Today in Starbursts is presented by Rumproast.
We’ll just let this serve as an open thread while I go cook some dinner.
*** Update ***
Here’s an “action” shot of Rosie reloading so she can bomb the living room carpet again in a fit of pique:
She has such a pretty face.
BGinCHI
Guaranteed that Sarah thinks that when you committed a crime so long ago that you can’t be prosecuted for it, you can just refer to the Statue of Limitations. It’s right next to the Washington Monument on the mall.
I don’t even want to guess what she thinks French Benefits are.
trollhattan
I’m told it’s “too hard” to buy guns in California. Maybe, maybe not, maybe because these asshats have them all:
http://www.fresnobee.com/2011/05/31/2409441/police-find-54-guns-in-home-where.html#storylink=omni_popular
Freedom’s not free unless you’re willing to sacrifice the occasional six-year-old. Grrrrr.
Mrs. Polly
Thank you, Mr. Cole, you said a mouthful.
pragmatism
quotes from today. saw them at bob cesca’s place.
“This Statue of Liberty was gifted to us by foreign leaders, really as a warning to us, it was a warning to us to stay unique and to stay exceptional from other countries. Certainly not to go down the path of other countries that adopted socialist policies,” Palin said to cheers from the crowd.
“Lady Liberty is the symbol of unity and friendship we have with other freedom-loving nations. It’s also a “warning” of sorts, as France encouraged us to keep democracy alive as the recipient of this gift… basically telling us not to blow it. Thank you for this reminder, France!”
Tom Hilton
Someone should put a lifesize bronze replica of Palin in a public square, and call it the Statue of Limitations.
ETA: d’Oh! Sorry, missed the very first comment in the thread. Oh well.
chopper
lol. france was all “here’s a statue to remind you to never be like us. cause we suck!”
Joel
Rosie looks like she’s part opossum. There’s your problem, right there.
UncertaintyVicePrincipal
That’s from the album “Don Martin does Gershwin”, right?
trollhattan
@Joel:
That’s the laziest eatin’ dog I’ve ever seen–srsly, while lying down? Still a little “big-boned” I’d say, also, too.
lamh34
Damnit, I luv me some sappy romance movies add some dancing into it and a hot guy, and I’ll watch (within reason of course..Dirty Dancing 2…with no Patrick Swayze…how dare u Lion’s Gate…how dare u!!!) Right now I’m watching “Dance With Me”. Love Vanessa Williams and Chayanne is Muy Caliente’ !!! This movie makes me wanna take Latin Dance Lessons.!!
Movie ”Dance with me”
BlueDWarrior
I swear one of these days John is going to change the color scheme to white on black and embed some generic emo music.
Then we’ll be sorry…
boss bitch
have you seen the “I, The Media Whore” sign?
http://gawker.com/5807529/palins-bus-vandalized-with-media-whore-sign
BGinCHI
@pragmatism: The stupid, it fucking burns.
BGinCHI
@Tom Hilton: I used to say that about GWB, back when he was perfect for the role.
pragmatism
@BGinCHI: stay exceptional from other countries. whisky tango foxtrot. also, too, the love/hate france thing is so tiring. i liked it better when they were just rude and surrender monkeys.
J.A.F. Rusty Shackleford
That dog creeps me out.
BGinCHI
@pragmatism: France is as real to Sarah Palin as humility.
schrodinger's cat
I guess sister Sarah likes immigrants as long as they are blond and blue eyed and of course Christian.
Chuck Butcher
J Cole,
just be glad Rosie isn’t a 150# Pyrenese
BGinCHI
Douche acts like a douche:
http://tpmdc.talkingpointsmemo.com/2011/06/wis-goper-tons-of-govt-workers-in-my-district—-and-i-hope-theyre-asleep-on-recall-day.php?ref=fpa
Ask not for whom the alarm clock tolls, motherfucker.
PeakVT
“This Statue of Liberty was gifted to us by foreign leaders, really as a warning to us, it was a warning to us to stay unique and to stay exceptional from other countries. Certainly not to go down the path of other countries that adopted socialist policies,”
Life imitating art imitating life?
Origuy
The French government had little or nothing to do with the creation of the Statue of Liberty. It was largely paid for by private donations, with some contributions by French municipalities. The national government paid for the transportation once it was completed; Frédéric Bartholdi had started the project while Napoleon III was in power years earlier.
BGinCHI
@Origuy: You lost Sarah and her followers at “government.”
moonbat
@John Cole at top: You can tell a true Southerner when they use the “pretty in the face” backhanded compliment. That’s right up there with ending a sentence with “bless her heart.”
i.e. “Sarah Palin is a media whore, bless her heart.”
quaint irene
Rosie looks like a bit of a rump-roast herself.
Doing my darndest to avoid any news reports on Sarah’s magical mystery tour. Which isn’t easy considering the bafflling thrall she seems to have for the media.
John Cole
@efgoldman: Lily is very svelte. The rest of us, not so much.
