Look at the size of this wabbit!
The feet on that bunny! It could thrash you to pieces!
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Look at the size of this wabbit!
The feet on that bunny! It could thrash you to pieces!
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otmar
Get the holy hand granade!
boatboy_srq
@otmar: Isn’t that a prop in the Texas Chainsaw Mascara?
Pee Cee
And the Lord spake, saying, “First shalt thou take out the Holy Pin. Then shalt thou count to three, no more, no less. Three shall be the number thou shalt count, and the number of the counting shall be three. Four shalt thou not count, neither count thou two, excepting that thou then proceed to three. Five is right out. Once the number three, being the third number, be reached, then lobbest thou thy Holy Hand Grenade of Antioch towards thy foe, who, being naughty in My sight, shall snuff it.
Peale
The bunny is normal sized. The woman is surprisingly small
germy shoemangler
Our cat would be appalled/fascinated/terrified/hungry.
We have rabbits in our yard. Big things. They are city rabbits, they aren’t afraid of my wife while she gardens. Big buck rabbit stands there staring at her while she weeds.
Yatsuno
Now THAT would make some good Hasenpfeffer!
bemused
Our son and dil got a puppy on Easter sunday and informed us by sending a photo of adorable Samoyed puppy wearing a pink and white bunny hat.
Iowa Old Lady
Looks like a sled rabbit to me.
raven
She know’s the fisherman’s trick of holding it at arms length to make it look bigger!
raven
@bemused: You may have seen this but this is Bohdi the day we found him. His DNA test said he’s a samoyed-husky mix.
MattF
You could put a saddle on that one and ride it around the zoo.
In other news, WaPo has some bizarrely bad advice for Obama– “Don’t defend the Iran deal so vigorously”:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/president-obama-walks-a-tightrope-on-the-iran-nuclear-framework/2015/04/06/b5322f4a-dc77-11e4-a500-1c5bb1d8ff6a_story.html
Why, you’d almost think they kinda want the deal to fail.
Eric U.
one of our dogs was a rabbit killer up until they figured out he was no longer on a chain and had free run of the yard. The rabbits thought they knew exactly how far his chain stretched, but they sometimes made mistakes. I was always a little surprised by the brinksmanship. The dog would take a really sneaky path to get to them, starting out in the wrong direction so that the chain was at full length by the time he got to them. Now that we have an electronic fence, they have moved on to the neighbors yards.
Tommy
Just got back from voting. All very local stuff. Forgone conclusion Democrats will almost sweep every seat. In about 60% of the races, a Democrat is running unopposed.
More worried about the largest town in my district (pop. 90,000) about 15 miles from me. Democrats have been in control of the entire city government since like the Whigs (not really, but close). I don’t know what to think from the polls and the local media. I mean it isn’t like MSNBC is on the ground here or a national polling firm. But it Republicans might take control of the City Council and the School Board.
Basically in November we lost our House seat to the Tea Party (they don’t call themselves that here). First time in 70 years a Republican won the seat. This has kind of empowered the far right to think they can do it on the local level.
The Unions, and Unions matter a heck of a lot here, have said they will GOTV today and pick the darn Democrats up and put them on their backs to carry them across the finish line if needed. It appears to be needed.
They might have to do more then that, because looking at the weather maps mid-afternoon until after the polls close we are going to have thunderstorms, 50+ MPH winds, and the potential for golf ball size hail.
I sure hope they got the vote out early ….
Olivia
And look at the size of the arm that is holding it. That woman’s forearm is nearly the same thickness as her leg.
Mustang Bobby
I think that’s just a Labrador Retriever in bunny drag.
Tommy
@Eric U.: When I lived on Capital Hill in DC a friend a few doors down had two Greyhounds. Super small yard. He said when he first moved in his backyard became a squirrel graveyard. Multiple dead squirrels a day.
I guess the squirrels had a Town Hall meeting and they decided a “No Go Zone” was his backyard, including the top of his 10 foot high fence. He said he had been years and years since a squirrel was killed.
I’d say animals, even squirrels are smarter than we realize :).
Mustang Bobby
@Tommy:
Anyone who ever tried to squirrel-proof a bird feeder found that out.
Luthe
One of my goals in this world is to own a bunny of that size. Flemish giants they’re called.
Cervantes
@Luthe:
Just out of curiosity: what are some of your other goals?
Tommy
@Mustang Bobby: Hell yeah. When my grandfather passed away many years ago I got his birdfeeder. Old, but super cool. Metal pole. About halfway up there is a steel cone about the size of a basketball hoop. Feeder on the top.
