Sometimes you just gotta run the dogs out of the room and have some “me” time on the couch:
It completely and totally cracks me up how quickly he took over this house. If Steve is sitting in a doorway in the house, Lily will find an alternate route and Rosie will just sit behind him patiently until he moves on. It’s really quite hysterical.
Comrade Luke
So basically, Steve is “NSA accusations”, Lily is “Let’s focus on Greenwald” and Rosie is the NY Times?
Sorry, had to get this thread back on track.
Ted & Hellen
That’s lovely, but why has no one mentioned that John Kerry has had botox or fillers and he now he looks…odd.
Is that covered by ACA?
These people never learn. Good god, he looks like he’s wearing a bad John Kerry mask.
Yatsuno
Kitteh overlord haz asserted control over hiz kingdom. All is right with the world.
MoeLarryAndJesus
The Tao Of Steve.
The prophet Nostradumbass
Maine Coon Cats are pretty strong-willed beasties when they want to be. They can also be “eh, whatever” when it suits them.
Percysowner
You have a Maine Coon. Get used to it. I will say that having had 2, you will probably always consider them first when looking for a new cat. You may even realize that Steve needs a Maine Coon buddy. This is why I ended up with 3 cats.
cckids
Our female tortie cat is the same way, she completely rules the roost, dominating her 2 brothers and our male Pomeranian. If one of them is sound asleep somewhere she wants to be, she stands there & stares at them; within 30 seconds, they will startle awake & get up & move. And she has her spot.
Suzanne
One of our cats is the household Boss, too. Not the big fat cat. The smaller one, who weighs about five pounds. The one that I call my cute, furry facehugger.
Yesterday, she sunk her fangs into my dog’s ear. The dog just sat there whimpering until I was able to extricate the cat without any bloodshed.
Anne Laurie
@cckids:
Also, sometimes she does that just to prove she can.
Yatsuno
@Suzanne: Is this the same kitteh who drank the paint water?
Linkmeister
John, have you stopped putting mouseover text on your photos, or is the absence on this one just an aberration?
max
It completely and totally cracks me up how quickly he took over this house. If Steve is sitting in a doorway in the house, Lily will find an alternate route and Rosie will just sit behind him patiently until he moves on. It’s really quite hysterical.
Poor Cicero (Maine coon!), on the other, tries mostly to avoid getting run over or being subject to a tractor pull. On the other hand Demondog seems to be totally taking over the household, which is causing elder male dachshund to get mad because those are his toys dammit. (Not that he was playing with them – he was saving them for the future apocalypse when all the toys are gone from the shelves.)
Meanwhile, to bump up from the other thread:
@Jamey: At some point, I want the line in the sand to be the “fuck-you” line that says “I’m the president and you cannot bait me into starting another war because it will help you achieve an erection.”
Yes.
@askew: Limited bombings isn’t starting a war. And doing nothing basically sets the precedent that the world community will ignore chemical attacks by governments on their own people.
It is an act of war. Now if you commit an act of war against someone who can’t get at you, you can get away with, but any armed attack is an act of war. As for the other issue, Eugene Robinson joins you, stupidly:
Actually, the reason the nobody uses chemical weapons is because they don’t work well militarily. Saddam Hussein kept experimenting with them during the Iran-Iraq war (and we helped him with the targeting!) and then he gave it up because they just don’t accomplish much. The main reason to hold them is as a deterrent (the US still has 1400 tons of the stuff, mostly mustard gas). Now effective WMD type weapons are very popular – they are known as nuclear bombs. Everybody wants some.
If no one does anything about Assad will maybe use them again, or not, but no one else is going to start using them – they didn’t last time. (Assad’s stockpile comes from his Daddy, incidentally.) During WWI, everybody started using them immediately once the Germans tried them (within a month) and soon everyone was using it. And then after the war, all the assorted nations decided they were useless and kept the stuff they had on hand as a deterrent. Even Hitler was not game (except, obviously, against Jews and other ‘undesirables’), because they are not worth the trouble.
So justifying an attack based on WMD is about as worthwhile as it was in 2003 – pure suckerbait.
@OzarkHillbilly: Well, doing nothing was good enough for St. Ronnie of Reagan.
