I'MMA LET YOU FINISH
Frist?
Frist?
Thanks for the new thread. I'm not gonna say it.
Thanks for the new thread. I'm not gonna say it.
Primero!
This never happened to me before!
Primero!
This never happened to me before!
The little general
Bow to him!
The little general
Bow to him!
Matt, your not linking to a penis, are you?
Matt, your not linking to a penis, are you?
"Matt, your not linking to a penis, are you?"
Not exactly. More of a bush, really.
"Matt, your not linking to a penis, are you?"
Not exactly. More of a bush, really.
Y'all aren't gonna talk about pulling stuff out of cat's butts are you?
And: Tedium, thy name is "first poster".
And: Overt Racism is the new cool.
Word.
Y'all aren't gonna talk about pulling stuff out of cat's butts are you?
And: Tedium, thy name is "first poster".
And: Overt Racism is the new cool.
Word.
anyways
anyways
Whoops! Forgot to add: Happy Holidays!
Whoops! Forgot to add: Happy Holidays!
MisterX, I hope you aren't implying that I'm a member of the lumpen trolliariat, because I'm the Son of God, dammit.
MisterX, I hope you aren't implying that I'm a member of the lumpen trolliariat, because I'm the Son of God, dammit.
Just read this on RawStory...
They just can't get over Clinton, can they?
U.S. Sen. James M. Inhofe said Thursday that cutbacks during the Clinton administration resulted in the lack of armor and other material faced by U.S. troops in Iraq.
"Eight years of Bill Clinton decimated the military to almost half of what it was in 1990," he said during a stop in Muskogee.
The Oklahoma Republican, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that in 1991, U.S. armed forces were armed with "a Reagan military," and had more funding and ordinance.
However under Clinton, projects were cut and "modernization stopped."
Just read this on RawStory...
They just can't get over Clinton, can they?
U.S. Sen. James M. Inhofe said Thursday that cutbacks during the Clinton administration resulted in the lack of armor and other material faced by U.S. troops in Iraq.
"Eight years of Bill Clinton decimated the military to almost half of what it was in 1990," he said during a stop in Muskogee.
The Oklahoma Republican, a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, said that in 1991, U.S. armed forces were armed with "a Reagan military," and had more funding and ordinance.
However under Clinton, projects were cut and "modernization stopped."
Bob Somerby on Social Security.
Bob Somerby on Social Security.
Karin sez:
Primero!
This never happened to me before!
Bzzzt!
Try again.
.
Karin sez:
Primero!
This never happened to me before!
Bzzzt!
Try again.
.
She didn't run. (burp!) I ate her!
She didn't run. (burp!) I ate her!
Y'all aren't gonna talk about pulling stuff out of cat's butts are you?
ΤΏΤ -No, but I have a story about pulling a hamster out of Liddy Dole's butt.
Y'all aren't gonna talk about pulling stuff out of cat's butts are you?
ΤΏΤ -No, but I have a story about pulling a hamster out of Liddy Dole's butt.
We had some friends over last night, and one was telling me how his freeper dad sent around an email accusing Target of being 'anti-Christian' for banning the Salvation Army from collecting at their stores.
As ludicrous as this whole 'Christmas under siege' argument is, it seems that a lot of people actually believe it to be true.
It's wild how people like O'Reilly proclaim that this country is 90% Christian and they hold all the power, and still claim that they're 'under siege' by a group of people they ostensibly outnumber 9 to 1.
It would be funny if it weren't so goddam stupid and pathetic.
We had some friends over last night, and one was telling me how his freeper dad sent around an email accusing Target of being 'anti-Christian' for banning the Salvation Army from collecting at their stores.
As ludicrous as this whole 'Christmas under siege' argument is, it seems that a lot of people actually believe it to be true.
It's wild how people like O'Reilly proclaim that this country is 90% Christian and they hold all the power, and still claim that they're 'under siege' by a group of people they ostensibly outnumber 9 to 1.
It would be funny if it weren't so goddam stupid and pathetic.
matt--thanks for the reminder about civilian leadership. love the comparison to the uniformed thugs. khadafy's getup kinda reminds me of the over-the-top surplus military look from the beatles era.
matt--thanks for the reminder about civilian leadership. love the comparison to the uniformed thugs. khadafy's getup kinda reminds me of the over-the-top surplus military look from the beatles era.
It is past time for the dismantling of Christianity.
It is past time for the dismantling of Christianity.
All religion, actually.
But let's get rid of Christianity first.
All religion, actually.
But let's get rid of Christianity first.
MisterX, I hope you aren't implying that I'm a member of the lumpen trolliariat, because I'm the Son of God, dammit.
Republican Jesus
YourDad Dammit, of course not, Republican Jesus. I was merely referring to those who add naught to the scriptures but a "I'm First, Looka Me!"-post. The word of Republican Jesus always brings a tear of joy to my severly White Male Christian eye.
In a completely manly, heterosexual way, of course.
MisterX, I hope you aren't implying that I'm a member of the lumpen trolliariat, because I'm the Son of God, dammit.
Republican Jesus
YourDad Dammit, of course not, Republican Jesus. I was merely referring to those who add naught to the scriptures but a "I'm First, Looka Me!"-post. The word of Republican Jesus always brings a tear of joy to my severly White Male Christian eye.
In a completely manly, heterosexual way, of course.
As ludicrous as this whole 'Christmas under siege' argument is, it seems that a lot of people actually believe it to be true.
I can almost see Rove, Norquist, and the rest sitting around a table, wondering how to finally kill off the left.
NORQUIST: We only won by two points, d George is a war president--that's not good.
ROVE: I've got a plan to sink the Left for good.
NORQUIST: How's that?
ROVE: We tell everyone they hate Christmas.
As ludicrous as this whole 'Christmas under siege' argument is, it seems that a lot of people actually believe it to be true.
I can almost see Rove, Norquist, and the rest sitting around a table, wondering how to finally kill off the left.
NORQUIST: We only won by two points, d George is a war president--that's not good.
ROVE: I've got a plan to sink the Left for good.
NORQUIST: How's that?
ROVE: We tell everyone they hate Christmas.
If Inhofe were not dumber than a sack of W's, he would know who authorized every penny spent during Clinton's tenure, and would be beating himself about the head with those appropriation bills his Republican buddies passed.
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If Inhofe were not dumber than a sack of W's, he would know who authorized every penny spent during Clinton's tenure, and would be beating himself about the head with those appropriation bills his Republican buddies passed.
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decimated to almost half.
decimated to almost half.
"Christmas under siege"
Ah, there's a title for a holiday special.
I suggest we respond to one and all who wish us a Merry Christmas by wishing them a Happy Saturnalia. After all, that's the pagan festival the early Christians hijacked 'cause they felt like they were missing out on the fun.
Too bad their modern equivalent isn't similarly open-minded.
"Christmas under siege"
Ah, there's a title for a holiday special.
I suggest we respond to one and all who wish us a Merry Christmas by wishing them a Happy Saturnalia. After all, that's the pagan festival the early Christians hijacked 'cause they felt like they were missing out on the fun.
Too bad their modern equivalent isn't similarly open-minded.
Mister X: 44% want to curtail the right of Muslim Americans.
Welcome to the Little Green States of America.
Mister X: 44% want to curtail the right of Muslim Americans.
Welcome to the Little Green States of America.
Repost:
This was enjoyed by some yesterday...
Holiday Eating Tips:
1. Avoid carrot sticks.
Anyone who puts carrots on a holiday buffet table knows nothing of the
Christmas spirit.
In fact, if you see carrots, leave immediately. Go next door, where they're serving stollen and rum balls.
2. Drink as much eggnog as you can. And quickly. Like fine single-malt
scotch, it's rare.
In fact, it's even rarer than single-malt scotch. You can't find it any
other time of year but now.
So drink up!
Who cares that it has 10,000 calories in every sip? It's not as if you're
going to turn into an eggnog-aholic or something. It's a treat. Enjoy it.
Have one for me. Have two. It's later than you think. It's Christmas!
3. If something comes with gravy, use it.
That's the whole point of gravy. Gravy does not stand alone. Pour it on.
Make a volcano out of your mashed potatoes. Fill it with gravy. Eat the
volcano. Repeat.
4. As for mashed potatoes, always ask if they're made with skim milk or
whole milk.
If it's skim, pass. Why bother? It's like buying a sports car with an
automatic transmission.
5. Do not have a snack before going to a party in an effort to control your
eating.
The whole point of going to a Christmas party is to eat other people's food
for free.
Lots of it. Hello?
6. Under no circumstances should you exercise between now and New Year's.
You can do that in January when you have nothing else to do.
This is the time for long naps, which you'll need after circling the buffet
table while carrying a 10-pound plate of food and that vat of eggnog.
7. If you come across something really good at a buffet table, like frosted
Christmas cookies in the shape and size of Santa, position yourself near
them and don't budge.
Have as many as you can before becoming the center of attention. They're
like a beautiful pair of shoes. If you leave them behind, you're never going
to see them again.
8. Same for pies. Apple. Pumpkin. Mincemeat. Have a slice of each.
Or, if you don't like mincemeat, have two apples and one pumpkin. Always
have three. When else do you get to have more than one dessert? Labor Day?
9. Did someone mention fruitcake?
Granted, it's loaded with the mandatory celebratory calories, but avoid it
at all cost. I mean, have some standards.
10. One final tip: If you don't feel terrible when you leave the party or
get up from the table, you haven't been paying attention.
Reread tips; start over, but hurry, January is just around the corner.
Remember this motto to live by:
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, a dime bag in one hand, bottle of scotch in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"
Jolly Holidays, chers...
Repost:
This was enjoyed by some yesterday...
Holiday Eating Tips:
1. Avoid carrot sticks.
Anyone who puts carrots on a holiday buffet table knows nothing of the
Christmas spirit.
In fact, if you see carrots, leave immediately. Go next door, where they're serving stollen and rum balls.
2. Drink as much eggnog as you can. And quickly. Like fine single-malt
scotch, it's rare.
In fact, it's even rarer than single-malt scotch. You can't find it any
other time of year but now.
So drink up!
Who cares that it has 10,000 calories in every sip? It's not as if you're
going to turn into an eggnog-aholic or something. It's a treat. Enjoy it.
Have one for me. Have two. It's later than you think. It's Christmas!
3. If something comes with gravy, use it.
That's the whole point of gravy. Gravy does not stand alone. Pour it on.
Make a volcano out of your mashed potatoes. Fill it with gravy. Eat the
volcano. Repeat.
4. As for mashed potatoes, always ask if they're made with skim milk or
whole milk.
If it's skim, pass. Why bother? It's like buying a sports car with an
automatic transmission.
5. Do not have a snack before going to a party in an effort to control your
eating.
The whole point of going to a Christmas party is to eat other people's food
for free.
Lots of it. Hello?
6. Under no circumstances should you exercise between now and New Year's.
You can do that in January when you have nothing else to do.
This is the time for long naps, which you'll need after circling the buffet
table while carrying a 10-pound plate of food and that vat of eggnog.
7. If you come across something really good at a buffet table, like frosted
Christmas cookies in the shape and size of Santa, position yourself near
them and don't budge.
Have as many as you can before becoming the center of attention. They're
like a beautiful pair of shoes. If you leave them behind, you're never going
to see them again.
8. Same for pies. Apple. Pumpkin. Mincemeat. Have a slice of each.
Or, if you don't like mincemeat, have two apples and one pumpkin. Always
have three. When else do you get to have more than one dessert? Labor Day?
9. Did someone mention fruitcake?
Granted, it's loaded with the mandatory celebratory calories, but avoid it
at all cost. I mean, have some standards.
10. One final tip: If you don't feel terrible when you leave the party or
get up from the table, you haven't been paying attention.
Reread tips; start over, but hurry, January is just around the corner.
Remember this motto to live by:
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, a dime bag in one hand, bottle of scotch in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"
Jolly Holidays, chers...
Roddy you've got it!
Let's all write letters to the editor and insist that as Pagans we're deeply offended that store employees don't wish as a "Happy Saturnalia."
Roddy you've got it!
Let's all write letters to the editor and insist that as Pagans we're deeply offended that store employees don't wish as a "Happy Saturnalia."
'However under Clinton, projects were cut and "modernization stopped."'
One would think if the military was in such terrible condition, Bush and Imhoff would want to fix it as soon as Rethugs took office, in case we needed to go to war with anybody.
'However under Clinton, projects were cut and "modernization stopped."'
One would think if the military was in such terrible condition, Bush and Imhoff would want to fix it as soon as Rethugs took office, in case we needed to go to war with anybody.
Konopelli
Either First Draft or Corrente reposted that last night. I laugned my ass off when I read it. Good stuff.
Konopelli
Either First Draft or Corrente reposted that last night. I laugned my ass off when I read it. Good stuff.
Ho ho ho, you stupid liberals. How dumb can you get? Hatred for your country, for Christians, for the Free Market Itself. And you wonder why you lost? Perhaps you take your media too seriously. We in the heartland are tired of your elitist garbage and we are taking our country back.
Ho ho ho, you stupid liberals. How dumb can you get? Hatred for your country, for Christians, for the Free Market Itself. And you wonder why you lost? Perhaps you take your media too seriously. We in the heartland are tired of your elitist garbage and we are taking our country back.
It would be funny if it weren't so goddam stupid and pathetic.
...and if it weren't so goddamned insidious and insulting.
It would be funny if it weren't so goddam stupid and pathetic.
...and if it weren't so goddamned insidious and insulting.
I'm with Konopelli! Words to live by.
I'm with Konopelli! Words to live by.
And you hate freedom and hate Christmas, too. How touching. You think the reason for the season is about being socialists. No. It is about our saviour and being thankful for freedom and the men and women who protect that.
And you hate freedom and hate Christmas, too. How touching. You think the reason for the season is about being socialists. No. It is about our saviour and being thankful for freedom and the men and women who protect that.
In other news, Senator Inhofe has decimated to almost half the english language, and nearly delivered the penultimate blow to the privacy of Americans' tax returns.
In other news, Senator Inhofe has decimated to almost half the english language, and nearly delivered the penultimate blow to the privacy of Americans' tax returns.
So you think your socialist agenda was ever going to matter? Think again. Business and the economy will not be hamstrung by your silly rules and hair-brained theories of environmental justice (ha!) and social enginnering. Hippie claptrap and anti-freedom.
So you think your socialist agenda was ever going to matter? Think again. Business and the economy will not be hamstrung by your silly rules and hair-brained theories of environmental justice (ha!) and social enginnering. Hippie claptrap and anti-freedom.
"Our savior"? What did he "save"?
Not the peasants we mercilessly slaughtered in Fallujah.
Meanwhile IT'S CHECK-OUT TIME!!!
"Our savior"? What did he "save"?
Not the peasants we mercilessly slaughtered in Fallujah.
Meanwhile IT'S CHECK-OUT TIME!!!
Isn't American Action Freedom Champion the hot new Christmas toy this year?
Isn't American Action Freedom Champion the hot new Christmas toy this year?
I like how the troll (troll impersonator?) can't figure out that you handle can only be so many letters long. If it's an impersonator, that's the kind of authentic troll touch connoisseurs appriciate.
I like how the troll (troll impersonator?) can't figure out that you handle can only be so many letters long. If it's an impersonator, that's the kind of authentic troll touch connoisseurs appriciate.
David E-
I don't want him dead, I want him in the dock.
With Kissinger.
Then I want them dead.
.
David E-
I don't want him dead, I want him in the dock.
With Kissinger.
Then I want them dead.
.
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, a dime bag in one hand, bottle of scotch in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"
Here, Here!
"Life should NOT be a journey to the grave with the intention of arriving
safely in an attractive and well preserved body, but rather to skid in
sideways, a dime bag in one hand, bottle of scotch in the other, body thoroughly used up, totally worn out and screaming "WOO HOO what a ride!"
Here, Here!
Yeah, Konopelli's Motto is the One True Way as far as I'm concerned. And it's not stupid, pathetic, insidious or insulting.
Blatant whoring for the holidays:
Mandate, My Ass
Atriots Shop at Cafe Press (all profits go to Eschaton)
... and my music.
Yeah, Konopelli's Motto is the One True Way as far as I'm concerned. And it's not stupid, pathetic, insidious or insulting.
Blatant whoring for the holidays:
Mandate, My Ass
Atriots Shop at Cafe Press (all profits go to Eschaton)
... and my music.
There's a Jewish guy at work who objected to all of the Christmas decorations at work, so they pulled them down. Now, everybody hates him.
I don't think they understood how much it made him feel like an outsider. I try to explain it to them, but their eyes just glaze over.
My wife feels the opposite about Christmas. Sometimes, I think she married me so that she could have a tree and take the girls to see Santa. The daughters and grandson dig it too. They get both Hannukah and Christmas.
There's a Jewish guy at work who objected to all of the Christmas decorations at work, so they pulled them down. Now, everybody hates him.
I don't think they understood how much it made him feel like an outsider. I try to explain it to them, but their eyes just glaze over.
My wife feels the opposite about Christmas. Sometimes, I think she married me so that she could have a tree and take the girls to see Santa. The daughters and grandson dig it too. They get both Hannukah and Christmas.
It's absolutely true that liberals hate Christmas. Why, those vile knaves are so seething with hatred towards this sacred holiday that they've been staging protest park-ins, taking up all the parking places at upscale shopping centers. I know, I've seen it all over the place the last couple of weeks - parking lots jam packed with vehicles sporting Kerry-Edwards stickers, the new and improved mark of the beast.
It's absolutely true that liberals hate Christmas. Why, those vile knaves are so seething with hatred towards this sacred holiday that they've been staging protest park-ins, taking up all the parking places at upscale shopping centers. I know, I've seen it all over the place the last couple of weeks - parking lots jam packed with vehicles sporting Kerry-Edwards stickers, the new and improved mark of the beast.
Whyy isn't HaloScan letting me fix my typos? I corrected "Draco" "your" and "appreciate" in that last post, and it sent through the mistakes. Huh?
Whyy isn't HaloScan letting me fix my typos? I corrected "Draco" "your" and "appreciate" in that last post, and it sent through the mistakes. Huh?
String needs a baff. But he's not going to like that....
String needs a baff. But he's not going to like that....
Does anyone else find it funny when the trolls refer to us as elitists? I don't know about anyone else here, but I'm just a middle class working stiff who's trying to do what's right for my country.
Does anyone else find it funny when the trolls refer to us as elitists? I don't know about anyone else here, but I'm just a middle class working stiff who's trying to do what's right for my country.
