He doesn’t need to dream, he’s got a pretty sweet situation IRL. One handsome slab of cat, and already growing out of his summer cut into furry magnificence.
@Suzanne: You mean more bonkers. Alain is working on it.
11.
West of the Rockies
Question for the BJ commentariot:
Okay, MSNBC has “Republican” pundits like Schmidt and David Jolley and Michael Steele… Schmidt no longer even identifies as Repub. Jolley may be about to leave the party, too.
They routinely bash Trump and their cohorts (former cohorts).
Fox has “liberal” Dershowitz. Do you think Dershowitz is now essentially a Republican or is he just saying what he thinks his Fox audience wants to hear?
@Major Major Major Major: I honestly don’t know why people have problems. I run the website on chrome and firefox (and I have edge and opera installed just to check when people complain) and I never have any of these problems on my desktop or macbook, and I never have any problems on safari on my iphone. I have ONCE in five years had an ad with volume, and I muted it and I have never had a problem again. I don’t get it. Maybe I am low maintenance and just don’t notice things that others do- I don’t notice commercials on tv because I just tune out and read until they are over, so that may be it. I also have a fuckton of memory on my desktop and the max on my macbook, so maybe it is that.
14.
Luthe
@Major Major Major Major: Welp, one just popped up on mine, so it must be a work in progress.
Dersh is suffering from The Gulianni Paradox, and of course, Hamptons Shunning Syndrome.
Dude be cray-cray.
16.
smike
@John Cole:
I run Firefox on a laptop, but I keep my sound muted until I want to use it. I see few ads on the site, but I never hear them (which suits me fine).
17.
Freemark
He was having a nightmare about a guy waking him up by taking pictures of him
18.
Yutsano
STEVE IS NOT FAT! HE IS FLOOFY!!!
I’m gonna sic proper authoritahs on you…
19.
Mary G
I haven’t put any Ad Block type software on this computer, and I get the video ad that keeps sliding into the bottom right corner, but it has no sound. It’s a minor annoyance I am happy to ignore. On the Kindle and Samsung tablets it’s more aggravating, because I am half blind so the site is zoomed in and the ad takes up a third of the screen. It’s apparently impossible to click the x to close it, not matter how hard I try. Still no big deal. I have the superfast cable internet package, so that may help the site load fast for me.
20.
Mary G
He’s at it again:
NO COLLUSION – RIGGED WITCH HUNT!— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) August 23, 2018
@John Cole: I never had an auto play audio ad here, but the streaming looping video really chewed through my phone’s battery. And that’s with just one of them making it through an adblocker! Not to mention a lot of folks are on fixed data plans.
Anyway, lots of users reporting a problem you can’t even reproduce? This is why frontend development is haaaaard.
24.
AnotherBruce
I too have a lovable fat cat. He loves to love and he loves to eat, not necessarily in that order. His name is Bonks, because he loves to headbutt and play kitty kissy face. He’s a very talkative cat who gets into everything. I think he’s trying to develop an opposable thumb. It’s kind of a tragic story. I had a friend that succumbed to cancer. She raised Bonks and cherished him. And I could never thank her enough for trusting that I would take care of Bonks. I talk to him about my friend, because who knows what Cats can understand.
@Debbie (Aussie): 1960 was better, today’s my roommate from college’s b-day(still would be tomorrow here on the proper coast).
31.
Betty Cracker
Badger finished puppy school this (well, yesterday) evening. He was a bit wobbly on some skills, but I think he was valedictorian since he’s the only one who didn’t shit on the floor.
32.
HRA
I do not comment regularly. So it is not a problem for me to put in my name and email. I have tried to change the email to my new email and it will not take. I do need advice on how to get it done.
The only ad that makes me crazy is the one with the hand out and finger pointing.
Happy Birthday, eemom!
.
33.
Jay
In coming!!!!!!!!!!!
