Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

There are consequences to being an arrogant, sullen prick.

Democrats are back in array!

I’m more Christian than these people and I’m an atheist.

Be a traveling stable for those who can’t find room at the inn.

Can we lighten up on the doomsday scenarios?

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

You can’t attract Republican voters. You can only out organize them.

Republicans in disarray!

I’ve spoken to my cat about this, but it doesn’t seem to do any good.

There are a lot more evil idiots than evil geniuses.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

Let’s show the world that autocracy can be defeated.

“In the future, this lab will be a museum. don’t touch it.”

I did not have this on my fuck 2022 bingo card.

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

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

Republican speaker of the house Mike Johnson is the bland and smiling face of evil.

There are more Russians standing up to Putin than Republicans.

Today’s gop: why go just far enough when too far is right there?

Trump makes a mockery of the legal system and cowardly judges just sit back and let him.

GOP baffled that ‘we don’t care if you die’ is not a winning slogan.

Their freedom requires your slavery.

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

You are so fucked. Still, I wish you the best of luck.

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Saturday Morning Open Thread: Cat Rescue Update!

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Loki and Fiona seem to be adjusting to their new home (and housemates) nicely. Many thanks to cat angel Greg M:

We did have the names crossed up. Loki is the Tortie and Fiona is the Blue.

Loki is certainly the more brave of the two. She was poking her head out as soon as I opened the carriers. For her courage she was greeted with a dog snout and a lick. She didn’t seem to mind.

After a few minutes I took both cats downstairs where we’re setting up their litter. It’s a large space so it’s not ideal for adapting them to their new place but because we’re still moving in it has lots of nooks and crannies for them. Also it will be easier to deal with any accidents. Speaking of, both cats seem to have used the litter box last night so I am less concerned about that.

After a few minutes I went upstairs to eat dinner. Loki took the 15 minute gap to leave her carrier and find a bookshelf to perch on. She hid there until I set out the food dishes. She go much braver as soon as she had some grub.

Fiona was content to stay in her carrier.

Pepper, our border collie, reintroduced herself to Loki. It looks like they’ll get along fine. Every time she tried to say hello to Fiona she would get hissed at and retreat. Pepper is not the bravest dog in the world.

For the most part that was the course of the night. I did, after four hours, decide that Fiona needed to come out of the carrier for two reasons. One: She wanted attention and was loudly letting us know she wanted attention. Two: I really wanted her to use the litter box. After I helped Fiona out of the carrier and let her have some lap time she was fine. Neither cat went back into their carriers.

That’s about it so far. I had been up for 18 hours at that point so I went to bed. This morning both cats were up and about and exploring their new digs. The first thing both of the kids did when they got up was to ask to see the kitties. It’s still early days but it looks like everyone is going to settle in fine.

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108Comments

  1. 1.

    satby

    What great news to wake up to! Congratulations on the newest family members Greg M, and thanks for giving us all a new happy ending to a rescue story.

  2. 2.

    OzarkHillbilly

    Every time she tried to say hello to Fiona she would get hissed at and retreat. Pepper is not the bravest dog in the world.

    Pepper was just being polite.

  3. 3.

    something fabulous

    Welcome, kitties! GregM and fam, you did a good thing! Many blessings to all!

  6. 6.

    Van Buren

    I have a rescue Lhasa Apso named Fiona. She’s still shy, but is a good little girl.

  13. 13.

    spudgun

    Aww, poor sweet Pepper…good dog!

    So relieved that this bleg had a swift and happy conclusion – congrats to Greg M and family!

  16. 16.

    raven

    @NotMax: It was fun, she was a student of a buddy of mine who flew choppers in 62-63 (he’s 83 now) so we had him and a couple of other artists over for dinner and a good time was had by all. The bakery is not going to change back so I’m still trying to figure out what to do from 7-8am. I may go hammer out my laps since the Y opens at 7.

    On the other hand it’s in the mid 60’s so it’s a good time to be outside!

  18. 18.

    NotMax

    Great movie? No sirree bob. Shift into neutral though, and it’s an amusing enough ride, especially so for gear heads. On TCM at 6 p.m. Eastern today, The Gumball Rally.

    “What-sa behind me is not important.”

  19. 19.

    NotMax

    @raven

    Consider yourself fortunate. Town where Mom lives (population ~10,000) lost its last locally owned bakery some years ago. Crying shame, as it was a really good one. The ones inside the supermarkets nowadays just don’t cut the mustard.

  21. 21.

    Raven

    @NotMax: I come here (I’m here now with my own) for the coffee and because it’s such a great place for the pups. I rarely eat anything.

