You asked for it – a cat thread. Don’t curse me, just think about things before giving me a hard time again. 
This is Barf Kitty.
Barf Kitty in the window
This is one of the few pictures I have of her awake. Her real name is Miss Salem. Originally the name was going to be just “Salem,” but when Lovely Daughter found out that the baby kitty was a girl and not a boy, she added the “Miss” to the front. Miss Salem is a show quality Cornish Rex. Cornish Rex cats tend to have very distinctive triangular faces and long, whiplike tails. Their fur is very, very short and is uniquely wavy. When I want to get Lovely riled up I call her “the rat cat”. She hates that. (“Hi, Lovely! I love you!”)
We got her from a breeder who was closing down her business due to illness. We had to agree to have her fixed before we took her, even though we would have done it anyway. We weren’t planning on having baby BK’s running around the house. She’s been pretty frisky lately despite her years, but still spends most of her time looking like this:
Miss Salem, aka "Barf Kitty," in donut formation
I love kitty donuts. I think they’re cute. And I always wonder how cats can sleep with their heads all contorted like that. Anyway, Miss Salem can be very persistent about wanting to sit on human bodies, aka “heat sources”.
Barf Kitty napping while Lovely Daughter types away
I have found a way of acquiring my freedom. All cats are heat seeking, but I think because Miss Salem’s fur is so very, very short, she’s particularly sensitive to the temperature. I fill a large vinegar bottle or milk jug with hot water, put it on the couch, cover it with one blanket to hold in the heat, and put another blanket over that to make what I call the “cat cave”. Barf Kitty will stay in her cave all day, until the heat dissipates. When she starts to bother me again, I heat it back up. After I pet her for a while.
Barf Kitty in her cat cave
With the blankets, Barf Kitty can stay warm for h-o-u-r-s. She can get too warm, and start stretching herself out.
Warm and sleepy kitty
She looks like she needs a taxi ride home after a hard night of partying, doesn’t she?
When she’s not curled up sleeping, eating, pooping, or barfing, she’s either playing with her favorite toys (little fuzzy pony tail holders) or kneading my neck (left side, just under the ear).
When she’s carrying the pony tail holder in her mouth, she looks a little like Hitler. She’s also partial to the foam hair rollers, but I haven’t had one of those around in years. Fortunately, pony tail holders are very cheap. And they’re more exciting when they are on the couch instead of the floor. Don’t ask me why. I don’t think cat. I just deal with them.
She’s very particular about where the neck kneading takes place. A few times over the years she’s ended up on the right side of my neck, but soon moves to the left. It’s like kitty crack – when she wants it, there’s no getting rid of her until I succumb to her persistent harassment. Sometimes it’s a 2 minute neck massage, other times up to 15 minutes.
So, there you go. The lesson on Barf Kitty is now complete. You have your cat thread.
eegads, ‘self deleted’
Really?
I gotta look at this all weekend. Really?
The Jimmy Durante of cats.
That barfs.
Could be worse. Imagine the sneezes.
What if you unveiled a new car but there was no one to drive it? Well – aside from the Chevy Volt anyway.
A week before manufacturers are set to unveil their new NASCAR Sprint Cup car designs for 2013, the lone Dodge team remaining, Penske Racing, announced it is switching to Ford after this season.
Who’s going to drive a Dodge in 2013?
With world apology tours so hip now, a simple thank you is good to hear now and then.
Tedtam, I don’t think the BK thread would have been a big hit here, even if BK had been revealed to be an attractive feline… But I’m glad she has had a safe and loving home all her life.
One of the guys from the Hammock Forum went camping yesterday. In Indiana. Just a couple of miles from where a tornado hit.
Dog backed super pac gets nasty
http://dailycaller.com/2012/03/02/what-do-we-really-know-about-va-senate-candidate-hank-the-cat/
Their leader.
That right there is one ugly cat.
BP and company have reached agreement with folks affected by the oil a couple years ago.
The money will come out of the $20B they pony’ed up earlier. It appears some folks learned something from the Exxon Valdez with regards to handling claims.
Listening to local radio there was just an ad for SNAP, the new federal food stamp program. Very upbeat, with an attempt at humour, they were saying how easy it is to get on the program and encouraging people to call for more information. Makes me want to throw-up. It used to be shameful to be on those things, now they are making it the new normal.
That barfs
G’Morning All
And just how is that green car thing doing?
http://www.cnbc.com/id/46608011
At least it is fixed. That gene pool needed to end.
I think I hear Lovely Daughter crying, you guys are so mean about her kitty. >:-/
#16 Oletimer
Unexpectedly.
