For some reason, if I make the bed, Gloria stays on top of the covers, but if I leave it a little unmade, she finds a way to mess it up entirely until she is comfortable.
3.
SiubhanDuinne
Where is Thurston?
4.
O. Felix Culpa
Lucky piglets!
5.
sherparick
Hey, they are keeping your bed warm! Hard work!
6.
Kay Eye
It’s freezing outside here, too (anything below 50 degrees is considered freezing and is official “Yes, we can put a fire in the fireplace” weather.
The cat is the only active mammal in the household. His people are under wraps.
As was reported, this morning VP-elect Pence met with Congressional Republicans to strategize about plans to repeal Obamacare. It will be interesting to watch what leaks out to the press about what was discussed. But I found this initial disclosure to be fascinating:
Message in the Pence meeting with the House GOP is that they’re on “a rescue mission” for Obamacare, rather than repealing and killing it.
— Matt Fuller (@MEPFuller) January 4, 2017
Who knows what they mean by a “rescue mission?” One can only assume that they want to rescue millions of Americans from the benefits of Obamacare that I outlined yesterday. But it’s clear that the closer we get to actual action on their plans to repeal the health care law, the more jittery Republicans are becoming, as MJ Lee documents.
Republicans are just getting started on their years-long dream of repealing Obamacare, and already, there are fears that things are moving too fast.
Some Republicans are cautioning against repealing the Affordable Care Act too quickly and urging the party take the foot off the accelerator. The reason: there’s no plan on how to replace what they roll back. And while GOP lawmakers are eager to please their base with headlines of Obamacare’s repeal, they don’t want to be blamed for leaving people without health insurance and chaos in the healthcare market.
Sen. John McCain told reporters Tuesday that he supports taking a slower approach to repealing the law, saying he is “always worried about something that took a long time in the making and we’ve got to concentrate our efforts to making sure that we do it right so that nobody’s left out.”
Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House Speaker and a close ally of President-elect Donald Trump, told CNN that a big risk for Republicans is getting blamed for taking away people’s health coverage…
GOP Sen. Rand Paul cited potential insurance market problems if the law isn’t replaced when it is repealed. “If Congress fails to vote on a replacement at the same time as repeal, the repealers risk assuming the blame for the continued unraveling of Obamacare,” he said in an op-ed Tuesday. “For mark my words, Obamacare will continue to unravel and wreak havoc for years to come.”
10.
trollhattan
Rain, wind, rain and more rain. Snow in mountains and only fools driving up there at the moment. California does cautious happy dance.
Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House Speaker and a close ally of President-elect Donald Trump, told CNN that a big risk for Republicans is getting blamed for taking away people’s health coverage…
I love that the risk isn’t that people will have their health coverage taken away, but that Republicans might get blamed for taking their health coverage away. (Because, well, that’s what they’ll have done).
12.
LAO
Alright dog people, I need housebreaking advice. I’m afraid, I’ve seriously fucked up my puppy training. I leave 2 wee wee pads out — and at nine months, puppy (1) doesn’t signal she has to go — just saunters over to a pad and pees; (2) pees every time she drinks water, EVERY TIME! She is crated for 3-4 hours at a time with no accidents and sleeps through the night. How do I break her of the “I had a small sip of water and now must take the worlds’ smallest pee” habit I have allowed to develop?
I love that the risk isn’t that people will have their health coverage taken away, but that Republicans might get blamed for taking their health coverage away. (Because, well, that’s what they’ll have done).
You saw that too.
They want to do this…
THEY NEED TO DO IT ALONE.
NO DEMOCRATIC VOTES – PERIOD.
14.
Aleta
Everyone is sick, our bathroom is down and the basement smoke alarm set off by smoke from the intensity of the carpenter’s dull blades (I guess) on the floor boards. The roads are at freezing point. Driving along, all I could see for miles were older people hunched over shovels chipping at their driveways.
Does anyone have advice for protecting against dust when very old boards and beams are being sawed through? Should I go get an air purifier (do they really work to take out particles)? The carpenter isn’t putting up plastic or anything, just shop vaccing at the end of the day.
