From commentor ET:
This is my nut Bean. Back in 2013 I adopted him from a rescue group in D. C. but he was born in West Virginia. He has been a total (wonderful) nut with an obsession for the cat TVs (aka windows). Not much of a talker my Snowshoe Siamese, but he is a champion cuddler.
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I always have a soft spot for meezers, since I probably wouldn’t be here without one (my dad convinced my mom to marry him by offering her a purebred Siamese — still rare in the mid-1950s — instead of an engagement ring).
What’s on the agenda as we (well, many of us) start another work week?
RedDirtGirl
Good morning, all. Let me just be the first to say, that is one fine looking feline!
OzarkHillbilly
2:19 AM:
“Do you have your wand, Tom?”
“What?”
“DO you have your wand?”
“Yes Honey, I have my wand.”
“”Good, because you just never know.”
“Well, with He Who Must Not Be Named on the loose…”
snoring
Me, wide awake.
I’d like to say a nap was on the agenda, but it’s not.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Good Times.
p.a.
Amtraking it home from Phil to Prov to unpack, repack for a week in GrandLakeStream Me. Philly 90 deg. 90% humidity, will need a polarfleece for Maine mornings and will probanly have to fire up the wood stove 2 nights.
$60 (approx) Amtrak local for the trip, Acela 2-3x, both bargains instead of driving the corridor, despite what Rethugs have done to Amtrak’s budget and tech needs.
Schlemazel Khan
Is anyone else getting a large text box covering most of the first picture? A large, mostly empty text box? I have never seen anything like this happen before.
My very first cat was a blue point & she was a tiny, delicate little thing. I was on my own for the first time & she was wonderful company. I love Siamese despite their reputation & the one in the pictures looks beautiful.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Con man says he’s worth 10 billion yet he doesn’t have a dime for the campaign.
The best part, by bleeding the RNC dry they won’t have funds to save the Senate.
He’s in ur base killin ur d00dz
BillinGlendaleCA
@Schlemazel Khan:
Yes.
ETA: Chrome on Win10.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Front page Friday’s New York Times (photo)
OzarkHillbilly
@Schlemazel Khan: I hadn’t even noticed, but yes. Mozilla, win 10
Baud
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
He needs to sell some more steaks.
Baud
@Schlemazel Khan: no issues on mobile.
Baud
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
I’m sure our liberal media will help fix that problem.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I had steak on Sunday, not Trump steak though.
OzarkHillbilly
The annual Wiener Dog 100 race – in pictures
satby
@OzarkHillbilly: she must have been having a heck of a dream.
satby
Good morning all! Bean is a beauty!
OzarkHillbilly
@satby: Too much Harry Potter.
Schlemazel Khan
@BillinGlendaleCA:
I should have added ‘chrome on chromebox’
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Dreaming about Cheney again?
Baud
@Schlemazel Khan:
Now on Firefox. There is a grey text box on the left of each picture.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I believe that’s better described as nightmares. Speaking of nightmares, the Morning Joe crowd is talking about a 3rd candidate(maybe Willard) and HRC calling on Bernie to be the VP.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA:
This. Will. Never. Happen.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I’m getting the quote box covering part of the first picture.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: No, that was the night she insisted there was a man behind our curtains.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Mika thinks it’s a wonderful idea.
debbie
No box (Chrome/Mac), but the tags are squished on the left side of the second photo.
Baud
@Baud: He’d have to release his tax returns to be considered for Veep, if nothing else.
BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: Had she just watched the Wizard of Oz that night?
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA: That’s because she knows it won’t happen and wants to spend weeks criticizing hillary about it.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Agreed, I see you’re talking to yourself again.
ETA: Hey, I’m down here!
Punchy
A cat born in West Vag? So the litterbox has no plumbing and his tooth is in serviceable condition?
rikyrah
Good Morning ?, Everyone ?
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: Not if Bernie is as smart as I think he is.
The Thin Black Duke
@OzarkHillbilly: Uh, don’t you mean, “Not if Hillary is as smart as I think she is”?
OzarkHillbilly
@BillinGlendaleCA: No, that was the night she was certain a lion was stalking her.
Iowa Old Lady
@BillinGlendaleCA:
What is wrong with the Morning Joe people?
Mustang Bobby
Our first cat was a Siamese seal point. We got her when I was five so I thought all cats were loud talkers and cuddlers par excellence.
Mustang Bobby
@Iowa Old Lady:
Your dollars could have prevented this senseless tragedy. Won’t you please call the number on the screen and give so that others won’t suffer needlessly?
OzarkHillbilly
@The Thin Black Duke: Maybe, but I was referring to if Bernie has any ambition to influence the economic direction our country goes in, he’ll stay where he is and push for an influential committee chair in the new Democratically controlled Senate as opposed to becoming the traveling ambassador to countries Americans couldn’t give a rat’s ass about.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
Of which country?
