From commentor and cat-rescuer Marc:
I renamed her ˜Miri” because ˜Strawberry Shortcake” didn’t seem to quite fit (although she is a very sweet kitty!). After a few days, I realized her soft meow sounded like she was saying ˜Miri”, so that is what I told the vet. I got her signed up with Banfield for kitten care plus, which will deal with her needs for the first year including spay. After declaring a her healthy, but a “little bit pregnant” 9.6 lb kitty, she was sent home with an appointment for the spay to be performed on July 12th.
On the day of the spay appointment, the vet who checked her out stated it would be risky to terminate her pregnancy this far along. She could direct me to another vet who might be willing to do it, but she was not comfortable at this point. I declined, brought Miri home, and she will have her kittens in about a month (or sooner).
Looking at the calendar, that puts the kittens arrival around the week of 9-15 August, with fostering out sometime late September or early October. I wasn’t planning to deal with kittens, but life (and Miri) had other plans. I just hope I don’t get attached to the whole bunch, and decide to keep them all. From a practical standpoint, I’d have to get a second job just to keep ’em in kitty litter…
I said I’d get Miri to become a lap kitty when she arrived at my condo. My bad. Miri does not want to sit on my lap while I’m on the computer – she has taken over the computer chair, and I’m now using my kneeling chair, while she lounges on the computer chair. Yeah, she rules me with an iron paw.
Cats were once worshiped as Gods, and I know my place.
PS: I’ve only used a little of the money donated – paid for her initial encounter with the vet. I’m covering the monthly bill for her Banfield kitten care plus program. If there are any additional expenses associated with her spay, I’ll use the funds for that, then send the remainder to a shelter or other place which help pets like Miri.
That would explain why Miri didn’t seem like a true feral — she wouldn’t be the first teenage cat who ran away from a perfectly good home when the hormones kicked in, and then couldn’t find her way back afterwards. But something tells me Marc will have some willing accomplices when it comes to finding the best homes for Miri’s kittens, later in the Fall.
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Apart from happy news, what’s on the agenda for the day?
Major Major Major Major
Thanks Anne for doing your part for cats!
For my part I just wrote something stupid because I’d been watching Star Trek, but it’s about cats too. And it’s short!
Amir Khalid
A bit of Malaysian geography: Miri, as it happens, is an oil town in Sarawak — not unlike Galveston, Texas, I am told. It’s the second largest city in the state after Kuching, the state capital (whose name means “cat”).
This Miri is very pretty with that ecru fur, and she does have that look of command in her eye.
PurpleGirl
Cats were once worshiped as Gods,…
Yup and they haven’t forgotten.
Marc, thank you for the update and also for deciding to let Miri have the kittens.
ETA: She is a pretty cat; love her eyes (their shape and slant).
Major Major Major Major
–Pratchett
Mustang Bobby
I wish I could have a pet where I live, and while I’m primarily a dog person, I like being around the cats that occupy the homes of my friends.
@Major Major Major Major: Thanks for the poem, and I agree about the last lines. My only quibble is that I am pretty sure that not only are cats sentient, they are plotting our domination.
Mary G
I am a sucker for a happy ending. Congrats to Marc and Miri for finding each other.
Gimlet
Except when it comes to birth control pills or gay marriage.
Two dozen congregations in 12 U.S. cities have reportedly opened their doors as sanctuaries for undocumented immigrants facing deportation. Because federal agents usually avoid arresting immigrants inside churches, sanctuary seekers often live inside the churches 24/7 and are cared for by congregation members.
But the Rev. Robert Jeffress, a Fox News religious correspondent, said these churches are misguided.
“A lot of these liberal churches that harbor illegal immigrants who are criminals say they are following the example of Jesus,” Jeffress, pastor of a 12,000-member megachurch in Dallas, said during a “Fox and Friends” segment on Sunday. Instead, “they are following the Jesus of their imagination rather than the Jesus of the Bible,” he said.
“Jesus was not this wimpy little guy who walked around munching sunflower seeds and saying nice things to people,” Jeffress said. “The real Jesus of the Bible said, ‘Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s.’ That is: Obey the government.”