Also is there any alternative to sheet rock for a bathroom wall? He says he will probably uncover laths with plaster, will cover that with dry wall and paint it with mold-resistant paint. Is there any alternative to that? (He says he doesn’t know of any. But lately we get reactions to VOC paint and fungicides.) I saw something called American Clay that says it works well in a bathroom. ETA But ironically (since it’s ‘eco’ ) they mostly advise putting it on over sheetrock.
15.
Inmourning
I think the term “rescue mission” is the way they will describe the vote to repeal, sort of like destroying a village to save it. “We rescued the ACA,” will be the words that divert the press’s attention from the actual results.
GOP Sen. Rand Paul cited potential insurance market problems if the law isn’t replaced when it is repealed.
Translation: insurance company and hospital lobbyists are calling him up 24/7 and screaming, “WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU ASSHOLES THINK YOU’RE FUCKING DOING?!?!”
FDR was warning people all the way back in the thirties about conservatives who, now that the New Deal was a fact, would try to bullshit people by saying “of course we want the New Deal, we just don’t like the way it’s being done, and we know that if you just put us in charge we’d do even better…”
19.
Mnemosyne
One of our kitties needs to have a bad tooth pulled, which probably explains why she’s been sulking and not coming out to get her wet food treat. Poor kitty.
20.
trollhattan
@LAO:
Will very cautiously suggest scooping her up and heading outside for frequent pee breaks, heaping lavish praise (and treats) with every al fresco pee. Consider fading/eliminating use of the indoor pads to make it less acceptable. Most pads have attractant in them. .
Our 7 M.O. has nearly stopped his indoor pee accidents, which are only triggered by excitement and we’re down to one or two a month. His weird habit is holding his load on walks and dropping it in the backyard when we return home. Drives me nuts, but a “problem” I can live with.
Dogs.
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Gindy51
@LAO: Back to square one. “Tie” your dog to you. If you go somewhere, she does to. That way you can learn the signs she has to tell you she has to go. Get rid of the pee pads unless there is an ice storm outside or some other horrific weather. YOU need to be retrained to watch her for signs, they are there you just have not learned them yet. Making sure she is with you all the time is one way to do this.
The part about peeing after drinking, that’s not a bad thing necessarily but you may need to only have water down at certain times until she disassociates drinking with peeing. Let her drink then take her out for a walk, not just a potty break. Let her pee on the walk. After she drinks play a game with her or do some training. You don’t say what breed she is but with my breed (Swissies) it takes 10 months to house train them (males are worse than females). Mine did not but I have them tethered to me as puppies plus we go out every hour, after every meal, nap, play time, or training session.
22.
mai naem mobile
@Aleta: you put the plastic or make him put the plastic. I am a little po’d he didn’t do it and it’s not even my house! I think a big roll of the plastic is less than $20 at home depot with the painters tape at around $5. Anyhoo, make sure he puts greenboard not regular drywall. We bought an old house a few years ago and it had some kind of plaster. It was really good stuff but I have a feeling it had asbestos.
Obviously they have run a myriad of terms through Frank Luntz’s bullshit Wurlitzer, and this is the one that got the best response. They are on a very brave rescue mission, saving America from the blah mans evil plan to give them healthcare. Heroes each and every one.
Justifying his support for a 20-week ban on abortions, the Republican president of the Kentucky Senate asserted that women had the “choice” of whether to conceive a child and “the legislature has its ability to determine” the course of a pregnancy after that.
According to a report from the Lexington Herald Leader, Senate President Robert Stivers (R) said Tuesday afternoon that he would have preferred a ban on abortions even earlier than 20 weeks.
“This is my belief: there are two viable beings involved,” he said, as quoted by the Herald Leader. “One had a choice early on to make a decision to conceive or not. Once conception starts, another life is involved, and the legislature has the ability to determine how that life proceeds.”
Viability may vary among pregnancies, but it is generally understood to be between 24 and 28 weeks.
Stivers also acknowledged to the publication that similar 20-week abortion bans had not passed the state’s legislature in years past, when Democrats controlled the state House of Representatives. The incoming state House of Representatives in Kentucky is Republican-controlled.
