and risked widespread resignations, the officials said.
Yesterday, the agency official who oversees foreign operations, Deputy Director of Operations Stephen R. Kappes, tendered his resignation after a confrontation with Murray. Goss and the White House pleaded with Kappes to reconsider and he agreed to delay his decision until Monday, the officials said.
Several other senior clandestine service officers are threatening to leave, current and former agency officials said.
The disruption comes as the CIA is trying to stay abreast of a worldwide terrorist threat from al Qaeda, a growing insurgency in Iraq, the return of the Taliban in Afghanistan and congressional proposals to reorganize the intelligence agencies. The agency also has been criticized for not preventing the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks and not accurately assessing Saddam Hussein's ability to produce weapons of mass destruction.
"It's the worst roiling I've ever heard of," said one former senior official with knowledge of the events. "There's confusion throughout the ranks and an extraordinary loss of morale and incentive."
Current and retired senior managers have criticized Goss, former chairman of the House intelligence committee, for not interacting with senior managers and for giving Murray too much authority over day-to-day operations. Murray was Goss's chief of staff on the intelligence committee.
Transitions between CIA directors are often unsettling for career officers. Goss's arrival has been especially tense because he brought with him four former members of the intelligence committee known widely on the Hill for their abrasive management style.
Three are former mid-level CIA officials who left the agency disgruntled, according to former colleagues. The fourth, Murray, who also worked at the Justice Department, has a reputation for being highly partisan. When senior managers have gone to Goss to complain about his staff actions, one CIA officer said, Goss has told them" "Talk to my chief of staff. I don't do personnel."
The overall effect, said one former senior CIA official, who has kept up his contacts in the Directorate of Operations, "is that Goss doesn
Farewell to a cat.
My son and his sweetheart just lost their cat who had been with them for nearly the past decade. They found him on the streets of New Orleans when he was just a tiny kitten, and for sure he would have died without them. So, despite the fact that he wasn't very old for a cat, he still probably way outlived what the mean streets had in store for him.
Alfredo, sweet dreams.
Lynne, you've topped me. I can't even pronounce that. However, I've always enjoyed the word "pusillanimous" (sp?). It sounds like everything that it isn't.
Is your supervisor an orange and white domestic shorthair?
::snorting laughing::
Heh. Looks like you got the spelling right. I amend my sentence:
"Bush has a very hebetudinous thought process and is very pusillanimous to boot."
bkny,
Oy. There's that mean ol' incompetence rearing its lovely head again. It's endless, isn't it? Just one failure after another, putting us all in one huge pickle.
Silliegh,
I realized after the fact hat you were still using OS9, ya that sucks. How friendly are your Tech's? If I was on of them we might try slipping a linux PPC live disk and you could run firefox.
But that's just me
"Jesus, go away. Please."
Is Jesus here?
Lynne, you wordsmith, you! Now you've managed to include BOTH of 'em in one sentence? I'm in awe. I bow to you. I am your (word) slave.
Lynne,
been meaning to tell you Fantastic cat in the hat. Bravo.
Lynne, you wordsmith, you! Now you've managed to include BOTH of 'em in one sentence? I'm in awe. I bow to you. I am your (word) slave. P.S. I'm a writer. I oughta be ashamed.
Heh, gottalaff, it's not hard when they both really relate well to our chimporer in chief...
Huh? How'd THAT happen? My apologies for the weird, almost double post.
You got that right, Lynne. But, pondering that a little (hehe, I used "pondering"), how can ANYone relate to the Chimporer? Maybe God will speak to me and I'll get the answer. Gag me.
Only fat losers and/or femboxes own cats.
Not much is really going on.. but Ashcroft is right.
yes, i do find that odd. no thread on arafat.
Robgret, so sorry to hear that.
My 15-pounder was a skinny stray when my daughter started luring her with cut-up hot dogs. She (cat, not daughter) moved onto our porch. My then-fella moved her inside. We got fleas galore. We were hebetudinous with fleas (sorry, inappropriate but I hadda throw it in somewhere). Got the appropriate poisons and nuked 'em. Now the guy and that apartment are history, but 3-odd years later I've still got the big ol' cat, and she hasn't spent a day outdoors since. I'm sure Alfredo appreciated it and had a much longer life than he would have.
