Dog on my lap, ice on my shoulder, Chuck on tv.
My life has turned into a g-rated Eastbound and Down.
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Dog on my lap, ice on my shoulder, Chuck on tv.
My life has turned into a g-rated Eastbound and Down.
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General Winfield Stuck
Could be worse, you still could be a republican. Or, Southbound and Sideways.
Joshua James
I don’t think Chuck is on tonight, is it?
AhabTRuler
He tried that already.
demo woman
@General Winfield Stuck: Wouldn’t it be easier to be a repub. Of course one would just have to put their head in the sand and pretend that the Bush years didn’t happen.
I want to know how he’s watching Chuck. Chuck has been preempted because of the Olympics.
Dave C
Isn’t Chuck on Mondays (I dunno–I watch on Hulu)?
General Winfield Stuck
@AhabTRuler:
I think it was W rated.
Comrade Jake
Reminds me of the Uncle in Napolean Dynamite, filming himself throwing footballs.
Cat Lady
@demo woman:
He meant Chuck on his lap, dog on his shoulder and ice on TV.
PeakVT
Today’s long-form demotivator: How a New Jobless Era Will Transform America.
freelancer
@Dave C:
@Joshua James:
There are these things out there called DVDs. They let you watch the show you want, whenever you want. And no rewinding!
thejoz
Speaking of the Tunchian one, why isn’t your overlord mentioned in this little “poor me” fest?
Dave C
@freelancer:
What is this “dee-vee-dee” of which you speak?
Bad Horse's Filly
News on in the background. State Dem Senators want a tax cut/credit for small businesses who rehire laid-off workers. Repubs say this is just a political ploy and what we really need are no new taxes. Waaaa? So now tax cuts are not okay. Oh, wait, Democratic tax cuts are not okay.
People believe this shit? I just don’t know how.
thejoz
@Bad Horse’s Filly:
As I said on my other site;
If Obama supported a bill declaring America to be the best country in the history of the universe, Republicans would still filibuster it and decry it as being too liberal. They’d probably call it un-American too, for good measure.
Yeah….
jeffreyw
Short form motivator: Name this puppeh!
Bad Horse's Filly
@thejoz: and the Dems would call a press conference and say, in the name of bipartisanship, they’d change the language to best country in the solar system.
thejoz
@Bad Horse’s Filly:
Which would then get watered down further to the best country that we live in, right now, under current circumstances, but could change at any moment because a terrorist could nuke it or Jesus could rapture all the “real Americans” away at any minute, thus reducing its stature.
And then they’d all still vote against it.
Assholes.
General Winfield Stuck
@Bad Horse’s Filly: Taxes and War are the only issues left for them. And the war thing ain’t what it used to be after Iraq, and also Afghanistan. Can’t have libtards stealing your only issue, so they will just call them something else to make it go away. It’s just words, and words are all they have. Look for something like “liberal pot money” cuts soon to replace the T word.
Bad Horse's Filly
@jeffreyw: People who do bad things to animals have a special level of hell waiting for them. I’m being extra good so the FSM will allow me to be warden of that level.
BTW, that one is too handsome. I vote Ranger.
demo woman
@jeffreyw: The pup looks like he has milk under his lips, Milk would be my choice.
Bad Horse's Filly
@jeffreyw: Also, I commented on your delicious looking Orange Chicken, you’re starting to scare me.
Bad Horse's Filly
@General Winfield Stuck: I have a birther/muslim/soc-ia-list in my office. Can’t even bring myself to argue with this person. How do you argue with crazy??
Mark S.
How can anyone, even someone as dumb as Mark Halperin, think that the Republicans have any interest in working with Obama?
Hey, Mark, remember that deficit commission? How did that work out?
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Bad Horse's Filly
Oooops, used the dreaded soc ia list word in its natural form and ended up in moderation. I feel like I’m waiting outside the principal’s office.
Annie
@Cat Lady:
Dam. You stole my line…That’s what I get for living in Northern Virginia. Just got home from work. It took 2 hours to get into the city this morning, and almost as long to get out. I want to purge the DC city government. Snow removal is clearly not their strong point…
jeffreyw
@demo woman: Mrs J says it’s not milk, has has some white on his belly, too.
jeffreyw
@Bad Horse’s Filly: You must have been guiding my mouse when I clicked that on a google search last night. Any luck on the Ouija Board? LOL
soonergrunt
OH. MY. HOLY. GOD.
http://gawker.com/5472882/cpac-gets-radical-offers-pizza-and-hiphop
So
JoeSamThe Plumber The War CorrespondentThe Tax Cheat will be there. Because when you are talking about “somebody of Joe-the-Plumber stature” you’re talking about Sam. Because there IS NO ONE ELSE of that “stature.”This is just sad, on so many levels.
