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Thanks to commentor PurpleGirl, who linked to The Mahablog.
Just to calm y’all down, before bedtime. What’s on the agenda, on the left-hand coast?
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Thanks to commentor PurpleGirl, who linked to The Mahablog.
Just to calm y’all down, before bedtime. What’s on the agenda, on the left-hand coast?
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Anibundel
Apparenty, my dinner is on my cats’ agenda.
http://t.co/ST9VJZej
Brian R.
Awesome.
The dude’s a closer.
vestigial
It must feel great for Obama to call someone else “articulate.”
MikeJ
Someone was asking a few threads back about a Seattle meetup in honour of BGinChi. I was unable to answer ’cause I don’t know the status. Is Herr inChi around to tell us more?
WaterGirl
I had read the transcript, but I hadn’t seen the video. Wow, Obama seems angry, or wound up, or something. It’s a different speaking style than usual. He never talks that fast!
vestigial
Wait, did Obama just say the Ryan plan was to have us all pay for the wealthiest Americans to take year-long global cruises on our aircraft carriers?
jeff
Hi Purplegirl!
Hope you are doing well!
a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)
@Anibundel: Kittehs are hungry.
MikeBoyScout
Let’s just say it, shall we?
Obama/Biden are on FIRE.
The video feeds of their speeches these past two days can bring the landslide, and they’re just getting started.
Thanks Gekko/Galt.
Hypatia's Momma
A fun way to learn about South-East Asia.
MikeJ
@MikeBoyScout: The whole campaign. Press secretary Ben LaBolt had this tonight:
thalarctos
@MikeJ:
That’s the rumor going around, anyways.
Allen
@Anibundel:
I was having a curried chicken sandwich which my oldest cat took an interest in. As she is rather long-haired, I thought she would make a good napkin. She is now busy de-currying herself.
Anibundel
@a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Kitties had their dinner. Kitties are spoiled little (adorable) fuzzy (and cuddly) vultures.
WaterGirl
@Allen: Is there onion or garlic in curry? Both of those are bad for kitties…
Anibundel
@Allen: I tried to spritz the kitties off the counter. Trouble(the back one) ran. Sir EatsALot sat his ground, scrunched his face and determinedly tried to wait until it was over.
He is now licking his drenched patches and looking at me resentfully from the cat tree.
Anya
@MikeJ: Ben LaBolt rocks! He does sarcasm so well.
Karmus
I know I’ve become cynical. I never thought I would feel so good about a president.
Obama has not done everything to my complete satisfaction, but when it comes to having an overall plan, and executing in the face of the most absurd obstacles–
I’m just downright proud of the man. It makes me sick that so many people appear unable to see past their own hate in order to perceive the quality that seems so clearly evident to me.
suzanne
I won’t be calm until after this election is over. I’m relatively young, but the first election in which I voted was the stolen one, and I have no confidence that FSM will smile on me again.
JCT
We have finally successfully melded our 5 pets – 2 beagles and our big male cat from NYC and the two young females from AZ. Doing surprisingly well with some dust-ups between the kittehs, the dogs are becoming quite adept at breaking up the mayhem by barreling into them.
The alpha female kitty from AZ screams like she is being drawn and quartered when the male puss messes with her though.
At first I had all the cats in a trailer – that didn’t go too well!
Hypatia's Momma
A virulent anti-Semite finds out he is Jewish.
WaterGirl
@Hypatia’s Momma: That’s a helluva story.
MikeJ
@Hypatia’s Momma: Meanwhile, the Family Policy Institute of Washington is campaigning against marriage. Makes you wonder about their members. Uh, not their members. I don’t care about those. They can do whatever they like with their members. They just seem a little *too* interested in what other people are doing with theirs. Members.
Hill Dweller
@MikeJ: Running for President has become brutal. It is a grueling schedule, with unending pressure and scrutiny. A young man would have a very hard time enduring it. At 65, with no real experience participating in a campaign of this length, Willard has to be feeling it.
Couple that with Willard’s past tantrums when not getting his way, and I can see him getting more and more unhinged if things continue going badly for him.
g
Ni-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-i-ce!
Steeplejack
@Hypatia’s Momma:
Okay, now there’s a bona fide self-hating Jew.
WaterGirl
It seemed pretty clear in 2008 that Obama seemed got energy from speaking with crowds and that it was the opposite for HIllary Clinton – it seemed like it drained energy from her. Sounds like Willard is in the latter category. Couldn’t happen to a nicer person.
WaterGirl
@Steeplejack: Okay, now that’s funny!
He may not be a self-hating Jew, though, since he now wants to pay his respects to the Holocaust martyrs. What a turnaround of perspectives.
Still, you made me laugh out loud.
The Thin Black Duke
Y’know, if Romney was a human being instead of an obedient tool of the Borg Collective, I might feel sorry for him. Not.
amk
@Hypatia’s Momma: wingnutz, on top of being racists, are also corrupt.
mai naem
Charlie Pierce has a piece on Rmoney being in Ohio with a coalminers with an accompanying pic. Granted that its a pic catching a single moment but the body language of the miners to me comes across as a cross between apathy towards a pol and just plain naked hostility towards Rmoney.
scav
@Hypatia’s Momma: Imagine being an Auschwitz survivor and watching your grandson’s ascendant career and saying nothing. Pretty much not being able to say anything. That’s got a certain horror to it.
mai naem
@mai naem: The linky to Charlie Pierce’s Ohio coal miner pic.
