HULK SMASH!!!
Oh. MY!
how delightful!!
What's with the shameless posting of your OWN picture???
Um, is that a huge cat, or do you have an abnormally small lap?
How much money do you make from Cat Blogging, Duncan.
Oops! The Obama in Somali elder garb photo has backfired! Al-Qaeda affirms it hates Obama, too.
get a mac!
Are you sure your PhD isn't in computer science?
Well that's all wonderful and shit, but based on the yearly raise I was presented with yesterday - a stunning 1.5% increase - I'm going home early today.
either that couch is pretty big or you are shorter than I thought
Hardly sweating at all
Slacker.
That is a very Kliban-esque cat. Which one is it, again?
didn't I see that couch in a David Lynch movie?
Stock market down over 300 points. Whew! (The up markets of the last few days made no sense.)
Um, is that a huge cat, or do you have an abnormally small lap?
Ah oh! Mrs A is going to be angry.
http://www.chicagotribune.com/
ne...8225,full.story
Indepth Chicago Trib article about how Obama got elected to his state senate seat.
Sharp elbows and all.
I have to say, that position with a cat in your lap is quite warm.
I experience it daily also. But, I have a desktop, and she doesn't blog with me anymore now that she is a fully grown cat.
Nice beaver!
Is that cat a product of atomic induced mutation? Its huge!
Noah Chmosky's an myopic fool.
http://mwcnews.net/content/view/.../view/20532/26/
"Not very long ago, as you all recall, it was taken for granted that the Iraq war would be the central issue in the 2008 election, as it was in the midterm election two years ago. However, it’s virtually disappeared off the radar screen, which has solicited some puzzlement among the punditry."
Hey Noam. Read the papers or the internet, or listen to the radio or TV lately?
didn't I see that couch in a David Lynch movie?
elyts ni kcab gnimoc si ekil uoy mug taht...
I'm surprised cats haven't figured out just how hot laptops get.
Barndog! I never encounter you when it's light!
Nice beaver!
You better get new glasses.
It's fearless leader!
Nice pic.
Where's Nim, goddammit?
I hate to be a killjoy, but the word or concept glamorous doesn't apply to anything I see in that picture...
i'll bet he's wearing slippers.
Male child? Aww....................
No turtleneck?
Oddest looking sporran I've ever seen!
Cat burn.
Nice of you to provide a lap for the cat. Who clearly sees no other purpose for your existence.
Er, it's light now. For a couple more hours anyway...
I awoke from my nap (retired, you know) to find that someone plowed the snow out of the driveway, sparing my back once again.
Guys shouldn't use their laptop while the cat is sitting on their lap - kills the spermatozoa.
here's the nyt article re greenspan and his ignoring the warnings. i highly recommend it.:
December 18, 2007
Fed Shrugged as Subprime Crisis Spread
By EDMUND L. ANDREWS
WASHINGTON — Until the boom in subprime mortgages turned into a national nightmare this summer, the few people who tried to warn federal banking officials might as well have been talking to themselves.
Edward M. Gramlich, a Federal Reserve governor who died in September, warned nearly seven years ago that a fast-growing new breed of lenders was luring many people into risky mortgages they could not afford.
But when Mr. Gramlich privately urged Fed examiners to investigate mortgage lenders affiliated with national banks, he was rebuffed by Alan Greenspan, the Fed chairman.
In 2001, a senior Treasury official, Sheila C. Bair, tried to persuade subprime lenders to adopt a code of “best practices” and to let outside monitors verify their compliance. None of the lenders would agree to the monitors, and many rejected the code itself. Even those who did adopt those practices, Ms. Bair recalled recently, soon let them slip.
And leaders of a housing advocacy group in California, meeting with Mr. Greenspan in 2004, warned that deception was increasing and unscrupulous practices were spreading.
John C. Gamboa and Robert L. Gnaizda of the Greenlining Institute implored Mr. Greenspan to use his bully pulpit and press for a voluntary code of conduct.
“He never gave us a good reason, but he didn’t want to do it,” Mr. Gnaizda said last week. “He just wasn’t interested.”
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/1...%2C+2005&
st=nyt
Well, of course Al Qaida hates Obama.
Obamba won't be nearly as much help to their recruiting efforts as the deserting coward has been, or McBush will be, by perpetuating the occupation of Iraq.
I hate to be a killjoy, but the word or concept glamorous doesn't apply to anything I see in that picture...
Billy B
Wiley(?)'s pretty glamorous. His human, not so much.
Where's Nim, goddammit?
Probally shitting all over himself, wondering if the child will come to be today.
I don't know how to do that, or I'd post a pic of my 7-toed wonder.
I hate to be a killjoy, but the word or concept glamorous doesn't apply to anything I see in that picture...
Billy B
"The glamorous life" is clearly referring to the kitteh.
Dude! you got a Dell!
What are all those wiry-looking things sticking out of that laptop? Is it in intensive care or something?
BTW, that guy doesn't look all that sweaty from here.
NYT:
The Dow Jones industrials were down nearly 300 points in afternoon trading after weak economic data reignited fears of an imminent recession.
It's so imminient, it's already begun.
How's that for imminent?
Meanwhile, here's your stupidity of the day:
California State University East Bay has fired a math teacher after six weeks on the job because she inserted the word "nonviolently" in her state-required Oath of Allegiance form.
Marianne Kearney-Brown, a Quaker and graduate student who began teaching remedial math to undergrads Jan. 7, lost her $700-a-month part-time job after refusing to sign an 87-word Oath of Allegiance to the Constitution that the state requires of elected officials and public employees.
"I don't think it was fair at all," said Kearney-Brown. "All they care about is my name on an unaltered loyalty oath. They don't care if I meant it, and it didn't seem connected to the spirit of the oath. Nothing else mattered. My teaching didn't matter. Nothing."
A veteran public school math teacher who specializes in helping struggling students, Kearney-Brown, 50, had signed the oath before - but had modified it each time.
She signed the oath 15 years ago, when she taught eighth-grade math in Sonoma. And she signed it again when she began a 12-year stint in Vallejo high schools.
Each time, when asked to "swear (or affirm)" that she would "support and defend" the U.S. and state Constitutions "against all enemies, foreign and domestic," Kearney-Brown inserted revisions: She wrote "nonviolently" in front of the word "support," crossed out "swear," and circled "affirm." All were to conform with her Quaker beliefs, she said.
The school districts always accepted her modifications, Kearney-Brown said.
But Cal State East Bay wouldn't, and she was fired on Thursday.
Modifying the oath "is very clearly not permissible," the university's attorney, Eunice Chan, said, citing various laws. "It's an unfortunate situation. If she'd just signed the oath, the campus would have been more than willing to continue her employment."
Atrios, you really blend well into the couch.
I'm surprised cats haven't figured out just how hot laptops get.
noblejoanie
Made the mistake one day of leaving the laptop open. Came home and found Miss Pickles asleep on the keyboard.
Coke to Adam Hominem
Guys shouldn't use their laptop while the cat is sitting on their lap - kills the spermatozoa.
Part of the plan...cats hate competition.
Corded mouse? How quaint.
wtf did i go to law school. i shulda been a blogger.
That's the largest mousepad I've ever seen!
Atrios, you really blend well into the couch
It takes years of practice and marriage for men to get this color coordinated.
Wireless mouse. How Nice!
Sharp elbows and all.
jawbone
Sorry, I read that this morning and really didn't find any there there. If that's the worst they can come up with, it will be a cake walk in November.
based on the yearly raise I was presented with yesterday - a stunning 1.5% increase - I'm going home early today.
Noam Sane
I think if you can manage to do 2% less work you'll break even, but IANAE.
