My brother has informed me that I am a jerk and that I should have thanked you all, since a half hour after you all sent your message to Tunch to come home, he re-appeared. So thanks!
I’m off to the airport to pick up a friend, so you all behave.
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My brother has informed me that I am a jerk and that I should have thanked you all, since a half hour after you all sent your message to Tunch to come home, he re-appeared. So thanks!
I’m off to the airport to pick up a friend, so you all behave.
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General Stuck
I was off the grid when all that was going down, but your welcome just the same.
A small colorful bird for your BP.
elmo
You’re not a jerk. We are proud members of the reality-based community; we don’t actually believe in magic cat-controlling mind rays. Wonderful to have Tunch back, but happy thoughts and fairy dust didn’t have anything to do with it.
Cris (without an H)
A stranger on the sidewalk greeted me with “Hello, Great One.” I don’t really know what he meant by that, but not knowing makes it even better.
James E. Powell
Fuggedaboutit. We’re family here. We don’t stand on or for formalities.
Zifnab
See, I would have come to a completely different conclusion and assumed Tunich was just reading your blog.
jl
Yeah, OK. I guess that means I have to say your welcome. OK did that.
Now why does that cat run away so much? Cole is such a neatnik, and with that panicky stuff about Tunch’s supposedelly filthy dirty feet (which were only slightly dingy)… I think that after Tunch is furminated, then Cole bathes him, and then vacuums him, just to make sure, that’s what I think.
trollhattan
Shocking development: Anders Breivik is a climate Denialista, worshipper at the feet of not-a-lord “lord” Monkton.
http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/07/25/277564/norway-terrorist-is-a-global-warming-denier/
MazeDancer
Norquist endorsed Boehner’s plan. Wonder if that will matter to any of the T-P’s.
trollhattan
@3.Cris (without an H) – July 27, 2011 | 6:17 pm · Link
That would make my day too, so long as they weren’t confusing me with Jackie Gleason.
jacy
@elmo:
That’s why I can’t get the cat of my desk. Damn.
burnspbesq
Here’s a piece of very good news.
http://thinkprogress.org/green/2011/07/27/281109/endangered-species-act-restored-in-house-revolt-by-democrats/
Cris (without an H)
@ trollhattan :
Or Dwayne “The Rock” Johnson.
trollhattan
Also, too, one of the high points of each year has arrived.
http://www.bulwer-lytton.com/2011.htm
El Tiburon
Your brother sounds like a Firebagger. Off with his head.
lamh34
MazeDancer
I’ve been catching up on some online reading and just IMHO,I think Boehner’s plan will BARELY pass the House, but just barely, just by virtue of the fact that the WH, Pelosi, and Reid have all said that they hate it. To the petty brethren along with Cantor will vote for anything that will piss off Dems.
I also expect the MSM to report it as “Well, Boehner has done it, he’s held his caucus together, now it’s up to Dems to tank econmy”…forgetting about the fact that Boehner may be “mobile”, but he’s got a million knives in his back and is losing alot of blood.
Davis X. Machina
@MazeDancer: Club for Growth’s Chris (Count) Chocola, and Erik Erikson say nay, nay, nay.
Grammatici certunt, et adhuc sub iudice lis est.
freelancer
Or Mark Levin.
Jennifer
Dude, no special shout-out for moi? I mean, hell, when I started writing my prescient post on the Tunch is Missing thread, there were no comments; it posted at something like #11 or #12, and I totally NAILED IT, right down to the resting in the shade bit.
Hmmpppff.
trollhattan
@11.burnspbesq – July 27, 2011 | 6:26 pm · Link
Pairs nicely with cutting a deal on CAFE standards.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/obama-administration-auto-industry-strike-deal-on-vehicle-fuel-efficiency/2011/07/27/gIQA72mKdI_story.html?hpid=z5
AAA Bonds
I’d be interested to see what S&P and Moody‘s private security expenditures look like right now for their U.S. offices, a wang a lang doodle!
lamh34
I’m liking Jay Carney more and more! Here he is again calling out FoxNews and new FoxNews douche (former CNN Douchebag) Ed Henry, for trying to “fox-up” a contraversy.