WaterGirl
@mai naem: Wow. Romney needs to get a pok-er face.
What I find fascinating in that photo is that Romney actually seems to feel the antipathy of the miners. I would have expected him to be oblivious.
Amir Khalid
@Hypatia’s Momma:
How are you enjoying Kampung Boy and Town Boy? There are no finer evocations of Malaya/Malaysia in the 1950s and 1960s. If you’re discovering Lat for the first time, you should also look out for the collections of his cartoons for the New Straits Times, starting with the equally classic Lots of Lat and Lots More Lat.
asiangrrlMN
@Anibundel: TROUBLE and SIR EATS A LOT! They are soooo cute. And, apparently, HONGRY!
WaterGirl
@mai naem: My reply to you is still in moderation. Apparently I mentioned a special game of cards that people often play for money. FYWP.
Wow. Romney needs to get a p0ker face.
What I find fascinating in that photo is that Romney actually seems to feel the antipathy of the miners. I would have expected him to be oblivious.
WaterGirl
@asiangrrlMN: Black kitties. Your favorite!
Hypatia's Momma
@Amir Khalid:
I love them and I’ve been anxiously waiting for FirstSecond Publishers to bring out the third autobiography (“Mat”). I’ve read them several times because they are great re-reads.
Two years ago, I found a copy of Lat as usual at a Friends of the Library sale but haven’t seen any of his other work since. One can find these things on Amazon but that’s not affordable right now.
RadioOne
the GOP is poised to draw new attention to Obama’s foreign policy skills by releasing a 22 minute video attempting to swift-boat Obama’s claim that he ordered Bin Laden’s assassination. According to someone from Seal Team 6 and other advisers from the DoD, not only was Obama not really interested in making the decision, he actually worked hard to impair the whole operation itself.
Hypatia's Momma
@scav:
I can not even imagine. At least he repented, which speaks well of his ethics.
Hypatia's Momma
@amk:
Undeniably true.
Hypatia's Momma
@Steeplejack:
Hee!
MoeizW
John Kasich, on Mitts left, is clearly drunk.
Catsy
@RadioOne:
And right there is where I call bullshit on their bullshit.
I strongly doubt anyone who’s actually from Seal Team 6 would be talking about it–least of all in a way that badmouths the CIC.
Hypatia's Momma
@MikeJ:
I really do not get this right-wing fascination with the sex lives of fully consenting adults. Other people’s sex lives are not only none of my business but are also boring (to me).
The mirror-side of that would be the various fandom obsessions with shipping and slash fan-fic.
Hypatia's Momma
@WaterGirl:
I’m glad he was able to take that in and make amends to others. Maybe not full amends but it’s a start and a good thing.
NotMax
@Catsy
Big, big difference between that and someone from Seal Team 6 who was actually present at the time.
JustAnotherBob
@mai naem:
That’s an incredible picture.
Hostility and fear.
Little brown squirts in the magic underwear….
Suffern ACE
@NotMax: Not to mention “advisers.”
asiangrrlMN
@WaterGirl: Guilty as charged!
Elizabelle
@JCT:
Would love to see a pet picture! Sounds like quite the menagerie.
Catsy
@NotMax: Whether they were present or not, I doubt they’re talking to anyone.
Yutsano
@Catsy: If they’re AD no way in fucking hell are they talking, especially shit about the CIC. And if they’re retired they don’t know shit about what happened.
Hill Dweller
@Catsy: There is a wingnut former Seal Team member turned state legislator(Montana?) that was starting a superPAC to go after Obama. This might be the same guy, but I suspect whoever is attempting this will end up looking pathetic, especially after the head of JSOC has said such glowing things about the President.
NotMax
@Hill Dweller
He should expect a surprise visit from Jesse Ventura if he talks out of turn about ops or the chain of command.
NotMax
Here’s some info. “Not political,” my Aunt Fanny.
Hill Dweller
@NotMax: If it is the same wingnut who recently released a stupid statement informing the public he was forming a SuperPAC, I don’t think he was in any way involved with the OBL operation.
It’s probably a wingnut billionaire’s shameless attempt to use a former SEAL turned ambitious politician to slander Obama.
Hill Dweller
@NotMax: The commercials just happen to run in battleground states. It’s all a big coincidence.
Calouste
Weren’t those leaks traced back to informatin shared in a number of House intelligence committee meetings, and wasn’t the only House member to attend all those meetings Michele Bachmann?
Allen
@WaterGirl: Neither, thankfully. Had the store hold it.
WaterGirl
@Allen: Yay. I didn’t know that onions are a big problem for kitties until my kitty was dying of kidney failure and anemia. Even foods with onion salt are bad. He LOVED cheese goldfish – would try to stick his head in the bowl if I was eating them – and cheese goldfish have onion salt. Who knew?
So I have been left wondering if I inadvertently contributed to his disease, and I am super careful about what i give my kitties now.
AxelFoley
@RadioOne:
Gonna be hard for them to dispute this:
http://static.infowars.com/2012/04/i/general/Situation-Room-phony-bin-laden-raid.jpg