HULK SMASH!!!
there your cats
I loves me some dogs.
meanwhile, was that third base just behind me?
homer!
Caterwalling! I hate it.
too bad there was no one on base
if I were married to you, winston I would put poison in your brandy.
and if I were your husband, I would drink it.
Well done, peterboy.
A little sympathy for the host might have been nice, however.
I used to have a cat who poked me in the face every morning to wake me up.
Little fucker.
The dang dog woke up at 5:00am and decided it was time to play. Don't they understand about weekends?
I just noticed the change in Atrios' URL - when did that change?
Cats are very skilled at this.
Lock the cats outta the bedroom, I say!
Kitty~la love in da morning noon and night.
can we talk about the perfidy of the press.
When I am in my press guru mode, I always tell my employer or the leadership of the organization that they shouldnt answer questions that are not part of our message.
I dont understand why OB and HRC dont just find a way to bridge away from the dumb questions by stephan op and his boy wonder.
He could also attack the press for asking foolish questions and let them defend themselves on air.
that would be my recommendation for the future.
I mean polls show that the press is about as popular as dog shit or, bridging to the topic at hand, cat piss.
HA! good catch there, no more atrios.blogspot.
Holy crap. Look at what HTML Mencken found in his backyard. Day-um.
I'm thinking a little sleep deprivation therapy for the kitties is in order.
-Atrios
Vacuum cleaner. Just sayin'.
The Pope is a pedophile pimp.
At least the principal in this story went for the mom and not the child...
http://abclocal.go.com/ktrk/stor...over&
id=6090312
Wasn't Barak Obama the first DEM candidate to repudiate FOX's invite for an interview? Or was that for a debate.
"do you think Tom Friedman is hot?"-Charlie Rose to Wiley and Gizmo
I'm thinking a little sleep deprivation therapy for the kitties is in order.
I hear Abu Gonzales is looking for a job.
OUTRAGE!!!
62 bucks for a new oven handle??? Crap.
Holy crap. Look at what HTML Mencken found in his backyard. Day-um.
res ipsa loquitur
The least you could do is provide a map to his house...
Let me guess, the cats were marching around the band banging drums and tooting on horns, intent upon getting your sad ass out of the sack.
I'm thinking a little sleep deprivation therapy for the kitties is in order.
-Atrios
Vacuum cleaner. Just sayin'.
jac
It has been my experience that escalating the dispute is unwise from the human point of view.
OUTRAGE!!!
62 bucks for a new oven handle??? Crap.
Zap Rowsdower, aka Habeas
My water heater conspired with the plumber to relieve me of my tax refund.
Should I bring up the deadthreaded list of dead gods?......Nah. Let dead dieties lie I always say.
62 bucks for a new oven handle??? Crap.
Zap Rowsdower
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I am hoping that 162 dollars buys me a nifty new stove at the dented appliance place.
And atrios, you don't feed the kitties when they wake you, do you? It gets their little expectations up, and their owner along with it.
I'm thinking a little sleep deprivation therapy for the kitties is in order.
Waterboard the little bastards.
You are the fired help. You simply need to accept this. Could be worse. Could be a little Atriot.
The campaign rally here unfolded on a sun-splashed April afternoon, with hundreds of people of all ages turning out to see Mr. Obama, filling a large expanse alongside the Amtrak line here in the Philadelphia suburb of Wynnewood. Young children, perched on their fathers’ shoulders, waved blue Obama signs in the air. A crowd also gathered across the tracks, their views occasionally interrupted by a passing train.
Mr. Obama seemed amused by his latest mode of transportation. As he descended the escalator at 30th Street Station in Philadelphia, he said: “Let’s get on this train. This is what I’m talking about.”
The conductor, waiting to greet Mr. Obama, told him that he could sound the train’s whistle. “Can I do that, right now?” Mr. Obama asked. “Am I allowed.”
With permission granted, he raised his hand and pulled the cable. “Woo, woo!” Next stop: Paoli, Pa.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/ima...obama-
train.jpg
The least you could do is provide a map to his house...