“I think we are very well aware of the issues as it relates to this bill and are ready and willing to proceed with this bill,” he said.
Stivers told the Courier Journal that he expected the ban to pass in the Senate this week.
The bill includes exceptions for instances in which the mother’s life is in danger, as well as rape and incest, according to its sponsor state Sen. Brandon Smith (R). A separate proposal filed this week in the Kentucky House would require women to be presented with an ultrasound before having an abortion. House Speaker Jeff Hoover (R) told the Courier Journal there is “overwhelming sentiment” to pass that bill in the House.
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LAO
@trollhattan: thanks — hesitant to pull the pads totally because her peeing isn’t an accident — but know that I should. It’s just so difficult — NYC, 10th Floor apt, waiting for elevators — I have a million excuses, lol.
When I first adopted her, she wouldn’t go on concrete, so she would hold in her pee during an hour long walk and wait until we were back in the hallway of my floor and pee on the carpet. Fun times!
@Gindy51: thanks also — she’s a beagle/pit mix. I will pay closer attention to her, re: peeing. She does signal “I have to poop” by sitting at front door.
I think the term “rescue mission” is the way they will describe the vote to repeal, sort of like destroying a village to save it. “We rescued the ACA,” will be the words that divert the press’s attention from the actual results.
Must be the phrase that passed the Frank Luntz focus group.
They didn’t take over 50 votes to ‘rescue’ Obamacare.
Nope.
They took 50 votes to REPEAL IT.
27.
leeleeFl
@Chris: I remember when Social Security and Medicare became fairly bullet-proof. I put nothing past these nihilistic trolls, but I think someone got poked with a sharp stick about there being a few Repubicans on ACA. This may, finally, be the time when the GOP has to acknowledge that OBAMACARE was the brain-child of AEI and Democrats woukd have gone with Medicare for All, if that had been door # 2.
28.
hovercraft
Why am I in moderation? I did not use any naughty words as far as I can tell : (
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Gindy51
@trollhattan: Our females ALWAYS do this, every one of them. The males just let it fly where ever they have to (middle of the road!!!!)
30.
leeleeFl
@Mnemosyne: Wish I could hear these calls. Schadenfreude has been rare in ny life since November.
Justifying his support for a 20-week ban on abortions, the Republican president of the Kentucky Senate asserted that women had the “choice” of whether to conceive a child and “the legislature has its ability to determine” the course of a pregnancy after that.
According to a report from the Lexington Herald Leader, Senate President Robert Stivers (R) said Tuesday afternoon that he would have preferred a ban on abortions even earlier than 20 weeks.
“This is my belief: there are two viable beings involved,” he said, as quoted by the Herald Leader. “One had a choice early on to make a decision to conceive or not. Once conception starts, another life is involved, and the legislature has the ability to determine how that life proceeds.”
Viability may vary among pregnancies, but it is generally understood to be between 24 and 28 weeks.
Somebody pointed out yesterday that, by law and at the insistence of the Republicans in Congress, all members of Congress and their staff are required to buy insurance from the exchanges. The Republicans smugly assumed that it would kill the bill because Democrats wouldn’t be willing to buy the same insurance as their constituents, but the Democrats ran with it.
So ending Obamacare means that Republican congresscritters will have to buy insurance on the open, unregulated market, and I don’t think they like the sound of that. At all.
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Balconesfault
I’m thinking that Chuck Schumer is going to be one of the worst Dem leaders possible over the next few years.
The smug New Yorker thing might help him get elected, but he seems determined to shoot himself in the foot repeatedly while trying to show how smart he is.
Declaring that the Dems will do everything they can to leave the Supreme Court seat open – just feeding ammo to McConnell to push through the most extreme nominee Trump might make.
Snidely commenting that the intelligence community can “get back at” a politician who demeans them? Giving ammo to Trump to label anything revealed about him to be “vengeance”.
God, we’re going to miss Harry more than we know.
34.
leeleeFl
@Mnemosyne: How delicious is that? I may smile the entire rest of this day!
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Phylllis
We are expecting highs in the 30s Saturday with a good likelihood of snow. Pleez to send Steve and pup of your choice to our house for cuddling/warming purposes. Kthanxbye.
