While many of us libtards have seen the Obama years as a welcome respite from the non-stop stream of catastrophe and turmoil that marked the era of PBO’s predecessor, that view is not universally shared.
For wingnuts, the Obama years have brought fresh outrages on a daily basis. These stinging slaps in the face include the president taking the unprecedented liberty of putting his feet on his desk, refusing to put his hand over his heart during the pledge of allegiance, not wearing an American flag pin in his lapel, etc.
The Obamas have also caused exquisite wingnut pain by sullying the pristine whiteness of the White House in new and creative ways, such as gaying it up to celebrate marriage equality:
And now the Obama family’s auxiliary poop-beast Sunny is literally taking a shit on We the People’s House, according to First Lady Michelle Obama, as pointed out by Washington Free Bacon staff writer Elizabeth Harrington:
First Lady Michelle Obama laughed about the animals defecating in the “People’s House.” She said the Portuguese Water Dogs, [sic] would still be rewarded with “lots of new toys and treats” for Christmas.
Wonkette notes that Harrington also tweeted about PoopGate:
So bear in mind during this season of joy and giving (for which Baby Jeebus is the reason) that some of our countrymen are suffering and have been enduring immense pain for seven long years. As you pervert the true meaning of Christmas to distribute dildos during Secret Santa gift exchanges, use the holidays as an excuse to get snot-slinging drunk or ignore the festivities altogether due to your un-American practice of a religion other than Christianity or atheism, keep the suffering of the wingnuts in mind.
As Harrington reminds us, dropping Sunny-bombs in the White House isn’t the only desecration of which Sunny Obama is guilty: The beast has also been wielded as a weapon against white children by militant black nationalist Michelle Obama:
Sure, the First Lady said it was just an accident caused by an exuberant puppy, and the child’s dad smiling in the background might seem to support that account. But we all know it was really payback for this:
Police dog attacking a young black man during the Youth Mass Demonstration in Birmingham, Alabama, spring 1963.
The end.
Elizabelle
Misread the title as PopeGate and smiling at how little joy Francis brings to Antonin Scalia and other “observant” (ultraconservative) Catholics.
But I’ll take Sunny and Bo and Moochelle desecrating the White House any day of the week.
Elizabelle
Pope Francis is truly another cross wingnuts must bear. Why iz the real world so cruel to our wingnuts?
RSA
Oh, so dogs poop now? What’s the world coming to?
dmsilev
In fairness, one of Bush’s dogs tried to bite a White House reporter, so I’m going to have to give this round to Bush.
Snarkworth
Among the horrible things Obama did, the most unforgivable is that he once ordered orange juice at a diner. That pleated the panties of the Right for weeks.
Germy
It wasn’t just poopgate, it was all the insults leading up to poopgate.
Poopgate is just the icing on the cake.
Poopyman
I am POOPYMAN, and I approve this post.
The other End.
Germy
that time Obama wore that beige suit. So unpresidential. I wept for days.
Satby
“Garbage dog of garbage president”? Really, it just kills them that we accuse them of racism, because they think they hide it so well.
Unreal.
benw
It’s called the White House, Obamas. Don’t think Presidenting while black is not a crime! Oh, and Hillary, don’t make us start calling it the White Man House.
But seriously, if Hillz is elected, the stories of First Gent Bill misbehaving in the WH are going to make the doggies look like amateurs.
OzarkHillbilly
I now know what to get Elizabeth Harrington for Christmas: A flaming bag of dog poop on her front step.
Face
Cant they just hire someone to walk the freakin’ dog thrice daily? Seriously, dogs poop in the house when they’re either too sick to hold it in or not let out enough. Maybe they can hire Dick Santorum in a few weeks to do such a job.
Chyron HR
Okay, everybody keep this under your hats until January 2017, but I have it on good authority that Barack Hussein Obama himself not only poops but also does pee-pee in the White House.
Satby
@Face: you seriously think the dogs are routinely having accidents in the house? Because I would bet this doesn’t happen normally at all, they were either talking about housebreaking or a sick animal., which to the wingnut instantly translated into the Obamas freely letting the dogs defecate wherever, because disrespect for “the people’s house” and “some people (you know the kind) just live like that”.