OOOOooo…. wait for it…
@askew: I don’t think we want Obama to follow any of Reagan’s foreign policy choices. I am hoping that the international community will find a solution without having to resort to bombings at all, but it isn’t looking likely.
Actually, yes we do! (I almost got it this afternoon but it took awhile to jell.) If we must attack then I know exactly what we should do!
We should have our little task group them (a couple of destroyers and cruisers) unload about 50 cruise missiles on downtown Damascus. Specifically, we can start with the Ministry of Defense building (located at 33°30′50.58″N 36°16′42.58″E) [they have a website: http://www.mod.gov.sy/], and the work our way around to the Ministries of Communication, Finance, Foreign Affairs, Industry, Information, Interior, Justice and Transport, and maybe we can pound any local military HQ’s, maybe a few air defense radars and Bashir Assad’s house. Or where ever he might be staying, with a particular emphasis on elite families who are tight with Bashir.
It’s perfect! And it emulates Reagan’s raid on Libya, which was mostly pointless, but gave the 100% Authentic Appearance of Doing Something while actually Doing Nothing. Except make Qaddafi really really really paranoid.
After all, if we’re primarily mad at Assad, and we are primarily concerned with discouraging further use of chemical weapons, and yet we don’t want to Be Involved (and the President is apparently the person in the administration most keen on Not Being Involved, thank God), then pounding the elite families of Syria and (if we’re lucky) killing some VIPs in the process will give those folks an incentive to stick to conventional artillery. It won’t get rid of Assad (except by accident) and it won’t change the balance of power in Syria, and it mostly amounts to nothing, but it beats blowing up chemical weapons and dispersing them all over hell and creation, and it beats killing Syrian grunts who are, no doubt, mostly trying to stay alive in the middle of a nasty civil war between a murderous autocrat and some atrocity-committin’ religious fundamentalists.
And then it even has a Win the Day component. I remember 1985 and normal people were talking about invading Libya (Good Lord, why?) and Reagan bombed Qaddafi instead, and suddenly everyone was all, ‘Yeah! We showed them! Let’s go shopping!’ Even better, St. John of Arizona can get up on the Senate floor and condemn Obama for being as weak as Ronald Reagan!
max
[‘MUHAHAHAHAHAHA!’]
p.s. Sorry, Cole, couldn’t let the brainstorm go.
manyakitty
@Anne Laurie: That’s also my Schrodinger kitty’s preferred method for waking me up. Just because he can.
Montarvillois
Had the same situation with a cat that stood guard to kitchen (& food dish). Dog wouldn’t cross the threshold for love nor beef bone.
sm*t cl*de
You may even realize that Steve needs a Maine Coon buddy.
Only one Maine Coon.
slim shady
Sad. The Life of a Crazy Cat Lady on full public display. You don’t notice how sad unless you haven’t visited this site in many months. I’m sure on my next visit the Cat will have exploded (is that the same Cat? Seemed to me it was a white cat), and we’ll have pictures of Cole in his underwear, on the couch, gnawing on ribs. Jeezus.
rikyrah
Steve is so cute
Luci
Oh my! He IS settling in nicely. :) I had a neutered male cat at one point who was the dominant force in the house. My mother in law came one day, sat in his spot on the couch, and he did that staring angrily thing at her until she noticed and got upset and moved off. She wasn’t going to let a cat intimidate her, but I did point out it WAS his spot. ;) It was hilarious. One night he got onto the porch and didn’t get back in until morning, and it was a bit cold. He was fine and likely had found somewhere to sleep out there, as it was enclosed, but boy was he mad! He stalked in with is tale up and would not speak to me for several hours. I was on his list for sure. Anyway, good job on getting such a great cat, and I hope things are going well for everyone here! :)
Tractarian
I don’t know how that cat can sleep, knowing that the NSA is tracking his master’s every move.
wormtown
He looks small all alone on the couch.
Jane2
I see Steve has commandeered exclusive use of a couch that could hold 4 or so humans comfortably. It’s as it should be.
kc
Steve looks so huggable.
marindenver
My cats have always been dominant over the dogs. Arguably I haven’t had the most dominant dogs in the world but still a lot of them were pretty big dogs and . . . it was kind of . . embarrassing for them. The current crop all seem happy with the arrangement though so that counts for something.