Woke up this morning to discover that Rosie had been in the litter box and gorged on kitty rocha and then puked it all over the bed. So I got that going for me.
Then the Penguins went out and puked all over themselves on the ice.
How are you?
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Suffern ACE
I had my liverwurst sandwich that the two miracle whip threads got me pining for . So far, I haven’t thrown up on anyone’s bed.
Villago Delenda Est
TMI! TMI!
Mustang Bobby
Sorry about Rosie’s distress, but I’ve heard that Fred Phelps is about to shuffle off this mortal coil.
Clarence Darrow once said, “I have never killed a man, but I have read many obituaries with great pleasure.”
Villago Delenda Est
Noisemax hilarious stupidity:
Dinesh D’Souza: Liberals Silent on My Indictment
This is because you broke the law, dumbshit, and apparently did it with malice aforethought.
It’s too bad that this isn’t a capital crime is all I can say about it.
Amir Khalid
Yay Rosie!
(Sorry.)
Betty Cracker
WTF is up with dogs and eating shit? We let our hens free-range part of each day, and when they’ve gone to roost and we let the mutts out, they run around the yard hoovering up every morsel of chicken shit they can locate. It’s disgusting.
Tommy
Two weeks now with no cable television. The only thing I seem to miss is no news programs really on Hulu or Netflix. But honestly my blood pressure might be a lot lower not seeing everything that is going wrong in the world :).
dmsilev
@Mustang Bobby: “I did not attend his funeral, but I sent a nice letter saying I approved of it.”
Usually attributed to Mark Twain, though apparently there’s no actual evidence he said it.
Mike E
In Philly, I went to a brawl and a hockey game broke out.
Yeah, It really is sorta like that there.
dmsilev
@Villago Delenda Est: It’s not actually true either. Liberals haven’t been ‘silent’ on the subject of D’Souza’s indictment. They have, loudly, been laughing about it.
Baud
@Villago Delenda Est:
What are we supposed to speak up about?
Tommy
@dmsilev: Yeah maybe if the dude wasn’t an asshat we’d come to his defense. I also might say it is kind of funny he would even want our support, seeing we’re all a bunch of crazy socialist and such.
Mustang Bobby
@dmsilev: When a much-hated Hollywood film executive died, a lot of people came his funeral. That surprised one attender. When he mentioned this, another person said, “Give the people what they want, they’ll show up.”
Amir Khalid
@Betty Cracker:
I read somewhere (or maybe I saw it on Animal Planet a long time ago) that gorillas sometimes eat their own poop, too. Apparently, it’s got quite a bit of undigested and presumably still-nutritious plant matter in it, so waste not, want not, or something like that.
Villago Delenda Est
@Mike E:
Ned Flanders: I give you the jury of the damned. Benedict Arnold, Lizzie Borden, Richard Nixon…
Richard Nixon: But I’m not dead yet. In fact, I just wrote an article for Redbook.
Ned Flanders: Hey listen, I did a favor for you!
Richard Nixon: Yes, Master.
Ned Flanders: John Wilkes Booth, Blackbeard the Pirate, John Dillinger, and the starting line of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers.
Eric S.
Ozzie and I are doing well.
Villago Delenda Est
@Baud: I guess how this is Obama oppressing poor D’Dumbshit for all his idiot wingtardoporn moviemaking.
Steeplejack
It got up to 69° here in NoVa yesterday, and now we’re looking at 4–6" of snow tonight and tomorrow. A low of 25° overnight and a high of 30° tomorrow. WTF? I usually enjoy all kinds of weather, the majestic change of seasons, etc., but I am sick of this long, tedious winter.
Tommy
@Steeplejack: Exactly the same here in IL. Was almost 70 yesterday. Running around in shorts. Today I woke up to snow.
nancydarling
@Betty Cracker: My dogs are inordinately fond of mule manure. At least it doesn’t smell as bad as cow manure and is easier to wash off if they forget their promise to me not to roll in it. I’m sure they would love chicken manure as well if they had easy access to it.
raven
Couple of blowouts in the SEC and Big Ten after a great ACC final.
schrodinger's cat
Kitteh celebrated Pi Day did you?
Tommy
@Villago Delenda Est: Stupid question. With campaign finance the way it is, how exactly can you even get caught. I mean don’t you have to try.