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Nomination for cool word of the, um, current few inches of the thread: absquatulate.
Anonymous posters are all gay.
Lynne - Purrfect bit o' photoshopping; my god that's funny. And he has just the right disgruntled look, too.
I have just tentatively adopted a little old lady cat who was kicked out of her house in favor of a younger, prettier cat. (I swear, some people should just be lined up against a wall and shot.) I say "tentatively" because her foster family and I are waiting for the bloodwork results. The vet says there doesn't seem to be much wrong with her other than age and recent neglect, though she might need thyroid meds. That's no problem; my late and much-missed Jazz was hypothyroid, so I'm used to shoving pills down kitty throats.
"Peekers" (icky name, and she doesn't respond to it anyway, so I might try to change it) will hopefully be a nice housemate for my surviving cat, Ariel. I hope this works out.
Ariel is possessive and needy: she stares at whatever I happen to have in my lap (book, newspaper, dinner plate) as if the mere power of her glare will incinerate it, so she can take her rightful place there. But she's been lonely since Jazz died (even though they never got along) and maybe she'll like a housemate who's the same gender and general age as she.
Wish me luck!
gottalaff: finding new ways to double post!
Do word slaves do windows? Mine are terrible. And I'm afraid you'll have to wash them in a a snowstorm. Oh and I'm on the second floor too.
Absquatulate. "I absquatulated to a sane country forthwith!" Absquatulate.
"Nomination for cool word of the, um, current few inches of the thread: absquatulate." Silleigh, that is absolutely an awesome word. What's it mean?
Lynne, yikes. I'm from the L.A. area. We don't do snow. Will you settle for me eating all your food so you never have to do dishes again? Knew you would.
"Anonymous posters are all gay."
You posted that anonymously.
My mom still cries when I have sex with her.
That's her problem.
Poor kitty, CaseyL. I'm probably going to take in my in-laws' very old Siamese when they move to FL in a year, if he's still hanging in there by then. I can't bear the thought of him getting put down before his time or getting sent to strangers. He's my buddy and I'll stick by him, allergies or not!
Anonymous posters are all gay.
JC
therefore all gay posters are anonymous...
JC is almost anonymous...
therfore JC is almost all gay...
The Democratic Party is part of the problem.
They voted for or failed to stop the Iraq war resolution turning Bush into a wartime president.
They voted for or failed to stop the Patriot Act.
They voted for or failed to stop John Ashcroft.
They voted for or failed to stop Bush’s tax cuts for the wealthy.
They voted for or failed to stop the Medicare fiasco.
They lost the 2002 midterm elections, contrary to historical tradition.
In 1983, the Democrats controlled 23 more state legislatures than the Republicans; today the Republicans control five more than the Democrats.
In 1983, there were 18 more Democratic governors than Republican ones; Now there are three more. New York, Kentucky, California, Florida and Texas are all Republican controlled.
More young adults today identify themselves as Republicans than 20 years ago, while fewer identify themselves as Democrats.
At what point do you stop relying on a party to be an opposition party and start asking what else needs to be done to put some spine into Washington politics?
Wow, don't trolls have anything better to do than hijack threads about cats?
(OK, last bit of troll-baiting for tonight.)
gottalaff: To absquatulate is to... um... kinda get the hell outta Dodge and FAST. Although apparently it CAN mean either "to die" or "to argue" according to this, which also has an interesting note calling the word a Mock-Latinate formation, purporting to mean “to go off and squat elsewhere”.
Cats suck. Nothing else to say about it.
Y'know, Anonymous is giving Anonymous a bad name.
Cutest kitty in the world on BlueGrassRoots. Not even kidding.
'Night folks! Time to go to bed so I can get more work done tomorrow. My husband managed to book us for tomorrow afternoon so I gotta get up early. (Not that I'll complain, we're going up to see my baby niece. It's all good.)
Nighters, Lynne, and thanks for the dashing haberdashery!
ben: OMG SO CUUUUUUTE! Overload! *falls over*
Neat blog, too!
Well, true to form, my computer just crashed. It must have been all those long words, especially the last one from Silleigh.
Freedom in Baghdad or, fact versioning two point oh
Iraqi media authorities instruct the press to adhere to the government version of events.