Lesley
John, I think these videos might make you feel better about Rosie.
Puppies on RedBull:
First attempt to move the bed
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/15098436
Early morning escapades
http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/15075319
jake the snake
@moonbat:
Or God love her:
Sarah is a media whore, God love her.
Montana
Run, Sarah run. Sarah Palin was so successful as a governor, she graduated early “Bitter Quitter”, she real is a “Dan Quayle” in heels. She clearly loves “dishing it out” but real can’t take it because she loves playing the victim card. Poor thing she fail as a VP candidate (her lie that her daughter was engaged was such a farce), her stand-up comic fiasco on the Jay Leno Show, please, her TV show canceled after declining rating, I guess her perpetual run for the White House is the only thing she can look forward to, but since she is a coward she will only throw small minded rocks, poor thing. Since we already had an idiot “W” that caused our current economic debacle, America knows not to trust the GOP fools who flaunt the idiocy.
You know what this current crowd of GOP liars want is to turn the United Sates into China, where only a few giant corporations run things, they own the factories, that apartments, the grocery stores, the gas stations, the newspaper and magazine publications, the radio stations, the television stations and you pay them and they get all the benefits, and if you do not like it go jump off cliff. Well some Chinese workers seeing that as individuals that they cannot progress have done just that by committing suicide. The current crowd of GOP liars want to abolish Medicare from the elderly, they want to abolish a woman’s right to choose and have control over her own body, they want to abolish collective bargaining rights, and on top of it all they want to blame the poor, the middle class and the public sector workers for a recession that the GOP created, while their beloved “Fat cats” continue to pay themselves exorbitant salaries, bonuses, fringe benefits. Yes this is the GOP “Radical Right-Wing Social Engineering” that they dream about. The win in New York was the beginning but the next will be Indiana, Iowa, Michigan, Ohio, Wisconsin and later the other states of our nation. So run, Sarah run.
Josie
@moonbat: Or, as my mother used to say, “Bless her pea pickin’ little heart.”
Rabble Arouser
@John Cole
Dood, how much are you feeding that Jack Russell Terrorist? That looks like an awful lot of kibble. My dog, Cletus, weighs about 80 pounds and he gets just a cup of kibble, twice a day. Just sayin, it might cut down on the extra poopy.
Ghanima Atreides
@Cole
wallah….she eats LYING DOWN? is that FREE CHOICE dogfood?
you are trying to kill her.
she should get 1/3 cup 2x perday.
and its not pique. she just does what she wants because you are not the boss of her.
Ghanima Atreides
@Cole
Rosie does not respect you as her pack leader.
I don’t either.
Morbo
@Ghanima Atreides:
Honey badger don’t give a shit; it just takes what it wants.
Mrs. Polly
@Tom Hilton: “The Statue of Limitations.”
The Internet is yours! Do you want to wrap it up and take it home, or will you be finishing it here?
debit
@Rabble Arouser: This. That looks like a lot of food.
Ghanima Atreides
@debit: waaaaay too much food. she is not treat motivated. no wonder she is the boss of Cole.
Its Tunch redux.
4jkb4ia
BREAKING : Ryan Kesler scores game’s only goal with 18.5 seconds left. I learned to spell Bieksa, also too.
Elie
My heart goes out to you with Rosie. Been there though its been a while.
Just remember, all relationships have their “issues”. She is definitely testing you, but remember she is reacting to your rejecting her and so you have to stop communicating displeasure and turn it more to indifference when she misbehaves.
Best of luck. I know that you love her.
Steeplejack
@lamh34:
Check out Shall We Dance?–the Japanese original, not the crappy J-Lo remake. You like.
JenJen
@4jkb4ia: Where’s the damned NHL thread, dammit!!
Steeplejack
@JenJen:
Philistine!
Yutsano
@JenJen: GOOOOOOO CANUCKS!! :)
snarkypsice
I know Rosie must be hell to live with but she’s a little character, I love her face, and I love your posts about her. You’re a good man, Charlie Brown.
Ghanima Atreides
@Cole
she is really supercute, and she has a nice head-piece. very typey. it looks like her tail is docked?
it should be just a hand span, so the terrier man could pull her up out of the ground after she bolted the fox.
Ginney and Guesley wrestle and chase each other all day for exercise. But jacks typically are too aggro to go to the dog park.
I think you should get another one.
;)
Ghanima Atreides
@Cole
Another vet in my friends practice has 4 danes and 2 mastiffs. She weighs less than a single dane or neo. She maintains pack discipline by walking them everyday, 3 dogs at a time. She says that is how wolfpacks rolled….walk a ways, smell every thing, eat something, lie down together, walk somemore.
it would be good for you too to walk 4 or 5 miles a day, and then you wouldnt have to repeat the scruffing and pinning more than once or twice.
kool-aide
I know the last thing you want is more dog advice but I’m giving it anyway ;)
Feed her in the crate (no exceptions) and that will help a ton w/ getting her to accept/not hate the crate.