Baud
@Villago Delenda Est:
He’s got a fair point. The constitution says that democratic presidents don’t have jurisdiction over Republican lawbreakers.
max
Uh, I trudged the pot with with the thyme and the rosemary (still going after three months in the basement) back inside, because yesterday it was a lovely 70 degrees and now it’s just started snowing and headed for 20 something degrees tonight. WOO. DC-weather: it sucks coming, and it sucks going too.
Shortly to begin making some corned beef and cabbage.
max
[‘And I know where all my jars of mustard are.’]
Cassidy
@Betty Cracker: Protection from predators. No scent, no track.
Ruckus
@Mustang Bobby:
I understand that some famous writer once attended a funeral and was asked why as he hated the honored guest.
“Just wanted to make sure the good news was true”
opiejeanne
@Villago Delenda Est: I don’t understand what he thinks we should be saying on the subject; does he think that we should come to his defense?
I know that I laughed when I read about it.
Botsplainer
Those aren’t clumps of cat shit with embedded litter. They’re crispy crunchy dog treats with a hint of fishy piquant…
jeffreyw
Thread needs moar kitteh.
Ruckus
@Botsplainer:
Nice. Goes along with Elmo’s comment on one of the MW posts about the lentil turds.
Botsplainer
@Betty Cracker:
If you’re a second tier predator/scavenger like a dog, you’re evolutionarily adapted to accept and digest the soft, gory intestinal bits if you want to always be assured a meal.
And congrats, the Gators are making the Mildcats shit the bed.
opiejeanne
@Ruckus: My husband’s great grandfather Thomas attended the funerals of his “adoptive” parents, to make sure they were dead is what we think despite the fact that he was a minister. Thomas and one of his brothers rode the orphan trains to Illinois in 1880. His brother was lucky, he was not. in his 90s he still had scars from being beaten with rose canes by those monsters. At 16 they kicked him out and another family from their church took him in, and treated him very well, as one of their own kids.
Ruckus
@opiejeanne:
No one he knows is going to come to his defense. So he has to ask forgiveness of those who laugh at him. What he of course doesn’t understand is that it just creates another opportunity to laugh at him.
jeffreyw
@schrodinger’s cat: Yes, we celebrated Pi day, but there was an over and under error.
raven
@opiejeanne: Was it “Charade” where a line of mourners stuck the stiff with pins to make sure he was dead?
Ruckus
@opiejeanne:
Mussolini got somewhat the same reception when he was hanging around that lamppost. Everyone came by. To make sure it was him.
Tommy
Reading about how Texas, Arizona, and New Jersey won’t let Tesla sell their cars directly into their states. So much for the Republicans and “free markets.” I mean you must really hate electric cars and/or take a lot of money from car dealers to where you won’t even let them sell the darn product.
PaulW
I am having a major allergic reaction to the kittens my new cat birthed. This morning I coughed my lungs out, and still have this acidy taste in my mouth.
shelly
Sorry Cole, that you might be getting some more snow in a last gasp-of-winter. (Very relieved that we further north are getting spared.)
******
Planning a simple St. Pat’s dinner for tomorrow. Colcannon with mustard greens as well as cabbage. And a lot of melted butter.
raven
Rut Ro, Cats cut it to 4.
Suzanne
Silent on Dinesh D’Souza’s indictment?! He couldn’t hear me laughing my ass off?!
shelly
Yeah, Christie tried to slip that by, but it came out and pretty much everybody is pissed. The most conservative editorial writer in the Star Ledger laid into him today. So much for Christie babbling about ‘free markets’ at CPAC.
Schlemizel
@Mustang Bobby:
My dad used that line on a local politician with a swelled head. He was bragging about how grand his funeral would be when dad dropped it on him.
NotMax
@PaulW
First, slather them with Miracle Whip…
Tommy
@shelly: That this was done shouldn’t surprise me, but it sure does. I mean as little as I know about NJ, I would think there are a lot of rich Wall Street types that could afford a Tesla. Maybe if a few of them wanted to buy a car, well I’d be happy to take the tax dollars. I mean if somebody has to pick it up in NY wouldn’t they get the taxes?
bemused
@Betty Cracker:
It’s high grade caviar to dogs. Delish!
