Figured we could use one. Just got back from Petco, where Rosie unleashed a tornado of chaos on unsuspecting people. Two displays were knocked over, many customers were aggressively loved, and then, on our way out, Rosie took a dump on the concrete outside. Best part of this story- it was adoption day at Petco, so there were a bunch of people there thinking about adopting a dog. Before they met Rosie. She’s just so happy and willful. Everyone is a new opportunity to wag the tail and be petted and be happy, and she’ll be damned if any display gets in the way of that.
Lily, of course, was an angel. As always.
Picked up a McRib on the way home, and my stomach already hurts. It was worth it, though.
Moses2317
I’m jealous about the McRib. I love those things.
Let’s kick things off with a discussion of how the timidity of the Blue Dogs undermine efforts to create a sustainable progressive majority in Congress.
Winning Progressive
freelancer
Wow, does that sound like a fun day full of FAIL or what?
Also, Happy Carl Sagan Day!
cleek
no McRib for me…. today was a Spicy Chick-Fil-A day!
The Dangerman
I wonder if I started a place and had a sandwich called a McRibeye if I’d get hit with a trademark infraction (and if McD’s would cut me some slack for having been born in San Bernardino, CA, home of the original McDonalds).
Squirrel
Mmmmmmm. McRib. I figure no more than 2 or 3 per year won’t kill you. Nothing more American than a pork- like- product molded into the shape of a real Rib, slathered in sauce, onions, and pickles.
JGabriel
John Cole:
Sure, you say that now, but when you’re on your deathbed at 61, and the doctors are saying, yes, we have the technology for people to live healthy lives to 175 years old now, but we can’t do anything to save people who ate McRibs(tm), then, THEN:
You will regret it.
(JGabriel munches on McFries and slinks away hypocritically.)
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AhabTRuler
Since finding out about pink slime and it’s cousin, chicken slime, I no longer eat fast food where I cannot identify the part of the animal that the meat comes from.
I like Popeye’s. Chipotle ain’t bad, either. That’s about it.
Comrade Kevin
I had thought the animal they made the McRib from was extinct.
licensed to kill time
You ought to collect these nuggets about Rosie into a book: “Rosie, the Terrible, Horrible, No Good, Very Bad Doggie”.
I can just see the illustrations (Rosie the Whirlwind!) and the evil little thought bubbles over her happy “who me?” face, as well as the Hapless Human chasing after her, whose face is no doubt beet red.
She sounds like a handful!
donnah
McRib. Really? Ugh. My stomach hurts just thinking about it.
Got my Balloon Juice Calendar! It is so beautiful! I advise anyone who still uses a paper calendar or anyone who loves animals or anyone who wants to help animal rescue to go online and get this. It’s a high quality calendar and my dog is on the far right center of the page for September. ;-)
Kasich is already screwing Ohio over and he’s not even moved in yet. Our plans (funded with stimulus money) to build light rail across the state have just been shut down. The money, 400 million, will now revert back to the source and be bid upon by the likes of New York state.
Because Ohio is in such great financial shape! No, we don’t need anything that will help people travel around the state, or make jobs and a better infrastructure! Ohio is just fine!
jeez.
Davis X. Machina
Krusty: “Think smaller — and with more legs…”
freelancer
@Comrade Kevin:
Mice with Hoomin brainz. Thanks, Republicans. Playing God was so damned tasty.
JD Ryan
The McRib is never worth the resulting McStomach. Your colon can’t deal with gristle and hog’s anus too well.
Karen
McRibs are like most junk food. Tastes great but it can make you sick to your stomach. You swear you’ll never do it again but you just can’t resist it. Then again, it also sounds like falling in love..
Davis X. Machina
@donnah:
Ohio knows best. What is public transportation, after all, if not an expensive boondoggle built by members of mobbed-up, Democrat-voting, minority-hiring trades unions, paid
a prevailingan exorbitant wage, so that colored people who can’t even summon up the ingenuity to steal each other’s clapped-out cars can get out to the suburbs, shop in your mall, take your stuff and date your daughters?Better to take that money that would have been otherwise skimmed by contractors and vendors in the pockets of corrupt politicians and deliver it directly to the wealthy in the form of tax cuts. It’s more efficient that way — no actual workers get to touch it on the way through.