Oh, and one other thing about Barf Kitty – I don’t have to constantly pick cat hair off the furniture and my clothes. Nice.
Hybrids are running about 25,000 units per month, Prius is doing well with demand exceeding supply due to the Tsunami event last year..
Government projections on the sale of the Chevy Volt are unfortunately turning out to be correct.
#11 GJT: I wonder what that dog’s name is?
Woman is suing college because her room mate engaged in sex in her presence. Somehow the rehabilitation act is involved.
#11 GJT #22 Bones,….his name is “Dick” I know that because someone sent me that picture in an E mail last week and it said “We have a new dog and his name is dick”
U R welcome.
Oh and Mornin’ Gang
#22 I’m gonna guess that dog’s name is Anthony.
Well I don’t want to hurt Lovely Daughters’ feelings but dang, you’d have to agree.
Speaking of Daughter, when is the wedding? Didn’t you travel off to Oklahoma or someplace to meet the Fockers?
It’s just amazing how fast they grow up, I remember seeing pictures of your Daughter from one of the early Brew-Ha-Ha’s and she was Jr high age I think.
The Big Day is the last Saturday in May, on the 26th. It was originally going to be the 19th, but that day conflicted with a brother’s girlfriend’s graduation date from college. Since it was a little difficult to get the graduation date changed, Lovely and Aggie Beau moved their wedding a week, in the interest of family relations.
I just received notice that hospice papers have been signed for my brother-in-law, and curative treatments for his fever have been stopped.
Keep us in your prayers. This is one of the good guys.
From my broker; There’s a story that goes how long it took the pony express to deliver a letter coast to coast in the 1800′s, answer 3 days. How long today, 4 days. Why, well it’s because the pony died.
Thanx Tedtam, where are they going to live? Here, there, somewhere else?
I know y’all can’t wait. Prayers to your brother-in-law.
Actually I kinda like the ancient countenance of cats that look like they jumped out of a drawing in an Egyptian tomb.
The young couple will start out in Houston, with plans to move to a another location for business reasons in a year or two after the marriage.
The dog’s name is Ollie (pronounced Oh-lee, for some reason that throws me). Short for Oliver Cromwell the Third. Big name for a small dog.
Thanks for the prayers.
#9 Sarge
Holy moly fer sure! Good time to have yer bed up offn the ground — provided that golf-ball-sized spiked hail doesn’t rip through your top cover. Maybe the tree branches above the hammock shield you a bit?
The canvas ragtop on my old MG Midget got shredded in a hailstorm once upon a time in Austin.
#12 Hammy
You mean BK???
I’m outta here for the afternoon. Gotta pet and re-warm the cat, and then meet with some friends to work on a project.
And cleaning up cat barf is more pleasant than that???
Well hopefully she’s getting residuals from her acting career and can help with household expenses.
You guys are just being mean. She’s much prettier than you’re giving her credit for, you cretins. I’m giving Lovely all your email addresses so she can stalk you all and leave cat barf on your doorsteps.
#37 WB
I’m not doing both, and I don’t end up going to public events with cat hair all over me.
Its a MacCat tarp, and I’m definetly thinking of getting one. After seeing that video, I’m a bit skeptical of the one I have now.
Yeah, I was surprised the hail didn’t cut right through his tarp, too. He’d end up a bleeding mess without that thing.
More cat stuff. At least this one isn’t a bigot. Considering how cats feel about water, this is surprising.
The big problem, aside from being beaten to death by hail, is that if you don’t have adequate overhead cover, you’re basically sleeping in a bath tub. The tarp that came with the hammock is “just big enough”. I can snug it down right on top of everything, but in SE Texas humidity, that might make me just as wet as standing out in the rain. It did work rather well at keeping body heat in at 30 sumodd degrees, and I’ll keep it for that purpose. The challenge is finding something big ehough for full cover, but light enough to carry.
Right now, I’m working on a silk sleeping bag to make things more comfortable in the summer. Silk wicks moisture rather well, and its also is quick drying. The tehory is that it will wick mositure off the body, spread it over a wider area to maximize evaporation even more. That should result in a reduction in “felt temperature”. Coupled with the air circulation under the hammock, I should sleep a gooddeal more comfortably than being in a tent, but more safely than sleeping under the stars.
#43 tedtam
Just a matter of time before the dolphins are enjoying Kitty of the Sea
#44 Sarge: On the South side of Hwy 59 between Kirby and Shephard is the Glick Textile Whse, you may find the material you want there. Bolts of fabric of all kinds, including many different kinds of silk are everywhere.