Last week our older dog took off after getting a whiff of a dead deer, probably fairly fresh because she came home all bloody making an immediate bath necessary. Then the vomiting began when she and the younger dog were in their front of house enclosure. I didn’t realize this was happening until the younger dog threw up in the house. Younger dog had not been in on the deer find earlier so it was obvious she had hoovered up what the older dog had just vomited. Oh what a joy cleaning up huge piles of deer hair, skin, gust and blood, one inside the house and two outside. Fortunately, I have a pretty strong stomach and neither dog suffered from after effects or a visit to the vet. We never did find the deer to dispose of the carcass even after two searches.
I hate when dogs do this.
uncle rameau
Our goldendoodle puked up a tampon in his crate. Had to wash the crate, the floor and the dog. But I can still smell it.
I remain a cat person.
debit
As long as you have a cat and dogs, you must learn to embrace the baby gate. It will keep them from the cat shit, if not the cat vomit.
I love Chloe, but really, dogs are disgusting.
geg6
You think you have it bad, Cole? Otis has had a bout of colitis over the weekend, which seems to be exacerbated by some sort of stomach virus. Puking and diarrhea all weekend, especially last night when all of us (Otis, John, Koda and me) probably got a total of three hours sleep what with running Otis outside every hour or so. Thankfully, he seems to be coming out of it a bit (no more vomiting), but had to call the vet for a diarrhea med. John is picking that up and I can’t wait.
On the bright side, I scored some sashimi grade scallops and am making seared scallops with risotto and roasted asparagus for dinner. That, with a sauvignon blanc and berry pie for dessert, will make the weekend end better than it started.
Amir Khalid
Steve King slams Malaysia for “not cooperating” with the US on an investigation that Malaysia is conducting. Maybe he’d like to come over himself and offer to pitch in.
raven
Aw quit all your fucking whining. Get a goddamn concrete statue if you can’t hack it. What a bunch of wimps.
Ruckus
@bemused:
My cocker got hold of something on one of our nightly walks and I couldn’t get it away from him without losing an appendage. Two days later he was deathly sick and wouldn’t eat and threw up, which for this dog proved he was in maximum distress. Vet said his liver had almost shut down completely. He came back from it OK after about a week but I was way more vigilant after that about what he could put in his mouth.
The Pale Scot
Best line I’ve heard about Christie,
“Maybe he’s concerned about the cars running out of juice in that heavy traffic on the bridge”
dmsilev
@Amir Khalid: You really don’t want him. _We_ don’t want him, but he’s ours and we’re stuck with him.
Tommy
@Amir Khalid: OMG. King. I am a proud American, but my gosh we don’t have to stick our nose into everything that happens in the world. I am pretty sure if Malaysia wanted our help they could locate our phone number.
raven
@Ruckus: Ah, cookie spaniels! Lil Bit can’t see past her face but she’s got a nose that won’t quit!
Ruckus
@Amir Khalid:
We’d be glad to get rid of him. Hell I’ll pitch in a little for a parachute to let him get a little closer to the place the transponder was shut off. You know one of those toy rocket club chutes, about 6 inches across. Will help slow him down when they throw him out of the C130 at about 30,000 ft.
Amir Khalid
@dmsilev:
Najib could send him out to the Indian Ocean in a rowboat, with a pair of binoculars. That would keep him out of our hair, and yours, for a while.
Ruckus
@raven:
Old dogs for old dogs.
shelly
Forget wondering why our pets insist on eating shit. My question is why they insist on throwing it up on our beds or couchs, and not the floor. And if they do choose the floor, never bare wood or linoleum, but the new carpet.
Bob In Portland
Finally got my Mac back from the Geek Squad. Some of my iTunes are scrambled, the new operating system doesn’t seem to work like the old one. It looks like it’s gonna rain and I can’t seem to talk my girlfriend into going out and doing anything. I may go upstairs and work on my rock opera.
Amir Khalid
@Tommy:
Your NTSB is already here. Their help is probably the most useful to us. And it’s not like the search effort here hasn’t been consulting with experts in the US.
dmsilev
@Amir Khalid: That could work. Except that if there aren’t any TV cameras around, there’s no way that he’d go for it. Maybe we could try telling him that the rowboat is a fundraiser for the IRA.
bemused
@Ruckus:
Oh yes, I was worried about pancreatitis. One previous dog, elderly, died from her second bout. Our dogs seemed just fine but got nothing but water for 24 hours or more after the vomiting and then they were on the hamb/rice/cottage cheese diet for two days just to be on the safe side.
