Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

In short, I come down firmly on all sides of the issue.

After roe, women are no longer free.

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

Is it irresponsible to speculate? It is irresponsible not to.

I see no possible difficulties whatsoever with this fool-proof plan.

Republicans in disarray!

Historically it was a little unusual for the president to be an incoherent babbling moron.

No one could have predicted…

Teach a man to fish, and he’ll sit in a boat all day drinking beer.

A last alliance of elves and men. also pet photos.

Putin dreamed of ending NATO, and now it’s Finnish-ed.

Bark louder, little dog.

We’ll be taking my thoughts and prayers to the ballot box.

Let me eat cake. The rest of you could stand to lose some weight, frankly.

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Some judge needs to shut this circus down soon.

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Tick tock motherfuckers!

rich, arrogant assholes who equate luck with genius

It’s time for the GOP to dust off that post-2012 autopsy, completely ignore it, and light the party on fire again.

Authoritarian republicans are opposed to freedom for the rest of us.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

The worst democrat is better than the best republican.

Speaking of republicans, is there a way for a political party to declare intellectual bankruptcy?

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Who Rescued Whom? – NYC Edition

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About a week ago, commenter LAO was very, very excited, waiting to find out if she was going to get her rescue pup. So last night I was so glad to hear about her new pup and asked her to send me some photos. Introducing the newest Balloon-Juice member, Maggie:

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All together now…aaaawww! I’ll let LAO tell you the rest:

The pups name is Maggie, she’s a rescue from North Carolina. She’s ridiculously friendly and fearless. It took her about one hour to get over her initial shock at NYC and in 3 days has befriended every dog in the neighborhood and almost as many humans.

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I feel very lucky that she adopted me as her human..

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I like the picture of her under my couch because I imagine that’s how she felt when I first brought her home.  Also, she’s very partial to my couch. It’s the only time she stops moving.

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Congratulations to LAO and Maggie for a terrific match and many years of love ahead. Bixby and I are still searching for our rescue match…

Open thread.

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  16. 16.

    RedDirtGirl

    @LAO: What are you doing this weekend? I’ve been sick all week and need to start building up my strength. Puppy wrangling would be the perfect activity!

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    Mary G

    She’s gorgeous! Thanks so much for sharing the pictures, LAO. Glad she finally sat still long enough. I love the spot on her head.

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    Larkspur

    I just want to plant a smooch on that adorable spot on her forehead. What a cute girl. She looks smart, too. Are you going to take her to puppy school? Not that she has to be smart (or dumb) to go to puppy classes, but it’s just fun. It sounds like she already gets along with other dogs okay.

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    Felonius Monk

    @LAO: I presume her full title is: Maggie, ESQ., J.D., Canine for the Defense.

    (J.D. being the abbreviation for Juris Doggie.)

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    Barbara

    What a pretty little dog. I also got my dog from a sanctuary in North Carolina. Glad the training is going better.

  32. 32.

    JPL

    What a cutie! It’s amazing how quickly rescues adapt to the new environs. She looks as though, she is saying lucky me in that last photo.

  34. 34.

    Seanly

    Aaawww. My wife & I have a Maggie. She’s still young, barely 3 we think, but is grumpy and likes to sleep in. Probably some Lab and maybe pit in her. We also have Cricket – she’s all piss & vinegar. She’d probably fit in right in Cole’s home. She seems to be part border collie & has the cutest ears – triangle shape & folded just about a third of the way down.

    Both are black. Maggie has a white blaze on her chest while Cricket just has just a few gray hairs on her underside. They were together at a home and the people had another baby on the way as well as no longer living on a farm. They had only recently gotten Cricket as a companion for Maggie who they’d had since she was a puppy.

    I call them Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser after Fritz Leiber’s characters. Cricket is the Gray Mouser – lithe, sneaky, mischevious. Maggie is thick, strong, and sometimes surly so she’s Fafhrd. Not the strongest parallel I’ll grant…

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    trollhattan

    @Thoroughly Pizzled:
    Young master Cullen sounds like a special snowflake indeed. Yes, Trump is just like Dwight Eisenhower (bankrupting caseenoes is just like commanding the amphibious invasion of Europe) and we should trust him to sort out the whole presindenting while orange thing.

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    Villago Delenda Est

    Maggie is obviously just what we need in the face of idiots at Hahvahd and hurricanes threatening Mar-A-Lago. And yes, don’t even THINK about coveting that fluffy pillow!

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    satby

    Maggie is adorbs! And she looks quite a bit like Boomerang Bubba, who I thought has beagle too. The other part might be pit, but he’s small, I was thinking it might be Boston terrier by the excited spins he does when he knows he’s getting a cookie.

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    Mnemosyne

    What a cutie! I really like that rescue groups are now able to move animals around so that, say, big dogs in NYC shelters don’t have to get euthanized just because nobody has enough room for one, and they can be swapped out with smaller dogs from other locations. Genius!

  46. 46.

