Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

We won’t go back.

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

When we show up, we win.

We need to vote them all out and restore sane Democratic government.

Republicans don’t trust women.

Too often we confuse noise with substance. too often we confuse setbacks with defeat.

Everybody saw this coming.

The willow is too close to the house.

We still have time to mess this up!

Just because you believe it, that doesn’t make it true.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

Trump makes a mockery of the legal system and cowardly judges just sit back and let him.

How can republicans represent us when they don’t trust women?

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Optimism opens the door to great things.

Let me file that under fuck it.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

Shallow, uninformed, and lacking identity

Never forget that he train is barreling down on Trump, even as he dances on the tracks.

This has so much WTF written all over it that it is hard to comprehend.

You’re just a puppy masquerading as an old coot.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

Balloon Juice has never been a refuge for the linguistically delicate.

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An email update from MARC:

John, Thank you and all Balloon Juice followers, for the calendar sales resulting in MARC (Marion Animal Resource Connection) in Jasper, TN receiving $1,935.96! It is being put to very good use. I don’t know what we would do without your support. You have helped and continue to help so very many innocent cats and dogs here in Marion County, TN.

In the last 4 weeks we have taken in 22 stray puppies and 3 pregnant dogs who subsequently gave birth to 19 puppies. In just one week we spayed and returned to their low income families 12 female dogs who would not have been spayed without MARC’s help. This prevented more homeless puppies. We have helped rescue and rehome 5 pregnant cats and two litters of kittens. MARC receives on average ten calls every day of the week asking for help.

The pictures I have included show a sample of the cats and dogs we have helped recently. The two cute puppies on the couch were from a litter of six who had apparently been thrown over a cliff on one of our mountains. Hikers heard them crying, climbed down and saved them all. MARC was contacted and the puppies were fostered until they were old enough to be adopted. MARC provided their vet care and got them spayed and neutered. These two were adopted by one of the TV anchormen from the station who covered the story.

We continue to cultivate networks with other rescues and shelters. So far this year we have sent 60 dogs/puppies to Boston with Great Dog Rescue New England. They find wonderful homes for our southern dogs. We also have been working with two of the shelters in Chattanooga. They have started helping us with hoarding cases and taking cats and dogs as they are able. These relationships have been a wonderful outlet for MARC when we have no place to put an animal to prevent them being killed or getting them some help medically.

Again, Thank you and your followers for all the wonderful support you give MARC. You make it all possible!!!

Sue

You guys rock!

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  3. 3.

    Violet

    Yay! Love hearing good news like this. MARC sounds like a really great group and how wonderful that they’re partnering with other organizations. It’s like an underground railroad for animals.

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    Tommy

    @Violet: Perfect. I had already Googled them but thought there might be a link here so they could track the money came from this site.

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    MikeJ

    I like the back to back posts about Hitler being a dog lover followed by the animal shelter telling you, “good job.”

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    WaterGirl

    The two cute puppies on the couch were from a litter of six who had apparently been thrown over a cliff on one of our mountains.

    Holy fuck. My eyes got big and I had to read that twice to be sure I had read that correctly.

    Hikers heard them crying, climbed down and saved them all.

    Thank god for all the good people in the world.

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    WaterGirl

    @ruemara: Trying not to get ahead of myself, but I am hoping if the new job works out well that your two kitties might be able to come back into your life?

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    Tommy

    @WaterGirl: Same here. I can’t imagine in my head how somebody would do that. I mean what goes through your head to think “hey lets go throw some puppies off a ledge.”

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    Tommy

    OT but my gosh it is about animals. That Nevada rancher (I won’t type his name) is now saying the government harmed his cattle. Cue more right wing outrage in 3, 2, 1 …..

    “It’s going to take a lot to revive the calves that were nearly dead when they were returned to the Bundy Ranch because they had been separated from their mothers during the roundup, and a few most likely won’t make it,” said Fiore, a Republican from Las Vegas. “It’s time for Nevada to stand up to the federal government and demand the return of the BLM lands to the people of Nevada.”

    Oh and Japan is going to start whaling again. At least this post is some good news for animals.

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    Violet

    OT–NYPD disbands its Spying On Muslims unit.

    The NYPD’s Demographics Unit, which allowed plainclothes detectives to spy on pretty much any Muslim doing anything in New York at anytime, has been disbanded, the New York Times reported on Tuesday. Since its establishment in 2003, the once-secret program infamously failed to generate any leads or investigations, though former Mayor Bloomberg and former police commissioner Ray Kelly repeatedly defended it as essential to protecting the city from terrorism after the public learned of its existence.

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    Tommy

    @jeffreyw: Yes she will. My brothers puppy was that size and he is now the size of a small horse. Labradoodle. Wonderful, wonderful dog but he does have a little too much energy for my taste. Also gets very excited. He was taken to a trainer, but alas the trainer failed to train. It is really strange cause it will jump up on anybody, well anybody but my 5 year old niece. He truly seems to understand he is larger then her and could hurt her.

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    Loneoak

    Since when are we Cole’s followers? Petulant assfaced hangers-on is perhaps more accurate.

  26. 26.

    ruemara

    @WaterGirl: I sure hope so. I really miss them. However, the standoffish office cat has discovered I have a lap. So he and the office dog now follow me. It’s an office record, 1 day and the animals seem attracted.

  29. 29.

    ruemara

    @Omnes Omnibus: I have started working for a behavioralist. Many of you with dogs probably have heard of her. So I have her doggie (follower), my supervisor’s doggie (likes to bury her face in my lap and give me poodle hugs) and chickens and cats to contend with, along with CMS, SEO, Social Media MarCom and filming schedules. Like writing a script re: pharmacopeia, long distance hunting for film permits in the UK and worrying about doggie peen appearing in the shot.

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    Omnes Omnibus

    @ruemara: I have never worked in an environment like that. Probably for the best. I’d just play with the dogs until they fired me for lack of production.

  31. 31.

    ruemara

    @Omnes Omnibus: You can get a lot of work done with a cozy cat in your lap. Of course, “kissy kissy pookie face” does get annoying the 4th time in a row. But—> KITTIES! Soon the volunteers will be socializing the kittens and I’ll have weeee kittens.

  32. 32.

    Omnes Omnibus

    @ruemara:

    You can get a lot of work done with a cozy cat in your lap.

    Cat allergies. Dog and horse ones as well. The latter ones respond to meds. Cats just fuck me up. I will also note that they know it – those sadists. They always come rub up against me, sit on my lap, etc. They know what they are doing; they know that I will be nice. Then they laugh like bastards when my eyes water and I start sneezing.

  33. 33.

    Mnemosyne

    @ruemara:

    I have started working for a behavioralist. Many of you with dogs probably have heard of her.

    If her name starts with a “V” and she’s British, I will be very excited for you.

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