Is res here?
wtf did i go to law school. i shulda been a blogger.
euphronius
If you do both, you end up not getting wealthy off of either.
Cute picture! But will we have to wait until next February 29 for another kitty picture?
Look, Atrios should be President because his hand is constantly over his heart!
Atrios, you really blend well into the couch.
attaturk
The male blogger's red plumage helps him blend in with his natural surroundings, and thus avoid the attention of unwanted roof deck visitors. And NTodd.
If you do both, you end up not getting wealthy off of either.
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at least i could blog on the couch intead of . . writing in comments at work.
It takes years of practice and marriage for men to get this color coordinated.
Barndog
He uses all that blogging money to buy a new couch every day to make his sweats.
Noah Chmosky's an myopic fool.
Might I suggest you read beyond the first sentence?
But Iraq is, in fact, the marginal issue, and the reasons are the traditional ones, the traditional reasoning and attitudes of the liberal doves who all pray now, as they did forty years ago, that the hawks will be right and that the US will win a victory in this land of wreck and ruin. And they’re either encouraged or silenced by the good news about Iraq.
And there is good news. The US occupying army in Iraq—euphemistically it’s called the Multi-National Force–Iraq, because they have, I think, three polls there somewhere—that the occupying army carries out extensive studies of popular attitudes. It’s an important part of counterinsurgency or any form of domination. You want to know what your subjects are thinking. And it released a report last December. It was a study of focus groups, and it was uncharacteristically upbeat. The report concluded—I’ll quote it—that the survey of focus groups “provides very strong evidence” that national reconciliation is possible and anticipated, contrary to what’s being claimed. The survey found that a sense of “optimistic possibility permeated all focus groups…and far more commonalities than differences are found among these seemingly diverse groups of Iraqis” from all over the country and all walks of life. This discovery of “shared beliefs” among Iraqis throughout the country is “good news, according to a military analysis of the results," Karen de Young reported in the Washington Post a couple of weeks ago.
But, as Chomsky points out, this is the myopic view, because:
One of the most dedicated and informed journalists who has been immersed in the ongoing tragedy, Nir Rosen, has just written an epitaph entitled “The Death of Iraq” in the very mainstream and quite important journal Current History. He writes that “Iraq has been killed, never to rise again. The American occupation has been more disastrous than that of the Mongols, who sacked Baghdad in the thirteenth century,” which has been the perception of many Iraqis, as well. “Only fools talk of ‘solutions’ now,” he went on. “There is no solution. The only hope is that perhaps the damage can be contained.”
California State University East Bay has fired a math teacher after six weeks on the job because she inserted the word "nonviolently" in her state-required Oath of Allegiance form.
Oaths of Allegiance ought to be against the law.
Cripes.
match...not make.
St. McCain spoke at Dell Headquarters with Dick Armey and Kay Bailey Hairdo. Ew.
Hmm three wires... one for the mouse, one for the lectricity and one for... hmmm. Atrios has a USB powered kitteh?
The male blogger's red plumage helps him blend in with his natural surroundings, and thus avoid the attention of unwanted roof deck visitors. And NTodd.
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan
He uses all that blogging money to buy a new couch every day to make his sweats
It's just a slip cover. Couches can be expensive.
Realize that photo was probably taken by Mrs A who has been trying for hours to get his attention.
Look, Atrios should be President because his hand is constantly over his heart!
batguano
Redd Foxx for President!
Modifying the oath "is very clearly not permissible," the university's attorney, Eunice Chan, said, citing various laws. "It's an unfortunate situation. If she'd just signed the oath, the campus would have been more than willing to continue her employment."
I certainly hope this lady contacts the ACLU. She's totally got a religious discrimination claim here.
Wireless cat. How Nice!
plantsman, persona non grata
flared your trombone
The male blogger's red plumage helps him blend in with his natural surroundings, and thus avoid the attention of unwanted roof deck visitors.
While Jim wrestles with that feline, here's a word from Mutual of Omaha...
If you do both, you end up not getting wealthy off of either.
attaturk
Damn straight!
Atrios needs the kitty to keep him from sliding off the couch.
You should make this a stream. That way, we could watch you read the comments in real time.
Also, if this is the glamorous life of an A-List Blogger (who hates his commenters) can you imagine what the B-, C-, and D-Listers look like?
"It's an unfortunate situation. If she'd just signed the oath, the campus would have been more than willing to continue her employment."
dave™©
Jesus motherfucking bloody christ on a skateboard.
GAIIIII!
Oh, and dude, you're going to ruin your back by sitting like that all day.
California State University East Bay has fired a math teacher after six weeks on the job because she inserted the word "nonviolently" in her state-required Oath of Allegiance form.
A subversive would sign a loyalty oath in a heartbeat.
No one thinks this shit through.
While Jim wrestles with that feline, here's a word from Mutual of Omaha...
dave™©
Jim's life really sucked, didn't it?
I certainly hope this lady contacts the ACLU. She's totally got a religious discrimination claim here.
Well, the California Attorney General's office seems to think so, too:
Modifying oaths is open to different legal interpretations. Without commenting on the specific situation, a spokesman for state Attorney General Jerry Brown said that "as a general matter, oaths may be modified to conform with individual values." For example, court oaths may be modified so that atheists don't have to refer to a deity, said spokesman Gareth Lacy.
Oh, and dude, you're going to ruin your back by sitting like that all day.
What if your back is already fucked up?
HUH, HUH???
You should make this a stream. That way, we could watch you read the comments in real time.
Maybe...just maybe we'd find out who Merkin is?
USB underwear i think.
California State University East Bay has fired a math teacher after six weeks on the job because she inserted the word "nonviolently" in her state-required Oath of Allegiance form.
Wait, so they WANT math teachers to be violent? From my previous experience with math teachers, that is most definitely not a good thing.
He'd like to get up and help but it would disturb the cat.
That's the rule in our house when the phone rings or someone's at the door, anyway.
hep cat and top cat
spokesman Gareth Lacy
Now, that's gaii.
And NTodd.
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan
Countdown to front-page Dohiyimir photo of a half-dressed NTodd buried in catzndogz begins . . . now.
can you imagine what the B-, C-, and D-Listers look like?
Basement. Mommy. Cheetohs.
What if your back is already fucked up?
Heh, well, I suppose there is the possibility he is filled with jelly and therefore unable to sit up straight.
Wait, so they WANT math teachers to be violent? From my previous experience with math teachers, that is most definitely not a good thing.
A violent math teacher with a sliderule is breaking news on CNN waiting to happen.
Has Althouse ever been asked to sign an oath of allegiance?
The male blogger's red plumage helps him blend in with his natural surroundings, and thus avoid the attention of unwanted roof deck visitors.
While Jim wrestles with that feline, here's a word from Mutual of Omaha...
dave™
Well played.
Countdown to front-page Dohiyimir photo of a half-dressed NTodd buried in catzndogz begins . . . now
Lemme see what the drug supply looks like.....
Nope, I won't be looking today.
Is the cat also a sweaty lunk?
From my previous experience with math teachers, that is most definitely not a good thing.
"Straw Dogs." Just saying...
I do, however, strongly object to using a mouse off a couch cushion!
Heh, well, I suppose there is the possibility he is filled with jelly and therefore unable to sit up straight.
mothra, Sister Machete of Sere
If he moves he gets The Claws.
Maybe...just maybe we'd find out who Merkin is?
attaturk
If he aimed the webcam at the screen, some of us could beat TKK to "First!"
OMG I JUST REALIZED THAT LAPTOP DOES NOT HAVE WIRELESS
No cheetos or footie pyjamas. I'm disappointed.