I don’t think Castro would name Sanders VP. Too risky.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Iowa Old Lady: They think Harold Ford Jr. and Nicole Wallace have valuable opinions, I think that sums it up.
Iowa Old Lady
@Mustang Bobby: I might pay a few bucks to get Joe and his buddies off the air.
@OzarkHillbilly:
Can you imagine Sanders in that role? The mind boggles.
Mustang Bobby
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
Well, for one thing, Bernie’s way too young for that crowd.
The Thin Black Duke
@OzarkHillbilly: Maybe, but being a cynical bastard, I think that when Bernie finally gives up and goes back to Vermont, he’s going to look like Bilbo Baggins after the poor tortured hobbit gave up the Ring.
Face
Are people seriously floating Sanders as the VP? That’s the stupidest thing I’ve heard in hours. She’s going with a minority male from a swing-ish state, not an old, white, mouthy crank from VanillaTown USA. Bet the farm on that.
gene108
@Iowa Old Lady:
The idle rich. What happens when millionaires get together, with nothing better to do than blurt out the first thing on their minds.
NotMax
@Iowa Old Lady
8 years ago, same ones were calling on Obama to choose Clinton. Same tired old tune, predictable as the sunrise.
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
My money is on Trump naming Ivanka VP.
He is truly that stupid, given his recklessness in taunting the Trump University judge.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class: I thought he wanted to compete for New York and isn’t Ivanka too young? Oh shit, never mind…
sherparick
I will need to send in pictures of Gizmo, for whom I serve as principal human companion, since Maine Coon/European short hair tabbies need equal time.
OzarkHillbilly
In Reporting On Hillary Clinton, Media Get Facts Wrong On Colin Powell’s Private Email Use
Report Found Powell Also Used Private Email On An “Exclusive Basis”
The Thin Black Duke
@NotMax: Except I don’t think that Hillary would have damaged Obama as much as Bernie would damage Hillary.
Betty Cracker
I’m doing a bit of bird watching on my vacation. Hoping to see a Magnificent Frigatebird (that’s the actual name — these birds must have a great publicist!), Lesser Yellowlegs (not such a good PR team), Reddish Egret and Green Heron.
Patricia Kayden
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: What need does Trump have for ads when he’s on television pontificating all the dang time? He has gotten millions of dollars worth of free publicity via the media.
@OzarkHillbilly: Shhhh!! Don’t tell Clinton detractors that she was doing exactly what her predecessors did. Somehow what she did with her emails was eleventy-millionty times worse.
Baud
@Face:
Or perhaps a virtual candidate to appeal to people who use the internet.
BillinGlendaleCA
@The Thin Black Duke: I think Bernie would be a bit of a loose canon and doesn’t have the party loyalty that HRC has if she had been PBO’s veep.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
And then he went to buy tacos (no, really)
Oy vey. What’s wrong with these people.
OzarkHillbilly
@Betty Cracker: Jealous am I.
Weaselone
@OzarkHillbilly:
I always took the media line to be they were aghast that Hillary used her own private server. Somehow that’s worse than using an AOL account. They toss in the word exclusively to suggest she was using it to send classified materials not to differentiate her actions from her predecessors.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA: A Veep needs to be able to advocate for the president’s policies. Clinton could have done that for Obama. Sanders cannot do that for Clinton.
Baud
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: What’s the deal with tacos?
NotMax
A headline typo for the ages.
‘Cute’ kangaroo raptures woman’s breast implants
Patricia Kayden
@BillinGlendaleCA: Do they remember that the American people rejected Willard “The Robot” Romney in 2012? Would be nice for him to run again and lose to the first woman President though.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Uncle Joe’s also been useful for PBO to talk to Congress, I’m not sure Bernie could do that since apparently no one there really likes him.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: I like tacos, but they ain’t enchiladas.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA: Tacos seem to be a recurring theme in this election.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Patricia Kayden: They’ve figuring that he could get enough states to though the election to the House and then their wet dream of President Ryan.
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA: Is the House allowed to elect anybody?
Face
@Baud: What’s the internet?
Patricia Kayden
@NotMax: My only question is why was a kangaroo close enough to her breasts to do them any damage. Stop teasing wild animals, folks.
Baud
@Face: A dark and evil place. Pray you never find it.
Patricia Kayden
@BillinGlendaleCA: Is that how the electoral college system works? Doesn’t sound like a sensible plan but who knows? I’m surprised that the folks at Morning Joe have lost their love for Trump since for most of his campaign, they’ve had their collective tongues up his behind.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud:
As you found out yesterday morning?.
Weaselone
@BillinGlendaleCA:
They need someone who would capture votes from Democrats and democratic leaning independents for that plan to work. If it’s just the Republican vote being split, the net impact would be Hillary picking up additional States like Georgia, Indiana and Missouri.
Running Romney would be a strategy to shore up the down ticket races by making sure all the not Trumps still show up on election day.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: That’s a good question, don’t know.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Patricia Kayden: Joe of the Morning has been rather unimpressed with the yam and the opossum on his head.
