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Everybody saw this coming.

Anyone who bans teaching American history has no right to shape America’s future.

I’d try pessimism, but it probably wouldn’t work.

We’ve had enough carrots to last a lifetime. break out the sticks.

Our messy unity will be our strength.

You don’t get rid of your umbrella while it’s still raining.

These days, even the boring Republicans are nuts.

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

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

The real work of an opposition party is to hold the people in power accountable.

Let’s delete this post and never speak of this again.

One of our two political parties is a cult whose leader admires Vladimir Putin.

This must be what justice looks like, not vengeful, just peaceful exuberance.

The lights are all blinking red.

If you are still in the gop, you are either an extremist yourself, or in bed with those who are.

Fuck these fucking interesting times.

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

Impressively dumb. Congratulations.

Hot air and ill-informed banter

It may be funny to you motherfucker, but it’s not funny to me.

They think we are photo bombing their nice little lives.

Donald Trump found guilty as fuck – May 30, 2024!

Never entrust democracy to any process that requires republicans to act in good faith.

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Cat Bleg – One-Year-Old Rocky in Indianapolis Needs a Home

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Thursday Night Open Thread 9

From Indycat32:

This is Rocky. Just look at that face! He showed up at my house in February. I don’t know where he came from, but he was friendly and determined to come inside.

He is a very sweet boy and needs a forever home. In addition to being a handsome young kitty (about one year old per the vet), he is a very good boy.

While waiting for the vet he lay with his head on my arm and calmly watched the birds outside the window and purred so loudly during his exam she had trouble hearing his heartbeat.

He is vaccinated, neutered, Bravecto and Profender-treated, and the vet gave him a clean bill of health. He weighs 11 pounds, likes hugs, and gets along with the other outdoor cats. He spends a lot of time hanging around the back door, hoping I’ll relent and let him in, (or maybe waiting for food).

I live in Indianapolis but can travel. How can you say no to that face?!

After months of feeding this kitty, Indycat really cares about Rocky, but she cannot take him in.

Rocky sounds like a sweety, any takers?

Open thread.

 

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101Comments

  1. 1.

    WaterGirl

    As far as I can tell, there are a couple of possible options for Rocky so far.  Let’s see if we can find the right home for Rocky!

    At comment #90 on John’s thread, captain toast lives in Minneapolis and he is interested.

    Madeline sent me email saying she has a friend in Bloomington who just lost a cat and may be interested.  Guessing that is Bloomington Indiana, but I suppose it could be Bloomington, Illinois, but still fairly close to Indianapolis. NO on Bloomington.

    I understand from Indycat32 that satby may have a line on someone who is in New York.  Transport is always an option, but obviously more complicated than in-state or a nearby state.

    I’m not sure how many people say Cole’s post last night, so please chime in if you might be interested in this sweet boy, Rocky.

  3. 3.

    indycat32

    I’m here if anyone has questions.  Rocky is currently living outside with my colony of neighborhood cats. He’s sweet, friendly and gets along with others.

    There’s also a beautiful gray and white cat, Wesley,  that showed up about the same time as Rockyvwho would like to  be an inside cat, but he’s agressive with the other cats.  If anyone wants an “only cat” I can send you info.

  4. 4.

    SiubhanDuinne

    I love that cat! Such a gorgeous boi. Wish I could give him a home.

    Since I can’t, I’ll certainly throw some $$ in to help with transport. Just say when, to whom, and how much.

  5. 5.

    JPL

    Have we heard from BJ posters from Houston?   Close to a million are without power because of storms, and it could take weeks before it’s restored.

  6. 6.

    trollhattan

    Anyone looking for a bear cub? Consider Moses.

    A bear cub deposited at a home the day before Mother’s Day will be raised by a licensed wildlife facility in South Lake Tahoe after officials were unable to find and reunite the cub with its mother. A concerned individual left a two- to three-month-old bear cub Saturday in a pet crate on the driveway of Ann Bryant, the executive director of the Bear League, according to the California Department of Fish and Wildlife. It’s a Homewood-based nonprofit that helps to educate the community about the wild animals.

    The baby cub was left with a note that said “Please help moses he doesn’t have a mother,” though state officials noted its unclear if it was indeed orphaned. Awaiting fish and wildlife officials, the rescued animal hungrily gobbled “baby bear formula,” provided by the nonprofit, the Bear league said. “It was impossible not to feel totally responsible for this little, helpless, precious soul,” the Bear League wrote on social media. “Once one looks into their eyes. … that’s it.”