If it was in the middle of a field it is in fact squirrel-proof. I placed it away from any trees.
Squirrels were like dude, watch this …. and they now run up the power/electrical line that goes from a utility pole to my house and jump off of it and onto the bird feeder. I still put feed in there if for no other reason then (1) I don’t really mind squirrels, kind of like them and (2) They are earning their meal.
Pogonip
@Tommy: Now I know how to cope with squirrels–adopt a greyhound! Next time we move we’ll shop around for a place with a fenced yard
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Bobby B.
Night of the Lepus.
Mike J
@Cervantes:
Move to Delaware for six months, learn the language, live like one of the locals….
Tommy
@Luthe: I saw that bunny pic yesterday. I’ve never had a dog but want one, and all the ones I am thinking of getting will be large if not huge. 100 pounds plus as adults. Doesn’t bother/worry me in the least I could have an animal in the house about my size or larger (I am 128 pounds). That if they lost it for some reason and attacked me (that would be on me as the owner BTW) I might be the loser. Heck I dated a women years and years ago with a pot belly pig that was pretty large.
But that bunny pic kind of freaks me the fuck out on like ten different levels. Can’t put my finger on exactly win, but I fear I might have nightmares about it in the coming days.
It is at this point I should not I have this totally ugly bush/shrub in the front of my house. I want to tear it out, but a family of bunnies have lived there for years and years, since I bought this place. I like bunnies. Just not ones almost my size.
rikyrah
Party politics: Two small tents, with most Americans on the outside
By Bill Schneider
April 5, 2015
The big tents are shrinking. Republicans and Democrats used to take pride in calling their respective parties “big tents” with room for a diversity of views. That tradition has ended for Republicans. It may be on its way out for Democrats as well.
Some liberals are celebrating the fact that retiring Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid of Nevada will soon be replaced by Senator Charles Schumer of New York. That’s because Nevada is a swing state. “By choosing leaders outside the party’s home turf,” Ari Melber wrote for Politico in 2010, “Senate Democrats up the odds that their standard-bearers will be distracted by close races — caught between the politics of their constituents and the national party.” Reid squeaked by in his 2010 reelection race with 50.3 percent of the vote.
That’s not likely to be a problem for Schumer. New York is a deep-blue state. Schumer won with 67 percent of the vote in 2010.
The main reason the tents are shrinking is that the number of swing states is diminishing. Congressional Republicans increasingly represent red states and congressional Democrats blue states. Thirty percent of Democrats in the House of Representatives now come from just two states — New York and California.
http://blogs.reuters.com/great-debate/2015/04/05/party-politics-two-small-tents-with-most-americans-on-the-outside/
Hal
Thank glob Missouri might ban snap recipients from buying steak and seafood. Funny how everyone who complains about snap recipients has seen them buying lobster, but most people have no idea who their senator or congress person is.
Tommy
@Pogonip: I have a former co-worker that rescues Greyhounds. Last count he has 14 (on a 5 acre farm in SC). First off they are the most lazy, laid back dog I’ve ever seen. They will sleep more than a cat and never walk around the house faster than a slow gait.
They run at the track because they are beat and tortured.
But bunnies, squirrels, well they will take them out wholesale if they are given the chance. There is a reason at a Grey Hound track they chase a “fake” bunny on the inside of the track.
D58826
@MattF: Well not everyone at WAPO – David Ignatus
What is really troubling about this is the GOP/Democratic quislings desire to take legislative pot shots at the framework. The framework is a work in progress. No one says its the done deal. If Congress gets its way then every time a president tries to negotiate with a foreign government he will have a third party (i.e. congress) as part of the negotiations. The Constitution and numerous SCOTUS decisions placed foreign policy under the executive branch. Now Congress wants to change the terms of the framework.
Lindsey Graham wants the interim agreement to be extended into the next presidents term even though it is set to expire on June 30th. This is the same interim agreement that Graham and others condemned as a Munich sell out when it was signed. If this agreement is destroyed then we will have officially out sourced our middle eastern policy to Bibbi and told the rest of the world that anything the president (at least a democratic one) is worthless.
Patricia Kayden
@raven: Way too cute!!
rikyrah
that bunny is freakishly huge
Cervantes
@rikyrah, quoting Bill Schneider:
Right. It took a “may” but the conclusion is clear: Both sides do it.