I love how these fuckers have decided that if a fetus develops a fatal birth defect, or if a woman gets cancer while pregnant, it’s all the woman’s fault and she deserves to die. If she didn’t want to die of pre-eclampsia, she should have thought of that before she got pregnant and kept her knees closed!
Get a new carpenter. Seriously, yours sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. He should have put up plastic, he should know the functional differences between drywall, greenboard and cement board and where to use which, and he should have sharp and effective tools.
I would pay him the bare minimum necessary to make him go away, and then hire somebody competent.
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Calouste
@Mnemosyne: Accompanied by: “We have $xxxxx in our PAC. We haven’t decided yet how we are going to spend that in 2018. But we might decide soon….”
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trollhattan
@LAO:
Ohhh, the elevator time delay is likely making it much tougher since relief isn’t instantaneous heading outdoors. Our vet advised only putting water down certain times a day, saying they often drink more than they need, which leads to more accidents. Maybe have water and pee breaks outside, if you can somehow finagle them with the elevator thing.
This is why conservative Republicans work so hard to make birth control techniques as broadly and easily accessible as possible, in order to guarantee that women will have as much choice as possible in terms of whether or not to conceive.
Oh, wait.
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hovercraft
@Calouste:
Silly democrats, it has to be small enough to fit into our vajayjays. How else can they control us if they give us autonomy over what goes on down there.
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leeleeFl
@Chris: I was momentarily gobsmacked, then I saw the “oh wait”
Sen. John McCain told reporters Tuesday that he supports taking a slower approach to repealing the law, saying he is “always worried about something that took a long time in the making and we’ve got to concentrate our efforts to making sure that we do it right so that nobody’s left out.”
NOBODY WILL BE LEFT OUT!!!! Bookmark, copy and paste any statement made by any Republican to the effect that NOBODY WILL BE WORSE OFF!
Newt Gingrich, the former Republican House Speaker and a close ally of President-elect Donald Trump, told CNN that a big risk for Republicans is getting blamed for taking away people’s health coverage…
Wow, Captain Obvious, I do see what they mean about you being the stupid man’s idea of a genius. Of course, he is far more worried about being BLAMED than he is worried about people actually losing coverage, but I am not worried because YOU PROMISED THAT NOBODY WOULD BE WORSE OFF!!!
I love that the risk isn’t that people will have their health coverage taken away, but that Republicans might get blamed for taking their health coverage away. (Because, well, that’s what they’ll have done).
Great point. Any time I am tempted to try to give Republicans some credit, stuff like this reminds me of why I hate them. And why, at their worst, they should be hated.
Justifying his support for a 20-week ban on abortions, the Republican president of the Kentucky Senate asserted that women had the “choice” of whether to conceive a child and “the legislature has its ability to determine” the course of a pregnancy after that.
“This is my belief: there are two viable beings involved,”
Because the woman got pregnant all by herself?
Not sure if it’s been mentioned here, but Ohio came perilously close to passing a hearbeat bill which would make abortion illegal at 6 weeks (self-induced or not). Kasich vetoed it, but the group responsible for it vows to reintroduce it and to make Kasich suffer.
The spokesperson also stated that the group plans to introduce a national hearbeat bill in Congress a couple days after the Inauguration. Stay alert and don’t let Mango Mussolini’s ascent to the Oval Office make you forget all the other shit that’s going on.
Declaring that the Dems will do everything they can to leave the Supreme Court seat open – just feeding ammo to McConnell to push through the most extreme nominee Trump might make.
This actually is smart. Put a stake in the ground – the Dems will hold firm against a bad Republican nominee. Make the Republicans own their votes and their actions. And if, by chance, Trump nominates someone acceptable (he talked about his sister once, not that even he would be crazy enough to nominate her, but someone like her would be fine), then you can declare victory.
There is a concrete-type material called Backer-Board, or Dur-rock, which is used for showers, to adhere tile to. It is, like concrete, not subject to harm from water or moisture. It is easy to work with, is screwed to studs like sheetrock, only with different screws. If your carpenter has never heard of it, he is not competent to be doing work for you in a bathroom.