I didn't realize they were that big. I think I have only seen dried ones.
When my cat wakes me up, I carry his ass to the nearest door and put him out. He hates that. Now he snuggles in until I am ready to get up.
My problem is, if I wake up but get on the phone and start talking instead of getting up, he pees in the bed to get me out of it. One time I was sitting up talking, and he peed on ME. I couldn't figure out what that warm stuff was running down my back. Ewwww. This a.m. was a repeat. I was on the phone, he peed in the bed. But he missed me, the blankets, and my pillow. And he has nothing with which to extort me for the rest of the day. Poor kitty.
I am hoping that 162 dollars buys me a nifty new stove at the dented appliance place.
We got this oven from some friends of ours when we moved in. It's nice, otherwise. But the handle snapped clean off of the door. Ah, the joys of home-ownership.
I just traded tree work yesterday (felled two maples near the house) for painting a chimney tomorrow. Hippies bartering for house maintenance jobs, priceless.
Wasn't Barak Obama the first DEM candidate to repudiate FOX's invite for an interview? Or was that for a debate.
He happily showed up to apologize for his minister's statements.
A morel that big could pay for a semester of college!
if someone or something pees in my bed--it is so over.
being woken up by cats at 6:30
Maybe they were anxious to see the Dow Jones and the S&P 500 settlement prices from yesterday's options expiration?
My problem is, if I wake up but get on the phone and start talking instead of getting up, he pees in the bed to get me out of it.
Cat pee in my bed?
Drop him in the toilet.
We're getting a whole new stove, but with good reason. The old one sorta resembles the battleship Arizona right after Pearl Harbor.
they're your cats.
This is why I don't have cats.
A morel that big could pay for a semester of college!
I know. He says he's going to sautee them up, but thems a lot of morels.
Zap
I replaced all the kitchen appliances last fall. In for a penny in for a mile.
The old one sorta resembles the battleship Arizona right after Pearl Harbor.
Under water and full of corpses?
I know. He says he's going to sautee them up, but thems a lot of morels.
res ipsa loquitur
I didn't know liberals had morels.
I'm thinking a little sleep deprivation therapy for the kitties is in order.
Revenge of the humans? Yeah, good luck with that. 
Cat pee in my bed?
Drop him in the toilet.
Or throw him in the shower.
A morel that big could pay for a semester of college!
They sell morels at the Dupont Circle farmers' market. They are worth whatever is charged. Morels in butter. Mmmmmmm.
When my cat wakes me up, I carry his ass to the nearest door and put him out. He hates that. Now he snuggles in until I am ready to get up.
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heh, my herder was barking at the roommate until he associated an OUT BACK command with getting tossed out back for an extended time.
Now I can count on his crawling obediently under the kitchen table rather than get shoved out the door.
caninezzzzzzzzzz
Try being woken up by a love sick pileated woodpecker amplifying his call with the aluminum stop sign.
yo, easy on the whole battleship thing.
I didn't know liberals had morels.
They do if they belong to The Morel Majority.
thanks, Diane C.
(I got an assignment from on high--the college senior wants me to read her final PSci paper.)
I usually learn something, but it is way to early for school work.
dont kids know about weekends.
I re-read that. 6:30 is sleeping in around here.
Try being woken up by a love sick pileated woodpecker amplifying his call with the aluminum stop sign.
Frankly
That made me laugh. The good news is once he has bred, he should be too busy getting food for the nestlings to bother you much.
I replaced all the kitchen appliances last fall. In for a penny in for a mile.
Tell me about it.
We got another estimate for our retaining wall today. ~5K, but we'd also be getting new fencing, on account of having to dig new post holes anyhow.
We're trying to figure out how we'd pay for it. That's the fun part.
I'm thinking a little sleep deprivation therapy for the kitties is in order.
You really don't want to get into that kind of escalation of hostilities, Atrios. There is only one loser.
For those who don't live below 'bluest skies you've ever seen', please out Friday Snow Blogging from last night.