Suck It Up!
@AhabTRuler:
yum….Popeye’s is sooo good and cheap.
well the bonafide deals are cheap.
Suck It Up!
@donnah:
I Love New York. We are also trying to get some of that infrastructure money that Governor Christie of NJ turned down.
Its just beyond dumb. Didn’t Feingold’s opponent promise to do the same thing as Kasich?
General Stuck
We have a new female governor here in NM. Susan Martinez. I don’t know much about her, but have heard she isn’t a terrible wingnut, though I have also heard she is. “Wardrobe Malfunction” chief poutraged winger Heather Wilson (fitting name) is her transition manager, so I don’t know. She will not give any money back to the feds however, nor screw around a great amount with medicaid and such, because the legislature here is so dark blue it will hurt your eyes. I suspect her to be along the lines of our last GOP governor Johnson, in her own way a loose wingnut, all over the pol spectrum. We will muddle on as usual, being enchanted and all of that.
goblue72
Thank you Ohio. We here in California could use the money for our HSR. So that we along with NY, Massachusetts and other centers of 21st century industry can continue to drain your states of your best & brightest with our dynamic, diverse economies, cultural institutions, tolerant communities, and high quality urban living.
Comrade Mary
I LOVE Popeye’s. We don’t get much genuine southern food in Toronto, but Popeye’s is pretty damn good for a mass market approximation.
I went to an esteemed local restaurant (The Stockyards) for their fried chicken a couple of weeks ago, and although it was quite tender and quite good, it wasn’t as good as Popeye’s.
Bill Murray
@cleek: The Taliban San-dwich
Mike in NC
@Karen:
The McRib sandwich was rolled out quite a few years ago, and was quickly withdrawn, yet every so often they bring it back to frighten a new bunch of consumers and then it disappears again. Weird.
Perry Como
@Squirrel:
I’ve already had two this week. Probably have another one today. MmmmmmmcRib.
AhabTRuler
I spit on
PCFPFKKFC, only Popeye’s.Now, if you will excuse me, I have to go to my job at KFC.
BD of MN
@Mike in NC:
Nah. They bring them out every year or so because it takes you about that long to forget how the last one you ate made you feel… It’s like White Castle. They’re great every six months or so…
robertdsc-PowerBook & 27 titles
Love the McRib to death. That shit is king.
Cheryl Rofer
@General Stuck: All you have to know about her is that Sarah Palin endorsed Susana la Tejana.
It’s a sacrifice we New Mexicans are making for the country: giving the Tea Partiers a chance to show how crazy they are in preparation for the election of 2012.
kgc16
@goblue72: From a blue in more ways than one resident of Ohio, thanks for rubbing it in. ;-)
JCT
I’ll bet next time Lily wants to wear a sign that says “She’s not REALLY my sister”.
When our little beagle makes too much of a fuss over something the older one will bark at her with a very specific tone, it’s very clear that she is being scolded.
OK, never had a McRib (I think I lose my cardiologists’ secret decoder ring if I eat one) — but I sure wish we had Chik-fil-A in NY.
And I have nothing to say about the “train deniers” — too stupid for words. Hope those idiots who voted them in are enjoying themselves.
Death Panel Truck
I had a yummy bowl of Bob’s Red Mill organic Scottish oatmeal this morning, and now I’m munching on some Finn Crisp with caraway. Whole grain oats, whole grain rye.
You see, I’d like to live past 50. If I walked into a McDonald’s, I’d “see a lot of people with tombstones in their eyes.”
h/t Hoyt Axton.
We have a cocker spaniel that we can’t take anywhere. He’s gotta love on everybody, and I mean, EVERYBODY.
JGabriel
@Death Panel Truck:
Eww?