Friendly Fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“The legal bombshells that exploded around President Donald Trump on Tuesday sent most congressional Republicans diving for cover. Rep. Tom Cole isn’t one of them.
The Oklahoma conservative, in a Wednesday interview, didn’t hide his alarm over the eight felony convictions of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and eight felony guilty pleas by Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. He warned his party against retreating into “a fantasy world” that assumes Trump’s predicament is not both disturbing and hazardous for the GOP.
The allegation that Trump ordered crimes to which Cohen has pleaded guilty is “potentially very dangerous,” the eight-term lawmaker said. Taken together, he added, the Manafort and Cohen cases weaken the Republican campaign to keep control of Congress so long as Democrats don’t overplay their hand with a rush toward impeachment.
And as Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation continues, Cole didn’t rule out even a GOP Congress acting to cut Trump’s presidency short.
“If something comes out that is clear and convincing and impeachable, I think members will act,” Cole said. He called it “too soon” for a congressional impeachment inquiry, though “I’ll leave that to the Judiciary Committee.”
Cole’s words represent a red flag for fellow Republicans. A former chair of the Oklahoma GOP, chief of staff for the national party and head of the House campaign committee, he is among the most politically savvy members of the Republican caucus.
The most immediate consequence of Tuesday’s legal developments, he said, is provide Mueller with additional insulation from Trump allies seeking to shut down his investigation. Though the Manafort charges didn’t concern Russian meddling, he explained, the guilty verdicts mean “you can’t dismiss it as a witch hunt.”
“I don’t know what it is,” Cole said of the special counsel probe. “Yesterday was a pretty sobering day. The Mueller probe needs to be allowed to proceed.”
Our two cats are on the chubby side of healthy and Mr. Trowel almost cries every time the vet tells him they ought to be skinnier.
in other news: Australia appears to be without a government again. Looks like we’re well on our way to our 5th PM in the 6 years I’ve lived here. Bloody backstabbing politicians who’d rather jockey for power in the party room than actually f’ing govern!
@Jay: Ha! Yeah, our problem is that the cats are very different sizes. Gambit is big boned and muscular (and would be entirely indolent if it were up to him) whilst little brother Storm is wirey and hyperactive but also hungrier. We have yet to figure out how to feed them separately without a massive freakout so Gambit gets about what he should get fed while Storm gets a bit too much
48.
Doug R
@eemom: Another class of ’62 like Tom Cruise, Steve Carrell, Jodi Foster and myself.
49.
Shell
@Mary G: yes, Donald. We heard you the first 3000 times you screamed it.
We just have a never ending food bowl. Jellyman, the shed roof Kitty is skinny and hyper. Little Bit, who fit in one hand when we got her and had a pipe cleaner for a tail, has gotten “chunky”. But then, she spent 10 years wrestling with a Pittie, just for fun and tripping a Belgian when she felt like it.
Cappy, Capra, a beautiful orange tabby, long passed, was the only one who could handle her, when she had her oats up. He’d put her in a choke hold then use her as a pillow once she passed out.
Jelly does that sometimes. I just clean it up. Dude spent two years abandoned by his family when they moved, living on a rotting shed roof in an area with a whole bunch of predators.
Bitsie was a barn kitten. She had a better life.
56.
opiejeanne
@John Cole: I’m on a Mac Book and the ads have started annoying me just recently. I tend to keep the whole computer on mute to avoid bothering my husband while he sleeps and I do the insomnia dance.
When you change your e-mail, the site sees you as a new commenter, and your comments will not appear until you have been “approved” by a front-pager. I hope that has happened, since we are seeing this message.
@zhena gogolia:
Most people don’t know that this song was originally written for cats like Steve.
I love, I love, I love my calendar cat
Yeah, sweet calendar cat
I love, I love, I love my calendar cat
Every day
Every day
Of the year. Every day of the year.