WalterNeff, now on blu-ray | Homepage | 04.19.08 - 2:53 pm
I think it's pretty.
http://graphics8.nytimes.com/
ima...hiladelphia.jpg
This is such a good picture-worth showing again.
love sick pileated woodpecker amplifying his call with the aluminum stop sign.
A Woodie with a woodie?
One of our neighborhood cats disappeared a couple days ago. She used to patrol the bushes at the edge of our garden. I think that it has something to do with the pair of golden eagles that recently built a nest on a big cottonwood across the road. I think I spotted what remains of the kitty in their nest.
Deer can roam; antelope can roam; but, keep those kitties at home when you're on the range.
He happily showed up to apologize for his minister's statements.
Hecate,
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yes, yes he did.
I was thinking back a year ago round the time when Bill Clinton was poking Mike Wallace.
Fucking Pirates. Grr.
Zap
I still long for a retaining wall, but I'm going to get a dug out patio w/ a rill, instead, I think.
Deer can roam; antelope can roam; but, keep those kitties at home when you're on the range.
montanaheadcold
Up north, the fishers have developed a taste for tabbies, plucking them off in front of the owners, in fact.
Best for all concerned to keep cats inside--they slaughter millions of songbirds each year, the little killing machines.
It's even worse when Daylight Savings Time starts. The cats think it's 6:30 when it's 5:30. Curiously, when DST ends, the cats think it's 6:30 at 6:30.
Cats are smarter than we are. They don't have Daylight Savings Time...
I think that it has something to do with the pair of golden eagles that recently built a nest on a big cottonwood across the road.
One of our cats was chased by a crow once.
Hey everybody.
Nancy Willing -- Was it you talking about the book about the boy buying tofu the other day. I loved that book and I think it was called Taro and the Tofu by Madamu Masako.
Hecate -- just start giving mass in Latin, or calling yourself Father Hecate, they'll excommunitcate you.
I think I spotted what remains of the kitty in their nest.
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ruh roh...
I saw so many big birds in the last few days, mostly hawks. Yesterday a whitish tan hawk flew over the yard and my friend thought that it might have been an osprey.
18.April 19th, Posted after attending Philly rally.
10:40 am I was there last night, and it was truly wonderful. The crowd was energetic and diverse, and complete strangers were striking up conversations with each other about the election. There were yuppies, hipsters, African-Americans, senior citizens, and many young children with their parents. Sen. Obama’s speech was inspiring and thoughtful, and he emphasized the importance of paying attention to Americans’ common purpose. When the speech was over, as I walked home in the streets teeming with the thousands who had been there with me, I stopped and looked up at Independence Hall, and thought to myself that this was a really important moment in my life, and in the country’s history.
Perhaps others would call me an Obamaton who had drunk the kool-aid, and dismiss a crowd of 35,000 people as a whole big group of dupes, but to me, this was America at its best.
— Posted by Angelina
Yuo, that was my wish to find the title of said book, thank you, Stormysu!
One time I was sitting up talking, and he peed on ME.
Village
The phrase "You can't swing a dead cat in this place without hitting someone I know" originated under very similar circumstances.
I never thought I would take it well either. But my poor peeing cat lost his best friend and buddy, and on the one year anniversary of his best bud's death, he started peeing in my bed. I have gotten it down from once a day to three or four times a year, and just decided I wasn't going to be bothered by it anymore.
you dont go on Fox. period.
and you have to be ready to handle dumb-shit questions that are part of a attack-dog media meme but that the public cares little about.
glenn G has a good post about it here:
http://www.salon.com/opinion/gre...wald/
index.html
(scroll to the 2nd hedline, what has the words BOBO.
As a father of two toddlers, not.feeling.sorry.for.you.
I was at the Obama event in Wilmington Delaware with 20 thousand attending. Veddy Cooooool.
I love crowds and especially those diverse in age and ethnicity but united in spirit.
Hecate,
We'd just be replacing the one we have right now. It's wood, but it's split and rotten from the railroad spikes they used to keep it together. The chemicals in the spikes messed up the wood real good, and have to be disposed of at a special recycling place on account of the toxic crap that's in them. That's a big chunk of the cost right there.
