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Early Morning Open Thread: Doggies

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From commentor MeDrewNotYou:

Although Danny isn’t a rescue, I think he’s adorable enough for the “strict” standards of the BJ community (Does it have 4 legs? Is it furry? We love it!). Danny is 9 1/2yrs old, and was a birthday present for my sister. When she went to pick a dog out, he kept nibbling and untying her shoelaces, forcing her to pick him. When he came home, he took to following me around; sometimes walking into a door I shut behind me. (The yelp made me feel pretty bad.) His hobbies include sleeping (a lot), eating, belly rubs, and most especially ear scratches. In the picture, you can see him with his favorite toy, Little D, a veritable clone. At bed time, he’ll usually pull it out and set it down next to him before he curls up for the night.

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  5. 5.

    maryQ

    My daughter wants a dog. We are at least a year out from adding a canine to our family, but are seriously considering a rescue dog. My kid likes the idea of rescuing a dog. She’s a sweet kid.

    Oh, speaking of my daughter (awesome segue, huh?), I just had to sign a permission slip “allowing” my daughter to view a speech by the democratically elected president of the country in which we live, the USA. This is an improvement over last year, when there was no option to view the speech. Too many parents were complaining that they didn’t want their kids to be exposed, and the principal, understandably, didn’t want to deal with the crap. And I live in a large metropolitan area that Obama carried by more than a few points way back in 2008.

  6. 6.

    bkny

    i love these postings about pets — esp the photos. please keep them coming … they are a welcome antidote to the crazy overtaking the country.

  7. 7.

    J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford

    The tortured life of Eric Show

    But a third pitcher sat disconnected at his locker, eyes darting, frown palpable. On his shelf were a book by Ayn Rand and a cassette player full of American jazz.

    He’d give random people $50 bills. He’d laugh at his bloated salary and think the owners were fools for paying it. He was always searching for something meaningful outside of baseball, and during spring training of 1984, he happened to enter a John Birch Society bookstore in Arizona. He began to read the material, and the anti-communist mantra hit home for him. Eric had always half-joked, “Ronald Reagan’s too far to the left for me,” and now he’d found a group that seconded the notion. The group believed in less government, more responsibility by the people, and Eric immersed himself in its writings. He informed Dravecky and Thurmond about it, put a “U.S. Out of the U.N.” bumper sticker on his car. The three of them joined — unaware that some critics had stigmatized the group as anti-Semitic and anti-black.

    The most snide remark came from third baseman Graig Nettles, who said, “The Birch Society is going to expel Eric for making a Red famous.”

    If Eric Show had been born 25 years later he would have found a huge support group in the Teabaggers. Show and his John Birch loving buddies would have been FOX News stars. And baseball drug testing policies would have probably exposed his substance abuse problems before they overwhelmed his life.

    What is striking to me is how Show was so outside the mainstream in the 1980s. Being a Bircher/Teabagger didn’t sit well with his teammates. Would that be true today?

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    kd bart

    Obama is giving another “Welcome Back to the School Year” speech to the nation’s school children today. Last year, the right wing got their panties all knotted up in bunch of this speech. Calling it his attempt to “indoctrinate” the nation’s youth. This year, not a peep. I guess with so many other minute and irrelevant things to stir the s#$! about, this one fell through the cracks for them.

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    JAHILL10

    Was anyone else as enraged as I was by Howard Fineman’s “premortem” of the upcoming elections and how they prove that Obama administration is a complete failure? Can we have the freakin’ election first, please? If I wasn’t going to work for OFA before, I certainly am now. Otherwise, why bother having elections? We can just let the wingers and the media decide a few months out and save the expense! Jerk-offs.

    And that puppy sure is cute. (growls)

  16. 16.

    Keith G

    @J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford:

    What is striking to me is how Show was so outside the mainstream in the 1980s. Being a Bircher/Teabagger didn’t sit well with his teammates. Would that be true today?

    It seems that teammates care mostly about winning. They also would differentiate between what a teammate affiliates with and how that teammate actually behaves (especially in season).

    Teh gay may be the last frontier for many sports teams. Even that is getting a bit better.

  17. 17.

    SBJules

    @J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford:

    The Birch Society was really discredited by the time Show came along; I remember thinking, are they still around at the time. My hometown newspaper won a pulitzer in the 60’s for exposing the Birchers. And now Glenn Beck has taken up for them. Talk about backward.

  19. 19.

    Comrade Rich

    Has anyone tried Songbird as an alternative to iTunes?

    I was mostly looking for an open-source product because I’ve gotten a little tired of the heavy hit iTunes places on my PC (WinXP), but I’m also wondering how private my collection really is with Apple and their burgeoning music empire, especially since some of the files came from CDs I don’t, technically, “own”.

  20. 20.

    RedKitten

    Oh, what a sweet puppeh! I want to plant a smooch right on that white spot on the top of his fuzzy little head.

  21. 21.

    Violet

    In the picture, you can see him with his favorite toy, Little D, a veritable clone. At bed time, he’ll usually pull it out and set it down next to him before he curls up for the night.

    Oh my gosh, that is the cutest thing. My teeth hurt just looking at it and reading about. Adorable.

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    Mister Papercut

    It’s as if someone wrote a computer program to create the ultimate cute dog (and the story about his toy, how precious OMG) and it spat out Danny. So adorable.

    Semi O/T threadjack: I had to hand over the four kittens I was fostering for two weeks this morning. For those who foster, this was the first time I’d ever done it, does it always hurt this bad? I didn’t mean to blur the line between “guest cats” and “my cats” but it sure came to feel that way. (I guess I should be thankful it wasn’t to last longer than two weeks or else you might be looking at the world’s next great Crazy Cat Lady.)

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    Glenndacious Greenwaldian (formerly tim)

    Good god, that pup is breath takingly adorable.

    That said, I have a weakness for rescues who are cute in a slightly “imperfect” way, if you get my drift and I think you do.

    My doggie girlfriend and companion Helen is some mash up of Boston Terrier/whippet/hound/terrier/god in heaven knows what else. When I first saw her last year I thought “what the hell is THAT?” She proceeded, with her vast energy, sense of humor, playfulness, and affectionate nature, to steal my heart and tuck it away forever in her own…I never had a dog before, let alone bonded with one.

    Helen is…my dog. :)

  26. 26.

    MeDrewNotYou

    I wake up late, and Danny is already an Internet sensation? I’ll hunt him down and give his ears a scratch for everyone.

  27. 27.

    asiangrrlMN

    So so so so cute! Danny and Little D have made my day. And, my boys were not rescues either (their moms was), and I did not care so I submitted them anyway. And, they made the front page, so we know all about the ‘standards’ here.

    @Mister Papercut: Sorry to hear that. I’ve never fostered, but I can imagine how much it would hurt.

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