Amir Khalid
@Amir Khalid:
It’s Peter King, you silly person you.
Tommy
@Amir Khalid: Kind of figured the NTSB was already there. Never make the assumption that anything that King says is remotely correct :).
raven
@Amir Khalid: I bet our military is way more involved in the search than is being said.
Suzanne
My Luna dug up the body of our cat P.J. And ate it. P.J. had been wrapped in a towel and Luna ate that, too. When she vomited that all up for hours later that night, the smell woke us up, and my husband and I literally cried from the smell. We still never talk of it, especially around Spawn the Elder.
dmsilev
@Amir Khalid: What is your opinion about the reliability of the statements from the government? The stuff they’re saying now basically boils down to “someone deliberately changed the plane’s course and turned off the radios”; the government was all over the map (literally) in the first several days, so I’m not sure how skeptical I should be about the latest round of statements.
opiejeanne
@raven: I remember that scene but not which movie. You’re probably right but I associate it with the opening of a Bond movie for some reason.
Just saw a similar scene in a movie… I think it was RED2.
bemused
@shelly:
I recently read a pet advice column in newspaper about dogs eating their own or other dogs’ shit. Our younger does that sometimes. The advice was to feed your dogs canned pineapple and they won’t be tempted. I haven’t tried that yet. Anyone else know if this works?
Suffern ACE
@Amir Khalid: hmmmm. He’s concerned about your terrorist atmosphere. That seems a bit much. The atmosphere in KL ranges from smoggy to soupy, but I’m not certain it has aligned itself with any specific cause.
Jane2
@Betty Cracker: Simple…dogs should have been called pigs. One of my fondest memories was of Maxine the terrier with her mouth glued shut from the clumpable litter that held her kitty leaving treats.
Baud
@Amir Khalid:
Ah. In that case, maybe someone should suggest that the IRA is behind the disappearance.
Amir Khalid
@raven:
Wouldn’t surprise me either, if it was.
dmsilev
@Amir Khalid:
The competition for the title of ‘most offensive Congressman named King’ is a fierce and ongoing battle. They’re differently offensive of course, but it’s pretty easy to get confused.
Tommy
@dmsilev: I have only learned one thing. Best I can tell Malaysia’s government maybe is more messed up then our government ….. if that is possible.
bemused
@Suzanne:
Oh Lord, that is awful.
opiejeanne
@PaulW: Loratadine. Target sells it cheaper under their own label. Works really well, no annoying drowsiness or any other odd effect.
Steeplejack (tablet)
@jeffreyw:
That pie’s not up to code. Probably will get eaten anyway.
gbear
I watched an old power station just below my house on the Mississippi River get blown up this morning. When I moved into the neighborhood, the building was still in great shape. It was being used as living quarters for some artists but the city decided to kick them all out and then when it became vacant, the transients and vandals started trashing it. A developer came in and tried to turn it into an overly-ambitious condo project just before the banking crash (we’re actually lucky that he never got his plans off the ground), and since then every single window and everything inside the building has been smashed by assholes. It was a shame that the very cool looking building couldn’t be saved, but the effort to save it came about 15 years too late. It’s a sad day for my neighborhood. Here’s a video of the building going down.
PsiFighter37
My legs are shot after running 12 miles yesterday. Last super-long run before the SF half I’m running in a few weeks. I hate running in the cold, and especially given the crappy winter in the Northeast, I’m a tad worried that I won’t hit my goal (sub-8 minute/mile pace).
opiejeanne
@Suzanne: We always planted fruit trees over our kitties and the two rabbits, but the new owners of our beloved Anaheim house had big, badly trained dogs. I don’t like to think about the condition of our garden, which was beautiful when we turned it over to them.
beth
My dog is the sweetest, most good natured dog I’ve ever met yet she’s snapped at me when I tried to pull her away from eating the goose poop near our ponds. I can’t even walk her near them anymore. That green shit is gold to her.
Tommy
@beth: I’ve sat here and watched my cat like her anus for like ten minutes. She then hops up on my lap and wants to lick my face. Yes at times I think my cat believes she is a dog.