AhabTRuler
@Annie: Cut the DC gov a break, this season’s snow totals have been a little above average.
Warren Terra
@freelancer:
You don’t rewind your DVDs? That explains why none of the Netflix DVDs I’ve been getting were rewound. Selfish behavior, I call it.
Bad Horse's Filly
Now I want a Revolution will be Supervised mug. Still trying to decide if an Obey thong is the right message to send to BH.
Bad Horse's Filly
@jeffreyw: The Force is strong in this one. She is dangerous.
WaterGirl
@Bad Horse’s Filly: I got one of my dogs years ago because I knew someone whose next door neighbors packed up the kids and the car and one of the dogs and moved to CA, leaving the other dog and the cat standing there in the dust as they drove away.
I’m with you. If there’s not a special place in hell for people who mistreat animals, there should be.
Edit: In case you’re not sure they were evil people, I called every vet in the county trying to figure out who their vet had been, and there were no records of a dog by that name or owner’s with their names. So this 2 or 3-year old dog had never even been taken to the vet!
Honus
okay, I got it now Robbie, Amy Bishop is a liberal because she got her degree from Harvard, where Bush got his MBA.
All you have to do to completely undress these assholes is to get them to vote on a tax to pay for their wars. Then watch that filibuster.
Juror #7
Isn’t anyone else watching the Westminster Kennel Club show?
Mark S.
@soonergrunt:
If President McCain decided to have the CIA take a hit out on Joe the Plumber, I’d be okay with it.
Honus
And could somebody borrow a set of balls and point out that everybody could have free health care and we could make a significant dent in the deficit if we cut the defense budget in half, and that would still leave us with something like 10x the defense budget of #2?
Honus
And could somebody borrow a set of balls and point out that everybody could have free health care and we could make a significant dent in the deficit if we cut the defense budget in half, and that would still leave us with something like 10x the defense budget of #2?
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I just love that. You couldn’t make it up.
rootless_e
Seems like he just left out the key phrase
jeffreyw
@Juror #7: Yup!
Bad Horse's Filly
@WaterGirl: Just read you brought home litter mates. Congratulations. It always helps…nothing ever replaces the love of the animal who has gone, but nothing wrong with a little new love.
Annie
@AhabTRuler:
A little!!!! I know, I know. DC gov. is probably doing the best they can.
But, it is fun to bitch…Tomorrow, I will take the bus to the metro. And then back. Feeling self-absorbed right now — although my first glass of wine is helping — the problem is that I teach at night, so busing and metroing is a bit more difficult for me…However, I am sure that after my second glass of wine, I will see the experience in a whole new light…I am a humanitarian aid person after all, and I have survived worse.
gex
@Honus: Why do you hate America? Only you and Satan would ask that question.
SiubhanDuinne
@jeffreyw
Puppeh’s name is Fogarty.
Juror #7
@jeffreyw: Ha! I knew I couldn’t be the only one.
(Gordon Setter was robbed!)
Bad Horse's Filly
@Juror #7: One of the things I like about the Westminster Dog Show is they tell you both the origin of the breed and WHY you shouldn’t have one. They really hit home on breed peculiarities and what kind of person they need.
It’s also where I learned my beloved Great Danes are an ancient cross between Greyhounds and Mastiffs. And when you look at them after that, you can clearly see the front half is mastiff and the back half is greyhound.