If ESPN was going to do a baseball game today, why not do the Mets & Santana's first pitches?
Well, the California Attorney General's office seems to think so, too:
Good.
If he moves he gets The Claws
This is not funny. My cat loves to "claw into" position in my lap.
Sometimes she goes flying when it gets a little to close for comfort.
Mariners are 1-0 in Spring Training games
World Series, bitches
OMG I JUST REALIZED THAT LAPTOP DOES NOT HAVE WIRELESS
euphronius
That dongles, not the dongle you think it is.
I cannot wait ot see "johann santanna" and "tommy john" in teh same sentence.
omg Mr Atrios, had no idea from other pics that kitty was that large - looks like she/he ate one of TBogg's bassets
res:
You have mail.
My cat used to sit on top of the clunky old desktop monitor while I 'puted. We got a flat screen a couple of months ago and she was really confused for a while there.
Mariners are 1-0 in Spring Training games
World Series, bitches
WooHoo!
Take that, Pay-Rod!
This is not funny. My cat loves to "claw into" position in my lap.
Sometimes she goes flying when it gets a little to close for comfort.
Barndog, without cat on lap
Oh, I wasn't kidding. We had to be damned careful moving if our old black kitty was comfortable. He'd let you have it.
cat's 14 pounds
A lot of math teachers have a slight bent towards sadism to begin with. Add to that low pay, bitchy kids, bitchier parents, even bitchier administrations and a knowledge of vectors, projectile motion and differential equations, and you've got yourself a powder keg waiting for a fuse.
"Well, the California Attorney General's office seems to think so, too..."
Good.
Apparently, however, no one from the University asked them about it.
USDA Rejects 'Downer' Cow Ban
Agriculture Secretary Finds Existing Meat-Processing Rules Adequate
http://www.washingtonpost.com/
wp...d=moreheadlines
YUM, downer cow meat!
Well, the cat just finished throwing up. She's most pleased she managed to make it to the most expensive rug in the house.
I'd excuse myself but the dogs seem to have everything under control.
OMG I JUST REALIZED THAT LAPTOP DOES NOT HAVE WIRELESS
Clearly a ploy to elicit pity from the unwashed in hopes of generating cash...
OMG I JUST REALIZED THAT LAPTOP DOES NOT HAVE WIRELESS
/clutches pearls!
Quick! to the fainting couch!
the cat is in teh same position mom and dad's cat is always in on dad's lap
cat's 14 pounds
My youngest is almost 12 lbs. She does tend to get a bit heavy in the lap at times.
Yes, I know who Dmitri Medvedev is; and starting next week he's the new President of Russia.
Mariners are 1-0 in Spring Training games
Gotta get my tickets to the Mariners games I always go to. Red Sox!
cat's 14 pounds
Slightly lighter than one of those "luggable" computers of a few decades back.
cat's 14 pounds
Atrios
Feh. Not even a decent paperweight. My small cats are 14 lbs.
Wimpy Yankee cats. Texas cats eat those for breakfast.
cat's 14 pounds
Atrios
Is any blood still flowing to your legs?
Mariners are 1-0 in Spring Training games
World Series, bitches
Are you an Iggles fan when football starts?
OMG I JUST REALIZED THAT LAPTOP DOES NOT HAVE WIRELESS
euphronius Night Moves!
I just realized that the same laptop Duncan's using is the same as mine at home.
cat's 14 pounds
Hobbes weighs about 16 pounds.
Dow is down over 300 points. Shouldn't we have some comment for the economist?
ahhhh
Wait, so they WANT math teachers to be violent? From my previous experience with math teachers, that is most definitely not a good thing.
My AP Calc teacher, Mr Murphy, stapled my wallet to my jeans when it was inside my pocket. While I was wearing them. I'm so not joking.
And people wonder why I eschew pants.
My cat used to sit on top of the clunky old desktop monitor while I 'puted.
Our cats used to do that, too. They still like sitting on the old-fashioned TV...
omg Mr Atrios, had no idea from other pics that kitty was that large
Maybe Atrios is just very small?
Loki began peeing on my laundry after I got a flatscreen. Coincidence? I think not!
the cat is in teh same position mom and dad's cat is always in on dad's lap
olexicon, Burger King David
Check the kerning.
14 # cat on a computer monitor--wonder if they're load tested for that.
My AP Calc teacher, Mr Murphy, stapled my wallet to my jeans when it was inside my pocket. While I was wearing them. I'm so not joking.
And people wonder why I eschew pants.
NTodd, Änti-VNF
In your back pocket, I hope.
I carry mine in the front pocket now, which is why I wondered....
"...can you imagine what the B-, C-, and D-Listers look like?
"
Like this
Hobbes weighs about 16 pounds
Does YOUR cat have 26 toes though?
Mine does.
omg Mr Atrios, had no idea from other pics that kitty was that large
Maybe Atrios is just very small?
Yeah, perspective is everything.
Could Atrios get R2D2 into the picture so we have a good comparison?
cat's 14 pounds
Atrios
Hard to tell from this view if he's fat, or just large.
Perhaps we could have a top view? If they look like a piece of sports equipment designed for throwing, with toothpicks for legs, it's diet time.
Feh. Not even a decent paperweight. My small cats are 14 lbs.
Wimpy Yankee cats. Texas cats eat those for breakfast.
Rmj, Bemused Theologist
Hah. Texas cats are obviously outmoded unecological models with an outrageous carbon footprint.
Here in the northeast, our apartment-adapted cats are small, clean and energy efficient!
Does YOUR cat have 26 toes though?
My cat's a dog.
My cat Will is 18 pounds. Totally pwns our lab, he pushes her out of the way when he's in the mood for a little dog chow.
cat's 14 pounds
Atrios
And the displacement?
Check the kerning.
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan
"toby" (who has that name because of me and becuase of the expression "balck as toby's ass" not becauauce of petzold, is all black with only a priest collar
Is this the party to whom I'm speaking? Mrs clinton? hello...
Red phone ringing in the dead of night
Who's the President who's gonna fight?
Did you know
You are only voting for some to save your life?
Red phone ringing in the dead of night
Who's gonna pick it up and take the call?
Did you know
You are only voting for someone to kill them all?
Red phone ring
Red phone ring
Deep in the night in the cold west wing...
C'mon, paulie, suck it up. be a big boy. I did' ruin it that bad...
My AP Calc teacher, Mr Murphy, stapled my wallet to my jeans when it was inside my pocket. While I was wearing them. I'm so not joking.
A geometry teacher I had would throw things at you--chalk, erasers, books--to get your attention. He also once smashed a chair against the blackboard.
Does YOUR cat have 26 toes though?
Mine does.
Barndog, without cat on lap
Evenly distributed? Or randomly scattered about?
Mariners are 1-0 in Spring Training games
World Series, bitches
WalterNeff, Thai master
So are the Cubs!
World Series Champs - every Century on the 8s!
I can only assume that the picture was taken by the other cat.
Hard to tell from this view if he's fat, or just large.
It's "big boned".
the cubs have a player named fukudome.
cat's 14 pounds
Atrios
Maybe it 8 2 perch.
Jesus, Chris... I'd have sworn I saw your picture at the Post Office...
Dow is down over 300 points. Shouldn't we have some comment for the economist?
cosmic tumbler
Wheeeeeeeeeeeeeeee....*splat*
?
Hah. Texas cats are obviously outmoded unecological models with an outrageous carbon footprint.
Here in the northeast, our apartment-adapted cats are small, clean and energy efficient!