Peale
Education reform in China: I think one of the things that always fascinates me about China is how there is no such thing as small reform. Everything always results in the displacement of tens of millions of people. In this case, closing 250,000 rural schools means 33 million students in boarding schools. I wonder though, if China isn’t in the same situation the US found itself in in the 1930s and 1940s when rural one-room schools started to be consolidated into unified school districts and regional high schools.
Patricia Kayden
@MattF: So do some Democratic Senators who are teaming up with Republican Senators to nullify the deal with Iran.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-politics/wp/2015/04/07/why-senate-democrats-could-be-obamas-biggest-problem-on-iran/
With friends like these …
Tommy
@Hal: Oh don’t get me started on this topic. After the dot.com thing I lost my job. Went from make $150,000/year with the best benefits you could imagine to nothing. I figured I could work, also too “proud” to take government aid, so I took a job working the night shift at a 7/11 type store in a lower income area.
In Illinois our SNAP program is called Link.
I learned that Link didn’t allow anybody to buy a food that could be heated in the store. We didn’t have anything I would call healthy in the store, but the closest thing we had was Landshire sandwiches.
Technically they could be heated in the store, so we could not sell them on a Link card.
You could buy chips, soda, a frozen pizza, candy but not a tuna sandwich on wheat bread.
And Illinois is supposed to be a liberal state ….. but working that job made me more liberal not less.
boatboy_srq
@D58826:
Honestly, if I hear one more time that this kind of target diminishes some worthwhile effort to insufficiency, I’m going to go USPS on the speaker. Perfection is a nice vision, but in reality something that gets even a little closer to that perfection should be lauded instead of ripped apart for its imperfection.
Not to mention that at least for the next 21 months this particular crop of Congresscritters will go through contortions worthy of a game of Twister just to keep from agreeing with the Blah President, so allowing Congressional “approval” for anything is little more than an invitation to have all that work destroyed just to satisfy the Reichwing tantrums over not getting Their Guy into the WH.
bemused
@raven:
I remember that and easy to see the Sammy in him esp as a puppy.
Our kids will be up visiting in a couple of weeks with the puppy. We have two Samoyeds so it should be a fun doggy weekend.
bemused
@Tommy:
Our GOP in Minn want to cut $1.1 billion from health and human services. Bastards.
OzarkHillbilly
@Hal: As a long time Miserian, I wonder how it is that all these people complaining about welfare queens buying lobster and steak with their EBT cards know what an EBT card looks like? Considering that MO is #17 in percentage of populace that use them, my guess would be “personal experience.”
(seriously, I don’t even know what they look like because I have better things to do in the checkout line than watching to see how my neighbors pays for their groceries, like looking to see the latest on Brad or what Kim got for her baby’s first b-day, or…)
Tommy
@bemused: Cut, cut, cut.
As a raging liberal but also somebody that made a ton of money before I didn’t know many if any lower income people. Sad but true. I had NO idea how shitty things were (why I am more of a liberal now).
They couldn’t buy a tuna sandwich or a ham and cheese on their Link cards. The bus stop, they had to make two changes to get to an actually grocery store, which was only about 12 miles from where they lived. The buses didn’t run past about 7:15 PM on weekdays and not at all on the weekend.
I’d call this area I worked in the “projects” of my area. Not like in Chicago or a major metro area of course. But so many 2-3 story “cheaper” apartment complexes. They used that gas station I worked at as their grocery store many days. All they had.
Given that is FUBAR.
FlipYrWhig
@OzarkHillbilly: They mean a black person bought some food that was too fancy for black people.
Hightower
Where’s her other hand? WHERE’S HER OTHER HAND?!?!
bemused
@Tommy:
Sometimes I think it wouldn’t bother these far right republicans one bit if we had people begging for food on the streets in every town in the country. They’d be annoyed that they’d have to encounter that while doing their shopping but I don’t think they’d be ashamed at all.
rikyrah
they continue to want all up in the uterus
NC lawmakers push sweeping anti-abortion bill
Rachel Maddow reports on how lawmakers in North Carolina are pushing a bill that could prevent doctors from receiving hands-on abortion training as part of their education.
http://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow/watch/nc-lawmakers-push-sweeping-anti-abortion-bill-423920195934
Iowa Old Lady
@D58826: They don’t want to go on the record about whether we should be fighting ISIS though. It’s infuriating.
rikyrah
@bemused:
It would not bother them at all. Because they are evil people.
rikyrah
@bemused:
Our new GOP Governor wants to cut $1.5 billion here in Illinois.
It’s utterly ridiculous.
But, we can’t dare raise taxes.