Kinda what spork said. I want the entire administration in chains before the Hague, convicted of every last damn war crime they've committed, and then left to rot in separate oubliettes for the rest of their hopefully long and miserable lives.
Kinda what spork said. I want the entire administration in chains before the Hague, convicted of every last damn war crime they've committed, and then left to rot in separate oubliettes for the rest of their hopefully long and miserable lives.
kissfan - yes, but you're literate and have a functioning brain. It's the "elitism" of intellect and ability to use one's own brain that they find most objectionable.
kissfan - yes, but you're literate and have a functioning brain. It's the "elitism" of intellect and ability to use one's own brain that they find most objectionable.
American Action Freedom Champi, American Freedom Of Action Ple, et al
Easy there, sport, you're hyperventilating.
Come sit and enjoy the festive pagan solstice ceremony and enjoy this delightful salted infant!
American Action Freedom Champi, American Freedom Of Action Ple, et al
Easy there, sport, you're hyperventilating.
Come sit and enjoy the festive pagan solstice ceremony and enjoy this delightful salted infant!
He grooms himself all the time and he doesn't stink or anything but his coat isn't especially shiny. In fact, it's dull. I want it to shine.
He grooms himself all the time and he doesn't stink or anything but his coat isn't especially shiny. In fact, it's dull. I want it to shine.
General
As long as you are visiting. Did you grow up near La Verkin and Virgin Utah (from the overnight thread)?
General
As long as you are visiting. Did you grow up near La Verkin and Virgin Utah (from the overnight thread)?
How do you bathe a cat? They're wild-eyed about it and they have claws.
How do you bathe a cat? They're wild-eyed about it and they have claws.
Kerry-Edwards stickers, the new and improved mark of the beast.
HA HA HA HA HA!
Kerry-Edwards stickers, the new and improved mark of the beast.
HA HA HA HA HA!
Incog - some cats have shiny coats and some don't, but usually, a cat has to become mature, with a mature coat before it gets shiny.
Make sure String gets enough good protein and oil and he'll be fine.
Incog - some cats have shiny coats and some don't, but usually, a cat has to become mature, with a mature coat before it gets shiny.
Make sure String gets enough good protein and oil and he'll be fine.
No, HB. I grew up in N. Utah, about 300 miles north of those towns.
No, HB. I grew up in N. Utah, about 300 miles north of those towns.
The quality of string's coat may be due to diet.
The quality of string's coat may be due to diet.
Incog - don't bathe him - cats in general don't need to be bathed. You'll dry out his skin and coat. String knows what to do for himself. Cats are like that.
Incog - don't bathe him - cats in general don't need to be bathed. You'll dry out his skin and coat. String knows what to do for himself. Cats are like that.
It's the "elitism" of intellect and ability to use one's own brain that they find most objectionable.
So what I hear you saying is: They don't like us because we're smarter than they are.
I think you could be on to something there.
It's the "elitism" of intellect and ability to use one's own brain that they find most objectionable.
So what I hear you saying is: They don't like us because we're smarter than they are.
I think you could be on to something there.
The Liberal hated Christmas!
The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right.
It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
The Liberal hated Christmas!
The whole Christmas season!
Now, please don't ask why. No one quite knows the reason.
It could be his head wasn't screwed on just right.
It could be, perhaps, that his shoes were too tight.
But I think that the most likely reason of all
May have been that his heart was two sizes too small.
There's no need to send BushCo to the Hague when US law is quite sufficient to jail them for life. Watching teevee, you'f think that the Geneva conventions are international law, and therefore somehow optional, which is certainly what BushCo wants you to think. But they're US law and you don't trump them by signing a memo.
There's no need to send BushCo to the Hague when US law is quite sufficient to jail them for life. Watching teevee, you'f think that the Geneva conventions are international law, and therefore somehow optional, which is certainly what BushCo wants you to think. But they're US law and you don't trump them by signing a memo.
How do you bathe a cat? They're wild-eyed about it and they have claws.
ΤΏΤ - 2:35 pm
As long as it's a short-haired kitten, you shouldn't get too much fur on your tongue.
How do you bathe a cat? They're wild-eyed about it and they have claws.
ΤΏΤ - 2:35 pm
As long as it's a short-haired kitten, you shouldn't get too much fur on your tongue.
ΤΏΤ - if your kitty has been an outside cat and only recently became an inside dweller, his coat will get softer and shinier the longer he lives indoors. I don't know how much the bathing will endear you to him and increase your bond...
try a wet, wrung-out washcloth that's warm and "pet" him with the washcloth so that he gets used to it.
ΤΏΤ - if your kitty has been an outside cat and only recently became an inside dweller, his coat will get softer and shinier the longer he lives indoors. I don't know how much the bathing will endear you to him and increase your bond...
try a wet, wrung-out washcloth that's warm and "pet" him with the washcloth so that he gets used to it.
Make sure String gets enough good protein and oil and he'll be fine.
Tena
He gets all that I guess but they never have to be bathed?
Make sure String gets enough good protein and oil and he'll be fine.
Tena
He gets all that I guess but they never have to be bathed?
kissfan, Jennifer -- I know what you mean. I'm a little too unemployed to feel particularly elitist.
On the other hand, my book and music collections rock. 
kissfan, Jennifer -- I know what you mean. I'm a little too unemployed to feel particularly elitist.
On the other hand, my book and music collections rock.
Fat-free Pringles for Yuschenko?
Some studies have shown that olestra, used as a fat substitute in some foods, can help eliminate fat-soluble pollutants such as dioxin.
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine in Ohio and the University of Western Australia, in a not-yet-published study, say they have treated a woman with PCB toxicity over a two-year period using olestra in the form of fat-free Pringles. They report that the woman's chloracne disappeared and the levels of PCB in her fat tissue dropped dramatically.
Fat-free Pringles for Yuschenko?
Some studies have shown that olestra, used as a fat substitute in some foods, can help eliminate fat-soluble pollutants such as dioxin.
Researchers at the University of Cincinnati School of Medicine in Ohio and the University of Western Australia, in a not-yet-published study, say they have treated a woman with PCB toxicity over a two-year period using olestra in the form of fat-free Pringles. They report that the woman's chloracne disappeared and the levels of PCB in her fat tissue dropped dramatically.
He grooms himself all the time and he doesn't stink or anything but his coat isn't especially shiny. In fact, it's dull. I want it to shine.
ΤΏΤ
Have you tried a spraycan of Duron glossy clearcoat?
And Steve Martin had a joke about giving his cat a bath, but he hated how the fur stuck to his tongue.
He grooms himself all the time and he doesn't stink or anything but his coat isn't especially shiny. In fact, it's dull. I want it to shine.
ΤΏΤ
Have you tried a spraycan of Duron glossy clearcoat?
And Steve Martin had a joke about giving his cat a bath, but he hated how the fur stuck to his tongue.
patriotboy sez:
There's a Jewish guy at work who objected to all of the Christmas decorations at work, so they pulled them down. Now, everybody hates him.
He should go back to Israel!
[spork]
patriotboy sez:
There's a Jewish guy at work who objected to all of the Christmas decorations at work, so they pulled them down. Now, everybody hates him.
He should go back to Israel!
[spork]
Fuck it, I'm going to bathe him with some Suave shampoo tonight.
Fuck it, I'm going to bathe him with some Suave shampoo tonight.
Incognito-I would use baby shampoo because of the cat's eyes. But I agree with Tena. The cat does not need a bath. Plus you are going to have a sulking cat for a while.
Incognito-I would use baby shampoo because of the cat's eyes. But I agree with Tena. The cat does not need a bath. Plus you are going to have a sulking cat for a while.
OT: Open question.
Do you think that if a certain far-right US blog was being funded by, say, the Likud party, (or close friends thereof) that the blogger concerned has a moral duty to disclose that fact?
OT: Open question.
Do you think that if a certain far-right US blog was being funded by, say, the Likud party, (or close friends thereof) that the blogger concerned has a moral duty to disclose that fact?
Incog - don't bathe String, dammit. Cats don't need to be bathed unless something unusual comes along that makes it necessary.
Really - the beauty of cats is that they are naturally clean. You're just going to piss him off and maybe give him the sniffles.
Just don't - you really aren't supposed to.
Incog - don't bathe String, dammit. Cats don't need to be bathed unless something unusual comes along that makes it necessary.
Really - the beauty of cats is that they are naturally clean. You're just going to piss him off and maybe give him the sniffles.
Just don't - you really aren't supposed to.
Fuck it, I'm going to bathe him with some Suave shampoo tonight.
ΤΏΤ
Don't forget the rhinocerous-hide elbow-length gloves.
Fuck it, I'm going to bathe him with some Suave shampoo tonight.
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Don't forget the rhinocerous-hide elbow-length gloves.
Fuck it, I'm going to bathe him with some Suave shampoo tonight.
ΤΏΤ - 2:41 pm
Don't dip it in deep water, it will naturally act as though you are trying to drown it.
Use a hand-held sprayer in the tub/shower. Won't be happy, probably tremble with fear, but much better tolerated.
Fuck it, I'm going to bathe him with some Suave shampoo tonight.
ΤΏΤ - 2:41 pm
Don't dip it in deep water, it will naturally act as though you are trying to drown it.
Use a hand-held sprayer in the tub/shower. Won't be happy, probably tremble with fear, but much better tolerated.
Yeah, Draco, but it's a symbolic thing. And it ties in with Bush's insistance that Amurka's better than the UN and the ICC.
When half our country and the rest of the world told our government that this war was bad, wrong, unjustified, illegal, immoral, and fattening, Dubya said their/our opinions were irrelevant. Two years later, he's been proved wrong, we've been proved right, but the war goes on.
I want his chimp ass humiliated for the evil he's done and continues to do. And everybody who supports him, from Darth to the kid who makes the coffee.
Yeah, Draco, but it's a symbolic thing. And it ties in with Bush's insistance that Amurka's better than the UN and the ICC.
When half our country and the rest of the world told our government that this war was bad, wrong, unjustified, illegal, immoral, and fattening, Dubya said their/our opinions were irrelevant. Two years later, he's been proved wrong, we've been proved right, but the war goes on.
I want his chimp ass humiliated for the evil he's done and continues to do. And everybody who supports him, from Darth to the kid who makes the coffee.
Fuck it, I'm going to bathe him with some Suave shampoo tonight.
ΤΏΤ
Be sure and have a videocam running.
I want to see the pictures when String goes berserk and rips your ass to shreds.
Fuck it, I'm going to bathe him with some Suave shampoo tonight.
ΤΏΤ
Be sure and have a videocam running.
I want to see the pictures when String goes berserk and rips your ass to shreds.
Has anybody seen this?
I found it over @ DailyKos. It's a letter from a conservative Christian minister named Chuck Baldwin and it explains why the religious right scares him.
It's very good.
Has anybody seen this?
I found it over @ DailyKos. It's a letter from a conservative Christian minister named Chuck Baldwin and it explains why the religious right scares him.
It's very good.
You know, I keep seeing stuff in the blogosphere about what Dems should do about Social Security, but I'm not seeing anything big from the political sphere. Why? What are Dems waiting for, the complete rollover their going to get when the big media push comes? Shouldn't they be setting the terms of the debate now; shouldn't they be saying, "What crisis?" now? I just don't get it, does anybody else?
You know, I keep seeing stuff in the blogosphere about what Dems should do about Social Security, but I'm not seeing anything big from the political sphere. Why? What are Dems waiting for, the complete rollover their going to get when the big media push comes? Shouldn't they be setting the terms of the debate now; shouldn't they be saying, "What crisis?" now? I just don't get it, does anybody else?
Elitists? They wouldn't know an elitist if a bunch of them took over the country in broad daylight.
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Elitists? They wouldn't know an elitist if a bunch of them took over the country in broad daylight.
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Just don't - you really aren't supposed to.
Tena
OK, I wont. He's sitting on my lap right now licking and grooming himself but his coat is dull.
Just don't - you really aren't supposed to.
Tena
OK, I wont. He's sitting on my lap right now licking and grooming himself but his coat is dull.
In the 60's and 70's, people like Ezra Taft Benson and Cleon Skousen popularized a kind of Mormon extreme conservatism based on a Joesph Smith prophesy that the "Constitution would hang by a thread" and that "the Elders of Zion" would save it. Orrin Hatch ran whisper campaigns saying that he was the Elder mentioned in the prophecy.
In the Eighties, Skousen's "Freemen Institute" became a powerful force in Utah, basically running the state, but by the mid-nineties, a more moderate conservatism, lead by the Leavitt family, HHS nominee Mike, his father, and his brother, took back control.
It sounds to me like the more crazy Freeman conservatism is still powerful in S. Utah. That's funny, because it's the Leavitt's base.
In the 60's and 70's, people like Ezra Taft Benson and Cleon Skousen popularized a kind of Mormon extreme conservatism based on a Joesph Smith prophesy that the "Constitution would hang by a thread" and that "the Elders of Zion" would save it. Orrin Hatch ran whisper campaigns saying that he was the Elder mentioned in the prophecy.
In the Eighties, Skousen's "Freemen Institute" became a powerful force in Utah, basically running the state, but by the mid-nineties, a more moderate conservatism, lead by the Leavitt family, HHS nominee Mike, his father, and his brother, took back control.
It sounds to me like the more crazy Freeman conservatism is still powerful in S. Utah. That's funny, because it's the Leavitt's base.
we can be thankfull that we have a man like george w bush as president now!
in the chicago tribune yesterday this story appeared- a u.s. army combat vet by the name of marquise roberts had a friend shoot him in the leg in order to avoid being sent back to iraq!
fortunately this dishonorable plot was discovered, and the culprits will be adequately punished!!
it is good that gwb is president!, as we all know his attitude toward people who sign up for the military and then don't fulfill their obligations!
no namby pamby treatment for this disgusting attempt to, in essence, desert!
bush is president and i guarantee that he will see that justice is done.
thyis roberts guy is so cooked.
we can be thankfull that we have a man like george w bush as president now!
in the chicago tribune yesterday this story appeared- a u.s. army combat vet by the name of marquise roberts had a friend shoot him in the leg in order to avoid being sent back to iraq!
fortunately this dishonorable plot was discovered, and the culprits will be adequately punished!!
it is good that gwb is president!, as we all know his attitude toward people who sign up for the military and then don't fulfill their obligations!
no namby pamby treatment for this disgusting attempt to, in essence, desert!
bush is president and i guarantee that he will see that justice is done.
thyis roberts guy is so cooked.
filkertom - good luck with the employment situation, I was in your shoes a year ago and took a job I wasn't quite sure about just to get through - turned out I was right in my doubts and I'm changing jobs about a month from now. The good news is that the employment situation is improved a great deal from a year ago. Still not great and in some localities I'm sure downright bad, but hang in there. I've been just downright giddy for the past week knowing that I'm finally able to tell my hostile and tyrannical manager (Republican, natch) to kiss my ass.
But it really is the "elitism" of a good brain that pisses them off. People who only know and do what they are told often come to resent those who are smart enough to pick out their own way. They think it's our fault that they feel stupid. Of course it isn't; they could lose that stupid feeling by cracking open the occasional book, but that would be work. So much easier to attack those who "make" one look bad by comparison than it is to take corrective action. Plus, a can-do attitude towards one's own knowledge doesn't fit in real well with the rightwing cult of victimization. It can't be their fault that they are stupid, so it must be ours. Ergo, we are bad people.
filkertom - good luck with the employment situation, I was in your shoes a year ago and took a job I wasn't quite sure about just to get through - turned out I was right in my doubts and I'm changing jobs about a month from now. The good news is that the employment situation is improved a great deal from a year ago. Still not great and in some localities I'm sure downright bad, but hang in there. I've been just downright giddy for the past week knowing that I'm finally able to tell my hostile and tyrannical manager (Republican, natch) to kiss my ass.
But it really is the "elitism" of a good brain that pisses them off. People who only know and do what they are told often come to resent those who are smart enough to pick out their own way. They think it's our fault that they feel stupid. Of course it isn't; they could lose that stupid feeling by cracking open the occasional book, but that would be work. So much easier to attack those who "make" one look bad by comparison than it is to take corrective action. Plus, a can-do attitude towards one's own knowledge doesn't fit in real well with the rightwing cult of victimization. It can't be their fault that they are stupid, so it must be ours. Ergo, we are bad people.
The folks that truly hate Xmas are the ones that go into heavy debt to "celebrate" the birth of a "philosopher" whose philosophy would never accept the self-indulgence of the modern revellers. A true Xmas spirit would be one of forgiveness, of reaching out to the less fortunate. Presents should go to the poor and deserving, not to your brother-in-law who already has every damn thig he could desire. Nor should you feel guilty about a gift that didn't cost as much as the one you received last year. As an atheist, I enjoyed Xmas for its spirit of giving and kindness, now all but gone because of the horrible war criminals in charge, and the disgustingly greedy corporatists that extoll us to spend, spend, spend. What could be shallower or more self-serving than a failed oilman draftdodger finally appearing after hiding out for days during the 9/11 crisis and telling us to go shopping, to go to Disney World (in the state his lying asshole of a brother just managed to win for him)? The followers of George Bush and foolish biblical dogma are terrorists in and of themselves, proles and scatterbrains, with amoralism as their main value, and fear as their fuel. The America of Inhofe, Gingrich and Bush is the twin of the Germany of Hitler, Goebbels and Himmler, and headed down the same path, to defeat. Our glorious shining light of freedom is now sputtering for lack of democracy and common sense, while the media whores ignore the truth. The foolish handwringing and whining of those who excoriate Clinton for "decimating" the military should land them in asylums, where they will do no further harm to themselves of their country. We wouldn't be losing a war if we hadn't started one for no reason, plain and simple. Outlaw the Republican party, and things will start to improve. Outlaw the Democratic Party as well, and the improvement will accelerate. America is just like a drunk, having to hit rock bottom before starting the climb back into the light. Happy Holidays my ass.