    Peter Tira, a spokesman for the Department of Fish and Wildlife, said residents shouldn’t collect apparently orphaned cubs.

    https://www.sacbee.com/news/local/article288522836.html#storylink=cpy

  10. 10.

    New Deal democrat

    Although we normally only update re COVID on Wednesday’s, it is worth mentioning now that today the CDC reported a new all time low in weekly deaths: 443 during the week of April 20.

    The preliminary data further suggests that we will continue to make repeated new all time lows in the next few weeks at least, possibly below even 300.

    Worth sharing the good news asap!

  11. 11.

    Chief Oshkosh

    @trollhattan: Really? Moses looks to me like he’s hungry and the photographer is about halfway down the left side of the menu, under “Tasty Bits o’ Meat.” But clearly YMMV.

  13. 13.

    Jackie

    @WaterGirl: It is 😞 Abbott was forced to beg President Biden, with hat in hand, for emergency assistance.

    I wonder why he didn’t ask “his president” for assistance?🤔🤪

  14. 14.

    sab

    I want your gorgeus cat, but I think you have better prospective owners. We like cats. We have five cats. One is young ( fourish) . The four others are about ten or maybe much older ( ten or more).

    We have a dog  (pitbull)  who loves cats bit is slightly afraid of them ( some cats do have claws.)

    We have never had to reject a cat or murder a cat or dog for bad attitide.  Eventually they come to their senses and fit in. Not a hard adjustment. Life is life. Cats know that

    ETA He is an especially gorgeous boy. Just saying

    ETA All our cats are indoor cats

  15. 15.

    WaterGirl

    @Jackie: Biden is too good a person to call Abbott on it publicly, too.  Though I wouldn’t be surprised if there was a bit of that said in private, and said with a smile.

  16. 16.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @JPL:

    I was wondering about that earlier today. With very few exceptions, I mostly don’t know (or can’t remember) where BJers live. But if any of you are in storm-affected areas, please give us a safe check when you can.

  21. 21.

    SiubhanDuinne

    O/T, but I am never not going to snort and guffaw at TIFG in the E. Jean Carrol deposition identifying a photo of EJC as Marla Maples.

  23. 23.

    sab

    We have a lady up the street who rescues cat, but not committed to inside. Good lady, but…

    Why even bother to rescue them?

  25. 25.

    indycat32

    @sab: My outdoor cats have no interest in coming inside.  I think Rocky and Wesley belonged to someone at one time and were abandoned.  Wesley has much the same markings as Rocky, only gray and white instead of cream and tan.

    ETA: they all started as ferals but are now friendly, except the little tortie that started it all.

  26. 26.

    Suzanne

    The Ex-Mr. Suzanne got the kids a cat who looks like Rocky, named Waffle. Waffle is a really great cat. He has an incredibly high-pitched meow. We joked that he was a member of the castrati.

  27. 27.

    Old School

    The hammer-wielding man who brutally attacked Paul Pelosi, husband of former House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, in their San Francisco home was sentenced Friday to 30 years in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office for the Northern District of California announced.

    U.S. District Judge Jacqueline Scott Corley came close to siding with the U.S. Probation Office, which recommended a 25-year punishment against David DePape.

    Government prosecutors had sought the maximum term of 40 years.

  31. 31.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Old School:

    Good.

    I’ve tried, briefly, to find out how old De Pape is now, with no success. Anyone know his current age, and how old he’s likely to be when he’s released?

  33. 33.

    Old School

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    David DePape is 43 years old. At the time of the attack, he was 42.

    …

    DePape received the maximum sentence in both counts against him, attacking Paul Pelosi and attempting to kidnap Nancy Pelosi. He received a 20-year sentence and a 30-year sentence. The sentences will be served concurrently with the 18 months he’s already served counted in.

  35. 35.

    Trivia Man

    @sab: In Wisconsin are you? I could meet someone at the state line and drive rocky someplace in Wisconsin

  37. 37.

    SiubhanDuinne

    @Old School:

    Thank you! Anybody can be rehabilitated, and he might still have two or three decades remaining to him after he’s released — but he’s certainly going to spend what could and should have been the happiest and most productive years of his life behind bars. It was a terrible thing he did. I hope Mr. Pelosi is making a full recovery.

  39. 39.

    jackmac

    What a sweet boy!  My family and I just had a serious conversation about putting in a bid for Rocky. Distance wasn’t a problem (we’re near Chicago). We love cats (our lifetime count is 13 — not all at once). And it sounds like he’d get along with our incumbent cat, Rocco, who is four and about the same size. Plus we have a lazy, friendly dog. But any cat we’d add to the mix would have to be exclusively inside and it seems like Rocky does like the great outdoors. From the looks of him (and interest so far) he’ll find a good home with someone in the BJ masses.  Good luck to indycat32!