Kitty’s in the cat cave, and I must really be running off now. Y’all behave.
I mean it.
>:
Oh Oh
Trust me on this. That is a sure throw down invite for “trouble”.
/Posted from the quiet room at the RMRH&S
Maybe if you shaved her butt and taught her to walk backwards.
Even after 15 years of riding waves of the internet, this is still my favorite
LOL Hal is a cat lover. Hey bunsonburner can you set my comment free?
Spankyou very much. Your assistance is greatly depreciated.
Does this make sense?
Cooking guy on TV gauges the reaction of the person eating his concoction with glee joy and delight and says:
Yes he inflected in the “kitchen”
My guess he may have had bad experiences cooking in the bedroom or bathroom.
Here kitty kitty kitty
From squack’s link:
A wife and her husband were having a dinner party for all the major status figures in Rome, Italy. The wife was very excited about this and wanted everything to be perfect. At the very last minute, she realized that she didn’t have any snails for this dinner party, so she asked her husband to run down to the beach with the bucket she was handing him to gather some snails.
Very grudgingly he agreed. He took the bucket, walked out the door, down the steps, and out to the beach. As he was collecting the snails, he noticed a beautiful woman strolling alongside the water just a little further down the beach. He kept thinking to himself “Wouldn’t it be great if she would even just come down and _talk_ to me.” He went back to gathering the snails. All of a sudden he looked up, and the beautiful woman was standing right over him. They got to talking, and she invited him back to her place.
They were at her apartment a ways down the beach, and they started messing around. It got so hot and heavy, that he was exhausted afterwards and passed out there. At seven o’clock the next morning he woke up and exclaimed, “Oh no!!! My wife’s dinner party!!!” He gathered all his clothes, put them on real fast, grabbed his bucket, and ran out the door. He ran down the beach all the way to his apartment.
He ran up the stairs of his apartment. He was in such a hurry that when he got to the top of the stairs, he dropped the bucket of snails. There were snails all down the stairs. The door opened just then, with a very angry wife standing in the door way wondering where he’s been all this time. He looked at the snails all down the steps, then he looked at her, then back at the snails and said:
“Come on guys, we’re almost there!”
Well, I’m still not actually doing any thread injecting. I can’t justify the cost of the thread injector, material, and all the foofaral that goes with that kind of thing for the relatively small projects. I’ve bought a ready-made thingy that’s actually designed for travelers who don’t want to get ‘tween the sheets at hotels and hostels that I will have a lady do some tweaks to.
A couple weeks ago, I bought two used North Face sleeping bags for $30. I took them to her to make into a top quilt and an underquilt for me. If you sleep in a sleeping bag, the insulation beneath you is virtually worthless because you compress it. Not a big problem on the ground, especially if you use an inflatable pad, but hanging in the air can sometimes lead to CBS (Cold Butt Syndrome). If you hang the bag under the hammock like in that picture, and then cinch up the ends to keep air under you trapped between you and the quilt, you actually end up being warmer than if you were on the ground.
I basically had her cut the head portion off the mummy bags. For the top quilt, all that was needed to remove the zipper, but on the underquilt we had to add channels at the ends and along the sides and pass shock cord through them so it hugs the hammock.
I even had her make a pillow by sewing the head pieces together.
So right now, by mixing and matching standard parts, modified parts, and extra gear, I can safely sleep down to below 20 degrees. Now the challenge is to get comfy at 100+ and I’ll be set up for everything this part of the country can throw at me.
Coincidentally, Animal Planet is running a marathon of a series entitled “My Cat From Hell” today.
Good morning Hamsters–and BK. The front came through and left no rain here overnight, but the cool and dry 58 is a welcome chage from yesterday’s moderate muglies.
The ancient Egyptians regarded cats as gods, and cats have never forgotten that.
In the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston’s exhibit of Tutankhamun: The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs is the sarcophagus of Ta-Mit, pet female cat of Prince Thutmose, son of Paraoh Amenhotep I I I. “The stone box is a smaller version of the type used to bury people, and it is decorated with the funerary dieties, such as Isis, Nephthys, and the four sons of Horus, who regularly are invoked to protect the mummies of all people. The cat itself is referred to as an Osiris, an indication that it would be able to reach the netherworld and be judged in the Hall of Truth there.” And, “It is interesting to note that the mythiological significance of cats connected them with the sun god as protectors.”
Reference. Hawass, Zahi and Vannini, Sandro [photography]:Tutankhamun, The Golden King and the Great Pharaohs (National Geographic Official Companion to the Exhibition). Washington, DC: National Geographic, 2008, p. 122. Text copyright 2008 Zahi Hawass; Compilation copyright 2008 National Geographic; photographs copyright Sandro Vannini.