    Amir Khalid

    @Villago Delenda Est:
    We’ve already sussed out Pence’s game: he realises he’s not going to be VP in January at this rate, so he’s setting up for his own presidential run in 2020. (Hey, why not?) But it is surprising, a bit, to see him do so openly what even the party establishment is doing only tacitly.

  47. 47.

    Gin & Tonic

    @Thoroughly Pizzled: Not just a douchebag, but a thoroughly pretentious writer. Although I recall that I probably wrote as badly at that age, so maybe it’s just the fact that he’s 20 years old.

  49. 49.

    shomi

    As predicted, VP debate is already yesterdays news. Everything is all about the Hurricane now. Depending how bad that is, it could even make the Sunday debate fairly inconsequential.

    Anyone taking bets on Drumpster fire using that as an excuse to cancel for a 1 min photo opp handing out bottles of Trump water?

  50. 50.

    Anoniminous

    @Villago Delenda Est:

    Reports are the internal polling from both parties are saying Trump support outside of his base is non-existent and GOP House and Senate races are being negatively affected.

  51. 51.

    Hillary Rettig

    >It took her about one hour to get over her initial shock at NYC and in 3 days has befriended every dog in the neighborhood and almost as many humans.

    Another transplant who is more of a New Yorker than the natives! ;-)

    Seriously, what a cutie.

  52. 52.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    Maggie! She’s adorable. I love beagles and saw that right quick.

  53. 53.

    Patricia Kayden

    @shomi: Naw. Trump is eager to “debate” Secretary Clinton and tell the world about her husband’s infidelity (as if we don’t already know all about them). He cannot help himself from stepping on his own feet. I look forward to snickering at all the unforced errors he commits on Sunday. Hope Clinton is able to provoke him with another “Miss Universe” moment. LOL!

  54. 54.

    Patricia Kayden

    @rikyrah: She is adorable. She looks very perky in those photos.

    Love how this blog is a perfect mixture of politics, food and pets. Never boring.

  57. 57.

    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @Felonius Monk: A friend may change banks because the manager of the bank where his practice and personal accounts are held advised that he and his partner can no longer deposit checks – made payable to their own names – Joe Bag of Donuts or Bill Box of Rocks, not the firm – into their personal accounts if the memo says “legal fees.” Those checks must be deposited into Bag of Donuts & Box of Rocks, then distributed into personal accounts.

    He’s begun to ask clients to list “beagle fees” in the memo line. I haven’t heard how well that worked. I did suggest he actually change banks if they persist with the requirement.

    @Miss Bianca: How’s Lefty feeling post-op? Is Pancho managing without the roughhousing?

  59. 59.

    Mnemosyne

    @Miss Bianca:

    Wait, did I miss Lefty getting the snippy-snip? Charlotte kept tugging on her sutures after she got spayed and freaked me right the hell out.

  61. 61.

    catclub

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Banks. That is just strange. If they had a personal account at a different bank, would the other bank forbid them from depositing checks made out to them (personally) into that account? I doubt it.
    It sounds like a confused interpretation of ‘Know your customer’ anti- money laundering policies.

    OTOH: If they are depositing checks for legal fees into the personal account, that makes less sense.

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    Miss Bianca

    @Mnemosyne: It is amazing, tho’, how many *huge* dogs I saw in Central Park the last time I was in Manhattan – Great Danes, Mastiffs, Borzois…and you know they must be living large in tiny apartments!

    @a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q): Lefty is so feisty that she tried climbing the fake tree in the store this morning! So she must not be feeling too badly! Store owner made the arbitrary executive decision last night that there was to be NO MORE CAT HOUSING UPSTAIRS, so had a couple of the downstairs staff bear away everything from my office whilst I was trapped on the phone with some tech issues… so bad news, no more Office Kitties : ( (at least, not officially), good news, Lefty seems to be doing fine!

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    a hip hop artist from Idaho (fka Bella Q)

    @Miss Bianca:

    no more Office Kitties

    NOOOO. That cannot stand. Unofficially, I hope there will be many office kittie visits.

  66. 66.

    LAO

    @Pogonip: Yes. The retinal anomaly doesn’t affect her sight — her retinas are yellow, not red like all other dogs and humans. If I took a flash picture of her, she would have “yellow-eye”, not “red-eye.” According to her vet — who was very excited to see it for the first time — this trait only occurs in “lemon beagles,” a rare breed of beagles.

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    Mel

    She’s beautiful!! Congratulations, and many, many happy years ahead with your dear Maggie. She looks like some of the finest farm-country doggies from my childhood: a little bit adorable, loving, Beagle, a little bit elegant, athletic, long-legged foxhound, a little bit loyal, super-smart spaniel. The best of all worlds!!

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    Theodore Wirth

    Damn. Brings tears of joy to my eyes. However, I beseech you to remember that there are untold thousands of vulnerable and parentless children languishing in refugee camps around the world. We need to also do whatever we can to put an end to ALL of this misery.

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