Hildebrand
I love watching these knaves working so hard to be outraged. It gives me no end of joy to watch their little tantrums. I especially love calculating the time it will take for my wingnut relatives to cough up these stories on Facebook. My wife and I place bets on which of them will mention it first.
peach flavored shampoo
I noticed that the Black president has a Black wife with Black children and now a Black dog. Hell of a coincidence, eh?
Led Zepplin predicted this 40 years ago.
Betty Cracker
@Hildebrand: Yeah, I was first alerted to it by a wingnut aunt on Facebook who was absolutely livid.
jeffreyw
Lyndon Johnson Lifts Dog by Ears
Face
@Satby: I took that tweet to be complete snark. Now I’m realizing that the tweet was supposed to be taken fo reals. Wow, wingtards really in a tizzy about dog poop on a carpet? Have they not invented RugDoctors and steam cleaners in Jerkistan yet?
bemused
Wingnuts are ridiculous.
Belafon
@Elizabelle: As someone who also reads Little Green Footballs, I thought this was going to be about a certain red-haired idiot.
TaMara (BHF)
What is really twisting their knickers is that we are coming up on the last year of the presidency without any real scandal and what is looking to be a very successful two terms. And they all look stupid and are mocked for their various conspiracy theories over the years, up to and including he should be impeached for doing blow in the presidential limo.
This is causing heads to explode.
Betty Cracker
@TaMara (BHF): Bingo. Of course, if you ask a wingnut, the Obama administration has been mired in scandals that make Watergate + Teapot Dome + Iran-Contra x infinity look small by comparison. But I think in their hearts even they know it’s not true, and that really frosts their flakes.
Roger Moore
Everyone knows you’re supposed to let the dog poop all over its crate on top of your car./Mittens
Satby
@TaMara (BHF): They’re convinced that the only reason President Obama hasn’t been caught yet is because of a conspiracy to keep his many misdeeds hidden by the liberal media. But they just know nefarious things have happened and they don’t feel stupid at all. The rest of us are deluded steeple.
ThresherK
When did they get Sunny?
We were looking at the too-adorable-for-words Obama family card and neither my wife nor I could come up with the name of the second dog.
Lucy2Shoes
I really hope Obummer will accept a spot on SCOTUS eventually – just to watch the heads a-splode!
Hal
Given the size of the White House and all those different scents coming and going, I can believe the dog might let one loose every once in awhile.
bemused
@Betty Cracker:
This.
scav
You go to war with the objet d’outrage you have, not the objet d’outrage you want to have.
Rommie
The thing that gets me is just how TerribleAwfulHorrible things have been since January 20, 2009 on the other side of the fence. I mean, in their eyes it’s been nothing but Disaster-ville since then. And it’s a self-evident truth – Everything Sucks.
We all kinda laughed about how electing Obama as President would bring out the crazy. Well, it did, and it’s gone past ha-ha crazy into scary-crazy. You can’t under-estimate how bad things are from their point of view.
BGinCHI
Well at least the Obamas aren’t shitting in the WH.
Wait.
WHAT?
dlm
So a dog has an occasional accident on the floor of the White House. The Republicans are always shitting their pants over something.
Cacti
Word around the campfire is that President Obama fathered not just one but TWO black children.
I’m going to faint now.
amk
If we are going to be talking about rethugs’ racist hatredism, we are gonna be here all night.
scav
Rhyming news! Poot-poot-Pootie kissed Donald back! a ‘very bright and talented man’
Jerry
When your life (or your fundraising scheme) is driven by Cleek’s Law, every single day of the present Administration brings a set of fresh ‘n new outrages. Every. Single. Day. Isn’t this a great time to be alive when your whole life/bank account revolves around impotent rage? You just know that when they get into the voting booth and draw that curtain to a close by behind them, they pull that lever for the Democratic candidate.
Bill Arnold
@Satby:
I am so looking forward to B. Obama’s memoirs of his time as POTUS.
ASAP. Please. :-)
MomSense
@ThresherK:
I can’t remember when but I do remember there was another wingnut cracking about the Obamas getting another black dog. Proof they hate all things white dontcha know.
The card is really cute. I’ve saved all of their cards.