On Thursday, the Iraqi media authorities told reporters to adhere to the government version of facts in their coverage of the Fallujah offensive or risk jail time, as habeas corpus has been suspended for 60 days under the 60-day state of emergency declared by the caretaker government. The Iraqi Media Commission told media organizations to "instruct their reporters in Fallujah...not to report unrealistic points of view nor to refer to the insurgents, who are criminals and terrorists, as "nationalists".
The Commission, created by Paul Bremer, is by charter free of government interference and has as its mission the promotion of investment in the Iraq media and the prevention of government control over the media.
can you say nader?
Hehe, I really mean it. I'm going to bed. Mars, my sweet bitches!
Mr. GottaLaff just got home. Time to say nighty night to all my pals. Thanks for the good times.
Interesting point over at Kos. Every dem senator who voted AGAINST authorization to go to war was re-elected.
I don't know. I'm liking that statistic.
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As a rule cat-lovers have a stronger personality bias toward working alone, independent of the larger group. Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.
The much-lauded "group loyalty" phenomenon is alien to both cats and cat-lovers. If you are a company person, a member of the gang, or a person picked for the squad, the chances are that at home there is no cat curled up in front of the fire. The ambitious Yuppie, the aspiring politician, the professional athlete, these are not typical cat-owners. It is hard to picture football players with cats in their laps—much easier to envisage them taking their dogs for walks.
Those who have studied cat-owners and dog-owners as two distinct groups report that there is also a gender bias. The majority of cat-lovers are female. This bias is not surprising in view of the division of labor evident in the development of human societies. Prehistoric males became specialized as group-hunters, while the females concentrated on food-gathering and childbearing. This difference contributed to a human male "pack mentality" that is far less marked in females. Wolves, the wild ancestors of domestic dogs, also became pack-hunters, so the modern dog has much more in common with the human male than with the human female.
The argument will always go on—feline self-sufficiency and individualism versus canine camaraderie and good fellowship.
Elected by double digits
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In 1983, the Democrats controlled 23 more state legislatures than the Republicans; today the Republicans control five more than the Democrats.
After this year's election Democrats control 19 state legislatures, the GOP 20, with 10 split.
Lynne, you REALLY should E-mail that pic to Atrios with an explanation -- in case he's off having a life or something. Night!
(Although how one explains "nudibranch blogging" is beyond me.)
I have two cats (no pictures, sorry).The siamese mix is named Xena Warrior Princess, she got that name because she was 8 weeks old, in a cage with several other cats at the vet's office where I adopted her, and she was giving all the other cats hell. She likes shoulder rides. Really likes them. Once, when I was so sick I couldn't get out of bed, my boyfriend came over and she jumped on him. I said, "She wants her ride, just walk around a little bit with her."
My other cat is Hunter S. Thomcat, who is an enormous longhaired orange and white tabby. The local kids see him in the window (they're both indoor kitties) and call him "Catzilla". He's also the biggest fraidy cat I've ever met. My parents fed my cats last Christmas when I went on vacation and they didn't see him for the whole week. Every time they came over he holed up under my bed. (Imagine how mortified I was when I learned my mom had rooted around under my bed to "make sure Hunter was OK.") He likes to lay on my bare feet.
My boyfriend has a (female, fixed) cat named Hey Guy. She was an abandoned kitty (who abandons a cat that has had its front claws removed???) This cat is so incredibly social. She's very sweet. Her quirk is that she is an indoor kitty as well, but she has to have a walk around the apartment complex every night. With my boyfriend as protector against the other cats that are roaming about.
I love cats, can't you tell?
Well, the weekends over. Time to get back to work.
An elderly Siamese! They last *forever*, don't they?
I had a Siamese, the old-fashioned roundhead semi-cobby kind, which I prefer to those anorectic purebreds - and she lived to be nearly 20, despite a chronic kidney condition. I've heard of some 'Mesies nearly 30 years old.
Shana, the Siamese-that-was, is now my Kitty-in-a-Can, her ashes in a pewter urn on a bookshelf surrounded by little cat figurines. Jazz is now Jazz-in-the-Box, in a ceramic urn next to Shana. I can see this getting out of hand in the next 10 years or so: my very own kitty necropolis.