Patricia Kayden
@Gimlet: Jeffress is right. Jesus hated the poor and kicked people when they were down. Never had a kind word for anyone. Yep, that sounds just like Jesus alright.
p.s. Jesus was an immigrant when his parents took him to Egypt to flee from Herod.
Schlemazel
@Gimlet:
The good reverend has a bit of a problem with the verse he chose. The question posed to Jesus was about paying taxes. Jesus said that meaning they should pay their taxes to the government. THAT the FAUX Friends have a problem with! Also too, there are many “God made that government (I assume the writer was thinking ‘king’ not Congress but you know, potato/pototo, so you should do as you are told”
Baud
@Major Major Major Major:
You crossed Star Trek and Star Wars memes. There will be punishment.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: As there should.
And now for something completely different: Amir’s Garden and the Teahouse on ‘Taco Peak’.
Germy Shoemangler
A gardening question:
We have animals creating underground tunnels all through our backyard garden. I assume moles? Same problem last year. It’s gotten so dramatic that one day we actually saw a bit of ground moving, like in the old cartoons where a character would create a shallow path through the ground for dramatic purposes.
I told Mrs. Shoemangler that the strategic placement of pinwheels would send vibrations underground and discourage the critters.
But then I wondered immediately if this was a myth.
Should I tell her I was wrong?
The Thin Black Duke
@Baud: “Don’t cross the streams!”
Baud
@BillinGlendaleCA: Very cool (and dry!).
Another Holocene Human
@Amir Khalid: I was thinking Star Trek. Very appropriate, the old/young rebellious teen who develops a shine for Captain Kirk and wants to run away from home.
OzarkHillbilly
@Germy Shoemangler: The only guaranteed way of getting rid of moles that I know of is to kill them, either thru trapping or poisoning. Trapping is difficult as it takes a good amount of knowledge of moles and their habits, and poison…. well, it’s poison. Once you release it into your environment it takes on a life of it’s own and spreads the carnage. My suggestion is learn to live with them. They are unsightly but they don’t do any real damage.
Another Holocene Human
@Gimlet: How does this guy not have cognitive dissonance?! He was talking about fucking taxes—!!! And when he was on death row with a murderer he forgave the guy. Btw this guy is projecting more than the old guy in Life is Beautiful, how is it wimpy to help society’s underclass and criminals and stand up to a society that doesn’t give a shit or is hostile? Jeffress, you are the fucking coward, a moral coward and otherwise who grifts money from your congregation to have a comfortable life by telling them the horrible stuff they want to hear.
Another Holocene Human
@Baud: Star Trek’s over. It’s Star Wars now. We’ll always have
Parisour memories, though.Schlemazel
@Major Major Major Major:
I always admired people who could write actual poetry so, well done.
@Baud:
But he tossed in LOtR with his cats name which cancels the cross:
. . . but I find that Thibault cancels out Capo Ferro. Don’t you?
BillinGlendaleCA
@Baud: Thanks, it was a good hike though the first bit was a bit steep.
ETA: The story about the teahouse is kind of interesting. It’s not exactly sanctioned and will probably be destroyed or moved.
Baud
I don’t see how this guy wins the general.
Another Holocene Human
@BillinGlendaleCA: I guess if I ever go to Griffith Park this will be a must-see. :)
He seems he was a cool guy.
OzarkHillbilly
@BillinGlendaleCA: Looks hot.
Another Holocene Human
@Baud: The policy did not protect children. If anything, it protected pedophiles. Big fat lie is a big fat lie.
BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: It’s a dry heat, it was in the mid-80’s.
Patricia Kayden
@Baud: He doesn’t win the general. Hilary Clinton will eat him for lunch if he’s the GOP nominee. Outside of Wisconsin, I’m not sure he’s that attractive given his extreme rightwingedness. Listening to his announcement was like listening to a Tea Bagger’s wet dream.
Baud
Good on Clinton for explaining this:
JPL
Marc, Thank you for giving the kitty such a nice home.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Patricia Kayden:
Might work in the Iowa caucus.
Baud
@Patricia Kayden: @BillinGlendaleCA:
I thought he might push an economic message since he seemed to have already earned the trust of the social conservatives, and since the Koch’s care more about economics and social issues. But he seems to have other ideas.
