Waiting for some video to burn, so I have some time to chuck up some more pet pics. We will call this the tongue edition:
That second group looks like something from Cute Overload. Claim your pets in the comments, peeps.
Alright, back to work.
More Pets
by John Cole| 34 Comments
This post is in: Dog Blogging
Jeff
Suggestion for Balloon-Juice 4.0.
It might improve the snark or blow up the trolls.
jake 4 that 1
Rick "Santorum" Santorum would say this is relevant: Activist Judges Strike in Connecticut!
Whoo!
Phoenix Woman
Great Moments in Irony!
From the NYT today:
Guess what? Bill Ayers is eight years younger than John McCain.
So if Ayers is "washed-up", what does that make the Fortunate Grandson?
gbear
Hate to cat-whore, but doesn’t my Josie fits this edition too?
(returns to non-whore mode)
Phoenix Woman
Arrgh. John, I’m not being allowed to edit my last comment — could you fix? (The blockquote needs to extend to two paragraphs, not just one. Thanks!)
Eric Schneider
Cute dogs, but if you want tongue, here’s some pet tongue:
:)
Brian J
Those dogs remind me of Obama. They are calm, collected, and just chilling. They won’t hesitate to pounce if someone starts shit, but they are cool regardless. McCain, on the other hand, is like one of those toy dogs hopped up on sugar, running around from one spot to another, entirely aimless. The only difference is, those toy dogs probably have more dignity.
Anyway, I should probably take a picture of my dog and post it here. Half the time, she sleeps on her back. I’m not sure if it’s because she likes to play dead or because she’s so fat that she can’t sleep on her stomach, but it’s pretty funny. I just worry that she’d pee and run away if I tried to get a shot of her.
stickler
Video to burn? What happened to those Triumph of the Will clips you hinted at a few days ago?
I wants me some marching Nazis, dammit!
(They’ll take my mind off my plummeting IRA.)
Comrade Dreggas
Watching a McCain/Palin rally isn’t enough?
JL
Kathleen Parker is on MSNBC talking about here column.
chopper
it’s passive-aggressive grandpa!
Ruth
I’m the proud human slave of the two in the second photo. And Patsy Porkchop (bulldog) and Vinny the Chins (Boston terrier) very much appreciate the Obama comparison — thanks, Brian J!
JL
Wow, Parker is talking about how Palin talks about how Obama is not one of us and is crossing a dangerous line. She said that she is inciting the crowd and it’s time to stop. She said that the socialist comment about Obama was wrong. Clearly he is liberal but not a socialist. I need a dvr so that I can do a better job paraphrasing.
r€nato
well, I just got off the phone with my Faux Noise-deluded client who up until recently was insisting that if the media would just STFU about the economy, everything would be fine.
Her business has been devastated by the recession, her portfolio has been screwed like everyone else’s by the tanking markets… but all she cares about is which candidate is going to reinstate the estate tax.
That’s right. Who cares about whose policies created this mess which is devastating her business and her portfolio? More of the same, dammit!
Argh. I sure am a whore and diplomatic when necessity demands it. Thank goodness she didn’t ask me for whom I am voting, I don’t think I could have lied well enough to say, "I’m not voting" and I sure as hell was not going to say I was voting for McCain.
As soon as I got off that call, I donated to Obama to salve my conscience ever so slightly and give her a surreptitious finger. Probably not very courageous but hey, I gotta put food on my family…
JL
On MSNBC Kathleen Parker brought up Palin’s comment about "he’s not one of us". Parker said that Americans are mad and looking for someone to blame. Should we expect more republicans to jump ship over the weekend?
JL
@r€nato: Were you tempted to say that under an Obama presidency, at least your client would have an estate to tax.
Joshua
I care more about the guy who actually did attack us on Sept. 11, 2001, who is still out there laughing at Bush and John "I got a plan" McCain.
r€nato
LOL I indeed did think of that exact line, and several other clever ones. Kills me that I had to keep my trap shut. They really are a client worth keeping. Oh, if only I were independently wealthy so that I could afford to tell this woman off.
Dork
Are you the cat pimp?
By the way….learned something yesterday. As fleet, agile, and resourceful at cats are with running, leaping, and climbing…..they cannot outrun a greyhound, even just 15 feet to the fence (and safety). The damn dog is just insanely fast. It nearly ended in tragedy.