My aunt recently lost her (15 year old) cat Tatiana. When she got the ashes, she snuck into the cemetary where we have a family plot and buried Tati with the rest of the relatives.
OK I lied. My friend JUST sent me new kittypics and I had to post them. Here and here.
"Every dem senator who voted AGAINST authorization to go to war was re-elected."
Incumbent re-election rates are about 95%.
CaseyL,
Good luck, you might want to keep them in separate parts of the house or apartment and give them time to smell each other around, and keep confrontations to a minimum at the beginning. Jack and Kitainy still regard each other with scorn. (actually it is jack who has the problem) but they do get along and it improves with time.
That look that Ariel has, well she is obviously missing some important upgrades to the Lapseeker 2500 software package. Otherwise whatever was in your lap, would burst into flames.
::hittin' the sack meself::
Artists like cats; soldiers like dogs.
Let's see.... Artists create, and soldiers do what?
Which is easier, and which is more productive?
Does anybody know where I can see a streaming video of Votergate?
My calico cat loves a good thunderstorm/tornado warning, when we are all panicing to get ourselves and our stuff to the basement she goes over to the window seat and starts to roll around, purring.
Her new way of waking me up is sweet....she used to do the running leap/pounce on my hip...now she just gets up close, nose to nose and meows.
"Let's see.... Artists create, and soldiers do what?
Which is easier, and which is more productive?"
Well, I wouldn't have taken Hitler on with paintbrushes.
Hitler sucked as an artist, anonymous coward.
Explains a lot about him, huh?
http://prisonplanet.com/
articles...perspective.htm
"Let's see.... Artists create, and soldiers do what?
Which is easier, and which is more productive?"
Well, I wouldn't have taken Hitler on with paintbrushes.
Anonymous | Email | Homepage | 11.13.04 - 12:02 am | #
Seems to me like that pinko commie FDR - you know the one, he's the guy who's legacy you're trying to tear down - did both.
What the hell are femboxes?
"Hitler could paint a whole apartment in one afternoon! Two coats!"
"Hitler sucked as an artist, anonymous coward."
So, being anonymous is cowardly? I notice no email address or last name in your posts, bitch.
new one
Kent - thank god Ariel can't get online and order Lapseeker 2500. Because she absolutely would.
H'mm. I have a 1000-sq foot townhouse, and only the spare bedroom (which is where the litter box is) can be closed off. Unless I put somebody in a bathroom, and put up with the inevitable mournful/angry, accoustically-enhanced yowling.
One thing I've heard to do is keep New Cat in the carrier for a while so Current Cat can look her over, sniff at her, and (probably) growl insults at her. Then I switch them around and let New Cat explore the house without Current Cat stalking her.
"FDR - you know the one, he's the guy who's legacy you're trying to tear down"
I am?
FDR created good and destroyed evil. Why does it have to be an either/or argument with conservatards?
Stop feeding the trolls. The more you feed them, the dumber they get. Like how Gremlins multiply - troll brain cells retro-ply.
Anyway, really going to bed this time!
Okay, this has probably been used to death, but would it be cat-astrophic if the thread were hijacked? Would it be a misdemeanor or maybe a feline-y? And, I might add, for this thread the proper spelling should be puss-illanimous... And on that note, I shall slip away on little cat feet... Thanks for a really nice thread, all.
CaseyL,
also a very fine plan. Just so they can get aquainted without feeling threatened.
S in Mich, you're kind of clueless, you know.
So, being anonymous is cowardly? I notice no email address or last name in your posts, bitch.
Yes, and that's "Mr. Bitch" to you, Anonymous coward.
*groan*
Need sleep, was just pondering, given a chose between going on Hannity or TDS, what would Jesus do?
"Stop feeding the trolls. The more you feed them, the dumber they get. Like how Gremlins multiply - troll brain cells retro-ply."
If you're referring to me, I have a long way towards getting as dumb as people like you. Feed away.
PS, calling someone a "troll" is weak. Think you'll ever grow out of it?
S in Mich, you're kind of clueless, you know.
Anonymous | Email | Homepage | 11.13.04 - 12:11 am | #
I see my work is done here.
er choice
"Yes, and that's "Mr. Bitch" to you, Anonymous coward."