  22. 22.

    eclare

    Thank you for the update! Sounds like a good start, my cats and dogs have always gotten along.

  23. 23.

    Steeplejack

    Today is the housecat’s 19th “birthday” (quotes because of slightly murky origin story). I’ve had her—Stella—since she was 12, and it has been my privilege to make her life as comfortable and secure as possible. She’s small and skinny and deaf, but she’s got a good appetite and makes sure to get her 15-20 hours of beauty sleep every day, so we’re on track for another good year.

  25. 25.

    Steeplejack

    @NotMax:

    Gotta brag on my friend who wrote that article, Margaret Engel. I’ve known her since J-school many (many!) years ago. She (with her twin sister Allison) is also the author of that play Red-Hot Patriot: The Kick-Ass Wit of Molly Ivins.

  26. 26.

    NotMax

    Go figure.

    Watched a documentary about snow and now for some reason episodes of The Lawrence Welk Show are being pushed on me in the Because You Watched listing. The AI sometimes does go schizoid, as it did a few weeks ago when it offered up recommendations, side by side, for American Psycho and Mr. Rogers’ Neighborhood.

    :)

  27. 27.

    Immanentize

    @Raven:
    That made my day.
    Once upon a time we built grand buildings — courthouses, city centers, even post offices — to say to people that doing business with government was important and maybe even inspiring. I am really not sure when that ended (60s?) Or why.

  28. 28.

    debbie

    It’s a large space so it’s not ideal for adapting them to their new place but because we’re still moving in it has lots of nooks and crannies for them.

    BOXES! Boxes, boxes, boxes!

  29. 29.

    MomSense

    Thank you, Greg M for the happy news this morning. Those kitties are so sweet.

    @NotMax:

    Love Randy ????❤️?

  30. 30.

    Immanentize

    @NotMax:

    Watched a documentary about snow and now for some reason episodes of The Lawrence Welk Show are being pushed on me

    Well, snow is “wonnerful, wunnerful.”

  32. 32.

    MazeDancer

    If Fiona will sit in your lap already and Loki not running from the dog, you’re golden.

    Such great news!

  33. 33.

    Mary G

    I love a happy ending. Thanks for sending the photos, Greg M. Not everyone would take in new cats while moving. Pepper will win over Fiona eventually!

  36. 36.

    NotMax

    @Immanentize

    One minor job was assigned when worked at the ad agency was to put together a report and presentation replete with statistics to convince General Foods to keep on sponsoring that show with Sanka ads when it switched to all rerun syndication.

    Long story short, they did.

  38. 38.

    Immanentize

    @NotMax: It worked! My grandmother who was devoted to Welk drank Sanka. Ah the power of advertising. :-)

  39. 39.

    germy

    Brands during Pride month:

    ? Exxon: no matter who you love, we’ll make sure your children don’t have a livable planet

    ? Amazon: we treat all of our warehouse workers like dirt, regardless of their sexual orientation

    ? Raytheon: our tomahawk missiles don’t discriminate

    — Evan Greer (@evan_greer) May 30, 2019

  41. 41.

    Skepticat

    @OzarkHillbilly:

    Pepper was just being polite.

    Pepper was just being smart. I never worried about my insignificant other’s big dogs hurting my cats; I was always concerned the cats would rip the dogs to shreds.

    Thanks for a good start to the day, Greg.

  43. 43.

    Sab

    @Skepticat: We had a big tuxedo cat (and three others) when we adopted my step-daughter’s rott mix dog. The dog was about 12 months old.

    The tuxedo took one look at the rott when she came in the front door, decided he didn’t like her attitude, launched himself across the living room over an armchair to land on her back with all his claws out.

    Eight years later she still tiptoes around him, and occassionaly has to be rescued when he backs her into a corner for attitude adjustment.

    The rott and the other cats sleep together on the sofa most nights.

  44. 44.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    Good morning. I’m out of town, visiting a friend in Iowa. Gorgeous weather here, though the town is on the Mississippi, which is threatening to flood.

  45. 45.

    Baud

    @germy:

    It’s good snark, but I prefer it when corporations raise their voices against discrimination. We don’t have that as many bulwarks against prejudice right now as we need.

  47. 47.

    MagdaInBlack

    I read about Bannon, then read about Ingraham, then, thank goddess, you gave me kitties and rescue angels to cleanse my soul of that filth.
    ?

  48. 48.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    Since it’s an open thread…

    So I’m in Bethesda MD this weekend just outside DC. We used to live in this area (well not this area, but the part of the county a few miles east that people here look down on).

    As we all know, brick and mortar bookstores are dying because of competition from Amazon. Even in Bethesda, which is retail heaven, the Barnes & Noble closed its doors years ago.

