Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

The revolution will be supervised.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

Red lights blinking on democracy’s dashboard

If you tweet it in all caps, that makes it true!

That’s my take and I am available for criticism at this time.

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

I’m sure you banged some questionable people yourself. We’re allowed to grow past that.

Wow, I can’t imagine what it was like to comment in morse code.

“Why isn’t this Snickers bar only a nickel?”

No one could have predicted…

There is one struggling party in US right now, and it’s not the Democrats.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

Accused of treason; bitches about the ratings. I am in awe.

Accountability, motherfuckers.

We’re not going back!

Democrats are back in array!

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

It’s a doggy dog world.

“And when the Committee says to “report your income,” that could mean anything!

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

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Monday Morning Open Thread: Call for Calendar Pet Pics

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Beth S. has generously volunteered to put together the 2012 BJ Calendar. To recap from last week:

… you can send your submissions to [email protected]. please send photos of all your fuzzy, scaly, feathered, finned companions. let me know their names and i’ll be sure to include it on their photos…
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i will do my best to answer any technical questions and you can always send me an email at the yahoo account.
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thanks so much for your generosity in sharing your pets for the calendar!

Deadline is this Wednesday, November 30. “Big” files, highest possible resolution, are just fine. If you have trouble with the dedicated address, click on my name near the top of the right-hand column and I’ll forward your pics to Beth.

Representative submission, from commentor Feebog:

Attached are some pics of our rescue dog, Cappuchino, or Cappy for short. We got Cappy from a local rescue group, Labs and Buddies, which operates out of the West San Fernando Valley. Cappy was about a year and a half old when we got him, kind of skinny and the usual problems with rescue dogs; kennel cough and bowel problems. However, it did not take him too long to settle in. He has gained about 20 lbs. He is equal parts of Golden Retriever and Chow, or so we have been told. As you can see, he does look like a Golden, but his coloring is brindle, with brown, black, gold and gray on his back and gray and black on his belly and tail. Tonight the Mrs. was frying stuffing for tomorrow night’s dinner, and Cappy was, uh, helping.

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  2. 2.

    JPL

    @Raven: Are you home yet? Yeah, snow flurries tomorrow.
    Miss Moxie’s picture will be submitted by the end of the day. She is terrified of cameras and her mom can’t take a decent picture so we will see whether she is worthy of such a fine honor of being included in the calendar.
    I loved last years calendar and I’m glad that we are continuing the tradition.

  3. 3.

    Mark S.

    Free market capitalism, baby!

    The amount of money the central bank parceled out was surprising even to Gary H. Stern, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis from 1985 to 2009, who says he “wasn’t aware of the magnitude.” It dwarfed the Treasury Department’s better-known $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP. Add up guarantees and lending limits, and the Fed had committed $7.77 trillion as of March 2009 to rescuing the financial system, more than half the value of everything produced in the U.S. that year.

    50% of the fucking GDP of the country?!

    Lawmakers knew none of this. They had no clue that one bank, New York-based Morgan Stanley (MS), took $107 billion in Fed loans in September 2008, enough to pay off one-tenth of the country’s delinquent mortgages.

    Ayn Rand was right. These are truly Atlases holding the rest of us parasites up. It’s a good thing the Fed fought tooth and nail to keep this info secret for three years.

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    Rosalita

    I was hoping we could have another calendar this year! I’ll send in a pic of my latest kitteh, Tess.

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    geg6

    I have really GOT to figure out how to download pics from my phone to my computer. I have one of our Otis in my favorite Otis-position and just having come from the groomer. Sweet Otis is a rescue, like the adorable Cappy, and he’s either 100% golden retriever (probably not) or a golden and yellow Lab mix. He’s too cute not to be a calendar pinup!

    ETA: And Otis spent Thanksgiving Day helping me just like Cappy helped Feebog’s wife.

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    wonkie

    Cappy is very cute.

    I will send some better pics of Mercy.

    Mercy is not my dog but she is my rescue. I sent pics in of her and hope she will be considered for the calendar. Here’s the short version of the story (the long version is part Deliverance, part Animal Planet, involves a some criminal activity and the rescue of five other dogs, and has a Hallmark Card ending): Mercy and several other dogs were left locked inside a shack in the woods when their person died. After a period of time someone used a ax to open the door. After another period of time which might have been as long as two years, most of the dogs disappeared. One, a three-legged pitbull, staggered down the road and onto the neighbor’s property. That triggered rescue attempts for Mercy who still haunted the home where once she had been cared for and loved. It also triggered rescues for a bunch of other dogs that “lived” farther up the road.

    I delivered food to Mercy and put a bed ad blankets inside th house for her. (The house was full of petrified dog shit)It was coming on winter and no rescue whould take her. She was old, had vision and hearing problems and would run away from me as soon as she relized I was nearby. This went on for several weeks. i was seriouls thiking that the only thing I could do for her was trap her and take her in to be euthanized when Mercy’s miracle happened.

    I got a call from a rescue that speicalizes in old dogs. Even though they didnot have room they agreed to take her. her foster mother already had ten dogs!

    Mercy is now queen of the household, the dog that sleeps i bed with the owners. She barked for the first time about a week ago. She stil refuses to go for walks–she is so traumatized that she does not want to leave her new home! Her hobby is catching squirrels, a game she invented herself. She takes bowls that still have a little food inthem out into the yard, and then she lurks behind a bush, watching. When a squirel or rat comes to inverstigate the food, she nails it.

    Credit also needs to be given to several other rescues who took in dogs fromthis situation and helped in various ways to get them off the properties involved.

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    feebog

    Man, that is some cute dog. Cappy had a ball yesterday. We hosted a neighborhood citrus pick for an organization called Food Forward. These folks organize citrus fruit picks throughout the LA area and donate them to local food banks. We had about 50 volunteers and picked at 6 homes. We had about 15 volunteers at my house and picked 43 boxes of oranges, or about 1750 lbs. Don’t have the final totals yet, but I would guess about 4500 lbs. total.

    Cappy spent the whole day going from picker to picker, getting his pets and eating a few oranges that split when dropped (yes, he loves oranges). Thanks for putting up his pics Annelaurie.

    @ Wonkie: There is a special place in heaven for those who rescue stray or abandoned animals, I think you made your reservations.

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    Anne Laurie

    @Kristine: Nope, all animal companions, rescue or not, are eligible for the calendar — profits from which will go to rescue other animals. And just your pics are fine, although if you send stories I’ll be tempted to use them here as well. :)

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    gilligan

    Cappy is a cutie! I just submitted our Bulldog Albert. He loves fireplaces and basically puts his whole body as close as he can get. Thats where he spent Turkey Day! :)

  13. 13.

    Don

    For grod’s sake, at least spell out the product for the mailing label. If you ship me a 2012 BJ CALENDAR I’m going to come home to find my clothing on the front lawn.

  14. 14.

    elftx

    I sent one as soon as I saw the post this morning..am tempted to send another.

    Would that be too much?? We luvs our kitteh!!

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