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

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

It’s a good piece. click on over. but then come back!!

Republicans in disarray!

Let the trolls come, and then ignore them. that’s the worst thing you can do to a troll.

That meeting sounds like a shotgun wedding between a shitshow and a clusterfuck.

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

Fucking consultants! (of the political variety)

You know he’s going to shit a cat.

Seems like a complicated subject, have you tried yelling at it?

Not so fun when the rabbit gets the gun, is it?

Jesus watching the most hateful people claiming to be his followers

So fucking stupid, and still doing a tremendous amount of damage.

“But what about the lurkers?”

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

“Facilitate” is an active verb, not a weasel word.

When I decide to be condescending, you won’t have to dream up a fantasy about it.

This country desperately needs a functioning fourth estate.

Republicans are radicals, not conservatives.

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

These are not very smart people, and things got out of hand.

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Where’s Miss Willow? Open Thread

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I don’t see any action in the back room, so I’ll just pop this up as an Open Thread.  I pulled it yesterday when it was only up to for 5 minutes or so before the blogfather put his up.

Can you find Miss Willow?

I jokingly call Miss Willow a slut, because she mostly sleeps with me when it’s cold, or if I have even her a special treat that day, like whipped cream.  I guess the rest of the time I am not worthy! :-)  Seriously, though, I love her dearly, and she’s my girl who knows when I’m sad and she comes over to comfort me.  She’s very maternal; she would take Tucker’s side when he was a baby and her kitty brother Mr. Bear would get mad at Tucker.  It’s good to have another girl in the house!

There’s a vent on the wall with the dresser in the bedroom.

I have never seen her there before.  This must be the special “it’s been close to zero” hiding place.

Who else is tired of the cold?

Open thread!

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  1. 1.

    TBone

    Noah the Love cat was projectile vomiting yellow bile too often today, at the same time as hubby.  Hubby may be suffering the side effects of Repatha injections (or have norovirus), but poor Noah is a cancer survivor so off to the very expensive vet we went.  He got a full workup and has no bowel obstruction (further test results take maybe until next week).  He was given an injection of Cerenia (anti vomiting med) and is now EXTRA miserable, drooling, and lethargic.  Adulting sucks.

    Oh.  Am grateful for steam cleaner upholstery attachment.

  4. 4.

    Spanky

    Who else is tired of the cold?

    Not me! We could use more of it in the DC area:

    Sunday night: Light snow slowly ends. Any lingering snow showers should become lighter and sparser from late evening into the predawn hours. Low temperatures dip to the mid-teens and around 20. Skies gradually clear as breezes pick up a bit. Confidence: Low-Medium

    Very cold air establishes itself Martin Luther King Jr. Day and Inauguration Day Monday into Tuesday with high temperatures in the upper teens to low 20s with daytime wind chills mainly single digits to near 10. Monday may prove sunnier and breezier than Tuesday. Note we should also experience dangerously cold wind chills near zero, particularly at night. Confidence: Medium

  7. 7.

    moonbat

    My senior cat Sparky has taken to sleeping on the cold floor near his food dish so I bought a heated cat cushion we’re going to try out today. Fingers crossed His Majesty will deign to sit on it or just continue his campaign to make me miserable with guilt.

  8. 8.

    WereBear

    @rikyrah: Good morning!

    I’ve been inside for the holidays, because it is cold (feels like -9!)  and constant blowy snow.

    But it’s been lovely, and somehow the snow isn’t blowing off the trees, but onto them, and when the sun comes out and the wind stills I still don’t need the parka, yet.

    But I’m going from car to town to grocery store, so I can walk home if need be.

  9. 9.

    Indycat32

    My first cat  ignored me during the day but crawled into bed with me every night. I called him Typical Male. His official name was The Devil Cat.

  10. 10.

    WereBear

    @moonbat: Oh, the heat is magic!

    Make sure it’s not too warm, because they bliss out and their fur insulates and cannot act as a warning.

    I get pads or huts with space blankets inside to reflect their own heat. But heated ones are great for beginning and ends of kitty life span.

  11. 11.