Gummo
Yeah, but they hack up bigger stuff on the rugs than your Northeastern pussies!
the cat is in teh same position mom and dad's cat is always in on dad's lap
olexicon, Burger King David
Check the kerning.
doncjesuis, Tina Fey fan
A geometry teacher I had would throw things at you--chalk, erasers, books--to get your attention. He also once smashed a chair against the blackboard.
Supreme Commander Thor
I had a calc teacher who did that.
Dow is down over 300 points. Shouldn't we have some comment for the economist?
"The fundamentals are strong"
Yeah, but they hack up bigger stuff on the rugs than your Northeastern pussies!
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hmmmm.
the cubs have a player named fukudome.
euphronius Night Moves!
He best walk on water this season or the fans are gonna change that name real quick.
Ah . . . they'll do it anyway.
I'll have the organic hummus and blue corn tortilla chips.
Yeah, but they hack up bigger stuff on the rugs than your Northeastern pussies!
Rmj, Bemused Theologist
It's so sad:
to insecure guys, size is everything....
Hard to tell from this view if he's fat, or just large.
It's "big boned".
Supreme Commander Thor
Right. My bad.
Evenly distributed? Or randomly scattered about?
Evenly distributed. Although, the Vet and I have an ongoing debate about the other 2 toes in front - they are dewclaws, with actual toes.
She won't count them, but I do - and she'd have 28 toes.
Yeah, but they hack up bigger stuff on the rugs than your Northeastern pussies!
heh.
Obviously, the Noo Yawk cats are not fed properly. Call PETA.
Sit up!
Right now!
I'll have the organic hummus and blue corn tortilla chips
With or without garlic and artichoke hearts?
She won't count them, but I do - and she'd have 28 toes.
Barndog, without cat on lap
Make me a paw print!
"I hate to be a killjoy, but the word or concept glamorous doesn't apply to anything I see in that picture...
Billy B"
i see someone begging for nomination to 'what not to wear'.
I love catblogging!
My cat is a mere 8-pounder, so with her sitting on the old monitor, the danger was only from kittifluff.
I'll have the organic hummus and blue corn tortilla chips
With or without garlic and artichoke hearts?
I have mine with a side of Rotel dip...
http://www.sadlyno.com/archives/
...7.html#comments
Indeed, this is central to my point
I miss my kitty.
Make me a paw print!
I will try my best to get a picture of her feets.
Theys huge!
http://riverdaughter.wordpress.c...stle-economics/
One take, pretty comrephensive, on Austen Goolsbee. DLC Senior Economist.
Yes, that DLC.
Goolsbee thinks single payer is a bad idea. He thinks Warren Buffett is just lucky. He thinks globalization is no biggie. He thinks subprime lending gimmicks made the market more perfect. And he gives Dubya high marks on trade, taxes, job creation … but an “Incomplete” on Social Security.
Think it might be a good idea to learn who Obama listens to, who his advisers are? Since we don't know all that much about him, this might be very important.
And you MCM is not going to tell you about this until, oh, sometime McCain brings it up?
Dow is down over 300 points. Shouldn't we have some comment for the economist?
"The fundamentals are strong"
Apprentice to Darth Holden
Another cut or two in the discount rate will fix that right up. Just wait and see. Why if you can borrow money cheaply, what else do you need?
(And don't answer more money, smartass!)
Make me a paw print!
I'll take a Reuben, merci.
Barndog, I did have to work at it a bit to get that expression just right.
The sad thing is, I didn't have to work all that hard.
A geometry teacher I had would throw things at you--chalk, erasers, books--to get your attention. He also once smashed a chair against the blackboard.
Supreme Commander Thor
Music teacher in 8th grade threw a hissy fit and refused to teach any of us until each of us came up to him and apologized for being so dumb.
He also pushed a piano downstairs.
From this I conclude that sometimes being a failed musician is better than becoming a teacher of 8th graders.
Home sick today and exposed to daytime news TV. I've learned that the housing sector of the economy is in "the early phase of its recovery".
These financial news people scare me.
I'll have the organic hummus and blue corn tortilla chips
With or without garlic and artichoke hearts?
Barndog, without cat on lap
Oregon Tilth Certified? If so, bring. it. on.
Indeed, this is central to my point
olexicon, Burger King David
Love the comment: "Hitler used it on everything."
Hard to tell from this view if he's fat, or just large.
Stop it. Last time someone called the Atrikittehs fat, they were withheld for a long period of time. Stop it.
"The fundamentals are strong"
"The policy of my government is a strong-dollar policy"
I miss my kitty.
You should start looking at your local shelter or rescue organization!
One take, pretty comrephensive, on Austen Goolsbee. DLC Senior Economist.
Yes, that DLC.
He's the guy who supposedly talked to the Canadian gov.
NTodd and other Lithuania fans -
My mom and her sisters singing Lithauanian songs:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?
v=6...49g#GU5U2spHI_4
My mom is sitting in the middle
;
Knew someone with a many-toed cat, feline polydactyly, named Faux Paws
I miss my kitty.
Vicki, Who ♥ new nephew
Aw, sorry, honey. I miss my departed ones, too.
"The policy of my government is a strong-dollar policy"
Billy B
[Belly laugh from the UK.]
I did have to work at it a bit to get that expression just right
I had a couple military ID cards with expressions like that.
In fact, when I discharged out of the Marines, the Gunny made me take 8 different photos, until one suited his tastes. Then, I kept signing my name illegibly, which REALLY pissed him off.
They went through a sheet of ID cards on me, just to get out.
Onward to the Big Picture framework questions of progressive policy and politics.
How do we remedy lopsided distribution of wealth and income? To Goolsbee, the main answers are education, education, and educational opportunity.
Obama’s vision, as focused by Goolsbee’s lenses, includes “democratizing capitalism”. I guess that means we’ll all be rich, a few decades after the rich pull everybody else on board into the investor class. (Heard this somewhere before, have you?)
More from ronkseattle
http://riverdaughter.wordpress.c...stle-economics/
I think Miss Thing is bigger.
Look out cat - there's a big blob of strawberry jam about to get you!
Another cut or two in the discount rate will fix that right up. Just wait and see. Why if you can borrow money cheaply, what else do you need?
"I'd give it all up...for just a little bit more." - C. Montgomery Burns
A geometry teacher I had would throw things at you--chalk, erasers, books--to get your attention.
Had a science teacher in 7th grade that would do that.
He limited his choice of projectiles to blackboard erasers, though... and his aim was perfect.
nj:
I emailed one of our compatriots some pics of my 7-toed male, 'cause I don't know how to post pics.
Hope they show up.
Well, at least Gizmo's not digging his claws into your kneecaps.
He limited his choice of projectiles to blackboard erasers, though... and his aim was perfect.
Sounds like he was a pina colada regular at Trader Vic's.
Home sick today and exposed to daytime news TV. I've learned that the housing sector of the economy is in "the early phase of its recovery".
These financial news people scare me.
Penguin
It's always darkest before it turns pitch black.
I'd get a new cat, but allergies make me think twice.
And still no word from Nim and Jen.
Rev - 7 toed males are very, very rare indeed.
That is a huge cat.
I just have to say I really like the Tuxedo Kitty. My twin sis has a tuxedo named STELLA!!!!!!!!!!!
Love them. Such personality.
It's always darkest before it turns pitch black.
"I said it looks clear."
I think Miss Thing is bigger.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Last time I checked, Basil was 18 lbs. His sister Sybil is a lot smaller. But even before he got heavy Basil was freakishly large - he comes up past my knee on those rare occasions when he actually stands up.
She won't count them, but I do - and she'd have 28 toes.
Barndog, without cat on lap
Make me a paw print!
V for Virginia, home again
[passes sheet of 11 x 17" paper to Barndog]
While I was looking thru pics of kitties, I came upon a few of the female we had to say good-bye to last week.
