Come for the politics, stay for the snark.

It’s always darkest before the other shoe drops.

My years-long effort to drive family and friends away has really paid off this year.

Thanks to your bullshit, we are now under siege.

Insiders who complain to politico: please report to the white house office of shut the fuck up.

A snarling mass of vitriolic jackals

Battle won, war still ongoing.

I did not have telepathic declassification on my 2022 bingo card.

The cruelty is the point; the law be damned.

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

Whoever he was, that guy was nuts.

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

Hot air and ill-informed banter

The poor and middle-class pay taxes, the rich pay accountants, the wealthy pay politicians.

A sufficient plurality of insane, greedy people can tank any democratic system ever devised, apparently.

Do not shrug your shoulders and accept the normalization of untruths.

Sadly, there is no cure for stupid.

So it was an October Surprise A Day, like an Advent calendar but for crime.

Presidents are not kings, and Plaintiff is not President.

Putting aside our relentless self-interest because the moral imperative is crystal clear.

I’d like to think you all would remain faithful to me if i ever tried to have some of you killed.

JFC, are there no editors left at that goddamn rag?

Republican obstruction dressed up as bipartisanship. Again.

In my day, never was longer.

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Pet Calendar Extension – I Missed My Own Deadline! (and 3 Stray Pets)

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I missed my own deadline!

I knew the Pets of Balloon Juice calendar deadline was November 1, and I knew that yesterday was November 1.  But November 1 was also the start of the Four Directions fundraising, and apparently I am unable to hold two November 1sts in my head at the same time because all day yesterday I kept thinking that the calendar deadline was “tomorrow”.  Which is now today!

So everyone gets a one-day extension on letting us know if you want your pets to be in the calendar. Please let me know TODAY if you want your pets to be in the calendar.

Send email to watergirl at balloon-juice.com if you have haven’t already let me know you want your guys to be in the calendar.  Include the names of your pets and your Balloon Juice screen name (nym).

LOST PETS!  Please claim your pets below.  If more than one person claims the same pet, we may have to get the BJ attorneys involved.

Please claim this handsome pup that has no name and no owner’s nym.

Found:  Flash, you handsome pup!

Pets Are Contacting Me About The Calendar! 3

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I don’t know this handsome basset’s name or his owners nym.

Is this Fartrell Cluggins?  Yes, it is!  

Pets Are Contacting Me About The Calendar! 2

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This is Oscar.  He was submitted under “Oscar the Cat”, without a nym.

Beth, is Oscar yours?  Yes, beth said Oscar is hers.  Yay!

Pets Are Contacting Me About The Calendar! 1

Open Thread.

Update:  All 3 pets have been claimed!

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  2. 2.

    sab

    What a relief. I sent mine wrong, so now I get an extra day to figure out Dropbox. I might try banging on my computer with my sabot. It seems to work for other luddites. ( //)

  3. 3.

    sab

    Odd morning. We had a power failure, so our backup generator kicked on 15 minutes early, so husband thought he was late for klatch, so he rushed off early. Then the power generator continued to run on for so long that it missed its weekly test run since it was already running. Then the power came back on, so the generator realized it has missed its test, so it ran its test 10 minutes late.

    When we have a real power failure that screws up our internet connection and we have to reboot. Not true for the weekly test run.

  4. 4.

    WaterGirl

    @sab: It looked like you sent some pics to my phone a couple of days ago?

    You can email photos directly from your phone, right?

    On the iPhone, if you EMAIL photos, you have a choice of Small, Medium, Large and ORIGINAL SIZE. Original size is the one you want.

    You can email your photos to my watergirl email address, so you can skip dropbox altogether.

  6. 6.

    WaterGirl

    @zhena gogolia: They are all adorable.

    Photo one: “Huh.  I had no idea I was even lost.”

    Photo two:  “Really?  You just left me here?”

    Photo three:  “You are in big trouble. How could you do this to me?”

  7. 7.

    Tony Gerace

    “Missing my own deadlines” was my specialty back when I was a mainframe operating system administrator.  Somehow I didn’t get fired.

  9. 9.

    Steeplejack

    @Baud:

    Manchin: “I don’t want to destroy Balloon Juice, but if no one wants to compromise I’d rather go home to West Virginia and not have any pet pictures.”

  11. 11.

    randy khan

    I am biased towards cats, but that photo of Oscar is really excellent, and he looks pretty excellent, too.

    In other news, our youngest cat just had the cone of shame removed after being spayed. She has been very busy grooming, as previously she was reduced to grooming the inside of the cone.

  13. 13.

    brendancalling

    I love cats and hope to own one again someday.

    On a totally unrelated topic, I get fitted for hearing aids today and I’m delighted!

  17. 17.

    randy khan

    @WaterGirl:

    It was very funny.

    She also realized that she could wash my face, so my chin has had some excellent exfoliation over the last week or so.

  22. 22.

    Miss Bianca

    @WaterGirl: 

    I am staying with my niece and her family right now, which includes a screamingly adorable beagle pup named Charlie. I could fondle his silky ears all day.

    Besides being super cute, he’s super funny – he tosses his toys around with such abandon, he’s occasionally a health hazard, as you never know whether that rope toy is going to bop you on the bean!

    But he has completely reversed my opinion on beagles, who I had writ down as noisy PITAs and not worth keeping unless you were hunting with them. Was I wrong!

  23. 23.

    randy khan

    @WaterGirl:

    This one occasionally has washed my fingers, hands, and the wrist where I wear my watch in the past.  The face was new.  I’m wondering if she’ll keep doing it now that she has been freed from the cone.

  28. 28.

    brendancalling

    @WaterGirl: yes and no. My left ear has always been pretty weak, but yeah, 40 years of going to/playing at rock concerts has left me quite deaf, and with fairly prominent tinnitus too.

  30. 30.

    Ceci n est pas mon nym

    @Miss Bianca: Tossing toys must be a beagle thing. We have a beagle mix (he’s got the classic coloring and hunting bark, but is tall for the breed). I’ve never before had a dog who could actually throw, and it cracks me up every time he does.

    It’s also funny about how he seems to be more in charge of figuring out inter species communication than I am. For instance, I tried briefly to train him to ring bells to signal wanting to go out. He never got it and I put those jingle bells away.

    Then a year later, when we brought some wind chimes inside on a windy day when they were driving us crazy, he starting ringing the wind chimes as a signal. Totally unprompted.

  31. 31.

    Villago Delenda Est

    Dammit, those pets need names!  Identify those gorgeous creatures at once!  The basset is GLORIOUS!  The cat’s OK, too.  As is Flash, who has been identified!

  32. 32.

    Villago Delenda Est

    @brendancalling: ​
     Tell me about it. Rock concerts, live fire ranges, and hanging around 155mm Howitzers does this shit to you, even with hearing protection. The Tinnitus sucks too.

  34. 34.

    UncleEbeneezer

    @WaterGirl: It does.  I’ve had it for several years now in my left ear from years of being a musician and not doing enough to protect my ears.  It never goes away or improves but you do learn to kinda ignore it after awhile.

  36. 36.

    catclub

    @laura: ​
     

    spend an entire day petting that wee Bassett’s ears.

    The canonical soft ears are lamb’s ears but that is bacause there are no bassett hounds in the Bible – their loss.

  43. 43.

    different-church-lady

    @sherparick:

    Meanwhile, if you are interested in something Republicans definitely want to make worse…

    Wouldn’t that be “everything”?

  50. 50.

    sab

    @Oldpunk55: Of course you can smell it since it’s from a hound. We had a bassett. Wonderful dog but he smelled like a wet dog even when he was dry. Very houndy.

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