Ultraviolet Thunder
Our dog Geezer has recently discontinued use of his indoor litter box. He used to be enthusiastic about it because of course we bribed him with food to not make us take him outdoors. Now he just wants to do his personal business in the back yard. I think it’s because the litter box is upstairs and he’s 12 years old now. The back door is just less effort. Plus now there are neighbor dogs that need barking at several times a day so 2 birds 1 stone.
Betty Cracker
@Suzanne: That is so horrible. But your line about never speaking of it made me laugh.
Violet
Front came through this morning. Yesterday was warm and humid–almost needed the a/c last night. Now it’s not quite 60 degrees with a strong north wind. I had to go out and wrap the tomato plants on the north and west sides to protect them from the wind. I’ll pull the protection all the way over them as it may get to the mid-30’s tonight. I’m tired of covering, uncovering, covering, uncovering, covering, uncovering the plants.
LT
Woke up this morning and read this.
Thanks for sharing, man. You rock.
Amir Khalid
@dmsilev:
They’re trying to come across as very sure of their conclusions, which strikes me as a bit odd since it appears to me that they’re going to less and less likely scenarios as the more plausible ones fail to pan out. I do know that the government of China, whose citizens make up two-thirds of the souls on board MH370, has been publicly criticising Malaysia’s seeming secretiveness and its apparent lack of success so far. That’s enough to make anyone nervous.
Heliopause
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opiejeanne
Yesterday afternoon our neighbors called and asked if we’d like the wine left over from a private event at their winery. This one: http://www.trouvaillewinery.com/
His name is Attila and their son suggested the names of some of their wines based on that; they dropped off The Scourge, The Hun, and a Cab. The syrah we had last night, The Scourge, was great with steak but I think I need to be the one who picks out which wine goes with what food from now on; the man opened a Riesling for me to cook with when I asked for a dry white wine. It’s like he’s forgotten everything he knew about wine, and that was quite a bit. If it had been my choice we would have had The Hun or the Cab, but it was pretty good.
Tonight I’m making a marinara, not sure yet if it’s going on pasta or if I’ll make pizza dough yet.
We love having them come for a party because they never come empty-handed.
ulee
I hope Biden goes up against Rand. It’ll be Biden losing his temper and saying, “You’re out of order. You’re out of order. The whole trial is out of order. They’re out of order.” I can’t wait.
Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism
@opiejeanne: For some people. For others (like me) it does nothing BUT cause drowsiness. As with all drugs, handle with care.
Tommy
Oh I so hope Rand runs. I tend to agree with Charles Pierce, who says when you list to any Paul family member they make sense for five minutes. Then at exactly 5.0001 second they totally go off the rails and you feel stupid you even listened to them for the first five minutes.
In a debate, where I don’t think he will follow the script given to him by his staff, that is going to be comic gold.
Ultraviolet Thunder
@ulee:
Biden vs Crazy Uncle Liberty’s poodle headed spalpeen would be very amusing. Laid back friendly Joe is a great contrast for the most ideologically driven and humorless Republican in a generation. The downside is a lot of young people are superficially attached to some of Rand’s libertarian-ish statements.
Jacks mom
I’m making a list of the things I want to go over with the lawyer I’m hoping to retain tomorrow to sue my brother.
I’m doing this in the hope that I can get said brother to pay our mom the money he owes her so I can afford to take care of her.
Why are family things so difficult?
Do you suppose his being a Mormon and a republican has anything to do with his asshattery?
Pogonip
@Betty Cracker: And how often have you let a dog lick your face?
Huskies can derive some nutrition from, Er, reprocessing poop. Roald Amundsen took advantage of this when wintering over in the Antarctic; he made sure his dogs had access to his latrines, thus sparing the men from having to clean out a latrine or dig a new one. Not sure if other kinds of dogs get nutrients from poop or if they just find it amusing to disgust their owners and the neighbors.
opiejeanne
@Sister Rail Gun of Warm Humanitarianism: I’ve heard people say that another anti-drowsiness med makes them sleepy, so I guess some people are wired differently. I know that my first reaction to anything with codeine in it is to become extremely wide-awake, if I don’t start vomiting. After about 4 hours I come down from the top of the draperies and crash for several hours.