ET
OT and speaking of shit…. I see that the Donald has won the all important “endorsement” of Putin. Used to be that “endorsement” from a leader of Russia/USSR would doom a presidential candidate in the US.
maya
Trump will now loudly proclaim that, on DAY ONE, he will change the WH toilet seats.
That should seal it. O, and that Putin endorsement.
Jeffro
@Jerry:
It’d be hilarious if it wasn’t such a waste…but then again, it’s their lives. If they want to fritter it away in impotent rage, that’s up to them. I tell wingnut friends and relatives that directly nowadays, in the hopes of one day getting just one of them to have an epiphany and get on with living.
gene108
@TaMara (BHF):
No Democratic President has had a real scandal in my lifetime.
Carter, Clinton and Obama have never abused the power of the Office, in any way, shape or form like Republicans have done over the years, with Watergate, Iran-Contra and the entire Bush, Jr. Presidency.
The problem for Republicans is unlike Clinton the manufactured fake scandals just do not stick to Obama. Even the crazy rumor mongering doesn’t stick. The stories, such as Bill delaying traffic at LAX for hours to get a $400 haircut on Air Force One are able to get shot down quickly because you can get info so much faster now, so they don’t make it into the New York Times and other major publications. Those rumors just wander around the Wingnut-o-sphere.
They tried to manufacture scandal after scandal, such as Fast and Furious, Benghazi etc., but nothing took on legs like Whitewater or even Travelgate did, 20+ years ago.
Must drive Republicans crazy that their bag of dirty tricks isn’t working as well as intended.
Brachiator
Aside from the racist BS, and aside from the plain fact that the Obamas gets bashed for doing the same stuff that previous presidents and their families have done, this continues a historical trend. The first president who was regularly blasted for being trash and for bringing the wrong sort of people to the White House (and for being the wrong kind of person to be president) was Andrew Jackson.
J R in WV
I can’t get over the ludicrous things racists will believe about Harvard educated lawyers and professors who grew up in perfectly normal places like Hawai’i and abroad. I’ve been abroad, and it was completely normal, even in Basque country. The sheep and cows were in the fields and the implements of the Spanish Inquisition were removed from the church basements into a display where people could get a tour for 5 Euros. We declined.
Of all the flagrantly stupid racist things that have been imposed upon even the non-racist among us, I can’t even pick the most stupid, although this exercise comes close.
rea
Oh, god, another Republican-manufactured dog scandal:
Peale
@ET: It probably should still be. Russia is an adversary. I don’t think Putin has the best interests of the American public at heart when he selects his preferred candidate.
Betty Cracker
@Peale: Still, you can see why Putin would admire Trump and vice-versa. They’re two peas in a pod.
Villago Delenda Est
Axial tilt is the reason for the season.
Paul in KY
@Brachiator: I’m still mad about that bodacious kegger he threw that I wasn’t invited to because I wasn’t alive!! Jackson!!!
ET
@Peale: What is so weird is that this is a candidate for the GOP nomination and they are still hanging on to the anti-communist thing in 2015. Joseph McCarthy is rolling over in his grave with the way the GOP fangurl squeals over Putin.
Keith G
That’s what they get for having dogs. A return to having a First Cat would have been a preferable choice.
Paul in KY
@rea: He really, really enjoyed sticking it to them, didn’t he? What a president he was…
Comrade Dread
It really does astonish me that in 40 years the GOP has gone completely insane. I mean, they were always a bit unhinged and a tad racist, but they just took a running leap off the cliffs of insanity into the depths of the John Birch trench.
I suppose there are still a few less crazy Republicans out there, but I suspect those are the sociopaths who spout the rhetoric so they can sell out to the highest bidder and cash in on the lunatics.
Brachiator
@Keith G:
If you must have an animal, dogs are always preferable to cats.
Snarkworth
@Betty Cracker: They may be peas in a pod, but Putin has better abs.
Punchy
@srv: Mr. Carter needs to work in KS, where they passed a law explicitedly allowing public employees to conduct public business using private email not subject to FOIA requests. I shit you not.
Of course, this law will be instantly repealed the minute a Dem stumbles into any govermental agency of note.
ETA: just realized I am responding to a troll. My bad.
Brachiator
@Paul in KY:
You’re not far off about this.