(BTW, I’m ignoring the usual fellatio of FoxNews that Politico always does)
‘A thing for Fox’
Carney makes an accusation
Ana Gama
@MazeDancer
Norquist is okay with it, but Erick son of Erick and Club for Growth are not. I say they should do the honorable thing, and crack out the dueling pistols.
Also, too, it would be quite humorous if the POS does makes it out of Boehner’s house only to be filibustered in the Senate by DeMint or Paul.
Guess we just have to stay tuned.
JPL
Even if congress reaches an agreement on the debt limit, the President will bet blamed. I’m not behaving like John said but we have to be realistic about who will should get the blame and who will get the blame.
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@General Stuck: Thanks for that, General. Your link has an extra “http//” by the way.
lamh34
No, the Reid and Boehner plans are not the same. Reid’s is better.
By Jonathan Bernstein
hildebrand
Can someone walk me through the 14th Amendment business – from the constitutional perspective, is this an escape clause that allows the president to act when the congress is unwilling or unable? Somewhat not unlike the six-month dictators of the Roman Republic?
To get the whole business straight in my thinking – why would Obama be able to invoke the 14th? Why not?
Keith G
I find it a bit hard to believe that a cat the size of of a bale of hay can invisibly hide by the door and stealthily slip out as Cole goes to walk the pups.
How much alcohol was involved?
Cris (without an H)
@trollhattan
Holy crap, wasn’t it just this morning that DougJ was moaning that he had nothing to feel happy about?
freelancer
@trollhattan:
burnspbesq
@trollhattan:
Yeah, that too. On balance, a better-than-average day for the environment.
General Stuck
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
Thanks, I forgot to check it
Maybe this link will work for Mr. Hummingbird
JPL
Back to John’s thank you note about Tunch, I can’t imagine losing a pet overnight. It has to be worse than a dinner with DeMint.
BGinCHI
Saw a guy in a t-shirt that said “Rehab is for quitters” today.
Don’t know if it was a Winehouse shout-out or sartorial cry for help.
MazeDancer
@lamh34:
No question if he gets his bill passed, the media will hail Boehner as a giant among men. And try to find someway to paint the Dems as recalcitrant.
NBC reports the revised Boehner Plan got rescored and now “saves” more.
@Davis X. Machina:
It’s true the “Real Republicans” are all against doing anything. Have spent way too much time at Red State now. I’m kind of fascinated by these people who actually believe they are patriots of the highest order.
Most uplifting remarks I read there today said they thought this might be the beginning of a 3rd party. (Pleeeeeezzzeee be true.)
They recognized this would give the President a 2nd term, but it was worth it. Because, after all those RINO’s they had now weren’t worth anything so what did it matter. Better to organize for the future.
trollhattan
@27.Keith G – July 27, 2011 | 6:35 pm · Link
If WV had more seismometers he’d be pretty simple to track.
Dee Loralei
@Cris (without an H): The punchline is in the previous thread.
I have more, you’ve been warned.
burnspbesq
And there’s this, too: DOJ suing Wells Fargo over mortgage lending practices.
http://prospect.org/csnc/blogs/adam_serwer_archive?month=07&year=2011&base_name=civil_rights_division_suing_we
Villago Delenda Est
Please. Your brother is, bless his heart, a jerk for suggesting that you’re a jerk.
As for Tunch, Tunch does what he wants to do. Hairless apes only can fantasize that their actions or thoughts have any bearing on what Tunch does.
geg6
I was offline when Tunch escaped, but I’d really like to know how a cat big enough to smash my 60 pound golden retriever could “sneak” by anyone with eyes.
Maybe Tunch is a shapeshifter like on True Blood. Makes sense if you think about it. More than anything coming out of the House GOP anyway.
JGabriel
@Cris (without an H):
It means that you’re about to start a long, but fulfilling adventure as an apprentice mage that will take a mythic Joseph Campbell-esque trajectory.
Either that, or you were greeted by a schizophrenic.