No, it will remain "bitch", pussy, until you decide to lose YOUR anonymity, at which point I will be glad to meet up with you and have you call me a coward to my face.
A troll is someone who comes in and unintelligently derails a decent conversation about adorable kitties and fashionable nudibranch hats in order to get some attention. You, sir, are a troll. And you couldn't even come up with a nifty name, so that must mean you are a really stupid troll.
"I see my work is done here."
"Work"?? LOL
Lash away at the shadows, lad.
Lynne | Email | Homepage | 11.13.04 - 12:17 am | #
Weak.
I'm always amused by the pretensions of pseudo-intellectuals.
LMFAO
You were saying?
An intelligent troll would at least come up with an interesting insult...well, I'm insulted. You couldn't even try? I'm so let down.
Not surprised it was all over your head.
Yes, and that's "Mr. Bitch" to you, Anonymous coward."
No, it will remain "bitch", pussy, until you decide to lose YOUR anonymity, at which point I will be glad to meet up with you and have you call me a coward to my face.
Anonymous | Email | Homepage | 11.13.04 - 12:15 am | #
Give us your address. We'll be happy to stop by and introduce ourselves.
"Not surprised it was all over your head."
You have it backwards, bitch.
Kent - Yeah, it sounds good. But, like many plans that sound good in theory, implementation presents a few interesting challenges. *G*
I'm picturing myself with an armful of Royally Pissed Off Current Cat, simultaneously coaxing Freaking Out New Cat out of the carrier and shoving Current Cat in.
Pray for me
The moral reletavist visits another thread.
xoxox
Nothing "pseudo" about it, dear. But this thread wasn't about intellectuals; it was about conversation and hanging out with fellow posters. However, you want to make it all about you. Well, we can oblige, to a point, if you like. *patpat*
Give us your address. We'll be happy to stop by and introduce ourselves.
I'm free tonight, and in a bad mood. I hate Anonymous cowards.
ooh!: Catfight!
American men have two options: 1. Sportfuck free American fuckdolls forever. 2. Settle down with a foreign girl who has no expectations.
American women also have several options: 1. Be a free fuckdoll. (That's not a bad option by the way. More and more women embrace it. I say produce more "Sex and the City"-like shows and accelerate the trend. It certainly beats the other options.) 2. Live alone with 10 cats. 3. Single mother in permanent poverty.
What American women think about it is not relevant. It's just supply and demand. American women are still desperately trying to sell their shit sandwich, but the gig is up.
CaseyL,
easy, put one in the bathroom, move cat out of carrier, place in the other room
close door and retrieve howler from the bathroom fire into carrier and you should be good to go.
Now if you do not have 2 closed rooms, after you have locked the current cat into the bathroom, place the other one as far away as possible. The new one will be pre-occupied sniffing around, and this will give you cover for the transfer.
CaseyL: no, more like a troll beatdown, but close!
My calico cat loves a good thunderstorm/tornado warning, when we are all panicing to get ourselves and our stuff to the basement she goes over to the window seat and starts to roll around, purring.
Her new way of waking me up is sweet....she used to do the running leap/pounce on my hip...now she just gets up close, nose to nose and meows.
Nothing "pseudo" about it, dear.
See, that's what makes it hilarious. You actually believe what you just said.
Kent - I see. Re-enact Schroedinger's experiment, but with redundancies. OK, but what do I do with the radioactive pellet?
CaseyL,
Oh and when you change back around put the howler where the new kitty was and
current kitty will be similarly preoccupied. "what's that cat?"
What really gets you is that not only am I smarter than everyone here, I can kick everyone's asses here as well. On top of that, I'm probably worth more than all of you goobers combined.
God, it must suck to be you.
What American women think about it is not relevant. It's just supply and demand. American women are still desperately trying to sell their shit sandwich, but the gig is up.
Anonymous | Email | Homepage | 11.13.04 - 12:25 am | #
We've hit the trifecta - a fascist, a coward (redundant, I know), and a misogynist.
I went to school hon. I took all the smart people classes. Then I lived in the world a while and learned some more. That's what being an intellectual is: curiousity about the world around you and a desire for discovering the truth. The last time you felt that was was probably trying to figure out why Bert lived for so long with Ernie.