He should tear out the sheetrock and replace it with Durock. He should also put up plastic sheeting between his work space and your living space – you should never smell anything or see anything from his work area in you living space. Here’s a link to an article.
Here’s another article about best backer boards.
If it is an area that will never get wet no matter what, then greenboard night work ok. We used cement Durock for the entire bathroom in the last one I did. Impervious to water, everywhere.
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schrodingers_cat
Steve looks like a giant tribble.
bobbo
For some reason, if I make the bed, Gloria stays on top of the covers, but if I leave it a little unmade, she finds a way to mess it up entirely until she is comfortable.
SiubhanDuinne
Where is Thurston?
O. Felix Culpa
Lucky piglets!
sherparick
Hey, they are keeping your bed warm! Hard work!
Kay Eye
It’s freezing outside here, too (anything below 50 degrees is considered freezing and is official “Yes, we can put a fire in the fireplace” weather.
The cat is the only active mammal in the household. His people are under wraps.
rikyrah
Colder than a mutha here.
Steve looks like a BOSS.
Aleta
Surely Thurston has something afoot.
rikyrah
Obamacare Repeal and Delay Becomes Obamacare Rescue
by Nancy LeTourneau
January 4, 2017 1:15 PM
As was reported, this morning VP-elect Pence met with Congressional Republicans to strategize about plans to repeal Obamacare. It will be interesting to watch what leaks out to the press about what was discussed. But I found this initial disclosure to be fascinating:
Who knows what they mean by a “rescue mission?” One can only assume that they want to rescue millions of Americans from the benefits of Obamacare that I outlined yesterday. But it’s clear that the closer we get to actual action on their plans to repeal the health care law, the more jittery Republicans are becoming, as MJ Lee documents.
Republicans are just getting started on their years-long dream of repealing Obamacare, and already, there are fears that things are moving too fast.
trollhattan
Rain, wind, rain and more rain. Snow in mountains and only fools driving up there at the moment. California does cautious happy dance.
Chris
@rikyrah:
I love that the risk isn’t that people will have their health coverage taken away, but that Republicans might get blamed for taking their health coverage away. (Because, well, that’s what they’ll have done).
LAO
Alright dog people, I need housebreaking advice. I’m afraid, I’ve seriously fucked up my puppy training. I leave 2 wee wee pads out — and at nine months, puppy (1) doesn’t signal she has to go — just saunters over to a pad and pees; (2) pees every time she drinks water, EVERY TIME! She is crated for 3-4 hours at a time with no accidents and sleeps through the night. How do I break her of the “I had a small sip of water and now must take the worlds’ smallest pee” habit I have allowed to develop?
She rarely poops inside, so that isn’t an issue.
rikyrah
@Chris:
You saw that too.
They want to do this…
THEY NEED TO DO IT ALONE.
NO DEMOCRATIC VOTES – PERIOD.
Aleta
Everyone is sick, our bathroom is down and the basement smoke alarm set off by smoke from the intensity of the carpenter’s dull blades (I guess) on the floor boards. The roads are at freezing point. Driving along, all I could see for miles were older people hunched over shovels chipping at their driveways.
Does anyone have advice for protecting against dust when very old boards and beams are being sawed through? Should I go get an air purifier (do they really work to take out particles)? The carpenter isn’t putting up plastic or anything, just shop vaccing at the end of the day.
Also is there any alternative to sheet rock for a bathroom wall? He says he will probably uncover laths with plaster, will cover that with dry wall and paint it with mold-resistant paint. Is there any alternative to that? (He says he doesn’t know of any. But lately we get reactions to VOC paint and fungicides.) I saw something called American Clay that says it works well in a bathroom. ETA But ironically (since it’s ‘eco’ ) they mostly advise putting it on over sheetrock.
Inmourning
I think the term “rescue mission” is the way they will describe the vote to repeal, sort of like destroying a village to save it. “We rescued the ACA,” will be the words that divert the press’s attention from the actual results.
Mnemosyne
@rikyrah:
Translation: insurance company and hospital lobbyists are calling him up 24/7 and screaming, “WHAT THE FUCK DO YOU ASSHOLES THINK YOU’RE FUCKING DOING?!?!”
