Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

I’m starting to think Jesus may have made a mistake saving people with no questions asked.

They are lying in pursuit of an agenda.

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

It’s pointless to bring up problems that can only be solved with a time machine.

Everything is totally normal and fine!!!

“Jesus paying for the sins of everyone is an insult to those who paid for their own sins.”

Every one of the “Roberts Six” lied to get on the court.

The problem people have with Biden’s age is the color of the VPs skin.

The next time the wall street journal editorial board speaks the truth will be the first.

I didn’t have alien invasion on my 2023 BINGO card.

There is no compromise when it comes to body autonomy. You either have it or you don’t.

If senate republicans had any shame, they’d die of it.

The party of Reagan has become the party of Putin.

Washington Post’s Catch and Kill, not noticeably better than the Enquirer’s.

Is it negotiation when the other party actually wants to shoot the hostage?

Following reporting rules is only for the little people, apparently.

The choice is between normal and crazy.

“I never thought they’d lock HIM up,” sobbed a distraught member of the Lock Her Up Party.

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

Republicans got rid of McCarthy. Democrats chose not to save him.

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

Usually wrong but never in doubt

The line between political reporting and fan fiction continues to blur.

Come on, man.

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For some reason ‘Kill my chickens, and I will resort to humiliating you on camera’ seems very… appropriate?

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  1. 1.

    tokyokie

    I’ve got a couple of meezers who are dependent upon me for food and shelter, but when they do something naughty, I sigh and clean up the damage, BECAUSE THEY’RE FUCKING CATS AND DON’T OBEY! And this hoser is lecturing a large, wild cat. Oy

     

    Oh, and Frist!

  3. 3.

    Anne Laurie

    @tokyokie: To be fair, I’ve known cases where humiliation worked to discourage a domestic cat from repeating undesirable-to-human behaviors!

    The infamous God Bottle (spray bottle filled with water), as a deterrent to counter-surfing or curtain-climbing, for example.

    And in my experience, meezers (Siamese) are much more susceptible to humiliation-retraining than Maine Coons.  Coon cats just DO NOT GIVE A SH*T about our so-called ‘humiliation’, it’s not *their* problem that we humans can’t take a joke.

    But even in my misspent youth, I’d never have had the presence of mind to try it on a lynx, or even a bobcat…

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    Amir Khalid

    In 16 years, I only ever yelled at Bianca once: when she was little and tried to get up on the dinner table. It was our first week together or thereabouts, and I didn’t have a Spray Bottle of Watery Death handy. It worked: she never tried it again. (I like to think she forgave me.)​

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    cckids

    As teens, my kids had a friend who lived out in rural Nevada; she was an excellent competitive skeet shooter and also had a passel of cats, both indoor and barn kitties. One morning, hearing squalling from outside, she ran out & found a bobcat dragging off one of the barn cats. She grabbed one of her guns, went out & whacked it and scolded it until it dropped her cat.

    Her dad asked (in disbelief) why she didn’t just shoot the bobcat. She replied, in horror, “It’s a cat too! I didn’t want to hurt it!”

    Both kitties were fine.

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    montanareddog

    @Anne Laurie: I take it that cats in general cannot stand the feeling of sprayed liquid? I once used a spray bottle of anti-tick/flea liquid on our rescue tabby when she was little and much skin and hair flew. Ever since then, when I use a spray bottle on the orchids, she shoots off up the stairs and hides.

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    Dan B

    I’ve been outpatient for IV antibiotics twice, actually four visits the first time – one bite, four jabs, from my kitties.  I guess I should have grabbed them by the scruff.  The second culprit currently let’s me pick him up now that he’s decided I can be trained for useful things like back massage and purr inducing skritches.  It’s like graduating basic training with one session of crawling under barbed wire, aka CLAWS!

  13. 13.

    Amir Khalid

    @cckids:

    Her dad asked (in disbelief) why she didn’t just shoot the bobcat. She replied, in horror, “It’s a cat too! I didn’t want to hurt it!”

    I understand her thinking and sympathise with it.

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    prostratedragon

    @Anne Laurie:  I taught a kitten not to scratch by showing him the cut and whimpering and lecturing a little like the lynx man. It really worked, and he did seem rather crestfallen.

    Don’t know if I’d have caught a lynx, though, that’s boss.

    Edit: Oh yeah, he was Siamese. A pretty old-style guy.

  16. 16.

    Mary G

    I wanted him to shut up so I could hear the growling. The chickens weren’t too happy about the lecture and wanted blood for blood. Pretty cool to see though.

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    karen marie

    @?BillinGlendaleCA:  It’s a hard thing but also the last good thing you can do for your well-loved pet to help them to their final rest in peace. Take consolation in their life well lived.

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    OzarkHillbilly

    Don’t try this at home, folks. It was pure dumb luck that the lynx was a young ‘un. A fully adult lynx, with fully developed fight/flight instincts, would’ve filleted him from head to toe.

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    J R in WV

    @?BillinGlendaleCA: ​
     

    Sorry to hear that, glad you are taking good care of yorkiepom, tho. Last best hardest thing we do for our fur babies. Hope all goes as well as can be. It is really hard, I know…

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