The folks that truly hate Xmas are the ones that go into heavy debt to "celebrate" the birth of a "philosopher" whose philosophy would never accept the self-indulgence of the modern revellers. A true Xmas spirit would be one of forgiveness, of reaching out to the less fortunate. Presents should go to the poor and deserving, not to your brother-in-law who already has every damn thig he could desire. Nor should you feel guilty about a gift that didn't cost as much as the one you received last year. As an atheist, I enjoyed Xmas for its spirit of giving and kindness, now all but gone because of the horrible war criminals in charge, and the disgustingly greedy corporatists that extoll us to spend, spend, spend. What could be shallower or more self-serving than a failed oilman draftdodger finally appearing after hiding out for days during the 9/11 crisis and telling us to go shopping, to go to Disney World (in the state his lying asshole of a brother just managed to win for him)? The followers of George Bush and foolish biblical dogma are terrorists in and of themselves, proles and scatterbrains, with amoralism as their main value, and fear as their fuel. The America of Inhofe, Gingrich and Bush is the twin of the Germany of Hitler, Goebbels and Himmler, and headed down the same path, to defeat. Our glorious shining light of freedom is now sputtering for lack of democracy and common sense, while the media whores ignore the truth. The foolish handwringing and whining of those who excoriate Clinton for "decimating" the military should land them in asylums, where they will do no further harm to themselves of their country. We wouldn't be losing a war if we hadn't started one for no reason, plain and simple. Outlaw the Republican party, and things will start to improve. Outlaw the Democratic Party as well, and the improvement will accelerate. America is just like a drunk, having to hit rock bottom before starting the climb back into the light. Happy Holidays my ass.
Unfortunately, "elitism" is a technical term that does not imply that the elitists are actually elite.
Unfortunately, "elitism" is a technical term that does not imply that the elitists are actually elite.
Tena -- how's the M-I-L? Party tonight, or not?
Tena -- how's the M-I-L? Party tonight, or not?
Hey, you all need to lighten up on the first and frist posters. I know because I've only recently had my first two top-of-thread posts and I have to tell you that I have already increased my income by $3,000 a month and my sex life is just incredible now. I'm three sizes smaller at the waist, too, and I hear that I'm in the running for next year's Nobel Peace prize. All because I came here and got to be first...
Hey, you all need to lighten up on the first and frist posters. I know because I've only recently had my first two top-of-thread posts and I have to tell you that I have already increased my income by $3,000 a month and my sex life is just incredible now. I'm three sizes smaller at the waist, too, and I hear that I'm in the running for next year's Nobel Peace prize. All because I came here and got to be first...
Shouldn't they be setting the terms of the debate now; shouldn't they be saying, "What crisis?" now? I just don't get it, does anybody else?
The Dems are too busy imploding to come up with a coherent stratergery to competently deflect the RR's assault on the social saftey net.
Lets all face it here,we are without representation on the left.Our government si without remorse and has no use for anyone who seems to be for empathy.
Shouldn't they be setting the terms of the debate now; shouldn't they be saying, "What crisis?" now? I just don't get it, does anybody else?
The Dems are too busy imploding to come up with a coherent stratergery to competently deflect the RR's assault on the social saftey net.
Lets all face it here,we are without representation on the left.Our government si without remorse and has no use for anyone who seems to be for empathy.
...they never have to be bathed?
Not unless they've gotten stinky (like in a battle with a skunk), or you're giving them a flea bath.
You can get "pet wipes" at a pet store that are like gloves that you pet them with if you want to clean them up a little. You can also get a pet shampoo, if you're determined to try. I'd avoid Suave, as it might be too strong a detergent for the cat. If you're gonna use human shampoo, use baby shampoo (no more tears!)...
...they never have to be bathed?
Not unless they've gotten stinky (like in a battle with a skunk), or you're giving them a flea bath.
You can get "pet wipes" at a pet store that are like gloves that you pet them with if you want to clean them up a little. You can also get a pet shampoo, if you're determined to try. I'd avoid Suave, as it might be too strong a detergent for the cat. If you're gonna use human shampoo, use baby shampoo (no more tears!)...
Merry Christmas
Happy Hanukkah
Bona Saturnalia
Happy Yule
Happy Solstice
Anybody whose holiday I left out, hope you enjoy it. Anybody who doesn't have holidays, throw a party or go to one anyhow. It's a dark cold time all over the northern hemisphere so we all need some cheering up.
I just got email from my brother - my mother is in the hospital with respiratory problems. She's 83, has had several strokes, has congestive heart failure and breast cancer (she'll probably have surgery in the next couple months). Seems like several of us have aging parents/in-laws with medical problems right now.
Merry Christmas
Happy Hanukkah
Bona Saturnalia
Happy Yule
Happy Solstice
Anybody whose holiday I left out, hope you enjoy it. Anybody who doesn't have holidays, throw a party or go to one anyhow. It's a dark cold time all over the northern hemisphere so we all need some cheering up.
I just got email from my brother - my mother is in the hospital with respiratory problems. She's 83, has had several strokes, has congestive heart failure and breast cancer (she'll probably have surgery in the next couple months). Seems like several of us have aging parents/in-laws with medical problems right now.
Incog, I only tried to bathe a cat once. That was before someone told me to put a washcloth or hand towel in the bottom of the sink (so their paws don't slip) and only put about an inch of water in there. See how String reacts to it. And please run a video camera. 
And only if the cat gets out and crawls under the house and gets covered in dirt and cobwebs. Otherwise, it ain't worth the scars.
Tow
Incog, I only tried to bathe a cat once. That was before someone told me to put a washcloth or hand towel in the bottom of the sink (so their paws don't slip) and only put about an inch of water in there. See how String reacts to it. And please run a video camera.
And only if the cat gets out and crawls under the house and gets covered in dirt and cobwebs. Otherwise, it ain't worth the scars.
Tow
Ronjazz,
Amen!
Ronjazz,
Amen!
It's probably long past time now to refer to America as "The World's Conservative Evil Empire" or something similar.
One of the advantages and drawbacks to a blog like this is it attracts a huge number of intelligent visitors but with 300+ posts, it's not possible to have a focused serious discussion on the issues of the day. Just six to eight line snarky comments.
Oh well. Settle for what you can get, I guess.
It's probably long past time now to refer to America as "The World's Conservative Evil Empire" or something similar.
One of the advantages and drawbacks to a blog like this is it attracts a huge number of intelligent visitors but with 300+ posts, it's not possible to have a focused serious discussion on the issues of the day. Just six to eight line snarky comments.
Oh well. Settle for what you can get, I guess.
A diet change is likely the best way to improve coat glossiness.
A diet change is likely the best way to improve coat glossiness.
filkertom - party's on. Mother in law had a bad day yesterday and we were depressed. She just refused to wake up and respond to anyone.
Today she is much better. My husband was there this morning and she looked better and felt better and was talking and knows what's going on. She was fussing that I wouldn't be able to give the party and it would be her fault. I had a feeling yesterday that she was just mad that this happened. She can't pronounce some words right away, but she knows it and keeps trying until she gets it right.
We feel great today. Thanks so much for asking. This past week has been hellish for this Christmas hating liberal.
filkertom - party's on. Mother in law had a bad day yesterday and we were depressed. She just refused to wake up and respond to anyone.
Today she is much better. My husband was there this morning and she looked better and felt better and was talking and knows what's going on. She was fussing that I wouldn't be able to give the party and it would be her fault. I had a feeling yesterday that she was just mad that this happened. She can't pronounce some words right away, but she knows it and keeps trying until she gets it right.
We feel great today. Thanks so much for asking. This past week has been hellish for this Christmas hating liberal.
Oh, and for a shiny coat, two things: more salmon oil, which you can buy in a spritzer bottle at a pet store, and feed him a high quality wet food. Cheap dry foods are loaded with grains and cause the cat's scalp to dry out, causing dandruff, etc. Cats don't need grain, and even supposed "vet-recommended" foods, like IAMS and Science Diet, are loaded with them.
Cheap canned food can be just as bad, but if you don't want to spend a lot of money (and who does), Trader Joe's Cat Tuna is not bad and only 29 cents a can.
But to reiterate - a bath isn't necessarily going to give your cat a "shiny" coat, at least not for any appreciable amount of time, and is probably gonna cause you more injury than it!
Oh, and for a shiny coat, two things: more salmon oil, which you can buy in a spritzer bottle at a pet store, and feed him a high quality wet food. Cheap dry foods are loaded with grains and cause the cat's scalp to dry out, causing dandruff, etc. Cats don't need grain, and even supposed "vet-recommended" foods, like IAMS and Science Diet, are loaded with them.
Cheap canned food can be just as bad, but if you don't want to spend a lot of money (and who does), Trader Joe's Cat Tuna is not bad and only 29 cents a can.
But to reiterate - a bath isn't necessarily going to give your cat a "shiny" coat, at least not for any appreciable amount of time, and is probably gonna cause you more injury than it!
I just thought I'd do it this one time while he's still really small. I can handle him.
I just thought I'd do it this one time while he's still really small. I can handle him.
Incog - If you want to make his coat shinier, feed him a raw egg every few days for a month or so.
Don't bathe him. Not only is it completely unnecessary, as cats don't have any discernable body odor (unlike dogs), it will also wound his dignity.
Incog - If you want to make his coat shinier, feed him a raw egg every few days for a month or so.
Don't bathe him. Not only is it completely unnecessary, as cats don't have any discernable body odor (unlike dogs), it will also wound his dignity.
filker - they are moving her out of ICU today.
filker - they are moving her out of ICU today.
I can handle him.
Famous last words...
I can handle him.
Famous last words...
I'm a little too unemployed to feel particularly elitist.
Join the club, babe... thank God for those $25 royalty checks from Cafe Press!
I'm a little too unemployed to feel particularly elitist.
Join the club, babe... thank God for those $25 royalty checks from Cafe Press!
I predict Incognito will go ahead and try to bathe the cat, then come back here and claim he is a victim.
I predict Incognito will go ahead and try to bathe the cat, then come back here and claim he is a victim.
Jennifer -- thanks. I've been out of work since February, and I'm not in great shape to do retail, so I didn't get one of the quick&easy jobs. Unfortunately, what I did for the previous nine years was third-party document work for the mortgage industry, and, as a lot of that went in-house and the market tightened, a lot of the jobs simply went away. And a lot of the jobs that folks like me migrated too also went away. Sigh.
I'm actually almost making it on my music, and I'm trying to get some more product out as well as expanding my market. So we'll see.
And, yeah, the whole "elitist" thing makes me laugh, but I am an elitist by some narrow definitions. I (and certainly every regular here) have books on the shelf that my closest friends also have but our parents have never heard of; music of all genres, but more classical, show tunes, and folk than rock, and way more comedy than most people know exists; I use my computer for a hell of a lot more than work, e-mail, and solitaire; and I have toys -- not "adult" toys like executive putters & microminiature dart boards, but action figures and stuffed critters and the entire Burger King Lord of the Rings set from three years ago.
Dammit, there's so much more to life than work, TV, and Faux News. And most of it involves using your brain for more than the core of a hat rack.
Jennifer -- thanks. I've been out of work since February, and I'm not in great shape to do retail, so I didn't get one of the quick&easy jobs. Unfortunately, what I did for the previous nine years was third-party document work for the mortgage industry, and, as a lot of that went in-house and the market tightened, a lot of the jobs simply went away. And a lot of the jobs that folks like me migrated too also went away. Sigh.
I'm actually almost making it on my music, and I'm trying to get some more product out as well as expanding my market. So we'll see.
And, yeah, the whole "elitist" thing makes me laugh, but I am an elitist by some narrow definitions. I (and certainly every regular here) have books on the shelf that my closest friends also have but our parents have never heard of; music of all genres, but more classical, show tunes, and folk than rock, and way more comedy than most people know exists; I use my computer for a hell of a lot more than work, e-mail, and solitaire; and I have toys -- not "adult" toys like executive putters & microminiature dart boards, but action figures and stuffed critters and the entire Burger King Lord of the Rings set from three years ago.
Dammit, there's so much more to life than work, TV, and Faux News. And most of it involves using your brain for more than the core of a hat rack.
Incognito, the coat will get shinier in time. The proteins and oils you are feeding String will take a few months to turn out in his coat. Just be patient.
Incognito, the coat will get shinier in time. The proteins and oils you are feeding String will take a few months to turn out in his coat. Just be patient.
it will also wound his dignity.
Jennifer
OK,ok ok, I was just trying to make the situation better. He's been out in the wild for his entire life. I was thinking a little Suave wouldn't hurt.
it will also wound his dignity.
Jennifer
OK,ok ok, I was just trying to make the situation better. He's been out in the wild for his entire life. I was thinking a little Suave wouldn't hurt.
And re: the dry food:
A mixed diet of moist and dried food is best. Cats (non-domesticated ones anyway) typically get most of their water from their food. But feed some dry food too, it helps keep their teeth clean.
And re: the dry food:
A mixed diet of moist and dried food is best. Cats (non-domesticated ones anyway) typically get most of their water from their food. But feed some dry food too, it helps keep their teeth clean.
Tena-
I'm a bit late but I hope for the best for your MIL.
Hugs to you and Mr. Tena.
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Tena-
I'm a bit late but I hope for the best for your MIL.
Hugs to you and Mr. Tena.
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filkertom-
what's wrong with rock?
filkertom-
what's wrong with rock?
Tena, may your Yule be merry. It is the turning of the year and the renewal of life is on the way.
At least you're in a warmer part of the world, as I recall. The Solstice is gonna be pretty chilly in Kansas so dancing naked isn't really much fun.
I don't think my employer would be amused if I were to get busted for that, either... A couple days ago someone went on a rant about nudity and sex during that 24-hour abortion marathon and I so agreed.
Anyway, as I was saying before I got off on a rant of my own, I do hope your season is bright from here on.
Tena, may your Yule be merry. It is the turning of the year and the renewal of life is on the way.
At least you're in a warmer part of the world, as I recall. The Solstice is gonna be pretty chilly in Kansas so dancing naked isn't really much fun.
I don't think my employer would be amused if I were to get busted for that, either... A couple days ago someone went on a rant about nudity and sex during that 24-hour abortion marathon and I so agreed.
Anyway, as I was saying before I got off on a rant of my own, I do hope your season is bright from here on.
"Do you think that if a certain far-right US blog was being funded by, say, the Likud party, (or close friends thereof) that the blogger concerned has a moral duty to disclose that fact?
The Insider | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 2:44 pm | #"
Yes and no.
At least that is my opinion.
For the most part, readers should always take anything they read anywhere, here or there, with a grain of salt. To follow the words and/or writing of a blogger as if it were gospel is asking for trouble. I do think that if the far-right blog were merely trying to alter public opinion on everyday politics in general on a year-round basis then no. But if the intent was to sway the opinions of others just prior to an election or ballot initiative then yes, they should disclose. The first is more a matter of their right to hold an opinion. The later is their intent to alter the opinions of others.
Of course I'm sure others on this board have more to say and probably more informed insights on the issue.
MYOB'
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"Do you think that if a certain far-right US blog was being funded by, say, the Likud party, (or close friends thereof) that the blogger concerned has a moral duty to disclose that fact?
The Insider | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 2:44 pm | #"
Yes and no.
At least that is my opinion.
For the most part, readers should always take anything they read anywhere, here or there, with a grain of salt. To follow the words and/or writing of a blogger as if it were gospel is asking for trouble. I do think that if the far-right blog were merely trying to alter public opinion on everyday politics in general on a year-round basis then no. But if the intent was to sway the opinions of others just prior to an election or ballot initiative then yes, they should disclose. The first is more a matter of their right to hold an opinion. The later is their intent to alter the opinions of others.
Of course I'm sure others on this board have more to say and probably more informed insights on the issue.
MYOB'
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Jennifer - it wounds their dignity terribly and Incog, they don't forgive that quickly.
Plus I really don't think it's good for them. They have evolved their own system for keeping themselves clean and their coats and skins in optimum health. It really does dry out their skin if you bathe cats.
Tena -- oh, that's good news. Hugs all around.
Ahianne -- oh, that's bad news. Hugs all around. Yeah, my best friend's mom just went in October -- it was very quick, thank goodness, but even so just awful.
ATablaRasa --[snort][chuckle][guffaw]
dave -- yeah, I hope to get one of those soon. The 30-45 day wait time just makes it all the more piquant.
Spinoza -- no bet. Blood on the keyboard, my friend.
Jennifer - it wounds their dignity terribly and Incog, they don't forgive that quickly.
Plus I really don't think it's good for them. They have evolved their own system for keeping themselves clean and their coats and skins in optimum health. It really does dry out their skin if you bathe cats.
Tena -- oh, that's good news. Hugs all around.
Ahianne -- oh, that's bad news. Hugs all around. Yeah, my best friend's mom just went in October -- it was very quick, thank goodness, but even so just awful.
ATablaRasa --[snort][chuckle][guffaw]
dave -- yeah, I hope to get one of those soon. The 30-45 day wait time just makes it all the more piquant.
Spinoza -- no bet. Blood on the keyboard, my friend.
He doesn't like the canned soft food and wont eat it or go around it. He only likes the crunchy dry stuff.
He doesn't like the canned soft food and wont eat it or go around it. He only likes the crunchy dry stuff.
Cat blogging, not cat bathing.
Cat blogging, not cat bathing.
kissfan -- nothing whatsoever ('sfunny, I'm a KISS fan myself, first generation). I just happen to have purchased less of that kind of album than of the others, is all. Mind you, they're good ones -- lotsa Who and Billy Joel, Beatles, BNL, Meat Loaf, R.E.M., Joe Cocker, Steve Miller Band, Alice Cooper, Destroyer, and that one indispensible copy of Brain Salad Surgery....
kissfan -- nothing whatsoever ('sfunny, I'm a KISS fan myself, first generation). I just happen to have purchased less of that kind of album than of the others, is all. Mind you, they're good ones -- lotsa Who and Billy Joel, Beatles, BNL, Meat Loaf, R.E.M., Joe Cocker, Steve Miller Band, Alice Cooper, Destroyer, and that one indispensible copy of Brain Salad Surgery....
filkertom - actually, the job I'm getting ready to leave wasn't one of the "quick and easy". Some of my friends were giving me a hard time when I told them I was going to quit, saying, "You look and look and finally get a really good job and now you're going to quit?" My reply was that a job only qualifies as being "really good" if it both pays the bills and doesn't make you hate your life every waking moment. Pretty much everything else is a shit job.
So here's to hoping that you can pull together just that little bit more you need to make a living doing what you really enjoy. I'm in the same process myself at the moment - taking on this new job that's closer to my interests so I can tweak things here and there until I'm back doing my own thing.
filkertom - actually, the job I'm getting ready to leave wasn't one of the "quick and easy". Some of my friends were giving me a hard time when I told them I was going to quit, saying, "You look and look and finally get a really good job and now you're going to quit?" My reply was that a job only qualifies as being "really good" if it both pays the bills and doesn't make you hate your life every waking moment. Pretty much everything else is a shit job.