GRAMMAR NAZI here.
Isn't it awakened?
I got dead threaded the other day reminiscing about Taro the other day, I had just been thinking of it myself and it was quite the synchronicity thang!
The County Dem convention was this morning. I was an alternate.
http://i49.photobucket.com/album.../PICT0271-
1.jpg
http://i49.photobucket.com/album...st/
PICT0269.jpg
The place was packed!
Zap
Chemicals are a big problem. On a lovely day like today with birds singing and squirrels and chimpmunks running around, I wonder why I'd do anything to change my yard.
Many of us want our country back. Thanks for sharing those photos.
you dont go on Fox. period.
yeah, and now ABC?
I just got a funny email from the New Brave Team which has a spoof McCain-Stephanopoulos interview. HAHHAHAHAHA
Mi>— Posted by Angelina
well said
She, and abou 35,000 other folks, are fortunate to have shared such a moment in times like these. Makes me a bit giddy just thinking about the history . . .
Chemicals are a big problem. On a lovely day like today with birds singing and squirrels and chimpmunks running around, I wonder why I'd do anything to change my yard.
Hecate
Chemlawn, one of my big local beefs. What the fuck is wrong with some dandelions, violets and creeping charley? So terribly short-sighted.
I got dead threaded the other day reminiscing about Taro the other day, I had just been thinking of it myself and it was quite the synchronicity thang!
Stormysu
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I had gone back to that thread and posted to you later...sorry you prolly missed it.
Five hours, digging in the garden.
I think you wanna train ABC. I think the public accepts that Fox is a TV version of Rush, but ABC still carries the pluses and the minuses of any media with the public; i.e. that they are not trusted.
I think that it has something to do with the pair of golden eagles that recently built a nest on a big cottonwood across the road.
One of our cats was chased by a crow once.
Sufferin' Hussein Succotash | 04.19.08 - 3:15 pm |
My boss and her family had a little schnauzer. they moved to a development across from a major county park. He was out in the backyard and then they noticed the hawks circling nearby. Beastie was brought in immediatley.
peterboy | 04.19.08 - 3:18 pm
From your comments, I take it you have to deal with the press regularly, so it makes sense that you've figured out the m.o. of the press.
Here's what I don't get: even I have figured out what the press has been up to, yet both campaigns have high paid consultants working with the candidates, and apparently they still haven't figured it out.
Is it because Dems think they always have to be polite?
Chemlawn, one of my big local beefs. What the fuck is wrong with some dandelions, violets and creeping charley? So terribly short-sighted.
noblejoanie
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My front lawn needs mowed by the end of the day today because the dandelions are just about to seed up. Don't want the neighbors to revolt. But they are durn pretty now.
Kitty torture ohnoessssssssss
Turning into a McCaca household afterall
My boss and her family had a little schnauzer. they moved to a development across from a major county park. He was out in the backyard and then they noticed the hawks circling nearby. Beastie was brought in immediatley.
Buckeye
"DinDin! Come inside, DinDin!"
Our yard was seriously neglected by the previous owner. We're putting a lot into making it better. Planting new seed in bare areas, flowers, dogwoods, other trees. It's very satisfying.
He was out in the backyard and then they noticed the hawks circling nearby.
I adore hawking; it's maybe one of my three favorite things in the whole world to do. Miss Thing is strictly an indoor cat.
Hey, the AP is finally recognizing what we've known for months:
Analysis: Time, delegate math working against Clinton
By DAVID ESPO, AP Special Correspondent
Fri Apr 18, 6:35 PM ET
WASHINGTON - Time is running out on Hillary Rodham Clinton, the long-ago front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination who now trails Barack Obama in delegates, states won and popular votes.
Compounding Clinton's woes, Obama appears on track to finish the primary campaign fewer than 100 delegates shy of the 2,025 needed to win.
Nazis. I hate these guys.
As long as you dig up the dandelions while they're yellow, it's fine. The neighbor who lets them go to seed and blow all over other people's yards ticks me off.