Patricia Kayden
@Baud: Good to see that Secretary Clinton is not running away from President Obama or his accomplishments (like Al Gore).
OzarkHillbilly
@BillinGlendaleCA: 80’s? With your humidity? Paradise.
A buddy of mine did a stint as a limo driver. Picked up a guy flying in from LA once.
The guy says, “How’s the weather?”
Buddy replies, “Hot. 94, 95.”
Guy says, “That’s not hot, it’s not hot until it gets over 100.”
Then they walked out the doors and hit the wall of oppressive humidity that envelopes STL every summer.
“Oh.My.Fvckin’.God…” said the guy.
Baud
@Patricia Kayden:
I think it’s actually a tricky thing for her. She can’t run away from Obama and win, but she also has to establish herself as her own person, especially since so many people are still hurting economically and aren’t going to be receptive to a message of continuity.
I wish she could adopt the slogan from VEEP: “Continuity with change.”
Amir Khalid
@Baud:
I remember around 2000 the right in America was arguing that having no national debt was a bad thing, or at least not necessarily good.
Baud
@Amir Khalid: We had a surplus then, and they, as always, wanted an excuse to cut taxes on the wealthy. That was the excuse de jour.
BillinGlendaleCA
@Amir Khalid: And that silly Al Gore and his lockbox.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: It’s Iowa, in Iowa Christianity is what wins elections. Trickle Down like a dribble of urine Economics is what plays in NH.
Iowa Old Lady
But we don’t seem to learn from our mistakes. After Vietnam, Iraq should have been impossible.
I conclude the “mistakes” are profiting some powerful people.
Mustang Bobby
@OzarkHillbilly: That’s the situation here in South Florida. According to legend, Miami has never recorded an air temperature over 100 F. But the humidity makes you sweat going out to pick up the paper.
We lived in STL in the ’50’s and before central air. I remember even as a kid that summers were oppressive. At least here we have ocean breezes, which is why Orlando is usually worse than here, at least weather-wise.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly:
Makes sense. Still, the usual method is for the candidate to talk in code (family values, religious liberty) rather than get into specifics. But maybe Walker feels like he needs to be more aggressive to win Iowa given Bush and the real religious wingnuts like Huckabee and Santorum.
BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: I know, I’ve been to south central Missouri in the summer as well as DC(it was built on a swamp) in August.
Tommy
@Mustang Bobby:
How about it. When I went to grad school in Baton Rouge I parked right at Tiger Stadium. I only had to walk out of the parking lot and a block and I was at my building. In the summer I’d bring another shirt with me to change in the bathroom (and cool down) because the one I came to school in was all “pitted” out already.
It is a kind of heat if you have not experienced it directly it is hard to explain with words alone.
Iowa Old Lady
@Baud:
What I’m hoping is that Walker has functioned in a right-wing bubble with no national spotlight on him, so he doesn’t know any better.
TS
@Baud:
The mind sees a variation on the words. I initially read this as
The proposed change stops short of requiring that all Scout leaders be gay.
Tommy
@BillinGlendaleCA: I am always stunned by people on the coasts that have not been to the heart of the midwest. They often are confused by the weather in this part of the nation. I often say:
I should note I change he above depending on who I am talking to. For A liberal I will note spring and fall, you know that climate thing, are not as wonderful as the used to be.
Tommy
Since this is an open thread and I know there are a lot of TV fans out there …. is anything here watch Stitchers?
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: I think waht is driving him to abandon the dog whistle is the field of crazies with which he has to compete. Ted Cruz is an assh0le, Walker has to be a bigger assh0le. Santurum is a religious nut bag, Scotty has to be a bigger religious nut bag, and so on thru the rest. The 2nd thing driving this behavior is the rules for getting into the debates. After the top 3 or 4 it’s only a couple of percentage point or less that separates the bottom 12. You have to do something to standout from the rest get the whackjob voters to notice you.
Tommy
@OzarkHillbilly:
And IMHO there is the Republicans huge problem. As you said they have to do something to stand out from the pack and I got a feeling that is going to make for more than a few interesting news cycles.
BillinGlendaleCA
@OzarkHillbilly: And then there’s The Donald…
Tommy
Hey we got rising stars in your party. Our bench is impressive:
So we got her on our side :).