So here's to hoping that you can pull together just that little bit more you need to make a living doing what you really enjoy. I'm in the same process myself at the moment - taking on this new job that's closer to my interests so I can tweak things here and there until I'm back doing my own thing.
Hey Filkertom:
Did they have a rumor in your high
school about what Brain Salad Surgery
meant?
Hey Filkertom:
Did they have a rumor in your high
school about what Brain Salad Surgery
meant?
Tena - glad to hear the encouraging news about your mother-in-law. If she is already able to cast about and find the words she's looking for, the prognosis is probably for total or near total recovery. Merry Christmas!
Tena - glad to hear the encouraging news about your mother-in-law. If she is already able to cast about and find the words she's looking for, the prognosis is probably for total or near total recovery. Merry Christmas!
filkertom, while I'm not out of a job, and unlike Jennifer really do like both the majority of my work and the people I work with, I identify. My wife was out of work for 13 months before finding a job in Arizona. She started in October and I've been hunting ever since for a job there. I'm now a ghost at work because the boss is anticipating, correctly, that I'll be gone soon one way or the other and therefore has assigned all my tasks to others so they can learn them before I go.
Keeping up two houses is about to kill us, so I'm planning to quit and move anyway if something doesn't come soon.
filkertom, while I'm not out of a job, and unlike Jennifer really do like both the majority of my work and the people I work with, I identify. My wife was out of work for 13 months before finding a job in Arizona. She started in October and I've been hunting ever since for a job there. I'm now a ghost at work because the boss is anticipating, correctly, that I'll be gone soon one way or the other and therefore has assigned all my tasks to others so they can learn them before I go.
Keeping up two houses is about to kill us, so I'm planning to quit and move anyway if something doesn't come soon.
Elitists? They wouldn't know an elitist if a bunch of them took over the country in broad daylight.
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QuentinCompson
Ummmm, errr, isn't that who actually DID take over the country in broad daylight? just askin...
Elitists? They wouldn't know an elitist if a bunch of them took over the country in broad daylight.
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QuentinCompson
Ummmm, errr, isn't that who actually DID take over the country in broad daylight? just askin...
Perhaps Bill O'Reilly is overdoing his estrogen treatments?
I thought all the whining was something he attributed to liberals. Why is he getting so pissy? Is victimization a new republican theme?
Perhaps Bill O'Reilly is overdoing his estrogen treatments?
I thought all the whining was something he attributed to liberals. Why is he getting so pissy? Is victimization a new republican theme?
Incog - well, the dry stuff isn't bad for him; as noted it will really help keep his teeth free of tartar. Just make sure to keep lots of fresh water out for him.
And as for the bathing - cats get their vitamin D from grooming themselves. Weird, but somehow their fur or skin generates the vitamin when they lay in the sun. They ingest the vitamin by grooming themselves.
Incog - well, the dry stuff isn't bad for him; as noted it will really help keep his teeth free of tartar. Just make sure to keep lots of fresh water out for him.
And as for the bathing - cats get their vitamin D from grooming themselves. Weird, but somehow their fur or skin generates the vitamin when they lay in the sun. They ingest the vitamin by grooming themselves.
Jennifer - My thoughts exactly. Thanks.
and Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Good Solstice and Joyful Saturnalia to you, too. And Happy Kwanzaa, the holiday that Pat Robertson claims is a fraud and made up, while of course, god ordained Christmas to occur on December 25.
Jennifer - My thoughts exactly. Thanks.
and Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Good Solstice and Joyful Saturnalia to you, too. And Happy Kwanzaa, the holiday that Pat Robertson claims is a fraud and made up, while of course, god ordained Christmas to occur on December 25.
kissfan -- nothing whatsoever ('sfunny, I'm a KISS fan myself, first generation). I just happen to have purchased less of that kind of album than of the others, is all. Mind you, they're good ones -- lotsa Who and Billy Joel, Beatles, BNL, Meat Loaf, R.E.M., Joe Cocker, Steve Miller Band, Alice Cooper, Destroyer, and that one indispensible copy of Brain Salad Surgery....
filkertom | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 3:11 pm | #
The very first album I and my friends bought back in the mid-70s was Kiss Live I.
MYOB'
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kissfan -- nothing whatsoever ('sfunny, I'm a KISS fan myself, first generation). I just happen to have purchased less of that kind of album than of the others, is all. Mind you, they're good ones -- lotsa Who and Billy Joel, Beatles, BNL, Meat Loaf, R.E.M., Joe Cocker, Steve Miller Band, Alice Cooper, Destroyer, and that one indispensible copy of Brain Salad Surgery....
filkertom | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 3:11 pm | #
The very first album I and my friends bought back in the mid-70s was Kiss Live I.
MYOB'
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Weasel - Is victimization a new republican theme?
New? Baby, where you have you been? This is their entire raison d'etre.
Weasel - Is victimization a new republican theme?
New? Baby, where you have you been? This is their entire raison d'etre.
Jennifer, ATablaRasa -- again, thanks, and sympathies to you both for your respective grinds. It doth suck, trying and largely failing to enjoy something you have to do for one-third your adult life, don't it?
The last couple of years at my last job were hell on burnt toast, partly because until August '03 the real estate market was booming and we were doing twelve-hour days with no real break, and partly because management was mostly psychotic, including one woman who literally was playing all ends of the company against each other until one of the owners got wise and gave her the boot. So, honestly, while I need to pay the bills and I have been looking, if I can make things work at this stage I think I'll be a hell of a lot happier.
Steve -- I never heard any rumor about that. Granted, I was a real nerd boy and only other nerds talked to me. So, like what?
Jennifer, ATablaRasa -- again, thanks, and sympathies to you both for your respective grinds. It doth suck, trying and largely failing to enjoy something you have to do for one-third your adult life, don't it?
The last couple of years at my last job were hell on burnt toast, partly because until August '03 the real estate market was booming and we were doing twelve-hour days with no real break, and partly because management was mostly psychotic, including one woman who literally was playing all ends of the company against each other until one of the owners got wise and gave her the boot. So, honestly, while I need to pay the bills and I have been looking, if I can make things work at this stage I think I'll be a hell of a lot happier.
Steve -- I never heard any rumor about that. Granted, I was a real nerd boy and only other nerds talked to me. So, like what?
We are nowhere near "bonding" like everybody [talks] about. The little fucker acts like I'm his best friend in my lap licking himself but I'm the the big scary monster in the area over him to hide from under the bed from, usually. That's it.
We are nowhere near "bonding" like everybody [talks] about. The little fucker acts like I'm his best friend in my lap licking himself but I'm the the big scary monster in the area over him to hide from under the bed from, usually. That's it.
Konopelli, my point indeed; must have dropped my sarcastic irony tags somewhere.
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Konopelli, my point indeed; must have dropped my sarcastic irony tags somewhere.
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ΤΏΤ,
There's a lot of good information on cats and nutrition at this site.
Even though String likes dry food, it's because that's what he's accustomed to. Feeding dry food is quick and easy, but it's really not good for them.
ΤΏΤ,
There's a lot of good information on cats and nutrition at this site.
Even though String likes dry food, it's because that's what he's accustomed to. Feeding dry food is quick and easy, but it's really not good for them.
Fuck it, I'm going to bathe him with some Suave shampoo tonight.
ΤΏΤ
Our old cat didn't mind being bathed. Make sure the water is warm, not too hot, and don't use too much shampoo because it's just hard to rinse out.
Someone suggested using a sprayer, and that's what we always did - just spray over directly on his coat so he doesn't get all splashed and mad.
Also, keep the soap and water action to the shoulders-down only so you don't get water in his eyes or ears.
Keeping treats onhand is a good idea, too. Then just wrap him in lots of towels and guide him to a warm spot to air dry.
He'll be fine
Fuck it, I'm going to bathe him with some Suave shampoo tonight.
ΤΏΤ
Our old cat didn't mind being bathed. Make sure the water is warm, not too hot, and don't use too much shampoo because it's just hard to rinse out.
Someone suggested using a sprayer, and that's what we always did - just spray over directly on his coat so he doesn't get all splashed and mad.
Also, keep the soap and water action to the shoulders-down only so you don't get water in his eyes or ears.
Keeping treats onhand is a good idea, too. Then just wrap him in lots of towels and guide him to a warm spot to air dry.
He'll be fine
And Happy Kwanzaa, the holiday that Pat Robertson claims is a fraud and made up, while of course, god ordained Christmas to occur on December 25.
Tena | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 3:18 pm | #
Say wha?
Could you elaborate Tena?
I know Pat 'former alcoholic/had first child out of wedlock' Robertson badmouths just about everything but I never heard him go so far as to say Kwanzaa was both a fraud and a made up holiday?
MYOB'
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And Happy Kwanzaa, the holiday that Pat Robertson claims is a fraud and made up, while of course, god ordained Christmas to occur on December 25.
Tena | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 3:18 pm | #
Say wha?
Could you elaborate Tena?
I know Pat 'former alcoholic/had first child out of wedlock' Robertson badmouths just about everything but I never heard him go so far as to say Kwanzaa was both a fraud and a made up holiday?
MYOB'
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I would like to proclaim, in front of all, that I am, indeed, a left-leaning liberal elitist. Of course, all you have to do to join my idea of an elite group is read, learn, think and discuss with others in a halfway rational manner.
Oddly enough, I don't think most of the people who complain about liberal elitists want to join my clique.
I would like to proclaim, in front of all, that I am, indeed, a left-leaning liberal elitist. Of course, all you have to do to join my idea of an elite group is read, learn, think and discuss with others in a halfway rational manner.
Oddly enough, I don't think most of the people who complain about liberal elitists want to join my clique.
MYOB' -- oh yeah. If you like that kinda music -- which I do, when I'm in the mood for it -- that is one of the best damn albums there is.
MYOB' -- oh yeah. If you like that kinda music -- which I do, when I'm in the mood for it -- that is one of the best damn albums there is.
Sod the democrats
Sod the democrats
Filkertom:
Actually, when Brain Salad Surgery
came out I was long past high school,
but my third ex-wife (from Mississippi)
told me that the rumor at her school
was that it was a euphemism for
fucking.
Who knows?
Filkertom:
Actually, when Brain Salad Surgery
came out I was long past high school,
but my third ex-wife (from Mississippi)
told me that the rumor at her school
was that it was a euphemism for
fucking.
Who knows?
You might try embedding the dry stuff in a little of the soft and slowly change the ratio. That worked for one of mine. But that was many years ago and cats may have evolved since then.
You might try embedding the dry stuff in a little of the soft and slowly change the ratio. That worked for one of mine. But that was many years ago and cats may have evolved since then.
...my point indeed; must have dropped my sarcastic irony tags somewhere.
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QuentinCompson %)I thought it might be...but irony has been getting pretty rough treatment lately, and so I thought it wise to take no chances...
...my point indeed; must have dropped my sarcastic irony tags somewhere.
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QuentinCompson %)I thought it might be...but irony has been getting pretty rough treatment lately, and so I thought it wise to take no chances...
All,
Book recommendation (i just got is as a gift): Under The Banner of Heaven, by John Krakauer.
It uses Mormon fundies as a jumping-off point to consider religious beliefs in general. i read it in two sessions.
It only confirmed (IMHO, 'natch) what i have believed since about my 14th church service; if you can buy the existence of a supernatural supreme bean, you can believe any damn thing if it suits you.
All,
Book recommendation (i just got is as a gift): Under The Banner of Heaven, by John Krakauer.
It uses Mormon fundies as a jumping-off point to consider religious beliefs in general. i read it in two sessions.
It only confirmed (IMHO, 'natch) what i have believed since about my 14th church service; if you can buy the existence of a supernatural supreme bean, you can believe any damn thing if it suits you.
euphemism for
fucking
?
Seems more like an anti-euphemism.
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euphemism for
fucking
?
Seems more like an anti-euphemism.
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Steve Simels--There was a rumor in my high school that Gene Simmons had a long cow tongue surgically atttached to his real tongue. About 2 years ago I saw an interview with Trent Reznor and the dumbass still believees it. He was talking about Simmonss' "dedication" to rock'n'roll, I kid you not.
Steve Simels--There was a rumor in my high school that Gene Simmons had a long cow tongue surgically atttached to his real tongue. About 2 years ago I saw an interview with Trent Reznor and the dumbass still believees it. He was talking about Simmonss' "dedication" to rock'n'roll, I kid you not.
"Of course I'm sure others on this board have more to say and probably more informed insights on the issue."
MYOB'
How about if they are relentlessly promoting the 'pro-war' case? And being paid to do so?
I have a very strong suspicion that a certain blog is paid for by far-right zionists and pro-war people. From their perspective, say they were kicking in 10,000 USD /month, it could be money 'well spent'.
The propaganda on this particular blog is just amazing. Remorseless.
"Of course I'm sure others on this board have more to say and probably more informed insights on the issue."
MYOB'
How about if they are relentlessly promoting the 'pro-war' case? And being paid to do so?
I have a very strong suspicion that a certain blog is paid for by far-right zionists and pro-war people. From their perspective, say they were kicking in 10,000 USD /month, it could be money 'well spent'.
The propaganda on this particular blog is just amazing. Remorseless.
Perhaps Bill O'Reilly is overdoing his estrogen treatments?
I thought all the whining was something he attributed to liberals. Why is he getting so pissy? Is victimization a new republican theme?
Tsk, tsk. Estrogen makes you glowing and happy and very smart. What O'Reilly is on is probably Viagra pills that have gone bad.
Perhaps Bill O'Reilly is overdoing his estrogen treatments?
I thought all the whining was something he attributed to liberals. Why is he getting so pissy? Is victimization a new republican theme?
Tsk, tsk. Estrogen makes you glowing and happy and very smart. What O'Reilly is on is probably Viagra pills that have gone bad.
BTW:
Anybody hear the new Beatles
remasters that just came out?
BTW:
Anybody hear the new Beatles
remasters that just came out?
Fuck it, I'm librul and I love Christmas.
But it's just ONE holiday in the Holiday Season which begins with Thanksgiving, then there's Hanukah, Solstice, Kwaanza, and yes, New Years Eve.
Sorry, but just saying "Merry Christmas" is not only inaccurate, it's going to get you excluded from a lot of ripper parties.
Fuck it, I'm librul and I love Christmas.
But it's just ONE holiday in the Holiday Season which begins with Thanksgiving, then there's Hanukah, Solstice, Kwaanza, and yes, New Years Eve.
Sorry, but just saying "Merry Christmas" is not only inaccurate, it's going to get you excluded from a lot of ripper parties.
cory-supreme bean? That would be one hell of a chili recipe.
cory-supreme bean? That would be one hell of a chili recipe.
MYOB, I saw that Robertson clip on The Daily Show (iirc).
Pat Robertson is one scary mofo.
Tow
MYOB, I saw that Robertson clip on The Daily Show (iirc).
Pat Robertson is one scary mofo.
Tow
Dad was a veterinarian. Trust me, a little of the dry stuff is a good thing. He always recommended the moist food for the bulk of the diet, with some dry thrown in for the teeth.
Dad was a veterinarian. Trust me, a little of the dry stuff is a good thing. He always recommended the moist food for the bulk of the diet, with some dry thrown in for the teeth.
Draco:
Who says you have to be smart to
play music?
Exhibit A: Ritchie Blackmore, who
is the real Nigel Tufnel.
Dumb as a sack of hammers.
Draco:
Who says you have to be smart to
play music?
Exhibit A: Ritchie Blackmore, who
is the real Nigel Tufnel.
Dumb as a sack of hammers.
cory, sounds interesting. It'd confirm mine, then, too, but being an elitist I am not surprised
filkertom, I've always thought ol' George woke up on Christmas morning, turned to Mary and said, "Dammit, Mar', the ol' Bailey Building and Loan is solvent, this place is finally paid for and Clarence got his wings. I'm leaving for Paris on the morning train. You coming?" Our first, best destiny may not pay as much in dollars, but every day that we don't pursue a dream is a day that we can't ever recover. Best of luck.
cory, sounds interesting. It'd confirm mine, then, too, but being an elitist I am not surprised
filkertom, I've always thought ol' George woke up on Christmas morning, turned to Mary and said, "Dammit, Mar', the ol' Bailey Building and Loan is solvent, this place is finally paid for and Clarence got his wings. I'm leaving for Paris on the morning train. You coming?" Our first, best destiny may not pay as much in dollars, but every day that we don't pursue a dream is a day that we can't ever recover. Best of luck.
MYOB - Pat Robertson was on TV mouthing off about Kwanzaa last week. I blogged it over at First-Draft, but it's long gone now. MediaMatters had a post about it, too.
MYOB - Pat Robertson was on TV mouthing off about Kwanzaa last week. I blogged it over at First-Draft, but it's long gone now. MediaMatters had a post about it, too.
And Happy Kwanzaa, the holiday that Pat Robertson claims is a fraud and made up, while of course, god ordained Christmas to occur on December 25.
Tena | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 3:18 pm | #
Say wha?
Could you elaborate Tena?
I know Pat 'former alcoholic/had first child out of wedlock' Robertson badmouths just about everything but I never heard him go so far as to say Kwanzaa was both a fraud and a made up holiday?
MYOB'
FYI:
Rev. Pat Robertson: "Kwanzaa is an absolute fraud"
Reverend Pat Robertson called Kwanzaa "an absolute fraud" during the news segment of Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club December 6.
After lamenting that "left wing educators, left-wing judges are stripping every vestige of our Christian heritage," Robertson, host and Christian Coalition of America founder, said: "Kwanzaa is an absolute fraud. You know, there was no festival in Africa called 'Kwanzaa.' I mean, it's made up by a bunch of hippie-types on the West Coast. I mean, it's not something that goes back to Africa. No way."
Kwanzaa is an African American holiday celebrated in African communities around the world. It was founded in 1966 by Maulana Karenga, professor and chair of the black studies department at California State University, Long Beach. The official Kwanzaa website notes that Karenga founded Kwanzaa as "an African American and Pan-African holiday" based on ancient African history and culture. Celebrated from December 26 through January 1, Kwanzaa is rooted in "the first harvest celebrations of Africa from which it takes its name." According to Karenga, "The name 'Kwanzaa' is derived from the phrase 'matunda ya kwanza' which means 'first fruits' in Swahili, a Pan-African language which is the most widely spoken African language." Karenga also notes that Kwanzaa "draws from the cultures of various African peoples, and is celebrated by millions of Africans throughout the world African community."