Rosalita
More Lily please!
Chris
@Inmourning:
FDR was warning people all the way back in the thirties about conservatives who, now that the New Deal was a fact, would try to bullshit people by saying “of course we want the New Deal, we just don’t like the way it’s being done, and we know that if you just put us in charge we’d do even better…”
Mnemosyne
One of our kitties needs to have a bad tooth pulled, which probably explains why she’s been sulking and not coming out to get her wet food treat. Poor kitty.
trollhattan
@LAO:
Will very cautiously suggest scooping her up and heading outside for frequent pee breaks, heaping lavish praise (and treats) with every al fresco pee. Consider fading/eliminating use of the indoor pads to make it less acceptable. Most pads have attractant in them. .
Our 7 M.O. has nearly stopped his indoor pee accidents, which are only triggered by excitement and we’re down to one or two a month. His weird habit is holding his load on walks and dropping it in the backyard when we return home. Drives me nuts, but a “problem” I can live with.
Dogs.
Gindy51
@LAO: Back to square one. “Tie” your dog to you. If you go somewhere, she does to. That way you can learn the signs she has to tell you she has to go. Get rid of the pee pads unless there is an ice storm outside or some other horrific weather. YOU need to be retrained to watch her for signs, they are there you just have not learned them yet. Making sure she is with you all the time is one way to do this.
The part about peeing after drinking, that’s not a bad thing necessarily but you may need to only have water down at certain times until she disassociates drinking with peeing. Let her drink then take her out for a walk, not just a potty break. Let her pee on the walk. After she drinks play a game with her or do some training. You don’t say what breed she is but with my breed (Swissies) it takes 10 months to house train them (males are worse than females). Mine did not but I have them tethered to me as puppies plus we go out every hour, after every meal, nap, play time, or training session.
mai naem mobile
@Aleta: you put the plastic or make him put the plastic. I am a little po’d he didn’t do it and it’s not even my house! I think a big roll of the plastic is less than $20 at home depot with the painters tape at around $5. Anyhoo, make sure he puts greenboard not regular drywall. We bought an old house a few years ago and it had some kind of plaster. It was really good stuff but I have a feeling it had asbestos.
hovercraft
@rikyrah:
Obviously they have run a myriad of terms through Frank Luntz’s bullshit Wurlitzer, and this is the one that got the best response. They are on a very brave rescue mission, saving America from the blah mans evil plan to give them healthcare. Heroes each and every one.
hovercraft
Coming to a GOP controlled state near you ladies.
KY Senate Prez: ‘To Conceive Or Not’ Is A Woman’s Only Choice
Justifying his support for a 20-week ban on abortions, the Republican president of the Kentucky Senate asserted that women had the “choice” of whether to conceive a child and “the legislature has its ability to determine” the course of a pregnancy after that.
According to a report from the Lexington Herald Leader, Senate President Robert Stivers (R) said Tuesday afternoon that he would have preferred a ban on abortions even earlier than 20 weeks.
“This is my belief: there are two viable beings involved,” he said, as quoted by the Herald Leader. “One had a choice early on to make a decision to conceive or not. Once conception starts, another life is involved, and the legislature has the ability to determine how that life proceeds.”
Viability may vary among pregnancies, but it is generally understood to be between 24 and 28 weeks.
Stivers also acknowledged to the publication that similar 20-week abortion bans had not passed the state’s legislature in years past, when Democrats controlled the state House of Representatives. The incoming state House of Representatives in Kentucky is Republican-controlled.
“I think we are very well aware of the issues as it relates to this bill and are ready and willing to proceed with this bill,” he said.
Stivers told the Courier Journal that he expected the ban to pass in the Senate this week.
The bill includes exceptions for instances in which the mother’s life is in danger, as well as rape and incest, according to its sponsor state Sen. Brandon Smith (R). A separate proposal filed this week in the Kentucky House would require women to be presented with an ultrasound before having an abortion. House Speaker Jeff Hoover (R) told the Courier Journal there is “overwhelming sentiment” to pass that bill in the House.