March 9, 1829:
Many prudes clutched their pearls and retreated to their fainting couches that day, a tradition that has intensified with the dopes who complain about Obama not being sufficiently dignified to be a resident of the White House.
schrodinger's cat
I am completely ignoring whatever the Republicans are doing instead I have immersed myself in Hindustan classical music, which I had previously dismissed as my parents music A truly syncretic effort by both Hindu and Muslim practitioners that really took off when much of India was ruled Muslim rulers. Devotional and romantic poetry is usually the subject matter.
I am listening to a score of Marathi movie where the protagonists are singers competing to be the best court singer based on a musical written in 1967.
I love this Qawwali duel, the singers are arguing about the nature of humanity and God, and it is set on the grounds of a mosque or a dargah (tomb of a saint). This is not a version of Islam that the Wahhabists would approve of, I think.
Betty Cracker
@Keith G: As if! It would hork up hair balls on the Great National Seal rug and sharpen its claws on the Lincoln Bedposts!
brighidg
Sunny Obama might be my favorite Obama now. Sorry, Sasha. Sunny Obama 2016!
schrodinger's cat
@Brachiator: Them’s fighting words, cats rule, dog drool.
schrodinger's cat
@Betty Cracker: And knock over Churchill’s bust, which would give wingnuts a sad.
bemused
@rea:
Hilarious. Proof that rightwingers have always been this pathetic and have never given up using the same old attack themes.
Anoniminous
O/T:
Tennessee Schools Wins Right to Ban Women Who’ve Had Sex, Gays:
IANAL so not a clue what a Title IX exemption is.
Betty Cracker
@Anoniminous: Why do man-sluts get a pass?
bemused
@Anoniminous:
What a surprise the “Christian” U didn’t include the male students the women had sex with!
Marmot
Ha! Betty you’re just the very best writer. Thanks once again.
Anoniminous
@Betty Cracker & @bemused:
Males having non-marital sex: crickets
Women having non-marital sex: THE WHORE-SLUTS!!!
If we’re being nice it’s called a Double Standard. If we’re not being nice it’s called Rank Hypocrisy.
schrodinger's cat
@Anoniminous: How are they going to police this? Sounds ridiculous.
pamelabrown53
@Betty Cracker:
Plus, also, too: don’t forget the indignity of a litter box in the White House!
Comrade Dread
@srv:
I’d vote for a ‘briar patch’ gambit.
“Oh, no, America, please do not elect Trump to be president. It would be awful for us. Truly we would quake in our boots at such great man… IVAN! STOP LAUGHING!… Please do not elect great man, Donald Trump, American comrades…”
MomSense
@J R in WV:
You have to admit that the cheese in Basque country is not normal. It is extraordinary and delicious.
Paul in KY
@Brachiator: That’s the one I was thinking about!
Peale
@Betty Cracker: Because we write the rules?
Anoniminous
@schrodinger’s cat:
It is ridiculous and blatantly sexist to boot.
I guess they could ask the women on Monday mornings if they’ve done the nasty no-no with their lady parts over the weekend and since lying is a sin it would all come out.
Imputing “reasons” or even “thought” to these people starts off assuming Facts Not in Evidence as the writer Mark Noll put it, “The scandal of the evangelical mind is that there is not much of an evangelical mind.”
Paul in KY
@Anoniminous: Boy, the guys at that college will be real happy about the new gender breakdown of 80% guys/20% girls. The girls will always feel like they’re being watched.
When I was in USAF, one of my female airmen was musing about the gender disparity in USAF (circa 1984). I was thinking it must be great for her & she disabused me of that notion. Said something like ‘how would you like to go into the Club and all of a sudden everyone is watching you, all the time…’
trollhattan
@Anoniminous:
Taliban in our midst.
Peale
@schrodinger’s cat: It doesn’t sound like they are going to actively police this. They appear to want it to establish their christian identity – which is ChrsitSpeak for “Brand Image”.
Paul in KY
@srv: Good trolling there by Comrade Putin.
Fester Addams
PBO shouting at his dogs: “Sunny! Bo! No!”
scav
@Anoniminous: Wonder what sort of policy this pious institution will have against the pedophile preachers and what will be the consequences for any possible adulterous members of the board? Oh! I forgot, Jebus dun forgives those righteous people, unlike those sluttish and sexually tainted others.