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jayboat
Damn you, Cole. It was a lazy, lay-around-the-house Saturday until you brought the McRib into the equation.
Death Panel Truck
@JGabriel: He likes to lick people’s faces. Most people don’t like strange dogs licking their faces.
Anoniminous
That’s the way of it.
In 9 months you’ll give birth to a McEve, she’ll jawbone you into eating a McApple¹, and then ->GOD<- will force you to move from West Virginia to … I dunno … Alabama?
¹ No iPhones were harmed during the writing of this comment
Max
We are 6 days into becoming a two-dog household and I’ve got my fingers crossed.
Max the Wheaten seems to be warming up to Lucy the Havanese and he plays with her until he realizes that he hates her. :) She’s 5 months old and LITERALLY (h/t Biden) up his butt, crawling on his face, ripping food from his mouth.
Took them both to daycare on Thursday and Max kept coming inside to check on Lucy. The daycare people said he’s a good big brother. Phew.
Obligatory photo
Brachiator
It’s odd. Some of the 20 somethings in the office in which I work are actually excited that the McRib is back. But as far as I can recall, the meat in the sandwich was never identifiably beef or pork, and the sauce never remotely resembled any barbecue sauce in the known world. As far as I can see, this is another example of the victory of marketing over taste buds.
Elsewhere, I am enjoying some of the local coverage of Obama’s visit to India. The English language Times of India currently features a wonderful video of Michelle Obama dancing with Indian children.
The special supplement on the president’s visit is worth a look as well, instead of waiting for the usual suspects of US based pundits to interpret it all for you.
Cat Lady
Never had a McRib, and never will, but once every couple of years I have a Mac attack, and then the Mac attacks. It’s the most delicious thing in the world when I eat it, but 15 minutes later that’s that if you know what I mean and I think you do.
Re Rosie – every Rosie story of yours, John, explains more and more the circumstances of your chance meeting. May the FSM bless you, and be comforted knowing that there is a special place in heaven waiting for you.
bookcat
Does that mean that unspent $ will go to other, more willing states? Maryland really needs to update it’s rail system and people here would LOVE to see that money.
Anoniminous
@General Stuck:
Martinez campaigned on shutting down Richardson’s successful attempt to get more movies, advertising, and TV shows shot in NM. Here in the hinterland the money was well-spent and helped our local (rotten, as always) economies.
Anoniminous
@Comrade Kevin:
Dear Comrade Kevin,
As long as the US grows soybeans that can be turned into soymeal, as long as the corn grows tall and can be made into syrup, as long as the slaughterhouses ship pig snot by the metric ton, as long as the average American consumer has the gastronomical discernment of a three year old …
YES, Comrade Kevin, there will be McRibs!
Cain
Damn you people and your McRibs. I’m in India now and there is no freaking way I could get one. On the other hand, I got food that you’ll never be able to touch.. mwahah… mwahahaa.. MWAHAHAAHAHAHAHAAH |cough|cough|
cain
something fabulous
@Max: That is some cuteness, right there. Love Lucy’s expression; so cheerful! Had never heard of Havanese dogs before; just went to google them.
RedKitten
@Max: That is just way too much cuteness. I covet your dogs.
Max
@something fabulous: They are fabu! Very smart and not barky ankle biters. I have allergies, so we needed to get another hypo-allergenic dog. My husband wanted either a really big dog (120lbs) or a really small dog. From the list of breeds he could choose from, he chose wisely with Lucy.
@RedKitten – I covet Sam!
Yutsano
@Max: Obligatory PUPPEH!! right back atcha. I was hoping you’d be lurking about, you have a new Rep to mock mercilessly and chide for besmirching the good name of your town.
Max
@Yutsano: Denny “Give ’em” Heck’s ad’s were horrible. At least Murray won over the vile Rossi.
Are you ready for the next 3 months of rain? I must say, it was a little distressing to look at the weather and see nothing but rain in the forecast.
I’m heading to NM this week for a quick visit and plan to soak up as much sunshine as I can while there.