This fabulous exhibit leaves after April 15, so anyone interested in seeing it best make plans. We’re seeing it again when relatives come in two weeks. Given the turmoil in Egypt, one can safely presume once it returns home it won’t be visiting the US again anytime soon. For sure Americans aren’t going to be touring Egypt anytime soon either.
OH WOW I have landed in joke Heaven, PBS * is having another begathon . Surely this is just a quirk of timing and not blatant exploitation of loss.
They’ll prolly have a Whitney Houston segment later, followed by Keith Richards.
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BSue gave me the evil eye.
Is he still among the “undead”?
They got any of his stuffed barf kittehs there?
This man
Worte a book called Life?
67 years later The Final Solution is mainstream and going mobile. No slippery slope here to see folks, just move along.
“You guys are just being mean. She’s much prettier than you’re giving her credit for, you cretins. I’m giving Lovely all your email addresses so she can stalk you all and leave cat barf on your doorsteps.”
You talkin bout the one who left BK behind?
Thanks SD, I couldn’t remember but I knew it rhymed with Shannon..
Canon? Tannin?
Thats about it.
Rhiannon
Atlantan
Montanan
Buchanan
Cannon
Is it real or just an incredible simulation?
#53 Squawkster
Kramer did that.
It starts @ about the 3 min mark.
Dayaam; Baby Girl Found Alone In Field 10 Miles From Family’s Home After Tornado.
Man I hope the little gal makes it. What a story she’d have to tell her grandkids.
Head over to Drudge, they have a picture of our wondermous president and one of Putin. The contrast is striking.
My #77 Reminds me of a tale of two bikes, Bush, Manchild.
Rush apologized to Fluke.
#11: Gives a whole new meaning to the term “wiener dog” don’t it?
#79 Rush has let his hair grow out.
Now hear this.
I saw an edge-of-the-screen ad somewhere today for a POS show on ABC. Here they are on Facebook in case you haven’t seen or heard of “GCB“.
If you can’t see the image in FB, here’s a link to a review. But you really need to see the ad images to get the gist of what has me riled up.
http://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/good-christian-belles/news/319542
That is all.
UMMMMM Rush did apologize.
But me thinks it was ONLY because his sponsors where bailing. Especially 4 of his largest long time sponsors..
Must be some of that inner beauty that I hear about.
Other than calling her a slut, that is. The rest of the apology is even funnier.
Rush hasn’t hidden the fact that he is an entertainer. But the one thing he does take serious is that his advertisers get their money’s worth and he’s clearly remiss.
Heh
Rush might have gotten away with it if he had not carried on about for a 2nd and 3rd day. But nooooooo he had to push the envelope.
With all due respect to the deceased this has been a real bad week for conservative heros.
AND I can think of at least 3 prominent “conservative” talk show hosts that will now have to choke back some crow their own selves.
/Heh I am so glad I kept my “defense” relegated to back channel email threads.
// OOOPS
I can’t get too excited about the entertainers backtracking, they’re paid to entertain. It’s the politicians who didn’t stand up when they had the opportunity who are keeping the spin-meisters up this weekend.
Actually Shamaal I am pretty pragmatic about this whole affair. Having been an observer from both sides in my political daliences it is all bidness as usual to me. Then again I ain’t never been one to make a hero out of anyone. I figure I speak for myself well enough not to require a surrogate.
RE: Entertainers
Now what does get my ire up is to pay $60 for concert tickets and the artist does his sing it with me junk. I PAID TO HEAR HIM/HER/IT not the audience.
Mrs. Shamaal and I saw George Thorogood a number of months ago ($60, I wish); he did a couple sing alongs. It doesn’t bother me, the Mrs wasn’t very happy though. I figure after a couple hundred concerts, the artist gets tired of doing the sos and wants to get some feedback.
Double post.
Move along, nothing to see.
How to Train Your Dog to Get You a Beer
From one of the comments:
That ought tell ya how long it has been since I have paid to see a concert.
Well y’all, till we meet again let me leave ya with some Papa John Creach.
/i know Shamaal and Brother Phil can appreciate this.
Cool video of a recent tornado as it passes near/over a parking lot.
Spouse and I had a blast earlier this evening watching The Money Pit. Thanks to mention of it on Hambone recently, we got it from Netflix. Have not laughed so hard or so long in months. Tom Hanks was sooo young in it–1986.
G’night all.
98
99
Hunnerd
Mornin’ Gang
Where is everybody, we’re burning daylight.