Baud
@Patricia Kayden:
PK! You kiss your mama with that mouth?!
@BillinGlendaleCA: That wasn’t dark and evil. That was glorious.
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
@BillinGlendaleCA:
She turns 35 in October. All they’d be conceding is New York, as I understand…
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Patricia Kayden: Trump midly mocked Joe on twitter and Joe is possibly the only other person who’s a bigger prima donna than Trump.
Baud
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: Oh good. For a second I was worried that Joe might have been concerned about the future of the nation.
Patricia Kayden
@Baud: Baud. had you only run your campaign with more gusto, I wouldn’t have to be using this kind of raw language to discuss other candidates! I’m putting all the blame for my behavior on you — just like a good Republican would do.
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch: That’s interesting. Such sensitive guys, our Joe and Donald.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@BillinGlendaleCA: it’s pretty stunning, isn’t it. he’s spent 26 years in washington and has no friends. The polar opposite of successful legislators like Lyndon Johnson and Ted Kennedy.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@Baud: You ever see the time Maddow mildly rebutted his arrogance, making him so infuriated he stormed off stage on national tee vee (Video – you can hear him rip the microphone off and the panel laugh at him beginning at the 2:46 mark)
BillinGlendaleCA
@efgoldman: I think I can go to Santa Monica for $6 round trip, I promised Baud that I’d go down there and take some pics with my IR camera. The nurse told me to not get too much sun until my wound heals, about a week she said.
rikyrah
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
I don’t get it. Can’t they raise money now?
Is Hillary in the same position?
NotMax
Refreshing candor from an astronaut who spent nearly a year on the space station.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud:
What did I miss?
Baud
@Patricia Kayden: I’M SORRY I SHOULD HAVE BEEN MORE SHOUTY THAT’S THE IN THING THIS YEAR!
Patricia Kayden
@Baud: LOL! Snorting now.
OzarkHillbilly
@efgoldman: I wouldn’t hold your breath.
Bobby Thomson
I once dated a cheesehead whose nickname was Bean.
Benw
That’s a cute cat!
Tacos and enchiladas are delicious.
Benw, dropping truth bombs!
In the morning.
Ultraviolet Thunder
Lovely kittie!
Screen displays fine on Explorer in Win 7.
I’m at work. Don’t judge.
David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch
@rikyrah: high dollar donors personally don’t like Trump. Hillary on the other hand has massed a tidy war chest.
OzarkHillbilly
@efgoldman: Hey! No fair citing the actual Constitution during an internet debate. (imaginary constitutions however are acceptable)
Kathleen
@OzarkHillbilly: Bernie’s ambition consists of padding his retirement, I fear.
Ultraviolet Thunder
@David ?Canadian Anchor Baby? Koch:
I wonder how effective spending on advertising will be against Trump. By the time you decide to make an ad, he’s swerved away from what you’re attacking. If you can buy GOTV, that might be her best option.
Trump will be relying on the MSM covering his antics for free.
OzarkHillbilly
@Ultraviolet Thunder:
I already have a couple of ads written in my head.
“What is Trumps position on (name an issue)?”
“Well, today is Tuesday, so… Who the fuck knows?”
Botsplainer, Cryptofascist Tool of the Oppressor Class
@Baud:
Say it because you know you want to: President Gohmert…
C. Isaac
Found this little gem floating around the internet. It’s… hard to watch… but worth doing so. (Warning: images of 60’s era violence) —
https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=85&v=gFZ-1EojoFM
It is audio from Trump’s rallies, of him egging on the violence, overlayed of images of the violence during the civil rights era.
Jim, Foolish Literalist
I think that could make a good, mocking ad, and I’m hoping they’re rehearsing some lines like this for the debate
NotMax
@C. Isaac
Front paged last night.
C. Isaac
@NotMax:
Ahhh. Missed it. Was away from the computer last night. My bad.
Shell
Mika also got Star Wars and Mork & Mindy confused.
brad
He is quite similar to my own snowshoe, who so many of you have been so generous to. Binkley is very vocal, tho. But then I always speak back to him.
Thanks, everyone who helped. He may yet need another enema, but otherwise he’s very much recovered.
MomSense
Bean looks like such a sweetheart.
Miss Bianca
@srv: Shorter Bernie: “I am not a crackpot”.
Tokyokie
I grew up with a succession of meezers, so I’ve always had a soft spot for them. My lilac-point, Marvin, often makes me crazy, but hey, that’s what meezers are supposed to do. And although he talks a lot, he doesn’t have the loud voice one expects from a meezer, although Keyser, the elderly and itty-bitty Balinese (who’s like half-Siamese) fills that gap in the household. I’d really like to get a couple of seal-point males from the same litter so Marvin would have somebody to annoy him as much as he annoys everybody else, but were I to get them, the spousal unit would banish me and the cats to the back yard.
Tokyokie
@brad: I’m happy to hear things are going well for Binkley.