I truly despise the GOP. I hate them, plain and simple. There are no decent Republicans.
D58826
I remember when the right wing lost its mind when The Great and Powerful Ronnulus the First (and I hope the last) signed the treaty with Goby. I don’t remember the GOP in Congress trying to micromanage the negotiations. Reagan did the negotiating and then the Senate got the chance to vote on the treaty. Just like the Constitution provides.
I saw an article the other day that said someting like 80% of the international agreements negotiated by the president are executive agreements and not subject to congressional review.
But I realized these rules only apply to Obama.
AnderJ
Apparently, the rabbit weighs 3 stones and 7 lbs or for us continental Europeans 22 kilograms, while large types of rabbits apparently (wikipedia warning) weigh about 8 kilograms on average. So it seems that this rabbit is a bit over 2.5 times the average of a large type of rabbit. Not sure whether I would call this rabbit a giant on this basis especially given the knowledge that weight increases exponentially in relation to an increase in length (roughly a factor ^3)…
bemused
@rikyrah:
They seem to have a great fondness for punishment.
A very liberal and very vocal guy I know got pretty steamed up talking about welfare with some old classmates. One woman, a Baptist, spouted the same old pick yourself up by the bootstraps stuff, she didn’t grow up with much but doggone it, she worked hard, blah, blah and was very resentful of people who are on assistance. The liberal guy said so what do you want to do about them, take them out and shoot them? Like I said, he is very vocal! There was some gasps but nobody had an answer to that.
AnderJ
Then again, it would not be delicious link bait if you go all sciency on the rabbit’s a$$
D58826
@bemused:
Police swat teams should solve that problem
NotMax
@bemused
A necessary requirement for pulling oneself up by the bootstraps is that first one have boots.
Freemark
@FlipYrWhig: You beat me to it. I live in a conservative area and am a white middle-aged man, So all of the conservatives assume I hate Obama just like them. They all keep telling me how they saw those welfare people buying steak and lobster. For the last few years when I go grocery shopping I tried to see if it might be true, at least occasionally, and I have never seen it. As soon as one of those
conservativesassholes says anything now I literally tell them they are “full of sh– or crap if it’s in public. Pictures or you are lying.” I’ve pissed off more than a few strangers and acquaintances. Most of my real friends, especially the few conservatives, know enough not to say anything that stupid around me.beth
@rikyrah: Here’s a chilling statement from a NC legislator :http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2015/04/03/north-carolina-abortion-_n_6999732.html
Sure, I want my doctor to learn how to handle my medical emergency while I’m in the middle of having said emergency. Wouldn’t everyone? Oh I see you’re having a heart attack? Let’s just try a few things and see what works, shall we?
This country gets stupider and stupider by the moment.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
Oh my God, JANET LEIGH WAS RIGHT!!!
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0069005/?ref_=nv_sr_1
boatboy_srq
@bemused: They would indeed be annoyed. And they’d demand more LEOs to police all the vagrancy, and more prisons to contain the “offenders.”
Peale
@Freemark: My nephew, bless his heart, posted up some kind of conservative tripe about how he gets mad whenever he sees some welfare queen with three kids before she’s eighteen buying food at the store. I’m pretty certain that there isn’t any person in his high school with three children and given that the town only has 5,000 people, if there were, he’d know who they were. But no, he sees these welfare queens all the time. It must suck to be 17 and delusional.
Mnemosyne (tablet)
@AnderJ:
They are definitely playing with perspective in that picture, but there are large rabbits out there. They’re more the size of a Jack Russell terrier than the size of a German Shepherd, though.
rea
@Hal:everyone who complains about snap recipients has seen them buying lobster, but most people have no idea who their senator or congress person is.
For all they know, that could be their senator or congress person buying lobster with SNAP
Paul in KY
@Iowa Old Lady: Always wondered how they got Radagast’s sled to move so fast.
bemused
@rikyrah:
Rep Matt Dean chairs House Health Care Committee and wants to move 95,000 Minnesotans in MN Care to MNSure (ACA) where they could buy a private plan…with what I have no idea. At the same time Dean has another bill that would abolish MNSure and move Minnesota to federal exchange in 2017. Like I said, no shame.
We do have Dem Gov Dayton and Dem controlled Senate but heaven help us if we turn all Republican controlled.
MN has $1.9 billion surplus which republicans want to be returned to taxpayers. They have a lot of plans for that money so doubt much would actually go to taxpayers. The MNGOP still has a lot of debt that they’d like to get rid of.