Miss her a lot, even with 4 ocats and two dogs.
Sounds like he was a pina colada regular at Trader Vic's.
Apprentice to Darth Holden
maybe he just likes pina colada's and getting caught in the rain
I'd get a new cat, but allergies make me think twice
Wife had severe cat allergies. However, 3 cats tends to help one's immune system deal with it.
Youse guys with those polydactyl cats! Make me pawprints and I'll do something fun with them!
Rev - 7 toed males are very, very rare indeed.
Barndog, without cat on lap
Except close to nuclear reactors.
[Belly laugh from the UK.]
That one's the gift that keeps on giving, CT.
I'd get a new cat, but allergies make me think twice.
There is a kind of cat that's supposedly good for people w/ allergies. My friend who's allergic got one for her daughter. But it's called hairless and it does look pretty sad.
Revenant:
Photobucket.com - it's really easy.
And the internet NEEDS MORE CATS, dammit!
http://tinyurl.com/2rsgxu
only 70% believe msm out of touch - heh! the true believers must now be fans of the msm and liberals not so much -
"I'll have the organic hummus and blue corn tortilla chips"
but is the hummus free-range?
from below:
got back from knockng on doors in south austin. The American electorate is a peculiar phenomenon indeed.
One lady told me that McCain and Clinton are the same, so if she can't vote for Huckabee, she's going to vote for Obama.
http://upload.wikimedia.org/
wiki...Bloggers_40.jpg
the cat is as big as Janeane Garofalo, if not bigger
B-List Bloggers are more mobile.
Barndog:
He just showed up in the backyard last May.
One toe is kind of a dew claw, but there are definitely 7.
Revenant, email me and I'll clue you in on the whole picture posting thing.
(remove spaces and make the obvious changes)
c h t "at" g i s "dot" c o m
If you all keep making fun of Atrios' glandulary challenged bobcat, he may not share more photos of the freakish monstrosity.
just saying.
Vicki-Are they still home or at the birthing center?
What does all this tell us about Barack Obama’s vision of a low-conflict New Politics, and its strange attraction across the political spectrum? Here, it gets interesting.
Obama sincerely believes he’s on to something. He hasn’t told us what it is yet, or how it would work, or how he knows it would work, but he believes it’s possible in principle to satisfy all sides of today’s major divisions of interest.
Apparently he is convinced that much of the conflict evident in today’s politics is inessential … derivative … superfluous. Where does he get that idea? Perhaps he’s informed by the siren’s call of naive economics and market idealism. If regulations were largely unnecessary, if imbalances were largely self-correcting, if economic growth itself were the path to economic justice … then we could enrich the deserving Have-Nots without all those disagreeable takings from the powerful Haves.
There’s a parallel here to presidential epochs past. Running for office, Reagan really thought he could give everyone a thirty percent tax cut, increase tax revenues, build a 600-ship Navy and a missile shield in space, and fund it by eliminating “ two words: fraud and waste“.
A closer parallel: Running for office, George W. Bush really thought he could give American conservatives their desired freedom from taxes and regulation, but also free them from the pangs of stricken conscience at the misfortune of others.
[Don’t kid yourself. Few conservatives are indifferent to hungry kids or grannies freezing in the streets, even if it’s not their kids or their grannies. They just don’t know how to solve this problem without morphing into the despised — and economically inconvenient — liberals.]
Thus was born “compassionate conservatism“. The advantaged could sleep soundly knowing that their very selfishness paved the road to riches for the disadvantages.
More ronkseattle analysis.
Wife had severe cat allergies. However, 3 cats tends to help one's immune system deal with it.
Barndog, without cat on lap
My mother always claimed to be allergic. Dad always had cats. Somehow it worked out.
One lady told me that McCain and Clinton are the same, so if she can't vote for Huckabee, she's going to vote for Obama.
Wow, all over the map there.
/shrug
Ya know, maybe Hillary could have won me over if she just spelled my name correctly.
Dear Vici,
I think everyone knows how important the races we face on March 4 are. But there's one thing you need to know: I am relying on you to win.
You are my best supporters, and over the past weeks you have made this campaign your own. Now with just a few days to go before the critical March 4 contests, I have to ask you to act one more time -- because you can make a difference on Tuesday.
Dear Hillarity,
I have written you numerous letters over the course of several months asking you to spell my name correctly. Alas, your advisors don't listen, so I will not be sending you any cash.
Love,
VICKI
One lady told me that McCain and Clinton are the same, so if she can't vote for Huckabee, she's going to vote for Obama.
rootless-e, email-listed!
Holeeeee crap.
I mean, good, but these people are very different from me.
but is the hummus free-range?
I had no idea chickpeas were a roving herd.
Hard to tell from this view if he's fat, or just large.
It's "big boned".
Supreme Commander Thor | 02.29.08 - 3:41 pm | #
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It's the perspective. Makes kitteh look huge.
CNBC and assorted "financial experts" on that channel and others are really nothing more than "guessers" who entertain for a living.
"Well I think that the dropping fed rate will... blah, blah, blah..."
And you'll get a range of opinions that amount to covering the ass of the network, while people pick which "guesser" they like and the network makes money on ads.
One lady told me that McCain and Clinton are the same, so if she can't vote for Huckabee, she's going to vote for Obama.
That one didn't know whether to shit or go blind.
Had a science teacher in 7th grade that would do that.
He limited his choice of projectiles to blackboard erasers, though... and his aim was perfect.
This guy was deadly with chalk. He could peg someone in the forehead about 8 times out of 10. He was asked the leave the year after I had him after he slapped a guy upside the head with a text book and gave him a concussion.
Well, at least Gizmo's not digging his claws into your kneecaps.
watertiger
Ah yes - the 18 lb. cat's other favorite habit. He's getting on in years and he is pretty fat, so sometimes he doesn't quite make it when he jumps up on to my lap. The solution, of course, is to dig his claws into my thigh and hang on for dear life until he can scramble up to lap. Isn't that just...um...adorable?
I mean, good, but these people are very different from me.
V for Virginia, home again
That could be the understatement of the day.
Dow down 340
He just showed up in the backyard last May
Heh. Funny that. Eve showed up on our deck Christmas Eve of 2001.
I'd been whining about another cat for months. Wife said that we could get one, if she showed up (calico) and decided to live with us.
Eve did just that.
Glad to see you're here, GWPDA--we've been missing you!
One lady told me that McCain and Clinton are the same, so if she can't vote for Huckabee, she's going to vote for Obama.
Wow, all over the map there.
Has she ever tried making an emergency landing in Chicago?
Hi Moonbeams-
So, I'm getting from the context that someone related to Vicki is having a baby today? Is that about right?
Larry Kudlow could be replaced by a burlap sack full of shit with a tie.
-GSD
"Youse guys with those polydactyl cats!"
there's cats that can solve equations?
That one didn't know whether to shit or go blind.
Billy B
Could you link to the origin of that expression?
Dear Hillarity,
Vicki, Who ♥ new nephew
You owe me a new monitor.
One lady told me that McCain and Clinton are the same, so if she can't vote for Huckabee, she's going to vote for Obama.
Wow, all over the map there.
You said it. What do her other personalities think?
The solution, of course, is to dig his claws into my thigh and hang on for dear life until he can scramble up to lap. Isn't that just...um...adorable?
my mother's cat would do that. she'd settle down in your lap and decide which knee she would lacerate that day.
Love,
VICKI
Vicki, Who ♥ new nephew
Veni, vidi, Vicki.
Vicki-Are they still home or at the birthing center?