Litlebritdifrnt
We adopted (okay to be honest we stole him) Buddy, from the next door neighbors eons ago. He was a Springer Spaniel mix and used to give us some love through the chain link fence for a long time. Said next door neighbors found him by the roadside and brought him home and then basically left him in the back yard and ignored him. One day while I was talking to him over the fence I scritched his ears and he was so loaded with ticks it was not even funny. Neighbors had gone to DC for the weekend (leaving Buddy of course) so DH jumped over the fence and *ahem* stole him. I sat with Q-tips and flea and tick spray and got most of the ticks out of his ears, took him to the vet that Saturday and got him further de-ticked and de-flead. When the neighbors returned on the Monday we told them what we had done and told them they could have Buddy back when they reimbursed us for the $400.00 vet bill. He was with us for 10 wonderful years and I still miss him today.
daryljfontaine
@jeffreyw: I was shopping at a local PetSmart this weekend, and as I always do, stopped by the kittehs they have in the back for adoption. Can’t take any more home with my two, but I always go and look. ALL of them this week included a tag with some variant of the story “my family could no longer take care of me, please adopt.” Breaks my fuckin’ heart, every time.
Every. Time.
The caption under that beautiful pup reminded me of that. For some reason, he looks like a Rowdy to me, but you risk instant personality graft from a name like that (my mom still regrets naming her latest cat Mischief).
D
cat48
DIAF Mug is cute. Ordered BJ t-shirt this month. Tunch next month. Hope my kittehs are not jealous.
jnfr
Nice mug.
SIA
@Bad Horse’s Filly: I know it’s kind of a cliche, but just shoot me.
SIA
@jeffreyw: ZOMG! Did you get a new puppeh!?
Juror #7
@Bad Horse’s Filly: Yes, I really like the fact that WKC gives honest info about breed characteristics and needs.
(Gorgeous Alaskan Malamute.)
SIA
@Litlebritdifrnt: I love this story.
jeffreyw
@SIA: No, he is new at the shelter: http://www.stfrancis-care.org/
Ruckus
@jeffreyw:
Rascal.
He looks like he’ll get into much trouble but have the face to get himself off the hook.
Bad Horse's Filly
@SIA: I know. I’m becoming my great-grandmother. My childhood is filled with her yelling at the tv news, especially during the Watergate moments. I now understand.
Litlebritdifrnt
@SIA:
It is a nice one. I still miss him, he who would chase any squeaky toy, and who adored his best pal Sox (our female boxer mix from the local rescue society), after Sox died (she slipped a disc which paralysed her back half and despite our signing her up for a “wheelchair” she could not handle it) Buddy reckoned that life without Sox was not worth living. They died within a year of each other, cause that is how they rolled.
SiubhanDuinne
Gail Collins is on Rachel right now. I think she is the first print journalist I have ever seen who looks *EXACTLY* like the photo that runs with her column.
She talks and seems just like her column, too. Very likable.
Annie
Breaks my fuckin’ heart, every time.
Every. Time.
Me, too. I can’t think of what is worse — not being adopted or being abandoned. I think of what my two kitties would think if suddenly we weren’t there to care for them…No matter how annoying they get at times — particularly at 5:00am on a Sunday — when the “choir” is purring in my ear for breakfast — I can’t imagine leaving them. EVER. For better or worse, they trust me to take care of them. And, I would sacrifice almost everything to not betray that trust.
RedKitten
Doesn’t sound like a bad evening to me, frankly.
SamKitten is developing his first fang, by the way. When it breaks through, pictures will be forthcoming.
Litlebritdifrnt
Oh and just because here is Dweebe, she was a tiny bundle of fluff, that a guy brought to the Convenience Store where DH worked (while putting himself through college) she was the last of the litter, no one wanted her apparently, and DH called me and said “I have something for you” she was a Chow/German Shepard cross, with a curly tail and always a smile.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v641/MsNick40/Pets%20and%20miscellaneous/Dweebe2resized.jpg
Annie
@RedKitten:
Hope you can manage to get some sleep…the development of fangs is not easy…
madmommy
@Juror #7:
Love the Westminster show! My problem is I want one of nearly all of them, except maybe the purse-sized dogs. And the poodles. But the giant, hairy, lubering, slobbery beasties? Yes, please!
Beeb
@Bad Horse’s Filly: Way to make a girl feel old. My early memories are of my mother yelling at the TV, too — the Army-McCarthy hearings. By the time Watergate came along, I was seven years out of college and could yell at it all by myself. :>)
Juror #7
@madmommy: Poodles…ick. I’m not a fan of the toy group, as a whole, but I want one of most of the rest. Terriers are my overall favorite, though.
Ruckus
@jeffreyw:
Got some good looking animals in that shelter.
SIA
@Litlebritdifrnt: That brings tears to my eyes. They were fortunate to have such a loving family to take them in. And what a happy lass Ms Dweebe appears to be!