And of course, they want to cut taxes.
boatboy_srq
@FlipYrWhig: if you don’t eat your
meatgruel you can’t have anypuddingTwinkies.SuperHrefna
@rikyrah: My stepfather talks about how, back in his parents’ day there were good, liberally minded Republicans. But my stepfather is 84 years old.
Mathguy
@Tommy: I have two whippets, and they are true hunting dogs, no gun needed. One has taken out two woodchucks and dozens of rabbits in our yard. The squirrels, on the other hand, learn quickly and don’t mess with them.
J R in WV
I guess the accusation that Republicans don’t know anything about female-only organs and how they work, and sometimes fail is really true after all.
I’m not a medical person of any description, other than that I have male parts, and my wife has female parts, and we both are learning about those parts as we live with them.
Yet somehow I know that what a Republican Wing Nut Job would call an abortion is really called dilation and curetage [not sure of some of that spelling, but it is doctorese for opening the cervix and scraping out the uterus] which is a fairly common procedure for women of all flavors.
D&C is used for all sorts of female problems having little of nothing to do with pregnancy, as well as for saving the life of women who have serious life-threatening problems with their pregnancy.
Not teaching medical students how to save the life of a woman having a fatal problem with their pregnancy would be, well, just wrong.
I find it horrible that elected officials would make false statements evidently without any investigation into the truth of what they are saying. I must suppose that they don’t care about saving the lives of women, who obviously don’t count for much in the serious religious beliefs of these wack-job clowns in the Republican party.
Yet supposed Christians continue to vote for Republicans who appear to be wilfully ignorant of issues they intend to legislate upon! Like other commenters here I draw the conclusion that modern conservative
Christianity has disposed of most of the words of Christ as not applicable to modern life. Like love thy neighbor, turn the other cheek, rich man into heaven less likely that the camel through the eye of the needle, etc, etc.
Not Christian at all in my view. Perverted distorted heresy to most true Christians, I believe. I have had this discussion with people I would respect as real Christians, and they don’t believe in most of the perversions I hear from the Republican and conservative Christians, so I think I am on the money here when I call these folks heretics.
Cervantes
@J R in WV:
Dilatation and curettage.
Mike J
Is it too late to tell you all about killer bunnies in medieval literature and illumination?
Lurking Canadian
@bemused:
Tax cuts always raise revenue. Unless there’s a surplus. In which case, they lower revenue to “give the people back their money”.
On topic: so that’s where General Woundwort ends up.
bemused
@Lurking Canadian:
Cutting taxes is the panacea for all situations, surpluses or deficits, jobs, floating all boats. It’s magic!
Dolly Llama
North Korean communists ate my giant rabbits
Epicurus
Not to belabor the obvious, but that “big bunny” is spelled “P-H-O-T-O-S-H-O-P.” Nice try, Betty.
PurpleGirl
@Cervantes: Close. It’s
Dilation and curettage
I hope that legislator never needs a D&C to stop bleeding or some other problem. She could easily bleed to death if doctor didn’t know how to do one.
D58826
@J R in WV: I read somewhere that after Roe the number of reported D&C’s went down dramatically, esp. among teenagers. Seems doctors were performing abortions but labelled them as D&C. Everyone knew what the game was but it was sort of don’t ask don’t tell. middle and upperclass women will simply resort to the D&C dodge. Poor women will either use a coat hanger or have the baby and then be shamed by the pro-lifers who insist that the baby be boprn but have not interest in seeing it get feed or receive medical care
Cervantes
@PurpleGirl:
I think you’ll find that either D is fine. We agree on the C.
mike in dc
I see the General survived the encounter with the dogs in Watership Down, not much worse for wear. His demeanor appears to have improved though.
ecks
@Tommy: bang some spikes sticking out of the top of that bird feeder (nice big nails will do), and the squirrels will learn to stop jumping on it off the electricity wire.
Matt McIrvin
@bemused: What they have is the old “beg at your church” line:
http://delong.typepad.com/sdj/2013/10/maeve-reston-reports-from-hugo-oklahom-obamacare-meets-extra-resistance-the-view-from-the-roasterie-xii-october-16-2013.html
Of course, those “Northeastern and Left Coast Republicans” who thought differently are mostly gone now.
Betty Cracker
@mike in dc: Ha! I just reread “Watership Down” recently, after many years. It held up well!
Theodore Wirth
Indeed a difficult Photoshop job but the woman’s right hand is MIA.
Freemark
Loved Watership Down. Also read Plague Dogs which makes Watership Down look like a laugh riot.