Not sure. I've tried to their home twice, and they don't answer. I don't want to be too much of a pest, so I'm letting my dialing fingers rest for the moment.
She was told to go back to the birthing center at 4:00 PM, but I've been trying to call since about 2:30 PM...
I'm really excited, and auntsy (pardon the pun), too.
to dig his claws into my thigh and hang on for dear life until he can scramble up to lap.
He scratches because he cares.
Larry Kudlow could be replaced by a burlap sack full of shit with a tie.
-GSD
GSD
Cramer?
The solution, of course, is to dig his claws into my thigh and hang on for dear life until he can scramble up to lap. Isn't that just...um...adorable?
Sometimes you need to be cruel to be kind.
Dan McEnroe, maybe give the 18lber a little stepstool? Or carpeted ramp?
Wow, all over the map there.
Ya think?
Was she asked what she thought Huckabee had in common with Obama?!
The stock market slumps, the housing market collapses, the dollar plunges, unemployment rises, oil goes over $100/barrel - is anybody in charge in Washington, DC?
No and what's more they don't give a fuck. So long as the corporations continue to be highly profitable, what do they care what happens to the American people?
Sounds like he was a pina colada regular at Trader Vic's.
I thought about that when I wrote it, actually!
if they knew what they were talking about they would not be on CNN.
All I see is two pussies in that picture. And a laptop.
I so do not feel like doing associate evaluations this afternoon.
Dow down 340
"The country's not in a recession."
-G.W. Bush
Cramer?
A screaming burlap sack filled with shit.
Larry Kudlow could be replaced by a burlap sack full of shit with a tie
I thought thats what it was?
Huh.
Dow down 340
attaturk
Now I get it. Atrios' body position is the barometer of the stock market. Next shot he will be on the floor and the cat will be typing the posts.
Oh, auntsy.
Good on ya, Vicki.
Afternoon all you cat lovers.
Next Thursday is my youngest child's 20th birthday, and 17 years ago that day, I (a dog lover) brought home for her a little calico kitty. The cat turned into a 21 pound monster who bites me whenever she has the notion, which is fairly frequently.
We've reached a peace accord over the last few months because I've taken to feeding her. Point is, my wife loathes the dogs; I abide the cat 'cause my daughter wanted it. But for the life of me, I can't believe she stays as fat as she does. Doesn't seem to eat much; just bites a lot and stays on the high side of plump. That was central to my verbose point.
Holeeeee crap.
I mean, good, but these people are very different from me.
V for Virginia, home again | Homepage | 02.29.08 - 3:52 pm | #
If you'd have asked me to make 10 conjectures about the weirdest possible responses, I could not have come close to that.
I think it's impressionistic. Obama has, so far, managed to sell himself as a sincere smart guy who means well and is not part of the battles of the last 20 years. And people are going for it.
This woman, however, had done enough research to know that there was a tie in betwen McCain's campaign and Hillary's (something to do with Mark Penn's consulting company).
I had no idea chickpeas were a roving herd.
Barndog, without cat on lap
They're not dangerous. But the renegade bulgur wheat for tabooleh - THAT'S wicked. You have been warned.
I doesn't cornsidder myself to be particularly iggerent, but I couldn't figure out photobucket.
Chris, my email to you was returned.
Try me at dan3583@hotmail.com
Dear Hillarity,
heh...heh....heh....
Good comeback, Vici.
One e-mail she sent me went:
I think everyone knows how important the races we face on March 4 are. But there's one thing you need to know: I am relying on you to win.
Donate now.
You are my best supporters, and over the past weeks you have made this campaign your own. Now with just a few days to go before the critical March 4 contests, I have to ask you to act one more time -- because you can make a difference on Tuesday.
Donate now.
[bold emphasis mine]
no one could have predicted in his last year in office bush would try and steal as much for his arab oil friends as possible.
Dan McEnroe, maybe give the 18lber a little stepstool? Or carpeted ramp?
jawbone
You can buy little steps for just this purpose. I shit you not.
Isn't capitalism amazing?
and auntsy
"One lady told me that McCain and Clinton are the same, so if she can't vote for Huckabee, she's going to vote for Obama."
makes perfect sense to me, if i burried my head in a plastic bag of testor's airplane glue.
"The country's not in a recession."
-G.W. Bush
Your brain has receeded into nothingness, Mr Bush.
Was she asked what she thought Huckabee had in common with Obama?!
Both secretly Muslims.
Was she asked what she thought Huckabee had in common with Obama?!
They're both either Christians or covert Muslims.
iTunes just segued into the Wendy Carlos playlist.
For the next hour or so, I shall be enjoying all her "Switched-On" works, digitally remastered and cleaned up for CD.
I love these works.
Also, both have funny names.
So, I'm getting from the context that someone related to Vicki is having a baby today? Is that about right?
Henry Flower
the happy couple met at EschaCon, nim proposed via a front page on Eschaton, they married and are about to spawn. Doesn't get much better than that.
makes perfect sense to me, if i burried my head in a plastic bag of testor's airplane glue
Methylethylketone is much better.
This guy was deadly with chalk. He could peg someone in the forehead about 8 times out of 10.
Got a teacher to throw a chair at me. He was a priest, too.
I just bring out the best in people, I guess.
Could you link to the origin of that expression?
No clue as to that. I've heard it used as such for as long as I can remember.
i'm telling ya, those clothes are a cry for help.
Well, our fed. tax refund was posted to our account today. So the rest of the economy may be headed for the shitter, but for at least 1 day I say:
YIPPEE!!
We've already paid off 2 long-outstanding debts today. I feel good.*
(*not physically, I still have this cold/stomach thingy. But for the moment I. Don't. Care!)
I used this photo today in class of a leibniz cat to illustrate some aspects of cat night vision... or you can think of her as a terminator cat:
http://farm1.static.flickr.com/
1...107279716_b.jpg
Kudlow and Cramer should be assigned to live with Bushboy for the rest of their lives.
They all deserve each other.
But for the life of me, I can't believe she stays as fat as she does. Doesn't seem to eat much; just bites a lot and stays on the high side of plump. That was central to my verbose point.
Glenn
The cat is 17 and still fat and feisty? Good for her!
This woman, however, had done enough research to know that there was a tie in betwen McCain's campaign and Hillary's (something to do with Mark Penn's consulting company).
But she'll vote for Obama if she can't vote for Huckabee.
Okay then.
Dan McEnroe, maybe give the 18lber a little stepstool? Or carpeted ramp?
But climbing my leg is the only exercise he gets!
I'm betting on the little hamhock having a 2/29 birthday.
the happy couple met at EschaCon, nim proposed via a front page on Eschaton, they married and are about to spawn. Doesn't get much better than that.
Aw. An Eschatot! :D
What could be better?
Can I pet your pussy?
leibniz:
That reminds me of a few years back when one of my kitties put a christmas light in his mouth, and his whole head lit up.
Laughed 'til I thought I'd puke.
I used this photo today in class of a leibniz cat
Just give her whatever she wants, for heaven's sake!
All the way with M-E-K!!!!
I'm really excited, and auntsy (pardon the pun), too.
Vicki, Who ♥ new nephew
If you don't want to be a pest, just post Nim's cell number here, and we can allllllll take turns checking in 
Revenant, crap. it's net, not com!
I am a senile wreck today, it appears.
Tía Vicki I'm excited for you and the new parents.
I love babies.
Our oldest is 17, and has slowed down to not much activity all day.
But, she's always in the bed purring when I climb in. And, she has this habit of sleeping on my blankets - warming the bed for me in the process.
Hey, we're getting a new ham hock? Awesome!
They're both either Christians or covert Muslims.
I fear you're on to something.