Baud
@Tommy:
Better to find out now than after she’s elected to national office. #NoMoreJohnEdwards
Amir Khalid
TPM makes an interesting argument: That Ted Cruz (among other lawyers) should be disbarred for advocating that people disobey the US Supreme Court’s ruling re same-sex marriage.
Tommy
@Baud: Well there is that. I was a huge John Edwards guy over both Hillary and Obama. I feel pretty dumb now but at the time I felt he was “the man” that election cycle.
Baud
@Tommy:
No reason to feel dumb. Who could have known?
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
You have to out-Trump Trump, which is an impossibly high bar.
Tommy
@Baud: Well I guess many, but I didn’t.
Kay
@Baud:
I really think conservatives have problems with “an economic message” because they run right into donors and/or dogma. They can’t do any interventionist economic policy. The whole theory precludes it. I read several books on the meltdown and the most interesting part (to me) was Hank Paulson really struggling with this when he was working for Bush. He knew it was tanking, he knew he had to act, but his whole life-long belief system made it very difficult to even get to a place where he could admit the private sector was failing. It was killing him, personally and he comes off as much less of a fraud than a lot of conservative politicians and he had no reliance on pleasing donors unlike Walker. He genuinely believed every bit of conservative economic theory and he’s a religious person in his personal life – it really sounds like he had to renounce or reexamine his faith in unregulated markets. To his credit, he did.
OzarkHillbilly
@BillinGlendaleCA: Yeah…. For craziness, he trumps all.
Baud
@Kay:
By economic message, I mean what conservatives have always argued for and which has been politically successful in the past — lower taxes, deregulation, get government off the backs of working Americans, and, now of course, break unions. Policy-wise, I obviously don’t buy into it, but its a different emphasis than “gays are predators.”
OldDave
We live in South Florida, a bit north of Mustang Bobby. MIL lives in the St. Louis area. Daughter lives in the Orlando area. Summers in all three locations can be ‘special’. We are situated between two bodies of water – the Atlantic and the Everglades. Humidity is a given, but praise the maker, there is a breeze. Orlando forgot the breeze. Outside of St. Louis in the rural areas, in summer, you can see the Milky Way. In South Florida, between the humidity and the street lights, that is impossible. Last time I really saw stars here Hurricane Wilma had just left town, taken the humidity with her and turning off the power on her way out. Dark skies for once.
I will note that ambient temperatures are measured in the shade, and that the direct sun here will bleach red paint to pink. Red cars, stop signs, they all fade away over time. It’s brutal.
Tommy
@Kay: Part of it is when “shit hits the fan” in our country the rich still get rich and maybe richer. If their “give tax breaks to the 1%” fails (and it will again and again) they still make a ton of money. Doesn’t matter to them.
My parents are rich. I get a quarterly statement that outlines the fund my parents have set-up to pay their taxes when they die. It is like a huge mutual fund. I can see how they are investing and the returns.
Back in ’07 and ’08 when shit was hitting the fan, were a few of their best quarters, of the decade plus I have been looking at the returns. I alway felt when you got millions you can’t really lose money these days unless you are crazy.
debbie
@Kay:
No one was more shocked than Paulson when Lehman Brothers went belly up.
OldDave
… and I’m in moderation. Only word press knows why.
MazeDancer
Marc, thank you for making such a wonderful home for Miri.
And, please, keep the money if it will help you keep the kittens.
Cheap, good litter tip for everyone: Use “Egg Layer Crumbles”.
It’s corn. Just like World’s Best Cat Litter. (Even made by same company in some cases.) But it’s for feeding chickens.
And it works as cat litter. 50 pound bag costs $13 – 15 bucks depending on your Agway/Farm store.
World’s Best was costing more than a buck a pound. But can’t use clay because of strip mining and can’t use silica because of hurts kitty lungs. So was using World’s Best. And finding price difficult. So now, corn and cheap. (Google search Egg Layer Crumbles as cat litter you’ll see many articles.)
Tommy
@OldDave: Not WordPress. The comment plugin Ballon Juice is using. I’ve said this before but I am a pretty high-end WordPress developer. If anybody from Ballon Juice wants some input or help, well you know my email. Clearly I wouldn’t charge and I don’t need my name mention on the site or anything.
bemused
@Kay:
Interesting info on Paulson. Can you share the author and title of the book?