Lynne - Yeah, and when Anonymous figured out Bert and Ernie were playing Hide the Rubber Duckie with each other, he was so traumatized he resolved never to be curious about anything else ever again.
Did someone just tak a dump on the carpet, something smells funny in here.
CL,
I see. Re-enact Schroedinger's experiment, but with redundancies
Rotfl, You got it. brilliant.
"troll beatdown"
See? These little beliefs of yours amuse me.
"We've hit the trifecta - a fascist, a coward (redundant, I know), and a misogynist."
Yer so smert.
"troll beatdown"
See? These little beliefs of yours amuse me.
Anonymous | Email | Homepage | 11.13.04 - 12:32 am | #
Still don't have your address. That's a shame. I really want to meet you.
Lynne | Email | Homepage | 11.13.04 - 12:28 am | #
Hahaha!!
What really gets you is that not only am I smarter than everyone here
That's fucking funny.
I can kick everyone's asses here as well.
Not likely.
On top of that, I'm probably worth more than all of you goobers combined.
Your mama telling you that you're "precious" doesn't count.
Now see, I'm glad we could mutually amuse each other. I would have left the thread a long time ago but your pathetic attempts to - what? show off your mighty intellectual skills? - are quite entertaining.
Yes, I am baiting a troll. Sorry guys, I know it's really silly, but I'm having quite a nice time actually.
"That's fucking funny."
The truth can be funny, yes.
"Not likely."
Gee, wrong again. Fancy that.
"Your mama telling you that you're "precious" doesn't count."
LOL Everything I said is true, and I love how you can't handle it. You're a very typical modern Democrat.
"Yes, I am baiting a troll."
LOL I love how you morons get things backwards. I suppose these delusions of yours get you through your pathetic little lives, day by day.
Glad I could keep you here for an extra hour after your "bedtime".
Anonymous, where are you? I'd love to carry on this discussion, face to face.
and I love how you can't handle it.
Riiiight...cuz we're falling all over ourselves because YOU are pointing out to us that you are much more mighty and worthy than us...we should worship at your temple right now.
Where did you say that was?
Anonymous, he thinks he's boss:
A rooster-strutting meanie.
But Anonymous is just a wuss:
An insult-spouting weenie.
I'm an Anonymous soldier for Bush, and if my mom would let me, I'd sign up for the military in a few years, because I'm really tough and I'm not afraid at all.
Glad I could keep you here for an extra hour after your "bedtime".
Sweetheart, honey, I'm actually playing an online game. It really has not much to do with you.
But you can think that if you want to.
Shit, my mom want's me to make her another drink.
I'll be back in a minute.
and if my mom would let me
*snortsnickersnark*
OK that said it all. Even if it was a troll-hijacking fake Anonymous, it was funny. If it was really the troll, even funnier.
CUTE CATS, SPREAD BY BLOGS, ARE QUICKLY BURIED
-NY Times
"Anonymous, where are you? I'd love to carry on this discussion, face to face."
Post your full name, address, telephone number, and a picture of yourself, and I'll get ahold of you.
"Where did you say that was?"
Just create an altar for me. An Adonis statue should suffice as an accurate representation of me.
Pray to the statue thrice daily, and beg for the veils to be lifted from your eyes and to be given even the tiniest amount of my enlightenment.
"Yes, and that's "Mr. Bitch" to you, Anonymous coward."
No, it will remain "bitch", pussy, until you decide to lose YOUR anonymity, at which point I will be glad to meet up with you and have you call me a coward to my face.
Anonymous | Email | Homepage | 11.13.04 - 12:15 am | #
C'mon, Anonymous. You invited us over. Don't be scared. We're all a bunch of liberal pussies. You know, like the UAW....
" Sweetheart, honey, I'm actually playing an online game. It really has not much to do with you."
I awlays love it when someone thinks they're playing when in fact they're getting played.
Anonymous coward,
Here's my pic, along with everything else you requested.
Come and get me, son.
Guide to the Anon-A-Troll:
The Anon-A-Troll is a strange figure often observed "stalking" its victims in the wilds of Eschaton. However, its ridiculous behavior and repetitive noises tend to give it away and subject it to ridicule.
You can identify the Anon-A-Troll by listening for one of the following mating calls (Note: calls subject to very slight variance).