I avoid chemicals on my lawn as much as possible.
Village, I totally get it, crazy as it seems.
I had rescued a toy poodle who 'went' inside and I kept him, couldn't bring myself to cage him...two floors of wall to wall carpet, a sofa and stuffed lounge chair later...he passed naturally.
I won't lie and say I wasn't relieved that his time finally came but I do miss the tyke.
My boss and her family had a little schnauzer. they moved to a development across from a major county park. He was out in the backyard and then they noticed the hawks circling nearby. Beastie was brought in immediatley.
Buckeye
"DinDin! Come inside, DinDin!"
jac | 04.19.08 - 3:26 pm
They realized that he was being eyed as a menu item, and wasn't let out alone again.
i have no lawn
Tell ya what, you talk my dog, I'll take teh kitties.
Our yard was seriously neglected by the previous owner. We're putting a lot into making it better. Planting new seed in bare areas, flowers, dogwoods, other trees. It's very satisfying.
Ditto, mine. Would you like some woad seeds? Perennials that make pretty yellow flowers? I've most spend the last 4 years taking stuff out.
I've turned my entire yard into a gigantic vegetable and fruit garden. Front yard too-- we have a bit more grass to dig out this year, but it'll be gone in a couple of months, replaced with more cranberries and blueberries.
I've never used any synthetic chemicals on it. Or, for that matter, even a power tool.
I adore hawking; it's maybe one of my three favorite things in the whole world to do. Miss Thing is strictly an indoor cat.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator | Homepage | 04.19.08 - 3:26 pm
We don't have many here in Dayton proper.
My friend thinks that my cat Spike should stay indoor/outdoor.
But when I hopefully move to a larger place, he's becoming indoor.
One of our cats was chased by a crow once.
Sometimes cats and crows can be friends.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C...h?
v=CSCVrb9pxA4
i have no lawn
But I was thinking that I bet that roof would support a rain barrel so you could not have to cart H2O upstairs to water the herbs. Gardener's Supply makes a v nice big one that I have in my back yard.
I have no lawn, and I must scream.
As long as you dig up the dandelions while they're yellow, it's fine. The neighbor who lets them go to seed and blow all over other people's yards ticks me off.
I avoid chemicals on my lawn as much as possible.
TheOtherWA
I used to feel like you, but I've learned to just let them go. They go pretty much dormant much of the summer and I love their color when they bloom. It's a waste of time to fight them, IMHO.
The mythology of the manicured green lawn is what I no longer buy into. A weed is just a flower in disguise.
Chemlawn, one of my big local beefs. What the fuck is wrong with some dandelions, violets and creeping charley? So terribly short-sighted.
noblejoanie
Oh my, you'd hate me.
it's so fucking BEEEEEEYOOOOTIFUL outside!
[giddy with spring fever]
Hey, Atrios: 72 visitors here. Calculated Risk: 9 visitors. Seems like the money guys have it right on this beautiful day. My excuse: at work.
Oh my, you'd hate me.
billy b
Unpossible, billy b. But I'd be relentless in trying to change your mind!
Diane C.-- yea, I have some CV in this.
I really dont know why the two dems take that shit and are not prepared.
who could have guessed that there was going to be question about rev. wright or bitter/clutching?
Ayers was a little outside even for them, but then it was right there in the right-wing blogosphere.
The closer I look at the campaigns and the folks who are doing it, the less impressed I am with their media operations. Yes, they have some really amazing net tools, but they also get caught with their pants down.
I was impressed that OB later critiqued the press and it played well. The right has been riding that horse for years and it works.
The dems should just do it more, especially on TV. There is a downside though, they can get pissed and they control the airwaves.
But I think that a respectful inquiry that calls into question the idea that this is pertinent, that this is what we should be talking about with umemployment rising, oil at record levels, the debt at record levels, China yanking our chain, while 60 Americans are dying a month in Iraq, while the WH is defending torture, while McCain is two-facing campaign finance reform....etc.