Bullbaiter15
I am the owner of the bulldog in the first picture. His name is Sid. And he is waiting in total perturbiness for Nov. 5 when this election and all it’s garbage will be over. Peace.
r€nato
if you are in the Phoenix area, you have some free time on your hands Saturday and you are concerned, as I am, about the unhinged Obama hatred McCain is aiding and abetting, please email me at firenze_italia -at- hotmail.com.
I am thinking of organizing a (very impromptu) protest on this matter at McCain’s 16th Street office. It would be nice to have company.
gbear
@Dork:
‘fraid so. I’m back to just waiting for my random turn now.
Damn, I thought you were talking about a bus at first.
Brian J
I know he doesn’t necessarily need to do this, but if, at the next debate, McCain repeats this line of bullshit, I’d love if it Obama said, "Sen. McCain, if you know how to get Osama, why don’t we end this right now so you can march to the White House and tell President Bush? But first, perhaps, you’d like to let us know why you haven’t told anybody that you know how to do it for the last few years."
Dennis - SGMM
More good news for McCain, from Politico:
John Weaver, McCain’s former top strategist, said top Republicans have a responsibility to temper this behavior.
“People need to understand, for moral reasons and the protection of our civil society, the differences with Sen. Obama are ideological, based on clear differences on policy and a lack of experience compared to Sen. McCain,” Weaver said. “And from a purely practical political vantage point, please find me a swing voter, an undecided independent, or a torn female voter that finds an angry mob mentality attractive.”
“Sen. Obama is a classic liberal with an outdated economic agenda. We should take that agenda on in a robust manner. As a party we should not and must not stand by as the small amount of haters in our society question whether he is as American as the rest of us. Shame on them and shame on us if we allow this to take hold.”
wvng
John, I suspect you would enjoy this sidesplitting bit from Betty White, a la Sue Ann Nivens, on the campaign: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxL7MKsGoPo
JL
@Dennis – SGMM: I imagine that McCain will receive many phone calls from repubs this weekend. Maybe John’s behavior will finally force Powell to come out and endorse.
Gus
Bullbaiter15 and Ruth, you got some beautiful dawgs!
Comrade Ed Drone
Another Fibber McLame mis-quote. Ayers said it on Sept. 10 (it was published on Sept. 11) and what he said was "I wish we had done more." Any resemblance between McLame and "honorable" is by now purely coincidental.
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And as for Sue Ann Nevins, doesn’t Palin remind you of that character (not the actress)? I’d say Palin IS Sue Ann Nevins, but with the worst characteristics exaggerated for effect.
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Ed
JL
At some point I’m going to send in a picture of my dog, Moxie. She was named after the soda not the noun. Two years after losing a SharPei (8yrs.) and a Golden Retreiver (16yrs), I met my street urchin. Her appearance is unusual. I like to think of her as a mini deerhound since she’s only 18lbs.
Litlebritdifrnt
I have been watching the vids and listening to this McCain/Palin crap for a week and now I am mad as hell. Today, I made a pledge to myself. If anything untoward happens to Barack I am going to hold McCain/Palin personally responsible and the republican party as willing co-conspirators. I will make it my lifes work to e-mail, snail mail and telephone whatever contacts I have for McCain/Palin and tell them daily what they have induced. I will never let them forget it. I will contact every republican party big wig I can get hold of an address for and do the same. I will hopefully outlive McCain, but I will go to my grave hounding Palin every opportunity I get. I will never, ever let them forget what they have done in their pursuit of power. I will personally do everything I can to see to it that the two of them, and their party are cast into the political wilderness for a hundred years. That is my pledge to myself. God (whichever one you believe in) willing I won’t have to hold myself to it.
J.
Sometimes a dog is just a dog. Very cute pictures. So, what are doggies names?
Martin
My mom is a fiscal republican. Totally liberal on social issues, not religious, just wants to pay 0 taxes and have Dow 36,000. The estate tax is a biggie for her too.
I asked her to vote for Obama and she mentioned that he’d bring back the estate tax. "Uh, mom, I’m an only child and your estate is going to me. Let me worry about the estate tax, okay?" She changed the subject. How she didn’t see that coming is beyond me, but I’m sure she spent an hour pacing the room searching for a new defense of her party affiliation after that.
I’ll try again tomorrow night. I’ll win her over. Not that it matters, she’s in Iowa, which might go for Obama more than Cali at this stage.
Martin
Don’t get mad. They want you mad. They want you to fight them. Just mock them mercilessly. They don’t deserve the expenditure of emotion that anger carries. Take a cue from Stewart/Colbert/South Park.
Krista
The next dog that I get, Ruth gets to name it.