1. "Oh! Come and see the violence inherent in the system! Help! Help! I'm being repressed! The queens and kings of Atrios are repressing me!"
2. "I pressed the OK button before I filled my name in! I don't use Anonymous because I'm so deluded that I think it fools you - honest!"
3. "Heh - you said "poopy" and "nun" in the same post - I'm going to write 5 comments about you advocating smearing poopy on nuns! Aren't I clever?"
4. "I'm such an obsessed loser that I keep logs on my stalking victims and make note of any personal details! Fear my power!"
5. "Nader was right! Braaawwkk! Nader was right!"
One warning - if you feed this rather pathetic creature it will follow you around for weeks, begging for more food.
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I awlays love it when someone thinks they're playing when in fact they're getting played.
Heh, you don't even know the meaning of that sentence do you? Poor kid. And pretty decent typing skills there too.
Damn, wrong link. Here's my homepage.
My name is Evan.
In fact, here is a picture and all sorts of information about me. I am a real super-genius.
Be afraid of me!
"And pretty decent typing skills there too."
Nice punctuation, genius.
One warning - if you feed this rather pathetic creature it will follow you around for weeks, begging for more food.
-
Fielding Mellish
You're right of course, but I had a long week of working very hard, something I'm sure our Anon friend can understand (note: using sarcasm here) so I thought I would have a little fun while I waited for some of my real life friends (I have some, something I'm sure our Anon friend is envious about) to pop online for a game.
Fielding Mellish | Email | Homepage | 11.13.04 - 12:51 am | #
Hahaha!!
My mom's pussy smells bad....
Can anyone recommend a douche?
Lynne | Email | Homepage | 11.13.04 - 12:55 am | #
Excellent writing skills, Lynne. You are an archetype of erudition.
Fielding,
Does that count as anthropology or zoology?
OMG! He knows...words! I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you.
For the Electrical fire is the spiritual substance,
Dr. Pedant
Jubilate motherfucking Agno!!!
My favorite poem by my favorite poet! You're good people!
FM, and Lynne,
enjoy sparring with the "If I only had a girlfriend, I would not have to pick on women at the Eschaton, on a Friday Night", it's been enjoyable.
It is time for me to hit the hay, as it were.
And the anon name stealing troll antagonist - Brilliant work.
Good night friends, you to buddy.
I mean, like totally rotten ass shit.
I try to get her to bathe, but she refuses. Says it's something a liberal would do.
She's probably right.
Does that count as anthropology or zoology?
NYMary
Botany.
-
"OMG! He knows...words! I'm shocked. Shocked I tell you."
Really smart people don't need to put on airs.
'Night kent, it was nice meeting you. A troll-less night would have been more pleasant but less fun.
Since it's west-coast time and I'm up, I'm headed off to play Settlers myself. Night all.
You are an archetype of erudition.
Back away from the Joseph Campbell there, Chester. Slowly, slowly... there. Now, look at the thesaurus again.
"And the anon name stealing troll antagonist - Brilliant work."
LOL Fine standards you have for "brilliance".
I'll admit I'm kind of lonely, but my hatred for you people keeps me warm even on the coldest nights.
My pee pee hurts. And it won't fit into the light socket all the way. Let me try to get it in there again.
"Now, look at the thesaurus again.
Thersites"
Gee, aren't you clever? A greek name, plus you know all about mythological animals.
Pathetic.
"Now, look at the thesaurus again.
Thersites"
Gee, aren't you clever? A greek name, plus you know all about mythological animals.
Pathetic.
Anon, you invite us over, but then won't tell us where you are. How rude.
Anonymous | Email | Homepage | 11.13.04 - 1:07 am |
Weak.
Sorry about the double post.
I'm kinda stupid like that.
"Now, look at the thesaurus again."
It's pretty pathetic that you need to believe that.
Why do you hate Greek people?
"Weak.
Philalethes"
Like you're mind.
LFMAO
I like seeing how you all show your true colors through little exercises like these.
Thanks for the help.
If my mom's boyfriend tries to climb in my bed tonight, I'll give him a severe tounge lashing.
It seems to work.
I know all about Aridane and Thesaurus and all that crap. Get over your psuedo-intellectual bullshit and you might start winning some elections...in Fagville!!!