    Dorothy A. Winsor

    From Kos:

    President Joe Biden announced Friday that he was commuting the sentences of almost 2,500 people convicted of nonviolent drug offenses, using his final days in office on a flurry of clemency actions meant to nullify prison terms he deemed too harsh.

  15. 15.

    JoyceH

    @Spanky: Same here! I don’t enjoy the cold but come Monday I’ll be sitting at home enjoying the fact that some very bad people are enduring an outdoor event in it.

  16. 16.

    Bunter

    My late boy, Wimsey (bloodhound) would curl up under my bed when he was a puppy and, unfortunately, as he grew somehow didn’t realize it was not a good idea. I walked into the bedroom one afternoon to get him for a walk and he had wedged his lower half under the bed, at 128 lbs, getting out wasn’t an option. I then had to lift off him so he could get out. Luckily, he figured out that perhaps he shouldn’t do that anymore.

  18. 18.

    BC in Illinois

    @Spanky:

    Who else is tired of the cold?

    Not me! We could use more of it in the DC area:

    I have to admit that I have been watching the 10-Day forecasts for DC. I remember from my youth that even two inches of snow (the present Weather Underground projection) can snarl the Nation’s Capital fairly well.

    In the meantime, I am seeing various responses to what to do on Monday.

    One.  One of our daughters has latched onto the idea that it is not sufficient to simply NOT watch the proceedings on Monday. It is important to have the TV tuned to some other station. For ratings (?). I’m not sure that this works, but in her case, it will mean several hours of binge-watching Daniel Tiger.

    Two. Monday is Martin Luther King Day.

    Martin Luther King Jr. Day is the only federal holiday designated as a national day of service to encourage people to volunteer in their local communities.

    In St Louis, this can mean stlvolunteer.org/mlkday

    Three. There may be other events. At the University of Missouri – St Louis there is a St Louis Symphony / Sheldon Choir / UMSL Event, free, that Mrs BC and I are going to. It says it is from 11am to 2pm. Then we can go out to eat. Anything newsworthy that happens on the 20th, I can catch up on on the 21st.

  20. 20.

    Torrey

    @Bunter:

    I am having a lot of difficulty envisioning an elegant, witty, and slightly foppish bloodhound.

    ETA: And count me in as a fan of snow, as well. I enjoy the (necessarily brief–I’m not looking for a heart attack) sessions outside shoveling snow, followed by a well-earned cup of tea with a book. Followed by another brief shoveling session, followed by more tea and more book. If I don’t have to go anywhere, it’s heaven!

  21. 21.

    Bunter

    @Torrey: ​
      Wimsey, or Sir as he was occasionally called, was fully a bloodhound, so, you are correct in having difficulty in envisioning foppish, elegant and witty. That being said, he was incredibly entitled. Only bloodhound I’ve ever heard of who didn’t steal food, rather expected to be served it. He was quite the character.

  22. 22.

    Tazj

    I’m tired of the cold and the snow. I should be used to it by now since I’ve lived here nearly all my life but some winters are worse than others and this one seems especially snowy. When I was a child, I loved the winter. My dad would sometimes build a ice rink in the backyard and what child doesn’t love just paying in the snow? Now, it’s just a hassle to drive as I never learned to ski or snowboard.

    My cats love to get into the closet and find a cozy space in between my sweaters if they haven’t found a comfortable spot on the bed.

  25. 25.

    beckya57

    Thanks Watergirl for reminding me why I don’t live in CU anymore.  It’s cold here in Tacoma too, but I’m going up to the mountains to ski this weekend, which is um, not a thing in flat CU.  So I’m ok with the cold here.

  26. 26.

    Dan B

    @WereBear:  A friend had an orange Tom in the back yard, feral.  My friend made a “cathouse” for him and included a heater.  The Tom’s fur started falling off his underside and legs.  The Tom had pushed the high button.  Funny looking critter.

  27. 27.

    seefleur

    Miss Willow is just practicing a coping method for the next 4 years. I completely understand her method, and plan to use it myself. I just retired after 28 years as a civil servant in state government – I didn’t realize that the timing was perfect in that it now means that I can just crawl under the furniture and hide. Love her little fuzzy feet peeping out…

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