LT
@Villago Delenda Est: “the starting line of the 1976 Philadelphia Flyers.”
Hilarious. God I hated those fuckers.
opiejeanne
@Jacks mom: I don’t know. Most Mormons seem to be Republicans, but most Mormons that I know are pretty nice people, although I have to ask: Is Mom a Mormon too? If not, that may be his “justification”.
It could be that he’s just a jerk, though.
p.a.
Has Rosie been reading Get Fuzzy?
SiubhanDuinne
@Ruckus:
That comment, that description of Elmo’s dad, had me screaming with laughter this morning. All alone, nobody to share the story with, but I was literally sobbing with mirth.
Pogonip
John, this is a good reason not to allow dogs on the furniture.
ulee
@Tommy: Rand is going to run, and he is going to win the nomination. They have noone else. This is not a deep bench.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven: yup, I was just thinking of that scene!! LOL!
gene108
@Tommy:
In NJ, it’s purely about money from car dealers. If Tesla could set up a distribution system through a car dealership and share some profits these bans would not be happening. Greedy Tesla.
Tommy
@ulee: Oh I agree. Many far right politicians and TV talking heads I don’t think they believe half of what they say. They realize if they push the right buttons they will get a ton of money and win reelection. If I don’t think this Republican isn’t true to what they say, I have to think the tea party thinks it as well. I think Rand believes everything he says. And IMHO that is the reddest of red meat for the far right.
SiubhanDuinne
@raven:
So that little vid you posted the other day with the pups running for their morning treats, Lil Bit was doing that all by smell? Awesome talent.
Villago Delenda Est
@Amir Khalid: They’re both Rethuglican idiots, just from different states.
Amir Khalid
@gene108:
What was the official reason for banning carmakers from selling directly to motorists, anyway?
raven
@SiubhanDuinne: We let them go at the same spot every morning. She can see big shapes better than small and she just loves that sprint. Generally we let them both go at the same time but I had driven that day so I waited on the corner of the building. You noticed that she just blew right past me? They root around for stuff on the ground until I grab her and tie her to a chair.
danielx
Better than you, clearly.
Villago Delenda Est
@Heliopause: Great. Oregon’s been invited to the dance. Now to see if they can survive their first game to get to the 32 bracket.
I have no illusions about the sweet sixteen, not this year.
Tommy
@Amir Khalid: Who knows, but as somebody that had a close friend that was the advertising rep for a major car company, l bet they wish this model was never put into place. To say Car Company X doesn’t like dealers would be an understatement. And of course the dealers don’t like said car companies much either. They each think the other ones are idiots that have no clue what they are doing.
ulee
@danielx: To live a life when pet dogs eat cat poop is heaven. We complain about it but we know when we’ve got it made.
SiubhanDuinne
@Ultraviolet Thunder:
I loved the 2012 VP debate, in which Uncle Joe just basically laughed derisively at every.single.thing that came out of the ZEGS’s mouth.
mainmata
@Suffern ACE: Liverwurst’s pate-like delicate flavor is fine on toasted rye bread or crisp cracker but Miracle Whip just ruins it, IMO.
ulee
I took my two dogs to the cemetary and Cassidy grabbed a poop and ran off eating it despite my protestations. I’m happy, thought Cassidy, don’t know what you’re problem is.
raven
@Heliopause: This is wrong, Iowa is in. They are a play-in game vs the Vols.
SiubhanDuinne
@Jacks mom:
I wish I could say yes — and I certainly wouldn’t rule it out — but I had significant legal issues with (and a three-year estrangement from) my brothers and sister after my dad died. None of them is Mormon, and only two of them are Republicans.*
*Actually, now that I think of it, it’s quite possible all three are.
danielx
@ulee:
I gotta differ. If you believe some of the commentary written about some of the speechmakers at CPAC, there’s at least twenty Republicans who believe that they’re composed of exceedingly seasoned presidential timber. Paul Ryan, Chris Christie (formerly anyway), Rand the Man, Rick Perry, etc etc etc…
Of course, there is a school of thought that says twenty potential nominees isn’t a horse race, it’s a civil disturbance in the making – emphasis on disturb(ed).