74.
sherparick
@West of the Rockies: Dershowitz is saying what he thinks his audience (in particular Donald Trump and Sheldon Adelson) want to hear. Also, Dershowitz and his shilling for Trump are completely understandable, despite his “liberal” reputation regarding American politics, as he is a complete Likudnik and Netanyanhu fan boy regarding Israel and the Middle East. Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran is his favorite song.
@Steeplejack (phone): When you look at her web site, it is obvious that she is quoting the story from Harwood. I expect more of an error when she tried to post the link or thought the link was there in the text, not malice.
Tom Cole has a history of being independent from time to time. That’s partially why he lost his position as NRCC chair. I’m not surprised that he’d speak up like this.
4. The national media will screw up some obvious detail about Evansville
“The small Indiana city just outside Chicago …”
5. Speaking of the media …
Man, those rallygoers are gonna boo the hell out of us. They sure did last time Trump was in town, and the rage building around the press has only grown since then.
I’m really leaning towards joining the protesters, but getting inside and booing sounds good as well. ?
84.
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
Booing Trump, that is, not the media.
Other than Fox, that is.?
85.
David Hunt
@eemom: Happy Birthday! Today is number *mumble* for me too.
My cat used to be nice and round like Steve; but, at 17, she is now quite skinny. Still, the vet tells me she is very healthy for her age. Now, she and I are having a contest to see which of us lives longer. However, I keep reminding her that if she does live longer than I, she will have to live with a friend of mine who has 7 cats and one dog, which I think she would hate.
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Mary G
Fish dinner you made. Those eyes are gorgeous.
lahke
Probably the way he’ll scratch you when you rub that tempting tummy.
HumboldtBlue
Is this mic on?
Tip-tip-pfft-tip?
sfinny
That is one happy cat. Totally miss having a cat in the house.
Major Major Major Major
Hmm, wasn’t Rosie in that bed last time?
Suzanne
The ads on this site are making me crazy.
Edmund Dantes
http://www.lawyersgunsmoneyblog.com/2018/08/help-boys-making-noise
This is freaking bonkers.
Wallis Lane
He doesn’t need to dream, he’s got a pretty sweet situation IRL. One handsome slab of cat, and already growing out of his summer cut into furry magnificence.
Luthe
Food, duh.
John Cole
@Suzanne: You mean more bonkers. Alain is working on it.
West of the Rockies
Question for the BJ commentariot:
Okay, MSNBC has “Republican” pundits like Schmidt and David Jolley and Michael Steele… Schmidt no longer even identifies as Repub. Jolley may be about to leave the party, too.
They routinely bash Trump and their cohorts (former cohorts).
Fox has “liberal” Dershowitz. Do you think Dershowitz is now essentially a Republican or is he just saying what he thinks his Fox audience wants to hear?
Major Major Major Major
@John Cole: my phone is very pleased that he removed the videos from the mobile site :)
John Cole
@Major Major Major Major: I honestly don’t know why people have problems. I run the website on chrome and firefox (and I have edge and opera installed just to check when people complain) and I never have any of these problems on my desktop or macbook, and I never have any problems on safari on my iphone. I have ONCE in five years had an ad with volume, and I muted it and I have never had a problem again. I don’t get it. Maybe I am low maintenance and just don’t notice things that others do- I don’t notice commercials on tv because I just tune out and read until they are over, so that may be it. I also have a fuckton of memory on my desktop and the max on my macbook, so maybe it is that.
Luthe
@Major Major Major Major: Welp, one just popped up on mine, so it must be a work in progress.
Jay
@West of the Rockies:
Dersh is suffering from The Gulianni Paradox, and of course, Hamptons Shunning Syndrome.
Dude be cray-cray.
smike
@John Cole:
I run Firefox on a laptop, but I keep my sound muted until I want to use it. I see few ads on the site, but I never hear them (which suits me fine).
Freemark
He was having a nightmare about a guy waking him up by taking pictures of him
Yutsano
STEVE IS NOT FAT! HE IS FLOOFY!!!