Peale
@schrodinger’s cat: Also you’re imagining that the kids aren’t already policed. My friends who went to evangelical colleges in the 80s still had dorm mothers for the girls and curfews. They boys were allowed to have cars but weren’t allowed to take them off campus without permission. To take a girl off campus with you required approval from the dorm mother.
benw
@Anoniminous: why the hell are there women at the university anyway? Are they taking classes called “Cooking for Your Man 101” and “Barefoot and Pregnant: how to be Righteous in Modern America”?
AliceBlue
Have these people never owned dogs? No matter how well housebroken they are, no matter how often you walk them, accidents happen.
Punchy
I was thinking the same thing. I was thinking more like 97% men, 2.9% women, 0.1% still-closeted b/c oh-so-close to graduation gheys.
schrodinger's cat
@Peale: I did not go to an evangelical college so I had no idea. Staying away from religious nutbars of all stripes is my policy.
Aruni Kirani is just awesome, it is the second last song in the YouTube jukebox link. I didn’t know that people could do that with their voice.
Calouste
Best take on the Republican debate goes to The Borowitz Report:
rikyrah
Scott Walker signs bills dismantling GAB, overhauling campaign finance law
Gov. Scott Walker has cemented key changes in time for the 2016 political campaign, signing into law bills giving campaign finance law its biggest makeover in decades and dismantling and replacing Wisconsin’s oversight board for elections and elected officials.
Walker’s signing of the two bills, announced in a press release, was conducted in private Wednesday. It was widely expected after the bills passed the Legislature last month on votes that largely mirrored party lines.
The campaign finance measure dials back restrictions on money flowing into state political campaigns, some of which had been struck down by court rulings.
The signing of the measure dismantling the Government Accountability Board kicks off a six-month transition to new elections and ethics commissions that will succeed it on June 30.
The GAB, made up of six nonpartisan former judges, oversees elections, campaign finance, ethics and lobbying. The bill replaces it with two separate elections and ethics commissions overseen by appointees, most of them partisans, made by legislative leaders and the governor.
http://host.madison.com/wsj/news/local/govt-and-politics/scott-walker-signs-bills-dismantling-gab-overhauling-campaign-finance-law/article_1b7a6063-8e98-514b-bceb-269f21f44574.html
Elie
@Betty Cracker:
It would, it would! (Hairball horking) And let us not forget taking about 5 seconds to climb the Christmas tree! Kittens are the worst — !
I love kittehs but ANY animal, including birds and reptiles, have their issues in your home. Most of all, the wingnuts just have no humanity or sense of humor. Dogs and cats eat plants etc that make them sick and either urp them or poop them somewhere. Buddy (my cat) had a go at the nice poinsiettia I bought and proceeded to lay it on our nice cream colored living room rug. Most pet owners have a variety of “products” and tools for such events. No biggie and only resentful nincompoops make something out of this nothing…
Betty Cracker
@Calouste: Well done, Borowitz!
Hildebrand
@Betty Cracker: Well, clearly the implication must be that women only have sex with folks who aren’t “real ‘Murican men.” ‘Real’ men are godly and only shtup their ever virginal wives who look exactly like June Cleaver. And they don’t enjoy said shtupping. Not at all.
tazj
Some conservatives love being angry scolds. Did Democrats get this angry about silly things when Bush was president? I didn’t vote for Bush but I didn’t dislike his family or his dog. Didn’t his staff do a Christmas video with his Scottish terrier every year?
Jeffro
@Fester Addams: (turns to Michelle, sighs, and says, “Well, at least I’ve Got You Babe”)
/rimshot
benw
@tazj: I was too busy being angry about the wars, torture, Katrina, economic collapse, etc, to really give a shit about Bush’s dogs or exact locations of his lapel pins.
EdinNj
@Paul in KY:
My niece, a beautiful freshman math genius on full scholarship at Rensselaer, won’t go out to the local hangouts or fraternity parties because there are so few women. Says she gets way too much attention. It sounds like a humblebrag but she’s actually thinking about transferring to a school that is bigger and less specialized. She’s more of an introvert and not that interested in dating right now because of some health issues.