I think that would work. The idea is that TV is supposed to be talking about what matters, and surely Bowling and OJ and what Ayers did when OB was 8, is not what matters.
As to your larger question of whether the Dems are too polite?
I think about the impeachment and the votes on bkptcy and FISA...they need to grow a pair. the public likes a fighter, the public wants to see someone seize the microphone.
"I paid for this microphone," was a four-bagger for that senile faker, Reagan.
A weed is just a flower in disguise.
Exactly, Noblejoanie. If you want it, it's a flower. If you don't want it, it's a weed.
Unpossible, billy b. But I'd be relentless in trying to change your mind!
My yard is one of my hobbies. You'd have your work cut out for you.
I have a photo of Joke Line in the Wilmington Obama crowd. He was pushing through everyone, big fucking a-hole. Insulted my friend, a local blogger, who was also trying to get into the press area.
Kline made comments to said friend paraphrased as "you aren't anybody and I am the shit, outta my way"
I think we're good on seeds, Hecate. But thanks!
When our son was still living at home, his job was to mow the lawn except he'd say with no small amount of disgust, Time to trim the toilet. (Pretty much what it is when you have a couple of dogs...)
Did you know they have chemicals that will kill weeds but won't kill grass?
I would really like to turn some of yard into a vegetable garden but we have deer and coyotes and bears (oh my) that already eat the tulips and other plants, not to mention the years the labrador has seasoned the soil....roof deck would be nicer - especially if it was above the lights so mr. stormy could break out the telescope.....ok wait - that sounds wrong...
I have a black & decker electric mower that folks here helped me figure out how to use. I use it to mow the front yard. Landscape Designer (LD) and I are turning the backyard into a woodland that won't need mowing.
turning the backyard into a woodland that won't need mowing.
The bugs will rule that roost.
I've never used any synthetic chemicals on it. Or, for that matter, even a power tool.
Moe Szyslak,
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I am determined to garden this year but I intend to borrow my sister's big assed rototill.
Off to visit my brother's newborn baby goat, awww. Have a wonderful spring afternoon.
One of the things I love about this place and y'all is the kind of discussion we are having about yards.
We ripped out the front lawn a few years ago and now have native plants growing there.
the neighbor is busy spraying for ants of all things, and chemizing her lawn, and nuking her vegetables.
its the marigolds that fight the bugs and the ants are not something to battle, especially with poison.
I also walk in a nearby park that has a pair of nesting hawks and another of owls.
nature and saving it is so right.
I would really like to turn some of yard into a vegetable garden but we have deer and coyotes and bears (oh my) that already eat the tulips and other plants,
Raised beds and fences are your friends. I have fig trees and have never had a ripe untouched fig from them but watching the birds and squirrels makes it all worthwhile.
I love mushrooms, but sadly, I cannot eat morels, I seem to be allergic. Just FYI, never eat raw morels - the will make you very ill.
Time to trim the toilet.
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oy,
with that I have got to go out and be one with the briggs and stratton.
Peace all.
The bugs will rule that roost.
S'ok. I'm a witch. I like bugs. And when I'm outside, I anoint myself w the sacred oil of the Great Goddess Deet cuz the bugs love me.
How about some Chicken Payback to liven up your Saturday?
i would kill for a roof deck right now.
"i have no lawn"
--Atrios
Lucky you.
time to read the daughter's paper on Cambodia in the 1970s.
The older one is coming to visit with the grand-dog.
love to all of you and merry springtime.
Great Goddess Deet
I thought it was pronounced "Dee-et"
planting a hop garden on monday. 14 foot trellises. can't wait for the neighbor to ask, "what the hell?"
you should have a wood rat that tries to eat your duct work live with you.
How about some Chicken Payback to liven up your Saturday?
Good stuff.
White boy cain't dance, tho.
time to read the daughter's paper on Cambodia in the 1970s.
At least it isn't a paper about the French occupation of Algiers in 1830.
I thought it was pronounced "Dee-et"
As a member of a religion that worships nature, I will wear her sacred oil however it's pronounced. There can be 75 people outside and one mosquito. She will bite me 76 times and ignore everyone else. Not going to stop me from the skyclad happy dancing!