I’m gonna sic proper authoritahs on you…
Mary G
I haven’t put any Ad Block type software on this computer, and I get the video ad that keeps sliding into the bottom right corner, but it has no sound. It’s a minor annoyance I am happy to ignore. On the Kindle and Samsung tablets it’s more aggravating, because I am half blind so the site is zoomed in and the ad takes up a third of the screen. It’s apparently impossible to click the x to close it, not matter how hard I try. Still no big deal. I have the superfast cable internet package, so that may help the site load fast for me.
Mary G
He’s at it again:
eemom
Fixed and agreed.
eemom
This is my 56th birthday.
Major Major Major Major
@John Cole: I never had an auto play audio ad here, but the streaming looping video really chewed through my phone’s battery. And that’s with just one of them making it through an adblocker! Not to mention a lot of folks are on fixed data plans.
Anyway, lots of users reporting a problem you can’t even reproduce? This is why frontend development is haaaaard.
AnotherBruce
I too have a lovable fat cat. He loves to love and he loves to eat, not necessarily in that order. His name is Bonks, because he loves to headbutt and play kitty kissy face. He’s a very talkative cat who gets into everything. I think he’s trying to develop an opposable thumb. It’s kind of a tragic story. I had a friend that succumbed to cancer. She raised Bonks and cherished him. And I could never thank her enough for trusting that I would take care of Bonks. I talk to him about my friend, because who knows what Cats can understand.
Mary G
@eemom: Happy Birthday! ????
Debbie (Aussie)
@eemom:
Happy birthday ??????? 1962 was a good year!
Jay
@eemom:
Happy Birthday, you don’t post a day over 35.
Betty Cracker
@Mary G: He must be incredibly tormented to scream at the nation with his thumbs in the wee hours. Good.
@eemom: Happy birthday!
Jay
@AnotherBruce:
Cat’s understand everything, even the Hadron Collider,
The subset of what they care about is much, much smaller.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Debbie (Aussie): 1960 was better, today’s my roommate from college’s b-day(still would be tomorrow here on the proper coast).
Betty Cracker
Badger finished puppy school this (well, yesterday) evening. He was a bit wobbly on some skills, but I think he was valedictorian since he’s the only one who didn’t shit on the floor.
HRA
I do not comment regularly. So it is not a problem for me to put in my name and email. I have tried to change the email to my new email and it will not take. I do need advice on how to get it done.
The only ad that makes me crazy is the one with the hand out and finger pointing.
Happy Birthday, eemom!
.
Jay
In coming!!!!!!!!!!!
Friendly Fire!!!!!!!!!!!!!
“The legal bombshells that exploded around President Donald Trump on Tuesday sent most congressional Republicans diving for cover. Rep. Tom Cole isn’t one of them.
The Oklahoma conservative, in a Wednesday interview, didn’t hide his alarm over the eight felony convictions of former Trump campaign chairman Paul Manafort and eight felony guilty pleas by Trump lawyer Michael Cohen. He warned his party against retreating into “a fantasy world” that assumes Trump’s predicament is not both disturbing and hazardous for the GOP.
The allegation that Trump ordered crimes to which Cohen has pleaded guilty is “potentially very dangerous,” the eight-term lawmaker said. Taken together, he added, the Manafort and Cohen cases weaken the Republican campaign to keep control of Congress so long as Democrats don’t overplay their hand with a rush toward impeachment.
And as Robert Mueller’s Russia investigation continues, Cole didn’t rule out even a GOP Congress acting to cut Trump’s presidency short.
“If something comes out that is clear and convincing and impeachable, I think members will act,” Cole said. He called it “too soon” for a congressional impeachment inquiry, though “I’ll leave that to the Judiciary Committee.”
Cole’s words represent a red flag for fellow Republicans. A former chair of the Oklahoma GOP, chief of staff for the national party and head of the House campaign committee, he is among the most politically savvy members of the Republican caucus.