Kay
@debbie:
I feel like he was a better measure than a lot of the Bushies because they’re political hacks. I don’t know what they believe. Paulson was just horrified. It wasn’t “self correcting”! Everything he believed was wrong! With each intervention you can see him getting less dogmatic, less belief-based. There’s a point where he has to go tell Bush they’re getting ready to do this enormous intervention and Bush (in contrast to Paulson) doesn’t struggle at all. He almost waves his hand – oh, moral hazard, whatever, just stop the bleeding and get me out of this mess.
At the time one of my sisters said to me “where is President Bush? It’s like he’s left the building”. Remember he kept sending Paulson out to announce these interventions that contradict all of conservative theory? A coward to the end.
OzarkHillbilly
@Tommy: Neither did I.
OzarkHillbilly
@Kay:
Bush was always an empty suit willing to say/do whatever it took to get/keep him in the White House.
Baud
@OzarkHillbilly: @Tommy:
I never got into Edwards, but I had no clue about his personal issues.
Tommy
@Baud: His “stuff” and what he did to Elizabeth. His relationship with his sick wife wasn’t one of the top ten things I cared about him or his policies. But it made me think he was a person of integrity. I could trust him. Well I guess not so fucking much.
Mike E
@Another Holocene Human:
…all “lovey dovey”, bonk-bonk on the head!
Baud
Kay, did you see this memo released today by DOL on employee misclassification?
Germy Shoemangler
@MazeDancer:
Does it clump? We always buy World’s Best but have noted the price creeping up.
Another Holocene Human
@Baud: His hair. Gay or affair.
Baud
@Another Holocene Human:
Are you the hair whisperer? What’s Trump’s hair saying?
Another Holocene Human
@OldDave: You can see milky way on the highway between St Augustine and Gainesville, somewhere in rural Bradford or Alachua County. Just pull over….
South Florida is too bright. Horrible. I actually broke out in hives for the first time in years down there this spring.
Tommy
@Tommy: Affair. From a sexual and/or relationship I could care less what other adults do in the privacy of their homes. I mean care less. But John used his relationship with Elizabeth as a campaign prop. A sick women. Was shitting on her 24/7 while he did it. In the world I live in, and I think with most here, that isn’t acceptable.
Another Holocene Human
@Kay: The financial people really hated Paulson. I do remember all of that going down.
Bernanke wasn’t exactly loved either but everyone acknowledged that he knew his stuff and he had studied the Great Depression so there was a cautious hope he knew what he was doing (and he did).
Geitner killed me, so full of himself. Obama used him as his do-boy (lot of people were pissed Obama went with Geitner and not someone from the left). I’m amazed he didn’t just quit. All of his buddies were furious at him, he was being mocked 24/7, and it was obvious he was doing what Obama admin wanted but didn’t agree with it … although everything was pretty well fucked up, what was anyone to do?
Another Holocene Human
@OzarkHillbilly: Bush was from the ownership class, not a wannabe. He knew Keynesianism worked and that other stuff was shit shoveled to the rubes when convenient.
They had such utter contempt for “the base” they thought Medicaid Part D would win them a permanent majority with a grateful public.
Another Holocene Human
@Baud: I refuse to grow old! I won’t! I won’t!
Another Holocene Human
@Tommy: The boy ain’t right.
OzarkHillbilly
@Baud: He was hard core pro union at a time when Reagan was first reaching sainthood status for busting unions up. Most Dems were afraid to even whisper such a sentiment for fear of ‘losing the middle’. As a union carpenter, that was all I needed to vote for him in the primary. He had other positions I didn’t like but we were (and still are obviously enuf) feeling the heat.
Another Holocene Human
@Baud: I got a headache trying to read that. Is there a consequence to this memo that we need to know?
Another Holocene Human
@OzarkHillbilly: Whatever happened to union carpenters, anyway?
Tommy
@Another Holocene Human: There is this little pub I go to once or twice a month. Very cold beer and a great burger for $4.95. Talk to folks in the bar and almost all union carpenters. They got good jobs, benefits, wish that for others carpenters across the nation.