Which is funny, because of course Kwanzaa goes back to Africa with just about exactly the same fidelity as Christmas goes back to Palestine...
That is to say, none...
And Happy Kwanzaa, the holiday that Pat Robertson claims is a fraud and made up, while of course, god ordained Christmas to occur on December 25.
Tena | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 3:18 pm | #
Say wha?
Could you elaborate Tena?
I know Pat 'former alcoholic/had first child out of wedlock' Robertson badmouths just about everything but I never heard him go so far as to say Kwanzaa was both a fraud and a made up holiday?
MYOB'
FYI:
Rev. Pat Robertson: "Kwanzaa is an absolute fraud"
Reverend Pat Robertson called Kwanzaa "an absolute fraud" during the news segment of Christian Broadcasting Network's The 700 Club December 6.
After lamenting that "left wing educators, left-wing judges are stripping every vestige of our Christian heritage," Robertson, host and Christian Coalition of America founder, said: "Kwanzaa is an absolute fraud. You know, there was no festival in Africa called 'Kwanzaa.' I mean, it's made up by a bunch of hippie-types on the West Coast. I mean, it's not something that goes back to Africa. No way."
Kwanzaa is an African American holiday celebrated in African communities around the world. It was founded in 1966 by Maulana Karenga, professor and chair of the black studies department at California State University, Long Beach. The official Kwanzaa website notes that Karenga founded Kwanzaa as "an African American and Pan-African holiday" based on ancient African history and culture. Celebrated from December 26 through January 1, Kwanzaa is rooted in "the first harvest celebrations of Africa from which it takes its name." According to Karenga, "The name 'Kwanzaa' is derived from the phrase 'matunda ya kwanza' which means 'first fruits' in Swahili, a Pan-African language which is the most widely spoken African language." Karenga also notes that Kwanzaa "draws from the cultures of various African peoples, and is celebrated by millions of Africans throughout the world African community."
Which is funny, because of course Kwanzaa goes back to Africa with just about exactly the same fidelity as Christmas goes back to Palestine...
That is to say, none...
Even though String likes dry food, it's because that's what he's accustomed to. Feeding dry food is quick and easy, but it's really not good for them.
Central Scrutinizer
TELL HIM THAT!!! HE WILL ONLY EAT THE CRUNCHY SHIT. PERIOD. I WALK BY AND I HEAR HIM CRUNCHING. THAT'S WHAT HE LIKES.
End of statement.
Even though String likes dry food, it's because that's what he's accustomed to. Feeding dry food is quick and easy, but it's really not good for them.
Central Scrutinizer
TELL HIM THAT!!! HE WILL ONLY EAT THE CRUNCHY SHIT. PERIOD. I WALK BY AND I HEAR HIM CRUNCHING. THAT'S WHAT HE LIKES.
End of statement.
Kwanzaa strikes me as the preachiest most no-fun holiday around with all those do-gooder vows you have to take. Exactly what you'd expect for a holiday invented by a social "scientist."
Kwanzaa strikes me as the preachiest most no-fun holiday around with all those do-gooder vows you have to take. Exactly what you'd expect for a holiday invented by a social "scientist."
TELL HIM THAT!!! HE WILL ONLY EAT THE CRUNCHY SHIT.
Ah, the victimhood begins.
TELL HIM THAT!!! HE WILL ONLY EAT THE CRUNCHY SHIT.
Ah, the victimhood begins.
"
U.S. Sen. James M. Inhofe said Thursday that cutbacks during the Clinton administration resulted in the lack of armor and other material faced by U.S. troops in Iraq.
"Eight years of Bill Clinton decimated the military to almost half of what it was in 1990," he said during a stop in Muskogee."
JESUS.
1989 - collapse of East/West German boundary.
1991 - Collapse of Soviet Union....
What part of END OF COLD WAR does this idiot not -not- understand, but DOESN'T REMEMBER???????????
Jesus. I'm going to go make pina colada muffins. These people are insane.
"
U.S. Sen. James M. Inhofe said Thursday that cutbacks during the Clinton administration resulted in the lack of armor and other material faced by U.S. troops in Iraq.
"Eight years of Bill Clinton decimated the military to almost half of what it was in 1990," he said during a stop in Muskogee."
JESUS.
1989 - collapse of East/West German boundary.
1991 - Collapse of Soviet Union....
What part of END OF COLD WAR does this idiot not -not- understand, but DOESN'T REMEMBER???????????
Jesus. I'm going to go make pina colada muffins. These people are insane.
Sod the democrats
The Fix Was In Kerry Threw It
Save me some for the back yard; the dogs have torn it up out there...
Sod the democrats
The Fix Was In Kerry Threw It
Save me some for the back yard; the dogs have torn it up out there...
Since we're all concerned with recognizing the multi-denominational character of the holiday season, I offer up to you the ultimate, classic multi-denominational holiday greeting courtesy of Alec Baldwin via SNL:
"During the Christmas season, I received many Christmas cards. Unfortunately, because I was so busy, I didn't have time to send out any myself. So, if I could, I'd like to use this as my Christmas card to everyone who was kind enough to send one to me.
[ puts Santa hat on his head and begins ]
"Dear Friend, or Relative, or Business Associate. Merry Christmas, or Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa, or Solstice, or Voodoo Day.
Boy, what a year it's been - me, with my acting, and, you doing whatever it is that you do. Thanks for the Christmas card, it was very beautiful, or humorous. I enjoyed the photo of your kid, or kids. Boy, he, or she, or they are really getting big. Have you seen our mutual friend, if we have one? Can you believe what he or she is up to? Boy, some people! Does your son, or daughter, or sister, or brother, or husband, or wife still have that drug problem? All you can do is trust in God, or, if you prefer, voodoo.
How is Granny, or Nana, or Mimi, or Yaya? So so? Hey, how about the professional sports team that we both root for? They should fire, or rehire that manager of theirs. He's a character!
Well, gotta go. By the way, sorry about throwing up on your carpet that time, or times. I hope you receive many presents from Santa, or Hanukkah Guy, or the Voodoo Man.. and that the coming year is as good as, or better than, or nothing like the last year.
Love, Alec."
Since we're all concerned with recognizing the multi-denominational character of the holiday season, I offer up to you the ultimate, classic multi-denominational holiday greeting courtesy of Alec Baldwin via SNL:
"During the Christmas season, I received many Christmas cards. Unfortunately, because I was so busy, I didn't have time to send out any myself. So, if I could, I'd like to use this as my Christmas card to everyone who was kind enough to send one to me.
[ puts Santa hat on his head and begins ]
"Dear Friend, or Relative, or Business Associate. Merry Christmas, or Hanukkah, or Kwanzaa, or Solstice, or Voodoo Day.
Boy, what a year it's been - me, with my acting, and, you doing whatever it is that you do. Thanks for the Christmas card, it was very beautiful, or humorous. I enjoyed the photo of your kid, or kids. Boy, he, or she, or they are really getting big. Have you seen our mutual friend, if we have one? Can you believe what he or she is up to? Boy, some people! Does your son, or daughter, or sister, or brother, or husband, or wife still have that drug problem? All you can do is trust in God, or, if you prefer, voodoo.
How is Granny, or Nana, or Mimi, or Yaya? So so? Hey, how about the professional sports team that we both root for? They should fire, or rehire that manager of theirs. He's a character!
Well, gotta go. By the way, sorry about throwing up on your carpet that time, or times. I hope you receive many presents from Santa, or Hanukkah Guy, or the Voodoo Man.. and that the coming year is as good as, or better than, or nothing like the last year.
Love, Alec."
Pat Robertson has a little dick and never gets any.
Pat Robertson has a little dick and never gets any.
Incog - Listen to Jennifer - the dry is good for his teeth. I had one cat whose teeth went totally bad before he died. You don't want that to happen.
Don't worry about String so much - cats are the hardiest pets you can have, practically. They heal themselves, clean themselves and pretty much know what they need to keep themselves in shape.
Really. They are not dependent like dogs are.
Incog - Listen to Jennifer - the dry is good for his teeth. I had one cat whose teeth went totally bad before he died. You don't want that to happen.
Don't worry about String so much - cats are the hardiest pets you can have, practically. They heal themselves, clean themselves and pretty much know what they need to keep themselves in shape.
Really. They are not dependent like dogs are.
Tell ya, if String has to pull the cruchy stuff out of the other and gets used to the taste, he'll start eating it. Not the first day, or the first week, maybe. Depends on how stubborn your cat is, but also how stubborn you are.
Tell ya, if String has to pull the cruchy stuff out of the other and gets used to the taste, he'll start eating it. Not the first day, or the first week, maybe. Depends on how stubborn your cat is, but also how stubborn you are.
Stinky-Pat Robertson IS a (tiny) dick.
Stinky-Pat Robertson IS a (tiny) dick.
Konopelli - thanks for posting that Pat Robertson story - I was too lazy to go retrieve it myself.
Konopelli - thanks for posting that Pat Robertson story - I was too lazy to go retrieve it myself.
I don't mean to be a downer (too late!) but I'm bugged by the right.
They got the White House; they got the Senate; they got the House O'Reps, they pretty much got the Supreme Court; and they got a lapdog media.
Yet they're angrier than ever.
I'm starting to think Incog has been right all along.
I don't mean to be a downer (too late!) but I'm bugged by the right.
They got the White House; they got the Senate; they got the House O'Reps, they pretty much got the Supreme Court; and they got a lapdog media.
Yet they're angrier than ever.
I'm starting to think Incog has been right all along.
Let's all write letters to the editor and insist that as Pagans we're deeply offended that store employees don't wish as a "Happy Saturnalia."
I was just happy yesterday, visiting my GYN, to see a Happy Hanukkah thing strung across the window. Nice to see something DIFFERENT.
Cat-bathing: Naw. No. String might like the warm cloth thing, though. I use small-sized towels, wet & warm them gently in the microwave, and wrap my big baby (the shedder with all the dander) in it. She likes it until it gets clammy. Helps get rid of a lot of stuff. Shiny coats (or lack of) really do vary from cat to cat, and with diet.
But bathing: No. I'm trying to figure out how to slip Big Cat a Klonopin (I looked up the right dosage) so she'll be too sleepy to try to kill me when I merely try to trim her damn CLAWS. Incog, er, Face-Icon Guy, start that EARLY -- and make a habit NOW of playing with String's paws a lot so he doesn't immediately freak every time you hold one in preparation for claw-trimming.
Filkertom: I got a notice saying my Atriots mug is on the way. But why would CafePress be shipping the mug "in two packages"? This scares me. I prefer one-piece mugs.
Let's all write letters to the editor and insist that as Pagans we're deeply offended that store employees don't wish as a "Happy Saturnalia."
I was just happy yesterday, visiting my GYN, to see a Happy Hanukkah thing strung across the window. Nice to see something DIFFERENT.
Cat-bathing: Naw. No. String might like the warm cloth thing, though. I use small-sized towels, wet & warm them gently in the microwave, and wrap my big baby (the shedder with all the dander) in it. She likes it until it gets clammy. Helps get rid of a lot of stuff. Shiny coats (or lack of) really do vary from cat to cat, and with diet.
But bathing: No. I'm trying to figure out how to slip Big Cat a Klonopin (I looked up the right dosage) so she'll be too sleepy to try to kill me when I merely try to trim her damn CLAWS. Incog, er, Face-Icon Guy, start that EARLY -- and make a habit NOW of playing with String's paws a lot so he doesn't immediately freak every time you hold one in preparation for claw-trimming.
Filkertom: I got a notice saying my Atriots mug is on the way. But why would CafePress be shipping the mug "in two packages"? This scares me. I prefer one-piece mugs.
ATablaRasa -
Sell the house and move to Arizona. Everybody else does, you might as well too. Try and get a job out here - be aware you'll probably be hired before I will, 'cause that's the AZ karma. Nevertheless, being with your mate at 75F is a lot better than losing your shirt back east at some ungodly cold temperature. AZ's okay. Try not to live too far on the west side of town. Or north. Or east. South is good. Also Central.
ATablaRasa -
Sell the house and move to Arizona. Everybody else does, you might as well too. Try and get a job out here - be aware you'll probably be hired before I will, 'cause that's the AZ karma. Nevertheless, being with your mate at 75F is a lot better than losing your shirt back east at some ungodly cold temperature. AZ's okay. Try not to live too far on the west side of town. Or north. Or east. South is good. Also Central.
steve -- never heard that. Heh. I like it.
ATablaRasa -- and I really like that. Thanks. It's closer to working than not, which surprises me, but I could get used to it.
Sorry I took so long to reply -- I just had to go off on the Pope and his big mouth. Click on the homepage for my snarling.
steve -- never heard that. Heh. I like it.
ATablaRasa -- and I really like that. Thanks. It's closer to working than not, which surprises me, but I could get used to it.
Sorry I took so long to reply -- I just had to go off on the Pope and his big mouth. Click on the homepage for my snarling.
Absolutely disgusting..
"Of COURSE Torture Works You Hyper-Sensitive Dumbasses!"
Over on Kos' (Click homepage for link)
"Nothing bugs me more than the people who claim to support the war but who fly off the handle, consumed by some sort of sick grief, when discussing a few "tortured" terrorists. At least the people opposed to war have an excuse for weeping like babies for the enemies of freedom: they're already openly on the same side."
Adam Yoshida is such pathetic piece of shit. This is a classic case of denial, "It will never happen to me.." So they don't bother caring. The same mentality goes along with the 'If you're not guilty you have nothing to fear' rhetoric.
This dumbass has *no* understanding of history enough to understand that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
What a moron.
MYOB'
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Absolutely disgusting..
"Of COURSE Torture Works You Hyper-Sensitive Dumbasses!"
Over on Kos' (Click homepage for link)
"Nothing bugs me more than the people who claim to support the war but who fly off the handle, consumed by some sort of sick grief, when discussing a few "tortured" terrorists. At least the people opposed to war have an excuse for weeping like babies for the enemies of freedom: they're already openly on the same side."
Adam Yoshida is such pathetic piece of shit. This is a classic case of denial, "It will never happen to me.." So they don't bother caring. The same mentality goes along with the 'If you're not guilty you have nothing to fear' rhetoric.
This dumbass has *no* understanding of history enough to understand that those who forget history are doomed to repeat it.
What a moron.
MYOB'
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I came here to understand liberals and have some dialog, but there is nothing here. Just hate. Hate for Bush, freedom, the free market, God and morals. Have fun in your cesspool.
I came here to understand liberals and have some dialog, but there is nothing here. Just hate. Hate for Bush, freedom, the free market, God and morals. Have fun in your cesspool.
Silleigh -- wtf? No idea.
Silleigh -- wtf? No idea.
Yes, we do so hate the freedom of being told what to think and say.
Yes, we do so hate the freedom of being told what to think and say.
AAFC, don't forget the extended cat blogging! Hate and cat care, a combination you can never go wrong with!
AAFC, don't forget the extended cat blogging! Hate and cat care, a combination you can never go wrong with!
Just hate. Hate for Bush
Umm. yeah?
(Sorry. It's so cute. Can I keep him?)
.
Just hate. Hate for Bush
Umm. yeah?
(Sorry. It's so cute. Can I keep him?)
.
Incognito, I had a cat years ago that I had to bathe because my small son was terribly allergic, but hopelessly in love with him (washing prevents buildup of saliva on their fur, which is the allergic agent). It's true they don't need to be bathed, but if you start when they are very young, do it with sensitivity to their aversion to water, and make it a regular thing, they will get used to it and actually come to like it, just like us. The adult Cecil (the cat) hated being dirty and would come and ask for his fortnightly bath. Keep the water away from his face and ears, and q-tip any water out of his ears when you dry him.
Man, people have very strong opinions on this. Who'da thought?
Incognito, I had a cat years ago that I had to bathe because my small son was terribly allergic, but hopelessly in love with him (washing prevents buildup of saliva on their fur, which is the allergic agent). It's true they don't need to be bathed, but if you start when they are very young, do it with sensitivity to their aversion to water, and make it a regular thing, they will get used to it and actually come to like it, just like us. The adult Cecil (the cat) hated being dirty and would come and ask for his fortnightly bath. Keep the water away from his face and ears, and q-tip any water out of his ears when you dry him.
Man, people have very strong opinions on this. Who'da thought?
I'm really fucking fed up with the trolls constantly saying we're the ones with hatred.
You fuckwit - I would be willing to bet that you are from LGF - the original Blog of Hate. Or maybe the Rottweiler, or the guy who has the blog called RemedialCruelty. Yeah, the left is full of similar sentiments, I've noticed in all the blogs on the left that are called Kill the Right and Let'sTorturePeople.
Go back there and spend your time hating on us because we want to steal Christmas from you and lock it up where you can't get it. Please. This projection is just absurd.
I'm really fucking fed up with the trolls constantly saying we're the ones with hatred.
You fuckwit - I would be willing to bet that you are from LGF - the original Blog of Hate. Or maybe the Rottweiler, or the guy who has the blog called RemedialCruelty. Yeah, the left is full of similar sentiments, I've noticed in all the blogs on the left that are called Kill the Right and Let'sTorturePeople.
Go back there and spend your time hating on us because we want to steal Christmas from you and lock it up where you can't get it. Please. This projection is just absurd.
I'm a victim. I'm a victim. You elitist liberals are so mean. I'm going home to eat chocolate chip cookies and milk. I'm a victim.
I'm a victim. I'm a victim. You elitist liberals are so mean. I'm going home to eat chocolate chip cookies and milk. I'm a victim.
MYOB -- well... it's Adam. His blog is no fun at all anymore since he got rid of comments (which I presume he did because He Won -- not his side, HE Won and now he wanted to gloat without everyone pointing out in stark detail and with numerous citations exactly how full of swine shit he really is).
He truly is a Bush voter all the way -- or, he would be, if he was even American. Vast evil, cluelessness, and self-righteousness in one sociopathic lump.
A day without Adam Y. is like a day with sunshine.
MYOB -- well... it's Adam. His blog is no fun at all anymore since he got rid of comments (which I presume he did because He Won -- not his side, HE Won and now he wanted to gloat without everyone pointing out in stark detail and with numerous citations exactly how full of swine shit he really is).
He truly is a Bush voter all the way -- or, he would be, if he was even American. Vast evil, cluelessness, and self-righteousness in one sociopathic lump.
A day without Adam Y. is like a day with sunshine.