The most immediate consequence of Tuesday’s legal developments, he said, is provide Mueller with additional insulation from Trump allies seeking to shut down his investigation. Though the Manafort charges didn’t concern Russian meddling, he explained, the guilty verdicts mean “you can’t dismiss it as a witch hunt.”
“I don’t know what it is,” Cole said of the special counsel probe. “Yesterday was a pretty sobering day. The Mueller probe needs to be allowed to proceed.”
https://digbysblog.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-first-crack.html?m=1
Jay
@Betty Cracker:
Did he get a reward?
Participation trophies are apparently important.
AnotherBruce
@Mary G: Seems kind of rote. Guy just cannot get the word “collusion” out of his head.
Major Major Major Major
@Betty Cracker: go badger!
CaseyL
@Betty Cracker:
That’s an important skill for a dog, not shitting on the floor. He should at least make Dean’s list.
Congrats, Badger!
Major Major Major Major
@CaseyL: I didn’t even learn that one in human school! …not that I needed to, it just wasn’t offered.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Betty Cracker: I know that’s how I got my degree.
TheMightyTrowel
Our two cats are on the chubby side of healthy and Mr. Trowel almost cries every time the vet tells him they ought to be skinnier.
in other news: Australia appears to be without a government again. Looks like we’re well on our way to our 5th PM in the 6 years I’ve lived here. Bloody backstabbing politicians who’d rather jockey for power in the party room than actually f’ing govern!
Jay
@?BillinGlendaleCA:
Crap, now I know why I didn’t matriculate.
?BillinGlendaleCA
I stopped by The Huntington today, it was twice as stinky as my previous visit.
?BillinGlendaleCA
@Jay: Yeah, crap will do it every time.
Jay
@TheMightyTrowel:
The Vet said Little Bit was too fat.
I said she was big boned and muscular.
He said no, she’s not and started to touch her.
She pushed him away, jumped down off the table, pushed the fridge out from the wall and hid behind it.
He said, “yup, she’s big boned and muscular”.
Redshift
@Jay: You shouldn’t matriculate on the floor either.
Jay
@Redshift:
I matriculate on the couch.
TheMightyTrowel
@Jay: Ha! Yeah, our problem is that the cats are very different sizes. Gambit is big boned and muscular (and would be entirely indolent if it were up to him) whilst little brother Storm is wirey and hyperactive but also hungrier. We have yet to figure out how to feed them separately without a massive freakout so Gambit gets about what he should get fed while Storm gets a bit too much
Doug R
@eemom: Another class of ’62 like Tom Cruise, Steve Carrell, Jodi Foster and myself.
Shell
@Mary G: yes, Donald. We heard you the first 3000 times you screamed it.
Jay
@TheMightyTrowel:
We just have a never ending food bowl. Jellyman, the shed roof Kitty is skinny and hyper. Little Bit, who fit in one hand when we got her and had a pipe cleaner for a tail, has gotten “chunky”. But then, she spent 10 years wrestling with a Pittie, just for fun and tripping a Belgian when she felt like it.
Cappy, Capra, a beautiful orange tabby, long passed, was the only one who could handle her, when she had her oats up. He’d put her in a choke hold then use her as a pillow once she passed out.
California Stars
@eemom: Happy day!
sukabi
@West of the Rockies: I think Dersh has wandered naked on the beach too long and fried his tiny brains.
TheMightyTrowel
@Jay: ours are rescue cats and obviously had a traumatic kittenhood. if we leave food available they eat compulsively until they barf then keep eating
Jay
@sukabi:
Nope, he put raisins in the potato salad and gestated turkeys too long for the Hamptons crowd.
He’s desperately searching for a new crowd to hang with.
Jay
@TheMightyTrowel:
Jelly does that sometimes. I just clean it up. Dude spent two years abandoned by his family when they moved, living on a rotting shed roof in an area with a whole bunch of predators.
