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Lisa Murkowski’s decision to run as a write-in candidate in Alaska didn’t cost her much in the Republican caucus. She kept her committee assignments, including being the ranking member on the Senate Energy and National Resources Committee:
Sen. Orrin Hatch, R-Utah, told reporters that it was “a matter of good taste.”
As annoying as the whole Lieberman debacle was (and is), this is another reminder that it’s the Senate, not the party.
From commentor Adolphus:
My fiance and I have rescued and adopted a number of animals over the years, she starting long before she met me. The orange dog is Ruby. My fiance adopted her from the local animal rescue years before we met. Sometime in the mid 90’s. I have no cute story about it, she was just lonely and had just lost her previous dog and they just found each other at the local shelter. When we met I was a little leery as I had never been much a dog person, but Ruby really leaped into my heart with all four paws.She was found on the street with some of her puppies over ten years ago and is currently about 15-16 years old. In February of 2008 we were told she only had three months to live due to a series of cancerous growths on various organs. Well, here it is September of 2010 and I would like to say she is still going strong, but she is clearly feeling her age. Her walks are more like slow ambles, she scampers less and less, and she sleeps more and more. While we are afraid she won’t live to see 2011, we are grateful for almost 3 extra years of love.
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The orange cat adopted us. We live in a college town where the students are forever buying or adopting cats, less frequently dogs, and then abandoning them when they graduate or just move on. Because of that there is a real stray cat problem. It is a rare apartment complex that doesn’t have from 3 to 6 to as much as a dozen stray cats lounging around or fighting for food. Even on campus it is not out of place to see strays huddled under buildings or crossing your path on your way to class. Our apartment complex has had between 3 and 6 resident strays since we moved in three years ago. The cat in the photo, we called her Ruby Jr. because of her affection for and resemblance to Ruby, started following us around on our dog walks about 2 years ago. At first she would find us mid-walk and follow us around for awhile but that escalated into meeting us at our door when we came emerged for Ruby’s walks. Then she started sleeping on our car and watching us through our windows. We fed her off and on, the raccoons ate that more often than not. Then a couple of days before Christmas after a chilly walk she zipped in through our front door in front of us. She usually only stayed the evening then wanted let out. A month later she took up permanent residence and was ensconced in time to watch Obama’s inauguration with me on the couch. (I also made a short video for my family and friends back north to introduce them to Ruby Jr.)
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Oh, and the gerbils.
Early Morning Open Thread: Pet Rescues PlusPost + Comments (29)
From Tom Scocca at Slate: “Larry Summers Is Resigning to Spend More Time With His Money“.
Damn fine post, as well. If Summers were being judged by his actual “financial acumen” (which seems to consist of an imperious willingness to lose other peoples’ money) as opposed to his monumental talent for giving rich powerful people new & creative excuses to screw up other peoples’ lives…
Just had an interesting twitter debate with Glenzilla, arguing back and forth about the “Professional Left.”
Immediately, I got a bunch of emails telling me “good on for putting him in his place…” Look, folks- Glenn and I are friends. Full disclosure: we email multiple times a day. I’m not trying to put him in his place, I don’t dislike him, in fact, I consider him a good friend.
Whatever happened to debate and just being able to disagree?
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And yes. I am fully aware of my own (hourly) failings in this regard. I’m one of the worst of the worst offenders of what I just described. I know my weaknesses, folks- I live with them every day.
Ken Layne at Wonkette explains why “Everybody Doesn’t Love Obama Now“:
Bob Woodward’s new book, This Obama Guy Did 9/11, will be that thing everybody in Washington buys on Monday even though they read all the sad dirt today in the newspapers. Obama’s own supporters just bitched at him for 10 hours on Monday during a tragic town hall. The economy is probably going to be bad forever. This is why Barack Obama looks sad.
From those excepts, I can’t say whether Woodward is trying to encourage those old DFH rumors about his longterm CIA career, but I’m pretty sure we now know who’s responsible for Jeff Redfern’s “Red Rascal” fantasies…
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I couldn’t find a sufficiently raucous version of When the Ship Comes In, so y’all get some pleasant instead.
Thanks to commentor J. for this link, because right now we desperately need something that doesn’t suck:
Almost as cool as the performers (including the goat, at 2:51) is the Gizmodo story describing how the video was made. One single take, no cuts, no camera tricks — Take #72 out of 124. Don’t miss the link, because the pics are just AWSUM!
Open Thread: It’s the Goat that Ties the Vid Together!Post + Comments (44)
Here is a challenge- post the dumbest thing you’ve seen on the internet today. To make this somewhat of a challenge, we will not accept entries from the Business and Economics editor of the Atlantic or glibertarians in general.