  40. 40.

    stinger

    @SiubhanDuinne: I am glad that he will likely be behind bars for the rest of Mr. Pelosi’s life. That must be some small comfort to him and Ms. Smash of the Steely Resolve.

  41. 41.

    indycat32

    @jackmac: He’s outside by necessity, not choice.  I don’t have any place to separate him while trying to integrate him into my household of 4 cats.  Otherwise I’d be sorely tempted to keep him.

  44. 44.

    Jackie

    @SiubhanDuinne:

    O/T, but I am never not going to snort and guffaw at TIFG in the E. Jean Carrol deposition identifying a photo of EJC as Marla Maples.

    I do the same! I just saw that clip played on Nicolle Wallace just an hour ago! I wasn’t even actually watching it, but as soon as I heard attorney Robbie’s voice asking TIFG “if he recognized…”

    I spontaneously snorted while looking up at the tv. It’s my reaction every time.

  46. 46.

    Old School

    Dabney Coleman, the popular comic actor from 9 to 5, Tootsie and Mary Hartman, Mary Hartman whose many redeeming qualities including a knack for portraying characters who had none, has died. He was 92.

  48. 48.

    Jackie

    @stinger: Nancy was there (of course!) and personally asked the judge to give him the maximum. My heart hurt for her, all over again. I don’t think she feels any mercy towards the man who almost murdered her husband.

    eta: Mr Pelosi is STILL recovering. At his age, he’ll probably be recovering from his skull injury the rest of his life.😢

  50. 50.

    WaterGirl

    @Jackie: I’m glad Nancy SMASH was there and asked for the max.

    Sounds like the guy will be 70-72 when he gets out.  This was federal, right?  So no parole?

  51. 51.

    zhena gogolia

    Good luck to Rocky. I hope someone can take him.
    OT, I know we hate the NYT, but their obituaries are fantastic, especially when written by Penelope Green. I keep discovering fascinating people I never heard of. Here’s the first sentence of one I just saw: “Shameless Hussy Press was a shoestring operation in 1969 when the poet known as Alta began publishing books from her house on a hand-cranked offset printer.” I am going to read every word of this, even though I never heard of Alta.

  52. 52.

    a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)

    @WaterGirl: “Greg! Good to hear from you; I wasn’t sure you’d call, given some of the things you’ve been saying lately…”

  55. 55.

    WaterGirl

    @John Revolta: Yeah, I guess if they will pardon a guy who purposely killed black lives matter peeps and drove his car into a crowd intentionally, anything goes.

    There is no right or wrong with them anymore.  It’s your team or my team, and fuck your team.

  58. 58.

    Jackie

    @WaterGirl: That, I don’t know.

    If it’s Federal, my biggest worry is if TIFG gets re-elected (spit) the bastard would pardon him – just to hurt Nancy as hard as possible. 😡

  59. 59.

    KayInMD (formerly Kay (not the front-pager))

    I’m sorely tempted. I lost one of my two bonded pair about 10 daays ago, and the remaining cat is bereft. They’d been together since they were tiny kittens in foster care, and had a private language and everything. My only hesitation is that Loki, the remaining kitty, has been in remission from lymphoma, and I think he may no longer be in remission. He has a 6 month recheck on Monday, and we’ll find out then. If he has a clean bill of health, we’ll be ready to introduce a (completely indoor) friend and companion for him. Rocky looks like he’d be ideal, since he’s about the same size (e.g. “small” in our house since Reilly was 20 lbs ;-D ). That is, if this good boy hasn’t found a forever home already by then!

  62. 62.

    Scout211

    A bit of a scandal on the GOP side in House of Representatives.  It’s prolly none of our business, right?

    But here’s the short version at The Daily Beast. (The Daily Mail has the long, more gossipy version at the link below.

    Representative Beth Van Duyne (R-TX) has confirmed that she is dating Rep. Rich McCormick (R-GA), just one day after news of his divorce broke, and his wife dropped a cryptic hint that the two had engaged in an affair. On Thursday, Van Duyne confirmed reports that the two have become more than casual, conservative colleagues. “His marriage has been over for quite some time as I understand it, he’s filed for divorce,” Van Duyne told the Daily Mail. “I’m single. We’re both parents of adult children and empty nesters. We are happily engaged in a relationship and beyond that it’s a personal issue,” she added. McCormick filed for divorce earlier this month, amid reports that he and Van Duyne were seen getting cozy in the House chambers, reportedly holding hands beneath a table.