GWPDA, wife's in Mesa, so east side is very likely, but I do like the idea of seeing the mountains up close. I had the misfortune to buy a manufactured home just before the bottom fell out, so I'm looking right now at dragging the house out there and planting it. See if it grows. I hear the low on Tuesday is supposed to be 11 here, so 75 sounds positively toasty.
GWPDA, wife's in Mesa, so east side is very likely, but I do like the idea of seeing the mountains up close. I had the misfortune to buy a manufactured home just before the bottom fell out, so I'm looking right now at dragging the house out there and planting it. See if it grows. I hear the low on Tuesday is supposed to be 11 here, so 75 sounds positively toasty.
mena - I can see bathing a cat with allergies. You have to when they have those allergies that cause them to lose hair in patches and have rough skin.
Otherwise, there is no reason to bathe a cat and they hate it. I just can't see doing it without a reason since it isn't necessary and they hate it. They don't hate it for nothing, is what I think.
mena - I can see bathing a cat with allergies. You have to when they have those allergies that cause them to lose hair in patches and have rough skin.
Otherwise, there is no reason to bathe a cat and they hate it. I just can't see doing it without a reason since it isn't necessary and they hate it. They don't hate it for nothing, is what I think.
Re: "Christmas"
In every culture which takes note of the Winter Solstice--which is to say, every single, solitary one since the dawn of man--there is a civic/social ceremony on the theme of "the festival of lights." This ceremony demarcates the return of the sun, the lengthening of days, and rebirth (literally) of "Light."
The mythology of "christmas" was lifted pretty much intact from the pre-Xian Roman festival celebrating the martial god of the Roman Legions, Mithras. The timing was decided upon to countervail and/or coopt the Roman Saturnalia feast (link)
Re: "Christmas"
In every culture which takes note of the Winter Solstice--which is to say, every single, solitary one since the dawn of man--there is a civic/social ceremony on the theme of "the festival of lights." This ceremony demarcates the return of the sun, the lengthening of days, and rebirth (literally) of "Light."
The mythology of "christmas" was lifted pretty much intact from the pre-Xian Roman festival celebrating the martial god of the Roman Legions, Mithras. The timing was decided upon to countervail and/or coopt the Roman Saturnalia feast (link)
You liberals think you are very funny now, you will not be so laughing when you are arrested for crimes against the state like sedition and treason. We who are loyal to the US and to Bush have nothing to fear, but you do. Which is why you are all soooo scared of this happening. I can't wait.
You liberals think you are very funny now, you will not be so laughing when you are arrested for crimes against the state like sedition and treason. We who are loyal to the US and to Bush have nothing to fear, but you do. Which is why you are all soooo scared of this happening. I can't wait.
American Action Figure - tell us again about how the liberals are the "thought police."
American Action Figure - tell us again about how the liberals are the "thought police."
"I was just happy yesterday, visiting my GYN, to see a Happy Hanukkah thing strung across the window. Nice to see something DIFFERENT."
I've seen plenty of 'Happy Hanukkah' signs as well as 'Happy Holidays' or 'Season's Greetings,' and nobody was complaining. The entire fiasco is being made up by the media since there are no more murder trials to cover. Most of my southern baptist family members agree. They've always considered 'Happy Holidays' as being meant to cover both christmas and new years since they're just one week apart. My uncle's former hardware store use to have 'Happy holidays' signs up along with an xmas tree, a star of david with menorah, and he's as close to a neocon as they come. He never complained.
The whole thing is a made up controversy by political christian conservatives to try and push more of their agenda and the damned media is sucking it up like kids with candy.
MYOB'
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"I was just happy yesterday, visiting my GYN, to see a Happy Hanukkah thing strung across the window. Nice to see something DIFFERENT."
I've seen plenty of 'Happy Hanukkah' signs as well as 'Happy Holidays' or 'Season's Greetings,' and nobody was complaining. The entire fiasco is being made up by the media since there are no more murder trials to cover. Most of my southern baptist family members agree. They've always considered 'Happy Holidays' as being meant to cover both christmas and new years since they're just one week apart. My uncle's former hardware store use to have 'Happy holidays' signs up along with an xmas tree, a star of david with menorah, and he's as close to a neocon as they come. He never complained.
The whole thing is a made up controversy by political christian conservatives to try and push more of their agenda and the damned media is sucking it up like kids with candy.
MYOB'
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It's not worth it, Tena. The cognitive dissonance that shudders through the right half of the blogosphere is terrifying yet amusing.
Just consider Exhibit A. They are still ragging on Bill Clinton.
But we are the ones filled with hate.
They're the people of the land. The common clay of the new world. You know.
Morons.
It's not worth it, Tena. The cognitive dissonance that shudders through the right half of the blogosphere is terrifying yet amusing.
Just consider Exhibit A. They are still ragging on Bill Clinton.
But we are the ones filled with hate.
They're the people of the land. The common clay of the new world. You know.
Morons.
"I had the misfortune to buy a manufactured home just before the bottom fell out, so I'm looking right now at dragging the house out there and planting it. See if it grows."
Don't.
Do.
This.
This is the 5th largest metropolitan area in the country. You can't just put a house down. Altho Mesa, as a Mormon town, does not permit stuff like zoning, even they will disapprove of you just sort of plopping down a large piece of metal somewhere.
Mountains up close? We have mountains? We have some lumps, but mountains, not so much. You may have us confused with Tierra Encantanda, which you will see as you proceed West. Us? Sonoran Desert. Mostly.
If you live in the center of Phoenix you are no more than maybe fifteen miles in any direction to everywhere else. You also have a shot at living in a real place, with good Chinese restaurants, libraries, transportation, intelligent civic administration and reasonable prices. But it's up to you.
"I had the misfortune to buy a manufactured home just before the bottom fell out, so I'm looking right now at dragging the house out there and planting it. See if it grows."
Don't.
Do.
This.
This is the 5th largest metropolitan area in the country. You can't just put a house down. Altho Mesa, as a Mormon town, does not permit stuff like zoning, even they will disapprove of you just sort of plopping down a large piece of metal somewhere.
Mountains up close? We have mountains? We have some lumps, but mountains, not so much. You may have us confused with Tierra Encantanda, which you will see as you proceed West. Us? Sonoran Desert. Mostly.
If you live in the center of Phoenix you are no more than maybe fifteen miles in any direction to everywhere else. You also have a shot at living in a real place, with good Chinese restaurants, libraries, transportation, intelligent civic administration and reasonable prices. But it's up to you.
I said I was leaving but,I'm still around because you are all so hate-filled toward Our Leader and toward God's only son, NASCAR.
I said I was leaving but,I'm still around because you are all so hate-filled toward Our Leader and toward God's only son, NASCAR.
AmericanActionblahblahblah -
Come right on over to my house right now and see about taking me in for sedition, you dickless wonder. I would love it.
Just come right on. Please.
AmericanActionblahblahblah -
Come right on over to my house right now and see about taking me in for sedition, you dickless wonder. I would love it.
Just come right on. Please.
AmericanAction FigNewton-Try saying that without Liddy Dole sitting on your face.
AmericanAction FigNewton-Try saying that without Liddy Dole sitting on your face.
AmericanActionWhatever:
Does the phrase shit for brains
mean anything to you?
AmericanActionWhatever:
Does the phrase shit for brains
mean anything to you?
That 44% who wants Muslims followed is most likely ALL and the same who voted for bu$h 11-2-04
.....but with a little help from that super high tech computer program bought with the missing Iraq oil money, the end result was 51%, enough to keep the money train rolling for the thugs.
That 44% who wants Muslims followed is most likely ALL and the same who voted for bu$h 11-2-04
.....but with a little help from that super high tech computer program bought with the missing Iraq oil money, the end result was 51%, enough to keep the money train rolling for the thugs.
Shit - you're a parody.
Damn, and I was so looking forward to having you come and try to take me away. I really was. What a disappointment.
Shit - you're a parody.
Damn, and I was so looking forward to having you come and try to take me away. I really was. What a disappointment.
Come right on over to my house right now and see about taking me in for sedition, you dickless wonder. I would love it.
How embarrassing. You gonna kick his ass, tena?
Come right on over to my house right now and see about taking me in for sedition, you dickless wonder. I would love it.
How embarrassing. You gonna kick his ass, tena?
Hey Bebe:
Just wondering -- how did this whole
Liddy Dole obsessesion start?
It's funny as hell, don't get me
wrong, but I'm curious.
Hey Bebe:
Just wondering -- how did this whole
Liddy Dole obsessesion start?
It's funny as hell, don't get me
wrong, but I'm curious.
Oh, and ATablaRasa - we do have one really significant mountain, almost - Piestewa Peak. I look at it from my front yard, it's about 8 blocks away. In the middle of town. Also, the Camelback, right next to it. Voila, mountains.
Oh, and ATablaRasa - we do have one really significant mountain, almost - Piestewa Peak. I look at it from my front yard, it's about 8 blocks away. In the middle of town. Also, the Camelback, right next to it. Voila, mountains.
Zionism is racism! End state terror! End all war everywhere!!
Zionism is racism! End state terror! End all war everywhere!!
You liberals think you are very funny now, you will not be so laughing when you are arrested for crimes against the state like sedition and treason.
And I soooooo want to encourage you to come to Albuquerque and serve my warrant personally. Please, o please, o pretty pretty please show your fat ass up on my doorstep with a sedition warrant.
Be sure it's on a nice, aborbent sanitary napkin that you can slap over the sucking chest wound that will directly thereafter appear on your cowardly, feculent carcass while you're waiting for the ambulance...or the hearse...
Bring it, shitwipe...just bring it...
You liberals think you are very funny now, you will not be so laughing when you are arrested for crimes against the state like sedition and treason.
And I soooooo want to encourage you to come to Albuquerque and serve my warrant personally. Please, o please, o pretty pretty please show your fat ass up on my doorstep with a sedition warrant.
Be sure it's on a nice, aborbent sanitary napkin that you can slap over the sucking chest wound that will directly thereafter appear on your cowardly, feculent carcass while you're waiting for the ambulance...or the hearse...
Bring it, shitwipe...just bring it...
How do you bathe a cat? They're wild-eyed about it and they have claws.
ΤΏΤ | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 2:35 pm | #
In over fifty years of owning cats I only tried to bathe one, and that was because he had dirtied himself on the way back from the vet.
As long as he is grooming himself and doesn't smell, leave him alone. Once he gets all those good vitamins circulating his coat will get shiney.
How do you bathe a cat? They're wild-eyed about it and they have claws.
ΤΏΤ | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 2:35 pm | #
In over fifty years of owning cats I only tried to bathe one, and that was because he had dirtied himself on the way back from the vet.
As long as he is grooming himself and doesn't smell, leave him alone. Once he gets all those good vitamins circulating his coat will get shiney.
A day without Adam Y. is like a day with sunshine.
filkertom | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 3:53 pm | #
Too true.
It's like these people have absolutely no ability to think deeply at all?
It's funny how they'll rush to defend the constitution's stated right to own guns but then rush in the opposite direction when it comes to protecting the very laws that protect the other rights included.
In the end the whole thing seems to come down to hypocritical love of violence. They love it when it happens to someone else, get pissed off when those on the receiving end start to fight back, then demand their right to do the same damned thing!
Madness.
MYOB'
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A day without Adam Y. is like a day with sunshine.
filkertom | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 3:53 pm | #
Too true.
It's like these people have absolutely no ability to think deeply at all?
It's funny how they'll rush to defend the constitution's stated right to own guns but then rush in the opposite direction when it comes to protecting the very laws that protect the other rights included.
In the end the whole thing seems to come down to hypocritical love of violence. They love it when it happens to someone else, get pissed off when those on the receiving end start to fight back, then demand their right to do the same damned thing!
Madness.
MYOB'
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That's it.
Some "liberals" think it's funny to play "right-winger". The whole "meta-" thing.
Cut it out. You're not funny.
.
That's it.
Some "liberals" think it's funny to play "right-winger". The whole "meta-" thing.
Cut it out. You're not funny.
.
He'll have a blue Christnas without her.
He wanted so badly to screw her.
When she told him, "Get lost," he was thrown for a loop.
That's why he threw all that chimpanzee poop.
He thought a 'Sleeze blowjob was certain,
And now his Chimp blue balls are hurtin'.
She'll be doing all right, with her knees locked up tight,
But he'll have a blue, blue Christmas.
He'll have a blue Christnas without her.
He wanted so badly to screw her.
When she told him, "Get lost," he was thrown for a loop.
That's why he threw all that chimpanzee poop.
He thought a 'Sleeze blowjob was certain,
And now his Chimp blue balls are hurtin'.
She'll be doing all right, with her knees locked up tight,
But he'll have a blue, blue Christmas.
Thanks, filkertom. You may have actually met my mother - she and my father came to cons back when their health was better. They got to a couple of Marcons and several InCon Junctions.
Tena - I mentioned your mother-in-law in the usual after-practice choir prayers. Can't hurt.
Oh, yeah, happy Kwanzaa. I knew there was something missing from my holiday wishes. And of course it's made up - they all are.
Thanks, filkertom. You may have actually met my mother - she and my father came to cons back when their health was better. They got to a couple of Marcons and several InCon Junctions.
Tena - I mentioned your mother-in-law in the usual after-practice choir prayers. Can't hurt.
Oh, yeah, happy Kwanzaa. I knew there was something missing from my holiday wishes. And of course it's made up - they all are.
Not the peasants we mercilessly slaughtered in Fallujah.
"peasants?" Exqueeze me?
Not the peasants we mercilessly slaughtered in Fallujah.
"peasants?" Exqueeze me?
......but with a little help from that super high tech computer program bought with the missing Iraq oil money, the end result was 51%, enough to keep the money train rolling for the thugs.
June has hammered that nail in all the way with one stroke.
......but with a little help from that super high tech computer program bought with the missing Iraq oil money, the end result was 51%, enough to keep the money train rolling for the thugs.
June has hammered that nail in all the way with one stroke.
I came here to understand liberals and have some dialog, but there is nothing here. Just hate. Hate for Bush, freedom, the free market, God and morals. Have fun in your cesspool.
American Action Freedom Champi
How about it? This the funniest post on Eschaton yet this year?
The Nazis are scared, they've got control of the government and are about to discover what they fear, that the majority of the people hate their program. The disasters are all going to be on their pointy little heads. And the disasters are going to make the great depression and WWII (you know the one in the Tom Hanks move, Trolls) look like minor inconveniences.
THEN, oh THEN.... We will re-write the constitution to make it a truly democratic document, we will get rid of the phony feudal-federalism that has kept the country a backwards empire. We will even get rid of local school boards and private health insurance.
Trolls will all be sent to mandatory night-school.
I came here to understand liberals and have some dialog, but there is nothing here. Just hate. Hate for Bush, freedom, the free market, God and morals. Have fun in your cesspool.
American Action Freedom Champi
How about it? This the funniest post on Eschaton yet this year?
The Nazis are scared, they've got control of the government and are about to discover what they fear, that the majority of the people hate their program. The disasters are all going to be on their pointy little heads. And the disasters are going to make the great depression and WWII (you know the one in the Tom Hanks move, Trolls) look like minor inconveniences.
THEN, oh THEN.... We will re-write the constitution to make it a truly democratic document, we will get rid of the phony feudal-federalism that has kept the country a backwards empire. We will even get rid of local school boards and private health insurance.
Trolls will all be sent to mandatory night-school.
You do not understand a thing. Such children, with no respect for their elders OR betters. Only media bias and hatred for freedom. Well, the Great Roundup is coming, as soon as the next terror attack your so-called freedom to bad mouth America and comfort her enemies will come to a screeching halt. I can't wait. Your evil will be punished.
You do not understand a thing. Such children, with no respect for their elders OR betters. Only media bias and hatred for freedom. Well, the Great Roundup is coming, as soon as the next terror attack your so-called freedom to bad mouth America and comfort her enemies will come to a screeching halt. I can't wait. Your evil will be punished.
June has hammered that nail in all the way with one stroke.
So it is now the position of the regulars on this blog that Bush stole THIS election as well!!????
Sweet merciful Jesus. Please save the Democratic Party from these lunatics. This is my Christmas wish.
June has hammered that nail in all the way with one stroke.
So it is now the position of the regulars on this blog that Bush stole THIS election as well!!????
Sweet merciful Jesus. Please save the Democratic Party from these lunatics. This is my Christmas wish.
Ahianne - thank you for the prayers. All good wishes and thoughts are forces for good in this universe. I appreciate it very much. And she's much better today, so you really helped us.
Ahianne - thank you for the prayers. All good wishes and thoughts are forces for good in this universe. I appreciate it very much. And she's much better today, so you really helped us.
ΤΏΤ, if you're still around. I'm late to the game here. Had to do some work this afternoon and banned myself from the internets for as long as I could stand.
I recommend a nice kitty brush and no bath. Brings oils to the surface, plus gets rid of all that cat hair that covers the sofa. Voila! Shiny coat. And cats love to be brushed.
I'm with you. Good dry food only. Took my cat off of canned food a long time ago. Causes diarebba (at least in my cat's case).
ΤΏΤ, if you're still around. I'm late to the game here. Had to do some work this afternoon and banned myself from the internets for as long as I could stand.
I recommend a nice kitty brush and no bath. Brings oils to the surface, plus gets rid of all that cat hair that covers the sofa. Voila! Shiny coat. And cats love to be brushed.
I'm with you. Good dry food only. Took my cat off of canned food a long time ago. Causes diarebba (at least in my cat's case).
You liberals are the reason my date didn't blow me last night. She grabbed my crotch but then lost interest right afterwards. She must have felt it so she knew I had to have one.
You liberals are the reason my date didn't blow me last night. She grabbed my crotch but then lost interest right afterwards. She must have felt it so she knew I had to have one.
AAF Chimpy -
I find you amusing. You accuse the liberals of being "full of hate," yet your own posts say things like "cesspool," "stupid liberals. How dumb can you get?," "Hippie claptrap and anti-freedom," and you can't wait for us to get arrested.
Does Jesus know you're saying things like this? I thought the Bible warned against hypocrisy. You should really be more careful.
Merry Christmas!
AAF Chimpy -
I find you amusing. You accuse the liberals of being "full of hate," yet your own posts say things like "cesspool," "stupid liberals. How dumb can you get?," "Hippie claptrap and anti-freedom," and you can't wait for us to get arrested.
Does Jesus know you're saying things like this? I thought the Bible warned against hypocrisy. You should really be more careful.
Merry Christmas!
I am now hoping for another terrorist attack. That is how much I love 'murica. Why can't you elitists understand that?