OzarkHillbilly
@Another Holocene Human: At 5 am in the east bound lanes of I-44 you can’t throw a stick without hitting a car full of them, but that is STL, still a strong union town. KC not so much. Too close to Kansas. We’re around, it all depends upon where you are located.
OzarkHillbilly
Digby catches a GOP candidate says God will judge greedy bankers so it’s all good
The take away: “Seriously, if one of these fools ever uses the words “moral authority” again, my head is going to explode. Apparently the government must intervene on God’s behalf to impeach a president over a consensual sex act but regulating economic activity must be left to the afterlife.”
Tommy
Strange question. Renting a Rug Doctor Friday. With all the rain we’ve had I had a small amount in my basement, which is fully finished. Want to clean an area of carpet.
The rest of my house is hardwood floors. I got a lot of nice to very nice area rugs. Any experience using a Rug Doc on them?
Kay
@Another Holocene Human:
I have to say, IMO, based on reading what may or may not have actually been happening the people “on the Left” in the administration (to the Left of Geithner, anyway) lost out to Geithner because of tactical reasons. He was better at it- more decisive, less wandering, more confident. At one point Geithner tells his team to put together a plan to present to Obama because “plan beats no plan” and the more liberal side of the debate were still arguing and they had shifted focus to fighting with Geithner. That’s true. Plan beats no plan in a crisis. He beat them not because his plan was better but because he had one and it was achievable. They bear some responsibility for that.
Paulson liked Pelosi, felt he could work with her, not because they agreed on anything but because she was definitive and confident. When Paulson presents his plan she says “I can get the votes”. He needed someone who would make a decision and Bush had basically gone into hiding.
OzarkHillbilly
@Tommy: it works, you just have to stand on a corner/edge and push/ pull the suction tube away from you.
ThresherK (GPad)
@OzarkHillbilly: Edwards was my choice also, and
JE made his name in what Tucker Carlson called the “Jacuzzi case”, as a trial lawyer. The details you can find elswhere; it gets a bit detailed, anatomically speaking, more than I will relate here. Sufffice to say a poorly designed product killed a youngster.
That Tucker the Fcker sneered Jacuzzi was all you needed to know: “The plaintiff was rich enough to own a Jacuzzi, so why are they suing for money? OurLitigiousSocietyTortReform!!!!”
Yeah, what was discovered afterwards about Edwards’ life is a warning to all.
I am with whoever here said “JE used his wife as a campaign prop”. That is where my scorn comes from also. How do right wingers deal with the personal failings, the fissures of related character, of “their guy or gal”? That may be a trick question.)
Tommy
@OzarkHillbilly: That is exactly what I figured. I in fact have a person to do just that, stand on the corners :)!
kc
Thanks for the update! She’s beautiful. I can’t wait to see some kitten pictures!
Kay
@Baud:
No, and thank you. More and more I’m moving toward thinking The Democrats should focus on enforcement. I think the last 20 years of not funding government has taken a toll. We need some kind of study if there’s more flouting of labor laws, if that idea that there will be consequences has broken down because it’s just an idea- obviously they can’t regulate every employer. They need a huge group who believe voluntary compliance makes the most sense. This thing runs on the threat of enforcement. If there were a widespread breakdown it falls apart.
Kay
@Baud:
I was thinking too about the role of employees in enforcement., and how employees with less leverage are less effective at being “eyes and ears” at work. Obviously labor unions help with that because they empower employees to know what the rules are and demand employers follow them, but my son is currently working in a dangerous job in a non-union (manufacturing) facility and they have elaborate safety protocals where they name each employee who is responsible for each “safety”. They use this system that relies on “my life is in your hands”- they have badges with their own photos and what they’re responsible for- that’s the actual language. That’s a recognition that there needs to be people who are told they have the power to say “this is dangerous and I won’t do it”.
The Moar You Know
@Baud: Really glad he made this point. Wish Mrs. Clinton had, instead, but whatever. Somebody needed to start, now Dems need to continue. The GOP destroys the economy and then throws the problem to a Dem president. It’s so deliberate that they throw elections (1976 and 2008 come to mind, both could have been won by a semi-competent GOP candidate, they chose not to run one) so as not to be tied to the crashes they cause.