If the pics ain’t enough, the original title—and the point of view of the series might.
I am again reminded of Andrew Brietbart.
The fight we are in is about so much more than politics. I wish some folks would understand that and get with the program.
Maybe Limbaugh should have just worn a green shirt with ‘Fluke is a Slut’ in yellow letters.
One of the fallout of this is that the word “slut” has been added to the acceptable lexicon of the right. It joins cigarred and other terms I won’t repeat.
Well it was 45′ when I got up and has warmed up to 56′ here in Clear Lake, LQQks like a great day in the wroks.
As usual, Freddy Nietzsche causes most of the problems with the referee, you know the one, the Chinese guy.
I am still trying to figure out why there is any fallout what-so-ever from Limbaugh properly identifying the slut as a slut. Didn’t she self proclaim that she was having so much sex it was causing her to go broke, that can’t be from just one guy now can it?? If she is having so much sex she can’t be that particular about with whom she is having it either, that, by definition makes the slut properly defined as a slut.
Let’s add a little to the mix, she identified herself as 23 yet she is actually 30, she is going to a darned expensive school in a darned expensive town so how is she paying for school and living expenses, the marginal cost of the birth control is negligible, so how is this causing her to go broke? I say she is a lying slut to boot.
I didn’t know that?! The Sunshine Hydrox cookie came out 4 years before the Oreo. Hydrox in 1908 and the Oreo in 1912, Butt the Oreo blew away the Hydrox. The guy on Sunday Morning said that the name sounded like a sanitizing cleaner.
Found this on the web;
SD: I read that there were twisters in Alabammy, I hope the old home place got by unscathed.
FWIW; When I think of Sunshine Hydrox, I think of the Vienna Fingers that they made in the 60’s.
#103 shamaal
The Right’s invective lexicography is miniscule compared to the Left’s vast glossary of hatred for Sarah Palin alone. It’s doubtful we can catch up for a long time because attacking women who don’t conform to their smelly orthodoxies by questioning their sexuality and virtue is all Left-wing mongers have ever had.
Bonecrusher;
Yes, we’re in the far southeast corner about 40 miles from the Florida or Georgia line the storms were in the far north central& eastern part, just south of Tennessee. Thanks, fer askin’
#104 Dave
I also woke up in 45 feet of coldness, and it was hard to get up. I kept hitting the snooze button and burrowing back under the blanket. I’m avoiding those wroks though.
Some white guys were turned away from a FDNY pre-hire workshop, because they were white. Imagine if the shoe was on the other foot. . . . .wouldn’t there be riots or something? Do you think Erik Holderiski would be silent on the issue as he is now?
I submit that 0 and company are going to keep pushing even harder to cause anger among the whites, hopefully so that they will protest and be able to be branded as racists. They want chaos so they can postpone/eliminate the elections. I submit that they do not want peace and tranquility because then everybody will look at them more closely and will not like what they see.
#109 Dave
You can still buy Vienna Fingers. I haven’t bought any recently but I’ve seen them on the shelves in the cookie aisle.
mharper42
Well, my brain thinks faster than my fingers can type…That’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Looks like a headline that will be a perfect fit for our 2012 presidential election.
Claims of widespread violations in
RussianAmerican presidential election;PutinObumma poised to winBut then again the Obumma press would love nothing more than rampant voter fraud so their lord and king can stay on his throne.
http://ca.news.yahoo.com/opposition-observers-claim-reports-widespread-violations-russian-presidential-115123837.html
#106 Osteoclueless
In a word, no.
The wife just saw the first pair of Martins! YES!!
#110 texpat
Nice try, texpat.
I’m not referring to the modern day broadsheeters and pamphleteers, lurking in the background distributing their unsigned raves and rantings; these modern day publius have their place – mostly over at the FreeRepublic.
For every Ted Nugent calling the Fist Lady a toxic cant, you will always find some an army of left wing dolts writing similar insults in comment sections; as you have posted in the past.
As you know, I’m referring to the spokesman, the stalwarts, the Dobsons, Limbaughs, DeMints, Becks, McCains, Robertsons who speak for their constituencies and yes, even for their party. Check out CPAC lately?
Does it happen on the right, sure. We have our Carrvilles and Stephanapolis and comedians; lord have we got comedians. Ever wonder why there are so few conservative comedians?, – I know, it’s the left wing conspiracy, it most certainly can’t be the wealth of material available.
And finally, it’s not the just the rude behavior, folks are judged by their response.
Heroes of this debacle are President of Georgetown University, John DeGioia and Law School Dean Treanor. Georgetown University is the oldest Catholic and Jesuit University in the US.