RaflW
Michelle has to correct her aim. She should unleash the poop-hound at garbage human* Elizabeth Harrington.
*I typically can’t imagine calling anyone that, but since she clearly hates with vituperative vigor, I’m willing to mirror her vileness.
Paul in KY
@EdinNj: Understand her concern. Sounds like transferring might be best. Best wishes!
Sad_Dem
The comment sections remain steadfast–BHO is the worst president ever; he has brought ruin and catastrophe to the nation; he is incompetent; he is a cunning dictator; and on and on, tirelessly they post comments to stories about the weather and pie-eating contests that he has put us into greater debt than all previous presidents combined, that he is a Muslin, and that he wants real Americans to suffer. My question is, how many of these comments are paid for, how many are sincerely delusional, and how many are just bigoted lies?
RaflW
@Snarkworth: “That pleated the panties of the Right for weeks.”
I want to gold-plate this saying. Thank you for the laugh.
It’s been a rough couple days up my way.
gogol's wife
@amk:
I was about to sit down to some much-needed paper-grading, and I see this post, and I just have to read the thread. The photo juxtaposition is brilliant in Betty’s post.
I am so proud of our First Family, as never before in my life. I am dreading the next administration, which best-case scenario is the Clintons again.
Mnemosyne
@Keith G:
That’s what you think. Our oldest cat has recently earned himself the well-deserved nickname of “Mr. Poops By the Door.” The vet says there’s nothing physically wrong, so we suspect it’s a power struggle over the litter box between him and Charlotte.
Paul in KY
@benw: That’s what I was thinking!!
Bobby Thomson
Lincoln’s kid rode a wagon pulled by goats through the White House. I think the republic will survive.
Counting down the hours. Approximately six until I see the force awaken with the offspring.
Paul in KY
@Mnemosyne: He would earn the name ‘Mr. Poops Outside, cause That’s Where He is’, if he were under the hegemony of Paul in KY.
a different chris
@Sad_Dem: He’s also a feckless lazy incompetent coward who has, somehow, destroyed the greatest, most powerful nation the world has ever known.
Mike J
A <a href="http://www.chelseafc.com/news/latest-news/2015/12/club-statement.html"tough week for the Portuguese, even the non water dogs.
Germy
Fiorina says dogs are better than cats?
WereBear
I remember W looking for WMD under the White House desk… After a war that they lied us into… With how many crippled or dead… With the region presently destabilized and the refugees thereof…
And I think wingnut priorities are incredibly misplaced.
Gimlet
By Andy Borowitz
Minutes after Shkreli’s arrest on charges of securities fraud, Shkreli’s attorney announced that he was hiking his rate from twelve hundred dollars an hour to sixty thousand dollars.
Germy
Obama’s anti-american!
youtube told me so…
Betty Cracker
@Bobby Thomson: I’m so looking forward to seeing that with my offspring too, but we’re going to wait until the furor dies down a bit. Neither of us is fond of crowds.
Cermet
There was a republican pol in some State when President Obama was first elected and he remarked that the White House could no longer be called the “White House;” and he was right – I took it as he was saying that previously, only white men occupied it, and now that wasn’t true. Not really trying to be mean but just pointing out that at long last, a non-white was elected President. The man did apologize but I really didn’t take his joke as being an attempt to put anyone down but that he felt this was proof that finally we had, as a country, changed some for the better.
Villago Delenda Est
@Betty Cracker: They have dicks. Dicks always get a pass when Christianist scum are involved.
Shell
And Socks probably shredded a roll of toilet paper in The Lincoln Bedrooms bathroom. Thats probably the real reason why they impeached Clinton.
Mnemosyne
@Paul in KY:
We live in an urban apartment, so there’s no safe outside place for him. We have to negotiate the personalities instead.
KS in MA
@rea:
Priceless.
Betty Cracker
@gogol’s wife: I’ll miss the Obamas too when PBO’s term is up, but I think a Hillary Clinton administration would offer its own fun, such as wingnut consternation about lady-cooties all over the Oval Office, stormy national debates about hairbands vs. scrunchies, Zapruder film-level analysis of HRC’s saluting technique, etc. Oh wait…
Shell
And by the way, w ho the hell is Elizabeth Harrington.
