Floofy cats are all well and good, but faithful old doggies are worth highlighting in an open thread too:
The mister and I sorta watched the CiC forum that is the topic of the post below. But honestly, we talked amongst ourselves more than listening to the proceedings. We’re both heartily sick of this election.
It’s somewhat heretical to say, perhaps, but we think there’s too damn much emphasis on the military. (The mister is a USAF vet who played piano in the trenches with the USAF band during the Reagan admin.)
Yes, we should take care of our veterans. We should also stop killing / jailing young black men in wildly disproportionate numbers, quit treating children like chattel and stop screwing women treating women like second class citizens. Just saying. Open thread!
PsiFighter37
Mildly impressed with the NYT – the livebloggers repeatedly pointed out that Lauer simply let Trump’s lies about his Iraq war support fly by. Even the article rushed out right afterwards simply stated that Trump repeated his ‘false’ claim that he did not support the war.
Matt Lauer should be fucking roasted alive for this. I didn’t need to watch it to see the genital smooching he gave the Donald. NYT live bloggers said Hillary was hit with 2×4 on questions, while Trump was lightly tapped on the cheek. EVEN THE LAMESTREAM MEDIA NOTICED!!!11!11!
The good thing will be that the real debates will be unfiltered, and it will be Trump getting smacked with a 2×4 repeatedly.
Mary G
Cosy dogs.
bystander
I thought Hillary did great an Trump stank on ice. But I ma be partisan.
redshirt
If you know who you’re voting for this Fall, and 98% of the people here do, why watch these torture programs? Sadism?
Corner Stone
I…ummmm…hmmm…
Adam L Silverman
@Corner Stone: I think we definitely need clarification on that part of the sentence.
Betty Cracker
@Corner Stone: Ha, touché! I shall edit…
MomSense
Sweet pups. Mine is currently on the floor in front of the fan.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@redshirt: Masochism.
PsiFighter37
Also – Jill Stein now has an arrest warrant out for her because she spray-painted some bulldozers in South Dakota. What a fucking clown. Civil disobedience and peaceful protest is fine, but defacing property is childish and takes away from the actual message.
Stupid fucking amateur. And yet I’ll be she runs again in 2020. It must be nice being a privileged white person of no real talent, running for president because you’re so damn pure.
Felonius Monk
@Betty Cracker:
Oh, please don’t. It will make for lively conversation here tonight. Much more interesting than the Drumphster-fire.
David Fud
@Betty Cracker: I was going to make a snarky crack about this one:
But, I don’t have the heart. All of what you say is true, and making a sex joke out of it really isn’t funny. Sigh. Maybe late in my lifetime. In the meantime, me and the rest of my crew (who have privileges of gender, sexual orientation, color, education level, physical ability, and economic level) just need to make room or something. I wish the knuckle draggers in my crew would stop crapping on the floor because they have to share the party favors.
donnah
Good dogs!
I watched the defense forum and shouted at the TV the entire time. Lauer was absolutely a disaster, as expected, and Hillary did more than hold her own. She is grace under pressure. Trump ran his mouth as he always does, and the hapless Matt, who jumped on Hillary like she was some master criminal right from the first question and interrupted her constantly, gave Trump free rein.
I knew it would go that way, but it still pissed me off.
redshirt
@PsiFighter37: Her supporters will love it. Not a bad move for her. More $$$.
SiubhanDuinne
Betty, your dogs are beautiful. And I’m not even that much of a dog person (I like ’em fine, I’d just rather have them belong to other people).
SiubhanDuinne
@PsiFighter37:
For real? LOL.
Mike J
@efgoldman:
And now when there is a military funeral, they send out somebody to hold a bugle while a ape of taps plays.
I went to a marine corps band xmas concert with the ex (unnamed govt service) agent dad of my then gfriend. Even after could not get him to agree govt funding of the arts was a good thing.
petesh
Dogs is gud
Theodore Wirth
Plus voraciously consuming all of the animals that happen to taste good.