LAO
@trollhattan: thanks — hesitant to pull the pads totally because her peeing isn’t an accident — but know that I should. It’s just so difficult — NYC, 10th Floor apt, waiting for elevators — I have a million excuses, lol.
When I first adopted her, she wouldn’t go on concrete, so she would hold in her pee during an hour long walk and wait until we were back in the hallway of my floor and pee on the carpet. Fun times!
@Gindy51: thanks also — she’s a beagle/pit mix. I will pay closer attention to her, re: peeing. She does signal “I have to poop” by sitting at front door.
rikyrah
@Inmourning:
Must be the phrase that passed the Frank Luntz focus group.
They didn’t take over 50 votes to ‘rescue’ Obamacare.
Nope.
They took 50 votes to REPEAL IT.
leeleeFl
@Chris: I remember when Social Security and Medicare became fairly bullet-proof. I put nothing past these nihilistic trolls, but I think someone got poked with a sharp stick about there being a few Repubicans on ACA. This may, finally, be the time when the GOP has to acknowledge that OBAMACARE was the brain-child of AEI and Democrats woukd have gone with Medicare for All, if that had been door # 2.
hovercraft
Why am I in moderation? I did not use any naughty words as far as I can tell : (
Gindy51
@trollhattan: Our females ALWAYS do this, every one of them. The males just let it fly where ever they have to (middle of the road!!!!)
leeleeFl
@Mnemosyne: Wish I could hear these calls. Schadenfreude has been rare in ny life since November.
hovercraft
Coming to a GOP controlled state near you ladies.
ETA: link below is broken, try this one.
http://talkingpointsmemo.com/livewire/kentucky-senate-president-womens-choice-is-to-conceive
KY Senate Prez: ‘To Conceive Or Not’ Is A Woman’s Only Choice
Justifying his support for a 20-week ban on abortions, the Republican president of the Kentucky Senate asserted that women had the “choice” of whether to conceive a child and “the legislature has its ability to determine” the course of a pregnancy after that.
According to a report from the Lexington Herald Leader, Senate President Robert Stivers (R) said Tuesday afternoon that he would have preferred a ban on abortions even earlier than 20 weeks.
“This is my belief: there are two viable beings involved,” he said, as quoted by the Herald Leader. “One had a choice early on to make a decision to conceive or not. Once conception starts, another life is involved, and the legislature has the ability to determine how that life proceeds.”
Viability may vary among pregnancies, but it is generally understood to be between 24 and 28 weeks.
Mnemosyne
@leeleeFl:
Somebody pointed out yesterday that, by law and at the insistence of the Republicans in Congress, all members of Congress and their staff are required to buy insurance from the exchanges. The Republicans smugly assumed that it would kill the bill because Democrats wouldn’t be willing to buy the same insurance as their constituents, but the Democrats ran with it.
So ending Obamacare means that Republican congresscritters will have to buy insurance on the open, unregulated market, and I don’t think they like the sound of that. At all.
Balconesfault
I’m thinking that Chuck Schumer is going to be one of the worst Dem leaders possible over the next few years.
The smug New Yorker thing might help him get elected, but he seems determined to shoot himself in the foot repeatedly while trying to show how smart he is.
Declaring that the Dems will do everything they can to leave the Supreme Court seat open – just feeding ammo to McConnell to push through the most extreme nominee Trump might make.
Snidely commenting that the intelligence community can “get back at” a politician who demeans them? Giving ammo to Trump to label anything revealed about him to be “vengeance”.
God, we’re going to miss Harry more than we know.
leeleeFl
@Mnemosyne: How delicious is that? I may smile the entire rest of this day!
Phylllis
We are expecting highs in the 30s Saturday with a good likelihood of snow. Pleez to send Steve and pup of your choice to our house for cuddling/warming purposes. Kthanxbye.
Mnemosyne
@hovercraft:
I love how these fuckers have decided that if a fetus develops a fatal birth defect, or if a woman gets cancer while pregnant, it’s all the woman’s fault and she deserves to die. If she didn’t want to die of pre-eclampsia, she should have thought of that before she got pregnant and kept her knees closed!
Calouste
@hovercraft:
Don’t you love the smell of small government in the morning?