    So we were surprised to find that there’s a new brick and mortar bookstore here. And it’s run by… Amazon?!?!

  52. 52.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Ceci n est pas mon nym: I ended up buying two Marvel graphic novels, one with Shuri and one with Captain Marvel, even though I didn’t plan to buy anything and I never buy GNs.

    I blame Stan Lee and those dang movies. I love both these characters.

  61. 61.

    Ukko

    What would be a good resource for an aspiring indoor/outdoor rural cat owner? We are moving to 4 acres out of town and we know there is a healthy mouse population in the area. We would like to bring a cat to the coming mouse fight.

    Thing is, we have both lived with roommates who had cats but we were not really involved in their care and they were adult cats. There is a horse stable that regularly gives away highly socialized barn raised kittens. We were thinking of snagging a couple of kittens from there. But then what to do?

    Am I over thinking this?

  62. 62.

    Kay

    Ryan Goodman
    ‏Verified account
    @rgoodlaw
    May 31
    More
    Barr vs. Barr
    May 1 to Congress: “We accepted the Special Counsel’s legal framework for purposes of our analysis…in reaching our conclusion”
    May 31 to CBS: “We didn’t agree with …a lot of the legal analysis in the Report…So we applied what we thought was the right law.”

    Getting this on the record was the point of giving the interview. He knows he deliberately misrepresented that report (and so does everyone else) and he needs to cover his ass, so he’ll now say he used a different legal analysis so it wasn’t a lie. It’ll work too, because he didn’t issue a report so this process he (now) says he used can’t be verified, although it’s ridiculous in its face- his claim is he did this elaborate, rigorous analysis that involved input from other DOJ lawyers in 48 hours.
    I’m actually kind of pleased he thinks he’s vulnerable- they behave as if they know they’ll never be held accountable. I find it reassuring he told a second huge lie to cover the first huge lie- that he thought doing that was important.

  65. 65.

    Ohio Mom

    Help!! Still getting redirected to the porn site!

    Tried contacting a front pager three times and each time, interrupted by the redirect.

    This is the longest I’ve been able to stay here. Maybe because I erased the history of the last two days?

  66. 66.

    Kay

    @JPL:

    In Barr’s most recent version of events “we” is Barr and the other lawyers he discussed the (new) legal analysis with. His claim now is we didn’t get Mueller’s conclusions- facts applied to law. We got Barr’s conclusions- facts applied to different legal analysis. THEREFORE it wasn’t a lie. It also wasn’t Mueller’s conclusions, which is what he was supposed to be presenting, but that just went by in the interview :)

    If we had wanted Barr’s conclusions we would have hired Barr for the investigation/report, right? There goes the whole point of a special counsel! Woosh! I mean, no one wanted Donald Trump’s hack lawyer’s conclusions. Those we get daily.

  70. 70.

    Kay

    @NotMax:

    Oh, there will be something to compare it too, because he’s slyly hinting in this interview that it was an ordinary legal analysis – one they would use for any other person. They go after a lot of people, people who are not special cupcake Dear Leader. Those people are charged with obstruction and conspiracy, unlike Dear Leader. So there will be a lot of fact patterns to compare. But, he’s probably covered his ass on his blatant lie to the public at the podium- the lie that was quoted endlessly as fact in the first 48 hours after he told it.

  71. 71.

    Miss Bianca

    Yeah, Gregory! I am so glad you rescued those kitties, and to think you volunteered while still in the midst of the move. Do you mind if I share the detail about your daughter reading “Warrior Cats” to them? That’s the point where I died and went to Squee Heaven!

  72. 72.

    Kay

    @NotMax:

    You have to really understand the timeline to interview these people, because they deliberately misrepresent WHEN things occurred. Cheney and Barr both got away with it last week. They are saying that intelligence services went after “duly elected” Trump because they need this broad narrative that this is a “coup”. Except the investigations began before he was elected. In some of the cases of the crooks Trump hired they were under investigation before he hired them.

    It’s amazing to me that they get away with it because one of the things the public found out after Trump was elected was that he was under investigation. That was big news! BEFORE. Not after. So if investigating Trump was a coup then the intelligence services were running a coup on BOTH candidates, since they were also investigating Clinton.

  73. 73.

    tobie

    @germy: I recently had a friend visiting from the tech industry and he said that the going word in the research field is, “Amazon is the place where overachievers go to feel bad about themselves.”

  75. 75.

    Alain

    @Ohio Mom: I just flushed the cache but I’m unable to do more currently. Shift-reload the browser page to see if it improves.

  78. 78.