And although it falls outside of his 35 year timeframe, Nixon handed off the economic carnage from Vietnam to Carter. It’s a pattern.
The Moar You Know
On another subject, a better one, Miri is absolutely lovely. Abyssinian eyes if I am not mistaken. She’s going to have a lot of personality and probably be very vocal, but in a soft way.
sm*t cl*de
Elegant kitteh is elegant.
Tommy
I just did my 15-minute hardcore/fast workout. Normally my mind is pretty “clear” during them. I came out if it today with this strong urge to listen to Cyndi Lauper’s True Colors.
Nothing I can think of that would me think of Cyndi (a fan). But as my workout ended I was starting to sing the song. Maybe trying to learn meditation is having an affect.
Tommy
Don’t laugh ….
About once a month I do a “cleanse.”
I cue up Peter Gabriel’s Shaking The Tree on YouTude. I always sit for a few then stand up. I dance. To say I dance like nobody is looking would be an understatement.
TaMara (BHF)
Or use it to bribe new kitteh adopters. Congrats. Raising kittens is an experience I loved, but don’t wish to ever repeat.
debbie
@OzarkHillbilly:
OMFG: Digby quoted…A GOP CANDIDATE WHO USED TO BE A GREEDY BANKER.
MazeDancer
@Germy Shoemangler:
Egg Layer Crumbles does clump. Not quite as clumpy as World’s Best. But well enough. Also, you can mix 3/4 crumbles to 1/4 World’s Best and still save big dough if you prefer.
Had an extra cat show up, bleeding, as they often do, so I’m up to 4 cats now. Which is more than I would choose, but what can one do? And World’s Best was getting insanely expensive. This makes things much easier. (Though the 50 pound bags are not that easy. So I scoop it out of the bag, instead of pouring out of the bag.)
Another Holocene Human
@Kay: Pelosi and Bush: A real leader — vs. a fake.
Geitner fighting to be there explains why he stayed.
Another Holocene Human
@Kay: Obama has. Lots of wailing coming from Florida because he went after Medicare and Medicaid fraud.
Other Dems should do the same. Society does NOT run better when everyone’s scamming, cheating, and greasing palms.
Another Holocene Human
@Kay: My experience has been that management always puts safety on employees’ heads, and never on equipment, systems, systemic issues, etc.
And when a management employee directly does something dangerous that harms people or equipment, shove it under the rug.
boatboy_srq
@OzarkHillbilly: There was always a whiff of Louis XVI about Shrub. Fancy dress, costumes, posturing, expectation of adoration because Fearless Leader – and absolutely no awareness of the way a government (or society) functions.
Riley's Enabler
Oh, that Miri is lovely. Thank you for taking her in, and providing a home. I hope the babies are healthy and all find fab homes. Cheers for happy endings!
Matt McIrvin
@Kay: And there was the presidential election campaign going on while all of this broke, and Obama started kind of acting like he was President already (while emphasizing publicly that he wasn’t) because, hell, nobody else was going to do it.
Remember that ridiculous White House summit when McCain “suspended his campaign”? They all met at the White House, and Obama is like “here’s my plan, what’s yours, John?”
Kay
@Matt McIrvin:
That’s a really interesting part of the story because Obama knew more about what was really going on because he had an acquaintance who was supporting his election who was plugged into what people were saying in finance. They were freaking out, but the government of course has to put up this facade of “under control!” – Obama knew the scuttlebutt in the industry which is probably a really valuable perspective. Obviously biased and insular, but information that McCain didn’t have. The economy isn’t McCain’s thing, either. I don’t remember that ever being what he focused on.
The scary part of it is one account had Bernanke saying something to the effect of “the fundamentals of the economy are sound” (McCain’s line). That Bernanke believed that well into the crisis is really freaking disturbing and I think ideological. The conservatives (and Bernanke is one, although he’s not a wingnut) did not want to believe markets could fail so utterly and completely. It got in their way.
Kay
@Baud:
And this is for you, Baud, because I know you’re following it because you noticed Walker is falling (true, as far as I can tell):
http://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/the-fix/wp/2015/07/15/trumps-popularity-spikes-among-republicans/ …
It’s from Dave Weigel.