Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

Balloon Juice, where there is always someone who will say you’re doing it wrong.

Fundamental belief of white supremacy: white people are presumed innocent, minorities are presumed guilty.

He really is that stupid.

T R E 4 5 O N

Fight for a just cause, love your fellow man, live a good life.

They love authoritarianism, but only when they get to be the authoritarians.

At some point, the ability to learn is a factor of character, not IQ.

Too often we hand the biggest microphones to the cynics and the critics who delight in declaring failure.

Marge, god is saying you’re stupid.

When your entire life is steeped in white supremacy, equality feels like discrimination.

Boeing: repeatedly making the case for high speed rail.

Make the republican party small enough to drown in a bathtub.

The press swings at every pitch, we don’t have to.

Hey Washington Post, “Democracy Dies in Darkness” was supposed to be a warning, not a mission statement.

Dear media: perhaps we ought to let Donald Trump speak for himself!

The arc of the moral universe does not bend itself. it is up to us to bend it.

Republicans: “Abortion is murder but you can take a bus to get one.” Easy peasy.

They fucked up the fucking up of the fuckup!

When do we start airlifting the women and children out of Texas?

Someone should tell Republicans that violence is the last refuge of the incompetent, or possibly the first.

Prediction: the gop will rethink its strategy of boycotting future committees.

You are either for trump or for democracy. Pick one.

Lick the third rail, it tastes like chocolate!

And now I have baud making fun of me. this day can’t get worse.

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Wednesday was a hard day as I had to euthanize one of the two kitties I inherited from my mother. I know, should my mom have lasted until now, weak and battered, that dear Melisande’s death would have been a major blow, so I’m thankful she didn’t have to deal with this eventuality.  Now Meli joins her dear brother Pelleas and my mother in The Great Opera.  Have a great day, everyone, and love your pets extra, they’re gone ever-too-soon.

Today, pictures from valued commenter lee.

Where they were taken: Frisco Texas
When: April 26th 2018

I’m guessing these are cardinals. My wife calls them ‘those damn birds’ as they spend the late afternoon & early evenings chirping up a storm in our front yard (we have 3 massive Red Oaks). They have a short, sharp chirp which is not particularly pleasant to listen to for
an extended period of time.

 

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    Alain the site fixer

    @Baud: thanks. I’m glad to no longer be running a hospice. Meds 2-4x a day is exhausting

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    debbie

    I love cardinals because they start their chirping when winter has started to wane. Their noise may not be melodic, but their message is always welcome on a cold, gray, snow-filled day.

    Love that gif (I assume) up top. She seems pissed off.

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    Lapassionara

    Alain, thanks for making these lovely photos available for us to see. So sorry about your mom’s kitty.

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    sherparick

    Alain, thank you for this daily posting, it always brighten my spirits. Sorry for the loss of Meli, which also reminds you of your enduring grief for your Mom. Keep up your spirits. They will always be with you in your heart.

    The noisy Cardinals are having a little argument about food and territory (I believe they are all Republicans).

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    MomSense

    Sorry to hear about Meli.

    Thank you for these beautiful photos of those damned birds.

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    WereBear

    I am so sorry to hear about the lost of dear Meli.

    I like to think that all rescues have a happy ending… even ones that end in sadness. At least they did not die alone and miserable.

    At least they got to know that someone loved them.

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    Elizabelle

    RIP Melisande. And Pelleas previously. I knew that cat was going to be named after an opera (Debussy). First a play (Maeterlinck). Your kitteh got every bit of life you and your mom could provide.

    Lee’s bird photos today are gorgeous. Never tire of birds, bird songs, spring. Lovely time of year.

    Think bird pics are so uniquely soothing because they fly above us, are imaginatively plumed, and bring beauty and song into our lives. Curious little things; they have a life miles upon miles away from us for most of the year. They are a tonic for these times.

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    SWMBO

    So sorry to hear about Melisande.

    It has been the pet hell month here. My girl Pixie blew out her back April 16 and had emergency back surgery. They did a second back surgery on April 20 to fix her back again. They had missed some of the problem. After I went to check on her that night, I let the rest of the pack out and Pebbles was stolen out of our yard.
    Pixie started getting sensation back in her right hind foot and it apparently wasn’t a pleasant one. She chewed off three toes and had to have them amputated on May 1. She never really recovered. She started refusing food and medication two days ago. I found her in her crate, already gone this morning.
    She was the reason my mom was still alive. She got ehrlichia a few years ago and my mom had every symptom. If it hadn’t been for Pixie, mom would never have been diagnosed and treated.
    I miss her terribly already. She was the sweetest dachshund and had the gentlest temperament. I hope I can stop crying long enough to take her in to the vet.

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    Elizabelle

    Alain: such coincidence. Had never heard of Pelleas and Melisande before you mentioned your late, great cat. Had to look it up.

    At this moment: listening to Gustave Faure’s suite for Pelleas and Melisande. On NPR’s Performance Today. Shivers when it was announced.

    From wiki: a lot of composers wrote music based on Maeterlinck’s play.

    Pelléas et Mélisande, Op. 80 is a suite derived from incidental music by Gabriel Fauré for Maurice Maeterlinck’s play of the same name. He was the first of four leading composers to write music inspired by Maeterlinck’s drama. Debussy, Schoenberg and Sibelius followed in the first decade of the 20th century.

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    Elizabelle

    @SWMBO: My condolences. Horrible month for you. And I hope that Pebbles is returned to you.

    I love dachshunds. They’re wonderful pups. Pixie had a good life with you. Sometimes pets just can’t recover, and that is so difficult.

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    Gin & Tonic

    Another gorgeous day here in Sweden. Packed for cold and rain, it being spring, and have been rewarded with blue skies and temps in the mid 60’s. Did some touring by car, south and west to Göteborg and back, now enjoying the high speed rail on the way to Oslo. This socialism stuff is OK in my book.

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    Sis

    I’m so sorry about Melisande. You’re right, whenever we lose a pet, it’s much too soon.

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    J R in WV

    Lee,

    Thanks for the great bird photos. We had for years a cardinal that would attack every window (in a house with over 40 of the damned things) one by one as he saw his own stupid reflection, whacking into the glass with his bill. You think their chirps are bad, Whack!! Whack !! Whackwhack!! For a couple of hours every morning for at least a month while the eggs are being tended.

    Tiny stupid dinosaurs that fly! I love them all (except cowbirds) anyway, they are so diverse and beautiful. Especially the piliated woodpeckers! So like a dinosaur flying away should look!!

    Alain, sorry to hear about your kitty. You did the right thing. As livestock people, with horses, etc, many cats and dogs, my biggest regret is always when I wait too long to take a beloved cat of dog into our vet clinic at their end of life. I have put some animals down myself, and I can see why some vets hate that part of their practice, but I never regret it afterwards myself, because they need it so badly.

    Everyone, thanks for all your pictures and your stories. I love photography, it is important to me to be able to take my camera and make pictures, I wish I had the patience to make art other ways, but I just can’t make that happen.

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    J R in WV

    @Gin & Tonic:

    G&T, are you planning each day as it comes, or did you arrange a tour before you flew over? We’ve done it both ways, and I feel like the prearranged tour makes us get out and around more than just being there trying to figure out what to do tomorrow… maybe we’re just not creative travelers?

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    Gin & Tonic

    @J R in WV: We have certain checkpoints, i.e. today’s trip from Stockholm to Oslo was fixed a while ago. But the last three days were kind of improvisational, and in the process we stumbled on several interesting yet unplanned things. Serendipity has worked pretty well most of the time. I know it’s not for everyone, though.

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