Gin & Tonic
@Aleta:
Get a new carpenter. Seriously, yours sounds like a disaster waiting to happen. He should have put up plastic, he should know the functional differences between drywall, greenboard and cement board and where to use which, and he should have sharp and effective tools.
I would pay him the bare minimum necessary to make him go away, and then hire somebody competent.
Calouste
@Mnemosyne: Accompanied by: “We have $xxxxx in our PAC. We haven’t decided yet how we are going to spend that in 2018. But we might decide soon….”
trollhattan
@LAO:
Ohhh, the elevator time delay is likely making it much tougher since relief isn’t instantaneous heading outdoors. Our vet advised only putting water down certain times a day, saying they often drink more than they need, which leads to more accidents. Maybe have water and pee breaks outside, if you can somehow finagle them with the elevator thing.
SiubhanDuinne
@hovercraft:
“Incest” is not allowed, under the traditional FYWP Code.
Chris
@hovercraft:
This is why conservative Republicans work so hard to make birth control techniques as broadly and easily accessible as possible, in order to guarantee that women will have as much choice as possible in terms of whether or not to conceive.
Oh, wait.
hovercraft
@Calouste:
Silly democrats, it has to be small enough to fit into our vajayjays. How else can they control us if they give us autonomy over what goes on down there.
leeleeFl
@Chris: I was momentarily gobsmacked, then I saw the “oh wait”
leeleeFl
@Calouste: Love this! Very well played!
leeleeFl
@hovercraft: Great as well. Thread won, must share prize!
Shell
All horizontal.
Shell
Sweet Jesus. So once a woman has conceived, her body belongs to the State!?
Barbara
@rikyrah:
NOBODY WILL BE LEFT OUT!!!! Bookmark, copy and paste any statement made by any Republican to the effect that NOBODY WILL BE WORSE OFF!
Wow, Captain Obvious, I do see what they mean about you being the stupid man’s idea of a genius. Of course, he is far more worried about being BLAMED than he is worried about people actually losing coverage, but I am not worried because YOU PROMISED THAT NOBODY WOULD BE WORSE OFF!!!
O. Felix Culpa
@Shell:
Brachiator
@Chris:
Great point. Any time I am tempted to try to give Republicans some credit, stuff like this reminds me of why I hate them. And why, at their worst, they should be hated.
Brachiator
@hovercraft:
Wait, what?
Mnemosyne
@Brachiator:
That’s always been the end game for the forced birthers — government control of reproduction.
debbie
@hovercraft:
Because the woman got pregnant all by herself?
Not sure if it’s been mentioned here, but Ohio came perilously close to passing a hearbeat bill which would make abortion illegal at 6 weeks (self-induced or not). Kasich vetoed it, but the group responsible for it vows to reintroduce it and to make Kasich suffer.
The spokesperson also stated that the group plans to introduce a national hearbeat bill in Congress a couple days after the Inauguration. Stay alert and don’t let Mango Mussolini’s ascent to the Oval Office make you forget all the other shit that’s going on.
randy khan
@Balconesfault:
This actually is smart. Put a stake in the ground – the Dems will hold firm against a bad Republican nominee. Make the Republicans own their votes and their actions. And if, by chance, Trump nominates someone acceptable (he talked about his sister once, not that even he would be crazy enough to nominate her, but someone like her would be fine), then you can declare victory.
Ocotillo
I love me some Rosie.
J R in WV
@Aleta:
There is a concrete-type material called Backer-Board, or Dur-rock, which is used for showers, to adhere tile to. It is, like concrete, not subject to harm from water or moisture. It is easy to work with, is screwed to studs like sheetrock, only with different screws. If your carpenter has never heard of it, he is not competent to be doing work for you in a bathroom.
He should tear out the sheetrock and replace it with Durock. He should also put up plastic sheeting between his work space and your living space – you should never smell anything or see anything from his work area in you living space. Here’s a link to an article.
Here’s another article about best backer boards.
If it is an area that will never get wet no matter what, then greenboard night work ok. We used cement Durock for the entire bathroom in the last one I did. Impervious to water, everywhere.