Now, that’s class.
URL for Georgetown’s response.
I scanned part of the post sham linked and it is full of the half truth, twisting so common of the left. They can’t make the simple case out of their position because without a bunch of heart tugging and conflation of different issues, their cases usually have no merit what so ever. I have heard, on numerous occasions the argument for abortion (for example) always includes rape and incest yet, what percentage of abortions are due to rape and incest, 1/2 or maybe even all the way up to 1%?? The issue is not the 1/2 or 1% but the remaining 99% which is used simply as a means of birth control; an act which has no redeeming value.
Simple facts for the lefty moonbats:
1) Sex may be free, but the consequences are to be born by those who choose to engage in such behavior.
2) A provider of health care coverage, the ones who pay for it, are absolutely entitled to limit said coverage if some procedures are morally abhorrent to their personal convictions. It is called the golden rule, he who has the gold makes the rules.
3) If I choose not to engage in behavior that I deem to be irresponsible or morally wrong, I absolutely should not be forced to subsidize those whose behavior is.
4) Forcing someone to pay for something they are not going to use and for activities which they find morally deficient or abhorrent, is not compassion, it is extortion.
IF abortion on demand and free contraceptives are such a good thing and the morally correct thing (in the eyes of the left) then let the private charities provide them for those who choose to engage in that behavior. If there is such widespread agreement that these things should be provided at no cost to the user, then let all the lefty altruism spring forth from their own pocket books and stop looking to the public treasury to fund your position.
Put a little more simply, if you think it is such a good thing then pay for it out of your own pocket and keep the public funds out of it.
Assuming she wasn’t bound and gagged and forced to attend law school there, I’m puzzled why the arguement continues from this point.
So far the only cases of voter fraud involve …………. Republicans.
Here’s an idea for the conspiracy nuts:
The only way to avoid voter fraud, is to keep Republicans away from the voting booth.
Shoot! Here’s the Washington State linkie.
You know, the usual constitutional reasons: liberty, freedom of association, opportunity to make a difference and all that life, liberty and pursuit of happiness stuff that infuriates those on the right.
#125: Shamizzle:
what is it about that and this:
that you can’t seem to get your arms around?? She was free to attend any law school to which she had the credentials and money to be accepted. She chose to go to one where those who freely chose to associate agreed by their choice to abide by the principles of that school.
She was free to go to whichever school she wanted yet chose to go to one with which she had an obvious conflict and expects the overwhelming majority to conform to her deviant choices?!?!?
I am really glad I don’t have to work with you as there is no reason with in you.
Wulp, Gypsy’s brown eyes are turning yellow and the poor thing is hopping up and down with her legs crossed, so it’s off to the pipeline. Then it’s off to work continuing to support the President’s successful campaign to reduce our oil dependency on foreign imports.
I suppose she has the constitutional freedom to lobby for admission to a nun school, then be allowed to date and be given morning after pills too, but then, we’re not discussing whether she should be jailed or not, are we.
Texpat
But their dutiful sycophants are sent out, even to this small cubby hole in the blogosphere, to vehemently deny their own hatred while epileptically convulsing out the names of their usual bogeymen. It’s a broken record. You can try putting a couple quarters on the tone arm to get it to move along but it just won’t budge.
Their entire philosophy is built on lies. They want to be “multicultural” yet they can only win elections by racially and ethnically dividing the nation. They proclaim tolerance for every possible combination of sexual deviancy yet have no problem hurling derogatory terms like “tea bagger” around. They deny voter fraud on the Left exists yet require photo IDs when their union goon squads hold elections. They worship at the altar of abortion and facetiously proclaim their support for Head Start. They puke out “Separation of Church and state!” but invent exceptions when it comes to their life-denying sacred cows.
I’m not sure I care anymore. Their orthodoxy will eventually wither and die, drowning in its own bile. Unfortunately it may take our great nation down with it.
Yeah! That’s what I meant.
#129 Hambone, well said and to the point.
#131 Texpat
#131 TP: That’s pretty funny.
I just quickly skimmed part of Shammy’s link to Fluke’s testimony. There is an issue with dividing “birth control” to “hormone therapy”. There are major flaws in her testimony:
1) Birth control is not expensive. Generic pills run less than $15/month, sometimes much less (one radio caller said his girlfriend gets hers for $5/month). The much beloved Planned Parenthood will supply birth control very cheaply, possibly for free, depending upon your finances. I don’t know what the prices are for diaphragms or IUD devices, but I can’t imagine them being much more expensive. With the diaphragm, you add a spermicide, but it’s not like you use a whole tube every day. Well, maybe Fluke does…
2) If birth control is required for medical reasons, I believe that health insurance covers it as part of a treatment program. It is, therefore, moot for this argument.