    Kristine

    I wonder why the malware affects mobile and not laptop. I got the redirect again today on my phone, and had to clear the cache etc. No more reading BJ on my phone for a while at least.

    I use the free version of Malwarebytes to regularly scan my laptop. Not sure if that helps.

  83. 83.

    Emma

    @rikyrah: There’s a problem with that. The rot cannot be stopped by the constitutional equivalent of the Avengers. Mueller did what he constitutionally could, including spelling out during his press appearance that in fact they did find problems but it is in fact up to Congress to act. Now it’s up to us to support any efforts made by the House to deal with the problem and to make sure the damage being done by gerrymandering and voting manipulations is undone. The work is up to us.

  86. 86.

    J R in WV

    @Ohio Mom:

    Help!! Still getting redirected to the porn site!

    Install an add-on ad blocker on your browser, I have two, Ghostery and uBlock Origin, and I never see any ads, let alone hostile take-over stuff. If you’re unsure how to do this, Google your browser name and “install Ghostery” — it isn’t hard.

  89. 89.

    J R in WV

    @NotMax:

    Yes, I have that installed also too. Just stopped after two well known tools. And there are a ton of places that show people how to install these common add-ons on all the various browsers. In this case any search engine is your friend.

    My default is DuckDuckGo, which is serious about your privacy, as opposed to Google, which values you as what they sell to their customers. I will confess sometimes I need to use Google, as they’re ahead of DuckDuckGo in some things…

    On the original post…
    Thanks so much to Greg M and his family for rescuing these fine kitties!!!

  90. 90.

    Alternative Fax, a hip hop artist from Idaho

    AL – thank you for this post to celebrate Caturday and Greg M, thank you for giving Loki and Fiona a dandy home. Pepper is a smart pup, as border collies tend to be.

    @Immanentize: congratulations to the Immp! ???

    @Steeplejack: Happy birthday to Stella???

  93. 93.

    germy

    Another white male reporter asked @KamalaHarris if she’s heir to Obama’s legacy.

    Her reply: “I was the elected district attorney of SF, I was the elected attorney general of the state of CA…and only the 2nd black woman elected to the U.S. Senate…

    I’VE EARNED MY OWN LEGACY.”

    — Kaivan Shroff (@KaivanShroff) June 1, 2019

  94. 94.

    Another Scott

    @Ohio Mom: Install the Brave browser. There are versions for iOS and Android and desktops.

    https://brave.com/

    Until the new site is rolled out, the site here will remain broken.

    Good luck.

    Cheers,
    Scott.

  95. 95.

    Mnemosyne

    @J R in WV:

    I’m also using DuckDuckGo and haven’t had the takeover problem … yet. ?

    @Another Scott:

    Brave stopped working well for me a few months ago — it wouldn’t let me use the “reply” button on the iPhone — so I switched to DuckDuckGo.

  96. 96.

    TomatoQueen

    Couldn’t ask for a better bleg result. Congratulations and loud purrs and boops to everyone. In other breathless news, 30 minutes to kickoff in the Chumps League final (TNT in the US or the Guardian live site) and Harry Kane will start. Water is being sold inside the stadium at FIVE EUROS a bottle and the local constables are acting nervy. Where’s Amir?

  97. 97.

    NotMax

    Wow. 9½ hours without a new front page post. Not a record but still a rarity.

    Is today the FPers annual party ’til you drop Clambake & Dance-a-thon?

    :)

  98. 98.

    raven

    @NotMax: There is a big bluegrass bbq pig gig we’re invited to and the boss lady just said she could hack it so now I have to whip up a big ass post of jambalaya!

  99. 99.

    Keith P.

    I’ve got an adopted cat spending her Saturday sitting on a pillow under an AC vent. She’s an old lady who got abandoned outside last summer when her owners moved without her. Her ears barely had any fur, and her nose was totally pink from getting eaten up by mosquitos. These days, she just eats, sleeps, and soaks up attention. She’ll even groom my 1-year old kitties (although she really doesn’t like them). Something very relaxing about a Saturday afternoon with a spoiled rehab cat.

  100. 100.

    Miss Bianca

    @NotMax: The number of front page postings appears to be inversely proportional to the amount of time I have to peruse them. ?

  103. 103.

    Lyrebird

    @Raven: Thank you for showcasing that project!

    Okay I am a softie for murals in the first place, and what a great way to use them.
    I wonder if the shelter might also be able to set up a Cafe Press site or something and sell cards/posters, sounds like the artists have given their work freely…

  105. 105.

    Steve in the ATL

    @Mnemosyne:

    Brave stopped working well for me a few months ago — it wouldn’t let me use the “reply” button on the iPhone — so I switched to DuckDuckGo.

    Ditto

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