Villago Delenda Est
@Amir Khalid: This is the thing about Peter King. The ignoramus “understands” NOTHING about what is going on, since the NTSB is involved, the FBI is involved, DoD is involved, the Malaysian government has specifically asked for US, French, and Chinese satellite data, etc.
The US is providing assistance REQUESTED by the Malaysian government, because we do have a bunch of experts in this shit who can be very useful that Malaysia doesn’t have in house.
King needs to shut his ignorant yap on this (and other things, obviously)
Heliopause
@Heliopause:
Dang, made a transcription error. I had UConn at 5 but somehow didn’t get them onto the final list. That explains why everything was crooked at the last minute. Oh well, mine was only the second biggest mistake of the day, the biggest was putting Iowa, who pulled the biggest choke job since Thomas E. Dewey, in the field.
Ultraviolet Thunder
@ulee:
Charlie Pierce seems to believe Christie is running as well. Maybe he’ll drop out after he’s collected enough cash and funneled it to GOP operatives that he owes favors to. But Christie certainly sounds like he’s giving stump speeches these days.
It’s interesting that there isn’t an Establishment Republican who’s the presumptive nominee at this time. But there really isn’t an Establishment any more since the Bushes basically set fire to it and turned their backs on the conflagration.
raven
@Heliopause: Is that why YOU left them off the list?
opiejeanne
@SiubhanDuinne: I had trouble with my sister after Dad died 18 months ago, but it’s because she is innumerate and is challenged in the logic department.
There was $50k left in an account to take care of whatever bills rolled in. None did, so we were to split it. At the same time she decided to buy Dad’s house from me, so she counted that $50k as part of the payment; could not understand that half of it was already mine. She still tells people I got more than she did, which is hilariously wrong since I honored a verbal agreement she had with Dad for a substantial chunk of money, and I honored the older appraisal of the house even though the new appraisal said it was worth quite a bit more.
It took months to resolve that lack of understanding, she still doesn’t get it, and we still have to deal with photographs, artwork, books, and Dad’s truck.
It’s astonishing that we are still friendly.
Anne Laurie
@Betty Cracker:
Yeah, you know this already: Dogs are scavengers. There’s tons of valuable nutrition left in cat dung — cats are ‘inefficient digesters’. Presumably chickens aren’t any better at converting resources into calories, although it could be that dogs are just hardwired to eat anything (one of my favorite lines from Get Fuzzy is Satchel explaining “You’d be surprised how much is edible that isn’t technically food.”)
On the bright side, the reason we have dogs (per the latest research) is that some wolves with very low standards realized those packs of semi-hairless primates were tremendously inefficient resource-users, and if they could just get used to hanging around all the noise & movement & gropiness there was a good, if not prideful, living to be had. And us primate descendents would really miss not having dogs!
Heliopause
@raven:
Iowa’s a joke, otherwise I can’t much argue with the other choices.
opiejeanne
@Heliopause: Which Cal Poly? SLO or Pomona? I figure it’s the SLO campus because they seem to have a team. When I went to the Pomona campus we had a pretty good basketball team but the “big boys” wouldn’t let us play. That was just after the Earth’s crust had cooled.
ulee
@Ultraviolet Thunder: Christie really did have a chance despite being a Northeasterner, but this Bridgegate stuff really is pretty unpalatable. If the Republicans have an alternative they’ll take it. Cruz looks too much like Joe McCarthy. It’s a little wierd even for right wingers. Rand is their man. Who else?
Ultraviolet Thunder
@Anne Laurie:
Domesticated canines almost all have a gene for digesting gluten that their wild relatives almost all lack. This undoubtedly made our leftovers more useful to them.
I like to thinks that the cleverest of wild canines became humans’ companions but I know it’s more likely the other way around.
Villago Delenda Est
@ulee: Jeb “I wish my last name wasn’t” Bush.
Ultraviolet Thunder
@ulee:
No doubt Christie has big negatives. Palling around with the Kenyan Usurper after the hurricane for one. But Bridgegate is a wild card. If he’s not indicted it could blow over. True the last Northeasterner didn’t do well but Christie seems to have some Homo Sapiens DNA, which would help.
Heliopause
@raven:
Seriously just a brain fart. I had them at a 5 but coming down to the wire I was off by one on the at-larges and when I thought I was correcting the error I really wasn’t. You don’t have to believe me if you don’t want to, not like it means anything. I still have a shot at Warren Buffet’s billion.