3) Sex is optional. If one does not engage in sex, the body does not stop breathing, the heart continues beating, and even in the case of liberals, the brain continues to function. How well these bodily functions function is usually more a product of diet, exercise, genetics, and luck.
4) I do not expect my health care to cover optional recreational activities. As I have stated elsewhere, if I want to take up rock climbing, I do not expect my insurance or other taxpayers to fund my equipment purchases. If I turn to racquetball for stress relief, I do not expect my insurance or other taxpayers to pay for my gym fees or to restring my racquet. If Fluke wants to engage in recreational sex, then she should fund that activity herself.
5) If orgasms are important to Ms. Fluke for her well-being, well, those things can be handled without the presence of seminal fluid. Unless, of course, she attended a Jesuit university for the Catholic atmosphere, which would make the recreational sex issue important for other reasons, more along the lines of violating her religious beliefs and not related to procreation. From what I’ve seen of most lefties (at protests anyway), sexual self-gratification is one of the few “take care of yourself” things that they enthusiastically support.
6) Ms. Fluke could go to any law school anywhere. Why this one?
In short, she’s a liar and a fraud. I think Rush went way off the deep end with calling her the things he did, I think it’s more because she’s a liar and a fraud, rather than a s**t or a prostitute.
My older sister is visiting my Mom today for a slightly early birthday celebration. I am off to help get rid of cake and deliver clean laundry.
My nomination for quote of the month in February was this by British commentator, Clive Crook, in The Atlantic:
Now, Crook swerves into the ditch and is critiqued exquisitely here by James Taranto, but he does sense, if not entirely grasp, the problem. Taranto writes:
from wiki:
How does Ms. Fluke deviate from the above, based on her own words?
Here’s a letter to the Washington Post:
Dr. Boudreaux is chairman of the economics department at GMU.
Could this be Wormwood?
no
Yo Hamous
I ordered the Tonidoplug 2 yesterday. I hate waiting for it to get here. I am tired of sharing stuff with the family and friends via email and web pages. After playing with their Tonido software and the competitions it seems to me that Tonido is the only way to go. I was not impressed with pogo plug or even dropbox for ease of use.
#141 I don’t think it is either, but it could be. It seems that some other things should happen first. An interesting idea was to paint it or a portion of it to throw off its spin and therefore its orbit.
But wouldn’t it be interesting if it became “the great star” because man decided to hit or “paint” it?
if it hits us, no matter how it is caused to hit us, it will suck!
#140 bone
From your link:
Geosynchronous orbit is a smidgen over 26,000 miles. All satellites in geosynchronous orbit are at that altitude.
But only for a very short time.
Cool space pr0n.
Very work-safe.
Would you hit that?
#146 Mickey Che Homer: So the projected path of the object will pass within the orbit of the
geosynchronous satellites. This raises the distinct possibility that one could be struck and/or knocked out of position by a near miss/gravitational pull, etc; not to mention altering the orbit(s) of all the space junk up there and cause the junk to strike the satellites. If enough of the satellites are put out of commission it represents a huge loss of investment, not to mention loss of services those instruments provided. It could present some big problems.
I ain’t never been a star trek fanboy but after watching this clip I may need to go and watch all the series/moobies.
thats pretty funny squawk.
I like those type of mashups Bonez. I am not much of a jimmy kimmel fan either but I confess I like his weekly Friday night homage to the FCC with unnecessary censorship.
OK, I just stumbled in after working outside all day and turned on the tube, it was on Ch 8 because I watched motor week this AM and guess what was on, “Peter, Paul and Mama Cass”….since when is Mama Cass part of that pathetic group? Just Axing.
SD: I thought Mama Cass choked on a hot dog about 3 decades ago.
Wagonburner
Not wishing to nit-pick but no, it’s a little over 22,000 miles, over the equator BTW.
Yo Bro Squawk–I did appreciate the Papa John Creach last night but on a Sunday afternoon sometimes I need a little Sunday come to meetin’ preachin’ in my music
“3) Sex is optional. If one does not engage in sex, the body does not stop breathing, the heart continues beating, and even in the case of liberals, the brain continues to function. How well these bodily functions function is usually more a product of diet, exercise, genetics, and luck.”
Obviously you were never a teenaged male. But surely you must have observed their bizarre brain functions and hyper inflated heart beats at just the prospect of obtaining that goal.
#158 Goat, BAWHAHA my thoughts exactly, I started to respond but declined.