    One quote from The Daily Mail story:

    Footage from the March 7 State of the Union address shows McCormick stroking Van Duyne’s arm, and sources say this is commonplace for the seemingly smitten pair.

    But it’s none of our business, right?

  64. 64.

    JPL

    Finally MSNBC is mentioning the flag was upside down for days at Alito’s residence.

  66. 66.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: I know that nothing they do should shock me anymore, but then they sink to a new depth I didn’t think would be possible – and they do it right out in the open, shouting it from the rooftops like a big fuck you.

    They have totally lost their way and seem to have lost all their inhibitions.

  67. 67.

    JPL

    @Scout211: Leave my rep alone.   lol

    I saw this on the NYPost I think

    A mutual restraining order was also filed, as is standard in all divorce cases in the central Georgia county.

    whoa I never heard of that and I’m divorced … In fact sent it to local friends earlier and no one know what that means.  BTW he has seven children

  68. 68.

    Jackie

    @Scout211: Eh. Almost divorced man. Long-time divorced woman. Both empty nesters. Republican. Nothing to see.

    Now were they DEMOCRATS!!! Headline SCANDAL from every news outlet nationwide.😳

  79. 79.

    WaterGirl

    @Baud: You know, wilson called me the c-word on here 3 or 4 times a year or so ago, and I never once considered supporting the insurrection because of it.

  80. 80.

    Matt McIrvin

    @Old School: Damn, nobody was better at being unlikeable. He was in a succession of great, quirky TV shows that never caught on.

  81. 81.

    TBone

    @Scout211: oh snap, this is the office that hired my neighbors’ son as press secty. (all very, very churchy evangelicals, he  went to Liberty U.) after he rotated through the staffs of Rep. Anna Paulina Luna and Madison Cawthorn. 😆 The kid is functionally illiterate and is home on break right now.  

    Just saw news that the new paramour had a staffer commit suicide by gun right outside her Texas office a while back.

  82. 82.

    JPL

    here is the Washington Post article and you should be able to read it..

    https://wapo.st/3V8vRS8

    Alito can cry all he wants, but his wife stopped at the house to berate their daughter who doesn’t live there.

  84. 84.

    Soprano2

    @Jackie: He’ll never completely recover at his age. What a foul thing he did. It enrages me that some of the right wing media people were laughing about it. I think about someone doing that to my husband and words fail me. I would want to kill them.

    On a better note, the Republicans failed to pass their initiative to make it almost impossible for citizens to amend the state constitution! 🥳🥳 They refused to remove the “ballot candy” that made things that were already illegal double plus illegal. 🙄 They wanted to say “this measure makes it illegal for noncitizens to vote (that’s already illegal) and for foreign governments to meddle in MO elections (also already illegal) oh by the way it also makes it take 55% of the vote in 5 congressional districts for citizens to amend the constitution, no big deal”. It’s a major victory for Democrats. They did a 50 hour filibuster. The R’s know it can’t pass without the “candy”. That’s how they got people to repeal the Clean Missouri redistricting reforms they just voted for two years earlier. They can’t win unless they lie.

  85. 85.

    Jackie

    @JPL: Yes. It’s been covered in detail – especially on Nicolle Wallace’s show. Including having Sen. Blumenthal opining Alito should step down.

     

     

    @JPL:

  90. 90.

    a thousand flouncing lurkers (was fidelio)

    @WaterGirl: I’m sure the shade-throwing with those two in the Obama White House was epic. Especially after they got off the phone with whoever.

  91. 91.

    jackmac

    @WaterGirl: ​
     Sorry, was out walking my other critter so I missed comments from indycat and you. I just responded to your separate email.

  92. 92.

    Odie Hugh Manatee

    I hope Rocky finds his forever home! What a handsome little guy! I’m at three cats now in a small house and on the left coast so not a good match, otherwise I would gladly give him a home.

    He’s politely asking for someone to let him in to their heart and home. I hope he gets what he’s asking for.

  95. 95.

    Steeplejack

    @JPL:

    Houston jackals (that I know of) include Roberto el oso, Fake Irishman and Josie. I hope they (and any others) are okay.

  97. 97.

    columbusqueen

    Rocky is seriously tempting me, but adding cat #7 would be the straw that breaks the camel’s back.

  99. 99.

    sab

    @sab: I will track you down in posts tomorrow. !!!

    My husband is the crazy cat lady. But I am beyond excited.

  100. 100.

    captain toast

    @WaterGirl: just wanted to let people know that I’ve had long experience with cats so rest assured I would make sure Rocky would be safe and happy here…

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