JenJen
Ewwww. You know how many times I’ve had a rib-shaped pressed-meat fast-food sandwich? McNever.
Great story, Cole. My little Strider-dog enjoys taking big steamers on the concrete right outside the pet food store too. Maybe he and Rosie should date.
@donnah: Did you see where Kasich said the other day that we’d better get on the Kasich Bus or get run over by it? This sure is gonna be a fun four years for us Buckeyes. :-( What an asshole.
Yutsano
@Max:
I had a feeling she would be in for a fight considering our small but vocal teabagger contingent was out in force, but I knew Rossi was toast by my birthday. I was talking to my mom and she asked me who I voted for. When I said Patty, my mom said, “Me too. Me and your father.” If Dino couldn’t get my hardcore conservative parents to vote for him, I knew he was beyond cooked.
Since I’m one of those odd ducks that likes rain, I say bring it on sistah!! Plus the payoff is all around us. If you haven’t gone east on 18 for about 20 miles or so beyond Camas, you should. It’s a stunning drive.
Cat Lady
@JenJen:
This is probably more up Kay’s alley, but for successful Ohio Democratic organizing tips for next time, this article about the Mass. Democratic Party’s pull-out-all-the-stops effort on behalf of Deval Patrick is very instructive. Shorter version is that after Scott Brown got elected, the analysis showed that it wasn’t that there were more Republican voters – Brown’s voters were the same as McCain’s voters – it was getting the Dems to the polls. It’s a GOTV ground game every inch of the way.
JenJen
@Cat Lady: Kay wrote on this very topic quite thoughtfully the other day. From my own experience here on the ground (but in the decidedly GOP part of the state), the Ohio Democratic Party really had their act together in terms of GOTV, and matched (if not surpassed) their 2008 benchmarks.
And yet, 270,000 fewer voters (!!) voted in the Gubernatorial in Ohio than had just four years prior in the 2006 Gubernatorial. GOTV definitely reached out and touched me, and I answered the call. I’m just not convinced that other progressives did, instead choosing to sit this one out. It’s right there in the numbers. We didn’t go to the polls, and as Kay wrote in her piece, we in Ohio can’t rely on our old, excellent GOTV machine working next time. For lack of a better cliche, the horse was reined up, but he refused to be led to the watering hole. I can’t express how profoundly sad I find the situation here.
hilzoy
Why I love the internets: because I get to encounter all sorts of odd, obsessive people doing odd, obsessive things that are nonetheless interesting. Case in point.
Cat Lady
@JenJen:
I feel for you, seriously. I don’t know how the OH-MA numbers compare, but for a small state (MA) that leans Dem naturally, this stood out:
“The get-out-the-vote operation was massive. On Election Day, they estimated the number of volunteers reached a stunning 800,000. Walsh is thrilled to think that his brand of campaigning, unusually personal and interactive for the information age, was so effective that it probably will be replicated. “To me, that’s changing politics,’’ he said. “Everybody wants that. Scott Brown did it. Deval Patrick did it. It is possible and everybody wants it so let’s go try it.’’
The pooling of organizers’ cell phone contacts was key, and impressive. Massive coordination. Just sayin’.
JenJen
@Cat Lady: Sigh. I’m so proud of Massachusetts, but so damned jealous at the same time. :-(
Cat Lady
@JenJen:
You’ll get ’em next time.
slank
@donnah: Can’t wait to get mine, ordered it the day they came out but I live a fair ways from the shipping point.
donnah
Jen-Jen, yes Ohio is completely and totally screwed. When I saw that Strickland was gone, I knew it was going to be ugly. Kasich is a dick.
Slank, you’ll love the calendar and it’s well worth waiting for.
rlmurkin
Careful with those McRibs, Cole, or Rosie won’t be the only one takin’ a dump on the concrete.
The Other Chuck
I remember having a McRib ten years ago or so. I can’t fathom the idea of eating one again. Or anything from McDonalds at all. Especially after Bush’s FDA.