Bitsie was a barn kitten. She had a better life.
opiejeanne
@John Cole: I’m on a Mac Book and the ads have started annoying me just recently. I tend to keep the whole computer on mute to avoid bothering my husband while he sleeps and I do the insomnia dance.
opiejeanne
@eemom: Happy birthday!
Ian R
@Betty Cracker: So puppies are graded on the same curve that the media uses for republican lawmakers?
opiejeanne
@Jay: What species is Little Bit?
Jay
@opiejeanne:
Cat
rikyrah
@Betty Cracker:
Yeah Badger, with your cute self??
rikyrah
Steve still scares me, but it’s obvious what he’s thinking about . .
How he is going to take over the world ??
eemom
Thank you so much for the kind birthday wishes, y’all. ❤️❤️❤️
I am too old to be up this late/early.
NotMax
@eemom
Happy birthday.
Steeplejack (phone)
@eemom:
Happy birthday! ????
Steeplejack (phone)
@HRA:
When you change your e-mail, the site sees you as a new commenter, and your comments will not appear until you have been “approved” by a front-pager. I hope that has happened, since we are seeing this message.
Steeplejack (phone)
@Jay:
Shame on Digby. That whole post is an unattributed story by John Harwood of CNBC.
columbusqueen
@AnotherBruce: That is beautiful–you, sir, are a great soul.
Just One More Canuck
@?BillinGlendaleCA: well, you did go to UCLA
And happy birthday, eemom
debbie
@eemom:
Happy birthday!
zhena gogolia
I love you, Steve! You’re on my calendar this month and I don’t want September to come.
Aleta
@eemom:
⭐️ Happy birthday! ⭐️
⭐️ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tNug_S5HxZE ⭐️
Aleta
@zhena gogolia:
Most people don’t know that this song was originally written for cats like Steve.
sherparick
@West of the Rockies: Dershowitz is saying what he thinks his audience (in particular Donald Trump and Sheldon Adelson) want to hear. Also, Dershowitz and his shilling for Trump are completely understandable, despite his “liberal” reputation regarding American politics, as he is a complete Likudnik and Netanyanhu fan boy regarding Israel and the Middle East. Bomb, bomb, bomb Iran is his favorite song.
sherparick
@Mary G: Steve’s dreams? Breakfast!:-)
sherparick
@eemom: Happy Birthday!
sherparick
@Steeplejack (phone): When you look at her web site, it is obvious that she is quoting the story from Harwood. I expect more of an error when she tried to post the link or thought the link was there in the text, not malice.
Kathleen
@eemom: Happy Birthday!
David Hunt
He’s dreaming about taking a nap.
laura
Like Jiro, Steve dreams of Sushi.
J R in WV
@eemom:
Happy Birthday, youngen!! I’m sneaking up on 68 later on this year, and 56 is better. I was tearing into a building project hands on when I was 56.
JoeyJoeJoe
@Jay:
Tom Cole has a history of being independent from time to time. That’s partially why he lost his position as NRCC chair. I’m not surprised that he’d speak up like this.
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
The Devil is coming to Evansville on August 30.
Local columnist has a list of predictions
I’m really leaning towards joining the protesters, but getting inside and booing sounds good as well. ?
Darrin Ziliak (formerly glocksman)
Booing Trump, that is, not the media.
Other than Fox, that is.?
David Hunt
@eemom: Happy Birthday! Today is number *mumble* for me too.
Jane2
@eemom: Happy Birthday!! Have cake.
Jane2
@David Hunt: And happy birthday to you as well!!
D58826
@TheMightyTrowel:
Backstabbing is easy. Almost as easy as front stabbing. Governing is HARD
No One You Know
@AnotherBruce: co-sign on all points!
Bonnie
My cat used to be nice and round like Steve; but, at 17, she is now quite skinny. Still, the vet tells me she is very healthy for her age. Now, she and I are having a contest to see which of us lives longer. However, I keep reminding her that if she does live longer than I, she will have to live with a friend of mine who has 7 cats and one dog, which I think she would hate.