#158,159: Obviously she had never heard of deadly semen back pressure.
#160, Oh I bet she heard it, just didn’t fall for it.
You mens is just pitiful. I guess that since you’re conservatives, you have no problem resolving that semen back-up pressure yourselves. Unless you have strong religious beliefs, and then you’ll just have to pray for relief.
#156 sd
Musta read it wrong. 26,000 must be the measurements between the centers of mass.
Well, I hope that was cathartic although it appears to getting icky. Those activities won’t leave stains on the couch, will they?
That little Indiana girl mentioned yesterday who survived the tornado, didn’t make it
#160 Bones,….It used to be called Blue,….dang, I better not, it would offend Hammy’s Grandma.
Wagonburner, from the link; (26,199 mi) (measured from the center of the Earth). So you could say that you were right. I’m just a Pit-Nicker, ask anyone that knows me.
So, like, if the asteroid hits Washington do we still have to pay taxes?
Good evening Hamsters. We had a brisk and beautiful 37 at 6, sparkling dew at Sunrise, and slow warming as the morning progressed. Made it to 74 for a high, with very low humidity that combined with yesterday’s wind pulled the moisture out of pots of geraniums recently bought. Watered all of them again this evening. Our inspection of existing plantings continues to determine what survived and is growing, what looks pretty bad but might snap back given a little more time, and what for sure is dead. Unfortunately for the hydrangeas, the “little more time” has not helped their feeble state, and they are sliding slowly into the final category. Sigh.
Maybe Shmug is what happens when blue sphere back pressure back fires up into the brain.
#169 Goat
More Texans in the News
91 years old and still throwing newspapers, good for her
Heh
PBS is laying claim during their begathon that they are the “curators” of all the old music of the 60′s. Heck I thought it was these guys . And watching the PBS begathon they look just like these guys.
It looks like the Big sites are undergoing their transformation. Trying to get to BigJournalism and BigGovernment gets me to Breitbart.com. Breitbart had planned to roll out something new on March 1, and they had a notice yesterday that there was going to be some kind of new format coming on Monday.
And I hear BigEducation will roll out in April.
There’s no replacing the man, but he has left a vision for others to follow. I hope they can do at least half as well as Andrew in carrying on his fight.
Just in case anyone was losing sleep over this
The number of words in the English language is : 1,010,649.7. This is the estimate by the Global Language Monitor on January 1, 2012.
How about a site called….
BigFatLadyWillBeSingingIfObummaWinsAgain.com
OK Daughter called to ask a question about the history of Sears and she wasn’t surprised that I knew the answer, so I asked her, what company had more stores in the 30′s than Wally World has today? Any takers,…no fair Googling it!
A&P was pretty big at the time. Woolworths was popular also.
Breitbart 2.0 is rolling out. His dream lives on.
#177 Shamaal, very good “The Great Atlantic & Pacific Tea Company” had 16,000 stores in the 30′s, Wally World has about 6200 now,….I think?
There was a tremendous backlash in the 20s and 30s over chain stores, with many states taxing them. The mom and pops couldn’t compete with them, sort of like the Walmart penetration. Texas, IIRC was particularly onerous with a progressive tax on the number of stores a person could own.
Labor (AFL?) supported A&P in exchange for labor contracts and turned the tide.
Like I said, a bad week for conservative heroes.
Way to go Herman.
A child a gold fish and the economy. Nothing good can come of this commercial.
#180 shamaal
There are stories about small town merchants in Texas around the turn of the 20th century offering young boys bounties on Sears & Roebuck catalogues from local homes. Sears was the first “Walmart threat” to small retailers.
I thought they were used in the outhouses.
So we close the book on Barf Kitty weekend, so sad.
#182 texpat
The threat was made possible, by interference from the federal government. In the late 1800s Congress promised rural delivery to farms, if they had a passable road. Given the crappiness of dirt roads, it was a safe offer. In 1910? David King invented the King Road Drag that crowned the roads and allowed water to run off.
Overnight Congress had to make good on their offer, when I was a lad, Rural Free Delivery still existed. Now that farmers have access through mail, parcel delivery came next. Sears & Roebuck, along with many others suddenly gain an entirely new market, the triumph of Keynesian economics – increase demand and supply will follow.
And that is how federal government interference drove mom and pop out of business.
FWIW, Sears great claim to fame was not catalog goods, it was revolving credit.
#181 squawk
Great, now he’s gonna have PETA on his case.
Maybe he’s being paid to be a sideshow to take the heat off the circus performers in the center ring. It’s the Colbert influence.