There's a Moe run upstairs.
panda daisy chain?
(just pic)
hey moe! get yours planted?
Springtime, hah! At least most of the snow from last night has melted, though we are supposed to be getting more, and thunderstorms. Right now the sun is out, but it's only about 35 (normal for this time of year is upper 50s).
There can be 75 people outside and one mosquito. She will bite me 76 times and ignore everyone else.
Same here. I guess my blood is the mosquito version of a 1959 Cote du Rhone.
"Time to trim the toilet."
Now THAT'S the shit hitting the fan.
ah, the paper includes a discussion of irredentism.
now, there is a word I had to look up and it has current applications.
Dictionary:
irredentist
(ĭr'ĭ-dĕn'tĭst) pronunciation
n.
One who advocates the recovery of territory culturally or historically related to one's nation but now subject to a foreign government.
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My cat was going nuts at 4:30 this morning...I closed both doors to the bedroom and he was still scratching at the doors - I'm going to ask the vet about some kind of kitty tranquilizers.
We ripped out the front lawn a few years ago and now have native plants growing there.
I didn't rip out my lawn -- it seems to have departed of its own accord. I can tell which houses in my neighborhood have been abandoned -- their yards look as crappy as mine...
There's always corporal cuddling. It works! Even if you're a regular person and not an engineer:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m...h?
v=mHXBL6bzAR4
Cat torture:
Get a stick about 3 feet long, tie a string on one end of it about 1 foot long. Sit on your couch and dangle the string just above their heads. They will paw at it and jump for it forever or until they collapse, whichever comes first. When one pretends to lose attention, lower the string to touch his head. It pisses them off sooo much. They can't resist chasing the string. It's their nature. After they are totally exhausted, place some heavily laced catnip toys in their face.
I learned these techniques in Catmandu.
More cat torture: Ping pong ball in the bathtub.
Don't do this while you're trying to sleep, though, unless your bathroom is heavily soundproofed.
Atrios, you just have to wait until your cats grow into dogs; then they'll sleep through the night.
.
Sleep-depriving kittens, while on the surface a good idea for those of us who like to sleep, never works. They can fall asleep faster than you can prod them awake, and even if you hire a four-man team to work in shifts, they will look so pathetic and exhausted that you will feel mean, petty and possibly criminal in continuing to disturb their sleep.
Just give up and learn to sleep through their early a.m. playing.
Also, learn to NEVER open your eyes even a little until you are totally ready to get out of bed. Opening eyes, then returning to sleep, is considered bad faith by felines.
According to my sources as well as personal observation, cats never suffer from insomnia.
It's the progression to equinox. They wake you up at the same time to them, based on the amount of light near dawn, which gets a few minutes earlier EVERY DAY until late June.
I found a "How you doin'" and a pestering until they open their eyes about every hour and a half usually works pretty well...
It's the early morning sunshine. We found that room darkening drapes (yea IKEA!) did the trick and got us that extra hour or two of sleep.
Oh stop whining! Cats you can ignore or lock the door. Try babies waking you up at 5 AM after you fell into bed at 2.
Mwahaha. I've had to do sleep deprivation therapy for kitties before. "Oh, kitty! You're not SLEEPY are you?" *cranks up The Stooges* "Let's rock! What's that? You were up all night bouncing off the walls? Here, I'll keep turning up the volume until I see an appropriate level of spirit on your part."
these 2 may be unfixable. my childhood pair only ate wet food(back then dry could kill black males, so whiskers was super smart), but the begging was relentless. 2nd pair, locked up as kitten and became diurnal-which works and fed only dry. no begging!!!! 3rd pair locked up in another room and very nocturnal, but dry and do not beg cause still only dry. haven't been worken up by a cat since high school.
don't give them wet food!!!!
i sort like making them diurnal tho. and trained to sleep with me.
I'm thinking a little sleep deprivation therapy for the kitties is in order.
This does not work, trust me.
--mort
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