Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Wow, you are pre-disappointed. How surprising.

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

…and a burning sense of injustice to juice the soul.

Sitting here in limbo waiting for the dice to roll

A democracy can’t function when people can’t distinguish facts from lies.

You come for women, you’re gonna get your ass kicked.

Ah, the different things are different argument.

Russia bombs Ukraine’s maternity hospitals; Republicans in the House can’t sort out supporting Ukraine.

The most dangerous place for a black man in America is in a white man’s imagination.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

It’s a doggy dog world.

People are weird.

Fuck the extremist election deniers. What’s money for if not for keeping them out of office?

It’s not hopeless, and we’re not helpless.

Bad people in a position to do bad things will do bad things because they are bad people. End of story.

Nikki Haley, who can’t acknowledge ‘slavery’, is a pathetic shill.

Jack Smith: “Why did you start campaigning in the middle of my investigation?!”

Only Democrats have agency, apparently.

Ron DeSantis, the grand wizard, oops, governor of FL.

🎶 Those boots were made for mockin’ 🎵

Technically true, but collectively nonsense

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

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

FFS people, this was a good thing. take the win.

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Another shot from the calendar submissions. From commentor Josie:

Here is Teddi, my Akbash goat-guarding dog, who guards me and any other creatures who take up residence here, currently consisting of two other dogs, two cats, two parrots and several doves. Also included is Emma, my son’s pug, who is with us temporarily. Teddi is not overly fond of her, but she guards her just as seriously as she guards the rest of us. Teddi reluctantly shares her bed with the little pest – note how they divide the bed exactly in half, as though they were the same size. Teddi is very old and arthritic and has a bed in each room, which Emma finds very handy.

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  2. 2.

    Raven

    This was Mr Big. We rescued him so never really knew what breed he was but he sure looked similar to Teddi. He was about 130 lbs and one of the greatest ball chasers in the world. When I would take him downtown he always drew a crowd!

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    amk

    Heck, emma is an angel when compared to my pug, jenny. The bitch wants the whole sofa and the bed to herself all the time. She disdains her mattresses on the floor.

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    harlana

    we had a part Chi part Manchester Terrier when I was growing up, and a black mutt with some Lab blood named George. Pup, the little one, had a small box in the garage. One day we went out there and George was sleeping in the small box, which was basically smashed since he was about 4 times too big for it!

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    harlana

    don’t you love how pets will stretch lengthwise and diagonal across the bed whereby you have a tiny, cramped space in which to sleep, lest you disturb their precious sleep and comfortableness? =)

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    Raven

    @harlana: It’s one reason I’m up at 4:30! Of course both our dogs are usually in the rack with us and my bride will not hear of getting a bigger bed.

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    Josie

    @Raven: Mr. Big definitely looks like an akbash. They are as big as the other white guarding dogs, but they have a more slender build and face structure. The personality and intelligence are amazing.

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    JPL

    @Raven: Moxie sleeps later than me. I get up at five and she prances out about six. She needs her beauty sleep.
    Pugs are so darn cute but because of their squishy face, they tend to snore.

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    Raven

    @Josie: He was an amazing dog. My first wife and I rescued him and, when we split up, she kept him. He badly broke his leg and she was unable to care for the nasty rods that they put in so we took him and nursed him back to health (helped by Raven who was a pup at the time). When my x left town she couldn’t take him so we had him for another 8 months before he died, just long enough to really fall in love with him again.

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    Raven

    @JPL: When I get up Bohdi wanders in for a butt scratch and then goes back in until I blow reveille (in three minutes from now)!

  15. 15.

    Punchy

    Chump Trump’s TV stump 2b bumped? Only 2 pricks from the sticks pick to get licked by the dick.

  19. 19.

    Mark S.

    God I hate Republicans. This made me laugh, in a mordant way:

    “I had an employer tell me of an overwhelming response for job openings,” Kingston said in a statement. “There was just one problem: half the people who applied could not even pass a drug test.” Earlier this year, South Carolina Gov. Nikki Haley (R) used an identical anecdote to promote drug testing the jobless. When HuffPost checked the claim, however, it turned out to be completely false — the employer said it tested only new hires, not applicants. And among new hires, less than 1 percent flunked a drug test. Haley later admitted her claim was bogus, but did not relent in her support for drug testing the unemployed.

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    Kristine

    @harlana: And how even the smallest dog can somehow stretch out long enough to take up an entire couch? Gaby is only 45 lbs. A medium-size pup. When she stretches, she positions herself so that there’s not enough room at either end for a person to sit.

    Unless she wants to rest her head in your lap. Then room magically appears.

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    Hill Dweller

    @Mark S.: The scumbags in the House are adding all sorts of crazy shit to their version of the payroll tax cut and unemployment extension. They are nihilists that want to destroy everything.

  22. 22.

    PurpleGirl

    Re-posting from last night’s post and thread about Noot (I love this version of his name).

    Somewhat OT. I’ve recommended BJers to read Making Light, the blog of Teresa and Patrick Neilsen Hayden.

    http://nielsenhayden.com/makinglight/

    Today I highly recommend it. Teresa has written a post (Krugman is from Trantor; Gingrich ain’t) that is pertinent and relevant to this post and politics in general.

    There is another post, also by Teresa, concerning PayPal that BJers might find interesting: Regretsy and the Insane PayPal Clusterf*ck.

    Go read them.

    I have errands to run outside (—- at least I’ll be away from the jackhammering over my head –) so I won’t be around to connect in a non-choatic way with discussions for a few hours.

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    geg6

    Squeeeee!

    Two adorable pups!

    Teddi is killing me. He is laying the same way my Otis does that I find to be most endearing. That sprawl with the legs straight out. I react to it the way other women react to babies.

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    gaz

    my hot water heater exploded. =( good thing I rent. heh. though my property mgr seems to be ducking my calls.

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    wonkie

    My living room used to look like that.We had a collie and a pug. We bought a big bed for the collie adn a little bed for the pug. The pug was a determined, selfish, persistant mainfestation of unrestrained id and the collie knew it so you can fiuger out who got which bed.

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