Oddly enough, cat night vision can result in a cat's two eyes reflecting back different colors:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/
2...e38f5e25f_o.jpg
*The stock market slumps, the housing market collapses, the dollar plunges, unemployment rises, oil goes over $100/barrel - is anybody in charge in Washington, DC?
What with all the negativism?
You know we painted several schools in the Sunni Triangle this week!
-GSD
"Methylethylketone is much better."
i gotta gallon of mek, and it's a slow friday...
Vicki,
I think it's only fair for them to name the baby Duncan.
Exhibit A in why both parties are exactly alike:
Triple chins & fat cats lounging while the world endures the American Holocaust.
she's always in the bed purring when I climb in
I once knew a girl like that...
All the way with M-E-K!!!!
Sure would get you stoned, but the headaches were murder.
On the way, Chris.
CNN has a school evacuation story because of a gunman being reported in California.
...wasn't there one of these earlier today in Florida or something?
I used this photo today in class of a leibniz cat to illustrate some aspects of cat night vision... or you can think of her as a terminator cat:
She's shooting frickin laser beams out of her eyes!
Will you guys stop commenting so fast? I can't get a word in edgewise.
Dear Hillarity,
Love,
VICKI
Vicki,
That made me laugh out loud.
i gotta gallon of mek, and it's a slow friday...
Duuude...
Our youngest cat is trying to suicide -- she will put ANYTHING in he mouth, the smaller and more lethal, the better.
She can find screws, pins, etc., that were lost 15 years and 4 tenants ago, and will carry them around until she decides it's time to plop down and start chewing on them.
I'm betting on the little hamhock having a 2/29 birthday.
McCain raises $12 million in February
Posted: 11:55 AM ET
(CNN)
***
Hillary Clinton raises $35 mln in February
***
Obama: The $50 million man
Sources say the Illinois senator shatters monthly donation records, tops Clinton's own hefty $35 million haul
between the $$$ flowing to the dems and the voter numbers crushing the repukes, this is gonna be good.
I am guessing the Hamhock de la Libertie will not be Marshall Richard.
i'm telling ya, those clothes are a cry for help. -jdw
i don't give a shit about that; but where's his frickin flagpin?
I love babies.
HoneyBearKelly
Do you have any grand kids yet?
Grrr.
Sounding like it. I think ql had 7 p.m., but we didn't really have a pool.
So these guys are playing "Lucille" by B.B. King right now.
God, he sounds like he's 18 years old...
Is it true they are going to rename it the Down Jones? -320 right now.
We got a gallon of mek and a half a tank a gas...
Road trip!!!
Jake and Elwood
McCain is being set-up as a sacrificial old goat.
-GSD
Why are these people clapping at the closing bell? Down 313. HOORAY?
Is Obama patriotic? This picture speaks volumes....
ql 2.
The cat is 17 and still fat and feisty? Good for her!
Adam Hominem
Feisty she is; and to be honest she's kind of fun to watch and she doesn't bite to hurt, I think, just to make a point. It's really something of a hoot, especially when she wants to climb into my lap. "All's forgiven; here I come."
We got a gallon of mek and a half a tank a gas...
it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.
We've already paid off 2 long-outstanding debts today. I feel good.*
Dude. What can you possibly be thinking? You were supposed to take that refund and blow it at WalMart. How will the economy ever revive everyone pays off their debts and doesn't buy something new?
Why are these people clapping at the closing bell? Down 313. HOORAY?
Thy're clapping because it wasn't down 1313.
Why are these people clapping at the closing bell? Down 313. HOORAY?
Sure. Because, they were able to siphon off billions out of ordinary working folks' 401K plans.
What, are you new?
Hurumph, I got none.
"Duuude..."
yeah, yer right. maybe i'll see if the wife wants to play dr.
Why are these people clapping at the closing bell? Down 313. HOORAY?
It's cocktail time.
That's what the clapping is about.
it's dark, and we're wearing sunglasses.
Billy B | Homepage | 02.29.08 - 4:06 pm
Suddenly, a shot rang out...
Of course, sometimes, you get even more weird effects:
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/
2...6bcd1f873_o.jpg
Stephen Hawking called. He said your posture sucks.
What, are you new?
Barndog
No, old, but pretty dumb about how it all works, that's for sure.
yeah, yer right. maybe i'll see if the wife wants to play dr.
I thought it was 'hide the salami'?
Dude. What can you possibly be thinking? You were supposed to take that refund and blow it at WalMart. How will the economy ever revive everyone pays off their debts and doesn't buy something new?
mothra, Sister Machete of Sere
Oh, there's plenty of Stoopits out there to make up for us.
We have an almost-ex-friend who, when Mrs. G. was talking about us slowly climbing out of debt, exclaimed, oh great, now you can start taking trips!
Mrs. G. looked at her like she was crazy (which she is) and said, no, now we can start saving.
Is Obama patriotic?
Desperate much?
Suddenly, a shot rang out...
It was a dark and stormy night...
Dude, get thee to an IKEA. Before the penny is replaced by the dollar.
revenant if yez can't get it to work I could also help, in the land of hotmail i'm topaznorth.
"i don't give a shit about that; but where's his frickin flagpin?
focus, cultifornian"
he probably cropped the che poster out of the pic.
i think he needs a visit from the guys at americablog. get him some threads and furnishings..
George W. Bush is going to offer up a steaming turd under a silver serving dish for McCain.
McCain is not smart enough to talk himself out of Chimpy's enduring clusterfuck.
-GSD
I hope no ergonomicists are watching. That doesn't actually look all that comfy.
Is George Bush patriotic? You decide:
http://www.thecarpetbaggerreport...images/
flag.jpg
.
'afternoon, kids.
This picture is funny. Atrios looks like my husband, without a beard. Replace the mouse with a remote control, add about three cats, and it looks like my house.
Don't anybody tell Tilda Swinton.
It was a dark and stormy night...
Barndog, without cat on lap | 02.29.08 - 4:08 pm |
Apirate ship came over the horizon...
CNN has a school evacuation story because of a gunman being reported in California
Yeah, well if all the school kids were allowed to carry guns into school, they wouldn't have to evacuate the school.
CNN has a school evacuation story because of a gunman being reported in California.
This is national news because...?
Mrs. G. looked at her like she was crazy (which she is) and said, no, now we can start saving.
Woman after my own heart.
"I thought it was 'hide the salami'?"
I AM GYNO-MAN, DAMMIT!
Thy're clapping because it wasn't down 1313.
If it had gone down 1337 it would be k3w1!
Don't anybody tell Tilda Swinton
Boy, Greg Oden looks happy, doesn't he?
dude uses a mouse? that's crunked up.
Woman after my own heart
I pitched a fit when the wife took the credit card and bought all kinds of shit for the new computer.
cat's 14 pounds
Atrios
Shrimp. That aint a cat. This was a cat. 23 lbs of tough, if posthumous, love...
Don't anybody tell Tilda Swinton.
That gentleman sitting next to her sure looks enthused. Is Bush garbling?
Mrs. G. looked at her like she was crazy (which she is) and said, no, now we can start saving.
God, that's so un-American!!!!
You're supposed to spend, spend, spend. Stay eternally in debt. How else can you be controlled, if you don't live in fear of being wiped out at any second?
Yeah, well if all the school kids were allowed to carry guns into school, they wouldn't have to evacuate the school.
mothra, Sister Machete of Sere
Plus, they'd be able to handle all the violent math teachers. It's win-win!
Yeah, well if all the school kids were allowed to carry guns into school, they wouldn't have to evacuate the school.
mothra, Sister Machete of Sere
That's right. They'd just have to send in paramedics with body bags.