LFMAO
Late to the bunfight, but thanks to Atrios for the double helping of catblogging.
I have proved my point. You are freepers with out the balls and the honesty. My work here is done.
Look in the mirror and cry. Its over.
Anonymous, where are you? You wanted us to meet you, and now you're all shy. Why?
That's what mama's boyfriend says, anyway.
Laughing at you all....
The "deep thinkers" of Eschatoin have showed their true selves.
Laughing at you all....
The "deep thinkers" of Eschatoin have showed their true selves.
Philalethes
Wow...trolling and name-stealing together? Ummm...kind of self-canceling, don't ya think? Nice try, though.
Jesus, what a dunce you are.
I know all about Aridane and Thesaurus and all that crap. Get over your psuedo-intellectual bullshit and you might start winning some elections...in Fagville!!!
Hahahahahahaha!
Either this is the most brilliant troll parody of all time or the most hilarious troll posting ever, eclipsing even those of the great David Patterson.
Hats off, in any case.
My penis is really small, but mama says it's bigger than my dad's.
Wow...trolling and name-stealing together? Ummm...kind of self-canceling, don't ya think? Nice try, though.
A nice try... in Fagville!!!
I have got to tell it...Friday nights don't get any better than this!
Watching you guys melt down tonight is as good as it gets for me. Seriously.
Liberals melt in your mouth- not in your hand.
Watching you guys melt down tonight is as good as it gets for me. Seriously.
As good as it gets... in Fagville!!!
I think he left.
And just when he had us squirming in the crushing grip of logic...
I'm glad we could entertain you, Anon. Now let us come over, and you entertain us.
See, there really are some drawbacks to posting as "Anonymous."
Makes the name-stealing pretty goddamn easy.
But hey, those who fight and run away...live to call Philalethes "gay!"
Seriously, this is the apotheosis of my entire existence. Aren't you just completely jealous of me? Huh? that this is as good as my life gets? All you losers who know the love of another can never know the pure joy I feel right now!
Fun Anon-A-Troll definitions:
Aridane: A large dog which can fly and function as a Greek shipping magnate.
Well, night all. I've got a long drive to the game tomorrow.
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Hysteria,
Check this out too-
Liberals like Christ.
Ha, I found you guys. Who wants tax cuts?!
God is so irrelevant now that we have blogs.
I am completey with you on that 'fagville' comment. God, those fags really lost the election for kerry didn't they?
That's all the democrats care about...fags and abortions.
I would MUCH rather see our tax dollars go to building weapons like nuclear weapons, and invading arab countries then to see them used to support fags and abortionists.
Catblogging is gay.
Everyone knows cats are faggy, and that atrios guy has an IMMACULATE PAD, a sure sign there might be a cabana boy in the house...
Yes you are right I have been there and he did have a houseboy, but he quit for a better gig. I think his name was Andrew something or another.
Really cool dude, we agreed on all kinds of things like george bush is good really smart and norm chomsky is bad and nuclear weapons are better than abortions, and it's going to be a better world when jesus comes back, and if the liberals don't quit making fun of the really religious people then they are going to be gassed in ovens by the baptists, and I will support them 100%.
I'll bet the goons who posted troll comments will race back to the computer after a little snooze and see if anyone responded to their comments. Lonely people, trolls.
Atrios, how do you keep such a clean house? You should see the Snakepit Inc.. I have two dogs and enough loose doghair to knit sweaters for the whole Bush administration.
echidne
That's easy. Cats groom themselves, then yak all that hair up in a little package. You just pick it up in a paper towel, trying not to vurp too hard, and voila! Clean floor.
god hates liberals
Atrios! One of your cats looks just like mine!
Man, they look like they hate you. Or, at the very least, couldn't be bothered.
In fact, they look like the majority of this administrations cabinet.
Not to insult the cats, of course.
nice photo. one wonders what's going on behind those eyes...
These kids look like they're about five seconds away from bringing the ruckus.
Atrios! One of your cats looks just like mine!
Great Cat Pic!
My guys seem to come and lay near the computer when I am blogging. What's up with that?
Hey - Is the cat on the left a Korat? Looks like my cat.
Downtown Lad (Korat Owner)
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