@SiubhanDuinne: I was just going to post how much I have enjoyed Rachel’s show the past few nights. I always learn something, and she is able to put the facts out there without being unpleasant. Sometimes she gets a little too cutesy, but then, she’s young. :)
SIA
@RedKitten: Sam is going to grow up to be a SuperHero.
madmommy
@Juror #7:
Ah…teh “terror” group :)
SIA
@jeffreyw: I’m gettin’ Raoul.
Martin
My dog’s cousin won best of breed but didn’t go anywhere in the group. His uncle was best of breed a few years back.
RedKitten
@Juror #7: I love terriers too — they just have so much character.
SIA
John they quoted you on GOS – from over a year ago, and unfortunately quite accurate.
http://www.dailykos.com/storyonly/2010/2/16/837399/-The-year-in-bipartisanship (apologies if this has already been posted)
Juror #7
@RedKitten: Oodles of personality! Possibly too much, I suppose, but I love them.
jeffreyw
@SIA: Rowdy, Rascal, Ranger, Raoul, and Milk. Looks like the Rs are ahead.
J. Michael Neal
Fuck NBC. I mean, really, fuck ’em. WHERE ARE MY WOMEN SPEEDSKATERS! They were advertised as being on the afternoon broadcast on CNBC. They didn’t show. Now, women biathletes are pretty damned good; hot chicks, head-to-toe spandex, prone position, with a gun. However, they are not women speedskaters.
Give me my fucking (I wish) speedskaters, NBC.
Juror #7
Go, Sadie!
General Winfield Stuck
Loves the Terriers. they are rascals and smart ones at that.
Juror #7
Gorgeous whippet, too.
Citizen_X
Awwwesoooommme!
@Bad Horse’s Filly:
You could always go with the Tunch FEED thong.
gbear
@jeffreyw:
Given that you picked him up from the side of the road, maybe you should name him ‘Hitch’?
He looks like one big bundle of unconditional love.
jeffreyw
@gbear: I like that. Hitch has a nice ring to it. Wasn’t I that picked him up, tho, a nice lady brought him and his bro into the shelter where Mrs J works. Mrs J says there was an entire litter, the lady found homes for some of them, the shelter took the last two.
Darkrose
I really wanted the Tunch DIAF mug, but I decided that might indicate that I have a non-customer service-oriented attitude, so I went with Our New Pet Overlords instead.
asiangrrlMN
Oh sure. Break out the new swag AFTER I ordered. Harumph. It’s really sweet, though. I will have to ponder it.
All puppehs on this thread are so cute. And, yes, people who do cruel things to animals….can’t even go there. Makes me too mad.
Anyone have any good news? I need to hear/read something cheerful.
@SIA: Yeah, Steve Benen linked to that BJ post as well. It’s so fucking true.
WaterGirl
@asiangrrlMN: I brought home two new kitties yesterday. Does that count?
SIA
@asiangrrlMN: Heh. Re JC’s post, sad, true, but not completely devoid of humor. Great image:
soonergrunt
@J. Michael Neal:
It’s the Vancouver Organizing Committee’s fault, not NBC.
The long track venue was using two new ice surfacing machines based on ‘green’ technology, and they don’t seem to be able to consistently repair/resourface the ice. They’re having a lot of problems, so they are shipping in an old-school Zamboni from Calgary. It should be here tomorrow. They have postponed the events until Thursday.
Luthe
I repeat my call for FYWP merchandise.
Cain
so anybody see the NYT post on us catching us a high level taliban target? Good stuff.
cain
PanAmerican
Zamboni is claiming it wasn’t about “green”. Just the organizing committee going with another company’s low bid. Some more background.
asiangrrlMN
@WaterGirl: Yes. That’s ALWAYS a good thing and guaranteed to cheer me up. Congrats!
@SIA: That is an excellent image. It’s just fucking sad it’s true.
Yutsano
@asiangrrlMN: Hi hon. Fair warning: I haz food pr0n upstairs I haven’t taken pictures of…yet. Meyer lemon pie in four ingredients.
arguingwithsignposts
@J. Michael Neal:
not that there’s anything wrong with that. Who says the glory days are gone. :)
ETA: Subaru ads with dogs? WTF?
Yutsano
@arguingwithsignposts: Oh don’t make me say it again. I already done got chewed out by a tax lawyer last time. Though I bet he yukked over it.