Kind of hard to tell, really.
.
trollhattan
@28.Cris (without an H) – July 27, 2011 | 6:36 pm · Link
I’ve been yapping for
yearsdecades about our (domestic makers) unwillingness to take vee-hikles that aren’t pickups and SUVs seriously and maybe, maybe somebody’s changed their tune.http://www.caranddriver.com/reviews/car/11q1/2011_chevrolet_cruze_eco-first_drive_review
General Stuck
That cannot be. I thought we were looking forward, not backward.
Cris (without an H)
@ JGabriel: those two scenarios are not mutually exclusive.
jeffreyw
In the pretty bird category, I have an entry, also. Too.
Carduelis tristis narcissus
jl
@27, 35
” I find it a bit hard to believe that a cat the size of of a bale of hay can invisibly hide by the door and stealthily slip out as Cole goes to walk the pups. ”
Remember that Rosie and Tunch have joined forces to destroy Cole. Those two have the moves worked out ahead of time.
Villago Delenda Est
The “Club for Growth” consists of people who worship the ideology of the cancer cell.
Fuck them.
Jade Jordan
Your brother had to tell you that you were a jerk? I have always thought you were extremely self-aware.
burnspbesq
@geg6:
Has anyone ever seen Tunch and Rene Auberjonois in the same place at the same time? Does Tunch sleep in a bucket?
JPL
My pup who is between twelve and thirteen has been losing weight. Okay it’s only a pound but when you are only eighteen pounds that is a lot. She is also not chasing squirrels. She’s getting old but I want an anti-aging cure.
In a few weeks we get to babysit for a maltese that Moxie treats like a baby so maybe that will perk her up..
arguingwithsignposts
@lamh34:
head/desk
Ed Marshall
The EDL has told the AP that Anders Breivik’s mentor that he mentioned in the manifesto as “Richard” is actually Paul Ray who runs a blog called “Lionheart” and lives in exile in Malta and wears goofy Templar outfits.
Said idiot in turn is fingering Alan Lake, millionaire EDL financier and crazy ass nazi as being his real mentor.
The crazy “lone wolf” story is about to get dented up pretty good.
Martin
Could just monitor the fluctuations in the earths rotational speed and axis. That’d work anywhere.
General Stuck
jeffreyw
Terrific photo and color
hamletta
Awww…you’re not a jerk, Cole. Your gratitude came through loud and clear. Besides, do jerks pick up their friends at the airport? No, they do not.
Case closed.
MazeDancer
GOS reports via Think Progress that the Congressional Black Caucus is introducing a “Clean Debt Ceiling Bill”.
And on our other subject, the only think worse than having kitty go on the lam overnight is having that happen in the High Desert where coyotes are just waiting for dusk.
Thank heavens Tunch is fine and happy.
Cris (without an H)
You’re dangerously close to advocating for volcano monitoring
Amir_Khalid
No, John Cole, you’re not a jerk. Tunch is a CAT. CATs come and go as they please. If he doesn’t take orders from you, he’s sure as heck not going to take them from the rest ofus, no matter how powerful our mind-control rays. As superior beings, CATs can of course receive them, but it’s a CAT’s nature to disdain all orders.
@trollhattan:
Christopher Monckton really is a hereditary Lord; per his Wikipedia entry, he is the third Viscount Monckton of Brenchley. What’s false is his claim that he is also a member of the House of Lords. Hereditary lords lost the automatic right to membership of the upper chamber seven years before he inherited his title. Besides global warming, that’s the other thing he’s in denial about.
It’s interesting that Anders Breivik is an AGW denialist. But I didn’t find it too surprising, since AGW denialism is practically RWNJ dogma.
jeffreyw
@General Stuck: Thank you, General.
Arclite
Dude, you were distraught with grief over the disappearance of a loved one, then overjoyed by his return. You wouldn’t be John Cole if manners, politeness and civility were the first thing to come to mind.
arguingwithsignposts
People! You’re reading it wrong.