I am now hoping for another terrorist attack. That is how much I love 'murica. Why can't you elitists understand that?
I came here to understand liberals and have some dialog, but there is nothing here. Just hate. Hate for Bush, freedom, the free market, God and morals. Have fun in your cesspool.
American Action Freedom Champi
I take it you love Bill and Hillary Clinton? He freed the people of Kosovo while Georgge H.W. Bush was too much of a pussy to do anything about, but I guess they don't count since we're only supposed to murder muslims, not save them? If I hated freedom I'd be stalking you back to your Mom's basement right now. As for the cesspool, I'm glad to hear of your plans to enlist and go fight in Iraq?
Last but not least, 'God and morals.' Prove god exists first and we'll talk about it.
MYOB'
.
I came here to understand liberals and have some dialog, but there is nothing here. Just hate. Hate for Bush, freedom, the free market, God and morals. Have fun in your cesspool.
American Action Freedom Champi
I take it you love Bill and Hillary Clinton? He freed the people of Kosovo while Georgge H.W. Bush was too much of a pussy to do anything about, but I guess they don't count since we're only supposed to murder muslims, not save them? If I hated freedom I'd be stalking you back to your Mom's basement right now. As for the cesspool, I'm glad to hear of your plans to enlist and go fight in Iraq?
Last but not least, 'God and morals.' Prove god exists first and we'll talk about it.
MYOB'
.
BTW, I'm quite disappointed that no one loves the Alec Baldwin holiday greeting quite as much as I do.
Perhaps you had to have seen it to know how hysterical it was.
BTW, I'm quite disappointed that no one loves the Alec Baldwin holiday greeting quite as much as I do.
Perhaps you had to have seen it to know how hysterical it was.
GWPDA, yes, you have mountains. We have hills and I can tell the difference. I drove the loop around the Superstitions and was in a place not far from Heaven. And I have managed to get to Colorado with reasonable frequency, so I know what the big dogs, the fourteeners, look like too.
But for here, the highest elevation above the surrounding terrain for a good 200 miles is found at the top of the Epic Center -- 22 stories above the street. OOOOOHHHHHH!
I really did think I'd place the house on a lot, with sewer and water and all. I have a real estate agent, a mover and a mortgage specialist. What I don't have is a lot I'm happy with. I've even learned to deal with the concept of paying $55,000 for a lot.
I'm not saying you're wrong about the idea of living closer to the center, though. It took me 3/4 of an hour to drive from Mesa up to the north end a couple months ago, on a Sunday morning. Any suggestions or wisdom you have, I will certainly welcome and listen to (though being a liberal elitist hate monger, I may not follow the advice even if it's excellent!).
GWPDA, yes, you have mountains. We have hills and I can tell the difference. I drove the loop around the Superstitions and was in a place not far from Heaven. And I have managed to get to Colorado with reasonable frequency, so I know what the big dogs, the fourteeners, look like too.
But for here, the highest elevation above the surrounding terrain for a good 200 miles is found at the top of the Epic Center -- 22 stories above the street. OOOOOHHHHHH!
I really did think I'd place the house on a lot, with sewer and water and all. I have a real estate agent, a mover and a mortgage specialist. What I don't have is a lot I'm happy with. I've even learned to deal with the concept of paying $55,000 for a lot.
I'm not saying you're wrong about the idea of living closer to the center, though. It took me 3/4 of an hour to drive from Mesa up to the north end a couple months ago, on a Sunday morning. Any suggestions or wisdom you have, I will certainly welcome and listen to (though being a liberal elitist hate monger, I may not follow the advice even if it's excellent!).
Fluffy, your reading skills are severly impaired. Have you been hanging out with Rush and his housekeeper?
Fluffy, your reading skills are severly impaired. Have you been hanging out with Rush and his housekeeper?
The sad thing is that AmericanAction
guy is right about one thing --
when there's another major terrorist
attack on this country, we can
kiss the constitution goodbye.
Fascist dictatorship a go go.
.
The sad thing is that AmericanAction
guy is right about one thing --
when there's another major terrorist
attack on this country, we can
kiss the constitution goodbye.
Fascist dictatorship a go go.
.
Kissfan. Kiss stands for 'Kids in Satans Service.'
Kissfan. Kiss stands for 'Kids in Satans Service.'
with a little help from that super high tech computer program bought from blah blah blah
My reading skills are just fine, thanks.
with a little help from that super high tech computer program bought from blah blah blah
My reading skills are just fine, thanks.
http://www.allelectronics.com
For the best light show ever, go there, and type in "Christmas lights" and check out the LED 20 bars light show.
I decorated my door at work, and received the 'Most Bizarre' award.
http://www.allelectronics.com
For the best light show ever, go there, and type in "Christmas lights" and check out the LED 20 bars light show.
I decorated my door at work, and received the 'Most Bizarre' award.
Jennifer - I saw it and I've always loved it. It reminds me of all those 'holiday letters' we get from people we don't know.
I'm reading David Sedaris' little collection of holiday stories and the middle one is a long holiday letter from this woman and it is hysterical. I got pissed off one year about those letters and wrote up a parody that Mr. Tena would not let me print and send. It was vicious.
I enjoyed reading Alex's letter. Thanks for posting it.
Jennifer - I saw it and I've always loved it. It reminds me of all those 'holiday letters' we get from people we don't know.
I'm reading David Sedaris' little collection of holiday stories and the middle one is a long holiday letter from this woman and it is hysterical. I got pissed off one year about those letters and wrote up a parody that Mr. Tena would not let me print and send. It was vicious.
I enjoyed reading Alex's letter. Thanks for posting it.
Perhaps you had to have seen it to know how hysterical it was.
Jennifer
really, there's no such thing as an outside joke. Ya pretty much gotta be there, when performance is a significant part of the humor...
"To be or not to be, that is the gazrnanplatt!"
Perhaps you had to have seen it to know how hysterical it was.
Jennifer
really, there's no such thing as an outside joke. Ya pretty much gotta be there, when performance is a significant part of the humor...
"To be or not to be, that is the gazrnanplatt!"
The sad thing is that AmericanAction
guy is right about one thing --
when there's another major terrorist
attack on this country, we can
kiss the constitution goodbye.
Fascist dictatorship a go go.
.
steve simels | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 4:16 pm | #
We'll have a lot more than a fascist dictatorship, we'll have the beginning of the second american civil war/revolution.
MYOB'
.
The sad thing is that AmericanAction
guy is right about one thing --
when there's another major terrorist
attack on this country, we can
kiss the constitution goodbye.
Fascist dictatorship a go go.
.
steve simels | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 4:16 pm | #
We'll have a lot more than a fascist dictatorship, we'll have the beginning of the second american civil war/revolution.
MYOB'
.
My reading skills are just fine, thanks.
Fluffy
Just goes to show ya the extent to which delusions can capture your mind, don't it, Fluff...I find no evidence of reading skills nor any trace of critical acumen...
but somebody posting as "fluffy" starts with a disadvantage unknowable to anyone not so afflicted...
My reading skills are just fine, thanks.
Fluffy
Just goes to show ya the extent to which delusions can capture your mind, don't it, Fluff...I find no evidence of reading skills nor any trace of critical acumen...
but somebody posting as "fluffy" starts with a disadvantage unknowable to anyone not so afflicted...
We'll have a lot more than a fascist dictatorship, we'll have the beginning of the second american civil war/revolution.
Yup. At least 58-59 million Americans (Kerry voters) rejected Bush's theocratic doctrine. The attempt at the full-scale implementation of a facist society will lead to a horrific clash.
We'll have a lot more than a fascist dictatorship, we'll have the beginning of the second american civil war/revolution.
Yup. At least 58-59 million Americans (Kerry voters) rejected Bush's theocratic doctrine. The attempt at the full-scale implementation of a facist society will lead to a horrific clash.
I came here to understand liberals and have some dialog, but there is nothing here. Just hate. Hate for Bush, freedom, the free market, God and morals. Have fun in your cesspool.
American Action Freedom Champi
Say, you're not the old crotchety guy who lived on our block 30 years ago who always spouted off about "commies" and "pinkos" and "hippies" and was so scary all the kids, even the babies, hated him, are you?
Because I thought you died.
I came here to understand liberals and have some dialog, but there is nothing here. Just hate. Hate for Bush, freedom, the free market, God and morals. Have fun in your cesspool.
American Action Freedom Champi
Say, you're not the old crotchety guy who lived on our block 30 years ago who always spouted off about "commies" and "pinkos" and "hippies" and was so scary all the kids, even the babies, hated him, are you?
Because I thought you died.
MYOB, my fear is that it will be more of an American intafata
MYOB, my fear is that it will be more of an American intafata
My birthday is under siege
well actually it's not your birthday, it's an appropriated pagan holiday.
My aunt, whom I agree with on most things ordinarily, was going off the other day about how secularized Christmas has become and how it's really about Christ, not gift-giving and Santa Claus and such.
I love her too much to have ruined her rant by saying, 'um, actually no one really knows exactly when he was born, they weren't using a Gregorian calendar back then anyway. Christmas is just something the Church made up to help them Christianize the pagans'
My birthday is under siege
well actually it's not your birthday, it's an appropriated pagan holiday.
My aunt, whom I agree with on most things ordinarily, was going off the other day about how secularized Christmas has become and how it's really about Christ, not gift-giving and Santa Claus and such.
I love her too much to have ruined her rant by saying, 'um, actually no one really knows exactly when he was born, they weren't using a Gregorian calendar back then anyway. Christmas is just something the Church made up to help them Christianize the pagans'
Incognito - I had a cat who was wild and abandoned and adopted him. He was almost starved, had worms, dull, patchy coat etc. You can bathe him but it probably won't shiny up his coat - it will take months of good food and care and it will gradually come. Be patient. He was also very wild and hid in the house all the time but he gradually over a year got friendlier and trusted us. It takes a lot of time and patience.
Incognito - I had a cat who was wild and abandoned and adopted him. He was almost starved, had worms, dull, patchy coat etc. You can bathe him but it probably won't shiny up his coat - it will take months of good food and care and it will gradually come. Be patient. He was also very wild and hid in the house all the time but he gradually over a year got friendlier and trusted us. It takes a lot of time and patience.
Say, you're not the old crotchety guy who lived on our block 30 years ago who always spouted off about "commies" and "pinkos" and "hippies" and was so scary all the kids, even the babies, hated him, are you?
Dang smoochers! Get off my property, or you'll get a backside full of rock salt!
Dang smoochers!
All humor is indeed inside humor...
Say, you're not the old crotchety guy who lived on our block 30 years ago who always spouted off about "commies" and "pinkos" and "hippies" and was so scary all the kids, even the babies, hated him, are you?
Dang smoochers! Get off my property, or you'll get a backside full of rock salt!
Dang smoochers!
All humor is indeed inside humor...
Prediction:
If (big if) the GOPukes lose either House or Senate in 2006, and/or a significant populist threat arises to threaten the Il Douche and his lick-spittles, toadies, and sycophants, there will occur another deadly, bloody 'terror' attack which will have the net effect of causing the cancellation of all civil liberties...
Prediction:
If (big if) the GOPukes lose either House or Senate in 2006, and/or a significant populist threat arises to threaten the Il Douche and his lick-spittles, toadies, and sycophants, there will occur another deadly, bloody 'terror' attack which will have the net effect of causing the cancellation of all civil liberties...
I used to bathe the cats with flea shampoo when they were infested. They were good kitties - there was very little bloodshed. Haven't given a cat a bath since they came up with that flea-killing stuff you squirt onto the back of the neck.
Not all cats have shiny coats. The late lamented Turtle had an undercoat almost as long as her guard coat and was always wooly rather than sleek and shiny. Kittens tend to be fuzzy too, so give String time to get his adult coat.
I used to bathe the cats with flea shampoo when they were infested. They were good kitties - there was very little bloodshed. Haven't given a cat a bath since they came up with that flea-killing stuff you squirt onto the back of the neck.
Not all cats have shiny coats. The late lamented Turtle had an undercoat almost as long as her guard coat and was always wooly rather than sleek and shiny. Kittens tend to be fuzzy too, so give String time to get his adult coat.
Hate to be the pessimist but...
What makes everyone so sure that Americans won't just go along with whatever Bush & Co. dish out?
I mean, look what he's done so far, and he was "re" elected. It should have been a Kerry landslide.
That it wasn't proves that people aren't thinking for themselves.
Hitler's party wasn't the majority party, and look how far he was able to lead the Germans astray.
And as in Hitler's time, one of the principal targets is intellectualism and its adherants, i.e., people who do think for themselves.
Watch the ease with which they will soon completely dismantle Social Security, with the full and enthusiastic support of a majority of voters, and then tell yourself again that "it can't happen here." Mark it as a bellweather of what's yet to come.
Hate to be the pessimist but...
What makes everyone so sure that Americans won't just go along with whatever Bush & Co. dish out?
I mean, look what he's done so far, and he was "re" elected. It should have been a Kerry landslide.
That it wasn't proves that people aren't thinking for themselves.
Hitler's party wasn't the majority party, and look how far he was able to lead the Germans astray.
And as in Hitler's time, one of the principal targets is intellectualism and its adherants, i.e., people who do think for themselves.
Watch the ease with which they will soon completely dismantle Social Security, with the full and enthusiastic support of a majority of voters, and then tell yourself again that "it can't happen here." Mark it as a bellweather of what's yet to come.
I read in today's paper that this is supposed to be the worst shopping day of the year. Given that, I can only assume it won't be too bad, based on my paper's usual accuracy, as I go do my usual shopping.
GWPDA, if you do have suggestions, please lay 'em on me and I'll check back when and if I manage to return.
I read in today's paper that this is supposed to be the worst shopping day of the year. Given that, I can only assume it won't be too bad, based on my paper's usual accuracy, as I go do my usual shopping.
GWPDA, if you do have suggestions, please lay 'em on me and I'll check back when and if I manage to return.
To be or not to be, that is the gazrnanplatt!"
Konopelli | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 4:19 pm | #
Oh my god -- old Bob Newhart bit?
Infinite number of monkeys at the
infinite number of typewriters?
To be or not to be, that is the gazrnanplatt!"
Konopelli | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 4:19 pm | #
Oh my god -- old Bob Newhart bit?
Infinite number of monkeys at the
infinite number of typewriters?
Dang smoochers! Get off my property, or you'll get a backside full of rock salt!
Dang smoochers!
All humor is indeed inside humor...
Thersites | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 4:26 pm
BWAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!
MSTies of the World, Unite!
Dang smoochers! Get off my property, or you'll get a backside full of rock salt!
Dang smoochers!
All humor is indeed inside humor...
Thersites | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 4:26 pm
BWAHAHAHAHAHAAA!!
MSTies of the World, Unite!
MSTies of the World, Unite!
filkertom | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 4:31 pm | #
I'm huge!
MSTies of the World, Unite!
filkertom | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 4:31 pm | #
I'm huge!
Infinite number of monkeys at the
infinite number of typewriters?
steve simels
Mebbe the OLDEST Newhart bit; certainly one of the oldest. I was no more than 10-12 when I heard it for the first time, and it continues to crack me up down to this day...
Infinite number of monkeys at the
infinite number of typewriters?
steve simels
Mebbe the OLDEST Newhart bit; certainly one of the oldest. I was no more than 10-12 when I heard it for the first time, and it continues to crack me up down to this day...
Incog -
Do. Not. Bathe. Cat.
Thank you.
Incog -
Do. Not. Bathe. Cat.
Thank you.
Kissfan. Kiss stands for 'Kids in Satans Service.'
Yeah, I heard that one too along with Gene Simmons' tongue was surgically enhanced with a cow's tongue and that he spit chicken blood during concerts. They also used to tell everybody that the make-up really was their real faces and that Gene was hatched from an egg in 1776. However, when I grew up, I realized how feeble and childish all of those things were. For crying out loud, Gene Simmons attended rabidinal school as a teenager. If that's the best you've got, you better move along little one.
Kissfan. Kiss stands for 'Kids in Satans Service.'
Yeah, I heard that one too along with Gene Simmons' tongue was surgically enhanced with a cow's tongue and that he spit chicken blood during concerts. They also used to tell everybody that the make-up really was their real faces and that Gene was hatched from an egg in 1776. However, when I grew up, I realized how feeble and childish all of those things were. For crying out loud, Gene Simmons attended rabidinal school as a teenager. If that's the best you've got, you better move along little one.
Konopelli:
I've always wondered how to spell
gzrnplatt.
Konopelli:
I've always wondered how to spell
gzrnplatt.
when and if I manage to return.
ATablaRasa | Email | Homepage
That foto on your blog sure looks like northern New Mexico/Arizona//southern Colorado/Utah...
when and if I manage to return.
ATablaRasa | Email | Homepage
That foto on your blog sure looks like northern New Mexico/Arizona//southern Colorado/Utah...
I think the social security issue will be the straw that breaks the camel's back of the Bush administration. If AARP and other senior groups don't cave or get bought off, I think they could lose this one. (But only because of the huge deficit.) Maybe then they will start going down - maybe,maybe...
I think the social security issue will be the straw that breaks the camel's back of the Bush administration. If AARP and other senior groups don't cave or get bought off, I think they could lose this one. (But only because of the huge deficit.) Maybe then they will start going down - maybe,maybe...
Actually, AAF Chimpy,
I'm surprised you're not a Kiss fan yourself. Gene Simmons was a Bush supporter in this last election.
Actually, AAF Chimpy,
I'm surprised you're not a Kiss fan yourself. Gene Simmons was a Bush supporter in this last election.
gzrnplatt.
steve simels
steve, i owe it all to hukt ahn fonix
gzrnplatt.
steve simels
steve, i owe it all to hukt ahn fonix
I want to do one of those medley
records some day with snippets of
great psychedelic songs from the 60s
and call it Hooked On Drugs.
Hey, it could happen....
I want to do one of those medley
records some day with snippets of
great psychedelic songs from the 60s
and call it Hooked On Drugs.
Hey, it could happen....
Kissfan. Kiss stands for 'Kids in Satans Service.'
Yeah, I heard that one too along with Gene Simmons' tongue was surgically enhanced with a cow's tongue and that he spit chicken blood during concerts. They also used to tell everybody that the make-up really was their real faces and that Gene was hatched from an egg in 1776. However, when I grew up, I realized how feeble and childish all of those things were. For crying out loud, Gene Simmons attended rabidinal school as a teenager. If that's the best you've got, you better move along little one.
kissfan | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 4:35 pm
My favorite was from the first KISS comic (the one printed with "real KISS BLOOD!!!"):
"... why... 'KISS'?"