Anne Laurie
@dmsilev: I remind myself ‘Peter’s the mucker, Steve is the moron.’ Being just barely bright enough to mouth whatever hatefulness his handlers write on the cue-cards is as close to an excuse as the Iowa King has for his behavior; the Long Island King is smart enough to know better than he yakks, which makes him worse under the rules of his Catholic faith.
CaseyL
Today I worked on my garden a little: pulled weeds, admired the new growth, and planted wildflower seeds. Quite a lot of groundcover is coming up, though I can’t tell if the new stuff is runners from the plants I put in last autumn. (I can’t tell because gardening is a very new thing for me, and all I know is what the nursery people tell me. The new stuff doesn’t look like the old stuff, but that could be because it’s just sprouting.) I’m particularly pleased that the berberi is sprouting new leaves – it went completely bare over the winter and looked oh so sad.
Seattle is rainy today, and warm-ish. The temperature’s right for hiking, but the rain is not. Pfui. I want to get out onto the trails, and shed my winter inertia.
opiejeanne
@CaseyL: It’s been raining here on the East side since just before 11, sometimes really coming down hard.
We spent most of the afternoon watching the Mariners and Angels.
Anne Laurie
@ulee:
I’m thinking it’ll be Rand versus Sanctorum — a veritable feast for the Dems.
Not sure whether the ‘sensible centrist business’ Repubs will be able to find a candidate to make it a three-way. They’re already working on getting Romney out there again, but I think he’s had (as Twain would say) enough of that pie. Ryan’s trying to massage all their pleasure-centers, but he’s got all of Rmoney’s luzer-stench and a lot less money. With any luck, Scott Walker will be under indictment or hiding from it by the time the races heat up, as will Christie. Of course Scott ‘Cosmo Boy’ Brown is already showing a little leg (wonder if he kept those hot-pink leather shorts) but even he knows he’s vice-presidential quality at best.
Suzanne
@Betty Cracker: It was the most disgusting thing I have ever experienced, and I have had my child vomit on my face. I adore that freaking dog more than words can say, but I have to admit that I couldn’t look at her for about a week.
P.J. was my older daughter’s cat, and we have never and will never let on what happened. The dog started puking all of the cat corpse/towel balls around one in the morning, and we immediately cleaned that up and covered up the hole in the ground before the kids got up the next morning.
dww44
@Mustang Bobby: I googled his name and there’s bio of basic facts and a photo on the right margin. Says he’s a member of the Democratic Party? Really now?
dexwood
You live the good life, don’t fight it.
opiejeanne
@dww44: He is listed that way but doesn’t behave like it. He’s a monster, regardless of affiliation.
grins
INSTANT SOLUTION TO DOGS EATING CAT POOP: Top entry litter box and note that someone has made a super-sized one out of a rubbermaid tub if Steve doesn’t fit.
Our cat took to it immediately, absolutely no drama, and the dog has not gotten into it in 5 months since.
btw, my mother, a great cook, always ate liverwurst with onion and Miracle Whip–I think that might be the only reason it was in our fridge ;-)
t
Honus
Speaking of eating shit, did anybody watch the UVA- Duke game? Duke got T’d up twice, one on Kryzewski and one on Sulaimon. At the end of the game, their whole starting lineup had four fouls. They just completely melted down and lost their cool. UVA got a #1 seed as a result.
the Conster
My friend’s cocker spaniel Missy ate a carton of Thin Mint girl scout cookies and projectile sprayed chocolate colored shit everywhere for several hours. No Thin Mints for me.
Heliopause
@Honus:
I also think UVA was a 2, borderline 3, to add to my other complaints. Big X and ACC got a little more love than they deserved, but that’s nothing new (the ACC especially gets consistently overseeded).
Ferdzy
Oh lordy. Can’t you people talk about the shit-eating on the shit-eating thread, and the actual food on the Miracle Whip thread? I can handle one, and I can handle the other, but the combination… bleargh.
Chris T.
A friend of mine says that the dog views the cat box as containing “tootsie rolls”…
Jackie
@Suffern ACE: I LOVE liverwurst sandwiches! BUT must be with mayo, cheddar cheese and sweet onion. With cottage cheese on the side. Perfect spring/summer lunch.