Not “because.”
burnspbesq
@General Stuck:
Someone in the Civil Rights Division has a problem with creating especially toxic products for minority borrowers and referring to said borrowers in internal documents as “mud people.”. Go figure.
Just Some Fuckhead
@MazeDancer:
The last thing John needs is for his cat to get a taste for coyotes.
Phyllis
The ump who missed the call that ended the Braves v. Pirates game last night has been getting death threats. Perspective, some folks needz it.
Keith G
@Just Some Fuckhead: If only I had the time to photo-shop an image of Tunch with a coyote tail hanging from the corner of his yap.
General Stuck
For anyone worried the senate will cave and pass Boner’s bill if it passes the House tomorrow
Cram it — I guess that’s a no go. So it’s either Reid’s bill or default, or a last second voice vote for a clean bill. Of which the House Black Caucus weighs in that they will only vote for a clean bill. Which is looking like the last drop squeezed from this lemon, or it’s defaultTango.
MikeJ
@Just Some Fuckhead:
John’s credit card will have huge bills as Tunch tries to catch them with stuff ordered from the Acme company.
JPL
Since this is an OT..fifteen years ago my son was working at the Olympics. For some strange mother reason, I woke up and put on TV. He was across the street from the bombing pretending to be twenty one and I guess doing a good job at it. Anyway it was before cell phones but his friend had a pager that I tried. He went to a phone to call me that was roped off and explained that he had to call his mom. He according to his friend used a lot of adjectives cuz he had to call his mom. His friend dragged him away. He didn’t get home until 4:30 am.. It was a long night.
BTW…I hate Eric Rudolph and he’s not Muslim.
trollhattan
@57.Amir_Khalid – July 27, 2011 | 6:59 pm · Link
Monkton is an international menace, the epitome of a misanthrope, if not outright sociopath. You’ve probably seen this already. I found it a thing of beauty–we Yanks don’t possess the art of the stinging understatement.
http://www.parliament.uk/business/news/2011/july/letter-to-viscount-monckton/
trollhattan
@66.MikeJ – July 27, 2011 | 7:19 pm · Link
Just some rockets and anvils and canon and magic make-a-tunnel paint. What could possibly go wrong?
Josie
@jeffreyw: Oh, Jeffrey, I just saw your bird picture. That is so beautiful!
James E. Powell
@trollhattan:
Just some rockets and anvils and canon and magic make-a-tunnel paint. What could possibly go wrong?
Nothing, as long as he also ordered the Acme Indestructo Steel Ball.
quannlace
Meredith
I think you should be telling Tunch to behave.
WereBear
I haz a happy that Tunchee is safe at home. I was starting to worry!
Now I can devote my time to worrying about our economy grinding to a halt.
TOP123
I was just forcibly exposed to a few minutes of Bill O’Reilly (for as long as it took me to get the G&T ingredients out of the kitchen) since I’m over at my mother’s house… I’m sorry, can I just say I feel like I’m tripping–hard. I guess I’m underexposed these days to these people, but Sweet Jeebus. Have any of you listened to him lately? It seriously sounds delusional, like the product of a fractured skull, like some Bizzarro-World in which O’Reilly and Dick “May he rot in Hell” Morris were talking about how the Democrats and the President can’t do the right thing on the debt ceiling to save the economy because their voters are trapped in a closed media world, and because they are at the mercy of all of these fringe crazies on the internet and the hard left in the media and on and on… and I was trying not to laugh out of politeness to my mother, but, Oh My God, if vast quantities of people are really this delusional we are all doomed.
Thank you, needed to register my cry for help. T +1
Fucen Pneumatic Fuck Wrench Tarmal
under president romney,$2 dollar haircuts!
Trollenschlongen
I think happy dust and magic fairy rays may have had a lot to do with Tunch’s return. There is an entire multiverse out there full of shit we don’t know, much less understand.
So, either way, welcome home, Tunchles!
opie jeanne
@quannlace #72,
I’m not taking down Tommy’s missing signs yet because he is not home yet. We have coyotes in the area but he is a 15 pound tomcat. I do need to replace the ones that are too weathered, though.