"Probably because he couldn't spell 'osculate'...."
Kissfan. Kiss stands for 'Kids in Satans Service.'
Yeah, I heard that one too along with Gene Simmons' tongue was surgically enhanced with a cow's tongue and that he spit chicken blood during concerts. They also used to tell everybody that the make-up really was their real faces and that Gene was hatched from an egg in 1776. However, when I grew up, I realized how feeble and childish all of those things were. For crying out loud, Gene Simmons attended rabidinal school as a teenager. If that's the best you've got, you better move along little one.
kissfan | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 4:35 pm
My favorite was from the first KISS comic (the one printed with "real KISS BLOOD!!!"):
"... why... 'KISS'?"
"Probably because he couldn't spell 'osculate'...."
I came here to understand liberals and have some dialog, but there is nothing here. Just hate. Hate for Bush, freedom, the free market, God and morals. Have fun in your cesspool.
American Action Freedom Champi
This comment reveals the extreme pyschosis and ignorance of the average Bushist. First, we don't live in a monarchy; it is perfectly acceptable to strongly disapprove of an elected representative. Next, those who proclaim their love of "freedom" seem incongruently silent when the Bill of Rights is being systematically dismantled and intrusions of "big, bad" government become more frequent and sanctioned. Next, love of a free market is actually the antithesis of the crony capitalism and trauma whoring which has produced the dismantling of social security and Halliburton/Bechtel war whoring. It's absolutely incredible that such cultish thinking has taken over our society and that those who are distinctly anti-Constitutional somehow fancy themselves "patriotic." Champi, at least have the intellectual honesty to admit your cultish adherence to Bush & posse. Don't pretend that you have any intellectual/moral justification whatsoever for your facilitation of the dismantling of this country.
I came here to understand liberals and have some dialog, but there is nothing here. Just hate. Hate for Bush, freedom, the free market, God and morals. Have fun in your cesspool.
American Action Freedom Champi
This comment reveals the extreme pyschosis and ignorance of the average Bushist. First, we don't live in a monarchy; it is perfectly acceptable to strongly disapprove of an elected representative. Next, those who proclaim their love of "freedom" seem incongruently silent when the Bill of Rights is being systematically dismantled and intrusions of "big, bad" government become more frequent and sanctioned. Next, love of a free market is actually the antithesis of the crony capitalism and trauma whoring which has produced the dismantling of social security and Halliburton/Bechtel war whoring. It's absolutely incredible that such cultish thinking has taken over our society and that those who are distinctly anti-Constitutional somehow fancy themselves "patriotic." Champi, at least have the intellectual honesty to admit your cultish adherence to Bush & posse. Don't pretend that you have any intellectual/moral justification whatsoever for your facilitation of the dismantling of this country.
'We in the heartland are tired of your elitist garbage and we are taking our country back.'
Not only are you suffering from incipient messianic megalomanic insanity resulting in disintegration of brain cells but your "heartland" hearts show too much artery disease from greed, living too high on the hog, eating democrat babies, and cardiac failure because you ain't got any heart.
'We in the heartland are tired of your elitist garbage and we are taking our country back.'
Not only are you suffering from incipient messianic megalomanic insanity resulting in disintegration of brain cells but your "heartland" hearts show too much artery disease from greed, living too high on the hog, eating democrat babies, and cardiac failure because you ain't got any heart.
I'm huge!
steve simels | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 4:33 pm
"But, Clay... it might be bold."
I'm huge!
steve simels | Email | Homepage | 12.18.04 - 4:33 pm
"But, Clay... it might be bold."
Now democrats supposedly hate Christmas? Whatever happened to Christmas is getting too commercial? Maybe Republicans realized that if people just observed the religious aspects of the holiday the poor department stores would suffer. Not a Republican value. Shop til you drop! (whew, quick corrected from drip to drop, that would be weird.)
Now democrats supposedly hate Christmas? Whatever happened to Christmas is getting too commercial? Maybe Republicans realized that if people just observed the religious aspects of the holiday the poor department stores would suffer. Not a Republican value. Shop til you drop! (whew, quick corrected from drip to drop, that would be weird.)
as a product (partially) of fundie schools, I have to correct freedom chimpy: it's Knights in satan's service.
shesh, at least give the devil worshippers their proper honorifics.
as a product (partially) of fundie schools, I have to correct freedom chimpy: it's Knights in satan's service.
shesh, at least give the devil worshippers their proper honorifics.
And speaking of Gene Simmons, has
anybody noticed his current hair
(or rug, perhaps, who knows). It
makes Donald Trump's do look like
sheer poetry.
It sort of resembles an aircraft
carrier.
And speaking of Gene Simmons, has
anybody noticed his current hair
(or rug, perhaps, who knows). It
makes Donald Trump's do look like
sheer poetry.
It sort of resembles an aircraft
carrier.
GN? Cass? This is gonna sound like comedy, but... I think you're using words that are too big for him.
GN? Cass? This is gonna sound like comedy, but... I think you're using words that are too big for him.
I'd bet anything that 95% of the trolls here are from LGF. Squeaky Johnson never lets a day go by without a 'hate' at Kos or Atrios. OTOH, I don't believe Atrios or Kos has ever mentioned LGF in a post. For Squeaky, it's just more red meat, and his 'minions' respond (and then scurry back to LGF with breathless tales of what the 'LLL Moonbats' are saying.
They are truly pathetic.
I'd bet anything that 95% of the trolls here are from LGF. Squeaky Johnson never lets a day go by without a 'hate' at Kos or Atrios. OTOH, I don't believe Atrios or Kos has ever mentioned LGF in a post. For Squeaky, it's just more red meat, and his 'minions' respond (and then scurry back to LGF with breathless tales of what the 'LLL Moonbats' are saying.
They are truly pathetic.
"Probably because he couldn't spell 'osculate'...."
filkertom
Actually the first suggestion for a band name was FUCK!
"Probably because he couldn't spell 'osculate'...."
filkertom
Actually the first suggestion for a band name was FUCK!
Hey, Freedom Chimpi, were you one of the 44% who think that Muslim-Americans should have their rights curbed? Muslim internment camps, read all about it.
Hey, Freedom Chimpi, were you one of the 44% who think that Muslim-Americans should have their rights curbed? Muslim internment camps, read all about it.
"And in conclusion, Cameron McIntosh,
bite me!"
-- Crow T. Robot, "The Castle of
Fu Manchu"
Like "the" and "and", I mean. Can you compress it to a few fairly inarticulate grunts, perhaps combined with breaking something? That should get a few ook-ooks.
"And in conclusion, Cameron McIntosh,
bite me!"
-- Crow T. Robot, "The Castle of
Fu Manchu"
Like "the" and "and", I mean. Can you compress it to a few fairly inarticulate grunts, perhaps combined with breaking something? That should get a few ook-ooks.
The Republicans hate Amuraca and are trying to kill democrat babies by starving them too death because their parents work under slave labor.
Why do republicans hate babies and try to starve them and not them them have any health care?
Why is it that only Republican babies get get good food, houses, and education?
Why are they trying to kill Democrat babies?
The Republicans hate Amuraca and are trying to kill democrat babies by starving them too death because their parents work under slave labor.
Why do republicans hate babies and try to starve them and not them them have any health care?
Why is it that only Republican babies get get good food, houses, and education?
Why are they trying to kill Democrat babies?
steve simels -
It's most definitely a rug. They all wear rugs now.
steve simels -
It's most definitely a rug. They all wear rugs now.
Incog
What Jenny said...mainly cuz it's unnecessary. Cats are exemplars of personal hygene...which trait you can turn somewhat against them if, for instance, you need to administer medicines that can be dissolved. Then all you have to do is dab a drop or two on a paw of flank, and the cat will take the medicine in consequence of trying to wash itself clean of the solution...
I once had a shiny, silky, midnight black long-hair named Annie (when the Last Wife and I split up, she got the cats, and I got the dogs). Whe would wait on the countertop by the sink in the bathroom for me to emerge from the shower. As asson as i had a towel over my shoulder, she would invariably climb to where she could reach my beard and begin to lick water out of it, because all cats know a wet kitty is a vulnerable kitty, and so the best ting to do is to help each other dry off...
I always thought Annie and I had probably met in a former life when we were both different species...she's going to be 18 or 19 this year...
Incog
What Jenny said...mainly cuz it's unnecessary. Cats are exemplars of personal hygene...which trait you can turn somewhat against them if, for instance, you need to administer medicines that can be dissolved. Then all you have to do is dab a drop or two on a paw of flank, and the cat will take the medicine in consequence of trying to wash itself clean of the solution...
I once had a shiny, silky, midnight black long-hair named Annie (when the Last Wife and I split up, she got the cats, and I got the dogs). Whe would wait on the countertop by the sink in the bathroom for me to emerge from the shower. As asson as i had a towel over my shoulder, she would invariably climb to where she could reach my beard and begin to lick water out of it, because all cats know a wet kitty is a vulnerable kitty, and so the best ting to do is to help each other dry off...
I always thought Annie and I had probably met in a former life when we were both different species...she's going to be 18 or 19 this year...
"Now, see that? That's Mick Jagger's cloud. Stay off it."
Tom Servo, "Driver Safety in New Jersey" short leading into King Dinosaur
"Now, see that? That's Mick Jagger's cloud. Stay off it."
Tom Servo, "Driver Safety in New Jersey" short leading into King Dinosaur
Y'know, the best way to 'reform the military' is to get the 101st Fighting Keyboarders to enlist.
Remember, what Professor Jethro in Knoxville wants most for Christmas is an enlistment form.
Y'know, the best way to 'reform the military' is to get the 101st Fighting Keyboarders to enlist.
Remember, what Professor Jethro in Knoxville wants most for Christmas is an enlistment form.
'We in the heartland are tired of your elitist garbage and we are taking our country back.'
This is clearly someone who needs to leave the country. This is someone who finds separation of church and state, civil rights, educational opportunity, and basic morality intolerable. If this individual does not care to live in a constitutional republic where a Bill of Rights prevents tyranny of the majority, I'm sure that other countries (perhaps North Korea? there's a cult there too, you'll feel right at home) would be much more suitable.
'We in the heartland are tired of your elitist garbage and we are taking our country back.'
This is clearly someone who needs to leave the country. This is someone who finds separation of church and state, civil rights, educational opportunity, and basic morality intolerable. If this individual does not care to live in a constitutional republic where a Bill of Rights prevents tyranny of the majority, I'm sure that other countries (perhaps North Korea? there's a cult there too, you'll feel right at home) would be much more suitable.
Jennifer:
I fear you are right. Up til 11/2 I really believed the American People were smart and would overwhelmingly vote the bastards out. Have not been able to really work on my quilting since. Depression is not conducive to creativity.
OTOH - The most liberal member of the Sanate lost by only one state. The red/blue map is really purple. We just may pull this one out, but I am no longer holding my breath. Especially since we can't get the fucking democrats to wake the fuck up. Where the fuck are they?
Jennifer:
I fear you are right. Up til 11/2 I really believed the American People were smart and would overwhelmingly vote the bastards out. Have not been able to really work on my quilting since. Depression is not conducive to creativity.
OTOH - The most liberal member of the Sanate lost by only one state. The red/blue map is really purple. We just may pull this one out, but I am no longer holding my breath. Especially since we can't get the fucking democrats to wake the fuck up. Where the fuck are they?
"is"=are, sorry.
but with all the Xmas bashing I do...no wonder I'm tired
{It's funny how much damage bad grammer and poor spelling does to a potentionally good idea.}
"is"=are, sorry.
but with all the Xmas bashing I do...no wonder I'm tired
{It's funny how much damage bad grammer and poor spelling does to a potentionally good idea.}
I came here to understand liberals and have some dialog, but there is nothing here. Just hate. Hate for Bush, freedom, the free market, God and morals
Wow, we've never heard this one before. A genuinely friendly soul turned off by all of our hatred. Ann Coulter, she's a sweet young woman, but our hatred turns off those who would, otherwise, engage us in the uplifting exchange of ideas. This one couldn't be a troll -- could he?
I came here to understand liberals and have some dialog, but there is nothing here. Just hate. Hate for Bush, freedom, the free market, God and morals
Wow, we've never heard this one before. A genuinely friendly soul turned off by all of our hatred. Ann Coulter, she's a sweet young woman, but our hatred turns off those who would, otherwise, engage us in the uplifting exchange of ideas. This one couldn't be a troll -- could he?
"Egrets....I've had a few...."
-- Crow T. Robot, "Revenge of the
Creature"
Have I mentioned that I once got to
interview Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy,
and Bill Corbett in person?
I was beside myself with excitement --
for me it was like meeting the
Beatles or something.
"Egrets....I've had a few...."
-- Crow T. Robot, "Revenge of the
Creature"
Have I mentioned that I once got to
interview Mike Nelson, Kevin Murphy,
and Bill Corbett in person?
I was beside myself with excitement --
for me it was like meeting the
Beatles or something.
Insider -- I think they probably have mentioned LGF, but the ratio is waaaay out of whack -- as are, of course, the denizens of LGF. I've only gone over there a couple of times; between that, FR, and Townhall, it's a wonder they all don't have strokes from the terrible things that eeevil libruls are doing allatime.
Funny, innit, that all of our acts of "evil" seem involve helping people, and all of theirs seem to involve... evil?
Insider -- I think they probably have mentioned LGF, but the ratio is waaaay out of whack -- as are, of course, the denizens of LGF. I've only gone over there a couple of times; between that, FR, and Townhall, it's a wonder they all don't have strokes from the terrible things that eeevil libruls are doing allatime.
Funny, innit, that all of our acts of "evil" seem involve helping people, and all of theirs seem to involve... evil?
Konopelli - your beard-licking cat story explains something for me: the reaction I've gotten from each of my kitties when they've gotten used to "the kitty towel" (an old towel I break out for whenever the cat gets wet when it's raining). The first time they were towelled, each of them freaked a bit. But then they all seemed to positively relish it, once they figured out that I was drying them off.
Fascinating creatures.
Konopelli - your beard-licking cat story explains something for me: the reaction I've gotten from each of my kitties when they've gotten used to "the kitty towel" (an old towel I break out for whenever the cat gets wet when it's raining). The first time they were towelled, each of them freaked a bit. But then they all seemed to positively relish it, once they figured out that I was drying them off.
Fascinating creatures.
Tremendously cool, Steve! Closest I got was the first MST3K ConventioConExpoFestARama, or whatever it was called -- I've got the badge around here somewhere... shook hands, got autographs, way cool.
Tremendously cool, Steve! Closest I got was the first MST3K ConventioConExpoFestARama, or whatever it was called -- I've got the badge around here somewhere... shook hands, got autographs, way cool.
I think the social security issue will be the straw that breaks the camel's back of the Bush administration...Maybe then they will start going down - maybe,maybe...
puzzledwoman
I used to think that the biggest problem was the GOP and its willingness to whore the lowest common denominator in order to assume power. But the more I listen to Bushists, the angrier I become and the more convinced I am that they are the problem. We've got a population of people in this country who somehow feel entitled to preserve their "lifestyles" and enforce their bizarre, hypocritical moral code on everyone else. This group has been the scourge of our society since the Civil War, when they actually fought to the death to preserve genocide. Now, they are fighting to the death to preserve ignorance and immorality. I'm not sure what the solution is, but I've become convinced that so long as there is a significant portion of the population that still embraces the moral values of the antebellum South, we'll continue to have to fight political battles.
I think the social security issue will be the straw that breaks the camel's back of the Bush administration...Maybe then they will start going down - maybe,maybe...
puzzledwoman
I used to think that the biggest problem was the GOP and its willingness to whore the lowest common denominator in order to assume power. But the more I listen to Bushists, the angrier I become and the more convinced I am that they are the problem. We've got a population of people in this country who somehow feel entitled to preserve their "lifestyles" and enforce their bizarre, hypocritical moral code on everyone else. This group has been the scourge of our society since the Civil War, when they actually fought to the death to preserve genocide. Now, they are fighting to the death to preserve ignorance and immorality. I'm not sure what the solution is, but I've become convinced that so long as there is a significant portion of the population that still embraces the moral values of the antebellum South, we'll continue to have to fight political battles.
"because all cats know a wet kitty is a vulnerable kitty, and so the best thing to do is to help each other dry off..."
Doggies too (retrievers excepted). I was going to offer to Incog that if he had to wash Stringey, the best way to do it, literally, is to wash off with him. All mammals together, eh? Before I learnt that Arthur actually needs a good hard dusting rather than washing, we found that the best way of doing it. Everybody gets wet at the same time, nobody gets upset, everybody dries off.
"because all cats know a wet kitty is a vulnerable kitty, and so the best thing to do is to help each other dry off..."
Doggies too (retrievers excepted). I was going to offer to Incog that if he had to wash Stringey, the best way to do it, literally, is to wash off with him. All mammals together, eh? Before I learnt that Arthur actually needs a good hard dusting rather than washing, we found that the best way of doing it. Everybody gets wet at the same time, nobody gets upset, everybody dries off.
Filkertom:
They all autographed my episode guide.
Mike wrote "Dear Steve: Don't eat
glass. Thank you."
Can't tell you bummed I was to
discover recently that he's a
a fundie who voted for bush.
Filkertom:
They all autographed my episode guide.
Mike wrote "Dear Steve: Don't eat
glass. Thank you."
Can't tell you bummed I was to
discover recently that he's a
a fundie who voted for bush.
I've bathed lots of cats, either for flea problems or, like, when the big 25 pounder got locked in the basement overnight and came out all nasty. I've perfected the left-hand chopsticks hold for the front paws, and use the sprayer and the right hand for washing below the neck, lots of dry towels and apologies afterwards. They aren't crazy about it but it's not a big deal. I'm surprised so many of you recommend wet food--it always gave my beasts the runs, and that's no good for any of us. It's Iams forever around here for my three.
I've bathed lots of cats, either for flea problems or, like, when the big 25 pounder got locked in the basement overnight and came out all nasty. I've perfected the left-hand chopsticks hold for the front paws, and use the sprayer and the right hand for washing below the neck, lots of dry towels and apologies afterwards. They aren't crazy about it but it's not a big deal. I'm surprised so many of you recommend wet food--it always gave my beasts the runs, and that's no good for any of us. It's Iams forever around here for my three.
I came here to understand liberals and have some dialog, but there is nothing here. Just hate. Hate for Bush, freedom, the free market, God and morals............................................
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