Villago Delenda Est
@Anoniminous: Rank Hypocrisy is what Christianists excel at.
Mike J
A tough week to be Portuguese, even if you aren’t a water dog.
Germy
@Shell: I was going to ask the same question. Never heard of her. Is she a new generation Ann Coulter?
Paul in KY
BTW, exactly who in the fuck is ‘Elizabeth Harrington’?! A harridan, for sure.
Edit: See Shell beat me to it!
scav
OT Huh. Apparently drunken 50mi+ Four-county highways shooting sprees (with two deaths) are nothing to get all in terror over in Oklahoma. Must just be boys being responsible boys. Funny too how there were no good men with guns anywhere along the vicinity.
Paul in KY
@Mnemosyne: Think you had mentioned that before. Forget that not all live in houses, with private yards, etc.
Nevermind. Give him a scritch for me.
PurpleGirl
@Mnemosyne: Thinking like Jackson Galaxy…. Can you add another litter box, so each cat has its own box? (I’m about to leave the house and I’ll be out several hours, so i won’t be answering your answer) (BTW for those unfamiliar with him, Jackson Galaxy is a cat behavorist who has a TV show My Cat From Hell.)
schrodinger's cat
@Villago Delenda Est: Not just Christians, those who make a huge a showing of their religiosity and piety are usually the biggest hypocrites and judgmental to boot.
Paul in KY
@scav: You can assume he is white, as he drove down the highway trying to murder people (killing two) and he was taken into custody, apparently unharmed.
Paul in KY
@PurpleGirl: ‘Jackson Galaxy’?! that’s his name! Sounds like something out of Buckaroo Banzai! If you came up with that name, your agent would say it was too cheesy.
scav
@Paul in KY: Oh yeah. Haven’t even committed to it being road rage yet. Let alone leaked any former police record.
ETA: Seriously, NYT (so no link) says he was charged with DUI.
ETA2: because they have to think carefully about what might have caused those two people’s deaths?
Jamey
Is no “poopgate”; is “Dunghazi.”
Brachiator
@Peale:
There is also a chance of the obvious: threesome with the girl and the dorm mother. Make a great movie, “American Pie XX.”
JustRuss
@MomSense:
I have to admit, Obama getting a black dog was some eleven-dimensional wingnut trolling. The man truly has game.
The Pale Scot
@dmsilev:
Scotties aren’t goofy golden retrievers, They have very victorian attitudes toward social interactions. You wave and get their attention, then offer a hand to let them smell you. What happens next is usually about how their human feels about you.
My guy would not stay in the same room with a friend of my father’s who was at that time a correctional officer. The guy loves dogs and was pretty disappointed about all. No matter what he did Himself would have nothing to do with him.
Dad didn’t understand it, I pointed out that the friend was a CO who spent his days controlling others, T wouldn’t be down with that, he could sense that the guy was an authoritarian.
WereBear
Bull! She said politely. For instance, cats can be outrageously spoiled, which is what I like in a pet.
The difference between dogs and cats
Brachiator
@WereBear:
I tease. I am officially neutral in any dogs v cats debate.
Redshift
@JustRuss:
Even better, Bo is partly black and partly white, and Sunny is all black.
The Pale Scot
@schrodinger’s cat:
Cool, I been listening to Tinariwen, (Tuareg rebel music) lately
Short version, Wahhabbi = Calvinism, both are abominations.
Paul in KY
@scav: I guess if he hadn’t been drinking, he would have been charged with careless use of firearm or hunting without a license.
a different chris
@Brachiator: Cats think they are equal to humans, dogs eat their own shit. Both sides!!
WereBear
@Brachiator: I always stick up for cats! Of course. :)
Mnemosyne
@PurpleGirl:
That’s my preferred solution, but G refuses, and he’s the chief poop-scooper around here. I am looking forward to a wifely “I told you so” when he finally breaks down and takes my advice.
scav
@Paul in KY: Speeding. Can’t involve the firearm whatsoever.
WereBear
Mmmm, that has a fine savory flavor! I got that when we finally got a cat tree for our part-monkey foster kitten, a few months overdue.
Betty Cracker
@a different chris: They both lick their own assholes.
proterozoic
Pfft, and I thought they were supposed to be sharp.