.
Oh, there's plenty of Stoopits out there to make up for us.
I was just kidding--I think it's great you are paying off debt. But the get-out-of-debt-so-you-can-get-back-in is my brother all over. The man simply has zero money sense.
that cat has the glossiest fuckin' coat.
just sayin'.
Woman after my own heart.
Hecate, Runnymeade Conspirator
Well, we're not ascetics. Anyone who's seen our DVD collection will attest to that.
But we're trying so hard to get our finances together after some really bad times 7, 8, 9 years ago.
That's right. They'd just have to send in paramedics with body bags.
.... and guns. Just, cuz, you never know ....
Let's see, 1 in 10 adults is in prison, and we're arming ourselves to the teeth against the rest. Gotta love America!
Boy, Greg Oden looks happy, doesn't he?
He's endorsed Obama.
is that a second chin, or a container for a second chin?
Is Obama patriotic?
Desperate much?
The Old Man From Scene 24
actually it also says Bush I is too
http://www.juancole.com/2008/02/...-
political.html
some facts from juan cole - good read like always
You're supposed to spend, spend, spend. Stay eternally in debt. How else can you be controlled, if you don't live in fear of being wiped out at any second?
Southern Beale
We bought a new 5-burner Frigidaire stove. Does that count?
Boy, Greg Oden looks happy, doesn't he?
Glenn
Thought bubble: "I come out for Obama and all I get is to sit next to The Joker all up in drag?!?"
"Shrimp. That aint a cat."
oh man. i'm gonna show that to punky and tell him that's what's gonna happen if he keeps up his ways...
But we're trying so hard to get our finances together after some really bad times 7, 8, 9 years ago.
Well, good for you. You're to be applauded for going against our cultural norm and being grown-ups.
Americans as a rule don't like to deny themselves much. We feel we have a *right* to that big-screen TV and gas-guzzling SUV. No one thinks twice of doing without.
I often wonder what would happen if this country were forced to sacrifice, like my parents did during the Depresson and WWII. I guess we'll find out soon enough.
http://
commentisfree.guardian.co...rinter.friendly
Guardian article on Obama's advisers--from Jan. 9 of this year.
Sees Obama as a Democratic Libertarian. So hard to tell just how he will govern! However, this writer thinks he sees pretty clearly how Obama will govern.
Obama's preference for reducing healthcare costs while preserving the freedom to choose whether or not to participate in the healthcare system, as against Clinton's (and Edwards's) insistence on mandating participation, is not a one-off discrepancy without broader implications. Rather, Obama's language of personal choice and incentive is a reflection of the ideas of his lead economic advisor, Austin Goolsbee, a behavioural economist at the University of Chicago, who agrees with the liberal consensus on the need to address concerns such as income inequality, disparate educational opportunities and, of course, disparate access to healthcare, but breaks sharply from liberal orthodoxy on both the causes of these social ills and the optimal strategy for ameliorating them.
Instead of recommending traditional welfare-state liberalism as a solvent for socioeconomic inequalities and dislocations, Goolsbee promotes programmes to essentially democratise the market, protecting and where possible expanding freedom of choice, while simultaneously creating rational, self-interested incentives for individuals to participate in solving collective problems. No wonder, then, that Obama's healthcare plan is specifically designed to give people good reason to buy in, without coercing them. Likewise, as George Will reported in a column from October, Goolsbee's proposal for reducing income inequality is to lower barriers to higher education, the primary factor in determining future earnings, and noticeably does not rely on state interventions in the market, which can succeed at equalising income at the price of reducing it across the board.
You know times are hard when republicans are selling off their semi-automatic weapons with partial cases of rounds.
Class ... class ... class ....
SHEETS!!!!!
actually it also says Bush I is too
And we all know what the Bush family thinks of American values...
As far as patriotic goes, let's not forget this illegal bit of business:
http://www.fridayfishwrap.com/
wp...signs_flags.jpg
Lack of respect, much?
You guys crack me up.
Watertiger, I hope you are right. I hope it is today.
We bought a new 5-burner Frigidaire stove. Does that count?
Was it a Viking? Or a Jenn-Air? Come on, man, it has to cost at least as much as a new car, or you aren't trying hard enough!!!
Jimmy Crackcorn
Jimmy jack-dick
and he's a square
Jimmy jack-dick
craps his underwear
Jimmy jack-dick
well I declare
his master's full of shit
And we all know what the Bush family thinks of American values...
The Old Man From Scene 24
exactly
My elderly (and plump, 18 & 14 lbs.) beasties are starting to miss the top of the dining room table every once in a while & I've thought about getting a couple of those little carpeted stairsteps for them too.
Drs Foster & Smith have them on sale this week, oddly enough . . .
http://www.drsfostersmith.com/pr...atid=1386&
rel=1
economic owls
Let's see, 1 in 10 adults is in prison, and we're arming ourselves to the teeth against the rest. Gotta love America!
Here in NM the sheeples are all up in arms over an Iraq vet who is going to jail (under a plea agreement) for two years for killing a dude who was trying to break into his SUV. Vet chased robber a half a mile down the street and then shot him in the back. People are saying he should have never pleaded guilty, should not serve any time and what in the hell is the world coming to when a "decorated vet" can't defend his property.
They just don't get it. The wild, wild West.
See, Mel Brooks' portayal of Torquemada was entirely historically accurate.
http://www.newsweek.com/id/117161
"The Vatican has launched a new phase in its campaign to show that the Inquisition wasn't so bad after all, unveiling a temporary "Rare and Precious" exhibition at Rome's Vittoriano Museum to 'expose some myths' about this dark chapter of its past."
I think for every Obama pic in some kind of traditional garb shot or photoshop shot in said gear the sane blogosphere should repost those pics of bush in saudi garb and holding hands with suadi pprinces and laura in hajib - seems fair and makes the point imho
If I was of immediate African descent I'd use any excuse to wear those clothes - they look cool and comfy
of course we are all of African descent
http://raceproject.aaanet.org/
http://
commentisfree.guardian.co..._not_style.html
Easier to read Guardian article--and correction: writer says Obama is a left-libertarian.
A Dell? Oh my...
http://www.dailykos.com/story/20...6/7/131550/
7297
I consider this describes me as well.
Whoa
Is Atrios really only 36?
The Inspiron 6000?
I have that exact same laptop.
It sucks.
Oh, Dear...I was happier imagining what you looked like and just ENJOYING the catblogging! Glad photos aren't required for commenting...Can't wait until the election is OVER!!!!!!
The glamorous life.
Duncan Black = ♥ Cat Blogger ♥
Simply irresistible.
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Chestnuts roasting
I much preferred the gray turtleneck.
Dude, both you and the cat need to get off that couch.
--mort
There's a blogger on that cat's ass!
... he don't need ... a man's touch. Without love it ain't much.
dude, put a little gold arrowhead thing on that shirt and you would look absolutely Shatnerian!
We once had a female cat that weighed 16 lbs. She was so big she had trouble keeping herself clean and developed a red and inflamed labia. The vet gave us a syringe and bottle of normal saline and told us that we would need to help her keep her labia clean (i.e., irrigate her external genitalia with NS until she lost some weight and could keep herself clean.
The first time we attempted to do this, I ended up with deep scratches up and down my forearms. When I lamented about our situation to a friend, an ER nurse, he rolled his eyes, commented "What self-respecting cat is going to let someone do that to them?!" and told us to use baby wipes instead.
To make a long story short, we put our cat on a diet and helped her to lose some weight but still had to clean her labia with baby wipes on a daily basis until she lost enough weight to start cleaning herself adequately.
get a mac u parrot-faced wazzack
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