The dog’s name is Sunny… as in SUNNI. GAME’S UP OBAMA, WE KNOW YOU GOT YOUR MUSLIM DOG TO SHIT ALL OVER AMERICA ON PURPOSE
schrodinger's cat
@a different chris: Equal? Bosscat thinks we are born to serve him.
D58826
. I thought I saw a photo of Trump not putting his hand over his heart during the pledge before the debate on Tuesday. By all rights the other 8 on the stage should have beaten his unpatriotic butt into the ground. Of course some will say that should happen regardless of what he does during the pledge.a
Amir Khalid
@Mike J:
What he did to Chelsea’s first-team doctor in the first match of the season was, all by itself, grounds for sacking him.
Paul in KY
@scav: Duh!! What was I thinking?! Oklahoma (for people who think Kansas is too edgy)…
Paul in KY
@proterozoic: That will show up in Wingnutland, I’m sure of it.
ThresherK (GPad)
@The Pale Scot: I had always heard that small dog breeds are.tempermentally more one-person and possessive than the goofy Retrievers. Or large mutt mixes in general.
Brachiator
@schrodinger’s cat:
Popped over from your link to this one from Bajirao Mastani.
Quite a dance
And Deepika Padukone and Priyanka Chopra are quite delightful.
Brachiator
@Fester Addams:
@proterozoic:
Sonny and Cher (Sunny and Shi’a) were the original stealth Mooslems.
Matt McIrvin
@PurpleGirl: Every time I see that guy I think he’s a character being played by Dave Cross.
J R in WV
@MomSense:
It’s true. Every bar in Spain and France has great food, if they serve anything at all. The only exception was in Bilbao we visited a bar the specialized in “American” food, hamburgers, fries, beer. It wasn’t terrible, but it wasn’t up the the local standards at all. And the signs usually say “BAR” !
Fresh anchovies (no salt!) with peppers, cheese and swimming in fresh local olive oil. Meat, smoked and cured, hanging from the ceiling, hams and sausages, sliced paper thin and wrapped around a pepper with cheese.
Great food of every sort. Good beer, good wine, a great trip surrounded by friendly people. Except for two elderly women the wife spoke to, she didn’t speak their language with the traditional respect they expected… so sad.
tazj
@benw: Well, I’ve been a Democrat all my life but my daughter died in March 2003 and my nephew was in also Iraq. So, I had other things on my mind at the time as well.
schrodinger's cat
@Brachiator: Priyanka Chopra is awesome. I just discovered that she had done a biopic on an Indian boxer from Eastern India.
Here she is in Mary Kom.
PurpleGirl
@Matt McIrvin: He is a character. But I’ve come to appreciate how he loves cats and works with them and their humans. I’d love to know the story behind his name.
Patricia Kayden
It is a bit strange that Bo and Sunny are still pooping inside the house well after you’d expect them to be potty trained, but that has nothing to do with POTUS or FLOTUS being liberal.
May the wingnut suffering continue for years to come (Go Hilary!!).
Brachiator
@schrodinger’s cat:
This actually makes some sense. She is good and believable in the action scenes in the tv series “Quantico.”
tones
@benw: Amen, when Bush “was” president we had real crimes and treason and war crimes and violations of international law and crimes against humanity to worry about -no time for petty personal attacks.
Maybe someday we will have a real government and the criminals will no longer be rewarded.
schrodinger's cat
@Brachiator: Here is a review I wrote about that song. I was perhaps being too harsh, I don’t mind it that much now but its still not my favorite in the score.
Steeplejack
@Satby:
Hey, hey, hey. Hey. I resent that remark.
PatrickG
Betty Cracker,
For whatever myopic personal reasons, I don’t think I really ever got just how dramatic the rainbow White House was.
Thank you, for driving home the fact of WOW! That mattered! The freakin’ President of these United States gayed up the White House. And he did it after stealing the election while being black/half-black/Muslim/Kenyan/communist/socialist/Nazi/coming for our guns/terrorizing Texas with Jade Helm, at that! I now fully understand just how many brains exploded that day.
I think I’ll curl up with a good bottle of wingnut tears before bed, and send good thoughts your way.